[ { "id": 216534, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "nancz cafland at Bohern of Ord \n\nI tepoo late Apcctant Minister of the Cabinet and Governor General of theauguan and \n\nReauger, sends the following reply \n\n6 your \n\nCommuni \n\n= Eatione. On the 4th mom 10+ day (by = hay) be \n\nreceived your. \n\n#day! \n\nLetter and made \n\nhimself fully \n\n=inted with the contento the no- \n\nSiw I the late Minister and Governor \n\nGeneral, and \n\nHonorable General and Admiral treat me another with iverity, and then exists the whurst good faith on both dsides, it will not be co difficult to bring the bregoriations to a satisfactory \n\nis \n\nConclusion. It is \n\nmereseary to wait un tits the brain front of the question have been fully satisfurt \n\nand I shall then in conjuction with the terror- spreading, General and the Lien to Govenor Leur Cistinctly 2. port the & \n\n4. port the same to the grea Cuperor, that \n\nhe may confirm the anangomen to to sher Chein- faitiful observience. \n\na \n\nAll our men that weed latten insoners \n\nChapoo have already arrived, and on \n\non exquiry \n\nfound that you Steuble General and Adiderat. \n\ngand to the thinging \n\nvice to eat and allowed to the \n\nwounded Medical attendanced and we fere thriged \n\nyour Kindness and Counteer. \n\nfor your Bindings \n\nHe also dishatiteed mice, an \n\nOfficer,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218756, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "Sterline this family \n\nin the Steamer that was to \n\nconvey \n\nIn Davis from Bombay to Stongthong but nothing theexpense – Junex the \n\nwas said about \n\nDrafts of the letters to the Freaming the India \n\nBonid (26 Febs 1844) \n\nJuh \n\n9/40 \n\nth \n\nCeut \n\n2013 King King \n\nFor 2.10 City/44 \n\nGoversion \n\nDavis Lis \n\nThawe torcke the \n\nForranted by s TE Murdockly \n\nTopo LordStanley o \n\nhus: 30 Sf. \n\nreceipt of your despatch No's dated Bombay \n\nthat \n\nthe \n\n11 April reporting in consequence of want of a ccommodation \n\nou \n\nboard & moleancer \n\nSpiteful Mr Hulme hadbeen compelled to poceed with his family frombonntag Kong \n\nin a \n\nMerchant \n\nShip - and recommending that in consideration of \n\nthus. the great expeculd rese Entailed on him, some Extra allowance and \n\nInterany. \n\nLereun \n\nstance, its would be \n\nimposible for me to conce", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218859, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 185, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "are \n\nvery \n\ndelivery of letters, wen; when applied- for in person. \n\nAs the present hours inconvenient, particularly to Europeans, who have to apply at the best Office for their letters, His Excellency dircess, that, from and after \n\nthe br of June next, the test liffice be open from 6 to Ga.m. and \n\nThis change will be pone 3 to 6 p notified in \n\nin the Gozette, and you will \n\nbesides cause it to be announced to the Sublic in the usual manner. \n\nI have tr (Ligiied) Rederick H.A. Bruce- \n\nColonial beretary. \n\nA true Apy. \n\n4. M., Ship Agincourt, \n\nHoughong, 27% Away, 18th \n\nグ \n\nSaur directed by Rear Admirol Sir Thomas Cochrane, to represent to Your \"Excellency; that the very great aregligence evinced by those in charge of the Post Office, at this place, in the very tardy delivery of Official letters in the es of the mail accently bought out. by the Spitiful (extending even to for by hours after her arrival, ) has bew - attended with much inconvenience. and might have proved very injurious to the Public Service. \n\ncalci \n\nShave Fr \n\nEvert \n\n(Signed) H. M. Bruce \n\nCaptain & Senior Officer. \n\nFreikirch W. a Bruen Colonial Secretary. \n\nHis Excellency, \n\nGovernor Davis, \n\nye \n\nHongkong. \n\nA true copy. \n\nSonderick Wi 3. Cruce \n\nColonial horetary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218862, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "the delivery\n\nlabouring will not deem forty hours after the arrival of the Spiteful for the \"letters in the ship (containing\n\nof\n\nmeant\n\n7000 letters to extent to such an evidence of negligence as to merit censure I have generally understood that the delivery of that particular Mail\n\ngave local satisfaction\n\nand it is with pain that I hear to the contrary.\n\nI am aware that the Naval\n\nare changing their Stations and the Military their quarters and I fear that with an inefficient establishment some instances of detention of letters would\n\neven occur.\n\nI have seen) J. J. Paton.\n\n(True copy.\n\nFred More\n\nand Military gentlemen have cause of complaint, these at the Northern Stations particularly.\n\nTill recently I believe it has been the custom here, as it is generally the case, for an Office or Orderly to take all the Naval or Military letters, and to return redirected such as have to be forwarded Individual applications are now made and the result is frequently\n\n\"changing", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218867, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 193, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "} \n\nnicarrantable detention. \n\nthe may further remark that our March mais letters received per Spitiful \" skamer were not delivered for 4 or 5 days after \n\nher arrival which caused us as \"Merchants incalculable inconvenienc \n\nKusting Your Excellency will give such directions that will prevent \n\nof such mismanagement \n\nYo have to \n\na recurr eu ce \n\n(Signed) Derom Thay Me \n\nVictoria, 25th May, 1844. \n\nA true Copy. \n\n#petuit 1833. Brus. \n\nColonial keretary: \n\nVictoria, 30th May, 18/140. \n\nHat Suorables \n\nIMA. Bruce, \n\nColonial Secretary, \n\n1/2 \n\nWe have the honor to acknowledge. \n\nreceipt of your \n\nCommunication \n\nunication of yesterday's date, handing us an Exhact of the Deputy Post Master's reply to our complaint of the now delivery of our- letters, and arow \n\nbey to have you to \n\nletter \n\nHo \n\nwill \n\nreceived from • Mess\" libt Livingsion Mo on the subjick, from which observe they say \n\na \n\nyou \n\nthe statements made \n\nby the Deputy Post Master as far as they are concerited are unfounded in huth : He domy the inference the Doperty Post Master attaches to the fact, that Mefs Helcher Lorkers of new receive \n\nLarkins \n\nour", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219146, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 472, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "\n\nGovernor Davis \n\nFeb. 21 Private Secretary. \n\nRequests authority for his \n\n3. \n\nwearing the Colonial Uniform at Hory Kory \n\nMarchts Achus Desps to 165.. \n\nApril 10 2. Ackn! Desp. 1.6 to 9._ Letter to Cod: Treasurer Martin 29t \n\nFeb: Juss - Dup: Cesi of the Sand /44 \n\nand Deep: No. 40. \n\now \n\n8th April 144. and \n\nDeparture Harepom \n\n13th \n\nOw \n\nApril 11 3. Arwal at Bombay. \n\nChief Judge Hulme (and Family). No accommodation \n\nfor \n\now \n\ntake \n\nboard \n\ntheir \n\nTim's Steamer Spiteful. Compelled \n\nPassage from Bombay \n\nfrom Bombay to Hong thong \n\nMay 14 \n\nCourt t \n\nGovernor Davis \n\nConstitution Conneils. \n\nsupposes the number (three) of Members mentioned \n\n+ \n\nCouth \n\nin Royal Instructions \n\nto be the munimusm. \n\nMay 17 5. Robbery of \"Theasure (12000 Rupees) by- \n\nPirates at Chek-choo and Guard murdered. \n\nHas authorized \n\n+ Milisay \n\nA clus \n\nobtained to the Criminals. \n\nthe formation of a Police Ostablisht there \n\nAust. Matement of \n\nMr. Stillier app? Magistrate @ $200 & mouth, \n\nMay 2016. Temporary Court House. \n\nMeasures adopted for \n\nin \n\nthe \n\nallerchant \n\nreating \n\nShip. Compensation for \n\nRecommends hun for \n\nratra Expence incurred thereby-- Яка Draws attention to great expence of his Route Overland taken \n\nat express \n\ndesire of the \n\nHouse for a temp: Couest House. Gods Deop: 30/43. \n\nRefers \n\nMay 2017. \n\nRevenue. \n\nврачта \n\nand \n\nPents \n\nou \n\nopt. May for after about \n\nCrown lands. expected \n\nto mild ₤10173400 \n\nto yield £5000-s. \n\nWill consult with \n\n#m \n\nthe 8h \n\nMay 13 4 Arrival at Hong Kong \n\nunie \n\nweeks \n\npassage from England, and \n\nAssumption of the Government \n\nPublic Officers who accompanied him \n\nSworn into Office. \n\nRefers \n\nto \n\nhis Deop: 3/44 \n\nto 1000 per Anmume as Councils \n\nW. Shelley appointed at \n\nAuditor \n\nand Clerk Constitution Councils \n\npresent and proposed. Legislative Council proposed \n\nof \n\nto consist of five Members Ch: Jude Col: ht \n\nvojt. The Commander of the Forces... Freasurer and Chief Police Minga \n\nExecutive Connial proposed \n\nto \n\nconsist of four ellembers The Cormed. of the Forces - Ol: Secretary- Aby Gent Ich: Police moge Unofficial Members. \n\nobjects to the apport of.. Capitalists (except bort Employes) \n\nare \n\nUnconnected with Opium Fhade. \n\n-as hu \n\nof \n\nReports the probable sources of Income amounts Hartof. \n\nTonnage Duty of 6th estimated Taxation and Opium Tax. \n\nKeying \n\nthu \n\nthose subjects. \n\nLand Depart \n\nHines \n\nThe \n\nNew God. Genl. 7%. Canton \n\nInefficient state of through conte \n\nMr. Gordon. \n\nArrears of Busmes \n\nW. Cleverly app? Asist Surveyor at £500 par M. I Pope app? Civil Engineer \n\napp? Civil Engineer and Oth of Works @twop Surveyor Gent. Dept will be reduced when possible. \n\nCrown Lands already disposed of. \n\nLeases \n\nad \n\nof \n\nordered \n\nthe minnediate \n\nMay 23 8 Expence . ( £4.11.5) of \n\nminnediate completion of \n\nstores supplied from it Blinkering\" for a \n\nFeas Staff Goot House chargeable on Coll. Reverse \n\nIn reply to Desp. 27/44. \n\nBrear", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219156, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "Sir Thomas lickrane, whose professional opinion maked the expression of my won almost needless. In a circuit of the tland which I made with that Officer, it was impossible not to be struck by the admirable locality and general advantages \n\nShek-pai-wan (Chuck py wa \n\nward) a sheltered position, on the south side, lying duce south of the middle of hctoria toww, and of a gap in the central- ridge to which a good bridle road hat been constructed. The distance from ketoria through the gap is not above \n\nthree Aniles . \n\nEvery natural facility is \n\nwar \n\nafforded within the Shek pai- passage for carconing and docking tefuls \n\nand a \n\nroomy \n\nat \n\nwell as \n\nsheltered – \n\nanchorage exists on the nutside of the \n\nsmall island, between that and the \n\nmuch \n\nmuch larger Lemma island lying to the South loest of Hongkong. \n\nBut the advantages writ not rest here. From the fact of no establishment whalever at present Shek pai wan, existing at Shell pai \n\nthe rear of the \n\nv \n\ntnow of Ketorias lies Exposed at any time to the nocturnal incursions of large- bodies of pirates, or others through the \n\nabove mentioned, a rish which \n\na \n\ngap naval dépôt and small military position would prevent. The healthings of the spot was abundantly proved by small body of troops temporarily \n\nα \n\nplaced there last \n\nyear, during the sickly season, and who were withdrawn. \n\nonly because they \n\nwere \n\nrequired Elsewhere. The Spitiful Steam refsel had \n\nnot been three months arrived from her last repairing toyage to Bombay, when \n\nit", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219466, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 315, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "Estimates previously sanctioned for Chekichu, but now suspended. The position of Shek paiian will soon pender it an important place, when the proposed road by the west shall have been completed. \n\nThe plans and Estimates for this most desirable, roar, I have \n\nnow \n\nI \n\nthe horror to \n\nforward to Your Hordship, as they have \"passed in Council. It will open out by the shortest way the south side of the \n\nmany a bicking \n\n- island, and give value to \n\nsite in pleasant and healthy positions, \n\n& worthless from trant of \n\nwhich \n\nare nower \n\napproach. Indeed, it is much to be wished \n\nthat a road entirely round the island completed for Military, Police, and \n\nwere \n\n- all other purposes. \n\nThe proposed western road cuts off \n\na portion of the western Extremity of the island, and passes \n\nover a \n\ndepression of the \n\nridge \n\nsa. \n\nme ad \n\nridge of mountains, which at once stuck \n\nas the proper point, on first making Honghong in der Majesty's Steamer. Spiteful. I have limited its breadth to fiftien feet, as abundantly sufficient, and its total cost, according to the Estimate for warded, will be about £4,000. I am not. \n\nany public work which will \n\naware \n\nIf \n\nmore \n\n- general satisfaction in the \n\ngive Colony than this. \n\nOn the 11th Instant, a report and Estimate were, \n\ne passed in Council for thes construction of New Sheets in Retoria West, and for repairing some steek in the Chinese location of Tapingshan, amounting 1 Dollars 8952, and it was resolved that \n\nthe Surveyor General be directed to the work into effect as soon as, \n\nCarry \n\ns possible, \n\nfor the purposes of public healin and \n\nConvenience? \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219532, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 381, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "33€ \n\nof \n\nMy Date Subycol of Despatch \n\nof \n\nDes] Desp \n\nclopot \n\nituation be provided - Urging great local achantages of Thakpasivan for Nawal, and requesting an early decision in favor thereof, proved sheessity for retum of Spitiful to Bombay 1 repair clammps. \n\nby \n\n49 August 10 Submitting suggestions for One \n\ntion of Nousury \n\nmoclification \n\ninstructions to Anctitor \n\ncolony, and enclosing \n\nof \n\nuchun by 10. Sholly \n\nrandum \n\nd \n\nSeperti 15 Mr Smith, stating necessity None \n\nfor \n\nbrausmitting official fur recovered from the Honorable J.M.A. Bruce Major Camie and Liew! Pectées, in cart, by our of Her Majesty's chips. spink. tunin \n\n16 Acknowledging receipt of Despatches N=15181e cand Military NzDD/1 \n\nla \n\ninclusive. \n\nNone \n\n16 Reasons for personal visit to None \n\nrew \n\nCoumlates. Probable \n\nbe \n\nthe four duration of absence : Majon General D'Aquilar to The Lieut Governor Revision, of Crolinance for opening of Supreme Court. \n\nReferring \n\nN; Date \n\nof \n\nof \n\nDesp Desp \n\nSubject of Resportok \n\nJustice \n\nRefering to Chef Inotice or lig out of Colony, andet stating province \n\nHof for the transmission of all important or Hongkong for bug: M. In kinkling \n\nBuildings for \n\nnggrava Fiat. compte lion of row & Cal offiers, then \n\npravy led ouses \n\nextent, accounnodation, intended use and annual rental ÷ 1K th \n\nreference to this bretship's despatch \n\nHotz of Mr home, stating wohere \n\nhou \n\néstivated amount of in tendret \n\nerection \n\nworks from 70,000 to $31,000 dollar Goventor's resilence and state of public offices.. Mr. Hantenscontined mability to attenct to lus Clinical clutics. Fronised grant, \n\nI for of Church und necesly for livre of place wherent to hobet suoleine Covert and its \n\nCourt and its monttity. Acconomy of \n\nreutat \n\nsame: \n\nberg public \n\noffices proved by high rute at which houses let. Jonvarching fo bound V for Police Stations now \n\nbaulding and the town of thetoric and at Checkeln, quot reasous thereof. \n\nand \n\nEstimates for years March 1944 lo March 1846 and provision of fructs \n\nBarrack Grant of site for Military | \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219589, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "promptitude and effect as regards the last the bunsual power of legislating for the goot of British Subjects in China has been delegated to yon by the (yown. \n\nand therefore \n\nInst \n\nwhich \n\nThe manner & the extent to which you \n\nshall exercise this power will be matter for your most serious consideration. You vile derive valuable assistance in this respect from the Legal Authorities connected with the Colonial for you preside; and the only general principle which I would with you to bear in mind is that you are dealing with British Subjects to whom, from education & social habits, the exercise of arbitrary power \n\nst necessarily be most repugnant, can only be justified by extreme necessity . I do not anteripates that 1 any occasion is likely to arcie, in which you \n\nwill find it advirable to negotiates & sign ang formal, nishsument in the shape of a Treaty, in virtue of the Full Power · with which you are provided. The Treaty of hanking, with the Supplementary Peaty, the Teftion Articles, and the Tariff, which \n\nver ally to be taken as part of the first named Treaty ; appear to comprehead every topic which it is requirites, or which it would be expedient to record in a a formal instrument, and it be doubted whether it would be advisable to recur \n\nMaty \n\nAre Lever \n\nt \n\nbeew \n\nthe risk of running \n\ncounter to the long received projudices of the Chinese. Gort by pressing upon them, without some overpowering necessity, a renewal of discussions and negotiations, which might even Kend to weaken the effich of those which have been happily, and most skilfully brought to a close by your Predecessor. The main, porats for r the regulation of intercourse between the Two Countries frendly footing have been adjusted, and minor points which may occasionally arise will, dou \n\nare so will, douttles:, be susceptible of arrangement by a simpler process than the conclusion of a distinct Treaty. But as unforeseen emergencies may \n\non a \n\noccur, and as moreover encumstances do not admit \n\nA \n\ndiplomatic agent being accredited by It:th: to the Emperor of Cleins; in the form usually adopted a in ong Europena Nations, it hasbeen thought a doirable that you should possess some instrument of, authority under 4: 9's dignature, empowering you with the Chinese Ministers, upon which, in case \n\nyou mig \n\nclaim to act. \n\nto heal \n\nof necessity, \n\nIt write be proper that as soon as possible after your assumption of Office in China, you should communicates the fact of your. \n\nour arrival to the Chinese Authority whom So Wearg Pottinger may point out to you as the one to whom such a notifica \n\n:ication / hould be a dressed ; and you will request that authority to make known to his Goor that you have been appointed by the Queen to succeed Fir 4. Pottinger in the several Offices which he has held in China, and that, \n\nfor \n\nare \n\ninvested \n\nwith the same powers, and ancinated with the same disposition as your Predecessor, to promote friendly relations between the Two Countries. You will take advantage of the same opportunity to intimate; to the (he were fout that Her thy has approved of the Supplementary Treaty signed by Sir 4. Pottinger at Homan- Chai, \n\non the 8th of Bet.\" last, and that Her thy will be prepared to zatify it, in a manner core. sponding with that in which it may have been ratified by The Emperor of Chenci \n\nthi's Country. the Original Treaty arrives in \n\nIn all your \n\nAs soon as \n\nintercourse with the Cinese Authorities, \n\nyou will make it your constant endeavour to impress them with a conviction that It. his Goo? most carnes. \n\nthat no cause \n\nnestly \n\nJesire \n\n· occur \n\nwill \n\nof difference should hereafter disturb the harmony between the Two Nations. You prosess your readiness to cooperate with them, as far circumstances will permit, to ensure a faitiful observance \n\n2.1 \n\nby \n\nOccury", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219883, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "dmira \n\nRECEIVED \n\nSEP.28 1844 \n\nبرود \n\nAnsound &. I cloten \n\n1983 dạng lỏng \n\nHong \n\nHow viscatty, 2.6. Viper 10446 \n\nher Majestys Secure Vessel Spitiful \n\npraying afforded a \n\nWong \n\nbetween \n\nRasage from Nombay \n\nOrie \n\nto \n\n13th of I \n\nApurb and Sty Mary \n\nto his touhuncy I. A. Dow's, her Majertig \n\nsuntary Chas \n\ncardial by my Namiratry to requoins \n\nwww \n\nSuite, Jarr \n\nrd \n\nfoner ifscovers of the \n\nFörde \n\nyour \n\nmy \n\nhaving \n\napplied to the Carl \n\nAberdeen to \n\nbe informed of \n\nthe expence of this dupage \n\nMr. dope co \n\nMarch \n\ngional Office \n\nuncil \n\nof Trad \n\neardr", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219930, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "Con \n\nard \n\nтит \n\nIr 1023 \n\nL \n\nNo237 \n\nThe Government of Bombay \n\nTo \n\n5. The seat (ouvmittee of the bart \n\nIndia Company. \n\nExtrach \n\nBombay \n\nApril 30.1844. \n\n\"On receipt of your letter. \n\nnow under \n\nder reply, \n\nme fore. \n\narded a \n\ncopy to Captain Maitland, with \n\nA \n\nrequest that if in his power, be would also provide a pass-a ge si \n\nthe Spitiful\" for but Hulme and. \n\nforrnity, \n\nand also for h. Martin. \n\nI. reply (aptam Mait Cound in \n\nL \n\nM. \n\na letter dixted. the 10th Instant \n\nstated", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219931, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "Cont \n\nBoard \n\nage \n\nstated that he would provide a \n\npassage for hot Martin and be \n\nAntone and his \n\nA \n\nbut that h \n\nHulme considered the accommo= \n\nمایید \n\ndation on hound the \"Spiteful. \n\nunsuited for the laches of his family, \n\nHer majesty's Steamer Pitiful » proceeded to China on the 18th \n\nmistout, with W. Davies, and the \n\nOther gentlemen apponited to \n\noffices in China, who accompanied \n\nhim overlound! \n\nJ. \n\nW", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220105, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "EX \n\neven \n\nв \n\nto futy \n\nSpiteful extending : hours after her arrivial hars been attended with much \n\nmconvenience, and might -- Lowe formed the public Service. \n\n; \n\nvery injurions \n\nShave & \n\nSigrid] Att bruce \n\nCaftans and Jenior Officer. \n\nN42 \n\nJer. \n\nGovernment Hente \n\nFichie \n\nMong King \n\n27-May 1844 \n\nSam direated by this \n\nExcellency the Governor in femal that an Official \n\nto inform you \n\nRettens \n\nPottinger, \n\naddressed to Sir Henry \n\nBark, which \n\ntv as \n\nbrought here by the \"Maid of \n\nAthens\" \n\nSome \n\nAn \n\nthe 177. \n\nwad \n\nby \n\nyour \n\nL \n\nM \n\ngross neglist and fortant \n\nde \n\nJ. J. Peales Esz", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220109, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "or two houses, but it was \n\nreturned, and \n\nthey \n\nwere not, I \n\nbelieve delivered till I had \n\nascertained by enquiry to whom \n\nto deliver them. It would, \n\ntoo, have been \n\nO \n\nsingular instance \n\nif Mess\" Gibb Livingston and \n\nhad sent \n\nfor \n\nthese Letters so \n\nsend \n\nfrequently, when they ravely \n\nis \n\nfor their own \n\nConveyed \n\ntill information. \n\nof Letters lying \n\nto them in some \n\nin the Post \n\nway \n\n0x \n\nother \n\noffice for them. That mess. Pirone \n\nGray \n\nand do not themselves con: \n\nsider me \n\nwholly to blame \n\nmay \n\nbe inferred from the fact that \n\nMesses Fletcher Larkins \n\nreceive \n\ntheir Letters. \n\nnow \n\nIn \n\nanswer to the com \n\n- plaint made by Captr Trruce, I hope that His Excellency will not, considering the cercum- -stances under which I am \n\nlabouring, \n\ndeem \n\nhours \n\nafter \n\nforty the mail by \n\nthe arrival of the mail the \"Spiteful\" for the delivery of \n\nnearly your Letters to extend to \n\nsuch \n\nevidence an. \n\nligence \n\nof great neg- \n\nas to merit censure \n\nI have generally understood that the delivery of that particular \n\nlocal satisfaction, and \n\nMail \n\ngave \n\nit is with pain I hear to the contrary \n\nI am perfectly \n\navvare \n\nthat \n\nL \n\nMA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220127, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 267, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "\nForeig \n\nOffice \n\nWhere to their \n\naddress) of love \n\ntheme had becaus \n\nsent to \n\nover or \n\ntive. \n\nletters addressed Mercantile Houser \n\nto Mars's Dirones for the purpose Gray be cokich of finding out arrived by the the parties. \"Blob Conyland\" stampede \n\nWre \n\nwith the dock of the 19th May last, \n\nbut were not delix \n\n-vered until the \n\nth \n\nIn \n\nexploration \n\nJelly The handy delcury deleving of Officials Mr Scales states \n\nSellers addressed to that the Mail \n\ncorr \n\nRear Adinal dir in quecation Thomas lachrane, -tained nearly brought to Heong, 7000 letters, and Kong by halls that the Apitiful. This \n\nbed flat \n\nat this disposal. \n\ncoauto \n\nEnglish would not- \n\n:Mail, an & it is admit of the states, that this tellers leeing \n\nwas not preparsols for \n\ndelivery \n\neffected nabile deliving eartie : \n\nforty hours after \n\nto econvol. \n\n4thly. That \n\na2 \n\nPhorm. No scales \n\nthe's see \n\nlaject \n\nPuckel's containing treo explanations \n\nPetterns inly, \n\nCli \n\nhad been taken it is evictet. \n\nacets \n\nof the ship that this prectal \"Old Englands\" by the party \n\nwas contained \n\nparty in the letterbiur acting for the of the die digtend Postinaster, and, aut to the \n\nhad been charge Price Office. with a \n\nett \n\na portage. the Shyanal. of two shittings auch therefore \n\ntive \n\nlegoetty liable to Gulls better Rastom \n\nB \n\nL \n\nM", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "\nForei \n\nOffice \n\ninegutar. \n\nLetters aught, mats to be delicnred to thesis Agents \n\nunless addressed to their \n\ncare, or on this producing \n\ntharily souch withricty to te sohibited on each application for \n\nto receive them, \n\nLetters which should be at. \n\nthe Post Office \n\nنصف \n\nthe Clacks enve \n\nached you, - played in the Post Office conmals bes expected to accollect - \n\nthe vaccace authortices grien.. \n\nin the \n\nAs to the delay delenmury of the English Mail \n\nbrought by the \"spitiful,\" it \n\nwill \n\nwill be evident to your. \n\nLadships that it is not possitt \n\nPostmasters to perform \n\nfor o \n\nthe \n\nchecks, stamp \n\nnecessary \n\nand sab 7000 \n\nSellers withard. \n\nworking a great sumber of hours continuously, and accollecting that he has all the atter duties of his Office \n\nسکتے مجھے \n\nto attend to act the same \n\nmoment, Face not semprised at the time occupieds. \n\nPail Officers \n\nAus adinary. \n\nin Ceyland, with two or their leleaks to assist in it, fands Not takes has no greater free. ) would be ourwhelmed by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 271, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "\nForeign \n\nOffice \n\na small fine, \n\nShaves, \n\nthe recuple of this comes ponduse \n\ncaused the Postmaster to tee \n\ninstructed, acendingly. \n\nFice \n\nIn the \n\nсале \n\nbroughts forward \n\nCaptain Koppel of St. Mes \n\n\"Dide the Pastminster appears \n\nto have been to blames; as \n\nthe parly \n\nwho \n\nwas tout to \n\n+ \n\nthe Post Offices for the \n\nLettins addressed to that ship \n\nhad not sufficent : Moray \n\npay for all \n\nwith him to \n\nthe letters which had reaived so addressed; he had \n\nundoubted sight to receive \n\nmany \n\nletter \n\nas came \n\nwithin \n\nwithin the Amounts which \n\nher actically tendered, ands I have co. \n\n} \n\nthis \n\noffeels \n\nfor \n\nmunicated to \n\nwith Mo scale \n\nThis futures guidance, \n\nother point \n\nThere is oues \n\nalluded to in this conrespondent \n\nto which I have rist; yet \n\nacheented, mis \n\nthe \n\nsabs to \n\nsefees at \n\nfey to the Commandons of & M Alexeen. Ressels Spitiful. \n\nands of the Schooner maid of athens the usual gratuites \n\nfor \n\nthe \n\nto wveyoure b \n\nBombay to Gong Kong of Maits \n\nthe buited kingdow. from \n\nOn refering to Mer scales's to in \n\nB \n\nL \n\nM", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221316, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 119, "title": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "content_text": "“བས་བཏང་རིང་ངམ ོ་\n\n2 Jane Pur Hope\n\naffichend that this most stand over until the\n\nmenal afflication\n\n10\n\nfrom the holmically\n\nBu\n\n27/2\n\nFebruary,\n\nGovernor\n\nSeparate\n\nFord Stauby\n\nReceived\n\n1346\n\nCivil Servants from Bombay for conveying several. Colonial of H. his Steamer \"Spiteful\", due to Captain Maitland,\n\nRegarding Passage Money\n\n* Hongkong.\n\nN2\n\nFinancial,\n\n117\n\n901 Hongkong\n\nVictoria, HongKong,\n\n0.0.\n\nJETE S\n\n1845\n\n28th February, 1845.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honor to forward herewith, for Your Lordship's information and that of the Board of Treasury, a copy of the Colonial Treasurer's accounts for the quarter ending 31st December, though the papers connected therewith have not yet passed the Auditor.\n\nEnclose\n\nI beg at the same time to enclose the Account, amended by the Treasurer, for the quarter ending September, 30th.\n\nEnclosure No.3, is the Survey of the Treasure vault, holder on the 14 January, according to instructions.\n\nThe Right Honorable,\n\nThe Lord Stanley,\n\nand\n\nYer\n\nyo\n\nye,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221773, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7]", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7]", "content_text": "Date\n\nof\n\nof\n\nSubject of Despatch...\n\nRef:\n\n1845\n\nfor\n\nAn- there are -\n\nMagistrate,\n\nof Salary as Marine.\n\nand stating Establishment\n\nallowed under that head\n\n15 Feb 21 Reporting resignation of Mr. Moreer,\n\nand appointment of Mr Denham\n\nin his stead, as Chief clerk in the\n\nTreasurer's\n\nOffice...\n\nAlso, reduction in\n\nPolice establishment..\n\ntransfer of\n\nMr Hillier to act\n\nas Resident Magistrate\n\nin Victoria,\n\nand allowance to him of $50 per Month extra, to act when required,\n\non the South coast of\n\n16\n\n21\n\nForwarding\n\nthe\n\nLetter from Mr Shelley\n\nof the 14th December 1844, and reporting\n\nthe\n\nappointment of Mr. Ready\n\nas Clerk to the Auditor.\n\nSeparate - 27 Regarding passage Money due to\n\n17\n\n\"\n\nCaptain Maitland of Her Majesty's\n\nSteamer \"Spiteful\", for conveying Several Colonial Civil Servants from Bombay to Hongkong\n\n28 Transmitting copy of the Treasurer's\n\naccount for the quarter ending 31st\n\nDecember, 1844 - and amended one-\n\nfor\n\nit\n\nIncl:\n\nOne-\n\nDate\n\nof\n\nDespatch\n\nRef:\n\n1845\n\nOne\n\n19\n\n32\n\n251\n\nSubject of Despatch.\n\nfor the quarter ending 30th September 1844 - Also, Survey on the Treasure... Fault of 1st January, with certificate thereon. _ And various financial\n\nReturns, for\n\nthe\n\nquarter ending\n\nDecember 1844\n\nIncl:\n\n18. March\" \". Reporting that the China Mail edited\n\nby Mr Shortrede, has been declared\n\nthe Government - Gazette; and -\n\n21\n\n4-\n\n22\n\ntransmitting Proclamations\n\nannouncing confirmation of Ordinances Nr. 11, 12 & 14 of 1844.\n\nReferring His Lordship to Despatch\n\n1034 of 1845, to the Earl of Aberdeen, respecting\n\nthe Triad\n\nsociety, and transmitting Chief Justice's Notes of trial of the reputed\n\nhead\n\nthereof\n\nAcknowledging receipt of despatches to 26th of October, 1844\n\nReferring His Lordship to Despatch. No 36, of 1845, to the Earl of Aberdeen, regarding Piracies between Hongkong.\n\nOne\n\nNone\n\n....\n\nNone\n\n20\n\nNone\n\nNone", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222316, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "page_number": 369, "title": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "content_text": "Sir J.J. Davis,\n\n31 December, 1845.\n\nThe\n\nReceived\n\nNo 162.\n\nexcept that charges against #4. M's Steamer \"Spiteful\", monly one to the Commander -riat chest of the Page payment into the Commis= of 30th August, and reporting In reply to Sespotal, i: 135,\n\nMr. Martin.\n\nNo 163.\n\nCivil.\n\nInc: i ong to Say\n\n25 Feb 1846.\n\n312. RECEIVED\n\nFEB 25\n\n1846\n\nMy Lord,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n336\n\n31st December, 1845.\n\nI have the honor to enclose herewith, for Your Lordship's information, and that of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Copies of the usual Quarterly Abstracts, for the Quarter ending 31st December, 1845.\n\n1. Changes in the holders of Offices and Appointments in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n3.\n\n4.\n\nAdditions to Salaries and Advances in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nCreation of new Appointments, in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nPayments of an unusual description and for extraordinary Services.\n\nThe Right Honorable,\n\nThe Lord Stanley,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222334, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "page_number": 387, "title": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "content_text": "Date\n\nDeep Dep. Subject of Despatch.\n\n1.57.\n\nNo Encl.\n\n150. Nov. 12. Reporting changes in appointments\n\nNone.\n\n+ 20th. Acknowledging receipt of Despatches to No 142, of 21st September, 1845.\n\nNone.\n\n152 27th Reporting payment of $100 to Aming Compradore, on account of the Honorable the Cast India Company.\n\nNone\n\n153.\n\n154.\n\n155\n\n156.\n\n157 Dec 16th Relating to certain French Commercial Delegates attached to the French Mission in Ching, and the progress of the Colony.\n\nNone\n\n158.\n\n29th Acknowledging receipt of Despatches to No150, of 30th October, 1845\n\nNone\n\n24th Transmitting copy of Report of the Board of Survey appointed to examine the Funds in the Colonial Treasury on the 10th November, 1845.\n\nOne.\n\n159. 29\n\nNo Desp: Desp\n\nDate\n\nof\n\nSubject of Despatch\n\n334\n\nConcl\n\n31\n\n160. Dec 31 Relative to necessity of having a new Vice Admiralty Court in the Colony, before adopting measures against Pirates in this neighbourhood.\n\nNone\n\n161\n\n31\n\n162.\n\n31th Transmitting Return of Sale of Crown Lands on the 19th December, 1845.\n\nOne.\n\n163.\n\nIn reply to Despatch No 135 of 30th August; and reporting payment into the Commissariat Chest of the passage money due to the Commander of Her Majesty's Steamer Spiteful, except that charged against Mr. Maitin\n\nNone\n\n164 31th Transmitting Quarterly Returns for the Quarter ending 31st December, 1845.\n\n1\n\n31st Transmitting copies of Minutes of the Executive and Legislative Councils Hongkong, for the half year ending 31st December, 1845.\n\nNone.\n\n165 31th Transmitting Schedule of Despatches addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, during the year 1845.\n\n4\n\n2.\n\nOne\n\nFrederich W. Bruce", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222350, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "content_text": "154 Artlong.\n\nI Hope\n\nublic Office\n\nwither Mr Davis\n\nMind – it is clear that\n\nmy\n\nnor the Min\n\nany\n\nhave\n\nthe Spiteful\", Mr Davis expense of their passage cannot be relieved from\n\naving\n\nno the other Officers having a passage allowance of 480.\n\nreceived the usual\n\namp\n\n28 June\n\nI write to see the com\n\nWhere subject\n\nunications from The Passie.