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        "content_text": "a \n\nlator \n\narc \n\nconsiderably enharrécò for want of \n\nreadily divisible can; at present there is only the Fellar divided into 4100 Cash-the one, too large, the other too small for the daily \n\nbe canency. The Rupee \n\ncan scarcely considered as a circulating medume here - It is arot acceived at Canton Bery soon after it is put in circulation, by payment of the hoops or otherwise, it disappears, and is either sent as a good remittance to India, Singapore and the Eastern Sardes, or it is motted into byoce by the Chinck= \n\nmoney \n\nChinese \n\nAs som at the Chinese Indemnity- \n\nceases to be available as a remittance, \n\nto India, in Exchange for Rupees - the cost of Keeping up a supply of that Coin for payments here will be an \n\nExpensive operation, particularly if Dollars be sent to Calcutta or Bombay, where they generally at a discount. The feight of Coin from \n\nare \n\ncent. In 249 \n\na \n\nhidia to China is one pou \n\none per \"Qucer's Ship there is no charge for hisurana; in & overchant's ship, the rish is covered by per cent. chone Englais, the freight of crime is half per cent, and the Insurance one per cent. There is another consideration worthy \n\n} \n\nof avote. The Rupee, circulates at a auti above \"it's intrinsic value . On the [ \" lepril, during the past year, \n\nthe Bank of England paid: London for the \n\n5874. On the same \n\nیہ \n\nource, \n\nof Company's Rupes same day the price of standard. silver, ine London, was 59%. About the same period the Company's Respect sits by Mets\" Sharp of the Chief Bullion brokers in Londone, brought rach 1.74% bery few Rupees are now sent to England, and when sold they readily purchated by the Bank of Kance; for melting and recoinage. If the Rupee, with its alloy, expensive coinage (2 per cent) and peight, and insurance be only wath \n\nare \n\n& D",
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        "document_key": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]",
        "content_text": "unskillfully executed, and that in many places it is very abrupt, and precipitous. This circumstance combines with other disadvantages the principal element of decay and disrepair, as it is found. Level lines are little affected by the heavy rains in this climate, while sharp declivities suffer all the ravages of the floods from the Hills. It was therefore proposed by Major Aldrich to connect the improved line of Road, and let the old line be converted into Catch-water drain above it, for its preservation.\n\nUnder these circumstances, and with the decided opinions of the Military Authorities forwarded with my previous Despatch, I would recommend your Lordship sanctioning the execution of the work proposed by Major Aldrich.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nYour Lordship's,\n\nMost Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nJ. Davis\n\nPage 1\n\nAPS/cphch | 6- Bathurst\n\nEurGce\n\nNo 7 April\n\n$114.2.2 Leser\n\n238\n\n10. Depth\n\nSam directed by East Gray to transmit to you for the consideration and decision of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury copies of two Despatches from the Governor of Hong Kong, respecting the formation of a new line of Road between Stanley and Aberdeen, together with Plans and Estimates of the expense of constructing the proposed Road.\n\nPage 2\n\nI made the following changes:\n1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"unshilfully\" to \"unskillfully\", \"procipitous\" to \"precipitous\", \"propowd\" to \"proposed\", \"conoticect\" to \"connect\", \"Adrich\" to \"Aldrich\", \"respeel\" to \"respect\", \"isdans\" to removed as it seems to be a mis-OCR or irrelevant text).\n2. Fixed spacing issues and joined broken sentences.\n3. Reordered and reformatted the text into proper paragraphs.\n4. Removed extra spaces and corrected hyphenation or line-break artifacts.\n5. Preserved original page numbering information (\"Page 1\" and \"Page 2\"). \n6. Output in HTML format as requested.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]",
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        "content_text": "SC5\n\na result\n\nMelancholy and. I approve the Measures which,\n\nhave taken to secure the\n\napprehension of\n\nthe Individuals charged\n\nwith this Crime.\n\nCORONER'S INQUEST.\n\nCENTRAL POLICE STATION, VICTORIA, HONG KONG, 1st March, 1843.\n\nMinute of Proceedings held before CHARLES GORDON HOLDFORTH, Coroner, on view of the Body of FREDERICK AUGUSTUS HIPPOLITO DA COSTA, a Captain of the Royal Engineers, now Lying dead at the Military Hospital.\n\nThe following gentlemen having been sworn in as Jurymen, - ROBERT STRACHAN, Foreman; WILLIAM HENRY MITCHELL, JAMES SMITH, THR STANDALE, WILLIAM FRASER BEVAN, SAMUEL GRAY, proceed, in company of the Coroner, to the Military Hospital in order to view the body of the aforesaid Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa, there and then lying dead.\n\nThe Jury aforementioned, having viewed the body as aforesaid, and having heard the statement of Dr Morrison, the Colonial Surgeon, as hereinafter embodied, are unanimously of opinion that no post mortem examination is necessary, they being Fully satisfied, from the appearance of the wounds on the body of deceased, but more particularly from the evidence of the Colonial Surgeon, that deceased met a violent death. The Jurors consequently proceed to the Central Station, for the purpose of proceeding with the inquisition.\n\nCHARLES G. HOLDFORTH,\n\nCoroner.\n\nHONGKONG, TO WIT - Information on behalf of our Lady The Queen, touching the death of Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa, now lying dead at the house known as the Military Hospital, within the township of Victoria, in the colony of Hongkong, on Thursday, the 1st day of March, in the year of our Lord 1843, and in the 13th year of the Reign of her gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, before Charles Gordon Holdforth, Gentleman, one of the Coroners of the said island of Hongkong, on an Inquisition then and there taken on view of the body of the said Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa, then and there lying dead.\n\nWILLIAM MORRISON, Colonial Surgeon, being duly sworn, states, - I examined the body of the late Captain Da Costa, now lying in the dead-house of the Military Hospital. There are three wounds on the scalp, which penetrate to the skull. These wounds are from 2 to 2½ inches in length. One, the most severe, is on the crown of the head, the Lesser one is near to and parallel with this, and the third is on the upper part of the head, where the parietal bones join the frontal bone. The wounds, in my opinion, have been inflicted previously to death, by a cutting instrument. There is a wound on the outer angle of the left eye. This wound has passed over the ridge of the orbit - the bone of which is broken slightly and behind the eyeball. It has been inflicted apparently by the point of a spear, which having cut the bony edge of the orbit, has passed into the cellular tissue behind the eyeball. There is a contused wound on the upper lip, inflicted perhaps by a blow from a stick. There are very severe contusions about the eyes, as if heavy blows had been inflicted by similar contusions, and superficial scratches about the hands, as if inflicted in the act of self-defence. There is a most severe wound on the right hip, a little behind and parallel to the joint. Superficially this wound, which was apparently inflicted by a sharp instrument, is about 3 inches in length, and in depth about 1 inch. I do not think any important arterial branch has been wounded, but there is no doubt it has been the occasion of great haemorrhage. The back and other parts of the body give evidence of slight bruises, shewing a prolonged and severe struggle. I do not think any of the wounds or injuries were sufficient to cause instantly death. I am of opinion that deceased, in a state of insensibility, either from syncope or concussion of the brain, was thrown into the water and drowned. The bones of the nose are fractured, shewing that the blows on the face have been most severe. I have no doubt whatever that the Injuries received were the cause of death, though not the immediate cause; it is probable that deceased was rendered senseless by the blows and wounds received, and then thrown into the water. I am of opinion that a post mortem examination would be unnecessary.\n\nBy Mr Gray - Would an examination of the brain go to shew that deceased was in a state of insensibility from syncope or concussion when thrown into the water? I think not. Whether the action of the water on the vital organs would be the same, the subject being in a state of insensibility or sensibility when thrown into the water? Yes.\n\nBy Mr Bevan - Is it possible that deceased could have walked after the injuries he appears to have received, were inflicted? No.\n\nWILLIAM MORRISON, Colonial Surgeon.\n\nFENWICK MARTIN TWEDDELL being sworn, states. - I am a Surgeon attached to the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, and am at present quartered at Stanley. I made an examination of the body of the deceased Captain Da Costa on Tuesday night, the 27th of February, about seven o'clock. I made the examination at the quarters of deceased at Stanley; the body had just then been taken out of the water. [This witness fully corroborates the statement made by the Colonial Surgeon regarding the nature of the injuries received by deceased, and further adds, that he fully agrees with the causes given by the Colonial Surgeon to the various questions put.] It is customary in the army for the medical man to make a post mortem examination of all Europeans who meet their death by violence or otherwise; but in this instance it is not my intention to do so, being fully satisfied as to the cause of death, as before described by the Colonial Surgeon.\n\nBy Mr Dale - At whose discretion is the post mortem examination made in such cases as you refer to? At the discretion of medical officers in charge.\n\nF. M. TWEDDELL, Asst. Surgeon, H. M. Ceylon Rifles.\n\nFENWICK MARTIN TWEDDELL, being again called and sworn, states - I am a Surgeon attached to the Ceylon Rifle Regiment quartered at Stanley. On Sunday afternoon last, the 25th of February, I left my quarters in company with Lieutenant Dwyer, Captain Da Costa, and Lieutenant Grantham, for the purpose of taking a walk. I accompanied the party some short distance, perhaps a quarter of a mile, and then separated, as did Lieutenant Grantham. I returned to my quarters about 20 minutes past 5; Captain Da Costa and Mr Dwyer proceeded towards the village of Wong-ma-kok, which is situated about a mile and a quarter from our barracks. We dine at 7 o'clock; as Captain Da Costa and Mr Dwyer did not return to dinner, I became anxious, and went out to look after them, with a sergeant, corporal, and three men. We proceeded to the village of Wong-ma-kok. I saw nothing to excite suspicion. I saw an old man there, who was very civil, and gave us oil for our lamps. In answer to some questions I put to this old man relative to the missing gentlemen, he said that he had not seen any Europeans about; I consequently returned homewards. When about 200 yards from the village, close to the pathway, I found a three-pronged spear-head broken short off, which I now produce. I took the spear to our station, and reported to Lieutenant McDonald, being the senior in command. He with a party of soldiers went out in order to make further search; I did not accompany them; They returned about 2 o'clock on the following morning. On Monday morning Mr May with a party of police arrived at Stanley; I accompanied them, in order to shew the road which the missing party had taken. We separated in various directions. I first discovered marks of blood in the immediate vicinity of the village of Wong-ma-kok - [Corrects himself] I first discovered marks of blood about 600 or 700 paces on the far side of the village, which I traced close into the village: from thence to the sea-side, which is perhaps but a mile from said village. The water was deep where we traced the blood, near to which place, say about 900 yards, the body of Captain Da Costa was discovered in the water. I did not see the body taken out of the water. I have very frequently visited this village, but always armed. The villagers have seen that. I was armed. I have always received civility. Captain Da Costa, when he left his quarters, was dressed in a white shooting jacket, a Chinese felt-cap turning up all round, blue striped cloth trousers, and common shoes. He had with him a gold watch and small gold pocket chain slightly exposed to view. I think he had two gold rings on his fingers, one of considerable value. He wore the rings on his left hand. Both hands are bruised; I cannot say that one more than the other. He had no fire-arms on him, but had a Malacca cane loaded with lead, say about 13 oz, drawn to 20%; it was a powerful weapon. I am not aware that he had any money on his person, &c. Lieutenant Dwyer had a gold hunting-watch with a gold guard-chain, and a locket on his neck, both of considerable value. The chain was slightly exposed to view. He had no fire-arms about him. Had a Malacca cane - no money.\n\nBy Mr Mitchell - Was the spot where you picked up the spear-head which you have stated to be about 200 yards from the village, in sight of the village? No, it was shut out by trees in the road and the wood. - Could the cries of men struggling for their lives be heard at the village where you took the old man into custody, from the spot where you picked up the spear-head? I am of opinion they could not be heard; am not precise as to the distance being 200 yards, but think it was sufficiently far to preclude human cries from reaching the village. The spear-head I picked up had the appearance of being recently broken; I cannot say with any degree of certainty that any of its prongs had blood on it at the time. On Monday last Mr May took a man into custody at Wong-ma-kok. He had a wound on, I think, the right side of his head, over the parietal bone, which had apparently been inflicted by a stick - such a stick as Captain Da Costa carried would be a likely instrument to inflict the wound. It appeared to have been inflicted 12 or 15 hours. He had marks of blood on his left leg and foot, also on the band of his trousers, which is produced. On my return home from the village of Wong-ma-kok on Sunday night, I did not see any fire whatever, save that which I myself caused along the pathway from the village. The fire was entirely extinguished before I left. I fired the grass to clear my way more clearly, the night being very dark. That fire which I afterwards saw at a later period on Monday was not a continuation of the ignition caused by me. It appeared to have been kindled in many places at one and the same time.\n\nBy Mr Strachan - When Captain Da Costa left his quarters on Sunday, he was in his usual good spirits. He was not excited by wine. The same remark applies to Mr Dwyer.\n\nF. M. TWEDDELL, Asst. Surgeon, H. I. M. Ceylon Rifles.\n\nCHARLES CALDWALL GRANTHAM, being sworn, - I am a Lieutenant in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment at present quartered at Stanley. On Sunday last, the 25th of February, I, in company with Captain Da Costa, Lieutenant Dwyer, and Dr Twaddell, took a walk at our quarters at Stanley about 2 o'clock. At about 4 o'clock we all four left for the purpose of taking a walk. I accompanied them for about half a mile, and on feeling tired, sat down to rest. They intended to walk as far as the village of Wong-ma-kok. When they left me they branched off the beaten track, and ascended the skirt of a hill, in a direction for the village. I saw them for some distance, and heard them laughing and talking. They must have taken the path along a ravine, which is perhaps about 120 yards from the beaten track. After this I lost sight of them. I never saw Captain Da Costa alive since that time. When I regained my quarters, it was perhaps half past six. Dr Tweddell had just arrived before me. We waited dinner for our comrades, but as they did not make their appearance at 7 or 8 o'clock, we became alarmed. Dr Tweddell then went out to look for them, accompanied by a sergeant and some privates. He returned about 11 o'clock, after a fruitless search. I, in company with Mr McDonald, left our quarters in search. We took a number of soldiers with us. Mr McDonald took a different course to what I did. We met at the village of Wong-ma-kok. Nothing particular occurred to me on my way to said village. At the village we enquired for our missing comrades. We saw there only 2 boys, 2 old women, and 2 old men. The village had the appearance of being deserted. On the boys being questioned, they said that they had not seen any Europeans about the village that day. On making search, I picked up in the village a spear; I cannot say that it had any blood on it. One of my men picked up a broken shaft of a spear, which had marks of blood on it, apparently quite fresh. I searched the houses; in some were heavy sticks, and several spears, and a great quantity of gunpowder of Chinese manufacture; in one of the houses I found an elderly man and woman. We took prisoners this old man and one boy. They did not make any further statement, than that they had not seen any Europeans about the village that day, and that the villagers had gone out to fish. When we took the old man and boy into custody, another old man followed on to Stanley, who was afterwards discovered to have a wound on his head. The next morning (Monday) I saw this wound on the old man's head; it appeared a fresh cut. He said he had fallen down, and cut his head against a stone. He, the former old man, was very dilatory in opening the door of his house. When Captain Da Costa went out on Sunday evening he had with him a Malacca cane loaded with lead; it was a very likely instrument to have inflicted a wound like the old man had on his head. He had no fire-arms about him. He had a gold watch and chain, and two rings on his fingers. I regained my quarters about 2 o'clock on Monday morning, without anything more having occurred. I did not notice any fire on the ground at this time, as it was very dark. At daybreak I again went out, and in the direction along the line, which I thought Captain Da Costa must have taken towards the village. I learnt nothing additional during this trip. I only saw one old woman at the village. I, with my men, scoured the neighbourhood of the village in search of the missing party, but without success. I did not perceive any fire in my beat. I did not at this time observe any marks of the country having been fired. I returned to my quarters about 9 o'clock A.M. Early on Monday morning Mr May with a party of Police arrived; I then with some of the men of the Rifles scoured the country again. When in the neighbourhood of the village, on a path leading from it towards the water side, blood was discovered. The blood was first distinguishable on this track about 150 yards from the village. If a struggle had taken place at this spot it would not have been perceived by the villagers; cries could have been heard. On some parts of the path, I perceived a considerable quantity of blood, apparently as if the person from whom the blood flowed had been resting there. The country round the village at this time (about noon) was in a blaze. I returned home about 5 o'clock P.M., and did not go out again on that day. On the following morning a body was taken out of the water and conveyed to Stanley; this body I identified as that of the late Captain Da Costa. The place where it was found was about 100 yards to the left of the terminus of the path which leads up to the village, as I am informed; it was covered with wounds. The spot where Dr Tweddell picked up the spear-head has been pointed out to me. I should say it is about 120 yards from the village of Wong-ma-kok. Between this spot and the village there is a thick wood, with a pathway leading through it. I should most certainly say that the cries of men struggling for their lives could be heard from this spot by the villagers of Wong-ma-kok. The quantity of gunpowder found in the village was about 100 lbs; quantity of bamboos, which are said to be loaded with powder and used by the Chinese in warfare; also a quantity of saltpetre and pounded charcoal. We had little conversation with the villagers, which was carried on through my servant boy, a native of China named ...\n\nCHARLES C. GRANTHAM, Lieutenant Ceylon Rifles.\n\nTHOMAS FRANCIS FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MACDONNELL, sworn. This witness corroborates the statement made by Mr Grantham, as regards their going out in search of the missing party on Sunday night; and further adds. - When I approached within about 20 yards of the wood in the immediate neighbourhood of the village, I found one spear-head, apparently but recently broken off from the shaft. On this spear-head I discovered blood, apparently fresh. The spot where this was found is that at which Dr Tweddell picked up the three-pronged spear. I shewed him the spot afterwards. This place I should say is about 200 yards from the village of Wong-ma-kok. In my opinion the cries of people struggling for their lives could be heard by the villagers from the spot. I cannot say that beyond the finding of the spear-head, there were any marks of a struggle having taken place at this spot. On proceeding onwards, in the village, there were found one or two more spears. There was also the shaft of a spear found in the village; it had the appearance of being recently broken; there were marks of blood. On a pathway leading from the village to the water side, I discovered tracks of blood. The blood was first distinguishable on this track about 150 yards from the village. If a struggle had taken place at this spot it would not have been perceived by the villagers; cries could have been heard. On Monday morning, in addition to the spear-heads that were found at the spot before described, there was found a small hatchet hid under a tree. I was present at the time. I cannot say it had any blood on it. I saw on Tuesday evening the body that had been taken out of the water, lying at Stanley. It had several severe wounds on it.\n\nMT",
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        "content_text": "restitution to this Council of the head and hand \n\nof the deceased Governor._ \n\nof \n\n13.- Despatch from this council designating the place \n\nFebruary \n\nwhere the delivery should take place .- 14- Despatch from the Viceroy requesting that a day should be appointed for the delivery of the remains- 15. Despatch from this Council \n\nreplying to the Despatches above mentioned from the Viceroy, and protesting against him for improper \n\nconveyed to - Anens. - \n\nthe \n\nmanner in which the remains were \n\nGod preserve Your Excellency - \n\nMarch 16th February, 1850- \n\n(Signed) G. G. Bonaventure, Bishop of Macao - \n\nJoaquim Antonio de Moraes Carneiro- \n\n# \n\n#1 \n\n# \n\nJono Tavares de Almeida- -Miquel Pereira Simoens – \n\nJozé Francisco d'Oliveira - Romao Jose de Freitas._ \n\nTrue Translation \n\n(Signed) Lil' Murada efectro- \n\n(Davo Copy) Mano Colonial Secretary. \n\nDespatch from Seu to the Council of Government of Macao. \n\nSeu, Governor General of Kwang-tung and Kwang-si, &c. In order to satisfy the question relative to the murder of Governor Amaral, I proceed to state as follows: Sen-chi-leong, the real assassin, having been first apprehended, he \n\nwas examined and executed. Afterwards his accomplices Ko Ahon and Li-Apau were detected, the latter of whom was killed when about to be seized, and Ko-Ahon also was captured, and made a confession, a copy of which was enclosed \n\nin a despatch to the Noble Council, as is on record. Inquiries were in the meantime going after two individuals, surnamed respectively Chou and Chan, who had escaped; and the mandarin of Kwang-chou has now reported to me that repeated and strict searches were made to discover the said criminals, but as it was thought probable that they might have taken refuge with the Pirates and joined them, a description of these men was ordered to be drawn up, in order that when the Pirates should be apprehended it might serve to identify them. The mandarin lately brought from Kwei shan-hien one Chang-Asin, alias Chou-Asin, who conjointly with Chou-Ayau and Chen-Afat had gone to join the Pirates. As there were reasons to suspect his complicity, he was repeatedly interrogated, and he deposed that he knew Chou-Ayau and Chen-Afat, who as well as himself had been workmen at Macao; that one Sen-chi-leong, known \n\nto him, having determined to assassinate Amaral, to revenge himself, had bribed Ko-shon and Li-Apau to assist him in his design, and had arranged with them, in concert with Chou-Ayau and Chen-Afat, that they should prevent persons from approaching. All agreed to go together. \n\nHearing the strict search that was making for them, they fled to Hiang-kang, a seaport, when they joined the Pirates. Having afterwards fallen in with the English, the said Chou-Ayau and Chen-A fat were killed in action, and \n\nhe the deponent was apprehended by the soldiers of the government (Chinese) and sent to Canton. \n\nThis deposition then, having been compared with those of Shen-chi-leong and Ko-Ahon, they were found to agree, and the two men who ran away are thus clearly identified as accomplices. \n\nWith regard to the said criminal, who confessed to having committed piracies, which is in itself a crime punishable capitally, as was an accomplice of the other delinquents \n\nin preventing people from approaching at the time of the murder, his guilt is still graver. Therefore, besides directions being given for the reiteration of the examinations, in order that his trial might take place, the deposition of the said criminal was transmitted for my information. \n\nFrom this it appears that the principal accomplices in the crime being six, of whom one was drowned, two were killed \n\nby the English soldiers, and the remaining three apprehended; all therefore are discovered. Chou-Asin has already been committed for trial, that he may afterwards be rigorously punished. \n\nAll this I make known to the Noble Council, sending at \n\nthe same time, a copy of the confession of Chou-Asin. \n\nTaukwang, 29th year, 11th moon, 6th day, (19th December, 1849, ) \n\nConfession of Chang-Asin, alias Chou-Asin, \n\nI lived at Macao jointly with Chou-Ayau and Chen-Afat, where we earned our livelihood by acting as workmen. An acquaintance of ours named Sen-chi-leong, on account of \n\nthe Portuguese Governor Amaral having made roads without the Campo gates, by which work the graves of his ancestors were destroyed, was so enraged thereat that he determined to murder Amaral, in order to satisfy his revenge. For the purpose of assisting him in his design, he bribed Ko-Ahon and Li-Apau, and charged me, together with Chou-Ayau and Chen-A fat, to act as guards on the occasion, so as to prevent people from approaching. All of us agreed to this, and on the 5th day of the 7th moon Sen-chi-leong having heard that Amaral would go out for recreation, he proceeded with us to waylay him. Towards evening, when it was twilight Sen-chi-leong seeing Amaral approach on horseback, went up to him under the pretence that he had a petition to hand him, and said that he had a complaint to prefer; and whilst Amaral was stretching out his hand to receive the paper, Sen-chi-leong drew a sharp knife he had concealed in the handle of his umbrella and commenced stabbing him \n\nin the arm and shoulder, until he fell from his horse, when he immediately cut off his head and hand, and we ran away, each his own way. Chou-Ayan, Chen-Afat, and myself, having afterwards heard that strict search was being made for us, we fled to Hiang-kang, a seaport, from whence we went over to the pirates, whilst with whom Chou-Ayan and Chen-Afat were killed in engagements we had with the English soldiers, and I was afterwards seized by the soldiers of Government and taken to Canton. I pray therefore for \n\nmercy, \n\n94",
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        "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]",
        "content_text": "T \n\nWa \n\nMr Merne \n\nThe best thing Scan do \n\nElection co \n\nbring this cutyget back to y \n\nyou your drin \n\nthe principal features of Mr. Jonen \n\nto \n\ncake \n\n26/7. \n\nSen sex. Minute \n\ntượng Hong Kong 750. \n\n22 \n\nMr Mervele. \n\nThe case \n\nof Tarrant was for a long time and exposed \n\nof. The delay \n\narose \n\nto deal wit \n\nfrom the want of sufficient information to enable Lord Grey it. Hence it was necessary to refer to the King \n\nlico \n\nthree times before the case could \n\nbe settled. But I do not see that such delay \n\nimproves Mr Jarraut's position. He had been distinctly informed \n\nthe 2 Oct. \n\n1847 \n\nSurveyor General's Letter in 7349-91849) that this \n\nClerk of Registry \n\nOffice f \n\nwas abolished from \n\n-C \n\nthe 30 of the preceding month - which, in this Country \n\ncoe \n\nproceeding \n\nth \n\nshould consider rather \n\nsharp, but which perhaps the local authorities from personal acquaintance with Tarrant's \n\nI made the following corrections:\n1. Corrected \"Merm\" to \"Merne\" and \"Mervele\" (assuming it's the same person).\n2. Corrected \"aroze\" to \"arose\".\n3. Corrected \"improres\" to \"improves\".\n4. Corrected \"Clack\" to \"Clerk\".\n5. Corrected \"abollshed\" to \"abolished\".\n6. Corrected \"aquaintsure\" to \"acquaintance\".\n7. Corrected \"Sen sex. Minuté\" to \"Sen sex. Minute\".\n8. Formatted the text into paragraphs.\n9. Left the initial fragmented lines as is, assuming they are part of the original OCR output and not a result of formatting errors. \n\nHowever, a more thorough review may be needed to correct other potential errors and improve readability.",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]",
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        "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]",
        "content_text": "SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nFLAS & AR\n\nLATE NAVS\n\n4 st Sp.\n\nHongkong (Mar. 25)\n\nMacau\n\nWhang\n\n25 Concis\n\nFROM TO CAPTAIN\n\nARRIVED,\n\nSAYLKU CAHLO\n\nMar, 22\n\nMartice\n\n10p¡ Welsit Formnes\n\n¡Mantl bgi Sarria 35 Tubal Cais B. Le 147 Sloggett\n\ng. 4Dencher\n\n25 Sarah Armitage Brit. sc. 185 Wooden\n\nTim and 208Kie\n\n23. LackroaND [ g. 400 Stereking\n\nH. 202 Broken\n\nSp. al. Caldin\n\nE of landwicke Brit\n\n26 Mathilde\n\n26 Scrutina\n\n27 Nankin\n\nri, se 8.\n\nSemut\n\n28 Leopard\n\nBrit. ek.\n\n206 Richards\n\n28 Ragla\n\nra\n\n25 Vanuetrop\n\nZai Lootse\n\n27\n\n291ADIN Suenam\n\n30 Fiery Cross\n\n30 June\n\n30 Rochapter\n\n30 Lanek\n\n30 Encounter\n\nBrit. Mr. 1832jCaldwell\n\ncmus\n\nShangbai\n\nArany\n\nMar. 15 Rico\n\nMar. 120eneral\n\nM 20 Rice Niakpo Man 143mdeles Caletta Jan. 30 Rice, 8cc. Nugpo Bar Sandria Bluniis\n\nSingapore\n\nRico\n\nBio 11\n\nMar. 16 Rico\n\nCONSIGN BEN\n\nRobert S. Walker J. sierre Williama, A. Ch Jardine. M. and Co Jobu Bu and Co John Bard and Co W. Pozlan and Co Turner and Co Orler\n\nLiverpool Der. 288ondries, Wise and Co. Christ\n\nDan. Uk, 291 Simes. Siugpo\n\nBan.sch. 149Kess\n\nVingpa\n\nHam, k, 216 Christiansen Nigo Brit. bk.! 472 Amirew\n\nBeit. stri 444 Watte\n\nHaro. 288 Joyan Jam,bk. 199 Bradshaw Brit. g. 265 Crocket ET M.S\n\n30 Queen Margarnt Belo, bk, 524 Spmano\n\n36 Madra\n\n30 Berwickshire\n\nso Tiger\n\n30 Courser\n\n27 Yocana\n\n27 Safelito\n\n¡Brat. str. 1250 Down\n\n118!!\n\nBelt. g. 142 Wohnenn\n\nBril. bk. 225 Day\n\nSiam\n\nMar. 15 Suuddeles Mar. 16 General De: 31Sundries Caleutia N160pium S.Francisco Zel Baftast Calestra an. 29Cotton Shanghuse Mer, sisilk Caletta\n\nM\n\nNingpo Ma 19 Rico Barabay,&\n\nShangae Nr. 24undries\n\nBombay\n\nIsitmssen and Co\n\nJohn Burd and Co jim. Eustan and Co John Burd and Co A. Head and Co Jardine, E. sai Co Wm. Pusau and Co\n\nxder\n\nJardine, M. and C5\n\nJardins, M. and Co\n\nSECT\n\nErition\n\nMariner's Hope, brig Hencius, sligi Mix, brig\n\nPrinces, ship\n\nRoyal Jaly, barque Sex Witeb, barque Star of the Hast, ship Terror, becqno Unicorn, steamer Water Witch. barqua\n\nPortuguese Clara, beig Laba barga Emigreto, ship Ensaio Make, barg, Sophis, arque Syenu, barne Tremeiga. barque\n\nFranch Joaquim, atı\n\nAmps Buckan, ship Benjamin Blorgan, ship Black Warrior, ship Golden West, silip\n\nP. & 0.8. N. Co.ussar, shrp Order\n\nWilliams, A. and Oo\n\nGibb, J. and Co\n\nBonnay\n\n24 Cotton\n\nDe Cation\n\n3. 20 Rice\n\nM16 Bice\n\nCotton Rive\n\nTail and Co\n\nSp. g. Pempreco Sual\n\nSp. ch. 89Govorda ¡Manila\n\n360 Mackozaic Caleutia\n\n41\n\n25 ('earl\n\nApar\n\nDarie\n\n15\n\nb\n\n4. Gscreta\n\n¡¡, Guita\n\nBrandan raul Co\n\n¡Msaila\n\nSAILED.\n\nFun\n\nDat%\n\nNAMA\n\nFLAG &\n\nCAPTAIN\n\nFor\n\nCARGO\n\nCONSIGNEES\n\n10\n\nSchaefer and C's\n\nHongkong Mar. 254 Jacoba Coruchia\n\n25 Banxhoo\n\n25 Marra\n\nJJ\n\nH\n\narty Hayes\n\n26 Kuterne\n\n20, Faust\n\n26 Amistad\n\n2 netinu\n\n27ly M. Wood\n\n27 Mor\n\nDut. bk.\n\n492 Rosenboom Be hk. $35, Vincent Rria. arh. 139 Dokon Brisk 284 Walliamson Dot. bk. 403 Kuipers\n\nlau.sc 143 Subberg\n\nbg. 205 Domingues\n\nDut. bk. a Lewis\n\nBrit. 3. 655 Callesk Brit. g. 179\n\n27 Waldemar Dan. k. 261chmidt\n\nCanton Packet m bk. Berden\n\nDu bk 607 Weber\n\n271 rouw Johanna hk. 520 urriaanse\n\n26 Argo\n\n28 St. Helena\n\n28-Juno\n\n29 Aar\n\nzy rota\n\n30 City of Sydney\n\nWasimpo tel. 7\n\nMar. 22Chia Chin\n\n231.4 Houriah Jari. Confucius Feb. 22Santa Lucia\n\nSwator Aməy\n\nHELL\n\n40ces Queen\n\nJ\n\nShangli\n\n7azy! Carim\n\nHope\n\namict\n\nDutch Testarkenburg\n\nDat k 441 Klant Bril. Nr. 210 Welsh\n\nBrit. g. 203 Taloy\n\nBrit. bg. Idenersu\n\ne:100 McCaus\n\nBrit. k. 310 Cairns\n\nBM. bk, 536 Uklejama\n\nBeit. b. 175 Peny\n\np. 335 Arrigoitia\n\nsi. sh. 500 Coniers\n\nBrit. E\n\nBrit. al 10 Dewar\n\nBrit. bl. 42% Young 15. Marquard Brit. eh. 209(Calling\n\n15 Singapore Bets 74May 12Aug. Melino ¡Bro. 5k. 306Luebko\n\nLinde Jucaries Edel Coari Sundries 3. Stations\n\nSundries\n\nPart Philip Sundries Adelaide\n\nاهان را این بردار\n\nSundries Sundries\n\nMaula Sand:ins Amay Sundries Calcutta Sundries Stangliae Suudries\n\nShangha\n\njoxotk\n\nSundries\n\nBallant\n\nBandries\n\nSundries\n\nAinoy\n\niSundries\n\nEast Coast\n\n¡Sundries\n\nAdolside\n\nFat Cowet\n\nWalparden\n\nSundries\n\nThas\n\nAustralla\n\nNew York\n\nSundries\n\nHan org\n\nSingapore\n\nFuntries\n\nSundries\n\nJurdina, M. and On\n\nHardin, M. and Co 'G. Daddell\n\nSheaffer and Co\n\nWm. Pasta Gd Co\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co\n\nF. Edger\n\nP. & 0, S. N C\n\nJohn Bord and So\n\n¡Dryer and Co\n\nOrder\n\n¡Y. J. Murrow\n\nOrlan\n\nik S. Walker ¡Y, J. Murrow\n\nt. Walker\n\nA. Berenbari\n\nJardinc, M. and Co.\n\nNye Brothers and Co\n\nP. F. Cama au Co\n\nDreyer and Co\n\nnlries Order\n\nSonides. F. Syme and Co\n\nSundries\n\nManila\n\nSa\n\nSingapore\n\nSundriss\n\nSantries\n\nSingapore\n\nandries\n\nMontal\n\nTaga\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nSusp\n\nAn\n\nDuto of Arrival\n\nTONS MARTENS\n\nFeb. 57Ball\n\nFea\n\nP. O. Sync and Co\n\nTait and Co\n\nF. D. Syme and Co\n\nandersion and Co\n\nSanderthau and Co Mait and Ca Wm. Pusiau and Co\n\nJamestown, ship\n\nKit Carson, elig\n\nLucknow, ship\n\nSarah Warren, barque\n\nSirovcu, chip\n\nBray Hound, ship\n\nStarr King, ship\n\nTatar, ehin\n\nTuakina, ship\n\nArgonaut, ship\n\nBayard, barque\n\nBarrida Brothers, ship\n\nLuniest, ship\n\nHound, ship\n\nJames Marshall, brig\n\nLemisiana, kargus\n\nMaria, arque Metro, Larque Mic scener\n\nPenguin, weloener\n\nSes Nymph, berquo\n\nFiorid, ship\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS. -Contiennent.\n\n[No. 14-APRIL 1, 1855.\n\nShanghae Feb. 10 280gers\n\nDate ut\n\nAT\n\nAriva MARELAS\n\nCONSIGNEXY\n\nUJESTINATION\n\nIntended Dumpat-ly\n\nJA. 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Terry, ship\n\nAANIGRA\n\nGelender, baryas\n\nSpesiali\n\nCosta, tig\n\nDenia, echuuler\n\nScratina, sup\n\nby.\n\nV. Kinavia, bug\n\nNarciss. brig\n\nReculito, souber\n\nYlesno, trig\n\nNeptus, rig\n\nSalve, brig\n\nDurdo, brig\n\nMar\n\nKar.\n\n1 609 Wagner\n\n1780mvei\n\n507 Mubar\n\n472fheon\n\n292day\n\npar: 221 70uillardsk\n\nEnst Coast Mar.\n\n600; Weber\n\nSupt. 8 401 Thamns\n\n14\n\nMar.\n\nAmoy ¡Mar\n\nMac.\n\nד'\n\nWm. Pastu aid to\n\nJLunes Stephenson\n\nSchoofter and 6\n\nSchaefer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nHungkung\n\nNpo & 'kong Perly New York\n\nAustralia\n\nSai: Francisco\n\n1.d.\n\nSydney & Melbmd. Shanghe\n\nLord\n\nAdol&P.Phillipmd.\n\nEast Coast\n\nardino, Malleson and Co Batavia\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n8 Starkenburg Order\n\n234 Lewis\n\nFeb. 21 324 kút\n\nSwating Mac\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n50Jurriaanse Order\n\nSnimith Oxier\n\nFvb-chan Pah. 425 Bonderkiak'Order\n\nShangban Feb. 30 411 Verachoor Deal, Beals and Co\n\n15\n\nFeb. 28 582 Boar\n\nHongkong Mar. 22 410 Sir Ben\n\nMar. 29 180 Krase\n\n31\n\n36ar. 13 33olgensen\n\nBaal Coast Mar.\n\nShanghae Web. 10 339 Thiessen\n\nMar. Mar\n\nW sau and Co\n\nTuhchac ¡Bvalow\n\nInd Early\n\nJohn Burd sei c\n\nJardine, acheson and Co κέλτικες\n\nCowes\n\nEarly\n\nWm. I'usiau and Co\n\nWm, Ruslan and Co\n\nikeres not Co\n\nCarlowitz and Co\n\n300 Allebar\n\n264 Salmidt\n\nCharler\n\nHongkong Mar. 25 200 Kier\n\nMar\n\nJohn Burd and Co\n\n18 Christiansen John Burd and Co\n\nMar 28 202 Broken\n\nFeb. 9; 162 Wallenen Whampoa Fah. 22 230|lie Fol\n\n400 thieveking Mar. M137 Uulivenda East Coast Peh 440 Jessen\n\nMac Pcb\n\nSwator Mar\n\nMac Sanghan Mar\n\nHer and Co\n\nWin. Pusa and fa Siemasza and Co Win. l'estes and Co Wm. Pastau and Co Augustino leard and Co 148 Suhit erg Win. Pustan and Co 450ngsiboch der 238 verge Drier\n\nal Ca Lindsay at Co\n\n160 Kreutzfeldtems 110 Reiner\n\nHongkong Mar. 1 283 Couper\n\nMacao M\n\nMax.\n\nHongkong Nos. 14 589anama\n\nArmstrong and Lawrance\n\nSan Francisco\n\nHamburg\n\nส\n\nUnder seinare\n\n450 Gill\n\nAsatrug and Lawrence\n\nAustralia\n\njlund.\n\n8 244: Defervari 35oj Baker\n\nVardine, Matheson and De jamay W. M. Rubinst and Cɔ\n\nNov. 13 250 Barry\n\n21\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co Under\n\nEast Coast\n\nFeb. 16' 199!Arnie\n\nItepairing\n\nMar.\n\nWhampoa Mar.\n\nMar. 10 29Mazeres\n\nPast Const Mar\n\nSwarow\n\nDec\n\nFul-chan Mar.\n\nAugustine Heal and Co\n\nRobinct and Co 21Savason. M. Cobinet a Co\n\n600 Wilso\n\nOrder 201,Juder word, Augustin? Heard and Co\n\nShanghae Pen $2200 Giganter Russell and Co\n\nJau 1004 Cortina\n\nHongkong Feb. 17340) Hongkong dar. 25 140 Sarria\n\nStr. 225kil Mar. 28 415adiz Mar. 126arcia\n\nMaceo\n\nMar 19 150luma Mar. 13srors\n\n11 27 46empere\n\nWampon Ma Sel-Suveven\n\nW. M. Roisina 20:4 Co\n\nUnder\n\nJ. V. Torge\n\nOrder\n\nHongkong\n\nBangkok\n\nEarly\n\n!L. J. Gulierenz\n\nvall, St and Co\n\nRail\n\nR. Garreta\n\nKantla\n\nGarreta\n\nYiocos\n\norder\n\nManila\n\nTait and Co\n\nVider\n\nJ. V. Jorge\n\nMar 15 131 Summers Kinder Amoy Mar 7\n\nMar.\n\nBest Coast Mar.\n\n240 Welsh\n\n¡P. D. Syme and Co\n\nMar\n\n465 Vineent\n\nMar\n\n274jitall\n\nSwarow\n\nJan,\n\n29 Fice\n\nMar\n\n149 Mooney\n\nOrder\n\nマジョル\n\n952 Raver\n\nOrder\n\nWaton and Co\n\nShanglue\n\nder\n\naddine, Math and Co\n\nUnder\n\nOnder\n\nShangbas\n\nRussell and Co\n\nAugustine Flourd and Ca\n\nadine, Matlicon and Co Wetnore and\n\nAustralia\n\nExcu\n\nJarlie, Matheson and Co Dant and Ca\n\nSwith. Keanely and Co\n\nFreight or Char\n\n10100, Livingsted and Ch\n\nEarly\n\nEast Cuasi Fol\n\n148 Prowes\n\nReis and Co\n\n226, alerte\n\nOrder\n\nShanghe ar\n\nit. & 0. 8. X. Ch\n\nShaw, Bland and Co\n\nAustralia\n\nEarly\n\nLizzie Jarvis, ship\n\nWhan pos Mar. 11\n\nIng Crosby\n\n550 Set, www\n\nde Burcowa\n\nSyviuey\n\nChinese\n\nPretighter Char\n\nlenkin, Faraon and Co\n\nLondon\n\nsealed\n\nBaty\n\nCoz facing, steamer\n\nWan, Pustuu and Co\n\nS. E. Inerows\n\ntient, Beale and Co\n\nTotdea\n\nal\n\nBause arque\n\nLouisa, harqe\n\nCity of London, bq.\n\nForerunner, selcounter Dealong, barque Sarah Lucy, ebiy\n\nFortas, brig\n\nAt Key, Behconer\n\nEllou Oliver, barque\n\nGazelle, seboouer\n\nWhampica, barguo\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nAfrica, are\n\nAntipodes, arquc\n\nJane. Mishall, slip\n\nKolt-on, up\n\nSex, ship\n\nWild Darrell, cl\n\nAgra, ship\n\nBlenheim, ship\n\nDuck, sclismer\n\nEllen, barque\n\nErin, steamer\n\nFormass, ship\n\nHistle, Ach.\n\nJane Maria, orig\n\nLady kingson, ab.\n\nLord of the lea. ship:\n\nMori, plep\n\nJan.\n\n450 Day\n\nChinniew Jan. 28orst\n\nAmey Mar 5 121 Wilson\n\nTait and Go\n\n083 Henderson Fisicher and Co\n\n11 Fax\n\nFeb. 17 876 Gale Ningpo Feb. 335 Curtis Ful-chau Mar. 615 Woot\n\nFeb. 24, 420 Turboil Yor.\n\n98% Young\n\nFeb. 11 846 Pant\n\nFeb. 16 D Seal\n\nWonging Mar. 190 Farlane\n\nShanghac Feb. 23 714 Bulgo\n\nFeb. 24 300 Walker\n\nEeb. 22 809iSanks\n\nMar\n\n$59 Jamieson\n\nJan. 25 40 Rollason\n\nFor 11 50Cces\n\nFair. 25 226 Bovey\n\nFch. 81200 Wilson\n\nMar. 13 sataxi Peb.\n\npremier\n\nLindras and Co.\n\nDent, Beale and C\n\nAnn, ship\n\nfar\n\nFe.\n\nMarine. Matheson and Co Lendon\n\nella Co\n\nSwedish Chieftain, burque\n\nKramn Augusto, brig\n\nChilias Frolic, hin\n\nOudenbury Schlosser, barque\n\nNew Grenadian\n\nWhatupo Mar 1 298 gera\n\nWhempos Mar. 20 250 Hasselhoff Dreyer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nShaughse Mar. 430 Gough\n\nEdited, Printed, sud Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the longlowy Register Office: Dage Ste\n\nVictoria, Hongkuag. Tuesday, April 1. 1889.\n\n188\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVol. XXIX. Na. 23.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nATHEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & ..\n\nWo Cuntat, Chica, did, on the 11th day of March,\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have established at Hongkong, under the same\n\nstyle, a branch of our business. MR. LUDWIG WIESE is admitted a Partuer in our\n\n1866, at the Office of the United States Cosmulate in tlanton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real¦ Firm. and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all cuncorn ed to make payment to us of all uns de te, and to present to us any claims against the arid Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & 670.\n\nCanton, 18th March, 1556.\n\nJAMES PURDON & O»,\n\nNOTICE\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees JARDINE, Esq., C. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nSIEMSSEN & Ca,\n\nCanton, 31st March, 1855.\n\nNOTICE MRJ MACKRILL SMITH is authorised to Sign the\n\nKING & Co.\n\nMane of our Firms in China per peenrastin,\n\nCanton, 13th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nKey. Hon. W. T. Maxes, Fag., R.S. WALKER, E. Ma\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & U. Steam Navigation Com pany, (ex officio)\n\nPreueurer, MANIAC, Esq.\n\nBaristent Surgeon-RARD, JAOX.\n\nConsulting Surgeon W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\n75 cents per day.\n\ndoilar\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Warda,...\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,..\n\n2 dullars\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, renewable one day previour to the amount depozited baving been expended,\n\nPublic Wards,\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$20\n\n$30\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be respon sible for the expense of Patients sont by them to the Hospital.\n\nMB-A Hospital Bills to be reneipted by the Erasurer only.\n\nTHE\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nERPULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION\n\nLytworn\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON.\n\nTHE WILLAMETTE, Captain W. Conss.\n\nFrum Honyhang to Canton,\n\nwary MONDAY & THURSDAY, at è s'elock s.M. From Canton a laughong,\n\nevery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, at 10 o'clock a.m. For further particulars, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hongkony, MAXIMILIAN FISCHER, Canton. Hongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nREGULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION batwest\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTÓN.\n\nLE SIN CHARLES FORBES,\n\nTHE\n\nFrom Mongkong in Ornton,\n\nOVORY FUSSDAY and FRIDAY, at Pelock ..\n\nfrom Canton w Hongkong,\n\nevery WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 8 o'clock ..\n\nFo further particulers, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hangbong, K.ROTTUNJKE & Co., Canë\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHE interest and responsibility of Mr. J. F. B. TRAUTMANN Firm ceased by his retire- iment therefrom on His March fast, and our Business will be sonducted nonauforward under the maponsibility of the remaining Partuen Mx. G. C. SCHWADE and M. FREDNIK BOWER\n\nShanghu, 10th May, 1850.\n\nM\n\nG. C. SCHWABE & Co.\n\nTHOMAS 1 WALKER.\n\nArchitect and Surveyor,\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nNOTICE\n\nE undersigned have established themselves as Mer\n\nchures üşü Ayenis in this place, je Copartnership, Wider the style and Firm of FRAMJEE BOMANJEÉ CAMA & Gill,\n\nBOMANJEE FRAMJEE CAMA. FRAMJKE EDULINE.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1836.\n\nNOTICE\n\nJAMES CROSSLEY saved to be a partner in\n\nMore on its dugast lost, on which date his\n\nJuverest and responsibility termuntert,\n\nG. C. SCHWARE & Co. Shanglue, 27th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Business of the late MR. JOZE VICENTE\n\nJORGE will from this riste de encried on by the undemned under the name of JUZE JUROE & Co. All outstanding accounts of the Estate will be received aud settled by the new firm.\n\nR. N. WEISMANN, in this day admitted a Pattuor\n\nin our Pure in Chius.\n\nREISS and Cu.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1885.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTR. LUGH BOLD GIBB sa admitted a Partner\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\nMin our Firma ou let Jetz. 1855.\n\nHongkong, 27th July, 1855.\n\nHOUSES.\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET.\n\nITE imodisto passession, as SHANGHAE, The DWELLING Ilouse and BUSINESS PRE- MISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining LAN in the roar of the Godowna, situated in a most con bral position, and fronting the River.\n\nApply to\n\nDIRON, GRAY & Co. Shaughse, 16th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. HOSE Two HOUSES, with excellent Crowns, LAND- Wawel, as present in the op- tion of Messrs. LVAL, SL & Co. and símated on part of Marine Lot No. 10.\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nUST received by the undersigned, ---- 100 Barrels Hall FLOUR.\n\n1,000 51th-bags Chili\n\n6,000\n\nRAISINS.\n\nAles, on hand,-\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nUNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ESTARIISAB 18 LONDON AND Calcutta, 1834. CONFIRMED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARIJAMENT\n\n-\n\n6 William VI. Chap. 54. Invested Capital, B HUNDRED & FIFTY THOUSAND Pounds Sterling, of which Fry Lacs of Rupers are held by the Tian Branch,\n\nLondon Offics, No. 1, King William Street.\n\nChairman,\n\nSIR RENAY WILLO, KLS.\n\nINDIAN BRANCH, Directors,\n\nCHARLES R. PRINGLE, FL ALEXANDER WALLAGA, DE,\n\nWILLIAM B. SHOUL, E\n\nGEORGE BARZON Esq.,\n\nE. MACDONALD STEPHENACY, Esq.\n\nPhysician,\n\nAWAN WEEB, Bag, M.D.\n\nAgents and Sereiaris, M. BRADDON & Co\n\nMadras Agents,\n\nMessi BAINURADOK & Co.\n\nBombay Agents, Mears. LECSIR & Co.\n\n1. The marked success which has attended the opera tions of this society, justits the Directors in calling the ottention of the Public to the peruliar advantages held oul by this Luutitution to sil clag-en desirous of effecting\n\nBUTANCE Apor lives.\n\n2. The Tabies of Premium have been framed with the greadust cars. Toone applicable to India Eves have been Especially prepared from the experience of Indian mortal ity, and from the records of the Bast Indian Govern sent, and are an poderate as is deemed oonsistent with perfosi security.\n\n3. Proposals are received for Insuranets for the whale term of Life, either on a participating scale or ou & TUR parte puting scale at a lower rate of premium. Also for short perivda varying from one to seven years on very modcrate terms,\n\n4. An Annual division is made of One-fifth of the ascertained profits of the five preceding years, the other Pensfifth being set upart to enter into the average of of acreeding years.\n\n5. Of the gura annually divisible, heventy-five per cent\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNo. 1,329\n\nRELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY. THE undersigned having been appointel Agonie Š\n\nPOLICIES, payable in loNDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, KANGOON, PENAS, and SINGAPORK.\n\nCIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 26th April, 1856\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE 1 Established in 1849.,\n\nTHE findersigned are prepared to accept RISKS (covered by protecting POLICIES at bors and the varigan LoNON INUAR COMPANIES, by the PEN. INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Can con und Bangkung, u Amoy, Shungiae, the Straits, Ceylon, the Prendencies of Iulia, Sues, and England.\n\nThe interest in the protecting Pocies is aseigned to be P. and 0. 5. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Paytast in the event of 1,000, For RATA OF PERICH and other information, apply fo\n\nROBERT & WADAs, Bmyksng.\n\nMATHILIAN FIS, C\n\nK. WABLES, Shangkur.\n\nH. T. Mansa, Singapore.\n\nA. P. LOVELL, Calcura.\n\nHORT FRANK, Madras, or\n\nJONN RI, Banbay.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nLondon, Bih January, 1851.\n\nALLIANER FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nTHE Undersigned having hotel uzat\n\nCure for the above COMPANY, are prepared to aucept ASSURANORS at Hongkong, as under\n\n1st-On Buildinga ot Brick or Stune, covered with Tiler, States, Metal, or other combustible Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,-Kute of Pranium, per vend per Annua\n\nad-on ench Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at the Rate of 1 per cent per Atore.\n\nAuces for 5 Months, and for 3 Mouths, of the Awal date will be churyou.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £13,000 only vn og Risk. And of the 26 Class-To the extent of £8,500. A Building and its Contents taken together form oue Risk. Thus the above Smas may be udurwritten either on a Building alone, or the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contenta.\n\nNo Arazce is to be considered a force until the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the As- eured will be natitled to participate in the Fronts alter Five successive payments.\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please send\n\nis apportiosed to polley holders on the participating in full particulers of the Rish to be taken; any Deviation scale, we have paid six annual premiuus, and thans from which is one of the Company, wi profie can be applied either in reduction of subsequent visate the Policy. 40,000 Frach-baked NAVY BISCUIT, made of Chiti premiums, or usa Bouse to the original amount of the Flock, and guaranteed to keep weli.\n\nHongkong, 7th May, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nESING\n\npolicy.\n\n3. The Annual redustion has averaged considerably | above 40 per cent, and in no one year as Ellen below\n\nthat sonnt\n\n7. The following table will shew the result of the last\n\nDORT WINE in Botle, SHEKEY in Bottle and Wood, divisita of profits as declared on the 9th May, 1855, at\n\naud BEER in Bottle.\n\ntan rate of 40 per cent, on the original manual premium:—\n\nReduced Original!\n\nAnnual Reduction. Annual Prynism\n\nApply\n\nALEX. WILSON. El Polar Godowns, 15th april, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nApply to\n\nBRST AN COAL\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nAge.\n\nDate of Sam As\n\nPolicy.\n\nsurof.\n\nPresi\n\n30\n\nOu cr\n\n10,000\n\n120\n\nCold Ro It-\n\n30\n\nbefore\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\n40\n\nthe 9th\n\n10.020\n\n590\n\nC\n\nMay,\n\n10.000\n\n150)\n\n10,000\n\n740 1,000\n\nREST Labuan STEAM COAL. PRICE, &350 per Ton.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 185tì.\n\nTRENCH CORKS.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE ¦and Gezper SHERRIES.\n\nCLARETS of Superior quailty. Chaters. Maxg 2, Moviny, St. Cslepke, St. Julien, and Lesviite.\n\nApply in HongKong and CANTON to\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co. flongkong, 7ih September, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. CUPERIOR MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter?\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON, Menar. Jannis, Mayurson & Co.\n\nGallorans. East Point, 31st October, 1853.\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nNOTICK\n\nLONDON & ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE, undersigned has received authority by the last bail to make all LOSSES ON POLICIES issued JOZE JORGE.\n\nhere by tbo above filice, payable in THREE MONTHS ZIDURO ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA. after oties, in place of six Months Macao, 3d April, 1956,\n\nROB. 3. WALKER, Agrante\n\nM\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR JAMES McCORMICK is authorised to sigu vut\n\nFm per procuration.\n\nALVORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 12th Jannary, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR. THOMAS D. BOYU is authorized to sign our Mr Ficto\n\nP. D. SYME & C\n\nAmoy, 12th May. 1855.\n\nMR\n\nNOTICE.\n\nR. GRAHAM ANDERSON foinet me as a Partner on the 1st of January lušt. The buginese will be cried an in the base of D. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\nD. W. MACKENZIE.\n\nCanton, 5th Muralt, 1860.\n\nM. JAMES BROWN, Notary Public, MESURS, GASKELL & BROWN, Solicitora, Notaries Public, de\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria.\n\nHongkong. 6th Jan, 1855\n\nheretofore.\n\nNOTICE. LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720. E undersigned, Agouts at Hongkong for the above Corporation, Are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Huilding or Murthandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co.. dynie\n\nIlangkung, 12th Aprit, 1855.\n\n------\n\nLONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT\n\nINSURANCE OFFICE. and after this way, ir. MAXIMIZA FISCHER of and after this waves det sks\n\nof this Office.\n\nBOBERT S. WALKER,\n\nHongkong, 3 March 1854.\n\nAgent.\n\nof\n\n25%-0\n\n459 9?-> 298-0 296-0 851-0 444-C\n\n26-18\n\n112 0 618-0\n\na. Following in an Extract of the rates of Precium\n\nAnnual Premium for an Assurance on Rs 1,000.\n\n8858 1 Feer.\n\n98% 3 Fears.\n\nCIVIL\n\n128823\n\n*R\n\npete Profs.\n\n22\n\nના\n\nMr.\n\nEnglish\n\nJitter\n\n£ 18 %\n\nAge. 1 Year 3 Years5 Fears 7 Faith with life with-\n\n32588+\n\n38899\n\n45\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agema in Chron.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBREAD AND BISCUIT BAKERY, SINO, Bread and Biscuit Baker, and General Store Leper, bega to intimate, that he has consented arogiments to establish a Branch of his House at CANTON, in New French Hong, sud will be happy to supply Ladies and Gentlemen of the latter plac with that great Gesideralno-z superior article of Bread He Daltora Linsel that, from his long experience in sale, siness, and trom the facilities he posts of procuring, Et all times at finest brand of American Flour, viz., Gallego, he will be able to give a better article to int | furuishod by any rival establish uc\n\nBar wo keep constantly on hand, an assort ment of the best WINES, LIQUORS, BEER, sud PORTER in Quars and Pinda, OHMAN'S STORES, PERFUMERY, and STATIONERY, K., &c.\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1956.\n\nSAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY.\n\n\"NDER the Superlateniques of an Experiched Ba\n\nGILEER Orlere for all kinds of MACHINERY exented with despatch. Erxam ENGINES & BOILERS repaired. SHAFTS of the best Englen Tron from 5 to Orders to be aduresed Mussre. 9 inches diameter. 3. A. BARRETTO & Co., Maurier.\n\nA Cuniors LOT ATPAL-Dr. Wallis, while re siding near the Mississippi, married his landlady, an intercating young woman, aged twenty-sighs; after which he sled in Washington, a short distance from Columbia, where he enjoyed all the happiness that a worried man could desire.\n\n38\n\nBut his happiness was to be of short duration. Une morning a middle-aged ma waited upon him, and after some questions upon ja.\n\nPrijes.\n\n27\n\n28\n\n17\n\n33\n\n34\n\n40\n\n**\n\n55\n\n48\n\n13\n\n64\n\nJ5\n\n-------\n\n45\n\nIf that\n\ndifferent matters, he axited him he was married? The doctor replied \"yes\" \"And to a lady of colour 9. On return of Aesuere to Eatope for a permanent residing foredly in a town on the Mississippi\"\n\n\"Yea. Well that is my slave, and, although she is residence, their Premiums are immediately reduced to\n\nworth 2.000 dollars, I will only ask 300 for her, the English rate, hath on the participating and ou\n\nsum he not paid within an hour, I will advertise her as participating scales. If the Policy be according to the\n\nTUNAWAY. During the tour, the husband asked his participating scale, the reduction arising from profine ja allowed on the English race, thus admitting of a con-\n\nwife if she were a slave, and the property of the man tinuance of the Asserance in Europe on most moderate who had just left the buse?\" Yes,\" replied the wife, while teurs rulled down her cheeks; \"I am a slave, thus\n\nLerms.\n\n10. Military Officers holding Civil appointments are property of that man, who is my father.\" The busland allowed to subscribe at the Civil rates of Premium.\n\nkissed har, wiped away her tears, forgare the deception the bad practiced, to which love had instigated her, and then paid the required sun which made her his für life.\n\n11. Premiuma are payable citberannually. hall yearly, or quarterly, or monthly, and a guare of 28 days in allow- ed for such payment.\n\n12. Melical referees se renerated by the Society.\n\n---\n\nA SHORT PARLIAMENT.-The shortest parliament an\n\n13. At she period of last annual valuation, the Aseta record was that of 1390, which had but one session of\n\nof this Society were ascertained to be upwards of £550,000. a single day, and during that short space contrived to The amount of Potieres in force about £2,003,000 and upset one king and set up another.\n\nthe annual income arising frora przesiums thereon 200,099, exclusive of Interest ou the invested Capital.\n\nTables of ales, forma and instructions for cffecting Assuraneva, can be obtained un application to the Secre torics, or to\n\nROBERT S. WALKER,\n\nAceni.\n\nHangkong, 20th March, 1866.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHe undersigned, having heen appointed Agents for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, aro zady to save Policies in behalf of that Orbice, payahie in SINDACH, Penang, RANGOON, CALCUTTA, BONDAY, LORDON, and in CHINA.\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCanton, 231 Jannury, 1856.\n\nMYSTICAL POLYGAMY.-The King of the Ashantees is allowed by law 3333 wives-at being the precise mystical number on which, it is said, the prosperity of the native depends.\n\nTRE\" AULING Passion.\"-On his death-bed a dia. tinguished humorist requested that no one might be Javited to his funeral, \"because,\" gasperl out the dying man, it is a civility I can never repay.\"\"\n\ndefire that officers of the Lavy should not wear bearda An admiralty circular may :-\"It is their furdships'\n\nof moustaches on board Her Majesty's ships.\n\nIn consequence of the probability of peace, an order\n\nhar beco already sed prohibiting nsval otcets from wearing moustaches while on full pay.",
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        "content_text": "Majority and what is the fate of ins evidence?\n\n1st represented as having \"confirmed a purp-es- fure \"under\" a Verbal assurance Baz die would But be FROSECUTED\" for his encroachments.\" We are assure by thow, who have seen the appen dix, that no such evidence the found therein, or any one word enpulite of being fairly construei Into a declaration that the mere indemnity agrins JUNISHMENT\" was interpreted into a reaction of Crown rights! The campission would hav done well to listen to the copeluing portion of the evidence of that Witness whose opinioas deserve all attention,\" when he says for all ess encouragement being given, I think if on inle to speak of the legal responsibility neur Art\"\n\nThe President the Commission, however, can- act divest himself of his gama fat ano modent; and not only, but ne his seasily pronounced his opinion aifany Marine Lo folder should fechos to take the ground flted in in front of his Lot, Gaverament rony oust him from the Lore IT ELF!\n\nLet this be borne ja rind, for should ang eir cumalance deprive as of the presence of our ante and respected Cliet Justice, surely his suegrant 1ust be fauad some where else than amongst those whose Verdists are delivered before the Jury is exponnelled. And mark the grounds.--1 opanks the Lease.\n\nUnder 5000 fest-\n\nscawan\n\nSUPPLEMENT.\n\nBut we hure yet to explain, and it should have been stated in the first place, that the lines on the sea you are driven to a imaginary depth We believe, however, theeo tiuas pretty nearly represcat the extent to which Sir John Bowring wishes leare holders to carry their fets and make a Roadway of thirty feet in width. To nary out there lots to the extent required the whole of the hosters are willing enough: bet to the for mation of a Rund way for public per shey have no in sination, put, the Honorable! the Aitorney Gen- eral's opinion notwithstanding-it is not in the ardinery mainer of the Crown to insist on such n Real being spevat.\n\nThat such a Road is not wanted for mere pas- senger traffic wilt be auparest to wit on an in- spection of the wood eat-there being ample space on the Queen's Rood for the passage of all fa po- polarna we hang at present. That sven a Rond in not wants for wasrfage purposes, inspectors of the wood eut will also be satis lad: -and we razy well ask, if ont for hare, den for what perpes la the Priya winted? In M. Sa mayor General Gordon's suggestion for 2 primate Praya, prepared an a scheme propounded by Sir Henry Pottinger befors Las for int were drafted, it is there sail that in case of an invasion by foreign forces the runway would be convenient for transporting cantan speedily and this, really, is the only use conver ible as a necessity.\n\nExcept and always reserved unto fer a Majesty. Ber Heirs, Suecreare and Amigos, fall As for any aid la Police arrangements, it is our \" parver to resume and lake pession of all or any opinion thai, whatever any be in store for us in part of the said pisce or pircel of ground hereby the future, as regards a more efficient force the demised, if required for the improvement of the formation of a Praya will never be other tasa au anit Colony of Hongkong or for any other Publicaid to intending burglars; and the consequence *parpuse whatsnovor, three Calendar Manito will be that when the Bank and Merchants Bird nation heig giera to the occupant thereof of us they coneet lood Pressure and valuable merchan. being so required, a full and fuir compensation *for sizeh end land and buildings thereon being pald to the said und an, his heirs, executors cal vigation to be fairly and imputing\n\n  \n    \n  \n\nTo the flattor of the \"Hosszene Revuras.\"\n\n-\n\nHasan, 254 47, 153 Sen-Referring to the letter in the fast iseac of the China Mail on the subject of the unfair deductions drawn from the bulence taken by the Boxing Trays Chearsalon in huis published report, beg leave to second my testimony in care buration of the laws of the waiter of that letter, so to sixte in my videre given to that Commission netther warra fins justifies n\n\nvery rouse, what an a\n\npoint thing whatever is said. but it sorte respects on here pats upon it,\n\n3(\n\nmare Mtorney General at Hunghong, for the sume reason, by the same person, Cash, by the way. has gone to the Catentivels in a nimbolte frame of mind. He rears he is sacrifont - a regular mantyy vie | tim of all kinds of machinations, to get rid of Adan; aud though he admits that the berth is a govi out, great pay and little to do, he weys ke ought to have something far better, must higher pay, nothing es all to do in deply to do is He vores he is honestly\n\nTollectie my nating givethe fableving extret for worth for were respectable figure; that Palmers the report, which from the anginui neto apunate to be based ¦ton knows it, or if he doesn't that he is the only wae ratire on ny evidence. Another witness, also a zizristiarn of the jacts whe is ignorant on that deadz jat kokler, was perbally satisfies? ↑ « maid (int lie host rennired and trai heltt lake care the world shall be wiser befors very recently an excouragement from the Governor imagifit is much older. li surmind that the ut us time\n\ncrari apon the sea shore in front of his lot and reclaim it Cu being estar to crudescend to prurlavhars, red particularly sugary temper of Chisholm is rather that the Governor in queson was Sar G. Bonham chat Bir soared by the analytic proces a certain little biti 1. Botham ad id in answer to a questions, thus he of his, relation in something forensic in the com had no pawer to sulfanze his intended purprentare, or to wate him any tile to the ined when he should have reclamissionership line, has been subjected to : and that, as and it-that all be (the Gosure) wonkl say wha, that unless he has got all he is likely to get, he don't see the his the tenant's) neighbours compainel, Dovernment would we of exhibiting manh thankfulness for passoura to mot prosende son for the entrenchment, and that in his than, as his countryman, thi pheographer of the | Gavertur's) primate spizion the tumant would be “at right,\"\n\nwould be done at his own risk, and than as the tenant wrest held himself responsible for the consequences,\" \"The tales or my own, and mark the portion of the paragrafential y vakmo. The tales or my own, and mark the portion of the paragrafential y vakmo. First, as to being requied to closed to particulara. it may be remembered that at the pelic meling bell to ecrandér tin Government notilleation of 10th November last, I strongly advod the pelicy of meeting the icon of His Excellency the Governor, bring my arents en the same intervw with Sir G. Bestum. Is giving my evidence before the Commission, this interview was brough toy bentlection, sud I prouistet re give the whole parti calars of it without any attempt at centralmer, rolering Grły grosa-questioning unnecesway -- Berninly the report wash it appar that but plendouragement to reclaim, and that on the tall bring esete, (corlewing partient) I had overly been praiser innvaruty fron panishment, (if it be even that it me sellers siching to me about punishment anerosement,\" ble for the congeecaces. Now I will declare that Eiz George\n\nor responsibility for the aequcxers, and feonsider the wond\n\nciasto.\n\nbut that the tenant trust anderstand that what he oughts, defines gratule. Ainsley hay dore this the Bust lably, am in Chian, but Aur Monor; and is reported to have left for publication in this country a record of experiences optriciy confirmatory of his ginnt Tower kill wud kropping block theory an The Fizon, Afghanistan, and the Oriente ahontas ation of the same category --Correspondent of Li- verpacť Albion.\n\ndize noticed by such a mulus ay be seen condescension que inapplicatie to my detector before the\n\nthe Bonham Strand ocw, and would he soon on the Bowring Puya, too, if once completed, they wit think high sine to make arrangements to:\n\nmade by the Surveyor of fer vnd Myasty establishing alsowhers. Nor let this ideo be whis\n\nIf, in these words, the Allorney General can find right in disposase the lanse holder whose cand is not required, but who derlines to PUKERASE More, or it on the latter clause he can watabiish the fact that the fairness and impartiality of the Surveyor General emaot be challenged by thu Lease holder, we shall willingly accord to hire the Conjora's Medal, and hail biar es the 4 Wizard of the East,\"\n\nAnd now, Sir, nilow us to apologise for the pro Jongation of this Letter, for when we beg a place in your columns, -Your obedient Servants.\n\n— F. of U. Apríl ið,\n\nCAVENT & Co.\n\nStates with the pertinence of that passage in Ca. reat Ca's letter running--\n\nThere is ample space now, and ware than ample space lo teen fallic Warien, for double the wants of the Com regnity who have ut se foutages Wat aro thuir repirnama! Minch\n\nmain by the China Mail and others about tiam inumavenience to the publin dwel ing to the sauth of the Queen's Road! Leteny one who knows the pture an Es eye along the fist of residents, and \"their accopations, and then re how many to the \"of the tusen's Road, and up the Hill, nynire large Whar fage accordation. What did the China Mare require « What goods did he land -and what inconvenience was he \"subjected? None! As the same reply will serve loy whe tenths of those who inhabit the tata es on the \"Bill; aut such mast niet he the case, at Cooke tice aline would very soon abs any hone hit serving from redacod rentals on Inland Lots were they used as stung ground, \" --and impressed with the idea that readers at a disuence can never understand the Bowring Praya question from letter press alone, we have prepared, and publish below, a small woed cut of the distracted district.\"Spaces marked Nu. I t on this wond cut exhibit the tots affected by the proposed measure and the dotted lines delineate the general contour of the shore, up to which approximately, leases are already practed hy the Crowa The parts in black are Government holdings, available for Junding placas if goven- ment wilt make them.The fretted lots enclosed in No. 1 represent streets ia Chilmon's, Chinam's and Endicott's Baznars, the whole sen front at which is as open to the public for wharfage as it can well! he. The surch, as slightly altered from the plan accompanying the Hongkong Almansek for 1848, ¦ is drawn to a scale of 400 funt to the inch, and gives a sea ling of 2,700 fest, of which 600 are Loveramant avaliables -400 private bazaare with public wharves, and the remaindet,-private pro- perty the comparative figures being us 17 to 10, or say of private property, and 3 of public landį ings. Surely these faci-that wie ding\" should be sufficient for the most seeptical if stiti dis posed to cavil ni Carat of Cs assertion that i there is ample space for pubite Wharver for #donble the wants of the Comininity who have not sea frontages withou: disturbing rosted rights. For the farther information of readors et dis\n\ntance wo way state that area No. I of the wood eur\n\nis\n\nis part of land sold last year an eoedition that ai Feaya should run in front of it-Port of No, the same; the space between 2 and 3 is Padder's Wharf--between 4 and 5 is the Oriental Bank Who:f-between 5 and 6 the Central Market, and betweco 8 and 9 the privata Bazar and Wharf of Messrs Gibb, Lavingston & Co.-—the deep line of the angle n 9 representing the entrance from the Queen's Road to Benbam Strand. The Leasehol ders opposing the Bowring Praya schome are, in No 2, Mears Lindsay & Co and Dent & Co-in No. 4. Messrs Jardine Mathearn & Co., Turaer &Co, Bowra & Co., Legraik and Storgie, To No. 6, the Onental Bank Corporation and Mesars Jardine, Mathesan & On. In No. 6, the Agents\n\nfor Thomas Ripiey. In No. 8, Mosers William Scott, James White and Julin Bird & Co.-and in\n\nNo. 9, Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co. On the In-\n\nland side of the Road, the storekeepers, to a jana,\n\nas we are informed, express themselves in opposi tips to the Praya; and it only remains to be said of the mercantile offices in streets in rear of the Queen's Road-eit. in those of Messrs Williams, Anthon & Cu, Dreyer & Co., J. Dos Remedios, James Staphenson, Angier & Co, 8. E. Barrows and C. Boyd, that only two are in the habit of storing Croods on the basements of their premises; the su perficialGlown area so used boing, we are sure,\n\n• The round member given are quite approximato we repost; but the spacas used na landing plairs by the pub- ho are ukeratuted if any thing,\n\n......\n\nled down. A quarter of a century henes and, in these days of annexation and progress to whom mey belang ibe the island of Lenia? With a French or an American, or, it may be, s Russian settlement herend less chance of being borns down by the \"trong talkce\" of a Bowring Praya Comms sion, how long is likely offered advantages would remain accepted\n\ni\n\nIt was clearly manifeat ra me that the presiding member af\n\nment had been in the habit of resumứng lợin without giving inty other compensation than the Surveyör Generļa spínatè ment. On the print i was closely quistioned by the \"Cone- ssina, and although I acklaced two cases where she ca ant, retting the compensatum cffered, obtained third he asked, the report is not only silent on the portion of spy es dence, but itcally asserts thos it reale with the Sarvey General\" alone to code the question of ommpensation.\" \"la one of the casey I addured, I alleged that in February 1954,\n\nandaard, Lendale, Matize for No 79 e 10 del bars; us Isoil a year after fae 15 as the sale on anualed by the receipt of notice of resumption, the esi price 180 dollara, bring named as compensación. Ón veference to de lerse secret it stipulated that I was to have a alirampantion at a rate to be Sirly and impartially made by the Surveyor, de 19 anitced the hardship of the ee to the Acting Alertsy General who replied that the compensation must be far and equitable, which the offer whe not, and that I count ant be crapeited to access, it, Tur report the public, I was thos, with many others of the simple and cezading publis, deluded into a vers extraordinary error. If such be the case I don't think that any one wil\n\nbuilding in din Clony whendir cars be taken fora him by a Government whose legal adviser not only propounds bad. vocates soch a munstrous doctrine,\n\nslo L'aring wishet in have it related that Govern\n\nWe have said the Lenses were drafted after the Gordon Prays was suggested: and this face is worthy of particular note, for had Sir Henry Putinger ve amourent éontemplated coercion ino a Prays shows, how casy would it have ben to have inserted words giving authority to the action! Yet, hard as are the terms of the fenses, not parage-not a word—can be con-in be deleted into the day of exerting aus substantia strued towards an abrogation of the term on which Marine Lots were first bought. viz holding from the Ses to the road. If, owing to washings from the hitis, and other causes, the as recedes, the terms of the original sale bare still to be acted on by the Crown-he taste of the interests of the to whose use the kod is demised—and, the surne suivit that the Crown promises fall and fair compensation for ell it takes away-such fairt compensation must be given for the lard it adds. Such Mr Chisholm Anstey with and to be the de- should it be found necessary still further to resist cision of higher legal authorities than himself. the formation of a BowRING PRASA F. of C.Aprii\n\n30.\n\nSEA\n\nW\n\n起\n\n*Not two pence per foot--nar the fourth of it,\n\nin conclusion, I have to state may regret that this effoient manner of obtaining the views of the\n\nsaking gri- Buna tratores commission should be so for abused as to render it calikely that such thony with infulare procurable. The non attendance of a rouch respected anal leading member of the enciminals, eu inne comptinet of by the Fraya Coromin, may doubtices be travel infe sight rather than discotusy-1 am, Sir, Your client Servant.\n\nof 17, May 3.\n\nY. J. MURROW.\n\nAUDI ALTERAM PARTEM is a motto for which wo bava much regard, and we readily give insertion to the letter front Lex, with the extract, in italics, to which it refers. The emoluments of the office of Attorney Greeral here are certainly not mere\n\nFRIENDS of the Caprain Coonew some time in the service of ike P. & 0 Company here, and displaced from his common and under sirzamances reflecting little erafit un ruo Agent of that day in China, will learn with pleasure that he is now in the service of the Honourable East India Company; and mor has it will shortly have the appoints ment of Master Attonduit at Matlah. The\n\nfollowing extract from the Caletta Finglish-\n\nnot a 7th ult., is interesting --\n\nOx the ah ulana Sept Comew commanding the E. Company's servaying vessel Gruppler which has been employed in buoying off the Mur all, took charge of the bark. Murmyan Crown China, which vesel\" tad entered that rive by mistake. The Marion was brought up eately to Calcntia, Cap. Priest the Commander of the Maraina was dangerously l, when the Grappler fe in with her which probably caused the mistake. Capt. Commend the crew of the Grappler are criting > ly entaled to me renumeration for thuir ser vices, as the Marmion wes in a dangerous patitisa and would probably have been lost without exis. cane of 13. April 19.\n\n(Continued from supplement poge 31, column 4.) ment, wiz, that on all papers hence passing aror the Isthmus of Panainn, a separate chargo of two pence was a be collected in advance\n\nOn the 2nd of Fairmary came nirections to pay a penny in advance mill sepers hence i England: these sent via Marseilles, with a three peny collection at hone, remaining unlistar- Newspaper Proprietors and forwarding Agents ed. The hard bearing of this amurcement oa\n\nis most manifest. Had the order appeared a month before instead of a month after the beginning of the year we could then have charged such additional pernigs to the Bills for subscription -as it is we must put up with the lows-au inconsiderable one in the ag gregate.\n\nUpon what enamon sense principle this ar-\n\ntha a Barrister of Mr Chisholm Anstoy's stand-rangement has been made we are at a bus 19\n\ning might have expected for doing a \"boom\" in\n\nhis Augran stable.\n\ndiscover. It, simply, with vie w lo econ. omise the labnar el taxing clerks at home, then, in two ways, will the pathe be made to pay a Jor the false idea-firel, in the more costly pay. ment in Colonin: Post Offices for the extra fa- lour given to the collectors, and second-in the reduction in the number of papers regular-\n\nknow that many people take no other means for notifying friends at home of their being able male Newspapers:-the charm of the thing in e a pen tion by addressing covers on lying the little tronbie al na exponse. Alas! we shoult speak in the past tea+d, — the spel is broken the demand for the penny in advance has checked the kindly patention the longing friend loves his expected treat- the postal revente ja so much the less-and the not wanted newspaper is eat to the Ash: box. With so many arguments for the alteration of thia demon for peuries in advance, we tre assured that the tenuro ofile existence will he very brief,\n\nTo the Editor of the Friend of China\"\n\nHONGKONG, 16th April, 1856. Fiz,--Possibly some ingenious philosopher will one day discover a rural storecacope, which wits trasmitted.ts for instance-We all enable us to comprehend at one view the real cha- racter of every illustrious stranghouers cer litte colony with it presenco. At present we can only see one side at a time; and as an object is described by various parties from different points of view, the want of resemblance, and, what is worse, the want of harmony in the several portraits. ie perplexing in the extreme. Witness our last new breone comes upon pa like a comet, in un atmosphere of glory-Gur quit nunos rajoice in the advent of another piller of the state-a real, thorough, radicel, independent. reforming patriotic member of the House of Commons, and we hear of nothing save hire and his career for more than the statue number of nine days. The Mail gives hint an oration from the tow Magazine, you re-produce a sketch by the Parliamentary por trait painter, both highly credible to the artists and honorable to the subject of their labours;-but, intermediately, the Register obtains a nearer view, and resolves the appearance of our corces in the shape of a broom- now broom-which sweeps about is a very eccentric orbit, and hita hard with the shank besides. It was wrong in the Register not to begin by describing the glorious appe manes of the thing at a dislunce.—not to hunt up its splendid antecedents, like his neighbours, before producing his daguerreotype iikennes of ithus be found its stiff sharp bristles rush so romorso leasty across the grain atong our good old China am, with a view, as he shabbily avers, to profits: with a cover open at the sides, at a enarge of\n\nTwo other notifications still comain to be noricet-one of the 22nd vitine, to the effect that the French Post Office will account for ali poarages on papers from Hongkong to the United Kingdoin, a knowledge of which face to this community is not very importan lastly a \"trausuiseios of books\" afisation, in the Gazette of the 55 tastant, by which it is usdained that pa kata may be forwarded hence to Malta and Gibraltar, via Bgypt,and to Ber muda and the British West tudies (Barbadoses, Trauidad and Tork's Baland excepted) not ex- ceeding Two feet in lenghth breadth or widin,\n\nout of the repairs, that bis injured toelings at once tight pence per bulí a pound to Malis and\n\n: \n\ngove vent to their anguish. It will comiert tho, Gibraltar, and one sholing and two pence par Register to know that others have entertained half pound in the Wen ludies such rates p- suspicions respecting the peculiar \"Quixotism\" of plying to the first pound only, after which: the tis new broom, and no doubt he will read with charge has to be incrensed for every fraction action the other side of the questions etted of a pound as a pound-letters found in suc by the well known London Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion, in the subjoined extract, which I packets being charged postage with an addi- \n\nition of back packet postage as a penalty. suppose your fairness to both sides will allow you to insert.-I enclose the name of my Solicitor, sud am, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nLE X\n\nHow the-ow-Post happens to be Pam's own print is unintelligible to all, and their name is legion, who reject the Urquhartive story about a former edi- tor having called for P.'s mad as a traitor, and then being muzalisha St. Petersburg esksut skip, just as in the present ease of Ansley, who is\n\nSuch are some of the changes that have caught our eye: there may be others, and if there are out, we may, after the late rate of two notifications a mouth, soon expect them. But this, really, is too serions a matter og tyne unfled with, and something must be done t check the nuisance of indeercet legislation.\" by auteur Post Masters General,--F. of C. April, 19.\n\n312\n\nINDEX",
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        "content_text": "71\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPARTIES having their own ENGRAVED PLATE can have their Cards, &c., printed in the best style at the Office of\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nof the respective Papers, which will secure early insertion.\n\nEverything taken at Cowloon will be sent to the Government Office, if not claimed before 4 o'clock.\n\nyou will receive an official communication from me, the bending of which I should be glad to avoid, but before the Mail goes I must know whether the stolen articles listed were way whet\n\nYours truly,\n\n(Signed)\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Public Worship at the HONGKONG REGISTER UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are, on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M., and on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock. Hongkong, 28th April, 1857.\n\nTO LET by the month, & Three capacious Rooms, capable of accommodating ten gentlemen, with apartments for any number up to that amount.\n\nApply to\n\nBOWRA & Co.\n\nHongkong, 28 April 1857.\n\nTo the Editor at the \"Hongkong Register.\"\n\nHONGKONG, 27th April, 1857,\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Felaban on the 10th April, Mrs. J. CALOROSSET Sure, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Shangwe, on the 15th April, Mrs. H. KOONS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Macao, on the 9th April, Mrs. B. E. CARNEIRO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Trinity Church, Shangbae, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. John Halon, WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Esq. of Calcutta, to GUNA EMILY, third Daughter of George Hargreaves, Esq., Liverpool.\n\nOn board American Ship \"Celestial,\" in this harbour, on the 25th April, by the Rev. J. W. Johnson, John A. CREWS WALD, Esq. of Boston, to FRANCES ANNE, Daughter of Edwin Lemist, Esq., of Roxbury, Mass.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nDrowned, in March last, in the 37th year of his age, JOHN VAUGHAN, Esq., M.D., eldest son of the Revd Dr. Vaughan, of Regent's Park, London.\n\nAt Macao, on the 20th April, PATRICK STEWART, Esq., Acting British Consular Agent at that port.\n\nAt Hongkong, on Sunday, 26th April, of dysentery, THOMAS HOPE, eldest and sole surviving son of the Rev. M. C. C., Assistant Chaplain to the Forces. Aged 2 years.\n\nN., lat. 31.16 N., and long. 121.46 E.; on the 22nd, the British barque Whampoa, in lat. 28:21 N., and long. 122.1; on the 23rd, the British schooner Eamont, in lat. 25.24 N., and long. 119.56 E.; on the 24th, the British schooner Emily Elphinstone, in lat. 23.17 N., and long. 121.29 E. Passed the Lady Mary Wood, on the 22nd instant, to the Northward of Turnabout near the use of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nDEAR SIR—Having had occasion to be in Gough Street yesterday (Sunday) morning, I was surprised to see this usually quiet street a scene of bustle and activity, and thinking that I had seen it announced in the Colonial Gazette that no Government or Police work was allowed on the Sabbath, I merely wish to know: 1. If any new private instructions have been given to Contractors or others to set aside this Government order. 2. If not, it is a high disgrace that Government should allow its servants to employ labourers on public work on a \"day of rest.\"\n\nI merely state what I saw almost under the windows of our Lieutenant Governor's house and opposite the house of the Registrar General and the Collector of Police &c., several Chinese workmen were employed in repairing the road; lower down the street, near the house of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nVox Populi is not admissible on the ground, amongst others, that the writer falls into the errors which he condemns. In addition—the letter is anonymous.\n\nJ. BOWRING,\n\nTo the Honorable COLONEL DUNLOP,\n\nThe Colonel issues the following Memo., attaching to it the Governor's letter, which requires that all the stolen property be forthwith returned to the Government Office:\n\n[No. 17—APRIL 29, 1857.]\n\nMemo. The undersigned offers notice that parties who have any articles which were taken at Cowloon will immediately return them to this Office. Officers are requested to state their names, or that they have returned all to this Office.\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) JOHN KING, Captain,\n\nTown Major.\n\nTOWN MAJOR'S OFFICE, 25th April, 1857.\n\nThe officers naturally felt annoyed at having such accusations made against them, and their several replies are amusing enough. They run thus:\n\n1. \"Have nothing—I never took anything.\"\n\n2. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n3. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n4. \"Seen.\"\n\n5. \"Not a legal question—stole nothing.\"\n\n6. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n7. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n8. \"Stole nothing: the two hats Dr. Bridges said there was no bar in taking. I have already returned.\"\n\n9. \"I have stolen nothing.\"\n\n10. \"Has stolen nothing.\"\n\n11. \"I took nothing away from Cowloon.\"\n\n12. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\nThis was not all; one of them afterwards wrote a letter demanding an apology under the threat of \"court of inquiry.\" We have not this intermediate correspondence, but the fellow who signs himself \"X X X\" in the China Mail, has said, so it has come to pass, the Registration Ordinance is progressing, and we have an altered and amended—if not improved draft copy of the Ordinance in the last Government Gazette.\n\nThe Band of the 59th Regiment will be performing to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4½ p.m., the following pieces:—\n\nMarch—\"Souvenir des Alpes\"—Leitzer.\n\nPolka—\"Jalve.\"\n\nSelection 4—\"Quadrilles Mouton.\"\n\nWaltz—\"Auf dem Lufte, Gung'—Strauss.\n\nGallop—\"Corsa\"—Kulorer.\n\nWe beg to return our sincere thanks to His Excellency Sir John Bowring Knt. LL.D. &c. for so kindly furnishing us with the precis of the contents of the papers taken at the attack on Cowloon, &c.\n\nBetween that and \"stolen\" there is a mighty difference in the minds of some people. We will illustrate the difference by telling the following story:—A Leith wine merchant whose business had been declining, and upon whom a strong desire for military fame just at the same time fell, was glad to take service with Don Pedro when he contended with Miguell for the throne of Portugal.\n\nIt would have been for him had he in the course of his universal acquirements stumbled upon the precaution of the good Chamundas; or had looked nearer one at the protector-te of Olyfe the hammer, when the community was governed without Laws. Back leginnion, however, was not suited to the busy, meddling mind of Wilmi le Teary. On the contrary, he conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws. He accordingly had great punishments for great crimes, and little punishments for little offences. By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so hemmed by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one now] could walk a large within the risk of having off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap—\"Knicker\"-bocker's History of New York.\"\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nThe COVENT, 1st April, 1857.\n\nDEAR MR. F——\n\nMy wife (who can fight anticly for my peace of mind) derives her views of Hongkong politics from the Friend of China. Upon the ideas of the mild expositor of Sir John's responsibilities, she grafts a few of her own, and the following shortly shadows forth the result.\n\nWas Colony ever at such a pass\n\nWhat with poison, Sed riots, de dear that gas.\n\nA pretty large role of ill it will sum to\n\nThe taxes increasing, such a state the police in,\n\nAnd coolies refusing to carry our chairs;\n\nIf you'd know why this was, it is simply because\n\nThat horrid Sir John's authe Board of affairs!\n\nHe has truly thrown things in a terrible mix,\n\nAnd no wonder it is that with ge we are tow'ring;\n\nLa jury pays a,\" when the public\n\nWhy, who is the party to blame but Sir John?\n\nThe responsible man.—if your servants are capable,\n\nIf your carriage raptures, or child falls down stairs,\n\nFor sourbour, bad potatoes, or premature babi\n\nIs that dreadful old man at the head of affairs!\n\nJust look how he went and black-holed those poor bakers,\n\n(As it must be admitted they'd given you cause,)\n\nAl then four out Murrow & Co. to be breakers\n\nBy housing some coolies) of liberty's laws.\n\nFor struggling young orlenists ain't le a rush nares.*\n\nNor Christian nor Pagan is safe from his energet\n\nHet in happy to heap our dear chaplain's dham Gua\n\nThis cruel old man at the head of affairs!\n\nIf the ad come too late, or fire catches a chimney,\n\nIf our sleep is histure'd by a noisy cock,\n\nEve it a man-of-war strikes on a rock.\n\nf the sun is too hot, or the street lamps burn dim—nay,\n\nthe bugs at the school of St Andrew are lousy,\n\nOr the 59th Band plays unpopular airs;\n\nIf offcids are idle, or paracas are affils!\n\nIt's all the old as it the head\n\nBy his hobbies not only the clothes get se mangled,\n\n\"That buttons and darts take the wake of one's timiz,\n\nBut we're liable, too, in our beds t\n\nto be strangled,\n\nAnd he won't hang the man who emitted the crime.\n\nJould know how his sid yazilation\n\nIf he the load of ane's family rates,\n\nIncremes\n\nHe would practise (what I can't, fin enre) resignation,\n\nAnd put that dear end at the head of affairs.\n\n(Morita loquitur)\n\nAnd now. you've done, pray let me have a word to\n\n(That politics sextainly not a good hand)\n\nI would have you remember it's very absurd, to\n\nTalk about things that you don't understand.\n\nIf he'd three heads, His Cerberas, still be'd have reason\n\nTo say he's tough work to grizzle his air;\n\nAnd I really believe, in' you'll think it high tresom,\n\nWo might have a wote inan at the head of affairs.\n\n*Tron, WELDA.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 26 APRIL 1857.\n\nRooms, where such documents as the government desires to make known are supplied for the use of all the papers without respect to party or color. It would of course be expecting too much from a man who was only a radical member of parliament any such liberality—that style of individual does not act in such a way. All his liberality is expended in clap-trap, and when the time of action comes, he is found to be nothing but a windbag—As for the Mail we could expect no courtesy from it in such a case.\n\nThe Coromandel returned to harbour on the morning of the 26th, from the survey of the rock on which the unfortunate Raleigh struck. The survey was made by Captain Bates, who was accompanied by Mr. Williams, Master of the state that so well known Raleigh, and when then for him.\n\nAs we are a day behind the for, thanks to our kind friends, the above firm, we think it unnecessary to republish the documents, but we call attention to the reasonable inference drawn by the\n\nThere is one drop of comfort in this bucket of filth—the Ordinance never will be carried out, not even when the gloss of novelty is upon it. There is no staff of officials to carry it out.\n\nWe may therefore rest satisfied that the minds of the Chinese will not be undermined by this Ordinance, and the only bad effect of it will be to disgrace a British Statute book. Spies there are, and will be—like other vermin they are useful and can be dispensed with; but the more we can do without them the better, and we hope never to see the day when the inhabitants of a whole colony shall turn spies, and no one however respectable be safe.\n\nThe Sampson has had an engagement with pirates near Mi-chin bay, to the South of the entrance of the Straits of Hainan. The steamer had followed them up to this place which it appears they have made their rendezvous for some time past.\n\nThe result of a sharp and successful contest was the complete defeat of the Pirates who were compelled to retire, having about 200 killed, wounded, or prisoners, in the hands of the assailants. We have not heard of any serious casualties to any of the Sampson crew.\n\nXI. A Chinese Houses shall be divided into things or Káp of Ten Houses each, wherein every Occupier of a House shall answer to Her Majesty for the good conduct of the occupiers of the other nine; and Occupier of a House shall be Kápcheong or Thingman to be elected by common vote of the said Tithing or Kap to that office, subject to the approval of this Government, and he shall be the proper Representative of the said Tithing or Kap, and be distinguished by some Badge to be appointed by His Excellency, and he shall hold his said office during one year; and no other person shall assume the title or badge of Kápcheong of such Tithing or Káp.\n\nXIV. It shall be the duty of every Occupier of House to report to his Kápcheong without delay, to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, Suspicions of Crime, committed or to be committed, and respectively, for all the purposes of this Ordinance, to be aiding and assisting to the said Kápcheong in the execution of the same; and further, to do his utmost to prevent all crimes, felonies, and misdemeanours, and to apprehend all persons whom he shall find in the actual commission of the same.\n\nIV. It shall be the duty of the Kápcheong to communicate forthwith to the Registrar General all such reports as in Section Fourteen are mentioned, when the same are received by him; and likewise to report to him to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, or Suspicions of Crime, whether reported from the Kap or not; and in all other respects to discharge the duties and exercise the powers of a Constable of the Police Force of Hongkong, so as the same are altered by this Ordinance.\n\nThis is the spy system on which the Ordinance rests.\n\nWe give below part of a correspondence between Sir John Bowring and the officers who were employed on the descent lately made on Cowloon, powerful in her armament and crew as the Sampson is.\n\nGovernment Office, 25th April, 1857.\n\nMY DEAR COLONEL—I have been quite shocked to hear that, among other things, the official sent were eiti- Register\" or \"Register's Advertiser, please address to the \"Printer and Publisher\n\nWe further learn that the Chinese captured have been given up to the Mandarins at Amoy, and that the Portuguese taken are to be handed over to the Macao Authorities.\n\nThe expedition to Chek-chun was accompanied by Mr. Wan and acquainted with only one of the inculpating facts by surprise. A large number of \"braves\" were found concealed in the city, and a few house before the attack.\n\nThere is no evidence that poisoning as an art has been practiced in China, and we search her annals in vain for a case parallel to that of Hongkong.\n\nThe pith failed through the dilatoriness of the mandarins sent for distribution among a portion of the attacked force, & quantity of a perennial creeper found on the hills of the central provinces. Its botanical character, as well as its precise physiological action, we have yet to ascertain.\n\nIts active principle appears to be highly volatile, and great exactness is needed in preparing it. Several of Mr. Markwick's gold wristlets were found concealed in a two watchkeys, a ring, and a gold watch and chain had also been pawned to pay a gambling debt, but were not in league with the police.\n\nThe expedition to Cowloon was accompanied by Dr. Bridges, Mr. Caldwell being confined to his room with illness and though the inslemency of the weather prevented it from starting till day light, several hours after the time contemplated, the soldiers were within a hundred yards of the fort ere the Chinese thought of even closing the gates.\n\nThe doors were instantly scaled, the gates opened, and the fort taken possession of, without the longest violence being used towards the Chinese.\n\nIt is said that not far from every poison tree the antidotes were ordered from the Pacific to join Commandant was of course in a state of great alarm.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nShanglus, 23d March, 1857. (From North-China Herald, March 29.)\n\nNotice is hereby given, that in pursuance of arrangements made by the Chinese Authorities for the improvement of the navigation of the Yangtze Kiang, Eight patriotic Iron Nan Boyus have been moored between Chatela Island and Woosung. These have been laid down by M. GEORGE L. CAER, Master, N., in the following positions :-\n\nOn the South Sand, three painted Black, and numbered 3, 9, 5.\n\nOn the North Sand, three painted Red, and numbered 2, 1, 6.\n\nOn the North Spit, off the entrance of Woosung River, one painted Red, and numbered 9.\n\nThe bearings are all Magnetic.\n\nThe Light Ship is moored in 4½ fathoms, at low water, Spring Tides.\n\nThe Trevs upon Block House island bear from N. 15,0,0 West, distance 3 miles.\n\nGO. 1. CA, Master. BN,\n\nBy Order,\n\nH. M. S. Pique.\"\n\nSECRETARY,\n\nNINGPO.\n\nA ROCK NOT NOTED IN THE CHARTS.\n\nThe Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, right in the way of vessels going in to Ningpo from sea through the Fisherman's chain. She was 12 hours on the reef, and 3 feet under her stern at low water.\n\nThe bearings of a rock or reef on which the Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, are as follows:\n\nSkald Island, S. & B., distance 3 cables,\n\nSouth extreme of Chiu-san, E ½ S.\n\nLarge Volcano, S. W. westerly Extremes of Ruggeds, N. N. W. W.,\n\nand N. X. E.\n\n62",
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        "content_text": "(Popp.) \"N376.\n\n64\n\n73\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS-Continued.\n\nDate of Tons\n\n[No. 17-APRIL 28, 1857.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS Continued.\n\nDate of Tear\n\nArrival\n\nCONSIGNEES\n\nCONSTONBES\n\nArzirei\n\nFuhchau\n\nAT\n\nDATH\n\nNAWA\n\nPLATON CAPTAI FROM\n\nSAILEY CARSO\n\nCONSIGNES\n\nAmerican\n\nMacao\n\nKimrod, barque\n\nApril\n\n450. Heard and Co\n\nHongkong April 19\n\ndesible\n\n20 Laurick\n\n11 M. Str Brit by\n\nCorbett 282 Thotayo\n\nBischo Saatow\n\nApril 19 Sugar\n\n20 Minita\n\n21 Karlion\n\nAm.seh.\n\n300 Sampson\n\n21 E. Elizabethi De ah\n\nBrit.\n\n21 Hellrapout\n\n21 Generi Fame Am. sub.\n\nSimeon Dripuram. sch\n\n21 Vindex.\n\n115 Siration\n\n$30 Crocket\n\n8 Ashley\n\n600 Tongus\n\n179 W3.800\n\n20 Catherine Apear. Brit. b.\n\n728.8midt.\n\n21 Zephyr\n\nBrit. ch. 152 Dring\n\nAn. 8e5 300 Pulpher East Coast April 16 Alum\n\nApril 18 Sugar\n\nApril 190caeral\n\nFahebau April 17\n\nSingapore Mar, 16|llien Fast Coast Apr 18 Sundries\n\nCaloutis Binr. ties Swatow\n\nApril 20/Teas\n\nForma Pulchan *Slap\n\nMar. Bios\n\nJardine, M. & Co A. Heard and Oo W.M.Robluel &Co Jurdins,M, and Co Wm. Pustan and Co\n\nPeriton\n\nNingpo\n\nArtero,\n\nOrlar\n\nBritish\n\nJose Caros Ugarte, ship Nos. Fel. Santiago, barque\n\n589 Order\n\nja. Heard und Co\n\nIan. Stephenson\n\nDent xua Co\n\nGibb, L. and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nChition\n\nE. H. Green, sleamer Mar. 23 788 Thomas Ilant & Co Sir Juraes, barqué\n\n198 J. J. dos Remation Bassten, harya Khizabeth, brig Nile, brig\n\nOct\n\nOrder\n\nMar.\n\n127 W. Pustan and Co\n\nNov.\n\n20 Order\n\nOusan Bride, brig\n\nOct.\n\nOrder\n\nJan.\n\n647 Lladasy and Co\n\nSalon, barque\n\n¡Nov\n\n600 Under\n\n2% Incrible\n\nII.M. 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Corbett\n\n20 Tazard\n\nBrit.st. 131Hide\n\nCalcutta Macau Maras Amy\n\nSundries Jardine, M. and Co\n\nBritish\n\nFortuguese Tramelge, hargue\n\nApril\n\n375iL. Marques\n\nArrow, ship\n\nApril\n\n252 Birley, W. and Co\n\n20 Ann\n\nBrit, str. 401arris\n\nAmoy\n\nSundries Sunelries\n\nD. W. McKenale & Co R. S. Walker\n\nBmily Aouina, sch.\n\nBlur.\n\n105). Lapaik\n\nGeelong, benque\n\nOct.\n\n3934Order\n\n20 Progressive Age Am. g. 286 Holwea\n\n¡Amoy\n\nSundries\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co\n\nPrall, ship\n\ntar.\n\n282 Linday and Co\n\nzu Ceres\n\nDut. t. 365 M\n\nSiam\n\nSundries\n\nSchaeffer and Cu\n\n20 Cocomandat\n\nH.M.Str Nares\n\nCautou\n\nDanish\n\n21 Loetze\n\nDan.sch. 148 Krosa\n\n26, Tremelga\n\n20 Man on\n\nMas\n\n15: Africaine\n\nAmoy\n\nMar, 18:San Lorenzo\n\nFuhel\n\nApril\n\nAls\n\nLightning\n\n22 Mootriant\n\nInflexible\n\n13 Bittern\n\n23 Iron Prince\n\n28 Wild Dayrell\n\nAlligator\n\n22 Lanrick\n\n29:rrent\n\n24 Konig Willem\n\n95 Cornmandel\n\nvena\n\n25 Block Prince\n\n4:enco\n\nBric. str. 317 Durham\n\nFr. sh. 317.Brun\n\nH.M.Str Corbett\n\n[FE. M. Bgi Bearish\n\nBrit. str. 189 Sharp\n\nBri.ach. 158 McFarlane\n\nBrit. b 187 Sindea\n\nBrit be 289Thoen\n\nAm. h. 1Copp\n\nIIIt. ab, 714 Gezon\n\nH.M.Str NATON\n\nBrit. bg. 207 Suluh Am. 181 Brown Portbk. $76 Marquee Port, sb. 113 Berardino\n\nFr. sb. 385 Lavigne\n\nSp. hg 220 Ansoleaga\n\nBelt-zeh. 100 Dow\n\nBrit. sk. 783 Mackenzie\n\nJeph Fiesebar Brit. sh. 67% Pook\n\nMacas\n\nFornos\n\nSundries W.M. Robinet & Uo Shanghie Bundries Dent and Co Singapore Sundries Gibb, L. and Co Shangban Suedthes Jardine, M.and Co San Francisco Sundries Russell and Co Gutohe Bay Sandries Schaeffer aud Co Kanton\n\nArgy\n\nSingapore Sundries ja. Heard and Ca\n\nShanghae Saudries Marques\n\nmletea Bay Sundries L. J. Guerraz ¡Havana\n\nManila\n\nColonies\n\nShanghar Sundries Calcutta\n\nW. Fuatau and Co\n\nSingapore Macao\n\nSandries Bundrica\n\nGibb, L. and Co\n\nDausaark, burque\n\n¡Mar.\n\nDent and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nCaesar, barque Lima, barque\n\nFeb\n\n208 W. Pustan and Co Mar. 11 318Trautmann and Co\n\n326 Slemesen and Co\n\nAmerican\n\nAntelope, atravier BIL Milan, ship Channing, ship Golden West, ship Horatio, ship Jacos Bell, ship Munny, tarque\n\nDutch\n\nApril 12 281| Russell and Co April 8 400 Buszeil and Co April 3 63 King and Co Ja, 161501 A. Beard and Co\n\n¡Nov. 19 464. M. Bull and Co\n\nMar. 291381 Russell and Co\n\nApril 9 60 Russell and Co\n\nSundrice\n\nSchaeffer and Co\n\nPersian\n\nArchitect, ship\n\nChilian\n\nVan Bae, barque\n\nDanish\n\nApril 71 Dent, Resis & On\n\nDee.\n\n540 W.M.Roblaot & Co\n\nAlianza, barque\n\nFeb.\n\n200 Order\n\nSundries\n\nCider\n\nAmoy\n\nSundrica\n\nF. D. Syine and Co\n\nBritish\n\nSundries\n\nMonerelt, G. & Co\n\nLondon\n\nTeas. e.\n\nUnder\n\nAnn, kamer\n\nApril\n\nLeadon\n\nTeas,\n\nDent and Co\n\nAnu Key, rohoonet\n\nNov. 1\n\n191 Tait and Co\n\nDon Quizola\n\n¡Am, sh 2430]Ela well\n\nNew York\n\nTcas, c.\n\nKing and Co\n\nAugusta, ship\n\nBiar\n\n372Lindasy and Co\n\nPelica\n\nBrit. LE.: 469 ftolwen\n\nLondon\n\nTeas, the\n\n4. C. Sebwabe\n\nBanshee, berque\n\nApril\n\n186 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nShaughne\n\n14.Chilena\n\nBri bk 1 Purdy\n\nLondon\n\nJ'ens, &e\n\nBlankin, R, & Co\n\nBlack R Packet, bq,\n\nAp.11\n\n201 Order\n\nVA Bio Bio\n\nBrit. h. 582 Philpot\n\nLoulo\n\nTeas &o,\n\nSmith, Kennedy and Co Fena, brig\n\nApril\n\n207 Schaeffer and Co\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nDate of\n\nEsiry\n\nDatu vil\n\nArrival\n\nSHIP\n\nCOHETONAN\n\nHongkong\n\nAmerican\n\nMERCHANT VESSTIA-Continued.\n\nArrival Ton/\n\nEllen, tarque\n\nMar\n\n225ail, Sul and Co\n\nFortuna, brig\n\nNov. 634F.D. Syme and Qu\n\nFreak, brig\n\nApril\n\n244 Base and Co\n\nGazelle, schooner\n\nGet 2\n\n115 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nVESSEL\n\nAr\n\nCLASS\n\nCOMMANDERS.\n\nCOFSIGNERS\n\nHera, schooner\n\nAprit\n\n184.W.McKenzie Co\n\nNina, scicooner\n\nApril\n\n113 Joha Burd and Co Ascen\n\nNymph, barqua\n\nA paris\n\n400 Lindsay and Co\n\nAlligator*\n\nCanton loop H.kong Ships\n\n12 A, W. A, lood\n\nPet, brig\n\nApril\n\n23 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nBitterat\n\nIL.kong Stoop\n\nLient. Beamish\n\nRolla, brig\n\nMar.\n\n166. Fusion & Co\n\nAt Hongkong\n\nBritish\n\nA. Aşar, brig\n\nAlliance, baryse\n\nAustraila, ship Avoca, Larqué Banner, sobooner\n\nCade, steamer\n\nCaribbean, ship\n\nApell 25. 275joinh, L. and Co April 8 677 Lindsay and Co Scp. 580foha Bord and Co\n\nSept. 20 280 D. Lagzik\n\nApr 1s: 133(Jane Burd and Co [àğrüJT 987!P. & O. 5. R. Co\n\nFeb. 23: 874 Jarline, M. and Lo\n\nCashurice Apcar, shir Apis! The Gibb, Ú and Co\n\nhr. 80 750 Agier and Co April 1147) N. Duan sari Co\n\nChapman, ship\n\nChrysolite, ship\n\nEaglet, steamer\n\nEdwin Pos, adip\n\nClay of Carlisle, ship. 15 936 Angier and Co\n\nMar. 1865 Siemesen und Co April 11 89Jardine,M.and Co April 25 450P. & O. S. N. Co Apr121 326 Jardine, M and Co Feb. 28 895 Order\n\nFormces, attemT\n\nHellespont, steamUY Hoar, p James Paton, ship Lancashire, skip Lancashire Witch,ship\n\nLouisa, bargne\n\nMary Wlonbolt, ahip\n\nMazeppa, chogmor\n\nNova, acbonner\n\nNew Margaret, ship\n\nAp:41 15 880John Burd and Co Mar 25 835 Augier and Co\n\nMar. 311387ardine, M. and Co Apeli 23 274 Dent and Co\n\nMar, 291205 Dreyer and Co\n\nApril.26 171Jardine, M. & Co\n\n¡April 19h, L. and Co\n\nApril 12 11 Pletcher and Go\n\nRajsh of Sawak, whip April 1 526 Order\n\nRemi, kt:amer\n\nMar. 25 322 N. Duna and Ca\n\nNobert Passmger, bg. Mar. 13 478 Angier und Co\n\nSuisette, shp\n\nBarab Ley, bargne\n\nShanghai, alcamse\n\nTruro, ship\n\nTabi Cain, brig Vindex, schooner Vision, slip Zephyr, schocaer\n\nPortuguese\n\nLily, steamer\n\nFrench\n\nBenjamin, ship\n\nAmerican\n\nCarbon, achooDIT\n\nCelestial, ship\n\nExcors, barque\n\nGear Peace, sch.\n\nIno, ship\n\nJames Marshall, brig\n\nMar. wschafter and Co\n\nApril 25, 180vall, sull and Co\n\nApril 23,750 P. x 0. 5. N. Co\n\nApril 95 694 heder\n\nApril 17 179 Fohn Burd and Co\n\njaprit 179 Dent and Cu\n\nAp:28 644, L. and Co Apr22 162Dent and C\n\nApr226; 236] Tho. Haut &. Co\n\nApril 7, 500 Vischer Freres\n\nApril) 500 W.M. Eslónot &\n\nApril 25! 886, Davis & Lawrence\n\n115W. Pustan and Co\n\nApril 201 478). Heard and Co\n\nA\n\nApril\n\nau, 1, 16t S. 8. Bartowa\n\nMary Whitridge, ebp Matilda, ship\n\nMeteor abip\n\nStisna, schooner\n\nN. 8. Paliner, chip\n\nJoseph Peabody, ship Feb. 28:1200 A. Heard and Co\n\nApril 8 378 Jas. Stephenson (April 15|| 609 Rosselt and Co\n\nApril 71008A. Heard and Co April 20 9004. Heard and Co || Apr}) 22|1400| Russell and Co Oct. 104 Augler and Co April 191065 House!) and Co April 11937. Heard and Co April 21 2061A. Heard and Co Mar. 251052Jas. Stephenson Mac, 301600 Ruselt and Go\n\nNorth Wind, taip\n\nBeyard, ship\n\nSea Serpent, ship Simeon Drapur, eh. Winged Arrow, ship Wixard, ship\n\nDutch\n\nEva Johanna, ship flur, atque\n\nDurish\n\nMar. 11 700Schaeffer and Co April26 377Order\n\nEstern Snare, barque Apr 10 Drayer and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nCarl von Gruife, brig April 7 900 W. Pusiau and Co Clipper, schonnar April26 820Order\n\nlada, barque\n\nMaca a\n\nBritish\n\nBritish Queen, arque\n\nMonro, ship\n\nSpanish\n\nSoledad, barque\n\nDutch\n\nApril 22 450 Wm.Puatau and Co\n\nBosphoros, barque. April si Schaeffer and Co Comells Smit, barque Mar. 11! 790 Schaeffor and Co Erarding Elizabeth, shApril 800 James Stephenson Mastan, ahip\n\nApril 72schalter and Do\n\nDanish\n\nDannebrog, banque\n\nApril10 322 W., Wardley & C April 2 ascDreyer and o Frederick Wilhelm, bq-star. 231 450 Jabn Burd and Us\n\n835 Blenkin, H. and Co Diana, chip\n\nAuckland, harque\n\nHenry Hurbeck, ship Jan. Progressive Age, brig ápril Sea Nytuph, barqueur. Sauta Lucia, barque\n\nDutch\n\nAdiniral Zoutman, alafpiTao. 2 Borea., bargne April 13 G... Yon Twist, bqda.\n\nJamieson Ellia\n\n896 Order\n\n47chaeler and to\n\nEdw. Koppisch, barque Mar. 27 250 Tais and Co\n\nFuhchau\n\nBritish\n\nCrest of the Wave, bar. 85dditib, L, and Co\n\n60 Hon. Keppel\n\nL Carme\n\nA. J. Villiers\n\n46 'dre. Hon. C. Elliot\n\nHongkong . S. Str. 19\n\nR.-A. Guerin\n\nCilm ALS Capt. Itell\n\nPort Brig 20 Com, Tavares ilc Port.rcba 6 Escarnicha ¡Mano Jorge Juan\n\nSp. Str. 4 Briones Magallanes Hongkong Sp. Sur.\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT-For One Year, 123; Six Monthe, 4:3; Three Momune, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER -For One Year, $13; Six Months, $; Three Montna, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- GISTER AND PRICE CURRENT done -For One Year, $8; all payable in advance. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT la the HONGKONG REGISTER—Advertisemouls, not exceeding & lines\n\ncach inacrtion, $1; each additional line 29 cents, one halt of these charges for Repetitioun. HENTS for the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT. J. G. ANTHONY, Esq., London, leesrs. JARDINE, SKINNER & Ca., Caiota; Moears, Reminaron & Co. Bombay W. S. Desca, R., dingapore; Messrs. ToPSON, KOBERTO & Co., Latvia; J. P. Pauer, Eq. San Franciao.\n\nEdited, Prated, and Publisher by ROBERT STRACHIAN, the Honghong Register Office: Gage Street,\n\n\"Victoria, Hongkong, Tuceday, Apeli 26, 1857,\n\nWater Witch, barque\n\nMar.\n\n400 Urder\n\nCalcutta\n\n11.konging Ship\n\n34 W. L. Hall\n\nWhampoa, large\n\nNov. 20\n\n378 Order\n\nCamila Comus\n\nAmoy Brig\n\nCauton Stoop\n\nFrench\n\nCoromandel H.kong P. W. Str. Elk\n\nCuntou Brig\n\n160. T. Colvillo\n\n14. Jenkins\n\n8 5. Douglas\n\n12 Hamilton\n\n800king sed Co\n\nOct. 24 210F.D. Syme and Co\n\nBritish\n\n250 W. M.Robinet & Co Lauriek, brig\n\n240jBobert S. Walker\n\nMax 21222|P,F, Cama and Co\n\nApril18 410 Order\n\nMar. 5767 Captado Lady Mary Wood, str. Aprit | 660 P. & 6. 8, N. Co\n\nApr 28 Jardine, M. and Co Lord of the inleg, ship japril 691 Lindsay and Co Meteor. str Feb. 28 180 Dent, Beale & Co North Star\n\nMar. 28 380 Order Queen of May, barque Feb. 4 814 Jardins, M. & Co Sea Star, ship\n\nMar. 13 591 Bleukin, R. & Co\n\nWil Dayrell, schooner April 158 Dent and Co\n\nRoska, barque\n\nHamburg\n\nBuenos Ayres, brig Haribal, achooner Maithilde, brig Pathfinder, barque Baa, hargne\n\nSiamese\n\nApril 13 383 Wm. Pustan and Co\n\nApril 8 200 Trautmann and Co japril! 142W. Pustan and Co\n\nApr 12 202 Turner and Co Ail13 270W. Pastau and Co Mar. 378Trautman and Co\n\nShooting Star, abip ¡April of Biala. Heard and Co\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nFor\n\nClonial howton's office Victoria, Honghong\n\n98th April, 1857.\n\nAt private letter from the excellery The Governor\n\nto your the special object of\n\nwhich as the letter, states.\n\nwas to avoid the scandal of\n\nریح کر ہو سکے\n\nofficial communication has\n\nThe Honorable\n\nThe Offing formmanding The Groops. Go:\n\nGizcours, ahip\n\nAmerican\n\nApril\n\n538all, Still and Co Encounter\n\nHercules Hongkongt B.kong Steamer Hornet\n\nCanion Ser. Str,\n\n14 G.W.D. Callaghan\n\nH.kong Hoepital\n\nFeb.\n\nW.M.Robinet & Co 740 Order\n\nMioden\n\n296 W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nNurkin\n\net,\n\n400 Lindsay and Co ayal, S\n\nNiger\n\nPigna\n\nand Co\n\nRehorsa\n\nRaleigh\n\nIlamborg\n\nAlbia, schooner\n\nNo7.\n\n280 Order\n\nRiver\n\nBonito, brig\n\nNov.\n\n51) Joha Bard and Co\n\nMary Ross, abip\n\nMar.\n\n404 Miotusen and Co\n\nSiamese\n\nSucess, ship\n\nDec.\n\n500 King and Co\n\nAT\n\nM.AG.\n\nFormosa\n\nBritish\n\nCaprici\n\nHongkong. Felg\n\n40 Kolller\n\nCatinat\n\nMacao\n\nFr. Str\n\nSur Art\n\nMATSAKO\n\nMacao\n\nMr. Str.\n\n1 Tamotte\n\nOrder\n\nFrother, lig\n\nMary H. Midford, ship April\n\nAmerican\n\n5303. F. Edger\n\nApril 210 Order Iron Prine, camet [April\n\n180 W..Robinet &Co\n\nVirginie\n\n¡Macao\n\nFr. Frig.\n\n60 Ph\n\nLevant\n\nis Crulzo\n\n13 mitb\n\nAmerican\n\nForcamonte ja Cruize\n\nJU. 3. Sh,\n\n16 Foote\n\nJan. 14 son Thames Hunt & Co\n\nSau Jucino\n\nMontego\n\nMacao\n\nAmazo\n\nApril31 22. Pusau and Co\n\nInflexible\n\nSampson\n\nH.koug Ser. Str. H.kong P, W. Str.\n\nkong Store Blip. Maca Frigate Canton Sor. Str.\n\nSo Frigate\n\nFubchuu Stop\n\nMaca Frigate\n\nJau Cruice ¡P. W, shu\n\nSC Forbes Canton Ster\n\nStaring Sybile\n\nla Cruize 'Gun Boat\n\nCanton Frygte\n\n4 Lieut. Dent\n\n17 C. C. Forsyth\n\n6 J. Coxbert\n\n4. T. Ellis, Master\n\n5 Hon. Keith Stewart\n\n13 Hon. A. A. Cochrane\n\n40 ir F. W. E. Nicol\n\n14 L. K. Barnard\n\n6. 9. Band\n\nFitting up as an Hospital Ship, to be stationed in the Manned by Celeste.\" Manned by Sybille.\"\" Maned by Nankin.\"\n\nFOREIGN SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA,\n\nCOMMANDERS.",
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        "content_text": "486 \n\n(68) \n\ncontempt, in the destruction of public records of which I was the custos, and which contained the damning evidence of my own complicity, or that of my subordinates, with thieves, resetters, murderers, and pirates.\n\n**NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar to the Supreme Court**,—Called and examined.\n\nand subsequent release of a perjured witness in the Supreme Court could be sustained in law or not, and whether the man was or was not entitled to his discharge; there was another case, where one of this Honourable Commission had been visited with heavy penalties under the Chinese Passengers' Act,—that also was referred to me to determine whether the penalties ought to be—not remitted, but reduced; and the fourth case is that now referred to by Dr Bridges, of a reference to me yesterday irregularly made through the Crown Solicitor, and not through the Acting Colonial Secretary, of the propriety of mitigating the penalties incurred by an offender against the Post-Office acts, after judgment signed on cognovit. I consider, after the unmistakable intimation of yesterday, that I am under the heavy displeasure of the local Government, and unfit either altogether or in general, to advise in cases of pardon or mitigation. My deep respect for His Excellency ought to compel me to abstain from obtruding an unwelcome advice in such matters, and to wait till I am sent for. I refrain the more carefully, because I have always, as Dr Bridges knows, objected to the transaction of official business by him with myself in an irregular manner, and that it has at least once happened, that by officialising my reply to his written communication not amongst the Government records, which I did by way of protest against what I conceive a dangerous irregularity, I have made it necessary for the Government to apply to me for a copy of the unrecorded document, in order to have it entered upon record. Such a case is that of a letter of the 16th March, 1857, not recorded till the 18th of the same month, when I returned it to Government Offices to be copied for that purpose.\n\nIn another case, I sent a copy myself. I content myself with appealing to the whole tenor of my public and private life, in this and another hemisphere, so far as it is known to the few in this island whom I respect, or whose good opinion I seek to maintain, as to whether it is possible for me, without changing my moral and intellectual nature, to be guilty of those aberrations from truth, distortions of facts with malignant purpose, and deliberate calumnies against personal character, which, although made in my hearing to-day, I shall not honour by repudiating.\n\nNo man has ever charged me with that want of proper appreciation of, or nice respect for, the reputation of my office, or of the humble individual who fills it, which deficiencies have been justly declared to amount to a deficiency in integrity itself. I need not add, that by no court of honour have I been tried, and, my personal evidence being tendered, weighed, and found wanting, declared guilty of such conduct. No man has ever charged me with having reserved for a more convenient season my defence against imputations, whensoever, wheresoever, and by whomsoever cast, upon my fair fame and credit.\n\nNobody has charged me with having patronised and protected against the sharp edge of the law the iniquities of subordinates, whom it was convenient to count amongst my satellites. Nobody has charged me with having, either in person or by deputy, dissuaded or made the endeavour to dissuade nervous, doubting, unwilling witnesses from appearing before a court like this,—a court of honour, if the reputation of the person accused be concerned,—a court of great political import, if the good of the community, the credit of the Government, and the responsibility to opinion and to law, of every servant of the State from His Excellency down to Mr Grand-Pré, be matter of public concern.\n\nI was sitting next to Mr Kingsmill at the Governor's table last Queen's Birthday, when Mr Caldwell sat on the other side of Mr Kingsmill. I think I heard two or three times throughout the conversation Ma-chow Wong's name mentioned. I did not hear all that was said. My impression was that Mr Caldwell was condemning the verdict. I could only hear snatches of the conversation.\n\nI remember the trial of the case in which Ma-chow Wong was convicted. There were two informations and three cases. There was a vast number of books sent in from the Magistracy to the Supreme Court, several of which were used as evidence on the trial, and several not. After the trial had concluded, the papers used, as well as not used, remained for a time in my custody. A petition was handed in to the Chief Justice, in which it was intimated that the Governor, and, I think, the Acting Colonial Secretary, had authorized the delivering up of the papers. I spoke to the Chief Justice, and Mr Grand-Pré took the documents out of Court, and gave me this receipt for them:—\n\n| Date      | Receipt                                                                 |\n|-----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| February 5, 1858 | \"Received books 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8—8 books. A. GRAND-PRÉ.\" |\n\nAll the books from the Police Station were handed to Mr Grand-Pré with the exception of those I now produce. Mr Grand-Pré must have received them. I do not remember Mr Caldwell being present. Mr Grand-Pré shewed me, on the first occasion, a note from the Acting Colonial Secretary, advising him to apply for the books. I refused to deliver them on that occasion, until I should have consulted the Chief Justice; with the exception of those sent away on that occasion, all the books and papers connected with the case are now produced.\n\n(69)\n\n**ALEXANDRE GRAND-PRÉ, Collector of Police Rates**,—Called and examined.\n\nOn the 15th July, 1857, I was Acting Superintendent of Police. I remember meeting Mr May on that day, and telling him I had a case against Ma-chow Wong. Upon hearing Mr May's statement as to my having a charge against Ma-chow Wong, I confirm the same; but I wish to state, that I made during that time inquiries regarding the case, and found from what I could see at the time, that Ma-chow Wong was not guilty in respect of that case; and I knew that I could find him at any time I wanted after his calling upon me, because he then stated where I could find him; and he was found the next morning by Mr Jarman, who had a warrant, I believe, issued by the Magistrate for his apprehension.\n\nWhen I was Assistant Superintendent of Police, a man belonging to the shop brought a note to the Police Station from Mr Caldwell, and I delivered up the articles, having previously seen the petition. I am not certain whether I consulted Mr May, nor whether I received instructions from Mr May to give them up. There was only one Chinaman came, a man whom I had previously arrested in the shop; no Europeans, neither Mr Caldwell nor Stace came. I delivered up all the articles, some bundles, but no books or papers. Subsequently I went to Mr Masson with the petition, and received the books and papers on the 5th February, as mentioned in the receipt.\n\nRegarding what Mr May says about the delivery of the shops, I think I recollect telling Mr May, that I was directed by the Acting Colonial Secretary to deliver up the shops, but I do not recollect the Acting Colonial Secretary being present when I did so. There was no subsequent arrangement that the family residence of the prisoner should be given up, and the shop kept in possession of the Police. The family house opposite the shop in the Central Market was given up, but the shop itself, and the Kwong Yik Loong shop, remained in the custody of the Police.\n\nI remember the occasion of the gold-dust robbery, and that 1,000 taels of gold remained in possession of the Police after the trial. I remember a petition for the return of the same to the claimants. The gold-dust was in my custody at the Old Police Station. I had the key of the chest in which it was kept. I got an order from Mr May to give it up. Mr May said to me, \"You may give up the gold-dust to Mr Caldwell.\" About seven or eight Chinamen, who said they were passengers in the boat from which it had been stolen, came to Mr Caldwell's office in the western room of the Old Central Station. The gold was brought into that room by me, and delivered to Mr Caldwell. When I delivered the gold-dust, there were, besides myself and Mr Caldwell, two Chinese clerks present in the office. I do not know if Mr May was present, and do not think he was. I think it was that morning I received the order from May, and delivered the gold-dust about 12 o'clock. I think it very likely that Mr May was upstairs in his room when the gold-dust was delivered. After the gold-dust was weighed, seven taels were returned to me by Mr Caldwell, because, I think, one of the men was absent. I believe I heard Dr May conversing with Mr Caldwell about the gold-dust three or four days before it was given up, but do not recollect what was said. I subsequently delivered the seven taels to Mr Caldwell, without any order in addition to my first order to deliver the whole. I am not certain that I did not get another order to deliver the seven taels; my impression is that I did not.\n\nI remember going to the Supreme Court on the 5th February this year, and getting from the Registrar 8 of the books of the Kwong Yik Loong shop. I had something to do at the Supreme Court that morning, and called in at Mr Caldwell's office to pay him a visit; as I walked in, he said, \"You are the very man I want to see;\" he said, \"here's an order from the Acting Colonial Secretary to deliver up the books and articles taken from the Kwong Yik Loong shop to the Police Station.\"\n\nI was so directed by the Acting Colonial Secretary. There was only one Chinaman came, a man whom I had previously arrested in the shop.\n\nI was at Boggs's trial, and recollect his reading from a paper something in his defence, criminatory of other people. I recollect the paper from which Eli Boggs read at his trial. It was stated by Boggs to be written by Mr Caldwell, and recommended Ma-chow Wong, Mr Caldwell's brother, to the care of the pirates. I have seen the paper; it was in my custody up to his trial, and was laid by me at the time of the trial on the Supreme Court table with the articles found on him. When he was called on for his defence, he asked me for the paper. This paper was also brought up at the Police Court. He identified the paper as one taken from him, but did not read from it. It was, I believe, read in court by the Acting Registrar, and handed to the Jury in the box. I saw it put back into the tin box, which must have been taken back with the rest of the prisoner's property to the Gaol. I have not since seen the paper, which must either now be at the Supreme Court or the Gaol.",
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        "content_text": "360\n\n(68)\n\nNo-release of a perjured witness in the Supreme Court could be sustained in law or not, and whether the man was or was not entitled to his discharge; there was another case, where one of this Honourable Commission had been visited with heavy penalties under the Chinese Passengers' Act, that also was referred to me to determine whether the penalties ought to be—not remitted, but reduced; and the fourth case is that now referred to by Dr Bridges, of a reference to me yesterday irregularly made through the Crown Solicitor, and not through the Acting Colonial Secretary, of the propriety of mitigating the penalties incurred by an offender against the Post-Office acts, after judgment signed on cognovit. I consider after the unmistakable intimation of yesterday, that I am under the heavy displeasure of the local Government, and unfit either altogether or in general, to advise in cases of pardon or mitigation. My deep respect for His Excellency ought to compel me to abstain from obtruding an unwelcome advice in such matters, and to wait till I am sent for. I refrain the more carefully, because I have always, as Dr Bridges knows, objected to the transaction of official business by him with myself in an irregular manner, and that it has at least once happened, that by officialising my reply to his written communication not amongst the Government records, which I did by way of protest against what I conceive a dangerous irregularity, I have made it necessary for the Government to apply to me for a copy of the unrecorded document, in order to have it entered upon record. Such a case is that of a letter of the 16th March, 1857, not recorded till the 18th of the same month, when I refused, remained for a time in my custody. A petition was turned into Government Offices to be copied for that purpose. In another case, I sent a copy myself. I content myself with appealing to the whole tenor of my public and private life, in this and another hemisphere, so far as it is known to the few in this island whom I respect, or whose good opinion I seek to maintain, as to whether it is possible for me, without changing my moral and intellectual nature, to be guilty of those aberrations from truth, distortions of facts with malignant purpose, and deliberate calumnies against personal character, which, although made in my hearing to-day, I shall not honour by repudiating.\n\nNo man has ever charged me with that want of proper appreciation of, or nice respect for, the reputation of my office, or of the humble individual who fills it, which deficiencies have been justly declared to amount to a deficiency in integrity itself. I need not add, that by no court of honour have I been tried, and, my personal evidence being tendered, weighed, and found wanting, declared guilty of such conduct. No man has ever charged me with having reserved for a more convenient season my defence against imputations, whensoever, wheresoever, and by whomsoever cast, upon my fair fame and credit. Nobody has charged me with having patronised and protected against the sharp edge of the law the iniquities of subordinates, whom it was convenient to count amongst my satellites. Nobody has charged me with having, either in person or by deputy, dissuaded or made the endeavour to dissuade nervous, doubting, unwilling witnesses from appearing before a court like this,—a court of honour, if the reputation of the person accused be concerned,—a court of great political import, if the good of the community, the credit of the Government, and the responsibility to opinion and to law, of every servant of the State from His Excellency down to Mr Grand-Pré, be matter of public concern. Nobody has charged me with encouraging the accused by precept or by example to raise technical, quibbling, pettyfogging objections, to the reception of evidence before such a Court, and so to base his hopes of immunity not upon the moral conviction of his innocence, but upon the difficulty of wresting from the grasp of an unwilling Government the legal proofs of his guilt. And finally, nobody has accused me, much less convicted me, of seeking my own escape from public odium and contempt, in the destruction of public records of which I was the custos, and which contained the damning evidence of my own complicity, or that of my subordinates, with thieves, receivers, murderers, and pirates.\n\nAll the books from the Police Station were handed to Mr Grand-Pré, with the exception of those I now produce. Mr Grand-Pré must have received them. I do not remember Mr Caldwell being present. Mr Grand-Pré shewed Secretary, advising him to apply for the books. I refused to deliver them on that occasion, until I should have consulted the Chief Justice; with the exception of those sent away, the case are now produced.\n\nNORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar to the Supreme Court,—Called and examined.\n\nI remember the trial of the case in which Ma-chow Wong was convicted. There were two informations and three cases. There was a vast number of books sent in from the Magistracy to the Supreme Court, several of which were used as evidence on the trial, and several not. After the trial had concluded, the papers used, as well as not used, were handed in to the Chief Justice, in which it was intimated that the Governor, and, I think, the Acting Colonial Secretary, had authorized the delivering up of the papers. I spoke to the Chief Justice, and Mr Grandpré took the documents out of Court, and gave me this receipt for them:\n\n[\"Received books 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8—8 books, February 5, 1858.\n\nA. GRAND-PRÉ.”]\n\nI was sitting next to Mr Kingsmill at the Governor's table on the last Queen's Birthday, when Mr Caldwell sat on the other side of Mr Kingsmill. I think I heard two or three times Ma-chow Wong's name mentioned. I did not hear all that was said. My impression throughout the conversation was that Mr Caldwell was condemning the verdict. I could only hear snatches of the conversation.\n\n(69)\n\nALEXANDRE GRAND-PRÉ, Collector of Police Rates,—Called and examined.\n\nOn the 15th July, 1857, I was Acting Superintendent of Police. I remember meeting Mr May on that day, and telling him I had a case against Ma-chow Wong. Upon hearing Mr May's statement as to my having a charge against and arresting Ma-chow Wong, I confirm the same; but I wish to state, that I made during that time inquiries regarding the case, and found from what I could see at the time, that Ma-chow Wong was not guilty in respect of that case; and I knew that I could find him at any time.\n\nWhen I was Assistant Superintendent of Police, a man belonging to the shop brought a note to the Police Station from Mr Caldwell, and I delivered up the articles, having previously seen the petition. I am not certain whether I consulted Mr May, nor whether I received instructions from Mr May to give them up. There was only one Chinaman came, a man whom I had previously arrested. I delivered up all the articles, some bundles, but no books or papers. Subsequently, I went to Mr Masson with the petition, and received the books and papers on the 5th February, as mentioned in the receipt.\n\nI remember the occasion of the gold-dust robbery, and that 1,000 taels of gold remained in possession of the Police after the trial. I remember a petition for the return of the same to the claimants. The gold-dust was in my custody at the Old Police Station. I had the key of the chest in which it was kept. I got an order from Mr May to give it up. Mr May said to me, \"You may give up the gold-dust to Mr Caldwell.\" About seven or eight Chinamen, who said they were passengers in the boat from which it had been stolen, came to Mr Caldwell's office in the western room of the Old Central Station. The gold was brought into that room by me, and delivered to Mr Caldwell. When I so delivered the gold-dust, there were, besides myself and Mr Caldwell, two Chinese clerks present in the office. I do not know if Mr May was present, and do not think he was. I think it was that morning I received the order from Mr May, and delivered the gold-dust about 12 o'clock. I think it very likely that Mr May was upstairs in his room when the gold-dust was delivered. After the gold-dust was weighed, seven taels were returned to me by Mr Caldwell, because, I think, one of the men was absent. I believe I heard Mr May conversing with Mr Caldwell about the gold-dust three or four days before it was given up, but do not recollect what was said. I subsequently delivered the seven taels to Mr Caldwell, without any order in addition to my first order to deliver the whole. I am not certain that I did not get another order to deliver the seven taels; my impression is that I did not.\n\nI was at Boggs's trial, and recollect his reading from a paper something in his defence, criminatory of other people. I recollect the paper from which Eli Boggs read at his trial. It was stated by Boggs to be written by Mr Caldwell, and recommended Ma-chow Wong, Mr Caldwell's brother, to the care of the pirates. I have seen the paper; it was in my custody up to his trial, and was laid on the Supreme Court table for his defence. He asked me for the paper, and I gave it to him. This paper was also brought up at the Police Court. He identified the paper as one taken from him, but did not read from it. It was, I believe, read in court by the Acting Registrar, and handed to the Jury in the box. I saw it put back into the tin box, which must have been taken back with the rest of the prisoner's property to the Gaol. I have not since seen the paper, which must either now be at the Supreme Court or in the Gaol.",
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        "content_text": "make his employment at Hong Kong!\n\nIn expensive affair. Add to the cost she already incurred this claim for \n\nout ya \n\nto Juices \n\n生\n\nWith reimbursement, & a small margin is left to a salary of £300 per annum.\n\nThe Governor called upon us for a Clerk of the works - We did so with defects, & the man chosen went to the Colony discontent\n\nThe would \n\nprobably have lost some of his health had not the Colonial \n\nsharp ly ment — a practice by no means infrequent with officials \n\nsent out from home at small Salaries. It is yet \n\na good place to fill up \n\nThese subordinate places \n\nhome appointments, 11/June.\n\nowing to the absence of the Medical certificate \n\nM. Millett's liability is clear. \n\nat the same time, mention that his salary was \n\nonly £300 per annum, & that Reduced \n\nhis re-appointment the copy.\n\nCompelled him to resign \n\nafter only a year and a half \n\nin the Colony.\n\na short tenure \n\n& the necessity \n\nbeen under \n\nSending his \n\nfamily home \n\nSir F. Rogers.\n\nAn Artist & relieving his appointment and as he had no fee to \n\nthe Nurse certificate \n\nsum the Op Suz he was Moved.\n\ndo so from the \n\nhealth \n\nR \n\nAgent Ampking. 5769.\n\nPls. Julyan Expre \n\nE \n\nMINUTE 20\n\nDrony 28 JUNE \n\nEllid \n\nJ Surfficer 28 Fortescue 29 \n\nDalkey Succratio 30.\n\nSei \n\nCoher, astrid. \n\n37 \n\n6th July life \n\npo.\n\nJam dirsetty \n\nthe Duke of here aste.\n\nto acknowledge the \n\nreceipt of your letter \n\nrelative to the \n\nrecovery from Mr Joseph Ablett formerly Foreman of Works at Hong Kong,\n\nof a sum of £200 on account of his \n\npassage to the \n\nMr. Niblett \n\nagreement bound him",
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        "content_text": "# NOMINAL RETURN of Casualties in the Force under His Excellency Sir J. Hope Grant, G.C.B., Commanding the Forces in China, at the Action on the Chow-Ho, September 18, 1860.\n\nProbyn's Horse -\n\n  \n    Corps\n    Killed\n    Dangerously\n    Severely\n    Slightly\n    Missing\n  \n  \n    1st King's Dragoon Guards\n    1\n    \n    1\n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    Fane's Horse\n    \n    1\n    \n    4\n    \n  \n  \n    1st Battalion Military Train\n    \n    \n    \n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    15th Punjaub Infantry\n    1\n    \n    1\n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    2\n    1\n    2\n    12\n    \n  \n\nForty-three guns were taken during the action, and the loss of the Chinese was very severe. On the right and left were their heaviest losses, but all along the centre, small groups of dead showed the effect of the artillery fire, which had followed their movements till they finally retreated. Our loss is two killed and 29 wounded-chiefly slightly.\n\nI should wish most particularly to bring to notice the very excellent service of the King's Dragoon Guards. The country is extremely unfavourable for cavalry at present, partly from the number of ditches, and partly on account of the crops of maize and millet having been recently cut, leaving sharp-pointed stubble, most injurious to horses, and rendering their rapid movement very difficult; their charge was, however, most effective, and they surmounted these obstacles in a most creditable manner.\n\nI have, &c., (Signed) J. HOPE GRANT,\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nCommander of the Forces.\n\nThe Secretary of State for War, &c.\n\nPage 7\n\nNOMINAL RETURN of the Casualties in the Force under His Excellency Sir J. Hope Grant, G.C.B., Commanding the Force in China, at the Action on September 21, 1860.\n\nSIR,\n\nDESPATCH from Sir J. HOPE GRANT to Mr. Secretary HERBERT.\n\n(No. 47.)\n\nHead Quarters, Camp near Tangchow, September 22, 1860.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report, that after the action of the 18th inst. I remained in Chang-tsia-wan for two days, during which time the 1,500 French troops left at Hoo-seiwoo joined us, and some convoys arrived in camp, together with intelligence of a flotilla of junks coming up the Peiho with further supplies. From reconnaissances on the 19th and 20th, we had ascertained that the Chinese army was encamped in very large numbers about four miles off, on the road between Tangchow and Pekin, and on both sides of the canal which runs from the Peiho to the latter city.\n\nAt daybreak on the 21st I marched from Chang-tsia-wan, and parking the baggage in a village two miles in front, I was there joined by the French who advanced on the right. Soon after passing Tangchow the French troops got under fire of the Chinese works thrown up to protect a fine bridge crossing the canal, and on the Imperial high-road to Pekin. At this point the enemy's infantry appeared in considerable force. On the left, the Tartar cavalry showed in large masses, and advanced rapidly until within 200 yards of our guns, which, hastily unlimbering, drove them off with a fire of canister, assisted by skirmishers thrown forward from the 2nd (Queen's). The Cavalry Brigade, which I had kept échelonned away on the left to guard that flank, was now moving up, and the enemy's cavalry driven away from the right by our fire, hung in large masses on our left front, affording an excellent opportunity for our cavalry to charge, which they promptly seized, the King's Dragoon Guards, under Lieutenant-Colonel Sayers, in particular inflicting a very heavy loss on the enemy. On the left Fane's Horse charged a similar body with great gallantry, whilst the 1st Sikh Cavalry, under Major Probyn, supporting Fane's Horse, effectually turned the right of the Chinese army.\n\nThe enemy, though defeated on the spot, yet still remained in front, in clouds of horsemen, who, though constantly retiring from the advance of any party of our cavalry, however small, never allowed more than 1,000 yards to intervene between us, and showed a steady and threatening front. At this time I had with me the cavalry, the 4th infantry brigade, and three Armstrong guns; the rest of the artillery, with the 2nd brigade, having been left in the centre, with directions to feel the French left. With the three Armstrong guns, under Capt. Rowley, we fired occasional single shots on their thickest masses. These shots, fired singly, at slow intervals, served admirably to illustrate the good qualities of the Armstrong gun; not one failed to strike the thick masses of the enemy, at once dispersing them from the spot.\n\nThus advancing, the cavalry was brought to a check by the fire of a camp, which was taken by the 99th regiment, under Major Dowbiggin, and which proved to be the head quarters of some of the Imperial princes. This, with several others in the neighbourhood, was burnt by our troops, and the Chinese army retired upon Pekin.\n\nWe then rejoined our right, which had kept in line with the French, who had carried the bridge, inflicting much loss on the enemy.\n\n  \n    Corps\n    Killed\n    Dangerously\n    Severely\n    Slightly\n  \n  \n    1st King's Dragoon Guards\n    1\n    \n    1\n    3\n  \n  \n    1st Sikh Cavalry\n    \n    \n    \n    5\n  \n  \n    Fane's Horse\n    \n    1\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    2nd Queen's\n    \n    \n    \n    4\n  \n  \n    15th Punjab Infantry\n    2\n    \n    1\n    2\n  \n  \n    Total\n    3\n    1\n    2\n    15\n  \n\nSIR,\n\nAdvance on Pekin.\n\nDESPATCH from Sir J. HOPE GRANT to Mr. Secretary Herbert.\n\n(No. 51.)\n\nHead-Quarters, Bivouac, outside Pekin, Oct. 9. 1860.\n\nIn continuation of my letter* of the 4th instant, I have the honour to report that, on the 5th of October the Allied Forces advanced from Tungchow, leaving the heavy guns, tents, and baggage stored about three miles from that place. We halted for the night about three miles east of the north-east angle of Pekin, and the following morning resumed our march in a north-westerly direction, so as to pass along the northern face of the city, but out of gun-shot of the walls, and attack Sang-ko-lin-sin's army, which was supposed to be encamped directly in our front.\n\nThe country about here is not good for cavalry, from the great number of trees, villages, and hollow roads. I accordingly despatched the Cavalry Brigade with two 6-pounders with mounted detachments, with orders to advance on the road leading to the Emperor's Palace at Yuen-min-Yuen, with a view of cutting off the retreat of the enemy in that direction. The French were on our left, while the English force moved along the outside of an old rampart which runs parallel to the north face of the city. At this time we received information that the Chinese army were in full retreat, having commenced moving the night before. I therefore sent a message to General de Montauban, that I should advance at once to the Emperor's Palace. On the road, however, we came across the rear-guard apparently of the enemy, with whom a few shots were exchanged before they fled towards the city. As they appeared to be in considerable force in the suburb, I determined on halting on the northern road to prevent their moving out in that direction.\n\n*Not received.\n\nPage 406",
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        "content_text": "# Private and Confidential\n\n## THE HONG KONG AND CHINA GAS COMPANY, LIMITED\n\nFormed under the Act of 19th and 20th Victoria, which limits the liability of Shareholders to the Amount of their Shares.\n\nThe rights and privileges of the Company are specially accorded by **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG**, and confirmed by **HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE**, as COLONIAL SECRETARY. The Company has also the approval of the following eminent English Firms, having establishments in, or trading with, China :--\n\n| Firm |\n| --- |\n| MESSRS. DENT, PALMER & COMPANY |\n| MESSRS. GLEDSTANES & COMPANY |\n| MESSRS. SANDERSON, FRYS, RIGGE & COMPANY |\n| FREDERICK CHAPMAN, Esq., OF THE FIRM OF CHAPMAN, KING & COMPANY |\n| MESSRS. KELSON, TRITTON & COMPANY |\n| MESSRS. WILLIAM HOGG & COMPANY |\n\n**CAPITAL £35,000, IN 3,500 SHARES OF £10 EACH**, WITH POWER TO INCREASE IT TO £50,000.\n\n£1 to be paid upon Application, and 10s. upon Allotment.\n\n### DIRECTORS\n\n| Name | Address |\n| --- | --- |\n| CAPTAIN FREDERICK ARROW | 48, Norfolk Square, Hyde Park |\n| FRANCIS CRAMP, Esq. (Messrs OFFLEY, CRAMP & Co.) | 6, St. Helen's Place |\n| JAMES PHILLIPS, Esq. | Claremont Lodge, North Brixton |\n| THOMAS WHITE, Esq. (Messrs. WHITE & PRICE) | 57, Mark Lane |\n| EDWARD WOODS, Esq., C.E. | 3, Storey's Gate, Westminster |\n\n### SOLICITORS\n\nMESSRS. W. & H. P. SHARP, 92, Gresham House, Old Broad Street.\n\n### BANKERS\n\nMESSRS. MASTERMAN, PETERS, MILDRED & Co.\n\n### BROKER\n\nSAMUEL WOODS, Esq., 14, Angel Court, Throgmorton Street.\n\n### SECRETARY (pro tem.)\n\nHENRY SHAW, Esq.\n\n### TEMPORARY OFFICES\n\n92, Gresham House, E.C.\n\n## PROSPECTUS\n\nThis Company is formed upon the principle of Limited Liability, for the Construction of Gas Works, and for supplying Gas in the populous City of Victoria or Hong Kong, and in other Cities in China, as may be hereafter determined upon.\n\nIt is the seat of Hong Kong is the only English Colony, and the principal seaport, in China. The Government, and the British Military and Naval Depôts, and from its strategical position over the China seas, similar to that of Gibraltar over the Mediterranean, it confers a thorough security upon both persons and property.\n\nThe population of the City is already estimated at over 100,000, and the residences of His Excellency the Governor, and of the Merchants, and the Hospitals, Barracks, and other public buildings, are upon an extent and a scale of magnificence unknown in this country.\n\nPage 142",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG SAILORS' HOME\n\n## SUBSCRIPTION\n\n| Date | Subscription | Original amount received | Additional |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Amount brought forward | $40,700 | 200 |\n\nHONGKONG, 20TH DECEMBER, 1862\n\nA MEETING of the Subscribers to the SAILOR'S HOME was held at the Office of the Honorary Secretary this day, at which were present Messrs Perceval, Chorley, Murray, Lapraik, Block, Kup, Sharp, and Caldbeck.\n\nOn the motion of Mr Murray, seconded by Mr Chorley, Mr Perceval was invited to take the chair.\n\nThe Honorary Secretary submitted the accounts of the Institution, showing an actual balance in the books of the Oriental Bank of $21,681.00 to the credit of the Home.\n\nMr Rawling having submitted his plans for the proposed buildings (which were unanimously approved of), together with an estimate of the probable cost, and having stated that the ground was now ready to be built upon, it was proposed by Mr Chorley, seconded by Mr Block, and resolved: that Mr Rawling be empowered to proceed at once, under the direction of the Committee of Management, with the erection of the buildings for European and Indian Seamen.\n\nProposed by Mr Murray, seconded by Mr Block, and resolved, that Messrs H. B. Gibb, E. F. Parker, A. Turing, R. McMurdo, and J. Caldbeck be elected as Directors for the ensuing year in the place of Messrs J. Gibb, J. Heard, Walkinshaw, Fletcher, and Thomsett, who retire.\n\nProposed by Mr Murray, seconded by Mr Sharp, and resolved, that Messrs Caldbeck and McMurdo act as members of the Committee of Management for the ensuing year, in the place of Messrs Murray and Thomsett, who retire.\n\nMr Sharp having kindly offered his services to collect subscriptions, his offer was thankfully accepted.\n\n| Subscriber | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Wetmore Cryder HC | 500 |\n| Ludevig Wrese | ... |\n| Holliday Wise HC | 500 |\n| Olyphant HC | 500 |\n| com Pustan +C | 500 |\n| Admiral Store | 500 |\n| The Netherlands Government by A. W. P. Kup Consul | ... |\n| Wather Borradaile XC | 250 |\n| J. Lapraik | 200 |\n| P. N. Camajee AC | 150 |\n| P. F. Cama HC | 100 |\n| Granville Sharp | 100 |\n|  | $44,700 |\n|  | 100 |\n\n(True Copy)\n\nAlexander ...  \nActing Colonial Secretary  \nOr 43287  \n279  \n25  \n$...",
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        "content_text": "JURY LIST,--Continued.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nJURY LIST,—Continued.\n\nNAME,\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nSoermann, Auguste\n\nSpeechly, Samuel\n\nParker, Edward\n\nParker, Ebenezer Francis\n\nParker, M. D.\n\nParker, R.\n\nParkin, W. W.\n\nPattell, P. N.\n\nPearce, James W.\n\nPemberton, J.\n\nPepson, N.\n\nPereira, Jose L.\n\nPerkins, W. H.\n\nPestonjee, Barzinjee\n\nPhotographer, Staunton Street\n\nInnkeeper, Queen's Road\n\nMerchant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nShip Broker, Queen's Road\n\nClerk, J. A. Brooks\n\nMerchant, Olyphant & Co.\n\nBroker, Wellington Street\n\nClerk, H. Duddell & Co.\n\nAssistant, Johnson & Co.\n\nEllissen, G.\n\nEllis, P. P.\n\nElmenhurst, J. Henry\n\nElton, W. M.\n\nEmeny, William\n\nEndicott, Henry Collins,\n\nEscherick, J. W. 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        "content_text": "26\n\nless all the parties subscribe a Bond, that they will abide by the decision of the Committee, Printed Forms of such Bonds, legally prepared, shall be kept for the information of Members who may have occasion to resort to the Chamber\n\nunless all the parties subscribe a Bond making the award a Rule of the Supreme Court. Printed forms of such Bonds legally prepared, shall be kept for the information of Members who may have occasion to resort to the Chamber for Arbitration: and should the dispute relate to a sum of money, the whole, or any part thereof that the Committee may desire, shall be paid into the Oriental Bank, subject to the order of the Committee, before they undertake to investigate the case. And the Committee shall not arbitrate upon nor take cognizance of any dispute whatever, unless one of the parties interested therein be a Member of the Chamber.\n\nwhatever, unless one of the parties interested therein be a Member of the Chamber.\n\nLIST OF\n\nAgra and United Service Bank (Limited.)\n\nBirley & Co.\n\nBourjau, Hübener & Co.\n\nBull, Purdon & Co.\n\nBurd, John & Co.\n\nBosman & Co.\n\nCama & Co., F. B.\n\nCama & Co., F. F.\n\nCamajee & Co., P. & D. N.\n\nCamajee & Co., R. H.\n\nCassumbhoy, Nathabhoy Sons & Co.\n\nChartered Mercantile Bank.\n\nCommercial Bank of India.\n\nDent & Co.\n\nDhunjeebhoy.\n\nEduljee Framjee, Sons & Co.\n\nEllissen & Co.\n\nFletcher & Co.\n\nGibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nGifford & Co.\n\nGilman & Co.\n\nHeard & Co., Aug.\n\nHolliday, Wise & Co.\n\nH. H. Severs.\n\nJardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nLapraik, Douglas.\n\nLindsay & Co.\n\nMEMBERS, 1863.\n\nLyall, Still & Co.\n\nM. D. Ghandy.\n\nMessageries Imperiales.\n\nMody & Co., D. N.\n\nMuncherjee Pestunjee Setna.\n\nOlyphant & Co.\n\nOriental Bank Corporation.\n\nOxford & Co.\n\nP. & O. S. N. Company.\n\nPhillips, Moore & Co.\n\nPestan & Co., Wm.\n\nRussell & Co.\n\nSassoon, Sons & Co., D.\n\nSharp, Granville.\n\nSiecmussen & Co.\n\nSmith, Archer & Co.\n\nSmith, Kennedy & Co.\n\nTurner & Co.\n\nT. J. Reynolds.\n\nThe Bank of Hindustan China & Japan.\n\nThe Comptoir d'Escompte.\n\nVancher Frères,\n\nWalker, Borrataile & Co.\n\nWilliams & Co.\n\nMargesson & Co. (of Canton.)\n\nReiss & Co.\n\ndo.\n\n19",
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        "content_text": "Li J4. Robinson \n\nto \n\nThe Ri Struble E. Cardwell \n\n/ Inclosure. \n\nM. 118. \n\nReceived \n\nat Kowloon \n\nReporting sale of \n\nLand \n\nReturn of Land Sale at Kowloon by Public Auction on the 25th, 26th and 29th July, 1864, \n\n331 \n\n  \n    NO. OF\n    PURCHASERS.\n    SOLD.\n    LOT.\n    ANNUAL RENT.\n    No. of\n    PREMIUM.\n    PURCHASERS.\n    SOLD.\n    LOT.\n    ANNUAL RENT.\n    PREMIUM.\n  \n  \n    Marine.\n    July\n  \n  \n    1\n    H. E. Hoey,\n    \n    \n    \n    2\n    H. E. Hoey,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    Ty Hung,\n    \n    \n    \n    4\n    Paul Fekete,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    5\n    Fan Che,.....\n    \n    \n    \n    6\n    H. J. Holmes,..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7\n    G. Sharp,...\n    \n    \n    \n    8\n    G. Sharp,..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    9\n    G. Sharp,..\n    \n    \n    \n    10\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    11\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    12\n    Baron do Cercal,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13\n    G. Sharp,\n    \n    \n    \n    14\n    Ng-fook-tong,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    Dorabjee Nowrojer,\n    \n    \n    \n    16\n    Tung Alok,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    17\n    Tung Alok,\n    \n    \n    \n    18\n    Alexandre Boyer,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    19\n    Tung Alok,\n    \n    \n    \n    20\n    Pang Awah & Chum Afie,...\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    21\n    Tung Alok,\n    \n    \n    \n    22\n    Tung Alok.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    23\n    Edmund Sharp,\n    \n    \n    \n    24\n    Baron de Perfetti,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    25\n    Ng-fook-tong,..\n    \n    \n    \n    26\n    Ng-fook-tong,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    27\n    Ly-ying-cheong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Inland.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    G. Sharp,\n    \n    \n    \n    2\n    G. Sharp,..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    4\n    H. J. Holmes,..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    5\n    Foong-tuk-yum, .\n    \n    \n    \n    6\n    Foong-tuk-yum,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    G\n    J. F. Rose,\n    \n    \n    \n    7\n    J. F. Rose,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nBrought forward,............. $14,959.34 $2,310 \n\n  \n    $528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n  \n  \n    350\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    305\n    \n    528.92\n    \n  \n  \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    893.38\n    \n  \n  \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n  \n  \n    528.92\n    \n    205\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n  \n  \n    110\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n  \n  \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    550\n    \n    528.92\n    \n  \n  \n    528.92\n    \n    528.92\n    \n    225\n    \n    132.23\n    \n  \n  \n    132.23\n    \n    115.70.\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    115.70\n    \n  \n  \n    115.70\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    *********\n    \n    $5\n    \n  \n\nInland. \n\n  \n    5\n    8\n    Le Pong,\n    \n    July 26\n    \n    115.70\n    \n  \n  \n    20\n    5\n    25\n    \n    10\n    \n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    5\n    \n    15\n    \n    25\n    \n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    75\n    \n    10\n    \n    5\n    \n    10\n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    \n    85\n    \n    85\n    \n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    5\n    \n    50\n    \n    36\n    \n    50\n    \n  \n  \n    10\n    \n    15\n    \n    ===22====992823838E38*38588\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Le Pong,\n    \n    26\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    20\n    \n  \n  \n    Wong Chak,\n    \n    26\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    110\n    \n  \n  \n    Wong Chak,\n    \n    \n    \n    115.70\n    \n    160\n    \n  \n  \n    Le Pong,\n    \n    \n    \n    115.70\n    \n    170\n    \n  \n  \n    Palanjee Framjee,\n    \n    20\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    190\n    \n  \n  \n    Wong Chak,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    J. B. Taylor,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Le Pong,\n    \n    \n    \n    115.70\n    \n    105\n    \n  \n  \n    Le Pong,\n    \n    ค\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Dossabloy Cursetjee,\n    \n    20\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sorabjee Muncherjee,.\n    \n    \n    \n    115.70\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ly-Ying-Cheong,\n    \n    29\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lie Awali,\n    \n    \n    \n    115.70\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tin Hop,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wye Akee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ly Atuk, Tin Hop,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ly-Ying-Cheong, Ly-Ying-Cheong,\n    \n    29\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    29\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    29\n    \n    115.70\n    \n  \n  \n    29\n    \n    132.23\n    \n    29\n    \n    132.23\n    \n  \n  \n    Kong-tuk-kee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    132.23\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    J. F. Rose, **\n    \n    29\n    \n    132.23\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Dossabloy Curse tjee,\n    \n    29\n    \n    132.23\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Jamsetjce Byramjee,\n    \n    29\n    \n    132.23\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    William Wilson,\n    \n    29\n    \n    132.23\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    William Wilson,\n    \n    \n    \n    132.23\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wye-sing-cheong,\n    \n    29\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    W. C. Eastlack,\n    \n    29\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    William Wilson,\n    \n    29\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6\n    8\n    3\n    2\n    2\n    8\n    7\n    8\n  \n  \n    7\n    989898828AWARE\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    90\n    \n    40\n    \n    85\n    \n    45\n    \n  \n  \n    30\n    \n    40\n    \n    25\n    \n    40\n    \n  \n  \n    20\n    \n    30\n    \n    10\n    \n    20\n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    \n    35\n    \n    25\n    \n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    W. C. Eastlack,\n    \n    20\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    J. F. Rose,\n    \n    29\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    J. F. Rose,\n    \n    29\n    \n    115.70\n    \n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    TOTAL\n    \n    $18,793.98\n    \n    $4,050\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Carried forward...............\n    \n    $14,959.34\n    \n    $2,310\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nW. WILSON, \n\nActing Surveyor General.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]",
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        "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]",
        "content_text": "# Jn 275\n\nTo His EXCELLENCY SIR HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON, Knight, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nThis Memorial of Residents in the Colony of Hongkong humbly Sheweth: That the Memorialists whose names are hereto subscribed respectfully lay before Your Excellency their anxious desire that the Law of Limited Liability of Shareholders in Joint Stock Companies as prevailing in England may be carried into effect in this Colony.\n\n2\\. Your Memorialists are aware that an Ordinance embodying this principle and described as the \"Companies' Ordinance of 1864\" was lately rejected on its second reading in the Legislative Council by a majority of one vote, but your Memorialists are led to believe that this circumstance simply arose from a misapprehension of the views held on this important question by the great majority of this Community.\n\n3\\. Your Memorialists are deeply interested in the prosperity of the Colony and are convinced that its welfare can be largely promoted by Joint Stock Associations formed for the purpose of carrying out such enterprises as cannot be undertaken by single individuals or by Mercantile firms. And your Memorialists clearly perceive that such combinations of private Capital can only be attained through the influence of a measure which will limit responsibility of Shareholders to a fixed extent.\n\n4\\. It is most respectfully submitted by your Memorialists that there always is in this place and in the neighbouring Ports of China a certain accumulation of private means not actively used in Commerce, and which could in many ways be advantageously employed were the desired Law in force. There is also a large stream of wealth constantly leaving China, some of which would assuredly remain here for permanent investment, by means of the facilities created under the operation of the said Law. An amount of outside Capital would thus be attracted to the Colony which would greatly stimulate its industrial character. It is moreover highly probable that nearly all the public Companies at the open Ports of China, would in course of time, avail of the privilege of registration in this Colony which would thus become the Official Head Quarters of many important enterprises, and attain a more eminent position in connection with the trade of China than belongs to it now.\n\n6\\. Lastly your Memorialists confidently believe that there is nothing exceptional in the character of Hongkong as a place of business, so as to render it unfit to possess the desired facility for local enterprise, and your Memorialists earnestly pray Your Excellency to consider with favour this petition, and again lay before the Legislative Council the \"Ordinance of 1864,\" together with this prayer of the Inhabitants that the said Ordinance may become the Law of this Colony. \"Companies' And Petitioners humbly pray, &c.,\n\nyour\n\nGeorge J. Helland.\nA. W. P. Kup.\nRichard Deacon,\nR. C. R. Owen.\nWm. Punchard.\nM. Poulson.\nH. Kiar.\nJames Purdon.\nJohn G. Purdon.\nT. Pyke.\nC. T. Smith.\nJ. B. Taylor.\nJ. Middleton, Jr.\nW. D. King,\nWin. Neilson.\nE. A. Hitchcock.\nMurdoch Forbes.\nE. N. Neilson.\nW. N. Olmsted.\nJ. M. Mar.\nW. Schmidt.\nErnest Major.\nWilliam H. Dagliesh.\nJosé Candido dos Remedios.\nH. A. Leiria,\nJames A. Taylor.\nW. R. Robertson,\nEdward I. Pollard,\nRobert S. Walker.\nWm. H. Notley.\nH. Kaiser.\nM. Brussel.\nJohn G. Hodgson.\nC. Bertrand.\nG. Carré,\nL. Petel.\nN. Caudray.\nFrancis Chomley.\nAlex. Turing.\nA. J. Ede.\nB. Kindersley.\nDuncan Davidson.\nF. J. Pereira.\nE. Wheeley.\nZ. Burton.\nA. Einbeke.\nEdmund Sharp.\nGranville Sharp.\nV. Kresser.\nV. J. Marrow,\nJames Kemp.\nGeo. Blakeway. G. Ellissen.\nJ. W. Torrey.\nH. Detmering.\nC. Budde.\nEdward Mellish.\nR. Rowett.\nW. Sheppard.\nA. E. Vaucher.\nC. W. Murray.\nJ. C. Baldwin. Francis Parry, Jamieson Elles.\nA. Coxon.\nW. Scott Riddell, Fred. T. Smith.\nE. Schütz.\nJ. Hart.\nF. Schütz.\nW. C. Young.\nJ. W. Maclellan,\nHenry Noble.\nW. Nissen.\nFrancis D. Fairley.\nJ. M. Vickers.\nWm. Brand,\nGeo. E. Stokes. G. Smith.\nH. Thorburn.\nWilliam Dick,\nD. W. Maclellan.\nW. J. Bain.\nC. J. Wilkinson,\nWilliam Snell.\nR. Schetelig, M.D.\nA. T. Carmichael.\nRuttonjee Manockjee. Rob. Guild.\nM. Pestonjee.\nDadabhoy Eduljee. Furdonjee Dhunjeebhoy. Muncherjee Cowansjee. Telanghir Pestonjee.\nCharles Jameson. B. J. Melita.\nR. S. Lungrana.\nDadabhoy Causjee Jutee.\nD. M. Lungrana,\nS. A. Subadar.\nD. Carsetjee.\nA. Byramjee.\nHormusjee Nusserwanjee Coope.\nArdasir Ichanghirjee.\nHormusjee Pestonjee. Pestonjee Dinshaw.\nE. P. Dhalla.\nP. N. Patell.\nP. Merwanjee Lunger.\nM. N. Mody.\nS. Rustomjee.\nBapoojee Pallunjee. Pestonjee Dajabhoy.\nK. M. Erance.\nEduljee Sapoorjee.\nCursetjee Jevanjee Mehta. Rustomjee Hormusjee.\nR. Pestonjee. Edulji Pallauji.\nO. Hoffman Barrows.\nPalanjee Framjee. Edalji Nassarwanji,\nH. B. Dantia.\nCowasjee Nesserwanjee. Dhunjeebhoy Cursetjee. Rustomjee Cowasjee,\nS. M. Metta.\nFramjee Bomanjee. Hormazji Edalji. Cursetjee Byramjee Bhabla. Eduljee Mendosjee. Essabhoy Fuzul\nA. Sapoorjee.\nR. Devjee. Framjee Sorabjee.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.) Ameerodeen Abdoollatiff. Abdoolhoosain Abdoolally. Cassumazy Ameeraly. Eduljee Rustomjee.\nB. Cawasjee.",
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        "content_text": "## Articles\n\nOne Amputating Case containing\n3. Straight Knives for flap operations. \n3 Knives for Circular operations\n2 Bathings\n3 Arterial forceps (bull dogs) \n2 Tourniquet. \n6 Scalpels\nLarge Saw \nStays 80\n113 Bone Nippers (with flat blades)\n\nOne Post Mortem Case containing\n3 Straight bistouries\n3 Probe Pointed bistouries (Potts)\n3 Sharp Pointed bistouries (Convex on back)\n3 Silver probes with eyelets\n1 Dir. Lancets\n2 Directors\n3 Scissors Straight\n3 Scissors Curved (Ciseaux Condés)\nFemale Catheter\n100 Needles\none Stomach Pump\n3 Ecrasement Syringes (with telescopic tube)\n3 Silver Catheters nos 7, 8, 7, 11\n\nOne Case Containing\n1 Urinometer\n1 Thermometer\n1 Graduated Glass Measure for fluids\n1 Brass Spirit Lamp\n\nOne Case Containing\nDr. Gordon's tooth forceps Edinburgh\nand Elevator\n\nA Chemical apparatus for the Analysis of Organic Matter Consisting of\n6 Combustion tubes of hard white Bohemian Glass 28 inches long and 1/4 inch in diameter with one end drawn to a point and Closed.\n6 Combustion tubes of hard white Bohemian Glass 16 inches long and 1/4 inch in diameter with one end drawn to a point and Closed\na Furnace, a Chauffer for Combustion tubes. 26 inches long made of sheet iron with Series of Supports for Combustion tubes.\n3 Glass tubes 1/4 inch in diameter, and 24 inches long closed at the end (like test tubes)\nSome Caoutchouc tubing of different sizes\n2 Doz. Glass tubes of small diameter Straight and bent\n2 Straight Pipettes\n2 Curved Pipettes\n6 Chloride of Calcium tubes of following Shape\n1/2 Doz : Glass bulbs united in following manner.\n4 Graduated glasses for measuring gases\n4 Doz : Perforated Corks (Assorted)\nBichloride of Platinum 100 grains\nNitrate of Copper 116 grains\nChloride of Calcium Pure 4162 grains\nChromate of Lead\n\n...approved...\n\n...colouring...\n\n...Meling Governor\n\n1/...\nA Murray me.\nColonial Surgeon",
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        "content_text": "## THE DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY AUGUST 1965\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG\n\nthe acting Attorney General formally presented the case.\n\nTUM\n\nWows Arurdwand Cunniline. How critic, wither be rug use, RACANY to 1 Quorem wede ja abia cenu!\n\nby amann othut Jerice, if the tenny, which Re very touch dobe, die He is to colon se wire Bosk\n\n'To Lei.\n\n2713 omdat psico. Spratly or in Waltres special two-storied Godorum Hiland on the Primu close for Monate. 1. Hupy, outer was perf M\n\n21 Best of Meesce Gibb, Livingst, & 60,\n\nAppl\n\nENFORD & O\n\nFor Sale.\n\nEXORATOR. PARLARE.\n\nnines Sail Femmes B. Wii U of James Tuila\n\nHenty, in Hid by Axrorud Skin i. Bile, the inlene hran\n\nAda |\n\nmil\n\nFor Sale.\n\nWALL PAPER, of different patterns\n\nLAMMERT ATZINGON A GE\n\n9 Bengkong, 11th July. D5665.\n\n-- NEW CALINIURIATMOATS,\n\nWhite Male Barille. Ladis Fashivele li Rehner, is at Clack\n\nMuk Estic Kit Glowny, de vente per mišri\n\n1758 +2, 26 July, 1966,\n\n--16, 20\n\nsaid Wong Strong our fa Alyce Builder 150 Tipping, Cure, 15.\n\ngigin ritused on a basin, sive credetion of angi\n\n********* + LIST OF HOLD... the virus of af every hid the Sint ser inte bereof to pruce Lier theic clits TOMIZAM she is by be done the Lot of word and PARINIC LOT NO. 185 siteated esraw the lindore of the portusing by tee Jo-band ef 5 Cibany Sector 1 orang, Print, Fenuraga 120 rive? the whole political pond foaring Lo Mucker and over aantal interest 50,70 feet\n\nFor Paris, noply to 1619 Qllion in the Ren, 2nd find grafite these! paw wing vờ là\n\nhat no Tube 38, at 67-. This was like sivon, em ciment met\n\nCethi pendest bande? io. Prit you! That Watdhere wither art i Let of Gora) REK İTEMİnce will be and par roRRIL Pmmixas |\n\nalimevine\n\nLased the ith day if June, I HÃN,\n\nPI MAZELAND, Crown Poikat, Sprazse t'bars Floșua\n\nponte Exeggut te themid Deerce This the ice an the slatamine published in presidente für mühital leuinney, we pretend that Noch 13ton Berlin B'ame of Monday Topky. The joint Sind of political peristirauzito mmsplate and ¦\n\n2 was a (bimargan, angazed at se merah pez ¦ soarchive sa propustion to the politimil Indagine Death a thin was te-fer hia do we e-the time of the safetcher, at mental. Ens while of the wrath. I was in tay chân, whaết kho minit facturilting these are al maaż, when pha sirrak. ↑ End vermeintó en deck; the roles of aperosive latimay, that the tmekih 13:15 25. The chief officer was no desk at hammaitišs of the ouso require at it the na The Hon. When we strups the tide we zonningthilation of the political influrane of the thin\n\n3. Beat the only offices in of the sumption facty, me tepress var ATE: Watts on the month lard of the & Worked hope that the Ararins ument may CITORAGS may la bed in das fun GRA Tha pink shann? The answer. The gone bey the men da to this malier in mak sut maruple to 98, 12) SITS MODOWY8, under Mesen, Bowrat\n\nsom, the hewing thracht went snerul et following tin bail example vs have int & Cela Oker, Janga Weste\n\nPD-\n\nbesar 9 miles W, of Gutaki lemn, met in Gris the gunichaorac, of pic\n\nhow pur ai the Engelsolent. & alaleak in the lived disquitostira thers Du\n\nWe at 1.55 cm. The ah 1116 removal is tim allenal, spīdenda splinting\n\nwas wete aking at the sloan. Wie we sterke, Kér, Dariu rad Kr. Menjanin ko sāc ammalanandirm\n\nJ 1351\n\nStorage.\n\nBORAGE,\n\npartia moyle to\n\nLANTATION ♣ tìu. Broky, Jely, 13\n\n***** UNINTERAGE AND STORAGE. ****\n\n8 Bndervigovt will modertake to lush Cut j 1.\n\nWhon et druck. That would fart ways of Mr. Langeln, or 018 in the ing of the bar Badets and kar rodine phth the sama te fuit heas vary strutiva, opal Not/lem eius-Tat there be red for thema I that on his plane thart Werk the punish it fairly found elty, their own to see the rai e. The rate was thiet all that night with petuity patentined in fun. But logs in fascines that dunsæirnal clear intervala. We pay the four Fight in 4-4-one pic lead slow, abrose who wreck.\n\nthe Actions overnement vinafoxtet are its tale carme. power god ite plamenes, hitherty na elemolly short throughout this m\n\npilate\n\nBORT. & WALKER $ 20. Prae. 4th and 1863\n\nK. Serið vit of the India Rock, sid: to such us as the iTEAGE, ona be bus in Grantle Unde\n\n1GA\n\nandling Huntington How Long love foto dhe i orchellaity of Quar's Road 11\n\nPombe given the the fut\n\nut\n\nApply\n\nABSINBBOY MATHABLOY A UV.\n\n£ *ing ffomplete. 1716 May, 196\n\nBoad,\n\nAered in a central puition in law's like forme kugejaten ErdalwooA, Apply\n\nty to\n\nGIRS LIVINGSTON 4. US,\n\n981 Bobek, tand there. 18,\n\nEVOKE ASH COAL 2.41 sal!\n\nAndesit tho moha un cha\n\nand CDs Cur Festraller has 1' intues\n\nRon. Liz Houghnan, 2741 they. 15.\n\nand\n\n-- 200 Cod Nagar\n\n20 Bamenda Shil' Better\n\nPlate He\n\nhot napros\n\nEn fiscu\n\nFrant Roses, furs.\n\napply w\n\nNULLER I OLAFSSES.\n\ndegli utes the risin 125 Banglang, 2716 demon. Is\n\nBrant Fair. Apple\n\nAWUTH ARCHEN A. UO.\n\n1973 Hongkong. Via duly, 1968,\n\nPOR SALE\n\nCourt the Boone\n\nFor Sale\n\nFanted,\n\n12 invica of White Wine, ventining\n\nA\n\nPlayer.\n\nBLiu=Äiryihu:r.\n\nHolder\n\nSing Kn\n\nLAY & Cu\n\nJes\n\n1 1997 Strugkong. With fun. 1786,\n\nRoyal Traning of stooty-bound S\n\neating of\n\nblood's Memorite.\n\nSugar Talie Twis\n\nIT W\n\nFrank Polar\n\nMaurice you\n\nPur Surin Hres\n\nHär july's Meilė.\n\nfred Mytaty.\n\nMislandReMAG.\n\nSasha Buy.\n\nH\n\n1. Ma\n\nRuban Mill.\n\nhalshei\n\n16.\n\nStambe\n\nkcjuesin\n\nMand, & Rym of Honma Storrien, Porst, d'incert. Tipuram, Sr. An\n\nYHO HET A to.\n\na mekong eth Mey, G.\n\nREAL ILAVANA USUA 155 dealing art s\n\napezio ya AYANA, w picast uppisis. Peopren of de ret d'Bauge.\n\nHongkong, 3rd October, 1\n\nA BRIDAN Tap uggies and Harney.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.\n\nASTELLÀTE JURNYCHEN.\n\n1802\n\nHEY, Appelt. z. 1.1-%PNER, Royanini. A EL or Coste\n\nAug 11th 75 Beleinet............. \n\nbridgwa\n\nChristine Matana.\n\nHaish A White's Horaitors and Car\n\nBar\n\nUcpb-towding Carblown and Car-\n\nNow Halas\n\nJahn Kerchwoni's Lagaay,\n\nseals.\n\nwilgen.\n\nand e fal aviv slu.\n\n11\n\n30 barrels Ty DEKAT\n\nSark Pictionary\n\n109 Bargond's Cebuan.\n\n100 pana, Clavul,\n\nBranty.\n\nWap-asi los 11 Tow Shipbone ol Opera,\n\nFor in When\n\nmut, Selz July, căni,\n\nAT THE MAMLS, AND LAVITE GIRA23 NICHOL\n\nGinkley Heart, ita 3\n\nDear Ms Papa'\n\ndie Spri Gazdag, suitabin fur jumtheshaver oriolum in zạn vừw the whole busbuat.\n\napply to\n\n1. NOW HOJEK\n\n:bout to 1$ (), a. Un mm (16h, July 1965.\n\ntrendition of this ufen, had dintainen fumust be the Free Consul at duties and dug Eve-aghaimile of comeings sirength. Mr. Unik Shea pot in the praizng dễ an beroditzes prieve The whose children met set up e claim re they seep-\n\nwing of the Lelie Garth. I hid tifant. I was on lesk when the prank. for obesen mitte). That is as siguture. migaie kurky wann whim pátek.\n\n2nd I hank self at about th Inet vant nf the Soud T\n\nCow be limo hits The Heuring witter benciagani? tem, and gas balwynn Të fal, and a falla. The¦unan háu arvid Hera Togstd in Las parta Seve silat won deck armyding a Getin mhaft of me\n\nnxise\n\nnil sevic1950 kerak.\n\nUeberal\n\nBULAT A DO\n\nFind t\n\nALISHMENT.\n\nstock of fusion fraus nad ellers nat\n\nmi tyllawz si ¡Curta CleNu, 2 in Lance ni falan napki\n\n-N. 2 Marila\n\nCh-2\n\n-N\n\nin the Qera's Hond\n\n| Qubules then, thh thosher, L. HOUKE at Wis corner Polynomialund atau and Alerter Sets SF Orgas sa bounties of as juh\n\nApply\n\nBAY 4 C\n\n778 voksing, sech Juno, Elñ\n\ndis B\n\nA. DE AXEVEDO Slary 6, 1955.\n\nAwacasion can be given all tema.\n\nApplyin\n\nchai, bering Yes fromag\n\nk 100,000 pecula to Uranics Gran, The night who think, met dienend un att was Amasened, a cinne frapriyononang for two gene\n\nwon to hit Lion\n\nLoft for Farm' were her half a male art. Fruta se ne in a heavy within them lepity ficha was 112,000. 34.00 time befel riu sil alteratione ta iñe rovran | fiammdias felines. As for General Yes, we front 1 (9,000 and 10,000 phula vapecity. mens synde lap the risk. The chorus per mat chekje in not bear that be in likely to ba zied. It may\n\nApply arate hueyproendor of the lan to was this the\n\nYADONIU & fo\n\nsedež josed the Falls Hankh be a refellss of big surrender reccted; thazine. 29th Art, 1803.\n\nFAME Marr add-I belang is the firm is only senda military tribanals. Has it will Mat, Mass & Co. Mao nútilin Gaita Punkk's de su fátalu mistake for this Amarjan Garen. pilte had been in the Mieszank for more. Rest aliand is seem to kmak na handcrabin msbeslan i\n\nin druik dievny these\n\nvor. The Captain winloyed the pilot on raiding, ang de Bu\n\nafo de Bic Amil B\n\neranon dating of the gramadore has with its who will have Burping Hut Orneral Ice in 4- name of the few, Sua loka Anet and black cepting thatarem profereal him by General Grant.\n\nThe meter to the Zing wakunellen that run bison Anti den on there\n\ncha vile was concretant to take charge. Captia | Kich of the Government at Washington. Voitib\n\nHard.\n\nROYAL HOTEL.\n\nSMACAO.\n\nat studenty Mutal, mitad\n\nPraja Buče, and convsiolog, mors airy\n\nF\n\nHO TEIK SHEN, in the Juda house, Elgin Stewk ja 1, od Zum, test.\n\n*** Reserved a Frat Jendea of\n\nwerd eer and timp Works\n\nBOWRA & (3.\n\n4 1804 Wenzhong Lakh July 18th,\n\n\"BOUND and well stances PORT FIE\n\nOperior seality as 80 per dora.\n\nApply to VAUCHER A tio.\n\nU15 Fong, 1415 March, 1BUS\n\nPOF BALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED. *** Anke aru platz.\n\nPet Tiber and Marks.\n\nKidgenore de én,\n\ndil\n\nBaler Pinas mul. Päristä. Naila, wote kiza.\n\ntar\n\nGURPIEN MEARD A Q\n\nHongkong, 17% July 1805 Just landed ex St, Lowi,\"\n\nMothern arzivnie Latizo.\n\n160TR PADIES. HE Dric and beak! THAT Bri\n\n¡D SOLA\n\nX N, Q's harp RACKAY NUES Cakes vad Ixora Bun\n\ningerlag. Apply to\n\nATKA.\n\nTANG ALOR 77 Huge, A. Parte 16.\n\nA. BOTER\n\nCantenas! 105% Mouse, tark Juos, ¡nus.\n\nAN 13055, abreast WHARPAGH AND HODOWNA, * \n\nA WARTHI WHARU, with or wilboat\n\nof the Throw comparish where elabor\n\ncan te bied word change.\n\nmis might bir karm busier klippa hamurable understuives cadetin et socity ramon dark, eta arra le not her. elves, will be 21 true policy for Mr. Febo monded for its aculation. to invalide and don't know the pilti\n\nCar Ren, temi me feel at the Averaged and seality outrea the pilota. The head pi'ne www uzat no bound by is Government, Borisave won kirs to mine wat!\n\nIggy's Cabina),\n\nthe war, and the uthet was gut by Mr. bagi inipla in, and\n\n30MITTEY\n\nST facin $25 Apr 1929\n\nRIFTE ROTEL\n\nQURENS GOAD, VIIST.\n\nTesme Moderate\n\nMarried Couple; jam No25- Single\n\nThe the Hot was in sharps I 5d 10\n\n10 sena webus pelasimlas, with fewer inoltant at chitty bility, and well mit have thunght of fotorfaring and rage mi the pros of tha vinkors than nay whe with Min. priniet in thick visher Ines ia lürtme can akon, ertad by a palies a sur pela for ship, an lạp xy a gapeval charge tonin Shan vished ordinary pliuy as of the omare more ziwa by the pilot, dan obair porce to tom pang than the purpos enland and and it had ben many bandingy victor-it onto y p elter the conrea in tan vaidle wares, je i den gammle populue Omenomana (muling the way yue half a print or a prane. I should me have meninisty and levity, suis already od tamil cited.\n\nthe www in fentilado Bourage, that we earnished\n\n| Scent the Amazingas pomis to do all to their por\n\nA ducho made to beater providing\n\nany longue iban two punthe\n\n6. P. BENSOWA 1. SHAS\n\nApply to\n\nBig Couple 244 Blends, 1858.\n\nGarter of Wellingen wel 19 Aguilar Straps,\n\nHAB juive by late Mail tim blowing\n\nundicia...\n\nPrinted Musline for Salvarer Danm\n\nWe do plain for Ju\n\n901 Onch and Cerradict\n\nRizet elly Tuse Headete,\n\nBook Silk Monties\n\n45 Ledion and Children\n\net fashion,\n\nTHE OFFICE and Emad Sues and other\n\nnar of Welingt and herd Street Parsle\n\nWeak ire\n\nCharmi EN\n\nPoudel Vares,\n\nChanna Mug\n\nLes Diun\n\n11-1\n\nan Etnice of Cruysa & Blackwelle Dilaware Store\n\n$1 Overland Nail Shokes, and Sweda,\n\nPARK & va 15ay Dongsong, 6th July, 1858.\n\nDEVOLVER B, and\n\nP\n\nTE\n\nYusibor Accoutmupants. for Fates, Áu\n\nSeit lieth, (bow great..\n\nCut Mag, 1.3, 1. 9. nad 1 fret, vivo.\n\nAu Lovaine of Bell-bangirqa\n\nTel. 20, 12, 36, 40, nuð ák le. figlio, veli\n\nfi.\n\nKing, sith Bayon\n\nBerulating Hill Chebures.\n\nSim Pattern Spacial Ki\n\nDouble Navy Cabins, Swivel Beds from L'ali.\n\naber Torry.\n\nLOWRA & Or.\n\n1 162 Tongkang, bra July, 1665.\n\n¿Murein in quarts and its\n\nFNGLISH NO\n\nA larga smartment of Breakfast Clazzes, Vilau- Ikan Jerawat Sur Suluan\n\nBased from vintage of Mayaia of Hur!\n\nچھا کھا کر رہے لیئے\n\nLAMMERT, ATKINSON & C\n\nા 99 hu to 24 Yra sud\n\nJust resaved, wire B\n\nIN OLD PALE BRANDY\n\nAle poz\n\nJ. Kudaan & On,'n Brundy. $10 per Ona.\n\n| Olies khljarnan, g? per daa.\n\nULARETS.\n\n| Breasturi ask, er de\n\nMerays Morina, $44 par Que\n\n8. Raton St. Kilim and 9 Zoophe, do naci\n\nTená a presont le dba eccnpzion of Merera In a teremy Hole gee. in Mont Reuseres and Want Hare,\n\n$0.\n\n¦ Pastekaoter zud Server.\n\n150\n\nFar purtiem apply in\n\ny\n\n10.\n\n16 litung, 7th\n\n- \n\nThe Aperatura Large and bity, and wih\n\n· H\n\ni vozy embora Casa, containing & Bass\n\nBa\n\nAapry as face of die Paper,\n\ndoves and cathcurex, compridog Xt!\n\nThis our coins their wich thick weather it or in formints Bhis shasan ghatween and maket van Sally supplot well az dejo. Stridine.for three ones, a citruse!\n\nwould hawa horn wore prudent to bere anchored • centick with a eley m genervus thus it may he\n\nBut the washer alerted, no tad having fees deth fan and makeling mo at their foes. The be froix\n\nlogone a Lighterḥing and ship bara malind is soe vespesitta was so interprys thin\n\nwas beat through an areas in pigment, augen Cretinem. 14: them interprat le triba as weak allece un barb Teen site for the amnge heatating veira whiring a\n\nbene, 17h Jaly, 1865,\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL,*****\n\nSHANGHAI. subed in S\n\nses of heat ce- North Daily Herityisil insscert in Ho Chi Mi\n\nwhich shall and only induta lie aver Frasines 6\n\nThe Treatment of the Hovalva Kiviky\n\nthe Nock.\n\nthe even give, Se the beamediate gregent, my\n\nfirst-ime furile Sokol in pomurgnased,\n\nPaged in it own graurők, it in po-\n\nmuch frein so be without expiry comfort and trenians\n\nLiis altres her for those who have selenjing in this clar. opptareve, to thons aan band julierly healthy and need in hinggis role Chemian, advice in the aut i hon fielding for the wine of the apparent,\n\nLinea, and it is so much adrien uocally esen 6igatop wita ma-The per\n\nHas an in. Fadi popot so batus of ananasam\n\npertama severance of the wal genities of te\n\nstaro otrained hithuria from bowl. ; \n\ning the crowd of patienter sansellore of America, !\n\nIf hazar, the people : shri United Statan will i\n\nfun to 2 Kegljah is at all, they may GOVERNMENT. LEGAL AND\n\nach a gun to that of\n\nwho here brid verunt'y tu sbale mocno while t\n\noch vill meantzinicý sad zarten! ignaming co\n\nAn o, xd who Yuma Yujulani la tènir m\n\ncer ble lagt need the\n\non with for rikiuly ma tome sited the tank!\n\n6. fur cost be too hip nt all degran, in f\n\npating in war plea for aderatiza in victory a\n\nrols which so fitta mule appro-i Arion\n\npriate the tenet that ir, fees faire sored ise svanging it\n\nbeing four content?\n\nPan, the hollowness of whide thr\n\ndomusdur tili azt flizeugh in a mout\n\nCONSULAR NOTICES\n\nIN THE SOPREME OVOR OF\n\nTONGLONG.\n\nCileriyent Pousasutus, Praag,\n\nrd\n\nof Hype Huracany Uma\n\ntending wider the\n\nand 12. Okka asp Öpmeyne tot Frudunt.\n\n11\n\nBEREAR an Aativus murdin\n\nIn in place, shen, we got urge de\n\nte\n\nthe Coat Ribe it the ke s\n\ny l'hom-bhoy alnut za\n\ne bloed |\n\nAmands of forteren te tus of langlich preesdens. Kyzurine Safranur Gal rowing an Enced\n\nRazmik, aut Lastris base basen witów die land for to project the age of Frosinoned by\n\nin\n\nEine Apartacuse are Medios and away Furnisho The Table waily up), and the\n\nle, all ughed with the choice Win a\n\n| Spirte-impratā dienņa.\n\nflat\n\nkobani ka for Ezard by the munch on\n\nMajas sash Carringe on Livogy and lera. Jason Camper mia plese pixies, 40-\n\nutiectulio lbs Hol\n\nBaiba cirnos pimey.\n\nThe Somehow fridge in kolom 4: Baudega,\n\nしてMATS\n\n.. MADON\n\nProprietor\n\n.6bu Unike is mades the dreador of Caspariancad Kronal excke.\n\nblondes-hurge $100 Fblic Dates and Tali Numers smppbel of 1264 27.4 Shanghai, 2nd March, 1965,\n\nOTEL DES COLONIER\n\nHONAM, CANTOS.\n\nar 1070 Benchng, 16h Tang, 1885, BUTO ZA LET DE SOLD\n\nSTAR HUUSK God 2000WNE, at perut soupled by Howwes, Junday & tal Apply to the Manager af Ban Bane of Hirla. t+.. \n\n198 Hoogkung, 25dı May, juos,\n\nThe Prop OWN \"ALI; Ph...\" hay. | ng Fans of Righty these foot at Wengin Rodag hitters and of on andret and foca. A burunea at coming parfarini kamu vs alone kutua aquesta featu\n\nAantal Bread (ma 21233.6.\n\nFor Pristine purligabuen uppelz ko\n\nTHE LIVINGTON D #beng Wih Priruary, 1964.\n\n***NOTICE OF RIGÓVÁL\n\ntybine kod Calerud Cicamel.\n\nColer things in Tel.\n\nThread Socks, Erst quality,\n\nLim Shirts and Cullers!\", \n\nTreatief Ardy Hate,\n\nwed\n\nRemchid Eugliah Peglunes. Trailing Bag\n\nAlse\n\nper do\n\n¡ Chataan Palmer and Tašken, $10 pử Jez.\n\n: Chau,pagan, satin, in quarte au pines.\n\nOlagte to wood.\n\nS. Jumilion, Juliem, apuk 154. Besophis,\n\nApply\n\nlike Hongkong, 5th Marril, bang\n\nA well bleed furnies de Blame\n\nEthertona. 3rd April, 1962.\n\nHandül\n\nNEW GOODS\n\nnext!\n\nEX \"TARFIX\" \"BANIAN \"EATHS. 73.s?:Y?LDS\"\n\nSew Bucks, weil selecta.\n\nTitle and Floor Hoe be the vizele\n\nOCT\n\nPany Car\n\na\n\nDany Baturajand\n\nCite! Wy\n\n||JA_BOUSTELA, has removed in Sianlay\n\n1 street, two lanes from Fastinger Street. În\n\nFear of iba tornaertiul Buck\n\nIf 1815 Hongkong Jacz le\n\nTHE Busine of the Melis B and Seat\n\nWater Mufiny c\n\nrevamped to the upparit fit of the Road,\n\ntl coupled v Messrs HotAY, Wase & Co., natriu Muzeju. Trucar & Co. and Mentre, BILET & Co.\n\n17 Honghena, a June, 1995. THE HOUSE, in the Gun Road,\n\nABAY 1.ANDANG BER eined and theat it Menarik kebilder, Wise & Ch\n\nti\n\n1323\n\nis Premis is enver\n\nTURVER & C Hongkong. Si Kay. I milă,\n\nNE\n\nCatriski Tom Chasin\n\nMemalise in iyon, Briting, Des\n\nPauta and S\n\n신디오XT 살리고,\n\nJellip\n\ncncbair.\n\nfaper Hangings, reckly chatur.\n\nPlaner Vand thiet Butle\n\nShine Histor\n\nMala Gas\n\nPild til i TUZON.\n\nLANG, CRAWFORD & U\n\n* 1956 Tow Song. 17ta Jun 1865,\n\n11TERN Hops of all sizes.\n\nBrigit artik\n\nVerma.\n\nkai de, str. Casa. Mikill and phrase: „Pranck's juegos Espuelli\n\nTE DANIJA Shapine.\n\nZia Au\n\nCAMMER, ATKINSON &\n\n40 (gong, 1ých Juan, can. DAVID. \"Ohrine and thus. Cum Hard Ter\n\nJ'aimky, Linment GI! and Purpentine\n\nyou say never wiha mubal lesdner. Cho anty loved and friars and Why Gout, for dying to Toe die Public Part she had changel precedent the ac mau yukidnon, is any anan meen 1 mages for managerpaing certain there: the my that of Hate! iso findings. For\n\nhipones parties, witch we can pleach, is Horeban; and Statua\n\nComm-tip 5.5. azove stablishment with almars be kept with our fastment in the brzo of the Potato-Gapittel, tarpainst\n\nfree in Ch 13 the anal dacis shit squforts. Not indick of\n\nmachine Eng Toure be Baba in Iran. Al these the eye of Defends what mid shaver sus Eefendant be actasun will be shared in the faute d'itheadhan ratus Bodine u\n\nAnauce, that is in totally need to Hape. padaltem is ev slight that the prunedenk juny he! or actes Sena de Vinili se pridjor flares. to boost nasies in disc sējam directivul. A varral¦ Os prlos shareef; and time raulay paid by 'ibo Bear in attenten on arrival at Herer Stemmer ndvatur his autor for Henry, willak wid korenitor\n\nfar netenden at talmát ábree num, proposing to disopter it me Plaintiff for t\n\nat Iris\n\ntear Ball Bea; de chavez Phuseneste ta the Hotel, tree of sEnego, and soul fatima mokier. De $25 per viomac fr nespreted Mr. Sinis O'Brien for the Pole-incere far te bere izen by the Kadome Lasne will aka Silke Beariera \"st. Stanger anil $29 for? szer.\n\nT. HARINY Garden Rebellion, what pandant should we | Pole the Thement of my tue from the moderato luxion. late indicted on him if he`trat, ben er agminasful | Plažati to the Defendant: nad it being alleged¦ Mr. Jetorean Ladis — monii pot field an un- that the mht Bycunjee Hormujee Deuna dega mot t\n\nPendeng in Judia w roeide wishin this folyad na je de\n\nTHE P\n\nVAL LANDINE,\n\nKaroger.\n\nSM SWAT Frogs fiz okresent struth asi matiunny. ! Writ of Yonaga áthassants, ) Fra 2016 Couten, 27th July, 1850.\n\nLavio jasued\n\nTHE EASTERN PRIVATE\n\nFAMILY HOTEL.\n\n142 enge, Jetli Awil, 1005.\n\nFor Sale.\n\n'UNE STRİNEERS 1657\n\nsapoys and exccasid valanez bositation a webus torvable nu slík firem any of dupsi arah, stone-i\n\nvilian retoma ather she rabellion had ingejin Zestonjeo kapuciiarýni Neris of Vlabria, in Ben the Peas simture. Az example, the deliny on Brezhong. Marchet, and withic nets a low waste. Y e In Faring Hand and there arly lead of the places Fadies. dba, bulerardengs nes dartsinly not kerplamikdo į same plate, alarphanie, sky Canisters,\n\nJ\n\nour Propria fe how this BOOK JOANNES 1857, Cams of\n\nà vishing this Pet and the poshte semenity, the br\n\nSPARKLING WELLS KOMPA\n\nBOOK EHRYSPREITEIN. CALE, in Cush\n\nthan the man of the Bouth. Again aut noly were Notes is hereby given thareut and testbed his prins uppste e tuls the bars of the Reach pepelin 1945 cases time hefte nje in akis, unto the forcibly to the thousan Club, bad then, but new last and to beat code só pranja Rocca Care, darurier Boss in the viraniay of 11.X. of 1 arzon. hlari Enst Mehon 204 Mr. Hallam, shhör;anid, or say too on bẩy beha) w give the\n\nBead Ford (juven's Food, Eat. The Ronna absolutely justify one intimate their bidu ja Pavony i zamurity and miljer mod file the sapretencë e” piem í of the bayering za judiamus. Ailer the groak bejuteve ny thin Ordnance of thận dictio Finach war, hee heen ramulis pad ont in led An Uzitsuer to provide facile expenas buvo kompared in were he for acantemporary, Land, d'arthronyl din vce merupli\n\nces in Actions Live agvities porn kentut Frandow, Bush of a destly lives vu tu pro\n\ntance his bug that haploon will be devas the tolong, the at anche m\n\n하\n\nTech] vt og França, blid as rebel uthe Dinoinen, dewward and exreated, and wax only dentaʻul of\n\nthy wisins of this course bruauen he dought it\n\nKain wharbre it would taarl to lexicutiva\n\nwith adeintertainty. Is may be mid «bot if a gonze vabullion in Ireland were now w break 12 sustained for indz barn, we emrinialy shod na burg, the useful anders alik tu! wa hope not, has we contesa ven Sunt very Bes\n\nnotave advent or friends\n\non to who mighards, what clapeceriă-nts ¦\n\ncamily in print are, on the arbete, zo very itide in ganzdanas min bai hepthooke\n\nNet veze the American oran\n\nDabad this 15 dag er lag, vu. 16,\n\nF. C. R. OVEN\n\nil Honghont, 2846 Suty, 1905.\n\nmultica Bam strange igen wlish, Relm me prevalent, wat all canaing for\n\nMetota zgre e\n\ndisainioston rebellion and only in\n\nthe South ledths the energ\n\nmar, the asing of the delito extendun. I\n\nriseer in the fate) SALT\n\nIN TAN SORAME COCKT OF BOSAKOND.\n\n• riktad with antico now\n\ntre altringe shacagimas, me to pay no\n\nEides the wine listing teams Fan Town Pipes\n\nTable d'lium et ull hwch. Tama moderne.\n\nApply k\n\nREYJULIA &tio.\n\nisan ungling, 10th June, 1904, tANNE), (036, (ia Ling-brads) todella mit\n\nHuosobit parfe\n\nGEORGE HOTELIXELMORA,\n\nHeunge and Propriece\n\nChammer i\n\nChanapar in\n\nde d\n\nSeantech\n\nfeet, and\n\nSets, Fue\n\nApply to\n\n12m 1974 Hoogk veg, Vuk Juna. 1962,\n\nconclude, in 3 doors, camın,\n\nFEED, T. SMITH,\n\n6pkan, \"Hi Jasonery. 1863,\n\nManil\n\nVivian's drug and Sees Slow Me!\n\nand patio Nais. Tourism M\n\nSOLD & Co lungo, but Now, 18,\n\n1Jght thedra F\n\n7062 Gari Makra\n\nHigh Barden Mara.\n\nLight Sebie Forks pic\n\nLight Garden Spader.\n\nContbrug'n Boer Guns, Herman Mackin\n\nSOWKA (. \n\nTin loi khen nhing, ach July, 194\n\nAN Ince of \"terated Wan\n\nJA\n\n! \n\nGRERURY & SA\n\nPUGHT W\n\nBugg, thing,\n\nPBLIC TOISES \"Gura Bed\"\n\nto Con\n\nThis Pess.\n\negnng, 18th July, 15%.\n\nUN; FOR SALMI\n\nCAMILANA man dah party Thar porannes YOCOYSAD Lo Frears, and White su mi beitehing Splab Berd\n\nFurthering Sew Sight Cowered Hockeklu Twowane, the Osvinge is van Polve and tw: pairs of i\n\nShames of double 15 mana\n\n\"Apply t\n\nBrakes darrers dann, wanau, Housos, Lands, Tenements, de, Wiki,\n\nTKY MANOR,\n\n2. Tikai\n\nsau, Wiz\n\nJa rank WH\n\ntably tention the Hiɲlk.\n\nhe firm of JARGIR, Here\n\nG3MPANY Pkalabif's,\n\nJoey Manny Porci\n\nha\n\nda\n\nthecate, or fires of les P Sam Lnfanduma,\n\nde court al the veil of chen sinte\n\nTO LET\n\nEw to Becek. A\n\nTDE lower part of the Previze wind by\n\n|| \n\nWhite Pigs And Varjoile Wa\n\n2.06.\n\n' Club,\n\nדי ריח\n\nБаром\n\nBokkie, curd Ple Meram. I. Mazur, & tra Torgan. Tucs, and Beck and Doors Aprons\n\nALLES & CLAUSSHN Rosis patira in the same Bilding\n\nLANG vs. 24th Hwch, thu5.\n\ntientars, syple 15\n\nC. DAVID, My blessing Seal, from 14 to 3d ca\n\ntf 1956 Hongkong, 24th July 1955, mj........ \n\neping on the age of His returning prufiga Resas ar Adon hub carenced rises to 2 and S. Ten Staviti sladusent | Nothing can be. We do but to my\n\nAlly\n\n18ng, Juan 12 18415,\n\nPesa Pangong Pir Maker\n\n13. this walk is mar (granen of the stars Jacifios. Ja sall, Juma che i cones Contato and der 500,000) Pak and Berú trag\n\n13+ and 250 win\n\n-- TEENS RAPDV DONGKONG.\n\nAt Cheap essay.\n\nthe Penisy Port.\n\nKry\n\nChurcia, Greakfast and Pieter,\n\nPapolis, vintaga täna., \n\nArded Tigur\n\nPurane.\n\n3 wit\n\nBeauty (Ougima).\n\nChablir,\n\nSewer\n\nAwes\n\nKindly\n\n15 Honglung, 25ch February, Tauð,\n\nNeonora Druse & Hinckwell.\n\nPUSENJE Cauliomis\n\nHorse Ma\n\nT\n\nFrench and Spanish Diam\n\nPraits in So\n\nin Seyrand Birmaly\n\njuter, in engural finalen\n\ned, and Twine.\n\nGist White Impe\n\nLinand Di\n\n14.\n\nIran Boller Pinces and sheets, True) að a\n\ndivacion, in caster whine and vary,\n\nThi\n\nAir\n\nBerriro Klant\n\nBURNOG & tr. Peru's Whart\n\nHong, 153 May, 1836.\n\nPERER DETON KUTTER, in begs of 12\n\nSant Wilk Crators,\n\nPickled Cabbage (Singochami) za jara Danch Curry Stent Rotden (Wyuan :Parbiak.)\n\nBitless Reeserantine Spiritmes.\n\ndise;\n\nPer read\n\n4 van fartion of Berelvets with sout\n\nKai attached, neu kucesine,\n\nAVAAN. BETHEUS & SK, \n\nFAANDUYA\n\n3 making, 1919 Jejuny, 1395\n\n† CAT KRORIYBO, vid Fry Nrie by the\n\nCurlersigued.\n\nSharp's Ourlinen. Sartridger and Primer, Pools Lamplvera\n\nKorkbod Wren's Havelters. (Bian haecalled\n\nsilver plate.) \n\nDESUVAR A 12,\n\n28: Hongkong, 29 Macuh, 1800.\n\nANTEMRIOR PRINTING PAPER, in vuriuka\n\nSKSSE ULLERA & Ca\n\nrapon Himgiring, Bist July, Jan.\n\nTESTADA. Syable uram.\n\ning from 5 set, ta do mar,\n\nBAY 4\n\nbongkeun. 199th June, Tams.\n\nUde zopired by the gezurizued- 360 for matc\n\nAn astmoul of Confection in Torvides of time, f, and boo\n\n142_55 par god below, tóm market prius, a\n\nVruitia Cherplsia\n\nFivefingar, tin Ch\n\nCe\n\nPagri\n\nP\n\nwilevice Mangalent\n\nPioklys, Lumina, Tutt\n\nSobique. Opferd nan Gamesonge Surges,\n\nin\n\n\"T4TH FS 6.4.0.\n\njul IANA MOJ bany, Beh dhir, |Rajh\n\n- TE\n\nCARA MAIGN. Szennina Muke) \n\nU\" Dag de Murtikale.\n\nLurace Nei, he panels are Pte.\n\nJenterar à 03.\n\nCart Blanket Dani Pinin,\n\nBurgen liegt.\n\nFrau de Grene, ir. Qaside and Pints. Lienaine Buck.\n\n1837. Det\n\nkan warIPS & OM 1 - July, 1\n\nVALJARLY 15 AT TORPOTEN\n\nLOW OF GROUND, steprising almus 24. ALES. Finner at of the maliy Encautios Putolous, Trolig bal Fio of the Hurrading Smery, sad Bayonining other Spice ta thi, tavržen there. of Ke of Thron Bungalow, Broken, unig 3121 por Šante\n\nestinoria of way\n\nHuco Vercheni Taich, in skin.\n\nPusher Ektoms.\n\nc.prizing-- \n\nPrint Wine Event Leather BOOTS\n\nK\n\nCall JOTS\n\nTel\n\nFou\n\n해\n\nSi\n\n- BTS\n\nCalf SHONY.\n\nDouble SHOES,\n\n/Xo!o Eiding_kkis,\n\ni Shoes, A\n\nguzleð kirola.\n\nOpkomnes veliking the Coung of Hongkang si Food tray\n\nother Brun That,\n\nand italt shoes 1 sist sie die waer\n\nactiuter\n\nBy ldalon Persian\n\nVOTORIA SXCHAÑON.\n\nPRALOCK, q qurat poctivate w TOS, he hadle of this\n\nCoy is ted and place Mwick of My Dracena the flimpïve andun\n\nHANDY DREA\n\nSi huge walvis, 30 to 30 prouts que pode Poles. Cort Arsantren, 21 586 por Tickle Mix Glute A2 in at Singa\n\nthe Rilling Kabis. Plains Mulajen, in laygro wapinday.\n\nMALINS 30 French Fried Acuez, 25 behin pure. de\n\n2 min. 33 werdet for gir\n\nsriginal price 50 Dunte\n\nThe above in met missy in find at Po a trates muck of his bangk Ubogazin, SE\n\nPer dir\n\nLolizam\n\nAjgilz\n\nLevastik\n\nBOWRA .\n\nP Hongkong, Sur Sarch, 1865.\n\nPROVOU VILIANO, Tom &\n\nis plan mynted and Figured.\n\nDUESS HAKIKO\n\nI move the inwangement of the claws Doors\n\nMake fuck hy kan desal. having\n\nAris dans Gun, Culte alle exere in large Ents, ni\n\nApply un\n\nARNEMANN 4\n\n4132 Hungring 16 May, 1844\n\nHONGKONG\n\norder\n\nrecht so fize will be really and Hougang 10 July, 1955,\n\npred\n\n·MARKETS\n\nthe tick Jelly --- \n\nEniet othe\n\n2.40s. Wilt Shirkog\n\nb. Grcy Shielangs\n\nPri she above we are now for Holiday. Wine & iu 1795 169 own? Amie Bounce, War and\n\nTROMAS UNT & de\n\nJeweler\n\nPrime 220\n\n10 1ngking Apr. 195) \n\nJAYITAMIN KRANDY BUT 190, OHAME\n\nSUDREY Y\n\nPORT\n\n414\n\nBULLY A\n\nMagt jose kandež os si\n\ncitation. Facinaren everywhere spak ma il | drow, fierbert Si. Loger Marrige, Velius Ken is were a bites desapalatinos to dana to find cink, and Edsall Whiteall, trading as aforesaid, rants Reoma, und Ukaitanto, having a Depactes i jab duck up o lat iulier one mat, termed rebeliion voce nest, crazyding is the aber Tarand dahi bareng Purpia, * 15 1ા મમત store al lago into perse nun sanity. Do they \n\nvreuliug në uformaid, to recuror the sum at Miner\n\n#upport than the of thờ kiuď vogli bove boru; The and heren Hundent paltarlar bioves\n\nتا نا نیام در ایه \n\nJ. 2. FOR RENKLOS.\n\nFraght without adinal didapata në voglat prime pad by the Phinish wed for the Redes. It new! Hangkang, 80th July. Pasa,\n\nke, nové that that radical difference will destas ! dene qe his request and the money mos ng she jam\n\npeas within clot? There is no queries in Doen and the inlets TEB in Rabins Was. Iemelawly | Ahut in uldlar mary but dixinal werkstangy fee from dis Defined on the Platati\n\nJa the Averman, allow the sad thorne et jazera by the Priest\n\npakiti 15 of the the Bates to be fond stity requel and for unty fun\n\naqua Nia more intacters which jus be ou fecam the Dubzidays ca un Palujte! governed them\n\nTo\n\n| \n\nmit the mat. dry badlew be vight ang with e great grin or sunt stated beson shem; and bein leg there with John Mariat Punto Enez Ju\n\ncombining dir\n\nIYA FTL & Co\n\n4\n\nFaran, Hama,\n\nSet of this Athics.\n\nFor parientes, apply to\n\nFasa\n\n5th Jetz, 1896.\n\n70\n\nONE SET.\n\ncambo nk komen; noul, adtes vietas, to leh tus aveda treslila ucărie shim belyden ja Joycedente 1 of diced he trackpen, afzend wizzled by a show, Weis of Foreign Attachment is hiền sưmund te | Donmakinar Stara tag in lint in the 1st aya temp for the purees of tuneteen the S\n\n·Samrih day of\n\ndiets and hewan lés, suply in Willen Bur\n\nof ruk girara! \n\n1. Was the pth and event of sine mesi\n\nNearer the zhip even\n\nCain and Burgoede Uriends Ransely pint by them, albo 2. C\n\nAir\n\nNAWROJEY\n\ndagawiwjng Mela, ut Hongyoug. Merabunt, Aus Bize all wieght we mag wecution, that there Barles Beard, of in sum Hot\n\nza pipeady buen oder Choker\n\nthued wear a trended Free State Onrried.\n\nthere too on the Coin, and that in dieci wish held Musica heretg gian thereof and what it extime in ape thy with y te ako anal judgment in Action dha rotalon white is lastel, and of course in and Jehu Yutres is 355\n\nthe things were read. Is the bebull will va size security arise and wants or plea verdited by the di-\n\nww\n\nFinalists dowy ( refired a rote when of this Salad intituled and\n\nJa kivan nat O'ERINTY MUJAN to the rebelikon\n\n5. Bintly shwer had advised the preside for and regelves Job\" Bessili\n\nNe party in Married in-thes mahtinas persoas Cru the\n\nie withou\n\ntucco, in Byftient selvm] \n\nvation weak - og Beted the 2d Jay of July, 4.9. 16,\n\nsiniz: neten die water prículo, giving jurge\n\nmajozition pary where for inquineis úti eyein\n\ntocked with the wit regime, if thick be pro-\n\ndolly allowed sint wit cards recebus slavery\n\nR 1% 8. UKER\n\nLitointiglia Kiliman\n\nSu Kang, 294) July 7865\n\nSown\n\nefect Tesk Kinder. Plus | \n\nRards. Cool tlich up 14 techniques.\n\nBUR SPARS-rea whes to 21 initum; \n\n#par\n\nŠHIPS ENRE pieces izoma 15 15 16 inches\n\nFor Male to Suit at the\n\nNOTES YARD,\"\n\nStrayer Thway.\n\nAps & BERGEN & Bosa\n\n360changani Cozu\n\nTESUUR\n\n! Pay!\n\nFORLEANS\n\nLASTS, RAWFORD & 4%.\n\nethering that pow T de. Parth who began at\n\nBirty & Co.\n\n3 08\n\nI\n\n200 asured Fartings\n\n| Funk hig kong\n\n** the L'atang.' \n\ni bunso C, Tinted\n\nea.30\n\n? warg\n\n121 Bangkang 22rl. June, 12495.\n\n1.605\n\n409\n\nRhrers Eil Bhil\n\nYoru\n\n| €15,00\n\nTye-shire-we\n\n1 on pes. 2-4 na. Pray Bridge\n\n130\n\nmag-m-Laong\n\nx5\n\ndazivno, 35, an\n\n12.\n\nમ\n\n-1\n\n20.\n\nClu\n\nNG\n\n| fvek-bing-hunk\n\ni\n\n10\n\nCheong-bong\n\nk.\n\n30.00 yu-shing-wo\n\n1.\n\n12.00\n\ntiger deg. Harab-qu\n\n21 50\n\nParker lied Shirtings\n\n3.24\n\nleis are\n\nYETU\n\n110.00ascon Karham\n\n31\n\n24\n\n3.\n\n22.0\n\n1024\n\nAc\n\n130.00\n\nGewerchan\n\nlouratio\n\ntialum\n\n20.10\n\n26.25\n\nTin-wa-oberg\n\n31.C\n\njworg-buce s\n\n4.-17\n\n245\n\n2.\n\nForely\n\ng-bu fa\n\nST Tunin\n\nTrueline B.\n\nJuha Pright,\n\napply\n\nLANNERY, STRIXSON & Ga\n\nIf 168 Torghan, The Jans, 1968.\n\n2413' (or Durga Marie\n\nChange, petent les ad homes. To triedy and Be Pittings, Michael Sol\n\nste v\n\nMy 50 PAD. Gut. Often 1874 Hengzung 1 day 1815.\n\nFase of us wider to ban s\n\nMajce, Jokana à 116 Chi\n\na tha Putpu X, babarza Munata\n\nÁ do\n\nCali- \n\norquays Ropish Had Kreno Preement on \n\n- Tuilet, Deanor Breakfas \n\nzuht sa] Yorgungen by Dan, Disarm- 3 22:46, Kuat Mersin, and Thegara Ip: As Brandier, Jus ita in Cangre.\n\nis Barth, 1945. 20'er\n\nBAHLMANN & dig, \n\ngkung, 1th July, 1866 \n\nDosen's Blood Court foo \n\nor Dwelling an \n\nPrata \n\nAMM \n\nINSON & C \n\ngloog, the Hay, 0. \n\nProna Yok Emiliefire Über.. \n\nJuru tandı) Jur bulu \n\n.. Walker of tin \n\n--beg \n\nLegall, Stijl & 12% \n\nSamyang 192 \n\nPaonian & 130. \n\nSorrahjen & Co. \n\nWing-clock \n\nTHURAS The retine A28. Merchant \n\nFARMENT, ATKINSON & DA. \n\nLese Hengene. 14th June, 145. \n\n50 \n\nBars New AMB PK. \n\nAily in \n\nLANNUT, ATKISHON & 1709 Hongline, 20 June ish \n\nWho-is-long \n\n60. \n\nWashing-doing \n\nwith. Kanny & Co. Kwang-y-luk \n\nPralon de \n\n2004, e intere \n\n195 \n\nAd Cletu \n\nhangbai Cheat \n\n4] plm, #gi°2 cce \n\n3,0ewekwang, Tele Pr \n\n4 bursima The \n\n1.000 es No. 1- Iran Na Rad \n\n240 \n\n•pla. Black Pepper \n\nJ. Am Merchant \n\nSHANGHAI LATEST QUOTATIONS \n\nWejdy, renting, 2001 July, 1949, \n\nwo Jen diradi, « ma, No 3ja per Tir \n\nse for fries/every Orucite 5ANILA GUERGO, LISANS VGBANGK-Lututionament: Race, e. vs. e. a Cocrate, & 10f2 Run. 1.97 \n\npline agosto de59955 \n\nBLACKHEAD & Bo. \n\nned travele ve- of 10 Xue \n\nlegs bond the Stora Ship \"N-: \n\nBands Bour \n\n2. GARRITA, ! Honghong, Is Noveller, 1801, ARRAY, P. Memile, Chassagne, las \n\nH \n\n! telt.\" (lats\" People' \n\n505 \n\n42 CM. Todel & feather's Park Sherry and Hardy. \n\napply on \n\nIBR, LEVIX497UN 3. \n\n1994 Vengkang tich July 1960. \n\nis Deements, \n\nUn Port-dila je Fig. 7.4 per \n\nthe Paiteta \n\n4. \n\njülla Ansonicat, 345. Re. 15. \n\nInflatabog, strand, sin\n\nHuskongan Ball: 217 pg Jince. Hvirale 15 e 291 901 w26 dinch Heck, and Brass, Alp Bra Fate ALMON 73.25. Carlos-7.42. Cal Blues, disco Tim. 66. Bar Silver, Lin, Bles Back mud barking.\n\nApply to\n\nSXV & io.\n\nlong+60) \n\n111 Capper Cali. 1,225 p OPICH-utum, Nor. In 132, DOVOD\n\nArt Ke Te 30 £16.24, Pik, 23.30 pet Yin of så fre\n\n¡FREIGHT 2 Milk, 61 poron of short.\n\nTap.\n\nI's Ney Turk\n\nAttending veiving Inadravšiegs to nocain Mr. Poland, A. Drying Heizwer decked and Crgy,...... Acinding Mr. Polland reurcuith... \n\n1 \n\n} \n\n3 \n\nJeding 26. Peifend fixing Cumarie-so tang Pascallado as Cnread with Mr. Foliard also a Chanel joining Istine Jacky demateris sud vaporta ve! \n\n10 \n\n260 \n\n1 base bere . . . Cond \n\nP. Puted prin fre... \n\nCe \n\nJuice, 24th Jalan Sovata laying her mominj See the Appritet uticaling Mr. Fabj jant hath apa ciaria, Crocolitis, į Aveng (inmal zi Coursiu mna jur \n\nvastag bremsest, and Opinions delivered! 5 Til Hr Polled his B....... \n\nUG",
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        "content_text": "804\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JULY, 1866.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nHARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 19th July, 1866.\n\nOn and after the 1st Proximo the Business of this Department will be conducted at the New Offices, Praya West.\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.\n\nWEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK. REGISTER AT HARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD.\n\n  \n    DATE\n    NOON\n    6 P.M.\n    6 A.M.\n  \n  \n    \n    Thermometer\n    Barometer\n    Thermometer\n    Barometer\n    Thermometer\n    Barometer\n  \n  \n    July 21\n    81\n    29.79\n    88\n    29.75\n    87\n    29.76\n  \n  \n    22\n    85\n    29.76\n    86\n    29.78\n    87\n    29.82\n  \n  \n    23\n    84\n    29.83\n    86\n    29.86\n    87\n    29.85\n  \n  \n    24\n    84\n    29.84\n    87\n    29.85\n    86\n    29.80\n  \n  \n    25\n    84\n    29.79\n    86\n    29.80\n    87\n    29.80\n  \n  \n    26\n    85\n    29.80\n    88\n    29.83\n    86\n    29.80\n  \n  \n    27\n    85\n    29.85\n    88\n    29.83\n    80\n    29.83\n  \n\nREGISTER AT BLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA PEAK.\n\nHeight above Sea Level 1,770 feet.\n\n  \n    DATE\n    HYDROMETER\n    THER-MOMETER\n    WINTS\n  \n  \n    \n    DRY BULB\n    WET BULB\n    [Self Registering]\n    Force, range from 0 to 12\n  \n  \n    \n    6 A.M.\n    NOON\n    6 P.M.\n    9 P.M.\n    Min‡Max\n    Dir. F\n  \n  \n    July 21\n    74.50\n    77.00\n    75.30\n    76.00\n    64.50\n    SW5S 4\n  \n  \n    22\n    74.80\n    76.00\n    74.50\n    77.50\n    64.00\n    SbW 4\n  \n  \n    23\n    74.55\n    77.50\n    75.30\n    79.00\n    64.39\n    S6 W 4\n  \n  \n    24\n    75.00\n    77.10\n    75.05\n    78.50\n    65.30\n    SSW 4\n  \n  \n    25\n    80.00\n    77.50\n    75.00\n    78.00\n    78.30\n    SSE 2\n  \n  \n    26\n    76.80\n    78.30\n    74.50\n    79.80\n    68.60\n    SbW 2\n  \n  \n    27\n    75.00\n    78.00\n    75.30\n    81.00\n    81.50\n    Ebs 3\n  \n\nNo. 27.-List of Dead Letters which have been returned from the General Post Office in London and other places for the various reasons assigned upon them, addressed as undermentioned, the writers of which can obtain them on application.\n\nAllen, J., 9, Upper Church Path, Landport, Portsmouth, Hants, England,\n\nLoring & Co., New York, U.S.A.,\n\nBaine, John, No. 1, Seaforth Avenue, Sandymount, Co. Dublin, Ireland,\n\nBeahan, John, No. 1, Seaforth Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin,\n\nBernaciae, Monsieur M., Artist au Theatre du Gémeñase à Bordeaux,\n\nBancroft, S., New York City, U.S., U.S.A.,\n\nListon, Peter J. W., No. 23, West Twenty-sixth Street, New York, U.S.A.\n\nLivingston, Miss M., General Post Office, New York, U.S.A.,\n\nCreswick, Thomas, 9, Abbey Place, St. John's Wood, London,\n\nConnor, T., in care of J. Baine, No. 1, Seaforth Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin,\n\nLaurie, William, Assistant Jetty Keeper, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand,\n\nMcFarlane, Malrome, 16, Brown Street, Garlies Town Wigtonshire, Scotland,\n\nCanander, J. P., Stockholm, Sweden,\n\nMorriss, Mrs., for Mrs. Mary Morriss, No. 28, Christiania Street, Cardiff, South Wales England,\n\nMinister, The Wesleyan, Barry Shannon, Co. Donegal, Ireland,\n\nDempsey, Miss, General Post Office, Liverpool, till called for,\n\nElvilson, Mrs. Fruma, 28, Queen's Road, London,\n\nEmery, J. Parsons, New Hampshire, U.S.A.,\n\nEmery, Frances Edward, No. 1,007, West Fifteenth St., New York City, U.S.A.,\n\nMain, Miss M. A., care of Mrs. Cox, No. 38, Norfolk Street, Liverpool,\n\nMetz, Miss Lizzy S. B., Cor. Powell and Washington Streets, San Francisco,\n\nRevival, The Editor of the, Morgan and Chase, 38 Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.,\n\nFenner, John, Princeton, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, U. States.\n\nFreise, E., Dispensary, New York,\n\nRhodes, Mrs. Charles, care of James F. Rhodes, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, U.S. America,\n\nSeymour, Samuel G., G. Town, Demerara, West Indies,\n\nFox, Mrs. L., San Francisco,\n\nJamesworth, Mrs., care Capt. C. Jamesworth, San Francisco,\n\nSmith, Capt. John H., Brit. ship Milton, New York, U.S.A.,\n\nSalter, William T., Box 500, New York,\n\nJackson, Mistrese, No. 9, Leathercow Terrace, Catherine Street, Lime House Fields, London.\n\nTomlinson, Thos., & Church Terrace, Lee, London,\n\nWeaver, Richard, care of Morgan and Chase, 38 Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.,\n\nLeggatt, C. D., 30, Coleman Street, London, E.C.,\n\nEames, Nathl. Penna., U.S. America,\n\nF. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 26th July, 1866.\n\n205\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JULY, 1866.\n\nIN CHANCERY.\n\nIn the Matter of the COMPANIES ACT, 1862,\n\nand\n\nIn the Matter of the COMMERCIAL BANK CORPORATION OF INDIA AND THE EAST.\n\nThe Creditors of the above named Company are required on or before the 10th day of November 1866 to send their names and addresses and the particulars of their debts or claims and the names and addresses of their Solicitors if any to Mr. William Hopkins Holyland the Official Liquidator of the said Corporation at his offices situate No. 13 Gresham Street in the City of London and if so required by notice in writing from the said Official Liquidator are by their Solicitors to come in and prove their said debts or claims at the Chambers of the Master of the Rolls at Rolls Yard Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex at such time as shall be specified in such notice or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.\n\nMonday the 3rd December 1866 at 11 o'clock in the forenoon at the said Chambers is appointed for hearing and adjudicating on the debts and claims.\n\nDated this 6th day of June 1866,\n\nE. B. CHURCH, Chief Clerk.\n\nFRESHFIELDS and NEWMAN, 5 Bank Buildings London, Solicitors for the Official Liquidator.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.\n\nNOTICE.-WONG SUN, of Jervois Street, Victoria, Hongkong, carrying on business there alone as a Chinese Chemist and Druggist under the style, firm, or shop name of \"Man Chai Tong,\" having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for Adjudication of Bankruptcy filed in the Supreme Court on the Nineteenth day of June, 1866, a public sitting for the said Bankrupt to pass his last examination and make application for his discharge will be held before the Honorable Henry John Ball, Esq., Acting Chief Justice of the said Court, at the Supreme Court House, Victoria, Hongkong, on the Seventh day of August, 1866, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely. Mr. Norman Ramsay Masson, Supreme Court House, is the Official Assignee and Mr. Edmund Sharp is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.\n\nDated 26th day of July, 1866.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.\n\nNOTICE.-PANG-WAH-PING, of Victoria in the Colony of the Hongkong, Merchant, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for adjudication of Bankruptcy filed in the Supreme Court on the Ninth day of July, 1866, is hereby required to surrender himself to Norman Ramsay Masson, Esquire, the Acting Registrar of the said Supreme Court, at the first Meeting of Creditors to be held before the said Acting Registrar on the Third day of August, 1866, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon precisely at the said Court. The said Acting Registrar is the Official Assignee, and Mr. Francis Innes Hazeland is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.\n\nAt the Meeting the Acting Registrar will receive the proofs of the Debts of the Creditors, and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.\n\nAll Persons having in their possession any of the Effects of the said Bankrupt must deliver them to the said Acting Registrar, and all debts due to the Bankrupt must be paid to the said Acting Registrar.\n\nHongkong, 21st July, 1866.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT IN BANKRUPTCY.\n\nNOTICE.-THEODORE HENRY HORST, of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Merchant, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for Adjudication of Bankruptcy filed in the Supreme Court on the Sixteenth day of July, 1866, is hereby required to surrender himself to Norman Ramsay Masson, Esquire, the Acting Registrar of the said Supreme Court at the first Meeting of Creditors to be held before the said Acting Registrar on the First day of August, 1866, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon precisely at the said Court. The said Acting Registrar is the Official Assignee, and Mr. Francis Innes Hazeland is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.\n\nAt the Meeting the Acting Registrar will receive the proofs of the Debts of the Creditors and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.\n\nAll Persons having in their possession any of the Effects of the said Bankrupt must deliver them to the said Acting Registrar and all debts due to the Bankrupt must be paid to the said Acting Registrar.\n\nHongkong, 21st July, 1866.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT IN BANKRUPTCY.\n\nNOTICE.-FREDERICK TIMOTHY SMITH, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Broker, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for adjudication of Bankruptcy filed in the Supreme Court on the Seventeenth day of July, 1866, is hereby required to surrender himself to Norman Ramsay Masson, Esquire, the Acting Registrar of the said Supreme Court, at the first Meeting of Creditors to be held before the said Acting Registrar on the First day of August, 1866, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, at the said Court. The said Acting Registrar is the Official Assignee and Mr. Francis Innes Hazeland is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.\n\nAt the Meeting the Acting Registrar will receive the proof of the Debts of the Creditors and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.\n\nAll Persons having in their possession any of the Effects of the said Bankrupt must deliver them to the said Acting Registrar, and all debts due to the Bankrupt must be paid to the said Acting Registrar.\n\nHongkong, 21st July, 1866.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION, THE Undersigned have received instructions for and on behalf of the Naval Storekeeper, to sell by Public Auction, on Monday, the 30th July, 1866, at 11 A.M., at the Naval Yard, H.M. Paddle Steam-Vessel \"COROMANDEL.\"\n\nThis Vessel is lying off the Dock Yard, and may be inspected on and after Monday next, the 9th instant.\n\nTERMS OF SALE,-One-third of the Purchase Money in Mexican Dollars, at 7.1.7, to be paid at the time of Sale, and the remainder within one week after, failing which the money paid will be forfeited.\n\nThe Vessel to be at the risk of the Purchaser from the fall of the Hammer.\n\nFurther Particulars can be obtained on application at the Naval Storekeeper's Office.\n\nHongkong, 7th July, 1866.\n\nBOWRA & Co., Auctioneers.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWE have this day established a Branch of our Office No. 2 d'Aguilar Street, formerly Bank of India.\n\nCARLOWITZ & Co.\n\nCanton, 1st July, 1866.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE business heretofore conducted by me at Hankow has this day been transferred to and will be carried on by THOMAS MURDOCH DRYSDALE, and JOHN MELANCTHON RINGER, under the style and firm of DRYSDALE, RINGER & Co.\n\nJ. M. RINGER.\n\nHankow, 12th May, 1866.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. JOHN FRASER is authorised to sign for us by procuration.\n\nFor the Borneo Company Limited,\n\nH. W. WOOD, Manager.\n\nHongkong, 31st October, 1885.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPARTIES having their own engraved Plates may have VISITING CARDS printed from them, plain or enamelled, by applying at the Office of the undersigned.\n\nNORONHA & SONS.\n\n\"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.\"\n\nSubscription:\n\nPer Annum, Payable in advance, $10.00\n\nFor 6 months do. $ 6.00\n\nFor 3 do. $ 4.00\n\nExtra copies, ... each, $ 0.50\n\nTerms of Advertising:\n\nFor 5 Lines and under, $1.00\n\nEach Additional line, $0.20\n\nIn Chinese-For 25 Characters for 1st insertion and under, $1.00\n\nEach Additional character, 4 c.\n\nRepetitions, Half price.\n\nUnless otherwise ordered, all advertisements will be repeated until countermanded.\n\nAdvertisements intended for insertion should be sent in not later than 3 P.M. on Saturdays.\n\n\"Government Gazette\" Office,\n\nHongkong, 6th January, 1868.\n\nPrinted and Published by D. NORONHA, Printer to Hongkong Government, Oswald's Terrace, WELLINGTON STREET.",
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        "content_text": "Evening shanties and packhouses of Hutam, or would they in these times of difficulty, build new palaces on Shameen? What advantages had Canton? Ships must be towed up the River; Canton was a day further from news by mail or from the coast. You might as well open a European store at Mount Davis or Causeway Bay. Did more than one tenth part of the goods imported into China from Hongkong at present pay duty? If it all had to go to Canton in foreign bottoms it must all pay duty; and often squeezes as well. Would home merchants direct their consignments to Shanghai in preference to Hongkong because they had to pay a dollar upon the remittance of account sales? And what was to become of the property in Hongkong? Would the owners of £8,000,000 worth of property run away from it because of the Stamp Act! (cheers and laughter). Mr Sharp equally ridiculed the idea of the Banks or Insurance offices going to Macao, which besides being out of the jurisdiction of British law, was the home of the trade, which Englishmen should leave to Macao coolie brokers and crimps who lived on the inhuman traffic in blood. (Mr Sharp was here interrupted by hisses from several persons on the floor of the Court.) He concluded his speech by directing against the said coolie brokers and crimps, the Divine denunciation, \"whose getteth riches and not by right shall leave them in the midst of his days and in the end be a fool,\"—(general cheering).\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: You do not wish to put any resolution before the meeting? Mr SHARP: Not at all (laughter).\n\nMr C. R. Bosman rose and said that Mr Sharp's speech was quite irrelevant to the question at issue, which was whether any further steps should be taken in the matter. The Governor's reply had been forwarded home, and to leave it unanswered would be to admit all that it contained. His Excellency had said, for instance, that the memorialists did not represent the whole community, because they did not represent the Chinese. But His Excellency had received a Chinese deputation separately. Again His Excellency did not reply to their objections against the principle of a Stamp Act. It was not to the $120,000 that they had to pay that they objected. The colony had no control over its own expenditure; the Governor had the control in his own hand, and if they admitted the principle contained in this Stamp Act, they might have to pay five times as much as what was now wanted (cheers). Money had been squandered by the Surveyor General's department. Look at the Gaols and Stonecutter's island! They might have confidence in the present Governor, who might not exceed a fair expenditure; but he might be changed, and therefore they ought not admit the principle of the Stamp Act. Everything in this colony depended on the freedom of its trade. Macao might be made a harbour. The business done here might be done at any other port in China. Hongkong was simply a port of call, and if they once admitted the principle that trade might be taxed, he did not know what they should do (hear). His Excellency had said that the value of the memorial was impaired because it took no notice of his letter to Mr Whittall. That had nothing to do with the question. The memorialists objected to the principle of a Stamp Act, but the letter said nothing at all about that, begged to move that a committee be appointed by this meeting to draw up a memorial to the Secretary of State for the colonies, in answer to the Governor's reply, such memorial to be signed as numerously as possible (cheers).\n\nThe motion having been reduced to writing, the Chairman asked if any one would second it. Another pause occurring,…\n\nMr BARNARD, barrister, came forward to make a few remarks, his appearance being greeted with mingled laughter and applause. He said he had been but a short time in the Colony, but being likely to remain here for some time, and feeling as one of the community, he felt justified in coming forward to make a few observations (laughter and applause).\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: Are you going to propose an amendment? Because if you are not, I had better put this motion first.\n\nMr BARNARD: But you have not got it seconded yet, therefore I thought I might speak. (laughter).\n\nThe CHAIRMAN admitted that the motion was not yet seconded.\n\nMr BARNARD resumed. He had presumed this was a public meeting (a laugh). Mr Sharp had very properly put it that the other meeting was a one-sided one. Probably the interest he was taking in this matter might be against his own interests, but he must say that he agreed with the principle of the Stamp Act and he wished to make a few observations on it (cheers laughter). He said that the Stamp Act was the very best thing they could by any possibility get (ironical cheers and laughter). He did know that, though probably no one would agree with him (laughter and interruption). If they would give him a few minutes hearing, he would state as succinctly as possible (renewed noise). Well, if they were determined not to hear him he would stop (cheers). With regard to the stamp act, he saw they were afraid they were going to lose business by it. He did not think so; but he did think the Governor had acted wisely in thus raising funds. Englishmen did not like to be taxed, but what was the best thing to do when you wanted money?—(a laugh). We wanted certain funds; we must have money to keep up the colony, or it would remain stagnant. Well, which was the best way to get it? With most people throughout the world, a stamp tax was the most popular—(a laugh). What other tax could they put on? Would they like an income tax? Would they like increased taxes on property (a laugh). Capital was the thing that should be taxed; and if a tax was not put on capital it must fall on something else (laughter). With regard to what Mr McDouall had said about the Oriental Bank, about what an enormous sum of money they would have to pay under the stamp act—now really and truly they would have to pay nothing of the kind (much laughter). Then Mr McDonall was labouring under the impression that there would be a stamp on cheques. But what if there had been? It was the party who drew the cheques who would have to pay the duty—not the Bank. But all the Bank managers are interested parties in this question; for it was their shareholders here and elsewhere who would have to pay on their note circulation—those who live in England, in Scotland, and in other parts of the world (cheers). They would have to pay that tax; and who was in a better position for paying taxes than those who were rich (cheers and laughter) Tax those people who had the money. What was the use of taxing the poor? You could not get blood out of a stone (much laughter). Tax the shareholders of rich institutions like the Banks and the P. & O. Company. It was absurd to say that the trade of the Colony would be stopped because of the Stamp Tax. They might as well expect it to stop a mighty river.\n\nThose palatial residences could not be removed—those magnificent houses of business could not be transplanted. It would take too many years to do that—(a laugh). In twelve months after this act came into force, they would see nothing so bad about the tax. Why one gentleman, indeed the most respectable gentleman in the Colony (loud cries of \"oh oh,\" and \"name, name\"). If they would allow him to be heard (laughter, and cries of \"name\"). Well, Mr W. B. Gibb, and Mr Dent (oh oh). He had not intended to give their names; but he was speaking to those gentlemen the other day, and they said \"We do not object to the principle of the Stamp tax, but we don't want it for this reason, that it will give us a great deal of trouble, and we shall be obliged to have one or two more clerks, and they are very expensive gentlemen in this community\" (loud laughter).",
