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        "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
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        "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
        "content_text": "being supplied with Firewood by the \n\nCommissarial Department \n\nI have, 40 \n\n1 Signed) Henry Pottinger \n\nVictoria - July 18th 1843 \n\nT \n\nGovernment-House, Victoria, Hong-Kong, \n\nJuly 18th, 1843. General Order, by the Honourable the Governor, &c. \n\nAt the recommendation of Major-Gene- ral Lord Saltoun, commanding the Land Forces in China, the Honourable the Go- vernor is pleased to direct that on all occas sions where Guards on shore are furnished by Troops stationed on board Ship, such Guards shall be supplied with the usual daily allowance of fire-wood, by the Com- missariat Department. \n\nThis Order is to have retrospective effect with regard to the Troops on board Her Majesty's ship Sapphire. \n\nBy order, \n\nG. T. BROOKE, \n\nLt. H. M. 55th Regt. \n\nMilitary Secretary. \n\nNo 16 \n\nMajor General \n\nThe Lord Saltown K. C.B and G. C. H. \n\nMy Lord \n\nfo \n\nYe \n\nYe \n\nBictoria July 18th 1865 \n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 12th Brot . and to enclose a General Order regarding Garrison Sergeant Major and his Establishment. \n\nI have fe \n\nthe.. \n\n(Signed) Henry Pottinger \n\nGovernment-House, Victoria, Hong-Kong, \n\nJuly 18th 1943. General Order, by the Honourable the Governor. &c. \n\nAt the recommendation of Major-Gene ral Lord Saltoun, commanding the Land Forces in China, the appointment of Ser- jeant Thomas Miller, of H. M. 98th Regi- ment, to be Garrison Serjeant-Major, of Victoria, is confirmed from the 1st instant, on a Staff Salary of Twenty Rupees por month, and the following establishment is also sanctioned from the same date. \n\n1 Head Cooly z 7 Coolies at 96 \n\nBy order, \n\n$ 7 42 \n\n$40--Monthly. \n\nG. T. BROOKE, \n\nLt. H. M. 55th Regt., \n\nMilitary Secretary.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7]",
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        "title": "CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7]",
        "content_text": "protection will be effected at a less Expense. Viz: - if a stronger force is required \n\nsame signals \n\ncan be upon the water an increase can immediately be obtained from the loud, by concert likewise the same will serve - if escape is being made to the land an alarm can be given from the boat, and in the reverse instance it will be equally advantageous. Two English built six-oared police galleys should be employed (One of which can be furnished by the Harbour Master's department) each out 4 1/2 hours, serviceable for general duty during the day. - The Crew of each would be 44 Hindu constables, 1 Chinese as Interpreter, With 1 Acting Sergeant - 2 P. Cs-English - requiring a total of \n\n1 Sergeant! 2 Act: Sergeants! 44 P. C English. \n\n9 Hindus \n\n2 Chinese \n\n\" \n\n10 \n\n112 \n\nA necessary portion of Each boat's crew would be in regular daily duty : \n\nThese boats will be more efficient than the Chinese boats now in use, and require fewer men. They will, \n\nO pull nearer the shore without noise, and will further be able to land their crews at any particular point at once. Upon any emergency by uniting the boats' crews and providing ship's launch with a swivel gun, an efficient force for any duties connected with the Police is established. \n\nMounted Police. \n\nA great additional security will be obtained by having four mounted PCs efficiently armed, to patrol during the night the extreme East and West of the district - the expense in comparison with their utility would be small as they would be attached to the Central Station",
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        "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]",
        "page_number": 243,
        "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]",
        "content_text": "Bu Mr Shortrede-The junks fired first; I am certain they fired before the Police fired, and am certain they fired one shot after we did fire. When Mr Muir came to the Station, I considered the charge not to be a very serious one, but sufficient to authorise me to take steps to bring the parties implicated to the Station. The Police always go armed on the water at night; the boat sent was not especially armed for this particular matter; but I sent extra men, telling them I did not think it would be necessary to use their arms, but to go about it quietly.\n\n\"adammed row you are kicking up,\" or something like that, but am not certain of the precise words used; but it was not said for the junkmen to hear, it was said in a similar manner as a person in a room would make to people outside who were making a noise, indifferent whether it was heard or not; cannot remember whether this was said before or after the first stone was thrown; some more stones were then thrown, and I said we had better get on shore as soon as possible. The stones came so thick upon this, that two of the party (Messrs Bevan and Cooper were the parties) determined to go on board the junk—I was very much inclined myself to go—the other one was passive, and the other represented the folly of attempting it. The head of our boat was turned towards the junks with the intention of pulling up alongside.\n\nRequested to attend at the Centre Station on Sunday night.\n\nside. The shower of stones continued without intermission; our boatpeople were afraid, and would not pull. We then came ashore and landed. I proceeded with Mr Roose to the Police Station, and lodged complaint against these junks; and brought the boatpeople with me to identify the junks. The people in our boat were, I think, two men, a woman, and two boys. I went from the Bank stairs in the Police-boat; Messrs Roose and Stephenson came with me; there was a Sergeant in charge of the Police-boat; did not hear what instructions he got: he did not ask me to go; I asked him permission to do so. We pulled down to the junks; my boatman pointed them out—I knew them as soon as I saw them. When we got within stone's throw, the junkmen began throwing stones; the Manilamen in the Police began crying out; I do not know if they were hit or not, but some stones fell close to the boat. Should think it was then about 8 o'clock; it was dark. The Police-boat carried a large bull's-eyed lantern. There was a Chinese Lukong in the Police boat; there was nothing said from the Police-boat before the junk men began throwing stones—the lamp was showing. I think the Lukong said something to the junkmen, but am not sure.\n\nSo many stones were thrown that I was anxious to get on shore, as the Police were not at liberty to fire; and as there were so many in the boat, I was afraid of her being swamped going alongside the junks. I went ashore near the No. 1 Station; one of the Police came to Mr May for further instructions: he came back (the Constable was an Englishman) and said his orders were to try and go on board again—that Mr May was not at the Central Station, and he had no permission to fire; the boat then pushed off a second time. Messrs Roose and Stephenson, and myself went in a small sampan after the Police boat. The Police-boat lay on her oars when she got near the junk. The Lukong hailed the junks; they made no answer for some time, and then merely said one or two words. The Police told us to be on our guard; I heard the Manilamen on board the Police-boat say the junkmen were going to fire; and saw fire passed in the junks like joss-sticks. The Police-boat pulled on shore. I came ashore also. Before going home, I called at the Central Station, and saw Messrs May and Caldwell going down to a second boat with additional force. I saw the firing afterwards, but do not know who fired first; saw this from the shore; did not go off again. I came up to the Central Station after hearing the junks were taken.\n\nExamined by the Jury—We were not singing in our boat, nor was there any provocation used to the junkmen—there was no threat made to the junkmen of any kind. We had only an umbrella with us; we had no arms or sticks.\n\n(3)\n\nJ. D. MUIR.\n\nJAMES MILAN sworn,—I am a Sergeant of Police; and went in the Police-boat last evening; Mr Muir and two other gentlemen were with me: I went to go and board two junks and bring their Captains on shore. When we got within about twenty yards of the junks, I told the Lukong to speak to them; he did so. I told him to tell them that it was the Police-boat, at the same time shewing the light of the boat lantern. The Lukong told me the men dared us to go on board; that if we attempted it they would fire at us. They began to throw stones at us. I then told the boat's crew to pull ashore, and sent private Wills for instructions. He returned and said Mr May would be down presently with two other boats. Inspector Ryan then came on foot to the No. 1 Station, and came on board the boat I was in. Two other Police-boats came: Mr May, was in one of them; and presently after I heard a shot fired. Mr. May's boat was at the other side of the junk to me; from the flash and report I think the shot came from the junk. The boat I was in was ordered to pull alongside the junks; I was doing so, when about twelve or fifteen yards from the junks they fired at my boat; there were two shots fired, one a little after the other; neither struck our boat. I do not know whether the guns were loaded with ball or shot—the report was not that of a cannon, but it was louder than a musket. The Chinese at this time were running up and down the decks of the junks with fire-brands in their hands; there were about 14 men in my boat—4 Europeans, 5 Indians, and 5 boatmen. Mr Caldwell ordered us to retreat; I did so. The Police-boats all met astern of the junks; one was named Lewis was wounded. I heard no other shots fired from the junks, but the three up to this time; fired three shots myself from my own boat at the junks. There were four men at least in my boat with carbines besides my own; they also fired. We did so after the junks fired into us, and we were ordered to do so. I heard firing from the other Police boats. After the three boats met, Mr May went to the man-of-war, and returned with four or five men-of-war boats; the man-of-war boats fired at the junks, and then boarded them; I boarded the junks myself. I was ordered to lie off the junks until the man-of-war boats cleared off. I brought one man ashore from the junks.\n\n(4)\n\nJAMES M'LEAN,\n\nTuesday, 17th October.\n\nMICHAEL RYAN sworn, am Deputy Inspector of Police. About half-past 7 o'clock on Sunday evening last, Mr Muir, who was examined last evening here, and two or three other gentlemen, came to the Central Station; Mr Bevan did not come with them; they lodged a complaint that as they were in a boat passing by two junks which were lying together off the Lower Bazaar, they were pelted with stones, without any provocation, by the junk men. I asked Mr Muir if anything else occurred before the stones were thrown? he said not. All the parties were sober; Mr Muir was laughing when conversing with the gentlemen who were with him—I think he was laughing about the matter.\n\nThe Police boat was on the point of going on duty at the time. I ordered Sergeant M'Lean and Police constables M'Kenzie and Wills to take their arms and accompany the boat's crew, and to bring in custody the Captains or the officers of the junks that would be pointed out by Mr Muir. It was dark at the time; Mr Muir was to point out the junks; there was a Chinese belonging to Mr Muir's boat with him; the Police were to enquire for the Captains or officers, and find them out by the interpreter; Poon-chow, one of the Lukongs, went as interpreter. I told him to inform the junkmen when he came near them, that it was the Police-boat, and the business he came upon; and told M'Lean to shew the Police lights when he came near them. I told M'Lean that he should not take more than two of the gentlemen, as the Police-boat was small, and I did not want to have her overloaded; M'Lean asked me, if stones were thrown from the junks, should he fire? I said, No, to go about it quietly.\n\nAbout half an hour after, constable Wills returned to get further instructions what to do; I spoke to Mr May then; he told me to get all the boatmen ready, and to go myself to the No. 1 station and join M'Lean's boat; he told me \"we\" would be down directly; and when I saw them coming to pull out towards the two junks, I went and waited close to the junks. Toon-chow was not in our boat at this time; Messrs May and Caldwell came in two boats, and we went towards the two junks; Mr May's boat pulled the quickest, and to the right of my boat; his boat was the foremost. Mr May's boat got within about twenty yards of the junks, when the junks fired, either ginjals or large matchlocks. I cannot say whether the guns were loaded with ball or shot—the reports were dull; I did not hear the whistling of balls. I am certain I heard three shots fired; cannot say if more or not. After the first shot was fired I heard Mr Caldwell say something as if to the junkmen; the junks after this fired a second shot. My boat did not shew the lantern; I do not know whether either of the other two boats shewed theirs or not. The junkmen were shouting and talking before and after the firing; before the junkmen fired the last shot, I heard a splashing as if of stones in the water thrown from the junks; when the junks fired the first shot, I ordered my men to fire; some, I dare say, fired twice; three of the men had carbines; I saw firing from Mr Caldwell's boat; I cannot say whether the junks fired more shots than the three, in consequence of the noise of our firing; I saw Mr May's boat pass astern of the junks; I heard the words “Go back\"—either from May's or Caldwell's boat, I cannot say from which, and the firing ceased. I went back; Mr May told me to wait until he returned from the Commodore's ship. A boat from the Commodore's ship came shortly after, and inquired what was the matter; that boat then left us. Mr May returned in his boat accompanied by three or four boats; they hailed us, we answered; we pulled up to the junks. Again the junks fired on board. The junks were shouting; I do not know what, for we were waiting about thirty or forty yards from the junks, and on pulling out, the junks fired either a ginjal or matchlock. I do not think anything was said from the Police or man-of-war's boats before this shot was fired; the man-of-war's boats fired a volley at the junks; the man-of-war's boats were a little in-shore of the junks; their firing must have gone clear of the shore. After the volley was fired, the man-of-war's boats boarded; I heard an explosion on board the junks about as loud as a report of a ginjall, but not so clear; cannot say that there were any other shots fired from the junks; the boat I was in fired at the same time as the man-of-war's boats; when the man-of-war's men boarded, I heard a great clashing of swords, and saw 3 men taken from one junk—one appeared to be covered with blood; did not see them taking the men from the other junk; did not see any men in the water; heard there were some; the other two Police boats were in-shore of the junks—my boat was outside.\n\nQuestioned by Mr Cairns—The two junks were lashed together: I do not know whether the shots came from one or both junks; the night was dark.\n\n(5)\n\nM. RYAN,\n\nWILLIAM MORRISON, Colonial Surgeon, sworn,—I was about half-past 10 o'clock, in consequence of policeman named John Lewis having been brought into the Civil Hospital seriously wounded in an affray with the crew of two Chinese junks. I remained until twelve o'clock, when a large number of the said crew was brought to the Station, eleven of whom were wounded more or less. It was obvious to me that U-afoo and Niu-achin were mortally wounded; they were ordered by me into the Hospital, and put under the necessary treatment. The latter was wounded by a musket ball which entered the cavity of the chest an inch below the clavicle, penetrated the lung on the left side, and made its exit about three inches below the point of the scapula. Another ball entered the muscles of the shoulder about three inches below the point of the shoulder; its exit is not perceptible. He died in great agony about half-past 2 on Monday morning. He was apparently quite sensible up to the moment of his death.\n\nU-afuo received a ball in the middle of the outer side of the right arm, it shattered the humerus, producing compound fracture, passed through the flesh, and has made its exit on the inner side of the arm. Another ball penetrated the abdomen on the front and right side, and passed out at the back or the side of the dorsal vertebra. Through this wound on the front side the omentum protruded. This man died at 5 o'clock on Monday morning.