\n\nJapp By\n\nthe s\n\nstd. he think Lord.\n\nshould not\n\nis still of opinion that the charge\n\nbe paid by the Public. but that of the Lord\n\nComme! of the\n\nadvance the amount\n\nfrom this\n\nehr be willing to\n\nand to deduct\n\nmat of the Salaries\n\nof the Public Officials in question\n\nLord Sunday\n\nobjecting to that made\n\nD", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222352, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "content_text": "Me Komble\n\n1. 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A. & E. Shelley\n\nWarrant appointing him Auditor General of this Colony, transferred to the Commissarial\n\nPayment to Mr. Smith chief Clerk of the Colonial office\n\nPolice fund, paid for Clothing of the Police force...\n\n847 162\n\n173\n\n241 18 10\n\nTotal £\n\n2,324 14 7\n\nTwo thousand three hundred, and twenty four Pounds,\n\nFourteen Shillings, Seven pence sterling\n\n1847- 1847-\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, January 10th.\n\nTrue Copy\n\n[signed] W. K. Wesley,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nActing Colonial Treasurer", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229695, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "content_text": "Ada Fore Office Office # cass queente in its present clope, beyond humbly craving pointsion to draw attention to 15 Clauser bist. Cag! 36: which lis that the fine might the to a \n\nC bo latever it Amoenit ed have been appropriatex ; & I would Refferently respectender hope, that should the Portmeiten be pleased to entertain Rimilar opinions his ba a Cause it to be applied with dan directs, in all cases A. of Actions & exemplified of \"Regina 9 \"Qui lans the reparked in \" late V. Oliver, report cations to you of the 15. 12th May 1847. & 15 April have eiger? Homas Skyland 1\n\n193 Sir. 1 RO Critoria Hong Long, 20th handy. blic Servant, and in Asas public the faitiful discharge of my duty, Speel Compelled to bring under the apecial Notice of this Excellency the Governor, a care which thumbly a the be Effects the interests. I Ronand which I have the which unless et. taken to the prompt, to the Reven e Concurve most bepartment b prove Recisions the Portoffice.\n\nIn the Months of Lanvaryoditing last year, the Steamer \"Cortais \"made her of pear an at you e.c in this Harbour, and are doubtless aware, commencin ploying betences this Corb & Canton. With a view to of Both afford to the Community gelaces every facility in regard to be to Portal accomodation, Emade what a most liberal Perkins, appeared to Auc affer to the Proprietor Capt vis. 2. perteller, for every. undertake to co- Conally Litter he ad between Kong Kong & Canton, & Quiebertà; – to this The Couble Major Caine. Con", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251814, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 261, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "## \nI am stuck on the questions. If there is sufficient traffic, then the truth lies in the fact that whether sanitary or not, the questioning trend of the interpreter is problematic.\n\n- Mrs. added that the Duke of Newcastle is fully sensible of the ability to deal with the French Consul, Baron Manquelay, and the Commandant, Comptroller de Bois-.\n\nThe authorities bring the pan discourse and the former ascertained truth to speak.\n\nThis, I think, was pointed out to Dr. BR, who decided to inquire into the matter.\n\nThe Hartlepool refuted above where the condemnation department and replacement are responsible for this, and whether it is a pitiful part to remain in an unstanding importance.\n\nAdd that the life now punched Enath to death of p. to Japan of the with that.\n\nBe difficulty in the ments of the pattin.\n\nImpression is that the first itch might be the 16/.\n\nThomsett's suspension from office during the contingency.\n\nThen to F.O. with the Exquisites supported the difficulty that has been experienced in finding the suppression of malpractice.\n\n& considering the Hawom \"aupt to do its Lutz, in of ten and don.\n\nThe latter having lately stimulated Jean to permit making Effectural 557 of the Trench saguts immunes au ton- in.\n\nI would send the Apt 5 Mi DR. draft by post on land & san.\n\nFini annin 21 Deer 258.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266871, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "content_text": "\"Heonghing Mercury\" \n\n209\n\nTHE\n\nHONGKONG MERCURY\n\nAND SHIPPING GAZETTE.\n\nFRIDAY, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1866.\n\nIt is not very easy to make out with what object the Meeting was summoned the other day by the Anti-Stamp Tax Committee. If only for the purpose of hearing read to them by Mr. MACLEAN the Governor's reply to the Memorial and Protest, it was ill-advised and unnecessary. His Excellency, by having his reply printed for circulation among the members of the Committee and others and by sending copies to the local papers, did more to give publicity to his case than could possibly be done at any public meeting likely to be got together in Hongkong. If the object in view was, not only to lay the Governor's reply before the public, but also to point out to the community the fallacies contained in that document, the inapplicability of some of its arguments and the weakness of others, and to elicit an expression of popular dissatisfaction and devise further plans for the defeat and overthrow of the obnoxious measure—the Public Meeting of Monday last was a complete and startling failure.\n\nThe Meeting was in the first place insignificantly attended. Neither in members nor in respectability could it compare with the first. The gross misrepresentation that stated the Meeting to have been well attended, “the Court House being filled and many being unable to obtain seats,” was worthy of the Journal in which it appeared. The part of the Court usually occupied by the bar and officers of the Court was certainly full and many gentlemen were compelled to stand. But the other half of the Court House ordinarily appropriated to the public was not quarter filled, while on the occasion of the first meeting every seat was occupied and the passages were crowded. With the exception of the members of the Memorial Committee, but few of the taipons were present in the body of the Court, and if many of those who were there could not find seats it was because the furniture from the offices of the Court had been moved into the Court-room out of the way of the white-washers, and the place was lumbered up with desks and tables.\n\nIn the second place, the only expression of popular feeling elicited on the occasion was in favour of the Stamp Act and in support of the Governor's speech or letter in reply to the Memorialists and protesting members of Council. Mr. GRANVILLE SHARP, while smoothing down the ugly passions of his hearers with one hand, dealt them some awkward hits with the other, justly ridiculing the idea—first propounded by the merchants themselves, although afterwards taken up and considerably improved by a section of the local Press—of a general exodus from Hongkong as the immediate consequence of the Stamp Tax. His speech went farther than the purely ridiculous aspect of the question, and unmasked those who, paying not one single cent of taxes, would impose a double burden on the small middle class here which does pay taxes. Mr. BARNARD, if he did nothing else, made the meeting laugh at him, if not with him, and made certain uncomfortable disclosures as to the motives of some of the more virulent opponents of the new finance measure.\n\nIt was really very unkind of the gentlemen present, when, at the commencement of his oration, Mr. B. stated that he proposed to say something about the Stamp Tax, although many there might think he knew nothing about it—to shout \"hear! hear!!\" in such a significant way; and it was really cruel when he referred to \"the most respectable men in the Colony\" to cry \"name! name!!\" so persistently that the unhappy gentleman yielded to the clamour. We don't envy him his task of explaining away what he then said. Mr. STOREY's speech was very good in its way. Perhaps it pledged himself too earnestly for the good behaviour of the Governor, and for his honest and uprightness of intention, but Mr. STOREY felt strongly and spoke strongly. That question to which the speaker referred pointedly, as evidencing the Governor's good faith—the question of the Kowloon Land Lots—is one which at a very early date will, we believe, become the subject of litigation between the Crown and its tenants and of earnest public discussion. There were three speakers, and all spoke in favour of the Stamp Act. The few words uttered by Mr. BOSMAN were undeserving of the name of a speech, and Mr. McDOUALL's utterance was a palpable confession of defeat. \"We have nothing to say,\" i.e., we are answered and silenced—\"somebody else speak.\"\n\nWhat a pitiful position the Chairman must have found himself placed in! Long pauses; speeches in opposition to the objects for which the meeting had been summoned; no one to raise a voice in reply; an indifferently worded resolution carried as listlessly and as indifferently as if it were not of the least importance; failure in every way. Mr. MACLEAN felt it deeply and \"dismissed\" the meeting, like a pack of troublesome schoolboys, and as if he were heartily glad to be done with the whole affair. We regret for that gentleman's sake, that he did not meet with the support from his colleagues which his own conduct throughout the business eminently merited.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278505, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "content_text": "Homilies in connection with the 6th allocation of the Fund.\n\n6879 remains the discord and 12.\n\nInferred No, in W Con's memos might be impounded in the\n\nIt's way opened by his 7. B's minute on 455.5\n\nBut in words which will show that we do not\n\nof. St.\n\nSr. R. Mar\n\nMardonells\n\nAccess to the\n\nStatements made\n\nof the Court Surveillance Appropriation\n\n(an $849/-.\n\nA\n\nMinute on\n\nor 6024.\n\n6829\n\nLLI Au\n\nManised\n\nFurther details are herein which see. 6879.\n\n9145. (Churchill's pitiful).\n\nAu\n\nThe despatches used to by Mufac\n\nherewith, with the Minute appended to them\n\nJM. 21/1.\n\n#\n\ndpk 12\n\npusum.\n\nwith Hit. I in\n\nthinking\n\nthat\n\nLive\n\nare waiting for a contingency which will never occur, this would also ensure\n\nOccurr.\n\n76883-may\n\n4556.\n\nbe acknowledged, & the\n\nGovern may be told that I Makein he has been\n\nadvised by a quorum to do which was\n\nof the Colony\n\n8.\n\nNo? recapitulate the move in which have already discussed the Coupling became\n\nto be applied -\n\n924/5.\n\nThe whole of these questions with a clever\n\n& not buy\n\nSocial Governor require pest can. Shall be glad of criticisms\n\n72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278946, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "content_text": "514\n\ncopy of the enclosed correspondence.\n\nI have to\n\n(signed) Rutherford Alcock.\n\nCopy No\n\nJune 12d\n\nThe Prince of King,\n\n1. 19th instant, I have a communication - A letter of the date of the 27th Ultimo has been received from the American Minister Mr. Brown to the following effect. \"The Cantonese who are employed as laborers in Peru, some 30,000 in number, have made complaint of the cruelty of their Peruvian masters. They have presented a petition to the American Minister resident at Lima, the Peruvian Capital, who being without an interpreter unable to decide upon its truth, has sent it on for my perusal. The earnest language and pitiful tone of the petition may well move...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301660, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "content_text": "## \n266 \n4 \n\nSecondly, by special repression, or rather oppression, of the Chinese immigrants, who are burdened with extra taxes, costly licences, and damaging restrictions imposed in order that they may be bought off afterwards at high price; who are prohibited the exercise of their own national rites and usages, and forced to adopt those framed by the Spanish clergy; who are habitually denied justice and even ordinary protection within the local tribunals and without; and who yet are the chief--I might almost say the only--link on Philippine ground between native produce and foreign capital, native purchase and foreign supply. Hence every injury inflicted on the Chinese is through them inflicted on foreign enterprise at large, but, owing to our own vast commercial establishments on the China Coast close by, more particularly on the British. This the Administration knows; and in its conduct towards the Chinese does but carry on, though feebly, the policy of Governor Anda, who, to damage the English, then at war with Spain, decreed \"that all the Chinese in the Philippine Islands should be put to death;\" and embodied, though not quite so energetically, in the anti-Chinese Decrees of 1639, 1709, 1759, 1804, and 1867, Governor Anda's Ordinance, dated 1762.\n\nThirdly, by protective or prohibitive Custom dues, heavy and at times illegally-imposed harbour dues, and an entire commercial code, drawn up as far as possible on obsolete pseudo-protectionist principles, derived from the ignorance of times which, for Europe in general, ceased some centuries back, but which for the Hispano-Philippine Colony exist in full vigour at this day.\n\nFourthly, by innumerable daily vexations inflicted on foreign traders---as, for example, capricious visits of Custom-house officers and coastguards on board vessels in harbour, with the view of extorting money, even after every regulation has been complied with; unjust seizures and confiscations of objects not truly liable to duty; wearisome detentions; arbitrary fines imposed on vessels, captains, crews, and consignees on merely frivolous pretexts; besides an infinity of minutious, troublesome and not seldom contradictory regulations, the observance of one of which may often involve, or at least lead to, the contravention of another, and a fine to follow. With these annoyances foreign traders and ship-masters, though grumbling, ordinarily end by putting up, partly in view of considerable profits to be made otherwise in the market, but chiefly because convinced, and rightly so, that special complaints, particularly if put under official form, are often dangerous, almost always useless, where the system is rotten all through.\n\nFifthly, by the almost total, but not involuntary nor inculpable absence of the usual facilitations to seaboard approach, no lighthouses, the solitary beacon of Corrigidor excepted, no signal-marks, no buoys, no wharves, no landing-stages, no dredges---objects for a tolerable sufficiency of which the copious revenue provided by the heavy harbour dues, the fines imposed, and other exactions might be amply enough, but to none of which a fraction even of that revenue is applied. And here, as akin to the matter, should be mentioned that the non-existence of submarine telegraphic communication with the outer world, which might easily be laid down via Hong Kong, is chiefly due to the deliberate aversion of the Hispano-Philippine Administration from free intercourse between this Colony and Europe, even Spain herself.\n\nSixthly, by the tobacco monopoly, an organized evil sketched out, it seems, as early as 1650, but not fully established in its actual form till 1780. Its details are too vast for investigation in a summary Report like the present. Enough here to say that it not only cuts off but ruins what might, but for it, be of all branches of Philippine trade the most advantageous to Spaniards, foreigners, and natives alike, and which now, to secure a small, delusive, but immediate profit for the first of these three classes, maintains, within the tobacco-growing districts, viz., Cagayan, New Viscaya, Isabel, Abra, and the two Ilocos, all provinces of the upper half of Luzon, containing a population of about 500,000, and an extent of nearly 5,000,000 square acres, that is, equal to Wales, a system of oppression towards the natives exceeding in injustice and cruelty, by the avowal of a recent Spanish writer, anything practised in the slave-holding regions of the New World. See \"Memoria sobre el desestanco del Tabaco en las Islas Filipinas\" (\"Memorandum on the doing away with the Tobacco Monopoly in the Philippines\"), by Don J. S. Agius, of Manila, 1871, as also F. Jagor's \"Travels in the Philippines,\" chap. xxv (The Tobacco Monopoly), pp. 324-339, both trustworthy sources of information. As to foreigners, the existing monopoly means, of course, absolute exclusion from all direct profit or share in that department of produce and trade.\n\nSeventhly, by direct and official attempts made from time to time to impose new regulations and restrictions, which, if put in effect, would ruinously cripple all foreign trade and enterprise within this Colony. Thus, in June this year (1877), appeared in the \"Official Gazette\" an order enjoining all foreign houses of business to keep their books henceforth in the Spanish language and on the Spanish system; also imposing a most exorbitant stamp-duty on all business papers, documents, bills, and even correspondence; and moreover extending official supervision at will to the most private and confidential proceedings of the houses themselves. This Decree the Government was, however, a fortnight later compelled publicly to cancel and withdraw, in face of the determined opposition organized, under the lead of the British Consulate, by all foreigners, to its execution.\n\n5\n\nTo the above-stated seven limitations, or impediments intentionally thrown in the way of foreigners, might be added certain annoyances and restrictions of minor importance, such as the tampering with and occasional non-delivery of letters by the Spanish post-office; the prohibition of all public religious observances except those after the Spanish mode; a veto on the publication of books, periodicals, newspapers, and even almanacs, within the Philippines, or their importation from without, unless they have previously passed through the ordeal of Spanish official and clerical censorship; a generally unfriendly tone of the local daily press, which is under strict official direction and control; and other trifles, vexatious enough, but not requiring more than a summary and passing allusion in a Report of this nature.\n\nFrom this statement it is sufficiently evident that the attitude of the Hispano-Philippine Administration towards foreign enterprise, trade, and intercourse at large, is not of a very encouraging character. Exceptions of course there are, and honourable ones, but this Report deals with what is habitually, not with what may be exceptionally, the case with classes, not with individuals.\n\nI now come to the attitude of the Administration towards British trade and enterprise in particular.\n\nTill latterly, of all foreigners none were more heartily disliked by the Spaniards here than the English. Of late, however, the preference of dislike and distrust has been transferred from them, at least in some regards, to the Germans. The causes of this change are to be sought for, for the most part, in intra-European politics and relations strangers to this Report; but one local circumstance, namely, the line taken up by the Germans regarding Sulu, and matters connected with that part of the Philippine Archipelago, should be noted as the chief topic of Spanish dissatisfaction out here.\n\nPlaced in a manner between Germany and England, each pressing on it with almost equal urgency by their trade and enterprise (for with other and political considerations I have here nothing to do), the Hispano-Philippine Administration not unnaturally seeks in the latter a sort of counterpoise to the former. If foreigners needs must extend their commerce and intercourse in this direction, British encroachment is, on the whole (thus runs the modern Spanish verdict), more tolerable, and above all less dangerous, than German; and hence it comes that, though taking things in the sum, the Administration neither departs, nor is soon likely to depart, from its exclusive principles, except when one way or other constrained to do so. Yet British trade and enterprise find at present, owing to the motives above mentioned, more of toleration, nay, even in special instances, of encouragement, than they did in the past, before Germany came to the front. This position of things may, and probably will, last yet for a while. It is one of which we, conscious that we neither have in present nor in prospect other interests in the Philippines than merely those of trade and commerce, may, I think, fairly take advantage. Spanish jealousy, coupled as it is with Spanish weakness, bears with it less danger to our commerce in these parts than German activity, though temporarily screened under a surface co-operation, the introducer of a real and perilous rivalry.\n\nSumming up, I should say that, from the side of the Hispano-Philippine Administration, British trade and British commercial establishments on the immediate sea coast, and more particularly at Manila itself, have not much, indeed, to expect, but have also little to fear, in the present condition of affairs.\n\nIt is otherwise with enterprises undertaken inland, or on the remoter islands, as factories, plantations, farms, mines, and the like. From these I should distinctly dissuade. The old exclusionist spirit, free to its old devices in remoter places, and manifesting itself by covert annoyances, hostile instigations, indefinite delay or absolute denegation of justice, capricious interferences, and the thousand other vexations by which a practically irresponsible Administration can make itself disagreeable where it chooses, is not likely to allow any such enterprises a fair chance of success. This, too, past experience unhappily confirms.\n\nThe clergy, too, awakening every now and again from their usual good-natured torpor, are at times dangerous enemies to English enterprises and English men in the Philippines. Not to dwell on the well-known events of 1762, and the horrible massacre of 1819, in both of which the clergy were, it is stated, the main instigators, I have myself known instances of the most spiteful calumnies, the most damaging denunciations, directed by \n\nC `[1185]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302018, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH FEBRUARY, 1878.\n\nHappily the Chinese Government and private individuals are exerting themselves in the latter, and large contributions have been raised and forwarded both in money and food to the Famine stricken districts.\n\nBut the whole is of course utterly inadequate to meet the wants of the case, and Missionaries alike Catholic and Protestant, are engaged to the utmost of their ability in the work of distribution and more are ready to enter on it, if means are provided for the purpose. Urgent appeals are to hand for aid, and the Relief Committee here have resolved on adopting the same line of action that was pursued last year, namely, canvassing the foreign settlements at this place, writing to the outports, including Hongkong and Japan, and, in addition, to telegraph to England and America.\n\nLast year the Colony of Hongkong responded liberally to the appeals that were made for Shantung, and the necessities of the case compel us to renew our appeals this year, also in the hope that they will be as effective as they were then.\n\nWe have been appointed to write your Excellency for this purpose, and to lay the matter before you, requesting that such means may be carried out at Hongkong, as may be thought most suitable. Your kind attention to this will be the occasion of much thankfulness to the members of our Relief Committee and it is desired that any monies contributed for the object may be sent to the Treasurer of the Fund, F. W. LEMARCHAND, Esq., Agra Bank, Shangbai.\n\nHis Excellency \nThe Governor of Hongkong, \n&c., \n&c.\n\nWe have, &c. \nWM. MUIRHEAD, \nHon. Sec., China Famine Relief Fund. \nE. REEVES PALMER, \nMinister of Union Church, Shanghai.\n\n## R. C. MISSION HOUSE, HONGKONG, 7th February, 1878.\n\nEXCELLENCY,-The appalling news of the horrors of famine, which I almost daily receive from the North of China, compels me to recur to the generosity of the heart of Your Excellency, craving for a relief for so many famine-stricken fellow-creatures. As Procurator of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide, I continually receive letters from the heads of the Italian Missions, that is the Provinces of Shen-Shi, Shan-Shi and Honan, the Provinces most suffering from famine. My great friend the Right Reverend Bishop VOLONTERI, Vicar Apostolic of Honan, well known here in Hongkong where he worked as Missionary for 10 years and who made the so widely spread chart of the San-on district) writes me in date of 12th January, that the horrors of famine are so great, that fathers are seen eating the corpse of their children, and children assisting at the death of their fathers, eating them immediately as they have expired. Indeed the local Mandarins do something, but quite powerless for so many dying people in those huts where at times some 5 or 6 thousand people collected receive a daily soup by the Government, some 60 or 100 corpses are extracted every day.\n\nAfter such terrible description of the horrors of famine, the Right Reverend Bishop VOLONTERI, and the Right Reverend Bishop LING, Vicar Apostolic of Shan-Shi pray me to do all that lay in my power to find some relief for so many poor creatures, whom they are condemned to see dying every hour around them, unable as they are through poverty to stretch forth their hands to help them. I urged by such pitiful motives take courage to put my humble petition for some relief in the hands of Your Excellency, knowing the sincere feelings of charity which animates your heart, and hoping that the Colonial Government, which was so liberal last year for the poor people of Shantung Province will also come to the help of those of Shan-Shi and Honan.\n\nI have, &c., \nG. BURGHIGNOLI, \nProcurator of Propaganda Fide.\n\nHis Excellency \nJOHN POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G., \nGovernor of Hongkong, \n&c., \n&c., \n&c.\n\n# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH FEBRUARY, 1878.\n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, MADRAS, 11th January, 1878.\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of two drafts amounting to Rupees 543.10.4, towards the Famine Relief Fund.\n\nI beg that you will convey to Bishop RAIMONDI and to the Officers and Men of the Portuguese Gun-vessel Tejo, my best thanks for the remittance.\n\nI remain, &c., \nBUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.\n\nHis Excellency JOHN POPE HENNESSY, Esq., \nGovernor of Hongkong.\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\n### TEACHING OF ENGLISH IN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.\n\nThe following Letters and Minutes are published for general information.\n\nBy Command, \nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th February, 1878.\n\n[No. 15.] \nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN, \nColonial Secretary.\n\nHONGKONG, 28th January, 1878.\n\nSIR,-Referring to your Letter No. 132 of the 2nd March last, informing me of the Secretary of State's approval of the proposal for introducing a system of payment by results in the Government Schools of the Colony, I have the honour to report as follows:-\n\nThe Schools ranked as very good are the\n1. Tang-lung Chau (Púnti) School.\n2. Wantsai School.\n3. Stanley School.\n\nThe Schools ranked as good are the-\n1. Sai Ying-pún (Púnti) School.\n2. Há Wán School.\n3. Shéung Wán School.\n4. Shán-ki Wán School.\n5. Girls' School.\n6. Tang-lung Chau (Hakka) School.\n7. Ap-li Chau School.\n8. Shek-t'ong Tsúi School.\n9. Ta'at Tsz-múi School.\n\n| Rank | Payment |\n| --- | --- |\n| 5 Masters | $25 each |\n| 7 Masters | $15 each |\n\nTotal, $230.00 \n($125.00 + $105.00)\n\nThis payment comes under the denomination of Grants-in-Aid. I have already, in my Letter No. 3 of 7th instant, (C.S.O. No. 38), reported that the Grants-in-Aid this year are in excess of the sum voted for the purpose. I trust, however, that His Excellency the Governor, on considering the circumstances of the present year, will not object to making provision for this further sum; and I shall be glad if the Warrant for payment is issued in time to enable me to pay the Masters on the 1st proximo, before they go home for their New Year holidays.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \nFREDERICK STEWART, \nInspector of Schools.\n\nThe Honourable J. GARDINER AUSTIN, C.M.G., \nColonial Secretary, \n&c., \n&c., \n&c.\n\n## No. 30. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following letter from His Grace the Duke of BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, dated Government House, Madras, 11th January, 1878, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command, \nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th February, 1878.\n\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN, \nColonial Secretary.\n\n### Minute by His Excellency the Governor.\n\nI have already sanctioned the extra payments in accordance with Mr. STEWART's recommendation, subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.\n\nOn visiting some of these Village Schools, I found the Schoolmasters could not speak a word of English, and as far as I could ascertain, none of the pupils had any knowledge of English.\n\nPossibly, in some of the Government Schools I have not yet been able to visit, there may be instruction in English; I should therefore be glad if Mr. STEWART would make out a list of the Schoolmasters of the Village Schools, marking in each case, those who can teach English, and those who cannot. Also the total number of pupils in each Village School, and the number in each that can speak English.\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY, \n29th January, 1878.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303803, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 395, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "34 \n\nwith M. Stewart. I was angry, but dared not show it, and felt hot, sad, and more. Frequently I asked him to lend me some money as I was hard up, but dared not ask him to repay the $10. It was at the beginning of the year 1878, when I learned that Mr. Chun The Grang had borrowed $10 from each of the four Masters who had received the first class gratuity of $25, and that he had borrowed $5 from each of the markers who had received the gratuity of the second class $15. I learned that Mr. Chen Chi Genus borrowed, in February 1877, money from all the masters who then received gratuity. It was at that time in February 1878, that I asked Mr. Chin Chie teens to repay (by lending me) the $10, but he replied that he had no money. Frequently, in November 1878, on a Friday, I wrote a letter to him regarding him to repay the money. This letter was written in the hand of four Masters (there was a draft signed by them).\n\nThe letter which I sent to Mr. Chin the Grang merely reminded him that it was a long time since he had borrowed the money, that we were in great want of it, that one (or two?) of the masters had died since the money was borrowed, which was pitiful, and that we hoped he would excuse us - not. There were three years and no reply, except that he paid to the messenger \"all eight\". I said to several Masters (of the Central School) afterwards, that if he did not return the money, I would report him (to the Inspector of Schools). I said this because I intended to be friends with him.\n\n35 \n\n... Chess Cher feung ... 4th", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304230, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "## \n\n174 \n\nbe to address Her Majesty's Consul and pleased request that he will move the British Authorities at Hongkong to take the necessary steps in the matter, and also that the Commander of the gunboat \"Ising-fan\", Pang Wing-fee, may be instructed to proceed with his steamer to Hongkong in order to cooperate with Sergeant Tang On bringing the said Criminals to Canton to be handed over to the proper Court for trial.\n\nThe Viceroy begs to observe, with reference to this affair, that the said 13 offenders Hanghai pin are important criminals who have been accused by Ch'in pat and other aggrieved parties of abduction, robbery and spiteful murder. As they have now been arrested with the assistance of the foreign police in Hongkong, which place they are temporarily imprisoned, they should be conveyed without loss of time to Canton for trial and punishment.\n\nThe Viceroy has instructed Corporal Pang Hung fei, Commander of the gunboat Ising-fan to proceed to HongKong to take into his custody and bring to Canton the criminals Hunghai pin to be handed over through Her Majesty's Consul to the Viceroy for transmission to the proper Court.\n\nThe Viceroy begs to address this Despatch to Her Majesty's Acting Consul, for his information, and to request that he will be pleased to prepare without delay a Despatch authorizing Corporal Pang to proceed to Hongkong and take charge of and bring to Canton the said criminals.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306144, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 368, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nMr. Wingfield.\nMr. Bramston.\nMr. Meade.\nMr. Herbert.\nMr. Grant Duff.\nLord Kimberley.\n\nnot hand been conduct the opposite side not less deserving of consideration and inducement.\n\n5. With regard to the visit to the Chinese brothels, considerable weight appears to me to be due to Mr. Wodehouse's candid explanations. There was clearly no immoral purpose for anything beyond the desire to see at first hand various curious aspects of Chinese life, which may be in common with their theatres, clubs, and opium houses.\n\nThis decision showed his lack of seriousness and judgement in falling in with suggestions and the manner in which it was done, without knowing all the circumstances. I cannot affirm that there was no indiscretion was committed.\n\n362 afforded at that Singapore institution, that are not confronted with western institutions of the same name.\n\nMr. Wodehouse appears to me to have been pitiful in believing that he had obtained the necessary authority for visiting them, and although I am disposed to think what he did...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308352, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 342, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "335\n\nIt is because of reopening the question to \"mind his own business\". I would одоб... of the pitiful justice your Honour Hennessey's action. But I would, \"apart from their question altogether's\" point out that in stating that the licence fee on the Distillery was not 2% of the profits, he has apparently overlooked the fact that the profits in question are those of the Sugar Refining Co. including the distillery, and that the profits of the distillery alone are not stated. Jardin Matheson did make a point of stating that the distillery only operates in connection with the Sugar Refinery.