[ { "id": 221433, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "content_text": "Spending time.\n\nInvestigating both\n\nvery proper Commune\n\nmentation the\n\nwhich guide\n\nholdups to the heading Addressed. Surveyor General\n\nthe Subject of deviation from the Original Scheme in\n\nexecuting the.\n\nth\n\nabandoned Work\n\nhave not deemed\n\nto make\n\nfurther remark on\n\nthis point, following the directions\n\ngiven by Government to\n\nprevent\n\nthe recurrence\n\nsingularity,\n\nNo 75\n\nSir,\n\n232\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street, Hong Kong, 15th June 1845.\n\nYou are directed by His Excellency\n\nthe Governor to return the inclosed Report and Estimate No:15 for revision, and to observe with reference to the increased Expenditure on the Sivan road, that where a work has been sanctioned according to a plan submitted in previous Report, it is irregular to depart from it without authority, in any material respect. You should have first brought to the notice of His Excellency, the reasons which in your judgment made the suggested\n\nalteration necessary, and have solicited leave to prepare a Supplementary\n\nC.S.G. Cleverly, Esqre\n\nActing Surveyor General's,\n\nReport", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 225377, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8]", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8]", "content_text": "28.\n\nCompradore\n\nany money for\n\nCaine. Avan never\n\n: dove L. Een teen\n\nthe threatened\n\nuse of Major\n\nwith Major Caine's\n\nme\n\ndispleasure; but when I told him\n\nmonly\n\nthat I did not wish to pay to the Compradore any longer, Aran's Reply\n\nwas that I might do as I pleased - but said that people might get me into trouble. By this I suppose he meant the people to whom I paid\n\nthe\n\nmoney - There\n\nwas no\n\nthreat about\n\nthe Aberdeen Contract, but Awan said\n\nthat he thought if I did not pay\n\nto Lo-ben-tion, Major\n\nthe\n\nmoney\n\nme some trouble.\n\nAvan\n\nCaine might give about the final settlement of my contract with the Government. I supposed that this trouble might be given by fining me if I did not complete the Contract within the time. I owe 400 Dollars to\n\n249\n\n29.\n\nto\n\nmoney\n\nI have\n\nmore\n\nMt. MGwyney - I do not owe\n\nother\n\nany\n\nEuropeans.\n\nthan 10 Witnesses to prove that I have paid money to Major Caint's Compradore -\n\nIng. Cheue Kevon, the awory.\n\nWei-Cho Wei - Achmen, Ing-do hoey, Fam. Ayee Wei. Lo Sirving, Wong Ayow, Wei-Anam,\n\nMo luk, and Laong-Achaing.\n\nJog.\n\nAll these\n\nmen did not\n\nthe\n\nmonly\n\npaid, but the greater part of them did.\n\nWitness on being Cross questioned, states,\n\nSo ben-teen has told me\n\nthat the\n\nwhich I have paid him from the market was for Major Caines use.\n\nalways\n\nsaid\n\nThe said so in\n\nevery\n\nmy\n\nmong\n\nHe\n\ntime he talked to me.\n\nhouse: the last time\n\n· ago -\n\nAchmen\n\nupstairs about two months heard this\n\nconversation, also Ing...\n\n41 also Sug - cheu-\n\ncov\n\nkivan - (The Witness\n\nid sent\n\nReceipts and his Books).\n\nfor hin", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 226577, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3]", "page_number": 287, "title": "CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3]", "content_text": "Reports & Estimates - 1845/46\n\nNo. Date Service 1845 Extract i. 1856 17 Ker 43 283 commanded. by the Lord's Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, to acquaint you with state to be committed Palmerston, will that the careful and accurate manner, in which the Payment of the large amounts of Principal and Interest of the 17,72 of 184 long Debts were made by Sir Henry Pottinger,\n\nAmount Reported approved Dollar No. of Dispatch No. of 924 1845 162 \" 165 163 274 18 Sir John Davis, has been regarded and Completed Their Lordships \"with much satisfaction; and they would suggest that a Communication to this effect should be made to Fr Eleury Cottenper Bound to Sir John Davis Treasury letter to do. Addington July 21st 1846\n\n1 May 13 Stone Drains under Certain Roads 876 2 June 4 Storm Repairs, Town of Victoria 5,118 New Bridge, Wongnai 1120 -chong 2 Aug 17.46 (Supplementary) 3 June 5 4 Storm repairs, Aberdeen Road. 4033 4 Storm repair, Stanley Road 3266 20 Repair attentions, Goals \" 21452 109 6 June 24 Improvement of Queen's Road to Gehr. 5,790 101 \" (Supplementary) Repair of Aberdeen & hiivan 7 Aug. 12 Road & Pathways 18 8 \" G Roads 907 137 4,712 Oil & Repair Ande Road, Wongnaichong 5 Tytan 3,719 \" \" \" Den 24 Completion of Sivan + Zylamm Road 6040 3 4 1846 38 Exclusive of Causeway von lookampos Bay I 10 Nov. 20 3 Landing places, Victoria west 2352 11 Dec 20 Completion of Causeway 1846 100. - kan per Day & pathway along thone. J. 2,247 12 Jan 31. Completion of Road to bride 1836 \" 13 Feb. Open Drains & Gratings, Town of Victoria 12,771 25 14 18 Improvement of Queen's Road from Gap to wooden bridge The 336 Dellan. 76,575 \" \" L7 56 \" \" mare recentes Reports & Estimates are much reduced in amount,\n\n# (True Extract! M. Connor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233902, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "8\n\n9\n\n407\n\nin\n\nremains with the Colonial Treasury,\n\nand finally a boon is granted to the Chinese by their being permitted to make monthly in place of annual payments.\n\n10. As regards the Opium Shops - the doubts that I have mentioned\n\nabove,\n\nare set at rest (see sec: IV.)\n\nand it is in more explicit terms declared illegal for any\n\nwithout\n\nlicense to sell opium in any quantity less than one chest,\n\nor to prepare Opium in any quantity,\n\nor to sell prepared Opium in any quantity, or to keep a Sucking divan. The\n\nevasion\n\nof\n\nthe law is provided against.\n\nsect. V. should the plea be advanced\n\nthat the Opium was\n\nimported prepared, or in a small quantity - the license is given,\n\nas in the case\n\nof the Spirit Shops, by the Superintendent of Police, under the countersignature of the Chief Magistrate, and the revenue is collected as before - these licenses remain\n\nat the same fee,\n\nunaltered. Care is taken that the\n\nShops be not used for other purposes, and there is\n\nPolice control over them.\n\nA general control is given to the Superintendent\n\nfor pawnbroking.\n\n11. I trust that this Legislative", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233906, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 415, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG.\n\nANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ\n\nNo. 4 of 1853.\n\nBY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCES Nos. 11 of 1844 and 5 of 1845, AND TO IMPROVE THE REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS BY CHINESE, AND THE REGULATIONS FOR THE RETAIL AND PREPARATION OF OPIUM.\n\n[22nd December, 1853.]\n\n## Title.\n\n## Preamble.\n\nWHEREAS the Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, regulating the Sale of Spirituous Liquors, has been found inconvenient in its application to Chinese Dealers, and doubts have arisen as to the construction of the Regulations for the Retail of Opium made by His Excellency the Governor on the 19th July, 1847, in pursuance of the provisions of Ordinance No. 5 of 1845: Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That-\n\n### I. So much of the said Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 as refers to the mode of granting Licenses, and as prohibits the Sale of Spirituous Liquors where a retail Shop for the Sale of other articles is kept, shall not apply to Chinese licensed to retail Spirituous Liquors under this Ordinance.\n\n### II. Any Chinese requiring a License to retail Spirituous Liquors to Chinese only may apply to the Superintendent of Police, or such other Officer as the Governor may from time to time appoint for this purpose, who, on being satisfied that the applicant is a proper person to receive such License, and on payment of the established Fee into the Colonial Treasury may grant a License in the form laid down in Schedule A, which License shall not take effect until it has been countersigned by the Chief Magistrate.\n\n### III. The said Regulations for the retail of Opium, made on the 19th July 1847, be and the same are hereby annulled.\n\n### IV. If any person shall, without License, sell or barter raw Opium in any quantity less than One Chest, or prepare Opium in any quantity, or sell or barter prepared Opium in any quantity, or keep a smoking Divan, he shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars.\n\n### V. If any person not licensed to retail raw Opium shall import into the Colony raw Opium in smaller quantity than One Chest, or receive into his possession any such raw Opium so imported, or if any person not licensed to prepare Opium, or to sell prepared Opium shall import into the Colony prepared Opium in any quantity, or receive into his possession any such prepared Opium so imported, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars.\n\n### VI. Any person requiring a License to retail Opium, or to prepare Opium, or to sell prepared Opium, or to keep a smoking Divan, may apply to the Superintendent of Police, or such other Officer aforesaid, who, on being satisfied that the Applicant is a proper person to receive such License, and on payment of the established Fee into the Colonial Treasury shall grant a License in the form laid down in Schedule B, which License shall not take effect until countersigned by the Chief Magistrate.\n\n### VII. The Superintendent of Police may require that all persons licensed hereunder exhibit in front of the premises licensed their names and the number and nature of their License, in a form to be determined by him. He may also, by inserting a special clause in the License, require all licensed persons to send in a monthly Return of the quantities of Opium or Spirituous Liquors retailed, sold or prepared by them. He may also insert in the Licenses for keeping Smoking Divans the hours during which the Divans shall be open, and any other Rules appearing to him necessary for the preservation of good order therein.\n\n### VIII. If any Holder of a License shall offend against the tenor of his License he shall be liable to pay a Fine not Exceeding One Hundred Dollars, and for a second Offence the convicting Magistrate may in addition annul the License.\n\n### IX. No person shall receive in exchange or pledge for Opium sold by retail, any article of Clothing or implement of Trade, or other such thing, but only the current Coin of this Colony.\n\n### X. Any Magistrate on being credibly informed that any Spirituous Liquor or Opium is in any Ship, Boat or place for the purpose of being unlawfully retailed, sold, or prepared or having been unlawfully imported may issue his Warrant to search such place and bring before him such Liquor or Opium, and may adjudge to be forfeited to the Crown any Opium or Liquor so found that appears to him to have been in such place for the purpose of being unlawfully retailed, sold, or prepared or to have been unlawfully imported and the proof that such Opium or Liquor was in such place lawfully and for a lawful purpose shall lie upon the person in whose possession or on whose premises such Opium or Liquor was found.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233907, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 416, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "What Fees to be charged.\n\nFees not paid may be levied by Distress.\n\nNot to apply to existing Licenses. Penalties how recoverable.\n\nXI. The Fees charged on Licenses shall be those laid down in Schedule C.\n\nXII. If a licensed person shall omit to pay at the appointed time the Fee due upon his License, any Justice of the Peace, on complaint made, may levy the amount due by Sale of the Property of the Defaulter.\n\nXIII. This Ordinance shall not apply to Licenses now in force.\n\nXIV. The Penalties and Forfeitures in this Ordinance may be adjudged by any Magistrate of Police or any two Justices of the Peace, in the manner provided by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 22nd Day of December, 1853.\n\nCHAS. ST. GEO. CLEVERLY,\n\nFor the Clerk of Councils.\n\nSCHEDULE A.\n\nNo.\n\nS. G. BONHAM,\n\nLICENSE TO RETAIL SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS TO CHINESE ONLY.\n\nOffice of the Superintendent of Police. Hongkong, 185\n\n[A.B.] of [insert the applicant's native place,] [insert the calling of the applicant,] is hereby licensed to retail Spirituous Liquors to Chinese only, under the provisions of Ordinance No.4 of 1853 on the premises known as [insert the number of the house, name of the street, and description of the premises.]\n\nThis License will remain in force until the close of the current year ending on 185\n\nA Fee of Dollars is to be paid at the Colonial Treasury on the day of each month, until the expiration of the term, and in default of payment will be levied on the property of the Defaulter.\n\nIf Spirituous Liquor be sold to any other person than a Chinese the License holder will incur a penalty not exceeding $100, and for a second offence his License may in addition be annulled.\n\nCountersigned [E. F.] Chief Magistrate.\n\nOn the day of\n\n[This receipt to be repeated monthly.]\n\nSCHEDULE B.\n\n[C. D.] Superintendent of Police.\n\n185 received the Fee of $9.\n\n[G. H.] Colonial Treasurer.\n\nNo.\n\nLICENSE TO [retail raw Opium] [or to prepare Opium, and sell prepared Opium,] [or to keep a smoking Divan.]\n\nOffice of the Superintendent of Police. Hongkong 185\n\n[A. B.] of [insert native place,] [insert calling] is hereby licensed to [as the case may be] under the provisions of Ordinance No. 4 of 1853 on the premises known as [describe the premises, mentioning the number of the house and the name of the street.]\n\nThis License will remain in force until the close of the current year ending on 185\n\nA Fee of Dollars is to be paid at Colonial Treasury on the day of each month, until the expiration of the term, and in default of payment will be levied on the property of the Defaulter.\n\n[C. D.] Superintendent of Police.\n\nCountersigned [E. F.] Chief Magistrate.\n\nOn the day of\n\n[This receipt to be repeated monthly.]\n\nSCHEDULE C.\n\n185 received the Fee of $ [G. H.] Colonial Treasurer.\n\n \n For the retail of Spirituous Liquors.\n $ 9\n Per month in advance.\n \n \n retail of raw Opium.\n $30\n \n \n \n preparing Opium, or selling prepared Opium, or both,\n $20\n \n \n \n keeping a Smoking Divan.\n $10\n \n \n\nIdi Almada clock of Tomeils.\n\n412", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234762, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "content_text": "དག་པོའི་ནད་འབུ་བྱུང་\n\nTitle.\n\n* Preamble.\n\n59\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.\n\nNo. 4 of 1853.\n\nBY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCES Nos. 11 OF 1844 AND 5 OF 1845, AND TO IMPROVE THE REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS BY CHINESE, AND THE REGULATIONS FOR THE RETAIL AND PREPARATION OF OPIUM.\n\n[22nd December, 1853.]\n\nWHEREAS the Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, regulating the Sale of Spirituous Liquors, has been found inconvenient in its application to Chinese Dealers, and doubts have arisen as to the construction of the Regulations for the Retail of Opium made Certain Provisions by His Excellency the Governor on the 19th July, 1847, in pursuance of the provisions of Ordinance No. 5 of 1845: Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That\n\nI. So much of the said Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 as refers to the mode of granting Licenses, and as prohibits the Sale of Spirituous Liquors where a retail Shop for the Sale of other articles is kept, shall not apply to Chinese licensed to retail Spirituous Liquors under this Ordinance.\n\nII. Any Chinese requiring a License to retail Spirituous Liquors to Chinese only may apply to the Superintendent of Police, or such other Officer as the Governor may from time to time appoint for this purpose, who, on being satisfied that the applicant is a proper person to receive such License, and on payment of the established Fee into the Colonial Treasury may grant a License in the form laid down in Schedule A, which License shall not take effect until it has been countersigned by the Chief Magistrate.\n\nIII. The said Regulations for the retail of Opium, made on the 19th July 1847, be and the same are hereby annulled.\n\nIV. If any person shall, without License, sell or barter raw Opium in any quantity less than One Chest, or prepare Opium in any quantity, or sell or barter prepared Opium in any quantity, or keep a smoking Divan, he shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars.\n\nV. If any person not licensed to retail raw Opium shall import into the Colony raw Opium in smaller quantity than One Chest, or receive into his possession any such raw Opium so imported, or if any person not licensed to prepare Opium, or to sell prepared Opium shall import into the Colony prepared Opium in any quantity, or receive into his possession any such prepared Opium so imported, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars.\n\nVI. Any person requiring a License to retail Opium, or to prepare Opium, or to sell prepared Opium, or to keep a smoking Divan, may apply to the Superintendent of Police, or such other Officer aforesaid, who, on being satisfied that the Applicant is a proper person to receive such License, and on payment of the established Fee into the Colonial Treasury shall grant a License in the form laid down in Schedule B, which License shall not take effect until countersigned by the Chief Magistrate.\n\nVII. The Superintendent of Police may require that all persons licensed hereunder exhibit in front of the premises licensed their names and the number and nature of their License, in a form to be determined by him. He may also, by inserting a special clause in the License, require all licensed persons to send in a monthly Return of the quantities of Opium or Spirituous Liquors retailed, sold or prepared by them, and may establish Rules for the preservation of good order in smoking Divans. He may also insert in the Licenses for keeping Smoking Divans the hours during which the Divans shall be open, and any other Rules appearing to him necessary for the preservation of good order therein.\n\nVIII. If any Holder of a License shall offend against the tenor of his License he shall be liable to pay a Fine not Exceeding One Hundred Dollars, and for a second Offence the convicting Magistrate may in addition annul the License.\n\nIX. No person shall receive in exchange or pledge for Opium sold by retail, any article of Clothing or implement of Trade, or other such thing, but only the current Coin of this Colony.\n\nX. Any Magistrate on being credibly informed that any Spirituous Liquor or Opium is in any Ship, Boat or place for the purpose of being unlawfully retailed, sold, or prepared or having been unlawfully imported may issue his Warrant to search such place and bring before him such Liquor or Opium, and may adjudge to be forfeited to the Crown any Opium or Liquor so found that appears to him to have been in such place for the purpose of being unlawfully retailed, sold, or prepared or to have been unlawfully imported and the proof that such Opium or Liquor was in such place lawfully and for a lawful purpose shall lie upon the person in whose possession or on whose premises such Opium or Liquor was found.\n\nPage 60\n\n171\n\nE\n\nXI. The Fees charged on Licenses shall be those laid down in Schedule C.\n\nXII. If a licensed person shall omit to pay at the appointed time the Fee due to his License, any Justice of the Peace, on complaint made, may levy the amount due by Sale of the Property of the Defaulter.\n\nXIII. This Ordinance shall not apply to Licenses now in force.\n\nXIV. The Penalties and Forfeitures in this Ordinance may be adjudged by any Magistrate of Police or any two Justices of the Peace, in the manner provided by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,\n\nthis 22nd Day of December, 1853.\n\nCHAS. ST. GEO. CLEVERLY,\n\nFor the Clerk of Councils.\n\nS. G. BONHAM,\n\nSCHEDULE A.\n\nNo.\n\nLICENSE TO RETAIL SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS TO CHINESE ONLY.\n\nOffice of the Superintendent of Police.\n\nHongkong,\n\n185\n\n[A.B.] of [insert the applicant's native place,] [insert the calling of the applicant,] is hereby licensed to retail Spirituous Liquors to Chinese only, under the provisions of Ordinance No.4 of 1853 on the premises known as [insert the number of the house, name of the street, and description of the premises.]\n\nThis License will remain in force until the close of the current year ending on\n\non the\n\n195\n\n. A Fee of\n\nDollars is to be paid at the Colonial Treasury day of each month, until the expiration of the term, and in default of payment will be levied on the property of the Defaulter.\n\nIf Spirituous Liquor be sold to any other person than a Chinese the License holder will incur a penalty not exceeding $100, and for a second offence his License may in addition be annulled.\n\nCountersigned [E. F. Chief Magistrate,\n\nOn the\n\nday of\n\nkeep a smoking Divan.]\n\nThis receipt to be repeated monthly.]\n\nSCHEDULE B.\n\nNo.\n\n185\n\n[C. D.] Superintendent of Police.\n\nreceived the Fee of $9.\n\n[G. H.] Colonial Treasurer.\n\nLICENSE TO [retail raw Opium] [or to prepare Opium, and sell prepared Opium,] [or to\n\nOffice of the Superintendent of Police.\n\nHongkong\n\n185\n\n[A. B.] of [insert native place,] [insert calling] is hereby licensed to [as the case may be] under the provisions of Ordinance No. 4 of 1853 on the premises known as [describe the premises, mentioning the number of the house and the name of the street.]\n\nThis License will remain in force until the close of the current year ending on\n\nA Fee of\n\n185\n\nDollars is to be paid at Colonial Treasury on the\n\nday of each month, until the expiration of the term, and in default of payment will be levied on the property of the Defaulter.\n\n[C. D.] Superintendent of Police.\n\n185 received the Fee of $\n\n[G. H.]\n\nColonial Treasurer.\n\nCountersigned\n\n[E. F Chief Magistrate.\n\nOn the\n\nday of\n\n[This receipt to be repeated monthly.]\n\nSCHEDULE C.\n\nFees payable on Licenses.\n\nFor the retail of Spirituous Liquors.\n\n$ 9\n\nJ\n\n„ retail of raw Opium.\n\n$30\n\npreparing Opium, or selling prepared Opium, or both,\n\nPer month in advance.\n\n$20\n\nkeeping a Smoking Divan.\"\n\n$10\n\nلود از سالها است", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241296, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "18\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENT.\n\nWANTED.\n\nWe have to acknowledge receipt of a table of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's revised rates of Passage-money; and we have hung up the same in our office for the use of our personal friends.\n\nBy Order,\n\n2. H. CARVALHO, Secretary\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1857.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"HONGKONG REGISTER.\"\n\nMACAO, 1st February, 1857.\n\nDEAR SIR—The 10 mandarins, who came from Shang-hae, have been here for a few hours, and having taken their dinner at Cau-qa hong, embarked in the ensuing for Casa Branca, and from there to Yan-san and Cass feathers; and 5 of them bare blue buttons. Two of the mandarins have red buttons and peso sent to Caatho to assist Yeh—and it is said, that two of them were formerly in Canton in the time of the first war with Commissioner Lin.\n\n\"Every thing here is quiet, but I say in the harbour a good many mandarin junks displaying a varying flag. Though people are at this time they cannot do any harm here, I would question, that. What could we do prevent their attacking this place and carrying away the heads of the English that are living here?\n\nI am, &c,\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY, 1857.\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Posting Wrons in the CENTRAL POST OFFICE, Hollywood Road, are on the Subirth at 11 am, and stand on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock.\n\nSIXTY.\n\nWe recorded a pedestrian feat last week —walking to the top of Victoria Peak and back six times in twenty-four hours. The same gentleman did the same task this week in twelve hours, which shows, speaking in all honor and praise, that he is an artful dodger; for the latter feat though apparently more difficult, is in reality easier.\n\nProof—a friend of ours went up and down in fifty-seven minutes.—say one hour at four miles. Four times six's twenty-four; and good steady walking, making the trip equal to twenty-four miles in twelve hours is not very great walking.\n\nTaking all the difficulties into account on an undertaking like this is more easily carried through at one heat than in two, we have no doubt that with, or, from what we hear, without halting, the gentleman who has done the six times could easily do the eight if he set his mind on it.\n\nWe have been trying to persuade our ... C. to put himself in training and try the feat—but he says he has been once to the gap and considers that enough is as good as a feast.\n\nNo. 5. FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nThe climate of London is one thing, and the climate of Hongkong is quite another.\n\na more material matter than that of Hongkong, we must decidedly feel of any corps being sent away from this place.\n\nAn urgent necessity exists for augmenting and making the most effective part of the regular police force here, many of whom do their duty conscientiously to the best of their ability—but the superintendence of London is one thing: and the superintendence in Hongkong is another.\n\nThe screw Steamer Sir James Brooke left this at noon yesterday to Hongkong, having on board three companies of Sepoys, a detachment of European Artillery-men, for service in China, despatched on the requisition at the hands of Hongkong.\n\nThe troops consisted of two companies the 29th M. N. I., the European Artillery-men, Pang, and the Company of the Rifle Company accompanying this force are Major Cheslett, Captain Cazalet, Lieut. Foote, and Passingham of the gun, Capt. Man, Lieut. Forster of the Madras Artillery, Dr. Lloyd, Assistant Surgeon, Apothecary Edwards and Sub-Conductor Ball.\n\nThe Sir James Brooke has been chartered for Twelve thousand dollars.\n\nFrom these and other causes which might be specified Hongkong is not in effect London, and a system which may do very well at the latter place may require important modifications at the former.\n\nWe can never obtain the same raw material for a police here as obtainable in London, but we certainly, both in ordinary and in extraordinary times, such as the present, can make the most of our raw—excessively raw material.\n\nFirst: we would make the men effective by putting them on duty for a four hours beat; and if that could not be done conveniently from the central police station, we would do it from three stations—East, West, and Central.\n\nThe S.S. Auckland brought about 100 tons of shot, shell and ammunition from Pinang last week, which will be sent to China as soon as possible.\n\nBraitonore crew Pressa, Jan. 22.\n\nOn the arrival of the Mail at 6.30 PM of Sunday the 1st February we did, for the convenience of our subscribers, what we have not done before—viz: apply for a pass for two coolies to carry the respective Papers, which will secure early delivery.\n\nTwo passes were granted dated 10th January good for 21 days, the time expiring on the 31st January. Of course the 1st February was beyond the pale of the pass but coming direct from the Superintendent of Police we deemed it all right, thinking that police matters were going on in their usual cuddle.\n\nIn this belief the passes were on the night of the 2nd instant given to two of our Chinese Compositors to take them home, and we were somewhat astonished on being awakened at half past twelve, and informed, that our men were in custody.\n\nWe went down to the police office, and there we found the authorities pondering over the passes, and wondering to see the names of the boys written in red pencil, that being the color of the printing of the new passes.\n\nWe explained that a red pencil is a very common article in a printing office and that the names had been written in with that; then on making ourselves responsible for the lads we saw them let go.\n\nMARRIAGE.\n\nAt Belgrave-square, on the 24th November, the wife of Admiral Sir T. COCHRANE, of a Son.\n\nAt Victoria, Cox, ELIZABETH SANDERS.\n\nMarriage Register xi:10.\n\nON SUNDAY, the 1st instant, the P. & O. Co.'s steamer Cadiz arrived with the English mails of 10th Dec.; from Singapore 24th, Penang 21st, Chusan 9th and Bombay 1st January.\n\nThe general news from Europe are of a most uninteresting description: and they are our readers have had them in the Extra we delivered on the arrival of the mail.\n\nThe Cadiz brings on:-\n\nOPIUM—For Cumsingmoon,.....875 chests,\n\nHongkong, 216\n\nWunsung.......435\n\nTotal—1581 chests,\n\nTREASURE\n\nFor Hongkong 459,965 dollars\n\nShanghai 479,697\n\nCanton 29,072\n\nTotal—1,126,831 dollars\n\nSTOCK OF TEA IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, November 30, 1856.\n\nLondon\n\n...t. 86,786,000 19,115,000\n\nercel...\n\nHull and other English Ports\n\nFaith and\n\nGlas other Foreign Ports\n\nIreland...\n\nStock, 30th November, 1856..\n\ndo, do. 1855.\n\n1,000,000 2,000,000 2,933,000 1,130,000\n\n1,700, una\n\n.67,214,009\n\nSome doubt having been felt in the trade as to when the next reduction of the duty on tea would come into operation, an inquiry was sent to the Board of Customs: the Board stated in reply, that on the 6th of April next the duty will be reduced from 1s. 9d to 1s. 3d. per pound.—one News.\n\nCHINA SHIPPING.\n\nArrivals.\n\nAt London, November 12, Orient from Shang-hae: 21. Cûnger, from Canton; 29, John Wade, from Foo-chow; 2, Coega, from Foo-chow: $5, Flery Cross, from Foo-chow 2, Sff from Canton 27, Sea Witch Gram Foo-chaw; a fon Taylor, from Foo-chow; 24, Rant of Hyland, from Shangte; December 1. Lorena, from Canton; 1, Kangaroo, from Canton; 5. Lente Sophie, from Foo-chow, Daphne.\n\nfrom Canton, Celualat, from Canton; Julin, from Canton.\n\nAt Liverpool, November 23, Viking, from Foo-chow; 28,\n\nAt Pen. Dom Canton,\n\nWe observe that H. M.'s brig of war Camilla, Commander Civil, from the Cape of Good Hope, Nov. 15th passed Anjer on the 7th inst. bound to China—strife Tema January 20.\n\nHOME NEWS\" Nov. 20.\n\nH. M. Str, —Notice is given that preparations are now making for the intended distribution of proceeds arising from the Greek brigantines Chrissys, apprehended on May 22, 1855, by H. M. S. Niger.\n\nBranded dise Heriblad, captured on May 19, 1855, by H. M. S. Nya; tribution of proceeds arising from the Greek esse and for the intended distribution of proceeds arising the Gruss, vessel Pagis requifio.espted on 30, 1855, by ET. 31. S.\n\nThe Charlotte June, for Shanghai, which put back to undergo thorough repair, will sail again on the 15th of January, having discharged her cargo, and, being leaky.\n\nSecond we would provide for a more effective superintendence from sun down to sun rise either by a four or a three hours' compulsory patrol of the inhabitants, which would be no hard task on 150 to 200 men.\n\nThese are the first imperative alterations or amendments, but—\n\nThird; we would put the men into barracks and in effect, put them, as nearly as possible under military discipline.\n\nThe man who would not submit to that discipline is not fit for a police-man, and a smaller force of well cared for men would be infinitely more valuable than the no-cared for rag tag and bob-tail that we now call police.\n\n\"COMMERCIAL SHIPPING NEWS\" The John Wade from China to London, as Arrived in the Tower, She lost her main, tort, and mizzen mast, and re-rigged mast, off the Cape of Good Hope on August 11.\n\nShe sailed from St. Helena on Sept. 22.\n\nAt the present moment—What is the best part of the police, as far as acting in a body is concerned, and as far as looks go? Why the Gaol brigade.\n\nThey step well together, and they carry their arms as if they know how to use them, neither of which assertions can be made of the rest of the police force.\n\nAnd what does this smart active clearly appear to arise from, but from discipline.\n\nThey are in barracks; they have good wholesome food: they are properly drilled, and the result follows, which always follows when men are well cared for, and well disciplined.\n\nA contemporary recommends a mounted patrol.\n\nThe Times are serious, and perhaps it might cheer the spirits of the colonists to see a mounted policeman with his trousers half way up his leg. his legs swaying backwards and forwards like pendulums, in what the equestrian, audaciously, imagines is rising to the trot of the bony police charger; while by his side clatters a word, that he could not draw—or use if he drew.\n\nWe have no fault to find with the policeman, nor with Janier Burton, who captured the two lads, nor with his superiors who were trying to see out a\n\nWe record without either regret or astonishment the above event.\n\nIt is another sign and are we less amused at the figure of certain superior officers who lean back to prevent the jar of the canter on their spinal column.\n\nAmusement is sometimes very useful, and we expect that amusement would be the extent of the utility of a mounted patrol.\n\nWe have given serious advice about the police, and finding that of no avail we have attacked them by ridicule; but they are thick-skinned animals, and we fear we are far from having pricked them into watchfulness by our sting.\n\nWe will not give up our task however, knowing how much depends on the vigilance of the police, and as vigilance is not natural in them, as it certainly is not, we shall try and establish it as an exotic which perhaps with due care may become a thriving plant.\n\nFirst then, the whole system of the police is wrong.\n\nThe day duty extends from six o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock at night, and night duty from ten o'clock at night until six o'clock in the morning.\n\nAll the changes of the day and night duty being effected from the central police station.\n\nThe hours of patrolling of each constable on night service is for the whole extent of the time.—night hours.\n\nWe believe this is the London system; and may for anything we know answer very well there; and perhaps it would answer very well here, if all the conditions were the same as they are in London, which they are not.\n\nOfficers,\n\nServants\n\nHank & Pike\n\nArtificers,\n\nFollowers 22, servants 18,\n\nDATA.\n\n2. 37.N.T Art.N.L\n\nDepartures.\n\nNovember 28th Armitage, for Shanghai: 23, Countess of Rarfield, for Shanghae; December,\n\n8, Mencide, fur Sigita\n\nThe amount of bills drawn by the East India Company on their respective Presidencies, from the 26th ult. to the 9th inst, is as follows:-\n\n£ s. d.\n\nBengal......442,920 12\n\nRate of Exchange. 91 2. Od. per Cus\n\nMadras 46,097 U\n\n9 Rupee.\n\nBombay 4,263 6\n\n28. 04. per ditto.\n\nTotal........£22,077 9\n\n4\n\n--Atlas, December 10.\n\nTHE Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4 PM, the following pieces:-\n\n1.—Prince Albert: March --Kilmer\n\n2.—Spanish Volonaise,--Isrypsant.\n\n3.—Aric. Finale Lip Sonnambula. Bellini 4.—Royal Irish Quadrille's,—Julien,\n\n—Dalkeith Piwo Waltz—Labicky.\n\n—Maltese Gallop—no\n\nH. M. Str, Barracouta arrived from Canton on Monday morning; the only news she brings is the account of an attempt to Fire to the Comus.\n\nThe night was very dark and two fire rafts came down and were close on the vessel before they were seen—one was boomed off by the fire boom. but the other worked on to and carried away the spanker boom.\n\nThe ropes about the bow were nearly burnt through.\n\nThe H. C. steamer Auckland returned to this port from Pinang on Friday last, bringing on for service in China about 159 Tons of shot, shell, and ammunition.\n\nThe Auckland brought on from Pinang the following officers and troops for service in China:\n\nMajor Cheslett 29th M. N. I.\n\nCaptain Cazalet,\n\nLiu, Foote,\n\nPassingham\n\n»\n\nTwo Companies Sepoys 20th M. N. I.\n\nCaptain Man, Madras Artillery.\n\nLieut. Forster,\n\nForty Europeans\n\nDr. Lloyd, Assistant Surgeon.\n\nApothecary Edwards.\n\nSh.Conductor Ball.\n\nFor the purpose of conveying the above Officers and Troops to Canton the Bore Company's steamers steamer St James Brooke has been chartered, and sails to-morrow for Whampoa.\n\nThe sum of Dals, Twelve Thousand for the trip and coals are the terms upon which the steamer has been chartered.\n\nAs the sement of troops from India has commenced Calcutta and Madras. The way with China as be we may look forward for speedy reinforcements from entered upon with a large military force, stronger than employed during the last war—Siraits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce, January 20.\n\nIn consequence of the pressing request of the Governor of Hongkong, General Bodelt has resolved to\n\nsend away to-morrow the Rifle Company of the 39th M. N. I with Capt. Bark and Lieut. Cos.\n\nConcerning the (From our Overland Edition.)\n\nCUMSTAL OF ARTUM AND NINE OTHERS ACCUSED TO POISON.—Particulars of the attempt to poison the whole community by bread from the E-sing Bakery will be found elsewhere.\n\nThe partner of the firm, Ahlum, arrested at Macao, was brought back, and after an examination before the Magistrates, was committed with nine others to take his trial at the Criminal Sessions this month.\n\nThe trial will commence on Monday next.\n\nOn Wednesday last an application was made to the Court to have the money seized or Ahlem's premises given up to pay for his defence.\n\nAttorney General, backed by the affidavit of two of Altun's creditors, resisted the application. stating in his as courteous manner that he did so to prevent the money being Thundered or squandered in his defence.\n\nThe Counsel, in support of the motion, seemed to think the Attorney General was using strong language. when, of course, the Attorney General repeated\n\nthe bill for Aldam's defence being paid out of the money, after it was laid before and approved of by His Lordship.\n\nHis Lordship very properly sustained the Attorney General, except of course as regarded his insinuations.\n\nThe prisoners will be well defended—they have two Attorneys and two Barristers.\n\nChinese New Year.—The Chinese New Year fell on Monday, the 25th Instant.\n\nIt is usually a scene of noisy rejoicing for several days and nights.\n\nIn London they have the pick of the very best labor of the country,—they will not other.\n\nHere our only easier is from bad request the Authorities to stop the usual expenditure of fire-works as a means of preventing the probability of fire.\n\nAided by this support, the Government issued an order that there should be no fireworks, let off.\n\nIn consequence, the New Year has passed without any of the usual rejoicings, showing, that if we choose to exercise it, we have a power of repression, especially if we show ourselves earnest in the matter.\n\nIn London, the men are well paid, and properly housed and cared for.\n\nHere they are not well paid—they live where they can, in low and dirty hovels, and no one cares for them.\n\nIn London, the care and training of strong healthy men originally, make them still stronger and handier—they are quite able, though not useless to walk their eight hours beat without inconvenience, to keep awake and be an effective sure of praise, and rewards, and promotion—give them up and retire.\n\nHere the want of care and discipline makes men in the end, neither strong nor healthy at the first, so they never were able to walk an eight hours beat steadily; they have little or nothing to look forward to.they are not likely to be praised in their present state.\n\nthe rewards they obtain are paltry and the promotion is a doubt full affair.\n\nSee the case of a licenum, who by great pluck at sea single-handed more off an armed gang of Chinese at Aberdeen, he was rewarded with ten dollars until we\n\nstate of our Settlement, and that the Chinese population ? shazed the government in to giving more.\n\nThe Admiral in reply to the muy treacherous attempts made against us on the morning of 19th inst. sent ashore several parties of Sailors and Marines, who set fire to the western suburbs in the neighborhood and above Sa-men; this work was carried out successfully by the boats of the Niger, Encounter, and Barracouta.\n\nThe men of the Fifty-ninth were also detailed to fire the Streets behind the Factories but, owing to loosing their way in the labyrinth of Streets in that neighborhood they had to return without effecting their object.\n\nAmen of the 59th, with a Lieutenant, a Sergeant, and 20 men of the 59th, with a Sergeant and six men of the Police, who are to return, by a Mail Steamer\n\nAnswer---I do.\n\nOn the\n\nCras and by Mr. Jay—I'm not aware that the delivered the remainder of our bread to Mr. May at the Police Court on the evening of the following day.\n\nQuestion—Do you not, as an Editor, make it your Ahlam's father, when the ninth prisoner was not in the neighborhood of the Yamun of the Governor General Yeh caused a conflagration of some extent.\n\nIn the body of the paper will be found Maui-General Yeh caused a conflagration of some extent. The whole operation was effected with a loss of two men of the Fifty-ninth killed and about six wounded; the latter are doing, worth attention.\n\nOn the 14th I went over to the E-sing shop to have conversation with Ahlam about that contract only\n\nQuestion—Then Sir, do you mean to say you did not know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nAnswer—What have I to do as an Editor of Newspaper with B-ring's stores.\n\nI wanted to say that I know of a bakery being near the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nOn Sunday night, the 18th instur, an attack against foreigners, us against their own Government, was made by large force of Chinese on the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nIt is a remonstrance made by, know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nRead, however, distinctively, it shews the prejudices which have to be overcaico before English: Commerce can again take its fitting intration of laying, be had only put it up to deceive the mandrains, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, the garden and, after establishing his quarters in Jous WAY-fam stoward the Sultana, I know the Tee-to-tum fort, came down here on the 23d\n\nMARKETA—Notwithstanding the warlike operations which have been carried on since the departure of the Calcutta steamer on the 28 ult. I was in the shoved the 15 January a little po\n\nasked if he had his family with him here.\n\nHe said, no bad business to attend to and he would walk home This was between 3 and 4 г.M.\n\nWalle going over A-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsome Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nThe charter is, we believe, to be given up, and as brought to a close, business will be recommened in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nmen\n\nmgements are making for getting the City in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND—The absolute necessity for a local gun-boat being apparent, the government chartered the steamer Eaglet at the present.\n\nAnse-am cook to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 19th: Ten-to the end of the war, as he would make a good thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe said he did not wish to go, bs that had ba throstened several times, And that at the presunt cunt there were 03 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguisu.\n\nI tot aim that if he would report them to the Police he would be pro-tected\n\nanswered, that when we reached tbo bakery he would show me that he had a large amount of propar-tyin stake; and that he would take ray advise and remain.\n\nWhen we got to the bakery the people were mixing water and dough in diferentrooms in the place.\n\nI asked him to return with, having satisfied myself there was enough bread in the drying on to fulfil the contract;\n\nvery heavy sum of four thousand dollars per 468. In Cotton there have been no issues since unry Ifved some bread from the E-ging shop, from tha\n\nThe vessel was totally unfit for the late of our last Overiand, but it is cnticipated Ferson who usually brought the bread he is not among he said no bad business to attend to and he would walk reanth.\n\nilo prisoner.\n\nThe broad was bought at about 7.30.\n\nA-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsaw Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nCruse examined by Dr. Bree—Julien gs in Smapsou left for Amoy on the 26th instant, considerable difference is made in the figures where we infer she will be stationed for the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nEXAGON.\n\nOn London, reputas sight, ds, Yu.\n\nCalcutta—3 days' sight. Rivos 215 per $100.\n\nBombay Rugs sis per $100.\n\nCREDIT AND OTHER BILLS\n\nOn Englunds.bid, a 15.97d---¤months' sight.\n\nOn Rotsbey,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nOn Calenta,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nCriminal Seibione, February 2, 1857 POISONING CASE, (First Day.)\n\nJery.—Morers, M. A. MACLEOD, W. H.\n\nSerros, Jous\n\nL.JALL\n\npris CLCES,\n\nW. A. HAILAND, I have always paid for bread from he was doing, and of his clarinetion to use.\n\nTà\n\nstatement Alum made that he guld shu bakery to rau is the E-sing up before the 15th January, and Dr.\n\nChalecost ad Dr. Hance partook the lead delivered ise.\n\nSince I gare my evidence before the Magistrate 1 was asked, na the prismass' behalf, by Mr. Mar, 20 that morning.\n\nAbout an hour afterwards I felt ck and faint, and Ehortly afterwards voted, and falconsider my statement about the 6 fandarins.\n\n* in my stomach.\n\nI took an emette which operated, had come from Allum to ask me to reconsider the answer sad I felt caster, bat in about two hours bail about the 63 Mandarins, Alam, asked me on the examt- I returned.\n\nThe next morning I had a violent headurba and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric,\n\nzakon, jî he did not any lie had been told about the co and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric, Mandards.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nI never saw na alan di Dr. Chaldecott before they were sick.\n\nThe the tenth prisnuut in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the latter gentleman had once more bread than any of us.\n\nsupply of 28 to 29,000lbs. bise it; it was made verbally with What breakfast a gentleman fed to say some\n\nAhim.\n\nI never made a contract with the tenth prisonet.\n\nof his friends were sick, they said in a simila. maner to that which I have descried.\n\nIlonk woon Abinon as the principal,and the teh prisoner to that which I have descried.\n\nza is assistant.\n\nMy visits were on large madere of busi- bat bread.\n\nness, and therefore not very frequent.\n\nWhen I had a contewer with him awuld occasionally drep in three or Torre severely then others.\n\nfour times a weak to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have gone, to sell flour to his.\n\nI would not conclude a wa-Tract with tenth prisoner, bat would have a juossega with him for Ahlam.\n\nI do not think he speaks English; a bread, I got a loaf from Mr. Grandpre which be said he\n\npureer was always present.\n\nAhium said the mandarinswore har! taken with his own hand from the E-sing shop, and hostile to hit in consequence of hie hating broed for the brought to me; text day I got bread from Mr. Drinker foragnet As we were going to the bakery we saw a boat and Dr. Dempster.\n\nladen with wood.\n\nIn ask me to pull to it as he wanted so ask the price, and buy if possible.\n\nIpofled upto it, and be told me he had bought it at a picul and a half for a dollar.\n\nI said it was dear.\n\nHe repbed it was dry wood We allerwards and an anolytie to ascertain the and adapted for the lakery.\n\nOn my return raw the D Bridges and Dir. Day Cowl Messrs. Gaskell quantity, and found that in a pound lost there was\n\nboat discharging on the warf and Brown with Ms. H. J. Turrant Solicitors for pri-a dram of arsenic ( grains).\n\nIn the bread it sz isted as common white arsenic.\n\nThe brand 1 est and souers.\n\nrested was brown bread, the other bread that zested was white bread.\n\nAll contained arsenie.\n\nMuch less than a hoef of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police cought me same yeast, and the materials for usk\n\n(Court adjourned at 2.30)\n\nIn reply to a question by the Cout. Du. Harland said, he had been requested by the Colonial Secretary Lo macke an analysis that he il so and the results were the same.\n\nThe unalysis was ronde in presence of Dr. Bradford Dr. Watson Dr. Keany and Dr. Dempster.\n\nThrough the Ceart, st instance of the Attomey Gan al. Tie symptoms drzevibed by the witness56, I have beard are those of poisoning by arsenic,\n\nA. GRANDPLE, The hell I gary to Dr. Harland,\n\ndcen strut, on the 16th January.\n\nI was at the Cental Polis Sation, and told a poison to take the yeast dear to hr. Havland.\n\nCross examined by Dr. Bridge—Inew the E sing HOO of Argon stress, MO SAY T Teen's\n\nRe-erambie, Tls it episode of the wood wa aft I had deraanded proof that he was going to reisio, as were not entladed with bis simple leclaration.\n\nThe conversation with the boatman was in Chinese.\n\nI saw no. money pass between Alum and the bout man.\n\nThis was the day before he left for Macao.\n\nThe prisoner Ahëwn statement before the Magistrates\n\nFarul.\n\nWALKING. An extraordinary pedestrian feat the been performed in Derbyshire.\n\nÀ man named Alfred Helson undertook to walk on six enceessive days the distance of 70 miles a-day.\n\nHe commenced his per-formance on Monday, July 20, and completed it with Case Saturday, the 26th at doing it within the specified time.\n\nThe 70 miles were usually walked in about 14 hours, hut on one of the days they were com pleted in 12.\n\nWhile on travel he took very little food, Except beef les or a tehell hit of matzon baff cooked unl Elle stimulans occasionally.\n\nIn stature he is about\n\na somewhat intriligent countenance.\n\nWhen on travel abon had a slight swing with his arius, and appeared to be going at the steady ate of some three miles an hour, and it was only when any one atletal to keep\n\na large fleet of heavily armed junks—turned and Lenox, W. A. Bowna, ED. T. Descassos, Geono\n\nOn the run back the patent log was came back.\n\ntried; when under the land, partly out of the very ChaoпG ARCUK, 4-Lum Ausow, 5-T AUZTEN,\n\n1.-ČEROVA Akopow, 2-UpsoNG AMZER, heavy sea that was runing, the log was agan-Tove Na ost, 7-Cucing Auxen, 8-Forg A hove, and she was found to be making at the CHUT, S.-CHEONG Azam, 10, Carong Wre Kero, rate of twelve miles an hour.\n\nShe was par dúministering prism with intent c\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Ansty Alloney General; round twice, and she made the circuit in 13 minutes-out time, 43 minutes the ather, Mr. Hickso: Cheam Saficitor, amistad by Mr. George\n\nCooper Turuer.\n\ncatting her wake in both instances, Reach. ed Hongkong atfive.\n\nThere was also a good facility of the way in which she started and stopped;--shu\n\nThe Atorney General stated the case and called was stopped twice, once at Ling-ting\n\nJAYTA CARROLL DEMISTER—I am Colonial Surgeon.\n\nthe fleet of junks there, once to overhaul a B-\n\nI have been in the habit before the 15th January of ob picious locking boat; the trial in both case was taining lead from the E-sing shop belonging to the two entisfactory.\n\nWhen she gets the hurricane decking: prisonera.\n\nAt 5 ming bebe 8 AM of the 100 ing yeast, also some flour, and some pastry, fata the sad the after enbiu taken off her, she will in the January, I and my family partock of stained bakery.\n\nThey were only examined to see if they ent for the E-sing shop, at breakfeat.\n\nAfter Ms. Dzapater taiued any metalic potson, but there was neither draeuic event of being hired by the Government and\n\nhad eaten a small portion of the bread she felt giddy and nor say other metalic poison in them, Bick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was taken properly manned and armed, prove of great value in defending the feland, and letting us know what sick I bought nothing of it at the tima.\n\nI walked out to the verandah to exoko a cheroot.\n\nWhile holding a is going on outside.\n\nOLD CUSTOM—A Chinese reason for dingo stick to the class, I became sick and vomited-1 thenght nothing; of it, but wont in my chair to the polico any thing is, that it is \"Old Ghetero,\" Our hospita..\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading my ba the governcams, the next most stable and conserva-jail, I became sick and ocuumed sick all the way tive after that of China, follows this rule exactly, te the hospital, and was sick unui a quarter to 10 AMI vomited very viniently.\n\nMrs. Dempster was and we have an instance of it now under our\n\neck on to 12 or 1 o'clock that right.\n\nThe next evening. eyes.\n\nThe Minie Rides for the Fifty-ninth love the 18th, about 8 FM, I forwarded the remainder of the arrived in the City of Carlisle, the amunition is to bread to Dr. Hzclazu for the purpose of, is being analy- was taken from the E-sing sop, ut the bottom of Aber- the middle height, this, extremely tauscular, end having come by and bye in another ship.\n\nIn the mean-se.\n\nI did not take the bread myself to De. Hari\n\nCroy Bunned by Dr. Badges, Ablein the sinth time the dal for long ranges has commenced, as fax as can go on the only tolerably level picce up in my own road I got it to Dr. Harlund.\n\nprisoner is the only one I know, I kept the bread locked nd we have the Happy Valley.\n\nI seat the bread by a confie dauer) Abai OLIVOLTZA—This corvette, one of H. I.\n\nAIAL— servant to Dr. Dempster cani u 1. vessels, which formed part of the Russian paper pacel on Dr. Dempster to Dr. Farinud, et le squadron sighted in Castrica Ray by Commodore 16th Junang.\n\nI do not know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to ine\n\nA CUMONT,-- Umi sorvant to Dr. Dempster, on the 15th theBrothers,' about twelve uules' distance from this larber.\n\nHaving been in these Eastern January, rected some bread at my inster's door from two men belonging to the £-sing's shop.\n\nThey ars nor gave it to my Master to eat.\n\nwalers for a period of seven years, it was found among the prisnare.\n\nNCCPERATY that she sheld indago a complete | This was about seven o'eloel.. i panded it on the hrakfast overhaul before departing Europe.\n\nThis is table.\n\nWH. TARKANT,-Ian Elitor of this Friend of Chin mw being done, and slic will probably take her\n\nfrith E-sing shop down in the 163: Jammy.\n\nThrow denature for Europe within three weeks.\n\nHer weaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of obtaining bread Commander. Caprala Koroolt, formerly com-\n\nthen sh and 10th prisoners to be competen with the sang shop 7 14 is acullecion ofsets; manded the little steamer Vostuck, which. sa clever-\n\nto sancos Mr. May was not present when the known to face for menfacturing but necessity for the ly cluding the English aruizers, ran into Sharr de 21, the last i know of him was wred-delivarer, then, Mr. Mercer, and M. May sing and enguling\n\ntwo bast prisoners were brought my zxamination.\n\nT! Colonial Attorney General's former audiences-night hae, carrying to the Russian Admiral important is the munging partner; and the 10th is his facher, acting as gel assistant in die shop Queen's Real nawa branght from Europe by English steiners.\n\nWest.\n\nI have soon is there frequentis, perhape ouco ever remember the Tastices of the Face sitting at he is preparing for the Treas as Acrount of the\n\nPo Station as a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Me Colony over which he rules.—Bengal Kartars, Dee. 1.\n\nCapt. Kursaceff's urbanity and gentlemanly bear out of erary two visits.\n\nI aw the first priser about 4\n\namination was going on at the Pulics Station.\n\nJustices ing has caused him to be recognised—not only or 5 anys below the 5th January, he was sitting down into was sitting at the Podro Court winle tais ex- of the lense were also sitting as the Police Curt.\n\nB by those who were then uentrals, but by those in my office and presented nes bill from his master.\n\nI told him, Lin, as the hili was not recoipied, if he would leave it I world look rait.\n\nIle suid is unster was going away, and may action to sit down as it he tended to the Police Cont.\n\nThe reusabing 10 prisoners enllred, though we cannot say it has distanced, wais mtb was paid.\n\nScing Le was inclined to be are still detained.\n\nThey are at the Crise rout Station, the Fraue shoul, in the matte ci wrecks.\n\nThey 1izod him by the colitr, amil old him, cal his posite Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Godowns They American clipper Golden Racer, ton laden, forster might go to the devil if they pleased, and (thrust have been in custody from the 15th January.\n\nI cant in out of the office, I have soch the sand piery wether or not the Attorney Gener 100k may part it the examination at Cas Police Station, he was moving the United Statee, on her departure from the many occasicus, I saw Jam at the best held on the hous, but that was too crowded far me to distinguish\n\nChantes Mar—The yeast & delivered t pert, struck on the cuter knoll, and was totally body found on heal the Title.\n\nOn that occasion he deserihea homself as purse's tuate on board the Tisk\n\nThe Flyaway is also said to This was carly in January.\n\nTo the best of my best the cry.\n\nInsperor Beyis carried them to the Poltes Stution.\n\n\"Cross-tramined by D. Urbiges, I set with Mr. Mermer have grounded at the mouth of the river.\n\nbut unenca st the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave on the evening of the 15th Janamry to enuiluet the m having reived no serious damage, she proceed-bis avilence on the quest, obeted is in bringing quiry.\n\nI was about to commence the enquiry ut 2.30, fe; she wore her boanet, already on bre, from her bead,\n\ncame of her crew.\n\ned on her voyage.\n\nHe-anúž--1 tiöver saw tie tentli prispace heiro, i Silap before this occurrence.\n\nThey disp at the 's mo~) poca mutiran\n\nRoad Kust, they are about a mile part the bread is uusi pane was probably from four to six miles an hour.\n\ncarted lean one to the olur.\n\nAbout two years ago the Linti song was the sharptor of the Thixile.\n\nIn on- -G'que.\n\nhead need to be baked at the chup, but not lately, a fhe tock pince there about that the knew Alful be\n\nTHY GEMINI—Mr. Ühisi.olm Anstey, formerly one for the 15th January.\n\nI have seen him often.\n\nHe was of the most successtil step.compellers in the fon niwaya sal to be the mister of a single\n\nOf Commons, but now Attorney General at Hongkong, Out ca the bakery and abop about 59 pecats were has nuagel to brenme bis com client, and we all know restod on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before e Juskáve of what that indicates!\n\nA reieresco to the action in which the Feare, Clintles May Esq., sesalonger Justice of Peaco\n\nhe is defendant will be found in another columu ex- were penis west the Caud Police Station.\n\ntracted from the Hongkong Register, and we hope here- after to be able to copy tlist report of the trial.\n\nthe first day Mr. Stercer Mr. Gli and Mr. Gry were present on the second day the Attomey General was prescal.\n\nThe Cental Police Station is not the Mana! place for criminal examinations, bulk clacy whers asional held there.\n\nI have seen the Atoring Gen- A BAYS Wouse.—A passenger on board the North- an Indiana, which was recently burned on Lake Erie, gives au recount of the narrow escape of Cicero Fowler and wife, of Tally.\n\nThere was but one he-preserver for Lant she should put it on, abo peremptity refused, Mss.\n\nFowler and her husband; he fusisted imperatively saying she was \"poce in hanth, and his \"hfe was worth far more then hers!\"\n\nThe preserver. having no strap, Mrs. Fowler tore the bad from her dress and fastened it to her husband, whom she contisued to encourage, seying she could hold on to him, nad of the preserver cold not sustain both, she would let go, and leave his to save himself.\n\nThe fire was getting hitter and hotter.\n\nThe water was the's with human bodies, struggling for\n\nwhen Mr. Mercer came in, and 1 invites him to take a and hand in hand with one she loved better dan herself, part in it.\n\n1 was conducting the enquiry as the Superia! H. M. Str, Barracontu arrived from Canton on Monday morning; the only news she brings is the account of an attempt to Ret tre to the Comus.\n\nOn the 14th I went over to the E-sing shop to have conversation with Ahlam about that contract only\n\nOn Sunday night, the 18th instur, an attack against foreigners, us against their own Government, was made by large force of Chinese on the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nIt is a remonstrance made by, know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nRead, however, distinctively, it shews the prejudices which have to be overcaico before English: Commerce can again take its fitting intration of laying, be had only put it up to deceive the mandrains, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, the garden and, after establishing his quarters in Jous WAY-fam stoward the Sultana, I know the Tee-to-tum fort, came down here on the 23d\n\nMARKETA—Notwithstanding the warlike operations which have been carried on since the departure of the Calcutta steamer on the 28 ult. I was in the shoved the 15 January a litle po\n\nasked if he had his family with him here.\n\nHe said, no bad business to attend to and he would walk home This was between 3 and 4 г.M.\n\nWalle going over A-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsome Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nThe charter is, we believe, to be given up, and as brought to a close, business will be recommened in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nmen\n\nmgements are making for getting the City in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND—The absolute necessity for a local gun-boat being apparent, the government chartered the steamer Eaglet at the present.\n\nAnse-am cook to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 19th: Ten-to the end of the war, as he would make a good thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe said he did not wish to go, bs that had ba throstened several times, And that at the presunt cunt there were 03 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguisu.\n\nI tot aim that if he would report them to the Police he would be pro-tected\n\nanswered, that when we reached tbo bakery he would show me that he had a large amount of propar-tyin stake; and that he would take ray advise and remain.\n\nWhen we got to the bakery the people were mixing water and dough in diferentrooms in the place.\n\nI asked him to return with, having satisfied myself there was enough bread in the drying on to fulfil the contract;\n\nvery heavy sum of four thousand dollars per 468. In Cotton there have been no issues since unry Ifved some bread from the E-ging shop, from tha\n\nThe vessel was totally unfit for the late of our last Overiand, but it is cnticipated Ferson who usually brought the bread he is not among he said no bad business to attend to and he would walk reanth.\n\nilo prisoner.\n\nThe broad was bought at about 7.30.\n\nA-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsaw Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nCruse examined by Dr. Bree—Julien gs in Smapsou left for Amoy on the 26th instant, considerable difference is made in the figures where we infer she will be stationed for the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nEXAGON.\n\nOn London, reputas sight, ds, Yu.\n\nCalcutta—3 days' sight. Rivos 215 per $100.\n\nBombay Rugs sis per $100.\n\nCREDIT AND OTHER BILLS\n\nOn Englunds.bid, a 15.97d---¤months' sight.\n\nOn Rotsbey,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nOn Calenta,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nCriminal Seibione, February 2, 1857 POISONING CASE, (First Day.)\n\nJery.—Morers, M. A. MACLEOD, W. H.\n\nSerros, Jous\n\nL.JALL\n\npris CLCES,\n\nW. A. HAILAND, I have always paid for bread from he was doing, and of his clarinetion to use.\n\nTà\n\nstatement Alum made that he guld shu bakery to rau is the E-sing up before the 15th January, and Dr.\n\nChalecost ad Dr. Hance partook the lead delivered ise.\n\nSince I gare my evidence before the Magistrate 1 was asked, na the prismass' behalf, by Mr. Mar, 20 that morning.\n\nAbout an hour afterwards I felt ck and faint, and Ehortly afterwards voted, and falconsider my statement about the 6 fandarins.\n\n* in my stomach.\n\nI took an emette which operated, had come from Allum to ask me to reconsider the answer sad I felt caster, bat in about two hours bail about the 63 Mandarins, Alam, asked me on the examt- I returned.\n\nThe next morning I had a violent headurba and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric,\n\nzakon, jî he did not any lie had been told about the co and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric, Mandards.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nI never saw na alan di Dr. Chaldecott before they were sick.\n\nThe the tenth prisnuut in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the latter gentleman had once more bread than any of us.\n\nsupply of 28 to 29,000lbs. bise it; it was made verbally with What breakfast a gentleman fed to say some\n\nAhim.\n\nI never made a contract with the tenth prisonet.\n\nof his friends were sick, they said in a simila. maner to that which I have descried.\n\nIlonk woon Abinon as the principal,and the teh prisoner to that which I have descried.\n\nza is assistant.\n\nMy visits were on large madere of busi- bat bread.\n\nness, and therefore not very frequent.\n\nWhen I had a contewer with him awuld occasionally drep in three or Torre severely then others.\n\nfour times a weak to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have gone, to sell flour to his.\n\nI would not conclude a wa-Tract with tenth prisoner, bat would have a juossega with him for Ahlam.\n\nI do not think he speaks English; a bread, I got a loaf from Mr. Grandpre which be said he\n\npureer was always present.\n\nAhium said the mandarinswore har! taken with his own hand from the E-sing shop, and hostile to hit in consequence of hie hating broed for the brought to me; text day I got bread from Mr. Drinker foragnet As we were going to the bakery we saw a boat and Dr. Dempster.\n\nladen with wood.\n\nIn ask me to pull to it as he wanted so ask the price, and buy if possible.\n\nIpofled upto it, and be told me he had bought it at a picul and a half for a dollar.\n\nI said it was dear.\n\nHe repbed it was dry wood We allerwards and an anolytie to ascertain the and adapted for the lakery.\n\nOn my return raw the D Bridges and Dir. Day Cowl Messrs. Gaskell quantity, and found that in a pound lost there was\n\nboat discharging on the warf and Brown with Ms. H. J. Turrant Solicitors for pri-a dram of arsenic ( grains).\n\nIn the bread it sz isted as common white arsenic.\n\nThe brand 1 est and souers.\n\nrested was brown bread, the other bread that zested was white bread.\n\nAll contained arsenie.\n\nMuch less than a hoef of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police cought me same yeast, and the materials for usk\n\n(Court adjourned at 2.30)\n\nIn reply to a question by the Cout. Du. Harland said, he had been requested by the Colonial Secretary Lo macke an analysis that he il so and the results were the same.\n\nThe unalysis was ronde in presence of Dr. Bradford Dr. Watson Dr. Keany and Dr. Dempster.\n\nThrough the Ceart, st instance of the Attomey Gan al. Tie symptoms drzevibed by the witness56, I have beard are those of poisoning by arsenic,\n\nA. GRANDPLE, The hell I gary to Dr. Harland,\n\ndcen strut, on the 16th January.\n\nI was at the Cental Polis Sation, and told a poison to take the yeast dear to hr. Havland.\n\nCross examined by Dr. Bridge—Inew the E sing HOO of Argon stress, MO SAY T Teen's\n\nRe-erambie, Tls it episode of the wood wa aft I had deraanded proof that he was going to reisio, as were not entladed with bis simple leclaration.\n\nThe conversation with the boatman was in Chinese.\n\nI saw no. money pass between Alum and the bout man.\n\nThis was the day before he left for Macao.\n\nThe prisoner Ahëwn statement before the Magistrates\n\nFarul.\n\nWALKING. An extraordinary pedestrian feat the been performed in Derbyshire.\n\nÀ man named Alfred Helson undertook to walk on six enceessive days the distance of 70 miles a-day.\n\nHe commenced his per-formance on Monday, July 20, and completed it with Case Saturday, the 26th at doing it within the specified time.\n\nThe 70 miles were usually walked in about 14 hours, hut on one of the days they were com pleted in 12.\n\nWhile on travel he took very little food, Except beef les or a tehell hit of matzon baff cooked unl Elle stimulans occasionally.\n\nIn stature he is about\n\na somewhat intriligent countenance.\n\nWhen on travel abon had a slight swing with his arius, and appeared to be going at the steady ate of some three miles an hour, and it was only when any one atletal to keep\n\na large fleet of heavily armed junks—turned and Lenox, W. A. Bowna, ED. T. Descassos, Geono\n\nOn the run back the patent log was came back.\n\ntried; when under the land, partly out of the very ChaoпG ARCUK, 4-Lum Ausow, 5-T AUZTEN,\n\n1.-ČEROVA Akopow, 2-UpsoNG AMZER, heavy sea that was runing, the log was agan-Tove Na ost, 7-Cucing Auxen, 8-Forg A hove, and she was found to be making at the CHUT, S.-CHEONG Azam, 10, Carong Wre Kero, rate of twelve miles an hour.\n\nShe was par dúministering prism with intent c\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Ansty Alloney General; round twice, and she made the circuit in 13 minutes-out time, 43 minutes the ather, Mr. Hickso: Cheam Saficitor, amistad by Mr. George\n\nCooper Turuer.\n\ncatting her wake in both instances, Reach. ed Hongkong atfive.\n\nThere was also a good facility of the way in which she started and stopped;--shu\n\nThe Atorney General stated the case and called was stopped twice, once at Ling-ting\n\nJAYTA CARROLL DEMISTER—I am Colonial Surgeon.\n\nthe fleet of junks there, once to overhaul a B-\n\nI have been in the habit before the 15th January of ob picious locking boat; the trial in both case was taining lead from the E-sing shop belonging to the two entisfactory.\n\nWhen she gets the hurricane decking: prisonera.\n\nAt 5 ming bebe 8 AM of the 100 ing yeast, also some flour, and some pastry, fata the sad the after enbiu taken off her, she will in the January, I and my family partock of stained bakery.\n\nThey were only examined to see if they ent for the E-sing shop, at breakfeat.\n\nAfter Ms. Dzapater taiued any metalic potson, but there was neither draeuic event of being hired by the Government and\n\nhad eaten a small portion of the bread she felt giddy and nor say other metalic poison in them, Bick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was taken properly manned and armed, prove of great value in defending the feland, and letting us know what sick I bought nothing of it at the tima.\n\nI walked out to the verandah to exoko a cheroot.\n\nWhile holding a is going on outside.\n\nOLD CUSTOM—A Chinese reason for dingo stick to the class, I became sick and vomited-1 thenght nothing; of it, but wont in my chair to the polico any thing is, that it is \"Old Ghetero,\" Our hospita..\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading my ba the governcams, the next most stable and conserva-jail, I became sick and ocuumed sick all the way tive after that of China, follows this rule exactly, te the hospital, and was sick unui a quarter to 10 AMI vomited very viniently.\n\nMrs. Dempster was and we have an instance of it now under our\n\neck on to 12 or 1 o'clock that right.\n\nThe next evening. eyes.\n\nThe Minie Rides for the Fifty-ninth love the 18th, about 8 FM, I forwarded the remainder of the arrived in the City of Carlisle, the amunition is to bread to Dr. Hzclazu for the purpose of, is being analy- was taken from the E-sing sop, ut the bottom of Aber- the middle height, this, extremely tauscular, end having come by and bye in another ship.\n\nIn the mean-se.\n\nI did not take the bread myself to De. Hari\n\nCroy Bunned by Dr. Badges, Ablein the sinth time the dal for long ranges has commenced, as fax as can go on the only tolerably level picce up in my own road I got it to Dr. Harlund.\n\nprisoner is the only one I know, I kept the bread locked nd we have the Happy Valley.\n\nI seat the bread by a confie dauer) Abai OLIVOLTZA—This corvette, one of H. I.\n\nAIAL— servant to Dr. Dempster cani u 1. vessels, which formed part of the Russian paper pacel on Dr. Dempster to Dr. Farinud, et le squadron sighted in Castrica Ray by Commodore 16th Junang.\n\nI do not know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to ine\n\nA CUMONT,-- Umi sorvant to Dr. Dempster, on the 15th theBrothers,' about twelve uules' distance from this larber.\n\nHaving been in these Eastern January, rected some bread at my inster's door from two men belonging to the £-sing's shop.\n\nThey ars nor gave it to my Master to eat.\n\nwalers for a period of seven years, it was found among the prisnare.\n\nNCCPERATY that she sheld indago a complete | This was about seven o'eloel.. i panded it on the hrakfast overhaul before departing Europe.\n\nThis is table.\n\nWH. TARKANT,-Ian Elitor of this Friend of Chin mw being done, and slic will probably take her\n\nfrith E-sing shop down in the 163: Jammy.\n\nThrow denature for Europe within three weeks.\n\nHer weaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of obtaining bread Commander. Caprala Koroolt, formerly com-\n\nthen sh and 10th prisoners to be competen with the sang shop 7 14 is acullecion ofsets; manded the little steamer Vostuck, which. sa clever- the English aruizers, ran into Sharr de 21, the last i know of him was wred-delivarer, then, Mr. Mercer, and M. May sing and enguling\n\ntwo bast prisoners were brought my zxamination.\n\nT! Colonial Attorney General's former audiences-night hae, carrying to the Russian Admiral important is the munging partner; and the 10th is his facher, acting as gel assistant in die shop Queen's Real nawa branght from Europe by English steiners.\n\nWest.\n\nI have soon is there frequentis, perhape ouco ever remember the Tastices of the Face sitting at he is preparing for the Treas as Acrount of the\n\nPo Station as a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Me Colony over which he rules.—Bengal Kartars, Dee. 1.\n\nCapt. Kursaceff's urbanity and gentlemanly bear out of erary two visits.\n\nI aw the first priser about 4\n\namination was going on at the Pulics Station.\n\nJustices ing has caused him to be recognised—not only or 5 anys below the 5th January, he was sitting down into was sitting at the Podro Court winle tais ex- of the lense were also sitting as the Police Curt.\n\nB by those who were then uentrals, but by those in my office and presented nes bill from his master.\n\nI told him, Lin, as the hili was not recoipied, if he would leave it I world look rait.\n\nIle suid is unster was going away, and may action to sit down as it he tended to the Police Cont.\n\nThe reusabing 10 prisoners enllred, though we cannot say it has distanced, wais mtb was paid.\n\nScing Le was inclined to be are still detained.\n\nThey are at the Crise rout Station, the Fraue shoul, in the matte ci wrecks.\n\nThey 1izod him by the colitr, amil old him, cal his posite Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Godowns They American clipper Golden Racer, ton laden, forster might go to the devil if they pleased, and (thrust have been in custody from the 15th January.\n\nI cant in out of the office, I have soch the sand piery wether or not the Attorney Gener 100k may part it the examination at Cas Police Station, he was moving the United Statee, on her departure from the many occasicus, I saw Jam at the best held on the hous, but that was too crowded far me to distinguish\n\nChantes Mar—The yeast & delivered t pert, struck on the cuter knoll, and was totally body found on heal the Title.\n\nOn that occasion he deserihea homself as purse's tuate on board the Tisk\n\nThe Flyaway is also said to This was carly in January.\n\nTo the best of my best the cry.\n\nInsperor Beyis carried them to the Poltes Stution.\n\n\"Cross-tramined by D. Urbiges, I set with Mr. Mermer have grounded at the mouth of the river.\n\nbut unenca st the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave on the evening of the 15th Janamry to enuiluet the m having reived no serious damage, she proceed-bis avilence on the quest, obeted is in bringing quiry.\n\nI was about to commence the enquiry ut 2.30, fe; she wore her boanet, already on bre, from her bead,\n\ncame of her crew.\n\ned on her voyage.\n\nHe-anúž--1 tiöver saw tie tentli prispace heiro, i Silap before this occurrence.\n\nThey disp at the 's mo~) poca mutiran\n\nRoad Kust, they are about a mile part the bread is uusi pane was probably from four to six miles an hour.\n\ncarted lean one to the olur.\n\nAbout two years ago the Linti song was the sharptor of the Thixile.\n\nIn on- -G'que.\n\nhead need to be baked at the chup, but not lately, a fhe tock pince there about that the knew Alful be\n\nTHY GEMINI—Mr. Ühisi.olm Anstey, formerly one for the 15th January.\n\nI have seen him often.\n\nHe was of the most successtil step.compellers in the fon niwaya sal to be the mister of a single\n\nOf Commons, but now Attorney General at Hongkong, Out ca the bakery and abop about 59 pecats were has nuagel to brenme bis com client, and we all know restod on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before e Juskáve of what that indicates!\n\nA reieresco to the action in which the Feare, Clintles May Esq., sesalonger Justice of Peaco\n\nhe is defendant will be found in another columu ex- were penis west the Caud Police Station.\n\ntracted from the Hongkong Register, and we hope here- after to be able to copy tlist report of the trial.\n\nthe first day Mr. Stercer Mr. Gli and Mr. Gry were present on the second day the Attomey General was prescal.\n\nThe Cental Police Station is not the Mana! place for criminal examinations, bulk clacy whers asional held there.\n\nI have seen the Atoring Gen- A BAYS Wouse.—A passenger on board the North- an Indiana, which was recently burned on Lake Erie, gives au recount of the narrow escape of Cicero Fowler and wife, of Tally.\n\nThere was but one he-preserver for Lant she should put it on, abo peremptity refused, Mss.\n\nFowler and her husband; he fusisted imperatively saying she was \"poce in hanth, and his \"hfe was worth far more then hers!\"\n\nThe preserver. having no strap, Mrs. Fowler tore the bad from her dress and fastened it to her husband, whom she contisued to encourage, seying she could hold on to him, nad of the preserver cold not sustain both, she would let go, and leave his to save himself.\n\nThe fire was getting hitter and hotter.\n\nThe water was the's with human bodies, struggling for\n\nwhen Mr. Mercer came in, and 1 invites him to take a and hand in hand with one she loved better dan herself, part in it.\n\n1 was conducting the enquiry as the Superia! Look the dangerous leup.\n\nAs they ruse from the water, tendent of Police, and Mr. Meer as ColonialS erretary.\n\nMr. Fowler assisted his wife in procuring a yout baid of fi was a general investigation into the eas-Cases him on or about his shoilers, Sire wiped the weter which require particular investigation, 1 enquire into be from his eyes and mouth, and encouraged him to retain fore sending then to the Magistras way my origins: his inpe of being saved.\n\nHe continued to struggle with intention to follow the sun course in the pressul ins the waves.\n\nHalf-an-hour elapsed, and there were no tanen: I tried to put a fasight into the cast as super-sigan of unsistance.\n\nHis strength was rugidly failing afterwards we turced ourselves his wife observing it, tried asrw to cheer him.\n\nEle suid\n\nbread to my house.