\n\nIn both cases I have no doubt that the wounds inflicted by the balls were the occasion of death; there were no other marks of violence on them. I should remark that both these two Chinese were wet; U-afoo was brought in naked; the other man was partly clothed; his clothes were saturated with water. I am under the impression that U-afoo was picked up near the No. 1 Station, and brought to the Hospital by some sailors; the other man was, I think, brought in by the Police. I am certain that the ball which struck U-loo entered in the front of the chest. The balls in both cases were, I should say, common carbine balls.\n\nWILLIAM MORRISON, Colonial Surgeon.\n\nRe-examined on the 20th October—The other men brought to the Station from these junks who are wounded all exhibit bayonet or cutlass wounds. Some of the men have a great many wounds. The bayonet ones are numerous in every instance.\n\n(6)\n\nKRE Kwok sworn,—I am a broker, and live at Lower Bazaar near Acqui's theatre. On Sunday last after my dinner I went on board two junks; the junks were lying opposite Acqui's. I met Yow-aqua, one of the men belonging to the small junk; had known him from the year before last; I went with him on board the small junk, and then into the large one; we went down into the cabin; there were four or five of us in the cabin; it was then dark. Some of the men of the small junk cried out \"Thieves;\" the people in the cabin with me said \"Never mind, we have no occasion to interfere.\" We were taking tea at the time; it was dark when I went on board. After I heard the men in the small junk say there were thieves, I went on board the small junk with my friend. The men on board both vessels were getting their arms ready. It was dark and drizzling; I could not see plainly; distinguished a long boat; there was no light in her. There were no Chinese boats close to the two junks; we did not hear anything from on board the long boat; it was at the time blowing a strong easterly wind, and the boat had a number of men in her; we thought them thieves. I was in the stern of the junk.\n\n(7)\n\nCham Leisure sworn in as Tii-tchien interpreter.]\n\nTest-rong sworn.—I am a batman, and belong to a Tii-tehieu junk; she is a small junk. I am very often coming here. During the day of last Sunday there was nothing happened on board the junk; there was another junk alongside of the one I belong to. I saw after dark a boat; the people in the boat said something in the Canton dialect; I did not understand what was said, though I know it was Canton dialect; they said \"Qui chi,\" a term of abuse understood almost in every dialect; the men in our junk returned the abuse. The night was very dark, the boat fired at our junk four or five times. I thought the boat was a thief's boat. The names of the two men lying dead are U-afoo—the other man's name is A-chin. A-chin belongs to my junk; A-chin came as a passenger—there were twelve people in all belonging to my junk—ten were the crew, and two were passengers. My junk has only been here three or four days; we came on the 8th Chinese day (12th) of the month. On Sunday afternoon I went down into the cabin before dark (there were four or five men with me) and did not go up on deck until I heard a cry of thieves. There was a man from the shore of the name of Kee in the cabin also. I was here twice before, when the junk was in was robbed at night—once when lying at East Point, the other time opposite Mr Edger's; the first time was three years ago, the 2d time two years; was twice here after the last robbery. I recognize the large man now dead as U-afoo.\n\nWhen we saw the boat that fired, it was dark; I would know the Police boats if the moon was up; the moon did not rise until five or six boats came. When my boat was robbed two years ago, all the men who robbed us were dressed as Englishmen; they said they were a Police-boat, and that they came to search my boat to know if she was a good boat or not. Some dried fruits were robbed from me, and everything else that was on board the junk; they came off in a boat pulling nearly twenty oars on both sides; the master of the junk then went to complain at Cowloon; I don't know if he did so here.\n\nQuestioned by Mr Shortrede—My tail was cut off by a man in the boat I was brought ashore in; the boat was larger than the Police-boat. I was thrown into the boat, and while lying down in her bottom, some one laid hold of my tail with one hand and with a knife or sword cut it off. No more of the men in the cell where I am, had their tails cut off in the same manner in the boat while coming ashore.\n\n(8)\n\nTox-SEW-LE sworn,—Of the three bodies now lying dead I recognise A-m-ching and Hoo-tsing; I do not recognise the third. I belong to the small junk; so do the two men I recognise.\n\n(9)\n\nRO-A-queu sworn,—I am a junkman on board the small junk. Of the three men now lying dead, one is my brother Uafao; the names of the others are Niu-nehiu and (log-c-tsing. The three men belonged to the small junk; I am master of the junk, one is a passenger from Shanghae; his name is Iu-c-ting.\n\n(10)\n\nWednesday, 14th October.\n\nBe-a-guen, being further examined, states,—During the day of Sunday last, the 19th of the China month, nothing particular happened on board my junk. I was ashore on Sunday, and it was dark when I came on board; I went down into the cabin, and was down there when one of the men, Oa-n, called out there were thieves coming. I came on deck; there was a little rain, and it was very dark; I only saw the outline of a boat, but could not distinguish her. The people in the boat did not say anything; there was no light in her. My men threw stones at her; the boat did not come very near, but we got out bamboo pikes ready; I could not distinguish what description of boat it was. The boat then went away. After a little while, I went down into the cabin again, when I heard the same cry of thieves. I went under a table when I heard the second cry of thieves; I was in the cabin by myself. I remained under the table about two hours; after this my friends cried out it was Policemen; they came on board and brought us ashore, when the second cry of thieves was made, I heard firing; I stopped under the table, as I was afraid. I was here two or three times before—my boat was not robbed here.\n\nQuestioned by Mr Shortrede—There are rare robberies at night in Hongkong by sail boats than at Shanghae, Chusan, and the other ports where I trade to. I never heard that a true Police-boat goes round the harbour here at night; but I always heard there was a pretended Police-boat, who used to come on board and put all the crew below, and take the cargo ashore; I never saw this boat myself.\n\n(236)",
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        "content_text": "238\n\nand officers, amounted to 26, 11 of whom were Europeans; 6 or 7 Europeans had carbines, and I think about half of the remainder had muskets; there were likewise 4 or 5 cutlasses. Before leaving I gave out rounds of ammunition, and I believe the Police had 20 rounds more. I placed Mr Caldwell in charge of one boat, Mr Ryan in charge of another; I went in the third; in my boat there were 8 in all. Two junks were pointed out to me as the two junks from which the stones were thrown at the Police-boat; mine was the nearest in-shore to the junks; my boat was the outside one. Mr Caldwell's boat was in the rear of mine; the other boat was in-shore. I steered alongside the outward junk. I felt the boat kept back; I could not get her wholly broadside on to the junk before arriving alongside. The people in the junks had fired large and small guns, I mean ginjals and matchlocks. I heard shots strike the water. This fire was returned by all the Police boats. I heard Mr Caldwell speaking in Chinese very loud, and answers apparently made from the junks. Finding the other boats did not get alongside, and that a determined resistance was made, I ordered my boat to be shoved off, and told the other two boats to fall back. After leaving the junks, they continued firing 5 or 6 shots from ginjals; I told the Police not to return the fire, and ordered them out of reach of the fire from the junk. Some of the Police had no ammunition this time; they asked me for some, as they were anxious to return and make a second attack; a European in my boat had no arms. At this time I was not aware of any accident happening to the Police force; I had seen a man in the water when alongside the junk, but believed him to be one of the junkmen; I had an idea of picking him out, but on looking round, found he had either sunk or was taken on board the junk. The time I was alongside I was about half a minute; my impression was that my boat was kept back either by spears or bamboos from the junk; I could not see them, as it was remarkably dark, the wind strong, and the sea high. I determined to go to H.M.S. Cambrian for assistance, and ordered all but four rowers into another boat; before going, I directed Mr Caldwell to go as near the sterns of the junks as he could with safety, and request them to give in; and that if they did not, I was going to the man-of-war, and they would run the risk of being shot. Mr Caldwell called to me from his boat, that the junkmen were determined to resist. I then pulled to the Cambrian. The two junks were pointed out to me by the third Police-boat that remained near. I had no Chinamen in my boat; nothing was said to the junkmen from my boat. I heard Mr Caldwell calling out loudly to the junk people before any firing. I had a lantern in my boat, which I shewed; the three boats were to leeward of the junks; my boat may have been about 100 feet from the junks while Mr Caldwell was speaking; lights were shewn from one Police-boat to another while directions were given by me. When I arrived on board the Cambrian, I saw an officer, and asked if he was officer of the deck; he answered, \"Yes.\" I said, as nearly as I can recollect, \"I am the Superintendent of Police, and have come to apply to the Commodore for assistance to capture two suspicious junks which had fired upon and hustled off the Police-boats.\" The officer asked me if that was the firing he heard; I told him it was, and he desired me to accompany him below. He went into the stern cabin, and shortly after came out saying assistance should be rendered; I remained on deck till the boats were nearly ready, and then went into my own boat and guided the men-of-war's boats to where the junks were lying, pointing them out to the officer who was in command of the party. When I arrived near the junks, being ahead of the men-of-war boats, I saw the two Police-boats lying within 150 yards of the junks; the Police were rowing in the direction of the junks. I ordered them to keep to the rear of me, and not to fire. It was lighter by this time; it was now about 12 o'clock; I saw the navy boats go alongside the junk, and heard the people in the junks as if cheering or making a great shouting; before the navy boats touched the junks, they were fired into. A volley was fired by the navy boats, and afterwards there were about 20 straggling shots, but cannot say exactly whether they were wholly from the navy boats or some from the junks; after these shots were fired the navy boats cheered and boarded; the noise on board the junk was when I first got near. I boarded after the man-of-war's men; nearly all the sailors and marines were in the junks; they were very crowded. I saw some powder thrown overboard, and heard the plunging as of something heavy into the water; none of the junkmen at this time were to be seen; many of the sailors were below searching; it was dark below; Police lanterns were got; I did not see the sailors using their cutlasses; I saw no Chinamen in the water. I sent Mr Caldwell's boat to pick up some men who I heard in the water. Constable Smith was, I think, in the boat. I should say that the first fire from the Police-boats (before the navy boats came) did not take effect on the junks, as I heard no cries from the junk after the fire. I told the officer I would take charge of the junks, and that if he would lend me a boat to take the prisoners on shore, I would take charge of them. He ordered boats for this purpose, and directed all his men to go into the boats and leave the junks, which they did. I remained about half an hour after this on board; I had a thorough search made in and round the junks. Boarding nettings were triced up in the junk; they were the ordinary make of fishing nets. I examined the boats in order to satisfy myself whether the boats were piratical ones or not; and I believe they are not piratical boats; one had a cargo of molasses, and grain, and physic; the other boat, the large one, was empty. I found 4 matchlocks and 3 ginjals in the two boats; one of the watchlocks was burst; there were more lanyards and ropes for other ginjals.\n\nQuestion by Mr Shurtred—Mr Caldwell does not speak the dialect of the junkmen, but he understands a little. I was about 100 feet from the junks at the time Mr Caldwell spoke to them; his boat was to the rear of mine about 10 feet; the wind was high; we were to leeward of the junks; my belief was, and is that the junkmen understood and answered Mr Caldwell. We have 11 men now at the Station from these junks—nearly all were wounded—21 were brought to the Station from the junks, and one was picked up dead on Monday. I consider I have power under clause 7 of Ordinance 14 of 1840, to board any vessel whatever in the harbour, either day or night—of course having a reasonable object in view. The Superintendent and Inspectors of the Metropolitan London Police have exactly the same power. I have frequently exercised this power both day and night.\n\nQ. Under all the circumstances of this case, considering the trivial nature of the original charge, and the slight resistance the junks could have afforded to such a force as you took with you, did you feel yourself fully authorised to call in the assistance of the man-of-war without a Magistrate's Warrant? A. I conscientiously believe that under all the circumstances of the case, notwithstanding its slight origin, that no other proper course was open to me. With reference to my authority to get the assistance of the Navy, any Constable has power to demand assistance in carrying out his duty. As regards myself, I am authorised as commanding the Police to apply for the assistance of the Naval power on such occasion. I considered an overpowering force would effect the object of capturing the junks without any resistance or consequent bloodshed. I was not consulted with reference to the force from the man-of-war. When a person makes a complaint at the Station, it is a matter of course that immediate attention shall be paid to the complaint, so that the parties offending may be forthcoming to answer it. It was not consistent with the Inspectors' duty to allow Mr Muir's complaint to stand over till next day without taking immediate measures to apprehend the offenders, or otherwise secure their attendance next day.\n\nQuestioned by Mr Cairns.—When you applied for assistance from the Naval Commander, did you consider these were trading junks or pirates?—My impression was that they were piratical junks, because I could not account for the resistance they made but under such supposition.\n\nBy Mr Shortrede.—Whose duty is it to board and examine these junks when they anchor in the Harbour?—I do not consider that any government officer considers it his duty to Board Chinese vessels in this harbour, with a view of ascertaining their characters generally, unless upon especial information or suspicion; and in such a case it is my duty.\n\nQ. Does it consist with your knowledge that men dressed as policemen, or with badges upon their arms calling themselves policemen, have scurried and robbed junks in the Harbour? A. There have been none to my knowledge since the increase to the water-police 18 months ago; before that there were two instances of robbery by violence in the Harbour by persons representing themselves as policemen, and two cases of extortion by threats by Chinese in the employ of the government. A case occurred in April 1847—there was an attack made by a lorcha manned by Chinese and Portuguese representing themselves as policemen, who robbed a junk off Jardine's of a considerable amount of property.\n\n(21)\n\nCHARLES MAY.\n\nFriday 20th October. Al-Tew states, was in charge of the largest of the two junks; the crew consisted of ten men altogether; there were no passengers. My vessel came from How-tong; we were here about 20 days; we brought salt and live pigs. On the evening of the 19th, Chinese month, about dark, while my boat was lying alongside of a small junk, a small boat came near the junks; I was in the cabin at the time, and heard a cry of thieves from the small junk. I came on deck; did not see the small boat, as it was so dark; the small boat went away; I then returned to the cabin, and did not come out of the cabin until 2 or 3 boats came near the junks; they came about half an hour after the first. I did not hear anything said by the people in these boats; the small junk fired 2 or 3 shots, I think at them; it was very dark at this time; the small boats fired at the small junk. After this a great many boats came; these boats fired at the small junk, and the people in them came on board and threw me and the other men into the boat. My tail was cut off by one of these men.