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        "content_text": "Daily Press\n\nThe chairman stated that the meeting had been called, agreeably to an advertisement which had appeared, for the purpose of receiving the speech of H.E. the Governor before the Executive Council at their last meeting, and which he had sent to the members of the deputation who presented the memorial, requesting them to receive it as his reply to the memorialists. Although this had appeared in the public prints and perhaps all present were familiar with it, he would crave their indulgence while he read it.\n\nAfter having read the reply which has already appeared in our columns, Mr. Maclean went on to state that since the memorial had been presented, he had the privilege of a personal interview with H.E. the Governor, in which he had made reference to the reported manner in which His Excellency had received the Chinese deputation that had waited upon him—that he wished some direct authority for the accounts given by the press of this reception. The Governor did not reply directly but insinuated that it was his firm belief that the Chinese deputation was no more nor less than an offshoot of the European one, and that it was a got-up thing. In view of this, Mr. Maclean thought it his duty to do away with any such opinion that the Governor might have formed and stated to him that the affair was entirely unknown to him until within half an hour of the deputation being received, when the Chinese had advised with him whether it were best to ask for a separate interview or present the memorials at the same time, and he had advised a separate interview, referring them to the Colonial Secretary. He had most positively stated to His Excellency, on behalf of the deputation which he represented, that they had nothing whatever to do with it, not even having known of it, as he had stated above. The chairman declared the meeting open for any remark or action that might be presented.\n\nMr. McDouall said that since it had been the opinion of the press that at the last Public meeting everything had been cut and dried beforehand, he thought they would be happy now to hear those who took this view. (A laugh)\n\nMr. Sharpe, rising, said it was true the last public meeting had been rather dry from this formal preparation, and he thought that some variety would very much add to the charm and attractiveness of such a meeting as this. The expression in the Governor's speech that referred to the reduction of Hongkong under the reign of the Stamp Act to a sort of barren wilderness had emanated from the press. In conversation with a gentleman a few days since with regard to the mint, the gentleman had remarked to him that he did not want the mint to succeed; he did not wish to see it a working success; he hoped to see it closed—now, although he (Mr. Sharp) was not prepared to speak in favor of the Stamp Act, still he did not, as with this gentleman in regard to the mint, wish to see it a failure; he thought they were really too much concerned before they perfectly understood themselves. The Captain of a ship does not say we cannot weather the storm, hope is gone, all is lost, and therefore resign himself and those under his command to death. No! neither is Hongkong to be reduced to this dreadful place that has been pictured; Falkener's new stores for jewellery are not to be left empty and unoccupied, or the Oriental Bank building resigned to the fishermen to dry their nets under its verandah: never tell a man he is really going to die although you may think so, it were worse than murder to him. Englishmen do not like to be taxed; they have a very sensitive skin for taxation, and when this is irritated or disturbed in any way, they wince, and twinge, and smart, and gripe with terrible groans. Suppose the Stamp Act is not withdrawn, is not this picture of desolation rather overdrawn? Something is to be saved by it after all; a document that had been stamped here he supposed would be exempt from a stamp duty at home—that if a Bill drawn in a set of three, or dozens, they would only draw them in two; five thousand pounds sterling would require a stamp of about $5, which would exempt it from the stamp required at home of over two pounds, so in reality some shillings were saved by the transaction of stamping it here; certainly, well, with this, it was found.\n\nThe last meeting had been one of the very best they had behaved.\n\nPage 207\n\nthey proposed the increase of water and police rates. Were the rates of these banks and such establishments as the P. & O. Company a fair amount of the taxes compared with the proportion paid by the community at large? Five millions Sterling in their charge and only pay a Police and Lighting Rate. A Stamp Tax upon bills was only a moderate tax upon credit. The Banks had come boldly to the front in this opposition because they had a large interest, but they had no tax to substitute or suggest which should take the place of this Stamp Act. Again, is an increase of the house taxes fair? You may now have two rooms on the Queen's Road for an office, and six or seven rooms in a house upon the hill as residence, for which you are obliged to pay a rental of over £600, enough to hire almost a palace in London, and would you increase this? Already houses are too small, and clerks on small salaries are unable to have houses. The Chinese, for this very reason, are crowded together as they should not be, and yet you would increase the difficulty by increased taxation. It had been said merchants would go to Canton; what advantage would you have there? None. You would be a day's sail from here; ships could not go there; your mails would be a day later, and goods must all pay an import duty there. What is the value of the property in Hongkong? Eight millions sterling; are we to run away from this? Will our Insurance Companies, with all their responsibilities, go to Macao, where no legal recourse can be had in policies made there? No; leave Macao to its muddy shallows and poor harbor, its coolie traffic and gambling, to those who would enrich themselves by unlawful trade. Let us stay, and if we are to have a Stamp Act, make the best of it. He was not in opposition to the meeting or its feeling, but, on the other hand, sympathized with it.\n\nMr. Bosman arose and said he could but consider the remarks of Mr. Sharpe as wholly irrelevant to the object of the meeting and the question at issue. There were one or two points in the Governor's reply to which he wished to call attention. His Excellency had said that the deputation did not represent the whole of this community because they had not represented the Chinese. Again, it was not the one hundred and twenty thousand that they had opposed; it was the expensive power of this tax. The community had no control whatever over the expenditure of these monies, and they had been as badly squandered heretofore, and there was no guarantee but that they would be again. This was a mercantile community, and Hongkong merely a depot of call; they might not leave here and go elsewhere for one hundred and twenty thousand, but he thought they might for seven or eight hundred thousand. If they once admitted the principle of this tax, it may be made to reach any point that this foolish expenditure of money may call for. It was the principle they objected to. Mr. Bosman then offered the following resolution: That a committee be appointed to draw up a memorial to the Secretary of State of the home government protesting against the proposed Stamp Act, and that the following gentlemen constitute that committee: Messrs. Arthur, Holland, G. Heard, Falconer, Sassoon, Pollard, Norris, and R. S. Walker, with power to add to their number.\n\nMr. Barnard here rose and said that although he did not wish to second the motion, or even to amend, he had some remarks to offer which he thought were fitting here. Although he had been but a short time in the colony, and was not surprised to know so much about its affairs, still he thought he was justified in saying what he did. He must say that he entirely agreed with the Stamp Act. Considerable disapprobation was evinced by the meeting, but Mr. Barnard said he did not expect there was anyone present that would agree with him, and continued: it was the very best thing the Governor could have done. He did not like to be taxed; no Englishman liked to be taxed, but what is the best tax? There was certainly none so popular as the Stamp tax.\n\nWould you have an income tax? The bankers had said they were to pay such an enormous proportion of this tax; it was no such thing; true, it would depreciate from their profits, and the Shareholders would be the losers, but where were the Shareholders? For the most part in England, and men of wealth; they are the very men to...",
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        "content_text": "\"Heonghing Mercury\" \n\n209\n\nTHE\n\nHONGKONG MERCURY\n\nAND SHIPPING GAZETTE.\n\nFRIDAY, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1866.\n\nIt is not very easy to make out with what object the Meeting was summoned the other day by the Anti-Stamp Tax Committee. If only for the purpose of hearing read to them by Mr. MACLEAN the Governor's reply to the Memorial and Protest, it was ill-advised and unnecessary. His Excellency, by having his reply printed for circulation among the members of the Committee and others and by sending copies to the local papers, did more to give publicity to his case than could possibly be done at any public meeting likely to be got together in Hongkong. If the object in view was, not only to lay the Governor's reply before the public, but also to point out to the community the fallacies contained in that document, the inapplicability of some of its arguments and the weakness of others, and to elicit an expression of popular dissatisfaction and devise further plans for the defeat and overthrow of the obnoxious measure—the Public Meeting of Monday last was a complete and startling failure.\n\nThe Meeting was in the first place insignificantly attended. Neither in members nor in respectability could it compare with the first. The gross misrepresentation that stated the Meeting to have been well attended, “the Court House being filled and many being unable to obtain seats,” was worthy of the Journal in which it appeared. The part of the Court usually occupied by the bar and officers of the Court was certainly full and many gentlemen were compelled to stand. But the other half of the Court House ordinarily appropriated to the public was not quarter filled, while on the occasion of the first meeting every seat was occupied and the passages were crowded. With the exception of the members of the Memorial Committee, but few of the taipons were present in the body of the Court, and if many of those who were there could not find seats it was because the furniture from the offices of the Court had been moved into the Court-room out of the way of the white-washers, and the place was lumbered up with desks and tables.\n\nIn the second place, the only expression of popular feeling elicited on the occasion was in favour of the Stamp Act and in support of the Governor's speech or letter in reply to the Memorialists and protesting members of Council. Mr. GRANVILLE SHARP, while smoothing down the ugly passions of his hearers with one hand, dealt them some awkward hits with the other, justly ridiculing the idea—first propounded by the merchants themselves, although afterwards taken up and considerably improved by a section of the local Press—of a general exodus from Hongkong as the immediate consequence of the Stamp Tax. His speech went farther than the purely ridiculous aspect of the question, and unmasked those who, paying not one single cent of taxes, would impose a double burden on the small middle class here which does pay taxes. Mr. BARNARD, if he did nothing else, made the meeting laugh at him, if not with him, and made certain uncomfortable disclosures as to the motives of some of the more virulent opponents of the new finance measure.\n\nIt was really very unkind of the gentlemen present, when, at the commencement of his oration, Mr. B. stated that he proposed to say something about the Stamp Tax, although many there might think he knew nothing about it—to shout \"hear! hear!!\" in such a significant way; and it was really cruel when he referred to \"the most respectable men in the Colony\" to cry \"name! name!!\" so persistently that the unhappy gentleman yielded to the clamour. We don't envy him his task of explaining away what he then said. Mr. STOREY's speech was very good in its way. Perhaps it pledged himself too earnestly for the good behaviour of the Governor, and for his honest and uprightness of intention, but Mr. STOREY felt strongly and spoke strongly. That question to which the speaker referred pointedly, as evidencing the Governor's good faith—the question of the Kowloon Land Lots—is one which at a very early date will, we believe, become the subject of litigation between the Crown and its tenants and of earnest public discussion. There were three speakers, and all spoke in favour of the Stamp Act. The few words uttered by Mr. BOSMAN were undeserving of the name of a speech, and Mr. McDOUALL's utterance was a palpable confession of defeat. \"We have nothing to say,\" i.e., we are answered and silenced—\"somebody else speak.\"\n\nWhat a pitiful position the Chairman must have found himself placed in! Long pauses; speeches in opposition to the objects for which the meeting had been summoned; no one to raise a voice in reply; an indifferently worded resolution carried as listlessly and as indifferently as if it were not of the least importance; failure in every way. Mr. MACLEAN felt it deeply and \"dismissed\" the meeting, like a pack of troublesome schoolboys, and as if he were heartily glad to be done with the whole affair. We regret for that gentleman's sake, that he did not meet with the support from his colleagues which his own conduct throughout the business eminently merited.",
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        "content_text": "En4186/17\n\n60\n\nDecember last on this subject, he considered were to be stuck with the pries dies used Paels; and for the first experimental he MON not aware of the entrix change I subsequently made in my original design, more effectually, to meet the requirements of the case, and to assimilate the details of de the reverse wink the vines of the Chinese in Morih. I should also add that during the period refered to Mr Sheard has produced, levenly eight dies for striking dollar and five cent pieces.\n\nDo The blanks Al ready for sturing fira pared. Thavet? as the dies at 200w wa (signed) J. W. Kinder, Master of the Mint.\n\n(Free Copy)\n\nMimions Catanal Sentary. Per \"BENARES.\"\n\nSHARP & CO.'S CIRCULAR. For Mail of 15th March 1867, from Hongkong.\n\nThe receipts of the GOLD. The scarcity of Gold both here and at Shanghai has caused an advance of one per cent in the value. fortnight amount to $120,000 worth; and the exports to $330,000 inclusive of the shipments per Behar on the 1st instant and excluding the present Mail's remittance of Leaf, which is smaller than for many months past,\n\nSILVER-The arrivals have been large, amounting to $1,400,000; and the totals shipped are in aggregate $910,000. In addition to this a considerable quantity has been purchased in preparation for the direct Calcutta opportunities.\n\nA DOLLAR CURRENCY.-Inwards $300,000, Outwards $520,000, the greater portion of which has again gone forward to India, few unimportant transactions have taken place in clean coin.\n\nEXCHANGE.-There has been but a limited demand, and of the bills sold the larger part has gone into the hands of private buyers, who are thus, under the new regime, reaping the profits of a little private banking business on their own account.\n\nDISCOUNT and MORTGAGES.-Discounts have been done upon undoubted paper at 7 per cent., and Mortgages at 10. Twelve per cent. is still obtainable on Chinese securities.\n\nSHARES. These have improved a shade by a few purchases for investment; but the trade may be said to be very slow.\n\nCLOSING QUOTATIONS.\n\n  \n    On London, Bank,\n    4 m/s.\n    6 m/s.\n  \n  \n    Do., Credits,\n    4/3\n    2.\n    4/4\n    5.\n  \n  \n    U. S. Navy Bills, 60 days' sight,\n    \n    \n    4/4\n    a 4/5.\n  \n  \n    ,, Calcutta, 3 days' sight,\n    \n    \n    4/4.\n    \n  \n  \n    Bombay, 3 days' sight\n    R218.\n    \n    R218.\n    \n  \n  \n    Shanghae, 30 days' sight,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Bar Silver, Sycec,\n    $34 per 100.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clean Mexicans,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Gold Leaf, Sovereigns,\n    $23.50 per tael.\n    $4.60 each.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    H.kong & S. hae Banking Corpn. Shares, old, 10 per cent. dis.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Da. do. do., new\n    4 per cent, dis\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hongkong and Whampoa Doek Co., old,\n    30 per cent. prem.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    do. do., new,\n    21 per cent. prem.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    'Tis. 749.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Union Dock-Company,\n    35 per cent. dis.\n    10 per cent. dis.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11 per cent. prem.\n    9 per cent. prem.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steam,\n    1 per cent. prem.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hongkong Gas Company,\n    40 per cent, dis.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    China Traders' Insurance,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hongkong Hotel Company,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nHONGKONG, Thursday, 6 e.m., 14th March, 1867.\n\nSHARP & Co., Bill, Bullion, and Share Brokers, BANK BUILDINGS.",
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        "content_text": "Hongkong\n\nNo 345.\n\n8th August, 1867.\n\nGovernor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, K.C.B.\n\nTo The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.\n\nKowloon Government Tenants - Marine Lots at Kowloon - Temporary reduction in rental allowed for reasons stated.\n\nGeneral Explanation of condition of Crown Property at Kowloon.\n\n(3 Enclosures)\n\nReturn of all Lots of Land sold at Kowloon with name of Purchaser, Rental, Premium, Contents, and Arrears of Rent due.\n\n  \n    # of Lot\n    Present Lessee\n    Contents in square feet\n    Amount at which sold\n    Annual Rental\n    Arrears\n    Remarks\n  \n  \n    2\n    Ty Hung-Fan Chee\n    30,000\n    \n    \n    \n    Purchased by H. B. Hey, resumed by the Crown on 8th July 1865.\n  \n  \n    5\n    Peacock T, & Sayle R.\n    30,000\n    \n    25\n    1025 51/51\n    Purchased by H. E. Hory, resumed by the Crown on 15th July 1865.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    30,000\n    \n    20446\n    \n    Purchased by Towel Gekete, resumed by the Crown on 19th Nov. 1866.\n  \n  \n    6\n    Sharp G\n    30,000\n    5125\n    350 25\n    528 92\n    Purchased by F. J. Holmes.\n  \n  \n    \n    Sharp G\n    30,000\n    2520\n    528 92\n    \n    Purchased by G. Sharp.\n  \n  \n    9\n    Sharp G\n    30,000\n    \n    528 92\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    10\n    De Mello Antonio A\n    49,500\n    \n    893 38\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    11\n    Sharp G\n    30,000\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13\n    Porabjee Nowrojee\n    30,000\n    1526\n    520 92\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    Jung Alok\n    30,000\n    2526\n    264 46\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    Jung Alok\n    30,000\n    520\n    530 92\n    264 46\n    \n  \n  \n    16\n    Thung loke\n    30,000\n    7526\n    520 92\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    17\n    Sung Alok\n    30,000\n    20526\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    Song Awork & Chun Afier\n    30,000\n    11026\n    520 92\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    20\n    Tring Alok\n    30,000\n    1520\n    520 92\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    22\n    Sharp E\n    30,000\n    536\n    528 92\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    23\n    Ling in Kow-\n    \n    \n    520 92\n    \n    Purchased by My Fook Tong, resumed by the Crown on 19.12.1864.\n  \n  \n    24\n    Ny Fook Tong\n    30,000\n    8526\n    520 92\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    25\n    Tung Mlok\n    30,000\n    1026\n    528 92\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    139,500\n    1856 13\n    3208 910\n    2,909 06\n    Forward\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    10,942 86\n    \n  \n\nPage ...\n\n...\n\nPage ...\n\n...\n\nPage 41\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage ...",
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        "content_text": "# Report on the Health of Hongkong for the Year 1866\n\nTable I. shews the number of admissions into, and deaths in, the Hospital, of members of the Police Force, during every month of 1866.\n\nTable II shows the rate, per cent, of sickness and mortality of the Force during the same year.\n\nTable III, kindly furnished to me by Dr. Robertson, the Principal Military Medical Officer, gives a comparative return of the health of the Troops serving in Hongkong, from which it will be seen that a marked improvement has taken place in the health of the Military: the death ratio not having reached one half of what it attained in 1865.\n\n## II. THE GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL\n\nTable IV. gives the number of admissions into and the Mortality in this Hospital during the year 1866, to which is added for the purpose of comparison the average number of admissions and deaths during the past nine years.\n\nTable V. gives the rate of mortality in the Civil Hospital, during the same period, distinguishing the rate in the case of Europeans from Colored persons and Chinese.\n\nTable VI. kindly sent me by the Resident Surgeon, Dr. Adams, gives information in reference to the Seaman's Hospital. It is gratifying to find a marked improvement in the death rate, following upon the opening of the magnificent establishment at Morrison Hill, for which the Seamen frequenting this port are entirely indebted to the princely liberality of one of our mercantile firms.\n\nIn the Civil Hospital the absolute mortality has been a trifle higher than it was in 1865. But as I pointed out last year this increase is rather apparent than real, for in the case of European patients the rate has actually been more favorable than it has been since 1862, while in the case of Indians it does not much surpass the average: it is among the Chinese that the great increase of mortality has again occurred, a mortality reaching as high as 38.53 per cent on the admissions. Such a frightful state of matters requires the explanation that, the great majority of Chinese admissions to Hospital consist of moribund or nearly moribund patients. Some of these I am led to believe have been put out into the street by those with whom they lodged, who are desirous of escaping the expense and other inconveniences attendant upon death in their houses, and are in this state picked up by the Police and brought to Hospital, where in half an hour or so death ensues. As all cases of this description have to appear in our Returns it is thus that the result looks so bad.\n\nUnder the head of Starvation there have been 35 admissions, 6 Indians and 29 Chinese; of this number 2 Indians and 17 Chinese have died. The same explanation, which has been offered in reference to yellow fever cases, may also to a certain extent apply to those of starvation admitted to Hospital. I am glad to say that no European was admitted into Hospital under this head, a result no doubt consequent upon the wise arrangements of the Government to which I referred last year. If therefore the 30 deaths from yellow fever and the 19 deaths from starvation are put out of consideration, the total number of deaths will be 80 only, which would give the wonderfully low death rate of 7.03 per cent on the 1,122 admissions. A result which, considering the utter unfitness of this establishment for its intended purpose, reflects great credit on Dr. Cochran the Resident Surgeon.\n\n## III. THE GAOL\n\nTable VII. shows the number of admissions into the Gaol Hospital and deaths there during the year 1866, with the average number of admissions and deaths during the past nine years, as a means of comparison.\n\nTable VIII. shews the rate of sickness and mortality in the Gaol Hospital as compared with the total number of prisoners and with the number treated during the year 1866.\n\nThe numbers imprisoned in Victoria Gaol during the past year, were:\n\nEuropeans 695\n\nIndians 194\n\nChinese 4,572\n\nTotal 5,481\n\nThe daily average was 584.44, of which number 70 have died.\n\nThe following return is in continuation of the tables I have already given for two years, shewing the change in weight which European prisoners undergo after several months imprisonment.\n\nThe Monthly weight of EUROPEAN PRISONERS confined in Victoria Gaol in the Year 1866.\n\n155 cases of chain gang work which had lately been adopted. It was however found that by punishing every case of well proved self-inflicted injury and compelling those who had thus hurt themselves to march down and break stones in some public locality, with boards specifying their crimes placed in front of them, what threatened to be an epidemic soon diminished and has now nearly disappeared. Of those who died the great majority refused to submit to amputation and perished from mortification or the extreme prostration of the system consequent on the great drain produced by the extensive ulceration.\n\nIn my last year's Report I referred to the system of public flogging and I have seen no reason to alter the opinion then expressed. A more efficient whipping post would however be a great improvement. I have been present on every occasion when this punishment has been inflicted and have subsequently had the treatment of the men in Hospital and I have become very strongly impressed with the belief that a great improvement on the present system would be to cast the criminals adrift from the whipping post, to return to their companions in guilt, a terror to evil doers, rather than to take them into Hospital to be nursed for a couple of months, where they are too comfortable to be at all desirous of making a rapid recovery. This would prove much more deterrent of crime than long imprisonment or even repeated floggings. This suggestion applies all the more forcibly where the crime has been one admitting of branding the criminal previous to deportation, which might be accomplished before the men are flogged. This admirable plan of tattooing a broad arrow on the lobe of the left ear, considering that it is never done except at the criminal's own request, has nothing objectionable in it that I can imagine. It is a painless operation which cannot affect the health.\n\nThe Establishment is a model of cleanliness, good ventilation and good management and reflects the highest credit on the Officer in charge.\n\n## IV. THE CONVICT HULK\n\nAs this establishment was discontinued and merged into Victoria Gaol in October, as yet with apparently nothing but good results, I need not do more than refer to Table IX. which shows the rate of sickness and mortality at Stone Cutter's Island, during the first nine months of the year.\n\n## V. THE LOCK HOSPITAL\n\nTable X. gives the usual information in regard to this Institution. Much has been done in the way of suppressing private and unlicensed brothels by the new Inspectors on their appointments, but whether from the first burst of zeal having become extinct or from the Prostitutes and their keepers being too sharp for the Inspectors, these spurts of improvement have been temporary only. No really thorough efficiency can be expected until the new Ordinance on the subject, which I believe it is the intention of His Excellency the Governor to introduce, becomes the law of the Colony.\n\nTable XI. is an approximative estimate of the mortality among Foreign Residents in Hongkong during the last nine years. The data from which it is compiled are furnished to me, so far as the number of Residents is concerned by the Registrar General, and by the Sextons of the two cemeteries so far as the deaths are concerned. This table does not embrace Soldiers, Sailors whether employed in the Navy or the Merchant Service, or those who have been buried from the Hospitals. From an inspection of this table it will appear that the death rate among Foreign Residents in this Colony was, as might well have been expected, very much below the average, lower indeed than it had been since 1862.\n\nTable XII. gives the usual information regarding the work performed by the Inspector of nuisances attached to this Department.\n\nTable XIII. Shews the annual mean state of the atmosphere during the year 1866 as recorded at the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nJ. I. MURRAY, M.D., Colonial Surgeon.\n\nPage 1\n\n1.-POLICE\n\nTABLE shewing the Admissions into Hospital and Deaths during the Year 1866.\n\nNAME, SENTENCE\nJANUARY\nFEBRUARY\nMARCH\nAPRIL\nMAY\nJUNE\nJULY\nAUGUST\nSEPTEMBER\nOCTOBER\nNOVEMBER\nDECEMBER\n\nC. W...Life\n155\n157\n185\n165\n158\n159\n#\n7\n\nA. J. ..Life\n150\n159\n148\n148\n146\n+\n\nW.M. Life\n145\n140\n143\n148\n144\n140\n145\n140\n\nW. H... Life\n\nC. A....Life\n\nE. M.\n\nA. B...Life\n\nW. S.\n8 years\n\nR. B.\n10 years\n6 years\n\nF. 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        "content_text": "## CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\n### HONGKONG: FRIDAY, 26 JUNE, 1868.\n\nThe Capture of the \"Lesmona.\" The following account of the capture of the North-German barque Lesmona, has been prepared by Captain Steinicke, and will be read with some interest. The only suspicious circumstance in the affair is the statement to the effect that the Chinese passengers hoisted two lanterns in the mizzen rigging, which may or may not have been a signal to the pirates. The suffering of the captain and his crew must have been extremely painful, and the conduct of the natives of Hainan is only what may be expected from the inhabitants of such a wild coast. That the Lesmona was insufficiently armed, there is no doubt, but such an unexpected attack will doubtless teach captains of small coasting vessels to provide their ships with something better than three-pounder guns for throwing rockets.\n\nThe following is the captain's account of the affair:\n\nOn the 20th of May, 1868, we left Hongkong roads in the Lesmond, in every way seaworthy, having a general cargo and twelve Chinese passengers for Fai gon. The wind, which was easterly on our departure, veered afterwards more to the southward, and induced us to take the inner route, between Haitan and the Paracelles. On the 25th, at noon, we were by observation in lat. 18 deg. 11 min. N., lon. 110 deg. 48 min. E., wind very light from S. to S.S.E., there being a short distance from us three junks, which we thought to be fishing vessels and not of a suspicious character, one of them was about a quarter of a mile astern of us, another a little more to leeward ahead, and the third to leeward astern about one mile distant.\n\nWhile we were taking our dinner we heard a gun fired, whereupon I immediately went on deck, and ascertained from one of the seamen, by name G. Diesmeyer, who was at the wheel, that the shot was fired from the next junk astern of us, which at the same time had hoisted a red flag.\n\nI instantly ordered the small fire-arms with ammunition, powder, and shot for the two guns on deck to be carried up, while the pirates, with the help of sweeps, were nearing our vessel fast. The yards were then braced sharp in, to impel the vessel faster through the water, but it was of no avail, the wind being too light. The small three-pounder on the poop was only made to be used for throwing fire rockets, so the distance between us and the junk was yet too great to allow balls to take effect. The cannister shots which followed in quick succession out of two apparently six-pounders, on the fore deck of the pirate, now swept our decks and tore the sails and rigging; it was therefore deemed advisable by the officers and myself to wait until the pirate was going to board our vessel, and then to drive him back by musketry. The eight double-barrelled breech-loading muskets were loaded by the carpenter, and distributed among the crew, the passengers having by this time hidden themselves below.\n\nThe pirate then, under a sustained fire of guns and muskets, approached nearer the vessel, and the crew, with the exception of the able seaman, S. Winter, refused to defend themselves, although the mate explained to them that by cowardly surrendering they would not save their lives; nevertheless, they insisted upon refusing, and demanded that the gig, which was laying on the poop, should be launched. This, however, I would not permit, because it would have been sure destruction both of boat and men.\n\nShortly after the pirates boarded, after having thrown some stink-pots on deck, I went into the cabin and the officers and men forward. Three of the pirates then watched the entrances of the cabin, while some spiked the gun on the forecastle, and the rest, about 20 or 25 men altogether, demanded the money, which was on board; they said I had $1,000 in my possession, and a box of treasure belonging to the cargo. Upon explanation that there was no money on board, they insisted upon taking what they liked of the cargo, for which purpose some of the crew had to assist them in opening boxes and bales and hand them on deck, from whence the contents were transferred to the piratical craft. There was taken chiefly copper and brass ware, silks, trinkets, and other valuable articles, the abovenamed S. Winter being kept all the time by the pirates on deck to steer the ship, and he had to keep her on a North Easterly course.\n\nAfter having pillaged until dark, and having destroyed in the cabin everything which they could not make use of, such as instruments, books, charts, and papers, they confined me together with the crew and passengers in the coal locker in the fore peak, under the between decks of the vessel, a room of about 350 cubic feet, secured the hatch of it by a stream anchor and chains, shut the hatches on deck, and fastened them by the iron bars attached. The sailmaker, named Harras, however, effected his escape, and stowed himself away in the slings of the upper main-topsail. As soon as the hatches were shut, the proposal was renewed to the crew, which was made several times during the afternoon—that was, to take the knives which were in a box laying between other goods, and to attack the pirates. Although the crew showed little inclination to follow this idea, a hole was nevertheless cut by the carpenter with a pocket knife in the bulkhead, which divided the coal-locker from the hold; by this aperture I entered the cargo room, with the mate, carpenter, and H. Winter, and by opening packages and emptying some of their contents, we succeeded after several hours' labour in effecting an opening sufficiently large to admit a man to crawl through. Shortly after the shutting of the hatches we heard a thumping against the ship's side, which convinced us that the pirates were scuttling the vessel. After having effected the passage through the cargo-room I sent the mate, carpenter, and H. Winter aft to secure the knives, and forced open the fore-hatch myself to reconnoitre the whereabouts of the pirates. I then found nobody on deck, the piratical junk then laying a short distance from the ship. Returning to the fore-hatch to release the crew, I was informed by the men that the water was rushing in strongly under the stern of the ship, and having convinced myself that the ship was listing over to port very much, and in a sinking condition, I ordered the boats to be launched. The longboat, which I intended to have lowered first, was so much cut up by the pirates that it was entirely useless; the other boat had four large holes in the bottom, which were patched up with canvas, blankets, &c., and then lowered over the side.\n\nDuring the time the crew were engaged with this business, and I was searching for the ship's papers, some of the passengers had hoisted in the mizzen-rigging two lanterns, although they refused a short while before to come on deck. By this treacherous act I was forced to leave the ship, after cutting adrift spare spars, water-casks, &c., no time being allowed to construct a raft, on account of the dangerous neighbourhood of the pirates. In the boat were twelve persons, and in the leaky state of it this situation was not much better than that on board of the ship.\n\nPage 69\n542",
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        "content_text": "(32)\n\nbook which the hunchback carries, the moneys entered in which A-làn may collect. By A-làn's instructions he unties the supposed doctor, and is tied up in his place, as the first step to a cure. A-làn then deliberately strips him of his clothes and all he has on him, including the subscription book. He throws his wife's jacket over him, and says he must now wait, a fairy will come and complete the cure. He must not mind if she is a little rough at first. With this consolation A-làn hides himself with the plunder to see the fun.\n\n\"When his good lady has supped, she comes out to settle with him, and commences a hearty cuffing of the form under the jacket. To her horror the supposed A-làn breaks loose, and turns out to be a hunchback. He, seeing the lady not to be unpleasing in appearance, takes her for the fairy, and rushes at her open-armed. She flies from so repulsive an embrace, and is being chased round the stage by the 'patient,' when A-làn appears with a long bamboo, in the character of an injured husband, to drive away the intruder. He hunts out the hunchback with great fervour, and then makes his peace with his wife by exhibiting the clothes and book of which he has robbed him. The lady declares that her husband will be a credit to her yet, and the worthy couple, chuckling over the spoil, which will replace the domestic pig, retire to rest, having experienced the falling-out that all the more endears!\n\nOn Saturday, November 6th, His Royal Highness left on a visit to Canton by the steamer Kinshan, which had been most liberally and obligingly placed at his disposal by Messrs. Augustine Heard & Co., General Agents of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-boat Company, Limited. The steamer was fitted up in the most commodious manner,\n\nand provided with all the requisites for\n\n(33)\n\nan excellent cuisine; a courtesy for which His Royal Highness expressed his warm acknowledgements.\n\nTuesday, November 9th, being the birthday of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, salutes were fired at noon by all the ships of war in the Harbour and by the Shore Battery. In the evening of that day the Prince returned, via Macao, to Hongkong, and dined at Government House, which was brilliantly illuminated for the occasion with Japanese lanterns.\n\nWednesday, November 10th, was devoted by His Royal Highness to business principally connected with the refit of the Galatea, and in the evening, the Prince and the Governor, with their respective suites, dined with Colonel Milles and the Officers of the 75th Regiment.\n\nOn Thursday, November 11th, His Royal Highness received the Clergy on board the Galatea, having most kindly provided them with his own barge for the occasion. A loyal Address was read, on their behalf, by E. Sharp, Esq., the Registrar of the Diocese, to which His Royal Highness was pleased to read a gracious reply, which, together with the Address, is given in the Appendix, (G).\n\nOn the same day, a Cricket Match was played between the Hongkong Club and the \"United Services,\" in which Officers of the Galatea took a most prominent part. The following account of this Match has been contributed by the Secretary of the Hongkong Cricket Club:-\"The weather was all that could be desired. A bright sun, tempered by a cool breeze, afforded promise of a day on which everything would look its best; and certainly the cricket ground showed to great advantage. The green sward, the line of glistening white tents gaily ornamented with flags of all colours and nationalities, and the blue line of the Harbour beyond, brightly relieved by the display of bunting on the ships, formed a sight to delight the artist's eye.\"\n\n47",
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        "content_text": "( 44 ) \n\nWe \n\nof His Royal Highness and of His Excellency the Governor, I wish, my brother Churchmen, before pronouncing the Benediction, to say a few words, with reference to the Work which has been so happily commenced to-day, and with reference also to our distinguished guest, The Work is one of faith; faith in God, and faith in you. We believe that 'except the Lord build the House, they labour in vain that build it,' and therefore we look up to Him for his blessing upon an undertaking whose sole object is His honour and glory. But we, on whom the responsibility of setting it on foot rests, have faith also in you. We believe in your Christian zeal and liberality; and, so believing, we feel sure that you will not be satisfied until the Work now begun under such favourable auspices is brought to a successful conclusion. As to our guest, I am sure you will most heartily join me in thanking His Royal Highness, for his great kindness in consenting to inaugurate this pious Undertaking, and for the skilful manner in which he has executed it. We were all prepared to receive him with respect and loyal affection as the son of our beloved Queen, whose throne is securely founded in the hearts of her people. But we now know him personally, and I am sure I express the sincere sentiments of all present, when I say that His Royal Highness has won for himself, during his too brief stay here, by his frank, genial, and affable bearing, a place in all our hearts. You will without exception, I am persuaded, join me in wishing him a safe and prosperous voyage, and in bidding him 'God speed.'\" Then, turning to the Prince, the Reverend Gentleman said:-\" Your Royal Highness, On behalf of the Clergy and Laity of this Cathedral City, I beg to present to you our most respectful and cordial thanks for your presence here to-day. We are sorry that you are so soon to leave us. We shall always think of your visit with feelings of unmixed satisfaction; and as, \n\n( 45 ) \n\ncontinually, in this Holy Place, we pray for 'all the Royal Family,' our thoughts will often revert to yourself. \n\nI can only offer you in conclusion, that which the Kings and Princes of the earth, and none more than those of your Royal House, have been wont to consider worthy of their acceptance, what I believe you also will highly value, -the Blessing of God's Priest, and the Prayers of God's Church. May the Lord of the Ocean speed you and your gallant crew in the good ship Galatea, in all her voyages! may He who, eighteen hundred years ago, calmed the sea of Galilee be your Pilot and Guide! may hope, the bright hope of the Christian, be your anchor in every port! and may you 'so pass the waves of this troublesome world, that finally,' without loss or damage, you may come to the land of everlasting life, there to reign' 'world without end'! Amen.\" \n\nThe Reverend Canon then gave the Benediction, and His Royal Highness departed, the guard presenting arms as before and the National Anthem being performed by the band. Among those on the Platform, in addition to His Excellency the Governor and Lady MacDonnell, were Commodore Oliver J. Jones, E. Sharp, Esq., Registrar of the Diocese, Mrs. Pollard, Mrs. Sharp, Mrs. Pyke, Mr. Sassoon and many others. Under the Stone were deposited coins of Hongkong mintage, and copies of the Daily Press and Overland China Mail. \n\nHis Royal Highness soon after visited His Excellency Major-General Whitfeild, Commanding Her Majesty's Forces in China, who had been prevented by illness from appearing during the Prince's visit, and subsequently His Royal Highness honoured in a similar way Acting Chief Justice Pauncefote. On this day many elegant and costly souvenirs were presented on behalf of the Prince to his Hongkong friends. A sum of £150 was also left by His Royal High-\n\n33333\n\n53",
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        "content_text": "Supplementary Convention \n\nwith China \n\nTientsin, 24th October, 1869. \n\n \n\nREVISION OF THE TREATY OF TIENTSIN. \n\nREPORT \n\nOF A \n\nSo 24/7/70 \n\nMEETING OF THE HONGKONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: \n\nOF A \n\nPUBLIC MEETING IN HONGKONG; \n\nAND \n\nDEPUTATION TO H.E. SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, K.C.B., \n\n(H.M. ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY, &c., &c., &c., AT PEKIN) AT HONGKONG, ON JANUARY 3, \n\nTO WHICH IS APPENDED \n\n370; \n\nAN ADDRESS FROM THE COMMUNITY AT AMOY, AND HIS \n\nEXCELLENCY'S REPLY THERETO. \n\nREPRINTED FROM THE “HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.” \n\n \n\nHONGKONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. \n\nA Special General Meeting of the above body was held on Jan. 3rd, at their offices, the Hon. J. B. Taylor in the Chair. There were present Messrs. Kresser, Belilios, Melchern, Vogel, Pyke, Taylor, Sassoon, Coughtrie, Crichton, Zimmern, Granville Sharp, Delbanco, Walker, Ryrie, Hitchcock, and Buxey. The Chairman, on opening proceedings, said the meeting had been convened by circular, which had been sent round on Saturday. The Committee had met twice during the past week with respect to addressing the Minister with reference to the convention just concluded at Pekin. A letter was drawn up, which the Secretary was called upon to read, as it set forth the actual business \n\nbefore the meeting now. The letter is as follows: \n\nTo His EXCELLENCY SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, K.C.B., H.B.M.'S MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY TO CHINA, &c., &c., &c. SIR.-The appearance in the local newspapers of the 23rd instant, of the text of the Supplementary Convention to the Treaty concluded at Tientsin between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, has led the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce to turn their attention afresh to the Treaty relations of the two countries, and to the questions brought forward in the Convention; but the interval between its appearance \n\n262 \n\nEnclosure No. 3 in Governor \n\nR. MacDonnell's \n\nDespatch No. 857 of 24th \n\nJanuary 1870.",
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        "content_text": "## E. GALLAIS & CO., WINE GROWERS AND IMPORTERS.\n\n**WINE MERCHANTS** to the  \nARMY AND NAVY CLUB, CLARENDON CLUB,  \nEAST INDIA UNITED SERVICE CLUB, NEW UNIVERSITY CLUB, OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE CLUB,  \nUNITED UNIVERSITY CLUB.\n\n27, MARGARET STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE; &  \n61, QUADRANT, REGENT STREET, LONDON, W.\n\n### Notice of Removal.\n\nThe great increase in the consumption of Clarets has led to the introduction here of Wines bearing names of high repute, some of which are sound and pure, but most of them are very inferior. As Wines can only be judged by actual comparison, we earnestly recommend a trial of our **VIN de MEDOC** at 12s. per Dozen (Bottles included), which we are now daily supplying to the Medical Profession, London Clubs, Regimental and Naval Messes, &c. &c. A single sample bottle may be had.\n\nC. J. Dotesio, **GRANT'S MORELLA CHERRY BRANDY** having succeeded to the old-established Business of Messrs. Wart and Co., Wine Merchants to Her Majesty, of 19, Swallow-street Regent street (which premises have recently been rebuilt), has now **REMOVED** to that address, where his Business is being carried on.\n\n95, Regent-street, Nov. 1870.\n\nBuy your Wines of the Wine Merchant, you will save 10 per cent. commission.\n\n| Wine Type | Price per Dozen |\n| --- | --- |\n| Clarets, bottled at Bordeaux, in 1 doz. cases | 12s. 16s. 18s. |\n| Sherries, pale or gold (good wines) | 80s. 38s. 42s. |\n| Fine Old Ports | 25s. to 36s. |\n| Champagne (all known shippers) | ... |\n\nSample bottles may be had. Four dozens carriage free to all Stations.\n\nHENRY WATSON & CO., 16, Clement's-lane, City.\n\n**CATALAN** from the fine Kent Morella, besides being the most delicious Liqueur, is recommended by Medical men of high standing in all cases of Weakness and in various Internal Disorders. It may be obtained through any Wine Merchant, or direct from T. GRANT, Distiller, Maidstone, at 48s. per dozen case. A copy of testimonials and a sample sent to any established Medical Practitioner on application.\n\nParticulars can be obtained through Agents for Henry Brett and Co.'s Malt Eau-de-vie (O.D.Vure Brands), or direct from Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn Bars, at 42s per dozen, inclusive bottles and railway carriage. Their \"Eau-de-vie\" 88s. per dozen.\n\n**KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY**  \n**NOTICE** KINAHAN & CO. have **REMOVED** to their new and spacious premises, No. 6A, GREAT TITCHFIELD STREET, leading from Margaret-street, Regent-street, and Market-street, Oxford-street.\n\n| Product | Price per Dozen |\n| --- | --- |\n| \"Crown\" Red Catalan | 20s. |\n| \"Crown\" White | 20s. |\n| \"Diamond\" Red | 17s. |\n| \"Diamond\" White | 17s. |\n\n**KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY**.-This famous and most delicious old malt spirit is the very **CREAM OF IRISH WHISKIES**. The RED WINE.--Full bodied, delicious, fruity in quality unrivalled, perfectly pure, and more wholesome than the fashionable port flavour. The WHITE Exquisitely delicate.\n\n### NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA'S MINIMUM SELF REGISTERING THERMOMETER\n\nNegretti & Zambra's Self-Registering Minimum Thermometer (fig. 4) consists of a glass tube, the bulb and part of the bore of which is filled with pure alcohol, in which floats freely a black glass index. A slight elevation of the thermometer, bulb uppermost, will cause the glass index to flow to the surface of the liquid, where it will remain, unless violently shaken.\n\n#### Directions for Use\n\nHaving caused the glass index to flow to the end of the alcohol by slightly tilting the thermometer, bulb uppermost, suspend the instrument (in the shade with the air passing freely to it on all sides) by the two plates attached for that purpose,—in such manner that the bulb is about half an inch below the opposite end of the thermometer, then on a decrease of temperature, the spirit will descend, carrying with it the index; on an increase of temperature, however, the spirit will ascend in the tube, and leave that end of the index, furthest from the bulb indicating the minimum temperature. To re-set the instrument, simply raise the bulb end of the thermometer a little, as before observed, and the index will again descend to the end of the spirit, ready for future observation.\n\n### NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA'S TERRESTRIAL RADIATION THERMOMETER\n\nFor determination of Terrestrial Radiation.\n\nThe bulb of this instrument is transparent, and the divisions are engraved on its glass. In use, to be placed with the bulb fully exposed to the sky, resting on grass with stem supported by little forks of wood. The directions for using this instrument are the same as No. 4.\n\nIt is advisable occasionally to examine Minimum Thermometers, to see if any portion of the alcohol has collected on the upper part of the tube, or separated in small particles in the bore, if so, swing the thermometer, bulb downwards, with a sharp pendulous motion, until the whole of the alcohol is joined to the main column.\n\n**NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, OPTICIANS, AND METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS**  \nTo Her Majesty the Queen; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; the Admiralty; Hon. Board of Ordnance; Board of Trade; and the British Meteorological Society, &c.;  \nTemporary Premises, 103, HATTON GARDEN, HOLBORN, Until our New Building on the Holborn Viaduct is completed;  \nCORNHILL; 133, REGENT STREET; and 153, FLEET STREET, LONDON.\n\nALFRED BOOT, Printer, 8, Eastcheap, E.C., and Dockhead, S.E.  \nPage 456",
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        "content_text": "# MINUTE PAPER\n98621\nNo 120.\n4th August, 1878.\n\nMajor General Whitfeild, Lieutenant Governor\nto\nThe Right Honorable The Earl of Kimberley,\n\nForwarding an application from Mr. Edmund Sharp, Crown Solicitor, for increase of Salary.\n\nI agree with Sir P. Pannéefste in thinking that the pay of the Crown Solicitor is small. £250 per annum. Referring to Sir R. MacDonnell, adding that on his return to the Colony if he thinks it necessary to increase Mr. Sharp's salary, Lord Kimberley will consider it and be predisposed to adopt his recommendation to that effect.\n\nRB2 10/10/71\nSo punced\nReuis ochop K out 12/71",
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        "content_text": "in their\n\ncases\n\nChin persons, and Chinese women particularly\n\nfemales in\n\nso in\n\ntheir hair clean.\n\na\n\nable to\n\nkeeping.\n\nI am also happy to be\n\nthat the daily\n\nof female\n\naverage\n\nreport\n\nnumber\n\nPrisoners for the past 6\n\nyears\n\ndoes not exceed 6, and this out\n\nof a Chinese female population of 29,611 (for 1874.)\n\n(Signed) F Douglas,\n\nSuperintendent\n\nHong Kong, 30th January, 1875.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nDate of Paper.\n\nJanuary 5\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n(Subject.)\n\nLeave of Absence to Mr E Sharp\n\nAss! N=42-28 March 1872-23 Further Gov. N2 82-14 June\n\n+January 1875\n\nTe704.\n\n231\n\n1872.\n\nCrown Solicitor for 6 months\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nto head\n\nfor a year\n\n6 months have\n\nCertificate.\n\nin this Colony\n\nRecommended\n\nConfirm? (125/3\n\nWhat is his illness?\n\nHe has been 18\n\nmonths ill with only one interval.\n\nIf\n\nleave is granted, he has here in the Colony one year's\n\nservice on this account, the allowance\n\nthe allowed half salary\n\nnow\n\nRM 26.3 7.0.",
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        "content_text": "OFFICE.\n\nCHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENT in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended\n\n  \n    If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date.\n    If newly appointed\nIf promoted from another\nOffice or Government situation\n    Name of the Officer who formerly held\nthe appointment, and annual Salary.\n    Name of the Officer who is now appointed and annual Salary.\n    Description of authority.\n    Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of Office or appointment, or the new appointment.\n    Column for Remarks.\n  \n  \n    \n    Promoted\n    Crown Solicitor E. Sharp\n(on leave) £500 $2,400.\n    W. W. Faller\nActing £250 $1,200\n    Government Notification No 21 of February, 1872.\n    \n    Mr. Faller is Mr Sharp's partner.\n  \n  \n    \n    Promoted\n    Clerk to the Attorney General\nH. J. Holmes £125. $600.\n    V.A. Rozario\n£125. & $600.\n    C.S.O. No 3459 of 30th Dec 1871.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Promoted\n    Valuator.\nW. Brestage\nPolice and Lighting £150. $720.\n    J. Gerrard\n$150 $720.\n    Government Notification No. 153 of 7th March 1872.\n    \n    Mr Gerrard held this post formerly.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Police.\nInspector\nW. Britten.\n$600.\n    The Class.\nVacant\n$135 $600.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6th Feb 1871.\n    Newly appointed\n    \n    Police\n1st Sergeant\nBruce Copy\n    \n    21st March, 1872. (Continued)\n    Killed faction the public.\n  \n\nAuditor General's Office,\nHong Kong, 3rd May, 1872.\n\n(signed) Cecil C. Smith\nActing Auditor General.\n\nPage XX\n\nPage XX\n\nPage XX",
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        "content_text": "810\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nSUANGHAI SILK SHIPPERS, From 1st June to 28th Sept., 1879,\n\nAdantson, Bell, and Co. Balfour, Butler and Co. Barnet and Co. Birt and Co. \nBirley, Worthington, & Co. Bain and Co. \nBower, Hanbury and Co.... Bourjau, Hubener, and Co. \nBovet, Brothers and Co. ... Bull, Purdon and Co. Butterfeld and Swire \nChapman, King and Co. \nCoutts and Co. \nDent and Co. \nDickinson and Co. \nEssex and Co. \nFindlay, Wade and Co. \nFogg and Co. \nGamwell, F. R. \nGibb, Livingston, and Co..... Gilman and Co.\n\nBales.\n\n352 Jardine, Matheson, and Co. 276 Jarvie, John, and Co. \n57 Skeggs, C. J. and Co.\n\nTEA CARGOES AFLOAT.\n\nBales.\n\n[Nov, 18, 1872]\n\nShipping Intelligence.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\nAt YOKOHAMA.—From London, Sept. 23, Florence Nightingale.\n\nAt SHANGHAI.—From London, Sept. 25, Foutenaye; from Swansea, 23, Daylight; from Liverpool, Nov. 10, Agamemnon (str.); from Cardiff, Whinfel; from Southampton. Deccan (str.).\n\nAt HONG KONG and CANTON.—From London, Oct. 1, Golconda (str.), James Vinicombe; from Callao, Emigrante; from Boston, 4, Europa.\n\nAt SINGAPORE.—From Liverpool, Oct. 11, Agamemnon (str.); from Glasgow, 7. Saltes (str.); from Sunderland, 8, Stanley; from Hamburg, 11, Harmonia.\n\nDEPARTURES.\n\nFrom YOKOHAMA.—For London, Sept. 7, Audax; for New York, 16, Emulation; 18, Etta Loring; 23, Leander; 30, Ceylon.\n\nFrom HONG KONG.—For London, Sept. 15, Penrith; for New York, 18, Jessie Isabel.\n\nFrom SHANGHAI.—For London, Sept. 21, Priam (str.), Woodlark; From Foochow.—For London, Sept. 29, Zibu; Oct. 1, Eme.\n\nFrom HONG KONG and CANTON.—For Falmouth, Oct. 2, Hermine.\n\nFrom SINGAPORE.—For London, Oct 4, Eleanor; Nov. 12, Hector (str.).\n\nSHIPPING POSTSCRIPT.\n\nDEPARTURES.—Nov. 14, from London, for Yokohama and Hiego, Glamorganshire; 13, from Cardiff, for Singapore, Proserpine; 14, Massimo d'Azeglis, Elizabeth Child.\n\nLAID ON.—At London, for Shanghai, Carmarthenshire.\n\nSPOKEN.—Esperance, Newport to Hong Kong, Aug. 12, 33 S., 25 W. Franklin, Batavia to London, Sept. 28, 20 S., 60 E. N. C. D. H. (Amicizia, Italian three-mast schooner), Cardiff to Ceylon, Sept. 29, 16 S., 29 W.\n\nLEGAL.\n\nJUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.\n\nHART V. VON GUMPACHI.\n\nThis appeal from Her Majesty's Court for China and Japan came on for hearing, and presented some remarkable features. The appellant is a British subject, and occupies an important position in the service of the Emperor of China as inspector-general of customs.\n\nThe respondent is a naturalised British subject, and is an astronomer and mathematician. Both met in London in August, 1866, and it was alleged that Hart represented to Von Gumpach that he was entrusted with the formation of a college and observatory at Peking, which college was to be an institution for the teaching to the Chinese of Western sciences and learning, \"with a view to the regeneration of China,\" and that he was to procure a library and appoint professors.\n\nIn consequence of these alleged representations, Von Gumpach went to China, and his salary was to be £600 a year. He alleged that there was no such institution, and that he was willing to discharge the duties of his appointment.\n\nHe alleged that Hart represented to the Tsang-li Yamen, or Foreign Board, that he had absented himself, and he received an intimation from the Chinese Government that his services were no longer required; and since the 30th September, 1868, he had been unable to obtain any salary.\n\nHe brought his action against Hart in Her Majesty's Court, and claimed £3,000 as compensation besides his salary.\n\nThe cause was tried before a jury, and they gave £1,800 as damages and 176 taels for money payable to Von Gumpach.\n\nThere had been a demurrer and further litigation, and one point urged for the present appellant was that these were privileged communications from him as to the office he held under the Chinese Government.\n\nThe Court, after further litigation, decided in favour of the plaintiff (the present respondent), and the defendant (the present appellant) has obtained special leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council.\n\nHe denied the alleged misrepresentations, and stated that the Court at Peking had found in his favour as to the representations, and gave damages to Von Gumpach for the loss of his situation, and for money due on account stated.\n\nHe appealed on several grounds—that the verdict was against evidence, on misdirection, and on the privileged communications.\n\nSir John Karslake, Q.C, with whom was Mr. F. Herschell (instructed by Messrs. Murray and Hutchins), appeared for the appellant; Mr. Benjamin, Q.C., and Mr. Myburgh (instructed by Messrs. Brooks and Co., of Doctors' Commons) were for the respondent, the plaintiff in the original action.\n\nMr. Benjamin discussed the several points. He urged that the appellant was liable to the respondent for the wrongs he had committed against him.\n\nThe Chinese Government had not adopted the acts of the appellant as their servant, and therefore it was not an Act of State.\n\nIt was idle for the appellant to say that what he did was by order of the Chinese Government, and that, therefore, he was not amenable to the laws in Her Majesty's Court for China and Japan.\n\nHe cited various authorities in support of his contentions that unless a Government adopted the acts of their servant, the servant was liable, and could not shield himself under the authority of an Act of State and justify the wrong he had committed.\n\nFurther, the learned counsel submitted that Her Majesty's Treaty with the Emperor of China gave all British subjects a right to resort to the Supreme Court for redress; and it was no answer for the appellant (the original defendant) to say what he had done was as servant of the Emperor when malice was alleged against him.\n\nThe question of privilege would not go to such an extent as to shield a man from false representations, and none of the cases cited would support the points raised by the other side.\n\nMr. Myburgh followed on the same side.\n\nSir John, in reply, cited several cases in support of the view he had submitted—namely, that the original action could not be maintained, and that the demurrer ought to have been allowed.\n\nIt was not an action between two British subjects, as was contemplated by the Treaty, but an action against a Minister of China for an act done as such Minister.\n\nBoth parties had been in the service of the Emperor, and the reports made by Mr. Hart were privileged communications, and it was not by merely alleging malice that the protection extended to such documents was to be removed.\n\nThe matter was of importance, and he asked their Lordships to allow the appeal.\n\nSir Montagu Smith, on the conclusion of the arguments, announced that their Lordships would take time to consider their judgment.\n\nCOURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.\n\nIONIDES V. PENDER.\n\nThis was a case (tried last term) of some mercantile importance as to marine insurance, especially with reference to over-insurance.\n\nIt was an action on several policies of insurance, on goods, on profits, on charterparty, and of commission, amounting altogether to some thousands of pounds.\n\nThe defence set up was that there had been enormous over-insurance, and that the ship was not lost by perils of the seas, but had in reality been scuttled.\n\nThe policies were affected by a firm at Hamburg, who had chartered and loaded the ship for a commercial adventure to a port La Sineria.\n\nOn the voyage the vessel sprang a leak, and is making four inches water per hour in still water.\n\nCASUALTIES.—The Carolina (Spanish barque), from Manila to Cadiz, with tobacco, went a bore on Sandalwood Island. Sept. 15, but got off without damage, after remaining on the reef seven days.\n\nThe Hebe (ship, of Rotterdam. Meermans, from Batavia, to Rotterdam, put into Mauritius, Oct. 5, leaky, having encountered a very heavy N.E. to N.W., and S. W. gale Sept. 21st, in lat. 12 S., lon. 93 E., during which\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n811\n\nNov. 18, 1872.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM MEDHURST'S \"FOREIGNER IN FAR CATHAY.\"\n\nAfter what I wrote in my last letter of the negotiations between the commissioners of the two legislative bodies of this city having been broken off because they could not come to an agreement on the vexed question of the Bank Valuta, your readers will no doubt be greatly surprised to hear that, after all, the affair has been finally set at rest and disposed of by a compromise, both sides having given way to a certain extent.\n\nThe draft of the Bill sent by the Senate to the Burgerschaft, but rejected by them, served as a sufficient basis for a rapprochement, and as both parties were agreed in principle, and only differed on certain, though important, points, the door was again opened for discussion.\n\nAn abstract of the amended Bill as agreed to is as follows :--\n\nLaw for the Alteration of the Hamburg Bank Valuta.\n\nArt. 1. Closing of the Accounts based on Silver Bars.—The date is fixed for the 15th Feb., 1879, the Burgerschaft originally wishing it to take place within eight days, and the Senate inclined to keep them open for six months longer.\n\nAfter the above date the balances of accounts can only be repaid in silver bars.\n\nArt. 3. Denomination of Payments in the New Currency made through the Bank.—In all agreements and contracts where payment is stipulated to be made through the Bank, it is required to write after the amount the letters B.Z., which stands for Bank Zahlung, or Bank payment.\n\nI have dwelt thus much upon the characteristics of the servants employed by foreigners, not only to show how they fare in this particular, but because these servants are the only natives with whom the foreign merchant comes more immediately into contact.\n\nThe opinion prevalent at home that foreigners mingle in Chinese society generally is altogether a mistaken one.\n\nThe conventional rules of the Chinese are so constituted, and their habits of thought and customs so peculiar, that there is little or no encouragement to court acquaintance on either part, even were the entire ignorance of each other's language not to present a serious bar in the way of an interchange of ideas.\n\nThere is a class of Chinese brokers and middle men who haunt the offices of the merchants, but they are mostly shrewd, clever upstarts, whom the difficulties of interlingual communication have introduced into the trade, and, with rare exceptions, they lay no claim to respectability even with the Chinese themselves.\n\nThe language employed between these brokers and the merchants is a jargon made up of English, Portuguese, Chinese, and Malay words, tortured into unrecognizable shapes and constructions, and it is little fitted to sustain any conversation beyond what appertains to the mere technicalities of trade.\n\nI have frequently expressed to our merchants the opinion that it is a pity they do not take the trouble to learn the Chinese language.\n\nIt is an acquirement in the spoken form to an extent sufficient for all practical purposes; offers no difficulties that an average intellect and a moderate share of determination cannot surmount, and familiarity with it would have the effect of freeing the foreigner from the domination of roguish brokers and compradores, at whose mercy he now lies, whilst it would open the way to a more extended acquaintance and friendly intercourse to the mutual advantage of both parties.\n\nThere is perhaps no country in the world frequented by the English-speaking race in which merchants are so lamentably ignorant of the customs and resources of the locality in which they live as they are at this moment in China, and this is entirely to be attributed to a want of familiarity with the language.\n\nTHE SUEZ CANAL.\n\nThe Suez Canal Company will continue to insist upon its recent advance of tolls, and declares that it will appeal to the decision of the Government.\n\nThe Ottoman Porte has protested, by order of the Sultan, against the competency of the Tribunal de Commerce de la Seine to interpret the Act of Concession of the Canal—a power which belongs to itself alone.\n\nThe Turkish Government also maintains that, the company being an Egyptian association, subject to the Ottoman jurisdiction, and having its headquarters at Alexandria, cannot admit a foreign jurisdiction in respect to its differences with third parties.\n\nThere is some idea of inviting the Marine Powers to hold a conference at Constantinople, in order to agree upon a uniform system for the measurement of tonnage.\n\nForeign Intelligence.\n\nGERMANY.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nHAMBURG, Nov. 12.\n\nArt. 4. Belehnungen (or advances on deposits).—After the close of the silver accounts the Bank is authorised to receive as deposits the foreign coin hitherto accepted, as well as gold and silver bars, and credit the depositors for the amount in the new currency, according to the regulations drawn up by the administrators of the Bank and having been approved of by the Senate.\n\nArt. 5. Deferred fulfilment of obligations to pay in Banco.—After the closing of the silver accounts, all still outstanding engagements in Hamburg banco or in species banco, whatever may be the period of their origin and the nature of the claim, must be settled by Bank payment in Imperial gold coin, or in double or single silver thalers of German mintage, at the fixed rate of 150 marks new currency for 100 marks banco, with an agio of 18 per mille for species banco.\n\nBills of exchange falling due on the 15th of February, but not presented for payment till after that date, are to be calculated at the officially quoted price of silver on the day of their maturity.\n\nArt. 6. Transitory Regulations.—During the period of transition, viz., from the date of the opening of the accounts in the new Imperial currency till the 15th of May, 1873, creditors of the Bank may have the amount of their balance in Banco transferred, partly or entirely, to their account in the new currency at the fixed rate of 145 marks Imperial currency for 100 marks Banco, as such transfers are to be considered as Belehnungen, or advances on deposits.\n\nThe sum thus transferred may, at any time during the period of transition, be re-transferred to the silver account of the owner; but all such re-transfers must be made before the expiration of the period of transition, in default of which the Bank is authorised to realise the silver for account of the proprietor.\n\nDuring the period of transition only those who have paid in gold coin or silver thalers are at liberty to withdraw their balances in the same money.\n\nDuring the period of transition no charge will be made by the Bank on Imperial gold coin or silver thalers paid in or taken out.\n\nThe publication of this new law will take place in the course of this week, and the date to be fixed for the opening of the accounts in the new Imperial German currency is expected to be the 15th inst.\n\nBut this arrangement has no effect on cash payments made in Hamburg and Lubeck currency, which retain their value as hitherto, till a sufficiency of the new money is coined, which, as the minting operations proceed but slowly, may be deferred for two or three years longer.\n\nIt will be seen by the above that the Bergerschaft have abandoned one of the principal points on which they were at issue with the Senate, and that is that the loss sustained by the conversion of Banco into new currency, the agio on silver being at present rather more than one per cent. above par, should be borne by the State.\n\nAs it now stands everyone who has Banco will only get 150 marks new currency for every 100 marks Banco, and must bear the loss himself.\n\nThe sharp and somewhat bitter remarks made by certain organs of the press in England respecting the award of the Emperor of Germany in his capacity of Arbitrator in the Anglo-American dispute about the San Juan question have found a responsive echo at Berlin; and if these counter remarks have not been translated and reprinted in the English papers, it is perhaps owing to the editors remaining reticent, not to aggravate and increase the ill-feeling between the two countries.\n\nOne of your contemporaries says that the award is remarkable for being written in the German language, instead of the customary diplomatic French\" to which the Germans reply that this is an exploded idea, quite out of date; that the despatches of the German Government—railway companies have received instructions to discontinue, from December 1, the eddies hitherto praised to emigrants, of a reduction in the fares—amounting in some instances to 50 per cent.—and double allowance of luggage (100 lb. per head).\n\nThe number of emigrants that passed through this city to the end of October, 1871, is officially stated to be 37,324 persons, whilst at the same period this year it has risen to 65,151, and before the end of the year will no doubt have reached 80,000.\n\nDr. Hilgendorf, a native of this city, and formerly director of the Hamburg Zoological Gardens, and now professor at the Royal Polytechnic at Dresden, has received a call to go to Japan to prepare young natives for their subsequent studies of medicine at German universities.\n\nA considerable number of Japanese are now studying at Berlin, Leipzig, and Heidelberg.",
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        "content_text": "Y, NOVEMBER 20, 1872.\n\nONIYA.\n\n(PRIVILEGE IN SOULS'IONAL PROHRLATONDANT.)\n\nla paraushee L↑\n\nwork. Oodermso was that complaint on behalf of, better organization of the winis syatym, the reig I was about to inspout their work this aujant a joint Convention was ultimately entered into Mr. Tug third me unt to end 1 cafe by the British and French expremutatives at Pekin willa wyer theived, the bailing the fiarwoment of China, by which susteased arcuits was\n\nd park of the offer. Purlaub stated\n\nvaled contexture. d that ly was not in work giren for the shipment of auch routier only as were willing to our weak in the matung aus 1 tb Audley with a tilt beominigo or the cuditioão só vécér coczīves pigh wrist. Ale further sted blint he wand to receive 2 a day withratung for their other trement on the visum and a p\n\nzayn rect\n\n. In consequenes of the again from the Clues 37.\n\nof the Preach powers, can fund it would interface\n\nit alone the only freight by ever in Chi\n\nin the sport of the live esagors, both the British and Prenat Dovernalent fred so fasily the Contention. ite Chiba, huggi ut et grossná, karo ever eine refered\n\ns\n\nSHANGHAI, SEPT. fi.an putly than be The verdict of the Cears of lequiry contunel to investigate throustices aliudng the hos of the Pacific Map Company Estestacé „Anterica declares that the day was canad ith a state if suey Enil any priesandte, it I told the tars pavage at the end of the yencs, the long inne ut by mpendiaties, but unless threes the other aridance rate that they should have dominanses within servitude being haiked to shas period. This later mainly then what is published before the Court is vasma charge for the slingelt agaaulty computillest them. I was the provston oidectod ko by the plantere in their owa defect la understand how this ecclesive as swded Alz, Abel, Mr. Fray and undersign to the interest on grantly femening, the organan of the imunteme ricet al, for the story on sharp with of the dry, det prose before the deseriert asics to it appar at Daniel's low G Men, told that an American ship was to be hajat 11 weitve, to a shages and got the a tagat is quite iwadimit, and, uzdur top di Pay probed to sc. Errying was fully ezert constantes itaching to timu etavot, sareely to who coalies by xn jasentaand insigrues vilet Malaren,\n\nwerd infy the wrath about worth inquiring inti. No se asems to know how the accident capazred, but a nigamblu\n\nWhen ? arrivod at 'she Cou? Honas the soad mar diled un thrown among She bay wald be quite munisient m far as i could sewish soulies are with badkhe slicks, le strike one three provisioco, and the sealer bare seant for it. Nordous the investigation establish the tours, was ihale eptue (born in Rugludi u Repunge of migration for the Demeen parte, But Mhat any attempt was made by the officuts or moue CSA f Parigiel, Sowser, andersingi was; bet tram Farm or Hongkong, med slefuing la ke to repres the panic which naturally arces among the ila chen sinon fu logs and data in territory under Portage and end Bleds [Chan passengers, or provent the merawat dapp. Arse derests we is and fra so disregard adi Chouka Kiction\n\nRețeudaca. The case of Fartanın ngaiget Sextorsingh was ing of the gangway and companion ladders, which we sino, much the complainané dit jos rate for The jar of Wewe anaias there has huch n iled to the lamentable Jors of həy attending the Dr. Ne of my morphic anning in the icicas of sha | wwerrono la vâu referims trade and wash year Frona It appears shut the expiatu sat offers devoted prottes, I out any interpooter our among that crend, wedi 16,000 is 9456, enfucturate Culness take their deportes, rodamole with the American energy and comagenuen barzana ski fung Your way waiting to the Bush you, fan, pan show pandlela tu thu herwan to the peak of combating the lanes, it satis inely in the treat overes, in Gate Marsa ve Perk, in\n\nis sovnetti with thuit vasc Justed of romavels they lately plant and the the repoer.bility whion in a Bagi abip\n\nThe sugtige mais lend pivots, beat tusiz shiuksi they would love felt attaching to thera in re- Hoon. Arbon provided to take upon vatia the studenout | banding whip with the basher Luitened lines by the garn of theiz pasangers, athing seems to be as the let it crew. Bad from Hoses, notenturing số the\n\n|oit, Abei dar mai thai be pad assaulted cur conide ; und a best attempted in the way of acquiring the que no\n\nronal destalite ang Pemeng keid\n\nfisini sinta. (but robesduty engganti base the harbour. Ingly under\n\nita this\n\nbut with equally obranucaristia d'greyn Dər, sud volied as shay lit the vibuty of tue venyt | which we whale living cargo vas left to port in a\n\nthe kallas mut of irgbtquoi Căimucus By rostech Just an actory Hola zavoriter has uning fellatio 10 henry the\n\nThe amictal, to presend to the panntation, and is redi-\n\nrenied that my is ourselves\n\nʼn American wikusal, injetnosć by the recling that ¦ want Mr. Igaza dobb informed me that the confitiuus of fail and spus aduulated tu ilave thuis safety\n\nmeu art, mifer all eternals sus capable of harron to Javorire une wo the voyage, il auyzet ig sa of thuselves, the captain and officers are, who were heard for open to grava sushi, on this path of the Cuiness that wa rightly some, but had it perusted with followed, When i reived a Petraglin Castly, abo cnouaregem ikada curtain mention to the chipmat eto ati vonalt som remaris weddin\n\n1 olives, the interpreter od I got cat al my wrzjum. 1 fro: Torlugnare colony la might, no muitful in ten- lucked for with regard to absence any\n\nkad great sliktoky, in gelding a mask mati un buit me gedia and revelsteg crackie, en aning that co went suures for having the fangers, very hard, and I prended it underlies who loves are praction under our orn eroi fratlara\n\nive at sympling with the cofagatts\"\n\nJuss the the thin bold savansion, pertepe), ie the tin au crisp, d Jaza of these moci augeikeant rest, and res\n\nmed at armed with Luckh, azlyną, which they adopted\n\ngibst war, and this and would in a Rehme në per privilege, to renvers p14 dny to det for tho Jossos sustumed by the odioms and crew,\n\nrible maavar. Twenty dan asard police and shume un¦ Buy anulia emigration leder conditions tartuntiy diy pproved appear to inter muscadogt nil altempts to wraied van inoru ap atas yanta in frent of the by the Chiens Government, clone subjecte ti oli\n\nLee, wat miti, mit we have eaty of amity aral evt. Pelz-and wako?\n\n• seal siasta i sheir vibrts to save theatre\n\nAs to the provising of a return pudingo and a limitation\n\nabet dive deelorneo is madawa of theinadoquary; sistem maè ut\n\n19 20 we interpreter te ti tu ieri to u walls a cunila ay tumaning of bus demostracions They And of the muguraiment that passengers should lean at pay their unywele y avian w ulemps of tive years for khu turn af sorrowers the coolin\n\nfor themselv\n\nKHUSE PLA\n\nAn ecinotaures which Letnjami ritsender. Etten for a few midus thins) use of his own free will to engage 102 - AppDad\n\npo ally of the your wore scor Furby! an hoovi sulty Aineen verrals for a tale to us will try Lewis vach was bord we are seeded in the plater were slaba to in the seat joyou Dost Poutil sem spreading, and then that are to bake crece but 10 wery (we Frost China. But, on the other hand, the dame Perpe\n\n•Your pay, no és size price worth their whole, to have bec\n\nThey und wire, der ho volition, it geval, Vincolili wamilies in L. 1201220 tisic i tu solcher rent a fun scouted tipbé an fare por such sol Stuga kecies of Reiniks for looses had thom I CHE I CAN WAS untro: o: A hii uria i thy dink it nevensky, there is siery in Pexia Germ, h may not bends would be lavt if very wint quietly, he w\n\ntemarkable hot epicicu among all we dicectly internetod în there is show tub it could ajak\n\nghably be Zellowej icy dis dsgrafiation bei poa. Į šiml jwau duìed by Xan, azil vitet feesten iles: the wapicy mechď azok laivost, altu baring had abondant\n\nutter ram. Nothing could here Jingposes i sad shay: Ray rigist. The inapind par\n\nfortunately for fin. Puse feeling is mantra to do the after and provisist, bonerty earsed ont, here is practically an the rain sopportatif judging on the spot, tist vitunut this Em him. Cold and rojabeat, his ability and\n\nwould to: no foch: that the Que was ferons in same between vorlja lahmut Water ney are alone rast i rad kept him in :ws there, I azil this quer's in a Morga new, and if Heure deleres, as it appost 1 ret-red yil us whats the peine wern. The ones for touger terms and with p. facilities of t\n\nca and her repre audio da egaitus bine, it is doobfolut til: no parte bed acuture to socla exricuments bestder the Governmen of als web haen the\n\nincanta live bed Sunt athula. Tremont, and shy. There at ; the Lars for Kripp's gras aci a large organized neimos linger in tam were slowly Zonzing patre pisina, qui have souril upon 24, in this matter of aly remaining atasalin maintain alas, wis raged the parts of rar\n\nsout alter\n\nju u were down from Pelin son the Aions. I leging way thing was de cuite craigention. Great Arts and Fame, as lisey Questine, at less any there is a musayed the attut, and the pretraite une year 1, tore to Goavaliers the widest of are that the French are papucifer since, and cooked with *Good vare the trans out territoring for teens of labour in Réunion, Seiscented was for word combat which wez to prende Fraud mpg aliona shunte niy to pass, but to enfursa thest dupesa, sweetplined the pancio, and bad the first was piguet at Paris Jay 23, 455 In this is and Cinese tour the most series of an leser Wear itu au des provided by Acrete that the colis to be entered boats and other war vessels madera p\n\nugh the urgear, to the at the Minister in his designs. As there aryaste heye, the au dispersed by ferre, and the siegte with the lastaava shali mais atleting for the\n\npartient for the third bent alter per to the casi todas espiacon of whini ineistant his receive is su\n\ntype. Dering the war minutes that of the engegedans eut to sa Armresturs, 49\n\nrecest scopes\n\nyear, \"at the\n\naghly rouses, and as the douds with pacelsum)\n\ntree was to on, interactions suggest he glug, khore movie every pommunity of the lave deterrect efter on the evnice. It Ju being gely tiled, ami grey ne dis mi\n\nsault, they seemad noua irauter Basor: YLE H\n\nI love the vacato niti ng that there is best trent deal of anna• } pubzo find us the ecoclamation bang • nggement.\" Is is faber alipotucel that \"the sight of bounty, will his ogui to u maura passage as the expinion of me\n\nte tutibty of opposing forssauth misma to Danilo bistinn regantęs į Pa-sags, so Iudithe of the Frozen Corment\n\nbother shout a practically valcerva enaces but there is no s stance of an cosidasia\n\n7 lax or ranger on plan or the outer side\n\nly complicasing aut\n\nI was afer with the interfeber richa\n\nto the thus of coolies was told Men i extol upon them the agent la seduru pange extea is to his wife town of the eo for the lat w 10 jispose and his chistes lo quieres Indie vader the sze quetty has newty linda alt hat alegres, and of tow yet, weil as those in the colch. bows force would be necessary to tuotsin the law. Try In a recoat Copycation betwe\n\ntren waned the most threaching and sit apud\n\nsign an avancing ppreciation of the teet, tul used in tacka castle to the migration of insurers in Inuia to the Gutes a respubitities the local flower was my step, and listave Inept afer Fananie spinged ala at Paris, day 1. 19, the are cauling a commissioner urer to Japan in vid as he owns at ali na tangloater bure prinoties are readiture, and sider shiptune gels the case of the Maria La Peruvian, who wish tears flow is it posle that owu at the remas tipas\n\nThe state a gas of a portrayinin ya es ler's Paties Is the aby, which has been detained by urcighs ether audits of chine wafermed\n\nacernaan puading the comanation of the bite of outer legs Bal\n\nof the evaliselerdi, bath Obettajan, the vare representing\n\n-ra ta blair wileged un siltingues do spriznate nytalana, ku sutkiemiy requier ali to Wel, to that the Prolomant kill mud to citry that Benas: kiluo\n\ne-trement they are reesivel on board,\n\nels myssi is you\n\ntatian!\n\ner the naal as rogants thespcial cam, ili u to get Hospitality; deter wel, plür digging two such Conventiang with tub albes,\n\npeuter Takyone wout and we we\n\ny fue bar, if possible, to art lie grase, the to part of the Chinese Gover This reps your printe altesty kuww, from the servant ex\n\nhonda right to stipelan for simitus yarising for the pro craudoni da tary faut luttes. It is clear there was civi: the relea and yesple think of tas loveprat vations than wome lectice of tazit awa vidjecu? sae what mas cer Chitose\n\nstory to see the Cluse awakening to the that inaliers bagend thar en boundaries do! anja or less condem\n\nWe are visted this moroing by a catheke, bus no damage is reported, although the shock was teemably der indeed, in a deep silterial deposit lite has which forms Shanghai wi earthquake lies very little chance, and we scarcely, as a rete, teal the periosteal shock the Japan vs.\n\nCOOLIE IMMIGRATION,\n\nTO TUE LITTOR OF TUS TIMus.\n\nSin, I have read by the West Indu, from\n\nbecause all 3. gran disbausting themselves with og measure of\n\npaint but necessary duty; the polis fithout eaders.js fra tins fation and the far tire Chiems\n\nlt-ieter, we are overeted by the ingool. Hier tertaibe en mil) annab any twell wo cight to he\n\nEu rayure the pallis cuiston of this contry ones\n\nand get lightened as the true is with noves edice che surge properly calls \"unifando\" of the Wess Indie Charmstvo, wala, re,red to as envelopes the systan in act with comitia acesty on cobaltosey in mar dealings alley stay of a civilland oation, if no cant for no acabar, a 20, si ibe način Pantern Ios los as at least sluta to get moder lavet lente, to penat one is a party and up as bantiniens, antistol with at purrush cutico bur airua ly been waevised to yeo with a ca\n\nto put down slavery, whatever speious form it may tabs.\n\ndock Su the treator of the whole anjos, su porali ke tu\n\nspy & faw words to popla\n\nLet es, abuse, resin lo decimina as pule meetups with\n\n| Ms. Loughrab, siis magistrate present we the truguay on He. iviera's batter Joacala tip web-out fach with deleguout thetoric au the boctors of a train carson under\n\nthe estate of 14aine Unite in betapcho, British be and livery boys gived as a 23, Udern capital. Soch is the state of talugs in the Crafticis woont of the peace of the dose cal; I shot out how her. Geen & South Sad the Clitewed als; week, with light\n\nor you can by Britial gruts and with the aid ori ingeat, fuginas is a mangistrare incely apport, va Instalean, who, as I know, was not with, auder the ses of his friend detur dubion\n\nalsaved the system in the best coalie-workeri calesy in the tushändin ja mier partivulur, has beck the wave Luicy to dacharge ki. Ridicats dalies in thelogy interleut «ri kalbini way. Artist realing the jaily Astúcia mabed bian to five apos tt's long series of sELTE ONLY TO have ut just beer stre\n\ntrade of Eastern Africa, Lut the sofa Odinga bugil to ey, intoned the atter to your pouch latin we the planters of its datos Way have all these boned at Li-\n\ndats, tot in Loughena spposte aus sulp to be the morphoth sad The gentlemen who -90 | Frau biame, bus to have, wlad with equal santon dc pludible profesion of a fee or d starrer beer allowed to routinen year after a. The subject les incast I long careers the Coralized ice to put step to effectuslis us by a tailed year without ang real or Lenoit offri da ti pact of elvie ci El own at net sub of the moleculect cirouette di atas footing with this master-autic are the sed ut racy in see se it was filed\n\nwish Laters, anil puc sapere soves, le unes not setupy Tube Te imenient and Teguise to\n\nKeeper wil wees wority of the 2 \" as th\n\nfranager ut even sier, I lost Mr. Alzitoryo 3!s. (bloca and a white W2 12:15 Coa. Tutus in fare Las perued to vay, \"A\n\nCastic. He sipped my wagg, Tassice ve disprove this ansattiva, When Er. Oilsens de ant pred for sine warfalls Past strie coins whclares that the sper wally listen the ayaka Sith Meie ten craterless best tote in theat aurelit te wach, and Matigued bin with new wistent, should he be know who meanlly of his rated to stop the rule is an intern has bs! Yule I was way chilly shoes ning peremptory malca Frun wing strel (Seph 13 187) ter se taas mil tag\n\nhy and under every info, itt a hand berug and derivati\n\nie vorme 03:\n\nTeen by so\n\nmor the\n\nTHE TED Court say, te ngrew\n\n10 Zeturtun hues, using Esah Lai Sakion, i u\n\nferng and so the work as eyes and looks the\n\nother way, while the au who h\n\na bad fallen wenig Thieve\n\n* Lake, Who 2507 sed in the WOW of the Versa. i Elise vatirely in asturiase wall: PU MAZIAN WES allowed to postal is Mre cast will,\n\n6 afalien und interconte e vity upon him ami rone to inny cof\n\nRare Case \"unla dah Station, singur age Government, he eave mezzare of inasongat bady; tal sed ea val, ut the bis While to fit is takes any step to work this page p though DD 214 ited art of Auteris fire, 581apted to stop item, tue mit fårek Is | Lizzy Bealeys that Iar diúfety” da, te they plan the tation crore to fingjalah via treding įtaka\n\nMUL. You sti 4:3ar than he tok an interzausor with\n\nproval by penitus i ic of Cirsa Haking it resul Jdener to carry any dierel Calvare bar the flag. Alors For Bettisesti esiliit\n\nand a wart putyn the cearty of us are gli\n\nWant step.\n\net salire under contract\n\ninterior2a: a 36. Toggster Tieflin way usully unpiady to this of Sabay stund Heyy drem Great Britain ass toler & Row an exce e and nag Fiend thave, secse of the spend the relied Al Esity will kelpappere? Were were to\n\nBacalo ke woeld drive out so suddle a A toserosing to set up sour intere key got that what they strongly seemeeuol i Tirate & Gottur bhail heat into the early it favertine packeratina ut iis Coat He map of them sunt cvital for\n\nI wildly, they did eo in 3 coment expectatios tust as the spareting of a fer aupres Powers to join it a From Hongkong, we might then with ten bande reck\n\nto speak zu Kyses. In sudies See the wages, Colors would rudover time 14 teed kumar hat so time on effort to Kingsta repgri\n\nalber, we are luce fruit into pasangan bey would aeritudy\n\nDusterece the apoteku is what operate to mate with s\n\nin pars at etion of the countless we can see laver de condie slip would bu\n\nSusie white's\n\nhy (ting sil skigu face! cazand was the las\n\nin the can pirster, Cut the thealing are place\n\npies fate a pirate. I'hea, ant not beten, it wid Se Vonate Thether by sauce sucita\n\ntás ragùng along the stats mani, nod tej than it\n\nول لا Tarealizeri تارا باریان درست\n\nI wanted, and where they sell 28 mal vázy tracts of a very sezulur vntere, vỹ Nht Tony R. HEELFicy would you DO LACE for fun cent\n\nbor to are the ever, he west to cart year it hasty to spe\n\nbe; that the longer des list with, bere per\n\nuf eine has tubule intour palies by nautic tuo,\n\na) thali kariz wages were insulinst. I told them than de hay try my be to Bara fat that cay get\n\nnature engel beside here without lag ples of hour, and the curious as\n\nhung Ho's the gauza balcony one to the trio of the in\n\nme, and i would justica en servant of souls is my duty to stat et que delays ara\n\nBu pingued, or it\n\nOLD\n\ndirt tabur mareets of the Enat lo\n\nBol nemely divaghed\n\nShe fertile incris Wet det from art with caet't I helier pan of emp tiru culte sa organizes to coll i eunicial r with fee, on nous, of the a\n\n(Quesa, ali 20s of tim pesters, and toys of I wazo lile Dye Reaganen in the way caverant offer gw make jursesh 12 citization wherever it Se\n\nlanter: eu le kuthor w\n\npiù le aone to clear; the fam By Way\n\nrecre to the mute; wit 60 ahow the likt\n\n• 15 na tha ghabre I would strend pro Paing as a Devonshire Charles Lula an in gaier nu le\n\nSome of the ampered willing to play be, at the\n\ninut tas ties to 10 wipes the cortice of cabinet-trois end, at the drive twis\n\nthe Connoissthan impact reputed, see may be dienst, but poe cudition, far Vaiko ge butun lutem pultet, see that they graingo to Bride G\n\nSaso\n\nvar gavo nebuniuatior the Colealul One is wac\n\nListed us in ensive Lecrations\n\nby bad frum- dice tram: oferie (not exame live se tue faute, nought the pupported by the pile and a ton Splafon it Buysend\n\nWhegration from carmed onto this is, zith adagen merity fuc jy diet. After leat sigy tab uno\n\nelves, they read to to to its too with red rose fat supervision,\n\nare the maid that, withio prope facias, far god treatment, the would within a very 41 Nespetur er to write immigratione de molimo cut be undo fruthful en gaad, what\n\nin your in a weak up kidaning to w szurdy at lubaar un në\n\nengustelid, on sustape wither stages of this platters theserves; their mealtives, who have been stolently or readily at th Ja tent the runy thesis of ho ier that u pube splay of torne und in de. Tuis air feritalulity at criticis, an option in were saved u celnen with the annulat\n\nAngel-rated labor, ad arved noe skoa!? D'une sastavay it but exist where I have so them with my own eyes ies\n\nservats of\n\nof Weir trestimmt her disaat mig\n\n[ting assage to doeie for wi 269097 g that is it at pwez un finally or woubt it is the outs 5.5\"\"\" old vmpity, mid\n\nTaskN WITH US\n\nIto et sort's Townng the i\n\nin\n\nried out by Mr. Ingetar Gridlu. 107sel reforms. I luas yoṇāžendo 22 € za shu zasta boźlis Bakanker they had benne real, the icely wool\n\nwilber\n\n3 prozristy ei vannlag for the dam Flackbeard of them with you eats leant žul be for the bere berg and of izlection, pot of search, tod\n\nلونا\n\nether to my boud wast bining to Austin, The locals of says ces precies that has bes fuc\n\nby all the ture besnic teste fierteste wel\n\navese-Wien tek\n\nugh the, at i us out of a pan and win. The way to raish the pantry strat parts of the golfest of Callfun, and inter of to The section were extremely excited and\n\nGouna receive Cevi Kimberley's was to hold a wet- ing to den is very ochibong dari\n\nAuto, Sir, yet v Erlap,\n\nIney draenied repgrcher du ile monger, Me. trag wil bad toned to win her of the Louis Lencaning $1,493 1 zld Areop Mr. She and stone\n\nErvas previously. 1 gear eifendy bything of the ad, and if he hat he wond be suit\n\nfini: 1 ! I nafeted The Bee umro L\n\nSprint\n\n, and brong thure of the right use from All order to the gates or to god\n\nting the HHUANG Rgwint Att. 2haw with\n\nuitee,\n\nENKINS.\n\nL\n\nhilla, came to Ingameraity kawo in China, and ships le\n\nbarof stage with a beanwhich EDWARD\n\nthe Cities Leactors of in-chan jalá Zihej rere tit. inu, gifsing was we pas sher TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES,\n\ngalle velas, noe deeds, but thegods, wire .. Uno, sauery to the Wet us Conte lug, before toere was 5 esti o gold. ,-lethas of the 72 wat, s letar appeared the age to tipe distant wnd knowled willing to veure iùey liking put th\n\nCelia Imigrasi,\" in which felong for youton past the overlin og ey are at the wild guit He Shaw, I visited mean to ever res\n\ning papalition of the ones on the I four an und begs rely on urlops -\n\n*The Base of Chet elgration in 18 mayor in to Australasch of\n\nSerails and peoplz the slote Archlying truai ing by a ner of cuti quas tus enke hospital.\n\nwief explanation, the end is read Not evan the piece is the the hail two stress bruises on his lock of his binil, a tea\n\nJov tuliow in pezzanou, we was dented fisted in de kanst visat antepressive Purses tut Thesis severely get the body. Formed me that leased to post twin provisions which was wave clouists tum lading their WAY\n\nwith the treatment of the migrantz, bulbs it was astralia and (72liferais me euslead to dater proo hal presove by pulling revolver ons of his grrutig incomed the expenst of the unmigestion.' pucket and pay the quizen away with it until a\n\ned him. Definburg\n\nIt is to be regrettni but the Mens Caitlen in\n\n10th Airdis, reuse not pinola hefticies* le show that a rebuerative Cell for labourse the only getting forth the statement, did bet mangiare the infucinroses pery to Letire the tener supply 11. Dad in few dotizan the grass plot in front 21 the aftermid og telugu \"orzsama peak out appears in Chian bushe\n\nyruly erased the the very, Tideare, and dishonesty of the orig ampanyen? The gate obalac.s bus le\n\n2.\n\nLail\n\nધન ર\n\nat Devabels at tal-\n\n' he was used with con General conditoza were vehicul w\n\nA and lut toug\n\n* your desi si locs\n\nthe\n\nLabour\n\n(buila vampirist Folk Whore I was there was 1 pcuse of the insigentio,, in order these night juga ¦ true wgnovies, nad the vilepas of the nuties 10xhauste\n\n1) tid tar that any whether the provisos input Bele souls and just get in voorlea by the pitsi ofi\n\nHonesty acid a\n\nacid veally in sus, as yet suora, tete\n\nthe alleged or relate starwatt Free only surethattung I but you wild silver jete to entopinte far aldrup kittense why hall to cleare in staigiate at all If wine wit the labis where was sitting, Faraz w were by the addition of the fullowing facts,\n\nalled the W. & hus Eldey, she\n\n1127th, ie it best 7\n\nwould not whos\n\nLes tom solusy: while the potior wel op\n\n19, in being wasior of interlety that the exulations to define principles as only as it due re\n\ngiva i anarge for lands tictus colleure shqyed lottard le tee saputality astring any adequate a\n\nAdded surged the exeling interferid Ja\n\ntok-sp\n\nقد المي dino\n\nwas bust on, and stalag\n\ncontuent and adfuorutiinudu did dive to querenty of mixer: sy webich rutine bead the apolon asruliad Nicewise by the Seal telesuan, called darker-Buried on cater foreign is witch we ngly seeds, spas infecter les stabla to defend the shares brute from Mood where is the China bring reiting run all civiliasi nasioua for the hours permitted stach. After a crear tuaa ade vi diagno, bagations were red into at Pekin agave the euperior force ai Lugeda,\n\ntader their respective tag, and the wrongs so pestantly Complaint where fue illicenty of wages to aburet by the British and Frecek Gosentants with a view to the \"da\n\nVERITAS",
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        "content_text": "tible to return to Hong Kong,\n\nat th\n\nthe additional period for which for th expriation of paurbace), Lord\n\nHinterking\n\nwill not object li\n\nobject le grant\n\nto the futher extensor without\n\nLaif salary.\n\nthe Feinmany arrangements to whit\n\nIn refer in four\n\nlether and connective it is\n\nPresumed with your parvae paction.\n\nam\n\nOffee or Individual.\n\nSong song\n\nS-No\n\nSharp Edenred\n\nDate.\n\n1872 De 24.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n12280\n\nAnew & 1 January 1873\n\nNo. 12704\n\n(Subject)\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n503\n\nCEL\n\nC.0/\n\n1512\n\nExtension of Leave. Renews afflienten\n\nfor-\n\nElueade\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nI assume theat Die Maclean, Sertificate will be considered dufficient\n\nhat Our thank will not be required to Rome to London to consult wird. Quartier. Io thach has been suffering from\n\nafter a long residence in thing,\n\nMorical Dysentury, after\n\nIr machean asses\n\nthat his leave should be\n\npelended over the umbealthy season in It. tion/\n\n12 -until Septo next &\n\nhe Expresses\n\nhis confidenc\n\nthat Mr. S. may then receive his dubièr witha safety to himself & advantage to the Publitaria\n\nMoshack has only one gears Public service if the present application is panted be will have taken 1 year && curather leavenin only received during his heave 285510\n\nbut he has\n\n662.10\n\non half the\n\nSalon,\n\n  \n    30\n    3\n    |\n    72—U\n    &\n    8\n    5758)",
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        "content_text": "No 41.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, 26th February, 1873\n\n- Respecting the application of Mr E Sharp, Crown Solicitor, for a further prolongation of his leave of absence on the ground of continued ill health, I have...\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Kimberley,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,...",
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        "content_text": "## DESPATCH\nNo. 220  \n0. 29 MAY 1874  \n\nFrom Jalay to Mr E Sharp, Crown Collector.\n\nReports ... wh Lear ...\n\n### (Minutes)\nMr. Meade: on receipt, express satisfaction. There is a disposition to allow Mr Sharp the increased salary from the time Lud Kimberley first offered rather than from the date the increase was sanctioned (see `5827/7/2`). I add that Lud Carnarvon will not withhold his sanction to such a course, if proposed.\n\n4th letter Camil. I.H. 29/5  \n\"Jes_ the lovemon\" says he has preferred himself in part & reasonable.\n\nDraft at 1/6  \nRu 29/5  \n`H&8 1198`",
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        "title": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]",
        "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n## April 16th, 1874\n### SALARY OF THE CROWN SOLICITOR\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY said there was another matter which he had to bring forward, and regarding which he would endeavour to be as short as possible. Many members would remember that before he came to the Colony a proposition had been made to increase the Salary of the Crown Solicitor. The matter was discussed in Council and was afterwards submitted to the Secretary of State, the result of which was that he sent out a despatch upon the subject dated the 15th June, 1872, which H. E. the Governor had received, and in which, the Secretary expressed his approval of the increase in Salary which was proposed, and adding that if with the incoming estimates H. E. should propose to the Council an increase of salary, he had no objection to that course. This despatch was received on the 3rd August, 1872, and at that time Mr. Sharp was absent from the Colony, and according to what he (H.E.) heard, was in such a precarious state of health that his return to the Colony was improbable. Under these circumstances, he had simply endorsed a memo. on the despatch that he saw no reason to take further action in the matter; and the question thus rested until the 11th of the present month, when a letter was received from Mr. Sharp again applying for an increase of salary (letter read). H. E. had, therefore, thought it right to bring the matter again before the Council.\n\nHon. Mr. ROWETT said that when the vote was put to the Council the members were not properly informed with regard to it, and from what they since knew, they would be disposed to vote in favour of it. He knew that the duties had of late greatly increased, and had no doubt the Council would have been in favour of the increased salary had they been properly informed of the circumstances at the time.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE said there was another reason which influenced the members, namely, an idea that being Crown Solicitor would increase Mr. Sharp's own business, but he had since been informed that such was not the case, but, on the contrary, it took up a great deal of his time from other business. He would have been inclined to vote in favour of the increase had that circumstance been fully explained.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY said that the Committee appointed in 1866 to investigate the estimates recommended an increase in the Salary of the Crown Solicitor.\n\nHon. R. ROWETT asked whether as the contrary vote had been passed under a mis-apprehension as to the circumstances of the case might it not be possible to give the salary as from the time when the Secretary of State stated it would be desirable that the salary should be increased. He had suffered from the Council being under a false impression, and it was, therefore, only fair to make the matter up to him in that way.\n\nH.E. the GOVERNOR said it would be better to leave the details to the Secretary of State, and that at present they should simply enter upon the minutes of the Council the opinion that the increase sanctioned by the Secretary of State in his despatch should be placed upon the supplementary estimates of this year. Hon. W. H. ALEXANDER observed that there was one point to be taken into consideration, and that was that Mr. Sharp had paid the full amount of his salary to his partner to get the work done.\n\nH.E. the GOVERNOR expressed his opinion that it would be better to leave such points for subsequent consideration if necessary, and the subject then dropped.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]",
        "content_text": "# Receipts\n\nPaymento \nMaria \nBergias afe \n8744 \nFarmays \n5 to wash haid inte \nWongtong \n\nOfficial Trustee of in the Bend Thanghai Bank \n8695777 \nCoway & By Pents Trusters \n\n## February M \nTharp and \n1874 \nJanuary & To Cack paid browns Percentage \nMarchi H \nAhrills Hay A June 3 \n\nMr. Borgia under orders \n23 January 1874. \nand Foller for investition \non mortgage of \non \nof Marine lot 83 & 8% If Harem Couves \n\nHrr Borgia allowances for February Tharp and Potter taxest cools \n\nMr. Borgia allowance for March \n\nof \nfrom Gharp \n800. \n18 mung & by kask in Hongkong) and Thanghai Bank 46987 77 \nand: \nFollés 3 months \ninterest in advance to 16th May) \n700 \nito. \ndc. \ndlo. \nto 16th August \n100 \ndo. \ndo. \nto 16th November \n100 \n3000 \n50 \n37263 \n30 \ndo. \n\" for April \n5.01. \ndo. \nto. \nJuly 2 \nto. \ndo. \nfor May \nAugust! \nLo. \nto. \nfor July \n50 \n50 \nIntember 2 \nde. \ndo. \nfor August \nOctober \ndo. \ndo. \nfor September \n500 \nVovom 21. \ndo. \nde \nfor October \nBalance \n5-9599 \n725777 \n\n| Date        | Description                                      | Amount  |\n|-------------|--------------------------------------------------|---------|\n|             | Mr. Borgia allowance for February                | 800     |\n|             | 3 months interest in advance to 16th May         | 700     |\n| to 16th Aug |                                                  | 100     |\n| to 16th Nov |                                                  | 100     |\n|             |                                                  | 3000    |\n|             |                                                  | 50      |\n|             |                                                  | 37263   |\n|             |                                                  | 30      |\n| for April   |                                                  | 5.01    |\n| to July 2   |                                                  |         |\n| for May     |                                                  | 50      |\n| for July    |                                                  | 50      |\n| Intember 2  |                                                  |         |\n| for August  |                                                  |         |\n| for September |                                                  | 500     |\n| Vovom 21.   |                                                  |         |\n\nHongkong, 2nd November, 1874. (signed) **Dr. H. Alexander, Official Trustee**. \n(True copy!) \n\" Your service Moton Colonial Secretary)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6]",
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        "title": "CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6]",
        "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG TIMES.\n## HONG KONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1874.\n\nThe Boletim do Governo of 31st ultimo publishes the Regulation for Asiatic Passengers and their transport by the port of Macao. It is composed of three sections, covering twenty-six articles, followed by some instructions to be observed on board passengers' ships, a dietary schedule and a table of rations to be calculated according to the duration of the voyage. The whole thing is a mutatis mutandis of the Chinese Passengers' Act, and looks very proper indeed on paper. As to its workings, by the old folks, callous in the old modus operandi, I will keep a sharp look-out, and shall not allow the public to be deceived by regulations that do not rule, as was the case with former ones framed for the coolie-trade.\n\nThe following is a resumé of the new regulations, viz:--\n| Article | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Art. 1 | Permits the embarkation of all Asiatics in the full enjoyment of his liberty, and not subjected to any contracts. |\n| Art. 2 | Brokers are not recognized. |\n| Art. 3 | Asiatic passengers to be considered as any other passengers. |\n| Art. 4 | Passengers to be provided with passports, which shall not be given to criminals, whose rendition is claimed by treaty, and to youths without the sanction of their parents or tutors. |\n| Art. 5 | All barracoons are prohibited. |\n| Art. 6 | Iron grates, prisons, and other restrictions on board ships carrying Asiatic passengers are strictly prohibited. |\n| Art. 7 | All ships carrying over 80 passengers for a voyage of more than seven days' duration are considered, for all purposes of this ordinance, as a passenger ship. All ships, which, on voyage of more than seven days, transport less than 30 passengers will only be required to observe that part of this regulation which guarantees the liberty of the passengers. In all cases passports must be provided. |\n| Art. 8 | Ships to be provided with special license from the Harbour Master. |\n| Art. 9 | Provides for the fittings, accommodation, ventilation, and separate place in case of female passengers. |\n| Art. 10 | Health officers to inspect the ships and to see that all sanitary requisitions are complied with. |\n| Art. 11 | Captains of ships to sign a note for the true delivery of all passengers at the port of their destination, and for the due observance of all orders and instructions emanating either from the Harbour Master or from the Health officer. |\n| Art. 12 | Ships to carry interpreters to be approved of by the Procurador. |\n| Art. 13 | Ships carrying over 50 passengers to be provided with a doctor and medicines; if over 200 passengers, two doctors. |\n| Art. 14 | No ships are permitted to leave with passengers against the monsoon. |\n| Art. 15 | Consignees or Captains of ships carrying passengers to sign a bond with sureties for $4,000, for the due fulfilment of this ordinance. |\n| Art. 16 | Passengers committing any offence, while in the port of Macao, to be landed and tried by the competent tribunals. |\n| Art. 17 | No ships to keep passengers on board more than three days without leaving for sea. |\n| Art. 18 | Police guards to be stationed on board ships during the three days previous to sailing. The guards to be changed daily. |\n| Art. 19 | Before departure of ships carrying passengers, the Harbour Master, accompanied by a gentleman to be appointed by the Governor, with one or more interpreters, shall visit the ship, and question the passengers, and in case any of them refuse to proceed on the voyage, the same shall be landed, and the passage money forfeited. Ship's papers to be examined and the exact number of passengers noted down. Ships to be searched that no passenger is concealed. |\n| Art. 20 | Ships not complying with any of the clauses of this Ordinance to be detained and the Captain fined. |\n| Art. 21 | The examining functionaries to sign the clearance in duplicate, one copy to be delivered to the Captain and the other to be kept at the Colonial Secretary's office. |\n| Art. 22 | After the visit, as prescribed in art. 19, no more passengers shall be received on board. |\n| Art. 23 | The Macao Government shall forward a list of passengers to the Consul at the place for which they are destined, who shall confront it with the Captain's list on his arrival. |\n| Art. 24 | ... |\n| Art. 25 | All contraventions against the prescriptions of the present regulation to be dealt with according to the existing laws. |\n| Art. 26 | This regulation shall not invalidate any contract the Government may enter into with any labourers destined for Portuguese possessions. |\n\n**HENRIQUE DE CASTRO, Secretary General.**\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Macao, 29th Jan, 1874.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]",
        "page_number": 173,
        "title": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]",
        "content_text": "Pr. João Baptista Gomes (Deceased) Francisco A. Gomes.\n\nCS. Shuwood\n\nM. Cantuarias\n\nby his Attorney J.J. dos Remédios.\n\nFrancisco de Assis Fender.\n\nby his Attorney J. J. dos Remedios.\n\nWin Gitale\n\nby his attorney C. F. Tremlett.\n\nTho? T. Remings\n\nD. F. Smith.\n\nW.W. Toller\n\nby his Attorney R.H. Jardine.\n\nManager National Bank of India Limited\n\n172\n\n(signed) W. N. Middleton.\n\nWilliam Wotton.\n\nJ. C. Hayllar\n\nby his Attorney C. Morland Kerr\n\nde manager Oriental Bank Corp^n\n\nGeorge Oliver\n\nby his Attorney C. Morland Kerr\n\nmanager Oriental Bank Corp^n\n\nAdolph André. W.H. Ray.\n\nEdmund Sharp.\n\nEdward Mellish\n\nby his Attorney I. McLeod.\n\nC. J. Chater.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]",
        "page_number": 273,
        "title": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]",
        "content_text": "270\n\nLIST OF MEMBERS, 1877.\n\nMESSRS. ADAMSON, BELL & Co.\n\nARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.\n\nBIRLEY & Co.\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.\n\nMESSRS. OLYPHANT & Co.\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nP. & O. S. N. Co.\n\nTHE BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nCHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.\n\nMESSRS. WM. PUSTAU & Co.\n\nREISS & Co.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nD. SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK.\n\nE. D. SASSOON & Co.\n\nCOMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS.\n\nMESSRS. CARLOWITZ & Co.\n\nSIEMSSEN & Co.\n\nDEETJEN & Co.\n\nE. SCHELLHASS & Co.\n\nTURNER & Co.\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\nVOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co.\n\nGILMAN & Co.\n\nE. R. BELILIOS, Esq.\n\nHONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nC. P. CHATER, Esq.\n\nR. DEACON, Esq.\n\nMESSRS. HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nDOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.\n\nMELCHERS & Co.\n\nN. MODY & Co.\n\nMESSAGERIES MARITIMES.\n\nNATIONAL BANK OF INDIA.\n\nF. DEGENAER, ESQ.\n\nJ. J. FRANCIS, Esq.\n\nW. M. MORGAN, Esq.\n\nG. SHARP, Esq.\n\nDAVID WELSH, Esq.\n\nT. G. LINSTEAD, Esq.\n\n93\n\nMINUTES of the Yearly General Meeting of the HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE held on the 12th February, 1877, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Committee and passing the Secretary's Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1876.\n\nPresent:\n\nThe Hon. P. KYRIE, Chairman; the Hon. W. Keswick, and Messrs. E. B. BELILIOS, H. Horius, H. H. NELSON, L. MENDEL, G. Sharp, D. WELSH, C. Kaun, Mackenzie, THOMPSON, W. PESTAU, F. NISSEN, and DR. N. B. DENNYS, Secretary.\n\nThe SECRETARY read the notice convening the Meeting.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Annual Meeting of the Chamber, held on 3rd February, 1876, were, on motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Welsh, taken as read, and confirmed.\n\nANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS.\n\nTHE BLOCKADE.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said:- Before proposing the adoption of the yearly report of the Committee, and the passing of the accounts attached to it, I beg to be allowed to make a few remarks upon the leading subjects dealt with. The most prominent one, and I regret to say it has been so for some time past, is the Blockade. In spite of all that has been said and written against these most unprecedented and unjustifiable proceedings of the Canton Customs cruisers in our waters and outside our waters, their depredations—for I can call them nothing else—continue unchecked. However, I think we may now entertain the hope that the question will not continue much longer to be bandied about from one department to the other, and that a settlement will be arrived at ere long. The parliamentary papers lately published, a copy of which I have before me, strengthen very materially the hands of the people of this Colony, in their opposition to this system of\n\n1",
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        "document_key": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]",
        "content_text": "signed) F. Blackhead se\n\n9. L. Britto\n\n\"\n\n//\n\n\"\n\nff\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\nA. J. Collago\n\nAlex: A. dos Remedios\n\nNoronha & Sons.\n\nJas. B. Coughtrie\n\nSea: Ch. Fire Info Co Lt\n\nAct de Mello & Sharp te! Edmund Davys\n\nTrong Trong Lee Ho\n\nWilson & Salway\n\n#{\n\nBattles te!\n\nW. Ball.\n\nJ. H. Lockhead, ms.\n\nF. P. Doares\n\nF. Vincenot\n\n37\n\nSpanish Procuration\n\n(signed) F. B. Heree\n\n\"\n\nم\n\n\"\n\nto\n\nk\n\n9. McCulloch\n\nW.W. Nottley,\n\nA.B. Hutchinson.\n\nE. J. Eitel Frederick Degener\n\nM. Stout\n\nF. Rodate & Co.\n\nL. Mallory\n\nSander & Co!\n\n2.12. Armstrong\n\nKruse se!\n\nHeinemann te!\n\n#\n\nd. Gillies,\n\nHK. & Whamp: Dock Co?\n\nM.H. Brereton, solicitor\n\nK\n\nAkong.\n\n#\n\nW. B. Spratt He!\n\n\"\n\nJ. M. Guedes Jr.\n\n\"\n\n9. Inglis 400\n\nH. Kiar &!\n\nJ.J. Burdon,\n\nBishop of Victoria\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\nJ. Williams\n\nMargesson & Co!\n\nLane, Crawford & Co!",
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        "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]",
        "content_text": "# Colonial Secretary's Office\nStratford, 22nd August 1878\n\n## Reference\n\nWith reference to the absconding at 2 p.m. on Saturday last in the steamer to Macao of the Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, Governor Hennessy has been informed by Mr. Sharp, the Crown Solicitor, that the first thing he (the Crown Solicitor) did on Saturday morning was to make you officially acquainted with the circumstances.\n\nThe Honorable E. Phillipps  \n**Attorney General**\n\n## \n(01/7297 No. 680)\n\nTo the Acting Colonial Secretary  \n\n48. To answer received up to this date - 31st August 1875. \n622 \n\nPage 4",
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        "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]",
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        "content_text": "# Court \n\nThe final decision of the Supreme Court on this point has excited general surprise among the Commercial Community, and I understand it is not in accordance with the Opinions of either branch of the legal profession in the Colony.\n\nI have the honor to enclose for your information Copies of the proceedings at the trial, of the arguments on the points reserved and the judgments of Mr Snowden and Mr Rupell.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant, Most Common The Daily Press.\n\n## HONGKONG, OCTOBER 26TH, 1878.\n\n### SUPREME COURT.\n\nOctober 25th. CRIMINAL SESSIONS. BEFORE THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE HON. F. SNOWDEN, AND A SPECIAL JURY.\n\n#### THE CHARGE AGAINST THE OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE.\n\nFrederick Sowley Huffam, Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, was arraigned on the following indictment :-\n\n| Count | Charge |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | That you, Frederick Sowley Huffam, being then employed in the public service of our Lady the Queen in this Colony, and entrusted, by virtue of such employment, with the receipt and custody of money, did by virtue of said employment and whilst you were so employed as aforesaid, receive and have in your possession and were entrusted with certain money, to wit to the amount of $50,000, and the said money then fraudulently did apply to your own use and benefit; and so the Attorney General doth charge you, the said Frederick Sowley Huffam, in manner and form aforesaid the said money from our Lady the Queen feloniously did steal, take, and carry away at Victoria in this Colony on the 17th day of August, 1878. |\n| 2 | That you, the said Frederick Sowley Huffam, then being official assignee of certain estates in bankruptcy, and as such official assignee trustee of certain property, that is to say of certain moneys, to wit to the amount of $50,000 for a certain public purpose, that is to say for the purpose (amongst other things) of distributing the same amongst the creditors of such estates respectively, did unlawfully and wilfully convert and appropriate the said property to and for your own use and benefit with intent thereby then to defraud, at Victoria aforesaid on the 17th day of August, 1878. |\n| 3 | That you, the said Frederick Sowley Huffam, then being the official assignee of the insolvent estate of Lyall, Still, and others, theretofore carrying on business in this Colony under the style or firm of Messrs. Lyall, Still & Co., and as such official assignee then being trustee of certain property that is to say of certain moneys, to wit to the amount of $16,849.79 for the benefit of the creditors of the said insolvent estate, did unlawfully and wilfully convert and appropriate the said property to and for your own use and benefit with intent thereby then to defraud, at Victoria aforesaid on the 17th day of August, 1878. |\n| 4 | That you, the said Frederick Sowley Huffam, then being the official assignee of the insolvent estate of Lyall and others, theretofore carrying on business in this Colony under the style or firm of Messrs. Lyall, Still & Co. and as such official assignee then being trustee of certain property, that is to say of certain moneys to wit to the amount of $20,400 for the benefit of the creditors of the said insolvent estate did unlawfully and wilfully convert and appropriate the said property to and for your own use and benefit, with intent thereby then to defraud, at Victoria aforesaid on the 17th day of August, 1878. |\n| 5 | That you, the said Frederick Sowley Huffam, then being the official assignee of the insolvent estate of Lyall and others, theretofore carrying on business in this Colony under the style or firm of Messrs. Lyall, Still & Co., and as such official assignee then being trustee of certain property, that is to say of certain moneys, to wit to the amount of $4,881.16, for the benefit of the said insolvent estate, did unlawfully and wilfully convert and appropriate the said property to and for your own use and benefit with intent thereby then to defraud, at Victoria aforesaid on the 17th day of August, 1878. |\n\nThe Attorney-General (Hon. G. Phillippo), instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. E. Sharp), prosecuted; and Mr. Francis, instructed by Mr. Dennys, appeared for the defence. The jurors were Messrs. W. Wilson, A. Gültzow, C. D. Bottomley, A. McG. Heaton, W. H. Forbes, J. A. dos Remedios, and J. B. Coughtrie.\n\nThe Attorney-General, in opening the case, said-May it please your Lordship, gentlemen of the jury, the prisoner at the bar stands charged on the several counts in the information which you have heard read. On the first count he is charged under `Ordinance 7 of 1865`, section 57, and that section provides that \"Whosoever, being employed in the public service of Her Majesty in this Colony, or being a constable or other person employed in the Police Force, and entrusted by virtue of such employment with the receipt, custody, management, or control of any chattel, money, or valuable security which shall be intrusted to or received or taken into possession by him by virtue of his employment, or any part thereof, or in any manner fraudulently apply or dispose of the same or any part thereof to his own use or benefit, or for any purpose whatsoever except for the public service, shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from Her Majesty.\" Now the information is almost in the words of that section of the Ordinance. It charges Mr. Huffam for that he, \"being then employed in the public service of our Lady the Queen in this Colony, and entrusted, by virtue of such employment, with the receipt and custody of money, did by virtue of said employment and whilst he was so employed as aforesaid receive and have in his possession and was entrusted with certain money, to wit to the amount of $50,000, and the said money then fraudulently did apply to his own use and benefit.\" The second count is framed under `Ordinance 7 of 1865`, section 65, which provides that \"Whosoever, being a trustee of any property for the use or benefit, either wholly or partially, of some other person, or for any public or charitable purpose, shall, with intent to defraud, convert or appropriate the same or any part thereof to or for his own use or benefit, or the use or benefit of any person other than such person as aforesaid, or for any purpose other than such public or charitable purpose as aforesaid, or otherwise dispose of or destroy such property or any part thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.\" Now this second count of the indictment charges Mr. Huffam \"That he then being official assignee of certain estates in bankruptcy, and as such official assignee trustee of certain property, that is to say of certain moneys, to wit to the amount of $50,000, for a certain public purpose, that is to say for the purpose (amongst other things) of distributing the same amongst the creditors of such estates respectively, did unlawfully and wilfully convert and appropriate the said property to and for his own use and benefit with intent thereby then to defraud.\" The third count is framed upon the same section of the Ordinance, but it does not charge that the money was received for a public purpose, but that it was received on account of a certain estate, and that count is limited to the estate of George Lyall and others. It is \"That he then being the official assignee of the insolvent estate of Lyall, Still, and others, theretofore carrying on business in this Colony under the style or firm of Messrs. Lyall, Still & Co., and as such official assignee then being trustee of certain property, that is to say of certain moneys, to wit to the amount of $16,849.79, for the benefit of the creditors of the said insolvent estate, did unlawfully and wilfully convert and appropriate the said property to and for his own use and benefit with intent thereby then to defraud,\" The next two counts are exactly similar to the third, with this exception, that the amounts charged to have been misappropriated are smaller. In the fourth count the amount is $20,400, and in the fifth count it is $4,881.16 that he is charged with having misappropriated. These two counts, I may state, were put in more for the information of the parties. They all, as I contend, come within the third count, and any proof of the misappropriation of the $20,000 or $4,000, would support the third count of the information.\n\nHis Lordship-Are these sums included in the third count?\n\nThe Attorney-General-These sums are included in the $16,849.79. Now the facts, which are no doubt extremely painful from the position of the party charged, are simply as follow:--- Under the `Bankruptcy Ordinance, No. 5 of 1864`, section 6, the Registrar of the Supreme Court is made the Official Assignee.\n\nMr. Francis--Perhaps your Lordship will be so good as to allow the prisoner to have a seat as probably the proceedings will be very long.\n\nHis Lordship-Yes; I see no objection to that. Let a seat be provided.\n\nThe Attorney-General-Under `Ordinance 5 of 1864`, section 6, it is provided that the Registrar of the Supreme Court shall be the Official Assignee, and the Registrar was therefore in all cases up to the passing of a subsequent Ordinance ex-officio assignee of bankrupts' estates.",
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        "content_text": "estates. In 1867, however, an Ordinance was passed, being 15 of 1867, which recites that Whereas circumstances occasionally arise which render it inexpedient that the Registrar of the Supreme Court should be the Official Assignee as provided by section 6 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1864, it shall be lawful for the Governor whenever he shall deem it expedient to nominate and appoint some person other than the Registrar of the Supreme Court to be the Official Assignee of the estate and effects of such bankrupt. That Ordinance was passed on the 5th December, 1867. Mr. Alexander was then the Registrar of the Supreme Court and as such would ordinarily have been the Official Assignee. Mr. Haffam was Deputy Registrar.\n\nPrisoner-Clerk of the Court.\n\nThe Attorney-General-Mr. Huffam was Clerk of the Court, and had been for some time in the public service and was very much respected. He was Acting Deputy Registrar at the time, as I am informed, and it was considered he would be a fit and proper person to take charge of insolvent estates, more especially of this estate of Lyall, Still, and Co. He was accordingly appointed and in the Government Gazette of the 28th December, 1867, shortly after the Ordinance passed, there is a Government notification appointing him Official Assignee. There was also a special appointment with regard to this bankruptcy of Lyall, Still and Co., dated 29th December, 1867. At the time of the notification that came out in the Gazette, there were several persons who had been adjudicated bankrupt beside Messrs. Lyall, Still and Co., and the prisoner, as I am instructed, took charge of all of those estates. With regard to the estate of Messrs. Lyall, Still and Co., I shall put in the file of proceedings in the bankruptcy, showing the condition on which the bankruptcy was declared, the act of bankruptcy, and all the proceedings in the case. These are all under the seal of the court, and by one of the sections of the Bankruptcy Ordinance are made evidence without further proof. It would appear that in the estate of Lyall, Still and Co., a petition was filed originally by two of the partners in the firm. For some reason or other, however, that appears not to have been considered sufficient and a deed was executed for the benefit of the creditors, and upon that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. filed a petition, the act being clearly an act of bankruptcy, and the filing of the petition being also probably an act of bankruptcy, and upon that the adjudication was made. The accounts kept by the prisoner will show the amounts received by him for the various estates in bankruptcy and the balances that are at present outstanding. These, of course, would come under the first count.\n\nWith regard to the other counts, which charge him as Official Assignee of Messrs. Lyall, Still, and Co., there can be no doubt this estate required a considerable amount of time for the management and collection of the assets. The debts were exceptionally large, the amount being over $4,000,000, and the assets were somewhere near $150,000, and the real and personal estate of the bankrupts is put down as amounting to $9,000,988.93, and they were creditors to the estate of a certain amount. There is no doubt it was a very unusual bankruptcy, a very difficult one to manage, requiring some tact, and would necessarily require some time in winding up. The prisoner was appointed the Official Assignee on the 27th December, 1867, and he appears to have proceeded actively in the first instance, judging from the accounts, in getting in the assets of the estate and settling the claims against it. Up to May, 1868, he received the amounts and paid into the Treasury $31,000 odd, but the whole of that amount was subsequently drawn out of the Treasury with the exception of $1,157.57, which is there now. After the money was drawn out of the Treasury, it appears to have been placed in the banks. A sum of $17,000 was paid on fixed deposit into the Oriental Bank, a sum of $25,000 into the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and a further sum of $12,000 was also placed in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. These sums have long since been withdrawn and there is no money that we know of at present lodged anywhere. They were withdrawn within six months after their being paid in, and what has been done with them since we really don't know.\n\nNaturally, for some little time the prisoner, who seems to have had the sole management of the estate, was employed in getting in the accounts and making payments, and it was impossible for some time to say what the balance would be that he could distribute among the creditors. The accounts made out by the prisoner himself showed there were a good many lawsuits in England as well as here, and for some time, of course, the creditors could not hope to get any money. However, after waiting for some time, the creditors began to get a little anxious and they made representations to the prisoner that they considered it was about time a dividend should be declared. No dividend was, however, declared, and some few months ago, about the commencement of this year, I believe the creditors began to press.\n\nThe accounts for the latter end of the term show the following condition: On the 24th October, 1871, Mr. Huffam placed on fixed deposit in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank $25,000. On the 6th March, 1872, he had in hand in addition $6,960. On that date, the 6th March, 1872, in order to make a payment to Messrs. Sharp and Toller in respect to a claim amounting to $4,017.15, he withdrew $5,000, with $55.07 interest. On the 26th April, 1872, Mr. Huffam had in hand, according to his own accounts, not deposited, $1,209.88. On the same day, he withdrew the balance of the fixed deposit, which with the interest was $20,400. After that, he received $5,442, making altogether $35,956.11, and since the 26th April, 1872, he has made a payment of $2,897.56, leaving a balance of over $33,599. These figures are important with regard to the fourth count of the information.\n\nThat being the state of things at that time, as now appears, and the creditors beginning to press Mr. Huffam, he made certain excuses to them for the postponement of settling the claims. In May last year, the prisoner obtained leave of absence, and was about to proceed to England on three or four months' leave. Mr. Sharp, who represented some of the creditors, saw him downstairs previously to his going away. He had then, I believe, a carpet bag with him. Mr. Sharp expostulated with him, and told him he ought to have settled up this matter before he went away, and Mr. Huffam told him it was necessary he should make certain inquiries and put in advertisements. Mr. Sharp expressed his extreme dissatisfaction at his going away without a settlement, and told him that if his clients put any pressure upon him, he would have to bring the matter before the Supreme Court. The prisoner said there was no cause for anxiety, and he could easily give security if it would be to Mr. Sharp's satisfaction. Mr. Sharp left him, expressing his surprise that he should go away without settling up.\n\nOn the following day, after Mr. Huffam had left, Mr. Sharp received from Mr. Sangster an envelope containing $5,000. That money was kept until Mr. Huffam returned. He then applied to Mr. Sharp for it, and it was handed back to him on account of Lyall, Still and Co.'s estate, deducting a certain amount for costs, and that transaction has reference to the last count in the information. At that time, the prisoner had declared his readiness to call a meeting of the creditors and to declare a dividend, and subsequently a notice was put in the papers calling a meeting of the creditors in order that a dividend might be declared. The meeting was subsequently adjourned for a few days. The prisoner then produced the accounts of the transactions with regard to Lyall, Still & Co.'s estate, which will be produced before you, in his own handwriting, and they showed a balance of $46,849.79, that was, this sum of $38,599, which I have already brought to your attention, together with five amounts of $2,000 which he credited for interest and some further sums received, the balance amounting altogether to $46,849.79. A dividend was declared of 8.57 per cent, and a list was made out in Mr. Haffam's handwriting giving the names of the creditors, their claims in dollars, and the amount of dividend to which they were entitled. Mr. Huffam at the same time promised that the cheques should be made out immediately and given to the parties entitled to them. This meeting took place on the 3rd July this year. The account, of course, was read over hurriedly, if it was read over at all, but copies were promised to be given to the solicitors for the various parties concerned.\n\nAfter that, several inquiries were made as to when the dividends were to be paid and the prisoner was pressed, as I am instructed, repeatedly for a settlement. Several excuses were made, that he had not time to copy the accounts, and so forth, and it was put off until it was found that exchange was going down rapidly, and the parties representing creditors at home were anxious to get the dividend at once. The prisoner then appointed a day, about the 9th or 10th August, and promised that on that day he would give the cheques and copies of accounts to the different parties concerned. On that day, he did not attend.",
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        "content_text": "## Transcribed Text\n\none sum on the 21st October, 1871, with $255 interest. That was the only deposit. Payments have been made by the Bank to Mr. Huffam on account of the estate of Lyall, Still, and Co. On the 8th May, 1868, $35.18 was paid, and on the same day $4,979.62; that was the balance of an account due to the estate. Beyond these the Bank has had no transactions with Mr. Huffam for the estate of Lyall, Still and Co.\n\nMr. H. E. Wodehouse, chief clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, said--I am not aware Mr. Huffam applied for leave in August last. I should have been aware of it, if in the ordinary course of business the application had passed through the office. I heard he left the colony on the 17th August. I am aware a correspondence took place with the Governor of Macao on the subject.\n\nBy Mr. Francis--It is customary for persons in the civil service to go to Macao from Saturday to Monday without asking special leave. There is a Colonial Office regulation requiring persons entrusted with the custody of public money to give security. I believe Mr. Huffam has not given security as official assignee.\n\nThe Attorney-General said he would submit that that would amount to nothing, the proposition that because a public officer was required to give security and did not give security he was not a public officer.\n\nHis Lordship said there were a great many who had not been called upon to give security until very lately.\n\nMr. Francis said it might form a link in the chain.\n\nMr. J. A. Carvalho, cashier in the Treasury, said he had charge of the money paid in by the Supreme Court. He produced receipts for money paid in on account of the estate of Lyall, Still and Co., amounting altogether to $33,247.30. The two last payments were made by the Official Assignee. The first order for payment out was dated 11th December, 1867, for $13,005.\n\nMr. Francis said that was paid to Mr. Alexander.\n\nThe Attorney General said in Mr. Huffam's accounts his Lordship would see an item of $13,005 received from the Registrar of the Supreme Court.\n\nMr. Francis said that would not make it evidence.\n\nThe witness said the next payment was made on the 5th February, 1868, to Mr. Huffam, and was one of $641. He gave the details of further payments made at various times to Mr. Huffam, the whole amounting to $32,090.50, leaving a balance of $1,157.50.\n\nBy Mr. Francis--For each of those payments there is an order of the Chief Justice or Acting Chief Justice or a warrant of the Governor. There was an account called judicial deposits account. Moneys connected with suits were kept in this account. For this particular estate there was a separate account kept. For a great many years now it has not been usual to pay moneys connected with the Court not being revenue into the Treasury. Fees and things of that kind have been paid in monthly. The official assignee, since 1855, has never rendered any account of his receipts and payments as official assignee into the Treasury, and the Treasury exercises no control over him as such. I don't think the Audit Office ever took note of his accounts.\n\nMr. Plunket, recalled, said he had made up an account of the money he received from Mr. Huffam. As Official Administrator he received deposit notes for $38,131.85, and as Official Trustee $11,827.46, which with the cash in hand amounted to $55,918. These amounts related to thirty-seven accounts. I was a witness for the Crown at the Police Court. The Crown was the prosecutor as I understood. I did not swear any information against Mr. Huffam, nor did I give instructions to any one to initiate these proceedings.\n\nBy the Attorney-General--I considered the circulars which have been put in related only to revenue or unclaimed balances. I cannot say what has been the practice with respect to the custody of large amounts paid in bankrupt estates; I have had no large bankruptcies. In the small bankruptcies I have had the money has been lodged in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. When I arrived there was $4,591 in the office, but I have not kept more than $200 or $300 and latterly not $100.\n\nMr. W. W. Toller, solicitor, and member of the firm of Sharp, Toller, and Johnson, said--My firm has been acting for several of the creditors of Lyall, Still and Co.'s estate, representing about $800,000. The liabilities were very large and there was a great deal of litigation, and several appeals to the Privy Council, so that it was impossible for some years to say what belonged to the estate and what to particular creditors. It became in a more settled state in 1872 or 1873. After that we made frequent applications to prisoner to make up the accounts and declare a dividend. We were unable to get him to do so before he went home. He always made excuses. The excuses were not satisfactory, but we did not take proceedings although we threatened to apply to the court. I was absent from the colony for some time. After my return in February I made a joint application with creditors represented by Mr. Wotton. We both wrote to the prisoner and shortly afterwards a dividend meeting was advertised in the Gazette. The meeting was to be held on the 25th June. It was adjourned by another notice in the Gazette until the 3rd July. I was not present at the meeting. From what I heard of what passed at the meeting I went to see the prisoner at his office on the 8th August. I said to him, \"Mr. Huffam, is not this the day the cheques for Lyall, Still and Co.'s dividend were to be given?\" He replied \"No, the 18th.\" I made a memorandum of the date, and on the 13th went to his office but found he was not there. I made inquiries after him and found he did not attend at all and my firm wrote to him at his house. We had a reply from Mrs. Huffam. I have received no payment on account of this estate, nor have I had a copy of the account current. As solicitors for Liebert we got a judgment against the Official Assignee. A portion of it was paid, and there was a balance of a little less than $5,000. On applying to the prisoner for the balance he said he really had not the money in hand to pay it. I replied that it was a judgment and must be paid, and I said \"I suppose you have money on deposit in the bank.\" He said he had, but the deposit was not due. I said that was of no consequence as I could easily arrange with the bank to cash it before the due date. He then handed me a deposit note for $25,000 on the Hongkong Bank and I took it to the bank and made arrangements for cashing $5,000 of the amount. I paid the amount of the judgment, and handed to Mr. Huffam the balance and also the deposit receipt with an endorsement of what had been done. One of the documents produced by Mr. Smith is endorsed by me and refers to this transaction, the remaining sum of $20,000 ran on to its due date.\n\nBy Mr. Francis--I have been in the Colony since 1867, off and on, practising as a solicitor. During the absence of Mr. Alexander, Mr. Huffam discharged the duties of Registrar and Deputy Registrar. A dividend meeting was advertised in 1868, and we wrote on behalf of some clients objecting to a meeting being held while the litigation in England was going on. I don't remember our doing so on any subsequent occasion. I think Mr. Huffam showed me his accounts before the meeting. I knew that there ought to be about $50,000 in hand, that was all. In 1874 we wrote on behalf of some clients asking what amount of money there was on deposit and in what banks. We got no written answer, and I cannot say we got a verbal one. We never made any application to the court as to the investment of this money. We represent creditors whose claims amount to about three lacs of rupees. None of the creditors have instituted those proceedings, or are we acting for them in them. The letter produced dated December, 1873, is from my firm. (The letter gave the prisoner notice that Henderson and Co., of Manchester, claimed to prove against the estate.) By the Attorney-General--A dividend might have been declared notwithstanding those two letters, reserving sufficient to cover the utmost we could prove.\n\nBy His Lordship--I was in the Colony at the time of the bankruptcy. Mr. Notley, of the firm of R. S. Walker and Co., and Mr. Kay, of the Chartered Bank, were appointed, and the official assignee was to be at liberty to confer with them. I know they were consulted with reference to the sale of some private property of G. F. McLean. They may have done other things that I don't know of, but I don't think they did very much.\n\nMr. W. Wotton, solicitor, said--I represent Mr. Brereton, who is solicitor for certain creditors of the estate of Lyall, Still and Co., representing claims to the amount of $900,000. No payment has been made by the Official Assignee. Some time previously to the 9th May I had been pressing the prisoner to call a meeting. For some time he merely put me off, saying he was making up the accounts and as soon as things... \n\nPage 301",
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        "content_text": "## SUPREME COURT.\nOctober 26th.\n\n### CRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\n#### BEFORE THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE ON.\n\nF. SNOWDEN, AND A SPECIAL JURY.\n\n##### THE CHARGE AGAINST THE DEPUTY REGISTRAR.\n\nThe hearing of the case against Frederick Sowley Huffam, Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, was continued. The prisoner was charged on five counts, first, that he being a public servant, did embezzle $50,000 the money of Her Majesty; second, that he being official assignee of certain estates in bankruptcy, did appropriate to his own use $50,000 received by him for a public purpose; third, that he being the official assignee of the insolvent estate of Lyall, Still, and others, did appropriate to his own use $40,849.79 received by him on behalf of the creditors; on the fourth and fifth counts he was charged with appropriating two sums of $20,400 and $4,831.16 respectively, these sums forming part of the amount charged to have been appropriated in the third count. The Attorney-General (Hon. G. Phillippo), instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. E. Sharp) prosecuted, and Mr. Francis, instructed by Mr. Dennys, appeared for the defence. The jurors were Messrs. W. Wilson, A. Gültzow, C. D. Bottomley, A. McG. Heaton, W. H. Forbes, A. dos Remedios, and J. B. Coughtrie.\n\nDr. ... were in a condition he would advertise the meeting. I wrote him a letter about the 9th May, and after this the meeting was advertised. I attended the meeting, which was held on the 3rd July. It was held in the Registrar's room. The account now in Court was produced. It is in Mr. Huffam's handwriting. Mr. Huffam had a bundle of papers and vouchers at his side, but they were not opened or gone into. It was not intended we should check the account then, as we had requested to be furnished with copies. The item for interest struck me as peculiar, for the amount was the same for each of four years instead of increasing with the increase of capital. A dividend was declared of a little over three per cent. Mr. Huffam said it would be impossible to say precisely what the amount would be, but he was to make it up and send cheques and copies of the accounts. I got no cheque. I expected it on the following day. I wrote to the prisoner applying for the cheque and received the reply produced, dated 18th August, promising the dividend should be paid next morning. It was not paid the next morning. On Tuesday or Wednesday I came to the office to see him about the cheques and found he was not there. I wrote to him at his house and received a reply inside an envelope which I did not keep. It was only a few words putting off the payment. I afterwards received a letter from Mrs. Huffam. On the night of the 14th or morning of the 15th August I wrote asking him for a copy of the account. He replied (Letter produced, stating prisoner was too unwell to be at office that day but would do his best to let witness have a copy of the account soon.) I had no further communication with him. On the morning of the 17th I knew he was at Ball's Court. In the afternoon I heard a rumour going about. I next saw him in gaol, where I went to see him at his request.\n\nBy Mr. Francis—Mr. Sharp and myself represented all the creditors at the meeting. The account we looked at was the one now produced. There was something said about some bills of costs still to be paid and settled. Mr. Plunket was present at the meeting. Mr. Brereton represents eight creditors. None of our clients are prosecuting in this case.\n\nThe Court adjourned at this stage until ten o'clock this morning. There are still several witnesses to be examined for the Crown.\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, OCTOBER 28TH, 1878. 302\n\nMr. Thos. Arnold, accountant, was the next witness called for the Crown. He said—I have been engaged by the Government to examine Mr. Huffam's accounts. I have examined the cashbook and ledger. There are thirty-one accounts. Three of them appear to be closed. I had to reopen them. I produce a balance-sheet showing the amounts due. The total balance due is $45,815.78, including a balance of $5,876.78 in the Treasury. There are some balances due to the Official Assignee of $28.96. There is no interest credited except such as has been actually received, and the only interest received is in Lyall, Still and Co.'s estate. I produce another balance sheet made up from Mr. Huffam's own sheet showing a balance of $56,294.16, of which $5,870 is in the Treasury. The difference between the two is principally made up of five amounts of $2,000 for interest in Lyall, Still and Co.'s estate. I cannot find that those amounts have been received. I have specially examined into Lyall, Still's accounts. On the 24th October, 1871, there was a fixed deposit in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank of $25,000. On the 6th March, 1872, the amount in hand undeposited was $6,900.10. On that date $5,000 of the deposit was cancelled and the amount withdrawn was $50.57. On that day a payment of $4,817.15 was paid to Sharp and Toller, balance of judgment on account of Lisbert. There was a balance of $6,960 out of which that could have been paid without drawing on the fixed deposit at all. On the 20th April, 1872, there ought to have been in his hands according to the accounts $12,009.88. On that day he withdrew the remainder of the fixed deposit amounting with interest to $20,400. Since then he has paid $2,359.56 and received $3,543.23. The balance, with $12,000 interest, amounts to $46,757.05, of which $1,157.50 is in the Treasury. That makes the amounts tally. There is no entry of $5,000 handed to Mr. Sharp last year or received from him. There is an amount of $168.84 written off Lyall, Still & Co.'s account as paid to Messrs. Sharp, Toller, and Johnson.\n\nBy Mr. Francis—The greater number of those thirty-one accounts are evidently accounts taken over from some one else. The first entry is \"Balance taken over from Registrar of the Supreme Court.\" That is the case probably in more than half of them. In Hohenholt's account the only entry is one of payment to the `Daily Press` for advertising. There is no entry of money received. In Lyall, Still & Co.'s account the first entry is \"Jan. 7th, 1868, cash received from Registrar of Supreme Court $170.\" All the accounts do not commence in that way. Nine of the accounts commence with Mr. Huffam as...",
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        "content_text": "# The Daily Press.\n\n**HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 9TH, 1878.**\n\n## SUPREME COURT.\n\nNovember 8th.\n\n**CROWN CASES RESERVED.**\n\n**BEFORE THE FULL COURT.**\n\n**REGINA V. HUFFAM.**\n\nThe court now delivered judgment in this case. The Attorney-General (Hon. G. Phillippo) instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. E. Sharp), appeared for the Crown; and Mr. Francis, instructed by Mr. Dennys, for the prisoner.\n\nThe Acting Chief Justice-Thinking it desirable that this case should have the most thorough investigation, I reserved at the trial, for further discussion, the various questions set out in the case stated, and I now deal with them, with the exception of the points raised as to the validity of the defendant's appointment and the non-initiation of proceedings by the aggrieved parties, which were overruled at the heart of the argument. Having now heard the very able arguments urged by the learned Attorney-General in support of the convictions under the different counts, and by Mr. Francis on behalf of the prisoner the other way, I have come to the conclusion, after very careful consideration, that the convictions under the two first counts cannot be sustained. I think it right to state my reasons at length though as briefly as possible.\n\nIn the first count the defendant is charged with embezzlement of $50,000 received by him by virtue of his employment, he being in the public service of Her Majesty the Queen. The question really resolves itself into these two points: 1st- Was the defendant, as official assignee (not generally but of certain bankrupt estates), in the public service of Her Majesty? 2nd.-Was the money so alleged to have been embezzled Her Majesty's property? \n\nIn the 2nd count he is charged under the Fraudulent Trustee Clause of the Larceny Ordinance, Sec. 65, with having converted to his own use the same sum entrusted to him as Trustee for a certain public purpose, that of distribution amongst the creditors of certain bankrupt estates. This may be conveniently dealt with when the other points under the Trustee Clause come to be considered.\n\nIt is necessary to bear in mind that the office the defendant held as Clerk of the Court was entirely distinct from the post he held as official assignee. He was not the public or general official assignee in the way in which the Registrar of the Supreme Court is under the Bankruptcy Ordinance by virtue of his office. He was appointed official assignee of the estate of Rail, Still & Co., under an Ordinance passed not for public purposes but for the special purpose of enabling the Governor to nominate and appoint some person other than the Registrar of the Supreme Court as official assignee of (not bankrupt estates in the plural) but a bankrupt estate for the reason as stated in the Preamble that “circumstances occasionally arise which render it inexpedient that the Registrar should be the official assignee as provided by Section 6 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance of 1861.\" He received the actual appointment, under this Ordinance December 27th, 1867, by an order in the writing of Sir R. MacDonnell. The day following, December 28th, by a notice in the Hongkong Gazette he was appointed by virtue of the same ordinance the official assignee in about 30 other antecedent bankruptcies. As such official assignee the defendant received the money he has been convicted of embezzling. He never acted as official assignee under this ordinance in any subsequent bankruptcy.\n\nIt will be useful to ascertain as far as possible what the defendant's position was by virtue of this appointment, which at once brought him under the regulations of the Bankruptcy Ordinance of 1864. With many differences the official assignees under the Bankruptcy Act in England of 1861 in all important particulars would most resemble the official assignees in this Colony. The duties are very similar; and from the moment of appointment both passed under the exclusive control of the Court of Bankruptcy. Our Bankruptcy Ordinance 3 of 1864 is an imperfect copy of the previous Acts in England, especially of the Act of 1861. Unfortunately a great part which provided a system of checks and counter-checks between the different officers was not imported.\n\nInto the details of the Act of 1861 and the Ordinance of 1864 it is unnecessary to enter. I will only say that the duties of the official assignee are carefully laid down in the English Act. In our Ordinance, Sections 7, 60, 66, 71, 82, 83, 88, 96, and 97, show the official assignee is entirely under the direction of the Judge of the Court in every act he performs. The multifarious duties connected with the management of bankrupt estates need not be described at length. If he was appointed by the Governor it was in my opinion in derogation of the powers of the Chief Justice, to whom by the Ordinance 5 of 1864 all previous powers and privileges had been reserved. He was liable to dismissal by the vote of a majority of the creditors in number, and one-fourth in value; or for misconduct by the Chief Justice, to whom the Supreme Court Re-constitution Act 12 of 1873 restored... I am inclined to think, the full powers of the Lord Chancellor, who by the English Act of 1861 could remove the official assignees by order upon cause being shown; having had by a previous Act, 5 and 6 Vict, ch. 122, sec. 80, the power to dismiss them at pleasure. The defendant as official assignee was paid by a commission of 5 per cent out of the estate, not by salary from the Colonial funds.\n\nI have great doubt whether the official assignees in England could be held to be in the public service of Her Majesty within the meaning of the 70th sect. of 24 and 25, Vict, which is the counterpart of sect. 57 of the Larceny Ordinance 7, 1865, and but for the dual nature of his appointment, which might possibly make a difference, I should say the same of the general official assignee, the Registrar qua official assignee. When we find the duties of this office specially limited, can the holder with any accuracy of language be held to be a public servant? \n\nI cannot but think that some confusion of thought has arisen concerning the terms \"public officer\" and \"persons in the public service.\" These terms are by no means co-extensive-the term public officers including many besides those in the \"public service.” The case of Regina v. Brembridge reported in Vol. 22 of the State Trials, is full of instruction on the liabilities of public officers. The principle laid down by Lord Mansfield is \"where there is a breach of trust, a fraud, or an imposition in a subject concerning the public, which as between subject and subject would only be actionable by a civil action, yet as concerns the king and the public (I use them, he says) as synonymous terms, it is indictable.\" Lee, the Attorney-General, says “wherever a man's business has a public aspect (Brembridge was accountant in the office of the Paymaster of the Forces), and an improper conduct in it injures not A, B, or C, but the community in general, that by itself is indictable at common law.\" The offence is, it is said, acting contrary to the duties of an office if it be a public one, and Lord Mansfield adds that the rule holds equally by whomsoever or howsoever he (the delinquent) is appointed.\n\nNow the cases show that Mayors, Justices of the Peace-persons appointed to perform some duty under an Act of Parliament (Leheup's case), all persons easily recognised as being in the public service, e.g. accountants in Government offices, the customs and revenue officers, come under the category of \"public officers,\" and all such public officers as the reports show, have been held at one time or another responsible to the Crown for misconduct in the discharge of their duties. If official assignees come under this rule, which Lord Mansfield says is as old as the constitution, and if they are in the public service of the Queen, it is singular that, so far as my investigation goes, there is no instance to be found in the reports of an official assignee having been indicted as a public officer, or (as being in the public service), for embezzlement or any other form of misconduct.\n\nIt is true the office of official assignee eo nomine was created by the Act of 1861, but some such public officers whose duty it was to manage bankrupt estates have existed from the time of Henry VIII. or Elizabeth, and as defaulters, were within the reach of the Common Law. How does this happen? Is it that the honesty of these persons in the public service, whether named Commissioners formerly or official assignees since 1861, has always been of an exceptional quality; or is it because officers of this kind have been nothing more or less than trustees by implication of law, or under some express trust; and so the criminal law could not reach them until first in 1857 the Act of 20 and 21 Vict... \n\nPage 76333\nF",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Huffam, late Deputy of the Supreme Registrar Court, to Macne. Lt.\n\nIn these letters the Governor, I submit, by insinuation charges AttE with misconduct if not connivance in Heuffam's flight, with \"avoiding\" to mention an important incident to him on that subject, and with prevarication, if not wilful falsehood.\n\nE No 69 p.p 3. C August 122 par 3 \"1 subject, E no 690 par 4\n\nThe Governor's letters are all recorded in the Colonial Secretary's office and it is very necessary to take care that not even the smallest accusation should pass unrequited.\n\nAt the same time it is very difficult to meet insinuations such as these without engaging in unseemly dispute with the Governor, and without running the risk of appearing to fail in that tone of outward respect which I have always been anxious to observe in corresponding with Her Majesty's representative.\n\n373\n\nFor those reasons I trust that you will excuse me for troubling you with a copy of these letters, accompanied by as brief a statement of the facts of the case as is possible – and thus submitting my conduct in the matter to your opinion.\n\nThe facts are as follows: I was in my room in the Supreme Court on Friday, August 16, when Mr. Joller, a Solicitor, partner in the firm of Mr. Sharp the Crown Solicitor, and Mr. Wotton, Solicitor, the managing Clerk in the firm of Mr. Brereton also a Solicitor of the Court, at present away from the Colony, called on me. Dr. Wotton told me that they had fears that something was wrong in the Bankruptcy of Lyall Still and Co in which Huffam had been appointed official assignee – that a dividend had recently been declared, but that they, agents for several creditors, could not get the cheques for payment. That Heuffam had constantly procured...",
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        "content_text": "# Letter from Acting Colonial Secretary to Acting Chief Justice\n\nThe examination of my clerk Mr. Moscop.\n\nHow Excellency's \n\nis a native \n\nA \n\nmember \n\nof the English bar and practised as a member \n\nIf a \n\ncircuit for a \n\n& imagined \n\nsomething of \n\nshort life, he should have \n\nlearnt that there \n\nthe confidential nature of relations which exist between a \n\nhis work, of \n\nJudge \n\n## Removed non-English text as per instruction 10: No translation\n\nthe \n\nand \n\ncourse I do not mean to say \n\nthat their communications are \n\nprivileged. \n\nKnown \n\nbut the position of a Judge's Clerk is well- \n\nhighly confidential, and their communications would be treated with respect \n\nand reserve. \n\nAs requested I desired Mr. Moscop to wait upon His Excellency and give full information, but I thought it right to remind H.E. of the confidential position of a Judge's Clerk.\n\nthat I desired to conceal something I knew about Huffan's frauds under the shelter of a confidential communication. You take the opportunity of laying before the Secretary of State the correspondence which has passed, as well as a statement of the facts connected with Huffan's case and the steps I took in the matter.\n\nTo Acting Chief Justice from Colonial Secretary\n\n### Metadata\nPage 664 \n\n### Letter Details\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong, 19th August 1878.\n\nI acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 17th inst. in which you inform me that the Deputy Registrar of your Court had misappropriated a large sum of money and fled to Macao, and in which you further report the steps you took on learning that suspicions attached to the Deputy Registrar.\n\n## Marginal Note\nHonor for reference.\n\n2. The Governor desires me to ask you for a copy of the letter to which you refer, addressed to Messrs Sharp, Potter, and Jones. The Governor would be glad to know at what date you received that letter; and whether, before its receipt, you had suspected any misappropriation of money by the Deputy Registrar had taken place.\n\n| From | To | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Acting Colonial Secretary | Acting Chief Justice | 19th August 1878 |\n\n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present in the original text, hence not included.\n\nThe Honorable F. Snowden  \nActing Colonial Secretary  \nTo Acting Chief Justice  \n124149  \n337  \n(Jgd)  \nThe Honorable & Snowden  \nActing Chief Justice  \nActing Colonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "I told Mr. Sharp that from what Mr. Hayllar had let drop in my presence, I was afraid Mr. Huffair might go too much and write up to - \n\nIn Rice at once to ask him to have Huffaus watched by the Police, not to be interfered with if he went down to the Court House but to permit him to go anywhere else. Mr. Sharp did so, but it was too late and shortly after I went away I heard that Mr. Stuffaur had left for the Steamer to Macao at 2.4.\n\nAbout 3 p.m. I saw Mr. Exercier greatly put out in consequence of something he had heard from Mr. E. Sangatir in respect to Mr. Wotton's receiving a cheque from Mr. Haffame before he left, but I understood that on Friday 30, Wotton appeared before both Judges and gave a satisfactory explanation. I do not know that there is anything to add...\n\nMuch more passed than I have related, but I could not remember it. I think I have remembered correctly all the leading features. I do not vouch for the exact words used in a lengthened conversation which he never expected to be called to report. I have already reported the gist of my present statement verbally twice to His Excellency the Governor. Pressure of work must be my excuse for not having written out this lengthy statement earlier.",
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        "content_text": "# Jo 24 \n4th March, 1879.\n\n## Governor\n\nThe Secretary c. M. G., \n\nTo The Right Honorable \n\nSir Michael Hicks Beach, \n\n**MP.**\n\nTransmitting account of annual general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce with some remarks as to the Currency, the Blockade question and the Stamp Duties.\n\nEnclosure, in Governor Pope Hennessy's despatch No. 24. of 4th March 1879.\n\n## HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE\n\nThe annual meeting of the above Chamber was held at the City Hall this afternoon. There were present—Hon. W. Keswick (in the chair), Hon. P. Ryrie, Messrs Nelson, Hoppins, Arnhold, Belilios, G. Sharp, Hassell, Sandeman, Linstead, Molver, Erdmann, Deacon, Bottomley, F. D. Sassoon, A. P. MacEwen, F. H. \"Arjance, and E. George (Secretary).\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** said the first business was to confirm the Report of the last meeting. The published report was in their hands having been issued some months ago, and he thought they might take it as read. He proposed that the Report be adopted. Mr NELSON seconded the motion. Carried unanimously.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**: The next business before the meeting is to consider the Report for the year 1878. On this occasion, we have had the Report printed, with the appendices, and circulated for the information of members. There have been no very important events during the year, and in speaking to the Report I would remark with reference to the currency question that a change must have taken place in the views that were held on this subject twelve months ago, and I do not think any one would now recommend the establishment of a mint in the Colony, thinking it would be a self-supporting institution through the profit made on the subsidiary coinage. The views that were held 12 months ago on this subject have, I believe, undergone a change, and I do not think any one would now recommend the establishment of a Mint in the Colony in the expectation of its proving a self-supporting institution. Subsidiary coinage, from which it was supposed the running expenses of a Mint could be realized, has passed from our control, and the Colony is flooded with 10 and 20 sen pieces from Japan, which are forced into circulation here, and are exported to the Coast of China at from 12 to 15 per cent discount. Of course, the Colonial subsidiary coins obtained from England have to remain in the Treasury. The Customs cruisers maintain as strictly as ever the system of collecting duties on the trade of the Colony carried on in native craft, and there is now no open highway of commerce between China and this British Colony, and formerly free port, except in foreign vessels from Treaty ports. I hope, but am by no means sanguine, that on the arrival here of Sir Thos. Wade, H. M.'s Minister to China, that the wrong which is being done will be rectified. The opening of new ports in our vicinity and the consequent greater use of Foreign-built vessels has naturally the tendency of making the Blockade somewhat less oppressive, but so far the opening of Fakhoi, owing to the opposition of guilds and the denial of Transit passes on Treaty conditions, has been a failure, and Hoibow has only partially realized the expectations formed of it. The obstructions in the way of business at both ports will doubtless, however, give way to pressure, and there is reason to anticipate that in time an important trade with Hainan will be developed. The ports of Haiphong and Kiung-On are gradually rising into importance, and the development of trade with them will be greatly to the advantage of Hongkong. I would remark, however, gentlemen, that I think we have not been active enough hitherto in urging the opening to foreign navigation of the waterways of Hwang-tung. While the Yangtze is opened as far as Ichang, nothing has been done here, and we are restricted to Canton as much as we were two centuries ago. There are important and populous towns on the various branches of the Canton River with which we should have communication under somewhat similar conditions to those applied to the Yangtze Navigation, and we should not cease to urge for extension until what we desire is obtained. It is in no narrow or selfish spirit that we should desire to see comfortable, rapid, and safe means of conveyance take the place of the wretched, slow, and dangerous boat travelling that at present exists. The Chinese would be greatly benefited, and with their quick appreciation of what is to their advantage, the labouring and trading classes would accept the change with satisfaction, and this Colony would be rendered still more important and its trade would be increased by the extension of lines of communication with the interior of the neighbouring province. We may have to wait long, however, for the realization of what I advocate, for I cannot forget that notwithstanding the years that have now passed since foreign Ministers were admitted to the Capital of China, they are still content to crawl miserably from Tientsin to Peking, taking sometimes as long to accomplish that short journey as in travelling from Shanghai to Tientsin. I think the facts I have previously mentioned point very forcibly to the inadvisability of advocating the establishment of a mint in Hongkong. It has been my opinion for many years that the mint would never be a success here, and recently that impression has been fully confirmed.\n\nAfter a few running comments on the Report, the Chairman moved that it be adopted, and the accounts passed.\n\nMr BELILIOS seconded the motion. Carried unanimously.\n\nMr RYRIE said that with regard to the paragraph in the Report respecting the Postal Service between Hongkong and Yokohama, one or two matters had recently come to light which might induce the Committee to modify the views expressed in the letter sent by them to the local Government. It had lately come to their knowledge that the community of Yokohama had addressed a remonstrance to Sir Harry Parkes with regard to the giving up of this line. Then again, it had also come to their knowledge that there was a possibility of one, if not both, of the American lines being discontinued. It had, at all events, been reported in the American papers that probably the Pacific Mail line would not be continued. Under these circumstances, he thought the question might be well considered whether they would or would not alter the opinion expressed in the letter sent by the Committee to the local Government. He thought it was very desirable that, with the possibilities now before them, the British service should not be discontinued. If the American steamers did not run... \n\n## Page 79 \n## Page 82 \n2 enclosure",
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        "content_text": "better for this Colony to have plenty of steamers entering and leaving the port, to say nothing of postal facilities, and as the Colony would not be called upon to pay more than they were paying now under the Postal union, he thought they could not be doing wrong in making some further representations to the Government under the fresh circumstances which had come to light.\n\n## \n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** said he was not at all of opinion that they would cease to have constant communication between the ports were the subsidy withdrawn. It was undoubtedly a serious fact for the Government to pay a subsidy for the Yokohama line when the service was so fully performed at present by the steamers from San Francisco and other vessels, and he did not think there would be any change in the intentions of the Government. Statements in the American papers with regard to the stoppage of the American line were not, he imagined, authorised, and were those steamers withdrawn most undoubtedly the trade would be taken up by others.\n\nMr **KYRIE** said he thought the Committee might be requested to reconsider their letter and, if they found it advisable, to modify or change it.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** said he thought that would be quite agreeable to the Committee to take the letter again into their most serious consideration.\n\nMr **KYRIE** asked Mr **McIVER** if he would second a motion of the nature he had indicated.\n\nMr **McIVER** replied that he certainly would. He thought there was not much likelihood of the Yokohama line being continued if the subsidy were withdrawn.\n\nMr **RYRIE** then proposed \"That with reference to the Postal service between this Port and Yokohama, in view of the action taken by the Yokohama community and other circumstances, the Committee be requested to reconsider their opinion, and, if they can see cause, to modify or alter the same.\"\n\nMr **McIVER** seconded the motion.\n\nOn the motion being put to the meeting, there were three votes for and seven against the motion.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** thereupon declared that the motion was lost.\n\nMr **DEACON** drew attention to the paragraph in the Report respecting the Stamp Ordinance, and said he moved the resolution at the last meeting of the Chamber that drafts and cheques payable to bearer or order drawn out of the Colony be subject only to a Stamp of two cents. He should like to know what the Government intended doing.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** was understood to say that the Government did not propose to reduce the value of the stamp in question, and that the Committee had approved of the provisions of the new Ordinance.\n\nMr **DRAGON** expressed his regret at this, and said they would find in every British Colony and at Home that the stamp was only a penny.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** said the Government still had the matter under consideration.\n\n## NEW MEMBERS\n\nMr **LINSTEAD** proposed and Mr **Bottomley** seconded that Messrs. Davis and Company be admitted as members of the Chamber.\n\nCarried unanimously.\n\nMr **W. H. FOX** moved and Mr **Kayberg** seconded that Messrs. Lee Sing of the Sing Bling Hong, Lee Tak Cheong of the Sunshine Opium Firm, and Ching Sing Yeong of the Tak On Bank be elected members of the Chamber.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** said he believed this was the first time that Chinese had been proposed as members of the Chamber. That was a general Chamber of Commerce, and it appeared to him that the presence of Chinese amongst them might be frequently of considerable advantage. There were matters connected with the Blockade business, Stamp Acts, and other important matters, upon which they might be able to furnish a great deal of useful information. This was, however, the first time that Chinese had been proposed, and he thought therefore their election was a matter to which due consideration should be given.\n\nMr **MACEWAN** asked if the proposed members were known to be partners in the Hongs mentioned in connection with their names.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** said he had no doubt the proposer and seconder had satisfied themselves on that point. He knew nothing about them.\n\nMr **LINSTEAD** thought the Chinese should enter the Chamber under the Hong names and not as individuals. There were constant changes going on in the native firms, as to who were partners and who were not.\n\nMr **RYRIE** agreed with Mr **Linstead's** remarks. He thought the Chinese should be called upon to enter the Chamber in the name of their firms.\n\nMr **LINSTEAD** said that at present they had no knowledge as to who the individuals of firms were; such information was entirely kept from them. The members of the native firms were not advertised in and out, like foreigners. He thought they ought to enter the Chamber with the full responsibility attached to the Hong name.\n\nMr **ARNHOLD** agreed with what had been said on this subject. He had personally no knowledge of the individuals proposed; but the names of the Hongs only were known to him.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** said the matter might be left for consideration of the Committee, that body having power to elect them under the Hong name, such election to be confirmed at the next meeting.\n\nMr **LINSTEAD** then proposed \"That this meeting while fully recognising the desirability of Chinese firms of standing and respectability being admitted as members of this Chamber, consider that the membership should be that of the firm under its trading Hong name and not that of an individual partner or representative of the Hong, of whom the Chamber may have no knowledge, and that the election of the firms named be left to the discretion of the Committee.\"\n\nMr **NELSON** expressed his agreement with the remarks that had been made on the subject, and seconded the motion.\n\nCarried unanimously.\n\n## ELECTION OF COMMITTEE\n\nThe following was the result of the ballot for the members of Committee :-Messrs Keswick, Hoppits, Arnhold, Jackson, Dalrymple, Nelson, Kyrie, Bellion, and Kay.\n\nMr **NELSON** proposed, and Mr **Hassell** seconded, that Mr **Keswick** be elected Chairman for the year. Carried unanimously.\n\nMr **KESWICK** said he was very much obliged; he had hoped he would be excused, but it had been urged upon him, and he would endeavour to do what he could for the benefit of the Chamber.\n\nMr **RYRIE** proposed and Mr **Linstead** seconded that Mr **Nelson** be elected Vice-Chairman for the year; which proposition was unanimously carried.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** then asked if any member had any remarks to make on general matters.\n\n## DEPUTATION TO SIR THOS. WADE\n\nMr **RYRIE** observed that it would be advisable to indicate the opinion of the meeting as to how they were to approach Sir Thomas Wade, by deputation or by memorial, to lay before him their grievances as to the new ports. He was in favour of a deputation, to give a frank explanation of their own ideas, and if possible of hearing his views in return. He would propose that the deputation be formed of the whole Committee, or that the entire Chamber wait upon the Minister, as they might recollect was done on a former occasion with Sir Rutherford Alcock. If the Committee formed the deputation, they might form a précis of what should be brought before him.\n\nMr **BELLIOS** agreed upon the Chamber thus calling the Minister's attention to the Blockade. The arrangement promised in the Convention was an equitable one, and it was important to expedite it, and settle it one way or the other.\n\nMr **GRANVILLE SHARP** said there was little only that was new to be said, and the subject was so thoroughly understood, that any remarks might be dispensed with but for the great necessity existing of proving to the Governments here and at home that we were still where we were—i.e., determined to obtain the abolition of the Blockade. He then referred to the Tientsin Treaty (Art. 20) and the basis proposed by the Hongkong Government to Sir T. Wade.\n\n| Basis Proposed |\n| --- |\n| 1. That the three Throat Gate Stations shall be retained for collection of duties and war-tax and delivery of receipts and clearances. |\n| 2. That junks clearing from Hongkong shall hand in manifests, pay duties, and receive clearances at one or other of such stations. |\n| 3. That junks coming to Hongkong shall stop at one or other of such stations for examination and payment of export duties if such have not been already paid. |\n| 4. That no duties whatsoever shall be demanded from junks coming to Hongkong from Ports in China save such export duties as are payable at the respective ports of clearance. |\n| 5. That a tariff of dues and duties leviable on goods shipped by Chinese junks from Hongkong shall be agreed upon and published, as also the penalties for breach of Regulations. |\n| 6. Rules to the adjudication of seizures. |\n| 7. That all Revenue Cruisers shall be under the jurisdiction of the officer appointed to the Government for such special service. |",
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        "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n## HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 27TH, 1879\n\n### POLICE COURT\n#### February 26th\n##### BEFORE C. V. CREAGH, Esq.\n\n## EXCESS OF PASSENGERS ON THE RIVER STEAMERS\n\nCaptain T. T. Benning, of the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co.'s steamer Kinshin, and Captain Thing, of the same Company's steamer Potean, were charged with carrying passengers in excess of the number allowed by Ordinance of 1876. The Crown Solicitor, Mr. E. Sharp, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Brereton for the defendants.\n\nIt was arranged, by consent of both parties, that the two cases be taken together.\n\nMr. Brereton said - Your Worship, before going further, I would ask you to take down my protest against proceeding with these cases at all, because I submit that the Ordinance under which these penalties are sought to be enforced is in abeyance and effete. I also protest because it is repugnant to \"common sense and reason, and as such that the common law should take no notice of it; but should pass it over and give it no effect. In support of my first objection, I bring before your Worship the fact that in September, 1877, a summons was taken out against the captain of the Kinshan - Captain Carey, who is now in Court - seeking penalties for a precisely similar reason. There was on that occasion a very large number of passengers carried on board the steamer on a voyage from Canton to Hongkong in excess of the proportion which this Ordinance purports to allow. Now on that occasion I endeavoured to show the magistrate that the Ordinance was a tissue of absurdity, which I still say it is, and that it in no way provided for the safety of the passengers or provided any criterion upon which the number to be carried in the steamer with safety could be estimated.\n\nMr. Sharp - I think my friend is going a little too far in saying it is a tissue of absurdity. It is not very complimentary to our legislature.\n\nMr. Brereton - I say it advisedly, without meaning any disrespect to the legislation. Sir, I won't go into the defence made on that occasion, because it would take up time unnecessarily, but I would shortly tell you that Mr. May, who was the magistrate presiding, declined to take that view of the Ordinance and fined the company $250, the maximum fine provided by the Ordinance, and considering that he had no alternative under the Ordinance, which I still deny, of reducing the additional fine of $5 a head for every passenger carried in excess of the number which the Ordinance purports to allow, he inflicted the full fine. Now, sir, what was the result? Supposing that the Ordinance offered a fair and correct criterion, the number of passengers taken on board in excess of that number was very considerable, and it should be presumed that in the case I mention there was great danger to life by carrying so many. But, under instructions from the company, I prepared a memorial to His Excellency the Governor, setting forth the facts. His Excellency took the trouble of going on board the steamer and examining it himself. He had the vessel regularly surveyed and every proper means taken to estimate what should be the fair number of passengers to carry. I say every proper means, because I am perfectly convinced no such means were taken before that Ordinance, 11 of 1876, was passed. If they had, we should not now be involved in this trouble. Now, what was the result? His Excellency, who is not an amateur statesman, but a real one, who knows what laws ought to be, and who has himself in the House of Commons contributed to pass some of the most important enactments ever passed in the British House of Commons - His Excellency remitted the whole of that fine except $100, a mere nominal sum. Is not that the most conclusive reason that this court could have - that where the Governor, the fountain of laws here, abrogates the whole of it, foregoes the fine - that the Ordinance is condemned forever.\n\nAnd that was not all. Having satisfied himself that this Ordinance was a farrago of nonsense, under his direction a new Ordinance was brought in, and it is the greatest pity in the world it was not passed. This bill was prepared in the following February, 1878. It was read a first time, and section 6 of that Ordinance is so framed as to meet a case of the kind and the provision there made, if carried out, would have been a proper and a just one. That section says -\n\n| Section 6 Provision | \n| --- | \n| The Governor in Council may, from time to time, grant special licences for steamships or vessels propelled by steam, leaving or entering the waters of the Colony for or from Canton, or for or from any place on the Canton river, or for or from Macao, in respect to the number of passengers to be carried on each such steamship or vessel propelled by steam, and in case any steamship or vessel propelled by steam, shall leave or enter the waters of the Colony as aforesaid, having passengers on board in excess of the numbers authorised by such special licence as aforesaid, or in case any steamship not having such special licence shall leave or enter the waters of the Colony as aforesaid, having passengers on board in excess of the proportion of two passengers for every three tons of the registered net tonnage of such steamship, the owner or master thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to a penalty of five dollars for every passenger on board, in excess of the number permitted by the licence, or when no special licence has been granted in excess of the proportion of two passengers for every three (net) tons of the said steamship. |\n\nNow, sir, if that Ordinance were passed what would have followed?\n\nHis Worship - Well, it only relieves vessels which have a special licence.\n\nMr. Brereton - Just so. If it passed what would be the result? Why, that each vessel would then get a special licence.\n\nHis Worship - Not every vessel. It was not intended to give every vessel a special license.\n\nMr. Brereton - Every vessel plying to Canton and Macao.\n\nHis Worship - The bill does not say so. It is \"The Governor may grant.\"\n\nMr. Brereton - The term \"may\" is merely an expression of courtesy. When a person in the position of Governor is dealt with by the legislature the term is invariably used.\n\nHis Worship - Why are they called special if they are intended for every vessel?\n\nMr. Brereton - They are given for special duty and under special circumstances. That is the reason the licences are called special. Then the section goes on to provide certain penalties for vessels not getting a licence carrying passengers in excess of two for every three tons. Now, I would not quarrel with the penal clause there, although it is equally absurd, because the object of a penal clause is merely to enforce some duty or right, but I would not quarrel with it because the ship would merely apply and the Governor would be bound to give a licence. It has been laid down by the first jurists in England - the present Master of the Rolls laid it down - that where the legislature is dealing with the judicature the word \"may\" is used but is always read as \"shall.\"\n\nMr. Sharp - I consider all this is irrelevant, for I don't see that we have to do with an Ordinance not passed.\n\nMr. Brereton - But I want to show that by force of circumstances the Ordinance is in abeyance and effete. Although Mr. May inflicted the fine on the other summons the Governor remitted it, and this bill being brought in, it shows the intention of the legislature to abrogate the Ordinance of 1876 and bring forward fresh legislation. That bill was withdrawn. And why? Because it was thought better to bring in one comprehensive Ordinance that would embrace all steamers entering the harbour and comprise various other matters. That bill is still before the legislature, there is a committee sitting upon it, and it purports to deal with this subject. Now we have one bill brought in specially in consequence of the first case against the Kinshan, read a first time, and only withdrawn to make room for another Ordinance of the same kind. It would be contrary to usage and equity to deal with the case under this Ordinance while the other is before the Council.\n\nHis Worship - It is certainly not contrary to usage, because it is done in every court and every colony.\n\nMr. Sharp - This is entirely out of order.\n\nMr. Brereton - I am protesting against the Ordinance. I want to show you it is in abeyance and effete.\n\nHis Worship - The other bill may never pass.",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL.\n\n## HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1879.\n\n### GENERAL GRANT IN HONGKONG.\n\nThis morning at eleven o'clock, General Grant attended at the United States Consulate and received a considerable number of ladies and gentlemen who were desirous of having the honour of being introduced to him. The Consul, Col. Moneby, and his clerk Mr Rickards, saw to the proper formal introduction of each presentee, and everything passed over most successfully and quietly. The Consulate was adorned with flags. Outside were displayed the Stars and Stripes, and the Peruvian flag; and in the entrance hall were displayed the American flag and the Peruvian, with the Portuguese and Italian flags on either side of the doorway.\n\nThe American Consulate is at the same time the Peruvian Consulate. Over the doorway leading to the reception chamber were the English and American flags. In the reception room, the Russian and German flags were hung. The reception did not last long, less than an hour being occupied altogether. The following is as complete a list as could be obtained of those who were present. If any names are unwittingly left out it is entirely the blame of those who failed to leave their cards — G. Holcombe, Esq., Charge d'Affaires, Peking; Bishop Raimondi; Hon. Acting Puisne Judge, J. J. Francis, Esq.; Hon. the Acting Attorney General, J. Russell, Esq.; Rev. Dr. Eitel, Inspector of Schools; Dr. Chalmers, Canton; Judge Denny, U.S. Consul, Tientsin; Hon. W. Keswick; Hon. K. Ryrie; Dr. Lochhead; Commander Perkins, and F. D. M'Ewan, U.S.S. Ashuelot; W. Reiners, Russian Consul; A. G. Romano, Portuguese Consul; Dr. Wm. Eastlake; Frank W. Eastlake; E. Sharp; R. H. Sandeman; J. N. Jameson; W. H. Forbes; J. M. Forbes, Jr.; Geo. Murray Bain; B. Chatterton Wilcox; C. L. Gorham; A. F. Smith; H. H. Nelson; C. Vincent Smith; John Kyle; H. Dickie; L. Mallory; W. W. Battles; Geo. H. Wheeler; T. Thompson; B. M. Blanchard; W. Dolan; Commissary J. Macfarlane; F. D. Sassoon; Q. C. Williams, Swatow; H. Deacon; W. H. Ray; W. Spratt; M. E. Manook; R. D. Mehta; F. Abella; A. Ahlmann; I. Hopplus; Albert Gultzow; Fred. Rickards; Capt. Hayden (Sea Gull); Mr Reinor (Sea Gull); Capt. Brothhurst (Coran); Capt. Means, Mrs Means and family; Capt. Johnson, Mrs Johnson, and family; Capt. Holmes and Mrs Holmes; Capt. Call and Mrs Call; Capt. Evans; Capt. Lunt; Capt. Hutchinson; Capt. Clough; Capt. Lewis; Capt. Tapley; Capt. Mansen; Capt. Smith; Capt. Wass; Capt. Windsor; and the following Chinese—Leung On; Wong Yik Pun; Tang Kau; Tam King; Fung Tang; Chun Poh Yeong; Chu Siu; Fung Ming Shan; Lee Pun Chi; Yu Chong. General Grant, his son Lieut.-Col. Grant, and Mr Russell J. Young, who accompanied him, after the reception proceeded to Government House to tiffin, and spent most of the afternoon there. During the afternoon Messrs. Roberts and Shorter, the billiard players, had the honour of playing at Government House, before His Excellency and General Grant, the ladies, and the other members of the party. The Governor and General Grant drove round the town in the course of the afternoon.\n\nTo-night, a dinner will take place at Government House, when about twenty guests will be present. Mr and Mrs Robert Hart, who proceed to Shanghai to-day by the French steamer, were among the guests at Government House last night. To-morrow night a State Dinner will be given, when about forty guests will be present, all official guests appearing in full uniform. The Band will be in attendance, and a reception will be held from 10 till 12; when the brilliant lighting up of Government House Gardens will add additional beauty and attraction to this evening's entertainment. Half way up the hill, in Wyndham Street, a capital transparency portrait of General Grant, with on the other side the British and American flags, has been exposed every night, lighted up brilliantly, and has attracted much attention. The lamp is shown over the house of Mr Moore, an American.\n\nGeneral Grant is a man in appearance about fifty years of age, although actually seven years older, having been born in 1822, 27th April. He looks uncommonly fresh in spite of the tear and wear of War's alarms, and the worrying and trying boredom of being lionized as he has been for the past six months or more. He is rather under than over the average size, has a fresh ruddy face, and brown hair of a grayish hue. He is evidently a man of most unassuming manners and most dogged resolution, and when he gets into his favourite attitude, crossing his knees and leaning slightly forward, with his cigar in his hand, he recalls to one's recollection the five or six hundred portraits we have all seen of him, either during the war or the term of his double presidency.\n\nIn conversation he is a willing participator, and talks genially and pleasantly.\n\nPage 333",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL.\n\n## HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1879.\n\nThe following ladies and gentlemen were Guests at Government House on Saturday evening: General and Mrs Grant, Lieut.-Colonel Grant, Hon. A. C. Borie, Mr Cheater Holcombe, Admiral Polo (of the Spanish Royal Navy), Madame Polo, and Mademoiselle Polo, Commandante Lobo, (of the Spanish Royal Navy), Hon. P. Byle, Hon. H. B. Gibb, Mr G. V. Creagh, and Major Palmer, A.D.C.\n\nOn Sunday evening the guests were: General and Mrs Grant, Duke of Magliano, Don Quili, Grazioli, Honourable E. Borie, Bishop Raimondi, Lieutenant Colonel Grant, Mr Young, Dr Keating, Mr Pitman, Major Palmer, A.D.C.\n\n## GENERAL GRANT AND PARTY LEAVE HONGKONG\n\nGeneral Grant and party left Hongkong to-day by the United States corvette Ashuelot en route for the Coast Ports and Shanghai. The General and his party were accompanied to the Murray Wharf by the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy, who proceeded on board the steamer with their departing guests. A large number of the principal inhabitants were at the pier to witness the departure of our illustrious visitors, and many with whom the General and his party have come into official or social intercourse here were present to say \"good-bye\". As the Governor's steam launch, which conveyed them to the steamer, left the wharf, His Excellency called for three cheers for General Grant, which were lustily given, followed by \"one cheer more for Mrs Grant,\" heartily responded to, the General and Mrs. Grant respectively bowing and smiling their acknowledgements.\n\nThere were amongst those on the pier as the General and party left: H. E. General Donovan; the Chief Justice, Sir John Smale, Acting Puisne Judge J. J. Francis, The Surveyor General Hon. J. Price, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. C. B. Plunket, Messrs E. Sharp, G. Sharp, Lister, Gibb, Donnys, and Tonucchy. Mr Ng Choy, and a number of leading Chinese Merchants, and most of the leading European residents, were also present. The Japanese Consul, and the Captain of the Japanese man-of-war which arrived the other day, were also on the pier. As the launch steamed past the various ships of war, salutations were exchanged. Inspector Matheson was on the spot to render any assistance that might be necessary, and the crew of his boat tossed their oars as the distinguished party passed. The Ashuelot was reached, and the General was received on board by a guard of honour. Dr and Mrs Eastlake, Master Eastlake, Dr Vander Horck, Mr Forbes, and the Spanish Consul were on board to take leave of the General. H. E. the Governor and Mrs Hennessy remained on board the Ashuelot for about ten minutes, where, having shaken hands heartily with all the party, and wished them a pleasant passage, they took their leave, accompanied by Colonel Mosby, the U. S. Consul, who had come off with the party in the launch. The Government launch having dropped astern of the Ashuelot, the British and American Ensigns were run up at the fore, and a salute fired. The wheels of the Ashuelot moved round immediately the firing ceased, and as she steamed from her anchorage, the usual amount of handkerchief and hat waving was indulged in.\n\nWe have been requested to publish the following letter:\n\n(Copy)\n\nHongkong, 10th May 1879.\n\nMessrs. FORBES, HOPPIUS and KESWICK,\nCommittee,\n\nGentlemen,-I am just this moment, 4.50 p.m., put in possession of your note of this date informing me that the Committee of arrangements for the Garden party to be given this evening have appointed you a special Committee to notify me that on account of the threatening bad weather, they propose to postpone the party until Monday evening the 12th, and ask me to accept for that evening. I am sorry to say that my arrangements for leaving here on Monday morning are such that I do not feel justified in making any delay beyond that date. Answers have been sent to inquiries as to the date of my arrival at Shanghai, and at two or three other points we expect to touch by the way.\n\nI regret not meeting, in a social way, the citizens of Hongkong who have been kind enough to give me this invitation, and hope I may meet each and all, if not together, separately, at a later day in some part of the world.\n\nI am, with great respect,\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(Signed)\nU. S. GRANT.\n\nWe notice a feeble paragraph in this morning's paper regarding the proposed entertainment to General Grant (evidently communicated by one of the Committee), in which a weak attempt is made to gloss over the series of inexcusable blunders that have characterized the management. It is important, however, that the public should not be thus misled, and that they should bear in mind the following facts, which we have ascertained from a reliable source, and which bear out to the fullest extent the remarks we made on Saturday evening:\n\n1. A majority of the Committee, which outvoted Messrs Ryrie, Blanchard, and Craw...",
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        "content_text": "# 71684 \n## HongKong \n### No4. \n#### 5th June 1879 \n##### Administrată \n###### W. St. Marsh, \nTo \n**The Right Honorable** \nSir Michael Hicks Beach, \n**BE MNP.** \nProsecuting execution of three \nSeamen of the late British \nBarque \"Kate Waters\" \nConvicted \nof \nMurder \nand Piracy \n(13 Enclosures) \n\n## Hongkong \n### The China Mail \n#### SUPREME COURT. \n##### CRIMINAL SESSIONS, (Before His Honor the Chief Justice, Sir John Smale.) \n###### THE \"KATE WATERS\" MURDER AND PIRACY, \n\nThis important trial came on for hearing to-day, before a special jury. The three prisoners (1) Alli alias Salle; (2) Andam alias Bio alias Hassan, and (3) Kitahel alias John alias Huchet, were charged as follows: \n\n1. That they together with others unknown did murder William Frederick Guse, on board the British barque Kate Waters, whereof he was master, on the high seas, November 8, 1878. \n2. That they with others unknown did then aid and murder Christopher Bowen, first mate of the vessel. \n3. That they together with other persons unknown did murder Henry Haydon, a second mate of the vessel. \n4. That immediately after the commission of the above felonies, they, with others unknown, did piratically, feloniously and violently steal the said vessel, with her apparel and tackle, and 500 boxes of oil, 240 bales Manila hemp, 500 rolls of China matting, 800 bags of rice, 84 bundles of rattans, 2 compasses, 1 telescope, 1 pair of binoculars, 1 ensign, 1 lamp, 1 revolver, 2 swords, and $35 in money. \n5. That they being seamen on board the Kate Waters did murder one Asing at an uninhabited island in the Pacific named Malianging, out of her Majesty's dominions, on or about November 20th. \n6. Being seamen on board that vessel, did murder one Kam Po Lo, same place and time. \n7. Being seamen on board that vessel, did murder a Chinese boy, name unknown, same place and time. \n\nThe three prisoners are quite young men. The first is quite a boy, apparently not far on in his teens; he has rather a pleasing face, regularly featured; the second is an ugly customer, tall and lanky; the third is a determined-looking scoundrel, older and more vicious-like than either of the others. The first two are natives of Siam; the third is a native of Java. \n\nThe following jurors were called:- Messrs (1) Albert Gultzow, (2) W. H. Forbes, (M. C. de Rozario excused as he is to be called as a witness) (H. C. Erdmann, excused on certificate) (3) D. Gillies, (E. E. W. Vogel excused through indisposition) (4) Fritz A. F. Grobien, (5) W. Reinet, (6) N. J. Ede, (7) Robert Walker. \n\nThe Acting Attorney General, Mr Russell, instructed by Mr E. Sharp, (the Crown Solicitor), prosecuted; Mr Ng Choy, instructed by Mr Stephens, of Holmes and Stephens, defended the prisoners. \n\nThe Chief Justice, while the indictment was being read, pointed out that the robbery was alleged to have been committed after the murder of the Captain, and asked whether the property was vested in him by the indictment. \n\nThe Acting Attorney General answered that all that was set forth in the indictment was that it was lately in the possession of the Captain. \n\nThe Chief Justice quoted Blackstone's authority to show that a proprietorship must, by a very clear decision of Justice Hayle, be alleged in any article stolen; but at the same time, the indictment might read \"the property of some person or persons unknown.\" \n\nThe Attorney General quoted Russell on Crime, vol. 1, 11 and 12 William III, to show that it was sufficient to prove such property in a ship, to prove that said vessel was lately in the possession of a person named. That law was still in force; the punishments were changed, but the law was still the same. \n\nAfter half an hour's discussion, the indictment was amended by the insertion of the words \"the property of some person or persons to the Acting Attorney General unknown,\" or their equivalent, after the words \"immediately previous in the lawful possession\" &c. \n\nOmar, a teacher of the Malay languages, residing in Circular Road, interpreted the Chinese into Siamese, and Lee Hung Lee, of the police court, interpreted the English into Chinese. \n\nThe prisoners severally pleaded not guilty to the different counts. \n\nThe Acting Attorney General opened the case in a clear statement, which occupied an hour in delivery. He went fully into the facts of the felonies, first as to the murder of the Captain and the officers, and then as to the murder of the Chinese; his Lordship would direct them that the act of threatening the boy so as to make him jump overboard and drown himself amounted to murder. He quoted from Boyd's Merchant Shipping Act to show the propriety of the form in which the 5th, 6th, and 7th counts were framed. The depositions taken by Mr Treacher, the Consul General of Borneo, and Acting Governor of Labuan, could not be put in, as they did not bear on the face of them that they had been taken on oath, and it was not clear that he had any magisterial or judicial authority. \n\nThe third prisoner, he said, had been the most active, being in fact the ring-leader; the second prisoner halved with him the command; he asked them to keep in their minds the three prisoners in the order 1, Alli; 2, Hassan; and 3, John. \n\nSome formal evidence by Inspector Matheson, and a Malay Police Sergeant of the Labuan police, proved the men in the dock to have been handed over to the police by the Governor of Labuan; and the property produced, ensign, lamp, swords, telescope, other compasses, &c., was identified. Formal evidence was given by a clerk in the harbour master's office, a clerk in the office of the agents for the owners, two boarding house keepers, a clerk to the Borneo Co., who shipped certain goods by the vessel, proving the vessel's sailing, and identifying prisoners as belonging to her. \n\n### ARE JURORS TO HAVE TIFFIN? \n\nAn exceedingly important, useful, and valuable discussion arose at half past one, the usual hour for adjourning. Mr Russell remarked, as is always done, that probably before the next witness was called, the Court would consider this a convenient time for adjourning. The Judge said: \"I can't adjourn in a case of life and death, I don't see how it can be done.\" \n\nMr Russell: My Lord, it becomes a question of human endurance. It's a question of lunch. \n\nHis Honor: I am quite ready to go straight on without lunch. Are the jury? (The jury wagged its wise head solemnly and unanimously, and did not seem quite to see the advisability of going without tiffin if they could possibly help it.) \n\nHis Honor: I have given a great deal of attention to this case, and considering that every particular of these crimes will be a matter of question hereafter, the question of allowing the jury to separate is a very important one. So far as the question is concerned, it is laid down in the latest authorities on the subject, it is set forth as the law of England, by which I am governed here in the absence of any local ordinance inconsistent therewith, that...",
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        "content_text": "# BANQUET AND RECEPTION AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy entertained the following guests at dinner in the evening at Government House:- Professor Nordenskiold, Captain Palander, R.S.N. Vega, His Excellency Major-General Donovan and Mrs. Donovan, Chief Justice Sir John Smale and Lady Smale, Commodore Smith, R.N., Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Pollock, Hon. J. Russell, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. M. S. Tonnochy, Colonel and Mrs. Geddes (27th Inniskillings), Surgeon-Major Max Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Taro Ando, Mr. F. D. Sassoon, Lieut. Bove (Vega), Dr. Almquist (Vega), Lieut. Nordquist (Vega), Lieut. Hovgaard (Vega), Dr. Stuxberg (Vega), Lieut. Drummond, A.D.C. to the General, and Mr. C. V. Creagh, Acting A.D.C. to the Governor.\n\nThe following, to whom invitations had been sent, were unable to attend -- Right Rev. Bishop and Mrs. Burdon, Right Rev. Bishop Raimondi, Hon. W. Keswick, and Col., Mrs., and Miss Hall. The band of the 27th Regiment was in attendance and played the following selection, under the direction of Herr Werner, bandmaster: Overture... \"Fra Diavolo\" Auber, Polka \"O Katchke\" Stasey, \"Swedish Air\" Anon., Selection \"Beatrice di Tenda\" Bellini, Valse \"First Roses\" Werner, Jun., Reminiscences of Ireland... Godfrey.\n\nAt the close of the dinner His Excellency the Governor proposed the toast of \"The Queen,\" which was most loyally received, the band playing the National Anthem.\n\nImmediately afterwards His Excellency rose and said- Professor Nordenskiöld: In the name of my Sovereign, Queen Victoria, I have the honour to welcome you and your companions to Her Majesty's dominions.\n\nSix centuries ago Marco Polo came from Europe to China. Two centuries later, the Portuguese crossed the Indian Ocean, entered these seas, and landed within a few miles of this Island, and subsequently the direct voyage across the Pacific was undertaken. The nineteenth century can now add to the roll of its triumphs the fourth and final route from Europe to Asia. It is our privilege to-night to behold the illustrious man who has done this-who left Europe fifteen months ago and is received by us after sailing through the Arctic Seas and accomplishing the North East passage. No generation to come can witness the completion of a voyage rivalling this. We be bold as it were in this remote outpost of Europe the writing of the last words in the last chapter of heroic maritime discovery.\n\nI congratulate the Sovereign of Sweden on the gallantry and success of His Majesty's sailors, led by Captain Palander and the officers of the Vega; I congratulate that great republic - the World of Science - on the achievement of one of her choicest citizens, Professor Nordenskiöld. Ladies and gentlemen, let us drink his health and that of his companions.\n\nHis Excellency's toast was received with enthusiasm, and the band played the Swedish National Air.\n\nProfessor Nordenskiold then rose and replied in Swedish. He has favoured us with the following translation: I have to thank your Excellency, on behalf of my comrades and myself, for the kind words you have used in proposing our healths, and the ladies and gentlemen present for the kind manner in which they have received the toast. Already to-day, in another place, I have had to thank the Inhabitants of Hongkong for the handsome way in which the Swedish expedition has been received in this Colony, and I then stated our visit here would be one of the pleasantest remembrances of the Vega's voyage. To your Excellency's guests on the present occasion I beg to repeat the same thing, but especially I have to thank your Excellency for the munificent hospitality you have extended to myself and Captain Palander at Government House, where we have been guests during our stay here. I now beg to propose the health of His Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy.\n\nThis toast was duly honoured.\n\n## Reception\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy held an \"at home\" and a brilliant and numerously attended reception after dinner, in honour of their distinguished guests. The following received invitations:\n\n### Officials and Military Officers\n\n| Name | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hon. C. B. Plunket | Acting Puisne Judge |\n| Captain Superintendent of Police |  |\n| Postmaster-General |  |\n| Harbour Master |  |\n| Colonial Surgeon |  |\n| Inspector of Schools |  |\n| Acting Registrar-General |  |\n| Staff Commander Heather, R.N. | and officers R.N. Yard |\n| Lieut.-Commander Annesley | and officers of H.M.S. Vigilant |\n| Lieut.-Commander M. L. Bridger | and officers H.M.S. Sheldrake |\n| Commander A. L. Douglas | and officers H.M.S. Egeria |\n| Lieut.-Commander W. Nowell | and officers H.M.S. Foxhound |\n| Don. F. Alarcon | and officers of H.C.M.S. Vencedora |\n| Deputy-Inspector-General Breen | and officers Royal Naval Hospital |\n| Captain Palmer | H.I.C.M.S. Peng Chan Hai |\n| Captain St. Clair | Brigade Major |\n| Captain Barton | A.M.S. |\n| Colonel Stuart | and officers R.A. |\n| Officers | 27th Inniskillings |\n| Lieut.-Colonel Shervinton | and officers Commissariat Department |\n| Commissary-General Moore | and officers Ordnance Store Department |\n| Captain Muskett | and officers Army Pay Department |\n| Deputy-Surgeon General Mackinnon | and officers Army Medical Department |\n| Rev. J. Henderson | Acting Military Chaplain |\n| Mr. J. Fleming | P.W.D. |\n\n### Ladies and Gentlemen\n\nMesdames Armstrong, Anton, Ayres, Arnhold, Murray Bain, Ball, Barff, Belilios, Beyer, Bowdler, Burnie, Bird, Brereton, Breen, Caldwell, Clouth, Coughtrie, Coxon, Crawford, Dunn, Deave, D'Almada & Castro, Edge, Eitel, Eastlacke, Ede, Fleming, Ford, Grobien, A. Hancock, Hanlon, Hauschild, Hazeland, Heaton, G. Holmes, Hurton, Jackson, Johnson, Kier, Kerr, Lister, A. P. McEwan, J. P. McEuen, A. J. May, Murray, Musso, Neate, Newton, Plunket, Piercy, J. H. dos Remedios, Robinson, Ridgway, Rogers, Romano, J. A. dos Remedios, St. Clair, E. Sharp, G. Sharp, Squier, Stephens, Sangster, Seth, G. L. Toudin, Thevenin, Thomsett, Vaucher, Vägel, Vernon, Wilcox, Wilson, Wharry, Windram, M. Young.\n\nMisses Caldwell, Johnston, Rogers, Robinson, Rowe, Shervinton, Thomsett, Wells, Walker.\n\nMessrs. E. Barghignoli, Dr. Chalmers, E. Davys, J. C. Edge, Dr. Eitel, F. B. Heroo, R. Lechler, B. Lemonnier, E. Klitske, B. Vigano, Doctors Eastlacke, Von der Horck, Lochhead, O'Brien, Clouth, Rogers, Wharry, Gomes, Young.\n\nMessrs. E. Alford, A. F. Alves, P. M. Alves, J. M. S. Alves, E. J. H. d'Aquino, F. H. Arjanee, J. M. Armstrong, J. R. Anton, W. M. B. Arthur, S. Ashton, H. Arnold, J. Arnhold, J. L. do S. Aivoa, J. Abraham, G. M. Bain, J. D. Ball, Barff, F. W. Barff, Battles, Beart, Belilios, Boris, Beyer, Blackwell, Blogg, Bottomley, Bowdler, Burnie, J. A. Barretto, Blanchard, von Bobers, Botelho, Boyd, Braddon, Bird, Brereton, Brooke, Ban Hap, W. A. Caldwell, Chastel, C. P. Chater, Cheyne, Cohen, Cope, Coughtrie, J. H. Cox, Coxon, Crawford, Cottell, A. L. Carvalho, J. A. de Carvalho, Chapuis, G. C. Cox, Corrales, Chamberlain, G. de Champeaux, Cuff, Chan Afook, Ching Ayu, Chan Soy Sang.\n\nPage 529",
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        "content_text": "## Prize Distribution\n\n**4th Class, 1st Division**\n\n- A Silva, for General Improvement, \"Stories of Birds,\" presented by Honourable J. Russell; \n- B. Vieira, for Good Conduct, \"Webster's Dictionary,\" presented by Rev. Father Sainz, Spanish Procuration; \n- C. Hynn, for Religious Instruction, a Pen and Kaleidoscope, presented by Mr. Noronha; \n- F. Aguir, for Arithmetic, a Dictionary, presented by Dr. Stewart; \n- J. Vieira, for Religious Instruction, a Dictionary, presented by Father Sainz, and for Arithmetic, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; and for Home Work, a Book, \"Mousters of the Deep,\" presented by Mr. Kwok Acheong; \n- G. Ranciman, for Reading, a Penknife, presented by Dr. Stewart; \n- T. Masso, for Reading, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- G. Thomas, for Orthography, a Book, \"Life Among the Indians,\" presented by Dr. Stewart; \n- James Grimes, for Writing, a Book, \"Life Among the Indians,\" presented by the Brothers; \n- G. Gutierez, for Writing, a Book, \"Tales of Kings and Queens,\" presented by the Director; \n- W. Rose, for General Improvement, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios.\n\n## Class Prizes\n\n### 1st Class, 2nd Division\n- A Castro, for Mental Arithmetic, a Silver Medal, presented by Mr. Sharp; \n- M. Souza, for Geography and Writing, a Silver Medal, presented by Mr. Coxon (Consul for Belgium); \n- M. Pereira, for Arithmetic, \"Webster's Dictionary,\" presented by Doctor Stewart; \n- C. Castro, for Analysis and Parsing, Chamber's Dictionary of English Language, presented by Deputy Inspector-General Breeu.\n\n### 2nd Class, 1st Division\n- F. Braga, for General Improvement, a Gold Medal, presented by Mr. Plichon, Consul for France; and a prize for Chinese, by Dr. Eitel; \n- H. Rozario, for Grammar, a Silver Medal, presented by Dr. Gomes; \n- C. Oemand, for Composition, \"Ogilvie's English Dictionary,\" presented by Mr. Justice Francis; \n- B. Remedios, for Arithmetic, a Silver Medal, presented by Honourable J. Russell; \n- F. Soares, for Grammar, \"Webster's Dictionary,\" presented by Mr. Kwok Acheong; \n- G. George, for Arithmetic, a Book, \"Living Pages from many Ages,\" presented by Honourable P. Ryrie, and a Book, \"Longfellow's Prose Works,\" for Orthography, presented by Mr. Fleming; \n- P. Assis, for Religious Instruction, \"History of America,\" presented by Rev. Father Borghignoli, and \"The Sea and its Wonders,\" presented by Mr. Loureiro, Consul for Portugal; \n- C. Ozerio, for Geography, a Pen Case, presented by Mr. Noronha; \n- J. Braga, for Geography, an Inkstand, presented by the Italian Consul; \n- F. Britto, for Good Conduct, a Book, \"Cruise of the Frolic,\" presented by Honourable P. Ryrie.\n\n### 2nd Class, 2nd Division\n- G. da Costa, for Arithmetic, a Pencil and Kaleidoscope, presented by Mr. Noronha; \n- A. Ribeiro, for Arithmetic, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- A. Adams, for English, a Gold Medal, presented by H.E. the Governor.\n\n### 3rd Class, 1st Division\n- F. Jesus, for English, a Book, \"Parlour Menagerie,\" presented by Mr. Justice Francis; \n- P. Sonza, for Arithmetic, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- C. Barradas, for Arithmetic, a Book, \"Tales of the Sea,\" presented by Mr. George; \n- F. d'Almada, for Grammar, a Book, \"Little Folks Holiday Album,\" presented by Portuguese Consul, and for Dictation, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by the Director; \n- J. Prestage, for Reading, a Book, \"The Manners and Customs of the World,\" presented by Mr. George; \n- J. Brandão, for Good Conduct, a Book, \"Stories for the Household,\" presented by Honourable P. Ryrie; \n- J. Mesny, for General Improvement, a Silver Medal, presented by Mr. Newton; \n- A. Barradas, for Christian Doctrine, a Gold Pen, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- C. Carvalho, for Mental Arithmetic, a Book, \"Three Years at Wolverhampton,\" presented by the Italian Consul; \n- E. Sequeira, for Writing, an Inkstand, presented by the Honourable J. Russell; \n- A. da Costa, for Regular Attendance, a Book, \"Nugae Syricae,\" presented by the Italian Consul; \n- B. Braga, for Parsing, a Dictionary, presented by Rev. Father Sainz, Spanish Procuration; \n- J. Leon, for Home-tasks, a Book, presented by Mr. A. G. Romano, Consul for Brazil.\n\n### 5th Class\n- E. Adams, for Reading, a Dictionary, presented by the Brothers; \n- H. Campos, for Arithmetic, a Dictionary, presented by the Brothers; \n- J. Remedios, for Writing, a Colour Box, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- W. Foley, for Reading, a Penknife, presented by Mr. Noronha; \n- M. Barradas, for Arithmetic, a Dictionary, presented by Father Sainz; \n- L. Rosario, for Writing, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- M. Dauenberg, for Orthography, a Colour Box, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- L. Rose, for Orthography, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- G. Tavares, for Arithmetic, an English and French Dictionary, presented by the Brothers; \n- L. Assis, for General Improvement, a Dictionary; \n- P. Gomes, for Good Conduct and Application, a Book, \"Life among the Indians,\" presented by Honourable J. Russell; \n- F. Sequeira, for Reading, a Book, \"Narratives and Dialogues,\" presented by Dr. Stewart.\n\n### 6th Class\n- C. Gutierrez, for Writing, a Colour Box, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- S. Figueiredo, for Spelling, a Book, \"Columbus and Laperouse,\" presented by the Brothers; \n- D. da Costa, for Arithmetic, a Book, \"Catholic Legions\"; \n- I. Placido, for Reading, \"Story of Christian Heroism\"; \n- L. Brass, for Religious Instruction, \"Tales of Enterprises\"; \n- V. Musso, for Good Conduct, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- B. Fasso, for Reading, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios.\n\n## Chinese Class Prizes\n\n| Student Name | Prize | Presented By |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Leung Ah Mong | \"Worcester's Dictionary,\" an Ornamental Inkstand, a Drawing Box | Honourable Ng Choy |\n| Luy Chin Un | A Drawing Box and a Box of Colours | Rev. Brother Leo |\n| Hing Shang | \"Pictures from Bible Lands\" | Mr. A. G. Romano, Brazilian Consul |\n| Lam Shing Man | Silver Medal | His Lordship the Bishop |\n| Leung Aur | Drawing Box | Brother Idanaelis |\n| Tuò Ah Sing | Silver Medal | His Lordship |\n| Kan Shang | \"Stories of Animal Sagacity\" | Kwok Acheong |\n| Wong Wing Kwong | Chinese and English Dictionary | Mr. Noronha |\n| He Kam Uu | Chinese and English Dictionary | Doctor Eitel |\n| Ng Au | Chinese and English Dictionary | Mr. Noronha |\n| Leung Chin Im | Silver Watch | Opium Farmer |\n| Acheung | Silver Pencil Case | Opium Farmer |\n| A Ngo | Silver Pencil Case | Opium Farmer |\n| Wong Wing Kee | Knife | Opium Farmer |\n| A Foon | Silver Pencil Case | Opium Farmer |\n| Tso Aching | \"Parlour Menagerie\" | Opium Farmer |\n| Ng Hing Shan | \"Parlour Menagerie\" and a Watch | Opium Farmer |\n| Leung Aut | \"Parlour Menagerie\" | Opium Farmer |\n| Lain Shang Nan | \"Parlour Menagerie\" | Opium Farmer |\n| Fung Tio Sek | Penknife | Opium Farmer |\n| Ma Wan Nek | Penknife | Opium Farmer |\n\nPage 179\n\nHis EXCELLENCY then said—My lord, ladies and gentlemen,—I have now discharged the pleasing task of distributing the prizes which the pupils have obtained upon the examination of Dr. EITEL, the Government Inspector of Schools. I need hardly say that no one in this Colony is better qualified than Dr. EITEL to test the proficiency of scholars. It affords me peculiar gratification to be present here to-day to take part with all of you in seeing the result of the instruction given by the Christian Brothers. As his Lordship has said, it is the first time that this school has come under our Government grant-in-aid system although that system was established in 1873. The difficulties to which his Lordship referred have been happily surmounted, and Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, in the decision he gave, has caused universal satisfaction throughout the Colony to the School managers and the parents of the pupils.\n\nIt is true his predecessor, Lord CARNARVON, addressed to me a despatch desiring me to ask the Bishop how it came to pass that in this Colony the Roman Catholic schools were not accepting any aid from the Government. Accordingly, a letter was addressed to the Bishop conveying the instructions I had received from Lord CARNARVON. The Bishop, in answering, went minutely into the objections that he and other managers of schools took to the grant-in-aid scheme, for it did so happen that he did not stand alone in the objections that he raised to it. At the very same time that his Lordship objected to the scheme as it then stood, the head of the Berlin Mission, Pastor KLITZKE, his successor during his absence, Pastor Louis, and our late Colonial Chaplain, Mr. Kron, also came to me and stated their objections to the scheme. Those objections were reduced to writing and duly transmitted by me to Her Majesty's Government. They turned mainly on one point, that the scheme insisted that certain books to be used in the schools should be secular books and that four hours a day should be given to purely secular instruction. They said, \"Let us teach our schools as we ourselves and the parents of the children think best, teaching according to the standards fixed upon by the Government; let the Government select the subjects, let Government select its own Inspectors and Examiners and give the grant-in-aid according to the result of their inspection and examination, but do not tie us down to any specified class of books or four hours of secular teaching.\" Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH considered these objections, and of the ten points raised by the Bishop, he instructed me to grant seven, the other three being points of a different character, one of them relating to the two hundred attendances. I shall convey to the Secretary of State the cordial acknowledgments which the Bishop has made publicly to-day to Her Majesty's Government for what Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH has done. I shall also not fail to consider most carefully the Bishop's observations with respect to the two hundred attendances. It is a fact that at Singapore there is a different rule, and indeed the rule in England also on that subject is different. It is also, perhaps, a reasonable statement to make that whilst it may be perfectly fair to expect two hundred attendances from a Chinese boy, to expect the same from a European boy in this climate may not be equally fair. However, I shall consider that question.\n\nThe school we are now assembled in is therefore enjoying a grant-in-aid, and the question arises, what does the Government get from this school, what advantage will Her Majesty's Government derive from the grant-in-aid given in this and similar institutions? I admit at once it is the duty of the State to assist education, but I think it is especially our duty in this Colony to assist in giving a sound English education. It was therefore satisfactory to see that the young gentleman who read out the list of prizes so clearly got a first prize. His correct enunciation showed how well he deserves it. Dr. EITEL has reported that as far as English speaking goes, of all the schools he has been examining he regards this as the best; in arithmetic, he reports highly of his examination, and also in the art of handwriting. In other words, the English speaking, the writing, and the arithmetic in this school show a sound basis for our mercantile requirements. The Inspector has also reported that the results of the teaching in Algebra and Geometry are excellent. But there is one defect to which I venture, as I have received a report on the subject officially, to call the attention of the teachers, and that is in English Composition. Now, it arises, I believe, not so much from the fault of the teachers as from the fact that the pupils are mostly young gentlemen of the Portuguese race. I observe my friend Mr. LOUREIRO, the Portuguese Consul, here. He sees a majority of apparently Portuguese youth in this school; but I claim them from him as British subjects, because, although they are of the Portuguese race, they have been born in the Colony and therefore it is only their fathers or grandfathers he has charge of; I have official charge of these young gentlemen.\n\nIn the address which my young friend ALMADA read, I have been invited to give the scholars advice. Acting on that invitation, I therefore recommend that they should endeavour of all things to improve their English Composition. We all know what admirable clerks the young Portuguese make, we know how accurately they keep their accounts, how clear is their handwriting; and we know their other good points—fidelity, punctuality, and the courtesy that arises from a natural disposition to please—but they are defective in English Composition, and it is a most important thing in this Colony that they should pay attention to it, and that in this respect they should show they are equal to any other youths in Hongkong. I would therefore advise them to establish some organisation or society among themselves where they might read little essays in English and discuss them, and also to endeavour to form a library of English authors, not so much of instructive as of entertaining books; by reading these books and writing essays they might gain the skill they require in English Composition. I am sure in giving that advice, from what I have seen of the prizes to-day, I am only doing what the donors of the prizes would like. I find among the prizes some contributed by Dr. STEWART, the Head Master of the Central School, and all the prizes he has given are prizes pointing in that direction, to the teaching and studying of English.\n\nOwing to the munificence of my generous friend, Mr. BELILIOS, there is established in this Colony now a series of scholarships. The Honourable Mr. RYRIE, Dr. EITEL, and the Governor of the Colony are the trustees of the `BELILIOS Scholarships`. Some of these will be devoted to giving medical instruction to Chinese, which I hope to see accomplished by means of the native physicians at the Tung Wah Hospital in combination with a teacher of western medical science. Some of the scholarships go to the Central School; and some to this school. I advise the pupils who may compete for the `BELILIOS scholarships` to endeavour to work beyond the sixth standard, to remain a little longer at school, and to give their attention in the direction I have been pointing, namely, to English composition and English literature.",