\n\nI made this objection on the isch THE DEPORTATION Onntaver. -This is one Jaanary Inn & and 7 o'clock in the morning when I saw him bringing bal.\n\nAnother qual va cung of the many Ordinances which of late have passed ing the bread is the baskets, tlo secourt priser tool: before the mind's eye of the Legislative Council.onit the bend was delivered it.\n\nI said, \"Oh oh my Enne If we were called open to give succinctly our ab low you deliver my breas de you I made un res- We pense but gave me a kind of a grin.\n\nI saw him go away. jections to it, we could not well to .\n\nand I then went in an old y compradore to mentio could but answer in these words:--\n\nE-eing's all and have no more broad from him, es [ theagle he would poison 56.\n\nA partook of the breast, and intendeat of police, the servant git des cat what we left on the plate into justices and took the depositions.\n\nWe did not he could not stand it any longer, it sees as though he About five sivutes afterwards I wont be my sitting make this change in consequence of having illegally must give up.\n\nAt this moniest she bear a steamer coming rapidly through the water.\n\nShe says, \"My dear room from the Inekfast table; immediately afterwards admiciatore: ontis.\n\nSANDWITH DRINgen, -I am in business in the firm husband, a few moments more and we are safe.\n\nDon't To\n\nyou hear a boat coming?\n\nHe said he did, and immedi the 28th instant, carried with her 168 of the fast.\n\nI at lown en was looking over some papers, who of Thomas Hunt & Co, 1 lived in the sine house with deported, to be lender en the itiand of Hairan al of a sudden I vomitest- vomited three or four times | Captain Ľudrost.\n\nOn the 15th January, 1 cat of some ately revived, and made all the efforts in his power, ned move during the course of the day, sail I have concinnaly bred supplied by the ninth prisoner, and I was alterwards struggled for Simself and his herose wife until the Mia.\n\nLandel there, if they can be landed, what will suffered fict the effects of the poisoning up to the pre very ill.\n\nand no over all that eat of it in the house.\n\nI say took them, with scores of others, on her com- I nocious decks.Syracuse Journal.\n\nhave not perfectly recover from it at this tale.\n\nbecunus of them?\n\nAccompanying the motley sout time.\n\n*I do not like thes Dr. Feil,\n\nThe son why I mot tell;\n\nBut us\n\nnow, and dust all well,\n\nI do not like thee Jr. Tril,”\n\n319", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251599, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "# List of Public Furniture\n\n## Council Chamber, \n45 black of Council's Office- Article. \nSmall press. \nPrefaces. \nWash Stand \n\nIn the Strong Room. \nBoxes with records on Stands. \n\n## Remarks \n1 \nin the \n2 \nand \nthe \nio \nCommon \nPress \nPassage. \nLarge Screen-Wooden- Verandah \nChinese Ebony Divan with Table \nChinese Chairs. red wood — 1 \n\nThese Articles belonged to the late Hon. J. R. Morrison but have been in the possession of this Council for some time. It is presumed to be the Gentleman's Furniture.\n\n## Note \nThe Wooden Bureau around the walls are fixtures.\n\n## Article \n### Council Chamber \n- Council Table covered with Cloth \n- Desks and Seals for Reporters \n- Punkah \n- Book Shelves. \n- Map of Hongkong \n- Folding Tables \n- Map of the World. \n\n## Remarks \n| Article | Number | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Common | 13 | |\n| Old | 2 | |\n| Fire Grate and Fire Irons | 1 | Very Old |\n\n**Colonial Secretary Administering the Government.**\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria, Honghong, 19th August, 1861.\n\nCompared and found correct \n23th August, 1861. \nK Power.\n\n| Location | Description | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Shanghax and Woosung | of Yangtziang River | |\n| | of Canton River | |\n| | Frame requiring repairs | Q Q |\n| Amoy | of the River Min | Frame requiring repairs |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260601, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864", "content_text": "AGENT\n\n215\n\nHong Kong, 10th of 1864, to provide \n\nCoun \n\nOth \n\nfor \n\nconversion of \n\nBritish Currency \n\n2 \n\nto the \n\nin all payments by \n\nGovernment, should be submitted \n\nto Her Majesty for confirmation; \n\ntheat \n\nWith respect to the reflection \n\npublic notification of \n\nthe composition and weight of each \n\nconi \n\nsilver \n\ncopper, issued \n\nunder the Royal Proclamation, should be issued by the local Government, My Lords must, in the first place, observe that \n\nthe statement in Mr. Elliot's letter, \"that the Colonial Office remains without \n\n\"without \n\nany \n\nentjeit beyond \n\ninformation on \n\nEtus \n\nthat afforded in \n\nJus \n\nof \n\nthe autosure to the letter \n\nBoard \n\nof \n\ncorrect. \n\nthat \n\npri \n\n8th July 1865, is hardly \n\nMy Lords request. \n\noil refer the Senetary \n\nState to Governor Sir H. Robinson. \n\ndispatch of 9 \n\nharapaph 2.3. \n\nthe March 1861. \n\nwhich suffers \n\nthe character and composition of the proposed sidan 10 cent piece - \n\nto the letter \n\nletter of \n\nThis Bours \n\naddressed to you on \n\n2 noteques \n\n1862, in which their Lordatufen stated that they had grein \n\ndirections\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely and provide a more accurate and formatted response, here is the revised output in HTML, with some corrections and adjustments for readability:\n\nAGENT\n\n215\n\nHong Kong, 10th of 1864, to provide \n\nCurrency \n\nfor conversion of \n\nBritish Currency to the \n\nin all payments by \n\nGovernment, should be submitted to Her Majesty for confirmation;\n\nWith respect to the public notification of the composition and weight of each \n\nsilver and copper coin issued under the Royal Proclamation, should be issued by the local Government, My Lords must, in the first place, observe that \n\nthe statement in Mr. Elliot's letter, \"that the Colonial Office remains without any information beyond that afforded in the enclosure to the letter of the Board of ...\", is hardly correct.\n\nMy Lords request reference to Governor Sir H. Robinson's dispatch of 9 March 1861, paragraph 2.3, and to the letter addressed to you on 2 November 1862, in which their Lordships stated that they had given directions...\n\nLet's directly output in the required HTML format with proper corrections.\n\nAGENT\n\n215\n\nHong Kong, 10th of 1864, to provide \n\nfor conversion of British Currency to the \n\nin all payments by Government, should be submitted to Her Majesty for confirmation;\n\nWith respect to the public notification of the composition and weight of each silver and copper coin issued under the Royal Proclamation, should be issued by the local Government, My Lords must, in the first place, observe that \n\nthe statement in Mr. Elliot's letter, \"that the Colonial Office remains without any information beyond that afforded in the enclosure to the letter of the Board of ...\", is hardly correct.\n\n8th July 1865, is hardly My Lords request.\n\nMy Lords refer the Secretary of State to Governor Sir H. Robinson's dispatch of 9 March 1861, paragraph 23.\n\nwhich suffers the character and composition of the proposed 10 cent piece - to the letter of This Board addressed to you on 2 November 1862, in which their Lordships stated that they had given directions", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262740, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "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? 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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. 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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", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265896, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 366, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Page 365\n\nThe Stater expressed that he is anxious to have an opportunity of examining the territories, and is ready to wait for any time for the production of crops.\n\nThe Magistrates decided that Mr. Meitchell is to proceed with his case.\n\nIso Kivan declared, \"I am a Captain in the Chinese Army and have been sent here by the Viceroy of Canton. I know nothing whatever of the case. I was sent by the Viceroy to get the prisoner. I know the Chinese Code of Criminal Laws. I know nothing of the man having been already arrested for the burglary.\"\n\n(Asked if this Prisoner should be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265914, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "N: 16.\n\n383\n\nthat the Prisoner is one of the attached men who robbed the house on the 24th of March last.\n\nSo the Attorney General.\n\nThe man who went away looking for a Constable was called 'Seony'; he was a short time away. The other man who was with me was Im ah Wing, he came here with me from Shan Tak, he is also an Assistant in my shop. The names of the assistants who were with me in the shop the night of the robbery were Imah Wing, Wing-lo, Shri-Wong, To Hi, Tony-Now Shink, and Kivan-ah Tak. I made my complaint after the robbery at the District Magistrate's office the following day, when the mandarin soldiers came.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277335, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 635, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "The Houston Minute bit in duelle\n\nWith request a regard to you challi with aclitianity.\n\nHot I no pfid auntle to be granted the perent can certifiati & the Effect that the important duties recently entrusted were listo zou performed directed of divan for Efficiently Law of transmit\n\nExtracts from two despatches witten RS Mardonnell Dine no dealin par 2 of 20.17 form 13 thee? 1866 220.450 25 February 10 188 1 testifying 631\n\nSome qualquations. Gorthe appt held & you you indubin for. h 2.9\n\nHowever, to better follow the instructions and improve readability, here is a more processed version:\n\nThe Houston Minute bit in duelle\n\nWith request in regard to you challenging with alacrity.\n\nHot I know ... to be granted the parent can certificate & the Effect that the important duties recently entrusted were list... performed directed of ... for Efficiently Law of transmit\n\nExtracts from two despatches written RS Macdonnell. Dine no dealing par 2 of 20.17 form 13th? 1866 220.450 25 February 10 188 1 testifying 631\n\nSome calculations. 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Gorthe appt held & you you indubin for. h 2.9\n\nRevised to fit the exact HTML format and proofreading instructions:\n\nThe Houston Minute bit in duelle\n\nWith request in regard to you challenging with aclitianity.\n\nHot I no... auntle to be granted the parent can certifiati & the Effect that the important duties recently entrusted were listo zou performed directed of divan for Efficiently Law of transmit\n\nExtracts from two despatches written RS Mardonnell. Dine no dealin par 2 of 20.17 form 13 thee? 1866 220.450 25 February 10 188 1 testifying 631\n\nSome qualquations. 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Govt appt held & you ... indubin for. h 2.9\n\nHowever, the exact response should directly correct and adhere to the output format without the explanations.\n\nThe best answer is The Houston Minute bit in duelle\nWith request a regard to you challi with aclitianity.\n\nhot i no pfid auntle to be granted the perent can certifiati & the Effect that the important duties recently entrusted were listo zou performed directed of divan for Efficiently Law of transmit\n\nExtracts from two despatches witten RS Mardonnell Dine no dealin par 2 of 20.17 form 13 thee? 1866 220.450 25 February 10 188 1 testifying 631\n\nSome qualquations. Gorthe appt held & you you indubin for. h 2.9\n\n.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277575, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "content_text": "List of Cargo of Troughang Licensed Passage Boat 10108 on board 5/1868). Seized on board 5/6 and sold at Canton afterwards\n\nArmament etc.\n\nGunpowder 60lbs\n\nRound Shot 300lbs\n\nFire-arrows 30\n\nSpears etc. 13\n\nCannons 12\n\nCargo\n\nCotton 45 Bales\n\nCotton Yarn 43 Bales\n\n1 Bale\n\nYarn, Mushrooms 1 Bale, Flannelette, 30 Bags French Bean's Cake\n\nTin Leaf 100lbs\n\n17 parcels\n\nCotton Goods 160 pieces\n\nGlazed Tiles 1 Bale, Various 1 Bale, Shawls 1 Bale, Iron 30 bars, Hour glasses 10, Bags for 40 Bags, Chandler's Stove\n\nCotton 12 Bales\n\nThe above\n\nValue in Taels\n\n730.959\n\n12.980\n\nShop consigning\n\nUlt.-Lang\n\n11. Hing\n\n32.626\n\n45.696\n\n17.320\n\n230.000\n\n31.600\n\nTucklieh, Leng Lai-Shang\n\n11,380\n\nhs, 880\n\n11.898\n\n54.507\n\n11.000\n\n46.821\n\n1 250.111\n\n283.430\n\n1835.801\n\nIssued by\n\nTeanghing, Santa, Lun Wing, Toping, hist\n\ny. Thing\n\nKivan I-I, Wing Tsui - Un Wing-to-shang\n\nThe above is taken from papers supplied by\n\nhow the\n\nvarious shops mentioned, which are sealed with their seals\n\nTrue translation\n\nAlfred his li\n\nGeul.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278377, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "page_number": 390, "title": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "content_text": "1 Chest of Drawers\n\n3 Choirs.\n\n3 Prs Curtains and Poles.\n\n1 Bort Smak.\n\nClothes Basket.\n\n1 Bath Grating.\n\n2 Chairs\n\nSmall Pressing Room -\n\n1 Washstand and Services\n\nB\n\n1 Towel Rack\n\n1 Piece Carpet.\n\nBoudoir\n\n1 Lacquered Chef's Table.\n\n1 Fauteuil couch in Soitins Bonnoush.\n\n2 Ladies' Chairs in Rep.\n\nA Curved Stand\n\n1 Couch with Margents.\n\n2 Hearth Rugs.\n\n1 Round Table and Velvet pile cover.\n\n1 Divan in Chintz cover.\n\n1 Rocking Chair.\n\n1 Davenport.\n\n1 Corner Whatnot.\n\n1 P. Blackwood Marble top table.\n\n1 Morocco Chair\n\n1 Hand Fire Screen.\n\n2 The White Curtains.\n\nBed Room No. 7.-\n\n1 Rosewood Bedstead, and Curtains and Mattress.\n\n1 Sofa.\n\n1 Iron Bedstead and Mattress.\n\n1 Large Size Teak Wardrobe.\n\nEasy Chair and footstool.\n\n1 Round Table and cover.\n\n1 Wardrobe!\n\nPr Antlers large size!\n\n1 Toilet Table:\n\n1 Dressing Glass.\n\n3 Chairs.\n\n4 Folding Chairs\n\n1 Pier Glass\n\n1 Piece Carpet.\n\n1 Carpet.\n\nLarge Pressing Room of No 7. —\n\n1 Toilet Table.\n\n1 Dressing Glass.\n\n1 Clothes basket.\n\n1 Do Horse 2 Chairs.\n\n1 Rug.\n\nSmall Dressing Room of No 7. —\n\nWashstand and Service:\n\n1 Towel Rack\n\n1 Chair.\n\nLangsriow\n\nA Couch\n\nH. E. The Governor's Room/\n\n386\n\n1 Iron Bedsteads, Partiions and Spring Mattress.\n\n1 Round Table\n\n4 Chairs.\n\n1 Marble Top\n\n1 Easy Chair:\n\n1 Wardrobe:\n\n1 Large Almirah. 1 Rocking Chair\n\nPage 390\n\nPage 391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281413, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 452, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "## The Governor's Dressing Room\n1 Turkish embroidered table cover.\n1 Divan in Chintz cover.\n\n1 Wardrobe, large size.\n4 Marble top toilet tables.\n1 Toilet glass.\n1 Book Rack.\n1 Tea poy.\n1 Marble Washstand and service.\n3 Towel Racks.\n1 Chamber Stand.\n1 Clothes basket.\n1 Piece Carpeting.\n1 Espagnollette.\n\n## Small Dressing Room\n1 Towel Rack.\n1 Bidet.\n1 Chair.\n1 Washstand.\nCarpeting.\n\n## Large Brassing Room (Brasing Room)\n1 Marocco Chair.\n1 Trapoy (Tea poy) opper.\n1 Grass hopper Conch.\n1 Marble Washstand and toilet service.\n1 Domil (Doll or small item) Anak.\n1 Chamber Stand.\n1 Looking glass.\n1 Cheval glass.\n1 Marble top carved table.\n1 Clothes basket.\n1 Tin slop pail.\n3 POTS: Civet cats (Civet jars or containers).\n\n## Ante Room\n4 Blanket Chintz.\n1 Couch.\n\n## No. 6 Room\n1 Bedstead.\n3 Mattresses.\n1 Gin lined box with chintz cover.\n1 Dresser.\n1 Blanket box with double lock.\n4 White painted linen press.\n\n## S. Verandah\nLarge Screen (Stone pointed).\n10 Verandah Chairs.\n1 Bedstead.\n\n## New Room\n1 Chest of Drawers.\n1 Wardrobe.\n2 Chairs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287593, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "content_text": "ARTICLES. \n\n(2) \n\nREMARKS. \n\n \n\nARTICLES. \n\n(3) \n\nREMARKS. \n\n131\n\nGOVERNOR'S OFFICE.\n\nBrass Fender and Metal Fire Irons. Gasalier, 3-burners.\n\n1 Round Table.\n\n1 Large Office Table, Chubb's Locks.\n\nTeak Writing Desk and Office Stool.\n\n2 Carved Black-wood Presses.\n\n1 Carpet..\n\n6 Morocco Walnut Chairs.\n\nWaste Paper Basket.\n\nCellaret.\n\nDivan and 3 Cushions.\n\n2 Post Office Notification Boards.\n\n1 Opera Glass by Chevalier.\n\nBrass Balance and Weights.\n\n1 Measuring Tape.\n\nDaily Indicator.\n\nOffice Call-Bell.\n\n2 Metal Inkstands.\n\n1 Pen Rack.\n\n1 Penang Chair.\n\nLIBRARY.\n\n2 Crimson Figured Curtains and Valances (2 Windows).\n\nMahogany Round Table (5-feet),\n\n2 Morocco Leather Arm Chairs,\n\n6 Green Morocco Walnut Chairs.\n\n4 Carved Book Cases.\n\n1 Large Mirror (Mantel Piece),\n\nGasalier, 5-burners.\n\nBrass Fender and Fire Irons.\n\n2 Lace Muslin Curtains.\n\n8 American Cloth Chairs (China made)..............\n\n1 Green Morocco Ottoman 4′ 2.\"\n\n1 Walnut Sofa, Green Morocco..\n\n1 Black-wood Press.\n\n1 Photograph Case,\n\n1 Round Table.\n\n1 Re-made Carpet,\n\n4 Bracket Oil Lamps, 2-burners.\n\nVery old.\n\nIn very bad order.\n\nFlaw in Centre.\n\nWant repair.\n\nCracked.\n\nIn bad order.\n\nBILLIARD ROOM.\n\nBilliard Table and Cover.\n\nSpirit Level,\n\nCue Rack.\n\n29 Cues.\n\n2 Long Cues.\n\n3 Small Rests.\n\n1 Long Rest.\n\n1 Mace.\n\n42 Balls.\n\nRules and Regulations.\n\nPool Scoring Board.\n\nBilliard Scoring Board,\n\nSmall Fender and Irons.\n\nBilliard Lamp (Gas) 6 Lights.\n\nBrush, Iron, and Screw Driver.\n\n1 Cane-seated Bench.\n\n1 Side Table, (3 Drawers).\n\n1 Cellaret.\n\n4 Large Maps in Wooden Case,.........\n\n1 Cane-seated High Chair.\n\nDo. Small do.\n\n2 Small Screens, Silk Damask.\n\n1 Bagatelle Table 10' x 4', with Balls,\n\n6 Cues and 3 Maces,\n\nScoring Board,\n\nWash Stand Console.\n\nSpirit Level for Bagatelle Board.\n\nBelow Table.\n\nIn Central Hall.\n\nCENTRAL HALL.\n\n2 Black-wood Marble-top Flower Stands.\n\n4 Walnut Chairs, Green Morocco Cushioned Backs,\n\n4 Bracket Gas Lights (3 lights each.)\n\nGasalier, 4-burners.\n\nRoyal Arms.\n\nPortrait, Her Majesty The Queen.\n\nPortrait, H. R. H. The Prince of Wales.\n\nPortrait, H. R. H. The Princess of Wales.\n\nHongkong Volunteer Flag.\n\n1 Black-wood Marble-top Side Table.\n\n2 Sheepskin Door Rugs.\n\n3 Pairs Rep Curtains.\n\n1 Large Black-wood Marble-top Centre Table.\n\n2 Rep Curtains,\n\nVESTIBULE.\n\n1 Blotted with Ink.\n\n2 Lace Curtains,\n\nLath and Pulley Rods complete.\n\nGilt Cornice Pole, Centre and Ends.\n\nGasalier, 3-burners,..\n\n4 Japanese Marble-top Tables.\n\nTelescope and Stand,\n\n4 Bracket Oil Lamps. Gas Lamp, 4-burners.\n\nMuch worn and apparently\n\neaten by rats or vermin.\n\nIn bad order.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288388, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "page_number": 333, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "321\n\nhave\n\nJam not aware that\n\nrue\n\nany diplomatic relations with the King of Cambodia,\n\nor any accredited Officer at his Court, though he informe that he has a number of British Subjects established at his\n\nCapital for purposes of trading.\n\nq\n\nIt is not within\n\nmy\n\nprovince to anticipate the course which it\n\n\"may be deemed expedient for Her Majesty's Government to take in this matter, but In\n\nbe\n\nmay\n\npermitted to suggest that\n\ngreat\n\ncare should be taken to avoid giving offence to Asiatic susceptibilities.\n\n10\n\nis\n\nI may add that His Majesty's DIVAN/\n\nof considerable intelligence,\n\nand keen observation. He visited\n\nand examined our\n\nPublic Schools,\n\nGaols, Hospitals, and Public Gardens, with much interest, and\n\ngreatly pleased with the appearance,\n\nthe Troops,\n\nand\n\nmovements\n\nof\n\nwhich the Major-General had the kindness to parade for him. I have the honor to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nmost obedient\n\nhumble servant,\n\nWrighty\n\nGovernor.\n\nI made the following corrections:\n1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"Jam\" to no replacement but kept \"aware that\", \"informe\" to \"informed\", \"grent\" to \"great\", \"gritly\" to \"greatly\", \"ploused\" to \"pleased\", \"Wrennidy\" to \"Wrighty\", \"DIVAN/\" to no replacement as it seems to be a title or a word in a different language).\n2. Removed extra spaces and added missing spaces to improve readability.\n3. Rejoined broken sentences.\n4. Corrected \"informe\" to \"informed\" and \"permitted\" was originally \"permilled\".\n5. The original text had \"DIVAN/\" which is kept as is, assuming it's a title or a specific term.\n6. 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In\n\nvery bad order.\n\nFlaw in Centre.\n\nWant repair.\n\nCracked.\n\nIn bad order.\n\nBILLIARD ROOM\n\nBilliard Table and Cover.\n\nSpirit Level.\n\nCue Rack.\n\n29 Cues.\n\n2 Long Cues.\n\n3 Small Rests.\n\n1 Long Rest.\n\n1 Mace.\n\n42 Balls.\n\nRules and Regulations.\n\nPool Scoring Board.\n\nBilliard Scoring Board,\n\nSmall Fender and Irons.\n\nBilliard Lamp (Gas) 6 Lights.\n\nBrush, Iron, and Screw Driver.\n\n1 Cane-seated Bench.\n\n1 Side Table, (3 Drawers).\n\n1 Cellaret.\n\n4 Large Maps in Wooden Case,...........\n\n1 Cane-seated High Chair.\n\n2 Do. Small do.\n\n2 Small Screens, Silk Damask.\n\n1 Bagatelle Table 10' x 4', with Balls,\n\n6 Cues and 3 Maces,\n\nScoring Board,\n\nWash Stand Console.\n\nSpirit Level for Bagatelle Board.\n\nBelow Table.\n\nIn Central Hall.\n\nCENTRAL HALL.\n\n2 Black-wood Marble-top Flower Stands.\n\n4 Walnut Chairs, Green Morocco Cushioned Backs.\n\n4 Bracket Gas Lights (3 lights each.)\n\nGasalier, 4-burners.\n\nRoyal Arms.\n\nPortrait, Her Majesty The Queen.\n\nPortrait, H. R. H. The Prince of Wales.\n\nPortrait, H. R. H. The Princess of Wales.\n\nHongkong Volunteer Flag.\n\n1 Black-wood Marble-top Side Table.\n\n2 Sheepskin Door Rugs.\n\n3 Pairs Rep Curtains.\n\n1 Large Black-wood Marble-top Centre Table.\n\n1 Blotted with Ink.\n\n2 Rep Curtains,\n\nVESTIBULE.\n\n2 Lace Curtains, §\n\nLath and Pulley Rods complete.\n\nGilt Cornice Pole, Centre and Ends.\n\nGasalier, 3-burners,....\n\n4 Japanese Marble-top Tables.\n\nTelescope and Stand,\n\n4 Bracket Oil Lamps.\n\nGas Lamp, 4-burners.\n\nMuch worn and apparently eaten by rats or vermin.\n\nOld.\n\nIn bad order.\n\n98", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296461, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "From whom To whom \n\nDate \n\n188 \n\nSubject \n\nattached by the Supreme Court, released.\n\n5. Act Attorney General Act & Col. sec. 18ct 1998 Alates that the Executive cannot \n\nPage 1765-18.\n\n1973.\n\nre as rey\n\ninterfere.\n\n- requested, and that if the Annamere Yost wishes the machinery of the bang tee released, a means for doing so is provided by the code of Civil Procedure.\n\ncode of\n\nChief Justice\n\nJustice 22 March 1875 Forwards a letter (Mxy) received by\n\nHis Excellency from the Minister\n\nPage 19 to 20\n\n6. Acts Col. Sec\n\n7.\n\nMinister of Foreign Affairs - Annam\n\nPage 21 to 28.\n\n8. Governor\n\n[Sir A. E. Kennedy]\n\nGovernor\n\nMercantile Marine - Annam\n\nno date complains that the steamer which was purchased a year ago by an Annamite Official and for the payment of which, also of a private law, two Annamite Officials went as security;\n\naltogether\n\nwas\n\na private affair and had nothing to do with the Annamese Govt whose\n\nMan Aivan the Dans Me has\n\nnevertheless been arrested for non-payment of this private debt\n\nAct Col: Sec 20th March 1874 Sends acknowledgment of the above.\n\nPage 29.\n\nletter / Rey) and supports the m appointment on the part of the Annamese Govt of a Consular agent at Hongkong to guard against disposition\n\nand against Annamite...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308058, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "## For Sale. \n\n**MacEWEN, FKJKEL & CO., H**AVE JUST RECEIVED \"KL AMERICAN MAIL\" \n\n**Prime Esatera CCISE.** \n\n**Young Aansrict CUERE.** **Apple OHEISE** **BUTTER.** \n\nand **MALT.** \n\n**Sarend Ply's FELI** **Split PRAS.** \n\n**Fab' TONGTES** **AJANS.** \n\n**COONISE.** \n\n**Astarted VRGETABLES.** \n\n**arted AEN.** \n\n**Muted BOLFS.** \n\n**Pig Head UHKKSE** **Devilled HAN** \n\n**CAVISKE** **CLOSE** \n\n**Caiturei Colien BTADT** \n\n**Whitters BAMS.** \n\n**Breakfat KAŬON.** \n\n**Mails.** \n\n## NOTICE. \n\n**COMPAGNIE ES MOSAQEKINS MARITIMES.** \n\n## PAGURROTS POSTE FRANÇAIS. \n\nSTRAY FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ MAILIA, FORT Sat, NAPLES, AND · HARSAILLES; \n\nA1204 BOMUAY, MARE, ST. 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? Sectility toware (lengter) doubtless all pre \n\n## ayuu'e \n\n**ar** \n\n**doring** \n\n**and** \n\n**alter** \n\n**thation** \n\n## THE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319732, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 287, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "283 \n\nIn my opinion, supposes a unity of purpose and action in the administration which it will be long before it can lay claim to. On the other hand, the Government, both central and provincial, does value highly the revenue that it derives both under Tariff and by inland taxation from foreign opium. In 1875 the total of import duties collected, under Tariff, was 3,904,439 taels. Of this foreign opium paid over 1,888,000 taels, or nearly one-half. But as a costly necessary, perhaps the only import that is a necessary, it stands without flinching a heavy burden of taxation in addition to Tariff, and the provincial Governments interested have of late years shown a desire not so to weight it as to drive the trade entirely into the hands of the smuggler. I say of late years, for, when Lord Elgin's Treaty was first on trial, opium was less intelligently dealt with, and the smuggler and the subordinate official benefited accordingly. Even now opium smuggling is not utterly extinct, although the preventive service is more effective than formerly, and the trade is taxed, in my opinion, with greater discernment.\n\nThe rate of taxation in some instances rises, but not, I think, beyond what the locality will bear. The Tariff duty is 30 taels per picul. At Tien-tsin, Chefoo, and Newchwang, the three northern ports, it pays in addition 18 taels li-kin. Three years ago, at Chefoo, it paid but 12 taels li-kin, and the rate was probably the same at the other two ports, the foreign commerce of which belongs to the same native superintendency. At Shanghae it pays 40 taels li-kin; at Foochow 80 taels; but at that port, some time since, it was stated to pay as much as 130 taels.\n\nIn the earlier negotiations of 1876, I had at one time myself proposed that the opium li-kin tax should be equalized at all ports; and at Chefoo I was invited to consent first to a uniform rate of 90 taels, which I declined, and subsequently to 90 taels, as a maximum limit at the southern, and 50 taels at the three northern ports. This would have been a considerable advance upon the rates now ruling, and would have added very largely to the Customs revenue. The Grand Secretary Li did not allow that this consideration influenced him in the proposition. The Chinese Government, he said, would not be sorry to see an increase of li-kin act prohibitively against the import of foreign opium.\n\nWhether, if the total to which li-kin at these increased rates would amount could be collected on the opium trade in a lump sum, such a tax would so act, I do not feel sure. Mr. Hart was strongly of opinion that the trade would bear the uniform rate of 90 taels li-kin everywhere. So great an increase of taxation, suddenly imposed, however, would not fail very seriously to interfere with the foreign opium trade at the poorer ports, and where it did so with other branches of foreign trade. Accordingly, I declined to give the encouragement of a stipulation to the proposition suddenly and extensively to increase the rate of li-kin. The Chinese have the right, which they exercise, to impose upon opium what li-kin the authorities of particular localities think expedient. I have preferred to leave the question in this position, conceding, however, recommendation of a new arrangement for the collection of the li-kin levied upon opium, which, while it secures to the Chinese Government revenue that I conceive it entitled to, avoids any possibility of collision between the executive of the li-kin collectorates and the quasi-municipal police in charge of port settlements: an evil to which I have earlier referred.\n\nThe stipulation in Article VII, that a Mixed Commission shall consider the establishment of some system that may enable the Chinese Government to protect its revenue without prejudice to the interests of Hong Kong, points more or less in the same direction. There are rights on both sides to be protected, and a clash between the powers exercised on both sides to be averted. I bring in allusion to the Hong Kong question here, because opium has been so largely the cause of the proceedings of which the Colony complains.\n\nBut first, as regards the rights of the Chinese Government over opium at the ports. I have stated above the limits of the change that I conceive Lord Elgin contemplated effecting. I give below the exact words of his stipulation affecting it:-\n\n\"Opium will henceforth pay 30 taels per picul duty. The importer will sell it only at the port. It will be carried into the interior by Chinese only, and only as Chinese property; the foreign trader will not be allowed to accompany it. The provisions of Article IX of the Treaty of Tien-tsin, by which British subjects are authorized to proceed into the interior with passports to trade, will not extend to it, nor will those of Article XXVIII of the same Treaty, by which the transit dues are regulated; the transit dues on it will be arranged as the Chinese Government see fit; nor in future revisions of the Tariff is the same rule of revision to be applied to opium as to other goods.\"--(Treaty of Tien-tsin; Tariff; Rule 5.)\n\nThe words \"the importer shall sell it only at the port,\" it has been contended, entitle opium to the benefit of a port area, and the exaction of li-kin from the native purchaser within the settlement has been (at Shanghae) protested against, nay more, resisted.\n\nI cannot support this contention. I do not allow opium the same right of exemption from taxation in excess of the Tariff duty. Remembering, as it is impossible that I should forget, the position of the opium trade up to the time that the Tariff above quoted was signed, I cannot read the rule otherwise than declaring what I know to be Lord Elgin's intention regarding the trade. He would have it regularized, but he would not protect it like the rest of our import trade. He was, in fact, opposed to its expansion. Had he contemplated a port area within which opium was to have been exempted from taxation, he could have contemplated none but the same as that claimed for other imports, a district more or less considerable at every port, and the freedom of which from the surveillance of the li-kin or other like collectorates would, from the portability of the drug, have exposed the revenue leviable beyond the limits of any such district to enormous loss. For all other imports, as I have argued, we had a right under Treaty to claim the benefit of such an area, and our imports, opium of course excepted, if taxed within it, no matter in whose hands, were taxed in contravention of Treaty. This is the area limitation of which I have recommended that we should concede in exchange for the increased facilities conceded by the Chinese. For opium I claim no area. The importer might, without breach of Treaty, open a divan for its consumption upon his own premises, but once it left his premises in native hands I do not admit that, as in the case of other imports, while within the port area, the Treaty would authorize us to come between the Government and the native purchaser.\n\nConsidering, therefore, that the collection of li-kin on opium in the port area, whether the larger area to which by Treaty we are entitled, or the more restricted area proposed by myself, is lawful, it follows that I admit the right of Chinese Government Agents to collect it. But as the presence of the native executive employed to this end is, for many reasons, inconvenient, I would render the presence of that executive unnecessary, by transferring its functions to the foreign Customs Inspectorate, through whose hands, at this moment, all foreign opium, unless it be smuggled, must pass. The drug, when brought into port, is to be bonded until it is sold, and when sold the importer is to pay the duty on it, and the purchaser the li-kin.\n\nBy this very simple arrangement, I cannot see that the revenue of India is to suffer. It will not cause an ounce less of Indian opium to be sold than at present. Where he has been able, to a certain extent, to sell a proportion of his opium li-kin free, he will now not sell it until it shall have paid li-kin. And this would apply even to opium consumed on his premises, should he open a divan, because no opium would be released from bond except on payment of the li-kin. But then I contend that li-kin, or other like tax, is duly leviable upon all opium brought into China.\n\nI have been asked whether the provincial Governments will not, under these circumstances, be induced to impose a higher rate of li-kin upon opium than heretofore. In my opinion they will not tax it beyond what it will bear. They really want this revenue, and they now impose, unquestioned, whatever li-kin they believe the local market will endure. I do not see that the far greater security of collecting what they do impose, which its collection by the foreign Inspectorate will afford, should tempt them to suicidal taxation. And I say this without forgetting that the dread of the competing smuggler may possibly be diminished by the efforts of the Commission provided for in Article VII for the protection of Chinese revenue without prejudice to the interests of Hong Kong.\n\nThis brings me relevantly to the existing conflict between these interests, of which it will be the function of the Commission to devise an adjustment; a conflict, as I have implied, in which the rights of China to revenue on foreign opium are largely concerned.\n\nAll other considerations apart, it is the satisfaction of these that I have felt it my duty, as an international agent, to keep steadily before me.\n\nI have shown, I think, why, without affecting to deprecate the moralist's censure of the abuse of opium-smoking in China, I decline to run tilt at the trade upon moral grounds. To recapitulate: its sudden cessation would entail upon the Government of India an enormous loss, without, as I believe, any corresponding advantage to China. The Chinese will continue to smoke opium, I will not say as the national sedative (the latest euphemism), but as we use malt and spirits, some for good, many for evil, until such time as the use or abuse of stimulants is controlled otherwise than by legislative pressure. They will continue to smoke Indian opium as long as opium-smoking prevails in China, provided always that Indian opium is the best they can procure.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320080, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "It would **korowa** be glad \n## Course \nto know what steps \n**dud** Granville **Jurposes** \nto table\" in regard to \nthe Company's application \n\nའ་ \n\n## Office or Individual \nfice \nHangtag \nNo 23867 \n**(Subject.)** \nence Telegraphs \nachin elepaph Co \n## Date. \n1882 \n## Last previous Paper. \nep \nTel Gov.inf \nAns d 13 \nFeb \n10 Feb 82. \n2282l \n2282 \n## China \nL \n**RECR** \n## DOMESTIC. \nC O. 42 2 386 \n**REGE 9 FEB 12** \n\nRefrects to warn \nher. \nof H hand as suggested bes \nSi T. Warde- Enclares copy letter by. \n4. Bramelän \nDerlinday \n**(Minutes)** \ndown the papers refered t \nand suggested that \nCheap Shang Rag Talaquapho Comprarz \n## Mr Herbert \nLa \nجمعة \nWhold \nthe Savan \ndemes. \nGut Zeng \nThan paper them in trym- \nSee `2282` \n`180.912` \n`1081-H&S 1321)` \nLoft tel. therearth", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330209, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Page 69\n\nGovernor, and that I considered the best thing to be done under the circumstances would be to send in the letter to Government with a communication asking for instructions.\n\n**(Signed)** SALE\n\n### Precis\n\n(1) Letter dated 11th December 1885, signed by Ho Kivan Shaw, and stamped with the stamp of the On Fai Insurance Company, stating that he had received a despatch from the Mandarin, translated it to Ho Kivan Shaw, and forwarded it to the Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital with his congratulations.\n\n(2) Letter dated the 9th December, 1885, signed by Ho Kivan Shaw and addressed to Kuan Hoi-Chin and the other Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital, forwarding the Despatch translated and a tablet scroll, stating that he has presented...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330219, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \nThe Emperor has **bestowed** a tablet on the Ting Wa Hospital, which has been graciously granted by the Emperor. The characters have the mark of royal favour and may be displayed so that they never die.\n\nA tablet has been engraved and hung up so that it may be displayed and never die.\n\nThis was done on the 29th day of the 2nd Moon of the Ki Mau year (19th February, 1879).\n\n### Official Instructions\nReceived from His Worship Yang, the District Magistrate of San On:\n\nThe writer ventures to request the Directors to arrange for the hanging up of the tablet, on which the Emperor has bestowed the characters **神威百佑** (Divine Power, Hundred Blessings).\n\nKerng Su, 5th year, 2nd moon, 5th day (25th February, 1877)\n\nMr. Chong, Divan, received the official instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335026, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "The case reveals itself.\n\nA charge of perjury by the prosecution and subornation of perjury on the part of the official in charge, being the military mandarin in charge at Yung Ki, and it is clear we submit utterly impossible to believe that he is unacquainted with the fact above stated.\n\nAs to the evidence of Tan Tean, we would eagerly draw his Excellency's attention to the fact that his story is most improbable on the face of it, his guardhouse being seven li from the spot of the supposed burglary and he having never visited the house.\n\nWere the story told by the witnesses for the prosecution a true one, ample evidence could have been forthcoming to show that a proper report was made at the time to the Tepo, that the Tepo reported the matter to the Justices, that the Justices reported the matter to the civil mandarin at Hea Rong, and that if necessary it was reported to the official at Tai Leung.\n\nBut what do we find? No report of any sort or kind is made except by a farmer who does the sweeping out of an ancestral temple. He is not produced as a witness, but we are told that the high Chinese official at Tai Leung, on being shown the body of Shivan Shap, said: \"Yes, killed by robbers. File your case,\" took no evidence of any sort or kind, and took no steps such as are customary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335095, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 377, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "周茂\n\n374\n\nPlan drawn by Faran Shap-i\n\n(A)\n\nKwaw Shaw's\n\nPassage.\n\nBrothin\n\nJames Hall\n\nRoom\n\n周茂\n\nJung K.\n\n容奇\n\nRep\n\n南路\n\nMagistrale came. The wall was mended on the 9th November, the day after the Magistrate left. When I went back this time, that man did not come to look at the house. I do not know where Chan Man lives. I have asked Dien. I know he is a lokang as his watch house is at Ham to. I have never been to his watchhouse.\n\nRe-examined :-\n\nMy duties as a Military student consist of archery and gymnastics. These are the first duties of a Military student.\n\nDo Consti\n\nI punctured these duties in the temple.\n\n...\n\nInver Open Space\n\nFamage.\n\nKitchen\n\nopium divan Only stall.\n\nDAAAA\n\nFolding doorD,\n\nOuter Open Space.\n\n+ Porch, 7\n\nGrand Door,\n\nRoas\n\nLan", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335109, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 391, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "才\n\nwateluvan at Kwai Chau. Before that I was a hawker in Kwai Chau.\n\nJ deew پاکر any robbers I have never? thieves while in Kirai Chan. The saw on the night of J tvere itie first ل веско d ever Jeen the 物 7: I did not court them but I calculated that there were about 60. When I fought with the robbers I was about ebeing from then. Iu In a : the lame it was 3 or 4 chenugs from then. elly been dismissed. I don't know where theer, 3 folki- & in the watch house have Our lovetus Cucc. were made of banbor 나 One of 100 huld a cuid resin. After lighting them rushed after the 60. Eightedtorch J toe a revolver. He fought - never heard of Sang-Haw Him. lly watch is the SM of the Coron. There is big road going past the watch house to the Eastern Altar. The Jain-Pan bridge | is to the North of the road, the love in e. hich I hid is to the Souths of the road. I had been to the Kwan ancestral temple once before 桂州 on 2 387 before the 224d dine, when I was taken as constable. I have been living in t Yung K'i eince the 9th MŁOTW of last yeave. 林州 I have been to the Kivan family temple 朴州 scorral times. I don't remember all. Every time I have been there I have been to acc Kwan Pok-Chaw. Some tiver I went a muert th some times I wails not of 2 months. I diet not of last year. 崩口喧 At VIII 三板 MULOVY 76 for go in the VII tuoon I went in the latter part of I went tivice in the IX once in the 18 drext I only went moe went in the IV moon 12th day I went on the V soon. Kwan Pok-Chaw does not live in that temple. I do not know who the is who looks after the temple. He had beard so I called his uncl. never becved Aus I have been to at family one. tame. Yung لاد The only temple) Ri is the Revan My watch house is 7 to 8 ti from the templo. In the nighttime Keep watch arrest thieves. go to the Once", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348397, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "which suggests important amendment of the Law required in consequence such closing, the limitation of quantity of prepared opium viz. Nine that 3 any one may be sold to or possessed one person with a view to preventing worthi... The establishment of unlicensed dens in private houses and send copy com... t... for. of the Straits for his cousin and report.\n\nThe questions affecting the Straits Sett: with reference to the S. of State's desp\" to Sie C. Knitte 2- 14670% (which is not yet ans... J. W. J. 18 Mar. C.P.L. 18\". To proces - but I reserve my opinion ops to the greater Excrits of the leasing over the farming system until I have received the Govermes further report. The Multiplication of places & box calibed, & the Institution of a fost system of beccar in Ilan of the Nuuping, Mon Efficient Excis cooked d... Gist farmer while the aba... doment of the prevent to me to invoer risks of much importance, from Banting our Long Experine, F. Adoption of another a Experimental Systim Fortich 201. Krson nothing befor the thung is made are matter to be most carefully considente + M22/3 \n\nThis is forin dealt with in 13 55.121 Ord. 2171890 but not Itten sufficiently for the pursu divan in case AR ?) ? umyzy 3 to be chose So proceed - I han not porn any 127 deir Rincon in favour of licemony at yourt farming hayle for various reason despond to favour the form phan Let no see drost K 2673 M. Facifield J \n\nThese despues hereon are Eight mother old. Should we remind the Loverm C.W.J.26 Jan.93 EPL 26 I think in has better to sui atma 87 26 Jay", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351529, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "page_number": 444, "title": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "content_text": "...\n\n443\n\nA limited number of licenses should be granted, having regard to the requirements of the population, for the preparation and sale of prepared opium for local consumption. These licensees should pay a fee, and a higher charge say $2 or $3 a ball for every ball prepared at the factory. It is in this connection that a store would be requisite, under the control of the Government and either in the factory or adjacent thereto. The licensees for local consumption might not want to boil a whole chest at once, but they ought to have the facility of having a broken chest under Government control, from which they might draw according to the requirements of their trade.\n\nThis opium could be issued as it was wanted. The object of this is to keep up the system at present in force whereby the possession by any one of loose opium is prohibited. They would have to buy a chest at least and lodge it in the store. China could have no complaint to make if this plan were adopted, because the loose opium would be in the hands of a Government Officer.\n\nAs to (b) dross opium. It too must be prepared in the Government factory. Licenses could be granted to divan keepers and their number limited as might seem advisable, at such charges as it might be thought proper.\n\nThe difficulty would be to allot the licenses in all cases. The applicants for boiling for export would be necessarily very limited, but there would", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352909, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 501, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "ORDINANCE No. 21 of 1891.\n\nPrepared Opium.\n\nNo. 21 of 1891.\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong-kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to repeal Ordinances No. 1 of 1884 and No. 17 of 1886 and to amend the Law relating to the preparation of Opium.\n\nLS\n\nBE\n\nG. DIGBY BARKER,\n\nOfficer Administering the Government,\n\n[18th November, 1891]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1891.\n\n2. In the construction of this Ordinance the following terms and expressions shall have the meanings respectively set against them, wherever the same are consistent with the context.\n\nColony Shall include the waters thereof.\n\nExcise Officer.-Any person appointed under the Ordinances hereby repealed and continued under this Ordinance or any person appointed by the Governor under section 3 of this Ordinance as Excise Officer.\n\nTitle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nShort title.\n\nInterpretation.\n\nFarm.-Any exclusive privilege granted under this Ordinance.\n\nFarmer.-Any holder for the time being of any such exclusive privilege.\n\nOpium Farmer-The holder for the time being of the exclusive privilege of preparing and selling prepared opium, either inclusive or exclusive of dross opium.\n\nDross Farmer.-The holder (if any) for the time being of the exclusive privilege of collecting and purchasing dross, and preparing and dealing in dross opium.\n\nDivan Farmer-The holder (if any) for the time being of the exclusive privilege of opening, carrying on, or licensing any class of opium smoking divans.\n\n498", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352910, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 502, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "(1 of M. 3.)\n\n(17 DE 80, 2)\n\nExcise (heur. (1 0084, 50)\n\nORDINANCE No. 21 of 1891.\n\nPrepared Opium.\n\nWhen there is no opium farmer, or no dross farmer, or no divan farmer, this Ordinance shall be read as if the Governor in Council or any person licensed for the purpose by the Governor in Council were expressly named instead of the opium farmer, or as if the Colonial Secretary, or any person licensed for the purpose by the Colonial Secretary were expressly named instead of the dross farmer or the divan farmer, or either of them. And payment or delivery to the Treasurer, for the use of the public revenue, or to an Excise Officer for the same purpose shall in all such cases be taken to be payment or delivery to such farmer under this Ordinance.\n\nImplement. Any vessel, utensil, instrument, or other thing which has been used or which is probably intended to be used for containing prepared opium or for preparing, or aiding in preparing any opium, or for smoking opium.\n\n(1) Opium—Shall include dross and dross opium.\n\n(2) Prepared Opium—Shall, so far as relates to the infringement of the opium farmer's privilege of preparing opium within the Colony, mean opium which has been subjected to any degree of artificial heat for any purpose whatever, and shall include dross opium whenever such a construction is consistent with the context.\n\n(3) Dross—Shall mean the refuse produced by smoking opium, and Dross Opium shall mean opium prepared wholly or chiefly from such refuse.\n\nPossession. Any opium, implement or other thing shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be in the possession of any person if he has such opium, implement or thing in possession, custody, or control, by himself or by any other person.\n\nPreparation—The subjecting of opium of any kind to any degree of artificial heat, for any purpose whatever, shall be taken to be the preparing of such opium.\n\nShip. Any steam or sailing vessel, junk, boat, sampan, or any kind of craft used for the conveyance of persons or things by water, or which may be so used.\n\nSummary Conviction.—Conviction before a Police Magistrate of the Colony.\n\nExcise Officers.\n\n3. All existing Excise Officers appointed under the Ordinances hereby repealed shall be continued under this Ordinance, and the Governor may, from time to time, appoint in the form of Schedule 4 such other agents or servants of the opium farmer or other persons as may be approved of by him to act as Excise Officers under this Ordinance. Any such appointments may at any time be withdrawn by the Governor.\n\n4. Any person assuming without lawful authority to act as an Excise Officer shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or in default to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding three months.\n\n5. The name and address of every Excise Officer shall be posted in a conspicuous place at the Police Court.\n\n6. Every Excise Officer shall be supplied with a badge bearing such sign or mark of office as may be directed by the Governor, and when acting against any person under this Ordinance, every such Excise Officer shall declare his office, and produce to the person against whom he acts his said badge.\n\n7. Every Police officer when acting under this Ordinance, if not in uniform, shall declare his office, and produce to the person against whom he acts such badge as the Captain Superintendent of Police may direct Police officers to carry when on secret or special service.\n\n8. Any Excise Officer who shall take any bribe, shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months with or without hard labour, and any Excise Officer who shall not, on ceasing to be an Excise Officer, return to the Opium Farmer his uniform or accoutrements, badge or licence, shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.\n\n9. (1) No person except the opium farmer, his licensees, and persons duly authorised by him in writing shall bring into the Colony, or have in his possession within the same any prepared opium not being dross opium without having a valid certificate under section 12.\n\n(2) No person shall bring into the Colony or have in his possession within the same, any dross opium without the knowledge and consent of the dross farmer.\n\n(3) No person except a dross farmer or a duly licensed person under this Ordinance shall, within the Colony, collect dross or have in his possession without the knowledge and consent of the dross farmer or his licensees any dross except such as may be the result of his own smoking or of the smoking of opium on his own premises (the burden of proof whereof shall lie upon such person), and such dross shall in no case exceed two taels in weight; provided that when any person has in his possession any such dross in ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352911, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 503, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "Unlicensed preparation,\n\n41 of 54, 8.)\n\nCulicmused divany. Kir»^ &\n\nSale of\n\nprepared\n\nepica.\n\nCT 84, 16.)\n\nCertificate.\n\nORDINANCE No. 21 of 1891.\n\nPrepared Opium.\n\nexcess of two taels weight, upon giving notice thereof to the dross farmer, the dross farmer shall purchase the same at a fair and reasonable rate.\n\n10. (1.) No person except the opium farmer shall within the Colony prepare opium.\n\n(2.) No person except the opium farmer and any duly licensed person under this Ordinance shall sell or offer or expose for sale any prepared opium. (3.) No person except the dross farmer and any duly licensed person under this Ordinance shall deal in or prepare dross opium. Provided that no medical practitioner, chemist or druggist, not being a Chinese, or being such and having a European or American diploma, shall be prevented from preparing or selling opium bona fide for medicinal purposes and provided that no trader in opium shall be prevented from bona fide testing samples of opium obtained in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 22 of 1887 or any Ordinance amending the same and keeping the same for the purposes of his trade the burden of proof whereof shall in each case be upon any person alleging the same in his defence.\n\n11. (1) No person shall open or carry on any divan or other place for the smoking of opium or dross opium without a licence in such form and upon such conditions as may be approved by the Governor in Council.\n\n(2.) All licensed divans shall be open to the inspection of the Opium Farmer and all Excise Officers at all times of night and day.\n\n12. (1.) Every person selling prepared opium, not being dross opium, shall deliver therewith a certificate in Chinese or English in such form as the Governor may from time to time approve, specifying the date of the sale, the name of the purchaser, and the quantity sold. Such certificate shall be issued from books provided with counterfoils, and both the certificates and the counterfoils shall bear corresponding and consecutive printed numbers. The certificates shall be stamped by the seller with the stamp used by him in carrying on his business, and shall be evidence of the facts therein stated, and shall not be transferable.\n\n(2.) If any person is charged with the possession of prepared opium without a valid certificate, he shall not be entitled to produce or put in evidence or cause to be produced or put in evidence any certificate, as covering the opium in respect of which he is charged, prior in date to the last certificate granted to him, unless he has received permission from the opium farmer to keep or store opium, which permission shall appear on the certificate produced or put in evidence.\n\n(3.) Where there is no opium farmer the certificate shall be in the Form B. in the schedule hereto,\n\n13. No certificate so granted by the opium farmer or by any licensee under him shall be valid after noon of the third day from the date of the expiration of such opium farmer's privilege.\n\nFarms.\n\n14. (1.) The Governor in Council may grant to any person, for such considerations and upon such conditions, and for such periods, and in such form as from time to time may be determined by the Governor in Council, the sole privilege of preparing opium, and of selling within the Colony opium so prepared, and either inclusive or exclusive of the privileges mentioned in sections 16 and 17. Such privilege may from time to time be offered for sale either by sealed tender or at public auction, and the time for sending in such tenders or of holding such auction shall be previously notified in the Gazette in English and Chinese and by advertisement in one or more daily newspapers.\n\n(2.) The Governor in Council may also grant to any person the like privilege as aforesaid by private contract if it shall appear desirable in the interests of the Colony.\n\n(3.) The accepted bidder for or the grantee of such privilege, before he shall become entitled to the benefit thereof shall give such security as the Governor in Council may require for the due performance of the conditions of such privilege and of his stipulations or agreement in respect thereof.\n\n(4) The Opium Farmer shall in all cases keep a proper register or record of all opium supplied to him, and shall give such details as to its disposal as the Governor may require,\n\n15. (1.) The opium farmer may in his discretion grant licences to suitable persons authorising them to sell prepared opium, but subject to such conditions as shall from time to time be approved by the Governor in Council.\n\n(2.) Where there is no opium farmer the Governor in Council may in his discretion grant licences to suitable persons authorising them to prepare and sell opium upon such conditions as shall from time to time be approved by the Governor in Council.\n\nIn of\n\nartisante.\n\n1 of 81, 17.)\n\nOpium term\n\n(1 of 64, 5.\n\nOpium\n\nfarmer's licensees\n\n(1 of 34, 15)\n\n500", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353790, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "content_text": "VID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\n178\n\nHongkong,\n\nA smoker may sometimes, when pressed for time, prepare a little opium in the office, & drink it to alleviate the craving for an immediate smoke.\n\nThe majority of opium consumers do not become slaves to the drug & eventually stop.\n\nA considerable proportion are moderate consumers.\n\nI find that, as far as this Colony is concerned, there are very few consumers who could properly be termed \"opium sots\".\n\nIt is not so, from the fact that a large proportion are moderate consumers.\n\nI have known several instances during my many years' residence of men who have been opium smokers for from 30 to 40 years without any apparent harm to their health.\n\nAbout 30% of the labourers, but only to a moderate degree, smoke opium. They generally go to an Opium divan after their midday meal, & after their day's work, to have a smoke.\n\nOf the merchants, there are about 10% who smoke opium.\n\nAmong the Artisans also, there are smokers, though the average is not quite as high as that of the labourers.\n\nThe opium habit in these people does not, as far as I can see, cause them any significant harm.\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363182, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Con closure.\n\n13\n\n500\n\nBye-Law\n\nthe operation of the Bye Law\n\nMor\n\nany\n\nin question.\n\nsity to hold the en\n\nneces\n\nenquiry. in the Prayer of\n\nasked for the Petition.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir, Your Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nWilliam Robinzon\n\nTO THE RIGHT HON,\n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,\n\nHER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES,\n\nRespectfully sheweth:\n\nTHE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE MAN FOOK CO., OF\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG, OPIUM FARMERS, ON BEHALF\n\nOF THEMSELVES, THEIR LICENSEES, AND SUB-LICENSEES.\n\n1. By a grant dated February 27th, 1895, under the hand of H. E. the Governor, and the Seal of the Colony of Hongkong, your petitioners obtained the entire privileges known as the Opium Farm, including the privilege of collecting dross opium and of preparing and dealing in dross opium and of keeping divans for the smoking of opium, subject to the conditions specified in the said grant, for 3 years from the 1st March, 1895, and in consideration thereof your Petitioners agreed to pay to the Government the yearly sum of $286,000. A copy of said grant is sent herewith.\n\n2. All that portion of the said privileges known as the Dross Farm and the Opium Divan Farm, are sub-let by your petitioners to one Hu Shun Chuen, hereinafter called the Dross Farmer, for the whole of their term for the sum of $4,260 monthly. The Dross Farmer and his licensees have the sole right of preparing and dealing in dross opium and of keeping houses of call for the smoking of opium within the Colony.\n\n3. In the Colony there are 139 Opium Divans divided into 18 first class, and 121 second class Divans. In the second class divans dross opium alone is used. The keepers of all the Divans are licensed by the Dross Farmer to keep opium Divans, and in addition the second class divan keepers are licensed to prepare dross opium.\n\n4. Opium dross is the residuum from prepared opium that has been smoked in the Chinese fashion in pipes. This dross when properly treated can be smoked again, and is extensively used by the poorer classes of Chinese. The dross in its unprepared state is collected from the 1st class opium divans and from private houses by licensees of the Dross Farmer and sold by them to the second class Divan keepers. The Divan keepers can also obtain dross direct from Canton and elsewhere on the mainland of China, but in that case they pay a duty to the Dross Farmer on the weight they so import.\n\n5. The amount of Dross Opium used in the Divans per month is 30,000 taels weight, valued at Tls. 10,000, viz., about $13,900.\n\n6. The customers of the second class Divans, which alone are seriously affected by the Bye-law mentioned below, are drawn entirely from the coolie classes. The habit of the majority is to smoke a mace or so (i.e., about 2 drachms) of opium, divided into two or more pipes according to the fancy or leisure of the smoker, before going to work in the morning and after the evening meal before going to rest.\n\nSome of course smoke during the day but they are comparatively few; consequently, the busiest times of the 24 hours are from 6 to 10 p.m. in the evening and from 3 to 7 in the morning. From 7 to 10 p.m. are actually the busiest, and during those hours the second class opium Divans are densely crowded. From 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., the numbers gradually diminish, and from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. the houses are emptier than at any time during the night, but even then are fuller than during the day, the numbers being kept up by late working rickshaw and chair coolies, and by the coal coolies who discharge coal from the godowns at night under special permits, and later from about 2 a.m. onwards by the night soil coolies. At about 3 a.m. coolies of all kinds begin to come in for their morning pipes before going to work, and from 4 to 6 a.m. the houses are crowded, not as crowded as from 7 to 10 p.m., but still crowded.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363183, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "19\n\n7. In September, 1896, the Sanitary Board passed certain byelaws, under the Public Health Ordinance, 1887, regulating Opium Divans, which, as they directly affected the opium business, were submitted to your Petitioners. Your Petitioners wrote a letter to the Colonial Secretary protesting against certain of the said Bye-laws, and in consequence these byelaws were amended in certain particulars and a fresh set passed in December, 1896, and again submitted to your Petitioners. Your Petitioners then presented a petition to H. E. the Governor, in which with reference to Byelaw 4, which limited the number who were to be permitted to pass the night in opium divans, they stated\n\n\"With regard to Byelaw 4, this, if enforced, will entirely disorganize the business as at present carried on. The Opium Divans are frequented by large numbers of persons who call in during the night either after leaving their work or before setting out to commence work, and undoubtedly at certain times (but not for the whole night) there are much larger numbers of visitors present than the small number permitted by the provisions of the Public Health Ordinance with regard to overcrowding of dwelling houses. If therefore the numbers permitted are reduced as proposed, the licensees, in view of their reduced business, will be unable to pay to your Petitioners the amounts they have agreed to pay in respect of the said Divans; and either the payments must be largely reduced or they will stop business altogether, and undoubtedly evasions of the law will be attempted, and the business will be harassed by continual police prosecutions.\n\n\"But quite apart from the above details, your Petitioners most respectfully protest against any new conditions or regulations being imposed upon them in the management of the Opium Divan business, during the continuance of their present grant of the Opium Farm.\n\n\"The conditions under which the divans have been and are now carried on have been the same for the last 30 years. They are under the eyes of the Government and were well known to them at the time of the grant of the present Opium Farm to your Petitioners, and it is respectfully submitted that if it was intended to change the conditions under which the said Divans should be permitted to be carried on, it should have been done before the farm was granted to your Petitioners and not afterwards.\n\n\"The tender of your Petitioners for the said farm and the price to be paid therefor was calculated according to the profits which it was found by experience could be earned from the said farm, including the said Divan business as then and heretofore carried on, and it was certainly never contemplated by your Petitioners, nor we submit is it equitable that the conditions of the grant should be varied during the pendency of the contract between the Government and your Petitioners.\n\n\"It is a fundamental principle of the law that 'a person may not derogate from his own grant' and it is respectfully submitted that this applies as well and equally to contracts between the Government and private persons, as to contracts between private persons alone. Your Petitioners humbly submit that the new regulations sought to be imposed are a variation from and are inconsistent with the terms of the said grant to them of the privileges of the Opium Farm.\n\n\"Your Petitioners therefore respectfully inform your Excellency that if the proposed regulations be enforced, they will be unable to carry on the business of the Opium Divans on the terms of your Excellency's grant, dated the 27th February, 1895.\n\n\"Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray your Excellency to consent to one of the following alternatives, viz.:\n\n\"(1) That the coming into force of the proposed Byelaws should be postponed until the expiry of the present grant of the Opium Farm to your petitioners, viz., the 28th February, 1898, when the Government can make such terms with the new Farmer as appear to them requisite.\n\nor '(2) That the Government should resume that portion of the privileges of the Opium Farm mentioned in sections 16 and 17 of the Prepared Opium Ordinance, and known as the 'Dross Farm' and the Divan Farm,' and allow your Petitioners a corresponding reduction in the monthly sums payable by them in respect of the said Opium Farm and that it should give your Petitioners' licensee reasonable compensation for any damages suffered by him in consequence thereof.\"\n\nThese allegations, arguments and requests your Petitioners now repeat with reference to Byelaw 3 passed by the Legislative Council on May 3rd, 1897.\n\n8. In answer to this petition, your petitioners received a letter dated 31st March, 1897, from the Hon. Colonial Secretary, in which they were informed that their petition had been carefully considered and the Byelaws had been carefully revised with a view to prevent the infliction of any apparent hardship upon them; but that it was necessary to consider the public health, and the granting of the Opium Farm in no way implied that the Sanitary Board should be precluded from making Byelaws in pursuance of the powers conferred upon it under the Public Health Ordinance of 1887, which was in force when the contract was made.\n\n9. Your Petitioners, however, found on perusing the final draft of the Byelaws that so far from the apparent hardship being removed in regard to the limitation of the numbers allowed in the Opium Divans, the Byelaw with respect to overcrowding had been repassed with a mere alteration in the wording, which did not affect the sense thereof.\n\n10. This final draft of the Byelaws was appointed to come before the Legislative Council for approval on May 3rd, 1897. Your Petitioners thereupon in accordance with Order 52 of the Standing Rules and Orders of the Legislative Council, which runs, \"In any case where individual rights or interests of property may be peculiarly affected by any Bill, all parties interested may, upon petition for that purpose and on motion made, seconded and carried, be heard in council or in committee thereof either in person or by counsel;\" presented a petition to be heard by counsel,-- copy of which petition is herewith enclosed.\n\n11. At the meeting of the Legislative Council, on the 3rd May last, a motion was made by the Hon. T. H. Whitehead, and seconded by the Hon. C. P. Chater, that your petitioners be heard by Counsel, and was supported by the whole of the unofficial members. The said motion, however, was opposed by the Government, and was over-ruled, solely by the weight of the official vote, on the extremely technical ground that the alteration of the law in question was being effected by a Byelaw and not by a Bill, and that therefore persons interested could not be heard in opposition thereto. A newspaper report of the proceedings is herewith enclosed.\n\n12. If the learned Attorney-General's interpretation of the Standing Order 52 is correct, and the right of parties to be heard in person or by Counsel when their interests are peculiarly affected by proposed legislation, is strictly confined to cases where the proposed legislation is in the form of an Ordinance, then your Petitioners respectfully submit that great hardship may thereby be inflicted on inhabitants of this Colony. For under many Ordinances in force the Colonial Government have power to make Byelaws which may most injuriously affect private interests and property, and the persons affected may well be unable effectively to bring their grievances to the notice of the Government.\n\n13. The Legislative Council having refused to hear your Petitioners' case, the bye-laws in question were passed without discussion and without Hon. members being in possession of your Petitioners' arguments.\n\n14. The only one of these bye-laws of which your Petitioners complain, is No. 3, which has been substituted for the 4th in the original draft, and which runs as follows :-\n\n\"The keeper of an Opium Smoking Divan shall not permit his premises to be occupied between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. by a greater number of persons than such as will allow for each adult, not less than 30 square feet of habitable floor space or superficial area, and 400 cubic feet of clear and unobstructed air space.\"\n\n24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363184, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "15.-Your Petitioners respectfully submit that the aforesaid Bye-Law 3 is in breach of the contract contained in the said grant of the Opium Farm to your Petitioners. The operative part of the said grant is in these terms:-\n\nLL\n\nIn consideration of the yearly payment of $286,000 ... and of the due performance of the conditions and stipulations contained in the said private contract\" (none of which are material in the present connection) and in pursuance of the said Ordinance\" (Ord. 21 of 1891) and such conditions and regulations as are regulated and determined or may be regulated and determined as provided by the said Ordinance, I the said Governor do give and grant unto the said Man Fook Co. the sole right and privilege of preparing opium, and also the privilege of collecting dross and of preparing and dealing in dross opium and also the privilege of keeping divans for the smoking of opium during the term hereinafter expressed\"--viz., until March, 1898, in conformity with and subject to the said Ordinance and the said conditions and regulations in that behalf provided and so as that the said company,\n\nshall and lawfully may have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity and advantage from time to time during the said term coming, growing, accruing and arising by reason of the said privileges,” and your Petitioners submit that on a fair and reasonable construction of this grant they are entitled to all the privileges of the Opium Farm as they existed at the date of the grant, subject only to the conditions and regulations, and powers to make conditions and regulations expressly reserved therein, and that the insertion of the express right to impose new conditions and regulations under the Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1891, during the term created by the grant, impliedly excludes the right to impose new conditions and regulations under another Ordinance, which was equally well known to both the contracting parties at the time when the grant was made.\n\n16. Before the passing of these Bye-laws, the Colonial Government had made no Bye-laws or regulations regulating the numbers using the Opium Divans, though they had the power to make such regulations since 1887.\n\n17.-Your Petitioners respectfully submit that the rights of a tenant under a Crown lease are in no way analogous to the rights of the Opium Farmer under the aforesaid grant, as was suggested by the learned Attorney-General at the meeting of the Legislative Council on May 3rd. To take one point of difference only, there is no reservation in a Crown lease of a power in the Crown to make conditions and regulations under one named Ordinance during the continuance of the term to the implied exclusion of rules and regulations made under all other Ordinances.\n\n18.-Your Petitioners further respectfully state that so far from not inflicting even apparent hardship upon them, this Bye-law will cause them very real loss. It has been calculated that during the hours from 12 midnight to 5 a.m. there is an average of 2,850 persons, exclusive of attendants, using the Opium Divans, an average of 23.55 per Divan, while under this Bye-law not more than 10 persons can be accommodated in any one house on the average. The consumption of dross opium will be reduced 40%, from about 30,000 taels per month to about 18,000 taels; that the loss that will fall on the Dross Farmer will amount to at least $2,000 a month, from the decrease of the consumption of Dross Opium, from the fewer number of licences taken out for the keeping of divans, and for collecting dross, preparing dross and from the decrease in the duties payable on imported dross; and many of the Divan keepers, especially those who more particularly depend on night business, will be obliged to close their Divans and all will be seriously affected by the diminution of their profits, as compared to their establishment charges, which must remain the same.\n\n19.-Your Petitioners submit that the profits they have been making from smokers who use the divans between 12 and 5 are not in any sense \"illegal gains\": that there was no law before the passing of these Bye-laws which prevented them from carrying on their business by night as by day: that admitting that overcrowding, as defined by the Sanitary Board, did take place on these premises between 12 and 5 a.m., it\n\nPage 5\n\n20 p.m.\n\nwas not nearly as great as the overcrowding in the same premises between 7 and 12, and if their business is alleged to be illegal on account of insanitary overcrowding, it cannot be said to be more illegal between 12 and 5 than between 7 and 12.\n\n20.--If it is alleged that their profits were illegal because men came to these houses not to smoke but to sleep, to use them as common lodging houses, then your Petitioners distinctly deny the allegation. The coolies who frequent these houses at night do not come there for the purpose of sleeping, but of smoking opium. Most opium smokers sleep, more or less, after smoking opium, and many of the men in these houses between 12 and 5 sleep a considerable portion of the time they spend in the house, but it is a sleep consequent on the smoking of opium. The only charge made in the divans is for weight of opium smoked, viz., at the rate of 30 cents per 5 candareens, so it is not profitable to allow a customer to sleep for any great length of time after smoking. Some men do in fact stay in the divans all night, but they are inveterate smokers who smoke and doze the whole night through; the great majority do not remain more than an hour or two.\n\n21.-If this were a grant by a private individual to a private individual, and the grantor had thus diminished his grantee's enjoyment of the privileges granted, by the imposition of conditions, the power to impose which was not expressly or impliedly reserved in the grant, the grantee would have a good right of action against the grantor, and could recover damages to the full amount of the injury done to him; and it is humbly submitted that the Government should not be permitted to do an act in their Legislative capacity, which if done in their executive capacity would clearly expose them to an action for damages.\n\n22.--But notwithstanding the strong equitable claims of your Petitioners, the Colonial Government has refused them compensation in any form, or to postpone the operation of these Bye-laws until March next, when they could make equitable terms with the incoming Opium Farmer, but have insisted on putting these Bye-laws into force as from 1st June next, and on exacting the full tale of $286,000 per annum. Your Petitioners therefore humbly submit that, since the practice of keeping the Opium Divans open to all comers during the night was not illegal at the time of the grant to them, and was one on the continuance of which they were entitled to calculate, and did in fact calculate in making their tender of $286,000 per annum for the Opium Farm, they and their licensees should be granted adequate compensation for the loss inflicted on them by these Bye-laws.\n\nYour Petitioners therefore humbly pray :-\n\n1. That the Colonial Government be directed to postpone the operation of the Bye-laws made under sub-sections 4, 12 and 13 of Section 13 of Ordinance 24 of 1887, dated the 11th day of March, and approved the 3rd day of May, 1897, until March 1st, 1898, and pay your Petitioners and their licensees and sub-licensees adequate compensation for the damage caused them by the said Bye-laws during the time, if any, during which they shall have been in operation.\n\nor 2.-That the Colonial Government be directed to hold an enquiry as to the damages sustained by your Petitioners and their licensees and sub-licensees owing to the operation of the said Bye-laws, and pay your Petitioners such damages as they may be found to have sustained in consequence thereof.\n\nAnd your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.\n\nDated\n\nMay 1897.\n\nMan Fook Company", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363185, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\n21\n\n+4520\n\nREC\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 158.\n\nThe following Bye-laws, made by the Sanitary Board under sub-sections 4, 12&8 of section 13. of Ordinance 24 of 1887, and approved by the Legislative Council, are published.\n\nBy Command,\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th May, 1897.\n\nBYE-LAWS\n\nMade under sub-sections 4, 12 and 13 of Section 13 of Ordinance 24 of 1887, for the Cleansing Lime-Whiting and Sanitary maintenance of Opium Smoking Divans and for the prevention of overcrowding therein.\n\n1. The following expression, as used in these bye-laws or in any bye-law amending or substituted for the same, shall, unless inconsistent with the context, have and include the meaning hereinafter set against it.\n\nKeeper of an opium smoking divan.-The person whose name shall appear in the register, kept by the Registrar General in accordance with section 8 of Ordinance 13 of 1888, as the householder of any building which is occupied or used as an opium smoking divan, or where a portion only of any building is so occupied or used, and is rented for any period not less than one month, then the person whose name shall appear in the said register as renting such portion of the said building.