\n\n(22)\n\nEDWARD COHEN sworn, I am an assistant at Messrs Phillips, Moore & Co.'s, in Victoria. On Sunday evening last, I heard firing on the water near our place; did not know what it was at first; but went down to the window below Aequi's in the Lower Bazaar. I saw several shots fired from or at a junk a short distance from the shore. The only expression I could hear was, \"See, a man overboard,\" or \"Here's a man overboard.\" I immediately heard a shot fired. Previous to this there were one or two volleys fired, and I could hear the balls whistling round our house.\n\nE. Cohen.\n\n(23)\n\nROBERT MCKENZIE sworn,—I am a constable; I was left in the boat with Sergeant M'Lean lying off the junks on Sunday night when the men-of-war's boats came, in order to pick up any Chinese we might see in the water. I saw no Chinamen in the water. I was in the boat, and a dog was thrown overboard from the small junk; I was about five or six yards from the junk; the dog was black; a shot was fired at it by a marine—saw his belt—the shot killed it. If there were any Chinamen in the water near the boat, I would have seen them. I heard firing on board the junks; by the sound it was firing down into the holds of the junks; we were then under the bows of the junk. The sampan was looted overboard from the junks either by the marines or sailors. I heard one of the officers tell the men to cease firing—this was after the firing into the hold.\n\n(24)\n\nR. MCKENZIE.\n\nTHURSTAN DALE sworn,—I was with Messrs Devan and Muir, and others on Sunday evening in their boat coming from the Tam o'Shanter; we left the vessel about half-past six in the evening; our boat, the wind being strong, came within about ten yards of two junks; we had to go past them to get ashore; the men in the junks made a noise; it sounded to me not as if they were pulling up their anchor or anything of that kind but seemed as if they meant it for us to keep off; that at least was my impression, although I did not know the language. One of our boatmen replied to the junk people; there was then a shout, or hurrah, from some of the party in the boat—I was in one, two, or three, may have joined in the shout; boatmen did not join in the shout.\n\nAfter this the junkmen I think called out something, after which a stone struck one boat. We then pulled ahead of the junks, and Mr Bevan wished to go on board the junks, to see what the stone was thrown for; He took hold of the boat's tiller, and put the boat's head towards the junks. The boatmen refused to go; I said it was no use—that it was better to come ashore. While this was going on, several stones were thrown at the boat; I don't remember that any of the stones struck our boat. We then came ashore, and I came up to the Police Office with Messrs Muir and Roose. I went down afterwards to my boat to see what the Police boats did; I waited for some time, did not see any of them, and came away and went home.\n\nExamined by Mr Morison.—The discussion that took place between Mr Bevan and myself about his going on board the junks was sufficiently loud for the junkmen to hear.\n\nTHURSTAN DALE.\n\n(25)\n\n[Lie-kip-ty, and Che-yeuk, both sworn in as interpreters, they having a knowledge of the Tin-chien dialect.]\n\nPoon-Chow sworn—I am a Lukong. On Sunday evening last some gentlemen came and made a report at the Police Station. I went with them and the police in the boat; Mr Ryan told me to go and tell the Captain of the junk to come up to the Station, to see why stones were thrown at the gentlemen. I went in the boat about thirty feet from the junk—this was about 7 o'clock in the evening, and spoke to them in Chinese [Here the witness was asked to say in Chinese what he said to the junkmen. The witness's answer was rendered in English by the two interpreters,\n\n\"Friend, I got something to say: I wish the Captain to come Ashore.\" (The original words were spoken in the Pokéen dialect) Further he said, \"This is a mandarin boat come to talk to him; and not to be afraid\" (This was also said in Fokeen. When I first spoke to the junkmen, I was as far from them as this is from Mr Holdforth's house (a distance of about two hundred feet.) [The witness here corrects himself, and says this was in reference to his second visit to these junks.] The junkmen the first time did not say anything to me; they then threw stones at us. First when I went, there was not much wind. [The witness is asked to point out, if he can, the distance he was at from the junks when he first spoke to them; and he points to a house distant about fifty yards.] then returned to No. 1 Station, and waited there. I went again in the Police-boat to the junks; and stood about a 100 feet from them. At this time there was not much wind; I do not know in what direction it was blowing. I spoke again to the junkmen this second time the same as I did on the first occasion. The people in the junk said to me, not to come near; if we did, they would fire. They said nothing else to me; I said no more to them, and then came ashore. They threw stones at us; none of them struck the boat. The first time stones were thrown—that is, when I went in the first boat—some of the stones struck the boat, and some of the crew were struck. I then came on shore, and waited in the boat. When Messrs May and Caldwell came, I went back in the boat again to the junks; Mr May's boat was first, next to the junks; I was in Mr Ryan's boat. I did not on this occasion speak to the junks; I do not know if anything was said in the other boats. At this time, the boat I was in was 16 or 18 feet from Mr May's boat and Mr Caldwell's boat was between us; I did not hear anything said from Mr Caldwell's or Mr May's boat to the junkmen. It was then blowing hard; there was no interpreter in Mr May's boat; we were then about 400 feet from the junks; they were making a noise on both the junks. The only words I heard were \"Kuk-chang p'la,\" which means \"Take gun and fire.\" My boat was close to Mr Caldwell during all this time; anything that was said by the junkmen I must have heard as well as Mr Caldwell. Each boat had a light, which they shewed to the junk. I then heard shots fired from the outward junk—they only fired at Mr May's boat; the boat I was in then fired. After the shots were fired, the junkmen said nothing to the Police. I then retired, and Mr May told us to wait until he went to the man-of-war; Mr May did not tell us to do anything while he was away, but to wait. Nothing was said either from Mr Caldwell's boat or the one I was in to the junkmen while Mr May was away, nor was anything said to the junkmen until the men-of-war's men fired. I did not go on board the junks until the sailors of the men-of-war left them.\n\n(26)\n\nKoo-CAP sworn.—By Mr Cairns—I never was in Hongkong before. I belong to the small junk. By Mr Shurtrede,—[The words which Poon-chow stated he used on Sunday evening to the junkmen he now repeats in presence of Koo-cap, who being asked through the interpreter, says \"I never heard these words before\" and being asked the meaning of the words, he says, they mean \"Friend, is the Captain on board?\"\n\n(27)\n\nWILLIAM PEDDER sworn,—I am the Harbour Master of Victoria, and Marine Magistrate.\n\nExamined by Mr Shortrede.—Do you recognise this Proclamation, (producing a Proclamation in Chinese, initialed by the Coroner.)—I fancy I do from the Stamp; it bears the Seal of the Marine Magistrate's Office. I do not read Chinese or understand it.\n\nDo you know the import of the Proclamation?—I think I do.\n\nCan you tell its import?—Yes; it is a proclamation from His Excellency the late Governor of Hongkong to all trading junks anchoring in the Harbour.\n\nFrom whom did you receive instructions to issue this proclamation?—From Mr Shelley for the Colonial Secretary, by letter dated 28th May 1846. I hold in my hand the letter I allude to; I produce the letter handed in the letter, which, at the request of the jury is read; as also the copy of the Proclamation accompanying that letter, the copies are annexed] Examined by the Coroner.—I distributed these Eighteen Copies of the Proclamation. After they were all gone I obtained more from Mr Gutzlaff the Chinese Secretary, by whom I presume they were originally prepared. I went on board the junks myself when I distributed them. I was requested to make them public, and left some copies at the Hong where the junkmen frequent, as also gave some to persons who traded with them; and made it as generally known as possible. I had it explained to the junkmen if people molested them, to secure them and bring them to me, or the Chief Magistrate, but not to hurt them.\n\nBy Mr Shortrede.—Has any subsequent proclamation upon this subject been issued to the junkmen by you?—No. I may add that it was the habit of boarding junks to ascertain if they have been molested by any body. My Chinese boatmen interpreted for me; I cannot say they were understood, but I should think they were, as the junkmen always seemed pleased.—I do not think I went on board either of these two junks in question.—On my visits to the junks I never heard any complaints.\n\nWILLIAM PEDDER.\n\nColonial Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 28th May, 1846.\n\nSIR, I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to transmit to you 18 Copies of the Chinese Translation of the enclosed Proclamation, and to request your compliance with the instructions therein contained, by occasionally boarding and furnishing each junk anchoring in this harbour with a copy of the same, for the information of the Masters and Crews. A few Copies should be posted up for general information.\n\nI have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,\n\nA. F. SHELLEY,\n\nfor the Colonial Secretary.\n\nLieut. W. PEDDER, R.N., Harbour Master.\n\n(True Copy,)\n\nWILLIAM PEDDER, Harbour Master, Marine Magistrate.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor directs, that the Harbour Master board all trading junks on their anchoring in the Harbour, and that a proclamation be issued to the following effect, and communicated to the masters and crews thereof:\n\nThat the port of Victoria is open to all junks and vessels without any anchorage fees or other dues; that they are at liberty to stay in it as long as they choose, and to depart when they like, without any molestation.\n\nThat the crews and passengers are at full liberty to communicate with the shore, and to deal in all articles with any person whom they may choose; but that they are not to buy Opium in a smaller quantity than one chest from any one but the Retail Dealer licensed by the Government. When they buy a chest of Opium, or any larger quantity, they may purchase it from any person.\n\nThat no person except the Harbour Master can board a junk or vessel without the consent of the master, unless he is armed with a warrant and accompanied by a constable.\n\nThat all complaints against persons unlawfully boarding or molesting vessels are to be made to the Harbour Master or the Chief Magistrate; and that the attempts of persons to extort money, or represent themselves falsely as possessing exclusive privileges of trade, and thereby interfere with the freedom of the port, are contrary to His Excellency's orders, and will be visited with severe punishment on being duly represented to the authorities above mentioned.\n\nColonial Office, Victoria.\n\nHongkong, 23d May, 1846.\n\n(28)\n\nJAMES LEGGE sworn,—I am a Doctor of Divinity, and attached to the London Missionary Society.\n\nExamined by Mr Shortrede.—Do you understand Chinese?\n\nCan you read this Proclamation? (producing the one identified by Mr Pedder. Yes.\n\nIs it the same I sent you yesterday?—Yes.\n\nHave you read it over?—Yes, I have done so carefully.\n\nHave you consulted any Chinese who are scholars as to the import of the third Regulation in this Proclamation? I have.\n\nWill you have the goodness to state your interpretation of the third Regulation alluded to, as well as the meaning attached to it by the persons you consulted?—This regulation consists of two parts. The first says the Harbour-master, and persons carrying Warrants, and Policemen, have power to board vessels. The meaning of the second part is not so plain; it was because I could not make it out satisfactorily myself, that I consulted Chinese scholars. Literally, it runs, \"If there be men, and the Captain does not want them to enter the vessel, then he may be able to obstruct and stop them.\" The difficulty lies from the form of the Chinese sentence in determining who are intended by the word \"men.\" I suppose it intended to mean \"other men\"—different from the Harbour-master and others mentioned above; but this is by no means clear, and a Chinese, in my opinion, would rather identify the word \"men\" with the Harbour-master, &c. Seeing the difficulty last night, I consulted a Chinese who at once knows his own and the English languages very well—Tsin-shen, an assistant in our Mission. He took the same view of the intention of the writer as myself, and laughed heartily at the composition. This morning, I consulted two other Chinese as to the meaning. The first is Sew-tsai, (that is, a literary graduate of the first degree,) and was the first in his class when he took the honour at his county examination in the Canton province in 1833. He supposed that the regulation empowered the Captain of the Vessel to resist the Harbour-master, the Warrant-bearers, and the Policemen; at the same time he did not seem to see the connection between the two parts of the regulation. The second person consulted is a respectable Chinese, who can read and write in his own language tolerably well, but makes no pretensions to being a scholar. He interpreted the clause in the same way as the other, and added,—\"So then the Chew-chow (this is the Canton sound of Tib-tchien) men, when they resisted the boats, had right on their side;\" but then he added—\"To be sure, when the boats came in the dark, it was according to regulation to resist them.\" I mention this last remark, because it confirms my own view of the composition of the regulation, that while Chinese naturally interpret it as those two men did, there is still something wanting to make that view of it certain, if it was the intention of the composer to convey that the word \"men\" was to be identified with the Harbour-master, &c. The meaning of this clause is not plain.\n\nJAMES LEGGE.\n\nCHARLES MAY further examined on the 21st,—To the best of my belief I never saw the Chinese notice (the one alluded to by Mr Pedder in his evidence) now exhibited to me, and I am certain I never saw any translation, or any letter of instructions on the subject in accordance with the Colonial Secretary's letter of instructions now read to me. (Here the copy of the letter of 28th May 1846, and instructions, annexed to Mr Pedder's evidence, is read to Mr May.) This is the first intimation I have had of Mr Pedder's instructions as to boarding junks in the Harbour. I know that there is a Police-boat attached to the Registrar General's Office, that daily boards Chinese vessels in the Harbour, under the Registration Ordinance No. 7 of 1846, sec. 2. If anything came to the Registrar General's notice as to any suspicious boats in the Harbour, the Registrar General, as joint Superintendent of Police, would consult with me on it. I did not hear anything about the two junks taken on Sunday evening, until Mr Muir made the charge against them.\n\nCHARLES MAY.\n\n(29)\n\nVERDICT.\n\nAn inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady the Queen, at the House of the Central Police Station situate in Wellington Street, in the Colony of Hongkong, on the sixteenth day of October, in the Year of our Lord 1848, before Norcott D'Esterre Parker, gentleman, the Coroner of our said Lady the Queen for the said Colony, on view of the body of Niu-achiu and U-afon, then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Andrew Shortrede, Foreman, John Cairns, and John Graham Morison, good and lawful Men of the said Colony, duly chosen, and who, being then and there duly sworn, and charged to inquire for our said lady the Queen, when, how, and by what means the said Niu-achiu and Uafoo came to their deaths, do upon their Oaths say, That U-ufoo and Niu-achiu, Chinese junkmen, came by their deaths between Sunday night and Monday morning the 15th and 16th of October 1848, from gun-shot wounds inflicted by certain seamen and marines unknown, acting under orders of their officers, who were instructed by the Senior Naval Officer on this station to aid the Police in capturing two junks anchored in-shore in the Harbour of Hongkong, the crews of which junks had been alarmed by boats coming alongside after nightfall, and resisted the authorities and others, under the impression that they were thieves; and such resistance as was offered on this occasion appears to the Jury to have been justified by the necessity for trading junks protecting themselves from being boarded by strangers and pretended policemen, as well as by the existing regulations of the Hongkong Government, issued to junks anchoring in the Harbour.\n\nThe Jury have considered it to be their duty to pursue the inquiry into several matters not immediately connected with the deaths of these two men, but the investigation of which may tend to prevent the recurrence of such disasters, and seems of importance to the reputation and prosperity of the Colony.\n\nIn witness whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jury have hereunto set their hands and seals this 21st day of October 1848, the day to which the Inquest was finally adjourned.\n\nN. D'E. PARKER,\n\nCoroner.\n\nAND. SHORTREDE, Foreman.\n\nJOHN CAIRNS.\n\nJOHN G. MORISON.",