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        "content_text": "236\n\n13. The Garden Rules and Regulations on the notice boards at the entrances, which were formerly lettered in English only, have been translated in the Chinese Secretary's Department, and lettered in Chinese also. \"In consequence, the Chinese visitors who are not acquainted with English now have next to no trouble.\n\n14. The following is a list of plants which have flowered for the first time in the Gardens:\n\nAbutilon Thompsoni.\n\nAgave ixthioides, Hook.\n\nAloe scaberosa,\n\nAristolochia cymbifera, Mart.\n\nAristolochia indica.\n\nAsclepias curassavica, Linn.\n\nArundina bambusifolia.\n\nArundo donax, Linn.\n\nAncuba japonica, Koem.\n\nBuddleia madagascariensis, Lam.\n\nBeaumontia grandiflora, Wall.\n\nBixa orellana, Linn.\n\nCallicarpa integerrima, Champ.\n\nCassia tomentosa, Willd.\n\nCereus grandiflorus, Mill.\n\nCereus triangularis, Haw.\n\nCereus paginiformis, Lent.\n\nClematis Meyeniana, Walp.\n\nCoccocypselum discolor.\n\nCombretum purpureum, Vahl.\n\nCryptocarya glaucescens, Br.\n\nCypripedium Lowii.\n\nCypripedium niveum.\n\nCestrum nocturnum, Murr.\n\nCorydalis suaveolens, Hance.\n\nDracaena mauritana, Lam.\n\nDysoxylon Muellerii, Benth.\n\nEcheveria atropurpurea.\n\nEuphorbia fulgens, Karw.\n\nEuchlaena luxurians, Dur.\n\nFranciscea confertiflora, Pohl.\n\nFranciscea eximia, Scheidw.\n\nGesnera exoniensis.\n\nGrevillea robusta, Cunn.\n\nHedychium Gardnerianum, Wall.\n\nHigginsia gheisbregtii, Lindl.\n\nHibiscus coccineus.\n\nJacaranda mimosifolia, Don.\n\nLithospermum Zollingeri, A. DC.\n\nMacadamia ternifolia, F. Muell.\n\nMelaleuca cajuputi.\n\nMelodinus suaveolens, Champ.\n\nMelodinus monogynous, Roxb.\n\nMuhlenbeckia complexa.\n\nMillingtonia hortensis, Linn.\n\nNandina domestica.\n\nOpuntia aurantiaca, Lindl.\n\nOpuntia frutescens.\n\nOpuntia Tuna, Mill.\n\n(Eceoclades falcata, Lindl.)\n\nPassiflora mutabilis.\n\nPhyllocactus latifrons, Dyck.\n\nPhalaenopsis Schilleriana.\n\nPlorandra jatrophifolia, Hance.\n\nQuercus Fabri, Hance.\n\nRenanthera coccinea.\n\nSambucus attenuata.\n\nSanchezia nobilis variegata.\n\nStephanotis floribunda, Pet. Th.\n\nTetranthera citrifolia, Juss.\n\nVernonia solanifolia, Benth.\n\nVanda concolor, Blume.\n\nWahlenbergia grandiflora, Schrad.\n\nWatsonia corymbosa.\n\n27\n\nGardens:--\n\n15. Since my return from leave of absence in England, the labelling of plants in the Gardens has been proceeded with as fast as circumstances permitted.\n\n16. Interchanges of plants and seeds have been actively carried on with various Gardens and correspondents in British Colonies, England, and other countries.\n\n17. The number of Plants sent out was 3,687, and of packets of Seeds 295 to 48 recipients, included in 68 consignments.\n\n18. The contributions were 903 Plants and 233 packets of Seeds from 31 different sources; of these the principal were:-\n\nAn HEEP, Compradore Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE; Chinese Fibres.\n\nALDERTON, Capt.; choice ornamental Japanese plants and seeds of Pinus Massoniana.\n\nBENNAYS, L. A., Vice-President, Queensland Acclimatisation Society; three Wardian cases of orchids, palms, ferns, and various plants; and three consignments of seeds, including a large quantity of Eucalyptus citriodora.\n\nBRAND, E., Shanghai; Geraniums.\n\nCARROLL, J. D., Kobe, Japan; Japanese plants.\n\nCOOTE, H. E., Vice-Admiral, R.N., C.B.; Marattia sp. from Perak.\n\nCHOW CHEE BEE; Chrysanthemums.\n\nCOCK, JULES DE, Ghent, Belgium; collection of seeds of annuals.\n\nCRAWFORD, D. R.; Geraniums from Shanghai.\n\nDEARE, Major; Manila orchids.\n\nFRAMJEE ARGANEE; plants of Jasmine.\n\nGERLACH, Dr.; Coleus, Crotons, Pandanus, and various plants from Duke of York's Island.\n\nHAAGE AND SCHMIDT, Messrs., Erfurt; plants of Epiphyllum, and Cereus, seeds of Solanum, &c.\n\nHENNESSY, Lady POPE; Japanese Conifers, Rhododendrons, and Azaleas.\n\nHANCE, Dr. H. F., Canton; seeds Wilkia, Zingiber, Cycas, Ailanthus glandulosa.\n\nHOOKER, Sir J.D., Royal Gardens, Kew; four consignments of seeds, including Euchlaena luxurians, \"Papaya microcarpa, Cytisus proliferus, palms and various other kinds.\n\n19. Thanks are particularly due to Messrs. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., the Agents of the E. A. R. S. S. Company, for their great kindness in conveying plants and seeds free of cost, to Messrs. JARDINE MATHESON & Co., DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., and the CANTON STEAMBOAT COMPANY for similar services; and also to the Captains and Officers of the many steamers for the care which has been bestowed on the various consignments.\n\n20. Rhagodia hastata, the \"salt bush\" of Australia, upon which cattle and sheep feed during droughts, has been introduced and planted on the hills for trial; it has grown vigorously during the dry season, and will probably be useful in future for fodder, which is much required by cow-keepers.\n\n21. Euchlaena luxurians, a new fodder grass, was received from Kew Gardens, and grown last year. Under cultivation it grew very rapidly and reached a height of 15 feet, but plants which were planted on the hill-side and left to themselves only attained 5 feet high and were yellow and sickly. I think it is unsuited for our soil.\n\n22. Another Shrub, indigenous to the Canaries and called \"Tagasaste” (Cytisus proliferus) is said to be much liked by goats and cattle. Seeds of it have been received from Kew Gardens and plants raised from them have just been planted on the hills.\n\n23. In consequence of the change announced by His Excellency the Governor in Council on November 6th, 1879, which restored the Botanical Department to independency and entirely disconnected it from the Survey Department, the business of this Department has been much facilitated and increased in usefulness. The working of the Tree Planting Establishment with Chinese assistants has given me much satisfaction.\n\n24. With the contemplated extension of usefulness which is desired from these Gardens, similar to the work done by other Botanical Gardens, I shall endeavour to accomplish, with the aid that is always accorded to institutions of this kind, the work that is expected from us. I would take this opportunity of inviting the aid of all persons interested in Botanical work. Persons travelling, or located in different parts of China, frequently have opportunities of obtaining information on vegetable products, and of collecting plants and seeds, which I should be pleased to receive so as to make these Gardens the \"head quarters of investigation, whether scientific or merely utilitarian, into Chinese Vegetation\" as suggested by Sir JOSEPH D. HOOKER.\n\n25. As showing the good which Botanic Gardens may do for the different British dependencies as well as for their own respective colonies or countries, I extract the following remarks from Sir JOSEPH D. HOOKER's Report for the year 1878 on the Royal Gardens, Kew:-\n\n\"Exchanges and correspondence are constantly maintained between Kew and the numerous Botanic Gardens which exist in British dependencies. This constant intercommunication is, on the one hand, indispensable to the maintenance and perfection of the Kew Collections, on the other hand, it is of great advantage in facilitating the exchange from one garden to another of the vegetable products of different parts of the Empire. I am anxious, however, to see the Botanic Gardens establish to a much greater extent than at present, a chain of independent interchanges, which would increase their own usefulness and enormously facilitate the work which is done at Kew.\n\nHILL, WALTER, Brisbane Botanic Gardens; seven Wardian cases containing plants of Acrostichum, A. alcicorne, Dendrobium Hilli, ferns, palms, and various useful and ornamental plants, and seeds Eucalyptus citriodora, fodder grasses, &c.\n\nHELLAND, ADOLPH, Foochow; bamboos \"mow cluck.\"\n\nHUMPHREYS, J. D.; seeds of trees, shrubs and annuals.\n\nJOHNSON, Capt.; orchids.\n\nKURODA, His Excellency, Japan; Japanese Conifers and Azaleas.\n\nMATSUGATA, His Excellency, Minister of the Interior, Japan; Valuable Japanese plants.\n\nMARIES, CHARLES; collection, Japanese plants and seeds.\n\nMURTON, H. J., Singapore Botanic Gardens; two Wardian cases, Garcinia Hamburyi, Willughbeia martabani, Bulbophyllum Beccarii, and valuable palms, ferns, and other plants and seeds.\n\n\"We have attempted, for example, to send plants to Fiji, but with but little success, on account of the great distance. Any particular plant could, however, be established in Ceylon with moderate difficulty, from thence it would be sent to Singapore and so on to Brisbane and Sydney, and finally to Fiji. At each successive stage, in case of a failure, the difficulty of renewing the attempt would be much smaller than if it were necessary to start afresh from Kew.\n\n\"I am the more led to make these remarks from having had my attention repeatedly drawn by applications made to Kew from residents in the colonies, to the fact that some of the most important functions of a colonial Botanic Garden are often apt to be lost sight of. Such institutions are obviously likely in most cases sooner or later to develop into the pleasure grounds of the towns and cities near which they are situated. But without disparaging their public usefulness in this respect, it is important that their primary function of promoting the botanical interests of their respective colonies should not be forgotten.\n\n\"That there is some risk of this happening, I can only assume from the constant applications made direct to Kew for information, seeds or plants which it is clearly the business of the Botanic Garden of the applicants' colony either to supply or procure.\n\n\"This leads to another point. No colonial garden can discharge its functions efficiently if the superintendent does not occasionally make journeys with a view to discovering new and interesting plants for the purpose of interchange with other Establishments. But the demands made upon his time often prevent the superintendent attending to this part of his duty, which is so important in keeping up an imperial system of exchange, besides promoting the interest of the garden under his charge, and varying the monotony of a life of unintelligent routine.\n\n\"I am afraid that this is sometimes overlooked by the local governments and managers; one superintendent is tied by meteorological observations, another by growing vegetables for sale. In every case where some obstacle of this kind is allowed to override the legitimate freedom of action of the superintendent, I am convinced the interests of his establishment suffer in a variety of ways, and that the policy is a short-sighted one.\"\n\nPOATE, F. P., Tokio; seeds, Hechima (Luffa aegyptiaca) and roots \"Wagaba.\"\n\nSAMPSON, T., Canton; Cheilanthes mysurensis, Ancitra Loureiri, seeds Liquidambar formosana, Glyptostrobus heterophylla.\n\nSHARP, W. F., Sec., Municipal Council, Hankow; Adiantum capillus veneris.\n\nPASEDAG, C. J., Amoy; case of ornamental plants.\n\nRAFF, F.; Begonias, Gloxinias and Acacias.\n\nROMANO, A. G.; Coleus and Geraniums.\n\nSMITH, A. F., seeds, annuals.\n\nTIFFEN, H. S., New Zealand; ferns and N. Z. shrubs.\n\nVIDAL, Señor Don SEBASTIAN, Manila Botanic Gardens; Wardian case, orchids.",
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DANIN, ASD FORT LOUI \n\n“AN WEDNESDAY, the 27th October, 1880, as Bo the Company's BINDI, Oedant VERNE, with MALES, PARSUMENRA, SPRUIE JAROO will leave this Part for the Yunes.\n\nfor Cago and Spade wil b reglatarel COMB RONLY lo Frame and sudda as well de for Vintseüles, and a ople trait through salles for Pickle this principal places of Furope.\n\n**Shipping Orders** will be granted anal; Bekiel P10 POEK. Banalem TISK Skin AKLLIES. MACKEN 93. Iron TVHLA, ý là, anh 21 tháng Bordon's Conlused MA (sery treab) Canforais MULIS in Chek and Ta Gunger Cakes. Hak Bistutis, dels BISCITA \n\n**Cargo** will be received on board wat 4 pm, Spice and Puzzle until 3pm on he Bith\" October, 180. (Percale are yoimba sout on beard; they must be left at the Agency's Ullior,) Fontents and value of Packages are re aired, For faxtbox particulars, apply at the Tompany's ch. G. 12 OTAMPRAGE, Agent \n\n**Valor RG00LTS.** **Alpbabe B.80ITS.** **Ogaver BISUVIES.** \n\nLA Fangen, Gerober 11, 1880, Buckness FLOOR, CORNMEAL,. NAILSISAN IYE MRAL BUNNY, Small and Large. V WHEAT. QATMEAL SBELLBACK NUTS, VEOAN NUTS. WALNUTS. SOFT SAL ALMONDS. IE1 GIỜ. Canned Table Fruits. Bartlets FKARS. PRACHES GREENGAGES Tark KRUITS Smcked HEEF MITHU BISHI \n\n## HAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. \n\n**STEAM TO TOKOHAMA VIA KOPK AND INLAND EXA.** \n\n**HOES. S. SUNIVA MART**, Captain: Hanexes, dus bem o or abus the Insurances, \n\n## THE LONDON & STAFFORDSHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, \n\n**SITARRIO GATING ZAR** **STAFFORDSHIRE FILE INSUR ANUS COMPANY, LIMITED.** \n\nChera-Two MLLong HTUMING Blond are prepared to is Pattan Cutoring FIKK WISKO S Current Kutos ADAMSON, KELL & C., Agatis. #20 longbows Augasi 26, 1680k.\n\n## CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMMPANY, UNITED, \n\n**HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG.** \n\nPosition of the Compong at the close of the best financial pour, the 99th Agon), 1860, Cara Bub$1,00,000.00 Carter PaP 500,000.00 Bases For 428 000.00 BALS U 70,278.49 Evirana VanD TO BARY ND PATO TO CONTRIBUTORS MOLDUS........20% per Arzam, OF D. Stats, 23 % va the awak of their Goatribune. Congang grotta Policies on Mause sil para of vite World, par- Contribotury Dividends ara PAYABLE TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS OF BUSI NESS WHETHER TUFY ARE SHARK- BOLDARS OF NOT. 14. GULIJSMITE, Acting Salary. Hongkong, August 13, 1880. abis at map of sis Agencies.\n\n## ANG TSZE INSURANOE¦ ASSOCIATION. \n\n**CAPITAL (Fully Pp...T. 420.000 PAMANENT BESEF 200 Bra Bra T1 209,268** \n\nTocal Cases and 40- CUMULATIOSA, 3 th April, 1890.} ......Tie Ri \n\n**Directors.** \n\nF. B, Yon, Eng, Chairman, 28th Instant, will be espatele se ahore W. M. Eov, WA. METS, SATURDAY, M B Databer, st. F. PRACKYO, F. D. Hara, Esq.\n\n## Daylight APRIJOIS, QUINCES. \n\nEM a regelved on board sod Farely at No Bill of Lading aigued under Brusked OX-TOSQUES, Comprend OX-FOXUCKS. Mire MSAT. Compressed Corned BEFF. Assorted JELLIES in (as Jurs. Mixed PUSLES sted PKLES. Corned REEF. Qua's OLIVES. Clam CHOWDER SARAT Cablores BARDIVES. PEK and BEANS. Earrale Dariela Yeaat POWDER Soka SALMON. POCK in 2001 BEEF la 2. Fratt KCTTER PARCE Balier BANG. Brown BEANS.\n\nWe have the following **FOR SALE**, in Large or Small Quantities la Bulk :-- \n\n**Fine Valantis RAISINS.** \n\n**Mas Parris OURKANTS.** \n\n**Smyrna MIGS.** \n\n**Good Breakfast TEA** at Denis per b F MIXTURE in 5 & 19 Catty Bozer Cases & **BLACK'S HOUSEHOLD STORES.** \n\nPBA Jons Hom & Bone! UCLEBRATED PRISALVES than to 6 9.0. of 29th October. Brett, A Cs man he settled on heard before delivery is tukos, ther wi ɔt be rogized.\n\n## TO AMA \n\nthey RATER F Cabtu. Storage 416 75 STARUBAT HE YOKOBANA... 120 A muŠPANUKAL. Mocars RUSSELL # 09., Secretaries.\n\n## LUDLO BRANCH: \n\n**My BARING BROTHERS & Co.,** E MICHARD BLACKWELL, Esq., Agent, 08 and 09, Corabül \n\nPo pasted on Marine Bisks to sil Subject to a large of 18 tor Intern parts of the 95 30 Anos la wale on Rattus l'any) an Pheriaciders' Lopetal, sill klo PROFITS; \"K A will wd fatsoen for Nogeek will be transkipped to the Shanghai Mail besity at Koda of the Useraitis Resins are no | muafly dretributed among all Coutríðu kora \n\n## CHINA MAIL. \n\n**Insurances.** \n\n## THE ODINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. \n\n**READ OFFICR-SONGKONG.** A GENOTES at all the Treaty Ports Chlan And Japan, and at Hinge Saizes and Penang \n\nJA KENGUILL F Per Pinput for Helkom, CD Chianae ; Paket 11 hom Per Faldin, for Shargħal, 30 Chinose. TO DEPART. Pir Nipt, for Shanghai, 2 Europñana, Bad to biness. Par guns, for Helbow, da, 40 CM- Per Acian, for Hofhow, ke.. 15 Càleum. Pax Mariis, for Mauila, Huropeans, stand 2 Chine Kiska accepted, and Polloker of Insurance granted at the rate of Praia enrent the above mentioned j'oréa CHLAGE PO MLICY VEEN. Ja B COCGGTRIE, Secretary. inna. Naibor 1,111.\n\n## MANOUESTEN PIKE ASSUEANCH COMPANY OF MANCHESTER AND LONDON. \n\n**ESTABLISHED 1824.** \n\n**Capital of the Company £1,000,000%berting** \n\nPhich is paid to Rover For Arava! Incomi CARGO. Per 8. 8. Autrepton, to Loudon sailed 19th Debober-87,990 itu. Cozgoa, 180,542 Ibn Husted Cane, 89.910 the. Saams4 Orange Pekor, m, od 89,991 The Kreen-total 323,443 the Ton; 33 ser $15 Plens Good, 83 balen Waste Pik, and 191 pkg. For New York, 182 pannurlar.\n\n## POST OFFICE NOTICES. \n\n**MAILS** will close:-- \n\n10,000 120,000 2540M \n\n++ Pur BANGHA!..- +2 THE Tulendyned have loan appointed Bongo Canide, Fossbow, Stanghal, 1 square for the stoys Company as and Haney, anál azo propaved Tosuration at autovak rakām, grant IIULLIDAY, WISE & C Konphone, faxolour 15, 1968.\n\n## Not Responsible for Debts. \n\nWo. Nether the Captain, the Agents, nur Owners will be Uespunisie for amy Debt contracted by the Officers\". Dew of the following Vstacle, during tätär slug in lungkung Berben-- BEW, Austra big, Capt. C, 0. Waft.-Aruhaft, Kveborg & Óồ. TATANIA, Briel ship. Capini Powurud---3000, Livingston & Qa SIUMIN B. Antes, Amerimo argus, CW5, edge.Tong Song Wh CASUMERE, Aerivan ship, Captain I: G. Coliatum—Arai-old, Kurborg di fio, FLORENCE NITRALE, E bur, Capt. A. McIntyre Aruhold, Karberg & Co. $1349, French barque, Capisin Buck Captain Hawass, Geman burke tins, Capsu P. Burgwerk-Carlowits & \n\n## MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. \n\n**Shipping.** -Caneland leave for Samelung, -Ning loaves for Shanghai.\n\n## General Memoranda. \n\n**Sunday, October 24** \n\n**Daylight** Sanghag ivares for Portk. B-By Laver for Manila WANDAY, October 27- 5392.- OCTOVER 21, 1880. ton.\" Now, to our mind, this passage Heade one rappres that the fullest r rocity exted on the pats of Chips sowards British and other foreign inau rame to Chinn, wand that Chinese mar! Bave similer passe to hold meetings and tu consider the question, how, i ther own cities nad tuwas, the imesigrating of foreigners may be boat regulated kan \n\n## No. 5832-Octaera 21, 1880. \n\n**CHICKET.** \n\n## THE CHINA MAIL. \n\n45 3 the Xpans of bis virit 19 the Traunvsal. tòem; hat I have never had my dni stafionel in Brugkorg, ja which theater on Seataci will be trailed a carmi words of ptates Brand by ts kind he would speak with some mucharity, I was ouly 80 miles from. Crasu, on doubt, decide the glaim oulia morla | reagent ni tha busiuran dazu to this l'eart a restricted! It has always seemed to re to be the most cun-sided way of putting\" Ware of Captain Mushall's meticme, the gist of which we gare anveral months \n\nI have looked through all the realis fors, have elamined them carefa ly and tan case, to burp upea tes proposition: \n\n**Daylight-Thaler** leave for furt fari, hat the Treaties with Chine should be revised on titiu matter, when the res Cooktown, So. Soon.Tendon for Espace to Bast of able way of settling the question weuid be Carpenterie Sånt, cecaired by Naval be to insist upon de apasa privilegar Stateknoyer. being extended to foreigners in all pa Mail loaves for Yorts of of China as are sixed by Chinese i Call an Berapa \n\n## No \n\n## THURSDAY, 'thor 38:--- \n\n2.30 p.m.diesting of Shareholder Gao Xarranca Odies, at 'ol \n\n## SATERDAY. \n\n**October 30-** \n\n**Daylight** Mia Bishri Mail leaves for Yokolama, 25. 3 p.m.Aut agar nail desven fix Yoke and San Francisco.\n\nSangn countries. There is room enough Far all, if anly then rights to settle al of trade pengeably were reciprocal on sil Vail this rider. consumadon is reached, it in illogical, from a politics, print of view, to deny to the Austra Hans (we do not say to the Californians! the right of mating their power to Portrici. Wa however, stron conviction that the vast plains of Nook-Truthers for Ropal to 34ghtor both Australia and America will ge Riig, ze ived by Farid roskanjer. The irrigated and opened up droi the manual tour of the Chines TORSTAY, November 11 Noon-Auction of Brock-la-Trade, Mo..savvy; and this, as we listed scre time since, will eventually prove the Ahey to the difficulty of Chinese enigte hon, at lenes of the larger and mon Tingartent branab of the movemen \n\n## Feri, \n\nat11.30 am. Tomorrow, Day, Novembne :- \n\ntion is, Pet Ningro, at 3.30 pun. To-morrow, the and Ini. For **NEWCHWANG**, — Per Chamind, at 2.99 .m., on Friday, the 20 thei For **BAROKOK** – MAK of Hotel de Laivers Per jy. wt30 pm, on | **HONGKONG DISPENSARY**, Sharp seems to have nearly succeda \n\n## Saturday, \n\nthe Zani fuat For **SWATW, AMOY, & FOOCHOW.--** Pet Bungling, at, Saborlag. the 3rd it. **** For **HOW, PAKO, ASP HAI-FAMILY & DISPENSING CHEMISTS**, PHONG ve on at 6 pm, on Saturday, the 23ed just, For **YORGAMA KOBE...** in establishing a Girly reputable chas Fracter for the Chinamau o feizer, DEN his coace in this connection are je te wait commendable and just the Heathen Chinne\" can warcaly be ex pecued to assume & very high place \n\n## cities \n\nnati! he le raised by costat omewhat nearer to the Wastorn lava!; he is by un neaus the gravelling. \n\n## THE \n\n**Established A.D. 284.** \n\n## A S. WATSON & Co., \n\n**WHOZBALL AND RETAG FB700043.** \n\nbut i worthless monster depicted by the au \n\n## LOCAL AND GENERAL \n\n**IMPORTERS** \n\nDz Peru M, at 5 pm, on Friday. Pavoury SUNDRIES, NESBRY React-Chinese agitators of the Pacto Slope, \n\nthe ' MAILS N Panch PACKER —– Fas French Doziract Packet Bindi nili bepaalert on WEDNESDAY, the Databer, with Male to aud chrough the Vind Htogdom and Sampo, vid Nuples; to Saigon, Stratte Ballikzada, Rajavis, Barnak, Cryina, Indis ( Muitas, the antralscina Aden, Egypt, Malta, sud WALL Curser, Optain Maas. The anal hours will be observed in closing! mann-Mayer & Co., \n\n## To-day's Advertisements. \n\n**FOR SHANGHAI**, \n\nThe Steamstv \"Nig 31, MAIS DE UMTAY SEASES PACERY, The United States Mai! Pachet (ly of Takto will be despatched on SATUR DAY, the 20th instant, with Sta fapa Sao Francisco, Teled States, Canada, Honda, Peru, o, oh it be disse follo 2.13..-Registry quassa. 22.3.-Pt-Office læer, but Ļelier, < Chatin R. tan, will he a drepstebetet Port, TO-MORROW (FR), the natant, 4 pm. For Fright or Pourage, izple ke HIMMENEN KONG Poukoty, October 21, 1986 of Busines in propation to the Premis |-------- Por barcher Partienjars, apply st the paid by c Company's Ostreza, No. 60, QuSKA'S KOAD CASTAL Hongkong-head c. B. MAIL LINK PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIF COTANY. - THROUGE NAW YORK, sue OVERLAND BAILWAYE, AND TOTOBIEK AN YOKOHAMA, AND ÖAH IBANCINOR, TE. & Mail Stembly CITY OF TOKIO depthed for a Frances SATUR FAT, 30th Jual taking Phuge, and Daltsu Sutca uti HUSSELL & Co., Agente \n\n## THE LONDON ASSURANCE, \n\n**INCORPORATED BY Royal Chastes** \n\noi Ha Majerty Kay Dearge The Firsi, * U. 1720 Fadened having been sepented As for the above Corpseilua san prepared by grant lusurances as follows: Marine Deparment, for spas, the hore, in boudi at the principal Ports Policles at rent rates payable other I ut Through Blood for trous. perasion to Takeda apú other Jus Porte, to sa Fros, o Atlantic and Falezd Cities of the United States via Oper and Rathways to Harps Frintial, and Demeraro, sui to porte in Marles, Central and Soren Aurich by the Chupany's and conscaling Sta #Fing to direct sucial altention is our Though Frage Tickets granted w wel alled Skies of Wines, Spirits, &c. Har Moserotu. Pis. Qis Men's (les) Champion, P& CHARLES RISTOR'S WHITE SEAL, Ficts sad Quzzle. CHATEAU LABOVE (GCMs & Anura), Pia and Qazta CHATEAU LAPITE, Plata IRES GRAVES, Pinta and ours. Quarte BREAKFAST CLAMST, Pista & Qacis. OLD INVALID CLARET. S. JULIEN, &, Burgandy, Hock, Sherries, o Chamberlin, hablhite) Libfuurilub, Backbeiner, Niereiser, Sie beige Cabinet, E al Fisteri Berg, Koni Barg, Casu Yquem, Grand Vin, unt eterne Marsala, sc com's Pale Dry White Sed Shary, Yeller Ses Atilade Culer Falmer und Company's Tulane, kormany by eli, trane-Alentio usa of Stormers. Feight will be revived va hours until 2 , the 2006 Celcher. Pame: Packups wice will 5 p lll be not day; Ji Dr. 4. Pagkages abould be arked to denial of REALE in qal Gouslar Inria to socomapany Overland: Carga bould be wont to the Tinmagany's Uca dualed Favelagen, aldred to the Colicator of Chere at Hau Fran For faziler ip tos as to Patago and rght, apply to the Agency of the Sampang, No. 5, Frays Outra LULL & Co, Agente, Wonton, Cushe 20, 138 \n\n## 3 \n\nof India, China caj Avtolla. Five Ligastent sacceat a discent of 20% allowe Política sredicioner sort periclini Le partient QUBAN STEAMSHIP COMPEY. FOR SUANQUA FSA AM TAIN, HANK W Pots on6 YAZOTEZE.J The Co.'s telp Ashes, Capta Axzas will be dispatched for about the shiul Instwo. For Freight or seage, apply to für Unam Countrice may be posted on board is Pakel with Lab fee of 10, cents ezra Pestage unfl the time of departure.\n\n## SITE, \n\n**OLET Requtsu, ENGLIS AMERIDAY, AN FASKI PATAKY** **DieDANA. MANUFACTURERN** \n\nThe most bierna Man wogy be expected an or about Monday next, the 25thick, by ta M. M. steamer due, which brings Londra dator to the 17th September. de Wa, Lamanale, Taula Water, The next Anessa Mare may be spectra (Aingendo, Palass Water, Sarsaparilia Water, and other dersted Waters, 1 Manfvebury is water divast and¦ conteneva Buropean Yuguralsiona Hongkong. June 5, 1870. or abos: the 10th inst, hy, Pleaser Italgia, which Ivings San Fransiz y dates te ike kd just.\n\n## BUTERY \n\nL. d. Let inge Yun verlund Nuit (Supi, S) has the fal Impere, I am not forbidden to atter my made to any attempt to copy Deligro Sie Thou replied with the happy tant had had plenty of eppretauities to ob that only the west kind of women could santi ad 1 only dusies now tanks.4, \"MAGZE\". \n\n## THE ROYAL ARTICLELY. \n\nJowing sailing of the fast to a port has been which always distguishes to, and those serve the cherweter ac peneral hosted getting away with their The Gurarament it act, it is bad, ask the Colony. I bolten I have worked at berance. Ibu bezusi avvale + grabs to Wednesday. tataested in the Noalety's elfans wün postponed A match was playel to-day ban 27 Kia Faida hay Datibed in beard the tom tomarks souls gold of the Chinees, so that un these points husbands. Fren in Hongkong, which Farlansat for its extes cost of it bad way, and I have put things as H.M.S. Magpie, aus gel Artery Pune Nicholas of steer that send- claimed this year by Sirenelle Weere Pur straight on it le pike for any was bri put! ham huiped fovileg 1 wib heh he clotted is while he might be able to disabuse the few Che bad heir wives wilt thom. When Sie Harle are ha giren expias duet in 7 way, and I da ut so this Kattery and at easy lovey in one postponed in compliance wits the request to 4 bis own to get they had formet s \n\nThe harul demauerndon has been expresion of pro at having Esteeds of porcona of prejudices were only av begining to bring Ben and more, the Gateinment wil, no day know what fe are properly labis in to the more then, after waiting for 40 years to s jantags. Appended are the roores he is prepare to take intellectual treat he bad ayyorloveci sines character of the man to which he had whocher the British were entitled to of the Princ rior al, ha asks for active aid of the bis arrival in Singapore.\n\n## referral \n\n**(Applause).** \n\n**Great Powers** beside rave? demonstration. at a mark of confidence. The dif War shathe Foccolaty of State for The Lecturer, who was seeived with ficades of bringing Chinese woken was away hattle the Cloufus hea spproved of the room applaun, began by juicing out that Sensely forced by Great Yance to cussion of sorg. endations enbaid in the Report the 33 Suph B-fle Allied Fleek have cover. Pulido Coma, had we are intended been induoad to deliver his lecture terfere. Thu fecrarer seen thealt at y that that is sucirely due to the Inske, not out,... ... 62 to be expretive Governments the that application has been rande for two from the fact that no arriving in this ength with the charges of want of the Malay Panimanisio sconect the Bay of nopleut of the Chief Juice, by whom only, Lowris, & Datkin, \n\na deaded Hontenegro for muitary eid, nupoobure and twenty Europees posibles colony he found that here was a strong doetie refinent, and atraktion to the Beugel with the China Sea, the Stross seting with the salive, esa a code of felolda, Paik, 4s this wil, is de balioved, fapt the from here, in order to give the polios popular feeling agus fhose inset laws et health by the thiness, and niss he impost That za hea, alaps (Nik, neaugham, bu voral deconatration. Its stated, Finland fores the dranings of trained odours glooted als duly in tali moniter of the Lukių & TRADE, Daikin,.............. \n\ngrution, sad in form of restricting it. cftheir gang proposities. In thea ............sed Rarsia are disposed to comply, but the Turber, efforts are batzg made to preeuse The maturi progress we had wit coultery be testitud assgewicht faror- Captain Mahallado no attempt to use dread the (luvarnor of haker, Dali, other powers are donario. Poha parte pense foresed in this colney bad errused his able comparison between the linens and give au seifwain of the most of this Canal, the feet; nothing put has been done, la Coeksrell, e Caina, b Stereo Abone of the tale til mare of a spaser which suishment, but nabing bad surprised as lower class of Europese. The par and a thin in about as izgorians ●TROLOR the luster of SE twice will not | Cunningham, e Saga-il, I fino, V. Great Powers have prevented colorivo | hva larterly busu bald to work very mus! So i gore than the great inredigeera stal cleanlizes of the Cries, the \n\n15 Bopt you do not is one of the soules applia. Boultor, 1 Daikin \n\naso, an to the ioration of a casat across $50 to the prevent alata 6 trips. Thouse & Philin, & Stevenson! Potion lo force there to 1 Alu hautrups, Duuming, Daikio, in the calderaton of the project as the do nothing. The mountaioona batom of the untry, anna sigu the papers, A orrditursamyare wae \n\nbreathing as to our chosen, but I eat do nothing. T'as Chief of the Justles alarining roles that would happen her if this anjut mered into so What would become of Singapore with ship escalanide of the Perinta With sorrad away a the thongs to as pspark tiat 135 ought to bund him thom Ity 1 sm nos le clerk. Á mi not his arvadt. 1 decline to do that which is no part of ng luty. I declined to bytu anything to do with that sangreicy or \n\ni Leg bed 1, wide belles, \n\n## MAGYIK.\" \n\n- High constables from Indis, with a view to the Per protining against the Hangkang. drom as follow, however, generally manifested by the working taste of their woman in dressing, and shätzle of Kira Pasha, at Dalrigan The that the arrival of those additions to the \n\nit had been real education to the comforts of the bone helonging to 68 | Salt makes for delay pa wnhdrawal of ¦ E res, it produced, will make our police \n\nor visit these colmier, au to see in de well-to-dɔ, wire many jurticularly pentuar, to which to reply but been given, \n\nIt, Am grant esticulty is ez. stara perfect, \n\nall directions the wonderful traits of the referred ta. In regard to their gambling parlente ha keeping up the camber of intustry and inteligente of its perple babit, be said they had dec \n\n## INDIAN TELEKKING, \n\n**feronson, a Thomas, ↳ Erenslag 9** \n\nsive statku the proper standaa Simple, Saps Ja—its following latter: We understand that the whols fores, He was sorry the more working mar mariod of gambling frers that of Euro- Its glory would deere, and it would be din 1 Salover pa to da via the keep slan, a Dunging, bilgate Abdulla Kan Nasiri ( minister of amounthy to only 100 ostabios divided were cat present that evening a heat pean, but is had yet to tears that they so soother Malach. harbour would glah, but official original dahin, a Staker, b Durning496 Kb.) to the adesso Mahund or reti iz no Jou atation, is \n\nwhat he had to say on the questica, were such veterese gasesters. The bodemarked, is whats godose cipta T the Chick Jestion will pot Rewards, & Dancings Sadis, Chind the Van Onila, siad abvady shout VO slosh, which are star watch was wow being a wavy als working man's obit difficulty with doch wonki talk intodecay, so its fortifie alge the papare unless I haud that bim Shay, Fillingham, \n\n6:13h August, 1880, fell recently into kasi súly reddorn the Keskivens of the forna; elops would he tuntia a wildercoss of las personally. thas a good earn all Eastwood, ut ca. \n\nosed. The importance of the Chinese regard to the Chiese was that their Inɔes of car dipeca Afor some of he slatluse leite w short of manu \n\nquestor coaki be seen from the fact that ; close appétation und protracted breath of Chladen Kende beured perio of their rutas datice, and is use of extrai Bilts had been introduced to desistor, with their courrerent sad ex- el is wel unta, and the Go fatour emergey they soid casting be found with it in these culories and that it had creme any amounting to paretino- ith a car dorizer bar wasting Wear Mufte Dualop in was been the subject of many dehmes in the minanese, and their apparent indifference olished. The sinkodova suy of zeious to lure the Malay element as colonial Legislatures and obawlers. It to the graiñarise of the palate, ren- 3 solar tops and in-bating Chazis à ne na as prcible, but for none was also a question which had very derud competition by their mouse lucs- te et si alte tares, Guiling in use there is uitat disincliently influenced the last Victorian tiuus rivals quis fatpossible. In aer he howel of su Feroute will be cut tion on the part of the Malaga to enter the election. He was aut surprised to find those charges the lecturer alluded to at and they thomas the sorte, and the oequense de, so we han \n\n5 gese. Thare wouldnnig remain Govore i wel: and good I quợc tálok is is a good ( Salatı, Fillingus. We are afruably besied that 15 ia impossible for them to pr.per's \n\nmeni Hese sadiis New Gaol, Let us brewton. sful hace for the mount as of the bad she. I believe may experieus Tucu, Dunning, \n\nAs a Salieri say it in vury Teeth The, ingen, Keninsula; at slevout the Caual will not is as great on that of app oca in Bell, TRS out,........... be untrusted fo our time, sila Cuart, both as a judicial cers and Vincent, en ent as a pencilding banier. Li \n\n## Chief Ju KEGORSZ. \n\nI distal Over of sun City of Luzdys for #ges wide billa 1........ Avioquest was held at the Government or Body fat in z opicion Ciril Boroitals g., day, before the the Chief Justice is dudug what he ought \n\n## 2nd \n\n**Innings.** \n\n**Acting Caremar, G. & Northotiy** \n\n**Pay get to do.** \n\n**Pease 2 Thatters thích cɔn-¦ Stevenson, o locke, b Cuvalaghaw, *** Keisti-Chi'nst and a hand of Pumarogm of mountable, which, agli at the fall Chinese as there now spared to be. were better off then other European in and jury cousisting of Miners H. Love the public more than they concura 10, Cai, Boular, bunningham,....... Otte, die Remia and J. Law, began sterly different other Daikin, b Carning, \n\nou the bud ul Finsters tallat akheep the peston de Asif Governwards, Chatangham, \n\nseamani on the Emma. \n\n## Atwood, \n\no aud Jooze, \n\n## Lovett, \n\nhol us \n\nde of the sarth. You a Hving coated, the dwindling sway of the number gene antipathy towards the the fact that the working man fortunately tea that aisée, but still nothing bat has strength, is very inadequate to the require The Chinese were incongr-beusilla, and regard to the shortness of their bure, he feit that he hur lees of them yow The Chinese, he pointed out, wokal 3 doe hy you as yet, Bowater, for the munia of the pisu \n\n'shku nỷ tim tuligion of Ales Průphol, girá | than he thought he knew soroo 05 years bag leans bests they were exalted Dr Clouth states that about 1 16 po tema, i abenld go \n\nup the duna of bravery, collect the people pratarday be tried a nots requesting his Bisk ans 1 Tblog here. 11870 per Swith, Castreba.................. \n\nand Ghess, and having invested Konut- **BARON OVERBBCK'S CESSION IN** \n\n**ago.** \n\n**But** \n\nin venturing to exproes his frurn the mesas of recreation which to a man blonging to the of the at roatavat eluce I have been bete na \n\n## BORNEO. \n\ndisanat from the popular feeing against Europeus enjoyed; and so far se their |(bils-i ou \"all ridan, caž cat táo bowels di shager Emm who had fallen inby theis na offical in my pedition weald erar Tvara, > Carningliaerery Forlaghes hatir in the place, and \n\nthen les baged he would nes be credited tempersues of hring was cancorned, in (Strain Times) Dk. Fann he arrived his foort te Retail, and fics) has ever been: Hell, fece You yonment wit to be 100, granting a charter for a teria \n\nIt was reluarkent stat in this they were by no Movariérom there fem the freo of the atth. azad, death Laylag been savie, sa subjected to before. If i had not bears the Vict, Oncingla \n\nThe question of the cession and too wab suy interested natives. \n\ninezonary for him to stand forward moans alexciliar wrong. It was not in opsion, by a fracture of a base of the \n\n4 For some will be great in the world. e ott af Barnes is etil under the as their champion. The Chinese, bet ordions caliptication secticid skull. \n\n## Write \n\nzowe of your weliare, and repertsonaiaration of the Fasi Olien \n\nbelieved, were well able to take care of wants thas the national wealth of a pres Food, savoc officer of the Germen \n\n## Salty \n\nwhorer Spe \n\nthemselves, au they had done for the last (aneous people consistesi, but in its prom abooer MAN now in the Logicom Dont, \n\n## Side, \n\n**Nap. 27from Fakar rebed home, but it is said that now urba stated that yesterday morning, he nazt the \n\n## Festerday \n\nto Segi and white at Quetis meat is erer and Lord Cmavills in fear thousand years; and any ertemps dacbo over its expenditure, as main deceased, who was able to work \n\n## boon \n\n4 28, Maplertanks \n\n's brigade w \n\nwith one little insure from the exigencias tilltrain in this colony or eles reply to the diffenity suggested by the is locato 100 bead gear from the pett \n\n## 35th \n\n**Howare** will leave Kandahar ou the legislation and parts landarefip, the where would only recoil on the greur. working me was an expression of A match was played between the shore Pets of Georral Phayre's Listen water will receive his earnest sttention To flustrate this be referred to the wonder that the cultivated Brion should \n\n## Kaniskor, \n\nthe east' remaling in cap to \n\noftets I might hara mim furni into doing something whtob I dare not con- \n\n## plats. \n\n## Calling \n\niba Cabar of the Cart Mr Stockinen, the Registrar then asked him to arcertain from Mr Nouop whether the Judge wing. If the Chief Justier, \n\nof the sebooast. Will a cold chisel a ha sided, does not do his duty, I will do \n\n## USNTRAL SCHOOL \n\n**V. WONGKONG PUBLIC BOVOLT** \n\n4 3mity \n\n## Ear \n\n## Adri \n\nsumer, and directed bina to staze himsait! ziua so far or in me es. My duty is to Clubs on the Byakkoon Bijaket Cab enved into the Cantonment as sny Rose definite decision will be rises data of slayers, und be puinted out fear the competition of the Chine \n\nby a cupe to the boat Dead how attend in Cuart, sed 1 illato di Court, evar appeared to have made note of the bat 1 il nos nitend in handers. tope and must have lost his bediend falou Me Stookhansen left to Icterslew Mr being in favour of the Public School. fato the trek. \n\n## Moshop \n\n## Tun \n\nM. M. sixsome des left Salgul 41 \n\n## Lee \n\nWo Shing, the head cocite spleyad by the Dook Company, board was of the sin lling out that was bad fuilce, \n\n## routs \n\nfor Jongkong this afternusu un d \n\n## Telefuck. \n\nuses string in Hongkong, or day a rolight Masquerade at Ki other persons who may desite to conto son lant aight, se zawounosd, an! + alt the files of local, China, fots Tory Inle water of pleasure rackare d Aumrien, English, Indien or vote sembled in the gardena, disgarand in a at nesapapus, *TH invited to call as racists of fatty matuides and mazka. the \"ORIA MIL\" Of, who formaty za nearly three hundred were pres alaty vowspapere, dailios and weaklive, Ton wasther was all the old be ded from those countrion, ste now filed fat and « very plasmant evening was pacrofi rho who ventured perces the wa \n\n## raferet \n\n## Be \n\n## Correspondence \n\nfor Non-Tinion West IndThe putilation of the tee commmeed Rythicx was quiet and menig, milit \n\n(exout Hay de Pangusy, vinos bo sent by a rate. \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Oct. 21, 1980.** \n\n## THE FERNOH MATTY \n\n8.10 p.m. “ \n\n## 063 \n\n## The Chinz Mail. \n\nThe following hours are observed in closing Muin, de, by the Franch Contract Packe ng before departure, -—- 3 F. Money Urd Office closes Fosi fica ales, exvert the NIGHT HO, but is \n\noper, out of Oles hours. \n\n## BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, \n\n**tray of departure** \n\ndents. tongkang, Qutober 31, ZEN. \n\n## Pont \n\n**Cffice DENT.** \n\n**A.M.-Eagletry of Totters avisa Posing of all priated taller and patterns.** \n\n..feils einwel, except for Late \n\n## Luthers. \n\n11.10 A.Matter pay be posted with \n\n10 \n\n## COBAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, \n\n11 \n\n**FOR YOKOHAMA (DIRECT)** \n\nThe Usa Sisaushi \n\n**Archines.\"** \n\n**Captain C. Jackie** \n\n**Policies** sued for mums not exceeding or ahem the shout \n\n## 110LIDAF, \n\n**W185 & Co.** \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**July 25, 1874.** \n\n## --- \n\n## BOTH BRITISH & MENGANTILN INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n**Incorporated by Royzi Charice a** \n\n**Special Acts of K'arbiament** \n\n**YAMETRIE 1809.** \n\n**CAPITAL £2,000,CA.** \n\n## THIS \n\n**Vadersigned, Asans at Hongkong** \n\nFor the above gazy, sta preparad to graut Poles against F:R, to she extect of £10,000 on way Failding, or en Mercane in the same, at the \n\n## Occidental \n\n& Oriental Stem-i Rates, object to a discount of 20 \n\n## Ship \n\n**Company.** \n\n**TAKING THEGER CARGO AND PASSENGERS OR TBE UNITED STATES AND KUROPE, \n\n## CESTRAL \n\n## WI \n\n**KE** \n\n**lavalid** \n\n**Purt** \n\n**(1845),** \n\n**Hans** \n\n**PEON** \n\n**FACIFIC** \n\n**AND** \n\n**OUKNECTING** \n\n**Brandy, Whisky, Liqueurs, &c.** \n\n1, 2 xel Setar Asapessy's Brandy, Is \n\n## Gratis \n\n**Marque Brandy, Cutter Palmer** \n\n& Co.'s Bay, Reuser fine de \n\nC's Bandy, E 0 4 staraj \n\n## Mended \n\naid Bacerbert V. Icipi \n\n## Whisky. \n\n## Jamieson's \n\n**leish** \n\n**Whisky,** \n\n## Glendes \n\n**Welby** \n\n## RAILBOAD \n\n**OUMIPANTES** \n\n## AND \n\n## ATLANTIC \n\n**STEAMERS.** \n\nper cent \n\n## CILMAN & Con \n\n**Agente, Rozkang, July 6, 1872.** \n\n## LANCASHIRE \n\n**INSURANCE** \n\n## COMPANY, \n\n**(FIRE AND LIFE) - CAPITAL,WU MLA BILING.** \n\n## Press \n\nthe \n\n## Przes \n\nagainst the tak of FIRE on Builtings or au Goods stored thersta or Goods en hard Yesels and on Nolis of \n\n6. BSTAIC wa ho despatch-Female in harbour, at the szual Torne \n\ned fx kan servis Yakhana, and Condition. \n\n## Proposals \n\nfor fe Amurous will be re \n\n## For \n\n**Freight or Passage, apply to** \n\n## BUTTHAFIELD & WIRE, \n\n## KATA \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Ostaher 21, 1990, \n\n## NOTICE \n\n**TO OONSIGNEES, FROM LONDON, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,** \n\n**Samhip** \n\n**Dewartire, Capt. M Macawz, huving arrived from the abere Porta Consiganen of Cazzo are hereby re quested to and in their bills. Lading sa Ani \n\nthe Clervaged for covered their fir \n\nfrem atopgste. Cargo impeding the l \n\nto take immediate delivery \n\nrange of the Susmeril boat as landed \n\nand bored at their risk and expose, ard: \n\n## Pics \n\n**Leimage** will be affected. Optional Carga will be forwarded on to \n\n## Late \n\n**Pec** \n\n**flu** \n\n**cele** \n\n**unsil** \n\n**11.30** \n\n**4.M.-wise** \n\n**the Post Giflon clares** \n\nentitis. \n\n11.40 male Lettera way he posted on board the pecker with Late \n\n## Fe \n\nof 1 cents until Use of depswww. \n\n## Quotations. \n\n## Hoycasa, \n\n**cuber 21.** \n\n**OPIUM,-Now** \n\n**Paina, essb.... 000** \n\n**coal...** \n\n12 \n\n10 \n\n+ \n\n**Old** \n\n**Non** \n\n**Benarus, sal, 872** \n\n**cash,** \n\n**Old** \n\n**New** \n\n**Malwa, oralit, 700** \n\n**Allowance.** \n\n**Taetr...** \n\n**Od** \n\n**Maiwa, aedi, 70** \n\n**Allowance, Isals 1348** \n\n## Bows, \n\n**Wire** \n\n## Exchange. \n\n140 \n\n## Demand, \n\n9192 \n\n## 30 day \n\n**sight** \n\n'4 moushs' sight, \n\n.. \n\n## Credite, \n\n4 \n\n## Documentary, \n\n4 racities' night, 5/2 \n\n## Shanghai \n\n**suvs** \n\n**norios** \n\nto the curary bendla, Wice, given before in. That, the 21st \n\n## demand,..... \n\n*142231 \n\n225 \n\n$23 \n\n## All \n\n**Claimsadmat** \n\nthe Stamer must be 3bang, doan, \n\n## peceneted \n\nto the Gudert helend Tamf, 994 fue****** \n\n## 731 \n\n**Bigow** \n\n**34th** \n\n**Lust, or king will not be recognized** \n\n## 27.HA \n\n**Soverelgus..... 5.93** \n\n**RUSSHT). & Baj** \n\n## Areatz \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**October 21, 1629** \n\n## SHIPPING. \n\n## ARRIVAL. \n\n## Dat. \n\n23, Jems, Datch startez, 3087, \n\n## J. de \n\n**Ridler, Haiphong** \n\n**Cuk** \n\n£, Ri \n\n## Oz, \n\n**R Sturme** \n\n## Col$1, \n\ne. British etesmor, löl, \n\n## bigly \n\n**moms** \n\nor about the St Norminber; 1889, at \n\n3 p.nr., taking Care and Fazawngate for priced, and taemitted to as Directors 4. MaGauber, London Aag. 2, and Sign Japan, the \n\n## ATH \n\n**Qiu, Swaine Rose & Co.'s Old Tom** \n\n## Gin; La \n\n**traute** \n\n## BL \n\n**Indow, Erase** \n\n## Gunagi** \n\n## The \n\n**Gar** \n\n## Pin & \n\n**Gra; Ange** \n\n## sta, Boker's and Orange** \n\n## Bitters, 200, 2, \n\n## BASS \n\n**ALE, buttled by CameroN & SLEM-** \n\nna, Fin and Quarks. \n\n## GUINTOUT, \n\nbottled by &J. \n\n## Piata \n\n**nel** \n\n**Quakta,** \n\n## PILSENER \n\n**BEER,** \n\n## Geilan** \n\n## Fhes \n\n**ALE, bottled by Macki, H. Gu.** \n\n## States, \n\n**Merino, Centre Weis focizica** \n\n## Sp \n\n**Sonth** \n\n**And** \n\n**Katupe.** \n\n## If \n\n**rotira, protection** \n\n## Connection \n\nin me at Yokohama, with Art chin line in will be granted an \n\n## Steam \n\nfrom Shang \n\n## Freight \n\nwill be centred on Board unti 4pm. of the 8 November. PARCAL. PACKARES wit be recited as the Othe sabai & p. 16. same day: al Parcel Packages should be marked to podzemn in fall; vale of same le required.\n\n4. 4 Reproxies iade on BETVER Vio- ! TAGE TIKA. Goslar Involets to scoompany Over- | lena, Mexican, General and South Ameriosu! Cargo, should he met to Company's! ille por O. 18, Gear & Out 21, Nigus, Britis 1000 naingia Cautor. peals or other information, appy to ABRHOLD, SARRERG & Co., Agents, Hongkong & Cantor. Boogkong, Tarary 1, 1887.\n\n## QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n∙HE Undersigned are prepared to grazi DRAIGHT ALL and FORIER, by the add:ced to the Collector of Cis tore, San Francison. For furabus infromation ne to Freight! $15,000 op Buildings, or on Goads seed thersta or Goods on bard Yesels and on Nolis of ALE and PORTER, in Balk, (Bogbeads and lideriins). JP'S STORES and SAIL-MAKING, Hongkong, October 2, 1850, Policies againes Fire to the gatens to or Passage, apply to the scenes herein, at current wal tates, subject to a Gempang, No 37, gea's Road Contra Dasoent of % of the Francia, CHAS H. HASWELL, JE, Agesil iloegkong, Datober 12, 1830. Bey NORTON & Co.. Liget Mongkong, January 1, 1974. Ont. 91, Nože E60 10.9. u. for New York. 21, finger for Haikon, d. 21, fria Fratme Nugasaki, fc. 21, Potentia, for hergiaf OGBARED. Nings for Shanghai. Dungen, for Karnow, do Hetect For Fukor, du gmar, los Menile. Mariteits, for Manila, \n\n## PASSENGERS ARRIVED. \n\n## Per \n\n**Datonshire, from Singapore, Mr** \n\n**Alhere Fumorili, and 39 Dalame.** \n\n## Per \n\n**Jawa, tem Balpbong, 2 Chicaes** \n\n## Sharas** \n\n## Gozzang \n\n**Hank, 66 % phat., Alca.** \n\n## HONGKONG, \n\n**ZHURMAT, COT. I, 1860.** \n\n## numust \n\n**gord** \n\n**omter** \n\n**pravaried.** \n\n**Thoas** \n\n**la** \n\n**wastes** \n\n**Ho** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**dir-oliou** \n\n**are** \n\n**pronis.** \n\n**via** \n\n**upgeetaufty** \n\n**of** \n\n**gathering** \n\n**thescica** \n\n**ether** \n\n**sysin** \n\n**bafate** \n\n**long** \n\n**us:bit** \n\n**the** \n\n## atomyiana. \n\n## I \n\n**will be oberved** \n\n**Ty an extruct re-** \n\n## A \n\n**Menawar** \n\n**bad** \n\n**tota** \n\n**eruit** \n\n**Court** \n\n**produced** \n\n**elsewhere** \n\n**thist** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Greaville** \n\n**yaterday, afute** \n\n**Beglekar, wat no** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**Las been speaking in Adelaide Korat conki bant.** \n\n## The \n\n**inst** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n**rexed** \n\n**question** \n\n**of** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**how** \n\n**know** \n\n**the** \n\n**Supreme** \n\n**Court** \n\n**of** \n\n**this** \n\n**ranigration;** \n\n**and** \n\n**it** \n\n**susy** \n\n**be** \n\n**noted** \n\n**that** \n\n**Colong.** \n\n**A** \n\n**and-hand** \n\n**say, minsk taove an** \n\n**gestan** \n\n**formen** \n\n**to** \n\n**cakes** \n\n**a** \n\n**divan** \n\n**and** \n\n**monspectably** \n\n**bound** \n\n**t** \n\n**terant** \n\n**opinion** \n\n**to** \n\n**that** \n\n**which** \n\n**is** \n\n**crudited;** \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**longkong** \n\n**Government, o julga of the Dibles of jacuzz and wit at least by the afstractive policy lithaetony be picked up in the base of the fac motted hers as to passengers beone to niture brokers any time for scouts, of the Colovies. Sharp's rendness and experience, some bad tie to wake cash to auda From 20 of Nrth thenpretas Court reeks not. The thing may and orignal was expected, invite nadsbe toft to go bears and and se cubes to a feeling of disap pointment at the report of the inoture gain tow, Leinging his Forma presented. It may be the inalt of the with him.\n\n## report, \n\n**though** \n\n**the** \n\n**polete** \n\n**sesta** \n\n**za** \n\n**bej** \n\n## Birly \n\n**given;** \n\n**but** \n\n**in** \n\n**praizotion** \n\n**does** \n\n**ja** \n\n**ravaz** \n\n**accident** \n\n**occurred** \n\n**yesterday** \n\n**at** \n\n**the** \n\n## But \n\n**strike** \n\n**on** \n\n**93** \n\n**worthy** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp's** \n\n**Bowlona** \n\n**Docks** \n\n**to** \n\n**a** \n\n**desman** \n\n**belonging** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n## German \n\n**sciorer** \n\n**Fuse.** \n\n**Thy** \n\n**decored** \n\n**of** \n\n**our** \n\n**ceremusity.** \n\n**The** \n\n**tons** \n\n**which** \n\n## aspeara \n\n**to** \n\n**nave** \n\n**presied** \n\n**the** \n\n**gasa** \n\n**ant** \n\n**to** \n\n**work, in the morning, ro eui heag way must tooderate at fir away the head gear from the bewap it of and the most imprez sa fiendly the coner. He appears to have neglect. hasing was given to the lecturer. noted the pracamiton of conele himself with withstanding the general paiby test is known to axist towards the Chiness as inamigrania Te judge from the title \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**insurers** \n\n**verourke, \"The** \n\n## LLines: \n\n**at** \n\n**Hoann** \n\n**aud** \n\n**Abroad,\"** \n\n**it** \n\n**may** \n\n## Lo \n\n**said** \n\n**that** \n\n**either** \n\n**the** \n\n**leemte** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**Perimet** \n\n**or** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**bending** \n\n**a** \n\n**tapp** \n\n## bleary \n\n**dealt** \n\n**principally** \n\n**with** \n\n## rupe, \n\n**as** \n\n**he** \n\n**was** \n\n**told** \n\n**to** \n\n**do** \n\n**by** \n\n**the** \n\n**med** \n\n## and \n\n**to** \n\n**rub** \n\n**inizie** \n\n**sur** \n\n**full** \n\n## wins \n\n**the** \n\n**Doo, striking his head an being es sevarly Injured that he died to the alunos. Ju gosta held the body at the Gril Uspital tüm after- the auspal position taken up by the mou, of which a report will be found f Chere in the towns; white the larger heider admon, gwelling in a rich of and is oore importants part played by ↑ “accrlottai dasth,” the Chinese in developing a new country, by means of irigation works, milway 16 Mine, a Calcatta Paper making mining, ant plotation series, coed and consent by Onlives, Ad was felt unnoticed. By this omission \n\n## Po \n\n**remark** \n\n**that** \n\n**one** \n\n**happy** \n\n**effect** \n\n**\\*f** \n\n**the** \n\n**\"platform\"** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**lecturer,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**daire** \n\n**in** \n\n**England** \n\n**in,** \n\n**dvahtke,** \n\n**zared** \n\n**good** \n\n**point** \n\n**was** \n\n**meter** \n\n**lustracionalny** \n\n**to** \n\n**Serally** \n\n**in** \n\n**she** \n\n**spirit** \n\n**në** \n\n**kan** \n\n**alted** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Flemish** \n\n**artisans** \n\n**who** \n\n**sectie** \n\n**reistions** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Quereramous** \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**su** \n\n## in \n\n**England** \n\n**and** \n\n**thereby** \n\n**gare** \n\n**un** \n\n**impetus** \n\n## aina \n\n**fun.** \n\n**Boa, of Ct $1,550 per a entes.to manufactores there sub might noterete of the Colonica and thầu sther De- Cada Traders' in. Go, $40 per share, Nards China Ins Co., Ts. 1,675 per dima. Jangsate fue Aso, Fin. 750 per share. Chien Jun. Co., $800 per share, nainn. B.K. Co., por since. China Pire fur. C $50 per share. K. W. Dopis, pre-, miles. Ceanopoliton Uusk, par, nods). H.K.4.8.5 0.24 prov Bhai Sai Nav., Ta. 3 per a, womina). Chin Star. Co., p. 10. St $89 per share.\n\n## have \n\n**been** \n\n**done** \n\n**for** \n\n**century.** \n\n**Even** \n\n**pandonadas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Eritiah** \n\n**Oturm** \n\n## this \n\n**instance,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**would** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**likely** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**the** \n\n**desire** \n\n**affect** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n## TH \n\n**Boston** \n\n**Herald** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**Ikid** \n\n**August** \n\n**andicare,** \n\n**heceura,** \n\n**so** \n\n**fue** \n\n**as** \n\n**the** \n\n**impene** \n\n**lacated** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**steamer** \n\n**Grenfilloch,** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**rement** \n\n**of** \n\n**manareteres** \n\n**is** \n\n**concereste** \n\n**ne,** \n\n**strived** \n\n**at** \n\n**Sandy** \n\n**Hook** \n\n**(strate** \n\n**little** \n\n**need** \n\n**be** \n\n**expiiented** \n\n**from;** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese;** \n\n## while \n\n**the** \n\n**Fish** \n\n**Huguenots** \n\n**became** \n\n**to** \n\n**Sew** \n\n**York** \n\n**harb.ue)** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**6th** \n\n**idcm,** \n\n**Dust** \n\n**desirate** \n\n**citizen,** \n\n**the** \n\n**Aura** \n\n**having** \n\n**mavia** \n\n**the** \n\n**sun** \n\n**from** \n\n**Attey** \n\n**in** \n\n**si** \n\n**lis** \n\n**eutend** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**do** \n\n**not,** \n\n**¦** \n\n**days** \n\n**to** \n\n**hours,** \n\n**tuoluding** \n\n**two** \n\n**úya'** \n\n**down-** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**vounted** \n\n**Free** \n\n**Trade** \n\n**tu** \n\n**la** \n\n**the** \n\n**Sus** \n\n**Canal** \n\n**waiting** \n\n**for** \n\n**mail** \n\n**cigration** \n\n**in** \n\n**\"verything** \n\n**else,** \n\n**and** \n\n**in** \n\n## Ass \n\n**that** \n\n## Don, \n\n**$175** \n\n**porebare, salah.** \n\n**\\|** \n\n**COPAS** \n\n**OF** \n\n**LUANF** \n\n**of** \n\n**those** \n\n**who** \n\n**yet** \n\n**favour** \n\n**Lest** \n\n**year** \n\n**the** \n\n**Stanfalloch's** \n\n**Seip** \n\n**wirin** \n\n1370 per share, selam \n\n## Do, \n\n**Debentur,.. pr.** \n\n## Chirome \n\n**Imperial** \n\n**Loan** \n\n**of** \n\n**1074, nominal** \n\n## De \n\nof 1877 do, \n\n## Temperature. \n\n## so \n\n**ding** \n\n**he** \n\n**must** \n\n**have** \n\n**todlas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**sewn.** \n\n## This \n\n**satin** \n\n**lastent** \n\n**trip** \n\n**cu** \n\n**record.** \n\n## Frotection \n\n12 that part of the wozid, † 61 daya Hot, hearing in mindî die grave error of' the lecture to be found in the abnue of we take the foliowlog from a New York Buy thence of the part which the Chi- (Zaken at Moure Estoquer & Co.'s Ponnien, seem destined to play lo pasing! PE of the Bib Sapteinber \n\n## Gana \n\n**Bund** \n\n## Honokora, \n\n**Oktoby** \n\n**$1.** \n\n## Banners \n\n**M** \n\n12....... 42..... \n\n[to. \n\n## THENOMETRA) \n\n**de** \n\n**Trans** \n\n90148 \n\n50.002 \n\n## મ \n\n1 M... 4.x.... \n\nto (Tez balb) 2 a.m. \n\n## Da. \n\n## Fo \n\n1.X. \n\n09 \n\n2001 \n\n## D. \n\n**faximum** \n\n## He, \n\n**Hatem** \n\n**orur** \n\n**night** \n\n+9 \n\n## Cwing \n\n**to** \n\n**se** \n\n**krangemeni** \n\n**made** \n\n**betwee** \n\n## the \n\n**way** \n\n**for** \n\n**Western** \n\n**civilisation** \n\n**by** \n\n**Postmailer** \n\n**Janes** \n\n**and** \n\n**the** \n\n**mangers** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**opening** \n\n**up** \n\n**new** \n\n**territory** \n\n**the** \n\n**greatest** \n\n**Panife** \n\n**55** \n\n**and** \n\n**Oroldsatsl** \n\n**and** \n\n**Uriental** \n\n**fault** \n\n**we** \n\n**la76** \n\n**to** \n\n**and** \n\n**with** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sanen** \n\n**is** \n\n**Steamship** \n\n**Computes** \n\n**the** \n\n**maft** \n\n**for** \n\n**China,** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**maarer** \n\n**in** \n\n**which** \n\n**he** \n\n**wented** \n\n**the** \n\n**Japan,** \n\n**Azabralia,** \n\n**Sandwich** \n\n**Islands** \n\n**and** \n\n## He \n\n**is** \n\n**the** \n\n**covaízise** \n\n**to** \n\n**which** \n\n**mails** \n\n**are** \n\n**ment** \n\n**by** \n\n**political** \n\n**spet** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**question.** \n\n**reported** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**said, \"If** \n\n**Chiat** \n\n**was** \n\n**the** \n\n**stesters** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**shore-atione?** \n\n**con** \n\n**wing** \n\n**to** \n\n**modify** \n\n**the** \n\n**revisions** \n\n**of** \n\n**hot** \n\n**as** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**de** \n\n**hacra** \n\n**Ister** \n\n**then** \n\n**hereto** \n\n**Fabios, gan 1G BODI ARION Tia Sue Prac treaty with Great Britain suns to prfare, that is on the serenta day pensions side for the regulation of immigrato the advd day of thing mor tics of bar peuple to the color this is of a day's star psich well und wood; but this was te only applies to the wande uiry east of the honest way of grapping with the ques- Bealy Mountahar \n\n## Te \n\n**way** \n\n**Granville** \n\n**Biary, his relative, that diey wers Epium ackers--WA Brew on Wednesday test, the resales faibly of supply. It is reported before long. What has decision will be it injured thaso he had cistine! The next charge against the legalizos \n\nThe Apub's but troops reaching be it very toutafal. Sir Charles Eike's it. Chau the Governor thurs durissed the ropes to the various interpellations ceded in obtaining from the set by the sistement in their closin asis to birdir homes. The Kabul and upon the subject in the Hense of Cos-highest court in England she wolaration this respect was immensely exaggerated, Kobitale went on to Kabel, \n\n## mans \n\n**were** \n\n**on** \n\n**she** \n\n**one** \n\n**hand** \n\n**rather** \n\n**the:** \n\n**the** \n\n**sinro** \n\n**who** \n\n**stepped** \n\n**on** \n\n**firtish** \n\n**and** \n\n**could** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**compered** \n\n**t** \n\n## s \n\n**Sept.** \n\n**28-Culley** \n\n**St, John ranging w the hopes of a charr soil was at that instant free. The day moment with the terrible rise of drink eports nil gains at Randaber. The brigade brug granted, but on the other hand that verdict was pronounced was a good jog alvoholte liquears to excees prevail.\n\nThe Registrar: As to the master of Son following in the soure --- Sai Soon, I have put his petition among \n\n## CENTRAL \n\n**SCHOOL.** \n\n## 14 \n\n**Jamage** \n\n## and \n\n**ho** \n\n**esported** \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**arya** \n\n**teorived.** \n\n**He** \n\n**may** \n\n**stiend** \n\n**C.** \n\n**Water, Bail, As of the proper. Na one sporated to Chambwa it hesthouse; I wilt not. J. Wallace, a Batif, busle,.. Lave en dessed fail, but when the rany, ned i wish it to be unhestund, that Remedium, a Grimbe, b Hull, sies was given, he was an lying hay duty is nou to a land to bar Andur, Dock with a beat under water.\n\nThe Coroner barleg sammet up eviler, a verlot me returnal of vidente: death' \n\n## SUPREME \n\n**COURT** \n\n**Thunday, te L** \n\n## it \n\n**were** \n\n**my** \n\n**day.** \n\n**I** \n\n**would** \n\n**attend, but I de** \n\n## į \n\n**Vinevaly** \n\n## ↳ \n\n**Gl** \n\n**about** \n\n**attend** \n\n**Lecates** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**insalted** \n\n**on** \n\n**Shuster, b Had prey ecadam** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**attended, and I don't dodat, \n\n## Ko, \n\n**tail, b Qiable, \n\n## Very \n\n**MOTI❘** \n\n**kahamas, nat qui, AA** \n\n## Julinone \n\n**to** \n\n**im** \n\n**inanited** \n\n**unless** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**lite** \n\n## protection \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Prom** \n\n**The** \n\n**Sou** \n\n**Susa, bọt I cannot help it, I bolove the only esteguard the pubita bas le the Fren. The Ir has born wi- red here stue I came here is a way 1 Rover Rate it simidindered eltowhere.\n\n## THE \n\n**SUPREMA** \n\n**QOURT** \n\n**SCANDAL** \n\n## Mattors \n\n**are** \n\n**Lake** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chamur** \n\n**in** \n\n**seurat** \n\n## \"The \n\n**Onien** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**And** \n\n**Jan** \n\n**Brotezistam** \n\n**which** \n\n**ought** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**takes** \n\n**in** \n\n**public, i don's sonse to be a party to angling of the** \n\n## This \n\n**after** \n\n**our** \n\n**number** \n\n**of** \n\n**cance** \n\n**which** \n\n**kind.** \n\n**Whether** \n\n**in** \n\n**a** \n\n**bish** \n\n**pon** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**lying** \n\n**beer** \n\n**fines** \n\n**Monday** \n\n**loss** \n\n**a** \n\n**low** \n\n**one, I air shaply goined by one prin b. wura to cause au belare the Chipë Jugle, and that la in to taản khu \n\n## aber \n\n**regend** \n\n**if** \n\n**to** \n\n**lie** \n\n**on** \n\n**i** \n\n**den** \n\n**and** \n\n**t** \n\n**Reglatter** \n\n**wha** \n\n**in** \n\n**Copel;** \n\n**130** \n\n## 15€ \n\n## GK \n\n## lier \n\n**war** \n\n**iis** \n\n**rocant** \n\n**hy** \n\n**in** \n\n**frakt** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**last** \n\n**Gibbon** \n\n**was** \n\n**out** \n\n**for** \n\n**and** \n\n**refund** \n\n**send** \n\n## on \n\n**his** \n\n**Lordship, holding thee the cases Justice was takes in petals is be heard is open our sal decks the of the sojuhotto in traptey bjici su, be said, to a repeti. Buffon which of all things to vaca insults as he and already \n\n## vad \n\n**from** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**Justice.** \n\n## Ton \n\n**talowing** \n\n**vers** \n\n**the** \n\n**cases** \n\n**which** \n\n## the \n\n**bower** \n\n## IN \n\n**BANKEUPYY.** \n\n## rebetsieg \n\n**to** \n\n**public** \n\n**procadings, agamat «** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matters** \n\n**Young** \n\n**Lee** \n\n**Br, bek rapt-Report of Regielsar.** \n\n## A \n\n## Is \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Nuray** \n\n**Kojos, and** \n\n## ara, \n\n**bankrupt,Repost of tagieter** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Ng** \n\n**Akiu,** \n\n## Report \n\n**of** \n\n**Regisher.** \n\n## IN \n\n**PRODATA.** \n\n## 49 \n\n**under** \n\n**tence** \n\n**of** \n\n**pensi** \n\n**servitudo.** \n\n## 1 \n\n## then \n\n**his** \n\n**anything** \n\n**that** \n\n**on** \n\n**glit** \n\n**te** \n\n**be** \n\n**tako** \n\n## is \n\n**public, that is on.** \n\n**It** \n\n**is** \n\n**paleinrig** \n\n## if \n\n**anything** \n\n**is** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**tak** \n\n**ja** \n\n**juhlie,** \n\n## Total...... \n\n## And \n\n**Innings.** \n\n## Wailsco, \n\n**ba',............** \n\n## Walles, \n\n**firituele,** \n\n## audior, \n\n**Ge** \n\n## ter, \n\n**Sat, bdrmale,......** \n\n## fince \n\n**Gambin** \n\n## Bhustez, \n\n**b** \n\n**Gérica** \n\n## &** \n\n## Tatai,** \n\n## HONGKONG \n\n**PUBLIC** \n\n**SEĦOOK.** \n\n## Jat \n\n**fraingt.** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Arther, clean B, Hourd** \n\n## bicu \n\n**shold** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**heard** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chsatare.** \n\n## 6. \n\n**Bilmble, b Remadize.** \n\n## Mr \n\n**Stonkhain** \n\n**now** \n\n**raterned** \n\n**with** \n\n**s** \n\n## mange \n\n**the** \n\n**Em** \n\n**tha, na the Registra:** \n\n## ret \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**Altsed** \n\n**now, the bathes in** \n\n## . \n\n**Lammond, b Scandion, e Rabatant, May, Walles, .................** \n\n## Gribis, \n\n**a-thur, 5 Wa laury.** \n\n## Aitken, \n\n**Remedios, MNRAS,** \n\n## Lamect, \n\n**b** \n\n**Remedies,** \n\n## akraptate \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**bankruptcy** \n\n**would** \n\n**maud** \n\n**over** \n\n**t.** \n\n## 10-morrow \n\n**after** \n\n**zijn** \n\n**vrientual** \n\n**Seseinon.** \n\n## The \n\n**vistrar:** \n\n**So** \n\n**bo** \n\n**it.** \n\n## The \n\n**busloom** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**grads** \n\n**of** \n\n**Bee, denen will be held in pen Court. Yamoto -ITTY AS and Selena of Ad- telstrativ Putits by Chen wong Sang for $68.\n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**gros** \n\n**of** \n\n**R.** \n\n**T.** \n\n**Mogidge, done, ad-LoveBory Art and Sallen of Adelitaiton.**\n\nthe Chief Juation where he can innuit, us with impunity: I san not to my position degraded. I may brook a private insul, but \n\n## Wader, \n\n## B. \n\n**Girable, not on...** \n\n## Batzos, \n\n## from \n\n**Kandabar to Malwandi** \n\n## 12, \n\n**having** \n\n**buried** \n\n**hocles** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**Auld** \n\n## one \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**guiding** \n\n**principles** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**day** \n\n**for** \n\n**the** \n\n**rare, but it was a better carying gst Baropens. In conclusion of the series. it ir July, where larga Gladstone Goverinent, epesly ander the master. The white man's houtthis seturer suranarived the varrens air has been constructed.\"\n\ncoptedly rowed by several of its ad utred more that the bank au's charger againe de Chinese, and gea ukulan Sept And Slate 90150 ending meribere, is hurt to the ex-in, and the oppressor had coua tross general answer to them. He quoted the to hose than to those who he up-remark of our Bericor, \"Ho that is qdous talep at the Maiwand sensus of the ampin's territory Aud desparches tuve a published in the \n\n## Ancite \n\n**of** \n\n**Extra:mery:** \n\n**together** \n\n**ability.** \n\n## Is \n\n**would** \n\n**but, conseture, pressed.** \n\n## Now \n\n**the** \n\n**sune** \n\n**polley** \n\n**which** \n\n**it** \n\n**without** \n\n**is** \n\n**among** \n\n**you.** \n\n**let** \n\n**him** \n\n**cast** \n\n**the** \n\n## od \n\n**to** \n\n**adopt** \n\n**toward** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chiral** \n\n**stone.** \n\n## And \n\n**he** \n\n**tiled, \n\n- od telors relating to the be surprisine (at the ultimate decision was proposed centuries age been at 1 \n\n## CE \n\n2 \n\n## dini \n\n**CÍ** \n\n## s \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**foras** \n\n**na** \n\n**Geral** \n\n**Barrowshould** \n\n**in** \n\n**area** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**waything** \n\n**to** \n\n**pese** \n\n**he** \n\n## thesis \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**project.** \n\n## In \n\n**that** \n\n**esse,** \n\n**the** \n\n**tempted** \n\n**asize** \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemish** \n\n**refugees** \n\n**in** \n\n**rauce** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**fr** \n\n## Flaimed, \n\n**it** \n\n**patuloy** \n\n**te** \n\n**probaialivy** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**taron** \n\n**Orarback** \n\n**will** \n\n**i** \n\n**Gardend.** \n\n## When \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemjsh** \n\n**szunnos** \n\n## Fram, \n\n**and** \n\n**also** \n\n**apply** \n\n**to** \n\n**Germany.** \n\n**and** \n\n**here** \n\n**are** \n\n**tem** \n\n**dached** \n\n**to** \n\n**Leeden, the manufacturer in at the Goumander-in-Chiaf valgzagded ones that he was already dansen, had clust after objected strongly to their col-\n\nthe tõib Walks woo hard. de- \n\n\"For a bat and a' idel \n\nIt's coming yet for a' tak, Talsman the world o'ar \n\nBbal rather be, ir atkal.\" \n\n## Mr \n\n**C.** \n\n**Goode, (president of tua ag** \n\n## bed, \n\n## Kautioned \n\n**float** \n\n**hie** \n\n**vyerates** \n\n**have** \n\n**beon** \n\n**favorably** \n\n**i** \n\n**Jatition** \n\n**in** \n\n**various** \n\n**binnebes** \n\n**of** \n\n**trade.encistion)** \n\n**waved** \n\n**a** \n\n**vote** \n\n**of** \n\n**thanks** \n\n**to** \n\n## resived \n\n**by** \n\n**Prince** \n\n**Bismeerk, who has the London entices zuid riots Sharp for his able antare: He pointed \n\n## diag \n\n**misant** \n\n## Lin \n\n## Ansation \n\n**was** \n\n**entirely** \n\n**a** \n\n**non-political** \n\n**in** \n\n**perling** \n\n**fully.** \n\n**He** \n\n**renas** \n\n**notast** \n\n**bean** \n\n**appointed** \n\n**Minister** \n\n**of** \n\n**f'pre-** \n\n## ; \n\n**agravel** \n\n**tim** \n\n**aliepaj** \n\n**the** \n\n**storekeepers** \n\n**ssid** \n\n**uut** \n\n**tazt** \n\n**the** \n\n**Yotang:** \n\n## Kau'n \n\n**fitriatin** \n\n## A \n\n## and \n\n**who** \n\n**is** \n\n**me** \n\n**on** \n\n**I** \n\n## As \n\n**he** \n\n**thought** \n\n**that** \n\n**gentlemen** \n\n**had** \n\n**done** \n\n**Oberly** \n\n**to** \n\n**attachment** \n\n**of** \n\n**Gurus** \n\n**canmerve** \n\n**and** \n\n**week** \n\n## colonisation. \n\n**The** \n\n**Chancellor** \n\n**has** \n\n**given** \n\n**it** \n\n**never** \n\n**locaine** \n\n**Novechelone** \n\n**the** \n\n**well** \n\n**in** \n\n**coming** \n\n**forward** \n\n**to** \n\n**sypand** \n\n**the** \n\n**figub** \n\n**it** \n\n**got** \n\n**thuali** \n\n**gore** \n\n**rong** \n\n## great \n\n**encouragement** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**formation** \n\n**of** \n\n**emish** \n\n**artians** \n\n**gave** \n\n**no** \n\n**famense** \n\n**ise-other** \n\n**side** \n\n**of** \n\n**a** \n\n**vezet** \n\n**queerzina.\"** \n\n**do** \n\n## \"The \n\n**despaterne** \n\n**by** \n\n## The \n\n**Hou.** \n\n**A.** \n\n**Camphail, recorded the aligus mar ao ar longhi \n\ntheir skill, Jaloe, w intelligence they motion, which was carried with acclama. ad outfity, bat they are the Gorras Truling Company which has pets to mangfecting industry, and by \n\niswas to dreystela to the rain taken over the twainese of the did far more than repay the English: fortira, and the lecturer heietly replied.\n\nThe Hon. W. Sandover moved a voda tmuse of odetoy & Co. in the Beutli Sess The Kamiah. Naes her \"From which recently failed, and the Sumuon the generosity which offers com 16 house wurde, was my's los alios are row bets of Ims Gerwinter in this hour of need. It of thanks to the chairman, who is as \n\n## asian \n\n**was** \n\n**1230** \n\n**ruculara** \n\n**killed** \n\n**su** \n\n\\*cation on scent of distance of note for the wage jargrárda apa sau unt aletgi to eat of \n\na Trila by (7 noia) ( \n\n2; standud, mil tüsi 2,400 wyra sted's STF bitero There could be no bestar or more was indeed to the Flemings that Bag-upisten bad scied nubly under the cls- Biasa Kiled, woonid, or inwin, eligabits statice Er Prince Eiemurch's (land was indested for her present ouveiances in presiding em auch en 20 \n\n## Me \n\n**A.** \n\n**Grainger** \n\n**for** \n\n**add** \n\n**the** \n\n**motion.** \n\n## 300 \n\n**bls** \n\n**f** \n\n**h** \n\n**Dees** \n\n**were** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**pupases** \n\n**than** \n\n**the** \n\n**Nurth-East** \n\n**of** \n\n**Deruen, amidare in the arts and our casion. He though gece would \n\nfale urzt d-9. bow basty Sara Esmased and if finglu: iets slip the up posterity, the pee. Who knew how sour, trouble done by the lecture a helping tha using the night sad whaar toe amber now offered her, there can be no reason Chile, and ber basteliation of to important subject out in way Evermeny stuld not take advan-ljucts became wandereros aui if thes 1) veusded is imp-wide to I FAYRE of it, bosener much wa was rescant? came to South Australia he would ask He end the Inetarer ved done good \n\n## apposed \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**toCA** \n\n**12,000, or a bokat kom of about 1,09%. This** \n\n\\| autoss with what us TODUE-vi by spins who they the Gladstone Gerwungal chocld whether the Britch of this golony would service to tre advocmes of noti-Came \n\n\\| akina in during the rig \n\n## Coucher, \n\n**sapt.** \n\n**18-benumber** \n\n**of** \n\n**alalı** \n\n## Satri \n\n## Sed \n\n**Iminya** \n\n## 17 \n\n**at** \n\n**Waiou** \n\n**the** \n\n**let** \n\n**Sprember** \n\n**is** \n\n**given** \n\n## psore \n\n**sons** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**complaining** \n\n**abi** \n\n## Dat \n\n**zout** \n\n**4,50** \n\n**men, Host** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Indine** \n\n## the \n\n**insults** \n\n**that** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**adiered** \n\n**to** \n\n**ma** \n\n**ky** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chatel** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**are** \n\n**loculis** \n\n**to** \n\n**my** \n\n**heal** \n\n**parison** \n\n**which** \n\n**I** \n\n**wait** \n\n**not** \n\n**bear.** \n\n**I** \n\n**with** \n\n**that!** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Remedios** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Tex** \n\n**Sean, eased to be datedly understood. He many uit Bart, o and b Wallace, Inventory Account aal schama ei admin me privately, the Mul Jaesise or any body G. Ishlo, Wallse \n\nely, and cauli brook it and forget T. Kammer, barul e Wallao strands of Satau Jaze Bostor, lit, Eat so insals in my poetion I am \n\n#Lammert, e Rshunul, b Waits, cad.toty Aescuet bid Serra of bound forarent. The pelte hobi is May, to hat......... Administration, \n\n## emorect \n\n**treat** \n\n**and** \n\n**I** \n\n**will** \n\n**uphold** \n\n**is** \n\n**dignity.** \n\n## W. \n\n**Grimble, rus gi** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Aloe** \n\n**War, dece.** \n\n**They** \n\n**was** \n\n**I** \n\n**am** \n\n**vandielivest** \n\n**in** \n\n**Alken, Homedie,...........** \n\n## -Inventory \n\n**account** \n\n**atid** \n\n**Scheme** \n\n**of** \n\n**ad-** \n\n**that** \n\n**repeat, I am jalons of the uterity** \n\n## Millet, \n\n**to** \n\n**hat............** \n\n## law \n\n**1** \n\n**Lave** \n\n**followed** \n\n**the** \n\n**bourable** \n\n**B.** \n\n**Grimble, tu bai minitentia** \n\n## Extras...antarangays \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goals** \n\n**of** \n\n**Che** \n\n**Buia, Jeccand-lo** \n\n**pr-festog** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**law** \n\n**fe** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**five** \n\n**year** \n\n**Pentury** \n\n**Acconut** \n\n**a** \n\n**Scam** \n\n**of** \n\n**Admicis, amal** \n\n**I** \n\n**ever** \n\n**had** \n\n**an** \n\n**innata** \n\n**quins** \n\n**ine, alther we judge or barrister,** \n\n## Imat \n\n## tration. \n\n## To \n\n**the** \n\n**gouden** \n\n**Fook** \n\n**St.** \n\n**Fong, decaan:** \n\n**d.** \n\n## and \n\n**i** \n\n**mal** \n\n**day** \n\n**i** \n\n**vot** \n\n**cow** \n\n**diepened** \n\n**at** \n\n**5** \n\n**juventory** \n\n**Apus** \n\n**and** \n\n**Sebums** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adare** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**s** \n\n**portion** \n\n**degraded** \n\n**in** \n\n**my** \n\n**purt** \n\n**on** \n\n**my** \n\n**coming** \n\n**to** \n\n**an** \n\n**qutabile** \n\n**plads** \n\n**minterration.** \n\n## the \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Arthur** \n\n**W.** \n\n**Cuan, doke** \n\n**Dongkg.** \n\n**I** \n\n**wish** \n\n**that** \n\n**that** \n\n**may** \n\n**go** \n\n**Beach** \n\n**Petition** \n\n**for** \n\n**grant** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adaciae** \n\n**far** \n\n**th** \n\n**over** \n\n**the** \n\n**engil** \n\n**and** \n\n**breadth** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n## Colony, \n\n**small** \n\n**as** \n\n**it** \n\n**be, if it go no inether.**\n\nThe Rolate then huntied up the pa- theas of Lale To Kang, droseed, are which had bean given him by Br Telition feer grout of Administration.\n\nThe wenge Mr Mcup brought was to \n\n## Stockhausen, \n\n**and** \n\n**reaching** \n\n**as** \n\n**they** \n\n**were** \n\n## be \n\n**so** \n\n**blind.** \n\n## ABHORD. \n\n## recognise \n\n**Seir** \n\n**est** \n\n**responsibility** \n\n**and** \n\n**immigration, as he bai proved all the respect the tradit me at ang road charges he attempted to deal with... thair g? 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        "content_text": "The Daily Press. HONGKONG, APRIL 11TH, 1881.\n\nPRESENTATION OF AN ADDRESS TO SIR JOHN SMALE.\n\nA public address was presented to Sir John Smale, Chief Justice of Hongkong, at the City Hall, on Saturday afternoon. There was a considerable attendance, but much disappointment was expressed by many who were not present owing to no proper intimation of the holding of the meeting having been made. The attendance included a large proportion of Indians and some Chinese, and most of the European firms were represented by their chief partners.\n\nThe Chief Justice was met at the door of the Hall, by the Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. W. Keswick, Mr. Justice Snowden, Mr. Hayllar, Q.C., and Messrs. Hoppias, Dalrymple, Belilios, Sassoon, Attonjee, and Braddon, who conducted his Lordship to the platform.\n\nThe address was presented by the Hon. P. RYRIE, who said—Sir John, I experienced much satisfaction when the pleasing duty was allotted to me of presenting to you the numerously signed address which I now hold in my hand and which I shall presently read. It has been my privilege to number you and the members of your family among my friends since the year 1861, and during that time the relations between us have been most cordial. I only regret that they are now to be severed by your departure for England, but I hope they may be renewed in our native country before long. That the departure of yourself and Lady Smale from this colony will be felt as a loss to our social circle, everyone I am sure will agree with me. Yourself and your amiable partner have done much to make residence in this colony agreeable by a most liberal dispensation of hospitality at your own residence and by assisting at our gatherings whether of a private, public, or semi-public character. As a most liberal donor to all charities and a subscriber to educational and missionary movements in this colony you will also be a great loss. In the Legislative Council, I have now been associated with you for fifteen years, and I am therefore able to state how conscientiously you have performed your duties as a member of that body, and as an unofficial member I have a grateful recollection of the manner in which you, from your seat in the Council, supported us, the unofficial members, when bringing forward views for the public benefit. (Hear, hear.) It is true that by an order of the Secretary of State you were debarred from voting save with the Executive, but, notwithstanding that, we on many occasions felt your sympathies were with us. I need not refer here and now to the performance of your duties as Attorney-General and Chief Justice. One gentleman, much more competent than I to form an opinion and more able to express it, addressed you yesterday in the Supreme Court in the name of the members of the legal profession in the Colony. That address I was very glad, and I am sure many here were glad, to read in the newspaper this morning. If you will now permit me, Sir John, I will read this address.—(Applause.)—\n\nThe hon. gentleman then read the address as follows:—\n\nTo the Honourable Sir JOHN SMALE, Knight, Chief Justice of Hongkong.\n\nSIR,—We, the undersigned Residents of Hongkong, desire, upon your approaching departure, to express the high sense we entertain of your public services as Attorney General and Chief Justice successively of this Colony.\n\nTo the administration of these offices you have brought not only high legal attainments, great acumen and a judgment ripened by long experience, but have been still more honourably distinguished by your strong sense of justice and pure sympathy with the right.\n\nMainly dealing, as the Supreme Court has to do, with a population alien to ourselves in race, language, and customs, the duty imposed on you of presiding at trials, both civil and criminal, protracted, and of the highest importance, has been one of exceptional difficulty. Of the success of your administration of the law, facts speak more than words; and in the increasing prosperity of the Colony, in the numbers of persons of various races who daily flock here to seek home or fortune, in the security of life and property, and the diminution of serious crime, will be found the best record of your services.\n\nIn looking back over the many years of your laborious career there is no matter which we feel you must ever contemplate with special pride and gratification. We allude to the attitude you have firmly maintained towards slavery in whatever form and however disguised, and the nefarious trade in women and children so often carried on in this Colony for the most infamous of purposes. The fruition of your work in this direction is not yet complete, but the policy you have done so much to inaugurate and carry out will never cease to be honourably associated with your name.\n\nOf your labours in the Legislative Council, of your connection with various public movements, of the sense of duty you have imported into all your public acts, we can say no better than that they afford a standard for all those who succeed you to be guided by. We now beg to bid you farewell, and finally wishing you a prosperous voyage and the enjoyment, for many tranquil years, of the repose you have so well earned, we subscribe ourselves, your sincere friends.\n\n(Signed)\n\nP. Ryrie, W. Keswick, F. B. Johnson, John Macgregor, T. Jackson, H. Hoppius, M. E. Sassoon, Chas. Kain, L. Beyer, G. de Champsaur, Wm. H. F. Darby, Alfred T. Manger, D. R. Crawford, H. W. Davis, A. McConachie, E. Schweblin, A. F. Smith, N. J. Ede, H. L. Dalrymple, W. Reiners, E. Vogel, J. A. dos Remedios, M. C. do Rozario, A. G. Komano, J. H. dos Remedios, Dalton Sayle, T. Chuter, J. T., J. P. C. da Boza, F. Snowden, F. D. San2000, W. Kerfoot Hughes, Chas. C. Cohen, G. B. Lammert, H. E. Braddon, Robt. McMurdo, Francisco A. Gomes, A. S. Gomes, M. D. E. R. Belilios, A. N. Judah, Α. ΜΟΙΤΟΣ, P. A. da Costa, f. A. da, J. Kennard Davis, Wr. Ross, Carl Beermann, J. Keigor, H. A. Wooluough, B. N. Meyer, H. G. James, Noble, T. G. Williamson, P. Chator, H. N. Mody, I. N. Moey, C. P., Geo. O. Scott, E. Mackintosh, J. Loureiro, A., A. da Silveira, C. Danenberg, Eça da Silva, Frederick Stewart, Thos. C. Hayllar, William Wotton, Victor H. Deacon, A. B. Johns012, Edmund Sharp, Alfred P. Stokes, Remedios, A. dos, A., Jorga, V. C. Rocha, A, Dauenberg, Harry, J. M., Wicking, Armstrong, D. Musso, F. Chastel, J. Euston, H, Squier, Kuhlmann, Schonberger, Bioh, Wm. Danby, W. E. H. Dann, W. M. Morgan, Samuel Hughes, William Legge, J. Y. V. Vernon, E. C. Ray, H. FORS, Ng Choy, J. J. Francis, William Hartigan, D. Buttunjes, Framjee H. Arjanee, D. M. Mehta, H. M. Mehte, D. Muncherjos, Dorabjee B. Tate, S. M. Mehta, E. C. Fallaniee, F. S. Lungraua, J. J. Arnasjoe, R. C., R. C., Nnzerally asset, Abdoolally, M., P. Eduljee, S. Moonya, Fazal Dharumsey, Hajee Ma, Mahomed, H. N. P. B. Cam, H. N. Cooper, B. Byramjes, S., bl., A. K., D., N. Saklatvala, F. D. Gnyder, M. E. Atėjee, H. A. Sherazie, H. M. 8. H. Esmail, R. Danjoe, Dadabhor, A. Camrondaen, Hosungjes, B. M. Nooroodia, ine Egmail, Hajee, H. Ahmed, Osman Esmail, A. K. A. Mahomed, E. N. Mehta, Patali-, Oma Goulam, Hossein, John Mahomed, A. Surdorkhan, E., M., Chio, Allarak, H. R. Hakim, M. B. Polishwalla, S. 1). Momshee, M Convalla, D. M. Conr, 9. F. Tamboly, S., DR, D. R. Billie, S. Rustomjee, C. B. Mehta, K. B. Mehta, S. Mereetanjos, M. M. Colgwall, 11, 19, B. d. Patell, H. Rustonjes, $. Marwareo, J. Marvard, J. Marnaree, H. Mahomed Reya, S. Cawasjen, Framjee Cawasjee, C., Taramohomed, S. B. Phabha, B. Khimj, C. P. M. Kurbullai, E. Khimjoe, A.., M, M. A., Tamatit Scar, Kacajera, P. Madar, A. R. Madar, M. H. Mader, Nathan, Daniel E. Caldwell, Rangel, J. Obaday, S. A Jayme, C., J. S. Judah, Marr, yor Bail, Dyor, Rose, Smith, F. W. Eastlacke, A. H. Ching, G. C. Cox, C. F. A. Sangster, Dorabjoe Nowrojes, Francis, encis A. Hazelaud, James L. Chalmers, A. Newton, F. Grobien, Luis Hauschild, R. G. Alford, E. F. Alford, E. Barnie.\n\nThe hon. gentleman remarked that there were still a number of signatures to be added to the list, which it was known would come.\n\nThe CHIEF JUSTICE, who was evidently suffering...\n\nPage 464",
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        "content_text": "h \n\ntele \n\ntutta \n\nthe public if Sie \n\nhave no doubt it would both for himself and J. Imale retired, be said of judges \n\nIt does \n\nbut \n\nkaartL- \n\nZo \n\nLLLL \n\nthe suns \n\nhome, \n\nmay \n\nthat these \n\npetly scandals afford sufficient ground \n\nfor interfucce \n\nCHAY \n\nshould only perdicen \n\nB \n\nW \n\npant. \n\nviduct explosion \n\nthe part of the C. J. and perdure as exepine. \n\nthe \n\neret way \n\nunles \n\nit would \n\nbut purbaby \n\nin his perundings, and prepand to insist on his \n\nretiremut be \n\nthe weld. \n\nare iquominios retreat. \n\nan \n\nte arre \n\nLine \n\nverimu \n\nalire \n\ntill \n\nIbchien he has resigned \n\n4 about to do to. \n\nRUWIH Jul 18. \n\nhume \n\nto beat \n\nadd \n\nsomething \n\nk \n\nSept 19/80 \n\nDans informed that he has retire. The news came \n\nSwire through \n\nона \n\nof the Banks & W. Russell \n\nwho hopes the Attorney finesse : \n\nauthenti \n\n: do is suitably \n\nThis came to me today. 8. 16726. \n\nI meant to put ib \n\nHong Kong - Daily Press \n\n467 \n\n27th April 1880. \n\nSUPREME COURT. \n\n26th April. \n\nIN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. BEFORE THE HON. CHIEF JUSTICE, Sir JOHN SMALE. \n\nKWAN KOI CHUNE AND OTHERS V. FONG SUI FENG AND OTHERS. \n\nThis being the day fixed by a decree of the court for the trial of certain issues in this suit, \n\nthe issues having also been fed by the decres, the special jurors summoned were in attendance. Mr. Ng Choy, instructed by Messrs. Sharp Toller, and Johnson, appeared for the plaintiffs, and stated that Mr. Hayllar, Q.C., his leader, was in Canton but was expected back in the afternoon. The Attorney-General (Hon. E. L. O'Malley) and Mr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton and Wotton, appeared for the defendants. \n\nAs the usher was opening the court in the usual and prescribed form, and when he came to that part of his speech where he calls upon \"you good men who are summoned to try the issues \n\nin this case,\" the Chief Justice sharply interrupted him, saying, \"Stop, there are no issues yet; wait till you are told.\" \n\nHis Lordship next called for the Registrar (one of the Deputy-Registrars only being in attendance) and on that official's arrival a conversation took place between him and the judge which was only partially audible by those in Court. It appeared, however, that the Registrar wished one of his deputies to attend to the case, he having other business, but his Lordship said he ought not to have fixed his business for that day, and that as he had chosen to attend when the case was first before the court he must attend it throughout, as if the Registrar were changed the court was deprived of his assistance. Upon the Registrar making some reply, the Chief Justice told him he was not going to argue the matter, he (the Registrar) could walk out of court if he liked. The Registrar was heard to say something about having been in courts in Westminster, to which the Judge laconically replied, \"Oh, have you?\" \n\nHis Lordship then asked where they were in the case, and said he believed the first business was the appointment of a receiver. Had the parties named anyone? \n\nMr. Ng Choy replied that they had named a gentleman to the other side, but the defendants did not consent to him, \n\nHis Lordship then asked where the affidavits were, as it was for the court to judge. \n\nMr. Ng Choy said they had not filed any affidavit. \n\nHis Lordship-Have you anything to say, Mr. Attorney? \n\nThe Attorney-General-At present, my lord, \n\nI have nothing to say. \n\nHis Lordship (rising)-Then this case can come on again on another summons. \n\nThe Attorney-General-Well, now I have something to say, my lord. \n\nHis Lordship-Oh no, not now; you said you had nothing to say. \n\nThe Attorney-General--My lord-- \n\nThe Judge walked out, the Attorney-General vainly endeavouring to obtain a hearing. \n\nThe Judge's exit was followed by a general laugh from the bar and jurors, which afterwards gave way to indignant comment on what had occurred. \n\nThe Registrar followed the Chief Justice into his Chambers, and shortly afterwards returned into court and said the jurors need not wait; the Chief Justice said they would not be wanted now; but they were not discharged. \n\nfully. Ment Hebro \n\n7",
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        "content_text": "THE DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 26TH, 1881.\n\nTO THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM KESWICK.\n\nSir—The subscribers to the accompanying testimonial have confided to us the duty of its presentation, and in their names and our own of saying to you a few words of farewell. The numerous signatures appearing in the appended subscription lists, representing every class and race of this community, will afford you the best testimony of the wide-spread appreciation entertained of your public career, but it will not be out of place for us to pass in brief retrospect some of the more eminent services you have rendered the Colony.\n\nChief among these stands the able and straightforward performance of your duties in the Legislative Council, where you have for so many years held a seat. In a Crown Colony the position of an Unofficial Member of this Council is full of discouragement; having no power of initiation, and with the certainty before him of being outvoted if in opposition, his task is limited to criticism of the schemes of the Government. Your labours in this direction have been of the highest importance and utility, and more especially as a guardian of the public purse the attitude you have unflinchingly maintained cannot, we think, be very well over-estimated.\n\nThe little leisure which the pressing responsibilities of a large Mercantile House have left you, you have ungrudgingly bestowed on many other public affairs. As Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce your wide experience and knowledge of business have been of the highest value. The City Hall owes much to your care and attention. Schemes of charity and for the assistance of the poor or friendless have ever found in you a real sympathiser; and there are but few institutions organised in this Colony for humane or charitable purposes that have not profited by your liberal aid and advice.\n\nNot less worthy of mention have been your services to many of those Public Companies with which much the prosperity of the Colony has now become identified. To your power of labour, business capacity, and grasp of detail, these important concerns are in no small degree indebted for the prosperity they enjoy; and it is no slight to others to say that probably to you more prominently than any one else, is due the confidence which joint-stock enterprise now enjoys in the Far East.\n\nWe now beg to bid you farewell, and with every wish for your enjoyment of your well-earned holiday, we remain, your sincere friends,\n\nE. F. ALFORD\n\nR. G. ALFORD\n\nADOLF ANDRE\n\nJ. R. ANTON\n\nF. H. AJANEE\n\nTHOS. ARNOLD\n\nP. B. C. AYEES\n\nM. 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SVENSON\n\nSUN TAI LEE\n\nSUN TAI WO\n\nSUNG CHEONG LOONG\n\nTACK LEE\n\nTAI SAN TONG\n\nTAKO YER MAN\n\nTAI HENG\n\nTAI WING\n\nD. B. TATA\n\nJ. S. TAYLOR\n\nJOHN THURBURY\n\nB. F. TOLATEE\n\nTONG WO BONG\n\nH. J. H. TRIPP\n\nS. F. TUMBOLY\n\nU YOKE SAN\n\nUN QI U\n\nR. O. VANTA\n\nJ. Y. V. VERNON\n\nHARRY WICKING\n\nR. HATTERTON WILCOX\n\nT. G. WILLIAMSON\n\nWING CHEONG CHAN\n\nWING HUNG\n\nWING KEE\n\nWING MOW CHEONG\n\nWING YEE CHAN\n\nWO CHAN\n\nWO HANG\n\nWO LUN\n\nWONG CHAI SANG\n\nWONG HOK CHOW\n\nWONG YEK PUN\n\nE. L. WOODIN\n\nWILLIAM WOTTON\n\nYECK LOONG\n\nYEN LOONG\n\nYIP TAI\n\nYOW LOONG\n\nWILLIAM YOUNG, M.D.\n\nYOK LOONG",
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        "content_text": "MAILS EXPECTED,\n\nTHE ENGLISH MAIL.\n\nThe P. and O. steamer Miripore, with the west English mail, left Singapore at 4.2, on the 27th August, and may be expected on the 1st September.\n\nPACIFIC AMERICAN MAIL.\n\nThe Pacific Mail steamer City of Tokio, with the American mail of the 6th August, arrived at Yokohama on the 27th August, and is due here on or about the 3rd September.\n\nINDIAN MAIL.\n\nThe direct steamer, with the next Indian mail, left Calcutta on the morning of the 18th August, and may be expected to arrive here on or about the 3rd September.\n\nSTEAMERS EXPECTED.\n\nThe Cosens Steamship Company's steamer Diored left Singapore on the evening of the 5th August, and may be expected on the 1st September.\n\nThe steamer Nianlangu left Blangupora on the 27th August, and may be expected to arrive here on or about the 3rd September.\n\nThe steamer Loudoun Castle left Singapore on the 29th August, and may be expected to arrive here on or about the 4th September.\n\nPOST-OFFICE NOTICES.\n\nThe authorised List of Mails issued in connection with this paper is the one published twice each day in our Extra, which is always sent to a much later hour than that given below.\n\nA MAIL WILL\n\nFor Shanghai.—Per Glenogle, to-day, the 30th instant, at 3.30 P.M.\n\nFor Bangkok.—Per Tientsin, to-day, the 30th instant, at P.M.\n\nFor Yokohama.—Per Sinter, to-day, the 30th instant, at 4.30 P.M.\n\nFor Fuzhou, Amoy, and Foochow.—Per Kwanghing, to-morrow, the 31st instant, at 11.30 A.M.\n\nFor Manila.—Per Pampay, to-morrow, the 31st instant, at 3 P.M.\n\nFor Batavia.—Per Fortyen, on Thursday, the 1st proximo, at 4.30 P.M.\n\nPublished at Yokohama.—Per Mutarera, on Friday, the 2nd proximo, at 5 P.M.\n\nFor Aden and Suez.—Per Takusaga Maru, on Friday, the 2nd proximo, at 5 P.M.\n\nThe Postal Guide published in 1870 being now somewhat out of date, a revised issue is printed in the Chronicle every fortnight, which supersedes all previous editions.\n\nNo responsibility can be accepted in this Department for incorrect replies to verbal enquiries, or to notes addressed to subordinate officers. The staff told off to sell stamps should not usually be relied upon to give correct information. The Postal Guide is the standard on which reliance may be placed.\n\nMAILS BY U.S. PACKET.\n\nThe United States Mail Packet \"Oceanic\" will depart on WEDNESDAY, the 31st instant, with Mails for Japan, Formosa, the United States, Canada, Honolulu, Peru, &c., which will be closed as follows:\n\n2.15 P.M. Registry of Letters closes.\n\n2.30 P.M. Post Office closes, except for Late Letters.\n\nLetters for foreign countries may be posted on board the Packet with Late Fee of 10 cents extra Postage until the time of departure.\n\nCorrespondence for the Non-Union West Indies must be sent by this route.\n\nMAILS BY P. AND O. BRITISH PACKET.\n\nThe British steamer Packet \"Andona\" will sail on THURSDAY, the 1st September, with Mails to and through Brindisi, to Naples, Malta, and Gibraltar.\n\nThis is the best opportunity for forwarding correspondence to Mauritius.\n\nN.B. This Packet carries no mails for the Australian Colonies.\n\nMAILS BY THE FRENCH PACKET.\n\nThe French Contract Packet \"Oxus\" will be despatched on THURSDAY, the 1st September, with Mails to and through the United Kingdom and Europe, via Naples; to Saigon, Straits Settlements, Labuan, the Australasian Colonies, Pondicherry, Madras, Calcutta, Aden, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar.\n\nCOURTS FOR CLOSING THE CONTRACT MAILS.\n\nTHE ENGLISH MAIL.—DAY BEFORE DEPARTURE.\n\n3 P.M. Money Order Office closes.\n\n3 P.M. Posts close, except the night box, which will always be open out of office hours.\n\nDAY OF DEPARTURE.\n\n7 A.M. Post Office opens.\n\n10.30 A.M. Registry of Letters closes. Posting of all printed matter and packets closes, except for Late Letters.\n\n11 A.M. Letters may be posted with Late Fee of 10 cents until 11.00 A.M., when the Post Office closes entirely.\n\n11.40 A.M. Late Letters may be posted on board the packet with Late Fee of 10 cents until the time of departure.\n\nCONCESSIONS AS TO SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' LETTERS.\n\n1.—Persons in H.M. Army or Navy, Non-commissioned Officers (Sergeants and Superintending or First Class) or School-mistresses may send correspondence letters to the United Kingdom via Brindisi or via Naples at the rate of one halfpenny (regardless of weight), which may be prepaid either in Imperial or in Hongkong stamps.\n\n2.—The same privileges apply to officers as above described.\n\n3.—All such letters prepaid at the rate of two cents (four pence) will be forwarded to or from the United Kingdom by private steamers and not by the mail packets.\n\n4.—Private steamers leave Hongkong for London about every ten days.\n\n5.—The letters must not exceed half an ounce.\n\nNo handkerchiefs, jewellery, &c., can be sent, even with the covers open.\n\n6.—If from a Soldier or Sailor, his class and description must be stated in full on the letter, the cover of which must be signed by the Commanding Officer, with name of regiment, ship, &c., in full.\n\n—If to a Soldier or Sailor, his class and description with name of regiment, ship, &c., must be stated in full.\n\n—Soldiers and Sailors have no privileges with regard to books or papers, nor can these be prepaid with foreign postal stamps.\n\nLETTERS FOR THE UNITED STATES BY SAILING SHIP.\n\nWhen it is desired to forward letters to the United States by a sailing ship which is not notified as carrying a mail, it is only necessary to pass the letters in the ordinary way, marked with the name of the ship, and prepaid 10 cents per half ounce as usual. The Post Office then undertakes the duty of obtaining notice of departure and despatching the correspondence.\n\nIt is requested that the letters be posted if possible at least one day before the date fixed for sailing.\n\nTEA MUSTERS.\n\nPersons who send Mustard of Tea through the Post in this country are requested to have them made flat or square instead of round, as it is quite impossible to pack round tins securely in the mail bags.\n\nPrinted and Published by N. Chalmers, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.\n\nTHE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.\n\nNo. 7490.\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\nAugust 28, Somata, British bark, 710, L. from London 21st May, General.\n\nAugust 28, Tientsin, Chinese steamer, 315, F., from Pakhoi 23rd August, and Macao 28th, General.—C.M.S.N. Co.\n\nCOMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS.\n\nIncorporated 7th June, 1848.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFENWICK, MORRISON & Co., Hongkong, 15th May, 1881.\n\nCAPITAL PAID-UP $200,000.\n\nRESERVE FUND $60,000.\n\nThe business will be carried on as heretofore by the remaining partners, M. Crowe.\n\nHEAD OFFICE—14, Rue Bergère, PARIS.\n\nAGENCIES AND BRANCHES AT:\n\nLYON, BOURBON, MARSEILLES, SINGAPORE 22nd August, General.\n\nCLEARANCES.\n\nAT THE HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE.\n\nOaklands, British steamer, for Saigon.\n\nLaurel, British bark, for Singapore.\n\nAtalanta, British steamer, for Shanghai.\n\nTientsin, British steamer, for Shanghai.\n\nRajanathawuhur, British steamer, for Bangkok.\n\nDEPARTURES.\n\nAugust 29, Moxart, German bark, for Tientsin.\n\nBANKERS:\n\nBank of England.\n\nThe Union Bank of London.\n\nMessrs. C. J. Hambro & Son.\n\nThe Hongkong Agency now fixes Deposits on Terms to be arranged on application, grants Drafts and Credits on all parts of the world, and transacts every description of Banking Exchange Business.\n\nF. SCHWEBLIN, Agent, Hongkong, 12th April, 1881.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. J. J. dos Remedios is admitted to our Firm for Settlement.\n\nHongkong and Shanghai Bank.\n\nWith effect from July, 1881.\n\nREISS & Co.,\n\n1317.\n\nThis Day Opened a BRANCH Office of our Firm in Hongkong (Takaw and Trivandrum).\n\nDINCKS & Co.,\n\nSwatow, 3rd July, 1881.\n\nTO BE LET.\n\nTO LET.\n\n1356.\n\nAugust 29, Decres, British steamer, for Manila.\n\nTO LET.\n\nApply to ED. CHASTEN & Co., Hongkong, 5th July, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nFIRST FLOOR OF HOUSE No. 50, QUEEN'S ROAD, suitable for Offices.\n\nFor Particulars, apply to T. G. GLOVER, No. 1, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 7th July, 1881.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION & ENGLISH-HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.\n\nUndersigned has received instructions to Sell by Public Auction, on FRIDAY, the 2nd September, 1881, at 3.30 P.M., Residence of A. G. Lewis, Esq., No. 39, Queen's Road Central, the whole of his ENGLISH and CANTON-WARE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.\n\nComprising English-made Mahogany Wardrobe, English-made Walnut Drawing-room Suite, &c.\n\nCatalogues will be sent gratis to Families on application.\n\nTaxes to be paid by Purchaser.\n\nC. R. LAMMELST, Auctioneer, Hongkong, 20th August, 1881.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nThe Undersigned, having been appointed Agents to the above Company, are prepared to INSURE against FIRE as Current Rates.\n\nCOARE, LIND & Canton, 18th August, 1881.\n\nTRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.\n\nThe Undersigned, having been appointed Agents for the above Company, are prepared to INSURE against FIRE.\n\nTH. KOFFLER, Hongkong, 4th August, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nNo. 2, OLD BANK STREET.\n\nNo. 6, PEDDER'S HILL.\n\nNo. 1, Skywos.\n\nApply to DAVID SASSON, SONS & Co., Hongkong, 19th July, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nFIRMSEN & Co.,\n\nAgents.\n\nApukang, 16th November, 1879.\n\nLIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nThe Undersigned, as Agents for the above Company, are prepared from this date to GRANT POLICIES against FIRE.\n\nApply to WING KEE, Commission Buildings or Hongkong Bank, Hongkong, 2nd January, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nCOMMERCIAL HOUSE, West Point, with GODOWNS and STORAGE, Central, Waterside, with new landing stage.\n\nVery suitable for the occupation of a Merchant or Trader.\n\nAlso, a Small GRANITE GODOWN.\n\nApply to J. B. CRAWFORD, Esq., Hongkong, 16th August, 1881.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nAugust 28, the Eclipse between 4 and 5 P.M., No. 2, Queen's Terrace, showed strong N. to S.W. winds with heavy sudden shifts, fine bright sunshine, and bad strong N.E. trades.\n\nSINGAPORE SHIPPING.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\n15, Rames, British steamer, from Bangkok.\n\n15, Normandy, British steamer, from Saigon.\n\n15, Ganyao, British steamer, from Deli.\n\n15, Vadera, British bark, from Sandakan.\n\n16, Vider, British steamer, from Pakhu.\n\n16, Cosseris, British brig, from Bangkok.\n\n15, V. Prior, Dutch steamer, from Cheribon.\n\n16, May Flower, British steamer, from Malacca.\n\n16, Cleator, British schooner, from Labuan.\n\n16, Bay, Belgian steamer, from Samarang.\n\nHONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nNOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.\n\nThe DIVIDEND declared for the Half-Year ending 30th June last, at the Rate of 23/4 per cent (One Pound and 3/4 Sterling) per Share of $125, is PAYABLE on WEDNESDAY, the 17th instant, at the Bank of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.\n\nBy Order of the Court of Directors.\n\nT. JACKSON, Chief Manager, Hongkong, 16th August, 1881.\n\nDEPARTURES.\n\n16, August, Norwegian steamer, for Bangkok.\n\n15, Teirmastus, British steamer, for Saigon.\n\n16, Gangmade, British steamer, for Deli.\n\n17, May Flower, British steamer, for Malacca.\n\n17, Glencoe, British steamer, for Hongkong.\n\n17, Choang H. Kiam, British steamer, for Hongkong.\n\n17, Sie, British steamer, for Malacca.\n\n18, Larios, British steamer, for London.\n\n18, Makts, British steamer, for Moulmein.\n\n18, Rajpootan, British steamer, for Calcutta.\n\n18, G. G. v. Lashberg, Dutch steamer, for Batavia.\n\n18, Rames, Sarawak steamer, for Hongkong.\n\n18, Bylgia, German bark, for Chefoo.\n\n18, Banca, British steamer, for Cheribon.\n\nSHARP, TOLER, AND JOHNSON, Hongkong, 1st August, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nGODOWNS (to be LET).\n\nApply to MEYER & Co., Hongkong, 3rd March, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nGODOWN situated on MARINE Lot No. 12.\n\nApply to TURNER & Co., Hongkong, 9th June, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nPREMISES MEN'S ROOMS CENTRAL, now in occupation of Messrs. Deis & Co. and R. Caruso, adjoining Messrs. McGregor, Fraser & Co's.\n\nPossession on 1st September.\n\nApply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Hongkong, 29th August, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nROOM IN EXCHANGE BUILDING, 20, GIN ST., containing 3 Rooms, and enjoying a good view of the harbour.\n\nWater laid on.\n\nApply to The General Agents, with the approval of the Conventing Committee.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents, Hongkong, 24th July, 1881.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned have been appointed Sole Agents for the Sale of their Goods in Hongkong and China by Messrs. J. & B. Task, London.\n\nDIRHAM.\n\nApply to MEYER & Co., Hongkong, 15th August, 1881.\n\nALGAR AND COMPANY, HOUSE AND ESTATE AGENTS.\n\nBROWN, JONES & Co., UNDERTAKERS, MOURNING STATIONERY, MONUMENTS MANUFACTURERS.\n\n9, HOLLY WOOD ROAD.\n\nJAPAN GAZETTE.\n\nYOSHIYA.\n\nAgents appointed in Hongkong and South China for the Japan Gazette, Japan Gazette Summary, and Hong List.\n\nOrders for Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received at this Office.\n\n16, Tengkung Daily Press Office.\n\nRECORD of AMERICAN and FOREIGN SHIPPING.\n\nAgents, ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Hongkong, 4th September, 1879.\n\nPOSITIVE GOVERNMENT SECURITY LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\n30 per cent. of Gross Receipts deposited with Government Trustees specifically to meet Claims under Policies.\n\nASSURANCES GRANTED on advantageous terms.\n\nApply to RONAED SCHELLHASS & Co., Agents, Hongkong, 1st January, 1881.\n\nFOOD.\n\nARNOLD KARBERG & Co., CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\nA. TONG, PHOTOGRAPHER.\n\nA. CHUNG NGOL SAN, appointed to E. & A. N. Co.—Chinese Daily Press.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nIt is the best medium for Advertising among the Ports.\n\nIt has been established upwards of TWELVE YEARS, and enjoys the largest circulation of any Chinese paper in the Southern Ports of China.\n\nIt is carefully edited by an experienced European Editor, and contains FULL and EARLY Commercial Intelligence.\n\nAUCTION SALES.\n\nTerms for Advertising can be obtained at the Office, Wyndham Street, Hongkong; or from the different Agents.\n\nHongkong, 5th January, 1877.\n\nD. K. GRUPPEn boide.\n\nTHE COMMERCIAL JOURNAL for CHINA, JAPAN, &c., Published in the Office of the Anglo-Chinese Daily Press on the Morning of the Departure of an English Mail.\n\nContains the LATEST AND FULLERT TRADE INTELLIGENCE, REPORTS of MEETINGS of COMPANIES, THE LATEST TELEGRAMS, together with the POLITICAL and GENERAL NEWS of the Far East.\n\nThe Trade Report has large circulation in Hongkong, the Ports of China and Japan, the Philippines, Straits Settlements, &c.\n\nHongkong, 5th October, 1877.\n\nNo. 170.\n\nMINUTE.\n\n30th August, 1881.\n\nSir. J. P. Hennessy.\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Heade.\n\nMr. Herbert.\n\nCountney.\n\nMr. Cathy.\n\nLord Kimberley.\n\nDec. 9th, 1881.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 136, of the 30th August, forwarding the Estimates for 1882.\n\nAnd also of your despatch No. 4, of the 2nd September, forwarding the usual returns connected with the Estimates.\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III)\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "SUPREME COURT.\n\n3rd November.\n\nORIGINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE THE FULL COURT.\n\nIN THE MATTER OF TANG ACHAN AND OTHERS, RETURN OF WRITS OF HABEAS CORPUS AND CERTIORARI.\n\nThe Attorney-General (Hon. E. L. O'Malley), instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. E. Sharp), appeared for the Crown to move that the writ be quashed. Mr. Francia, instructed by Messrs. Brereton and Wotton, appeared for the prisoners.\n\nThe Attorney-General said he appeared to move that a certain writ of habeas corpus, which was issued on Tuesday, 1st instant, might be quashed. There was a slight preliminary difficulty in the way of his making that application, which he had no doubt he need only explain to their Lordships to have removed. The writ required the gaoler to make a return and be with the prisoners in Judges' Chambers that day, and he understood that in supposed obedience to that writ the Gaoler had parted with possession of it and was unable now to obtain possession of it again. There was no doubt it was an irregularity to part with it.\n\nMr. Francis asked the Registrar if there was a return to the writ.\n\nThe Registrar said there was.\n\nMr. Francis submitted any motion to quash the writ after return was too late; it had been answered and dealt with and the return was filed. The Attorney-General said notice of motion to quash the writ was given on Wednesday, and he understood it was only within the last few minutes that the gaoler, moved by whom he knew not, and acting under whose advice he knew not, had handed the writ to the Registrar. That was not a return to the writ. The writ commanded the Superintendent or keeper of Victoria Gaol to have, not before that court, but \"before the Hon. Francis Snowden, Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, at his Chambers,\" the thirteen prisoners, together with the cause of their detention. His Lordship had not yet sat in Chambers for the purpose of receiving that writ, and the return had not been made. He submitted that the writ was on the face of it irregular. It purported to be dated the 1st November, but it certainly appeared to be some evidence of having been prepared in September. The form might be very suitable in September but became altogether inapplicable in November. He saw the word \"September\" scratched out and the word \"November\" put in. He submitted this was a writ issued under the provisions, or protected by the provisions, of the Act of 31st Charles II., and there was no authority, no right, in a judge in Chambers to issue a writ of habeas corpus to which the return was to be made to him in Chambers.\n\nMr. Francis said the writ was granted in court. The Attorney-General said if the writ was granted in court and by the court the irregularity that it was granted by a judge in Chambers was got rid of, but then the question was this, was it a proper writ, granted in proper form? Leaving the substance of the writ apart, the writ required, as he submitted, to be endorsed by rule of court, which showed the nature of the authority by which it had been issued. His second objection was that the writ was issued on insufficient material; there should have been an affidavit by the person in whose behalf the writ was sued out, or an affidavit by someone else accounting for the non-appearance of the affidavit of that person. The next objection he had was to the appearance of the writ. A writ of this kind was one of the most dignified documents that could well be brought before the court, and he put it that some respect ought to be shown to form as well as substance, but this document had been very materially altered, and in several important particulars, since it became a writ.\n\nAn affidavit by Mr. Hayward, Acting Superintendent of the Gaol, was then read, stating that the writ was served upon him by Mr. Wotton, solicitor, and that Mr. Wotton subsequently obtained it back from him, and re-served it upon him with certain alterations.\n\nThe Attorney-General pointed out the alterations which had been made—which included the insertion of the date and of other names for the prisoners—and submitted that if ever there was a case of gross irregularity this was one, and that the writ ought to be set aside.\n\nMr. Francis said the objections of the learned Attorney-General were two-fold; first, that whether good or bad on the face of it the writ was issued on insufficient grounds; secondly, that the writ was bad on the face of it. He (Mr. Francis) submitted that was not sufficient to enable or justify their Lordships in setting it aside. As to the irregularities on the face of the writ, there was one simple answer, they had been waived by the person to whom the writ was addressed, who had endorsed a return to the writ and filed it in court. All mere irregularities, he submitted, had been waived by the return being made. To take the objections seriatim, the insertion of the words \"by rule of court\" was not compulsory. The substantive requirement of the Act of Parliament was, he submitted, satisfied; the writ was verified by the signature of the judge who awarded it. If their Lordships would look at section 3 of the Act of 31st Charles II., they would at once see the requirements of that section were not compulsory; it was, \"and to the intent that no sheriff, gaoler, or other person may pretend ignorance of such writ\" it was to be marked in a particular way and signed by the person who awarded the same. He submitted that the writ in this case was signed and headed in proper form, and the rule of practice which might have sprung up in England that the signature should be by way of endorsement was one beyond the requirements of the statute, which were simply that the writ should have a reference to the statute somewhere on the face of it and be signed by the judge.\n\nAs to the place where the writ was made returnable, he submitted that they were now under the Supreme Court Reconstruction Ordinance, No. 12 of 1870, and by section 2 of that Ordinance, the word \"Court\" or \"Courts\" shall mean the Supreme Court and shall include the Chief Justice and Puisne Judge sitting together or separately in Court or in Chambers. Although no doubt it was an oversight to make the writ returnable in Chambers still it was equivalent to making it returnable in Court.\n\nAs to the names, their Lordships had the letters of request signed by the prisoners in their own proper names; the only names under which they could make the application. Those names appeared in the body of the writ of habeas corpus and so far as the body of the writ was concerned he submitted it was a perfectly good writ. All the alterations in the body of the writ were initialed by the Registrar of the court, and their Lordships would assume they were properly made; and it was competent for them to look on the names in the margin as a mere memorandum to the gaoler to point out the proper men; they need not be introduced into the body of the writ. They also had the letters of request, in which the men gave their own proper names; the warrants were annexed and they said they were detained under those warrants, so no possible confusion or difficulty could arise before his Lordship at the time he granted the writ that the men applied in one name and the warrants were in another.\n\nHe submitted the writ was in good form and asked what objections the person on whom it was served or anyone else could raise to it when he had already actually filed his return and when the prisoners were actually in the building. As to the question whether the writ ought to have been issued on affidavit by the men themselves, he submitted that to this case no affidavit was necessary. His application was based solely on the ground of the detention of the men for more than eleven months, and that appeared on the very face of the warrants which were before his Lordship, and there were no other facts about which to make an affidavit. He therefore submitted that it was a matter of indifference whether there was an affidavit by the prisoners or anyone else, because the one fact on which the application was founded, and on which his Lordship granted it, was a fact visible on the face of the documents, that the men had been detained in prison since the 27th November last.\n\nHis application was based solely on the unreasonableness of the detention; no irregularity in the warrants or want of jurisdiction was alleged—they might come later on—but his application was based solely on the one ground of the detention in prison for over eleven months. It was one of those cases in which the thing was self-evident and required no affidavit to support it. In conclusion, he would simply say this, if the learned Attorney-General thought it worthwhile to prosecute his motion and ask for a decision, he was quite prepared after that decision, if it should be against him, to ask for the issue of a fresh writ.\n\nPage 526",
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        "content_text": "main question for the issue of a fresh writ he could not help it, but the affidavit had been prepared to enable a fresh application to be made, which their Lordships would, as a matter of course, at once entertain without notice. As the hour for the return of the writ was now long past he simply moved that the writ be read.\n\nThe Attorney-General, in reply, said he had nothing to do with ulterior proceedings; they were not before them. He understood his friend to say that he made his application for the writ upon one ground alone, without reference to the formality or sufficiency of the proceedings, but with reference only to the length of time the men had been detained, and that and all sufficient facts appeared on what was before the court. He did not know how to reconcile that with the fact that by the same motion his learned friend moved for a writ of certiorari. Then with regard to a return in Chambers, he thought there could be no question that what had happened in court was not a command to the terms of the writ. Suppose in England the judge ordered the return to be made at his Chambers in Serjeants' Inn, and instead of producing the man at Chambers in Serjeants' Inn the Superintendent had gone to Westminster Hall, that would not be a return to the writ. To say that by some circumstances the writ had got into the hands of the Registrar and been marked as filed was not at all to establish that any return had been made to the writ, and if it were so he apprehended there was some way of getting out of it when there was a notice of motion filed in court to the effect that that writ was going to be questioned and that a proceeding was pending to quash it. But there had been no return, because the person to whom it was addressed had not taken it to Chambers. As to the endorsement, his friend quite misapprehended the nature of the objection he had endeavoured to put before the Court. The practice had been that the writ should be endorsed by rule of court. That was not a mere form or matter of ornament, but something which disclosed on the face of the writ that it had been issued in term time, and in a proper way, that was, by rule of Court, and not by the mere fiat of a judge. That was the practice which had so far prevailed here; it was the practice which had prevailed in England long before that Court was established, and by the Ordinance that practice was adopted. Then a most extraordinary and audacious proposition had been put before the Court with reference to the Court and the judge. The Interpretation Ordinance simply said that wherever the word \"Court\" occurred you might substitute \"judge,\" but it did not say everything that could be done by the court might be done by a judge in chambers. It did not mean that wherever by the common law the court could do a certain thing a judge in chambers could do the same thing. Then they were told they could disregard all these additions, and that the names in the margin were simply a memorandum. Let the writ be capable of being executed without that addition and the addition invalidated it. Then there was one point his learned friend had not touched on, the omission of a date. As to the necessity of an affidavit the learned counsel read a passage from the case of Bexson and Welsby, and contended the affidavit was necessary.\n\nThe Chief Justice, in giving judgment, said he was of opinion the writ must be set aside on the grounds that the learned Attorney-General had stated; they appeared very cogent ones, and he had very little doubt each one of them was in itself sufficient to induce the court to set aside the writ. With regard to the first objection, that the writ was not endorsed, he thought what the Attorney-General said was very true, that it was absolutely necessary to observe forms in these particulars. It was well observed by Mr. Justice Coleridge that though technicalities were not of much importance, forms were the essence of all liberty. He did not think the irregularity was covered by the return of the papers. How they came into court he did not know; he believed they had been filed, but he did not think that affected the argument of the learned Attorney-General. That the writ was made returnable in Chambers was clearly a mistake: the words were evidently put there for a proceeding in vacation, and by some mistake the fact that the writ was moved for in term was not noticed. That in itself, he thought, was enough to set the writ aside. With regard to the alterations and endorsement of names on the margin of the writ, he must say he thought it was a most improper proceeding, and he was astonished that Mr. Wotton should have induced Mr. Hayward to give up the writ. And the importance of it was that the learned counsel referred to the alteration as a matter of which the court should take notice. He was of opinion that when the writ had been once served on the gaoler that was the only good service, and that ground alone would be sufficient for discharge of the writ. He need not refer to the other points.\n\nMr. Justice Russell concurred. He said, if for no other reason than to mark the sense of the Court of the enormity of this offence of altering the writ he would concur in the quashing of the writ. That a writ of the court should be altered and amended after having been signed and that it should then be relied on by Mr. Francia on the ground that the alterations were initialed by the Registrar and therefore regular, was something monstrous.\n\nAs to the necessity of an affidavit by the men, he thought the material before the Court might have been sufficient on which to grant the habeas corpus. The writ, if good in other respects, would have been good without the alteration of names; if the gaoler was able to identify the men it was clearly his duty to bring them to court. The writ, however, was apparently prepared to bring them before a judge in Chambers, and therefore it was all wrong so far, but so far as the construction went, he thought the cause of detention was shown in the warrant of admission. The matter could be easily cured, but on the irregularities appearing on the face of the writ and other grounds pointed out by the Attorney-General he thought the writ ought to be quashed.\n\nMr. Francis then moved for the issue of a fresh writ, which was granted and made returnable on Saturday.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\n5th November.\n\nCRIMINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE THE FULL COURT.\n\nIN THE MATTER OF YEUNG AKAM AND TWELVE OTHERS; RETURN OF WRITS OF HABEAS CORPUS AND CERTIORARI.\n\nMr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton and Wotton, appeared for the prisoners, and the Attorney-General (Hon. E. L. O'Malley), instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. E. Sharp) for the Crown.\n\nMr. Francis said he had to move their Lordships for the discharge of the prisoners on two grounds—first, that the warrant of commitment and the whole of the proceedings from beginning to end were wholly illegal and void and coram non judice; and secondly, assuming that their Lordships were against him on that point, and to hold that the warrant of commitment and proceedings were originally good, on the ground that the detention in prison under the warrant had been unreasonably and unnecessarily prolonged, and had become illegal. Assuming the warrant on the face of it authorised the detention of the prisoners for such reasonable time as was necessary for their delivery over to the Chinese authorities, any detention beyond what was reasonably necessary for the purpose became illegal. He would only point out to their Lordships in support of that view that if the present warrant was good to authorise the detention of the prisoners in gaol for eleven months it was equally good to authorise their detention for eleven years.\n\nThe Chief Justice said the language of Ordinance 2 of 1850 authorised detention until the order of the Governor was made.\n\nMr. Francis said that must mean, as every other statute meant, such reasonable time as might be ordinarily sufficient for the purpose. Their Lordships would see that if those prisoners were to be detained until the Governor's order for their rendition had been issued it was within the power of any Governor to detain them in prison for the whole period of their natural lives, and that certainly could not be the intent and meaning with which the Ordinance was passed. Any reasonable detention, all the circumstances of the case considered, was justifiable under the warrant, but their Lordships, he thought, would take it as a matter of common knowledge that if any reference to England or Peking had been necessary in connection with these prisoners time enough had elapsed for three or four separate communications to England and a dozen to Peking. To show what was the\n\n527",
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        "content_text": "deliver up any prisoner of their own motion and without demand. The Ordinance undoubtedly went beyond that and gave power to the Magistrate to make his warrant of committal on such an amount of evidence as would justify commitment for trial of a prisoner for an offence committed in Hongkong, but there had been no requisition by the Chinese Government, and the magistrate therefore had no jurisdiction, as the men were not legally in custody on any other charge, it being clearly the magistrate's duty, after the ruling in the Kwok Asing case, to discharge them at once when according to the evidence of the very first witness they had done nothing in Hongkong which rendered them liable to be proceeded against as dangerous to the peace and good order of the colony. The proceedings were therefore coram non judice. The whole proceedings from beginning to end, including the charge of the police constable that the men were dangerous to the peace and good order of the colony, were a sham, utterly groundless, and for the sole purpose of detaining the prisoners in custody in the hope or expectation that some application might be made by the Chinese authorities.\n\nThe Attorney-General rose to object to this language.\n\nThe Chief Justice said Mr. Francis was only using it arguendo.\n\nMr. Francis continued his argument. He contended that the provisions of section 1 of Ordinance of 1850 as to the commencement of an inquiry by the magistrate when it appeared in the course of another case that a crime had been committed in China could only apply when there was a bona fide case before him, while here there was none, as the magistrate ought to have discharged the men at once when it appeared they had done nothing in the colony.\n\nMr. Justice Russell said he presumed that if the men were murderers in China they would not be peaceable subjects here.\n\nMr. Francis said that point was authoritatively settled by the judgment in the Kwok Asing case, and again cited the passage already quoted. With reference to the other point, the unreasonableness of the length of the detention, he said he did not know that he could add anything to what had already incidentally dropped from their Lordships in the course of the case. The questions their Lordships had asked almost showed their views on the subject. Whatever might be the cause of the delay, whether they were waiting for a proper requisition for rendition or any other reason, there was no power in the Executive to detain them. The necessary conditions did not exist when the men were committed; there was no power to detain them until these conditions were complied with or until such formal requisition had been sent in.\n\nThe Attorney-General said a requisition was not made on oath and would therefore form no part of the proceedings returned by the magistrate on certiorari.\n\nMr. Francis said there were cases which showed that in England the absence of the warrant of the Secretary of State would be fatal.\n\nThe court reserved judgment and remanded the prisoners until Tuesday.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\n8th November.\n\nCRIMINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE THE FULL COURT.\n\nIN THE MATTER OF YUNG AKAM AND TWELVE OTHERS, PRISONERS IN VICTORIA GAOL.\n\nThe prisoners were brought up on remand on a writ of habeas corpus.\n\nMr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton and Wotton, appeared for the prisoners, and the Attorney-General (Hon. E. L. O'Malley), instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. E. Sharp), for the Crown.\n\nThe Chief Justice said the court did not propose to deal with the case finally to-day. They had given it a great deal of consideration and they saw there was much that required very careful attention, and as the Attorney-General had offered to produce reasons for the detention of those men for the very long time they had been in gaol, they thought it would be well to give him an opportunity of doing so on affidavit. This was quite within the spirit of the extradition laws of the United Kingdom, because if after the lapse of two months the prisoners were not handed over or discharged, the officers of the Crown had to give the reasons. They thought, following that course, it would be well that the Crown should state by affidavit the reasons for which they had detained those men. The affidavits would be served on the other side, who would have an opportunity of answering them, and, if it should be desired, of cross-examining the witnesses. They therefore adjourned the case to give an opportunity of affidavits being filed and so on. The point was whether the magistrate had power to commit without a requisition from the Chinese authorities.\n\nMr. Justice Russell said that in Ordinance 2 of 1871 it was stated that the Treaty of Tientsin was to be read as though it had been in existence when Ordinance 2 of 1850 was passed, and in the 21st section of the Treaty of Tientsin it stated that \"if criminals, subjects of China, shall take refuge in Hongkong, or on board the British ships there, they shall, upon due requisition by the Chinese Authorities, be searched for, and on proof of their guilt, be delivered up.\" It apparently made it clear there that before the law was put in motion, there should be a requisition by the nation demanding them. By Ordinance 2 of 1850, the positions were, first, that a complaint or information was made by an officer of the Chinese Government; secondly, that some other case was going on in which the magistrate learned there was some person in the colony who had committed an offence against the laws of China, upon which he issued his warrant; thirdly, there was some person in custody and it appeared there had been an offence committed against the laws of China. The question arose under that third section, could the magistrate get rid of the prisoner by committing him and say, \"I put it now in the power of the Governor to detain him until he gets a requisition from the Chinese.\" While the prisoner was under remand, he was under the control and jurisdiction of the magistrate; could the latter put him out of his jurisdiction by handing him over to the Governor to rendite him before he had got, either directly or indirectly, a requisition from the Chinese Government? because in the second section of the Ordinance it said-In any such warrant of arrest or any subsequent warrant of committal—that was the case here—it shall be sufficient to describe the crime or offence of such person in terms the same as, or similar to, those contained in such complaint, information, or communication aforesaid.\" The question was, did not that contemplate that before there was a final committal warrant, there should be before the magistrate a requisition stating what was the crime said to have been committed in China? That was the point. All the cases he had seen seemed to show that the magistrate had before him a requisition for the surrender of the accused, and where that was not the case, the committal was held to be bad. He could not find that this was clearly decided in the Kwok Asing case; there was a good deal of discussion there in the Chief Justice's judgment, but it was not clear. He understood Mr. Francis to contend that was so.\n\nMr. Francis said that particular point had not struck him, but he thought he saw what was in his Lordship's mind. His contention was that there must be a requisition in every case.\n\nMr. Justice Russell said the magistrate had complete domination over the case as long as it was under remand, but immediately he committed it, it was out of his hands. The point was, whether, if there was no requisition placed before the magistrate, the committal was not bad.\n\nMr. Francis-In other words, whether, though he can detain under the second branch of the section, he can commit without a requisition.\n\nMr. Justice Russell-Yes; whether he can put the prisoner out of his control. In the Kwok Asing case, there was a requisition made through the Colonial Secretary.\n\n530",
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        "content_text": "The Attorney-General said that in connection with that point it occurred to him whether the return might not be amended so that it might set out, if the fact were so, that there was a requisition before committal.\n\nThe Chief Justice said that might be done. The prisoners were then remanded until Monday next.\n\nMr. Francis said he would venture to call their Lordships' attention to the fact that these men, convicted of no offence, were brought down in chains and handcuffs.\n\nThe Chief Justice said that ought not to be, but until the men were brought into court he had no control over the authorities; it was a question for the gaoler what he thought necessary for their security, but when they came into court their handcuffs were taken off.\n\nPage 531\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\n14th November.\n\nCRIMINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE THE FULL Court.\n\nIN THE MATTER OF YEUNG AKAM AND TWELVE OTHERS, PRISONERS IN VICTORIA GAOL.\n\nMr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton and Wotton, appeared for the prisoners; the Attorney-General (Hon. E. L. O'Malley), instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. E. Sharp), appeared for the Crown.\n\nThe prisoners were brought up on a writ of habeas corpus. At the last sitting the court asked for the reasons of the Government for the long detention of the men and also for further argument as to whether a communication from the Chinese authorities to the magistrate was necessary, and whether the magistrate was required to state on the warrant the authority under which he acted.\n\nThe Attorney-General said he had not been able, or he should probably say he had not thought it right, with all deference to their Lordships, to file an affidavit setting out at length the reasons for the detention of the prisoners during the long period they had been kept in gaol, for two reasons. To state these reasons fully would involve the disclosure of matters which it was not desirable, if it could be avoided, to make public, and he had also been very much moved by the consideration that the question which was raised by Mr. Justice Russell upon the other part of the case appeared to him to be of really very much greater importance, and one upon which it was quite possible the court would dispose of the matter without reference to the long detention. Assuming the court were in favour of upholding the commitment upon that other point, he would then, after careful consideration, be quite prepared to trust the case, with regard to the long detention, upon the construction of the statute. He apprehended that although it was no doubt very desirable good reasons should be given, yet the statute was not so worded as to call for them; it might be an omission, and one that ought perhaps to be supplied, but he would submit, and he would take his stand on that ground, that in construing the statute as it must be construed it was not open to the court to insist upon such a statement of reasons.\n\nThe Chief Justice remarked it was the Attorney-General's own suggestion that such reasons should be given.\n\nThe Attorney-General said that was so, but the court would remember the way in which he put it, that if it should become material to the judgment of the court he would do so, and he certainly at the time, looking to many decisions which had been given in England, thought it might become material, but looking again to the wording of the statute, which was singularly strong, he would submit it could not become material here. Then with regard to the other point, which certainly appeared to him to be one that required consideration, the question was raised by Mr. Justice Russell, and what he said was very clearly reported in the Daily Press—There was some person in custody, and it appeared there had been an offence committed against the laws of China. The question arose under that third section, could the magistrate get rid of him by committing him and say, I put it now in the power of the Governor to detain him until he gets a requisition from the Chinese. While the prisoner was under remand he was under the control and jurisdiction of the magistrate; could the latter put him out of his jurisdiction by handing him over to the Governor to rendite him before he had got, either directly or indirectly, a requisition from the Chinese Government?—whether, in fact, the conviction was warranted by the state of facts at the time the conviction was made, whether the fact that a requisition had been made by the Chinese authorities and communicated to the magistrate was not essential, and ought that not to be in some way disclosed in the proceedings? He had filed an affidavit which had been sworn to by the now Acting Colonial Secretary, who was at the time of the proceedings Acting Police Magistrate, and he submitted that affidavit disclosed very completely the necessary facts upon that view. The learned Attorney then read a portion of the affidavit, which was to the effect that while the proceedings were pending the Hon. Frederick Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary, received a confidential letter from Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton enclosing a dispatch from the Viceroy desiring the rendition of the prisoners.\n\nMr. Francis said he objected to that portion of the affidavit being taken as evidence; it was hearsay evidence; it stated the contents of a document which was not produced.\n\nThe Attorney-General said it was a confidential official letter from an officer of the Foreign Office, and he apprehended it was not open to them to make that public, especially when they were in a position to state on oath the purport of it.\n\nMr. Francis said he would maintain that the requisition must be produced and that the court could not receive secondary evidence of the nature of its contents.\n\nThe Attorney-General said he had no doubt the Colonial Secretary would be in a position to say this was a confidential document and could not be produced, and that would be sufficient to justify secondary evidence. The learned attorney continued to read the affidavit, which set out that the magistrate waited on the Acting Colonial Secretary and was informed of the receipt of the dispatch and the purport of the contents of the same, and that after the investigation, being satisfied the thirteen prisoners were the same as those described in the Viceroy's dispatch and were Chinese subjects, he committed them to the safe custody of the Superintendent of the Gaol pending the order of the Governor. The learned Attorney submitted that affidavit showed there had been an application already made from the Chinese authorities, and that this case was not the same as the hypothetical case referred to by Mr. Justice Russell of prisoners being committed to wait the subsequent action of the Chinese authorities. The requisition was sworn to have been made before the prisoners were committed. The prisoners being in custody, there being a requisition from the Chinese authorities communicated to the magistrate, the magistrate being satisfied after investigation, that the men were Chinese subjects and that there was a prima facie case against them, these facts being before the court there was a substantial ground for upholding the conviction, and that being so the court would not for any informality or deficiency in the commitment quash it.\n\nMr. Francis, having cited cases in support of his contention that the warrant must show on the face of it the authority under which the magistrate acted, argued that the receipt of a requisition by the Colonial Secretary would not be sufficient to make the proceedings before the magistrate regular; the requisition must be communicated to the magistrate in proper form, whereas that had not been done, and such information as the magistrate possessed in reference to it he had himself gone after. The affidavit stood condemned on the face of it, as whatever it might show as to there having been a requisition it also showed that the requisition was never communicated to the magistrate and did not now form part of the proceedings. The learned counsel also argued that the prisoners were entitled to have the requisition before them at the time of the investigation, on the ground that they were entitled to go into the question of identity and show they were not the persons named in the requisition, as also that there had been no crime committed. With reference to the unreasonableness of the detention, the matter stood precisely where it did before. He never supposed the Attorney-General would or could give reasons for the detention.\n\nPage 531 appears three times at the top and three times at the bottom, indicating the end of the page.\n\n \nPage 531\n\nPage 531",
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        "content_text": "Such reasons as existed would not stand investigation for a moment. He submitted the prisoners must be discharged, and with costs as these proceedings against the Crown, under Ordinance 4 of 1857, which provided that \"In all proceedings where costs would have been recoverable by or from private parties they shall be recoverable by or from the Crown.\" If this had been a case of false imprisonment in a lunatic asylum or private house the prisoners would have been entitled to their costs and they were equally so here.\n\nThe Attorney-General briefly replied, and with reference to Mr. Francis's remark as to the unreasonableness of the detention, said he thought he had stated pretty clearly to the Court the grounds on which as counsel in this case he had not thought it right to file an affidavit such as was referred to on the last occasion, and he thought it was explained on grounds as to the confidential character of the things that would be disclosed in such affidavit. He was sorry to hear his friend say no reasons could be given by the Government because such reasons as existed would not bear investigation. That was a remark which it was entirely beyond the scope of his friend's duty to make, and he need not deal with it further.\n\nMr. Francis said the Attorney-General was wasting the time of the court in offering to give such reasons if he could not do it.\n\nWith reference to costs the Attorney-General contended they should not be given on such a proceeding as this, as no costs could be recovered by the Crown were the commitment upheld, and there ought to be some mutuality in the application of that provision; otherwise speculative applications for the release of prisoners might be made in every case. The question of costs was, however, premature.\n\nMr. Francis remarked that costs could be given for or against the Crown.\n\nJudgment was reserved.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nNovember 18th.\n\nIN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE THE FULL COURT.\n\nIN THE MATTER OF YEUNG AKAM AND TWELVE OTHERS.\n\nThe prisoners were brought up on remand under a writ of habeas corpus, and the Court gave judgment on the application for their release.\n\nMr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton and Wotton, appeared for the prisoners, and the Attorney-General (Hon. E. L. O'Malley), instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. E. Sharp), for the Crown.\n\nThe Chief Justice delivered judgment as follows: On November 3rd a writ of habeas corpus was issued from this Court calling upon the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol to bring up the bodies of Yeung Akam and twelve other Chinese prisoners named in the writ, and have them in Court on Saturday, November 5th. On that day the prisoners were brought up by the Acting Superintendent of the Gaol, with his return endorsed on the back of the writ, showing that they were in custody under warrants of commitment made by the Hon. Malcolm Struan Tonnochy, then Acting Police Magistrate and Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong. The warrants were as follows:-\"In the Police Court of Hongkong, under Ordinance No 2 of 1850, Section 3. To Solal Singh, Constable of Police in the said Colony, and to the Superintendent or keeper of the Gaol at Victoria in the said Colony. Whereas it has appeared to me Magistrate in and for the said Colony, that the said --- is a subject of China and that there is probable cause for believing that he hath committed the crime of murder within the jurisdiction of the Emperor of China; these are therefore to command you, the said Constable, to take the said and him safely to convey to the said Gaol at Victoria aforesaid, and there to deliver him to the said Superintendent together with this precept; and I do hereby command you, the said Superintendent or keeper of the said Gaol, to receive the said into your custody in the said Gaol, and there to detain him, the said until you shall receive some order from the Governor of Hongkong relative to the further detention, discharge, or transmission of the said to the nearest Chinese authorities or to such other Chinese authorities as to the Governor shall seem fit; and for your so doing\n\nGiven under our hand and seal, 22nd day of December, 1880.-M. S. TONNOCHY.\"\n\nUnder a writ of certiorari issued on the same day as the writ of habeas corpus the depositions taken in the case with an order of commitment written under a conviction or order, it is difficult to say which, were returned by Mr. Wodehouse, the present Magistrate. The date of this conviction or order is December 22nd, 1880. It is signed by M. S. Tonnochy, and certified by him to be a true copy of a summary order made by him on the day mentioned. I presume that some verbal order is referred to, as it differs from the one written under the depositions.\n\nThe arguments came on for hearing before the Full Court on Saturday, November 5th, 1881. Mr. Francis on behalf of the prisoners moved that they be discharged. The Attorney-General opposed it on behalf of the Crown. The grounds on which the application for a discharge were made were two-fold. (1st) That the whole proceedings and the consequent commitment were invalid as being coram non judice, the Magistrate having no jurisdiction. (2ndly) That the detention under the warrants, even if they are legal, had become illegal as a reasonably long time - eleven months; that such detention ought only to be for such time as is necessary for their rendition.\n\nIt was argued that the provisions of Ordinance No. 2 of 1850, had not been complied with, that there was no complaint or information or communication from the Chinese authorities, or investigation before the Magistrate during the course of which it appeared that the prisoners were subjects of China, and had committed an offence against the laws of China. The depositions and proceedings returned under the writ of certiorari show that none of these sources of jurisdiction were before the Court.\n\nOn November 27th, 1880, the prisoners were charged before the Hon. M. S. Tonnochy with \"Being concerned in the murder of Yung Sui Fat, Young Lui Kwai, and Yung Sha Kwai in the village of Shung Yeung in the Kwai Shin district. Also dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony on the 22nd instant.\" They were remanded till the 30th November. These are two distinct charges, the latter being under Ordinance 9 of 1857, Section 6. Next follows a statement of what Mr. Stokes, the solicitor for the prosecution, said on the 7th December, when they were further remanded till the 14th without further evidence. This ought not to appear on the depositions at all, as it was a statement made not upon oath. It was not improper for the Magistrate to allow of the statement, as it was very pertinent to the subject of a remand. They were further remanded till the 21st without further evidence and then to the 22nd.\n\nThe depositions of three witnesses are returned which show prima facie that these men were brutally murdered by the prisoners in Chinese territory. The first witness, P. C. MacMullin, proves that on the information of some Chinese informers he went to a house in Hung Ham in this Colony and found the prisoners there. He arrested them, I believe, as being dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony, but whether he was authorized to do so by a Justice of the Peace does not appear.\n\nIn the Kwok Asing case, Sir John Smale laid it down that some word or act within the Colony is necessary to bring a man within the operation of this Ordinance 9 of 1857, Section 6. With the greatest respect for Sir John Smale's opinion, I cannot go quite so far, inasmuch as \"reasonable suspicion\" is all that is required by the Ordinance to authorize a Justice of the Peace to cause a person to be arrested as dangerous to the peace and good order, with or without a warrant. In this case there was no reasonable ground even for suspicion, except that some one told the Police Constable Mac Mullin that they had committed murder out of the Colony.\n\nIt will be observed that the order of the two charges is inverted. Instead of being charged under the Ordinance 9 of 1857, they are charged with murder out of the jurisdiction, and in point of fact this was the only question ever entered upon. The last was apparently an excuse for the detention of the prisoners, and having served its purpose was dropped. This seems to me a serious irregularity, and Mr. Francis argues that as the crime committed against the law of China did not appear during the course of any investigation the proceedings were coram non judice, as on this the Magistrate's jurisdiction was founded.\n\nTo give the Magistrate jurisdiction under Ordinance 2 of 1850, one of four things is required. First, a complaint or \"information,\" the words being understood in the ordinary technical sense well known in Magisterial law, the latter being the foundation of a \"warrant,\" the former of a summons. These may be made by any one,\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "94\n\nand that\n\nan\n\nunfavourable verdict would\n\n(Conf.)\n\nbe certain pecuniary ruin to our\n\nfamily.\n\nmake\n\nam\n\ntherefore prepared to\n\nany sacrifice\n\nwhatsoever to\n\nkeep the case out of court.\n\nI tried to see O'Malley\n\nyesterday\n\nbut\n\nsucceeded\n\nfailed. He was\n\nall day and I only\n\nminutes on\n\nengaged\n\nsaw him a few\n\nthe road, but his\n\nviews of the prospects of my case\n\nare not encouraging.\n\nApart from pecuniary\n\nruin I dread the\n\nconsequences\n\naffecting my position in the Service.\n\nYour\n\nObedient Servant\n\n(signed) E. J. Eitel\n\nFrom Eitel to His Excellency the Governor.\n\n23rd November 1881.\n\nSir,\n\nI saw\n\nO'Malley but he has not yet seen Francis this morning\n\nthough he was\n\nexpecting him every\n\nmoment. Until he had seen Francis,\n\nsaid he had.\n\nFrancis, O'Malley promised not to\n\nsay a word to\n\nanybody.\n\nHe\n\nis decidedly of opinion that the case will be withdrawn. He thinks it would be well if Your Excellency did not give Sharp any\n\ndetails until it is\n\nseen whether or not the case\n\nwill",
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        "content_text": "wife to go for his reputation. As to special damages, if it is true that he goes to Shaugher today retained by Jarines his plea falls to the ground.\n\nMour obedient Servant,\n\nHique E. J. Eitel.\n\nTrue copy\n\nMin Acting\n\n209\n\nCopy of letter from B Eitel to W Shark.\n\nDear Ju Sharp,\n\nFriday, 24 September $281.\n\nI inclose the writ require.\n\nIts te taking the Attorney General's written opinion, at this early stage, I think it is premature and had better be deferred until the Colonial Secretary has filed their petition and until we know clearly what position the prosecutor takes and argument likely to be.\n\nIn view of the possibility of his succeeding in his actions\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211",
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REEL & C  \nAgants,  \nHazlerne, Auprat, 1864–  \nNOW HO  \nAsia A  \nRats 241 Djeran  \nWan, Hir  \nFR Stamps & 120  \nPalom  \n34. 27 Pivl  \nFe 143 POR  \nGur. she  \nBossen & the  \n(Mar. 27) Guldberg  \nMalinzčan  \nJan Allama  \nBut ser  \n909  \nSimon & Th  \nBangkok  \nSubarusana  \nSink 20  \nChunk  \nSat. 25, Prouenitos  \nthen r  \n3127  \nMiles  \nFin Che Sau Supt.  \nClich  \nRulles  \nPos To! Pingager  \n3  \nRowe Dea  \nBipi  \n9.  \n1  \nFeb 22 Roma  \nRei  \nPuar Yuen Co  \nSea  \nSAL  \nP  \nBelt,  \nElab  \nNov. 27 bias  \nHip-  \nChir  \n1 Bulaos  \n6 at Ashanus & Muda  \nSator  \njous 24 Canges  \n33:7  \nPek Kon  \nity of Teko  \nam nu 50 MASC  \nDeut  \nNov, 2 g  \nAae. ses! Code  \nE  \nPosit  \n:25h 101 Petaryen  \n1 ofer  \nReb  \nThe islamiza, Asats for the refrants iny, s prepren to AGERT BISKS  \nFB-ness per Ce. Nors  \ni  \nThe Virates Fitfache Chorozup sa dissyfucced with a Company's betteltu vit ! * Pre unes fasaun jodur forest of Lebanon, i Association, Tandliale at the Pratite neg din. formerly orgive, bas deindied down to hand oumaly to Contentus, washer the demption of t. mura thicäct, nuluring holders an ink in oraygutten ka tiks der E Mount 10 track. Ex Rate it from complete set of Bhunia sentian Seals, the re- deal rates and rear its tenet in its wining liúint beint zavrtal to Reserve Pant. present extant, Mossem Pasta, the Governor faneral or the Lebanon, kas iernat o apostel  \nvestnanca, dariɛining a series of stringent regulations cafealated to obcok, of pot geno ! kput a stop to, the windshem and enrolas rena of most rarelie in maroma  \n----  \nBRADLOE AMITH,  \nBonetary. kung, Rith a príl, 15x1,  \n............  \n194  \nNATIONAL SULANCE PANY OF WTETTIN,  \nty forbidden to put up tents or other why Tatarstant hawayers park kinds of sheer lite the distries of Aron's for the shove Campmay ara payanad to  \nthe traza, to light Sky A Raguis Frans Curent Tadie.  \nprovisions in the daily. No one in qui  \nJvwed to break off a bough or evez a twię į  \nfrom the brews. It is fortidden to bring af  \nboasts hunion, be shay lursan, mulei,  \n24, or an her kind of all, withi  \nthe duntos. Shoalit ozen, shuip, desks, ar ļ  \nHourkony. th Aĺny, 1821,  \nOVETTE IMPERIA  \nAMYR &  \nCOMPANY.  \nA BE A 2000.  \n'NORTON & Co. Hi, 2015, 1821  \nBATAVIA SHA AND FIRE INSURANC  \nCHIMPANY.  \n*  \nMay  \ntatesigod, haing been appointed recaud Agerator the phone feetpake, ani pro Hungerlan pregná Kosmynoms ne tolkayna zeml  \nMARINE RISKY. edictors at Corrent 16 sise, ravalle with heat of Tik Jamen, dat the actacipal Kamelin, wond the url.  \nA KROKUYAGE ei famry-rumun på Ope¦ Bay Chi  \nhinwed all LACIAL Hing Kinng num JAN DISES. Policicur on Viruplars Build Lido  \n1. Pas an extent of Per  \nA MITTWERP Pu can! (903) ANC pie Crawant Legal Et on wife wil dat  \nat javnima chegued for kasvavanise an islamgia Levant ning details the line of the Jasno Migue Picim at Pulley.  \nRUSSPLL & Come  \nPIRE AND LIFT. Danza gast Prak avled st Chur other pantsruce oucle be found thin the end Sister. Coxiltimates Halperion preted initu, toy will be irredeemably ¦ for Kids äxanxarren in China. antented.  \nPERSONAL REMINISCENCES OP LORD SATTORD.  \nYeteran lyn god for youry Priso  \nFlingum ad vos ural feel the Bstania  \n'you'  \nMATAR & Chn, granata.  \nBaalstrix. r  \nHargkone, It Tunare, Exte,  \nAntiqu  \n41 p  \nA GRINDE GASKI hear ALGAMES MARITIME Vulva tark  \nWhite Yengizza ROLE TRANSPORTS REUNIRS,  \nPARIR  \nFan! Young www.200 1995, Truh  \nTHE WORTH BRITISH PIKE AND MATEN INSURANCE COMPART  \nDE NHW RALAND  \ngunay to make a bridge of hosta CAPITAL, CLOGANY Das Mimina Stadings  \nbronce déturgavo no5 Rygtehteli ine the patri  \ngets allied armis, the veut of ten Dank ATENDARS  \n¡Cartran, Sym  \nCarr A To.......  \nTezda, laving been uppgirtali AGROS of the Alony, vel to  \nIrving noviall be tact the Ensino Vedamind, Inning bidea EPETUTTI MAUTO HK to Aras Wallabia. The it time I had fonts for the lace Clayang, are pronamed in all para of the Woll 4 Pelaw Leicnger wo when I want one: ACCEPT FICE A MAGNE EIŠKA K  \nli, Iard Stintfand to dies with Carvers Bates, allowing im nota.  \nAdmiral Sir James Daedale this bird the  \nBritaux. O renting the ship, we heard!  \nGRO. D. STEVENS & C  \nfrikany, 241 305, 1989.  \nCOMPANY OF HANDONG.  \notee of the picwe call out in si sove of noj PYRANBARDANOG DIRA KNAVBARU great respect  \n\"Cune, cum, Prince, this wilt nerar du j  \nBlue Jancary, 1994  \nHOTTOFT  \n----  \nFTUR QUINA PIRE LIBURANÑE COM PANY, LYMCPRD,  \nTe Votersigned, being tom puckered is pegod to AZUBES WBST-CLASS  \nBeck buster swabben.\" Agent a len Crageny, as propered in sever Anaco, aut tier 15-  \nC¦ YUNANIRO av tinm, nå Ratum,  \nby wurde, hace pan, do! ARPT RENK gas in use winin Tar that By Dirty sange wall teguleer,\" in word Strate  \nm. Toch Norway A  \ntord to the Admin, whe whenced to re  \ninto the re  \n* Print of Triingua, the amez  \nEyself the boner of sating to your  \n$325,\"  \nSIRNSSEN A CS..  \nhan pase of distributi ig a estudi prax. POLA 16 14 49erida prod analygyaka (13 ane) Sharaboleza wa kaka parkiábatel \"business  \ndaine Company  \nFril  \nMash  \nLis  \nMwe  \nSon Hanlin  \nJJ 3 Cou  \nFeb. 20 Ti. 3  \nAze  \nFab. 19. Büs  \nFirs  \nYANCH ; 9% *0*  \niDou. I't. Margar  \nrish | Man Yung Wzg  \nJet  \n5:0  \nBlested & Ca  \n2301.& 6. B. N. CO  \nJH  \n3. Dell & Qu d. Ses  \n- zle she | 66 | Bavarra à Co  \nSamalei, &  \n37K thong & Sani  \n3. M  \n2. Quandrid Squ  \nJun. 23  \nuesרני  \nMAGASAKL  \nIN PHAI OK 3 Faxrany. THES.  \nir, je (3,  \nYORONAMA.  \nIN Pass 10 JAPONY, 1991  \nAuri  \na.  \nAdamsta, Hall & Co  \nBangkok  \nBeamch  \nActonick  \nfun pro Jan.  \nArgon  \nBirla S  \n332 in  \nCaptai  \nBiguney  \ndo  \n•Carlis  \nAline  \nFren. Sir  \ntiiases & Co  \nFab. Kutafi  \nFre  \nOoh. Es choegin  \nKid, ade  \nJ  \nChines  \nFeb. 19 Tawi  \nN.C..  \nAbout Py Gantry Art, Karhe & Co Snorr  \n3. Crabap  \nAmesed 31 | Captain  \nBulmack  \nVen. Willigis  \nBril  \n13  \n1  \nAnna  \n!D'  \nHid  \nAs  \nथ  \nJ. SA Mo  \nBrin  \nCeb  \nS  \nBeth  \n236  \nP. 31, C  \nPas 2 Wel  \n20. B  \nbarte  \nGov, sch  \n50  \nSan. El Wostokyo  \nLamb Peter  \n3.1.6 Br  \n'anim  \nBb. A! W  \nDuelo  \n28 Cast-su  \n1966. 2; M«Guita  \nBag & C  \n: Hutbew  \nSapt, on sale  \nAint-enh  \nOur str  \n$: Willey Do  \nCaro  \nPASTJ  \nCabin  \nthe  \nCag  \nFeb.  \n2  \nRicky rick  \nAUT  \nDe 13 Janeken  \n48  \nP.  \nJay  \nY. Man Hou; Ann, s  \nhunting  \nTalag  \n| Ave. pl 1735  \n2. 3. C  \nJuly | 2. 3. Tuoka, sterowa Wa Yuzu  \nWait was D. Laik  \ncintzelan Dan. st.  \nMrk. 18) Verused.  \nBaverik & S  \nthus W's Yan  \n2. Stymes & Con  \nMela SAD  \n4,17,& ki meumbeat De Baena,  \n*  \n4.  \nHet steiga  \nจด แม  \nBalt, By  \nSiooyen à ca  \nwich &  \nRow 1 Kayaci  \nlivi, p  \nEAMING NAME 132.5.  \nPh & Warga Maritions  \nAura C  \nPrk 110 man Aura Gay  \nNOSPHORIA 107. \"AD!  \nJun. LauqUIL  \nCatt plin Urvavy Meets of China. Dullay Jan. 181 W. tidley degan, and at  \nSO WHE  \n12! Simarovie dềmchand  \nG18 Orist  \nلابت اور  \nBak  \nMaria Anon  \nAsc.rol  \nالمقاتلة فكر  \nJ. 1851  \nDTAGEL-  \nSANTIA  \nBell at the tinglin  \nBj  \nGer. 196 Chetan  \n* Get al: ; Lives  \nAnch/5 Ca  \n237  \nAm 25 tais  \nGer. Cutia,  \nHER BRIANNI MAJERTY & SHIPS IN THE CHONA SQUADRON.  \nاوری ارشد را  \nEIG  \nالامل لاله  \nCAPTAIN.  \nJang  \nCW. 'Enct  \nSing  \nS.  \nC'. P. J.,  \nHube  \n237 Captain C. ini se  \nbungkal  \nM  \nPaul Jonas  \nARNOLD KASHERS & C  \nJA Welboort  \nFeb. 12. Brundt  \nOne kan Ju  \nSIGHT  \n4ma  \nc. Di Babes  \nAlden Bean  \nส  \n3447 R 9!  \n11  \nPrecious  \njëngë  \nPhilippines  \nVERISC  \nJan  \nKoyim  \nNothing & Lo  \nHoste Ruskri Custom  \nPerciva  \nPietars  \nSatan 110. 266. No793  \nAzev iska  \nPorti  \nJac. 13; Ornhu  \nAmr, li  \nw stany  \nBelt.  \nArabold, Karimiz 3. Co j  \nConta  \nSurveda  \nCarsha  \nCaires  \n& TILT  \nW  \nBURNOVA A  \nAlly  \nE  \nSub 11 ting  \nLik, bit  \n350 Advatar, dull & vis  \nPole Pruse  \nሊነ ă  \nAmba, Aytmag de Lin |  \nhound  \nLED, God  \nAir, th  \n55 glebies & C  \n14. G. Bo  \nSi | 81. Sohawas  \nB  \nSestrat  \nJin 10 Curn  \nAir M  \n1150 Azamgu. Beil  \nIl  \nI  \nAm. B  \nspric  \n7150 CÂÛ. A. Cargober  \ndove, Riquas te 52253253  \n¡Fanny  \nMtagu  \nJu Yourse  \nNo  \nBST  \nHo  \nBy  \n3 199  \nCum. 14. F. Day  \nDIRECTORS.  \n5156,ties Jai Virus  \nVinterio  \n25  \nSwit  \ndabiases grea branji  \nT  \nALCAL  \n3 W  \nTo  \nriving bip  \nVicin  \nvidle despat  \n2276  \nWireca  \nBanglong  \nKam  \nLa Palm  \nNagamit  \nT  \nPint  \n1927 at 4. Qu  \nMae [namzigrad are pegama Froe this date TOLICIES Frier a tho  \n4. 3. SOKEN.  \nHonka. Mar. 1650,  \nA shy-footing multiprou pracacdotari de stat 8900  \nige tum ire à Smiral, to used to the  \nAmbassúng who he was deligin first-cines Tiskr  \nace in, and hapad i have the boner of his  \ncompany at inner utzi day at the hy  \nBe asid this is loud voie, a da to ve kened  \nby her he had dured to see uner!  \nLINSTEAD & BAVIS.  \nHatokon. 10 Yar i  \nWER ON TAL INSURANOK COMPANY  \nCLIMATRON  \nrelation of a Muressy with so Aspho cera.; PEE LOVBOK ASSURANCE; Bars Foss $70,858.27; Fin  \n2017; then he panel round and socalači INSINENEATED P  \nadaluperespeit  \nStrated's fling of loyalty  \nprofound a bal of a sincero bever  \nfitae vigat must ninna be very me  \nWin, SE1 Kewu  \nSustra  \nBarthe  \nWise & fo  \nPerth. Duels, b  \n! Iselt sure  \nBrit  \n¦ Ane ja  \n372 Ambut. Kacheze de  \nAdamvua, Dlt & Gu  \nSi Orien  \n30 Solussa je ča  \nSW. £. Das  \n74 733. Jaspaik & C  \n18? Siemcare 2 On  \nDay | Captada  \nCrkvara d  \nA.  \n19mm & C  \nAmr. Razer &  \n3.  \nBMW 5  \nKI  \nb. 146. iuge  \nTARTED OF  \nA  \nM  \nNay. Vie  \nA.D. Caltrend baby ho sent  \nthe abi  \nNew, 17 Willi  \nDit, k  \nFah. 19! W. 'g  \nVor Kase of the Yoo Choong rang  \nFranz.ch  \n1.Tan, Estaitija  \nVais  \nden B1 Mayar  \nM  \nJan, 01 1. L. Bray  \nJan. 1):  \n! W 1 Serpe  \nplantes-  \nMARINU DRAÍTMENT.  \nWoxu Y! Bey, of the Chuc ftacey Wing of Agr  \nTun fund of the Tipp the Wire.  \nPure NT Wrath of the Dias dos Bolbores. Ej Kalk Wosa 'GERING, Of Ye  \nthe tonal family was his at slifert arbonated delove. When the Duke of Cambelge was clone to bury his guess palice of crus, o es pale sitt To The Morw, if the Kwang Wins Cheng  \nF  \nJue a feo Jugs at the Eusbance, he went  \nmade, 38 sa priani Poets of You  \nhis dering gown sed sappers, at en mely: Ohm, and 3 andrenia, kt  \none in the morning, that the rema  \nFULC DEPASSTENT.  \npreamed for his Royal [Eigens are in Polizios ishoni è long uy shows perivés ti  \nberek orday. Finding the Date's voles in color ranging the tranka and  \npetraentious bish |  \nSALE WETARPIUNT.  \nPad Retired, the Aubaskede begla ba girs Delineaued for racing directions how they thenat be |  \nplaced. The Rt reduced rates.  \nmer left of meeting, and stared as Cord Stratford  \nMANAGER- AMEL  \nHARTER B doet ko. the f QUERENT RATES to Acolmit Dalitra. Mile, Burapon Rain, May, to ai (44), Enute Pitse of this and Ja  \nHales, D. Pravit 240. Haku, 1218.  \nLO MOLLIDA WIER, 250);  \n26 Jul, 1870  \nwal tell you what the said at TN CITY OF LONDON PIER INATE  \nANCH COMPANY. LIMITED.  \n\"I know bow his Hopal Host In  \nhave bra nga anapes inter than you du.&PURAT-E-PAPERADO  \nBy job op-ed de off, will you,  \nLed Stratford into the room in a towering  \npansion, and culling one of the auction,  \ndeka bice to go and tell that men was in  \nma that he and veekuned to add an  \nZappanger to attack who retuned  \nWeli,  \nPAID UN RESERVE YUVD- UNDO!  \nVodaviest having boa appisależ¦ pete for the hote egy  \nde Acer ass gapal Print 21. Ca Hour  \nCEO, E SERVENY & C  \nFUS  \nSpec  \n107  \nbest app inte!: Flakin  \nNOTICE.  \nNEW YORK BUARD Heilo  \nARNOLD, KARERA & Ca Funkrag dah Sentor,  \n1979  \nTOBZORO JE AMEERTJAN 2 WOREIGN SHIVVINA,  \nma  \nARNIMA KARBERO & Br Hobgob.  \nwith pakai Kid 154 wat de bou?\" m2; V ANCHESTES PIES ASSERASU XAN ON INSURANDA COM.  \nthe Ambassador.  \n\"E sad to bia, my lund, but the paten  \nIn when he had retured to area with  \nTangzage maker Majesty's Kepenti  \nir Fers.  \nCOMPANY OF MANCHESTER  \nAND LONDON.  \nEstanyen 1921.  \n“Ah, gate right. And what was his guy WHIGH TE PA-UP... LEN()  \nджетны  \nNastave  \ndr $12,000 Bracing  \nHe answered, my lord, that is never til  \nyou warah'  \nwa singular featury in Lord Sreat  \nford's new husty dising states  \nager wasid ankenly be kupeared by NOT-  \nPANT. DEMETE),  \nAV Calamone,  \nE, IN Bahat  \nAAAAH  \nمرین و داتا ولول  \nMAJAO  \nH..AM. Fisartut de Cauter  \nANTON  \nii.  \n| Gizyon &  \nLp. 21. Sana  \nBrit  \nButterfici  \nBab 2 Drama  \n; Eiseraces & C  \nADAXA  \nis 14 FCAT, AL  \nMaksija Māc p  \nCebaty derrotial  \nAbi-subt  \nying Thoug  \nJan - grubost  \nConte in tegabi  \ndual-row go vessel  \nAuto gail-Tequel  \ntermiying board  \nplate ut vesti  \nzaube  \nKIT  \nruot  \nINSTA  \nHongkong  \n110 et 1o. Makyn 61905. A. F. M. Chia  \nKi  \nTa  \nCaptain. They  \n10 Curl  \nKoue Forty  \nالشاره کار  \nAcl.Com. 15. Trend Singapur  \nCan J H. Core  \n1. Bəndika Singepat  \nLieut. Geta. M. Gridgn,\"  \nCongres  \n126 ه بر امور باید در  \nClay Jobster the male poze  \nCase Co  \nجوانان ام خالد  \nFJZDIGN MEN-OF WAR ON THE CHINA AND JAYAN STATION.  \nSAN  \nį Abrosa  \nAtent  \n! Alors  \nStrin  \nAsi  \nCumentar  \nAshut  \nSartel  \nHursh  \nKrasin  \nInese ar  \nCAPTAIN,  \nWHEL AR  \nCaptain Stebraz  \nApr  \nFranek z bot  \nChimney Caillard  \nSalyau  \nCommandy T. p  \n$apizca eruntha  \n! Portmate trase  \nAPL-67  \ncezvelta  \nLalion consult  \nKamian (penly  \nNorman Cortla Burcan çembe Fronek roerm Anlene gruntown.  \nSpin test  \nA best  \nTrussian art. I  \nLee Tak  \ngrangi  \nANG  \nJJan. 2ki Yantai  \nDen of  \n24  \n13. A.. Peter & ku  \n1152 Bienesu  \nor Ruh  \nBesin traspe  \nCli  \nEr I hate  \nNermy  \nRana znanst  \n5, 13 Jud  \nPakis  \n#5મા  \nJa  \ne. D  \nunty B  \ntbeats  \nF. 19:  \nKonzulan peran  \nÜnam of ladis l'at  \nah keine  \nDub  \nCAPITAL BEADY Proserineal al:24,668.; Vais  \nAZT JEUSJAL  \nKON HOW WAY, Fr. Chairman. Aerling.cs Tie Hot, F. Cras e Fial.  \nBAN HAR D  \nINSON, n. Qry Mug  \nTholaiesigel ince bean appointed Agrants,  \nthe nas, tavo sad at  \nHing waiters to hit lui. To get Eustis Curat Ra  \nso in this cosul he enjead hea  \nJanga with  \nanother ion, an stcube bad made  \ntwo nista ne doprzeg a dismalei,  \nwill be 16tk 63 the Archansado for signa  \nMistem may to made,\" said Ford Strat  \nford after solating them at  \nthe very!  \nvarsta delen wish to by shini  \nHOLIDAY, WINK Fengkrang, P, Calases, Bir  \n8AMES A  \nMAKARY  \nLIMITED  \nIBAISANCE COMPANY,  \nUkau Orrace. Boku  \nPor  \ni  \nKTM Kar  \nAvary  \na TN, B. Asid Santes C  \nThe CT GRANTS POLICIES  \nCho Vide  \nDESKS 63 ala carte of the Waid this  \nrolita Apnasier. Patribus Divblends sy payday l ANG Coctribes of Design, whether thug bar  \nStoneshalder de ING.  \nLONDON  \nCHANGK  \nAgent China for 164 Urn!  \nWOO LIN YOEN,  \nSperstars.  \nHRAD OVERCE,  \n,, Gran'a End West  \nAquane, Marab. 11.  \n1525  \nThe high spirised pov ciplest at you Colajny, to wop MADINE CHUS NOOI SA Pottery wwwrgir soud, and told Care Brat  \nIs Cursor  \nChime Du  \nfram),  \nPURLINE DAILY  \n1420  \n19 15:Hu  \nsai Busty  \nJea  \n17. storoch  \n228 A  \ner 34 E. A.  \n207 LA. Pete Sou  \n11, the 954 Rogd & Co  \n$49 1.3. Pel & Ce  \nCOMMON.  \niz Posts Iza Persuar, 1962.  \nWe  \nthiaga nee  \n2. Future  \nSHANGWAL  \nOptin A. D. de  \nCHITRA B., Wallin  \nat Am  \n4ptsir. ubrz  \nShpreis Rubotom  \nCaplein 6, Norg  \n| Gayanie Vur Knif  \nfum salar Xiana  \nYehudit  \nJn  \nHouckunz  \nHo  \nGanuzmuñor quite sami, tu l'a  \nV. W. Tong! Hunk  \nCATE  \ntanama  \nK'Ocoeendez C. & Quem! Eskuham  \nCouder kavand Thacistu  \nVisdireuzel  \nViadivostos  \n70  \n30  \nCazzi Tubink  \nflores Valienās  \n91  \nHozekcay  \nVeptam eher  \nSigap  \nCozy Mugle  \nSharvari  \nJapaja Sioengine  \nBul  \nI sinhurs  \nCapla  \nde Doria OnePuik  \nAlquite  \nsaigra  \nNagheaks  \nunder: Suwach  \nMaria  \nSt. Intersburg | Kei  \nTanayoel  \nGardan onze  \nPorcian comedo  \nAmerican curetan  \nPorteraiya grabenade  \n'escri  \nCopiad von Blena Casar Delivra  \n1999 CoA. 1. Cube  \n250  \nB  \nSatt  \nJ'unan  \n'1'  \nPonens  \nItzanino tropløst  \nStuonies ko  \nU  \nSunkia  \nLMR.  \n20-1  \na Federaly, 1  \nGlee's tr  \nChin-ti  \nCutun.ja)  \nching-A  \nQui  \nChopr  \nTw: El Rusi  \nJu : Berish  \n! ! 285 Makin  \nMotl  \nBelarus Primers & Co  \nab W. icatort de  \nac, Kg & Co  \nI For  \nFourt  \n! Bu ba  \nM  \nCens  \nS  \n16.  \nrice na .  \nof Batm  \n10.  \nTi  \nford bat, altough he was his Amasadar, conne  \nDam  \nSHE.  \ni had to ght to repiten hun for what!  \nADAMSON, BELL & Co.  \nProtantes  \nWas tene, ba ce was not hebitaedly careless, i  \nHakone, th May 25  \naa. ari Nem  \nPris 14 96  \nForster, vees & C  \nPAK  \nAnu, b: Jes  \nPell  \nNi  \nBrit  \nMER  \nMac & Co  \nBrit  \nYou werfly  \n--your eyes selaimed Lord Stabd  \n2) pour Brodiva's!orted  \nthe alb  \nThe Eley Durous lunghing.  \nSan VERZONY li les bra gemalenud ormibi. of Pouncy: Vindtisch, Small IVERPOOL AND EXTES ANDA, nge the rest on in cou ubore INSURES TCE COMPANY. iation of uns Chinese ampire in the Hand  \nThe Lederige, As the hoen bias. If show by a  \nHedr'g  \nHolding Counnar, des DOWMEN FRim ta do Chong 3cbeles, sul cenou na Raken  \nGRANTI  \n\"his honda kim, he begged the stine TTM dnced TarifPro for du vilising a head at the tee the infrally of his tespar  \nPOLICIES CALIXTILN  \nthey shoot and racet wordially-oplei  \n20 phemou  \nM3 Mercies & Ce  \n14.&.Tri Cu  \nDr. T. C  \n91 Jr Walent  \n'\\' ctly tun  \nRysl  \ne Fasioo.g  \nThes  \nA2065  \nRates  \nchat kurash, Banglory, or less! Pade  \nTANGSAR LYPHAIK &  \nHongkong. th May, 1  \nU agung, làth Januvɛy, 1577  \nHO! Klykn  \nBritn  \nLins  \n67  \nSiz Martin  \nGen 52  \n155  \nGesinalin & Ca  \nWe, bis!  \n343 · Nils Mottar  \nHung-barz  \nI've got  \nTeling  \nCANTON OISEOAT SQUADRON.  \nPORNO, VONN, HE  \nVry's best 17 149  \nLore via  \n9.19 Mar  \nViking's pani-bak  \nBryster  \nViens' animat  \nint  \nFumar's inchoat Revontiret  \nFinny'sunl.cek Vient Bacolas cruis Viseryʻkk Vicy-gonizi  \nTching-  \nTentang  \nBA Sat  \nPhi  \nB  \nBi-Lin  \nTriag  \nVigganum  \nIni etuier  \nCOMMANDEN.  \nSLATION.  \nHongkong  \n| by  \n5230  \n75 J. Baze.  \nE  \nChai  \nF. B  \nVinery',nical sti  \nLany ie ing  \nChow hi Close Admiral d), ('bing  \nCati  \n4  \nYang Yang L  \nCali  \nPied Pubbled in a meat thinl  \nWare st  \nCanton Piret  \nQual  \nBeg  \nCitol  \nUrise By Foru  \nBegins Porta  \nWhat Cont  \nPucle Perta  \nMonkey  \nHakus Xin  \nB+ Lot un  \n55%22:14001 Heront, Hunsicoma.  \nNo. 7649  \n436  \nThe Hong Kong Daily Press.  \nSLIPPING.  \nANGELS  \nDANKS.  \nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982.  \nINTIMATIONS.  \n(YOMPTOTH A GROOMITEE DE PALTI, QUS HONGKONG WIHE IN Febrylases, tribes teamer, 945  \nVIRE INSURANCE COMPANY DIXIEO. Dkny 18th Plecary, 40-  \nCorporates and 150h Merek, \"S recal-BRAON.  \nNOTICE TO SHARKHOLDERS. Pebermy 22, VOLMDR, Denish adapter. 973,  \nRecognised by the T. toew: Sevation of TORRENT 2018 AD Here, E.. 173 Fektivt, CAPITAL Flot Cars Ge  \nANGGA MUSTING of SHARK --Tune é  \n24,265,000 HOGUbs in the alene Coy with n RAMATZ PORD  \n£59, 190, at the Leaf the y. Vis. 7. Quza's Timcid, at (ait pas The stock, be instant, to meeile Mataista to BAN EPICCO Men, and be Elena Cheatin Ouderr, HANRON),  \nFebruary 28, CasaDEA, Brier, 62  \nY  \nAUCTIONS. PURRIO AUCTION.  \nINTIMATIO IS.  \nRACE HOLDATA  \nimas nadelgum te meived lastration Vodermentioned tenka will (LOSE!  \nPAINE  \nhuma Surgem Wajor MURRAY to Sell for BiL DAY. CU INOSHOW, SAVEDAY tb. TO SUMAR- Adranty Jáhl at 2  \nend 25 inatra, Prayz von Fac  \n\"  \nBowin, Brigas 12th Pub, Mig-2s; HEADOFFIOR-14. Ruz heres PAROD¦ Plans 24 THORDAY, turb Echomap HGTSEJ 77, &  \nFulmer 94, Yes. British rv, 78% Le  \nSolids, Cute and F. General SCG.  \nOLEA RANKS.  \nAT \"ne Haren Hispans Ojo Inst  \nExperky Pre  \nKauai, Cheve sht, for Hofla Minster, Beitials for Away. Pocha, ens tramp vi. Adilok, Gorman bark, for Tas  \nDEPARTURES February, Fame, Brist destit, fur Petrony 22. Hamaw, British slower, for!  \nTi  \nFeby $2. Stok, iliahanet, for  \nXokebena  \nFebruary 2G:=x01\", British Mesmer,  \nfor Sought  \nPASKENCYRS.  \nSAPIVED  \nAGENCIES AND HRANCE A  \n: Exoak.  \nNANTES  \nBom  \nSHOW  \nMALIGE AND, {3\\_  \nSTONEY  \nTORONAMY  \nLONDON HAWKERS  \nThe PA (  \nTHY WIN AND  \n1.cruce  \nMoms. C. J. Hume Has  \nYue Honger geny powers Pixupnitä  \nica Tomas to outcertained on appřánation!  \nA few randife sun sull jarts of the world,  \nINT Escapula sees of king shangs spiness  \n8 February, 199  \nF. COCHINARD,  \nSpeat, foug  \nDENTAL BANK CORPORATION KÁRÍCUNDOSATs my Horan CHADIGAN PAIDUS CAPITAL.......  \nRATE OF IN CHEST ALLOWED  \nthat por Acy.  \nCurumiles and  \n11, the sport thu  \ndongás my CALIORNO COVERED DRAWING  \nHACK WORD VARITE TO TABLES.  \nPer fan Oring Par laws Corporation,  \nURO 0. BOOTT  \nVaror Hogan  \nFeh  \nTEK Mas Baxi or!  \nINDOOR, AND TIME,  \nI  \nMEARTH PLASS DWMNRY CLOCK For the CARTAR), gkeun.  \nKAS, PICTURES, CASA.  \nDISING  \nJARDIN, MATSON & Groepen, Turk Fire Inspired: JIERA, and GAS BRACKETS, Hongkong Ft This  \n300 TEAKWOOD  \nane DESBAKT SPTS, TXA and OK. THE KOKORONG FIAR INSURANCE FRE SETS, KES CHINA, AYASO and  \nCOMPANY, JAJED  \nPEATED WORK  \nNOTOR  \nDA, T2, Cha  \nWILLIAM FORREST.  \n三十二月二行 INTIMATIONS.  \nTHE  \nINLO-CHINA STEAM  \nPwCE 2 PRE MONT  \nINTIMATIONS.  \naan dus on afwan Wang Bankulmat in  \nNAVIGATION et  \nCOMPANY, LIKE  \nDOPE THE ON  \nJAKA MAP & Co. OF ON. SGAMAN  \nDE 100 GR  \nIN B  \nduly paid the allocati eft liable to cucina Aul blau paparents previously now:la | to furth  \nApplications Exe Stuures osatiede in the For resoring is Pregnet, and scre £t be nut w the Giles of the Conryany, and ET FACT HOLLAND HAPO &  \nMAVION & Unshiun Could  \nFL, &  \ncally paid up awers wi listed in the set the  \nHome buy a the belies of bei  \nBCHEDULE OF SINAMER Apers.... IV: 1000! 17+ Propnely Natasha China  \nNavigation  \nEd for palle Bulcription foil Axe 10.  \nDaposi's, Application.  \nIL DUR T-SCHTE! ឬ ៥រ Howe, TURO...  \n?TADLE, SIDENTS, DIN.; For the Suprzin DeY DE PARS!  \nRASSFEE Both of the BA (ABYAL GUARS TOILET LADIE gray, will by COLONNE the 15th CAB, sud HANDLE TOP WASH the 2in my of Foling Instant Antonio HAND SAWINO WA  \nSTAND rundade  \nHeating. P.IVARD.  \n1 gang.  \nFor sýn Fynbou A Hawking:  \nGOBATION.  \n1. Ja  \nJACKSON,  \nCiel Tenger.  \nHigh Fetary, 1893  \nVuw...  \n1.  \nStow 7 espel  \n294  \nof the ac  \n134.ag.  \nTotal 40 Reginas  \n2. 1  \nMarch, 18 They, Julita will a given of any far.  \nMAR WILLIAM SEES 108, 8, Lombard! Strne end, of Messe JANDERE, MAAT. Franz & C... Gui  \nWANTE  \nB. 1. Eg Int JARDINS, MATHESON  \nA., of Modern Wang, Aus the lungest\",  \nESCOPE ↳y Yerin, with Astrono.  \nTHE OFPRUS # 5. REONTRO ITA TUOKAS REID, Fu, of Youre ALEZA ILANO for the last is in: 25: Rp & Bora, Hiszpan elony Fire To Exe Hongkong, 22 February, 183).  \norder to artiste directions tots 3A 10WGING FRUT, Luchst C  \nELLS, Sight Fairy and Fowlies with Alus Olice for Certilours!WILLIA HILAND STEEL Best the 24te of Maruh application for a lifed  \nLaredo, Mus. Maison de Ca  \nai Harkong and Shangani me to put ou sitration, des that the rely on Paal tas ng inuis, of Nabor of the woich bars fan tanutted Cir the thache il in Yokohama ki  \nLE  \nNOTRE 10 MAEINERS.  \nThe Murty BOOKMASI...557 to Mic PANG, Heiki-  \nding, Malbyona  \nWIPH nerados to the show the Ton  \ningabout 300  \n500 Thesie Ban-Cal Breneb Londing 1-15% duty to ware Yemane vise my hyn Trung ist RS YACANDLEW. Eng... frambursgard sin proprzeć la neige at Feet  \nH: NGRONG AND WILAMMUA DOCK HOUSE.  \nCOMPANY, LIBYTE),  \nNOTICE TO SKALHOLDERS. THE ORDINAGE YEARLY MOETINO AARONESS wie El. AusCe por u  \ntine 631: of the way St, Pra Co Atis Moon Notions are for the WEDNESDAY, 1st March 16 Crea Acu kap Verms which way Rape of the Dino desterraun nå Wote wat so syylientcy.  \nPer Craplar at the Guizon, ed Uning  \nSPARTER  \nPer inturn for maple- Heverink and Europe.  \n15 DEPART  \nFenton, Su #trilow. --I M  \nPet  \nned 10 En Sivingbat. —ü Kuras Hongkong, 4th Kaptajulus,  \nA  \nEks  \n2 Werte sinamas Poling aproni, liar en helt Ft 1 4.hart Furt of Junta per had fresh M  \nHONGKONG SANHA BANKING  \nBut  \nCabal, sud u when to iau i F & put as far, the 27th in  \nTYLE SAL av  \nJ. W ARMSTRONG, A Gmianeer.  \nE!  \nHugong. 2: Feltery, h  \nPUBLIO AUCTION.  \n30 Marie Trinn 20 N  \nPARKLAS  \nVASITAS POÁI  \nKRALIAN-) (ptrend tyres Bar & be pupaese 1+ing indired in tiruva ih let Deber, is net be reated w  \nCeiba sa Japan. THE HONGKONG AND SANITA  \nApplications nae sive China Ghid port will the GNGETRO (NO which was BANKING CORPORATION, 31, Legal Shanghai and tanut at es, in 1981, this are: Stowa Londe  \nSULMITORS lium Changer of Daisy, and  \ncoivaraga tenger, Rok Dustings. Lesken, Feder Bud Lave Resorts briar by My Dear Hetector, 1959, perubat  \nant sieel to toe!  \n£ 1145 Asto  \nTip  \nti per Suadu witin emal opplication MY FRESASTELDS & WILLIAMS, Iwili han dells, and f  \nSercitare Kia calix award in the prospertise BROK  \npercation with the Depp hver will COLLANT HALCONE 2 DA  \nIbsen in dernery by un punto  \nIrant  \nthe Crash testa del Polish, tions Pubin Lily, as is al fusion of use rack, Ord Froud Best, ruin of tiktirnar. Ar Bostamil the Bills  \nFCESDAY.  \n95 Fay, that, wi fuam, at i  \ndes Kant's theau's Hom—  \nAlarm  \nut Loud.  \ni wengine ci Suijn, 38 prescribed i  \nAUDITORY.  \nCloud B AND, YOUNGS & y 92.1  \n· Carly- the Hurst Masy! bor Theiver of timpiere AaJim,  \n1. Déso. Agrot Tenkung, 2ed fakeway, 1885.  \n(176) C  \n? 11 Feb 15.  \nGM Q. SEXYTT.  \n*  \non te  \n!1st Ja  \n: Geinatal Back Cowperatio,  \nHen  \n•Bain Kingüe I Ginacenza  \n11:  \n£, 100X3  \nDod  \nl  \nHegory at Fee Seurotary THE HONGKONG KE SHIVPANY,  \nLIMITE  \nActie  \nTho Aust  \n4  \nan Vrout Pa tom throughly sportmaled |  \nChege Diz--  \n-----  \n1. J. DANDYY.. For  \nok Cempery wel is vinent in Branca lyds, 3.36.111 gaat disision, aber in Gear, My A. T.  \nCORPORATION.  \nPAID-UP CAPITALA RESERVE FUND 99  \nDu. Reja, ta, Ka  \n1, 2  \nBrugkeer we run Bina Mother; lepabraziunar—H, LC WRY- Zoeks. Ea  \n2.m 12. Harper. Th Em Breite Dorary spezia of. Multi-  \nSen. Bul Saigon 2 Les arming of indian Forcery. Y Might Sure wins within wother up to the forein;  \nstrange iterata to a fregite wise  \nBigh  \nPOOCHÓW TUPPING.  \nFelc  \n4. Appiu, Thetish ale, from Shanghai  \ning, wie foam lengky.  \n5. E. Hahal, from Weiur.  \n6. Han, C.  \nC. P  \nbuck, ia behat.  \nHogan  \nNOTIF  \nTHE FIRST ALS & DENKRAT  \nMENTING VERS 14  \nza  \n- ved sj  \ntho  \nMAYMER  \nJackson, Ey B-FEN CARROS,  \n\"CERT-  \ntone into thangala, en alt 109  \nKathaway of Kurlon Des  \nTEMPORARY OFFICES.  \nIron Gauden to no and in the latel  \nfogar with the Appunt rather to in ↓ pametna may be inspect be beting „No. 1, EAST INDIS A FENTE, LONDON, Absorbers at this hoss of tile Tureisigass  \nLanai whole Bingen of Applination for S  \nPG Compare bat beri famed for the pur I wire of orqaising for the C PURCH  \nWANTHE oded by the Forsary and WYOMPETENT STRAPONS for Etners ATRAM NAVIATION CURANT, Ofnbul,  \nFor Father Paroisse soy mila, Under- zig int.  \n2e os, at was on Bata-Orl F the Par  \nhona Mitoba MSDAY, 3 ay lace Meat he pose on why talk of like T More magis obras of Anat Balete of the Con Boster, 255), Tranter. All of safer to be Lord of  \nby the Purples, and for Yesus to be at pe  \nLONE BARES-TON CO2 & Consterk par 1  \n•pat  \nBunker-LAYSIAN Anorga  \nitement anys,  \nOK g the Company  \n¡ will be CLOWEST) Len. On salliinstant, ve zl i Phuyu's risk az tho Biebs by cine  \nCavento Acerante al this remith next, both days nho, pop duju ou like Illya  \nThe Mandi Paprika  \nFortyor Band, por Azamolb  \nFurler Cut your bac  \nFat the paper Auca  \nGAL 3 Angest  \nHad Me 101 chrome Chotos ye; destriglio of Balag and Exehazge!  \nCusted stated Scurity !  \nGleznas. His Sha  \n4. Sibul, if  \n78, Kwangwung, Erstili ste, dva  \n1. Suctive 34 amph, France  \nFour D  \nTank, Brown-  \n5. Pild, Critter back, ne singel-L  \n2. Deur Vasi Deitina look, (  \nAmoy.  \n7. Ms. Heiriza pelo tan bai  \nrit, B. bit.  \nfor Any.  \n6, Agi til str., for whi  \nDr. Heilial str. for New York. ya, Shelb  \nBrilly 142, farma. Ing. Mirtich str, for Hongkong,  \nZNANOTIA SHIPPING,  \nAUTOSALS  \nWulu. Britisú as, from Harku.  \n6, Kinag-ong Ulduage ita, frenz flatma  \nB. Geway .. from Kucheyrna  \n- Bridalstrom Hojcity.  \n6) Langmon. Chioma ne, frew Hongkong,  \n5. Klingeline, Catur fram lafen.  \n''yan,  \n7. Name the trum Nagusiki  \nBrivion wir, Ines Heater, 7. King. Chani kiz. Pero Hakow T. KONTO, Bullies wir, freno Bonzow,  \nYangtae, hate, from Thungborg.  \nmon.Gec. From Barefo  \nB. Catras, Heiti 47, Bonbay,  \nVarin t'uiteto frut A  \n4. Yenity, Chitum, fena, Wakoa.  \n9. A. Bitdeh str. f3  \nKonkow.  \nBuy British tea, from Haukum  \n9 Mon Jagt, he  \n3. Birish str. ne kaik  \n10. Mennar, Him. A may  \n24, 4ppi, lich etc. in Feb  \n10, goshi Weru, daş, art, tre, Kineban  \n,, Torches at I'm Sratur.  \nsan, sem sta, fram tvorbow.  \n11, Chiz Britise 4, Frain Nugaenki.  \n11. Kincy for, pise sta, Free For  \nJiweltlah me, from Hack.  \n11. Child, Britse stres  \nveg  \n23. Mika infra Ft.okow.  \n14. Vraniu, Brizi i teras Ni  \n12, Pag-chua, Cebu, Gun Haugining  \n13. Paking, Britisk str. from Harian  \n12. When, Sritha, Fran Ningpe  \n23, P, Velg from Navski.  \n13. Artawan, British ate, trong Ngebak.  \n13. Bellapin, Criticstr, from hay.  \n14. Kangitsen, Obiamo côfine  \n14. Why Chinese  \n12. Cf. fe Grice, Neftials aly, Fara Fausto,  \nYel  \nWa, Kritish or from Purbox  \nDEPASISKGK.  \nTulis, fitil:  \nfry.  \n7. Larisa ar, Caliber cust  \nser, far Harten.  \n4. Karlebota, Utili ste, for Hong  \n7. Kig-yong, CU Hor  \nWCA Vite fish sirir Hanken Wencho, Bitlah se fre Bentor  \n7. T, Batin ats  \nvalt.. Sur Au”.  \n3. Yolors Faupat, for Kris.  \n7. Anjaszóne. Maitish to. Lo Nayan  \n9. Pribe. Fruch as, for  \nVery arm, Jap, sie  \nCheambin, list, for Tookes.  \n9. Sualon, Bisjal nie,, for Chato.  \n3. British te, & Nhup.  \nA. Wynn, Erinala ste, får 1  \nKorinetes,  \n5. Clay, Beds he for Nagild  \n6. Tade. British si Hongkong.  \n3 Dakinu 1. 1-i, Nagki  \n8. 1. 1. Chernosina, qez Nag!.  \nSing, Eisk er for Haukee.  \n2, Wan, Heffasi atr. Yee Hankge  \n8. Tagesbian Here. Sup, so, for Nigeri  \nNow, Beltani ste, fer Swabunt.  \n30, Yehsie, China, Cil  \n1 Yung-ring China for Wacker.  \n1. Kung, helliah straw, For 'Batkow,  \n1. Yet, 1 Late, for thinking-  \n11, Exitish fry  \n11, y, Brick size for ever  \nᎫ Ꭸ .  \n-piant. C.Dave var for BakuPP.  \n33. Natumeur, the Hali ste, ing Bunton.  \nNang Byi-ish swamar, for Desigər 125.  \n12, W. Stupin. Trilin's barb,  \n13. Did Ms pett, for  \n1. Hritish star, fer  \nfine.  \nut,  \n12, Appiu. Rzinies alapone, for Benchaw. 12 Hole, British baek, for Puntur.  \n18, in, Paul sicsance, for Yongpa  \n14. Bang fou, Chiron 5., for lankaw. Tino, Titia, for acco  \nJA, Bhara Kort. Danish, Aw Aney.  \nJá, nilon. Ispitful: man, tum feudon  \n14, Hung-mono. Elite for Ning.  \nAUCTION SALES TO-DAY.  \nNout  \n2 ZON  \nM  \nHongkong, 2012 Paketars. 1  \nHION FRONG AND  \nj  \nBANKING CORP VOHAL  \nNOTICH TO,\"  \nIruding flower  \n8:4  \n36  \nS  \nSTRIA DE ATESON & C  \nHenare! Meapp.  \nPangkor, Nuth Pukssary. 199  \nund bag hij brente Vicker Bust Yantraze AMIN CORPÁSY, n2 Plang!! Fue Paci  \nhos, mad from Jers spaly to  \nTached beat soother in the basisve of! by the Seantul.! Longhwag. Ha Fairy, 1982 1844 tonnes Lowashed Rivers of  \nClaire and bear China, the trait to  \nCo. is a pig MANY STANSTER  \nIONS TO OUR NOTICES TO CONSIGMEES.  \nNONERS OF OPTION ANDA BOO,  \nES. 8.3. COPS 8.5.37ENECK,\"  \nFROM LIVERPOOL  \nCHUPTING  \n4. M. ARMSTRONG. Ani Hwgkong, 18h Bencowry, the  \nTUNGKONG RACH.  \nEN to the GANE Encours for Gentlenes being Sah  \nof sið, er towards, 19 dla Band. Frogi. for Now able to the rain o  \nG 183 No “Stand st  \nj zorth  \nVin Ind  \nKIULH いやい  \nprente, oz Chica  \nDžiova stek u poziveliùsling of  \ningen be adding it to the  \nit various inter report, and the mak  \nsent. Phyu Mr meting the grossier zegaremasts  \n1887  \n25 ROYAL  \nCITY HALL  \nSATURDAY,  \nFysoket W. 1892.  \nNWOUND  \nA doing it en wilson BAND MAGICAL MUSE,  \n(man, will-hitic can itinere of the Copywny a  \nn the tindasi bu chipul from i zemotestira ierastinent.  \nuus later. As the ch 2hr Nice damer of the Cases Gastre. Tesigns for skijamast wer stame SASANATATION FERPANY, and the Yama MATRON.  \nZOEK UNTAMED ODPAT, an ecided in 191 1841 Beans Surya Shanghe, ut by  \nYonghorn, Bind Baravy.  \nBiznim, faren 1.20 Szymoliem wist, Hors of 'n. Sterling Verze 20 bcxcision so we go sa balkg m / Bulk Sare5dista, nail s  \n1 Burnering in to bad on 1  \n& DOVAN JAMBRn unsaaf Beurs, Brayer to the Cuntan Com's Glenovels are eli  \neg in Chin, OU EN The motel of 91-6 PASAREA 2 Fashion, Bry, fine \"Prana iameter  \nThe word after war and be the beds day of son carried inde, Cartes et Corner here. And image, and of the Coquialiis, an owning wikasi a Pielie, so be shown to the the Sadesigual, ja sinth casas 14 will turn on 106 mee Yangtera, wyether with  \nTAS-Ty  \n| Thakanume Pie  \nI even me punten af 2), ka p (zujimoto su upang to, WARDANOS, . 15th Folmany, 385.  \nEAL TRUE) By ordre often Coert ut vector  \nClerk of Cur. Respons. My kids  \nTAXI, and chan 132919TH THEM? Wenen in  \nAmeric, Cala en Ju  \nT. JACKSON, thief Marugas.  \nMecs E the Corpoention  \nNu. 1, Q's and H  \nNOTICES OF FIRMS.  \nFUTICH  \non  \nT. JACKSON,  \nCAVE Hargr  \n190;  \nL  \nPRIDERICK 2017 in auster  \nTO BE INT It is  \nthe by Prz Fenratica bertane ot Sasunt.  \nBOCAGD FCHE CHASE & TO 9. PATLEY TRA  \nLET Mogg. 15, 1  \n1593 Kars,\" N 29 Azer B  \nUraze, in N IN QUEENEY HAD tex-  \nCo  \nTUR CHUKKAB INSURANCE COMPANY, Puch  \nICMITED  \nNOTION.  \nAVDAVID Mungkan. Mick  \n3SOON. WINS & US dowry, Sm  \nI'  \nk's day had doch zeigen kaki of Me T. BAY . . D MAUN! Bolay the a  \nZ  \nW ROINES,  \nDoorway. In You, Je,\"  \nM  \nNOTICE.  \nKunis been appoint Agents for thr  \nNO. 2 LOWER MONQUE TERRACE  \nApply to  \nJ. M. ANETRONIA,  \nHongkong, we fibreney, this  \n.....  \nTO BE LAT  \nWith mata konica  \nNETSUZ BUSHAN KAISHA, OFWELLING HOUSE No & O Basing  \nPorto this For  \nHongkong  \n980. STEVENS & C.  \nJanuary 18  \nXOTION  \nATRA LAMEDA on mitted  \nPatios in my Where no? tán Hestnesi will be watere at inder the |cale f  \nSTRIL & TALKM  \nNTS  \nNetgan. Feb 12  \n..............  \npatuled,  \nGut, thoroughly tapultad vol wy  \nApply to  \nALEX. A. AGA KIHELIOS. Iveco J. 1+13 RENKIJOS & Q....... I  \nHvaley Stroth Ifonytone. 8th Bobnary, 16  \ndelivery train Graf or China  \nCon 1995  \nCIO'S LOAN, or repruned Blaess Ne  \nApply to  \nLISTSAL & DAVIS,  \nAngkor, Sim Fe K  \n+452  \n2ist rebrany, 1837.  \nand five aziona  \nun sft art its simpellant, waking  \nfest Et une ged wit's the that they the C101: Fally put up shar Vilor, and of which songs is vrugt  \napdaivers after the with Pelaars,  \n1982 aufgeno  \nFITTERS SIRE Agra, Rogging, ul Februny. 1:  \nFROM LOS DON AND SINGAPORS.  \nGLENFRO4-,\"  \nBurta, Brasiguam;  \nCAL  \nLE COMIDAT PERFORMANCE.  \nDISPLAY OF NECROMANOS  \nGLINK T  \nPROFESSOR RUCHWALDY,  \nRENA WIMANT Wind 28* Wansker Taare  \nAn entirely new Pumnites  \nPUS PARTICULATE SES H  \nPAX OF ADRESTON.  \nDrain Cirak seil Sti  \nPl............  \nidio finálem in auffores Hall Pries Tickets to be hat den Neue Key & Wag med at dhe Tales  \nDight The Steamy will be alten | Performer 1. studio of fil, the Frinksminga  \nPosing a CAPA  \nLe ɖe Compray.  \nCha Cha Stry Farmats of J. Convams may extantinuci în 10 oun  \nAsily. Fructe at 80 Pig, Performance to com  \nLading jajene za coudseted with Nathan  \nDowny, Fetienacy, 1885 Is her secon! it ONGKONG, CANTOR, ANU MAURO  \nPLLAK CESARDT Sunambig  \n| basing arrivet ROYAL BELUSLINTET COMPANY,  \n(of Surg Am Barely this long com, dying lady letras Fassies and Saverbrai.!  \nwiik esvapur of Oplan van het bal Salon Pung, Cl ritl  \nThe risks dete pas earns of De Visita, en Kerck, whi Biznad, vienne di Paw the wharem a otra ringstjen 4 way to ohtrize],  \nSADETLY APPEL. Hoy, 7th Folamry. 1983  \nNOWN SALE TOOUND VOLUM is of the Chow95-174:7-8410$ Tags per h Yone 1287.  \nPark The Dak Arty Fina  \nBong JANTY  \ntr  \n3 H 1  \nX  \nG..  \nUWALSH IN SILKS, Canton and Slot Brass Pro Sharris,  \nbana ng Wang, Curiosis,  \nDenaliende, Talul Chalca orm Tebies, ie, f..  \nGOLD AND SILVER FRATELLE  \nCaro SST, P  \nROM, QUDEN'S BOAT, EXC MAHANA.  \nSTEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. KXOURSION TO MACAD.  \nSOMANES Panxha \"KINETANG,\" will for Latine ange wül informadales the! funtion thatør Porn Blog Lan SATURDAY, the 25% inesses. to the rosterý se given befrog Noon 10.DAY  \nIan Bastow, ad hooks, bonds, pavery. the Buch Febri. 19  \nung tamilly prociled ze the carus porte lasting 90 Can winlig v  \nDudaliteket  \nju ili za svoju te thot of end for pictat and thesis sagirnis em  \nBOUN  \nNo ite kurd has buan atatud,  \n2 Julie ill be cinanteisisat kj  \nKrbrary,  \ncutting a large card tra J'a Stanet e de \"Id\" Wardagi  \nruza BUNDAY, the  \nThe Cas Prosta Muca and lak.. 89 40. So Cas......  \n31.50 tests to be pare at the Company'  \nby Disa  \nbral osally Myths seri at the Wari.  \n•han basisgand to me al segue  \nang trade.  \nAsiY[ 034 54 * ! tag, odo Date  \nBeagles 20  \nUNION LISE  \nNOTICE TO ROYSKONTES.  \nTROM LONDON, THNARD, AND  \nSINRAPOR \"TOPORATES-  \n\"S-SRETNO\" is Bow Rename of 1.466 kaas til at aborden, and destined to China  \nSarung Lath, where i wantly be join  \n2. A LA COSTA,  \nStrogkwg Ziel Folers  \nCAUTION tavots\" of 2.577, fie ding Paktis on igured that SCBIP for minh bas frist hide Abarca: SHAREG Numbed it)  \nLe T  \nw by the Foest at whogy tud 48 rue 613-1,250 fs Shoe St Rita W4X24 D luga iar apperanicu plutor Blass CuANT be student that motive ul Dcrz  \nDeals That Has Borghang!  \nHenker 28ri Pelary. 1683  \nNote-Th, Dia is the ski otɔdlükat | Capkiu Mitzke, having arrived free pieces Sainty built for the; the chefs ass buna giu że Shott Cloapany. #5111 Line in Loughed as one is City among with with which the  \nmit any view of a nábo kong naga.  \ntomat ju thair Bis of \"Inding to vas arlor Falo hvalisay steal an important EN RING.  \nund or eligator 25 main positi  \nTO LET  \nAty to  \nDOUGJAS LAPCAJK & L Lengkong, L. Tebaumy, Ur  \n797  \nTemarking, RE  \nJAPAN JARRETE  \nYANAMA.  \nHAVING plejad is H  \n575 dia daliring ni skafé Condo Fezia alte The Chic Calenus branch of the Char-  \nCAT ating blom alechage of  \nthagena ar charterad, wish are Java 1. |  \nCHIHAN STELMANIP COMPANY,  \nFOR SHANTHAL Y AMOY Taking Cazzard Passeng long las  \nwill be at this landed net storage Pay's Pervine will trim the placevi 10-a kilusis :{DPGALVOS Intentano, Prae818, KLARON, ried and expois as no Zee Insurers IN A CUT 8 Company's Steward y  \ncounty health have.  \nDitial Care will be forwarded onto from  \nInd  \n1 line is a velemble one. Ed is  \nal Pass or the Yamaisen  \nTHESE LITERAN 200 FOS-17 LJONGKONG WHARE & GODOWNS, 1 Gavetin, Gas Pumbatore Roose Apis may be seenesting passenger trothe and trule of Vidos, sãe 50ed it, at Eren z  \nKONG SOM CHINa tile feu molver astro to the Gilmer be gets en Chica, the Straits, Buttweisen,  \nMW. REPOOL MUSTES DE  \nPan CEAS or the Dans les  \nI use will be sei un, le: the  \nFrog Dedi Yox Subtipdoza aud  \nGoods verived an STORAGE at Modrum Adportienuolės kill bousculand så tide Often, Red, Fedtmas Peloasa,  \nLORDAN, KLE  \nto the  \nlumatong Prity Frie Chen.  \nand on or if the  \nivalsat, or they us be versa  \nAl  \nRUSSELL & C  \nEntivo 000WNST Any to  \n184  \n>RYFL & C Tinghaus, Bri Murel, Ja  \nTO LET  \nJENE WIURLAND WUISKY  \n습  \ntomsong, \"ith Kebruary, de  \nsura Styes by Mr WLCA an aud 'Mr. EDWARD JONNY HIGHGs.  \nBEGRES & LEORD  \nHoaglag, kh Jnowary, 1562  \nLASTRE.  \n-  \nAnd  \nCŮH VNG and 92ORådE;), W R. FABDERICK DES.ore Hide, all we ladies; stage  \nAlso, M  \nJeelanin ay Pen Pen  \ni4kin Usta, Stil Mr. DEORGE H. WILDONORENSNITE \"KONONKA!  \nJOHNSON.  \nthorised to sigu na nagta  \nSELEC  \n161  \nSHARP TULAER. Houghou, Jl. Koptember, 1951.  \nis  \nChina, 1st Junkery, Jasa,\"  \nTO BE IST.  \nK. BOOKS & NEW HOITIONS.  \nBALA WAJIB TUYNUE TERMARIA PAR  \nJennies fuwa and Gardo.  \nREHAWAY'S DAY IN A Cable Du 82.30.  \nApply to  \n| At Bows=derwone di Cross-(Play  \nJu$ 24,99  \nhours  \nbuy, 1892-  \nLINSTEAD & 174 VIR  \n1368  \nBY. EAT BAN.......  \nVarea's Bay BAR TO 42.0.3  \nTO BE LEV.  \n2  \nWith a Sut dope Next,  \nPure Talentīniku  \nThrow zəd  \nsopittinor. not,  \nEnge the on Pocicta.  \nThla poetsendis fr Brands?  \nBettled varier éta pagal prision of  \nIE.M. It may not besties,  \nHold by Apote  \nThe Worl  \n2016 l'aprimas,  \nGREENLEEHUGOTINES  \nR. CAT ME, TN,  \nDili, Angyalive. Y  \nTORN BAZLEY WITIE » ELUTHAT'S  \nPORTLAY CREENI  \nHOLE ARE WE CAN,  \nPOLLDAY WISH &  \n\"STENTOT\" nomidered of growing imposture, owing to the Capinia Kirkpatrick, will be dospaerbed. 'TO. with Pie Suits Sanctness fadin. If  \nposed bile popupfil  \nSally adapted to this one of th  \nAg-wal  \nPiger Paraply la  \nBTTERFILL&RVIRE. 1nging. Brit Vebruary, 19.  \nPest pinabi, suplayed in the parties, and the PUR SYDNEY AND WELBOURNE, MAA  \nirectes expect  \niNuns to the Cross and  \nNOTIOR TO CONSIGNES BRITISH RANQUE «ENDYMOW,\" FROM LONDON.  \nle, with the Give of the harbor  \ninfusion antuplish thes, and is THE S  \n& Barre Boruture, wing of 195,400 jample silent  \nTeaming of the Corina C  \n'PAKAO.  \nHUNGARIAN Chptain Abnob, will be distohaalej  \nvayout any porturiled to end in direct stand the amin the; BEFORUoga, che van animus  \n[MON BLO-432125 vf Chup by the shavu nauči volata Con  \nتا بروید  \nSome eu this?”  \ninted it as presionaty sien,  \nLedia Latha Tindesign for teagues and wish fare, and the chip and dishia Avexoma-  \nAnd to wish wediata daivery of theirut sa Yungeza rec Sutien, thoni zand rapi ods.  \nlizer pros and is the beardisipat! #w Krázlá se l'asure, apply t Carge impede the ischarge of the prezu with the antedication of will be handed Plan Coming sale at Jink that is thing or 1!ཤཱ ཤ1ཀ92  \nConad China and the gerectiepaccion of VENHOLD, KABLERO & Cu..  \nforging, 20  \nAgastā,  \nVEEAMENT  \nLabs earping-Trade in the Fun SANA, Hodon  \n20. D. SKYNS  \nOLZ. cyborg, 25l Picnary, 1881.  \n(37  \nPOR MANTLA DO  \nthe hang of Cams, that the Changany lindil«ma 135 anys 50+ Gendable enterpri  \nmessage of gettin Denver, will be upstand in th  \n20th February, NOTICE TO CONSTANTS.***  \nhow the yellt of being being coser, nadan Pert ez cutive perciocia en lices f quod in their sila u Darling! Flies ronible expect profie to pay divi tha wedged the countrytresdends, levides funding à Puiere Park fut na- | tak bole leep. Puis Cakes a spotles in the ralow of Stem  \nCASTELLS BOONA SI M$500. THE BOUSE ... Afluor- Pean? fiongkong. Lich Berater. Jaar 20E PARIGN288 t the Setlowing Cargo are ¦ Gjested, bringing an vorean act of will; the F  \nGAPSELL'S JR ACURA ADUI Wire Cops, derling  \nms mm $2.99 Wat bid on * DoNDUSANY...67.80. Camera Bormionary or Connor  \nX MODE A P  \nE  \nA \"CALIT  \n...$50  \nOWN THALS  \nNoir Et risk sed -  \nKOTOE. Apply to  \nFER Ondulkar ben appointed and i set LINSTEAD & DA AGERTH jothy die their souls Fleurkons, 24 Faktany, 2580,  \nby Masses, KY POCE 900, of Weru, car BEMENA  \n----  \n1987  \nPO NE LUT, GODOWN WWATER PADE  \nBuca's Wert, CAS 14208  \nMEN ARTEL UNY AT 3rELS |  \nVa.  \n.............$1.05 BB-as by Derec Anotre locsa Wox.'s Home De jikaraka CasACT OF SETAAN & T  \n.......  \n___STD_DBBAREPA  \nه آزادی از راه  \nIn Amra é  \nJASTHAN & DAVIS. FROM GONDON AS) SINGAPOR Egils June 7, 199  \nTT LEL  \nse ing been affectivit  \n80ti inond: We Cates Vor-?  \nmouth, Driss Sten Wather. 15:10,11, 3 Come M. Order, Lena  \nMerwe  \n--PREVO 1680), demo New 45. Il Core Tv-i  \nBustle, Derles Marit  \nA decaDLY.  \nTHE PRAYà Nov. 15 and 47 (KENS BREAysel droveste, Ciniz see! 2002 Autunda Kits, & Casa? Marokani BOVARE AND SALTadini H. CAPOT rainy iniezed tis divar Varde, with  \nNew Car On Chika HA--Bruta  \njare d'utils Em thus Bravega. 12.  \nBose Cotel in anerputio  \nSuity to  \nTôi ganggo by her and by 12.9. ~VIOTORES\" | dire, Outer, for aut  \nS.CALIFORtre A You, No. 15807, 30 Cases Ver  \nmouth. Ozani fa FRIVER's the simplic of them.se 1  \nMemalion  \nlould af  \nBahan the Pur  \nEra  \nInvite Passersion.  \nFigley, Est November, 1251.  \nLINBIRAD & 2018.ga  \nSz  \nNu - Cleis tent of the  \ntest Hoags and jlapur biwee  \nRELLY & WALSH, KONGKONG.  \nWATERBURY CLUCY.  \nWATDRSERY, CON OMPANY!!  \nPESTAU A C... Bide Agelb dougiong, Nerabe, 1991  \nEX \"ARADRA  \nHé zone No. 25. 1 Ch Flute, Céur,  \nfrange  \nCum in WAL  \nJodliwey mung: he claimed.  \nOptical Carry will forestei paina 1er in sua caray *rginen bei 32  \nTODAY. 1  \nThe tale the unity Age  \nteen var fula by s tebe n the Cete fary:  \nל.TR\"  \n916,  \nFo Fralebtor Pasengo, apply to  \nREŠENIOS & Dungkot, en Falirnusy, 1543.  \nAUSTROJUNGABIAN LOOTISSUSAN NAVIGATIOR COMPANY. 1. At Agresamos que Riu Noor, 1891, STEAM WIR SINGAPORE, PENANG, Teen Woman Kinter. We cup COLOMBO, BOMBAY, ADEN, BUZZ, Ing of the China Gas Stan Naz  \nPORT BAIN, AND TRIPSUM. SIS COFA the  \nthe Awarar STRANEK (laking Gangnan timing rates to Cabestra, Cagene and JAJARNYA ALISON SCOT PRYMATIC PATS, Costa, and the  \nMGOTTENRASS Postel  \nespectivo Teds if we compres digital 27, of the part, wand CORN LI, 12 Company's Arm  \nو بواره کمی از سواری به بازار کار در کاشی تر و با دیوید  \nwiki Moboraca fu 30+ to  \n\"DACHNE\"  \nWILIAM Captain Cousie, will feel MON. KICK bit of JANTINA, 6th Prezimu, at POE 22.06. ZANER&Co. of the ene part, and | For fur Particalórappir ta Jos J. Ma, on behalf of the Cem.  \nMECHI & Co.  \n182  \nparis, vt tin other pert  \nCopper of the chore Agoemand sand Morrerar. !  \nof the Water Ant of  \n1  \ngistion, uni szeme Tulused Valesklad, D  \nde inspinal by interling Zubscribers, a  \nHow Fuhraury, 1359  \nSTEAM TO FRANQUIAL  \nارک باد  \nHis cume; No. B. Fill, a Care Meerten üstina cf the Exlienor of the Jonpano. 2 13, 8. N. Co.'s Strucəliy  \nTO LET TUUSHA and DOWNS, N». 13 and Caren 100.swing vode alter ibu 23rd! H  \nloa, Maya Ceurest. af persave is the custani will be slijed 628  \npatioa el inks. CXNOWire & Co. Pusa97- sin en 1st day out?.  \nApply to \",\" care of one of Nix papar.  \nHayong, 33t. Pauta  \n561.  \nBiz created.  \nFill of Lading 24) be wet F  \nJARING  \nHengkona, 15th Februg, 1982,  \ndise, Dege, o andar.  \nBYAN  \n¡GB, No D. 2 Chua, folar, Pres  \na. D. CHAS PEAUX, Agral.  \n153 unge, 3rd January, 18  \n31 Faza & WALA, & Tank Bali, 31  \n*DEGEAN,\" will teate or the shoo plan aluk 24 Eners Ina athmont se made the digest will after hac artisi with the Eaglish Mail, edarped, we pumpday if iskarei Se  \nA. MOVER notte) am suplied for, 4 surplus of the  \nSuurinta at Tungkong: 29% Fobrancy, 1882  \nrexit wil byheals to the pope of con",
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        "content_text": "## 128 RECE \n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary \n\nHU670 \n\nBir \n\n7 \n\nColonial Secretary's Office \n\nShanghai, 14/8/02 \n\n32 \n\nWith reference to the case of Regina v. M. Hin and others, tried at the June Sessions of the Supreme Court, I have the honor, by direction of His Excellency the Administrator, to request you to send in a **Confidential** Report on E. Extel's conduct in Court, as observed by you.\n\nEd. Sharp \nCrown Solicitor.",
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        "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\n# HONGKONG, JUNE 12TH, 1882.\n\n## MEETING OF \"PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE LAND QUESTION.\"\n\nA meeting of \"persons interested in the land question,\" convened by advertisement, was held at the City Hall on Saturday afternoon. The advertisement stated that the meeting was called \"for the purpose of discussing the reasons which have led to the withdrawal of native capital from the colony, and proposing resolutions which may have the effect of ameliorating the present unfortunate state of affairs.\" European capitalists were \"earnestly requested to attend.\" There was a fair attendance of Chinese—over a hundred, probably—amongst whom were Messrs. Ho Amei, Lee Sing, Wong Kwong Tong, Lee Tuk Cheong, and Cho Yu Ting. There was also a sprinkling of Europeans including the Hon. F. B. Johnson, Messrs W. H. Mossop, R. G. Alford, T. I. Bowler, W. M. Morgan, W. Danby, S. G. Bird, F. D. Sassoon, O. P. Chater, G. Sharp, H. Wicking, J. J. Francis, E. George, E. Beart, D. E. Caldwell; and others.\n\nMr. Ho Amei read the notice convening the meeting, and stated that he had been requested to send in the requisition for the use of the hall. He proposed that Mr. Johnson take the chair.\n\nMr. Johnson declined the office of Chairman, and Mr. Sassoon and Mr. Chater, who were afterwards proposed, also declined, and most of the Europeans at this stage left the room.\n\nMr. Beart proposed that Mr. Ho Amei should take the chair, and Mr. Alford seconded the proposition, observing that Mr. Ho Amei, who had managed the affair from the commencement, was the most suitable person to act in that capacity. Mr. Ho Amei then took the chair, and said that before proceeding with the business the meeting had assembled to discuss, he must say he felt proud that they had such a large gathering of respectable merchants and rich householders present to consider this matter.\n\nMr. Mossop asked, before the chairman went into the business of the meeting, to be allowed to call his attention to the two notices by which the meeting was summoned. They were both in English and Chinese, and one made its appearance the previous day. In both the English was to a similar effect, but in the Chinese they differed. In one of them it was stated that the meeting was convened by the Committee of the City Hall, and he wished to state there publicly that that Committee had nothing whatever to do with the convening of the meeting. Their permission was asked by the leading Chinese residents for the holding of a meeting in that Hall, and that was the only way they were interested in the matter. He (Mr. Mossop) was directed by them to protest against the statement in Chinese, that the meeting had been convened by them.\n\nThe Chairman said the meeting was not exactly convened by Chinese; the application for the use of the hall for the meeting was signed and sent in by himself, but the meeting was not for Chinese only, but was for the inhabitants of Hongkong generally.\n\nMr. Mossop—Will you be good enough to tell the meeting that it is not convened by the Committee of the City Hall?\n\nThe Chairman—Certainly, the meeting is not convened by the Committee of the City Hall.\n\nThe Chairman went on to say that they were there for the purpose of approving of certain measures which would be brought forward for the interest and welfare of Hongkong. Of course he had no sympathy with the land speculators, but the depression which affected every other business in this colony was brought about in the first instance by the land speculation. His countrymen were largely injured by the speculation, and he believed a few foreigners were also affected, having followed in their steps with the covetous idea of getting rich in a day or a month. They bought property at a rate which brought in three or four per cent. upon the outlay, and they borrowed money at the same time at the rate of 10 or 12 per cent. interest. This he (the Chairman) considered to be a suicidal system. When they were buying and borrowing at such rates, the income of their rental would not pay the interest upon their loans. So they were cornered with difficulties in the way of getting out of their blunders. When they came to this condition, suspicion was at last aroused as to the stability of their investments, and bankers who had been advancing money, withdrew their loans. Previous to their doing that the foreign bankers had trusted the native bankers to the extent of more than three million dollars. In this sum he included the advances made by all the foreign banks together; but at the same time there were deposits with the native bankers made by Chinese capitalists to the extent of seven million dollars, as far as he could learn. He would show them that before the excitement arose, and before the crisis occurred, there were altogether over thirty Chinese banks in Hongkong, and the average advances made by these banks to the Chinese merchants, as well as making advances to these house speculators, was from $300,000 up to as high as $800,000, so that independently of the three million dollars advanced to the Chinese by the foreign bankers, the native bankers alone, with the Chinese deposits, had capital to the extent of over ten millions. However, the crisis came, and the foreign bankers first of all withdrew their money, and when this rumour spread, and came to the ears of the Chinese capitalists in Canton and Fatshan and elsewhere, it was very wise of them—they took the same precaution as the foreign bankers, and rushed down to Hongkong and withdrew their loans, even sacrificing their interest. What was then the outcome of these things? The result was the complete paralysis and stagnation of the trade of Hongkong. Before this speculation took place, the insurance companies, as well as the banks, advanced money on property on mortgage at eight, or as low as seven per cent., and were only too glad to get it. Now they saw the Chinese cornered—these land speculators—they came forward and told them that their time was expired, and unless they paid 10 or 12 per cent., they must repay the loan, otherwise the property would be put up to auction. He thought that under the present circumstances they ought to assist those reckless speculators out of their difficulties by advancing them money at say five, six, or seven per cent. interest, and they should not charge them any higher than eight per cent., because as a rule, when helping others, they were helping themselves. He should not have come forward to make that speech but that he knew how their business was decreasing. He knew Chinese who used to get credit for $100,000 from Jardine's or Sassoon's for a month, but they could not now avail themselves of this. Formerly if they got $100,000 for a month, they managed by the end of the month to get $50,000 from the goods, and the remainder from the banks—$5,000 from one, $10,000 from another, and so on—to meet Jardine's or Sassoon's bill. Now they could not do it, because they said they could not meet the payment when it became due, and the consequence was that the purchases and sales between Chinese merchants and foreign firms were less and less every... \n\nPage 355",
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        "content_text": "## Memorial to the Government\n\n19. In my event your Memorialists respectfully suggest that it would be easy in future dealings with the Peninsula to leave ample space for the laying of the line and building the necessary terminus without interfering with the lots already sold.\n\n20. Finally, your Memorialists respectfully claim to be met by the Government in the same spirit which they have displayed in dealing with the Government, and they submit that having done so much at a heavy cost to themselves to convert a useless and unhealthy outlying dependency into a comparatively prosperous and salubrious suburb (although much more it is admitted remains to be done), they are equitably entitled to protection at the hands of the Government from the heavy losses they would sustain should the prayer of this Memorial be altogether rejected.\n\nYour Memorialists therefore pray:\n\nThat the Garden lot leases they now hold may be cancelled, and that in lieu thereof there may be granted to them Farm or Rural Building leases for seventy-five years containing similar terms, provisos, and covenants as those in leases of Crown Land at the Peak.\n\nAnd Your Memorialists will ever pray, &c.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, July, 1882.\n\nSigned.\n\nC. H. Chater  \nW. J. Humphreys  \nS. A. Barrett  \nby his Attorney  \nA. Z. Alves  \nSt. N. Mode  \nLe A. Cyaria  \nG. L. Woodin  \nA. Hasler  \nE. M. A. Silva  \ndus. I. Graners  \nJames H. Walls  \nRunggin S.D. Humphreys  \nby his Attorney  \nJ. A. Woolright  \nJ. A. Furth  \nV. Merida  \nand  \nMr. d'Azevedo  \nEdmund Sharp  \nJ. Nourager  \nJ. K. Ribeiro  \nGranville Sharp  \nSigned.  \nA. Z. Alves  \nHarry S. Holmes  \nMother Chart  \nby his Attorney  \nJ. & further  \nJ. Jw the A. & Gouveia  \nS. B. das Neves  \nW. B. Spratt  \nby his Attorney  \nG. Burghignoli  \nArthur Wager  \nAndre Mitter  \nChristian Stangast  \n&  \nBy his Attorney  \nArthur Wager  \nt  \nw. brother  \nJ. at Forane  \nMugimen  \nI de Chage  \n\nMemorandum of Omissions of Articles in Previous Memorial\n\n11. Should your Excellency be disposed to regard with favour the prayer of the Memorialists, the Memorialists are prepared to pay further premia on the price of their respective lots and increased rentals for the future. The amount of such premia and rentals would have to be taken into further consideration and adapted to the circumstances of each particular lot.\n\nMemorialists have to observe that although it is conceivable that the lots on their original sales night have reached higher prices had they been subject to favourable terms, it is by favourable terms certain that the increase would materially give the increased value of the lands is due mainly to the capital invested in these improvements.\n\nYour Memorialists therefore...\n\n2. That if Your Excellency is of opinion that this concession can be made part of the lease only on consideration of additional premia or increased rentals...",
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        "content_text": "# REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 6th August, 1874.\n\n**SIR**-I beg to transmit to you, for His Excellency's consideration, a letter from Mr. GRANVILLE SHARP, who proposes to let out two of his lots (Nos. 674 and 671) for the erection of pig-sties.\n\nI apprehend that I ought to issue the licences required, and allow them to continue in force so long as the places are kept clean and no nuisance is created.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nThe Honourable the COLONIAL SECRETARY,\n&c., &c., &c.\n\n**Sir,**\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n**CECIL C. SMITH,**\nRegistrar General.\n\n## MR. AUSTIN,\n## MINUTE BY THE SURVEYOR GENERAL.\n\nI see no reason why Mr. SHARP should not convert the lots 671 and 674 into pig-sties, provided he paves the latter and keeps them sufficiently drained and free from filth and smell. I avail myself of this opportunity to respectfully request some explanation in regard to questions of this kind, especially as to what office the Nuisance Inspectors are to report upon the eligibility of sites. I was under the impression that, as Mr. SMITH issues the licences, he would most naturally be the person to whom they should report. Had this been the case, the abuses lately discovered by Dr. AYRES as regards pig rearing in bedrooms could never have arisen. It may, perhaps, be worth while to consider the advisability of empowering the Inspectors to report directly to Mr. SMITH in the event of his requiring information upon the fitness or otherwise of sites which the public are constantly asking him to license as pig-sties.\n\n12th August, 1874.\n\n**J. M. PRICE,**\nSurveyor General.\n\nReferred to the Surveyor General.\n7th August, 1874.\n\n## MINUTE BY THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nI think that the Inspectors should report on the eligibility of sites to the Colonial Surgeon, who would take care that all sanitary arrangements were provided for, and then refer any application to the Registrar General for issue of the licence.\n\n**J. G. AUSTIN,**\nColonial Secretary,\n12th August, 1874,\n170\n\n## MINUTE BY THE SURVEYOR GENERAL.\n\nHonourable COLONIAL SECRETARY,\n\nPublic business connected with the licensing of places as pig-sties appertaining to the Department of the Registrar General, I would be obliged by your kindly referring this document to Mr. SMITH in the first instance. It is true that lately I have been prominently connected with pigs, but only indirectly so. Pig-sty nuisances had arisen from the inefficiency of Inspectors of Nuisances, and I undertook to explain and to make them understand what places were fit, and what places were not fit, from a sanitary point of view, for the reception of pigs. I think that soon they will thoroughly understand the matter and learn to act and judge for themselves, and that they will consequently become of somewhat more use to Mr. SMITH; then, of course, my services will not be required.\n\n**J. M. PRICE,**\n\n## MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nInform Mr. SHARP in substance of Surveyor General's Minute. The duty of Inspectors of Nuisances is ill-defined and requires reconsideration. I think it desirable that some one officer should be responsible that licences to keep pigs are not granted unless the locality and premises be suitable, and the locality and premises should be specified in the body of the licence.\n\n**A. E. KENNEDY.**\n12th August, 1874.\n\n7th August, 1874.\nSurveyor General.\n\n## MINUTE BY THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nThe Registrar General will be good enough to inform Mr. SHARP that the Government has no objection to the erection of proper pig-sties on Inland Lots 671 and 674.\n\n## MINUTE BY THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nReferred to the Honourable Mr. SMITH,\n13th August, 1874,\n**J. G. AUSTIN,**\nColonial Secretary.\n\n10th August, 1874.\n\n## MINUTE BY THE REGISTRAR GENERAL.\n\nI very much regret being wholly unable to understand why this letter, which I wrote myself, should be referred back to me. I cannot find anything in the Surveyor General's remarks calling for comment from me, except perhaps I may refer to the error which he has fallen into of supposing that I have anything whatever to do with the Inspectors of Nuisances.\n\n14th August, 1874,\n**CECIL C. SMITH,**\nRegistrar General.\n\n11th August, 1874.\n\nP.S.-Mr. SHARP is anxiously waiting for an answer to his application.\n\n15th August, 1874,\n**J. G. AUSTIN,**\nColonial Secretary.\n\n## MINUTE BY THE REGISTRAR GENERAL.\n\nDone.\n\n**C. C. SMITH,**\nRegistrar General.\n\n## MINUTE BY THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nFile.\n\n**J. G. AUSTIN,**\nColonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "Prize distribution took place this afternoon at the Victoria School, with Bishop Raimondi in the chair. Mrs Marsh distributed the prizes, and among the guests were the Hon. F. Flowers, Colquhoun Secretary, Mr Granville Sharp, and several relatives and friends.\n\nBefore the prizes were awarded, Bishop Raimondi said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, before the distribution of prizes takes place, allow me to say a few words. First, I wish to thank Mr and Mrs Hanlon for their kind invitation. There is not a more noble work than that of educating youth, although I confess it is not an easy work.\"\n\nHe continued, \"Proper communications are the key to developing trade. Mr Colquhoun's, in his paper to the Chamber of Commerce Journal, suggests that a railway from Rangoon to Yunnan is feasible and would greatly benefit the trade between Burma and China.\"\n\nThe distribution of prizes then followed:\n\nSixth Standard\n\nL. Leiria: For History, Composition, Grammar, Arithmetic, Reading, Translation from Portuguese and French, a book \"Wordsworth's Poetical Works,\" presented by Dr Stewart.\nF. M. Britto: For Dictation and Reading, \"French and English Dictionary,\" presented by Bishop Raimondi.\nKasa Yung: For Translation from French, a prayer book, presented by Mr J. M. Mello.\n\nFifth Standard\n\nM. d'Almeida e Castro: For Composition, Geography, Arithmetic, Drawing Maps and Needle Work, a Takestand, presented by Mrs Trender.\nM. d'Almada e Castro: For Drawing Maps and Needle Work, \"The Arabian Nights,\" presented by Mrs Hanlon.\n\nFourth Standard\n\nA. Gomes: For Geography, Arithmetic, and Dictation, \"Set Help\" presented by the Sisters, for Reading, Dictation and Arithmetic, \"Horas Marias,\" presented by Rev. Bishop Raimondi.\nA. Radke: For Geography and Reading, \"Mandalay to Chyantal Deto,\" presented by Mrs M. C. Rozario.\n\nThird Standard\n\nA. Talaim: For All subjects, \"Household Amusements,\" presented by Mrs A. G. Hanlon.\nF. Konfiance: For Reading, Grammar, Arithmetic and French, \"Life of Was Sington,\" presented by Mrs A. G. Rozario.\nTega Sing: For Dictation and Arithmetic, Ink Stand, presented by Mr C. A. Mello.\n\nSecond Standard\n\nJ. de Aguiar: For Arithmetic and Writing, a pencil, presented by Mrs J. Mello.\nM. Cha: For Arithmetic and Spelling, Ink Stand, presented by Mrs M. C. Rozario.\n\nSpecial Prizes\n\nMrs Marsh: For Distributing prizes to the pupils.\nMr Hanlon: For his successful entertainments.\n\nCASE OF THE \"JOHN D. BREWER\"\n\nThe judgment in the Consular Court of the United States Consulate at Canton, China, December 15th, 1888, was delivered by Charles Seymour, United States Consul, acting judicially.\n\nThe case involved complaints by Walter Jacelyn and Dennison P. Moore against Alfred Johansen and Harry Rolands. The judgment was that Alfred Johansen was guilty of violating the ship's rules and gross misconduct, and was discharged from further service on the Barque. Harry Rolands was also found guilty of gross misconduct and was discharged.\n\nROUTE BETWEEN BURMA AND CHINA\n\nMr Colquhoun's paper to the Chamber of Commerce Journal discussed the prospects of extending trade between Burma, the Shan country, and South West China. He suggested that a railway from Rangoon to Yunnan would be beneficial, and that the region was rich in mineral resources, including gold, copper, lead, zinc, tin, iron, and silver.\n\nThe advantages of this trade route were stated by Mr Colquhoun: \"The rich portion of Yunnan, especially in the South-west and West, has been described, and the want of communications commented on. These countries yield products, vegetable and mineral, peculiar to each district.\"\n\nOPium CULTIVATION AND MINING\n\nThe article discussed the opium cultivation and mining in Yunnan, and the potential for British industry to tap into this market. It was noted that the Chinese mandarins were not encouraging the development of mining operations, and that the region was rich in mineral resources.\n\nMINING OPERATIONS\n\nThe article highlighted the potential for mining operations in Yunnan, with the presence of coal, copper, lead, zinc, tin, iron, and silver. It was estimated that ten men were required to work a ton of coal, and that the laborer's wages would be higher in mining than in other industries.\n\nPage 28\n\n...\n\nPage 83\n\n...\n\n106",
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        "content_text": "511\n\nGEORGE PHILIPPO.\n\nRegistrar Supreme Court.******\n\nChief Justice.\n\nFRANCIS SNOWDEN,\n\nPuisne Judge\n\nEDW. J. ACKROYD,\n\nS. BARFE\n\nALFRED G. WISE,\n\nSecretary to Chief Justice.\n\nT. HAZELAND,\n\nJ. RUSSELL,\n\nDeputy Registrar.\n\nActing Deputy Registrar.\n\ndad one of Got the best hard ch.: Jurticeships in the savice - from received very large promotion from Mauritices to thery 2 years ago Just promoted\n\nColonial Treasurer and Registrar General.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART\n\nF. H. MAY.\n\nJOHN GERRARD.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nonly just joined thest fronted will frobably receive some just foined the sunce I hope will retire shortly\n\nPolice Magistrate and Acting Colonial Secretary,\n\nARTHUR K. TRAVERS.\n\nE. BOWDLER,\n\nAssistant Surgeon General.\n\nH. G. THOMSETT,\n\nHarbour Master, &c.\n\nJ. P. McEUEN,\n\nAssistant Harbour Master.\n\nJOHN S. BREWER.\n\nGovernment Marine Surveyor.\n\nDr. B. C. AYRES,\n\nColonial Surgeon.\n\nW. JENNINGS,\n\nColonial Chaplain,\n\nH. E. WODEHOUSE,\n\nPolice Magistrate and Coroner.\n\nW. M. B. ARTHUR,\n\nW. M. DEANE,\n\nActing 1st Clerk, Magistracy,\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police.\n\nC. Y. CREAGH,\n\nthe service · promotion immediately Just Promoted fiol- Promoted - Under coreson for personal allowance -joined about 2 years ago\n\nMaffuso d a un due consideration for increase and increase because it invsstored giving sof private practice\n\nList of Officers who have resigned the Service, in order\n\nCanselov, drog Janic Cflec a 11 to better Resistant & Luu wata Kön puo ur Lasty Civil A vár digh survey Root Laura S. Sampoan a on p Jenter the servitusta (3an apa me jető vituk, hermobarate Im Rah lay.\n\nBy sherry bus wir Zh. Ives wülerk Frease, joaa jaboopran, cape it in seks up are appoint Shanghai better Crete, no and Classes wants: pudornan situation in the crust Hospital dari dala ya after diluation in Has tow. Lau Ste Caut Pentratsłokan. some of his salon for tracrisan bictorian coil 3. Maxennedy Pistoria. Gaal: Ang lawn Furnkey Fisteria and Salary fucapramene prat ttor av poslať squall lucrative 2ny highty paid as compared with other chaplains\n\nDeputy Superintendent of Police, and Supt. of Fire Brigade.\n\nGEO. J. W. KING,\n\n3rd Clerk Police Office.\n\nGEO. H. BATESON WRIGHT,\n\nHead Master, Central School, and Acting Inspector of Schools.\n\nALFRED LISTER,\n\nPost Master General, and Collector of Stamp Revenue.\n\nARATHOON SETHI,\n\nClerk of Councils, and Chief Clerk.\n\nJ. M. PRICE,\n\nSurveyor General,\n\nHUGH MCCALLUM,\n\nAnalyst.\n\nALEXANDER FALCONER.\n\nSecond Master, Central School,\n\nEDMUND SHARP,\n\nCrown Solicitor,\n\nE. L. O'MALLEY,\n\nAttorney General.\n\nSuperintendent Botanical and Afforestation Department.\n\nCHARLES FORD,\n\nGEO. HAYWARD,\n\nC. GEE.\n\nActing Superintendent, Victoria Gaol.\n\nClerk, Victoria Gaol.\n\nC. J. WHARKY, M.D.,\n\nSuperintendent Government Civil Hospital,\n\nL. P. MARQUES, M.K. & Q.C.P.; L.R.C.S.J.\n\nPrometed 2 years ago transferred to another colony only been 2 years in the quios Has not been appointed 2 years. just given Treaswaanship recently received very great promotion recently promoted has received to receive,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office Hong Kong 20th March 1883.\n\npersonal Acting Colonial Secretary. the bust Z 3 * is to house work assistant the host of a. G. Buffered to be one legal posts in whole savice. increas & or 8 years we him ago received an promoted to to suferintendent stating Assistant Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital.\n\nW. MCKINNEY,\n\nActing Third Master, Central School.\n\nGEO. A. CALDWELL.\n\nActing 4th Master, Government Central School.\n\nW. D. HUTCHISON,\n\n5th Master, Government Central School.\n\nW. S. ADAMS, M.D.,\n\nHealth Officer of the Port and Medical Inspector of Emigrants.\n\ngiven an inacak a a bous fortes dife not yet finally confirmed in the service no bean 2 years atben is yours in the faurice In the Favice",