\n\nSecondly, the last paragraph of this despatch is (perhaps unintentional) simply a hint to the Secretary of State to point out to Sir John Hennessey that, while no complaint coming home from the Colony to the Secretary of State can be considered by him until the Governor has reported on it, there is nothing in the Colonial Regulations to prevent a Colonist furnishing the Secretary of State direct with a copy of the communication he has sent to the Governor.\n\n...sent theiringle or to haters to complaints from Turner in denne calling with to. $lay theme for the tyd. Gul Glease\n\n2.4.17 ap. 19.07 Papers Rin 2074 Imp. Before the mutine answered as above Low Art & the dup gap. 13 a 27 which of come own him when bemote this, He willter", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311193, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "from the public service the unsatisfaction, regain which Mutate notorious scandal ha allacher to it\". He intend to bring the techjeet forward in the Leg. Council.\n\nhether sucantine\n\nHe S. rfS. has denies that it\n\nMere\n\nin then\n\naileaests\n\nis not desirable that should of the\n\nLe\n\nany further investigation\n\nMr 2712\n\nRin 2712\n\nJ\n\nDer Winsfild\n\nI do wit think that hi fimmps\n\nhas minded his position of\n\nputting\n\nreceed the private unositi on\n\nwith Herstorm.\n\nand I ave but semprice\n\nthat derseturen intends to bring matter befor the Lay: Council\n\no reift in all that is\n\ndu achawshipment\n\nrepere Ear\n\n2.\n\nL\n\nHa kwa hore\n\npublis Јельный\n\nack\n\nNo g.\n\nmay b\n\n#January 1882.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nHoughon 3495\n\nC O. 3495\n\nRCCP\n\nREGO 27 FEB 92\n\nGovernment House,\n\n213 Hongkong, 214th January 1882.\n\nAdverting to my despatch N.2 of the 3rd instant, I have the honour to transmit another letter, addressed to Your Lordship this day, by M. J. B. Johnson of Messrs Jardine\n\nRight Honourable\n\na pitiful Earl of Kimberley\n\nAmand\n\nMajesty's Principal dioretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nfo\n\nFo\n\nta", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311416, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "# THE DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982.\n\n## HONGKONG VARIOUS.\n\n### INSURANCE.\n\n**THE DAILY PRESS** \nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982.\n\n## INSURANCE COMPANIES AT HANKURUES.\n\n### SOUTH GORMAN PURE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\n| CAPITAL | $2.06 |\n| --- | --- |\n| ASSOCIATION. 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Toch Norway A \ntord to the Admin, whe whenced to re \ninto the re \n* Print of Triingua, the amez \nEyself the boner of sating to your \n$325,\" \nSIRNSSEN A CS.. \nhan pase of distributi ig a estudi prax. POLA 16 14 49erida prod analygyaka (13 ane) Sharaboleza wa kaka parkiábatel \"business \ndaine Company \nFril \nMash \nLis \nMwe \nSon Hanlin \nJJ 3 Cou \nFeb. 20 Ti. 3 \nAze \nFab. 19. Büs \nFirs \nYANCH ; 9% *0* \niDou. I't. Margar \nrish | Man Yung Wzg \nJet \n5:0 \nBlested & Ca \n2301.& 6. B. N. CO \nJH \n3. Dell & Qu d. Ses \n- zle she | 66 | Bavarra à Co \nSamalei, & \n37K thong & Sani \n3. M \n2. Quandrid Squ \nJun. 23 \nuesרני \nMAGASAKL \nIN PHAI OK 3 Faxrany. THES. \nir, je (3, \nYORONAMA. \nIN Pass 10 JAPONY, 1991 \nAuri \na. \nAdamsta, Hall & Co \nBangkok \nBeamch \nActonick \nfun pro Jan. \nArgon \nBirla S \n332 in \nCaptai \nBiguney \ndo \n•Carlis \nAline \nFren. Sir \ntiiases & Co \nFab. Kutafi \nFre \nOoh. 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Stymes & Con \nMela SAD \n4,17,& ki meumbeat De Baena, \n* \n4. \nHet steiga \nจด แม \nBalt, By \nSiooyen à ca \nwich & \nRow 1 Kayaci \nlivi, p \nEAMING NAME 132.5. \nPh & Warga Maritions \nAura C \nPrk 110 man Aura Gay \nNOSPHORIA 107. \"AD! \nJun. LauqUIL \nCatt plin Urvavy Meets of China. Dullay Jan. 181 W. tidley degan, and at \nSO WHE \n12! Simarovie dềmchand \nG18 Orist \nلابت اور \nBak \nMaria Anon \nAsc.rol \nالمقاتلة فكر \nJ. 1851 \nDTAGEL- \nSANTIA \nBell at the tinglin \nBj \nGer. 196 Chetan \n* Get al: ; Lives \nAnch/5 Ca \n237 \nAm 25 tais \nGer. Cutia, \nHER BRIANNI MAJERTY & SHIPS IN THE CHONA SQUADRON. \nاوری ارشد را \nEIG \nالامل لاله \nCAPTAIN. \nJang \nCW. 'Enct \nSing \nS. \nC'. P. J., \nHube \n237 Captain C. ini se \nbungkal \nM \nPaul Jonas \nARNOLD KASHERS & C \nJA Welboort \nFeb. 12. Brundt \nOne kan Ju \nSIGHT \n4ma \nc. 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Qu \nMae [namzigrad are pegama Froe this date TOLICIES Frier a tho \n4. 3. SOKEN. \nHonka. Mar. 1650, \nA shy-footing multiprou pracacdotari de stat 8900 \nige tum ire à Smiral, to used to the \nAmbassúng who he was deligin first-cines Tiskr \nace in, and hapad i have the boner of his \ncompany at inner utzi day at the hy \nBe asid this is loud voie, a da to ve kened \nby her he had dured to see uner! \nLINSTEAD & BAVIS. \nHatokon. 10 Yar i \nWER ON TAL INSURANOK COMPANY \nCLIMATRON \nrelation of a Muressy with so Aspho cera.; PEE LOVBOK ASSURANCE; Bars Foss $70,858.27; Fin \n2017; then he panel round and socalači INSINENEATED P \nadaluperespeit \nStrated's fling of loyalty \nprofound a bal of a sincero bever \nfitae vigat must ninna be very me \nWin, SE1 Kewu \nSustra \nBarthe \nWise & fo \nPerth. Duels, b \n! Iselt sure \nBrit \n¦ Ane ja \n372 Ambut. Kacheze de \nAdamvua, Dlt & Gu \nSi Orien \n30 Solussa je ča \nSW. £. Das \n74 733. Jaspaik & C \n18? 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When the Duke of Cambelge was clone to bury his guess palice of crus, o es pale sitt To The Morw, if the Kwang Wins Cheng \nF \nJue a feo Jugs at the Eusbance, he went \nmade, 38 sa priani Poets of You \nhis dering gown sed sappers, at en mely: Ohm, and 3 andrenia, kt \none in the morning, that the rema \nFULC DEPASSTENT. \npreamed for his Royal [Eigens are in Polizios ishoni è long uy shows perivés ti \nberek orday. Finding the Date's voles in color ranging the tranka and \npetraentious bish | \nSALE WETARPIUNT. \nPad Retired, the Aubaskede begla ba girs Delineaued for racing directions how they thenat be | \nplaced. The Rt reduced rates. \nmer left of meeting, and stared as Cord Stratford \nMANAGER- AMEL \nHARTER B doet ko. the f QUERENT RATES to Acolmit Dalitra. Mile, Burapon Rain, May, to ai (44), Enute Pitse of this and Ja \nHales, D. Pravit 240. Haku, 1218. \nLO MOLLIDA WIER, 250); \n26 Jul, 1870 \nwal tell you what the said at TN CITY OF LONDON PIER INATE \nANCH COMPANY. LIMITED. \n\"I know bow his Hopal Host In \nhave bra nga anapes inter than you du.&PURAT-E-PAPERADO \nBy job op-ed de off, will you, \nLed Stratford into the room in a towering \npansion, and culling one of the auction, \ndeka bice to go and tell that men was in \nma that he and veekuned to add an \nZappanger to attack who retuned \nWeli, \nPAID UN RESERVE YUVD- UNDO! \nVodaviest having boa appisależ¦ pete for the hote egy \nde Acer ass gapal Print 21. Ca Hour \nCEO, E SERVENY & C \nFUS \nSpec \n107 \nbest app inte!: Flakin \nNOTICE. \nNEW YORK BUARD Heilo \nARNOLD, KARERA & Ca Funkrag dah Sentor, \n1979 \nTOBZORO JE AMEERTJAN 2 WOREIGN SHIVVINA, \nma \nARNIMA KARBERO & Br Hobgob. \nwith pakai Kid 154 wat de bou?\" m2; V ANCHESTES PIES ASSERASU XAN ON INSURANDA COM. \nthe Ambassador. \n\"E sad to bia, my lund, but the paten \nIn when he had retured to area with \nTangzage maker Majesty's Kepenti \nir Fers. \nCOMPANY OF MANCHESTER \nAND LONDON. \nEstanyen 1921. \n“Ah, gate right. And what was his guy WHIGH TE PA-UP... LEN() \nджетны \nNastave \ndr $12,000 Bracing \nHe answered, my lord, that is never til \nyou warah' \nwa singular featury in Lord Sreat \nford's new husty dising states \nager wasid ankenly be kupeared by NOT- \nPANT. DEMETE), \nAV Calamone, \nE, IN Bahat \nAAAAH \nمرین و داتا ولول \nMAJAO \nH..AM. Fisartut de Cauter \nANTON \nii. \n| Gizyon & \nLp. 21. Sana \nBrit \nButterfici \nBab 2 Drama \n; Eiseraces & C \nADAXA \nis 14 FCAT, AL \nMaksija Māc p \nCebaty derrotial \nAbi-subt \nying Thoug \nJan - grubost \nConte in tegabi \ndual-row go vessel \nAuto gail-Tequel \ntermiying board \nplate ut vesti \nzaube \nKIT \nruot \nINSTA \nHongkong \n110 et 1o. Makyn 61905. A. F. M. Chia \nKi \nTa \nCaptain. They \n10 Curl \nKoue Forty \nالشاره کار \nAcl.Com. 15. Trend Singapur \nCan J H. Core \n1. Bəndika Singepat \nLieut. Geta. M. Gridgn,\" \nCongres \n126 ه بر امور باید در \nClay Jobster the male poze \nCase Co \nجوانان ام خالد \nFJZDIGN MEN-OF WAR ON THE CHINA AND JAYAN STATION. \nSAN \nį Abrosa \nAtent \n! Alors \nStrin \nAsi \nCumentar \nAshut \nSartel \nHursh \nKrasin \nInese ar \nCAPTAIN, \nWHEL AR \nCaptain Stebraz \nApr \nFranek z bot \nChimney Caillard \nSalyau \nCommandy T. p \n$apizca eruntha \n! Portmate trase \nAPL-67 \ncezvelta \nLalion consult \nKamian (penly \nNorman Cortla Burcan çembe Fronek roerm Anlene gruntown. \nSpin test \nA best \nTrussian art. I \nLee Tak \ngrangi \nANG \nJJan. 2ki Yantai \nDen of \n24 \n13. A.. Peter & ku \n1152 Bienesu \nor Ruh \nBesin traspe \nCli \nEr I hate \nNermy \nRana znanst \n5, 13 Jud \nPakis \n#5મા \nJa \ne. D \nunty B \ntbeats \nF. 19: \nKonzulan peran \nÜnam of ladis l'at \nah keine \nDub \nCAPITAL BEADY Proserineal al:24,668.; Vais \nAZT JEUSJAL \nKON HOW WAY, Fr. Chairman. Aerling.cs Tie Hot, F. Cras e Fial. \nBAN HAR D \nINSON, n. Qry Mug \nTholaiesigel ince bean appointed Agrants, \nthe nas, tavo sad at \nHing waiters to hit lui. To get Eustis Curat Ra \nso in this cosul he enjead hea \nJanga with \nanother ion, an stcube bad made \ntwo nista ne doprzeg a dismalei, \nwill be 16tk 63 the Archansado for signa \nMistem may to made,\" said Ford Strat \nford after solating them at \nthe very! \nvarsta delen wish to by shini \nHOLIDAY, WINK Fengkrang, P, Calases, Bir \n8AMES A \nMAKARY \nLIMITED \nIBAISANCE COMPANY, \nUkau Orrace. Boku \nPor \ni \nKTM Kar \nAvary \na TN, B. Asid Santes C \nThe CT GRANTS POLICIES \nCho Vide \nDESKS 63 ala carte of the Waid this \nrolita Apnasier. Patribus Divblends sy payday l ANG Coctribes of Design, whether thug bar \nStoneshalder de ING. \nLONDON \nCHANGK \nAgent China for 164 Urn! \nWOO LIN YOEN, \nSperstars. \nHRAD OVERCE, \n,, Gran'a End West \nAquane, Marab. 11. \n1525 \nThe high spirised pov ciplest at you Colajny, to wop MADINE CHUS NOOI SA Pottery wwwrgir soud, and told Care Brat \nIs Cursor \nChime Du \nfram), \nPURLINE DAILY \n1420 \n19 15:Hu \nsai Busty \nJea \n17. storoch \n228 A \ner 34 E. A. \n207 LA. Pete Sou \n11, the 954 Rogd & Co \n$49 1.3. Pel & Ce \nCOMMON. \niz Posts Iza Persuar, 1962. \nWe \nthiaga nee \n2. Future \nSHANGWAL \nOptin A. D. de \nCHITRA B., Wallin \nat Am \n4ptsir. ubrz \nShpreis Rubotom \nCaplein 6, Norg \n| Gayanie Vur Knif \nfum salar Xiana \nYehudit \nJn \nHouckunz \nHo \nGanuzmuñor quite sami, tu l'a \nV. W. Tong! Hunk \nCATE \ntanama \nK'Ocoeendez C. & Quem! Eskuham \nCouder kavand Thacistu \nVisdireuzel \nViadivostos \n70 \n30 \nCazzi Tubink \nflores Valienās \n91 \nHozekcay \nVeptam eher \nSigap \nCozy Mugle \nSharvari \nJapaja Sioengine \nBul \nI sinhurs \nCapla \nde Doria OnePuik \nAlquite \nsaigra \nNagheaks \nunder: Suwach \nMaria \nSt. Intersburg | Kei \nTanayoel \nGardan onze \nPorcian comedo \nAmerican curetan \nPorteraiya grabenade \n'escri \nCopiad von Blena Casar Delivra \n1999 CoA. 1. Cube \n250 \nB \nSatt \nJ'unan \n'1' \nPonens \nItzanino tropløst \nStuonies ko \nU \nSunkia \nLMR. \n20-1 \na Federaly, 1 \nGlee's tr \nChin-ti \nCutun.ja) \nching-A \nQui \nChopr \nTw: El Rusi \nJu : Berish \n! ! 285 Makin \nMotl \nBelarus Primers & Co \nab W. icatort de \nac, Kg & Co \nI For \nFourt \n! Bu ba \nM \nCens \nS \n16. \nrice na . \nof Batm \n10. \nTi \nford bat, altough he was his Amasadar, conne \nDam \nSHE. \ni had to ght to repiten hun for what! \nADAMSON, BELL & Co. \nProtantes \nWas tene, ba ce was not hebitaedly careless, i \nHakone, th May 25 \naa. ari Nem \nPris 14 96 \nForster, vees & C \nPAK \nAnu, b: Jes \nPell \nNi \nBrit \nMER \nMac & Co \nBrit \nYou werfly \n--your eyes selaimed Lord Stabd \n2) pour Brodiva's!orted \nthe alb \nThe Eley Durous lunghing. \nSan VERZONY li les bra gemalenud ormibi. of Pouncy: Vindtisch, Small IVERPOOL AND EXTES ANDA, nge the rest on in cou ubore INSURES TCE COMPANY. iation of uns Chinese ampire in the Hand \nThe Lederige, As the hoen bias. If show by a \nHedr'g \nHolding Counnar, des DOWMEN FRim ta do Chong 3cbeles, sul cenou na Raken \nGRANTI \n\"his honda kim, he begged the stine TTM dnced TarifPro for du vilising a head at the tee the infrally of his tespar \nPOLICIES CALIXTILN \nthey shoot and racet wordially-oplei \n20 phemou \nM3 Mercies & Ce \n14.&.Tri Cu \nDr. T. C \n91 Jr Walent \n'\\' ctly tun \nRysl \ne Fasioo.g \nThes \nA2065 \nRates \nchat kurash, Banglory, or less! Pade \nTANGSAR LYPHAIK & \nHongkong. th May, 1 \nU agung, làth Januvɛy, 1577 \nHO! Klykn \nBritn \nLins \n67 \nSiz Martin \nGen 52 \n155 \nGesinalin & Ca \nWe, bis! \n343 · Nils Mottar \nHung-barz \nI've got \nTeling \nCANTON OISEOAT SQUADRON. \nPORNO, VONN, HE \nVry's best 17 149 \nLore via \n9.19 Mar \nViking's pani-bak \nBryster \nViens' animat \nint \nFumar's inchoat Revontiret \nFinny'sunl.cek Vient Bacolas cruis Viseryʻkk Vicy-gonizi \nTching- \nTentang \nBA Sat \nPhi \nB \nBi-Lin \nTriag \nVigganum \nIni etuier \nCOMMANDEN. \nSLATION. \nHongkong \n| by \n5230 \n75 J. Baze. \nE \nChai \nF. B \nVinery',nical sti \nLany ie ing \nChow hi Close Admiral d), ('bing \nCati \n4 \nYang Yang L \nCali \nPied Pubbled in a meat thinl \nWare st \nCanton Piret \nQual \nBeg \nCitol \nUrise By Foru \nBegins Porta \nWhat Cont \nPucle Perta \nMonkey \nHakus Xin \nB+ Lot un \n55%22:14001 Heront, Hunsicoma. \nNo. 7649 \n436 \nThe Hong Kong Daily Press. \nSLIPPING. \nANGELS \nDANKS. \nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982. \nINTIMATIONS. \n(YOMPTOTH A GROOMITEE DE PALTI, QUS HONGKONG WIHE IN Febrylases, tribes teamer, 945 \nVIRE INSURANCE COMPANY DIXIEO. Dkny 18th Plecary, 40- \nCorporates and 150h Merek, \"S recal-BRAON. \nNOTICE TO SHARKHOLDERS. Pebermy 22, VOLMDR, Denish adapter. 973, \nRecognised by the T. toew: Sevation of TORRENT 2018 AD Here, E.. 173 Fektivt, CAPITAL Flot Cars Ge \nANGGA MUSTING of SHARK --Tune é \n24,265,000 HOGUbs in the alene Coy with n RAMATZ PORD \n£59, 190, at the Leaf the y. Vis. 7. Quza's Timcid, at (ait pas The stock, be instant, to meeile Mataista to BAN EPICCO Men, and be Elena Cheatin Ouderr, HANRON), \nFebruary 28, CasaDEA, Brier, 62 \nY \nAUCTIONS. PURRIO AUCTION. \nINTIMATIO IS. \nRACE HOLDATA \nimas nadelgum te meived lastration Vodermentioned tenka will (LOSE! \nPAINE \nhuma Surgem Wajor MURRAY to Sell for BiL DAY. CU INOSHOW, SAVEDAY tb. TO SUMAR- Adranty Jáhl at 2 \nend 25 inatra, Prayz von Fac \n\" \nBowin, Brigas 12th Pub, Mig-2s; HEADOFFIOR-14. Ruz heres PAROD¦ Plans 24 THORDAY, turb Echomap HGTSEJ 77, & \nFulmer 94, Yes. British rv, 78% Le \nSolids, Cute and F. General SCG. \nOLEA RANKS. \nAT \"ne Haren Hispans Ojo Inst \nExperky Pre \nKauai, Cheve sht, for Hofla Minster, Beitials for Away. Pocha, ens tramp vi. Adilok, Gorman bark, for Tas \nDEPARTURES February, Fame, Brist destit, fur Petrony 22. Hamaw, British slower, for! \nTi \nFeby $2. Stok, iliahanet, for \nXokebena \nFebruary 2G:=x01\", British Mesmer, \nfor Sought \nPASKENCYRS. \nSAPIVED \nAGENCIES AND HRANCE A \n: Exoak. \nNANTES \nBom \nSHOW \nMALIGE AND, {3\\_ \nSTONEY \nTORONAMY \nLONDON HAWKERS \nThe PA ( \nTHY WIN AND \n1.cruce \nMoms. C. J. Hume Has \nYue Honger geny powers Pixupnitä \nica Tomas to outcertained on appřánation! \nA few randife sun sull jarts of the world, \nINT Escapula sees of king shangs spiness \n8 February, 199 \nF. COCHINARD, \nSpeat, foug \nDENTAL BANK CORPORATION KÁRÍCUNDOSATs my Horan CHADIGAN PAIDUS CAPITAL....... \nRATE OF IN CHEST ALLOWED \nthat por Acy. \nCurumiles and \n11, the sport thu \ndongás my CALIORNO COVERED DRAWING \nHACK WORD VARITE TO TABLES. \nPer fan Oring Par laws Corporation, \nURO 0. BOOTT \nVaror Hogan \nFeh \nTEK Mas Baxi or! \nINDOOR, AND TIME, \nI \nMEARTH PLASS DWMNRY CLOCK For the CARTAR), gkeun. \nKAS, PICTURES, CASA. \nDISING \nJARDIN, MATSON & Groepen, Turk Fire Inspired: JIERA, and GAS BRACKETS, Hongkong Ft This \n300 TEAKWOOD \nane DESBAKT SPTS, TXA and OK. THE KOKORONG FIAR INSURANCE FRE SETS, KES CHINA, AYASO and \nCOMPANY, JAJED \nPEATED WORK \nNOTOR \nDA, T2, Cha \nWILLIAM FORREST. \n三十二月二行 INTIMATIONS. \nTHE \nINLO-CHINA STEAM \nPwCE 2 PRE MONT \nINTIMATIONS. \naan dus on afwan Wang Bankulmat in \nNAVIGATION et \nCOMPANY, LIKE \nDOPE THE ON \nJAKA MAP & Co. OF ON. SGAMAN \nDE 100 GR \nIN B \nduly paid the allocati eft liable to cucina Aul blau paparents previously now:la | to furth \nApplications Exe Stuures osatiede in the For resoring is Pregnet, and scre £t be nut w the Giles of the Conryany, and ET FACT HOLLAND HAPO & \nMAVION & Unshiun Could \nFL, & \ncally paid up awers wi listed in the set the \nHome buy a the belies of bei \nBCHEDULE OF SINAMER Apers.... IV: 1000! 17+ Propnely Natasha China \nNavigation \nEd for palle Bulcription foil Axe 10. \nDaposi's, Application. \nIL DUR T-SCHTE! ឬ ៥រ Howe, TURO... \n?TADLE, SIDENTS, DIN.; For the Suprzin DeY DE PARS! \nRASSFEE Both of the BA (ABYAL GUARS TOILET LADIE gray, will by COLONNE the 15th CAB, sud HANDLE TOP WASH the 2in my of Foling Instant Antonio HAND SAWINO WA \nSTAND rundade \nHeating. P.IVARD. \n1 gang. \nFor sýn Fynbou A Hawking: \nGOBATION. \n1. Ja \nJACKSON, \nCiel Tenger. \nHigh Fetary, 1893 \nVuw... \n1. \nStow 7 espel \n294 \nof the ac \n134.ag. \nTotal 40 Reginas \n2. 1 \nMarch, 18 They, Julita will a given of any far. \nMAR WILLIAM SEES 108, 8, Lombard! Strne end, of Messe JANDERE, MAAT. Franz & C... Gui \nWANTE \nB. 1. Eg Int JARDINS, MATHESON \nA., of Modern Wang, Aus the lungest\", \nESCOPE ↳y Yerin, with Astrono. \nTHE OFPRUS # 5. REONTRO ITA TUOKAS REID, Fu, of Youre ALEZA ILANO for the last is in: 25: Rp & Bora, Hiszpan elony Fire To Exe Hongkong, 22 February, 183). \norder to artiste directions tots 3A 10WGING FRUT, Luchst C \nELLS, Sight Fairy and Fowlies with Alus Olice for Certilours!WILLIA HILAND STEEL Best the 24te of Maruh application for a lifed \nLaredo, Mus. Maison de Ca \nai Harkong and Shangani me to put ou sitration, des that the rely on Paal tas ng inuis, of Nabor of the woich bars fan tanutted Cir the thache il in Yokohama ki \nLE \nNOTRE 10 MAEINERS. \nThe Murty BOOKMASI...557 to Mic PANG, Heiki- \nding, Malbyona \nWIPH nerados to the show the Ton \ningabout 300 \n500 Thesie Ban-Cal Breneb Londing 1-15% duty to ware Yemane vise my hyn Trung ist RS YACANDLEW. Eng... frambursgard sin proprzeć la neige at Feet \nH: NGRONG AND WILAMMUA DOCK HOUSE. \nCOMPANY, LIBYTE), \nNOTICE TO SKALHOLDERS. THE ORDINAGE YEARLY MOETINO AARONESS wie El. AusCe por u \ntine 631: of the way St, Pra Co Atis Moon Notions are for the WEDNESDAY, 1st March 16 Crea Acu kap Verms which way Rape of the Dino desterraun nå Wote wat so syylientcy. \nPer Craplar at the Guizon, ed Uning \nSPARTER \nPer inturn for maple- Heverink and Europe. \n15 DEPART \nFenton, Su #trilow. --I M \nPet \nned 10 En Sivingbat. —ü Kuras Hongkong, 4th Kaptajulus, \nA \nEks \n2 Werte sinamas Poling aproni, liar en helt Ft 1 4.hart Furt of Junta per had fresh M \nHONGKONG SANHA BANKING \nBut \nCabal, sud u when to iau i F & put as far, the 27th in \nTYLE SAL av \nJ. W ARMSTRONG, A Gmianeer. \nE! \nHugong. 2: Feltery, h \nPUBLIO AUCTION. \n30 Marie Trinn 20 N \nPARKLAS \nVASITAS POÁI \nKRALIAN-) (ptrend tyres Bar & be pupaese 1+ing indired in tiruva ih let Deber, is net be reated w \nCeiba sa Japan. THE HONGKONG AND SANITA \nApplications nae sive China Ghid port will the GNGETRO (NO which was BANKING CORPORATION, 31, Legal Shanghai and tanut at es, in 1981, this are: Stowa Londe \nSULMITORS lium Changer of Daisy, and \ncoivaraga tenger, Rok Dustings. Lesken, Feder Bud Lave Resorts briar by My Dear Hetector, 1959, perubat \nant sieel to toe! \n£ 1145 Asto \nTip \nti per Suadu witin emal opplication MY FRESASTELDS & WILLIAMS, Iwili han dells, and f \nSercitare Kia calix award in the prospertise BROK \npercation with the Depp hver will COLLANT HALCONE 2 DA \nIbsen in dernery by un punto \nIrant \nthe Crash testa del Polish, tions Pubin Lily, as is al fusion of use rack, Ord Froud Best, ruin of tiktirnar. Ar Bostamil the Bills \nFCESDAY. \n95 Fay, that, wi fuam, at i \ndes Kant's theau's Hom— \nAlarm \nut Loud. \ni wengine ci Suijn, 38 prescribed i \nAUDITORY. \nCloud B AND, YOUNGS & y 92.1 \n· Carly- the Hurst Masy! bor Theiver of timpiere AaJim, \n1. Déso. Agrot Tenkung, 2ed fakeway, 1885. \n(176) C \n? 11 Feb 15. \nGM Q. SEXYTT. \n* \non te \n!1st Ja \n: Geinatal Back Cowperatio, \nHen \n•Bain Kingüe I Ginacenza \n11: \n£, 100X3 \nDod \nl \nHegory at Fee Seurotary THE HONGKONG KE SHIVPANY, \nLIMITE \nActie \nTho Aust \n4 \nan Vrout Pa tom throughly sportmaled | \nChege Diz-- \n----- \n1. J. DANDYY.. For \nok Cempery wel is vinent in Branca lyds, 3.36.111 gaat disision, aber in Gear, My A. T. \nCORPORATION. \nPAID-UP CAPITALA RESERVE FUND 99 \nDu. Reja, ta, Ka \n1, 2 \nBrugkeer we run Bina Mother; lepabraziunar—H, LC WRY- Zoeks. Ea \n2.m 12. Harper. Th Em Breite Dorary spezia of. Multi- \nSen. Bul Saigon 2 Les arming of indian Forcery. Y Might Sure wins within wother up to the forein; \nstrange iterata to a fregite wise \nBigh \nPOOCHÓW TUPPING. \nFelc \n4. Appiu, Thetish ale, from Shanghai \ning, wie foam lengky. \n5. E. Hahal, from Weiur. \n6. Han, C. \nC. P \nbuck, ia behat. \nHogan \nNOTIF \nTHE FIRST ALS & DENKRAT \nMENTING VERS 14 \nza \n- ved sj \ntho \nMAYMER \nJackson, Ey B-FEN CARROS, \n\"CERT- \ntone into thangala, en alt 109 \nKathaway of Kurlon Des \nTEMPORARY OFFICES. \nIron Gauden to no and in the latel \nfogar with the Appunt rather to in ↓ pametna may be inspect be beting „No. 1, EAST INDIS A FENTE, LONDON, Absorbers at this hoss of tile Tureisigass \nLanai whole Bingen of Applination for S \nPG Compare bat beri famed for the pur I wire of orqaising for the C PURCH \nWANTHE oded by the Forsary and WYOMPETENT STRAPONS for Etners ATRAM NAVIATION CURANT, Ofnbul, \nFor Father Paroisse soy mila, Under- zig int. \n2e os, at was on Bata-Orl F the Par \nhona Mitoba MSDAY, 3 ay lace Meat he pose on why talk of like T More magis obras of Anat Balete of the Con Boster, 255), Tranter. All of safer to be Lord of \nby the Purples, and for Yesus to be at pe \nLONE BARES-TON CO2 & Consterk par 1 \n•pat \nBunker-LAYSIAN Anorga \nitement anys, \nOK g the Company \n¡ will be CLOWEST) Len. On salliinstant, ve zl i Phuyu's risk az tho Biebs by cine \nCavento Acerante al this remith next, both days nho, pop duju ou like Illya \nThe Mandi Paprika \nFortyor Band, por Azamolb \nFurler Cut your bac \nFat the paper Auca \nGAL 3 Angest \nHad Me 101 chrome Chotos ye; destriglio of Balag and Exehazge! \nCusted stated Scurity ! \nGleznas. His Sha \n4. Sibul, if \n78, Kwangwung, Erstili ste, dva \n1. Suctive 34 amph, France \nFour D \nTank, Brown- \n5. Pild, Critter back, ne singel-L \n2. Deur Vasi Deitina look, ( \nAmoy. \n7. Ms. Heiriza pelo tan bai \nrit, B. bit. \nfor Any. \n6, Agi til str., for whi \nDr. Heilial str. for New York. ya, Shelb \nBrilly 142, farma. Ing. Mirtich str, for Hongkong, \nZNANOTIA SHIPPING, \nAUTOSALS \nWulu. Britisú as, from Harku. \n6, Kinag-ong Ulduage ita, frenz flatma \nB. Geway .. from Kucheyrna \n- Bridalstrom Hojcity. \n6) Langmon. Chioma ne, frew Hongkong, \n5. Klingeline, Catur fram lafen. \n''yan, \n7. Name the trum Nagusiki \nBrivion wir, Ines Heater, 7. King. Chani kiz. Pero Hakow T. KONTO, Bullies wir, freno Bonzow, \nYangtae, hate, from Thungborg. \nmon.Gec. From Barefo \nB. Catras, Heiti 47, Bonbay, \nVarin t'uiteto frut A \n4. Yenity, Chitum, fena, Wakoa. \n9. A. Bitdeh str. f3 \nKonkow. \nBuy British tea, from Haukum \n9 Mon Jagt, he \n3. Birish str. ne kaik \n10. Mennar, Him. A may \n24, 4ppi, lich etc. in Feb \n10, goshi Weru, daş, art, tre, Kineban \n,, Torches at I'm Sratur. \nsan, sem sta, fram tvorbow. \n11, Chiz Britise 4, Frain Nugaenki. \n11. Kincy for, pise sta, Free For \nJiweltlah me, from Hack. \n11. Child, Britse stres \nveg \n23. Mika infra Ft.okow. \n14. Vraniu, Brizi i teras Ni \n12, Pag-chua, Cebu, Gun Haugining \n13. Paking, Britisk str. from Harian \n12. When, Sritha, Fran Ningpe \n23, P, Velg from Navski. \n13. Artawan, British ate, trong Ngebak. \n13. Bellapin, Criticstr, from hay. \n14. Kangitsen, Obiamo côfine \n14. Why Chinese \n12. Cf. fe Grice, Neftials aly, Fara Fausto, \nYel \nWa, Kritish or from Purbox \nDEPASISKGK. \nTulis, fitil: \nfry. \n7. Larisa ar, Caliber cust \nser, far Harten. \n4. Karlebota, Utili ste, for Hong \n7. Kig-yong, CU Hor \nWCA Vite fish sirir Hanken Wencho, Bitlah se fre Bentor \n7. T, Batin ats \nvalt.. Sur Au”. \n3. Yolors Faupat, for Kris. \n7. Anjaszóne. Maitish to. Lo Nayan \n9. Pribe. Fruch as, for \nVery arm, Jap, sie \nCheambin, list, for Tookes. \n9. Sualon, Bisjal nie,, for Chato. \n3. British te, & Nhup. \nA. Wynn, Erinala ste, får 1 \nKorinetes, \n5. Clay, Beds he for Nagild \n6. Tade. British si Hongkong. \n3 Dakinu 1. 1-i, Nagki \n8. 1. 1. Chernosina, qez Nag!. \nSing, Eisk er for Haukee. \n2, Wan, Heffasi atr. Yee Hankge \n8. Tagesbian Here. Sup, so, for Nigeri \nNow, Beltani ste, fer Swabunt. \n30, Yehsie, China, Cil \n1 Yung-ring China for Wacker. \n1. Kung, helliah straw, For 'Batkow, \n1. Yet, 1 Late, for thinking- \n11, Exitish fry \n11, y, Brick size for ever \nᎫ Ꭸ . \n-piant. C.Dave var for BakuPP. \n33. Natumeur, the Hali ste, ing Bunton. \nNang Byi-ish swamar, for Desigər 125. \n12, W. Stupin. Trilin's barb, \n13. Did Ms pett, for \n1. Hritish star, fer \nfine. \nut, \n12, Appiu. Rzinies alapone, for Benchaw. 12 Hole, British baek, for Puntur. \n18, in, Paul sicsance, for Yongpa \n14. Bang fou, Chiron 5., for lankaw. Tino, Titia, for acco \nJA, Bhara Kort. Danish, Aw Aney. \nJá, nilon. Ispitful: man, tum feudon \n14, Hung-mono. Elite for Ning. \nAUCTION SALES TO-DAY. \nNout \n2 ZON \nM \nHongkong, 2012 Paketars. 1 \nHION FRONG AND \nj \nBANKING CORP VOHAL \nNOTICH TO,\" \nIruding flower \n8:4 \n36 \nS \nSTRIA DE ATESON & C \nHenare! Meapp. \nPangkor, Nuth Pukssary. 199 \nund bag hij brente Vicker Bust Yantraze AMIN CORPÁSY, n2 Plang!! Fue Paci \nhos, mad from Jers spaly to \nTached beat soother in the basisve of! by the Seantul.! Longhwag. Ha Fairy, 1982 1844 tonnes Lowashed Rivers of \nClaire and bear China, the trait to \nCo. is a pig MANY STANSTER \nIONS TO OUR NOTICES TO CONSIGMEES. \nNONERS OF OPTION ANDA BOO, \nES. 8.3. COPS 8.5.37ENECK,\" \nFROM LIVERPOOL \nCHUPTING \n4. M. ARMSTRONG. Ani Hwgkong, 18h Bencowry, the \nTUNGKONG RACH. \nEN to the GANE Encours for Gentlenes being Sah \nof sið, er towards, 19 dla Band. Frogi. for Now able to the rain o \nG 183 No “Stand st \nj zorth \nVin Ind \nKIULH いやい \nprente, oz Chica \nDžiova stek u poziveliùsling of \ningen be adding it to the \nit various inter report, and the mak \nsent. Phyu Mr meting the grossier zegaremasts \n1887 \n25 ROYAL \nCITY HALL \nSATURDAY, \nFysoket W. 1892. \nNWOUND \nA doing it en wilson BAND MAGICAL MUSE, \n(man, will-hitic can itinere of the Copywny a \nn the tindasi bu chipul from i zemotestira ierastinent. \nuus later. As the ch 2hr Nice damer of the Cases Gastre. Tesigns for skijamast wer stame SASANATATION FERPANY, and the Yama MATRON. \nZOEK UNTAMED ODPAT, an ecided in 191 1841 Beans Surya Shanghe, ut by \nYonghorn, Bind Baravy. \nBiznim, faren 1.20 Szymoliem wist, Hors of 'n. Sterling Verze 20 bcxcision so we go sa balkg m / Bulk Sare5dista, nail s \n1 Burnering in to bad on 1 \n& DOVAN JAMBRn unsaaf Beurs, Brayer to the Cuntan Com's Glenovels are eli \neg in Chin, OU EN The motel of 91-6 PASAREA 2 Fashion, Bry, fine \"Prana iameter \nThe word after war and be the beds day of son carried inde, Cartes et Corner here. And image, and of the Coquialiis, an owning wikasi a Pielie, so be shown to the the Sadesigual, ja sinth casas 14 will turn on 106 mee Yangtera, wyether with \nTAS-Ty \n| Thakanume Pie \nI even me punten af 2), ka p (zujimoto su upang to, WARDANOS, . 15th Folmany, 385. \nEAL TRUE) By ordre often Coert ut vector \nClerk of Cur. Respons. My kids \nTAXI, and chan 132919TH THEM? Wenen in \nAmeric, Cala en Ju \nT. JACKSON, thief Marugas. \nMecs E the Corpoention \nNu. 1, Q's and H \nNOTICES OF FIRMS. \nFUTICH \non \nT. JACKSON, \nCAVE Hargr \n190; \nL \nPRIDERICK 2017 in auster \nTO BE INT It is \nthe by Prz Fenratica bertane ot Sasunt. \nBOCAGD FCHE CHASE & TO 9. PATLEY TRA \nLET Mogg. 15, 1 \n1593 Kars,\" N 29 Azer B \nUraze, in N IN QUEENEY HAD tex- \nCo \nTUR CHUKKAB INSURANCE COMPANY, Puch \nICMITED \nNOTION. \nAVDAVID Mungkan. Mick \n3SOON. WINS & US dowry, Sm \nI' \nk's day had doch zeigen kaki of Me T. BAY . . D MAUN! Bolay the a \nZ \nW ROINES, \nDoorway. In You, Je,\" \nM \nNOTICE. \nKunis been appoint Agents for thr \nNO. 2 LOWER MONQUE TERRACE \nApply to \nJ. M. ANETRONIA, \nHongkong, we fibreney, this \n..... \nTO BE LAT \nWith mata konica \nNETSUZ BUSHAN KAISHA, OFWELLING HOUSE No & O Basing \nPorto this For \nHongkong \n980. STEVENS & C. \nJanuary 18 \nXOTION \nATRA LAMEDA on mitted \nPatios in my Where no? tán Hestnesi will be watere at inder the |cale f \nSTRIL & TALKM \nNTS \nNetgan. Feb 12 \n.............. \npatuled, \nGut, thoroughly tapultad vol wy \nApply to \nALEX. A. AGA KIHELIOS. Iveco J. 1+13 RENKIJOS & Q....... I \nHvaley Stroth Ifonytone. 8th Bobnary, 16 \ndelivery train Graf or China \nCon 1995 \nCIO'S LOAN, or repruned Blaess Ne \nApply to \nLISTSAL & DAVIS, \nAngkor, Sim Fe K \n+452 \n2ist rebrany, 1837. \nand five aziona \nun sft art its simpellant, waking \nfest Et une ged wit's the that they the C101: Fally put up shar Vilor, and of which songs is vrugt \napdaivers after the with Pelaars, \n1982 aufgeno \nFITTERS SIRE Agra, Rogging, ul Februny. 1: \nFROM LOS DON AND SINGAPORS. \nGLENFRO4-,\" \nBurta, Brasiguam; \nCAL \nLE COMIDAT PERFORMANCE. \nDISPLAY OF NECROMANOS \nGLINK T \nPROFESSOR RUCHWALDY, \nRENA WIMANT Wind 28* Wansker Taare \nAn entirely new Pumnites \nPUS PARTICULATE SES H \nPAX OF ADRESTON. \nDrain Cirak seil Sti \nPl............ \nidio finálem in auffores Hall Pries Tickets to be hat den Neue Key & Wag med at dhe Tales \nDight The Steamy will be alten | Performer 1. studio of fil, the Frinksminga \nPosing a CAPA \nLe ɖe Compray. \nCha Cha Stry Farmats of J. Convams may extantinuci în 10 oun \nAsily. Fructe at 80 Pig, Performance to com \nLading jajene za coudseted with Nathan \nDowny, Fetienacy, 1885 Is her secon! it ONGKONG, CANTOR, ANU MAURO \nPLLAK CESARDT Sunambig \n| basing arrivet ROYAL BELUSLINTET COMPANY, \n(of Surg Am Barely this long com, dying lady letras Fassies and Saverbrai.! \nwiik esvapur of Oplan van het bal Salon Pung, Cl ritl \nThe risks dete pas earns of De Visita, en Kerck, whi Biznad, vienne di Paw the wharem a otra ringstjen 4 way to ohtrize], \nSADETLY APPEL. Hoy, 7th Folamry. 1983 \nNOWN SALE TOOUND VOLUM is of the Chow95-174:7-8410$ Tags per h Yone 1287. \nPark The Dak Arty Fina \nBong JANTY \ntr \n3 H 1 \nX \nG.. \nUWALSH IN SILKS, Canton and Slot Brass Pro Sharris, \nbana ng Wang, Curiosis, \nDenaliende, Talul Chalca orm Tebies, ie, f.. \nGOLD AND SILVER FRATELLE \nCaro SST, P \nROM, QUDEN'S BOAT, EXC MAHANA. \nSTEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. KXOURSION TO MACAD. \nSOMANES Panxha \"KINETANG,\" will for Latine ange wül informadales the! funtion thatør Porn Blog Lan SATURDAY, the 25% inesses. to the rosterý se given befrog Noon 10.DAY \nIan Bastow, ad hooks, bonds, pavery. the Buch Febri. 19 \nung tamilly prociled ze the carus porte lasting 90 Can winlig v \nDudaliteket \nju ili za svoju te thot of end for pictat and thesis sagirnis em \nBOUN \nNo ite kurd has buan atatud, \n2 Julie ill be cinanteisisat kj \nKrbrary, \ncutting a large card tra J'a Stanet e de \"Id\" Wardagi \nruza BUNDAY, the \nThe Cas Prosta Muca and lak.. 89 40. So Cas...... \n31.50 tests to be pare at the Company' \nby Disa \nbral osally Myths seri at the Wari. \n•han basisgand to me al segue \nang trade. \nAsiY[ 034 54 * ! tag, odo Date \nBeagles 20 \nUNION LISE \nNOTICE TO ROYSKONTES. \nTROM LONDON, THNARD, AND \nSINRAPOR \"TOPORATES- \n\"S-SRETNO\" is Bow Rename of 1.466 kaas til at aborden, and destined to China \nSarung Lath, where i wantly be join \n2. A LA COSTA, \nStrogkwg Ziel Folers \nCAUTION tavots\" of 2.577, fie ding Paktis on igured that SCBIP for minh bas frist hide Abarca: SHAREG Numbed it) \nLe T \nw by the Foest at whogy tud 48 rue 613-1,250 fs Shoe St Rita W4X24 D luga iar apperanicu plutor Blass CuANT be student that motive ul Dcrz \nDeals That Has Borghang! \nHenker 28ri Pelary. 1683 \nNote-Th, Dia is the ski otɔdlükat | Capkiu Mitzke, having arrived free pieces Sainty built for the; the chefs ass buna giu że Shott Cloapany. #5111 Line in Loughed as one is City among with with which the \nmit any view of a nábo kong naga. \ntomat ju thair Bis of \"Inding to vas arlor Falo hvalisay steal an important EN RING. \nund or eligator 25 main positi \nTO LET \nAty to \nDOUGJAS LAPCAJK & L Lengkong, L. 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MOVER notte) am suplied for, 4 surplus of the \nSuurinta at Tungkong: 29% Fobrancy, 1882 \nrexit wil byheals to the pope of con", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317909, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW\n\nBeyond, to the colossal monarchies of antiquity. It is to be noticed that in China, as in other countries, great changes have taken place. There is no reason to lament the loss of the grand establishments of those days, for the progress of the race has made these changes necessary. What the higher classes have lost has been made up to the masses of the people. The former magnificence was supported by the life blood of the multitude who were ground down under the heel of tyranny. The people were led to battle like sheep to the slaughter and compelled to labor without pay to gratify Imperial vanity in the construction of gigantic works—pyramids in Egypt, great palaces in Babylon, and the Great Wall in China.\n\nIt is believed to be important to call attention to a more careful study of the laws and customs of pagan people, in order to contrast with those of Christian states. How much nearer are these last to the ideal suggested by the Preface than those of the work now reviewed! The fact is, the truth needs but to be known to confirm faith in the divine character of Christianity. There is a great gulf between the best utterances of heathen sages and the word of inspiration. The saying of our Lord to the woman of Samaria may be repeated today in the ears of the scholars of India and China. \"We know what we worship,\" \"Salvation is of the Jews.