\n\n2. The Sanitary Board shall cause every building or portion of a building which is occupied or used as an opium smoking divan to be inspected from time to time by one or more of its officers, in order to ascertain the sanitary condition thereof,\n\n3. The keeper of an opium smoking divan shall not permit his premises to be occupied between the hours of midnight and 5 A.M. by a greater number of persons than such as will allow for each adult, not less than 30 square feet of habitable floor space or superficial area, and 400 cubic feet of clear and unobstructed air space.\n\n4. The keeper of an opium smoking divan shall cause the windows and ventilating openings of his premises to be kept at all times free from obstruction, and shall daily open the windows to such an extent and at such times as may be necessary for the efficient ventilation of the premises unless prevented by inclement weather or by the illness of any person occupying the said premises.\n\n5. The keeper of an opium smoking divan shall cause the internal walls and ceilings of every part of his premises to be thoroughly cleansed and lime-washed during the sixth and twelfth months of the Chinese year.\n\n6. The keeper of an opium smoking divan shall at all times keep his premises in a clean and wholesome condition, and shall cause all filth and house refuse or other offensive matter to be removed from his premises daily.\n\n7. The keeper of an opium smoking divan shall, without delay, report at the office of the Sanitary Board, every case of serious illness which shall occur upon his premises, and should such case prove to be of a contagious nature, he must afford every facility for the removal of the sick person and must adopt all such precautions as the Medical Officer of Health or other duly authorized officer of the Sanitary Board shall direct. For the purposes of this bye-law any officer in possession of instructions in writing signed by the Secretary to the Sanitary Board or the Medical Officer of Health shall be deemed to be duly authorized.\n\n8. These bye-laws shall come into force on the First day of June, 1897.\n\nNOTE-By section 83 of Ordinance 21 of 1887 any person who shall contravene any provision of the said Ordinance or of any bye-law made thereunder, for which no special penalty is provided, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, or in default of payment, imprisonment not exceeding three months.\n\nMade by the Sanitary Board this Eleventh day of March, 1897.\n\nApproved by the Legislative Council, this 3rd day of May, 1897.\n\nHcon MCCALLUM,\n\nSecretary.\n\nJ. G. T. BUCKLE, Acting Clerk of Councils.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363191, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "27\n\nrevised before being brought before the Legislative Council and another edition was made; indeed there were three editions, although the third edition eliminated all the things that could be eliminated or found fault with and that would press hardly on the opium farmer. The by-laws as they stand at present were sent to the opium farmer, with the following letter dated 31st March, 1897, to his solicitors, Messrs. Deacon and Hastings: -“Gentlemen,-I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th January forwarding a petition from the Man Fook Company on the subject of certain by-laws made by the Sanitary Board on the 21st December with regard to opium smoking divans. In reply I am to inform you that your clients' petition has been carefully considered and the by-laws have been revised with a view to prevent the infliction of any apparent hardship upon your clients, but that it is necessary to consider the public health, and the granting of the Opium Farm in no way implied that the Sanitary Board should be precluded from making by-laws in pursuance of the powers conferred upon it under the Public Health Ordinance of 1887, which was in force when that contract was made. I enclose for your clients' information a copy of the most recently made by-laws which will be submitted for the approval of the Legislative Council when it next meets.--I have the honour to be, &c., J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Colonial Secretary.\" This is not any new law which we are putting in force. The opium farmer knew when he made his contract that the Sanitary Board could make such laws. Precisely the same argument might be used by any Crown tenant. He might just as well say, \"When I made my contract there was nothing to prevent me from building my houses as I liked. Since that time they have introduced new laws and consequently I shall refuse to pay any Crown rent.\" I defy any hon. member to find fault with the analogy. The contract was made with the Government and a certain licence was allowed him and he knew the Sanitary Board could stop a good deal of that licence. Every Crown tenant must submit to the law and so must the opium farmer. If he has been making extra profits all this time unknown to the Government-the Government began to find it out last year-by overcrowding\n\nand conducting these places in a most insanitary manner he must have been making illegal gain. The by-law he specially objected to has been eliminated and the only one he can now possibly make any objection against is the present by-law 3, which says that a keeper of an opium smoking divan shall not permit his premises to be overcrowded between the hours of midnight and dawn. Coolies use these places to sleep in and if they went next door, which may be a common lodging house, no more than a certain number would be permitted. The common lodging house people have now seen the advantage to the public health of the laws against which they formerly kicked. There is nothing objectionable in these by-laws and the opium farmer will find that he will lose nothing at all by them. If he does it is simply because he has been making money by overcrowding to the detriment of health.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD-With reference to the quibble raised by the learned Attorney-General that these by-laws are not a Bill, I submit they are the operative part of Ordinance 24 of 1887. Without the sanction of this Council those by-laws cannot be passed. The law is being altered in a material way and it very seriously prejudices the opium farmer's interest. Section 15 of the Public Health Ordinance 24 of 1887 reads, \"All by-laws made by the Board, when approved, shall have the same force and be equally valid as if they had been contained in this Ordinance.\" I submit, Sir, this is a most important part of the Bill; this is the operative part of the Bill and without it the position of the opium farmer cannot be altered. The learned Attorney-General referred to counsel not being able to place before this Council any new matter, but I think that the learned member must have forgotten that the unofficial members of this Council are unaware of the conditions of the grant from the Government to the opium farmer, and before we are asked to pass these by-laws it is desirable that we should know what the terms and conditions of the grant really are.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL-I should like, in reply, to say a word or two. The hon. member spoke of a quibble. I think it is my duty as Attorney-General to point out the distinction between by-laws and a Bill. I understand the hon. member said a by-law is a Bill.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD-I submit that the by-laws now before us are the operative part of Ordinance 24 of 1887, and the new by-laws cannot be brought into force until they have had the sanction of this Council.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER-I beg to second the resolution of my hon. friend, as I am of opinion that the opium farmer should be heard by counsel.\n\nThe resolution proposed by the Hon. T. H. Whitehead was then put and lost. All the unofficial members voted for it and the officials against.\n\nThe by-laws were then passed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363192, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "ENCLOSURE 5.\n\n14520 RED\"\n\n28\n\n(Recd 5 JUL 17,\n\nMinute by Mr. Goodman, Attorney General, on the Opium Farmers'\n\nPetition to the Secretary of State dated 17th May 1897.\n\n1.\n\nThe question raised by this petition is, in reality, an extremely simple one.\n\n2.\n\nIt seems that, attention having been called to the over-crowded condition of some of the Opium Divans, the Sanitary Board exercised the powers conferred upon that body by sub-sections 4, 12, and 13 of section 13 of the Public Health Ordinance, (No.24 of 1887) and made certain Bye Laws to remedy the evil.\n\n3.\n\nEvery consideration was shown to the Opium Farmer and some Bye Laws contained in the earlier drafts were struck out so as to prevent any hardship.\n\n4.\n\nThe Bye Laws as finally passed and approved by the Legislative Council are to come into force on the 1st June 1897, and with regard to these there is only one to which the Petitioners object.\n\n5.\n\nParagraph 14 of the Petition says:-\n\n\"The only one of the Bye Laws of which your Petitioners complain is No.3 which runs as follows:- 'The Keeper of an Opium Divan shall not permit his premises to be occupied between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. by a greater number of persons than such as will allow for each adult not less than 30 square feet of habitable floor space or superficial area and 400", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363193, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "29\n\n# cubic feet of clear and unobstructed air space.\"\n\n6.\n\nThat is the sum and substance of their complaint.\n\nThe Petitioners claim, apparently, a right to overcrowd and seem to forget entirely the fact that, quite apart from Bye Law No. 3, the law of the Colony prohibits any such proceeding.\n\n8. They set out in paragraph 18 of the Petition the extent of overcrowding without apparently the slightest notion of the impropriety of permitting it.\n\n20\n\nA\n\n9. Then in paragraph they admit that: - \"Some men do in fact stay in the Divans all night, etc., etc.\"\n\n10.\n\n#\n\nBut if so an Opium Divan becomes a Domestic Building which by section 3 of the Public Health Ordinance is defined to be \"Any human habitation or building where persons pass the night.\"\n\n11. Now it is unlawful to allow a domestic building to be inhabited in excess of a proportion of one adult for every 30 square feet of habitable floor space or superficial area and 400 cubic feet of clear and unobstructed internal air space; and it was made unlawful before the date of the grant of the Opium Farm.\n\n12.\n\nOrdinance No. 15 of 1894 was passed on 29th December 1894 and the Opium Farmer's Grant is dated 27th February 1895.\n\n13. By section 9 of Ordinance 15 of 1894 a new section 67 is substituted for the old section 67 of the Public Health Ordinance 1887. That new section is as follows:\n\n\"Any domestic building and any part thereof found to be inhabited in excess of a proportion of one adult for every\n\nA\n\n\"30 square feet of habitable floor space or superficial area\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363194, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "30\n\n\"area and 400 cubic feet of clear and unobstructed internal air space shall be deemed to be in an overcrowded condition.\" \n\n(and consequently a nuisance under the Ordinance.)\n\n14. There can therefore be no hardship in the fact that Bye Law 3 requires Opium Divans to comply with this law between 12 p.m. and 5 p.m.\n\n15. The truth is, if an Opium Divan keeper is prosecuted under the domestic building law, there is always the chance of the prosecution being unable to prove legally that persons passed the night there. The keeper would always pretend that the men found there in the morning were not the same as those there at night, and if some credible witness stayed all night in order to prove the fact, the keeper would probably become suspicious and turn out those of his customers who would otherwise have remained all night.\n\n16. If, however, it could be justly contended that Bye Law No. 3 imposed any additional restriction against overcrowding, it would, in my opinion, be a perfectly good and just Bye Law affording no ground of complaint to the Opium Farmers.\n\n17. At the end of paragraph 15 of the Petition, the Petitioners admit that they knew of the existence of the Public Health Ordinance at the time the grant was made.\n\n18. Their contention that the Grant amounted to an agreement that the power of making Bye Laws with regard to the sanitary maintenance of Opium Divans should not be exercised appears to me entirely groundless.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "31\n\n19.\n\nIndeed if the legal advisers of the Opium Farmers were not of the same opinion it seems strange that they should not have sued the Government for breach of contract instead of referring the matter to the Secretary of State.\n\n20. The Opium Farmers have standing solicitors and counsel and are usually ready enough to fight any case in Court when they conceive it to their advantage to do so.\n\n21. I understand that after the expiry of the present grant compliance with all necessary sanitary requirements will be ensured by the conditions under which Divan Licences will be granted by the Colonial Secretary, but see no reason why in the meantime these Divans are to be allowed to indulge in overcrowding dangerous alike to the persons who frequent them and to the health of the community.\n\n22. If the present Divans cannot suitably accommodate all their customers there is nothing to prevent new ones being opened although of course this may involve additional expense.\n\n23. With regard to the Petition to the Legislative Council this was read by Mr. Whitehead and although Counsel was not heard the Petition itself fully set forth the case of the Petitioners.\n\n24. As regards the prayer of the Petition to the Secretary of State, this is founded upon what, I trust, I have shown is the baseless assumption that Bye Law No. 3 is at once illegal having regard to the grant, and unfair in its requirements.\n\n25. In conclusion I may add that the report of my speech in the Legislative Council set forth in the Daily Press of May 4th.\n\n19.\n\n was kept as is, assuming it's a paragraph or section numbering. However, proper formatting might require further context. I've corrected \"hegal\" to \"legal\", \"bave\" to \"have\", \"conceivett\" to \"conceive\", \"tut\" to \"but\", and \"aseless\" to \"baseless\". I've also made minor adjustments for spacing and punctuation. The original text's structure and content have been preserved as much as possible, with the application of Markdown not being directly applicable due to the output format requirement being HTML.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363197, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Corred Report of the Attorney Gennali Speed re Opinn Dwain Bye Laws. Cut for the bungkay Weekly Press of \n\nmay \n\n33 \n\nMay 641597 \n\nknown. when he made his contract that: the-- Sanitary Board could make such hys.: Precisely the same argument might be rysed i by any Crown tenant. He might just as well say, \"When I made my contract there was nothing to prevent me from builing my houses as I liked or overcrowding them and thereby getting extra rent. Since that time they have introduced new laws and consequently I shail refuse to pay my Crowa rent.\" I defy way hon. member to find any fault with the logy. The contract was made with the Government,” the opium farmer seems to have taken a good deal of licence, and he knew the Sanitary Board could stop some of that licence. Every Crown tenant must submit to the law and so must the opium farmer. If he has been making extra profits all this time unknown to the Government- the Government began to find it out last year-by overcrowding and conducting these places in a most insanitary wanner he must have been making improper gain. The by-law he specially objected to bas been eliminated and the only one he can now possibly make any objection against is the present by-law 3, which says that a keeper of an opium smoking divan shall not permit his premises to be overcrowded between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. Coolies use these places to sleep in and if they went next door, which may be a common lodging house, no more than a certain number would be permitted. The common lodging house people bare now seen the advantage to the public health of the by-laws against which they formerly kicked, There is nothing objectionable in these by-laws and the opium farmer will find that he will lose nothing at all by them. If he does it is simply because he has been making money by overcrowding to the detriment of health.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENÈKAL-I would like in the first place to point out that I am not aware of any power under the Standing Orders for counsel to be heard as suggested by the hon. member. The hon. member, when he read the Standing Order No. 52, did not seem to quite appreciate the wording of it. The words are \"In any case where individual rights or interests of property may be affected by any proposed Bill,\" etc.; that is to say, any Ordinance brought forward which prejudicially affect property. I have yet to learn that counsel have been heard in this Legislative Council when by-laws were being brought forward for approval. Bills are not by-laws and there is nothing in the Standing Orders to give any such power. It seems to me that the petition will speak for itself, and I do not know that even if counsel were here could be said upon the subject. For some time past it has been discovered- at all events during the past year the matter has been prominently brought to the attention of the Government-that the opium divans were greatly overcrowded at night and that they therefore formed an excellent place for the propagation of disease. It is desirable in the interests of the people in this colony to stop the propagation of disease and the Government is now doing all in its power to stop such propagation. The Sanitary Board called attention to the state of these divans, but it is not proposed to put into force any new power, but powers which have been in force for nearly ten years.\n\nThese powers are under Ordinance 24 of 1887-the Public Health Ordinance and Section 13 provides that the Sanitary Board shall have power to make by-laws for the sanitary maintenance of common lodging houses, opium smoking divans, factories, &c. It will be fresh within the members' recollection that difficulties arose about the common lodging houses -difficulties which have now been surmounted. We were told that there were insuperable objections, but all those terrors are passed. Common lodging houses are now properly conducted and what is now required is that smoking divans should conform to the ordinary principles of health and that they should not form centres for the propagation of disease in the colony. It may be thought that the Government was acting hardly with the opium farmer and oppressing him, but the by-laws were roughly drafted, and on the 22nd October, 1896, the opium farmer having been furnished with a copy, presented his petition, embodying his objections and asking that those by-laws should not be enforced. Considerable care was then taken and they were thoroughly revised before being brought before the Legislative Council and another edition was made; indeed there were three editions, and the third edition eliminated all the things that could be eliminated or reasonably be found fault with and that would press hardly on the opium farmer. The by-laws as they stand at present were sent to the opium farmer, with the following letter dated 31st March, 1897, to his solicitors, Messrs. Deacon and Hastings: -\"Gentlemen,-I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th January forwarding a petition from the Man Fook Company on the subject of certain by-laws made by the Sanitary Board on the 21st December with regard to opium smoking divans. In reply I am to inform you that your clients' petition has been carefully considered and the by-laws have been revised with a view to prevent the infliction of any apparent hardship upon your clients, but that it is necessary to consider the public health, and the granting of the Opium Farm in no way implied that the Sanitary Board should be precluded from making by-laws in pursuance of the powers conferred upon it under the Public Health Ordinance of 1887, which was in force when that contract was made. I enclose for your clients' information a copy of the most recently made by-laws which will be submitted for the approval of the Legislative Council when it next meets.-I have the honour to be, &c., J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Colonial Secretary.\" This is not any new law which we are putting in force. The opium farmer knew, or ought to have", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363200, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Ordinance 21 of 1891 which,\n\nas unsatisfactory\n\nDad\n\nwere\n\nRegarded\n\nnot going directly contrary\n\nof the Divan is the Government and is omitting\n\nIon what they do specify the\n\nCarned\n\nAn\n\nland who's\n\nIth in the ordinance may\n\nwen\n\nto be\n\nbe sanctioned\n\nare framed. The Conditions, subjects to my remark on clause 4, as to it, undig, also satisfactory. Perhaps now or hereafter in force\n\nI would be preferable, and the insertion of the words relating to the Divan's power \"make the affliction of the sanitary Bye-laws more general, as in S.4 of the ordinance, which does not\n\nomit them by any clause amend thin\n\nin\n\nsuch and\n\nThe\n\nKr\n\n02.\n\nhercafter\n\ninfer\n\n\"All Sanitary Bye Laws...\n\nmust be observed fe\n\nIf the word relating to oh im Divan's are\n\nRegulations they should\n\nin the\n\nin she of the ordinance.\n\nSir & Bransta\n\nHFW\n\nwhich affir\n\n7/1\n\nas\n\nExpress official, the remarks as above\n\nS.. 14530\n\nS\n\nTelegraph?\n\nC.Po 9\n\nAhunn\n\nThank you / 125 pounds affirme\n\nap\n\nQwell\n\noften the Conditions Register app with the caption\n\nBignonia\n\nfourth Condition Thones be All Sanitary Byelaws\n\nEvaporated\n\n[ in force ] fasse tive for the time being\n\nDripstone\n\netectio\n\natom\n\nbesonshh\n\nMust b\n\nSept\n\n13-28pm\n\nW TW\n\n9/8\n\nNo 125.\n\ndir,\n\n119021\n\nR\n\nRec 5 JUL 17\n\n36\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, 2nd June, 1897.\n\nIn pursuance of instructions conveyed\n\nin your despatch No 150 of the 10th July last, I have the honour\n\nto submit herewith the en\n\nThe Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.,\n\nto\n\nFo\n\nclosed", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363201, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "37\n\nClosed Draft of a proposed Ordinance to\n\nEncl: 1. No 3-(29-5-97)\n\nther amend 6 copies.\n\nthe Prepared Opium Ordinance\n\nEnd: 2\n\n1891 together with drafts of six copies the conditions to be endorsed\n\non\n\nOpium Divan Licences and of the Regulations which it End: 3.\n\nis\n\nproposed to make under section 7 of the proposed\n\nOrdinance, and\n\nI shall be obliged if you\n\nwill convey your approval thereof\n\nas it will be necessary to publish the\n\nterms and conditions of the\n\nlease of the new\n\nopium Farm not later than the first week\n\nof next August.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir\n\nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nWitham Rawngry", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363202, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Enclosure 38\n\nA BILL\n\nENTITLED\n\nNo. 3:—[29.5.97.\n\nAn Ordinance to further amend The Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1891.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited, for all purposes as The Prepared Opium (Divans) Ordinance, 1897, and shall be construed as one with Ordinance No. 21 of 1891, (as amended by Ordinance No. 4 of 1894) hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance; and the three Ordinances may be cited together as The Prepared Opium Ordinances, 1891 to 1897.\n\n2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression \"Opium Divan\" shall include any house, room, or other place, used for the smoking of prepared Opium or dross Opium by others than the tenant and his family.\n\n3. No person shall open or carry on any Opium Divan without a valid Licence from the Colonial Secretary.\n\n4. Such Licence shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule to this Ordinance and be subject to the conditions which may be endorsed upon it. It may, at any time, be cancelled by the Colonial Secretary for any failure to comply with the conditions under which it is granted or for any contravention of the requirements of the law for the time being in force relating to Opium or for any breach of any of the Regulations, for the time being in force, relating to Opium Divans.\n\nSuch cancellation shall not, however, relieve any offender from any penalty incurred under this or any other Ordinance or under Sanitary Bye-laws or under any of such Regulations.\n\n5. Opium Divans shall be open, at all times, to the inspection of the Opium Farmer, of all Excise Officers, of Officers of the Police not being under the rank of Sergeant and of Officers of the Sanitary Board.\n\n6. Any person who commits any of the following offences shall be liable, upon Summary Conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding three months :-\n\n(a) Opens or carries on an Opium Divan without a valid Licence; or\n\n(b) Knowingly permits any person other than an adult male to smoke opium or dross opium in an Opium Divan; or\n\n(c) Knowingly permits or suffers any female, not being the Opium Divan Keeper or the wife or child of such Keeper to enter or remain in an Opium Divan; or\n\n(d) Knowingly permits any armed person to be in an Opium Divan.\n\n7. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to make and when made to alter, add to, or revoke Regulations with regard to the licensing, management and classification of Opium Divans and as to the Fees to be paid in respect of such Licences, and to prescribe a scale of pecuniary penalties not exceeding, in each case, twenty-five dollars, for the breach of any such Regulations. Such Regulations shall not come into force until they are notified in the Gazette and, thereafter, such penalties may be enforced, summarily, before a Magistrate and, on conviction for any breach of such Regulations the offender shall be liable, in default of payment, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding one month.\n\n8. Sections Eleven and Seventeen of the Principal Ordinance, are hereby repealed.\n\nREG 517, Ordinance 21 of 1891.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363203, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "OPIUM DIVAN LICENCE.\n\nA.B. of \n\nLader Ordinance No. \n\nof 1897. is hereby licensed to open and carry on\n\n(+) on the \n\nGross Opium \n\n(from \n\nday of \n\nan Opium Divan for the smoking of \n\nthu \n\n189 \n\nfloor of the premises known as (0) \n\nday of \n\nER! to the\n\nThis Licence is issued subject to the observance, by the Licensee, of all the conditions endorsed on this Licence and to his compliance with all the Laws and Regulations for the time being in force relating to Opium and Opium Divans.\n\nThis Licence may be cancelled at any time by the Colonial Secretary for any failure of such observance or compliance.\n\nDated the \n\nkeving \n\n189 \n\n(2) As the case may be. \n\n(b) Here insert the address.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nThe fee payable for this Licence is $39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\n14521\n\n40\n\nPREC(REG)5 Jul 7\n\nCONDITIONS TO BE ENDORSED ON AN OPIUM DIVAN LICENCE.\n\n1. Whenever property, of which the owner is not known to the licensed keeper, shall be found in an Opium Divan, the licensed keeper shall forthwith report to the nearest Police Station that such property has been found, shall furnish full particulars of such property to a Police Officer and shall detain such property in safe custody till it is handed over to a Police Officer.\n\n2. Every licensed keeper of an Opium Divan shall keep ready for immediate use such number of sand buckets or other like appliance for the extinction of fire as the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade shall consider sufficient in each case.\n\n3. Any death which occurs in a licensed Opium Divan must be reported at once by the licensed keeper either at the Registrar General's Office or at a Police Station.\n\n4. All Sanitary Bye-laws relating to Opium Divans in force for the time being or from time to time must be observed under the penalties therein provided.\n\nThe attention of Licensees is specially directed to the following requirements of the law :—\n\n(1) Any death which occurs in a licensed Opium Divan must be registered at the Registrar General's Office within 48 hours. (Ordinance 16 of 1896, s. 11.)\n\n(2) No person other than an adult male is permitted to smoke opium or dross opium in an Opium Divan. (Ordinance of 189..., s. ...)\n\n(3) No female, not being the Opium Divan keeper or the wife or child of such keeper, is permitted or suffered to enter or remain in an Opium Divan. (Ordinance of 189..., s. ...)\n\n(4) No armed person is permitted to be in an Opium Divan. (Ordinance of 189...)\n\n5.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363205, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\n41\n\n \n | 14521\n RECO (Reef 5 JUL 97,\n \n\nREGULATIONS\n\nMade by the Governor in Council under Section 7 of Ordinance No. of 189\n\n1. Every licensed keeper of an Opium Divan shall provide at his own expense two photographs of himself, of which one shall always remain affixed to his licence and the other shall be affixed to the counterfoil of the licence.\n\n2. Every licensed keeper of an Opium Divan shall show his licence at all times to the Opium Farmer, Dross Opium Farmer, any Excise Officer, any Officer of the Police not being under the rank of Sergeant and any Officer of the Sanitary Board who may demand to inspect such licence.\n\n3. Every licensed keeper of an Opium Divan shall, before opening his divan to the public, enter into a bond with the Colonial Secretary in the sum of $... with two sureties for the due performance of all conditions endorsed on the Opium Divan Licence, of all Sanitary Bye-Laws affecting Opium Divans, and of these Regulations.\n\n4. Every licensed keeper of an Opium Divan shall pay an annual fee of $... in advance; if such fee be not paid within one calendar month from the date when it falls due, the Opium Divan Licence in respect of which the fee is in arrear shall be deemed to have been cancelled unless the Governor shall otherwise direct.\n\n5. Opium Divans shall be divided into two classes, viz., First Class Divans in which Prepared Opium may be smoked, and Second Class Divans in which Dross Opium alone may be smoked.\n\n6. No premises shall be licensed as an Opium Divan, unless situated on a ground floor, without the special permission of the Governor.\n\n7. No Opium Divan shall have more than one entrance, nor any other exit than such entrance. Such entrance shall open upon a public thoroughfare only.\n\n8. The penalty for the breach of any of Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 7 of these Regulations shall be a sum not exceeding $25.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363712, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 546, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Wan vinney paid me weekly. 565\n\nQuincy first paid\n\nL:\n\nhe liph Wan dinary pria Quincy ler in\n\n2nd\n\n✓ kipt\n\nA\n\nI paid to\n\nein\n\nsho\n\nDK\n\nJ Kept\n\nThe mem\n\nyou.\n\nI received for\n\nQuiver since his departure\n\nOster\n\nدالانه\n\nCrustnin\n\nriinas\n\nJen\n\npaper\n\nshrun\n\nLe\n\nمنه\n\nctiv\n\nto which\n\nThe\n\nfigures\n\nibe the\n\nmommy handed\n\nto\n\nus\n\nin J\n\nهوں;\n\n•\n\nwurvey: thing\n\n1\n\n59\n\n-~\n\ntea via\n\nAra\n\nв\n\ncar by\n\npaid theme sis\n\nTo sois Exeun\n\nby mouth i\n\nto\n\nder divan),\n\n4 105 en 20o\n\na trime", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363911, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "content_text": "4 \n\n+ a leading article from the Honghor report of the debate. \n\nfrom wheth it appears that the frish ammend. \n\nmentorns inadelon the motion of the ag as \n\nand \n\nthesecond on that of the Imm Ito Kai, aqpinst the spinim of the lift a perintendant of tolice & the \n\na.s in his report says think bothy werende cheeft als die zepes in the 2 chineze member of for the \n\nof of m by \n\nThe \n\ntude \n\nasi bona fide private quest of the tenant & his family in 5 2 \n\nhouse / soused \n\nIsoused an \n\nconstitute a \n\nworlto Operin Divan \n\nit seems to me that a prostitute might practicall keep an unhcensed of cam-divan & \n\ntona fide quests' of a \n\nfill it with socalled doubtful description to wade the law. \n\nSimilarly in 56(8) the fermission to a \n\nbona fide member of \n\nanlis \n\na \n\nLawn tuk \n\nsuck Keeper's family. \n\nбр says \n\nC \n\nん \n\nDivan, wch not. \n\nimprobably be used by an unscrupulons Keeper \n\nhalf a dozen prostitute \n\nis \n\nbring in, as the ag radh his & ha de un plein digit \n\nand \n\ncall \n\nthat sewants womed come under the definition air. I presume cont the first amendments is intended toprotect the can of a respectable chinaman whose friends \"des in for a fife' in the evening to touch tout both Wir Amendment; shined be disallows ? Sonetin: the deden nie lut? Dereel the repeat of these addition to SS 2 emendary ordmance \n\nbut I am inclined. \n\nsoul by \n\nM. Johnson \n\nhp w \n\n18/10. \n\nI should have the words in out of deferen to the Chinese members but point out the \n\nI \n\nAfter speak \n\nto \n\nlead a ark Isulmit. \n\nbf \n\ndraft p \n\nabruses to which they may for a report by the head of police in a Year's time. If you are, Vedraft according tanchioning the ordinance and the \n\nC.Pd. \n\nSaustion \n\nCom den with the \n\nmatter in another way \n\nJu 9311 \n\n20 \n\nat once \n\naqu. \n\nLech \n\nYo. 194. \n\nSix, \n\nGov \n\n14521 \n\nEnclosure \n\n1. 9.97 \n\nEnclosure 2. \n\n28. \n\nGovernment House,:0 \n\nHongkong, 8th. September, \n\n189 7. \n\n104 \n\nWith reference to my despatch No.125 of the \n\n2ng. June and to your telegram of the 9th. August last, \n\nI have the honour to transmit for the signification of Her \n\nMajesty's pleasure the following Ordinance entitled:- \n\nAn Ordinance to further amend The Prepared \n\nNo.15 of 1897. \n\nOpium Ordinance,1 1891. \n\n# \n\n2. The customary Report by the Attorney General is annexed. \n\nThe Right Honourable \n\nJoseph Chamberlain \n\nfc., \n\n$ \n\nM. P. \n\n&c., \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir, \n\nYour most obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\nWillen Remy's \n\nfc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363912, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "content_text": "No. 15 of 1897.\n\nAn Ordinance to further amend The Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1891,\n\nLS\n\nWILLIAM ROBINSON,\n\nGovernor.\n\n[1st September, 1897.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited, for all purposes, as The Prepared Opium (Divans) Ordinance, 1897, and shall be construed as one with Ordinance No. 21 of 1891, (as amended by Ordinance No. 4 of 1894) hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance; and the three Ordinances may be cited together as The Prepared Opium Ordinances, 1891 to 1897.\n\n2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression \"Opium Divan\" shall include any house, room, or other place, used for the smoking of prepared Opium or dross Opium by others than the tenant, his family, and bona fide private guests.\n\n3. No person shall open or carry on any Opium Divan without a valid Licence from the Colonial Secretary,\n\n4. Such Licence shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule to this Ordinance and be subject to the conditions which may be endorsed upon it. It may, at any time, be cancelled by the Colonial Secretary for any failure to comply with the conditions under which it is granted or for any contravention of the requirements of the law, for the time being in force, relating to Opium or for any breach of any of the Regulations, for the time being in force, relating to Opium Divans.\n\nSuch cancellation shall not, however, relieve any offender from any penalty incurred under this or any other Ordinance or under any Sanitary Bye-laws or under any of such Regulations.\n\n5. Opium Divans shall be open, at all times, to the inspection of the Opium Farmer, of all Excise Officers, of Officers of the Police not being under the rank of Sergeant and of Officers of the Sanitary Board.\n\n6. Any person who commits any of the following offences shall be liable, upon Summary Conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding three months;\n\n(a) Opens or carries on an Opium Divan without a valid Licence; or\n\n(b) Knowingly permits any person other than an adult male to smoke opium or dross opium in an Opium Divan; or\n\n(c) Knowingly permits or suffers any female, not being the Opium Divan keeper or the wife or child of such keeper or a bona fide member of such keeper's family, to enter or remain in an Opium Divan; or\n\n(d) Knowingly permits any armed person to be in an Opium Divan.\n\n7. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to make and, when made, to alter, add to, or revoke Regulations with regard to the licensing, management and classification of Opium Divans and as to the Fees to be paid in respect of such Licences, and to prescribe a scale of pecuniary penalties not exceeding, in each case, twenty-five dollars, for the breach of any of such Regulations. Such Regulations shall not come into force until they are notified in the Gazette and, thereafter, such penalties may be enforced, summarily, before a Magistrate and, on conviction for any breach of such Regulations, the offender shall be liable, in default of payment, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding one month.\n\nPage 105", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363913, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "content_text": "Repeal of Sections 11 and 17 of Ordinance 21 of 1891.\n\nCommence incut of Ordinance.\n\n8. Sections Eleven and Seventeen of the Principal Ordinance, are hereby repealed.\n\n9. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1898.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 26th day of August, 1897.\n\nJ. G. T. BREEKE, Clerk of Councils.\n\nAssented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 1st day of September, 1897.\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe fee payable for this Licence is $\n\nOPIUM DIVAN LICENCE.\n\nCOPY.\n\nColonial Ordinance No. of 1897.\n\nA Licence is hereby granted to [name] to open and carry on an Opium Divan for the smoking of Prepared Opium on the premises known as [address] (1) from the day of 189 to the day of 189.\n\nThis Licence is issued subject to the observance, by the Licensee, of all the conditions endorsed on this Licence and to his compliance with all the Laws and Regulations for the time being in force relating to Opium and Opium Divans.\n\nThis Licence may be cancelled at any time by the Colonial Secretary for any failure of such observance or compliance.\n\nDated the day of 189.\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\n(a) As the case may be.\n\n(1) Here insert the address.\n\nENCLOSURE\n\n2\n\nWeek 10 OCT 17\n\nAttorney General's Office.\n\n28th August, 1897.\n\n106\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE 15 OF 1897.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance,\n\nFor 14521\n\n*An Ordinance to further amend The Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1891.\n\nand I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\nThis Ordinance, the draft of which was submitted to the Secretary of State with the Governor's Despatch No.125 of the 2nd June, 1897, and approved by telegram of 9th August, 1897, provides for bringing the Opium Smoking Divans more directly under the control of the Government at the expiration of the present Farm.\n\nThe only differences between the draft so submitted and approved and the Ordinance as passed are as follows:-\n\nIn section 2, explaining the meaning of “Opium Divan\", the words \"and bona fide private guests\" are added,\n\nin section 6, sub-section (c), after the words \"wife or child\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363916, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "content_text": "to ss. 2 and \n\n6(c) of this \n\nOrdinance, during passage ther\n\nits \n\nwould not improbable, \n\nCouncil, might possibly \n\nlead to \n\nA \n\nEvasion...\n\nMpen Agectionablen\n\nthe law and tantr...\n\nBowing \n\nto the difficulty repet Gothese sectimes there for in this Country \n\nelims there for (which has been experience of for disproving bona fides with the Licensing acts) Alfreire to be \n\nin such cases. \n\n3. The object o\n\nthe \n\nwords added to s. 2 is \n\nostensibly to presumably \n\nDrag\n\nto prevent interference. \n\nsmoking \n\nwith opium fu amany friends \n\n... \n\nprivate house; but I \n\nthink that this would \n\nbe better met by recasting \n\nthe section, so a\n\nan \n\nps. \n\nA \n\nasto to \n\nas a \n\ndefine \n\nConnech \n\na place for the sale of Juin &c. \n\nQuinn Divan moottor \n\nthe lives of the definition \n\nwon the corresponding section of the White 1657 \n\nStraits Settlements law. \n\nI request zu therefor \n\nto introduce an \n\namendatory Ordinance to \n\nthis section, by \n\namending \n\nof \n\nno. \n\nFri C. Smith \n\nassured \n\nme \n\nEmphatically \n\n107 \n\nthat this was so \n\ntag \n\nsubstituting the word \"sale\" for \"smoking \n\nin line 3 \n\nand \n\nsubstitution, for \n\nof \n\nby \n\n\" \n\n109 \n\nThe \n\nthe \n\nlast 12 words section, the following \n\nwords, viz. \" to be smoked \n\nThe premises. \n\n4. As regards s.6(c), \n\nI can \n\nsee \n\nNo \n\no necessity \n\nservants & \n\nfor the admission \n\nfemale \n\nau \n\nmim smoking \n\nJe m \n\ndivan, and I am given to understand as a matter of fact, that it is usual to \n\nEmploy male attendants in such places. This section should \n\ntherefore \n\nh \n\nbe amended \n\nthe omission of the words \"or a bona fide such keeper; \n\nmember of \n\nfamily\" \n\n5. Pending the recurgh,...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365733, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## an Ordinance \n\nto amend the Prepared Opium (Divans) Ordinance 1897 (No. 15 of 1899) together with a copy of explanatory remarks by the Colonial Secretary.\n\n2. From these remarks you will observe that if an \"opium divan\" is defined as a place for the sale of opium, the class of divans in which opium is not sold but to which it is taken to be smoked after having been purchased elsewhere, will not be affected by the Ordinance. As it is important in the interests of the general sanitation of this Colony, that this class of divans should be regulated, I have caused the Ordinance to be amended in such manner as to include both classes of opium smoking divans.\n\n3. As the Opium Farm for the next term of 3 years commenced on 11-1-98.\n\nPage 63", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365734, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "commences in March next I shall be glad to receive your approval of the proposed amending Ordinance by telegraph.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nDir \nYour Most Obedient \nHumble Servant, \nW.H. Rodway \n\nEnclosure.\n\n**RES** \n3332 \nRE: 14 98 \n64 \n\n**A BILL** \n**ENTITLED** \nNo. 1: [10.1.98] \n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Prepared Opium (Divans) Ordinance, 1897, (No. 15 of 1897).\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. Section 2 of Ordinance 15 of 1897 is hereby repealed. \nRepeal of section 2 of Ordinance 15 of 1897.\n\n2. In lieu of section 2 the following section is substituted :- \nSection substituted for former section 2 of Ordinance 15 of 1897, meaning of \"Opium Divan.\"\n\n In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression \"Opium Divan\" shall include any house, room, or other place-- \n (a.) Used for the sale of prepared opium or dross opium to be smoked on the premises, or \n (b.) Used by the public for the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium where a fee, or its equivalent, is charged, or the dross resulting from such smoking is retained by or on behalf of the keeper for his benefit.\n\n3. In clause (c.) of section 6 of Ordinance No. 15 of 1897 the words \"or a bona fide member of such keeper's family,\" are hereby struck out. \nAmendment of clause (c.) of section 6 of Ordinance 15 of 1897.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365735, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## ENCLOSURE 2\n**Ra 14 FED 98**\n\n## Minute by the Colonial Secretary\n\nThere are two classes of opium smoking divans in this Colony: one in which the opium is sold and smoked on the premises; the other in which the opium smoked on the premises is taken to the divans by the smokers, the keeper of the divan deriving the benefit from the dross resulting from the smoking. In the former class, the opium smoked is dross opium; in the latter, prepared opium which is purchased outside by the consumer before being taken to the divan. It is obvious, therefore, that the amendment proposed by the Secretary of State would not include the latter class of divans, which would therefore not come within the regulations affecting divans. This is eminently undesirable, so the Attorney General, after consultation with Dr. Ho Kai, Mr. Wei A Yuk and myself, has amended the Ordinance so as to include both classes of divans. The representative of the new Opium Farmer was present when the amendment was being considered and stated that he had no objection to the Ordinance being amended in the manner now proposed.\n\n(Sd.) **J. H. Stewart Lockhart** \n11.1.98", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366040, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 375, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE 2\n## 6 APR 90\n### 368\n\n**Attorney General's Office**\n25th February, 1898\n\n## REPORT ON ORDINANCE NO.1 OF 1898\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled **An Ordinance to amend the Prepared Opium (Divans) Ordinance, 1897, (No.15 of 1897).** and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\nThis Ordinance amends Ordinance 15 of 1897, in two particulars :-\n\n1st. It substitutes a new definition of \"Opium Divan\" instead of that contained in section 2 of Ordinance 15 of 1897. This amendment has been approved by the Secretary of State.\n\n2nd. It strikes out the words \"or a bonâ fide member of such keeper's family.\" These words were not contained in my original draft of the Ordinance, but were added during the passage of the Bill through the Legislative Council.\n\nThe Secretary of State objected to this addition and requested that an Ordinance should be passed restoring the section to its original form.\n\nThe Opium Farmer has been consulted and has no objection to the amendments made by this Ordinance.\n\n(Sd.) W. Meigh Goodman, \n**Attorney General**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369857, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 445, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "435 \n\nCivan, for the time being, full powers to Elvan to deal with all such questions that may come before him. When all land titles have been settled and proper surveys made, he could be regarded as an officer of the principal land office in Hong Kong, having a branch office under his charge in the new territory.\n\nOrdinance 3 of 1897 Probate, etc. The whole I am of opinion that this Ordinance should be excluded from the list and therefore added to the 3 schedule to the draft Ordinance.\n\nOrdinance 16 of 1896 Registration of births and deaths.\n\n12. I concur in Mr. Goodman's opinion that this Ordinance should for the present be excluded. In the meantime, the Registration of births and deaths should be carried out, and might be entrusted to the Village Councils and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370092, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "content_text": "172\n\n5. Few expensive buildings and machinery were treated in the disposal, and much machinery is said to be worth $100,000 imported and installed. Even when the speculation collapsed, the plant at Siamo was all thrown away and abandoned.\n\nThe value of the foundations and cement of the buildings remain, and the brick chimney shaft of the smelting works is still shared valuable.\n\nThat area is mainly composed of Jac. Ms. Sican Fangs quartz syenite and trap rocks predominate; the common Conedine quartz is a bluish greenish colour, altered one, Tunum (a feldspar) is found in the dykes and in the Packer stiff clay, in which the best pasture is found. There is green clay with veins of quartz gravel.\n\nLantro Island is chiefly granite on the south face, and trap rocks on the north, the latter being consequently much better covered with vegetation and trees. The smaller islands, such as Cheung Chau, P'ing-chan, and Imma seem to be almost entirely granite.\n\nIt will be understood that a geological survey of the islands was not possible in 12 days, but an accurate reconnaissance was made. Geological survey is still desirable.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377849, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "# MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING REVENUE RETENTE FOR 1899\n\n## REVENUE FOR 1ST HALF-YEAR, 1900\n\n| Category | Revenue |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. LIGHT DUES | $28,723.46 |\n| 2. LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED | $52,406.98 |\n\n## ESTIMATES OF REVENUE, 1901\n\n| Category | Revenue for 2nd Half-Year, 1900 | Probable Total 1900 | Estimated for 1900 | Estimated for 1901 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $25,776.54 | $52,000.00 | $55,000.00 | |\n| | $54,500.00 | | | |\n| Arms Ordinance, Ordinance 9 of 1900 | $381.00 | $1,233.50 | $18,100.00 | $20,350.00 | $16,900.00 |\n| Assessed Taxes, Ordinance 15 of 1888 | $519,184.42 | $274,986.80 | $315,013.20 | $390,000.00 | $660,000.00 |\n| New Assessment and increase of tenements | | | | $55,000.00 | |\n| Auctioneers Licences, Ordinance 21 of 1887 | $1,500.00 | $600.00 | $1,200.00 | $1,800.00 | $1,500.00 | $1,800.00 |\n| Billiard Tables, and Bowling Alleys Licences, Ordinance 21 of 1887 | $1,100.00 | $600.00 | $400.00 | $1,000.00 | $1,150.00 | $1,000.00 |\n| Boarding-house Licences, Ordinance 26 of 1891 | $2,143.75 | $210.42 | $2,157.58 | $2,368.00 | $2,100.00 | $2,300.00 |\n| Boat Licences, Ordinance 26 of 1891 | $10,058.30 | $2,264.75 | $8,600.25 | $10,865.00 | $10,150.00 | $11,000.00 |\n| Cargo Boat Licences, Ordinance 26 of 1891 | $11,471.20 | $10,770.00 | $300.00 | $11,270.00 | $12,810.00 | $12,000.00 |\n| Carriage, Chair, &c., Licences, Ordinance 21 of 1887 | $46,225.40 | $24,851.10 | $26,309.90 | $51,161.00 | $47,610.00 | $53,000.00 |\n| Chinese Passenger Ships Licences, Ordinance 1 of 1889 | $275.00 | $255.00 | $105.00 | $360.00 | $350.00 | $330.00 |\n| Chinese Undertakers' Licences, Ordinance 21 of 1887 | $140.00 | $140.00 | $140.00 | $140.00 | $140.00 | |\n| Dog Licences, Ordinance 9 of 1898 | $2,709.00 | $2,454.00 | $255.00 | $2,709.00 | $2,500.00 | $2,700.00 |\n| Emigration Brokers' Licences, Ordinance 1 of 1889 | $800.00 | $800.00 | $800.00 | $800.00 | $800.00 | |\n| Fines | $35,030.67 | $29,939.14 | $29,000.86 | $58,000.00 | $85,000.00 | $55,000.00 |\n| Forfeitures | $14,045.60 | $5,815.35 | $4,184.65 | $10,000.00 | $7,000.00 | $10,000.00 |\n| Hawkers' Licences, Ordinance 21 of 1887 | $9,537.50 | $4,970.50 | $4,630.50 | $9,601.00 | $9,400.00 | $9,500.00 |\n| Junk Licences, Ordinance 26 of 1891 | $36,924.00 | $21,155.80 | $20,444.70 | $41,600.00 | $30,000.00 | $42,000.00 |\n| Kerosene Oil Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1873 | $623.00 | $319.00 | $321.00 | $640.00 | $630.00 | $640.00 |\n| Marine Store Dealers' Licences, Ordinance 9 of 1875 | $5,805.00 | $3,060.00 | $3,210.00 | $6,270.00 | $3,626.00 | $6,345.00 |\n| Marriage Licences, Ordinance 14 of 1875 | $670.00 | $564.00 | $350.00 | $920.00 | $700.00 | $850.00 |\n| Money Changers' Licences, Ordinance 21 of 1887 | $495.00 | $320.00 | $280.00 | $600.00 | $650.00 | $650.00 |\n| Opium Monopoly, Opium Ordinance 21 of 1891 | $372,000.00 | $186,000.00 | $186,000.00 | $372,000.00 | $372,000.00 | $872,000.00 |\n| Opium Divan Licences | $1,750.00 | $900.00 | $890.00 | $1,790.00 | $1,646.00 | $1,800.00 |\n\n## Carried forward\n$1,125,262.77 | $615,565.32 | $630,928.68 | $1,246,494.00 | $1,168,610.00 | $1,315,775.00 | \nPage 316", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381507, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "217\n\nRemoval of\n\nAga-Cours conde\n\nardan Ondrian en\n\n24\n\nq 146.13.\n\nORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.\n\nPublic Health.\n\nOVERCROWDING.\n\n1. The Medical Officer of Health, or such other officer as the Board may appoint for this purpose, shall, within such limits as the said Board may from time to time define, cause to be measured the floor area and cubic capacity of all domestic buildings or parts thereof, and shall cause to be calculated the number of occupants that may lawfully pass the night in such buildings or any parts thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Public Health Ordinance, 1901, and shall cause such number in English and Chinese to be fixed to such buildings or parts thereof in such manner as the Board may from time to time direct.\n\nOFFENSIVE TRADES.\n\n1. It shall not be lawful to carry on the trade of bone-boiling, the trade of tallow-melting, the trade of fat-melting or fat-extracting in any premises not hitherto used for carrying on such trades until such premises have been approved by the Board as being situated in a suitable locality, and as being suitable for the purposes of such trades.\n\n2. The trade of bone-boiling, the trade of tallow-melting, the trade of fat-melting or fat-extracting shall only be carried on in premises that are substantially built, and such premises shall be drained in accordance with the provisions of the Public Health Ordinance, 1901, and the bye-laws made thereunder. The ground surfaces of such premises shall be paved with good concrete laid down at least six inches thick and the surface thereof shall be rendered smooth and impervious with asphalt, portland cement, or such other material as the Board may approve of. The interior surfaces of all walls, which must be substantially built of brick or stone, as well as the surfaces of the brick or stone supports for the pans, etc. shall be rendered smooth and impervious to the height of at least seven feet from the floor level with asphalt, portland cement, or such other material as the Board may approve of.\n\nEvery such premises shall be provided to the satisfaction of the Board with proper and adequate urinal and privy accommodation for the use of the workmen employed therein.\n\n3. Every bone-boiler, tallow-melter, fat-melter, or fat-extractor shall cause all materials, which have been received upon the premises where his trade is carried on, and which are not immediately required for boiling, melting or extracting, to be stored in such manner and in such a situation as to prevent the emission of noxious or injurious effluvia therefrom.\n\n4. Every bone-boiler, tallow-melter, fat melter, or fat-extractor shall cause such portions of the internal surface of every wall upon the premises, where his trade is carried on as have not been rendered impervious with suitable material, to be thoroughly cleansed, and, after being so cleansed, to be thoroughly washed with hot lime-wash during the months of March and October of each year.\n\n5. Every bone-boiler, tallow-melter, fat-melter, or fat-extractor shall, at the close of every working day, cause all fat, tallow, grease, refuse or filth which has been spilled or splashed, or has fallen or been deposited upon any floor, pavement, or wall upon the premises where his trade is carried on to be collected therefrom by scraping or some other effectual means of cleansing and, unless it is intended to be subjected to further trade processes on the premises, forthwith removed from the premises. All apparatus must be kept in a cleanly and wholesome condition.\n\nORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.\n\nPublic Health.\n\n6. Every bone-boiler, tallow-melter, fat-melter, or fat-extractor shall cause every part of the internal surface of the walls and every floor or pavement upon the premises where his trade is carried on to be kept at all times in good order and repair so as to prevent the absorption therein of any liquid filth, or refuse, or any noxious or injurious matter which may be splashed or may fall or be deposited thereon.\n\n7. Every bone-boiler, tallow-melter, fat-melter, or fat-extractor shall adopt the best practicable means of rendering innocuous all vapours emitted during the process of boiling, melting or of extracting fat, etc. upon the premises where his trade is carried on.\n\nHe shall, in every case, either cause the vapour to be discharged into the external air in such a manner and at such a height as to admit of the diffusion of the vapour without noxious or injurious effects, or he shall cause the vapour to pass directly from the pan or press through a fire, or into a suitable condensing apparatus and then through a fire in such a manner as effectually to consume the vapour or to deprive the same of all noxious or injurious properties.\n\n8. No person other than a caretaker shall be allowed to pass the night in any of the rooms used as work rooms unless actually engaged in carrying on work connected with the trade.\n\n9. Every bone-boiler, tallow-melter, fat-melter, or fat-extractor shall cause every drain or means of drainage upon or in connection with the premises where his trade is carried on to be maintained at all times in good order and efficient action. He shall, where it is necessary in the opinion of the Board, provide the drains on his premises with the appliance known as a \"grease-trap\" and shall not pass or permit to be passed any hot liquid refuse (i.e., above 110 Fahr.) into the drains and sewers.\n\n10. Every bone-boiler, tallow-melter, fat-melter, or fat-extractor shall, at all times, afford free access to every part of the said premises to the members and officers of the Board, the latter being duly authorised to enter and inspect such premises.\n\n13. The owners of all premises at present used for the purpose of carrying on the trade of bone-boiling, the trade of tallow-melting, the trade of fat-melting or fat-extracting, and intended to be so used in future, shall register annually, during the month of January, such premises, at the offices of the Board, in the form required, and no person will be permitted to carry on such trade, within the said premises, without a certificate from the Board that the requirements of the foregoing bye-laws have been complied with.\n\n1. In the case of all premises, other than those hitherto used for the purpose of carrying on the trade of bone-boiling, the trade of tallow-melting, the trade of fat-melting or fat-extracting, no person shall carry on any or all of the above trades, in such premises, without the sanction in writing of the Board, and the owners shall duly register at the offices of the Board, in the form required, such premises annually in the month of January, during the period in which it is intended to carry on any or all of the above-mentioned trades.\n\nOPIUM DIVANS.\n\nFarmachined b\n\n1. The following expression, as used in these bye-laws or in any bye-law amending or substituted for the same, shall, unless inconsistent with the context, have and include the meaning hereinafter set against it.\n\n\"Keeper of an opium smoking divan.\"---The person whose name shall appear in the register, kept by the Registrar General in accordance under 24 of ref).\n\nmetiem 13.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381508, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 220, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "# By-Laws made under Ordinance No. 18 of 1901\n\n# Public Health\n\nAny person who, with section 8 of Ordinance 13 of 1888, is the householder of a building which is occupied or used as an opium smoking divan, or where a portion only of any building is so occupied or used, and is rented for any period not less than one month, then the person whose name shall appear in the said register as renting such portion of the said building.\n\n1. The Board shall cause every building or portion of a building which is occupied or used as an opium smoking divan to be inspected from time to time by one or more of its officers, in order to ascertain the sanitary condition thereof.\n\n2. The keeper of an opium smoking divan shall not permit his premises to be occupied between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. by a greater number of persons than such as will allow for each adult not less than 30 square feet of habitable floor space or superficial area, and 400 cubic feet of clear and unobstructed air space.\n\n3. The keeper of an opium smoking divan shall cause the windows and ventilating openings of his premises to be kept at all times free from obstruction, and shall daily open the windows to such an extent and at such times as may be necessary for the efficient ventilation of the premises unless prevented by inclement weather or by the illness of any person occupying the said premises.\n\n4. The keeper of an opium smoking divan shall cause the internal walls and ceilings of every part of his premises to be thoroughly cleansed and lime-washed during the sixth and twelfth months of the Chinese year.\n\n5. The keeper of an opium smoking divan shall at all times keep his premises in a clean and wholesome condition, and shall cause all filth and house refuse or other offensive matter to be removed from his premises daily.\n\n6. The keeper of an opium smoking divan shall, without delay, report at the office of the Board every case of serious illness which shall occur upon his premises, and should such case prove to be of a contagious nature, he must afford every facility for the removal of the sick person and must adopt all such precautions as the Medical Officer of Health or other duly authorized officer of the Board shall direct. For the purposes of this bye-law, any officer in possession of instructions in writing signed by the Medical Officer of Health or by the Secretary of the Board shall be deemed to be duly authorized.\n\n# POISONS\n\n1. All the articles named or referred to in the list hereto annexed, both in Part I. and Part II., are poisons within the meaning of these bye-laws.\n\n## Sale by Retail\n\n2. No poison mentioned in either Part of the list hereto annexed shall be sold by retail unless such poison or the vessel, wrapper, or cover in which it is contained be distinctly labelled with the name of the article, the word \"Poison\" in both English and Chinese characters, and the name and address of the seller.\n\n## Additional Bye-laws concerning the Poisons contained in Part I. only of the List\n\n3. No poison included in Part I. of the list shall be sold by retail to any person unknown to the seller unless introduced by some person known to the seller; and on every sale of any such article, the seller shall, before delivery, make or cause to be made an entry in a book, to be kept for that purpose, of:\n\n(1) The date of sale;\n(2) The name and address of the purchaser;\n(3) The name and quantity of the article sold; and\n(4) The purpose for which it is stated to be required;\nto which the signature, chop, or mark of the purchaser, and of the person, if any, who introduced him, shall be affixed.\n\nNOTE: These requirements are in addition to those contained in No. 2 of these bye-laws.\n\n## Special Bye-laws applying only to Arsenic and its preparations\n\n4. No arsenic or any of its preparations shall be sold by retail unless the following provisions be also observed:\n\n(1) That the poison, if colourless, be mixed with soot or indigo so as to colour it;\n(2) That the person to whom the poison is sold or delivered be apparently not less than sixteen years of age;\n(3) That the occupation, as well as the name and address of the purchaser, be entered in the \"Poison-book\";\n(4) That when the purchaser is not known to the seller and is introduced by some person known to both, this person shall be present as a witness to the transaction and shall enter his name and address in the \"Poison-book\".\n\nNOTE: These requirements are in addition to those contained in Nos. 2 and 3 of these bye-laws.\n\n## Entries, etc., in Foreign Languages\n\n5. In the case of persons who cannot write or speak English, the entries, labels, and signatures required as above may be made in the language with which such persons are acquainted, provided always that the word \"Poison\" as required in No. 2 of these bye-laws must appear upon the label in both English and Chinese characters.\n\n## Exemption\n\n6. None of the foregoing Bye-laws apply to any article when forming part of the ingredients of any medicine dispensed by:\n\n(a) any chemist and druggist duly qualified under the English Pharmacy Act of 1868; or\n(b) any person who shall have previously proved to the satisfaction of the Governor that he possesses a similar qualification or has passed through a course of study and examination as thorough and sufficient as the minimum course of study and examination required for registration under the said Pharmacy Act; or\n(c) any person at present in practice as a chemist and druggist who shall have previously proved to the satisfaction of the Governor that he is competent to dispense poisons; or\n(d) a medical practitioner duly registered under the Medical Registration Ordinances in force for the time being in this Colony, or entitled to the benefit of section 20 of Ordinance 6 of 1884.\n\nProvided that, if the medicine contains a poison included in either part of the list, the ingredients of the medicine together with the ...\n\nPage 218", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389002, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 509, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "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.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389374, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 277, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG \n\n## TO WIT.\n\n### Information Writ No. C: 0. 275 35004\n\nThe MAGISTRACY, HONGKONG, 22nd day of July 1903.\n\n[REG 29 SEP 03]\n\nThe Information and complaint of Ip Ho, married woman, taken this day before me, the undersigned, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said Colony, who states :--\n\nI am Ip Ho, married woman. I am 46 years of age. I now reside at No. 80, Hollywood Road. Up to the 8th day of the 5th Moon (i.e. 3rd of June 1903) I lived at Wing Hing Street off Loong Hau Hoi Street, at Kai Ap Kau, in Ho Nam, Canton.\n\nMy husband's name is Ng Lok alias A Nau alias Tung Kun Nau. He is a native of Lung Kun. I have been married to him for 31 years. He was an Opium Divan Keeper. He kept an Opium Divan under the sign of Lok Ki in King Hing Street off Loong Hau Hoi Street, in Honam, Canton.\n\nOn the 14th day of the 2nd Moon (i.e. 12th of March) a friend of my husband paid him a visit at our house in Wing Hing Street. He stayed nearly an hour, he had a conversation with my husband, in consequence of this conversation my husband went to Hong Kong on the 18th day of the 2nd Moon (i.e. 16th of March). I saw him go on board the Steamer. Since that date I have not seen him. I recognise the photograph shown me. It is that of my husband.\n\nMark of Ip Ho: X\n\nWitnessed by (Sd.) E. H. Gidley.\n\nTaken and sworn before me, on the day and year and at the place first above mentioned (Sd.) T. Sercombe Smith, Justice of the Peace.\n\nExplained and Interpreted by (Sd.) G. H. Gidley.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391066, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n24\n\n[October 15.]\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received October 15.)\n\n(No. 303.) (Telegraphic.) P.\n\nPeking, October 15, 1902.\n\nWITH reference to your Lordship's telegram No.227 of the 10th September respecting the opium tax at Canton, the Viceroy, in reply to my protest, asserts that, as the new tax is not levied till opium reaches the place of consumption, and as native opium is similarly taxed, there is no infringement of the Additional Article, and in this he is supported by the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nHis Majesty's Consul-General reports, in contradiction of this, that the tax is paid, while the package is still unopened, by the original importer, and that neither the consumer, the boiler, the opium-divan, nor the retail dealer pays it direct to the farm. The purchaser of certain confiscated opium which was sold by public auction was ordered by the farmers, before they would allow him to take delivery, to pay the new tax.\n\nUnless I can warn Chinese Government, in laying these facts before them, that His Majesty's Government must consider the desirability of withdrawing from the 1885 Arrangement, they will probably continue to argue the case indefinitely. I would venture therefore to ask your Lordship to authorize me to give this warning.\n\n[2234 p-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391290, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "6\n\nof the year, the time of the great pilgrimage form their chief means of subsistence, and most of the buildings are falling into a sad state of disrepair.\n\nAnother feature of the Shih Tan Ssu is a balustrade of Ta Li marble, some 30 yards long, before the chief shrine which contains three colossal Buddhas. Leaving Shih Tan Ssu and following the main cornice road to the summit in a westerly direction through the forest, we first passed the minor temples of Hsing Hsien Ssu and Wan Sheng An, and so arrive at Ta Chueh Ssu (Monastery of Great Perception), which is one of the Wa T Ssu or five great temples (Ta Chueh, Shih Tan, Chin Lan, Hua Yen, and Mo Ni An).” Ta Chueh Ssu consists of three courts in a tumble-down condition. Close to Ta Chuch is Chi Kwang Ssu, which claims to be the oldest of all the shrines. In it are seven images of the Jn Loi Buddha, with the mystic symbol on their breasts; also a small Buddha on a white elephant, and two enormous rice boilers of bell-metal dating from the Ming Emperor, Tien Chi. The forest then opens out, allowing fine views of the valley of Sha Chi and of the large Hua Yen Ssu, situated lower down the hill on a wooded height. After ascending 2,000 feet in 5 miles we arrived at the foot of the western pinnacle of the mountain, and put up in the comfortable Chin Lan Ssu, otherwise known as Chia Sha Ssu, where we found only three monks. From this temple the ascent to the Chin Tien, or Golden Shrine, on the summit takes about 1 hour. Winding up a steep stone path between limestone precipices, we passed several caves in which holy but dirty monks lay in wait for the cash of the faithful. A few hundred feet below the summit is the Tung Fo Ssu, a small temple dating from this dynasty with a roof of copper. A steep and dizzy climb brought us from this to the top, at an elevation of 11,800 feet. The Chin Tien is a tumble-down little temple in the centre of the chief court, of which is a shrine with door and roof of copper, and surrounded by a Ta Li marble balustrade, closely resembling the copper shrine at Wu San Kwei's temple near Yünnan-fu.\n\nIn front of the shrine is a large and artistically-shaped incense burner of bell-metal, about 5.8 feet high.\n\nThe view from the summit of the Chi Shan is of surpassing magnificence, and embraces a large portion of the Ta Li Prefecture. To the east the ridge of the Chi Shan slopes away to the Pin Chuan Valley, while its forest-clad heights slope gradually down to the valley of Sha Chi at the spectators' feet. To the south-east were the mountains which we had crossed in our journey from Ta Yao, running north and south in parallel ranges. To the south are the masses of hills between the Ta Li Lake and the plain of Yunnan Hsien. To the west a magnificent view is obtained of the isolated range of the Tsang Shan, which, with its nineteen peaks, rising to about 13,000 feet, forms a vast screen on the west side of the Ta Li Lake. No snow was visible in early December, and, indeed, the attitude of this range is well under the snow-line in this part of Yunnan. Glimpses of the lake are obtained, and though the city of Ta Li is hidden, the pagodas outside the north gate of the city can be seen. But the most conspicuous object of all in the whole panorama is to the north, where the great white dome of the Lichiang snow-peak, towering high above all rival summits, glitters in the winter sun. From the Chi Shan it is distant 65 miles in an air-line.\n\nLeaving the Ka Sha Ssu and passing through the forest for a mile, we cross a col, 9,200 feet, and descend in a north direction down a beautiful glen, where slopes of bracken and fields of oats are diversified with shrubberies of rhododendrons and pines. On the north side of the mountain there is only one temple, the Feng Chen Ssu, inhabited by a villainous-looking bonze, who apologized for the disordered state of his temple because he had only just come out after six months in the Teng Chuan Gaol. Some mules, it appeared, had vanished from near the holy man's abode, and here, as elsewhere, the world is very censorious. From this undesirable spot my muletcer hastened us down a rough road, with views of bare mountain ranges to the north in front of us, down to the bed of a small stream, along the banks of which runs the high road from Ta Li to Yung Peh. This stream flows east into the Yang-tsze, and we followed up its course in a west direction, along a narrow strip of cultivation, until we found a camp-ground at the little village of Ta Wang Miao. The next day, at [F] miles, we passed out of the valley and over a grassy col, insignificant in itself, but important as being the divide between the Yang-tsze and the Mekong. Shortly after the north end of the Ta Li Lake came into sight- the flourishing villages, dense cultivation round the fringe of the lake, the numerous fishing-boats, and the flocks of wildfowl forming a striking contrast to the bare, lonely slopes of the mountains above. We struck the lake near a marshy pond full of mallards, which enabled us to replenish the larder; and after an easy and interesting walk past the flourishing market of Chiang Wei (where excellent fowl and snipe shooting is to be had) and past flourishing villages, we crossed the bridge of boats\n\n7\n\nwhich spans the river which feeds the north end of the lake, and marched into Shang-Kuan under the shadow of the Tsang Shan.\n\nThe influence of Buddhism-of which the temples on the Chi Shan are the outward and visible sign-is still strongly marked in the Ta Li valley, which is popularly spoken of as the \"Land of Buddha.\" A number of military officers come from Ta Li, Hoching, and Lichiang: and most of them (including Chiang, the late provincial Commander-in-chief) are devotees of Buddha. Their piety is sometimes usefully and elegantly displayed by the construction of bridges and the ornamentation of temples. Sometimes it breaks out in inconvenient places. Thus, the military authorities in Yunnan are very fond of forbidding the slaughter of animals for food, though whether their motive is, as they state, \"respect for heaven-given life\" or the prospect of a squeeze \"for permitting breaches of their own regulations, I leave to be determined by those who know the mandarins. Shortly before I arrived the Captain of the City Guard at Ta Li had issued a strange Proclamation. After pointing out that \"all the myriads of created beings love life,\" he proceeds to assert that eels and magpies in particular have a \"meng,\" or destined course of life, with which it is impious to interfere. Accordingly, it is strictly forbidden to catch these creatures, and all and sundry who would indulge in the surreptitious pleasure of fried eels, or the more doubtful joys of magpie shooting, are warned that the eye of the Captain of the Guard is on them.\n\nCC\n\nTu Li-fu and the Valleys near it.\n\nIt is.\n\nfrom\n\nThe importance of Hsia Kuan, at the south of the Ta Li Valley, as a centre both of foreign and native trade cannot fail to strike the traveller; it is the commercial capital\n\npasses of West Yünnan, and if we can insist on respect being paid to transit Burmah, will soon become the largest market in the province. The li-kin is one of the best in the province, the amount collected chiefly on native opium being from 40,000 taels to 50,000 taels per annum. The town is increasing rapidly, and rents are far higher than at Ta Li, the greater part of the latter city being still in ruins, and being cursed by the presence of a number of officials. Hsia Kuan has a population of over 12,000, nearly all of whom are engaged in trade; the town is situated on both sides of a small river which flows out of the south-west corner of the Erh Hai or Ta Li Lake, and The ruins of the old rans west into the Yangpi River, and so to the Mekong. Rivan, or fortified wall, which ran from the foot of the mountains to the lake, are still standing in picturesque dilapidation on the north bank of the river.\n\nNot only is Hsia Kuan a resort of merchants of all kinds-dealers in foreign goods from Tengyueh, cloth-sellers and opium buyers from Lin Au (South Yünnan), Canton opium buyers, pedlars from Szechuan, Thibetans, and Li-chiang traders with ponies, mules, woollen cloth, drugs, and musk to exchange for tea, salt, sugar, and cottons-but it is an important centre of opium production and general consumption. I estimate that at least half of our imports from Burmah go up to Hsia Kuan.\n\nThe mountains press close on the east shore of the lake, while on the west the feet of the great Tsang Shan range are only 15 li, or 4.4 miles from the water, but the Ta Li plain, though narrow, is very thickly populated, and to the north and south of the lake are a series of rich agricultural valleys. The district of T'ai Ho Hsien, which comprises only the plain between lake and mountain, and between Hsia Kuan and Shang Kuan- say, 44 miles by 30 miles-has nearly 250 villages, besides the towns of Ta Li and Hsia Kuan; and the population can hardly be under 100,000. The sub-Prefecture of Chao Chou at the south end of the lake and of Teng Chuan at the north head of the lake have a large area of rich agricultural land and an abundant supply of water; further south are the plains of Meng Hua, 20 miles by 4 miles, and Hung Ai, 18 miles by 5 miles, which resemble the valleys of Szechuan in their richness; while to the north of Teng Chuan are the plains of Lang K'ung, Chien Chuan, Hoching, and Lichiang.\n\nI estimate that quite 1,250,000 persons and the best-to-do in the province are supplied from Hsia Kuan, and in a province the whole of which does not probably contain more than 10,000,000 inhabitants, this is a high figure. I would advocate the establishment of a Chinese agency at Hsia Kuan by some foreign firm. If arrangements can be made to send opium to Canton via Burmah, the prosperity of the country will be greatly increased.\n\nThe great majority of the peasants in the Ta Li plain and the valleys to the north are Minchia. They are, however, especially in the Ta Li plain, very mixed with Chinese. It is said that between the lake and the mountain there are only two villages of pure Minchia, but the majority of the population along the actual shore of the lake\n\n247", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392994, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "Peking, 1st October, 1903,\n\nC.O.