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        "content_text": "122\n\n4\n\nis called on to perform duties of no ordinary description, and which must prove very harassing. This however arises from the system in force, and in my judgment is very considerably increased by the presence of what is called \"The Board of Respective Officers.\" What the precise duties of these officers are, cannot clearly understand; but it appears to me that one of their principal avocations is to recommend what to them may seem fit and necessary for the public service.\n\nThe Board consists of—\n\nA Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers.\n\nA Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery. The Ordnance Storekeeper.\n\nThe Acting Deputy Storekeeper.\n\n20. In my despatch of 25th January, No. 10, I have suggested that in a military point of view I cannot conceive it possible that the presence of the two first officers is requisite with a force composed of 1,200 men; and if this opinion be in conformity with that entertained by those more competent to offer one, and there be no other objections, of which I am unaware, I would urgently recommend the abolition of this Board altogether. In all boards the responsibility is so much divided, that suggestions involving expense are much more likely to be made by them than by an individual; and there seems no cause why such occasional alterations and additions as may be required, cannot, on their necessity, being brought to the notice of the General or other officer commanding, be sanctioned by him without the intervention of this Board, which cannot, if Mr. St. Hill's statement be correct, and of which there can be no doubt, but materially add to the labour not only of his own but of that of other departments, as far as I am able to judge, without any commensurate advantage being derived.\n\n21. But should the proper authorities not see fit to place this power in the hands of the commanding officer, it might be ordered that no military expenses should be incurred or recommended beyond £100 without being also approved of by the Governor of the colony.\n\n22. The Ordnance Storekeeper's Establishment is as follows, and amounts annually to £4,165 6s. 7d.\n\n  \n    1 Storekeeper. (first class)\n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n    936\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 Deputy Storekeeper\n    \n    \n    \n    540\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 First Clerk\n    \n    \n    \n    362\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 Second Clerk\n    \n    \n    \n    322\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    I Assistant Firemaster\n    \n    \n    \n    45\n    12\n    6\n  \n\n23 The expenses of this department amount annually to £1,785, to which must be added £500 per annum for offices and stores; and on the whole I do not consider it susceptible of any material reduction; but from Mr. Assistant-Commissary-General Smith's own showing, I think it is capable of undertaking a very considerable addition to its duties. At present the department has in its charge provisions to the value of £2,424 19s 4d., and the actual value of the supplies issued during the past year, 1848, amounted only to £7,335 4s. 8d. and this includes, as will be seen on reference to Enclosure No. 12, every article of consumption ordered by the commissariat, embracing all hospital comforts. The fresh beef and bread provided by Chinese contractors, as also the fire-wood, form a sum of £3,878, which would leave the actual distribution by the commissariat, of only £3,457 per annum.\n\nPage 41.\n\n24. In explanation of this small expenditure of provisions, it is right, I should again observe, that the European troops amounting to only 600 are supplied with bread and fresh meat by contract, so that with the exception of one day in each week, when salt meat is supplied to them during the six winter months, the commissariat department has indeed in this branch of its duty, but little to do, as the Ceylon Rifles do not draw any rations from the department.\n\n25. Mr. Smith appears to make some difficulty in undertaking the duty of provisioning the navy, and if, as he states, that Hong Kong was the headquarters of the Indian station, and that a large force was always stationed here, his objection might be entitled to consideration; but instead of a line of battle ship, a frigate, three steamers, and five sloops, being ordinarily stationed here, the force intended for Hong Kong as agreed upon between Viscount Palmerston and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty is fixed at one frigate, and a steamer, a force about equivalent to that which Mr. Smith states in the Australian colonies is supplied by the army commissariat under the commissariat regulations; and with this precedent before me, I certainly cannot see why a similar plan may not be adopted in this colony.\n\n26. It appears also evident that the building used for a commissariat store, is at present unnecessarily large; and so far as I can judge, would hold the extra supplies required for the navy. Should it be found insufficient there would be no difficulty in hiring good and dry warehouses elsewhere.\n\n27. With respect to Mr. Smith's animadversions on the civil department, I have nothing to say, except that he is clearly writing on subjects with which he is not familiar, and with the particulars of which he has not the means of being very intimately acquainted. In his remarks I see he says, that on negotiating bills during the past year, a profit of £2,949 has been realized. This is no doubt very satisfactory, but whether the rate of exchange is favourable or otherwise, does not depend on him, but on circumstances over which he can possibly have no control. So long as money can be procured for bills under 4s. 2d. per dollar, a saving will accrue to Government. When the exchange is higher than this rate the Government will sustain a loss.\n\n28. The Barrack Department stands as follows:-\n\n  \n    1 Barrack Master\n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n    689\n    15\n    0\n  \n  \n    I Clerk @ £50 per mensem\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Superior Barrack Sergeant\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Barrack Sergeants\n    \n    \n    \n    525\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    3 Temporary Clerks @ £60\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ditto\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Temporary Clerk @ £70 per month each\n    \n    \n    \n    150\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 Foreman of Storehousemen @ 5s. 6d. per day\n    \n    \n    \n    86\n    1\n    6\n  \n  \n    1 Foreman of Magazine\n    \n    \n    \n    86\n    1\n    6\n  \n  \n    1 Cooper\n    \n    \n    \n    86\n    1\n    6\n  \n  \n    2 Storehousemen @ 5s. per day\n    \n    \n    \n    156\n    10\n    0\n  \n  \n    2 Storehousemen @ 4s. 2d. per day\n    \n    \n    \n    130\n    8\n    4\n  \n  \n    1 Painter at £13. 3d. per day\n    \n    \n    \n    19\n    11\n    3\n  \n  \n    Royal Artillery employed in Magazine\n    \n    \n    \n    100\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    Chinese, as Artificers, Watchmen, Porters, Coolies, &c.\n    \n    \n    \n    620\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    £1,014\n    18\n    0\n  \n\nPage 44.\n\n29. The duties this officer has to perform are stated in a memorandum furnished by the officer at present in charge of the department. I certainly cannot see why the duties should not be transferred to the engineer department or to an old subaltern officer of the force serving on the island on an allowance of £100 per annum.\n\nPage 47.\n\n30. The Royal Engineer Department stands as follows:-\n\n  \n    ROYAL ENGINEERS.\n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n  \n  \n    1. Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding\n    1,322\n    10\n    10\n  \n  \n    1 Captain or Brevet Major\n    789\n    10\n    10\n  \n  \n    1 First Lieutenant\n    357\n    8\n    4\n  \n  \n    1 First Lieutenant attached to Royal Sappers and Miners\n    378\n    13\n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ROYAL ENGINEERS CIVIL DEPARTMENT.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Clerks of Works, fourth class\n    589\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    I Foreman of Works, second class\n    258\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 Clerk, fourth class\n    203\n    5\n    0\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Sergeants, 1 Corporal, 2 Second Corporals, and 39 Privates\n    885\n    17\n    1\n  \n  \n    1 Office Keeper\n    25\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 Office Coolie\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Watchmen\n    25\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    CHINESE.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    12\n    10\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    £4,846\n    15\n    5\n  \n\nRoyal Engineer Department.\n\nPage 48.\n\n31. From the enclosed statement will be seen the duties which the individuals connected with this department are called on to perform. In my despatch, No. 10, of 25th January, I recommended that certain reductions should be made in this department, from which further experience and observation afford...",
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        "content_text": "Corps.\n\n95th Regiment.\n\n54\n\nEnclosure 18.\n\nDETAIL of Guards mounted by the Troops at Victoria.\n\nGuards.\n\nCommissariat store and Provost.......\n\nTreasury\n\nHospital\n\nGovernor's\n\nMajor-Generals\n\nRegimental\n\n  \n    Sergeants.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Corporals.\n    \n  \n  \n    Drummers.\n    \n  \n  \n    Privates.\n    9\n  \n  \n    Sergeants.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Corporals.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Drummers.\n    \n  \n  \n    Privates.\n    9\n  \n  \n    Sergeants.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Corporals.\n    \n  \n  \n    Drummers.\n    \n  \n  \n    Privates.\n    9\n  \n  \n    Sergeants.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Corporals.\n    \n  \n  \n    Drummers.\n    \n  \n  \n    Privates.\n    6\n  \n  \n    Total\n    3\n    7\n    1\n    59\n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    \n    \n    \n    47\n  \n\nCorporals.\n\nDrummers.\n\nPrivates.\n\n11 315 5 3 | 10 | 428\n\nStations.\n\n55\n\nWEEKLY STATE of the TROOPS Serving in the Island of Hong Kong.\n\nNon-Commissioned Officers,\n\nCorps and Detachments,\n\nand by whom\n\nCommanded.\n\nDistribution.\n\nVictoria.\n\nRoyal Artillery, by\n\nLieut. Col. Eyre.\n\nby\n\nGun Lascars,\n\nVictoria.\n\nLieut. Col. J. Eyre.\n\n  \n    \n    Fit for duty\n    Sick in hospital..\n    Regimental employ\n    Ordnance employ\n    In Provost prison\n    On passage to England...\n  \n  \n    Field Officers.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Captains.\n    :::::\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Subalterns.\n    :::::|\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Staff.\n    :::::\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Native Officers.\n    :::::\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Staff Sergeants.\n    :::::\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sergeants.\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Corporals.\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lance Corporals.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Drummers.\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Privates.\n    147\n    :::\n    \n    \n    \n    མ\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rank and File.\n    4112\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sick\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In Provost prison.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In gaol\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Prisoners\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nRoyal Sappers and Miners,\n\nVictoria.\n\nby Lieut.-Col. G. Phillpotts.\n\nAttached to 95th Regiment.\n\n  \n    \n    Fit for duty\n    Sick in quarters\n    Prisoners\n  \n  \n    Total\n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    I\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    15\n    \n    \n  \n\nWest Point\n\n**\n\n1\n\n1\n\n12\n\nMagazine.....\n\nCeylon Rifles.\n\n1\n\n6\n\n----\n\nGaol.....\n\nVictoria.\n\nCommissariat Office......\n\n1\n\n3\n\nLieut. Col. J. Walter.\n\nRegimental\n\n1 4\n\n1\n\n24\n\nTotal\n\n+\n\n26\n\nFit for duty\n\n  \n    Royal Artillery.\n    Regimental\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Gun Lascars.\n    Kellet's Island...\n    Regimental\n    \n  \n  \n    Royal Sappers\n    Regimental\n    and\n    Miners.\n  \n  \n    9\n    1\n    60\n    \n  \n  \n    41\n    11\n    316\n    5\n    3 | 10 |4,4\n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    30\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    VIHE\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    12\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ........\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    1 5\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    10\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, May 12, 1849.\n\n1\n\n126\n\nco\n\n3\n\n2\n\n24\n\n1\n\n6\n\n21\n\n5\n\n€\n\nVictoria.\n\n:!!!\n\n: \n\n95th Regiment,\n\nby\n\nCeylon Rifles, by\n\nLieut.-Col. H. Simmonds,\n\n  \n    \n    Fit for duty\n    Sick in hospital.\n    Sick in quarters\n  \n  \n    Hospital orderlies.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Staff and other employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Regimental employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clerk..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Band\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Acting Sergeants\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Drummers and Boys..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Attending drill..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    On passage to England\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In Provost prison.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Absent with leave.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    without leave...\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Attached of Royal Sappers and Miners\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sick..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Convalescent and sick in quarters\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hospital orderlies.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Staff employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Garrison employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Commissariat employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Regimental employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clerks\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Attending drill\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Absent with leave..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    without leave....\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In custody Civil Power..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Acting Sergeants\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::::::::::::::\n    2 6 10\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    පු\n    5\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 1 7 3 7\n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::::::::::::::\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nStanley.\n\nDetachment Ceylon Rifles, by\n\nFit for duty Sick\n\nSick orderlies\n\nLieut. J. A. Layard.\n\nEscort duty\n\nTotal\n\nDetachment Ceylon Rifles, Fit for duty\n\nby\n\nSaiwan.\n\nLieut. T. 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Grand Total\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    RODNEY MYLIUS, Captain,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Brigade Major.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Victoria, Hong Kong, May 12, 1849.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7 13 27 10 10 14 58 68 69\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (Signed)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    L. FRASER, Lieutenant,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fort Adjutant.",