\" It is not right, in any respect, to give the impression that Christianity is little more than the teaching of human wisdom supplemented by a little higher poetic genius of the Hebrew prophets, while the truth is, the one is from heaven and of God and the other from the earth and of man. Life and immortality, divinity and spirit are greater mysteries to heathen scholars than they were to the learned Nicodemus who came by night to learn of Jesus Christ as a teacher sent from God.\n\nThe forms, ceremonies, and prayers of this work are commended to the attention of ritualists. Behold and see the result of development in that direction: What a heavy yoke of bondage to put on the neck. How cold and heartless, and fatal to the liberty and life of true sentiment and religion! But it would not be fair to deny that there are some grains of wheat in this heap of chaff. It would be strange indeed if a few precious things could not be found in such a pile of rubbish—only it may be a question whether the value which is to be obtained would repay the cost of search. Those who doubt the truth of this statement may be challenged to make the trial, and this much at least would be gained: the mouths of gainsayers would be stopped, and we might be spared the pain of hearing the Bible and the Christ compared with heathen classics and sages.\n\nWe commend these investigations to the members of the Broad Church. We say to the liberal students of science, pursue your studies and experiments, and establish facts in your several special departments. We are not afraid of them, but only of your unfounded assumptions and illogical conclusions.\n\nExtravagance in either praise or blame is to be avoided. As a better acquaintance by critical examination of Chinese literature, law, history, etc., is gained, so will just views be adopted. The unbelieving student often fails to see the hand of God when it is plain to the eye of faith. The liberal party may be defied to pursue their studies in heathen classics, for even the enemies of the truth will be compelled in the end to confess the barrenness of heathenism and the exceeding excellence of Christianity. The lines of modern investigation and critical judgment, notwithstanding the loud and almost exulting voices of the opposition to the contrary, are all pointing to the confirmation by scientific methods of the confidence felt by those who believe in the Bible as the Rule of Faith and in the Lord Jesus Christ as the only Saviour of sinful men.\n\nThe study of this work may be considered as important for the settlement of many questions now discussed. It is an authority as a commentary upon the ancient classics. What is the significance of different parts of this State worship? What is the real character of Ancestral Worship? and of the many objects to whom sacrifices are offered? The horns of the dilemma are very plain: either the ideas of divinity are very low, or the exaltation of the creature is very great. Will anyone say, after a careful examination of this work, that the Supreme Being is clearly recognized in the State Worship of China?\n\nThe ceremonies of the Court and of official intercourse are, in a certain sense, models for social life and the standard of etiquette in every country. This is true of China, and in this respect, the study of this work will be for many a matter of interest, while it may be impossible to repress a feeling of indignation against the slavery to outward forms to which the Emperor and the officials of China are subject; still, it is to be remembered that a certain amount of ceremony is admirable and necessary, and the Christian should remember the apostolic injunction to be courteous, as well as loving and pitiful (1 Pet. iii. 8). To have no code of etiquette is almost as objectionable as to have one too elaborate and burdensome. How unpleasant and awkward to be without some system of social intercourse and code of etiquette!\n\n## THE TANG HC CH.\n\n## CHAPTER 15\n\nIt cannot have failed to excite admiration in the breast of everyone who has seen the self-possession and ease of even young children in China when making or receiving visits of ceremony.\n\nFor the model man in the coming age of progress, we do not look for the ideal to the Arab or Hindoo as the type of excellence in this matter. We want no such abject prostrations or profuse demonstrations of feigned humility as are seen in China and Japan. Neither do we like the too plain and even ungainly manners often seen in the countries of the West. But surely some sensible code may be desired which shall allow a fair expression of proper respect due from inferiors and between equals without the loss of real dignity. What is wanted is an honest expression of true politeness. Because fine manners and pleasant speech have often served to conceal craft and deceit, they have sometimes appeared hateful; while plain manners and blunt speech have often been found in connection with the higher and Christian virtues, they have become attractive. The light of love gilds the meanest objects with a glory that nothing can surpass. It is seldom that kindness of heart and a cultivated mind do not find spontaneous expression in courteous forms.\n\n### HOU CHI\n\n## A MODERN CHINESE NOVEL\n\n(Continued from Vol. V., page 382.)\n\n### THE FEMALE FEI WEI IN HER WRATH WISTLES TO CUT OFF VILLAIN. THE GREAT MAN IN HIS INSATIABLE LICENTIOUSNESS FALLS INTO THE TRAP.\n\nWe have just been mentioning how Ch'en Li-ch'ing wanted to let fall her hand and finish off Kao Ya-nei, when a Taoist priest held her fist. On looking round, she recognized in him her father Ch'en Hsi-chen; she then said, \"I fear you do not recognize this is one of the hateful brood of Kao Chin.\" Ch'en Li-ch'ing; he has acted rudely to me; wait then till I have finished him and taken away a...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352099, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "Extract from \"Daily Press” of 25th April, 1892.\n\nWith the letter addressed to us by Mr. EDE, on the proposed incorporation of the Pó Leung Kuk, and which appeared in our last issue, it is perhaps unnecessary for us to say we fully concur. Our views on that question were set forth at some length on the 28th ultimo, and little more remains to be said on the subject. We should like, however, the Government to understand that in this matter Mr. WHITEHEAD thoroughly represents the community. There is a strong feeling against this attempt by the Registrar-General to secure a political status for what ought to be a purely philanthropic society possessing no administrative functions and no more power than that somewhat similar institution the Hongkong Benevolent Society, which is very efficiently managed by a committee of ladies. The Bill will come on for its second reading in the Legislative Council this afternoon, when it is earnestly to be hoped that it will be withdrawn. Such an enactment is entirely opposed to the aim and spirit of our constitution, and is repugnant to the ideas and wishes of the European community, who would not dream of asking similar powers for their own Benevolent Society, and who see no reason why they should be granted to a Chinese society. As at present constituted the Pó Leung Kuk has done a considerable amount of good without exciting much hostility, but, clothed in the powers now sought to be conferred on it, confidence in the legitimate character of its work would be severely strained. We trust therefore that the Council will reject the measure on its second reading if it be not previously withdrawn.\n\nExtract from \"Daily Press\" of 17th May, 1892.\n\nWe must confess that our opinion of the tact and good judgment of Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON sank many degrees after perusing the correspondence between the Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD and the Government, published in another column. The suggestion made by the Honourable Member that the Colonial Secretary or the Acting Chief Justice should be substituted for the Registrar-General as Chairman of the Committee to inquire into and report on certain questions connected with the Bill for the incorporation of the Pó Leung Kuk was so reasonable, and the arguments by which it was supported so irrefutable yet withal so temperately expressed, that we should have thought they would have been readily recognised and acted upon. A great mistake was made in appointing Mr. LOCKHART to preside over the Commission, but there would have been nothing undignified in repairing the mistake when pointed out. It involves a far greater loss of dignity to persevere in a course which is obviously indefensible, which is what the Governor has elected to do. The Colonial Secretary has, it is true, attempted to defend the appointment, but his effort amounts to such a complete begging of the question that it would have been far better, and very much more dignified, to have cut the correspondence short with a brief refusal to reconsider the question. Mr. O'BRIEN thought proper, however, to engage in controversy, and the result is truly pitiful. He must have felt that he had a bad case, but possibly he has not realised how bad. His defence, stripped of the little cloud of verbiage in which it is clothed, amounts to this: that because Mr. LOCKHART's interest in the welfare of the Society is so notorious, because he is of all persons in the Colony most interested in securing a free, full, and impartial inquiry into the allegations made against the Society, that, therefore, he should be Chairman of the Committee appointed to investigate them. Could anything be more fatuous? Mr. LOCKHART's protégé is to be on its trial and he is to be placed in the position of judge! The appointment cannot be satisfactory to the Registrar-General himself. He naturally must wish to appear as in some sense the advocate and the representative of the Pó Leung Kuk. From this he will be precluded if he presides over the inquiry. Far be it from us to impugn for a moment the purity of his motives or\n\n260", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352379, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 544, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "[From the CHINA MAIL of 30th August, 1893.]\n\nIf any doubt lingered in the public mind as to the strong disfavour with which Governor Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON regarded the idea of appointing a Retrenchment Commission which could by any straining of language be called 'independent,' that doubt must have been effectually removed by a perusal of the voluminous correspondence on the subject which we published yesterday. We referred the other day to His Excellency's partiality for what may be called the policy of dawdle-and-shuffle. It would be almost impossible to conceive a more striking illustration of the methods and results of this policy than that which is given in the official contributions to this correspondence. The various incidents in the history of the Retrenchment Commission question are set out so fully by Mr. WHITEHEAD in his letters that we need not recapitulate them here. We may, however, refer briefly to the principal points.\n\nThat the cost of administration in this Colony is in excess of what it should be has been admitted even by the Government. How to reduce it is a question to which Mr. WHITEHEAD has devoted a considerable amount of attention, and for this he deserves the thanks of the community. His original proposal on the subject was that a thoroughly independent commission should be appointed to deal with it. The proposal was summarily 'squelched' by the Governor. Then the Unofficial Members of Council petitioned the Secretary of State for an enquiry by a body to be composed of members of the community unconnected with Government, or at least a majority of such persons. The Secretary of State in response to this petition sent instructions for the appointment of a commission to make a comprehensive enquiry, effecting all departments in the service. He also gave instructions that this should be a commission, 'over which the Colonial Secretary or the Chief Justice might preside, with one or two other Government Officers, and certain Unofficial Members as colleagues.' From these instructions it would appear to anyone not desirous of attributing a meaning to the terms different from what they actually convey that, inclusive of the Chairman, the number of Officials on this commission should not exceed three. It was, indeed, in the option of the Governor to appoint only two Officials, including the Chairman. In the exercise of a discretion which he evidently thinks enables him to play fast and loose with the direct and explicit instructions of the Secretary of State, His Excellency appointed four Officials, while he conveniently found that the expression 'a certain number,' when used in connection with Unofficial Members, simply meant neither more nor less than three. Thus was the 'independent' commission (consisting of a majority of Official Members) appointed.\n\nOf course there cannot be the slightest doubt that Mr. WHITEHEAD was abundantly justified in declining to join in the farce which an enquiry by such a commission would inevitably have been. Indeed, considering the attitude which he had previously taken in regard to the subject of retrenchment, and the manner in which the investigation should be conducted, he could not consistently have done otherwise. We are aware that this view is in direct opposition to that of the Hon. Mr. O'BRIEN. His opinion is that the phrase 'one or two' may mean three, and that in this case it must not be so rigidly interpreted as to exclude that meaning. 'Two' may sometimes mean 'three' in official language, but we should hardly think that even the Secretary of State for the Colonies would take such a liberty with figures as is implied by the Colonial Secretary when he says that 'one,' in the despatch in question, if not rigidly interpreted, may mean 'three.'\n\nMr. O'BRIEN expresses the opinion that the real intention (of the Secretary of State) was probably carried out by the appointments actually made. That is to say, that although the Secretary of State definitely and expressly limited the number of Official Members of the commission to three,—at the same time leaving it in the option of the Governor to reduce the number to two—he probably meant that there should be four Officials appointed. If the Colonial Secretary knows it as a fact that Lord Ripon habitually conceals his intentions in this way, and leaves them to be discovered through a process of thought reading by other eminent Officials, it is just possible that Mr. O'BRIEN may be right; but at present we have no evidence of this. An eminent diplomatist said that the use of language was to conceal thought, but it has been left for Mr. O'BRIEN to give to the world the somewhat startling information that, in official language, 'one' or 'two' probably means 'three.'\n\nHowever, Mr. WHITEHEAD having declined to accept this fantastic interpretation of the Secretary of State's despatch, and being, naturally, extremely sceptical as to the efficacy of any retrenchment investigation conducted by a commission with a majority of Official Members, very properly refused to have anything to do with the business. Then a doubt seems to have arisen in the mind of the Governor as to whether there was any justification for the assumption that when Lord Ripon said 'one' or 'two' he really meant exactly 'three,' and it was deemed advisable to proceed on a literal interpretation of these terms. In his letter of August 12 to Mr. WHITEHEAD the Colonial Secretary says: 'But, desiring to obviate all possible objection on your part, His Excellency consented to reduce the number of the Committee by the withdrawal of one Official and one Unofficial Member.' This sentence makes a nearer approach to a genuine joke than anything in the whole of the long-drawn-out correspondence, and we hope that the Colonial Secretary thoroughly enjoyed it. The proposal to remove the objection against an Official majority by withdrawing one Official and one Unofficial is so humorous that even a hard-headed Scotsman like Mr. WHITEHEAD must have derived some amusement from it.\n\nThis would not do, however, and Mr. WHITEHEAD adhered to the proviso which he had insisted on all along—that there should be an Unofficial majority in the Commission. He maintained that the Commission would be of no practical value otherwise, and was informed by the Colonial Secretary that the Governor was at a loss to imagine by what process of reasoning he arrived at this \"astonishing conclusion.\" As both the Governor and the Colonial Secretary had previously been perfectly well aware of Mr. WHITEHEAD's views as to the constitution of the Commission, we can hardly see how they could have found anything astonishing in this conclusion. It is difficult to conceive any reason for astonishment on their part when Mr. WHITEHEAD subsequently refused to act on a still further reduced commission, consisting of two official and two unofficial members. If the Official majority might be expected to block any attempts at substantial reduction in expenditure the Commission composed of equal numbers of both classes could with equal reason be expected to accomplish nothing worth attempting. Chief Justice Fielding Clarke says that in such a committee no recommendations could be carried in the teeth of Unofficial opposition, which is quite true; but we should expect the recommendations as to reduction of expenditure to come chiefly from the Unofficial side, and then, of course, as the Chief Justice admits, no recommendations could be carried in the teeth of Official opposition. Mr. WHITEHEAD was therefore perfectly consistent and perfectly justified in his refusal to act. Why the idea of appointing a commission should be entirely abandoned in consequence of this refusal is quite another question. The fact is that His Excellency has made a sad muddle of this business, from first to last.\n\nSIR,\n\nTo the Editor of the CHINA MAIL.\n\nAugust 30th, 1893.\n\nThe correspondence published by you last night with regard to the Retrenchment Commission brings to light the hard fight the Governor is making to stifle the comprehensive and 'independent' enquiry demanded by the Unofficial Members of Council and sanctioned by the Secretary of State in spite of the Governor's urgent recommendations not to grant it. It is gratifying from a public point of view to see the firm stand made by the Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD. He is in every sense justified in his attitude by refusing to sit on a Commission with an official majority, as an enquiry by such a Commission would end in a farce. With the exception of the Bench, officials dare not act as they feel, and, therefore, the public could have no confidence in a Commission in which the officials were in a majority.\n\nSome years ago, it was ruled by the Secretary of State that when officials could not vote with the Government in Council they were to resign; and it is because of a difficulty arising from Sir JOHN SMALE refusing to support the Government that the Chief Justice does not now have a seat in the Council in Hongkong. Is it likely, in the face of such a ruling from the Colonial Office, that the heads of departments would dare to vote contrary to the Governor's view?\n\nThe public will not be satisfied until a Commission is constituted with an unofficial majority, and the sooner the Governor realizes this the better will it be for his own reputation, which, unfortunately, has fallen away sadly since his arrival in Hongkong.\n\nIn the defunct China Punch there is a sketch of the predecessors of the Governor and the Colonial Secretary 'swallowing a bitter draught from Downing Street,' which I commend to their observation.\n\nYours, etc.,\n\nOBSERVER.\n\n[From the HONGKONG TELEGRAPH of 30th August, 1893.]\n\nThe most noteworthy feature in the voluminous correspondence published in yesterday's Telegraph and dealing with the proposed Retrenchment Commission is the spiteful animus and quite unjustified insinuations indulged in by Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON and his advisers against the Hon. Mr. WHITEHEAD. Such gross and purposely objectionable personalities as those contained in Mr. O'BRIEN's letter dated August 12th cannot be too severely reprobated; and His Excellency the Governor cannot certainly be held blameless for his supineness, not to use a harsher term, in permitting the Government of this Colony to be placed in such a false and undignified position. And this is not the first time the same gratuitously offensive and scandalously unfair methods have been adopted by the paid servants of the Hongkong community in what ought to have been the calm, dispassionate and friendly arrangement of matters which are essentially of general public interest. His Excellency and his belligerent Fidus Achates may find sooner than they imagine that the important business of the Hongkong Government and the rights of the people who support that Government are not to be subordinated to petty squabbles.\n\n539", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357214, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "content_text": "## native of Mauritius, and to request that it \nmay be transmitted for the consideration \nof the Secretary of State for \nForeign Affairs. \n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord Marquess, \nYour Lordship's most Obedient \nHumble Servant, \nWilliam Robson \n\nCopy \n\n## Enclosure \n\nYour Excellency, \nC.O. \n8157 \n**RECEIVED** 13 MAY '95 \n\nManila, \n69 \n22 March, 1895. \n\nYour Excellency, \n\nMay it please Your Excellency the humble petition of the British subject Joseph Celine prayeth for :- \n\nI most respectfully inform that I am a native of Mauritius and finding myself in Manila, Philippine Islands, in a most pitiful state owing to the British Consul's fault. Your Excellency, on November the 26th of 1894, I came to Manila on board a Nova Scotian Ship \"Macion\" of St. John's, A.B., Captain Hughes Master. I was unlawfully taken to sea from Newcastle, N.S.W., on board the said...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357217, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Petition to Your Excellency\n\nelse to متر to - gavl too. The Consul made me sign a paper against my will. This clerk is there as my witness, with us witnessing everything.\n\nYour Excellency, I am punishing without any mercy. The Captain received from the Crioul is to clear for his barbarous deed. Being left ashore without any money, I worked from Newcastle to Manila for nothing, merely as a slave. Getting to Manila, I had to do the best I could in a foreign place, and, furthermore, being sick, the Consul declined to send me to the Hospital.\n\nIn February, when I was a little better, I came up to the office there. I met a new Consul, Mr. Earnshaw. I explained the case to him, as well as to the office clerk, and, furthermore, begged him to pay for my boarding house until he could send me away to some British possession. I told him that I was sick, left whore in distress through the other Consul's partiality. I most respectfully bind myself towards him for collection. He told me to \"get out of the office as quick as possible, or else he will have me handed over to the policeman.\" I am in a most pitiful state, Your Excellency - starving and homeless, with no protection I could receive from the Consul, after he having done all this harm.\n\nAs the highest and nearest authority, I most respectfully bind myself towards Your Excellency, praying you be good enough to have the British Consul pay my passage from here to Hong Kong, or to put me in a house until I get a ship to sign on. I most respectfully pray Your Excellency to forward my humble petition to the highest authority of England.\n\n## Page 72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371734, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "page_number": 483, "title": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "content_text": "Copy.\n\nC.O.\n\n476\n\n10557\n\nRece.\n\nTRANSLATION 27 JUN 19\n\nPetition No. 13. Wo Hang.\n\nThe Humble Petition of Li Hing Chun, Li Tsai Chun,\n\nLi Krok Fu, Li Chin Chun, Li Cheung Chun, and others, elders\n\nand gentry of the Wo Hang district sheweth.\n\nYour petitioners being ignorant were misled into rashly resisting the Imperial forces and they humbly pray that they may be pardoned for their offence. Your petitioners have always been law-abiding and were well aware of the Convention leasing the territory with which they were quite satisfied. But bad characters from other places by false rumours misled the people saying that the laws of the West and China not being the same, no end of difficulties would arise. The result was that disreputable members of the gentry availed themselves of the opportunity to incite the people to active resistance. Your Petitioners being weak and powerless were coerced into compliance. Now that the troops have come to our district, your Petitioners are truly delighted, but the ignorant people have scattered and are in a very pitiful plight, which is sad to behold. Your Petitioners are therefore constrained to approach your tribunal humbly begging that the troops may be authorised to withdraw. The inhabitants of the various villages in our district will really acquiesce in whatever sites may be hereafter selected by the British Government for the purpose of erecting Government Office, Police Station, etc.\n\nAnd your Petitioners will ever pray.\n\nThe following is a list of the villages in Wo Hang\n\nPing Po Mi\n\nLai Long\n\n65\n\nKang Ha", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371739, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "page_number": 488, "title": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "content_text": "C. O.\n\n16567\n\n(Y)\n\nReceived 27 Jun\n\nNo.16\n\n1\n\n481\n\nThe petition of Chan Tsz Ki, Wong Ki and others, inhabitants of the Tai Wo market town (i.e. Taipo Hui) humbly sheweth:\n\nThat your petitioners were incited by rowdies from other places to offer armed resistance and pray that they may be mercifully pardoned so that they may be allowed to carry on their business in peace. Your petitioners have always been law-abiding people and were well acquainted with the Convention leasing the territory with which they were perfectly satisfied. But bad characters from other places in China spread false reports saying that laws of the West and ... were different and that there would be no end of difficulties. In this way they availed themselves of their opportunity to incite the people to disorder and to resist the Imperial troops. Your petitioners being weak were coerced by them. By the arrival of the troops to maintain order your petitioners have been saved from great peril which is a source of unbounded joy to them. But the loss of petitioners' business is truly pitiful so they are constrained to approach your tribunal with the prayer that the troops may be withdrawn so that petitioners' business may be carried on in peace. They will readily acquiesce in whatever sites may be hereafter selected by the British Government for the purpose...\n\n70", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373529, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "We have therefore that section 4 of the O. in C. g. 20 a od: 1898 fromle be amended accordingly.\n\n4 Jam accordingly to submit to you the draft gan amending order in Councel which has been prepared in this department and take you to to request the same int you consideration refnt Whether the terms of the draft order in Council are sufficient and helper for the purfuse intender. Inm\n\nABC\n\nA. Now with Draft Instruments.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo 30534 (Subject.) 256 DESPATCH.\n\nC.0. 30536 - 6 NUV 39 Occupation of thave them telu For 98/ removed | (78) ~1963~ 154660-13-43\n\nabsequent Paper 1959 fu a & Nos mataheds are being uickly as possible f as quickly\n\n(Minutes.) Sun W. Hamilton (\"We med not have send un for f.). coby or the may the may ask \"for the tel. referred to, and where decided not to send Sui H. Blake's pitiful tel. to them.) at once\n\nPage information should be kept if \"Page XX\" is detected with the exact six lines as originally scanned.\n\nThe given text has been proofread and formatted according to the given rules.\n\n весение печерах and ей and other non-English text are kept as is.\n\nFile references are corrected to have no spaces inside parentheses.\n\nThe text is formatted using HTML with \n\n for paragraphs.\n\n \nA. F 6/1\n\n \nдля gur 6/11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381386, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 98, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "Extracts from the \n\n# THE DISASTROUS COLLAPSE OF HOUSES.\n\nOn Wednesday night at about 10.45, as we have already reported, the residents in the vicinity of Cochrane Street were startled by a deafening crash. The cause of this proved to be the collapse of houses No. 32 and 34, Cochrane Street, and the falling in of the front of No. 30. The two houses which collapsed fell forward, and in their fall damaged the buildings opposite, smashing the verandahs, etc.\n\nImmediately a crowd gathered and the scene following until the arrival of the police was indescribable. Besides the usual mob of the merely curious, there were numerous relatives of the residents or boarders—one of the houses having been an eating-house—who were supposed to be buried beneath the ruins. The shrieks and groans of the unfortunate people beneath the debris mingled with the wails of the relatives standing outside and the shouts of the onlookers. Immediately after the collapse, flames burst from the ruined heap, adding to the terror and confusion.\n\nThe police and Fire Brigade were soon on the spot, and the first efforts were devoted to putting out the conflagration. The fire was soon got under control. Some of the beams and woodwork in falling were upheld on one side by a large stone support that had slightly separated itself from the adjoining arch. This saved a house, forming an arch that saved at least twenty-three lives besides two who unaided forced their way through this arch while everyone was engaged in subduing the fire.\n\nThe groans and shrieks emanating from the ruins were heart-rending, and among them, one could distinguish the pitiful wail of a child, which later on was taken out, dead. It was said that there were seventy-five people occupying the two ill-starred houses at the time of the collapse. Many passers-by were also buried under the debris as the building fell outward.\n\nThe fire once under control, the men of the Fire Brigade worked their hardest to succour the victims and succeeded in rescuing during the night twenty-three persons, among whom were several women and children, alive. Ten of the number were seriously hurt and conveyed to the hospital, whilst thirteen receiving only slight injuries, and being in fact more frightened than hurt, were taken to the Central Police Station and kept there till yesterday forenoon.\n\nSpecial mention must be made of the voluntary assistance rendered by Privates Walker and Gaunt, of the 38th Co. S.D., R.A., who indeed did more than yeoman service in rescuing the suffering and were responsible for saving a number of lives. Reaching the scene of the disaster, they asked no questions but pulled off their coats and worked heroically until daylight dawned.\n\nUp till 9.30 a.m. yesterday, thirteen dead had been recovered—a woman, one lad, and eleven men.\n\nShortly after ten o'clock, the Fire Brigade men, composed of police constables and sergeants, renewed their labour in clearing away the debris and recovered more of the victims. The labour was necessarily slow. However, their efforts were attended by the discovery of one body so burned as to be unrecognisable as to sex, and one young girl, her sex only discernible by her bandaged feet, and her age by her stature. Besides these two, the corpses of two children were unearthed, burned and crushed beyond recognition.\n\nAbout 10 a.m., the Hon. F. H. May, Captain Superintendent of Police, arrived to direct the operations of clearing away the debris and recovering the buried victims.\n\nAbout 10.45 a.m., H.E. the Governor, accompanied by the Hon. W. Chatham, Acting Director of Public Works, came to view the scene and remained the best part of an hour, in spite of the heavy rain that came down at intervals.\n\nDaily Press.\n\n16/8/01.\n\n0.0.\n\n2500\n\nVan 16 SEP 96", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390110, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "Meeting in their hide 383 2167 \n\npublicities. \"Is,\" \"certainly\", in its laughable, \n\ninstance of \n\nwere it not so pitiful! What does \n\n5. Harston. Mr. Harston knew about the bottom- \n\nfriend? I many \n\nwell know another \n\nthat dam the \n\ny \n\nworthy dealing \n\nfeared and that \n\nj \n\nM. Sharp had \n\nwith both the Home and Colonial literatures. \n\nrequired any information on Unvaluable \n\nbe had \n\nonly \n\n... \n\nHot my books, \n\nsome I would have \n\non hand he communicated to him an \n\nway \n\ninformation in the margin by this is in \n\nrespect to question and is the John \n\n... \n\nCarrington's \n\nname is mentioned, from \n\nrecollection I believe this print \n\na \n\nCommerce \n\nJ. \n\nassistant's appeal case. be my party \n\nexperience I remember, whenever the \n\nAttorney General had appeared in proper \n\nquarter \n\nconviction be it warmer \n\nbeen allowed any fees for the simple \n\nW \n\nthat there has been \n\nLo Crom \n\nin Winglling, 6 reported the \n\nin support of the un conviction. Cepennan street \n\nfrom the fact that in very few cases \n\nindeed they there were any \n\nshow up \n\na bit \n\ngreat. \n\nReason c \n\nconclusion of the speech in mortene \n\nthere", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391223, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 184, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n180\n\n[June 29.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nActing Consul Litton to the Marquess of Lansdowne,-(Received June 29.)\n\n(No. 9. Confidential.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nTeng-yueh (for Yunnan-fu), May 25, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit duplicate of a report on Yunnan affairs which I have addressed to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, marked Confidential.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nG. LITTON.\n\n(Confidential.)\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum on Yünnan Affairs, May 1903.\n\n1. Official Movements.\n\nChinese Officials.-The Yunnan Government is now in very undesirable hands. The new Viceroy, Ting Chen To, is a reactionary and a man of no ability or intelligence. He is personally honest, but cannot keep his subordinates in order. In Chinese matters he is admittedly feeble and incompetent, in foreign matters purely obstructive. The Governor Liu is, I understand, trying to get away from Yunnan, and if he goes things will get worse, as he is an able man and friendly to us. The Treasurer, Li Shou Fen, who took office last autumn, has been accurately described by a French official as a \"fiefé voleur.