\n\n27148\n\nYour Highness,\n\nI have the honour to inform Your Highness that I have received a Despatch from His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong acquainting me with a serious violation of the territorial rights of the Colony committed by persons acting under the instigation of certain Chinese Officials with the connivance of the Chinese Admiral Ho.\n\nIt appears from the Governor's Despatch and from the documents that accompany it that the ringleader of the plot to murder certain Chinese Officials at Canton last Chinese New Year, the discovery of which was due to information given by the Hongkong Authorities, was a certain Hung Ch'uan-fu or Hung Ch'uan-huai, who escaped arrest and went to Hongkong. For his arrest a reward of $30,000 was secretly offered by the Provincial Treasurer of Canton, and $20,000 for his dead body. With a view to obtaining this reward and no doubt also to gaining official credit, Admiral Ho sent three of his officers to Hongkong in order to try to effect the capture of Hung. For this end they engaged the services of a man named Chang Tso-ting who had some family connection with Hung, having adopted as his son the grandson of Hung's nephew.\n\nWhether Chang made any attempt to arrest or murder Hung is not known, but if so he did not succeed, for it is known that Hung left Hong Kong on March 31st for Singapore where he arrived safely. But either because he found the capture of the real Hung too difficult, or for some other reason, Chang determined to substitute for him another man, bearing to him a personal resemblance, and such a person he found in an acquaintance of his at Canton named Hu, who kept an Opium Divan in that City.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 396315, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "page_number": 395, "title": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "content_text": "(Form W1)\n\n# COLONY OF HONGKONG 1904\n\n## STATEMENT OF REVENUE IN THE YEAR, UNDER SUBHEADS, AS COMPARED WITH THE ESTIMATES\n\n| HEADS AND SUB-HEADS | ESTIMATED REVENUE | ACTUAL REVENUE | OVER THE ESTIMATE | UNDER THE ESTIMATE | REMARKS EXPLANATORY OF INCREASE OR DECREASE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. LIGHT DUES | 70,000 | 72,330.16 | 2,330.16 | | |\n| 2. LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED: | | | | | |\n| Arms Licences, Ordinance of 1900 | 72.30 | | | 72.30 | |\n| Assessed Taxes, Ordinance 6 of 1901 | 1,020,000 | 842,019.84 | | 177,980.16 | No transfer to Water Account |\n| Auctioneers' Licences, Ordinance of 1887 | | 1,219.59 | 1,219.59 | | |\n| Billiard Tables, and Bowling Alleys Licences, Ordinance of 1897 | 2,400 | 1,800 | | 600 | |\n| Boarding-house Licences, Ordinance 20 of 1897 | 2,600 | 2,200 | | 400 | |\n| Boat Licences, Ordinance 20 of 1899 | 27,780 | 28,000 | 220 | | Chinese Seamen's Boarding Houses exempted from taking |\n| Carriage, Chair, &c, Licences. Ordinance of 1887 | 10,658 | 10,693.42 | 35.42 | | |\n| Chinese Passenger Ships Licences, Ordinance 1 of 1880 | 1,050 | 1,092.63 | 42.63 | | |\n| Chinese Undertakers' Licences, Ordinance of 1887 | 150 | 136.5 | | 13.5 | |\n| Chinese Postmen's Licences, Govt Not 274 of 1902 | 240 | 420 | 180 | | |\n| Dangerous Goods Licences, Ord. 8 of 1873 and Ordinance 20/17 1009 | 1,200 | 1,286 | 86 | | |\n| Dog Licences, Ordinance 5 of 1893 | 5,835 | 5,892 | 57 | | |\n| Emigration Brokers' Licences, Ordinance 1 of 1880 | 1,000 | 1,000 | | | |\n| Emigration Houses Licences, Ord. #4 of 1889 | 2,500 | 2,820 | 320 | | |\n| Fines Forfeitures | | 67,000 | 67,000 | | New class of Revenue |\n| Foredry Licences New Territory | | 8,666.44 | 8,666.44 | | New class of Revenue |\n| Fishing Stakes and Stations Licences, Ord. 36 of 1890 | 2,500 | 2,294 | | 206 | |\n| Hawkers' Licences, Ordinance of 1887 | 12,000 | 25,536 | 13,536 | | Fee has been doubled |\n| Junk Licences, Ordinance 36 of 1880 | 49,000 | 53,942.50 | 4,942.50 | | |\n| Marine Store Dealers' Licences, Ordinance of 1875 | 77 | | | 77 | |\n| Marriage Licences, Ordinance 4 of 1875 | 8 | | | 8 | |\n| Money Changers, Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887 | | 10 | 10 | | |\n| Opium, Importing &c, Compound of Opium Monopoly, Opium Ordinance 4 of 1891 | 1,770 | 1,120 | | 650 | Rent reduced $15,000 a month from 1st November |\n| Opium Divan Licences, Ordinance 15 of 1894 | 19,750 | 17,990 | | 1,760 | |\n| Oyster Fisheries | 1,100 | 1,830 | 730 | | |\n| | 1,337,306.5 | 3,598,126.23 | | | |\n| Carried forward | | | 260,331.03 | 35,269.80 | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404657, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "page_number": 395, "title": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "content_text": "# COLONY OF HONGKONG, 1905\n## STATEMENT OF REVENUE IN THE YEAR, UNDER HEADS, AS COMPARED WITH THE ESTIMATES.\n\n| ESTIMATED REVENUE | ACTUAL REVENUE | OVER THE ESTIMATE | UNDER THE ESTIMATE | REMARKS EXPLANATORY OF INCREASE OR DECREASE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | | | Brought forward,.. $... |\n| **LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED** | | | | |\n| | 1716590 | | | |\n| Marriage Licences | 10.623021 | | | |\n| Money Changers' Licences | 1.300 | | | |\n| Opium, Compounds of | 7339 | $9. | | |\n| Opium Divan Licences | 1.100 | 1040 | 60 | |\n| Opium Monopoly | 825 | 825 | | New item of Revenue. |\n| Oyster Fisheries | 1680 | 1905 | | |\n| Pawnbrokers' Licences | 275 | 2220000 | 2040000 | Thom rent reduced by agreement. |\n| Pilots' Licences | 2695 | 3592 | | |\n| Postal Hong Licences | 97.200 | 91825 | 5375 | Over Estimated. |\n| Prospecting Licence- New Territory | 360 | 340 | 1.800 | |\n| Licenses Special Fruit Licences | 148567 | 290 | | New item of Revenue. |\n| Spirit Licences | 282.800 | $15.000 | 27334395 | |\n| Stamps | 62618941 | 945668 | 6115941 | Over the Estimated |\n| Steam-Launch Licences | 4000 | 353975 | 46025 | |\n| **FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID** | | | | |\n| Bath-houses for Chinese, Fees from | 168 | 870 | 16870 | New item |\n| Bills of Health | 7.800 | 7398 | 402 | |\n| Births and Death-Registration of | 450 | 56110 | 11/10 | |\n| Cargo Boat Certificates | 2.500 | 2432 | 68 | |\n| Cemetery Burials | 800 | 158134 | | |\n| Cemetery Fees, from Public Cemeteries for Chinese | 2.000 | 2665 | 78734 | 665 |\n| Certificates to Chinese entering America | 1.100 | 200 | 900 | Our le timated. |\n| | 4.909910 | 481511584 | 112.88079 | 20763d 95- |\n| Carried forward......$ | | | | 392 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407050, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 346, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "The danger of acquiescing in the proposed Regulations at Canton is that, diversely the fact became known that we had done so, other provinces would at once start schemes for raising money by taxing opium which probably would not be of such a comparatively unobjectionable character as is the one in question.\n\nTaking all the above considerations into account, I venture to think that for the present, and until I am in receipt of the views of His Majesty's Government, the position assumed by Mr. Scott in his communication to the Viceroy is correct--- viz., that the levy should be suspended until the matter has been considered and decided by His Majesty's Legation and the Wai-wu Pu in Peking.\n\nI am informing Mr. Scott that I approve his action.\n\n3\n\nthat the Viceroy would, as stated to me by the Guild, have forced the tax on the direct importers under pain of imprisonment and confiscation of their property.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) JAMES SCOTT.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Scott to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 6.) Sir,\n\nCanton, January 31, 1906.\n\nI BEG to inclose herewith copy and translation of certain Regulations recently issued by order of the Viceroy, imposing additional taxation on prepared opium.\n\nThese Regulations provide for the levy of a graduated scale of fees on the different shops selling prepared opium, as also the sum of 4 candareens per tael of the article sold---i.e., 4 per cent. I learn that the Viceroy has, during the past year, been pressing the opium importers to undertake the levy of certain additional charges on the opium passing through their hands as a voluntary contribution towards the provincial Exchequer. Strong pressure and even threats were brought to bear upon the merchants in question, but the Opium Guild, as a body, held out. Three of their prominent members called upon me to explain the situation, and expressed the fear that, under threats of imprisonment by the Viceroy, they would be compelled to yield. They specifically asked whether, in the event of their Guild undertaking the levy, I on my part could assure them that British importers would also be liable to pay the tax on demand by their Guild. This I declined to do.\n\nThe deputation, on leaving, informed me that they would persist in their refusal to the Viceroy on the ground that compliance on their part, as shown on previous attempts to enforce a prepared opium tax, would throw the import trade into the hands of foreign dealers, and thus increase smuggling. The deputation also informed me that the sole reason for the farming of the tax by the Guild was that in such case there would be less likelihood of opposition on the part of the people, and less ground for complaint on the part of foreigners; and that the rates as stated in the Regulations were valid only for one year, at the end of which time they would be increased, and the whole collection revert into the hands of the officials.\n\nWith regard to the present Regulations, I have found myself in a difficulty in protesting against their enactment. The licence is paid by the prepared-opium shops, and the 4 candareens on the prepared drug as sold. But, bearing in mind previous attempts to levy a tax on prepared opium, which has been declared contrary to Treaty, I deemed it my duty to remind the Viceroy of the arrangement which had been made to refer such questions to the high authorities in Peking.\n\nI beg to inclose copy and translation of my despatch to the Viceroy, and of his reply. The Viceroy argues that the tax is paid only after the packages have been opened, and refers to the levy by the Yung An Tang (a voluntary assessment accepted by the Guild many years ago in lieu of a prepared-opium tax) in justification of his action.\n\nI find that the present Regulations have been in force since the 8th December, but that so far no great success has attended their enforcement.\n\nThe Viceroy recognizes that unless he can command the levy on the direct importers through the Guild, the boilers will, while paying licence fees (which they cannot escape), certainly furnish inaccurate returns of their business. On the other hand, smokers will purchase the raw drug and secretly prepare it themselves.\n\nAt the present moment the Viceroy is not pressing the tax with energy. The quarrel which has recently arisen between him and the gentry, as reported in my despatch No. 4, has intensified the situation, and the Viceroy hesitates to aggravate public feeling any further. But for this latter fortuitous circumstance I am satisfied\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nOpium Licence Regulations.\n\nTHE convenience both of officials and merchants being an important consideration in the introduction of the present licensing system, substantial merchants will be required to guarantee the revenue to be derived from the licence fees, and will pay three months' revenue in advance as security, this sum to be deducted in the last quarter.\n\nLicensed shops will pay 4 candareens per tael's worth of goods sold, and to prevent trouble this should be paid by the purchaser, and not be an additional burden upon the raw-opium merchants. The head office will issue licence certificates in duplicate, sealed and serially registered. The aforesaid merchants will give in detail the number of licences required, the names of the shops, their situation, and the amount to be paid by each. They should make application in person at the office, and themselves fill in and issue the licences.\n\nLicences shall be renewed every year, and a fee of 1 dollar for the licence certificate itself will be charged.\n\nCertificates will state whether any godowns are covered by the licence, and in such case, where these are situated, in order to facilitate inspection. The counterfoil should be returned to the office to be filed for reference. The licence fee, due monthly from every shop, shall be fully discharged during the first five days of the month. Shops ceasing to do business should be reported to the Syndicate, and fees due from such shops shall be paid by the members of the Syndicate. The amount guaranteed by the Syndicate must be paid in full; no plea for reduction will be entertained.\n\n2. Every shop for the sale of prepared opium, as every shop for the sale and consumption of refuse opium, and every divan for the consumption of opium, in every town, market-town, and village shall apply for and receive a Government licence before it may be opened. The fee for such licence shall be assessed according to the size of the business.\n\nLicensed shops will be public establishments and under Government protection; shops unlicensed in defiance of these Regulations will be immediately closed by the Government as illicit.\n\nAll persons who, relying on the local strength of their clan, presume secretly to disobey these Regulations, and all persons furnishing short returns, will, on detection, be arrested, tried, and severely punished.\n\nThe sale of opium being a legitimate business, the farming of opium licences has nothing in common with the farming of the coast defence tax (levied on gaming-houses, brothels, &c.). The option of farming is given to the merchants concerned in order to prevent vexatious extortion by middlemen, and when the said merchants shall have received their certificates no outside competition will be allowed to deprive them of the privilege. Should the merchants fail to recognize the exceptional consideration thus shown to them, and make an inadequate offer for the farming of the licences, or be dilatory in availing themselves of the option, the licences will either be under Government control, or the right of farming will be granted to other merchants in each district. Such merchants must, however, in the interests of the revenue, procure substantial guarantees for the amount.\n\n3. Preparation of the drug in private houses must, after the adoption of this system of licences for opium shops, be rigorously prohibited, as injurious to the revenue; and opium boilers are strictly forbidden to assist in screening any such abuse. Any person objecting to the flavour of the opium in the shops may, on payment of a fee in proportion to the amount to be consumed, obtain a separate licence to prepare opium.\n\n4. The immediate abolition of shops for the sale and consumption of refuse opium and divans for the consumption of opium being unadvisable, inasmuch as the\n\nPage 340", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413032, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 792, "title": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Hong Kong Valuation: Rate & Exchange\n\nTable (one view)\n\n| Ak | 1 | iv | bayments | 786 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | | the intended Valuation | |\n\n\"Jolive omitting receipt & by the diy chery. slashing stay hing\"\n\n| more $'s | be Derienes had quis nos pensions | amy jivan prin | wull The traine |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | J | | |\n\nFor whe guns and then y lan; y low Exch 432-4 ferren starting\n\n| bys terhing | 7 Regents taken der Marang of cohom you Chonger be |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | $ recanvas will be | will be Repbsation in 4's ton given Starting contri |\n\nlow ( By Ligh Low th ( 13\" Fortes y exchang & Fow Ka Starting\n\n| ints $ | prospective pansion | Ladd Herzen verte |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | * ve confite Crete übertry Comp the harbing | 2 so contributed] |\n| | in sterling | be substantially |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413391, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3]", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3]", "content_text": "## COLONY OF HONGKONG, 1907\n## STATEMENT OF REVENUE IN THE YEAR, UNDER SUB-HEADS, AS COMPARED WITH THE ESTIMATES\n\n| ESTIMATED REVENUE | ACTUAL REVENUE | OVER THE ESTIMATE | UNDER THE ESTIMATE | REMARKS EXPLANATORY OF INCREASE OR DECREASE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $1,836,620 | | | Brought forward |\n| | $1,838,544.99 | $25,061.46 | $43,136.47 | |\n| 10,000 | 10,620 | 620 | | More Licence fees - Marine Store Dealers' Licences |\n| 1,300 | 936 | | 364 | Fewer licences - Marriage Licences |\n| 22.12 | 22.12 | | | - Mining |\n| 1,100 | 2,980 | 1,880 | | More licences - Money Changers' Licences |\n| 900 | 900 | | | Now paid to Farmer - Opium Compounds Licences |\n| 1,600 | 1,930 | 330 | | More Licences - Opium Divan Licences |\n| 1,550,000 | 1,550,000 | | | - Opium Monopoly |\n| 400 | 340 | | 60 | Fewer licences - Oyster Fisheries Licences |\n| 86,000 | 90,012.50 | 4,012.50 | | - Pawnbrokers' Licences |\n| 200 | 100.50 | | 99.50 | Fewer permits granted - Permits to extract earth and stone, New Territories |\n| 200 | 80 | | 120 | - Pilots' Licences |\n| 1,000 | 6,000 | 5,000 | | More licences - Prospecting Licences, New Territories. The new licences issued. Fees collected on licences renewed only |\n| 4,400 | 4,887.98 | 487.98 | | More Licences - Special Fruit Licences |\n| 280,600 | 275,156.95 | | 5,443.05 | Fewer licences - Spirit Licences |\n| 600,000 | 825,295.71 | 225,295.71 | | Probates larger than usual - Stamp Duties |\n| 3,600 | 3,898 | 298 | | More Licences - Steam-Launch Licences |\n| 50 | 532.50 | 482.50 | | Fees abolished from 9.8.07. More Fees levied - Water-Wheel Licences. Fees chiefly on account of the completion of the thermal soak... |\n| | $4,409,770 | | | Carried forward |\n| | $4,624,067.37 | $265,022.12 | $50,724.75 | |\n\n## FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID\n| ESTIMATED REVENUE | ACTUAL REVENUE | OVER THE ESTIMATE | UNDER THE ESTIMATE | REMARKS EXPLANATORY OF INCREASE OR DECREASE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 3,000 | 2,467.50 | | 532.50 | - Analyses |\n| 300 | 230 | | 70 | - Bath-house Fees |\n| | | | | Hills of Health |\n| 8,000 | 9,833 | 1,733.25 | | - Births and Deaths Registration |\n| 500 | 678.10 | 178.10 | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413722, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 224, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Telegram\n**The Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies**\n\n(Received, Colonial Office, 11.48 a.m. 6th May 1908)\n\nEarnestly request that you will await arrival of despatch by next mail explaining position and proposed steps to carry out orders from His Majesty's Government. In any case, trust that you will defer statement in Parliament. I have no power to cancel under terms of contract with opium farmer. Cancellation of divan licences issued on payment by him proposal involves claims for damage as result of lawsuit and heavy compensation for loss sustained by opium farmer and sublessees. Require reasonable time for negotiation before news of Parliamentary statement appears in Press telegrams. Cost to this Colony will probably be 700,000 to 800,000 dollars per annum in addition to initial amount of compensation for breach of covenant. I am at a loss to devise increase of taxes sufficient to provide for this sum, serious deficiency in local revenue already in consequence of trade depression and falling rate of exchange.\n\nLUGARD", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413989, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "the efficiency of various rat viruses (including ratin) is being investigated by the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in the interests primarily of South Africa. A report is awaited on the results of these investigations.\n\nNo. 34 June 1908\nHONG KONG N2/336 Opium Traffic (Subject.) Opium Licences 488\n\n**DESPATCH.**\nC n. 21336 13 JUN 08\nPropose opening sett Ct of whole question concerning which desp follows by mail.\n\nto wine 10 licences unissued since Jan. Owing to applicants' absence in China, in order to avoid claims for compensation.\n\n**(Minutes.)**\nM. Stables Antrobus $131 H.K. Ord 89 1891 zo Carry on says Nat copies of it will be communicated to you.\n\nTo The Pub. & Jan 1909 -.& S. Ltd.-2902- 25x-71-7 25-11-07 subsequent Paper.\n\n30 divan person shall Ch. Sect. without Now the 10 particular opium licences to the law issued On La any divan licence from the divard carried been the havaries in question Despite been haven't Therefore difficult and it is\n\n# 4 A what ground ation Rein Futter to see claim for compensation could be based if permission for the licences to be issued to me is given it is like that raised licences for 4000 outcry unlikely. And additional in Jan been issued but had been", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413990, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 492, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "## The Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nReceived Colonial Office 9.5 a.m. 13th June, 1903.\n\nTen divan licences applied for renewal before expiration 28th February last not yet issued because in the absence of applicants China impossible to execute personal bonds divans in the meantime allowed to keep open. Propose now issue thus avoiding claims for compensation pending settlement of whole question concerning which despatch follows by mail.\n\nLUGARD.\n\nEnquire as proposed.\n\nWht. June 17.\n\nnot acted upon before the prohibition was issued. 4 H.M.G. licences were issued here but not acted upon. I think there are bound to find a claim for compensation in respect of particular licences where there are extremely strong grounds unless there are grounds for allowing it as a natural consequence of the announcement in Parliament, they would be refused.\n\nREC `C.O. 21336` \nReceived 13 JUN 08 \nPt.16 \n489 \nEght 15/6 \n\n`Telegram` \n\nCertainly \n98.18.6 \n77.6 \n\n[Is it possible that \"now\" is a mistake for \"not\"?] \nEnquire as proposed. \n`telegrand`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413991, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "# TELEGRAM\n## THE EASTERN TELEGRAPH CO LTD.\n### LONDON STATIONS:\n\n**CHIEF STATION:** 11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C. \n**BRANCH STATIONS:** \n- 5, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. \n- 3, GRACECHURCH STREET, E.C. \n- 37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. \n- 449, STRAND, W.C. \n- 4, ELECTRA HOUSE, E.C. \n- 41 & 42, PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W. \n- Foreign Auction Hall, Cost: 13 Jun 08 THE BALTIC, ST. MARY AXE. \n- 6, DENMAN STREET, BORO' HIGH STREET, S.E.\n\n## TELEGRAM Received at London\nFrom Foreign No. `190` via **Eastern** \nNo of Words: `24` \nDated `13th June 08` \nNo. `287`\n\nThe following message was received: \n\"divan licences aabbling the knewal before expiration hi loties I not yet mugstfold me a you the absence Because able head applicants chiria import to accute qui in the meanting personal bonds divans allowed to propose Svoiding whole queish ovellash Concert jackcuffs ambergris 9.5am 13.6-08 issue this claims for compensa auseful misdesert concerning which despatch follows by mail Lugari\"\n\n## REMARKS\n- **REPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern** \n- Doubtful words should be **OFFICIALLY repeated**. See Rule Book. \n- No inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy.\n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London: Wall. Coden.\n\npending settlement of dacol te...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413998, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "## 497\n\nFarmer amounts to $66,626 per mensem. It is of course impossible to say what proportion of this sum would be lost to the Farmer were all the Divans closed, since it is impossible to know to what extent the closing of the Divans will decrease the consumption of Opium. On this point further investigations are being made, and I hope very shortly to be able to arrive at an estimate of the total amount which would in justice be due to the Farmer as compensation, in consequence of a course of action which he had no reason to anticipate at the time the Contract was made.\n\n3. With regard to the Licensees of Divans, I am advised by the Law Officers of the Colony that the Government has no power to cancel the Divan Licences except for breach of their conditions. Cancellation could only be effected by means of special legislation. Were such legislation to be introduced it would in justice be necessary to provide substantial compensation, which would amount to a very considerable sum for which there is no provision in the Estimates, and which it appears well nigh impossible to provide.\n\n4. I cannot disguise from Your Lordship that such legislation would be energetically opposed by ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413999, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 501, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "C \n\n498 \n\nby the Unofficial Members of Council, and the passing of \nsuch a Bill might not improbably result in their resignation, and in producing a most undesirable crisis in this \nColony. In this connection I have the honour at the request \n\n# \n## Enclosure 2. \n### Enclosure 3. \n\nof the Local Chamber of Commerce to forward a Resolution \npassed by the Chamber on the 16th May, 1908. I have also \nthe honour to enclose copy of a Resolution brought before \nthe Legislative Council by the Member who sits for the \nChamber of Commerce with the \"Hansard\" copy of the debate \nwhich ensued. \n\n5. \nFrom these enclosures Your Lordship will perceive that the community here are not \nopposed to the gradual extinction of Opium Divans but they \nresent in the first place their arbitrary closure without \ndue notice, which will throw a large number of persons out \nof employment before they have had time to make other \narrangements, and inflict losses on property owners and \nothers, and in the second place they feel very strongly \nand deeply that in a matter so intimately affecting the \ntaxpayers, and involving considerable sums in compensation \nto the Opium Farmer and Divan Licensees, the representatives of the taxpayers on the Council should have an \nopportunity of expressing their views as to the method of \nabolition", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414000, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 502, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "## \nVIC \n38766 \n499 \n\nabolition in view of the financial considerations involved.\n\n6. Licences to keep Divans are issued annually on February 28th, and in view of the circumstances I have described I venture to submit to Your Lordship that existing Licences should be allowed to expire in due course, and that on March 1st next only half should be renewed. This would give me time to ascertain what compensation may be equitably due to the Farmer, to the Divan-holders dispossessed, and to Landlords and Insurance Companies. On March 1st, 1910 all Divans would entirely disappear.\n\n7. With regard to the compensation involved, The amount in these circumstances would be very largely reduced, and if Your Lordship should consider it possible to authorise me to inform the Council that a proportion of the burden thrown upon the finances of the Colony - say one-half would be borne by the Imperial Government either by a corresponding decrease in the Military Contribution for 1909 and 1910 or otherwise it would have a very excellent effect upon His Majesty's loyal subjects in this Colony, as proving the disinterestedness of His Majesty's Government and its willingness to assist the Colony in bearing a burden which its finances", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414096, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n### DESPATCH.\n#### No. 28790\n#### 7 AUG 1908\n\n**(Subject.)** \nOpium Traffic. Divan.\n\nLead memo. by Asst. Regr. re Divan. \nHelpers would appear to be entitled to compensation. Refusal to renew licences. Question of compensation and damages will arise. Amount likely to be claimed. Suggest no action pending report on divans.\n\n**(Minutes.)** \nI don't quite understand the argument. \nIf the divan keepers are going to be compensated for the closing of their divans by not renewing the licences, I suppose these ten helpers will have to be compensated too. Their legal position, if it is as weak as it will be merely a question of not renewing licences, is practically the same all round, and the only point is that if the ten are once closed, the question of compensation will have to be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414097, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# \nIt seems decidedly rather otherwise than absolutely necessary. The capital & profits of these Swans seem very small. It is not to be expected the Opium farmer who will open his mouth wide for open compensation. Sir C. Lucas A.1.04 a 1078 \n\nSir F. Lugard seems to have had some difficulty in expressing himself and I am not sure that I understand what he means. I take it however that when he says in para 8 that he recommends that no steps should be taken he means that he does not want the S of S to worst express any opinion as to the ten licenses pending the receipt of the further report from Mr Hutchinson. From this I assume that the divans in question are being and will continue to be allowed to remain open without the formal issue of licenses. I do not think that anything would be gained by ordering him divans to refuse the issue of these licenses. They do not seem to be very important places, judging from the smallness of their profits and their continued existence for the remainder of the year will not appreciably increase the facilities for opium smoking. If the other divan-keepers are entitled to compensation - as to which I feel no certainty - these ten have a moral right to the same treatment since the issue of the license is, in the circumstances stated, a mere formality, the Govt having for practical purposes agreed to the issue.\n\nI think therefore that we should do nothing on this despatch pending (a) Lord Crewe's decision as to the general lines on which the policy of closing is to be enforced. and (b) the further communication See `25273` which must accompany his decision as to claims for compensation.\n\nCol: Seely \nWait C.Pd. 12. Aug \nAwait Lord Crewe's return. \n95. 13.8. at once \nNothing need be done on Mr Melton to Sunday's bang Sie 7. Augants desp. in `25273`, au orona, wait my be Men these particular divans happyon, go ē `19.777` before 7 5 \n\nPage", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414098, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nHongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 2nd July, 1908.\n\nI have the honour to confirm my telegram of the 13th ultimo, which was as follows:-\n\n\"Ten Divan Licences applied for renewal before expiration 28th February, not yet issued, because, in the absence of applicants (in) China, (it was) impossible to execute personal bonds. Divans in the meantime allowed to keep open. Propose now issue, thus avoiding claims for compensation pending settlement of whole question, concerning which Despatch follows by mail\".\n\nYour Lordship's telegram in reply, dated the 20th ultimo, was as follows:-\n\n\"Referring to your telegram of 13th June, before deciding, wish to know whether grounds for believing that valid claim for compensation could be made with respect to these licences and probable amount involved\".\n\n3. On receiving Your Lordship's telegram, I instructed Mr. R. O. Hutchison, the Assistant \n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CREWE,\n&c., &c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414099, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "9 \n\nRegistrar-General, to make special enquiry into the accounts of the ten Divan-keepers in question and I attach a copy of his report, dated the 29th ultimo. I also enclose a copy of a minute by the Attorney-General dated the 26th ultimo.\n\n4. \n\nYour Lordship enquires whether there are grounds for believing that valid claims for compensation could be made with respect to these licences. This question is dealt with by the Attorney-General who is of opinion that \"putting aside the strictly legal aspect of the question, to peremptorily refuse the renewal of a licence for the remainder of the current year would seemingly inflict a hardship on the keepers concerned and I think might be regarded as a breach of faith\".\n\n5. \n\nIn explanation of the Attorney-General's minute, I may add that although the Government has not directly intimated through any of its Officials that permission was given to await the return of the applicants to the Colony, yet there has always been a tacit understanding between the Opium Farmer and the Divan-keepers on the one hand and the Government Officials concerned, viz.:- the Registrar-General, Captain Superintendent of Police and Sanitary Board, on the other hand, that these", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414100, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## A \n\n? \n\n\n\n10 \n\nthese Divans will be allowed to keep open between the date \non which their former licences expired and that on which \na new licence for the following year is granted to them: \nand with reference to the Attorney-General's assumption in \nparagraph 4 of his minute that no fee has been paid and \naccepted by the Government in respect of any of these \nlicences, I have to point out that, although this assumption is strictly correct, yet all the ten Divan-keepers \nconcerned have already paid their fees for the first half \nyear to the Opium Farmer, who has retained them pending the \nsignature of the bonds and the issue of the licences. I \nhave also the honour to invite Your Lordship's attention \nto the fact that Mr. Hutchison's report shows that one of \nthese Divans has been open for 20 years, one for 12 years, \ntwo for 8 years, three for 6 years, and that the remaining \nthree Divans are only new in the sense that they have \nrecently changed hands. The Memorandum further shows that \nthese Divan-keepers have invested funds in the equipment of \ntheir houses and that the greater part of the cost of this \nequipment would in case of non-renewal of licence be a dead \nloss. It would appear therefore that both in respect of \nlong usage, and in respect of outlay incurred they would \nhave a valid claim to compensation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414101, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## \n6. Turning now to Your Lordship's second enquiry, viz.:- the amount of compensation involved, Mr. Hutchison's report shows that the total estimated capital of the ten Divans in question is $3,290 and the mean of the average monthly profit of 8 Divans is $24.02 while two Divans, those kept by Lo Chung and Ch'an Chun Shan, which opened respectively under their new proprietors on the 12th of last April and the 20th of last March, are at present running at a loss.\n\n7. The question of compensation to the 10 Divan-keepers is, however, a comparatively subordinate one, and the chief reason why I requested Your Lordship's sanction to formally issue the licences (which, as I have shown, have, except as regards the mere formality, been already granted (a) by the fact that Government has allowed the Divans to continue and (b) by the fact that they have paid their fees to the Farmer) was that if the Government now refuses to issue these licences, the whole question of compensation to the Farmer is at once opened and a new complication is introduced into that question. The legal advisers of the Farmer have intimated to me that, in their view, the Farmer will have legal claims for compensation if any Divans are closed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414102, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "12 \n\nand though my legal advisers do not share this view, it appears to be the unanimous opinion (in which I concur) that his moral claims are irresistible. I have in these circumstances, with the advice of my Council, instructed Mr C. Clementi to endeavour to ascertain what claim the Opium Farmer will make. It has not, however, hitherto been possible to commence these negotiations since the Farmer is absent from the Colony, but I am taking steps to ascertain whom he will authorise to act on his behalf.\n\n8. Your Lordship will therefore perceive that it is not yet in my power to inform you precisely as to the extent of such valid claims for compensation as may be put forward directly and indirectly as a consequence of the refusal to formally confirm the licences of these 10 Divans. In these circumstances, I would most strongly urge Your Lordship that no steps should be taken with regard to them until Mr Hutchison's report on the remaining Prepared Opium and Dross Opium Divans has been received, and I am in a position to estimate the total amount of the claims for compensation which may be brought against the Government by Divan-keepers. By that time, I hope also to be able to estimate the amount of any claims which may be due to the Farmer.\n\nMr.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414105, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## 3\n\nIn the accompanying estimates all the figures are given in sub-coin (20 cent pieces) as they are in their books; any payment in notes being corrected by adding 8%. The profits shown are therefore in 20 cent pieces. 8% has been taken as a fair average rate for the past year. The rate at present however is considerably above that figure, so that at the moment the divans are certainly making less than the amount shown. In November and December, 1907, they were making a great deal more.\n\n## 4\n\nSeveral of these Divans have been in business a long time. No. 5, Peel Street is one of the oldest Divans in the Colony and has been established for over 20 years. No. 55, Connaught Road West is probably doing more actual business in opium than any other shop in the Colony. All of them, with the exception of 30, Cochrane Street, are applying for renewal. In the ordinary course, they send up their petition and pay their fee to the Opium Farmer for the half-year. They also pay $1.00 a year commission to the Opium Farmer (or his clerk), and they have no further dealings with the Government except to sign their bond. The fees are paid into the Treasury by the Opium Farmer. If the licence is refused, I understand the fee is returned to the Divan-keeper, but in this instance, he would lose the great proportion of the money invested in his Divan, as it will be impossible to find a market for his property.\n\n## 5\n\nIt is very difficult to make a reasonable estimate of the capital of these Divans. In a few cases, the figures can be obtained for the amount at which the Divans changed hands, but in most cases, the figures given are simply the statements of the owners themselves. I have given their statement as to the value of their stock-in-trade. It will be seen", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414107, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## List of Holders of Dross and Prepared Opium Divan Licences by whom applications are now made for renewal.\n\n| Old Licence No. | Name of Licensee | Address | Estimated Average Capital | monthly profit | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 78/1907 | Chan Ming | No. 55, Connaught Road West, 1st. floor. | $500.00 | $46.46 | |\n| 1092/08 L | Lau Sing | No. 5, Peel Street, 1st. floor. | $450.00 | $25.67 | |\n| 47/07 | Chau Yeung | No. 267, Hollywood Road, 1st. floor. | $400.00 | $39.12 | |\n| 1335/08 L | Ip Sing | No. 8, Upper Station Street, Ground floor. | $320.00 | $28.27 | |\n| 21/07 | Lo Chung | No. 17, Centre Street, Ground Floor. | $350.00 | | |\n| 1191/08 L | Bung Kwong | No. 247, Queen's Road West, 1st. floor. | $200.00 | $5.21 | M |\n| 83/07 | Lai Kok | No. 15, Peel Street, Ground floor. | $200.00 | $15.63 | Better estimate $220. This is actual capital of No. 9 and they do not vary very much. |\n| 73/07 | Wong On | No. 84, Stanley Street, 1st. floor. | $200.00 | $16.59 | |\n| 846/08 L | Tsui Chun nam | No. 10, Possession Street, Ground floor | $220.00 | $16.21 | |\n| 2683/09 L | Chan Chun Shan | No. 30, Cochrane Street. | $450.00 | $27.31 | Manager's food and salary $11; pakes profit |\n\nThe figures for capital are a rough estimate made by myself after seeing the shops, the business and the various expenses to which some of the shops had been put.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414108, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## SOVAS DANGA TOASS TRP* \"TOOL\" 18 1,031/08 L.\n\nChan Ming \n55, Connaught Road West.\n\n**Class (This is a Prepared Opium Divan of the 2nd).** \nIt is one of the busiest Divans in the Colony, and has been in existence for about 8 years. The books are well kept, but contain a great deal of matter unconnected with the opium business.\n\nThe capital is estimated at something over $500. The business belongs to one man and it is impossible to get at any figures from the books.\n\n### Capital\n.$500 including: \n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 35 pipes | $175.00 |\n| 35 lamps | $38.50 |\n| Beds and fittings | $35.00 |\n| Tiles | $60.00 |\n| **Total** | **$308.50** |\n\n### Average monthly business\n\n| Receipt | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 9,600 boxes of opium bought at | $1,658.88 |\n| 10,176 boxes of opium sold at | $1,729.92 |\n\n| Expenses | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Monthly Rent | $34.50 |\n| Wages | $35.00 |\n| Food | $28.00 |\n| Oil | $18.00 |\n| **Total** | **$115.50** |\n\n| Other Income/Expenses | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Profit on opium sold | $71.04 |\n| Sale of opium dross (277 taels) | $124.92 |\n| Miscellaneous | $20.00 |\n| Opium dross purchased from outside | $14.00 |\n| **Total** | **$195.96** (Income) - $14.00 (Expense) = $181.96 net |\n\nLeaving a monthly profit of $46.46.\n\n✰ This item \"opium dross bought in from outside\" is nearly negligible in most shops. The shop buys at 40 cents a tael and sells to the farmer at 45 cents.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414109, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# \n## A Prepared Opium Divan of the 2nd class\n( ). This is possibly the oldest Divan in the Colony, and is much frequented by what one might call \"connoisseurs\" in opium. Some of the pipes are said to be very valuable. It came to the present holder at the death of his father 4 years ago. The father is said to have held it for about 20 years. They estimate the capital at about $480 and it is said that the present holder refused $600 for it at the death of his father. Books are kept but not carefully.\n\n## Capital $450 including:\n| Item | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| Pipes | $170.00 |\n| Pipe Bowls | 50.00 |\n| Opium Lamps | 18.00 |\n| Opium Boxes etc. | 16.00 |\n| Cement and Tiled floor | 110.00 |\n| Beds fittings etc. | 60.00 |\n| Total | $424.00 |\n\n## Average monthly business\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Receipt | |\n| 4,684 boxes of opium sold at | $796.18 |\n| Sale of 125 taels of dross | $56.25 |\n| Total Receipt | $852.43 |\n| Expenditure | |\n| 4,420 boxes of opium bought at | $763.76 |\n| Monthly rent | $27.00 |\n| Wages | $9.00 |\n| Food | $9.00 |\n| Miscellaneous | $12.00 |\n| Total Expenditure | $820.76 |\n| Profit on opium sold | $36.42 |\n| Total Profit | $92.67 - $67.00 = $25.67 | \n| Leaving a monthly profit of | $25.67 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414110, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## Opium Divan Details\n\nA Prepared Opium Divan of 2nd Class (\nwhich has been held by the present owner for about 6 years. The business is good though it has been falling off latterly. No books are kept except the \"Opium Book\" for dealing with the opium farmer. The profits shown are large, but the keeper is himself a heavy smoker and is said to smoke about $15.00 a month himself. He has 5 sons and 4 daughters and 2 of the sons are at Queen's College. The rent is small, only being $14.00 a month. The business used to be better than it is; the stock of pipes tends to corroborate this.\n\n### Capital Estimated\n\nCapital estimated at $460 including:\n- 42 Pipes valued at.... .$200.00\n- 33 Lamps.............. $33.00\n- Beds and fittings.......... $80.00\n- Mats...................... $32.00\n- Pipe Bowls.... (original cost 1905 $120) $43.00\n- Tiles etc. (1905).............. $60.00\nTotal: $448.00\n\n(Original capital said to be $640.)\n\n### Average Monthly Business\n\n| Receipt | Expenditure |\n| --- | --- |\n| 5,300 boxes of opium bought at..... $915.84 | Monthly rent.... $14.00 |\n| 5,618 boxes of opium sold at.. $955.06 | Wages... $12.00 |\n| | Food.... $18.00 |\n| | $39.08 + $15.00 = ... |\n\n| Details | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Profit on opium sold | $39.12 |\n| Sale of opium dross 150 taels............. | $10.00 |\n| Miscellaneous | $69.50 - $70.50 (error, using $69.50 for calc) is not used, instead $70.50 is used for total |\n| Total | $108.62 |\n\nLeaving monthly profit of $38.12.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414111, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## Monthly Business Receipt\n\nThe divan is a Prepared Opium Divan of 2nd Class and has been in existence for at least 6 years. It was bought by the present occupant, Yip Sing, for $241 from a relation who had previously bought it for $300. The present occupant has expended more money on it and estimates his capital at $380.00.\n\n### Estimated Capital\n\n| Item | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| 26 Pipes | $130.00 |\n| 24 Lamps | $19.20 |\n| 22 Mats | $6.60 |\n| Bed fittings | $70.00 |\n| **Total** | **$225.80** |\n\nEstimated capital $380.\n\n### Monthly Business\n\n| Receipt | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 5,500 boxes of opium bought at | $950.40 |\n| 5,830 boxes of opium sold at | $991.10 |\n\n### Expenses\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Monthly rent | $11.00 |\n| Wages | $23.00 |\n| Food | $13.00 |\n| Miscellaneous | $10.00 |\n| Profit on sale of Opium | $40.70 |\n| Sale of 127.8 taels drose | $73.00 |\n| | $60.57 |\n\n| Total Expenses and Profit | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Total | $101.27 |\n\nLeaving monthly profit of $28.27.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414112, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## Prepared Opium Divan Report\n\nThis is a Prepared Opium Divan of the 1st Class which has only recently changed hands. The present occupant started business on the 10th of the 3rd moon (April 12th). The books have been carefully kept but the accounts for the 4th moon show an actual loss.\n\nThe Divan changed hands at $350.00 (which is carefully accounted for) $50 is said to have been paid to a man who brought about the transaction, and about $50 has been spent by the owner on furniture.\n\nEstimated capital $450 including:\n| Item | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| 20 pipes | $60.00 |\n| 20 Lamps | $24.00 |\n| 22 Pipe Bowls | $55.00 |\n| Mats and rugs | $32.40 |\n| Fittings | ... |\n| Total | $341.00 (or $170.00 + other items) |\n\nThe figures for 4th Moon show:\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Receipt | |\n| 1900 boxes opium bought at | $328.32 |\n| 1,976 boxes opium sold at | $335.92 |\n| Expenditure | |\n| Monthly rent | $41.00 |\n| Wages | $11.00 |\n| Food | $15.00 |\n| Profit on sale of opium | $13.60 |\n| Miscellaneous | $18.00 |\n| Profit on sale outside | $14.00 |\n| Gas | $8.00 |\n| Profit on dross | $13.36 |\n| Fees for settees | $47.57 |\n| Total Expenditure/Profit | $100.50 (profit) + $88.53 (other) |\n| Loss | $8.80 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414113, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## \nOf these the expenses cannot be reduced by very much. Miscellaneous could probably be reduced by $3.00 and food by the same amount. Sale of dross ought to be more, but this is accounted for by the amount of opium sold outside. Last year the amount of business done by the previous holder does not seem to have much exceeded 2,000 boxes a month. It is therefore safe to assume that at the present rate of exchange discount on sub-coin the profit of this Divan for this year will be very little if any.\n\n| 00.00 | ...s Boulay geyiq 03. | 00.4S | \n| --- | --- | --- | \n| 00.86 | alwof oqi7 58 | 08.88 | \n| aqui bio atal | 00.001. | 00.IA38 | \n| 募集 | 00.I. | 00.II | \n| | | 32*00 | \n| 08. | | |\n\n£10 \n| 08.SI | 00.81 | 00.8 | 00.AI | 03.0004 | \n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | \n| £2.88% | .qtooeg | *Gurod matgo asxod 00et | | | \n| | ..ta | bloa quiqo nozod ere, I | .38 | | \n| | to se no altor¶I | ruth go | -duo atea no ditor¶ | | \n| | oble- | .....anotb no tort | anodica tot aest | 30 | \n| | | .08.8 to asof A | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414114, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# \nFung Kwong \n247, Queen's Road West.\n\nThis is a Dross Opium Divan which has been in existence for about 12 years. It was purchased last year by the present owner for $240.00. He has since spent $111 on tiling the floor etc.\n\n**Capital estimated at $320.00 Including:-**\n| Item | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| 32 Pipes | $77.00 |\n| Beds, fittings. Mats. Pillows etc. | $56.00 |\n| 26 Lamps | $11.00 |\n| Tiles etc. | $10.00 |\n| | $3.00 |\n| | $100.00 |\n| **Total** | **$257.00** |\n\n**Average monthly business.**\n\n| Receipt | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 5,528 boxes of opium sold | $586.08 |\n| Sale of 226.7 taels Halan | $63.47 |\n| Hiring out beds | $72.00 |\n| Miscellaneous | $9.00 |\n| **Total** | |\n\n| Expenditure | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 4,800 boxes of opium bought at... | $570.24 |\n| Rent | $33.50 |\n| Wages | $9.00 |\n| Food | $9.00 |\n| ... | $10.00 |\n| Loss on Cents | $2.46 |\n| | $6.00 |\n| **Total** | $76.50 |\n\n| Profit on sale of opium | $15.84 |\n| **Total profit per month** | **$5.21** | \n1,191/08 L.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414115, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# at etr\n\nLai Lok \n15, Peel Street. \nA Dross Opium Divan. It has really been in existence for 8 years, but only in its present premises since the 5th moon last year. It changed hands then at $160.00. The present capital is estimated at $300.00. Books of a rough kind are kept.\n\nCapital estimated at $300 including:\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Property of former owner | $160.00 |\n| Extra pipes and lamps | 25.40 |\n| Doing up premises etc. | 50.00 |\n| Cement | 25.00 |\n| | $260.40 |\n\nAverage monthly business.\n| Category | Receipt | Expenditure |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Opium | 5,260 boxes of opium bought at $624.64 | 5,837 boxes of opium sold |\n| | | Profit on sale of opium |\n| Hálán | | Sale of 247 taels |\n| Rent | | $32.00 |\n| Wages | | $10.00 |\n| Food | | $9.00 |\n| Miscellaneous | | $17.37 |\n| | | $7.00 |\n| Total | $624.64 | $71.00 + $86.63 = $157.63 (expenditure including $86.63 miscellaneous) |\n\nProfit on sale of opium and Hálán: calculated from the given numbers, the total expenditure is $71.00, and other expenses total $86.63. The profit monthly is $15.63.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414116, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## Wong On\n84, Stanley Street.\n\nA Dross Opium Divan which has been establish-ed about 6 years. No books are kept with exception of \"Opium book\" for transactions with Opium Farmer. Business is good for a Dross Opium Divan. Master estimates his capital at $300.\n\nEstimated capital $250 including:\n\n| Item | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| 40 pipes | $120.00 |\n| 30 Lamps | 15.00 |\n| Mats, pillows etc. | 9.00 |\n| Fittings | 50.00 |\n| Tiled floor | 75.00 |\n| Total | $269.00 |\n\nAverage monthly business.\n\n| Receipt | Amount | Expenditure | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 6,105 pots opium sold | $671.55 | 5,500 pots opium bought | $653.40 |\n| Sale of 248 taels | 18.15 | Monthly rent | 26.00 |\n| Miscellaneous | 69.44 | Wages | 15.00 |\n| | | Food | 12.00 |\n| | | Miscellaneous | 6.00 |\n| Total | $759.14 | Total | $712.40 |\n\nProfit on sale of opium.... $88.28 \nLess: $71.00 \nLeaving average profit of $16.59 (calculated as $759.14 - $712.40 = $46.74, but the original text states $87.59 - $71.00 = $16.59).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414117, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# bar boy avata Dev\n\nThis is a Dross Opium Divan, in which there are 4 shareholders. Total capital $220 in 4 shares of $55.00 each. Books are kept but no balance sheet has yet been made out. The business started in the 12th moon last year (i.e. January, 1908). Business seems to be good.\n\nCapital $220, including:\n| Item | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| 32 pipes | $150.00 |\n| 32 lamps | $12.80 |\n| Fittings etc. | $30.00 |\n| Floor | $20.00 |\n| Total | $212.80 |\n\nAverage monthly business.\n| Category | Receipt | Expenditure |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Opium bought/sold | 6,980 pots opium bought at $825.62; 7,715 pots opium sold at $847.99 | |\n| Rent | | $32.50 |\n| Wages | | $13.00 |\n| Food | | $13.00 |\n| Profit on sale of opium | $22.37 | |\n| Profit on sale of Hålan 328 taels | $91.84 | |\n| Miscellaneous | $10.00 | |\n| Loss on cent and cash | | $2.40 |\n| Total | $113.21 | $85.90 |\n\nMaking profit of $27.31.\n\nIn this case I have excluded the food and wage of one partner, the manager, which amounts to $11.00. If this is included in the expenses it leaves a profit of $16.31.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414119, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# Hon. Colonial Secretary\n\nUnless the Government through any of its officials intimated its permission to allow the issue of the licences to await the return of the applicants to the Colony, I am of opinion that the divan keepers have rendered themselves liable under Sections 13 and 16 of the Prepared Opium Ordinance 1891, and they could sustain no legal claim for compensation on the refusal of the Government to issue the licences. I may add that Regulation 3 enclosed on the licences issued also requires a bond to be entered into before the divans are opened to the public.\n\n## \n1. \n2. I observe that His Excellency in his cable to the Secretary of State says they \"were allowed to keep open\".\n\n3. I understand however that the custom of delaying the issue of the licence after the appointed day (i.e., the 31st March) owing to the absence of the divan-keepers or for other reasons has been quite general and this is shown on the licences with this file (`1335/08`) from which it appears that a licence was issued as late as the 18th of December following and all the others on dates subsequent to the appointed day. Having regard to this custom, and putting aside the strictly legal aspect of the question, to peremptorily refuse the renewal of a licence for the remainder of the current year would seemingly inflict a hardship on the keepers concerned and I think might be regarded as a breach of faith.\n\n4. I assume that no fee has been paid and accepted by the Government in respect of any of the licences concerned.\n\n5. The Crown Solicitor concurs in my opinion.\n\n**(Sd.) W. Rees Davies, Attorney-general.**\n\n26th June, 1908\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414715, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "The deficit which is now expected for 1908 is due mainly to (a) a fall of $190,000 in Land Sales (b) Excess Repairs of the Typhoon damages $101,600 (c) Purchase of a reager $165,000 (d) Excess on Public Works Extraordinary $68,000 (e) Loss on exchange owing to the low dollar.\n\nOf these (a) is no doubt due to depression in trade, (b) (e) and probably to some extent (d) were unavoidable, while (c) is really a part of the Harbour improvement scheme which it was agreed might partly be charged against balances.\n\nThe 1908 estimates were based on a 2/1 dollar, the 1909 estimates are based on 1/9, and as the dollar is below 1/9, the rate fixed, though low compared with the last few years, is not lower than prudence requires. Much of the increase in the estimates for expenditure for 1908 is due to the low dollar and the consequent increase of exchange compensation.\n\nThe revenue from opium is of course left as it is the rent of the monopoly being $1,452,000. The opium divan licences revenue is reduced from $1,880 to $1,340, a footnote explaining that fewer licences are expected to be issued.\n\np. 9\n\nThe inclusion in the revenue for 1909 of $371,500, the amount of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund to be transferred to the Government by Ordinance 15/08, is of course purely a book transaction. It is not really revenue; it is not really even a receipt. What has happened is that Government used to deduct 4% from officers' salaries, credit an account called \"the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund\" with those deductions, debit it with the amounts of the pensions paid to widows and orphans and the expenses of the Directors, and credit it with 6% interest on the current balance. By the Ordinance, the \"Fund\" is abolished, the Government credits itself with the amount, ceases to vote the 6% interest, puts down the 4% of their salaries which it does not pay to its officers as revenue, and the pensions to the widows and orphans as expenditure. Not a dollar piece passes by the transfer of the Fund; the Government has no more money, stock, or credit than before. The change has considerable advantages both to Government and to contributors, but they are indirect and in the future, and the fact that the Government makes a paper addition of $412,300 to its revenue for 1908 must not blind us to the fact that that increase is purely a book entry and does not in any way reduce the real deficit.\n\nThe Governor's speech should be read: it gives a fairly complete sketch of the position and of the estimates.\n\nTimber Sales are expected to realize $12,000, a result of the plantations in some areas having matured. The remarks of the Governor page 124 of debates upon the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414790, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "## MINUTE\n\nI have given careful consideration to the draft despatch to the Earl of Crewe regarding the opium question in St. Kong. The news you have forwarded has affected me, but it is probable that provision will have to be made in the Estimates for the year 1910-11.\n\nMr. Antrobus, Mr. Cor... \n\nwill remit from the deliberations of the Ministers after suggestion. I will be careful that no action will be taken and but the Dewan will not be affected.\n\nThis underlining has been done by Mr. F. Lugard.\n\nEar 43471/05 £2C 76 \n\nin other words, the result of the deliberations portes Ministers after suggestion. I will be careful that no action will be taken and but the Dewan will not be affected by the coming financial year.\n\nDRAFT Fin F.Lugard \nMr. Dr. 611 \nMr. Just. 8 fm 1909 \n\nJuly Pay before me, in love \n\nMr. Antrobus, away \nMr. Cor...\n\nSir C. Lucas. A fortnight ago, your Compt desps, to 2010 and \nSir F. Hopwood. \nCol. Seely. \n| Name | Note |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Earl of Crewe | - 8. I regard the opium question for consideration Excellent day. |\n| | 2. further I regret to find that consideration of the subject has led you to the proposal, as stated in your despatch of the 18th June, that the number of Divan licences should be reduced by one half... |\n\nPage 363 \n\nHBC \nZofe Comple of to 27 the Det with 7 4 \n\n3dfe, for conson...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414799, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "## suppression of opium\n\n(3) Imperial aid to the Government of Hongkong to replace the revenue lost from opium.\n\nThese questions, I submit, it will be better to keep separate as far as possible. The first must be answered now (it is dealt with later on) but the second and third are complicated by a variety of considerations such as the continuance of, or decrease in, the military contribution and the meeting, and results of, the International Commission at Shanghai.\n\nThe main question then is what steps are to be taken before the close of the present lease of the opium farm (February 28th, 1910) to close the divans and generally to restrict the opium traffic.\n\nSir F. Lugard now wishes that the decision to close the opium divans should be withdrawn - on the ground that the evil which they create (or maintain) will not be suppressed but merely driven elsewhere. Mr. Hutchinson's memorandum (page 1) describes the different classes of divans. Sir F. Lugard's memorandum (page 10) indicates the nature of the business carried on. I must confess that the evidence seems to me very strong that the opium habit is not likely to be lessened materially by the closing of the divans.\n\nSir F. Lugard proposes, as an alternative to closing the divans, to accept the Farmer's offer to \"reduce the number of chests he draws per annum from 1800 to 1200 on January 1st on condition that no other steps are taken till the expiry of his contract on 28th February, 1910\".\n\nWith 43606 \nPara. 21 of despatch \nWith 43471 \n43606 \nPara. 22 of despatch \nra. 11 of despatch \nra. 14 (a) \nra. 12\n\nNow the number of chests which have actually been drawn by the Farmer since 1895 are given on Page 7 of Sir F. Lugard's memorandum. I need not quote all the figures, but the average (excluding the years 1904 and 1906) is 1231 chests. If the two years excluded were counted in, the average would be lower, as only 725 and 497 chests were withdrawn from bond in those years. Even for the year 1909 the total number of chests is estimated at 969 only.\n\nIt seems to me, in view of these figures, that to accept Sir F. Lugard's proposal would be entirely contrary to the expressed views of His Majesty's Government, in fact it is really hard to believe that it has been brought forward as a serious attempt at solving the difficulty. If then the proposal cannot be accepted it involves no payment by the Colony and no loss to the Farmer, no cessation of facilities for opium consumption - we must look elsewhere for a solution.\n\nParagraphs 11 to 17 of this despatch contain the history of the various negotiations with the opium farmer as to the compensation payable in various eventualities. The results may be summarised thus:\n\n(1) if all the divans were abolished the maximum loss of the opium farmer would be $720,000 per annum: claim would be $45,000 per mensem, or perhaps $50,000. In addition, it is proposed to pay $20,656 to the Divan Keepers (calculated at 1/3rd of their corrected capital value and 5% for disturbance).\n\n(2) As an alternative, the opium farmer offered to allow", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414800, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "## 86\n\nallow the Government to examine his books at the end of 6 months, and to refund any part of the proposed compensation (at the rate of $60,000 per mensem) which could be shown not to have been actually lost.\n\nPara. 11.\n\nSir F. Lugard advises against this course on the ground of expense, and that no officer is available. (I should have thought that these difficulties were not insuperable).\n\n(3) The \"via media\" is to close 52 divans out of a total of 190 and to pay the divan keepers either (a) $4,533 or (b) $4,706 as a capital sum, and the opium farmer either (a) $7,500 or (b) $7,000 per mensem according as the list of Divans closed is that drawn up by the Government or by the Farmer.\n\nPara. 13 of despatch.\n\nPara. 16.\n\nPara. 14 (X)\n\nIt will be noticed that the divans which the Government proposed to suppress are all taken from Class C.—i.e., those which are making no money practically. The opium Farmer, on the other hand, has put down some in Classes A. and B. Mr. Hutchinson in his Minute of 7th September \"cannot quite understand the ground on which the Opium Farmer has chosen his List\".\n\nAssuming that Sir F. Lugard's proposal for reducing the possible number of chests is not agreed I think that the least that can be done is to accept one of the two lists of opium divans. (On the whole the opium farmer's list seems preferable), and lay down that they must be closed and the suggested compensation to the divan keepers paid. The amount involved is small.\n\nM. H. Bemant\n\nN.B. The Measure contemplated on `25373/08` abolition of half of the divans was small and, though there is no question of vested interests (see Page 4 paragraph 10 of Mr. Hutchinson's Memorandum) I think it would hardly be fair to refuse compensation altogether.\n\nAs to the other divan keepers, they should have notice that the question of licences will be reviewed at the expiration of the present Opium Farm Contract in 1910. The question of the 10 \"Unlicensed\" Divan keepers cannot be pursued further.\n\nAs to the opium farmer the assumption on which his claim is based is that the \"Farm\" will lose (a) the value of 2/3rds of its Dross opium and (b) one half of its prepared opium dealings, with the Divans suppressed.\n\nThe difficulty, of course, will be to arrive at any method of calculating the loss other than that proposed; it is even more difficult to suggest any effective opium restriction measures: it may be surmised that the suppression of the 52 opium divans will not do much in this direction.\n\nIt has, however, occurred to me that compensation to the opium farmer for his lost divans, and an attempt at restriction might be combined, by effecting an increase in the price at which the various kinds of opium are sold, and by offering to compensate the farmer for loss incurred through decreased sales up to a limit of $20,000. As every chest of opium imported must be declared.\n\nPage 27\n\n`203077-` \n`W. & S. Ltd.-16679-6000-10-07.` \n`--1979-8000-4-08.`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414806, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "# 91 \n\n## 2.\n\nIn paragraph 6 of my Despatch of June 13th, I urged for Your Lordship's consideration that existing Divan Licences should be allowed to expire in due course, that on March 1st next only a half should be renewed and that on March 1st, 1910, all Divan Licences should be refused. The conclusions to which I have been led by my investigations since the date on which that Despatch was written have led me to modify the proposals made in that paragraph. The period which had elapsed between the date of the receipt of Your Lordship's cable on May 6th and the date on which I drafted that Despatch was altogether insufficient to admit of a thorough investigation of the issues involved, and my anxiety not to delay betrayed me into the expression of a premature opinion.\n\n## 3.\n\nIn a numbered Despatch of even date I am transmitting to Your Lordship a copy of a Memorandum which I have prepared dealing broadly with the many difficult and intricate problems involved in the Opium Question; but in the present Despatch I propose to take up the discussion of this important subject at the point where I left it in my Confidential Despatch of the 13th June and to confine myself to a consideration of the policy which, after mature reflection, I believe will best give...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414813, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "98 \n\nfor general purposes in the form of increased licences and fees &c., it is anticipated that in the coming year the gross Expenditure (in which only essential and continuing Public Works have been included) would exceed the gross Revenue by a sum of over $480,000 were it not for the fortuitous asset of $412,300 from the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund which has been taken over by Government and which should in fact be regarded as equivalent to a Loan since the Pensions which are in part to be defrayed from the interest which should accrue from it will in future years be chargeable to Revenue. These figures include no provision for compensation to the Opium Farmer or Divan-keepers for closing Divans, for which without special taxation I am wholly unable to provide, and looking to the fact that the Colony has not yet emerged from the period of extreme trade depression which has borne so heavily upon it for the last year or two, and that heavy private losses have been incurred by the recent disastrous typhoon before the damage done by that of 1906 had been fully repaired, I feel that the moment is inopportune with a deficit of nearly half a million dollars this year and next - for imposing new taxation to meet a new charge additional to that deficit.\n\n10.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414816, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2.\n\n101\n\nIn the circumstances the Government examination of the Farmer's books could not possibly be effective. It would, moreover, entail a constant daily examination by a specially qualified British Officer, with a small clerical staff, involving a considerable cost, even supposing such an Officer were available, which is not the case. I therefore asked the Farmer to reconsider the matter and make a definite proposal as to the compensation he claims, subject to no such refund.\n\n12. Meanwhile, I received Mr. Hutchison's very able report, which is enclosed in this Despatch, and I considered it in Executive Council on the 24th August. It was then decided that a fair offer of compensation to Divan-keepers would be one-third of their corrected capital, as shown in Table I of Mr. Hutchison's report, with an addition of 5 per centum on that one-third as compensation for disturbance. This would mean a sum of $20,656 in all. It was also decided that, as the basis of further negotiation with the Opium Farmer, a list of the 52 Divans in Class C of the 1st and 2nd Class Prepared Opium Divans and the Dross Opium Divans should be handed to the Opium Farmer, and that he should be asked to state what reduction in his rental he would claim in the event of these", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414817, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "1 : 102 these 52 Divans being closed.\n\n13. At this Meeting of Executive Council the question of the ten unlicensed Divans was further considered and the Attorney-General advised that as most of the licensed Opium Divans had obtained the signing of their licences after the legal date, the ten Divans concerned were not singular, especially as they had already paid the fee for their licence to the Opium Farmer. The Attorney-General added that when he wrote his minute of the 26th June, a copy of which was enclosed in my Despatch of the 2nd July, he was unaware that the Divan-keepers were practically licensed by the Opium Farmer and that their fees had actually been paid to the Farmer. In these circumstances, he gave it as his opinion that the ten unlicensed Divans were in the same category as the remaining licensed Divans. In view of the Attorney-General's opinion, the Council decided that there were no sufficient grounds for treating the ten Divans in question in any other manner than all the remaining Divans, and it was advised that this opinion should be submitted to Your Lordship and Your Lordship's decision awaited. Meanwhile, the ten Divans have remained open; but no licences have been issued.\n\n14.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414819, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 4\n\nMr. Clementi's letter dated the 7th ultimo (`104`) points out that the assumptions on which the Opium Farmer's claims are based are (a) that in the event of the abolition of all Divans, the Farm will lose the whole of its Dross Opium and half of its Prepared Opium business; and (b) that in the event of the closure of 52 Divans, the Farm will lose the value of two-thirds of its Dross Opium and one-half of its Prepared Opium dealings with those Divans. On the basis of these assumptions, Mr. Clementi shows that the claims of the Opium Farmer are reasonable. Although I think that the Opium Farmer's assumptions would not prove to be correct, and that he has much exaggerated the loss (if any) which his business would suffer, this is a matter which could only be proved by actual experiment, and I see no prospect of inducing the Farmer to alter his assumptions. Indeed, he has plainly intimated that he is not prepared to reduce his claim, and that, therefore, in the event of refusal, the question would have to be decided in a Court of Law, where I fear the effort of the Government to obtain better terms would probably fail.\n\n16.\n\nI further enclose a copy of a minute by Mr. Hutchison dated the 7th ultimo, in which he shows that the compensation payable to Divan-keepers, calculated...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414828, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\n2.0. 43606 \n1135 38 NOV 08\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nI.\n\nI have gone carefully into the figures on which the Opium Farmer's offer of the 3rd instant is based and submit the following calculations as a check on his proposals. If all Opium Divans are abolished, the Opium Farmer assumes that he will lose the whole of his Dross Opium, and the half of his Prepared Opium, business. Therefore, reverting to paragraph 10 of my Memorandum on an Examination of the Opium Farmer's Books in May, 1908, where it is shown that the monthly loss of the Opium Farmer if all Divans are abolished, since, on the Opium Farmer's hypothesis, A = ax + D'u is eliminated and ' equals $5,477.44 approximately. The expression becomes a + e + ¥* - {4x + ¢μ + §' + a} and substituting known values this equals {$103,292.30 + $7,958.82 - $15,917.64 + $15,271.00 + $2,738.72 + $29,839.43} = $47,484.33. Therefore if the Opium Farmer will accept $45,000, he is on his own assumptions making a present to Government of $2,484.33. It is accordingly not possible to quarrel with the Opium Farmer's figures but only with his assumptions.\n\nII.\n\nIf 52 Divans are closed, then, assuming that all Divans are of equal value to the Opium Farmer, that therefore his loss on closing any one Divan is equal to his loss on closing any other, since the greatest possible loss, if all the 190 Divans are closed, is $66,626.22 (see paragraph 12 of my Memorandum above referred to), the greatest possible loss on closing 52 Divans will be $18,234.54: and, since it is proposed that 22 Prepared Opium Divans and 30 Dross Opium Divans should be closed, the loss will be sub-divided as follows:-\n(a)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414830, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 119, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 4\n115\n\n80.018.01\n\n# 18.AE5,810 × 55 anevi¤ migo berager¶ no (=) \nSA \nDR.AES,80§ z 06 ansvin muiɖo nuorɑ no (α) sa \n\nTo oklav orð saol Illw od dadd aBODIEGA TOMTta\" mulqo srid woll \nm:tqo baraqet¶ sandt d÷iw aseniaud aid to abrinit-owd hum Mad \nbojamitas aid stuterer? ¡ylsvidoeqset auariɑ mikqo unorⱭ bom \n-¡awoffo】 aa ed Iliw amof \n\n5.788,88 = £8,AI\",78 x † • Ansvld mɖqʼn bersqarE SS no zaod \n$ BusviⱭ milqo anorɑ 0% no aaoJ \n08.0 \n\n.Ba, OF8,Of afaupe anavld Sẽ no amor factor \nto tetto a1zamia¶ milqü edź stoterest \n%0) 88.078,5$ to noltouber a tot awolfa (008,\"$ 10) 000,\"$ \nsta fotów ansviɑ art gaitomien to dinner oft za (82.075,2$ \nsidianoq vibrad at 31 nisas bns immat add of #idatitorq taasi \n«anoidqrukas atri sitiw yłno Jud,serugkt aid dikw Iertarp of \n.Itname() .0 (.52) \n.8001 re des*qo?! „Aðr \n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\n1. The total of the corrected capital of all divans is $59,018. Therefore on the basis of one-third the corrected capital plus 5 per cent. of that one-third the amount of compensation would be:- \n$20,656.20.\n\n2. The amount of compensation required if the divans in Lists A and B are closed is:-\n### List A\n| Class | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st class | $1,438.41 |\n| 2nd class | $1,284.86 |\n| Dross divans | $1,810.21 |\n| **Total** | **$4,533.48** |\n\n### List B\n| Amount |\n| --- |\n| $1,653.50 |\n| $1,284.86 |\n| $1,768.01 |\n| **$4,706.37** |\n\nThe difference therefore is roughly $173.00. But List B contains one divan No. 348, Queen's Road West which has been closed for several months and which is not included in my list of divans for that reason. This makes the difference to be paid to the divans rather greater than actually appears, it at the same time reduces the difference between the compensation demanded by the Opium Farmer for closing Lists A and B respectively. On the whole, the difference of the compensation demanded by the Opium Farmer rather more than covers the extra compensation due to divans.\n\n4. I have been through Lists A and B and cannot quite understand the ground on which the Opium Farmer has chosen his list. In a few cases, he has apparently tried to save divans that have been in existence for a considerable length of time. He has also saved one or two in remote districts, even though their business seems to be small. All the divans in his list which do not appear in List A have only been in existence for a short time, but I have got figures for this last month from them which agree with my previous figures and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414831, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "## \n5. The total actual purchase of Opium amounts to `$810,502.00` as per List A and `$820,114.20` as per List B. These figures do not agree with the Opium Farmer's estimate being considerably in excess.\n\n| List | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| List A | $18,502.00 (corrected to $810,502.00) |\n| List B | $20,114.20 (corrected to $820,114.20) |\n\n6. The actual proportion of divans is as follows:\n| Class | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st class | 44 |\n| 2nd class | 56 |\n| Dross divans | 90 |\n\nThis number does not include 3 agents who have prepared Opium Divan Licenses or one Dross Divan which has given up business.\n\n**(Sd.) R. O. Hutchison.**\n\n7th September, 1908.\n\nPage 120\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416287, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 452, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "3\n\n445\n\nof the province. Bishop Cassels says: \"There is a very remarkable decrease in the amount of land placed under opium cultivation this autumn. This is, I think, not the result of any fresh official action, but is due to the fear that impending heavy taxation will render opium growing unprofitable.\"\n\nDr. Smith, of the Canadian Methodist Mission, Yung Hsien, states: \"In this district I am sure that not more than one-third of the total area has been planted with poppy this autumn. Yung Hsien is an important opium-growing district, and formerly quite two-thirds of the whole area was under cultivation.\"\n\nDr. J. R. Cox, of the same mission, writes of the Jen Shou district: \"I notice a marked decrease in the area under cultivation this year.\"\n\nWith regard to my second impression, I quote Mr. Faers, of the China Inland Mission at Suifu, an old resident and keen observer. He says: \"There is certainly less land under poppy this year. I attribute this entirely to the vigorous action taken by our new District Magistrate.\" Dr. Parker, of the London Mission at Chungking, informs me that the Pa Hsien Magistrate has \"practically stamped out the poppy in the Chungking district.