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        "content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENT.\n\nWANTED.\n\nWe have to acknowledge receipt of a table of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's revised rates of Passage-money; and we have hung up the same in our office for the use of our personal friends.\n\nBy Order,\n\n2. H. CARVALHO, Secretary\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1857.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"HONGKONG REGISTER.\"\n\nMACAO, 1st February, 1857.\n\nDEAR SIR—The 10 mandarins, who came from Shang-hae, have been here for a few hours, and having taken their dinner at Cau-qa hong, embarked in the ensuing for Casa Branca, and from there to Yan-san and Cass feathers; and 5 of them bare blue buttons. Two of the mandarins have red buttons and peso sent to Caatho to assist Yeh—and it is said, that two of them were formerly in Canton in the time of the first war with Commissioner Lin.\n\n\"Every thing here is quiet, but I say in the harbour a good many mandarin junks displaying a varying flag. Though people are at this time they cannot do any harm here, I would question, that. What could we do prevent their attacking this place and carrying away the heads of the English that are living here?\n\nI am, &c,\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY, 1857.\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Posting Wrons in the CENTRAL POST OFFICE, Hollywood Road, are on the Subirth at 11 am, and stand on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock.\n\nSIXTY.\n\nWe recorded a pedestrian feat last week —walking to the top of Victoria Peak and back six times in twenty-four hours. The same gentleman did the same task this week in twelve hours, which shows, speaking in all honor and praise, that he is an artful dodger; for the latter feat though apparently more difficult, is in reality easier.\n\nProof—a friend of ours went up and down in fifty-seven minutes.—say one hour at four miles. Four times six's twenty-four; and good steady walking, making the trip equal to twenty-four miles in twelve hours is not very great walking.\n\nTaking all the difficulties into account on an undertaking like this is more easily carried through at one heat than in two, we have no doubt that with, or, from what we hear, without halting, the gentleman who has done the six times could easily do the eight if he set his mind on it.\n\nWe have been trying to persuade our ... C. to put himself in training and try the feat—but he says he has been once to the gap and considers that enough is as good as a feast.\n\nNo. 5. FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nThe climate of London is one thing, and the climate of Hongkong is quite another.\n\na more material matter than that of Hongkong, we must decidedly feel of any corps being sent away from this place.\n\nAn urgent necessity exists for augmenting and making the most effective part of the regular police force here, many of whom do their duty conscientiously to the best of their ability—but the superintendence of London is one thing: and the superintendence in Hongkong is another.\n\nThe screw Steamer Sir James Brooke left this at noon yesterday to Hongkong, having on board three companies of Sepoys, a detachment of European Artillery-men, for service in China, despatched on the requisition at the hands of Hongkong.\n\nThe troops consisted of two companies the 29th M. N. I., the European Artillery-men, Pang, and the Company of the Rifle Company accompanying this force are Major Cheslett, Captain Cazalet, Lieut. Foote, and Passingham of the gun, Capt. Man, Lieut. Forster of the Madras Artillery, Dr. Lloyd, Assistant Surgeon, Apothecary Edwards and Sub-Conductor Ball.\n\nThe Sir James Brooke has been chartered for Twelve thousand dollars.\n\nFrom these and other causes which might be specified Hongkong is not in effect London, and a system which may do very well at the latter place may require important modifications at the former.\n\nWe can never obtain the same raw material for a police here as obtainable in London, but we certainly, both in ordinary and in extraordinary times, such as the present, can make the most of our raw—excessively raw material.\n\nFirst: we would make the men effective by putting them on duty for a four hours beat; and if that could not be done conveniently from the central police station, we would do it from three stations—East, West, and Central.\n\nThe S.S. Auckland brought about 100 tons of shot, shell and ammunition from Pinang last week, which will be sent to China as soon as possible.\n\nBraitonore crew Pressa, Jan. 22.\n\nOn the arrival of the Mail at 6.30 PM of Sunday the 1st February we did, for the convenience of our subscribers, what we have not done before—viz: apply for a pass for two coolies to carry the respective Papers, which will secure early delivery.\n\nTwo passes were granted dated 10th January good for 21 days, the time expiring on the 31st January. Of course the 1st February was beyond the pale of the pass but coming direct from the Superintendent of Police we deemed it all right, thinking that police matters were going on in their usual cuddle.\n\nIn this belief the passes were on the night of the 2nd instant given to two of our Chinese Compositors to take them home, and we were somewhat astonished on being awakened at half past twelve, and informed, that our men were in custody.\n\nWe went down to the police office, and there we found the authorities pondering over the passes, and wondering to see the names of the boys written in red pencil, that being the color of the printing of the new passes.\n\nWe explained that a red pencil is a very common article in a printing office and that the names had been written in with that; then on making ourselves responsible for the lads we saw them let go.\n\nMARRIAGE.\n\nAt Belgrave-square, on the 24th November, the wife of Admiral Sir T. COCHRANE, of a Son.\n\nAt Victoria, Cox, ELIZABETH SANDERS.\n\nMarriage Register xi:10.\n\nON SUNDAY, the 1st instant, the P. & O. Co.'s steamer Cadiz arrived with the English mails of 10th Dec.; from Singapore 24th, Penang 21st, Chusan 9th and Bombay 1st January.\n\nThe general news from Europe are of a most uninteresting description: and they are our readers have had them in the Extra we delivered on the arrival of the mail.\n\nThe Cadiz brings on:-\n\nOPIUM—For Cumsingmoon,.....875 chests,\n\nHongkong, 216\n\nWunsung.......435\n\nTotal—1581 chests,\n\nTREASURE\n\nFor Hongkong 459,965 dollars\n\nShanghai 479,697\n\nCanton 29,072\n\nTotal—1,126,831 dollars\n\nSTOCK OF TEA IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, November 30, 1856.\n\nLondon\n\n...t. 86,786,000 19,115,000\n\nercel...\n\nHull and other English Ports\n\nFaith and\n\nGlas other Foreign Ports\n\nIreland...\n\nStock, 30th November, 1856..\n\ndo, do. 1855.\n\n1,000,000 2,000,000 2,933,000 1,130,000\n\n1,700, una\n\n.67,214,009\n\nSome doubt having been felt in the trade as to when the next reduction of the duty on tea would come into operation, an inquiry was sent to the Board of Customs: the Board stated in reply, that on the 6th of April next the duty will be reduced from 1s. 9d to 1s. 3d. per pound.—one News.\n\nCHINA SHIPPING.\n\nArrivals.\n\nAt London, November 12, Orient from Shang-hae: 21. Cûnger, from Canton; 29, John Wade, from Foo-chow; 2, Coega, from Foo-chow: $5, Flery Cross, from Foo-chow 2, Sff from Canton 27, Sea Witch Gram Foo-chaw; a fon Taylor, from Foo-chow; 24, Rant of Hyland, from Shangte; December 1. Lorena, from Canton; 1, Kangaroo, from Canton; 5. Lente Sophie, from Foo-chow, Daphne.\n\nfrom Canton, Celualat, from Canton; Julin, from Canton.\n\nAt Liverpool, November 23, Viking, from Foo-chow; 28,\n\nAt Pen. Dom Canton,\n\nWe observe that H. M.'s brig of war Camilla, Commander Civil, from the Cape of Good Hope, Nov. 15th passed Anjer on the 7th inst. bound to China—strife Tema January 20.\n\nHOME NEWS\" Nov. 20.\n\nH. M. Str, —Notice is given that preparations are now making for the intended distribution of proceeds arising from the Greek brigantines Chrissys, apprehended on May 22, 1855, by H. M. S. Niger.\n\nBranded dise Heriblad, captured on May 19, 1855, by H. M. S. Nya; tribution of proceeds arising from the Greek esse and for the intended distribution of proceeds arising the Gruss, vessel Pagis requifio.espted on 30, 1855, by ET. 31. S.\n\nThe Charlotte June, for Shanghai, which put back to undergo thorough repair, will sail again on the 15th of January, having discharged her cargo, and, being leaky.\n\nSecond we would provide for a more effective superintendence from sun down to sun rise either by a four or a three hours' compulsory patrol of the inhabitants, which would be no hard task on 150 to 200 men.\n\nThese are the first imperative alterations or amendments, but—\n\nThird; we would put the men into barracks and in effect, put them, as nearly as possible under military discipline.\n\nThe man who would not submit to that discipline is not fit for a police-man, and a smaller force of well cared for men would be infinitely more valuable than the no-cared for rag tag and bob-tail that we now call police.\n\n\"COMMERCIAL SHIPPING NEWS\" The John Wade from China to London, as Arrived in the Tower, She lost her main, tort, and mizzen mast, and re-rigged mast, off the Cape of Good Hope on August 11.\n\nShe sailed from St. Helena on Sept. 22.\n\nAt the present moment—What is the best part of the police, as far as acting in a body is concerned, and as far as looks go? Why the Gaol brigade.\n\nThey step well together, and they carry their arms as if they know how to use them, neither of which assertions can be made of the rest of the police force.\n\nAnd what does this smart active clearly appear to arise from, but from discipline.\n\nThey are in barracks; they have good wholesome food: they are properly drilled, and the result follows, which always follows when men are well cared for, and well disciplined.\n\nA contemporary recommends a mounted patrol.\n\nThe Times are serious, and perhaps it might cheer the spirits of the colonists to see a mounted policeman with his trousers half way up his leg. his legs swaying backwards and forwards like pendulums, in what the equestrian, audaciously, imagines is rising to the trot of the bony police charger; while by his side clatters a word, that he could not draw—or use if he drew.\n\nWe have no fault to find with the policeman, nor with Janier Burton, who captured the two lads, nor with his superiors who were trying to see out a\n\nWe record without either regret or astonishment the above event.\n\nIt is another sign and are we less amused at the figure of certain superior officers who lean back to prevent the jar of the canter on their spinal column.\n\nAmusement is sometimes very useful, and we expect that amusement would be the extent of the utility of a mounted patrol.\n\nWe have given serious advice about the police, and finding that of no avail we have attacked them by ridicule; but they are thick-skinned animals, and we fear we are far from having pricked them into watchfulness by our sting.\n\nWe will not give up our task however, knowing how much depends on the vigilance of the police, and as vigilance is not natural in them, as it certainly is not, we shall try and establish it as an exotic which perhaps with due care may become a thriving plant.\n\nFirst then, the whole system of the police is wrong.\n\nThe day duty extends from six o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock at night, and night duty from ten o'clock at night until six o'clock in the morning.\n\nAll the changes of the day and night duty being effected from the central police station.\n\nThe hours of patrolling of each constable on night service is for the whole extent of the time.—night hours.\n\nWe believe this is the London system; and may for anything we know answer very well there; and perhaps it would answer very well here, if all the conditions were the same as they are in London, which they are not.\n\nOfficers,\n\nServants\n\nHank & Pike\n\nArtificers,\n\nFollowers 22, servants 18,\n\nDATA.\n\n2. 37.N.T Art.N.L\n\nDepartures.\n\nNovember 28th Armitage, for Shanghai: 23, Countess of Rarfield, for Shanghae; December,\n\n8, Mencide, fur Sigita\n\nThe amount of bills drawn by the East India Company on their respective Presidencies, from the 26th ult. to the 9th inst, is as follows:-\n\n£  s. d.\n\nBengal......442,920 12\n\nRate of Exchange. 91 2. Od. per Cus\n\nMadras 46,097 U\n\n9 Rupee.\n\nBombay 4,263 6\n\n28. 04. per ditto.\n\nTotal........£22,077 9\n\n4\n\n--Atlas, December 10.\n\nTHE Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4 PM, the following pieces:-\n\n1.—Prince Albert: March --Kilmer\n\n2.—Spanish Volonaise,--Isrypsant.\n\n3.—Aric. Finale Lip Sonnambula. Bellini 4.—Royal Irish Quadrille's,—Julien,\n\n—Dalkeith Piwo Waltz—Labicky.\n\n—Maltese Gallop—no\n\nH. M. Str, Barracouta arrived from Canton on Monday morning; the only news she brings is the account of an attempt to Fire to the Comus.\n\nThe night was very dark and two fire rafts came down and were close on the vessel before they were seen—one was boomed off by the fire boom. but the other worked on to and carried away the spanker boom.\n\nThe ropes about the bow were nearly burnt through.\n\nThe H. C. steamer Auckland returned to this port from Pinang on Friday last, bringing on for service in China about 159 Tons of shot, shell, and ammunition.\n\nThe Auckland brought on from Pinang the following officers and troops for service in China:\n\nMajor Cheslett 29th M. N. I.\n\nCaptain Cazalet,\n\nLiu, Foote,\n\nPassingham\n\n»\n\nTwo Companies Sepoys 20th M. N. I.\n\nCaptain Man, Madras Artillery.\n\nLieut. Forster,\n\nForty Europeans\n\nDr. Lloyd, Assistant Surgeon.\n\nApothecary Edwards.\n\nSh.Conductor Ball.\n\nFor the purpose of conveying the above Officers and Troops to Canton the Bore Company's steamers steamer St James Brooke has been chartered, and sails to-morrow for Whampoa.\n\nThe sum of Dals, Twelve Thousand for the trip and coals are the terms upon which the steamer has been chartered.\n\nAs the sement of troops from India has commenced Calcutta and Madras. The way with China as be we may look forward for speedy reinforcements from entered upon with a large military force, stronger than employed during the last war—Siraits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce, January 20.\n\nIn consequence of the pressing request of the Governor of Hongkong, General Bodelt has resolved to\n\nsend away to-morrow the Rifle Company of the 39th M. N. I with Capt. Bark and Lieut. Cos.\n\nConcerning the (From our Overland Edition.)\n\nCUMSTAL OF ARTUM AND NINE OTHERS ACCUSED TO POISON.—Particulars of the attempt to poison the whole community by bread from the E-sing Bakery will be found elsewhere.\n\nThe partner of the firm, Ahlum, arrested at Macao, was brought back, and after an examination before the Magistrates, was committed with nine others to take his trial at the Criminal Sessions this month.\n\nThe trial will commence on Monday next.\n\nOn Wednesday last an application was made to the Court to have the money seized or Ahlem's premises given up to pay for his defence.\n\nAttorney General, backed by the affidavit of two of Altun's creditors, resisted the application. stating in his as courteous manner that he did so to prevent the money being Thundered or squandered in his defence.\n\nThe Counsel, in support of the motion, seemed to think the Attorney General was using strong language. when, of course, the Attorney General repeated\n\nthe bill for Aldam's defence being paid out of the money, after it was laid before and approved of by His Lordship.\n\nHis Lordship very properly sustained the Attorney General, except of course as regarded his insinuations.\n\nThe prisoners will be well defended—they have two Attorneys and two Barristers.\n\nChinese New Year.—The Chinese New Year fell on Monday, the 25th Instant.\n\nIt is usually a scene of noisy rejoicing for several days and nights.\n\nIn London they have the pick of the very best labor of the country,—they will not other.\n\nHere our only easier is from bad request the Authorities to stop the usual expenditure of fire-works as a means of preventing the probability of fire.\n\nAided by this support, the Government issued an order that there should be no fireworks, let off.\n\nIn consequence, the New Year has passed without any of the usual rejoicings, showing, that if we choose to exercise it, we have a power of repression, especially if we show ourselves earnest in the matter.\n\nIn London, the men are well paid, and properly housed and cared for.\n\nHere they are not well paid—they live where they can, in low and dirty hovels, and no one cares for them.\n\nIn London, the care and training of strong healthy men originally, make them still stronger and handier—they are quite able, though not useless to walk their eight hours beat without inconvenience, to keep awake and be an effective sure of praise, and rewards, and promotion—give them up and retire.