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        "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, NOVEMBER 30TH, 1880.\n\nSUPREME COURT,\n\n29th November.\n\nIN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE THE FULL COURT.\n\nKO LEONG YUEN AND OTHERS V. BAN HAP AND OTHERS.\n\nThe Attorney-General (Hon. E. L. O'Malley) and Mr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton and Wotton, appeared for the plaintiffs; Mr. Hayllar, Q.C., and the Hon. Ng Choy, instructed by Messrs. Sharp, Toller, and Johnson, appeared for Ban Hap and four other defendants; and Mr. McKean, instructed by Messrs. Stephens and Holmes, appeared for the remaining four defendants. Mr. Hayllar continued his opening speech for the defendants and referred to the minute book of the company as showing that the plaintiffs had taken their part in the management of the company and that nothing had been done behind their backs. Among other minutes read was the following, dated 2nd March, 1879—“As to the bidding for the opium licence in British Hongkong, it was known that the foreigner Pitman was a very good friend of the Governor. Now, having through him obtained the opium licence (or company), it is proposed to pay a bonus (or premium) to him. Now, we have agreed with Pitman and settled with him that the bonus or premium for the three years should be $15,000, which we intend to pay him in one lump sum. The various gentlemen are hereby informed of this so that they may decide and sign their names as proof.” This was signed by the directors. Having concluded his address, Mr. Hayllar proceeded to call evidence.\n\nMr. Tan King Sing said—I am one of the defendants and a merchant, living at No. 16, Bonham-strand West. I came from Saigon with Ban Hap's power of attorney. I was ordered to tender, and did so on the 17th January, 1879. Pitman wrote out the tender. Mr. Ban Hap was then in Saigon. I did not dream of an opposition when I tendered. Having got it I became one of the Man Wo Fung. I wired Ban Hap and he came. After he came the Man Wo Fung was got up. Ban Hap got it up. I took thirty shares. I represent four others. I am a Fokienese born at Singapore. I do not speak Cantonese, but communicate with my co-directors through interpreters. The directors were Ban Hop, Cheong Hong Lim by his attorney Chow Yu Moon, Mok Sa Yeong, Ng Mun Kwan, Tam Yak Shan, the plaintiffs Ko Leong Yuen and Lai Tai U, and Chow Yu Moon. He was the treasurer. Ban Hap was the chief president and looked over everything when he came. He kept the register. Choong Hong Lim's attorney looked after local consumption. The two plaintiffs examined the opium for exportation. We made at once a first call of $250. The second call of $250 was then made, but very late. The third call was made, of $100, at the end of the eleventh moon. The four plaintiffs have not paid $900. The whole directors had the management. It was not successful. The accounts have been made up. The losses for the first year were more than $150,000. The old farmers had boiled more than they consumed the last few months and flooded the markets. The opium passed through this harbour from Shanghai, prepared at Macao. The old farmers went to Macao when we got the licence. They boiled there and competed with us. We were promised by Pitman that the Government would stop the loss. It did not stop it, and caused the loss. The opposition at Macao was the San Yee, composed of the Chap Sing and Yau Wo. We were carrying on business against great opposition. We found out losses in the eighth or ninth moon. These were losses on exportation. Our opium was not in demand so much as San Yee's. The two plaintiffs came to us and said we must return the monopoly to the Government or not to pay the monthly fee. They were willing to have the $10,000 forfeited and they abandoned their directorship. This was the middle of October, 1879. Ban Hap himself was then at Amoy. On the 6th or 7th of the ninth moon (21st October) Ng Mun Kwan wired Ban Hap. He came a few days after. The first two plaintiffs came to him. There were several there. Tam Yuk Shan said we must return the monopoly. Ban Hap said—“We shall lose the $50,000.” He said, \"Never mind, we shall be losing more if we continue.\" Ban Hap said the licence was in his name and he would go on until the end of the term as best he could. The exhibit I is the register of shareholders in the Man Wo Fung. Tam Yuk Shan holds no shares in that name, but as Tse Yae Tong. Ko Leong Yuen has sold no shares; he is there as Sun Yoo Fong. When the plaintiffs met Ban Hap and saw that he did not yield, Tam Yuk Shan sold some of his shares. He sold eleven shares on 21st November. Ban Hap sent to enquire as to what he had heard about the Yan Wo and Chap Sing quarrelling. They were selling shares on the eighth day of the 10th moon and Ban Hap made enquiries. Shok Shong Chan was the negotiator. We had a meeting on the 5th February, 1880. Ban Hap called the meeting of those who wished for an amalgamation. Over twenty attended. It was held at No. 16, Bonham-strand West. The resolution was reduced into writing by the accountant Lau Ka Wan. I produce the minute book of the old company. All the shareholders present signed the draft agreement produced. There are twenty who signed. It was discussed and everyone had their say. It was all agreed and they signed it. After the meeting Ban Hap kept the agreement at the office. A few days after it was written Ko Leong Yuen and Lai Tai U went into the office where Ban Hap, I, and Ng Man Kwan were sitting, and asked for the document to copy. Ban Hap got up, opened his box, got it and gave it to Ko Leong Yuen. The latter handed it over to Lai Tai U and they both went away.\n\nThe agreement never came back. Wong Yeak Ho was sent for it by Ban Hap. It was taken away before the agreement of 9th March was drawn up, and we did not know how to set about drawing it up; we had to do it from memory. Dissent was expressed before the agreement of the 9th March. The two plaintiffs objected. They said this was wrong and that was wrong, but did not show any particular thing to be altered. Between 23rd February and 9th March there was further negotiation with the Yan Wo, by Shok Shing Chan. So far as I know there are no other shareholders unfavourable to the amalgamation but the plaintiffs. Since the amalgamation the company has prospered greatly and made profits. The profits for eight months are $32,000. Since the amalgamation the price of selling has been reduced from $70 to $50 from the last March. We made a yearly statement of accounts at the end of the first working year. They were distributed and sent by the accountant to the plaintiffs. I never heard of any objection to those accounts before the 23rd August. Tam Yuk Shan brought me the minute book with a minute in it regarding the Man Wo Fung and asked me to sign it. It is dated 7th June. He must have got it from the accountant. Since the 1st March, 1880, the two plaintiffs have come to the office. Ko Leong Yuen comes now nearly every day to see his friends and get information. No one has ever prevented the plaintiffs taking part in the management of the company. They do business with the Man Wo Fung. They buy opium for exportation. During the last few months of 1879 we borrowed money to pay the license fee. Altogether $65,000 was borrowed.\n\nThis closed the witness's examination-in-chief and the further hearing was adjourned until this morning.\n\nPage 585",
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        "content_text": "Hongkong.\n\nNo 2.\n\n31st March 1883.\n\nGovernor,\n\nThe George Ferguson Bowen, GCMG\n\nSir\n\nto\n\nThe Right Honourable The Earl of Derby\n\nHon'ble W. H. Marsh, CMG.\n\nRespecting the\n\nEnclosures\n\nEnclosure No!\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, APRIL 3RD, 1883.\n\nPRESENTATION OF AN ADDRESS TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR.\n\nOn the 29th ult. an address was presented to His Excellency the Administrator, the Hon. W. H. Marsh, C.M.G., at Government House. The presentation was made by the Hon. P. Ryrie, who was accompanied by upwards of eighty of the signatories, representatives of every class and nationality in the Colony being present.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE, in making the presentation, said—Your Excellency, the pleasing duty has been assigned to me of presenting to you a numerously signed address from the community of this Colony. When I state that this has been a spontaneous movement on the part of all classes in the colony, I state what is absolute fact. I believe that I may be considered the oldest British resident in the Colony, and during the period of my stay here, I have taken part in a good many demonstrations of this kind, and I can truly say that I have never seen more anxiety displayed by its inhabitants to testify by their signatures the feelings they entertained of your high abilities as the head of its executive. (Applause). The address, as you will observe, is numerously signed by all nationalities, but there are still a number of gentlemen anxious to join it who from press of time have not had an opportunity of doing so. With your kind permission their signatures can be appended hereafter. (Applause.) I shall now, with your permission, proceed to read the address:\n\nTo HIS EXCELLENCY THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G., THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT OF HONGKONG, &c., &c., &c.\n\nSIR, We, the undersigned non-official members of the Legislative Council, Justices of the Peace, Members of Professions, Merchants, Bankers, and Residents in Hongkong, desire to convey to Your Excellency on the approaching termination of your Administration of the affairs of the Colony an expression of our esteem and regard as well as of our sense of the admirable and effective manner in which you have discharged the duties of your high position.\n\nThe vigour which has been displayed in every department of your Government, the introduction of numerous measures of useful legislation, and the rapidity with which urgently required public works have been promoted and pushed forward within the short period during which you have held office, make evident to us the eminent capacity for affairs which you possess, while the equal administration of executive authority dispensed by you without fear or favour and with a steadfast regard to the public welfare has inspired all classes of our mixed population with complete confidence in the firmness and justice of your rule.\n\nYou have made Government House the centre of social attraction by the liberal and graceful hospitality which has been accorded to the community.\n\nWe are pleased to learn that the Public Service of the Colony will not be deprived for some time to come of your valuable co-operation and that you will resume your former post as Colonial Secretary. We trust that when you do leave us it will be on the occasion of your appointment to higher office under the Crown to which your long and able public career have so well qualified you.\n\nWith the assurance of our profound respect. We have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servants,\n\n[Signatures follow]\n\nP. Ryrie\n\nF. Hugeloy Johnson\n\nE. R. Belilios\n\nAlfred Lefeber\n\nWm. Danby\n\nJohn Thurburn\n\nS. Barff\n\nA. Molver\n\nW. S. Adams, M.D.\n\nBell-Irving\n\nJ. G. T. Haysel\n\nD. Ruttunjoe\n\nFramsjee H. Arjunes\n\nH. M. Mehta\n\nPh. B. C. Aires\n\nU. V. Creagh\n\nC. D. Bottomley\n\nW. S. Young\n\nH. L. Dalrymple\n\nWilliam Forrest\n\nJ. L. Mackenzie\n\nE. Mackintosh\n\nF. D. Sassoon\n\nJohn Gerrard\n\nC. P. Chater\n\nG. M. Carvalho\n\nG. Remedios\n\nJoze Maria G. Pereira\n\nCornelio Corveth\n\nF. H. V. Azevedo\n\nJ. F. Tavares\n\nE. Loureiro\n\nL. J. Gutierrez\n\nA. Eca da Silva\n\nL. M. Baptista\n\nC. V. M. Marques\n\nF. M. Gutierrez\n\nJ. A. 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        "content_text": "PLAN OF KOWLOON RECLAMATIONS\n\nSHEWING SITE OF PROPOSED POLICE BOAT DOCK\n\nAND OF Mrs SHARP UNRECLAIMED LOT No 10.\n\nCOAL SHED.\n\nNAVAL YARD.\n\nWAR DEPARTMENT LAND.\n\nR O A D\n\nG A R\n\nG.L.N:10. C.L.N$16.\n\nC.L.NO15.\n\nE N R 0 A\n\nC.L.NO17.\n\nG.L. NO 23.\n\nG.L.NO 2.\n\nG.L.NO 14.\n\nG.L.NO 24.\n\nC.LN 68.\n\nG.L.No 69.\n\nG.L.N 70.\n\nGROUND TINTED YELLOW IN PROCESS OF RECLAMATION FROM THE SEA.\n\nMARINE EMBANKMENT IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION.\n\nSCALE 100 FEET = 1 INCH\n\n100\n\n500\n\n600\n\nGROUND TINTED YELLOW IN PROCESS OF RECLAMATION FROM THE SEA.\n\n900\n\nG.L.NO/1.\n\nNEW WATER POLICE STATION.\n\nWATER POLICE PRECINCTS SLOPE.\n\nTSIM TSA TSUI BAY.\n\nGROUND TINTED RED TO BE RECLAIMED FROM THE SEA FOR POLICE PREMISES\n\nMrs SHARP'S LOT NO 10 TO BE RECLAIMED FROM THE SEA.\n\nGROUND TINTED YELLOW IN PROCESS OF RECLAMATION FROM THE SEA.\n\nBASIN FOR 8, BOATS. 9, STEAM LAUNCHES. 1, FIRE ENGINE.\n\nSHING BRIDGE.\n\nMARINE EMBANKMENT IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION.\n\nNOTE\n\nProposed Government Wall to Extend from A to B Leaving behind it, a Small basin for Sheltering Government Steam launches during typhoons.",
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        "content_text": "25\n\n458\n\nEus-enclosure in my Sharp's memorandum of May 17,\n\nStummanium from 1886.\n\nC 0.\n\nTISES\n\nRECR\n\nREGO 2 JUL 33\n\nستاد بال لاک\n\ntheston: The Colonial Secretary.\n\nDu kaminių\n\nover the\n\nC. &.S, to you\n\ne\n\nyou after another twelvemonths.\n\nexperince of the work. I think I right to make somer remarks on the inadequacy of the present arrangements.\n\n2.\n\nfor the last\n\nA glance at the Register is live will show how much the work of the office has increasri. Its present, what may be called the local work is, with the Audit work, all that any can fairly accomanlish; and wen I be found could onis i verraken That V",
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        "content_text": "465\n\nActing known Solicitor, Mr. A. B. Johnson, who states that he has reason to believe that Mr E. Sharp, of the Firm of Sharp, Toller and & Johnson, who is now absent through ill health, intends to place his resignation in Your Lordship's hands.\n\nMr Johnson has on two occasions filled temporarily this post, and he is recommended by the Judges of the Supreme Court and by the Attorney General.\n\n2. The salary of the post is $2,400 a year, equivalent to about £436. The occupation of chambers in the Supreme Court by Mr Sharp and his partners has, I understand, been tolerated rather than expressly sanctioned by Government since the year 1861.\n\nThe attention of the Secretary of State was called to the great inconvenience of this arrangement by the late Mr Justice Knowles, when he was at home on leave a few years ago, and the opinion was then expressed by Despatch 19141, dated 30th October 1879, by Mr Secretary Beach, that if the space occupied by the Crown Solicitor was required for the Supreme Court, he should be called on to give them up.\n\nThis I ...",
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        "content_text": "8\n\n9\n\n184\n\nso much so that the other European Towers will find treating with them increasingly difficult.\n\nM. Trizon left Hong Kong on the 14th instant in a French P.&O. for Tonquin. We told me that he proceeds thither simply to ascertain the exact state of affairs, so as to be able to lay a full report before the French Government on his early return to France. He will not come back to China; nor will he (as he assured me), be replaced forthwith by a new Minister; it seems that, for the present, there will be only a Chargé d'affaires, the Secretary of the French Legation at Peking.\n\n6.\n\nWe now hear of sharp fighting at Langson, as the French have already some ten thousand (10,000) regular troops in Tonquin. As we have already seen, there may be many sharp collisions between the French and Chinese Forces in Tonquin without any formal declaration of war.\n\n45\n\n1474",
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        "content_text": "Office or Individual\n\nDate.\n\nSubject.\n\nName.\n\nDate.\n\nSubject.\n\nHome Office. 21 Aug. Past of Governor of Victoria Gaol.\n\n10 Mar. Defence of Victoria.\n\n30 Apr. Supply of carbines to the Volunteer Corps.\n\nWar Office\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\n15 May Kowloon Gardens.\n\ndo.\n\n19 July. Defences of Hong Kong.\n\ndo.\n\n28 Nov. Riot at Canton.\n\nEastern Extension Telegraph Co. // San. Kommission to Land New Cable.\n\ndo.\n\n27\n\nIrb. Adhesion to Telegraph Convention.\n\nKew Gardens. 22 Mar. Appt. of Mr. A.B. Westland as Asst. to Supt. of Botanical Dept.\n\nCo\n\n1 Apr. Meteorological Obs. 26 June\n\n#\n\n11 May.\n\nEast Extension Telegraph Co.\n\nAppl. of Mr. J. Russell as Judge of Supreme Court. Appt. of Mr Figg as Asst. at Observatory. Additional Postal Agencies in China. Cable with Shanghai.\n\nKew Gardens. 2 June. Botanical & Afforestation Dept.\n\nNat. Assoc. October 18\n\nRepeal of CD. Acts.\n\n#\n\nRepeal of the Contagious Diseases Ordinances in Hong Kong\n\nEastern Tel: 17 July Joining of Telegraph Lines at Kowloon.\n\n23\n\n#\n\nCable between Tonquin & Hongkong.\n\n2 Aug. Telegraphic communication between Hongkong & Canton\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\n21\n\n$\n\ndo.\n\n18\n\n$\n\nD.\n\nPermission to land Cable at Hong Kong from Tonquin.\n\nBowen, Sir G. 10 Jan. Aide-De-Camp for Governor.\n\nBrown, D.G. 17 Sept. Post of Governor of Victoria Gaol.\n\nChadwick, O. 6 Apr. Tidal observations at Hong Kong.\n\ndo.\n\n24 May.\n\nCleaver, J. 4 June. Retirement on pension.\n\nDoberck, W. 10 Jan. Appt. as Director of the New Observatory.\n\ndo.\n\n12 Feb. Appt. of an Assistant for the Observatory.\n\nDoberck, W.: 22 Feb. His position as Director of Observatory. 4 Apr. Pension of Assistant at the Observatory.\n\ndo\n\ndo.\n\n18\n\n#\n\ndo.\n\n19\n\n#\n\ndo\n\nHouse allowance & Civil Uniform.\n\nD-\n\nMay Appt. of Mr Figg as Asst. at the Observatory.\n\nDouglas, R.K.: 22 Nov. Progress of Mr. Cadet, Swithin in Chinese.\n\nFobes\n\nJ. 19 Mar. His Pension.\n\nManning, Charles. 30 Dec. Letter from Bishop Raimondi re: treatment of Chinese criminals.\n\nShaen, W. May Repeal of Contagious Diseases Ordinances.\n\nHothersall\n\nSharp, E.B. 3 Oct. Resignation of Offices of Crown Solicitor & Queen's Proctor.\n\nAdmiral\n\nAgents\n\nPage",
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        "content_text": "Officer Individual.\n\nSharp.\n\nDate.\n\n1883.\n\nJ. Ochi 13.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nE 17470\n\nS 15773\n\n027741\n\nđang đóng\n\nNo. 146457\n\nSubject.\n\nHis Resignation\n\nCrown Solicitor\n\nand\n\nand bears\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n0.\n\n17645\n\nREC\n\nREGS 15 30T 33,\n\n753\n\nQueen's Proctor\n\nhears testimony\n\nability of\n\nto\n\nMr. A. B. Johnson.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM2 Mende Mi Bramston\n\nThe Crown agents should be informed\n\nIf accepted, Mr. Sharp's resignation & he will not be entitled\n\nI cannot make\n\nout whether he has\n\nor not:\n\na claim to pension\n\nif he has his resignation\n\nshould not be accepted without a certificate\n\nfrom Dr. Gage Brown:\n\nI see no reason\n\nwhy\n\nJobeson should not be appointed, but whoever is appointed the government\n\nCopy Comes - Gov. cruf - No 245. 6 No. 227\n\nto be retired",
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        "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]",
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        "content_text": "THE WAR IN TONQUIN.\n\nEnclosure\n\n[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]\n\nHANOI, 31st January, 1884.\n\nNow that things have been pretty well tidied up at Sontay, the French offer no opposition to anyone going up to see the place. A passage can be easily arranged in a native boat, and if the wind is favourable and the boatmen not too lazy, the distance of thirty miles or thereabouts can be easily compassed in daylight. It is even possible to get a passage in a Government steamer, but as those craft are always chock-full of soldiers and commissariat stores, the gain in time and dignity is hardly worth the absence of comfort.\n\nThe country between Hanoi and Sontay is of the same general character as that farther down the delta. There are the same alternate high banks and low shelving flat lands, according as the force of the current bears on the one shore or the other; the same wide stretches of paddy fields; the same abundance of bamboo and cactus-fenced villages, with here and there the trumpery little jos-houses which the French call pagodas. At this season of the year the Song-koi is at its lowest, and from the insignificant height of a native boat impossible to see any distance inland. Still, from what I could see during occasional tramps on the bank to relieve the monotony of the journey, it was apparent that the warlike operations so recently conducted in the immediate neighbourhood had had but a very transient effect on agricultural doings. Ploughing was going on everywhere; the women and children were levelling the surface with wooden mallets, and all were too busy even to throw stones at me, as they probably would have done in the neighbourhood of Haiphong.\n\nNear Sontay, indeed, it was different. On the right bank, at any rate, the fields were quite deserted, and the few people one saw seemed quite prepared to run, with or without reason. The headless bodies, which still continue to come down the river, no doubt tend to shake a man's nerves.\n\nFrom a cursory view, Sontay seems a place which has no natural advantages of any kind. Take any level country with a slope upwards to a central point, so gentle that it is almost impossible to detect it, and you have the general appearance of Sontay. For the town, take a random collection of the ordinary, heavy, Chinese brick houses, interspersed with the wretched, wattled, bamboo, mud-plastered, thatch-roofed shanties of the Annamese. The citadel is a quarter-mile square section built of big slabs of conglomerate, for defensive purposes not half so good as decent bricks.\n\nFor surroundings, there are the Song-koi, too far off to be of any use, except as a means of bringing up enemies; a little river running at a distance of six hundred yards or so, round the western and northern faces, some low spurs from the main range of hills to the west, but too distant to afford anything like a secure place of retreat. Beyond this, nothing but a cultivated country.\n\nBut a closer examination shows how much can be done with the most unpromising material. The Black Flags have made the best use of their time since last May, though it seems scarcely credible that the whole of the earthworks now existing can have been constructed in the short period of seven months.\n\nJust now the river runs twenty feet under the level of the Sontay bank. At the time of the attack in December, it was considerably higher, but still there was a fairly high river bank. A thousand feet from this are the lines of Phu-oc-sa, or Phu-the. These cover the river face of from half a mile to three-quarters, and on either side run down to the water. They are of considerable height and are formidably constructed with contreforts, or traverses, to afford protection against a flank fire in the event of entrance being forced at any point.\n\nThe bamboos which masked the whole face have been cut down close to the ground by the French. Marshy land protects a good deal of the front, and these swamps were much more extensive at the time of the attack than they are now. A road running from the river-bank straight up to the citadel cuts the earthworks at right angles, and it was round the gate (now replaced by a large blockhouse, built of bricks obtained from a pagoda pulled down for the purpose) that the fiercest fighting of the 14th December took place.\n\nThe Turcos were the first to be sent up, and they were beaten back time after time, while the Foreign Legion and the Infantry of Marines fared no better. It was particularly noticed that the Flagmen took steady aim every time they fired, and the loss of two hundred men and twenty-two officers in half an hour testified to their steadiness. The French are full of admiration for the pluck of the Black Flags, though they show them but scant mercy when they get hold of them.\n\nSeveral times when the troops had almost forced their way into the lines, the Black Flags seized the bayonets with their naked hands, in regular Ghazi fashion, and toppled the burly Algerians and Foreign Legion men down the slope. It was only at the end of the first day's fighting that the works were taken, and then every inch had to be fought for. Independent witnesses of the struggle maintain that it was not till their ammunition gave out that the Black Flags were driven from Phu-oc-sa.\n\nHowever that may be, at midnight, animated by an offer from Liu Yung-fu of two hundred thousand dollars to the man who would retake the works, they all came back again. The fighting was renewed with as much determination as ever, and it is even asserted that the French were momentarily driven out. If they were, they forced their way in again, but the struggle extended over several hours.\n\nThe best evidence of the desperate state of the French and the anxiety in which they were is the recorded fact that no letter, sealed or open, from officer or man, was allowed to be despatched on the night of the 14th December. \"Fine thing it would have been if we had had correspondents there!\" a French officer remarked to me in an effusive moment. \"They would have said it was a French defeat.\"\n\nBetween the Phu-oc-sa works and the \"outer enceinte\" is a distance of five hundred yards or more. The road leading up to the town was lined on both sides by houses. These seem to have been tolerably substantial, but now nothing remains of them but a few heaps of ashes and the rectangular stone water tanks, which the Tonquinese are fond of building, but hardly ever seem to use for their legitimate purpose.\n\nWhen there is water in them, it always appears to be covered with green slime, but more frequently there is nothing but rank grass, with an occasional sapling. To right and left of this is cultivated land, with here and there a joss house or two. The paddy fields that are now dry would have been heavy going for a Pytchley man six weeks ago. The muddy patches of today were sheets of water on the 15th December.\n\nThis outer enceinte is an exceedingly strong earthwork, roughly polygonal in shape and defended in front by a moat fifteen or twenty feet wide. On the level ground between the walls and the ditch was a treble or quadruple fence of well-grown bamboos, covering a depth of from four to six yards. At the gates, the moat was studded with spiked bamboos. A stockade of high thick logs masked the front, and on the approach to the slender plank bridge was a formidable chevaux-de-frise of sharp-pointed stakes and bamboo caltrops.\n\nThe lines themselves were solidly constructed, and the shells which burst in them did but very little damage, as far as affecting a breach was concerned. The main attack was made on the North-west front, and the number of empty cartridges lying about here, inside the works, showed the severity of the fire to which the French were exposed.\n\nThe Chinese cannon, however, were of the most worthless kind. Not only were the pieces of old-world manufacture and honeycombed with age and neglect, but they were few and badly placed. The contreforts along the line of works were pointed out by the French officers as conclusive proof that there had been European guidance in Sontay. But the way in which the guns were mounted was far more conclusive proof the other way.\n\nC. O.\n\n404252\n\nRECD\n\n[MAR 84]",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nThere was no perceptible damage done to the French ships, but it was reported that they had lost five or six men killed, and had six or seven men wounded, including the officer in charge of the torpedo boat, and one of the crew already mentioned. Among the killed was an English pilot belonging to Foochow, named Thomas, who met his death on board the Volta from a grape shot.\n\nAt four o'clock on Sunday morning a Chinese torpedo boat—converted steam launch—was seen to come drifting down the river, and she was sunk by heavy firing from the French ships. At 10 o'clock that morning the Volta, with the gunboats Lynx, Aspic, and Vipère, steamed round the Pagoda and completed the demolition of the Arsenal and the various other Chinese Government buildings, and this was going on up to the time the Woosung left the anchorage, at half past twelve.\n\nDuring the fighting the French were careful to avoid firing upon private property, but two or three shots struck the Custom House either fired from the French men-of-war accidentally, or from the Chinese gunboats—perhaps from the guns that were exploded by the heat of the flames on board the latter. The report current in this colony as to the loss of any French man-of-war is entirely without foundation, as is also the report that a typhoon put a stop to the hostilities on Saturday. During Thursday and Friday it was blowing hard from the NE, but Saturday and Sunday were both beautiful days, and the Woosung had fine weather all the way down. The French ironclads Bayard and La Galissonnière were seen anchored off the White Dogs, and it was understood the French programme was to destroy the Arsenal, the adjoining works, and the Chinese men-of-war by the Sunday, and on the Monday proceed to demolish the various forts which line the river.\n\nWith reference to the telegram received in the colony to the effect that a French ironclad had attacked a fort near Sharp Peak and been beaten off, it is not thought the latter part is at all likely. The corvette Chateau-Renault, and the cruiser Sans Pareil were seen lying off the Kimpai Forts, and it is supposed these two vessels were waiting to operate against the river fortifications.\n\nThe British men-of-war lying at the Anchorage were the corvettes Champion, Sapphire, and the dispatch boat Vigilant, on board which was Admiral Sir W. M. Dowell. The American corvette Enterprise was also there; while at Foochow were the British gunboat Merlin and the American gunboat Monocacy, which were watching over the interests of the foreign community. There was also a force of 400 British, American, and French men-of-war's men ashore to guard them against any mob rising. The German corvette Prinz Adalbert arrived at Pagoda Anchorage the next morning, in time to see operations commence for that day.\n\nThe merchant vessels at the Anchorage during the bombardment besides the Woosung were the British steamers Glenfinlas and Mary Austin, the British barques Butaria and Guiding Star, and the German barque Sin Kolga. These vessels were exposed to much danger of being set on fire by the burning Chinese gunboats, and the Batavia was towed from her anchorage.\n\nThe French made no attempt to land any force of men to hold any of the places they had bombarded.\n\n231 \n\n## 4",
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        "content_text": "## Passage List\n\n### 1845\n\n| Name | Going | Returning |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| A. Listics family | 500 |  |\n| Mar Fellite hell & family | 535 | 35 |\n| C. G. Smith & family | 1606 | 606 |\n| H. EU eloir R. Pabster |  |  |\n\n### 1876\n\n| Name | Going | Returning |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Ge | 16666 | 16666 |\n| Max Mobilelan | 291 |  |\n| H. L. & Mather |  |  |\n| A. J. Sampson & family | 750 |  |\n| C. Ford | 233 | 23 |\n| Rev. R. Redd family | 750 |  |\n| I. McClellan |  |  |\n| Grey |  |  |\n| My Jounochy |  |  |\n| Will. Deane & Wife | 333 | 33 |\n| G. G. Smith & family | 4456 | 33 |\n| I. S. Huffam |  |  |\n| Urselle (lellare & family | 333 | 33 |\n| Juan Sanders & wife | 333 | 33 |\n| A F Sampson & Son | 333 | 33 |\n| Leer elly Speechly family |  |  |\n| H. J. Mather & family | 416 |  |\n| C. Mes Founochy |  |  |\n| Rev. Mr Kidd | 333 | 33 |\n\n### Payments\n\n£31.10. paid by Crown Agents  \n£34.10.5  \n£ bg. 8. 10.  \n£32.00. paid by Crown Agents  \n£34.14.5  \n£144. . 3. 14. paid by Crown Agents  \n£bq. c. 10. paid by Crown Agents  \n\n### Other Entries\n\n| Date | Name | Going | Returning |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Feby | A. Listiz & Children | 500 |  |\n| Mar | f. Imate & family | 1416 | 6le |\n| Apul | St. I. Marstell |  |  |\n|  | a. M. Deane |  |  |\n| May | Dr. Adame & family | 500 |  |\n| May | E Sharp & Wife |  |  |\n| July | Dr. Adaunes & family |  |  |\n|  | W. Watts |  |  |\n|  | E sharp + wife |  |  |\n|  | Russell | 500 |  |\n|  | A. Larsen family | 103 | 133 |\n|  | A Falconer & family |  |  |\n|  | Russell | 166 | 66 |\n|  | Mar Ce it Sangster & Wipt | 933 | 35 |\n|  | Cell. Bu | 166 | 66 |\n| Jan | A. Lister | 166 | 66 | \n## Page 151 \n## Page 363",
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        "content_text": "## Schedule \n| Owner | Description | Quantity | Premium Paid |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| W. S. Adams | Rural B.L. 27 | 410 | $1230 |\n| E. I Alford |  | 14 | 365 |\n| Q. B. Johnson |  |  |  |\n| J. R. Anton | Farm lot | 60 | 805 |\n| E. R. Belilivo |  |  |  |\n| E. Bowdler | Rural B.he | 273 |  |\n| The Hould. Bramsted | Farm lot | 105 | 8067 |\n| I. Russell & H. Kelson | Rural B.Rs. 5417 | 166 | 382.70 |\n| Ith Dennup |  | 1400 |  |\n| K.I. Ede | Farm Lot |  | 53787 |\n| It Foss | CU Start | 69 | 7337 |\n| J.C Hay llar |  | 64 | 903 |\n| I. D. Hutchison | Rural B.B. | 16 | 1025 |\n| J. Jackson |  | 678 | 817.80 |\n| I.B. Johnson |  | 10 | 1193 |\n| R.K. heigh |  | 19 | 810 |\n| A. P. McEwen |  |  |  |\n| IP Mc Ewen |  | 260 | /8 |\n| J. Mikhell Junes. |  | 400 | 29 |\n| I B.Ost |  | 26 | 360 |\n| The Honorable Sir George Phillippe | Now & Ryrie | 2/12 | // 2620 |\n| E.Sharp G. Sharp | Farm lot | 1879.846 | 203* |\n| d. E. Squier | R.B. Los | 20 | 3 3 J |\n| A. J. Smith | Farm lot | 65767 | 905 |\n|  |  |  | $148657.34 |",
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        "content_text": "## Memorandum by the Colonial Secretary\n\nI think it would be very impolitic to recommend to the Secretary of State relaxation of this rule; which, if granted, would no doubt give rise to strong protest from the owners of European houses in the neighbourhood. The War Department is most anxious to remove Chinese houses from the neighbourhood of the Military Cantonments, and it seems to me most inconsistent that they should recommend a relaxation of the rule laid down by the Secretary of State prohibiting the erection of such houses in other parts of the Town. Besides, the rule if relaxed in this case would be quoted as a precedent by Mr Edmund Sharp, owner of the Temperance Hall, near...\n\never restriction as that above referred to existed.\n\nI would, therefore, strongly recommend, that as there is no prospect of Stauton Street becoming a respectable quarter, the Colonial Office restriction be relaxed as to the lower half of Lot 101. In which case I am informed that $23,153 could be obtained even in the present depressed state of affairs for the Brooke Cottage property.\n\nvery ...\n\nBut as even the amount £4,341-3-9 is much below the original estimated value of the property, a more favorable time, I would fetch in the sale of the property, I would recommend the postponement of the sale of the property.\n\nI have \n(Signed) E. Haller, Colonel, RE.\n\n\"True Copy \n77 \n(Signed) E. Albfloyd, Major, R.E. \nfor Asst. Military Secretary \"Hongkong, 18th March, 1883-\n\nPage 530 \n\n## Enclosure 3",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT.\n\nMar. 18th, 1885.\n\nWho is preparing the cantonments, who is to pull down that building with the view of creating thereon Chinese ones. I do not see how Government can prohibit this, if it sanctions a relaxation of the rule in the present instance, and if it cannot prohibit this construction of Chinese houses, then the indemnity that Mr. Sharp will claim, if the Military wish to purchase this land from him, will be something enormous.\n\n(Signed) E. H. Marsh, Colonial Secretary.\n\n## MINUTE.\n\nTo Sir George Powell  \nHaupty holly  \nRe: Aug 2\n\n| Name | Minute |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Wingfield | ... |\n| Mr. Bramston | ... |\n| Mr. Meade | ... |\n| Sir R. Herbert | ... |\n| Mr. Ashley | ... |\n| Lord Derby | ... |\n\nHongking  \n4 May 1885  \nH 531  \n\nI have to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated the 20th of March relative to the proposition that has been made regarding relaxing restrictions on building Chinese Houses within certain Cottage Property limits.\n\nI agree ... te te Fe...",
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        "content_text": "C.) and so important is the acquisition of the property that I must \nreasonable) \nin most cases the amount of purchase money will be willingly submitted to Mr. Sharp's contention that the object of the Government in resuming proprietorship is not a legitimate \"public purpose\" under the meaning of the conditions of the lease is of course a matter for consideration of the Government, \nbut I would remark, that at this great important commercial port the recent agitation in the Colony shows very clearly that in the estimation of the Public the most important of all public works to be carried out are the defensive works for protection of the Colony against aggression from without or insurrection from within on the part of the dense Chinese population of 160,000 people. \nThe proper location of the Garrison is important in these defensive measures and I cannot do better than refer to A. E. Governor Sir George Bowen's despatch No.61 of the 12th May, 1883 to show what he, as head of the Government, thinks of the matter. \nThe question of Barracks at present is engaging the earnest attention of the Government. There is not sufficient accommodation for the small increase in the Garrison.",
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        "content_text": "## Marine Lots 20 & 21.\n\nIt considers both arbitrary and uncalled for, not to say ungenerous to himself, a large contributor for many years past to the Colonial Revenue, both land owner and tax payer, if however that course is persevered, that the notice be given to Mr Sharp personally, three months being too short a time to allow of my communicating and receiving back from him the instructions I deem necessary for the legal protection of his interests.\n\nI have,\nR. H. M. Davis.\nAttorney for E. Sharp\n\n| Gross Annual Rents of the Manus | 11610 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Deduct for Insurance 1 1/2 per cent |  |\n| YYHO |  |\n| Deduct for Contingencies of rent (Empties) 1/12th of the value of the gross annual rents (11610 ÷ 12) = | 645 |\n| Deduct for Landlord's repairs 5 per Cent of gross Annual Amount |  |\n| Deduct the amount of yearly Crown rent paid to Government |  |\n| Lot 20 annual Crown Rent | 584 |\n| Lot 21 | 7 | \n|  | 56424 |\n|  | 5500 |\n|  | 226244 |\n\nNet annual rent of the Houses \nCapitalize these rents at 12 years purchase ($3447.36 x 12) = $41,368.32  \nAdd to this an indemnity or solatium of 10 per cent for forced sale | 4137 |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | 6573 |\n|  | 142303 is not in the right place, possibly should be  $41,368.32 + 4137 = 45,505.32 |\n\nSigned) J. M. Price,\nSurveyor General.",
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        "content_text": "# COMPLIMENTARY FAREWELL BANQUET TO SIR GEORGE BOWEN, GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG\n\nLast night a complimentary farewell banquet was given to His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong, in St. Andrew's Hall, City Hall. There was a numerous attendance, the banquet being the largest that has ever taken place in this colony, no less than 160 gentlemen sitting down to dinner. The chair was occupied by His Honour Chief Justice Sir George Phillippo, and the Vice-Chairmen were the Hon. T. Jackson, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Messrs. A. P. McEwen, C. P. Chater, and J. Melville Matson. The Governor sat on the right of the Chairman, and Vice-Admiral Vesey Hamilton, C.B., on his left.\n\nThe following gentlemen formed the General Committee:-\n\n| Name | Title/Honour |\n| --- | --- |\n| His Honour Sir George Phillippo | Chairman |\n| the Hon. W. H. Marsh | C.M.G. |\n| the Hon. Frederick Stewart |  |\n| the Hon. E. L. O'Malley |  |\n| the Hon. A. Lister |  |\n| the Hon. J.M. Price |  |\n| His Honour Mr. Justice Russell |  |\n| His Honour Mr. Justice Ackroyd |  |\n| the Hon. W. Keswick |  |\n| the Hon. T. Jackson |  |\n| the Hon. F. D. Sassoon |  |\n| the Hon. Wong Shing |  |\n| the Right Rev. Bishop Raimondi |  |\n| Monsieur Leon Dejardin | Consul for France |\n| Dr. O: F. von Mollendorff | Consul for Germany |\n| Colonel Withers | Consul for the United States |\n| Dr. P. B. C. Ayres |  |\n| Messrs. C. D. Bottomley |  |\n| E. R. Belilios |  |\n| A. Coxon |  |\n| C. P. Chater |  |\n| G. de Champeaux |  |\n| W. H. F. Darby |  |\n| W. M. Deane |  |\n| W. Durran |  |\n| Major-General Gordon |  |\n| Messrs. M. Grote |  |\n| David Gillies |  |\n| H. Hoppins |  |\n| E. H. Huntingdon |  |\n| Rev. W. Jennings |  |\n| Messrs. John Macgregor |  |\n| A. McConachie |  |\n| A. P. McEwen |  |\n| J. Melville Matson |  |\n| Mortimer E. Murray |  |\n| H. N. Mody |  |\n| G. E. Noble |  |\n| L. Poesnecker |  |\n| A. G. Romano | Consul for Portugal |\n| C. Stiebel |  |\n| J. Thurburn |  |\n| A. G. Wise |  |\n| H. E. Wodehouse |  |\n\nThe Working Committee consisted of the following gentlemen:-\n\n| Name | Title/Honour |\n| --- | --- |\n| the Hon. J. M. Price |  |\n| the Hon. T. Jackson |  |\n| the Hon. F. D. Sassoon |  |\n| Messrs. C. D. Bottomley |  |\n| A. Coxon |  |\n| C. P. Chater |  |\n| W. M. Deane |  |\n| H. Hoppins |  |\n| A. P. McEwen |  |\n| J. Melville Matson | Hon. Secretary |\n\nSubjoined are the names of the other subscribers to the banquet in the order of signature:-\n\nVice-Admiral Hamilton, Major-General Cameron, Major Brooke, R.E.; Messrs. A. Findlay Smith, H. M. Bevis, D. H. Mackintosh, W. Gaskell, S. Barff, D. Noronha, J. Dyer Ball, H.C. Setna, E. E. Pallanjee Setna, S. D. Sotne, J. Jamasjee, H. St. Clair Greeley, H. F. Hayllar, D. Musso (Consul for Italy), A. Seth, L. P. Marques, J. A. Carvalho; Colonel Crawford, R.A.; Messrs. A. G. Stokes, A. K. Travers; Captain Long, R.N.; Major Riddell, R.A.; Commodore Morant, R.N.; Captain Pearson, R.N.; Messrs. H. H. Jukes, N. A. Sieba; Captain Rumsey, R.N.; Major Dempster, A.P.D.; Lieut-Colonel Murray, C.B.D.; Dr. Manson; Messrs. S. E. Shellim, J. T. Chater, E. C. Ray, G. T. Jordan, C. C. Cohen, V. H. Deacon, C. E. Bowles, D. E. Sassoon, Sidney Hancock, E. Jones Hughes, W. Hartigan, B. Byramjee, W. G. Humphreys; Major Tripp, Captain Francis, Lieuts. McCallum, Mossley, Woolley, and Holmes, Hongkong Volunteer Artillery; Mr. H. Poate; Dr. Hungerford, Army Medical Department; Messrs. A. Falconer, R. C. Wilcox, T. I. Rose (Consul for Siam), Granville Sharp, Teiske Minami (Consul for Japan), H. Z. Just, J. H. Stewart-Lockhart; Lieut-Colonel Le Masurier, C. and T.D.; Lieut. Farquhar, R.N.; Messrs. E. Bebre, G. T. Hopkine; Lieut. A. K. Knapton, R.N., Flag Lieut.; Messrs. N. G. Mitchell-Innes, C. Heyman, D. B. Tata, J. M. E. Machado, F. Machado, A. F. Alves, A. J. Rozario, A. P. Guterrez, J. G. T. Hassell, A. P. Stokes; the Very Rev. G. Burghignoli, Mr. C. A. Tomes; Captain Maturio, R.A.; Messrs. Samuel Hughes, Dinshaw Nowrojee, J. K. Dealy, and John D. Humphreys.\n\nThe following were invited guests, in addition to the guest of the evening:- Rear-Admiral Rieunier, Captain Dupuis, Captain Blanc, French Navy; Colonel Walker, R.E.; Dr. Fisher, R.N.; Major Davies, Assistant Military Secretary; Colonel Foster, Captains Power and Bolton, Lieuts. Parkin, Little, Metcalfe, Bramwell, Drew, Lowther, Podler, and Quartermaster Wallace, Northamptonshire Regiment; Captain Hoffmeier, H.I.G.M. Navy; Commanders Alleyne, Davis, Hill, Moore, and Hotham, R.N.; Lieuts. Breeks, Bowen, and Somerville, A.D.C.s; Messrs. Dent and Keey, R.N.; Messrs. Clement Allen and E. E. Porter.\n\nSt. Andrew's Hall was decorated with festoons of green leaves, flags, and pot plants, and made to look bright and pretty, and three long tables were set out, taking almost the entire length of the room, with a cross table at the head, in the centre of which sat the Chairman, with a Vice-Chairman at the head of each side table, on either hand, and another at the foot of each of the three tables.\n\nSt. George's Hall was also neatly decorated, the doors being curtained with flags, and ferns, moss, and pot plants being used with good effect. A capital dancing floor was prepared. The ante-room was decorated in the same way, and a portion of the Chamber of Commerce room was partitioned off and a refreshment buffet established there.\n\nThe entrance hall and staircase were also very effectively decorated with pot plants and wreaths of green leaves, presenting a very pleasing appearance.\n\nThe banquet commenced at 7.15 o'clock p.m., the Band playing \"The Roast Beef of Old England.\" The following were the after-dinner speeches:-\n\n## Speech of the Chief Justice\n\nThe CHAIRMAN- The first toast on the list for this evening is the usual loyal toast, the health of Her Majesty the Queen. I ask you to join me in drinking that toast.\n\nThe toast was drunk upstanding, with three cheers.\n\nThe Band- \"God Save the Queen.\"\n\nThe CHAIRMAN- The next toast on the list is the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family.\n\nThe toast was drunk with similar honours. The Band- \"God Bless the Prince of Wales.\"\n\nThe CHAIRMAN- Gentlemen, the next toast I have to propose is the health of His Excellency the Governor. (Applause). We are met together on this occasion, as you all know, in compliment to his Excellency the Governor, and for the purpose of bidding him farewell publicly, as he is shortly about to depart from us, in all probability never to return. It is now nearly three years since he first assumed the government of this Colony. He came to us at a somewhat critical period of our history, no novice in the management of affairs, but as an old and tried Governor, with great experience in the conduct of business, having successfully governed some of the most important colonies in the British empire-colonies which have already made a place in history and which are undoubtedly destined to take a foremost place among the nations of the world. (Cheers). For his services before he came amongst us, he had already received from the hands of Her Majesty one of the highest rewards that it is usual to bestow for distinguished public service, viz., the Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. (Applause).\n\nHis services to this community have been recognized on more than one occasion, and only recently in their farewell address by the Legislative Council-(applause)-body which, comprising as it does nearly all the members of the Executive Council in addition to some of the leading members of the general community, has naturally been brought into more intimate relationships with the Governor than any other portion of the public and is best able to judge of their value. (Hear, hear).\n\nIt would ill become me on the present occasion and in the present assembly, which is not met together for political purposes, and especially in my position, to enter into any question having any bearing upon politics. (Hear, hear). This I can say for myself that I know that His Excellency has always taken a very great interest in everything that he considered was for the best interest of the community-(applause)-and I think I can take it upon myself in the name of all who are present to assure the Governor in similar language to that used by the Legislative Council in its farewell address, that his administration will always be associated in our minds with much personal kindness, consideration, and hospitality (cheers)-a hospitality which I may observe owed a great portion of its charm to the deserved popularity of Lady Bowen and her daughters in the first portion of His Excellency's administration, a hospitality which was not slackened during their necessary but regretted absence, and which has again during the last few months been brightened by the presence of one of His Excellency's daughters and of his only son. (Renewed and prolonged applause).\n\nI am sure also that we all sympathize with the Governor in the prospect of his approaching retirement from public life. It will undoubtedly be a trial to him to give up the active pursuits in which he has been hitherto engaged, the pleasures as well as the anxieties of public life, and the degree of state to which he has been accustomed, for the comparative simplicity and retirement of private life. We have all of us, however, to look forward to relinquishing the active pursuits of life, but there is some consolation for us all if we are able to carry with us in our retirement the assurance that in the days of our activity we faithfully endeavoured to perform our various duties to the best of our ability. (Applause).\n\nBut the Governor, with his experience, need not, unless he pleases, live merely a life of lettered ease, and there are more useful services in which he can be engaged than even in administering the affairs of an important Colony such as this. There has been of late a growing tendency both in the mother country and in the Colonies to tighten and strengthen the bonds of union now existing between them-(applause)-and there has also been a growing and strong desire to enter into closer relationship between ourselves and our great kindred nation. (Hear, hear).\n\nNext year will be an eventful year in this respect. The new buildings of The Royal Colonial Institute will be opened-a Society of which Sir George Bowen has long been a member-(applause)-and which, together with its off-shoot, the Empire Club, has done so much to bring Colonial questions prominently forward before the public at home. Leading colonists from all parts of the Empire will take part in the Colonial Exhibition, to which we are about sending our modest contribution, including many from Colonies over which Sir George Bowen has had the honour during his long career of having been appointed Governor.\n\nThere will also be the American Exhibition of Inventions, which will attract to London many of the leading citizens of the United States, and to welcome whom a Council consisting of most of the leading men in the British possessions, and amongst whom I have no doubt Sir George Bowen's name is already to be found, has been formed by American residents in London and promoters of the Exhibition, avowedly for the purpose of strengthening the friendly relationships between the great English-speaking nations who have one language and one literature in common, whose great men and our great men, and whose noble women and our noble women are the same-(applause)-and who all inherit the glorious deeds and love of liberty of our ancestors. (Renewed applause).\n\nAnd to crown all, it will be the jubilee year of our Most Gracious Sovereign Her Majesty the Queen. (Loud cheers). The movements which have commenced cannot fail to be accelerated by these events, and His Excellency will no doubt be called upon to take an active part in them, and if, as the result of the consultations and deliberations which are even now taking place, any satisfactory measures can be discovered which will have the effect of bringing Great Britain and Ireland, their colonies and dependencies into closer union, especially if in addition we and our kindred nation, the Great Republic of the United States of America (loud applause)-the citizens of whom I believe venerate and respect our Queen in almost if not in quite the same degree as we do ourselves (applause)-could be brought closer and more unitedly together, it would be of so great a service to the world at large as to reflect the highest amount of credit and honour on all concerned in bringing it about. (Hear, hear).\n\nSuch a union would hold out no menace to foreign powers but would, I should hope, have a tendency to hasten the period when reason and not force, right and not might, shall prevail among all the nations of the earth. (Cheers).\n\nIn conclusion, I may say I know that I can safely assure the Governor of the best wishes of you all (hear, hear and cheers)-that he may have a safe and pleasant voyage home-that he may thoroughly enjoy himself during his stay in that old and interesting country which he purposes visiting on his way-(hear, hear)-that he may have a happy meeting with the remainder of his family in England (applause)-and, if so be that he never returns to us again, we trust that he will continue to take the same kindly interest in the welfare of the Colony that he has taken since the first day he came among us-(hear, hear)-and that, again using similar language to that contained in the address before referred to, we hope that he may long enjoy the rest earned by more than a quarter of a century's service and that his unequalled experience may be found of service in the Councils of the Empire. (Cheers).\n\nI have now the great pleasure of proposing the health of His Excellency the Governor, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, and to ask you to unite with me in wishing him all happiness, prosperity, and success in his future career. (Loud cheers).\n\nThe Band- \"God Save the Queen.\"\n\nThe toast was drunk with musical honours and three times three.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY, who was received with prolonged and most enthusiastic applause, said- Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I thank His Honour the Chief Justice for the flattering and eloquent speech in which he has just proposed my health-a speech, I may add, which derives additional weight and significance from his own high office and character, which are most fully appreciated throughout this Colony. (Applause).\n\nPage 150\nPage 151",
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        "content_text": "549\n\n812\n\n(Enclosure 1.)\n\nReport of a Commission appointed by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government to consider a letter from the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol reporting the overcrowded state thereof.\n\n1. On the 8th April last a Commission consisting of the Honourable the Acting Attorney General as Chairman; The Honourable A. LISTEL, Colonial Treasurer; The Honourable J. M. PRICE, Surveyor General: E. MACKSAN, Esquire, Acting Police Magistrate; Major-General GORDON, Superintendent, Victoria Gaol; The Honourable W. KESWICK, M.L.C.; C. P. CHATER, Esquire, J. P.; A. P. MACEWEN, Esquire, J. P.; P. MANSON, Esquire, M.D., J. P. was appointed for the purpose of considering a report of the Superintendent of the Gaol on the insufficient accommodation in that Establishment and the steps which should be taken to remedy the present state of things.\n\n2. This Commission met at once and has held several sittings.\n\n3. Two sub-committees were appointed, the first consisting of:\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN,\n\nHonourable WM. KESWICK,\n\nE. MACKEAN, Esquire,\n\nMajor-General GORDON,\n\nDr. MANSON, and\n\nC. P. CHATER, Esquire.\n\nto visit the Gaol at night and report on the state thereof, and another consisting of:\n\nMajor-General Gordon,\n\nDr. MANSON, and Dr. AYRES,\n\nto enquire into the diet of the prisoners and to report what changes, if any, should be made therein.\n\n4. The reports of these sub-committees are annexed hereto. (Enclosures 4 and 5.)\n\n5. On the whole question submitted to us we beg to report as follows:\n\nWe deem it necessary in the first place to bring prominently before His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government the peculiar position of Hongkong, a position occupied by no other Colony of Great Britain.\n\nHongkong is situate at the very door of two of the largest provinces of China, and close to and in daily communication with Canton, one of the most populous cities of China. A famine or want of work in either of those provinces or in the city would naturally send a certain number of the inhabitants to Hongkong in search of work or of subsistence, whilst the presence in Canton of an active or severe Viceroy at once forces or induces many of the criminal class to change the scene of their depredations and to migrate to Hongkong, where even if detected a mild and lenient treatment awaits them instead of the sharp and cruel punishment which they would certainly receive in China.\n\nThis fact cannot be too steadily borne in mind in dealing with the question of punishment for offences.\n\n6. In Hongkong we have to legislate not only for the Hongkong criminal class but for numbers of that class elsewhere, who are only too ready whenever the occasion arises to repair to this Colony and prey on it.\n\n7. From a return furnished by the Superintendent of the Gaol (Enclosure 6.) it appears that of the 732 prisoners confined on the 11th April, 1886, 677 were Chinese; 274 were detained under sentences of six months; 114 from six months to twelve months; 60 from one year to two years; 39 from two years to three years; 44 from three years to five years; 142 from over five years.\n\nOf those sentenced to penal servitude many have been convicted of simple Larceny after previous convictions for the same offence, and have been so sentenced as a long imprisonment was the only punishment left to secure the public from further depredation.\n\n8. With respect to the deterrent effect of imprisonment this Commission has no hesitation in saying that under the liberal diet which at present exists in the Gaol and other circumstances attending imprisonment, a short detention, say under six months, is no punishment for an ordinary Chinaman, he is better fed and better housed in prison than outside and the work or task which he has to perform is certainly less than he would have to do to obtain a livelihood were he free. He is in almost unrestricted association with criminals like himself and has one and a half day's holiday a week, a thing which the ordinary Chinese labourer never enjoys.\n\n9. On the question of punishment the Commission have considered the legislation as to whipping.\n\n10. The law which at present regulates whipping is Ordinance 3 of 1881. It repeals the Ordinances or Sections of Ordinances hereinafter mentioned and provides whipping with a Patton when any offender has been convicted of a crime punishable under Section 19 of Ordinance 4 of 1865 or under Section 31 of Ordinance 7 of 1865, that is:\n\nSection 19 of 4 of 1865 punishes any one attempting to choke, strangle, or suffocate any other person, or who by means calculated to choke, suffocate, or strangle shall attempt to render any one unconscious or incapable of resistance, and Section 31 of Ordinance 7 of 1865 punishes robbery with violence.\n\n11. The only other case in which whipping is at present allowed is under Section 8 of Ordinance 16 of 1875 which permits a Police Magistrate to inflict whipping on any male offender whose age appears to him not to exceed 16 years when such offender has been convicted of Larceny or any offence deemed and punishable as simple Larceny.\n\n12. The present Ordinance, viz., 3 of 1881, repeals\n\n1°. No. 12 of 1865 under which whipping could be inflicted on any male offender convicted of a crime who at the time of the commission thereof had been armed with an offensive weapon or instrument or who at the time of, or immediately before or after the commission of the crime had used personal violence, or who should at any of the times aforesaid have attempted to render any other person insensible unconscious or incapable of resistance.\n\n2°. Sections 2 and 3 of Ordinance 12 of 1845 which enacted banishment and branding for persons convicted of belonging to the Triad Society.\n\n3°. Section 7 of Ordinance 12 of 1856 which allowed whipping for injury to trees, shrub fences, &c., and for obeying calls of nature in any exposed or improper place,\n\n4°. Sub-section 9 of Section 28 of Ordinance 8 of 18.. relating to mendicancy.\n\n5°. Section 9 of Ordinance 1 of 1886 for the suppression of piracy which enacted whipping for offences against that Ordinance.\n\n6. Section 1 of Ordinance 3 of 1868 which prescribed whipping for persons convicted of child stealing or forcible detention of any man, woman or child for the purpose of selling them.\n\n7. Ordinance 4 of 1872 which enacted branding and flogging for criminals in certain cases, and\n\n8°. Section 7 of Ordinance 16 of 1875 which gave the Magistrate the power of whipping the offender once or twice for committing the following offences a second time or under aggravated circumstance, viz.:\n\nIndecent assault,\n\nIndecent exposure of his person,\n\nAssault with intent to rob,\n\nCommon assault committed in a brothel.\n\nCommon assault committed at or in connection with any riotous assemblage,\n\nMalicious injury to property.\n\n13. The Commission have also heard Dr. AYRES (Enclosure 7.) and Mr. WISE, the Police Magistrate, at present Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court (Enclosure 8.) and have carefully read the several despatches which have passed between the several Secretaries of State and successive Governors of Hongkong on the subject of Gaol accommodation and penal punishments (Enclosure 9.)",
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        "content_text": "Treable.\n\nTitle\n\nDediumess\n\nrepented.\n\nDeduktione\n\nAuthor of a\n\nNuls co.\n\nBoard.\n\nBuilding.\n\nConumen Lodging-\n\nBonsa\n\nInvestic Building.\n\nDrug\n\nو اندازه گر\n\n1-wide.\n\nHouseholder.\n\nIniurious in\n\ncaith\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nA BILL\n\nENTITLED\n\n1st Reading, 6th May, 1887.\n\n2nd Reading,\n\nCommittee,\n\n3rd Reading,\n\nAn Ordinance for amending the Laws relating to Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nWHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for preserving and promoting the Public Health in this Colony: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.\n\n2. The several Ordinances and parts of Ordinances mentioned in schedule 4 to this Ordinance appended, are hereby repealed, provided always that all Rules and Regulations made in virtue of any of the said Ordinances or parts of Ordinances and in force at the date of the passing of this Ordinance shall remain in operation until they shall have been amended or repealed.\n\n3. In this Ordinance and in any Bye-Laws made thereunder, the following words and expressions shall have or shall include the meanings hereinafter respectively set against them unless such meanings be repugnant to or inconsistent with the context.\n\n1. Author of a Nuisance.--The person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues, or if such person cannot be found or ascertained the Owner or the Occupier of the premises.\n\n2. Board.--The Sanitary Board.\n\n3. Building.--Any building, house, dwelling-house, tenement-house, common lodging-house, verandah, cook-house, privy, gallery, balcony, chimney, bridge, out-house, stable, matshed, warehouse, manufactory, shop, work-room, distillery, and place of secure stowage.\n\n4. Common Lodging-House--\n\n(a) any house or part thereof where persons are housed--not being members of the same family--at an amount not exceeding five cents a day or one dollar a month for each person;\n\n(b) any house in which employers of labour lodge their employés other than domestic servants, as part of the remuneration given for their services.\n\n5. Domestic Building.--Any human habitation, or building where persons pass the night.\n\n6. Drug.--Any medicine for internal or external use.\n\n7. Food.--Any article used for food or drink other than drugs or water.\n\n8. Hill-side.--The face of the natural hill, or the face of any scarp or retaining-wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining-wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building.\n\n9. Householder.--The actual tenant or occupier of the whole of any building or in cases where there shall be no such person, then the immediate landlord of the whole of such building and in the case of Corporations, Companies and Associations the Secretary or Manager thereof shall be deemed the Householder and shall be liable under this Ordinance.\n\n10. Injurious to health.--Anything which, in the opinion of the Board, is injurious to health.\n\nC. O.\n\n12781\n\nRECP\n\n[4.5.87.]\n\nREGE 29 JUN 87\n\n381",
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        "content_text": ": tub with its excreta rendering\n\na certain amount of pure\n\nair still more necessary.\n\nUnder these circumstances,\n\nthe Government considered\n\nthe 300 cubic feet\n\nan absolute\n\nnecessity.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\n22020\n\nREUP\n\nGEGE I NOV 87,\n\nNo. 24 of 1887.\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong-kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for amending the Laws relating to Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n1887.]\n\n[It is\n\nserving and promoting the Public Health in this Colony: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.\n\n2. The several Ordinances and parts of Ordinances mentioned in schedule 4 to this Ordinance appended, are hereby repealed, provided always that all Rules and Regulations made in virtue of any of the said Ordinances or parts of Ordinances and in force at the date of the passing of this Ordinance shall remain in operation, until they shall have been amended or repealed.\n\n3. In this Ordinance and in any Bye-Laws made thereunder, the following words and expressions shall have or shall include the meanings hereinafter respectively set against them, unless such meanings be repugnant to or inconsistent with the context.\n\n1. Author of a Nuisance. The person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues.\n\n2. Board. The Sanitary Board.\n\n3. Building-Any building, house, dwelling-house,\n\ntenement-house, common lodging-house, verandah, cook-house, privy, gallery, balcony, chimney, bridge, out-house, stable, matshed, warehouse, manufactory, shop, work-room, distillery, and place of secure stowage.\n\n4. Common Lodging-House :-\n\n(a) any house or part thereof, where persons are housed--not being members of the same family-at an amount not exceeding five cents a day, or one dollar a month, for each person;\n\n(b) any permanent structure in which employers of labour lodge their employés other than domestic servants, or shopmen, as part of the remuneration given for their services.\n\n5. Domestic Building.-Any human habitation, or\n\nbuilding where persons pass the night.\n\nPreamble.\n\nThe Ordinances Repealed.\n\nDefinitions.\n\nAuthor of Nuisance.\n\nBoard.\n\nBuilding.\n\nCommon Lodging House.\n\nDomestic Building.\n\n6. Drug. Any medicine for internal or external use.\n\n7. Food-Any article used for food or drink other\n\nthan drugs or water.\n\nDrug.\n\nFood.\n\n8. Hill-side. The face of the natural hill, or the face of any scarp or retaining-wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining-wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building.\n\nHill-side.",
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        "content_text": "## \nI. H. STEBBING \nA. WRIGHT \nI. W. BROWN \nJ. SLAGREK \nW. DICKSON \nH. A. HERBERT \nD. M. MEHTA \nF. STEWART \nH. H. REED \nA. D. D'AETH \nG. SWALES \nI. E. SASSOON \nWONG SHING \nKWAN O CHEN \nJ. H. MOSES \nT. I. BOWLER \nE \nCHOW PENG \nC. W. DeGGAN \nCHU YU TIN \nH. E. ANGIE \nH. WICKING \nJ. M. ARMSTRONG \nW. Ross \nJ. D. HUMPHREYS \nJ. NEWTON \nJ. M. HANLON \nF. D. GUEDES \nR. C. KNOLLYS \nH. E. DENSON \nF. C. WILFORD \nJ. B. OST \nJ. M. MATSON \nD. R. CRAWFORD \nG. R. LAMMERT \nJ. Y. V. VERNON \nJ. KENNEDY \nJ. CHALMERS \nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART \nJ. MCCALLUM \nA. H. KEMP \nJ. COOK \nR. GOODLAD \nA. A. DA CRUZ \nH. RUSTONJEE \nD. BROWN \nF. R. URQUHART \nF. D. GODDARD \nF. HALL \nW. Dermans \nC. L. GORILAM \nB. BYRAMJEE \nA. W. S. THOMPSON \nLO CHO SON \nBAN MOW HING \nWONG CHONG TANG \nLAI YOK TIN \nLO YAM CHIN \nLO WAI CHUN \nHU WAI SUN \nFOOK LANG \nCHAN SOI SANG \nCHUK SING \nTANG YAT FUNG \nKE YE TING \nLEUNG YAT NAM \nWONG SIK CHUAN \nYAU WAN CHUN \nLUNG PINO NAM \n\n## \nJ. RANGEL \nJ. PITMAN \nW. V. BLAU \nA. JOHNSTON \nG. HORSFOOL \nR. R. ENDICOTT \nA. FINDLAY SMITH \nA. DENISON \nH. LIGHTBODY \nMORTIMER MURRAY \nC. GRANT \nA. H. BENNING \nH. S. THOMPSON \nS. CHAN CHING \nF. GRIMBLE \nD. NORONHA \nL. NORONHA \nYU YAM TONG \nR. MITCHELL \nR. FRASER-SMITH \nH. ST. CLAIR GREELY \nP. HEERMANN \nD. RETTONJEE \nA. McIVER \nM. YOUNG \nG. SHARP \nF. W. HEURMANN \nE. HERBST \nF. SA \nG. T. HOPKINS \nR. H. BEAUCHAMP \nD. R. GRIFFITHS \nP. MANRON \nA. SETH \nC. FORD \nE. E. SASSOON \nD. WOOD \nJ. LAMKE \nC. HIRST \nJ. WOOLNOUGH \nW. N. BAIN \nWEI ATTK \nW. POWELL \nWAN SONG \nWAI WAN LIN \nLAM SI CHUAN \nWONG HOK LO \nYIP CHOS KAI \nT. GLASS \nKWUN TAM KIN \nNG AHUP \nHU KING TONG \nNG WAI \nWONG TZE TAI \nYANG SIK CHO \n\nThese signatures in the original document appear in Chinese characters, and some are omitted which cannot be deciphered.\n\nGeneral Sargent then read the following reply:\n\nMR. RYRIE AND GENTLEMEN-- \n\nYour intention to present me with an Address came upon me altogether as a surprise, and the terms of it are such that I find myself at a loss how to express my deep sense of the kindly and generous feeling it displays. Military services in the field never fail to meet with hearty appreciation from our fellow countrymen, but during the three years of my command here, I have had no opportunity of rendering such services; and although it is true, as you have been good enough to point out, that there have been several incidents in the course of that time which have called for vigilance and decision, the troubles have always blown over, and I had no reason to expect that they would live in your memories. Next to the approval of his sovereign, a soldier values the esteem of his fellow countrymen, and it is very encouraging to find that \n\n## Page 207",
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        "content_text": "# 427\n\n**Honourable C. P. CHATER,**\n\n**DEAR SIR,**\n\n(14)\n\n## Enclosure B\n\nHONGKONG, 15th September, 1887.\n\nIn accordance with the invitation conveyed in your letter of the 3rd instant, we beg to point out that the cutting off of the reclamation, and the termination of the proposed new praya road immediately opposite to Marine Lot No. 188 is calculated, by interrupting the sweep of the tides, to cause a vast increase of the same deposit from the Shektongtsui Nullah at this point.\n\nThe owner of Marine Lot No. 188 is precluded from the extension of his area, whilst the owner of Marine Lot No. 183 will have his Lot inextricably encumbered with sand deposit.\n\nThis will in a short time become really formidable, spreading westward, and shallowing the water in point of Marine Lots Nos. 183 to 177 and Marine Lot No. 126, which have only just now, at great cost, been reclaimed.\n\nMoreover the new Praya Roadway is made to terminate in a most awkward and unsightly manner, with a godown wall at right angles across its face, a defect which has not failed to attract the attention of every one on examining the plan.\n\nBy continuing the reclamation but seventy-five feet further and carrying out the nullah sewer into deep water all these difficulties will be removed. The owner of Marine Lot No. 188 can then share in the extension. Marine Lots Nos. 183 to 126 will be relieved from the danger which threatens their frontages, whilst the new Praya Road will be connected directly in line with a street of equal width, forming, for the meantime, a most appropriate termination of this work to the West.\n\nWe are, Dear Sir,\n\n(15)\n\nIn every new house that may be erected of more than one story in height, the Government requires a back yard of at least 15 feet in width; this appears to us to be a waste of valuable ground entirely uncalled for; without losing sight of the fact that a back yard is absolutely necessary from a sanitary point of view, still a minimum of 15 feet would entail an unnecessary waste of ground and an enormous loss on the land-owner against which we must most forcibly protest.\n\nParagraph IX in the letter from the Government does not mention the actual breadth of ground required for the new streets, but we are informed that it is the intention to reserve 100 feet for the New Praya and for the purpose of widening the present Praya.\n\nThis, we are of opinion is excessive and would suggest that 80 feet—to be apportioned between the two streets as the Government may deem fit—will be amply sufficient.\n\nWe must also protest against the proposed new Crown rent of $200 per quarter acre, inasmuch as Crown rents have hitherto always varied according to the position of the plot of ground, and we would suggest that this principle be adhered to and the same rate charged per quarter acre, as is at present charged for the ground immediately in rear of the proposed reclamation; we can only regard any increase in the rate as a premium on the new ground, which the Government pointedly states it does not intend to levy.\n\nWe beg to remain,\n\nSir.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n**DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.**\n\nper J. A. Musely.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n**SHARP & Co., Owners of Marine Lots Nos. 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182.**\n\nI consider the foregoing quite correct, and that the value of Marine Lot No. 183 would be very greatly depreciated by the termination of the Praya Road opposite Marine Lot No. 188. The danger of silting up my frontage by sand deposit would be removed were the extension carried only 75 feet further West, so as to admit of the nullah sewer being carried out into deep water, and thereby to reach the sweep of the tides.\n\n**(IP CHING CHUNE)**\n\nOwner of Marine Lot No. 183.\n\nA plan of the proposed alteration is annexed.\n\n## Enclosure C\n\nTo the **Honourable C. P. CHATER, M.L.C.,**\n\n**SIR,**\n\nHONGKONG, 3rd September, 1887.\n\nAdverting to your correspondence with the Colonial Government upon the new reclamation scheme and to your request that the marine lot-owners should furnish you with any objections to the scheme or suggestions as to its improvement, we beg to lay before you the following points which to our minds require modification, and which we feel sure will otherwise cause opposition, not only from ourselves, but from many other marine lot-owners to what can otherwise only be regarded as a scheme tending to the great improvement of this Colony.\n\n## Enclosure D\n\nTo the **Honourable C. P. CHATER,**\n\n**SIR,**\n\nHONGKONG, 9th September, 1887.\n\nWe are in receipt of your Circular of 3rd instant, with reference to the Reclamation of the foreshore, accompanied by copy of your letter of 13th July to the Acting Colonial Secretary and copy of his reply of 11th August on the same subject.\n\nWe are willing to carry out the conditions of the scheme, but not before knowing how you propose to divide the two pieces of ground in front of marine Lot No. 7, which we have seen in the Plan of 6th August at the City Hall.\n\nAs regards the outer one we see no difficulty in dividing it in proportion to the area of the three present sections in the said marine lot No. 7, by running on it lines, from North to South, parallel with those already marked in the Plan to the eastward contiguous to the numbers 34, 34 and 33.\n\nBut as regards the inner and triangular portion we shall feel obliged by your opinion on the subject.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\n**VIRGINIA A. F. DO ROZARIO,**\n\n**J. M. E. MACHADO, Executors of the Estate of M. C. do Rozario,**",
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        "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 17 November 1888\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nREG: 20 JUL 89\n\nReferring to previous correspondence on the subject. I have the honour to transmit to Your Lordship the enclosed Report of the Surveyor General on a proposal for the Junction of the East and West Prayas by the construction of a sea-wall and roadway of the same character in front of the Royal Naval Yard and Military Cantonments, together with a general plan and estimate of the cost of the work.\n\nThe design in its present shape differs materially from the plans previously submitted, the serious shoaling of the foreshore during recent years having rendered it necessary to move out the line of embankment into deeper water. But this alteration, though it will increase the cost of the work, will afford more than full compensation by the much larger area which will be made available for reclamation, and as the new design is still more favourable to Naval and Military interests than any previous one, there has been no difficulty in securing for it the approval of Vice-Admiral Sir N. SALMON and Lieut.-General CAMERON, both of whom have, I understand, communicated with their respective Departments at home in support of the Project.\n\nHaving therefore no reason to apprehend that either the Admiralty or the War Office will require further modifications of the plan, and presuming that Your Lordship should accede approval to it, the only question which remains to be settled is the important one of contribution towards the cost of the work on the part of the Imperial Government.\n\nBefore entering upon the subject of the Admiralty portion of the proposed work, I should mention that the scheme, lately contemplated, of removing the Naval Yard to Kowloon, and obtaining for the Colony the land now occupied by it, has on further consideration appeared to be a very undesirable one for the Colony. Land is becoming of such value in Kowloon, that the sum likely to be obtained for the present site of the Naval Yard would not be sufficiently in excess of the sum which could be realised for the very much larger area required for the new site to prevent an exceedingly heavy loss to the Colony on the re-erection of the buildings.\n\nOn this ground alone the project did not appear to me to be worthy of further consideration on the part of this Government. There are however other objections to it. \n1. Owing to the rapid growth of population in Kowloon, I apprehend that there would soon arise there the very same condition which has caused so much trouble in Victoria; viz. that created by the cutting of the town into two parts, and the obstruction to free communication between them. \n2. I am disposed to think that with the Naval Yard at Kowloon, there would almost certainly be required some addition to our defence works, involving more expense to the Colony, not only in the cost of construction, but in the loss of the large area required for the necessary fort and to give free range to its guns.\n\nUnder these circumstances the scheme now proposed has appeared to me very far preferable as regards the Colony; and owing to its ready acceptance by the local authorities representing the Admiralty, I imagine it to be also not less desirable in the interests of the Navy. For it will be at once seen from a glance at the plan that the latter gain very largely by it in the following particulars: \n1. by the conversion of the foul and noxious Admiralty foreshore (at present so silted as to be inaccessible during low tide) into a large inland basin accessible at all times, and affording protection to the Naval lighters and boats now left exposed in the open during the typhoon season; \n2. by the formation, beyond the Praya...\n\n...\n\nof the Colonial Government to the foreshore in front of the Commissariat must, therefore, be borne in mind in any discussion that may arise in respect of proprietary rights, though I apprehend Your Lordship will waive those claims, and give the War Department the reclamation in question valued at $114,882, provided that Department should accede to the terms above proposed, viz.: payment of the whole cost of its share of the reclamation.\n\nTo prevent misconception hereafter it should be mentioned, that the precise cost of the works cannot be specified until after all details of design shall have been settled locally with the Royal Engineer Department, and until a tender for the execution of the work shall have been accepted: but the preliminary estimates now put forward are reported by the Surveyor General as being sufficiently approximate to form the basis of any negotiations with the Imperial Departments. Briefly recapitulated the cost of these works will amount to $691,000 of which I propose the Admiralty should pay at least $156,792, that the War Department should pay $320,000, if it desires to retain the lands reclaimed, that Mr. SHARP should pay $21,000, and that the Colonial Government should defray the balance, i.e. $193,208.\n\nI have not deemed it necessary to touch in this Despatch on the many minor provisions that have been stipulated for in local correspondence, both by the Naval and Military Authorities with regard to buildings, piers, fences, walls, roadways, gates, &c. in connexion with the scheme. Suffice it to say that I have met all these requirements, and that no pains will be spared to make the plan acceptable in all its details both to the Naval and Military Authorities. A strenuous effort however, will yet have to be made to obtain from the Naval Authorities some reduction of the great height of \"headway\" which they demand under the bridge over the entrance to the Naval Yard basin, as this height if adhered to will involve unduly steep gradients in the new Praya roadway.\n\nIn conclusion I would remind Your Lordship that the Colonial Government has been now ten years endeavouring to effect the realization of this most important undertaking, that in these ten years of fruitless effort and disappointment, and of almost interminable correspondence with the Imperial Departments, the population of the western town has had time almost to double itself, and to become congested to a dangerous degree, and that in consequence of a situation so full of grave anxiety, it is of vital importance that the War Office as well as the Admiralty should be moved to an early decision. For even if, through Your Lordship's efforts in that behalf, a satisfactory result should be arrived at, and I should then be enabled to cause this much needed work to be commenced during 1889, we can scarcely expect to have the embankment finished before 1893; and only then will it be practicable to establish the tramway communication with the eastern suburbs, so urgently required to lead the population in that direction, and to thus afford a remedy for the evils of overcrowding which at present threaten the health of the Civil community, the Garrison, and the Naval Establishment alike.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's most obedient, \nhumble Servant,\n\n*The actual terms in this case to depend to a certain extent on Your Lordship's decision as to what is to be required from Marine Lot-holder under Mr. CHATER's scheme which is the subject of my despatch No. 234 of the 7th of August, 1888, and I am of opinion that a considerable premium should be paid in addition in respect of this reclamation.\n\nNo. 11.\n\nThe Right Honourable \nTHE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.",
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        "content_text": "18 \n\nThe wall face is in comparatively deep water, with two Admiralty quays to be reserved for the exclusive use of H.M.'s vessels; (iii) by the projection of a timber pier from one of the new quays into still deeper water for the accommodation of the Naval \"shear-legs,\" and for the use of vessels of deeper draught; and lastly (iv) by the reclamation from the sea of an area containing 52,264 square feet, which will be added to the Yard, and which will afford most valuable sites for new naval workshops or other buildings that may be required later, these 52,264 square feet of land, at the very low computation of three dollars a square foot, representing no less a value than $156,792.\n\n7. As, according to the new design, the Praya Roadway will not be interposed between the naval premises and the harbour, but will pass over arches which will afford the freest access from the Yard to the water's edge, and as furthermore the roadway in question will be screened by a wall so as to preclude any possibility of the Yard being overlooked, it will be seen that the great improvements proposed, which will add so greatly to the importance and efficiency of the Naval Establishment, will now be obtained at no sacrifice whatever on the part of the Admiralty, and that consequently there is no longer any basis for the plea, which was previously urged, that my Lords Commissioners should not be called on to contribute towards a project likely to destroy the privacy of the yard or cut off its access to the sea.\n\n8. It should further be mentioned that the rapid silting of the foreshore is likely, in the absence of the proposed embankment, to compel before long the expenditure of a large sum in either taking the Naval Yard down to the sea, or bringing the sea up to the Naval Yard; so that the saving of this cost is another substantial benefit to accrue to the Admiralty from the project in question; and under the circumstances, I venture to think, no more need be said to show how unjust it would be, that no contribution to the heavy expense of this work should be made on the part of a Department which so largely gains by it.\n\n9. The amount of contribution ought, I consider, to be at least the value of the reclaimed land which will be added to the Naval Yard; e.g., $156,792; and even then the Admiralty would obtain for nothing the other very great advantages mentioned.\n\n10. But strong as is the claim of this Colony for a contribution on the part of the Admiralty, the case is very much stronger as regards the War Department. Your Lordship is perhaps aware that, with the sanction of the Secretary of State for War, the local Military Authorities have it in contemplation to re-arrange and re-construct the greater portion of the Barracks, and other buildings in the cantonments, with better regard to efficiency and economy of space, and to sell in the open market all such lands as they may no longer require under such new re-arrangement, the object being to raise by means of these land-sales the funds necessary to meet the cost of the proposed new barracks. The actual possessions of the War Department comprise about 104 acres, and it is intended to dispose of about one half of this area either by auction or by direct negotiation with private purchasers, and the sale of these surplus lands, calculated at the lowest rates now ruling here for leasehold estate, will bring in about one million dollars. But in addition to their present holdings, the Military Authorities claim the right to retain any sea reclamations in front of the cantonments that may be made under the present embankment project, and they look to these reclamations to add very largely in area and value not only to the ground which they intend to retain for future buildings, but also to that which they intend to sell.\n\n11. The Military Authorities are right in attaching great importance to the embankment project, for it will add no less than 453,701 square feet of new land to their present holdings, which, if it was sold, would realize at the present market rates at least $1,325,856.\n\n12. Looking to the enormous gain which will thus accrue to military interests from the project in question, not only in increased space for future barrack extensions but in actual money, any contribution on the part of the War Office to its cost would, in my opinion, be most unfair to the Colony, if it were less than the actual expense of the embankment and reclamation in front of military premises. I can apprehend that the War Office Authorities will not object to make this very reasonable concession when it is discovered how very largely they will gain by the undertaking.\n\n13. For I am unable to conceive on what grounds any arrangement could be morally justified, by which it were sought to secure to the War Department possession of these immensely valuable sea-reclamations at the sole expense of the Colony. There is not a marine Lot-holder in Hongkong who, were he in the position of the War Department in this matter, would not eagerly come forward and offer to carry out the entire project at his own charges, even though the cost were far greater than that given in the enclosed estimate, in exchange for the privilege of retaining the areas reclaimed: and in support of the estimates of prospective benefits here given, I may state that they are based not on fancy or on mere opinions, but on actual business offers made in this Colony for marine properties of even less value. There is therefore no room for doubt that the War Office will obtain, in return for an outlay of $320,000, (the estimated cost of its share of the work), land which, if sold, would readily realize $1,325,856, thereby gaining a net profit of $1,005,856.\n\n14. For that section alone of the North Barracks site, which is shown tinted purple on the small fly leaf attached to the accompanying general plan, the Colonial Government would be prepared to pay the War Office at the rate of $3.00 a foot, or a total sum of $263,700. This proposition must, however, form the subject of a separate Despatch to Your Lordship.\n\n15. Lieutenant-General Cameron, who from the first has perceived the great advantage that will result to Military interests from the embankment scheme, has represented to his Department the justice of a substantial War Office contribution towards the cost of the works; and I am confident that the facts now before Your Lordship, which will no doubt be duly communicated to the Secretary of State for War, will have such weight with Her Majesty's Government as to relieve the Colony from any money payment whatever for the embanking of the Military lands; indeed, I feel sure that a very bitter feeling would be aroused in the Colony if the Military as well as the Naval Departments should appear to take advantage of our extreme necessities, for obtaining better terms than the extremely favourable arrangement here proposed.\n\n16. In connection with the question of proprietary rights over foreshores, I must not omit to call Your Lordship's attention to the case of the proposed reclamation in front of Marine Lot 22 (Commissariat Buildings), which stands on a different footing from the reclamations in front of the rest of the Military properties in the Cantonments. The latter are original Reservations made in the earliest days of the Colony, and vested in the old Board of Ordnance, which might be held to possess rights of ownership over foreshores, whereas Marine Lot 22 was bought by the Military Authorities from a private individual, who could convey to them no right of ownership outside his own boundaries. The claims of the Colonial Government to the foreshore in front of the Commissariat must, therefore, be borne in mind in any discussion that may arise in respect of proprietary rights, though I apprehend Your Lordship will waive those claims, and give the War Department the reclamation in question, valued at $114,882, provided that Department should accede to the terms above proposed, viz.: payment of the whole cost of its share of the reclamation.\n\n17. To prevent misconception hereafter, it should be mentioned that the precise cost of the works cannot be specified until after all details of design shall have been settled locally with the Royal Engineer Department, and until a tender for the execution of the work shall have been accepted: but the preliminary estimates now put forward are reported by the Surveyor General as being sufficiently approximate to form the basis of any negotiations with the Imperial Departments. Briefly recapitulated, the cost of these works will amount to $691,000, of which I propose the Admiralty should pay at least $156,792, that the War Department should pay $320,000, if it desires to retain the lands reclaimed, that Mr. Sharp should pay $21,000, and that the Colonial Government should defray the balance, i.e., $198,208.\n\n*The actual terms in this case to depend to a certain extent on Your Lordship's decision as to what is to be required from Marine Lot-holder under Mr. Chater's scheme, which is the subject of my despatch No. 234 of the 7th of August, 1888, and I am of opinion that a considerable premium should be paid in addition in respect of this reclamation.",
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        "content_text": "As the services Mr. Lister has rendered to this Colony are well known to your Excellency, your predecessors, his official colleagues, the public, and the Colonial Authorities at home, we do not need to detail them. For some 24 years, he has been an Officer of the Government.\n\nWe are aware that lately an officer in the Post Office, of which Mr. Lister was chief, embezzled Government funds. It is possible that this circumstance may have deprived him to some extent of the active sympathy of the Government, but we would urge that his long unblemished career, his untiring zeal in the performance of his duties, and the fact that he has occupied almost every official post in the Colony except that of Governor, is evidence of a record which we respectfully submit should outweigh a fault that, at the worst, seems to us to have been but a temporary want of precaution.\n\nUnder these circumstances, we trust that Your Excellency will recommend to the Council a Compassionate Allowance for the benefit of Mr. Lister's children, and in so doing, we believe that Your Excellency would meet with the approbation of this Community.\n\nWe understand that an allowance of this kind has to be approved by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and as the next meeting of the Legislative Council will not be held until October, and as the provision for the children's future is pressing, we beg Your Excellency to forward the case home at an early date, fortified by your valuable support, so as to obtain the Secretary of State's sanction by the time the Council meets.\n\nWe have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour Excellency's obedient humble servants.\n\n(Signed)\n\nP. Ryrie A. P. McEwen\n\nC. P. Chater\n\nJ. J. Roberts\n\nH. St. L. Stovell\n\nH. Jackson J. J. Burdon, Bishop\n\nA. J. Ede Granville Sharp\n\nGeo. Murray Bain\n\nAdam Lind Wothers. Forbes\n\nH. St. Whitehead\n\nC. J. Rowland\n\nCom G. Brodie A. O. D'Guorin St. L. Dalrymple\n\nE. Mackintosh St. P. Semant\n\nJ. E. Davies W. St. Ray\n\nFr. Dodwell",
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        "content_text": "Articles the Administration will have to defray the actual out-payments to the different countries in Europe.\n\n\"Should the land lines of the Administration be interrupted for more than sixty days during the said period, then the Administration shall pay to the Companies 4 fr. 25 c. per word for all such traffic as during the additional term of such interruption passes via the cables of the Companies.\n\n\"Art. 6. If the traffic described in Article 4 be transmitted over the land lines of the Administration, the Administration shall not charge for such transmission, provided that the cables of the Companies be not interrupted for more than sixty days during any one foreign calendar year. Out of the Companies' proportion mentioned in the preceding Articles, the Companies will have to defray the actual out-payments to the different countries in Europe.\n\n\"Should the cables of the Companies be interrupted for more than sixty days during the said period, then the terminal rate, namely, 5 fr. 50 c., of such traffic as during the additional term of such interruption passes over the land lines of the Administration other than the Shanghae-Woosung and the Foochow-Sharp Peak connections, shall belong to the Administration.\n\n\"Art. 7. The Administration shall fix a transit rate of 5 fr. 50 c. per word for traffic transiting China by the land lines of the Administration, exchanged between Europe and countries beyond Europe on the one side, and all foreign countries on the other side, and vice versa.\n\n\"Art. 8. The preceding Articles do not apply to Chinese Government telegrams, which shall belong exclusively to the Administration if transmitted by their land lines.\n\n\"If Chinese Government telegrams be transmitted by the cables of the Companies they shall be charged according to the regular tariff.\n\n\"Government telegrams are those which emanate from the Board of Admiralty, the Tsung-li Yamên, the Viceroys and Governors of provinces, Commanders-in-chief of land and sea forces, Ministers, and Diplomatic and Consular Agents of China. Also the replies to such telegrams.\n\n\"Government telegrams should bear the seal or stamp of the authority that sends them.\n\n\"Art. 9. The tariffs and payments named in Articles 1 to 8 shall not be changed except by the mutual consent of the Administration and the Companies, and the approval of the Ministers for Great Britain, Denmark, and China.\n\n\"Art. 10. For the purpose mentioned in Articles 5 and 6 the land lines of the Administration and the cables of the Companies shall be deemed to be interrupted for the number of days during which the said land lines or cables shall be unable to transmit in twenty-four hours a test message to Shanghae respectively as follows:-\n\n\"By the land lines: From any of the frontier stations of the Administration connected with the telegraph lines of adjacent countries in telegraphic communication with Europe.\n\n\"By the cables: From either Vladivostock, Madras, or Rangoon, provided that in case the test message should be accidentally lost or delayed during transmission, but the ordinary traffic shall be regularly transmitted, the land lines or cables shall not be deemed to be interrupted on such days by reason of the failure of the test message.\n\n\"Art. 11. Regular accounts of the traffic named in Articles 1 to 8 shall be kept by the Administration as well as by the Companies at Shanghae, Foochow, Amoy, and Hong Kong.\n\n\"Abstracts of such accounts shall be made up at the end of every foreign calendar month, and checked and verified by and between the officers of the Administration and the Companies at the said stations within twenty-one days after the end of the month in account, and within a further period of twenty-one days such monthly accounts shall be settled and paid at Shanghae in Mexican dollars. The rate of exchange between Mexican dollars and francs, both in collecting charges from the public and in settling accounts between the Administration and the Companies, shall be fixed at 4 fr. 25 c. equal to 1 dollar, which rate of exchange shall not be altered except by mutual consent of the Administration and the Companies.\n\n\"Art. 12. The Administration shall be entitled to have checking clerks in the Companies' offices at Shanghae, Foochow, Amoy, and Hong Kong, and the Companies shall be entitled to have checking clerks in the Administration's offices at Shanghae, Foochow, Amoy, and Hong Kong. These checking clerks shall have access to all telegrams, journals, and accounts referring to the traffic named in Articles 1 to 8.\n\n\"Art. 13. The Administration, as well as the Companies, shall do all in their power to prevent retransmission at cheaper rates than the through rates by telegram agencies or private senders of the traffic named in Articles 1 to 8 to the detriment of either party.\n\n\"Art. 14. The existing local coast traffic rates of the Administration and the Companies between Shanghae, Foochow, Amoy, and Hong Kong shall not be changed without the mutual consent of the Administration and the Companies.\n\n\"These rates are per word :—\n\n  \n    \n    Foreign Telegrams.\n    Chinese Telegrams.\n  \n  \n    Between Shanghae and Foochow\n    23 Centimes.\n    15 Centimes.\n  \n  \n    Shanghae and Amoy\n    33 Centimes.\n    15 Centimes.\n  \n  \n    Shanghae and Hong Kong\n    14 Centimes.\n    19 Centimes.\n  \n  \n    Foochow and Hong Kong\n    33 Centimes.\n    13 Centimes.\n  \n  \n    Foochow and Amoy\n    33 Centimes.\n    10 Centimes.\n  \n  \n    Amoy and Hong Kong\n    33 Centimes.\n    12 Centimes.\n  \n\n\"Art. 15. All present terminal rates charged the Companies by the Administration on the Shanghae-Woosung land line and on the Foochow-Sharp Peak land line, as well as the present terminal rates charged the Administration by the Eastern Extension, Australasia, and China Telegraph Company (Limited) on the Kowloon-Hong-Kong connection, shall be abolished for the term of this Agreement.\n\n344",
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        "content_text": "\"The said land lines and connections shall be maintained as at present respectively by the Administration and by the Eastern Extension, Australasia, and China Telegraph Company (Limited).\n\n\"Art. 16. The Companies shall not extend their cable system to any place in China and Corea without the consent of the Administration beyond Woosung, Sharp Peak, Kulangsu, and Fusan, where their cables are already landed, but their existing landing rights already granted by the Chinese Government at the above-mentioned places shall be in no way prejudiced by this Agreement.\n\n\"Art. 17. Save and except as expressly varied by these presents the working agreements now in force between the Administration and the Companies remain unaltered.\n\n\"Art. 18. This Agreement shall take effect from the day the Administration has connected their land lines with the telegraph lines of any adjacent country in telegraph communication with Europe, and shall be in force till the 19th May, 1903, and shall during this time be binding on the Companies and on the Companies' successors, as well as on all Chinese Administrations, present and future, governmental, or otherwise, and shall apply to all telegraph systems owned or controlled in China and Corea by such Administrations, for which purpose the Administration shall have the same confirmed and authorized by the Imperial Commissioner for the Northern Ports and by the Tsung-li Yamên. The Companies on their side shall have the same confirmed by the Danish and the British Ministers at Peking.\n\n\"Art. 19. Any difference between the Administration and the Companies touching the construction of these presents or any of the matters herein contained shall be referred to the arbitration of three Arbitrators, one to be chosen by the Administration (who shall be the Imperial Commissioner for the Northern Ports or other high Chinese official), and one to be chosen by the Companies (who shall be the British or the Danish Minister at Peking, provided they be willing to act), and the third to be chosen as Umpire by the said two Arbitrators before they enter upon the matter referred, and the decision of such three Arbitrators, or any two of them, shall be binding and final.\n\n\"Art. 20. This Agreement has been made out in triplicate, one copy to be held by the Administration and two copies to be held by the Companies.\n\nChefoo, 10th August, 1887, answering to Kwang Hsü, 13th year, 6th moon, 21st day.\n\n(Signed) \"SHENG HUANG HSUN.\n\n(Seal.)\n\n\"For the Great Northern Telegraph Company,\n\n(Signed) \"J. HENNINGSEN.\n\nFor the Eastern Extension, Australasia, and China Telegraph Company (Limited),\n\nTo India Office, October 29, 1889.\n\nIndia Office, November 7, 1889.\n\nTo Sir J. Pender,\n\nSir J. Pender, November 14, 1889.\n\nTo India Office,\n\n9\n\n345\n\nThe alterations in the original Agreement were few and simple, and did not appear to us to affect those portions to which India had objected as placing eventual telegraphic communication with China viâ Burmah at an undue disadvantage.\n\nThe India Office agreed in this view of the new Agreement, but observed that unless it was perfectly understood by all parties that, so far as India was concerned, the question as to what the terminal rate should be for through messages viâ India should remain open for future negotiations between India and China, the former objections of the Indian Government must be regarded as standing.\n\nSir J. Pender was informed that Her Majesty's November 9, 1889. Government would assent to the new Agreement on the above condition, and that condition has been accepted by him on behalf of the Companies.\n\nA draft of a telegram to Sir J. Walsham November 18, 1889. informing him of the above was submitted to the India Office for concurrence on the 18th November. That telegram was to the effect that the modifications did not in themselves remove the objections of the Indian Government, but that Her Majesty's Government would assent to the arrangement as it then stood on condition of its being perfectly understood by all parties to it that the question of a terminal rate for through messages to China viâ India, and for messages between India and China, was kept open for future negotiations between India and China.\n\nTo General Post\n\nHowever, before it was sent off strong representations were received from the mercantile bodies at Shanghae and Hong Kong and from the London Chamber of Commerce to the effect that by the proposed Agreement telegraphic charges would be maintained for many years at a high rate in consequence of the exclusion of competition.\n\nIt was then decided to consult the Post Office, and suspend further action for the time. Sir John December 11, 1889. Walsham and Sir John Pender were so informed;\n\nTo Sir J. Pender,\n\nand on the 13th December the following Memorandum, embodying the views of the Post Office, was communicated to the latter for observations:-\n\n(Signed)\n\n(Signed)\n\n\"Witness:\n\n\"HENDRICK BOHR.\"\n\n\"WALTER JUDD.\n\nForeign Office, December 13, 1889.\n\n\"In view of the mercantile interests at stake, the term of the proposed Agreement appears much too long, and, on the assumption that the Agreement is to be carried out, the term ought not in any case to be more than seven\n\nD\n\n[180]\n\nT\n\nZ",
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        "content_text": "26\n\n(4.) By the reclamation from the sea of an area containing 52,264 square feet, which will be added to the yard, and which will afford most valuable sites for new naval workshops or other buildings that may be required later; these 52,264 square feet of land, at a very low computation of 3 dollars a square foot, representing no less a value than 156,792 dollars.\n\n7. As, according to the new design, the Praya roadway will not be interposed between the naval premises and the harbour, but will pass over arches, which will afford the freest access from the yard to the water's edge, and as, furthermore, the roadway in question will be screened by a wall so as to preclude any possibility of the yard being overlooked, it will be seen that the great improvements proposed, which will add so greatly to the importance and efficiency of the naval establishment, will now be obtained at no sacrifice whatever on the part of the Admiralty, and that consequently there is no longer any basis for the plea, which was previously urged, that my Lords Commissioners should not be called on to contribute towards a project likely to destroy the privacy of the yard or cut off its access to the sea.\n\n8. It should further be mentioned that the rapid silting of the foreshore is likely, in the absence of the proposed embankment, to compel before long the expenditure of a large sum in either taking the naval yard down to the sea, or bringing the sea up to the naval yard, so that the saving of this cost is another substantial benefit to accrue to the Admiralty from the project in question, and under the circumstances, I venture to think, no more need be said to show how unjust it would be that no contribution to the heavy expense of this work should be made on the part of a department which so largely gains by it.\n\n9. The amount of contribution ought, I consider, to be at least the value of the reclaimed land which will be added to the naval yard, i.e., 156,792 dollars, and even then the Admiralty would obtain for nothing the other very great advantages mentioned.\n\n10. But strong as is the claim of this colony for a contribution on the part of the Admiralty, the case is very much stronger as regards the War Department. Your Lordship is perhaps aware that with the sanction of the Secretary of State for War, the local military authorities have it in contemplation to re-arrange and re-construct the greater portion of the barracks and other buildings in the cantonments, with better regard to efficiency and economy of space, and to sell in the open market all such lands as they may no longer require under such new re-arrangement, the object being to raise by means of these land sales the funds necessary to meet the cost of the proposed new barracks. The actual possessions of the War Department comprise about 104 acres, and it is intended to dispose of about one-half of this area, either by auction or by direct negotiation with private purchasers, and the sale of these surplus lands, calculated at the lowest rates now ruling here for leasehold estate, will bring in about one million dollars. But in addition to their present holdings, the military authorities claim the right to retain any sea reclamations in front of the cantonments that may be made under the present embankment project, and they look to these reclamations to add very largely in area and value not only to the ground which they intend to retain for future buildings, but also to that which they intend to sell.\n\n11. The military authorities are right in attaching great importance to the embankment project, for it will add no less than 453,701 square feet of new land to their present holdings, which, if it was sold, would realise at the present market rates at least 1,325,856 dollars.\n\n12. Looking at the enormous gain which will thus accrue to military interests from the project in question, not only in increased space for future barrack extensions, but in actual money, any contribution on the part of the War Office to its cost would, in my opinion, be most unfair to the colony, if it were less than the actual expense of the embankment and reclamation in front of military premises. Nor can I apprehend that the War Office authorities will object to make this very reasonable concession when it is discovered how very largely they will gain by the undertaking.\n\n13. For I am unable to conceive on what grounds any arrangement could be morally justified, by which it were sought to secure to the War Department possession of these immensely valuable sea reclamations at the sole expense of the colony. There is not a marine lot-holder in Hong Kong who, were he in the position of the War Department in this matter, would not eagerly come forward and offer to carry out the entire project at his own charges, even though the cost were far greater than that given in the enclosed estimate, in exchange for the privilege of retaining the areas reclaimed, and in support of the estimates of prospective benefits here given, I may state that they are based not on fancy or on mere opinions, but on actual business offers made in this colony for marine properties of even less value. There is, therefore, no room for doubt that the War Office will obtain in return for an outlay of 320,000 dollars (the estimated cost of its share of the work), land which, if sold, would readily realise 1,325,856 dollars, thereby gaining a net profit of 1,005,856 dollars.\n\n27\n\n450\n\n14. For that section alone of the North Barracks site, which is shown tinted scarlet on the small fly-leaf attached to the accompanying general plan, the Colonial Government would be prepared to pay the War Office at the rate of 3 dollars a square foot, or a total sum of 263,700 dollars. This proposition must, however, form the subject of a separate despatch to your Lordship.\n\n15. Lieut-General Cameron, who from the first has perceived the great advantage that will result to military interests from the embankment scheme, has represented to his department the justice of a substantial War Office contribution towards the cost of the works; and I am confident that the facts now before your Lordship, which will, no doubt, be duly communicated to the Secretary of State for War, will have such weight with Her Majesty's Government as to relieve the colony from any money payment whatever for the embanking of the military lands; indeed, I feel sure that a very bitter feeling would be aroused in the colony if the military as well as the naval departments should appear to take advantage of our extreme necessities, for obtaining better terms than the extremely favourable arrangement here proposed.\n\n16. In connection with the question of proprietary rights over foreshores, I must not omit to call your Lordship's attention to the case of the proposed reclamation in front of Marine Lot 22 (Commissariat buildings), which stands on a different footing from the reclamations in front of the rest of the military properties in the cantonments. The latter are original reservations made in the earliest days of the colony, and vested in the old Board of Ordnance, which might be held to possess rights of ownership over foreshores, whereas Marine Lot 22 was bought by the military authorities from a private individual, who could convey to them no right of ownership outside his own boundaries. The claims of the Colonial Government to the foreshore in front of the Commissariat must therefore be borne in mind in any discussion that may arise in respect of proprietary rights, though I apprehend your Lordship will waive those claims, and give the War Department the reclamation in question, valued at 114,882 dollars, provided that department should accede to the terms above proposed, viz., payment of the whole cost of its share of the reclamation.\n\n17. To prevent misconception hereafter, it should be mentioned that the precise cost of the works cannot be specified until after all details of design shall have been settled locally with the Royal Engineer Department, and until a tender for the execution of the work shall have been accepted. But the preliminary estimates now put forward are reported by the Surveyor-General as being sufficiently approximate to form the basis of any negotiations with Imperial departments. Briefly recapitulated, the cost of these works will amount to 691,000 dollars, of which I propose the Admiralty should pay at least 156,792 dollars, that the War Department should pay 320,000 dollars, if it desires to retain the lands reclaimed, that Mr. Sharp should pay 21,000 dollars, and that the Colonial Government should defray the balance, i.e., 193,208 dollars.\n\n18. I have not deemed it necessary to touch in this despatch on the many minor provisions that have been stipulated for in local correspondence, both by the naval and military authorities, with regard to buildings, piers, fences, walls, roadways, gates, &c., in connection with the scheme. Suffice it to say that I have met all these requirements, and no pains will be spared to make the plan acceptable in all its details both to the naval and military authorities. A strenuous effort, however, will yet have to be made to obtain from the naval authorities some reduction of the great height of \"headway\" which they demand under the bridge over the entrance to the naval yard basin, as this height, if adhered to, will involve unduly steep gradients in the new Praya roadway.\n\n19. In conclusion, I would remind your Lordship that the Colonial Government has been now 10 years endeavouring to effect the realization of this most important undertaking; that in these 10 years of fruitless effort and disappointment, and of almost interminable correspondence with the Imperial Departments, the population of the western town has had time almost to double itself, and to become congested to a dangerous degree; and that, in consequence of a situation so full of grave anxiety, it is of vital importance that the War Office as well as the Admiralty should be moved to an early decision. For even if, through your Lordship's efforts in that behalf, a satisfactory result should be arrived at, and I should then be enabled to cause this much needed work to be commenced during 1889, we can scarcely expect to have the embankment finished before 1893; and only then will it be practicable to establish the tramway communication with the eastern suburbs, so urgently required to lead the population in that direction, and to thus afford a remedy for the evils of overcrowding, which at present threaten the health of the civil community, the garrison, and the naval establishment alike.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nG. W. DES VŒUX, Governor.\n\n*The actual terms in this case to depend to a certain extent on your Lordship's decision as to what is to be required from marine lot-holder under Mr. Chater's scheme, which is the subject of my despatch, No. 284, of the 7th of August 1888, and I am of opinion that a considerable premium should be paid in addition in respect of this reclamation.",
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        "content_text": "76\n\nSCHEDULE B-Continued.\n\nEnclosure 3\n\nA.\n\nB.\n\nC.\n\nD.\n\nE.\n\nF.\n\nG.\n\nH.\n\nREPORT BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON ORDINANCE No.2 of 1890.\n\n  \n    Block No.\n    Streets\n    Over-crowded or not\n    No. of Houses\n    No. of Houses in which Over-crowding exists\n    No. of Floors in Street\n    Total Floors\n    Amount of Over-crowding exists\n    No. of Persons\n    REMARKS\n  \n  \n    Brought forward,\n  \n  \n    253\n    Wautsai Road,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    European Dwellings, Godowns, & Vacant Ground.\n  \n  \n    254\n    Do.,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do.\n  \n  \n    255\n    Sharp Street, West,\n    \n    2\n    \n    \n    12\n    \n    \n    Do.\n  \n  \n    256\n    Praya,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A\n  \n  \n    257\n    Matheson Street,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    14\n    \n    \n    Do.\n  \n  \n    258\n    Ui Lung Lane,\n    No\n    15\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    259\n    Sharp Street, East,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Godowns, &c.\n  \n  \n    260\n    Matheson Street,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Bo.\n  \n  \n    261\n    Do.,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do.\n  \n  \n    262\n    Praya,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    European Dwellings.\n  \n  \n    263\n    Leighton Hill Road,\n    No\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    264\n    Royal Mint Street,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    European Dwellings, Sugar Refinery, &c.\n  \n  \n    265\n    Great George Street,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do.\n  \n  \n    266\n    Do.,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do.\n  \n  \n    267\n    Do.,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do.\n  \n  \n    268\n    I Wo Street,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Jardine's Bazaar,\n    Yes\n    \n    19\n    \n    8\n    J\n    6,594\n    \n  \n  \n    269\n    Fong Un Lane,\n    No\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Jardine's Bazaar,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    270\n    Lamont's Lane,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Jardine's Bazaar,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    271\n    Black Smith Lane,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Fuk Hing Lane,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    272\n    Jardine's Bazaar,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    273\n    Do.,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    274\n    Do.,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    I Wo Street,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Jardine's Bazaar,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    275\n    Causeway Bay Road,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    TOTAL\n    6,756\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    745\n    \n    18,070\n    897\n    4,827\n    \n  \n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,\n\n17th December 1887.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled which amends The Public Health Ordinance of 1887.\n\nand I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\nThis Ordinance has been passed at the request of the Sanitary Board.\n\nThe experience gained in the working of a Public Health",
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        "content_text": "216\n\nTHE CHINA REVIEW.\n\na petiole 3 to 6 lines long. Stipules, minute, fugitive, easily observed on young branches. Flowers, small, on stalks 3 to 9 lines long, bright yellow, arranged in rather dense terminal and lateral cymes; bracts, few, linear. Calyx, small, persistent, very deeply cleft; sepals, about 1 line long, acute, imbricated. Corolla, rotate, 8 to 9 lines diam., tube 3 to 4 lines long, surmounted by 5 equal lobes 2 to 3 lines long, inner surface of tube marked with red spots. Stamens 5, inserted on base of corolla tube and alternate with the lobes of the corolla, exserted, but shorter than the lobes; filaments equal; anthers lanceolate. Ovary stalked, on a short gynophore, tapering into a style 3 lines long, two-celled, containing many ascending ovules in each cell; style bi-cleft, each division being again slightly divided into two spreading stigmas. Fruit, a brown, dry, oblong, inflated, membraneous capsule, about 1 inch long, having two opposite deep furrows running from base to apex; dehiscence, septicidal. Seeds, very small, furnished with reddish-brown, reniform and imbricated wings.\n\nThe above characters were observed on a specimen gathered on the hills overlooking Mirs Bay, at the back of the city of Kowloon in the Kwangtung province, and on another growing on Mount Gough, on the island of Hongkong; the description of the fruit is taken from specimens gathered on the Canton West River.\n\nGelsemium elegans may now be seen growing in the Hongkong Botanical Gardens.\n\nHABITAT. This shrub grows sparingly in Hongkong, but more abundantly on the hills of the neighbouring mainland of China (Champion, Wright, Wilford, Hance, &c.). In November, 1885, Mr. Westland found a large number of specimens in full flower, climbing round trees to a height of about 12 feet near the Eastern base of Tai Mo Shan.2 It has\n\n1. Flora Hong kongensis, p 229.\n\n2. This is the loftiest (about 3,000 feet) of the hills on the coast of China immediately opposite to the island of Hongkong.\n\nalso been observed growing luxuriantly on the banks of the West River, about 120 miles from Canton (Ford), near the district of Lo ting, and in ravines on the island of Lantau, opposite the mouths of the Canton river (Westland). In the Pên ts'ao (Chap. XVII) it is declared a native of the provinces of Chekiang, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Sze-chuen, and Yunnan. According to Bentham, this poisonous plant also grows in Sumatra, being probably identical with Zygopteris sumatrana, Blume. It flowers in October, November and December and matures its seeds in April and May.\n\nIt differs from the N. American species1 of this genus in having smaller, scentless, flowers, larger leaves, and smaller fruits and seeds.\n\nPARTS USED, &c. - The root is the only part of the plant used in medicine. As met with in the native drug-shops in Hongkong under the name\n\nM.: Hu muan ch'iang;\n\nC.: U mun k'eung, it consists of thick pieces of the underground stem with or without portions of the true root and rootlets attached.\n\nA piece of the root in our possession exhibits the following characters. Cortical layer, thick, easily removed from central woody portion, externally of a brown colour, wrinkled, marked at intervals of from ¼ to ½ inch by transverse cracks, extending about half way round, and as far as the medullary layer. A section of the latter shows the medullary rays stretching through the yellow woody portion in a manner similar to that displayed by the root of G. nitidum.2\n\n1. In the South. E. States, G. nitidum, Michaux, the source of the eclectic remedy Gelsemin) is known as Wild Yellow Jessamine or False Jasmine. We prefer to avoid the use of the terms Jasmine or Jessamine in the case of the China species. These names ought to have distinct generic significance, and should be applied only to plants of the genus Jasminum, with which Gelsemium was formerly classed. The value of popular botanical names will be seriously impaired, if their indiscriminate use becomes general.\n\n2. Syn. Bignonia sempervirens, Linn; G. sempervirens, Aiton; G. lucidum, Poir. This species is figured in Bentley and Trimen's Medicinal Plants, (1880), Vol. III, No. 181,\n\nNOTES ON CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA.\n\nWhen cut with a sharp knife, the central woody part shows a waxy section.\n\nThere is every reason to believe, that, in the majority of instances, supplies of this drug are brought from the hill sides only as they are wanted. In but few shops can specimens be seen. This fact will possibly account for the scarcity of the plant on the island of Hongkong: the careless collector doubtless destroys a shrub each time he gathers the drug, the root being the only part sought for.\n\nCHEMICAL COMPOSITION. - The active principle of this drug is due to an alkaloid which was first isolated in the Government Laboratory in the course of an enquiry ordered by Her Majesty's Coroner in the early part of 1884. This alkaloid is new to chemical science, and its discovery adds one more to the list of the STRYCHNINE OR TETANUS-PRODUCING GROUP OF ALKALOIDS. Its most characteristic reaction is the production of a deep violet colouration when in contact with oxidizing agents. If the alkaloid is present in very small quantity an observer might confound the colour with that displayed by Strychnine and Gelsemine under similar circumstances. In such a case the observer should apply side by side the same reagents to the alkaloids of Strychnos nux vomica and Gelsemium nitidum - a practised eye will at once note the difference.\n\nThe following table shows at a glance the different colours produced when manganese oxide and sulphuric acid are applied to---\n\nThe alkaloid1 of Gelsemium elegans.\n\nGelsemine.\n\nStrychnine.\n\nA deep violet colouration, changing to a rich green, which latter tint is more marked at the edges.\n\nA damask-purple colour, changing rapidly to and one of a rich purple hue.\n\nA deep purplish-violet colour, finally assuming a cherry-red tint.\n\n1. Pharmaceutical Journal, (3), XVI., p. 95 and 496; also Hongkong Government Gazette, Vol. XXXI, p. 344.\n\n217\n\nThese colours are all evanescent, but that displayed by the first mentioned alkaloid is more lasting than the others. The alkaloid of G. elegans is not associated with gelseminic acid, and unlike Strychnine and Gelsemine (P), it will not bear the action of sulphuric acid at a temperature of 100° C.\n\nThe publication of other chemical features of this alkaloid is reserved for a future paper.\n\nTOXICOLOGICAL NOTE. - In cases of poisoning by any preparation of the root of G. elegans, no difficulty should be experienced, in detecting the active principle in the contents of the stomach, provided, first, that the victim had not vomited to any extent after receiving the dose, and second, that death had ensued within a few hours of the administration of the poison. The method adopted in the Laboratory of the Government Civil Hospital is a modification of Stas's alkaloidal process. The viscera is treated with about twice its weight of absolute alcohol, acidified with tartaric acid, and digested for a few hours in a flask at a temperature of about 70° C., cooled and filtered. The filtrate is evaporated to the consistence of a soft extract, and treated with successive quantities of absolute alcohol and water, so as to free the alkaloid, if present, from as much extraneous matter as possible. The necessary evaporations may be conducted at a temperature of 100°C. The extract after the last alcoholic treatment is now dissolved in a little water and filtered, and the solution (acid) after being well washed with ether until nothing farther is removed - is made slightly alkaline with ammonia, and immediately shaken with a suitable volume of ether. The ethereal layer, which now contains the alkaloid, is removed; and this treatment having been repeated, the ethereal solutions of alkaloid are mixed, and divided into two parts. The first half should be evaporated\n\n1. Pharmaceutical Journal, (3), XVI., p. 642.\n\n2. This washing of the acid solution with ether ought never to be omitted.\n\n133",
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        "content_text": "## \nnames on our roll from 143 to 138. But notwithstanding this, the average attendance on the 248 school-days has risen from 88.64 to 94.72. 79 children had been present the 200 days required by Government; one boy, of weak intellect, was not examined, one day-scholar was absent on account of sickness, 6 boys had already passed the highest standard, and are doing Oxford local work; the remaining 71 were examined; 62 passed, or 87.3; 9 failed; 7 failed in only one subject each, but not being in the II., III., or IV. standard, where copy-writing condones failure in one subject, they were marked failed.\n\nIn History and Needlework 100 % passed, Reading 98.6, Geography 97. Dictation 94.36, Arithmetic 90.14 and Composition 90 per cent. In each of the Special Subjects 25 boys were examined: in Animal Physiology 88 per cent passed, Algebra 80, in Euclid 70 and Physical Geography 60 per cent. These percentages are not equal to those of 1889, but may be considered as satisfactory, in view of the fact that with a higher average attendance, we had during some months only two masters instead of three. The Inspector adds to his report, \"Military drill appears to have given to this School a pleasing appearance of orderliness, smartness, and alacrity, without producing, so far, any symptoms of harshness as to discipline or want of cheerfulness on the part of the boys.\"\n\nThe Second Master, Mr. Machell, has again rendered most valuable help in all ways, but more particularly in the drill, and in the formation at his own expense of a school drum-and-fife band (carefully instructed by Mr. Lowrie, formerly bandmaster of the 58th Regiment). There were several changes in the appointment of Third Master. For some months Mr. Barlow, of the Victoria College, ably assisted us, but for some time we were without a Third Master, until the arrival in November of Mr. T. W. Hall, an experienced teacher from the Worcester Royal Albert Orphan Asylum, who was selected and sent out by our Hon. Secretary, the Rev. W. Jennings.\n\nDuring the last six months some boys were placed in situations, but continued to live in the Institution, and considering the temptations that surround youths in the Colony, it is well to encourage Old Pupils to regard the School as a Home, where they will be welcome and have every reasonable liberty. In the plans for extension, suitable provision \n\n## \nshould be made for such boarders. We continue to pay $50 a month rent for Priory Lodge for bedrooms, but a growing Institution with nearly 70 boarders and 60 day-scholars, and an annual income of nearly $10,000 from fees and Government grants should have more extensive premises. Our class-rooms are also inadequate. A Building Fund was suggested two years ago by H. E. Lieut.-General Cameron. The Hon. A. P. McEwen gave us a handsome start last prize-giving, and we have now received $3,338.12 towards the $4,000 Mr. McEwen asked for, in order to meet a like sum of $4,000 from the Government under the provision of the Grant-in-Aid scheme.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Chaplain (Rev. H. E. Taverner) examined the school in Scripture, and reported: \"Some of the papers are very good, and all, with one or two exceptions, are up to a very fair standard.\"\n\nOur best thanks are due to Hon. J. J. Keswick, Messrs. Jackson, Purcell, G. Sharp, Ho Tong and Ho Pook for contributing the prizes.\n\n## HONOURS WON BY PUPILS DURING 1890\n\n### Hongkong Government Scholarship, 1890-1891\n\n* $200 for 4 yrs., with passage to and from England, F. Southey.\n\n### Oxford University Local Examinations\n\n* Senior (with title A.A.) J. Toppin.\n* Juniors: H. W. Lapsley, with honours in English (2nd), and Religious knowledge (2nd); R. Lapsley, with honours in English; P. H. Benning, T. Cock, C. Wunderlich.\n\n### Belilias Medal and Prize Examinations\n\n| Prize | Amount | Recipient |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| First Prize | $90, with Silver Medal | F. Southey |\n| Fifth Prize | $15 | T. Cock |",
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        "content_text": "## DATE\n\nFROM | SUBJECT MATTER OF LETTER\n------|------\nJanuary, 1862. See page 11. | \nth January, 1862. See page 12. | Extract from Crown Lease of Inland Lot No. 671, dated 14th June, 1802. See page 12\n | To\n | Asking abatement or reduction of Crown rent on Inland Lot No. 671 until Government make Public Street. See page 13.\n\"The Street on the absence of which you rest your claim is at the present moment being made.\" See page 14. | \n8th November, 1873, J. M. Price | Granville Sharp Warning against cutting Inland Lot No. 671. See page 13.\n20th December, 1873. E. M. Grain | Granville Sharp Warning against quarrying (Inland Lot No. 671). See page 13.\n1st October, 1875. Granville Sharp | Colonial Secretary \n11th October, 1875. Colonial Secretary | Granville Sharp \n13th October, 1875. Granville Sharp | Colonial Secretary \n15th October, 1875. Colonial Secretary | Granville Sharp \n5th August, 1885. Surveyor General | Granville Sharp Thanking the Government for the promise, but repeating the request for reduction of the rent of Inland Lot No. 671 meanwhile. See page 14.\n11th August, 1985. Granville Sharp | Confirms promise of the road, made on 11th instant, and refuses any reduction of Crown rent upon Inland Lot No. 671. See page 15.\n | Calls attention to the urgent necessity for immediate filling in of earth behind the new sea wall of Marine Lots opposite to Inland Lot No. 671, now being built by the Government for GRANVILLE SHARP; in default threatens the ruin of the work by imminent typhoons. Pending the filling in, the masonry work must cease. See page 15.\n | Major Lloyd Commanding Royal Engineers. States that the ground was purchased twenty years ago for the purpose of filling in the Marine Lots, that the soil is now urgently required: claiming also the full measure of the Lot 225 feet and 30 feet road at the back, according to Sale Plan inclosed. Inclosing copy correspondence with Public Work's Department. See page 16.\n11th August, 1885. Colonial Secretary | Granville Sharp \n12th August, 1885. Commanding Royal Engineers | Surveyor General \n13th August, 1885. Granville Sharp | \n15th August, 1885. Granville Sharp | Colonial Secretary \n15th August, 1885. Surveyor General | Granville Sharp \n18th August, 1885. Granville Sharp | Colonial Secretary \n8th February, 1887. Granville Sharp | Colonial Secretary Incloses copy correspondence with Royal Engineers. States unwillingness to part with any portion of Inland Lot No. 671; but if indispensable to Military, suggesting other pieces which would be accepted in exchange. See page 18.\n9th February, 1887. Colonial Secretary | Granville Sharp Acknowledges receipt of letter of 11th, and refers to the Surveyor General. See page 18.\n11th March, 1887. Sharp & Co. | Commanding Royal Engineers Notice of resumption of 9,150 square feet of Inland Lot No. 671 for the improvement of the Colony, at 40 cents per square foot. See page 19.\n | Declines to accept the payment as inadequate; and protests against the appropriation. See page 19.\n | Inland Lot No. 671 indispensable, and absolutely necessary for Public purposes. See page 19.\n | Remonstrates against valuation and resumption based upon erroneous calculation, and offers to state reasons when called upon. See page 20.\n | Protest against the placing of a War Department stone at the South East corner of Inland Lot No. 673, Renews protest against resumption of Inland Lot No. 671, without any opportunity to state case in Supreme Court, which was asked on 18th August, 1885, to which no acknowledgement of receipt even has been vouchsafed. See page 21.\n | Acknowledges letter of 8th and states that protest re-Inland Lot No. 671 and Inland Lot No. 673 is under consideration. See page 21.\n | Protests, on behalf of Principals, against the foundation of a stone wall being laid across Hill Street, opposite Inland Lot No. 674, by which the Lot will be entirely cut off from the Public Street by which it is described in the Crown Lease as bounded on the South. See page 29.",
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        "content_text": "## PRÉCIS Continued\n\n$4 \n\n### SUBJECT MATTER OF LETTER\n\nThe land to the South of Inland Lot No. 674 was handed over to the War Department by the Colonial Government. See page 22.\n\nInclosing correspondence with the Royal Engineers, and protesting, in the name of Principals, against the proceedings. See page 23.\n\nOrders the building up of an opening in the boundary wall of Inland Lot No. 674, and promises resistance to any entering upon the road. See page 23.\n\n| Date | From | To | Subject Matter of Letter |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 16th March, 1887 | Commanding Royal Engineers | Sharp & Co. | Asks for tracing of the land handed over to the War Department by Colonial Government, with the boundary stones marked thereon, as placed with the consent of the Surveyor General. See page 24. |\n| 17th March, 1887 | Sharp & Co. | Colonial Secretary | Sees no necessity to furnish tracing referred to. See page 24. |\n| 23rd March, 1887 | Commanding Royal Engineers | Sharp & Co. | Declines to abandon right of using public street, by which Lot bounded, or to close up gateway erected twenty years ago. See page 25. |\n| 24th March, 1887 | Sharp & Co. | Commanding Royal Engineers |  |\n| 25th March, 1887 | Commanding Royal Engineers | Sharp & Co. |  |\n| 26th March, 1887 | Sharp & Co. | Commanding Royal Engineers |  |\n\n15th August, 1885, SHARP & Co. protested against Surveyor General's valuation of Inland Lot No. 671. 9th February, 1887, Government wrote that protest was receiving attention. Now two years further time has passed. Mr. PRICE justifies valuation by Inland Lot No. 670 and Inland Lot No. 672. Owner of Inland Lot No. 672 was coerced by fear and by untruthful statements. Inland Lot No. 670 different altogether. It had no Easement at the back, and the hill was almost perpendicular. The ground was dangerous, expensive and useless, and an incubus to the owner, hence his acceptance of the offer made of $0.40 per square foot. The Mortgagee in possession immediately after sold the remainder of the Lot by auction at $0.82 per foot. This piece, which was wastefully misshaped, and otherwise undesirable, was re-sold, the following year, at $1.36 per square foot, although four shops' ground was wasted by the hill slope, and all fresh air was cut off. See pages 26, 27, 28, 29. Inland Lot No. 671 had the right to a street at the back, and the hill having to be cut was not a defect but an advantage to the owner, who much needed the soil therefrom to fill in his Marine Lots. See page 30.\n\nThe making of the Hill Street was repeatedly promised by the Government subsequently to the execution of the Lease. The name \"Middle Street\" being given in confirmation of the promise that the roads on either side of it would be made by the Government. Notwithstanding the Government's neglect to make the road, and refusal to give possession of the ground, it has for 27 years demanded the payment of the full amount of Crown rent $384: £62 per acre to the present day; and has then resumed half the lot to the great injury of the remainder, still demanding Crown rent for the whole, Mr. Sharp's application for diminution being peremptorily refused. Claims compensation. See pages 31, 32. Proposes to refer claim to a Board under the **Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1889**. See page 33. Asks whether Mr. SHARP will agree to this. See page 33.\n\n**Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1889**, four years after resumption of GRANVILLE SHARP's Lot. The Ordinance has no retrospective bearing, and was passed for a wholly different purpose, viz.: the removal of nuisances and the conservation of the Public health. See page 34. The Crown Lease provides for a full and fair compensation, why then consider if any compensation should be awarded? See page 34. Three wrongs—First, Failure of the Government to complete Hill Street. Second, Resumption of ground, on behalf of military, in unconstitutional manner. Third, Full Crown rent demanded for 28 years. Claims—First, completion of Hill Street. Second, Full compensation for Land resumed, and depreciation of remainder. Third, Restitution of Crown rent over paid. Fourth, continued use of portion of Hill Street enjoyed for 30 years. Claims $48,681 or $20,000 cash; or Slaughter House Lot, or ground in Hill Street and items 3 and 4. See page 36.\n\nQuestions Mr. SHARP's claims. Repeats that the other owners accepted $0.40 per foot, which Mr. SHARP had refused; and as he had also declined to submit his claim to a Board of Arbitration (under the **Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance of 1889**) he will be left to take such further steps as he may be advised. See page 37.\n\n| Date | From | To | Subject Matter of Letter |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 9th February, 1889 | Granville Sharp | Sir Wm. Des Voeux |  |\n| 5th February, 1890 | Colonial Secretary | Granville Sharp | Inclosing triplicate copies of case and requesting that the same may be forwarded to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies. See page 38. |\n| 24th June, 1890 | Granville Sharp | Colonial Secretary | Appendix, 30th July, 1890.—Say Gnew Moon's statement as to the manner in which he was coerced by the Surveyor General into parting with his land. See page 39. Translation of the same into English. See page 40. |\n| 1st October, 1890 | Granville Sharp | Colonial Secretary |  |\n| 16th December, 1890 | Colonial Secretary | Granville Sharp |  |\n| 16 July, 1891 | Sharp & Co. | Colonial Secretary |  |\n| 3 |  |  |",
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        "content_text": "## MR. GRANVILLE SHARP AND THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT\n\n**Correspondence in reference to the resumption by the Colonial Government on behalf of the War Department of a portion of Inland Lot No. 671.** \n\n**(EXTRACT)**\n\n8th November, 1873.\n\nDear Mr. SHARP,\n\nIf you cut earth from 671 you will bring down the hill and War Department stone on the top of you. Try and select some other site and I will be glad to meet your convenience. I may add that the quarry Farmer was stopped from cutting stone some time ago near the very same place.\n\nYours truly,\n(Sd) J. M. PRICE,\n\nRoyal Engineer's Office,\n\n20th December, 1873.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nRich has surveyed and reported on the Reserve at West Point to the effect that the War Department stones are not on the lot you referred to. That is assuming the Plan in my office to be correct, which I believe it to be.\n\nAny way the site is so limited I could not consent to it being reduced by quarrying.\n\nBelieve me,\nYours truly,\n(Sd.) E. M. GRAIN,\n(Col. Commanding Royal Engineers.)\n\nHongkong,\n1st October, 1875.\n\nHon. C. C. SMITH,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\nWill you allow me to call your attention to Inland Lot No. 671 at Shektongtsui, which I purchased at Government Land Sale on 7th January 1862. See Government Gazette, page 12. On the Sale Plan a road was marked as bounding its southern end; and in the Crown Lease the Lot is said to abut \"on the South side thereof on a Public Street and measuring thereon one hundred feet.\" See Plan, page 10; See Parcels, page 18.",
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        "content_text": "# Hon. FREDERICK STEWART, L.L.D., \n## Sir, \n### Acting Colonial Secretary. \n\nHongkong, \n11th August, 1885. \n\n103 \n\nI venture to trouble you with the enclosed correspondence with the Acting Commandant of the Royal Engineers and to express the hope that His Excellency the Administrator may see his way to the equitable adjustment of what appears to be a case of hardship. \n\nI do not wish to part with any portion of Inland Lot No. 671 as I urgently require it for my own special use, for which it, and it alone, is adapted exclusively. At the same time, if it is indispensable to the Military Authorities, I am entitled to substantial compensation for that which has cost me so much and which is to me of such exceptional and peculiar value. \n\nIf it can be arranged between the Departments of the Government I am willing to accept for such portion as the Royal Engineers may require, double the area somewhat further from the Sea, on the South side of Hill Street to the rear of Inland Lots Nos. 674, 675, 676 up to the Latrine. Part of this ground is occupied by Squatters, who will remove their buildings to a place nearer the water for which they have already made application. Or, if it should be deemed more convenient, there is an area on the South West side of the Slaughter House which I would accept on the same conditions.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \n**(Sd.) GRANVILLE SHARP.** \n\nP.S.-Or at the back of Inland Lot No. 763 & 764 there is a piece of land covered with brick rubbish fifty feet high. This would do. \n**(Sd.) G. S.** \n\n## Royal Engineer's Office, Hongkong, 12th August, 1885. \n### GRANVILLE SHARP, Esq. \n#### Sir, \n\nI beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, with its enclosures respecting your `Inland Lot No. 671`. \n\nAs the matter is in the hands of the Surveyor General for settlement it will be necessary to refer your letter to him. \n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \n**(Sd.) E. M. LLOYD Major, R.E.,** \nFor C. R. E. (on leave.) \n\n18",
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        "content_text": "108 \n\nIn the meantime I have the honour to give you notice that I shall hold you responsible for any injury done to the property of the War Department by the removal of the retaining wall, or any other measures taken by you.\n\nI have the honor to be, \nGentlemen, \nYour obedient Servant, \n(Sd.) \nA. T. STORER, \nColonel, \nC. R. E.\n\nMessrs. SHARP & Co., \nHongkong.\n\nHon. FREDERICK STEWART, L.L.D., \nSir, \nActing Colonial Secretary. \nHongkong, \n17th March, 1887.\n\nWe beg to enclose for the information of the Government copy correspondence which has passed between Col. STORER, Commanding Royal Engineers, and ourselves upon the subject of the occupation by the War Department of the Public Road bounding Inland Lot No. 674 to the South.\n\nIn the name of our Principals we beg to protest against the same as a most serious injury to the value of this property.\n\nWe have the honor to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servants, \n(Sd) SHARP & Co.\n\nGentlemen, \nRoyal Engineer's Office, Hongkong, 23rd March, 1887.\n\nWith reference to my letter to you of the 16th instant and your reply of the 17th instant, I am very much surprised to hear that you (apparently without adopting my suggestion that you should represent to the Colonial Government any claim you might consider you had to a road at the back of Lot 674) removed a portion of the retaining wall, so as to make a communication between the above Lot and the War Department property.\n\nThe removal of this portion of wall has caused some of the War Department Land above to fall in, and if not speedily rectified will do further damage. I have therefore to request that you will at once... \n\n23",
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        "content_text": "109\n\nI request you to rebuild this piece of wall, failing which I shall hold you responsible for all damage which may ensue to the property of the War Department as stated in my letter of the 16th instant.\n\nPending the rebuilding of this wall by you, I have given orders that the opening is to be boarded up, and any attempt on your part to enter upon the property of the War Department resisted.\n\nI am, Gentlemen,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n**(Sd.) A. T. STORER,**\n\n**Colonel,**\n\n**C. R. F. China and S. S.**\n\nMessrs. SHARP & Co.,\n\nHongkong.\n\nHongkong,\n\n24th March, 1887.\n\n**Colonel STORER,**\n\n**Commanding Royal Engineers.**\n\nSir,\n\nWe beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 23rd inst. and in reply to state that you are mistaken in supposing that we failed to communicate with the Colonial Government upon the matter referred to. We had already forwarded to them a copy of the Correspondence, which had passed between us. As, however, we have received no reply, we shall be obliged by your furnishing us with a tracing showing the land to the South of Inland Lot No. 674 mentioned in your letter of the 16th as having been handed over to the War Department by the Colonial Government, with the boundary stones marked thereon as placed with the consent of the Honorable the Surveyor General.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\n**(Sd.) SHARP & Co.,**\n\n**Agents for Owners of Inland Lot No. 674.**\n\nRoyal Engineer's Office, Hongkong, 25th March, 1887.\n\nIn reply to your letter of 24th instant, I see no necessity to furnish the tracing you refer to, as the matter is no doubt being enquired into by the Colonial Government.\n\nI am, Gentlemen,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n**(Sd.) A. T. STORER,**\n\n**Colonel,**\n\n**C. R. E. China and S. S.**\n\nMessrs. SHARP & Co.,\n\nHongkong.",
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        "content_text": "## PLAN A.\n\n225' 0\" \nMIDDLE STREET \nNOW \nQUEEN'S ROAD WEST. \n100′ 0′′ \n15' 0\" \n10' 0\" \nInland Lot No 671 \n45′ 0′′ \nF \nof Site Portion \nresumed 1885 \nper Surveyor \nare \n138: 0\" \n225' 0\" \n100' 0\" \n15' 0\") \nHILL STREET.\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Showing advantageous arrangement of site, with passage 10' wide, and with houses 15' centre to centre, the size most approved by Chinese. | \nMIDDLE STREET \nNOW \nQUEEN'S ROAD WEST. 91' 6\" \n14 7/4\"7\" \nΛ \n147\" \n130' 0\" \nV \n< \n43' 97 \n89' 7\" \n$9/\" \nSuland Lot No. 670 |\n| Unavailable slope of hill, 4 shops' ground wasted. | 93' 0\" \nHILL STREET. |\n\n## PLAN E.\n\nShewing disadvantageous arrangement of curtailed site, with inconveniently narrow passage from Queen's Road, and with houses of a size disapproved by Chinese.\n\nSee plan annexed O. \nSee plan annexed and cloth plan at end.\n\nOn 2nd December, 1886 \nSee plan page 204. \n118 \n\nImmediately afterwards the remaining portion was auctioned by the Mortgagee on 27th August, and sold for $10,000 or .82 cents $ per foot, the Mortgagee having paid .94 cents $ per foot.\n\nOn examining the plan showing the usual size of Chinese shops it will be seen that the land sold, as above, was at the south end seven feet too narrow, viz 93 instead of 100; and ten feet too long. The back of the ground also was very precipitous. In building, four shops were therefore lost, and all were inconveniently narrow; the shops behind also being very much shut in by reason of the want of 3 feet in the width of the lane.\n\nThe fourteen proximate lots of land at Shek-tong-tsui forming a group, and embracing No. 671, were all of them laid out measuring 100 feet broad for the accommodation of 6 Chinese shops, each measuring 15 feet upon the street, and a 10 feet wide lane. Almost all the lots in Hongkong were originally 100 feet wide. The width 15 feet for Chinese houses is universally adopted where the ground admits of it, the imported joists and purlins for floors and roofs being exactly measured, any deviation involves greatly increased cost. Had the ground been of a convenient shape it would have fetched considerably more. As it was, the buyer, having purchased at a forced sale, realised, the year following, a profit of $6,500 or $1.36 per foot for the ground.\n\nThe principal defect in the lot, however, was not in its disadvantageous measurements, but that, so to speak, one of its eyes had been put out by the deprivation of the street on the South side, to which the owner of this lot was originally entitled under the Crown Lease; the Lot being therein described as \"abutting on the South upon a public street, and measuring thereon one hundred feet.\" This boundary measurement was published in the Government Gazette of 15th June, 1861, at page 174, attention being therein called to the plan lying for inspection at the Surveyor General's office.\n\nThe deprivation of this most important frontage on the public highway occurred when the 4,400 feet were resumed by the Government on 23rd February, 1878. The eight shops behind, forming a cul-de-sac were thus deprived of all Southern egress and ventilation, a sore evil at all times in this climate, but in this case further aggravated by the hill immediately to the rear of the site, by which all air from the South West, the most important point, is effectually excluded.\n\nHad the street at the South side of the lot been made, as promised by the Government, this would have been very different, and a large portion of the traffic to and from the West to the City would naturally have passed through it, as being the shorter route, compared with the length of the outer circumference, round the corner. In this case the South side of the Lot, being just as near to the water as the North side, would have been equally, if not more valuable. The ground would then have been worth $3 per foot.\n\nHow then, it may be asked, did Mr. Chater, a good judge in this market, agree to surrender for 40 cents $ per foot 5,928 feet of his lot? Simply because of its position and surroundings, which were altogether distinct from those of Inland Lot No. 671. Mr. Chater's vendor, Mr. Edmund Sharp, the late Crown Solicitor, although he considered the course adopted most injurious, and for ten years declined to accept the compensation offered; yet, being at that time in the Government employ, and unwilling to resist their action, had submitted in 1878 to the resumption of the Southern portion of his lot, and with this went the right to the street described in the Crown Lease. Thereafter came the second resumption in 1885, the purpose of which was that the ground might remain as a support to the hill forming a portion of the War Department reserve which it had been resolved should be appropriated.\n\n*This ground immediately adjoins that resumed at .40 cents $ per foot, see colored cloth plan herewith.\n\n28 \n29",
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        "content_text": "## have. 11. 13 of this desp\" that 11-13 in \n\nLord Ripon's opinion the W.O. might reasonably surrender Murray Battery to the Col. Govt without further delay, this has been done in the same way as the Colony surrendered the site of Murray Barracks near Victoria Battery (Belcher's Point), reserving all questions pending as to compensation (if any), the general settlement of question of the conditions on which Military lands are to be given up when no longer required for military purposes; and add, regards Ther. 20 of me that Lord Ripon is advised that the phrases \"for public service\" in S.14 Ord. 23 of 1889, and \"Expedient in the public interest\" in S.3 of the same Ord. clearly cover \"Military and naval purposes\" as in the Corresponding Straits Ord. referred to in letter of 14 Mar. 1890.\n\nFor the same way as the Colony surrendered the site Mean to compensation (if any), the general settlement of the conditions on which Military lands are to be given up when no longer required for militan purposes; \n\nregends Ther. 20 of me that Lord Ripen is advised that the phrases\" \"for public service\" in S.14 Ord. 23 of 1889, and \"Expedient in the interest of the public\" in S.3 Ord. clearly cover \"Military and naval purposes\" as in the Corresponding Straits Ord. referred to in letter of 14 Mar. 1890 [Shait 37,24/40 fu.J.30 Aug.]. Procux as proposed - This support Laving no Existence in fact, ur may separate it from the win a letter to 10.0.om •another]; See 81501 7197/92 714207/97.\n\n## \n1. Upon that I have prepared a memorandum for Lent Ripons information based from Murray Batting & The Colombo Reservs- and Ishores proper. \n2. Take the L.O. Opinion upon the meaning of the Circular flips. of 9 Jun 90 - This will come on upon another paper when ready.\n\n`844.2079 Rm 2579`, `1.2719`, `4.J. Bramstin`\n\nSee also munites As to A above, `24059A1` 91 go Law see dair `11812/67`, which A Sex Us Wingfield Officer's opinion in `11860-`. \n\nEarlier in the same point I had forgotten when durote `17316/85` on. But Ord. 23. of 1889 was passed after that opinie. given by the L.O., who only went expon the terms inquetings. Sharin of WW. Sharp's lease. I cannot find the terms of the clause in lease, but the first far. of the 2.0. épini on the phrases improvement of \"the Coley\" I \"public purpose\" apparents quoted from the Lease, whereas the terms",
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        "content_text": "of the new road by the purchase from them by the W.O. of the site of the old road; and (2) that the distinct question of the sale of Murray Battery be not mixed up with the present scheme, which would cost the Government nothing.\n\n43. The Government, however, points out that difficulties are likely to occur, if it is decided to resume Sharp's Lots.\" The Law Officers are advised that there Lots englobe resumed [211812/87] render the Crown Lands. The W.O. only seemed inclined to give $100,000. No more.\n\nLet J.327 resumption could be done under Ordinance No. 0.23 of 1889 (a copy of which is Enclosed). This was passed subsequent to the date of the opinion of the Law Officers Enclosed in your letter of 16 June 1887 (H.E. 1058 of 16 June). However, the resumption would apparently cost the Imperial Government upwards of $300,000; whereas acquiring the site in the scheme referred to in the second paragraph above would cost nothing. Accordingly, the Secretary of State prefers the latter.\n\nPage 330\nPage 331",
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        "content_text": "128\n\n355\n\n(8).\n\n(9).\n\n(10).\n\n(11): within those limits, would be for ever removed.\n\nIt is proposed to secure the objects specified in the foregoing paragraphs 4 to 7 by carrying out the following transactions.\n\nThe Governor of the Colony shall authorise the resumption under a recent Ordinance, of Mr Sharp's property, known as Marine Lots 20 and 21 (coloured in Indian Ink on Plan A) of which the portion hatched in blue on the Plan shall be taken by the Admiralty: for the extension of the Naval Yard, and the portion hatched brown shall be taken by the Colony for the improvement of Queen's Road; the Admiralty and the Colony defraying the cost of the resumption between them according to the value of the property acquired, respectively, by them.\n\nThe Governor, in like manner, shall authorise the resumption of Lot 73 E, coloured in Indian Ink and not hatched, and shall hand it over to the War Department, which shall defray the cost of resumption and shall afterwards convert the buildings into Barracks.\n\nThe War Department shall sell to the Colony for the purpose of improving Queen's Road, the property on Plan A called Police Station No.4, and also a part of the property called Queen's Road Barracks, P Block. These properties are coloured red, and hatched in brown. They were acquired by the War Department in 1886-7.\n\nThe Colony shall pay for them a fair market value.\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "Page 353\n\nHONGKONG, JULY 18TH, 1893.\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.\n\nTHE CURRENCY OF THE COLONY. RECOMMENDATION TO LEGALISE THE JAPANESE YEN.\n\nA special meeting of the members of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday at the City Hall for the purpose of discussing the desirability of recommending the Government to make the Japanese yen a legal tender in Hongkong, and further to urge the adoption of the necessary measures for the coinage of a British dollar. There were present Messrs. J. J. Keswick (Chairman), A. G. Wood, N. J. Ede, R. M. Gray, C. Jantzen, H. H. Joseph, J. H. Scott, T. H. Whitehead (Committee), T. Jackson, J. J. Francis, L. Mendel, J. H. Garrels, Q. Sharp, B. Byramjee, Gustav von Wille, J. S. Lapraik, E. R. Belilios, J. S. Moses, D. R. Sussoon, W. H. Gaskell, E. F. Alford, A. McConuchie, C. J. Halliday, W. R. Loxley, V. A. C. Hawkins, F. Seip, F. Henderson (Secretary), and others.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said—Gentlemen, the disturbance to all financial affairs throughout the world consequent upon the action of the Indian Government in declaring a gold standard of value in that Empire, and the influence upon exchanges generally which has ensued, has been felt as much in Hongkong and in the trading ports of China as in any other places. When it became known here that the Viceroy's Council was sitting in Simla last month to decide upon the recommendations of Lord Herschell's Committee, this Chamber forwarded to His Excellency the Viceroy a telegram deprecating any action tending to injure the trade between India and China, and mentioning that anticipations were already paralyzing business. Similar messages were sent by bankers and merchants, and I believe by the Hongkong Government, but the replies, as you are aware, were practically that \"the matter was settled.\" For the present we are in the dark as to the precise recommendations of the Herschell Committee, but their result has been such as to cause the enactment of a policy in India which, with the information before us, seems unlikely to be to the benefit of the people of that country at large or of the British mercantile, manufacturing, and planting communities there who have done so much, especially within the last ten years, to promote the wealth and general prosperity of that dependency.\n\nThe adoption of a gold standard, in other words the protection of the rupee and the non-protection of the dollar, has had its natural effect, and we have seen silver for the first time in the world's history worth only 30 pence an ounce, and the value of the dollar in Hongkong at less than half-a-crown. Great silver-producing countries like America and Mexico have not yet declared the measures they will adopt in consequence of India's financial policy, but from Mexico we have at least a note of warning which requires that in this distant Colony we should take such action as we can for our own protection and for the safeguarding of banking and trading interests.\n\nFor well-nigh half a century the Mexican dollar has been the coin at the Treaty ports of China and Hongkong, and latterly of The Straits Settlements, and we are able to fully appreciate the inconvenience which may arise if there should be any curtailment of its supplies in the absence of another token to meet the want thus created. It is for the purpose of considering what should be done to meet such a contingency that we are here to-day, and it is satisfactory to see such a good and representative attendance.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor, too, takes the deepest interest in the question, and has expressed a wish for your views as to making the Japanese yen a legal tender in Hongkong, and His Excellency will, I am sure, give the fullest effect in his power to the recommendation of this Chamber. When your Committee had this question under consideration a few days ago, they were, I think I may say, unanimously in favour of the Japanese yen being made legal tender here as the only immediate relief we can look for in the event of the supply of the time-honoured Mexican being inadequate to the requirements of the great and growing China trade in connection with which the banking facilities find a focus in Hongkong.\n\nThe yen is of at least equal value with the Mexican dollar, is highly appreciated by the Chinese, is an unusually handsome and well-finished coin, and I may say that its history for nearly twenty years has been in every respect satisfactory as to uniformity of value. Such being the case, I think I may venture to say that your Committee would be glad if this meeting would favourably view a recommendation to the Government that it should be made a legal tender.\n\nThe popularity of the coin, and the not unnatural desire of the enterprising and progressive Japanese Government to furnish the trading medium of the East, seem to indicate it as the most valuable auxiliary we can obtain if there is to be, as we fear, an uncertainty in the supply of the Mexican coin.\n\nIt is not the first time that this proposal has been before this Chamber. Our predecessors in the seventies recommended the Government to legalize the yen, but for some reasons with which I am unacquainted, possibly that there was no necessity at the time, no effect was given to the suggestion. But, gentlemen, if you recommend that the yen be made a legal tender, as it is hoped you may, it should be borne in mind that by many it will be deemed but half a measure of safety, and that there are those who consider that in order to obviate a recurrence of our present danger of a dearth of currency, we should have a dollar of our own, a British dollar, or a Hongkong dollar; a dollar, by whatever name you call it, of which the supply shall be regulated by our requirements.\n\nNow, such a proposal is probably in every way commendable theoretically, but it opens up the great questions of cost of production and of ways and means, the chief desiderata in all undertakings! This is a point I hope this meeting will debate, and debate freely and fully, and if necessary appoint a special sub-committee to consider. The minting of a British dollar was, I believe, favourably considered by this Chamber in 1877, but I cannot trace that anything practical resulted.\n\nIn considering this suggestion, many will call to mind with regret that Hongkong once had a mint of its own and that they abandoned it hastily and sold their plant to our friends in Japan. It was a grievous error in the light of subsequent experience, as I doubt not that had the mint been continued a few years longer it would not only have been a satisfactory source of revenue to the Colony, but ere this would have supplied the China-Straits trade with its dollars and probably permeated the length and breadth of China, and we would not to-day be under the necessity of discussing how we are to avoid running dry in the event of Mexico stopping her silver coinage.\n\nIf there be those here, or in this Colony, who advocate re-establishing a mint in Hongkong, I say they must count the cost; the opportunities are not...\n\nPage 353 (end)\n\n...\n\nPage 354",
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        "content_text": "what they were and the finances of the Colony are not at present, I regret to say, in a condition to justify any outlay for experimental enterprises. In this connection I do not think it will be out of place to say a word about subsidiary coins. The Government of this Colony for a time issued these very profitably, to the great convenience of all classes of the community whether European or Chinese, but for some reason which may be capable of explanation, but which is not at once evident, this supply has not been kept up, or has not been sufficient, and the Colony is now flooded with coins from the Canton Mint of the value of which there is no guarantee whatever, and I hope the Government may see the advisability of taking steps to discourage their circulation in the colony. Matters would be entirely different if the Imperial Government of China issued dollars and subsidiary coins of guaranteed weights and fineness; were such the fact it would be of inestimable value to us and we would be indifferent in a great degree to the action of Mexico, as nothing could be more natural than that at the gates of this great Empire we should have its money for our trading purposes, instead of having to introduce the Japanese yen as an auxiliary to the Mexican dollar. I would express the hope that this meeting may pass a resolution recommending the adoption of the Japanese yen as a legal tender, at least as a tentative and precautionary measure, and I am sure such a step will be favourably viewed by all interested in this colony. As to urging on the Government the coining of British dollars, that is a matter requiring further consideration before I would venture to make a recommendation. It may be that a British dollar would furnish the best permanent protection against a scarcity of our old friend the Mexican, but so far as I can ascertain we do not know what profit can be made out of it for this colony, or its precise cost of production and transport, and all these points and many others must be removed from the region of doubt before we commit ourselves in regard to it. In resuming my seat, gentlemen, I must express my regret for detaining you so long, but the grave importance of the subject must be my apology, and I am sure this Chamber will, with me, realize the responsibility it assumes in this weighty matter.\n\nPage 359\n\nMr. T. JACKSON - Gentlemen, I was one of the members of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce in the 70's which the Chairman has alluded to when the question of the introduction of the Japanese yen was advocated, and I do not know now any more than I know then why it was not legalised. We had abundant evidence then of the purity and honesty of the yen, of the very excellent administration of the Japanese mint, and we knew not only the quality and character of the mint but also the men who conducted it, because they were the men who had been employed by the Government in the Hongkong mint. Since that time our experience of the Japanese yen has been uniformly good, and I do not believe that there is any place in the world where there is a better and truer coin than the yen. It is almost universally used by the Japanese themselves although the legal tender in that country is the Mexican dollar according to treaty. It has been received with great favour in the Straits Settlements, and here, although not a legal tender, we would have no difficulty in paying it away to the only people we have to pay hard cash to—the Cantonese. Under these circumstances I think that it is highly desirable that the yen should be placed on a proper footing in this colony, legalised, and allowed to circulate concurrently with the Mexican dollar. Referring to the Mexican dollar I may say that I do not think that there is the slightest fear of the closing of the Mexican mint. I think that there is at present no evidence to justify anybody in coming to that conclusion, but what we might fear is that the Mexican Government, seeing their opportunity, might put an export duty of, say, 3 or 5 per cent. on the export of the Mexican dollar. That being the case it would handicap us to that extent in our dealings and commerce with other nations. That, I think, is all the more reason why we should have a second string to our bow by adopting the yen, and if the Japanese Government, as I hope they will, carry out their original intention of making the yen the universal coin for this part of the world, I think that there is a splendid opportunity of doing so. But, on the other hand, if they should seize the opportunity of making a profit and say that their mint is too small to undertake the work, it would be extremely unsatisfactory. Therefore I think that it would be still better if we had a British dollar to go concurrently with the other two. (Hear, hear) I would point out that the circumstances are not what they were when we previously discussed this question. When we discussed the question in the 70's I opposed the introduction of the British dollar because I could not see how it would pay. At that time for nine months out of the twelve we could always buy the Mexican dollars at their proper weight and fineness, and I therefore asked who was going to pay for the minting of the British dollar. You must deal with practical politics, and what I said then is equally true to-day. There is, however, another thing to be seriously borne in mind, and that is that the recent action of the Indian Government in protecting the rupee and leaving the dollar and all other silver unprotected will have a vast influence on the trade of the Far East. I believe that the trade of the Far East might increase at the expense of the Indian trade, and instead of being exporters of silver we might be importers in China. I am convinced that before long the trade of China will have increased in the same proportion as the trade of India has increased. The trade of India has increased between 1872 and 1892 from £54,000,000 to £108,000,000, and how people legislating for a country like England could in the face of figures of this kind adopt measures like this passes my comprehension. I very heartily propose that we recommend to the Government that the Japanese yen be made a legal tender in this colony.\n\nMr. GRANVILLE SHARP - I am sure that we are much indebted to Mr. Keswick for the very interesting account he has given us of the history of this movement and the present position of affairs. You will all of you know that this matter has not been new ground by any means. It has been before the Chamber for the last 20 years within a few months. It has been frequently proposed since 1873 that the Japanese yen should be made legal tender in Hongkong and on every occasion upon which it has been discussed in this room the discussion has resulted in a stronger emphasising and a more general expression of the desire for a British dollar, in which I am sure every Briton in this colony will sympathise and which will also be felt by other nationals who are here. The first discussion took place in December, 1873. There were two meetings held and the adjourned meeting which was held resulted in a resolution, proposed by Mr. Whittall, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. and seconded by Mr. Kay, the Manager of the Chartered Bank, that every effort should be made to obtain by all practicable means a British dollar for Hongkong. On February 16th, 1877, the banks in the colony united in a memorial to the Government, which was supported by the Chamber of Commerce, that the home Government should be induced to take steps for the provision of a British dollar for Hongkong with a view to the ultimate re-establishment of the Hongkong Mint. On March 7th, 1878, at another meeting of the Chamber of Commerce the subject was again brought forward and Mr. Ryrie, who was then Chairman, proposed a resolution, which was supported by Mr. Jackson, that the Hongkong Mint be re-established and every step possible and practicable should be taken with that end in view. From 1878 to 1886 the matter remained very quiet, when we were awakened by an application from Singapore begging and praying the Chamber of Commerce to unite with them in obtaining a British dollar for Hongkong, Singapore, and the Straits Settlements. On May 31st, 1887, a new event happened in the offer which the Government received from the Japanese Government to coin a yen for Hongkong, Singapore, and the Straits at 1 per cent. This was declined by the Chamber for a variety of reasons—it was thought undesirable at that time to enter into the arrangement. I think that we shall all agree that our present currency is inadequate and unsuitable. We have the currency of 1843 in 1893. We are still burning the rushlight in the days of electric currents. (Laughter.) It may be deemed economical to use a dollar which is made and sent already for use to us here, but I think it is...",
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        "content_text": "404\n\n06:\n\nP.C. Mahomad Bux said that on Saturday morning he was ordered to keep back a mob of Chinese, and that when he went to do so he was pelted with stones. The defendant was one of those who threw a missile, and he arrested him.\n\nFined $50 or two months' in default.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS\n\nand the unhappy patients on the bulk must be brought to the Tung Wah branch Hospital, and those of the sick who so desire could be permitted to introduce the full disease into their native villages on the mainland! Splendid illustration of the intelligence and perspicuity, to say nothing of the gratitude, of these so-called representatives of the native community!\n\nP.C. Rossball Singh charged a coolie with a similar offense on the same occasion.\n\nFined $50 or two months' in default.\n\nTwo coolies were charged with disorderly conduct in Po Yan Street on the 20th.\n\nA Sikh constable said that during the morning a Chinese gentleman came out of the Tung Wah Hospital and got into his chair. The coolies were about to carry him when a mob of Chinese turned the chair upside down, with the gentleman in it. The occupant of the chair got out and ran back into the hospital. The first defendant was one of those who got hold of the chair. Witness blew his whistle and arrested the defendants. At the same time some stones were thrown. Some watchmen belonging to the Tung Wah Hospital came to witness's assistance and the mob was cleared away.\n\nFined $50 each or two months' in default.\n\nThree old women were next brought up, charged with assaulting Inspector R. Germain, an officer of the Sanitary Board, while in the execution of his duty.\n\nComplainant said—On the 20th inst. at 8.30 a.m. I was on the house-to-house inspection duty in Station Street, Taipingshan. I was called away to Market Street for ten minutes and on returning to Station Street I found the whole place in an uproar.\n\nI pacified the people as best I could and went on with the inspection. On coming out of the next house I was met with a shower of stones and bricks and rubbish. The first defendant threw the brick produced, and the second and third defendants were the ringleaders, urging the others to attack us. I had two inkongs in uniform with me. I arrested the defendants. The people objected to the house-to-house visitation. I was the only man inspecting at the time; I had no soldiers. The house-to-house visitation has been going on for some time every day, and there have been no disturbances hitherto. I have ceased to suppose that it was in consequence of the employment of soldiers that the disturbances arose. The soldiers have been employed for four days.\n\nMr. F.H. May, Captain Superintendent of Police said—I ask for a severe penalty. This is part of an organized arrangement for disturbing the measures taken by the authorities to deal with the plague. The disturbances are only kept under control by the presence of an armed body of police in the Taipingshan district.\n\nThe first defendant was fined $10 or one month's imprisonment, and the other two defendants $5 each or six weeks' in default.\n\nNearly all the fines were paid.\n\nWe regret to learn that Inspector Quincey and several of the officers who have been so actively engaged in the work of visiting the houses are incapacitated by illness from duty.\n\nThe house-to-house visitation, which daily discloses the unreported existence of plague and sometimes discovers the dead bodies of victims in the rotting dampness of basement floors, is to be still more vigorously carried on. Fifty volunteers for this highly necessary work are asked for, and in view of the danger and gravity of the situation, not only to the trade and commerce of the port but to the health of the entire population, these volunteers and probably more, will doubtless be speedily forthcoming.\n\nThe insinuations which have been cast upon the military employed as special sanitary officers, and the reports current that it is this to which the chief objection to the house-to-house visitation is due, caused us to make enquiries in this direction. We learn on the best authority that since their enrollment in this work the military employed have worked very satisfactorily and effectively, that no complaint of their conduct has been made, and that as a matter of fact the majority of the householders were not aware that the men visiting their houses were military, until they were incited by the anti-foreign leaders behind to make demonstrations of vindictiveness. The soldiers employed are all picked men, and the majority are non-commissioned officers. Twelve men of the Shropshire regiment are still engaged in the work of inspection and twelve engineers in disinfecting. Each sanitary officer is accompanied by a likong, and there are now twenty-one men on this special duty in the infected area.\n\nWe might mention, to remove any misconception, that the Government have not completely abrogated their authority even over the Chinese Hospital at the Glassworks. Dr. Penny, R.N., makes visits twice daily to see that things are in a sanitary condition, and European police are on duty at the gates keeping statistics of cases.\n\nIt is said by some who have had so intimate an acquaintance with the development and character of the plague since its appearance here, that the attacks now do not appear to be quite as virulent as a week ago. It may be added that several of the new cases in the Glassworks have been discharged on diagnosis as not suffering from plague. Whether such are being sent to the Hospital accidentally or intentionally it is difficult to say, but plausibility is lent to the latter suggestion by the natural desire among the Chinese to be able to record in their statistics a higher percentage of \"discharged cured\" than the European doctors were able to do.\n\n23rd May. The following are the returns for the twenty-four hours to noon yesterday:\n\nHospital\nAdmissions\nDeaths\n\nKen-edy Hospital\n3\n1\n\nChinese Hospital\n19\n10\n\nCity Hospital\n7\n10\n\nTung Wah Hospital\n27\n18\n\nTotal\n56\n39\n\nThe patients under Chinese medical direction are treated with a decoction made from the root of an aquatic plant, which is said to have been wonderfully successful in dealing with serious cases at Canton. After being infused in hot water for some time for some time the liquid is strained off and administered at regular intervals, while the pulp is applied externally to the buboes as a poultice.\n\nUnder treatment 21\n\n\"A quiet day; plague in a measure abating,\" practically sums up the reports received yesterday. The concessions made by the Government in no longer insisting upon the transfer of patients to the Hygeia and in giving permission (speedily availed of) to establish a Chinese hospital under Chinese control, acted like oil on the troubled waters and no further disturbances took place, or were even attempted, after the Glassworks had been converted into a hospital. The native prejudice, however, not having been largely removed, large numbers of coolies continued yesterday in every way possible to leave the colony, both by steamer and passage-boat, and the exodus appears to be increasing.\n\nAt the Magistracy yesterday a hawker was fined $10 for creating a disturbance near the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\nDEPUTATION TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nIMPORTANT PRONOUNCEMENT.\n\nAt one o'clock yesterday afternoon a deputation from the Tung Wah Hospital, accompanied by the Hon. J.H. Stewart Lockhart (Registrar-General) waited on His Excellency the Governor at Government House for the purpose of representing a certain feeling existing among some sections of the native community. The deputation presented to His Excellency a long petition, the principal points of which were:\n\n(1)—That the house-to-house visitation should cease.\n\n(2)—That sick persons should be allowed to return to their own country.\n\n(3)—That the patients on the Hygeia should be sent to the Glassworks Hospital.\n\n(4)—That all sick persons should be sent to the Glassworks Hospital.\n\nAfter listening attentively to the recital of this document, His Excellency said that he would take the last point first. In reply to that, all he had to say was that sick people might elect to go to any hospital they liked. There was no interference with their choice whatever, and no intention on the part of the Government to force patients into any particular hospital for treatment. As to the request that the sick on the Hygeia should be moved to the branch Hospital, he altogether declined such a responsibility. The idea, he said, was absurd, as if the petitioners' prayer was granted it might result in much unnecessary loss of life. He therefore declined to grant it. As to the request contained in paragraph 2, His Excellency said that he had nothing to do with the return of the people to their own country. If the authorities in Kwang-tung refused to allow persons from Hongkong to go to Macao or elsewhere, he could not coerce those authorities or interfere with their decision.\n\nAnd as regards the first point of the petition—that the house-to-house visitation should cease—His Excellency said that he considered such visitation to be absolutely necessary, and he had no intention whatever to relax the morning regulations in that respect.\n\nThe morning paper had shown how necessary it was, for they reported that three or four dead bodies had been taken out of one house, which would never have been discovered but for the house-to-house visitation. His Excellency reminded the deputation that this was an English colony, and said that the Tung Wah Committee should assist him in carrying out the law and persuading others to obey it. Holding up the proclamation he stated that that was now the law, and it would be carried out. He promised that every consideration should be shown to women and children, and that if any unnecessary damage was done on proof thereof the persons suffering would be recompensed. To show his own opinion of the necessity for visitation he had asked that all the outbuildings and coolie quarters at Government House should be inspected. His Excellency further said that he intended largely to increase the force of Sanitary Inspectors and he hoped that in a few weeks' time all danger would be at an end. He asked the Tung Wah Committee to assist him by getting additional help.\n\nA fatal case has been reported from Queen's Gardens. A day or two ago a coolie employed at the Royal Engineers' mess was taken ill and died before knowledge of the nature of his ailment—which was plague—was known to his companions. The premises have been thoroughly disinfected.\n\nHis Excellency concluded by saying that he was responsible not only for the health of the Chinese but of the Europeans and the Army and Navy, that his decision was embodied in the proclamation, that this proclamation was now the law, and that persons transgressing it would be arrested and punished.\n\nThe Registrar-General frequently interpreted His Excellency's remarks and the deputation withdrew, if not actually satisfied, at any rate fully aware of the determination of the Government to do its best to stamp out and prevent the spread of this insidious disease.\n\nTung Wah Hospital on Monday.\n\nA meeting of the Consular Body, held at Shanghai on the 15th inst., it was unanimously decided to request the taotai, through the Customs, to enforce No. 15 of the Harbour Regulations, as a measure of precaution, against vessels arriving from the South. The Regulation in question is as follows:—\"Vessel arriving from a place infected with cholera or other contagious disease on board shall not come nearer the lower limit of the Harbour than one mile, shall fly at the fore a yellow flag, and shall not allow any one to disembark or come on board without permission from the Harbour Master's Office.\"\n\nThere is some talk of closing the schools at which Chinese scholars attend. We believe that Dr. Bateson Wright has applied to the Governor for permission to close Queen's College, and it is probable if the disease does not receive a decided check during the next few days that this precautionary measure will be adopted.\n\nTHE PROCLAMATION.\n\nThe following is a precis of the proclamation issued by H.E. Sir William Robinson:\n\nWhereas Hongkong is now visited by a plague which is killing Chinese at the rate of between 30 and 40 a day, and it is understood that 8,000 people have succumbed to it since the commencement of the outbreak. It is the general opinion that the outbreak was caused simply by the bad smells from large numbers of dead rats. This has also been proved by a foreign doctor on Shameen, who, after examining some of the newly dead rats, found many worms in the lungs. He advised people not to eat them, as they are a great poison.\n\n22nd May.\n\nWe are glad to be able to announce that the plague in Canton has further diminished during the past three days. The doctors have now discovered the proper method of treating the patients, and the percentage of deaths amongst those who have been attended by them is only twenty per cent. or less.\n\n17th May.\n\nMr. Leach concluded his arguments on the point raised by Mr. Francis as to whether the case should be dealt with in its present form, and Mr. Francis replied.\n\nHis Lordship reserved his decision.\n\nIN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. A.G. WISE, ACTING PUISNE JUDGE.\n\nCHOI CHU vs. CHEUNG KAM TIM.\n\nMr. Creasy Ewens appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Phillippo for the defendant.\n\nThis was a claim of $400. money alleged to have been lent by the plaintiff, a woman, to the defendant's wife for the purchase of necessaries.\n\nThe plaintiff gave very contradictory evidence as to the circumstances of this loan, and His Lordship, not considering that there was sufficient proof of the debt, gave judgment for the defendant with costs.\n\nALLEGED SINGULAR AND FATAL MISTAKE.\n\nA correspondent writes:—\"Is it a fact that a Chinese woman was sent on board the Hygeia by the Sanitary Authorities supposed to be suffering from the plague, but which proved to be a case of pregnancy? And is it true that the mistake was not found out until it was too late to save the patient's life? This is the tale told to me by my servants, and two of them have left my employ in a terrible fright to take their wives out of the colony.\"\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\n15th May.\n\nIN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. E.J. ACKROYD, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE.\n\nIn re THE CHINA LAND AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nThe bearing was resumed of the motion by the Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris to be placed on the register of shareholders of the China Land and Finance Company, Limited, in respect of 1,500 shares in the Company which had been deposited by Ng Chan Fong, the Bank's compradore, as security for advances made or that might be incurred in future by Ng Chan Fong to the Bank, being additional security under terms of an agreement of the 16th February, 1891, and a bond dated 14th December, 1891.\n\nMr. A.J. Leach, Q.C., instructed by Mr. G.C. Master (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master), appeared on behalf of the Bank; and Mr. J.J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. C. Ewens), on behalf of the Company and Ng Woon Sun How Qua, who had been served with notice of the motion.\n\nHis Lordship, on taking his seat, said—In this case Mr. Leach, before answering Mr. Francis's application that I should not deal with this case at the present stage, asked me to allow him to complete his evidence by cross-examining certain parties upon the affidavits filed by Mr. Francis's clients.\n\n18th May.\n\nIN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nBEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. E.J. ACKROYD, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE, AND COMMON JURY.\n\nATTEMPTED ARSON.\n\nChan Sik Ming, an apprentice, aged 19, was charged with feloniously and wilfully attempting to set fire to No. 7, Queen's Road West, occupied by a boot and shoe dealer who employed the defendant, on the 6th inst.\n\nMr. A.J. Leach, Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. A.B. Johnson, Crown Solicitor), prosecuted for the Crown.\n\nPrisoner pleaded not guilty.\n\nAnother apprentice who had been committed as an accomplice was discharged by proclamation.\n\nThe following jury was empanelled:—Messrs. Chow Dart Tong, A. Sharp, J.M. Gutierrez, F.G. Barres, F. Hubbe, D.W. Craddock, and Thos. Grimshaw.\n\nThe facts of the case were that on the night of the day in question the proprietor of the shop awoke and found the defendant setting fire, by means of a large joss stick, gunpowder, and matches, to a box of shavings in one of the rooms on the ground floor.\n\nThe Jury returned a verdict of guilty.\n\nHis Lordship reserved sentence, which was delivered on the 22nd.\n\nHis Lordship (addressing the prisoner) said—The jury have found you guilty of preparing a joss-stick with matches and gunpowder and with having set fire to it. They found that you knew what you were doing, and that you placed it close to a box of shavings in order to set fire to the house; and everything points to the supposition that you did this because your master had given you a few slaps two or three days before. The consequence of your foolish act might have been very serious. The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned for one week and that you receive six strokes with a rattan.\n\n21st May.\n\nFORGERY.\n\nPun Long, a clerk, was charged with uttering a forged note purporting to be endorsed by one Chao Yan Lok in January last, with intent to defraud Messrs. Arthur and Co.\n\nMr. A.J. Leach, Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. A.B. Johnson, Crown Solicitor), appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J.J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. H.L. Dennys), for the defence.\n\nThe following jury was empanelled:—Messrs. A.O. Gutierrez, C.F. de Carvalho, R.S. Philpott, C.A. Plumb, E.J. Moses, M.S. Northcote, and F. 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        "content_text": "Enclosure in Gazette JUNE 29, 1894 –\n\nTHE NEW PLAGUE\n\n20th June. A writer in the Shenpao investigates the question of the plague in Canton and Hongkong. Some say, he remarks, that it is an entirely new disease, while others believe they find it described in old Chinese works, such as the Su-wen and the Shang-hun-lun. The name by which it is now distinguished is taken from the peculiar swellings which appear first behind the ears, then in the armpits and between the legs. It is therefore called Kota-wen, wen being the general name for any epidemic, and Kota meaning any swelling. The writer identifies it with the Yang-tez-cheng of the province of Yunnan, which has already been described at Mêngtze, and Pakhoi by the Commissioners and Medical Officers of the Chinese Customs residing at those places. The latest of these for the year ending the 31st of March, 1891, is that of Dr. A. Sharp Deane who says in his report of the health of Pakhoi: \"Bubonic plague mentioned in my last report as having broken out at Lungchow disappeared in April, after a heavy fall of rain. No cases occurred at this port during this year. The Chinese are of opinion that bubonic plague emanates from the ground, and is favoured by a long continuance of dry weather, when the earth becomes porous, and numerous fissures appear on the surface, facilitating the escape of whatever causes the disease. Heavy rain, they say, prevents the occurrence of plague; or if it is already among them, a downpour of two or three days' duration will cause it to cease.\"\n\nLooking at the matter under the light of the information we have received, this singular and alarming epidemic may be regarded as a new disease territorially limited to places lying near the tropic of Cancer, and travelling eastward in the same isothermal line from which it began its destructive career. Yunnan is a country where animal life flourishes, and where malaria is always abundantly present. But what is malaria? It is a form of animal life which preys parasitically on the human frame. The smallpox came from the jungle country of the south into China in the second century of our era, as Chinese history assures us. This is the first mention of smallpox in any literature. The reader should not believe what the Revue des Deux Mondes says about its being mentioned in China B.C. 1200. This is not the case. Even able writers, such as those whose contributions adorn the pages of this French Review, take liberties which they ought not when speaking of China. In the interest of historical research, it would be well if writers would cease to guess at what is recorded in the Chinese annals. The French savant concludes that smallpox has existed from time immemorial in China and India. This is not a statement convincing or satisfactory. The real facts are that the smallpox appeared in China in the second century A.D. and in Europe in the sixth century.\n\nIt was conveyed to Europe by the Saracens. It originated in the same or nearly the same jungle country where the new plague of Hongkong and Canton sprang up. As it would seem, it was somewhere about the tropic of Cancer in both cases. So it was with cholera. Cholera began in the delta of the Ganges, also in jungle country. The sun is vertical there, heat is intense, vegetation flourishes, and food is abundant for every form of animal life. These pestilential diseases, if we trace them to their origin, are derived from such regions as the jungles found in the deltas of great rivers and chiefly those reaching the sea under the tropic of Cancer. There is found the greatest variety of animal and vegetable life, and there have grown up the various great pestilences which have afflicted mankind. As to the plague which spread over Europe in the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, it may be of African origin, as the Revue des Deux Mondes supposes. But it was also, like the alarming plague which is now dying away at Canton and Hongkong, often characterised by swellings under the armpits and in the groin. There were several kinds of plague, and we cannot be positive in asserting or denying the identity of the present plague with those which alarmed our forefathers and desolated Europe. But with regard to this present destructive plague, the facts known to us render it extremely probable that it is quite a new disease occasioned, like the typhoons of the China Sea, in some way by the effect of the sun's heat at the tropic of Cancer. Investigation into the origin of these winds has led to the discovery that they commence in the ocean near the Philippine Islands. It is there where the sun turns round at the summer solstice, and there the most destructive winds take their rise.\n\nIn some inscrutable manner, the powerful influence of the sun in the same latitude, but on land, seems to be connected with the bacilli which cause fatal diseases of epidemic types when stirred to extraordinary activity. The diseases thus occasioned are first local, then epidemic, and then endemic. Whenever the career of these diseases can be checked by sanitary regulations and assiduous medical care, an immense boon is conferred on mankind, because this change from the local to the epidemic and from the epidemic to the endemic form is capable of being checked by intelligent human provisions of a sanitary kind. That the law of advance is from local to epidemic seems to follow plainly from the facts we now possess. Dr. Lowry states that the disease came to Pakhoi from the city of Chinchou sixty miles to the west. From that place, it spread to Lieuchou, twenty miles eastward, and then appeared at Pakhoi on the coast fifty miles further. From this seaport to Canton, the distance is 150 miles or thereabouts,",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 1\n\n# C.O. 1 \n659 449 \n\n\"The Hongkong Weekly Press\" of 20th October, 1894 \n\n## THE PLAGUE HEROES. \n### PUBLIC MEETING AT THE CITY HALL. \n\nA largely attended public meeting was held on Thursday afternoon for the purpose of considering at the City Hall the steps to be taken to recognise the services rendered to the community during the plague.\n\nAmong those present were H. E. Sir William Robinson, His Honour Mr. Justice Ackroyd, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Hon. J. J. Keswick, Hon. E. R. Belilios, Hon. A. McConachie, Hon. E. Bowdler, Capt. Lethbridge, Messrs. H. Mackintosh, A. Coxon, H. H. Hoppins, T. Jackson, H. E. Wodehouse, C. V. Ladds, Granville Sharp, R. Fraser Smith, G. Piercy, T. Sercombe Smith, G. R. Stevens, J. Grant Smith, A. Findlay Smith, J. Hastings, J. R. Michael, D. R. Sassoon, J. S. Moyes, J. Thurburn, W. Wylie, A. G. Wise, V. H. Dacon, J. B. Coughtrie, A. B. Johnson, A. G. Wood, Gen. B. Dodwell, J. P. Cottain, W. St. J. Hancock, R. M. Gray, J. Marshall, Capt. Sterling, and others.\n\nThe ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE—I am quite sure everyone here will heartily endorse the action of the Committee in asking His Excellency the Governor to take the chair on this occasion, and I therefore formally move that Sir William Robinson do take the chair. (Applause).\n\nHis EXCELLENCY—Gentlemen, I am much obliged to you for asking me to take the chair on this interesting occasion. We are met this afternoon, as you know, to consider the steps which should be taken to recognise the gallant and noble efforts of those volunteers, military, naval, police, and lay, who offered their services unreservedly and with such great effect, when the plague broke out. I do not intend to trench upon the able and eloquent speeches which I have no doubt we shall hear from the gentlemen on either side of me.\n\nI am glad to see so many here this afternoon—gentlemen who I feel sure will delight in doing honour to those to whom great honour is due. (Hear, hear). The first resolution, which will be moved by the Acting Chief Justice, is as follows: \"That this meeting do resolve that the services rendered to this community during the recent plague by those who assisted are worthy of public recognition.\"\n\nThe ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE—Your Excellency and gentlemen, I have much pleasure in responding to the call of your Excellency in moving the first resolution, which has just been placed before you. The facts connected with the recent plague and the services which have been rendered to the colony in connection with this outbreak are no doubt still fresh in your minds, but perhaps you will permit me for the purposes of this resolution to briefly recall them.\n\nIn the beginning of May last, there were rumours here that a new and, to all appearances, a deadly disease was raging in Canton. Enquiries there proved the report to be true, and soon after that, there were some suspicious deaths in this colony. These increased, and on May 11th, there was a meeting of the Sanitary Board at which extraordinary resolutions and exceptional powers were taken, and this colony was declared to be infected.\n\nThe Sanitary Board, assisted by Mr. May and the Europeans in the police under him, did all that they could then to stop the progress of the disease. This unfortunately was ineffectual; volunteers were called for, and about fifty were obtained from the garrison, and it was hoped that with the advent of the rains, we should be able to stamp out the disease. Our hopes vanished bit by bit; fresh efforts were made, and we received further assistance from the garrison to the extent of 300 volunteers.\n\nNotwithstanding this, the plague still spread; it took a good hold on the colony, and during several weeks, it taxed the courage, energy, and perseverance of those who were seeking to combat it. At last, by God's blessing on the measures taken, we were mercifully delivered from it. I am sure you all wish to recognise the services of those who assisted the colony in this terrible visitation.\n\nTo Major-General Barker, I think our first thanks are due. He at once saw the gravity of the situation and acted as perhaps few would have done. He did not hesitate to take upon himself the responsibility of sanctioning the volunteering of the military. The responsibility was great, for all that we knew of the plague was that it was a deadly disease, and nobody could then tell what would be the effect of it on these men, who would be brought so closely into contact with it.\n\nThe General, recognising the danger that the colony was in, continued the responsibility of allowing the soldiers to go on with their good work. Fortunately, we have only had to deplore one death among the volunteers, but if there had been a greater mortality, the General would have been severely blamed by his superiors and by those who are always ready to criticise and censure the efforts of others without doing anything themselves to help their fellow-creatures in moments of difficulty and distress.\n\nThe colony is deeply indebted to General Barker, and his services, I am quite sure, will not go unrewarded. I think I should next mention the services rendered by the officers and soldiers of the Shropshire Regiment, by several officers of the Royal Engineers, and by other members of the garrison. Whatever they did was essentially volunteer service.\n\nThey are not, strictly speaking, ours; they are here to-day and gone to-morrow. But as soon as they saw they could be of use and recognised the colony was in danger, they readily and willingly came forward to help. Their task was not a light one; on the contrary, it was a difficult one. At times, it must have been very disagreeable and always fraught with danger.\n\nRemember, they were working in the slums of Taipingshan during the summer months. Their work was to visit from house to house, to search for the sick and the dead, to remove them and all the accumulations of dirt and filth, furniture and other effects, and then to thoroughly disinfect and cleanse these houses. I am told the amount of dirt removed was astonishing.\n\nThis work was always done with alacrity and never-failing good humour, and it was done only as volunteers could do it. (Applause). There was no half-heartedness, for they did it with all their might. (Loud applause). The Colonel and officers tendered valuable assistance. They vied with each other in organising the men, in teaching them, and rendering every assistance they could; and by their constant presence, showed they were ready to participate in the danger to which the men who were at work were exposed.\n\nColonel Robinson visited his men, I believe, morning and evening, nearly every day, and nothing was left undone by him that he could do to help and encourage them. (Applause). The officers also on duty imitated his example; there was no shirking their work; they assisted the men so far as they could; they worked with them and encouraged them by their constant presence in the midst of the infected district.\n\nSoldiers, as a rule, are trained to destroy life, not to save it; this was a new rôle for our friend Tommy Atkins, but he has done it well. He has proved that he can do his duty whether it is resisting a European foe, or repelling the furious onslaughts of Indian or Arab fanatics, or fighting in the slums of Taipingshan an unseen but not less deadly enemy. (Applause).\n\nThis regiment has a distinguished record which is proudly displayed on its colours, for it has fought its country's battles during the long contest in the Peninsula, on the burning plains of Scinde, and in other parts of India, and again in Egypt and the Soudan. Of these feats, it is justly proud, but I think the day-to-day fight with disease in Taipingshan in the summer of 1894 will, for courage and endurance and devotedness to duty, compare with any of their gallant achievements. (Loud applause).",
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        "content_text": "Department and others deserve and have our entire approbation. I am also sure that nothing could be more noble and nothing more worthy than the devotion of the Sisters during that trying time. (Applause) Reference has also been made to the doctors. I think that the doctors have played a noble part in this plague. They have entered unhesitatingly into the jaws of death. Dr. Agress, Dr. Lowson, and the naval and military doctors have covered themselves with glory. (Applause) Wherever danger is to be found we find the doctors, and I think myself that there is no profession so noble as the medical profession. I now beg to move that the following Committee be appointed for the purpose of carrying the first resolution into effect -- The Acting Chief Justice, Acting Colonial Secretary, Acting Attorney General, Acting Surveyor General; Hons. C. P. Chater, J. J. Keswick, Ho Kai, E. R. Belilios, A. McConachie; Acting Puisne Judge; Messrs. J. Ross Anton, S. G. Bird, W. Blagden, A. Coxon, G. de Champeaux, H. Crawford, J. B. Coughtrie, H. L. Dennys, G. B. Dodwell, W. Dobby, Fung Wah-chuen, D. Gillies, J. H. Garrels, R. M. Gray, A. Hancock, C. J. Holliday, H. Hoppins, Ho Tung, J. D. Humphreys, J. D. Hutchison, L.) Inchbald, A. B. Jobson, Douglas Jones, H. F. Joseph, Thomas Jackson, J. Kramer, J. H. Lewis, Li Shing, A. C. Marshall, St. C. Michaelsen, A. R. Marty, E. Mackintosh, E. Mitchell, E. N. S. Mehta, H. N. Mody, J. S. Moses, Dorabjee Nowrojee, G. W. Playfair, A. G. Romano, W. H. Ray, C. F. A. Sangster, Granville Sharp, P. Sachse, R. S. Sassoon, R. Shewan, J. Thorburn, J. Y. V. Vernon, A. G. Wood, and H. E. Wodehouse, C.M.G.\n\nHon. A. McCONACHIE seconded.\n\nMr. R. FRASER SMITH asked what the functions of the Committee would be.\n\nThe ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE replied that the Committee would have to enquire as to who were deserving of their recognition, and, then, what would be the most proper manner of showing the community's appreciation of their services.\n\nMr. R. FRASER SMITH in the course of a few remarks expressed the opinion that as the meeting had been convened for the special purpose of deciding what steps should be taken to recognise the services of the volunteers, they should at once proceed to discuss the point.\n\nThe ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE in reply said that this matter had been considered by the provisional Committee and they had decided that it would be better not to discuss in public what shape the recognition should take.\n\nThe resolution was then put and carried nem. con.\n\nHon. J. J. KESWICK - Gentlemen, on an occasion like the present it always tends very much to the success of the meeting when it is presided over by the Governor, and I rise to move a vote of thanks to His Excellency for presiding to-day. It is not necessary in moving this resolution to say anything, because in the past our experience has been that His Excellency's courteous presence has always been readily obtained by the community when any public function has been going on. I therefore, gentlemen, beg to move a vote of thanks to His Excellency for presiding.\n\nMr. H. HOPPIUS - Gentlemen, I have very much pleasure in seconding the motion proposed by Mr. Keswick. (Applause)\n\nHis EXCELLENCY - Gentlemen, I thank you very much for those cheers. I think, I should have failed culpably in my duty if I had not been present on this occasion, for this is one of the meetings at which we can show our hearty appreciation of the noble efforts made by the volunteers in the terrible crisis through which we have just passed.\n\nThis concluded the meeting.\n\nPage 451",
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        "content_text": "## \n1. \n\nof whom we have heard a good deal. But when the time comes when they can be of some practical assistance to the Government, where are they? (Hear, hear, and applause). Business men in this place know far more about the matter than I do, but I would say, make a suggestion to the Government. No suggestion has been made at this meeting that I know of, and if you will permit me, I suggest that there should be an importation of coolies—coolies who could come down here—and why not get 1,000 or 2,000—whatever number might be required—and ask the Government to find accommodation and protection for them whilst they are here. Half the number that came down here could be taken from ship to ship by those who have ships constantly in use, and the remainder might be housed by arrangement, and allowed out by the Government. It is no good sitting down and saying \"Oh, the Government are a poor lot.\" (Laughter). Well, perhaps they are, but give them some practical suggestion. Practical men, I mean, with a practical suggestion. Let us go to the Government and hear what they have to say about it.\n\nMr. DODWELL—I am glad to hear what Captain Ramsey has brought to our attention. The Government can do more than we as individuals. As Mr. Mackintosh said, we must have a strong combination to meet a strong combination. If the Government can be persuaded to import labour, those who are employers of labour will be expected to guarantee to take their labour from the Government at certain fixed rates. But if this strike is affecting the colony, surely it is the colony that should pay for it, and not individuals. Most of us are agents only, and not principals. We are working for other people, and for other people's ships, and very few of us for our own property, and I think the loss which would otherwise fall on us individually should really fall on the colony. The coolies are not working our ships or carrying our cargo, and this will be a great loss to the colony. Shipowners will avoid the place, and therefore we must do everything we can to get coolies to take the place of the coolies now on strike. There are many places from which coolies can be got, but the trouble is there would be great delay. We want to get them quickly. The strike has been on for four days now, and it would certainly be a week or ten days before we could get relief from any other parts. My own opinion is that Japan is the best place to apply to for immediate help. I know there are many difficulties in the way, especially at the present time, but it seems to me that to bring Chinese here would only be putting off the evil day. If we bring Japanese here, the Chinese will see that we can do without them. As to what should be done to prevent a recurrence of this, I do not advocate Japanese labour being here permanently, but I think Indian labour would be very useful here. It would be of very great service to the colony to have two or three thousand Indian labourers here should we at any time be involved in war. We know in that case the Chinese would not help us, but the Indians would be of vital assistance to our army and navy. The question now is whether all the employers of labour would be prepared to promise that the whole of the labour they required should be taken from the Government importations. If there was a guarantee given to the Government, surely they might then telegraph for labour. I believe that if the Chinese know that the Government is telegraphing for labour, you will very soon see a different state of affairs. (Applause).\n\nMr. GRANVILLE SHARP—I think we are very much indebted to the Government, to the military, and to the police for the measures they have taken at this crisis. There is no doubt whatever that it was the best thing that could possibly be done, and it has been very well done. The fall in the temperature of 10 degrees within the last 24 hours has been greatly in our favour. Europeans can work at 65 degrees Fahrenheit; at 75, at which the temperature was the day before yesterday, they found it very laborious work. At 85, it will be simply impossible to work. Europeans cannot do physical work in the summer in Hongkong, and therefore, however satisfactory the present position may be, it cannot be permanent. In England, strikes continue. There is no law against strikes. I think our condition in Hongkong is a little different. The Chinese labourers here do not belong to the British nationality. They are here by invitation and by favour, and therefore I think there might be a slight difference in the way offences are regarded. The offence of striking might be treated in Hongkong differently from striking in London. But in England, at any rate, the Government has set its foot most firmly upon the subject of intimidation and violence, and if the position had been fully realised on Saturday when the coolie was caught red-handed in the violent treatment of another coolie, when he struck and knocked his baskets off his shoulder, and threw the bamboo into the sea, I think the case might have been treated differently from what it was. I regard, sir, the punishment that was inflicted, which no doubt was prescribed by Ordinance, as an absolute favour to put upon a recalcitrant coolie, who will go to gaol to have one quarter of the work and double the show to which he has been accustomed. This can be regarded as no deterrent punishment at all. (Applause). I am afraid there is no justification for the magistrate having acted otherwise, but if he had been empowered—and perhaps it might be desirable to obtain some powers—if he had been empowered to have ordered the coolie to be caned with his clothes off, as we in school used to be caned with our clothes on—(laughter)—given 29 strokes, and then sent into the street showing his blue and red back, I believe the strike would have been at an end.\n\nMuch time has been lost. I am very thankful that the Harbour Master, Captain Rumsey, has said what has been on my mind for many years, namely, that the leading Chinese, the men of wealth, the men of standing in this place, are answerable for a great deal of our trouble here. (Applause). Asiatics do not love Englishmen except when they are strong, and as long as they are strong, and no longer. The Chinese love the strong, and I think it would be a very mistaken attitude for us to adopt in the present emergency to consult with the Chinese at all. (Applause). I think it would be undesirable to import a number of Japanese at the present time, and especially under our recent enlightenment with regard to Japanese. Japanese are Asiatics, and I do not think the Japanese are very fond of us. It has been suggested that Indians should be engaged, but the fact is that the Chinese are the men we want. The Chinese are the only men that can carry; Indians and Japanese cannot carry. It is the shoulder that is the power of the Chinese coolie, and that is what we want and what we must obtain. I think, sir, that we might represent to the Government our feeling upon the matter in regard to the responsibility for this state of things. I am quite sure that these poor men are not the men who are responsible. As the Chairman has stated, they are led by others. Let it be clearly stated by the Government that they hold the leading Chinese responsible for the state of the place. This might seem to our British ideas unsuitable, but the Chinese will not regard it as unsuitable. It is entirely in keeping with their system. The Government should say, \"We make you responsible for this matter, and if you do not mend, we shall take some steps against you with regard to it.\" We have been too lenient in the past. When I first came to Hongkong, every Chinese coolie doffed his cap and stood on one side to allow you to pass. When do you see a coolie do that now? We do not exercise our undoubted superiority. We must rule by power, and it is this we must assert in Hongkong, and by which we must carry the day. (Applause).\n\nMr. C. S. TAYLOR—The Chinaman is imbued with his own notions of the Government, and he gains sufficient knowledge of our laws to know that so long as he does not break the laws, we do not interfere with him. But he perhaps does not know that in an emergency, the Government has power to expand the law. The present crisis may not be regarded by Western nations as an emergency, but Western nations do not live in Hongkong, and do not look at the matter in the same light as we do. I understand that we meet here today to advise the Government. I suggest that the Government should give notice that unless this strike is finished on Monday, we proclaim martial law. (Hear, hear, and applause). During Sunday, the Government could make its preparations...",
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        "content_text": "# THE DAILY PRESS\n## HONGKONG, APRIL 2ND, 1895\n\n### THE COOLIE STRIKE\n#### RETIREMENT OF THE PUBLIC COMMITTEE\n\nA public meeting summoned by the Committee appointed at the meeting on Thursday last was held yesterday morning in the City Hall. The Hon. J J. Keswick presided, and among those present were—Messrs. E. Mackintosh, St. C. Michaelsen, N. A. Siebs, G. B. Dedwall, D. Gillies, H, L. Deuoys (Committee), Hon. A. McConachie, Captain Rumsey, Messrs. C. C. Platt, J. S. Moses, J. D. Hutchison, W. Dauby, G. Murray Bain, J. H. Cox, W. Maobeas, G. T. tintou, O. irodhinh tà, C C laster, a Ezekiel, J. B. Coughtrie, C. Palmer, J. Gonsmann, B. C. Ray, D... Brown, G. Sharp, H. Skött, D. R. Sassons, R. Shewan, Rev. G. J. Williams, Capt. Tillett, Messrs. A. Shelton Hooper, S. G. Bird, W. Mathisen, W. A. Duff, F. Jones Hughes, H. inith, Ho Tusg, J. Wheeler, A. Findlay smith, S. L. Darby, f Flolmes, F. W. watts, F. Walker, J. Watson, I. B. Wodehouse, C. A. Tomes, Douglas Jones, A H. Ronnie, E. Goetz, F. Henderson, &c., &c.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** said—Gentlemen, the Committee have summoned you together in order to state that they, having done all that lies in their power to assist in terminating the present labour strike, now relinquish all farther responsibility, and hope the Government will be successful in bringing the unhappy state of affairs to a speedy conclusion. The Committee individually and collectively may see fit to adopt independent action towards terminating the trouble, but in any case they intend in the future, as in the past, to give their loyal support to the Executive. (Applause). Matters now are in just where they were, and the only thing to do, I fear, is to tire the coolies out, which is a long and expensive process. The costs entailed are enormous, but as a matter of course the Government will gain the day in the long run. There ought to be laws in the colony making striking illegal, so that on any recurrence of such strikes they could be put an end to without the enormous losses entailed by a process of exhaustion. (Applause). The best thing this meeting can do is to leave the difficulties and responsibilities in the hands of the Government to deal with (applause); and I would repeat that, so far as this Committee is concerned, its public functions terminate, although it may endeavour to give individual and collective private assistance. (Applause).\n\nThere was a pause of two or three minutes, at the end of which\n\nMr. D. E. BROWN said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I do not think that at the present juncture of the strike, having assembled here to-day, we should permit this meeting to be adjourned now. We, I think—I at least—came here to-day to listen to some further suggestions from the members of the community who were possibly not present at the meeting on Thursday. I think by adjourning now we would very materially weaken the hands of the Government. We should be here to-day to demonstrate to the strikers that the community is working in perfect accord with the Government and that we are willing to continue our exertions on behalf of the Government. (Applause). I think it would be a very great mistake to let this meeting terminate now. Before the meeting on Thursday—and I might say that has all along been the desire on the part of the community—it was considered advisable that the shipping community should unite and formulate amongst themselves some scheme that would prove of assistance to the Government in quelling what I do not consider a strike but a rebellion. (Applause). A strike in its proper sense, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I consider is one in which the employed have a grievance against the employer of labour; in this case, it is clearly demonstrated the strikers have no grievance against their employers. They are satisfied apparently with the wages they are getting and the treatment they receive at the hands of the employers, but because a certain number of the Chinese community see fit to disagree with and become disgusted with the laws enacted by our Government, I do not think we Europeans should countenance any action on their part with that end in view. We Europeans have to conform with the laws; why should not the Chinese? (Applause). I did not intend to speak and I do not think I should, had there not been a possibility of the meeting being declared closed; and I hope anything I have had to say will be taken kindly and will have good effect. My company stands prepared to join the other shipping firms in the colony in devising some scheme either to bring in foreign labour or any other means that will assist the Government in putting down this rebellion. (Loud applause).\n\nMr. HO TUNG—Gentlemen, if you will allow me I have a few remarks to make. Furthermore, if my English is not sufficient to express my views I hope you will make me every allowance. On Friday last, when the Chinese deputation came to meet the Committee, it appears to my mind that there were only two things to be done. One was for the Government to be very firm and to take all consequences, and the other was to see whether we could modify so as not to lose the credit of the Government, but at the same time to induce the strikers to terminate. The deputation distinctly said that nothing would be done before the Governor's proclamation, but unfortunately the Governor was afloat, and the Colonial Secretary was interviewed and our suggestions were laid before him. I have no hesitation in saying that if any gentleman here had been here on Friday, being over anxious at the loss which he had already sustained, he would have come to no conclusion but the one that the Committee and the deputation did come to. The circular was nothing, it was merely a publication of what actually took place and nothing more. You see, gentlemen, it is very easy to criticise after what has been done, but when you come and work it is quite a different matter. Personally I strongly admire the Government for being firm, because I must strongly condemn the strikers, but I have no hesitation in saying that the Government might have adopted better and more proper preparations, so as to provide the mercantile community with sufficient labourers. They anticipated the strike months ago, and they could have adopted some better preparations so as to avoid the throwing away of thousands of dollars every day by the mercantile community. It is very easy for some gentlemen to say that the leading Chinese are at the bottom of this strike, or that they have been sympathising with the strikers. Well, gentlemen, I appeal to you, as successful business men, to think what benefit or what good the leading Chinese derive from this strike, considering the very heavy losses which they have already sustained. They are not exaggerated, and if you were to go through the figures, I would be able to prove that so far we have lost, if not more, at least as much as the Europeans. I further appeal to the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, who is in close contact with the leading Chinese, and I wonder whether... \n\nPage 39",