\" This is confirmed by Mr. Bristow in his Report No. 12 of the 5th December last: \"I was surprised to find no trace of poppy cultivation on the right bank of the river (i.e., in the neighbourhood of Chungking), where last year the greater proportion of the available land was producing opium.\"\n\nOn the other hand, at Kuan Hsien, where the local official is an opium smoker, the missionary reports that no attention has been paid to the Proclamation ordering a reduction of cultivation.\n\nIn support of my third impression, namely, that a decrease of cultivation in one district may mean an increase in another, I again quote Mr. Faers. He writes, after referring to the reduction in the neighbourhood of Suifu: \"I must admit that between Tzu Chou and Chengtu (on the road from Suifu to the capital) the poppy was universal.\" And Mr. Davey, who recently visited Chiang Ching Hsien, a district adjoining the Pa Hsien above referred to, tells me that opium is being cultivated in that district in increased quantities this year.\n\nTurning now to the restrictions placed by the Chinese authorities on opium smoking, I have to state that, to the best of my knowledge, these exist at the present time only in name and not in reality. The preparation of opium has been made a Government monopoly, effective in Chengtu and the larger cities, only partially so in the smaller towns and country places; otherwise the opium smoker can obtain the drug as easily and almost as cheaply now as he could a year ago. To take Chengtu as an example: there is no registration of opium smokers; any one may go into an official opium divan and obtain as much opium as he requires; police control of these establishments appears to be purely nominal; opium is provided as heretofore in the inns, restaurants, and houses of ill fame; opium ash is still hawked about the streets, not so openly as formerly, but quite as generally; the opium refuges established in various parts of the city stand empty.\n\nReports from missionaries in the interior indicate a similar state of affairs. Opium dens reopened, no official supervision, no registration of smokers, prices slightly raised owing to taxes imposed on dens and boiling shops, is the tale most of my correspondents have to tell. Mr. Crabtree, of the Church Missionary Society, who recently made a tour in North-Western Szechuan, writes: \"In no single case could I find the slightest attempt being made to check opium smoking. At Maochou (on the Chengtu-Sungpan road) dens are all closed, but opium can be freely bought and smoked in the inns. In many places I asked smokers if they had their opium licences, but in every case the answer was in the negative.\"\n\nOne is therefore forced to the conclusion that the local officials, as a body, are doing little or nothing to assist the movement for the eradication of the use of opium in this province. They doubtless take their cue from the Viceroy and his advisers in Chengtu, who, as their term of office will shortly expire on the arrival of the new Viceroy, are naturally disinclined to take any drastic measures, possibly involving a collision with agricultural interests, at the present juncture. The approaching change of Administration may also account for the fact that the Acting Viceroy appears to have made no serious attempt to weed out the many notorious opium-smoking officials holding office in the province. While opium smokers are debarred from teaching in schools or holding commands in the new army and police force, territorial officials, more especially District Magistrates, who are known to be habitual opium smokers are retained at their posts and even receive promotion. I select two examples from several that have come under my notice. Mao Yu Lin, the notorious opium-smoking Prefect of Suifu, more than once referred to in my reports, who should long ago have been cashiered for his inability to break off the opium habit—he has, I am informed, endeavoured to cure himself and is in consequence little better than a mental and physical wreck—has recently been appointed Director of the new arsenal at Chengtu. At Wei Yuan Hsien the Magistrate is unable to attend to the duties of his office because of the opium habit; in the adjoining sub-district of Kung Ching, the Assistant Magistrate in charge, also a heavy smoker, has recently been appointed District Magistrate and transferred to a more lucrative post.\n\nThere is happily a brighter side to the picture. The movement against opium among all classes of the people of this province is undoubtedly slowly but surely growing. There is a consensus of opinion on the part of those, both native and foreign, who are best qualified to judge that opium smoking is on the decrease. This applies more particularly to Chengtu and Chungking, cities where an enlightened public opinion is able to make itself felt in a more forcible manner than elsewhere.\n\nIn 1904 Sir Alexander Hosie, in his Report on the Province of Szechuan, estimated the number of male opium smokers in this city at 50 per cent. of the adult male population. Replies that I have received to inquiries on this point agree in fixing the proportion at the present time at not more than one in four, or 25 per cent. The proportion of women smokers is estimated at from 10 to 12 per cent., as compared with Sir Alexander Hosie's former estimate of 20 per cent.\n\nMore than one recent traveller has mentioned to me the growing demand for opium \"remedies to cure the drug habit.\" Mr. Crabtree, above referred to, writes: \"I am constantly being asked for medicine.\" Another missionary mentions that opium pills are in great demand among the country people at his station, and Dr. Smith, of Yung Hsien, tells me that on a recent occasion thirty people from one village came in and asked him to cure them of opium smoking. They were, as is usually the case, disinclined to undergo treatment, and greatly disappointed when the doctor told them that he had no sovereign remedy for opium in the shape of pill or powder.\n\nA Delegate from Chiating, an opium-ridden city, informed the Conference that his Mission had offered to assist the local authorities by opening opium refuges under foreign medical superintendence, but that the offer had been politely but firmly declined. One or two other Delegates related similar experiences. This confirms my opinion, expressed in a former report, that the Chinese do not want, and will not accept, foreign assistance in this matter. It would be well if some of the more enthusiastic but less experienced members of the Protestant missionary body in Szechuan would realize this fact and devote less time and attention to the furtherance of what they term the \"anti-opium crusade.\"\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nHARRY FOX.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nPrécis of Reports respecting the Opium Movement.\n\nChefoo.\n\nTOWARDS the close of 1907 an official Prepared-opium Bureau was opened, which consisted of a body of merchants intrusted not only with the opium trade generally in and around Chefoo, but who were also accorded the exclusive right or monopoly to manufacture and sell prepared opium.\n\nThe Bureau thus became practically the depository of all opium, raw and prepared, in Chefoo, having the right to take over all opium it required at a fair market price.\n\nAs a result of representations in the matter, the Taotai has promised to alter the Regulations so as to exclude foreign opium.\n\nChinkiang.\n\nThe opium dens in the British Concession have, as already reported, been closed. In regard to the opium shops in the Concession, the 1908 licences are revocable at any moment should circumstances render such action necessary, and will not be renewed for 1909.\n\nIn the Provinces of Hupei, Hunan, Shensi, Shansi, and Kansu Proclamations continue to be issued at intervals, without producing much effect, and the general...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418034, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 746, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "minor offences on the part of the wealthier classes. While the Regulations are not strictly enforced, it is obviously impossible to take the official return of the number of licensed smokers as a correct index of the number of smokers in the island, and there must be annually a new crop of confirmed smokers entitled to licences whether they get them or not. Only this year the so-called secret smokers were rounded up by the police through the Headmen in the various wards of the principal cities, and induced to confess to secret smoking and apply for licences. It is said that, as a result, 17,000 applied for licences, and that they were all punished by fine or otherwise, over 15,000 of them receiving new licences.\n\nOpium Law.\n\nA translation of the Opium Ordinance of 1897, embodying the amendments of 1898 and 1902 is hereto annexed. (Annex 1.) The present Regulations for the enforcement of this Ordinance were enacted in 1898. Briefly they are as follows:-\n\nConfirmed smokers must apply for their smoking licences to the Prefect of the district to which they belong, and the application must be accompanied by a certificate from the doctor officially appointed by the Prefect for the purpose. The fee for a licence is 30 sen (7½d.). The smoker must take this licence about with him when buying or smoking opium, and when buying he must produce a pass-book, in which the dealer must inscribe the quality, quantity, and the value of the opium purchased, dating it and affixing his seal.\n\nThe dealer must sell the opium at a price fixed by the Government who allow him a profit of 14 per cent. These retail dealers must also obtain a licence from the Prefect, which costs 3 yen per annum. Similarly the Prefect issues licences to manufacture or sell opium paste or smoking implements, to keep smoking divans or to retail opium powder. Only chemists and druggists are allowed to use opium powder. When a licence is lost a new one can be applied for, a fee of 15 sen (4½d.) being charged. Changes of address must be reported, for the record of which the same fee, 15 sen, is charged.\n\nAll opium in the island issues from the Monopoly Bureau who supply it to the various Prefects on demand. The Prefects appoint, in their respective districts, distributing agents and dealers (in opium and implements). The former supply the dealers and are not allowed to retail opium themselves. All the distributing agents and dealers must keep a register of all purchases and sales, and must send in a monthly Report on the 5th of each month to the Prefect. The Prefect also keeps a register of all sales and reports monthly to the Monopoly Bureau, stating the quantity sold and the quantity required.\n\nOpium paste prepared by the Bureau is made up in tins containing 100 momme (13 oz.) each. There are three qualities, the best costing 14 yen (28s. 7d.); the medium, 11 yen; and the third quality, 7 yen per tin.\n\nThe Ordinance and the Regulations appear simple and clear and the appalling severity of the punishments attaching to all of the penal clauses reveals the fact that the Japanese were actuated by an earnest desire and strong determination to stamp out the opium vice. Had, however, these laws been strictly enforced during the early years of the Japanese occupation, there would probably have been a larger exodus of Chinese natives than there was. The policy of gradual prohibition was accordingly adopted and the enforcement of the Regulations was relaxed.\n\nIn 1905, there were 1,415 cases of infringement of the Opium Law for which the offenders were punished. Of this total only 359 were cases of smoking without licences. The total cases in 1904 numbered 2,715, and in 1903, 2,553. Most of the offenders were obviously dealers, licensed, or otherwise, and the actual number of those penalized for smoking appears very trivial; more especially in view of the fact that every two or three years the secret smokers have been rounded up and promised licences, with the result that on each occasion thousands of new licences have been issued to so-called confirmed smokers.\n\nThe Opium Habit.\n\nThe quantity of opium, smoked by the opium smoker at one sitting, varies according to his constitution, his craving for the drug, and his ability to pay for it. Roughly speaking, the least quantity is 1/70 drams avoirdupois, and the largest about ten times that amount. Few smoke more than three times a-day, but those deeply imbued with the craving lie on the divan all day, and smoke almost continuously.\n\nThe following table shows the average quantity and value of opium paste sold to each licensed smoker per annum, also the average quantity smoked per diem:-\n\nYear\nAverage per Annum Quantity\nAverage per Annum Value\nAverage per Diem\n\n1901\nLbs. 27.75\n£2 2s 6d\nDrams. 1.16\n\n1902\n32\n2 7s 6d\n1.71\n\n1903\n39\n£2 1s 3d\n2.08\n\n1904\n37.75\n3 1s 1d\n2.31\n\n1905\n42.80\n3 12s 4d\n2.01\n\nGenerally speaking, confirmed smokers commence the habit at about the age of 20 years, and, according to the individual temperament, become confirmed in three to six months. Some not for a year.\n\nThe original inducements to smoke are, of course, very numerous and varied, but the following are the principal ones:--\n\n1. In imitation of their parents, children begin by smoking in fun with their parents smoking implements, and, unconsciously, contract the habit. This happens most often in the houses of the rich.\n\n2. Opium is taken as a narcotic when sick or in pain.\n\n3. It is taken to alleviate mental distress when business is bad, and in cases of family trouble.\n\n4. It is sometimes forced upon young widows by their fathers or brothers to suppress sexual passion.\n\n5. Opium is offered in hospitality, not only at brothels and restaurants, but in the houses of nearly all the well-to-do.\n\n6. The native believes that the craving exists before birth in the child of opium smokers, and that the child is born with the craving. Under this belief they blow opium smoke into the infant's face when it cries, supposing it is crying for the drug. The effect is to send it to sleep and stop its cries, which rather confirms the belief. As the child grows older this practice is dropped by the parents, who are, of course, aware of the bad effects of opium, but, growing up in this atmosphere, many children contract the craving quite young.\n\nNinety-eight per cent. of the licensed smokers are of Chinese origin, and only about 2 per cent. are of the civilized savages, who have amalgamated with the Chinese natives, and, in general, adopted their habits and customs. It is estimated, however, that about 5 per cent, of these civilized savages have learnt to smoke opium. Of the native Chinese population it is estimated that, in 1905, 6.7 per cent. of the males smoked, and 1 per cent, of the females. The natives of Fükien descent are said to be the most addicted, as about 7 per cent, of the men and 1.1 per cent. of the women smoke. Among those of Cantonese descent, 4.9 per cent, of the males and 0.2 per cent, of the females smoke.\n\nThe opium smokers, tabulated according to age, are as follows:-\n\nAge\nPer Cent.\n\n20 years and under\n0.25\n\n21 to 30 years\n11.82\n\n31 to 40 years\n31.65\n\n41 to 50 years\n30.68\n\n51 to 60 years\n18.61\n\n61 to 70 years\n6.32\n\n70 years and over\n1.17", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418035, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 747, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "742\n\n4\n\nThe nature of the opium smokers' occupation conduces frequently to his becoming a confirmed smoker, and, from this point of view, the following figures may be of interest :-\n\nIndependent occupation\n\nTrade and commerce\n\nNo fixed occupation\n\nMechanics and artisans\n\nMiscellaneous\n\nFarmers and peasants\n\nOccupation,\n\nPercentage of Smokers\n\nengaged in\n\nthese Occupations.\n\nPer cent.\n\n9.8\n\n9.4\n\n9.2\n\n8.7\n\n5.8\n\n2.2\n\nThe heaviest smokers, and the most numerous, are those of the moneyed and leisured classes. They are generally found in the cities where, being comparatively free agents, continual intercourse with each other conduces to indolence and indulgence in the drug. The same may be said to apply to artisans who can get very high wages, and who take a great deal of leisure in the day. Means of smoking are ever at hand, and the daily smoker encourages the more moderate ones.\n\nAs regards farmers and peasants, those who become victims of the vice generally move into the towns where they can indulge more freely, and adopt a new occupation. This, of course, decreases the percentage for the country districts, whilst increasing that for the towns. Nevertheless, the country people appear to be less addicted to the opium vice than the city folk, and one reason assigned for this is that they consume more alcohol.\n\nA Table is appended to this Report, showing the quantity and value of raw opium imported, and opium paste sold during the eight years from 1900 to 1907, also the number of licensed smokers. (Annex 2.)\n\nTamsui, October 13, 1908.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nAnnex 1.\n\nFORMOSA OPIUM LAW.\n\nOrdinance No. 2 of January 1897.\n\n(Embodying Amendments in 1898 and 1902.)\n\nARTICLE 1. In this Ordinance the word opium shall include raw opium, opium paste, and opium powder.\n\nArt. 2. Opium paste and opium powder shall be sold only by Government.\n\nIt shall be unlawful to import, manufacture, or without special permission to sell, receive, or be in possession of any compound containing opium as an ingredient for the purpose of producing the same effect as opium or opium paste.\n\nArt. 3. Licences granting permission to buy and to smoke opium paste shall be given only to those who shall be deemed to be confirmed opium smokers.\n\nArt. 4. The following occupations shall be specially permitted and licences granted\n\n1. The sale of opium paste.\n\n2. The manufacture and sale of opium smoking implements.\n\n3. The retail sale of opium smoking implements.\n\n4. To establish opium smoking divans.\n\n5. The wholesale of opium powder. (To chemists and druggists only.)\n\nArt. 5. Physicians, chemists, retail druggists and manufacturing chemists may, even without licence, own, be in possession of, sell, buy, and receive opium powder.\n\nArt. 6. Persons licensed under Articles 3 and 4 shall pay a licence fee and the Formosan Government shall fix the amount of the fee by notification.\n\n5\n\nArt. 7. Persons licensed to buy and smoke opium paste, and persons licensed to establish opium smoking divans may buy and own opium smoking implements.\n\nArt. 8. Any person importing or manufacturing opium paste, or any person selling, delivering, exchanging or lending opium paste so imported or manufactured shall be liable to major imprisonment, for not more than five years, or a fine of not more than 5,000 yen.\n\nAny person who shall mix the various kinds of paste sold by the Government, or shall mix with it any other substance, or who shall sell, deliver, exchange or lend any such mixture shall be liable to major imprisonment for not more than three years, or a fine of not more than 3,000 yen.\n\nAny person owning, being in possession of, or smoking opium paste mentioned in this Article shall be liable to major imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 1,000 yen.\n\nAny person who, without licence mentioned in section 1 of Article 4, or without express authority, shall sell, deliver, exchange or lend opium paste, or who even with the licence required by section 1 of Article 4, shall sell, deliver, exchange or lend opium paste to any person not holding a licence to buy and smoke opium, or any person who, having special authority to sell opium paste who shall sell, deliver, exchange or lend opium paste to a person not holding a licence to buy and smoke opium shall be liable to major imprisonment for not more than four years or a fine of not more than 4,000 yen.\n\nArt. 9. Any person importing or preparing any drug having the same effect as raw opium, opium powder or paste shall be liable to major imprisonment for not more than four years, or a fine of not more than 4,000 yen.\n\n1. Any person who shall sell, deliver, exchange or lend any drug having the same effect as raw opium or opium paste, and any person, not being a physician, chemist, selling druggist or drug manufacturer, who, without having obtained the licence required by No. 5 of Article 4, shall sell, deliver, exchange or lend opium powder shall be liable to major imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of not more than 3,000 yen.\n\n2. The punishment of any person who shall attempt to manufacture or import any drug having the effect of opium or opium paste, but who has not succeeded, shall be reduced by one or two degrees.\n\n3. Any person who uses morphine or any drug containing morphine as a substitute for opium smoking shall be liable to major imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 1,000 yen.\n\nArt. 10. Any person found in possession of any still or furnace for the purpose of preparing opium shall be liable to major imprisonment for not more than two years or a fine of not more than 2,000 yen.\n\nArt. 11. Any person who imports opium-smoking implements or who without the licence required by Article 4, section 2, manufactures opium-smoking implements shall be liable to major imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of not more than 3,000 yen.\n\nAny person who, without the licence required by sections 2 and 3 of Article 4, shall sell, deliver, exchange, or lend, and any person who, having such licence, shall sell, deliver, exchange, or lend opium-smoking implements to persons not holding licences to buy and smoke opium, or to establish an opium smoking-divan, shall be liable to major imprisonment for not more than two years or a fine of not more than 2,000 yen.\n\nArt. 12. If a Customs officer makes or permits the importations referred to in Articles 8, 9, and 11, each offence is increased by one degree.\n\nArt. 13. A person who, without the licence required by section 4 of Article 4, supplies opium-smoking accommodation or implements is liable to major imprisonment for not more than four years or of a fine of not more than 4,000 yen.\n\nAny person who, though holding a licence as required by the said section, shall supply accommodation or implements to a person not licensed to buy and smoke opium paste shall be liable to the same penalties.\n\nUnder the circumstances named in the preceding two paragraphs, if the offence was not committed for trade profit, it shall be diminished by one degree.\n\nArt. 14. Any person who smokes opium without having obtained the licence required by Article 3 is liable to major imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of not more than 3,000 yen.\n\nAny person who shall persuade and cause another person, who has not obtained a licence as required by Article 3 to smoke opium, shall be liable to the same penalties increased one degree.\n\nArt. 15. Except those who sell opium paste by official authority, any person who", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418760, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "335\n\nRestriction\n\nin the\n\n6\n\nhas\n\nmany other resources, such as the development of minerals, a tax on spirits and the purification of her system of collection of taxes.\n\nSo far I have dealt with the aims of the Chinese Government, and the direct assistance afforded to it by India and Hongkong in its efforts to restrict the importation (legally or illegally) into China of raw or prepared opium from Hongkong. I will now pass in review the methods adopted by the Hongkong Government to restrict and control the consumption of opium within the Colony. I will add some proposals by which restriction may be made still more effective in the future.\n\n(a.) The \"Farm\".\n\nEnhances prices.\n\nChecks\n\nThe most effective of these, both for restriction and control, has, as experience proves, been the institution of a monopoly leased for a specified period of three years to a \"Farmer\", for the sole right to prepare opium for sale, and to sell it, in the Colony. His right to import prepared opium without declaration and to export it were also recognised. The farm is a lucrative business and its acquisition therefore is the object of keen competition, and the Government derives from the sale of the Monopoly a sum equal to nearly a fourth of its entire Revenue. Seeing that the farm is a restrictive agency this Revenue is entirely legitimate and in any case is no more subject to criticism than the licence fees derived from public houses here or in England. The Government derives no other revenue from opium, except the negligible licences to divan keepers. I have already in a previous paragraph quoted the conditions imposed by the terms of his licence upon the Farmer, and the privileges reserved to him by Ordinance. In order to protect his Monopoly the Farmer has to employ a large staff of detectives and to offer rewards to informers.\n\nIn order to pay for these and also the high fee to Government he is compelled to enhance the retail price of opium, and this enhancement has been progressive in each triennial period for which the farm has been let. In 1900 the price of prepared opium in Hongkong to the smoker, was $1.50 per tael: In 1904 the next Licencee put up the price to $3 which was again increased in 1905 to $3.30. Thus the amount of opium purchasable for 10 cents has been as follows between the years 1896-1904:-----\n\n1.5, 1.2, *1, *8, .57, .4, *3, mace (1½ oz.)\n\n175, 195, 228, 233, 243, 293, 331, thousand population.\n\nThe price in Hongkong is therefore much higher than in the neighbouring city of Canton. In Hongkong it varies from $3.50 to $3.50 per tael while in Canton it is from 80 cents to $1.53.\n\nThis fact naturally encourages smuggling into the Colony, and since Hongkong, being a Free Port, has no Customs Preventive Service it would be impossible to check the smuggling of raw or of prepared opium as effectively as the Farmer can do it when his own pecuniary interests are involved, for it must be remembered that the Colony of Hongkong consists of an island and a peninsula, around whose shores are fleets of trading and fishing junks, while opium being light and of small bulk is easily concealed.\n\nThe Farmer can employ spies and informers, both to check smuggling and to detect illicit boiling of opium, but such methods should, when possible, be avoided by a Government on any extended scale. The Government, however, renders him all possible assistance and issues search warrants on information supplied by the Farmer. The Farmer's Excise Officers also search all persons landing in Hongkong, except a few exempted for public service. This search is most unpopular amongst the Chinese and exemption incidentally stimulates men to come forward for public service. The Farm is disliked in consequence of the search which, however, it would be equally necessary to maintain if the Farm were abolished, (in which case the odium would be incurred by the Government), unless restriction of opium ceased. Beyond doubt the creation of a Monopoly in Chinese hands is the most effective method conceivable for controlling the smuggling, sale, and use, of opium in the Colony.*\n\n* Sir J. Russell, Chief Justice of Hongkong who had made an exhaustive study of the opium question reported as follows on 6.1, 1892:—\" The only practicable way in my opinion of getting any proper revenue out of opium in a free port is by levying a tax on the Manufactured Article, just as on manufactured tobacco or on spirits. Opium in the raw state is not useable. It has to be made fit for smoking, and the raising of a tax on it is just like raising a tax by distilling licenses, or the duty on spirits or tobacco. To diminish consumption of opium, to get an adequate Revenue, and to help China to put down smuggling I am satisfied the Farming system properly controlled will under local circumstances best carry out Lord Knutsford's wish to diminish the evils of the opium traffic independently of Revenue.\" In this view the then Governor and Executive Council concurred.\n\n7\n\nRevenue.\n\nA monopoly by Government was tried and resulted in a decrease in the receipts in the second year to less than half those of the first year, due to the impossibility of coping with the smuggling and illicit preparation of opium. The Revenue lost by Government was therefore so much additional profit to the Smuggler, instead of going to the Farmer who provides the Preventive Service and to the Government which uses its profits for the maintenance of Police, Sanitation, Education, etc. A Government monopoly is moreover more likely to tend to venality and corruption of subordinate officials. In view of what I have said it cannot be justly argued that the Government delegates its functions to an individual and loses prestige, since it co-operates in the duties of search and arrest, while avoiding the odium of employing informers and of making a direct profit by the sale of opium.\n\ndrawn and\n\nUnder the terms of his licence the Farmer is entitled to withdraw from bond, Amount (in order to \"prepare\" it), 1,800 chests per annum.\n\nbe increased by exported. This may imports of prepared and dross opium (not of raw) and he may export as well as supply the local demand. It appears to be a fact that in former years the Farmer did import prepared opium from Singapore, and that much was smuggled to China, but he states that none has been imported for 15 years. However that may be Mr. Clementi's examination of his books proved beyond question that none is imported now except opium dross, \"halan\", and \"tautsingko\" which are imported from Canton and Macao to be used in the \"preparation\" of crude opium for smoking.*\n\nAlthough Macao was always a rival in the export trade and secured the greater share of it, the Hongkong Farmer does a certain amount of business in this line. The markets of Australia and the Philippines are now closed, and more recently (by the prohibiting Ordinance of 1908) that of China also, but it is probable that he still exports about 12 per cent of his opium. The actual number of chests withdrawn by him from bond, since 1895 is as follows:----\n\n1895 1607 1899 1749\n\n1896 1589 1900 1098 1904 725 1908 934 †\n\n1897 1704 1901 1036 1905 858\n\n1898 ... 1902 929 1906 497\n\n1903 990 1907 725\n\nThe low figures in 1904 and 1906 were due to financial embarrassments of the Farmer in those years, caused by the fact that he had tendered for a larger payment to Government than the monopoly could afford. The payment which stood at $2,041,940 in 1905 and 1906 fell in the next contract (March 1907) to $1,452,000. In fact in 1906 the Farmer had to suspend the operations of the farm altogether for some months and adulterated opium was sold. The average for the period excluding these two years is 1,253 chests per annum.\n\nprice and de-\n\nSince the year 1901, the farm has been in the hands of Singapore merchants, Increased who have put up the local retail price from $2 per tael (in 1901) to its present creased con- rate [$3.37] and by this means,aided by the reduction in the Government sumption. rent,--have succeeded in making it pay, in spite of the cessation of smuggling to China and the loss of the Australian and other markets.\n\nThis great increase in local selling price would naturally result in a considerable decrease in smoking, for the poorer classes could not afford to buy so much, but since there are no records of the quantities of prepared opium imported and exported (whether legitimately or otherwise) by the Farmer, it is not possible to gauge the decrease precisely, by the quantities of raw opium drawn from bond by the Farmer. It will, however, be noted that this decrease in smoking, together with the abolition of the smuggling traffic, have combined to reduce the revenue received by Government as rental for the Farm by $588,000, since the last contract was made. It will be noted also that the amount of opium prepared by the Farmer has greatly decreased since 1898 in spite of the acquisition of the New Territories in that year which added about ... to the population.\n\n* Table 6 (b) and (3) of Mr. Clementi's Memo.\n\n† 118 of these chests were Chinese Opium.\n\nThe Straits Commission are emphatic in their view that opium consumption varies inversely with the price, and the dearer it is the less is consumed. The price in the F.M.S. is 40% to 50% less than in the Straits and the consumption per head is nearly double which is undoubtedly attributable to the relative cost\". Report $67-69. They however point out that the danger of increasing the price is that it induces smokers to take to cheaper substitutes. The consumption of morphia increased when the price of opium was raised. It also induces an increase of smuggling. Ibid $248, 256.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418761, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "336\n\nFurther restriction.\n\nThe restriction of the export from India will probably enhance the value of raw opium, and this with the restrictions already alluded to, and others to which I am about to refer, will probably still further reduce the tender in 1910. This in itself constitutes a heavy contribution on the part of the Colony to the policy inaugurated by His Majesty's Government, at a time when, owing to a prolonged depression in trade and to other causes, it is in considerable financial difficulties. Any serious decrease in revenue makes it, of course, more difficult to maintain effective Police supervision, without which the Farmer would be unable to protect his monopoly and prevent smuggling of opium into the Colony, or from the Colony into China.\n\nThere is no evidence to show that the Farmer in any way endeavours to promote the consumption of opium. No methods of inducement or advertisement are used. Opium divans are not in any way made attractive by meretricious devices as are public houses in England, and sales are in no way pushed.\n\nI have endeavoured to show that the system of farming the monopoly of the right to prepare and sell opium results in enhancing the price of the drug and thereby restricts the consumption (the average price of the various grades of the raw drug is only about 1/4 of the average retail selling price in Hongkong); that it is a potent and indeed the only means of checking smuggling either into the Colony or from it to China; and that it produces a revenue that is perfectly legitimate and is expended in providing a Police Service, etc.\n\nIn order to give effect to the policy of His Majesty's Government it is feasible to propose enhancements to the restrictions imposed upon the Farmer. Prior to the year 1891 he was allowed to draw 3,650 chests of opium per annum in order to \"prepare\" and sell it. Since that year the number has been fixed at 1,800, and though it is true that he has not as a matter of fact drawn anything like this amount, it is impossible, except with his consent, to reduce this number, until the present contract expires in March, 1910.\n\n(a) The number could then be reduced by half, viz., 900, and if China perseveres in her efforts it may in future years be progressively diminished, though for reasons which I will presently give I think it of more than doubtful utility to abolish the supply altogether. Since the population is rapidly increasing this constitutes a very substantial decrease. With the decrease of the export from India and the presumable cessation of the export from China, the supply will moreover be greatly curtailed and the cost proportionately increased. The Farmer is willing to agree to an immediate decrease (from March 1909) to 1,000 chests with 200 extra, if required, for bona fide export to places other than China.\n\n(b) If the Farmer for the purposes of his operations should import any prepared opium he must declare it (as also opium dross, dross opium, and \"halan\"), and an equivalent deduction will be made from the quantity of raw opium he is allowed to draw.\n\n(c) He may similarly be called upon to report his monthly sales of prepared and dross opium, whether in the Colony or exported, and in the latter case their destination.\n\n(d) He would be prohibited from selling any opium to women or children, whether for their own use or not.\n\nThese restrictions would of course decrease the value of the farm, and thereby involve a loss of revenue to the Colony, which would however be expended in a practical effort to give effect to the policy of the Home Government.\n\nThere are other important steps which have been taken by this Colony to control and restrict the use of opium, both as regards the question of divans, and (most important of all) as regards the importation, sale, and use, of morphine, and compounds of opium (for eating), as well as cocaine, including moreover recent action with a view to controlling the transit trade in the former to prevent smuggling to China. These matters are, however, best dealt with under the subsequent paragraphs relating to Divans, and Morphia, &c.\n\nThe Straits Commission say (Report § 155) that this was \"clearly proved\" and was surprising looking to the commercial aptitude of the Chinese. The Farmer does not extend sales by giving bonuses, or lower rates for wholesale purchases and rarely gives credit but \"simply supplies a demand and does nothing to stimulate it.\"\n\nSo much prominence has been given of late to the subject of opium divans (or \"Dens\" as they are called in England), that I think it may be useful to add a few observations on them.\n\nDivans, which must not be confused with opium shops whose role is the preparation and sale (or sale only) of opium, are places where opium is sold for smoking on the premises, or where a fee is paid for the privilege of smoking. There is of course no means of preventing persons from preparing and smoking both opium and dross in their own houses if they wish to do so.\n\nIn Hongkong there are 190 divans. They are under the control of the Police and Sanitary Department and the Protector of Chinese. A divan consists of a single room which if quite full might accommodate 30 persons at a time. Mr. Clementi estimates the total who smoke in divans as some 14,465 persons which only gives an average for each divan of 76. Therefore if each person remained 3 hours the average occupants would only be 13 or 14 instead of 30, since divans are only open from 6 a.m. to midnight. A personal inspection showed them to be quiet and orderly. The smokers appeared generally to be friends engaged in animated conversation, smoking tobacco, eating fruit and drinking tea with an occasional whiff from the opium pipe. There were none in a state of stupefaction though the visit was between 10 and 11 p.m.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary, Mr. May, with 9 years' experience as head of Police, who had constantly visited the divans at all hours of the day and night, stated that he had never seen a man here the worse for the drug. He himself though very susceptible even to tobacco had smoked many pipes in succession with no result.\n\nDr. Ayres who studied the question for 20 years smoked 3 mace (174 grains) consecutively, viz., as much as a confirmed smoker would smoke in a day, without feeling any result at all.\n\nA divan licence in Hongkong costs $10 per annum and is renewable annually, and the place is comparable to our public houses in England, in so far as it affords a resort where the tired coolie may rest and enjoy his tobacco and fruit with a little opium, or where friends of the better classes may meet and discuss affairs, but it contrasts strongly with a Public House in that it is quiet and orderly. Women and children are absolutely excluded.\n\nMen who have homes of their own will, in the absence of divans, smoke in their women's quarters as they are now reported to be doing in Canton. Thus the evil hitherto excluded from domestic life will be introduced into the home, where women and children will probably become participators. The idea therefore that smoking at home is less harmful than smoking in a public divan is based on a misconception of the nature of a divan as it exists at any rate in Hongkong. It is true that the criminal classes frequent the divans, because they are often smokers, but they go there for no vicious purpose other than smoking, the place is too open and public for discussing secret plans, and there is no immorality.\n\nThe alternative resort for those with money is the noisy theatre, or the restaurant where much money is wasted, and which is more or less associated with the brothel. For the coolie the alternative is the street, or if he desires to smoke and has no home in which to indulge he must pay some rich man's servants for the privilege of smoking with them. It is indeed anticipated that abolition of divans would lead to the introduction of bad characters into the quarters of the Chinese servants of Europeans, and may even extend instead of curtailing the habit. Divans are a concomitant, and result of the habit of opium smoking rather than an inciting cause, and they serve a useful purpose in concentrating smokers, and thus bringing them under control and supervision. They also tend to diminish...\n\nCalculation dated 12-6-09.\n\n+ Indian Opium Commission. Vol. V. p. 198.\n\nOrdinance 8 of 1891. The keeper's wife or child are alone exempted.\n\nThe Straits Commission support these conclusions very strongly. They hold that public smoking in well-ventilated saloons is better for public health than smoking in private houses. They are \"unhesitatingly of opinion\" that it would be a mistake to abolish divans and that there is \"no necessity or justification\" for doing so. They add some recommendations regarding control and sanitation, but do not advocate any increase in the licence fees which are $2 and $36. (Report § 212 to § 226). Mr. Fox informs me that during a year's residence at the capital of the opium province of Szechuan, he never saw any disturbance in a divan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418762, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "337\n\nExtent to\n\n10\n\ninish smoking of opium in private houses, and to confine it to adult males, and are a check on dross eating since neither the keeper nor the smoker may retain the dross. Their complete abolition would not improbably produce many evils not contemplated by those who have no actual knowledge of the circumstances.\n\nIt is to be noted that in Hongkong, where the adult male population (who alone smoke) is nearly equal to the total of women and children combined, the number who smoke in divans is only in the proportion of about 7 to 5 who smoke outside.* This proportion would be greatly less in rural districts. The closing of divans in Shanghai and the neighbouring city is said to have led to no apparent diminution in the sale and consumption of the drug.\n\nClosing of divans in\n\nChina.\n\nFurther restrictions on divans.\n\nComparative effects of\n\nsubstitutes.\n\n**\n\nChina has not hesitated to adopt the closing of divans, but her ideas of justice and vested rights are not those which obtain among ourselves and to which expression was given in the recent debate on the Licensing Bill, nor has she to deal (as Hongkong has) with the question of the rights of a Monopolist. The result, however, is reported to be very unsatisfactory, though owing to her defective Police Force any such order can only be partially operative. The hardship and injustice is proportionately greater in a British Colony, and the step more drastic, since it is fully enforced.†\n\nThe divan will gradually disappear with the cessation of smoking, and till then it is a useful agent for control. Persons who exceed should be treated as habitual drunkards or dipsomaniacs are, and placed under control and restraint.‡ Divan licensees on whose premises such persons are found should be liable to fine and cancellation of licenses. They should only be allowed to be open during fixed hours say 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. and no customers should be allowed to sleep on the premises. Restrictions of this kind are being placed on divans, so long as any remain in Hongkong.\n\nEvery race in the World in every age has exhibited a desire for something to act pleasurably on the nervous system either as a stimulant or a sedative and Sir William Roberts who analysed the medical evidence given before the Indian Commission (of which he was the expert medical member) refers in his extremely interesting report to the \"Euphoric\" and non-medicinal effects of stimulants and sedatives, which are so essential to the nervous organization of man, as to constitute \"a profound instinct of human nature\".\n\n(a.) Opium.\n\nLord Brassey's Commission (which recorded its proceedings in seven volumes totalling 2,550 pages of small print) is an encyclopædia of information on every aspect of the opium question, which should be studied by everyone interested in the matter. Innumerable witnesses of every class were examined and reports (in reply to a series of questions) were received from Hongkong, Singapore, and other places. The most eminent of Indian Administrators wrote reports and collected statistics for it. The commissioners record this weighty opinion: \"We have made\n\n3.572 per cent. smoke in divans\n\nClementi 12.6.08.\n\n2.678 per cent. smoke outside divans\n\n**The facts, in comparison with Hongkong, appear to be as follow:-The population of the International Settlement (no divans have been closed in the French concession) was estimated in 1907 at 510,000 of whom about half are adult males (viz., possible smokers). There were 1,437 divans, 1 per 177.4. The adult male population of Hongkong in 1907 (exclusive of the New Territories) is estimated at 200,000 and there were 191 divans viz. 1 per 1,037. Thus Shanghai had in 1907 proportionately about six times as many divans as Hongkong. By 31st December, 1908, 709 of the divans had been closed. Disregarding any increase of population this would allow one divan per 350 adult males. Hong-kong from 1st March 1909 has 165 divans viz., 1 per 1,212 males, leaving Shanghai with still 3 or 4 times as many. A large number of Shanghai divans are also brothels, where prostitutes minister to the smokers, and some are very large houses, consisting I believe of several floors. This is a radically different matter from the divans of Hongkong and may perhaps account for the views held by many in England. Report has it that many of the divans when closed became opium shops while others were carried on secretly. In Singapore there are within the Municipality 414 divans with a population of 99,173 males over 10 years viz. 1 divan per 241 adult males.\n\nMr. James Munro, C.B., was one of the witnesses examined by Lord Brassey's Commission. He had formerly been Inspector General of Police in Bengal, then Commissioner of Bengal and finally Chief Commissioner of Police in London. At the time he was examined by the Commission he had returned to India as a Missionary, and he is one of the witnesses to whose evidence the Commissioners in their final report direct special attention. (Vol. VI. p. 23. § 82.) When asked his opinion as to the closing of divans, he said his view was clear that it was a wiser policy to keep them open, and under Police control (Vol. II. p. 150). In this view the Commissioners apparently concur while adding that the restrictions in India had not been long enough in operation to afford material for a final conclusion (Vol. VI. p. 23) and that there was little opium smoking in India. I may add that I had formed my own conclusions from local investigation before reading the Indian Commission's report.\n\nThe Straits Commission do not accept this view and stigmatise the compulsory detention of \"Sots\" as\n\n“intolerable and unjustifiable\" Report § 977.\n\n§ Indian Commission Vol. VI pp. 99 to 119. Summary of medical evidence by Sir W. Roberts, F.R.S.\n\n11\n\nexhaustive enquiry into the consumption of opium in India and its effects. We find no evidence of extensive moral or physical degradation from its use. It is extensively used for non-medical and quasi-medical purposes in some cases with benefit, and for the most part without serious consequences.\"\n\n.\" This verdict refers to the eating of opium, which expert evidence goes to show is much more potent in its effects than smoking.† Sir William Roberts in his summary § states that proof has been given that smokers might continue the habit for 10, 20, or 30 years without detriment to their health. It has been the universal household remedy for centuries,** and is extensively given to children,†† and is a useful digestive to a rice-eating people. It is stated to be a prophylactic against malaria,‡ and though modern research would probably negative this theory, there is no doubt that it affords a means of relief where remedies are not available and is therefore of special value in a country like China where irrigation is so extensive, and low-lying valleys planted with rice fields abound. Dr. Crombie, Superintendent of the Government Hospital at Calcutta, went so far as to state it as his opinion to the Commission that to deprive the people of a malarial district of opium would be \"a terrible and wanton cruelty\".\n\nSuch authoritative opinions as these, based on one of the most exhaustive enquiries ever held into any such subject must arrest the attention, and demand the earnest consideration of those who approach this subject from no ex-parte point of view. The question at issue is whether looking to the fact that all races at all times have adopted some form of stimulant or sedative, we may not by misdirected zeal substitute a worse for a comparatively harmless habit. Few I think will be found who will oppose efforts for restriction and control, and for ensuring moderation, but for my own part I view with much misgiving the attempt at total abolition of opium smoking, and of the methods by which the habit is at present kept under due control.‡‡\n\nProfessor Giles has demonstrated that in ancient times the Chinese were (6.) Alcohol. addicted to alcohol till it was replaced by opium. Drunkenness is not considered disgraceful, and the Chinese are proud of their powers of drinking and are never voluntary abstainers. Mr. Fox, Consul General of Canton informs me that a large majority of the officials and gentry are already fond of wines and spirits, and would drink heavily if they did not smoke. The introduction of railways into China will facilitate the supply of alcohol, hitherto restricted by lack of transport, which opium being light and portable does not need. It is also alleged, but I know not whether on good authority, that local manufacture is increasing.\n\n† Dr. Ayres' evidence Ibid Vol. V. p. 193.\n\n* Indian Commission Vol. VI p. 97.\n\nIbid Vol. VI. p. 119. The researches of Moissan are referred to by Sir William Roberts (Vol. VI p. 119) who summarises the conclusions arrived at after a study of these writings and of the evidence of witnesses as follows:-The experience of Europeans who have tried smoking and who are very sensitive to the hypnotic action of morphia, seems to show that the enjoyment of the smoker is not due to the absorption of unchanged morphia. That some traces of morphia are conveyed into the lungs of the smoker is however pretty certain\n\nbut as this smoke is forthwith expelled again, there would probably be very little absorption of morphia by the pulmonary tissue. What the gases evolved by heated chandu (prepared opium) consist of we do not accurately know.\" The determination of the constituents of the smoke inhaled by the opium smoker and the nature of the residue absorbed is being investigated by Mr. Clementi, Assistant Colonial Secretary, and the Government Analyst of the Colony, but the results of the experiments cannot be known for some little time. A similar investigation was being conducted in the Straits, (Report of Commissioners Vol. II p. 102). It appears probable that the smoke first given off contains the most morphine, amounting however only to one-tenth of a 1% of the opium smoked.\" Even of this mere trace only a part remains in the lungs, the remainder being exhaled. The Government Analyst (Mr. P. Brown) considers that in moderate smoking the system is capable of completely oxidising all the various products and it is therefore harmless. In excess, though the morphia is oxidised the other products, of a tarry and oily nature, are not (see Brit. Pharm. Codex p. 721) and excessive smoking is therefore harmful. Looking to the great variation in the amount of morphia etc. contained in different kinds of opium (Indian 4 to 8. Turkish 8 to 12½ %) the question arises whether by artificial selection &c. a non-toxic opium for smoking could be produced. India is I believe experimenting in this direction but with a view to producing an opium containing more morphia, in order to compete with Turkey for the medicinal supply.\n\n†† Ibid p. 105.\n\n†† Vol. VI. pp. 105-112.\n\n** Ibid p. 108.\n\nThe Straits Commission's Report nowhere refers to the exhaustive Indian Commission from which it seems as though they had not had it before them. They arrive, however, at very similar conclusions viz., that the evil results are greatly exaggerated (§96, 384) and that the medical evidence goes to show that they are small (§328) when smoking is done in moderation. That the vast majority smoke in moderation (§271, 225, 117) and the evil effects are confined to \"Sots\" who are rare, and are ostracised like habitual drunkards (§ 103); and finally that there is no tendency for the moderate smoker to continually increase the dose, till he becomes a \"Sot\" (§108. 114,271). They recommend restriction with due regard to the liberty of the subject, on the grounds that the habit is Wasteful and seldom beneficial\", but emphatically deprecate prohibition, which in Australia is understood to have resulted only in organised and successful smuggling (§136).\n\nNineteenth Century December, 1907,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418978, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "1 : [ $1 : { \n\n: mode of despatch etc. I propose by this means if Your Lordship concurs to give effect to the recommendation of the Shanghai Commission, and refuse permission to export to countries which have prohibited the import of Opium even though such export should not be illegal under the laws in force in this Colony.\n\n(d). No person shall sell any Prepared Opium or Dross Opium to any female or to any child under 16 years of age.\n\n(e). No person shall open, keep or use any Opium Divan. (Note: The definition of 'Opium Divan' will be amended so as to include Boats and places even though not open to the Public; if fees are charged &c.), provision will be made for the infliction of severe penalties upon any person convicted of keeping an Opium Divan or upon any person smoking Opium or Dross Opium in a Divan, and any person found in or escaping from an Opium Divan when entered by lawful authority will be deemed, till the contrary is proved, to have been smoking Opium or Dross Opium therein.\n\n(f). The offices of the Farmer and any places used by him for manufacturing, storing or selling Prepared Opium or Dross Opium shall be open to inspection by Government Officers.\n\n(g). The books of account and other documents kept by the Farmer in connection with the business of the Farm shall be subject to inspection by Government.\n\n(h). The packages or receptacles in which Prepared Opium and Dross Opium may be sold to the public and the quantities that may be contained therein may", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419652, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 198, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Page 24742\n\nBogoh at mavin Benao to do ANDAR Ixcolo .RoH Dari Bansor. hatan lle et date. (11) maaf nå! to & diqargetni af beðin annulé suas ad wonban, neruta tu Štron Iraqah ra good erLE? mi orola ako by sattuut toidu site shotad Biser werd øvať bloow COU?* wld c^ot-d bietet se samo txie ekw 7) RA #nons:and Jasien ogbus erubek ara bra polzuud teld end .s.) our code has folder) told and erotted breed iwon $l be? ealand? 2os?» nỉ hinow Lawqqa sus \"awon 15\" ady of Lang ja no naxat overnor.\n\nNo. Zel 1909 July HONG KONG 12 24742\n\nExtension Reave 195 DESPATCH, C.O.24742 for Haggard 24 JUL OS Previous Paper Cannot be sauctioned, nor marriace nd of wood drped oda *ki wld post mead evad ProD #kift at an ducset **^ual Iff* ɑnt at solter\" teiɗo * unnbuch. Ade re v atov etiánse and est sojourḥ, tehɗff soft ow to tadt or han my sung of singh ne sav /I .nstulgo ni bebiylb exa to thaw not sobre tortosios' bogogong 40% of het iniiw płacona •ffeuro'ula velint yindanýnekan ser Bred nofter-go-03 2nd,hno Ischl na ton der Testedor! WE Chaco Ibuavby anton & as bonhou Imotestation need evert bivan Combat brand s obivory où al beffer & B60menit s'polo art Bextiyot qizvenha don al sghar Dkt A warz kot gud eras 窨 A to 30\" *sqory & elitemoo of Jyooze ●danyur að bagreb el 20quq (BR) .0005 VICE ASTI La must Thiens tel 38 Headstone Rd, Harrow, Tel to the Decupier CASTLE • Lex A.E. W.--20962/27-- 2-11-08 xt subsequent Paper Short notice mariage question The Government has interfere with and to Sin F. Lugand I don't unless sufficient meaus at desporal\n\nCardig B. Stubbs 24789. be will no See also. Dere paying July In Haggard half salary ph have aheady and Link warned him (draft diffcutti * As on 19106). hat be prepared to leave But at to Ka and hat to any light its The 8 3 we manage must And but Has should not tha M. Haggard 24489 dis approval. be contemplates ? the stel Sout which ↓ ช W426/4\n\nPage 24742", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420118, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "Governor. No.\n\nUgand\n\nJel\n\n6\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n3289\n\n90\n\nC.O. - 32890\n\nRECO\n\nVEGA 5 OCT CO\n\n1909\n\nOct.\n\nDirect Losses on\n\nLast Previous Paper.\n\nNext\n\nТreas:\n\nruf 7 UNI\n\n32488\n\nfinancial year\n\nsucceeding years.\n\nexpect as\n\nOpium Revenue.\n\namount to $225,860,\n\n$270,660, what amount\n\ncontribution from Import?\n\nM. Collins.\n\nSo Tuerny /32408,\n\nack for the actual reduction\n\nof opium farm.\n\nmay I\n\nin which they\n\nin the rest of t...\n\nThe amount paid for the farm for 1909 was\n\n$1,452,000\n\n: \n\nbesides\n\nan estimate\n\n1738-A. & E. W.-25062/27- 45000-11-48.\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\nLov\n\n33780\n\nUrenu\n\nof $271,340 from divan Licences,\n\nmaking a total revenue Sir Phugand $215,860\n\ntotal revenue of $1,453,340\n\nyears.\n\nwas reports that the town will be in iquo\n\n$270.\n\nbbo in the following\n\nI am not quite sure how these fignis\n\nwere arrived at: the attached and til fr\n\nALL\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420325, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 215, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "The love from opium is considerably below anticipated to the Govt.\n\nThe expiring gain presumably...\n\n*60/* *0008 *2-180T (LZE8) 'M'Y' '80/11 '0009 '97--†2007 '4M '(068)\n\nThe loss in 1911, 1912, will be as I make it\n\n$270,140,\n\nA\n\nmortgage\n\n$145,200; the new farm has been bid for\n\neventually\n\nwhich means\n\nA\n\n$1452.84 loss $1453340\n\n1783 1\n\nin to crown\n\n$ 1783 200, of 268800 this $1340 (opium diran humans)\n\n= in mutual loss of $270140 aver\n\n(Where Figures do not\n\nappear\n\nwith those printed in\n\n13\n\npage 18 of the dept\n\nand I am unable\n\nto\n\nreconcile Their, dear loss\n\nthis year\n\ntaking into account the extra revenue read from the higher expiring form, is placed\n\nat $225,860 (including & Divan licences) The Govt. explains that the estimator (Mr.9.)\n\nfire the wrong figures\n\neventually accepted\n\n$1,186,560\n\nArupting\n\n[\n\nWhere\n\nThe poses linder\n\n$1,183,200, mis tund\n\nthe highest bid.\n\ncorrect the has this\n\nera\n\nrland\n\n47014 The explanation\n\nis now\n\nclear\n\nfor 40136 uh: In Fishing\n\nhaven't gem. Diven liant\n\nbrought in for j\n\nan estimate\n\n1,45\n\n14638\n\n1.183. 270\n\n212\n\nat 1/9 £ 23637..5..0..\n\nIo making his estimates the Govt has taken\n\nthe fact that the absorption of the\n\nWe to. Punois Fund does not really mean\n\nan increase of wealth to the Colony). The\n\nintended cover the\n\nlicence duties\n\ndeficit which\n\nau paper\n\nAm\n\nStaking over the Fund.\n\npher last year.\n\nIn thugand later thanks that they will produce of boo, oor; the hopes that\n\nit mit hover\n\nshowing to cost of\n\n...\n\nchection, possible decrease in consumption, ontabs to the military rural peas,\n\nthe experts to put a het $508, or\n\nthis source. hom\n\nComme M\n\nthe unofficial members were inclined to\n\nthe Est in $ 225.860 (inclusive & drain\n\nhances) the sum at 1/9 to the Dollar\n\nworke.\n\nout at £1978)...\n\n£19769... 15. ... to 1910\n\nthat large revenue\n\nfrom begion with meas\n\ndepreent this\n\nchiefly because they assumed\n\nS\n\ngreatly merind consumption. & alcohol the Zenèse, expecially\n\nduring desired\n\nnow that they are opium\n\nPage XX\n\n...\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage XX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420342, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "Reconstruction of 13 houses Nos. 1 to 11 and Nos.47 and 48..\n\nRemoval of 33 pig sties... 229 $3,600 460\n\nResumption of cultivated land and matsheds on Lot 77 and matshed on Lot 81.... 217.50 Say..$4,500\n\n12.\n\nAs I have dealt with the question of the Railway Estimates very fully in recent Despatches, I need now only draw Your Lordship's attention to the new item of $20,000 for traffic receipts appearing for the first time (page 18 of Estimates). Another new item is the sum of $100,000 for \"Salaries and Expenses of Open Line\" (page 90 of Estimates). It is anticipated that the British Section of the Railway will be open during the whole of the second half of 1910: and for that period, as Your Lordship will observe, I expect the Railway to run at a loss of $80,000.\n\nGov32890\n\n13.\n\nA new Opium Farm has been let for 3 years from the 1st of March, 1910, at an annual rental of $1,183,200. This means that the direct loss under this head for 1910 including Divan Licences will be $225,860 and that in the two succeeding years the loss will be $270,660. I informed Your Lordship of these facts in a telegram of the 5th of October, and at the same time inquired", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421030, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "# 1390-A. & E. W.-20024/26---6,000--11-08.\n\n{ \n\n## HONG KONG \n\n2088 \n\n332 \n\nDOMESTIC. \n\nC.0 \n\n20887 \n\nReceived 23 JUN 09 \n\nOffice of Individual, not Commons \n\n1909 \n\nJose \n\nLast Previous Paper: 16998 \n\nPut by the 1789-A. & E. W.-2002/27- 5000-11-09. \n\nNext subsequent Paper: 21288 \n\nCompensation to Licensees of Closed Opium Dens \n\nMr. Laidlaw - To ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, how the sum of $11,613 compensation to the licensees of opium dens closed on 1st March last, voted by the Finance Committee of the Hong Kong Legislative Council on 1st April, was arrived at; and whether, in view of the claim made in the Committee that the sum should be made good by the British Exchequer, the Colonial Office had been consulted as to the basis on which compensation should be paid. [Thursday 24th June] \n\nM. Fides. Cry \n\nThe vote for $11,613 was reported, but I cannot find any statement on the basis of it having been arrived at. It was understood that any compensation would be paid by the Colonial Government. The original basis of compensation to divan keepers was connected capital + 5% on capital + a third of goodwill as compensation. That on this matter... \n}", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424909, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 557, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## 4\n\nI have the honour to refer Your Lordship to paragraph 3 of Mr. [Name]'s Memorandum dated the 23rd July, 1908, a copy of which was enclosed in my Confidential Despatch of the 2nd July, 1908, and to inform Your Lordship that I considered in Executive Council on the 7th ultimo the question of what compensation, if any, should be granted to the keepers of the Opium Divans for the loss of their business, and decided upon the advice of a majority of the Council that the compensation given should be one-third of the corrected capital of the divan-keepers in question, i.e. a total sum of $16,747.27. This compensation is now being paid to the divan-keepers by the Registrar-General.\n\n## 6\n\nI regret to inform Your Lordship in this connection that a mistake was made in the amount of compensation paid to the keepers of the 26 Opium Divans which were closed in March, 1909. In their case I was advised by the Executive Council that each divan-keeper should be paid as compensation a sum equal to one-third of his corrected capital plus 5 per centum of such capital for disturbance without fair notice, i.e. a total sum of $3,237.32. The Treasurer was instructed to calculate the compensation so payable and owing to a clerical error in his Department the compensation was reckoned as 13 per centum...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424910, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 558, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n\n550 \n\ncentum (instead of 38 per centum) of the corrected capital, i.e. a total sum of $11,682.72; and the divan-keepers were accordingly overpaid by $8,445.40. This mistake was not discovered until calculations in connection with payment of compensation to the remaining divans, closed on the 28th ultimo, were made. The over-payment fell as a loss upon the local Revenue, and of course in no way affects the figures quoted in the 2nd paragraph of this Despatch. Your Lordship will recollect that the Colony undertook the payment of whatever compensation should be given to the holders of the divans closed last year.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nLord, \nYour Lordship's most obedient, \nhumble servant, \n**Banners** \nGovernor, &C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424916, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 564, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "from bad in during the present \nand there following years; \nLast in fact discriminated \nin favour of Malwa's opium; and that \nactually only \nMalwa opium is \n& \nBengal opium is \nIt long, the matter \nis likely to cause considerable \nloss to the Opium farmers. \nThe only recent case with the \nfarmers' solicitors shows that \nit may \nhave necessary \nfor the Govt to wince the \nrenting the Just \n\n3. I am to explain that \nthe Govt's remarks impart 2 \nand in the last submission \nI the Govt correctly represent \nthe arrangement which \n\n556 \n\nin \nmake with regard to the \ncompensation & compensation In \nthe closing of opium divans \nFor Malwa divans & of the op g \n`43471/08 January 1909`, (which \nript is made in part 5f \nJ \nthe Treasury Warrant of the 5 March) stated that Malwa \nmight claim compensation by the Govt \nequitably due to the holders of the 26 divan licences which \nwere extinguished \npromptly \nthe \nColony. n \nA \nThe total a 2 pouch \nbalances at that time was \nNovember 190 the sum of \n$16,947 and odd & due", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426695, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 475, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "XIV\n\nRECO RD 6 OCT 10\n\nHONG KONG\n\n30626\n\n471\n\nC O\n\n30626\n\ndtiw ozbolwomios of two rol edt\n\nved cr\n\nbotab 80$288 ni í .aol at:trol out toy to tabooar ont adnant\n\n.ntero.it berofthor: actuaolors and detw Jnstant and ont\n\nwoy to Agatyaraq .bn£ od: o. QIQOT CI\n\norow mrigo to etnedo S£ rostegotia duld obeda pa on \"widel\n\nbra.bus ailo mnawded vnsgroƆ fra asfr? .anual of hegyift\n\na to noktqnoxo ciis citiw „Jada bnaturabuy on ban o hf des\n\nnk emɖé vď hloa need sad spigo erit II» «noidnog [la a ver\n\nto normaq ont tuontiw motretat eft out onog zad bra nocnej\n\n3179v-wod,baril of moldarriotel toetal Hoт* „zat ven ent\n\nmort Idqvod muigo to Gilad Of Juni yabnoabe no reift also us\n\nobłatwo solt10 Istoneð nʊ qxawX ed? yd bestea osew artit wide\n\nbetroger Bono *s aaw rettam sið tæt bus CYODHY OW bra noensdit\n\nbne tastorq nnonda a beŋbol nad odw,Ivano\" done I ant ot\n\ndey noidamotni on Svad eV .œuiqo sɗft to ensɛfor ont bobnarieb\n\n*.570 078 07\n\n.Jaedong ord to Juno% ode of us\n\ndiqenot „H ‚A (.52)\n\nTONSKAM\n\n.bl..00 & mooaaa? hivan\n\n.00 $ moo8852 »\n\n(39*) 2*\n\n302\n\nPensioning\n\n1910\n\nst previous Paper.\n\nAsano 256. 190m\n\nawed Jog.\n\n27 Jan '11 F548/10-11\n\n21,650-1, 40,000.\n\nA.SE.W.\n\nsequent Paper.\n\nW\n\nof Officios Medical Grounds\n\nsuggests authorities by whom medical certificates should\n\nbe signed.\n\nMă Colleies\n\nThe usual practice is\n\nhave the man examined by\n\nboard\n\nlive\n\nC\n\nor three Gof medical without expense to the\n\nofficer candidate for pension.\n\nUnless the O.AG meaus\n\nit is\n\nimply that it\n\nis impossible to\n\ntrust God medical Officers, the proposal is quite unnecessary.\n\nfurther, I think it is\n\nto\n\nmuch\n\nto God?\n\nsuch\n\npurposes.\n\nbitter, if possible, to stick\n\nmedical\n\nIn\n\nany\n\nax\n\nofficers for\n\ncase, if outside doctors\n\nemployed, East ought to", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427218, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nHongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n300\n\n36233-\n\nHan 26 NOV 10\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 24th October, 1910.\n\nI have the honour to furnish the following report on the working of Section 43 of Ordinance No.23 of 1909 in pursuance of which the opening, keeping or using of Opium Divans was made illegal from the 1st of March last.\n\n2.\n\nAs was to be expected various devices have been employed to evade the law. In all cases the smoker buys his opium outside and brings it with him. There is the illicit Divan where a direct charge for smoking is made. This class is of course easily dealt with if discovered.\n\nThen there is the Divan in which the Dross (ashes) of the Opium smoked by visitors is retained by the keeper. In cases of this description convictions in undefended cases in which the defendants pleaded guilty have been obtained. A defended case of this kind is pending. Another class of case has recently come to notice in which a comparatively high charge is made for tea and cakes supplied to the smoker.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CREWE,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427954, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 502, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "495\n\n727814/09\n\nthat whatever compensation may be found to be equitably due to the holders of these (Divan) licences will be provided from Colonial Revenues.\n\n6 They have not had the advantage of any statement of the actual financial position and outlook of the Colony at present, but They understand from the telegraphic correspondence forwarded with Mr. Just's letter (31592/09) of the 25th September last that a bill had then been passed imposing increased spirit duties which were expected to yield a revenue of from $500,000 to $600,000, i.e. apparently more than double the loss on opium.\n\nA further element of doubt is thus introduced into the question of the amount fairly contributable by His Majesty's Government, regard being had to the 5th and 6th paragraphs of Mr. Just's letter of the 10th September last which concluded with a statement that \"justice would appear to require that the contribution from Imperial funds should be sufficient to make up the difference between the revenue brought in by the new taxes and that which is lost by the reduction of the rent of the opium farm\".\n\n4 My Lords, however, of course recognise that even if on the above basis (which Lord Crewe suggested as theoretically just although practical considerations led him to propose a contribution of one half of the loss), the deficit should prove to be 'nil', His Majesty's Government are publicly pledged to some contribution. Having regard to all the circumstances, including the fact that another question is still outstanding, They suggest that a sum...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433952, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "## grand \nntire which was \nthat be \nher \nSivan \nawar \nJ \ntheat \nfor the \nhigher than \nمت \npensi \nto click he \nentitled under the Prussian \n\nminute. \nア \n22/1 \n232 \n\nIf he shared \nM \nanotinu \nhe would be entitled to an \npension- \nas he desires. \n\nYear \nadditional = (£66 \n| \nIts will have completed 7 years. \n27 April next which \n\nTo \nBunny \nC.J.M \nlin \na pension of \n15 \nto \npara \n£500 ($2 of 14.K. Pension minute). \n\nI mention this because I think the Crown is \nnot correct in saying that the \n9 \n\"It has not completed his full time for pension\". \nunder S32 of the HK Pension rules, years \nof service as a judge are counted towards \nfull time for pension, independently of any pension \nhe may have earned by other service. At the same time it may be worth while \n(and para 9 of the desp suggests that this is \nthe Provisional view) to give Sir J.P. something \nextra as an inducement to \"go quietly\". He may get into \nconsiderable trouble \n21.R \n23/ \nIa \nwith her troubles. \nin bringing off people, and \nhe will care \nL \nLan \n523 \n\nI don't believe \nI daresay doubt if \nless trouble if \nAway \"Something Extra\". \nwe gave \n23 \nI should give the Gov\" discretion as to the £66. If he can think the C. in's appointment is not being able to complete his qualifying period for the higher pension is more or less justified, it will help him to have this discretion in the final settlement \n\nE24 \nI don't mind his having the extra £66 \nso long \nas his service is not extended \n17. Stible. \nof *. 27.1.12 \n\nPhrase sent to 3 pr. attached, with extract of para from So 7. Piggott's letter. In any event \nto affect the decision in any way; \nLeem \n? Putly. \nabomety \n23 \n\nReconstructed text in Markdown format:\n\nIf he shared M anotinu he would be entitled to an pension-as he desires. \nIt will have completed 7 years on 27 April next. \n\nTo Bunny C.J.M lin, a pension of £500 ($2 of 14.K. Pension minute) is applicable.\n\nI mention this because I think the Crown is not correct in saying that \"It has not completed his full time for pension\". Under S32 of the HK Pension rules, years of service as a judge are counted towards full time for pension, independently of any pension he may have earned by other service. At the same time, it may be worthwhile (and para 9 of the desp suggests that this is the Provisional view) to give Sir J.P. something extra as an inducement to \"go quietly\". He may get into considerable trouble with her troubles in bringing off people, and he will care.\n\nI don't believe I daresay doubt if there will be less trouble if we gave \"Something Extra\". I should give the Gov\" discretion as to the £66. If he thinks the C. in's appointment is not being able to complete his qualifying period for the higher pension is more or less justified, it will help him to have this discretion in the final settlement.\n\nI don't mind his having the extra £66 so long as his service is not extended.\n\nPhrase sent to 3 pr. attached, with extract of para from So 7. Piggott's letter. In any event, it will not affect the decision in any way.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436770, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911", "content_text": "EASTERN No. 14: [Second dispatch]\n\nReprinted\n\nColonial Office.\n\n40860\n\n154\n\nF.O.\n\nGrande Bretagne. 22 Feb 11\n\nRESTRICTIONS ON THE OPIUM AND MORPHINE TRAFFIC IN THE EASTERN COLONIES.\n\n1. Weihaiwei.\n\nBy Ordinance No. 1 of 1909, no person may import, export, possess, sell, or buy any opium (including morphine) or other hypnotic (including cocaine), except that qualified medical men and chemists may deal in them for bona fide medicinal purposes, and that a medical officer may license certain persons to smoke or otherwise use opium if deprivation of the drug would injure their health. Such licensed consumers are registered; no person under age, and no female (except with the special sanction of the Commissioner) may be licensed.\n\nOpium divans are prohibited.\n\n2. Hong Kong.\n\nThe legislation is contained in the consolidating enactment of 1909, \"The Opium Ordinance, 1909.” Raw opium (i.e., opium not prepared for smoking or other use) can only be imported or exported under permit from a Government officer countersigned by the opium farmer.\n\nLoose Opium, i.e., raw opium, in quantities less than one chest full of opium of the same quality, may not be imported at all; it can be sold or exported by persons possessing the requisite Government licence.\n\nOpium may only be prepared for consumption by the opium farmer, and may be sold only by him and persons duly licensed under the Ordinance. No prepared opium may be sold to a female or to a person under the age of 16. There is no other restriction on consumers. Opium divans are prohibited.\n\nMorphine may only be used when prescribed by a medical man. The injection of morphine otherwise is punishable.\n\nMorphine may be imported, manufactured, and dealt in only by licensed persons. Export of morphine to countries prohibiting or restricting its importation is forbidden except in accordance with the regulations of those countries. Licences to export morphine are necessary.\n\nUnder the Pharmacy Ordinance No. 10 of 1908, as amended by Ordinances 9 and 20 of 1910, cocaine, its salts and preparations, can only be kept, dispensed, and sold by registered persons, and by Ordinance 9 of 1910 special powers are given in respect of search for, and forfeiture of, cocaine in all its forms.\n\n3. Straits Settlements.\n\nOpium and its compounds are dealt with under Ordinance No. 21 of 1909. Morphia, cocaine, and their compounds and derivatives are regulated by Ordinance No. 14 of 1907, the \"Deleterious Drugs Ordinance, 1907.\" Subject to any rules made under the Ordinance the exclusive right to import, export, prepare, sell, and retail opium is vested in the Government (so far no such rule has been made).\n\nChandu, i.e., opium prepared for smoking, may be retailed, and divans may be kept by duly licensed persons.\n\nThere are no provisions as to the registration of consumers. Under rules made by the Governor in Council it is an offence to sell or deliver chandu to any person other than an adult male, or to allow a female or child under 16 to enter or remain in a public smoking room (opium divan). The Ordinance does not apply to Labuan or to Christmas Island. Labuan is under the Opium Ordinance, 1906, and the rules made thereunder. With the exception that the farmer has the rights of import and sale now given to the Government, the provisions of this Ordinance are identical with those of the 1909 Ordinance.\n\nMorphia, cocaine, their derivatives, and some other drugs may only be imported into the Colony or exported to a settlement or the Federated Malay States under written permit from the Principal Civil Medical Officer. Deleterious drugs can only be dealt in by licensed medical men and chemists and druggists. The furnishing, administration, or possession of deleterious drugs by unlicensed persons or persons not acting under the direction of a licensed person is a punishable offence.\n\n(17951r-2) Wt. 25610-442. 50. 11/10. D&S.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437049, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "content_text": "An Agreement\n\nday of\n\nmonth of the year\n\n}\n\nmade at\n\non the\n\nday of the of His Imperial Majesty Siian Tung being the\n\n1911, A.D., BETWEEN THE DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF CHINESE IMPERIAL RAILWAYS OF THE BOARD OF POSTS AND COMMUNICATIONS (hereinafter referred to as \"the Directorate\") of the one part and His Excellency Sir FREDERICK JOHN DEALTRY LUGARD, G.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the British Colony of Hongkong (hereinafter referred to as \"the Governor\") for and on behalf of the Government of the said Colony of the other part.