\n\nHere the want of care and discipline makes men in the end, neither strong nor healthy at the first, so they never were able to walk an eight hours beat steadily; they have little or nothing to look forward to.they are not likely to be praised in their present state.\n\nthe rewards they obtain are paltry and the promotion is a doubt full affair.\n\nSee the case of a licenum, who by great pluck at sea single-handed more off an armed gang of Chinese at Aberdeen, he was rewarded with ten dollars until we\n\nstate of our Settlement, and that the Chinese population ? shazed the government in to giving more.\n\nThe Admiral in reply to the muy treacherous attempts made against us on the morning of 19th inst. sent ashore several parties of Sailors and Marines, who set fire to the western suburbs in the neighborhood and above Sa-men; this work was carried out successfully by the boats of the Niger, Encounter, and Barracouta.\n\nThe men of the Fifty-ninth were also detailed to fire the Streets behind the Factories but, owing to loosing their way in the labyrinth of Streets in that neighborhood they had to return without effecting their object.\n\nAmen of the 59th, with a Lieutenant, a Sergeant, and 20 men of the 59th, with a Sergeant and six men of the Police, who are to return, by a Mail Steamer\n\nAnswer---I do.\n\nOn the\n\nCras and by Mr. Jay—I'm not aware that the delivered the remainder of our bread to Mr. May at the Police Court on the evening of the following day.\n\nQuestion—Do you not, as an Editor, make it your Ahlam's father, when the ninth prisoner was not in the neighborhood of the Yamun of the Governor General Yeh caused a conflagration of some extent.\n\nIn the body of the paper will be found Maui-General Yeh caused a conflagration of some extent. The whole operation was effected with a loss of two men of the Fifty-ninth killed and about six wounded; the latter are doing, worth attention.\n\nOn the 14th I went over to the E-sing shop to have conversation with Ahlam about that contract only\n\nQuestion—Then Sir, do you mean to say you did not know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nAnswer—What have I to do as an Editor of Newspaper with B-ring's stores.\n\nI wanted to say that I know of a bakery being near the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nOn Sunday night, the 18th instur, an attack against foreigners, us against their own Government, was made by large force of Chinese on the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nIt is a remonstrance made by, know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nRead, however, distinctively, it shews the prejudices which have to be overcaico before English: Commerce can again take its fitting intration of laying, be had only put it up to deceive the mandrains, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, the garden and, after establishing his quarters in Jous WAY-fam stoward the Sultana, I know the Tee-to-tum fort, came down here on the 23d\n\nMARKETA—Notwithstanding the warlike operations which have been carried on since the departure of the Calcutta steamer on the 28 ult. I was in the shoved the 15 January a little po\n\nasked if he had his family with him here.\n\nHe said, no bad business to attend to and he would walk home This was between 3 and 4 г.M.\n\nWalle going over A-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsome Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nThe charter is, we believe, to be given up, and as brought to a close, business will be recommened in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nmen\n\nmgements are making for getting the City in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND—The absolute necessity for a local gun-boat being apparent, the government chartered the steamer Eaglet at the present.\n\nAnse-am cook to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 19th: Ten-to the end of the war, as he would make a good thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe said he did not wish to go, bs that had ba throstened several times, And that at the presunt cunt there were 03 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguisu.\n\nI tot aim that if he would report them to the Police he would be pro-tected\n\nanswered, that when we reached tbo bakery he would show me that he had a large amount of propar-tyin stake; and that he would take ray advise and remain.\n\nWhen we got to the bakery the people were mixing water and dough in diferentrooms in the place.\n\nI asked him to return with, having satisfied myself there was enough bread in the drying on to fulfil the contract;\n\nvery heavy sum of four thousand dollars per 468. In Cotton there have been no issues since unry Ifved some bread from the E-ging shop, from tha\n\nThe vessel was totally unfit for the late of our last Overiand, but it is cnticipated Ferson who usually brought the bread he is not among he said no bad business to attend to and he would walk reanth.\n\nilo prisoner.\n\nThe broad was bought at about 7.30.\n\nA-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsaw Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nCruse examined by Dr. Bree—Julien gs in Smapsou left for Amoy on the 26th instant, considerable difference is made in the figures where we infer she will be stationed for the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nEXAGON.\n\nOn London, reputas sight, ds, Yu.\n\nCalcutta—3 days' sight. Rivos 215 per $100.\n\nBombay Rugs sis per $100.\n\nCREDIT AND OTHER BILLS\n\nOn Englunds.bid, a 15.97d---¤months' sight.\n\nOn Rotsbey,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nOn Calenta,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nCriminal Seibione, February 2, 1857 POISONING CASE, (First Day.)\n\nJery.—Morers, M. A. MACLEOD, W. H.\n\nSerros, Jous\n\nL.JALL\n\npris CLCES,\n\nW. A. HAILAND, I have always paid for bread from he was doing, and of his clarinetion to use.\n\nTà\n\nstatement Alum made that he guld shu bakery to rau is the E-sing up before the 15th January, and Dr.\n\nChalecost ad Dr. Hance partook the lead delivered ise.\n\nSince I gare my evidence before the Magistrate 1 was asked, na the prismass' behalf, by Mr. Mar, 20 that morning.\n\nAbout an hour afterwards I felt ck and faint, and Ehortly afterwards voted, and falconsider my statement about the 6 fandarins.\n\n* in my stomach.\n\nI took an emette which operated, had come from Allum to ask me to reconsider the answer sad I felt caster, bat in about two hours bail about the 63 Mandarins, Alam, asked me on the examt- I returned.\n\nThe next morning I had a violent headurba and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric,\n\nzakon, jî he did not any lie had been told about the co and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric, Mandards.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nI never saw na alan di Dr. Chaldecott before they were sick.\n\nThe the tenth prisnuut in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the latter gentleman had once more bread than any of us.\n\nsupply of 28 to 29,000lbs. bise it; it was made verbally with What breakfast a gentleman fed to say some\n\nAhim.\n\nI never made a contract with the tenth prisonet.\n\nof his friends were sick, they said in a simila. maner to that which I have descried.\n\nIlonk woon Abinon as the principal,and the teh prisoner to that which I have descried.\n\nza is assistant.\n\nMy visits were on large madere of busi- bat bread.\n\nness, and therefore not very frequent.\n\nWhen I had a contewer with him awuld occasionally drep in three or Torre severely then others.\n\nfour times a weak to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have gone, to sell flour to his.\n\nI would not conclude a wa-Tract with tenth prisoner, bat would have a juossega with him for Ahlam.\n\nI do not think he speaks English; a bread, I got a loaf from Mr. Grandpre which be said he\n\npureer was always present.\n\nAhium said the mandarinswore har! taken with his own hand from the E-sing shop, and hostile to hit in consequence of hie hating broed for the brought to me; text day I got bread from Mr. Drinker foragnet As we were going to the bakery we saw a boat and Dr. Dempster.\n\nladen with wood.\n\nIn ask me to pull to it as he wanted so ask the price, and buy if possible.\n\nIpofled upto it, and be told me he had bought it at a picul and a half for a dollar.\n\nI said it was dear.\n\nHe repbed it was dry wood We allerwards and an anolytie to ascertain the and adapted for the lakery.\n\nOn my return raw the D Bridges and Dir. Day Cowl Messrs. Gaskell quantity, and found that in a pound lost there was\n\nboat discharging on the warf and Brown with Ms. H. J. Turrant Solicitors for pri-a dram of arsenic ( grains).\n\nIn the bread it sz isted as common white arsenic.\n\nThe brand 1 est and souers.\n\nrested was brown bread, the other bread that zested was white bread.\n\nAll contained arsenie.\n\nMuch less than a hoef of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police cought me same yeast, and the materials for usk\n\n(Court adjourned at 2.30)\n\nIn reply to a question by the Cout. Du. Harland said, he had been requested by the Colonial Secretary Lo macke an analysis that he il so and the results were the same.\n\nThe unalysis was ronde in presence of Dr. Bradford Dr. Watson Dr. Keany and Dr. Dempster.\n\nThrough the Ceart, st instance of the Attomey Gan al. Tie symptoms drzevibed by the witness56, I have beard are those of poisoning by arsenic,\n\nA. GRANDPLE, The hell I gary to Dr. Harland,\n\ndcen strut, on the 16th January.\n\nI was at the Cental Polis Sation, and told a poison to take the yeast dear to hr. Havland.\n\nCross examined by Dr. Bridge—Inew the E sing HOO of Argon stress, MO SAY T Teen's\n\nRe-erambie, Tls it episode of the wood wa aft I had deraanded proof that he was going to reisio, as were not entladed with bis simple leclaration.\n\nThe conversation with the boatman was in Chinese.\n\nI saw no. money pass between Alum and the bout man.\n\nThis was the day before he left for Macao.\n\nThe prisoner Ahëwn statement before the Magistrates\n\nFarul.\n\nWALKING. An extraordinary pedestrian feat the been performed in Derbyshire.\n\nÀ man named Alfred Helson undertook to walk on six enceessive days the distance of 70 miles a-day.\n\nHe commenced his per-formance on Monday, July 20, and completed it with Case Saturday, the 26th at doing it within the specified time.\n\nThe 70 miles were usually walked in about 14 hours, hut on one of the days they were com pleted in 12.\n\nWhile on travel he took very little food, Except beef les or a tehell hit of matzon baff cooked unl Elle stimulans occasionally.\n\nIn stature he is about\n\na somewhat intriligent countenance.\n\nWhen on travel abon had a slight swing with his arius, and appeared to be going at the steady ate of some three miles an hour, and it was only when any one atletal to keep\n\na large fleet of heavily armed junks—turned and Lenox, W. A. Bowna, ED. T. Descassos, Geono\n\nOn the run back the patent log was came back.\n\ntried; when under the land, partly out of the very ChaoпG ARCUK, 4-Lum Ausow, 5-T AUZTEN,\n\n1.-ČEROVA Akopow, 2-UpsoNG AMZER, heavy sea that was runing, the log was agan-Tove Na ost, 7-Cucing Auxen, 8-Forg A hove, and she was found to be making at the CHUT, S.-CHEONG Azam, 10, Carong Wre Kero, rate of twelve miles an hour.\n\nShe was par dúministering prism with intent c\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Ansty Alloney General; round twice, and she made the circuit in 13 minutes-out time, 43 minutes the ather, Mr. Hickso: Cheam Saficitor, amistad by Mr. George\n\nCooper Turuer.\n\ncatting her wake in both instances, Reach. ed Hongkong atfive.\n\nThere was also a good facility of the way in which she started and stopped;--shu\n\nThe Atorney General stated the case and called was stopped twice, once at Ling-ting\n\nJAYTA CARROLL DEMISTER—I am Colonial Surgeon.\n\nthe fleet of junks there, once to overhaul a B-\n\nI have been in the habit before the 15th January of ob picious locking boat; the trial in both case was taining lead from the E-sing shop belonging to the two entisfactory.\n\nWhen she gets the hurricane decking: prisonera.\n\nAt 5 ming bebe 8 AM of the 100 ing yeast, also some flour, and some pastry, fata the sad the after enbiu taken off her, she will in the January, I and my family partock of stained bakery.\n\nThey were only examined to see if they ent for the E-sing shop, at breakfeat.\n\nAfter Ms. Dzapater taiued any metalic potson, but there was neither draeuic event of being hired by the Government and\n\nhad eaten a small portion of the bread she felt giddy and nor say other metalic poison in them, Bick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was taken properly manned and armed, prove of great value in defending the feland, and letting us know what sick I bought nothing of it at the tima.\n\nI walked out to the verandah to exoko a cheroot.\n\nWhile holding a is going on outside.\n\nOLD CUSTOM—A Chinese reason for dingo stick to the class, I became sick and vomited-1 thenght nothing; of it, but wont in my chair to the polico any thing is, that it is \"Old Ghetero,\" Our hospita..\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading my ba the governcams, the next most stable and conserva-jail, I became sick and ocuumed sick all the way tive after that of China, follows this rule exactly, te the hospital, and was sick unui a quarter to 10 AMI vomited very viniently.\n\nMrs. Dempster was and we have an instance of it now under our\n\neck on to 12 or 1 o'clock that right.\n\nThe next evening. eyes.\n\nThe Minie Rides for the Fifty-ninth love the 18th, about 8 FM, I forwarded the remainder of the arrived in the City of Carlisle, the amunition is to bread to Dr. Hzclazu for the purpose of, is being analy- was taken from the E-sing sop, ut the bottom of Aber- the middle height, this, extremely tauscular, end having come by and bye in another ship.\n\nIn the mean-se.\n\nI did not take the bread myself to De. Hari\n\nCroy Bunned by Dr. Badges, Ablein the sinth time the dal for long ranges has commenced, as fax as can go on the only tolerably level picce up in my own road I got it to Dr. Harlund.\n\nprisoner is the only one I know, I kept the bread locked nd we have the Happy Valley.\n\nI seat the bread by a confie dauer) Abai OLIVOLTZA—This corvette, one of H. I.\n\nAIAL— servant to Dr. Dempster cani u 1. vessels, which formed part of the Russian paper pacel on Dr. Dempster to Dr. Farinud, et le squadron sighted in Castrica Ray by Commodore 16th Junang.\n\nI do not know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to ine\n\nA CUMONT,-- Umi sorvant to Dr. Dempster, on the 15th theBrothers,' about twelve uules' distance from this larber.\n\nHaving been in these Eastern January, rected some bread at my inster's door from two men belonging to the £-sing's shop.\n\nThey ars nor gave it to my Master to eat.\n\nwalers for a period of seven years, it was found among the prisnare.\n\nNCCPERATY that she sheld indago a complete | This was about seven o'eloel.. i panded it on the hrakfast overhaul before departing Europe.\n\nThis is table.\n\nWH. TARKANT,-Ian Elitor of this Friend of Chin mw being done, and slic will probably take her\n\nfrith E-sing shop down in the 163: Jammy.\n\nThrow denature for Europe within three weeks.\n\nHer weaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of obtaining bread Commander. Caprala Koroolt, formerly com-\n\nthen sh and 10th prisoners to be competen with the sang shop 7 14 is acullecion ofsets; manded the little steamer Vostuck, which. sa clever-\n\nto sancos Mr. May was not present when the known to face for menfacturing but necessity for the ly cluding the English aruizers, ran into Sharr de 21, the last i know of him was wred-delivarer, then, Mr. Mercer, and M. May sing and enguling\n\ntwo bast prisoners were brought my zxamination.\n\nT! Colonial Attorney General's former audiences-night hae, carrying to the Russian Admiral important is the munging partner; and the 10th is his facher, acting as gel assistant in die shop Queen's Real nawa branght from Europe by English steiners.\n\nWest.\n\nI have soon is there frequentis, perhape ouco ever remember the Tastices of the Face sitting at he is preparing for the Treas as Acrount of the\n\nPo Station as a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Me Colony over which he rules.—Bengal Kartars, Dee. 1.\n\nCapt. Kursaceff's urbanity and gentlemanly bear out of erary two visits.\n\nI aw the first priser about 4\n\namination was going on at the Pulics Station.\n\nJustices ing has caused him to be recognised—not only or 5 anys below the 5th January, he was sitting down into was sitting at the Podro Court winle tais ex- of the lense were also sitting as the Police Curt.\n\nB by those who were then uentrals, but by those in my office and presented nes bill from his master.\n\nI told him, Lin, as the hili was not recoipied, if he would leave it I world look rait.\n\nIle suid is unster was going away, and may action to sit down as it he tended to the Police Cont.\n\nThe reusabing 10 prisoners enllred, though we cannot say it has distanced, wais mtb was paid.