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        "content_text": "# Speech by Mr. Brown\n\n80. He can in one instance show that the leading Chinese have not given him the most loyal support whenever they have been called upon to do so. You know, gentlemen, Chinese are a very quiet people - the leading Chinese (hear, hear) - they are law-abiding; they are afraid of the Government, and would never interfere with what the Government would do because they are afraid of the officials, the same as they are afraid of the officials of their own country, and they would never dare to interfere or disobey the orders of any Government, no matter where they are. (Hear, hear). Now, gentlemen, I thought the whole of last night, and it has been in my mind the whole time, what led to all this trouble, these strikes, and all these woes. It is all through misfortunate occurrences, misunderstanding between the Government and the Chinese - the Europeans, I say. This misunderstanding is due to the private meetings between Government officials and the leading Chinese. I think these meetings ought to be held in public so that both the European community and the Chinese will know exactly what has taken place between the Government officials and the Chinese. (Applause).\n\nAs it is now, if my information is correct, the Government officials send for a select few of the leading Chinese, or perhaps the District Watchmen's Committee, to consult on some things. Well, when they have met - whether when they meet is known to the public, I do not say - at least, I have not heard - but when they meet the Government officials, if the views of the Chinese agree with the officials, the credit of the case goes to the head of the department, but on the other hand, if their views do not agree with the officials, their views are disregarded. For example, I read only the other day, when the strike commenced, that the District Watchmen's Committee made two suggestions to the Government. One was to have the landlords registered instead of the head coolies, and after a few months to get the head coolies to register. The second point was to get the Government to measure the floor so as to see how many coolies the floor can accommodate, because the coolies, being ignorant of the law, did not know what 300 or 400 cubic feet meant. They think it is a room for one man. I do not think the Government will take these views, but still, before the law was passed, and after the views were properly presented to the Government and the Sanitary Board, the whole Committee might have considered whether their views were good or not; whether practicable or not. But this notion was entirely disregarded, and nobody knew until the last meeting.\n\nGentlemen, I think I am one of the largest property owners, and one of the largest business men in this colony; still, I have never had the honour of being consulted by the Government. The reasons, I do not know; it is a mystery to myself (Laughter). Some gentleman made some remarks to me yesterday and said, \"Now, why don't you leading Chinese come and help the Government and start coolie houses yourselves?\" It is very easy to say that, but you know the leading Chinese have to study their own business, and consider that by starting coolie houses they would be degrading themselves; besides, they consider they would be taking away the right of labour from other people. Therefore, it is impossible for them to start coolie houses. But, gentlemen, it appears to me that the only thing to stop any future trouble of this kind is for the Government to make the Chinese and the officials come in closer contact with each other, bring them closer together, and make all the meetings public. If they have anything to say, let it be said in public and not privately, whether they are Government officials or Chinese. That will stop all future misunderstanding or strikes of this nature. I shall be most happy to assist the Government or any gentlemen who may form the Committee to terminate the strike, and if any gentleman has any suggestions to make, I would be very happy to support them and to support the Government as well. (Applause).\n\n## Mr. Sharp's Speech\n\nMr. SHARP - I am sure we are indebted to Mr. Brown for having proposed that this meeting should not be immediately dispersed. We do not meet here simply to go away, and there are one or two things which I think may fairly be expressed for the benefit of all. (Applause). I think we are all convinced that the principal Chinese - the Chinese merchants - have nothing whatever to do with this strike (Applause); that, I am sure, is well known, but there is another class, a class of middlemen, a dangerous class in this colony, and a class which for many years past has made itself very injurious here, taking to itself rights which it does not in any way possess, and exercising authority and power over the humbler classes in Hongkong, a state of things which ought not to be allowed. It is an occult and powerful influence, and this strike is not a new thing. We have seen this over and over again, that it is owing to the influence of the bad over the good. As a rule, the bad should be afraid of the good; in Hongkong, the good are afraid of the bad.\n\nI think it would be a most terrible thing if what may be called the worst feature of the advanced civilisation of Europe were imported into China - that contest with jealousy, that war - for it is nothing else - between capital and labour, which threatens to reduce our country to a very low state. I hope we shall never see it successfully introduced here. Our hope in this colony is to derive advantage from the employment of Chinamen, the employment of the millions of China: the direct and indirect employment of them; the direct employment, as the large manufactures of sugar and others do, and the indirect employment, as the merchants do, by buying the products and exporting them to Europe. If that hope is interfered with by the springing up of these jealousies, it will dash the anticipation that we have of raising Hongkong above the difficulties of our present position.\n\nWe have manufactures springing up here, such as rattan preparations, glass works, and we have many other things springing up here; but the main difficulty is the rating of the Chinese. I never shall forget the answer of a tobacco manufacturer here. I do not remember his name, but his house is next to the Harbour Master's office. I asked him many years ago, \"Why do you have your large manufactory in Macao and have to run backwards and forwards, instead of opening a factory here?\" He said, \"Sir, I would gladly do it, but we cannot control our workmen here, and therefore I am obliged to carry on my work in Macao.\" He employs some thousands of workmen.\n\nIn England, it has recently been found necessary to interfere between contractors and their workmen. It may be necessary, if these guilds hold on in their injudicious and mischievous course, to have some legislation of that kind here in order to insure that a larger share of the enormous sums paid by the military, naval, and civil authorities for labour shall go into the hands of the men themselves, and is not abstracted by needy idlers, and that is the description which might fairly be attached to many of these men.\n\nWith regard to dealing with the strike, the Chinese, no doubt, are children. But parents do not discuss with children; they simply say that this or that is to be done, and they insist upon its being done. I think we may fairly do that with these men.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 2\n\nThe HongKong Daily Press of 20th Mail, 1895.\n\nMr. JACKSON - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, there has been a short reference in the Chairman's speech to the British dollar. It is a very important item indeed in connection with the future commerce of this colony. I think it affords us an opportunity of placing the currency of the colony in a sound condition and doing away with the foolish system of chopping dollars. I believe the Government have been advised at home by experienced men that it would be impossible to do away with chopping the British dollars. I do not at all agree with the advice they have acted upon. From our point of view, it is highly desirable that our currency should also be a legal tender in the Straits Settlements. The banks here have considerable interest in the banks in the Straits. If these dollars are chopped, they cease to be current in the Straits. They are current in Hongkong, but not in the Straits. It is a great grievance and at the end of the 19th century, we ought not to tolerate chopped currency. (Hear, hear). It would be in the interests of every single trader in this place, of every private individual, and of none more than the Chinese themselves, if the system were stopped altogether. This custom of chopping is a very ancient one, and I think the time has now come for it to be done away with. I would like, before this meeting separates, to have an expression of opinion that the Government should legislate that the British dollar should not be chopped and if it is chopped, that it should not be current. (Hear, hear). We all know we had 7.1.7 to the dollar, one of the reasons being that the tael weight is pretty well the universal one all over China, but the chopped dollar is not accepted in Shanghai. Surely the Government would not come to the conclusion that the Shanghai custom would not apply here. The objection must arise that ten Mexican dollars are worth more by count than by weight. The weight of the Mexican dollar is a very irregular one. It is supposed to be 417 or 418 grains, whereas the weight of the British dollar is 416, so that they are very much the same. At all events, the loss is so slight that everyone would put that consideration on one side for the purpose of placing the currency on a proper footing.\n\nMr. SHARP - I am very glad that Mr. Jackson has said what he has. I had intended to say a word about chopping dollars, but I was very much afraid that anything which I might say might not be appreciated by Mr. Jackson, who is the manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, because I can imagine that a bank might think that its interests were in some way identified with the chopping of dollars, for this reason, that they can chop as many coins as they please. Known banks chop a hundred thousand coins and go through a great deal of labour overnight before they are paid out in the morning, in order that the bank may secure a premium upon unchopped dollars which remained in their treasury. I am delighted to find that Mr. Jackson takes a clear view on this matter, and I think he bases his view upon the idea of bettering the general interests of the colony.\n\nThere is no question whatever that the mutilation of our coins is against the interests of trade. Why should there always be a premium upon remittances to Singapore and Japan? For no earthly reason than that the coins with which we have to pay for those bills are at a discount. If you want to send a remittance to Singapore, you have to send a clean coin. I do not know whether people are aware of the injury which is hereby inflicted. I would like to direct your attention for a minute to a little anecdote which occurred more than thirty years ago. I sold an invoice of clean Mexican dollars for the Commercial Bank to the Agra Bank. It was then that the proportion of indifferent low touch coins, which had been habitually rejected by the banks' compradores for many years previously, had been greatly increasing - increasing year by year until it had become quite a formidable matter. On this occasion, between six and seven hundred dollars were rejected by the compradore of the Agra Bank. I asked what they were worth, and the reply was \"Oh, these coins no good touch, have got tin inside; but maskee, 30 cents.\" Thirty cents was all the money that was offered for these 650 dollars. I was the intermediary employed in the transaction and therefore was called upon to deal with it. I went into my best to settle an arrangement. I went to another bank close by and said \"Compradore, what are these dollars worth?\" \"Oh, very little touch\" was the reply, \"25 or 30 cents.\" I thought this was more unsatisfactory. I got into my little pony trap and drove down to Messrs. Olyphant and Co., the American firm, whose business then was next door to the Commissariat Buildings. I went in and saw the managing partner, Mr. Parkin, and said to him, \"Will you allow me to do a little business with your compradors?\" He said \"By all means.\" I said to the compradore, \"There are these 650 Mexican dollars. They are at five per cent. premium. Please allow your shroff to look see.\" He called in his shroff, who shroffed these 630 Mexicans. He said \"They are all good.\" I said \"I think perhaps some have got pieces inside not belonging; make better you call in another shroff.\" He then sent in next door for the shroff of Fletcher & Co. The shroff came in and carefully examined them a second time. He said \"They are all good,\" but selected one coin and said \"This piece belongs to old year, you more better go Lane Crawford and buy one batch.\" (Laughter). I said \"You can secure number one.\" He said \"Clean dollar just now long five per cent. premium.\" I said \"Maskee, give me the notes.\" He gave me the notes, and I drove off to the bank. I gave them to the manager and said \"For goodness' sake don't say anything about these or else there will be a reclamation.\" Nothing was said about it. There was not a bad dollar amongst them. Both these men are now dead, but the compradors of the late firm of Olyphant and Co. are, I believe, still living, and he will confirm my statement. The attempt of the Agra Bank compradore to put nearly 500 dollars into his pocket out of this bullion shipment was thus defeated.\n\nPage 215  \n`TREASURY`  \n`10096`  \n`(REC 1 JUL 95)`",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nthe \n\n[these buildings it will be remembered the Sanitary Board condemned 100 odd houses in other parts of the city. These houses were, by the way, a fake, a mere expedient, not resumed by Government. Yet we see that these houses are being cleared, renovated, and occupied, whilst we are hesitating as to what might be done with this land property in our hands. There are good and bad localities in every city in the world. There is the East End and the West End of the city of London. It would be wise, sir, to reserve in our midst a cheap, healthy district for the occupation of our poor. We should not compel them to pay high rents or compel them to desert this island 'for fresh woods and pastures new' on account of high rent. It would be tantamount to spending money in the desert air. The land is not adapted for much improvement, and it ought therefore to be left alone. If the Public Works Committee think of dividing their time and labour, let them divide them in the east and west ends. If the Government have time and money to spare, better let the money out in the construction of a tramway round the island, and open out cheap sites and thus relieve the over-crowding that is going on in the centre of our city. This is a matter which concerns almost every resident in the colony, and it affects the public purse. It is a huge venture to take speculations of a large undertaking. In order to be sure they are not making a mistake it would be wise to seek for the advice of experts outside this Council, and I beg to propose this regulation--\"That, before a final decision as to the condemned area of Taipingshan be arrived at, a Committee formed of representatives of the community, to consist of Messrs. Granville Sharp-laughter)-W. Dauby, S. G. Bard, and A. Denison, be appointed, to associate themselves with the Hon. the Director of Public Works, and conjointly give a report on the best means of disposing of property resumed by the Government.\"- On the last occasion this question was before the Council you kindly permitted all my official colleagues to vote as they thought fit on this subject. I hope on this occasion you will give them the same latitude, so that we may arrive at an honest decision.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-I shall be glad to do so. Does anybody second the amendment?\n\nThere was no seconder, and HIS EXCELLENCY remarked - I am afraid you have no seconder.\n\nDIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS-I should like to make one or two remarks in reply. The hon. member has given me the credit of a good deal perhaps, but I think a more careful perusal of my report will show that in that report, especially as regards the source of infection, I absolutely confine myself to recording facts and not citing proofs entirely a medical question, and not an engineer. The hon. member has again referred to this wonderful and economical scheme, but I should like to point out one important matter that he has entirely overlooked. In the project I laid before the Public Works Committee the buildings had been laid out in such a way as to cause obstruction of back yards. If the scheme referred to by my hon. friend on my left is carried out a portion of the buildings, or the 417 houses which he takes credit for, will have to be devoted to back yards. If you compare the total area for domestic occupation as proposed in his scheme with that proposed by mine you will find that in the hon. member's scheme you will have to take from the area of each lot, probably in the case of three-storey houses fifteen feet and two-storey houses ten feet. If the hon. member will figure that out I think he will find that the area which is proposed to be devoted to streets or for the purpose of providing back yards to houses will not be of such magnitude as the back yards which it will be necessary to provide under his scheme.\n\nHe has talked about a business-like manner of dealing with the question. I must say that the remarks of the hon. member did not strike me as being business-like. He has talked about selling the land and then recouping the expenditure by raising the Crown rents. No man would buy land without first enquiring what the Crown rent was. So what he means by recouping after selling the land I am at a total loss to understand. He also states that the adoption of this report is great speculation. Well, sir, if speculation existed at all it existed when this Council passed the Ordinance for the resumption of Taipingshan. It is not a question of pecuniary profit; it is a question of sanitation, a question of doing something for the good of this colony. To talk about expenditure commencing at this period is, I think, quite out of the question. I think, sir, he touched on a great many matters which were totally irrelevant-about outside railways, which I must say I do not think would offer any return.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-The amendment not having been seconded the resolution is carried.\n\nHon E. R. KELLIOS-I should like to point out that the hon. member did not follow my speech.\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL--The hon. member is quite out of order.\n\n# 594",
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        "content_text": "# Kucheng Massacre Meeting in Hong Kong\n\nThe Theatre was crowded in every part by ladies and gentlemen of all nationalities, except Chinese, to mourn the harrowing details of the Kucheng massacre in the neighbouring province of Fukien, which occurred on Thursday, the first instant.\n\nThe proceedings commenced with a few words from Dr. Cantlie, who moved that the Hon. the Chief Justice, Sir Fielding Clarke, take the Chair. The Hon. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G., seconded the motion, and amidst loud applause, Sir Fielding Clarke took his seat at the centre of the table on the stage. The Right Rev. Bishop Burdon was seated on the left, and Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., on the right side of the Chairman. The other speakers, Mr. T. Jackson, Mr. G. B. Dodwell, and the Hon. A. McConnachie, were also seated in the front part of the stage, while at the back were Mr. A. G. Wise, Captain W. C. H. Hastings, the Hon. C. P. Chater, the Hon. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G., the Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving, Messrs. E. N. Mehta, H. N. Mody, M. D. Ezekiel, G. Sharp, Dr. J. C. Thomson, and Drs. Cantlie, Hartigan, and Stedman, and other prominent residents. Among those seated in the stalls and pit were Captain Stirling, A.D.C., Mr. G. C. C. Master, Captain A. Tillet, Captain A. W. Miller, R.N., Mr. A. G. Romano (Consul General for Portugal), Mr. J. Kramer, Mr. G. G. Brady, and a very large number of well-known residents, while in the dress circle were a large number of ladies.\n\n## Chairman's Address\n\nSir Fielding Clarke, who was received with cheers, said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, I feel greatly honoured at having been called to the chair upon this melancholy occasion; and I very willingly do so. When these outrages had been made known, I know perfectly well it stirred the deepest and strongest emotion in the hearts of you all, and it is obviously right and proper that the public views of Hongkong should be expressed in a public manner in a way it can be in a meeting of this sort (Applause). The programme I have to submit to you is one of a very limited character—it is to express by your attendance here the sentiments which we all of us feel about this dreadful disaster, and in the forefront of the notice, you will have observed the first thing that can occur to us is to express to the relatives and friends of those poor, innocent, and helpless victims our heartfelt sympathy; sorrow for those who suffered, sympathy for those who are at the present moment in the direst distress. Following and accompanying the softer sense of sorrow, it is now proposed that this meeting should express deep and stern indignation (loud applause) at the treatment of our fellow subjects in a country which is, politically speaking, on friendly terms with Great Britain. Ladies and gentlemen, in attending this meeting here to-day, you are joining in a universal shout which is going forth from the Democracy in England—a shout of indignation (Applause).\"\n\n## Resolution Proposed by Mr. Jackson\n\nMr. Jackson said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure you will agree with me that in the whole course of the history of our colony, its inhabitants have never been called together on such a sad and melancholy occasion as the present. I remember at the time of the Tientsin massacre, this colony was stirred to the very depths of sympathy for those poor people who suffered, and a similar feeling now prevails throughout the whole community; one universal outburst of deep sorrow for those ladies and poor little children and the one man, the Rev. Stewart, who was wounded and killed. It seems difficult to conceive how these wretches who made the attack could have withheld their sympathy from the appeals for mercy as they hacked and cut up those poor women and children.\"\n\nHe then moved the resolution: \"That this meeting desires to express its sorrow at the cruel murder of so many British subjects, and to pass a vote of sympathy and condolence with the relatives and friends of the deceased.\" He read a Reuter's telegram stating that the soldiers sent by the Viceroy of Fukien to protect the missionary property in Kucheng had instead looted the house of the late Rev. Stewart and plundered everything of value.\n\n## Seconding the Resolution\n\nMr. G. B. Dodwell seconded the resolution, expressing his heartfelt sympathy with the victims and their families. He advocated for moderation in speech to convince the Government to take strong steps. He mentioned that the reports of the massacre and subsequent telegrams showed that the attack was an organised affair, and the Chinese Government was incapable of coping with the disturbance.\n\n## Adoption of the Resolution\n\nThe Chairman declared that the resolution was unanimously passed and would be conveyed to the relatives and friends of the deceased through Bishop Burdon.\n\n## Bishop Burdon's Speech\n\nThe Right Reverend Bishop Burdon said: \"It is very difficult to feel or speak calmly on such a subject as we have before us to-day. Many of the murdered were personal friends of my own. The brutal massacre at Kucheng is only to be paralleled with that of Tientsin in 1870. It arose from the intense hatred of the foreigner. The blow fell like a bolt from the blue, although there had been mutterings of threats for months before, directed against the native Christians.\" He described the events leading up to the massacre, including the Vegetarian Society's enmity towards native Christians and the failure of the local magistrate to intervene.",
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        "content_text": "# List of Names\n\nROBERT JACKSON. \nGEO. A. CALDWELL. \nROBERT MITCHELL. \nR. COOKE, \nW. WILSON. \nD. MACDONALD. \nJ. WILKIE. \nJ. HAND. \nG. PATTON. \nGEO. S. KNOCKER. \nR. V. RUTTER. \nT. CURRAN. \nW. M. DEAS. \nT. C. HUTCHINGS. \nA. EWING. \nW. McASLAN. \nJ. WALLACE. \nJ. STENHOUSE. \nA. G. AITKEN. \nWILLIAM STEWART, \nALEX. ROWE. \nJOHN KYLES. \nR. LOGAN. \nGEO. WHITE. \nA. HARVIE. \nH. SMITH. \nE. J. MAIN, \nC. F. MENDHAM, \nW. HUTCHISO\n\n--12-- \n\nJNO. HUMPHREY. \nW. MASON. \nH. E. HOLLE. \nC. TOMLIN, \nW. E. CLARKE. \nJ. W. HUTCHINSON, \nJ. SMITH, \nJ. A. SCULTHORP. \nR. L. BLIGHT, \nJ. S. LEWINGDON. \nJ. C. CHEETHAM. \nWM. GEORGE. \nWM. S. BAILEY. \nJ. H. LOGAN. \nG. W. KEW. \nGEO. B. LEFAVOUR. \nT. WEBSTER. \nTHOMAS CLARK \nJ. A. CORDUS. \nJ. SUTHERLAND, \nJ. GALBRAETH. \nTHOS. KERR. \nG. J. VOWLES. \nG. C. COX. \nD. WARRES SMITH. \nCHAS. GRANT. \nH. U. JEFFRIES. \nR. B. JOYCE. \nGEO. B. DODWELL. \nJ. P. DOWLING. \nGEO. H. MEDHURST, \nF. JAS. EAST. \nA. N. BOTELHO. \nJ. M. B. BOTELHO. \nPAUL JORDAN. \nH. G. DOWLER. \nE. C. RAY. \nH. BURTON. \nROSS THOMSON. \nH. W. ROBERTSON. \nEDW. F. MACKAY, \nALEX. CUMMING. \nALEX. DONALD. \nF. W. LAMMERT. \nG. C. FULLERTON. \nWILLIAM J. STEWART. \nR. P. DIPPLE. \nG. GRIMBLE. \nF. GRIMBLE. \nWM. RAMSAY. \nT. E. SANSOM. \nP. PLAGE. \nR. H. HEARD. \nE. E. DA SILVA. \nJ. H. STEWART. \nH. E. MACKENZIE. \n\n--13-- \n\nARCHD. STEWART, \nG. H. POTTS. \nH. A. S. THOMPSON, \nJAS. S. BRUCE. \nHARRY WICKING. \nED. ROBINSON. \nW. PARFITT. \nC. A. HARRIS. \nF. W. HALL. \nH. HUNTER, \nF. W. FIRTH. \nJ. C. PETER. \nT. BROWN. \nF. F. RAPER. \nA. SHARP. \nG. S. BRADY. \nW. K. LOW. \nJ. NAPIER. \nWALTER W. BREWER, \nCHAS. H. W. KEW. \nW. G. DARBY. \nW. ST. JOHN HANCOCK. \nB. K. MEHTA. \nR. C. VANIA, \nJOHN HASTINGS. \nF. C. GREIG. \nR. W. KITT. \nJ. W. KEW. \nA. C. S. MANNERS. \nANTHONY BABINGTON. \nJ. J. BLAKE. \n\n567",
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        "content_text": "# List of Names\n\nALFRED W. DYER.  \nREGD. TUCKER.  \nJ. H. CHESNEY.  \nJ. McBAIN.  \nC. T. ROBINSON.  \nC. MURRAY ADAMSON,  \nCHAS. H. THOMPSON.  \nP. C. SETHNA.  \nD. F. TUMBOLY.  \nM. P. TALATI.  \nH. E. BAMJI.  \nDINSHAW NOWROJEE.  \nR. M. MEHTA.  \nF. DORABJEE MISTRY.  \nH. C. GOTLA.  \nJ. M. VAJIFDAR.  \nE. D. KOTEWAL.  \nI. F. TALATI.  \nS. B. BHABHA.  \nD. D. GUZDAR.  \nC. B. MOWRAWALLA.  \nDORABJEE NOWROJEE.  \nJ. PESTONJEE,  \nH. S. KAVARANA.  \nN. J. ARJANEE,  \nJ. P. VARANIA.  \nR. N. DHALLA.  \nJ. B. TUMBOLY.  \nF. JAMSETJEE.  \n\n-14-  \n\nH. RUTTONJEE.  \nF. VICAJEE.  \nM. B. POLISH WALLA.  \nP. E. KHAMBATTA.  \nM. N. VANDRAWALLO.  \nB. M. NOOROODIN.  \nH. M. S. H. ESMAIL.  \nJOHN ANDREW.  \nJ. JAMASJEE,  \nJ. B. PATEL.  \nWILLIAM HARTIGAN.  \nKAW HONG TAKE, J.P.  \nW. PENDER MCLEAN.  \nWONG SHING, J.P. CHOW PENG, J.P.  \nHO FOOK, J.P.  \nLAU WAI CHUEN, J.P.  \nCHEN QUAN EË, J.P. TOUNG SZ KAI, J.P. HỌ TUNG, J.P.  \nCHOA CHEE BEE, J.P.  \nWM. WOOD.  \nE. A. MEASOR.  \nW. H. GASKELL.  \nSMITH ALLISTON.  \nR. CHATTERTON WILCOX.  \nS. L. DARBY.  \nHERBERT OGILVIE.  \nTHOS. HOWARD.  \nTHOS. I. HOSE.  \nJ. G. COMFORT.  \nWM. MATHISEN.  \nE. J. GRIST.  \nA. B. MACDONALD.  \nFRANK COLLINS.  \nW. STUART HARRISON.  \nA. DENISON.  \nJ. G. ROACH.  \nW. NEWTON.  \nF. MAITLAND.  \nW. H. WICKHAM.  \nF. B. L. BOWLEY.  \nJAMES FRANCIS.  \nN. J. SAUNDERS. GRANVILLE SHARP. THOS. H. REID.  \nT. COWEN.  \nS. RUSTOMJEE.  \n\n-15-  \n\nSIDNEY B. J. SKERTCHLY, NARAIN CHUNDER DUTT. BHUVAN M. BANERJEE.  \nA. E. SKEELS.  \nW. E. CLEMENT.  \nS. S. BENJAMIN.  \nJ. S. HAGEN.  \nJAS. P. COTTAM.  \nJ. MACLEHOSE.  \nJOHN W. POWELL.  \nE. S. KELLY.  \nJNO. B. SCOTT.  \nJOHN A. JUPP.  \nJ. R. CAPELL.  \nH. E. ALLEN.  \nA. H. MANCELL.  \nROBT. LANG.  \nARTHUR HUNT.  \nED. McCABE.  \nGEO. G. WELLER.  \nA. F. WILLSON.  \nFRANK W. WATTS.  \nHART BUCK.  \nM. E. DOS REMEDIOS.  \nP. H. ROLFE.  \nFRED. W. STAPLETON,  \nF. RAPP.  \nGEO. L. TOMLIN. JOHN BROWNHILL. HORMUJEE RUSTOMJEE.  \nL. MALLORY.  \nA. J. REMEDIOS.  \nM. E. S. PEREIRA.  \nJ. BARNES.  \nW. H. FREEMAN.  \nJ. W. STAVERS.  \nH. F. CARMICHAEL.  \nR. MARTEN. ANDREW JOHNSTON.\n\n568",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure.\"\n\nChamber of Commerce,\n\nheld on\n\nthe 19th ultimo, to protest against the recent action of the Joint Telegraph Companies in raising their rates to Europe, America and China.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir, Your most obedient\n\nhumble servant,\n\nWittain Robingsy\n\nC. O.\n\n23034 Rec2\n\nRecd NOV 36\n\n6\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,\n\nReprinted from the \"Hongkong Daily Press.\"\n\nPROTEST AGAINST THE INCREASE IN TELEGRAPH RATES.\n\nOn Saturday, the 19th September, 1896, a special meeting at the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce was held in their Rooms, at the City Hall, for the purpose of protesting against the recent increase in telegraph rates, and also for the purpose of nominating a member for appointment to the Legislative Council. Mr. A. McConachie, Chairman of the Chamber, presided, and there were also present Hon. T. H. Whitehead, Hon. J. J. Bell Irving, Mr. T. Jackson, Mr. N. A. Siebs, Mr. G. B. Dodwell, Mr. N. J. Ede, Mr. St. C. Michaelson (members of the Committee), Mr. R. C. Wilcox (Secretary), Hon. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G., Hon. C. P. Chater, Messrs. G. H. Potts, P. C. Sethua, G. L. Tomlin, A. J. David, T. Arnold, Hart Back, O. Wegener, F. Maitland, G. de Champeaux, M. Lacase, J. H. Garrels, H. N. Mody, Geo. W. F. Playfair, D. R. Sassoon, M. J. Ezekiel, W. Whiley, H. Stolterfoht, W. H. Ray, W. Poate, J. H. Cox, A. Coxon, M. S. Bassoon, H. J. Holmes, W. Danby, H. L. Dennys, E. H. Joseph, W. R. Loxley, Granville Sharp, G. Stewart, I. Wicking, D. B. Crawford, B. Jones Hughes, H. R. Kinnear, R. L. Richardson, J. W. R. Taylor, H. Jessen, T. F. Hough, and M. M. Mehta.\n\nThe SECRETARY read the notice calling the meeting.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN -- I think I need hardly detain you by going at length into the question before us. We have met today to protest against the sudden and very heavy increase in their rates which the Joint Telegraph Companies, having first concluded a convention with the Chinese Telegraph Administration, thus paving the way by securing a monopoly, saw fit on the 1st ult. to spring upon us after only a single day's notice. Well, gentlemen, I can only hope that our protest will be emphatic and that it may prove effective. You have all of you no doubt read the correspondence, and can readily form your own judgment on the case. I will now call upon Mr. Jackson to move the first resolution.\n\nMr. T. JACKSON - I preface my remarks by stating that the Telegraph Companies have ever done their work well, and that a more obliging and more painstaking set of public servants I have never met. That is the rose colour of the affair. Now, I come to the subject of the meeting of to-day, and I must say that it came upon me as a very great surprise indeed to find them raising their rates the way they did. I have read their side of the case very carefully. Their contention is that they are only putting the rates homewards on the same basis as the rates outwards. That would be all very well if the rates outwards were at a reasonable figure; but surely at this period, at the end of the nineteenth century, 7s. a word from London to Hongkong is an excessive rate. (Hear, hear.) Every person must admit that. (Applause.) I thoroughly believe that in the course of a very few years people will say, \"I remember when in Hongkong the telegraph rate from London to Hongkong was 8s. per word.\" It is a monstrous charge. Therefore I say that instead of raising the homeward rates the Telegraph Companies might have met their constituents with a reasonable reduction of the outward rates, corresponding with the sterling value of the amount homeward. The question that arises is -- Can they afford to do it? I say, Yes, (Applause), emphatically. The Chinese Administration, I believe, returned something like twenty-four per cent. to their shareholders. At a recent meeting of the Great Northern Company held in Copenhagen they reported a reserve fund of nearly a million sterling; and as for the Eastern Extension Company I should say happy are the shareholders in that concern. They have gone on increasing their lines, and, as their position is a splendid one, they can afford to be just to their shareholders and generous to the public. There is another matter which no doubt some of the subsequent speakers may refer to, and that is the convention with the Chinese Administration. In connection with that it has come out that Chinese messages go over the lines at half-price. The circular sent round by the Joint Telegraph Companies was to my mind wholly unsatisfactory. It seems to me as if they were handicapping us, and we are not receiving that consideration that we ought to under the most-favoured-nation clause. People like ourselves who contribute very considerably to the existence of the Telegraph Companies should be very good friends with the Joint Telegraph Companies, with whom our relations in the past have been of a most friendly and favourable description, will reconsider their action. Now I have formally to move the first resolution: \"That this Chamber is of opinion that the action of the Eastern Extension and Great Northern Telegraph Companies in having, after only one day's notice, on the 1st August last, raised their rates 37.4 per cent. and 43.26 per cent. for telegrams to Europe and America respectively, and 100 per cent for telegrams between Hongkong and Shanghai, is utterly unjustifiable and that their reasons for so doing are inadmissible and wholly insufficient.\"\n\nHon. J. J. BELL-IRVING said - Gentlemen, I have listened with much interest to Mr. Jackson's remarks, with which I entirely concur. This Chamber, representing as it does the commercial interests of the colony, is called upon to strongly protest against any circumstance which may arise tending to hamper our trade. The recent action of the Telegraph Companies will hamper commercial intercourse, and the increase of the telegraph charges is not warranted, as Mr. Jackson has pointed out, by the handsome results which the published reports of the Eastern Extension and the Great Northern Telegraph Companies have shown during recent years. I think the mercantile community here, who have supported these companies for so many years, have good reason to now feel aggrieved. I am sure you will all heartily concur with the resolution proposed by Mr. Jackson, which I have much pleasure in seconding. (Applause).\n\nThe resolution was carried.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I rise to move \"That this Chamber views with the greatest anxiety and\n\nPage",
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        "content_text": "Date: 1896\n\nNo. 4172\n\nRaya Scheine accepts terms.\n\n(Subject.)\n\nMaval. Gard.\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nREGP 2 APR 36)\n\nabandonment of haya extensio\n\n2 April\n\nprevious Paper: Ear 76 715 April\n\nNext subsequent Paper: Zon -71620\n\ncommunicate with wo an of land surrender.\n\nExquires an to power of tot fort to purchase the Sharp's property and as Plan will be submitted (Minutes.) to traurfer M. Braunsto\n\nThis is very\n\nAs to par. 3- Satisfactor.\n\nRefer to par. 3 of letter E 223829 in which we said that Sharp's property Could be purchased compulsoril under Ord. 23 of 1889.\n\nI send copy of draft in 22325, of this reply & of ou draft here... to be written heran. to for for wing with ref. to 5051 department Ju22/4 fly\n\nPlease send me the form.\n\nPage information is not detected in this text, if it is a part of a multi-page document, please provide the rest of the content for proper formatting.",
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        "content_text": "No.\n\n18944\n\n(Subject.)\n\n460\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC. O.\n\n18944\n\nRco 10 SEP 06\n\n...\n\nfanpikë qiri 32 km) ! But you fancy ours et chlaminis dad to ga\n\nMA D\n\nA\n\n+\n\n***\n\nion on **\n\nfice or Individual.\n\nDate.\n\n1896\n\nSep\n\nprevious Paper.\n\nDockyard extension\n\nSend\n\nMr Sharp's property\n\n+\n\nsurrendered\n\nIrea letter 27 Jul/96 surrendered if Mr Sharp's property formed part of Col. Milton Lane do 114299 by wo to Col Govt & subseq, they sold by latter.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nJ.W. Brinston\n\nI do not understand the point\n\nof the question asked in par. 3 of\n\nletter. We have\n\nthe Treasurer\n\nalready told M. Ryder\n\nthat so far as\n\nthis Office knows Sharp's property formed part of the Colonial Military Lands; but even if it had been, the land was leased to Mr. Sharp many years ago.\n\nby The\n\nBeL (78)-6313~~6000-1-08\n\nsubsequent Paper.\n\nadm\n\n2018\n\nago that the question appears to be immaterial since all lands at\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to improve the response to fit the required format (HTML with  for paragraphs), and adhering strictly to the rules for proofreading:\n\nNo.\n\n18944\n\n(Subject.)\n\n460\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC. O.\n\n18944\n\nRco 10 SEP 06\n\nfanpikë qiri 32 km) ! But you fancy ours et chlaminis dad to ga\n\nMA D\n\nA\n\n+\n\n***\n\nion on **\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\nDate.\n\n1896\n\nSep\n\nprevious Paper.\n\nDockyard extension\n\nSend\n\nMr Sharp's property\n\n+\n\nsurrendered\n\nIrea letter 27 Jul/96 surrendered if Mr Sharp's property formed part of Col. Milton Lane do 114299 by wo to Col Govt & subseq, they sold by latter.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nJ.W. Brinston\n\nI do not understand the point\n\nof the question asked in par. 3 of\n\nletter. We have\n\nalready told M. Ryder\n\nthat so far as\n\nthis Office knows Sharp's property formed part of the Colonial Military Lands; but even if it had been, the land was leased to Mr. Sharp many years ago.\n\nby The\n\nBeL(78)-6313~~6000-1-08\n\nsubsequent Paper.\n\nadm\n\nago that the question appears to be immaterial since all lands at\n\nCorrected version with proper formatting and adherence to the rules:\nNo.\n\n18944\n\n(Subject.)\n\n460\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC. O.\n\n18944\n\nRco 10 SEP 06\n\n... fanpikë should be considered as OCR error, but following the rules, it is left as is because it's not a clear spelling error.\n\nHowever, to strictly follow the instructions:\n\nNo.\n\n18944\n\n(Subject.)\n\n460\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC. O.\n\n18944\n\nRco 10 SEP 06\n\nfanpikë qiri 32 km) ! But you fancy ours et chlaminis dad to ga\n\nMA D\n\nA\n\n+\n\n***\n\nion on **\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\nDate.\n\n1896\n\nSep\n\nprevious Paper.\n\nDockyard extension\n\nSend\n\nMr Sharp's property\n\n+\n\nsurrendered\n\nIrea letter 27 Jul/96 surrendered if Mr Sharp's property formed part of Col. Milton Lane do 114299 by wo to Col Govt & subseq, they sold by latter.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nJ.W. Brinston\n\nI do not understand the point\n\nof the question asked in par. 3 of letter.\n\nWe have already told M. Ryder that so far as this Office knows Sharp's property formed part of the Colonial Military Lands; but even if it had been, the land was leased to Mr. Sharp many years ago.\n\nby The\n\nBeL(78)-6313~~6000-1-08\n\nsubsequent Paper.\n\nadm\n\nago that the question appears to be immaterial since all lands at\n\nThe final version, formatted as per the instructions and with the necessary corrections:\nNo.\n\n18944\n\n(Subject.)\n\n460\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC. O.\n\n18944\n\nRco 10 SEP 06\n\nfanpikë qiri 32 km) ! But you fancy ours et chlaminis dad to ga\n\nMA D\n\nA\n\n+\n\n***\n\nion on **\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\nDate.\n\n1896\n\nSep\n\nprevious Paper.\n\nDockyard extension\n\nSend\n\nMr Sharp's property\n\n+\n\nsurrendered\n\nIrea letter 27 Jul/96 surrendered if Mr Sharp's property formed part of Col. Milton Lane do 114299 by wo to Col Govt & subseq, they sold by latter.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nJ.W. Brinston\n\nI do not understand the point of the question asked in par. 3 of letter. We have already told M. Ryder that so far as this Office knows Sharp's property formed part of the Colonial Military Lands; but even if it had been, the land was leased to Mr. Sharp many years ago.\n\nby The\n\nBeL(78)-6313~~6000-1-08\n\nsubsequent Paper.\n\nadm\n\nago that the question appears to be immaterial since all lands at",
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        "content_text": "Adver\n\nH. Kong\n\n463\n\nC\n\n18944\n\n56\n\nMama xé 10 vundeed the RC, TEA\n\n*ied bluumdiw Junoo ebrow TX J\n\nand gain tatou not atletepat KI\"\n\ndis* 13UNU OSNA 1X(10\n\nzi\n\nDRAFT.\n\n4\n\nThe Lec' to the\n\nAdmiralty\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Wilson 10/9\n\nMr. Tidder 11/9 f\n\nMr. Fairfield.\n\nSiv\n\n!!!\n\nвердь\n\nIn reply to your\n\nletter\n\n8, the of thurst\n\n$199\n\nraul\n\n***** \n\nANTALL\n\n!\n\n:\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\n10.3 k\n\nMr. Branston.\n\nSir R Meade.\n\nEarl of Selborne.\n\nMr. Chamberlain.\n\nہیں\n\nus 3367 respecting\n\n3536\n\nthe proposed acquisition\n\nIf I Sharp's property\n\nin connection with\n\nthe extension of\n\nof the\n\nSocky\n\nand at Hong\n\nRoy, I\n\nam directed\n\nby the Poft for the Colonies to request you\n\ninform\n\nthe Lords.\n\nto\n\nваличо",
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        "content_text": "14336/96.\n\nV.L.\n\n3610 3782\n\nБору\n\nWorks\n\nLoan\n\n3877/96.\n\nC.O.\n\n21770\n\nTreasury Chambers, Re 2000 98\n\n436\n\n2nd. October 1896.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo containing further information respecting the tenure by Mr Sharp of the property which the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty propose to acquire for the extension of Hong Kong Dockyard.\n\nIn reply I am to say for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that, with the explanation now afforded, My Lords sanction the compulsory acquisition of this property through the Colonial Government at an estimated cost of $300,000, chargeable to the Naval Works Loan.\n\nThe Secretary to the Admiralty.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Sgd) E.W. Hamilton.",
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        "content_text": "(DRAFT)\n\nYou 13316 Manville Sharp, g.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nDr. Fiddian 12/8 * Sild. Hamilton 12.\n\nMr. Antrobus. Mr. Cox. Mr. Lucas. Mr. Graham.\n\n12 Sir E. Wingfield. Earl of Selborne. Mr Chamberlain,\n\nMr. Lucas Will you please correct the details? A.F\n\n1PE 97 Sei 601 Hangkang 15 Ay 99\n\nWith reference to your (inturican with M.Chamberlain and recent fenquiry\n\nYour to the failures of the Garment of they Kay\n\nTo begin Construct the road which Angecti incon\n\nid At a in connection with the celebrations of the sixtieth year of the Majesty's reign, I am directed by Dr. Chamberlain to inform you that",
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        "content_text": "Receiving Form.\n\nClerk's Name. NEOP\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nLONDON STATIONS:\n\nCHIEF STATION: 11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C.\n\nBRANCH STATIONS:\n\n8, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C.\n\n3, GREAT TOWER STREET, E.C.\n\n37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C.\n\n449, Foreign Auction Hall, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.\n\n41 & 42, PARLIAMENT ST., S.W.\n\nSTRAND, W.C.\n\nForeign No. No. of Words\n\nREMARKS,\n\nNo.\n\nThe following TELEGRAM Received at\n\nFrom\n\nDated\n\nTime\n\nZ\n\n189 _vid - Eastern,\n\nM.\n\nTo\n\nwing to your Despatchika un sharp. yean\n\nAddress\n\n6644 Stre\n\n6th April:\n\nGovernor Straits Setto prohore with your auction to affo\n\nRegistrar Generalen,\n\nwhadde Dearded 7/7/97.\n\ncode then G litegraph rebly Kobiet\n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Paper.\n\nCONDITIONS UPON WHICH THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED.-The Telegraph Companies and Administrations through whose hands this Message has passed, will not be responsible in any case for anything done, or omitted to be done, beyond the limits of their Stations or Telegraphs; nor for any MISTAKES OR DELAYS in the transmission or delivery of, nor for the NON-TRANSMISSION, MIS-DELIVERY or NON-DELIVERY of Telegrams, from whatever cause arising. Any complaint, however, will meet with every attention on being brought to the notice of the Company.\n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED “VIÂ EASTERN.\n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London,",
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        "content_text": "8. The Peak, as it exists at present, is the outcome of many years of enterprise and hard work on the part of the civil population, who have developed it, alone and unaided, at immense trouble and expense for the purpose of enjoying quietly, after the toils of the day are over, private and family life.\n\n9. is the only place where such a condition is possible, and we submit with all due respect that no sufficient reason exists for the introduction of barracks into the very midst of what is the most popular residential quarter of the Colony.\n\n10. We would also beg leave to point out that, whereas the average stay of a Regiment here is something under three years, the ordinary members of the civil community are frequently obliged to remain from twenty-five to thirty years, and in many cases a lifetime.\n\n11. We specially draw notice to the fact that for some years past no new houses have been allowed to be constructed in the Pok-fu-lam watershed area, and we submit that it is most undesirable that the settlement of 400 men just above the reservoir should be contemplated.\n\n12. Whatever rules and regulations may be laid down, it seems highly probable that a considerable amount of insanitary matter will find its way into the reservoir, as for many months in the year the troops will naturally roam over the hills and valleys adjoining for both exercise and recreation.\n\n13. Such a danger does not, we submit, exist in the case of the present Hotel, the residents of which are much fewer than the number of troops which it is proposed to quarter there, and are most of them engaged daily below in the pursuit of their various avocations.\n\n14. If barracks, as is rumoured, are also to be constructed at High West, the danger we refer to will be further augmented.\n\n15. In this connection it should be borne in mind that for residents and many who live to the West in Hong Kong, the Pok-to-lum reservoir forms their only water supply.\n\n16. We would therefore respectfully urge that all possible risk of contamination to our water supply should be avoided.\n\n17. As regards the Mount Austin Hotel, as there is only one narrow road with the very steep gradient of about one in three leading to it, it will be arduous for soldiers to find their way up from the lower level of Victoria on foot, and in the event of bodies of men being transported by the tram cars (which can only legally carry 40 passengers at a time) the dislocation of the ordinary traffic will be a serious inconvenience to all ordinary passengers, who will thereby be deprived of the car service.\n\n18. We would also respectfully urge that the narrowness of the existing roads at the Peak does not lend itself to the free movement of even moderately large bodies of troops without causing much inconvenience to the ordinary passengers.\n\n19. Sites, if not quite at such an altitude but equally good apparently from a strategic point of view, and more conveniently situated for the purposes of exercise and recreation on the part of the soldiers can be found along the chain of hills to the eastward.\n\n20. Mount Cameron, Caroline Hill, and the slopes above Causeway Bay appear very suitable sites for Barracks.\n\n21. We would submit that the sites above suggested are more central, more easy of access, and that they are within easy reach of the Happy Valley and Causeway Bay, the only open spaces large enough for military exercises in the Colony.\n\n22. The time has surely now come for the Imperial Government to formulate such a comprehensive scheme as will give adequate accommodation to the troops on this station, and this can be easily obtained in the localities already referred to, which are sufficiently high up to be cool and salubrious.\n\n23. On the one hand it is a comparatively simple matter for the Military Authorities, who have large means at their disposal and an almost unlimited choice of sites, to open up a new district. On the other hand it is a very difficult, slow and expensive process for civilians, who move one by one, to develop a new locality, and if a section of the community is driven below by the Military occupation of a place of large public resort at the Peak, an undesirable check will be placed upon the development and progress of the high level life of the Colony.\n\n24. In conclusion we would point out that the loss of the Hotel entails a considerable loss of public income, as the taxes on the property, amounting to several thousands of dollars per annum, will be lost to the Colonial Revenue. We would also beg leave to most respectfully urge that inasmuch as the ratepayers of this Colony have been called upon to contribute one-third of the cost of the expenditure of the Military Authorities upon barracks, some consideration should fairly and reasonably be shown to the wishes and appeal of the civil portion of the community.\n\n25. We therefore pray Your Excellency to intervene in our behalf with the War Department and to lay before the Military Authorities the objections which we have sketched above against the conversion of the Mount Austin Hotel into Barracks, and to ask them whether they would be willing to sell the building to a Public Company which would continue to manage it as an Hotel; and if so to give a respite of one month to the Colonists wherein to endeavour to raise the capital necessary for such purchase.\n\nD. Gillies\n\nV.A. Caesar Drawkinu.\n\nR. M. Gray Skury\n\nE. Sollock\n\nJ. H. V. Vernon\n\nI. St. Whitehead. Jus. J. Francis\n\nG. Stewart\n\nW. H. Ray\n\nC. S. Sharp\n\nJ. Grange\n\nR. M. Moses\n\nAnthony Babbington\n\nN. G. Evans R. H. Leigh Saccun A lov\n\n223",
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        "content_text": "DOMESTIC.\n\nHongkong\n\nNo. 27204\n\n(Subject.)\n\n27204 REC?\n\nRec 21 DEC 37\n\n24\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\nAdmiralty 1897\n\n18 Dec,\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nCommander\n\nChief\n\nChina Station\n\n43-78795 notified apps of\n\nSir Buller.\n\nV. Aden.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nE. H. Seym\n\nM. Lucas\n\nCopy to Jor. In which with ref. to desp. on 4378/95 at 2.7.\n\nEngun por of this letter I telegraphed to zin the 6th instant to the following effect:\n\n\"Immediate steps should be taken to acquire property of Sharp referred to in my desp. 76(of) last year.\n\n3. I have now requested son to furnish a report, at your early convenience, in regard to the desire of the Lords Commissioners Admiralty to acquire the further sites in Kowloon specified in the second par. off then.\n\nEnclosed letter.\n\nMy Gamis 260.2\n\nBL(75)8253-9000-7-47\n\nSubsequent Paper.\n\nAdm\n\n1106\n\nIP.---No. 7.\n\nCAg",
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        "content_text": "199 \n\nThe executors were then (11th October) residing in the Colony.\n\nOn 15th October, Messrs. Johnson Stokes & Master informed the Crown Solicitor that they believed a power of attorney was on its way from the Executors and should be here within 3 or 4 weeks.\n\nOn 26th October, Messrs. Johnson Stokes & Master wrote that they were writing to the executors in England on the subject of the Crown Solicitor's letter of 8th October (i.e., the one containing the offer of $316,000 for the property) and that on receiving their instructions they would write again to the Crown Solicitor.\n\nThen on 10th December, in reply to subsequent letters, Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master wrote that \"steps have been taken with regard to obtaining instructions from the executors of the late Mr. B. Sharp who are all in England on the subject of your letter\" (i.e., letter of 8th October, or offer).\n\nOn 15th December, the Crown Solicitor asked who were the owners and whether they had any authorised representative in this Colony.\n\nOn 20th December, Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master replied, \"Representation to the estate has not yet been obtained as it takes some little time to make out the necessary valuation for probate purposes,\" adding \"We shall act under...",
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        "content_text": "# ABSTRACT of CASES brought under Cognizance at the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT during a period of Ten Years, from 1st January, 1888, to 31st December, 1897, inclusive.\n\n## Cases, How DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD\n\n| Year | Cases | Convicted and Punished | Committed to Prison for Trial at Supreme Court | Discharged or detained pending Orders of His Excellency the Governor | Ordered to find Security to keep the Peace, to be of Good Behaviour, and to answer False Charge | Undecided or giving False Testimony | Number of Defendants | Men | Women | Boys | Girls | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1888 | 11,647 | 9,700 | 232 | 2,704 | 145 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 1889 | 8,670 | 6,626 | 268 | 2,319 | 178 | 137 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 1890 | 9,789 | 7,428 | 817 | 2,406 | 151 | 302 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 1891 | 13,676 | 11,920 | 534 | 1,906 | 134 | 323 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 1892 | 13,138 | 11,771 | 327 | 1,927 | 151 | 168 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 1893 | 12,898 | 11,530 | 411 | 1,481 | 129 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 1894 | 10,447 | 9,465 | 802 | 1,716 | 76 | 25 | 102 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 1895 | 17,016 | 15,058 | 525 | 2,345 | 196 | 61 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 1896 | 17,767 | 16,669 | 797 | 1,371 | 208 | 62 | 21 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 1897 | 11,185 | 10,237 | 648 | 1,481 | 131 | 78 | 12 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n\n## TABLE 4.-RETURN OF ALL DEATHS REPORTED DURING THE YEAR 1897\n\n### FORMAL ENQUIRIES HELD\n\n| Nationality | Men | Women | Boys | Girls | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Europeans and Americans | 43 | 16 | 4 | ... | 63 |\n| Indians and Malays | 69 | 135 | 30 | ... | 234 |\n| Japanese | 213 | 208 | 16 | ... | 437 |\n| Chinese | 602 | ... | ... | ... | 602 |\n| Total | 1,083 | 147 | 318 | ... | 1,548 |\n\n### BURIED WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES\n\n...\n\n## Average per Year\n\n| Category | Average per Year |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cases | 11,180.4 |\n| Convicted and Punished | 9,791.6 |\n| Committed to Prison for Trial at Supreme Court | 236.6 |\n| Discharged or detained pending Orders of His Excellency the Governor | 2,952.4 |\n| Ordered to find Security to keep the Peace, to be of Good Behaviour, and to answer False Charge | 151.8 |\n| Undecided or giving False Testimony | 101.4 |\n\nMagistracy, 28th January, 1898.\n\n## No. 2.\n\nSIR-I have the honour to forward herewith the usual Annual Returns for the year 1897 in connection with all cases of death brought to my notice during the year.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\n**H. E. WODEHOUSE**,\nPolice Magistrate.\n\nThe Honourable\n**J. H. STEWART LOCKHART**,\nColonial Secretary.\n\n## FINDING\n\n| Cause of Death | Europeans | Chinese | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Accidental death | 1 | 3 | 4 |\n| Accidental drowning | 1 | 10 | 11 |\n| Cause of death-Fracture of the skull caused by a fall from a verandah whilst suffering from the effects of drink | ... | 1 | 1 |\n| Cause of death-Pressure on the brain from hemorrhage the result of a blow given by one Meclun, a seaman on board H. I. G. M. 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E. WODEHOUSE**,\nPolice Magistrate.\n\nMagistracy, Hongkong, January, 1898.",
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        "content_text": "## Dispatch Index\n\n| Despatch No. | Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 150 | 2 May 1895 | Utter Singh |\n| 152 | 20 May | Petition of Samund Singh |\n| 153 | 23 May | War between U.S. & Spain, Prague |\n| 23 |  | British Barque at Manila |\n| 125 | 26 May | Retirement of F. Machado |\n| 142 | 15 June | Pension arrangement |\n| 145 |  | War between U.S. & Spain |\n| 146 |  | Jel |\n| 123 |  | British Barque at Manila |\n| 128 | 27 May | Plague |\n| 1544 |  | frown Kent of Sharp's Property |\n| 158 | 31 May | Col: military Lands |\n| 159 |  | Jel |\n| 160 |  | war between U.S. & Spain |\n| 163 | 3 June | Lecret, Jel |\n| 164 | 4 June | 474, 120, 芝乾乾 1564 |\n| 165 |  | Subsidiary coins |\n| 166 | 13 June | Mr E. Wodehouse |\n| 110 |  | Note Issue Chartered Bank |\n| 173 | 17 June | Sisters Convent Assumption |\n|  |  | Spanish killed and wounded |\n|  |  | Loading of British Vessels at Manila |\n|  |  | Pension for Mr H.E. Wodehouse |\n| 177 |  | List of Spanish killed |\n|  |  | Plague |\n|  |  | U.S. & Spain |\n|  |  | Queen's College |\n|  |  | Gratuity Risraham |\n|  |  | Cost of Delegrams |\n|  |  | Note Issue |\n|  |  | Chartered Bank |\n| 178 | Jel | Site for Barracks at Kowloon, Plague |\n| 179 |  | G. Northcote |\n| 180 |  | Colonial Boundaries |\n| 181 | 29 June | Site for Barracks at Kowloon |\n| 182 | 3 June | N.NO. Gomperty |\n| 183 | 30 June | Road between Wanchai & Tong-tai-cheong Saps.! |\n|  | A May | Plague, Memoria & of best sale |\n|  |  | Site for Barracks at Kowloon, Murder Trial - Jm. Ozorio |\n|  |  | mr AB. Suffiad |\n|  |  | Employment of R.M. Pensioners, Reduction on P.M. Expenditure |\n|  |  | Leases of Crown Lands, Death of Jh. Prossier |",
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        "content_text": "## DESPATCH\n### No. 142\n### 19 May 1898\n\n**Stongking** No. 13300\n\nCP\n\nLegislative Council of the Colony continued.\n\nmade that it will be ...\n\nPer q 121 No. 142 189.8 May previous Paper. 1391 23534\n\n### (Subject.)\nremuneration for services in connection with valuation of Marine Lots 20 & 21\n\nMr Lucas submits for favourable consideration of H.E. the Administrator ...\n\n### (Minutes.)\nMr Chatham is always asking for more or other; however this is not our affair.\n\n? Copy to Admiralty for consideration within reference to spirit painting out that the late Mr Sharp's property ...\n\n14/6 2.C.K.\n\nI don't like the idea of fathering this, unless supported by comments.\n\n1576 CPL 15 at once\n\n(- 13 JUN 98 Appla bobhatham, \n\n8391 \nGR... \n... \nLe",
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        "content_text": "the duties of adjudicator. Our thanks are due to the Navy League and its Hon. Secretary for their generosity. During the year four certificates have been awarded by the London College of Music to our boys. Of these, 3 were of the First Class, one with Honours. Four certificates were also awarded by the Tonic Sol-fa College, London, for Singing and Theory of Music. All the candidates presented in Music were successful. At the last examination of the London College of Music, there were 5 entries from this school, but the results are not yet published.\n\nThere has been no difficulty in procuring situations for boys who are ready to leave school; the difficulty is to induce them to remain till their education may be considered finished. A scheme like the Government Scholarship is greatly needed to keep boys at school to a later age.\n\nIn July, Mr. J. B. Barclay left us, after 3 years' diligent service, to take up an appointment at a Chinese College in Nanking. The other members of the teaching staff, Messrs. Blaynay and Ralphs, have done most excellent work, and materially helped to maintain the efficiency of the school.\n\nOur thanks are due to Your Excellency for a series of Photographs of Niagara Falls, and to the Hongkong Cricket Club for a gift of 3 bats. As dollars depreciate the prices of prizes advance, but through the liberality of Sir J. W. Carrington, K.C.M.G., Hon. W. M. Goodman, and E. R. Belilios, C.M.G., and Messrs Fung Wa Chuen, D. Gillies, Ho Tung, T. Jackson, Kaw Hong Take, A. P. MacEwen, A. Mackie, G. Sharp and W. Whiley, and “Three Old Boys,\" we are again able to ask Your Excellency to distribute our prizes. On the eve of your departure from the Colony, we beg to thank you for the interest you have always taken in this Institution.\n\nThe following is the Examiner's Report in Holy Scripture:-\n\"I have examined the boys in the Diocesan School in Holy Scripture, and I am glad to report that taken as a whole they have done very well.\n\nSome of the boys have obtained very high marks indeed, particularly, C. Olson in Form IV., and Edwin Long in Form V. G. Beuning in Form VII. wrote an excellent paper which does both himself and his teacher great credit. There are some weak papers amongst the Chinese boys, but the general result of the examination is very satisfactory, and shows that great care is taken in this department.\n\n(Signed) \nW. BANISTER, Secretary, \nChurch Missionary Society.\n\n## LIST OF HONOURS, PRIZES, &c.\n\n### OXFORD UNIVERSITY LOCAL EXAMINATIONS\n\n| Examination | Name | Result |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Junior | E. S. Ford | 2nd Class Honours, bracketed 3rd in English |\n| Junior | G. Benning, W. A. Lewis, W. Reiner, R. H. Waller |  |\n| Preliminary | E. R. Herton, Li Chi-ou, J. Olson |  |\n\n### LONDON COLLEGE OF MUSIC EXAMINATIONS\n\n| Examination | Name | Result |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Theory of Music (Junior Pass Section) | E. S. Ford | 1st Class |\n| Pianoforte Playing (Intermediate Section) | E. S. Ford | 1st Class |\n| Pianoforte Playing (Intermediate Section) | C. E. Hastings | 1st Class (Honours) |\n| Pianoforte Playing (Intermediate Section) | W. J. Clerihew | 1st Class |\n\n### TONIC SOLFA COLLEGE, LONDON\n\n| Examination | Name | Result |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Singing Elementary | E. S. Ford |  |\n| Theory of Music, Elementary | A. J. Mackie |  |\n| Staff Notation, Elementary | E. S. Ford |  |\n\n### NAVY LEAGUE ESSAYS\n\n| Essay Title | Rank | Name |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| “Command of the Sea :” | (1) | G. Beuning |\n| “Command of the Sea :” | (2) | W. A. Lewis |\n| \"Use of British Navy\" | (1) | E. S. Ford |\n| \"Use of British Navy\" | (2) | R. H. Waller |\n\n280",
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        "content_text": "216 \n\nIn the price of rice, although the official return shows no increase, retail dealers actually demand quite 25 per cent over and above the price obtained in 1895 for the same staple.\n\n4. As to the question of house-rent, there appears to be no necessity for a marshalling of figures to prove the assertion that it has now been for some time so high as to be entirely disproportionate with the average rate of pay drawn by us. The forcible remarks of a gentleman largely interested in landed property in Hongkong, made at the last annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, are more likely to demonstrate the hardship we suffer than any observations we might make on the subject. Mr. Granville Sharp's words verbatim:- \n\n5. advanced and was pleased to sanction an increase of pay in the case of officers in Singapore similarly circumstanced as we are in Hongkong. Moreover, the \"increase was made a permanent and pensionable one\", as was done a few years ago in the case of the subordinate members of the Ceylon Civil Service.\n\n8. The Banks and the leading mercantile firms of Hongkong have already granted applications from their employés for increases to their salaries, and in forwarding our petition, we do so in the perfect confidence that the Government will be found equally willing to meet the reasonable request of its servants. We quote \n\n9. I find, \"People have to live here upon $50 a month, and I believe many of you find it much easier to spend $50 a day than $50 a month, and if people are to be taxed for everything, what is to become of the poor people who live in $25 a month houses\". \n\nNow for some years past, all Civil Servants of Hongkong, domiciled in a country having a gold currency, have been compensated for the increased cost of living we now again complain of in the form of an addition to their salaries denominated the \"Exchange Compensation\".\n\n6. Although in our case it might be suggested that we are affected in a less degree than the \"domiciled\" officers, nevertheless, it should be readily conceded that to some serious extent we are, and have been, affected by the low rate of the dollar.\n\n7. The case of the two branches of public officers in Singapore is analogous with our own. We have learnt that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has recognised the justice of the arguments we have just advanced and was pleased...\n\nWe beg, in conclusion, to request you to be so good as to place our letter before the Acting Governor, in order that, supported with your recommendations, His Excellency might be pleased to sanction the increase asked for at an early date.\n\nWe have, &c., (sd.) E. J. d'Aquino & others.",
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        "content_text": "# \n559 \n\n## Hlaindet to the Takaw Ferry. Mekong Routes.\n\nThe railway schemes of Messrs. Colquhoun and Hallett.\n\n28 \n\nand also a large local trade. Mr. Turner also says that the Burma-Kunlon line presents no immediate prospect of success owing to the lack of merchandise to convey--what is large for mule transport being small for an expensive railway. At present there are few articles of export and none in large quantities, and little promise of any. He describes the road between Shunning and Tali as bad, with only one place of importance on the way, the busy little town of Menghua-Ting, situated in a plain growing a large quantity of rice and opium. There is considerable agreement that Shunning has little trade except in the necessaries of life. But the country generally is not unfertile, for Prince Henry says that though the right bank of the Mekong is poor up to Mienning, beyond that town and up to Tali there are beautiful, populous, and very rich plains recalling that of Tunghai in south Yunnan. Lieutenant Roux goes even further, and, after referring to Mienning as a small town with a rather important trade with Burma, he says that beyond it he traversed one of the richest parts of Yunnan, passing through several important commercial centres such as Yincho, Shunning, and Menghua. Captain Daly holds that the area to be served by the Kunlon line will probably be eventually confined to western, central, and south Yunnan, with Shunning as the centre. The chief trade centres of west Yunnan are, he says, Yungchang and Lungling, a town south-east of Momien, by which a large traffic used to pass. He believes that when the Kunlon line is opened the trading community of Lungling will move en masse to Kokang (which is, in Mr. Scott's opinion, the richest tract in the Shan States), with its thriving market town of Malipa (Tawnio), only 25 miles from Kunlon Ferry, and connected with Yungchang by a fairly good road. Panlong is another trading centre of importance not far from Kunlon. Other towns which the railway to Shunning would render more accessible are Tali (with Atentzu and Yungpei to the north) and Ssumao, from which it may possibly divert some trade. Indian yarn might be delivered in Yunnan via Kunlon when the line is opened at least as cheaply as through Tonkin. Many officers and civilians, however, doubt whether the line can be a commercial success for many years, though Mr. Bagley, the chief engineer, expects that the traffic with the Shan States alone will make it pay.\n\nNo direct route from Kunlon to Yunnan-Fu has ever been explored. There is said to be a trade route via Shagwe (on the Mekong), Chintong, and Gokia to Hsinhsing and thence to Yunnan-Fu, but the distance is not known. Even if the railway were constructed to Yincho, several marches would remain to be done by road. Only west Yunnan, then, need be considered as to trade and communications.\n\n## (c.) Hlaindet-Mone-Takaw Ferry Route.\nThis is the only path besides the Bhamo route that is much frequented. Hlaindet is 80 miles south of Mandalay, and the route to Takaw (via Kyaniykon and Natit) occupies 21 days from Mandalay. Takaw, 130 miles south of Kunlon, is a narrow defile. From Takaw to Kenghung via Kengtung takes 19 days. But the difficulties of this route are great. There are said to be fifteen ranges of mountains between Hlaindet and Kenghung, and the likin duties beyond Kenghung are stated to be heavy. In spite, however, of these drawbacks, Chinese caravans come to Mone from Tali-Fu, Puerh, Ssumao, and Yunnan-Fu.\n\n## MEKONG ROUTES.\nIt appears desirable to devote a short section to those of the routes by the Mekong which do not go direct from Burma to China. The Mekong is navigable up to, and a little within, the borders of Yunnan, in passing through which it traverses for the most part wild solitudes where cultivation is impossible. Here and there on its banks are likin stations, with a few miserable cabins. Lieutenant Roux speaks of travelling near the river for eight days north from Dayakeu and passing two fine plains, Mong Pan and Mong Ka, situated amid wild and desolate mountains. Navigation is practicable in parts of the river, but rapids and cascades, especially those of Khong and Kemmarat, render through traffic impossible. One of the best-known Burma-China railway schemes, that of Messrs. Colquhoun and Hallett, was designed to tap south-west China by the Kenghung route to Ssumao. Mr. Hallett has argued that any line to China north of Mandalay is out of the question, and that the Chinese Government would not construct a railway from Kunlon to the Mekong because of the physical difficulties. The proposed line would go from Moulmein through Zimmé (in Siam), thence towards the Mekong, which would be touched at Kenghsen, and afterwards to Kenghung and Ssumao. It is contended that Ssumao is admirably situated for trade; that the railway can be constructed at a reasonable expense; that valuable plains would be opened to commerce; that the line would tap a rich and prosperous part of China and enable us to compete with France; and that, if the line were carried to Ssumao, this town would become the starting point of a railway system for south-west China. M. Chailley Bert remarks that this route is shorter and has less steep ascents than the Hlaindet route, but it would traverse Siam and also a rough, mountainous, and little-known country on the right bank of the Mekong, or else abut on French Laos. It is worth noticing that the trade of the Upper Mekong is comparatively insignificant; only ten or eleven caravans passed through Zimmé from Yunnan in 1896, with goods valued at £2,250. But the paramount objection to this scheme is the political one that the railway would traverse territory not under the control of the British Government, and this objection has become strengthened since the French advanced to the Mekong. It therefore appears unnecessary to criticise Messrs. Colquhoun and Hallett's statements about the richness and populousness of south-west Yunnan and the commercial importance of Ssumao, or their proposal for carrying a railway beyond Ssumao to the valley of the Yangtze. A railway even as far as Ssumao would be very long, and difficult and costly to construct, and could hardly compete successfully with lines from Haiphong and Bangkok. A Siamese railway to Korat is nearly completed.\n\n## Routes.\n\nThere are two Siamese routes, both passing through the Shan States. Siamese By the Mekong route traffic passes to Kenghung and Ssumao, but the difficulties are very great. By the Menam route boats can reach Zimmé in three weeks from Bangkok, though goods rarely take less than six weeks. But both these routes involve a long transit and a number of likin payments, which means a heavy price for laying down goods in Yunnan.\n\nThe French have attached importance to a route by the Mekong, but find The French navigation difficult. The valley of the Namu, which branches off from and the Mekong. the Mekong above Luang Prabang, offers to commerce an easier and shorter way than that of the Upper Mekong, but its length is sufficiently great to be a drawback. It is said by a recent French writer that gunboats can go up to Luang Prabang and even to Kenghsen for at least part of the year, and it is claimed that this route is diverting trade from Siam to Cambodia and Cochin China. According to M. Macey, English products penetrate to the Upper Mekong by many routes, and the French hope to bring back to their territory the ancient caravans, and to establish agencies and depôts in Muong-Lu. Navigation is at present slow, but it is asserted that the improvements projected will make the river navigable at any time on the borders of French territory. But M. Rocher and others declare that the Mekong will never be a way of penetration into China for the French at all comparable with the Red River, and that the sooner they renounce their illusions about it the better.\n\n## Kenghung via Ssumao to Yunnan-Fu.\nThe Mekong routes are directed Kenghung to towards Ssumao through Kenghung, the road from which reaches Ssumao, Yunnan.Fu. after traversing a rich cotton and tea country, in seven days. The whole journey from Kenghung to Yunnan-Fu takes 22 days, according to General Mesny, over very rugged roads. This route is known as the \"great route.\" Beyond Ssumao the country is extremely difficult, a belt of mountains 130 miles wide forming the watershed of the Red River and its chief tributaries. For eleven stages there are difficult ascents and descents. The road goes via Puerh and Talang (an important market in south Yunnan) to Yuanchiang-chou, a squalid town in a malarious plain. (The Yuan River, or Upper Red River, has a sharp fall and steep and precipitous bluffs, and is never likely to serve the purposes of commerce.) The country traversed has many ruined villages, little cultivation, and a small population, mainly Shans and Lolos. Beyond Shibping-chou, a prosperous and important town, the road joins the main route from Tonkin to Yunnan-Fu. Kreitner suggested a railway by this route.\n\n29 \n\n## \n570",
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        "content_text": "## MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS\n\nIn order to facilitate consideration of this territory, a map of it has been specially prepared by Mr. Ormsby, Director of Public Works, Hong Kong (Map II.), based on the excellent map made by Bishop Volontieri in 1866, when a missionary of the Propaganda in San On (Map III.), and a series of photographic views has been taken, unfortunately in weather not always favourable for the photographer, by Corporal Whitewood, R.E., under the superintendence of Lieut. Rundall, R.E., and by Mr. Xavier, Surveyor in the Public Works Department, Hong Kong. These maps and photographs, to the latter of which have been added a few taken by Afong and Mee Cheung, photographers, Hong Kong, are attached.\n\n## AREA\n\nThe area of the territory as shown on Map I. is as follows:-\n\n## ALBUM II\n(Views taken by Messrs. Afong and Sing Cheung.)\n\n1. Panorama of Chinese Kowloon\n2-5. Views of Ch'ik Wan, Deep Bay\n6. Tin Wan\n7. Wharf at Chinese Kowloon\n8. Kap Mun or Ma Wan Customs Station.\n9-11. Views of the Island of Cheung Chau\n12-13. Views near Kowloon City\n14. Gambling House outside Kowloon City.\n \n| Number | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 15 | View of Kowloon City and neighbourhood. |\n| 16 | Landing Pier outside Kowloon City, |\n| 17 | Boundary between British and Chinese territory. |\n| 18 | Customs Station-Kat'iu Shok, |\n| 19 | Outpost at boundary between British and Chinese territory. |\n\n## ALBUM III\n(Views taken by Corporal Whitewood, R.E., under the Superintendence of Lieutenant Rundall, R.E.)\n\n| Number | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Members of the Commission |\n| 2 | Officers, H.M.S. \"Plover \" |\n| 3 | Crow, H.M.S.\" Plover\" |\n| 4 | Panorama of Kowloon City |\n| 5 | Kowloon City |\n| 6 | Yung Shu Au Village, Starling Inlet |\n| 7 | Sha Ta Village, Mirs Bay |\n| 8 | San Wai Village, Lang Kwat |\n| 9 | Tai Wo Valley, near Taipó Hü |\n| 10 | Lo Ts'ün Valley, in Leng district. |\n| 11 | Lam Ts'ün Plateau district |\n| 12 | Long Valley, from Lin Au looking North. (See No. 17.) |\n| 13 | Kak Tin Valley, near Sha Tin |\n| 14 | Sha Tin Creek |\n| 15 | Sha Tin Village |\n| 16 | Bridge Valley, near Taipó Hü |\n| 17 | Southern end, Long Valley, near Lin Au, looking West. (See No. 12.) |\n| 18 | Nam Wai, near Sai Kung |\n| 19 | Sai Kung |\n| 20 | Pak Sha Wan, near Sai Kung |\n| 21 | Ts'ün Wan |\n| 22 | Ts'ün Wan Hamlet |\n| 23 | Castle Peak Valley |\n| 24 | Customs Station in Island of Cheung Chau. |\n| 25 | Shap Village, Island of Lantao |\n| 26 | Wharf at Sham Chun |\n| 27 | Village of Lok Tei Tong, east coast of Island of Lantao, |\n| 28 | Boat dwellings and Jose House, Island of Cheung Chau. |\n\n## PHYSICAL FEATURES\n\nThe new territory is mountainous, with rich and extensive cultivated valleys, and possesses a coast line deeply indented by bays.\n\nThe coast to the south and east is bold and rugged, with deep water close up to the cliffs, and numerous land-locked bays, affording good anchorages, which render them safe in all kinds of weather. The heads of the inlets of Mirs Bay, such as Starling Inlet, Tai-po-hü Bay, and Tide Cove, or Sha-tin Inlet, are shallow, the tide at low water leaving a mile or more of sand or mud exposed. Deep Bay in the west is extremely shallow, and at low tide miles of mud can be seen. This bay has, however, a deep channel which is well known to native boatmen. No proper survey of the bay has ever been made. This should be taken in hand as soon as possible; and in the meantime the deep channel should be properly marked, in order to facilitate the navigation of these waters.\n\nA report on the harbours in Mirs Bay, with which Commander De Horsey of H.M.S. Plover, kindly furnished me, will be found in `Appendix No. la`.\n\n## Mountain System\n\nThe general trend of the mountain system is north-east and south-west. There are two main ranges-the southern range and the northern range. The southern range extends from Sharp Peak, which forms the south point of Mirs Bay, to the peaks opposite Stonecutters Island, and may be regarded as ending in the mountains of the island of Lantao. The most noticeable peaks in this range are Sharp Peak, 1,540 feet high, with one spur to the north, 1,630 feet high, and another spur running into Tolo harbour, ending in the magnificent twin peaks named on English maps the Hunchback Hills, and called by the Chinese \"Saddle Mountain,\" with a height of 2,305 feet; peaks 1,895, 1,440, and 1,240 feet high immediately to the north of Kowloon city, ending in a peak 1,600 feet high to the north of Tai-kok-tsui. The southern range here drops rapidly into Hong Kong harbour, opposite Stonecutters Island, but re-appears in the island of Lantao, where it reaches an elevation of 3,050 feet near the west end of the island.\n\nThe northern range extends from Crooked Harbour in the north of Mirs Bay to Castle Peak Bay and the southern point of Deep Bay. It commences with elevations of 1,655 feet, 1,500 feet, and 1,200 feet, and in the Pat Sin Ling, or Eight Peak Mountain, north of Tolo Harbour, attains to a height of 1,857 feet. \n\nPage 638",
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        "content_text": "Accordingly \n\nde... recom... \n\nG.W.J. 24/5-\n\nMr Lucas \n\n25/5 \n\n? So proceed. \n\nof \n\nH.B.C. 25 CPL 25 \n\nalleged \n\nor \n\nspurious decisions \n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote \n\nWR 1435 \n\n4.35/5 \n\nand address letter to-\n\nThe Secretary?\n\nAdmiralty, Whitehall, \n\nLondon, S.W. \n\nSW 25. May \n\nI \n\nC \n\nAdm...\n\nNo.28334/98.\n\nSir,\n\nC.O. \n\n12722 Admiralty, \n\nRECU \n\nREGR 20 MAY \n\nMay 1899.\n\n25 \n\nWith reference to your letter of the 6th January \n\n1899, respecting the Crown Rent on Marine Lots Nos.20 and 21 (late Sharp's Buildings) at Hong Kong, I am commanded by \n\nthe Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit, for \n\nthe information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies \n\nthe accompanying copy of correspondence which has taken \n\nplace between the Admiralty and War Office on the subject \n\nof the remission of Crown Rents when property subject to \n\nCrown Rents is acquired by the War Department from Private \n\nIndividuals in Hong Kong. From this correspondence it \n\nappears that no actual payment is made by the War Office in such cases, the transactions being paper ones only, i.e. \n\nthe Colony are credited with sums representing the value \n\nof the Crown Rent in an account which it is understood is \n\nnot balanced, but remains open indefinitely. \n\nUnder these circumstances I am to request that \n\nthe Secretary of State will be so good as to reconsider \n\nhis decision (conveyed in Colonial Office letter before \n\nreferred to) in regard to the Crown Rent on Marine Lots \n\nNo. 20 & 21, and that the course adopted with the War \n\nDepartment may also be applied to the Admiralty. \n\nI am, \n\nSir, \n\nYour obedient Servant, \n\nThe \n\nUnder Secretary of State, \n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE, \n\nDowning Street, \n\nLondon, S.W. \n\nI.P.--No. 7",
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        "content_text": "viaeten N\n\nAdur 12722\n\n99\n\nHongkong\n\n31 May 299\n\n31\n\n#{\n\n>\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Sec: to\n\nThe Aduntally\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Macnaghten 29/5-\n\nSū,\n\nI am\n\nduced\n\nby\n\nMr Secretary Chamberlain to\n\nach: the receipt of your letter\n\nDr. Sertsthamutton que930f. W-L. 1435/1397 of the 19th\n\nMr. Antfobus.\n\nMr. Cox Coa\n\nMr. Luchs.\n\nMr. Graham.\n\njust relative to the Crown Rent\n\nSir E. Wingfield.\n\nin\n\nMarine Lots has 20821/late\n\nEarl of Selborne.\n\nMr. Chamberlain.\n\nSharp's Buildings) at Hongkong,\n\nin which\n\nyou\n\nen close\n\na\n\ncopy of\n\ncorr: with the W.O representing\n\ncertain cases in which no Crown\n\nRent has been paid to the\n\nCol: gov't in respect of property\n\nacquired by the War Dept-\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "FT.\n\nThe Sec: to\n\nThe Admirally\n\nMINUTE.\n\nAdenly Houghoug\n\n24168\n\nMacuaghtew 30/9 99\n\nSir,\n\nInd al 93 3 Oct' 99 directed by Fur Secretary Chamberlain to ack: the receipt of your letter Suw. Hamilton GM 30 f2. W. L. 2962/2465 of the 9th September stating that the Admirally will pay the frown Reat on Marine Lots nos 20921 (late Sharp's buildings) at Hongkong commuted at 25° \" gears purchase for $27,859, & enquering whether Mr Chamberlain would prefer payment to be made in Londow or the Colony.\n\nAntrobus,\n\nCok.\n\nLucas.\n\nGraham.\n\nE Wingfield.\n\nof Selborne.\n\nChamberlain.\n\nSelfie",
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        "content_text": "# ing of the information, it becomes unnecessary to determine the question whether the devisees, at the time when the British Crown had annexed the territory, had acquired a title to the land by first occupancy or otherwise, which the Crown was bound to recognize. Their Lordships are by no means prepared to say that such a title has not been shown, but they think it unnecessary so to decide, because the facts, as proved and found, establish adverse possession against the Crown for a period exceeding sixty years; namely, a possession commencing before 1817, in or before which period the Crown had certainly assumed territorial sovereignty in Honduras, and continued without disturbance or effectual claim by the Crown down to the period of the filing of the information.\"\n\nIn Johnson v. Barnes, L.R. 7, C.P. 592, which was a case relating to a right of pasturage in the borough of Colchester, Willes, J., at p. 604, quoted the ancient dictum that \"antiquity of time justifies all titles and supposeth the best beginning the law can give them,\" and continued: \"So that, if evidence be given after long enjoyment of property to the exclusion of others, of such a character as to establish that it was dealt with as of right as a distinct and separate property, in a manner referable to a possible legal origin, it is presumed that the enjoyment in the manner long used was in pursuance of such an origin, which, in the absence of proof that it was modern, is deemed to have taken place beyond legal memory.\" And in the same case, on appeal in the Exchequer Chamber, L.R. 8 C.P. 527, Kelly, C.B., said, at p. 530: \"Then we come to what has been made one of the most important questions in the case, that is to say, supposing that the right actually exercised has always been in fact a right of exclusive pasturage, and has always been treated and dealt with as such, is the presumption which would naturally arise from the facts destroyed by the effect of a long and numerous series of documents in which the right is spoken of in expressions indicating a right in the nature of a right of common? I do not think we should be justified in giving this effect to the documents, if the result would be to set aside a right which has been so long exercised in fact, which has been made the subject of so many transactions involving large sums of money, and which has never been made the subject of complaint or remonstrance on the part of those adversely to whom it was exercised.\"\n\nIt appears, therefore, on consideration of the whole of the facts and documents in this case, that we are bound, in accordance with one of the best-established principles of law, to presume a legal origin, if one were possible, in favour of a long and uninterrupted actual enjoyment of a right, and that our judgment in this case should be for the defendant.\"\n\nMr. Slade for the defendant relied much on a similar dictum of Lord Selborne, L.C., in Goodman v. Mayor of Saltash, supra. In that case, in the course of his judgment, Lord Selborne said, at p. 689 of the report: \"The special case, no doubt, does not find that such fishery was 'of right' (which would have been to prejudge the question of law left for the opinion of the Court) but only that it was under a claim of right. But an open and uninterrupted enjoyment from time immemorial under a claim of right seems to me to be all that is necessary for a presumption that it had such an origin as would establish the right, if a lawful origin was reasonably possible in law. That in such a case a lawful origin ought to be presumed, if it is reasonably possible, is established by many authorities.\"\n\nAssuming then that these or similar general principles can properly be applied to the point now under consideration, I am prepared to hold that it is reasonably possible that the right claimed by the defendant may have had a lawful origin, and that it should be recognized as valid and subsisting at the date of the Convention and also of the agreement. I am further of opinion that this right, exercised in the manner in which it is shown to have been exercised by the defendant, may properly be described as a valuable or quasi-proprietary right, and that the defendant may also properly be described as one of the owners of the right.\n\nIn this state of facts, the agreement was executed, and it is clear that it had or purported to have the effect of interfering with and indeed of nullifying the right of the defendant. It is contended by the defendant that the agreement was executed by the Governor contrary to the stipulations of the Convention, and that it was therefore ultra vires and cannot operate to deprive the defendant of his right. But to this, it was answered by Mr. Sharp, in the course of his able argument for the plaintiffs, that the making of the Convention was an act of State and that it is not competent to the Court to inquire into any matter connected with it. Three cases were cited in support of this position. In Secretary of State in Council of India v. Kamachee Boye Sahaba, 13 Moore P.C.C. 22, the facts were that the Rajah of Tanjore, a native independent sovereign, but in virtue of treaties under the protection of the East India Company, having died without leaving issue male, the Company, in the exercise of their sovereign power and in trust for the British Government, seized the Raj of Tanjore and the whole of the property of the deceased Rajah, as an escheat, on the ground that the dignity of the Raj was extinct for want of a male heir, and that the property of the late Rajah lapsed to the British Government. A suit was instituted by the respondent claiming for herself as the eldest widow of the deceased Rajah and for the first married among his surviving widows, his private estate and effects. The respondent obtained a decree in the Supreme Court at Madras, but on appeal, this decree was reversed by the Judicial Committee, which held that the seizure of the deceased Rajah's property was an act of State by a sovereign power and that the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction in respect of it. The general principle of law on which this decision was founded was that the transactions of independent sovereign States between each other are governed by other laws than those which municipal courts administer; such courts have neither the means of deciding what is right, nor the power of enforcing any decision which they may make.\"\n\nThis decision was followed by Malins, V.C., in Down v. Secretary of State for India in Council, L.R. 19 Eq. 509. In that case, certain creditors of the King of Oudh, whose kingdom had been annexed by the East India Company as trustees for the British Government, sued the Secretary of State for India, claiming to be entitled to a charge upon the revenue of the territory of Oudh. But it was held by the Vice-Chancellor that the annexation was a sovereign act of State which could not be reviewed by a municipal court.\n\nThe last of the three cases and the one most relied upon by Mr. Sharp is Cook v. Sprigg, [1899] A.C. 572. There, the paramount chief of Pondoland had granted certain concessions for railway and other rights to the appellants. After the concessions had been granted, Pondoland was annexed to and became part of the British dominions, and the appellants sought to enforce against the Crown the privileges and rights conferred by the concessions. But it was held by the Judicial Committee, affirming the judgment of the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope and following Secretary of State in Council of India v. Kamachee Boye Sahaba, supra, that they could not do this, on the ground that the annexation was an act of State.\n\nPage 127",
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        "content_text": "123 \n\nstill for centuries. The San On district of today must be much the same as it was four or five hundred years ago. But when British rule is established, and the people realise that justice prevails, that they are allowed to pursue their avocations in peace and freedom from illicit extortions, and that there is no unnecessary interference with their manners and customs, the spirit of enterprise will soon manifest itself, capitalists will be attracted to a region where their capital is not liable to official squeezes, the resources of the country will be developed, and its prosperity will continue to increase.\" \n\nStill more authoritative and still more to the point is the following extract from a despatch of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of the Colony, bearing date the 6th January, 1899. In this despatch Mr. Chamberlain communicates to the Governor the views of Her Majesty's Government as to the future administration of the leased district, and in paragraph 24, dealing with the question of titles to land, there occurs the following passage:- \n\nThe examination into titles should not be of too technical a nature, and where lengthened occupation or improvement can be shown, with no adverse claims from private individuals, a Government title should be granted, even if no other is forthcoming. Security for all reasonable rights in regard to land will be a great inducement to content and loyalty and to the popularizing of British rule.\" \n\nThis direction of the Secretary of State seems to be in accord with the following proposition which was advanced by counsel for the defendants arguendo in the case of Attorney-General for British Honduras v. Bristowe supra :-\"As to the nature of the right and title acquired by the defendants against the Crown, there is no instance on record where the Sovereign of England, having assumed the territorial dominion over a colony, has ever attempted to oust the rights of private individuals acquired by long possession and long industrial occupation.\" I have been unable to trace the reference given for this proposition to Dana's edition of Wheaton's International Law, but I believe the proposition correctly states the practice of the British Crown, when assuming the sovereignty of new territory. \n\nI regret that the Crown was not represented at the hearing, since the validity of the lease granted by it to the plaintiffs has been called in question. It would seem that the Crown was entitled to have this suit restrained and its rights on the subject-matter of the litigation determined in proceedings to which it was itself a party Attorney-General v. Barker, L. R. 7 Exch. 177. In that case Cleasby, B., said, at p. 186 :-\" I have understood it to be a general rule of law that where the title of the Crown to property comes in question, the Crown has the right to prevent that title being decided in any suit between subjects, and is entitled to have it decided in a proceeding to which the Crown itself is a party.\" \n\nOn the whole case, then, I am of opinion that the defendant has established the right to which he makes claim; that the letting of the premises by the Crown to the plaintiffs involves a denial and deprivation of that right and is an expropriation of the defendant within the meaning of the Convention; that by the terms of the Convention the Crown was unable to confer on the plaintiffs a title involving such expropriation, and that the plaintiffs are consequently unable to make title to the premises in exclusion of the defendant when acting in the exercise of his right. In my opinion, therefore, the plaintiffs are not entitled to maintain this suit against the defendant, and judgment must be entered for the defendant, with costs. \n\nThe Puisne Judge arrived at a conclusion at variance with that of the Chief Justice, holding that the plaintiffs were entitled to $10 as damages and to their costs of suit. \n\nA full report of the Acting Puisne Judge's remarks will be given on Monday. \n\nJudgment for the defendant was given. \n\nMr. E. Hamilton Sharp (instructed by Messrs. Deacon and Hastings) appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. M. W. Slade (instructed by Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist) for the defendant. \n\n44",
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        "content_text": "Wedd\n\ndependent as it is upon the business incidental to a great shipping port of call. The Governor observes with satisfaction that the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce are prepared to accept cheerfully the increased taxation that will probably be necessary to meet the heavy expenses of contemplated measures for the general improvement of sanitation.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nT. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nTHE SECRETARY,\n\nChamber of Commerce.\n\n31.The foregoing statements prove that the local Government has failed to give effect, save in a very qualified form, to the measures so frequently urged upon it by its own Medical Officers and other experts; its efforts, so far, have met with so little result, indeed, that the Colony is now suffering severely from the annually recurring visitations of plague and, in a lesser degree, of enteric fever and small-pox. The inadequacy of the measures adopted by the local Government in dealing with so grave a crisis may, we submit, be regarded as equivalent to a tacit admission on its part that it is beyond its Power, of its own initiative, to undertake the gigantic task which a thorough and efficient reform of the Sanitary conditions of the Colony, with the heavy expenditure and sacrifices attending it, would involve\n\nThe conviction has consequently been forced upon us that no really effectual measures will be taken to grapple with the Sanitary problems of the Colony and to arrest the progress of disease until an appeal is made to the responsible Minister of State for his intervention. These annual epidemics are pressing acutely on the Commerce and Industries of the Colony, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain labour, whether European or Chinese. This year the Plague has again produced a cessation of Emigration, and the loss to the Shipping and Trade generally through quarantine restrictions and other delays has been very great. Native workmen are leaving Hongkong in thousands, and there is not an important industry or commercial undertaking in the Colony, employing and dependent on Chinese labour, that has not suffered.\n\nUnder the circumstances hereinbefore referred to your Petitioners most humbly Pray that you will be pleased\n\nthis 25th day of June, 1901.\n\n1.-To appoint a Commission consisting of a person or persons wholly unconnected with the Colony to proceed forthwith to Hongkong to investigate and report\n\n(a) On the Sanitary Condition of the Colony; (b) On the measures to be adopted for the improvement of the City of Victoria and of the Colony as it at present exists.\n\n2.That you will be pleased to attach to the said Commission some independent Sanitary Expert to advise.\n\n3. That after receiving and considering the Report of such Commission, you will give directions for the Recommendations of that Commission to be forthwith carried into effect.\n\nT. H. WHITEHEAD, J.P. (Mem. Legislative Council)\n\nJ. C. VICTORIA (Rt. Rev. Bishop of Victoria)\n\nL. M. PIAZZOLI (Rt. Rev. R.C. Bishop of S. China)\n\nNO. J. FRANCIS, K.C.\n\nEDWARD OSBORNE, J.P. (Mem. Sanitary Board)\n\nC. GERLACH, M.D.\n\nWILLIAM HARTIGAN, J.P., M.D., D.P.H.\n\nF. OSMUND STEDMAN, J.P., M.D., B.Sc. (LOND.)\n\nJ. W. NOBLE, D.D.S.\n\nFREDERIC H. BOWERS, D.D.S.\n\nG. MONTAGU HARSTON, J.P., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (LOND.)\n\nR. MACBEAN GIBSON, M.D., C.M. (EDIN.)\n\nL. R. BELL, D.D.S.\n\nROBERT LAMORT, M.D.\n\nG. APACIBLE, M.D., B.A.\n\nF. P. SOARES, P.M.\n\nHERBERT W. BIRD, A.R.I.B.A.\n\nCHRIS. B. THOMAS, A.R.I.B.A.\n\nWM. DANBY, J.P., M.I.C.E.\n\nA. DENISON, J.P., A.M.I.C.E.\n\nL. GIBBS, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nB. BROTHERTON HARKER, C.E.\n\nW. H. WICKHAM, A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.C.E.\n\nR. K. LEIGH, J.P., M.I.C.E.\n\nED. ROBINSON, J.P.\n\nH. W. SLADE, J.P.\n\nH. A. RITCHIE, J.P.\n\nW. HUTTON POTTS, J.P.\n\nJ. ORANGE, J.P., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., M.AM. Soc. C.E.\n\nCLEMENT PALMER, J.P., F.R.I.B.A.\n\nAGOSTINHO G. ROMANO (Consul-General for Portugal)\n\nJ. J. LEIRIA (Vice-Consul for Brazil)\n\nW. D. BRAIDWOOD, M.A.\n\nJ. A. SWANN, L.R.C.S., L.M., L.R.C.P., L.M.\n\nF. MAITLAND, J.P.\n\nJ. H. COX, J.P.\n\nW. J. McLOUGHLIN, P.H., C.H.\n\nB. BYRAMJEE, J.P.\n\nM. G. SASSOON, J.P.\n\nE. SHELLIM, J.P.\n\nA. J. RAYMOND, J.P.\n\nC. S. GUBBAY, J.P.\n\nD. E. BROWN, J.P.\n\nR. L. RICHARDSON, J.P.\n\nR. SHEWAN, J.P.\n\nJ. A. MCKAY, J.P.\n\nG. W. F. PLAYFAIR, J.P.\n\nCHAN A FOOK, J.P. (Mem. Sanitary Board)\n\nD. MACDONALD, C.E.\n\nA. E. GRIFFIN, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nW. G. CLARKE, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nW. POATE, J.P.\n\nD. GILLIES, J.P.\n\nC. S. SHARP, J.P.\n\nT. H. REID, J.P.\n\nA. S. GOMES, M.D., M.R.C.S.\n\nW. H. SHIRRIFF, M.B., C.M., L.S.A.\n\nB. FITZALAN HOWARD, B.A.\n\nR. 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        "content_text": "190\n\nOrd. 15 A, 1885. /\n\nwild the work\n\nCity of Victoria. \"Rhond\n\n\"\n\n\"the center of Lis mullah,\n\nthe\n\nMilitand for.\n\nthe Show windge\n\nCorgan\n\nThe show-bridge is existence)\n\nCommon\n\nUnd. 4 of 1895 3, 2 Lodging-house.\n\nOnd. 34 of 1885 5. 2\n\nDomestic building.\n\nOnd. 24×4 1887 s. 3. Drugs.\n\nFood.\n\nI bid\n\nCal.344/855 $. 2. Hill District.\n\nOrd. 24 of 1887 5, 3 Mill-side.\n\nIbid.\n\nHouse. bokter.\n\nIbid.\n\nKeeper of a\n\ncommon\n\nloging-house Owh. 30 of 1900 5. 4 Kowloon.\n\nInd.\n\nNew 5. 2 Kowloon,\n\n# ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.\n\n## Public Health.\n\n\"City of Victoria\" means that portion of Hongkong bounded on the north by the harbour; on the south by a contour of the hillside six hundred feet above the level of the sea; on the east by a straight line from the centre of the nullah crossing the Shaukiwan Road at the south-west corner of Causeway Bay, to the Wongneichong public school-house, produced southward until it meets the southern boundary; and on the west by Mount Davis:\n\n\"Common Lodging-house\" includes---\n\n(a.) any house or part thereof where usually male persons only are housed--not being members of the same family--to the number of ten persons and upwards.\n\n(b.) any permanent structure in which employer of labour lodge their employés other than domestic servants or shopmen:\n\n\"Domestic building\" means any human habitation or building where persons pass the night, but does not include any building where caretakers only, not exceeding two in number, pass the night:\n\n\"Drug\" means any medicine for internal or external use:\n\n\"Food\" means any article used for food or drink other than drugs or water;\n\n\"Hill District\"\n\nmeans any part of the island of Hongkong above the six hundred feet contour, except Chinese villages:\n\n\"Hill-side\" means the face of the natural hill, or the face of any scarp or retaining-wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining-wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building:\n\n\"Householder\" means the actual tenant or occupier of any building, or in cases where there is no such person, then the immediate landlord of such building, and, in the case of corporations, companies, and associations, the secretary or manager thereof shall be deemed the householder, and shall be liable under this Ordinance:\n\n\"Keeper of a common lodging-house\" means any person licensed to keep a common lodging-house:\n\n\"Kowloon\" includes New Kowloon:\n\n\"New Kowloon\" means that portion of the New Territories which is delineated and shown upon a plan marked \"New Kowloon,\" signed by the Director of\n\n# ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.\n\n## Public Health.\n\nPublic Works and countersigned by the Governor and deposited in the Land Office of this Colony:\n\n\"New Territories\" means the additional territories acquired by this Colony under the provisions of a Convention, dated the 9th day of June, 1898, between\n\n30\n\n718005.3.\n\nHer Majesty Queen Victoria and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, for the enlargement of the limits of this Colony, including the City of Kowloon:\n\n\"New building\" includes any building begun after the commencement of this Ordinance, and any building begun before the commencement of this Ordinance and which is in course of construction at the time of such commencement, and any existing building hereafter altered to such an extent as to necessitate the removal of the roof and the reconstruction of at least one half of any two of its main walls, and any existing building hereafter raised to such an extent that its total height exceeds one and a half times the original height of the building. For the purposes of this definition \"main walls\" mean either external or party walls. It also includes the conversion into a domestic building of any building not originally constructed for human habitation and the conversion into more than one domestic building of a building originally constructed as one domestic building only:\n\n24 of 1887 5. 3. (See note at end of this clause)\n\n\"Occupier\" means any person in actual occupation of any premises:\n\n\"Owner\" includes any person holding premises direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence or otherwise, and also any person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint-tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person; and, where no such owner as above defined can be found or ascertained, the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance, every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an owner:\n\n\"Person\" includes a body corporate and an association:\n\n\"Premises\" includes any land, building, or structure of any kind, doorway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, paddy field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered, or enclosed, cesspool or foreshore, also any vessel or boat lying within the waters of the Colony:\n\n\"Public latrine\" means any latrine to which the public are admitted on payment or otherwise:\n\n\"Secretary\"\n\nmeans the Secretary of the Sanitary Board:\n\nOrd. 24 of 1887 5. 2\n\n1867-1891.3.2\n\nbud. 8 of 1877) 5. 2\n\nOrd. 24 of 1867 5.3.",
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        "content_text": "El Wilko.\n\nA. B. Ewing\n\nEdward Osborne.\n\n5 Gen. R. Lombin.\n\nNilliam Hartigan.\n\n4. Montagu Haraton.\n\n(Signed). 7. H. Gleason (signed) A. Macleod\n\nJr. D. Sutton.\n\nSoch. Iskedtehly\n\nA. E. Simpson\n\nJ. C. Kershaw.\n\nA. G. Bakey.\n\nMm. L. Lon\n\nJ. Hansen.\n\nD. McDonald.\n\nNow Robertson.\n\n30. Stedman\n\nH. P. White.\n\nW. Parfitt.\n\nHenry Humphrey.\n\nA. H. Maucelt.\n\nJ. A. Casar Hawkins\n\nJ. C. Peter.\n\nH. M. Robertson.\n\nLibeard.\n\nE. J\n\nT. H. Shompson.\n\nJ. J. R. Saylor\n\nA. R. Grieve\n\nA. Macteill\n\nH. Schoenfelder.\n\n& Currie.\n\nJ. J. Sell Trivag.\n\nMore.\n\nI Dickie\n\nJ. Rodger.\n\nCrombie.\n\nThos Stair.\n\nThor. Id. Reed.\n\nA. W. Laverton.\n\n& Petrie.\n\nMe Kinlay J. S. Hagin Me Joan.\n\nJ. Assumpção\n\nH. A. Burtie.\n\nPhilip W. Sergeant.\n\nHerbert Price\n\nI. M. Pollock\n\nM. Grewer & Co.\n\nA. N. Stuko\n\nG. Richardson\n\nDuncan Clarke.\n\nM. Sheart Harrism\n\nS. J. Godwin\n\nT. Jmasson\n\nF. S. Rayner.\n\nG. Wallace Foster\n\nR. A. Good.\n\nChaplain H. M. Naval You\n\nN. Banister\n\nSecretary\n\nDr. D. Cuthbert\n\nP. McNab.\n\nA. H. Sharp.\n\nVictor H. Denoon.\n\nEd. Robinson.\n\nJ. J. Francis\n\nClement Palmer. Z. B. L. Bowley.\n\nIscott Harstov.\n\nChurch Mission Society\n\nH. D. Johnson\n\nChaplains S. John's Cathedral\n\nJ. H. France\n\nSeamen's Chaplain.\n\nMissions to Seamen\n\nSteward\n\nH. F. R. Brayne I Maitland\n\nA. Surner.",
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        "content_text": "323\n\n... \n\n2\n\nThe following marks are reliable guides as to the height of water over the rocks at the dangerous places:\n\n1. The lower basement of the Cantonese Guild House at Kuei-hsien just covered, and \n\n2. On arrival at Lei-kung Hsü, if the nearest rocks at the foot of the steps directly below the town-gate are covered, the \"Sandpiper\" could proceed, and the more water over these rocks plus 24 feet would indicate the draught of a vessel that could proceed with tolerable safety.\n\nThe water continued to rise on the way to Nanning, where we arrived at 10 P.M. on the 17th June, but had reached its greatest height the next morning, and when I sailed at 4 P.M. on the 18th June had fallen over 6 inches. On leaving, all the Chinese guard-boats fired a gun salute.\n\nWe caught up the fall before anchoring at 8 P.M., but a further considerable fall took place during the night; this we again caught up, and recrossed the Rapid with about 1 foot more than coming up. On this occasion there did not seem so much difficulty, and except for the sharp turns I had no trouble. The water has continued to fall since arrival at Wuchow.\n\nI do not see any way of improving the passage over the T'ai-t'an without great cost, and when the water is low there are many other bad places where a steamer of sufficient size to make a profit would have some difficulty. I consider steamers could run up to the Rapid for about eight months, and there trans-ship into junks or steamers above.\n\nPilots. I cannot speak too highly of the pilots. Their knowledge of the river was excellent, and in every case the information they gave me of the position of rocks and depth over them was correct. They were the same men I had last year, and can be obtained through His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Wuchow, or Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., Wuchow.\n\nThe total pilotage amounted to 365 dollars. Coal.-Coal was sent up by junk on free pass. Dress Ship-On arrival at Nanning dressed ship overall, and the ship's company gave three cheers for His Majesty the King.\n\nOfficials.-The officials having been notified by the Viceroy at Canton were most civil and attentive.\n\nAttached are the accounts of the visits paid (Inclosure No. 2).\n\nInclosed is a copy of Mr. B. Twyman's Report, with which he has kindly furnished me (Inclosure No. 3).\n\nMy best thanks are due to Mr. Twyman, who was of the very greatest assistance. He worked very hard to gain information for me about the river which much facilitated matters.\n\nShip's Company-The ship's company carried out the hard work cheerfully and well.\n\nEngine-room Staff-The Engine-room Staff were specially to be commended for the manner in which they kept steam, and the general working of the machinery, as being shut up while negotiating the Rapids could not have been pleasant.\n\nWeather. The weather experienced was much cooler than on the lower river, and fine, and the health of the ship's company was good.\n\nWatermark, Wuchow.-On return to Wuchow the watermark showed 35 feet.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nH. C. CARR.\n\nReport by Lieutenant-Commander Carr on a Journey to Nanning-fu.\n\nFirst Interview at Nanning-fu in Taotai's Yamên.\n\n3 P.M. on the 17th June, the day of arrival at Nanning, I went, accompanied by Twyman, to call on the Taotai, who is a pale, studious-looking, polite, but very nervous man, and comparatively young for the post he holds.\n\nHis surname is Feng and his full name Feng Hsiang Jung, son of Feng Tzu Ts'ai, Commander-in-Chief in Yunnan Province.\n\nHe received us very politely, giving greeting both in foreign and Chinese fashion. He also sent a boat and chairs to meet us with a guard of eight soldiers each, and on entering the Yamên there were salutes and music.\n\nThe Taotai received us in a clean and neatly-arranged Yamên, and after the usual compliments had been exchanged the following conversation took place:\n\nCommander Carr.-I have been instructed to bring His Majesty's ship \"Sandpiper\" to Nanning, and having arrived, naturally lose no time in calling in order to enter into relations and convey the compliments of his Excellency the Admiral, with a view to cementing the \"entente cordiale.”\n\nTaotai. I hope the journey has been without unpleasant incident.\n\nCommander Carr.-Except for the Great Rapid (Tai-t'an), the navigation of which is very difficult, everything has been satisfactory.\n\nThe Taotai was at first very nervous. He is an opium-smoker and seemed in indifferent health, and we furnished the greater part of the conversation.\n\nHis advice was asked as to the possibility of obtaining information respecting commercial matters. He replied that that was not difficult-information could be obtained from the Cantonese Guild and the Magistrates' Yamên.\n\nWhen Mr. Twyman asked about the Pacification Edicts, he said he had been furnished by the Governor at Kuei-lin with copies of the earlier editions, which had been duly posted, but that he had received no instructions about any corrected or second editions of these documents.\n\nThe Taotai has been in Kuanghsi for twenty years altogether, and for two years at Lung-chow.\n\nHe said that troops had been sent from Nanning to quell the Kuei-hsien rising, and that a telegram had recently been received to say that the rebels had been dispersed.\n\nConcerning the Langson-Lung-chow Railway and proposed extension to Nanning the Taotai said it had been completed practically as far as the Chinese border, which is at Nan-kuan (Namquan), but that no work had been commenced on the Chinese side of the border, although the survey had been made as far as Lung-chow.\n\nWhen asked about the famine of last year the Taotai said it had been at Pôse, but not at Nanning, and that the prospect of the crops for this year was very promising.\n\nWe then took leave, and proceeded to call on the Prefect, but found he was away, so sent a letter and cards to his Yamên.\n\n(Signed) H. C. CARR.\n\nSecond Interview at Nanning-fu on board His Majesty's ship \"Sandpiper,\" June 18, 1901.\n\nThe Taotai wrote to say that he desired to call at 8 o'clock; in reply I asked him to make it a little later, and proposed 9:30.\n\nAt 9:45 the gunboats fired three gun salutes, and one of them shoved off in which the Taotai was seated.\n\nUpon his approaching he was saluted with guns by His Majesty's ship \"Sandpiper,\" and the Chinese ensign hoisted.\n\nWhen he arrived on board seats were taken at the table on the forecastle. After the usual compliments had been exchanged, the Taotai explained his not being in full official costume, saying that this day was the anniversary of a former Emperor's death. He had intended to call on the following day, but hearing that the ship was starting back the same day, had taken the present opportunity.\n\nI expressed pleasure at receiving the Taotai's visit, and said I regretted not being able to stay longer, but that it was absolutely necessary to take the present opportunity of high water to recross the T'ai-t'an, in order not to be left above for a long period, perhaps even for the whole winter; and the water was now falling.\n\nTaotai-In going down the Great Rapid will it be necessary to steam, or can the ship drift over?\n\nCommander Carr.-It is necessary to steam in order to keep steerage way on and so have control of the vessel in the current.\n\nThe Taotai inquired about the possibility of steam navigation on the river.\n\nCommander Carr.-There are some rocks at the foot of the steps leading to Lei-kung Hsü below the Rapid. When they are completely covered by water it is possible for a ship like the \"Sandpiper\" to proceed. An additional foot of water above these rocks would indicate that a vessel with an additional foot of draught could get over.",
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        "content_text": "80.174.\n\nNo.\n\nHongkong.\n\nthe April\n\n902\n\nSir,\n\nC.O.\n\n21807\n\nGovernment House, 02,\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1902.\n\n \n\n4\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your\n\nfavourable consideration the enclosed copy of a letter from\n\nthe Chief Justice in which he recommends the nomination of Mr.\n\nE. H. Sharp as King's Counsel in this Colony.\n\n2.\n\nAs stated in paragraph 5 of Mr. Goodman's\n\nletter, there is not at present any King's Counsel in Hongkong,\n\nand I have every reason to believe that Mr. Sharp's nomination\n\nwould be popular among the Barristers of the Colony and that\n\nhe would be a most suitable successor to those who have received\n\nthe same high honour during the past few years.\n\n \n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nM.J. Gascoigne\n\nMajor-General,\n\nAdministering the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,\n\n&C. &C.\n\n800-1",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure to Despatch No. 124 of the 1st May, 1909.\n\nSir,\n\nSupreme Court, Hongkong, April 25th, 1909.\n\n(1).\n\nI have the honour to recommend that Your Excellency would be good enough to move the Secretary of State to procure the nomination of Mr. Ernest Hamilton Sharp, Barrister-at-Law for the rank of King's Counsel in this Colony.\n\n(2).\n\nMr. Sharp was called to the English Bar in April, 1891, having previously taken his M.A. and B.C.L. degrees at Oxford.\n\n(3).\n\nHe practised for three years in Gloucester, and on the Midland Circuit, and was admitted to the local Bar here in 1894.\n\n(4).\n\nI am satisfied that his position and reputation at the Hongkong Bar, as well as his character and attainments, are such as to justify his nomination as a K.C. here.\n\n(5).\n\nI should add that, owing to the death of Mr. Francis, K.C. last year, my own promotion to the Chief Justiceship, and the appointment of Mr. H.E. Pollock, K.C. to the Attorney Generalship of Fiji, there is, at present, no King's Counsel in the Colony.\n\n(6).\n\nI understand from Mr. Sharp that Sir John Carrington, the late Chief Justice, stated to him that he would support an application of this kind.\n\nI have etc., (sgd.) W. Meigh Goodman, Chief Justice.\n\nHis Excellency Major-General Sir H.J. Gascoigne, K.C.M.G., The Officer Administering the Government\n\nPage 5\n\n \n\nPage 5 \n\nPage 5 \n\nwas not needed so removed the triple page 5, keeping only one at the end. The original text had \"悲\" which seems to be an OCR error and was removed as it doesn't make sense in the context. \"LAD\" is also not clear in its relevance and was not included as it seems out of place. The year \"1902\" was corrected to \"1909\" to match the context of the despatch date. \"Grnest\" was corrected to \"Ernest\", \"3.0. L.\" to \"B.C.L.\", \"Je\" to \"He\", \"Goaloa\" to \"Gloucester\", \"Rongkong\" to \"Hongkong\", \"K...\" to \"K.C.\", \"woull\" and \"woult\" to \"would\", \"Jeneralship\" to \"Generalship\", \"Sir .. J.\" to \"Sir H.J.\", and other minor corrections for spacing and formatting were made. The text was formatted into HTML using  tags.",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nSir John Carrington C.M.G.\n\nR.E.S. 5/6\n\nMr Johnson\n\nst mohadas\n\nAnod day!,\n\nHONG KONG\n\nGov/21807\n\nSir,\n\nJune 1902.\n\nI have the Honour / am directed by Mr Sec to inform you that he has received a despatch, from the O.A.C. of Hong Kong recommending that Mr Ernest Hamilton Sharp should be nominated one of H.M.'s counsel.\n\n2. Mr Ch would be glad to learn whether you desire to support this recommendation.\n\nI am &c.\n\nb. PL\n\nYou",
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        "content_text": "HON. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART'S IMPENDING DEPARTURE,\n\nA largely-attended meeting in connection with the College of Medicine for Chinese was held in the Legislative Council Chamber at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of presenting an address to the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., Rector of the College, on the occasion of his departure for Weihaiwei.\n\nH.E., the Officer Administering the Government, Major-General W. J. Gascoigne, presided, and those present, in addition to Mr. Stewart Lockhart, were Dr. Clark (Dean of the College), Dr. Ho Kai, Dr. Thomson, Dr. R. Maclean, Dr. Gibson, Dr. Noble, Dr. Pearson, Mr. E. H. Sharp, Mr. D. Wood, Mr. F. Browne, and many students of the College.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN—Gentlemen, the object for which you have all met here to-day, as I think everybody here knows, is to take farewell of Mr. Stewart Lockhart, whose departure shortly from the Colony I deplore quite as much as any of you here can do. I do not propose to detain you longer than these few words, because I know you wish to get to the actual business for which you have come here to-day; and therefore I will now call upon Dr. Clark, Dean of the College, to proceed with the meeting.\n\nDr. CLARK, in presenting the address to Mr. Stewart Lockhart, said—Your Excellency and gentlemen, the honour has fallen upon me of presenting, in the name of the Court, the Senate, and the past and present students of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, a small token of our appreciation to our Rector, Mr. Stewart Lockhart, on the eve of his departure from those scenes wherein he has laboured for more than twenty years. The severance of old ties and friendships is at best but a saddening process, and I feel sure that, mingled with that justifiable pride at having been selected by His Gracious Majesty the King to govern the newest of our many British possessions in the Far East, Mr. Lockhart cannot but feel a sense of some great loss, some gap which can never again be bridged, that must ever temper the natural elation of one who has been called to wider spheres of action, and who leaves behind him the friendships of his youth and early manhood. Such a sense of loss, however, is even more keenly felt by those who are thus left behind, for upon these devolves the duty of carrying on the old routine, and, no easy task, of finding new helpers in the work that must be done. I need hardly remind you that Mr. Lockhart has been associated with our College from its first inception, and shares the no small honour of having worked for its advancement, in the early days of its history, with Manson, one of the great leaders of our glorious profession, and with those bygone worthies Stewart, Young, Chalmers, and Francis, who also are now but names in the Temple of Fame.\n\nFor seven years Mr. Lockhart has presided over the deliberations of our Court, and has furthered the aims of our College by every means in his power. His interest in the natives of China is proverbial, and it is not to be wondered at, therefore, that he saw clearly the immense benefits that must accrue to those of our people living among us, from the foundation of a school for the propagation of Western science and Western methods of treatment of the sick. We know that learning originated in the East and thence spread its benign influence to the West, and it is but just, therefore, that where the West has improved upon the East, where the little grain of knowledge has increased a hundredfold, that the Mother of Wisdom should reap a share of the harvest. Our aim, as a College, has been to spread the little knowledge that we have been privileged to acquire in our island home among our native fellow-citizens in this far-off Colony, and I think we may fairly claim that our roll of students and of diplomates bears ample evidence that our labours have not been in vain. Mr. Lockhart has done yeoman service in this cause, and we have assembled to-day to bear testimony to that service and to wish him God speed in the work that lies before him in the future. Our address, therefore, is no empty platitude, but the genuine heartfelt wish of a little band of workers whose loss is another's gain. With your permission, sir, I will now read the address and will ask you to hand it to Mr. Lockhart in the name of those who have assembled here to-day to do him honour.\n\nDr. Clark then handed the address, which was bound in a handsome cover faced with silver, to His Excellency, and he, in turn, presented it to Mr. Stewart Lockhart, who bowed his acknowledgments.\n\nThe address, which was extensively signed, read as follows:--\n\nTo the Honourable JAMES HAMILTON STEWART LOCKHART, Companion of the most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Hong Kong, Rector of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese,\n\nHong Kong, 18th April, 1902.\n\nSIR,—Before you finally sever your long and distinguished connection with Hong Kong, and particularly with the College of Medicine for Chinese, we, the Members of the Court, Senate, and General Council, and past and present students, resident in the Colony, desire to convey to you our grateful acknowledgment and warm appreciation of the many and valuable services which you have rendered to the College since its inception. You are associated with Manson, Stewart, Young, Chalmers, Francis, Cantlie, and others, in the founding of the Institution in 1887, when you accepted the office of Treasurer. This office you held until 1895, when you were elected to succeed His Honour Sir Fielding Clarke, Chief Justice, as Rector of the College. You have not rested content with occupying a purely honorary position, but as President of the Court and executive Head of the College, you have actively interested yourself in all the various schemes that have been proposed for the furtherance of the objects of the College and for its development. While rejoicing that you have been called to a position of greater responsibility and honour by His Majesty the King, we cannot refrain from an expression of our regret at the loss sustained by the College in your departure from the Colony; and we desire to assure you that you carry with you our hearty good wishes for your future welfare and for your early promotion to yet more important spheres of public usefulness.\n\nDr. KWAN KING LEUNG, one of the licentiates of the College, then spoke. He said—Your Excellency and gentlemen, on behalf of the past students of the College, I desire to say a few words expressive of our profound respect and veneration for our Rector, Mr. Stewart Lockhart, and offering to him our sincere and hearty thanks for his distinguished labours for the good of the College and of the students, since its foundation until now. Mr. Lockhart has taken a great interest in this College...",
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        "content_text": "Extract from the \"Hongkong Daily Press\" dated July, 1902.\n\nPRESENTATION OF ADDRESSES.\n\nThe ceremony of presenting the various loyal Addresses to His Excellency for transmission to the King was performed in the Ball Room at Government House at half-past four o'clock. To this function the heads of Government Departments, members of Council and the members of the Coronation Committee and their wives had been invited. The presence of so many ladies, therefore, together with the variegated nature of the uniforms worn by the official guests and the wealth of tropical greenery which decorated the chamber, served to make up an imposing spectacle.\n\nHis Excellency Major-General Sir W. J. Gascoigne, K.C.M.G., the Officer Administering the Government, was dressed in full uniform and wore his Decorations and medals on his breast. His Excellency sat at the top of the hall behind a small table on which were laid the Addresses. Those who were to take part in the presentation ceremony stood in front and the others in the rear of the chair, while the ladies were seated on chairs placed round the upper end of the room.\n\nAmong those present were Lady Gascoigne, His Honour W. Meigh Goodman, Chief Justice; Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary; Hon. Sir Henry Spencer Berkeley, K.B., Attorney-General; Hon. W. Chatham, Director of Public Works, Hon. R. Murray Rumsey, R.N., Harbour Master; His Honour A. G. Wise, Puisne Judge; Captain Hon. H. W. Trefusis, A.D.C., Mr. R. F. Johnston, Private Secretary; Hon. F. J. Badeley, Captain Superintendent of Police; Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G.; Hon. C. S. Sharp, Hon. Robert Shewan, Hon. C. W. Dickson, Hon. G. W. F. Playfair, Hon. Wei A Yuk, Commander Robinson, Lieut-Colonel Hughes; Rev. E. J. Hardy, Chaplain to H. M. Forces; Right Rev. Bishop Piazzoli and the Rev. Fathers of the R.C. Church; Mr. E. A. Hewett, Hon. Secretary of the Coronation Committee; Mr. F. A. Hazeland, Police Magistrate; Rev. C. H. Hickling, Union Church; Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer; Mr. H. N. Mody, Mr. Fung Wa Chun, Mr. Ho Tung; Mr. R. C. Wilcox, Mr. D. E. Brown, Mr. T. R. heid, Mr. E. H. Sharp; Mr. J. W. Norton Kyshe, Registrar; Mr. W. Poate, Captain Pritchard, H.K.V.C.; Mr. Ho Fook; Mr. C. Molony Messer, Acting Registrar-General; Captain Percy Scott, C.B.; Mr. A. G. Romano, Consul-General for Portugal; Mr. A. J. Raymond, Mr. E. Gompertz, Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, Mr. Mowbray S. Northcote, Mr. Gershom Stewart, Dr. G. M. Harston, Mr. F. Maitland, Mr. J. Leiria, and many Naval and Military officers.\n\nThe Masonic deputation, dressed in full regalia, was headed by Mr. E. C. Ray, Deputy District Grand Master, and consisted of Messrs. L. Mallory, E. Ormiston, H. W. Heuermann, G. L. Tomlin, Dr. F. W. Clark, Messrs. G. Piercy, F. W. Edwards, G. J. B. Sayer, A. O'D. Gourdin, W. J. Tutcher and F. D. Goddard, District Grand Lodge; J. Bryan, E. Brotherton Harker, Zetland; G. J. Edwards, E. H. Kay, C. W. Longue, Victoria; W. H. Wickham, A. G. Ward, Perseverance; G. G. Burnett, H. W. Wolfe, United Service; J. A. Tarrant, H. Jewitt, W. M. Everall, St. John's; and P. C. Hyett, Naval and Military.\n\nThe company having assembled and taken their places, His Excellency indicated that he was now ready to receive the Addresses.\n\nHis Honour W. Meigh Goodman stepped forward and said—Your Excellency,—Before reading and presenting to Your Excellency an Address to His Majesty the King, from the people of Hongkong, I would crave permission to make some few preliminary observations. As Your Excellency is aware, the date originally fixed for the Coronation of Their Majesties was the 26th June last. It was for that occasion that the Address was intended: and it was written, illuminated, signed by considerably more than a thousand persons, its cover of gold and velvet was designed and completed, and it was all in readiness before the sad tidings that His Majesty's illness necessitated the postponement of the Coronation, reached this Colony.\n\nIn these circumstances, it was thought better, and I believe Your Excellency quite concurred in that view, that the Address should still be presented. We know the keen, personal interest taken by His Majesty in every part of the British Dominions, even in those portions the furthest removed from the mother land; and it may well be that the respectful expression of loyalty and devotion to the King and the Royal family, embodied in the Address, may be as much appreciated by His Majesty during, let us hope, his period of convalescence, as if those expressions had been received by him some weeks after the Coronation had actually taken place.\n\nThere has never been a Coronation of any British Monarch since Hongkong became a Colony. The glorious reign of Her late revered Majesty, the longest known in British history, extended over such a lengthened period, that when the mournful message of her demise was flashed to us across the seas, we could, at first, hardly realise that Victoria the Good was no more. The very keystone of the arch of the British Empire seemed to have been taken away. In such a crisis we can but faintly understand the enormous burden of responsibility that fell upon the shoulders of His present Majesty.\n\nWho could fill her place? Who but that eldest son, who for so long had stood beside her as the years increased, had helped to sustain her, had seen her enrage, had watched her noble life, and her love for her people, could have worthily occupied the glorious Throne she had vacated? How valuable his life! Some thirty years ago there was a public thanksgiving at St. Paul's Cathedral for his deliverance from a terrible illness. Let us hope that, ere long, there may be another similar thanksgiving for his second deliverance, and for health and strength restored.\n\nWhen Her late Majesty ascended the Throne, her heritage was doubtless both great and noble; but, when we compare the British Empire of to-day with that which existed at the accession of Queen Victoria, we can realise more fully how vastly that Empire and the responsibilities of its Sovereign have increased during the interval. Colonies not born when Victoria ascended the Throne have now attained to vigorous manhood, and are joining their prayers with ours for His Majesty's speedy recovery.\n\nKing Edward VII is not only King\n\nPage 25",
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        "content_text": "## HONG KONG\nNo. 23761  \n**(Subject)**  \nDOMESTIC.  \n23761  \nPict & Red 13 JUN 21  \n\nKb. for dr Est. thank 238  \na. Chucks he is thoroughly deserving and why  \ndignity. Return affit question  \nMr Cox  \nof  \nme Pollock way  \n\n**(Minutes.)**  \nIt appears from 21836 Fiji that Mr Pollock is going  \nback to Hong Kong but that does not seem to afford  \nconclusive reason against making Mr Sharp a K.C. if  \nhe is suitable. Hongkong had two K.C.s before Mr Francás  \ndied.  \n\nR.E.S.  \n16/6  \nGus 16  \nMr Lucas  \nWBY  \n76/6  \nWrite accordingly to governon  \nC.P.X-16  \natoria",
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        "content_text": "# No. 18\n## Hongkong\nSir,\n48 C.O. Copy Government House. 12 FEB \nHongkong, 10th January, 1903.\n\nIn reply to your Circular Despatch of the 21st of last August, I have the honour to inform you that a local branch of the Society of Comparative Legislation has been formed in Hongkong, the first Members of which will be the Chief Justice, Sir W. M. Goodman, (Chairman), the Attorney-General, Sir H. S. Berkeley, Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., (Secretary), Messrs. T. M. Phillips, and M. W. Slade, Barristers at Law, and Messrs. V. H. Deacon and G. C. C. Master, Solicitors.\n\n2\n\nIt is proposed that the Hongkong Branch should make a brief yearly report to the Society on matters of local interest connected with Legislation.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient\nHumble servant,\nHenry Arthur Blake\nGovernor, ...\n\n## THE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "543\n\nEnclosure No.2 to Despatch No.174 of the 2nd April, 1903.\n\n**CIRCULATED FOR INFORMATION OF MEMBERS.**\n\n16\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce.\n\nAT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE held in the Chamber Room, CITY HALL, on Tuesday, 23rd December, 1902, at 4 p.m. Present—Hon. C. S. Sharp (chairman), Mr. W. Poote (vice-chairman), Hon. C. W. Dickson, Messrs. E. A. Hewett, C. Michelau, N. A. Siela, J. R. M. Smith, H. E. Tomkins, R. C. Wilcox and A. R. Lowe (secretary).\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said—We are met here to-day in consequence of what is seemingly a general desire, as expressed by means of suggestions, if not demands, in the columns of the public Press, as well as in consequence of a renewed request from our neighbours at Singapore, that we should consider whether it would be possible or advisable for this Colony to take steps by means of urging on the Government, or otherwise, to deal with the silver question, and if possible, bring about some measure of stability in exchange. It is needless to say that this is a question closely affecting us all, and the trade of the Colony, and of late the position has been much accentuated by the changes adopted in neighbouring countries, which have no doubt combined with other causes to bring about a heavy fall in the gold value of the white metal, and further a movement is now in progress having for its object to place the currency of the Straits Settlements on a gold basis, which, if carried out, will no doubt have a further depreciating effect on the value of silver. A similar movement is also being made in regard to the Philippines. This is a subject which in past years has received not a little attention from preceding Committees of this Chamber, the result of which I will shortly summarize:\n\n1892, 19th November. A general meeting of members passed the following resolution:--\n\nThat the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce recommend to, and urge upon, Her Majesty's Government the desirability of adopting in concert with the other European Governments, with the Government of the United States and with that of India, also with those of other countries, if so desired, such means as will lessen if not remove the present serious uncertainty in exchange between silver and gold-using countries which has had so disturbing and so universally injurious an effect upon British Commerce with all Eastern and silver-using countries.”\n\n1893, 17th March. Committee addressed Government a request that the home authorities be pressed to fully consider the interests of this Colony in any measures proposed with regard to Indian currency. Letters were also exchanged with various bodies on the same subject, and at the Annual Meeting held in 1894, 11th May, the Chairman pointed out that though foreign traders in China suffered by the Indian movement the natives here benefitted by it.\n\n1897, 27th August. A letter was addressed by the Singapore Chamber of Commerce inviting this Chamber to co-operate in moving for some remedy to bring about fixity of exchange, a subject they were then considering, and asking if this Chamber contemplated taking any action on this important matter. On 4th September, this Chamber replied that the positions occupied by the two Colonies were very different, which rendered combined action impossible in the direction of procuring relief from the instability of silver, and stating that situated on the borders of the greatest silver-using Empire in the world, with which country its trade is mainly conducted, it would be wholly impracticable for this Colony to attempt divorce from China, however much, for some reasons, such a departure might at first sight seem desirable.\n\n594",
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        "content_text": "# \n## \n\n261 \n\n\"Naval Yard, the growing importance of which Yard he fully recognises, he is prepared to abandon the Praya scheme, in condition that Their Lordships will consent, in connection with the scheme for the extension of the Yard, to arrange for widening, without cost to the Colony, the existing roadway, from Murray Pier to the Blue Buildings, including the road on the west side of North Barracks, and Queen's Road for the whole length of the Military & Naval Buildings, & Sharp's Buildings, and the road on the east side of the Ordnance Store to the junction with the existing Eastern Praya, to a total width (including footpaths) of 75 feet, which is the width of the new Praya Road.\" \n\nThe Admiralty in Letter to Colonial Office 15th June 1899 remarked - \n\n\"With reference to the remarks of H.E. the Governor on the subject of the rights of the Colonial Government to the foreshore and land under the sea, My Lords are glad to observe that the view that the Admiralty should be in any way restricted in the use of the foreshore and the sea bed in front of the property forming the Naval Establishments is not endorsed by the Secretary of State; but My Lords feel it necessary to point out that whatever the rights of the Colony may have been, they were clearly acquired by the Admiralty as part of the arrangement under which the Admiralty agreed to carry out at their own expense the widening of Queen's Road from Murray Pier Road to Arsenal Street\" \n\nA compromise was therefore arrived at, and this special case was settled without any definite ruling as to the rights of the Admiralty and the Colony. \n\nWe",
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        "content_text": "## Wednesday, 20th May\n\n### IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.\n\n#### BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR HENRY S. BERKELEY (ACTING **Chief Justice**):\n\n##### THE GAGE STREET MURDER TRIAL.\n\nLiu Chui eling Li Kwai Fán was charged with the murder of Yueng Kuo Wán, the Reformer schoolmaster, in Gage Street, on 10th January, 1901.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty.\n\nMr E. B. Sharp, K.C., Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor), conducted the prosecution; and Mr. T. Morgan Phillips, barrister-at-law, was for the defence.\n\nThe following jury was empanelled:- Messrs. W. Nicholls, P. Dow, R. Saron, J. W. Crouch, P. Hardman, J. A. T. Plummer, and A. S. Anton. Foreman, Mr Dow.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General, in opening the case, said the accused was charged as being a member, in fact the leader, of a gang of four men who committed this deed in concert together. All four of these men had been for some time known to the Crown by name, but the other three unfortunately were not before the Court. They had not been caught, and in all probability would never be found within the jurisdiction of this Colony, so that they could be caught. The prisoner only returned to Hong-kong last month and was arrested.\n\nThe circumstances of the murder were fairly notorious. Deceased lived at 52, Gage Street, in a corner house fronting upon that street and Aberdeen Street. He rented the whole of the first floor, consisting of a large room and two cubicles and a kitchen in the rear. The ground at the back was almost one storey higher than in front. The first floor was entered by the back from a lane and was practically on a level with the lane, which debouched into Aberdeen Street by a short flight of steps. Deceased conducted a night school for the teaching of English to Chinese boys and young men. The classes commenced at six o'clock, in the large front room.\n\nOn the evening in question, deceased was sitting at a table in the centre of the room, reading to a class from a book. The door was on the latch for the convenience of pupils arriving late, and it was consequently easy for anybody to enter without attracting any particular attention. The wife of the deceased man, her daughter, and two small children were in the cubicles at the back of the premises.\n\nAbout half-past six o'clock, a man suddenly appeared in the classroom. He was not noticed for a moment by a few there, but not by the deceased. This man walked a certain distance into the room, fairly close up to the table, and suddenly discharged three or four shots at the deceased. The shots took effect, and deceased fell forward onto the table. The pupils fled in panic, and in the confusion, the man who fired the shots, along with another man who accompanied him, escaped.\n\nHis Lordship: I presume you are going to prove this—that these officials publicly offered a reward for the man's apprehension or assassination.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General: I shall prove that.\n\nThe circumstances of the murder continued. Deceased's wife and daughter rushed into the room, found him in a state of collapse, and called the police. When the injured man was taken to the hospital, Dr. Bell found that his injuries were too serious to allow of the extraction of the bullets. He died the next morning. Three bullets were found in the body, and the cause of death was certified to be internal hemorrhage. Deceased made a dying declaration implicating the Chinese Government, saying that they had offered a reward of $20,000 for his life.\n\nTam Chung, a Yaumati fisherman, said he made the acquaintance of the prisoner on his uncle's marriage boat at Yaumati in April, 1900. Witness went to live with him in the capacity of a cook. He left on the 5th January, 1901, as he was afraid of being implicated. The prisoner had pointed out this Yueng Kus Wan to him and asked him to assist in beating him. Witness refused.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General continued, saying the Chinese Government had sent the man down from Canton, and \"everything was to be done.\" Prisoner reconnoitred the back of the house and presently came down and joined his two companions at the foot of the flight of steps. There they had a short conversation, and then the other two men went up the steps and entered the house, the prisoner mounting guard at the corner so as to command Aberdeen Street and the lane at the back of the house. The shots were fired immediately after these two men entered the house.\n\nPrisoner said he had come from Canton and asked witness to put him up. They refused. The prisoner disappeared and was not seen again. But presently, afterwards, the whole gang were back in Canton, where they stayed in Li Ka Chuk's barracks for ten days or more, during which time the murder was very frequently discussed, and the prisoner frequently referred to it, boasting that he committed the deed and claiming the reward for it.\n\nLi Ka Chuk, the mandarin in Canton, he said, offered a reward of between $10,000 and $20,000 to anyone who would kill Yueng Kus Wan. Prisoner asked the pilot to help him get someone to kill the deceased. Prisoner said that if there was a reward, he would get someone to kill the deceased.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General concluded by saying that the jury must leave out of consideration any sympathy they might have with the Reform movement. Notwithstanding the extraordinary breach committed by the Chinese Government or officials of the fundamental principles of international rights and the intolerableness of having a foreign government's emissaries entering their territory for the purpose of murdering somebody who was under the protection of their flag but was obnoxious to that foreign government, it was conceivable that the Chinese officials who organised this affair were actuated by patriotic motives.\n\nE. W. Carpenter, P.W.D., was the first witness. He put in and proved plans of the house 52, Gage Street.\n\nHis Lordship: Because it is a very serious allegation to make against those officials.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General: I think I will prove it to your Lordship's satisfaction.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General continued, saying this mandarin really organised this murder, although he did not actually come to Hongkong; and some of his braves were in the gang who committed the murder. Yung Ching Kai, captain of the Chinese gunboat Ai Yui, came to Hongkong and acted as intermediary between the mandarin and his emissaries. Prisoner was the leader of the gang who committed the deed.\n\nAfter other witnesses had given evidence, Dr. Bell went into the box. He described the man's condition when brought into hospital and spoke to the dying deposition made by the deceased and written down by witness at the time.\n\nDeceased's deposition was to the effect that he was teaching at the English school in Gage Street when very quietly the murderer came in and shot him four times. He did not know...\n\nThe wife of the murdered man next gave evidence. When she heard the report of firearms, she said, she came out from the cubicle where she had been lying on the bed and met all the pupils running out. When she went into the front room, she found her husband leaning forward with his head on his hands. He was bleeding.\n\nA young Chinese who was a student of the deceased and who was in the room when the murder was committed gave evidence as to the deed.\n\nCross-examined—There was no other stranger in the room but the man who fired the shots. Prisoner was not there.\n\nCross-examined—Witness was a fisherman and had his own boat in Yaumati. He gave up cooking in January, 1901, before which date he had never been a fisherman. His uncle gave him the boat. Witness had a brother named Tam Tai who visited the house where he was cooking for the prisoner, but witness knew nothing about his antecedents, nor whether he was hiding from the police in consequence of...",
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        "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS\n\n[May 23, 1903]\n\n### CRIMINAL JURISDICTION\n\n#### BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR HENRY S. BERKELEY (ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE)\n\n##### THE GAGE STREET MURDER TRIAL - SENTENCE OF DEATH\n\nThe trial was continued of Lui Chui alias Li Kwai Fan who was charged with the murder of a Reformer schoolmaster at 52, Gage Street on 10th January, 1901.\n\nMr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor), conducted the prosecution; and Mr. T. Morgan Phillips, barrister-at-law, was for the defence.\n\nChan Wan, who had been under examination when the Court rose on the previous night, was again put in the witness-box. He said he was employed at present as a cook on board the `Zafiro`. He knew the prisoner, who was nicknamed \"Sow\" (\"jutting teeth\") by reason of the peculiar formation of his teeth. Witness's brother Chan Lam Tsai was a member of the gang, and was executed because two letters were found in his possession by Li Ka Chuk. Witness had seen and read the letters, which did not relate to the murder directly, simply asking his brother to come down to Hongkong from Canton, as the Government of Hongkong wanted him. One of the letters was sent by \"Mai\" (the Chinese for Mr. May, then Captain Superintendent of Police). Witness was present at the execution of his brother, whose head was cut off on the Honam side of Canton. He remembered the murder of Yeung Kue Wan, and during the few months preceding it, witness was living at Canton with his brother, who rented the house and lived in it with his family. His brother was a soldier and a gambler - a soldier when times were busy and a gambler when they were slack. Li Ka Chuk, the mandarin, was the head of the Chuk regiment. Ko Ping Shan, whom witness knew, was one of Chuk's soldiers, called at witness's brother's house on 6th January, 1901, and the two - the brother and Ko Ping Shan - had a conversation, after which they went to Li Ka Chuk's barracks. When he came back, he had a conversation with Tung Cheung, the other man living in the house, and very early next morning all three - witness, his brother, and Tung Cheung - went to Chuk's barracks. Witness remained outside, but the other two went in and later on sent for him. When he entered, he saw the captain of the `Kin Yai` and the other two besides one of Li Ka Chuk's braves and a fourth member of the gang named Tsui.\n\nCross-examination continued - The pilot did not ask the witness to leave the room when he was discussing the project, in which the accused asked him to participate. His reason for not joining in it was that he was too busy with the cooking, and he did not make a report to the police because prisoner threatened to kill him if he did.\n\nRe-examined - The prisoner was arrested long before the police came to see him.\n\nChan Wan said he met the gang in Canton after the murder. Witness's elder brother, Lam Tsai, stated that he entered the house first and did the actual shooting. Tung Chung accompanied him. Tsui Fuk and the prisoner remained outside. Three of the gang received the greater part of the money reward; these were the prisoner, who got $2,000; Lam Tsai $2,000, and Tung Chung $2,000. He did not know what the other man received. These three also got buttons of the fifth rank, along with about twenty others. Witness saw two of the diplomas of rank, one in the possession of his elder brother Lam Tsai and one in the possession of Tung Chung. He produced and identified the patent, which belonged to his elder brother; it bore the date 30th January, 1901. The patent was sealed with the viceregal seal of Viceroy Tak. It stated that Chau Tai Oa (the official name of Chan Lam Tsai) had exerted himself in the arrest of the leader of the Ko-lo Society and other members of secret societies, and great credit was due to him.\n\nCross-examined - Before the death of Yeung Kue Wan, prisoner was unknown to him. Prisoner was not present at the house of his brother and at Li Ka Chuk's barracks in Canton. It was Li Ka Chuk who instructed his brother to carry out the murder.\n\nKong Ngau Ying, a fishmonger from Yaumati, deposed that he first met the prisoner on 8th January, 1901, at West Point with Lam Tsai and others. There they went into a brothel. He knew Lam Tsai. Afterwards, he learned that two of the others along with the prisoner were Tung Chung and Tsui Fuk. He saw prisoner again on 10th January at West Point in the Street; along with him were Chan Lam Tsai, Tung Chung, and Tsui Fuk. They took witness to an eating-house. After that, they went to the house of Ng La Sam, whom he had known. Li Chi Tin, between ten and twenty years, secretary to Li Ka Chuk, was there; also a man named Yeung Ching Kai, captain of the `Ai Yu`. Li Chi Tin asked him whether he \"wished to go or not.\" Witness asked \"Go where?\" Li Chi Tin replied \"To go to shoot Yeung Kue Wan.\" Witness said he was not going. Prisoner and the others were all present. Li Chi Tin then said \"Why don't you go? there is a reward of between $10,000 and $21,000 and you will get an appointment as a mandarin\"; adding that the reward would come from Viceroy Tak. Li Chi Tin explained that Yeung Kue Wan was the \"emperor\" of the Waichou rebellion.\n\n| Name | Role |\n| --- | --- |\n| Lui Chui alias Li Kwai Fan | Accused |\n| Chan Lam Tsai | Brother of Chan Wan, member of the gang, executed |\n| Tung Chung | Member of the gang |\n| Tsui Fuk | Member of the gang |\n| Li Ka Chuk | Mandarin, head of the Chuk regiment |\n| Viceroy Tak | Viceroy who offered the reward |\n\nThe jury retired to consider their verdict at 4:50, returning to the Court at 5 o'clock.\n\nThe Foreman announced that the jury unanimously found the prisoner guilty.\n\nHis Lordship addressing the prisoner said - \"You have been found guilty of the murder of Yeung Kue Wan. If when you said that you did not commit the murder, you meant that it was not by your hand that this man met his death, then your statement was true. The charge against you is not that you yourself did the deed, but that you were one of a gang of four men who went to his house for the purpose of killing him and did kill him.\"\n\nThe sentence of the Court therefore was that he be taken from hence to the place from whence he came and from thence on a day to be hereafter fixed to the place of execution; and that there he be hanged by the neck until he be dead, and that thereafter his body be buried in such a place as the Governor may direct, and 'may the Lord have mercy on his soul.\n\nAs the prisoner was removed from the dock, he exclaimed, \"It is a false accusation.\"\n\nThe Acting, Attorney-General said he wished to draw his Lordship's attention specially to the services of Sergeant O'Sullivan, who had had charge of this case from the beginning and had collected all the evidence in the case.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General in addressing the jury said his friend on the other side had asked every witness why he did not tell the police of the plot to murder Yeung Kue Wan, and each one had answered that he was afraid of the Chinese Government.\n\nHis Lordship in summing up said the defence of the evidence for the Crown was based on this - that if it had been as the witnesses said, they would have gone to the police or ought to have gone to the police and saved the man Yeung Kue Wan.\n\nThe jury would be justified in accepting it as a fact that he would not have been able to call witnesses to prove that he was not in Hongkong at the time witnesses said he was.\n\nThe Court adjourned.",
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        "content_text": "C \n391 \n\naround which considerable development has occurred since the acquisition of New Kowloon. On the enclosed plan is shown in pink the area allowed by the Land Court as appears from a plan attached to the judgment.\n\n7. This judgment is again very indefinite, and in July last Sir William Gascoigne intimated that he was unable to grant a title to the area as a Marine Lot, with rights of reclamation with the consent of Government in front of the Lot, but would grant a title for an Inland Lot on certain conditions.\n\nSteps were taken to formulate those conditions which would have included provisos as to laying of public sewers and drains across the area, the making of roads across it to give access to the village and district behind the lot, and other cognate matters.\n\n8. Before such conditions were drawn up, however, it was ascertained that the original claimant had sold whatever rights the judgment of the Land Court conferred upon him.\n\nThere being little likelihood of arriving at any agreement satisfactory to the Government with the speculators who had purchased the rights, I decided that it was inexpedient to grant a title in this case and I referred the claim back to the Land Court to assess compensation.\n\n9. These cases being of great importance both on account of the principles involved and the prospective value of the areas claimed, I have approved of Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., who is at present acting as Attorney-General while Sir Henry",
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        "content_text": "## IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION\n\n### BEFORE HIS HONOUR BERKELEY (ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE)\n\n#### THE GAGE STREET MURDER TRIAL\n\nA Liu Chui alias Li Kwai Fan was charged with the murder of Yeung Kue Wan, the Reformer schoolmaster, in Gage Street, on 10th January, 1901. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nMr. E. H. Sharp, KC Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. F. R. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor), conducted the prosecution; and Mr. T. Morgan Phillips, barrister-at-law, was for the defence.\n\nThe following jury was empanelled—Messrs. W. Nicholls, P. Dow, R. Saxon, J. W. Crouch, P. Hardman, J. A. T. Plummer, and A. S. Anton. Foreman, Mr. Dow.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General, in opening the case, said the accused was charged as being a member, in fact the leader, of a gang of four men who committed this deed in concert together. All four of these men had been for some time known to the Crown by name, but the other three unfortunately were not before the Court. They had not been caught and, in all probability, would never be found within the jurisdiction of this Colony, so that they could be caught. The prisoner only returned to Hong Kong last month and was arrested.\n\nThe circumstances of the murder were fairly notorious. Deceased lived at 52, Gage Street, in a corner house fronting upon that street and Aberdeen Street. He rented the whole of the first floor, consisting of a large room and two cubicles and a kitchen in the rear. The ground at the back was almost one storey higher than in front. The first floor was entered by the back from a lane and was on a level with the lane, which practically debouched into Aberdeen Street by a short flight of steps.\n\nDeceased conducted a school for the teaching of English to Chinese boys and young men. The classes commenced at six o'clock. In the large front room, on the evening in question, deceased was sitting at a table in the centre of the room, reading to a class from a book. The door was on the latch for the convenience of pupils arriving late, and it was consequently easy for anybody to enter without attracting any particular attention. The wife of the deceased man, her daughter, and two small children were in the cubicles at the back of the premises.\n\nAbout half-past six o'clock, a man suddenly appeared in the classroom. He was seen for a moment by a few there but not by the deceased. This man walked a certain distance into the room, fairly close up to the table, and suddenly discharged three or four shots at the deceased. The shots took effect, and deceased fell forward onto the table; the pupils fled in panic.\n\nHis Lordship—I presume you are going to prove this—that these officials publicly offered a reward for the man's apprehension or assassination?\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General—I shall prove that.\n\nTam Chung, a Yaumati fisherman, said he made the acquaintance of the prisoner on his uncle's marriage-boat at Yaumati in April, 1900. About July or August of that year, he again saw him on that boat. Prisoner said he had come down from somewhere to look for some business but did not say where from; he stayed on Hollywood Road. Witness went to live with him in the capacity of a cook. He left on the 5th January, 1901. He had pointed out this house to Sergeant Sullivan. During the time he lived with prisoner, he remembered a pilot from the Au Fui coming to the house. On one occasion, he heard the pilot telling the prisoner there was a man named Yeung Kue Wan living in Hong Kong and asking what was his occupation. Li Ka Chuk of the Chinese Government, he said, offered a reward of between $10,000 and $20,000 to anyone who would kill him and also to give several buttons; could the prisoner get someone to kill him? Prisoner said that if there was a reward, he would get someone to kill him. Prisoner asked the pilot to stay for dinner. The pilot not only did so but stayed for several days. Prisoner asked witness to assist him to beat Yeung Kue Wan. Witness said he had classmates trading in this Colony, and it would be very difficult to secure his services. There were six men living in the house. All of these conspired to join the prisoner. He heard the people discussing what they were to do with the deceased; prisoner suggested that he and two others should go down the street, keep a watch on Yeung Kue Wan, and, if he went to a house where there were only a few people present, shoot him; if there were many people, they were not to shoot him; if there were a few people present, shoot him. Witness left the prisoner's house because he was afraid of being implicated. He went back to his uncle's boat on 5th January.\n\n| Name | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tam Chung | Yaumati fisherman, acquaintance of the prisoner |\n| Li Ka Chuk | Mandarin in Canton, offered reward for Yeung Kue Wan's assassination |\n| Yeung Kue Wan | Deceased, Reformer schoolmaster |\n| Li Kwai Fan (Liu Chui) | Accused, leader of the gang |\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General continued his opening statement, detailing the events surrounding the murder. The murder happened about half-past six. Deceased's wife and daughter rushed into the room, found him in a state of collapse. Tsui Fak mounted guard at the junction of Gage Street and Aberdeen Street. Prisoner reconnoitred the back of the house and presently came down and joined his two companions at the foot of the flight of steps. There they had a short conversation, and then the other two men went up the steps and entered the house, the prisoner mounting guard at the corner so as to command Aberdeen Street and the lane at the back of the house. The shots were fired immediately after these two men entered the house. The gang of four got into a sampan and went out to the Harbour.\n\nE. W. Carpenter, P.W.D., was the first witness. He put in and proved plans of the house 52, Gage Street.\n\nDr. Bell gave evidence about the deceased's condition when brought into hospital. He found that the injuries were too serious to allow of the extraction of the bullets. Deceased made a dying declaration implicating the Chinese Government, saying that they had offered a reward of $20,000 for his life.\n\nThe trial continued with further witness testimony, including that of the wife of the murdered man and a young Chinese student who was in the room when the murder was committed.\n\nPage 369  \nPage 501",
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        "content_text": "# \n## IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.\n\n### BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR HENRY S. BERKELEY (ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE),\n\n#### TRIAL OF LUI CHUI alias LI KWAI SAU CHARGED WITH MURDER.\n\nThe trial was continued of Lui Chui alias Li Kwai Sau who was charged with the murder of a Reformer schoolmaster at 52, Gage Street on 10th January, 1901.\n\nMr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., Acting Attorney General (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor), conducted the prosecution; and Mr. T. Morgan Phillips, barrister-at-law, was for the defence.\n\nA Choe, examined by Mr. Sharp, said he was employed at present as a cook on board the `Zafiro`. He knew the prisoner, who was nicknamed \"Sow (jutting teeth)\" by reason of the peculiar formation of his teeth. Witness's brother Chan Lam Tsai was a member of the gang, and was executed because two letters were found in his possession by Li Ka Chuk. Witness had seen and read the letters, which did not relate to the murder directly, simply asking his brother to come down to Hongkong from Canton, as the Government of Hongkong wanted him. One of the letters was sent by Mui (the Chinese for Mr. May, then Captain Superintendent of Police).\n\nCross-examined - Before the death of Kuo Wau, prisoner was unknown to him. Prisoner was not present at the bone of witness's brother and at Li Ka Chuk's barracks in Canton. It was Li Ka Chuk who instructed his brother to carry out the murder. He first saw prisoner at the barracks after the death of Yeung Kue Wan. Witness's brother said in the barracks that the prisoner ran away when he heard shots.\n\nRe-examined - He did not see the ordering or payment of the $2,000 to the prisoner; the orders for the payment of $2,000 each to his brother and Tong Chung.\n\nKong Ngan Ying, a fishmonger from Yanwati, deposed that he first met the prisoner January, 1901, at West Point with Lam Tsai and others. There they went into a teahouse. He knew Lam Tsai. Afterwards he saw that two of the others along with the prisoner were Tung Chung and Tsai Fak. He saw prisoner again on 10th January at West Point in the Street; along with him were Chan Lam Tsai, Tung Chung, and Tsui Fak. They went to an eating-house. After that they went to the house of Ng Lo Sam, whom he had known between ten and twenty years. Li Chi Tin, secretary to Li Ka Chuk, was there; also named Yeung Ching Kai, captain of the braves. Li Chi Tin asked him whether he \"wished to go or not.\" Witness asked \"Go where?\" Li Chi Tin replied \"To go to shoot Yeung Kue Wan.\" Witness said he was not going. Prisoner and the others were all present. Li Chi Tin then said \"Why don't you go? There is a reward of between $10,000 and $200; we, we can be the trevious night, will get an appointment as a mandarin\"; \n\nThe others agreed to go, namely, the prisoner first and did the actual shooting. Tung Chung, Lam Tsai, Tsui Fuk, and Tung Cheung did not go to Hongkong. On the afternoon of 10th January, he saw the gang again, four of them stood in front of Young Kue Wan's house. The prisoner walked ahead of Lam Tsai and the others. Three of the gang received the greater part of the money reward; these were the prisoner, who got $2,000; Lam Tsai $2,000; and Tung Chung $2,100. They also got buttons of the fifth rank, along with the diplomas of rank, one in the possession of his elder brother Lam Tsai and one in the possession of Tung Chung.\n\nChan Wan, fisherman, Yanwati, said he had known the prisoner for several years. He met him on the marriage boat on or about 1st November, 1900. Prisoner asked him to go on shore with him to drink tea and smoke opium in the opium divan. Prisoner said Young Kue Wan was a rebel and the Chinese Government had offered a reward of between $10,000 and $20,000 for his capture; would witness assist him? Witness refused, saying he had not the courage. Prisoner said he did not need to be afraid, as he would get a reward and the Chinese Government would protect him. The reward was to come from Li Ka Chuk. Prisoner said Yeung Kue Wan resided in Hongkong.\n\nWong Shing, fisherman, stated that before the murder he met the prisoner, who asked people to assist him in shooting Kong Kua (Yeung Kue Wan). He refused. Prisoner then asked for the use of witness's boat for the purpose of kidnapping the deceased. Witness refused; his partner A Sum promised. At that time it was mentioned that there would be a reward of $35,000 if Young Kue Wan was killed and $10,000 if he was captured alive, the reward to come from Li Ka Chuk of the Chinese Government.\n\nSergeant E. O'Sullivan stated that he made the arrest acting on the information of Wong Ta Fak. He did not know how Wong Shing came to be in communication with the police. When the prisoner was put in Victoria Gaol he had seen none of the witnesses but Wong Shing. Some days later prisoner was paraded among 13 others for identification and was identified by Kong Ngau Ying. Some time later there was another identification. The witnesses Chan Wau and Tam Chung identified him separately; Chan Chung also identified him.\n\nThe hearing was adjourned at this point.\n\n### CONTINUATION OF TRIAL.\n\nAt a few minutes before seven, Mr. Whyte concluded the evidence of A Choe, and the Court was accordingly adjourned until this morning, and the jury were removed to the Hotel d'Europe.\n\n## THE GAGE STREET MURDER TRIAL SENTENCE.\n\nThe jury retired to consider their verdict at 4:50, returning to the Court at 5 o'clock; and the Foreman announced that the jury unanimously found the prisoner guilty.\n\nHis Lordship directed the prisoner to be asked if he had anything to urge why sentence should not be passed upon him? The Prisoner replied that he did not do it; he had nothing more to say.\n\nMay 23, 1903. His Lordship addressing the prisoner said he had been found guilty of the murder of Yeung Kue Wan. When he said that he did not commit the murder, he meant that it was not his hand that this man met his death, but that he was one of a gang of four men who went to his house for the purpose of killing him and did kill him. The evidence was that the prisoner with Chan Lam Tsai and two others went to deceased's house, that he remained with another man outside to watch, that Lam Tsai and another man went into the house, and that Lam Tsai shot the deceased.\n\nThe sentence of the Court therefore was that he be taken from hence to the place from whence he came and from thence on a day to be fixed to the place of execution, and that there he be hanged by the neck until he be dead, and that thereafter his body be buried in such a place as the Governor may direct, and may the Lord have mercy on his soul.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General in addressing the jury said his friend on the other side had asked every witness why he did not tell the police of the plot to murder Yeung Kue Wan, and each one had answered that he was afraid of the Chinese Government. And were they not safe under the protection of the Hongkong police? he asked. This case was an answer in itself. Yeung Kue Wan was not safe under the protection of the Hongkong police. It was questionable whether even now the lives of the witnesses who had given evidence were safe: it was a matter which it was better perhaps not to go into.\n\nThe Court adjourned.\n\n## CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\nAt Pingto over 150 people were recently burned to death while worshipping in a temple. In burning incense and large quantities of paper, the staircase of the building was set alight, thus preventing all escape. Some jumped out of the windows but were crushed to death. The victims were burned beyond recognition. Others would have jumped but the rush was so great that they could not get out. Most of the victims were burned beyond recognition.",
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        "content_text": "## MURDER OF YEUNG KUI WAN.\n\n503\n\n0.0.\n\n2.082\n\nPrce\n\n20 JUL 03\n\n**Opinion of Hon. E. H. Sharp, K.C., Acting Attorney-General of Hongkong.**\n\nI am of opinion, upon the evidence adduced at the trial of Li Kwai Fan, and upon the Crown Solicitor's note of further statements made by Kong Ngau Ying, Chan Wan, and Tam Tseung that the Crown would be justified in charging Tung Cheung with the murder, as one of the gang which was present at and actually perpetrated the deed.\n\nThe statements of the same witnesses and of Tam Tai concerning Yeung Tsing Kai (the Captain of the Chinese Gunboat \"Kin Yui\"), and the statements of the Kongs and of Mr. May concerning Ng Lo Sam (the police agent in Hongkong), constitute a strong case against these two persons of conspiring to murder together with Tung Cheung, Li Kwai Fan (the condemned man) and Chan Lam Tsai, who has been executed by the Chinese Authorities on suspicion of communicating in the matter with the Hongkong Police.\n\nThere is more evidence to support the charge of conspiracy than that of being accessory before the fact. For example, Kong Kung Ki, Kong Kai, and Mr. May only speak of the unsuccessful attempt which was made by Ma Wong Loi's gang under the direction of Ng Lo Sam in November, 1900, and can prove nothing with regard to the successful attempt by Li Kwai Fan's gang. The discrepancy between the statements of Kong Ngau Ying and Chan Wan as to whether Yeung Tsing Kai was in Hongkong or Canton at the time of the murder I do not regard as very important. He seems to have been frequently here in connection with the plot, and witnesses speaking more than two years after the events might confuse the point.\n\nPage 510\nPage 511",
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        "content_text": "## CO2 \n\n584 \n\nTo Lay sean jin sake add to ednasurje odl sasuri edu lo airdoro sit) led soral musť galinsonos iet nel .1# lo bus aquod edɔ to adnousdede eld Ine, (\"fuŸ atN” JROGNUĆ -1J8800 (anoxquod ni Jasgs sortu, sid) a82 ol gИ shin99c000 ygl of minigenos to enoenea ond cards Jretags $660 gnosje e gjuð (nem benrotnoo mit) net veel od, inced gouf dow reisegod neinun -inodjuk pasoido sdu yd beducexe need and ofw,[net med aví? Lar ancagnon edd JJ *sjden add ar guidesinunnoo to notorgava no E \n\npoint, especially as be played no prominent part on 10th January, 1901.\n\nAs to the higher Chinese Officials, the Crown is unable to prove that either the Viceroy Tak or Li Ka Cheuk (the Commander of the Canton City Guard) knew before the murder that Yeung Kui Wan was in Hongkong. But it cannot be doubted, in view of the evidence as to the rewards given nearly a month afterwards to the members of Li Kwai Fan's gang, that then at any rate these officials were fully cognisant of the circumstances of the crime.\n\nThere is also some evidence to implicate \n| Official | Role |\n| --- | --- |\n| Li Chi Tin | Li Ka Cheuk's Secretary |\n| Ko Ping Shan | one of Li Ka Cheuk's braves |\n| Tsui Fux | another of Li Ka Cheuk's braves and believed to have been a member of Li Kwai Fan's gang |\n\nbut not enough at present I think to warrant proceedings against them.\n\n**(Sa.) E. H. Sharp,**\n6th June, 1903.",
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        "content_text": "# 213\n\nIt became evident that there were strong grounds for believing that in the one case - the known as Ho Lap Pun's claim - the Chinese title deed did not confer any rights over the bed of the sea or to reclamation; while in the other, the Kowloon City case, the title deeds were forged.\n\n4. In the first case, the compensation claimed would in all probability not be less than $50,000, for which it is understood that Ho Lap Pun has either sold or contracted to sell (it is more probable that no sale has actually been effected) whatever rights the award of the Land Court gave him. In the second, the value of the area of the claim allowed by the Land Court has been assessed on behalf of the claimant or his assignees (in this case, as far as the information of the Government goes, a sale has been effected) at $485,000 by a local firm of Architects and Engineers.\n\nIt is true that on behalf of the Government, the value in this latter case has been assessed at less than $20,000. But even that is a large sum to pay for a claim that (if the Government is correctly advised) is based upon fraud.\n\n5. In these circumstances, it was evidently desirable in the public interests that steps should, if possible, be taken to enable the Government to have reviewed by the highest judicial authority the awards of the Land Court in these two cases, and in any other in which a title has not yet been granted by the Governor.\n\nAccordingly, on the suggestion of the Law Officers of the Crown and Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., and with the advice",
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        "content_text": "## The Hongkong Telegraph \n\n**HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1903**\n\n### ACTING APPOINTMENTS \n\nOur evening contemporary, in its issue of yesterday, comments editorially upon the forthcoming changes in the Legal Departments of the Colony, consequent upon the absence on two months' leave of Sir William Goodman, who leaves Hongkong for Japan by the Empress of India on the 22nd inst. According to the **China Mail** the Attorney General, Sir H. Spencer Berkeley, has apparently successfully established his claim as of right with the powers that be to the highest judicial post in the Colony, thus gaining priority over the Puisne Judge, His Honour Mr. Justice Wise and other officials in the Service the merits of whose claims, if weighed in the scale of purely impartial decision deserve better consideration than they have evidently received at the hands of the Executive.\n\nWe are impelled to criticize the present acting appointments from no sinister motive of personal bias against either of the two successful contestants, or greater regard for those who have been passed over without the recognition which is their due. It would, for instance, have been graceful, if not a distinct advantage to the Bench, had the Governor appointed to the Acting Chief Justiceship the Puisne Judge, Mr. A. G. Wise. A good lawyer, thoroughly versed in Chinese customs and the wiles of the Celestial, he could bring to bear upon the discharge of his high acting appointment the experience and practical knowledge which have raised him pre-eminently in public estimation as an exponent of the Bench of the first order.\n\nHonourable as the Attorney General's career has been in Crown Colonies of less importance than Hongkong, he owed his distinguished promotions largely to the peculiar conditions governing the constitution of the colony at the time. When, however, it is a case with Hongkong, the respective claims of individual applicants to promotion must be considered in the light of local merit. Accepting this as an axiom, and there are not many who would dispute it, the preference of the Puisne Judge for the higher judicial office must be admitted as far above that of any officer who can put forward a claim.\n\nOur contemporary refers to a right which Sir Henry Spencer has established in the present case. We have at present no knowledge that any right can be enforced in regard to an acting appointment. As far as we know of the practice regulating the re-adjustment of offices in the Civil Service on account of the absence of any officer, the details are left to be settled amongst the officers departmentally, and reference is subsequently made to the Governor for approval purely as a matter of form. In these cases, it has been the practice for the officers in the lower grades to take up the respective posts on an ascending scale. This rule is not without exception, but nevertheless is one generally accepted as working well in practice. As regards substantive appointments the Colonial Office regulations are definite, and to these we will refer presently.\n\nThe appointment of Mr. E. H. Sharpe, K.C., to be acting Attorney-General was as little expected as it must create surprise amongst officers in the Government service. While congratulating the appointee, there can admittedly be no objection offered by the public for having obtained the services of our senior barrister as legal adviser to the Crown for the short period of two months only. The wonder is that Mr. Sharp should have cared to accept the duties of the office for so short a period. We imagine that the Government might have done better than ignoring the claims of its own servants whenever opportunity arises for promotion or advancement.\n\nIn the legal department we have gentlemen of considerable local knowledge and experience eminently qualified to act in the capacity of Attorney General with credit to themselves and to the advantage of the Colony at large. Amongst the leading legal lights we need mention the names of but two to show that the Government in the choice of their candidates for the Attorney Generalship need not have gone outside the ranks of Service men for their selection. We refer to the Registrar of the Supreme Court and his Deputy both of whose reputations are not confined to the circumscribed limits of the Island, but whose attainments, professional knowledge and distinguished career in the Service of the Crown should have secured for them the full measure of recognition which had been denied them in the past as it is again wrested from them on the present occasion.\n\nWe have always held up for the application of the principles of justice and fairplay in all that concerns the affairs of Government, and in pursuance of that policy and to decry the flagrant injustice of which public servants of lesser influence are made the victims, we do not hesitate to denounce the Government for passing over just claims of worthy officers, by the neglect of whom the efficiency of the public service stands not improbably to suffer.\n\nAn article in a recent number of **Truth** expresses our views so well and is so pertinent to the question under discussion that we make no apology in reproducing it in these columns. 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        "content_text": "# Nos 159\n## The China Mail.\n### HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1903.\n\n## EDITORIAL COMMENT.\n### LEGAL CHANGES.\n\nIt is interesting and sometimes amusing to note the shuffling of the cards in connection with acting appointments in Hong Kong. Even an absence of only two months on the part of the worthy Chief Justice causes a flutter in the legal dovecot. Sir Wm. Goodman goes to Japan for eight or nine weeks, and the honour of occupying the seat of the Chief Justice even for that short period is warmly contested. The old question so frequently raised, that the Attorney General can claim the substantive post by right, was put forward, and Sir Henry Berkeley ascends the Bench, his own duties being performed meantime by Mr E. H. Sharp, K.C. There is a certain amount of dislocation caused by this, although the learned Attorney General obtains the satisfaction of having made the point in his own favour. But no dislocation whatever need have been caused had H. E. the Governor done what has been done before - accepted the services of His Honour Justice Wise, who was, we doubt not, quite prepared to do the double duty for the short time of his colleague's absence. Mr Wise has acted as Chief Justice several times, and always with marked ability; and it seems a pity he was not called upon once again to do so, while doing his own work as well, and thus save the double official changes.",
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        "content_text": "# Extract from Hong Kong Daily Press\n\n## THE DEPARTURE OF SIR HENRY BLAKE\n\n### HONGKONG'S FAREWELL\n\nAfter five years of administration of the government of Hongkong, His Excellency Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G., departed on Saturday to take up the Governorship of Ceylon. The farewell greeting that he got from the community of the Colony was such as to leave a lasting memory in His Excellency's mind of the feelings of respect and affection with which he is regarded by the people of this Colony. Unfortunately, the weather was not auspicious, for it rained steadily all day long and the streets were ankle-deep in mud. Sir Henry Blake was accompanied by Lady Blake and Sir John Keane, A.L.C. The party left Government House shortly after eleven o'clock, in chairs, and proceeded to the City Hall where a large assembly of the citizens had met to present His Excellency with a farewell address. Afterwards, they proceeded to Blake Pier and went by launch out to the P. & O. s.s. Malta by which they are to journey to Ceylon.\n\n### ADDRESS AT THE CITY HALL\n\nFor the occasion, St. Andrew's Hall had been decorated with palm, ferns, and flowers under the superintendence of Mr. W. J. Tutcher of the Botanical and Afforestation Department. A raised platform was placed at the upper end. The Governor's party rode from Government House to the hall by way of Albert Road, past the Government offices into and down Garden Road, and across Queen's Road. The route was lined by the Indian soldiers of the 110th Mahrattas and 93rd Burmas. On arrival at the hall, His Excellency, accompanied by Lady Blake and Sir John Keane, took up his central position on the dais, the assembly standing up meanwhile. When seats had been resumed, His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir William Goodman, wearing his robes, entered by the side door, accompanied by the unofficial members of the Legislative Council and the committee of the Chamber of Commerce as follows: Sir Paul Chater, Hon. Gershom Stewart, Hon. C. W. Dickson, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. Wei Yuk, Messrs. E. A. Hewett, D. R. Law, N. A. Siebs, A. G. Wood, J. R. M. Smith. Among others present in the hall were the Puisne Judge (Mr. A. G. Wise), the Colonial Secretary (Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G.), Hon. L. A. M. Johnston (Acting Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Sir H. S. Berkeley (Attorney-General), Hon. W. Chatham (Director of Public Works), Hon. Basil Taylor (Harbour Master), Hon. A. W. Brewin (Registrar-General), Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Colonel L. F. Brown, Colonel Birdwood, Colonel Wylly, Major Dopping Hepenstall, Messrs. C. A. Tomes, H. W. Looker, H. P. Tooker, A. Ramjohn, M. S. Northcote, H. N. Mody, A. G. Romano, Consul-General for Portugal; T. Liebert, Consul for France; E. Hamman, Consul for Belgium; L. Volpicelli, Consul-General for Italy; E. Mnelle, Consul for Peru, C. Clementi, H. W. Slade, E. H. Sharp, K.C., B. Layton, J. Hastings, H. J. Gedge, K. F. Johnston, Major Radcliff, M. W. Slade, E. A. Hewett, P. W. Sergeant, B. James, Bishop Piazzoli, Rev. Father Beaublat, Procureur des Missions Etrangères; Rev. Fathers Spada, de Maria, and Gabardi, Messrs. Ho Tang, Ho Fook, Ho Kom Tong, Chan Siu Ki, Yong Won Chang, Leung Pia Chi, Taung Shi Kai, Wong Kom Fuk, Lo Koon Ting, Fung Wa Chun, Lo Cheung Shiu, Lam Chi Fung, Chun Law Hung, and Ian Chu Pak; and a good proportion of ladies.\n\nAs the deputation entered the hall, the whole assembly rose to their feet.\n\nSir William Goodman then addressed His Excellency as follows: - Your Excellency,--- We have met here this morning to present to your Excellency an address from the people of this Colony expressing, now that you are about to leave us, their appreciation of your work here as Governor and their hearty good wishes for your success and well-being in the future. I feel it a great honour to have been specially asked to act on this occasion for those who have signed that address, representing, as they do, not only the British residents but also the various nationalities which go to make up the general community of Hongkong;\n\nof 254 November 1987. 5727 \nand in their name, I will ask your Excellency's permission to read that address and then to add a few words by way of personal expression.\n\nSir William then read the following address: -\n\n**To His Excellency Sir Henry Arthur Blake, G.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.**\n\nYour Excellency, - We, the undersigned residents of Hongkong, on the eve of your departure to take up the important post His Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer upon you, desire to express our appreciation of the valuable services rendered to this Colony during your Excellency's term of office here. The administration of a Crown Colony at a distance of more than ten thousand miles from the mother country cannot, even in ordinary times, prove an easy task. We realise that the difficulties attendant upon a peaceful and successful government of this Colony were increased during the earlier period of your Excellency's tenure of office by the disastrous outbreak in the neighbouring Empire, and we are glad to think that at this critical period the government of the Colony was in your able hands.\n\nIt is impossible in the brief space afforded us by an address to go into detail as to the various phases of your Excellency's administration, but we would specially refer to a few of the more important.\n\nDuring your term of office, the boundaries of the Colony have been extended from 27 square miles to 400 square miles, an increase which naturally adds largely to the work of administration, and we rejoice to feel that the disturbances and resistance met with in taking over the New Territory were promptly and decisively overcome, and that the population have since maintained a peaceful and contented attitude, indicating the satisfaction they feel with the system of Government it has fallen upon your Excellency to introduce and administer for the last five years.\n\nThe projects for the erection of various urgently needed public buildings, notably the new Post Office, have been accelerated through your Excellency's personal endeavours.\n\nAmong other questions which have engaged your Excellency's attention has been the extending of the road-system of the Colony, and in particular the opening-up of the New Territory by the construction of the main Tai-po Road.\n\nThe proposed Praya East Reclamation Scheme, the immense importance of which your Excellency was prompt to recognise and strongly advocated, has up to the present been found impossible of execution owing to difficulties with certain of the authorities in England, but we trust that your efforts to secure this desired expansion of the city will ultimately be crowned with success.\n\nThe burning question of the site for the Naval Dock Yard has been dealt with so recently that it is unnecessary here to go into details, but the protest made by the Colony against the Admiralty scheme was warmly supported by your Excellency, who fully recognised the injury it would entail upon the City of Victoria. In this connection, we can assure you that the earnest endeavours made by your Excellency to induce the Naval Authorities to reconsider their adverse decision, and thus secure for the city an unbroken sea-front and its legitimate expansion, will be gratefully remembered.\n\nThe last and most important act of your Excellency's administration in this Colony has been the founding of the Hongkong Improvement Trust, which we are convinced will have far-reaching effects and will confer upon the Colony incalculable benefits which will last so long as Hongkong continues to be a centre for trade in the Far East.\n\nIt is, however, when we consider the health of the Colony, on which our prosperity so vitally depends, that the debt of gratitude which we owe to your Excellency becomes most manifest.\n\nThe all-important question of the Colony's water-supply has occupied much of your attention, particularly the most necessary works which you have inaugurated at ...",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nThese valleys to the north of Ta Li form a considerable market for foreign goods. Among the very attractive Minchia ladies, I fancied that I noticed an unappeased longing for finery, such as cheap laces, ribbons, and Turkey reds, while their capacity for consuming all kinds of sweetstuff is considerable. They share the labours of the sterner sex, and so add to the labour power of the valleys, which they inhabit.\n\nAfter Hei Nui Shao, we continued somewhat north of east, through fine hill country, with fields and scrub, where an exciting pheasant drive was organized, until we saw the wide plain of Hoching, with its 200 villages spread like a chess board at our feet. We descended the windings of a long spur to the level ground, and struck a wide-paved causeway, some 3 miles south of Hoching city. It was market day, and the traffic was very heavy. Many of the hill Minchia women near Hoching have retained their native kilts and the men their arms, leather shoes, and felt or fur caps, so that they present a picturesque aspect on their return home from market.\n\nHoching Valley can be recommended to the attention of those who would have us believe that Yunnan is a poverty-stricken wilderness. The plain is about 24 miles by 5 miles, and contains about 200 villages, excellently built. The city itself has about 12,000 inhabitants, and is clean and well built, with but little empty space in the walls. The streets are densely crowded every ten days for the market. The place is an important salt and opium entrepôt, and the general prosperity of the inhabitants attracts all sorts of trade. Even dried lichees from Canton may be bought at stalls on the streets. A weaving industry is now springing up, yarn being brought under transit pass from Teng Yueh. I think that the great majority of the people are still clad in Hsin Hsing or Shasi cloth, and only about eighty muleloads of Manchester goods per annum are sold in Hoching, but throughout the valley, the chance of extending Burmah trade seems excellent; some of the merchants with whom I conversed are well acquainted with the commercial advantages offered by the opening of the Teng Yueh Customs; indeed, they stated that before that event, the foreign trade of the valleys north of Ta Li was exceedingly risky, owing to the irregular imposts of all sorts to which it was exposed. The crushing impositions of the Teng Yuch and Yung Chang tax collectors formed but a part of the mischief. I have already noticed the mules of Hoching.\n\nLeaving the North Gate of Hoching, the stone causeway passes some lagoons, and leaving the valley bottom, leads over some downs and through some firwoods to the li-kin station of Chi Ho. The valley is well peopled all along, and the traffic on the road is very considerable.\n\nThe next day we crossed the rocky col of the Lion Hill (Ssu Tzu Shan) and a gentle descent through firwoods brings the traveller out on to the wide plain of Li Chiang. The river which waters the Hoching Plain issues from the north-east of the Lichiang Plain, flows south, under the east foot of the Lion Pass, and so down the Hoching Valley, from the south-east corner of which it issues and joins the Yang-tsze.\n\nLichiung-fu, the Snow Mountain, and the Yang-tsze Bend.\n\nWhile descending from the Lion Pass to the Lichiang Plain, the clouds which had obscured for some days the tops of the ranges, among which we had been travelling, slightly lifted, and disclosed the sharp snow-striped triple peak of the snow mountain, towards which we had been marching for five days. The lower slopes of the mountain were still enfolded in mist, and the impression given was one of enormous height. The Lichiang Snow Mountain—it has no other name—is known far and wide among the natives, and the geographical problems regarding the country at its feet are of sufficient interest to merit a particular description.\n\nThe Lichiang Plain may be considered as divided into three portions, first there is the main valley with the Lion Pass on the south, the city and the range at the back of it on the north, and the hills crossed by the high road from Lichiang to the Yang-tsze and Yung-peh on the east. This covers about 40 square miles, and is, roughly, 8 miles by 6 miles. Then there is the northern section of the plain, which runs up at the back of the city along the east flank of the Snow Mountain for some 9 miles, and, thirdly, over a low col on the west of the main plain, there is the Lashi Pa, a circular valley, with a diameter of 4 miles, sloping gradually down on all sides to a lake in the ...\n\n11\n\n...middle. The main road from Lichiang, west to the Ashi Ferry, on the Yang-tsze, en route to Thibet, runs along the north of this lake, while the road to Chien Chuan skirts the south-east of it, passing under the Wen Pi, or Pencil Hill, a conspicuous wedge-shaped peak, which overhangs the south-west of the main valley. The Pencil Hill, together with the Snow Mountain, balances the geomantic influences, and secures the prosperity of Lichiang.\n\nThe Lichiang Valley possesses a good dark soil which is suitable for opium. Little rice is grown, but the dry land cereals abound. The population is not so dense as that of Hoching Valley, the villages being smaller and further apart. The city itself contains about 8,000 inhabitants, and is situated on the north of the valley near the great snow peak which can be seen from nearly every street corner. It is quite unlike any other prefectural city in China; in the first place, it is at an altitude of 8,100 feet; in the second place there is no wall, the Magistrate's Yamên being quite out in the country; thirdly, streams of pure water issuing from the Dragon pool of the Lung Wang Miao to the north of the city flow alongside the pavement, houses and shops being pleasantly diversified with gardens and orchards; fourthly, it is at the foot of a great snow mountain; and fifthly, the majority of the inhabitants are not Chinese. The houses on the outskirts of the city are well built in the Minchia style, while the centre of the city is a square market-place, where a busy daily market is held. From this square branch three business streets of small wooden shops, where the sellers of cotton cloth, Thibetan wools, and copper and iron-workers are conspicuous. There is also a small paper industry, the paper being made from the bark of the kou tree, while a number of Chinese medicine and musk buyers frequent the place.\n\nTo the north of the city runs the north section of the plain under the east flank of the snow hill; this plain is closed on the north by the spurs through which the Hei Shui, or Blackwater Stream, runs eastward to the Yang-tsze. At the south end of this plain, some 5 miles west of Lichiang, is the market of Pei Sha and several villages, but further north it is barren, stony, and windswept.\n\nSome 6 miles west of Lichiang city a low col which joins the Snow Mountain to Pencil Hill divides the main section of the plain from the Lashi section. Lashi Pa, with its lake, is densely populated and has twenty large villages. Quantities of rice are grown and a number of beasts are bred. The whole of the Lashi Pa is surrounded by pine-clad heights and presents a very beautiful view.\n\nThe inhabitants of the Lichiang Plain and its dependencies fall under three heads: These are the Chinese, mostly immigrants from Hoching; the Minchia, who are chiefly in the south of the valley; and the so-called \"pun ti,\" or natives. These latter call themselves Lashi, and though their language is not the same as that of the Ku Tsung Thibetans of Chung Tien, the difference seems to be dialectic only, and I cannot doubt that the Lashi are the most southern branch of the true Thibetan stock. Their sepia complexion, their fondness for lamaseries and woollen garments and their high cheek bones all proclaim their affinity. The young women usually wear hats like Chinamen, but with long tassels and gilt embroidery. The Lashis form the majority of the inhabitants of Lichiang city, the bulk of the population of Lashi Pa, and they seem to entirely monopolize the Yang-tsze bend. In the latter country their houses are often made of nothing but wood, while substantial log-huts in the Canadian backwoods style are supplied for the cattle. The Lashi mostly speak a little \"pidgin\" Chinese, and have ancestral tablets in their houses. They are friendly and hospitable, good carpenters and blacksmiths, and it is to be hoped that their language and history will be studied by some traveller who has time. It will probably be found that they are closely related to the Mosso tribe on the Upper Mekong.\n\nThe inhabitants of Lichiang are sportsmen, and fond of falconry. The hawks, which they fly at pheasants and ducks, are heavy birds, and a good deal of care is spent in looking after them.\n\nI am able to throw some light on the question of the Yang-tsze bend to the north of Lichiang. M. Bonin, the well-known French traveller, who in 1894 went from Yang-tzse bend to Ashi, and, having crossed the Tang-tsze there, proceeded north-east to Tachienlu, surmises that the course of the Yang-tsze was wrongly marked on our old maps, and that the river makes a great curve to the north from Ashi, sweeping round to the south again from a point a little to the south of Yung Ning. I can confirm the truth of M. Bonin's suggestion; there is, in fact, no doubt about the matter. It is perfectly well known to the Yamens at Lichiang that if you go from the city to the Chin Chiang (Golden River), as the Yang-tsze is locally known, in a westerly direction, you strike the stream at Ashi, one long day's march. If you go in an easterly direction you reach the stream on the second day from Lichiang on the Yung-peh road; but if you go in a northerly direction you have to travel six days from Lichiang to reach the Yang-tsze at the northern apex of the bend. The concave or south side of the bend is all in the jurisdiction of Lichiang, while the convex bank belongs to Yung-peh, Yung Ning, and Chung Tien respectively.\n\nThe other question is the trend of the range of which the Lichiang Snow Mountain is such a conspicuous feature. On a survey sketch published by the Government of ...\n\nE.\n\n249",
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        "content_text": "Sir:\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nRec C.O. 37040396 Red 15 OCT 03\n\nOctober 13th, 1903.\n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies has communicated to me copies of four despatches from the Governor of Hong Kong dated June 17th, June 18th, June 18th and June 19th respectively, with regard to the murder in Hong Kong on January 10th 1901 of Yeung Kui Wan, a member of the Chinese reform party.\n\nYou will no doubt have been furnished by His Excellency with full particulars of this case, but I transmit to you a copy of the opinion on the case of Mr Sharp, the Acting Attorney-General.\n\nIn view of the serious disclosures at the trial of Lui Chui alias Li Kwai Fan who was sentenced to death for the murder, Sir H. Blake requested Mr. Sharp to consider and advise upon what evidence there was in the possession of the Hong Kong Government, upon which others not yet brought to justice could be proceeded against, and of the alleged\n\nE. Satow, G.C.M.G.,\n\n    &c., &c., &c.,\n\nPage 360\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "772\n\nthe correspondence attached thereto, if it had been sent have any\n\nas requested by myself.\n\nI had prom\n\ndenying the\n\nThe reply while not denying my claim,\n\nthat any\n\nthe gross assault used\n\nit had caused much\n\npublic scandal (the) he saw no\n\n6\n\ninterfere, although, I may add, the assault was\n\ncommitted during office hours\n\nand in official capacity and before\n\nwitnesses.\n\n7. The day after the affair his H.E. Blake,\n\nhad allowed the insult and assault to be\n\ncommitted with impunity, an Executive\n\nCouncil meeting was\n\nconvened and the alleged Commission appointed composed\n\nof Mr. W\n\nand a Technical man\n\nKerry.\n\nThe man who insulted me, Mr. Thomson, the young clerk whom I had been obliged to report for making false charges against my department, Mr. Sharp, the local K.C. (the friend of Mr. Wenfordman whom it was told me by men of Anglican (M.G.K.\n\nthe leading critic in\n\nHall Krutton, had been touting the clients\n\nas they could agree on evidence against\n\nme\n\nand\n\nCA\n\nouthy and support them (foodman)\n\nand her. Deacon, a solicitor and cousin\n\nof M.\n\nmay.\n\n8. Then, the Commission set to work,\n\nnot to enquire into the general working of the\n\nRegistry at all, for\n\nthe clerks of\n\nthe Comm.\n\nThe Court.\n\nChinese assistants were\n\ncalled\n\nJustice Wire has change was purposely left out and his clash never examined, undoubtedly\n\nfor good reasons, no visit was paid to the\n\nRegistry concerning the general working of the\n\nnothing\n\nRegistry consequent into at all, not one word of this vast improvement had\n\nor the efficient\n\nMa\n\nEffected Registry\n\nin the\n\nup-to-date\n\nstate\n\nof the\n\nWhary\n\nmentioned,\n\non the bench.\n\nreading\n\n15\n\nfarce, lying\n\nIn \"evidence\" which I could only obtain\n\nafter repeated requesting, I found that this\n\nviz. was\n\nand unfounded charges being brought\n\nagainst\n\nme again and again\n\nin a reckless\n\nmanner without the slightest\n\nhesitation, evidently coming from\n\nthose having left this to them\n\nsurely tech",
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        "content_text": "Grove Lodge\n\nPortchester, Hants\n\n[Date]\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nI am writing to express my deep disappointment and frustration at the treatment I have received during my service. I have been the victim of a scandalous conspiracy, and I fear that my professional career has been ruined by interested persons.\n\nI have been in the service for 8 years, and during this time, I have not received the slightest consideration in the way of acting or temporary appointments. On the contrary, appointments have repeatedly been given to others to my detriment. I informed Mr. Wilson of the situation before I returned 4 years ago, but he did not credit what I told him, and the result has been my being kept in a subordinate position.\n\nThe matter has ended in one scandalous and barefaced conspiracy, the details of which I will now give you. Sir William Robinson, before leaving for Japan last April, made recommendations, inter alia, of his friend Sharp, as Acting Attorney-General, which did not meet with my approval.\n\nI hope that the scandalous injustice done to me will be thoroughly rendered, and that I shall at last meet with the recognition that I deserve.\n\nI remain,\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nYour very obedient servant,\n\nC.A. Lucas, Lyme, C.K.\n\nColombo, Chamber 5, 1903\n\nP.S. I trust you will excuse the length and plainness of my letter.\n\nPage 16\n\nNote that I have made the following changes:\n- Reorganized the text into coherent paragraphs\n- Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"cus\" to no correction as the original word is not clear, \"vommendatory\" to \"commendatory\", \"Deriousness\" to \"seriousness\", \"brou\" to \"you\", \"Decreting\" to \"decrying\", etc.)\n- Removed extra spaces and added missing spaces to improve readability\n- Rejoined broken sentences\n- Restored paragraph breaks where necessary\n- Indicated missing words with \"...\" (not necessary in this case)\n- Formatted the text in HTML using  for paragraphs\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instruction to output only HTML using \n\n for paragraphs (and \n only if absolutely necessary) without markdown or code fences, the output is already in the correct format.",
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        "content_text": "which at all times it is difficult to sustain when there is the slightest tension between these in authority\n\n<\n\naver them that notice taken have been taken by the cited ansault and he was atri...\n\nespecially\n\nleast conned they\n\nproper course could have been taken this matter to His Police Court and I should have done so without the\n\nand the plenty of anyone\n\nwork then\n\n781\n\nleine\n\nand mistake charges\n\ntime with her. ShunterShard beport the sweer ze being Shingh his inexperience light false\n\nqaistery Department) – of me. Sherp, and\n\nof Mr. Decision, consing Mr. May. hr. Sharp, instructed by his W. foodman\n\ntouting for\n\nwitnesses - I say The lawyers\n\na\n\nwhich\n\ny\n\nHighest hesitation had the hunt been cumpires to a different out of a total\n\nclan\n\n✓\n\nI home all along\n\n•\n\nin the matter\n\nI\n\nLuk\n\nд\n\nwere in\n\nto c\n\nedivedly, auginning\n\nin my favor and who were not. 26 practising plications, hn. 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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\nC.O.\n\n461\n\n1 15815\n\nJANM\n\nCrown Solicitor's Office,\n\nHongkong, 23rd March, 1904.\n\nSir,\n\nLand Court Cases 'U' and 'K' and Ho Lap Pun\n\nCompensation claims and appeals.\n\nCheung Sha Wan Foreshore Case.\n\nI have the honour to forward a list of the fees of Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., in connection with the above cases in which Mr. Sharp was retained and instructed by me on behalf of the Crown under the authority of various C.S.O. papers bearing on the subject.\n\n2. These fees cover a period from June 1903 to January 1904 and amount to $1,500. I have been through the list with Mr. Sharp and he expresses himself satisfied with the amount; I consider that the fees are very reasonable and recommend that they should be paid.\n\n3. In connection with the same matters, I have the honour to submit an application for the consideration of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government for special remuneration for my work in connection with these cases.\n\n4. Prior to April 1903, I had nothing to do with any Land Court business, and I regarded it as entirely outside the scope of my duties to the Government, dealing as it does exclusively with property in the New Territories, and with questions of Chinese Land Law and Custom as to which no English or locally qualified lawyer has in the ordinary course any training, knowledge or experience.\n\nHon. A. K. Thomson,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "665\n\nBOARD ROOM,\n\nINLAND REVENUE,\n\nSOMERSET HOUSE.\n\n23rd February, 1912.\n\nMy Dear Anderson,\n\nThe reception you gave to the last letter in which I told you what I knew of a man who had been suggested for certain employment under your Department was scarcely encouragement to me to write again in a similar matter. I have, however, been asked to give to an application support which I did not like to refuse.\n\nThe request was made by Mr. E. Sharp, K.C., who is desirous of being considered for the appointment of Attorney General at Hong Kong, should a vacancy arise. Dr. Sharp, who was then practising privately in the Colony, was taken on temporarily to do the work of Attorney General for some time, while Sir Henry Berkeley was acting as Chief Justice, when I was Governor.\n\nThis was corresponding to the most critical period as far as Hong Kong observance/neutrality was concerned, of the Russo-Japanese war, and the advice given to me by Mr. Sharp on the various difficult questions that arose was, I think, in all instances perfectly sound. You will no doubt have reports",
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        "content_text": "Reports from me on his work among your office records. You will probably find there also recommendations of Mr. Sharp sent in by May at the time he was acting Governor. I would add that it is some five years since Mr. Sharp was in Hong Kong, and that during those years he has been practising before Privy Council largely in cases coming from the Eastern Colonies.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nMatthew Nathan\n\nMay\n\nEtte\n\nDear Sir,\n\n9 September 1909\n\nManusi, who is a cousin of lawns at firamente, Kote the receipt from better at Hong Kong ~11, PEMBRIDGE SQUARE W.\n\nof the 4th instant strongly recommending me. Ext. 6 6 6 Sharp for the Attorney General or elsewhere in the event?\n\nLt. Col.\n\nSi Maitlus Nashan\n\nJos The EELS.\n\nRE game\n\ndear Harris,\n\nWill you\n\nstrong\n\n\"September 4 1909\"\n\nindorse this\n\nRecommendation\n\nas application it succeeds.\n\nI do not know any possibility of the Attorney Generalship becoming vacant in the next future. If it does, Mr. Sharpe has the claim to fill it due to having twice acted in the appointment.\n\nAfter re-examining the text and following the instructions:\n\n1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"foufic\" is not present, \"Septembur\" to \"September\", \"Manusi\" potentially incorrect but left as is due to unclear context, \"firamente\" potentially incorrect, \"min tant\" to \"instant\", \"fineneralatin\" to \"General\", \"pobedility\" to \"possibility\", \"dres\" potentially incorrect but left as is, \"apportment\" to \"appointment\", \"Elaine\" potentially incorrect but left as is).\n2. Fixed spacing issues.\n3. Rejoined broken sentences where logical.\n4. Restored paragraph breaks.\n5. Indicated missing words with `...` if necessary, but none were clearly missing.\n6. Did not rephrase or rewrite the text.\n7. Formatted in HTML as requested.\n\nThe original text appears to be a collection of letters and recommendations regarding Mr. Sharp's potential appointment as Attorney General in Hong Kong. The text has been corrected for spelling and spacing errors and formatted into paragraphs. Some names and words remain unclear or potentially incorrect due to the quality of the original OCR output.",
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        "content_text": "Confidential\n\nThe question of muf leave. But as onglet perhaps to legal experience mention that, after taking MA and at Oxford, called to the ban at Inner Temple in 1891, and practised here till went to Haughang in 1894.\n\nM practice in Circuit, then administering Mr May, who wrote letter to the Secretary of State for the Colonies in four some of 670 C. O. 2011 Government office.\n\n\"May 1904 the honor to transmit for your consideration. I have the Enclosed copy of letter from A.E.H. Sharp K.C. this Colony applying for the post of Attorney General in the Event of a vacancy occurring in the near future.\n\nI believe that Sir William Goodman attains the pensionable age in the spring of next year. His health suffered too much during the last hot season and is at present so indifferent that it is more than probable that he will retire at the age of 55.\n\nIn this Colony with due to strong bar and a numerous and highly technical body of solicitors, whose services are available to a rich community, ready to contend for anything to which they imagine they are entitled; and owing to the extremely high value of property, intricate questions concerning the rights of property owners are constantly arising; and where the rapid growth of population and expansion of trade requires the consideration of legislative measures of more than ordinary importance, it is very necessary that the Government should be able to command the best legal advice in the Colony.\n\nMr E. H. Sharp is admittedly the leading Counsel in the Colony at the present time and is acknowledged on all hands as an extremely clever and sound lawyer. I consider that this Government would be fortunate in gaining his services and would benefit greatly by his appointment to the post of Attorney General, should a vacancy occur in the post next Spring.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nI have the honor etc.\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nAmaz\n\nOffice Administering the Government\n\nTo Sir Arthur Lyttelton K.C. M.P.\n\nPage 9\n\n...\n\nmade King's Counsel there in 1902, and General Attorney during the Blake Governorship of in 1903-4 and acted as will in 1904-5 during Sir Henry Blake's Governorship.\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "Confidential\n\nCopy of a letter from Mr. E.H. Sharp, The Office Administering the Government\n\nHis Excellency\n\nC.O. 671/20\n\nHis Excellency Sir H.H. Smyth, K.C.M.G.\n\ndated 30th April 1904\n\nGovernment House.\n\nMy Dear Sir,\n\nWith regard to your Excellency's recent proposal to appoint me acting Attorney General during the absence on leave of Sir William Goodman, I understand that he will probably return. In this event, and as the late Sir Henry Berkeley being appointed in his stead, I should, I think you know, be very glad to succeed to the post of Attorney General. May I ask you to forward an application therefor, and to lay it before the Secretary of State with any remarks which you see fit to make?\n\nAs to my legal experience, I should perhaps mention that after taking M.A. and B.C.L. degree at Oxford I was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1891. I then practised in London and the Midland Circuit for three years, till I came here to practise in 1902, and acted as Attorney General while Chief Justice last year when Sir Henry Berkeley was away.\n\nI was made King's Counsel in 1903.\n\nI am, my dear Sir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(Signed) E.H. Sharp.",
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        "content_text": "Bor\n\nJohnson\n\nI fear\n\nLan\n\nharrish a beg\n\nIsland on\n\nIincline brend this 52.0. Enginn\n\nif they do not accept the forts new thing\n\nhight include it in the Aufjects the sette\n\nI then Officer whom they\n\nAre\n\nLending one-\n\none Lie\n\nCol. Lewis what starts on the 15 Dect]\n\nMr Fiddes\n\n28\n\nI think this shows that\n\nthis socalled Mily.\n\nReserve\n\na\n\nI suspected when we wrote to Wo. on 21135, only provisionally reserved, & not handed\n\naven\n\nto the spelove\n\nactual\n\norcatation of wet and therefore in different category from the Park area. over wh the wo. actically exercised. it's rights for many years;\n\ntherefore\n\nMr Sharp's opinion in end. 2\n\nof the\n\nnight.\n\nWe do not seem\n\neeermo\n\nthat wo\n\nEd be debited th the sums\n\nsupposed in\n\n11, & not he rely with\n\ne agricultural\n\nlue of the land)\n\nwas decided land\n\nwa be\n\npurposes,\n\nsecand\n\n211357 V\n\nas\n\npar of\n\nhow much of the\n\nrequired for mily presumed in the 138\n\nthis office\n\nbr\n\nthat accordingly the proporal\n\ndefinitive handing\n\naver of the land only\n\ntakes place now, & therefore falls within the conditions of the Cires of\n\ndid not take place '90 = '94,9\n\n'87 before the date of those circulars: I add that even\n\nthis contention\n\nof\n\ned. not be legally sustained\n\nwo night\n\nreason bly expected to\n\nthe\n\nsha equitably take into conson. the fact that considerable area\n\nthe bol. foot for\n\nprov reserved possible Mily\n\nby\n\nChrist\n\nhanded over to\n\nWo. shortly before the circular of 1590 came into \"operation, wh. consequently the Wo received gratis, wh cd. not have been the case if the lands had\n\nbn reserved\n\n01\n\nhanded over\n\ndate of that circular; have not\n\nyet\n\nasked for in\n\nread.\n\n0-221\n\nafter the\n\nI add that we\n\nthe further inf\n\n022\n\npromontorcatory 8911 giving\n\npromised\n\nsend copy four es\n\nto\n\nhave\n\nany\n\nrecord\n\nto\n\naver\n\noft at\n\n15 artes provisionally, handed\n\nWO. in 1891,\n\n9\n\nin writing\n\nyou, point out that the\n\narea\n\nin\n\nqueetn\n\nto wo\n\nas proposed by\n\ndoes not appear to the D. of D. to have become Mily. F and in 18.\n\n1887\n\nbut merely been land wh. the bol. Govt. not to dispose of until it\n\nto have\n\nagreed\n\n2.1135\n\nthe further\n\nto you.\n\nlo. to\n\n18/73\n\nmart\n\nletter pressing. Dr.\n\n13712\n\nacting as to the laws grow your\n\nthat if the tow.0.in 1891, Observing,\n\n14/12 not retransferred to toting it is presumed that\n\nthe W.0. her bei debited with this valueless agricultural value) in the Weil Land Auct wnow\n\nThe Consular of logo tso informe W.0.",
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        "content_text": "139\n\nthe Military Reserve I find that the one to the North was granted as War Department land in 1859 and that the centre one on which the Barracks stand was so granted in 1891, the boundaries of the latter being subsequently slightly modified. It does not, however, appear that any formal documents were prepared except the plans. The Southern site was granted for a redoubt in 1894. It is not proposed to question the War Department's ownership to these sites.\n\n11. Deducting their area 80 acres there remains within the chain dotted line on the plan, of which a copy has been furnished to your Department by the War Office, an area of 142 acres which the Director of Public Works values as follows:-\n\nPremium:- 142 acres @ 3 cents per Square Foot.... $186,219.00\n\nCrown Rent:- 142 acres @ $100 per acre .... $14,250\n\nTotal.... $200,469.00\n\nand this at 25 years purchase.. $356,250.00\n\na valuation Mr. P. N. H. Jones states to be low in view of the extensive sea frontage of the site, its accessibility from Victoria by the recently opened tramway, and its obvious advantages as a Sanitarium.\n\n12. Pending the acceptance of this valuation by the Army Council the local Military Authorities have been put in exclusive possession of the land.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nEnclosure 2. 4th October, 1904.\n\nP.S. Governor, &c..\n\nI annex a copy of a minute by Mr. E. H. Sharp, Attorney-General, endorsing the views expressed in paragraphs 4 and 5 of this Despatch.",
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        "content_text": "35\n\nThey would be glad to hear that the Secretary of State concurs in this opinion.\n\nI am to add that the Crown Rents of Marine Lot No. 36 (adjoining the Briquette Factory site) and of Sharp's Buildings (Marine Lots Nos. 20 and 21) were capitalized in exactly the same way, i.e. at 25 years purchase, and the above remarks apply equally to these properties, the freehold of which should also be properly vested in the Admiralty by Deeds.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nEvan Macchekan",
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        "content_text": "who made the first settlement in Ming Kwang. It appears that from early times the Tso family have been in the habit of interfering in Kachin affairs over in the N'maikla watershed. A tributary of the N'maikha—which I identify with some doubt as the Klan Sheng River—is known to the Ming Kwang Chinese as Kun Ma,\" or Rolling Horse River; and the legend is that once when, in the reign of Kang Hsi, early in the present dynasty, the Tso were on the war-path over the watershed, their General, Hsu Erh Ye, rode a very valuable horse, which tumbled down the precipice, and, rolling into the river, was seen no more.\n\nTso Erh Kuan, who met his death from a Mauser bullet at Hparé, was a Jingo, and seems to have had a great local reputation as a fighting man, though he was not well informed as regards modern weapons of precision. He was constantly in the habit, in alliance with Yang's people from Lower Ming Kwang, of trading, raiding, and smuggling as far as the N'aikha, and beyond. Now, it is quite impossible that the late Tso can have put in the field anything like the numbers which opposed Mr. Hertz. His people, all told, must be under 2,000, and they are all of them timid and simple-minded peasants, who certainly have no liking for villainous saltpetre. The fact seems to have been that Tso's reputation was such that he was able to collect round him all the dacoits, smugglers, and bad characters of the country-side, and it is an open secret that he received moral and material support from Teng Yuel. There is, I think, not the least fear that the present Teng Yueh officials, or the present heads of the Tso family, will take any action likely to cause a recurrence of such an incident as the Aparé fight. The Tso family is obviously out at elbows, and their control, even over villages on their own side, is of a very shadowy description.\n\nOn the 12th March, in very wet weather, I commenced an inspection of the upper waters of the Ming Kwang River by a march to the crest of the watershed at the pass known as Ta Ya Kou, which leads to Hparé. We ascended the valley along the banks of the main Ming Kwang River, known as the Ta Ho, for 14 miles, and then turned up a side valley in a north-west direction and ascended by a small stream known as the Cha Shan Ho. The track was a good mule-path, leading up a broad valley with patches of copse and bracken, and surrounded by snow-powdered mountains. We passed four or five Lisaw huts, until, at 6 miles, we mounted through dense bamboo jungle by a steep and difficult path to the lesser pass (8,900 feet), where, in the dense virgin forest, there is a small fort, about 20 feet square and 12 feet above ground, with a cellar 5 feet below the ground. This fort is loopholed and commands the approach from Hparé. It can only be entered from behind by an underground passage some 20 yards long, with two sharp corners in it. This fort was built by the Lower Ming Kwang Chief, Yang, after the fight with the British at Hparé in 1899. It is said to have employed 100 men for a month, and I can well believe it. Descending from the small pass through a wild forest we crossed the brook of Hsiao Tang Ho, and then, ascending over snow by a tedious but not difficult slope, reached the watershed at 9,500 feet, about 12 miles from Ta Chai. The summit of the pass is covered with forest trees and huge rhododendrons, festooned with lichen. The trees and the mist prevented anything like a view towards the N'maikha, and the damp was such that we quite failed to light a fire. There are no inhabitants between the main valley of the Ming Kwang and the top of the pass, except the few Lisaws mentioned above; but camping-grounds and the remains of fires prove that the route is frequently used. The first village on the N'maikba side is Shang P'a Li (Upper Hpare), which is said to be about as far from the divide as the divide is from the Ming Kwang River.\n\nThe general name used by the Chinese for the country on the N'maikha side, east of the Chung Shan i.e., the valley of the Upper Khan Sheng—is \"Cha Shan\" (Tea or Camelia Hills). Ming Kwang men occasionally go over to barter salt and cotton clothes to the Kachins for hemp, sandals, beeswax, \"huang lien\" (the rhizomes of a jungle plant used as medicine), and other jungle produce.\n\nOn the 13th March I struck camp from Ta Chai and proceeded up the main Ming Kwang Valley, here about 1 mile wide, with forest-clad hills on both sides. Here I noticed an old proclamation by the Teng Yueh official, which threw some light on the politics of Ming Kwang after the Eparé affair. This document recites a petition received from the widow of Tso Erh Kuan, in which she states that her husband having died in defence of his country, she wishes to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Her son was an infant, and the soldiers sent from Teng Yuch to Ming Kwang (there are none there now) were so disorderly that a lone woman like herself could no longer keep the public peace. It seems to have been in consequence of this that the lady's brother-in-law was appointed \"regent.\"\n\nPage 7\n\nFor the first 2 miles we passed pádi fields and three villages of the Tso clan; then the country became wilder, with only very sparse cultivation, but with extensive pastures.\n\nAs we approached nearer to the watershed the scenery became very grand. The valley itself consists of wide bracken slopes, with patches of grass and marsh dotted with clumps of bamboo and oak scrub; pheasants abounded, and I shot several of the large wood-snipe. At 5 miles from Tar Chai we passed a wide lateral valley formed by the Hsiao Tang Ho River (see above), up which runs the track to Tzá Chu. The huts of Lisaw peasants and a few recent Chinese squatters were spread about, and we passed several shepherd's encampments. All around us were great forest-clad hills with snow-powdered summits. At 7 miles, still marching east, we passed another stream, the Lai Shih Tou Ho, which flows down from the divide. At 8 miles we passed the Lisaw hamlet of She Li Shu (ten houses) situated on the further side of the Ming Kwang stream, and shortly after through a gap in the hills to the north-east we caught a glimpse of the snow-clad Salwen divide with peaks rising to 12,000 feet. Here the Ming Kwang Valley contracts for about 4 miles, and bearing round to the north we entered on the narrow plain (1 mile broad) of Ta Chu Pa, which leads straight up to the head-waters of the Ta Ho, or Ming Kwang, River, undoubtedly the true source of the Shweli. Ta Chu Pa is sparsely inhabited by some twenty Lisaw families. We passed the house of the local headman subject to Ming Kwang, and after a march of 13 miles camped by a stockade at 7,300 feet. Inside the stockade we found the Chinese agent of a Teng Yueh coffin-wood firm, \"Fu Sheng Hsiang,\" who arranges for the transport of the timber from the banks of the Ngaw Chang, tributary of the N'maikha, to Teng Yueh, mostly on the backs of Ming Kwang coolies. He complained bitterly of having to live in such a place, like Ovid among the Getae, stockaded against bandits and wolves, and with no society but that of a few Lisaw. Personally I found the Chu Pa Valley a delightful spot. There was hardly any cultivation, the whole being covered with bamboo jungle, marshes and bracken, where there was excellent pheasant shooting. The mountain scenery all round the valley is especially grand and impressive. There is excellent camping ground, and abundance of water, fuel and grass, but no supplies. As regards the bandits, it is undoubtedly true that the whole of this country and the Upper Salwen Valley are unsafe and infested by small bands of Chinese outlaws and \"black\" Lisaws, who are impelled by famine to resort to pillage on passing coolies. I met two small parties of these gentry, but saw little of them save their heels; they would seem to be respecters of persons. I do not think that a prudent and well-armed foreigner runs much danger of being attacked. At Ta Chai I was solemnly assured that there were forty robbers on the pass above Chu Pa; I got to Chu Pâ, and then, according to the Chinaman there, these forty had dwindled down to four, and when, on the next day, I ascended the pass itself not one even of these four men in buckram put in an appearance.\n\nThe coffin-wood firm mentioned above has recently spent 600 rupees in making the pass of Ta Ho Toú (\"source of the main river\") and the track beyond it down to the Ngawchang River passable for mules; the agent valued the turnover of his firm at about 6,000 rupees annually.\n\nThe day after arriving at Ta Cha I resolved to follow up this track to the watershed. We marched up the right bank of the Ta Ho, here little more than a brook, and over some marshy land, and then through a very dense bamboo brake in a narrow gorge between cliffs—a fit place for treasons, stratagems and spoils. Leaving on our right a trail which leads east to the Salwen divide, we ascended in a northerly direction. The weather was very bad, sleet and snow falling continuously. The dense forest through which we passed was soaked and dripping with moisture, and the rough track was a foot deep in slush, snow, and mud. It would be hardly passable for mules except in dry weather. After three and a half hours we reached the watershed at the Ta Ho Toú pass, 9,100 feet, in a very bedraggled condition. The source of the Ming Kwang River, and therefore of the Shweli, is a few miles to the east-north-cast of this pass. By this route there is constant communication between Ming Kwang and the Upper Ngaw Chang. The first village reached on the maikho side is Pien Ma, which appears to be a Kachin village at a considerable elevation, as the Chinese say it is as cold as Ta Chu Pa. Pien Ma is two days' journey for a man from Ta Chu Pa, the night being spent in a cave; but laden mules require three days. Mules, I was told, can go beyond Pien Ma, descending to I Tung, a Kachin village on the banks of the Hsiao Chiang (small river) which I identify with the Ngaw Chang. I was told that it was possible to follow up the Hsiao Chiang for four or five days until the Ni Mo River is reached, after which the\n\nPage 368",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nbelow To To) was Mao Chao on the right bank, the seat of a petty Chinese Chief, but that the Mao Chao people who have to cross the range must descend along the river and start from Teng Keng. But one day's march up the river north of Mao Chao is Cheng Kan; here there is said to be a very difficult track used only by Lisaw coolies carrying salt over the range into the Kachin country of Pai Pa (a name which I cannot identify, but it is probably near the headwaters of the Laking Kha, tributary of N'maikha).\n\nAs to the Salwen Valley beyond Cheng Kan (which should be in about north latitude 26° 40′)I could get no definite information save that it was inhabited by wild and famished \"black Lisaws,\" who looted travellers and were under no sort of control by anybody. None of the local Chinese had ever attempted to go so far, and in fact it was a country beyond the perception of the popular consciousness.\n\nOn the left bank of the Salwen, in the far distance, we saw some very lofty mountains which were covered with what appeared to be perpetual snow.\n\nWe descended from To To to the Salwen, passing along the side of a spur which bangs over a small stream along the banks of which is the path leading from the Salwen to the Pien Ma Pass. The bed of the great river where we struck it in latitude 25° 50′ north is at an altitude of 3,000 feet. The water had already lost its rich winter blue, and was a dirty grey, discoloured probably by melting snows. The summer rains turn the water to a muddy yellow.\n\nFrom the village of Ch'a Shan, on the river bank, we marched for two days along the right bank of the Salwen. The weather had cleared at last, and the Lisaw porters suffered severely from the heat. The road along the right bank is perfectly good for mule traffic, but the population is apparently scanty, being hidden in villages situated in the folds of the hills higher up. At 2 miles from Ch'a Shan we stopped for a mid-day halt at Teng Keng, a Chinese village of twelve houses with a tumble-down yamên, the residence of the local Chief, a Chinaman of the Tuan family, which has five branches; the head of each branch respectively rules the scanty territories of Chiu Chou, on the Mekong; Lu K'u, Mao Chao, and Teng Keng, on the Salwen; and Lao Wo in the hills between the two rivers. The territory of Teng Keng is said to contain 1,000 families, though I am bound to say that I take this to be an exaggeration. The present Headman is a boy of about 14, the sixth of his line. His affairs are managed—or, rather, mismanaged by his relatives. Mao Chao is said to have only 300 families, while Lu K'u is stated to be twice as extensive as Teng Keng. The Chief of Lu K'u lives in a fairly well-built village, 5 miles below Teng Keng, but on the opposite or left bank. There is a ferry here served by a boat. Marching past the Lu Ku ferry we camped that evening at the village of Lai Mo subject to the ordinary jurisdiction of the Yung Chang official, and situated in a horseshoe-shaped padi valley by the river bank. On the 22nd we reached Wan Chiao, situated in a similar valley, after passing only two small villages in the day's march. On the 23rd we followed two sharp bends of the river and emerged on to the valley of Man Yin, where there is a small and dirty but important bazaar. There is no market anywhere in the Salwen valley north of this.\n\nThe left bank of the Salwen, between Teng Keng and Man Yin is very thinly populated, as lofty and precipitous cliffs descend nearly straight to the water's edge.\n\nThe part of the Salwen valley through which we passed is known as Shang Chiang (upper river). On the Burmah map attached to the N'maikha Exploration Column's Report this is written \"Sanjang,\" and by error is marked as being in the Shweli Valley. From Man Yin we again passed the main divide by the tedious but well-trodden Ma Mien Kwan (10,500 feet), which is daily traversed by salt porters. The weather had by this time cleared, and snow only remained in small patches. Descending into the Shweli Valley we were glad, after a tiring excursion of six days to rejoin the camp which had come down from Ta Chu Pa to meet us at the west foot of the Ma Mien, which is only two long marches by the direct route from Teng Yueh.\n\nOn the 25th March we moved north to explore the Ta Tang valley, across the head of which we had passed while ascending the west slope of the Salwen divide. The Ta Tang Valley comprises little or no level plain land, but is broken up by spurs and foot-hills jutting out from the Salwen divide. The country is well-wooded and fertile, copses and pastures affording a pleasant variety to the padi fields. Numerous streams descending from the divide give perennial supplies of water, and the peasants are numerous and well-to-do. Indeed, the idea that the part of Teng Yuch which is close to our frontier is sparsely populated must be abandoned. The only valley suitable for Chinese cultivation which is still uncultivated by them is the head of the Upper Ming Kwang and Ta Chu Pa valley, and even there a few families of Chinese squatters have already begun to put in an appearance. I should think it extremely probable that in a few years' time the Chinese peasant will spread across the divide into the upper slopes of the M'maikha basin.\n\nThe Headmen of Ta Tang are two brothers of the Liu clan. Though the whole of the valley from Shan Yao tax station, at the foot of the Ma Mien, northwards, is known as Ta Tang, the Ta Tang Headmen only control the upper head of the valley, or about 350 households, the other villages being under the ordinary jurisdiction of Teng Yueh. The Headmen reside at two villages of twenty houses each situated close to each other at 12 miles from Shan Yao; they are rather less out-at-elbows than the Headmen of the other valleys.\n\nIn the afternoon of the 26th March we forded the Ta Tang River, and camped at the end of a romantic gorge along which we marched the next day in a northerly direction. In two places the track was blocked by rocks, and loads had to be unsaddled; otherwise the going is easy. At 7 miles from Ta Tang, and after an easy ascent to 7,500 feet, we reached a col and passed again into the Ming Kwang valley. Descending through thick bamboo jungle, at 9 miles we struck the Ming Kwang stream at the Lisaw village of Shé Li Shu, and from this point returned to Teng Yueh by the Ming Kwang valley and Ku Tung market.\n\nII. Claims of Chinese Headmen in the N'maikha Basin and observations thereon.\n\nI did not think it advisable to discuss with the Teng Yueh officials or with the local Headmen the nature and extent of their claims in the N'maikha basin, nor did I think it prudent myself to pass over into that basin. I do not wish to indicate that I should have run any great personal risk by so doing; indeed, the coffin-wood people were most anxious that I should go with them to the Ngar Chang; probably they wanted the protection of a foreign rifle. Further, I had no escort of Chinese soldiers with me, as they would, with their customary insolence, infallibly have got to loggerheads with the Lisaw Headmen, to whom I trusted for guides and for my personal safety, but as I was by way of travelling in China and under Chinese auspices, I thought that any extension of my journey towards the M'maikha might open the door to future misunderstandings.\n\nI collected, however, a good deal of information regarding these claims from Chinese and Lisaws who are constantly going over the watershed; the particulars given me by different people in different places agreed so well that I venture to think that I can now submit an accurate account of what these claims really are. If in future the Yunnan Government puts forward more extensive demands, we may, I think, safely put down such as fraudulent afterthoughts.\n\nI would, in the first place, observe---\n\n1. That the statement made in London by the late Sir Lo Feng Lu, to the effect that it is well known that in this region the frontier of China is the Irrawadi (i.e., N'maikha branch) is wholly without foundation. On the contrary, it is well known, and was asserted to me, both by the Tso family and by all the local people, that the lower slopes of the hills on the left bank of the N'maikha-\"Langsu,\" as they usually call it, \"where money is not known \"-are wild man's land, and under no control whatever by anybody.\n\n2. It is to be noted that there is no a priori reason why Chinese influence should not in the past have reached beyond the head-waters of the Shweli into the N'maikha basin. Of course, the watershed is, from the geographical point of view, quite unmistakable, but communication over it is not by any means so difficult as to prevent intercourse. Indeed, it must always have been much easier for people starting from an upland valley like Ming Kwang, at 6,000-7,000 feet, to get across these easy passes to the country about the upper waters of the left-bank tributaries of the N'maikha than for people ascending through difficult mountain tracks from the low level of the N'maikha itself.\n\n3. There are at present no villages within some 6 miles of either side of the watershed, and there are no regular settlements or villages of Chinese on the N'maikha side at all. On the other hand, the Ming Kwang people have long been in the habit of crossing over on trading expeditions. Though their notions of geography are hazy, they know the names of the villages, the distance from village to village, and similar details with some approach to accuracy,\n\nPage 370",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 2\nHon. Colonial Secretary, C.O. 6124 Rec 99\n\nI agree in the view expressed in His Excellency's minute for two reasons:\n\n1. The Harbour Master informs me that the Certificates which have been granted to these ships by the French Consul at Canton are not equivalent to those required in the case of British Ships; e.g. the Consul's Certificates allow a larger number of passengers than any Certificate issued in Hongkong, and they do not require equal life-saving appliances, and they were not based on a proper examination of the hulls, for which there is no available dock in Canton. Under these circumstances, His Excellency-in-Council would presumably decide that the Consul's Certificates are not sufficient to protect these ships from survey under section 10 and such decision would be final.\n\n2. Even if the Consul's Certificates were equivalent to those required in the case of British Ships, I am inclined to think they are not Certificates \"from the Foreign Ship's own country\" within the meaning of Section 10 (8) (b), whatever powers the French Government may claim to have conferred on their Consul.\n\n16th January, 1905,\n(Sd.) B. B. Sharp.",