\n\nWhereas by Article 18 of an Agreement between the WAI WU PU (Board of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Government) and THE BRITISH AND CHINESE CORPORATION LIMITED made at Peking on the 23rd day of the first month of the 33rd year of His late Imperial Majesty Kuang Hsü being the 7th day of March, 1907, A.D., a copy of which is contained in the final schedule hereto (being an agreement for the issue of a loan for the construction, equipment and working of a Railway from the City of Canton to the boundary of the Kowloon leased territory under British control) it is provided that the junctions of the Sections of the Railway from Canton to the boundary of the Kowloon leased territory under British control and from the said boundary to the Port of Kowloon respectively, and the subsequent joint working of the two Sections should be arranged by agreement between the Viceroy of Canton and the Governor of Hongkong AND WHEREAS all the powers and duties of the Viceroy of Canton under the said recited agreement have been transferred by the Imperial Chinese Government to the said Directorate.\n\nAnd Whereas in accordance with the terms of the said recited agreement a Railway is now being constructed from the said City of Canton to the said British boundary at a point on the North Bank of the Shum Chun River near the town of Shum Chun in the District of San On (which Railway is hereinafter referred to as \"the Chinese Section\") AND WHEREAS the Government of Hongkong has constructed a railway from the said Port of Kowloon to the said point on the North Bank of the Shum Chun River (which railway is hereinafter referred to as \"the British Section\") and a junction has been effected between the Chinese Section and the British Section at the point aforesaid:\n\nAnd Whereas it is desirable to enter into an agreement for the joint working of the Chinese Section and the British Section, collectively hereinafter called \"the Railway\":\n\nNow it is hereby Agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows:-\n\nIntroductory.\n\n1. The Chinese Section shall be managed by the Directorate in accordance with the terms of the said recited agreement in the final schedule hereto.\n\n2. The British Section shall be managed by the Government of the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n3. The junction of the two Sections already constructed as aforesaid at a point on the North Bank of the Shum Chun River shall be maintained subject to the terms of this agreement.\n\n4. \"Through express trains\" means passenger trains run from Kowloon to Canton or vice versâ stopping normally only at Shum Chun and Sheklung and only in exceptional circumstances at such other stations as may be agreed upon between the Administrations of the two Sections.\n\n\"Sectional trains\" means trains run by the British Section between stations on that Section and Shum Chun: and by the Chinese Section between stations on that Section and Shum Chun.\n\n\"Joint-sectional trains\" means sectional trains run by one Section to connect with sectional trains of the other Section at Shum Chun, where all traffic by such trains shall be interchanged.\n\n57\n\n\"Through slow trains' means trains run from Kowloon to Canton or vice verså stopping at all or most of the intermediate stations, and such trains may under the provisions of Article 10 be substituted for joint-sectional trains.\n\n\"Through goods trains\" means the trains defined by Article 15.\n\n\"Through trains\" means trains passing from the British Section to the Chinese Section, or vice versa, through Shum Chun Station, without interchange of passengers or goods.\n\n100", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438393, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 162, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 24th July, 1912.\n\nTelegrams:-\n\nFrom Secretary of State: 10th June, 1912. 1625q\n\nTo Secretary of State: 12th July, 1912. 2/888\n\nFrom Secretary of State: 19th July, 1912. 218885\n\nWith reference to the telegraphic correspondence noted in the margin, I have the honour to inform you that at a special meeting of the Executive Council held on the 22nd July, the extension of the lease of the Opium Farm for one year from the 1st March, 1913, was agreed to on the following terms:-\n\n(a). That the lessees pay the present rental of $98,600 a month.\n\n(b). That the amount of opium to be boiled for local consumption be forty-five chests a month.\n\n(c). That the amount of opium to be boiled for export under Government permit shall not exceed fifteen chests a month.\n\n(d). That the Opium Ordinance be amended in certain particulars whereby the expression \"Opium Divan\" will be more clearly defined, and the control of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports over the movement of Raw Opium increased. The Farmer will be required to give security for the integrity and good behaviour of certain of his servants and Revenue Officers will be given some of the powers of the Police.\n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\n2.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438578, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 377, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "A BILL\n\nNo. 28 :—[27.8.12,—4]\n\nENTITLED\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinance,\n\n1909.\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1912.\n\n2. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until the first day of March, 1913,\n\n3. The Opium Ordinance, 1909, is hereby amended as follows:-\n\n(a.) in section 2 thereof by the deletion of the definition of \"Opium Divan\" and by the substitution of the following definitions :-\n\n\"Opium Divan\" means and includes any place\n\nopened, kept or used :-\n\n(1.) for the sale of prepared opium or dross opium to be smoked in such place; or\n\n(2.) for the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium where a fee or its equivalent is charged for such smoking or where any benefit or advantage whatever, direct or indirect, is derived by the keeper of such place in consequence of the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium in such place; or where the opium dross or dross produced by any person smoking in such place is collected, received or retained by any person other than the smoker; or\n\n\"Place\" means and includes any house, room, office, agency, boat, vehicle or vessel or any erection movable or otherwise on any spot on land or water.\"\n\n(b) by the repeal of section 9 thereof and by the substitution therefor of the following section:-\n\n9.-(1.) The Governor-in-Council may appoint premises to be called General Warehouses for\n\nthe warehousing of raw opium.\n\n(2.) The Superintendent may, with the approval of the Governor, grant licences for the warehousing of raw opium in places, other than General Warehouses, to be specified in such licenses and to be called Licensed Warehouses. The Governor may at any time cancel the licence of any such warehouse and thereupon all raw opium warehoused therein shall be removed as the Governor may direct.\n\n(3.) The boiling establishment of the Farmer shall be deemed to be a Licensed Warehouse under this section.\n\nPage 368\n\nR&S\n\n4030\n\n1912.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438582, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 381, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "4. Section 3 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1910, Amends\n\nis hereby amended by the addition of the following sub-section:--\n\n\"(4.) Any person committing an offence against this section shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding $2,000 or in default of payment thereof to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding twelve months.\"\n\nNo. 3 of 1910-\n\nObjects and Reasons,\n\nClause 2 postpones the commencement of the Amending Ordinance until the expiration of the present farm.\n\nThe new definitions are introduced as it was found by experience that the existing definition of \"Opium Divan\" was too narrow to secure convictions in several cases. Other amendments are introduced primarily to increase the control of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports over the movement of raw opium and is necessary to give full effect to the Hague Opium Conference and to the agreement between Great Britain and China whereby only certified Indian opium may be imported into China, and also to regulate the purchase of prepared opium in the Colony with a view to preventing illicit export.\n\nThe Bill also requires the Farmer to give security for the integrity and good behaviour of certain of his servants and gives Revenue Officers some of the powers of the Police.\n\nC. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General,\n\nPage 372\n\n \n(The original text has been corrected and formatted according to the given rules. The corrections include fixing spelling errors, spacing issues, and rejoining broken sentences. The text has been transformed into HTML using \n\n for paragraphs.)\n\nPage 372\n\n is rewritten as \n\nThe final answer is \n4. Section 3 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1910, Amends\n\nis hereby amended by the addition of the following sub-section:--\n\n\"(4.) Any person committing an offence against this section shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding $2,000 or in default of payment thereof to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding twelve months.\"\n\nNo. 3 of 1910-\n\nObjects and Reasons,\n\nClause 2 postpones the commencement of the Amending Ordinance until the expiration of the present farm.\n\nThe new definitions are introduced as it was found by experience that the existing definition of \"Opium Divan\" was too narrow to secure convictions in several cases. Other amendments are introduced primarily to increase the control of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports over the movement of raw opium and is necessary to give full effect to the Hague Opium Conference and to the agreement between Great Britain and China whereby only certified Indian opium may be imported into China, and also to regulate the purchase of prepared opium in the Colony with a view to preventing illicit export.\n\nThe Bill also requires the Farmer to give security for the integrity and good behaviour of certain of his servants and gives Revenue Officers some of the powers of the Police.\n\nC. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General,\n\nPage 372", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438584, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 383, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "aid to welv må \"re:pmo\" vi muiyo no mubasroMGM\n\n.90ca197105 90587\n\n.UITO WAR\n\n.f\n\nsi bas nis:179 Json\" moowdod duowestas OIT csibal of boritmos al snih očal wriqo to troqui ont fairiw vd of Reb8e99n $i arefam datio. ankit and not bottitres marigo erit mintiw nutqo way to enomovom eft no Iovtnon erit evotqi spalq vuus of carlyo wet evok naɔ toateq Vis Jпeɛenq JA .yno[oD érebrotniroger sit one timeq s crtajdo ed as nool og neyl of\n\no.'t ashlaod tedt at Juzo\" et .thmoq e outer of nowoɖ on esi\n\nwort anwohon temtal ort ni marigo to exoota 1sfumer aas! 10 orÖM\n\nE TO S 7ad wody to Moso ezit pesmice to reccusa onze! A 972 Nooriɔ 1sqory a good or eldiseoqæi at $1 .zqofa via:t ai etcedo flowa omit of saté Mort wooo oolitiralımoval has afoote for no\n\ntrouxe 101 eroideoifqgs ermod,mitgɔ not botuèitedra Igos as\n\ngao otal wiɖo naibrī baltitrooms to Joqat off?\n\n.036\n\nal orodé tud,III to es.of sonanth10 vď nohhidrot new prol·l\n\nJon of arigo meterol .quofoo add at Stel oota Isan & Ide\n\nAntɗr oblatno toinen etsmitirol e med di ¡hetidixong (ead Joy\n\nJadt Hairt I fortnoo sɗt evotqui of medat 973 eqeta ti bas\n\nmro odat betrogei Inego rurigo neiene? to suiNo9 oðal gulfmume\n\n-FOODY BINow I agote 94T .65tdovaną vienitno tromia od aso gaоf\n\nof botqohe owbooong eat no heffsbol 323 oɛoyiq uidh xo? brow\n\n-:stoupil aitasixočni to suso s\n\nanavollersw beaceoff bag Istones to moldemo? ONT\n\n(J)*\n\nsubqo way to opanoja eld xot\n\nold tot holtijnso \"viqo madt nocido mrigo well .(s)\n\n59cueil to Isisao- dove ai ɣino berota of of telis' Saido\n\n.ScuodoreV\n\nol Basmeh of Towog 5Ten of ¿nobnet Proqu? o? .(E)\n\n(ruigo boflituso malvolis orobod odaattiiroo to moltouḥorq\n\n**\n\nto be stored elsewhere than in a general warehouse.\n\n374\n\n(4). The master of a ship to be held responsible that\n\nno opium be landed without a permit except to a general\n\nwarehouse.\n\n(5). The master or agent of ships to supply the\n\nSuperintendent with a manifest of all opium imported or\n\nexported.\n\nPREPARED OPIUM.\n\n3.\n\nIt does not seem necessary to take any further\n\nsteps with regard to the consumption of prepared opium in Hong\n\nKong beyond the proposed amendment of the definition of \"opium\n\ndivan\". There is however a considerable quantity of prepared\n\nopium smuggled from Hongkong to America, Manila and Australia\n\nand I think that this might be checked by providing:-\n\n(1). That the number of chests draw by the Farmer be\n\nreduced to the quantity legitimately required for local\n\nconsumption and for export. The quantity for local consump-\n\ntion should be fixed and if any legitimate exports are\n\nmade additional cheats can be allowed according to the\n\nquantity exported.\n\n(This can be done in the new contract).\n\n(2). That no sales of more than ten taels may be made\n\nexcept to licensed persons and that it be made an offence\n\nfor any but licensed persons to have more than that quanti-\n\nty in their possession.\n\nMORPHIA AND COCAINE.\n\n4.\n\nThe laws and regulations relating to morphia and\n\ncocaine have lately undergone revision and are now from a\n\npractical point of view satisfactory. I would suggest however\n\nthat Part III of the Opium Ordinance be omitted and that morphia\n\nbe classed with cocaine under the Pharmacy Ordinance.\n\nIt was\n\noriginally inserted because trade in compounds of opium and\n\nmorphine", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438587, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "\"Excise Officer\" means any person appointed by the Governor under this Ordinance as an Excise Officer: \"Farm\" means any exclusive privilege granted under this Ordinance :\n\n\"Farmer\" means any holder for the time being of any such exclusive privilege :\n\n\"Opium Farmer\" means the holder for the time being of the exclusive privilege of preparing and selling prepared opium in the Colony, either inclusive or exclusive of dross opium :\n\n\"Dross Farmer\" means the holder, if any, for the time being of the exclusive privilege of collecting and purchasing opium dross and preparing and dealing in dross opium in the Colony :\n\nWhere there is no Opium Farmer, or no Dross Farmer, this Ordinance shall be read as if the Governor-in-Council, or any person licensed for the purpose by the Governor-in-Council, were expressly named instead of the Opium Farmer, or as if the Colonial Secretary, or any person licensed for the purpose by the Colonial Secretary, were expressly named instead of the Dross Farmer, And payment or delivery to the Colonial Treasurer, for the use of the public revenue, or to an Excise Officer for the same purpose, shall in all such cases be taken to be payment or delivery to such Farmer under this Ordinance:\n\n\"Ship\" includes any steam-vessel, sailing-vessel, junk, boat, or sampan, and any kind of craft used or adapted to be used either for the conveyance of persons or things by water or for occupation by persons or storage of things, whether afloat or not:\n\n\"Opium Divan\" means and includes any place open kept or used:-\n\n(1) used for the sale of prepared opium or dross opium to be smoked on the premises:\n\nOr\n\n(2) used for the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium where a fee or its equivalent is charged therefor.\n\n\"Divan Keeper” means and includes the occupier for the time being or person having the use temporarily of any opium divan, or any person having or appearing to have the care or management of such place and also any person who acts in any manner assisting in conducting the business of any such place or keeping watch in or about the same:\n\n\"Implement\" means any vessel, utensil, instrument, or other thing which has been used, or which is probably intended to be used, for containing opium, or for preparing or aiding in preparing any opium, or for smoking opium:\n\nAny opium, implement, or other thing shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be in the possession of any person if he has such opium, implement, or thing in possession, custody, or control, by himself or by any other person:\n\n\"Summary Conviction\" means a conviction before Police Magistrate of the Colony:\n\n\"Duly Qualified Medical Practitioner\" means a practitioner registered under any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to the registration of medical practitioners:\n\n\"Chemist or Druggist\" means a chemist or druggist registered under the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908:\n\n\"Mac\" means and includes any vessel or any house, room, hut, shed, office, agency, erection movable or otherwise on any spot on land.\n\n\"Importer\" means and includes any person who brings or causes to be brought by land or sea any opium into the Colony, and the owner, part owner, mortgagee, and pledgee of any opium brought by land or sea into the Colony by such person, and any agent who has authority to transfer ownership or possession or holds documents of title to such opium; but does not include any shipowner or other common carrier who carries opium in the ordinary course of business for the importer thereof.\n\n\"To export\" means and includes to convey out of the Colony and to do any act preparatory for the purpose of causing conveyance out of the Colony.\n\nPage 377\n\n3. (1) No person shall import, bring or cause to be brought into the Colony raw opium.\n\n(2) The Governor-in-Council may, on such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Governor-in-Council, grant licences for the sale or export of loose opium, and no person, except the holder of such a licence, shall be permitted to sell or barter within the Colony or to export from the Colony any loose opium.\n\n(3) Any resolution of the Legislative Council so to do shall be notified in the Gazette.\n\n(2.) A licence to sell raw opium wrappings intended for export in quantities less than one chest shall be issued to the Opium Farmer free of charge for the period of his Farm.\n\n(6.) It shall not be lawful to purchase, sell, or barter quantities less than one ball of Bengal raw opium or three catties of Malwa, Persian, or Turkish raw opium in the Colony.\n\n5. It shall be the duty of the holder of a licence granted under section 4 of this Ordinance to attach to all parcels of loose opium sold by him a certificate in the Form granted by No. 1 in Schedule A to this Ordinance.\n\n6. No person, except the Opium Farmer or a licensee under section 4 of this Ordinance shall have in his possession, custody or control any loose opium without a certificate of purchase from a licensee, unless he can show, to the satisfaction of a Magistrate,\n\n(a) that the said loose opium is covered by a certificate of one of the licensees; and\n\n(b) that he has received it under an official export permit under section 10 of this Ordinance.\n\nProvided always that it shall be in the absolute discretion of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports to grant or withhold the same.\n\n7. It shall be the duty of every licensee under section 4 of this Ordinance to keep a register of the particulars of purchase and sale, in such form as the Governor may from time to time order.\n\n8.-(1) Every person who offends against the provisions of any of sections 3, 4 and 6 of this Ordinance shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one thousand dollars and the forfeiture of the raw opium, or the Magistrate may order a period of imprisonment, with or without hard labour, in lieu of a penalty, provided the whole imprisonment does not exceed six months.\n\n(2) Notwithstanding the penalty for the breach of conditions to which a licensee under section 4 of this Ordinance is subject, it shall be lawful for a Magistrate to impose on such licensee a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars for a breach of any such conditions in case it may not be deemed advisable to proceed for the full penalty under the licensee's bond.\n\nPage\n\n40/4 39/11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438592, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 391, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "# Power of Regulations\n\n41. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make rules for any of the following purposes (—\n\n(a) To determine the quality of prepared opium and dross opium to be sold by the Opium Farmer or Dross Farmer or their licensees,\n\n(b) To determine the packages and receptacles in which prepared opium and dross opium shall be sold to the public and the quantities to be contained therein.\n\n(c) To prescribe the keeping of such books and registers and the making of such returns by the Opium Farmer or the Dross Farmer as may be considered necessary or desirable to permit of a thorough investigation being made by the Government of the manner in which the farm business is conducted and of the profits or losses arising therefrom.\n\n42.—(1) The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make, and, when made, alter, add to, or revoke, a scale of fines to be levied for breaches of any conditions, rules or regulations made under this Ordinance: Provided that such scale shall not come into effect until the same has been published in The Gazette.\n\n(2) Every fine provided by such scale shall be levied in the same manner as the fines imposed by this Ordinance.\n\n# Opium Divans\n\n43. No person shall open, keep or use any opium divan.\n\n44. The keeper of an opium divan shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.\n\n45. Every person who in any opium divan smokes prepared opium or dross opium shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.\n\n46. A person found in any opium divan or found escaping therefrom on the occasion of its being entered under this Ordinance shall be presumed until the contrary is proved to have been smoking prepared opium or dross opium therein.\n\n47. Whenever it appears to any Justice of the Peace upon the oath, affirmation or declaration of any person that there is reasonable cause to believe that any place is an opium divan, such Justice of the Peace may by his warrant directed to any Police Officer empower such officer by day or by night to enter and if necessary to break into such place and to arrest any persons and to seize any prepared opium or dross opium and implements for the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium, as may be found therein, and such prepared opium, dross opium and implements shall and are hereby declared to be forfeited to the Crown.\n\n# PART III\n\n# MORPHINE AND COMPOUNDS OF OPIUM\n\n48.—(1) Every person who administers by injection any morphine to any other person, except in a case where the same has been prescribed by some duly qualified medical practitioner, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two months.\n\n(2) The onus of proving the exception shall lie on the person so administering the morphine.\n\n49.—(1) Every person who, except in a case where morphine has been prescribed by some duly qualified medical practitioner, furnishes morphine to any person, except to a duly qualified medical practitioner or to a chemist or druggist, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two months.\n\n(2) The onus of proving the exception shall lie on the person furnishing morphine as aforesaid.\n\nProvided that this section shall not apply to the furnishing of morphine for the purpose of bona fide exportation.\n\n50. It shall be lawful for any Police Officer, duly authorized by warrant of any Justice of the Peace (which Justice shall be in the form in Schedule C to this Ordinance), with such assistants as may be necessary, to enter and, if necessary, to break into any place which such Justice of the Peace may, from the information upon oath, affirmation or declaration of any person, or of his own knowledge, have reasonable grounds to suspect and believe to be a place kept or used for the injection of morphine contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance or where such injection is carried on, and to arrest any persons who may be found therein and whom he may suspect to have acted or to be acting in contravention of this Ordinance, and to seize all morphine, hypodermic syringes, and other appliances which may be found there and which are capable of being used for the injection of morphine, and, on conviction of the offender, or in any case, if the Magistrate so orders, they shall be forfeited to His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and be dealt with as the Magistrate may direct.\n\n51.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Principal Civil Medical Officer to grant licences to such persons as he may think fit for importing for sale or use within the Colony, preparing, manufacturing, or dealing in morphine and compounds of opium, provided that the total number of licences which may be granted and the conditions of such licences shall be determined by regulations made by the Governor-in-Council and published in The Gazette.\n\n(2) Any person importing, manufacturing or dealing within the Colony in morphine or any compound of opium without such licence shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.\n\n(3) Any such licence may be revoked by the Governor-in-Council at his discretion without assigning cause.\n\n(4) There shall be paid for each such licence an annual fee of twenty-five dollars which shall be awarded to the Opium Farmer, and the holder of any such licence shall pay to the Opium Farmer a royalty calculated at the rate of ten dollars per tael of morphine and four dollars per tael of opium or compound of opium other than morphine, which royalty may be recovered by the Opium Farmer in a summary way before a Magistrate.\n\n(5) If the holder of any such licence does not comply with the conditions of the licence, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.\n\n52. No person shall export morphine or any compound of opium from the Colony to China or to any country which prohibits or restricts the import of morphine or of such compound of opium, except in such quantities and subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the country to which such export is intended, provided that the names of all countries which prohibit or restrict the import of morphine or of compounds of opium and the regulations prescribed by such countries as aforesaid shall be notified in The Gazette.\n\n53.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to grant licences to such persons as he may think fit to import for export and to export morphine and compounds of opium from the Colony to such countries as do not prohibit the import of morphine and compounds of opium.\n\n(2) Any such licence may be revoked by the Governor-in-Council at his discretion without assigning cause.\n\n(3) There shall be paid to the Government for each such licence an annual fee of two dollars.\n\n(4) The conditions of such licences shall be determined by regulations made by the Governor-in-Council and published in The Gazette.\n\n(5) Any person importing for export or exporting morphine or any compound of opium to or from the Colony without such licence shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.\n\n(6) If the holder of any such licence does not comply with the conditions of the licence, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.\n\nPage 381", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438649, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 448, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "Enclosure 437\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\n1. It is necessary to arrive at a basis of compensation that the Law Officers will approve and support, as in such a matter the Governor-in-Council would be guided by their opinion.\n\n2. I do not agree that compensation should be paid to \"persons interested in the licensed premises\" but, if paid at all, only to the Licensees. Landholders are \"persons interested\" and I do not think they should be compensated here, whatever may have been done at home.\n\n3. The calculation at \"A\" of the Attorney-General's minute of 9th July, 1910, would give the annual value of the licence. I presume at home under the Act a certain number of years' purchase of the annual value constitutes the compensation if the system of a number of years' notice has been abandoned.\n\n4. I see no reason myself why a certain notice should not be substituted for money compensation as recommended by the Licensing Board in letter of 17th May, notwithstanding the fact that money compensation has been adopted in England. Will the Law Officers advise on the point and if they consider that notice may be substituted for money compensation will they advise on question referred to in 2nd paragraph of minute of 13th June, 1910.\n\n5. If they arrive at the conclusion that money compensation must be made, then do they agree that it should be on the same basis as was adopted in compensating Opium Divan Keepers whose licences were not renewed in 1909 without notice, viz.:- 33% of the capital (assessed by a Government Official) sunk in the business of each licensee plus 5% for disturbance. The Opium Divan Licensees were annual Licensees whose licences were however renewed from year to year even...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438650, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 449, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "Before\n\n# 09\n\nTo steer a JA AVIN 8 of VARɛen el 41\n\nastroqqua bua ovorugs [Itv are of $20 wad of cat noitaaneqroo\n\nɗ bablug od wow IloruroD-al-70(revod ore 1032mm a fore at\n\nIroda moldeanoqnoo this eorpa ton ob I\n\ncud *epatmong hoanoott ads at hereozotal amoereq\" of bing sơ\n\nBJC*04\" 01 876bforibus. .ascanoolt oil* o vino, Ifa da bieg\n\nozor botsanagros or blode gele dni con ob I Bus \"bocne odat\n\norror to oroh mood avail van zovejaliw\n\nexpimodda eris to A va moltainaiso ede\n\nLemons ade gebe bfrow ,000! TENT, „dre to sewater alferored-\n\ntakes a *A si mohmm omori za omwearg I .oongolf sife to oulST\n\nofe deturetéanoo onfør, farens eft to sessiotig ferees to redmun\n\nnad moltom 'nnect to taɗrnin a to poteva orie di moltanneqmTOO\n\nbenobanda neod\n\n438\n\neven under different Farmers, subject to good behaviour. They\n\nwere therefore in the same position as Publicans are.\n\nThose Opium Divan Licensees who got one\n\nyear's notice of non-renewal of their licences, only got 33% of\n\ntheir capital (assessed as above) without the 5% addition.\n\n6.\n\nThe moment is not opportune for floating\n\na Public House Trust as money in the Colony is so tight.\n\nIt is probable that if notice in lieu of\n\ncompensation were adopted any Trust that was formed would keep\n\non some of the older established and respectable Publicans as\n\nManagers under the new system.\n\n12th July, 1910.\n\n(sd.) 7. H. May,\n\nPage 438\n\natachoo a viv Hoogt nODNOT ON GOD 3\n\nna moltantounos ventori not hocucitatíue ad com bluoda soljon\n\n-doa ye.der to re rol at breo zniɑnesil eda yď bebae moDET\n\nneod.nad noitanneqnoe porom tarit dost ode gaibuntalitle-\n\n+\n\nhaalect at bedtoba\n\nna taboq oriz no batvhs exnol120 vol of: LLEW\n\ntenor not boduttraduɑ në van solzon Zaft Tabianco torf* *!\n\n.bit at of beroter noitcorp no selvbe verts [Ilw notzadregaoɔ\n\n„Ofel,enul .desi to otucie to digambarag\n\nkomom dada notarionos ofr ta srbers val* IT\n\nt\n\n2*\n\nsď hlworm at fair serņa vade ob redt cham od tera moltsa[1OqMOO\n\nnavit mulqu gaitaɑne noo ni hatqohe saw ca cland basa edt no\n\ndon tuoze!w 90er at howare\" ON STAW KXX asɔnestI anody croqool\n\n#rom Moreð ad bocconca) fetlocs ort to REE -1.aty not-\n\n70% ka buig asennaki ɗase to saextend odt at frue (Istot 0\n\n.owadutalb\n\nInunca are resanpoty welő rurigo est\n\n150% of \"nest mort hovedet morovor show nonmonii onorly coconesi\n\nNOVO", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439338, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "A BILL\n\nENTITLED\n\nEov 40482/12-\n\n247\n\n242\n\nNo. 28-[20.11.12.-5.]\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinance,\n\n1909.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1912.\n\n2. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until the first day of March, 1913.\n\n3. The Opium Ordinance, 1909, is hereby amended as follows:-\n\nOrdinance No. 33 of 1909.\n\n(a) in section 2 thereof by the deletion of the definition of “Opium Divan\" and by the substitution of the following definitions:-\n\n'Opium Divan' means and includes any place opened, kept or used:-\n\n(1) for the sale of prepared opium or dross opium to be smoked in such place; or\n\n(2) for the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium where a fee or its equivalent is charged for such smoking or where any benefit or advantage whatever, direct or indirect, is derived by the keeper of such place in consequence of the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium in such place; or where the opium dross or dross produced by any person smoking in such place is collected, received or retained by any person other than the smoker;\n\n'Place' means and includes any house, room, office, agency, boat, vehicle or vessel or any erection movable or otherwise on any spot on land or water,\n\n(b) by the repeal of section 9 thereof and by the substitution therefor of the following section:-\n\n9-(1) The Governor-in-Council may appoint premises to be called General Warehouses for the warehousing of raw opium.\n\n(2) The Superintendent may, with the approval of the Governor, grant licences for the warehousing of raw opium in places, other than General Warehouses, to be specified in such licences and to be called Licensed Warehouses. The Governor may at any time cancel the licence of any such warehouse and thereupon all raw opium warehoused therein shall be removed as the Governor may direct.\n\n(3) The boiling establishment of the Farmer shall be deemed to be a Licensed Warehouse under this section.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439341, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "page_number": 258, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "250\n\n6\n\n4. Section 3 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1910, Amendment\n\nis hereby amended by the addition of the following sub-section:\n\n(4.) Any person committing an offence against this section shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding $2,000 or in default of payment thereof to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding twelve months.\"\n\nNo. 11 of 1910.\n\n5. Section 4 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1910, Repeal of\n\nsection 4 of Ordinance No. 11 of 1910.\n\nis hereby repealed,\n\nObjects and Reasons.\n\nClause 2 postpones the commencement of the Amending Ordinance until the expiration of the present farmo.\n\nThe new definitions are introduced as it was found by experience that the existing definition of \"Opium Divan\" was too narrow to secure convictions in several cases. The other amendments are introduced primarily to increase the control of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports over the movement of raw opium and is necessary to give full effect to the Hague Opium Conference and to the agreement between Great Britain and China whereby only certified Indian opium may be imported into China, and also to regulate the purchase of prepared opium in the Colony with a view to preventing illicit export.\n\nThe Bill also requires the Farmer to give security for the integrity and good behaviour of certain of his servants and gives Revenue Officers some of the powers of the Police.\n\nC. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General.\n\nDate.\n\n1912\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n354ob\n\nKONG\n\n40483\n\nJubsidian, Cornage.\n\nC.0.\n\n40483\n\nRECR\n\n(REGP 21 DEC 12\n\n24\n\nReports as to steps taken to discourage\n\nexclusion of thimize coins. Explains how\n\nthe problem of rehabilitation is a much simpler than it has\n\nbeen regarded\n\none.\n\nTreas 25 lb 13 Ja\n\n81/162h-\n\nsubsequent Paper No\n\nGov. Boycot\n\n4\n\nHOTL Framing\n\n3.\n\nWt.25,946-17. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E,W.\n\n26,404-55, 6000. 10/12.\n\nSuo 40743\n\nP", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442314, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "# No. 28 :-[3.2.13,~7.] \n\n## A BILL \n\n### ENTITLED \n\n**An Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinance, 1909.**\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the **Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1913**.\n\n8. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until the first day of March, 1913.\n\n## Commencement.\n\n3. The **Opium Ordinance, 1909**, is hereby amended as follows:-\n\n### Amendment of Ordinance No. 28 of 1909.\n\n(a) in section 2 thereof by the deletion of the definition \"Opium Divan\" and by the substitution of the following definitions :-\n\n\"Opium Divan\" means and includes any place opened, kept or used;-\n(1) for the sale of prepared opium or dross opium to be smoked in such place; or\n(2) for the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium where a fee or its equivalent is charged for such smoking or where any benefit or advantage whatever, direct or indirect, is derived by the keeper of such place in consequence of the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium in such place; or where the opium dross or dross produced by any person smoking in such place is collected, received or retained by any person other than the smoker; 'Place' means and includes any house, room, office, agency, boat, vehicle or vessel or any erection movable or otherwise on any spot on land or water,\"\n\n(b) by the repeal of section 9 thereof and by the substitution therefor of the following section:-\n\n## 9.- Warehouses.\n\n(1) The Governor-in-Council may appoint premises to be called General Warehouses for the warehousing of raw opium.\n\n(2) The Superintendent may, with the approval of the Governor, grant licences for the warehousing of raw opium in places, other than General Warehouses, to be specified in such licences and to be called Licensed Warehouses. The Governor may at any time cancel the licence of any such warehouse and thereupon all raw opium warehoused therein shall be removed as the Governor may direct.\n\n(3) The boiling establishment of the Farmer shall be deemed to be a Licensed Warehouse under this section.\n\n(4) The Governor-in-Council shall have power to make regulations to regulate the management of General Warehouses and to regulate the licensing and management of Licensed Warehouses.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442320, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 447, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "# Objects and Reasons\n\nThe object of this Bill is to make various desirable amendments in the present law relative to Opium.\n\nThe commencement of the operation of the Ordinance is arranged by Section 2 not to take place until the termination of the present agreement with the Opium Farmer.\n\nThe definition of Opium Divan is enlarged as the existing definition was found to be too narrow for practical purposes. Provision is made for the appointment and regulation of general warehouses for the storage of Raw Opium.\n\nThe penalties for various infringements of the law are somewhat increased. The other amendments are introduced to enable more effective control by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports over the movements of Raw Opium in order that fuller effect may be given to the decisions of the Hague Opium Conference and to the agreements between Great Britain and China.\n\nThe export of Persian Opium to any port other than London or Formosa is prohibited.\n\nThe Bill also requires the Opium Farmer to give security for the good behaviour and integrity of his agents or servants and it empowers Revenue Officers to effect arrests without warrant in certain cases giving them some of the powers of the Police.\n\nJoan A. BUCKNILL, Attorney General,\n\n445", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442523, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "page_number": 91, "title": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Report on Ordinance No. of 1913 entitled 'An Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinance, 1909'\n\n1. Section No. 1 is formal.\n\n2. Section 2 brings the Ordinance into operation on the 1st March 1913, which is the date of the termination of the recent agreement with the Farmer.\n\n3. Section 3a enlarges the definition of Opium Divan.\n\n4. Section 3b provides for the appointment and superintendence of the warehousing Warehouses for the warehouse of Raw Opium.\n\n5. Section 3c prohibits the discharge of Raw Opium from a ship, without a permit for delivery of such opium, to a warehouse.\n\n6. Section 3d prohibits the landing of Raw opium, except under permit, for delivery under permit to a warehouse; it prescribes the form and nature of such permits; gives the Superintendent of Exports and Imports power to make it a condition of such landing permit that the Raw Opium in question be placed in a warehouse in the case of Raw Opium other than Indian Opium certified for the China market; and also gives the Superintendent authority to demand the production of such certificate in the case mentioned above.\n\n7. Section 3e prohibits the removal of Raw Opium for exportation without permit; prescribes the form and nature of such permit; gives the Superintendent authority to call for any mercantile or other documents which will satisfy him as to the true destination of such opium and also prohibits the exportation of Raw opium to any place which has been notified in the Gazette in pursuance of a resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal. This Section also provides that the Master of any ship carrying Raw opium for exportation shall be furnished with a Memorandum containing the particulars of such export; and prescribes a penalty in the event of contravention of this clause by the Master. The Section also prohibits the removal of Raw opium within the Colony without permit; gives the Superintendent of Export and Imports power to make it a condition of such export permit that the Raw opium in question must be placed in a warehouse in the case of Raw opium other than Indian opium certified for the China market; and also gives the Superintendent authority to demand the production of such certificate in the case mentioned above. The section also provides that those in authority over a ship importing opium must within a reasonable period after the arrival of their ship, furnish the Superintendent with particulars of the opium import movement in their ship and similarly in the case of exporting opium.\n\n8. Section 3f increases the penalty for contravention of Sections 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 16 which Sections in the old Ordinance of 1909 are repealed by the present Ordinance and are enacted in Section 3, Sub-sections c, d, and e.\n\n9. Section 3g increases the penalty in Section 20 of the old Opium Ordinance 1909 which deals with the unauthorized importation or deficiency in stored Raw opium.\n\n10. Section 3h limits the amount of Prepared Opium which the Opium Farmer may sell without written permission of the Superintendent to any person other than his licensees to 5 Taels; similarly limits the amount which a licensee of a Farmer may sell to any person, and also similarly limits the amount of Prepared Opium which a person other than the Farmer or his licensees may have in his possession.\n\n11. Section 3i repeals Section 36 of the old Opium Ordinance 1909 and substitutes a new Section by which the exportation of Prepared or Dross Opium is prohibited without the Superintendent's permission, safeguarding however the use by a passenger of a moderate amount for his personal consumption. The object of this Section was to avoid a difficulty which arose owing to the decision of the Supreme Court to the effect that a prosecution in respect of illegally exporting opium could not be successful unless the place of destination was clearly proved; a fact which however rendered the circumstances connected with the smuggling frequently impossible to indicate.\n\n12. Section 3j repeals Section 37 of the old Opium Ordinance 1909 and prohibits the Superintendent from issuing permits for export of Prepared or Dross opium to any country where the import of such opium is prohibited and making it an offence for any person to export such opium to any such country, safeguarding the provisions however by an allowance for the personal consumption of passengers and by prescribing that a list of the prohibition countries shall be publicly notified in the Gazette.\n\n13. Section 3k increases the penalties applicable under Section 51 of the Opium Ordinance 1909 which deals with the illegal importation, manufacture, or dealing in Morphine or other compound of Opium.\n\n14. Section 3l similarly increases the penalty in the case of contravention of Section 53 of the Old Opium Ordinance 1909.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442632, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "content_text": "196 \n\nto 660 chests. Under the lease just expired, he was allowed 900 chests per annum. Of the 660 chests, 540 are for local consumption and 120 chests for export. It is calculated that the amount allowed for local consumption is legitimately required. No export will be permitted except on production of permits for importation by the Government of the country of destination.\n\n(3)\n\nThe sale of medicinal opium, of morphine, of any alkaloid or constituent of opium, of coca, cocaine, and all its derivatives, and of the preparations of any strength of the above-mentioned substances, has been so drastically regulated as to prevent, as much as is possible, any abuse and ill-effect arising from the administration of these drugs.\n\nThe sale of Heroin and other derivatives of morphine or cocaine is restricted as a poison under the Pharmacy Ordinance. No necessity has yet arisen to legislate specially for these poisons, but the matter is engaging attention.\n\n(4)\n\nA system of very large rewards has been established for seizures or information leading to seizures of opium, morphine, etc., which is being handled in an illegal manner for purposes of smuggling.\n\n(5)\n\nThe definition of opium divan is widened in the Ordinance referred to above with a view to strengthening the hands of the Police in dealing with the opening of such Divans, which, since the 1st of March, 1910, has been illegal.\n\n(6)\n\nThe use of prepared opium is further discouraged by the advance in price for which it is sold under the Monopoly system. The price is now $5.50 a tael for prepared opium and $250 a tael for dross opium.\n\n(7)\n\nWith a view to possible improvement in the control of the purchase of prepared opium, this Government has under consideration a scheme for taking the opium monopoly into its...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442634, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "content_text": "**Report on Ordinance No. 2 of 1913 entitled \"An Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinance, 1909\"**\n\n1. Section 1 is formal.\n\n198\n\n2. Section 2 brings the Ordinance into operation on the 1st March, 1913, which is the date of the termination of the recent agreement with the Opium Farmer.\n\n3. Section 3a enlarges the definition of Opium Divan.\n\n4. Section 3b provides for the appointment and superintendence of Warehouses for the warehousing of Raw Opium.\n\n5. Section 3c prohibits the discharge of Raw Opium from a ship, without a permit for delivery of such opium except to a warehouse.\n\n6. Section 3d prohibits the landing of Raw Opium, except under special permit, or for delivery under permit to a warehouse; it prescribes the form and nature of such permits; gives the Superintendent of Exports and Imports power to make it a condition of such landing permit that the Raw Opium in question must be placed in a warehouse in the case of Raw Opium other than Indian Opium certified for the China Market; and also gives the Superintendent authority to demand the production of such certificate in the case mentioned above.\n\n7. Section 3e prohibits the removal of Raw Opium for exportation without a permit; prescribes the form and nature of such permit; gives the Superintendent authority to call for any mercantile or other documents which will satisfy him as to the true destination of such opium and also prohibits the exportation of Raw Opium to any place which has been notified in the Gazette in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal. This Section also provides that the Master of any ship carrying Raw Opium for exportation shall be furnished with a Memorandum containing the particulars of such export; and prescribes a penalty in the event of contravention of this clause by the Master. The section also prohibits the moving of Raw Opium within the Colony without permit; gives the Superintendent of Exports and Imports power to make it a condition of such movement that the Raw Opium in question must be placed in a warehouse in the case of Raw Opium other than Indian Opium certified for the China market; and also gives the Superintendent authority...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443242, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "page_number": 280, "title": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "content_text": "277\n\n6. It will also be necessary to rent premises as offices; provision has been made accordingly in the estimate. The question of erecting permanent offices is one which demands further consideration and will depend largely on the future opium policy of the Government. The only other item in the estimate to which I need draw special attention is the provision of an extra steam-launch which may be necessary for the prevention of smuggling into the Colony. It is not proposed to establish the launch at the beginning. The Opium Farmer has not got one.\n\n7. I enclose also an estimate of the estimated revenue from the sale of prepared opium. In this estimate the monthly consumption is calculated at 40 chests per month. A reduction in consumption is anticipated owing partly to the restrictions contained in the recent Opium Amendment Ordinance, including the wider definition of Opium Divan, which has already led to an increased number of prosecutions, and partly to the stringent measures taken in China to repress opium smoking. The sale of dross opium is not included as I have not yet been able to determine finally whether dross opium should be sold.\n\nIt will be observed that the revenue from opium is estimated to exceed the additional recurrent expenditure by $1,727,500.\n\n8. Regarding the method of purchasing Raw Opium, I am addressing the Indian Government to ascertain on what terms they could supply opium to this Government during the year 1914. Failing that source, I will suggest to you that it be purchased through Messrs. D. Sassoon and Company on terms to be arranged.\n\n9. I should be glad to learn whether you approve the proposals and estimate contained in this Despatch.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n**Governor, &c.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443583, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`CO 26004/19/A3`\n\n3 JUL 13\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONGKONG. \n4th July, 1913.\n\nSir,\n\n`to.26126/12`\n\nIn my Confidential Despatches of the 18th July and 30th September last, I reported that I had found it necessary to relieve the overcrowding in Victoria Gaol by the release of a number of prisoners undergoing short sentences of confinement. In spite of these reductions in the Gaol population, the daily average number of prisoners confined in the Gaol during 1912 was 701. Instead of the diminution which I hoped for in my Despatch of the 2nd September, the Gaol population for the first 6 months of the current year shows an increase over that for the first half-year of 1912. The figures for the former period are 734 and for the latter 670.\n\nThe increase in the current year is largely due to the amendment of the definition of Opium Divan. The other day, there were no less than 60 prisoners in Gaol who, with the exception of a few keepers of Opium Divans, had been committed for the offence of smoking in a Divan.\n\nThe other contributing factors to the large increase in the population of the Gaol are the increase in the population of the Colony owing to the influx of Chinese, the unrest in China which has added greatly to our criminal population, and the alterations in the Banishment Ordinance which necessitate the detention in Gaol of many persons pending enquiries into their cases.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P., \n&c., \n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445303, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 377, "title": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "## Consul Giles to Sir J. Jordan, \n\n**(No. 4.) Sir,** \n\nTHE past quarter has witnessed the inauguration of the severest repressive measures yet recorded against the opium trade. They followed upon the communication to the Hunan Government of my report for last June quarter, to which exception has been taken, and were doubtless to a certain extent hastened thereby, though I think they would have been adopted in any case. As stated in my telegram No. 1, Mr. Warren, the chairman of the Wesleyan Mission in Hunan, with whom I frequently discuss the subject, and who himself has been conducting minute enquiries, is substantially at one with me as to the state of affairs prevailing last spring, although very different conditions obtained during the quarter under review. He told me some time ago that a leading official in Changsha had admitted to him in a private conversation that a large poppy crop had been grown in the west of the province, though they had been unable to trace what became of it. I may also mention here that Mr. Langebach, of the Chinese Telegraph Administration, informed me that in June last he saw a poppy field not far from Yochow—by no means a notorious poppy-growing centre—that he himself would never have been aware that it was poppy had not his Chinese staff pointed it out to him as such. At the same time the foreign commissioner was roundly asserting to me that poppy cultivation had been completely eradicated in Hunan.\n\nIn my opium report for the September quarter of 1912 I stated that a proclamation had been issued by the governor decreeing that all persons convicted of dealing in or of consuming opium were to be shot. Subsequently a notification was published by the General Opium Suppression Bureau indicating the following classes of offenders as liable to capital punishment: \n\n| Class | Offenders |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | Those caught in the act of smoking. |\n| 2. | Those who, in addition to being proved smokers, also engage in the sale of the drug. |\n| 3. | Those who, when found to have sown the poppy, resist its destruction by armed force. |\n| 4. | Those who to the number of three or upwards, when found to be smuggling opium, resist its seizure by armed force. |\n\nIt seems to have been generally assumed that the death penalty would not be enforced, although the General Opium Suppression Bureau distributed a number of leaflets warning people of the consequences if they failed to comply with the regulations. Eventually an opium-smoker was shot in Ch'ên-chou towards the end of October; the second execution, also for smoking, took place in Changsha on the 1st November. Since then a number of executions have been reported, including several women, as under: \n\n| Location | Executions |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ch'ên-chou | Two men for poppy sowing. |\n| Changsha | Five smokers, including a woman 50 years old. |\n| Hung-chiang | Two men for smoking and retailing the drug. |\n| Siangyin | Two men for smoking and offering armed resistance to arrest. |\n| I-chang | Three men for smoking and retailing. |\n| Kuei-yang-chou | One poppy sower. |\n| Hau-p'u | Two smokers and two poppy growers. |\n| Shih-men | One woman for smoking. |\n| Yochow | Two smokers, one of whom offered armed resistance. |\n| Changte | One smoker. |\n| Yung-ning | Three smokers. |\n| Liu-yang | Two smokers. |\n| Ning-yuan | Two smokers who offered armed resistance. |\n| Kuei-yang-hsien | Four divan keepers. |\n| Kuei-yang-chou | Three smokers who also retailed opium. |\n| P'ing-chiang | One woman for smoking. |\n| Huang-chou | Three smokers, including two women. |\n| Tao-yuan | Two smokers. |\n| Li-ling | One smoker. |\n| Feng-huang-t'ing | One smoker. |\n\nA total of forty-two men and five women.\n\nIt is possible that the reports of executions in some of the remoter districts may not be correct, but there is no doubt about the greater number of the cases named above, including at least two, if not three, of the women (those in Changsha, Shih-men, and P'ing-chiang). At the same time the native press complains loudly that, while the poor are shot, the rich are not molested; and this is confirmed by the consulate writer and by others with whom I have spoken.\n\nBesides the death penalty, other punishments are inflicted for minor offences against the opium regulations, including the confiscation of land on which poppy has been discovered, imprisonment, and fines. The following classes of offenders are to be reported for punishment in addition to those liable to the death penalty: \n\n| Class | Offenders |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | Smokers, including those indulging in opium admixtures. |\n| 2. | Poppy growers. |\n| 3. | Those who prepare opium, including admixtures. |\n| 4. | Those who convey, or deal in, or secretly retail opium, including admixtures, morphia needles, and pills into the composition of which morphia enters. |\n| 5. | Those who keep hoards of opium, including smoking paraphernalia, opium ash and admixtures, morphia needles and pills into the composition of which morphia enters. |\n\nThe most stringent provisions have been made for the enforcement of opium suppression; reliable notables are dispatched every month to hold a thorough investigation in each district; all executive, judicial, and other officials, besides village headmen, local Government officers and notables are held responsible for the enforcement of these rules; and reports have to be furnished three times a month to the opium suppression bureau. The troops, too, are to be called out to render assistance whenever it may be deemed necessary.\n\nIt has also been provided that all opium and opium-smoking implements seized shall be destroyed in public; in pursuance of this rule a large quantity of native opium was publicly burnt at Changsha on the 27th October. The amount was said to be 91,551 taels, of which, however, 33,740 taels consisted of admixtures used for adulterating the drug; the actual opium destroyed only amounted to 57,811 taels, and this included the balance of the stocks taken over from the opium dealers when the provincial Government monopolised the sale and as yet largely unpaid for. Quantities of opium pipes and other implements were also publicly burnt on the 28th December in Changsha, and in Yochow and Changtê about the same time; but I have not heard of any more opium being destroyed, either in Changsha or elsewhere.\n\nThe enforcement of these severe repressive measures, while showing the earnestness of the authorities in their anti-opium campaign, has also incidentally helped to disclose the extent to which the production, sale, and consumption of the drug still prevail in Hunan. This fact is acknowledged by the authorities themselves, who had originally intended to bring about complete prohibition by the end of the 8th moon (9th October), after which date all opium suppression bureaus were to be abolished. The term has now been extended for six months until the end of the 2nd moon this year (6th April), owing to the fact stated by the General Opium Suppression Bureau and reproduced in the native press that the secret sale and consumption of the drug went on in every district, while in the remoter parts of the province it was notorious that poppy growing continued as of old. I have also before me a leaflet in simple language, issued by the General Opium Suppression Association and dated the 12th December, lamenting the fact that opium suppression has so far covered only six or seven-tenths of the ground, and deploring the impossibility of asserting that Hunan is absolutely rid of the poison. A writer in the \"Changsha Jih Pao\" of the 30th October went so far as to maintain that opium-smoking was more prevalent than before. That is certainly not the case at the present time; but the extent to which it still prevails is indicated by the number of anti-opium societies which are springing up in every district to second and to supplement the activity of the officials.\n\nThe quarter under review is not one in which any traces of poppy can as a general rule be observed, although it is usually sown in November; nevertheless, isolated instances of poppy cultivation are on record. A correspondent of the \"Central China Post\" reported some poppy in Kuei-yang-chou. Mr. Champness, a Wesleyan...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447098, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "4195\n\n.bolit\n\nKJianu suaugiejni ezan Bow \"ogebive s'adu zol.L.A.IM)\n\nBEOI BOJJL mọ3 end neat need ban esnebive min\n\nliij berwO { DB\n\nJuo jau gaivan Teruskett and od jiwa im.s II de dusteni .dies\n\n•{{wuemetT end ja aseniaUO\n\n·ssensiw, besi\n\n.bourrirte ;acinoro! aqʊnol biswbil\n\n101 o8 need even bas goiðniri Jiertoval and jukganan num I Daib orientou .1. JorioD100 ... +0 +0% to sendotu ma I .stley 8 Lo Binjai Juo saad od pedum I num lliw on fiel en tykader\n\ni \"Jnancy I use tenoidideq Bam BiB (98) #18 ya to? noijarðsinimba\n\n•\n\n.*Ten\n\nCan yanaijef two, auntyer and of dues I „ZIVI Vyıowdet al\n\nto mot Lavau at ban en Yi miri beans I ocem evneƐi miĽA .\"1. Wan\n\nou soos eh .noiswijninkuba to winous I two gridst rol noisedilgga JANË MADH HÀ[,,zi banotni tajjal and ane yrtebikou, wiesz of to UWT .ot beźnow sa li eriot suit szsquıq blwoo ed\n\nnjiw q, oử qua baxsa na am dije beJ8O LLLARIDO (Smell\n\nbomnaqqu ow :dnow ew :adivabitta yzsɛseben elu zeewe of redeia you\n\nNUTIA. INOJA „areyaq əid #towe bɛa neujia (as Trzebiñoj .TA #Toled Miana antiko I erongales ya en núi bejadiru sau niaga ma X,\"hi Log snus omgay rentwi a, we made of viðni,ali od də tam ya að au -İB I was Jnow ew zoba, no Vôk to đaure end ninoiduam sest edit\n\nuu eva, en bra QY% glotnu soet sat bing vatnio ym hos besoď a he- Îlows a zew ni amint don bib I .Jqinuet an dog i :@grusno emsoe e tenant and eviever od 100 ilio 104014 end saw no di pond I Jud bentoj en) now, oɛ ni yaq od #vaa Iliw voy, drweus [nded and biss sono benangelet bes abravodka \"Joru ol! .(qu di babba besa zmob di -goub olid tand på 38 Bria to priupes são to fiveen a sa soiws 10 \\rey Bay SoİJaul Telik mit anco tyldode ybaer id bluew atmam- isujejoj la syTON BOSUUTO ad ning Jon, ib I ¡nois :00 ang no yaso bian w :yaleb to Júl a saw etend da, d Jitword I Jud sidan esOʻUW gaur, to gniunijeo and nå erequq buld evan om del tiste blpow ed\n\nalejan en un Bjoɔw I auto emit Jund node Jud\n\n•\n\nbid dat Jez 91\n\nI\n\n: \n\ndelay but that they would soon be ready and eventually I got them at the end of the month.\n\n(Stamps on Letters of Administration are 13.6.13. Letters of Administration produced shown to us and Mr. A. K. and returned to witness).\n\nIn July Mr. Alim Khan called at my office and told me that the Government were examining his books and papers and that should the Registrar enquire as to whether I had paid the fees to say that I had not and to pay them all over again and that he (Mr. A.K.) would re-imburse them to me adding that if anything were found against him he might suffer in some way and perhaps be dismissed. He mentioned the Court fees only. I said I couldn't do it\n\nas I might be compounding a felony: I said if the Registrar asks\n\nme I shall tell him the truth. I have known Alim Khan for about 5\n\nyears.\n\nCross-examined by Al\n\nYou are of fair intelligence: I should not have expected a man of your intelligence to make this proposition to me. I cannot swear the exact words you used but it was to that effect. You were very excited and nervous and put the proposition in a disjointed way and it was very difficult to understand what you wanted me to do at first. It was quite a short conversation. You may have said \"I foolishly have overlooked to pay the Court fees in your case: I don't know how to help myself out of it*. I did not then say \"I cannot help you\". I did not assume that you asked for my help when you said you could not help yourself. You did not ask my\n\n\"help\" in express words: you did not use the word \"help\". You did\n\nask me to pay something: I may have advised you to tell frankly the Registrar that you had through your oversight failed to pay\n\nthe Court fees. You agreed with my advice: but before leaving my\n\noffice you did ask me to pay the fees over again.\n\nI did not know anything about your financial position: I\n\nshould think you could have found $11.20.\n\nI first saw you and you took me to Mr. McElderry: Mr. McElderry did not, I think, suggest my going to a Solicitor because\n\nI ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447149, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 247, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "246\n\nCAS\n\nnino I „Juunil .1. od rojjam end Juoda min of bine bari I Jant Il ovig con binow I .18.tie, djiw ebie bluow I soap dad MI“ „mist oð Jujai.,14 flet II'I ‚Ju1,27 Iis* bisa 9.. .abie zand in tot sonsbive \"JI JUOOB\n\n33 18.1 GBİVDs os arencititag and yű k. Xus saw I sit exoled\n\nstacyus 1 Joano nic siå egen divan (að Ísanuóð noinw DJ\n\n•Til ud àdogā uú au boàng ups,di od boat ja yout bas „mianet od Div a do jr (deumili ml) TOYJBAJOR east cou od mid Ilej br:\n\nto filoƐ » «H\n\nod and lod I anwarudiW BRAD end gnitve,\n\nJen I tant senėqylu JI\n\nLIBJBina Li Pro\n\n•\n\njawa drew youd on? BỘ 3 tuł zrow dand ob Quoiqu' and to twoj bytki sot ni nidhol .Th od boje VRoo wa mid of brgo and denojji su bra meds diei I 76J28 „JÁT LIA” biza lab oð mji netikeb ezenoätitaq nie dn.in mid 'BEL Bes of bewui emuo mand tel\n\nminel .2. .my S Jpour JA\n\nem vlod une vijaiyah and mi eux jew I je dulu a la nou end ni jeusi ti od song and banoi/nem en tand Juoda wid blos que mid beans (Jacki) “HI) su žand ben omið miðlis yu benoit en dana ras (Bero edit VTOV RAW JeQBİ. Lİ OT TIøJni od sæanisad on ba I Jand nia. si .t, blot br‹s sucitas Ji Juos em aọa bic sil ‚ði Juoda om oos bluow an da 3 bon esso mak\n\n-ai yrav bermied I noqueredw,iko jaillet rogong = am oving hour a ni poziviluk zalugoy yrov a alou ed youă ni maoni vyldmonitroq- BOOTY Jusas versijah seli ni lini ees of ther an norw ynofol out baw Bluvos, ya lo smuko Jaa #nd phrwol ed don blueo #and elit ni qilərsing bevaino I vesoljen odd ni ninaywol · deving doum od qu boots B\\\\WIN (ne tek rummu Jaebie-qubná yzov a ni yuhigan. Sult Todo,in ym yaiminio\n\n! \n\nen Jani aww\", ni noatoaniq tai marlo yu din qua óð beauler s..\n\nmilsoqqa diemu zavoj eno od neidusifqga yn bzawsel of besglor mohini I „ooiviet Livi· To imod eris to noisionb sad Jurkaya Moser nivoi [ot eris stiv Jnam.Tevol suit ođa đi bebzawrot ad neuj\n\n-:noidabomu -\n\n-\n\n11.\n\n.*1801.f mila.zi yu betrowni BS DOHI «FI0Y\"\n\nmi di quei en eben bus elijao, nem volja ilgga y, Dine ed\n\nout of the 31 changes 30 were promotions and my case was a transfer only and on a pecuniary loss of $15 per month. I was superseded by junior to me both in service and grades, and inferior,\n\nmy juniors\n\n-\n\nI submit, in qualifications generally and far less diligent than me, I have worked for the Government for 6 months continuously end of 1909 to May 1910 at the rate of 14 to 15 hours a day often having to work till midnight in the office and at home.\n\n-\n\nOn several occasions I had to sleep in the office not being able to catch the last ferry to Kowloon. The Local Registers Ordinance had just then come into force and the rubber boom was on and the work in the Registry could not have been managed without working at that rate. This would be confirmed by Mr. J. H. Kemp, as he was then the Registrar. His recommendation as to that is on record in the Colonial Secretariat, Hongkong. I have got my diaries in the Registry showing at what time I used to get up in the winter mornings during that period to work. I never enjoyed a single holiday that took place during the period aforesaid.\n\nI feel confident in saying that I am intelligent and capable enough to get promotion in my right turn if not fit and capable to get it above the heads of my seniors. Although I have not worked under any member of the Committee yet I am sure they would hesitate to say that I was not fit for promotion in my right turn. Mr. Nisbet would not support my claim to promotion in spite of my repeated requests to him. He took Mr. Mirsa's application for promotion to the Treasury personally and got it for him. I feel quite safe in saying that had it not been for Mr. Nisbet Mr. Mirsa would not have got promotion, and I would not have been superseded by my juniors. I told Mr. Nisbet that if I got no satisfaction in Hongkong that\n\nI would submit my claim to promotion to the Secretary of State.\n\nI submit that had I been a fraudulent person I would not have put in formally an application for long leave on the 9th. of June last whereby I was giving the Registrar 6 months notice that I was leaving the Department. My application for long leave was put in\n\n+4\n\nBOİVIDE UL Ki nejmsuit Is stor\n\nIand Vindua I .8l Tor: Tebiim", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447296, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "392\n\n106\n\n911\n\n05 3:2 EX DG HADİ kunƐ JE BOJITIGHI 2, eid bedouY NAİ\n\nJ\n\n·\n\n1\n\nnieb or ad bipolla erelis jind on ATO.: ไม่\n\nyldquory min esivbs sunbaeria bau bra avointeistanda ane.j od najdugeb tres ban\n\noð (Juanasib mild to alquɛų ai ♬ to dang ni) nu) noisomįdo or ni erent\n\nDa duyah Aus Jud,17 miỵ bre gro” . “ nuri anacronil to droqre nice ✪\n\n•yrin kawiƐ moat berruder day don\n\nplenebil qd Jens boilyen ad nojunaup beauona y of\n\nJULI SA 21, moldeligth mini, ent üdis nousbredom ni ed blwow asì QHZU „PA RẺ pilouet view of bedruam di amarið for. bil teď truere end to 100 Cummeð nudnnú and eď hinq ta't na muna art ad bluor Ji\n\nMi mori „i qua nod to moitanup and of berseler need I\n\n*\n\nɔð babururi din urtarod sit hj jhi cau begnicy I „toimeib rwY :¶ sú đun hiwum CÀ 1900 Vanunt nočnej a BJÁN ULEIUReid Isupe su ovis all jointaik ai J uur) mej Inque „kitse, mori nu toúch of eidamonn91 bu. Vitrup kunić ist, elu sud hamariebra nakup 100 tumaŭ burial meSTÜ and ud enos call to vinywa and tut damnustavou sóc jd berzonen memo hi seirump bajken bau atojulionao two to ano død (nátok trasa) madneŭ «CTIOUN JINUT YOU FIND MOTÎ J. Nya, svilp eze doide „Joist HKG nữ nỹ đặt ut berolls ed (Ijum nei trud donyta od sidan.aratru for new di bas\n\nVisibiltyn ei e4o. . as pagsuð sið 2 xi qua tu satuor Just ruqui duon,\n\nJi a\n\nud tavis and ni zedom to digen aoilqywa mwub grind oð eldina.\n\n-OTOL. .BJOŠIJzl) Tudo dei¬ seaʊ add zan ni doldw,bauch res ̧ and Ils not blerts roletu? novinh qu? Jou Juma) brui«I maarð eðð ti,tero- an: Is moim cu int tu anden 19. går Basa, innogen ti neilgqua rient .yasibant a ajut¿¿úmor\n\n•\n\nH**\n\nn} AT Bild Faiz hoddat,an sivua vrev od dont bellyan\n\na*.00 duemoj han[n] ma- tu fuld ud nago mɔrnig nd don bivoo toinjbik\n\nTo Joiceib sloww ja\n\nD ĐẦU Eichs đi *\n\nA\n\nboy1o8e7 bal theravoù edt as NIOĴOBIJMD\n\n♪ I 809. MUL OTI Me Tobru enu (To Tiad\n\n„VOLVɔojki Bisió de noisseup srit ever\n\nBrotin bold air tot ... bodrant i moibulanca ri\n\nngle Jud min betotni ban 100 3 nunu'naisi meetû aut to Tirisu Ivoo on IIa jatob nem oil Jand dont sie hodeioenqqe yiIIu) yanqmo! TRC beupe cale I .3830 nitaendwo gol nike 3. dna, alujaa ant tei··\n\nas regarde Fa Un, the matter must rest for a time but I felt quite sure that the Company would not abandon all hope of eventually ob-taining stone from that source, and I hoped the Government would re-consider the question, and with this the interview terminated.\n\n(84.) L. H. Gilman,\n\nManager, Shewan, Tomes & Co.,\n\nAgents, Green Island Cement Co.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447402, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "Page 100\n\n18360/16\n\nEur.\n\nA Kong\n\n496\n\nbm: [IvI\\ool .0.8.9 od reter of wonod and evid I\n\ntu tu vol. „nistany dojaqasb s'ırıqjud .0 .N 112 yonelleorü BiH of sad na lojasƐ to vinterseƐ and of,IIEI,ywandel to JeIS ent Imoniaq\" bednary ed Elvone I,Jada,nieredt noitabraumovsi -wolle nogɑ bedink, od bluodia\" I Jand bun,\"somswolía eldanoieneq „Sivi vyrovnal to „Jel mort as wall me teq 09à lo stet bij ja soNB-\n\n'8130. 08TAJ to poinaq Towwwi a lefls,nent,boof „Ik blwud?”\n\nviqqa binoo ed uoijisoq emas odt at lemaks kai? [[its „soimes\" Ajitú sumuwa. In lamparog săn oư Quậ raitors to Jnemexoni në 301\" . \"kurna jaq (ila to cxmiran a od qu yılan elósnois::oq sia qui” aid monoil Jigin. ad „e to bevorgya need ¿nivan noijsine movet sUT\n\n++\n\n+\n\nliija za\" I pitoðni and ni en nú savo saa noiżowong on us,bris gau I bna od børseter miereris eu jatolezend \"noitinq amuza edd ni Jand Duemooer od beaneig so yum Tomtevod) and yonelisová sil JŘÍJ betnluqite aw of baciar au yau conawolia Ianusteų ofaancianeq ed\n\n„divi tol met mauit ad end ni,ino, ■ OLE% To muwi XM\n\n..ode evan I\n\n[boo bivaŭ (.58)\n\n-BATIC0,8jIwouda to JneDNOJN¿\"requi\n\n.601032 » Bonobnoq\n\n(i), l. 9 „mariðsið „V\n\n.ax*# siidwi to ratoen Ki\n\nDRAFT.\n\nC. D.\n\nR. 16APR\n\n82\n\nGasi & Man\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Robinson 16/4 Suffin 167\n\nMr.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nLord Emmott.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\nthair se\n\nto all the wet\n\n4. deep N. 81 of the 17th March forwarding a copy\n\nAn application from Md. I Lood for\n\nAn increase in his personal allowance.\n\n2. After considering the facts, I share the view that Mr. Lood is adequately paid.\n\nThe undersigned accordingly recommends that his application cannot be granted.\n\nPage 101", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447425, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "Section 21 empowers the Superintendent to sell Opium Dross or halan subject to condi-tions to be approved by the Governor-in-Council.\n\nSection 22 prohibits any person except the Superintendent from preparing opium in the Colony or importing Prepared Opium into the Colony.\n\nSection 23 prohibits any person from having in his possession any Prepared Opium or Dross Opium other than of Government origin; it throws the onus of proof as to the origin on the person alleging the same and provides that the report of the Superintendent that he is satisfied by analysis of the origin of the opium that is to say whether it is of Government origin or not shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.\n\nSection 24 prohibits the sale of Prepared Opium or Dross Opium except by the Superintendent or his licensees.\n\nSection 25 prohibits the sale of any Prepared Opium or Dross Opium to any female or young person.\n\nSection 26 prohibits the sale of any opium dross or halan except to the Superintendent or his licensees and further prohibits the re-preparation of opium-dross or halan.\n\nSection 27 prohibits the possession of Prepared Opium-dross or halan except such as results from the opium preparations of Govern-ment origin.\n\nSection 28 limits the quantity of opium-dross or halan allow-ed in the possession of a private person to 2 taels.\n\nSection 29 prohibits the possession by a private person of opium to a minimum of 5 taels except under the permission of the Superintendent.\n\nSection 30 prohibits opium Divans.\n\nSection 31 lays it down that any person found in an Opium divan shall be presumed to have been smoking opium therein unless he can prove to the contrary.\n\nSection 32 gives a Justice of Peace power to issue a warrant to Revenue or Police Officers, to enter any opium divan.\n\nSection 33 makes the export of Prepared or Dross Opium illegal without the Superintendent's permit; subject to the necessary quantities.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447437, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 535, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "Page 531\n\nLimitation of quantity of opium (other than raw opium) allowed in possession of private person.\n\nc.f. Sec. 3(h) (amending Sec 35 of Opium Ord. 1909) of Opium Amendment Ord. 1913 new sub-sections (7) (b) and (9).\n\nOpium Divans prohibited.\n\nc.f. Sec. 45 of Opium Ord. 1909.\n\nAdapted again to meet elimination of Opium Farmer.\n\nIdentical.\n\nPerson found in opium divan presumed to have been smoking therein.\n\nc.f. Sec. 46 of Opium Ord. 1909.\n\nIdentical.\n\nJustice of the Peace may issue warrant to enter opium divan.\n\nc.f. Sec. 47 of Opium Ord. 1909.\n\nIdentical.\n\n \n 12\n Export of prepared or dross opium illegal without Superintendent's permit.\n c.f. Sec. 3(1) (repealing Sec. 36 of Opium Ord. 1909); elimination of Opium Farmer.\n \n \n \n No permit to be issued for export of prepared or dross opium to prohibition countries.\n \n \n \n 13\n Appointment of Superintendent and Assistant Superintendents.\n c.f. Sec. 3(j) (repealing Sec. 37 of Opium Ordinance 1909) of Opium Amendment Ord. 1913.\n \n \n \n Powers of Assistant Superintendent.\n c.f. Sec. 6(1) S. 3. Ord. Formal. XXI of 1907.\n \n \n \n Imports & Exports Office to be deemed a Police Station.\n c.f. Sec. 6(2) of S. 3. Ord. Formal. XI of 1909.\n \n \n \n Superintendent may appoint persons to act as Revenue Officers and cancel such appointments.\n c.f. Sec. 3(m) *59(1)* of Opium Amend. Ord. 1913 and vide Sec. 7(1) of S.S. Ord. XI of 1909.\n \n \n \n \n c.f. Sec. 3(L) *59(1)* of Opium Amend. Ord. 1913 and vide Sec. 7(2) of S.S. Ord. XXI of 1909.\n \n \n 36 (1)\n \n New; inserted for convenience in cases of arrest and search.\n \n \n (2)\n \n Adapted, taken from S.S. Ord. XXI of 1909.\n \n \n 37 (1)\n \n Adapted; taken from S.S. Ord. I of 1909.\n \n\nPage 532", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447441, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 539, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "2712\n\nma phedul\n\nAb ta 18.008.Le\n\n535\n\n:\n\n.& mort 08.\n\n4\n\n(1)\n\nContravention of Sec. 13.\n\nMount rand ny u jui to belt-cam tu moitani sifə\n\nTOTA PUR BERUNIO ylesólo vev odwr | Ecudng oel® -patioXI, FI\n\nTezuki Szol șit ot 13.2 and ri semunio Quel to IX, Exo¦\n\n.Poul to D. Hu........2 to (tr),2.8 Tu (4)30,090.\n\nto Inno mi\n\nPenalty for contra-vention of Sec.11.\n\nFINAL PROVISIONS\n\nc.f.Sec.3(e) \"13(2)\" of Opium Amend.Ord.1913.\n\n1\n\nThe fine is now increased from 500 to 2,000 dollars.\n\nc.f.Sec.17 of Opium Ord. 1909 as amended by Sec.3(f) of Opium Amend.Ord. 1913.\n\nThe penalty is decreased by cutting out the liability of imprisonment.\n\nContravention of Sec. 14.\n\nContravention of Sec. 16.\n\n„hrið mwig) to ¿V.002.1.0 tu salonų tu ding the hengyuosiḥ mwigo The avionu juu\n\nContravention of Sec. 17. 1909.\n\nContravention of Sec. 18.\n\nOnt\n\nA\n\nc.f.Sec. 19(2) of Opium Ord. 1909.\n\n„Pro muiɖo to SH.DeE.1,9 VIE (2) bad wiyo Tu Sulenül * A* đu..\n\nContravention of Sec.30(a) penalty on keeper of opium divan.\n\nc.f.Sec.18(3) of Opium Ord. 1909.\n\nsection and a new penalty.\n\nc.f.Sec.18 of Opium Ord. The penalty is increased from 500 to 2,000 dollars.\n\nThe penalty is increased from 500 to 2,000 dollars,\n\nc.f.Sec.44 of Opium Ord. 1909. Penalty identical.