\n\nScing Le was inclined to be are still detained.\n\nThey are at the Crise rout Station, the Fraue shoul, in the matte ci wrecks.\n\nThey 1izod him by the colitr, amil old him, cal his posite Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Godowns They American clipper Golden Racer, ton laden, forster might go to the devil if they pleased, and (thrust have been in custody from the 15th January.\n\nI cant in out of the office, I have soch the sand piery wether or not the Attorney Gener 100k may part it the examination at Cas Police Station, he was moving the United Statee, on her departure from the many occasicus, I saw Jam at the best held on the hous, but that was too crowded far me to distinguish\n\nChantes Mar—The yeast & delivered t pert, struck on the cuter knoll, and was totally body found on heal the Title.\n\nOn that occasion he deserihea homself as purse's tuate on board the Tisk\n\nThe Flyaway is also said to This was carly in January.\n\nTo the best of my best the cry.\n\nInsperor Beyis carried them to the Poltes Stution.\n\n\"Cross-tramined by D. Urbiges, I set with Mr. Mermer have grounded at the mouth of the river.\n\nbut unenca st the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave on the evening of the 15th Janamry to enuiluet the m having reived no serious damage, she proceed-bis avilence on the quest, obeted is in bringing quiry.\n\nI was about to commence the enquiry ut 2.30, fe; she wore her boanet, already on bre, from her bead,\n\ncame of her crew.\n\ned on her voyage.\n\nHe-anúž--1 tiöver saw tie tentli prispace heiro, i Silap before this occurrence.\n\nThey disp at the 's mo~) poca mutiran\n\nRoad Kust, they are about a mile part the bread is uusi pane was probably from four to six miles an hour.\n\ncarted lean one to the olur.\n\nAbout two years ago the Linti song was the sharptor of the Thixile.\n\nIn on- -G'que.\n\nhead need to be baked at the chup, but not lately, a fhe tock pince there about that the knew Alful be\n\nTHY GEMINI—Mr. Ühisi.olm Anstey, formerly one for the 15th January.\n\nI have seen him often.\n\nHe was of the most successtil step.compellers in the fon niwaya sal to be the mister of a single\n\nOf Commons, but now Attorney General at Hongkong, Out ca the bakery and abop about 59 pecats were has nuagel to brenme bis com client, and we all know restod on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before e Juskáve of what that indicates!\n\nA reieresco to the action in which the Feare, Clintles May Esq., sesalonger Justice of Peaco\n\nhe is defendant will be found in another columu ex- were penis west the Caud Police Station.\n\ntracted from the Hongkong Register, and we hope here- after to be able to copy tlist report of the trial.\n\nthe first day Mr. Stercer Mr. Gli and Mr. Gry were present on the second day the Attomey General was prescal.\n\nThe Cental Police Station is not the Mana! place for criminal examinations, bulk clacy whers asional held there.\n\nI have seen the Atoring Gen- A BAYS Wouse.—A passenger on board the North- an Indiana, which was recently burned on Lake Erie, gives au recount of the narrow escape of Cicero Fowler and wife, of Tally.\n\nThere was but one he-preserver for Lant she should put it on, abo peremptity refused, Mss.\n\nFowler and her husband; he fusisted imperatively saying she was \"poce in hanth, and his \"hfe was worth far more then hers!\"\n\nThe preserver. having no strap, Mrs. Fowler tore the bad from her dress and fastened it to her husband, whom she contisued to encourage, seying she could hold on to him, nad of the preserver cold not sustain both, she would let go, and leave his to save himself.\n\nThe fire was getting hitter and hotter.\n\nThe water was the's with human bodies, struggling for\n\nwhen Mr. Mercer came in, and 1 invites him to take a and hand in hand with one she loved better dan herself, part in it.\n\n1 was conducting the enquiry as the Superia! H. M. Str, Barracontu arrived from Canton on Monday morning; the only news she brings is the account of an attempt to Ret tre to the Comus.\n\nOn the 14th I went over to the E-sing shop to have conversation with Ahlam about that contract only\n\nOn Sunday night, the 18th instur, an attack against foreigners, us against their own Government, was made by large force of Chinese on the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nIt is a remonstrance made by, know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nRead, however, distinctively, it shews the prejudices which have to be overcaico before English: Commerce can again take its fitting intration of laying, be had only put it up to deceive the mandrains, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, the garden and, after establishing his quarters in Jous WAY-fam stoward the Sultana, I know the Tee-to-tum fort, came down here on the 23d\n\nMARKETA—Notwithstanding the warlike operations which have been carried on since the departure of the Calcutta steamer on the 28 ult. I was in the shoved the 15 January a litle po\n\nasked if he had his family with him here.\n\nHe said, no bad business to attend to and he would walk home This was between 3 and 4 г.M.\n\nWalle going over A-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsome Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nThe charter is, we believe, to be given up, and as brought to a close, business will be recommened in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nmen\n\nmgements are making for getting the City in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND—The absolute necessity for a local gun-boat being apparent, the government chartered the steamer Eaglet at the present.\n\nAnse-am cook to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 19th: Ten-to the end of the war, as he would make a good thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe said he did not wish to go, bs that had ba throstened several times, And that at the presunt cunt there were 03 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguisu.\n\nI tot aim that if he would report them to the Police he would be pro-tected\n\nanswered, that when we reached tbo bakery he would show me that he had a large amount of propar-tyin stake; and that he would take ray advise and remain.\n\nWhen we got to the bakery the people were mixing water and dough in diferentrooms in the place.\n\nI asked him to return with, having satisfied myself there was enough bread in the drying on to fulfil the contract;\n\nvery heavy sum of four thousand dollars per 468. In Cotton there have been no issues since unry Ifved some bread from the E-ging shop, from tha\n\nThe vessel was totally unfit for the late of our last Overiand, but it is cnticipated Ferson who usually brought the bread he is not among he said no bad business to attend to and he would walk reanth.\n\nilo prisoner.\n\nThe broad was bought at about 7.30.\n\nA-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsaw Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nCruse examined by Dr. Bree—Julien gs in Smapsou left for Amoy on the 26th instant, considerable difference is made in the figures where we infer she will be stationed for the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nEXAGON.\n\nOn London, reputas sight, ds, Yu.\n\nCalcutta—3 days' sight. Rivos 215 per $100.\n\nBombay Rugs sis per $100.\n\nCREDIT AND OTHER BILLS\n\nOn Englunds.bid, a 15.97d---¤months' sight.\n\nOn Rotsbey,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nOn Calenta,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nCriminal Seibione, February 2, 1857 POISONING CASE, (First Day.)\n\nJery.—Morers, M. A. MACLEOD, W. H.\n\nSerros, Jous\n\nL.JALL\n\npris CLCES,\n\nW. A. HAILAND, I have always paid for bread from he was doing, and of his clarinetion to use.\n\nTà\n\nstatement Alum made that he guld shu bakery to rau is the E-sing up before the 15th January, and Dr.\n\nChalecost ad Dr. Hance partook the lead delivered ise.\n\nSince I gare my evidence before the Magistrate 1 was asked, na the prismass' behalf, by Mr. Mar, 20 that morning.\n\nAbout an hour afterwards I felt ck and faint, and Ehortly afterwards voted, and falconsider my statement about the 6 fandarins.\n\n* in my stomach.\n\nI took an emette which operated, had come from Allum to ask me to reconsider the answer sad I felt caster, bat in about two hours bail about the 63 Mandarins, Alam, asked me on the examt- I returned.\n\nThe next morning I had a violent headurba and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric,\n\nzakon, jî he did not any lie had been told about the co and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric, Mandards.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nI never saw na alan di Dr. Chaldecott before they were sick.\n\nThe the tenth prisnuut in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the latter gentleman had once more bread than any of us.\n\nsupply of 28 to 29,000lbs. bise it; it was made verbally with What breakfast a gentleman fed to say some\n\nAhim.\n\nI never made a contract with the tenth prisonet.\n\nof his friends were sick, they said in a simila. maner to that which I have descried.\n\nIlonk woon Abinon as the principal,and the teh prisoner to that which I have descried.\n\nza is assistant.\n\nMy visits were on large madere of busi- bat bread.\n\nness, and therefore not very frequent.\n\nWhen I had a contewer with him awuld occasionally drep in three or Torre severely then others.\n\nfour times a weak to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have gone, to sell flour to his.\n\nI would not conclude a wa-Tract with tenth prisoner, bat would have a juossega with him for Ahlam.\n\nI do not think he speaks English; a bread, I got a loaf from Mr. Grandpre which be said he\n\npureer was always present.\n\nAhium said the mandarinswore har! taken with his own hand from the E-sing shop, and hostile to hit in consequence of hie hating broed for the brought to me; text day I got bread from Mr. Drinker foragnet As we were going to the bakery we saw a boat and Dr. Dempster.\n\nladen with wood.\n\nIn ask me to pull to it as he wanted so ask the price, and buy if possible.\n\nIpofled upto it, and be told me he had bought it at a picul and a half for a dollar.\n\nI said it was dear.\n\nHe repbed it was dry wood We allerwards and an anolytie to ascertain the and adapted for the lakery.\n\nOn my return raw the D Bridges and Dir. Day Cowl Messrs. Gaskell quantity, and found that in a pound lost there was\n\nboat discharging on the warf and Brown with Ms. H. J. Turrant Solicitors for pri-a dram of arsenic ( grains).\n\nIn the bread it sz isted as common white arsenic.\n\nThe brand 1 est and souers.\n\nrested was brown bread, the other bread that zested was white bread.\n\nAll contained arsenie.\n\nMuch less than a hoef of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police cought me same yeast, and the materials for usk\n\n(Court adjourned at 2.30)\n\nIn reply to a question by the Cout. Du. Harland said, he had been requested by the Colonial Secretary Lo macke an analysis that he il so and the results were the same.\n\nThe unalysis was ronde in presence of Dr. Bradford Dr. Watson Dr. Keany and Dr. Dempster.\n\nThrough the Ceart, st instance of the Attomey Gan al. Tie symptoms drzevibed by the witness56, I have beard are those of poisoning by arsenic,\n\nA. GRANDPLE, The hell I gary to Dr. Harland,\n\ndcen strut, on the 16th January.\n\nI was at the Cental Polis Sation, and told a poison to take the yeast dear to hr. Havland.\n\nCross examined by Dr. Bridge—Inew the E sing HOO of Argon stress, MO SAY T Teen's\n\nRe-erambie, Tls it episode of the wood wa aft I had deraanded proof that he was going to reisio, as were not entladed with bis simple leclaration.\n\nThe conversation with the boatman was in Chinese.\n\nI saw no. money pass between Alum and the bout man.\n\nThis was the day before he left for Macao.\n\nThe prisoner Ahëwn statement before the Magistrates\n\nFarul.\n\nWALKING. An extraordinary pedestrian feat the been performed in Derbyshire.\n\nÀ man named Alfred Helson undertook to walk on six enceessive days the distance of 70 miles a-day.\n\nHe commenced his per-formance on Monday, July 20, and completed it with Case Saturday, the 26th at doing it within the specified time.\n\nThe 70 miles were usually walked in about 14 hours, hut on one of the days they were com pleted in 12.\n\nWhile on travel he took very little food, Except beef les or a tehell hit of matzon baff cooked unl Elle stimulans occasionally.\n\nIn stature he is about\n\na somewhat intriligent countenance.\n\nWhen on travel abon had a slight swing with his arius, and appeared to be going at the steady ate of some three miles an hour, and it was only when any one atletal to keep\n\na large fleet of heavily armed junks—turned and Lenox, W. A. Bowna, ED. T. Descassos, Geono\n\nOn the run back the patent log was came back.\n\ntried; when under the land, partly out of the very ChaoпG ARCUK, 4-Lum Ausow, 5-T AUZTEN,\n\n1.-ČEROVA Akopow, 2-UpsoNG AMZER, heavy sea that was runing, the log was agan-Tove Na ost, 7-Cucing Auxen, 8-Forg A hove, and she was found to be making at the CHUT, S.-CHEONG Azam, 10, Carong Wre Kero, rate of twelve miles an hour.\n\nShe was par dúministering prism with intent c\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Ansty Alloney General; round twice, and she made the circuit in 13 minutes-out time, 43 minutes the ather, Mr. Hickso: Cheam Saficitor, amistad by Mr. George\n\nCooper Turuer.\n\ncatting her wake in both instances, Reach. ed Hongkong atfive.\n\nThere was also a good facility of the way in which she started and stopped;--shu\n\nThe Atorney General stated the case and called was stopped twice, once at Ling-ting\n\nJAYTA CARROLL DEMISTER—I am Colonial Surgeon.\n\nthe fleet of junks there, once to overhaul a B-\n\nI have been in the habit before the 15th January of ob picious locking boat; the trial in both case was taining lead from the E-sing shop belonging to the two entisfactory.\n\nWhen she gets the hurricane decking: prisonera.\n\nAt 5 ming bebe 8 AM of the 100 ing yeast, also some flour, and some pastry, fata the sad the after enbiu taken off her, she will in the January, I and my family partock of stained bakery.\n\nThey were only examined to see if they ent for the E-sing shop, at breakfeat.\n\nAfter Ms. Dzapater taiued any metalic potson, but there was neither draeuic event of being hired by the Government and\n\nhad eaten a small portion of the bread she felt giddy and nor say other metalic poison in them, Bick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was taken properly manned and armed, prove of great value in defending the feland, and letting us know what sick I bought nothing of it at the tima.\n\nI walked out to the verandah to exoko a cheroot.\n\nWhile holding a is going on outside.\n\nOLD CUSTOM—A Chinese reason for dingo stick to the class, I became sick and vomited-1 thenght nothing; of it, but wont in my chair to the polico any thing is, that it is \"Old Ghetero,\" Our hospita..\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading my ba the governcams, the next most stable and conserva-jail, I became sick and ocuumed sick all the way tive after that of China, follows this rule exactly, te the hospital, and was sick unui a quarter to 10 AMI vomited very viniently.\n\nMrs. Dempster was and we have an instance of it now under our\n\neck on to 12 or 1 o'clock that right.\n\nThe next evening. eyes.\n\nThe Minie Rides for the Fifty-ninth love the 18th, about 8 FM, I forwarded the remainder of the arrived in the City of Carlisle, the amunition is to bread to Dr. Hzclazu for the purpose of, is being analy- was taken from the E-sing sop, ut the bottom of Aber- the middle height, this, extremely tauscular, end having come by and bye in another ship.\n\nIn the mean-se.\n\nI did not take the bread myself to De. Hari\n\nCroy Bunned by Dr. Badges, Ablein the sinth time the dal for long ranges has commenced, as fax as can go on the only tolerably level picce up in my own road I got it to Dr. Harlund.\n\nprisoner is the only one I know, I kept the bread locked nd we have the Happy Valley.\n\nI seat the bread by a confie dauer) Abai OLIVOLTZA—This corvette, one of H. I.\n\nAIAL— servant to Dr. Dempster cani u 1. vessels, which formed part of the Russian paper pacel on Dr. Dempster to Dr. Farinud, et le squadron sighted in Castrica Ray by Commodore 16th Junang.\n\nI do not know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to ine\n\nA CUMONT,-- Umi sorvant to Dr. Dempster, on the 15th theBrothers,' about twelve uules' distance from this larber.\n\nHaving been in these Eastern January, rected some bread at my inster's door from two men belonging to the £-sing's shop.\n\nThey ars nor gave it to my Master to eat.\n\nwalers for a period of seven years, it was found among the prisnare.\n\nNCCPERATY that she sheld indago a complete | This was about seven o'eloel.. i panded it on the hrakfast overhaul before departing Europe.\n\nThis is table.\n\nWH. TARKANT,-Ian Elitor of this Friend of Chin mw being done, and slic will probably take her\n\nfrith E-sing shop down in the 163: Jammy.