\" His reputation already stinks among the people, and he is squeezing and robbing in all directions; he pocketed 4,500 taels over the sale of the Ta Li Prefecture, which was vacated by Prefect Lo in consequence of the illegal taxation on foreign goods, and I am now inquiring into a report that the Treasurer made several thousand taels more by levying squeezes on the other Ta Li officials on the plea that the British Government had demanded 15,000 taels in connection with the same case. This man Li is both anti-foreign and spiteful.\n\nTs'uan, the friendly provincial Judge, has been transferred to Kwei Chou and his place taken by Liu Chun Lin, formerly Taotai on the French frontier, who had temporarily gone into retirement. Liu has at least one anti-foreign riot to his name, and is a notoriously anti-foreign and especially anti-British is not mentioned, it is mentioned he is anti-French official. French influence cannot be great if they have not prevented this man's promotion.\n\nHu, Prefect of Yunnan-fu is to act as Taotai of Pu Erh (south-west Yünnan), but he has not yet gone to his post. (See below.)\n\nTaotai Wei, nephew of the Nanking Viceroy, may after all stay in Yunnan, as I hear that he has been offered the substantive post of Mengtse (French frontier) Taotai, in which he has been acting for some months. He is the best official in the province.\n\nThe Ta Li, or Western Taotai Sung, should have removed to Teng Yueh by this time, but he has been much alarmed by the energetic criticism which we have passed upon his feeble conduct in connection with the recent li-kin case, and he is seeking to delay; I do not propose to hurry him.\n\nForeign Officials--Three Japanese officers and five other Japanese, who were making commercial inquiries, have passed through Teng-yueh and Yünnan. Several official French travellers, including one or two of high rank have passed through Yünnan from Mengtse during the spring; two French engineers are now established outside the south gate of Yunnan city with their families, while two gentlemen of the \"service financier\" of the railway are in the city. The last accounts I had from Mengtse state that the French and Italian communities there number 250, all officials, mostly railway officials and their families. The post-office, hospital, &c., are being rapidly pushed forward, but most of the constructions are very jerry-built.\n\n[2021 ƒ-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391827, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 787, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "the approval of the Hong Kong public and a very scathing \n\nreport was written about it in the local papers! I was \n\nthe Registrar \n\nin a most insolent manner \n\nby Mr. May, for having done this and \n\nhis returns to leave birth for Goodman and earnestly to find fault with me. Since his appointment as Deputy, as he has kept his practice, I have been without a \n\nclerk entirely in his Chambers, looking up authorities for him and assisting him generally, since he was a clerk whom he stated was incompetent. Hence I was left single-handed and in sole charge of the Registry until August last when the 2nd Deputy Registrar, lately a schoolmaster, came into office.\n\nSeveral matters which were Mr. May's sole work came \n\nbefore the Chief Justice who implied \n\nof enquiring from him raised this opportunity of sending for me. They \n\nwere merely ministerial matters, for instance the paying in of money by solicitors, the decision of the Court on the filing of proceedings \n\nas local practice in pursuance of the consent of the solicitors according by \n\nwaiving \n\nthe security \n\nfor costs previously ordered by the Court. I endeavoured to make the Chief Justice understand and think that done and referred to him. I said where \n\nand \n\nthings had been constantly \n\ndone \n\n7 \n\nwere \n\nof sending \n\na letter at once, and \n\nhaving all \n\nin the most spiteful \n\nand \n\nun-dignified \n\nmanner, details \n\nof which \n\nyou \n\nwill \n\nfind from the official papers. This had my \n\nand service, by defending myself. The long and the short \n\nwas merely telling him I considered he had made \n\nwhich was \n\nan attack \n\non me \n\nand camp what was and that \n\nCowardly I daren't reply, owing to his position, was considered disrespectful by him. May who advised the woman, and I was made to apologise. In the meantime I had reported to the Chief Justice what had taken place and after waiting for his return from the Clerk, the latter chose to tell me in a highly excited manner \n\n\"zone with foreman\", adding \"it is no use my time. I don't believe nothing of what you say. I have \n\nthat he had heard \n\nyou coming to \n\nhim \n\nW \n\n1 forgotten what took place some years ago when you crooked tales about the Registry Jan \n\nwas lying Jew. In fact I told him. \n\nLoy \n\nwas \n\nyou were a liar and he believed me \n\nit would be for me. \n\nJudy \n\nwere \n\nIt was. In assenting \n\nLucer bequeathed you not your next move\"! Seeing the state he was in I at once turned to leave his office. I \n\nwas violently assaulted by him in the back calling \"You lying Jew\", banging the door \n\nagain. The pulling, withered and the statements taken and signed by the witnesses were forwarded to the Jovenon, ultimately expecting complaint. Foiled in his attempt, Justice done me and that he. Wire would at least have good find fault with me (he had sent for \n\nme to apologise for the withered assault in June hurriedly \n\nin person. As the Registrar, I have several native clerks, and Eurasian warning beforehand as that he wanted) and in the presence \n\nof several solicitors and counsel and my own deputy, he \n\nDeputies under me, and proceeded to abuse me \n\nwilfully \n\ndisrespecting my authority \n\nhave seen Mr. May and whom he slandered have \n\nI felt insulted about them instead corroborated what I told the Chief Justice and added that he had never heard \n\nof \n\nin matters both \n\nwithout \n\nin \n\nabout this \n\nbeen \n\nin the office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391828, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 788, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "which at all times it is difficult to sustain when there is the slightest tension between these in authority\n\n<\n\naver them that notice taken have been taken by the cited ansault and he was atri...\n\nespecially\n\nleast conned they\n\nproper course could have been taken this matter to His Police Court and I should have done so without the\n\nand the plenty of anyone\n\nwork then\n\n781\n\nleine\n\nand mistake charges\n\ntime with her. ShunterShard beport the sweer ze being Shingh his inexperience light false\n\nqaistery Department) – of me. Sherp, and\n\nof Mr. Decision, consing Mr. May. hr. Sharp, instructed by his W. foodman\n\ntouting for\n\nwitnesses - I say The lawyers\n\na\n\nwhich\n\ny\n\nHighest hesitation had the hunt been cumpires to a different out of a total\n\nclan\n\n✓\n\nI home all along\n\n•\n\nin the matter\n\nI\n\nLuk\n\nд\n\nwere in\n\nto c\n\nedivedly, auginning\n\nin my favor and who were not. 26 practising plications, hn. Sheary stainen\n\nin the\n\n$\n\nof them you thanding particular having had sustice be quit hin having preoindly told me he.\n\nthe we\n\nDeat\n\ntern. Hastings in\n\nfrom, un.deacon\n\n; and tomat\n\npa but kuring full will\n\nthe received in Angling that should at justice I preferred addressing the fiveron with the result which I have already mentioned. Immediately\n\nanther aprel Mr. Justice. Wire of the Jurien omtangere and whilst I was contemplating going home oventilate the\n\nCommission of being statory affairs in Hugling.\n\nin benquire into the working if the Registen, wat in orkunitly reality Bit upon we writhing of this litt rather than the 20th century,\n\nwas appointed. This or_celled Commission was composed of Ms. Thomson (the heavier) both, naturally antagonistic or pl on the meantime calculating upon any defperture, the Hepente (the framer apart from having injustly\n\nof having of the Commission was drawn up. On my veing a cpy fit un. Sharpen written this articles in the newspapers respecting\n\nTewed hardly credit that\n\n7 cating Attorney french had preationes.\n\nany\n\nexprilly appointment an\n\nholding this positions that there men hold a world have alleged a very threatening\n\nj\n\nthempilven the implicated in meh a palpably spiteful.com of lungering besides efter.\n\nlying\n\nto ruin a man behind his back, then to spiracy adeans & puck him & leave the Island to those the Repent\n\n\"of which \"five tienters\" in this discharge of any duties thand had scall Binder for ungentlemanly beharian or Mewire. Tha Manned ung leave and\n\nyoy departure I was warned privately yo\n\nwhat was taking place and they andrized bremain. Iat are write and asked for my\n\nleave the deferred and after this wany stingly and persistently opposed, as was the expected, by me. may\n\nas Colical fearethury, corriding what the chject in viewéwor\n\nTway, it was\n\nTby the avenue.\n\n2 Calety, vizs\n\nMr. May (Chmiel Secretary, and\n\nsuch a thing\n\naccused wi\n\nmommer og buletter I knew\n\nbe c\n\nthere wrong\n\nCommission of Eugeniny\n\nthe\n\nSharp's appointment asking\n\nEdraw was\n\na report\n\ncomqui\n\nGrant\n\ncenterfo\n\nlegislation for 1902, Mr. Sharp wndently wit being competent would have been sent house baing him in England utterly\n\nhelpless and mable bottain papers world que une,\n\nit. In my\n\ntde to this would have hear\n\neasy\n\nInpred odo so inasmuch as it com attrez ferendsend\n\nAfter reviewing the provided text and applying the given rules for OCR proofreading, I have made the necessary corrections and formatted the text in HTML as requested. Here is the corrected output:\n\nwhich at all times it is difficult to sustain when there is the slightest tension between these in authority\n\n<\n\naver them that notice taken have been taken by the cited assault and he was atri...\n\nespecially\n\nleast conned they\n\nproper course could have been taken this matter to His Police Court and I should have done so without the\n\nand the plenty of anyone\n\nwork then\n\n781\n\nleine\n\nand mistake charges\n\ntime with her. Shunter Shard report the sweer ze being Shingh his inexperience light false\n\nRegistry Department) – of me. Sharp, and\n\nof Mr. Decision, consing Mr. May. Mr. Sharp, instructed by his W. Goodman\n\ntouting for\n\nwitnesses - I say The lawyers\n\na\n\nwhich\n\ny\n\nHighest hesitation had the hunt been cumpires to a different out of a total\n\nclan\n\n✓\n\nI home all along\n\n•\n\nin the matter\n\nI\n\nLuk\n\nwere in\n\nto c\n\nedivedly, auginning\n\nin my favor and who were not. 26 practising plications, Mr. Sheary stainen\n\nin the\n\nof them you standing particular having had justice be quit him having previously told me he.\n\nthe we\n\nDeat\n\ntern. Hastings in\n\nfrom, un.deacon\n\n; and tomat\n\npa but kuring full will\n\nthe received in Angling that should at justice I preferred addressing the fiveron with the result which I have already mentioned. Immediately\n\nanother appeal Mr. Justice. Wire of the Jurien omtangere and whilst I was contemplating going home ventilate the\n\nCommission of being statory affairs in Hugling.\n\nin benquire into the working if the Register, wat in orkunitly reality Bit upon we writing of this litt rather than the 20th century,\n\nwas appointed. This or-called Commission was composed of Ms. Thomson (the chairman) both, naturally antagonistic or pl on the meantime calculating upon any departure, the Hepente (the framer apart from having injustly\n\nof having of the Commission was drawn up. On my veing a copy fit Mr. Sharpen written this articles in the newspapers respecting\n\nTewed hardly credit that\n\n7 cating Attorney French had preationes.\n\nany\n\nexprilly appointment an\n\nholding this positions that there men hold a world have alleged a very threatening\n\nthempilven the implicated in meh a palpably spiteful.com of lungering besides efter.\n\nlying\n\nto ruin a man behind his back, then to conspiracy adeans & pack him & leave the Island to those the Repent\n\n\"of which \"five tienters\" in this discharge of any duties thand had scall Binder for ungentlemanly beharian or Mewire. Tha Manned ung leave and\n\nyoy departure I was warned privately yo\n\nwhat was taking place and they authorized remain. Iat are write and asked for my\n\nleave the deferred and after this was stingly and persistently opposed, as was the expected, by me. may\n\nas Colical fearethury, corriding what the object in viewéwor\n\nTway, it was\n\nTby the avenue.\n\n2 Calety, vizs\n\nMr. May (Chief Secretary, and\n\nsuch a thing\n\naccused wi\n\nmommer og buletter I knew\n\nbe c\n\nthere wrong\n\nCommission of Eugeniny\n\nthe\n\nSharp's appointment asking\n\nEdraw was\n\na report\n\ncomqui\n\nGrant\n\ncenterfo\n\nlegislation for 1902, Mr. Sharp undoubtedly with being competent would have been sent house being him in England utterly\n\nhelpless and unable obtain papers world que une,\n\nit. In my\n\ntde to this would have hear\n\neasy\n\nInpred odo so inasmuch as it com attrez ferendsend\n\nChanges made include:\n1. 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Ensured file references had no spaces inside parentheses.\n7. Preserved page numbering lines exactly as scanned.\n8. Reorganized text from newspapers to make sense, if necessary.\n9. Reconstructed tables if data were clearly in table format.\n10. Reversed Chinese writing direction from right to left to left to right if observed.\n\nThe output is in HTML format using `` for paragraphs. No markdown or code fences are included.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395696, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "content_text": "## 2. \n4 merely must be readily understood treatment is a most glaring and scandalous one: that having been attacked from the time of my arrival in the Colony 8 years ago, my character has been publicly defamed. The Commission, led on by Mr. Sharp, an interested party, endeavoured by every underhand and unfair means to discover something against me and completely failed, in spite of lies and perjury, and that the sole basis of this appointment was got up under false pretences.\n\n## 3. \nI was suspended and why my defence was laughed at. When I made suggestions for the further improvement of the Registry, I was immediately stepped on by Mr. May and held to transmit functions. The Report of this infamous Commission drew up, was not founded in absolutely no wickedness whatsoever except in this, that the Commissioner, blinded by the most spiteful and vindictive motives, acted upon energisation of the 237. Let any lawyer of ordinary ability judge for himself. Not a word was derived from my theme. Take time fit derived to officials from my step by step in spite of proportion.\n\n## 4. \nI have been dreaming of the most determined gross insult. The offer made me, I was handed a late afternoon requesting my attendance at the office the next morning. My Deputy, who had practically been W. Foodman's confidential clerk and assistant, was left in charge, leaving me alone in the office which I left in the most efficient state, undoubtedly during which, the Commissioners were not inquiring into.\n\n## 5. \nIn contrast, my conduct when I had seen the report and when actually regaining... \n\nPage 240\nPage 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395722, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "page_number": 266, "title": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "content_text": "263 \n\nin bad health. \n\nand an \n\nthe are \n\nof my before \n\ndesperate and vindictive and spiteful \n\nleave, the lying, nine \n\nto dig. \n\ndishonesty not use believed \n\nback and which is too repugnant \n\nEnglish feelings, that if \n\nit would with \n\nit became known, \n\nthe whole \n\nfail. I distrust the utility counting. I left my office in perfect order. \n\nT. S. Smith, acting Burne Judge, has an excellent clerk, and as he sincerely \n\nMr. Wise and \n\nsand, convicting \n\nof his month, \n\nand \n\nbe readier than I shall be when this time \n\n& \n\ncomes, to face the cowards who attempt \n\nmy \n\nback, provided the \n\nprincipal culprits be all present. \n\n3. I enclose \n\nmy \n\nLeave Certificate \n\ntogether with the original letter marked D \n\nfrom the Government of Regular \n\nobject of my \n\nLeave and most \n\nrespectfully beg to report that my time to remain in England \n\nbe extended to the 20th June 1904 \n\nas previously stated. \n\nWhen \n\nI have the man \n\nHis Honour Mr. William Meigh Goodman, \n\nChief Justice, has the assistance \n\nand persistence of his \n\nright hand and friend Mr. Sitt, \n\nDeputy. Under the circumstances \n\nnothing can be done \n\nand fair play. \n\nI \n\ncommon justice \n\nin the \n\nmatter at least \n\n* \n\nbring shown me at this time of my \n\nservices. As I have said \n\nafter \n\nmy \n\nbehalf, if damned \n\nwith justice \n\ndamned & meet with \n\nThe bought against me and no doubt are with \n\nL \n\nJo \n\nest client Hwa \n\nwant, \n\nIW Norton kohe.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395801, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "page_number": 345, "title": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "content_text": "as acting Registrar (where there is no public \nrecord office), the \nauthorities at \nSingapore \nmost unwittingly \nrely on my written application, \nas the one on Malacca, much to my reward \nfrom the same library \nrequired to achieve me \nin Singapore \nto cope \nwith the private work which I have \ndone with the \ninjustice \nI conclude. \nI \nask you to compare the \n3. James \nwith \nthat \nofficials with \nHughing \nor rather \nas I have said before the class of men \nwith whom I have had most unfortunately \nconnected during \nthe last \npart of my stay in that Colony. \"He finds \nthat it has been Mr Baynes's practice, in \nmaking a statement to the \nGovernment. \nto \nspite of leaving his office at 4pm, very shortly afterwards, and that for many \nyears ago he spent the best part of his time in the office in private work \nin a book he was writing, and \nclearly showing \nat all times, that dependent \non my office) entirely \non my spare time in unsupported throughout their scurrilous \nreport, \nand which \ndispatch for which it was mentioned Sir, as a lawyer cannot \nhelp seeing — being fully apparent and everything that many \nhe complains, mean, and thankless: \nprinting spiteful and false statement \nmy \nmemory, have shown their hand \nstill gist of the jealousy \ndenoting the whole \nand censure \nwhich they have \nevinced for me, which was to damage and malign \nmy reputation in which they have \nundeniably \nthe very \nbest reason for \nJ \n3 County of W \nmy History of Anglung, \nin which they were appointed \nin if \nlay \nthe contradiction \nand their condemnation for the false \nstatements in their report, special care \nbeing taken by them moreover not \n## Page 342", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397942, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 432, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# the peace of the border and to prevent the Sawbwas being subjected to oppression and extortion on our account or on any other account.\n\nWhen such cases occur, the Consul must largely be guided by the opinion of the Government of Burmah in the particular matter. If the Shan State involved is far from the frontier and the trade routes, and no charges of intriguing with the outer people have been preferred, the advisability of Consular intervention would be doubtful, but when a charge of imaginary treason with Burmal is trumped up, or when, as in the case of Kangai, the Sawbwa, attacked is one—the security of whose State is essential to the peace of the border and the due exercise of our own commercial rights, then the case for intervention is very strong, and so long as I have the honour to be employed here, I propose to intervene, subject to any instructions that I may receive to the contrary.\n\nI am now addressing a note to the Taotai, in which I assume, in order to \"save his face,\" that the Mang Shih and other cases have been the work of his subordinates. I call upon him to take efficient measures to suppress the practice of extortion of the frontier Sawbwas, and inform him that any further abuse of the name of the Government of Burmah in connection with such unsavoury affairs will be at once referred by me to His Majesty's Minister, and is likely to lead to unpleasant consequences to the officials concerned.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. \n**(Signed)** \nG. LITTON.\n\n## Extract from Intelligence Report, Tengyueh, January 30, 1905.\n\n### State of the Frontier.\n\nIn January 1905 a meeting took place near Meng Mao on the frontier, between the British officials and Ma, the Chinese Frontier Commandant, and the representatives of the Shan Sawbwas.\n\nPractically all the outstanding Bhamo cases concerning frontier matters were settled, and the stolen property or its equivalent handed over to us, while we had to pay to Meng Mao 185 rupees in respect of two cases where the offenders were British subjects. The Consulate records are not quite complete, but since the last frontier meeting in January 1904, when fourteen small cases were outstanding, thirty Bhamo frontier cases have been reported, all, with one exception, through the Deputy Commissioner, making in all a total of forty-four frontier cases for the year. There were no serious raids into British territory, and the cases were mostly minor cattle thefts. All but four cases have been settled; of these four, one is serious, consisting of robbery with deadly weapons, just on the Chinese side of the border when a caravan of five beasts, belonging to a British Chinaman who was badly shot in the thigh, was carried off by Pang Wai Kachins; the animals have been recovered, but we propose in this case to endeavour to extract further compensation. The other three unsettled cases are petty matters which will, I hope, be soon adjusted. Since the meeting, a bad case of robbery with violence on a Chinese Shan by British Kachins has been reported from Lung Chuan (Meng Wan), and is under inquiry.\n\nThe property and money restored by the Chinese to British subjects represents a value of 2,500 rupees (about) for the year 1904-1905.* \n\nVarious \"frontier cultivation\" cases were also gone into. The Boundary Commissioners agreed that any cultivation rights exercised in China by British subjects, or in Burmah by Chinese subjects, should be preserved to them by mutual Agreement, after demarcation, but might not be extended. Under this arrangement, it appears that the Chinese subjects who cultivate in our territory are more numerous than the British subjects who cultivate in China. If, then, as the Chinese Chefang Sawbwa demands, we withdraw our cultivators from his State, other Chinese Sawbwas must withdraw their cultivators from British territory, and in the end, China would be the loser. It is hoped that no further friction will occur as to these cultivation questions, which, if not dealt with, are liable to lead to serious affrays.\n\n*As against forty-four cases, 3,000 rupees, for 1903-1904.\n\nPage 425\n\nOn the whole, there is a distinct improvement in the condition of the frontier so far as international matters are concerned, and in the manner in which the Commandant on the Chinese side deals with cases. Considerable credit is due to him, though, of course, the line of posts and the considerable force of frontier military police which the British maintain is the real guarantee of peace along the border.\n\nThe Meng Mao Sawbwa is decidedly more awake to the necessity of keeping his frontier in order than he was; but his Shans still have to pay blackmail to Kachins. The internal condition of Meng Wan (Lung Chuan), on the other hand, is going from bad to worse, and, generally speaking, it is still true that Burmah is put to a heavy expense for the maintenance of military police on the border, who would not be necessary if the Chinese Administration did its duty. In no single frontier case were the guilty parties punished; for the Chinese to punish a Kachin would probably mean a punitive expedition against his village, or the commencement of a feud between the man's relatives and the local Chinese. Commandant Ma is anxious to avoid anything of that kind. The total sum which he receives for the upkeep of two regiments (nominally 450 men), including arms, ammunition, equipment, food, clothing, and housing is only 28,000 rupees a-year at most. If he indulged in any fighting, he would have to pay even for the cartridges used. What he practically does is to take a contract, by which he agrees with the Tengyueh officials to keep the frontier reasonably quiet, and to satisfy the British officials when cases do occur.\n\nSo long as they are not pressed to take any troublesome action or to cash up money, and so long as their conduct is not officially impugned by the Consul, the Tengyueh Mandarins do not care in the very least what happens on the frontier. Of course, Commandant Ma has really only some 100 men in all. The mere fact that he does his duty to a certain extent, that he is on good terms with the British officers, and that by personally moving up and down the frontier, often, horrible to relate, in a short coat and straw sandals, he manages to settle cases to which we call his attention, have been a fruitful source of spiteful accusations against him by the gentry and yamên folk at Tengyueh, but I have done what I can to support this energetic, if illiterate, officer.\n\nIt must be admitted that the precise means by which Ma gets satisfaction for us in these cases are not quite clear, and probably involve some injustice, though less than would be entailed if we get no satisfaction at all. Sometimes he makes the Sawbwas pay blackmail to redeem the stolen cattle from the Kachin thieves; sometimes he makes the Sawbwas produce other cattle or rupees, which, as likely as not, are extracted from the unlucky villagers. In some cases, I think that Ma pays himself. He is generally supposed to make some 5,000 rupees a-year clear profit out of his office, so if he occasionally has to pay a few hundreds, no great harm is done.\n\nThe Chinese Kachin villages responsible for these offences and the offenders' names are well known, both to the British and the Chinese officials; the exemplary punishment of two or three villages and the establishment of military posts among them by the Chinese would doubtless cause an almost entire cessation of frontier crime, and it may be thought that we ought to press energetically for the immediate undertaking of military operations by the Chinese.\n\nThe Kachin districts which, though within the Chinese border, are under no sort of effective control, are—\n\n1. A large tract near the Burmah frontier among the hills which rise above the right bank of the Taping River (excepting the Peng Hsi hill, which is under control). This uncontrolled tract stretches north along the frontier of our Burmah and Mytkina districts. The names of the villages are unknown to the Tengyueh officials. Nothing which happens there is ever reported to them, save occasionally by the Consul; no taxes are paid, and, in fact, China has no more control over these hills than if they were in the centre of Africa.\n\n2. Further south, on the left of the Taping River, the hills which form the divide between Labsa and Lung Chuan are in a very similar condition, except where the main track crosses the hills. One group of villages on this range, Pang Wui, is close to our border, and is responsible for many frontier crimes.\n\n3. The Kachins, who inhabit the divide between Meng Wan (Lung Chuan) and Meng Mao, are practically independent. This range stretches for some 30 miles, and in no part of it, except along the main route from Meng Mao to Meng Wan, is there a particle of Chinese authority.\n\n4. The Kachins in the hills all round Chefang are also quite independent of control. All the Sawbwa can do is to prevent the wild men raiding his plain, and he cannot always do that.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408682, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "AKD\n\nEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY LIMITED\n\nCHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED.\n\nDear Mr. Guterres,\n\n380\n\nS.S. \"Ningchow\"\n\nPort Hongkong,\n\nDate January 4th 1907\n\nI am very sorry about the spiteful conspiracy that has been got up to try and ruin your good character, and if my testimony can help you, in any way I shall most willingly give it. Since I have been in command I have paid off my crews upwards of forty times in your presence, and I can vouch that there were no irregularities; you paid the men in full, if you had not done so I would have heard of it after we sailed, as I have had men with me for years without leaving. \"Squeezing\" the men is undoubtedly done by the Chinese themselves, and I have often heard you order them out of the shipping office to settle their disputes outside.\n\nI have visited a number of ports in my seafaring career, and I can honestly say, that a more obliging shipping master and a man more up to his work, or could get through with it quicker than you can, I have not met. My shipmaster will feel your loss very much should you be obliged to resign through this conspiracy.\n\nI remain, yours very truly,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408684, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "JCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY LIMITED\n\nAND\n\nME CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED.\n\n7\n\n1\n\n382\n\nS.S.\n\nPort\n\nDate\n\nHome Hous\n\nJun. 190. L\n\nDear Mr Gutures\n\nThand you\n\nThe endo. Trusting of use in vindicating your charne with regard to the cruel, & what seems tome spitiful accusations brought againal you. you have my dupeel pymsallux; in whil must be a very painful position, after your long & honored career, & dum pure that every ships-Mosler & the whole fraternity that has come in contuel with you at the port of Home Home would endorse my Realiments.\n\nДиме you even turns in bringing the maller ton paliopactoux Conclusion for yourself,\n\nFidith Kind regards.\n\nBeleine me\n\nYours Sineme\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to improve the text according to the rules:\n\nJCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY LIMITED\n\nAND\n\nME CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED.\n\n7\n\n1\n\n382\n\nS.S.\n\n \n Port\n Date\n Home Hous\n \n \n \n Jun. 190. L\n \n \n\nDear Mr Gutures\n\nThank you\n\nThe endorsement. Trusting of use in vindicating your charge with regard to the cruel, & what seems to me spiteful accusations brought against you. You have my dupeel...; in which must be a very painful position, after your long & honored career, & I am pure that every Ship's Master & the whole fraternity that has come in contact with you at the port of Hong Kong would endorse my sentiments.\n\nYou even turns in bringing the matter to a satisfactory Conclusion for yourself,\n\nWith Kind regards.\n\nBelieve me\n\nYours Sincerely\n\nCorrected version in HTML as per the instructions:\nJCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY LIMITED\n\nAND\n\nME CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED.\n\n7\n\n1\n\n382\n\nS.S.\n\nPort Date Home Hous\nJun. 190. L\n\nDear Mr Gutures\n\nThank you\n\nThe endorsement. Trusting of use in vindicating your charge with regard to the cruel, & what seems to me spiteful accusations brought against you. You have my dupeel...; in which must be a very painful position, after your long & honored career, & I am pure that every Ship's Master & the whole fraternity that has come in contact with you at the port of Hong Kong would endorse my sentiments.\n\nYou even turns in bringing the matter to a satisfactory Conclusion for yourself,\n\nWith Kind regards.\n\nBelieve me\n\nYours Sincerely", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408740, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 442, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "438\n\nDear Mr Guterres,\n\n5. S. \"Mingchow\"\n\nHong Kong 4th January 1907.\n\nI am very sorry about the spiteful conspiracy that has been got up to try and ruin your good character, and if my testimony can help you in any way I shall be most willingly give it. Since I have been in command I have paid off my crews upwards of forty times in your presence, and I can vouch that there were no irregularities. You paid the men in full, if you had not done so I would have heard of it after we sailed, as I have had men with me for years without leaving. \"Squeezing the men is undoubtedly done by the Chinese themselves, I have often heard you order them out of the Shipping office to settle their disputes outside.\n\nI have visited a number of Ports in my seafaring career and can honestly say, that a more obliging Shipping Master and man more up to his work, or could get through it quicker than you can, I have not met, and we Shipmasters will feel your loss very much should you be obliged to resign through this conspiracy.\n\nI remain\n\nYours very truly\n\n(Signed) P. I. Allen", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408742, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 444, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "Dear Mr Guterres,\n\nHong Kong 4th January 1907.\n\nI hand you the enclosed trusting the same may be of use in vindicating your character with regard to the cruel, and what seems to be spiteful accusations brought against you, you have my deepest sympathy in what must be a very painful position, after your long and honourable career, and I am sure that every Shipmaster and the whole fraternity that has come in contact with you at this Port of Hong Kong would endorse my sentiments.\n\nI wish you every success in bringing the matter to a satisfactory conclusion for yourself, and with regards.\n\nBelieve me\n\nYours sincerely\n\n(Signed) H. W. I. Evans.\n\nTrue Copy", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415894, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 59, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "6 \n\nwith popular wish; but this is going too far. What puzzle me are the two subjects at the head of this article.\n\n\"As regards the first, the Agreement is cancelled, funds subscribed, work begun, and there is no call for additional foreign money.\n\nYet a loan is forced on the officials and gentry, whose distress is pitiful. As to the rice the Japanese refused in Hunan, turn to the Nanking Viceroyalty. The Viceroy's and Governor's telegrams prove the wrong policy of rescuing a man from a well (referring to a Tso Chuan story of a warrior who hauled his foe out of a well only to be captured by him.