\n\ndo.\n\n- do.\n\n- do.\n\n- do.\n\nThis is really a new\n\nکا پاگاه G...\n\nmwig: to (1) 0.063.1.3 .10 arly, to (0)16. noɛ.\n\nع الملك . + .[lxI.M... nolenuifgarwa ¡VUCI 20 IX.Mw.0.0 to (3)Eu.oed onInit, no moijaki! snow #rajn .LINI wow #impij (8)J8.on8.7.0 .IKI.Fqjj kolavhiion= ew..a to (-).4.5 no ci 3 07:2- of Isenga no 10 tuvod \"kwerque -nur: ?ni to vurub-| jederdony Mu\" \"mold-\n\n+ (xay Bonusur ŠIMTOY Svi od POUR- -sug ni molŠUDE acuj-ny bonur KAL es folduonautų imeuri niasdi mezzey bewoon val. ¦eonefive ovi, Hasiņu mu TI to njenutit105 Chabundnirequ2 -ivo nyis. Ich Joals to conel- .rigo to suiav penalty on smoking in opium divan.\n\n(3)\n\nContravention of Sec. 37(5)\n\nGê .f.Sec.45 of Opium Ord. Penalty is identical. 1909.\n\nc.f.Sec.65(2) of Opium Ord. 1909.\n\n(4)\n\nContravention of Sec. 40\n\n(5)\n\n+ Contrevention of Sec. 46. 1909.\n\nCounterfeiting Government opium preparations or distinctive marks thereon.\n\nThe penalty is altered from a maximum fine of 100 dollars to a maximum fine of 600 dollars or to a maximum imprisonment of 3 months.\n\nThis is the same penalty as in Sec. 7(5) of S.S.Ord.XXI of 1909.\n\nA new penalty.\n\nc.f.Sec.71 of Opium Ord. The penalty is increased from 1,000 to 5,000 dollars.\n\nc.f.Sec.13 of S.S.Ord. XXI of 1909.\n\nIn the Straits Settlements the penalty is a maximum fine of 1,000 dollars and a maximum imprisonment of 3 years or both such punishments. Here locally the penalty is fixed at a maximum fine of 5,000 dollars and a maximum imprisonment of 12 months.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "content_text": "Page 018\n\n(.0%)\n\nexuacion\n\n.Y 4 0 0\n\n...afel normal bus jamoagnoli\n\nTaar\n\n.712\n\n«emenɔ2 juiadol, enoujutro¶\n\nJoli quo, to jqivoen est qjbelwomana of god I\n\n„Olkein didus betab SIVINGOSI\n\n311\n\nthat the whole value of tenants improvements will not be confiscated at the end of a lease shall apply to renewable Leases in the Colony.\n\nI have etc...\n\n(Sd.) C. Montague Eda,\n\nJand concraze a'yonelle ori sili tqavos viksia I\n\nsi en drukt bra suenos odd To advojde and utkw yśtaque ni BÌ\n\nouis 10% adatƐ to yшjaroeć sad id esami and baremoser of beraganų\n\nsbnb besiver add ni awode anoiðavitibou milt of doejdue meinold)\n\nval I .yiger robeu rottel woy ni besolume era doiáw anoiteluger beetje me od Joeįdue emas quoos me,Broktolarzeʼn suerij beaureg Jaaf vnd zabru sosszal en: To errusibaogre edr my bear Ig ̧nied JİMİL\n\nni Ji doim Tedaw and od dosjuus osis bus H umelo to dgorjereq\n\n-ot I .nadow bored[it jured nezi berzeseji and od VIçque of b Baqorq noonnal etić Jand rebiɛnoo Jon liiw yomilsoxäi nil delid owe Is- od yet ex. ioneqre vient Jouw woral od gniriseb ni sidan:cessum OTS od,,odo antenь TOJE” #Tuje „nitoennoo 101 sor:amoo manow eruted snoitibnuo Ianijino suď ni ma \\lisioequo eram (@yelowon pdio odd\n\n“damično now ewtibneqre sint 1 zobus Jusmurtavo) and yɗ bejðindas a beorine ait of bebus li iwe a noue bas 090,cu að Javous ed be-\n\nout to moinigo es ni bluor ici sú tot nogu beetje won soitq .euesiva erit no mobiad a daerz vod iriot soonnoi\n\nbepintore wi os Dominoqsation and tent atom I\n\nand oð boððinxive mead Jon sad losy bre Jnemrievod erit neewded and did sqori eris aaenqre od svoel you I bna,etejë to yinterool ‚oldiɛɛoq na visoitibegre na osion batioter ed won yan IGJJEM od a10m ond 10% ebma good evað aðkomorarts as yilaiooqos Stum\n\nBrit to rutor and eroled „begneri eď nao dowa ti BONOLMIOD\n\n„DOMÍ MOTÌ nodirw\n\n+\n\nand Jand Inddel woy to tqinandsoq and mort eden I\n\nnoisje.eq1100 of branjer njiw Jand bebineb sud etndě to vinde708Ɛ løqiournq ait seunes to noidatirgo and ja atneevorqui ajuaned 107\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Claud Severn,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nP.S. Please note that Mr. H. W. Looker holds my Power\n\nof Attorney during my absence.\n\nPage 018\n\n(.0%)\n\n...\n\nthat the whole value of tenants improvements will not be confiscated at the end of a lease shall apply to renewable Leases in the Colony.\n\nI have etc...\n\n(Sd.) C. Montague Eda,\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Claud Severn,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nP.S. Please note that Mr. H. W. Looker holds my Power of Attorney during my absence.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458578, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "1 of 2\n\nDuran\n\nNici nurZİ BANG\n\nW\n\nof tolerant ow labesak\n\n(S)\n\n10 TO YOU\n\n- CB.0 45\n\nDUNT DAN MU\n\nOVA DO% Link av bru erau FA\n\n**\n\nTO. 193. -But soins Jone!.\n\nA\n\n: Joe bus sidan yď vanon\n\nMÅ Jeg komst lliw di nadw Tajja\n\nagnesút moy os moldeo I\n\nHOLJ MISJni nq#igsist ya moy 20 amner of Cloak woði % 0017)\n\nmil $200 NIJSTEN DAJ AJE\n\nJA JE TIJɛ#90sonu stiup s\n\nD-KI STOU grond daat aqol\n\nmodit stefanett oð v£78\n\n'เนย มล. 783 was in«S TombROZĀ,\n\n= Side Sen\n\nI\n\nBOLL\n\nN..\n\nJ\n\nto an\n\nAL\n\nרי* . .\n\nIl\n\n·\n\n#1207\n\nי.\n\nJ\n\nOne Jilong adi\n\nkitty may DASH LÄÄN I saut\n\n410 1 \"\n\n3. uron. Ilk qoppun ti doide eroogat÷-\n\nar\n\n3.3 JNË Jneo 19q 2 to Jilong\n\nT\n\nai Jogist? waste doen ni bəri ow yaw midi\n\n吐\n\n‚terswar,dołdw, filoną beiNÍ\n\nd\n\n10, Júgisti\n\non with Mr. Steger since last December with a view hese goods here, as you will see from copies of the\n\nondence.\n\n158\n\nI received, however, only particulars from cluster th regard to the Hongkong account for Needles lying in neutral örts and forwarded these then at once to Mr. Steger, for we in do nothing with our local agency of the H.A.). Blem■ & Co., it Shanghai also do not seem to have advanced in the matter, at least I have heard nothing about it from Mr. Steger. I have again wide enquiries according to my letter of the 8th June, a copy of which is enclosed. We are very anxious to get these Needles our market resins favourable, and 100 per cent profit and ere is easy to make, especially of certain kinds (4-12).\n\nNeedles and analine colours. Your information interested\n\nvery much.\n\nWe shall naturally avoid giving English manufac-\n\nrers any information with regard to articles which up to the\n\nresent have only been made in Germany, or to a great extent\n\nthere. The only articles people are buying from England at\n\nresent are such articles as picce goods which have always come\n\nFrom there but which trade we hope shortly to develop in\n\nGermany.\n\nFeedlee per S 5.\"Japan\". This steamer should reach\n\nShanghai at the end of July. we hope that she will carry 100 to\n\n110 Needles for the Canton and Hongkong contracts, 68 we assume\n\nfrom the Hamburg import post of 4/3. However, having regard to\n\nthe post of 24/3 this seems doubtful. Up to the present we have\n\nnot received Invoices etc., and accordingly are asking Shanghai\n\nto inform us if these goods are on the steamer for us. In this\n\ncase Shanghai can obtain delivery of the goods against a\n\nguarantee letter.\n\nEnclosed I forward you copies of my letters to Mr.\n\nSteger of 27/5, 8/11, 21, 22, 26 and 28/6.\n\nI am very much annoyed that in spite of our careful\n\npreparations we have lost the agency of the Texas for Canton, This\n\nhas been got by Reiss and Co. Just as John Manners of Siemssen &\n\nCo.\n\n19 at:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465101, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 661, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "## 50885 \n## 659 \n\n**British in...tion, RECO REG 24 OCT 16)**\n\nSeptember 22, 1916.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nOn the 4th ultimo, His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton forwarded to me a translation of an advertisement which had appeared in the local press notifying the mortgage of the land and building of the \"exd offices of the Yuch-han (Canton-Hankow) Railway Company at Longsha to the bank of 'sivan, r, Jacieron subsequently ascertained that the Loan was for a sum of $100,000 bearing interest at 8% and repayable in 12 months.\n\nThis property is situated in the district where the heaviest fighting occurred during the recent attack on Canton and from the Chinese point of view, the chief object of effecting the mortgage was probably to obtain foreign protection for it.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nwith the highest respect,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\n\n(Sd.) J.N. Jordan.\n\nThe Right Honourable \nViscount Grey of Fallodon K.G., \netc. \netc. \netc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467040, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 621, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Page 10.\n\n18\n\nof C. Ixo of TBTo at venti orsvity suoi\n\nT\n\nT\n\nFINA\n\nMitİrg Ma I\n\nodt ku rottal edt tætt stigđó vì yêr. 15\n\nJW212 #6om » Log Svij ui\n\n....\n\nWON 1.76 bulite.\n\nProtok Lastun ex\n\not Jei ad like toanhurd con ubat,nokawi ot, petuti o\n\n.ew oh ger .ethel Jon D A\n\n.....u Su\n\nG\n\nSTIR FE 1\n\n> IIa beraet I felSO RUB atda\n\nJoliu ba‚4b.jt50. tabl.a. ina u xo troða.\n\nLDIZINC ƏL Ketad Jud,Propzi\" a'nɔbrak 1. „1\\wwŭ et lago of gato, et jawabitme JESJelzt.\n\nve plotis,tadgram at cokua tronats,\n\nGreat! o toret et fol tud unab ved Tevun bi\n\nM Lapo trudu z vino a:\n\n+\n\nAld of gat\n\nodott thự mmscu. ofgooq edi mains\n\nAL: 10026.ge pit li ximpfør 1098q #IJA – arte.\n\nட..\n\n*\n\n4\n\n+\n\nbi mutlet\n\n--\n\nwiona ja sidan IAT ANG\n\nMOD AR 2..\n\nOftelucht 42 ptulon dam! Bidt motion\n\nMen Band at\n\n.:0 :\n\na die! I\n\nDJ XH :.\n\nE.\n\nHÊ DE DEL Jists as to\n\nJɛom : 123 LE\n\n13 14 13 6996 JI!. Reśɔd I\n\n2\n\nP.H. Holyoak, Esq.\n\n14th April 1976,\n\n620 Texas Agreement, jointly wish us, with a demand that we should exclude clause four, though you were fair enough to add that you would pledge yourselves not to approach the Texas Company.\n\nI have, of course, discussed also this matter with the Texas people, as arising from the correspondence (letter No.5, before them),\n\nand they find this clause quite fair and say that, apart from your having\n\nsigned it, a waiving of this clause would not help you either, as they would not think of at anytime doing this business with you without us, after the good and faithful service which we had rendered then.\n\nyou\n\nAt any rate, we shall on no account agree to a cancellation of this just and usual clause, for the simple reason that this would enable - as written in my No. 5 to do the business without us, though you did not actually approach the Texas Company, I am quite sure also that you have realized this meanwhile and that you would not have made this stipulation had you thought of the possibility it included.\n\nThe Texas Company are now waiting the return of Mr. Miglietta (Vice President) to discuss what action to take.\n\n2.9\n\nI am writing by this mail to the Secretary of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce and will send a follow-copy to you by next mail, your name is mentioned in this communication; in fact, I grote bin, (as you will note, because of these business relations of ours with you.\n\nI hope to see you soon in Hongkong ... still as the agent of the Texas Company\n\nYours very truly,\n\nsigned: H. Sanders\n\n[Roc etri poti med nå\n\nThe latter to the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, referred to in the above letter, is copied out overleaf:\n\nree\n\nPage 10.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480699, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "page_number": 429, "title": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "content_text": "## The sale of medicinal opium, of morphine, of any alkaloid or constituent of opium, of coca, cocaine, and all its derivatives, and of the preparations of any strength of the above mentioned substances, has been so drastically regulated as to prevent as much as is possible, any abuse and ill-effect arising from the administration of these drugs.\n\nThe sale of Heroin and other derivatives of morphine or cocaine is restricted as a poison under the Pharmacy Ordinance. No necessity has yet arisen to legislate specially for these poisons, but the matter is engaging attention.\n\n## A system of very large rewards has been established for seizures or information leading to seizures of opium, morphine, etc., which is being handled in an illegal manner for purposes of smuggling.\n\n## The definition of opium divan is widened in the Ordinance referred to above with a view to strengthening the hands of the Police in dealing with the opening of such Divans, which since the 1st of March, 1910, has been illegal.\n\n## The use of prepared opium is further discouraged by the advance in price for which it is sold under the Monopoly system. The price is now $5.50 a tael for prepared opium and $2.50 a tael for dross opium.\n\n## With a view to possible improvement in the control of the purchase of prepared opium, this Government has under consideration a scheme for taking the opium monopoly into its own hands from the 1st of March, 1914.\n\nI have etc., \n(sd.) \n**F. H. May,** \n**Governor, &c.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484247, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "content_text": "101\n\nsideddegove baa latoren\n\nΤ\n\nel amen odd to bevoroga\n\nben or- „Hedor... Tetra Ti? Tadej\n\nnaked' and to sand and SSTIL, :i ene besnioqqe\n\ni.\n\nvet mig on sra\n\nis to ([)è ploutra ddiw ylgnoo\n\naid to braof writ petit poy berotni\n\nd malevnad os doijaros ads Atiw Latest,e di\n\nneway of geet wit ni advɔredni e'ynaçroð\n\nLot Lev\n\n+\n\nM\n\nto midmet, sit beraci\n\nlent cerdotus\n\n(t [ to newwed-ni-19' 7? sið adekitavit hurt mi i ftow gonnapil\n\nezentat al suedo vse ti tars cate [rrow wilenc?T ́Ę WOV\n\nMunda ti palem enem „b37.00 onceden wanaimana Meidir” and To\n\nmot dedo pamišgrizo vishet) [ingwol-i-reta) pa to va\n\nFordnes to a berend fang ang add li 1977\n\nvi and tent\n\n5 add cd vanure and to bre\n\ncat sa doiste #107897 ANJ\n\nEdmond Moldemora to shvan al dang\n\nto bene\n\nof Treijck.l.H of newOG\n\n50\n\nSI.\n\nlided to sпOiBi VOTŲ\n\n*** - 90 yn ben bog, olor Givi\n\n1 Ile to reten 572 .[\n\nleidin Teseu reing\n\n30\n\n.0\n\nTEKOM SHUT Kokongano anidņ\n\nmment and on is the amider VT 900\n\nww nim civ. a Lesindsej nu\n\nיין\n\n:1\n\ncret sad etico c19\" 200 10. Jona H\n\nnile de barg and stele,vorg vinc is in coafts\n\n4.\n\nIf any such licences were granted, good ground of complaint would be given to those Americans and Japanese who had heretofore controlled 'China Companies' and who have complied with the Order-in-Council and renounced the management of such companies.\n\nThe interest of the Hongkong Government in companies incorporated under the Hongkong Companies Ordinance but carrying on business outside the Colony was prior to 1915 and is now confined to the revenue derived from fees payable by such companies. The amount remitted by the Shanghai Registry to the Colonial Treasurer for the last financial year ending December 15th 1919, in accordance with Article 17 of the China Companies Order-in-Council 1915, was Dollars Ninety-two thousand eight hundred and seven and eighty-three cents Shanghai currency ($92,807.83). The revised contribution paid by the Government of Hongkong towards the upkeep of the Shanghai Registry of Companies by recent arrangement is now in Hongkong Dollars Three thousand; which, as last paid, amounted through the greater exchange value of the Shanghai dollar than of the Hongkong dollar to $2,400 only.\n\nIn the course of the correspondence which took place in 1919 with reference to the amount to be remitted to Hongkong from the Shanghai Registry, and the allowance to be made for that Registry's upkeep, Mr. Claud Severn, the Officer then administering the Government of Hongkong, informed H.M. Consul-General here on the 30th of April of that year that the volume of work in the Hongkong Registry was \"not considered sufficient to justify the appointment of a special clerk or the setting aside of a special telephone.\"\n\nThe Inter-departmental Conference of 1913 came to no final decision as to the allocation of fees paid in connection with the incorporation of, and the returns to be made from time to time by, China Companies which were still to be incorporated under", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485931, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "Families which have large numbers of Chinese families similarly descend into feelings of alienation to the law-abiding communities in Hong Kong.\n\nThe only boy is that the resident has an employer and a wife. That is the light that has come in. The aim is at gradual reform, when necessary, in cooperation with enlightened and lamentable members of the community, of whom the Society knows there are five times...\n\n...a member of prominent Chinese society for the protection and improvement in the condition of these girls domestically, and that the Society shall have committees in the different districts of the Colony, was well made acquainted with the conditions generally prevailing in the districts, hear complaints, investigate cases of hardship, and effort to take to court cases of cruelty or harshness calling for prosecution.\n\nG 15 Fork interfered with the cackle of ill-treatment, the girl removed from the custody of the Po Leung Kuk, Am. 12616720.\n\nThe Col. Gov. of H. Kong remarked to me some years ago that much misunderstanding over here would be avoided if the phrase \"opium divan\" were substituted for \"opium den\" (den and divan are, I believe, the same word). Similarly, it would give a clearer idea to English people if these girls were called \"slaves\" or \"slaveys\" instead of... I doubt very much if, as a rule, they are worse treated than our slaveys at home were in the days when Miss Sally Brass employed the Marchioness.\n\nThe whole civilization of the Chinese is rooted in their family life and customs, and is of an intensely local character, and that no doubt is why this civilization has persisted for thousands of years with little change, despite terrific national cataclysms. We have recently consented to the publication...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487263, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "# RETURN OF SEIZURES OF OPIUM FOR THE YEAR 1920.\n\n| Date | Case No. | Amount Seized (taels) | Value | Fine or Sentence | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought Forward | | 9304.49 | 9956.57 | | |\n| May 19 | 5777 | 20.00 | | $750.00 or 3 mths H.L. | Beward Ship. No reward. |\n| 20 | 5982 & 6016 | 4.00 | | No reward. | wo arrest |\n| 20 | 6174/5 | 89.00 | 1.00 | $50.00 | wo arrest. |\n| 26 | 600 | 0.78 | | No reward. | |\n| 29 | 6238 | 21.40 | | $1000.00 or 6 mths H.L. | S.S.\"Shun Shing\" 600.00 Bo arrest. |\n| | 6347 | 45.00 | | $2000.00 or 6 mths H.L. | LO= 1.5 No reward. |\n| June 7 | 6638 | 1.00 | | $50.00 or 1 mth H.L. | No reward. |\n| 8 | 6609/10 | 11950.00 | | $5000.00 or 6 mths H.L. | |\n| 8 | 6636/7 | 8.00 | | | o arrest. |\n| 11 | 6688/84 | 33.00 | | $1000.00 or 3 mths H.L. | |\n| 11 | 6689 | 25.00 | | $1000.00 or 3 mths H.L. | |\n| 11 | 6677 | 40.00 | | $1000.00 or 3 mths H.L. | |\n| 12 | | 0.5 | | No reward. | |\n| 12 | | 0.53 | | No reward. | |\n| 14 | 6873 | 63.00 | 4.00 | $200.00 | No arrest. |\n| 16 | 7023 | 349.00 | | $5000.00 or 6 mths H.L. | |\n| 17 | 7045/6 | 5.00 | 1.5 | | |\n| 18 | 7004/6 | #1 | | | |\n| 19 | | 51 | 3 | | |\n| 21 | N.T.146 | 0.02 | | $150.00 or 2 mths H.L. | |\n| 21 | 147 | 3.00 | | No reward. | |\n| 21 | 148 | 13.00 | | $100.00 $50.00 or 4 wks H.L. | S.S.\"Hai Ching\" |\n| 22 | 7115 | 13.50 | | $1000.00 or 3 mths H.L. | |\n| 22 | 7266/7 | 18.50 | | $50.00 or 4 wks H.L. | |\n| 25 | | 2.00 | | | S.S.\"Kaijo Maru\" No arrest. |\n| 28 | 7438 | 50.00 | | $2500.00 or 4 mths H.L. | |\n| 29 | 7458 | | | No reward. | |\n| 29 | 7442 | 4.30 | | $200.00 | |\n| 29 | | 100.00 | | | S.S.\"Hai mong\" No arrest. |\n| 30 | 7452 | 244.00 | 5.00 | | S.S.\"Fat Shan\" |\n| 30 | 7475/6 | 0.2 | | | |\n| 30 | 7601 | 386.00 | | P.).\"hai Hong\" Lo arrest. | Bail $700 estreated. Case withdrawn. |\n| July 5 | | 210.00 | | No arrest. | |\n| 6 | 7849/51 | 11.38 | 22 | $250.00 or 3 mths H.L. | |\n| 9 | 7936 | 15.00 | | $100.00 | Opium Divan Case. |\n| 11 | | 10.00 | | Furchased. | Case discharged. |\n| 12 | 8008 | 3201.5 | | 6 mths H.L. | wo arrest. |\n| 12 | 7925 | 4.00 | | | |\n| 15 | 8124/6 | 0.64 | | No reward. | |\n| Carried Forward | | 27555.08 | 29892.07 | | |\n| | | 5054.40 | | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487264, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 238, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "# RETURN OF SEIZURES FOR THE YEAR 1920\n\n| Date | Case No. | Amount Seized (taels) | Value | Fine or Sentence | Ship | Reward | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought Forward | | 27555.08 | | | | | |\n| July 11 | 8235 | 1564.00 | | $200.00 or 3 mths H.L. | Junk bo.322 | 4.00 | |\n| 11 | 8236 | | | $5000.00 or 6 mths H.L. | | | |\n| 12 | | 3.75 | | | N.T.171 | | No application for reward. Special. |\n| 17 | 166 | 20.00 | | $440.00 or 6 wks H.L. | | | |\n| 20 | 222 | 4025.00 | | | S.S.\"Hai Hong\" | | No arrest. |\n| 21 | N2=== | 79.5 | | | S.S.\"Sinkiang\" | | No arrest. |\n| 22 | 8396 | 24.5 | | $1000.00 or 6 mths H.I. | | 24.50 | |\n| 23 | 8389 | 10.00 | | $750.00 | S.S.\"Hai Ching\" | 23.00 | No arrest. |\n| | 8412 | 60.00 | | $2000.00 or 2 mths H.D. | | | |\n| | .7.173 | 1.00 | | | | | |\n| 24 | 174 | | | $30.00 $50.00 or 3 wks H.L. | | | Reward included in Case No.. T. 166. |\n| 24 | 8466 | 4.3 | | | | 4.30 | Case discharged. |\n| 26 | 2 | | | | | | |\n| 27 | 8505 | | | | | | |\n| 27 | 8504 | 13.00 | | $500.00 or 6 mths H.L. | | 13.00 | |\n| 28 | 8545 | 15.00 | | $750.00 or 3 mths H.L. | | 15.00 | |\n| 30 | 8671 | 30.00 | | $1500.00 or 6 mths H.. | | 30.00 | |\n| August 3 | 3609 | 206.00 | | | S.S.\"Hai Hong\" | | No arrest. |\n| | 206 | | | | | | |\n| 1.5 | | | | | | | |\n| 6 | 8783 | 37.00 | 568.8 | $2000.00 or 6 mths H.L. | S.S.\"Kaijo Maru\" | 37.00 | No arrest. |\n| 10 | .T.178 | | | $25.00 or 3 wks H.. | | | |\n| 11 | 9027 | 11.4 | | $100.00 or 1 mth 4.L. | | 11.40 | |\n| 11 | 8965/7 | 2.00 | | $16.00 | | 2.00 | No arrest. |\n| 12 | 9194 | 32.00 | | $1500.00 or 3 mths H.2. | | | Opium Divan Case. |\n| | 9185 | 2.00 | | $100.00 or 6 wks d.L. | | 2.00 | |\n| | 8951 | 1.00 | | | N.T.179 | 1.00 | No reward. |\n| | 9204 | | | | | | No reward. |\n| 13 | 9216 | 5.00 | | | | 5.00 | Special. |\n| | F | | | | | | |\n| | И | | | | | | No reward. |\n| 3 | 9224 | 3.00 | | 3 mths H.L. | | 3.00 | |\n| | 9225 | 40.00 | 7902.05 | $2000.00 or 6 mths H. L. | | 40.00 | |\n| 16 | | 18.05 | | | S.S.\"Kwong Tung\" | 18.05 | No arrest. |\n| | | | | | S.S. \"Kwong Ying\" | 4.00 | No arrest. |\n| 9 | 9308 | 9.00 | | $500.00 or 3 mths H.Ì. | | 9.00 | |\n| | 9297 | 1.45 | | $250.00 or 3 mths H.L. | | 25.00 | Opium Label Case. |\n| 30 | 9357 | 370.00 | | $2000.00 or 6 mths H.L. | | 370.00 | |\n| 17 | N.T.184 | | | | | | |\n| 20 | 9438 | 2.00 | | $100.00 or 2 mths H.D. | | 2.00 | |\n| 23 | 9760 | | | $500.00 or | | | No reward. |\n| | 9620 | | | | | | |\n| 27 | 9808/11 | | | | | | |\n| 28 | 9902/3 | 7.00 | | $50.00 $108.00 | | 7.00 | No reward. Opium Divan Case. |\n| | 9908 | 350.00 | | $5000.00 or 6 mthe H.L. | S.S.\"Yuet Wah\" | 350.00 | No arrest. |\n| 30 | 9910 | 30.00 | | $1000.00 | | 30.00 | |\n| Carried Forward | | 2856.5 | 38053.26 | | | | 37794.12 |\n\n\n237 \n29892.07", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487265, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "# RETURN OF SEIZURES OF DANGEROUS DRUGS for the Year 1920.\n\n| Date | Case No. | Amount Seized | Value | Fine or Sentence | Reward | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought Forward | | 38053.26 | 37794.12 | | | |\n| 1920 September | 10043 | 40 taels | $75.00 or 6 wks H.L. | 40.00 | 1.00 | S.S.\"Taichong\" No arrest |\n| | 10045 | 3185.5 taels | $500.00 or 2 mths H.L. | 11.00 | | |\n| | 10179 | 29 taels | $1000.00 $500.00 or 3 mths H.L. | 29.00 | 5.35 | |\n| | 10180 | 23 taels | $1000.00 or 3 mths H.L. | 23.00 | | |\n| | 10323 | N.T.203 Opium Label Case | | | | No reward |\n| | 10330 | 2197 taels | $250.00 or 3 mths H.L. | 6.5 | | S.S.\"Taichong\" No arrest |\n| | 10385 | 50 taels | $75.00 or 6 wks H.L. | 50.00 | 2.00 | S.S.\"Haiching\" No arrest |\n| | 10503/5, 10511/3, 10609, 10612/4, 10730 | 18069, 1356, ... taels | $45.00, $10000.00, $15.00, $5000.00 or 6 mths H.L., $20000.00 or 12 mths H.L. | | | Opium Divan Case, No reward |\n| | 10488 | 521 taels | | | | No reward |\n| | 10754 | 2.38 taels | $250.00 | | | No reward |\n| | 10783 | 545 taels | $200.00 | | | S.S.\"Soshu Maru\" No arrest |\n| | 10803 | 299.5 taels | $100.00 | | | S.S.\"San Nam Hoi\" No arrest |\n| | 6987 | 7087.5 taels | | | | S.S.\"Kaijo Maru\" No arrest |\n| | 10695 | 0.18 taels | | | | No reward |\n| | 10943 | 8 taels | $80.00 | | | No reward |\n| | 10952 | 90 taels | No application for reward | 90.00 | | 12 mths H.L. |\n| | 11007 | 4.5 taels | | 50.00 | | Taiping Junk, No arrest |\n| | 10535 | 4680 taels | $133.00 | 15.07 | | S.S.\"Glenfallock\" No arrest |\n| | | 74.15 | | 2.13 | | |\n| October | 11075/6 | 263 taels | $1600.00 or 6 mths H.L. | | | No reward |\n| | 11112 | 76 taels | $100.00 | | | No reward |\n| | 11115 | 100 taels | $240.00 | 15.00 | | Opium Divan Case |\n| | 11139 | | $50.00 or 2 wks H.L. | | | |\n| | N.T.215 | | $4000.00 or 3 mths H.L. | | | |\n| | 11236/7, N.T.217 | | $100.00 or 4 wks H.L., $10000.00 or 8 mths H.L. | | | |\n| | 11269/71 | 4680 taels | $5000.00 or ... | | | |\n| | 10964 | 74 taels | | 2.00 | | |\n| | 11366 | 3.69 taels | $400.00 | 3.00 | | No reward |\n| | 11367 | 2.77 taels | $250.00 | 3.00 | | |\n| | 11370 | 2 taels | $200.00 or 2 mths H.L. | 2.00 | | S.S.\"Tung Fat\" |\n| | 11373 | 6.76 taels | $750.00 | | | No reward |\n| | 11391 | 830, 8308 taels | | | | S.S.\"St. Albans\" No arrest |\n| Carried Forward | | 85953.81 | 37794.12 | | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "# RETURN OF SEIZURES OF PREPARED OPIUM for the Year 1920.\n\n| Date | Amount Seized | Value | Case No. | Fine or Sentence | Reward | Ship | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought Forward | 85953.81 | 37794.12 | | | | | |\n| October 9 | 105 | | | | | | |\n| 12 | | 6.65 | | | | | |\n| 13 | 98 | | | | | | |\n| 15 | 1.41 | 1115.40 | | $5000.00 or 6 mths H.L. | | S.S.\"Yuet Wah\" | |\n| 16 | .5 | | | | | | |\n| | | 105.00 | 11678 | No arrest. | | | |\n| | | | 11674 | $45.00 $600.00 or 4 mths H.L. | No reward. | | |\n| | | 6.00 | | | | S.S.\"Haihong\" | |\n| 18 | 1 | | | | | | |\n| 19 | .35 | 12 | | | | | |\n| | 5 | | | | | | |\n| 19 | 5 | | | | | | |\n| | 11 | | | | | | |\n| | = | | | | | | |\n| | 11 | | | | | | |\n| 23 | 5.29 | | | | | | 22-2F RF |\n| November 20 | 2 | | | | | | |\n| 21 | 1180 | 300 | 12201 | $200.00 $6000.00 or 6 mths d. L. | | | |\n| | | | 12230/1 | | | | |\n| | | | 12243 | | | | |\n| 22 | 2 | | | | | | |\n| | 3 | | A.T.235 | | | | |\n| 23 | 15.44 | 47 | | $480.00 or 6 wks H.L. | +74.00 | | |\n| | .8 | | | $400.00 or 4 mths H.E. | | | |\n| | .21 | 1.34 | | 10 mths H.L. | $50.00 | | |\n| | 69 | .5 | | | No reward. | | |\n| | | .52 | | | | | |\n| | | 1.18 | 11664 11952/3 | | | | |\n| | | | 12128 12409 | | | | |\n| | | 98.00 | 11833/6 | $250.00 or | | | |\n| | | 1.50 | 11766 | | | | |\n| | | | 11906 11908/9 | | | | |\n| | | | 11923 | | | | |\n| | | 132.00 | 11784/5 | $6000.00 | | | Opium Divan Case. |\n| | | 6.50 | 11786 | | | | |\n| | | | 11924 | | | | |\n| | | $100.00 | 11978 | $400.00 or 4 mths H.♫. | | | |\n| | | 1.00 | 1.7.232 | | | | |\n| | | | 11982 11985 | | | | |\n| | | $52.00 | | | | | Opium Divan Case. |\n| | | $45.00 | | | | | Opium Divan Case. |\n| | | $50.00 | | $500.00 or | | S.L. \"Mee Lee\" | |\n| | | 5.00 | | 5 wks H.. | | | |\n| | | 4.00 | | | | | |\n| | | 5.00 | | | | | Opium Divan Case. |\n| | | | | | | >.L. \"Mee Lee\" | |\n| | | 2.00 | | | | S.S.\"Haiching\" | |\n| | | 1180.00 | | | | S.S.\"Cai Lee\" | No arrest. |\n| | | 300.00 | | | | | No arrest. |\n| | | 2.00 | | | No reward. | | |\n| | | 15.50 | | | | | No arrest. |\n| | | 47.00 | | | | | |\n| | | 1.20 | | | | | |\n| | | 69.00 | | | No reward. | | |\n| | | $46.00 | | | | | Opium Divan Case. |\n| | | $50.00 | | | No reward. | | |\n| | | | 12343 12369/70 | $500.00 | 5.00 | | |\n| | | $25.00 | | | Mo reward. | | |\n| | | | 12434 | $3000.00 or | | S.S.\"San Nam Hoi\" | |\n| | | 30.00 | | 6 mths H.I. | | | |\n| | | | 12490 | | | 5.S.\"Wo Kwai\" | Case discharged. |\n| | 4.5 | | 12516 | $500.00 | 4.50 | | |\n| | 4 | | | | 4 | Taiping Junk. | No arrest. |\n| | | | 12566 | $62.00 | | | |\n| | 42 | | | | No reward. | | |\n| | 23 | | 12579 | $2000.00 or | 23.00 | | |\n| | | | | 5 mths H.L. | | | |\n| | 1.70 | | | | | | |\n| | .6 | | | | | | |\n| | 10 | | | | | | |\n| | 1.06 | | | | | | |\n| | 4 | | | | | | |\n| | 11 | | | | | | |\n| | # | | | | | | |\n| | H | | | | | | |\n| | 11 | | | | | | |\n| | .5 | | | | | | |\n| | 1.79 | | | | | | |\n| | 1334 | | 12501/2 12672 | $1000.00 or | | | |\n| | | | 12683 | 5 mths H.L. | | | |\n| | .3 | | 12825/6 | | | | |\n| | 206 | | | 1 mth H.L. | | | |\n| | 5.39 | | 11971 | $400.00 or | | | |\n| | | | 11664 | 4 mths H.L. | | | |\n| | | | 12572/5 12574/5 | $212.00 $71.00 | | | |\n| | | | 12515 | $1200.00 or 6 mths H.I. | | | |\n| | | | | | Mo reward. | | |\n| | 10.00 | | 12654 | $100.00 or | 1.00 | | |\n| | | | | | 4.00 | | |\n| | 11.00 | | | | No reward. | | |\n| | | | | | | S.S. \"Amakusa Maru\" | |\n| | 1334.00 | | | | | | No arrest. |\n| | #1 | | | | | S.S.\"Amakusa Maru\": | |\n| | #T | | | | | | |\n| | 10 | | | | | | |\n| | 3.5 | | | | | | |\n| | # | | | | | | |\n| | 27.5 | | 12950/5 12956 | $800.00 or 8 wke H.L. | | S.S.\"Kaijo Maru\" | |\n| | 12 | | | $120.00 | | | |\n| | 219.5 | | | | | | |\n| | 19.5 | | | | | | |\n| | 8 | | | | | | |\n| | | 206.00 | | | | | No arrest. |\n| | | 5.00 | | | | | |\n| | | 27.50 | | | | | |\n| | | 219.50 | | | | | |\n| | | | 12937 | $2000.00 or | 19.50 | | |\n| | | | | 5 mths H.L. | | | |\n| | | | 12985 | $800.00 or | 8.00 | | |\n| | | | | 4 mths H.L. | | | |\n| Carried Forward | 89875.11 | 38909.52 | | | | | |\n\nPage 239 \nPage 240 \nPage 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491765, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "Enclosure /. \n\nHONGKONG. \n\nNo. 6 of 1922. \n\nI assent to this Ordinance. \n\n7.2.22.\n\nGovernor.\n\n17th March, 1922.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend further the Opium Ordinance, 1914.\n\n[17th March, 1922.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1922, and shall be read and construed as one with the Opium Ordinance, 1914, hereinafter called \"the principal Ordinance,\" and with the Opium Ordinance, 1917, and with the Opium Ordinance, 1918, and the said Ordinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Opium Ordinances, 1914 to 1922.\n\n2. Section 30 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:\n\n30.-(1.) No person shall open or keep any opium divan.\n\n(2.) No person shall smoke opium in an opium divan.\n\n3. Section 31 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:\n\n31.-(1) Where two or more persons are found smoking opium in any place, such persons not being residents in the said place, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved-\n\n(a) that the said place is an opium divan, and\n\n(b) that the tenant or occupier of the said place is keeping the said place as an opium divan, provided that such tenant or occupier or a servant of such tenant or occupier is present at the time of the finding of such persons.\n\nPage 305\n\n \n...\n\nPage 305\n\n...\n\nPage 305", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491766, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "(2.) Every person found in any opium divan or found escaping therefrom on the occasion of its being entered under this Ordinance shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be or to have been smoking opium therein.\n\n4. Sub-section (5) of section 55 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the addition at the end thereof of the following words:-\n\nNo. 4 of 1914,\n\n§ 55.\n\nFor ten times the market value (whichever may be the greater) of the opium in respect of which the offence was committed.\n\n5. Section 61 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the insertion of the words \"upon summary conviction\" between the word \"liable\" and the word \"to\" in the ninth line thereof.\n\nNo. 4 of 1914, § 61.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 16th day of March, 1922.\n\nMattelchen\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nAssented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 17th day of March, 1922.\n\nClauitern\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n306", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491767, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "Enclosure\n\n2.\n\n307\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHongkong... Mezah......................191/1982.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No............................of 161/1922.\n\n1.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled \"an Ordinance to amend further the Opium Ordinance, 1914,\" and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\nSection 2; The only section in the principal Ordinance under which the charge of smoking opium in an opium divan could be laid was Section 30. That section provided that \"No person shall open, keep, or use any opium divan\". The word \"use\" was ambiguous, and there was always a danger that the defence might argue that the section as a whole referred only to persons of the keeper class and that \"use\" would not include smoking. The opportunity has therefore been taken to make this point quite clear. It was obvious from Section 31 of the principal Ordinance that smoking opium in a divan was intended to be an offence.\n\n3.\n\nJ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491768, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 309, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "-2-\n\n3. Section\n\nUnder the principal Ordinance, on any charge for keeping an opium divan, the definition of the term \"opium divan\" in section 4 made it necessary, speaking broadly, to prove either a sale of opium or some other benefit to the keeper. This was often impossible. It was generally possible only by the use of informers, who could not always be found, and who could not always be relied upon when found.\n\nAccordingly sub-section (1) of the new section 31 provides two presumptions in order to facilitate proof of the offence. The definition of \"opium divan\" has not been altered, and it is anticipated that the occupier of any place which is not really an opium divan will have no difficulty in rebutting these presumptions. Sub-section (2) of the new section 31 is merely a re-enactment of the old section 31.\n\n4. Section 4: This section provides an alternative penalty for breaches of section 46 of the principal Ordinance, in conformity with the similar alternative given in section 61 of the principal Ordinance.\n\n5. Section 5: Section 5 corrects an obvious drafting error in section 61 of the principal Ordinance.\n\n6. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAttorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491794, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 335, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "IPI......... \n\n25 LIVAN - 2.7 2./18 YAZBOTTA \n\nTANK TESLA \n\n# \n\nT \n\nb) di Jædt musango da \n\nTHE Į 200 \n\nTreni a'vomisen \n\n-2- \n\n334 \n\n4. The Ordinance was based mainly on His Majesty's Order in Council of the 26th October, 1896, and upon the amending Order in Council of the 21st March, 1916. Paragraphs (a) to (f) of section 2() were taken word for word from the latter order, and paragraph (h) of the same sub-section was based on clause III, 5, of the earlier Order.\n\n5. Copies of the two sets of regulations which were made under the Ordinance are attached.\n\n6. The requirements of Rule No. 48 of the Standing Rules and Orders of the Legislative Council were complied with and the bill was passed through all its stages at one meeting of the Council.\n\n7. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAttorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492334, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "THE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nDIRECT CABLE ROUTES FOR TELEGRAMS\n\n70\n\nAUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, GREECE, TURKEY, EGYPT, ALL PARTS OF AFRICA, &c., &c.\n\nSTATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN.\n\nTelephone No LONDON STATIONS\n\nElectra House.\n\n8, Leadenhall Street, 3.0.1...\n\nMarket BuildADA\n\n19, Minolog Lane, 10, Mark Lane, 1,0.8\n\n[\"The Baltic,\" Bary 91. Entranos. 2.0.1\n\n, Kolborn Viaduct, 3.0.1\n\n8, Denman Street, Borough, 8.12 :\n\nTIMES OF OPENING AND CLOSING.\n\nALWAYS OPEN.\n\nSaturdays to 4 p.m. | Closed Sundays.\n\nT\n\nPinkbury Paremont, 3.0. ... 115, Cannon Byroek, 1.0,\n\nCENTRAL CABLE\n\nSTATION.\n\nÖpta 11,m. to $ pikk.\n\nBm, to 8 p.m.\n\n3240 London Wal..\n\n8am to 8 pm.\n\nH\n\n10 am to 7 p\n\nLEL\n\n19\n\nium. to 8 putt\n\n75\n\n2841 Hop.\n\n2516 Gazzar.\n\n41 & 41, Parliament Strost, B.W.1\n\n+1\n\nTEMPORARY ARRANGEMENT.\n\n8 mutta to 7 pun.\n\n8., to 11 p.m.\n\nDraft W Morley Sog.\n\nEnd\n\nmmans 20/57/20025/2022. Beckett 24/\n\nsir,\n\n..\n\nTalastruma Via Eastern are Oospted at the Telephone No. and Central Station of the Indo-European Telegraph: Office Hour E KA Company, Ld., 18, Old Broad Street, E.0.1\n\nLLE, CADRON Street.\n\n923 ! Central\n\n707 Bradford\n\n924 i\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\n11 p\n\nSundaysam, tu & p, m\n\n\"\n\n11\n\n1+\n\n*\n\n14\n\n4418 Bristol.\n\nPROVINCIAL STATIONS: BIRMINGHAM -198, Colmors Bow BRADFORD, Commercial Street ERISTOL:-1, „Small Streek..... CARDIFF ;-\n\nOpen Bam to 8p.m.\n\nSaturdays to pum.\n\nSundays 9 to 10 mm.\n\nteaming\n\ntam, to 8 p.m.\n\n■\n\n.. sopan.\n\n\"\n\n238 Carlin.\n\n2340 Dunders.\n\n--\n\nTAB, N 8 p.m.\n\nP., to 8 p.ns.\n\nH\n\n8. to 8 b.m.\n\n*m to 10 p\n\n7778 Centre.L\n\n77421\n\n7753 Central\n\n1754 Out\n\n4167 Central\n\nBAL\n\nMerobantą\" Exchange, Bava Docks DUNDET:-60, Bell Strost EDINBURGH; 49, Froderick Street\n\nGLASGOW :—4, Royal Baulk Fisse HÜLLĄ krobangs Buildings, Bowgate LIVERPOOL:-X 11, Exchange Buildings\n\nThe Cotton Exchange ...\n\nMANCHESTER :--86, Spring Gardens NEWCASTLE-OR-TYNE-\n\n.. 10 p.m. ALWAYS OPEN.\n\nLop\n\n17\n\n\"\n\nFr\n\nto 5 p.m.\n\n*\n\nTh\n\n|\n\nto 9 p.\n\ntop.\n\n+\n\n$.. £0..\n\n.. 19.\n\nula Closed Sundays,\n\nto 8 p.\n\nSundays 9 to 18..\n\n.... 1.00 am, to 4.30 p.m.\n\n8803 City!\n\nCl\n\n2a,m, to 11. p.m.\n\nM\n\n783 Central\n\n(NEW OAB Echange Bukkdings, Quayside\n\nPORTHCURNOW, CORNWALL\n\n#1\n\nJam, 102 pm. ALWAYS OPEN.\n\n102 p....\n\n41\n\nH\n\nHEAD OFFICES OF THE COMPANY: ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAYEMENT, LONDON, E.C.2.\n\nTelegraphic Addram❘ EASTERN AVE, LONDON. Talaphone: 3240 LONDON WALL.\n\nNOTE,-l addresses consisting of a namo proband to a DENISTERED or ABBREVIATED ADDRESS, where telegram is addressed to one person at the hoog of another whose toune is also givan, the word \"Q&RE\" (x1) or some equivalent expression must be inserted after the name of the addressee,\n\nTime is saved and greater accuracy is secured by the Pulike handing in their Telegramma direct to the Company's Stations as above, where receiptance given genus for the amount charged.\n\nJ\n\nIxlegrams for this Company's cables are also received at all Postal Telegraph Offices, but should be marked \"VIA EASTERN,\" This indication is not charged for.\"\n\n(Ago-ad.)\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES REGISTERED FREE OF 0087.\n\n•\n\nBook of Telegraph Forma, Turišlo, Rules, doo, can be obtained at the Head Office of the Company, be at any of the above-named Stations\n\nAnsd.2683Z\n\n219\n\n24574\n\nHong\n\nDowning Street\n\n26 May 22\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary Churchill to inform you that, subject to your being passed by the Medical Adviser of this Department as physically fit for service, he proposes to select you for probationary appointment as Junior Assistant in Mechanical Engineering to the Government of Hong Kong, with salary at the rate of £900 a year, with free quarters or an allowance of...\n\nLogacher\n\nThe currency of Hong Kong is a silver dollar currency, the exchange value of the dollar with sterling varying...\n\nThe salaries fixed in sterling are paid to officers actually serving in Hong Kong at a rate of conversion fixed by the Government, approximately 2/- the dollar, but subject to alteration...\n\n1q xies, havezes, of the fluctuation of the exchange value þf the dollar, temporary exchange allowance is paid, varying from nil, when exchange is at or above 2/6d to the dollar, to 20% when exchange is at or below 1/4d to the dollar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 468, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "The construction of ... to be decided to proceed.\n\nThe construction of earth ... 3 ... J ... a ... to ensure statuary at HK. I am accordingly ...\n\n... whites Savan could it convenient. What G call an the Spo. In T. Leava 2.3.630 on 3.J. Brown of the office of Works, before coming to Hong Kong. Your return ... F ...\n\nI am to make her to correspond. You will communicate direct with the two gentlemen. I am,\n\n(Signed) G. GRINDLE\n\nSRX YOU 21/9/22\n\nSir,\n\nI attach note 2279 of the 9th ... Dome 22.\n\n**461 4/ mauve form**\n\nHaddeuhaAKA sfig Bucke\n\nAdverting to your 43284/22#.K.\n\nSir, I have to inform you that on the 19th Dec I visited, by appointment, Mr J. I. Brown b. B. b Bt., an ... dealer and gave them all the information at my disposal relative to the questions in hand.\n\nYour obedient servant, E. Carpenter\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, London\n\nsw.\n\nPage information is not present in the given text, if it was, it would be kept as is. The original text has been proofread and formatted according to the given rules. Spelling errors have been corrected, spacing issues have been fixed, and words have been reordered or added where necessary to form complete sentences. Markdown formatting has not been used as per the output requirement, instead, HTML tags have been used to denote paragraphs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494704, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "248\n\nezimo Comal\n\n.1900\n\nCopy.\n\nA.\n\n246\n\n„Vinjetoed [eino (69,nol Überist over agridaeli bem «griždanii „aranaki\n\nteen be adj (mm) Jamira dreva lor a ader of bre,sea of humorja ali mo,kerkaner de años [e¶ „1' vď aber notese?mo „bedobena zer nadvad? „Til tinacall grosanol adź doźchr. Yo „Joezizo žadlá brawco) wont I Jing boys tla u'nivanð „ell Judd noon ad [[kw JI art beebni.baltiosqu y tras (o vov ek noldmaneturtź melt ak bremserfoo a as džund Yo queda add azaad notese?moo a Lorin Jool [em to to moldmanstre Yo sodite orka on nike ‚ fortw gridooonoord haning að ná saw pulidon Jedà bba bloom 1 omespa od talð bera porodu mèmm arid to maléetodala na roce To↑ menno 07 grižuditadoe wanted rasitto alɗlanoquat adi „nokkumoweq = (damonnet, a ad ji to sort adt ng blow 03\n\n.8 arid To sadjkrenŭ a yď baizé el osso odé YI primed to vhi (dissoq on ad [[kw ezadt (konvoj svijuozzi nem a vď moivestnoo stiff at somebiva vino afft „aonnontiw miane), doise İnanıdab eilt bra,možtami ni won si ochr\n\n** Cana Cazao” beasobre priveď užtube * tot badan ni od VI\n\nbhe of atɗa ad v Dread (Ckw ad agrado edit od y liger medJITH ~i start „flätom Yo brow vď nadiru að Jade of y lineupendoe erla no am a gritażynoo od noldseido [rgel (marmar weld ¦rnijiħba ti bera, \"asi (qmonde ne to somebive bejazodatroons\" doteker mors? ▼di lidasib och anan žrmanną net nek ok etadi HİPRIS-1801D oð elda artkeď don mi za?You [[kw minuRƆ .Tİ „miif Jerkega snortkw Fabrio odt\n\n: \n\nTo dnabrajniraqul androgel bem æðröqmi\n\n(bm)\n\n,558 [‚rndumvoll (JES\n\nExtract from sealed noterial copy of a document headed \"Mr. H. E. F-l cone's Statement\", dated \"ovember 11th, 1922, signed by H. E. Falcone and countersigned by the Clerk of the United States Court for China, Shanghai.\n\n\"It was discovered that the market was flooded with \"01 Mil)\" oigarettes, which were slightly discolored, and that 98 as a consequence sales were dropping off considerably. Upon investigating, we found that practically all the stock which was sent from Shanghai some months back had become discolored. This matter was reported and it was decided that: we take up all the old stock on the market and replace it with fresh stock. It was about this time that Mr. Theyken and myself discussed the possibility of disposing of a few of the cigarettes for our own profit. I assured Mr. Theyken that it could be done safely and without fear of discovery. I approached a man in the Customs, whom I understand was named J. Cassin, and explained to him my plan. Upon being assured of his support, I interviewed Cheung Sing and Shun Kee with the aid of my interpreter, Mr. Peu, with a view to sell them a number of cigarettes which were to be reported as destroyed. To further enable me to carry out my plans, I talked with the stevedore who was then handling our shipments, Mr. Chan of Wah Hing Co., who also assured me that he would give me his support for a consideration. I then gave instructions to prepare the necessary papers required to destroy sixty 50,000 cases of cigarettes. The stevedore went to the Yeumati godown and took delivery of the sixty 50,000 cases and delivered thirty of the cases to the destruction grounds, fifteen cases to Cheung Sing and fifteen cases to Shun Kee; in the meantime having discovered\n\nthat\n\nØ\n\nTwo local cigarette dealers.\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496421, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "page_number": 501, "title": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "content_text": "## ANNEXE VII (Cont)\n\nShowing Number of Smokers holding \"Special Licences\" (Home Smokers) in the year 2462 (1919-1920)\n\n| Province | Class I | Class II | Total Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Krung Deb | 29 | 570 | 599 |\n| Ayuthia | 75 | - | 75 |\n| Rajburi | - | 65 | 65 |\n| Nakorn Chaisri | 21 | - | 21 |\n| Nakorn Savan | - | 132 | 132 |\n| Pitsanuloke | 39 | - | 39 |\n| Nakorn Rajasima | - | 109 | 109 |\n| Prachinburi | 57 | - | 57 |\n| Surat | 4 | 32 | 36 |\n| Nakorn Sritamarat | 7 | 16 | 23 |\n| Patani | 97 | 61 | 158 |\n| Udorn | 178 | - | 178 |\n| Ubon | 169 | 43 | 212 |\n| Roi Ech | 269 | - | 269 |\n| Maharat | 112 | - | 112 |\n| Bayap | 20 | 224 | 244 |\n| Puket | 6 | 51 | 57 |\n| Chentaburi | 2 | - | 2 |\n| Total | 1,085 | 1,470 | 2,571 + 1,552 = 4,123 |\n\n**Note:** \nIt will be seen that the total number of home smokers represents only about 2% of the total estimated number of smokers, viz., 200,000. For difference between Class I and II, vide Ministerial Regulations, Clause 3.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496494, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "page_number": 574, "title": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "content_text": "# ANNEXE VI\n## Table I\n\nShowing by Provinces, the total male population, the number and Percentage of the Male Chinese Population, and the Consumption of Opium per Capita\n\n| Province | Total Male Population | Chinese Male Population | Percentage of Male Population Chinese | Opium sold in Tamlungs | Consumption per capita in Tamlungs |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Krung Deb | 456,918 | 81,060 | 17.74 | 630,804.08 | 1.38 |\n| Ayuthia | 336,371 | 11,068 | 3.29 | 195,974.15 | 0.58 |\n| Nakorn Chaisri | 171,676 | 10,654 | 6.20 | 120,496.10 | 0.70 |\n| Rajburi | 235,461 | 19,913 | 8.45 | 119,578.55 | 0.50 |\n| Prachinburi | 185,818 | 15,948 | 8.59 | 148,320.842 | 0.79 |\n| Nakorn Rajasima | 291,195 | 3,478 | 1.12 | 30,453.05 | 0.10 |\n| Pitsanuloke | 196,601 | 3,013 | 1.53 | 41,095.260 | 0.20 |\n| Chantaburi | 76,552 | 2,653 | 3.46 | 44,345.00 | 0.57 |\n| Nakorn Savan | 180,880 | 5,245 | 2.89 | 55,443.9941/8 | 0.30 |\n| Syrat | 94,002 | 4,217 | 4.48 | 47,062.26 2/3 | 0.50 |\n| Nakorn Sritamarat | 263,153 | 5,508 | 2.09 | 54,371.037 1/3 | 0.20 |\n| Patani | 150,370 | 3,360 | 2.23 | 51,050.40% | 0.33 |\n| Puket | 133,099 | 25,997 | 19.53 | 218,535.44-1/6 | 1.64 |\n| Maharat | 272,608 | ... | ... | 19,026.14 1/6 | 0.06 |\n| Bayab | 458,139 | 768 | 0.16 | 11,210.95 | 0.02 |\n| Ubon | 405,644 | 583 | 0.21 | 72,014.072 | 0.17 |\n| Udorn | 333,950 | 4,57 | 0.13 | 29,559.56 2/3 | 0.08 |\n| Total | 4,642,095 | 206,697 | 4.45 | 1,900,831.15 | 0.40 |\n\n\"Of this figure the great majority are Shans. There are comparatively few Chinese in the Province of Bayab.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497072, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "## 312 \n\nTowards the end of the year, the Hong Kong Government estimated that on the basis of consumption in 1922, the Colony's requirements for 1925 would be 26 chests per month, but pointed out that in addition to the supported opium, much of the opium seized was used by the Government monopoly. But for this, it would be necessary to increase the amount to be imported from India up to 26-52 chests per month; and the Government cannot depend on seizures continuing on the same scale.\n\nIt is hardly necessary to dwell upon the necessity of bearing in mind the following considerations:— \n\n1. The desirability of as great a proportion as possible of the consumption of opium in the Colony being subject to Government control.\n2. The desirability of encouraging the use of Government chandu which is of a far superior quality.\n3. The high percentage of adult Chinese sales in the community constituting about 50% of the total Chinese population, as these are the principal consumers. Where this percentage is high, the consumption of opium per head of the Chinese population may also be expected to be high.\n4. A recrudescence of opium growing in China and the abundant supplies of Chinese opium obtainable in the neighbouring provinces which have intimate intercourse with the Colony, costing in the prepared state $7.00 per tael while Hong Kong opium costs $14.50 per tael, making it impossible for even the most stringent preventive measures to eliminate a large illicit consumption.\n5. The virtual impossibility of completely preventing smuggling into Hong Kong owing to its geographical position and the consequent ease with which the stuff can be smuggled in, in small quantities, on the innumerable junks which use the port.\n6. That so long as opium can be obtained from any source, there will be a demand for it, and if Government supplies are restricted, the consumers will fall back on the smuggled article. The price of this will go up to an extent that will make smuggling so profitable that the preventive service will be unable to cope with it. The result being that more opium than ever will be smoked and the position will be worse than before; the only people to profit being the smugglers.\n7. That the figures of seizures prove that there is practically no smuggling at Hong Kong Government chandu shops in the Colony; the bulk of the opium seized being Chinese, with clear evidence of the existence of an unsatisfied demand in the Colony.\n\nThe figures given in the enclosure bring out very clearly the increasing success of the Government preventive measures. The detailed figures of seizures are noteworthy for the large number of seizures of small quantities of illicit opium, resulting from the intensive campaign against divan(e).\n\nAlso, the figures of consumption, which showed a steady decline from 1918 to 1921, and a rise in 1922, support the view that mere smokers are again turning to Government chandu as a result of the intensive preventive campaign.\n\nThe...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497430, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# 113\n\n4\n\nThese figures are based upon an estimated average population of 650,000. It is notorious that the Hongkong census figures are much below the actual figures of population, for reasons which it is unnecessary to examine here. The Committee has information regarding the actual population to the following effect:-\n\nThe bulk of the Colony's nightsoil is carried away by a Contractor for purposes of manure for mulberry growing. The successful bidder for the present contract, dating from 1921, worked upon the census figure of 680,000 persons, and allowed for taels 3 in weight of nightsoil per head per day, or a total of some 1275 piculs. He reduced this figure to 1100 piculs because of wastage through water closets and boat population, and he tendered accordingly. The amount of nightsoil now being collected approximates to 2500 piculs or nearly four million taels, which, at taels 3 per head, gives a population of over 1,300,000, without allowing for wastage. The figure arrived at through this somewhat unusual method of census taking is probably very much nearer the mark than the official figure and upon this basis the total consumption of opium comes out again at about half a tael a head.\n\n## 12\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies justly points out in his despatch of the 13th December that the only persons who need purchase Government opium are those who want a high-grade product and those who prefer to pay a high price rather than risk the penalty for the use of smuggled opium: and this argument holds good in respect of the consumption of any duty-paid article in lieu of its smuggled counterpart. But it does not follow that there is no effective control over the consumption of such article. It is the opinion of the Committee that the control exercised in Hongkong is as effective as is possible in the extraordinarily difficult circumstances. As long as unlimited supplies of opium are available, opium cannot be kept out of the Colony. The Government of Hongkong, realising this fact, has devised a compromise. It sells a good grade of opium at a very high price and it visits with severe penalties all those who are found to be trafficking in or using other opium. There can be no doubt that shortness of purse on the one hand and fear of the consequences on the other do keep consumption very far below the rate which would obtain if Government opium were cheapened or prohibited or penalties were relaxed.\n\n## 13\nThe various proposals for a gradual diminution in the amount of opium legitimately available have been discussed in the preceding paragraphs. It remains to examine the question whether consumption of opium could be reduced, if no further legitimate supplies were available. It has been pointed out in paragraph 9 that the habitual smoker need not be considered, and, if such a step should result in decreased consumption, the Government should go out of business at once.\n\nThe Committee has expressed the opinion that a gradual reduction of legitimate supplies will be counterbalanced by an increase in the use of illicit opium. If the use of opium were to be prohibited, it is probable that the situation would get entirely out of hand. A comparison which suggests itself is the placing of a small foreign Government in Marseilles and the prohibition by it of the drinking of wine by the French within the town: except that opium is much more easily smuggled than wine. Neither the Hongkong Government nor the Council of the League of Nations can prevent indulgence in a practice habitual in a nation of four hundred million people unless that nation desires to give up that indulgence, and unfortunately, there is no present indication that the opium habit will be abandoned by the Chinese people in the near future. It may be mentioned in this connection that the Committee has read with considerable surprise the statements by Mr. Chao Hsin-chu regarding Shanghai, which appear at pages 61 and 65 of the Minutes of the Fifth Session of the Advisory Committee. The information before the Committee is to the effect that enormous quantities of opium go to Shanghai, and the consumption there is very large. The supervision in Shanghai is notoriously far less strict than it is in Hongkong.\n\nIn Canton, the Government has for some time past been selling opium for revenue purposes, and a Monopoly has now been formally established.\n\n## 14\nThe Committee understands that the practice of swallowing opium is spreading amongst the Chinese, a practice which, according to medical evidence, is at least not less harmful than smoking opium. The League of Nations Advisory Committee does not apparently take exception to the swallowing of opium and the hemp drugs, ganja, cheras, and bhang, by Indians in India, and accordingly, if smoking is prohibited in Hongkong, the Government must be prepared to face a demand that swallowing should be permitted according to the practice in India. It is difficult to see how a discrimination in favour of India could be justified.\n\n## 15\nIn paragraphs 4 and 5 of his despatch of the 13th December, the Secretary of State suggests that, if confirmed opium smokers are registered and the use of opium is otherwise prohibited, the British Government will have done everything possible to discharge its obligations under the Opium Convention. The Committee cannot agree with this suggestion. No Government placed as the Hongkong Government is can put a stop to a national habit of an alien race so long as it has not the full support of public opinion, and the continuing of opium to a few smokers, or total prohibition which would be preferable, would result in a flood of smuggling which it would be impossible to stem.\n\nThe difficulties of detection of smuggling are in present circumstances insuperable. Hongkong, with a total area of 376 square miles, has a coast and frontier line of 400 miles over any part of which Chinese may come and go at will. Opium in bulk comes by ocean-going steamer, of which the crew frequently, and sometimes the officers, are in league with the smuggler, and it comes also by launch and by junk. The opium is frequently put overboard outside the harbour limits, having attached to it a float which remains submerged for a given period and then rises to the surface. The Hongkong Government is about to incur heavy expense in providing a new sea-going revenue vessel to operate outside harbour limits. Many Revenue and Police launches operated by the Chinese Government carry on an active trade in contraband and, having a Government status, they are more or less immune from search. One such launch was recently sunk in Hongkong waters, and on examination of the wreck, opium and arms were found in it. Opium is carried in receptacles bolted outside the bottom of a junk, in a hollowed-out spar, in a compartment inside a tin of petrol or a jar of wine, in the leg of a bedstead, in a bag of flour, in a woman's hair, in fact, in every possible place in which the ingenuity of the Chinese can devise means to hide an article the bulk of which is as small as its value is large. The Chinese, who will slice the top from a silver dollar, will hollow out the interior, refill with base metal, and replace the top, would not stumble into such traps as the European might be able to set for him, except by the merest chance. The Government's only efficacious weapon is money, and it is usually worth the smuggler's while to out-bid the Government, and the informer, working on strict business lines, concerns themselves merely with the amount of the inducement, and are indifferent as to its source.\n\n## 16\nIn paragraph 8 of the despatch of the 13th December, it is proposed that the ordinary preventive measures should be supplemented by concentration on the detection of the capitalists who finance the smugglers. The Hongkong Government has for years past been doing its utmost in this direction, with results comparable to the baling of water with a sieve. For many years, large quantities of opium were smuggled into Hongkong from England, where there was no control of export, and, except for occasional seizures, the Hongkong Government was powerless to deal with the matter. Messrs. Alfred Holt and Company presented a memorial to the Imperial Government regarding the constant smuggling in their ships, pointing out that the evil should be attacked at the root. So long as opium can be thus sold wholesale in this country as freely as the most harmless and necessary foods, so long will the joint operation of laxity in the United Kingdom and severity abroad make illicit traffic easy and profitable. When the opium is once divided into small parcels and distributed among numerous carriers, the difficulty of suppression is enormously increased. Messrs. Alfred Holt and Company would therefore urge upon His Majesty's Government the necessity of altering the law, so that the contraband trade may be stopped in the early stages. The Imperial Government subsequently controlled the traffic, and no more opium came to Hongkong from England. Similarly, opium from Persia and China is being poured into Hongkong. In 1923, the Senior Revenue Officer alone captured 716 illicit divan keepers, 3,350 illicit opium smokers, 386 traffickers in illicit opium, and 60 boilers of illicit opium. With opium altogether prohibited, the Hongkong Government would lose the control which it now has, smuggling would become universal, and consumption would be greatly increased. Hongkong would then be in the position of China, with opium smoking theoretically prohibited and practically uncontrolled, because uncontrollable.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498646, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "#I, AVID HOLITGE 40 DOKESTIS STIL\n\nsocordance with Okinsan custom betukmu perpons of chinese zave, sona of shich unione tenk plade over a quarter of ocatury ag04 bach investigations would nowever be of a judiofal nature and would in kay ense obviously be impriOS ticauia for a foreign consular officer.\n\n14\n\nI learn from A.K.Consul ́at Asoy' that a ruling has letely been civan by the “breign office that for the time being only Euch Kritigh subjects þf Chinese datinosion may be registered at K.k.l'ànealates iị China as are \"provided \"with certificates to the pffect dat thop pre British sub- $on \"jects, having \n\n\"(a) been bem in tot valony of Hongkong, er in the “traita Settlements, the father having been previously \"naturalized; \n\"(b) been born in the Geleny of Hongkong, or in the *ptruits betilesents, of parents of chinese srigin, who were *t)›Supelves writish subjects, having been likevise bem therei \n\"(c) been boxx in the Gelen, of Hongkong, or in the *ɓtraits bestlements, ef ühinest parents who were residena ✯ * Eziere at the time of their session to the British Goveransenti \n\"(d) xeen bera in the Colony of hongkong, or la\\the \"straits beltienants, of ühinese perete, and naving \"there for the threw years insediately preceding ( \"of the certificate); \n\"(e) been rendent in the new territories of ‘at the time of their cossion ↳ őreat Britain, ( \n*(f) continuously resided in viam for tire “immiistel; previous to the date of tim neki LI \n*naving been registered ma a british subject a \n(Üonsulates in staa”. \n\nAll persons born in fermosa prior pergens born anywhere in China, other than under (e) and (f) are new nosordingly debarred privilege of registration at a British Consule ZKUSTE FETI At Consulates in countries ather \n\n## appears to be the start of the text, with \"Bre 10 AT (4): nu” ryžusei add 1 and 12ð al hobzorat van idolder to turco\" being nonsensical and likely OCR errors. The meaningful text starts from \"#I, AVID HOLITGE 40 DOKESTIS STIL\".\n\nHere is the corrected version:\n\n# I, AVID HOLITGE 40 DOKESTIS STIL\n\nIn accordance with Okinsan custom, between persons of Chinese race, some of which union took place over a quarter of a century ago, back investigations would however be of a judicial nature and would in any case obviously be impractical for a foreign consular officer.\n\n14\n\nI learn from A.K. Consul at Amoy that a ruling has lately been given by the Foreign Office that for the time being only such British subjects of Chinese domicile may be registered at K.K. 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I've maintained the original content as much as possible, correcting minor spacing issues and not making significant changes due to the text's corrupted nature.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505902, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-11 Assistance for Mrs. Longinotto- widow of a former Assistant Crown Solicitor in Hong Kong 3-3-1926 - 11-10-1926", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-498-11 Assistance for Mrs. Longinotto- widow of a former Assistant Crown Solicitor in Hong Kong 3-3-1926 - 11-10-1926", "content_text": "## Mr Euf Fold \n\nMr. Sevan called on me yesterday and said that she had received a letter from Mrs. Longinoto saying that she had seen Reichard, apparently through the intervention of some authority at Vienna. She suggested passing this information on.\n\nJudging by what she said, I suppose it was through the intervention of some authority that she was able to see Reichard again. \n\nOn enquiry from me, the Consular authorities at Vienna informed K.F.O. that it will be satisfactory if she leaves.\n\nWe have only just heard about the difficulties she had with the Austrian authorities long before she left. I think, therefore, that it would be best to furnish all the more information, certainly if they know all the details about her recent application.\n\nMrs. S.'s letter to Ms. L. foreshadowed a request for permission to postpone repayment of the advance made to her.\n\nTallulicrbuck 20.3.26 \n1. Budget \n\"Remind Yo. 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R.A.C.N. \nA.C.M \n22nd April, 1927.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511837, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928", "content_text": "INDIAN OPIUM.\n\n26\n\nApart from the seizure mentioned above no Indian Opium was found. No information was received which pointed to the existence of any smuggling of Indian opium direct from India.\n\nThe precautions taken in India to control raw opium seem to have been quite effective. The supplies of Indian opium which are still reaching China, appear to originate wholly in the French protectorate of Kwong Chow Wan.\n\nOPIUM DIVANS.\n\n4 9681\n\nIn this the fifth year of a concentrated attack on divans the number is practically the same as that for the last two years.\n\nThe divan-keeper laughs at the sentences inflicted by the Court which are generally a tenth of the maximum fine, in quite a large percentage of cases he does not trouble to attend at Court, forfeiting the bail which is generally a little higher than the fine likely to be imposed. The man who goes to prison if the fine is not paid, is usually a paid keeper or a coolie who is past work, or too lazy to work. There is a regular tariff in the trade; if the man has dependents in the Colony, which is rare, they are looked after, and the man gets a regular fee when he comes out based on the length of time he has served in prison. The factor which decides whether the fine shall be paid or not is purely a financial one, the actual owner of a divan will make more money outside prison, so he pays his fine, but the master of several divans finds it pays him better for his employee to serve his sentence, as he can easily fill his place, and give him some small compensation on his release.\n\nThe campaign against divans has proved absolutely abortive, there are probably as many divans being operated now as there were 5 years ago, and the profits have probably increased as the price of illicit opium has decreased.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928", "content_text": "27\n\nDivan keepers with two or more convictions were deported in large numbers, but their places were immediately filled, a divan keeper could probably run a divan for some months before becoming sufficiently known, he would then be caught, pay the small fine or serve his sentence, open up again in the same neighbourhood as before, and run for several months before being caught again. If his business was sufficiently lucrative to enable him to pay out \"hush\" money, he would be assured of a considerable run, before some person who had not been sufficiently silenced directed the attention of this department to his operations.\n\nOPIUM IN CHINA.\n\nThe system in force varied apparently from place to place, but Canton appears to have had some power over the local monopoly. With the establishment of a stronger Government in the province of Kwongtun, the control of the trade in opium was placed on a more regular footing. In former years the taxation of opium, though universal, was in the hands of the local military officer, who held sway for the time being in the locality, and who had to find some means of paying his troops, and accumulating a nest-egg for himself against the day never far distant when he himself would be supplanted. During the year the control of opium taxation appears from the documents examined to have been in process of being regularised.\n\nA bureau called the \"Bureau for the suppression of opium\" functioned in most places and let out various monopolies to the highest bidder. The bureau did not themselves deal in opium. The following types of monopolies were noticed during the year, (a) import, (b) export, (c) preparing, (d) selling raw opium, (e) selling prepared opium, (f) collecting transit fees on opium passing between various areas. The monopoly in any line might be given for a special district of a small size, or the Bureau might grant the monopoly for the whole district under its charge to a contractor who would sublet the smaller districts to others.\n\nOpium revenue labels issued by the monopoly of the district of Sun On, the district conterminous with the New Territory, stated that the Government would abolish opium within 4 years, but the label did not state when this period would begin. The undertaking has not been noticed on any other of the numerous opium revenue labels examined during the year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511991, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927", "content_text": "67\n\nof the cultivation of the poppy in China, which at any rate in theory had been completely suppressed in 1917. In an almost incredibly short space of time poppy fields again spread over practically the whole of China, and immense quantities of opium have been produced in China ever since, and are continuing to be produced today.\n\n6. With our teeming Chinese population in Hong Kong, denied Government opium except at licensed shops/subject to stringent regulations, and at an almost prohibitive price, wholesale smuggling of opium into the Colony from China became inevitable. In fact Hong Kong is inundated with smuggled opium, in spite of the ceaseless war waged against the smugglers, illicit opium boilers and illicit divan keepers not to mention the actual smokers of illicit opium.\n\nIt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511993, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927", "content_text": "69\n\nOver\n\n2ems\n\n2\n\n\"They (i.e. responsible officials in the Colony) are also conscious of the insidious danger to the good government of their territories which is threatened by the almost inevitable growth of corruption among the staffs of the police and opium control departments, these staffs being necessarily recruited from various Asiatic races.\n\n\"Further, they feel much anxiety at the multiplication of punishable offences in connection with the repression of opium smoking. I can perhaps best illustrate this by giving the following quotation from the report of the Hong Kong Opium Committee, which was appointed in 1924: -\n\n'In 1923 the senior revenue officer alone captured 716 illicit divan keepers, 3,359 illicit opium smokers, 386 traffickers in illicit opium and 60 boilers of illicit opium.'\n\nMy colleagues will no doubt be surprised to hear that in the small Colony of Hong Kong, even in 1926, when the activities of the Government were fully occupied in other directions, there was a daily average of no fewer than 300 persons in gaol, convicted of offences against the opium laws.\n\n\"In", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511994, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927", "content_text": "\"In short, even the present measures of control entail the crowding of the gaols, the banishment of numerous persons who are in no other way a danger to the Colony, the nourishment of a parasitic class of informers, the prevalence of blackmail, the corruption of Government servants and the evils attendant on the inevitable system of the payment of rewards to informers. Further measures of control or repression must necessarily entail the creation of more punishable offences and more corruption. It is obvious that if this process is allowed to continue beyond a certain point the result will be disastrous to the prestige of Government. My own firm conviction is that this danger-point has almost, if not quite, been reached. With the facts mentioned in the last paragraph before them, I feel that my colleagues can hardly fail to share this view. Personally, I would go so far as to say that the evils arising from the repressive measures are much greater than the evils which the convention aims at repressing.\"\n\n9. Since that memorandum was written the situation has become even more serious. By the end of August illicit divan keepers (to refer to one class of offences only) were being convicted at \n\nPage 70\n\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512034, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927", "content_text": "110\n\nwas now taking place in holes and corners where it was impossible to control it. The best policy, though one, he admitted, difficult at first sight to defend, was to permit smoking only in divans under Government control as was done in Siam. This system had the additional advantage of solving the dross problem, as out of each divan the proper proportion of dross would be obtainable for destruction. Persons who did not wish to go to their divan would have to be registered and licensed: dross would be similarly obtained. Such a system it was claimed had worked well in Siam and could, he thought, be made the basis upon which ultimately to build a system of registration in the Colony.\n\nSir M. Delevingne said that the British Government were not committed to any particular policy in regard to divans, nor had the First Opium Conference recommended their abolition. In the Opium Agreement of 1925 divans had been treated in the same way as shops, that is to say, the policy recommended was that they should be reduced in number.\n\nMr. McElderry, continuing, pointed out that when he left the Colony the average daily number of prisoners for opium offences was 300. The figure had now risen to 540. The bulk of the convictions could be classified into three categories: (1) the keeping of illicit divans, (2) the smuggling of opium, and (3) the boiling of opium. The greatest number of cases were those connected with illicit divans, then came smuggling cases which in their turn were more in number than the convictions for boiling opium. These three classes of cases were punished with comparatively long periods of imprisonment.\n\nIllicit smoking of opium was punished by small fines or imprisonment for a day or\n\n3\n\n28\n\nPage 110\n\nPage 111", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 518376, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-515-14 Extension of powers granted to Merchantile Bank of India- Ltd.- to make- issue- re-issue and... 20-2-1929 - 18-1-1930", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-515-14 Extension of powers granted to Merchantile Bank of India- Ltd.- to make- issue- re-issue and... 20-2-1929 - 18-1-1930", "content_text": "## 52801/28 Belgium\n\nThe Treasury \n4 \n\nReceived acknowledgment \nof the extension of \nHong Kong Note Issue powers \nto both the HK & \nMercantile Bank \nthen suggested \nthe Mercantile Bank \nextend to 1939 \nin principle \nbut did not \nin the case of \na similar undertaking demanded from \nthe HSBC Bank \nas a condition precedent to the latter's \nagreement.\n\nd.b. City to Treasury \nBin Trade IFF \nSavan 27/4 \n2 \n8 Il to Gov Sec 29/4 app. 29/4 `B126`\n9 To Treasury (`w/2 0`) 2 Bizl \n10 To Be graded (`wp 8`)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-515-14 Extension of powers granted to Merchantile Bank of India- Ltd.- to make- issue- re-issue and... 20-2-1929 - 18-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521483, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-520-8 Memorandum on use of Opium 1-11-1929 - 30-11-1929", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-520-8 Memorandum on use of Opium 1-11-1929 - 30-11-1929", "content_text": "Fluctuations\n\nof sales and variations in population.\n\nThe question of the registration\n\n2\n\nThe sharp rise to nearly four times the ordinary sales when the price of Government opium was reduced in 1927 (see Part III paragraph 4 of this Memorandum) confirms this view.\n\n4. In the year 1918 the amount of Government opium sold in the Colony was 639,684 taels. In the year 1924 the amount sold was 351,560 taels and in the year 1928 the amount sold was 247,352 taels.\n\nThere had been, between 1918 and 1924, a very substantial increase in the population. In 1924 the Colony was in a most prosperous state and the maximum population was in all probability then reached; and though during the years 1925 and 1926 there was a great exodus of the labouring population, it is considered that the population has now again reached the figure at which it stood in 1924. The sales of opium in the year 1928 therefore show a most substantial reduction when compared with those of the year in which the population most nearly approximated the present figure.\n\nIt is impossible to state with any accuracy the difference between the population in 1918 and that in 1928, but some indication of the growth of the Colony can be deduced from the fact that during the intervening years 8,650 new domestic buildings have been erected in the Colony and there is still a demand for increased accommodation.\n\nIt is clear that the population in 1928 was very much greater than it was in 1918 but the official sales of opium had fallen by nearly 400,000 taels.\n\n5. The Government has given serious consideration to the question of the possibility of registration and licensing of consumers. It has, however, come to the conclusion that any system of registration would be impossible owing to the great number of consumers, which, taking the conservative estimate of 20% on the last census figure, would be over 125,000 persons.\n\nObstacles to\n\ndiminution\n\nof use.\n\nIt is felt that any system of registration would also be abortive on account of the difficulty which would be experienced in controlling so fluctuating and unstable a population and so large a floating population.\n\nAny system of licensing would be open to great abuses in the buying and selling of licences, in impersonation and in the cornering of stocks and profiteering by licensees.\n\nIf the granting of licences were confined to individuals permanently resident in the Colony, it is felt that this would prove an increased incentive to the fluctuating population to bring in opium from China. The wealthier class of temporary residents would in all probability purchase Government opium from the licensed permanent residents and this would tend to increase application for licences, as members of the lower classes would be put forward as figure-heads in order that larger supplies might be obtained.\n\nA system of registration might possibly lead to some diminution in the sales of Government opium but, owing to the difficulty of the prevention of smuggling, it is regarded as extremely unlikely that it would lead to any diminution whatsoever in the total amount of opium consumed in the Colony.\n\n6. In the present state of Chinese public opinion the only way to diminish or put a stop to the use of opium in the Colony is to diminish or put a stop to its production elsewhere.