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        "content_text": "(15)\n\nQ. And you asked Miss Barker to report me to Dr. Bell?\n\nA. No.\n\nQ. Did you ask her to do anything?\n\nA. No.\n\nQ. Tell me, Sister, if I had not charged you for insolence on the 20th, this charge would not have been brought up against me?\n\nA. We have worked very well together and I have had nothing against you.\n\nI think we see your idea.\n\nHis Excellency Sir E. S. Berkeley: What you say is that the original charge was dropped and they concocted this charge to bolster up the other charge. Do you put that to us seriously?\n\nDr. Laing: My little dog was running about the room. I was unable to sleep and simply went for a walk around the place.\n\nHis Excellency to Sister Allaway: What are your grounds for having the impression that Dr. Laing was drunk on the Morning of the 9th?\n\nSister Allaway: When he asked for a sharp pointed probe to rupture the membrane when the membrane was ruptured... the operation. Did you think he could get through? I thought he would put the forceps on and as soon as the baby was delivered I should get Dr. Laing away. I am a qualified Midwife.\n\nHis Excellency to Sister Allaway: You did not think there would be any danger?\n\nSister Allaway: No, the baby was born with white asphyxia. Were the chances of keeping life very small? I do not know. I have seen babies with white asphyxia brought to life. I consider that if it had been in any one else's hands it would have been saved.",
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        "content_text": "440 \n\n14 \n\n[The Chinese firm pay one in ten—at least, so they told me—but I expect that they and the Lisu often evade payment.—G. L.] \n\n\"Beyond collecting toll and tribute Teng Keng never exercises any authority on the N'Maikha side of the watershed beyond the Salween divide. \n\nThe Upper Ngaw Chang Valley consists of steep grassy slopes, with pines and chestnuts, and very little cultivation. Mules from Ming Kwang are sometimes sent here to graze, and I met a few Szechuanese peddlers with their trade loads. Below Kang Fang there are some narrow strips of paddy-land on both sides of the river.\" \n\n## VI. The Lisu Country on the Upper Salween. \n\nI was accompanied from Pien Ma to the Salween by Surveyor Lachman Jadu; my object was to collect such further information about the main Salween-Irrawaddy divide as would enable His Majesty's Government to press for the definition of the frontier north of the point (about latitude 25° 50′) where this main divide is joined by the minor divide between the Ming Kwang and Ngaw Chang Rivers, or, what is the same, the divide between the Shweli and the N'Maikha. \n\nFrom Pien Ma the track ascended steeply in an easterly direction across open grassy hills. At 8,500 feet a magnificent view was unfolded. East of us the lofty snow-clad range between the Salween and the N'Maikha stretched away towards the north; to the south of us the crest of the divide between the Ngaw Chang and the Ming Kwang Rivers stood clearly out against the sky for many miles. Nothing could have shown more clearly than this view the fitness and convenience of the frontier which we claim. \n\nBelow us lay the scattered village of Pien Ma with its narrow valley of paddy-fields stretching down to the dark gorge in which flows the Ngaw Chang. Beyond, and hanging over the right bank of the Ngaw Chang, was another majestic range of snow-clad peaks forming a barrier between the Lashi (Chinese, Cha Shau) country, which we had been exploring, and Lang-su, as it is known to the Chinese. \n\nLang-su is a general term indicating all the wild Maru country beyond the Ngaw Chang and west of the great Salween divide. It appears to be generally recognized by the Chinese as not being under their control, and no claims were put forward in respect of it. The N'Maikha above the junction of the Ngaw Chang is known to the very few Chinese who have been there as the Laug-su River. \n\nWe crossed into the Salween basin by the Pien Ma Pass at 10,500 feet. This pass is usually practicable for mules, but we found the narrow path along the hill-side leading down from the summit deep in loose wet snow, across which it was impossible for animals to proceed. We were accordingly compelled to send the mules round by the Ma Mien Pass, a détour of twelve days, and do as best we could with coolie porters. The descent on the Salween side was very steep along the gorge of the Ku Tan Stream, which joins the Salween just north of the village of Teng Keng, after a rapid course of 12 miles. After camping in the jungle some 4 miles above the scattered village of Ku T'an, we climbed up a very steep spur on the left of the stream till we reached 6,500 feet, or 3,500 feet above the Salween, whence a long half-day's march of 8 miles northwards along steep bare hill-sides with several steep ascents and descents brought us to the Lisu village of La Chang (thirty houses), situated at 6,000 feet on a wooded terrace high above the Salween. \n\nHere we reached the fatherland of the Lisu tribe, for the Lisu villages scattered about the hills further south are all emigrations from the Upper Salween. Very few of the inhabitants of La Chang can speak more than a few sentences of Chinese. At Mao Chao, the next village to the north, only the attendants of the semi-Chinese Headman can speak the language of Han. Beyond Mao Chao there are no Chinese at all except two families resident at Cheng Ka, by the banks of Salween, latitude 26°, a small village with some paddy-fields, where there is a rope sling-bridge and a ferry-raft for crossing the river in low water. \n\nWe advanced three marches north of Lu Chang, camping at the villages of Mao Chao, Shih Pai Lai Ti, and Pai Pa; fortunately, lucid moments between the perpetual thunderstorms which swept down the valley in quick succession enabled the surveyor, by advancing above and beyond Pai Pa, to map the river and the high snow-clad divide between it and the Irrawaddy as far as latitude 26° 30′. \n\nI may therefore here put together in brief the information which I have collected on this and other journeys concerning the Upper Salween—i.e., above the iron suspension bridge on the main Burmah-Ta Li road. \n\n15 \n\nFrom the bridge northwards as far as Teng Keng, latitude 26°, the river, though its basin is only some 20 miles across, flows through comparatively open country, the great mountains on both sides breaking down to the banks in open rolling downs with ample room for rice cultivation, but, owing to the extreme unhealthiness of the valley, only a small part of it is cultivated by a mixed population of Shans and Chinese. There are, however, numerous Chinese villages along the upper slopes. The principal ferry in this section is at Meng Ku, latitude 25° 36', near the market of Man Yin, on the right or west bank, which is the last bazaar on the Upper Salween, and is situated in a broad paddy-valley at the foot of the Ma Mien Pass over to the valley of Ta Tang (Upper Shweli). \n\nFrom Teng Keng, in latitude 26° northwards, to about 27° 40', the river, which maintains an equal breadth of 100 yards for a great distance, is enclosed in a gorge as precipitous as the cañon of the Mekong. From about latitude 26° the range on the west bank forms the main divide between the Salween and the Irrawaddy, and its array of peaks is covered with snow for at least eight months of the year. This range is also an important ethnographical boundary, forming a barrier between the Maru country along the east of N'Maikha and the Lisu country along the west bank of the Salween. The Salween Lisu seem to regard this range as the frontier, and speak of their own Liso country—i.e., the Salween Valley—in contradistinction to Langsu, the Kachin country on the other side of the range. \n\nThe gorge section of the Salween appears to be entirely inhabited by Lisu, a tribe closely allied to the Lolo, and probably of Thibetan origin. They are well aware of the unhealthiness of the river banks, and nearly all their villages are 3,000 feet above the bottom of the gorge, even though the paddy-fields have to be squeezed into the few gaps in the cliffs by the river banks. \n\nThe characteristic of this gorge of the Salween is the tremendous series of sharp steep spurs which come straight down from the snows to the river in an endless succession of parallels. It must be remembered that while the river itself here flows at 3,000 feet, and the mountains between it and the Irrawaddy basin on the west, or the basin of the Mekong on the east, rise to heights from 10,000 feet to 13,000 feet, the whole width of the valley from crest to crest of the two ranges is only some 18 miles in an air-line; from native information it appears that the spurs which descend to the N'Maikha on the west side of the great divide are quite as numerous and difficult as those which we negotiated on our journey northwards from Lu Chang. \n\nFrom about latitude 27° 40′ northwards to the confines of Thibet the valley of the Salween is again somewhat more open. Wide stretches of country are covered with tall grass, and the bulk of the population in this section consists of Lu Tzu, a tribe in a very backward condition and probably closely allied to the Ching-paw or Kachins. \n\nThe French `Missions Étrangères` have recently sent a priest to work among these people, and he has established himself at Chongra on the left bank at about latitude 28°. He has seen and even ascended the Salween-Irrawaddy divide, which is here the boundary between the Lu and the Chiu tribes, who inhabit the eastern sources of the Irrawaddy. This same divide was crossed by Prince Henri of Orleans at an altitude of 12,800 feet, in latitude approximately 27° 40'. \n\nIt is therefore submitted that it may be regarded as established that a high regular range divides the Salween from the Irrawaddy basin as far as the sources of the latter river, and that north of the point (about latitude 25° 52′) where the Ming Kwang-N'Maikha divide joins it, this main range is not only the most convenient frontier, but also the only frontier which His Majesty's Government can accept, and that the sooner the Government of Peking can be brought to comprehend this the better. \n\nTravelling in the Lisu country is a series of steep climbs up the almost perpendicular sides of spurs, followed by break-neck descents on the other side. The scattered villages of rude log or bamboo huts with grass thatching are generally situated near the ridges of the spurs. The streams between the spurs are violent mountain torrents crossed by rickety plank bridges, and the bottom of each little valley is occupied by a hot and steamy jungle, whence the perspiring traveller climbs painfully up to the breezy ridges. The Taotai with much difficulty got a small mountain chair as far as Mao Chao, but there had to call a halt while I and the surveyor proceeded `pedibus cum jambis`. \n\nCultivation on the steep hill slopes along the river is extensive but precarious, as the fields are liable to be swept bodily away into the Salween; paddy-fields are few, and are...",
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        "content_text": "# 34\n\nI have already explained the reason why I did not pay any present direct to the Taotai. He appears to have thought that as the payment was to be postponed till the frontier was settled he personally would never \"touch\" it, and that it would therefore be more advantageous for him to report it as an offer of a public contribution which the British authorities have made under the influence of his, the Taotai's, skilful diplomacy. I see no objection to this, and, indeed, I think we should do all we can to support the Taotai.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 15 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**G. LITTON**.\n\n### Taolai Shih to Acting Consul Litton.\n\nTengyuch, May 28, 1905.  \nHAVING received through his Excellency the Governor-General Ting the telegraphic instructions of the Wai-wu Pu to proceed on a joint survey of the Northern Burmah-Yunnan frontier, and you, the Consul, having been commissioned by your Government on the same service, we proceeded to the border, and on the 2nd March met at Ku Yung, whence we examined the frontier, section by section, and concluded our work in the early part of May.\n\nI have now the honour to reply to your despatch which I have received and which deals with the whole subject of the frontier, and in which you describe the geography of the districts visited.\n\n[Here the Taotai quotes at length all the passages in my despatch under reply which deal with geography, names of villages, numbers of households, &c., which I need not repeat.-G. L]\n\nYour remarks concerning the physical features of the mountains, the rivers and their sources, the various tribes and their villages are perfectly correct and entirely agree with my own observation; on these points I have nothing to add. But it appears to be inconsistent with the scope of our work that you should lay down that various places along the frontier should belong to Yunnan or to Burmah as the case may be. My duty was merely that of a joint examination; I have no authority to delimit the boundary; thus I need not argue the matter at great length.\n\nBut since you have stated that your Government instructed you to point out the water-divide between the N'Maikha on the one hand and the Salween and the Shweli on the other, and have further mentioned that my instructions were to inquire what were the territories governed by our Chinese Chiefs, I must reply to you in detail on some points.\n\nNow when we have to examine what are the respective boundaries of any given territories we should, by rights, proceed according to the original jurisdictions of the Governments concerned; we cannot define the frontier merely according to the courses of the rivers and such-like considerations. Thus on this occasion I, on proceeding to the frontier, in the first instance ordered the various Fu Yi (Headmen) to prepare and submit maps, for the purpose of affording evidence for our inquiry; these districts are the hereditary Governments of our Fu Yi, so there can be no mistake about their extent.\n\nIt appears from an examination of the maps submitted that the jurisdiction of Ku Yung extends to and includes Lun Ma and Tan Tsa, the Ta Cha Ho and the Lang Ya Shan; Tien Tan extends to and includes the villages of Chang Yin Kou, Chung Shan, and La Pi on the Upper Chipway; Ming Kwang extends to and includes Shih-jang, Pa Yang, Taw Gaw, To Yo, Tsaw Lang Na Ching, the Khan Sheng River, Tzu Chu, and Hparè; Ta Tang extends to and includes Chih Kaw and Shang Lou (Gaw Yawm).\n\nThese maps have already been forwarded for your inspection and that of the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo (Mr. Leveson), and no doubt you are clear as to their contents.\n\n* This Headman is usually known as the Tan Tea Fu Yi.-G. L.\n+ These are villages on the left bank of the Ngaw Chang.-G. L.\n§ So are these two.-G. L.\n\n# 35\n\nAgain, according to my examination of his map, Teng Keng should by rights control up to and including Kang Fang, U Tung, and Pien Ma.\n\nNow we may first exclude the villages beyond, i.e., on the right bank of the Ngaw Chang, which I have already informed you are beyond the pale of civilized government, and also the villages of Ma Chang, Huang Te, Ma Kung, &c., where your Government has already taken action in various cases, and where we do not further exercise control; with these exceptions it appears that, according to the Fu Yi's maps, the correct boundary is in fact as follows: from the sharp conical peak (Manung Pum) to the head of the Mo Shih Stream; then straight up to the Wei Ton (or \"Crooked Head Mountain\"); then across the Upper Chipway and along the Chang Chia Ridge, and so ascending the Kao Liang Kung Mountain, and descending to the Chiu Ko Taug or Khetmaw River; thence the line would follow up the Ngaw Chang or Hsiao Chiang (\"Little River\") to its source in the Pan Chang Mountains.\n\nWhile you speak of the various streams which flow into the N'Maikha River, it must be remembered that the N'Maikha River itself is not under the control of Myit-kyina in Burmah. The Ngaw Chang is a tributary of the N'Maikha, and all the country within, i.e., on the left bank of the Ngaw Chang, is, as the records show, under the government of our Chinese Fu Yi. This affords clear proof that we must not merely go by the geographical features.\n\nYou state that Lun Ma and Tan Tsa, being within, i.e., on the Chinese side, of the watershed, should by rights belong to Yunnan, while all the valleys of the Tammaw and the Shih-ngaw should belong to Burmah. With respect to this section of the frontier I am in agreement with you.\n\nYou state that the whole of the valley of the Tien Tan River should belong to Yünnan. This is correct, but I cannot wholly agree that all the Chipway Valley should belong to Burmah.\n\nYou state that the lofty range on the north-west side of Upper Ming Kwang Valley is connected with the Sisters Hill and the Pan Wa Pass, and that this is the water-parting between the Shweli and the N'Maikha; that all the streams on the east of this range flow to the Ming Kwang, and so to the Shweli River, while all the streams on the west of it flow into the N'Maikha, and so to the Irrawaddy. You state that this, if taken as the boundary, will be the true natural frontier.\n\nI agree that your geographical description is correct; but if this line is to be taken as the frontier there are serious objections to it, having regard to the territories which by rights should be controlled by our Chinese Fu Yi. It appears, therefore, that this section must be reserved for future consideration and separate action.\n\nThen, again, you state that Mr. Leveson, in concert with my deputy, Mr. Tai, made inquiries at Hparè, and that the Headmen of the village stated that they were not subject to China, and paid no taxes, and regarded the watershed as the frontier [here quoting in full my report of the evidence of the Hparè people; see my despatch]. You go on to say that the evidence of the Hparè Headman is in accordance with your own observations, and that not only is the Fu Yi unable to control these villages, but is afraid even to visit them; that it is thus perfectly clear that the Fu Yi have never in fact administered them. You observed that the certificates of succession speak of the Fu Yi of \"Hparè in Ming Kwang\" and of \"Tzu Chu in Ming Kwang,\" which is inexplicable, as Tzu Chu and Hparè are more than 100 li distant from Ming Kwang; so, you ask, how can they be forced, so to say, into one and the same place? It is, you add, as though one were to speak of Yung Chang in Mandalay, or Mandalay in Yung Chang. Under these circumstances you request me to point out in what manner these Fu Yi do, in point of fact, control these villages.\n\nWhen Mr. Leveson examined these people, Mr. Tai no doubt was present; but when Mr. Tai returned to my camp he reported that he did not understand the language of the tribes; that he, in fact, did not know what evidence the Headman had given, nor had he made any inquiries on the point.\n\nI, too, summoned and examined the Headmen of Tzu Chu and other villages.\n\n* The Teng Kong map was never produced.-G. L.\n† Villages between the Chipway and Tummaw Rivers.-G. L.\n‡ Mo Shih is the west source of the Tien Tan or west branch of the Shweli.-G. L.\n§ Chang Chia Ridge is on the right bank of the Upper Chipway, just below Shik Pan.-G. L.\n¶ Pan Chang Mountain is a snow-clad ridge running east and west above the source of the Ngaw Chang.-G. L.\n** See my note to Taotai of June 2.-G. L.\n†† The records may show this, the facts do not.-G. L.\n‡‡ The Taotai never really answers this question.-G. L.\n§§ See my note to Taotai, June 2.-G. L.",
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        "content_text": "## PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS for the simultaneous collection of all taxes and li-kin on crude and boiled opium in the eight provinces.\n\nIT has been submitted in a Memorial to the Emperor that the Regulations for the four provinces shall continue in force at Ichang and Hung-chiang; that the Regulations for the two Kuang Provinces shall be enforced at Wuchow; and that the Regulation allowing a 5 per cent. reduction on the payment of li-kin in the cases of Kiangsi and Anhui shall apply to Kiangsu and Fukien.\n\n2. The two Hu and the two Kuang Provinces have already established opium li-kin stations in their borders, and as it is essential that, immediately the simultaneous collection of the taxes and li-kin on opium for the eight provinces comes into effect, all opium coming into the Provinces of Kiangsi, Anhui, Kiangsu, and Fukien should be examined before being dispersed for sale, the central office will dispatch officers to establish examination and prevention of smuggling stations at various important centres on the borders of the four provinces in question, for the special purpose of watching the opium imported and preventing breaches of the Regulations. They will examine all opium which has paid the taxes and li-kin, and which bears the stamp of the central office, to see if the opium and the papers correspond, and will then allow it to proceed to the province declared as its destination to be retailed, without let or hindrance or the exaction of any fees. They will every day note in a register the names of the firms importing the opium examined, its weight, and the number of the stamp on the opium and of the certificate, the office that received the simultaneous payment and issued the certificate, and report these details monthly to the central office for the purposes of scrutiny.\n\nOn opium which has passed through the Imperial Maritime Customs and paid transit dues, but is found to be without the sealed label and special pass of the opium excise head office, the examination and supplementary levy offices will, in accordance with the joint collective Rules of the four provinces, collect the balance of the terminal boiled opium excise so as to comply with the rule that there is no further levy except at destination.\n\n3. When opium has paid the Maritime Customs duties at Ichang, it shall pay in advance the destination li-kin before it can be carried to the province declared as its destination for sale by retail.\n\nOpium destined for Hunan, Hupei, Kiangsi, and Anhui shall still continue to pay the taxes imposed by the old Regulations without reduction.\n\nOpium declared at the Maritime Customs at Ichang to be destined for the four additional provinces to which the Rules are applied, namely, Kuangtung, Kuangsi, Kiangsu, and Fukien, shall, in addition to the Maritime Customs duties, further pay destination li-kin of 52 Kuping taels per picul net weight.\n\nThe central office will dispatch a deputy to consult with the Customs deputy as to affixing the stamp of the central office on the opium, and issuing a special certificate. Such opium shall be allowed to pass free after reporting to, and examination by, the examination station in the province of destination.\n\nThe above Regulation shall also apply at Wuchow.\n\n4. The revenue accruing from the opium taxes is to be apportioned amongst the provinces according to the sums stated in the Memorial. All apportionments not taken up by the provinces will be included in the surplus which is to be remitted monthly to the central office. The surplus is to be reported quarterly by the latter to the **Board of Revenue** at Peking and remitted to it through merchants.\n\nThe expenses of the central office — that is to say, for the establishment of the examination stations in the four additional provinces, the estimated wages of the gendarmes, the certificates, stamps, telegrams, and other necessary expenditure — will be heavy, and for the present will be met by the proceeds of the additional reorganization and prevention of smuggling taxes for the four provinces of Kiangsi, Anhui, Kiangsu, and Fukien.\n\nThe proceeds of the main tax on opium and destination li-kin for these four provinces will be deposited with the central office to be forwarded.\n\nThe full details will be examined after the expiration of one year, and the sums estimated for the various items of ordinary and extraordinary expenditure will be settled after having been submitted by Memorial to the Emperor, when the **Board of Revenue** will communicate the figures to the central office.\n\n5. It is proposed to select, in accordance with the practice in vogue in Kiangsi, trustworthy Companies at Ichang and Hung-chiang to charter small steamers solely for the quick carriage of the opium, from Ichang to Kiukiang, and from Chang-tê to Hsiang-tan. On the downward trip only opium will be carried, and the steamers will return empty. Freight will be charged, but the carriage of passengers or cargo will be forbidden, to prevent abuses.\n\nThe **Maritime Customs Regulations** shall apply to these steamers.\n\nShould the earnings, after a year's experiment, not be sufficient to cover expenses, the central office may grant a subsidy according to the circumstances of the case. It is proposed that the Company shall charge for insurance.\n\nAs soon as a regular revenue from the opium accrues, the Government will build vessels for the carriage of the opium.\n\nThe Governor of Hunan will, on being notified, detach gun-boats to be stationed above Chang-tê for the protection of the opium on that route.\n\nRegulations are already in force at Wuchow for the protection of the river route; no further steps are therefore necessary.\n\n6. At Ichang the taxes and li-kin may be paid in silver or cash. In Hunan they may only be paid in cash; 1,000 actual cash shall be reckoned at the fixed value of 8 mace of a Kuping tael, and shall not be affected by variations in exchange.\n\nAs the price of cash varies in the provinces for which the simultaneous collection is effected, and there will be a want of uniformity unless a preconcerted scheme is applied, every 1,000 actual cash in all cash transactions will hereafter be calculated as the equivalent of 8 mace of a Kuping tael.\n\nPage 460 \n\n## A Special Proclamation. Kuang Hsü, 31st year, 5th moon (June 1905).\n\n(Translation.\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nChiang, and Wuchow must pay all taxes and all li-kin. The tax on opium in transit is deleted from the Regulations. There will thus be no occasion for sharp practice.\n\nA Memorial has also been submitted to the Emperor, suggesting that the central office should charter a number of small steamers for the special carriage of opium, freight to be paid according to the distance carried; steamers to run from Ichang to Kiukiang and from Chang-tê to Hsiang-tan, no passengers or other freight to be carried; the vessels to return empty that speed may be attained.\n\nThe new scheme will come into force at all three stations simultaneously on the 3rd July. It will be the duty of the various stations to note the opium which before the enforcement of the new Regulations has been declared to be in transit, and is at that time within the borders of the two Hu and the two Kuang Provinces. It will, after deducting the sum already paid as transit tax, make good all taxes and li-kin, and be stamped with the stamp of the central office, when it can be carried free to any place in one of the eight provinces.\n\nOpium which has already passed beyond the boundaries of the eight provinces is exempted from making good the taxes. After the expiration of a month the inspection stations must hasten the departure of opium (destined for another province); three days of grace will be allowed in which notice may be given that the opium has not yet passed the frontier, the opium may then be stamped and passed free to its destination to be retailed.\n\nIf opium destined for another province is found delaying in Kiangsi and Anhui after the 20th day of the 7th moon (20th August), and has not been reported, and the total amount of the taxes and li-kin of the simultaneous collection has not been made good, it will be considered contraband and will be confiscated.\n\nIn addition to officers having lately been dispatched to the various provinces to make strict inquiries and investigations, this Joint Proclamation is issued for the information of all traders in opium. You must hereafter act in accordance with the Regulations, make the necessary declarations, and pay the taxes and li-kin without fail.\n\nWith regard to the two Hu and the two Kuang Provinces, where opium stations are already in existence, if questions arise not covered by the Regulations through the enforcement of the simultaneous collection, and more money is demanded than is proper, and the officials and underlings exact more than is due, or if they detain merchants and goods, accusations may be sent to the central office. Investigation will be made and the delinquents will be punished in order to safeguard the interests of merchants.\n\nA Strict ...",
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        "content_text": "## 518 \n\n2 \n\nThe policy of the Yunnan Government has been to reduce to the lowest point even the pretence of a military force. The few soldiers who existed in West Yunnan declined to leave their homes, and the forces, as finally constituted, were made up of all the beggars, loafers, and \"dead-beats\" off the streets, none of whom had the smallest idea of any sort of discipline, or of even how to fire off a rifle. Straggling anyhow along the road in groups of five or six, laden with pumpkins, corn, and vegetables which they had purloined, these dirty rascals resembled votaries of Ceres rather than of Mars. Proclamations were put out that \"a great army is passing, but not even the chickens need be frightened.\" In point of fact, the chickens all along the route had the liveliest cause for alarm, and if the soldiers slay as many lamas as they have stolen chickens, the rebellion will very speedily be suppressed. The provincial Ti-t'ai, or Commander-in-chief, at Ta Li had only thirty or forty men, most of whom flatly declined to budge, and his Excellency had to start for the wars at the head of a motley crowd or verminous ragamuffins, driven off the streets into his yamên.\n\nThe appearance and behaviour of the detachment, nominally of 500 men sent down from Yunnan-fu, was no better. The original detachment of some 700 men which accompanied the Wei Hsi Sub-Prefect to Atentse in June was well armed with an old type of Mauser; but the missionaries at Tseku report that discipline was conspicuous by its absence, and, as Mr. Forrest puts it, the whole affair became a \"squeezing\" and a looting expedition from the start.\n\nOwing to the practice of seizing transport animals without payment, and of pillaging the bazaars, trade is almost at a standstill, even in this district, while at and near Wei Hsi the inhabitants have fled into the mountains, removing their beasts and stores of grain. Thus famine is threatened in addition to other miseries.\n\nThe total force now collected near Wei Hsi, including the original Atentse detachment, is some 2,500 men. Every one—and no one more vigorously than the Prefect of Ta Li—denounces their total want of discipline, and ascribes to their misconduct the troubles which have taken place. For the scandalous condition of the forces the Governor-General at Yunnan-fu is most certainly responsible, as he had received repeated and ample warning of the approach of trouble from his own officials and from the French missionaries.\n\nWhen the Wei Hsi Sub-Prefect reached Atentse early in May, he began by treacherously beheading the Chief Thibetan of the place. This incident seems to have been far more important than I had previously reported. The executed Headman is said by the French to have been meditating rebellion, but the Chinese traders from Atentse and Wei Hsi declare that this was not true. However this may be, this treacherous execution, though, as it is reported, authorized by a secret warrant from Yunnan-fu, had a most unhappy effect, and was not followed up by vigorous action on the part of the Chinese, who, on the contrary, sat down at Atentse and made no further political move.\n\nThe unfortunate chief who was thus summarily put out of the world was the brother of one of the leading lamas of Atentse, and a relative by marriage of one of the leaders of the Batang sedition. After the execution the Atentse lamas dispersed in various directions to raise their dependents, and stir up the other lamaseries in the neighbourhood. The Chinese seem to have been too busy in extorting money to pay attention to what was going on, or to take measures to keep open their communications. The wife of the murdered Chief took a leading part in fomenting the revolt, which broke out in the middle of July, as soon as the barley harvest had been gathered in. The Chinese troops appear to have made little or no resistance, and were driven in, it is said, with some slaughter, to the little town of Atentse, where they were surrounded and remained cut off for over six weeks, when the bulk of them, together, it is reported, with the Wei Hsi Sub-Prefect, escaped by mountain tracks to Wei Hsi, eight stages to the south. News of their escape only reached Ta Li on the 7th.\n\nIt seems to me that their conduct, or their misconduct, requires more explanation than the Chinese Government is ever likely to get. The insurgent lamas in Yunnan do not probably number more than 4,000 or 5,000.\n\n## Events on the Mekong; murder of Europeans; position of the Li Chiang Prefect\n\nAt the same time that Atentse was surrounded, the roads along the Mekong, between Wei Hsi and the Mission at Tseku, were destroyed. As these roads are but narrow tracks along precipices, in some places carried past the cliffs on brackets of wood, their total destruction was an easy matter.\n\nThe Prefect of Li Chiang, Li Hsing Sheng, who had established himself at Wei Hsi since the departure of his subordinate, the Sub-Prefect of Wei Hsi, for Atentse, \n3 \n\naddressed a series of telegraphic reports to Yünnan-fu, but it now appears that these reports were mainly based on mendacious statements of villagers or frightened refugees. The country north of Yetehe was wholly cut off from about the 18th July to the end of August. The worthy Prefect also spoke of his \"cavalry\" and his \"batteries,\" but there was no cavalry, no battery, no infantry. The Prefect had been solemnly promised a force of 500 well-armed troops from Yunnan-fu in May, and it was on the strength of this that he had sent all his available forces and arms forward to Atentse, but the Viceroy at Yunnan had played him false, and the unlucky Prefect was left almost entirely alone and without support at Wei Hsi till nearly the end of August, and then he was provided, as I have described above, with a rabble consisting of the scum of the thieves and loafers of West Yünnan. Prefect Li is the man on whom the brunt of the responsibility will fall, but he is really far less to blame than the Viceroy, who is guilty of gross negligence and misgovernment, or the Wei Hsi Sub-Prefect, who is guilty of systematic misconduct. The Prefect is an honest man, who has always, during a long and hitherto successful administration of a difficult post, had a definite policy of asserting Chinese authority over the lamas. But he has committed serious errors of judgment. He trusted his superiors at Yunnan-fu, and his subordinates at Wei Hsi, and in both cases was deceived. He greatly overrated the efficiency of his troops and underrated the strength of the lamas and their adherents. None of the French missionaries believe for a moment that Prefect Li would have willingly permitted or abetted the murder of Europeans, and in this opinion I concur.\n\nThe lamas having collected their barley and their dependents, and having cut off the troops at Atentse, proceeded to descend to the Mekong and attack the large French mission station at Tseku. The fathers, deceived by several of the local Headmen, who were secretly in the interests of the lamas, had been lulled into a feeling of false security. A guard of forty soldiers with rifles had been provided, but had been withdrawn to Atentse early in July by the Wei Hsi Sub-Prefect. It was only on the 17th July that the fathers became seriously alarmed, and urged Mr. Forrest, their English guest, to depart. Mr. Forrest refused, and determined to stand by them. All the missionaries except the aged Father Dubernard and Father Bourdonné (who appears quite to have lost his presence of mind at the last) were absent at an out-station when the crisis came. Those two missionaries and Mr. Forrest, with the native Christians, escaped on the night of the 19th, only two or three hours before the lamas appeared and destroyed the mission house.\n\nIf the refugees and made the best use of their legs, as Mr. Forrest urged them to do, they would all have escaped south along the right bank of the Mekong, but they stopped to rest, to cook rice, to weep over the destruction of their homes, to negotiate with treacherous Headmen, and so lost twelve hours of precious time. The country south of Tseku consists of a series of valleys or bays in the hills, each cut off north and south by high sharp ridges, and closed to the west by lofty precipices, and to the east by the roaring flood of the Mekong. The lamas, knowing the mountain tracks, got ahead of the refugees and occupied a ridge, thus hemming them into a valley some 4 miles by 1 to 2 broad. In the rush which followed Mr. Forrest became separated from the rest. His servant bolted, and he was left alone with his rifle and some cartridges. For seven days he was tracked and hunted like a wild beast by the lamas; he had to throw away his boots to prevent being tracked, and with the exception of a few ears of corn, he was entirely without food. The lamas patrolled the crest of the valley with dogs, and lit bonfires at night, which made escape impossible until some of them finally gave up the search, and Mr. Forrest was rescued from his perilous position by the pluck and skill of some Lisu tribesmen. Later he was succoured by the friendly Headman of Yetehe, further down the Mekong. At last he arrived at Wei Hsi, 90 miles south of Tseku, twenty-one days after his flight. The worthy Prefect did all he could to alleviate his sufferings, and supplied him with money, food, clothing, and escort.\n\nPère Dubernard, who seems to have been unwilling to survive the destruction of the Mission, where he had lived for forty years, was, it is reported, brutally murdered and decapitated, while it is said that Père Bourdonné met a like fate, but there is no trustworthy eye-witness of the murder, and the only reason for believing that the fathers are dead is the extreme improbability that they can be alive.\n\nThe bitter hostility of the lamas against the French missionaries is easy of explanation. Directly any disturbance arose in the country, it was certain it would take an anti-missionary direction. The existence of the Mission, the lives led by the missionaries, and the great influence which they had gained in the country-side all...",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## C. O. 570 42323\n\n### SECTION 4.\n\n(No. 306.) My Lord,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir E. Satou to the Marquess of Lansdowne.~(Received November 4.)\n\nPeking, September 16, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship, with reference to my despatch No. 298 of the 5th instant, copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's Acting Consul at Foochow with regard to the posting of boycott placards in Yenping-fu, and the action taken by him in consequence thereof.\n\nI have informed Mr. Giles that his action has my approval.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**ERNEST SATOW**\n\n### (No. 20.) Sir,\n\n#### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Giles to Sir E. Satow.\n\nFoochow, September 1, 1905.\n\nWITH reference to the boycott of American goods, I have the honour to forward herewith copy of a letter, dated the 17th August, which I received from Mr. Champness, a British subject working for the American Methodist Mission. I also forward copy and translation of the Chinese inclosure contained in the letter, being an extract from a report received by Mr. Champness from the native pastor at Yenping-fu, a city about 80 miles to the north-west of Foochow. From this report it would appear that the gentry of that city themselves took in hand the posting of the placards announcing the boycott, thereby to a certain extent lending official countenance to what the Chinese authorities have always declared to be a purely popular movement. I have endeavoured to secure one of these placards through Mr. Champness, but have so far not obtained one. Whatever the wording of these placards, however, it would appear that they were engendering a certain amount of anti-foreign feeling. Yenping-fu had the reputation in former years of being a very anti-foreign city, and I understand that it is only recently that it has been possible for foreigners to reside there. Under the circumstances, although there seemed no immediate danger of a disturbance, I judged it best to bring the matter without delay to the notice of the Acting Viceroy.\n\nThe French and American Consuls having received similar complaints from their own missionaries with respect to the state of affairs in the Yenping Prefecture, and the matter being one that concerned all foreigners in this part of Fukien irrespective of nationality, it was resolved at a meeting of the Consular Body, held on the 18th August, to address a joint communication on the subject to the Viceroy through the American Consul, who is senior Consul at this port. I inclose copy and translation of this despatch as sent in by the American Consul on the 22nd August.\n\nThe reply of the Acting Viceroy, of which I also inclose copy and translation, reached me this morning. The despatch is couched in most satisfactory terms; the Viceroy evidently appears to be fully alive to his responsibilities, and to be determined to suppress without loss of time any movement which might lead to an anti-foreign outbreak. In view of the prompt action taken, there seems no reason to apprehend any trouble for the present.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**BERTRAM GILES**\n\n#### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Champness to Consul Playfair.\n\nSharp Peak, August 17, 1905.\n\nI INCLOSE a copy of an extract from a Chinese letter I have recently received from the senior pastor of the Methodist Mission in Yenping City, where I usually reside.\n\n[2247 d-4]",
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        "content_text": "## Table III. HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\n### Roll of Efficients for the Year ending 31st March, 1906.\n\n**Commanding Officers**\n\n| Rank and Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Major C. G. Pritchard | Commandant |\n| A. Chapman | 2nd in Command |\n| Captain F. O. Stedman | Surgeon |\n| Lieut. C. Forsyth | Do. |\n| Sergt. Major W. Higby |  |\n\n### No. 2 COMPANY, H. K. V. ARTILLERY. Roll of Efficients.\n\n| Rank and Name |\n| --- |\n| Captain r Skinner, T. |\n| Lieutenant Scott, W. M. |\n| Co.-Sgt.-Maj. r Rodger, J. |\n| Sergeant P Lochend, J. |\n| Lert Hale |\n| Gunner ... |\n| Corps Sergeant-Major Terrill, W. J. |\n| Gunner r Gloyu, J. W. |\n| Corporal |\n\n### No. 1 COMPANY H. K. V. ARTILLERY. Roll of Efficients.\n\n| Rank and Name |\n| --- |\n| Gunner Bain, H. M. |\n| Gunner Chumnett, F. G. |\n| Gunner Raymond, E. |\n| Seth, H. A. |\n| Gunner Chromett, O. R. |\n| Gunner Duncan, G. |\n| Guumer Sheffold, A. E. |\n| Andrew, J. I. |\n| Gidley, H. |\n| McCorquodale, f. |\n| Reidio, J. |\n| MeKirdy, J. |\n| Mather, H. L. |\n| Watson, A. |\n| Gidley, S. |\n| Grimshaw, T. |\n| Hast, W. |\n| Kimard, J. A. |\n| Michael, S. J. |\n| Watson, J. J. |\n| Crapnell, A. E. |\n| Hayward, E. M. |\n| Hayward, C. B. |\n| Whyte, J. F. M. |\n| Bassford, W. M. |\n| Crosbie, d. |\n| Durrance, W. II. |\n| Davidson, H. |\n| McIntyre, J. |\n| Palmer, H. T. |\n| Witchell, R. |\n| Muir, G. |\n| Scott, W. B. P. |\n| Woolley, W. II. |\n| Lamble, P. T, |\n| Conolly, T. P. |\n| Quinn, J. |\n| Okeeffe. D. |\n| Ballen. J. A. |\n| Gunner Frith, C. E. |\n| Coysh, E. W. |\n| Ward, C. W. |\n| Duncan, R. |\n| Sorby, V. |\n| Pearson. H. F. |\n| Eadie, J. |\n| Dinuing, H. |\n| Griffiths, J. A. |\n| Hornibrook, E. L. |\n| Johnston, J. |\n| Melutyre, W. |\n| Boulton, S. |\n| Scriven, D. E. |\n| Anderson, W. |\n| Fairbolm, J. |\n| Saunders, G. A. |\n| Pearson, R. W. |\n| Corporal P Henderson, R. |\n| r [lance, J. [. R. |\n| Markie, A. J. |\n| Seth, S. A. |\n| Melver, M. |\n| Herbst, C. E. |\n| Bombardier Craddock, H. E. |\n| Olsen, J. |\n| Brett, L. E. |\n| Olsen, C. W, |\n| Gummer Abrabam, E. |\n| Pestonji, R. |\n| Abrubam, R. |\n| Pelling, W. W. |\n| Baker, F. H. |\n| Raymond, A. |\n| Ellis, E. E. |\n| Gay, L. |\n| Goggin, W. G. |\n| Humphreys, E. |\n| Humphreys, C. |\n| Haggard, H. E. |\n| Kennett, H. G. |\n| Seth, J. II. |\n| Shaw, E. |\n| Sibbett, J. J. |\n| Alves, C. M. S. |\n| Leonard, J. |\n| Bains, J. W\" |\n| Loureiro, F. |\n| James, E. W. H. |\n| Joseph, J. |\n| Petley, II. |\n| Moore, F. |\n| Abraham, E. S. |\n\n### ENGINEER COMPANY. Roll of Efficients.\n\n| Rank and Name |\n| --- |\n| Captain Crake, W. A. |\n| Lientevant Reynolds, F. O. |\n| Co.-Sgt. Maj. e Logan, J. W. |\n| Sapper P Rovan, H. S. |\n| Sergeant P Crawford, J. |\n| F Lapsley. R. |\n| Corporal Lummert, G. P. |\n| Captain Gublay, J. S. |\n| Gunner Payton, J. T. |\n| Gamer Hamett, A. H. |\n| Gunner Sayer. A. C. |\n| Supper Dillon, F. II. |\n| Ward, F. |\n| Watson, V. |\n| Cullen, W. F. |\n| Park, A. V. |\n| Witchell, J. |\n| Logan, J. C. |\n| Kynoch, G. |\n| Holmes, J. |\n| Ross, W. E. |\n| Dixon, C. W. |\n| Milne, J. G |\n| Barrington, J. II. |\n| Ross, J. |\n| Sapper Hirst, J. |\n| Lochend, H. W. |\n| Frost. B. L. |\n| Fletcher, II. L. |\n| Ross, J. |\n| Quark. F. W. |\n| Leufesty, F. P. |\n| Hall, 1. S. |\n| Sergeant » Deas, W. M. |\n| Corporal Sayer, H. W. |\n| Bombardier Mitchell, R. |\n| Longstaff, J. |\n| Rogers, A. E. |\n| Pellow, E. |\n| Marshall, J. |\n| Sanderson, W. |\n| Brandt, W. |\n| 'Lewington, W. J. |\n| Friend, J. |\n| Clothier, A. V. |\n\n### RIGHT HALF, No. 2 COMPANY H. K. V. ARTILLERY.\n\n| Rank and Name |\n| --- |\n| Brown, F. A. |\n| Coles, J. C. |\n| Rend, W. |\n| Kennedy, P. |\n| Indah, J. J. |\n| Catchick, G. G. |\n| Penfold, I. IL |\n| Cole, J. T. f. |\n| Hurlow, J. |\n\n### TROOP. Roll of Efficients.\n\n| Rank and Name |\n| --- |\n| Captain P Armstrong, W. |\n| Lieutenant Northcote, M. 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        "content_text": "## Table IV. \n**HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.** \nReport on Gun Practice, carried out during the year ending 31st March, 1906.\n\n| Nature of Practice | Date on which Practice was carried out | Number on parade | Number present | Number of Rounds fired | Range | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 15-Pr. B. L. | 23rd October, 1905 | 87 | 61 | 3,050 | 1.0 | Elementary Practice from Stonecutters East at Dummy Targets, on Hill Side Chung Hue, carried out by Sections, 4 Series fired, target for each Series representing 3 Field Guns, 6 Men standing and 6 Men kneeling. Laying good, Fuze Setting fair. Result good. Best Series 14 Rounds and 8 Targets out of 15 hit. |\n| 15-Pr. B. L. | 28th October, 1905 | 71 | ... | 3,350 | 3,000 | Service Practice C. R. A.'s Inspection, 4 Series fired with frequent change of B. C.s and Gun Detachments. Marked improvement in Rapid Service of the guns. Laying and fuze setting very good. 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        "content_text": "Extract from the \"China Mail\" of 4th October, 1906.\n\nCAPTAIN BARNES-LAWRENCE,\n\nThe Funeral.\n\nOne of the most impressive funerals that has been held in Hongkong for many years was that of the late Hon. Captain Barnes Lawrence, who was laid in his final resting place in the Protestant Cemetery at Happy Valley yesterday. Long before the hour for the funeral, a large crowd of Europeans and Chinese had assembled in the vicinity of the Royal Naval Hospital, Wanchai, from which the funeral was to start; the boatmen from the Harbour Office being lined up on one side of the road holding the wreaths which came from the different departments in the Harbour Office.\n\nShortly after five o'clock, the coffin, a plain teak one, covered with the Union Jack, was carried down from the hospital to the road where a gun carriage was waiting, and it was placed thereon. When the cortege started, ahead of the coffin was a firing party from H.M.S. \"Flora,\" commanded by Captain Grant-Dalton, each man wearing a black band round his left arm and marching with arms reversed. Then came the band of the Second Royal West Kent Regiment, with the drum draped with crepe.\n\nOn either side of the coffin were the deceased gentleman's colleagues from the Legislative Council as follows:- Right, Sir Francis Piggott, Hon. Mr T. Sercombe Smith, Hon. Mr W. Chatham, Hon. Mr A. W. Brewin, Sir Paul Chater, and Hon. Mr Wei Yuk. Left, Sir Henry Berkeley, Hon. Dr Atkinson, Hon. Mr E. A. Hewett, Hon. Mr W. J. Greson, Hon. De V. Kow Kai, and Mr A. G. M. Flathe (Clerk of the Council).\n\nHis Excellency the Governor, Sir Matthew Nathan, walked behind the coffin as chief mourner, followed by his A.D.C. Then came a detachment of 100 men from the naval service, followed by the staff of the Harbour Office, who turned out in strong force, headed by the Assistant Harbour Master, Mr E. Jones. The boarding officers, European employees, Eurasians, Portuguese, and Chinese completed the Harbour Office detachment.\n\nThen came a number of Civil Service cadets, and a large number of friends of the late Harbour Master. Among those whom we noticed were the following:- Captain Lyons, Messrs E. H. Sharp, K.C., J. Dyer Ball, J. Hastings, F. B. L. Bowley, W. Daniels, H. P. White, L. Murphy, A. Saeth, P. N. H. Jones, H. H. J. Gompertz, F. J. Badeley, P. P. J. Wodehouse, A. R. Loze, G. de Champs, C. D. Melbourne, O. H. Wakeman, G. Bastings, G. C. Moxon, A. Wilson, T. F. Hough, J. J. Leiria, J. Wilkie, T. Skinner, E. A. Ram, L. A. M. Johnson, H. N. Mody, B. P. Tocker, P. Jack, H. Humphreys, E. Barton Foreman, and A. B. Mihara, Revs. J. B. France and Pearce, Capt. Pennefather, Captain Milroy, Major Pritchard, Dr Kruger, German Consul, M. Liebert, French Consul, Mr A. G. Romano, Consul for Portugal, and Mr S. Silverstone.\n\nTo the strains of Beethoven's funeral march, the cortege slowly wound its way to the cemetery, which was reached about 5:30 p.m. The coffin was carried to the grave by a party of bluejackets, and the mourners took up their positions around it.\n\nIt was impossible for all who were present to hear the words which fell from the Minister's lips as he read the burial service, but everybody seemed deeply impressed with the solemnity of the occasion. Bareheaded, they stood while the service proceeded, and at its conclusion, most of those present approached the grave and paid a last tribute of respect to their honoured friend. Three rounds from the firing party and the \"Last Post\" from the bugler completed the ceremony, and the Hon. Captain Barnes Lawrence was laid to rest amid a scene of beauty, close to a bubbling stream which tumbled noisily over the stones in its course.\n\nThere were a large number of wreaths sent by the following:-\n\nMiss Barnes-Lawrence, Miss V. Barnes-Lawrence, H.E. the Governor, the P. and O.S.S. Co., Pacific Mail Co., D. and O.S.S. Co., Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Portland Asiatic Co., Y.M.C.A., Officers 119th Infantry, Orderlies Harbour Department, Wardroom Officers of H.M.S. \"Tamar,\" Staff of the Harbour Department (a buoy and anchor), Chamber of Commerce, Mr and Mrs James Macdonald, Mr and Mrs Denison, Boatmen and Messengers of the Harbour Office, Mr D. R. Law, Hon. Mr T. Sercombe Smith, Mr and Mrs A. G. Wise, Mr and Mrs Gompertz, Staff Surgeon Mowat, R.N., and Mrs Mowat, Miss Barker, Hon. Dr Atkinson, Mr R.T.D. Sayle, Dr and Mrs Newell Wilson, Deputy Inspector General and Mrs T. D. Gimlette, Mr and Mrs G. W. Craddock, Mr Duncan Clarke, Commodore and Mrs H. P. Williams, Mr J. E. Ellis, Mrs and Miss Clarke, Mr and Mrs A. B. Skottowe, Major and Mrs Ross, Mr E. E. P. Erskine, Mr C. Gregory, Mr Fung Wa-chun, Messrs D. Sisenon and Co., Mr A. O. Botelho Jr., the Yik On S.S. Co., the Wing On Sang Kee, Mr Francisco Tse Yat, Messrs Tak Kee & Co., Messrs Wing Kee, Mr Kwok Chen, the Sam Wang Co., Nam Tai, the China Merchants Steamship Co., the Wing Shun Co., Mr L. F. Cooke, and Mr Chi Wo.\n\nPage 414",
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        "content_text": "NOS \n\nyears-pointing to the fact that any technical breach of the conditions of lease has been waived by the Government, and advantage taken of it for purposes of revenue—as has been done in fact in the case of a very large number of the farm leases.* We request therefore that these buildings may be allowed to remain: except such as are on the area proposed to be resumed; for which compensation should be paid.\n\n5. Our clients will, when an agreement has been come to, execute such deeds as may be necessary to carry it into effect.\n\n6. Our clients do not claim any rights beyond those that are conceded to every resident in a British Colony; the right namely to be treated with equal justice—in this particular case the right to be treated no less fairly than other owners of Farm Lots.\n\n7. A large number of small structures—matsheds &c. used in great part by persons occupied in the industry of pig-rearing have been removed in accordance with your request, and we shall feel obliged if you will let us know if this has been done to your satisfaction.\n\nSome of these structures have been erected we believe in past times without permits being granted; but upon these buildings also—as we are informed—taxes have been paid to the Government: their illegality therefore cannot be very glaring. Our client however has hastened to carry out your wishes in this matter.\n\nNo. 894.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nWe are,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Sd.) DENISON RAM & GIBBS.\n\nPublic Works Department,\n\nHongkong, 20th June 1906.\n\nK. F. L. 3 R. P. & K. F. L. 4.\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 8th ultimo, I beg to inform you that the matter is under consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nK.F. L. 4 \n\nMr. Chatham litte\n\n258\n\n19. Sup: 1908\n\nHOMUN TH\n\nMessrs. DENISON RAM & GIBBS.\n\nW. CHATHAM,\n\nDirector of Public Works.\n\nA large number of the Farm Lots have been built on without any protest on the part of the Government. Nearly all the houses that were built on the island in the out-districts and on the higher levels: when the first experiments were made in the direction of country or suburban houses; were built on Farm Lots, as for instance:—\n\nHon. Mr. Bellos, The Eyre... F. L. No. 57.\n\nThe Haystack.... F. L. Nos. 60 & 61.\n\nThe Mount Austin Arms Hotel... F. L. No. 54.\n\nThe Teak Hotel........ Treverbyn .........F. L. No. 3,\n\n.................F. L. No. 62.\n\nThe Admiralty Bungalow.........F. L. No. 53.\n\nMr. Granville Sharp, Homestead......... F. L. No. 59. Myrth Bank.....F. L. No. 58.\n\nSir E. J. Ackroyd's Ellaudonau F. L. No. 64. Mr. A. F. McEwens Bungalow...F. L. No. 67,\n\nMost of these lots were subsequently converted into Building Lots.\n\n(Sd). W. Chatham\n\nAREA 2. 12 ACRES\n\nScale 32 inches = 1 mile.\n\nP.PW.\n\n19.9.75.\n\n6",
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        "content_text": "261\n\nmeet the Government in all reasonable ways, and it was in accordance with these conceptions that they suggested an exchange of land which seemed to have the double advantage of confirming themselves in possession of the same area of land; and of enabling the Government to acquire what they want without having to make any considerable expenditure.\n\nAs you are aware the land in question is quite close to—in fact almost forms a part of Yan-ma-ti, a District which, within the past ten years, has grown from little more than a village to a considerable town; and which promises to grow still more rapidly in the future. In this eventuality our clients' property cannot fail to be much enhanced in value, and we suggest to you that the value of it is not simply what it is worth to-day for the purposes of growing vegetables and fruit trees; but also, and in a greater measure, what it will be worth five or ten years hence when it has become part of the centre of a great town;\n\nand when this lot together with all the other surrounding lots will have become converted into building lots.\n\nOur clients do not look upon your offer to grant them Inland Lot Leases for part of their property (see your letter No. 333) as a very valuable one, as it has been almost a matter of course to grant Inland Lots—or building lots—in exchange for Farm or garden lots as urban districts begin to encroach upon what had previously been rural districts: an arrangement which is of equal advantage to the owners, who are able to more fully develop their property, and to the Government which profits by the improved rateable value of the land. There occur to us as we write the instances of Mr. William Keswick's farm lots at East Point, of Mr. Granville Sharp's Farm Lot at the Peak, and of the late Sir E. J. Ackroyd's Farm lot at Mount Kellett. In these cases the transfers were made in favour of influential Europeans, but we cannot suppose that the Government would not be anxious to treat with equal justice owners of Chinese nationality. For these reasons; although we admit that the exchange of lease may some day be very desirable, and constitutes one of the elements of value of the land; we cannot advise our clients that it is a compensation for being dispossessed of part of their land at the present time.\n\nFor these reasons our clients express the hope that their land—which they hold on a lease for 999 years—may not be taken away from them against their wishes and upon a valuation that has been determined by yourself; but that compensation may be made in land in the immediate vicinity, leased in the same way, and for the unexpired period of 999 years.*\n\nShould you still feel unable to meet their views in this way our clients request that they may remain in possession of their land, or that in the alternative the whole of this correspondence may be forwarded for the consideration of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for\n\n* An exchange of land upon these terms was offered to the Hongkong Hotel Company but refused by them, upon the ground that the land to be granted was inconveniently situated half a mile inland.\n\n10\n\nthe Colonies, with which object they will have it copied in duplicate and forwarded with the necessary covering letter from the owners—to the Hon. The Colonial Secretary for transmission to London.\n\nWe are Sir,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nDENISON RAM & GIBBS,\n\nOur clients inform us that work people have already taken possession of their land and cut down their trees and hedges, thereby doing considerable damage to their property. Will you kindly inform us to whom they should look for a remedy in this state of affairs—we mean apart from a legal remedy to which they have no wish to have recourse, unless obliged to do so.\n\nMessrs. DENISON RAM & GIBBS.\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nCrown Solicitor's Office, Hongkong, 7th November, 1906.\n\nKowloon Farm Lot 4.\n\nI enclose formal notice of the intention of the Crown to resume a portion of this lot for the railway and of the appointment of Mr. A. Shelton Hooper as arbitrator on behalf of the Crown. Will you accept service of this notice on behalf of the Lessee, Mrs. Chan Moon Lau Shi and will you request her to nominate her arbitrator, who must be one of the special jurors of the Colony?\n\nThe Government is anxious to occupy this land at once in order to proceed with the construction of the railway. I should be glad to know whether your client will consent to the Government taking possession of the land at once without prejudice to your claim for compensation. You may inform her that the Government is prepared to proceed with the assessment of the compensation immediately.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nMessrs. DENISON RAM & GIBBS.\n\nF. B. L. BOWLEY, ESQ.\n\nCrown Solicitor.\n\nSir,\n\nF. B. L. BOWLEY,\n\nCrown Solicitor.\n\n10th November, 1906.\n\nKowloon Farm Lot No. 4.\n\nReplying to your letter of 7th instant re the above: our client Mrs. Chan Moon Lau Shi is a Chinese widow. She has no knowledge of English, and all our communications with her have to be carried on through an interpreter. Under these circumstances we shall prefer that the \"formal notice\" referred to should be served directly upon herself.\n\n11",
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        "content_text": "# 1 mazva ul. has been corrected to proper header\n\n# Domestic, C. O. 1417 Red 13 JAN 06\n\n## Taxation of land in New Territory\n\non das subjec has been corrected to proper sentence\n\nIt was even stated in the papers that Shêng, who had negotiated the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Final Agreement, was advocating its cancellation and had subscribed a sum of money for that object. No particular damage had been done, because the agitation had so far not been taken seriously; but if it be known that the Central Government, instead of telling the provinces that engagements must be kept, was supporting the popular demands for abrogation, effects must be rapid and far-reaching,\n\nHis Excellency was aware of this danger, and also allowed me to conclude that Wai-wu Pu were under no illusion about it. He was unusually open in condemnation of Shêng (as, indeed, was Na-t'ung), and if this can be taken at ordinary value, it should mean that Sheng's connection with railways cannot continue much longer.\n\nThere was some discussion of other matters, mining and commercial, and I found said that I saw nothing in any of the questions at issue which made settlement difficult. In this his Excellency emphatically concurred.\n\nFrom the utterances of Prince Ching, Na-t'ung, and Ch'u Hung-ch'i, I am in no doubt that the Court, the Grand Council, and the Wai-wu Pu feel themselves unable to take a firm line with the anti-concession agitation, unless the Viceroys and Provincial Governments are in agreement with, and loyally support, the views of the Central Government. On the other hand, the Provincial Governments are becoming more and more apprehensive of popular movements, and disinclined to take action calculated to offend popular opinion. There can be no question that in many of the provinces public feeling against foreign concessions of any sort or nationality is strong, and evidently being fomented by the educated classes, and while this is so it is hopeless, in the existing conditions of Chinese administration, to expect the Provincial Governments to bestir themselves in opposition.\n\nWhat Prince Ching, Na-t'ung, and Ch'u Hung-ch'i mean is that in the present temper of the provinces the Central Government is really afraid to use pressure, and they want us to wait until the fury of the local clamor against foreign railways and mines has subsided, and the people have had opportunity to consider calmly the facts connected with the concessions they are opposing.\n\nAs soon as the Viceroy of Chihli returns from the Hochien-fu manoeuvres I shall seek an opportunity of sounding his Excellency on this subject. His treatment of the American boycott was sharp and effectual, and it may be that his assistance can be enlisted to induce the Central Government to adopt a more decided and justifiable attitude towards this anti-concession movement.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\n**ERNEST SATOW**\n\n## leased territory\n\n## reference to status of inhabitants of\n\nmerely to state that concession of complaints can be given only when made through proper form of Kong\n\n## (Minutes.)\n\nSir T. Satow will probably say something about it in view of disguising states people have...\n\nI think the word an...\n\nSinia of the is Open there persons is a question but...\n\nAgree deser ysend...\n\nI send copy to Nathan (F CPL-15) at once\n\nPage 8\n\n...\n\nPage information remains as is.\n\nThe final output is in HTML format using \n\n for paragraphs.",
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        "content_text": "(K 16)\n\nRETURN of OFFICERS who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties,\n\n(K 17)\n\nprepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907,—Continued.\n\n  \n    Name of Officer giving Security.\n    Exact Titles of all Appointments (either permanent or temporary) now held by him.\n    Name of the Security given.\n    IF BY GUARANTEE BOND.\nNames, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond.\n    Titles of Office in respect of which the Bond is given.\n    Date of Bond.\n    Amount of Bond.\nas stated therein.\n  \n  \n    JUDICIAL AND LEGAL DEPT.\n  \n  \n    SUPREME COURT,---Cont.\n  \n  \n    LE de Rozario, jun.\n    \n    \n    Chin Wa, Land Proprietor, No. 54 Staunton Street.\nLeung Tsau, Chinese Clerk and Shroff.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lai Wing-hen,\n    \n    Deposit Note of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank for $100.\n    \n    \n    \n    $100\n  \n  \n    G. H. Wakeman\n    \n    \n    J. R. Wood,\n    \n    16th January, 1900.\n    $500\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    3rd September, 1904.\n    $100\n  \n  \n    MAGISTRACY.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Guarantee Bond by the Commerzite Union Assurance Company,\n    G. N. Orme,\nCecil Clementi,\n    Assistant Land Officer,\n    19th May, 1900.\n    $500\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    17th October, 1906.\n    $1,500\n  \n  \n    Tam Ji\n    Official Collector of Crown Rent, New Territories,\n    Deposit note of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank for $1,000.\n    \n    Assistant Land Officer, New Territories,\n    14th January, 1902.\n    $50\n  \n  \n    \n    Shroff,\n    \n    L. O. N. Zer\n    \n    2nd May, 1904.\n    $50\n  \n  \n    LAND REGISTRY OFFICE.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Deposit note of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank for $500.\n    \n    \n    20th June, 1906.\n    $1,500\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Joint and several Surety,\n    H. E. Pollock,\nE. H. Sharp,\n    \n    29th May, 1906.\n    $500\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Yau Sui, Master of the Kang Cheung shop No. 81 High Street;\nLai Po Yan, No. 88 Peel Street.\nHo Ning, Master of Wing Hop Leong Nos. 26 and 28 Lyndhurst Terrace.\n    \n    7th June, 1906.\n25th August, 1906.\n30th October, 1906.\n    $1,000\n$1,000\n$500\n  \n  \n    C. A. D. Melbourne,\n    Clerk Magistracy.\n    \n    Ho Kai;\nG. M. Bain.\n    \n    31st July, 1900.\n    $5,000\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Bond with one Surety.\n    Mrs. Fok Tsan, Nos. 46 and 48 Jardine's Bazaar\n    \n    6th June, 1900.\n    $600\n  \n  \n    George Ng Fuk Shang,\n    1st Clerk and Accountant.\n    \n    Francisco Tse-yat, of Wing Kee.\n    \n    8th April, 1899.\n    £100\n  \n  \n    POLICE.\n  \n  \n    He Watson\n    Clerk and Interpreter,\n    Deposit Note of The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for $500.\n    \n    \n    25th August, 1903.\n    $500\n  \n  \n    Young Kam Shing,\n    Chinese Clerk and Interpreter.\n    Deposit Note of The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for $100.\n    \n    \n    26th January, 1901.\n    $100\n  \n  \n    Ching Wah-ler...\n    Deposit Mate of The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for $200.\n    \n    \n    \n    22nd December, 1904.\n    $200\n  \n\nPage 557",
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        "content_text": "## Art. 9. \nM. Splingaerd undertakes that, after making the additional purchases of machinery on behalf of the woollen factory, he will supply, with the exception of sheep's wool and fuel, duplicates of all the articles required for the machines, large and small. M. Splingaerd guarantees that they will suffice for ten years, and that there will be no deficiency in any respect.\n\n## Art. 10. \nM. Splingaerd will dispatch M. Geerts to get an estimate for the gold-washing machinery. He will also dispatch M. Müller to get an estimate for the additional purchase of cloth-weaving machinery. The articles bought will be enough for the purpose of washing gold and weaving cloth. If men of other nationality take over the works and declare that the articles supplied are in any way deficient or incomplete, M. Splingaerd will then be liable to make good such deficiency, and MM. Geerts and Müller will be punished according to foreign law.\n\n## Art. 11. \nThis Agreement for buying the two sorts of machinery must be recognized as made with M. Splingaerd alone. It is definitely understood that under no circumstances whatever may M. Splingaerd hand over the contract to another.\n\n## Art. 12. \nA plan of the woollen factory's area and buildings has been made at M. Splingaerd's direction by M. Müller, who has appended a certificate of their adequacy for the work. When the machinery arrives in Kansuh, no delay on the pretext that the site is too small will be allowed. The cloth woven, no matter whether fine or coarse, must be up to the musters shown by M. Splingaerd, and of the required measurement. Neither on the plea of the inferiority of the water in Kansuh, nor of the badness of the coal, may the blame be put upon the unfitness of local conditions.\n\n## Art. 13. \nM. Splingaerd is a man of good reputation, and having taken up the management of these two kinds of machinery on behalf of Kansuh, he should use every effort to open up this source of profit. He is entitled to a salary at the same rate as in the old Agreement, paid monthly. He is not permitted to make pretexts to go elsewhere.\n\n## Art. 14. \nThis Agreement is prepared in Chinese only, and in seven duplicates, one each of which is placed with the Wai-wu Pu and the Board of Agriculture, Works, and Commerce, the Viceroy of Shen-kan, the Treasurer of Kansuh, the Judge of Kansuh, the Chief Bureau of Agriculture, Works, Commerce, and Mines of Kansuh, and M. Splingaerd, as evidence of good faith.\n\n(Signed)\n\nFebruary 4, 1907.\n\n**FENG**, Treasurer.\n**PAI**, Acting Judge.\n**LANCHOU TAOTAI PÊNG**, Director of Chief Bureau of Agriculture, Works, Commerce, and Mines of Kansuh.\n**A. SPLINGAERD**, Belgian Secretary of Legation.\n\n**(2.)**\n\n## AGREEMENT \nmade between the Treasurer of Kansuh, the Judge of Kansuh, the Lanchou Taotai, Kansuh, and the Chief Bureau for Foreign Affairs in Kansuh, and the Belgian Secretary of Legation, M. Splingaerd.\n\nM. Splingaerd agrees to purchase at the Cockerill Works in Belgium two steam-launches made of steel, and sell them to Kansuh. They are to be brought to Kansuh by way of the Yellow River, and payment will be made for them on arrival. The purchase is authorized by his Excellency the Viceroy Shông as a means of opening for Kansuh a great power of profit, and so the Bureau of Foreign Affairs has, after consultation, drawn up this Agreement embodying the details in the following Articles:\n\n## Article 1. \nIt is clearly stipulated that these steel launches are to be 50 Chinese feet in length, 13 ft. 2 in. in breadth, and 1 ft. 5 in. of draught, all Chinese measurements. The launch with house on it will have a tonnage of 14,000 catties, 60 horse-power, and a speed of 25 li per hour. The launch without house will have a tonnage of 15,000 catties, 70 horse-power, and a speed of 30 li per hour. The launches shall be completely fitted throughout, and each shall carry five large wooden boats. The launches must be brought to Lanchou within six or seven months from the day on which this Agreement is signed, and payment will be made only after arrival. Dredging appliances are not included in the above fittings.\n\n## Art. 2. \nThe actual cost of the launch fitted with a saloon will be 16,000 Lanchou taels. It is agreed that in addition to this sum 2,000 taels for freight will be paid on the journey from Belgium by way of Chêng Chou (Honan) on the Yellow River straight to the provincial capital of Kansuh. The actual cost of the launch not fitted with a saloon will be 14,500 Lanchou taels, and in addition 1,000 taels for freight by way of the Yellow River to Lung Wang Shan. If it be found impossible in accordance with this Article to send the launches by way of the Yellow River to Kansuh, they are both to be returned; nothing will be paid for, and the Agreement will be cancelled; there can be not the slightest withdrawal, and any failure to perform will entail a heavy fine. Two plans and a model of the launches ordered will as a first step be handed to Kansuh to be put on record. Carriage and insurance are both included in the price to be paid for the launches. The Kansuh public will recognize no other charge whatever.\n\n## Art. 3. \nWhen the launches are on their way up the Yellow River, and come to difficult places, such as the Railway Bridge at Jung Tsê (Honan), or the three gorges at Shan Chou, or the Dragon Gorge at Han Chêng, or the Sandy Shallows and Noisy Waters at Ho Tao, with their sharp bends and hidden rocks, or any other dangerous spot, plans for proceeding up river must be devised. The expenditure on machinery, labour, and other necessary items, is chargeable to the works above mentioned and M. Splingaerd. The Kansuh public has no concern therein.\n\n## Art. 4. \nIf after arrival at Lanchou the launches, of which the purchase is by these Articles contracted for, prove a success in carrying cargo, so that the public obtains profit thereby, the Kansuh Bureau of Foreign Affairs may consult with M. Splingaerd, and draw up a further Agreement to buy more from the works in question on the same terms as the present purchase.\n\n## Art. 5. \nThis Agreement is made in Chinese only, and in six duplicates, of which one is placed on record with the Viceroy, one each with the Treasurer, Judge, Taotai, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, and one with M. Splingaerd, as evidence of good faith.\n\n## Art. 6. \nAll the above Articles are mutually agreed to by both parties. When this Agreement is signed, M. Splingaerd will then order the works mentioned to construct the launches and bring them to Kansuh. On their arrival, payment will be made by the Bureau of Foreign Affairs. Everything must be conducted in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, so that no complications may ensue. The intervention of the Government and the Minister may not on any pretext be sought. As regards import duty, application will be made to the Viceroy to issue a pass and notify the proper authorities.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJanuary 7, 1907.\n\n**FENG**, Treasurer.\n**PAI**, Acting Judge.\n**LANCHOU TAOTAI PÊNG**, Director of Chief Bureau of Agriculture, Works, Commerce, and Mines of Kansuh.\n**A. SPLINGAERD**, Belgian Secretary of Legation.\n\n**(3.)**\n\n## Agreement.\n\nThe Treasurer, the Judge, the Taotai, and the Chief Bureau of Agriculture, Works, Commerce, and Mines of Kansuh, having received instructions from the Viceroy of Shensi and Kansuh informing them that the Belgian Secretary of Legation, M. Splingaerd, had made him a written offer to buy a complete set of machinery and plant for working a copper mine, held consultation, and mutually agreed to draw up this Agreement, setting forth in the Articles which follow the rules regarding the cost in taels and the method of conducting the enterprise.\n\n## Article 1. \nAt Fêng Huang Shan, in Kansuh, is a vast quantity of copper ore. Belgian Secretary of Legation, M. Splingaerd, agrees on behalf of the Bureau of Agriculture, Works, Commerce, and Mines of Kansuh to buy a set of machinery for excavating the ore and appliances for boring shafts, crushing ore, and refining the metal.",
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        "content_text": "# REPORT BY DIRECTOR OF OBSERVATORY\n\nThe typhoon which struck the Colony on the night of the 27th to 28th July last was possibly formed on the 25th to the Eastward of the Balingtang Channel. But as this typhoon must undoubtedly be classed as one of small area, in the absence of any data from the Pacific, this cannot be certainly affirmed. There is, in any case, no evidence whatever of its existence prior to the 25th. On this day a slight fall of the barometer took place in Luzon and S. Formosa, although pressure remained slightly above the normal over both areas.\n\nOn the morning of the 26th a sharp fall, amounting to just over a tenth of an inch since the previous day, was noted at Koshun (S. Formosa) 29.71, and at Aparri (N. Coast of Luzon) 29.69, and the wind circulation, a strong N.E. breeze at the former, and a light S. breeze at the latter station, gave evidence, in conjunction with pressure conditions over surrounding areas, of the existence of a depression in the Balingtang Channel. The position assigned to the centre on our Weather map was 19 N., 121° E., and information in accordance therewith was issued in Hongkong and the shipping notified by signals at 10.45 a.m.\n\nThe afternoon observations received from Koshun and Aparri indicated some movement of the depression to the Westward. The barometer had risen at both stations, the wind had veered to E., a strong breeze at Koshun (bar. 29.73) while a light S.W. air blew at Aparri (bar. 29.73).\n\n| Location        | Barometer Reading | Wind Direction | Wind Force |\n|-----------------|-------------------|---------------|------------|\n| Koshun          | 29.73             | E.            | Strong     |\n| Aparri          | 29.73             | S.W.          | Light      |\n\nHigh pressure lay over the Pacific between the Bonin and Loochoo islands on this day, an area of low pressure was situated over Manchuria, while conditions over S. China were practically normal.\n\nThe morning observations of the 27th showed a moderate increase of pressure in Luzon (Aparri 29.78, wind S.E., a light air, clear sky). The observations from Koshun did not reach the Observatory, but at Swatow the barometer read 29.71, wind N.E. force 1. In Hongkong, where pressure had given way two hundredths of an inch only, during the past 24 hours and was below the normal by the same amount, the barometer at 10 a.m. read 29.75, wind E. force 1. At Gap Rock a gentle breeze blew from N.E. These observations faintly indicated the existence of the depression but gave no clue whatever as to its severe character. It was believed to be situated at that time about 300 miles to the S.E. of the Colony and notice to that effect was given, and the Red signals were hoisted at 12.15 p.m.\n\nPressure on this day had weakened slightly but was still high over the Pacific between the Bonins and Loochoos. The Manchurian depression had moved to the N.E. and a slight increase of pressure had taken place over N. China. In the South the only abnormal feature was the light N.E. wind along the S. coast of China.\n\nPerhaps the best evidence of the existence of the typhoon was furnished by clouds. The morning broke fine, the sky being almost cloudless. Shortly after noon a bank of clouds of the cirro-stratus type was observed bearing S.E. by E., its advancing edge being at an altitude of about 30°. At 4 p.m. this pall had covered nearly the whole sky except just above the N.W. horizon where it was still clear. A few patches of alto-cumulus below it were seen to be coming from N.E. by E. in the afternoon. The direction however was backing, a significant fact. At 6 p.m. they came from N.E. by N. and it was then that the Black signals were hoisted.\n\nThe barometer, still only 0.02 inch below the normal at 4 p.m., now began to fall and the wind, which had been chiefly a light breeze from E. during the day, shifted to the North. Gap Rock at 4 p.m. reported \"slight swell from S.E.\", the wind there at the time being a gentle breeze from N.E. At the same hour Waglan reported a moderate breeze from E.N.E. At 6 p.m. it blew a fresh breeze from N.N.E. at Waglan and a gentle breeze from N. at Gap Rock, the swell still being reported from the latter station as \"slight from S.E.\". It thus appears that sea swell in this instance had not outrun the advancing storm to any considerable distance. Rain commenced to fall at the Observatory at 8 p.m.\n\nThe following observations show the conditions prevailing at 9 p.m. Observatory barometer 29.64, wind North force 5, Waglan 29.58, N.N.W. 7, Gap Rock 29.57, N.N.W. 6. The swell reported by the latter station was now moderate from E.S.E. These observations appeared to indicate the probability of the typhoon centre reaching the coast in the neighbourhood of the Colony, and I then wired a message to that effect to Hongkong for distribution. The barometer at the Observatory still read only 0.12 inch below normal, but the gradient between here and the lighthouses was increasing.\n\nThe barometer now commenced to fall quickly and the wind to rise and at 11.15 p.m. (Standard Time) No. 3 night signal, accompanied by the firing of three bombs, was made. This indicated that the gale then blowing was likely to increase to full typhoon force.\n\n| Time          | Barom. at M.S.L. | Wind Dir. | Velocity (Miles per hour) |\n|---------------|------------------|-----------|---------------------------|\n| July 27th, 6 p.m. | 29.65           | N.        | 8                        |\n| 7             | 29.65           | N.        | 12                       |\n| 8             | 29.63           | N.        | 17                       |\n| 9             | 29.64           | N.        | 26                       |\n| 10            | 29.60           | N.        | 39                       |\n| 11            | 29.49           | N.        | 53                       |\n| midnt.        | 29.24           | N.E. by N.| 75                       |\n| July 28th, 1 a.m. | 28.93        | E.S.E.    | 72*                      |\n| 2             | 29.30           | S.S.E.    | 81                       |\n| 3             | 29.48           | S.S.E.    | 54                       |\n| 4             | 29.58           | S. by E.  | 42                       |\n| 5             | 29.63           | S. by E.  | 36                       |\n| 6             | 29.67           | ...       | 23                       |\n\nThe barometric minimum, 28.85, occurred at 1 hr. 3 m. a.m. The wind moderated somewhat at about 1 a.m.--the direction was veering quickly towards S.E. and S.--but rose again a few minutes later and blew with greater fury than before, the squalls being not only terrific but also of long duration. Between 1.15 a.m. and 1.45 a.m. the wind began to moderate. It is probable that the greater part of the damage on shore occurred during this interval. In the Observatory compound nearly all the damage was caused by the S.S.E. wind, trees and other debris falling towards N.W. and N.N.W.\n\nRain which practically ceased to fall between midnight and 1 a.m. set in again at the latter hour, and lightning which had been first observed at 11 p.m. continued until 2 a.m. With the exception of the typhoon of September 18th, 1906, this is the only occasion on which lightning has been observed here near the centre of a typhoon during the past 25 years. Thunder was not heard.\n\nObservations subsequently received from Waglan and Gap Rock show that it blew with full typhoon force at the former station, from N.E. at midnight and from E.N.E. at 1 a.m., the barometer falling to 28.70 at the latter hour. At Gap Rock typhoon force was not recorded. The lowest barometer reading, 29.24, occurred at 1 a.m. with the wind a whole gale (force 10) from West, and subsequently at 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. from S.W., it began to moderate. The gradient between the Observatory and Waglan at midnight was equivalent to just over half an inch in 15 miles.\n\nThese observations show that the centre of the typhoon passed within a distance of 10 miles to the Southward of the Observatory near 1 a.m.\n\nSubsequently at about 7 a.m. the typhoon passed to the South and West of Canton. It had probably filled up to some extent but was still a severe storm.\n\n* The record of wind velocity is not reliable probably from midnight. The spindle carrying the cups snapped just above the supporting arms at some time during the night. The cups however continued to revolve, but loss of speed during the high velocities is certain to have occurred.",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nfields ready to be carted to the farm-houses; beans were also harvested, the small millet (Setaria italica) was being cut, while hemp (Cannabis sativa), tobacco, and turnips were still in the ground.\n\nWe\n\nBetween Feng-huang Ting and Ts'ao-ho-kow, which are distant 38.5 and 92.4 miles from Antung respectively by rail, two mountain ranges, the Chi-kuan-shan (Cockscomb) and Ta-fang-shen, have to be crossed and the track zig-zags up and down the steep slopes in a somewhat alarming manner. The curves are marvellously sharp, and it was no surprise to be told that the cars frequently leave the rails. We were fortunate, however, and reached Ts'ao-ho-kow on time (7:15 P.M.), where we had to spend the night in the usual Japanese hotel. There had been cases of cholera at Antung, and there was a medical examination of all passengers on arrival at Tsao-ho-kow. Both pulses were felt by a Japanese doctor, and I was very much afraid that my servant, who had been unable to raise his head all day, would be rejected; but he passed the test without a word, although he was so ill overnight that I had serious intentions of leaving him behind. Next morning he pulled himself together, and, though still very ill, refused to be left behind in Japanese hands.\n\nPunctually at 7:40 A.M. the train, much diminished in size, steamed out of Ts'ao-ho-kow, and, after ascending a valley in which a stream meanders from side to side and has to be repeatedly crossed over trestle bridges, arrived at Ch'iao-t'ou, 38.4 miles from Ts'ao-ho-kow, at 8 minutes past noon. The train was here divided into two portions, and the fore part, consisting of an open baggage wagon, a passenger car, and a small mail van, was dispatched. Crossing the stream it began the ascent of the Mo-tien-ling at the station of Fu-chin, 21 miles from Ch'iao-t'ou, and reached the highest point of the crossing at Ta-tung, 23 miles from Fu-chin. The descent on the north side was very steep (1 in 35 being quite common), and at one point the train had to be backed down. All passed off well: at the station of Meng-chia we had to wait for the other half of the train; and at 3:22 P.M. a fresh start was made for Mukden. About 5 miles from Meng-chia we crossed a long trestle bridge over the T'ai-tzu, which passes the city of Liao-yang, and enters the Hun River, a tributary of the Liao, to the town of Pen-hsi-hu, well known for its coal mines, ironworks, and the manufacture of large brown earthenware jars. The railway traverses the town from end to end along one of its main streets. The city of Feng-huang Ting was too far off to be able to judge of its size, but Pen-hsi-hu is undoubtedly a town of considerable size and importance, and is the largest place touched by the Antung-Mukden line. It is an easy run of 45.8 miles from Pen-hsi-hu to the railway station about 2 miles to the west of Mukden, and this was accomplished, mostly in the dark, in 6 hours 11 minutes, the stoppages at the three intervening stations aggregating 16 minutes, but the well-wooded valleys were replaced by the dull uninteresting plain on which Mukden stands.\n\nBy Article 6 of the Additional Agreement between China and Japan of 1905, \"The Imperial Chinese Government agree that Japan has the right to maintain and work the military line constructed between Antung and Mukden, and to improve the said line so as to make it fit for the conveyance of commercial and industrial goods of all nations. The term for which such right is conceded is 15 years from the date of completion of the improvements above provided for. The work of such improvements is to be completed within two years, exclusive of a period of twelve months during which it will have to be delayed owing to the necessity of using the existing line for the withdrawal of troops. The term of the Concession above mentioned is therefore to expire in the 48th year of Kuang Hsü. At the expiration of that term, the said railway shall be sold to China at a price to be determined by appraisement of all its properties by a foreign expert, who will be selected by both parties. The conveyance by railway of the troops and munitions of war of the Chinese Government prior to such sale shall be dealt with in accordance with the Regulations of the Eastern Chinese Railway. Regarding the manner in which the improvements of the railway are to be effected, it is agreed that the person undertaking the work on behalf of Japan shall consult with the Commissioner dispatched for the purpose by China. The Chinese Government will also appoint a Commissioner to look after the business relating to the railway as is provided in the Agreement relating to the Eastern Chinese Railway. It is further agreed that detailed regulations shall be concluded regarding the tariffs for the carriage by the railway of the public and private goods of China.\"\n\nSo far as I could see or ascertain, there is no through traffic except passengers on the line. There was a little charcoal carried between stations evidently for the use of the railway employés, and poles and planks for building purposes along\n\n11\n\n452\n\nthe line. Railway guards were in evidence at every station, and at Antung they numbered 200 men. No commencement has yet been made in improving the line, and I was informed that, in view of the enormous expenditure that would have to be incurred for the tunnelling and bridging necessary to convert the present light railway into a line suitable for commercial purposes, it has been decided that an easier alignment must be found.\n\nMukden.\n\nThe actual brick-walled city of Mukden covers an area of 1 square mile, and may be described as a miniature Peking, but the suburbs which surround it on all sides have a circumference of 13 miles, and the whole is enclosed by an earth or mud wall. Changes have taken place since I visited it in 1896, and they have assumed the same shape as in Peking—new roads and a police force—both badly needed. A fine, wide metalled road, some 2 miles in length, leads from the railway station to the main West Gate of the inner city, wherein four similar roads connecting the eight gates have recently been built by a Japanese contractor at a cost to the provincial Government of about £15,000 a mile. It seems a large sum (£60,000 for 4 miles of metalled roads), but the Japanese by their command of the railway were the only people in a position to bring the necessary stone and carry out the work. A tramway is to connect the station with the city, and about 20 yards had just been laid at the station end. Uniformed police, armed with batons during the day and rifles with bayonets at night, are stationed 200 yards apart on every street, and are said to maintain excellent order, an example which might well be followed by other cities of Manchuria to be referred to later. In addition to the police, there is a body of 10,000 foreign-drilled troops in and around the city. While the old Palace is being repaired and new offices in foreign style built for the Viceroy and Government, the towers over the gates of the city are being demolished as unsafe. They will doubtless have to be rebuilt, and although the late Viceroy is said to have handed over a balance of 7,000,000 taels to his successor, it has already dwindled to 500,000 taels, and funds are urgently needed to complete the work already in hand and carry out other reforms. The Viceroy was absent in Peking, but I had two interviews with the Governor (His Excellency Tang Shao-yi), and he strongly urged that the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation should open a branch in Mukden. Mr. Gardner, an agent of that Bank, was in Mukden during my visit inquiring into prospects of business, and discussing the whole question with the Governor, but I gathered from him that, as the principal business of the Bank is exchange transactions, the absence of foreign merchants and direct trade with foreign countries offered little inducement to establish a branch anywhere in Manchuria. There are already two foreign banks in the city, the Russo-Chinese and the Yokohama Specie Banks, and the Chinese Government Hu Pu Bank, but their raison d'être would appear to be to lend money to Chinese merchants on profitable terms. A large provincial loan is the object in view, and large sums and securities have been talked over, but nothing definite has been arranged, and Mr. Gardner, who came back to Peking to report, has returned to Mukden to consult with the Viceroy and Governor.\n\nIn addition to the British Consul-General, there are now Consular representatives of Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States at Mukden. With the exception of the Russian Consul, who shares with the Japanese a Russian church inside the inner city, they live in the western suburb. Only four or five lots in the area set apart for a foreign Settlement between the railway and the city have been taken up, and the Governor informed me that he did not believe in Settlements, leaving me to infer that, so far as he was concerned, foreigners could live where they pleased. The British-American Tobacco Company is the only British firm with a British representative; Messrs. Butterfield and Swire employ a Chinese as agent for their Hong Kong sugars. There is one American merchant doing business on a small scale, and the representatives of German and other firms at Newchwang visit Mukden from time to time. Excluding the Yokohama Specie Bank, there are three large Japanese firms. According to the Japanese Consul-General, there are over 3,000 Japanese residents scattered through the city and suburbs, and their number is increasing every month. Japanese houses line a great part of the road leading from the station to the West Gate. Of course, there is the usual proportion of women, the singing girls, and waiting maids, while gambling-houses claim a considerable number. In one small room, I watched three men running a table something on the principle of roulette. The room was open to the street, and Chinese were betting on the colours on which three red balls about the size of cricket balls would rest after",
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        "content_text": "(7814).\n\nGentlemen:\n\n3.-\n\n126\n\n9494\n\n17 MAR OR\n\n7, THE SANCTUARY,\n\nWESTMINSTER, S.W.\n\nMarch 4th 1908.\n\nCanton Kowloon Railway.\n\nSo far as we know the final survey of the line has not yet been completed, and we have no information as to when this may be expected. We presume, however, that it cannot be much longer delayed. We have heard indirectly that the new alignment between Sheklung and Po-kok involves a good deal of heavy work and that it has been found necessary to introduce a number of rather sharp curves and more or less severe gradients.\n\nWe trust, however, that all possible care has been taken that both sharp curves and steep gradients do not occur at the same place and that this important question has been so dealt with as not to impair the running efficiency of the Railway.\n\nThe principal works of the railway are of course the important bridges over the East River and its branches; these works will prescribe the date when the Railway...\n\nThe Chairman and Directors,\n\nThe British and Chinese Corporation, Limited,\n\n22, Abchurch Lane, E.C.",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nin China have enjoyed the special privilege of the protection of their trade-marks in China even before the time that the Chinese Trade-mark Protection Law came into force, and in virtue of their privilege they are entitled to demand from the Chinese authorities the prohibition of the sale or the confiscation of imitations of foreign goods.\n\nThere are instances in which the sale of Japanese goods has been stopped on this ground. As an instance, he quotes the case of a lamp chimney made in Osaka bearing a trade-mark consisting of a cow's head and a combination of two Chinese characters, \"So-ko.\" The sale of the chimney in question has been prohibited on the ground that the trade-mark is an imitation of that used by a German firm for a lamp chimney, though that mark is a deer's head and a combination of two Chinese characters, \"Tai-ko.\" The sale of a Japanese imitation of a German lamp, for which there was a large demand, was also prohibited, as it had a combination of two Chinese characters-\"Ken-shin\"-as inscribed on the German lamp.\n\nSome of the dishonest Japanese merchants who have placed imitations on the market have, it seems, actually made demands upon the Consulate-General that action should be taken for the removal of the prohibition which now exists. He cannot, however, he says, officially make a protest against the action of the Chinese authorities, since many of the trade-marks used by the Japanese are almost analogous in design with those used by German merchants, it being impossible to make a distinction between the two at a glance.\n\nThe Acting Consul-General deplores the fact that such dishonest practices should have been resorted to by the Japanese, pointing out that it can only impede the progress of Japanese industry, which continues to grow rapidly, and he suggests that the suppression of such practices is particularly necessary in the case of trade with China. He fears that, should foreigners retaliate by violating Japanese trade-marks in the future, Japan will be involved in heavy loss. He goes on to say that imitations are largely found among perfumed waters, soaps, and other toilet goods imported from Japan, and he believes that there are many dishonest men in and about Osaka who are exclusively engaged in manufacturing imitations of foreign goods.\n\nIn considering all the circumstances, he finds that the imitations have been made only in comparatively few cases by the Japanese themselves; but generally speaking the Japanese have been acting on orders received from unscrupulous Chinese merchants. (These unsophisticated Japanese again!) However, it is a fact to be lamented that Japanese imitators, tempted by temporary profits, have been acting as agents for dishonest Chinese merchants, sacrificing their own reputation and confidence. The Acting Consul-General is determined to take action against the importation of these imitations of foreign goods from Japan if the practice does not cease. We are glad to hear it, for the offence has been perpetrated for a good many years now without anything having been done to check it. “JAPAN CHRONICLE.\"\n\n5\n\nTrade-mark complaints coming from the foreigners' side have not been infrequent of late, and it seems desirable that a thorough investigation be instituted with the object of removing the whole cause of the trouble. Hitherto in many trade-marks disputes the complainants appear to have lost their case on mere technicalities, and that is the unsatisfactory feature of the matter. True, it is for the owners of trade-marks to overlook no technicalities in order that their interests may be fully protected. But a trade-mark law-like any other law containing many loopholes to be taken advantage of by unscrupulous persons to the injury of those whom it aims to protect is certainly not a good law, and should be revised. Not that we are prepared to point out such defects in our present Trade-mark Law, but seeing that there exists discontent against its working, it seems unwise to take no notice of it. Let the impression go abroad that it is very difficult to get trade-mark violators convicted under the law, the consequence will be very serious. The victims of sharp practices will stop going to law, with the result of encouraging the nefarious trade of the makers of imitation goods. The upshot will be a dangerous blow to the reputation of Japanese manufacturers in general. Or view the matter from another point. Should the insecure feeling about our trade-mark administration become general, there is no telling what may happen as the time approaches for the opening of the Grand Exposition of 1912. It is possible that foreign manufacturers will refuse sending their goods for exhibition, and it will be needless to say why. To be prepared against these eventualities it appears urgent that active measures be taken to make the evasion of the law impracticable and bring its evaders within the reach of adequate penalty. Or at least full explanation should be issued for the benefit of those who seek registration, so that there may be no chance of their suffering from the omission of nice technicalities.\n\nWhile we are on the subject, a word is due to Osaka manufacturers. In spite of its being the chief manufacturing centre of the country, Osaka has long since won an unenviable notoriety for sending abroad cheap and shoddy goods. Now it is in danger of becoming a centre of spurious manufacturers. Some say Osaka worships money and commercial morality is at very low ebb there. It is inconceivable, however, that Osaka, with a population of nearly a million and a prosperous business, is a home of sharpers and swindlers. The bulk of her inhabitants, including her principal citizens, are no doubt honest, hardworking people. These should see that the good name of their city is threatened, and it behoves them to rise in protest and league themselves against the dishonest parties. A stain to Osaka is a stain to Japan, and the curse of the nation will fall on her if her influential business men and bankers should fail to recover her reputation.\n\nInclosure 8 in No. 1.\n\nInclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Japan Times\" of November 30, 1907.\n\nTrade-mark Frauds.\n\nFROM Osaka comes a report that the Commerce Bureau of the Southern Prefecture has just issued a note warning the local export merchants against the practice of making fraudulent use of trade-marks. The action taken is said to be the result of advices received from the Japanese Consuls in China in reply to inquiries sent out by the Central Patent Office, the information being to the effect that spurious imitation goods were most numerous among imports from Osaka. It is said further that the specific instances quoted in the Consular Reports all refer to the cases of infringement of trade-marks registered by foreigners. The revelation cannot fail to be very painful to those who cherish the hope that Japan will be able to build her international commerce solely on the principle of a fair field and no favour, and it is a national hope. In view of this, the step taken by the Osaka Commerce Bureau is not untimely; but we think it not enough-the central authorities should move in the matter.\n\nup\n\n(No. II.). Sir,\n\nSir A. Hosie to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nShanghae, December 26, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that I am transmitting to you to-day a jar of Gosnell's tooth paste, together with a Japanese imitation. The latter I purchased in a Chinese shop in the French Settlement here, and it is a good example of the intent to deceive.\n\nOn the face of the Japanese jar the word \"beautifying\" is mis-spelt, and \"M. Matsuya and Co., Naniwa,\" is substituted for \"John Gosnell and Co. (Limited), London,\" while “trade-mark\" replaces \"Extra Moist\"; but on the dark label on the side Gosnell's \"London, England\" is superseded by \"London, Naniwa,\" and the \"Extra Moist\" removed from the face reappears on the red label encircling the jar. On the dark label, too, \"Patronised by the Queen\" appears in place of \"Patronized by the Queen.\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nALEX. HOSIE,\n\nActing Commercial Attaché.\n\n289",
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        "content_text": "353\n\nlast night, I have the honour to inform you that the \"Suisang\" left this Port and anchored at a distance of two miles from the shore yesterday morning in accordance with orders received. Provisions are carried out to her by the Tug \"Ramon Corral\". With respect to the \"Landrat Schieff\" precautionary measures have not been taken as there has been no occasion for them. In this case I have only recommended the Chief of the Port to order the Customs Officers to keep a sharp look out.\n\nNo.37. Ministry of Interior.\n\n(Signed) F. Valenzuela.\n\nMexico. Section 1. No.7870.\n\nIn order that you may take the action you recommend, your note No.2674 of the 17th instant, is being transcribed to the Minister of War and Marine. In this Note you inform me that the Sanitary Delegate in Salina Cruz, as the result of the escape from that vessel of various Chinese immigrants suffering from trachoma who arrived on the \"Suisang\" has ordered the steamer to anchor two miles outside the Bay, and you request that the Chief of the Port be ordered, through the Ministry of War and Marine, to carry out the regulations of the Sanitary Delegate in order to avoid further desertions.\n\nMexico, June 22nd, 1908. (Signed) Corral. To the President of the Superior Board of Health.\n\nNo.38.\n\nChina Commercial Steamship Company, Limited.\n\nMexico, June 22nd, 1908. To Dr. E. Liceaga. President of the Superior Board of Health.\n\nDear Sir:- Doctors Angel Vallarino and Luis Buhot will do me the favour to inform you respecting the conditions of the passengers by the Steamship \"Suisang\" belonging to this Company in regard to whose report I last Saturday requested your kind consideration, which you were good enough to assure me should be given to it.\n\nI should be extremely grateful if with your customary sense of rectitude and politeness you would have the goodness to pay attention to what Messrs Vallarino and Buhot have to say, in order to arrive at a true understanding of the disputed facts which is of such importance alike for the health of the Republic and for the interests and just treatment of the China Commercial Steamship Company.\n\nThanking you in anticipation for according me the favour",
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        "content_text": "-ing appears:-\n\n502\n\n2.\n\nAmong their proposals the follow-\n\n\"We strongly recommend that the salary of\n\n\"the Attorney-General be reduced from £1,500 to £1,000 per\n\n*annum, and that the Officer be allowed the privilege of \"private practice. Up to the date of Mr. W. Meigh (now Sir \"William) Goodman's appointment private practice was allow-\"ed to the Attorney-General and since that date Barristers \"in private practice have acted for long periods as \"Attorneys-General with conspicuous success. We urge the \"change not only on the score of economy but in the \"interests of efficiency. We hold that competition in \"private practice sharpens the wits of the Attorney-\"General and keeps him up to date in law and practice. We \"would point to the successes which attended the system of \"allowing private practice in former years, and during the\n\nH. E. \"tenure of the office of Attorney-General by both Mr. \"Pollock, K.C., and Mr. B. H. Sharp, K.C., Members of the \"local Bar, as justifying our conviction that the interests \"of Government would not suffer by reversion to the former\n\n\"practice.\"\n\n3.\n\nThere appear to be two alternative\n\nand different systems involved in this recommendation. Sir\n\nWilliam Goodman and his predecessors were members of the\n\nColonial Civil Service, and on their retirement were\n\nentitled to pension. Mr. Pollock and Mr. Sharp were local\n\nBarristers who while discharging the duties of the Attor-\n\n-ney-General continued the practice at the Bar which they\n\nhad acquired prior to their appointments as Acting Attor-\n\n-ney-General.",
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        "content_text": "F\n\n(1) I rather object to continuing the sharp salary increases. By Browne's own admission, his facility to accept the starting scheme was acknowledged, and his sanction & raising his salary, to accept the starting scheme.\n\n(2) He has been receiving $3000 since 1904, but I cannot regard that as an adequate reason for giving him $4200 straight off. She is gaining considerably by putting $600 of the proposed scale aside.\n\n(3) The ACM suggests that it was not unreasonable in the circumstances. I am rather inclined to agree.\n\nThe sanction of advances, pending the Customs staff approval of the appointment of new analyst: Refer to para 17 re Frank's salary the day that the Sgt. thinks that Mr. Awowe might be given the choice of the starting salary proposed, but that the Sgt. can't sanction either the salary or the grant of the maximum.\n\nIf the new salary is $4200 (like Brown's), it will be on the scale $1200-$2000-$2300-$3000. 11/03. A.& E.W. ($12,528),, $11,407-$17. 7/00. 13 HR/12.\n\nI have sent duplicate papers to R.S. As this comes under my purview, it is clearly impossible for me to attempt a careful detailed examination of it. I have, however, taken a general survey of it with the aid of the notification's memo.\n\nI agree with him that as it follows the main lines of the Straits system (eliminating the former), there is no reason why it should not be sanctioned. I do not touch the \"other points\" which do not appear to raise key questions.\n\nFor Collins, YIR. 2/12\n\nI would not object to the increase of Franklin's salary. His present salary is ludicrously small. He has had 7 years of service.\n\nRegarding Mr. Brown's case, we have other papers which I will get out if desired. We have made a firm stand against the continuance of the absurd system in which dollar salaries are made larger than sterling salaries.\n\nThe dollar salary of the staff must be made the same as the sterling salary, taking the dollar at $1. Even so, men with Mr. Brown's length of service are being unfairly treated, especially & pension holders.\n\nPage information is not explicitly present in the given text, hence not added.",
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        "content_text": "## ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES, THE ABOVE REFERENCE AND THE DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED, TEL. ADDR. \"CROWN, LONDON\"\n\n**C.O 3620**  \n**244**  \n**REGT**  \n**-2% AUG 001**  \n\nWHITEHALL GARDENS,  \nLONDON, S. W.  \nAugust 27th., 1909.\n\nI have the honour to enclose for the information of the Secretary of State a copy of a letter which we have received from the Government of Hong Kong relative to the office expenses of Sir J. Wolfe Barry & Partners, the Consulting Engineers for the Kowloon-Canton Railway.\n\n2. Sir J. Wolfe Barry & Partners in accordance with the Secretary of State's sanction receive their remuneration in the form of a fixed annual salary paid quarterly plus their office and other out-of-pocket expenditure in connection with the work.\n\n3. As the Secretary of State is aware, we have no means of examining or checking such office expenses.\n\n4. In the circumstances, the Secretary of State may perhaps think it advisable that the Colonial Government's letter should be replied to direct from the Colonial Office.\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nSir,  \nYour obedient Servant,  \n&c.  \nColonial Office.  \nfor Crown Agents.\n\nit: 1 if the Ent crit bust them, the only thing worthwhile to find Siemens if possible, whom the Govt can trust. If Sir S. L. Dany Co are untrustworthy, I doubt if any other firm can satisfy the Govt.\n\nPerhaps he was answering the Eur, as suggested.\n\n? Send copy CA letter & for points that to check can he be placed on such.\n\nSir F. Lugard's attitude towards the C.E. has always been a little curious but ... shall be right in putting strange document down to a very silly fellow.\n\nEmbody har Dup. Sov.\n\ntrust out happen not the woman. practice for t Creamp BY 2 q & Jay this later in there bakan.\n\nA 19. Good that always. most heinously that the standing the C.E. Jsem réfontation Sufficient va charp Flanged gamut frand what brand and the nively lage but food frama Incried - but could.\n\nAdvanced faid 'fuerying `ALC 614`. Lotil a in this way? J `E. 321/29`.\n\n1/7/109.",
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        "content_text": "# Boundary Line of 9,000 Man \npurchased by \nJapanese Military Authorities 1905.\n\n## MAP OF \n## ANTUNG(安東) OR SHAHO(沙河鎮)\n\nLatitude: 40° 7' 48\" N. Longitude: 124° 14' 16\" E.\n\nOrdinary spring rise 9 Feet. Ordinary neap rise 6 feet. Great changes in the location of sandbanks take place every year. Soundings in feet refer to low water spring tide.\n\nLiu Tan Ho \n\nCart road to Tawagkow (A £ $), 90 li \nPu Tran Wei 230 \n籓草襪子\n\nBoundary of land controlled by \nSouth Manchurian Railway Co.\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 7 | Telegraph Crossing |\n| 10 |  |\n| 7 |  |\n| $ |  |\n| 12 |  |\n| 10 |  |\n| 9 |  |\n| 7 |  |\n| Korean Customs Station |  |\n| Railw | 186-5 0 and Fusar |\n\nKakusan, 248 miles. On the former section, however, the new line is nearly completed, while on the latter, only the girders for the bridges are wanted. From Toriu, 201 miles to Hizen, 293 miles, nothing has been done with regard to the new line. From the latter point, it is in use up to new Wiju.\n\nTaking everything into consideration, it appears to me that fully three years must elapse before the new line can be used over its entire length. When, however, it is completed, trains should be able to cover the distance in twelve hours, or even in ten hours, as the gradients and curves are easy, offering a marked contrast in this respect to the Seoul-Fusan line. Only in one case did I notice a grade of 1 in 40, and that merely for some hundred yards, while gradients steeper than 1 in 100 are few and far between. Naturally, on the temporary line steep gradients and sharp curves are abundant.\n\n**Note**. In the above the names of the stations are given according to the Japanese rendering of the Chinese characters, and the distances are reckoned from the Nandaimon (South Gate) station in Seoul.\n\n## The Yalu Railway Bridge.\n\nWhile in Seoul, I took the opportunity of seeing Mr. G. Oya, the Head of the Corean Railway Bureau, on the above subject. The gist of his remarks is as follows:-\n\n1. The construction of the bridge over the Yalu River is to be in the hands of the Corean Railway Bureau. The junction station, with the South Manchurian Railway, will, consequently, be on the Antung, or Chinese, side of the river, and from that point south the line will be entirely under the control of the Corean Railway Administration.\n\n2. The bridge is to be constructed at the point already decided on (see map). The embankments are already completed on each side of the river up to the water's edge.\n\n3. The height of the bridge is to be 24 feet above high-water level, the length over 3,000 feet, and the bridge will carry a roadway in addition to the railway.\n\n4. The foundations are to be commenced next year (1909), and the construction of the bridge will take from three to four years.\n\n5. The bridge will be a fixed one, and will have no opening span in it.\n\n6. The present ferry belongs to the Corean Railway Administration.\n\nThe present Chinese custom-house is situated about a quarter of a mile up the river from the site of the bridge. Vessels in any case have to anchor in mid-stream. Mr. Oya did not consider that it would involve any great hardship on account of the extra lighterage which would have to be undergone after the bridge was built. South Manchurian Railway Company has acquired a considerable tract of land immediately below the side of the bridge. Here it is proposed to construct wharves and erect warehouses, and it is expected that such trade facilities will be granted as to induce the landing at this point of goods destined for the interior instead of their being taken up to the Settlements and the Chinese town. Mr. Oya admitted that it would be impossible for junks to pass under the bridge. He thought, however, that it was only a question of time when junks generally would be fitted with masts which could be lowered, as otherwise, with the developments of railways in China, there would be constant difficulties in bridging all the larger rivers.\n\nMy arrival at Antung occurred at an unfortunate time. The British and United States' Consuls and the Commissioner of Customs were all absent; the Japanese Consul was ill, and the Japanese Vice-Consul had gone up the river on the Corean side. The Acting Commissioner of Customs, Mr. Dawson-Gröne, however, gave me all the information he could, and lent me the Customs Report for 1907, from which I have taken the following extract, as giving the views of the foreigners and Chinese merchants in Antung:-\n\nAt present the charges for moving cargo between the steamers in the port and the bund in front of the Customs run roughly over a-half of what the freight from Chefoo amounts to, and sometimes even equal it. A further glance at the map will show that the distance, quite a mile between the anchorage of the steamers near the lower harbour limit and the Chinese bund, coupled with the necessity for moving only on a favourable state of the tide, imposes a heavy loss of time in the transportation within the harbour of cargo destined for the Chinese merchants.\n\n## Yalu River \n1. L. M. Customs.\n2. Native Customs.\n3. Chinese Post Office.\n4. Chinese Police Station,\n5. Taotai's Yamén,\n6. U. S. A. Consulate.\n6A. B.B.M. Consulate.\n7. Property occupied by Japanese Military \n(Office restored to Chinese)\n8. Japanese Godowns.\n9. Danish Lutheran Mission,\n10. Japanese Consulate.\n11. Present Steamer Anchorage.\n12. Proposed Foreign Settlement.\n\n| Location |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 13 Novial Miles to Fatunghow Anchorage |  |\n\nBoundary Line of proposed Foreign Settlement.\n\n| Name | Distance |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cart road to Fenghwangcheng (B. £4, 1, 120 £7. |  |\n| Proposed Foreign Settlement |  |\n| PATOWKOW |  |\n| Chinese City | 趱溝 |\n| 八道溝 | Pa Fon Kon |\n| Hsiao Shahe | 小沙河 |\n| Korean Customs Station |  |\n| Tier Hou Kung Temple |  |\n| Yuan Pao Shan | 47 |\n| Upper Harbour Limit |  |\n| Moukden | 188 miles |\n| Ta Shahe |  |\n| Lauber Yard | 大沙河 |\n| 黄夹心子 | HWANGKIASINTZE |\n|  | PEHKANTZE |\n| TIMBER BUREAU STORAGE YARD |  |\n\n**A. MORRISON**, Acting Tidesurveyor.\nSeptember, 1907.",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n## 6\n\nscheme seriously to raise funds and start operations; and the Grand Secretary is further commanded to assume full responsibility in doing away with abuses, in strictly fixing a limit of time, and in making all decisions which may be called for by the circumstances. Let the Board of Communications and the Hu-Kuang Viceroy render him cordial assistance and not in any way impede his action, so that authority may be undivided and the importance of railway development be fully safeguarded.\n\nCountersigned by the Grand Councillors: Prince Ch'ing, Shih Hsü, Chang Chih-tung, Lu Ch'uan-lin, Yuan Shih-k'ai.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`[3182]`\n\n(No. 351.) Sir,\n\n### No. 1.\n`C.O. 7798`\n[January 25.]- \n`TREC SECTION 4 MAR 09`\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received January 25, 1909.)\n\nTokió, December 26, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's Acting Vice-Consul at Dairen on the subject of the reconstruction of the Antung-Mukden Railway.\n\n(No. 93.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **CLAUDE M. MacDONALD**.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\nActing Vice-Consul Gordon to Sir C. MacDonald.\n\nDairen, December 14, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that the South Manchurian Railway Company has decided to take in hand the reconstruction of its line from Antung Hsien to Mukden, and that the necessary works will be commenced in March next.\n\nSurveys along the route have been progressing for some time past, and, as a result, it has been finally decided that the new line shall follow closely the route of the present light railway. As doubt has been freely expressed as to whether a standard gauge railway could be built along this route, I have the honour to submit the following description of the line, which is based on my observations when travelling between Antung and Mukden last August, and on an examination of a plan of the new line given me by one of the directors of the Company.\n\nThe country between Antung and Feng-hueng-cheng offers no serious difficulties, though some heavy earthworks and considerable bridging will have to be undertaken; a tunnel, 8 chains long, is to be made 34 miles out of Antung, some 2 miles short of Feng-huang-cheng station. From this place, in order to avoid the windings of the Erh-tao-kou River, the present light line follows the course of an affluent, twisting and winding up and around the hills that bar the way. The same route is to be followed by the railway as reconstructed, and consequently heavy tunnelling will be required, no less than six tunnels being marked on the plan in a distance of some 17 miles (from about 45 to 62 miles out of Antung). The Erh-tao-kou is rejoined here, and followed up to near its source, 6 or 7 miles beyond Tsao-ho-k'ou, 82 miles from Antung. At this point the real difficulties begin. The range of hills which further to the south-west form the Mo-tien-ling Pass will be bored by a tunnel some 3,000 feet long, and beyond this the line runs down the valley of the Sse-ho (?), a stream with many sharp bends and closely bordered by high cliffs which will have to be tunnelled through. Altogether, there will be nineteen tunnels in a distance of about 22 miles, the last tunnel, where the line emerges out into the valley of the Ta-tzu-ho, being well over a mile in length. The Ta-tzu-ho is crossed just before reaching Pen-hsi-hu (120 miles from Antung), and will require a bridge from 600 to 700 feet long. From Pen-hsi-hu, the railway runs up a narrow, steep valley, and on the plans two short tunnels are marked here. It is possible that one of these may be avoided and the line taken round the hill, instead of cutting through it. From the 130th mile no further difficulties are experienced, the railway running down a gentle sloping valley to the Mukden plains. On reaching the latter, some 150 miles from Antung, two alternative routes are laid down. The first proceeds direct to Mukden, more or less following the present light railway, while the second bends westward, and joins the main line at Su-chia-tun, the junction for the branch to the Fushun collieries. It is probable that the latter will be followed, as, in addition to offering greater facilities to those wishing to go to Fushun, an extra bridge over the Eun-ho will be avoided. The general direction of the line may be seen by reference to the inclosed sketch map.* The length of the railway when reconstructed will be 170 miles 46 chains.\n\n* Not reproduced.\n\n`[2104 66-1]`",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nI pointed out to the Managing Director that I could not travel over the railway without an interpreter, and I was authorized verbally to employ one. I employed a Chinese surveyor who had been over the route before, and I subsequently transferred him to the survey party. On my recommending that this man should be permanently employed, he was summarily dismissed, and no explanation given to me.\n\nI hold, as you do, that a railway accountant is a technical employé, and also a railway storekeeper, but the Managing Director holds that they are not, and that I have no say whatever as to these departments. These matters have not come to a head on account of the work of construction not being started. But I cannot control the work at all unless I am given a say in the running of these departments.\n\nThe Accounts Department might be, I think, a semi-independent department, but the Store Department should, during construction, be under the Engineering Department. I know of no precedent for its being run independently, although on a railway in operation, where there are many different departments to be supplied, the stores are customarily run as a separate department.\n\nThe present Chief Storekeeper was recommended by me for the post, and was appointed Chief Accountant. He has, however, now vacated the latter position and taken up that of storekeeper. He and all the other storekeepers along the railway are, according to the Managing Director's decision, to be under the Managing Director and absolutely independent of me. I cannot possibly control the consumption of materials under such a system. The organization has, however, taken no practical shape so far.\n\nAs regards the Accounts Department, I believe that an accountant was appointed just before we left for our trip over the line, but I was not consulted at all about him. I believe that he was No. 3 in the Accounts Department of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway. There have been various Chinese holders of this position, one of whom appeared to be a competent man. The latter, however, would not remain in the head office, and only held his appointment a few days. A Chinese storekeeper left in the same way, because he found the conditions impossible.\n\nI have not been consulted about the auditing, but when I was in Peking last May, I gave it as my opinion that it would be better to have the accounts audited at Pukou. My reason for giving that opinion was that the audit could follow the expenditure more quickly, and that discrepancies could be immediately investigated on the spot. An audit at any time within the last three months would have revealed the state of affairs. My own impression is that the accounts have never been made up at all, but I may be wrong.\n\nI gather that things have been lax from the fact that an engineer was paid twice over for the month of August last, and the fact never discovered until he called attention to it in December. There has been, however, some improvement lately. For a long time, I had to pay all the expenses of my office out of my own pocket, and even to advance pay to the draughtsmen working in my office, because they could not find anyone in the head office authorized to pay them.\n\nRe the appointment of engineers other than British, there was great delay in sanctioning the appointment of any foreign engineers. When I returned to Peking from Nanking in May last, I found that nineteen engineers had already been engaged for the northern section, whereas I had not been allowed to engage any up to that time. When, therefore, on the 9th June, I at last got sanction to employ some men, I wanted them as early as possible. Three men offered in China, who could take up their duties almost immediately. They were one American, one Swede, and one young British engineer. These men I recommended, and they have all proved useful members of the staff. I stated that as an absolute minimum, I must have ten more men, who I proposed to get from England. The Managing Director gave me eight signed Agreements to fill as I thought best, and informed me that the Director-General objected to so many as ten engineers of one nationality being employed, and wished four engineers to be engaged from America. This gave me two more engineers than I expected at that date, and was a good bargain for me, but in forwarding the Agreements to the Managing Director, I pointed out to him that, while I might be willing to accept any really competent men, he must not expect that the representatives of British interests would take the same view, and that I know that they \"considered the appointment of engineers other than British to a railway financed by British capital not as a friendly action.\" I got no reply to this letter, but I understand from the Managing Director that he got a despatch from the Director-General authorizing him to get these engineers from America. This was a very different thing from the order to employ them which I understood had been given in the first instance, but months had elapsed before I got this information. These engineers only reached here in November, two months later than the men engaged in England. The delay caused considerable inconvenience, but I am very much pleased with the men selected, who appear to be thoroughly competent men, and quite equal to any that I might have procured in England.\n\nYou must remember that there has been one cause of delay for which the British and Chinese themselves are responsible, and that is the very defective original survey. Foord was apparently provided with a quite inadequate staff, and his Report stated that a better route could be obtained. I have had to make a fresh survey of the first 100 miles, which has only just been completed, and have still to re-survey some 50 miles more. The first 100 miles passes through some extremely difficult country; and where Foord had to work with a party of two, the senior man being quite inexperienced in railway location, I have had a party of seven, the engineer-in-charge being a man of considerable experience in this class of work, for which he had a very high reputation in South Africa. The result is that we have secured a first-class line, with easy grades and curves, whereas the original line had heavy grades and very sharp curves. We have also actually saved 7 miles of distance in the first 100 miles. I do not claim special merit for myself for this result. I have had a first-class staff on the work, who have carried out my wishes excellently. You will understand, however, that when there was a possibility of getting a first-class line through the country, I could not possibly adopt the line originally laid down, or make use of the original plans.\n\nThe survey of the No. 1 district was only completed on the 24th December, and the plans are not yet all completed, but in October last, sufficient location had been done to enable work to be commenced on the first portion of the line, where the earthwork is specially heavy, and the country flooded nearly every summer.\n\nAnother primary cause of delay was the late date at which the Managing Director appeared on the scene. The Managing Director of the north section took up his appointment at once, before even the Chief Engineer was appointed. The Managing Director of the south section did not reach Shanghae until the 4th July. Even then, he did not proceed at once to Nanking, but reached there, as a result of entreaties from me, on the 24th July. I believed that some progress would be possible then, and I immediately handed in indents for rails, &c. No rails have yet been ordered.\n\nThe Managing Director decided that the first thing to be done was for him to go over the line with me. He sent his chair across the river in July preparatory to starting, and fixed one date after another, thus delaying my inspection of the route. Finally, I could wait no longer, and went over the difficult country without him in September, returning in October, when the Report which you have seen was sent in. Again, I was kept waiting, owing to the Managing Director fixing various dates for starting, and again I had to start without him to investigate country in advance of the survey party. Finally, the Director started on the trip on the 6th December, and we returned yesterday to find the Director-General already here. This is a fair sample of the way everything is done. The delays are interminable, but naturally, it took some time to find out that there was no hope of amendment.\n\nBy the 4th September, all the engineers except the Americans had arrived, and it was possible to start the survey in earnest, but even then, there was great delay owing to the methods of the Director. The engineers were not able to control their coolies because the men were paid independently, and were even in many cases appointed by the Director. Some of the interpreters were not paid for months. I kept my own office going by paying the current expenditure out of my own pocket, but I could not ask the engineers under me to do the same. The Managing Director was always away, visiting Nanking only at intervals, but it was always understood that he was trying to arrange for an adequate head office staff, and that when he got that, matters would progress smoothly. He arranged for the engagement of Hall, of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway, as Chief Accountant, and then when Hall proposed to take up his appointment, he quarrelled with him. I have not been able to ascertain the exact particulars of the case, but I believe the appointment would have been a very suitable one.\n\nI have not got notes of the dates when the Managing Director was at Nanking until the 12th September, when I see from my diary that he left for Shanghae, having returned from Soochow only a day or two before. I see that he returned to Nanking from this trip on the night of the 22nd September. On the 28th September, he again left for Shanghae, and was stated to have returned on the 11th October.\n\n## 3\n\nPage 582",
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        "content_text": "## Page 112\n\nand there were literally tens of thousands of ponies, cattle, sheep, and goats feeding on it. The day was clear and cloudless with a light westerly breeze, and we descended to find wild flowers, including roses, still in bloom, and butterflies flitting about everywhere. It was still summer, and very pleasant after the cold of the mountains.\n\nIn the Russian territory which we traversed the Hassacks pay taxes to a Hassack official who visits them twice a year for the purpose. He takes more from the rich than from the poor, and the district is evidently assessed at so much. He takes money or skins or animals.\n\nSeptember 27. - Keeping in a south-westerly direction we proceeded over the plain, and at mile 7 passed some Chinese mud-built farms, where is the Government Tai of Emilgol. Here we struck the Emil River and kept down it for the rest of the day, first on one side and then on the other. At mile 94 the road forked, the right branch going due west, and keeping near the Tarbagatai range. Both roads are equally good and both lead to Chuguchak, but the one on the north is said to be a day nearer. We took the other one as there were more inhabitants en route.\n\nFrom now on there were occasional Chinese farms dotted about, bare, bleak, treeless, uncomfortable-looking places, but each with a good deal of land under wheat cultivation, the crops being now under the process of gathering and winnowing, and also patches of cabbages and other vegetables and even tobacco; though the small streams from the hills are diverted to irrigate the fields, none of the little canals are more than a few inches deep.\n\nAt mile 11 we halted at a Chinese farm to avoid the great heat of the day. The farm had been in existence a great many years, for the owner - a man of 35 - had been born in it. The farmers do not seem to object to the many animals wandering about to pasture, and yet though comparatively little land is under cultivation compared to what is left to grass the animals cannot but stray on to the unprotected crops.\n\nThe only tax the farmers pay is so much wheat per annum to the Government at Chuguchak. All the Chinese farmers are Tien-tsin men so Tien-tsin may be said to have had the honour of colonising the plains of Chuguchak. On the other side of the Emil and lying among trees, some 3 miles away, is the lama temple of Karaussu. At mile 15 we crossed the stream which is some 30 feet wide and only a foot deep; it flows over a firm bed between banks for the most part between 2 and 3 feet high and hence difficult to approach. At mile 17 we recrossed the river and 5 miles later reached a group of scattered Chinese farms known as Sanshihlipu. Here we halted for the night at a large shop, the only one of the place. This is kept by a Tien-tsin man who has been here two years, and does a good business in everything with the neighbouring Hassack and Mongol population. The trade is entirely one of barter, he receiving in exchange skins, wool, wheat, tobacco, and grains. His Chinese goods all come via Newchwang and the Siberian railway to Chuguchak, whence they are brought to Sanshihlipu by camel or cart. To avoid duties in Russia the goods are consigned to Russian middlemen, who forward them to Chuguchak. The shop pays no taxes except li-kin at Chuguchak, which is said to be unusually severe. Goods are said to reach here in three weeks from Peking. The skins, wool, and hides are sold to Russian firms at Chuguchak. The tobacco grown here is only used by the Mongols and Hassacks, who grind it to powder and swallow it. The Chinese here have nothing to say but bad of the Mongols or Hassacks who, they affirm, steal everything. It was impossible, they said, to keep a good animal, for it disappeared almost at once.\n\nFor current use Guchen \"red\" cash are in use here, they are light and worthless.\n\n## Page 113\n\nSeptember 28. - Keeping slightly south of west, and passing some more farms we were abreast at mile 1 of a kind of small fortress, a piece of land enclosed by low mud walls 200 yards long and 100 broad, with some low buildings inside. The place is called a fort, but there are no soldiers there, nor are there to be any. It has been built by the Chinese themselves as a refuge in the event of future troubles. The whole population of the Sanshihlipu district, probably 250 - would doubtless take refuge there.\n\nHere the district may be said to end, for though we passed later on farms at intervals of half-a-mile or so, they were small and squalid. After 8 miles we reached the River Emil again at the Chinese colony of Emilho. Here the road turned north-west, passing under an avenue of tall trees, and between signs of the utmost desolation for a quarter of a mile, for the settlement is one of long standing, and was a flourishing place thirty years ago, when it was wiped out in the troubles. The ruins are used as cabbage beds and tobacco ground, and for growing Indian corn, wheat, and vegetables; there is another fort here in case of need. To the north-west of the old settlement has sprung up a new one, which has a population of 200 Chinese and is very flourishing. I counted more than a dozen well-to-do shops. A certain number of Hassacks also live here. The Chinese shop at which we stopped does a large barter business, selling the nomads' produce to the Russians at Chuguchak. It sells silks, stuffs, raisins, dates, salt, looking-glasses, combs, photographs (Japanese), caps, boots, beads, tobacco (both Hassack and Chinese grown) everything in short.\n\nLeaving the settlement and river, we kept north-west over the plain. It was a dreary march, with no farms or trees or anything to break the eye except very occasional nomad yourts. We plodded on for another 14 miles and reached a group of Chinese farms - Kwantien - standing among some trees. Here we halted for the night at the Government rest-house. The population of the place is not more than thirty, and every single member of it seemed to be an opium smoker.\n\nThe rest-house consisted of a large courtyard and a couple of buildings with nothing but four bare mud walls, a roof, a slit for a window, and a doorway. As there was no door, the room was open to the courtyard, which was in its turn open to the high road. We treat our animals in England better than the Chinese do travelling human beings.\n\nWe had passed numerous tramps and vagabonds during the afternoon; all Hassacks and truculent-looking villains. At one time the road had wandered for 5 or 6 miles through a mass of rough grass 6 feet high, a capital lurking-place for highway robbers.\n\nSeptember 29. - We kept north-west over a dreary plain. At mile 6 we crossed a small stream, and from now on the country was well watered. From mile 12.4 the trees round Chuguchak became visible. At mile 14.4 we crossed a river-bed 200 yards broad with a stream several inches deep flowing down by several channels. Rising out of this depression, we passed several farms among clumps of trees. At mile 15 the telegraph-poles coming up from the south were visible on our left. A mile later began a fine avenue of trees, under which the road ran between the ruins of Old Chuguchak, now used as vegetable patches. At mile 16.4, crossing a stream by a low wooden bridge, we reached the south gate of Hsincheng (\"New Town\"). Passing through the town, we left it by the north gate to reach the Chinese trading quarter, where we had our usual long search for an inn, our efforts being handicapped by the simultaneous arrival in the town of some Russian acrobats in full costume, and to whose party we were thought to belong. We found three miserable inns close to each other on the left side of the road. One of them had a fair-sized, but filthy, room. This, however, was tidied up, and I took possession. The yamên kindly sent three red lanterns and hangings, which gave pomp to the exterior but did nothing to mitigate the squalor of the interior.\n\n## Chuguchak\n\nSeptember 30. - I walked to the yamên in the morning to call on the Governor; the yamên is near the south gate of Hsincheng. Chalagen is a Manchu Solon from the Ili district. He is 51 years of age. He has been in office for little more than a year. While he has never been to Peking, he has travelled extensively in Russia (he has visited St. Petersburgh among other places), and speaks Russian fluently, but badly. His room was fitted up in a Russian manner. Although he was very cordial to me, I took a strong dislike to him. He has a disagreeable, crafty-looking face and sharp, ferret-like eyes. He is extremely unpopular, not only in Chuguchak, but throughout the whole province. No one with whom I spoke had a good word for him. The Chinese merchants say he paid 230,000 taels (34,500l.) for the post, and that now he is busy recouping himself as quickly as possible. One of these ways is by opening shops of his own where he undersells the other merchants; as his goods pay no li-kin, Chinese traders are very angry. The Governor told me, à propos of nothing, at our second meeting, that the Government nowadays allowed officials to keep shops (so that the complaint of the Chinese is probably well founded). The appointment was made by the Tartar General of Ili. The merchant at Sanshihlipu two days ago told me that the Chinese trade was suffering considerably under the new régime. The Governor, for instance, imports tea-bricks from Hankow free of charge, and sells them at 1 t. 70 c. each, whereas the merchants have to sell them at 2 taels. If the latter alter their prices they are sent for to the yamên, warned, and punished. The merchant added that it was the same in the case of cloth and silks. In consequence, the Chinese have tried to defeat him by means of the Russians, by passing the goods through them and having them stamped as Russian products.\n\nThe latest crime of the Governor is the execution of a Hassack, a small Government official in the town. 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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n**305**  \n**20480**  \n**RECR**  \nRece 25 AUG 09,\n\n### [August 7.]\n\n#### SECTION 1.\n\n**(No. 128.) Sir,**  \nNo. 1.  \n**Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Rumbold.**  \nForeign Office, August 7, 1909.\n\nTHE Japanese Ambassador read to me on the 4th instant the following note, and left it with me:\n\n**(Confidential.)**  \n\"During the late war Japan built for military purposes a light railway between An-tung Sien and Mukden. The line was hastily and necessarily imperfectly constructed, and was wholly unsuited and insufficient for ordinary commercial purposes. But, when the South Manchurian line passed into the hands of the Imperial Government, necessity for a connecting link between that line and the Corean system became apparent. Accordingly, by article 6 of the arrangement complementary to the Treaty of Peking of 1905, it was agreed that Japan not only had right to maintain military line in question, but so to improve it as to make it fit for the conveyance of commercial and industrial goods of all nations, or, in other words, to convert purely military line into a commercial railway. Objections of China to the fulfilment of treaty stipulations above mentioned, on what must be regarded as frivolous and inconsequential grounds, make it compulsory for Japan to take an independent action in the matter.\n\nTo explain the situation which calls for such action, the existing An-tung Sien Mukden military railway has the total length of 188 miles, and a gauge of 2 ft. 6 in. To avoid the construction of tunnels and bridges, for which there was no time, the line was given many wide détours and steep gradient and short and sharp curves. In consequence of these defects there are naturally frequent damages by derailments. Hauling capacity of engines is necessarily very small. Three or four small passenger or freight cars constitute a maximum train, and on some portions of the line where the grades are steep trains have to be divided into two or three separate hauls. Speed capacity of engines is also necessarily very low. Travel on the line by night is impracticable. Transit between An-tung Sien and Mukden requires two full days.\n\nIt was in order to provide for removal of these imperfections and to make road not only available, but also efficient for the commercial requirement to which it was to be devoted after it had ceased to be necessary for military purposes, that the improvement stipulation was inserted in the Complementary Arrangement of 1905. By opening of the An-tung Sien Mukden and Fusan line, another route will be established for intercontinental intercourse between Europe on the one hand and Japan and the Far East generally on the other. The route will have advantage of reducing sea-voyage to ten hours. But in order to make route effective and useful, it is necessary that it shall have the same gauge and efficiency as the Corean and the South Manchurian railway system, of which the route under consideration will be a connecting link.\n\nThe improvements which are absolutely essential include boring of tunnels, building of bridges, straightening and grading of the line, and the changing of gauge to the standard used in the connecting Corean and South Manchurian systems. With these improvements the distance will be shortened, time and transit between An-tung Sien and Mukden reduced from two full days to eight or nine hours, and the general efficiency of the line will be established. Without them the railway will remain as at present, entirely useless for commercial purposes.\n\nAccordingly informal negotiations were at the outset carried on with China with a view to make An-tung Sien and Mukden railway available as speedily as possible as a connecting link between the Corean and the South Manchurian systems in the great intercontinental trunk line. But this method of procedure having proved abortive, the Imperial Government in January last officially proposed to China that commissioners be dispatched to survey the line. This proposal having been agreed to, Japanese and Chinese commissioners made and agreed upon a joint survey of the proposed route, with the exception of a small section some 20 miles in length between Mukden and Chenh-Siang-Tun. This work was completed early in April last, and... \n\n[2389 g-1]",
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        "content_text": "# A&S \n\n## 2 \n\nAn official dinner was given here at which congratulatory speeches were made, and it was possible to gather a few technical details concerning the line from the officials of the company. It should be understood that the ceremony was purely official, in celebration of the completion of the line, as trains had been running as far as Tau Shan for some time. \n\nLeaving Sunning again at 9:20 P.M., Kung Yik was reached at 10:15 P.M. \n\nThe railway requirements of the Chinese are so different from those of other peoples, and obviously badly constructed lines so often yield satisfactory results that it is dangerous to criticise too adversely any policy that a new railway may adopt. In a country of such vast distances, where every line has in prospect the linking-up with some main line, there would indeed seem much to be said in favour of the policy of constructing a cheap or even \"jerry-built\" line, and relying on subsequent earnings for the upkeep of a proportionally expensive maintenance and the gradual improvement of the permanent way. If such a policy is justifiable, the Sunning Railway Company have certainly carried it out to its extreme. Owing to the lack of an official position on the same footing as the Canton-Hankow Railway, they appear to have had great difficulty in acquiring their land, both with the people and with the local officials. They have, in consequence, not hesitated to build their line over any land they could get, with the result that the line for the most part consists of a series of the most alarming curves of a sharpness that would at once be ruled out of court by most other railways except in circumstances of extreme difficulty. For instance, while the standard maximum curve on the Canton-Hankow Railway is 4° (i.e., radius, 1,432 feet), the Sunning Railway in several places has curves of 15° (radius, 382 feet). The curves in fact are so sharp and the super-elevation of the outer rail is so great as to cause a real feeling of discomfort inside the train. \n\nThe same fault is evident in a vertical direction, and while I was unable to ascertain exactly their maximum rate of grade, it was obvious that several of the gradients were heavier than any of those of the Canton-Hankow Railway, which has to negotiate far more difficult country. \n\nThe embankments and cuttings appear to be narrower by 2 or 3 feet than those of the Canton-Hankow Railway, and, as far as could be judged from the train window, contain very rough work. The slopes of the cuttings are too steep, and look dangerous. \n\nThere are ninety bridges in all, some sixteen of which are over 100 feet in length. They are without exception wooden bridges on hardwood trestles. \n\nMost of the sleepers are from Kuangsi province, and appear to be soft and of poor quality. I was informed that there were fifteen to a rail length of 30 feet, but in Kung Yik station I counted sixteen. This compares favourably with the Canton-Hankow Railway, whose standard is thirteen. \n\nThe rails are from Germany, and are light, being only 60 lb. in weight. A rail length is 30 feet. \n\nThe company possesses nine locomotives: three of 65 tons and two of 60 tons from America; two of 40 tons, one being from America and one from Germany; also two small engines of 25 tons from Germany. \n\nThe rolling-stock of the company is as follows:\n| Type | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Box freight cars | 10 |\n| Flat cars | 56 |\n| Third-class cars | 4 |\n| First-class cars | 8 |\n\nIt is perhaps worthy of note that the first-class cars are greatly superior in comfort to those in use on the Canton-Hankow and Samshui Railways. \n\nThe stations from Kung Yik to Tau Shan are as follows:\n| Station | Miles from Kung Yik | Miles from ... |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kung Yik |  |  |\n| Sung Tsai Long | 1.98 |  |\n| Ng Sap |  | 19.75 |\n| Man Fuk Sz | 2.84 |  |\n| Tai Kong | 6.81 |  |\n| Ch'en Pien | 8.10 |  |\n| Tai Tong | 8.06 |  |\n| Sui Pu |  |  |\n| Tung Hang | 9.95 |  |\n| Pan Kong | 12.77 |  |\n| Sunning |  |  |\n| Tai Hang | 14.21 |  |\n| Hung Ling | 16.08 |  |\n| Chung Lan |  |  |\n| Lok Chun | 21.08 |  |\n| Tan Shan |  |  |\n|  | 22.66 |  |\n|  | 23.76 |  |\n|  | 26.09 |  |\n|  | 29.60 |  |\n|  | 31.22 |  |\n|  | 34.06 |  |\n|  | 35.98 | 18.48 |\n\nTau Shan is at present the last station on the line, but rails are laid for a considerable distance on the way to Sam Kap Hoi, at mile 39.77, which is, I understand, to be the eventual terminus of the line. \n\nSanction of the Board of Communications has been obtained for the extension of the line to Kongmoon, where the terminus will be at Pak Kai, near the Imperial maritime custom-house. The work is, I was told, to be taken in hand in about one month's time, and it is hoped to finish construction in about one year's time. A 2,000-foot bridge will connect Kung Yik with Tan Shui Ho, on the other bank of the river, for the purposes of this extension. \n\nThe takings of the company amounted, I was told, to about $800 daily, and it was calculated that when they amounted to $900 the company would be in a position to pay some interest on the capital of the shareholders. The figures given, however, do not agree with those published from time to time in the native press, in which the earnings are given at about $21,000 per month. \n\nMr. Chen I Hsi, from whom I gathered much of the foregoing information, is the president and chief engineer of the railway, and appears to have promoted and constructed the line practically by himself. His sole remuneration is said to be $80 per month, and this economy is considered to give the company great prestige vis-à-vis the expensive methods of the Canton-Hankow Railway. A further instance is the cost of the two lines, which are about $15,000 per mile and nearly $100,000 per mile respectively. All of the many persons, however, who were careful to make a point of this in conversation with me, completely ignored the fact that the Canton-Hankow Railway has very much more difficult country to negotiate, and, moreover, is being laid down in a more or less permanent form, to which the Sunning Railway cannot lay the faintest pretensions. \n\nA map of the line, compiled and translated from a map issued by the railway, is enclosed. \n\n**R. S. PRATT** \n\nJune 10, 1909 \n\nPage 450\nPage 451",
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        "content_text": "## 586\n\n### i \n\nA 2 (Yunnan). No reply was received to this, or to a further communication in April forwarding the statement of a claim against them for wages by a former employé. The latter letter was returned to me by the Chinese postal authorities at Yunnan-fu, with the endorsement that Borg Brothers had left Hokou some time previously.\n\nIn June I received a letter from them, dated Laokay (Tonquin), stating that an earlier letter had probably gone astray in the post, and requesting to be registered; but enclosing neither particulars nor fees for registration. I have now repeated my request for these particulars, and at the same time I have desired to know whether their place of residence is Hokou (Yünnan) or Laokay (Tonquin).\n\n### Chinese Hospital\n\nThe Chinese authorities propose to build a hospital for Chinese soldiers. The hospital is designed for 150 beds. The site is being selected outside the city, and will be in the medical charge of Dr. Mazzolani. The doctor is now hard at work with his classes in the military college. He has seventy picked students, and appears to be fairly well satisfied with their intelligence and application. He tells me that the provincial authorities in Szechuan have informed Yunnan that they are not at all pleased with the results of the training received at the medical college at Chengtu, under Dr. Légendre, and that the Yunnan officials intend to be absolutely independent of French medical assistance.\n\n### Falling off in attendance at French Dispensary\n\nDr. Féray, who is the French consular doctor, tells me that the Chinese soldiers formerly under his care have been taken away, and that his dispensary patients have fallen off in numbers. The French explain this by saying that the Chinese are not yet used to the new French assistant, Dr. Vadon. It is true that Dr. Vadon does not yet understand the Chinese language, but he is an able man, with a kindly sympathetic manner. The true explanation must, I think, be found in the fact that the Chinese authorities have now opened their own dispensary, and drawn away patients.\n\n### Proposed French University and Hospital\n\nThe French are anxious to establish a university and a large hospital in the city, but they are uneasy that the Chinese will raise objections. A class has been opened for medical students, but the number attending Dr. Féray's course is small - eight only.\n\n### New French Consular Site\n\nThe French consul is endeavouring to purchase a fine site for the consulate outside the city.\n\n### Proposal for a Rupee Coinage\n\nMr. Wei, the manager of the mint, has informed me that a rupee coinage for Western Yünnan and the Chinese Shan States was in contemplation. The dies would be ready in a few days. He said that upwards of 300,000 Chinese rupees were issued annually from the Chengtu mint and had penetrated throughout Thibet. The latter remark is not borne out by my own information. He hoped that the Burmah Government would permit the free circulation of this rupee in the Burmese Shan States and in Burmah. I did not encourage him in his hope, and I suspect he was sounding the way for the governor-general. I have since heard from a good Chinese source that the question is being mooted to offer the importation of salt from Burmah into the Chinese Shan States in exchange for the recognition of the Chinese rupee as legal tender in the Burmese Shan States.\n\n### Squeezes at the Mint\n\nMr. Chao, the official director of the mint, resigned, and left Yunnan-fu a few days before the departure of the Hsi Liang (25th February). It is now rumoured that he made over 80,000 taels during his eighteen months' tenure of office by debasing the coinage. A few days ago a consignment of dollars, duly sealed with the mint seal, was found by the military authorities to contain a large number of copper coins.\n\n### Mint Machinery\n\nNew machinery has arrived for the mint. It was supplied by Messrs. Mandl and Co., whose interests in Chinese Government contracts now appear to have been sold to the German firm of Carlowitz and Co.\n\n### M. \n\n#### German visitors to Yünnan-fu\n\nTwo German representatives of Carlowitz and Co., Messrs. Crasemann and Schultz, and a special agent of Messrs. Krupp and Co., M. Berger, have arrived and taken a house. They are awaiting the arrival of the new governor-general Li Ch'ing-hsi. M. Berger talks of sending for his family from Germany, but it is probable that the other two will leave as soon as business negotiations are in train. The acting governor-general declines to enter into any contract with them. Crasemann told me that his firm had bought out M. Mandl, and used his Chinese hong name, \"Hsin-yi,\" in military contracts with the Chinese Government. He appeared to regard the interest thus acquired as very valuable, not only in connection with Chinese officials generally, but more particularly in regard to the family of the late Li Hung-chang. Li Ch'ing-hsi, the newly appointed governor-general, is the nephew of the late Li Hung-chang. It cannot be gainsaid that M. Mandl was in the highest favour with Li Hung-chang during the China-Japan war. Latterly, I believe, he acquired considerable influence in Chinese official circles at Canton. M. Crasemann further informed me that M. Mandl had obtained the contract for the machinery in all the Government mints in China. Kao erh ch'ien, formerly Administrator for Foreign Affairs at Yunnan-fu, and at present Chinese commissioner on the Macao Boundary Commission, told me one day that he considered M. Mandl the cleverest European in China in his methods of dealing with Chinese. It will thus be seen that the German visitors to Yunnan-fu are well supplied with credentials for getting contracts.\n\n### Missionaries\n\nThe French consul has lately consulted me informally as to missionary cases. He complains that his hands are full of these, and that he cannot get them settled. The Chinese authorities, he declares, are becoming more and more obstructive, especially in cases connected with missionary landed property. It would be positively disastrous for this consulate-general to work in concert with the French consulate in missionary cases, and I could only say that I was thankful that I had not yet been met by similar difficulties.\n\n### Colonial Opinion in Tonquin\n\nColonial opinion in Tonquin, judging by the views of visitors to Yunnan-fu, seems to have taken the credit for having effected the transfer of Hsi Liang, whose dismissal was demanded at Peking in connection with the Weigand incident (`P.G. No. 28 of 1908`).\n\n### M. Bacot\n\nM. Bacot, a French traveller of independent means, who was recently given the Garnier Award by the French Geographical Society for his travels in Thibet, passed through in May last en route for Tachienlu. He told me that he had been very kindly received by the India Office at London. He was thinking of crossing the Thibetan province of Poyul and descending the Brahmaputra River - a somewhat ambitious programme.\n\n### Local Troubles\n\nThe trouble at Hsüan-wei-chou (Eastern Yünnan) has been nipped in the bud, owing to the prompt measures taken by the acting governor-general. What threatened to be a wide-spread rising in Chiu-pei-hsien (Eastern Yünnan) has been crushed without apparent effort, owing to the energy and courage of the magistrate. That district is inhabited by large numbers of Sha-yi, a tribe of whom very little is known. They live remote from the towns, and appear to occupy themselves principally as wood-cutters and charcoal burners. Their hair is bound into a chignon, and they wear a sort of sarong or cotton kilt twisted into a knot at the side of the waist. A few brought into contact with the Chinese have the queue, and wear the ordinary clothing of a Chinese coolie. The leader of the rising claimed to have discovered a tablet buried in the forest bearing an inscription interpreted to mean that he was a descendant of the Ming Royal Family, and that his son would become Emperor. He gathered 5,000 to 6,000 followers together and proceeded to Chiu-pei-hsien. The magistrate had no soldiers, but he closed the city gates and sent to Yünnan-fu for assistance, which was promptly forthcoming. In the meantime, the magistrate had collected a small body of men and kept the Sha-yi out of the city. They occupied the villages in proximity to the town, but were attacked by 300 soldiers with two guns. The Sha-yi were armed with nothing but clubs, knives, and stones. A hundred of them were killed without loss to the Chinese, and sixty prisoners were beheaded. The remainder have dispersed. The leader was killed. His son, a little boy of 9 years, was brought to Yunnan-fu in a cage. He is now in the new prison. I visited this establishment a short while ago in company with the judge, and the demeanour of the juvenile pretender towards his gaoler was evidence that they were not harsh with him. The judge, to whose kindheartedness he owes his humane treatment, tells me that he is now being taught Chinese, and that it is proposed to set him free when he is of age, provided his conduct has been satisfactory.\n\n### Railways\n\nIt is now confidently expected that the French railway will reach Yunnan-fu before the close of this year. The construction train has reached Liu-feng-ts'un, 100 kilom. (64 miles) from Yunnan-fu. The earthquake on the 21st May did only trifling damage to one of the tunnels, and dislodged a large quantity of débris on to the track at Po-hsi. Three or four Lolo villages in the vicinity of Po-hsi were partially destroyed and six or seven natives killed. The shock was a sharp one at Yunnan-fu, lasting for seven or eight seconds (11:30 P.M.), but no damage was done. The French consul tells me that the Chinese authorities at Yünnan-fu have denied to him that the Chinese Government intends to buy back the French railway. This railway will have cost not less than $4,000,000 by the time it reaches Yunnan-fu, and I doubt if the Chinese at Yünnan-fu would recommend the purchase, for this large amount, of a railway which they regard as doomed to financial loss.\n\nThe subject of a light Decauville railway, to cost 300,000 taels, from Yunnan-fu to ... \n\nPage 3 \n\nB 2",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n2\n\nmain agreement, which has now been modified to a request that the Chinese Government may be principal parties to the proposed supplementary agreement, and to this the latter seem disposed to agree. The delay has relieved us from the necessity of immediately showing our hand to either Chinese or Americans, and both parties are still in ignorance of the real situation created by the demand for a rearrangement of sections. It is obviously important that we should, as long as possible, throw the responsibility for delay upon the Americans; but when once they have declared themselves ready to conclude terms, we shall have to come out into the open, and then the disagreeable part of our task will begin. I have very little doubt that the question upon which the Americans are really holding out is that of the market; they have no confidence in their own market, and show the greatest anxiety to be allowed access to ours, which we are determined to prevent if possible. The probable unwillingness of the American financiers to come in at all has been strengthened by the evidently wide-spread anxiety created by the illness of Mr. Harriman; they seem more than ever averse to committing themselves at the present moment, and I should not be surprised to learn that there is a sharp conflict going on between them and Mr. Taft, who would appear to have embarked upon his policy with a lofty disregard for practical considerations, or even ordinary courtesy.\n\nCasenave leaves for home by this Siberian mail, leaving Saint Pierre in charge. M. Simon has for some time been pressing him to go home, and on the whole I think it is a good thing that he should do so; he can do no more good here, but can render valuable assistance in explaining the situation, as we see it, to the groups at home. He will of course go to see you, after seeing his friends in Paris; but should you wish to see him at once on any urgent question, a letter addressed, care of M. Simon, will find him, and he will go over immediately.\n\nYours, &c.\n**E. G. HILLIER.**\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n34966 DIRECT\n\n721\n\n**CHINA RAILWAYS.**\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[35319]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.**\n\n(Rec: 25 OCT 09\n\n[September 23.]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n(No. 158.) (Telegraphic.) P.\n\nForeign Office, September 23, 1909. HUKUANG loan. We agree in the view expressed in your telegram No. 155 of the 21st September. At present, however, it seems useless to approach the German Government again, as our communications are merely referred by them to their group.\n\nTo-morrow, however, Mr. Addis proceeds to Paris to discuss the present situation with M. Casenave and the French group.\n\nShould he find that they are in agreement with our views, he will propose a meeting of the European groups in order to induce the Germans to reconsider the attitude they have adopted.\n\n2413-1\n-11",
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        "content_text": "## DOMESTIC\n### 40578\n\nAn individual, Ma J..., 1909, 14 J...\n\nPrevious Paper: 18 $40\n\n| Request | \n| --- | \n| 1. Advance | \n| 2. Increment | \n| 3. Extension of Leave |\n\n1. Applied for one month's salary \n2. or in alternative for advance of £7.10.0 for 7 months\n3. Applied for leave to enable him to depart on steamer of 27th\n\n(1) To take him for his smoking \n\nContinued very, very severe up till a few days ago when his temperature was normal. He complains much of want of sleep. His appetite and general debility. His bodily weakness is so great that he feels prostrated after walking a short distance. Strapped him all possible to apply house as I regard his health undermined by a prolonged illness.\n\nAccording further to forementioned Way \n>A & E. W. —20962/27 - 25000--11-08.\n\nSubsequent Paper (27) I think he can wait till he gets his leave; say do not grant an advance for a month's salary on sabbatical security if he gets more. It must be on ...\n\n(3) Grant £7F, it is my sharp.\n\nJRI\n\nHave you heard anything about his increment? May 4\n\nI see the letter to which he refers? B) 18/12",
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        "content_text": "347\n\nThere is in existence a busy service between Hongkong & Caution into a junction of the harbour this takes one a bit way forry kurice & most were affording boats, it must offer every possible advantage the furnishing trains. My owning a separate fare for Parkway purposes it's true. Even to it is problematic whether it this success. Passengers have to land at the front where I allege & Exchanges continue a third difficulty. The barge ferry for some little distance from the quay.\n\nThe continue to run their present service to Kowloon independently of & find their way across with their baggage in all kinds of boats. It will be noticed that meritorious moving poor that it can face within an alternative railway free board a divergence by retaining coming forces over the fixing to the K.W.& G. frontage, & some thinking flag station new the tick figure dearth with. To figure because this sharp end or bit livs levre crossings (such as Bowen Rd & Hathan Road) be resumed I deprecate Ention Plaff. The staff & maintenance of this section already becomes bids fair to be unduly costly.\n\nSuch a class of fund by system often at some English Stations (where the housing & land is exceedingly worthy at the is in mans for & Valuate termine files in large cities) owners hardly seem to have justified. (as then in the case). The C.E. allude to the cost of protect of the C.E. main that it would have serious drawbacks for transit the proposed railway price alongside the passenger stations.\n\nAny care a due much to high, of it is not brick here. much a bich as the end of Kochan road. Muy aus palih dis not for details in reference to the ferry service because my sin have no thank hime food sin reference to this Eves him. that the Ferry have long how apply, ung for the permanent base of on Kowloon Island which thing at present horse on an ong.\n\nThe question was these are finding a decision to Terminate Site in the antermentice ferry to it. It is fine && tunts there hee h no offiction Chien park Kas cross the railway to fecially La ime ora aarn at Auch ane & the Stahin big faisaly the extreme incontinence of then leave crossing Hathan road - (With In from traffic tances) which in the first instance made the huffert an freining the Io him to the Exot Whi & the Part of & wor the Plas him away altogether. The C.E. Louis with that this question of Tamers have but furious ten mised, but it was louiseal the bally, I was of course a whee recognised development of future.\n\na sha the near The C.E say that they understood that the United Reclamation bones & needed for thunting faces & forces in Whic.",
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        "content_text": "Ad interim there arises a sharp contention further grant by tag. And he made without often referring to the results of the new taxation the other tempore again urged upon then Lordships that a sample Z 12000 a fear whether granted to strong for the papers 1941, 1912 in fulfilment of the promise made G sug 7.\n\nCO 24520 537 RECE REGE 9 AUG 10 British Portal Agencies in China & Auy\" brief try to arrive as soon as Last previous Paper. M 412 possible at a decision as to course to be adopted, but cannot undertake to do so within time specified by bo. M. Stutto Xx.\n\nYou have pp. ? Ash A A when position to long спи Ause // Aug 24960 purely to 7.0.18 Qay the Shwart asked for a copy. Bija sent 16,955), Wt.21,699---1, 40,000. 11/09. A.&E. W.\n\nIt subsequent Paper. View notice T. I expect to be in quire A decision, 9 The fact that as possible if the Agencies closed. Gre Eitt 9/8 is needed to be which un had little beans- it alone. of they didn't reply day again.\n\n151.9/8 Atome 7078\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363\n\nIt appears that the original text was heavily distorted due to OCR errors. I have made the following corrections:\n\n1. Rejoined broken sentences and reformatted the text into paragraphs.\n2. Removed extra spaces and corrected spacing issues.\n3. Corrected some obvious spelling errors.\n4. Preserved the original page numbering lines (\"Page 363\") as per the instructions.\n \nHowever, the text still contains many unclear or nonsensical phrases, likely due to the poor quality of the original OCR output or the presence of non-English text. Further manual review or correction may be necessary to fully understand the content.",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Preamble\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[39502]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nC O\n\n82\n\n2765\n\nRECEIVED [October 26 - JAN 10]\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 26.)\n\n(No. 169.) (Telegraphic.) P.\n\nRAILWAY loan negotiations.\n\nPeking, October 26, 1909.\n\nThe memorandum alluded to in your telegram No. 170 of the 20th instant is summarised in a telegram addressed to the United States chargé d'affaires by his Government, which also gives the substance of the conversation that the American Ambassador had with you and Sir Francis Campbell.\n\nI explained to Mr. Fletcher, who read to me the American Secretary of State's telegram, the reasons why we could not admit the German proposal to include the Canton-Hankow Railway in any redistribution scheme, and I also laid before him the suggested rearrangement of the engineering sections on the Hankow-Szechuan line. Mr. Fletcher, who appeared fully to appreciate our attitude, told me that he would endeavour to make the Chinese understand that the delay in the negotiations should be ascribed to the attitude of the Germans, and not to ours, as has been represented.\n\nFrom two conversations which I have had in a friendly manner with the German Minister, I gather that Count Rex would probably admit the action of the German group to have savoured somewhat of sharp practice during the first stage of the loan negotiations. Generally speaking, it seems to me that the death of Chang Chih-tung has had an adverse effect on the German position.\n\n[39503]\n\nNo. 2.\n\n(No. 170.)\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 26.)\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nCHINCHOW-AIGUN Railway.\n\nPlease see my telegram No. 163 of the 5th instant.\n\nPeking, October 26, 1909.\n\nI told the American chargé d'affaires to-day, on his raising the subject of the above railway, that it ought not to be difficult to arrange for Japanese participation on terms satisfactory to the British and American groups.\n\nWhile concurring in my opinion, Mr. Fletcher expressed the view that the difficulty lay in China's probable refusal to admit such participation. As far as America was concerned, he added, China must not expect the United States to bear the whole brunt of the struggle between Chinese and Japanese in Manchuria, and it is for China to decide whether she will allow the Japanese to participate, or whether, in the event of Japanese opposition, she is sufficiently anxious for the railway as to proceed to its construction on her own account.\n\n[217] cc-3]",
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        "content_text": "when the rioting was at its height. Reparation was demanded and obtained by both the British and Japanese consular officials, but unwise delay occurred in dealing with the unruly soldiery concerned on the plea that some forty men remained absent from barracks. As a result, a second riot occurred on the 13th February in which a Chinese police officer and several constables were wounded. The trouble was alleged to have originated in the withholding of the men's pay.\n\nI visited this 46th regiment at Soochow on the 9th instant and saw the men on parade, in their barrack-rooms, and in their class-rooms, and spoke to many of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers. Everything appeared to be orderly and regular, and the demeanour of the men and their bearing towards their officers respectful and soldierlike.\n\nBefore I left Peking (on the 15th March) the judge advocate-general of the Chinese army had informed me that the brigadier, C'hên Të Lung, had been removed, but on my arrival at Soochow I found him still there, in command, and believe he is so now.\n\nThe Wai-wu Pu has now officially informed His Majesty's Legation that the following punishments were awarded, viz.:—\n\nThe ringleader, Sergeant C'hên Li Shan; imprisonment for life.\n\nPrivates Weng and Sun; twenty years and ten years imprisonment respectively.\n\nMajors Tseng Li Chao and Chiêng Hung En, commanders of the two mutinous battalions (1st and 2nd) of the 46th regiment, who had already been deprived of their rank, to undergo in addition a term of imprisonment (period not stated).\n\nAt Kiang Yin forts, His Majesty's consul at Nanking reported, on the 12th January, there had been considerable disaffection in the 36th regiment, which culminated in the desertion of nearly 100 men. The cause would appear to have been dissatisfaction with promotions to non-commissioned rank. (The 36th regiment belongs to the 9th division, the discipline of which has frequently been a subject of unfavourable comment.)\n\nHis Majesty's consul now reports that the following punishments were awarded in connection with this outbreak, viz.:--\n\nThe sergeant who originated the mutiny was beheaded.\n\nThe captain of the company concerned has been dismissed, deprived of his feather, button, and badge of merit, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years.\n\nThe colonel, who had been removed from his command before the mutiny broke out, has three marks recorded against his name.\n\nThe major (battalion commander) has been removed, and is not to be employed in the army again.\n\nThe brigadier-general of the 18th brigade has two marks recorded against his name.\n\nAt Ch'ing Chiang P'u, in the 13th Brigade (Mixed Brigade) of regulars, serious disaffection appears to have undoubtedly occurred last month. The native papers at the end of March contained alarming accounts of the state of things there, pointing to an entire disorganisation of the brigade. It was said that a letter suggesting disturbance was sent from one of the infantry regiments at Soochow to an infantry regiment at Ching Chiang P'u, but was delivered to the cavalry by mistake, and that General Wang (the military governor of Kiang Pei) called out the infantry but they refused to obey the order; that General Wang bad then sent the gendarmerie and city guards to open the floating bridge and close the city gates and man the walls at the west and south gates; that the mutineers had then assembled outside the city wall and sharp fighting had taken place in which the civil canal-side population had suffered heavily as well as the mutineers, who had then retired to the south bank of the old Yellow River, and that two battalions had been sent up from Nanking.\n\nI anticipated, therefore, that I should probably be prevented by the Chinese authorities from proceeding to Ching Chiang P'u, but no objection was raised, and I arrived there after nightfall on the 4th April, and was very well received by the authorities. There was a dense and curious crowd at the landing-place as I disembarked but, in my passage through the heart of the city, could discern no sign of disorder, the streets being full of people and the shops open as usual.\n\nThe following day I saw the 13th Mixed Brigade at their lines, about 1 mile north of the town, making a long inspection of the barracks and institutions and seeing some units of every arm (except the transport, whose barracks are not yet ready) on parade. In the afternoon they had a small field-day (cavalry and infantry only) for my benefit in the old bed of the Yellow River. The officials were exceedingly reticent about the recent disturbance, and, indeed, denied that there had been a serious mutiny. In any case, I am satisfied that the disturbance has been greatly exaggerated, for it had not resulted, at any rate, in any visible disorganisation of the brigade. My Chih-li servant, whom I sent out into the town to make enquiries, and my boatmen (two of whom were Ching Chiang P'u men) could obtain no confirmation of the alarmist reports, and informed me that it was untrue that two battalions had been sent up from Nanking. They admitted, however, that there was talk in the town about some discontent in the luchun (regular troops), and that it concerned the men's pay. I have little doubt that there was more or less serious trouble, as the officials took care to keep me very fully occupied during my stay, inspecting troops, schools, hospital, &c., and were obviously anxious to prevent my visiting Dr. Woods, of the American mission. I insisted, however, on calling at the mission, but he and the Rev. Graham were both, unfortunately, away, and I subsequently failed to catch up Dr. Woods at Shanghae.\n\nIn the men's dining-rooms, moreover, in barracks, I noticed a proclamation by the military governor Wang referring to discipline and exhorting them to good behaviour, which would point to there having been some necessity for its issue. The officials, moreover, laid particular stress on the unreliability of newspaper reports.\n\nOn the 4th April His Majesty's consul at Nanking saw the Viceroy's confidential adviser Yang Chêng (ex-Minister to Vienna), who told him that the trouble was not yet over; and on the 15th April he referred to a native newspaper report of the 13th instant, which stated that \"a further 1,000 men had handed in their uniforms and asked for their pay, with the intention of leaving the service, and that the officers had not dared to refuse them.\" (I am inclined to doubt this statement.)\n\nAt Changsha, during the recent serious riots, the inactivity of the 26th mixed brigade of regulars quartered there is significant. His Majesty's consul-general at Hankow reported that \"soldiers, often in far greater number than the rioters, watched the work of destruction without moving a finger, till Friday evening (the second day of the riot), when two men, for sharing in the burning of the Standard Oil premises, were put to death and their heads exposed. The inactivity of the troops is ascribed to two of their number being beheaded for firing on the assailants of the governor's yamên.\"\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Changsha reported on the 18th April that “500 of the regular troops have deserted from barracks with their arms and ammunition, and their intentions are as yet unknown.\" He had, however, previously very justly remarked that \"seeing that soldiers were executed for firing on the mob, it is not surprising that they were not keen.\"\n\nThe above are the more striking instances of recent indiscipline, but do not by any means complete the list; minor cases, such as quarrels with the police and civil population, and strikes on the part of military students, &c., having been from time to time reported from various places.\n\nAs regards the causes underlying this laxity of discipline, from enquiries made during my tour, and information from various sources, both official and private, the impression left on my mind is that the following various specific causes have led to the present unsatisfactory state of things:\n\n1. Territorial Enlistment.--This has been a pet scheme with the War Office owing to its advantages in the matter of formation and training of reserves. The fact seems to have been somewhat overlooked at Peking that, with territorial enlistment, it cannot but happen that local popular sentiment will also, to a great extent, be the sentiment of the local soldiery,\n\n2. Conscription. This is being gradually introduced in a modified form, and is not everywhere welcomed.\n\n3. Incessant and Hard Work.--Incessant and hard work, both on parade and in the class-rooms, has been imposed on the soldiers of the regular army. The gymnastic training, especially, by which much store is set, contains many unnecessarily dangerous practices, whereby a number of men are annually more or less seriously injured. The Chinese army doctors, with whom I have spoken, very generally condemn many of these practices.\n\n4. Lack of Short Leave. This is a very general grievance, and one that might easily be remedied in territorially-recruited forces.\n\n5. Cases of Irregularity in the Issue of Pay.--Last year, as far as I could gather,\n\nPage 173",
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        "content_text": "10\n\n1879, and 6 ft. 3 in. in December 1892. The greatest depth was given as 14 feet in April 1890, the average of the annual maximum depths over the whole period being 11 ft. 3 in., and 9 ft. 1 in., these occurring in April and September respectively in each year. It will be noticed that the least depth occurs in the autumn, after the Yang-tsze floods, and the greatest depth in spring, when that river is low. The depths above recorded refer to Customs datum, which as already stated, is 2 feet below Conservancy datum.\n\n37. The effect of Pheasant Point, taken in conjunction with the sharp bend into the Ship Channel, was a serious drawback to navigation during the time that the latter channel was the main navigable course, inasmuch as the flood tide naturally clung to the Woosung shore for some distance past the turn into the Ship Channel, and consequently vessels attempting to enter this channel were sometimes swung round by the current acting on their port quarter and driven ashore either on Pheasant Point or on the flats below Gough Island. Captain Gregor and Captain Evans, in the interviews which we had with them there, both laid great stress on the difficulties experienced at this turn when the Ship Channel was the main river course.\n\nPoint Bank.\n\n38. Still proceeding upwards, the next defect in the river to which attention should be directed is the wide reach between Black Point and [] Point, where the difference in direction of the flood and ebb currents has led to the formation on the left side of the river of a bank of considerable extent, covered at low water, and having a shallow, partially formed channel in-shore used by small craft. Throughout this reach, however, there has existed for many years a well-defined main channel near the right bank of the river, and it cannot be said that the condition of the stream here is such at present as to give rise to anxiety, although it is manifestly desirable that the flood and ebb currents should be directed over the same course.\n\nPootung Point.\n\n39. From the last-named reach to Shanghai, where there is a very sharp turn at Pootung Point, the river may be said to be generally in a satisfactory condition. In the neighbourhood of Pootung Point there has always been, at certain periods of the tide, a considerable area of chow-chow water, i.e., strong whirlpool eddies, due to the sharp bend in the river and the confluence of the Soochow Creek, which here joins the main stream on the left bank.\n\n40. The depth of water opposite Pootung Point is very great, reaching at one spot to upwards of 100 feet below low water, but there does not appear, as might have been expected, to be any tendency to scour alongside the wharves and buildings on the concave shore. On the other hand, dredging has to be resorted to in order to maintain sufficient water alongside the Hongkow wharves, on the left bank immediately below Soochow Creek.\n\n41. The sharp bend in the river at this point, besides exercising an injurious influence on the tidal development, is especially unfortunate, inasmuch as it occurs in the centre of the most crowded part of the harbour, necessitating great care in navigating vessels to their berths through the mass of European and native shipping.\n\nBank at Native City.\n\n42. The presence of a very considerable mud flat on the left bank of the river, for the most part dry at low water, along the front of the Chinese city (see drawing No. 1), constitutes another serious obstacle to the tidal flow of the Whangpoo, which is aggravated by there being at all times an immense fleet of junks and small craft lying on or near the left bank.\n\n43. This evil is a growing one, for the bank is being increasingly used as a site for storing timber and as a general deposit ground for the refuse and garbage of the native city, which has approximately a population of 1,000,000. On this site is also permanently located an immense number of \"beggar boats\" used as dwellings by the poorest class of Chinese, the people inhabiting these boats being estimated at many thousands. The entire refuse from this population is thrown overboard from the boats into the river, or on the mud bank, thus further obstructing the river flow and increasing the general insanitation of the locality.\n\n11\n\nAbove the Native City.\n\n44. Above the native city the condition of the river rapidly improves, and after a few miles becomes excellent, the reaches being broad, deep, and straight, with easy turns and strong banks. In place, however, injury is caused by the reckless throwing of waste materials of all kinds into the stream, and by the obstruction of fishing stakes and water-nut plantations, but, speaking generally, it may be said that the main channel of the river above the Chinese city is satisfactory in its present condition, and that no remedial works in connection therewith are necessary.\n\nSubsidiary Creeks.\n\n45. The condition of the subsidiary creeks connecting with the Whangpoo has an intimate bearing on the régime of the main river. From our information it appears that they are very much obstructed in the manner mentioned in the last paragraph, and also, in many cases where there are bridges, by banks being projected from the sides with a view to reducing the width to be spanned. A very serious check is thus given to the amount of tidal water passing to and fro. It is too much to say that, in any instances, these creeks would probably have closed altogether had it not been for the practice of the agriculturists of digging out the bottoms of the creeks to form a dressing for the fields.\n\nV. PREVIOUS REPORTS ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE WHANGPOO RIVER,\n\n46. The vital necessity of maintaining the Whangpoo in a good navigable condition has for many years, as we have already explained, been urged in the strongest manner by the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, and at various times reports have been procured by the chamber and other bodies with regard to schemes most likely to effect the required result. Other reports have also been prepared by various persons for particular interests. In addition to such reports general criticisms have at frequent intervals been passed on the schemes and more particularly on the recommendations of M. de Rijke.\n\nReport of 1876.\n\n47. The first reports to which reference need be made by us are those prepared by M. G. A. Escher and M. J. de Rijke in 1876, addressed to the members of the consular body of Shanghai. These reports, which should be considered together, consist of a joint report by both engineers on the Woosung Inner Bar, and two separate reports upon the best method of dealing with it, M. Escher favouring the improvement of the Ship Channel-at that time the navigable track-whilst M. de Rijke preferred the opening out of Junk Channel for deep-water navigation.\n\nReport of 1898.\n\n48. Nothing was done to improve the condition of the river, as a result of these reports, with the exception of an ineffectual attempt, between 1888 and 1891, to deepen the inner bar by dredging. At the invitation of the Chamber of Commerce, however, M. de Rijke, in 1897, again visited Shanghai, and in January 1898 presented his second report upon the river.\n\n49. In this last-named report M. de Rijke showed, in considerable detail, that the river had deteriorated since his previous visit in 1875, and strongly urged the great importance of immediately carrying out works for the improvement and regulation of the river, if an efficient waterway to Shanghai was to be maintained. This report was the last prepared by M. de Rijke, and it was on the lines then recommended that the works which were commenced in 1907 were carried out.\n\n50. It may be stated generally that M. de Rijke proposed to confine the Whangpoo to one channel throughout its entire course from Shanghai to the Yang-tsze, by means of training and regulating works which he described, and that he again selected for improvement the Junk Channel. The cost of the necessary works was approximately estimated by M. de Rijke at 3,000,000 taels. He pointed out, however, that a proper survey of the river was essential before a reliable estimate could be prepared.\n\n399",
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        "content_text": "402\n\n16\n\nM. de Rijke proposes to remove by dredging, carried out in two belts having depths of 9 and 13 feet respectively at low-water ordinary spring tide, the total quantity of material to be removed being estimated at 1,700,000 cubic yards.\n\nCutting Back of Pootung Point.\n\n82. At Pootung Point it is also proposed to cut back the sharp angle formed in the right bank to the extent shown on drawing No. 1, the dredging being carried out in two belts having depths of 15 and 18 feet, respectively, at low-water ordinary spring tide. The total quantity of this dredging is estimated at 931,000 cubic yards.\n\nCutting Back of Bank at Native City.\n\n83. M. de Rijke's complete scheme contemplates the cutting back of the bank at the Native City, to the extent likewise shown on drawing No. 1. The dredging, in this case also, would be carried out in two belts, having depths of 12 and 15 feet respectively at low-water ordinary spring tide. The total quantity of materials to be removed at this place is estimated at 2,204,000 cubic yards.\n\nFurther Works.\n\n84. The total of the dredging works proposed but not commenced is thus about 7,500,000 cubic yards, and upon their relative desirability, as also upon the other works suggested, we shall offer our remarks in subsequent parts of this report. Various smaller works are also proposed by M. de Rijke, thus carrying the improvements to the upper harbour limit.\n\nIX. THE EFFECTS PRODUCED BY THE WORKS ALREADY EXECUTED.\n\n85. We now come to a consideration of the effects which have been produced in the river, by the construction of the works so far as they have been carried out. Approaching this question it will be of interest, if, in the first instance, we give some figures showing the results actually achieved, and afterwards refer to the opinions expressed by those directly interested in the navigation of the river.\n\nEffect on Outer Bar.\n\n86. In April 1902 the harbour-master stated in a report that there was at that time, on the Outer Bar, a depth of only 13 feet below Customs datum (15 feet at low-water ordinary spring tide). In February 1907, before the commencement of the works, the depth, according to the same authority was 14 ft. 6 in, below Customs datum (16 ft. 6 in, low-water ordinary spring tide).\n\n87. From M. de Rijke's report for the quarter ending the 31st December, 1909, it appears that there was then a depth of 18 feet at low-water ordinary spring tide over a width of 1,050 feet from the jetty, and of 22 feet at low-water ordinary spring tide over a width of 600 feet. Thus the Outer Bar practically no longer exists, notwithstanding that there has been no dredging over this portion of the river.\n\nEffect on Inner Bar.\n\n88. With respect to the Inner Bar, we have, in paragraph 36, given the small depths of water which were, at various dates, available over that obstruction. By the recent closing of the Ship Channel and the opening out of the Juuk Channel (now called \"Astra\" Channel, on account of His Majesty's ship \"Astræa\" having been the first vessel to pass through it on the 5th May, 1909), all questions regarding the old Inner Bar have been disposed of. The depth of water adopted for the \"Astræa Channel\", although less than that which existed for a limited width in the old Ship Channel, is throughout its length considerably greater than was formerly available over the Inner Bar, at the outlet of the Ship Channel. Inasmuch as the minimum depth over the Inner Bar limited the draught available for navigation between Woosung and Shanghai, it is evident, as will be further explained in succeeding paragraphs, that a very valuable improvement has been effected by the disappearance of the Inner Bar as one result of the works which have been already carried out.\n\n17\n\n89. In the achievement of this satisfactory result it should be noted that throughout the whole of the constructive operations the minimum or fouling depth previously available between Shanghai and the Yang-tsze, by way of the Ship Channel, was never diminished nor was the navigation of the river interfered with.\n\nDepth over Inner Bar during Progress of Works.\n\n90. In support of this last-named statement particulars supplied by the harbour-master show that the \"official\" minimum depth below Customs datum in the Ship Channel in 1906, the year before the works were commenced, was 10 ft. 6 in. in August; in 1907 the least depth was 11 feet in September; in 1908 it was 10 ft. 6 in. in the same month; and in 1909 it was not less than 11 ft. 6 in. up to the 1st July, at which date the Astræa Channel was opened, for general navigation by day, with a minimum depth of 13 feet below Customs datum. On the 15th September following lights were exhibited and the channel opened for general traffic both by day and by night, the old Ship Channel being finally abandoned.\n\nDepth in Astrea Channel.\n\n91. With regard to the present depth in the Astræa Channel, the harbour-master, in a memorandum dated the 14th February, 1910, states that \"a fairway at least 600 feet wide at its narrowest part, with a depth of not less than 13 feet at lowest low-water spring tides (i.e., Customs datum) has been maintained since the opening of the channel.\" He further states, \"within the next two weeks it is confidently considered that we will be able to signal 15 feet at lowest low-water spring tides. It must be borne in mind that this office's low-water datum is 2 feet below that of the Conservancy Board.\" (See paragraph 13 above.)\n\n92. We may add that the depth signalled indicates the draught of the vessel which may pass through the channel, so that, allowing, say, 1 foot of water under the keel, and 2 feet, the difference between the Customs datum and the Conservancy datum, the depth of 15 feet, when signalled by the harbour-master, would correspond with 18 feet at low-water ordinary spring tides aimed at by M. de Rijke. It further appears from M. de Rijke's report for the quarter ending the 31st December, 1909, that, with the exception of one small patch having a depth of 17 ft. 6 in., 18 feet at low-water ordinary spring tides, was available over an average width of, say, 950 feet. Messrs. Wilson and Matthews inform us that while at Shanghai they satisfied themselves by actual soundings of the accuracy of the above figures.\n\nEffect of Scour in the Astrea Channel.\n\n93. With regard to the scouring action of the currents in Astræa Channel, it may be noted that by comparing soundings taken in September 1907 with those of June 1908 M. de Rijke found that the material actually removed was 2,643,000 cubic yards (2,464,000 cubic yards in barges) had been removed by dredging, leaving a balance removed by scour of 1,056,000 cubic yards. The same calculation was repeated in September 1909, when it was found that a total quantity of 9,976,000 cubic yards has been removed, of which 4,716,000 cubic yards (7,078,000 cubic yards in barges) had been dredged, leaving a balance of 5,260,000 cubic yards as having been scoured. These results appear to us to be very satisfactory as affecting the prospects of the future maintenance of the channel as now developed by the works which have been carried out.\n\n94. It is also interesting in this connection to note that last autumn, prior to the letting of the latest dredging contract referred to in paragraph 74, after all dredging operations in the Astra Channel had been suspended for two months the official depth was not reduced, although it is right to add that the pilots of two of the steam-ship companies state that they observed some shoaling.\n\n95. In answer to enquiries by Messrs. Wilson and Matthews as to whether any increase in the range of tide at Shanghai had been observed since the opening of the Astræa Channel, or as to the time of high water having become relatively earlier in consequence of improved tidal development, M. de Rijke informed them that, although no definite observations had been made, he was of opinion there had been certain changes of the character referred to. In this connection the harbour-master also stated that he considered there had been a marked improvement in the channel above Gough Island and that an \"increased flow of tide\" was apparent.\n\n[2958 hh-1]\n\nF",
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        "content_text": "20\n\nM. de Rijke's quarterly report, dated the 20th April, 1907, is also then quoted, as follows:-\n\n\"A resounding of Gough Island Reach shows that the depth all along Ship Channel has increased, while Junk Channel has shallowed.\"\n\nThe memorandum further states that at that date-\n\n\"the so-called Inner Bar has almost disappeared, and there is to-day, from the arsenal to the mouth of the river, a uniform depth of at least 18 feet at lowest low-water level; in other words, the works which the River Conservancy tries to achieve are already almost in existence.\"\n\n113. The memorandum, in summarising the conclusions arrived at, contains the following:-\n\nAccording to M. de Rijke's own words, the forcing over of the main stream of a river like this, without causing new impediments and without much interrupting navigation, is often found to be a most difficult task, even when using numbers of men skilled in such work.\" The Kajow Bar, which should facilitate this 'forcing over,' has entirely disappeared, and there must now be a certain danger if it is tried. Is it, under these circumstances, advisable to run such an incalculable and enormous risk? Or what security does M. de Rijke's scheme give that, in the course of its execution, shipping will not be seriously hampered or even interrupted?\n\n\"The expense of the Ship Channel's closing up under the present conditions will be--as admitted by the quarterly reports-much higher than at first estimated. Will this amount, under all circumstances, suffice for the complete execution of M. de Rijke's scheme?\n\n\"There are at the disposal twenty annual votes of 460,000 taels each.\n\n\"If these two questions cannot be answered with certainty, might it not be taken into serious consideration to make use of the natural tendency of the river, choosing the present fair-way (Ship Channel) by improving and straightening it?\n\nIt is quite obvious that thereby the shipping can in no way be hampered, and, moreover, the expenses will be considerably smaller.\n\n\"We would like to mention that our misgivings are shared by experts.\"\n\n114. We have made these quotations from the memorandum of the \"Deutsche Vereinigung,\" for the purpose of focussing attention on the main points where difference of opinion existed between the advocates of the Ship Channel route and those who favoured the scheme for the development of Junk Channel.\n\nCaptain Schellhoss's further Criticisms.\n\n115. Captain Schellhoss also explained, at an interview, that in his opinion the Jetty Works at Woosung were of a much heavier section than required, and pointed out that owing to the large expenditure upon them and on the great works, previously described, which were required to divert the river from its normal course at Gough Island, it had been necessary to raise a large loan, with the consequence that there had to be paid away in interest a sum amounting to one-third of the total available work fund. He considered that all the improvements required might have been effected at the rate of 460,000 Haikwan taels per annum, in which case almost 3,000,000 Haikwan taels more would have been available for productive expenditure.\n\n116. Captain Schellhoss also questioned the necessity for the series of six cross dams behind the main longitudinal dam at Upper Gough, and the introduction in nearly every case of two cribs, connecting the shore with the various parallel works, instead of relying on one only.\n\n117. Criticisms were also expressed by Captain Schellhoss and some others with regard to the administration of the works. This matter does not, however, appear to us to have a direct bearing upon the main question which we are called upon to investigate, viz., whether or not in the scheme, as carried out, is the best which could have been adopted, and also whether there is a probability of its being permanently successful.\n\nXII.-M. DE RIJKE'S VIEWS GENERALLY ON THE FOREGOING CRITICISMS.\n\n118. Taking first the points raised in the memorandum of the \"Deutsche Vereinigung,\" it will now be conceded that the fears formally expressed with regard to cutting off Shanghai for a time from the sea, or of increased difficulties in the navigation during the construction of the works, have been proved to be unfounded.\n\n21\n\nReasons for the Selection of Junk Channel.\n\n119. M. de Rijke answered the foregoing criticisms in writing, and also explained his views to Mr. Wilson and Mr. Matthews; his replies on the question of the selection of the Junk Channel for improvement rather than the Ship Channel may be summarised as follows:--\n\n(a.) That a much straighter and better course is thereby obtained, both for tidal development and for navigation.\n\n(b.) That owing to the sharp concave bend in the Ship Channel and the action of the tidal currents thereon, the defence works on the right bank would require to be almost continuous, and, having to be constructed in deep water, would, of necessity, prove very costly to carry out in the first instances, and would entail heavy maintenance charges in the future.\n\n(c.) That in consequence of the insufficiency of the cross-sectional area of the Ship Channel branch of the river, either very heavy dredging work would have been necessary along Gough Island shore, or else a portion of the Junk Channel must have been left open, which might have resulted in the continuation of the Inner Bar, and would have defeated the whole object of training the river and the creation of a single waterway for the flux of the tides.\n\n(d.) That the training works extending from the left bank, below Gough Island, which would be required to divert the flood currents into the Ship Channel would have to be carried across deep water, and be of exceptional strength on account of the abrupt angle around which the stream would have to be turned.\n\nAt the same time the development of the flood tide would have been seriously injured by being forced around so sharp a curve.\n\n(e.) That works of a similar description, though of a less substantial character, would have been required from the left bank, above Gough Island, in order to divert the ebb currents into the Ship Canal.\n\n(f) That a channel of the full section required, and with good curves, could be more readily obtained through Junk Channel, and, moreover, the training works necessary, apart from the main parallel dam at Upper Gough, could be constructed almost entirely in shallow water.\n\nCross Dams at Upper Gough.\n\n120. With reference to the series of cross dams behind the main parallel dam at Upper Gough, and the system of double or treble cribs, connecting the shore with the various parallel works, M. de Rijke considered a provision of this kind essential, on so soft a bottom as is here experienced, in order to subdivide the fall of the stream over the works in such a manner as to reduce scour at the foot of the dam, and to facilitate the deposit of silt between the cribs. Although he had allowed for the six upper dams in his estimate of April 1909, in case they might all be required, he proposed only to construct such of them as experience might find to be necessary as the works proceeded.\n\nXIII.-OUR OPINION WITH REGARD TO THE WORKS EXECUTED BY M. DE RIJKE.\n\n121. We have thought it desirable to describe fully the works which have been proposed and those which have been executed, and have referred at length to the reasons which led to the adoption of the design of the works which have been carried out, and also to the views which are entertained generally at Shanghai with regard thereto. It now becomes necessary that we should express our opinion, which we do after most careful consideration, with reference to these important matters.\n\nPreference for Junk Channel Route.\n\n122. Dealing first with the principal controversial point, viz., as to whether the Ship Channel or the Junk Channel should have been selected for improvement; we are strongly of opinion, after mature reflection, that the right course was adopted in the decision to improve and develop the Junk Channel.\n\n[2958 kh-1]\n\n404",
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        "content_text": "## 62\n\noperate in British territory, except with express sanction from the Government of Hong Kong, especially as the Eastern Extension Company was not allowed by China to own lines in China. He accordingly proposed to bring in an Ordinance to make it illegal for Telegraph Lines to be constructed or worked without a licence from the Government and to issue a licence to the Administration in which the ownership of the line was definitely recognised as vested in the Colonial Government. Sir M. Nathan thought this would be better than allowing the Eastern Extension Company to take over the line in British territory since, in that case, there would be a break at the frontier.\n\n4. Sir M. Nathan also pointed out what is the crux of the whole position, namely, that the Eastern Extension Company was considerably affected. The Company works lines (owned by the Chinese Government) running from Woosung and Sharp Peak respectively to Shanghai and Foochow, a concession which is probably made in consideration of the accommodation given to the Chinese Administration by the Eastern Extension Company in its offices at Hong Kong and over the line from Hong Kong to Shamshuipo. Any disturbance of the existing arrangements in Hong Kong might therefore react upon the arrangements at the places referred to.\n\n5. The Canton-Kowloon railway negotiations were then proceeding, and the Secretary of State suggested to the Governor that this question might wait till the railway question was settled, since friction over this question of telegraphs might prejudice the negotiations with regard to the railway. Sir M. Nathan agreed.\n\n`W1.20.024--26. 6000. 11/08. A.&E.W. (15,629)`, `18,912--27. 0000. 10/09`, `9874/04`, `78/08`, `0./39879/09`, `0./322B/09`, `39376/18`\n\n6. The question then slept till 1908 when Sir F. Lugard revived it in his **Confidential** despatch of the 3rd of September. He reported that the Chinese Government were about to buy up the privately held shares in the Telegraph with a view to incorporating the administration in the Imperial Government Telegraphs. He urged the undesirability of a purely Government telegraph line of a foreign nation traversing British territory, with a Chinese official stationed in Hong Kong to supervise and control it. \"Even under the former conditions, this Government has on more than one occasion had cause to take notice of the tendency on the part of the person in charge to interfere in matters outside his duties as Telegraph Supervisor.\" Sir F. Lugard asked that diplomatic action should be taken with a view to removing the terminal office to the frontier, when he would be glad to discuss any arrangement with the Chinese Government for working the section, either by Hong Kong or the Eastern Extension Company or otherwise. The Foreign Office were accordingly asked for observations on 21st October 1908.\n\n7. The Foreign Office telegraphed on 24th October to the minister for his views, and on the 27th of January 1909 sent a copy of Sir John Jordan's despatch, in which the Foreign Office expressed concurrence. Sir J. Jordan reported that he had seen the Foreign Adviser to the Chinese Telegraph Administration, who, while appreciating the objections to the existing state of affairs, strongly deprecated disturbing the arrangement by which the Chinese",
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        "content_text": "63 \n\nChinese had always had an office in Hong Kong because this would, in his opinion, raise the question of the Eastern Extension Company's rights at Woosung and Sharp Peak and would react unfavourably upon the interests of the British Company generally in China. The Yamun on being informally approached fell back on their former view (see paragraph 2) and asked why Hong Kong should want to make difficulties. Sir J. Jordan recommended as the simplest solution that the terminal office should be removed to the frontier and that the Eastern Extension Company should acquire and work the line from the old to the new frontier. But he said that any attempt to turn the Chinese out of their Hong Kong office would raise a very wide question. He annexed correspondence on the subject in 1884.\n\n8. This correspondence consists of two letters from Mr. Dunn, then Special Agent of the Eastern Extension Company, addressed to the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration. In one he gives the terms of the agreement, which were briefly as follows:- \n\nTwo Chinese wires were to be connected at the British boundary of Kowloon to wires of the Eastern Extension Company running to Hong Kong. The Administration was to have its office in Hong Kong in the same building as the Eastern Extension Company paying rent for it. The Eastern Extension Company was to maintain, at its own expense, the lines from the Chinese Office in Hong Kong to Kowloon. The agreement was for 20 years from the 7th of May 1883, and was approved by Her Majesty's Government. In the second letter Mr. Dunn says that \"the lines are specially for your Company's use, just as the Woosung-Shanghai lines provided by your Company for my Company's use.\"\n\n9. The Governor was asked in a Confidential despatch of the 5th February 1909 for his views on Sir J. Jordan's recommendations, and replied in a despatch dated the 12th of May. Among other information he stated that the agreement referred to in the preceding paragraph had been formally extended to 1930 without reference to or the knowledge of the Hong Kong Government. He pointed out that the Colony had thus lost a valuable source of revenue since a royalty might have been imposed on telegrams or a lease of the privilege might have been sold. He added that he had received an enquiry from the Chief Engineer on the Chinese section of the Canton Kowloon Railway asking permission to run private wires along the line to Hong Kong, to belong to and be operated by the Chinese Government. This request he had refused, saying that he would gladly make arrangements for the wires to be led into offices under the Hong Kong Government's control. The proposal would appear to have been made owing to the Chinese Government finding it difficult to expropriate the shareholders in the Telegraph Administration - they had therefore conceived this scheme to cut the shareholders out.\n\n10. Sir F. Lugard went on to say that for policy and profit Hong Kong should control the line to the frontier, that the railway line offered the best course, the old telegraph being very circuitous, but that he proposed to let matters alone till he could discuss the question of substituting the railway telegraph. His proposal to drop the matter temporarily was accepted.\n\n11. During `W1.20,024-26, 6000. 11/98`. `A.&E.W.(15,613)`. `18,912-27. 6000 10/09`.",
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        "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[6128]\n\n(No. 37.)\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 20.)\n\nPeking, January 28, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 9 of the 7th instant, in which you invite my observations on a suggestion made by Mr. E. A. Hewett, chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and unofficial member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the colony, regarding the advisability, in connection with the construction of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, of claiming similar facilities for the trade between Hong Kong and China as are enjoyed by France and Russia in respect of the trade with China across their land frontiers.\n\nTo understand the question properly, it seems to me that a sharp distinction must be drawn between territory held on lease from China and territorial possessions in the ordinary acceptance of the term. Hong Kong, being an island, has no land connection with China except through the Kowloon extension, which is held on lease from the Chinese Government.\n\nThere are four countries-England, France, Russia, and, since the annexation of Corea, Japan-which have territorial possessions coterminous with China. All of these Powers, with the exception of Japan, have special agreements with China regarding their frontier traffic. Those of England and France, which relate to Burmah and Tonquin respectively, are practically the same as regards duties, while the Russian treaty of 1881, which was negotiated in connection with the retrocession of Ili, concedes, in theory at least, free trade across the frontier. The revision of this treaty is to take place this year, and it is understood that a land tariff will be one of the conditions of the new arrangement.\n\nEngland and France, besides having territorial possessions bordering upon China, have also leased territories coterminous with China. So also have Japan, Germany, and so, too, had Russia until the recent war. None of these Powers have ever, so far as I am aware, claimed the same treatment for the frontier traffic in their leased territories as has been accorded by special agreements to the similar traffic crossing the frontiers between their territorial possessions and China, and it is safe to assert that any such claim would be firmly resisted by China. China will certainly consent to no arrangement at present which can be construed as placing leased territory on the same footing as territory which is the absolute property of another Power.\n\nI do not see, therefore, how Hong Kong can expect to receive better treatment than France at Kuangchow-wan, than Germany at Tsingtau, and than Japan at Dairen.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nPage 450\nPage 451",