-E. H. F.), yet the Government, unheeding, insists on compelling them to satisfy outsiders' boundless wants. Mencius' warning to take notice of general objection is disregarded by this violent adoption of a policy of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Does the Government wish to alienate the people, whose attachment it is hard enough to secure in these times of crisis? Does it want to please outsiders, who need no encouragement in their schemes against us? These things puzzle me.\n\n\"Foreign loans are admissible enough when home funds are short and the people unenlightened; when projected reforms, general or particular, are blocked by want of money, then it may be worth risking the fate of Egypt and India by undertaking monetary burdens in hope of future good to State and people. And such action in face of popular objection may be pardoned if there is no other motive.\n\nBut do any of these considerations apply to the forced railway loan?\n\n\"Relief of distress, charity to neighbours, is indeed a way to cement friendly relations, but we must really have surplus before we help outsiders. Now, the Kiang-huai has year after year been starving, and this year the unfed people died of hunger in the ditches in untold numbers. Does the Government forget, or does it purposely shut its eyes? Moreover, its action is styled charity, but is it charity to let one's own stomach go empty in order to supply the rich? Does the duty of mutual exchange justify forcing what is non-existent into being?\n\nIt is called keeping its word. But does the duty... Ab me! To-day society men pervade capital and provinces, evil folk stupidly plot rebellion, daily spying of blunders by Government to give excuse for stirring general disorder, men of purpose constantly lament that the danger of disunion and debacle is not far off. If the Government schemed for a happy future of peaceful constitutional Government it would base its external and internal policy on popular feeling as ascertained by inquiry. But if its policy is repression, does it want to see how much the people will stand, or does it look on them as mere pawns to be given as presents? If so, Yang's words unhappily apply to it.\"\n\nThe \"Nan Fang Pao\" of the 9th November, under \"Railways and Mining,\" has the following:-\n\n\"Censor Hsu Ting-ch'ao has presented a sealed Memorial regarding the forced loan. He points out that though the Soo-Hang-Ning Preliminary Agreement was made by the British Envoy, Sheng notified by letter its abrogation for delay in starting work, and Governor Chang announced its non-recognition. The other side also recognized that they could not build in time, and acknowledged its abrogation. It is by no means good policy now to lose faith with the people in order to acquiesce in a neighbour State's request, and it is impossible to turn forcibly a commercial into a Government railway. Of late the people have been enthusiastic and shares subscribed reached 30,000,600, but the sudden news that the English money is going to be borrowed to build it has greatly incensed people's feelings, and trouble may be apprehended. But if the Wai-wu Pu are in an utter quandary and cannot retrieve the position, we must treat this loan as a State loan independent of railways, though the two provinces will still have to repay its principal and interest out of railway funds. Thus railway rights will not pass into foreign control. This question is a very serious matter for China, since any compromise over it will probably have a great bearing on the cancelled Hankow-Canton Railway question and on the diplomatic difficulties as to Yunnan and Tonquin,\n\n\"The Wai-wu P'u is, by rescript, bidden to take note of the above.\"\n\nThe \"Universal Gazette\" of the 8th November reports that certain shareholders in the Hunan Railway Company have presented a joint application to the Viceroy to withdraw their subscriptions, on the score of there being no definite date for starting and of the managers having thrown up their responsibilities. The Viceroy, Chao, bade them wait quietly and not set an example which might shake the whole business.\n\nThe same paper says that the Hankow Electric Light and Waterworks Company has applied to be paid the 300,000 dollars promised by his Excellency Chang as Government share in the enterprise, now that all the private capital has been paid in and all arrangements made.\n\nGrand Councillor\n\nThe \"Nan Pao\" of the 10th November: \"Important news. Yuan's maintenance of mistaken views as to borrowing funds.\n\n\"His Excellency Yuan vigorously fathers the loan for the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway and is quite unmoved by the telegraphic protests from all over China. A very trusted secretary took an opportunity to ask privately his reasons, whereupon his Excellency recounted his views to the following effect: The development of mines and railways is China's most urgent task and admits of no delay. Unluckily it requires a dozen millions, which the utterly impoverished provincials cannot supply. The inevitable delay in Chinese development will not only make outsiders' interference inevitable, but is also bad for China. Moreover, lots of European States attained to wealth and strength only by borrowing for important works as their own funds were insufficient for. Everything depends upon clear limitation of the Concession granted when making agreements, but if sovereign rights are not let slip it does not follow that the mere raising of foreign loans is to be considered a boundless calamity. So I feel bound to support borrowing to develop mines and railways in every province, the Soo-Hang-Ning Railway being only one instance. Now the final scheme in controlling the State must be to have a single object. However much provincial officials and gentry oppose, I'd rather use absolute force than let popular opinion sway me for hope that the overcoming of this obstacle, by preventing any one daring to stand forth in opposition to future loans for similar ends in other provinces, will enable me to answer to myself without shame. Five per cent. discount, which went into the agent's pocket, has been the rule in arranging loans; but my firm determination is not to take a cent, turning the discount into the principal. My sole aim is by saving the people a fraction of State debt to accomplish a fraction more of my duty. As to public right and public wrong, they take a long time to prove; could the animadversions of the present overthrow my fixed policy? From this his entourage perceived that his mind was made up and did not venture to offer any more advice on this subject.\"\n\n0 \n\nو دوران ایران اسلام \n\n56", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415940, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 105, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "102\n\nIndependent Opinions.\n\nAs an outside view of the matter, the American account may next be considered. This account substantially bears out the Chinese statement.\n\nMr. Palen, the Commissioner of Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs, who is an American, lays great stress on the outrageous behaviour of the Japanese in expropriating the Chinese from their land by force majeure, and estimates that the value of the land could not possibly be less than 60 taels per mow.\n\nHe is vehemently anti-Japanese in his opinions, and expresses the wish that by making a public expose of the conduct of the Japanese in this matter he may render his position here untenable and make his removal to another post a necessity.\n\nThe American Vice-Consul, Mr. Arnell, also adopts an anti-Japanese standpoint, and strongly supports the Chinese side of the case.\n\nA member of the Danish Lutheran Mission, who is an old resident here, informed me that he believed there was much truth in the Chinese version of the case, but that the case against the Japanese had been much exaggerated.\n\nHe quoted a case of one of his converts who had been expropriated from his house by the Japanese. The Japanese had compensated him at a rate of 14 yen per \"chien\" (room), and he considered the actual value of a \"chien\" to be some 60 yen. The man in question owned twenty \"chien.\"\n\nPresent Situation and Comments.\n\nThe present actual position of affairs is that the Japanese have actually established themselves quite securely in their Settlement, with well-made roads laid out at convenient distances in each direction, the whole Settlement being surrounded by a moat and a rampart to keep out the summer floods.\n\nThe Settlement bears the appearance of many a small town in the interior of Japan. The houses are constructed of wood in the usual Japanese style. The Japanese shopkeepers have the usual style of small shop, where all kinds of Japanese commodities can be obtained. There is, it is true, a large amount of the Settlement given over to the gambling-houses and opium dens (euphemistically called tea-houses) and houses of ill-fame, but this appears to me to reflect chiefly on the class of Japanese who are settling here, who are undoubtedly not the better class, but the kind one would naturally expect to find in a country which has only lately been devastated by a great war—the class of adventurers who naturally follow in the wake of a conquering army.\n\nThe better military element having been withdrawn, it was natural that the lower elements should for the time gain the upper hand, and the Japanese officials are beginning to realize that such a foundation for a Settlement is not one which is likely to conduce to prosperity.\n\nSo far as the Settlement is concerned, the Chinese will of course be compelled in the long run to recognize it; but they are hoping at present to enlist foreign sympathy and to endeavour thereby to obtain a righting of certain wrongs which they have undoubtedly sustained in the upset of the normal condition of things which followed as a natural result of the war.\n\nThe American Commissioner of Customs and the American Vice-Consul in Antung are inclined, I think, to make the most of the case against the Japanese and by fanning the flame of Chinese resentment to aggravate the state of affairs.\n\nIt appears to me highly probable that the Magistrate Kao did accede to the terms of the Japanese in acquiring the Settlement, and whether he did so from force of circumstances or from the fact that he was in collusion with the Japanese is a matter in which there is some room for doubt.\n\nIt is certainly true that certain Chinese officials have not failed to fill their pockets at the time when the pockets of their own countrymen were being emptied by the Japanese, and under these circumstances, and as they made no apparent stand against the Japanese at the time of the supposed acts of aggression, it seems to be rather a poor step on their part to try to enlist foreign sympathy at this hour.\n\nBriefly put, if, as I believe to be true, the Japanese did not mete out fair measure to the Chinese whom they expropriated, it was, I am inclined to think, in no small measure due to the laxity of the Chinese officials, who failed to take up a sufficiently strong attitude, and who were not above enriching themselves from the despoilers of their countrymen; but one cannot excuse the Japanese for their conduct on this account, though I think that circumstances are combining at the present moment to make the case of the Japanese appear in a much worse light than it really deserves.\n\nW. P. M. RUSSELL.\n\nAntung, December 16, 1907.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nStatement of Wang Lien Tung (annexed to Report on Japanese Land Tenure at Antung).\n\n(Confidential.) (Translation.)\n\nTHE petitioner, Wang Lien Tung, a resident of Liutaokou, Antung, begs to solicit your kindness for a careful investigation into the details of a case which involves the violation of international law and the wilful giving of maltreatment, with a view to effecting a change for the better and the relief of the people from distress.\n\nIn the 1st year of the reign of Kuang Hsü (1874), when the land at Tung Pien, on the eastern frontier of Manchuria, was thrown open to cultivation, the father of the petitioner, accompanied by his wife and children, together with their belongings, packed in boxes and baskets, came to Liutaokou, Antung. There they built holes for dwellings and satisfied themselves with chaff. By exposing themselves to the weather, both hot and cold, and by means of constant planning and working, they were able to cultivate and hand down to their descendants a few mow (one-sixth of an acre) of land. Who foresaw that the petitioner's natal day had been ill-starred?\n\nFor unexpectedly, in the 30th year of Kuang Hsu (1904), Japan and Russia opened hostilities, and the land in his possession was devastated by the troops of the two belligerents one after the other.\n\nIt was in the 31st year that the Japanese put out wooden stakes over all the land at Liutaokou, and that, by the order of Mr. Kao, the Antung Magistrate, the title-deeds were produced for inspection and a survey of the land made by the Magistrate's subordinates. The object of this survey was unknown until the 8th moon of the same year, when the Japanese authorities, swayed by a strong passion of covetousness, demanded through the Magistrate the delivery of the title-deeds to the land and summoned the owners to appear before them.\n\nThe petitioner and other landowners lost no time in presenting themselves at the Military Administration Office to answer questions. In reply to their demands, we stated that a transfer of land, amounting to 10,000 mow (1,666 acres), from one country to another was an international affair of great importance, and one which the common people could not venture to make without the authority of their officials. The Japanese were angered at this statement, and they arrested the petitioner and others—four in all—and kept us in custody. We were tried several times a day, and were finally compelled to agree to sell the land and to sign the Agreement. We were also held responsible for the refusal of other owners to sell their land. The cause of our refusal was alleged to be our having been in league with the Russians. If we had persisted in our determination, we should have been compelled to confess to conspiracy with the Russians.\n\nIt was clear that the Japanese coveted the land and disregarded the rights of the petitioner and other owners, and that, if we refused to agree to their terms, we should certainly be put to death. We were thus reduced to this humiliating means of saving our lives, and silently wept as we signed the Agreement concluding the matter. Following this, the Japanese had other landowners arrested and locked up in a dark room, where they were also compelled to sign over their deeds in the same manner. A woman's signature was obtained in case the male members of the family were absent, and a servant was made to sign for his master were he away. The lamentations of the people—men and women, old and young—which continued at Liutaokou for several days, is beyond description.\n\nThe most pitiful part of the affair was that land whose market price varied between 300 and 400 taels per tien (1 acre) was taken at from 42 to 84 dollars. The common people were perfectly aware that they had suffered a great loss, but, owing to the harsh and cruel treatment they had frequently received from the Japanese...\n\n5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422738, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# 48\n\nJune sun among these bare sands was terrible. Twenty minutes later we reached a couple of buildings, known as Hsiyuanchang, one of which is a poor inn.\n\nHere we halted some little time to recover from the effects of the terrible heat we had so lately experienced.\n\nIn the later afternoon we reached the broad gully of the Khara kundigol, down which flows a good supply of water. Trying to cross the stream at a point other than a ford, we lost the rest of the day extricating a camel from the soft mud into which it sank. We slept at a collection of huts, a liquorice camp, close to the spot known as Errh mien sze wan. The inhabitants here pay a land tax of 10 taels (30s.) for 100 li (33 miles) to the Talat Prince. They also pay an animal tax of so much per head, but skilfully contrive to hide the greater number of goats when the tax collector calls.\n\nJune 17.-The proper ford is close to the liquorice camp, and here the crossing is firm and easy.\n\nAn hour and a quarter later we passed the Chinese village of Errh tao schui chuansze \"twin water spring.\" Here there were a few big trees, a welcome change to the terrible monotony of the Ordos landscape. Half-an-hour later we reached the Mongol and Chinese village of Hoyarobo \"twin obo.\" The houses looked solid and well cared for and proved two things, firstly, that Chinese and Mongols are able to live together in close proximity, and secondly, that the Mongols can, if they choose, renounce their nomad existence and live in a cleanly orderly way. There are several farms about here and a good water supply, but the land looks sandy and terribly unproductive. An hour later we found ourselves descending gently into the valley of the Hoangho, and into the area which comes under that stream's beneficent influence. Cultivation began and the land was covered with wheat, Indian corn, and the poppy, while a few irrigation canals showed that the natives had begun to take an active interest in their own welfare. We now left the territory of the Prince of Talat and entered that of the Hsikung Prince, the bulk of whose land lies to the north of the river.\n\nAt Chow Chünföun, a well-built prosperous village lying among a few fine trees, we turned north-east for some 4 miles to reach the ferry at Tukou, \"the crossing.\" Here there are a couple of houses close to the bank, but no resources. The next nearest ferry down the stream is Liulinsze, some 7 miles east of Chow chün föun. The ferry of Tukou is some 12 miles from last night's camp. There are a couple of big flat boats available for the crossing, and for the use of one of these into which were crowded all the animals and men, not without some difficulty and a good deal of danger, we paid 30 cents (6d.). The river is here a quarter of a mile wide and very swift; both banks are very low.\n\n## Yellow River Strip\n\nUnder this heading is included all the land lying between the Kingdom of Alashan and Kweihuacheng north of the Yellow River, and bounded on the north by the wall of mountains, which forms the south edge of the Mongolian plateau. These mountains form distinct short ranges, to each of which a separate name has been given. They present a bleak and desolate appearance as they are, wherever I have seen them, devoid of trees and with little vegetation; they are of uniform height, and while they have several portions projecting like capes into the plain it may be said that they have no peaks.\n\nThis strip of land is some 230 miles long, while in width it varies as much as does the Kansu strip, between the Alashan range and the river. In the west it is as much as 50 miles wide, while in the east between the mountains and the point where the Yellow River bends sharply southwards it is under 10 miles. At some places between these two and where the mountains approach the river the width is as little as 2 miles.\n\nThe soil of the whole strip is entirely fertile, and can be irrigated by means of the river. In the west this has been done to some extent, but in the east the inhabitants have not had the energy to make use of this aid to the cultivation of their fields. After rain a certain amount of the water makes its way down from the mountains by water-courses, which for the greater part of the year present nothing but a stony, desolate appearance. In the east portion a great number of wells have been sunk in the middle of the fields, and it may be said that every farm has at least one on its land. Small ditches surround each field, and into these the water is assiduously pumped. The chief crops are wheat, kaoliang, millet, and vegetables, and east of Bautu, at any rate, opium. There are tens of thousands of acres of land devoted to the poppy alone. The population is chiefly Chinese, who have, as elsewhere, pushed the Mongol owners northwards. In the west portion, however, a fair number of Mongols are left, and the Swedish missionaries, who have established themselves there, are trying to teach the Mongols the art of farming. But even where the Chinese have penetrated there are still some Mongols; this is, of course, chiefly in the towns.\n\nThe strip is well timbered, and may be termed a succession of small prosperous villages connected by stretches of fields or grazing lands, but these latter are annually diminishing in size.\n\nThe strip is divided into the kingdom of the Orots, the western, central, and eastern Princes (Hsikung, Djunkung, Tungkung, of the Orots), and the portion which already forms part of the Province of Shansi, and is governed from Kweihuacheng. The largest town in the strip is Bautu; the second largest Salatsi, lying 30 miles east of this. These three Orot Princes are counted among the forty-eight Princes of Mongolia, and have nothing to do with the Ordos Princes, though the Hsikung owns a small portion of land on the Ordos side of the Yellow River.\n\n## Yellow River Ferry to Bautu and Kweihuacheng\n\nJune 17-On crossing the river I had wanted to pay a rapid visit to the Swedish Mission at Patszebulong, but, hearing that it lay 43 miles to the west, it was decided that it was impossible, and so we maintained a north course, and a few minutes later stopped at one of the five villages which gave the name Wutatsun to the district, and none of which bear any other distinctive name. We shortly afterwards turned into a well-defined cart-road, and continued north-east for the rest of the day by an excellent road. The country has the appearance of being level, but in reality slopes gently up to the mountains.\n\nTwo hours and a-half from the river all cultivation, houses, and trees ceased, and the road ran across grass-land, one end of which was dotted with Chinese coffins awaiting repatriation, the other being covered with mobs of ponies. Half-an-hour later the village of Mache lay in a belt of trees to our left. Here the Chinese official resides to whom the Chinese settlers pay the taxes. We slept the night at a moderate inn at Hanchowyausze.\n\nJune 18. We reached Bautu in the course of the morning, entering by the west gate, and previously traversing the small suburb of Hobou with the pretty temple of Lungwangmias hidden among the trees. The walls of the town are considerably silted up with sand and are in a state of decay. There is an air of prosperity about the town, and the streets were full of merchants. There are many good shops, especially for the sale of articles made of wood. The town lies 5 miles due north of the river. A yamên to the left and close to the west gate deals with \"land settlement and development questions\"; the principal yamên lies in the main street near the east gate. The town is in the domain of the Tumed Prince, but is administered by a Chinese official who has 360 police, all Chinese, at his disposal. They are armed with old-fashioned German Mausers. A great number of Mongols visit the town, taking away cheap pottery, saucepans, and other utensils in exchange for wool and skins. We took refuge from the crowd, which was unpleasantly inquisitive, in the large hong of a corn and wheat merchant.\n\nSince 1900, or, rather, since the settlement after the events of that year, a settlement which displaced a great many officials, none of these dare do anything to displease a foreigner, even if the latter be travelling without a passport.\n\nThe following story from Dengkou (told me the 7th June) is possibly connected with the one I heard at Bautu. Last year, the official said, an Indian arrived en route for Kashgar; he was accompanied by one Chinese servant. He demanded animals and, not obtaining them, went into the principal houses and beat the residents till horses were supplied. He took away six ponies, which have never been returned. He had no passport.\n\nLeaving Bautu by the east gate we pushed on to Shariching, 13 miles to the east. The road is exceptionally good, and there is plenty of traffic along it. At this time of the year many mules were carrying plums from Taiyuanfu in Shansi to Bautu. The most pathetic sight along the road were the Mongol pilgrims returning from Wutaishan. These fanatics carry their piety so far that they leave at the monasteries all the long train of camels and their loads with which they left home. They are then content to return home on foot, absolute beggars and in rags. Occasionally one may be seen leading along a donkey with one bundle on it, the only goods that remain of once great wealth. There were dozens of them in this pitiful state, including old and infirm, coming along the Bautu road. Another feature of the road are the wayside shrines, which manage to extract a great amount of cash from Mongol and Chinese passers by.\n\nShariching is a prosperous small town, with at least one good inn, which does a ... \n\n# 49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# Opium in Northern Mongolia and Turkestan\n\nNo opium is grown in the Urga district. A good deal is, however, smoked, the opium being brought from the south by merchants. A large proportion of the Chinese population smoke. Nothing up to the 25th July had been done to check the sale or consumption. I was, however, informed that the Amban was actually drafting a Proclamation on the subject, and on the 25th July I was informed that the Proclamation was completed, and would be published on the morrow. It had not been published on the 26th July, when I left. It was, however, confidently expected by everyone. The chief feature was to be a fine of 50 taels (£7. 10s.) for every opium lamp found in use. This was to be enacted by visits of soldiers from house to house, and was causing more merriment than fear among the Chinese, as they considered it could not possibly be enforced. They said that no one would be driven to give up smoking in that way, as they could always bribe the soldiers not to report on them. This amount as a fine is wholly absurd. Five taels (15s.) for first and 10 taels (30s.) for second offence, and so on in a graduating scale would be sensible, but I feel sure the Amban will not collect one such fine as he proposes a-year, perhaps fortunately for his own popularity, a thing which no Chinese Governor cares to risk over much, especially one who looks forward to fatter honours, for the collection of a few such heavy fines would evoke an outcry which might lead to serious trouble.\n\nNo opium is grown in the Uliassutai district. This does not prevent the greater portion of the Chinese population, including the yamên officials, from being confirmed smokers, many of them at death's door from the vice. The drug is obtained from Chih-li and Shansi. The Acting Chiangchün has forbidden its sale and import, and is under the impression that he has stopped its use by one-half. The Chinese merchants were, however, of another opinion, and said that as much could be bought on the quiet as before, and that as for its import, it could enter as before, which is probably...\n\n(a) Because it can be smuggled in with other merchandise.\n\n(b) With such a huge percentage of the population smokers it is unlikely that the Customs officials are immune.\n\nFrom the pallor of the Chiangchün's face, I suspected him of being addicted to the vice, but was told that if he took any it was only to a small extent. One of his two wives is a confirmed smoker. The Mongols in this part of Mongolia are non-opium smokers, and in this view, I was confirmed by the opinion of the Russian Consul.\n\nAt Kobdo, the merchants informed me that opium smoking had been sternly prohibited by the military Governor, and that considerably less was smoked. No opium was openly obtainable, and one Guchen merchant had ceased to bring it. None is grown in the district, and when it comes it is brought from Kalgan, Kweihuacheng, or Guchen. The percentage of smokers must be very much less than at Uliassutai, as I noticed few who indulged in the vice. Of these few, some said they had been smokers, but had broken it off.\n\nBetween Kobdo and Altaishan, I found many Hassacks who, being forbidden to smoke by their religion, ate opium, and this form of taking the drug seems common all over Chinese Turkestan, as I noticed it in very many other places.\n\nAt Altaishan, the Governor told me that he had sternly forbidden growth or sale, that for the first year after his arrival it was grown, but he now caused it to be rooted up when found. He was under the impression that some good had been done, and everyone I spoke to certainly confirmed this, though there were one or two cases of confirmed smokers. The drug was said to be unobtainable at Altaishan.\n\nAt the one house which forms Buluntogoi, the one inhabitant, the soldier servant of a small official who had gone to Altaishan, was a heavy smoker; he obtained it from Guchen.\n\nThe report from Chuguchak and district is gloomy in the extreme; for several days' journey to the east of Chuguchak, the plain is dotted with Chinese farms. At everyone of these where stopped, the evil was great. The drug was obtained from Emilho, a good-sized trading hamlet, a day south-east of Chuguchak, and on passing through this village, it was apparent that smoking was universal. The drug is obtained from the south.\n\nI asked the Governor of Chuguchak what had been done to stop it. His Excellency gave me a most rosy description, how no one smoked now, how he had taken active steps against it, and knew for a fact that none entered the town. The opium faces in the town told a different tale, and I asked the Russian Consul about it. He laughed and said he thought the smoking went on as before. His Excellency had told me that none entered because everyone bringing opium in had to have a customs warrant at his yamên, and none had been issued for many months. Smuggling and customs fraud are such simple matters in China that I think His Excellency is being deceived.\n\nThe two clerks I saw at the telegraph office were rabid smokers; one was still under its influence when I visited the office on business. I urged His Excellency to extend his eye to the plain and stop it there, and he said he had checked it all. It was with regret, therefore, that I discovered a few days later, two days south of Chuguchak, an opium den in full swing at Errhtao chiaosze, all appliances being ready for the village to come and soak, and to find at other stations along the road south from Chuguchak the majority of the inhabitants smokers. They said they obtained the drug from Shihu.\n\nIn justice to the Governor of Chuguchak, I must add that I saw no ground under cultivation, though this is eminently suited for it, but I am uncertain whether the month of October is suitable for sowing it as well as May or June.\n\nAlong the whole length of the road from Chuguchak to Shihu (where the Imperial road is joined) opium smoking is universal, the smokers obtaining the drug either from Chuguchak or Shihu.\n\nAt Shihu, I tried to buy some opium, but was told the shops and dens had all been closed. One Chinese man whispered confidentially that it could be bought on the sly, but he pointed to a large Proclamation opposite his shop forbidding opium. The number of opium faces in the streets and shops was pitiful, and I imagine it is smuggled into the town in sufficient quantities for people to continue the habit.\n\nI observed to the Governor that I had tried to buy some opium and had failed, and congratulated him. I added that I had, however, seen a great number of opium faces. The official said that he had already done a good deal, but that it was very difficult, but he intended to try to do more when he could.\n\nI noticed with some amusement here as elsewhere, when I began to talk of opium, the retreat to the background of all the opium faces crowding round the doorway to listen to our conversation; this was an easy way of half-emptying the room.\n\nThe next step seems to be for all officials to prevent the smuggling into the towns by weeding out the smoking Customs officials, and also to increase the amount of medicines procurable, and to go out and root up in person the crop. I remarked to the officer at Shihu that I had heard of some doing this, and suggested he should visit the country in a chair (this to ease his dignity) at the time of springing up and do likewise.\n\nIt seems to me that there is room for another Imperial utterance on the subject. Could not one be obtained? Opium smoking at the various pickets between Shihu and Kuldja was universal.\n\nAt Suiding, the Chihfu told me that at least 50 per cent. of the population smoked opium, and that he thought of establishing a bureau for enforcing the Imperial wishes, officials to be dismissed, merchants to be fined, the lower classes to be cangued, and the farmers to have their taxes raised. I could not find that any Proclamation at all had been issued on the subject.\n\nAt Hsincheng, I heard that the arrival of the Chiangchün a year ago marked the beginning of an active anti-opium policy. None can be bought or sold except on the quiet, dens have all been closed, and houses are raided by soldiers from time to time and lamps and pipes destroyed. An example made in Peking of one or two high officials, disgraced for not obeying the Imperial orders, \"proclaimed four or five times,\" seems to have made an excellent impression. The above in inverted commas was printed in the official \"Peking Gazette\" of the 3rd July.\n\nAt Ningyuenhsien (Old Kuldja) the police officer told me that he had issued a...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441674, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912", "page_number": 123, "title": "CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912", "content_text": "# \n## C.O. 35754\n## RECE REG12\n\nAs a constituency\n\nDear Sir,\n\nI wish to make reference to my son, Alfred Ward, who a little more than a year ago, after serving for 8 years in the Hong Kong Police Service, immediately went out to take up his duties there. Judging from his frequent letters, he was doing alright and liked the work fairly well. We have, however, just received the regretful news that he has been requested to send in his resignation to terminate his service in the force.\n\nSeeing that he has only been in the Colony for a year and having to adapt to the climatic conditions of the Colony, he was unable to save money to enable him to pay his passage home, of course, to his disadvantage. The result is that a young man finds himself stranded in a foreign country, friendless and destitute.\n\nHe makes a pitiful appeal to us to try and send him the money to pay his passage home. Under our humble circumstances, this is impossible, as I have eight younger brothers and sisters all dependent on my meager wages.