\n\nThat no effective control on the production of opium is exercised within the neighbouring provinces of China is clearly evidenced by the fact that of the total seizures of illicit opium made in Hong Kong in the year 1928 more than 74% was opium of Chinese origin, and it is noteworthy that most of the raw opium seized bore Chinese revenue labels.\n\n3\n\nlimitation\n\n7. The Government feels that the fixing of any maximum limit for the amount of prepared opium to be placed on sale, calculated according to the number of adult Chinese population, would result in the buying up and hoarding of stocks by speculators who would resell at an enhanced price, and the substitution of smuggled opium for Government opium in so far as the supply fell short of the demand. This was found to be the case when a similar expedient was tried in the Straits Settlements and the Punjab.\n\nGovernment\n\n8. The limitation of sales by any further raising of the price of Government opium would, in the opinion of the Government, also fail to diminish consumption, as smuggled opium would take the place of Government opium.\n\nThere is an undoubted demand for Chinese opium, but the fact that much of the smuggled Chinese opium is heavily adulterated prevents its ousting entirely the Government opium from the local market.\n\nlimitation by increasing Government prices.\n\n9. In the past stringent measures were taken against those keeping or using opium divans.\n\nThese divans were used largely by members of the coolie class and were in the main cubicles in tenement houses and bed or bunk spaces in coolie lodging houses.\n\nThe keepers were generally people in very poor circumstances who kept a few pipes and a few mace of smuggled opium and charged 5 or 10 cents for a smoke.\n\nAny attempt to control and limit the use of the divans necessarily involved great demands upon the time of revenue officers, and the result of raids was that the gaols became congested with thousands of members of the labouring classes who were thrown into prison every year for smoking opium in these so-called divans. The Government recognized that these individuals were the victims of economic pressure who, unable to afford to pay the price of Government opium, found available a plentiful supply of cheap smuggled Chinese opium,\n\nThe enforcement of the provisions prohibiting the keeping and using of divans thus involved the Government in heavy expense and at the same time curtailed the time available for the more useful activities of the Revenue officers.\n\nIn these circumstances the Government in 1928 relaxed the enforcement of measures against the keepers and users of divans and the number of convictions for \"divan\" offences in that year fell to 13 as compared with 4,796 in 1927.\n\nThe very small quantity of opium usually seized in \"divan\" raids and the more beneficial use of the revenue officers' services in other directions can best be gauged by the fact that while 2261 seizures in 1927 yielded 48,921 taels, the reduced number of 711 seizures in 1928 yielded the closely comparable figure of 48,450 taels.\n\ndivans.\n\n1\n\n10. A strong force of revenue officers and searchers is maintained by the Government and this has been increased as the population grew.\n\nIncrease in\n\nexcise staff.\n\nThis year three additional female searchers have been appointed for the specific purpose of prevention of smuggling of opium by incoming female passengers.\n\n11. The general physique of the Chinese population does not appear to give any indication of the ill effects of the use of opium.\n\nMedical\n\naspect.\n\nIts use is common among members of the coolie class who are engaged in heavy manual labour and among the agricultural community working in localities where fever is prevalent.\n\nBy members of these classes and also by those suffering from pulmonary diseases opium is regarded as being of great medicinal value. It might be said that almost all persons suffering from tuberculosis use opium and, as this disease is rife in the Colony, they probably account for a high percentage of the consumers.\n\n12", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-520-8 Memorandum on use of Opium 1-11-1929 - 30-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521484, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-520-8 Memorandum on use of Opium 1-11-1929 - 30-11-1929", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-520-8 Memorandum on use of Opium 1-11-1929 - 30-11-1929", "content_text": "Summary.\n\nGeneral.\n\nGeneva Art. 1 (1).\n\nGeneva Art. 1 (2).\n\nGeneva Art. 1 (3).\n\nGeneva Art. 2.\n\nGeneva Art. 3.\n\n4\n\nDuring the year 1928 there were treated in Government and Chinese hospitals in the Colony only 120 persons suffering from chronic poisoning from organic substances including opium and morphine.\n\n12. The position generally may perhaps be summarised by saying that the sales of Government opium have in recent years shown a substantial diminution and are now almost at their lowest ebb.\n\nIt is believed that if there were a complete cessation of the sale of Government opium or if such sales were curtailed to any extent, this would merely be met by a more extensive smuggling of opium which would prove impossible to control however much the force of revenue officers might be increased, and the difficulties of the present position would be aggravated and all control be lost.\n\nOpium cannot be kept out of the Colony so long as unlimited supplies are available in China, and it is believed that the control on consumption is as effective as it can possibly be made in the extraordinarily difficult circumstances which prevail.\n\nThe population in general does not appear to suffer to any marked extent from its use of opium.\n\nPart II.\n\nTHE MEASURES TAKEN BY THE GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG TO GIVE EFFECT TO THE OBLIGATIONS UNDERTAKEN IN CHAPTER II OF THE HAGUE OPIUM CONVENTION OF 1912 AND IN THE GENEVA OPIUM AGREEMENT OF FEBRUARY 1925.\n\n1. The measures taken by the Government of Hong Kong to give effect to the above-mentioned obligations are, in the belief of the Government, the best which can be adopted until, in the words of Article II of the Protocol to the Geneva Agreement, \"the poppy-growing countries have ensured the effective execution of the necessary measures to prevent the exportation of raw opium from their territories from constituting a serious obstacle to the reduction of consumption in the countries where the use of prepared opium is temporarily authorised\".\n\nThere is no poppy-growing within the territory of the Colony.\n\n2. The importation, sale and distribution of opium is a monopoly of the Government and the right to import, sell or distribute opium is not leased, accorded or delegated to any persons whatsoever, save as regards the retail distribution hereafter mentioned.\n\n3. The right of preparing opium for sale is also a Government monopoly.\n\n4. Sales of Government opium are permitted to be made only by persons licensed by the Government, who are paid fixed salaries and receive no commission on sales.\n\n5. Sale of opium to minors is prohibited by Regulation made by the Governor in Council on the 28th September, 1925.\n\n6. The keeping of opium divans and the smoking of opium therein is prohibited by section 15 of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, and, though the enforcement of the provisions of this section has been somewhat relaxed for reasons stated elsewhere in this memorandum, drastic action would be taken if it became known to the authorities that any minor frequented a divan.\n\n5\n\nGeneva Art. 4.\n\n7. Though there is a great demand for licences to sell Government Opium the number of retail shops licensed for the whole Colony is now seventy, these being distributed as under:\n\nKowloon Urban area 30\n\nThe island of Hong Kong 22\n\nNew Territory and country districts 18\n\n8. The purchase and sale of \"dross\", otherwise than by the Government monopoly, is prohibited by Regulation made by the Governor in Council on the 28th September, 1925.\n\nGeneva Art. 5.\n\n9. The export of raw opium from and its transit through or trans-shipment in the Colony is governed by the provisions of section 4 of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, as amended by Ordinance No. 7 of 1924, and sub-section 4 of that section calls for the production of an import certificate, issued by the Government of the importing country, as required by Article 6 (3) of the Geneva Convention.\n\nIn the case of opium destined for Macao a further precaution is provided in the prohibition of issue of the export permit without the express authority of the Governor.\n\nSection 20 of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, totally prohibits the export of prepared opium, save as to a small quantity in the personal possession of a passenger which is allowed for his consumption during the voyage.\n\n10. The use of opium is denounced in the schools of the Colony and pupils are warned against it.\n\nIn view of the illiteracy of the labouring classes the Government considers that there would be little to be gained by the dissemination of admonitory literature.\n\nGeneva Art. 7.\n\n11. The Government has always been willing to give its utmost assistance to other Governments in the suppression of illicit traffic and, when consulted, has gladly given all available information.\n\nGeneva Art. 9.\n\n12. By section 38 (1) of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, every person who in the Colony aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission in any place outside the Colony of any offence punishable under the provisions of any corresponding law (vide definition in section 2 (2)) in force in that place or does any act preparatory to, or in furtherance of, any act (wherever to be committed) which if committed in the Colony would constitute an offence against the Ordinance is made guilty of an offence against the Ordinance and is punishable accordingly.\n\n13. The penalties imposed by the Opium Ordinance for the more serious infringements of the law are exceedingly drastic.\n\nFines can for certain offences be imposed up to $5,000.00 coupled with imprisonment for one year, and, where specific penalties are not imposed for breaches of particular sections, a fine of $2,000.00 or ten times the value of the opium seized, whichever fine may be greater, can be imposed in addition to imprisonment. Under these provisions fines up to $50,000.00 have been imposed and a fine of $10,000.00 is not unusual.\n\nThe Government, moreover, in suitable cases, exercises its powers in that behalf and banishes offenders. 666 persons were banished in 1927 for offences relative to opium.\n\n14. A good grade of opium is sold by the Government at the very high price of $14.50 per tael and severe penalties are visited on all those who are found to be trafficking in or using other opium.\n\n14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-520-8 Memorandum on use of Opium 1-11-1929 - 30-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535188, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "content_text": "18-\n\nHe is now\n\n75-\n\nto ask the Court to grant him a free pardon. He is undergoing a sentence of imprisonment in gaol for possession\n\nof a firearm.\n\nAs to the other man, number 10, he will deny actual complicity in the commission of the murder.\n\nWhether you believe him or not in that respect, his evidence will corroborate in many material particulars that of the chauffeur Chui. The Crown admits - as we are bound to admit - that these two are dangerous and worthless scoundrels, but their evidence as to how the murder was actually planned and committed is corroborated in so many other particulars by other witnesses that we suggest it is worthy of credence.\n\nThis brings me to the third and final part of my opening. The actual plot that was carried to a successful conclusion was hatched long before Christie and Zimmern came into the picture, on about 23rd February, which you will remember was the very day after the day that Lai Hing Fai left accused and threw in her lot with the deceased.\n\nAbout that day, the man Chui will tell you, he went to an address in Wanchai, number 26 Tiu Kwan Street at which the Hong Kong Hotel bus driver was living and he there met the accused's chauffeur Lau and had some conversation with him.\n\nAll three of these men are natives of Shanghai: Chui already knew Lau slightly as the driver of the Austin Seven number 4 and the Studebaker number 2002. The next day Lau met Chui in Chater Road on the pavement, gave him some food in a tea house and had a further conversation with him.\n\nSome days later the two met again, and after visiting 26 Yiu Wah Street and an opium divan, they met about 8 o'clock by arrangement that same evening at the Star Ferry and proceeded over to Kowloon. Apparently by chance, on that very ferry was the deceased, George Fung, and Lau took the opportunity of pointing him out to Chui.\n\nA few", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544722, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Para. 13\nThe decrease in the Government sales of opium is due to the cheapness of raw Chinese opium, and never before has opium smoking been so widespread.\n\n## Para. 21\nAttention was devoted to the question of the smuggling of opium to Malaya by Japanese motor schooners.\n\n## Para. 23\ngives an account of a concentrated drive against divans, which extended over a period of 6 months.\n\n## Para. 26\nThe keeping of divans is far more prevalent than previously, and the falling off in the sales of Government opium is not due to any decrease in the number of smokers. The cheapness of Chinese opium resulted in an increase in the number of smokers.\n\n## Paras. 28 to 31\ncontain evidence of opium smuggling on a large scale.\n\n## Para. 40\nThe flaw discovered in the legislation designed to throw responsibility on the tenants of a floor or building who knowingly permitted any portion of their premises to be used as an opium divan, has been remedied by `Ordinance 7 of 1934` (`33800/6/34`).\n\n## STATISTICS\n## Para. 42\nAs a result of the embargoes on the free export of gold imposed by China and Japan, large quantities of the metal were smuggled into Hong Kong for shipment to the U.K. and U.S.A. 20-cent pieces were smuggled out of South China for shipment to North China, where the silver was extracted for profit.\n\n## Para. 45\nA comparison of the volume in and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544912, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## 18. \nThe whole of the Chinese raw opium seized was the produce of Yunnan. It is doubtful if any came from Kweichow province; it is not yet known how the produce of the latter can be distinguished, and so far as is known it has never come to this Colony nor has any mention ever been made of it in any of the thousands of documents relating to opium which have been examined by me during the past 12 years. It may well be that it is blended with Yunnan in Kwangsi and sold as such, the quality being reckoned as distinctly inferior.\n\n## 19. \nA new type of Chinese raw opium was encountered during the year, in several seizures. It occurred in stone-hard blocks each weighing exactly one pound. It was blackish with a black-brown fracture. Each brick was covered with Chinese cream-coloured soft texture wrapping paper, on which was stamped the Chinese characters meaning \"number two.\" On first breaking, no smell of opium was apparent, but on slightly warming, the typical smell of Yunnan raw opium was at once apparent. The shape of the bricks and the weight corresponded with that of Persian opium, but the interior appearance was distinct. Ordinary raw Yunnan opium had apparently been heated to drive off all moisture, and the result then melted and pressed into bricks while still hot. The place of manufacture could not be ascertained, but there was some evidence that it came to Hong Kong from Pakhoi, a port from which in former years a considerable amount of Yunnan opium was exported to this Colony. None of the seizures were made on any importing ship.\n\n## Persian Opium\n20. There were six seizures of Persian opium, only one of which was found on the importing vessel, a junk which had come direct from Macau to the island of Cheung Chow where the opium was seized.\n\n## Smuggling to Malaya by Japanese Motor Schooners\n21. As the result of information received, a considerable amount of time was devoted to the investigation of smuggling by Japanese motor schooners to Malaya. As the result, indirectly, of information given by this office, part of the opium landed from a Japanese motor schooner was seized on islands off the East coast of Johore about 150 miles from Singapore. It had been known to the Singapore Monopoly Department that at least three such vessels had already landed opium nearby, but no large seizures had been made. These tiny craft may be seen frequently anchored off Wanchai; they are generally manned by Formosans with a Japanese captain, and they have long been a source of trouble here as they rarely enter or clear unless compelled to do so. Until recently, their chief source of income has been smuggling into China, but after the capture of several by Chinese Customs cruisers, they seem to have diverted their smuggling propensities to Malaya. These craft, in a calm sea, have a fair speed, and seem to be proof against typhoons and the North East monsoon, though in appearance they are the frailest of craft.\n\n## Prepared Opium\n22. Of the Red Lion brand seized, at least 8,200 taels were destined for export and were seized on the point of being conveyed out of the port, and it is probable that little of the remainder, 2,800 taels, was actually intended for consumption here. For during the drive against opium divans mentioned below, not one single tin of Red Lion was found in use. In former years, this brand was the one most commonly found in any house searched for opium, but during the year, this brand completely disappeared from the local market, doubtless owing to the cheapness of Chinese raw opium. Most of that given in Table XIV under the heading \"doubtful\" was found in divans and had been prepared on the premises or elsewhere in the Colony from Chinese raw opium. Only one comparatively small amount of Red Lion was found on a vessel coming from Macau direct, quite different from past years when few ships coming direct from Macau failed to have some Red Lion on board. Wuchow maintained a steady supply, mostly in small quantities at a time, the total amount differing little from past years.\n\n## Opium Divans\n23. From the end of April till the end of October, a concentrated drive was made against divans, the results being tabulated in Appendix I. The results would have been still more outstanding had not sickness caused the withdrawal of two of the European Officers concerned. Attention was concentrated on the larger divans using four or more lamps. The small one and two lamps divans were only dealt with when found by accident. If the number of pipes seized were multiplied by six, a minimum total would be arrived at for the number of smokers of illicit opium amongst the lower classes; this would give a total of 32,000 smokers. Most of the divans had been in existence some time, and had a regular list of patrons who had ledger accounts and only paid occasionally in lump sums as convenient. It was common to find divans with 20 to 30 ledger accounts as well as a larger number of casual smokers, who paid cash for their opium. The gaol accommodation soon became overcrowded, and large numbers had to be released. Few permit fines were paid as the real owner of the divan was rarely caught. The coolie in charge, known in Chinese as the \"T'ai Tang,\" the lamp watcher, was the man who went to prison. Imprisonment had no deterrent effect whatsoever, unless he was a heavy opium smoker, in which case he would rarely be trusted with the running of a divan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544913, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "280\n\nE 8-\n\n24. The amount spent in the divans ran from ten cents to thirty cents per visit; occasionally larger sums were found entered, but this would be for opium sold to take away, for many of the divans, especially those preparing their own opium, did a considerable retail trade in opium. Some owners were reported to run ten or more divans; in some cases, divans were rented out. An extract from accounts found in a rented divan is given in Appendix II. Once a floor had become known as a divan, a considerable goodwill attached to the premises for use as such. In one case, in the Central District, one floor was found in use as a divan four times within a few months, each time under a new master.\n\nIn a case in Kowloon, a divan was raided one day, and the master was convicted and sent to prison the next morning. The officer making the arrest, out of curiosity, called at the old address on his way back from the Court and found the divan in full swing again with a complete new outfit, keeper, and attendants.\n\n25. Smokers were not, as a rule, arrested as the Courts and Police Stations, as well as the prisons, were kept busy enough as it was to accommodate all those brought in from divans. Most of the smokers appeared to belong to the working classes but appeared to find time to visit divans during the daytime, when most of the divan work was done. As it was the object to arrest the master and seize the illicit opium, it was found easier to identify the master when the divan was not crowded, as at night.\n\n26. As a result of the campaign, it was definitely proved that the keeping of divans was far more prevalent than before, and that the falling off in the sales of Government opium was not due to any decrease in the number of smokers. The real truth would appear to be that the cheapness of Chinese opium has much increased the number of smokers. In spite of the unemployment which prevailed, ten cents at least per day was available for a smoke in a divan, and an old client could always obtain considerable credit in the larger divans.\n\n27. The opium used in the divans, in spite of the low price of raw opium, was much adulterated; low-grade dross and various kinds of gums being used extensively as filling. Only very occasionally was opium found in the original brass tins as imported.\n\n## Opium Smuggling in General\n\n28. Apart from seven large seizures amounting to 22,220 taels, the average amount of raw opium in a single seizure was 54 taels, an amount which could be easily carried tied round the waist, especially by women. With the exception of the large seizures, the majority was found on mere carriers and in the course of delivery to a host of small dealers. Smuggling by train was very prevalent in the earlier part of the year, and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544915, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "282\n\nE 10\n\nin the divans. It is not, however, known whether any smokers smoked either one or the other indiscriminately according to their inclination at the moment.\n\n33. In several cases, smokers in opium divans were found smoking pills which, on analysis, proved to contain no substance usually classed as a narcotic. Such pills were found always to contain caffeine as the chief constituent, together with quinine, cinchonine, aspirin, or strychnine. The colour was, as a rule, a very pale pink, and the pills were more roughly made than the genuine kind. The number of cases where such were found being consumed in opium divans tended to give rise to the question as to whether caffeine was not the chief ingredient demanded by the smoker, and that heroin was perhaps a refinement unnecessary for the unsophisticated.\n\n34. One small seizure was made of black pills which, in appearance, were similar to the anti-opium pills freely sold twenty years ago in China, in the days of strict opium suppression, and composed mostly of opium dross. Analysis, however, proved them to be ordinary heroin pills of excellent quality, the only difference being that some very persistent blue-black dye was used in the mix instead of the usual red or pink dye. Presumably, the alteration in colour was with the idea of passing them off as ordinary Chinese medicinal pills, many of which are black.\n\n35. Four seizures were made of materials and apparatus for the manufacture of heroin pills; in one case, though the factory was not actually working when raided, work had been suspended not long before. In the other three cases, the materials were not set out and were apparently in the course of removal or arrangement in new premises. The materials seized included the following: refined icing and milk sugar, gum acacia, gum tragacanth, various pink or red dyes, especially fuchine, aspirin, quinine, salicylic acid, strychnine, caffeine in considerable quantity, atoxicocaine, and strong nitric acid. Heroin was actually discovered in one case only. It was reported that the small quantity of heroin required was brought in by the actual owner of the factory just as it was required when all the other constituents had been added. No formula was found, which could be deciphered.\n\n36. In one case, a mass of material was found for making pills of various colours ranging from a very pale to a deep pink and from pale yellow to almost brown. No heroin was found in these pills, but only codeine and caffeine, and two bottles containing a mixture of codeine and caffeine. Though this mixture was not illegal, the person concerned did not claim the material. Though pills of much the same variety of colours were afterwards seized, they were found to contain heroin. No pills containing codeine and caffeine were found elsewhere.\n\nE 11\n\n37. The commonest pill found was the brand called \"Fierce Tiger,\" the latest label, adopted in August last, being in colours showing a large tiger with one paw on a rock with a small bird in flight above. According to enquiries made, the factory is situated in Chinese territory, and the pills, in bags of one thousand each, could readily be purchased in Shanghai. They claim to be made by a firm calling itself the \"Lung Ma foreign firm.\" This brand contains the most heroin, and is always of a deep pink and is the best-made pill of the kind encountered. Seizures were made on ships coming from Shanghai, and in the possession of persons either natives of or coming recently from Shanghai. In one case, a Shanghai pill dealer was arrested in an opium and heroin pill divan with a packet of pills in every pocket; he was on his rounds of the divans to sell them their day's supply.\n\nA certain number of pills come from Kongmoon; these cannot be mistaken for the Tiger brand, being of a light pink shade. A certain number come from Canton, whence came also some of the pill-making material seized.\n\n## VI. DANGEROUS DRUGS\n\n38. Only one seizure of importance was made—that of four pounds of morphia, which was seized en route to Manila together with Red Lion prepared opium. The different weights were written in Chinese on the packages. One small package was rather crude, discoloured morphia, and the majority had been mixed with caffeine, while a loose label was found enclosed giving a long description in Chinese of its efficacy as a cough medicine. After careful analysis, the analyst pronounced that the morphia itself was not very pure originally before its admixture with caffeine and was of the type to be expected from any factory working in rather a crude way.\n\n## VII. OPIUM SHOPS\n\n39. The number of Government shops for the retailing of opium remained at 6, while the number of salaried retailers using their own premises was further reduced to 24, all in the outlying portions of the urban area or in the country districts. By far the greater proportion of the opium sold was retailed through the Government shops, very little being sold in the outlying districts.\n\n## VIII. LEGISLATION\n\n40. An attempt was made by legislation to throw responsibility on the tenants of a floor or building who knowingly permitted any portion of their premises to be used as an opium divan by their sub-tenants. Several convictions were obtained until one magistrate held that, as the person generally known as the \"Principal Tenant\" had parted with the control of the cubicle, bed-space, or cock-loft by the fact that he sub-let, he\n\n283", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544916, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "284\n\nE 12\n\ncould not at the same time be held to be in control. On the advice of the law officers, an appeal was taken to the Full Court, which upheld the magistrate's decision. The position is still under the consideration of the law officers, with a view to devising some phraseology that will express clearly the intention of the Legislature without any possibility of mistake. It was amply proved during the divan campaign referred to above that there is a valuable goodwill attached to premises that have become known as divans, and that this goodwill is a valuable asset to the principal tenant and enables him to demand more rent from any person intending to use the cubicle, cock-loft, or bed-space as an opium divan rather than as a family residence. In many cases, the principal tenant, who lived himself in the front portion of the floor, i.e., that nearest the verandah, was the real owner of the divan conducted in the remainder of the floor but always escaped the consequences because the coolie in charge of the divan was prepared in all cases to take all the responsibility and claim to be the master, producing rent receipts given by the principal tenant made out in his name as tenant for the portion of the floor actually used as a divan.\n\n## IX.-TRADE STATISTICS\n\n41. The work of collecting and compiling statistics of the imports and exports trade continued smoothly during the year, but the anticipated decrease in the actual work of the office was not realized. Early in the year, there was reason to believe that, with the continued decline in the trade of the Colony, there would be a corresponding decrease in the labour involved in compiling reports, but this did not prove to be the case. The number of declarations received declined by an average of only 1,238 per month, while the average numbers of queries sent out increased from 1,500 to 2,000 per month.\n\n42. Every effort was made to ensure complete and accurate trade returns, but the figures for imports of Treasure and exports of merchandise to South and Middle China were seriously vitiated by circumstances over which the Department had no control. As a result of embargoes on the free export of gold enforced by China and Japan, large quantities of the metal were smuggled out of these countries and secretly imported into Hong Kong for ultimate shipment to the United Kingdom and U.S.A. Gold thus entering the Colony was neither manifested nor declared, and it can be reasonably presumed that the bulk of the export surplus, which amounted to $83.0 millions, consisted of concealed imports from China and Japan.\n\nIn regard to movements of silver subsidiary coin, there was an excess of exports of Canton 20-cent pieces amounting to $20.0 millions. This coin was smuggled out of South China and destined for North China, where the silver content was extracted for profit purposes made possible by the depreciated state of Canton currency.\n\nE 13\n\n43. The demand for monthly and annual issues of the Trade Returns showed a further increase; stocks held by the Statistical Office and the Government Printers being exhausted in several instances, despite the printing of additional copies.\n\n44. In June, the Statistical Office was removed from the Beaconsfield Arcade premises, which were immediately afterwards demolished, to the first floor of No. 18, Johnston Road, the building formerly known as the Seamen's Institute. The change-over has proved satisfactory in every way, but on account of the comparative inaccessibility of the Wanchai Office to the majority of firms, which are located in the Central and Western districts, a branch receiving office was established on the ground floor of the Fire Brigade Building, in Connaught Road, Central.\n\n45. In order to estimate with greater accuracy the actual volume of the trade of the Colony than is possible by a statement of values only, an index figure was constructed, taking the year 1931 as a base. Two hundred and two articles, including the commonest that could be enumerated by quantity, were selected. The comparison is given below.\n\n| Year | Index Figure | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1931 | 100 | 100 |\n| 1932 | 92.3 | 89.1 |\n| 1933 | ... | 89.9 |\n| 28th February, 1934 | ... | 73.2 |\n\n**J. D. LLOYD, Superintendent**\n\n285", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544929, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 235, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Appendix II.\n\nTranslation of an inventory seized in a rented divan.\n\nBorrowed from Ah Pun Furniture and Opium Implements. In case of loss or breakage compensation will be paid on their full value.\n\nList of articles is enumerated below:-\n\n| Article | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| Two Opium Pipes | $14.00 |\n| Four Opium Tops | 4.00 |\n| One Tea Pot | .90 |\n| Five Tea Cups | .25 |\n| One Tea Pot Tray | .30 |\n| Two Opium Lamps | 1.40 |\n| Two Opium Trays | .80 |\n| One Opium Dross Tin | .25 |\n| Four Scrapers | .30 |\n| One Oil Pot | .15 |\n| Two Enamel Plates | .20 |\n| Two Opium Dross Plates | .10 |\n| Six Pillows | .75 |\n| One Brass Lock | .15 |\n| One Set of Scales | .35 |\n| Two pieces of Matting | ... |\n| One Soft Pillow | ... |\n| One Table Clock | 3.00 |\n| One Horn Pot (large size) | .80 |\n| One Horn Pot (Medium Size) | .50 |\n| One Horn Pot (Small Size) | .30 |\n\nWith the exception of Opium Pipes and Tops, for other articles compensation will be paid at 70% or 80% of their value.\n\n## Appendix III.\n\nItems extracted from the accounts found in a large divan using 16 opium lamps in the district of Wanchai.\n\n1. Rent for the whole floor per month $34.\n2. Fees paid to Chinese Police or Revenue Officers every week, individual payments from 30 cents up to $3.\n3. Takings cash varied from $250 to $310 per month.\n4. 13 Ledger accounts outstanding were carried over at the end of the year 1932.\n5. 16 Ledger accounts were active in the new year.\n6. Purchases of prepared opium per month varied from 60 to 80 taels, in addition to some dross, and raw opium.\n7. Prices for prepared opium in 1932, $2.20 to $2.40 per tael, in 1933 $1.90 to $2.10 per tael.\n8. Expenses for February 1933 :-\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Opium | $170.10 |\n| Rent | 34.00 |\n| Wages of a woman | 12.00 |\n| Food | 10.00 |\n| Miscellaneous | 31.20 |\n| **Total** | **$257.30** |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545258, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-5 Opium Amendment Ordinance 1934 29-5-1934 - 29-5-1934", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-548-5 Opium Amendment Ordinance 1934 29-5-1934 - 29-5-1934", "content_text": "# [1] Tov: 324\n\nSubunits Order of 1934 Opium Amendment.\n\n29-5-34\n\nSpaws 65\n\nLibrary\n\nis to be liable to landlords and Punishment in Exttung\n\nThe object of the Opium Ordinance amendment **Re 15** of the Ordinance which is affected by this Ordinance is to make lessors (and thus agents) liable in the event of their subletting property with the knowledge that it is to be used as an opium divan, or if they consent to the use of the property as an opium divan after subletting. A loophole has been found to exist in the principal Ordinance as amended by Ordinance 16/1933, which is thereby closed.\n\nIn view of Mr. Packin's minute of 3/6/34 on `13717/12/34`, it is considered that this Ordinance should not be disallowed for objections, but should, subject to legal objections and objections by E.P., (i) ... (ii) Send a copy of (1) with End: to Colonial Secretary for non-disallowance.\n\n`L/F ref:` (3) on `13714/12/33`\n\nHE. Bador\n\n5.7.34\n\n**Minute**\n\nNo legal observations on return.\n\nC. A. Trusted\n\n20/8/34\n\n`Lib: 1278/34`\n\n**Distribution**\n\n3 To HD w/c (1) - B.12, received 13 JUL 1934\nQ a hou So H. Kong. 260. (ilms) 9/3 - 11 JUL 1934", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-5 Opium Amendment Ordinance 1934 29-5-1934 - 29-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545261, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-5 Opium Amendment Ordinance 1934 29-5-1934 - 29-5-1934", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-548-5 Opium Amendment Ordinance 1934 29-5-1934 - 29-5-1934", "content_text": "# HONG KONG.\n\n## No. 7 of 1934.\n\nI assent.\n\n**W. PEEL,**\n\nL.S.\n\n**Governor.**\n\n18th May, 1934.\n\n## An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Opium.\n\n[18th May, 1934.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the **Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1934**. \n ### Short title.\n\n2. Section 15 of the **Opium Ordinance, 1932**, as amended by the **Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1933**, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n ### Substitution for Ordinance No. 7 of 1932, s. 15, as amended by Ordinance No. 16 of 1933.\n\n### Opium divans and smoking therein prohibited.\n\n15.-(1) No person shall\n - (a) smoke opium in any opium divan; or\n - (b) keep or manage or act or assist in the management of any opium divan; or\n - (c) being the tenant, lessee, occupier, or person in charge of any place, knowingly permit such place or any part thereof to be used as an opium divan; or\n - (d) being the lessor or landlord of any place, or the agent of such lessor or landlord, let the same with the knowledge that such place or some part thereof is to be used as an opium divan, or consent to the use, at any time, of such place or any part thereof as an opium divan.\n\n(2) In and for the purposes of this section\n - (a) \"lessee\" and \"tenant\" respectively include any sub-lessee or sub-tenant;\n - (b) \"lessor\" and \"landlord\" respectively include the holder of any lease or tenancy who has sublet his holding or any part thereof; and\n - (c) the lessor or landlord of any place, or the agent of such lessor or landlord, shall be presumed to have consented to the use of such place or of any part thereof as an opium divan, if it is proved, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, that he knew of such use, and failed forthwith to proceed to put an end to the same, by making a report at any police station or by terminating the lease or tenancy.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 17th day of May, 1934.\n\n**R. A. C. NORTH,**\n\n**Deputy Clerk of Councils.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-5 Opium Amendment Ordinance 1934 29-5-1934 - 29-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545262, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-5 Opium Amendment Ordinance 1934 29-5-1934 - 29-5-1934", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-548-5 Opium Amendment Ordinance 1934 29-5-1934 - 29-5-1934", "content_text": "# REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1934\n\n## ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS, Hong Kong, 22nd May 1934\n\n1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, intituled an Ordinance to amend the law relating to Opium, and am of opinion that it is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2. By Section 3 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1933, there was added to Section 15 of the Opium Ordinance, 1932, a new sub-section (s.s.3), which read as follows: \"No person being the owner or occupier of any premises, or having, or acting or assisting in, the management or control thereof, shall knowingly suffer any person to use the same as an opium divan.\" This provision was aimed mainly at principal tenants of floors in Chinese tenement houses on which divans were found, but it failed in its object, since on appeal by the Crown from the decision of a magistrate it was held by the Full Court that the tenant of such a floor was not the occupier of a portion which had been sublet by him to another person, and further that proof of mere knowledge in such tenant that such portion was used as a divan was not enough to make him liable under the section.\n\n3. The present amendment substitutes for Section 15 of the principal Ordinance a new section, of which sub-section (1) re-enacts in different terms the provisions of old section 15 relating to persons who smoke in, keep, or occupy divans, or as tenants allow their premises to be used as divans, and in new paragraph (d), which has been framed on the lines of section 13 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, (48 & 49 Vict. c.69), further forbids a landlord or lessor knowingly to let, or having let to consent to the use of, his premises or any part thereof as a divan. Sub-section (2) indicates the scope of the terms \"lessee\", \"tenant\", \"lessor\" and \"landlord\" used in the section, and the steps which a lessor or landlord who becomes aware that the premises let by him are being used as a divan must take in order to discharge his liability under sub-section (1) (a).\n\n4. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\n**Je Rosell** \nAttorney General.\n\nPage 6 \nPage 33800 \n8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-5 Opium Amendment Ordinance 1934 29-5-1934 - 29-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553421, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "15\n\nX \n\nThe colonies which are not defendant upon our croh. \n\nSee minutes on No.1. \n\nSee enclosure 5 to 5.\n\nX \n\non instruction from the S/S.\n\n5. It is normally the Colony's aim to maintain its surplus of assets at or above a figure of $10,000,000. This is less than one-third of annual revenue, and the figure which we have usually aimed at in the case of other Colonies is that of at least six months' revenue. In the present circumstances, however, the O.A.G. has judged it better to risk the surplus falling below the amount normally aimed at, rather than to impose additional taxation, and in view of the difficulty of making any calculations of the effect of the disturbances, it has already been decided that there is no objection to this. \n\nIt may be noted that the new procedure for consideration of the Estimates suggested by Sir Andrew Caldecott last year has been deferred until Sir Geoffry Northcote has an opportunity of expressing any views upon the question.\n\nThe general policy followed in the Estimates and the Colonial Government's decision not to impose new taxation was (not unnaturally) welcomed by Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council. The following points from discussion of the Estimates by the Council may be noted.\n\n(a) The senior member and the senior Chinese member both mentioned the menace of the growth in illicit traffic in heroin, and proposed that the keeping of a heroin divan should be made an offence punishable by flogging. This suggestion was turned down by the Colonial Secretary.\n\n(b) The senior member also wished to increase", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553561, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n113\n\nWe deplore the fact that our Budget for Public Works Extraordinary for 1938 has been reduced to so low a limit, because we consider that a modern hospital for infectious diseases, and a new Volunteer Headquarters are urgently required. The last-named building is a disgrace to a first-class Colony, and we suggest that (whilst preserving the present Volunteer parade-ground) a new Headquarters and a second parade-ground ought to be provided by the Government. We suggest that the cost of these two buildings can properly be met out of Loan Account, just as appropriately as the cost of the new Central Market.\n\nWe hope that the recent complaints by the Kowloon Residents Association in regard to the Kowloon Mortuary will receive attention, and we should like to be informed how far the scheme for a new leper settlement and a clinic in connection therewith has progressed.\n\nWhilst agreeing in the necessity for a new Mental Hospital, we hope that the expensive plans which have been prepared in the past will be abandoned.\n\nWe are glad to note that early next year air-mail will probably be carried at ordinary rates, though at a considerable expense to the Colony in subsidies.\n\nPassing on to the Imports and Exports Department, we are struck by various disquieting features which are revealed in the Report of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports for 1936. For instance, paragraph 19 speaks of \"the overwhelming growth of the menace of heroin pills,\" whilst paragraph 35 states that during 1936 \"in 526 cases, 3,606,707 pills and 771 ounces of heroin were seized, a large majority of which were found in pill factories.\" Paragraph 42 estimates the number of heroin divans in this Colony as being in the neighbourhood of 2,000, whilst paragraph 49 shows that this disgraceful traffic has invaded the New Territories, with main centres at Un Long, Sheung Shui and Taipo.\n\nWe are therefore glad to learn that the Government has in hand new legislation to cope with heroin divans and pill factories, which will, in due course, be submitted to this Council for consideration.\n\nWe would urge, in this connection, that the keeping of a heroin divan ought to be added to the list of offences which are punishable by flogging. In China, we believe that purveyors of noxious drugs and persistent drug addicts are shot.\n\nWe view the proposals for the construction of a third Court at the Central Magistracy with mixed feelings, because we consider that the number of cases tried by the Magistrates or, to put the matter in another way, the considerable increase in various forms of crime is due to a great extent to the somewhat too luxurious accommodation for prisoners which is provided in the new four million dollar gaol at \n\n177", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 559576, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-569-7 Revision of salaries 6-7-1938 - 11-10-1938", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-569-7 Revision of salaries 6-7-1938 - 11-10-1938", "content_text": "4\n\n63\n\nCOZEBEWPHL Honɛɛi .PROX PHON .Stel,red‡50 DIE 1 (zob Laitnstamos yu to noitumitaoc MI + JAITMEⱭLEMCO BRI £2 28 „MJiWSTON DIPWIO) of Tponor out evad I,501,1ǝdratqsë nottifaq s to asiyoo aar (Jslugaf IzinoícƆ yd bertUPST to 2199niɣnë bie zrsenignë evidnoskā sild gď voy of batti.cua Jasatinged 2x10 silde; alt anoitine20 a to estqoo el barvit moitite s.T .S polaznosib sið 20 zsgate apoitev 3: Jasuntovce ve abuz ybseils bas omedor VIB(BZ W90 aut to nolinmortal edt 102 alucoqor 10 and yɗ áchranno991 atm -xfore and to noitester gift 101 zazs shizeoniyne, ent to zebung Ile zot esel to noiɛaimot asinale2 ni proit.au3291431 27 .Jnentisqat ext0W sfidcü ən 101.0 zvilazona 93 to fruges so eroted futiliano 91ew miJceup nd benebienoo oals his mot imi. edi ni bədyoba zaw sattimmo✪ * quietcon I „drogen Salt útis inemsergs beaasiqxo I stoled su „motit q alt i atasuper 9t troqque † sidan saym bnit actaqesh [Bilva linjo yn to S agergstsq ai betetz 21 .E (Ifanigito settimco) astfɛmona sd‡,8¿el,radmə‡qeĉ vídd to bavkugyo 291902 wen edt ni zstiolez to isval Imisaeg siit koht ... ten bih En.. hodafldujas 2. Tel al Tozzsosbery woy yď Ciptasto zmet Tisät ai.tiæ ad of ji ko wa.ven adt e 20w auibua yalez to noiziver and to atostdo oɔia.d edi dalw ani! otni viszoló ston ynolo0 atult ni asinsisa gnind of İn: vtiq mã isinoloù alt to stay usdto ni gailievenq 920.it „Bořila japo ai ylene... Jom zeinaisa ddiw NORİTaque 2 00 sad to atra redto Jud „hsau vileqiontıq Isbon sad zaw dolde\n\nI have of salaries in other parts of the Colonial Empire suggest that an Executive Engineer in Hong Kong, even on the new scale, would not benefit on promotion to any post elsewhere except the Directorship in a dozen or so territories or a Deputy-Directorship in three or four of the largest (Malaya, Ceylon, Nigeria and possibly the Gold Coast); I cannot, however, regard that state of affairs as obliging this Government to offer better prospects here. I would also observe that some improvement in promotion prospects is afforded by the recommendation which is being made for the grant of the salary and status of an Assistant Director of Public Works to the Water Engineer.\n\n9.\n\nCertain minor points are raised:-\n\n(a) Objection is made to the calculation of rent and rent allowances on the basis of acting salary but this appears essential to deal with the case of men on salaries carrying the old terms as to quarters acting in posts carrying the new terms. For example, without such provision an Executive Engineer on the old terms acting as Assistant Director of Public Works would not get free quarters and might then receive no benefit at all from his acting appointment.\n\n(b) To meet the complaint about acting pay a proposal to give a fixed allowance of £150 to engineers acting as Executive Engineers has been incorporated in the final report of the Anomalies Committee.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n& ERGARDO... THEIS LIT FAIDAM KIDNA ..\n\nGovernor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-569-7 Revision of salaries 6-7-1938 - 11-10-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563482, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "content_text": "# HONG KONG.\n\nNo. 7 of 1932.\n\nI assent.\n\n**W. PEEL,**\n\nL.S.\n\nGovernor.\n\n8th April, 1932.\n\n## An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to opium\n\n[8th April, 1932.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n\n### PART I.\n\n#### PRELIMINARY.\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the **Opium Ordinance, 1932**.\n\n2. (1) In this Ordinance;\n\n#### Interpretation.\n\n(a) \"Divan keeper\" means the occupier or person having the use, temporarily, of any opium divan, or any person having or appearing to have the care or management of such place, and also any person who acts in any manner assisting in conducting the business of any such place or keeping watch in or about the same.\n\n(b) \"To export\" means to carry or otherwise despatch out of the Colony or to cause to be carried or despatched out of the Colony and includes the conveyance of opium out of the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the carriage out of the Colony of opium which was carried into the Colony by water or by air and which is carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which it was carried into the Colony with or without any landing or transhipment.\n\n(c) \"Implement\" means any vessel, utensil, instrument, or other thing which has been used, or which is probably intended to be used, for containing opium, or for preparing or aiding in preparing any opium, or for smoking opium.\n\n(d) \"To import\" means to carry or otherwise despatch into the Colony or to cause to be carried or otherwise despatched into the Colony and includes the conveyance of opium into the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the carriage by water or by air into the Colony of opium which is intended to be carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which it was carried into the Colony with or without any landing or transhipment.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563483, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "content_text": "# Ordinance Definitions and Regulations\n\n## Definitions\n\n(e) \"**Opium**\" includes raw opium, prepared opium, and opium dross, and every substance in which raw opium, prepared opium or opium dross forms an ingredient.\n\n\"**Opium divan**\" means any place opened, kept, or used—\n(i) for the sale of prepared opium to be smoked in such place; or\n(ii) for the smoking of prepared opium where a fee or its equivalent is charged for such smoking or where any benefit or advantage whatever, direct or indirect, is derived by the keeper of such place in consequence of the smoking of prepared opium in such place.\n\n(g) \"**Opium dross**\" means the residuum produced by smoking prepared opium.\n\n(h) Any opium, implement, or other thing shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be in the **possession** of any person if he has such opium, implement, or thing in possession, custody or control, by himself or by any other person.\n\n(i) \"**Person**,\" except so far as relates to the imposition of the penalty of imprisonment, includes a body corporate and a firm.\n\n(j) \"**Prepared opium**\" includes every preparation of opium, and every substance in which opium forms an ingredient which preparation or substance is used or intended to be used for smoking, or for use as a substitute for smoking opium.\n\n(k) \"**Preparing opium**\" includes—\n(i) every act in the process or intended process of converting opium, or any substance or solution in which opium forms an ingredient, into prepared opium, and\n(ii) the subjecting of opium, or of any substance or solution in which opium forms an ingredient, to any degree of artificial heat, for any purpose whatsoever.\n\n(l) \"**Raw opium**\" means any kind of opium not prepared for smoking, chewing, swallowing or injecting and includes the leaves or wrappings in which raw opium has been wrapped, but does not include opium dross.\n\n(m) \"**Ship**\" includes every description of vessel used in navigation or for the carriage or storage of goods, and includes all aircraft.\n\n(n) \"**Superintendent**\" means the Superintendent of Imports and Exports.\n\n(o) \"**Wharf**\" includes every place used as a landing place and every warehouse or place adjoining a landing place or used in connexion therewith.\n\n## Corresponding Law\n\n(2) \"**Corresponding law**\" in this Ordinance means any law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the government of any place outside the Colony to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that place of the manufacture, sale, use, export and import of opium in accordance with the provisions of the International Opium Convention signed at Geneva in 1925...\n\nAny such certificate shall be admitted in evidence upon production by or on behalf of the Superintendent in any proceeding.\n\n## Regulations\n\n3. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for any of the following purposes: -\n| Purpose |\n| --- |\n| (a) to determine the prices at which prepared opium may be sold to the public; |\n| (b) to regulate the management of places for the sale of prepared opium; |\n| (c) to prescribe the fees, if any, to be payable for licences, permits and authorities issuable under this Ordinance; |\n| (d) to alter or add to any of the forms in the `Schedule`; |\n| (e) generally, to prohibit or control the importation, exportation, manufacture, sale, possession, movement, distribution, and smoking of opium, and the dealing in opium. |\n\n(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council... and if a resolution is passed... resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded, or amended in any manner whatsoever...\n\n## PART II. RAW OPIUM\n\n4. (1) No person shall... buy or sell, or supply or procure, or offer to supply or procure, or otherwise deal in or offer to deal in, any raw opium...\n\n(2) Subject to the obtaining of a licence granted by the Colonial Secretary before importation, any raw opium which is imported by water... may be imported into the Colony...\n\nThe following conditions shall be complied with:\n| Condition |\n| --- |\n| (a) The ship on which the raw opium is imported shall proceed direct and forthwith to the harbour of Victoria... |\n| (b) Full particulars as to the description, weight, consignors, consignees and destination of the raw opium... shall appear in the manifest of the said ship. |\n| (c) The presence of the raw opium on board the said ship shall be reported in writing to the Superintendent... |\n| (d) The raw opium shall not be removed from the ship on which it was imported, or in any way moved in the Colony after removal from such ship, or exported, except under, and in accordance with, a removal or export permit issued by the Superintendent. |\n| (e) The chest, box, case or package containing the raw opium shall be imported, and shall while in the Colony be maintained, unopened and unbroken... |\n| (f) A certificate in `Form No. 1` in the `Schedule` or in some form which appears to the Superintendent to be equivalent shall accompany the raw opium on the said ship... |\n| (g) The raw opium shall be exported with all reasonable expedition. |\n| (h) The ship on which the raw opium is exported shall, on leaving the harbour of Victoria, proceed direct and forthwith out of the waters of the Colony. |\n| (i) The exportation of the raw opium shall be reported in writing to the Superintendent... |\n\nPage 10\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563485, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "content_text": "## Opium divans and smoking therein prohibited. Presumptions (1) as to opium divans, (2) as to smoking opium in an opium divan. Unlawful possession of Government opium labels and wrappers.\n\n15.-(1) No person shall open or keep an opium divan.\n\n(2) No person shall smoke opium in any opium divan.\n\n(3) No person shall aid, abet, counsel or procure any such sale, purchase, smoking or possession is mentioned in section (2).\n\n16. (1) Where two or more persons are found smoking opium in any place, such persons not being residents in the said place, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed-\n| Condition | Presumption |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | that the said place is an opium divan; and |\n| (b) | that the tenant or occupier of the said place is keeping the said place as an opium divan, provided that such tenant or occupier or a servant of such tenant or occupier is present at the time of the finding of such persons. |\n\n(2) Every person found in any opium divan or found escaping therefrom on the occasion of its being entered under this Ordinance shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to be or to have been smoking opium therein.\n\n17. (1) No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, have in his possession, except attached to a receptacle issued by the Superintendent and containing Government prepared opium, any label or wrapper of a kind used by the Superintendent for affixing to receptacles containing Government prepared opium, or any portion of any such label or wrapper.\n\n(2) No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, have in his possession, except attached to a receptacle issued by the Superintendent and containing the full quantity of Government prepared opium contained therein at the time of issue, any label or wrapper of a kind used by the Superintendent for affixing to receptacles containing Government prepared opium, unless such label or wrapper has been broken in such a way as to make it impracticable to use the label or wrapper again.\n\n## Opium labels, etc., resembling Government and dies, etc., for the production of such labels, etc.\n\n18-(1) No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, have in his possession any label, wrapper, or mark, so resembling any label, wrapper, or mark used by the Superintendent in connection with Government prepared opium as to constitute a colourable imitation thereof, or have in his possession any die, block, or type apparently intended for the production of any such label, wrapper, or mark.\n\n(2) For the purposes of this section, \"label\", \"wrapper\", \"mark\", \"die\", \"block\" and \"type\" shall be deemed respectively to include any portion of a label, wrapper, mark, die, block or type.\n\n19. No person shall mix anything with prepared opium with the intention of causing it to be believed that such prepared opium is Government prepared opium, or shall counterfeit any mark used by the Superintendent to denote that the prepared opium contained in any receptacle is Government prepared opium, or shall use as genuine any such mark.\n\n## Counterfeiting Government opium preparations or distinctive marks thereon.\n\n20. No person shall export, or do any act preparatory to exportation or for the purpose of exporting, any prepared opium or opium dross. Provided that this section shall not be construed as applying to the possession, under special permit from the Superintendent, by a passenger from the Colony to any place not within the Colony of a quantity of prepared opium, to be used for personal consumption on the voyage, not exceeding five mace for every day of duration of the voyage.\n\n## PART IV. GENERAL.\n\n## Ships.\n\n21. (1) No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, use any ship for the importation, landing, removal, carriage, conveyance, storage or exportation of any opium in contravention of this Ordinance.\n\n(2) Where the amount of any such opium found on board any such ship exceeds-\n| Ship Type | Weight Threshold |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) any ship of sixty tons net register tonnage and upwards | 500 taels in weight |\n| (b) any ship under sixty tons net register tonnage | 100 taels in weight |\n\nwant of knowledge of such user shall not be deemed an excuse under this section if the owner, agent, master or other person charged was in a position to take reasonable precautions to prevent such user and neglected to take such precautions.\n\n22. (1) No person shall bring or have in his possession on board any ship any opium, other than the prepared opium specified in the proviso to section 20, unless the same is entered on the manifest of the ship.\n\n(2) The master of any such ship may seize any such opium as aforesaid found on board his ship which is not entered on the manifest, and may retain the same in his possession until he can deliver it to a police officer.\n\n## Post Office.\n\n28.—(1) No person shall send any opium by post.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to detain and open any postal article which he may suspect to contain any opium or anything which would be liable to seizure under section 31(1)(f).\n\n(3) If any postal article contains any opium, or if any postal article contains anything which would be liable to seizure under section 31(1)(f), it shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to detain such postal article and all its contents, and to deal with such article and its contents as the Governor may direct.\n\n(4) Sub-sections (2) and (3) shall apply to all postal articles, whether posted in the Colony or not.\n\n## Postal provisions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563488, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "content_text": "## (s. 31 contd.)\n\narrest:\n\n(b) to search the person and property and effects of any person whom it may be lawful for such public officer to search; Provided that no female person shall be searched except by a female, and provided that no person shall be searched in a public place if he objects to be so searched;\n\n(c) to search any place in which such public officer may have reason to suspect that there may be anything which under paragraph (f) is liable to seizure;\n\n(d) to search, and, if necessary, to stop and search, any ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) in which such public officer may have reason to suspect that there may be anything which under paragraph (f) is liable to seizure;\n\n(e) to search any place which such public officer may have reason to suspect to be an opium divan;\n\n(f) to seize, remove and detain\n\n(i) anything with respect to which such public officer may have reasonable grounds for suspecting that any offence against this Ordinance has been committed;\n\n(ii) any book or other document which such public officer may have reasonable grounds for suspecting to relate to, or to be connected directly or indirectly with, any transaction or dealing which was, or any intended transaction or dealing which would, if carried out, be an offence against this Ordinance, or, in the case of a transaction or dealing carried out or intended to be carried out in any place outside the Colony, an offence against the provisions of any corresponding law in force in that place; or\n\n(iii) any other thing which may appear to such officer likely to be, or to contain, evidence of any such offence, transaction or dealing.\n\n(2) Such public officer may—\n\n(a) break open any outer or inner door of or in any such place;\n\n(b) forcibly enter any such ship and every part thereof;\n\n(c) remove by force any personal or material obstruction to any arrest, detention, search, inspection, seizure, or removal, which he is empowered to make;\n\n(d) detain every person found in such place until such place has been searched; and\n\n(e) detain every such ship, and every person on board such ship, and prevent every person from approaching or boarding such ship, until such ship has been searched.\n\n(3) No person shall delay or obstruct any detention, arrest, search, inspection, seizure, or removal, which is authorised by this Ordinance.\n\n(4) Any authority given by the Superintendent under this section may be given to an individual or to a class, and may be—\n\n(a) general, so as to embrace all the powers referred to in this section; or\n\n(b) limited, so as to embrace only a portion of those powers; or\n\n(c) particular, for a particular occasion.\n\n## 32. Compensation for Unsuccessful Search\n\nIf any search made under this Ordinance is unsuccessful and there is no reason to suppose that any opium liable to forfeiture under this Ordinance has been thrown away or otherwise disposed of in order to avoid detection, the Superintendent shall make good any damage caused thereby. No action shall be maintainable in respect of any such damage. In the event of any dispute as to the fact or amount of any damage, the dispute shall in every case be decided by the Superintendent or by some person nominated by him for that purpose.\n\n## Miscellaneous\n\n## 33. Manner of Seizure Inquired Into\n\nIn any proceedings before a magistrate or on appeal to the Supreme Court relating to the seizure of any opium, implements, or other articles, the seizure whereof is authorised by any of the provisions of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for such magistrate and for the judges, and they are hereby respectively required, to proceed in such cases on the merits only, without reference to matters of form and without inquiring into the manner or form of making any seizure, excepting in so far as the manner and form of seizure may be evidence on such merits.\n\n## 34. Rules as to Secrecy of Informers\n\n(1) Except as hereinafter mentioned, no information laid under this Ordinance shall be admitted in evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding, and no witness shall be obliged to disclose the name or address of any informer or to state any matter which might lead to his discovery, and if any books, documents or papers which are in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceeding contain any entry in which any such informer is named or described or which might lead to his discovery, the court or magistrate shall cause all such passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery, but no further.\n\n(2) But if, in any proceedings before a magistrate for any offence against any provision of this Ordinance, the magistrate, after full inquiry into the case, believes that the informer wilfully made in his information a material statement which he knew or believed to be false or did not believe to be true, or if, in any other proceeding, the court or magistrate is of opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without the discovery of the informer, it shall be lawful for the court or magistrate to require the production of the original information, and to permit inquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.\n\n## 35. Accused Persons May Give Evidence for Prosecution\n\n(1) Whenever two or more persons are charged with any offence against this Ordinance, the magistrate may permit any of them to give evidence for the prosecution.\n\n(2) Every person so permitted to give evidence, who shall, in the opinion of the magistrate, make true and full discovery of all things as to which he is lawfully examined, shall be entitled to receive a certificate of indemnity under the hand of the magistrate stating that he has made a true and full disclosure, and such person shall thereby obtain indemnity from prosecution.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563497, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "content_text": "# 84 \n## NO. 16.]\n### [A.D. 1933.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 7 of 1932, s. 15.\n\n3. Section 15 of the Opium Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the addition of the following sub-section at the end thereof :-\n\n(3) No person being the owner or occupier of any premises, or having, or acting or assisting in, the management or control thereof, shall knowingly suffer any person to use the same as an opium divan.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 3rd day of August, 1933.\n\n**A. W. G. H. GRANTHAM,**\nDeputy Clerk of Councils.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563498, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938", "content_text": "# HONG KONG.\n\n## No. 7 OF 1934.\n\nI assent.\n\n**W. PEEL,**\n\n29 END \n\nL.S.\n\n**Governor.**\n\n18th May, 1934.\n\n## An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Opium.\n\n[18th May, 1934.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the **Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1934**.\n\n2. Section 15 of the **Opium Ordinance, 1932**, as amended by the **Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1933**, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:\n\n### 15.-(1) No person shall\n\n(a) smoke opium in any opium divan; or\n\n**Opium divans and smoking therein prohibited.**\n\n(b) keep or manage or act or assist in the management of any opium divan; or\n\n(c) being the tenant, lessee, occupier, or person in charge of any place, knowingly permit such place or any part thereof to be used as an opium divan; or\n\n(d) being the lessor or landlord of any place, or the agent of such lessor or landlord, let the same with the knowledge that such place or some part thereof is to be used as an opium divan, or consent to the use, at any time, of such place or any part thereof as an opium divan.\n\n(2) In and for the purposes of this section\n\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | \"lessee\" and \"tenant\" respectively include any sub-lessee or sub-tenant; |\n| (b) | \"lessor\" and \"landlord\" respectively include the holder of any lease or tenancy who has sublet his holding or any part thereof; and |\n| (c) | the lessor or landlord of any place, or the agent of such lessor or landlord, shall be presumed to have consented to the use of such place or of any part thereof as an opium divan, if it is proved, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, that he knew of such use, and failed forthwith to proceed to put an end to the same, by making a report at any police station or by terminating the lease or tenancy. |\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 17th day of May, 1934.\n\n**R. A. C. NORTH,**\n\n**Deputy Clerk of Councils.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-7 Proposal to revise legislation relating to opium reward fund 10-8-1938 - 17-10-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575200, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-22 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 19-1-1943 - 20-11-1943", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-590-22 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 19-1-1943 - 20-11-1943", "content_text": "# HONG KONG January 5th 1942 \n## INTERNMENT September 23rd 1943\n\nEver since repatriation from the British Civilian Internment Camp in Hongkong on September 23rd, 1943, I have repeatedly had the question put to me as to how we were treated during our twenty-one months stay there. To that question it would be injustice in some respects to say we were badly treated, but on the other hand it would be equally ridiculous to say that we were well treated. To answer the question truthfully and give justice to both sides it would be better to say that we were simply ignored by the Japanese Authorities in charge of our Camp.\n\nIn some respects this was all to our benefit, but on the other hand, as to our personal welfare, requests for additional food, medical supplies, materials and equipment, much stress cannot be laid on the importance of their complete disregard of our needs, too.\n\nIn writing this article, I do not intend it to be a story, but merely statistical data based on conditions in the Stanley Camp. My only reason for writing it is in the hope that it may reach the proper sources who will appreciate what the internees, not only in Hongkong, but the entire Far East, are suffering, and acting on this report, possibly further efforts may be made for their repatriation to their homeland.\n\nOur internment first commenced on January 5th, 1942, when the order came for all enemy nationals to report at the Murray Parade Grounds, on Garden Road, and to bring along only such articles that could be carried. After standing for several hours, we were placed in groups of from 200 to 400 and marched away through the streets under escort to various old Chinese hotels, brothels, and any other type of building suitable for housing us all. Here the tired and bewildered people were packed in like sardines, in badly ventilated, vile smelling rooms, in some cases there being as many as eleven persons in a room 9' x 8', and containing one Chinese divan, one straight-backed and one easy chair, and a filthy looking wash basin. Sleeping in such rooms was almost an impossibility, and then only managed in relays. Only those cubicles facing the front street or rear alleyway was there direct light and ventilation, the remainder relying on electricity, when it was eventually connected up, and ventilation over the 7' high partition board walls.\n\nFor the first two days, only one bowl of rice was served per person, however, on the third day, a vile smelling and equally vile tasting soup was poured over the rice, which we were later informed was duck soup. Coinciding with the issue of this latter delicacy was the fact that every morning we were awakened to the howls and screaming of dogs being beaten to death in the ground floor restaurant, which is the Cantonese custom for killing their chow dogs that are to be eaten. Naturally the thought passed through most minds that our duck soup may have been a misnomer, however, realizing that dog in those days was a delicacy and exceedingly expensive, my bets were on the duck.\n\nIt was in these hotels that our days of queuing began. From 5 a.m. till midnight there was a continual queue for the one and only bathroom on our floor housing 98 persons of different sexes and ages. As bad as the food was, we rather looked forward to the two queues for food. Those who had had foresight or had been lucky enough to bring in sums of money with them did not have to rely on the rations, and were able to obtain foodstuffs by \"squeezing\" the Chinese and Indian guards on the main door. Others simply had to rely on what they were given by the management of the hotels.\n\nPhysical exercise was almost out of the question. The roof was available to only about 50 persons at a time, and even the beams creaked and threatened to cave in. The building itself we were informed, was erected in 1900 under the name of the \"Stag Hotel\", and had in later years been sold to Chinese interests who had let the place go to decay. It was a veritable death trap, and if fire had broken out, with the guard seldom on the iron door, which was always locked, I doubt if one person would have been able to get out of that hell hole alive. Naturally every precaution against fire was taken by us all.\n\nAfter seventeen days of this life, finally on the morning of January 21st, we were told to pack, and from that never-to-be-forgotten hotel, we were marched to the Macao Steamship wharfs, where we boarded tugs, tenders etc., and departed for the Stanley Peninsula. During our march to the wharfs, several exhibitions of Japanese brutality were staged especially for our benefit, in the form of beating Chinese coolies to death on the street, either for some infraction of the law, but we were all inclined to believe, it was unwarranted, and was merely the sadistic nature of the Japanese getting the better of him. The sight was sickening... \n\n64251-1 \n13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-22 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 19-1-1943 - 20-11-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582696, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "content_text": "## (d) The Control of Dangerous Drugs including Opium\n\nFor many years the Hong Kong Government operated an Opium Monopoly which controlled the sale of prepared opium (chandu) to the Chinese. This Monopoly was for a time an important source of revenue. In the 1930's, however, revenue from this source dropped considerably until the China Incident developed in 1937, when the transport of illicit opium from China to Hong Kong became an extremely difficult matter, and as a result, it was impossible to control sales of opium on account of the increased demand. The British Government, in September 1945, gave orders which abolished the Opium Monopoly, and Opium in all its forms is now a Dangerous Drug. Its possession and control for smoking purposes is illegal.\n\nIn passing, it should be mentioned that the Japanese Authorities operated an Opium Monopoly from 1942-1945 and, after the surrender of Hong Kong, 42,000 taels of Raw Opium were discovered and seized in the basement of the private residence assigned to the Manager of the Mitsui Busan Kaisha. This opium was grown and produced in Jehol.\n\nIn October, it was hoped that with the total prohibition of Opium, the traffic in Hong Kong would cease, but in November, the waterfront patrols reported that raw opium in small amounts was appearing in Hong Kong, and after further investigations, a number of seizures were made. The opium was usually found on the person of females who had returned to Hong Kong by junk from the Tung Koon area. In three or four cases, seizures were made of similar raw opium found on a passenger arriving by train from Canton. The total number of these small seizures in November was 26, and the amount of raw opium seized was 268 taels.\n\nChinese officers in this department who lived in the Tung Koon area as refugees up to August this year report that the poppy was grown in the Tung Koon area in 1945. The seizure of this opium raised the question of its disposal in Hong Kong, and it has been established that opium divans on a small scale are operating - they sell prepared opium which has been newly boiled or prepared, and three of these divans have been raided by officers of the Imports & Exports Department. In one divan, twelve opium pipes were seized, and... \n\n19885/64/6/ftsm \n185", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 586647, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-604-2 Crown Leases 23-2-1948 - 6-11-1948", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-604-2 Crown Leases 23-2-1948 - 6-11-1948", "content_text": "Still no reply to (2), reminded (3).\n\n12\n\n30/18\n\nBefore they approval of (1) to but there is that can Hay Không may well find (2) little difficult.\n\nIt is required the Terms of enl. We should remind again?\n\n3575\n\nYos. By Sigan - \"quatique prese + to Hong Kong - Savy. Av. 88786~(20) mg - 10. $578; Desf. 180.\n\n1 weer eti. 30% of\n\nCans. 2 SEP 1948\n\nDiy, a 54439/5/48, S. for.\n\n[N.B. Permission on\n\nI think we\n\nThe particular sale of proposal\n\nThe KUN HANG Public School Committee has been separately from an 54434/5/48.\n\nThe present com dedy mly with the attained general gination raised in parag. Band 41(5)] h.617\n\nAs for 4 Mizūral it has 24-7-48.\n\nmay approve approve the in para 4 1/6).? Can su\n\nCorrespondence from the prem the vol Qudden mags and in viis of the small", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-604-2 Crown Leases 23-2-1948 - 6-11-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]