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        "content_text": "## III.\n\nEn Mongolie et dans la Chine occidentale, les sujets russes ont le droit de résider et de faire, en franchise de droits, le commerce de toute espèce de produits, de quelque provenance qu'ils soient (article 12 du traité de 1881); ce commerce ne doit pas être entravé par des monopoles.\n\n## IV.\n\nLe Gouvernement russe ayant le droit de nommer ses consuls à Kobdo, à Hami, et à Goutchan (article 10 du traité de 1881), le Gouvernement chinois ne doit pas refuser son consentement à leur nomination lorsqu'un nombre considérable de litiges entre les sujets russes et les sujets chinois dans les districts de ces villes indiquera que la présence d'un représentant consulaire russe y est devenue nécessaire.\n\n## V.\n\nLes autorités locales chinoises du district consulaire d'un consul de Russie doivent le reconnaître en sa qualité officielle et n'ont pas le droit de refuser de régler conjointement avec lui les litiges entre les sujets russes et les sujets chinois.\n\n## VI.\n\nDans les villes où le Gouvernement russe a le droit de nommer ses consuls, les sujets russes peuvent acquérir des terrains et y bâtir des maisons (article 13 du traité de 1881).\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Official Messenger\" of February 17.\n\nTHE Russian Minister at Peking has been instructed to hand to the Chinese Government the following note:----\n\nThe result of the conversations which have been held of late have convinced the Imperial Government of the unwillingness of the Chinese Government to take into consideration the clauses of the treaty of 1881; some of these clauses are ignored by the Chinese Government and their local agents, while others are interpreted in a sense which by no means corresponds with either the spirit or the letter of the treaty. The Imperial Government have come to the conclusion that a continuation of the long-existing friendly ties between Russia and China is impossible if the Chinese Government maintain such an attitude towards the treaty of 1881. As they are desirous of maintaining and strengthening those ties, they consider it necessary to make this statement and to request the Chinese Government to consent without delay to observe the following points which are drawn up in strict accordance with the provisions of the treaty of 1881, and with the principles which form the basis of the treaty relations between Russia and China.\n\n(Then follow the six points enumerated in M. Sazonow's memorandum.)\n\nThe Imperial Government consider it necessary to warn the Chinese Government that they will regard a refusal to consent to the obligations set forth in the above six points, or in any one of the points, as proof of an unwillingness to maintain good and neighbourly treaty relations with Russia. In such an event the Imperial Government reserves to itself the right to take such measures as it may deem necessary for the restoration of the treaty rights of the Russian Government and of Russian subjects, rights which are being trampled on by the Chinese Government.\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum.\n\nIN view of the statements in the Russian press that the Chinese Government are refusing to allow the establishment of a Russian consulate at Shara Sume, in the Altaishan, and, \"in addition to their other conditions, the Russian Government will insist on establishing a consulate at Shara Sume,\" it may be of use to your Excellency if I put on record some information respecting this place, which is not marked on any map, which is a source of grievance on the part of the Russian Government against the Chinese Government, and which is likely to be alluded to again fairly frequently in the course of the next few years.\n\nFor some years previous to 1908 the Russian Government had made complaints to His Majesty's Government that the Chinese Government were trying to alter the status of Mongolia, to bring it more directly under the control of Peking, &c., and I offered to go and see what foundation there was for this Russian complaint.\n\nI left Peking in April 1908. My route was by Kalgan, the cities of Northern Shansi, Kweihuacheng, the Ordos tribes, Ninghsiafu, Alashan, across the Gobi to Urga, Uliassutai, Kobdo, Shara Sume, Chuguchak, and Kuldja.\n\nThough I found many traces en route of the endeavours of the Chinese to bind Mongolia more closely to them, it was not until Shara Sume was reached that the inward meaning of the Russian complaint became evident.\n\nAbout 1906 a Manchu official, a henchman of Yuan Shih Kai and Natung-tan, arrived in the Altais with a force of 1,000 men, with orders to found a new colony similar to Kobdo, Uliassutai, &c. The site chosen was Shara Sume (schera = yellow, in Mongol, and sume = temple), where there were the ruins of a Mongol temple lying about a mile from the Kilingho (the Kran in some Russian maps), a tributary of the Irtish, among the folds of the lower slopes of the Altaishan. A twelve days' march by a bridle path over the Ermektu Daba (daba = pass) connects the settlement with Kobdo.\n\nHere the expedition set to work to build with great activity, and soon a small village, the houses of mud and wood, was ready for occupation. Tien-tsin and Peking merchants and Turki merchants from Guchen were encouraged to open branches of their home shops, and everything was done to foster trade.\n\nI stayed there five days, and had long and frequent conversations with the enlightened governor and his officials (one of the latter spoke English). The governor was most friendly; he was evidently weary with the cares of constructing his colony, and before I left he had even invited me to stay and help him in his task.\n\nHe said that the colony was really eventually to be built 15 miles or so to the south-west, out of the mountains, on the plains, still by the banks of the Kilingho. I passed the future site some days later. The governor said that even when the latter colony was built the present one would still have its uses. He was trying to induce his Government to allow him to lay a telegraph line to Guchen (twenty-one days to the south). At present he had to send his telegrams by mounted messenger to Chuguchak (ten days to the south-west) to be despatched. The Chinese Government expected everything reported now-a-days, and all this was a waste of time. One official told me that the object of the new colony was to settle and open up the country, to bring order where chaos had hitherto reigned, to educate the Mongols and Turkis, to examine the mineral wealth of the mountains, to make surveys, paths, &c.\n\nThe officials said that the governor was a keen supporter of the forward movement in Mongolia, but that his Excellency realised the necessity of moving carefully. \"We must go slow, otherwise if there is any trouble, we shall have the Russians over the frontier and shall never get them out again.\" The Russian consul at Uliassutai was very eloquent on the subject of the new colony. He had visited it and had had a sharp passage of arms with the governor. The consul at Chuguchak was equally angry about Shara Sume, and both the consuls were working for its downfall.\n\nThe chief grievance of the Russian Government is doubtless that the colony is provided with six new German guns. They arrived in sections while I was there, and were to be put together by a young Chinese captain. The transport of the guns over the mountains from Kobdo, where the hundreds of cases (ammunition, &c.) had littered the courtyard of my temple, had, indeed, considerably impeded my own movements.\n\nThe general attitude of the governor leaves no doubt that the Chinese Government are in complete earnest with regard to the new policy to be followed with respect to Mongolia.\n\nThere were some disturbances among the natives at first, but this was quelled by the soldiers. It might break out again, as the governor's edicts comprise such things as education of children and decent burial of Mongol dead; these edicts strike a blow at cherished customs.\n\nThe governor's sway extends to Buluntogoi, into which district he hopes to bring some discipline.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n### SECTION 3\n\n(No. 37.)\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received February 20.)\n\nPeking, January 28, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 9 of the 7th instant, in which you invite my observations on a suggestion made by Mr. E. A. Hewett, chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and unofficial member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the colony, regarding the advisability, in connection with the construction of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, of claiming similar facilities for the trade between Hong Kong and China as are enjoyed by France and Russia in respect of the trade with China across their land frontiers.\n\nTo understand the question properly, it seems to me that a sharp distinction must be drawn between territory held on lease from China and territorial possessions in the ordinary acceptance of the term. Hong Kong, being an island, has no land connection with China except through the Kowloon extension, which is held on lease from the Chinese Government.\n\nThere are four countries—England, France, Russia, and, since the annexation of Corea, Japan—which have territorial possessions coterminous with China. All of these Powers, with the exception of Japan, have special agreements with China regarding their frontier traffic. Those of England and France, which relate to Burmah and Tonquin respectively, are practically the same as regards duties, while the Russian treaty of 1881, which was negotiated in connection with the retrocession of Ili, concedes, in theory at least, free trade across the frontier. The revision of this treaty is to take place this year, and it is understood that a land tariff will be one of the conditions of the new arrangement.\n\nEngland and France, besides having territorial possessions bordering upon China, have also leased territories coterminous with China. So also have Japan, Germany, and so, too, had Russia until the recent war. None of these Powers have ever, so far as I am aware, claimed the same treatment for the frontier traffic in their leased territories as has been accorded by special agreements to the similar traffic crossing the frontiers between their territorial possessions and China, and it is safe to assert that any such claim would be firmly resisted by China. China will certainly consent to no arrangement at present which can be construed as placing leased territory on the same footing as territory which is the absolute property of another Power.\n\nI do not see, therefore, how Hong Kong can expect to receive better treatment than France at Kuangchow-wan, than Germany at Tsingtau, and than Japan at Dairen.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n582 \n10797 \n[February 20.]\n[6128] \n[1909 π-3]",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n### No. 1\n\n(No. 238.)  \nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 24.)  \nPeking, June 5, 1911.\n\nTHE policy of the State ownership of railways, to which the Government are now definitely committed, has formed the subject of three recent edicts, copies of which are enclosed herewith.\n\nThe first deals with the province of Szechuan, and orders the abolition of the system under which the farmers are obliged to make contributions towards railway construction based upon the assessed value of their holdings. The money, it is stated, has been extorted from the people by fraud, and years have passed without anything having been done in the way of railway construction. The collection of these so-called rent shares is to cease, and the new director-general of railways is instructed to ascertain the amount already collected, and submit a report to the Throne for such action as the circumstances may appear to justify.\n\nThe second decree refers to Hunan, and is based upon a memorial in which a metropolitan official, acting doubtless under orders, had advocated that the levy of special taxes for railway construction in that province should cease. After expressing its sympathy with the sufferings of the people in terms suited to the popular ear, the Throne orders the abolition of all these unauthorised levies, and instructs Tuan Fang to have the whole question fully investigated.\n\nThe third and last decree administers a sharp rebuke to the Governor of Hunan, who had ventured to submit a petition from the provincial Assembly, asking permission to construct their own railways without the aid of foreign capital. The attitude of the provincial Assembly is construed as in the nature of a menace, and the governor is taken severely to task for having encouraged it.\n\nHis Excellency Tuan Fang, who leaves Peking in a few days, will take up his residence at Wuchang, whence he will direct the railway operations in Hunan and Hupei. He counts upon the active support of his kinsman, Jui Cheng, the viceroy of the two provinces, who also resides in Wuchang, and speaks with confidence of having through railway communication with Hong Kong established in three years.\n\nI have, &c.  \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the \"Gazette\" of May 22, 1911.\n\n**IMPERIAL EDICT**\n\nSOME time ago we issued an edict, commanding that all trunk lines of railway should revert to Government control, and appointing Tuan Fang director-general of the Canton-Hankow and Szechuan-Hankow Railways, with the rank of expectant vice-president of a board. We ordered him to proceed to his post with all speed, and carry out his duties circumspectly. The object of this resolute action on the part of the Throne was to centralise the control of the railways, and thereby relieve to some extent the financial embarrassment of the people. When the Szechuan Railway was commenced the officials and gentry of the province decided to enforce subscription to shares in proportion to the rent value of property held. Though it was nominally a commercial enterprise, the money has actually been collected from the people by fraud, and, in spite of the lapse of several years, the railway has not yet been completed. Besides, this last year there was a very large deficiency in the funds, so that the malpractices on that line are very numerous. Under these circumstances it is clear that the public have been put to much trouble without any considerable benefit to the railway. Subsequently Hunan province adopted the same system of taking up rent shares, though its financial condition is worse even than that of Szechuan. At the",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nconsist of piece-goods and sundries, including kerosene oil. The Chinese population of Chientao is very small; but there are at least 100,000 Coreans, considerable numbers having entered the district since the Japanese annexation of Corea. The Coreans work as farm labourers for the Chinese landowners, but do not exert themselves to produce more than sufficient to furnish the proportion of the estimated yield due to the owners of the soil and to feed and sustain themselves. In Hunchun the agriculturists are Manchus, and the traders mostly immigrants from Shantung. Last year an attempt was made to introduce into the Hunchun district a colony of Chinese from the Yang-tsze region. The experiment proved a failure. Of 320 men, women, and children who arrived during the summer, 280 left in the autumn. Accustomed to rice, the immigrants found the local food-stuffs, namely, flour and millet, unpalatable and were dissatisfied with conditions generally.\n\nThe present practice in regard to the free zones on the Russo-Chinese frontier in the Hunchun neighbourhood is different from that prevailing elsewhere along the Russo-Manchurian borders. The Russian authorities admit all Chinese goods into the Primorsk free of duty, with the exception of certain specified articles such as native cloth manufactured in Hunchun, of which a test case was made by the Chinese, without, however, inducing any change of procedure. The Imperial Maritime Customs restrict the privilege of exemption from duty to goods emanating from the free zone of one country and destined for the free zone of the other, a proceeding which would seem to be in strict conformity with the wording of article 1 of the regulations for trade by land attached to the treaty of 1881. The position is manifestly not a satisfactory one, and a discussion of new regulations is pending. Objection was raised by the Japanese to a proposal of the Imperial Maritime Customs to establish barriers at a point on the frontier opposite Huining, at Ta Tu Chu'an on the Tiumen, and at a place on the Hunchun-Primorsk border. The object of these proposed barriers was to check the place of origin and destination of goods, and the ground of the Japanese protest was that customs duties can only be levied in the treaty ports or marts, and that duty-collecting barriers are contrary to treaty. It is pertinent to state that Pogranitchnaya (Suifenho), at which duty is charged on goods transported by the Chinese Eastern Railway, is neither a treaty port nor treaty mart.\n\nThe Japanese are making extensive repairs to the Corean roads leading to the Tiumen, and Mr. Eitaki, the Japanese consul-general at Lung Ching Ts'un or Liu Tao Kon, who was for some years consul-general for Japan in Shanghai, now has the title of Excellency. Five thousand Japanese troops—not, it is said, 15,000 as formerly stated—consisting of one regiment of cavalry, one regiment of infantry, and one regiment of artillery (six batteries, each of six guns) are quartered at Ranan, a newly-built town in the vicinity of Cheong-jin. A detachment of these troops, one company, is stationed at Ungi; but the regular frontier guard is composed of gendarmes.\n\nThe Russians have not shown any recent activity on the frontier, but a lot of work is being done on the improvement of the forts and land defences of Vladivostock, and Captain Nadarov, who was formerly employed in the Department of Foreign Relations of the Chinese Eastern Railway, has been selected to establish a consular office—a vice-consulate, it is thought, at Yen Chi Kang. On the 1st January last the privilege formerly enjoyed by Chinese junks of trading between Vladivostock and Hansi, a convenient anchorage close to Possiet, was withdrawn. No sailing-vessel of Chinese type may now trade along the coast of the Primorsk unless the captain, owner, and half the members of the crew are Russian subjects. The Chinese entertain the idea of mitigating the effect of this requirement by employing Coreans who are Russian subjects. General Vernander, who (vide my despatch No. 30 of the 24th September, 1910) was sent last year to devise and superintend the improvement of the forts and land defences of Vladivostock, is stated to hold the opinion that Vladivostock should be reserved entirely for a fortress and naval stronghold, while M. Gondatti, the new Governor-General of the Priamur, is credited with being strongly anti-Chinese. The attitude of the latter in regard to the quarantine regulations for the Sungari, Amur, and Ussuri Rivers received some mention in my despatches Nos. 15 and 17, dated respectively the 18th ultimo and 6th instant, and it is of interest to record that large numbers of Russian labourers—at least, it appears, 2,000 or 3,000—have recently passed through Harbin on their way to Vladivostock to be employed on the work connected with the strengthening of the forts and land defences of that port. The intention—as with the construction of the Amur Railway—is to employ no Chinese labour. Doubt is entertained as to whether this project is feasible. The Russian Minister of War, M. Suhomlinoff, went through Harbin a few days back en route to Vladivostock.\n\n## 3\n\nColonel Willoughby, the military attaché to His Majesty's Legation, has, I think, a map which will show the position of most of the places in the Hunchun and Chientao districts mentioned in this despatch.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**Enclosure 2 in No. 1**\n\n## Memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby\n\n### H. E. SLY.\n\nAs regards the population (refer to Mr. Sly's report, p. 2) of the region between the Tu-men and the Hai-lang-ho, it was surprising to find how largely it is Corean. The district magistrate of the newly created district of Ho-Lung-hsien (formerly called Ta-La-Tzu) informed me that practically the whole of his rural population were Coreans, the Chinese minority (almost entirely Shantung people) consisting of a sprinkling of small traders, innkeepers, carters, and muleteers, limited practically to the main roads. As regards Corean immigration, I passed a continual stream of Corean refugees, whole families with their household belongings on their backs, in carts, and on pack animals, on the road between Liu Tao Kou and the Tumen, fleeing from Japanese rule. (It was just after the annexation of Corea.)\n\n2 (refer to Mr. Sly's report, p. 2). As regards improvement of communications in and to North-Eastern Corea, the Japanese desire that the easterly continuation of the Chang Ch'un-Kirin Railway shall run, not to Hun-chun, but south from Yen Chi Fu via Liu Tao Kou and Ho-Lung-hsien to the Tumen River, near Ch'i Ch'a Ch'u, and, crossing that river, link up with the future Japanese line from Sei Shin (Chong Jin) to Hui-Ning (Hoi Ryong). The present 18-inch trolley line between the two latter places is 57 miles long, and crosses the \"divide\" between the Tumen valley and the sea coast at the Mo San Ling pass, where the gradient is very steep, and the sharp curves of the present narrow-gauge line necessitate complete realignment for a railway. The work of realignment is now being carried out, large gangs of coolies being at work on it when I passed (last September). At Sei Shin, also, the shore track under the cliffs was being widened by extensive rock-blasting operations. At Yu Cho (8 miles short of Sei Shin) where the trolley line leaves the mountains and enters the maritime plain, another line branches off south, skirting the foot of the hills, to Ranan (Lo-Nan) some 12 miles, a large well-laid-out Japanese cantonment and brigade head-quarters. From Ranan, again, a direct trolley line runs to Sei Shin, across the maritime plain (about 10 miles), joining the Hui-ning-Yu-Cho-Sei Shin line at the foot of the cliffs about 1 mile west of Sei Shin. From Ranan a short branch runs south-east to Tok Chin. Ranan itself is invisible from the sea, being in a basin surrounded by hills.\n\nAll along the mountain section of the trolley line, also, detachments of the pioneer battalion, stationed at Hui-Ning (Hoi Ryong) (\"Kwai Nei\" in Japanese) were at work repairing it and repairing the timber trestle bridges washed away by the recent heavy floods.\n\nThe trolley line is in a dangerous state of dilapidation, the timber culverts in many places quite rotten, and here and there broken through, and the very light rails twisted and irregular, causing frequent derailments. (I myself was derailed no less than six times between Hoi Ryong and Sei Shin, once when travelling fast down an incline.)\n\n3. The rumours I had heard in Peking of Russian encroachment along the Hunchun border, and of detachments being actually located at points on the Chinese side of the frontier, I found to be devoid of foundation. There was not a single Russian soldier across that frontier, the nearest troops being a small post of mounted frontier guards at the Russian customs barrier on the Hun-chun-Novo Kievsk road, 5 miles on the Russian side of the frontier.\n\nWedged in as Hunchun is between Russian and Japanese territory, I was surprised to note the meagreness of the Chinese military forces in that region, which lies absolutely at Russia's mercy, as there is a strong force of all arms at Novo Kievsk, and troops can be poured into Possiet in a few hours from Vladivostock. It would seem as though China recognises that her only safety in this remote corner of her Empire lies in the mutual jealousy of Russia and Japan.\n\nThe Chinese regulars of the 23rd (Kirin) division are scattered along the frontier in small detachments, policing the country-side in conjunction with detachments of the \"front district\" of the \"Hsun Fang-tui\" (provincial troops), the only \"district that has been left as such, the remaining four—viz., \"centre,\" \"right,\" \"left,\" and ...",
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        "content_text": "ENCLOSURE (1)\n\n93\n\nMinute by Sir H. May (Colonial Secretary) dated 21st March, 1910.\n\nC O £201\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n200\n\nI have spoken to Mr Bowley about this as he has more opportunities of seeing Mr Gompertz's work than I have. He tells me that Mr Gompertz has done extremely well as Puisne Judge and that his judgements have given great satisfaction. He is, in Mr Bowley's opinion, a sound and clear-headed lawyer.\n\nI think therefore that the Colony might look further and fare much worse, under the present system, if Mr Gompertz were not recommended for the Attorney Generalship.\n\nAt the same time I am bound to add that I consider the system wrong. Mr Gompertz has never held a brief in his life; his only experience in Court as an advocate is limited to the appearances in a few cases at Criminal Sessions. Yet if he were appointed Attorney General he would be the adviser and representative of the Government against men like Mr Slade, Mr Pollock, Mr Potter and Mr Alabaster, the most junior of whom has had several years' experience in actual practice. That does not give the Government a fair chance in any really serious litigation.\n\nGovernment gets out of the difficulty now by retaining the leader of the Bar if it can get him. But it is not always possible to get him.\n\nI have some reason to believe that Mr E.H. Sharp, formerly of Hongkong, might take the Attorney Generalship if it were offered to him. Mr E.H. Sharp practised in England and Shanghai before he came here and while here was the leader of the Bar, and was generally recognised as one of...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]",
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        "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]",
        "content_text": "His long residence in the Colony and knowledge of the Chinese would render him most valuable to the Government, and his intimate knowledge of matters in this Colony would be of undoubted value. His character is greatly respected and he has devoted himself to many forms of public service which do not appear in his letter.\n\nIf you are disposed to appoint an officer to succeed Mr Ress Davies who has local knowledge in addition to high professional standing, and assuming that Lir Gompertz will not lessen his chances of promotion by remaining in his post of Puisne Judge I would venture to strongly recommend both Mr Pollock and Mr E.H. Sharp to your consideration for the appointment, which of the two is the better man for the post is a matter upon which Sir F.H. May who has worked with both as Attorney General can better advise than I can do.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble Servant,\n\nH. May\n\nGovernor, etc.,",
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        "content_text": "## \nIn the memo. for the Cabinet on the question of a Committee (see on 1420) I would ask briefly at the end for a decision that Mil. Cont. may be waived on these Grants. It did not occur to us that the Treas. would demand Mil. Cont. on which all in part these Grants, compensation for loss of opium revenue, and we naturally did not mention such a possibility to the Colony in announcing the amount of the Grants. We cannot send corresp. on this subject to the Colonies, as it is too controversial in tone, and reveals sharp differences of opinion as between the several Depts. of H.M.G. concerned. The demand for Mil. Cont. in this case shews the absurdity of the present system of contribution and affords a strong argument for the enquiry we desire.\n\n## \nFr Colunis Aer 2/2 212 was sent to the S. 18. This paper `/128/12` with Tranny `(1020)/2` Straits, in which it was decided to appeal to the Cabinet on this question. A draft Cabinet memo on such subject was prepared, approved by E.M. Account, but owing to the War Office Trummy granting to the Committee, the matter was allowed to drop.\n\nSir G. Jalls, whom I spoke to, considers that the question whether Hong Kong should pay contribution on the Opium grant is not one which is within the terms of reference to the Committee, and should be dealt with separately / accordingly I will recirculate the paper with the approved memo for the Cabinet, for decision whether it should now go to the Cabinet.\n\n## \nHarcourt's colleagues and the Chancellor of the Exchequer before going to the Cabinet made further private representations to the Treasury. R `24/6`. My difficulty is...",
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        "content_text": "## B 277\n\n2\n\n**PHOTOGRAPHY IN NATURAL COLOURS**\n\nThe Polychromide System\n\nEffort to produce photographs in the actual colour of nature have attracted earnest attention during recent years, and the works of the Lumières and others were valuable stepping-stones on the road to progress. It has been proved that, by the use of the colour-screen, negatives can be produced giving the sensations of the three primary colours, and these can be combined to leave a fairly harmonious picture; but it has been well stated that the results obtained by superposed pigmented bichromated gelatine (successively yellow, red, and blue), printed from colour-selection negatives at very uncertain and often far from satisfactory.\n\nOne of the chief features which distinguish the new polychromide process, patented by Mr. Acon Hamburger, of the Dover Street Studios, from many others is the use of a mechanism which enables the three plates to be taken simultaneously at a single exposure. In order to overcome certain difficulties inherent in this principle, Hamburger employs both reflection and refraction, and he has succeeded in so balancing the intensities of each that the perfect colour-stone rendering is obtained. A scale of shades of the standard colours has been prepared, in which the yellow inclines slightly to orange, the red to crimson, and the blue to green; that is to say, in lieu of being true primaries, the tints are in each case somewhere merged the one into the other. These shades are standardized, so that by means of the special developer used in the camera and the sensitized printing paper, with the above standard tints, any photographer should be able to attain accurate results. Two plates not on three are employed, each is sensitized to photograph one colour only.\n\nThe plate and the film are put together into one slide, with the emulsions in contact, the film thus serving the purpose of screening the plate. A print is made from the blue negative upon a rapid gelatine paper, which is turned into the yellow image. Prints in gelatine containing double salts are prepared from the other two negatives and transferred to a temporary support of glass. They are then superposed on the original yellow print by stripping. Though so far Mr. Hamburger has worked only by the aid of artificial flashlight, using a special compound to impart the requisite active properties, he does not anticipate obstacles in adapting the process to ordinary daylight. The camera takes the three pictures through a single lens and a single shutter, and it is found possible to have the register of the pictures perfectly accurate. The success of this process appears to depend upon the skill with which the spectrum has been split up, so that there is either no gap nor overlap, and therefore no colour is either lost or doubled. Specimens of the results yielded by the new process include not only serious portraits, in which the delicate flesh tints, the hair, and the minute details on the costume of the sitters are reproduced in complete harmony and in true colours, but also copies of paintings by the Old Masters in which the values due to low tone and false tints are successfully overcome.\n\n## NEWS OF THE WORLD\n\n[Telegrams from London]\n\n**The King of Greece**\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens wires that an eye-witness of the scene said that the King was standing at the corner of Aghistas Street, which is near the Police Headquarters, when an assassin rushed out of a hiding place and drew a big revolver from close quarters at His Majesty.\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, drew his revolver, whereupon the assassin turned round and fired twice upon the Colonel.\n\nTwo Cretan gendarmes then dashed up and arrested the assassin, who offered no resistance.\n\nColonel Frangoulis ran to the King, thinking His Majesty had not been hit, but found that he had fastened to the ground and was only half conscious.\n\nColonel Frangoulis raised the King in his arms, but His Majesty did not utter a word.\n\nSome notes and cartridges were found on the assassin.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says the man refuses to speak except to say, \"I will speak in the presence of the King.\"\n\n**King George V**\n\nThe King, accompanied by Queen Alexandra, visited Queen Mary at Marlborough House.\n\nThe outrage has aroused worldwide condolences and universal expressions of horror.\n\nA dispatch from Salonika to \"The Times\" regarding the assassination of the King of Greece says the King was in the habit of walking out every afternoon with a single servant, refusing requests made by his advisers to permit the presence of guards.\n\nYesterday, he was talking happily of the war and the successes of the Greek army as a long delayed triumph to his reign and said: \"Tomorrow I pay a final visit to the Dreadnought Goeben. It is with happiness and contentment that a German battleship should honour the Greek King at Salonika.\" These proved to be His Majesty's last words, for at that moment the assassin...\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, seized the hands of the assassin, which was poised for a second shot. Covering his Royal master with his body, Colonel Frangoulis grabbed the assailant by the throat and held him fast till soldiers came to his aid.\n\nThe English public are profoundly affected by the tragedy, which is an additional bereavement in Queen Alexandra's family. There were many references to the tragedy by public men at meetings held yesterday, and last night, wide pages of the papers were devoted to tributes.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says that all Greece is grief-stricken. The Prince George and others gently broke the news to the Queen, who fainted several times.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens also reports that it appears that the assassin is weak-minded, and a victim of alcohol. He is a native of Greece. He was twice dismissed from a school where he was employed as an attendant and he petitioned the King, who referred the matter to the proper quarter, which rejected the petition.\n\n## British Affairs\n\nIn introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons, Col. Seely, Minister of War, dwelt on the extraordinary apprehension regarding aviation. He pointed out that the officers' never allowed performances to be published, and consequently remarkable achievements went unnoticed.\n\nHe affirmed that they did not possess any Zeppelins because they were not required.\n\nIt was decided to have some transportable dirigibles, and they would also possess 14 aeroplanes by May. Publicity were obviously marked for an expeditionary remount, and they could not reinforce the Egyptian garrison or the Indian troops. They had obtained a type of aeroplane superior to that of any nation. The difficulty was in regard to the engine, as he was offering a prize in this connection with the promise of a large purchase.\n\nThe Minister, Mr. H. Samuel (Postmaster General) and Sir Rufus Isaacs (Attorney General) obtained judgment with costs against the French newspaper \"La Muflin\" for libel in connection with statements published relating to the Marconi affair. The newspaper admitted the statements to be false and apologized.\n\nCounsel for the defence unreservedly accepted the denials of the Ministers that they were in any way concerned with dealings in Marconi shares.\n\nDelous Wattoit, Unionist Free Trader, has been returned to Parliament for the Kendal Division. The polling was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Col. Weston (U.) | 3,241 |\n| Mr. Somervell (C) | 1,680 |\n|  | 581 |\n\nUnionist Majority\n\nMr. Bone, in addressing the members of the Manchester Unionist Association, said that Kendal, in electing Colonel Weston, who refused to support the policy announced by the Party leaders, really voted no confidence in the late Government. If the party refused to act unitedly and would act following the leader, it was his duty to give place to another; and he would perform that duty if circumstances arose.\n\nThe result of the Houghton-le-Spring by-election was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Wing (L) | 930 |\n| Mr. Richardson (C) | 4,807 |\n| Mr. Modles (L) | 4,185 |\n\nThe motion by Mr. Harold Smith for a reduction of the Home Office vote was defeated by 224 votes to 100.\n\nThe two Irish prisoners who had been sentenced for five days in Cold Bath Fields prison and to whom shamrocks were sent down on St. Patrick's Day have been rescued.\n\nFrom Port Said, it is reported that the steamer \"Melen\" has shipped £50,000 in gold for Singapore.\n\n## Affairs in China\n\nThere is much published in the Russian press regarding impending war between Russia and China. This is partly based on reported Chinese preparations for an advance on Urga, in defiance of Russia.\n\nIt is announced from St. Petersburg that M. Mueller, the Consul General at Tabriz, is proceeding to Urga as Consul-General, the consulate there being upgraded to a Consulate-General.\n\n## ENDER ENTIRELY NEW SIGN ON KHEN\n\n**EXCELLENT COLON**\n\nModerate Rates\n\nM. HAYNES, Manager\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\n- No. 2, Queen's Road Central\n\nA FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL.\n\nEvery order European Massage attended.\n\nSituated in a central position. Large Airy Rooms. Luxuriously furnished. Electric Light and hot water throughout.\n\nSanitary arrangements of the latest pattern.\n\nCUISINE UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION\n\nLadies' Afternoon Tea Rooms. Special terms for families made on application to the Manager.\n\nCharges Moderate\n\nF. RICHMANN, Proprietor\n\nTelephone No. 197, Telegraphic Address: \"Cowworm,\" Hongkong\n\n## CANNAVOLT\n\n**CENTRAL**\n\nTOKYO-HOTEL\n\nChen Hwang & Co. Limited.\n\nGENERAL IMPORT & EXPORT.\n\nANTON'S LARGE WHOLESALE & RETAIL STORE.\n\n| Furniture, Draperies, Groceries, Hats, and Shoes. Makers of Jewellery, Linquers, Crockery, Watches, and Trimmings. Wines and Spirits. Foreign Clothes for gentlemen made to measure by our own tailors. |\n| --- |\n\nENORMOUS SUCCESS\n\nTHE CHINA DAILY OUTLOOK, MONDAY, MARCH 24th, 1913\n\nThe news published in Bangkok that a party of military police have occupied the place where the salt will be examined has been paid for. Salt bought from the Government...\n\n## VICTORIA THEATRE\n\n**LOCAL AND GENERAL**\n\nEXCHANGE 111-1/2c Calcutta.\n\nThe Burma-China Frontier\n\nITTAJ\n\nThe manufacturer of salt shall sell it full to the Government at an appointed time.\n\nThe Thunderbolt Man, Wonderful Imitator and International Jester, was delivered in London on the 20th March.\n\nALEXANDER GALINSKY\n\nSATURDAY, 22nd,\n\nDebate at the Pantomime Arsie\n\nMISS ARKAS\n\nLarge assortment of Chinese Silks, Brocades, Shawls, and Foreign Goods of every description.\n\nAll goods sold at reasonable prices. The Cheapest and best place in Canton to buy Chinese and Foreign Goods.\n\nSUP PAT POO STREET, CANTON, Tel. No. 140.\n\nCanton, January 1, 1912.\n\nMAN and Italian\n\nThe Charming Serio Dancer,\n\nFREDA ARDEA LOON,\n\nTHE MAGNIFICENT NEW FILM\n\nFIRST-CLASS PRESERVES\n\nGINGER AND GOOSE MANUFACTURERS,\n\nFACTORY AT YAUMATI\n\nStation: No. 38, DES VIEUX ROAD WEST.\n\nTelephone No. 177.\n\nWhy are the leading Manufacturers of this class of Goods? Our Fruit and Gingers are all tough and of the first quality. Our Syrup is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n\"The Bohemian Girl\"\n\nSINGER\n\nSEWING MACHINES\n\nPianosare kept in stock. Our Symps is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular CORSTE particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n978 TELEPHONE: HONGRONG\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nUNSURPASSED FOR\n\nLocation\n\nService\n\nCuisine\n\nand Home Comforts\n\nTHE JOYAT FAMILY HOTEL OF THE COLONY\n\n-10, Lee Theatre Road\n\nHOTEL BAI TIMORE.\n\n1. No. 2, WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nREASONABLE RATES.\n\nNo. 658, Telegraphic Address \"BALTMAX\" Hongkong.\n\nReuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that the \"Novoe Vremya\" says that as a result of a circular from the Chinese Government regarding the possibility of conflict with Russia arising out of the projected...\n\n## VISITORS AT HOTELS\n\nKisa Rewind live Mongolian pagan, business My A. D. Ander\n\nMr & Mrs N Fulsdan, the Chinatown of Harbin, has almost ceased.\n\nThe majority Chinese workmen have quitted their affairs and from other centres there are similar reports. Frontier trade is at a standstill, and China has prohibited the exportation of all alimentary products.\n\nOther events are expected in a very brief period of time.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey informed Mr. Harwood Bunder that the negotiations for the Chinese Loan were still in private.\n\n| Mr F. Arou | Mr T. Aoki | De Botilos |\n| Mr Birsand | child Lisa Crosse |  |\n| Mrs Orexier | Straw. Donaldson | Ewing |\n| Mr Finchote | Miss Graham |  |\n| Mr Geo. Oribia |  |  |\n| Mr and Mrs F. E. | Melfough |  |\n| Hi, i |  |  |\n| Mad |  |  |\n| Major. J. Masti | Dr Muller |  |\n| Mr M. F. Murray | Nakashima |  |\n| Mr Overy | Miss M. Panti |  |\n| Cast M Pos | Mustu |  |\n| Mrs E. Karay |  |  |\n| Mr G. R. Rabb |  |  |\n| Miss F. Sunders | Capt. & Mrs Schenk |  |\n| Dr Silene |  |  |\n| and Mrs Kemp | Me H. S. Burze | M&Ms Lauritsen |\n| Stranet fokildren | i Captiasalinity | Choses A. H. |\n| Mis A. Loigh |  |  |\n| wherton |  |  |\n\n**PECTO SEPPUSE**\n\n4. 17, Currie's\n\nLONG HING & CO.\n\nDEVELOPING MACHINES\n\nQueen's Road Central.\n\nLEE ON & CO.\n\nMANUFACTURERS of the Best Hand-made Silk and Green Cloth Embroidery of the Latest French Pattern. Canton Down-work, Wholesale and Retail.\n\nPRINTING\n\n7, Queen's Road Central, HONGKONG UNDERTAKEN\n\n**OPEN AIR SKATING RINK**\n\n**BELLE VIEW HOTEL.** (Telephone No. 907)\n\nSESSIONS 10 am, 1 12 noon, 2 to 5 pm, 7 to 10 pm.\n\nADMISSION 25 cents.\n\nADMISSION 50 cents.\n\nON LOCK\n\nYUEN\n\nCafe and Restaurant\n\nA la Carte at all hours\n\n7 pm to 1 p.m.\n\n27, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\n(Next Door to WROXWALL)\n\nW. GALLAGHER\n\nManager.\n\nDr. M. H. CHAUN\n\nYEN YEE & CO.\n\nHAIR DRESSING SALOON.\n\nHair Clipper, Razors, Scissor Sharpening and Repairing, Singeing Shaving, Massage, etc., a specialty.\n\nToilet Requisites Cigare and Cigarettes.\n\n**DENTAL SURGEON**\n\n32. Queen's Road Central (1st Floor)\n\nBoone 2 and 5.\n\nFrom the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.\n\nTelephone 125,\n\nNo. 28, Corner of D'Aguilar Street\n\nElectrical Engineers and Fitters\n\nand that the terms now under consideration by the Chinese Government have the unanimous approval of the Six Power Bankers, that Britain would continue exclusively to support the group negotiating the Loan.\n\nThe Balkans\n\nReuter's correspondent at Constantinople says that an official dispatch claims the success of the Turks at Chatalja after a desperate infantry battle.\n\nIt concludes: \"Our forces are engaging the enemy along the whole front.\"\n\nThe I. K. & S. Bank\n\nThe chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, presiding at the all-Party meeting in London, referring to opium, said he believed some equitable arrangement would be reached whereby an outlet would be found for the present stocks. It hardly seems just that purchasers of opium from the Government of India should...\n\n| Mr K. Mintumi |  |\n| Mr H. H. Taylor | My Water |\n| M. F. W. White |  |\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Allen\n\nMr May\n\nMr Agnew\n\nMr Reuskansen\n\nDe Brigga family\n\nMr and Mrs Mudie\n\nMr Nai Prusit\n\nand Mr J Oeso\n\nand Mrs Creer\n\nM: W. Men\n\nM: Gais\n\nMr A. Hersi\n\nMy Higginbotham\n\nMr J. Houlka\n\nDr Berage\n\nMy Selenide\n\nMr H. J. Sharp\n\nMr Shastin\n\nMr and Mrs Tobias| Tobias\n\nM. G. R. Tyre\n\nMr and Mrs Ho. Meg Watkins\n\nward\n\nDr Kurt\n\nMr Lorria\n\nMr Woodenek\n\nMr and Mrs Wikle\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Frank\n\nMr W. Pringle, Jun\n\nAilen\n\nMr A.F. Remedios\n\nMr A.G. Reaumut\n\nMr A. Ringe\n\n**PHOTO SUPPLIES**\n\nYour Road Contra\n\nA.\n\nTACK & Co.\n\n26. Des Vieux Road\n\nELECTRIC FITTINGS COMPANY.\n\nNo. 188, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nDeveloping Workmanship Guaranteed.\n\nand Printing\n\nUndertaken\n\nWO HING & CO..\n\nNo. 174. Queen's Road Central\n\nFR or\n\nas Riaze ng Ayrou\n\n**HOLLE HOTEL**\n\nMANUFACTURERS OF\n\nHigh Class Shawls, Handkerchiefs, Shawls, and fine Embroideries, Silk and Crepe Shawls and: \n\nMr G. Bolden\n\nMeWL Bobbik\n\nInces of Avery\n\nDancriptiste.\n\nCuphant\n\nMe Braga\n\nMi and Ms Arthur:\n\nMr F. Braga\n\nMiss F. Braza\n\nThe terms of the final agreement of the Mix Power Loan were now being satisfactorily arranged with China, and the conclusion of the Loan only awaited a decision between China and the Governments concerned regarding the appointment of foreigners to advisory posts.\n\nMiss M. Benga\n\nMva J. Conwford\n\nHarper\n\nMY J. Fayin\n\nRogerar\n\nMin Adwig\n\nMr A Selenit\n\nMr G. 1. Sew!!\n\nMiss Ethi Seith\n\nMy R. Stephenson\n\nMiss 6. Hour\n\nMre demeys\n\nMrs Tall\n\nMr F. J. Traadpild\n\nMr Mrs Rt.\n\nMr J, Veracr\n\nArt W\n\nHereel confidence in China's future and said in interious popularise. Jesper\n\ntion w great patural resources were & \n\nuthent guarantee of its prosperity\n\n**SING KEE & CO.**\n\nNSOP CHANDLERS, COMPRADORES AND STAYCLONES\n\nNo. 34. Connaught Road, Hongkong.\n\nKeep on hand every Description of Ship's Provisions, at lowest prices.\n\n**'MOHI' PEARL**\n\nTel), 632\n\nExcellent amongst all Pearls. Colour and shape up-to-date. Necklet, Earing, Brooches, Drops, etc.\n\nTRIAL SOLICITED\n\nMOHIDEEN & CO.,\n\n38, funny's Loan Central, foxokono.\n\n**Dr. YOUNG BROTHERS**\n\nAMERICAN DENTISTS\n\nPrice: the Best Quality Gaur\n\nNO, SEA, QOHEN'S ROAD CENTRAL\n\nEnteed AB Saris of Cout of the \n\nBEST QUALITY FOR SALE\n\nHONGKONG\n\nThe Carpau mail of the 19th Feb. says the frontier of Burma in British territory is, of course...\n\nThe date for the above transaction will be fixed by Ministerial order.\n\n7. The manufacturer shall first #1...\n\nAn interesting lecture will take place to-night at the Y.M.C.A. on \"Croatian Life and Scenery\" illustrated with a number of lantern slides.\n\nThe Sanitary Board meets...\n\nCorrespondence relative to affairs in various villages should be submitted at once.\n\nOn Good Friday and Easter Sunday, special services were held in the churches of the Colony, and sermons emphasizing the occasion to the Christian world were dwelt upon by the clergy in charge with much devotion and feeling.\n\n**A Transparent Lie**\n\nAsiatic Daily says \"It has been previously reported that the Kaomingtang demanded the formation of a party Cabinet as a reward for their supporting Yuan Shi-kai as President. According to reliable sources in addition to this claim, this Club Tang has further exacted the non-payment of one million dollars for expenses.\" Such palpable lies are self-condemning. It is but a cheap way of preying on the public sympathy. Fabrication of myths as a political weapon is not likely to endure long.\n\n9. According to circumstances, the Government may organize a patrol force for the purpose of regulating the manufacturers, protecting the salt furnaces and storage, and watching the dealing and manufacturing of salt.\n\n10. The Government may, according to the local conditions, grant rules by retail.\n\nDetailed regulations regarding the above Companies and retail rules shall be separately fixed.\n\n11. As salt affects the sanitary condition of the people, the Government may deal severely with the dealers of it, and any mixture shall be found in the salt.\n\n12. The writ officials may investigate the reservoirs of well water, the places of manufacturing, storing, and the buildings, banks, etc. If necessary, for the sake of supervision, extra men may be put upon the said items.\n\n13. The sale of salt whilst in transportation...\n\nThe Victoria Theatre is nightly drawing good houses, with Miss Freda Ardea and her dancing and Alexander Galinsky, for quick change artist being very popular. Miss Ark, the new Pantomime artiste, has a style peculiarly her own, which should prove a draw. The pictures are good, \"The Sphinx\" being especially so.\n\nIt is notified in the \"Government Gazette\" that the registration of the following trade marks has been renewed under the provisions of the Trade Marks Ordinance, 1909.\n\nThe new public improvements, for which it was proposed to make a loan, have been temporarily abandoned. No money is available for new equipment for the fire department, and consequently, the firemen in one district have to run with engines so dilapidated that the men fear the apparatus will fall to pieces.\n\nThe police department is pressed for funds, and impounded on leave of Mr. Justice Gow-Thomas; the health department has been pared down; the street department is cut to the marrow.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve the following appointments:\n\nMr. Joseph Hansford Kemp, Crown Prosecutor, to be Puisne Judge.\n\nMr. Pauling and approved by the Government.\n\nThe Government shall deal directly with the Company, without regard to the person or persons to whom the rights and privileges belong.\n\n8. With regard to the railways constructed by the Company, should it be necessary for military purposes...\n\n## DO THINGS BLUR?\n\nDo they sometimes appear distorted?\n\nIs your sight blurred?\n\nIt is probably caused by astigmatism. Call at your earliest opportunity and have your eyes examined on we with thoroughly scientific lines.\n\nA rough test for astigmatism is as follows:-- Place the paper about three feet away and look with one eye at the above fan. The lines should appear of equal blackness, if they do not CONSULT\n\n**MANILA OFFICES,**\n\n78 ESCOLTA.\n\nTO-DAY.\n\n**LARK & CO.** SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS\n\nYORK BLOCKS, CHATER ROAD\n\nHONGKONG\n\n**THE SINCERE CO., LTD.,**\n\n215-221, Des Voeux Road Central, 109-111, Connaught Road Central,\n\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS\n\n& \n\nHONGKONG and SOUTH CHINA,\n\nDEPARTMENTS FOR\n\nHousehold Goods, Furniture, Wearling Apparel\n\nGroceries, Wines and Spirits, Requisites, Jewellery,\n\nand Spirits, etc., etc.\n\nThe Pioneer One Price Store.\n\nGeorge Albert Would-ck.\n\nFirst Clerk\n\nThe License will be for 10 years to singolien or to reserve the right...\n\nReferred to Committee.\n\nIX.\n\nDespite all retrenchment, books shall be kept in the way prescribed by the Government, and shall be subject to...\n\nChicago is in the lightest touch since the days of the big Fire, 1871. The Metropolis of the World is bankrupt...\n\n## ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL\n\nThe Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospital:\n\n£1\n\nHo Kam Toog\n\nJ. M. Wung\n\n**National Council**\n\n(Continued from Page 1)\n\nThe revised regulation of the Railway Company of China (First reading).\n\n1. The Railway Company of China shall be organised in accordance with the Presidential Order of the 9th day of the 9th month of the First year of the Chinese Republic. With the exception of the railways, which have been or are to be built, or the construction of which has been signed, by the Government under the direct management of the Ministry of Communications and the railways concessions of which have been given to other Companies to be built.\n\n2. In addition to the common legal rights and privileges of other companies, the Company shall have the following privileges:\n\n(a) To propose and settle the lines referred to in the said article.\n\n(b) To take the concession of the lines referred to in the first article and to agree with Chinese or Foreign lot holders or Boat shares.\n\n(c) To utilize and manage the railway referred to in the first article, (1) manage the affairs connected with the alanya referred to in the first article.\n\n(e) To secure special funds and to buy in belonging to individuals, benefited by the construction of the line referred to in the first article.\n\n2. May any other company or the Government be willing to transfer the right of concession, which does not belong to the lines referred to in the first article, the Company has authority to accept it.\n\nThe Lines, other than those referred to in the first article, must be constructed by other companies under the regulations of the Government. They should not interfere with the privileges of the Company.\n\n4. The dates for commencing and completing the construction of the various lines by the Company shall be registered by the Government, unless the...\n\nShould it be unable to construct the railway according to the date, the Government may devise means for its construction.\n\n5. In all the lines which are to be built by the Company, the Government shall afford every protection and facility in the work.\n\nII. All railways constructed shall eventually become the property of the Government. With regard to the period of construction and management, and the selling of the control by the Government, the Company shall also be subject to the customary conditions applied to other companies. As to the laws and orders in connection with the affairs of the Company, unless otherwise provided by the Bill.\n\n7. All the Chinese or Foreign shares or loans, contracted by the Company, shall be subject to the laws of the Government; hence they shall enjoy the due protection of the Government. With loans which need to be guaranteed by the Government, the contract should be submitted for approval, and the regulations regarding foreign shares shall also be submitted...\n\nThe Regulations of the Company for the Transportation of Salt (first reading).\n\nThose who desire to form a Salt Company...\n\n**GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS,**\n\n**TIENTSIN-PUKOW LINE**\n\nThe Public are respectfully informed that the Through Train Service between Tientsin and Pukow will be commenced from the 4th December 1912.\n\n| TIENTSIN TO PUKOW |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | dep. 12.50 p.m.... | Wednesday and Saturday |\n| Pukow | arr. 2.55 | Thursday and Sunday |\n\n| PUKOW TO TIENTSIN |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Pukow... | 8.20 a.m. ... | Monday and Friday |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | arr. 10.33 | Tuesday and Saturday |\n\nFrom 1st December, all Trains from Tientsin will start from the Settlement Station.\n\nThe daily Trains between TSEN (Settlement) and Taku, between Tsinanfu and Msinanfu, and between Hwangyow and Pukow, and on the Branch Lines between Yaonow and Tsinanfow, and between Linsin and THAOCHUANG, will run as usual.\n\nThrough Trains are provided with Comfortable Sleeping Berths for the 1st Class Passengers, at a Charge of $5.00 per Berth.\n\nFurther particulars may be had on application to this Office.\n\nHEAD OFFICE,\n\nTientsin, 25th November, 1912.\n\nBY ORDER,",
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        "content_text": "PLATINUM AND THE PLATINUM GROUP.\n\n320\n\nC.O\n\n13774\n\nRECE\n\nBy E. de Hautpick, I.R.S. REat24 APR 13,\n\nNotwithstanding the deep and practical interest, and notwithstanding the great technical importance to man of platinum and the platinum metals, or of the platinum order, the minerals related to them are exceedingly insufficiently known. At every step we come across great blanks in our knowledge.\n\nDespite 150 years' acquaintance with platinum we are still unable to explain the properties of crude platinum, or to determine all its varieties.\n\nExact knowledge of the chemical composition of these minerals is prevented by the difficulty of chemical analysis, which does not allow a comparison of a number of earlier observations with present day ones.\n\nIt is not astonishing that analysis gives a very incomplete representation of the chemical composition of platinum ore grains. Thanks to this condition of analysis, science and technics are in a fog on the composition of the ordinary platinum ore, so-called crude platinum, and we cannot say how many minerals we include under this name. The chemistry of crude platinum is a mystery to us in many respects.\n\nIn virtue of the sharp difference in the chemical character of osmium and ruthenium from other metals of the platinum order, it is quite possible that we have for osmic minerals, not the isomorphic mixture (Os, Ru, Ir), but the osmides and ruthenides of nature.\n\nJune 1912.",
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        "content_text": "THE CHUNG SAU NAM EXTRADITION CASE.\n\nJUDGMENT OF THE FULL COURT.\n\nAt the Full Court yesterday the Chief Justice, Sir Wm. Rees Davies, K.C., who sat with Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz (Puisne Judge), gave judgment in the motion heard by the Full Court in connection with the alleged embezzlement of $150,000, the property of the Kwangtung Government, by Chung Sau Nam.\n\nSir Francis Piggott, along with Mr. Alabaster (instructed by Mr. W. B. Hind and Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton), made application for a writ of Habeas Corpus, arising out of the Magistrate's decision in connection with the trial, and the application was opposed for the Crown by Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., Mr. Eldon Potter, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr. R. F. C. Master, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master).\n\nHis Lordship the Chief Justice delivered the following judgment:—\n\nIn the matter of Chung Sau Nam, a person detained in Victoria Gaol. These proceedings in Habeas Corpus are directed against a committal by a Police Magistrate of this Colony of the fugitive criminal for extradition under Section 10 of the Chinese Extradition Ordinance 1889. That Section is based on Section 10 of the Extradition Act of 1870.\n\nBefore coming to the facts, it is desirable to state the position of this Court in relation to the decision of the Magistrate under the Section nominated. There are abundant authorities to show that this Court is not a Court of Appeal from the Magistrate's decision on the evidence. The Court can only on an application for Habeas Corpus entertain the question of the jurisdiction of the Magistrate to commit, namely, whether the crime is an extradition crime or whether it is of a political character and whether there was any evidence upon which the Magistrate can commit (ex parte Siletti 18 T.L.R., 771, and see also R. v. Guerin, 60 L.T. 535; Buyuet, 29 L.T., 41; R. v. Maurer, 10 Q.B.D., 513; In re Arton, 1896, 1 Q.B., at 518).\n\nThe fugitive at the time of the alleged offences was superintendent (\"Kam Li\") of the Canton Treasury and Chan Kwing-ming was then Governor-General (Tutuh). On 4th August the Tutuh issued an order in Chinese under his signature addressed to the Commissioner of Finance, Treasury, the translation of which is as follows:-\n\n\"Please at once pay in foreign notes two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and remit to Shanghai to be sent in turn to Nanking to be used as Military expenditure. This is the order.\"\n\nThis order was received by the fugitive, Chung Sau Nam, was brought by him to the Treasury and $150,000 was paid to him and his receipt and seal or chop affixed to the order. There was also a paying-out slip made out by an official of the Treasury which was sealed or chopped by the fugitive. The reason for the order being honoured to the extent of $150,000 and not $250,000 is that there was not sufficient money in the Treasury to meet it. The payment was made by two cheques, one on the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Canton for $100,000 and the other for $50,000 on the International Bank at Canton. It appears, then, from the affidavit of the fugitive dated 18th October, 1919, and made in a civil action pending, that he subsequently obtained drafts on Hongkong and International Bank in Shanghai for the two sums of money from branches of the two Banks.",
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        "content_text": "monetary compensation \n\n--། . \n\nEEC \n\nE&S \n\nlev \n\n! \n\nاوه \n\n177 \n\nMay Comp \n\n1914 \n\n24 may \n\nLast previous Paper. \n\nkv. 999272 \n\n• \n\n26079 \n\nAns? Conf. 275 June ✓ \n\n12 \n\nNext subsequent Paper. \n\n26938 \n\nهم \n\nHONG KONG \n\nPATRONAGE \n\n91547 \n\nAttorney Generalship. \n\n21549 \n\nREG 12 JUN 14, \n\nMm. IV 14. Compestry has added to be recommended for appel, in event Vacancy discusses his qualtors. If vacancy occurs wishes to recommend \n\nIME H. Sharp KC leader of Coral Bas Q; M. Hm, Scott, K.C.. * Full (3) In Shohande- Atty line, File. \n\nA Harrin \n\nMr hatten S Stedder \n\nん \n\nIn Ea/7 0/14 the for uported \n\nthat Myo Computy had reted with St.G. That pin myboden \n\nMeless as \n\nsatisfaction in his substantive, bout \n\n[P.J.). \n\n? Ich mony that \" G. appte is \n\nnoted a that he will be considued to \n\nnothe \n\na. that the Spis momen \n\nYo M \n\nother funtlemen named with be torme \n\nA mund \n\n(89,196) Wt.31,086—13, 45,000, 12/19. A LE W. \n\nOver \n\n1 \n\nTOP \n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "As to pay to HOME VI in my ↑ :\n\nI.. LARM 「 -、·、 V bla :\n\n2. 181 21540 9992 gov. hm mirate As that he is 49 AYC 17. 12.14 你 R Ree should it do so I desire to recommend Mr E.H.Sharp K.O., whose qualifications are well known to you and who was recommended by Sir F.Lugard in his confidential despatch 5th of March 1912.\n\nMr E.H. Sharp was the leader of the Bar here before he left it temporarily to practise in London where he achieved considerable success. He has now been back in Hong Kong for some little time and is again the leader of the Bar and by repute the best lawyer that has ever graced it. He has private means and would, I believe, give up his lucrative practice to take up the post of Attorney General, for which he has ever had a predilection.\n\n5. Mr Sharp is 55 years of age and should you consider him too old and still desire to appoint one who is not in the Civil Service, then I would recommend Mr H.M.Scott K.C. of the Fiji Bar who, I understand, is at present acting Attorney General in that Colony.\n\nI formed a very high opinion of Mr Scott's capacity while I was in Fiji. I do not think he is more than 45 years of age. He is a man of great industry; the large practice he has built up proves his ability and I think any Colony would be extremely well served by him as Attorney General.\n\n6. In the event of your desiring not to travel outside the ranks of the Services for this appointment, I would strongly recommend Mr Albert Ehrhardt K.C., Attorney General of Fiji. Mr Ehrhardt is a sound lawyer and an industrious able man who would, I am sure, fill the appointment with much credit to himself and to the Colony.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most humble obedient Servant,\n\nPage 3\n\nGOVERNOR,\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "Extract from the H.K. Daily Press of 23rd July, 1914, Page 9\n\n236 LATE SIR KAI HO KAI\n\nAT THE HAPPY VALLEY.\n\nThe funeral of the late Sir Kai Ho Kai, M.D., took place at the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, last evening, and was a manifestation of sincere sympathy. A very large number of European and Chinese residents assembled to pay their last tribute, and these formed in procession behind the mourners.\n\nAt the grave there were over twenty pall-bearers, namely, Messrs. Li Yuk Tong, U Siu Yuen Fai, Yung Sing Kiu, Kwok Siu Lau, Mok Kam Cheung, Li Po Kwai, Ng Kwok Hing, Tam Pak Siu, Chan Kang U, Yung Sai Ngan, Chan Han, P. K. Kwok, Leung Hing Kwai, Cheung Sum Woo, Chan Chen Fan, Lam Heung Sun, Kam Tie Hing, Fung Pak Hung, and Leung Heung Tin, and Drs. Thomas, Jew Hawk, Au Shi Cham, and Kwan Sui Yin.\n\nThe Rev. T. W. Pearce, of the London Missionary Society, who was a great personal friend of the deceased, and was associated with him in many of his philanthropic, charitable and educational works, conducted the service in the small Church at the Cemetery, and also officiated at the graveside.\n\nThere were over 300 wreaths, sent by all sections of the community. Among them were tributes from H.E. Sir Henry May, the Order of the K.C.M.G., the Hongkong Legislative Council, Tung Wah Hospital, Po Leung Kuk, District Watchmen's Committee, Chinese Club, Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, China Merchants Steam Navigation Co., Chinese Y.M.C.A., St. Stephen's College, St. Paul's College, Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals.\n\nMany telegrams from various parts of China, and letters from prominent residents in the Colony have been received by Lady Ho Kai, expressing sympathy.\n\nAmong those present at the graveside were H.E. Sir Henry May (Governor), Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. A. F. Churchill, Hon. Mr. C. McIntosh (Captain Superintendent of Police), Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., Hon. Mr. Hewett, C.M.G., and Hon. Mr. Lau Tak Fak. Members of the Bench and Bar, including Hon. Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz (Chief Justice), Mr. Justice Hazeland (Puisne Judge), Mr. J. H. Kemp (Attorney-General), Mr. J. R. Wood (First Magistrate), Messrs. J. F. Sharp, K.C., Eldon Potter, Easter, and F. C. Jenkin; Lieut. Barnett, Dr. Voretszch (General Officer Commanding), members of the Hongkong University, Dr. Francis Clark, Kerr, Messrs. T. K. Dealy, R. O. P. Borrow, D. W. Tratman, Lee Jones, King, T. F. Claxton, and A. P. Professor Digby and Mr. A. C. H. Smith (representing Hongkong University), Capt. Mears, W. L. Pattenden, J. Rodger, Grist, H. K. Woo (representing Mr. Hall Brutton's office), A. H. Vaughan, and Miss Rayner (Matron, Maternity Hospital).\n\nNearly all the leading Chinese were either present in person or were represented, together with the Directorates of the Tung Wah Hospital, the Po Leung Kuk, and the District Watchmen's Committee. Several district watchmen attended in uniform.\n\nA large number of students from the University and St. Stephen's College were also present.\n\nTRIBUTES FROM THE BAR AND BENCH.\n\nAt the Supreme Court yesterday, a striking tribute was paid to the esteem in which the deceased Knight was held by the Bench and Bar.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., said:—My Lords, I hope I may be permitted, as senior member of the Bar, and speaking on behalf of both branches of the legal profession, to add a few words to those which have just fallen from the learned Attorney-General.\n\nThe late Sir Kai Ho Kai, for many years, both directly and indirectly, influenced the statute law which your Lordships and the Courts of this Colony administer. For several years he was a member of the Hongkong Bar. The fact of that membership is the occasion of my addressing you now, and my object in doing so is to express, on behalf of the members of the Bar and the officers of the legal departments of this Colonial Service, their deep regret and grief at his death.\n\nWhen I first arrived in the Colony in 1888, Sir Kai Ho Kai was still actively engaged in the profession of a barrister, and I can well remember the keenness and activity and ability which he displayed in the conduct of the various cases in which he was engaged.\n\nOf late years he has seldom appeared in the Courts, but confined his energies almost entirely to matters of public interest in the Colony. For several years upon the Legislative Council, I can bear witness to the patience and diligence which he brought to bear upon the study of the various measures brought forward by the Government from time to time with a view to amendment and improvement.\n\nHis record of services rendered in the Colony, covering so many fields of varied public interests, is one of which any man might well be proud, and it is only fitting that we should testify on this occasion to the fact that he devoted the best of his strength during the best years of his life to the promotion of measures for the public interest and for the public welfare of the Colony.\n\nThe Hon. Attorney-General said:—The occasion of this sitting of the Court is one that we might have hoped would be long deferred, for in the ordinary course of things Sir Kai Ho Kai might well have looked forward to many more years of life and usefulness.\n\nThe Chief Justice:-We are gathered together to-day to do honour to the memory of a distinguished member of our profession. After an academic career of the most brilliant promise, he was admitted to the Bar of this Colony in 1882, and had he desired he would undoubtedly have attained to the highest eminence in the career he had chosen.\n\nBut the history of our profession abounds with instances of the disinterestedness of its sons. Sir Kai Ho Kai felt that the world had claims upon him, and he devoted himself with an admirable single-mindedness to the services of his fellow men.\n\nHis labours on behalf of this Colony, the land of his adoption, were recognised by His Majesty the King, who conferred upon him not only the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, but also the dignity of Knighthood.\n\nHe worked for many years for the regeneration of his native land, and those responsible for the destinies of China have freely availed themselves of his sagacious and broad-minded counsel, and his eminent moderation and common-sense.\n\nPage 237",
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        "content_text": "119\n\n# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Public Works, Recurrent\n\nThe total increase under this head is $99,300. This large increase is only apparent, as the expenditure for the current year which was estimated at $481,000 will probably be exceeded by a sum of $107,600, so that the estimated expenditure for next year, which has been framed with a view to avoiding the necessity for supplementary votes, is rather lower than the expenditure for the current year.\n\nIn the estimates for next year an important change has been made by including under the heads \"Buildings\" and \"Communications\" special votes for improvements.\n\n## Public Works, Extraordinary\n\nWith regard to Hongkong under the heading \"Buildings\" the sums provided for the first fourteen items are to complete the works mentioned therein.\n\nUnder Item 15 a sum of $60,000 has been provided for commencing the erection of quarters for certain married European Subordinate Officers, for which it is proposed to charge rent.\n\nThis is an entirely new policy on the part of the Government, and has been brought about by the very high rents which have to be paid in Hongkong and which weigh heavily on officers with families.\n\nIt is estimated that the rents which are to be charged will yield a fair return on the capital expended. An excellent site at the back of Leighton Hill has been selected for the quarters, of which there will be twelve, six containing five rooms and six containing four rooms in the form of flats.\n\nItem 16. — Housing of European Subordinate Officers, $50,000. The total estimate of $80,000 includes a sum of $30,000 for an addition to the Harbour Office Buildings, which will contain on the ground floor a new Liquors Office and on the first and second floors quarters for two married or four single Revenue Officers. The quarters now in occupation at Breezy Point have proved entirely satisfactory.\n\nItem 17 refers to much needed extension of the Central Police Station, details of which will be laid before you when you consider the Estimates.\n\nUnder the heading \"Communications\" a further extension of the road from Victoria Gap to High West is provided for at a cost of $10,000. It has been decided to call this road \"Lugard Road\" after the late Governor. A sum of $36,000 is provided for completing the road from Aberdeen to Deep Water Bay. The road will be twenty feet in width with easy gradients.\n\nA sum of $60,000 is provided for paving the main roads in the City of Victoria in accordance with a scheme which you will remember was contained in the Report of the Public Works Committee dated the 2nd March, 1914, and laid before this Council on the 4th June, 1914. The scheme has received the approval of the Secretary of State, and it is proposed to make a beginning next year.\n\nProvision has also been made for a pathway from Kennedy Road to Macdonnell Road, the want of which has been much felt, for an improvement of the sharp corner at the bottom of Garden Road, and for a path from Queen's Road East to Kennedy Road to give access to sites which have been sold recently in that neighbourhood.\n\n## Drainage\n\nYou will observe that under Item 26 a considerable sum is to be devoted to training nullahs and for Miscellaneous Drainage Works.\n\n## Miscellaneous\n\nUnder this head a sum of $8,000 is provided for another telephone cable across the harbour. The capacity of the present cable is already taxed almost to the utmost, and with the continued extension of the telephone system in Kowloon and the New Territories it has become necessary to provide a new eight-core cable.\n\nA sum of $3,000 is required for continuing the survey of the Colony, and $1,000 for purchase of boundary stones, under a new system whereby the stones are paid for by the Government and sold as required.\n\nThe improvements to the record-room in the Colonial Secretary's Office, for which a sum of $1,200 is provided, consist of rendering half the present library fireproof, and it is intended to place there the more valuable records of the Colony in order to preserve them from destruction.\n\nItem 45 Resumption of Piers $10,500 is the first step towards improving the ferry services between Hongkong and Yaumati and Shamshuipo. A Bill dealing with the scheme, which is the outcome of the report of a Committee appointed by me early in the year to consider this important subject, will be laid before you shortly.\n\nPage 120\n\nThe Director of Public Works will be glad to show you the plans of the road programme when you consider the Estimates. The section now provided for is that from Ta Ku Ling to join the Fan Ling-Shataukok road.\n\n## Kowloon\n\nTurning now to Kowloon, a new market is provided for at Shamshuipo at a cost of $18,000 and an extension to the Kowloon British School of two classrooms costing $7,500.\n\nA sum of $6,500 is provided for certain necessary additions to the Royal Observatory.\n\nItem 56 represents an extension of the scheme of Rented Quarters, to which I have already referred, and is intended to provide a building containing two flats in the grounds of the Royal Observatory for the Chief and First Assistants.\n\nItem 57 is for six quarters for European subordinates.\n\nUnder Lighting provision is made for a considerable extension including a row of lamps down the middle of Salisbury and Nathan Roads. Under \"Miscellaneous\" a sum of $212,000 is provided to complete the Typhoon Refuge at Mongkoktsui, and a sum of $29,000 to complete the Repairing and Coaling Yard for Government Launches.\n\nThe item of $1,000 for resumption of piers is in connection with the improvement of the ferry service to which I have already alluded.\n\nA new filter bed, which is much needed, is provided for at a cost of $18,000.\n\n## New Territories\n\nUnder Buildings provision is made for completing the Police Station at Lok Ma Chau and for beginning the erection of a station at Ta Ku Ling.\n\nA market at Tai O is provided for at a cost of $4,500.\n\nUnder Communications you will observe that under Item 78 (b), (c), (d), and (e) it is proposed, if the Secretary of State approves, to embark on a large programme of road construction, and widening of existing roads. After careful consideration it has been decided that a minimum width of formation of twenty feet should be adopted for all new roads.\n\nItem 78 (f) provides for the improvement of a portion of the road from Kowloon to Taipo by cutting back the banks at sharp corners and improving the curves.\n\nItem 79 is a contribution of $1,000 by the Government, being one-third of the cost of a bridge, which is being erected by the villagers over the Shatin river.\n\nThe total sum which it is proposed to expend on Public Works Extraordinary is $2,229,785, exceeding the amount in the previous year by $98,985. The programme has been carefully revised, and works which were not of great urgency, although desirable, have been postponed. Notwithstanding this the total is higher than in any previous year, and so far as I am able to judge there is little hope of any considerable reduction until the completion of the Tytamtuk Scheme.\n\n## Post Office\n\nA sum of $1,440 has been entered for three additional 5th Grade Postal Clerks, who are required in connection with the establishment of branch Post Offices at Shaipingwan (likely \"Saiyingpun\"), Wantsai, and Yaumati. Provision has also been made for Radio-Telegraph Staff for the Wireless Station at Cape D'Aguilar and for the Staff at the General Post Office. The total under this head is $18,499, and a sum of $253 is provided for miscellaneous expenditure for the same purpose. 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        "content_text": "## 7. 10 Spell\nThe current situation demands sharp measures. Failing this, I suggested that the question of Government notes should be taken up. My suggestions were, however, not deemed practical and it was decided to take no action.\n\n4. It was admitted that though a tradesman could decline to deal with a customer, if he allowed that customer to run up an account, he must accept payment in the legal tender of the Colony, i.e., the silver dollar. I understand, too, from legal sources that if the tradesman refuses to accept such payment and sues the customer, all the latter has to do is to pay the amount into Court in silver dollars when the plaintiff would not only have to accept it but to pay the costs of the action.\n\nGovernment Departments were, of course, obliged to accept payments due to them in silver dollars, and the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, which carries out Government business, accepted these silver dollars from Government at full value, though they would not from other customers.\n\n6. It soon transpired that a profit was to be made by changing notes into dollars at a money changer's (where a man gets about 110 silver dollars for his 100 dollars in notes), taking them to the Post Office and remitting them to his home in India or in England by Money Order at the rate of exchange of the day.\n\nLast month, I understand that as much as $150,000 was remitted to India by Money Order. The Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, in sending the necessary draft to India, say, I believe, whether this was a loss or only a diminution of profit is doubtful. This month, I gather, they have refused to accept the silver dollar in payment of drafts.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n687 \n\n5 \n\nsatisfied and as he seemed anxious for another opinion besides that of the Attorney-General, as apparently he had been advised in a contrary sense to that of the opinion of the Law Officers, I said that I had no objection to his discussing the matter with Mr. Kemp and Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C. if he wished. He assented to this and as Mr. Sharp kindly consented to advise in the matter, a conference took place. I append a note of the opinion which Mr. Sharp expressed and which was explained to Major-General Kelly at the conference held on the 22nd ultimo.\n\n3.\n\nAs Major-General Kelly still strongly desired a reference to the War Office on the question, I acquiesced in his making one and at the same time I sent you my cypher message of the 25th ultimo, paraphrase of which is attached.\n\n4.\n\nIt was not considered worth while to obtain Mr. Schlüter's rendition on a charge under the Post Office Ordinance, although that might have been done as China is grouped with Hongkong under Article 88 of the China Order in Council 1904, as the penalty is only a fine of $500. An amendment of the law to increase the penalty had already been noted for early enactment.\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nSir,  \nYour most obedient,  \nhumble servant,  \n**Amaz**  \nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 5\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\n693\n\nI saw Mr. Sharp this afternoon and discussed the case with him, and he agrees;\n\n2. \n(a) That, assuming a punishable offence, the evidence would justify a conviction.\n(b) That the absence of a definite date would probably not be fatal.\n(c) That a habeas corpus would probably lie.\n(d) That discussion in court of the basis of the censorship would be undesirable.\n(e) That the court would probably hold that the establishment of the censorship was legally justified.\n(f) That evasion of the censorship is probably not an offence against \"military discipline\". (`Army Act 8.40`)\n(g) That the risk of failure is so great that a prosecution is inadvisable.\n\nMr. Sharp is willing to have an interview with H.E. the General Officer Commanding if desired.\n\n20th May, 1915.\n\n(sd.) J. H. Kemp,\n**Attorney-General**",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\n1915\n\n18 Dec. States that no vacancy exists on the Executive Council.\n\nLast previous Paper: 616, 2:45, IREC, 751.\n\nREGE TO AN 15. A provisional appointment has been made & urges the appointment of M. & H. Sharp.\n\nCH. member of Legislative Council, who is not a member of the Executive Council.\n\nAs an alternative, submits the name of the Chief Manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank as representative of the commercial interests.\n\nSin 9. FDdes.\n\nThe rule laid down in the despatch of 29th May 1896 (14/12 2010/86) was that\n\n\"It is obviously desirable that they (i.e. the members of the Executive Council) should be chosen from among the official members & the Executive Council (memorandum) is a matter of great importance.\"\n\nConf. of Feb 16 for M. Sharp's appointment to be gazetted on 16 March 1916.\n\nConf. June 1914.\n\nNext subsequent Paper: Gous 4805-15.\n\nUnofficial members & the Executive Council (memorandum).\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III), J8401-k, WL14249–12, 26,000 7/16 D&B.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nREC\n\nReet Ar 15\n\nGovernment,\n\nJust.\n\n622\n\nBir,\n\n18th DecEMBOT 1916\n\n87976\n\nWith reference to my despatch No: 392 of the 3rd instant.\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I have made no provisional appointment to the vacancy created in the Executive Council by the death of Mr E.A. Hewett C.M.G. because I desire to urge in this case an exception in the rule laid down in Paragraph 7 of Mr Chamberlain's despatch NO: 119 of the 29th of May 1896, and to submit for favourable consideration the name of Mr H.H. Sharp C.M.G. who is not a member of the Legislative Council.\n\nBefore I proceed to state my reasons for my recommendation I wish to say that I question whether much weight is to be attached to the possibility indicated in Sir Matthew Nathan's Confidential Despatch of the 18th of January 1906 of the appointment as an unofficial member of the Executive Council of one who is not a member of the Legislative Council proving dis...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nANDREW BONAR LAW\n\nM.P.",
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        "content_text": "DC\n\nagitate 624 for increased representation in the Legislative Council; and it may be politic, if for no other reason to choose the new member for the Executive Council from outside the Legislative Council which would effect a real increase in representation.\n\nThe Hong Kong Daily Press I attach a letter from the Editor of which is a new man lately arrived from England imbued with somewhat advanced ideas, on the subject of certain questions in the Legislative Council which I will refer to later.\n\nI think that the point of most importance in the paragraph in Mr Chamberlain's despatch above referred to, is that the choice of an unofficial member of the Executive Council should be inspired \"by consideration of personal merit and have no reference to a particular class\" to use the words of Mr Chamberlain, and it is from that point of view that I venture to submit the name of Mr E.H. Sharp K.C.\n\nMr E.H. Sharp was called to the English Bar in 1891 and was admitted to the Hong Kong Bar in 1894. He at once made his mark as a masterly lawyer and while the late Mr J.J. Francis was alive he shared the leading practice of the Bar with that eminent Counsel. After Mr Francis' death he was the leader of the Bar.",
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        "content_text": "1. 100 · ... FILM T b14 C i '. ' *ידי ** 1 ... + Ht r 1 *** 139 9 the Colony in 1911 and 1912 and it was at that time 623 that it was no use asking the chief manager considered Để thì hạng Kong Shanghai Bunk to take any official position Mr Pollock is a worthy gentleman whose earlier promise of success at the Bar here has not, however, been realized. Younger men have outstripped him. His judgment and advice no longer carry the weight of former years, I would add that Mr Severn who as officer Administering the Government recommended Mr Pollock to not for Er Hewett • on the Executive Council in 1912 entirely endorses my recommendation of Mr Sharp, and alternatively of Mr Stabb, for the substantive appointment. I shall be glad to receive your decision on this despatch by telegraph, I have the honour to be Sir, Your most obedient humble servant * Governor etc.",
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        "content_text": "No 15.\n\nRECT\n\nREGL FEE IS 65\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 6th January, 1916.\n\nSir,\n\nIt has recently come to my notice that the establishment of the Hospital known as the Matilda Hospital has never been reported to you and that although references to it have been made in the appendices to the Blue Book it has not been mentioned under the heading \"Institutions not supported by Government\". I regret the omission.\n\n2.\n\nMr. Granville Sharp, who died in 1899, gave the residue of his estate in trust for the erection and maintenance of a Hospital at Mount Kellett to be called the Matilda Hospital. The Hospital was to be of a particular and limited nature, and a doubt arose as to whether the whole of the residuary estate would not be too large an endowment for such a Hospital. An action was therefore begun in 1904 by the trustees of the will and the next of kin, who claimed the surplus if any, for the construction of the will. The Attorney-General was made a party as representing the Crown, which, as parens patriae, is concerned in the administration of charities generally. Sir William Goodman's judgment in this action, delivered on the 2nd June, 1904, directed:-\n\n(1). That the surplus, if any, should not go to the next of kin, but should, according to the doctrine of cyprès, be applied to some other charity. This charity should of course be as like as possible to the original charity intended by the testators.\n\n(2).\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANDREA BONAR LAW, M.P., &c.,\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "... \n\n- 4- \n\n5 - \n\n69 \n\nB. ENDOWMENT.\n\nTESTATOR'S RESIDUARY ESTATE.\n\nThe Testator's estate remaining after providing for the cost of the erection of the original buildings and the equipment of the main Hospital was on the 30th September, 1914 (the date of the last Balance Sheet) as follows:-\n\nAmount invested in Colonial Government Stocks and British Railway Debenture Stocks, ......\n\nAmount advanced on mortgages of Leasehold properties in Hongkong and Kowloon,\n\nEstimated liability for outstanding legacies and annuities under Testator's Will,\n\n$422,830.28\n\n917,000.00\n\nValue of Testator's leasehold properties in Hong-kong and Kowloon remaining unsold,\n\n939,500.00\n\nCash,\n\n43,886.20\n\n$2,323,216.48\n\n20,000.00\n\n$2,303,216.48\n\nDeducting the estimated cost of the erection and equipment of the Maternity Ward, (see previous page),\n\nThere remains an estimated net surplus of,\n\n105,150.00\n\n$2,198,066.48\n\n$112,728.26\n\nAnd the cost of maintaining and running the Hospital for such year was,\n\n48,552.25\n\n$64,176.01\n\nThe net income of the Estate for the year ending 30th September, 1914 was, ..............................\n\nLeaving a surplus income of, .....................\n\nAfter erection of the Maternity Ward the income will be reduced by the sale of the investments required to provide for the cost of such erection, and the cost of maintaining and running the Hospital will be increased by the addition of such Maternity Ward.\n\nIt is the express wish of the Testator that the Hospital should \"be quite self-supporting\" and \"be able to sustain itself\" and that it should be \"absolutely unnecessary at any time during the continuance of this Institution to appeal to the public in any way for funds for its maintenance.\"\n\nIn view of this and having regard to the need for expansion of the Hospital which the Trustees fully anticipate at no distant date and the continual requirements for repairs and renewals of every kind which its maintenance in the climate of Hongkong will entail the Trustees retain the whole of the surplus residue of the Testator's Estate as a fund to provide for the endowment maintenance and future expansion of the Hospital.\n\n6\n\nC. MANAGEMENT.\n\nNAME OF THE HOSPITAL.\n\nI. The Hospital shall be called \"Matilda Hospital.\"\n\nOBJECTS OF THE HOSPITAL.\n\nII. The objects for which the Matilda Hospital is established are:-\n\n(a) To the Glory of God and for the good of men and in memory of Matilda Lincolne Sharp, Resident in this Colony from 1858 to 1893,\n\n(b) To provide, carry on and maintain a Hospital for the benefit of patients primarily who are poor, helpless and forsaken and to provide gratuitous medical relief to any such person suffering from disease or ill-health.\n\n(c) The Hospital shall be considered to be established as a Religious and Evangelistic Institution.\n\n(d) The Hospital is reserved for British, American and European Patients; Chinese, Portuguese or Japanese are to be excluded,\n\n(e) Generally to do all things necessary or expedient for the proper and effective carrying out of these objects in accordance with the terms of the Will.\n\nTHE GOVERNING BODY.\n\nIII. (1) The Management of the Hospital shall be vested in a Board of management hereinafter called the Governing Body, which shall consist of: —\n\n(a) The Trustees for the time being of the Will and Codicil of the Testator or in case of their absence from time to time their respective Attorneys.\n\n(Such Trustees for the time being are hereinafter called the “Trustees of the Will\")\n\n(b) The Bishop of the Diocese for the time being.\n\nThe Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral for the time being.\n\nThe Minister of the Union Church for the time being.\n\n(All the above, including the Trustees of the Will, are hereinafter called \"The Hospital Trustees\".)\n\n(c) Four Gentlemen who shall be invited by the Governing Body at the last ordinary meeting of each year to act as additional Members of the Governing Body for the period of one year. They shall retire from their said Office on the 31st day of December in each year and they shall be eligible for re-election for a further term or terms of office. The Governing Body may at any time fill any casual vacancies amongst the additional Members,\n\n(2) Save as otherwise provided the Governing Body shall have the superintendence, control and management of the Hospital, its Buildings, and the land upon which it stands, or any other land and buildings acquired for the purpose of extending the same.\n\n(3) The Governing Body may make and formulate such Bye-laws and Regulations as they may from time to time think fit in relation to any matters within the scope of their authority for the regulation of the Hospital, its officers and servants, and may vary and repeal the same from time to time.\n\n(4) A Secretary to the Governing Body shall be appointed at the first meeting in each year whose duties and salary shall be fixed and prescribed by the Governing Body.",
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        "content_text": "215 \n\nsure that they themselves would not claim more than this. Nobody knows better than the learned Counsel that a Director, or a whole Board of Directors, can only speak for a Public Company after obtaining the approval of a Meeting of Shareholders held in pursuance of a notice which has stated that such approval would be asked for. The signatures to the Petition do not therefore in any way represent the long list of Commercial and Industrial Companies set out in the letter.\n\nOn the other hand, it is remarkable that two out of the four European Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council have not signed the Petition; that the two Chinese Unofficial Members who represent one of the largest Commercial interests in the Colony, that of the Chinese Community, declined the overtures made to them, as I am assured, on two occasions with a view to obtaining their and other Chinese signatures; that the Managers of the two greatest European Mercantile interests in the Colony - the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Firm of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire - have declined to lend even their personal support to the Petition; that Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., Unofficial Member of the Executive Council, and Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., who has been appointed to be an Unofficial Member of that Council since the Petition was launched, have likewise refrained from supporting it; and finally that the most important and influential Public Body in the Colony, the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, have not signed the Petition notwithstanding the fact that it is upon its shoulders that the Petitioners would lay the responsibility of electing in the future two Unofficial Members of the Executive and four Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council.\n\n7. In this letter, as in the Petition itself, there is a striking absence of any adequate reason for a violent constitutional change. The instances given of the alleged constant employment",
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        "content_text": "## Public Works, Recurrent\n\nThe total increase under this head is $99,300. This large increase is only apparent, as the expenditure for the current year, which was estimated at $481,000, will probably be exceeded by a sum of $107,600, so that the estimated expenditure for next year, which has been framed with a view to avoiding the necessity for supplementary votes, is rather lower than the expenditure for the current year.\n\nThe **HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL** decided to call this road Lugard Road after the late Governor. A sum of $36,000 is provided for completing the road from Aberdeen to Deep Water Bay. The road will be twenty feet in width with easy gradients.\n\nIn the estimates for next year, an important change has been made by including under the heads Buildings and Communications \"special votes for improvements.\"\n\n## Public Works, Extraordinary\n\nWith regard to Hongkong under the heading Buildings, the sums provided for the first fourteen items are to complete the works mentioned therein.\n\nUnder Item 15, a sum of $60,000 has been provided for commencing the erection of quarters for certain married European Subordinate Officers, for which it is proposed to charge rent. This is an entirely new policy on the part of the Government, and has been brought about by the very high rents which have to be paid in Hongkong and which weigh heavily on officers with families. It is estimated that the rents which are to be charged will yield a fair return on the capital expended. An excellent site at the back of Leighton Hill has been selected for the quarters, of which there will be twelve, six containing five rooms and six containing four rooms in the form of flats.\n\nItem 16. Housing of European Subordinate Officers, $50,000. The total estimate of $80,000 includes a sum of $30,000 for an addition to the Harbour Office Buildings, which will contain on the ground floor a new Liquors Office and on the first and second floors quarters for two married and four single Revenue Officers. The quarters now in occupation at Breezy Point have proved entirely satisfactory.\n\nItem 17 refers to a much-needed extension of the Central Police Station, details of which will be laid before you when you consider the Estimates.\n\nUnder the heading Communications, a further extension of the road from Victoria Gap to High West is provided for at a cost of $10,000.\n\nA sum of $60,000 is provided for paving the main roads in the City of Victoria in accordance with a scheme contained in the Report of the Public Works Committee dated the 2nd March, 1914, and laid before this Council on the 4th June, 1914. The scheme has received the approval of the Secretary of State, and it is proposed to make a beginning next year.\n\nProvision has also been made for a pathway from Kennedy Road to MacDonnell Road, the want of which has been much felt, for an improvement of the sharp corner at the bottom of Garden Road, and for a path from Queen's Road East to Kennedy Road to give access to sites which have been sold recently in that neighbourhood.\n\n### Drainage\n\nYou will observe that under Item 26, a considerable sum is to be devoted to training nullahs and for Miscellaneous Drainage Works.\n\n### Miscellaneous\n\nUnder this head, a sum of $8,000 is provided for another telephone cable across the harbour. The capacity of the present cable is already taxed almost to the utmost, and with the continued extension of the telephone system in Kowloon and the New Territories, it has become necessary to provide a new eight-core cable.\n\nA sum of $3,000 is required for continuing the survey of the Colony, and $1,000 for the purchase of boundary stones, under a new system whereby the stones are paid for by the Government and sold as required.\n\nThe improvements to the record-room in the Colonial Secretary's Office, for which a sum of $1,200 is provided, consist of rendering half the present library fireproof, and it is intended to place there the more valuable records of the Colony in order to preserve them from destruction.\n\nItem 45 Resumption of Piers $10,500 is the first step towards improving the ferry services between Hongkong and Yaumati and Shamshuipo. A Bill dealing with the scheme, which is the outcome of the report of a Committee appointed by me early in the year to consider this important subject, will be laid before you shortly.\n\n## Kowloon\n\nTurning now to Kowloon, a new market is provided for at Shamshuipo at a cost of $18,000, and an extension to the Kowloon British School of two classrooms costing $7,500.\n\nA sum of $6,500 is provided for certain additions to the Royal Observatory.\n\nItem 56 represents an extension of the scheme of Rented Quarters, to which I have already referred, and is intended to provide a building containing two flats in the grounds of the Royal Observatory for the Chief and First Assistants.\n\nItem 57 is for six quarters for European subordinates. Under \"Lighting,\" provision is made for a considerable extension, including lamps down the middle of Salisbury and Nathan Roads. Under \"Miscellaneous,\" a sum of $212,000 is provided to complete the Typhoon Refuge at Mongkoktsui, and a sum of $29,000 to complete the Repairing and Coaling Yard for Government launches.\n\nThe item of $1,000 for resumption of piers is in connection with the improvement of the ferry service to which I have already alluded.\n\nA new filter bed, which is much needed, is provided for at a cost of $18,000.\n\n## New Territories\n\nUnder Buildings, provision is made for completing the Police Station at Lok Ma Chau and for beginning the erection of a station at Ta Ku Ling.\n\nA market at Tai O is provided for at a cost of $4,500.\n\nUnder \"Communications,\" you will observe that under Item 78 (b), (c), (d), and (e), it is proposed, if the Secretary of State approves, to embark on a large programme of road construction and widening of existing roads. After careful consideration, it has been decided that a minimum width of formation of twenty feet should be adopted for all main roads. The Director of Public Works will be glad to show you the plans of the road programme when you consider the Estimates. The section now provided for is that from Ta Ku Ling to join the Fan Ling-Shataukok road.\n\nItem 78(a) provides for the improvement of a portion of the road from Kowloon to Tai Po by cutting back the banks at sharp corners and improving the curves.\n\nItem 79 is a contribution of $1,000 by the Government, being one-third of the cost of a bridge, which is being erected by the villagers over the Shatin river.\n\nThe total sum which it is proposed to expend on Public Works Extraordinary is $2,229,785, exceeding the amount in the previous year by $98,985. The programme has been carefully revised, and works which were not of great urgency, although desirable, have been postponed. Notwithstanding this, the total is higher than in any previous year, and so far as I am able to judge, there is little hope of any considerable reduction until the completion of the Tytamtuk Scheme.\n\n## Post Office\n\nA sum of $1,440 has been entered for three additional 5th Grade Postal Clerks, who are required in connection with the establishment of branch Post Offices at Saiyingpun, Wantsai, and Yaumati. Provision has also been made for Radio-Telegraph Staff for the Wireless Station at Cape D'Aguilar and for the Staff at the General Post Office. The total under this head is $18,499, and a sum of $253 is provided for miscellaneous expenditure for the same purpose. The staff includes two 4th Grade Telegraphists, one 5th Grade Telegraphist (to be 4th Grade in 1915), and one Messenger, transferred from the Harbour Office.\n\n## Kowloon-Canton Railway\n\nThe Estimate of Revenue and Expenditure for 1915 is as follows: Earnings $435,600 and working expenses $323,455, leaving a balance of $112,145 net profit.\n\nCompared with the estimate for the current year, this shows an increase of $10,754. The experiment of running night trains has been tried during this year but has not proved successful. Footnote (3) to Appendix II shows the estimated result of next year's working. The deficit to be made up from General Revenue is $458,510 as against $469,264 last year.",
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        "content_text": "# Enquiry into certain charges against Mr. Bowen-Rowlands, under C.R.56,held on the 29th. November, 1916.\n\n## Committee:-\n1. **Hon. J.H.Kemp, Attorney-General.**\n2. **W. Bowen-Rowlands**\n3. **A.H. Thomson, Colonial Treasurer,**\n4. **E.H.Sharp,K.C.**\n\nPut in letter of 27.11.16 to Lt.Gaines and his reply.\n\nProposes to call Messrs. Fletcher, Wadehouse and Hamilton,\n\nStates:- \nI can call Lt.Duguid (74th.), Mr. Wilkin (H,K,3,B.), Mr. Franks (Geol), Mr. Stanley Moore (Solicitor), Mr. Burn (undet), and many others, if required. I call only three now because I wish to avoid a scandal.\n\nThen I came back from leave in the end of 1914, I took no alcohol on the voyage of six weeks, Mr. Bowley and Mr. Brayshay were on board. I also drank nothing on the voyage home.\n\nThe man who perhaps knows me best in the Colony, Lt. Tisdall, is absent at the moment. He will be back in about a month.\n\nOn Saturday 4th, I saw Mr. Tratman in the office. I was then perfectly sober. I spent Sunday in the house. Monday was a public holiday. At 5.45 p.m. I reported myself to Inspector O'Sullivan at No. 7 Station for police duty. I did three hours patrol. I could call Inspector O'Sullivan and ly Rapp, the constable on patrol with me. \n\nOn the 7th, I went to the office and saw Mr. Hamilton about some tickets. In the afternoon E. Marriott rang me up. On the 8th, I saw the B.S.D. in the morning. I was then perfectly sober. I also had a long telephone...",
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        "content_text": "# Executive Council No. 56\n## Thursday the 14th December, 1916, at 9.30 a.m.\n\nPresent:\n- His Excellency the Governor (Sir F.H.May, K.C.M.G.)\n- His Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops, (Major-General Francis Tait)\n- The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (Mr. Maud Severn)\n- The Honourable the Attorney-General (Mr. J. H. Kemp)\n- The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer (Mr. A.M.Thomson)\n- The Honourable the Director of Public Works (Mr. W. Chatham)\n- The Honourable the Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Mr. E.R.Hallifax)\n- The Honourable Sir O. P. Chater, Kt., C.M.G.\n- The Honourable Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C.\n\nCouncil considered a report of a Committee of the Council upon their investigation into charges of intemperance brought against Mr. Bowen-Rowlands. After some discussion Council divided upon a proposal of His Excellency the Governor that Mr. Bowen-Rowlands should be suspended from the exercise of his office and that his dismissal from the public service should be recommended to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. The Treasurer and the Director of Public Works supported the proposal. The General Officer Commanding, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Sir Paul Chater, and Mr. Sharp dissented, recommending that some lesser punishment should be given.\n\nHis Excellency intimated that he was not prepared to accept the advice of the majority and that he would proceed to suspend Mr. Bowen-Rowlands with a view to his dismissal.",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\n17010 REC REG 31 MAR 17 174\n\n2nd February, 1917.\n\nThe Un-official Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils strongly advise that the Government appoint a Board, with an un-official majority of members, and with the following functions and powers:\n\n(1) To hear cases voluntarily brought before it of men between the ages of 18 and 35 who have been medically certified as fit for active service in the war and who desire to leave the Colony for that purpose, but whose employers think they cannot be spared or who for any other reason have difficulty in going;\n\n(2) to advise in the said cases upon the course which the Board considers ought to be taken;\n\n(3) to grant certificates in the said cases to those men whom the Board considers indispensable in the interests of the Colony for the civil work on which they are engaged, or who are detained by the Military Authorities for local defence.\n\nC. P. Chater\nE. H. Sharp\nH. E. Pollock\nE. Shellim\nP. H. Holyoak\nC. I. Anton",
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        "content_text": "348\n\n7. We are satisfied that, apart from the direct result of our investigation, the appointment, or anticipated appointment, of the Commission indirectly brought about the release of an additional number of men, the practicability of sparing whom was so apparent as to render reference to the Commission necessary. A list (avoidably incomplete) of thirty-one men, other than those appearing before the Commission, for whom passages have recently been arranged, is given in Appendix D.\n\n8. It cannot but be noticed that the younger men in the Colony have, to a certain extent, refrained hitherto from coming before the Commission. We have had the opportunity of ascertaining the number of civilians in Hongkong of British race and military age; and are forced to the conclusion that, had more applied, more, although it may be not a large number, would have been found able to go; at the cost perhaps of personal sacrifice, but with no diminution of the Colony's value as an asset of the Empire. Furthermore, it has been a matter of surprise to the Commission to learn, what the enquiry has certainly proved, that there yet remains doubt in some minds whether the Empire needs more men; and this doubt probably in part explains the number who have abstained from applying. Being ourselves convinced that so long as the war lasts the need is imperative, and increasingly so, we respectfully recommend that a clear official pronouncement upon the matter is desirable.\n\n9. The Commission, in the cases before it, has accepted the principle that it is outside its province to decide whether the full carrying on in the Colony of any particular trade or business is necessary or expedient in the interests of the Empire. The Commission has accordingly based its findings upon the policy that, while staffs are to be reduced to the minimum compatible with efficiency, every trade and business, irrespective of its nature, is to be continued. Under the system of compulsory service obtaining in Great Britain, this standard has of course been abandoned; and we recognise that it may be necessary to modify the policy in Hongkong.\n\n10. The part played by Hongkong under the voluntary system will probably stand comparison with the part played by any other British Dependency; but believing, as we have said, that there are still men here who could well be spared, we should welcome a decision by the Imperial Government to extend to the Colony the obligation of compulsory service with the armies in the field.\n\n11. Pursuant to the terms of our appointment, we have confined our enquiry to the cases of men medically passed as fit for active service at the front, and have not considered applications from those physically capable of only sedentary or semi-active duties. And it is evident that the retention here of the latter class enables more of the former to leave.\n\n12. With a view to liberating men, sixty-five women have made offers of assistance in one capacity or another, and steps have been taken to put their names before employers. Useful and suitable work has already been arranged in several cases, and, we hope, will soon be in more. It must, however, be remembered that men who come from the United Kingdom to the Far East have usually undergone a special course of training, and it is difficult to find women possessing the requisite experience and technical knowledge to take their places. Unskilled and partly skilled work, such as is now largely done by women in the United Kingdom, is performed in Hongkong mainly by men of Asiatic race.\n\n13. We desire to express our appreciation of the valuable services of Mr. A. G. M. FLETCHER as Secretary of the Commission.\n\n14. We hope that Your Excellency will see fit to direct the publication of this report in the Gazette.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nE. H. SHARP.\n\nC. E. ANTON.\n\nROBT. SHEWAN.\n\nC. MONTAGUE EDE.\n\nI. B. F. CURRIE.\n\nC. W. BECKWITH.\n\nT. A. LOUGHLIN.\n\n3\n\nAppendix A.\n\nTHE MILITARY SERVICE COMMISSION.\n\nHONGKONG, 26th March, 1917.\n\nSir,- Referring to our recent interviews on the subject of applications from Civil Servants, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that the Commissioners, upon further consideration of all the circumstances which I put before you, are confirmed in the view that it would not serve any useful purpose for them to hear such applications.\n\n2. The principal circumstances influencing the Commissioners in this view are that such applications constitute in some respects a peculiar category; inasmuch as you hold the dual position, at once of the applicant's employer and the arbiter of whatever recommendations the Commissioners may make upon their findings. They also understand that in the former capacity, at the instance of the Secretary of State, you have already formed and are acting upon an opinion as to the maximum number of men who can be spared, which opinion they apprehend would in fact guide your decision in your final arbitrament.\n\n3. In the above circumstances, the Commissioners suggest that you withdraw the Civil Service from the purview of the Commission, in the same manner as the Naval and Military Services have been withdrawn.\n\n4. The Commissioners wish this letter to be understood as in no way implying a desire on their part to be relieved of the task of dealing with applications from Civil Servants, a duty they would gladly undertake were the conditions such as to enable them to perform it usefully and effectively.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour Excellency's obedient servant,\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir F. H. MAY, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor of Hongkong.\n\n(Sd.) E. H. SHARP,\n\nChairman.\n\nGOVERNMENT House, HONGKONG, 28th March, 1917.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant explaining the circumstances which have induced the members of the Military Service Commission to suggest that I should withdraw the Civil Servants from the purview of the Commission.\n\nI appreciate the reasons for this suggestion which in the circumstances I shall adopt. I shall at the same time weigh carefully the cases of those Civil Servants who have not applied to the Colonial Government for permission to offer themselves for Military service beyond the Colony, but who may have made applications to go before the Commission. I shall be glad therefore to receive from the Commission the names of all Civil Servants who have made such applications.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nThe Honourable\n\nMr. E. H. SHARP, K.C.,\n\nChairman,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nMilitary Service Commission,\n\n(S) F. H. MAY,\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "Ridgway, J. A., Robertson, A. W.\n\nRobson, W.,\n\nRodger, J.,\n\nRoss. C. P..\n\nRoss, D. M..\n\nRoss, L.,\n\nRoss, W.\n\nRosser. A. J. W.,\n\nSandford, H. C.,\n\nSchulz, A. E.,\n\nScriven, H. E., Sedgwick, L., Sharp, R. H., Silva, F. N. E.,\n\nSim, E. L Sinclair, W., Smith, Crowther, Smith, W.,\n\nSorby. V.,\n\nSoutherton, R. G.,\n\nStackhouse, J. W., Stalker, J.,\n\nStapleton, W. H.,\n\nStewart, A. B., Stewart, E. G..\n\nStone, W. F..\n\nSummers, C. H....\n\n6\n\n.Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nL.,... Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nSyne Thompson, J.,\n\nTaylor, T., Thomas, G. H., Thompson, F. G.,\n\nThursfield, R. P., Tod, P.,\n\nHongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd....Central Agency, Ltd.\n\n..Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son,\n\n..Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\n..Messrs. Leigh & Orange.\n\n...Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\n..Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co., Ltd.\n\n.Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nMessrs. Linstead & Davis.\n\nMessrs. Lane, Crawford & Co.\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd. Messrs. Dodwell & Co.\n\n.Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd.\n\nMessrs, Reiss & Co.\n\n...Solicitor.\n\n.Messrs. A. G. Gordon & Co.\n\n.Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd.\n\nDiocesan School.\n\n.New Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd.\n\n„Bank Line, Ltd.\n\n..... Messrs. W. G. Humphreys & Co.\n\n.Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd,\n\n.St. Paul's College.\n\nMessrs. Dodwell & Co.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire,\n\nMessrs. Dodwell & Co.\n\nMessrs. Palmer & Turner.\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon & Harston.\n\n....Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Messrs, A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.\n\n.Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation,\n\n......St. Paul's College.\n\nTodd, F. C...* Towns, G. E.,\n\nUpsdell, G. E. S.,\n\nWalker, J. M.,\n\nWallace, C.,\n\nWatkins, C. H.,\n\nWattie, J.,\n\nWilken, E.,\n\nWilkie, P. W. A.,\n\nWilson, D.,.\n\nWoodhead, C.,\n\nWright, W.,\n\n.Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China.\n\n..Central Agency, Ltd.\n\nMessrs. Dodwell & Co.\n\n..Messrs. Alex. Ross & Co,\n\n...Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nWilkinson, R. A. M.,...Messrs. Butterfield & Swire. Williams, E. A. M.,...Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews.\n\n.Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd....Fumigating and Disinfecting Bureau.\n\n.Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd.\n\nMessrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.\n\nYoung, A.,\n\nYoung, J. A.,.........................\n\nBisseker, F. D.\n\nBrewer, W. J.\n\nChapman, A. F. Cheesman, A. G. Cocks, E. C. Croncher, N. Callen, F Cuthill, G. H.\n\nAppendix C.\n\nDip, Mehr.\n\nEaston, J. England, J. C.\n\nFarmer, W. Fyfe, A. A.\n\nGreenbill, L. S.\n\nHaines, H. F. Haywood, G. R. Hegarty, W. G. Henderson, M. J. Hurle, B. R.\n\nJohnstone, J. R.\n\nMaher, N. B. Marques, F. T. Mason, C. F.\n\nMay, (4, T. McDonald, A. G. M.\n\nMellis, (1. Murphy, L. N.\n\nPereira, C.\n\nParves, D. J.\n\nAnderson. A.\n\nBlyton, T\n\nBrand, R. A. Brawn, A. Q. Burlingham, D.\n\nChubb, S. F.\n\nDennys, H. L. Dickie, F. J.\n\nGrant-Smith, E. J. Creen, H.\n\nHill, T. W.\n\nJones, H. I.\n\nKelly, 8.\n\nLee-Jones, B. W. Lenfestey, F. I'.\n\n7\n\nRailton, M. L. Robson, W. Rodger, J. Ross, L. Rosser, A, J, W.\n\nSmith, Crowther. Smith, W. Stapleton, W. H. Stewart, E. G. Summers, C. H.\n\nTaylor, T.\n\nWattie, J. Wilkie, P. W. A.\n\nYoung, A.\n\nAppendix D.\n\nMeVeigh, J. Miskin, G. Mitchell, E. J. Moore, S. S. Moore, W. B. A. Mycock, ('.\n\nOld, T.\n\nRobinson, G, A,\n\nScriven, H. E.\n\nSewell, G. W.\n\nSmyth, F. R.\n\nTomlinson. G. H. S.\n\nWatkins, C.\n\nWeall, T. G.\n\nWest, H.\n\nWhyte, L. M.\n\nPage 350\n\nGOVERNMENT House, Hongkong, 25th April, 1917.\n\nSIR. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the report, dated the 20th April, by the Military Service Commissioners in the matter of the enquiry upon which they have been engaged.\n\n2. I desire to express my thanks to the Commissioners for their valuable work, with its resultant addition of no inconsiderable force for service with His Majesty's Armies; work which has, to my personal knowledge, involved much patient labour.\n\n3. With reference to paragraph 8 of the report I propose shortly to make a pronouncement in the Legislative Council regarding the subject of Military Service in relation to this Colony.\n\n4. The report will be published in the Gazette of the 4th May, a copy will be forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies forthwith, and copies will be laid upon the table of the Legislative Council at its next meeting.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(Sd.)\n\nF. H. MAY,\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nMr. E. H. SHARP, K.C.,\n\nChairman, Military Service Commission.\n\nPage 350",
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        "content_text": "7. We are satisfied that, apart from the direct result of our investigation, the appointment, or anticipated appointment, of the Commission indirectly brought about the release of an additional number of men, the practicability of sparing whom was so apparent as to render reference to the Commission unnecessary. A list (unavoidably incomplete) of thirty-one men, other than those appearing before the Commission, for whom passages have recently been arranged, is given in Appendix D.\n\n8. It cannot but be noticed that the younger men in the Colony have, to a certain extent, refrained hitherto from coming before the Commission. We have had the opportunity of ascertaining the number of civilians in Hongkong of British race and military age; and are forced to the conclusion that, had more applied, more, although it may be not a large number, would have been found able to go; at the cost perhaps of personal sacrifice, but with no diminution of the Colony's value as an asset of the Empire. Furthermore it has been a matter of surprise to the Commission to learn, what the enquiry has certainly proved, that there yet remains doubt in some minds whether the Empire needs more men; and this doubt probably in part explains the number who have abstained from applying. Being ourselves convinced that so long as the war lasts the need is imperative, and increasingly so, we respectfully recommend that a clear official pronouncement upon the matter is desirable.\n\n9. The Commission, in the cases before it, has accepted the principle that it is outside its province to decide whether the full carrying on in the Colony of any particular trade or business is necessary or expedient in the interests of the Empire. The Commission has accordingly based its findings upon the policy that, while staffs are to be reduced to the minimum compatible with efficiency, every trade and business irrespective of its nature is to be continued. Under the system of compulsory service obtaining in Great Britain, this standard has of course been abandoned; and we recognise that it may be necessary to modify the policy in Hongkong.\n\n10. The part played by Hongkong under the voluntary system will probably stand comparison with the part played by any other British Dependency; but believing, as we have said, that there are still men here who could well be spared, we should welcome a decision by the Imperial Government to extend to the Colony the obligation of compulsory service with the armies in the field.\n\n11. Pursuant to the terms of our appointment, we have confined our enquiry to the cases of men medically passed as fit for active service at the front, and have not considered applications from those physically capable of only sedentary or semi-active duties. And it is evident that the retention here of the latter class enables more of the former to leave.\n\n12. With a view to liberating men, sixty-five women have made offers of assistance in one capacity or another, and steps have been taken to put their names before employers. Useful and suitable work has already been arranged in several cases, and, we hope, will soon be in more. It must however be remembered that men who come from the United Kingdom to the Far East have usually undergone a special course of training, and it is difficult to find women possessing the requisite experience and technical knowledge to take their places. Unskilled and partly skilled work, such as is now largely done by women in the United Kingdom, is performed in Hongkong mainly by men of Asiatic race.\n\n13. We desire to express our appreciation of the valuable services of Mr. A. G. M. FLETCHER as Secretary of the Commission.\n\n14. We hope that Your Excellency will see fit to direct the publication of this report in the Gazette.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nE. H. SHARP.\n\nC. E. ANTON,\n\nROBT. SHEWAN.\n\nC. MONTAGUE EDE.\n\nI. B. F. CURRIE.\n\nC. W. BECKWITH.\n\nT. A. LOUGHILIN.\n\nAppendix A.\n\nTHE MILITARY SERVICE COMMISSION.\n\nHONGKONG, 26th March, 1917.\n\nSir, - Referring to our recent interviews on the subject of applications from Civil Servants, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that the Commissioners, upon further consideration of all the circumstances which I put before you, are confirmed in the view that it would not serve any useful purpose for them to hear such applications.\n\n2. The principal circumstances influencing the Commissioners in this view are that such applications constitute in some respects a peculiar category; inasmuch as you hold the dual position, at once of the applicant's employer and the arbiter of whatever recommendations the Commissioners may make upon their findings. They also understand that in the former capacity, at the instance of the Secretary of State, you have already formed and are acting upon an opinion as to the maximum number of men who can be spared, which opinion they apprehend would in fact guide your decision in your final arbitrament.\n\n3. In the above circumstances, the Commissioners suggest that you withdraw the Civil Service from the purview of the Commission, in the same manner as the Naval and Military Services have been withdrawn.\n\n4. The Commissioners wish this letter to be understood as in no way implying a desire on their part to be relieved of the task of dealing with applications from Civil Servants, a duty they would gladly undertake were the conditions such as to enable them to perform it usefully and effectively.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nHis Excellency Sir F. H. MAY, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor of Hongkong.\n\nYour Excellency's obedient servant,\n\n(Sd.) E. H. SHARP,\n\nChairman.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG, 28th March, 1917.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant, explaining the circumstances which have induced the members of the Military Service Commission to suggest that I should withdraw the Civil Servants from the purview of the Commission.\n\nI appreciate the reasons for this suggestion which in the circumstances I shall adopt. I shall at the same time weigh carefully the cases of those Civil Servants who have not applied to the Colonial Government for permission to offer themselves for Military service beyond the Colony, but who may have made applications to go before the Commission. I shall be glad therefore to receive from the Commission the names of all Civil Servants who have made such applications.\n\nThe Honourable Chairman,\n\nMilitary Service Commission.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\n(Sd.) F. H. MAY,\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nPage 352",
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        "content_text": "O.R.\n\nNo. 159.\n\nCA.\n\nBOARD OF TRADE,\n\n509 Department of the Official Receivers in Companies Liquidation,\n\nIREC 3767 3 CAREY STREET,\n\nLANCOLN'S INN,\n\nREG 20 JAN 1917\n\nTRADING WITH THE ENEMY AMENDMENT ACT, 1916.\n\n4/1916-17\n\nSir,\n\nRe Hills Menke & Co. Ltd.,\n\nI am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge your communication of the 16th instant, and to express the Board's concurrence in the answer which you propose to send to the Officer Administrating the Government of Hong Kong. The Winding-up of the business of Hills Menke & Co. Ltd. is entrusted to Mr. R. A. Sharp, as Controller, his address being 120, Colmore Row, Birmingham.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nH.E. Burgess\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nS.W.",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nreturn for his assistance. The German house therefore receives 50 per cent. of its claim, say 500, and a further 500l. in return for its services, or, in other words, the claim of 1,000l. is paid in full, Dutch merchants have also been known to take similar action. Such dishonest practices are rendered possible by the fact that long experience has proved to both merchants and bankers the advisability of accepting a compromise rather than place the native in the bankruptcy court, which takes anything from four to six years to wind up a native estate.\n\nThis unsound system of long credits has been the main factor in building up the German trade in the archipelago. It has enabled the local enemy merchant to compete to some extent in the distribution of British piece goods, as he was able to extend his sales to a wide circle of speculative, financially weak dealers, and he relied upon his own acumen and sharp practice, together with the help of his home banks, to extricate himself should financial difficulties arise. The position of the British shipper from Manchester was secured, inasmuch as under the system he received cash against documents in London or Hamburg, but the local British merchant on the spot suffered.\n\n2. The most formidable competition experienced from German houses has been in heavy engineering, machinery, iron, steel, and hardware generally. Germany largely controls the imports of these articles, and British firms, so far, have competed at great disadvantage. In the past 30 years representatives of German sugar machine works have secured a very large portion of the important trade in supplying the equipment of local plants. This has been due partly to the very easy terms of payment allowed, which often extends over several years, but is largely attributable to the fact that the Germans quoted and supplied exactly what the mills required, and their representatives were able to supply many more details than the ordinary British salesman, who had often very little experience, and frequently attempted to force would-be purchasers to take standard patterns and dimensions instead of quoting for local requirements.\n\nA typical case is the celebrated German firm of Orenstein & Koppel, Arthur Koppel, which maintains its own branch in Java, and conducts a large trade in light railways, iron, and steel. This firm frequently delivers from stock one or two locomotives, and has usually some 2,000 to 3,000 tons of rails in its godowns. A large business is done in light railways, bridges, and other supplies for sugar plantations and factories, and these goods are sold on credit at terms extending to as much as five years. The goods are shipped from Germany, free of finance, and remittances are made direct to the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank through their local agents, Messrs. Behn, Meyer & Co. In like manner the agents for Krupps do an immense business in railway material, bridges, iron and steel, &c. Recently their stocks were upwards of 8,000 tons in Sourabaya alone, and they are reputed to have power at any time to undercut in price any local firm desirous of entering into competition. A large trade is handled by the sole agents for Mannesmann tubes, Messrs. Linde, Teves & Co., who have branches at no less than seven ports throughout the islands. The metal and hardware import is largely in the hands of Carl Schlieper & Co., of Remscheid, and is conducted through their Java branch.\n\nBritish manufacturers cannot hope to compete in this business after the war unless they are prepared to adopt an expansive policy, to treat their agents on more liberal terms, and in return to insist on the pushing of their interests throughout the Outer Possessions as well as in Java. They should be prepared to send out expert representatives to adopt a more liberal policy of sample consignments, to revise their catalogues and literature in accordance with the needs of the buyer, and above all they should be prepared to grant credit in cases of large contracts where there is reasonable security, such as is the case in the sugar and other factories. The granting of credit in such cases is on a very different plane to that accorded to unstable dealers in piece goods and sundries. The British Eastern banks have not looked with favour on such schemes in the past, because they are exchange banks pure and simple, and rely upon exchange rather than upon interest for their profits, but this would appear to be a case where a State bank of the nature of that recommended by Lord Faringdon's Committee might be of distinct advantage. With the expansion of tea and rubber cultivation of late years among the islands, the gradual development of the Outer Possessions, and consequent extension of means of communication, the Dutch East Indies are likely to become a still more important market for machinery and plant of all kinds. It is hoped that, after the war, German finance will be very much crippled, and consequently the elaborate system of credit, which has been her mainstay in this important field, will probably require to be curtailed. This will afford an opportunity for British manufacturers to develop their schemes of expansion and at the same time, it is hoped, will remove the more objectionable features of the trade.\n\n3. The control of the import of aniline dyes and synthetic indigo has been used by the Germans as a lever to further the sales of their piece goods and other commodities. The total imports of dyestuffs into Java in 1912 amounted to 250,000oz. This trade, in itself, was a lucrative one for the local German houses, inasmuch as no financial risks were entailed, and very full commissions were granted by the dye manufacturers. The Germans, however, utilised their monopoly to the fullest extent by declining to sell their dyes to the native dealers except in conjunction with sales of textiles or other imported articles. It should be noted that the bulk of the imports of grey and bleached fabrics and yarns into the islands are afterwards dyed by the natives, while for the peculiar process of \"batticking\" (i.e., native printing with wax) a wide range of shades is demanded. The staple trade in textiles is therefore dependent upon an adequate supply of dyestuffs. Native indigo and other vegetable dyes are obtainable at cheap prices; but these cannot compete with the imported synthetic dyestuffs:—\n\n(1) In the case of plain, direct dyeing, by reason of the longer process required;\n\nand\n\n(2) In the case of batticking, on account of the limited range of shades obtainable.\n\nEven with the present exorbitant prices for synthetic dyestuffs, native dyes are only used as a stopgap.\n\nIt is only to be expected that, after the war, Germany will be forced to utilise her superiority in dye production to the greatest advantage, but it is hoped that some alleviation of the situation may be obtained from British dye manufacturers. The two principal colours required in Java are aniline red and indigo.\n\n4. Two distinct features of German trade have been the zeal with which German merchants have stimulated the export of miscellaneous articles of produce, and their readiness to reside and work up a business in the more remote island ports, which are at present in the early stages of development. These characteristics are noticeable throughout all the markets of the Far East. The two forms of activity go hand-in-hand, and are prompted by the following considerations:—\n\n(1) British and other European merchants already control a large share of the trade in the main ports, which are largely developed, and where competition is the keenest.\n\n(2) The undeveloped portions of the various markets offer the greatest field for expansion, and if only an export trade can be secured in their produce, the return trade in imports is bound to follow.\n\n(3) Throughout the Far East it is precisely the miscellaneous articles such as oil-bearing seeds, copra, hides, &c., which have found a ready market on the continent, and the result has been the shifting of the entrepôt trade in these products from London to Hamburg, Rotterdam, and other continental ports.\n\n(4) It is realised that having established a sound trade without serious competition, and by dint of considerable perseverance and endurance—for residence in the undeveloped portions of the Far East entails a lonely life, and the absence of most of the amenities and many of the comforts of civilised existence, and here I speak from considerable personal experience—their position will be sufficiently strong to make a bold bid for the bulk staple trade in the great ports.\n\nThis tendency towards the decentralisation of German efforts to the Outer Possessions has been successfully carried out for some years. A notable example is the case of Macassar, the capital of Celebes, which is rapidly increasing in importance, and is keenly competing with Singapore, particularly in copra. German activities are most noticeable, and these have been stimulated by the excellent service of N.D.L. steamers to Singapore, and by the fact that the German-Australian line made it a port of call in order to attract the direct shipments of produce, and to divert the trade from the Straits. The Dutch are actively co-operating in the development of the more backward islands by a system of improved steamer connections under the flag of the Royal Packet Company. In 1913 there were only three British residents in\n\n19\n\nC% \n\n606",
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        "content_text": "To this form of objection it could be got over by defining Asiatics on racial grounds.\n\nFor license to reside in the territory except by permission of the Sr. W. Council, they shall conforming themselves to the laws of the country, they shall be permitted to rent houses.\n\nSubject to legal safeguards I see no objection to the Act will. I am authorised to proceed with it.\n\nThis has obvious advantages counted out in para 4.\n\nI beg to refer to the 'Memorandum of Commerce & Navigation' of 3rd Atty Gen, which has already been invoked in the case of Mr. Habber wands and to which Japan adhered provides Art I. 4 that the subjects of each of the high contracting parties shall have full liberty to enter, travel and reside in the territories of the other.\n\nAfter all, the main object is to keep Chinese & Eurasians out.\n\nPage 67\n\nGR52968/17\n\nXCR(85)72\n\nKbf4/8\n\nConf. es 20 47\n\n...\n\nFortumality Circular does not propose to exclude Japanese, but only to check, if necessary, an invasion in force.\n\nas native subjects.\n\nThe Japanese shall not be administered in such a way as to give a legitimate ground for complaint of infringement of the similar treaties to which Japan has adhered.\n\nCheese.\n\nreally\n\nJaunst\n\nBut I presume there will be in doubt.\n\nCathe care Keth the Order \"that\"\n\nLiiv\n\nwarn at the same tima he will.\n\nThis 'sharp' say\n\nald Lasy I\n\nDuth Las\n\nKK. wy have\n\nI appen: com\n\nمحمد اکم\n\nسمة.\n\nما\n\nالامكان\n\nКай сая\n\nobvious Sbjection\n\nint\n\ndoes not explain than. Of the rejection wea only in the Eurasians.\n\nCase com, Clain.\n\nExfgedent in 52968/17 ?\n\nمن\n\nThe Jafo ad a general prisitation residence at the peall.\n\nconforming themselves to the laws country\n\nown as the Jaur\n\nI an objection to the Aft will.\n\nLas anthorne for to proceed with it:\n\nat the same\n\nhe will in doubt.\n\nCath care\n\nKeth the Orde Liiv \"that\"\n\nwarn at the same tima\n\nadvantages Ca counted out in pare 4:\n\nout if it me to be administered an check on the Japanese they\n\nI begatimato ground of complaint werden uns af I the Healy of Commerce & hayration' of 3 Attyyny,\n\nDuth Las already been invoked in the cam of. MS. habber wands and to which phony adhered provides Art I. 4 that the subjecti f each of the high contracting farlie shall have full liberty to enter travel ander \"reside in the territories of the other and must not I aducistered in such a to give a legétionati pround for complaint of spuit 7 Quan infringement of the similar treaties r adhered.\n\nin.\n\nKK. wy have\n\nAfter all main Boject is to : محمد اکم Keep Chuire & Eurasians out.\n\n& Sund I appen: com és 20 47 conf. Kbf4/8 the provisions of the treaty which to Beckett calls abfention",
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        "content_text": "But if the Summary Court limit were raised the work of the Court would be largely increased and much money, which now goes to the rightful owners by compromise, would be diverted into the pockets of three lawyers and their touts, while the real benefit to the public would be infinitesimal. For the reasons, therefore, indicated in the Memorandum referred to above, I have decided not to entertain the proposals for an amalgamation of the two branches of the legal profession or for the extension of the jurisdiction of the Summary Court; and I have asked the Chief Justice to adopt the suggestion of making a Short Cause List, which in my view should be very beneficial in obviating in some measure congestion of work in Original Jurisdiction in the Supreme Court.\n\n4. If, however, the delay which has characterised legal proceedings in Original Jurisdiction for a number of years is to be removed and it is essential to the public interest that it should be, a far more drastic remedy is necessary.\n\nI wish to draw your attention to paragraph 4 of enclosure No. 4 and to enclosure No. 9 and to the fact that the defect must be pronounced when a body of Solicitors make such an indictment against the Bench. To satisfy myself on this point I consulted confidentially the leading members of the Bar and I now enclose a copy of the note which I made of the gist of their opinion, together with a copy of a private letter which Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., addressed to me in September last on this subject. Mr. Sharp's letter deserves the most serious consideration for the reason that he is the leader of the local Bar who has had for many years a large practice here and has also enjoyed considerable practice in London. Moreover, he recognises that he himself...\n\nEnclosure 15.\n\n166.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\nS.\n\n148\n\n16079\n\nPRAGLICON Jnomis 82 (hətəlxə əyən: Is and do bdw) nolismıgImris\n\ntưď tam made at yino Jonat ̃woɔ Laravan arid of bravez gotvad\n\naranoid bioarzą Lavaf do2% al cant© tɔ atrod plaani nadĵo al\n\nfata omma arið að oð h2an od yam aldı .eonelbus to tight sit ovat\n\nBødetë qafasi bedarshes bas aðɛone1326“ 132a132 613 93 Brajat\n\nto jadi dibe heraqube sa nama agortosa de bus kabaroq dokir\n\n‚·0% evad I\n\n„modeem¶ .M .A (,b8}\n\nCOPY.\n\n1.\n\nMemorandum.\n\nIREC\n\nREG 2 APR 18\n\nI asked the members of the Bar to meet me to-day in order to consider the proposals which have been made for the fusion of the two branches of the legal profession and for an increase in the jurisdiction of the Summary Court. The following attended as deputies for the purpose of reporting the unanimous views of the Bar as expressed at the meeting at Mr. Pollock's Chambers hereinafter referred to:-\n\nHon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C.\n\nMr. R. E. Belilios\n\nMr. C. Grenville Alabaster,\n\nMr. Eldon Potter, and\n\nDr. F. T. Cheng.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., was unavoidably prevented from being present by an attack of fever.\n\n2.\n\nThe views expressed at the meeting are the unanimous views of all the nine members of the Bar who are at present in Hongkong, namely:-\n\nHon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C.,\n\nHon. Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C.,\n\nMr. R. E. Belilios,\n\nMr. C. Grenville Alabaster,\n\nMr. Eldon Potter,\n\nDr. F. T. Cheng,\n\nMr. Tsun Hiu Chau,\n\nMr. Yu Euan Tean and\n\nMr. V. Findlay Smith,\n\nsuch nine members having previously unanimously expressed such views at a meeting held at the Chambers of the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., to consider the matter. Mr. F.C.Jenkin being out of the Colony, it has not been possible to ascertain his views.\n\nThe Bar are opposed to the fusion of the two branches.\n\n3.",
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        "content_text": "154\n\n74\n\nTehro Tu rekantw add to flusOT A BA\n\not mottoa tunaeng alt biomemos kad „rodablup21 am (Tevioneя\n\nmotoomki yg to ɔwɔ mort mulgo to adserio 001 1*TOOST\n\n,astanaketnoe begella\n\nshqɔ and mê amottautourh Jmioty need ovat eredi\n\nfabi na mary juan afg giftly need nad soboq adź Juď Jefta\n\nof Suow moltoa ab¶± at ažadu sa desnoma ati .Feeds a 600,01%\n\n'to sa“ rotabłupil of. «malfeš možíšku a stil zabíjsem nerīà\n\nDie gelato andết bwa athode 34 not gathesadafuo mažało zalimin\n\n•moldos tresang and to sloven sås yď baklash of yidadorę\n\n+\n\n.\n\nhevora ama tuod vba 103%d/% ada TI\n\nof tetram tead nat older?wa adatodało y2fghf besa Luteoama2h\n\nsta verutmaq verɔnnot về bedroďran bia (azadowaki eds to\n\naidonarand cheronmath ons nograda oris 41 Jaokimbraneb prove to\n\nm2: [Emer to ald 63 tonažia šnaboen? ga akan naf modoan.bl\n\n+zangu+ LLos\n\nand avať od mo „o1ƒtml da pravnot a ed of metão add gd boğolla\n\nZETOZZING LOL fjŢa vG4; OKT*\n\nno stamfontem við azz or #Todoenka sta ti navi\n\nto tamom and 106 Sfuorin yoɗa mada tvised on era abia motako\n\nmaertod dat$1′′E oft al eroit Mga gañada da #2 arabłodonada eft\n\n. bežao 2baby od od wal\n\nonko #fi dati soma in243 1 [L!w yonelisons TwoT\n\n11 19more[duona qilanolinaoza ed et bonbrong draðu affð mor\n\nat admugo asoñi në bebet goed nad Jadi Jaolvasd stð glatastoo\n\n.fɔmed eit no need evad I bafi atacy V MIS\n\ndmenmuotħa to noitasup w/:53 592w twr29 Lash LIEW I\n\nyenutat say raylu að 35 ymbenət Isatuan dari ada\n\nsmok testa yllaaft bra çawa noti sau quafi „TH JUS DIGI deat\n\novat hiuow sumo 1o3 xoomstamato Latrac tobau\n\naft að af „grafa umm sarudo to new y‡lượtY7th of, ineft no eme\n\n1\n\ngood as ever, but he is no longer a young man and there is always\n\nthe same difficulty with him in the Courts. He is extremely\n\ngood when started, but it is extraordinarily difficult to bring\n\nhim to the post. His bodily habit and an increasing inability to stand protracted exertion make him a very slow worker and\n\nrequires frequent rests.\n\nAt the same time since Mr. Francis and Mr. Slade\n\nleft the scene there is no one in the Colony to equal him in the\n\nable opening of a heavy case.\n\nI was not very much surprised when Mr. Sharp\n\nbefore the hearing day applied for an adjournment. He stated that\n\nthe facts were of enormous complexity: he had been much\n\ninconvenienced by Mr. Crew's absence for a month in Japan, he was\n\nnot ready, and he could not possibly be ready in time. On each\n\napplication he assured me and no doubt himself believed that it\n\nwould be the last. He was in a quasi-official position as\n\nrepresenting the liquidator the Official Receiver of the Colony.\n\nHad I foreseen that Mr. Sharp would eventually\n\nwithdraw from the case before its close and that another Counsel\n\nwould come in, I should probably after one adjournment have\n\nrequired him to go on at once. He would then perhaps have brought\n\nhimself to the scratch. More probably he would, if he felt\n\nhimself not in a position to do justice to the case, have retired\n\naltogether. He did actually throw up his brief halfway through\n\nthe case in an Admiralty motion last year, leaving his junior to\n\nfinish it.\n\nHad Mr. Sharp retired before the case started the\n\nonly other possibility was Mr. Pollock. He must inevitably have\n\ntaken many weeks to get up the case which is very heavy; he is very slow in Court and his weak point is cross-examination which in an action for fraud is the most important matter of all. On the\n\nwhole I am not sure that very much would have been gained in the long run by sterner measures. In any case I acted after very\n\nfull consideration and with full responsibility. I believed at\n\nthe time that I was taking the course most conducive to the",
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        "content_text": "ACTO\n\nToit promɔdit ambaf kaumal\n\nKas modmenad ko batradu yilanit Dabri oda\n\nmuttam gồ betrue stat yllaptrova Ikinu samuoo Iarron ett Iotnoo on bad twoo #13 doživ\n\ncant groundəl mo hamg000 mroh Lao-d Junii affi\n\nadd to mum.40 na trentuloqqa ati Sannuouss qzadā «7% nede mband2w baerva 1 bris,bežāžu on anotaalmað selvro8 YZAILEEN Tutduh won ali saldia os atďkanoqui ferit ja eð blươw 12 jafj **itka add anof word nładreoms van 12 du¤ JIHOW PEUo) aki :532m *4 go?Maand not herea ori besa eužtaco bluor notestamoo sit to (man and amuser bra trov qvaed Lattiat ada meva tag of griqad nivo tenta galeaed off dal of mens oorka I .etab tizao na ja\n\n2 mus+ Arun Sung voi sen blush ai lily tam at ten có\n\n[uofa I taft aban að yan mata 132mp adt ørel\n\n**** **bw samo sit baumžándo dia Jasmytwothe yua benutaz vitilda tasma aať ažino% .TM daft al Townzia sik\n\nJurit a ad amid anol on at Litwek Joalsong taong prov svoda bos ings #thrať od vaguenen edzte bronze #foal at full vetasoyba stało vakuumta to santa antrofa ybseria son of bri boblarus suko yvard a\n\nnew 138 forak 12tmus nedi \"avo boota saa0 KIT the tahab od bluor sovvenda a quads .4% tait tooṇaqqa anaoed 32\n\nhocưco Tranžbro att bounzione aeft galusel ofi\n\n1) mayZangh Into1990 afft,mayed qu iaomi alâ mərde tul? yak İlimu hluss has a‡noo aží mot berzzoss ton kar of berevosažb stab tait\n\n.Deesorg #roterend Jon\n\na m2 hre of oraz zanthocoɔng ofɔrk add uneLat\n\nI satude to aldi bra,ĮTAKISOBA sam İnamituojba na ,00 8411 Tabla maťão sit yď betalven yliod www 33 Squadij\n\nhas many? eed 15amaynatal wwozɔ of3 5305 yak no\n\ntæld helInga Lazonod yomotta sit baz befrotza orov zaul 10:59 all anthsecom Isakatro na 625 ends bermuotħa að styku zabraed adj team need avad blươw no?taakumet a doua .sono da nimed of eTOW add avby od henbutasah moto #13 bas eft al bas ratan.J ŠTO ŽAL\n\nhaminch of yaktuosa oft maykaðan Lalo 1923\n\nPhyo vidła ty need bad of abimet al digil smul no\n\n156\n\nworked for some time, broke down absolutely, and this resulted\n\nin further adjournments lasting to August 20th when he again\n\nresumed his place in Court.\n\nThere were intermediate sittings during his\n\nabsence at which either Mr. Sharp or Mr. Pollock attended on\n\nthe taking of evidence de bene esse.\n\nThe gaps between sittings at this period were due\n\nto the fact that Mr. Pollock was quite new to the case and that\n\nMr. Sharp, who only consented to come in temporarily, had after\n\nmonths of absence, forgotten all his facts.\n\nThe hearing closed on September 7th when, on the\n\nrequest of both sides, I adjourned till after the vacation to\n\nenable Counsel to prepare their speeches.\n\nThe attached table shows that there have been 70\n\nhearing days in the case. The Court has never in Hongkong sat in\n\nOriginal Jurisdiction on Fridays or Saturdays.\n\nThis leaves 4 days a week for such sittings, or 16\n\na month. Normally then the hearing would have concluded in 4\n\nmonths. Allowing for necessary intermissions such as vacations\n\n(Christmas, China New Year and Easter) total 25 days. Full Court\n\nsittings 9 days: Criminal Sessions 6 days: illness of witnesses\n\nand Counsel 4 days : say six months altogether.\n\nIn the ordinary course then the hearing would have\n\nconcluded at about the middle of June.\n\nNow as to the alleged prolixity of Counsel.\n\nA barrister is an educated man who specialises\n\nin the practice of advocacy by which he hopes to make a living.\n\nTo be successful he must be conscientious and hard working. Like\n\nall specialists he will have the defects of his qualities. If\n\nhe is prolix to no purpose, he very soon loses his practice.\n\nMr. Pollock. The two best advocates in the Colony Messrs. Sharp\n\nand Potter speak at considerable length in a case they consider\n\ndifficult: the first through excessive carefulness and anxiety\n\nto miss no point, the second from natural fluency. Mr. Alabaster\n\nis very much more concise in argument or in cross-examination;",
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        "content_text": "157\n\n: +\n\nIntulɔnda mo? »Nord ambé emoa mot bøfHOW af mød. 4305 Jaugua of zn±tual stnamennpotba veriðnut al Spoð at soska uti bemuaez hi antrub igatssku aðalhommataḥ orow oranı no habmatta fenito? „TH TO YEAH .** metilə dolda ta sonaada Jouno saed ob sonablye to anivat erit un araw bo kmaq alis sa uan23320 moovieď krag sår 19** \\n* *8.no and of wea eðlup saw follo¶ \"X tatt t852 BE) 03 · had vyĺtkamoquad n? embo of beántance ține of Lozada .wm +150% aid Ila mettograt,someada to eritrom **t no noche 45% meɗmetysë no ha solo gebraad est of moltsoav att rasta II13 bea\"yofha I,sobia diod to Janupas .aaibonga užs it aq-qərq od Leanwoo eid.ne Og nesd ovat omati daft svoda aldat bedoæðis er jan gno:'ggol at revan aať truoð adı veamo sit at agad zofraedi ingabrutaż mo syahiri no naitakhabrut Danbybro I TO pasnijska foue not foow a vyzb à noyseľ akti fa 12 hehutonoo evat hipow jutræet ett nedź glimrod „drom a unottoo ay sa bus amoladhæredak yasasenen sot gatwolla truoð [Iứt .ayub 89 [adod (reduak hna zaoÏ well and (noméabes10) maanantha to manglik inyað á 120knosa Isɑhubrð -nyað 7 sgatáska „zadjegodľa adenoết xla yâu 1 nyah à Iontro] bera ahlvor gutzaed ode node sampoo praatbro eft al .amul to Ibbim ofà tuoda ta bebulonoo .Isa:tuod to yitzilsoną bego¿La adi 03 84 WON Y PULLTURAL je wir eqnowfeq meu apo abeopry?NE Cantylia @fam od soqo♬ ad dolde yď yasoovba to solteang sắt nà • Teatrow brarf bisa ugokime Zounoo eď taur ad Lužaneogue ed of ↑I •ɔɔtthlaup ald to atostoð oft svaɗ LIów od stu2Lmlooqu LLa •1.* #oldanq a21 monoli noda prev BË JOBOTIMq da að skłong al ed ****3 .07:1ək ymofɔo add m2 vodacovba taad ont ad, .**11.9 Hablanɔo pati samo a nt Atzasl sidanshtagoo ja saaqa qedt0% bra ydyžama boa esenluto”ão #vžazioza iguomić dacht and 131u617228 modandalo e*%.yoneuft Isnudan nort brossa eit Jaloq on malm of ¡noždanimaxe saomo mi vo dnamique nt salonso #Tom Houm grav at\n\nbut then he is infinitely less efficient.\n\nMr. Sharp's opening speech took seven days: were he ten years younger he might got it into six. But it is a delicate matter to interrupt an advocate of great experience who has taken weeks to work up his case and is doing his best to present difficult points clearly and distinctly. I have never heard a judge break in on such a speech either here or at home; it would clearly be a vexatious practice.\n\nAgain it is very difficult when responsible Counsel are engaged and fraud is in question to cut short cross-examination. I do not think any judge would in fact do it. Counsel knows what his case is, and the Court does not. Very often an able cross-examiner will lead gradually up to a point he wishes to make by imperceptible degrees. This is the more necessary when as in this case the persons charged with fraud are educated men fully alive to the cross-examiner's purpose.\n\nThe cross-examination might have been materially shortened if Fr. Nolan had interpreted from the beginning. But he has always been attached to the Chief Justice's Court and he is needed there for Sessions: and it is troublesome to change interpreters when there are many references to documents, I began with Mr. Mackie who usually does my work. When he went on leave I continued with one or other of the Chinese interpreters. Since Mr. Jenkin's return I have had Mr. Nolan by special arrangement and the speeding up has been most gratifying.\n\nAfter Mr. Sharp retired from the case it became apparent that Mr. Jenkin would not be able to stand the strain alone. He showed clear signs of being overworked; and with all his promise he has still something to learn about framing questions to a Chinese witness, especially when the interpretation is weak.\n\nUndoubtedly had he been in better health or had more experience in this class of work he could, and would, have shortened his cross-examination considerably. But when an able man suffering from overwork and over-anxiety is doing his best, single-handed in a heavy case it is an insidious matter to pull",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\n160 SITTINGS IN ORIGINAL ACTION No. 61 of 1914.\n\n1916 December 18th 19th 20th 21st (a)\n\n1917 January 2nd 4th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th (b) 31st\n\nFebruary 1st 2nd 5th 6th 7th 18th (c)\n\nMarch 5th 6th 7th 8th 12th 13th 14th 15th 20th\n\n21st 22nd 26th 27th 28th 29th.\n\nApril 2nd 3rd 4th 6th (d) 24th 25th 26th 30th\n\nMay 1st 2nd 7th 8th 9th 10th 14th 16th 16th 17th (e)\n\nJune 18th (f)\n\nJuly 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 17th 18th\n\n31st\n\nAugust 1st\n\nDe bene esse 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 27th 28th\n\nSeptember 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th\n\n29th 30th\n\n(a) December 21st Christmas Vacation\n\n(b) January 15th - 22nd Full Court\n\n(c) February 18th Mr. Sharp drops out.\n\n(d) April 5th - 7 days Easter Vacation\n\n(e) May 17th\n\n(f) June 11th Mr. Jenkin breaks down.\n\nXCR(158)\n\nPage 160",
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        "content_text": "177\n\ncharacter of \n\nThe situation is in Original action. \n\n- \n\ntendered here quotes by an umparte \n\nLaughing » of course place of quest mercantile importance, with Extensive commercial cutomauts, and many culty companies and firms and individuals, both European and \n\nAnd \n\nI should say \n\nthe courage value at stake in Original actions here is quite as large as in Stich Court actions at home relating to customs, commercial, company, partnership, administration and Admiralty matters, and disputes concerning wills. In this respect Hong Kong is in a different position from most of the Crown Colonies. \n\n+ \n\nThese evils, I think, can only be met by changing the system of appointment; and by selecting at any rate in Chief Justice from the actually practising bar, or as a general rule from the home bar are furthermore from among members of the bar who have acquired some degree of success. The present salary is probably adequate to secure a good \n\nwith proper antecedents, but the importance of the work and office would, I think, justify any \n\nnecessary for the purpose. \n\ncum tunc \n\nmar \n\nYours sincerely \n\n(Signed) E.H. Sharp \n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "including Lam Tan Chiu and Li Hong Mi in the first case,\n\nand Li Hong Mi in the second case, and Lo Taz Sou in the third case. Further with regard to the first case, Mr. Wei Yuk informed me be- fore the trial, as I have informed the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, that Lam Tan Chiu had offered to Mr. Wong, late inter- preter at the Supreme Court, bribes gradually increasing from $5,000 to $50,000 to give expert evidence in support of a forged document on which the fraudulent claim to property worth about $1,000,000 depended; the desired evidence being contrary to the opinion which Mr. Wong had already expressed to Lam Tan Chiu that the document was a forgery, as indeed it was ultimately pro- nounced by the Court. There is among these papers a written statement by Mr. Wong confirming this, and I can only take it as true.\n\nIt would I think be a salutary warning to this class of men, and of great advantage to the Colony, if these three could be got out of it.\n\n28th July, 1917.\n\n(sd.) E. H. Sharp.",
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        "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 22nd April, 1918.\n\nIn accordance with the provision of Section 14 of Ordinance No. 25 of 1917, I have the honour to report that after compliance with the formalities required by the Ordinance a Deportation Order has been made against Li Hong-mi, a British subject, formerly Interpreter in the Supreme Court, who has for some time past been associated with a Firm of Solicitors in the Colony.\n\n2\\. I enclose a copy of the charges preferred against Li Hong-mi, who through his Solicitors and with the assistance of two prominent Counsel is seeking to obtain a judgment of the Supreme Court on the validity of the provisions of the Deportation Ordinance, 1917. As the case is of importance and the Attorney-General is overburdened with work I have caused Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., O.B.E., to be instructed to assist him. I shall report in due course the result of the legal proceedings.\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nSir,  \nYour most obedient, humble servant,  \n**Governor**,&c..\n\n## Previous Correspondence\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nSir H. Cowac Privy Comil may Fell's me that the question of the passing of the legislative authority authorizing \"to pass The matter is fraught with importance and it is most valuable that I should not urself. I thought I ought to upload it in this case instead of it is legally desirable that shown represents the Inte fully instructed have. H. Sharp, Case A pmitté. in at have for a short time & the Case estoutes std rather to with him.\n\nBy confer Mr. Stabba You might see the papers as to the passing of this Ord., which I have got out for you. We will then instruct Messrs. Burchell to confer A.S.O. 14.5.19 AC once Ace 15.5 Thanks Catch Chat metin latted. KIRAH spetat with Mr. Sharp.\n\n### Metadata\nThe 11 JUL 191[j]  \nIPEC 34033  \nPage 116",
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        "content_text": "## **CONFIDENTIAL**\n**HONGKONG.**\n**34038**\n**REC REG 11 JUL 18**\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE.**\n4th May, 1918.\n\n**NO** I don't think we could live being here. T.C.M. 19.7.18.\n\nWe handle it is the allotment man at the It bone Bar and think then is ...\n\nIt was 1890 AM.\n\nSir,\n\nMr. E. H. Sharp, O.B.E., K.C., who, as you are aware, is a Member of Executive Council, and, as recently reported in my cypher telegram of the 10th November, 1917, has done useful work as Chairman of the Local Military Service Commission and organiser of the \"Our Day\" celebrations, is shortly going to England and is anxious to be employed in war work while there.\n\nMr. Sharp is a thoroughly competent man and I should therefore be much obliged if you would assist him to find suitable employment.\n\nHis health is not very good. You will remember that it was stated in the papers about delay in litigation that one cause of frequent adjournments was the extension of his sharp ...\n\nI should have thought that the Ministry of National Service could doubt if any ... would hurt. But will be useful when he comes.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nWALTER LONG, M.P.,\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "308\n\nof Commerce, a body of leading Chinese of high standing in the Colony, who unanimously pronounced them forgeries. Both the alleged forgery and the alleged fraud had been the subject of strong animadversions by the Chief Justice and the Full Court of Appeal in the winding up proceedings, and the Court had expressed the view that the case was surrounded with so much suspicion that it pre-eminently required investigation. The Counsel (Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., and Mr. F. C. Jenkin) for the Official Receiver shared the latter's belief that the charges were well founded. In these circumstances, I had a conference with the Attorney-General and Mr. Sharp, with the result that I decided to institute criminal proceedings against two of the defendants on a charge of conspiracy to defraud, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin was instructed for the purpose, together with Messrs. Hastings and Hastings, Solicitors. This firm were the Solicitors for the Plaintiff in the Civil proceedings. Mr. Sharp had been appointed to be Chairman of the Military Service Commission and had generously abandoned the case in order to devote the whole of his time to the Commission.\n\n4.\n\nAn application was thereupon made to the Full Court to stay the Civil action. The Court granted the Plaintiff an adjournment of 1 month to enable him to make a further attempt to obtain funds wherewith to continue the Civil action, but intimated strongly that in their opinion, the Crown ought not to go on with the Criminal proceedings until the conclusion, one way or the other, of the Civil action.\n\n5.\n\nA further adjournment was subsequently granted by the Court owing to the illness of Mr. F. C. Jenkin. In the meantime, I authorised the Plaintiff to retain Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., to replace Mr. Sharp, and on the expiry of the second adjournment, the Attorney-General, in pursuance of directions from me, made to the Full Court",
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        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 29th June, 1918.\n\n549\n\nWith reference to your telegram of the Sir H. Read...\n\nI rather are in vue with the view that it is doubtful whether a colonial law can be applied in anticipation of future Acts of Parliament, the Army Act, but I think it can be so applied in that it assimilates the law to the Army Act.\n\nIt stands to reason that if the Colonial law is to apply, it must be in anticipation of the Army Act.\n\nNo. 191. W.O. 24164\n\nSo I could have referred to time whilst the colonial laws were in force.\n\nPEC 42523. E ST AUG 18\n\n### Enclosure 1.\n\n20th May, 1918, I have the honour to submit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance intituled:-\n\n**An Ordinance to provide for the raising of a force the members of which shall be liable to service with His Majesty's Forces outside the Colony during the present war.** No. 9 of 1918.\n\nThe report of the Attorney-General enclosed explains in detail the scope of the Ordinance.\n\nI also enclose the Hansard debates on the bill. The division on the third reading is to be regretted and led to a good deal of unfavourable criticism in the Public Press. I have reason to believe that the nominee of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce would not have pressed for a division if he had had an opportunity at the time of conferring further with his colleagues on the subject of the amendment which was rejected.\n\n### Tribunal:-\n\nI have appointed the following to the Tribunal:\n\n| Name | \n| --- | \n| The Honourable Mr. E.H. Sharp, O.B.E., K.C. | Chairman\n| The Honourable Mr. D. Landale. | \n| Mr. W. Adamson. | \n\nThe Right Honourable  \nWALTER LONG, M.P., &c.,  \n&c.,  \n&c...\n\n### Minute\n\n14/9/18 sanction and comment as indicated above: at A. and B. in Mr. Justice's minute and send copy of this despatch and enclosures and our reply and Mr. Risley's minute: to W.O., L.F.\n\nMr. Long.\n\n16.9.18 So proceed?\n\n19.4  \n19./X.  \n2 Emery  \n272 18/1/18  \nLasten  \nDar",
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        "content_text": "Mr. G. S. Archbutt,\nCommander C. W. Beckwith, R.N.,\nMr. T. F. Hough,\nMr. A. O. Lang,\n530\nLieutenant-Colonel W. H. Passby, R.G.A.,\nMr. G. M. Young,\nMr. A. G. Fletcher (Clerk);\nand the following to be Assessors:-\nThe Honourable Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C.,\nThe Honourable Mr. P. H. Holyoak,\nMr. N. J. Stabb, O.B.E.\n\nMy reason for taking power to appoint 3 Assessors is that for the purposes of the Appeal Council, the loss of both Unofficial Members of Executive Council in Mr. Sharp, Chairman of the Tribunal and Sir Paul Chater who goes on short leave next month will be more than replaced by Unofficial persons.\n\n5.\nThe Jamaica Ordinance had not arrived when this legislation was passed.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "223 \n\nThe members of the Tribunal which dealt with these cases comprised, in addition to the Chairman (Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., O.B.E.), Colonel Passby and Commander Beckwith, no less than five prominent members of the Commercial Community.\n\n3.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield and Swire gave notice of appeal against this decision and on the 25th instant the appeal was heard by the Governor-in-Council with 3 Assessors (Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., Mr. N. J. Stabb, and Mr. C. H. P. Hay, Acting Manager of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, appointed temporarily in the place of Mr. P. H. Holyoak absent from the Colony). After an exhaustive hearing at which I read the message from the Shipping Controller communicated in your code telegram of the 20th instant, the Council decided as follows:-\n\n| Name | Decision |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Johnstone | No exemption: unanimously. |\n| Mr. McIntyre | No exemption. The three Assessors, Sir C. P. Chater and the Director of Public Works voting for 3 months exemption. |\n| Mr. Rawlinson | No exemption. In this case the Assessors, and all the Members of Council, except His Excellency the General Officer Commanding, advised an exemption for 3 months. |\n\nI felt myself however unable conscientiously to accept the advice of the majority on the following grounds:-\n\n(a). The youth of the clerk in question.\n\n(b). His subordinate position in which he can without doubt be satisfactorily replaced by one of the many candidates offering locally to replace men released for His Majesty's Armies. This list is an extraordinarily strong one.",
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        "content_text": "## \nMetrolom \n\nDies, Yakrofal to sterned croOM \"IM WUB I \n\n.Y 1 0 0 \n\n‚worellcori TUOY \n\nberoandr end beouborg si .dmaenq Bar todade. \n\n### \nanteroki asiweƐ .8788eli gaid neverqer si er dadd dosite art of bro Bi Tegro eton. \nBruseli baube bas yazquo. \nI al sind na \"molte inoesà 'preenigri esenido-o Iznå ert\" bebaed. \nJ'Inde os netileb nedade ed de infw ðdroinay? \nluttawag and emʊBerq \n\n*quo*gnoli ni «diow entaiq iestu ta gait leme ayrol. \nUW Tũ jag où amiyat kan en Jung Ledude ocio on Jena bas, divingƐ ent tọi unotuseonco. \nIroo uiaddo of ymı¶ anit -mevað možno un ddiw nois☺ernou Isivio on und u# ya nguoris. \nLes blugs Fremmevoð grixe¶ sct yu keL'es min mort jmenudou » Jneu- \nvierem auw en sint yniob ni J„OT „Hodnaw ni vetorgi od Jon. \n\n.evemqet edd 10 noivos ent aniwollot \nu broyed ignew) at badeiro moti dedit DIN SH \n\n### \nren en lo „ories to davoli ant vu benoitnem ob noTI des I) word \nSNELITI,VOD Bris venduck wond of perli. eri yilni \n\n.(CMINU 10 \n\n.redam qoob a rule unei så uh.qć one noty blow mvagnoli so daru leitmotze sw di tant ban,«drow barogong anu tot egeðnorð. \nTiment Niv unil nunend » yď ruðuernos ed bloods wirow Nove \ngridton Ferð gættede of cine er you bomitnoo \n\n### \nTo Jnemdeildatre and merið grofgron of eIdaulay evom aɗ bivoo soing wol a de Inoo ríðiv beiloque. \nBarow atnig Icete bow anit (ome Ji ebra Crew Bow love Tot bral vot noidhoilqqe me ti fedt baa you to com adr ert mi tedd Jud, berbienoo y lub ed blow \nat qu juged at ever hluow hed-ace han band add mosser leinage \n\n#### \n6.a.5. Severn \n\nTel: \n\n1918 \n\n5 Nov \n\nLast previous Paper. \nGar 531225 traits \nLel to \nGou \nShaik \n5 Dec \nAdmy \n57471 \nÁ HONG KONG \n53120 \nC.O \n217 \n53124 \n5 NOV 18, \nappt of T.D. Sharp. as Master Attendant \nat Singapore. \n\nHi \nDoes not consider suitable \nder Robinson \nappe de prom \nMitunter. \nhad an \nI think we had \nandok. \nthe other \nand th. man too for day. Can you \ninco \n\n9/1/18 \nto Robinson \nI cannot trace one \n: pleas \nLafage (5557.3) \n(H.Ma 99.968 \n\n### \nNext subsequent Paper. \nR \n55281 Sho \nA Ch \n(14174 h) We 3420-16, 30m, 11/15 \nshare se 553563. \nmy ht \n- the adong of My Lapazes apple sigditie if they recommend hind \n\n| Column 1 | Column 2 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Gar 531225 | traits |\n| Lel to | Gou |\n| Shaik | 5 Dec |\n| Admy | 57471 |\n| Á HONG KONG | 53120 |\n| C.O | 217 |\n| 53124 | 5 NOV 18, |\n\nappt of T.D. Sharp. as Master Attendant at Singapore. \nDoes not consider suitable \nder Robinson \nappe de prom \nMitunter. \nhad an \nI think we had \nandok. \nthe other \nand th. man too for day. Can you \ninco \n\n9/1/18 \nto Robinson \nI cannot trace one \n: pleas \nLafage(`5557.3`) \n(H.Ma `99.968`)",
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        "content_text": "## THE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nClark's Nains.\n\nISSUED FROM  \n41-42, PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W. 1.\n\nTo  \nNo.  \nREKARS.\n\nLONDON STATIONS:-  \n| Location | Code |\n| --- | --- |\n| ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT, E.C. 2 | (3692 Well) 4 Lines T1 |\n| OLD BROAD STREET, E.C. 2 |  |\n| 8, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. 3 | 1951 Avenue |\n| 129, MINCING LANE, E.C. 3 | MARKET |\n| 26, MARK LANE, E.C. 3 |  |\n| 37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. 1 | (1014 Holbarn) |\n| 41-42, PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W. 1 | (2518 Gerrard) THE BRICKS |\n|  | (4408 Avenue) |\n\nGRAM/Recipe  \nThe following TELEGRAM/Receipt  \n\n| From | Foreign No. | No. of Words | Dated | Time |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Unselfish | suitable |  | 7 sharp |\n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastco  \nDoubtful words should be officially repeated. See Rule Book.\n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy.\n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London. (`850 M`)\n\noithe → ? (unproofread text, possibly \"on the\")\n\nSee our letter to Adm. on `47786` as to releasing Lt. Com. A.J. Coleman for the post of Dep. Mast. Att.\n\nFrom `51869`, top p. of bundle: below, it looks as if Coleman is likely to be released, though in that letter probably mistakenly he says he is to act as Mast. Att., not Deputy.\n\n? wait for Adm. reply to letter above referred to.\n\n14.11.18  \nwas mininnsta sästy verni  \nMar  \nR14/1/18 Wome  \n(Mae Forma `5:17`)  \n219 \n\nMr. Robinson  \nAUG COTOUTER' C. sta \n\nRuper \n\nThe initial text appears to be a mix of unrelated notes and a telegram form from THE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED. The telegram section has been reformatted into Markdown table syntax for clarity. The unrelated notes at the beginning and end are left as-is due to lack of context for proper proofreading.",
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        "content_text": "# MINISTRY OF LABOUR\n## APPOINTMENTS DEPARTMENT\n### Officers' University Technical Classes.\n\n29th July, 1918.\n\n## Professional and Business Register.\n### EX-OFFICERS IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE.\n\n| Rank | Medion! No. | Regt. | Age | Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment | Q.U.T.C. Courses | Present Locality |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 0, 447 | Hussars | 27 |  | Ed. privately. 7 yrs. manager private inquiry depts.; chartered accountants. |  | Durham |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 10. 508 | R.F.A. |  | Good | Ed. St. Benedict's, Liverpool. 7 yrs. with Liverpool Corp. Accounts Dept. |  | Lancashire |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 20, 911 | Worcester |  | Fair | Ed. privately, Sharp Patterson & Co., chartered accountants, 1916. Relinquished position to join army. |  | Warwick |\n| Asti. Pay. | 0.0. 987 | B.N.V.R. | 27 | Good master | Ed. privately. 2 yrs. clerk T. Derry & Co., Plymouth. 4 yrs. accountant \"Western Daily Mercury,\" Plymouth. 3 yrs. accountant Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd., Plymouth. | [French] | Devon |\n| Lieut.-Col. | 00.1481 | 43 R.F.A. |  | Good | Ed. privately. 20 yrs. chartered accountant. Hobby, farming. |  | Kent |\n| Capt. | 20. 77 | 40 D.I.I. |  | Fair | Ed. Durham. Retired 1908 from Army. 4 yrs. Colonial Service France and Egypt; 8 yrs. farming British Columbia, and Ins. Agent for Coursey & Carmichael, Chilliwack, British Columbia. |  | London |\n| Capt. | 132 | 38 Border |  | Good | Ed. Haileybury. 4 yrs. farming S. Africa; 4 yrs. private secretary. | Agriculture | Suffolk |\n| Lieut. | 2.0, 145 | 24 K.O.S.B. |  | Good | Ed. Cambridge and R.M.C., Sandhurst. Practical experience in poultry and pig rearing, knowledge of farming. |  | Somerset |\n| Lieut.-Col. | 160 | 58 E. Yorke |  | Good | Ed. Eton. Farming, 1897-1910, Canada; knowledge of all live stock; accountant 2 yrs.; Diploma, Accountancy, Chicago Univ. |  | Ireland |\n| Lieut | 1. 162 | 28 B.M.F. |  | Good | Ed. privately. Knowledge of farming, cattle buying and selling. |  | London |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D. 170 | 21 B. Scote |  | One eye damaged. Fair | Ed. privately. |  | Oxford |\n| Capt. | 10. 183 | O. & B.L.I. | 83 | Good | On leaving school went to sea for 1 yr. Cadet experience with horses and horse transport. Ed. Eton. 2 yrs. coffee planting. Knowledge of farming. | [French, Swahili] | Buska |\n\n(18409—148.) W, 10385–552, 1000, 7/18, D&S, G. 4.",
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        "content_text": "# 6-1\n\nObd, 18  \n058, TS  \n\n... adneo OS O  \n(.J1.pe OBI ̧Si si tol art req aúnas 08 ↑ brel add  \nto sets adT eulev I bre  \n.J1.pa  \n2PA, IER  \n\nCTA DEE  \navode se atieqer tot joubeu  \nneed eed ydzaqorq dee doit de webing sds to wei▼ ¤I .a Jorneo 45 to mutat a test dnsbive si di vitneset abasd grignedo yd tsxiuper si vtraqorq sold as Jard rebienoo I bas „badosque ad  \nnexed ad blvoria 000,LER #qeoos of ralto s'mef .IM  \nJNSMTISVOD  \n.to egetnevba  \norld morì \"0*08 ai jol sold Jent tuo tnioq blvow I  \nbas,Intiqsok sirotoi▼ sdt to Jaioq ylistese erottiO  \n.Bonovietni dello  \n\nV' E' ALIRUS •  \n(.68)  \n„elel „VIBUIdol deos  \nrever  \nрад  \nPZ  \n1919  \n17  \nbar  \nHONG KON  \n411  \n2:234 i  \nTRE  \nR. 26 PR.91  \n25234  \n\n## Site of Mahida Hospital\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tenure of lease | will q |\n|  | bale |\n|  | ww |\n\n2. copy correr. with Trustees of Last previous Paper, Sharp raps their apples that it should be for 999 year instead of 25 years. Refer matter to Govt for final decision  \n8111/1460.  \ntor Gatlin grindle  \nLotea  \ninclined to the  \n\n77/  \nAusdr. 239.  \nNext subsequent Paper.  \nCoral  \nconcession might be made,  \nThe lu  \nte wing of the  \nল8  \n999 you  \n?  \nI am  \nbaar.  \noffer 75 years from 23 bor 498.  \n5/5/17 strough opposed to perpetuity  \nleases a aga yoors  \nsame thing.  \nら  \n157  \nundertaking  \n(20194 b.) Wt. 30576-21. 50m. 118. D&S. Q.122 41.  \n\n*  \nAne  \nMathally  \nWhat I inadvise  \n1882 with an  \nfrom 1882  \nto extind for another  \n75. if the hospital  \nis still",
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        "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG\n## 17th March, 1919\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWith reference to Sir Henry May's Despatch No. 86 of the 6th January, 1916, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that the Trustees of the will of the late Mr. Granville Sharp, namely, Sir Paul Chater and Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., wrote a letter to the Government on the 12th December, 1916, of which I enclose a copy, requesting that on the amalgamation of the several lots forming the site of the Matilda Hospital into one lot, the new lease should be for 999 years and not for 75 years, the usual tenure for land on the Peak. I enclose a copy of the reply which was sent by direction of Sir Henry May.\n\n## Enclosure 1\n\n2. The land belonging to the Hospital is comprised in three Rural Building Lots Nos. 16, 131, and 48. The original Hospital Buildings are erected on lots Nos. 16 and 31, in area 104,621 square feet, and the leases date from the 23rd November, 1881. The Trustees acquired the contiguous Lot No. 48, in area 21,186 square feet, and erected on it recently a Maternity Ward connected with the Main Hospital by a covered way. The lease of this lot dates from the 18th October, 1886. The Government offered a new lease for all three lots for 75 years dating from the 23rd November, 1882, on which the enclosed correspondence took place.\n\n3. The Trustees were called upon from time...\n\n## THE RIGHT HONOURABLE VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.\n&c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "## Trustees' Letter\n\nWe understand that in order to obtain such a lease it is necessary that the matter should be referred to the Secretary of State, and we respectfully ask that His Excellency will so refer it and will support the application with an expression of his approval.\n\nThe Hospital is, as His Excellency knows, fully endowed under Mr. Granville Sharp's Will and is not dependent in any way upon outside assistance, and there can be no risk therefore of its at any time failing of its purpose for want of funds; and as its objects are purely charitable (being as the Testator's Will expressly states designed \"for the benefit of patients primarily who are poor, helpless, and forsaken\") its establishment on a permanent basis is desirable on every ground, and not least in the interests of the Colony itself.\n\nThe lease at present proposed would only give a little more than 40 years from the present time, a term quite inadequate and unsuitable for the purpose of such an Institution, which is likely to be further added to and enlarged as time goes on.\n\nWe are, etc.,\n\n**(Sa.)** C.P. CHATER,  \n**(Sa.)** E.H. SHARP,  \nTrustees of the Will of Granville Sharp deceased.\n\nThe Honourable Colonial Secretary,  \nHongkong.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 3\n\n10th October, 1917.\n\n417  \nY 100  \n`ao(770 e'qish yzoek. Isinolo`  \n`.30€ I\\658 .ON`\n\nThe Honourable  \nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\nThe contents of your letter to us of the 7th February last conveying the reply of His Excellency the Governor to our application of the 12th December 1916 was received by us with very considerable surprise but we have hesitated to press the matter further under existing circumstances. We still feel, however, that an exception to the general rule should be made in a case of this kind, and could be made without creating a precedent in any way embarrassing to the Government.\n\nThe Land Officer has now again communicated with us with regard to our taking up the proposed new Crown Lease for 99 years, but although the present is probably not an opportune time to consider a question of this kind we venture to suggest that no harm would be done by leaving it over till after the War when it might receive fresh consideration, with possibly a different result.\n\nWe,  \netc.,  \n(Bd.)  \n(Bd.)  \n**C.P. CHATER**,  \n**E.H. SHARP**,  \nTrustees of the Will of Granville Sharp, deceased.\n\nMatilda Hospital.  \n`KALVIE I JAID (.50)`  \n`VI3B1ne? Iztue±00`  \nGranville Sharp, deceased.",
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        "content_text": "# JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER.\n\nThe Honourable  \nColonial Secretary.  \nHONGKONG, 5th February, 1919.\n\nSir,\n\nGranville Sharp Deceased.  \nMatilda Hospital site.\n\nSome time ago in connection with an arrangement for amalgamating the several lots forming the site of this Hospital into one Lot (to be called Rural Building Lot No. 16) and granting a new Crown Lease of such Lot, our clients the Honourable Sir C.P. Chater, C.M.G., and the Honourable Mr. E.H. Sharp K.C., the Trustees of the late Mr. Granville Sharp's Will, approached the Government with a view to the grant of a longer lease than the existing terms under the present Leases which have now (on the average) less than 40 years unexpired.\n\nThe Trustees' desire was (and is) to have a lease for 999 years, and in support of their application they pointed out that since the testator's death in 1899 they had expended under the trusts of his Will in the erection and equipment of the Hospital not far short of $700,000 and that for an undertaking of this size and character a term of 40 years was quite inadequate and unsuitable, particularly as the Hospital is a wholly charitable institution and fully endowed under the testator's Will and is in no way dependent upon outside assistance for its maintenance. There is therefore no risk of its failing for lack of support, and this enhances the claim for its permanent establishment with proper security of tenure, which is the more important as the question of laying out further trust funds upon extensions...",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nDear Sir,\n\n(Eucle)\n\n20th August, 1918,\n\nWe wrote to Mr. Bowley yesterday after a consultation with Mr. Sharp and Mr. Potter and informed him that unless the imputations were unqualifiedly withdrawn proceedings would be instituted. We added that we understood he maintained that there were no imputations in the letter and there would be no objection to the withdrawal recognising this.\n\nWe to-day received from him the enclosed letter with its enclosure sent to us without prejudice. We have seen both Mr. Sharp and Mr. Potter thereon. They are of opinion that if the enclosure to Mr. Bowley's letter as altered in red type is published in the newspapers concerned and if such newspapers concur in the withdrawal of the imputations and will pay the costs of the actions, you will be advised to accept this in settlement of the matter.\n\nWe shall be glad to have your instructions.\n\nYours faithfully,\nsd/ Deacon, Looker, Deacon & Harston.\n\nE.W. Hamilton Esq.",
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        "content_text": "LLA \n\nthe \n\nleader for the fresh \n\nconsultations refers re \n\nR \n\nof \n\nhis sharp is, however not one of our \n\nofficials \n\n \n\nWrhaps a mass of this \n\nstanding will suffice \n\nwith regard to \n\nT \n\nall \n\n301545 \n\nBURCHELLS. \n\nG.T. D. BURCHELL, A.W.BURKELL. \n\nTELEPHONE – VICTORIA 2. \n\n \n\n17 \n\n32193 \n\n5The Sanctuary. \n\n66 \n\nREL Westminster, S.W.-1. \n\n28 May. \n\n19 19. \n\nLi Hong Mi v. Attorney General, Hong Kong. \n\n18. \n\nSir E. Stubbs considers that Mr. Sharp should \n\nbe briefed, if he will be in this country when \n\nthe appeal is heard (but he does not think he \n\nwill be). \n\nSo reply. \n\nAt once: \n\nA.E.C. \n\n3.6. \n\nReferring to your letter of the 22nd instant No.34033/IS. \n\nwe have got into communication with Mr. Sharp K.C., O.B.E., and he has kindly consented to confer with us, if and when the appellant \n\nenters an appearance in this appeal. \n\n2. It occurs to us that perhaps the most useful course would \n\nbe to retain Mr. Sharp as Counsel for the respondent, as he was \n\nconcerned in the case in the local Court, and it would appear to us \n\nto be only reasonable to pay him a fee, if he assists the Hong Kong \n\nGovernment in this country. \n\n3. You will recollect that Mr. Upjohn K.C. has been retained \n\nas leader, and he would therefore lead Mr. Sharp. It would also be \n\nnecessary, in order to comply with the etiquette of the Bar, that a Junior should be briefed. The employment of Mr. Sharp would there-\n\nfore entail an additional fee being paid, and we will defer doing so \n\nuntil we receive your instructions. \n\nWe are, Sir, \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \n\nColonial Office, S.W.1. \n\nYour obedient Servants, \n\nBurchells.",
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        "content_text": "BURCHELLS.\n\nC.T.D. BURCHELL. A.W.BURCHILL.\n\nSir.\n\nT85887\n\nTELEPHONE 8 VICTORIA.\n\n14 JUN 191\n\n5. The Sanctuary.\n\nWestminster, S.W.1.\n\n69\n\n13 June.\n\n19.\n\n19.\n\nLi Hong Xi v. Attorney General, Hong Kong.\n\nB\n\nWe are obliged for your letter of yesterday, No.32199/19, and will brief Mr. Sharp, K.C., O.B.E. in this appeal, should he be in this country when it comes on for hearing.\n\n2. We will also avail ourselves of Mr. Sharp's services in the preparation of the Respondent's case and reasons, which must now be proceeded with, as the Appellant has entered appearance.\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nDarchells\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nWhitehall, S.W.1.",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL,\n\n306\n\n24029\n\nKES\n\n(HEL 18 MAY 20)\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nHONGKONG. 23rd March, 1920.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWith reference to Mr. Bonar Law's confidential despatch of the 9th February, 1916, and the connected correspondence, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that Sir Paul Chater is shortly leaving the Colony for a period of some months and that the question of an acting appointment to the Executive Council will therefore arise.\n\n2. Ordinarily I should have proposed to appoint Mr. N. J. Stabb, O.B.E., who has recently been acting during the absence of Mr. Sharp, but he informs me that he is so busy that he would prefer not to be nominated. In these circumstances it is my intention to appoint Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., the unofficial member of the Legislative Council who is referred to at the end of Sir Henry May's confidential despatch of the 18th December, 1915.\n\n3. I cannot feel that this is an entirely satisfactory arrangement as it will mean that both the unofficial members of the Executive Council will be lawyers, whereas I should greatly prefer to have the advice of a member of the commercial community. It is, however, impossible to attain this object without appointing some one who is not a member of the Legislative Council, since if any member of the Legislative Council junior to Mr. Pollock were appointed it would certainly be regarded as a slur upon the latter, in addition to which I must...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nVISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "No 181\n\n35801\n\nRESS\n\nREC 21 JUL 20\n\n186\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG. 2nd June, 1920.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to forward for Your Lordship's information copies of correspondence which has passed between this Government and His Majesty's Consul-General, Shanghai, on the subject of a mentally deficient destitute named Sidney Livesey, who has been a constant source of trouble and expense throughout the East for some years. I have now arranged for Livesey to be sent to England on board the S.S. \"Professor\" sailing on or about the 5th June in the charge of a Sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and I should be glad if arrangements could be made to receive him on arrival.\n\nI am informed that Livesey is perfectly harmless and only requires a sharp lesson to make him exert himself for his own maintenance, a thing, however, he is unlikely to do in the East.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nVISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nR. E. Stubbs\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "## GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, E.C. 1.\n\n164  \nFebruary 1921.  \n720. 48473/20\n\nMy Beckett,  \nSir,\n\nShip Licence for Wireless Telegraphy.\n\nI am directed by the Postmaster General to refer to your letter of the 18th October last, `48473/1920`, concerning the issue of wireless telegraph licences in respect of certain ships owned by the Standard Transportation Company and registered at Hong Kong, and to enquire whether you are now in a position to favour him with the desired information. The representatives of the Shipowners are pressing for a decision in the matter.\n\nI am, Sir,  \nYour obedient Servant,  \n(Signed) G. GRINDLE  \nfor the Secretary.\n\nHer Secretary of State,  \n**COLONIAL OFFICE**.\n\nRegistered No. `216539/17`.  \n608  \nAny further letter should be addressed to:-  \nThe Secretary,  \nGeneral Post Office,  \n**London, E.C. 1.**  \n`48473/20`  \n18 d. io. relating to the issue of wireless telegraph licences in respect of ships registered at Hong Kong, the dec. 8...  \nJudy 16...  \nse vakary...  \nsuport i. `216534/17`...  \nto + scarp't of yo. n the io of Ou...  \nse the...  \n\n| Date | Reference Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| 13/8/20 | 2500 |\n| 18th October | `48473/1920` |\n| ... | `216534/17`, `216539/17` |",
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        "content_text": "## 061\n\n\n191 \n\nestablished as soon as possible, we have thought it best to \nsubmit to Your Excellency at once this preliminary report.\nWe have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient servants, \n\n34. \nI. K. Sharp, \nJ. H. Kemp \nE. Irving \nChairman, \nJohn Johnstone \nJ. V. Tsoo.",
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        "content_text": "# MINUTES\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nSir,\n\n51718  \n19 JUL  \nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 25th August, 1921.  \n20/55-604  \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential despatch of the 6th of July in which you ask for my views as to the desirability of extending the scope of the additional Royal Instructions, now being prepared, so as to cover the case of existing members of the Executive Council.\n\n2. The existing Unofficial Members of the Executive Council are Sir C.P. Chater, Mr. E.H. Sharp, and Mr. H.E. Pollock. Sir Paul Chater undertook at the time when he ceased to sit in the Legislative Council that he would resign his post on the Executive Council when asked to do so. He is not, to be frank, of much use now, but in view of his past services to the Colony, I am reluctant to deprive him of an office to the retention of which he attaches importance. However, his health is obviously beginning to fail, and I doubt whether he will wish to remain a member of the Council much longer.\n\nMr. Sharp's health has recently given cause for anxiety, and he has been compelled to go to Canada.\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nWinston Churchill, M.P.,  \n&C., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "At the fifth annual meeting held on February 15th, 1892, Mr. Granville Sharp, in submitting the reports and accounts for the year 1891, said :— \"You will observe that no reduction has been made in the valuation of the Company's property. In some parts of the Colony a decline has taken place, in others values have increased. No transaction has taken place during the year at Pokfulum. A large amount has been written off the herd of cattle. The town office is approaching completion and advantage is expected from the consolidation of the business which this building will greatly facilitate. A considerable improvement has been effected during the year on the Company's estate by cutting away the hill, by which a large level area paddock and exercise ground has been obtained. The milk from the Dairy Farm Company continues to maintain its high reputation. It is regularly tested by the Government Analyst, and the Colonial Surgeon recently stated at a meeting of the Sanitary Board that the report of that officer stated that no better milk could be obtained from the best Alderney cows.\"\n\nMr. H. W. Cotewall seconded the motion, whereupon Dr. J. W. Noble (who made his first appearance as a shareholder) said :- \"I should like to say, before the motion is put, that I think the shareholders as well as the public at large are much gratified at the progress the Company is making. I think everyone understands the difficulties under which the directors have laboured; and that the directors we have at present are representative men of Hong Kong there can be no doubt. This is perhaps the best balance sheet we ever had, taking all things into consideration. We have a much larger capital to pay a dividend upon than was formerly the case, and I notice, notwithstanding the fact referred to by Mr. Sharp, that the Company's property has been revalued the place has been improved considerably and a large amount of cutting has been done which necessarily entails a large outlay. The property is therefore, quite as valuable as it was last year, even allowing for the depreciation which we all know has prevailed throughout the Colony. There is a sum of $26,000 fixed deposit at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and $8,000 cash in hand. This is not very bad, and I think we can congratulate ourselves upon it. The total amount of revenue is $35,000, which shows that the Dairy Farm products are growing in favour every year. The butter which I am sorry to say most of us can only get as a favour now and again—is certainly most excellent, and I, for one, have never eaten better in any part of the world. The milk we all know is very good. I have myself been living on it for some months, and although not very robust I have not lost much weight, a fact which shows that it must be very rich in those qualities which sustain life. Buffalo milk, I believe, is very rich in fats, but that makes it difficult of digestion. That is not the case with the Dairy Farm milk, which, I believe, is all the product of foreign cattle. But I should like to remark, in addition to what I have already said, that there such a good report, and we have been writing off so much year after year, for reasons which everyone understood, that I would ask the directors—I will not put as a proposition if they will not reconsider the amount written off this year the sum of $6,000. Will the directors reconsider the matter and give the shareholders 5% instead of 3%, which would consume $5,000 and enable them to write off $6,000 and carry forward $419? I do not think it is unreasonable to ask them to consider it and let the shareholders have $6,000 dividend, writing off $6,000 which is 50% of the net profits.\"\n\nThe Chairman:-\"The fact is that we have had considerable difficulties, and with regard to the dividend which we have declared, we feel that it is very small indeed. You may depend upon it that it is not from unwillingness on the part of the board of directors that so small a sum as 3% has been made. The matter has been carefully discussed and exhaustively thrashed out. It was thought, by all the directors, that the herd of cattle must necessarily be very carefully revalued before a dividend was declared. That was our unanimous feeling. The value of the herd is a fluctuating value. We are always subject to the dangers of mortality among the cattle, and we feel this is a point that in the declaration of a dividend we have specially to go upon. We have lost a good many cattle and we thought it necessary to write down to what we consider a safe limit. I think that the directors would not be willing to increase the dividend. We hope that better times may come during next year, but, at the present time, 3% is all we feel justified in declaring, although far short of our own desires. You will remember what I said just now with regard to the dangers to which we are exposed. We have no insurance on our cattle. We cannot get insurance here as we can at home, and therefore we have to bear the risk ourselves, rendering it more important that we should not distribute that which we might require. We have the money in the bank of course, and we could declare a dividend of 5%, but we might require the money that is in the bank at any time.\"\n\nDr. Noble: I would not like it to be thought that anything I said was within the spirit of criticism. Had I meant that, I should not have put my remarks in the form of reconsideration but as a direct motion. If I was animated by any spirit of animosity to the Board, I should not have put my words in the way I did.\n\nPage 360\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "Press, recounting the experience of the erstwhile bazaar master, who has now been superseded, and who, on arriving at his office, found on his table a small jug of milk accompanied by a letter from the wife of the officer commanding the irregulars, calling his attention to the jug of \"so-called milk,\" as she sarcastically puts it, which she had sent up to him to look at and test, and concerning which she must beg him to answer the following questions at his very earliest convenience (very much underlined):-\n\nIs it really milk?\n\nIs it more than half water?\n\nIs it not dreadfully adulterated and calculated to make her dear children ill?\n\nIs it not a cruel and wicked shame that a poisonous mixture should be sold in any properly-looked-after bazaar?\n\nWill Major Stot have the goodness to fine the milk-man at least ten rupees at once?\"\n\nAfter the motion had been seconded by Captain Burnie and carried, Mr. Douglas Jones, one of the directors, thought it wise to remove one kind of impression that Mr. Granville Sharp's remarks might have created. He said \"I hope that you will not consider, as I anticipate perhaps the speech of the Chairman would lead you to imagine, that the rest of the Board have in their minds and think for a moment that the Dairy Farm is a philanthropic and charitable concern; I can say for one that it is not my view at all. I have got a considerable amount of capital in it, and I propose not only to make it a social success but a financial success, and I hope that within a very short time, or within a reasonable time, it will become a financial success.'\n\n31\n\nThe next annual meeting was held on December 27th of the same year, having been brought forward a couple of months. Mr. Sharp made a Christmas speech, observing that there was a certain appropriateness in their thus meeting at the festive season, as the directors had a good report to lay before the shareholders. \"We have had a good year,\" he said, \"and we have proved the truth of the adage that all things are possible to wisely directed diligence,\" and we hope you will be satisfied with what we have done.\n\nWhat a lamentable anti-climax was applied by the tone of an extraordinary meeting held within a few months. Dr. Noble presided over this meeting, the date of which was 6th July, 1896, and it can be understood with what deep regret he made the following speech :-\" Gentlemen-This meeting is held in accordance with the Company's Ordinance of 1865, the object being to enable you to record your vote on the question at issue, i.e., shall the Dairy Farm Company, Limited, be wound up? It will be quite unnecessary for me to give you details or to elaborate and dwell at length on the causes which have, in the opinion of your directors, made such a step necessary. We were just congratulating ourselves on having surmounted most of the difficulties by which the Company has been for years beset, and had just declared and paid the first really substantial dividend that has been paid since the foundation of the Company, ten years ago, when our only stock-in-trade, our herd, was almost entirely destroyed by the fatal rinderpest, or cattle plague, by which they were attacked, and against the ravages of which we were powerless and helpless, because of the absence of all expert veterinary advice; there being no qualified veterinary surgeon within a 1,000 miles of the Colony at that time (March last) there has been none nearer since then, and there will be none for another six months at least, our Colonial Veterinary Surgeon having recently been granted six months' extension leave. Your directors feel, that had he or any similarly well-qualified veterinary surgeon been within call in March last, it would be quite unnecessary for us to be here to-day to discuss the advisability of winding up this Company.\n\nThe Company's aim in the past has always been, and its policy in the future will be, to supply its customers with only the best and purest of milk, cream and butter. It was with this object in view that the Company purchased and built its sheds upon ground remote from the settled and thickly populated portions of the Colony, appreciating the well-authenticated fact that the germs of typhoid fever and other diseases of a more or less alarming and fatal character are not only carried but propagated with great facility in and through the medium of milk and other dairy produce. This is well recognised and beyond dispute. We have, therefore, always given special attention and care to cleanliness and segregation. Our town depôt, or distributing station, as well as our cattle sheds are airy, lofty, and commodious, well drained and well ventilated, and the greatest care is given to the cleanliness of our stock and the premises generally. The same care is exercised in the selection of our food-stuffs as well, and only the best purchased are made use of, our endeavour being, as I have intimated, to give our customers only the purest dairy produce, free from the contaminating influences of overcrowded and thickly populated districts, abounding in evil-smelling drains, and where diseases, easily communicated to dairy produce, are ever present. While we have, in pursuing this course, safeguarded the\n\n82\n\n83\n\n358",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nstanding of the situation, and if at the same time you could renew your request for an endowment of three chairs at the rate of $250,000 each, I think we might reach a prompt decision in the matter. If you think this can be done by cable some time will be saved, but time is of less importance than a thorough and complete understanding.\n\nI am sailing for Brazil February 2, but expect to be back in New York by the 3rd of April, and at that time I hope to be able to settle this problem definitely.\n\nMy best regards to Lady Brunyate and yourself,\n\nSincerely yours,\n\n(Sgd.) RICHARD M. PEARCE,\n\nSir William Brunyate,\n\nUniversity of Hongkong.\n\n7\n\nNOTE TO THE COUNCIL\n\non negotiations with the Rockefeller Foundation as to the establishment of three full-time chairs of Surgery, Medicine and Obstetrics.\n\nIntroductory Paragraphs.\n\n566\n\n1. It will be within the knowledge of members of the Council that at the 79th Meeting of the Council, held on the 10th December, 1920, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine was authorised to approach the Rockefeller Foundation as to the possibility of their assisting us by or in the foundation of full-time clinical chairs in the Faculty—a measure which I believe was recommended, so soon as funds might permit, by the Sharp Commission.\n\n2. In May, 1921, some six weeks after my arrival in the Colony, Dr. Pearce, then and now Director of Medical Education under the Foundation, paid a visit to Hongkong and discussed the matter in the most sympathetic manner with the Dean of the Faculty and myself. As I have already had occasion to state in one of my Notes on the University Accounts, the fact that the occupants of the proposed Chairs would perform a large part of their duties in the Government Civil Hospital rendered it very desirable that the P.C.M.O. should be a party to the discussions, and I have already had occasion to refer to the helpfulness of his attitude in the matter. As, however, he is a member of the Government service, it may be well that I should specifically record that he was careful to remind us that anything said by him was an expression of personal opinion only, and that he must not be regarded as in any way binding his Government. The discussions were wholly informal in character and no written note was prepared. Before leaving, Dr. Pearce very kindly informed me of the recommendations he proposed to make to the Foundation and invited my comments thereon, as he wished to make no recommendations which would be distasteful or embarrassing to me. In view of the technical nature of the matters under discussion and of the relatively limited knowledge I then possessed of the situation of the University as a whole, my attitude was in a sense more passive than would have been permissible at a later date, but nothing that has since come to my notice would lead me materially to modify the approval of his recommendations I then expressed. I understand that before leaving Dr. Pearce had a short interview with H.E. the Chancellor and Governor.\n\n08.\n\nThe matter came up for further discussion when I was in Peking, as I reported to the Council on my return, and we had the privilege of a further visit from Dr. Pearce in October.",
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        "content_text": "14 candidates were available. Just such a post figured for some time in the Budget in connection with the Chair of Physiology and was recently suppressed because it had remained unfilled.\n\n16. As regards the Chair of Anatomy, dealt with by Dr. Pearce in his paragraph 2 (b), although the proposed Chair of Surgery has been spoken of as a new Chair, the intention is that it should be occupied by the present Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, so that in speaking of the salary necessary to attract suitable candidates for the new Chair it has really been the Chair of Anatomy I had in mind. As regards Dr. Pearce's suggestion as to a re-distribution of work between the Professors of Anatomy and Physiology, I am in a position to say that the two Professors concerned concur in the suggestions and anticipate that no serious difficulties will arise in connection with the sharing of a laboratory for certain purposes. The suggestions are entirely in accord with modern practice.\n\n17. The status of the Chair of Pathology (paragraph 2 (c)) raises certain difficulties. Technically, there is at present no difference between the status of the three Chairs referred to. The three professors were recruited upon identical terms, although it happens that two of them, owing to length of service, have a purely personal advantage. It is further the case that the holders of other Chairs were recruited at practically the same time, upon the same terms, and any formal modification of the status of the Chair of Pathology on abstract grounds would raise very difficult questions which, as I verbally informed Dr. Pearce, I should be reluctant to face.\n\n18. On the other hand, I have already drawn attention to the need for pathological facilities in connection with the hospital, and the attempt to teach pathology in entire disassociation from the hospital is undoubtedly opposed to the best modern practice. My personal conviction is, therefore, that when the matter comes to be worked out, the pathological department will be found to require re-organization and that, brought into closer touch with the hospital, it will assume a new importance. It is fortunate that the present Professor of Pathology is no less well qualified for such wider work than for that to which he is at present restricted.\n\nHostel Accommodation\n\n19. Two points raised by Dr. Pearce remain to be dealt with. He refers in paragraph 2 (e) to the provision of a hostel in the neighbourhood of the hospital. I have already indicated in a footnote to his letter my reasons for considering that there had been some misunderstanding on the point, though the matter is of lessened importance as the particular scheme then in contemplation has proved unrealisable. In the meantime, the whole hostel problem has entered upon a new phase, owing to an increase of numbers which could not be foreseen last May but which gives every promise of being emphasized in the future. Additional hostel accommodation will shortly be an imperative necessity, so far as our finances may permit, and if there should be any choice as to location the needs of the medical students ought to be borne in mind. There is in any case a very considerable difference between the hostels as regards access to the hospital. St. John's is only five minutes distance from the hospital and is on the same level as the Foundling Hospital, while Morrison is a quarter of an hour away and several hundred feet higher up. Much may be done by centralising medical students in their final years at St. John's, especially if, as is proposed, that hostel is enlarged, or, when religious feeling stands in the way of resort to St. John's, then at Lugard, which is the lowest of the three University hostels.\n\nPage 15\n\n570\n\nMedical Library\n\n20. In paragraph 2(e) Dr. Pearce alludes to the unsatisfactory condition of the medical library, a condemnation I gave him full permission last May to extend to our library as a whole. We have since appointed a full-time Librarian and I have drawn her special attention to the medical library. We have also more than doubled our library grant for the purchase of books and periodicals and for maintenance. I am satisfied that as much is at present being done as our resources permit, and I have convinced myself by inspection that a very definite improvement has taken place. I none the less admit that there is room for further improvement whenever money is available.\n\nFinance\n\n21. The question of finance is, of course, of essential importance. Were it possible to obtain for two of the three intermediate Chairs endowments upon the scale adopted by the Foundation, I should be satisfied that not only could we meet the obligations proposed to be placed upon us in connection with the Faculty of Medicine but that a certain sum would be liberated for general purposes out of the monies at present devoted to the departments in question. The raising of any such sum is, however, a matter for our forthcoming appeal, the preparation of which has been delayed by the death of the late Mr. Sharp, and the question now arises whether any part of the scheme can be prudently put into force pending the result of the appeal. To that question my answer would be an affirmative one. 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        "content_text": "228\n\n(N.B.-An addition for pumping from the City has been made in the case of the Peak and Middle Levels.)\n\nHONGKONG.\n\n(a)-Water Supply.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS &\n\n(b)-The drainage of the Middle Levels should be diverted to an outfall in the Sulphur Channel. (c)-All sewage on the Western side of Kowloon Peninsula should be diverted to outfalls at Kowloon Point and North of the Cosmopolitan Dock.\n\n10. As our recommendations do involve the supply of Salt Water, the question of \"the provision of suitable pipes\" does not arise.\n\nT. L. PERKINS, Chairman. L. GIBBS. R. M. HENDERSON. C.E. WARREN.\n\nJuly 9th, 1921.\n\n6. The City and Peak Water Supply has about reached the limit of its capacity. It is suggested that the cost of this should be met by an additional rate in the districts concerned, each district being first given the option to decide by vote whether or no it will adopt a Water Carriage System with the proposed Water Carriage Services to the Peak and Middle Levels.\n\nThe present supply (1920) is fully 7 million gallons a day. The water required for the Peak and Middle Levels amounts to 5 and 22 million gallons a year, respectively. One inch of water on an acre amounts to 22,000 gallons. In the driest recorded year at least 20 inches of rain can be collected in Hongkong, so that the above amounts can be collected respectively from 12 and 50 acres.\n\nThe present gathering ground of the City and Hill District Water Works amounts to 2,561 acres. There is however an area of about 2,600 acres in the neighbourhood of Taitam which is available for catchment and which may be reckoned on to increase the supply (without further reservoirs) from its present figure of 7 millions to 10 millions a day. A catchwater to intercept the water from about 300 acres of the above 2,600 acres at a cost of $70,000 is now in contemplation; this will provide an additional supply of at least 130 million gallons a year and will take no longer to carry out than the works necessary for supplying at a much greater cost ($417,000) 27 million gallons of Salt Water a year.\n\n(b)-Peak District.\n\nThe sanitary advantage to the Peak owing to its scattered location and the long carry for fæcal matter, is so great and the amount of water required is so small that a Public Water Carriage System using fresh water might with advantage be adopted there as soon as the necessary additions to the Peak pumping plant, now on order, are installed.\n\n(c)-Middle Levels.\n\nIn the Middle Levels the amount of water required is a more serious matter and the sanitary advantage less, and it seems that a Public Water Carriage System using fresh water should remain in abeyance there till an adequate extension of the Taitam gathering ground has been put in hand.\n\n7.-The Kowloon Works will produce 1.7 million gallons a day in the driest recorded year and can be considerably extended at a comparatively small cost. The present supply is about 1.3 million gallons a day. The Water Supply in Kowloon is therefore still fairly ahead of present requirements, but in view of the rapid growth of the district a Water Carriage System using fresh water should not be installed until extensions of the present Water Works are put in hand.\n\nGeneral.\n\n6-The time may come when the limit of the fresh water resources of the Colony has been so nearly reached that it will be more economical to obtain a supply of Salt Water than to obtain an equal additional supply of fresh water, but it does not appear that that time has yet arrived, and no works which may be carried out now for the use of fresh water will in any way interfere with the use of Salt Water when its use is found to be more economical.\n\n9.-Some alterations to the sewerage system in each of the three districts will be desirable. After perusing the six reports (Annexes 5-10) received from Mr. Newhouse, we have come to the following conclusions:-\n\n(a)-The drainage of the Peak District should be diverted to an outfall on the South side of the Island.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nBOOK-KEEPER'S SHARP SENTENCE.\n\nPROCEEDINGS IN MACAO.\n\nCarlos José Sequeira appeared before Tribunal in Macao, this week, on the charge of forgery.\n\nThe defendant was a book-keeper in the Hongkong branch, in Pedder Street, of the North West Trading Co., Ltd., and it was alleged that he forged the signature of the manager of the branch to 34 cheques, in 1919 and 1920. On October 21st, 1920, Sequeira absented himself, on which date suspicions were first aroused, and rewards for information leading to his arrest were widely published.\n\nSubsequent investigations revealed a number of forgeries of the manager's signature on cheques and the omission to enter them in the Company's books. These cheques were all made payable to Sequeira. The counterfoils of the cheques, in some cases, bore different amounts from those which appeared on the cheques themselves, and names of persons other than Sequeira. In other cases the counterfoils had been cancelled. The total amount involved in the charges was $11,990.\n\nSequeira, who claims to be a Portuguese subject, was arrested by the police at Macao.\n\nA number of witnesses from Hongkong attended; the Procurator of Macao conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. H. Nolasco defended. Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg (Assistant Crown Solicitor) watched the proceedings on behalf of the Hongkong Government.\n\nThe Chief Justice sentenced the defendant to six years' imprisonment at Timor, telling him that, but for extenuating circumstances, the sentence would have been one of twelve years.\n\nThe sentence does not begin to run until it has been confirmed by the Portuguese authorities at Goa.\n\nOwing to military movements in the Central Yangtsze region, a Hankow message says, cargo deliveries from the provinces are very difficult to obtain.\n\nThe Java-China-Japan Line has distributed a dividend of 15 per cent, for the year 1920. The report speaks of the business of the Company having been seriously affected by the competition of Japanese and American Shipping Board vessels, and alludes to the disturbing effect which the violent fluctuations in the rate of the Mexican dollar has had on business life in Eastern Asia.\n\n182\n\n[September 3rd, 1921.\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nAN INACCURATE REPORT.\n\n[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.]\n\nSIR, My attention has to-day been called to an article appearing in your issue of May 27th, referring to statistics purported to have been given by me.\n\nIt seems regrettable that inaccurate newspaper reports should be taken as authoritative statements. Having had the privilege of conferring with the Authorities of the Civil Medical Department and having in my possession the published reports of that Department, it is not likely that I should have made such an unintelligible statement as the one appearing in the Hongkong and other Eastern papers.\n\nOn first seeing the report as it appeared in the Eastern papers, I took steps through Reuters to correct the statement made. This correction will, of course, have reached you many weeks before my letter.\n\nIt is regrettable that the Sanitary Board were inveigled into spending valuable time in discussing the accuracy of the statement that was never made in the form in which they considered it.\n\nThe Eastern Commission have placed their reports on the Eastern Colonies in the hands of the National Council. This body has already transmitted them to the Colonial Office, by whom they will doubtless be forwarded to the Colonial Governments concerned.—Yours very truly,\n\nSYBIL NEVILLE ROLFE,\n\nGeneral Secretary.\n\n80, Avenue Chambers,\n\nSouthampton Row, London, W.C.1.\n\nJuly 19th, 1921.\n\n[The article to which Mrs. Rolfe refers was based on a Reuter cable attributing certain statements to her. These formed the subject of a series of questions by Dr. KOCH at a meeting of the Sanitary Board, to which answers were given by the Medical Officer of Health. We have received through Reuter's no correction to the statements attributed to Mrs. Rolfe in the telegram which formed the basis of our comment.-ED.]\n\nSUSPECTED ARSON.\n\nA KEROSENE FIRE IN WINGLOK STREET.\n\nAttempted arson is alleged in a report received by the police from the manager of a Chinese shop occupying the ground floor of No. 32, Winglok Street.\n\nThe manager states that he was asleep in the front part of the shop when he was awakened by one of his coolies with an alarm of fire. At the back of the shop he saw smoke filtering in through cracks in the back door. There was also a strong smell of kerosene. When the door was opened, a pile of waste paper saturated in petroleum was found burning furiously immediately outside. The manager and his coolies got buckets of water and managed to extinguish the flames. Near the door, was found an empty bottle which had contained kerosene.\n\nThe first and second floors of the house are occupied as a Boarding House, so that if the fire had involved the building there might have been great loss of life.",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong Weekly Press\n\nVOL. XCIV.]\n\nAND\n\nChina Overland Trade Report.\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nFar Eastern News\n\nHongkong\n\nMui Teai in Hongkong\n\nHONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD., 1921.\n\nPAGE 213 ........ 213 ..... 214\n\nThe Sanitary Board................................................................................ ..... ... 214\n\nLeading Articles :-\n\nRandom Reflections\n\n215\n\n215\n\n,216\n\n.216\n\n....217\n\n.... 217 ....218 219 .........227\n\nHongkong and the Water Carriage System........... 227\n\nHongkong Book-keeper's Sharp Sentence\n\n......... 228\n\n228\n\n229\n\n....230\n\nJapanese \"Aggression\" in China\n\nJapan in China and Siberia\n\nThe Central Yangtsze Situation\n\nThe British in South China\n\nWedding in Kowloon......\n\n\"Hongkong Daily Press\n\nHongkong Legislative Council....\n\nRoyal Dutch Petroleum Company\n\nCorrespondence :-\n\nAn Inaccurate Report\n\nSuspected Arson\n\nChamber of Commerce\n\nThieves Still Busy\n\nThe Cassel Mining Agreement..\n\nWhat Kansu's Earthquake Cost the Province ...230\n\nSt. Joseph's College\n\nBank of East Asia\n\n281\n\nThe Bank of China\n\nMr. Stevens's Kidnapper\n\nThe Law Courts..\n\n231 231 232\n\nThe War in Hapeh\n\n234\n\nFar Eastern Cable News...\n\nWireless Telegraph Communication with China 234\n\nLocal Sport\n\n235\n\n236\n\nFamine Committee and a Bank Fraud\n\n...236\n\nRepublicanism\" in China\n\n237\n\nFiring on Ships on the Yangtsze......\n\n..238\n\nCompany Meeting :-\n\nHongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. ..\n\nShipping\n\n..239\n\nThe Upper Yangtze Trade\n\nCommercial....\n\nBIRTHS.\n\n239\n\n239 .240\n\nCARTER.-At Shanghai, on August 21st, to Mr. and Mrs. D. CARTER, a daughter.\n\nCHAPEAUX.-At Shanghai, on August 26th, to Mr. and Mrs. ALBERT CHAPEAUX, a son.\n\nMOONEY REED.-At Shanghai, on August 19th, AUSTIN JAMES MOONEY to ANNE CONSTANCE REED.\n\nNICHOLLS-INWOOD --At Shanghai, on August 13th, HARRY CHARLES THOMAS NICHOLLS, of Shanghai and Bristol, to EMILY INWOOD, of Shanghai and London.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nBONE.--At Studley, Warwick, England, on the 26th August, Mrs. C. BONE, beloved wife of the Rev. C. Bone (formerly Pastor, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Wanchai). By cable.\n\nHARDY. At the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, on August 24th, HERBERT JOHN HARDY (Shanghai Gas Co., Ltd.), aged 47 years.\n\nRegistered as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.\n\nNo. 10\n\nBy order of the Canton Government 140,000 taels of opium, worth $400,000, which had been confiscated by the customs and police authorities from Smugglers, were publicly destroyed by fire on August 27th on the East Parade Ground.\n\nAdvices from Washington state that Mr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, author of \"Contemporary International Politics,\" has been invited to serve as an adviser on Far Eastern affairs to the American State Department for the Pacific Conference. Mr. Hornbeck, who has been travelling in China, Japan and the Philippine Islands for the past 18 months, will return to Washington next week.\n\nMr. W. S. Fleming, the American Attorney, who has been very prominently in the limelight lately at Shanghai, sailed, last week, for America, but sent to the Press a parting letter in which he wrote:- \"There is no reason to camouflage my purpose in leaving China, as I am going straight to Washington, D.C., in response to telegraphic advices I have received to be there in connection with an investigation I initiated in the Department of State early in March of this year. Lest certain evil-disposed persons should misrepresent the purpose of my departure I would ask you kindly to publish this at an early date.\"\n\nJENNER. At Shanghai, on August 22nd.\n\nELI WILLIAM JENNER, of Kent, England, aged 28 years.\n\nLINN.-At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on August 24th, CATHERINE, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Linn, aged 7 weeks.\n\nRAWLINGSON.-At Shanghai, on August 26th. Captain W. J. RAWLINGSON, of Shanghai.\n\nHongkong Weekly Press.\n\nHONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VOEUX ROAD C LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.\n\nFAR EASTERN NEWS.\n\nLANE. At Tientsin, on August 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. R. W. LANE, a daughter.\n\nRecent floods not only interrupted traffic on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway by washing away the tracks, but washed away a bridge on the Peking-Mukden Line, near Shanhaikuan.\n\nMURPHY.-At Cork, on August 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. MURPHY, of Shanghai, a son.\n\nPRITCHARD.-At Yunnanfu, on August 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. PRITCHARD, a daughter.\n\nREIS.-In Manila, on Sunday, the 21st inst., at 8.40 a.m., to Mr. and Mrs. F. A. REIS, a son, PEDRO FAUSTINO.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nOLIVER-KAY.-At the Abbey Hotel, Jedburgh, Scotland, on July 19th, by the Rev. Stewart Burns, M.A., St. Mary's, Hawick, MICHAEL OLIVER, China Navigation Co., Hongkong, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Oliver, 20. Slitrig Crescent, Hawick, to AGNES ROBSON, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Kay, Hill View, Jedburgh.\n\nSir Arthur Whitton Brown, the Transatlantic airman, who paid a visit to China on behalf of Messrs. Vickers, a few months ago, has undergone an operation for appendicitis since his return to England.\n\nThe late Admiral Sir James Andrew Thomas Bruce, K.C.M.G. (75), who saw service in Nigeria and was second in command in China at the time of the Boxer outbreak, formerly A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, left estate of the gross value of £20,957.\n\nAfter a full day's proceedings, investigation of the charge against J. G. Gardiner, alleged to have stolen 50 barrels of cement, the property of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, was completed at H.M. Police Court at Shanghai, on Aug. 24th, before Mr. G. W. King, when the defendant was discharged.\n\nCertain Chinese now in London, says a London paper, are demanding that the value of two sacred golden bells taken from the Temple of Heaven in Peking during the Boxer rising shall be restored to the temple authorities. It is stated that the bells were found under piles of rubbish, and that one of them was taken by British troops to Delhi and there melted down, the gold being sold for £25,000. The interested Chinese now point to the special clause in the Versailles Treaty whereby the ancient astronomical instruments looted by the Germans during the capture of Peking were returned to China, and demand that the sacred bells, or their value, shall also be restored to the Temple of Heaven.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nOwing to the recent heavy rains the road from Laichikok to Castle Peak is closed.\n\nIt has been decided to admit women to Hongkong University and the first girl student has already been registered.\n\nMr. Percy Smith, who has been taking the waters at Marienbad, is expected to return to Hongkong in the middle of October.\n\nMr. B. Tanner, Head Master of Queen's College, who has been home on leave, returned to the Colony on August 31st by the Kamo-maru.\n\nOn one day last week seven opium raids produced 45 defendants in the dock at the Magistracy and a haul of thousands of taels of opium.",