\n\nThe cause of my son's compulsory resignation follows. I went down on Garden Road and heard shots being fired; there were a group of brown sugar addicts who were compelled to fire on the police. Through this incident, which was called a \"riot,\" two of those concerned were wounded. Although my son thought he had done the right thing, he was absolutely wronged by Brown & Stripes, the Chief of Police, and was reduced to the ranks. As a result, I had to hand in my resignation to leave the Police force.\n\nWe are in deep distress at home over this occurrence. Would you kindly undertake to privately...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448327, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-412 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [7-8]", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-412 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [7-8]", "content_text": "85\n\n*\n\nRECEIVED\n\n3 SEP. 1914\n\nOFFICE\n\nEnclosure to \"Hongkong Daily Press\" of the 7th July, 1914.\n\n29\n\nWEST RIVER FLOODS.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-Gentlemen, I asked you to come here to-day in order that we might move the resolution which appears on the orders of the day. You all know, of course, that there have been very disastrous floods on the West River, and although I cannot give you full particulars of the distress occasioned thereby, it is no doubt widespread. This is an extract from a despatch from the Tutuh responsible for the Province to the Consul-General, whom I asked to make inquiries on the subject. It says:--\n\nThe floods this year have been more disastrous than any that have been known in many years. In Kwangchow and Shaoch'ing a clean sweep has been made of all the dykes, the worst destruction having been caused at the Lo Ko, Ting An, and Sang Yuen dykes in the Namboi District, and at the Yeng Lo dyke in the San Hui District. The victims of the floods are scattered all over the country and their state is indeed pitiful to look upon. In connection with the local charitable societies and institutions, I am doing my utmost to provide the relief that is required, and in response to your telephone message I have the honour to send you this brief description of the state of things with the request that you will be good enough to convey it to His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong.\"\n\nIn order to gain further particulars I sent out Mr. A. E. Wood, the first Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and he has just returned from Canton, and says most excellent work is being done by the Government and by the charitable society there known as the Kau Teoi Kung Sho, who have already sent vast quantities of rice to the starving people right up as far as Nanning. The Tung Wah Hospital in this Colony has already sent food to the value of $20,000 to the Kau Tsoi Kung Sho for distribution, while the proposal now is, if you vote the money which appears on the orders of the day, to make that the nucleus of a public subscription, and that subscription would be raised by a committee which I propose to appoint of all nationalities here in the Colony - Chinese, British, and other European and Americans.\n\nThen, in order to assist the Chinese Charitable Society and the Chinese Authorities themselves in the organisation for the distribution, I propose, with their concurrence, which they have already given, that Mr. Wood shall proceed to the Shiu Hing District and there assist in the organisation of the distribution of food, and subsequently in such other relief work as there may be funds for. The Tutuh has very kindly offered to place a gunboat at his disposal, which will be moored at Shiu Hing for Mr. Wood's accommodation, and Mr. Wood will act there in conjunction with a local official on the spot who already has a very good grip of the situation.\n\nI think that these arrangements will be practically under Government auspices, and Mr. Wood at Shiu Hing will be the agent of the Government and of the subscribers to the fund, and he will communicate with us from time to time of the progress made and as to the necessity of funds. I hope that these arrangements meet with your approval, and if they do I shall proceed, after the vote has been taken, to appoint a committee the names of which will be published in due course.\n\nI can only say I have not the slightest doubt that I echo the views of all the members of the Council and the community in general when I say that we deeply sympathise with the population in the district in the neighbouring province which has been visited by this terrible disaster.\n\nHon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak-I beg to second your Excellency's resolution.\n\nThe resolution, which was as under, was then read by his Excellency, put to the meeting, and carried unanimously:\n\nThat this Council on behalf of the community of Hongkong desires to express the deepest sympathy with the sufferers by the recent disastrous floods in the West River, and it is further resolved that a sum of $50,000 be disbursed from the General Revenue of the Colony for the relief of those who are in distress.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-There is no further business, gentlemen. Thank you for your attendance.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-412 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449546, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 228, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "Pathe works distracting. Accordingly regret that the programme may be modified\n\nto bring expenditure in line\n\nwith the estimated revenue or\n\nas may be.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n49394.\n\nA hearty\n\nPage 364\n\nComplaint\n\n6. I agree with the views which you\n\nexpress in the 77\" para 19.\n\ndesp\n\nThe scheme for the relaying\n\nof other ways\n\nis in my opinion\n\nsound and necessary\n\nand the estimates have been carefully examined.\n\nI have beguiled my appreciation\n\nof the\n\ncare and accuracy with\n\nwhich the estimates have been\n\nprepared.\n\n1914\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n-64\n\nText subsequent Paper.\n\nof\n\nREC2\n\nCont\n\nC.O\n\n49394\n\nREG | DEC14\n\nnusse l'altrason'\n\nnite\n\nagainst. D. Johnson / cmo.\n\n224\n\nmoderate treatment by him.\n\nas to inconsiderate\n\nremarks with remo; obvious.\n\nMr Obell My Coltua\n\nThe\n\nmaterial is scarcely sufficient.\n\nAt first sight it looks\n\nas if\n\nThis Parkinson\n\nspiteful because Johnson \"reported unfavourably\"\n\nBut he does\n\ninconsiderate about Monday\n\nbeing Kat it\n\nlooks\n\nto have\n\nbeen\n\nhe does not\n\nit is\n\nnot so\n\nher \"off\" day,\n\nexpect people to have nothing to see\n\nunreasonable\n\nto\n\ndeny\n\nTheir last\n\nday\n\nAlso\n\ndoes not\n\nwell\n\nbe taken\n\na first\n\npara. 5 of the complaint, which might\n\nthing. It might be interesting to see the local newspapers.\n\nthe\n\nWhole\n\n? Tell huse P. that her complaint is\n\nreceiving\n\nconsideration\n\nbut the S... S. would like some\n\nfurther evidence of the transaction in her para. 5.\n\nKB. 19/12/14\n\n(202,249). Wt.17,476-88, 20,000, 5/14. A.RE.W.\n\n542\n\nover", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461983, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 616, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "# No header found in the original text\n\n\n## Page 608\n\n\nThis is as much your work as ours.\n\nIf you recognize the pitiful condition of the Hindustanis in this country, please do what you can to help Mr. E. T. Jackson's mission.\n\nWe also see the need of an experienced and well-known worker or workers from India to come to Canada and address meetings in the mining towns, thus promoting a better feeling.\n\nA few Indian students of both sexes at Canadian Colleges who could come to Canada and will take to some field work, will help in making India understood in this country.\n\nWe realize that nothing but educational work can be done during the war, although if we had a strong organization and more experienced workers, the Government might be induced to allow the wives and families of Indians now resident in Canada, to enter. This surely could not be made a political question, but is a simple act of justice.\n\nRealizing our situation and knowing how hard it is at present to communicate by mail, we decided that we must send a representative to you to show you our needs and to plead for help, where we believe it is needed more than anywhere else in the Empire. The people of Canada are ignorant of the whole question and such a little well-directed work might win for India's cause a very generous and justice-loving people.\n\nSo we raised $2500.00. It was no easy matter although Toronto has raised millions this winter for the more popular patriotic purposes. We have all tried to sacrifice a good deal for this effort, one friend even giving jewelry and all her spare time in lieu of the money she lacked.\n\nWhen the mantle fell on our friend Mr. E. T. Jackson, he at once assented and has thrown up his position in the Royal Bank and his immediate future prospects here to carry out this arduous and noble mission.\n\nWe believe he will not appeal to you in vain after his mission is made known.\n\nHe was not selected because of his wide practical experience of the racial questions in Canada, but rather because he was the more fitted to go on such a trip both in an economic sense and that he seems to have the spirit whereby he will faithfully devote himself to the cause and effect that contact with you people that seems so vital to our work.\n\nIn conclusion, we trust he will be treated by you as Dr. Sunder Singh and other Indian friends are by us, as one of your own and we trust he will live up to the high trust we have imposed on him, so that much practical good may result from this contact between the East and the West, which we verily believe are one in spirit and will become one in body, when the present mist of ignorance and prejudice have cleared away and left our sight free to see the vision.\n\nYours truly,\nL. F. Davis.\nSunder Singh", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464562, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 122, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# JAPAN.\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n### [7243]\n\n#### No. 1.\nJanuary 12.\n\n## SECTION 2.\n120\n\n**Sir C. Greene to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received January 12, 1916.)**\n**(No. 392. Confidential.)**\n\nSir,\n\nTokyo, December 8, 1915.\n\nWITH reference to my immediately preceding despatch, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith a note by Mr. Hobart-Hampden on the impressions which he has derived from a constant study of the vernacular press in recent times. These impressions are interesting as showing how the trend of Japanese thought has gained in arrogance of late, and adopted a tone of \"overlordship\" in everything which concerns the Far East. Mr. Hampden draws attention to the inconsistency which marks Japan's iron rule over her own colonial subjects with the protection which she claims a right to exercise over her neighbours in China, if not, indeed, as far afield as India. He deals, further, with the selfish attitude of the press in regard to British interests in China, and with the spiteful comments of the papers on the conduct of the great war in which Great Britain is engaged, and adds that references to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance have now quite lost the enthusiastic ring of a decade ago. \"In a word,\" Mr. Hampden remarks, \"the touchstone of Japanese feeling, as exhibited in the daily papers, is self-interest combined with over-developed national ambition.\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\nCONYNGHAM GREENE.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1\n\n**Memorandum respecting the Tone of the Japanese Press.**\n\n44\n\nTHE Japanese press, never cosmopolitan in its views, has of late adopted an increasingly parochial outlook. Japan's \"parish,\" however, is an expanding domain, and now includes the whole Extreme Orient. Her so-called \"special\" interests in Manchuria have by a stroke of the journalistic pen been broadened into special interests in China; and since Count Okuma last September described his country as mistress of the Far East, or \"Lord of the Orient,\" as Japanese prefer to render it, that phrase has already been talked into an article of faith with journalists and politicians, and has become nearly as much a commonplace of the daily press as the Japanese assumption of responsibility for the permanent peace of the Far East,\" which has been the apology for so many wars, and is now an excuse for suffering German intrigues in China.\n\nJapan has now constituted herself not only protector of the Chinese (to their dismay), but, judging by recent paragraphs, of the Indians also. In her own Empire revolutionary ideas, or \"dangerous thoughts,\" as they are termed, are suppressed with an iron hand, as was seen when the mere embryo of anarchy was crushed in 1910. Her colonial subjects—Ainus, Formosans, and Koreans—are ruled with German discipline. Her own practice does not explain her championship of oppressed Asiatics. The explanation of the discrepancy is that her sympathy hypocritically covers a political aim, and the present war has opened a freer field for the development of the Japanese hegemony, which the press by reiteration is trying to preach into a fait accompli while European activities are still diverted by the war from this quarter of the globe.\n\nThe habit of looking at everything through Japanese spectacles has always, but particularly of late, betrayed the press into shortsighted and egotistical judgments. A British interest found in competition, however legitimate, with a Japanese interest is apt to be condemned as criminally antagonistic. In Chinese affairs, therefore, the press is fiercely critical towards Great Britain. Too often it brings to the consideration of a proposal the query what does Japan get out of it, and she expects to get all and give nothing. This was seen during the treaty negotiations in 1911, and reappeared... \n\n[2534 m-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465115, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 675, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "| STO | vilplas | ان او اليد | آمدام الرحمان شا اللفه | 08410 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| LOTOC | + | Obstruction is applied to the utmost in the matter of mining, for example. Arrived at Hongkong to find Japanese obliged to notify their addresses in each instance; correspondence is opened and in extreme cases confiscated. Correspondence for Canton even is opened from time to time. In the case of drafts, for example, recipients of large remittances are questioned as to their employment of the money. Passengers' luggage is searched. Telegrams for Japan are apt to be delayed, if not detained. This is really treatment like that of enemies and it is a truly pitiful state of things when considered as conduct towards an Allied state. | 4 | 673 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502736, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 428, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "Having landed our baggage on the river bank, the men from the \"PAMPANGA\" assisted us in moving it to a Customs boat, and it was towed to the side of the gunboat. Without this assistance we could not have taken anything away.\n\nThe seal of the American Navy was placed on the doors of the property, and all foreigners evacuated the Compound and Hospital at eleven thirty a.m. April 3rd, 1926. We left immediately for Canton under the protection of the American Navy aboard the hospital motorboat \"ROANOKE\".\n\nThe property is at the mercy of the strikers, but the Wuchow police department have promised to give protection. We paid the Police Department $300.00 H.K. dollars for salary and equipment for ten policemen, and will arrange to forward further salaries as agreed.\n\nThe pitiful part of the situation, as we see it now, is that the radicals in China under the influence of bolshevistic propaganda are demanding less Consular and Naval protection for foreigners residing in China, they offer no help through the officials to the foreigners in times of danger and opposition, and it is yet to be demonstrated that they have the ability to maintain law and order among their own nationals. We fear that our experiences during these trying days calls for better protection of the lives of the foreigners and foreign property and a fuller enforcement of existing treaties.\n\nDated 5 April, 1926, at Canton, China.\n\n(Sd.) CHO. W. LEAVELL, Superintendent Stout Memorial Hospital.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519014, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-516-5 Policy of Hong Kong government on the purchase and supply of opium 25-2-1929 - 10-5-1929", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-516-5 Policy of Hong Kong government on the purchase and supply of opium 25-2-1929 - 10-5-1929", "content_text": "## BRITISH BULLETIN, No. 38.\n\nAre the nations anxiously waiting to see the international peril of these destructive drugs dealt with at Geneva, without the constant bickerings and obstructive tactics which have marked the proceedings since the Conferences at the close of 1924, and the beginning of 1925?\n\nWe do not ignore the valuable work done by the Committee in reporting so fully on the illicit traffic. Sir Malcolm Delevigne deserves unlimited praise for the elaborate exposure of the traffic in drugs in startling quantities to many parts of the world by secret agencies. Neither Persia nor Turkey furnish to the League any report of their production of opium, while distributing more than two million pounds annually. Soviet Russia is also an offender, but neither Russia nor Turkey is even a member of the League. It has to be remembered, too, that one-half of the States which are members of the League, including six which are represented on its Council, have neglected, up to the present, to ratify the Geneva Convention of 1925. All this is a grave hindrance to the League's control of the traffic, and especially of the secret illicit portion of it.\n\nSir Malcolm made the following proposals: An enquiry by the new Control Board into each case where suspiciously large quantities of drugs are being handled; thus tracing to their sources of illicit consignments; the withdrawal of licences from all culprits; the exaction of severe penalties for those engaged in illicit trade; the watching, and, where necessary, punishment, of transport and forwarding agencies taking part in illicit traffic; and rigid observation of new factories for the preparation of heroin.\n\nHe urged also that steps should be taken to bring home to the various Governments the gravity of the present situation. He declared that many Governments had not yet awakened to the necessity of suppressing the trade in narcotics. Licences should be withdrawn from all factories found to be associated with the illicit traffic. He said that an English morphine factory which had been found supplying the illicit trade had not only had its licence withdrawn, but had also been pilloried. He could not see why certain firms in other countries, whose names had been freely mentioned during the present enquiry, should not be similarly treated. Their names ought to appear in the report of the Committee.\n\nThese admirable proposals, we presume, commended themselves to the members of the Advisory Committee. Therefore, we should like to know why, when mention was made of the offenders, an endeavour was made to hush the matter up. Why did the delegates of four countries demand that the names should not be published to the world? And why should it have been left to the Journal de Genève to give us the names and details of the misdeeds of the offenders?\n\nWe referred to the very lengthy statement of Mr. Wang King-Ky, the Chinese Minister at Brussels, and the first delegate to Geneva of the Nationalist Government of China. There was so much that was valuable in it that it was a great pity it contained a variety of political allusions which marred it to such a degree that it was impossible for the Committee to place it on their minutes. When an attempt was made to persuade the writer to withdraw the political reflections, he declined. It was an unfortunate conclusion to a statement otherwise worthy of respectful consideration.\n\nBriefly, the Chinese delegate insisted on five points which, in discussion, would probably have been treated with the courtesy they demanded.\n\n1. That the League should declare itself for the immediate and absolute prohibition of opium smoking in the Far East—not only in China, but elsewhere.\n2. The abolition of consular jurisdiction, and the cessation of protection by foreign consuls of their nationals who trade illicitly in drugs.\n3. Collaboration of other nationalities with the Chinese police for the suppression of the illicit trade.\n4. The general limitation of narcotic drug manufacture.\n5. The extension of the task of the League's Commission of Enquiry in the Far East, as proposed at the instance of the British Government, to all opium producing and drug-manufacturing countries.\n\nIt may be necessary to mark the point in No. 5. The proposed Commission of Enquiry was to be sent to the East only; whereas China maintains, with some show of reason, that it is just as important for the enquiry to be pursued in the West, seeing that her people are grievously afflicted by the narcotic drugs poured in upon her from the West. Mr. Wang King-Ky claims that the drug-manufacturing and distributing countries should be brought under review by the Commission.\n\nThere we leave our brief attempt to sum up the leading points in the January meeting of the Advisory Committee. It is not altogether cheerful reading, but some progress has been made, especially in the question of dealing with the illicit traffic.\n\n### The Naarden Factory Scandal.\n\nWhat that illicit traffic is was reported on in many ways in the minutes of the Advisory Committee, but we have space only for the most conspicuous instance. The President described it as the most important document of the kind ever put before the Committee. The disclosure as made by Sir Malcolm Delevigne of the doings of the Naarden Factory, at Bussum, near Amsterdam, involved Holland, Switzerland, and Austria. Holland received large quantities of morphine, heroin, and cocaine from Switzerland, and through agents at Vienna distributed them in the Far East. These illicit operations amounted to 35,600 ounces of morphine, 113,000 of heroin, and 3,350 of cocaine, of which the greater part of the morphine and heroin, and half the cocaine, were consigned to China. The Japanese delegate calculated that the medicinal needs of the whole of China would be only a fraction of the morphine and heroin so consigned. The Swiss delegate agreed that his Government had been imprudent, but had regarded the Dutch firm as one to be relied upon.\n\nIt is satisfactory to know that the Naarden factory will no longer be permitted to operate in this way, nor to make and handle dangerous drugs; and the agents at Vienna have been arrested. It was a curious fact, however, that the Naarden factory was declared not to have broken the law, but was only now to be compelled to refrain from this kind of business by the adoption both by Switzerland and Holland of the system of export and import certificates.\n\nWe will just add that, in the course of the statement of this case, it was said that there is a close relation between this illicit traffic and the \"White slave traffic,\" cocaine being one of the means used systematically to demoralize and secure the victims of prostitution. An instance was given of the ingenuity of smugglers—a cripple in Naples being arrested for having his crutches stuffed with cocaine. The Italian delegate further mentioned that pharmaceutical chemists were found participating in the illicit trade. One of them was discovered to be purchasing cocaine at about £6 10s. per kilogramme, and selling it in large quantities at about £24 5s per kilogramme.\n\n### League Inquiry Commission.\n\nIn our October issue, we described at length the proposal to send a Commission of Enquiry to the Far East to obtain information by close personal touch with the conditions that prevail. It was thought that such Enquiry would assist the work of the Central Board, and prepare the way for the new Conference which had been foreshadowed by the Convention of February, 1925, and which is to be held in 1930, instead of 1931, as at first intended. Several countries gave their support to the proposal, but when the question of expenses was discussed, the difference of opinion became accentuated. Thirteen delegates only (of whom six are within the British Commonwealth) voted that the Inquiry should proceed; China voted against it, because it was not proposed to include the examination of the drug-producing countries of the West; and seventeen abstained from voting, including such countries as France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and nine other European States.\n\nThe difficulty of financing the Enquiry has now been overcome. All Governments concerned have replied, with the result that financial obstacles have disappeared. Great Britain, France, Holland, Japan, and Siam have all offered hospitality to the Commission. Japan has made a specially gracious offer of help. Great Britain is to pay £2,960, Holland £1,400, France £1,240, and Siam £400. With the sum offered by the League Assembly, the contribution may now be regarded as sufficient. America promises special facilities in the Philippines, but has not been asked for a contribution or for hospitality. The president of the Enquiry Commission is M. Ekstrand, the Minister of Sweden in the Argentine. A Belgian expert in economics and finance, and a Czecho-Slovakian diplomat with Far Eastern experience have joined the Commission, which will leave Europe in September. The Enquiry is expected to occupy nine months, and will then submit its report to the Council of the League.\n\nThis is all to the good. It keeps things moving. And the Commission's work will continue to awaken interest, and may do something to restrict the illicit traffic.\n\n### The Central Board.\n\nThe permanent Board of Control has at last been appointed. The Council of the League in its session at Lugano on December 14th selected eight names, as follows:\n| Name | Country |\n| --- | --- |\n| Dr. O. Anselmino | Germany |\n| M. C. S. S. Borin | France |\n| Prof. Guiseppi Gallavresi | Italy |\n| Mr. L. A. Lyall | Britain |\n| Mr. H. S. May | New Zealand |\n| M. M. Miyajima | Japan |\n| Sir B. K. Mullick | India |\n| M. Henrik Ramsay | Finland |\n\nA session of this Board was held in January, and is to meet in this current month to report on the lines of work it proposes to follow. It will present its statement to the Council in June. The most hopeful aspect of the whole matter seems to us to be that Mr. Lyall is chairman of the Board.\n\n### Hong-Kong.\n\nWe have often called attention to it in recent years. Sometimes things looked bright, but soon they became overshadowed once more. On January 19th, a report was given to the Advisory Committee on \"the alarming situation at Hong-Kong, where the quantity of opium consumed is from five to ten times greater than the quantity authorised for sale by the Government. It was added that it would be the duty of the Commission of Enquiry to find a remedy—which we hope they may do. Of course, the simplest way would be to cut off the tail of the snake just behind the ears; in other words, to prohibit opium smoking in the Colony, as the National Government of China proposes to do throughout the length and breadth of the land. In that case, the illicit traffickers will find their market gone.\n\nThe report to the Committee was in these words: **The Hong-Kong Government states in its annual report that, in order to cope with the enormous quantities of opium that are smuggled into the country, it tried the experiment of placing on the market a cheap Government brand manufactured out of confiscated opium in its possession. This experiment, the object of which was to drive the smuggler out of the market, had the temporary effect of increasing considerably the sales of Government opium. The experiment had to be discontinued when the supply of confiscated opium was exhausted.**\n\nIs it not curious that trade in narcotics has a deteriorating effect on the common-sense of officials and statesmen, as the use of them has on the morals of addicts? It is pitiful to see a council, composed of British subjects (some of them Chinamen), wasting...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-5 Policy of Hong Kong government on the purchase and supply of opium 25-2-1929 - 10-5-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523835, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930", "content_text": "January 17, 1930\n\nGAINS AND LOSSES ON THE DOLLAR.\n\nFORTUNATE GAMBLERS IN EXCHANGE.\n\nHOW THE LOW DOLLAR WILL AFFECT THE HOUSEWIFE.\n\nGAMBLING IN EXCHANGE.\n\nWhile we hear many loud lamentations over the falling value of the dollar, and while exasperated victims have been busy trying to find remedies for real or imaginary weaknesses in the currency of Hong Kong and China there is a small section of the Chinese community who are enjoying a quiet laugh at the wails and moans to be heard on all sides. These people practically live on the doorsteps of the local banks, and not a day passes without they enter contract or other, either directly with the banks, or through representatives of those institutions, for the banks cannot recognise all and sundry.\n\nThese men follow the slightest change in quotations with the greatest interest, for they are gamblers all—in the business interpretation of the term.\n\n\"Are you worrying about the exchange also!\" was the query put to a merchant.\n\n\"I should say I am. I am just waiting for the bank manager to give me a rate. Who will send anything to Hong Kong at our prices?\" was the reply.\n\nAn Unquoted Rise. Passing on to another bank our representative met a Chinese well versed in exchange matters, and not a little interested in the fluctuation of the Hong Kong dollar.\n\n\"Have you heard?\" he asked, on sighting the Daily Press man, \"Exchange has gone up half a farthing, but the banks are not quoting it?\"\n\n\"No, I haven't heard,\" the writer replied, \"but why do you think the banks are not quoting it?\"\n\n\"A further drop is anticipated, my friend, that is why!\" was the cryptic answer he gave as he passed on.\n\nHighest\nLowest\nHighest\nLowest\n\n1887\n474\n1884\n3/93\n28\n\n1888\n431\n1885\n8/7\n3/33\n\n1889\n442\n418\n1886\n3/43\n2/11\n\n1890\n548\n41.15.16\n438\n1887\n3/41\n3/01\n\n1891\n483\n43\n1888\n3/1\n2/113\n\n1892\n432\n37%\n1889\n3/23\n2/114\n\n1893\n38.13-16\n30}\n1890\n3/102\n3/01\n\n1894\n31%\n27\n1891\n3/5\n3/08\n\n1895\n31.5-16\n27.3-16\n1892\n3/0\n2/82\n\n1896\n31.9-16\n292\n1893\n2/87\n2/2/\n\n1897\n29.13-16\n23@\n1894\n2/3\n1/11/\n\n1898\n98%\n25\n1895\n2/23\n1/11\n\n1899\n99\n265\n1896\n2/23\n2/1\n\n1900\n301\n27\n1897\n2/12\n1/92\n\n1901\n29.9-16\n25\n1898\n1/113\n1/93\n\n1902\n26\n21.11-16\n1899\n1/11\n1/10\n\n1903\n28\n\n1900\n2/1\n1/11\n\n1904\n28.9-16\n\n1901\n2/1\n\n1905\n30.5-10\n21.11-16\n1902\n\n1906\n331\n\n1903\n1/94\n1/108\n\n1907\n32.7-16\n\n1904\n1/61\n1/10.11-16\n\n1908\n\n1905\n2/11\n\n1909\n243\n\n1906\n1/64\n1/11.9-16\n\n1910\n261\n\n1907\n1/8\n\n1911\n261\n\n1908\n\n1912\n29.11-16\n\n1909\n1/92\n1/81\n\n1913\n293\n29\n1910\n1/10\n\n1914\n271\n221\n1911\n1/10\n\n1915\n271\n22.5-16\n1912\n2/1.1-16\n\n1916\n37\n261\n1913\n2/0.15-16\n1/11\n\n1917\n55\n35.11-16\n1914\n1/11\n1/81\n\n1918\n493\n42!\n1915\n1/11\n1/9\n\n1919\n79%\n47.7-16\n1916\n2/41\n\n1920\n89,\n381\n1917\n3/20\n2/3\n\n1921\n433\n303\n1918\n3/8\n2/11/\n\n1922\n37\n30\n1919\n5/2\n3/02\n\n1923\n33.11-16\n303\n1920\n6/2\n2/11\n\n1924\n\n1921\n3/12\n2/2\n\n1925\n\n1922\n2/7$\n2/23\n\n1926\n\n1923\n2/4/\n2/21\n\n1927\n\n1924\n2/51\n2/23\n\n1928\n\n1925\n2/51\n2/27\n\n1929\n26.7-10\n21.5-16\n1926\n2/43\n1/98\n\n1927\n2/03\n1/113\n\n1928\n2/1\n1/113\n\n1929\n2/01\n1/7!\n\n1/9.13-16\n\nA Very Happy New Year. A good many of these people are looking forward to a very happy Chinese New Year through a stroke of fortune or through their close association with the banks and intensive study of daily quotations, they figured on a drop in the Hong Kong dollar, and entered into commitments with this end in view.\n\nWhether they foresaw the present abnormally low rate is open to question, but it was learned on good authority yesterday that profit amounting to three, five and seven lakhs has been made by different number of speculators, while others have \"small\" profits of from $50,000 to $100,000 to show.\n\nThere were a few speculators who did not believe in the continued fall in the Hong Kong dollar, and these have been caught, but not too badly, as the bulk of the profits, so it is reported, have been made out of the banks.\n\nWhen the dollar on Thursday touched the lowest record to date, a pitiful scene was witnessed outside one of the local banks.\n\nMR. AND MRS. MAN-IN-THE-STREET.\n\nLOOK AT THE FALLEN DOLLAR.\n\nCOST OF LIVING AND FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES.\n\nWhile bank managers and professional, or amateur financiers, are discussing the silver basis, China's currency and the bank rate, Mr. and Mrs. Man-in-the-Street are asking themselves what the fall in the value of the dollar is going to mean to them. And they generally discuss the problem with long faces.\n\nThe cost of living will quite inevitably go up, though probably not to any appreciable extent until March. Six weeks from now, if the dollar still stands at 1/6, the cost of living will have increased by from 25 to 30 per cent.\n\n\"The evil-minded grocer will not be to blame. He will have to pay for his goods in sterling, and pay more dollars for his sterling than he did six months ago. If he is to continue in business he must increase his prices. The same applies to every form of retail trade.\n\nAt one of the banks an Indian merchant was seen in long conference with one of the officials.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nIt looks Not So Gloomy.\n\nAn Optimistic Note. A discussion of the situation with the leading retail merchants the Colony revealed some interesting facts.\n\nTheir general outlook not nearly so black as that of the man in the street and his wife. While realising that their standards will be adjusted to meet our incomes. There will be less indulgence in luxury certainly for a month or two, possible for longer, but probably little actual want.