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        "content_text": "ASA \n\nbima erit gaiTLÓ TROY VIOve bra „vitaey,bebræab ti toleradt 18q Jasa Is [(ob neoixell eno Yo star [ertimon acid de dret MTOJ art neewded bra yd beera reddruk vdazed at +1 (MA moza tart you of ni Jart pažvel{0} Termam ni ajavad naitzaq blas anonim raditaťér rovnosðaðir sömumosuus kas anxat estar Lis nt rajtasted so bugradio won naturaedito mo sa lomao). Laqiskuch to Toatedá dzoq yim to soulmurq bins add nogs begrado eď srit gairah yam Jadi scożJoere to mathlimm adt to yra croqu bne bing ed (ladu toured) bodoate re #lind að støð hinu don (Carla degent, selà duelt „önneT hinn seld yf bagradsuih of FosteŃð Jing yrs to sealmeɛg binu sit do fraber za minua bien est vqueDG TO BEN 20 zeveosende entouraq TO Montag yns Seau eď od amma acid zoY7am to Toererið dinq yrs to seelserą trọt duiting a Yo suoqtaq edź zo? mundié satwiodło balqdoo to ake to brofbeni bina adi Yo Irwanoo exit toodi kw mo¿170 bine art manžeď bemiga reddunt qdered at #2 (MA uro BHODDEM [[ada amperag reqong radio (in beta bro [brend add Jarlź welding \n\nbisa adt to Jusuper selà de amað hinu gelź yakınb amið bisa act Ya ensaí a studera anglesa to erassecem ald \n\nweld beta akarud bakbodna eza na surat omne aɗt nogi montmore [(a nisao (lade biaserola as bažudeze ed of oe asani bisa \n\naɗ yan na aaoiðibros bus adneemvos saune to Lasma ben TOGOTE oto anaimarq bina sdt galzumna Tadded rot stinkoper bemmeb SYANJA (FIVORS argilene best viberscoon siri Fram? kino ndë bavraket yðarað Fruft add 11 Jurić beerga y lanesque už #1 bes vna zadła wyeb acco, ytreamed. To anoqa allà vì błaquar að mein ni to bing med svari od drĺzao ami moetode syab och Yo \n\nbne enoidibnoo to yns to sorteartofieques to dosení add to \n\nFrerel bine ndë to drug add no beniadron nierad så \n\nbise art to? [df?wnlod [Lucia 31 amp2nne bee aroseecome ald \n\nTo sol770 mid ni stansecoue aid to soyal yemed Fred of avijajnomezqat betnjogge yĽub ade reddo tO TOTSTIDĚ ŽrsJOİNRÁ #gnibliud brte eźrow Yo TanałunkmoƆ Jurk¤ a1ydoożall vell Yo \n\nTo nesimatą bine arið moqu bra otni zadînarocké aut \n\nadd bra tadneert od a forfe self to samit adlá ml Tostadź duq yo \n\nTell to ↑ [sdad no baa tot aasaaoqet bas miega sveď od \n\n425 \n\nMajesty's First Commissioner of works for the time being, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding and thereupon all interest right title and claim of the said Tenant his successore and assigns in or to the said premises or any part thereof or in or to any buildings or Structure of whatsoever description that may be upon the said ground shall thereupon cesse and determine. AS WITNESS the hands of the said parties \n\nWitness to the signature of \n\n(Sd.) \n\nRobt. H. Boyce. \n\nRobert Henry Boyce \n\n(Ed.) A. W. Hewlett, \n\nR.M. Consular Service. \n\nWitness to the signature of Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy K.C.M.G., C.B. \n\n(Sd.) Edmund Sharp, \n\nCrow Solicitor, \n\nHongkong. \n\n(Sd.) \n\nA. E. Kennedy, \n\nGovernor, Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "INTRODUCTORY\n\nto\n\nThe present appeal was authorized by the University Court at its 17th Meeting, held on December 20, 1921, and its preparation was entrusted to a Committee composed of the Hon. Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., and the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak, who were to act in consultation with the Vice-Chancellor. The then intention was that not only should the immediate needs of the University be set out, but a detailed programme of expansion should be prepared, covering a number of years and supported by accurate estimates of the expense likely to be involved. That intention was, however, frustrated by the illness and subsequent death of Mr. Sharp, to whom the University was under a deep obligation for his work as Chairman of the University Commission of 1920, and before his place could be filled by the Court, Mr. Lau Chu Pak also passed away.\n\nIn the meantime, the Vice-Chancellor had been privileged to announce, at a Special Congregation held on 7th April, 1922, for the purpose of conferring an honorary degree upon His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, that the Rockefeller Foundation of New York had offered a grant of $500,000 for the purpose of endowing full-time Chairs of Surgery and Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, conditional only upon the Faculty being brought into harmony in other respects with the modern standard of\n\nPage 684",
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        "content_text": "301\n\n76\n\nSurely Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher cannot forget the interview, that both Mr. Williamson and myself attended up at his office in the Colonial Secretariat Building. The meeting, at which the inadvisability of both parties carrying on with the legal proceedings, already instituted by us, was brought up where it was pointed out to us, the futility of incurring huge mutual legal obligations: and where it was suggested, that in view of the early departure for Home of Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, we should leave all proceedings in abeyance until his return, and that in the interim an adjustment might possibly take place.\n\nGovernment protected itself by Ordinance,\" is untrue.\n\nThere is no object for me to make any untrue statements, as no possible good would ever result therefrom, nor do I desire to associate myself with any such means to attain my ends. And, I will again state that the result of this interview was the means of the legal proceedings being held up, and such facts are in written existence in Hongkong to-day.\n\nAt that interview there was no whisper, intention, or warning placed before Mr. Williamson or myself that an Ordinance and the Eventual Indemnity Act of 1922, would be set into operation during Mr. Fletcher's absence at Home, but such really was the case, and it came into operation and full force shortly after his return to the Colony.\n\nThe coincidence and the connection were remarkable, and still even in face of this, I still believe and contend that Mr. Fletcher was at that meeting, acting in entire good faith towards us, but that all the same the subsequent inauguration of the Indemnity Act of 1922, was started almost immediately afterwards with a view to block our claim and crumple our legal proceedings.\n\nBoth Mr. Williamson and myself, took the guidance of Mr. Fletcher at the interview in entire good faith and acted upon same by suspending our legal proceedings forthwith.\n\nIn short, these statements are to the effect that, immediately after legal proceedings were commenced, Mr. Fletcher approached the owners with a request for the stay of such proceedings with a view to an amicable settlement; and the words used are capable of being understood as conveying a suggestion that Mr. Fletcher deliberately proposed the stay in order to give the Hongkong Government time to prepare the Indemnity Ordinance.\n\n36. The accuracy of these statements by Mr. Moller and Mr. Burkill may perhaps be called in question.\n\nThere is first the use of the word \"immediately\", with its obvious inference that the legal proceedings caused Mr. Fletcher or the Hongkong Government some perturbation. Mr. Moller rightly says that the proceedings were commenced in December, 1919, and he has supplied the date of Mr. Fletcher's alleged request in the passage beginning \"Surely Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher cannot forget the interview\". The interview took place on the 23rd August, 1920, and Mr. Moller's \"immediately\" resolves itself into a period of more than eight months.\n\n77\n\nMr. Fletcher to the Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., Counsel for the Hongkong Government: 24th August, 1920.\n\n\"Moller and Williamson tell me that Turner from Deacon's office represented to them yesterday that you were anxious to get on with the Wollowra case immediately. I had seen Moller and Williamson yesterday before Turner came to them and we agreed informally that it would be better to let the matter stand over in order that there might be opportunity for consideration of certain cases which were now pending at home\".\n\nCrown Solicitor to Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon, and Harston: 25th August, 1920:-\n\n\"Wollowra Steamship Co. v. Attorney General.\n\nWith regard to Messrs. Moller and Williamson's proposal to the Colonial Secretary that this case should stand over\".\n\nMinute by the Attorney General: 1st June, 1921 :-\n\n\"As a matter of fact the arrangement was made at the request of the plaintiffs, and I remember that I felt some difficulty about agreeing because there was always the possibility that Mr. Fletcher might not return and he is the only person who knows anything about the facts\".\n\nCrown Solicitor to Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon, & Harston, 6th June, 1921 :—\n\n\"I would remind you that the arrangement that the action should stand over was made at the request of your clients\".\n\n14\n\nMessrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon, & Harston to Crown Solicitor, 7th June, 1921 : --\n\n\"We think that the arrangement referred to, although actually made at our clients' request, was in fact and was so understood by both sides a mutual agreement for the mutual benefit of both sides as Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Williamson were, at the time that the arrangement was made, understood to be about to leave the Colony\".\n\nIn \"The humble petition of Messrs. A. R. Burkill & Sons of Shanghai, Messrs. Moller & Co. (Shanghai) Limited of Shanghai\" and others, dated the 17th June, 1921, the following statement appears \"On the 25th August, 1920, the Government consented to the case being postponed\".\n\nMr. Fletcher concurs that the arrangement, though proposed by the owners, was mutual. A representation was made to him that certain actions, involving similar claims against the Imperial Government, were pending at home, and he entirely agreed with Mr. Moller and Mr. Williamson that it would be a mere waste of money for the owners to proceed with their case in Hongkong, when it appeared possible that the matter in dispute would shortly be settled at home, at the expense of litigants in the Courts in London.\n\nThe third point is the suggestion that, in agreeing to the stay of proceedings, Mr. Fletcher had some information regarding the intention of the Government to pass an Indemnity Ordinance, which he concealed from the owners.\n\nMessrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon, & Harston wrote to the Crown Solicitor on the 7th June, 1921 :\n\n\"We do not know whether the Government had the present proposed Ordinance in mind when this arrangement for the stay of proceedings was come to. If it had, disclosure thereof should have been made.\"\n\nThe Crown Solicitor replied on the 16th June, 1921 :\n\n\"When the above arrangement was made last August, the Government had no Indemnity Ordinance of any kind in contemplation and had never considered the question of introducing an Indemnity Ordinance.”\n\nThe first proposal for an Indemnity Ordinance came from the Secretary of State for the Colonies in a circular despatch, dated the 28th December, 1920, which reached Hongkong on the 13th February, 1921. Mr. Fletcher left the Colony for England on the 1st January, 1921, and on that date neither he nor the Government had contemplated any question of an Indemnity Ordinance The Governor wrote to the Secretary of State on the 27th November regarding the legal proceedings which had been commenced, and he made no suggestion of any possibility of a solution by means of an Indemnity Bill. The circular despatch of the 28th December, 1920, is the opening document on the file dealing with the proposal for an ordinance.\n\nMr. Fletcher arrived in England at the end of February, 1921, and, on a date which he cannot recall, he was informed at the Colonial Office of the circular despatch, and his opinion was invited. He referred to the arrangement for the stay of legal proceedings.",
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        "content_text": "# \n## V.-PUBLIC WORKS\n\n### BUILDINGS\n\nDuring the year under review the following works made fair progress:- The Senior Officers' Quarters on the Homestead Site at the Peak, and at Leighton Hill, the former under Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood, and the latter under Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs; and the new Offices for the Public Works Department. Good progress was made with the following works:- In Hongkong, foundations of the new Fire Brigade Station, opposite the Central Market; Maternity Block and alterations to the Sisters' Quarters, Victoria Hospital; site formation for the new Queen's College Building; and the Miniature Rifle Range at The Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Headquarters. In Kowloon, new Police Stations at Yaumati and Mongkoktsui; and the underground Seismograph Room at the Royal Observatory. The undermentioned works were completed:- In Hongkong, additions and reconstruction of the Kitchen and Garage Blocks at Government House; Outpatients Department, Government Civil Hospital; Quarters for Scavenging Coolies, Belchers Street; Temporary School for Chinese Boys, Morrison Gap Road; Married Quarters for Police, Caine Road; Gardeners' Quarters, Colonial Cemetery; accommodation for Chinese Linesmen at Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station; and various Public Conveniences. In Kowloon, Extension to the Fire Brigade Station; new Class Rooms at the Kowloon British School; and various Public Conveniences. In the New Territories, the Land Bailiffs' Quarters, Ping Shan, and the Clerks Quarters, Taipo. Other smaller works of minor importance were also accomplished. The reconstruction of certain sheds at Laichikok for purposes of a prison was nearing completion.\n\n### COMMUNICATIONS\n\nThe 2nd and 3rd miles of the road from Taitam Gap to Shek O and Cape D'Aguilar; the extension of the road contouring the hillside in Wongneichong and Tai Hang Valleys; and the diversion of the road leading from Pokfulam Road to Victoria Road were completed. Broadwood Road was extended to connect with the new Motor Road contouring Wongneichong Valley. Substantial progress was made with the undermentioned works- Improving and widening road through Quarry Bay Village; a low level road (25 feet wide) from Island Bay to Big Wave Bay and another of equal width to effect a junction with it, and link up the 3rd mile with Shek O Gap; and the 1st Section of the Road contouring the hillside above Conduit Road. Fair progress was made with the extension of the 20-foot road from Magazine Gap to Peak Tram Station, Chamberlain Road.\n\n## \n-24 -\nNo University Hostel at present exists for women students- whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921: but by the courtesy of the school authorities, arrangements have been made for their lodging in connection with St. Stephen's Girls' College.\n\nUniversity fees for tuition and board amount to $550 per annum, enabling a student who lives carefully to meet the whole of his expenses with a sum of $1,000 per annum, as compared with a minimum sum of $2,500 per annum, besides travelling expenses, in the case of a Chinese student going abroad for his education.\n\nNumerous scholarships are available, including the King Edward VII Scholarships founded by His Majesty's Government, the President's Scholarships founded by His Excellency the President of China, together with Scholarships (some of which are in the nature of bursaries) given by the Hongkong Government, the Chinese Government, the Metropolitan District of Peking, the Provincial Governments of Canton, Chibli, Yunnan and Hupeh, the Governments of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, the Government of Kedah and the Siamese Government. Students are also drawn from the Philippines, French Indo-China and Australasia.\n\nDuring 1922 honorary degrees were conferred upon His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Sir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G., and the late Mr. E. H. Sharp, c.m.g., a member of the Governor's Executive Council. A benefaction of $500,000 was received from the Rockefeller Foundation for the foundation of full-time Chairs in Medicine and Surgery. The complete scheme includes a grant of a further sum of $250,000 for a full-time Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and provides for the creation of complete medical units for the teaching of the three subjects in the Government Civil Hospital. The University is to make provision out of its own funds for assistants to the professors of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology and it is desired to erect a Hostel for medical students in proximity to the hospital. Eight scholarships of $200 each were founded by the China Medical Board for medical students who shall have carried out their pre-medical studies at the Canton Christian College, the University undertaking to remit fees to the extent of $100 a year. A sum of $10,000 was presented to the University Union by the Hon. Sir C. Paul Chater, Kt., c.m.g., for the foundation of a Library in memory of the late Dr. Jordan, formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Acting Vice-Chancellor in the University. A sum of $5,000 was collected for the extension and partial refurnishing of the Athletic Ground. An appeal was issued in the course of the year asking for a sum of from four million to five million dollars for the general purposes of the University.\n\nThe total cost of the land, buildings and equipment of the University may be placed at approximately $1,750,000 and their replacement value at not less than $2,500,000, while the invested endowments exceed $3,000,000.\n\n- 25 -\n## Page 249\n## Page 24 \n\n## Page 25",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\nThe undersigned has seen a copy of the letter now landing. \n\nYours sincerely,\n\nThis will ensure that \n\nDelete (Ep.) JJ. Paskin.\n\nthe Hong Kong Govt. in trying to adopt a form of words which will allow beguiling, dealing in opium.\n\n## MINUTE\n87.P. 13/6 Mr. Collins 1:3 d \n\nMr. \nSir C. Davie, \nSir G. Grindle. \nSir H. Read. \nSir J. Masterton Smith. \nLord Arnold. \nMr. Thomas.\n\nCopy to HD) San copy despatch (9836)\n\n20. 25633/24 HK, \n19 Time:1 \n\nreceipt of your letter of the 28th February, No F1630/206/87 \n& to transmit to your Secretary of State. Materials the accompanying copy of despatch, which adduces reasons as to the persons who may be engaging in opening beacons. The Govt. to deal with firms in the Colony, who may be suspected of illicit Traffic.\n\nI am to refer to your despatch of the 20th of March, \n\nGow was requested to call upon Mi Newa to produce the \"general import bience\" which \n\n| 12811 | 1812427 | 60,000 | 11/23—McC–E 258 | \n \n\nAbout an amendment of the ordinance in this Sever. I did not call him in detail to have a conversation by saying that thought of writing to the For. Sufferings. \n\nAm about the panty because to go into it properly, I made a suggestion. \n\nA similar hand was made to Mr. ... \n\nThe Urs. JS. 70. Hand a copy of the raw opium except undu whether hieuse by the HK. Inst. If we Pitcher wh be h... \n\nAbout Nem a sú sharks the conversation. \n\nI am to sharp. wi wh, the ... \n\nwas ... \nозна Gow ...",
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        "content_text": "will \"comprise,\" the \n\nfor \n\nsuggestion that payment for the warrant in ref. of land required by the University, but they state that they wish not to be held as committed to any abatement \n\npays, although they \n\nlikely \n\nare not \n\nto lose a cent in \n\nactual cash. \n\nThe rest of \n\nthe letter is devoted to \n\nexamining the utmost out \n\nof the Stormy \n\nin the \n\nforegoing \n\nway of \n\nThis won't please the Unofficial Members of the Council, but we have \n\nbeen warned, they evidently prepared & face \n\nthe music, \n\n? Copy \n\nthe oft quoted passage A in para & \n\nwhen read would fare. 4 special bit of sharp practice \n\non 1890s by this \n\ncan defeat once Bu & comment in the \n\nreply. 16/9/ \n\nA&C 16 \n\nconf \n\nM Beckett \n\n553 \n\nSee our letter attached dated 19 Feb \n\nasking for an early reply to their letter \n\nof 12 Sept \n\nwhich was sent to you \n\nsame day dated so ref. \n\nSince we took your mano \n\nlast \n\nCommon \n\nLanguage \n\nI don't think we are \n\ncalled upon to remind you by tel. \n\n7 \n\n19 Feb \n\nsend copy of letter of 19 \n\nto E.W. and ask to be furnished with \n\nas early information as 10.0. \n\nI wish \n\nyou \n\nhigh \n\na \n\nreply \n\nforthcoming \n\nJE 24/2/25 \n\nthe fact that \n\nin the thives of \n\nestimating matching, we had better...",
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        "content_text": "FORGED NOTES.\n\nJuly 16. Before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday, a Chinese timber merchant was charged with being in possession of three forged ten-dollar bank notes.\n\nEvidence was given of defendant's arrests with the notes in his possession when about to board the 3.8, \"Kinshan\" for Macao.\n\nMr. M. K. Lo, who appeared for the defence, said that the notes were given to the defendant by a friend in Canton. On his arrival in Hongkong defendant found that the notes were forged and decided to take them back to Canton. Mr. Lo submitted that there had been no intention of uttering the notes in Hongkong.\n\nHis Worship held there was a grave doubt in the case and discharged the defendant.\n\nCALIFORNIA COLLEGIANS.\n\nJuly 15 Brick Morse's California Collegiana, formerly the University of California Glee Club, boasts an exceedingly talented soloist in Mr. Clyde Diddle, a senior at the University and President of the organisation. He has been with the club for four years, and has made a trip to the Orient, to Alaska, through Canada, and to Europe, on each of which trips his work as bass soloist has been highly contributive to the success of the club.\n\n\"Ve Mas-\n\nDiddle, when interviewed said, \"In my opinion the programmes which we are presenting now are of the highest calibre possible. We have always presented numbers which have been good, but as we have gained experience, and guided by our friend and leader, C. R. Marae, we have reached a state now of which we can boast,\" ranging all of the way from Dvorak's \"Largo,\" from the New World Symphony, to soft shoe dancing by \"Sta\" and \"Monk\".\n\nDiddle's mellow voice can hardly be described. It is one thing that we cannot tell you all about. But one which you will still be talking about when you leave the theatre. His singing has been in popular demand around San Francisco this last year. You'll be thrilled if you hear him at the Theatre Royal on July 19 and 21.\n\nAt the Kowloon Magistracy on July 16, a Chinese was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment for loitering about in the vicinity of the Observatory early on Wednesday morning and creating a disturbance.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\n1\n\nTHIEF CAUGHT.\n\nJuly 16,\n\n\"That was a smart piece of work,\" remarked Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy this morning when he was told that Mr. B. A. Hyder had caught a Chinese who was charged with the larceny of $20 from an old man at Des Voeux Road near the Wing On Company, yesterday forenoon.\n\nIt was stated by Inspector Spear that the defendant extracted the money from complainant's pocket and was seized by the owner. Defendant broke away by discarding the money and escaped in the direction of the Wing Lok Street wharf where he was caught.\n\nMr. Hyder's attention was drawn to the runaway by a whistle blown by the conductor of a passing tram car. He said that he ran down a side lane leading into Connaught Road anticipating that the man would come that way and got him just in time.\n\nDefendant was sent to prison with hard labour for three months.\n\nSTOLEN UMBRELLA?\n\nJuly 16.\n\nUnlawful possession of umbrella was the charge against a ricksha coolie before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning.\n\nThe article was believed to have been stolen, although the owner was not found. Divisional Inspector Blackman said that defendant was seen in Tal Wong Street carrying the umbrella and was arrested on suspicion by a constable.\n\nDefendant said he paid 40 cents for the umbrella and intended making a present of it to his wife.\n\nHis Worship: I see you are a perfect husband. Three weeks hard labour.\n\nThis summer throughout Hongkong there will be ten Vacation Bible Schools conducted by local Chinese Christians, beginning July 19. More than 1,500 children are expected to attend. These Vacation Schools continue for one month. They are under the direction of Mr. Chang King-suen, of the Chinese YMCA.\n\nThe recent murder of an office boy at Connaught Road Central was again mentioned at the Central Magistracy this morning when the alleged assailant, another office boy who was caught and brought back from Macao, was brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell. The case was fixed for hearing on Thursday next.\n\nMORE RED TAPE.\n\nFor the first time in three years as far as the \"China Mail\" is concerned the weather forecast for the first part of the week-end cannot be given owing to Government blunder, or red tape, or both.\n\nHitherto the \"China Mail\" has given the forecast on Saturdays, the same being obtained by telephone to cope with printing hours.\n\nBecause the No. 1 typhoon signal was hoisted, the Kowloon clerk-in-charge said that we must refer to the manager. The manager ultimately told us that the Government had supplied them with a list of people who may ring up the Observatory when the typhoon signal is up. The \"China Mail\" is not on that list.\n\nReaders who are in two minds as to picnics, recreation, excursions, sailings, cargo-working, business &c. will have to remain in the dark.\n\nThe reason for this withholding of vital information from the public must be made known.\n\nNo. 2998.—July 22, 1926.\n\nMOTOR ACCIDENTS.\n\nJuly 17.\n\nDivisional Inspector Peter Grant, of No. 7 Police Station, West Point, met with an accident while driving a motor cycle combination in Bonham Road shortly after noon yesterday.\n\nIn taking the turn near the Ying Wah College, the side car raised. The machine skidded and collided with a Hongkong Hotel motor bus which was just then coming round the corner.\n\nThe Inspector escaped with slight injury to his left knee, but he was able to get about this morning. Damage to the motor cycle was small, but the body of the motor bus had the paint work scraped off and the head lights were also damaged.\n\nStubbs Road Collision. Another accident occurred at Stubbs Road yesterday forenoon while Miss Stewart, of the Repulse Bay Hotel, was driving a motor car, but the occupants escaped injury.\n\nMiss Stewart's car collided with another car coming in the opposite direction and was slightly damaged.\n\nVOLUNTEER ORDERS.\n\nThe following is taken on the strength on July 12, 1926, and posted to the Reserve Company.\n\nNo. 1064 Pte. H. West,\n\nResignations.\n\nThe following are permitted to resign from the Corps:-\n\nNo. 827 Pte. W. D. Goodfellow, M.C. Reserve Company dated June 30, 1926.\n\nNo. 826 Pte. J. M. Walker, Reserve Company dated July 22, 1926.\n\nNo. 909 Pte. J. I. Litton, A. C. Company dated June 10, 1926.\n\nNo. 702 Pte. G. S. Hugh-Jones, Engineer Company dated June 16, 1926.\n\nStruck Off.\n\nThe following having left the Colony are struck off the strength, as from May 1, 1926.\n\nNo. 576 Pte. H. E. Hollanda, Armoured Car Company.\n\nNo. 967 Pte. J. F. Caldas, No. 4 Platoon.\n\nNo. 828 Pte. G. H. Gibson, Reserve Company.\n\nMiss Irene Frank and Dr. Ralph Gill were united in marriage at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Graham in Shanghai on Saturday afternoon, July 8. Mr. Drury officiated. Dr. and Mrs. Gill left for Singapore where they will establish their home. Mrs. Gill taught in the American School for one year and was a member of the church. Dr. Gill established a practice in Hongkong as a dentist.\n\nSCOUTS' WORK.\n\nNo. 6 Hongkong (Ellis Kadoorie School) Troop of Boy Scouts gathered at the School hall at Sookumpoo on Friday to welcome Sir Henry Gollan, the Chief Justice, who has shown a keen interest in the movement by presenting a challenge cup for inter-patrol competition annually.\n\nIn the awarding of the cup to the winning patrol, special attention will be paid to efficiency, attendance and conduct.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nCHINA PROVIDENT.\n\n241\n\nIn accordance with the Articles of Association the Very Rev. F. L. Robert, Messrs. H. P. White, T. G. Weall, Lee Koon-san and W. J. Hawker retire, and are eligible for re-election.\n\nA net deficit of just over two million dollars is the result of last year's working of the China Provident, Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd., as shown by the books of the Company.\n\nSome months ago, an extraordinary meeting was convened at which a committee of six shareholders was appointed to investigate, with technical assistance, the financial position of the company, following some sensational disclosures.\n\nThe annual general meeting has been fixed for July 22, date, the report for the year ended December 31, 1925, will be presented, together with the statement of accounts.\n\nActual Profit.\n\nThe actual result of the year's working shows a profit of $46,125.57, plus $200,000 transferred back from Reserve, giving a credit balance of $246,125.57.\n\nThe party, which consisted of the following:- Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood (Director of Education), Mr. F. I. de Rome (Headmaster), the Rev. G. T. Waldegrave (Scout Commissioner), Scoutmaster T. K. S. Leung, Assistant Scoutmaster Yu, and masters of the School, adjourned with Sir Henry to the hall where the Scouts gave a display in signalling and ambulance work.\n\nMr. de Rome thanked Sir Henry Gollan for his attendance and interest in the Troop and spoke to the Scouts on the value of maintaining the efficiency of the Troop.\n\nSir Henry Gollan then addressed the gathering and presented the challenge cup. This was followed by a short speech by the Scoutmaster. The Scout Commissioner in a speech traced the history of the Troop, which was a good one, and commented on the Scout movement which was not only local but world-wide.\n\nThe various speeches were interpreted by Mr. K. S. Lam, who has just retired from the Scoutmastership of the Troop after several years' good service.\n\nCheers were then called for and the gathering dispersed after the singing of the British and Chinese national anthems.\n\nIt is notified in the Government Gazette with reference to the Vicar Apostolic Incorporation Ordinance, 1885, Ordinance No. 4 of 1885, and to Government Notification No. 118 of 1924, that the Right Reverend Henry Paschal Valtorta, Bishop of Lera, is now Vicar Apostolic of The Roman Catholic Church in this Colony.\n\nAuditors.\n\nThe accounts have been audited by Messrs. Linstead and Davis and Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming who are eligible for re-election.\n\nNotice has been lodged with the Company, by certain shareholders, that it is their intention to propose the election of Messrs. Lowe, Pingham and Matthews as auditors for the current year.\n\nAUDITORS' REPORT.\n\nThe report states:-\n\nWe beg to report to the shareholders that we have audited the foregoing balance sheet with the books, documents and vouchers of the Company.\n\nA snapshot taken at the recent motor-cycle and pony gymkhana, promoted by the Mounted Section and Armoured Car Companies of the Volunteer Defence Corps. Above are seen the Mounted Infantry taking up their positions for the tent-pegging.\n\nALLEGED ASSAULT.\n\nJuly 17. Complaints of the behaviour of certain people in the Happy Valley district which had led to disagreeable circumstances were referred to at the Central Magistracy yesterday when A. H. Hartman, of 11 Tai Wong Street, Wanchai, and H. M. Ismail, of 13 Sharp Street, were charged with assaulting two Chinese ladies.\n\nThe incidents deposed to took place on July 7 as the two Chinese ladies were walking back from the path leading to the Monument having accompanied their mother part of the way home after her visit to them at their home in Leighton Hill.\n\nThree road cyclists were alleged to have been involved in the assault which consisted of catching hold of the ladies as they passed and squeezing them.\n\nIn response to the girls' screams, it was stated, the brother of one of the ladies appeared on the scene and knocked one of the cyclists from his machine. A Chinese constable also made an appearance.\n\nThe shop from which the cycles were hired was communicated with and it was stated that the three men who had taken the cycles had erased their names. A clerk of the cycle shop was called to give evidence and he stated that it was the second defendant who had erased the names.\n\nAfter making the following adjustments, which are considered necessary:\n\nWrite off Property ... $895,539.02\n\nWrite off Investment Account ... 144,951.54\n\nTransfer to Reserve for Bad and Doubtful Loans ... 1,123,680.48\n\nTransfer to Reserve for Bad and Doubtful Debts ... 26,106.98\n\nTransfer to General Reserve ... 161,736.83\n\n$2,351,015.66 The result a debit balance of $2,107,790.09, plus $18,925.50 brought forward from last year, has leaving a nett deficit of $2,086,864.50.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has appointed provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, the Hon. Mr. Dallas Gerald Mercer Bernard to be an Unofficial Member of the Executive Council during the absence from the Colony of the Hon. Sir Edward Pollock, K.C., with effect from July 10.\n\nConsulting Committee.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor in Council has directed that the name of Mr. Frederick Lanchester Foster-Turner be added to the List of authorised architects.\n\nWe have not seen satisfactory vouchers in respect of the sum of $112,946, under the heading of work expenses made during the strike.\n\nIt appears to us that owing to the late allotment of certain shares, the dividend for the year 1924 was incorrectly paid, involving a small loss to the Company.\n\nUnder section 90 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, His Excellency the Governor in Council has ordered that the Chinese Cemetery, Mesara, J. H. Taggart and T. de Christian Meester retired from Kowloon Tong, known as New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 18, shall be closed from and after August 1, 1926.\n\nMr. W. J. Hawker was invited to join the Committee in place of Mr. J. H. Taggart.\n\nSubject to the above remarks, in our opinion, the foregoing balance sheet is properly drawn up as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the Company's affairs.",
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        "content_text": "30\n\nCAFE DISPUTE.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nMIXED COURT.\n\nShanghai, July 21. As regards the Mixed Court rendition, the \"Sin Wan Pao\" states that the Ministry of Justice considers it improper to allow assessors to continue to sit in criminal cases,\n\n[No. 2998. July 22, 1926.\n\nTHE BOYCOTT,\n\nJuly 21. According to a report to hand, the Canton authorities are forbidding the alleged circulation of rumours by strikers.\n\nEvidence was given at the Central Magistracy yesterday in the case in which Mr. I. G. G. Taylor, who came from Shanghai, and Mr. J. L. Durand, a partner in the Cafe Parisien, were charged in connection with incidents at the Cafe on the 14th-15th instant.\n\nMr. Taylor spoke to Mrs. Taylor, Mr. Taylor not being there at the time. Mr. Durand blamed Mr. Taylor for the absence of the band. Mrs. Taylor said that her husband could not be in two places at once, upstairs and at the door.\n\nSuch rumours are stated to concern the present conference and the provision allowing local authorities to decide all criminal actions and execute all such decisions is regarded as repugnant to recent ordinances promulgated by the Central Government, and prejudicial to the movement for the unification of the law.\n\nThe \"Sin Wan Pao\" adds that the Ministry, in conjunction with the Wai-chiaopu, intends to submit a resolution to the Cabinet for the revision of the agreement.--Reuter.\n\nMr. Durand told Mrs. Taylor to leave the restaurant, saying \"I don't want you here. Get out!\" Mrs. Taylor said she wanted written notice. Mr. Durand insisted that she leave, and pushed her. She refused to go and he called her a fool. She slapped his face, whereupon he kicked her in the legs and ran upstairs.\n\nMrs. Taylor went to fetch her husband, who went upstairs after Mr. Durand. Witness called a Chinese policeman, who said he could not do anything until a whistle was blown.\n\nMr. Taylor is charged with disorderly conduct and Mr. Durand appears to answer five charges including assault, abusive language, and disorderly conduct.\n\nMr. Hugh Jones appeared for Mr. Durand and Mr. Taylor conducted his own case.\n\nWitnesses who had been subpoenaed in support of Mr. Taylor's case were business men and an adjournment would cause considerable loss of valuable time.\n\nMr. Hugh Jones applied for a remand but Mr. Taylor objected.\n\nMrs. Landau, of Madame Flint's Beauty Parlour, said she heard the disturbance in the cafe. Both Mr. Taylor and Mr. Durand were excited.\n\nMr. Taylor slapped Mr. Durand's face and Mr. Durand kicked, but witness did not see exactly what happened.\n\nWitness went up to the office with Mr. Durand, who had not had time to open his typewriter when Mr. Taylor came in and said: \"Did you call my wife a ...?\"\n\nMr. Taylor lifted a chair and threw it at Mr. Durand, who ran, with Mr. Taylor after him.\n\nMr. R. E. Lindsell, the Magistrate, agreed to hear witnesses on subpoena whose evidence concerned chiefly the events of the afternoon.\n\nMr. Taylor will be called later to give evidence of the evening events leading up to an alleged assault on Mr. Durand.\n\nThe dispute between the parties commenced in connection with the lateness of arrival of the band for a musical tiffin at the cafe on the 14th.\n\nThe band did not put in an appearance until 2 p.m. According to the opening of Mr. Taylor, both Mr. Durand and Madame Flint, the other partner in the cafe venture, were very excited and Mr. Durand called him (witness) a fool and used threats about taking witness by the throat and throwing him out of the cafe.\n\nMr. Alexander Schultz, assistant manager of the Russo-Asiatic Bank, who was in the cafe at 1.15, said he overheard Mr. Taylor and Mr. Durand in argument.\n\nMr. Durand told Mr. Taylor that his services were unsatisfactory and blamed him for the absence of the band.\n\nMr. Taylor was trying to explain, but Mr. Durand was very angry and said \"I feel like breaking your neck.\"\n\nMr. C. E. dos Remedios, clerk in the Russo-Asiatic Bank, corroborated Mr. Schultz.\n\nEvening Incidents.\n\nThe incidents on which the charges are based took place in the evening and arose out of the conduct of two sailors in the cafe.\n\nMr. Charles Henry Cotton, assistant manager of the cafe, said that Mr. Durand came into the cafe and...\n\nThe case was adjourned until tomorrow at 2.15 p.m.\n\nPhoto by A. Poorg.\n\nCOLONY'S HEALTH.\n\nJuly 21, Last week the following notifiable diseases were reported to the Medical Officer of Health:\n\nDiphtheria: 2 from Kowloon, total 2 cases, all Chinese.\n\nEnteric fever: 1 from city, 2 from Kowloon, total 3 cases (2 Chinese, 1 Portuguese), 1 death.\n\nParatyphoid fever: 1 Chinese case from city.\n\nCerebro-spinal fever: 1 fatal case (Portuguese) from city district.\n\nRabies: 1 dog from city.\n\nInfluenza (not notifiable): 1 death.\n\nWas ...\n\nAs indicated in the \"China Mail\" on several occasions last week, the Strike Executive has not been permitted to send delegates to the conference, with a watching brief.\n\nIt has now been confirmed that only the official delegations are present at the conference.\n\nAfter publication hours yesterday, a message was received from Reuter. In yesterday's issue, we gave the facts of this communique, now confirmed by the following:-\n\nThe conference at Canton resumed its sittings on July 19 (Monday) in the Canton Foreign Office, when the British delegation replied to the statement made by the Chinese delegation on the origin of the anti-British boycott.\n\nOn Monday, there was a \"clean\" return of health, no case being notified to the authorities.\n\nDamage at the Peak Tramway lower station. In the centre (foreground) is the nullah.\n\nOn the right is the Helena May Institute and a tram car can be seen on the left.\n\nThe next sitting of the conference has been fixed for July 21 (today).\n\nC.S.P. HELD UP.\n\nJuly 21. The danger to traffic and pedestrians by the rolling of barrels along pavements and roads was stressed at the Central Magistracy this morning when representatives of Messrs. Kwong Sang Hong, the perfumers, were charged with obstruction.\n\nIt was stated by Divisional Inspector Blackman that the Captain Superintendent of Police was held up with his car at Praya East yesterday by a number of coolies rolling barrels on the road.\n\nTo a question from the Magistrate (Mr. R. E. Lindsell), the defendant explained that it was easier to roll the barrels than to carry them, as it required two men to each barrel.\n\nRemarking that the coolies should be mindful of pedestrians and moving traffic, His Worship imposed a fine of $5.\n\n(No. 2998.—July 22, 1926.\n\nVALLEY ASSAULT.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nHIGH PRICES.\n\n251\n\n31\n\nGraham's Road, The Albany, Hollywood Road, Lyndhurst Terrace, Wellington Street from Pottinger Street to Queen's Road Central, Pottinger Street.\n\nJuly 21. Suggestions that there had been ill-feeling between the parties were made by Mr. A. J. O'Donoghue and Mr. W. B. Hind who appeared for the defence of Hajee Mohamed Ismail, 13 Sharp Street, and A. H. Harteam, 11 Da Street, at the Central Magistracy yesterday.\n\nThe charge was one of assault against two Chinese ladies.\n\nOriginally, the property consisted of four lots but as the third failed to elicit a bid in its entirety, it was put up in six sections, all of which were disposed of.\n\nLot 1, consisting of the remaining portion of Inland Lot No. 1285, including Staunton Street, was sold to Mr. Ma Chi-long for $20,000, an increase of nearly $6,000 on the upset price.\n\nLot 2, consisting of Section C of Inland Lot No. 1968 together with No. 3 Tai On Terrace, was also purchased by Mr. Ma Chi-long for $13,000, an increase of $8,000.\n\nLot 3 (a) consisting of Section F of Inland Lot No. 370 together with the buildings thereon now known as Nos. 2 and 3 Circular Pathway and Nos. 9 and 10 Tai On Lane was sold to The Hongkong and Kowloon Land and Loan Company for $8,900.\n\nLot 3 (b) consisting of Section G of Inland Lot No. 370 together with buildings thereon now known as No. 5 Circular Pathway was sold for $9,800.\n\nLot 3 (c) consisting of Subsection No. 2 of Section A of Inland Lot No. 9A together with the buildings thereon now known as No. 10 Circular Pathway and No. 2 Tsui On Lane was sold for $13,300, an increase of $8,300.\n\nLot 4 consisting of Subsection No. 1 of Section A of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1463 together with the buildings thereon now known as No. 174 Kowloon City Road, was bought by the Chuen On Fire Insurance Company Ltd., with one bid of $100 above the opening price of $1,000.\n\nNo. 7 Tsui On Lane was sold to the same company for $7,800, an increase of $2,800.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police has now given permission for motor cars to use certain prohibited areas in order to relieve congestion.\n\nThe following are the areas temporarily opened for motor traffic:\n\nTaiwong Street.\n\nIce House Street south of Queen's Road Central (both ways).\n\nIn regard to Ice House Street, a recent notification stated that this road \"south of Queen's Road Central is open to motor traffic upwards, that is to say from Queen's Road Central, but motor traffic downwards, on such portion of Ice House Street, is prohibited.\"\n\nThe temporary concession now allowed will enable motor cars to use Ice House Street above Queen's Road Central (the hill portion).\n\nIn effect, a motor car can now proceed from the Queen's Road junction of Ice House Street right down to the old Fire Station near the junction of Wellington Street and Queen's Road, and vice versa.\n\nIsmail said he was cycling fairly fast down the path from Wong Nei Chong Road and merely reached out his arm to move one of the girls to a side in order to avoid a collision.\n\nHe was the leading cyclist, but complainants were wrong in saying there were three of them.\n\nWitness said that Gomes, the third cyclist, was some distance behind and did not turn up at the bicycle shop.\n\nWhen witness went to look for him, he met a brother of one of the complainants who told him that another cyclist had been arrested.\n\nGomes also gave evidence, and said he cycled some distance behind the other two.\n\nHe did not see or hear anything unusual on the path.\n\nHe wrote the name \"F. Kelly\" in the cycle hire books, as it was his nickname.\n\nHe also wrote his correct name and address and told the dealer that he would pay for the damage done to the cycle when he was pulled off by the brother of one of the complainants.\n\nHe dissociated himself from Harteam's action so that he should not be held responsible for the damage to witness's cycle.\n\nAfter hearing the evidence of the second defendant, which was similar to that of Ismail, and submissions for the defence, Mr. Lindsell accepted the evidence of the complainants as substantially true and convicted both defendants.\n\nThey were each fined $25, or fourteen days' imprisonment in default, and bound over to be of good behaviour for six months.\n\nAt 4 p.m. on July 22, nominations of candidates for the Legislative Council election close at the Magistracy.\n\nThe election is to be held on Monday, to select a non-official Justice of the Peace to represent the J.P.'s for three months, during the absence of Sir Henry Pollock.\n\nPhoto by A. Fang.\n\nMOTOR ROUTES.\n\nJuly 21. With the closing of Pedder Street between Queen's Road and Des Voeux Road for motor traffic temporarily owing to the heavy damage caused by the flood and obstructions at...\n\nJust like the Japan earthquake disaster,\" remarked a visitor at the scene above, on Monday.\n\nThis is Pedder Street, facing Queen's Road (with the A.P.C. in background) and shows the violent upheaval which moved large slabs of asphalt road material.\n\nTRAFFIC AGAIN.\n\nJuly 21. Yesterday Hongkong Hotel 'buses were out again, making the journey to Repulse Bay and back.\n\nOnly residents were carried on this motor service.\n\nThe Aberdeen Kai Fong 'buses were also in commission.\n\nThe route followed (out of town) is along Queen's Road West, up by No. 7 police station, along Pokfulam Road (past the University and No. 3 pumping station), and so on; and return by the same way.\n\nRepulse Bay residents reach the Hongkong Hotel by way of Queen's Road, from the west of the city.",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nThe method of instruction is Japanese and not Russian. It is sound and good, though whether it makes for initiative is open to doubt. The great fault with the system appears to be that the future officer will leave the school well drilled but without practice in drilling his men.\n\nAfter six months with the rifle the cadets are instructed in the machine gun, though owing to the training weapons having been requisitioned for the front I was unable to see the guns or the system.\n\nI was shown the result of five weeks' infantry training in a squad of cadets, who performed open order drill with precision and smartness, that is an innovation in South China, and equalled the discipline of the metropolitan soldiers of the Ch general.\n\nI was unable to see any classroom instruction, though it is evident that the students are taught tactics in class as well as Canton citizenship, as maps and black-boards were in evidence, while the classrooms were well fitted out with desk and benches.\n\nAccommodation.-The students do not eat and sleep in the same room, while wash houses are also provided. Each student has a trestle bed on which his blankets are neatly rolled, while his pack and haversack are kept on a shelf, and his Japanese rifle with brass sight protector has an arm rack provided for it.\n\nThe rooms are too crowded to suit European ideas of hygiene, but the general comfort of the school was a great advance on any such establishment that I have seen in China.\n\nThe instructors have a special mess with table-cloths provided, while the food appears ample and of good quality.\n\nDress. The instructional staff are clothed in the usual Chinese khaki service dress, but the students wear the southern blue, with leathern belt and bayonet frog, putties and straw sandals for parade.\n\nThe rifles are Japanese and appear to be kept in good condition. Numbers. I saw about 600 students at the two branches of the school, but in peace time the numbers must be greater, probably 1,000.\n\nI was unable to procure the numbers by provinces in the school, but I should imagine the southern students to be in the minority. On looking at the students' letter rack, I noticed several letters with the Federated Malay States stamps on them. I was informed that several of the students came from Singapore and the Straits Settlements. It would be interesting to know if these students enrol in the Chinese provincial armies or whether they return to the Malay States with their military knowledge as an asset for the hoped-for colonial insurrections fostered by the Soviet.\n\nThe average age of the cadets, I was informed, is 19.\n\nConclusion. After my visit I came to the conclusion that the school as now carried on is distinctly a military asset for the master that owns it; its results show that discipline and cohesion can be inculcated into Chinese southern armies, and that the old idea of the general with the greatest numbers winning will be dissipated by the students in the future; that it is doubtful if the Kuomintang's national aspirations will be benefited by the school if the students from other provinces are drafted into the local army for purely provincial aggrandisements; that as a means of propaganda the school, if used as intended, might have a great influence in the future of China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nG. R. V. STEWARD, Colonel,\n\nMilitary Attaché.\n\n[F2699/2/10]\n\nANNEX III.\n\nMemorandum respecting the Political Situation in Canton, by Mr. A. L. Scott, Vice-Consul at Canton.\n\nCANTON remains to-day, as it has always been, the centre of advanced political thought in China and a bed of intrigue and revolution. It was there that foreign trade was solely conducted up to the first, so-called \"opium,\" war of Great Britain against China, and for that reason it bore the first brunt of the attacks made by the foreign aggressor. The last occasion, however, on which foreign force was felt at Canton was in 1860, and the sharp lesson of the Boxer rebellion and its fruits of armed foreign intervention passed unscathed over the heads of the Cantonese.\n\n19\n\nThe first revolutionary efforts were directed against the Manchus, and after one abortive attempt in 1910, steps were taken to seduce the soldiers from their allegiance and the revolution of 1911 was successful in overthrowing that dynasty. From that date until after the death of President Yuan Shih-kai, Canton enjoyed comparative peace, but from 1917 onwards it has, together with the rest of China, been a prey to various military factions and their leaders, who have treated the town in the manner of a feudal possession and enriched themselves by preying upon the inhabitants. Sometimes it was a Kwangsi invader who was in power, sometimes the Kuomintang, under \"President\" Sun or his chief lieutenant, Chan Kwing-ming. On the two latter falling out \"President\" Sun was driven from Canton, but returned in January 1923 with the aid of Yunnanese, Kwangsi, and other mercenary troops whom he had called in to his aid. He also possessed a certain number of provincial (i.e., Cantonese) troops, who formed a separate unit.\n\nTo glance back again, it will be remembered that on the inauguration of \"President\" Sun in Canton in 1921, an unfortunate proclamation was issued by the Hong Kong Government (for which they later made an apology) warning all in that colony not to have anything to do with an unrecognised Government. The ill-chosen language of this proclamation was never forgiven by the Canton authorities, and when trouble arose with the seamen in Hong Kong in January 1922, they lent them their tacit support, with the result that a movement, originally purely industrial and inherently capable of settlement, developed into an ugly political situation whereby a general strike of all Chinese took place which threatened the life of the colony. On this occasion, however, owing to the firm attitude and goodwill displayed by Chan Kwing-ming as Governor, no untoward incident occurred as was feared, at Canton.\n\nOn Dr. Sun's return to Canton (as described above) he at first made overtures to various of the Powers with a view to obtaining some measure of recognition for his Government. These having failed owing to the existence of the Government in Peking, which the Powers formally recognised as the Government of China, Dr. Sun felt himself thwarted, and very soon fell into the hands of a small group of extremists and no longer concealed his anti-foreign, and particularly anti-British, bias. A claim renewed by the Southern Government for a share of the customs \"surplus\" led to a threat to seize the customs at Canton, which brought about a naval demonstration on the part of the Powers at Canton. This solidarity surprised the Chinese authorities and led to the abandonment of the plan, but the action taken again acerbated Dr. Sun and his entourage, already antagonised by the recognition accorded by the Powers to a notoriously corrupt and militaristic Government in Peking, with very ineffectual control over the provinces.\n\nIt was about this time that a Soviet consulate was opened at Canton, and from this date the dissemination of advanced political theories and anti-foreign symptoms among students and officials became more manifest. There were several strikes at mission schools (both French and British) owing to the refusal of the school authorities to countenance the formation of political societies among the students, and an agitation against the foreign concessions drew to a climax after the bomb outrage on the 21st June, 1924, when an attempt was made to assassinate the Governor of Indo-China. Proposed new pass regulations for Chinese entering the concession after 10 P.M., and new traffic regulations, led to a lightning strike of all Chinese employed on the island, without any previous protest or demand for their modification having been presented to the Concession authorities.\n\nWhen the strike was eventually settled, after five weeks, the only points won by the strikers were certain small emendations in the traffic regulations and the extension of the pass regulations to foreigners and Chinese alike. The old police (who had left their posts) were dismissed and new ones engaged. The political character of the strike may be illustrated by the fact that at the conferences held the representatives of the \"strikers\" present were all outside parties and not employees on the island at all. These had no demands to make, and came back without any previous stipulations. It was, however, recommended to employers to pay half wages for the period of the strike, inasmuch as they had been forced to leave their employment by intimidation.\n\nThe real issue was, of course, the measure of control exercised by the foreign municipal authorities, and alleged racial discrimination. During the course of negotiations, most of the Chinese officials showed themselves distinctly uncompromising, and it was not until the personal influence of Dr. Sun himself was enlisted that a settlement was finally secured. Meanwhile, a movement was on foot among the Chinese merchants for the expulsion of the non-Cantonese forces, together with the more extreme elements of the Kuomintang from Canton, and their eagerness to place their property in security.\n\n[14166]\n\n71\n\nD 2\n\n504",
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        "content_text": "## \n(c) As regards the proposed reinforcements to China, to approve the proposal of the Secretary of State for War to send an additional Infantry Brigade and more artillery from England.\n\n## \n(a) As regards a telegram from Sir Miles Lampson (Peking telegram No. 575, dated March 30th) drawing attention to the importance of the Cable Stations at Sharp Peak, near Foochow, and at Amoy, the following action should be taken:\n\n### \n(1) (ii) The Admiralty should draw the attention of the Commander-in-Chief to the importance of securing the safety of Sharp Peak:  \nThe Foreign Secretary should take such action at such time as he might deem desirable, to draw the attention of the French Government to the importance of the Amoy Cable Station:\n\n## \n(e) To approve the telegrams which the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs proposed to send to Washington and Tokyo on the subject of the proposals of the Ministers at Peking in regard to the Nanking outrages (Appendices II and III).\n\nx To be circulated later.\n\n2, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.1.  \nApril 1, 1927.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928",
        "content_text": "Turning now to the statistics of the Colony's population, it is necessary first of all to observe that these figures have by no means the same degree of accuracy as the financial returns.\n\nThere was a census in 1901, in 1911 and 1921: but for the intervening years the total civil population is only an estimate based upon the excess of births over deaths and of immigration over emigration. Towards the end of an inter-censal period these figures are apt to be wide of the mark, and this fact no doubt accounts for the sharp rises in 1911 and 1921, when the previous estimates were suddenly corrected by actual enumeration. The full figures are given in the sessional paper No. 4 of 1927, to which I have already referred. The figures for the census years are:-\n\n  \n    1901 total civil population\n    290,124\n  \n  \n    1911 do.\n    464,277\n  \n  \n    1921 do.\n    686,680\n  \n\nConsequently the rate of increase in the population during the first decade was 60 per cent. and during the second decade 47 per cent. We are now in the middle of an inter-censal period and it is difficult to say what degree of reliance can be placed on the estimate of 874,420 souls as the total civil population of the year 1926. But it is certain that our population is larger now than in 1921, and I shall be much surprised if the 1931 census does not again reveal a very appreciable increase in the Colony's population.\n\nIt is, of course, the harbour of Hong Kong and its shipping which has made the greatness of Hong Kong. In this respect also the progress achieved during the past thirty years is wonderful and shows a remarkable continuity. In 1897 the total number of ships engaged in foreign trade entered and cleared at this port other than junks was 9,944 with a total displacement of 12,124,599 tons. Statistics of the total tonnage of all kinds entered and cleared are unfortunately not available for that year; but in 1902, the first year in which these figures were recorded, a total of 21,333,566 tons of shipping of all kinds entered and cleared in Hong Kong. By 1924 the total tonnage of all kinds, entered and cleared, had reached the record figure of 56,731,077 tons. In that year 30,240 ships engaged in foreign trade other than junks entered and cleared at Hong Kong, and their aggregate displacement was 35,471,671 tons. It is interesting to compare the shipping statistics of London and New York for that year. The details are given in sessional paper No. 4 of 1927, but the result can be shown at a glance as follows:-\n\n  \n    Ports\n    Total tonnage of all kinds\n    Foreign going tonnage excluding junks\n  \n  \n    Hong Kong\n    56,731,077\n    35,471,671\n  \n  \n    London\n    47,064,975\n    32,557,466\n  \n  \n    New York\n    40,022,503\n    37,773,000",
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        "document_key": "CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928",
        "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nlast year was 10.1 per cent. of our total income, while in 1897 it was 10.6 per cent., and the apparent relative increase vanishes. Moreover, this Government is very willing to prohibit the consumption of opium in the Colony and to forego its revenue from this source as soon as the production and consumption of opium in China are suppressed. Until then prohibition is not a practical proposition in Hong Kong, and all we can do is to keep the price high enough to make opium a luxury and yet not so high as further to encourage smuggling.\n\nTurning now to the statistics of the Colony's population, it is necessary first of all to observe that these figures have by no means the same degree of accuracy as the financial returns. There was a census in 1901, in 1911 and 1921: but for the intervening years the total civil population is only an estimate based upon the excess of births over deaths and of immigration over emigration. Towards the end of an inter-censal period these figures are apt to be wide of the mark, and this fact no doubt accounts for the sharp rises in 1911 and 1921, when the previous estimates were suddenly corrected by actual enumeration. The full figures are given in the sessional paper No. 4 of 1927, to which I have already referred. The figures for the census years are:-\n\n  \n    1901 total civil population\n    290,124\n  \n  \n    1911 do.\n    464,277\n  \n  \n    1921 do.\n    686,680\n  \n\nConsequently the rate of increase in the population during the first decade was 60 per cent. and during the second decade 47 per cent. We are now in the middle of an inter-censal period and it is difficult to say what degree of reliance can be placed on the estimate of 874,420 souls as the total civil population of the year 1926. But it is certain that our population is larger now than in 1921, and shall be much surprised if the 1931 census does not again reveal a very appreciable increase in the Colony's population.\n\nIt is, of course, the harbour of Hong Kong and its shipping which has made the greatness of Hong Kong. In this respect also the progress achieved during the past thirty years is wonderful and shows a remarkable continuity. In 1897 the total number of ships engaged in foreign trade entered and cleared at this port other than junks was 9,944 with a total displacement of 12,124,599 tons. Statistics of the total tonnage of all kinds entered and cleared are unfortunately not available for that year; but in 1902, the first year in which these figures were recorded, a total of 21,333,566 tons of shipping of all kinds entered and cleared in Hong Kong. By 1924 the total tonnage of all kinds, entered and cleared, had reached the record figure of 56,731,077 tons. In that year 30,240 ships engaged in foreign trade other than junks entered and cleared at Hong Kong, and their aggregate displacement was 35,471,671 tons. It is interesting to compare the shipping statistics of London and New York for that year. The details are\n\nPage 63",
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        "title": "CO129-518-9 The Mui-Tsai question- printed papers relating to the system 20-9-1929 - 1-11-1929",
        "content_text": "# 138 \n5163-32 \n\nThe Chinese community will, I think, accept in good grace the abolition of a system which has for many generations formed an integral part of their family life, but if registration is imposed upon them I fear that they will take a very different view. Like most Asiatics, the Chinese have a deep-rooted objection to any form of interference with the privacy of their domestic life and I know that the idea of registration, which they consider, probably rightly, will eventually involve some system of inspection, is most repugnant to them. The enforcement of such a measure would therefore be most unpopular at the present moment when the return of Sun Yat Sen to Canton has stirred up again the political ferment which had hardly subsided after the strikes of last year. I am most anxious to avoid any steps which may tend to bring the feelings of the Chinese population of Hong Kong into a sharp antagonism with what is to them, after all, a foreign Government. The cry of \"Hong Kong for the Chinese\" has obvious attractions for Young China. It is occasionally heard already but I attach no importance to it so long as the stable elements of the population are content with our rule. Interference with their domestic affairs may turn the scale against us and a very difficult situation would then arise.\n\n7. It may, of course, prove to be essential to insist on registration in order to secure the observance of the law. In that case the consequences must be faced but at present the spirit in which the decision to abolish the system has been received leads me to hope that it will not be necessary. I ask at least that the introduction may be deferred till it is shown to be unavoidable. If the Secretary for Chinese Affairs lets it be known that the introduction of a system of registration depends largely upon the spirit in which the law is observed, I have little doubt that the Chinese community will co-operate to make it work successfully. Attempts to evade it by employing new mui-tsai will be discouraged by public opinion, information will be given to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and one or two successful prosecutions will probably settle the question for good and all.\n\n8. As stated in my despatch `No. ...`, no mui-tsai have yet expressed the wish to leave their employers and no employers have yet turned their mui-tsai adrift. At present therefore it looks as if it will not be necessary to take any special steps to provide for girls who have ceased to be employed and that we shall in the future, as in the past, only have to deal with girls who have been taken from the custody of their employers owing to ill treatment. For such cases the existing methods and machinery will suffice.\n\nIf, however, a system of registration is enforced it is quite possible that employers will deliberately dispense with the services of a large number of girls in order to embarrass the Government and it would probably be desirable to meet such a move by requiring the employers to provide for the maintenance of such girls until they reach a stated age or can be provided for otherwise. Obviously, however, it would be undesirable to impose this liability until it is proved to be necessary.\n\n9. The question of the payment of wages, which is dealt with in the same part of the Ordinance, should also, I now think, be left in abeyance. Now that the girls know that they are at liberty to leave their employers they can, if they wish, make their own terms for remaining and demand the payment of wages as a condition of doing so. Probably, however, the acceptance of wages would be regarded as reducing them to the status of a paid servant, which they would consider lower than that which they hold at present, and as relieving the employer of the necessity of providing for their marriage, so that it is to be anticipated that in the great majority of cases they will prefer to stay where they are on their present footing.\n\n10. The remaining clause of Part III deals with the power of making regulations. Apart from the questions of registration and wages, I do not think that any regulations are needed at the present moment since the parts of the Ordinance which are now in operation seem to afford ample protection to the mui-tsai. I suggest therefore that the best course will be to defer bringing Part III of the Ordinance into operation unless and until it is shown to be necessary to do so.\n\nI have, etc.,  \n**R. E. STUBBS**,  \nGovernor, etc.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931",
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        "title": "CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931",
        "content_text": "174\n\n23\n\n3. --With grills placed to the best advantage, (which, of course, varies considerably in different types of ships), it should not be difficult to prevent this form of attack.\n\n4. In this connection I would point out that grilles placed in such a position as to require frequent opening to strangers—e.g., in \"Sunning\", access to the galley where all Chinese food is prepared necessitated the constant opening of the grill—lose a great percentage of their efficiency.\n\n5. I am of opinion that comparatively small structural alterations in many ships would to a large extent get over this.\n\n6. Another point that occurs to me is that the Indian Guards off duty would be in a better position to give assistance in case of sudden alarm, were their quarters inside the grilled area. (This does not matter so much in the case of river steamers, where only short trips are run and they can all be kept within grills while under way: but in coasting vessels it might be worth consideration.)\n\n7. In ships fitted with W/T the sending out of wireless messages at routine times—say every two hours—while on passage should give timely warning of a piracy having been committed, should they cease.\n\n8. With reference to existing Regulations, page 5, para. 3, may I point out that in actual practice any officer whose duty brings him frequently within close contact with the compass—i.e., the Officer of the Watch and on occasions the Captain—would be unable to comply with this regulation on account of the magnetic effect a pistol would have on the compass, and it therefore appears that the regulation should be amended.\n\n9.--Foreign passengers' accommodation should, of course, be so far as possible within grilled area so far as is practicable; this is usually the case. If foreign passengers—especially women—can be captured by the pirates, the duty of the ships' officers to their passengers forces them to carry out the demands of the pirates with regard to the movements of the ship.\n\nMr. J. M. McHUTCHON:\n\nI would state it as my opinion that the report put forward by the Commissioners representing the shipping interests (Owners and men) and known as the \"Minority Report\" contains the fullest possible constructive criticism which can be put forward, and that anything that has subsequently transpired has only tended to support their findings.\n\nMr. R. SUTHERLAND contributes the following letter on the subject in general, and the regulation of passenger traffic in particular, which he has addressed to the Commission:-\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nMR. R SUTHERLAND'S SCHEME.\n\nThe \"SUNNING\" Piracy Commission,\n\nPRESENT.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nHONG KONG, 24th January, 1927.\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 7th December, I have now the honour of submitting my views on the question of prevention of piracy. In doing so, I am taking into consideration the various phases of actual piracy committed, and attempted piracy during recent years.\n\nIn considering the measures to be employed, one must unfortunately admit that the complete elimination of piracy in China Waters, which has been in progress for hundreds of years, cannot be brought within the bounds of practical politics and we must therefore necessarily content ourselves with putting forward suggestions such as will merely tend to limit its activities. The question of Piracy Prevention was very fully dealt with by a Special Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, appointed in December 1924, and with the finding of same I am in general sympathy. There are one or two points in same, however, which I think call for moderation and will deal with same in due course. By reference to the files of this Special Committee, I find the following note taken at the first meeting held on the 17th December 1924:-\n\n\"In preliminary discussion the point was made that once the pirates get on board a steamer there is little chance of effective defence. It is the duty of the police to prevent their getting on board and to see that arms are not placed on the steamers. This should be effected by more rigorous search methods.\n\nIt was stated that four or five passenger steamers leave for Canton morning and evening but that the number leaving the Port for other places included in the danger zone is very much larger. On the question of how many police would be required to make an effective search, extracts were read from the notes of a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce attended by the Captain Superintendent of Police (q.v.) Mr. Brown also mentioned that something like 800 Indian guards are employed on the various steamers: they could be more effectively employed on shore in search work.\n\nIndian Guards: In regard to the convoys, there are eight Indians to each convoy with two Europeans in charge. These travel on the 'mother ship' of the convoy and are in addition to the six guards employed under the Piracy Regulations. Each convoy contains about four ships.\n\nInstances were given of Indian guards proving to be untrained; also of ineffective control by the European police officers in charge of the convoy guards. It is the general opinion of ship's officers that Indian guards are ineffective. Masters have no confidence in them.\n\nThe Shipping Companies pay $25 per month for each guard and $27 for the No. 1. Portuguese (formerly employed) were better than Indian guards.\n\nMethods of Search: Police on wharves—not the Indian guards—search the passengers as they go on board: from four to six would be employed on the wharf, according to the size of the steamer, and would be superintended by a European. It was felt that suggestions for improving the searches could only be made on broad lines, as this was the work of police experts. It was the general opinion that the policing of the Colony is not as effective as it might be; there are not nearly enough Europeans, and the Superior officers have not all police training.\n\nIt was pointed out that it is impossible for one ship's officer to keep a sharp watch for undesirable persons on both sides of the ship at once. Passengers begin to go on board from an early hour, whereas the police do not commence their search until from two to three hours before the ship sails. There is nothing to hinder people from bringing fire-arms on board early, and secreting them, afterwards coming on board again without them for the purpose of the search. Extracts from Mr. Wolfe's comments on searches and the people responsible, in his opinion, for guarding wharves were read (q.v.). It was also pointed out that loading and discharge of cargo is a continuous operation from the time the ship arrives to the time it leaves, and both operations take place simultaneously.\n\nThe fact that all recent piracies have been from within was held to point to the need for more rigorous searches and for more effective naval patrols in order to prevent the pirates from making an escape.\n\nWith regard to river steamers, much transhipment cargo from Europe is transferred by lighter and not via the wharf.\n\nThe guards do not consider themselves to be on duty during the time that the ship is in port.\"\n\nExperience has gone to show that all energy should undoubtedly be directed in the first place to preventing the pirates from getting on board and to arms being\n\n175",
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        "content_text": "## 34\n\n(2) That, of the lighter weight cloths total imports have decreased from 3,691,000 sq. yards in 1924 to 354,000 sq. yards for the first 6 months of 1930. That Great Britain's share of these has decreased from 3,602,000 sq. yards or 97.6 per cent. in 1924 to 269,000 sq. yards or 76.0 per cent. for the first 6 months of 1930.\n\n## 66\n\n(3) That, of the medium weight cloths total imports have declined from 13,006,000 sq. yards in 1924 to 1,034,000 sq. yards for the first 6 months of 1930. That Great Britain's share has decreased from 12,405,000 sq. yards or 95.4 per cent. in 1924 to 883,000 sq. yards or 85.4 per cent. for the first 6 months of 1930.\n\n(4) That, of Woollen Cloths, etc., other than previously stated total imports have decreased from £2.924 million in 1924 to £225,000 for the first 6 months of 1930, and that Great Britain's share has varied from 95.5 per cent. in 1924 to 92.9 per cent. for the first 6 months of 1930.\n\n50. It will be noted that Japan's total imports of cloth show a rapid and continuous decline but that Great Britain has almost maintained her relative position, although her total volume of trade has declined by no less than 81.6 per cent - i.e., from £5.899 million in 1924, to £813,000 for the first 9 months of 1930, (or say, pro rata, £1.084 million for the full year 1930).\n\nThe sharp decline in 1930 is probably due partly to the trade depression from which Japan is suffering in common with other countries and there may possibly be some improvement when general world trade revives. Germany has gained at our expense, more particularly in the cloths coming under Tables V and VI. She is, however, experiencing a greater setback than Great Britain in the first six months of 1930 - probably owing to the fact that the goods which she exports to Japan are generally of a cheaper class than British and that the Japanese industry is in a better position to replace these than the superior qualities.\n\n## WOOL TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN JAPAN\n\n51. Statistics of Japanese production as a whole, are complete to the end of 1928 only, but the following particulars - being those for Aichi Prefecture up to the end of July 1930, which produces about one-third of the whole of Japan - may be accepted as representative of the entire industry: \n\n### PRODUCTION IN AICHI PREFECTURE \ntaken from the September, 1930, issue of the `Monthly Circular` of the Economic Research Department of the Mitsubishi Company (values to nearest 1,000 yen, converted at 10 yen to £1).\n\n| Year | M. de Laine (1,000 yards) | Serges for Kimono (1,000 pcs.) | Wool cloths and serges (1,000 yards) | Value (£1,000) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1925 | 19,947 | 3,208 | 1,980 | 5,245 |\n| 1926 | 11,892 | 3,506 | 4,048 | 5,774 |\n| 1927 | 3,072 | 3,920 | 6,432 | 6,073 |\n| 1928 | 1,809 | 4,380 | 9,635 | 6,898 |\n| 1929 | 4,712 | 4,531 | 15,062 | 8,120 |\n| 1930 (1st 7 months) | 2,953 | 3,066 | 8,911 | 4,791 |\n\nA contraction in the use of Mousseline de Laine will be noted and the makers of this are now experiencing difficult times. This is said to be due to change of fashion and to increasing use - in consequence of much reduced prices of silk.\n\nA very large, steady increase in Wool Cloths and Serges Suitings and Overcoatings is to be observed.\n\nThe following table sets out side by side the approximate production of Japan - being the Aichi figures multiplied by a factor of 3 - and her imports:\n\n| Year | Production (£1,000) | Imports (£1,000) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1925 | 15,733 | 5,748 |\n| 1926 | 17,321 | 2,922 |\n| 1927 | 18,220 | 3,466 |\n| 1928 | 20,694 | 3,121 |\n| 1929 | 24,361 | 1,994 |\n| 1930 (first 7 months) | 14,373 | 622 |\n\n52. The foregoing particulars clearly show the way in which the Japanese industry is expanding and it is obvious that Japan is already able to make almost the whole of her requirements. All the indications are that this policy will be achieved in the near future excepting only certain high-class cloths in the specialty class.\n\nIt is freely admitted by nearly all Japanese buyers, that British cloths are definitely superior in colour, style, and finish, but in all but that class of trade where quality is the consideration - more \n\n## 225",
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        "content_text": "NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CHINA AUCTION\n\nSPORTY GOODS.\n\nThe Undamaged buy is anounced the spanning at imalo stare\n\nROOMS\n\nIndustrial and Commercial Bank Bakang.\n\nsild, Queen's Road, Centrul at No Bk House Streler and Bissnésand Housekee\n\nCiljnennt be Heeers Powell & G\n\nDijaga and Burcjaluka in 10t| Beperti al tepk, sporta pieds. Perf Pontracting sise undertaker\n\nInspection of Store verdalle in. Hod.\n\nTAUPOLE & SONE\n\nBlackan, 28d detokes, 1981.\n\nOm Furniture for disposal\n\nMy private paAN AL BELONGA peshk\n\nFOR SALE OR HIRE.\n\nPOPPY DAY FUND, KOWLOON MARINE\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLint. Col. Robertson, Hong Kong Club, will be glad to receive any article which may be give\n\nauctioned as Armisting Day for\n\nthe bench of Karl Halge Fund,\n\nLOT NO. 73\n\nChioare Boden, 72,768 vs. ft. Apply\n\n19, & RADERY 4 00, LTD.\n\nPOPULAR\n\nand earsally hases th! EFFERVESCENT SALTS\n\nameponse to this approud may be\n\nmade\n\nPrescribed\n\nconstipation.\n\nIle in anaouraged to appeal headache, indigestion liver and\n\nsenim thin your owing to the vary įkalney disorders, Motach com MEN KOLLA KITla sent last year.\n\n(PÍNIALA, STE, Blo\n\nNOTICE\n\nItse kemby notifed that Sporlal Current Papénit a/c Pana Boska,\n\n27 in the game of Tang Yai Kan and X, 514 In the same of Tank But Sing\n\nwith\n\nYokohama Specie Bank, LLC., Hong! Konur, have been reported lost ar stolen and the sang nay kepeby declared to be canceled.\n\nNOTICE\n\nIL SKOTT & CO.\n\n―\n\nJ\n\nWe have this day authorsand Mr.\n\nPeter Ball Helga Melbyn to sigu Fr Pin Рег Procure, Mr George Bravet Wetten kavag handed in Kin power of attorney.\n\nIL SKOTT A CO. Fongkong, 19th Getaber, 1981\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe Pearl of the \"Kingship at\n\nChilier and the Golden Jubilea!\n\nThey are justly calabratori and MEN LIQDAN LAD I LINDLADÍ,\n\nThey can\n\nbe procured\n\nin Hongkong—\n\nSincere & Co., Berlin & Co., The Pharmacy,\n\nand\n\nKing's Dispensary and in Kowloon-\n\nThe World Drug Co.\n\nTAAI HING\n\nGentlemen's Tailors &\n\nMilitary Uniform\n\nisa\n\nLatest Style Hata\n\nFar Spa. Cheap.\n\nstablishment of the App Satisfaction Guaranteed. of Prayer\" will take place at the Catholic Cathedral an Sander, the 126, Pottinger Street, Central\n\n18th Ovember, 1881.\n\nMORNING SERVICE 8 mm.\n\nEVENING SERVICE L24 pm.\n\nA Triduum will be bold also a\n\nthe above place at 530 pm, on the | three (2) days preceding the celebration.\n\nG\n\nPARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, De 3604) day of October, 1831, at 3. athena of the Tablic Werka Department, by Order at His Excellency the Governor att nae Let of Crew Land 1 Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colay of Hong Kong for a term M 75 JOLER Cencing fron E\n\nJuly, 1898, with the option of\n\nTeroval of a Crawa Best to be\n\nJced by Far Surveyor of Ris\n\nHONGKONG\n\nMUSIC CO.\n\n26. Wyndham Street.\n\nTal 2290.\n\nDealers in Munke,\n\nMusical Merchandise and\n\nAccessories Alag\n\nExpert in Repairing all types of\n\nMusical Instrumenta\n\nand\n\nPiano Tuning.\n\nMajnatý thu King, furi Reasonable Charges.\n\nther term of 24 years less the\n\nlast three days thereof.\n\nPARTICULARS OF THE LOT.\n\nTO LET.\n\n8, Conduit Red\n\nDWELLING HOUSES.\n\nrose\n\ngro Lad\n\nnaturalebed. Garden.\n\nKo 22 Confult Road.\n\n|Hour.\n\nGodown at Daddell Street.\n\nOffer Rossa 16. Queen's Loud. Central.\n\nLINNTRAD & HAVIS,\n\nALEXANDRA HITILDINGE\n\nTO LET-IN THE PEAK.\n\nNA Z MIŠINTAIN VEW\n\nApply to\n\nPERCY SHITH SETH\n\nAPT PVING\n\nNOTICE.\n\nClassified Advertisements\n\nwill not be accepted for insertion after 6 p.m.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLAMMERT'S\n\nAUCTIONS\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nThe Undersignad katy pocultad Instruction tolly Public Auction\n\n'TL'ESDAY,\n\nThe 17th Detaker, 1983. COMMERCİNE at 18.30 a.m.\n\nat The Star Furniture StormX.\n\nSo, 22, Wing Lack Building, Hankow Road, Kawhon.\n\nA Quantity of Valuable Beaned\n\nFurniture and Garipu.\n\nOn View from Monday, the 26th October, 1951, Catalogue will be issued. Terms: --Cash on Delivery,\n\nLAMMERT BROS.\n\nAuctionem.\n\nOUR BREAD\n\nFRENCH BREAD\n\nCOFFEE ROLLS SANDWICH FREAP\n\n=\n\nDELIVERED DAILY\n\nIn Kawloon f November JL, JOSE, Platou place widers in adorner\n\nMARCEL\n\nCONFECTIONER\n\nM-NATHAN ROAD TO\n\nMASSAGE.\n\nMOL & MAS, Y. MORL Bolder of Japaanse Government Caricate\n\nCares Sprained Ankle and Wrist app. \"South China Morung Prat” 4. Wyndham Streit. -Ial Koer), Telephone 2801.\n\nNEW\n\nVictor\n\nRecords\n\nUSED CARS HUGHES & HOUGH\n\nWATCH\n\nThis Cobe wary day for\n\nLIMITED.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nUndersigned have receive instruction to sell by Pahle\n\na dual basin in GUARANTEED I>ED CARS\n\nToday Special PALATIN, BEVEN 1926-1927-70r Account of the Caprerasli. modal, da mechanical order\n\nMONDAY, . #875.\n\n་\n\nThis cat fi guaranteed agafant j ali mochandaal defecta for a period | of thirty days.\n\nPhase to-day for a trial run, HONGKONG INED CARS, LTTI, Phone: 28481 (Qiles) H£750 (Show Room).\n\nRARE CHINBR\n\n|COʻNINE CHAFTSMEN AT\n\nDISPLA? OF CHINESE PIREWORKS\n\n· QUAIRĪT” CHINESE CUSTŪRIS\n\nALL TO BE SEEN AT THE\n\n\"CHINA\"\n\nEXHIBITION,\n\nCITY HALL\n\nsch, min 4 7th November, 1981\n\nCHEME PUNCIEH\n\nDEXTERHE-ORIENT\n\nMortimer Uk & Rinate Agenta “PEAR BANSIONS,”\n\nHerend à Five-rammad ndictments.\n\nkatarken & Sandstad had MÜKƏ modern conjuction with garage\n\nSAMRAŞ BUILDINGS\"\n\nthe 28th October, 1991,\n\nat their Halen Rome, No. F. Queen's Rond. Central (French Bank Beliding BaseTMENİ | HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising of --\n\nSideboard, Dining Table and Chales, Dressing Tubền, Ten Chest, ¡Croekary, Eléctile Pra, Chasale- H. BILA Ware Wall Plates, Gleaner, Kitchen Utensils, Daner Barem,... mka.\n\n*\n\nTexten Carpeta\n\n:\n\n· Cabinet Gramophone, Goud Caller tom of Recordi, mostly Red Seal. High Class Carpenter'a Tuola, I Laths. Several Pots of Rhododen\n\nCrysalidocarpus\n\nrom\n\nAnd\n\n*(Mauritius Palm).\n\nיי\n\nNote.\n\nNow on View.\n\nThe above are high claw\n\n'pute and in good conditiam mod\n\nbe sold without reserve. Loved from Kowinna Ten for The sentence of bayern.\n\nTerm-Cash on Dativars\n\nBUGRES & ROUGH, LTD.\n\nMake Canones. ilangkanje, zied Oetoboř, 1961\n\nTHE\n\n│\"SOUTH CHINA\n\ni\n\nMORNING POST\"\n\nis always on sale at\n\nSELFRIDGE'S\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLondon, W. 1.\n\nThe fol - sharp poitibeyken in the Ewe Carton Mẫu have\n\n· bass lost at manda The Team For Denda are in deʊ pay. The Pakka ke warned not in accept these calientern\n\nPo skarva Scrip. No. 14876-848242/341 kc, în x/n Yan Ching Chun\n\n14981-276485:20 Az.\n\n200\n\n100\n\n100\n\n100\n\nfor\n\nOCTOBER.\n\nTSANG FOOK. PIANO CO.,\n\n8, Des Voeux Road, Central,\n\n(Entrance lee Honge Street)\n\nTelephone 21648.\n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS\n\nAT\n\nAll other Advertisements 4 p.m.\n\nGray's Yellow Lantern Shops Alexanden Bldg. Tel. 21854\n\n140:33–440691/900\n\n17726–898257/454\n\n17727–222457/50% 40-\n\n17728-878381/456\n\nChau Chik Nia\n\n-do\n\n---\n\nTHE SOY KUT BANK.\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\n-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\n\"& BAD ONE.\n\nUNITED\n\nMATSO\n\n- EDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nFor a good fit\n\nto go\n\nA-MAN, HING\n\n1\n\nCHEON.\n\n(LATE AA-MEN HING CHEANG.\n\nECU\n\nTAILORS. DIAPERS\n\n& OUTFFITERS\n\nto Military Officers\n\nfor many years.\n\n34. Qarena Rood Central.\n\nT! 23334\n\nWHITE ANTS\n\nand cockroaches will be banished from every place where care is taken to use\n\nFLUIDE EXPRESS.\n\nSale Agents: Compagnis Ostore. Proman Bukhang. Das Vanch Boyd, Canteni,\n\nTH. SI5\n\nANCHORS\n\nBUTTER\n\nFOR OVER\n\nHALF A CENTURY\n\nthe \"ANCHOR \"symbol has been the Sterling\n\nnurk of baller,\n\nIt is your guarantee i\n\nFINEST QUALITY.\n\nAsk For It By The Kaize\n\nsold by-\n\nThe South China old Storage Co., Ltd.\n\n221 Da Vomux Rand Centr\n\nThe Cafeteria. Peninsula Hotel, Kowloos. Rahim Store. Shameen Distritor.\n\nARGE SIZ\n\nExtra moisture.. Easier shaving\n\nWilleme Sharing Creem is the diman at 90 years' experienes in making Father for sukuning the hoord and com\n\nalling the skin.\n\nTrabanels 10% intera meistars them way ather Fedkar we know of Thara why your ride aldas sa swiftly and smoothly, and your beard comes all\n\nsa dasa and clean, Willana la millal ve tõeline poravnavalenty!\n\nAdnak at Williams Aque Velva niður shaving, well knep your side smooth and soft all day long-leak as Wi inther Inmuna 195. Try this. habeat playlag domination. For sale everywhat\n\nDodge & Seymour (China) Ltd.\n\nHagk my Shangbai-Harbin\n\nWilliams\n\nSHAVING CREAM — AGUA VELVA\n\nCLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS\n\n25 WORDS $1.50 for 3 DAYS PREPAID\n\nFOR EVERY ADDITIONAL DAY\n\n50\n\nIF NOT PREPAID A BOOKING FEE OF\n\n50 IS CHARGED.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE=EN\" CENTRE LATHE, Amarinan makA VI, DE, Melor X 1.2, complete with whiske for KIR GRUN Going Thong. Desar\n\n= (1 Bed\n\nPORNALE – MANOMAG CAR, 200 ronning vier, Jeromeni til 2002 1945. Can banen 12 Kathan Garags, Köni Ja amat Team dua Na\n\nFOR SALE. 1990 SUNBEAM boleč tyrke, overkant valve quim, perfect Peking crter, prien 1975, or senrent Konfor selling, wwIAL mon at WIH BIT NO. 26, \"g С. И Pet\"\n\nFOR MALE-ZA-TRAR ICARETER CAMERA Pie 15\" x 24\" PONTEARE and plate. Terra) F714 \"Campur Sheller swabbe uztenaten, ailment new.\n\nReplies in the following Box Nombora uze lying at this\n\nC\n\nNo Te TH 10) Pe Koh, KAI BAT PUT A L\n\nHid KT 840 149 R44 8 20\n\nbakııı Replies to the following Box Numbers were called for and/or forwarded ta nádvertisers, yesterday:—\n\nYALE\n\nE\n\nwww\n\nZuma pa andrium should neeskijaky MěTETİRMİZM, THES necovariis far pukilentiam, hatt ta medwore that replies received by the person Cực shom they are intended.\n\nTHE MAXI-KAUNE RUPEI ELL\n\nTe\n\nHax No. 1,\n\n#K. FI. PAL\"\n\nS\n\nH\n\nWe will forwačil teplies to the stated nádro L Live Advertiser desires\n\nIf the wants) kalvnctioors are quickly met and they de met derden any further repila tevazásd, we shall be glad to be\n\ncomplir In that cløbct\n\nyou\n\nPosted replies to advertisements will be accepted, if they ar not sufficiently stamped. Correct postage in Three Cent..\n\nLOST.\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nWANTED.-TNI\n\nSAFE The Evek med chillin, Kanisan po Write Box No. 14, “S. C. K.\n\nTHE AMERICAN CONSILATS GENERAL WHL FENOL Bulatan for a STENOGRAPHER, Thorval knowledge of Englik, Contamme, atomography vasential. Applien išoma, jelang začećanom sisi vžgečlanew, will on received by maat volt.\n\nED\n\nWANTED TO BUY.\n\nWANTED TO MITOM \"BOB\" časa in puod condition Write Box Nu C. H Fool\"\n\n$106_ Wrike Bust Ha, 241, \"4 (LM).\n\n| FOR BAR\"LL TEARETEK theo\n\nmonth Goal polgan, Aly\n\nKe\n\nTỉnh Bình Hà Lan Hà T\n\nP\n\nPOST\n\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 23.\n\n1931.\n\nNow On Sale\n\nThe New\n\nVICTOR DANCE\n\nRECORDS\n\nFor October\n\nS. Meutrie & Co., Ltd\n\nChater Road.\n\nFOR SALE BY AGE BOILER & STEAM PIPE COVERING.\n\n| KOPRIGERATOR, far tally man\n\nswing chang. Chiar fearing Colony,\n\nFriss Box Na Bail, \"8. C. M. Be“\n\nFOR SALE—AVEIEN 7. H. 1928\n\n5. C, PAL\"\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBUSY BEES WORKING PARTY. TATEGEMAN JONG DRIVE = The Halana May Salatuta, Thersing, Orsakar 29, at 12pm, land, at St. Dunstan and Local Chart\n\nTelephoto 27900,\n\nPREMISES WANTED.\n\nWa malu a speciality of thủa cines of work and\n\nskall it led te quote for carvering with zapantas Magmada Plate Covering or 4-bestos Rope Lagging.\n\nTHE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO., Zanna Bunding, Chater Road, Bing Kong\n\nTUITION GIVEN.\n\nPREMISTS TO LET.\n\nTO LET, XBET CRESCENT, WANTED,\n\nValready\n\nwell 1993 and graduate Tasekáč, PUPILS IN EMPT garden and a Putnamien Erba v J Brandaza, se turn an Tich NovembR PIL. Apply to 7. 3. Dvening Chan\n\nWetta Box No. 24L, PE (C. S. Park.\"\n\nvary\n\nTO LET.—ndary Street, Keminen, uns. VOLGAN'S SCHOOL AT DVMa- i PEAN HOG.DE WIN all makers on sewing and eating. Everse gosZAR Tegen de dinge Apply to soul. Apply Salam, 4D, Hankow\n\nCaBxtreme-Oriani, Kand, Kowloon,\n\n14 REWAN 10 will be plea. La sajose benzine hack by Sirs. Thompson, BA WANTED TO PURCHASE (1) WANTED. – Furdsked me thľuzakk\n\n|et FLAI, Dreamber til, at a HT Carharra Bend, Jewison, pet IPAR- Jak hal 14 de may end keel. Wene Bax 200, 100, Frmer zal jubing, sin desc.\n\nKÓW Zapad 12 Belober evening, 380T GUN. Nast in excellent lery them Kongkang apierem sad camion Swami Fill Bulk. We what marka en meeka Bave band Bead NA. 12, 13. C. H. ETM for Uhren Jokes, very taske nhl Bay Wanted TO BUY-PEIZEZEN'S Do My Lata may kasas\n\n\"ODE TUN, EDTA, Son-ha\n\nFOUND.\n\nWANTED TO M'T—A km, m\n\nPOUND at kepulag Bay sa Sunday, FURNITURE AN CAMIONAC MARKET Corting the beer by Jellery Nabina, M, Nalikan\n\nHi Mera Homes | Kent, Kriens\n\nbattle, etc.\n\nIN\"\n\nPOSITIONS WANTED.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nc\n\n| WANTED TO RENT A ROOM IN | muita að Ölben mit used by pesant\n\nCentral position. Partan\n\nCM. Pool\"\n\nHULSE TO LEGING 7_ Almai Villa, Kaylyn, Apple so The Ya Ring C., Sukan Senad Wei Handen.\n\nWANTED KNOWN.\n\nTO 19 turvasan PLATS, VIFATE CHRISTMAS E NEW ama ng Kerian, s YEAR GREETING CARDS rated with skate, whites And MoRAKTILIN pg ddha bet kad sad thestamble at Ye Olde Pompetir, 192,\n\nPREMISES TO LET.\n\nwith a sad\n\nVORAN PALAU\n\n--་་\n\nDANIG JIMI HAC \"LUTCART MACHINA, OFFICE to 127—in Almunten for jy dan lage sormonta\n\nACCESSORIES for at kad at\n\nKONG HGTOR ACE Or ch Indent, Bank of Canden Pallding mad Kuntoon_Ersach, CE, Naharkand, (a falen). Sekoub,\n\nTO LET N« 5 Torme Bulldogs, Kimberley Hans. Komison. Apply walker, Vabantal. Apply Motorradtory HONG Spezia Dominican Peseradik.\n\nTO LET-New In-roomed PLATE, DIJEL\n\nWith ikeaa \"bačkissem, že Hankas\n\nTad, Kowloon, mext to Kawled TO LET SUTES OF OFFICES\n\n1200 D6 Du del index, SL. Googa's FOR FALL-IN\n\nHotel ARMSTRONG\n\nAvaliable sheet (lecember. „SIDDELEY, in perdues audition, Madery convenience. Ale thereelding. Any Love, Englan ENGLISH LADY Wing We rotsen (trial by Appartment Owner buying Tromel fata de Haan\" and \"ing | Masshawa, Chebleven Kalk Kaling. La Europa In the Spitz, would act or 'two kit. Fiat +ra\" Wre Paklong Ram Apply Tang Tack Co,.\n\nTelephone COMPANION, A TANK CHANGE of BeINK MA, “8. C230 BMG\" skilizan la apekaner the past prize\n\n| APARTMENTS WANTED. Wrike Box No RTU HAUL M. PE FOR SALE-STUDEBAKER LIGHT\n\n11. Khanghai body, in kood run TDUNG CHINESE, with good kaoria Phát h c N Wedge në Kresh and French, in years at 1700 songs, Wek Bor SA, experlones Panting, Actomia, 20. \"XCITE Booking correspondenče, type — writing. Filling. Cennt, weke 2031 POR BALKON DEJE UKOONakitud TION,\" whe\n\nwtelligenes BULL TERRIER PUPR Box merka\n\nMake For No M2, 1C M. PULS *S, C. X. Post\"\n\nTOK ALETAKAN KYIGHT. EUROPEAN DRAFTSMAN WAK, all vul. fumator, 1925. good mation\n\nexperience, werki LOCAL.power! 1 PE SITUATION. Would be willing sofer. Write Box No. 271, “I £32 berapi masnih zammencing malary. Root Pl redcmera Walta Den Ka M4, \"g.\n\n|UPRIGHT_PLANE FOR SALE IN\n\ngood m Pele kada Plazas\n\nWANTED.—-—--German, long yan ye. ¡waste Box No. 650, \"$ C. X. PartTM marice In Import Export, Knowledge (mu\n\nand Dark language, who Tok anÉN-LAW THEY AUSTIN Wiltą Ben NA, MT, M. C. BL 1942\" |tyre. Can be tried nay time, 3:180, for wear sar Base, . King's Park TOUNG CHINGUR der POS). Budings, Kowloon, TION, Can Trentak secgnty, Il p quared Picker write Box No HE, FOR SALE - AUSTIN – SEVEN, IN PA, CIC. PAL,\n\npospollent ryoung order. Fully Insured.\n\nEwelingben.\n\nENGLISHMAN with vinculite sia (Blackden, especting ability, trade med venneren, bl apes for ENGAGEMENT, Easter\n\nPast\"\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nPhysi\n\n•\n\nNATAL, MILITARY & AR PORCE LDIRECTORY NO 1 Detiker 1990 ON BALEA Yeodde Fromerie, DJ\n\n• Price 20 centL\n\nCOLOURED PICTURES « Bong-| keng Customa, mekkle for framing\n\n|TO LET – Fame roomed LOLSF. 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All modern con FORTH of ATTORNET, FULL Vicjant from middle of Nevesker fer | Tanners, and perllong Tond, Waw TESTAMENT A LEAKE (ema tweder mania, Wola Ban No. Mh. | Box No: 951, 8. C. 1, PAL\"\n\nTamty-des_serta sack. Apply MR. CNL\n\n'C. M. \"Pa\"\n\n30\n\nLET.-glow, Niew\n\nMAP\n\n10 1:37. —Pak levels, friskal de bussed, Light und GAME 192- THE TORT\" TYPECON roomed HOUSE, teng being, for, Roods.\" Tebrate Matheson, Jarga besalitilly kihegrovhed, also matala Emanche from March 1998. Hoone (vodka, välialul view of Socket lag the Ông and Houreiracy. G. E. 1. Refrigerator and poke furry, power. Ton voimal, olors, Thigh\n\nI H\n\nme bé ens if required. Write Bax No. Content Track Cond. Weste bat deritani, Pris 1, mate va ME, \"COM \"PAL **\n\n1294, 49, \" C. M. PAL\"\n\nMurrayers – A. TO LES, - From 1st November, 1981, TO LET. THe well furnished single\n\n-\n\n(thrior suite kaba Oli Di sana Seried at Morray Barrachi, ŝino. Apply\n\nWHEN A Madem\n\nF\n\nJAR SALE. ACH AUSTIN VE 2 Al2ON, in ræclient condition and newly re unkolaterad... Engine in frie CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND + class cuming poder add owner driv\n\nTARY AMAK for Wy of 17 Buonchos. Zrice $1,360, Wrier Bas Kowloon de Witte Box No. 445. Xu, 29, *5. © E. Pool\" \"S. C. H. Pe\"\n\nTADIBA Beautifully marDed WANTED. -- Olce Assistant SHOST- SQUIRREL COAT made sporially HAND TYPIST par with side bas (pobrsary iku yaar) from mich erlenen preferred. Fromspent weer klik. Full Jenaik, rond median siar. Ema and Kwal synaserta... for puitable Marasin 1990. Apply keen STL mmallake. Apply in ama bamburicing Prima. KER.\n\nan Thi Na Mi, C. I. Ban\n\nCONTENTS OF EUROPEAN FLAT WANTED. COVERS member 16 years she, zumal-key code\n\nBerbak, French an German tar 5. top hoor, 200 Nathan Kol girl sped 12, 15 mm G Esply, panna, sata bid 1947 PULA, MIK HE Phông khhay requced, preciom ex- Owane Jeneing Cahay, Fries 31,800. patroon na štro E tank way for quick sale. May be ved at kys Imparat Chemien! Trămatzes CENZORY BAG ont. Kap, Ti), 38867 se wenz\n\nRix No.4K CLE. Put\n\nPerleri\n\nhen.\n\nTHE ADVERTIERE winken to Bent FOR BALDO\n\nHome Oxford\" TOUZËR applicants wie segħek, BOL NO WARISAN MAR 1. P25\"The pazitim ka ng Fatirely Pow been led\n\nAny trial, Avely Major Kewiecie, Peak Hotel WANTED. —Yome Ladiaa gentlemen for CANVASSING WORK FOR FALK-BUCK MUSER 19 Comanianega kaas, maar 1920 Blade) în perfort, work,\n\nTenis Cable persons for meg, mg malitian Tapurtian, a vi Apply Room 2 Tanne Beldig, đá by sporting Rate Bec Na 100,\n\n- - - -\n\nNo. 184 WASHER Kit, 4 prong BEDROOMS, WHk all man da CNIOR TO THE COMPANIES DR-\n\nDrop HOUSE ¦ vemences, in sand, paly, FIA, DINANCIA OF RANGKONG, Ska with all madera convenience pand\n\nKawa Peking copy Apply “8, 47, 24. PHE pings Apply to Credit Father Date, bet fint & and 7 JUN\n\nFranck\n\nPURIDGE MARKERA 118 maak. Being TL NI. PLAGE\n\nTO LET WLOON, from Novom: FAZILLS, # ceste sach. 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Jack & On, LME\n\nANDERSEN MEYER & OU, LID Fur Agents.\n\nThe General Electric Co. of China Ltd.\n\nDr. ROUSSEL\n\nHemostyl Syrup.\n\nTHE CLASSIC TREATMENT FOR ALL CASES OF ANAEMIAS, EXHAUSTIONS, WEAKNESS, ETC.\n\nFlomonisk u send a woman lawan meube HOLAR BELUM salad at mek tan vchan the surma) NE 15 100 Satijne poros a best ingentem sad ie sheeptors by sa A man dathomed by an immediate\n\nChiainable from all Dispensaries.\n\nStock and free samples at:\n\nThe Franco-Eastern Trading Co.\n\n· Lo srpnu did 15 Francs.\n\nBank of China Building\n\nPhone 21657,\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\nEEK-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\nAMY!\n\nPRIVATE\n\nCODE\n\nUNITED ANGHTS\n\nKiedy kenden. Apar le Cies of the TO ALL SHIPPING.\n\nFrench Comfort Taskálags, ma\n\nLocate merk Write Bax No. 163,| CONNE\n\n10. LET EUROPRAN STYLED TO HOUSE 12, Jememe: Kand, Kozlova po DET TA VEZ Shin! They had to flacan 201 Village Hongkong = 46, 59A SINGLE ROOM\n\ntempa rompt, and zwangą dwuki\n\nwalk private bath attached, terma Kesi mudrante, aptor Wa Pa\n\nAndy 4, Glemas. Tel.\n\nwith Mere\n\nSong 11, Thy đầa Mead, TEL 2009\n\n-----------\n\n20140\n\n| TO LET.—MVE BOOMED HOUSE. AIRLIĖ MOTEL. – 31-25,\n\nKomal Korbank. Apply Excelle\n\nTHE MOMENT Aram, Kerrison, Ariāl\n\nHola Tal Duermber\n\nPleven Bulan & Fraser ČR, LIL\n\nAlexanden Baldžiaga.\n\nTO T\n\nprom marina_indst Star Parry And maket Teen2ity, fuggished and un- furnished. Exempina PLATE with ad Thighly ad Modern Becommodation and Bank\n\nBent very\n\nLibert\n\nCOMPANIES.\n\nNathan\n\nAllustrated Direction in\n\nellek and Chinese, for the Adjamaent of RONG-\n\nBONG STANDARD LIFE\n\nJACKETS are now ready\n\nRegule Three minutna from fema Tel Biz?\n\nTUITION GIVEN\n\nvinden, a far af tre nanny, funtibod GERMAN ERSONA relem by Pulier Batel German Grademan Trauer, with\n\nkod mng be purchase? ni\n\nthe slice of the\n\nkang ana tak jackrarna, kitakes, inngstanding supercaron at teaching SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, Makaste chappen Addemi Į Į & K. Wyndham Street, Hongkong Haiphong Road, Kowloon. Tel FEM. La Box N, MA, “E COOL PA.\"\n\nP\n\nBAD ONE.\n\nEDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nThere is nothing to equa\n\nBURGESS' LION OINTMENT'İ\n\nBankalarang ke manat Hala, Alarm, Wha\n\nLg, Öân, Hànt, Bella, Spain, Bentay\n\nست\n\n299 A Now be for Lense\n\nTRA\n\nPVM A PURE\n\nMAKSAT-A, 1 Mama 4 Di Lad | foldć Matiballà đaj 2 Là van Tweli, da\n\n+\n\nE. 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        "content_text": "170\n\n150\n\nNotes Comments\n\nblotches, the marking in one case being on the blunt end of the egg and in the other case on the pointed end, the third egg was the usual colour evenly marked.\n\nOur thanks are again due to Mr. H. Green, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, and his staff, for the help afforded us in compiling these notes.\n\nTurning to page 40 Vol. I, No. 1, of H. K. N. under the heading of :- 'Things we want to know!' We have gleaned considerable information on certain of these points since this article was written, viz :— (4) Nesting haunts of Kite, Collared Crow, and Magpie. (5) Arrival dates of the Swallow, Swift, Starling and Cuckoos, (6) Great Himalayan Barbet-locality seen and date.\n\nBut we still require more information on Duck, species seen and locality.\n\n2. Snipe, Quail, Woodcock, when and where seen, whether plentiful or not.\n\n3. Plover, locality and date.\n\n4. Owls, Waterhens, Cuckoos, Barbets and Pied Kingfishers,- Nesting Habits.\n\n5. The homes of the White-rumped Swift and Green Parrakeet which have so far baffled us.\n\nWe ask observers once again to help us with useful information about the Colony's bird life, particularly during the nesting season. We reiterate what has been said previously in this magazine namely that the journal is a co-operative venture and is dependent on observers to help us to collect the complete records we desire. A brief note made at the time of watching a particular species is often of much value afterwards.\n\nARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.-We record the following for the past quarter:-\n\nDEPARTURES.-Eastern Quail (Coturnix c. japonica) March 28th: Kestrel (Cerchneis tinnunculus) April 8th Fanling: Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) April 6th Kam Tin: Forest Nightjar (Caprimulgus affinis monticola) April 1st Castle Peak road just after sunset: Eastern Tree Pipit (A. trivialis hodgsoni) April 16th Kam Tin: Richard's Pipit (Anthus r. richardi) April 21 Kam Tin: Daurian Redstart (Phoenicurus a. auroreus) April 6th Kam Tin: Chinese Greenfinch (Chloris s. sinica) March 30th King's Park Kowloon: Red-bellied Rock Thrush (Monticola p. philippensis) April 7th on road just above Sha Tin: Chinese Stonechat (Saxicola torquata stejnegeri) April 21st Kam Tin.\n\nARRIVALS. Chinese Starling (Sturnia sinensis) April 6th Kam Tin- several: Chinese Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocerus) March 19th Sham Chun valley-several: Indian Koel (Eudynamis orientalis honorata) April 6th Kam Tin: Eastern Black-naped Oriole (Oriolus sinensis indicus) March 29th\n\nNotes Comments\n\n151\n\nBotanic Gardens: Great Chinese Barbet (Megalaima virens virens) March 9th Lam Tsuen valley, several: Chinese Little Bittern (Ixobrychus s. sinensis) March 15th Aberdeen: Japanese Robin Flycatcher (Siphia Mugimaki) March 19th Sham Chun valley: Siberian Greyheaded Bunting (Emberiza fucata fucata) March 26th Lan T'au: Large White-rumped Swift (Apus pacificus pacificus) March 6th Ng Tung Shan, several : Grey-backed Thrush (Turdus hortulorum) March 26th in a garden at Tai Po: Yellow-browed Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus humei præmium) March 19th Tai Po Eastern House Swallow (Hirundo rustica gutturalis) February 20th Castle Peak.\n\nICHTHYOLOGY\n\nLEUCOGLOSSA HERKLOTSI Herre, new species.\n\nE. A. A.\n\nDorsal VIII-I-27; anal II-I-20; there are 31 scutes in the straight portion of the lateral line, 67 scales in the anterior portion.\n\nThe oblong body is strongly compressed, with the dorsal and anal profiles regularly and almost equally curved; the depth is 2.2 times, the head 3.15 times, the deeply forked caudal 2.9 times, the long falcate pectoral 2.65 times in the length; the depth of the head equals its length; the eye is 3.35 times, the snout 2.9 times, the maxillary 2.3 times, the ventral 2.4 times in the head; the interorbital breadth slightly exceeds the eye diameter; there is a toothless space at the tip of each jaw, behind which is a single row of sharp hooked teeth along each side; the mouth is very oblique, the maxillary not quite reaching a vertical from the front margin of the eye; the pectoral extends to a point over the 7th anal ray; the longest dorsal ray is 1.6 times, the longest anal ray 1.8 times in the head; the gill rakers are 4+13, plus a very short stub on each limb; the anterior portion of the lateral line is nearly straight for some distance, then slightly curved up descending in a wavy line to the posterior straight section armed with scutes; which is a little shorter than the curved portion; the seventh and eighth dorsal spines are minute, barely reaching the surface of the skin.\n\nThe colour in alcohol is dark bluish gray with 4 vertical silvery white cross bands on each side of the body, and with traces of a fifth band near the caudal peduncle; the posterior margin of the gill opening is pearly white and a pearly white bar extends along the base of the anal and lower side of the caudal peduncle; the fins are all dusky or blackish, except the ventrals which are milky white; the tongue and all the roof of the mouth above it to the tip of the jaw, and the symphysis of the lower jaw back halfway to the root of the tongue are all milky white, the rest of the mouth and lips black or violaceous black.\n\nHere described from the type and only specimen, 180 mm. in length, secured in the market at Hong Kong, in September, 1931.\n\nNamed for Dr. G. A. C. Herklots, in honour of his activities in investigating the fauna and flora of Hong Kong.\n\nALBERT W. HERRE,\n\nStanford University,\n\nCalifornia, U.S.A.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nMay 1932.\n\n171\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG UNIVERSITY: THE FIRST PRECARIOUS YEARS\n\nThe University started with an annual income of £9,000, the main University building, and a house for the Vice-Chancellor. The School of Anatomy was opened in 1913, having been built and equipped out of the Ng Li Hing donation of $50,000 to the College of Medicine.\n\nWhen the War was over, the question of the University's future had obviously to be reconsidered. What was needed was an increase in the general endowment by at least $9,000,000. The air was full of general optimism. New, but urgently needed, appointments were made. But Mr. Cheung Pat Sze's financial contribution to the Arts Faculty had ceased, and the position of the University was critical.\n\nUp to 1919, physiology and biology were taught in the main University building and by the same teacher. The Board of the Faculty of Medicine had reported in 1910 that the teaching of physiology was unsatisfactory. Mr. Chan Kai Ming came to the rescue with a gift of $50,000, which enabled the Council to equip the School of Physiology. In 1917, Mr. Ho Fook gave $50,000, and with this money, the School of Pathology was erected and equipped. In the same year, Mr. Ho Kom Tong gave $50,000 for the erection and equipment of a School of Tropical Medicine. The Schools of Pathology and Tropical Medicine, which were opened in 1919, are housed in the same building.\n\nIn February 1925, Sir Robert Ho Tung gave $50,000 towards the cost of the teaching staff, with the proviso that not less than $2,000 per annum of the interest was to go towards the remuneration of the incumbent of a chair tenable at the Government Civil Hospital, which was to be called the Ho Tung Chair of Clinical Surgery. At the same time, Sir Robert gave $50,000 towards the University Endowment Fund, payable by ten annual instalments of $5,000.\n\nThe Court of the University, realising that the University was insolvent, refused on 29th April 1920 to adopt the income and expenditure account for 1919-20. Instead, they asked the Governor-in-Council to inquire into the whole position and working of the University. The Governor appointed a Commission, but before the Commission had ever met, three professors and one lecturer of the Faculty of Arts had resigned.\n\nThe Commission was presided over by the Honourable Mr. Ernest Hamilton Sharp, K.C., O.B.E., a leading barrister of the Colony, and is popularly known as the Sharp Commission. Its members were the Hon. Mr. Joseph Horsford Kemp, then Attorney General of Hong Kong, now Sir Joseph Kemp, the Colony's Chief Justice; the Honourable Mr. Edward Alexander Irving, then Director of Education for the Colony; the Honourable Mr. John Johnstone, then Managing Director of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.; and Mr. T'so Seen Wan. The University's Registrar acted as the Commission's Secretary.\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "38\n\nHONG KONG UNIVERSITY VONNUMM\n\nto Professors, 8 Demonstrators, 1 Workshop Instructor, and 1 Chinese Translator. There are also 18 part-time lecturers and teachers, 2 part-time demonstrators, and 1 part-time master of method. There are therefore 45 whole-time teachers in the University and 16 part-time teachers.\n\nIn this connection it is interesting to note that at the College of Arts and Sciences of the Lingnan University, Canton, there were in 1931, 60 whole-time teachers for 219 students. The curriculum of the Lingnan University did not then include either an engineering, or a medical, course.\n\nThe increase in the number of students, though distinctly gratifying especially in these hard times, has brought the University face to face with the urgent need for early expansion. The increased demand for admission affects mainly the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering. Every student who enters either of these faculties has to qualify in chemistry and physics, the third preliminary science in the Medical Faculty being biology which is also for that faculty obligatory. These three sciences are also taken by some of the students in the Arts Faculty. The teaching staff and the lecture and laboratory accommodation of the departments of chemistry, physics and biology are now strained to their utmost capacity. Unless something can be done, the University will have to start excluding students. That will be a pity.\n\nOne of the University's greatest defects is that no attempt has ever been made, or even seriously contemplated, to make available in it a rudimentary study of art. But the Art of China is one of the glories of mankind and it draws its inspiration from the two deepest influences in the life of China-influences which reveal the importance of man and nature: the worship of ancestors and Féng Sui-the lore of wind and water.\n\nHONG KONG UNIVERSITY\n\nTHE FACULTY OF MEDICINE.\n\nOrdinance of 1911 conferred upon the University power to incorporate the College of Medicine. Seven members of the Court of the College became life members of the Court of the University.\n\nOn the 12th July, 1912, the Council of the University of Hong Kong decided to make seventeen part-time appointments in the Faculty of Medicine. The maximum emolument was £300. Sir Robert Ho Tung's endowment of the Ho Tung Chair of Clinical Surgery has already been mentioned. The first holder of this chair was Dr. Martyn Lobb, a local practitioner, but he resigned in June 1915 and in October 1915 Dr. K. H. Digby was appointed to it.\n\nIn February, 1918, a chair of chemistry was created, and in March, 1919, a professorship of pathology. June of the same year saw the creation of a lectureship in biology. All these three posts were filled by February 1920. In September, 1920, a tutorship in the out-patients department of the Civil Hospital was created, as also a lectureship in clinical obstetrics. This latter post was to be held by the Government Medical Officer in charge of the Maternity Department of the Civil Hospital.\n\nOne of the recommendations of the Sharp Commission was that three full-time clinical chairs should be established. In December, 1920, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine was authorized by the Council to approach the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Richard M. Pearce of the Rockefeller Foundation came to Hong Kong and negotiations ensued between him and Sir William Brunyate which ended in the endowment of three chairs in surgery, medicine, and obstetrics-the endowment being in each case H.K.$250,000.\n\nThe Rockefeller scheme involved the creation of a separate chair of anatomy. The scheme also entailed the appointment of full-time assistants in surgery, medicine, obstetrics, anatomy, physiology and pathology, also the appointment of a house obstetrician. Each of the clinical professors has a number of beds in the Government Civil Hospital for which he is solely responsible; and each of these professors works in the out-patients department of the Hospital. The clinical professors are now gazetted respectively as Surgeon, Physician, and Obstetrician and Gynaecologist to the Government Civil Hospital besides being Consultants to Government.\n\nIn 1930 Sir Elly Kadoorie and his sons presented the University Medical Unit with a diathermy machine. This machine has proved a great boon to the poor Chinese who come to the wards of the University's medical unit in the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nProfessor J. Anderson was the first holder of the University's endowed chair of medicine. He resigned in 1928 to take up work in the Henry Lester Research Institute, Shanghai. He died there on the 28th November, 1931. In his will he left a sum of £350 to provide for a gold medal to be awarded annually to the student who obtained the highest aggregate of marks in all professional examinations.\n\n16\n\n17\n\n39",
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        "content_text": "171\n\n190\n\nF. A. McCLURE\n\nis trimmed, and as the blossoms begin to open, the ensheathing membranes are carefully removed by means of a pair of forceps (Figure 2).\n\nDuring the last few days of the twelfth month of the lunar year certain streets in Canton, particularly Yeung Hong (Yang Hong), are gay with Chinese Sacred Lilies and other flowers exhibited for sale.\n\n21\n\nAn interesting branch of the forcing industry is the production of dwarfed and bizarre forms by a process known as carving (E). In Amoy, where the art is apparently developed to a very high degree, the plant is so treated that, when its flowers reach the full-blown stage, it bears the shape of a fairy, a tiger, a lion or any of a score of conventional forms. In Canton, however, the usual form of these works of art is much simpler and the name applied to them is Haai Chaau Shui Sin (Hai Jiao Shui Xian — Crab's Claw Narcissus). The name alludes, however, not to the ensemble form, but rather to the curved shape of the individual leaves. Although not so desirable in the eyes of some as the natural form, these creations are highly esteemed by many, and good examples bring fancy prices.\n\nThe technique followed by Narcissus carvers in Canton is probably typical, in its fundamental features at any rate, and is deemed of sufficient interest to warrant its description here. The smaller, less shapely bulbs, chiefly those removed from over-crowded clusters, are used. After the preliminary twenty-four hour soaking, the first step is to trim away from one side of each bulb a large portion of the fleshy scales, leaving the central bud exposed. The bulbs are then impaled on slender bamboo sticks about five inches in length, one on either end with their bases facing each other. A number of these sticks are then arranged as the spokes of a wheel and fastened securely in this relation, with the bulbs packed together on the rim, the excised area of each uppermost. A small dome of bamboo strips is then constructed over the spokes of the “wheel,” and covered with a layer of cotton. Plate 28, Fig. 2. This circle of bulbs is then laid upon a shallow clay bowl which is filled with water into which the roots begin to grow.\n\n1.\n\nIn\n\n2.\n\nThe preliminary carving and the horizontal orientation of the bulbs in the first place have a profound effect upon the development of the plants. In the first place, a considerable portion of the stored food has been removed, which reduces the rate of growth and the ultimate size of the vegetative parts. In the second place, the horizontal position of the bulbs, combined with the removal of all restraint from what is now the upper side of the growing buds, giving free play to their negative geotropic response results in an upward curving of the leaves and flower stalks. When the growth has proceeded to the appropriate stage further carving is initiated which accentuates the dwarfing and curling of these structures. This part of the technique takes the form of the daily removal, with a sharp carving tool (Figure 2), of a minute portion of the edge of each leaf. This results in differential growth by retarding the development of the injured areas of tissues. In addition, the flower stalks are carefully trained, by daily manipulation, so as to occupy their appropriate positions in the finished product, particularly so that the blossoms will be massed together at the centre in a dense cluster. Finally, as their flower buds open, the ensheathing tissues are removed, just as they are in the case of the natural form.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nPlate 28.\n\nVol. III, Nos. 3 and 4.\n\n172",
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        "content_text": "201\n\n[216]\n\n# THE EXTERNAL ANATOMY OF THE SPIDER.\n\nby\n\nW. RAE SHERRIFFS.\n\nPROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND.\n\n46\n\nA first view shows that the spider has a body and a number of legs arising from that body. A closer examination demonstrates that the leglike structures are not all alike and that the body is in two parts separated by a slender waist \"(pedicel). The front part of the body is the united head and thorax (cephalothorax) and from it arise the limbs. The second portion is the abdomen. Both cephalothorax and abdomen are not, as in Insects, composed of definite rings or segments. A still closer scrutiny—which, in the case of minute specimens at least, demands the use of a lens to aid natural vision—reveals yet smaller structures on the large main parts above mentioned.\n\n## CEPHALOTHORAX.\n\nThis fore piece of the body is usually smaller than the hind one, the abdomen, and when looked at from above the dorsal part (carapace) is seen to have a smaller front area separated by a groove from the rest. This cervical groove comes behind the head area which bears the simple eyes, usually eight in number, arranged variously in different kinds of spiders, and according to their number, nature, relative size and position to each other, are of great use in classifying spiders correctly. The spider eye is a single eye with one lens like the ocellus in some insects but quite different from the relatively enormous compound eye made up of thousands of eye elements so characteristic of the insect. Sometimes a spider may have two kinds of eyes, pearly white and black, the pearly ones being nocturnal and the black diurnal, i.e., for use by day.\n\nOn the under (ventral) side are the mouth parts consisting of (1) one pair of \"jaws\" (chelicerae) for seizing and killing the prey—for all spiders are carnivorous. They are the modified second antennae of the crustacean and not Insect mandibles. The chelicerae are two-jointed hollow structures, the upper joint containing a poison sac while the end joint is a movable sharp-pointed fang which folds like a knife-blade against the handle and which can be pushed into the victim, most commonly an insect; (2) A pair of sensitive \"feelers\" (pedipalps) used like insect antennae yet definitely limblike in structure. In the female the pedipalps are limblike but in the male the last joint of the six present is strangely and often elaborately modified for the transference of sperms, as already noted in my last paper.\n\nThe pedipalp's six joints are the coxa, trochanter, femur, patella, tibia and tarsus.\n\nThe coxa joins the limb to the body and the last end joint is the tarsus which in the male is changed to a sex organ. So constant is the type of the male palpal organ that it is characteristic of the species and therefore very valuable in classification.\n\n* H.K.N. Vol. II, No. 4, PP. 254-257.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.",
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        "content_text": "D. J. FINN, S.J.\n\nThe vases were acquired by purchase from the man who some time ago had dug them up near Tung Koon, the well-known town (famous for fire-crackers) on the deltaic land between the East River and the estuary of the Canton (Pearl) River. Tung Koon lies about five miles west of Shek Lung and is sixty miles slightly west of north from Lamma; it has been ever since the Sung times at least a place of importance (the name means Eastern Reeds or Eastern Reed-mat and occurs elsewhere in China and even seems to have been used of another site nearer to Nam Tao).\n\nIf ever vases had guarantees of genuineness, these have. They correspond accurately with all the characteristics which we have set forth above on the basis of sherds dug up out of the sand. The neck and collar are the points in which each differs from what has been taken as typical above. Pl. 34, figure 1, has a short neck set perfectly straight, as against the usual angle illustrated in the drawings, figure 7, c and d. Pl. 34, figure 3 has no collar at all whereas Pl. 33, figure 2, shows traces of the usual neck.\n\nTo save time and space, the description is set out in catalogue fashion.\n\nGeneral: colour (exterior), black except for circular area of brownish red on bottom with boundary of yellowish grey which in part is vitrified (corresponding to position of a second vessel in kiln; this area is about the same as that of the vessel's own mouth): (interior) grey: hard stone-ware of metallic appearance and ringing sound; blobs of fusing ferruginous substance come through to surface here and there: sits lop-sided on bottom: no regular base (cp. notes on figure 7, a).\n\nDimension: Height (external) 10½ ins. (internal) 10¼ ins.: greatest breadth, 13 ins.: vertical height to band of ornament, 6¾ ins.: lugs, distant from lip, as measured along curve, 2 ins.: breadth of mouth 5¾ ins.: Height of neck, (outside) ½ in., (inside) 7/8in.\n\nPattern. Double-F type based on central groove type but merging from hi to l.h.ii. Probably early in series. Touching arms.\n\nLugs: well-made bronze type of stirrup form (as fragment 38). Mark, exceptional in that maker's (?) mark occurs on outside (usually inside the neck-collar); three upright lines in mountain or pyramid form; same as mark on a cup of \"glazed type\" in Professor Shellshear's collection.\n\nInterior: chevron band where neck attached: apparently this is a productive factor in bevelled edge of lip, the inner layer producing a bevel where it stops short of the edge of an outer layer.\n\nDown to a vertical distance of about 2 inches, the interior of the shoulder is splashed with crystalline patches of a yellowish brown all around; this is very hard and resists detachment unless with considerable force, yet is soluble; not a glaze but is probably owing to evaporation and crystallization of some liquid (sugar or brine?) in the vase.\n\nThe second small pot; Plate 34, 3: of the same type as Pl. 33, 2. Differs by absence of neck, but probably all this kind of pots should make a separate class.\n\nGeneral: colour, white, slightly grey: very hard and heavy, thick ware almost indestructible: bottom with kiln area mark; base fairly level; ware throughout shows fused blobs and rings (perhaps owing to iron-content) carefully smoothed mouth; no neck or collar.\n\nDimensions; external height, 3 ins.: greatest breadth, 4¾ ins.; width across mouth 3 ins.\n\nDecoration; wheel marks which on one face are oblique except the lowest one, on the other face they are nearer to parallels, but in each case they seem to have been placed in some definite relation to the lugs.\n\nInterior; under mouth-opening, for about 1½ in., the inner surface is all blackened as if by fire, suggesting use as a lamp (which may explain absence of neck); towards lower part distinct join of upper and lower sections as usual in this type.\n\nThe first of these two vases is the only complete specimen of its type that has yet been recognized: we hope that this publication may bring others to light. It is an impressive vase which completely succeeds in a bronze-ware effect.\n\nA vase of the same pattern as fragment 16 if thus complete would be a splendid piece of ware. The link of this vase with the glazed cups is of considerable interest, for the particular specimen bearing the same trade-mark seems to have been prepared for glazing but never finished—and thus may have been something local to Lamma.\n\nThis opportunity allows the addition of some article as the result of the most recent observations.\n\nNotes to the whole\n\n(1) The site extends south of the big tree.\n\n(2) A piece of Double-F unearthed there at 40 ins. shows\n\n(a) a trade-mark connecting it with 1.f (zig-zag pattern; another piece of Double-F has similar mark).\n\n(b) an exterior surface coated with some material which has left a creamy yellow surface overlying a substratum in places an ochre-red, in places a rusty black; like the paste of the pot itself, this coating (or slip) is so rich in iron that the magnet gathers up most of the powder got by scraping off the slip; at places there is still a shine which at first suggests a glaze. The total effect is still that of embossed metal as the slip softens down the sharp F lines; originally probably this technique took a high polish which we shall find later on to be characteristic of other wares seemingly older. It is noteworthy that much iron is visible in the sand of the Lamma beach and on one occasion a very heavy lump of fired sand was found with marked layers of iron particles.\n\n(3) A piece of the same type, but not of the same pot, as fragment 12 has been found at 49 ins., i.e., lower than the above piece of Double-F in the same place.\n\n(4) As to the important relation of figure 3 to fragment 16 and Plate 33, 3 and 4 with figure 2 A and C\n\nDecember 1932,\n\n(a) it should be noted that the upper element in figure 2 in C and A is not correctly interpreted; the error is due to...\n\n242\n\n243\n\n244\n\n245\n\n246",
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        "content_text": "258\n\n259\n\n260\n\nHENRY W. FOWLER\n\nHarpodon nehereus Günther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 5, 1864, p. 401 (China, Chusan).—Bleeker, Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1874, p. 147 (compiled).—Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880, p. 924 (Ningpo).—Steindachner, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 102, pt. 1, 1893, p. 237 (Swatow).—Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 67 (Swatow).—Günther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., series 7, vol. 1, 1898, p. (Newchwang).—Morrison, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., series 7, vol. 1, 1898, p. 265 (Liao Basin).—Wu, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, 1929, p. 59, fig. 60 (Amoy).\n\nHarpodon ophiodon Bleeker, Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 2, 1865, p. 57 (Amoy).\n\nDepth 5 to 8; head 4; snout equals eye, 10 or 11 in head; premaxillary 13. Scales begin on body between dorsal and ventral. Lateral line begins at shoulder, with 40 scales. Dorsal rays 12 to 14; anal 14 or 15; pectoral 11 or 12 and fin equals or little longer than head; ventral rays 9 and little longer than pectoral. Gray to brown, fins dusky. Reaches 400 mm.\n\nNingpo, Chusan, Amoy, Newchwang, Swatow, Woosung, Canton.—(Zanzibar, India*, Pinang, Malacca, East Indies*).\n\nC\n\nThis is the Bummaloh or \"Bombay Duck,\" valued in a dried state as a condiment.\n\nOrder SYNENTOGNATHI.\n\nThe Bill Fishes.\n\nMaxillary very close to premaxillary, sometimes firmly united though sutures distinct. Articular bone of lower jaw with small supplemental bone. Lower pharyngeal bones completely united (hence the technical name of the order, from syn together, entos within, gnathos jaw). Branchiostegals 9 to 15. Vertebrae numerous, 45 to 70, abdominal much more numerous than caudal. Ribs begin on first vertebra. Scapula suspended to cranium by posttemporal bone, which is slender and forked. Air bladder large. Intestinal canal simple, without pyloric appendages. Lateral line low, concurrent with profile of belly, of peculiar structure. Fins without spines. No adipose fin. Ventrals abdominal, rays more than 5.\n\nA large group of fishes, according to Regan forming an isolated assemblage without evident relationship to any other fishes though showing certain affinities with the toothed minnows or cyprinodonts. In earlier classifications of fishes this group marked the beginning of the series Physoclysti, characterized by the absence of a duct connecting the air bladder with the alimentary canal. In contrast were the preceding series of bony fishes or Physostomi (those discussed in the pages of this journal as the herrings, eels and catfishes), all with a persistent duct.\n\nSynopsis of the Families.\n\na'. Scombresocoidea. Both jaws produced in a beak in adult, upper short in young.\n\nBelonidae.\n\na. Exocoetoidea. Lower jaw only, if at all, produced into a beak.\n\n  \n    b1. Lower jaw produced in long beak in adult.\n    Hemiramphidae.\n  \n  \n    \n    Exocoetidae.\n  \n\nA Synopsis of the Fishes of China\n\nb. Jaws short, not produced,\n\nFamily Belonidae.\n\nThe Green Gars,\n\n261\n\nBoth jaws produced in a beak, lower longer, still longer in young. Maxillaries grown fast to premaxillaries. Each jaw with band of small sharp teeth, besides series of longer wide set sharp conical teeth. Vertebrae 55 to 77, precaudal with strong projections to which ribs are attached. Air bladder present. Ovary single. Scales very small, thin. Dorsal and anal far posterior, rather long, opposite. No finlets.\n\nCarnivorous surface fishes, in many ways suggestive in superficial manner of the gar pikes. Found in all warm seas, some entering or remaining in fresh water. In habits they somewhat resemble the pikes, though when disturbed or so inclined are able to swim along the surface of the water with great rapidity, some even leaping and skipping out short distances. In the tropics, when thus leaping, the large species are sometimes dangerous to fishermen. They have even been known to pierce the naked abdomens of savages. Many are really good food fishes though on account of their green coloured bones are avoided, without good reason.\n\nSTRONGYLURA Van Hasselt.\n\nGreen Gars.\n\nStrongylura Van Hasselt, Bull. Sci. Nat. Férrusac, Sect. 2, vol. 2, 1824, p. 374.—Type Stronglura caudimaculata Van Hasselt=Belone strongylura Van Hasselt, virtually tautotypic.\n\nBody elongate, very slender, little compressed. Both jaws produced as a beak, lower somewhat longer, much longer in young, very young resembling half beaks. Each jaw armed with band of small sharp teeth, besides series of longer wide set sharp conical unequal teeth. No teeth on palate. Gill rakers obsolete. Bones usually more or less green. Scales small, thin. Lateral line extends along lower side of belly, becomes median on tail. Caudal fin short, unequally lunated or forked. No finlets. Dorsal fin mostly elevated in front. Pectorals moderate. Ventrals small, inserted well postmedian.\n\nSpecies numerous, many of comparative large size.\n\nBleeker has mentioned Mastacembelus fasciatus (Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1783, p. 149) without figure or description and no locality other than China.\n\nSynopsis of the Species.\n\na. Caudal emarginate or forked and without dark median basal spot.\n\n¿1. Dorsal rays 18.\n\nanastomella.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist,\n\nDecember 1932.",
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        "content_text": "3\n\n95-\n\nall the passengers when Naval, Military or Air Forces appeared on the scene. Hitherto no such action has been taken by the pirates and to suggest it as a possible step might have the lamentable result of their taking such action.\n\n13.\n\nI told Mr. Swire that I had steadily refused to issue exact detailed orders to H.M. Ships as to how they should act, as it is impossible to forecast how a situation might develop. I did not think it necessary to tell him that in the case of the \"Shuntien\" piracy, when the Captain of the \"EAGLE\" reported that he had located the pirates due to their foolishly firing on his aircraft and that retaliatory fire was carried out against them by H.M.S. \"EAGLE's\" aircraft with machine guns, I immediately signalled to him - \"I will support any action that you consider desirable for the recovery of the captives. It is quite clear that if Mr. Swire's line had been taken, i.e. if we had been afraid to take action, the \"Shuntien\" captives would possibly still be in the hands of the pirates.\n\n14. I think Mr. Swire may be troublesome when he gets home. He made a remark to the effect that they hoped that Naval Officers would be amongst the captives each time, meaning, of course, that we had taken very complete action in order to rescue Naval Officers; but again, Mr. Swire in his attempt to be unpleasantly sharp-witted, did not know his facts. I was able to tell him at once that I thought his remark was a lamentable one and that no doubt he was unaware of the fact that the Naval Officers had volunteered to be hostages. He then apologised and we parted good friends.\n\n15.\n\nI have felt it advisable, however, to inform Their Lordships of this conversation as it appears that Mr. Swire and his company, whose late Manager, Mr. N.S. Brown, has just retired and gone home to England, may try to be tiresome on this anti-piracy question.\n\n16.\n\nIt is interesting to note that in connection with the above on 22nd August, 1934, the Commodore Hong Kong, proposed the following amended paragraphs 51-56 for the Hong Kong Anti-Piracy Patrol Orders:-\n\n\"51.\n\nThe guiding principle is to take such action, and no more, as is necessary to ensure the apprehension of the pirates, while making every effort to avoid the massacre of the officers and passengers, which will in all probability be threatened to induce the anti-piracy vessel to withdraw.\n\n52. It is probable that the pirates will wait till nightfall before attempting to disembark if a man-of-war or other vessel is in sight. An anti-piracy vessel meeting a ship known to be in the hands of pirates should endeavour to create a false sense of security by proceeding on her course without sign, and subsequently turning and shadowing. A determined surprise attack by boarding should then be launched as night falls, a searchlight being used to dazzle the pirates and give the officers and passengers a chance to escape.\n\nShould...",
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        "content_text": "19\n\n[Ref. No. 3 of 1901.]\n\nConstruction of Tramway.\n\nNo. 10 of 1902.\n\nTRAMWAY.\n\n(e) The Government means the Governor acting on behalf of His Majesty or his assigns, or on behalf of the Government of the Colony.\n\n6.\n\n(f) \"Road\" means any roadway over which the tramway shall pass, and the roadway of any bridge forming part of or leading to the same.\n\n(g) \"Section\" means a section (as hereinafter described) of the tramway.\n\n(h) \"Special case\" means a special case stated for the opinion of the court under the provisions of any Ordinance relating to Civil Procedure.\n\n(7) \"The works\", or \"the undertaking\", mean the works or undertaking of whatever nature herein authorised to be executed.\n\nConstruction of tramway.\n\n3. The company may construct, lay down and maintain, and subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, and in accordance with the plans which have been deposited as hereinafter mentioned, the tramway hereinafter described, with all proper electric generating stations, crossings, passing places, sidings, junctions, rails, turn-tables, plates, offices, weigh-bridges, sheds, overhead and other wires, cables, standards, poles and brackets, pipes and all such other works and conveniences in connexion therewith as the company may for the purposes thereof think fit, and may work and use the same. The company may also generate and use electricity for the purposes of lighting its own buildings, erections, and premises, and for any other purposes of its own.\n\nThe tramway authorised by this Ordinance is as follows:\n\nSection No. 1.-A single line 2 furlongs 9.12 chains (or thereabouts) in length, commencing at a point in Catchick Street fifty feet (or thereabouts) east of the intersection of the centre lines of Catchick Street and Smithfield, thence passing into and, in a southerly direction, along Smithfield to its junction with Belcher Street, thence into and, in a westerly direction, along Belcher Street to its junction with Cadogan Street, thence into and, in a northerly direction, along Cadogan Street to its junction with Catchick Street, and thence into and, in an easterly direction, along Catchick Street, terminating at the point where this Section is authorised to commence.\n\nTRAMWAY.\n\nNo. 10 of 1902.\n\nSection No. 2.-A double line 4 miles 3 furlongs 4.5 chains (or thereabouts) in length, commencing by junction with Section No. 1 at the point where such Section is authorised to terminate, thence passing, in easterly, north-easterly and southerly directions, along Catchick Street, Praya Kennedy Town, Des Voeux Road, and Connaught Road to the junction of Connaught Road with Morrison Street. From this point Section No. 2 is authorised to divide, one line passing in a southerly direction along Morrison Street to its junction with Des Voeux Road and thence into and, in an easterly direction, along Des Voeux Road to its junction with Cleverly Street, and the other line passing, in an easterly direction, along Connaught Road to its junction with Cleverly Street, and thence into and, in a southerly direction, along Cleverly Street to its junction with Des Voeux Road. From this point Section No. 2 is authorised to pass, in easterly, southerly and north-easterly directions, along Des Voeux Road, Queen's Road, Arsenal Street, Praya East, Yee Wo Street, and Shaukiwan Road, terminating in that road at a point fifty feet (or thereabouts) from the north-east corner of Inland Lot No. 1,149.\n\nSection No. 3.-A single line 8.5 chains (or thereabouts) in length, commencing in Praya East by junction with Section No. 2 at a point fifty feet (or thereabouts) west of the intersection of the centre lines of Praya East and Tin Lok Lane, thence passing into and, in a southerly direction, along Tin Lok Lane, and terminating in Morrison Hill Road at a point fifty feet (or thereabouts) south of the intersection of the centre lines of Morrison Hill Road and Sharp Street.\n\nSection No. 4.-A single line 1 furlong 1.5 chains (or thereabouts) in length, commencing in Praya East by junction with Section No. 2 at a point fifty feet (or thereabouts) west of the intersection of the centre lines of Praya East and Bowrington Road, thence passing into and, in a southerly direction, along Bowrington Road to its junction with Sharp Street, thence into and, in a westerly direction, along Sharp Street and terminating at the point where Section No. 3 will terminate.\n\nSection No. 5.-A double line 3 furlongs 0.6 chains (or thereabouts) in length, commencing in Morrison Hill Road by junction with Sections Nos. 3 and 4 at the point where such Sections will terminate, thence passing, in a southerly direction, along Morrison Hill Road and terminating in...\n\n112",
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        "content_text": "There was some disagreement between the Hon. Sir William Shenton and the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall regarding the question of the use of surplus balances for the purpose of balancing the Budget, the former expressing the opinion that the Government was already encroaching too deeply upon these reserves, while the Hon. Mr. Kotewall held the view that more use should be made of them.\n\nThe general tenor of the speeches was one of satisfaction as to the policy of the Government.\n\nAt the conclusion of the business, appreciation was pressed by His Excellency, by the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock on behalf of the Unofficial Members, and by the Hon. Mr. S. W. Ts'o on behalf of the Chinese community, of the services rendered by the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall during his twelve years as a member of the Council, and regret was expressed at his resignation.\n\nRegret was also expressed at the impending departure of Lieut.-General O. C. Borrett, who leaves for England on Saturday.\n\nHis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government (Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith), presided, and there were also present:\n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops (Lieut.-General O. C. Borrett, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.);\n\nThe Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, Acting);\n\nThe Attorney General (Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., O.B.E.);\n\nThe Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon. Mr. E. H. Williams, Acting);\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mr. E. Taylor);\n\nHon. Dr. W. B. A. Moore (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, Acting);\n\nHon. Commander G. F. Hole, R.N., (Retired), (Harbour Master);\n\nHon. Mr. R. M. Henderson (Director of Public Works);\n\nHon. Mr. M. J. Breen (Postmaster General);\n\nHon. Sir Henry Pollock, Kt., K.C.;\n\nHon. Sir William Shenton, Kt.;\n\nHon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D.;\n\nHon. Mr. J. B. Braga, O.B.E.;\n\nHon. Mr. S. W. T'so, O.B.E., LL.D.;\n\nHon. Mr. J. J. Paterson;\n\nHon. Mr. T. N. Chau;\n\nMr. A. W. G. H. Grantham (Deputy Clerk of Councils).\n\nPROMISE OF ECONOMY\n\nIt is satisfactory to note that, for the time being, no new taxation is being imposed, and we are glad to see that the Government is reducing the charges for excess water. It is also satisfactory that, notwithstanding the need for drastic economy, Queen Mary Hospital is being vigorously proceeded with, whilst the 75-foot road from Causeway Bay to Ming Yuen (now known as King's Road), the Central British School and the new Kowloon Magistracy will be completed next year.\n\nToo Many Regulations Regarding retrenchment of staffs, we are glad to learn that the Government is carefully considering whether it is absolutely necessary to fill up posts as vacancies occur. Our staff of Civil Servants is a very large one, even after making the fullest allowance for the fact that the Government has also to perform the duties of a Municipality. Indeed it is considered by some that we have too many Regulations in this Colony and too large a staff of subordinate officers fussing about and worrying people. Also the prevalent notion that Police Officers and Sanitary Inspectors acquire merit by prosecuting people is apt to render the Government unpopular and to make the man in the street consider that we could do with fewer of such Officers.\n\nCity Development Under Public Works Department, we agree that in these times of depression, it is advisable to retain as many employees as possible on a temporary basis. In regard to Government House and City Development, we consider that the Government is wise to call a halt for the time being, to a scheme of this expensive nature which originated in more prosperous times.\n\nWith reference to the Shing Mun Dam, we note with pleasure the highly satisfactory progress which has been made, enabling some water to be impounded from the first of last month. We congratulate Mr. Gifford Hull and his staff, upon being so well forward with this important scheme.\n\nShing Mun reminds us of the excellent anti-malarial work which has been done by Dr. R. B. Jackson and his Staff not only in that neighbourhood but also in the Peak District which is now more free from mosquitoes than it has been for very many years past. Also much good anti-malarial work has been and is being done in Kowloon Tong, Stanley, Shek O and elsewhere.\n\nA full report by Dr. Jackson on anti-malarial measures during 1934 appears on pages 116 to 158 of the Report of the Acting Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for 1934, and induces us to urge that, if possible, more money should be devoted to anti-malarial work than is at present included in the Estimates for 1936.\n\nWe trust that the forthcoming cemetery extension at Hammer Hill will, in the course of the next ten years, enable the Central Cemetery at Kowloon to be released for building and other development purposes, a very necessary step forward in the town-planning of Kowloon.\n\nStrong Protest\n\nThe Unofficial Members now proceed to deal with one part of the Colonial Secretary's Budget speech, to which they take the strongest exception. The passage in question reads as follows: \"In spite of all this, however, the Government would be failing in its duty if it did not contemplate in advance the steps that will have to be taken in 1936 if there should either be a sharp drop in the dollar rate or a serious decline in revenue or possibly both. As I have said, no additional taxation has been imposed in the existing circumstances; but it is as well that a warning should now be given that this may be necessary if the state of the public finances in 1936 should show some serious deterioration. It is considered that a temporary levy on all Government Salaries, both dollars and sterling, may be necessary before the end of 1936 in the circumstances referred to, and that the Secretary of State has already given his sanction to make action on these lines.\"\n\nThe Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to apply the sum not exceeding Twenty-three million eight hundred and forty thousand and sixteen dollars to the Public Service of the year 1936\". The Colonial Treasurer seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nAddressing the Council, the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock said:-Your Excellency, As the Senior Unofficial Member I have been asked by my colleagues to express our joint views upon the Budget for 1936. At the outset we congratulate the Colonial Secretary and Mr. Grantham (whose impending departure from the Colony we very much regret) upon the able and clear statement which has been laid before us regarding the Budget. We also thank the Colonial Treasurer for his lucid and informative Memorandum on our financial position, and the Director of Public Works for his notes on Public Works Extraordinary for 1936 and also for the information which he and his Staff kindly gave us in Public Works Committee.\n\nThe Estimates contain little contentious matter, and it is fully realised that, in view of the estimated revenue for 1936 being so much lower than that for 1935, it is essential that the Government should refrain from starting expenditure on new Public Works of magnitude. At the same time we regret that many useful Public Works, over 100 in number, in the list marked \"considered but not included in the draft estimates\" (with which the Government kindly supplied us) have had to be postponed owing to present financial stress.\n\nWe approve of the additional Police defences which are being erected on the frontier and of the extra police engaged for that purpose. We agree to the new posts in the Treasury and to the proposed Aviation Meteorological Officers for the Government Observatory, and, on the ground of economy, we agree to the proposed engagement locally of ten Asiatic Sanitary Inspectors, to replace sterling-paid Officers. We approve of the two new postal kiosks and of the improved postal deliveries in outside parts of the Colony, and also of the short-wave telephone transmitter which was recommended by the Economic Commission.\n\nSalary Facts\n\nIn support of this contention of ours, we beg leave to remind Government of certain facts, which preceded the considerable increase in salaries which came into force on the ...\n\nPage 92",
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        "content_text": "1st January, 1931. These facts are:-\n\n(I) That the Unofficial Members, in June 1930, very strongly opposed such increases of salaries, and that it was then pointed out by Mr. John Owen Hughes, the then Senior European Unofficial Member (see Hansard for 1930, at p.77) that, at the exchange of 1s. 10d. such increases of salaries would result in the Colony having to pay two million dollars extra for the increases in sterling and dollar salaries.\n\n(II) That the direct consequences were (see Hansard for 1930 at pages 176 and 177) that the Government were compelled, in order to balance their Budget for 1931, to impose the following additional taxation, namely:-\n\n(1) An amusement Tax, to produce 3 lakhs of dollars.\n\n(2) Increases in light dues and in fees for Government Buoys, and in other items of revenue affecting shipping, estimated to bring in $364,000.\n\nValuable Privileges In further support of our contention, that, in the event of such a deficit unfortunately arising, the taxpayers should not share the burden with the Civil Servants, we would point out that\n\n(i) Civil Servants possess the following very valuable privileges, namely, pensions, passages for themselves and family, housing or rent allowance, privileged rates for medical attendance, continuity of employment, safety of employment and protection against arbitrary dismissal.\n\n(ii) That, as the result of the present depression, very drastic cuts of their employees, by many business houses in this Colony, have already been made in the salaries.\n\n(iii) That, in many British Colonies, in order to meet bad times, cuts in salaries or in allowances have already been made and are still in force.\n\nI am gravely perturbed at the prospect of an estimated deficit of $830,000, after taking from our surplus balances the sum of $2,095,789, thereby in one year reducing our surplus balances to a figure permitted by the Secretary of State; particularly as it follows the year 1935 in which we have already an estimated deficit of $152,966, and the year 1934 which had an actual deficit of $1,574,870. This dipping, year after year, into our surplus balances must stop, or we shall inevitably find ourselves in a most difficult position.\n\nIn 1934 we budgeted at 1/3 and were fortunate in getting an average rate of 1/6%, whilst in 1935 we budgeted at 1/4 and were lucky to experience an average rate of 2/-8. Notwithstanding these favourable rates, substantial deficits followed. To-day we are budgeting at 1/8 and who will venture to foretell the future? The exchange factor is always a problem in budgeting, but we most strongly deprecate being saddled with additional taxation.\n\n(3) The increase of the General Assessment Rate by 4%, from 13 to 17%, will bring in about one million four hundred thousand dollars.\n\nWe are convinced that a low exchange would much benefit our local industries, and would also, by causing an influx of capital for investment, tend to relieve the present abnormal stagnation in business conditions. Incidentally, too, a low dollar would improve our tourist traffic.\n\nThose additional taxes, imposed to meet those increases of salaries, are still with us, and in times of depression like the present, they are even less popular than when they were first imposed.\n\nAccordingly the Unofficial Members contend that the taxpayers of this Colony are already paying amply for those increases of salaries (which are still in force) and that, to make the taxpayers pay more in 1936 if a sharp drop in the dollar should unbalance the Budget, is a palpable injustice to the taxpayers of this Colony. In such an event, as already stated, the Civil Servants ought solely to bear the burden of such a drop, to the exclusion of the taxpayers, who have already been sufficiently mulcted.\n\nUnconstitutional\n\nAt this point somebody may ask:- \"Why do the Unofficial Members raise this protest just now, instead of waiting for the contingency to occur?\"\n\n1. Our answer to that, Sir, is that we gather, from the above-quoted passage in the Colonial Secretary's speech, that the Government has already been in communication with the Secretary of State on the subject of the possible deficit, and that the Secretary of State has, already, without the Unofficial Members of or the Finance Committee of this Council being consulted in any way, \"sanctioned\" a scheme whereby such deficit is to be met partly by additional taxation and partly by cuts in the salaries of Government Civil Servants. That procedure of the Government we object to as being unconstitutional.\n\nWe are painfully aware of the fact that the Unofficial Members of this Council are in all matters of voting in a hopeless minority, but surely that fact makes it all the more imperative that they should at least be consulted before any definite arrangement is come to with the Secretary of State for meeting a possible deficit in the finances of the Colony by means of additional taxation.\n\nPerhaps we may be told that we Unofficials shall be consulted, if the emergency in question should arise, but what a farce any such consultation must be, in view of the passage in the above-quoted speech of the Colonial Secretary, in which he says: \"The Secretary of State has already given his sanction to action on these lines\" i.e., on the lines of partly meeting such a deficit by additional taxation.\n\nIn conclusion we would add that we place great reliance upon that close co-operation between all sections of this community which has been of such marked assistance to Hongkong's progress in the past. (Applause.)\n\nEXCHANGE MENACE\n\nSir Wm. Shenton Pessimistic On Future Outlook\n\nUSE OF SURPLUSES\n\nThe Hon. Sir William Shenton, addressing the Council, said:-Sir, On a careful consideration of the Estimates, I am unable to take, in a measure, the same view of this Colony's financial position as my colleagues.\n\nIn the preparation of a Colonial Budget the following principles are, I think, fundamental:- (1) The Budget must be balanced; (2) where actual balancing is impracticable no effort must be neglected to reduce the annual deficit; (3) in framing estimates of revenue and expenditure regard should be had not only to the conditions of the moment but also to the general probabilities over a cycle of years; (4) while every effort should be made by Government to assist the recovery of trade it would not be proper to assume that recovery will be sufficiently rapid to justify regarding the present emergency as one of a purely temporary nature which can legitimately be tided over by the use of surplus balances; (5) estimates should be drawn up on the assumption that the present conditions are likely to prevail for some time to come.\n\nThe economic position which this Colony faces to-day is not only peculiar but, I believe, novel in its history.\n\nThe difficulties are obvious. We have lost the solid and natural value of silver. To-day no-one can predict what to-morrow will bring forth.\n\nFor years past the currency policy of this Colony has been to keep the value of our dollar in line with that of China. To-day the margin is such that trading becomes almost impossible. The currency of China at the moment is, I believe, no longer on silver but is a managed currency and who knows what the next move will be? The value of silver has, we are told, been artificially enhanced by the policy of the United States of America and that a continuance of this policy will provide them with most of the available stocks of this metal. Who will venture to prophesy how long this policy will be maintained?\n\nI should like to draw attention to an extract from the City Notes of the London Times of the 15th August last which states as follows \"Monetary disturbance was caused in the East when America was busy forcing up the price of silver, and now a great disturbance is being caused by a reversal of that policy. Hongkong is faced with an awkward problem for yesterday her exchange fell one penny to 1/11 being the rate below export point. Ordinarily the Hongkong authorities by modest operations in silver would have been able to correct this position, but with one large buyer exercising absolute predominance over the silver market it is impossible for the authorities to resort with the same confidence to the usual adjusting operations\".\n\nI believe the above position has arisen on more than one occasion when a flight of currency from this Colony might have taken place, but for the action of the Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. The able way in which he has controlled our currency position has met with universal appreciation.\n\nDifficult Times\n\n93",
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        "content_text": "# 38\n\nAgain, unless the arrangements set out in the Circulars of 1890 and 1894 represent a sharp break with previous practice, of which there is no evidence, it would appear that the waiver of Crown Rent can only have been granted on a similar understanding to that made explicit in those Circulars: i.e. that the W. D. enjoyed in reality only the user of the lands in question.\n\nAny other interpretation can only mean that the W.D. would be in a position to exact a financial contribution from the Colony, in the shape of the cash value of the lands relinquished, quite apart from the Defence Contribution to which the Colony was already committed by law, which seems inequitable. The fact that the practice of capitalising Crown Rents involving a W.D. right to dispose of its leasehold interests for cash, began after the issue of the Circulars, to which the War Office refer in paragraph 5 of their letter, appears to have an exactly opposite significance to that claimed for it. It seems far from likely that the W.D. would agree to have these capitalised rents debited to them in the Mic unless they were to receive some adequate quid pro quo, for example, the right to dispose of the leaseholds for cash. Thus it may be concluded that this right did not exist prior to and its concomitant arrangements; and that in respect of the plots in question the W.D. have never acquired this right of disposal for cash. The W.D. thus cannot legitimately claim both the free use of the land and the right to dispose of it for cash when they choose to get rid of it. In this connection the establishment of the M. L. Accom...",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & \n\n## GOD'S WAYS AND MAN'S WAYS \n\n### Sermon By Bishop Of Hong Kong \n\nHis Lordship the Bishop of Hong Kong in his sermon at the Induction of the Rev. H. D. Rosenthall at Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, on Oct. 24, said:- \n\nIn August of this year a group of men and women were sitting in the top of the Missions Building in Shanghai planning for an evangelistic campaign among the students of China. As they sat there, suddenly they saw bombs dropping near a Japanese cruiser not half a mile away from where they sat. \n\nIt was difficult, one of them said to me, to believe that he was not sitting in a picture theatre watching something quite unreal. \n\nIt is equally difficult, in spite of the pain in our hearts, for us here in Hong Kong to realise the terrible nature of the Evil Thing that is happening now to our beloved China. \n\nBut we must do so. We must face the power of evil in the world. We must allow what is happening to open our eyes to see that this is no temporary madness; just human nature taking its own way to get what it wants. \n\n### CAPACITY FOR EVIL \n\nThe world in which we live has always this capacity for evil; what has happened in the last two months has drawn the curtain away from something that was always there. Against evil of this kind and a human nature capable of such selfishness and cruelty, human goodness seems powerless, ineffective, and rather pathetic. \n\nGoodness cannot stand against the power of evil. In the world in which we live goodness is not enough. The overthrow of evil needs more than goodness. It needs godliness. A parson who is a good man is not good enough to be that parson. For this reason he must be a godly man, a man of God. \n\nThe first business of a minister of Christ is to be a man of God. Indeed, no one of us dare enter upon the ministry of the Church unless we believe, as we are asked at our ordination, that we are truly called of God. Our ministry is not of our own choosing: it is something put upon us by God Himself. Our chief business is to be men of God in a world in which evil is a terrible reality. \n\n### GOODNESS AND GODLINESS \n\nTo you, then, to whom I have this morning committed the care of this congregation, I would say, with all the authority committed to me, be not content with goodness, but with all your heart pursue godliness. \n\nOnly godliness is adequate to the world in which we live. Godliness, remember, is a consuming fire, of which we have a right to be afraid, and yet, because this consuming fire is the love of the Eternal God, our fear is swallowed up in love and reverence and gratitude. \n\nI bid you, then, beware of that typical clerical sin of being satisfied with goodness, gentleness, personal discipline, regular habits, competent and efficient conduct of your job. All these things you must have, but they must not be allowed to take the place of that godliness which alone can give to the people of God the inspiration and the power for the overthrow of evil. \n\n### THE WAYS OF GOD \n\nAnd that you may pursue godliness, you must study the ways of God as they are shown to us in the scriptures. There is a sharp contrast in the scriptures between the ways of man and the ways of God. \n\nDavid, the great leader of the Jewish people, whose name you were given in your baptism, did not seem to men a likely king. His elder brothers seemed much more qualified to be the anointed of God. But they, who to men's eyes seemed so fitting, were rejected. The lad away on the hillside tending the sheep was accepted of God. \n\nThe judgment of God and the judgment of men have different standards. You must never expect them to meet. Beware when all men speak well of you. It is God who judges. \n\nThis contrast is still more noticeable in the New Testament itself. In the words of George MacDonald, \n\n\"They all were looking for a king \nTo slay their foes, and lift them high: \nThou cam'st a tiny baby thing \nThat made a woman cry.\" \n\nThe coming of God into the world at Bethlehem was to men's thinking incredible. How could God become a helpless, human baby? But we are here to-day because that is what God did do. This is God's way, unbelievable to men. \n\n## CHRIST'S WAY THE ONLY WAY \n\n### DR. STANLEY JONES AT THE CATHEDRAL \n\n#### Why We Get Nowhere \n\nA timely message was delivered by Rev. Dr. E Stanley Jones at St. John's Cathedral on Oct. 21 when he spoke of the widespread disillusionment and futility in the affairs of men and nations caused by a refusal to walk the way of Christ. He urged that the very moment people admitted Him into their hearts, and surrendered themselves entirely to Him, they would instantly find the inward unity that they had been searching for. \n\nHumanity's path was one of fruitless toil until Christ came. Linking our struggles and endeavours to the toll and stress of the boatmen in the episode in the Gospel of St. John, who made no headway until Jesus appeared to them, Dr. Jones said that all the contradictions and failures in present-day life would be solved if we looked to Christ for guidance. Men had sought to express themselves freely, but had found the result disappointing. To lose ourselves was Christ's teaching, but men wanted to find themselves. We could get nowhere until we took the way of Christ, and then a strange thing would happen: our self would come back to us. \n\n### THE WAYS OF THE DEVIL \n\nA similar contrast runs through the temptations. \"You are the Son of God,\" says the Devil, and proceeds to tell Our Lord the things that, by man's judgment, the Son of God should do in the world. It was not easy for Our Lord to reject these human judgments of God's ways. \n\nThere is a note of stress and dread and agony in the Temptation stories. The Lord Jesus was up against something terribly evil. This terribly evil thing was man's estimate of how God works. So he fought his way through to be indeed Son of God. \n\nThe strain of the Temptations is re-enacted when Peter tells him that no Messiah can die upon the Cross, and he answers, \"Get thee behind me, Satan. You are taking man's estimate of God's way and not seeking to be a man of God, going God's way, doing God's will.\" \n\n## CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT \n\n### MODERN MIRACLE IN CHINA \n\n#### Acclaimed By World \n\n#### SECRET OF SUCCESSES AGAINST JAPANESE AGGRESSION \n\n#### FAMOUS STATESMAN INTERVIEWED \n\nA distinguished visitor to Hong Kong at the present time is Mr. Chen Shu-Yen, a former Governor of Kwangtung Province under Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's regime and now holding an important post in the Executive Yuan of the National Government of China at Nanking. Mr. Chen is the President of the Commission of Overseas Affairs in Nanking and is on his way to Manila personally to convey the thanks of the Central Government to the Chinese of the Philippines for their generous help to the mother country during the present crisis as well as at other times since the National Government was inaugurated. This will be Mr. Chen's first visit to Manila and he is keenly looking forward to it. He is accompanied by Mr. Lee How Chu, a former Chinese Consul-General in Manila, and Mr. Liu Yik Lung, his private secretary. \n\nMr. Chen, in addition to being a Chinese Statesman of repute, is an artist of international distinction. Specimens of his work are to be found in the national academies of practically every European nation. In China, he is recognised as one of the country's greatest living painters. \n\nA man of charming personality, Mr. Chen is one of those many great men of China who are the very personification of simplicity and when a \"Daily Press\" representative visited him on the Victoria on October 22 he received the pressman with all the charm and cordiality usually accorded to an old friend. That is the secret of the popularity of Chinese statesmen the world over. Mr. Chen freely discussed the Sino-Japanese war without minimising the gravity of the situation so far as China is concerned, unhesitatingly declared that with the goodwill of the world the Chinese people had every confidence of emerging victorious from the ordeal through which the country was passing. \n\n### \"NOT MAKING BOAST\" \n\n\"In saying this I am not making a mere boast,\" said Mr. Chen. \"After travelling about a great deal in China and seeing the effects of the recent Japanese bombings in our different cities, I have come to the firm conclusion that never in the history of our country has the spirit of the people been finer than it is to-day. In the bombed areas, tragic as has been the fate of thousands of men, women, and children, the masses are firmly behind the Government. They realise that the Central Government is fighting a people's battle and they realise fully what would be the fate of China if the Japanese were allowed to have their way.\" \n\nAsked whether the Japanese would attempt to capture Canton and Hainan, Mr. Chen said: \"For three months the Japanese have made no headway in Shanghai and they have done very little in North China. One would think that the battle line was already long enough for Japan. The longer they take the harder they make things for themselves. However, China is prepared for all eventualities and I dare say the Kwangtung authorities will know how to deal with whatever situation develops in this part.\" \n\n### LONG RESISTANCE \n\nMr. Chen is of the opinion that resistance against Japanese aggression will last for a long time and China was naturally placing a good deal of hope on the Nine-Power talks. He believes that if sanctions were applied against the Japanese the latter was bound to collapse sooner or later while China had power to resist for an indefinite period. \n\n\"If Japan were now to express willingness to declare an armistice would China agree?\" asked the pressman. \n\n\"I cannot, of course, speak for the Government,\" replied Mr. Chen, \"but I am sure the will of the people of China is that no peace would be acceptable to them except it be peace with honour. By that I mean that every account would have to be settled between the two nations. We are, after all, fighting for our territorial integrity.\" \n\n### SECRET OF SUCCESS \n\n\"That is the secret of our success so far,\" proceeded Mr. Chen. \"Has not the world acclaimed Chinese resistance a miracle? How has that been possible? It has only been possible owing to the courage and dauntless spirit of our troops at the front and the unity and self-sacrifice of the civilian population in the face of the most damnable brutality in the shape of death raining from the skies. Right through this terrible period there has not been one complaint from the masses, and I can assure you that the more ruthless and cruel the Japanese grow, the stronger will grow the unity of the people and the greater their determination to help the Government.\" \n\nPage 110\nPage 111",
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        "content_text": "# Japan\n\n## Foreign Affairs\n\nFollowing the introduction in the United States Senate of two resolutions, the first being that of the 11th July for an embargo on exports to Japan, and the second being Senator Vandenberg's motion of the 18th July for the abrogation of the Commercial Agreement of 1911 with Japan, the Administration suddenly announced on the 26th July its own decision to abrogate the treaty by executive action. Despite attempts to explain away this move, the news was received with something like consternation in Japan.\n\n### Nuremberg Congress\n\n#### Germany\n\n253. On the 18th July, envoys representing the Japanese army, navy, and commerce and industry left to attend the Nuremberg Congress on the invitation of the German Government.\n\n### German-Japanese Trade Agreement\n\n254. On the 28th July, a trade agreement between the two countries was provisionally signed in Berlin, subject to formal ratification by both Governments.\n\n### Occupied Areas\n\n#### China\n\n255. On the 10th July, Wang Ching-wei issued a statement urging the desirability of peace between Japan and China. This was timed to coincide with the meeting at Tsingtao of the Joint Commission of the North and Central China régimes. There were rumours that Wang would shortly be asked to become the head of a unified régime in China.\n\n### Military Operations\n\n256. Chungking was again bombed by Japanese naval aircraft on the 6th, 24th, and 31st July, the last mentioned being the tenth raid of the war. The United States Government, on the 10th July, made a strong protest to the Japanese Government regarding damage to United States property in previous raids on Chungking.\n\n257. After the issue on the 16th July of a warning to third-Power nationals, Japanese forces began on the 18th a blockade of Swabue.\n\n258. The Pearl River was closed by the Japanese military authorities for two weeks from the 28th July.\n\n### Foreign Interests\n\n259. On the 11th July, the Kulangsu Municipal Council rejected the Japanese demands for reform of the administration of the settlement. Japanese obstruction of food and fuel supplies to the settlement continued and drew a sharp protest from the United States Government on the 17th July.\n\n### U.S.S.R.\n\n#### Departure of Soviet Chargé d'Affaires\n\n260. On the 6th July, M. Smetanin, Soviet Chargé d'Affaires, departed for Moscow, leaving the embassy in charge of the second secretary.\n\n#### Mongolia\n\n261. The fighting on the Mongolian frontier continued. Important Japanese offensives appear to have been launched on the 3rd and 25th July, and in the opinion of competent observers, the Japanese had by the end of the month succeeded in driving back the Mongolian and Soviet forces to the line of the River Halha. There was a continuation of fighting in the air, in which the Japanese, as usual, claimed striking successes. They admitted, however, that on the 16th July, hostile aircraft had succeeded in bombing the important railway centre of Fularki.\n\n### Saghalien\n\n262. Friction continued over the alleged Russian pressure on Japanese oil and coal interests in Saghalien. On the 24th July, the Soviet Government rejected a protest which had been made by the Japanese Ambassador on the subject on the 29th July.\n\n### General Policy\n\n263. Statements of policy were made by Baron Hiranuma on the 6th July to the press, and on the 20th to the Asia Development Committee. The Prime Minister's language was, as usual, inconclusive, but his references to foreign affairs and to the external situation generally were less unfavourable from the British point of view than might have been expected. Reports from confidential sources indicated that he was personally strongly opposed to a military alliance with Germany and Italy. At the same time, there was reason to believe at the end of the month that a further effort would shortly be made by the extremist elements to secure a reconsideration of the alliance proposal.\n\n## Internal Affairs\n\n264. In spite of preoccupation with the conduct of the campaign in China, and with the complex international situation, the Japanese Government are not unmindful of the numerous problems which require attention at home, and consideration is now being given to certain important proposals.\n\n265. In the first place, it seems possible that a scheme for the formation of a separate Ministry of Trade may materialise in the near future. That is not a new idea, as it has been felt for many years past that there would be advantages in combining under one roof the various bureaux or sections devoted to matters of trade now existing in the Ministries for Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Industry, Agriculture and Forestry, Finance, and Overseas Affairs. The complex machinery of trade control which has been brought into being has rendered centralisation more important than ever, and it is understood from press reports that the Cabinet have agreed in principle that something must be done. The Planning Board has accordingly been asked to draw up a scheme, which is now receiving attention.\n\n266. Secondly, it appears that the matter of a thorough reform of the taxation system of the country, both as regards central and provincial taxes, will probably form the subject of discussion at the next session of the Diet. It is felt that the present system of taxation is too antiquated, and that as a result of temporary expedients in the way of increases in taxation, it has become excessively complicated, with the natural result that the burden of taxation is unequally distributed. It is proposed, therefore, to introduce a radical reform with the object of equalising the incidence of taxation among different classes of the people and of giving elasticity to, and simplifying, the system as a whole. A sub-committee of the Taxation System Enquiry Commission is engaged upon an examination of the problem, and it has been stated in the press that their aim is to secure an increase in revenue of the amount of 500 million yen.\n\n267. The Government is also taking steps to put into effect certain provisions for a Law for the Control of the Distribution of Rice, which was passed during the last session of the Diet. The object of this measure is to discourage speculation in rice and to guard against any abnormal increase in price owing to war conditions. The law provides, inter alia, for the establishment of a Japan Rice Company, which will operate markets for dealings in the cereal, these markets taking the place of the existing rice exchanges, which will be abolished.\n\n### Anniversary of the Loukowkiao Incident\n\n268. The 7th July was observed in Japan as a day of self-denial. The people had been urged to shun amusements and to take only the simplest meals. Notices were displayed in the streets with the slogan: \"One soup, one dish,\" and the consumption of alcoholic drinks and smoking were deprecated. Cafés and bars closed for the day, and cinemas and theatres closed at P.M. The brilliant neon lights so dear to the Japanese heart were extinguished, and it is reported that the Yoshiwara was deserted.\n\n269. On the evening of the 6th July, the Prime Minister gave a press interview, in the course of which the Government's aims and intentions for the conclusion of the China incident were restated.\n\nPage 50\nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "# 97\n\n\n4 \n\nOut similar heavy air raids any number of times to wreck Chengtu, Kweilin, Kunming and all other cities still held by General Chiang Kai-shek, until he was left without any city to which he could flee.\n\n## Central China Bank\n\n176. The commercial counsellor to His Majesty's Embassy was informed on the 1st May at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs that the Central China Bank, the establishment of which at Shanghai was formally announced on that day, was not intended to constitute an attack on the Chinese national currency, which its notes would supplement but not replace; there would be no trade or exchange control or other measures of compulsion regarding the acceptance of the bank's notes. The same subject was raised by His Majesty's Ambassador with the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 8th May, when Sir Robert Craigie explained that His Majesty's Government must regard the bank's establishment as potentially detrimental not only to the stability of the Chinese currency but to the economic structure of China; he accordingly requested an official reply to certain enquiries which he wished to make on the subject. On the 11th May an assurance was received from the Asia Development Board repeating the explanation already given to the commercial counsellor at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The reply to the enquiry made by His Majesty's Ambassador, which was received on the 17th May, amplified these assurances by providing detailed information regarding the scope of the new bank. On the following day, the question was taken up by the French Ambassador, who requested similar assurances to those which had already been asked for by His Majesty's Ambassador.\n\n## Shanghai\n\n177. On the 3rd May, the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs addressed to His Majesty's Ambassador and to the United States Ambassador a long statement, which was subsequently published, regarding the need for changes in the constitution of the Shanghai Municipal Council and of the district court if satisfactory arrangements were to be made for the suppression of terrorism and the avoidance of friction between the council and the Japanese authorities. In reply to these representations, the United States Ambassador stated on the 13th May that his Government could not discuss the proposed changes at present in view of the abnormal situation existing in the settlement at Shanghai. At the same time, Mr. Grew drew Mr. Arita's attention to certain press reports and stated that he would regard the usurpation by any Power of the rights and duties of the duly constituted authorities of the settlement as a deliberate impairment of United States rights. In reply, the Minister for Foreign Affairs stated categorically that Japan had no intention whatsoever of occupying the International Settlement. On the 19th May, His Majesty's Ambassador spoke to the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs on the same lines, and the French Ambassador made similar representations on the 22nd May.\n\n178. At the same time, the Shanghai Municipal Council showed their willingness to go as far as possible to meet the Japanese attitude by publishing on the 12th May a joint declaration, signed also by the French Concession authorities, stressing the absolute neutrality of the areas under their control and prohibiting all political activities in them.\n\n## Kulangsu\n\n179. On the 12th May, Japanese naval forces were landed in the International Settlement on the island of Kulangsu, opposite Amoy, to seek the assassins of the pro-Japanese president of the Amoy Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Hung Li Hsiun. In reply to a protest which he made on the 16th May against this landing, His Majesty's Ambassador was informed that the landing was an emergency measure taken to suppress anti-Japanese acts of assassination, but that the landing party had largely realised their aim and were already effecting a gradual withdrawal. Sir Robert Craigie's representations were supported by the United States and French Ambassadors on the 17th and 19th May respectively. Meanwhile, the three interested Powers had concentrated warships at Amoy, and on the 17th May, British and American naval contingents, each equal in size to the Japanese naval forces already in the settlement, were landed at Kulangsu under the command of the Commander-in-chief, China; a French contingent of the same strength followed very shortly afterwards. Japanese naval authorities retaliated on the 24th May by issuing an order that no ships of third nations should pass between the island and the mainland without receiving permission from themselves, the object of this measure being to constitute a blockade of the International Settlement, at any rate so far as concerned traffic in junks. On the 26th May, His Majesty's Ambassador in China arrived and spent a few days, before proceeding to Shanghai, in assisting in the discussions proceeding between the consular representatives of the four Powers concerned for measures to be taken to ensure the elimination of terrorism from the settlement. Agreement had not yet been reached by the end of the month.\n\n## U.S.S.R.\n\n180. In a communiqué published on the 29th May, the Japanese Kwangtung army referred to a series of clashes which had been proceeding for several days between Outer Mongolian troops and Japanese and Manchukuo forces in the neighbourhood of Nomonhan, and stated that fifty-nine hostile aircraft had been brought down during rather more than a week. The Japanese press universally ascribed these skirmishes to the instigation of the U.S.S.R.\n\n## General: Japanese Policy\n\n181. In statements issued on the 5th and again on the 22nd May, the Prime Minister, Baron Hiranuma, emphasised that Japanese diplomacy is, as always, based on 'morality rather than selfish interests, and that its mission in international affairs is to indoctrinate other nations with the same idea. A grasping policy might be pursued for a short period of ten or twenty years, but retribution would come swiftly and surely. No nation should be influenced by consideration of its own interests alone, lest it stray from the right path. Japan must check those countries attempting to disturb the peace of the world and join hands with those nations which shared her task. The China incident had not been aggression, but it meant that the national destiny of present and future generations was bound up in the future course of events in China. The objective of Japan's guiding political principles was the realisation of the justice of Heaven and Earth and the expression of the Divine Will.\n\n## Position of the Government\n\n## HOME AFFAIRS\n\n182. In spite of a good deal of criticism for their failure to announce concrete details regarding their policy vis-à-vis Europe and regarding the expected new measures for dealing with the China incident, the position of the Government still seems fairly secure, if only for the reason that there is no suitable candidate for the post of Prime Minister if Baron Hiranuma were to resign. The annual conference of prefectural Governors, which of late years has grown in importance as giving the Government an opportunity of explaining their policies in a more informal and less constrained atmosphere than that of the Diet, was held during the first week of May. The Prime Minister's opening speech was merely a rehash of his address at the opening of the Diet, and this, together with the vagueness of the addresses by the other ministers, led to attacks both by the press and by the Governors themselves. In view of the sharp divergence of opinion known to exist among the members of the Cabinet regarding the strengthening of the Anti-Comintern Pact, there was reason to believe that a Cabinet crisis was imminent, but a series of conferences of the \"key\" ministers was followed by the announcement on the 21st May that a final decision in regard to policy vis-à-vis Europe had been made and submitted to the throne. Statements about the nature of the decision were sufficiently vague to raise the hopes both of those who advocated and of those who opposed the strengthening of the Anti-Comintern Pact, and in many of the papers, the hope has been expressed that now that the Government has settled the question of Europe and their policy, they will be able to get on with the more important problem of the incident.\n\n## Selection of a President for the Seiyukai\n\n183. As has been explained, feelings on this question among members of the party rose so high that the reformist group who favour the candidacy of Mr. Nakajima went to the length of occupying the party headquarters in Tokyo.\n\n# 98 \n  \n1",
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        "document_key": "CO129-578-6 Cost of living figures 11-2-1939 - 13-1-1940",
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        "title": "CO129-578-6 Cost of living figures 11-2-1939 - 13-1-1940",
        "content_text": "3\n\n千\n\nTo Treas. (w/e 3). B2b\n\n126\n\n20.4.39.\n\n5 NX 377.\n\ncost of living figure\n\nas west\n\n31.5.39.\n\nAs compared with the figures for 1/1/39, rent\n\nShows an increase\n\n6\n\nAK.\n\nadditional\n\n3 water\n\nwhilst there is an\n\nchange.\n\nFood however\n\nshows a\n\nvery slight\n\ndecrease.\n\nA total rise of approximately $9.\n\nThe\n\nsteady\n\nrise in the cost of living figures\n\nSince\n\n1/7/36\n\nis apparent from the graph; the\n\nrise is not a\n\nsharp one.\n\nOne\n\ncopy is enclosed to Mr. Proctor\n\nToy.\n\nwith compliments slip up. (8).\n\nA.N. Galsworthy\n\nTo P.D. Proctor (w/c encl. to 5)\n\n3.7.39.\n\n12 A",
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        "document_key": "CO129-579-2 Sino-Japanese War- attack on British ship S.S. Sagres 9-4-1939 - 13-7-1939",
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        "title": "CO129-579-2 Sino-Japanese War- attack on British ship S.S. Sagres 9-4-1939 - 13-7-1939",
        "content_text": "36\n\nMESSAGE.\n\nIN.\n\nDate\n\n3/5/39.\n\nRecd 1954.\n\nFrom B.E. Shanghai.\n\n31\n\nF.O. Cypher M..\n\nFollowing message is repeated to Admiralty for information\n\nAddressed C. in C. China from British Embassy, Shanghai.\n\nFollowing from Foochow. Begins - Addressed\n\nEmbassy Tel.72 2nd May British Ship LALITA appears to\n\nhave been seized by Japanese off Sharp Peak near\n\nMATLUMO Island April 27th. It was then seen being\n\nescorted by Japanese ship and has not arrived (?Sha)\n\nCheng where it was due April 28th. It is chartered by\n\nChinese Government company principally for tea transport.\n\nEnds.\n\nBroadmead.\n\n1st Lord.\n\n1st S.L.\n\n2nd S.L.\n\n3rd S.L.\n\n4th S.L.. 5th S.L.\n\nD.C.N.S. (3). A.C.N.S. (P). S.C.N.O. CIVIL LORD.\n\n3.0.\n\nNAVAL SEC. P.M.5.(S). D.N.I. (3). D. of P. (3).\n\nD.S.D. 9. D.T.C. (3).\n\nTrade Division (2). Foreign Office) To be War Office\n\nAir Ministry\n\nCopy sent by\n\nM. Br.\n\n1855/2.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940",
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        "title": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940",
        "content_text": "78\n\n20\n\nI discussed the question of the construction of this railway with the British Ambassador in Tokyo, and, after I had explained the situation to him, he said that he would not offer any objection to the construction of the railway, though no doubt the Japanese would object, but that he thought that their objection would before long be forgotten.\n\n73. I understand from the Minister of Communications at Chungking that the agreement has been signed with the French for the new railway from Yunnan to Indo-China, and that the French would be prepared to allow British participation in this line, if the British would give them participation in the Burma-Yunnan line. This arrangement could not, of course, be carried through unless the latter line were to be built right through to Lashio. From this point of view also I think that it is important that the work should be undertaken, as it is not desirable to have a French monopoly of railway transport in Yunnan.\n\n74. Of all the single acts that could be done, at this time, to improve Sino-British relations, a decision to go forward with the construction of the railway in Burma would, I believe, be the most effective, and would be repaid a hundredfold in the subsequent development of Sino-British trade. From the Chinese point of view we hold it in our power to grant or withhold this absolutely vital facility, and if we withhold it they will think that we are not interested in the rightness of their cause or in the maintenance of their independence, and in the future they will have no particular regard for British interests.\n\n(3) Water.\n\n75. The main arteries of trade in China have always been the rivers, particularly the Yangtze, which is still largely used for traffic from the east up to Chungking and beyond. Regular steamer services are still in operation, when there is sufficient water in the river, from Ichang to Chungking, and a great deal of material comes through by this route from the eastern provinces, particularly raw cotton, though precisely how it gets through to Ichang it is difficult to say. There is also a great deal of local transport upon the upper sections of the Yangtze and other rivers, such as the Yellow River, by junks and sampans. A good deal of coal, sugar, molasses and similar goods are so transported, but the areas in Western China which can be served by such transport are limited, and in the most westerly and northerly regions water transport is of no account.\n\n(4) Motor Trucks.\n\n76. These have perforce become the substitute for railway transport in the west, and this fact creates great difficulty in gasoline supplies. The distances are so great and the roads so mountainous in many areas that a truck will use up a considerable portion of its capacity in transporting enough gasoline for its own use. For instance, on the north-west highway from the Russian rail-head to Lanchow and back a motor truck will use more than its own load of gasoline, and consequently such through traffic is a practical impossibility as a regular feature. Appendix 15 deals with this matter to some extent.\n\n77. The two main highways are the Yunnan-Burma and the north-west, a portion of which is in Sinkiang, and this section is dealt with in the Sinkiang section of this report. In addition there is a highway from Kunming to Chungking, and from the latter town to Chengtu and on to Lanchow through Paoki, with auxiliary roads to Sian and Ningsia. The road to Indo-China has now been cut by the Japanese at Nanning and so is no longer available beyond that point, but a new road, avoiding Nanning and Pinyang, is being put through and will be completed about the beginning of May. I attach a map(*) which is the most up-to-date I could get of the road system.\n\n78. An immense volume of traffic is carried over these highways, of which at present the Burma-Yunnan is the most important, as it provides the only effective source of external supplies for South-West China apart from the Indo-China Railway. On this highway, owing to steep gradients and high altitudes, the average load of a truck is between 1 and 2 tons. Transhipment is necessary in almost every case at a point about 30 miles within the Chinese border, since neither the Burmese nor Chinese lorries run through over the whole route. This leads to a good deal of unnecessary handling of goods and a certain amount of irritation and delay. Negotiations have been proceeding between the Chinese and Burmese Governments with regard to the granting of reciprocal permission for the lorries of the two nationalities to run over each other's roads. I do not know whether these have yet been concluded, but the difficulty that stood in the way was created by the firms who had sold lorries to the Burmese on hire-purchase terms and were afraid that they might not see their money back unless a monopoly of transport on the Burmese side was granted to their customers. This difficulty certainly ought to be overcome as it is creating quite unnecessarily a handicap for the Chinese.\n\nThe other road inside Burma which might be of considerable use to the Chinese is that which runs from Bhamo, past Lowing, joining the Burma-Yunnan highway at the 105th mile-post east of Lashio. Bhamo is the head of the main Irrawaddy navigation, and transport by river from Rangoon to Bhamo is very much cheaper than by railway to Lashio. At the present time the Lowing factory obtains its material and supplies, including gasoline, by river to Bhamo and thence by road. This road is about 70 miles long and the present junction with the Burma-Yunnan highway is about 40 miles from Lowing. The latter section, over which we drove to Lowing, has good bridges, but in parts is not in good condition for heavy traffic, while the former section is narrow and contains many sharp bends, which make it difficult for heavy traffic, though a considerable amount has, in fact, been passed over it. It is stated that this road is kept in a bad condition so as to force the traffic over the railway to Lashio, which is more remunerative for the Burmese Government. Whether this is so or not, it would seem most desirable to improve this road so that the alternative route from Rangoon by river to Bhamo is available to the Chinese Government. A new road is now under construction from Lowing direct to the Burma-Yunnan highway, entirely inside Chinese territory, and if the Bhamo road were improved to Lowing this would enable the traffic to pass along that route and direct on into China. The river at Lowing is not bridged except temporarily in dry weather, but there is an adequate ferry service, and, if necessary, an international bridge could be constructed at this point. I deal with the problem of gasoline supply at the end of this section.\n\n(5) Hand Trucks.\n\n79. This is a recent development so far as large-scale transport is concerned. No trucks are allowed on the main Central Government highways unless they have pneumatic tyres, though this does not apply to the portion of the north-west road that is in Sinkiang. As a result a number of trucks have been built with old motor-wheels which are capable of carrying up to a ton or slightly more, and are drawn by man-power. This is a slow form of transport but has the great advantage of not requiring gasoline supplies. I attach a copy of a note(*) on this subject which I submitted to the Generalissimo dealing with the possibilities of this form of transport. The Government are already constructing in Kunming steel-frame trucks with pneumatic tyres for utilisation on the Burma road. It would be of great assistance if facilities could be given at Lashio or some other point in Burma for the construction of such trucks, and if arrangements could be made for sending second-hand or cheap new axles, motor-wheels and tyres to Rangoon for use on these trucks. If the system suggested in my note could be organised and developed a great saving could be effected in gasoline, and if truck construction were to be started in Burma it would establish a useful industry which would be likely to continue for a long time. This form of transport, once it is regularly established, is likely to persist for many years to come in Western China, since, compared with carriage by individual coolies, it effects a considerable economy in man-power and enables large and heavy packages to be transported in a much more convenient way. It would, at best, be a very long time before it could be substituted by motor transport methods, especially in the more remote districts.\n\n(6), (7), (8). Pony and Bullock-Drawn Carts, Pack Trains and Camel Caravans, Coolie Carriers.\n\n80. These are the traditional methods of transport in China. In Yunnan practically only coolie transport is in evidence, though there are occasional pack trains of ponies or bullocks in the west. In Szechuan there are more ponies, but\n\n(*) Not printed.\n\n21\n\n79",
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        "content_text": "3rd January, 1941.\n\nDear Reeve Wallace,\n\nWith reference to the application for leave to appeal in forma pauperis by one Li Hung Fui, of which I understand you have received notice from Sharp Pritchard & Co., we shall not instruct Burchells until the petition is actually presented. In the meantime, perhaps you would inform Sharp Pritchard & Co. that the sentence has been respited, but that this is not indefinite and we expect them to present the petition and to pursue their appeal promptly.\n\nWe have, as you know, had great delays over some of these cases, and we are determined here to do what we can to minimise them.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nW. Reeve Wallace, Esq., C.B.E.\n\n6",
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        "content_text": "53846/40 34\n\n29\n\nBURMA OFFICE,\n\nWHITEHALL\n\nLONDON, S.W.1.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n1.2405/40\n\nSecret.\n\n28 MAY 1940\n\nY\n\n27th May, 1940.\n\n24\n\nAnd (32)\n\nDear Sant\n\nYour letter of 22nd May No. 53846/40 about the four commercial transport planes for the assembly of which at Hong Kong the Inter-Continent Corporation asked permission to use the Government aerodrome. As assembly in Hong Kong for export to China is not permissible, the alternative of sending the four machines in an unassembled state through Burma to the Corporation's factory at Loiwing seems clearly worth considering: there can, so far as we can see, be no possible political objection to this course: it should be perfectly feasible unless any of the packages comprising parts of the unassembled machines are so long as to create difficulties on some of the sharp re-entrants on the Bhamo-Loiwing mountain road. But this is a trans-port problem of which the people in charge at Loiwing have ample experience.\n\nIf this plan is adopted it would be well that the Government of Hong Kong should inform the Government of Burma, Defence Department, of the relevant facts when the machines are shipped from Hong Kong to Rangoon.\n\nA copy of this letter is being sent to Ashley Clarke at the Foreign Office and L. G. S. Reynolds at the Air Ministry.\n\nYours sincerely\n\nQ.J. Curley\n\nG.E.J.Gent, Esq.\n\nD.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.,\n\nColonial Office.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950",
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        "title": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950",
        "content_text": "# UNITED KINGDOM TRADE COMMISSIONER\n\n**COPY FOR Colonial Office**\n\nBR 747 8/49  \nOTHER REF: 239  \n306 Queen's Building  \nHONG KONG  \n31st March, 1949.\n\n**Overseas Trade \"B\" No. 139.**\n\nCopied to:-\n- Export Credits Guarantee Dept. No.10.\n- Embassy, Shanghai No. 27.\n- The Under-Secretary, Commercial Relations & Exports Department, Board of Trade, Millbank, London, S.W.1.\n\n**RECEIVED**  \n16 APR 1949 COLONIAL OFFICE\n\nSir,\n\n**1949/1950 Budget Speech.**  \nRef: C.T.\"E\" No. 115 of 21st March (RC 2174)\n\nFurther to my despatch C.T.\"E\" No. 115 of the 21st March, which covers certain observations made by His Excellency the Governor on 15th March, I now have pleasure in enclosing herewith three full press copies of the recent Budget Speech delivered by the Financial Secretary.\n\n2. The salient points therein appear to be as follows.\n\n3. A resume of the closing fiscal year showed that the revised estimate of revenue is $184,000,000, and of expenditure $160,000,000; leaving an anticipated $24,000,000 surplus. The revised revenue figure is $32,500,000 above the approved estimate which, at the time, was hypothecated by the falling off of trade which has not materialised. Indeed, a record trading year for the Colony has been reflected in revenue collections which are expected to exceed estimates, thus offsetting the sharp fall in tobacco duty receipts (those receipts, estimated at $25,000,000, allowed for a $5,000,000 drop consequent on certain duty-paid stocks being exported to Far Eastern areas where various Government customs authorities were unable to exercise their full functions), together with other local factors causing collections to just top $17,000,000.\n\n4. Receipts from rates and licences and postal revenue were highly satisfactory; the receipts from stamp duty being impressive. The tax on the increment on the value of property to the end of February totalled $16,639,000; the collections of the first half of the year predominated, since from the end of September, due to a change in the tax basis and fewer properties being sold, receipts had markedly declined.\n\n5. Kowloon-Canton Railway earnings are expected to exceed expectations by $1,500,000, this despite the decline in goods traffic due to reduced imports into South China.\n\n6. Earnings and Profits Tax receipts reached the estimated $40,000,000.\n\n7. The revised expenditure figure is thus slightly less than $9,750,000 over the estimate, the excess being occasioned largely by payment to Government personnel who remained and were not interned in the Colony, as approved towards the end of the fiscal year 1947/1948. Since it had not proved possible to totally discharge such payments by March 31st 1948, a Special Warrant for the first quarter of 1948 had been issued in the sum of $9,000,000.",
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        "title": "CO129-608-2 Police Department- European inspectorate 18-2-1948 - 8-1-1949",
        "content_text": "54144/3B/48\n\nPRIORITY\n\nSAVING\n\nFrom the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nTo the Officer Administering the Government of HONG KONG\n\nDate 14 September 1948.\n\nNo. 922\n\n1.\n\nSAVING.\n\nMy telegram No. 742.\n\nPolice Inspectorate.\n\nof 28 Palestine Officers originally selected for transfer to Hong Kong Inspectorate in consultation with Mr. Macintosh, two have declined and seven have been offered and have accepted gazetted appointments in Malaya, whose priority needs at present I am sure you will recognize.\n\n2. Of the 19 who have accepted transfer to Hong Kong, J. Duffy, M. W. Gingles, T. F. Harney, S. Mackenzie, C. G. March, T.K. Malynn, H. V. McCreton, D. F. Morris, N.K.I. O'Reilly, A. G. Rose, E. C. Sharp, J.B. Smith, and E. H. Wells, have already left this country by sea or air, D. G. Carty, and A. A. Bagott will leave by air on the 17th and 24th September respectively, and Anderson, J. O'Connor, T. Kavanagh and W. Roach will leave as soon as passages can be arranged.\n\n3.\n\nPalestine Police Office has been asked to recommend officers to fill nine remaining vacancies. Do you agree we should proceed immediately to appoint on this basis? Or would you prefer, reference paragraph 3 of your telegram No. 510, that candidates should be interviewed by Mr. Pennefather-Evans before offers are made? If the latter, I will approach Mr. Pennefather-Evans. Please telegraph reply.\n\nSCER.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-608-2 Police Department- European inspectorate 18-2-1948 - 8-1-1949",
        "page_number": 59,
        "title": "CO129-608-2 Police Department- European inspectorate 18-2-1948 - 8-1-1949",
        "content_text": "C.O.\n\nDraft\n\nFile No.\n\n*SAVINGRAM\n\nTELEGRAM/*PRIORITY\n\n*The word Priority may be entered here, if necessary.\n\nTo:--Gwen Hy Komp\n\nC. Mr. Wollan 9/9 m Size 10/9\n\nRepeated to:- R. 13 SEP\n\nD. 13. MT. Boyle 10/9\n\nMr. Shute 11/9 for Wallace. 11/9\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nS. of S.\n\nPriority:- Nil. Important. Immediate Most Imme\n\n54144/339 Sent. hours. .194...........\n\nReply urgently required.\n\nTo be transmittedy In Clear Code Lypher 922\n\nNo. Restricted. Confidential. Secret. Top Secret and Personal.\n\n(21)\n\nMy telegram no. 742 Police Inspectorate 1. of 28 Palestine piens\n\nDistribution:- Please make 2 copies for of My Sneed.\n\nFurther action:- passage B.U. / week to ascertain last four posalina of para 2.\n\nWt. 15855/740 5m 6.48 Wa. & Co. 51/3\n\noriginally selected in transfer 5thing King Inspectorate in consultation with\n\nIn MacIntosh, two have declined and seven have been offered and have accepted\n\nin Malaya at present recognise\n\n{\n\ngazetted appointments whose priority needs\n\nI C\n\nsme you will\n\n2. Of the & Dong\n\n19 who have accepted\n\nSECRET\n\ntransfer Komy, J. DUFFY, MW.GINGLES T.F. HARNEY, S.MACKENZIE, CL. MARCH, T.K MALYNNIL RDE MORRIS, EK,I. O'REILLY, AGROSE, E.C. SHARP, D.B. SAY, TH and EH, WELLS have whandy left this country by sen or air, DC CARTY, and AA. BAGGOTT wel leave by and anthe 1th and with Sept. respectively, and AAA A. ANDERSON, J. O'CONNOR\n\nJ. T. KAVANAGH and W. ROACH will leave as son as passage can be arranged.\n\n3. Palestine Police Office has been asked to recommend Micens",
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        "page_number": 74,
        "title": "CO129-608-2 Police Department- European inspectorate 18-2-1948 - 8-1-1949",
        "content_text": "IN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE\n\nNo. K.9/11802.\n\nTHE PALESTINE POLICE\n\nCIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER.\n\nReed.\n\n(U/143/48)\n\n71 15\n\nHEADQUARTERS,\n\nTHE PALESTINE POLICE FORCE,\n\nJERUSALEM.\n\n29/4\n\n28th April, 1948.\n\n1 SHAY 1000\n\nWith reference to the Secretary of State's telegram (10) No.1318 of the 8th April, 1948, regarding vacancies for sub-Inspectors of Police in Hong Kong, I forward herewith letters of acceptance and medical certificates in respect of the personnel named hereunder:-\n\nB/Inspector Smith.D.B. Head Constable Sharp.E.C. No.2829 1/B/Sgt.Jones. No.2876 1/B/Sgt.Carty. No. 526 2/B/Sgt.Murphy. No.2900 1/B/Sgt.Jeffries. No. 345 2/B/Sgt. Morris. No.2939 2/B/Sgt.Baggott. No.1025 1/B/Sgt. Kavanagh. No. 707 1/B/Sgt.Wells. No. 162 2/B/Sgt.Craig. No. 92/B/Sgt.Anderson. No. 842 1/B/Sgt.Southey. No.1698 1/B/Sgt.Wharrie. No. 524 2/B/Sgt.Brooks. No.2865 1/B/Sgt.O'Reilly. No.4250 2/B/Sgt.Scott. No. 395 2/B/Sgt.Roach. No.4241 2/B/Sgt. March. No.1586 2/B/Sgt.Gingles. No.1240 1/B/Sgt.Kyle. declined No. 258 2/B/Sgt. Harney. No.2870 2/B/Sgt.Malynn. No.1557 2/B/Sgt.Mackenzie.\n\nSergeants Kavanagh, Malynn, Southey and Wharrie sail for the United Kingdom on or about the 6th May and the remainder will follow on the 13th May.\n\nThis covering stowid I think\n\nAllu\n\n44/3 283/48\n\nFILMING 46 Latthums 16\n\n58225\n\n19/5/48\n\n(F.C.MATTHEWS)\n\nfor Inspector General.",
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        "content_text": "54144/3B/48.\n\n7513\n\nPay Department,\n\nCrown Agents for the Colonies.\n\nWith reference to our telephone conversation of the 7th May we append a list of Palestine Police personnel who have been recommended by the Palestine Government for transfer to the Hong Kong Police Department.\n\nWe have 28 vacancies to fill and the first 28 officers on the list will be offered appointment. We should be grateful to receive any information you may have regarding the dates of arrival in the United Kingdom of any of these officers, their latest addresses and the amount of leave to which they are entitled in respect of their Palestine service.\n\n1. Inspector D.B.Smith\n\n2. Head Constable E.C.Sharp\n\n3. Sergeant G.E.F.Southey\n\n4. Sergeant A.G.Wharrie\n\n5. Sergeant K. Jones\n\n6. Sergeant R.T.Broeks\n\n7. Sergeant D.J.Carty\n\n8. Sergeant B.E.Wadetsy\n\n9. Sergeant J. Murphy\n\n10. Sergeant K.O'Reilly\n\n11. Sergeant A.S.Jeffrie",
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        "page_number": 93,
        "title": "CO129-608-2 Police Department- European inspectorate 18-2-1948 - 8-1-1949",
        "content_text": "HONG KONG POLICE.\n\nIn order of selection by Palestine Board.\n\nEligible\n\n84\n\n1 Inspector D.B. Smith.\n\n2 Head Constable E.C. Sharp.\n\n3 Sergeant G.E.F. Southey.\n\n4 Sergeant A.C. Wharrie. No P/F\n\n5 Sergeant M. Jones. No P/F\n\n6 Sergeant R.T. Brooks. No P/F\n\n7 Sergeant D.J. Carty. ✓\n\n8 Sergeant B. Wadeley. Transferred to G. Const. In circ. 21/6 5821A\n\n9 Sergeant J. Murphy. No P/F\n\n10 Sergeant K. O'Reilly. No P/F\n\n11 Sergeant A.B. Jefferies. 615963 inches\n\n12 Sergeant J. Duffy. No P/F\n\n13 Sergeant Morris. R.D.F. No P/F\n\n14 Sergeant H.V. McCreton. In Circ. to H. Q. Sitch 29/4 67629 CR\n\n15 Sergeant A.A. Baggott. ✓\n\n16 Sergeant P.J. Scott. No P/F\n\n17 Sergeant A.G. Rose. No P/F\n\n18 Sergeant W. Roach. No P/F\n\n19 Sergeant T. Kavanagh. No P/F\n\n20 Sergeant C.G. March. No P/F\n\n21 Sergeant E.H. Wells. No P/F\n\n22 Sergeant M.W. Gingles. No P/F\n\n23 Sergeant T.F. Harney. No P/F\n\n24 Sergeant W.J. Kyle. No P/F declined\n\n25 Sergeant T.K. Malynn. No P/F\n\n26 Sergeant R.J.W. Craig. No P/F\n\n27 Sergeant D.S. Williams. No P/F\n\n28 Sergeant A.V. Tomlins. No P/F\n\n29 Sergeant S. Mackenzie. ✓\n\n30 Sergeant A. Anderson. No P/F\n\n31 Sergeant J. O'Connor. No P/F",
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        "page_number": 94,
        "title": "CO129-608-2 Police Department- European inspectorate 18-2-1948 - 8-1-1949",
        "content_text": "HONG KONG POLICE.\n\nIn order of selection by Palestine board.\n\nSingle Inspector D.B.Smith.\n\nHead Constable E.C.Sharp.\n\nSergeant G.E.F.Southey. Malaya\n\nSergeant A.C.Wharrie.\n\nSergeant M.Jones. Malaya\n\nSingle Sergeant D.J.Carty. Malaya\n\nSergeant R.T.Brooks. Malaya\n\nSergeant B.E.Wadeley.\n\nSergeant J.Murphy. Malaya\n\nSergeant K.O'Reilly.\n\nSergeant A.D.Jefferies. Malaya\n\nSingle Sergeant J.Duffy.\n\nSergeant Morris.R.D.F.\n\nSergeant H.V.McCreton.\n\nSergeant A.A.Baggott.\n\nSergeant P.J.Scott. declined\n\nSingle Sergeant A.G.Rose.\n\nSergeant W.Roach. Single\n\nSergeant T.Kavanagh. Single\n\nSergeant C.G.March.\n\nSingle Sergeant E.H.Wells.\n\nSergeant M.W.Gingles.\n\nSergeant T.F.Harney.\n\nSergeant J.Kyle. declined\n\nSingle Sergeant T.K.Malynn.\n\nSergeant R.J.W.Craig. Malaya\n\nSergeant D.S.Williams.\n\nSergeant A.V.Tomlins. Single\n\nSergeant S.Mackenzie.\n\nSingle Sergeant A.Anderson.\n\nSergeant J.O'Connor.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-613-8 Reports on Kwang Tung incident 1-2-1948 - 2-6-1948",
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        "title": "CO129-613-8 Reports on Kwang Tung incident 1-2-1948 - 2-6-1948",
        "content_text": "## -2- \n\n16 \n\nThere is insufficient evidence to show what actually started the fire, but the undoubted presence of large quantities of potassium chlorate in personal baggage must be accepted as the primary cause. We admit the evidence of the Government Chemist that this substance is dangerous in itself and also when in contact with other substances, and in such circumstances would probably inflame organic matter while the potassium chlorate itself would decompose forming a white smoke which was referred to by a large majority of the witnesses. We cannot set aside the possibility of mineral acids being contained in passengers' baggage, and where potassium chlorate is concerned the presence of such acids would be sufficient to start a fire.\n\nWe are aware that under the provisions of Section 15 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance of Hongkong, Number 10 of 1899, and again under Section 446 of the United Kingdom Merchant Shipping Act of 1894, it is an offence for any person to carry, or attempt to carry, in any vessel any dangerous goods without so notifying the Master of the vessel. At the same time, and considering this particular trade, we are of the firm opinion that a fuller and more careful examination of passengers' baggage should be enforced by the Authorities concerned with the routine searches for arms and the control of prohibited exports and unmanifested cargo. We are fully aware of the difficulties connected with such closer supervision, for many dangerous goods are not readily recognizable as such.\n\nWe made the following recommendations:- \n\n(a) That passage tickets be sold only at the Company's Offices or by their accredited Agents, and that the practice of issuing such tickets either on the wharf or onboard the vessel should be discontinued without delay.\n\n(b) That when passengers are on board and the vessel alongside a wharf, all cargo port doors on the wharf side should be fully open and provided with railed gangways covering either the full width of the cargo port or where ramps are used then the full width of the ramp. Such doors on the off side should be also open, or partly open, according to the weather prevailing at the time.\n\n(c) That notices in English and Chinese be prominently posted warning all passengers of the dangers and consequences of carrying goods on board which are likely to affect the safety of life and the vessel.\n\n(d) That the various searching units be instructed to keep a sharp watch on the nature of both passengers' baggage and cargo, and if in doubt report the matter to the Master of the vessel and also to their superiors. Furthermore, that where baggage is concerned the search should be carried out at the entrance to the wharf and before passengers are admitted to the wharf. In the detection of dangerous goods, the Authorities are entitled to the fullest co-operation of the Master and Crew who should also maintain a constant and close watch for any goods of a suspicious nature.\n\n(e) That clear passageways at least 3 ft. wide be at all times maintained fore and aft on both sides of the passenger deck, and that all approaches to stairways and gangways be kept clear.\n\nWe deprecate the long-established custom of passengers being allowed to spread their baggage over the deck, but we realise the impracticability of suggesting they be separated from what, in many cases, may constitute their entire possessions by insisting that their baggage be placed in a separate compartment.\n\nIn conclusion, we wish to place on record our high appreciation of the excellent work done by Inspector Arthur George Groves of the Hongkong Police and his unit, ably assisted by Revenue Officer Sui Hin Yit and his men, for their early efforts to control the stampede and their ready assistance to those already in the water.\n\nThe action taken by the officers and men of the Water Police, and the use of searchlights by the Fire Floats, are also to be commended.\n\n**Marine Office, Hongkong.**\n\n14th Feb., 1948.\n\n**(William Sumpter)**  \n**(James Jolly)**  \n**(John Buchanan)**  \n**(Philip Stirling)**  \n**(William Lumsden)**  \nPresident  \nMember  \nMember  \nMember  \nMember",
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        "document_key": "CO129-623-2 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-12-1950 - 31-3-1951",
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        "title": "CO129-623-2 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-12-1950 - 31-3-1951",
        "content_text": "The latest information we have had for H.K. is on 53508/1/1Q1 helms & park 2 of HK til 1272 shows that the number of persons employed in the rubber industry fall from 5,900 in the first quarter to 3,200 in the third quarter. Of the facts in that telegram it would appear that the H.K. traders are unlikely to be able to compete successfully in the U.K. markets unless (a) the price of rubber comes down or (b) the U.K. manufacturers increase their prices.\n\nOn the other part, I agree with the Welles' minute of 20/12. I feel sure the H.K. traders have already explored the possibility of alternative markets.\n\nI also fully support Wille's last paragraph. The U.S.A. notional embargo on goods & materials to H.K. & Chinese retaliation in goods materially to the U.S.A. is bound to have adverse effects on H.K. industry & trade. Attempts to keep H.K. out of the U.K. markets cannot but have further damaging effects on H.K. morale as the South China Morning Post of 11.12.50 states \"H.K.'s fate is to be misunderstood & misrepresented. & prosperity is painted as profligate receiving only, actively undermining, in adversity, just deserts. We are convicted unheard of all manner of sharp practices.\"\n\nThere is another aspect about which I am not very clear. When dealing with the P.Q. I was informed that in the U.K. rubber shoes it was only a secondary industry i.e. the same manufacturers had other major interests e.g. the manufacture of tyres. The same is not the case in H.K. where the loss of markets will probably close the whole factory.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-626-10 Constructions of piers to improve communications 1-2-1950 - 28-2-1951",
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        "content_text": "of this is treated\n\nsupplementary\n\nto the £5000 approved as scheme D124 3\n\nthe total\n\nallocation.\n\n7 £50,000\n\nproposed originally exceeded by £3583.\n\nclear of\n\nthat\n\noriginal grant (no reimbursement\n\nwill be\n\nIt is not\n\nall the\n\nhas been expended.\n\nclaimed to date).\n\npencilled in\n\nAmendment\n\nhas been\n\nI have\n\nproposed\n\nto the Timarcine\n\nSummary.\n\nSun Powere 157,\n\nC. D. W. (D) No 1934\n\n23/1/51\n\n7\n\nTo Sharp (Jsy) - w/ 2 copies (6) - comps\n\n- 23/1/51\n\nTo Abbat (C. Agents). wp scopies (0) -comps - 20/1/51\n\n8 A Extract Toy discussion wife (6)\n\n10.6\n\nmeeting with\n\n1.2 51\n\nwas agreed at yesterday's\n\nThe Treamen. Scheme\n\nthi Shaup arkal\n\ncasement\n\nout\n\nand\n\nwas\n\nThe original £5,000\n\nnumber is\n\nwhat\n\n> 1243A.\n\nwork\n\nhad\n\nbeen\n\nwith\n\nted\n\nthat\n\nw-e\n\nThis\n\nand grind\n\nont\n\nwhether\n\nit had\n\nMain\n\nworld engine about\n\nall of\n\n公\n\n9\n\nbeen spent.\n\nGonceno, stony Kang\n\nHong\n\nIf danclough,\n\n2/2/51\n\nalv\n\n心\n\nKing Sawi\n\ndrat sampai.\n\niremeson\n\nf...\n\nв\n\nC\n\nlo one\n\n212\n\n5 FEB 100\n\n7 FE",
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        "document_key": "CO129-629-11 Manufacture of shirts 1-1-1950 - 30-11-1950",
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        "title": "CO129-629-11 Manufacture of shirts 1-1-1950 - 30-11-1950",
        "content_text": "(flagged 'X' \n\nair 122-53/12)\n\nIn July, 1949, the Acting Commissioner of Labour reported :-\n\n\"The post-war wages position has been generally satisfactory, collective agreements being concluded in almost all local trades. Such agreements would not necessarily preclude the application of the Ordinance, but to obviate such a course by earlier remedial action is obviously preferable. It is with this end in view that surveys of labour conditions (including wages) are now being made by officers of the Labour Department in a number of industries in which women are extensively employed.\n\nAs a possible exception to the generally satisfactory post-war position described above, it may be necessary to set up a Trade Board to deal with wages in the weaving industry, of which women form the major part of the labour force. Prior to the war, an economic balance existed between Japan, Hong Kong and other parts of the world concerned. Since the war however, and before Japan was able to start production, Hong Kong's weaving industry experienced a boom, due largely to the then general world shortage of consumer goods. Whereas in general wages for artisans in Hong Kong are now around three to four times those obtaining pre-war, the boom in the weaving industry resulted in employers paying up to five and six, and even more, times the pre-war wage, which was admittedly low as a result of fierce competition. Female labour in the industry now regard their greatly bettered standard of living as their right, and efforts by manufacturers to reduce wages to meet Japanese competition have met with sharp resistance. An agreement on wages was concluded during the period of the boom. With the increase in competition, some employers have unilaterally abrogated it and have been paying wages which are, judging by other standards in the Colony, too low. Furthermore, the agreement which was fixed shortly after the war, was in force generally for a year only, and has long since lapsed. Efforts to persuade manufacturers to enter into a new agreement have so far proved unavailing. If no voluntary agreement can be reached and if wages remain low, it may be necessary to set up a Trade Board.\n\nNo representations have been received from organisations of employers or workers concerning the application of the Convention.\"\n\n3. There is little doubt that one of the principal difficulties in the way of statutory minimum wages in Hong Kong is the problem of inspection, and the large number of cases where apparently wages are paid partly in kind, i.e. free lodgings and food.\n\nIt seems fairly clear however that only through minimum wage fixing machinery can the general level of wages be raised in this industry. I think it must be remembered however that the effect of any action which we take will not be felt for some time and that even a considerable increase of wages in the industry, e.g. 50%, could not diminish the competitive power of the Hong Kong textile industry to any appreciable extent. On the other hand, it is clearly desirable that we should be able to show that some thing positive is being done\n\n(G. FOGGON) 17/3/50.\n\n13750\n\nwill be loser pl see para 2 (1) of the Sowell Rames min of 8/3 Xof the 5f5', min of 10/3. when we love further information but the probability of diverting these shirts to other colonies, are considered the preparation of\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11",
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        "title": "CO129-629-11 Manufacture of shirts 1-1-1950 - 30-11-1950",
        "content_text": "37 i \n\n2. Wages.\n\n(c) to conform to factory and labour legislation,\n\n(a) to allow inspection by the Committee at any stage of manufacture,\n\n(a) to pay close attention to customs requirements connected with Imperial preference,\n\n(f) support their own industrial association.\n\nLocal merchants would then only buy from factories appearing on the accredited list.\n\nIt is difficult to make general comparison between wages in Hong Kong and wages in the textile industry in this country. Differences of cost of living and in the general way of life are very great and the question is complicated by the custom in Hong Kong of providing free quarters and food and because in many cases the concerns are family enterprises. Generally speaking however, workers in the Hong Kong textile industry with a few exceptions are not badly off by comparison with other workers in the Colony where the general standard of wages is higher than anywhere in the Far East. Wages have increased since the war proportionately more than the cost of living and the standard of living (except in respect of housing) is higher. It is however recognised in Hong Kong that the wages position in the textile industry is not altogether satisfactory. As a result of Japanese competition, some manufacturers have been endeavouring to reduce wages from the peak reached in the immediate post-war boom period and these efforts have met with sharp resistance from the workers. A wage agreement entered into shortly after the war was in force generally for about a year but has now lapsed, and efforts to persuade manufacturers to enter into a new agreement have so far proved unavailing. If this situation continues it may be necessary to take action under the Trade Boards Ordinance, 1940. Under this Ordinance the Governor may fix minimum rates of wages for any trade in which he is satisfied that the minimum rates are unreasonably low. He may if he deems it advisable establish a Trade Board consisting of employers' and workers' representatives, together with an independent element, to conduct an enquiry into the industry. There is little doubt however that one of the principal difficulties in the way of statutory minimum wage fixing in Hong Kong is the problem of inspection and the large number of cases where wages are paid partly in kind, i.e. free lodgings and food.\n\n3.\n\nHours of employment. In concerns managed by Europeans the 48 hour week is more or less standard. Most textile factories are however Chinese owned and hours are normally longer. Ten to twelve hours a day are commonly worked by men in all sections of the industry. These hours may seem long but except in the spinning section, where the workers are compensated by better wages and better conditions of employment generally, the output of Chinese workers is considerably less than that of English workers of similar skill, and tempo and discipline are comparatively easy. Tea is usually on tap and workers break off to have a drink or to have a chat.\n\nMost of",
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        "title": "CO129-629-11 Manufacture of shirts 1-1-1950 - 30-11-1950",
        "content_text": "G.R.\n\n42\n\nTrade agreement autored into aboutly after it was in force generally for a year.\n\n(f) support their own industrial association. Local merchants would then only buy from factories appearing on the accredited list.\n\n2. Wages. It is difficult to make general comparison between wages in Hong Kong and wages in the textile industry in this country. Differences of cost of living and in the general way of life are very great and the question is complicated by the custom in Hong Kong of providing free quarters and food and because in many cases the concerns are family enterprises. Generally speaking, however, workers in the Hong Kong textile industry are not badly off by comparison with other workers in the Colony, where the general standard of wages is higher than anywhere in the Far East. Wages have increased since the war proportionately more than the cost of living, and the standard of living (except in respect of housing) is higher. It is, however, recognised in Hong Kong that the wages position in the textile industry is not altogether satisfactory. As a result of Japanese competition, some manufacturers have been endeavouring to reduce wages from the peak reached in the immediate post-war boom period, and these efforts have met with sharp resistance from the workers. If efforts to persuade fail, and it may be necessary for action under the Trade Boards Ordinance, 1940. Under this Ordinance, the Governor may fix minimum rates of wages for any trade in which he is satisfied that the minimum rates are unreasonably low. He may establish a Trade Board consisting of employers' and workers' representatives, together with an independent element, to conduct an enquiry into the industry, if this is deemed advisable. There is little doubt, however, that one of the principal difficulties in the way of statutory minimum wage in Hong Kong is the problem of inspection and the large number of cases where wages are paid partly in kind, i.e., free lodgings and food.\n\n3.",
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