\n\n\"At first people stopped buying anything but necessities, but after a time they will accept the new prices as normal,\" a representative was told.\n\nThe retailers anticipate doing on the whole a smaller volume of trade during the coming year, but they do not seem to anticipate suffering very heavy consequences.\n\nSome are considering the policy of buying only enough stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock.\n\nHOW THE COLONY WILL GAIN.\n\nAN OPTIMIST'S VIEW.\n\nAmid general depression about the dollar, especially among those of us who live on \"fixed\" salaries it is, perhaps, good to have a little optimism, such as that conveyed by a well-known authority to a Daily Press representative yesterday.\n\nwas\n\nIn answer to the interviewer our authority agreed that with the depreciation of the dollar it naturally prophesied by several leading business magnates and newspapers that 1930 in Hong Kong would be a gloomy year.\n\n\"We always find \"destructive critics the world over,'\n\n\"but when constructive ones are wanted, they are rarely found. Coming down to hard facts\n\nInfluence of \"Jack Frost.\" But there are compensatory factors for the retailer. The cold spell for one.\n\nIn one of the most important European shops dealing in Oriental curios and objets d'art, our representative was told that while there had been less than the usual demand for jewellery and expensive wall pictures, there had been unusually good sales of Pekin and Tientsin carpets.\n\nOther merchants are experiencing good sales of woollen garments, coats, scarves and travelling rugs. Then there is what might be termed to borrow a war-time phrase the food-hoarding instinct.\n\nThe January sales should prove even more popular than usual this year.\n\nNo Increase In Prices! Mr. H. Overy, of Messrs. Wm. Powell, the well-known firm men's tailors and outfitters, viewed the situation with confidence and even optimism.\n\n\"We shall not put \"We buy our prices up,\" he said. only twice a year, in September and March. Our September goods were bought at the rate of 1/11d., and our customers will have full benefit. If the dollar does not rise-which I think it will-of course our March buyings must be affected.\n\nWe have no intention of buying goods in any but our usual British market and the price of small haberdashery articles will in any case remain what it is at present. There is no direction in which the fall of the dollar helps us.\n\nTrade Prospects.\n\n\"As I have already mentioned, men must live, therefore there will always be a demand for goods. The sudden drop of the dollar naturally sets the heads of business-houses thinking and waiting until matters improved before taking further orders.\n\nThus temporarily their business is at a standstill and, what is more a man is apt to cry out louder when in pain than from pleasure and so it is here.\n\nNow if the intrinsic value of the dollar is low, foreign investors and financiers will invest in the Colony, because they will get more dollars as the equivalent of their own currency.\n\nOne can always get 8 or 10 per cent. even more on investments locally,- shares, property mortgages, etc.\n\nWith the money market easy naturally the prices of the various investments will increase by leaps and bounds.\n\nTherefore, I can see a very bright silver lining to the clouds in the near future.\n\nA colony with a stable and well-established government like ours, where every- one has a pretty fair deal-a shelter for political refugees from neigh- bouring places, a harbour of world- renowned fame, where millions come and go, of all colours, races, and religions a Mecca of trade with hundreds of princely merchantmen constantly coming and going—such a Colony can never languish.\n\nThe sun never sets on the British Em- pire; where the British flag flies one rarely find her sons with cold feet- so let there be none among us!\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nTHE FALL OF THE DOLLAR.\n\nTo the EDITOR HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.\n\nSIR,-I should not have thought it possible that so many editorial and interviews with comments could authorities \"anonymous have exhibited such a complete lack of comprehension of fundamental facts as has come to light on this subject.\n\nOne authority, who granted a long interview, implied that if the Hong Kong dollar had been fixed at about 2-, we should, by our geographical position, have had a sentimental effect on Shanghai and prevented the drop in silver!\n\nIt is hardly necessary to dwell upon the absurdity of such a view.\n\nMost of the commentators obsessed with the idea that if it were not for some imaginary conspiracy, we in Hong Kong would really be basking in prosperity, with a 2/- dollar, and surveying with aloofness the fate of China's silver currency.\n\nTheir arguments and comments overlook the fact that this Colony has always been on a silver basis.\n\nOur Hong Kong dollar is a silver dollar and our bank-notes promise to pay the bearer on demand the amount expressed in silver dollars.\n\n...\n\nPage 108\n\nTHE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS &\n\n...\n\nPage 109", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526430, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931", "content_text": "It is a common practice among writers and speakers on educational subjects to depreciate examinations. But there is at present nothing to take their place and they are likely to form part of educational machinery for some time to come. Nor do I think there is anything intrinsically vicious about them but they are liable to abuse. The results of the examinations among the private unaided schools reveal a serious misuse of the Local Examinations and especially of the Junior Local.\n\nIt will be seen that ten of these schools have secured 21 passes out of 151 candidates who sat for the examinations. But though this represents a pitiful waste of energy, I am not so concerned about the high percentage of failures as about the low numbers entering from individual schools. The selection of a few candidates who are optimistically supposed to have a chance of passing is contrary to the object of the examinations, which are only of value if every boy or girl from the appropriate class is entered for them.\n\n## (ii)\nEvery year all the boys in Class 4 at Queen's College, King's College and the Government \"District Schools\", viz. Ellis Kadoorie School, Yaumati School, Wantsai School and the Indian School, sit for an examination conducted jointly by the head masters of these institutions, and boys from this class in these schools do not gain admission to the three senior classes of Queen's College and King's College by any other means.\n\nThis year, of 324 Class 4 boys, 274 or 80% passed. Four schools were above the average and two below.\n\nThis examination has been found very useful. A constant standard is attained and the senior classes are not flooded with entrants who have procured promotion by examinations of varying quality. It may be found advisable to throw this examination open so that boys attending schools which do not maintain secondary departments or schools which endeavour to do so with inadequate staffs may have an opportunity of continuing their education.\n\n## (iii)\nFrom time to time, as application is made, examinations of the University of London are held at the Education Office.\n\nIn 1929 there were two Matriculation examinations, one in January and one in June.\n\nThese examinations do not form any part of the educational system of the Colony but are arranged for the convenience of the public.\n\n## (iv)\nTwo examinations of the Royal Sanitary Institute were held during the year.\n\n## (v)\nOne teacher sat for the Teachers' Certificate examination of the National Froebel Union.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553974, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937", "content_text": "## agree \n\n17 \n\nHis suggestion that Sir V. Grayburn has taken the chance of a personal spiteful and irresponsible attack on him because the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank has been offended by Professor Forster withdrawing his bank balance from that institution is a deplorable one, and his expressed desire to hide away from any Parliamentary fireworks which his letter to Mr. Ammon may successfully provoke is not attractive.\n\nThis however only means that Professor Forster's own attitude and objections should not at this stage carry any particular weight here.\n\nIt would have been better if the report had not been published locally: however that cannot be mended now, and the clear course of the S. of S. (which the Governor is very likely to recommend in the light of the local Committee's report) is to contemplate an investigation of the University, its management, and its raison d'être by a recognised authority on University institutions.\n\nIt would be advisable if the O.A.G. were to recommend it, and I think it would be as well for the S. of S. in a personal tel. to Mr. N. Smith (who is in a rather invidious position as Chairman of the local Committee and now O.A.G. until next November) to encourage him to advise the S. of S. in this sense, and if the O.A.G. agrees, the S. of S. should add that it would be a good thing if the University authorities should be told as soon as possible that the O.A.G. was making a recommendation in this sense.\n\nApart", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 574651, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941", "content_text": "## \n\n104 \n\nThe extent of it, remunerative, was brought to my notice; but I declined to extend the sphere of my responsibility to the extent of protection of incoming passengers from the indirect consequences of their own failure to comply with the law.\n\nAnother consequence of the vicious deposit system was to bring to light the pitiful inadequacy of the imprest account of $2,000 with which I was furnished at the outset. The subsequent history of this imprest is revealed in the following minutes from `C30.` files.\n\nI have made a precis of the minutes only, sir.\n\nOn 16.11.40 I minuted to Financial Secretary in `C80.2861/40` asking for an imprest of $2,000; the warrant was signed on 19.11.40. On 22.1.41 - seven days after the enforcement of the immigration restrictions - the Accountant-General applied on my behalf for a further imprest of $10,000; this warrant was signed the same day (`C30.161/40`).\n\nOn 9.2.41 I wrote very urgently and strongly to Colonial Secretary stating that the $22,000 then available was utterly insufficient, and asking that it be increased to $40,000 for as long as the deposit system existed; a minute of the Accountant-General of 14.2.41 explains the discrepancy in the figures; apparently satisfied with my explanation that $10,000 was insufficient, he had on his own responsibility arranged for its increase to $22,000. He agrees in that minute that the $40,000 asked for is not excessive. There follows a minute by Financial Secretary in which is contained the only reference to the immigration fund as recommended by Mr. Middlebrook which I have been able to trace; the reference is concise and uninformative. It reads: \"A self-balancing fund is out of the question\".\n\nThere was approval for an increase of my imprest to $40,000 on 17.2.41 (Again in `C80.161/40`). \n\nThe imprest was at length increased to a figure commensurate with the demands; but not before much inconvenience had been caused to the public and much needless anxiety to myself and my staff, as when cheques drawn by me in favour of the General Agent and of the money-changer above-mentioned, who had come to my assistance with cash when the crowd at my office became restive on account of the delay, had been dishonoured. The comment of the Financial", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575407, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "# 48\nChungking, \n25th May, 1942.\n\nBrief report of the impressions gained in regard to the conditions prevailing in Hongkong during the three months following its fall on December 25, 1941.\n\nOn Hongkong surrendered at about 3 p.m. on December 25, 1941. January 1st, I was in town for the first time after the fall of Hongkong and walked from Causeway Bay to the Queen Mary Hospital. Queen's road from the market near Happy Valley to as far as the University was a mass of moving people; the crowds were so thick in some places that one could hardly make any headway. The town, especially the part that saw actual fighting from the East to Wanchai and Wanchai area itself, were in a pitiful state. Tramway wires were loose, streets were full of refuse, and buildings were badly damaged. All the shops were closed. Foodstuffs were sold in hawkers' style on the streets - a good part of them apparently looted from some shops.\n\nThe majority of foreigners lived in the central district, making use of the offices and hotels for their quarters; nobody was able to return home. Hongkong and especially Kowloon were at the mercy of Chinese looters during the disorder immediately following the withdrawal from Kowloon and then the surrender of the island. Organized bands were raiding numerous residences, especially if the owners were away doing war work, etc., and carried away everything they could lay their hands on - personal effects, furniture, and even fixtures. The Army, Navy, and the Volunteers were interned, but the civilians and the police were free at that time. Everybody looked gloomy. Main topics of conversation were \"Have you heard anything about so and so\" and \"How much money have you left and for how long do you think you will be able to feed yourself - and what then\".\n\nI have been to the Red Cross. All \"enemy nationals\" i.e., British, Americans, Dutch, etc., were rounded up on January 3rd and 4th and interned in various Chinese hotels on Des Voeux and Queen's roads. An armband gave me admission to one of these hotels to visit some of my friends. This was one of the smaller hotels about 200 yards along Queen's road, west of the King's theatre. It was guarded by an Indian policeman and run by Chinese. It was badly congested; there were about 7-8 men and women in each small room. Sanitary conditions were bad. Those who had money could buy some foodstuffs through the guards for a certain charge; food was poor, mostly rice and vegetables. Roughly a fortnight later, all the civilians were taken to Stanley; transportation was mostly by junks.\n\nFor the first two and a half months, Hongkong and Kowloon were apparently governed by the Army (all the official Civil Affairs orders were signed by the army authorities). The Government department...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575738, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "## Black Market\n\nI could only get one or two of the lesser important ones, so on the 19th of March, I went over to the Peninsula Hotel and saw Mr. Oda. It was all very difficult and he was very inaccessible; I had to see I don't know how many people before I saw him, but I finally did see him, and he kept me for one hour discussing matters.\n\nHe wanted to know what I suggested to be done and I asked for the following points: 1. That I be given sufficient money to meet all requirements for the next month or two; 2. that Dr. Janaval, at Stanley, who had attended my husband the previous summer in consultation, be called in to advise Dr. Du. Mr. Oda inquired whether there was living accommodation at St. Stephen's and said that he would have Dr. Janaval brought there to live and look after my husband, and that he would let me know about the money. A third point which I raised, sending out letters to England, he said would have to wait a bit.\n\nThe following day Mr. Oda telephoned to say that I was to call at the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, where Mr. Matsushima would give me an additional 1,000, a loan from the Japanese Government. He wanted to know whether Dr. Janaval had arrived yet and seemed surprised that he hadn't.\n\n**Page 89**\n\nOn Monday the 23rd of March Dr. Janaval arrived and remained at the hospital a week. He saw at once that my husband's condition was hopeless, although he did not tell me so. He obtained permission from the Japanese at once to go to the French Bank where he had a lot of medicines stored away, and brought back a number of injections which would be useful for my husband. He reported to Mr. Oda that he found Mr. Martin in a precarious condition, due to long continued neglect, lack of suitable food and medicines over a long period of many weeks. He would do everything possible for him, and hoped that it was not too late. I have a copy of his letter with me. He returned to Stanley after a week, and was again sent for a few days later. On his first visit Mr. Oda had him kept at the Bureau of Foreign Affairs until he could come over from Kowloon to see him, and asked him to do everything possible for my husband, and also sent one of the Japanese officials from the Bureau of Foreign Affairs to give my husband his best wishes for recovery and to inquire whether there was anything to be done for him aside from what was being done already. He was most scrupulously polite and correct in every detail, and showed my husband every courtesy. The end came quickly and quietly for my husband. He died on last Monday, at 1.45 a.m. in the last stages of Secondary Anaemia. I doubt if he weighed 100 pounds. It was one of the most pitiful things that can be imagined. He always thought he would get better; he never complained, he never asked for anything. I have never known such courage. Fortunately he never had any real pain, only a great malaise due to extreme debility in the last stages of his illness. The kindness we always received from everyone at St. Stephen's helped to make his last days peaceful.\n\n**Page 4**\n\nDr. Janaval told me that with favourable conditions he might have lived for years, ten years, no one could tell. If the tumour had been removed he would have recovered his health; Professor Digby told me this, as also Mr. Dean-Smith, and Dr. Janaval. Whether the tumour could have been taken out remains in doubt; only an expert can tell. Certainly Dr. Loucks gave no warning, which was not heeded. He diagnosed the case correctly and gave us the right advice. I only wish we had followed it; we would at least have had a fighting chance for my husband's life.\n\nMy husband was buried at the Cemetery at Happy Valley. Mr. Oda sent a personal representative, Mr. ?, to call that morning to attend to all affairs, send telegrams, give sanction for all funeral arrangements and later sent Mr. Cheng to the funeral, and a very imposing floral decoration in the name of the members of the Foreign section of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs.\n\nDr. Janaval had told me two days before my husband's death that it was hopeless, and that I was to be sent to Stanley. I turned\n\n**Page 90** \n**Page 91**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "FOT Hospital, has a whole wing there with his wife and little daughter with good food and servants, and every 2nd day he has two people brought in from Stanley ostensibly for X-ray, and gives them a happy two days. Their gratitude and appreciation is pitiful, and it does also keep up contact with Stanley prison, because these people take verbal messages back every two days, and keep people at Stanley in touch with the outside world. His friends consider him a walking Saint and Martyr. Certainly he has had a lot to endure, but he keeps on.\n\nFor the ordinary person, not involved in the ties and dislikes of Hong Kong, it is hard to know what to think about him. Opinions are equally strong on both sides.\n\nOne time before we left Hong Kong a friend, a 3rd National, had gone up the Peak to see if there was anything unlooted in their house; which might be of use, in particular, summer clothes. She told me that the Peak was finished. There was not a house there that hadn't got the windows open, shutters hanging by one hinge, front door open, very often the floors up and staircases out. Her description of the once lovely houses of Hong Kong was pitiful and utterly depressing. Certainly I found Garden Road and Stanley Street, with the loot from those same houses, utterly depressing also, the breaking up of an empire? One hoped not.\n\nThe typhoons of July and August will finish those houses, the wind will take off every roof: There will be nothing left of them in six months time. And the few bits and pieces which Madame Tyrtoff was able to retrieve were utterly useless, a mass of mould. The rehabilitation of Hong Kong will take a tremendous lot of cement and brick and wood, and all the interior furnishings of a house. There is nothing left now, and no motor cars, nor refrigerators, nor electric stoves, nor grand pianos. There will be plenty of sale for those things when Hong Kong is rebuilt.\n\nthis out over here on mail\n\nOur trip over the hills to Repulse Bay and on to Stanley bore them carefully. Just as well I did have this to think about, because I was leaving Hong Kong, and my husband and all the happy life we had had together in China. And to bring this home to me furiously, Dr. Henry was sitting opposite me in the very crowded bus. The hat he was wearing was a very good quality felt, of a light gray colour, pulled down in a slouch over his eyes. I looked at it again and again; even turning down the brim could not ruin the style of that Herbert Johnson hat, which had been my husband's. I had given it away to one vans, with other of his clothes that could not take with me and Dr. Henry was enjoying it now.\n\nSeeing that hat made I feel as though I could have died, especially when we passed the Cemetery at Happy Valley. There have been many times during the past months when I would have gladly died to escape the heartache, the mood that descended like fog and drove me to the seventh Hell or black depression. But it was no use feeling like that, it was no use feeling at all. Feelings had to be numbed and deadened in these days, and my stories of the good times Master and I had had in China were safe in the Cold, Bang. So I sat and looked at the ruined houses, on the Repulse Bay Road, and thought of how Mr. Capton hoped that his roof wouldn't blow off. And how I know that it would and must, but that he wouldn't know that for a good long time. Which was just as well for him, poor man,\n\nAnd so, after hours of waiting we finally got on to the Asama Haru and were fairly comfortable all the way to Lourenço Marques. Certainly we owe great appreciation to the men of the American Diplomatic and Consular Corps who turned out of their good cabins to give the missionary women and their children comfort and fresh air, So many missionaries and their children! They all should have been safely at home a year or more ago, and if the warnings of their Government had been heeded would have been spared all the strain and discomfort and unhappiness they had been forced to endure during the past eight months. They had atrocity stories to tell many many of them, the most horrible kinds of atrocity stories. It is a curious thing how history repeats itself, and these stories are no new thing, they are the inevitable consequence of war, ever since the days when the Bavarians came down like a wolf on the fold. Not that that excuses the position for people who are caught. They suffer, as terribly as captives have always suffered in any war.\n\n108 Anuman", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575806, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 158, "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "KUKU\n\nINTELLIGENCE SUMMARY NO 1.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\n28/5/42.\n\n157\n\nThe life of the community does not appear to have been made any easier by any of the more recent Japanese actions.\n\nThe general policy of the Japanese up to date has been to take away and ship all raw materials, engines and food. In the main Chinese have been used to do all the work entailed.\n\nWith the aid of the Police, the Japanese authorities are attempting to place all the Chinese clerks and technicians in their former positions. In many cases clerks formerly employed in military or Government offices have been recalled for questioning, either on some specific points or on general questions. In most cases they are offered work either for the period necessary to complete a special task or on a permanent basis. The Revenue Office was re-opened in Windsor House at the end of March. The staff consists of one Naval Officer, two Japanese Navy personnel of unknown rank, one Japanese civilian and twelve Chinese clerks most of whom served in the same capacity under Colonial Government. The Japanese Officer's name is MAJINA (?) the No. 1 Chinese HO KAM MOON (Hong Kong Treasury).\n\nThe tram service is now running all the way to Shaukiwan; up till the end of April, it only went as far as Causeway Bay; but the remainder of the line appears to have been repaired. Through journey costs 40 cents against previous cost 6 cents.\n\nThe Japanese have taken very strict action to prevent the spreading of disease. In the event of anyone dying, the house in which the death takes place plus the neighbouring house on either side are put in quarantine and anyone attempting either to enter or leave is shot. The result is that if a person is dying he is carried out into the street and allowed to die there as a pauper. One fairly reliable refugee states that he actually saw himself on two occasions people cutting flesh from such bodies for food. The food question is definitely acute. Although the supply is inadequate, it is probably the poverty of the people which is causing the greatest distress, as all those people who have not accepted work under the Japanese have now been living on reserves for 5 months and in a great many cases they have now reached rock bottom.\n\nThe following extract from a letter written by a Chinese doctor who worked at the Queen Mary Hospital up to 4th April gives some idea of the conditions in the colony. \"The incidence of acute intestinal diseases like Typhoid, Cholera and Dysentery and of the vitamin deficiency diseases like Beri Beri and Pellagra was appallingly high, so much so that in all my out-patient experience I had never seen so many cases like it before. Since drugs were not available a good number died as a result. There were deaths from natural causes but what of those due to indiscriminate shooting? The mortuaries were simply full of corpses and the University Pavilion ground served as a mass cemetery.\"\n\n\"I distinctly remembered one pitiful case which I attended. It was a nice looking lad aged about 9 years old who was brought in to the hospital by two Japanese soldiers and the mother who could speak Japanese. He was shot in the abdomen with intestinal perforations and general peritonitis. The history was that, while playing with a catapult in the University Pavilion ground he was shot by a Japanese soldier coming down Pokfulam Road without any provocation whatsoever. He would probably have been left to die had the mother of the lad not known Japanese. There are many such cases; but it would be pointless to cite more. Anyway, it shows you the utter cruelty and inhumanity of the Japanese character. Even animals do not attack unless provoked. I truly believe that a killing psychosis has taken hold of them.\"\n\nNAVY.\n\nHeadquarters\n\nButterfield and Swire Offices.\n\nRecreational facilities:-\n\n1. Soldiers & Sailors Home.\n\n2. China Fleet Club.\n\n3. Some adjoining buildings.\n\nOrganised brothels under Medical supervision.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578598, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946", "content_text": "stated they could only guarantee supplies to the end of June after which funds might not be available.\n\nIn addition to the fresh milk, he obtained a free supply of skim milk which he discovered the Japanese were discarding, and this he sent to the Canossa for distribution between dependants and destitutes. Tinned milk was also sent to the Canossa and Tsun Yuk Maternity Hospitals and this he obtained from supplies recovered or received from the Japanese.\n\n(viii) T.B. Wards in the French Hospital.\n\n52\"\n\nTo cope with Tubercular patients it was necessary to open special wards for them at the French Hospital. Funds were not available but the Japanese in time agreed to Dr. Selwyn-Clarke withdrawing part of the funds of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association. These funds were used in the purchase of a large quantity of soya beans and margarine. He spent months trying to reopen the Soya Bean Milk Company so that cheap milk would be available for the poor, but as this factory was occupied by the Military, he never succeeded. Soya bean milk was, however, made on a small scale by the staff at the French Hospital and this was available for the poor and the Tubercular patients.\n\nTwo T.B. wards, one for women and the other for men, were opened with a staff of one Chinese lady doctor (ex Government), ex Government nurses, and menial staff. These wards remained open in the French Hospital until our internment and I left some 8,000 Dollars with the medical officer in charge so that these wards could remain open for a short time anyway. Indigent patients in these wards received free treatment and a Chinese T.B. Specialist lent his expert advice free of charge. A number of dependants of internees and Prisoners-of-war also received treatment in these wards. Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, who visited the wards daily, was in direct charge and his previous experience with this type of work was invaluable.\n\nD.\n\nCIVILIAN INTERNEES.\n\nHis work on this side commenced immediately following the cessation of hostilities and even before these persons were interned in the Chinese hotels prior to final internment at Stanley. During this short period he performed many acts of mercy to all and sundry, but these are too numerous to describe in a report of this nature.\n\nAfter registration and the internment of Europeans in the Chinese hotels and elsewhere, Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, in addition to making personal daily visits, arranged for the allocation of certain Medical Department and neutral doctors to the different hotels concerned. On one occasion I accompanied him on daily visits and was able to see for myself what excellent work he was doing. His car was filled with bread and cooking utensils, etc., and these he distributed between the various hotels. I accompanied him for the purpose of taking notes of immediate requirements and it was pitiful to find how much was actually needed and how totally inadequate and unnecessary had been these temporary arrangements made by the Japanese. Somehow he managed to meet all requirements, and in some cases arrange for the sick to be removed to hospitals, and it was due to him that disease was not rampant in many of these so-called hotels.\n\nPrior to the opening of the Stanley Camp and after the Japanese finally agreed upon the place of internment, Dr. Selwyn-Clarke was called upon for advice and was taken out to the site of the intended camp. His work on the equipping... was invaluable.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596246, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-623-1 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-4-1950 - 31-1-1951", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-623-1 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-4-1950 - 31-1-1951", "content_text": "as any strike on the part of workers, and facts have clearly and patently demonstrated that the law has been giving enough warnings of serious punishment against some prospective strikes in this time of emergency, repeated negotiations in the presence of the Labour Office in the course of this period of nearly a month have still failed to elicit even a little merciful concession from the adamant obduracy of the employer.\n\nAs a matter of fact, in spite of the comprehensiveness and the equitability of the officially established mutual agreement between workers and employer and other official regulations in respect to both sides, facts have, for many times, authentically impressed the general workers in this Colony that they are the only party whose departure from these agreements and Regulations (there hasn't been any hitherto) categorically means heavy punishment while that of the other party, the employer, enjoys impunity.\n\nMay not the subsistence of this group of workers matter much to the profit of the employer; may even the sacrifice of them invite no mercy from those who should be concerned for the livelihood of the workers. However, ill effects are cropping out every minute as the inevitable consequences of this event. And it grieves us to enumerate the following:\n\n(1) Local Communist newspapers are saliently frantic in imputing the closure of this Factory to the fact that the ICFTU's Delegation has abetted its workers to demand exorbitantly for more wages, (virtually no oral or written demand has been made yet) while their other propaganda instruments and agents keep busy in disseminating the rumours that the ICFTU's Delegation has brought ill luck to Hong Kong.\n\n(2) In addition, Communist agitators and instigators have been surreptitiously at work sowing the seed of demagogism and agitation and \"converting\" more workers to their side unctuously and plausibly promising this and that, since of the 1700 workers (approx.) in that factory, about 100 were dupes under the Communist-controlled Rubber Workers' association and seventy percent were attached to the Rubber Shoes Workers' Association of this TUC.\n\n(3) After the complete discharge of this group of pitiful workers, it appears that no concession can be yielded from the employer by way of negotiations before the Government officers, repeated protests, humble supplication, and an appeal to the public for moral support. The loftiness and inaccessibility of the employer still remain untouched and unquestioned by any existing established institution in this Colony. Some leading employers in Hong Kong begin to be sensible of the objective that this complete discharge of workers is nothing but a complete \"purge\" itself after which the employer will re-enlist new and \"obedient\" workers by means of the signing of some special contract to the prejudice of the legal rights of the workers.\n\nThe triumph of the employer of this Fung Kung Rubber Shoes Factory has rapidly exerted sufficient influence to encourage other employers to follow suit. And once again the subsistence of our workers is at the mercy of the capricious will of the employer. To deign to accept or to spurn workers' demands is entirely at his...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-1 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-4-1950 - 31-1-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]