\n\nThrow denature for Europe within three weeks.\n\nHer weaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of obtaining bread Commander. Caprala Koroolt, formerly com-\n\nthen sh and 10th prisoners to be competen with the sang shop 7 14 is acullecion ofsets; manded the little steamer Vostuck, which. sa clever-    the English aruizers, ran into Sharr de 21, the last i know of him was wred-delivarer, then, Mr. Mercer, and M. May sing and enguling\n\ntwo bast prisoners were brought my zxamination.\n\nT! Colonial Attorney General's former audiences-night hae, carrying to the Russian Admiral important is the munging partner; and the 10th is his facher, acting as gel assistant in die shop Queen's Real nawa branght from Europe by English steiners.\n\nWest.\n\nI have soon is there frequentis, perhape ouco ever remember the Tastices of the Face sitting at he is preparing for the Treas as Acrount of the\n\nPo Station as a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Me Colony over which he rules.—Bengal Kartars, Dee. 1.\n\nCapt. Kursaceff's urbanity and gentlemanly bear out of erary two visits.\n\nI aw the first priser about 4\n\namination was going on at the Pulics Station.\n\nJustices ing has caused him to be recognised—not only or 5 anys below the 5th January, he was sitting down into was sitting at the Podro Court winle tais ex- of the lense were also sitting as the Police Curt.\n\nB by those who were then uentrals, but by those in my office and presented nes bill from his master.\n\nI told him, Lin, as the hili was not recoipied, if he would leave it I world look rait.\n\nIle suid is unster was going away, and may action to sit down as it he tended to the Police Cont.\n\nThe reusabing 10 prisoners enllred, though we cannot say it has distanced, wais mtb was paid.\n\nScing Le was inclined to be are still detained.\n\nThey are at the Crise rout Station, the Fraue shoul, in the matte ci wrecks.\n\nThey 1izod him by the colitr, amil old him, cal his posite Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Godowns They American clipper Golden Racer, ton laden, forster might go to the devil if they pleased, and (thrust have been in custody from the 15th January.\n\nI cant in out of the office, I have soch the sand piery wether or not the Attorney Gener 100k may part it the examination at Cas Police Station, he was moving the United Statee, on her departure from the many occasicus, I saw Jam at the best held on the hous, but that was too crowded far me to distinguish\n\nChantes Mar—The yeast & delivered t pert, struck on the cuter knoll, and was totally body found on heal the Title.\n\nOn that occasion he deserihea homself as purse's tuate on board the Tisk\n\nThe Flyaway is also said to This was carly in January.\n\nTo the best of my best the cry.\n\nInsperor Beyis carried them to the Poltes Stution.\n\n\"Cross-tramined by D. Urbiges, I set with Mr. Mermer have grounded at the mouth of the river.\n\nbut unenca st the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave on the evening of the 15th Janamry to enuiluet the m having reived no serious damage, she proceed-bis avilence on the quest, obeted is in bringing quiry.\n\nI was about to commence the enquiry ut 2.30, fe; she wore her boanet, already on bre, from her bead,\n\ncame of her crew.\n\ned on her voyage.\n\nHe-anúž--1 tiöver saw tie tentli prispace heiro, i Silap before this occurrence.\n\nThey disp at the 's mo~) poca mutiran\n\nRoad Kust, they are about a mile part the bread is uusi pane was probably from four to six miles an hour.\n\ncarted lean one to the olur.\n\nAbout two years ago the Linti song was the sharptor of the Thixile.\n\nIn on- -G'que.\n\nhead need to be baked at the chup, but not lately, a fhe tock pince there about that the knew Alful be\n\nTHY GEMINI—Mr. Ühisi.olm Anstey, formerly one for the 15th January.\n\nI have seen him often.\n\nHe was of the most successtil step.compellers in the fon niwaya sal to be the mister of a single\n\nOf Commons, but now Attorney General at Hongkong, Out ca the bakery and abop about 59 pecats were has nuagel to brenme bis com client, and we all know restod on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before e Juskáve of what that indicates!\n\nA reieresco to the action in which the Feare, Clintles May Esq., sesalonger Justice of Peaco\n\nhe is defendant will be found in another columu ex- were penis west the Caud Police Station.\n\ntracted from the Hongkong Register, and we hope here- after to be able to copy tlist report of the trial.\n\nthe first day Mr. Stercer Mr. Gli and Mr. Gry were present on the second day the Attomey General was prescal.\n\nThe Cental Police Station is not the Mana! place for criminal examinations, bulk clacy whers asional held there.\n\nI have seen the Atoring Gen- A BAYS Wouse.—A passenger on board the North- an Indiana, which was recently burned on Lake Erie, gives au recount of the narrow escape of Cicero Fowler and wife, of Tally.\n\nThere was but one he-preserver for Lant she should put it on, abo peremptity refused, Mss.\n\nFowler and her husband; he fusisted imperatively saying she was \"poce in hanth, and his \"hfe was worth far more then hers!\"\n\nThe preserver. having no strap, Mrs. Fowler tore the bad from her dress and fastened it to her husband, whom she contisued to encourage, seying she could hold on to him, nad of the preserver cold not sustain both, she would let go, and leave his to save himself.\n\nThe fire was getting hitter and hotter.\n\nThe water was the's with human bodies, struggling for\n\nwhen Mr. Mercer came in, and 1 invites him to take a and hand in hand with one she loved better dan herself, part in it.\n\n1 was conducting the enquiry as the Superia! Look the dangerous leup.\n\nAs they ruse from the water, tendent of Police, and Mr. Meer as ColonialS erretary.\n\nMr. Fowler assisted his wife in procuring a yout baid of fi was a general investigation into the eas-Cases him on or about his shoilers, Sire wiped the weter which require particular investigation, 1 enquire into be from his eyes and mouth, and encouraged him to retain fore sending then to the Magistras way my origins: his inpe of being saved.\n\nHe continued to struggle with intention to follow the sun course in the pressul ins the waves.\n\nHalf-an-hour elapsed, and there were no tanen: I tried to put a fasight into the cast as super-sigan of unsistance.\n\nHis strength was rugidly failing afterwards we turced ourselves his wife observing it, tried asrw to cheer him.\n\nEle suid\n\nbread to my house.\n\nI made this objection on the isch THE DEPORTATION Onntaver. -This is one Jaanary Inn & and 7 o'clock in the morning when I saw him bringing bal.\n\nAnother qual va cung of the many Ordinances which of late have passed ing the bread is the baskets, tlo secourt priser tool: before the mind's eye of the Legislative Council.onit the bend was delivered it.\n\nI said, \"Oh oh my Enne If we were called open to give succinctly our ab low you deliver my breas de you I made un res- We pense but gave me a kind of a grin.\n\nI saw him go away. jections to it, we could not well to .\n\nand I then went in an old y compradore to mentio could but answer in these words:--\n\nE-eing's all and have no more broad from him, es [ theagle he would poison 56.\n\nA partook of the breast, and intendeat of police, the servant git des cat what we left on the plate into justices and took the depositions.\n\nWe did not he could not stand it any longer, it sees as though he About five sivutes afterwards I wont be my sitting make this change in consequence of having illegally must give up.\n\nAt this moniest she bear a steamer coming rapidly through the water.\n\nShe says, \"My dear room from the Inekfast table; immediately afterwards admiciatore: ontis.\n\nSANDWITH DRINgen, -I am in business in the firm husband, a few moments more and we are safe.\n\nDon't To\n\nyou hear a boat coming?\n\nHe said he did, and immedi the 28th instant, carried with her 168 of the fast.\n\nI at lown en was looking over some papers, who of Thomas Hunt & Co, 1 lived in the sine house with deported, to be lender en the itiand of Hairan al of a sudden I vomitest- vomited three or four times | Captain Ľudrost.\n\nOn the 15th January, 1 cat of some ately revived, and made all the efforts in his power, ned move during the course of the day, sail I have concinnaly bred supplied by the ninth prisoner, and I was alterwards struggled for Simself and his herose wife until the Mia.\n\nLandel there, if they can be landed, what will suffered fict the effects of the poisoning up to the pre very ill.\n\nand no over all that eat of it in the house.\n\nI say took them, with scores of others, on her com- I nocious decks.Syracuse Journal.\n\nhave not perfectly recover from it at this tale.\n\nbecunus of them?\n\nAccompanying the motley sout time.\n\n*I do not like thes Dr. Feil,\n\nThe son why I mot tell;\n\nBut us\n\nnow, and dust all well,\n\nI do not like thee Jr. Tril,”\n\n319",
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        "content_text": "## Proceedings of 8th July continued.\n\nI recollect the apprehension of a man who was charged with stealing a watch from Mr Lapraik. I was examined in the gaol upon a subsequent charge of piracy against the same man. I was examined in the presence of the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr Caldwell, Mr Inglis, and a Chinese prisoner named Kwan Chan-hee. From circumstances, I imagined the man was accused from dislike between him and Ma-chow Wong and Kwan Chun-hee and this man.\n\nWhen I was examining him, he brought out some pieces of red paper, eight or nine inches long, with Chinese characters, which were interpreted to me by one of the Chinese in the station named Ahee. It was to the effect that Beaver was an American, a very good man, and had been some time in his employ; I kept it for a day or two before producing it by me before Mr Mitchell. I cannot recollect whether Mr Caldwell was there when I told Mr Mitchell of the interpretation I put upon the paper or not. I don't think I told Mr May about the paper while the trial was going on.\n\nIn a day or two after Beaver was remanded, I was sent for by the Acting Colonial Secretary. At about 6 o'clock in the morning I went to the Acting Colonial Secretary's house. He commenced questioning me, as licensing day was coming on, about the Comprador of the steamer.\n\nI know from reference to my chart, that Luy-chow near Hainan is from 8 to 10 miles from the mouth of a river; it stands a little way back from the shore. I have been past, but never in it.\n\n[Read Lyons' evidence concerning his visit to the Gaol to inquire about Beaver and the paper, and Beaver's conversation with himself.]\n\nI agree with nearly every portion of it. Beaver himself told me that he was with Akwai. I was at Boggs's trial.\n\nWhen I came here yesterday, there was a paper shown to me, and I was asked if I knew the character of the different Public-house keepers. After that I saw the paper produced. I do not know what was done with the paper before.\n\nThe steamer was about a mile and a half from the shore. The Elders of the village came on board and made an arrangement with Mr Caldwell for the payment of a sum of money if we could catch these desperadoes, but I do not know the amount. The boat went for the purpose of assisting people belonging to the Elders, and Mr Caldwell went in it. There were four armed men, four men pulling, the second Engineer and the Captain. When Roberts and Lyons asked me these questions, they did not tell me they should want me to give evidence. Yesterday, Roberts told me he had written down what I had said. I told him I thought it very curious, and that if I had seen the paper before, I should not have said anything. The answer I gave was that I had seen a paper written by a friend of mine about a year before; it was relating to the sale of a lorcha.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary then remarked that the prisoner had that paper in his possession, and had given it to Kwan Chun-hee, and that the prisoner was head partner in the purchase of the lorcha. The Acting Colonial Secretary then went on to say that the paper had been given by this prisoner to Kwan Chun-hee within the last few days in Gaol, and that Kwan Chun-hee had given it up to accuse the prisoner.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary then asked me about the searching of the prisoner at the Station, and I said I thought it was impossible he could have been locked up, without any paper which he might have had on his body being found.\n\nRe-examined,--During the time in which I was employed on board the `Eaglet` we never made any prisoners. In the Kulan affair there was loss of life sustained--five of the `Rattler's` and six or eight of the `Powhattan's` men were killed, besides other casualties. The information that the junks captured at St John's were pirates was obtained from the prisoner before his arrest.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary asked me if I had ever seen a fleet of two or three hundred junks which we met on our way to Mameë. I told him I had seen them one time previously, when he was making a charge in the Central Police Station. He then asked me if I could recognise a man named Yik-foo, if I saw him. He then asked me if the prisoner was not Yik-foo, and I said that he was not.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary then sent me round to the Gaol to take another look at the prisoner, and assured me that the prisoner was not Yik-foo. I returned, and told him I was certain he was not Yik-foo. He then asked me, as the prisoner was sick at the time, could his sickness not have altered him, so that I could not recognise him. I assured him he was not Yik-foo, upon which I was dismissed.\n\nA short time afterwards I met the Acting Colonial Secretary at the Central Police Station, and in speaking to him I remarked that I had been told by one of the European prisoners, that the paper had been in Gaol since the conviction of Kwan Chun-hee. I then told him that Kwan Chun-hee had already brought a charge against Tong Akü which had been proved false. The charge against Tong Akü had been convicted.\n\nDr Bridges said that he would see into the matter, that he would inquire amongst the prisoners in the Gaol, and ascertain whether it was as I said with reference to the paper. I again saw the Acting Colonial Secretary upon this matter.\n\nI have seen Passengers coming on board except as a passenger. I have no recollection of seeing any one wearing spectacles coming on board except Lai Sze-kai.\n\nSai I have seen Lai Sze-kai wearing spectacles. I never received any other sum than the $55 either as prize-money or remuneration for extra or dangerous service.\n\n[Lai Sze-kai shewn to witness.]\n\nI remember the apprehension of Beaver; he was apprehended and brought to the Police Station by Mr Caldwell.\n\nWhen I had finished examining him, I told him about this man Beaver, and a case of piracy which I had known, and which had occurred in the previous January. I told him about a gun being purchased on the lorcha, also that the money had not been paid, and an order had been given, I was under the impression at the instance of Ma-chow Wong.\n\nThe pirate who took the lorcha was the brother or brother-in-law of Akwai, and he had an European with him. The Acting Colonial Secretary said he would like very much to see the order; it was for $80. The lorcha came in two days afterwards. I boarded her as she came to an anchor about half-past four or five in the morning. I took the Captain of the lorcha, and Achong, the Chinese owner, up to Dr Bridges's house about 7 o'clock, and they produced a paper which they said was the one to which I alluded. It was only an acknowledgment of having taken a gun worth $70, which they intended to pay for. There was no order on any particular house.\n\nThe paper was then sent together with the first paper found on Beaver's person to Mr Wade to be translated; and the Acting Colonial Secretary told me that as Mr Caldwell had already a charge for confederation with pirates against Beaver, I had better send my witnesses down to him. The witnesses were first sent down to Mr Caldwell, and then went before the Magistrate.\n\nAfter the paper was translated, it was returned to me by Mr Grand-Pré, and after getting it I went before the Magistrate again, with the witnesses, and the paper was again produced before the Assistant Magistrate Mr Mitchell. I do not know whether it was interpreted to him at that time.\n\nThe examination lasted over a space of three weeks, and the paper was taken there every day for examination. The witnesses failed to identify Beaver, and he was sentenced to find security for three months, or quit the colony; he quitted the colony.\n\nThis paper was never to my knowledge in Mr Caldwell's possession. He saw it, but I don't know that he read it at the Police Court. At one time I told him about it.\n\nAfter the investigation was over, Beaver asked for his paper, but Mr Mitchell said that they were to be retained. The last time I saw the paper was at the Magistracy, when he was committed to the Gaol upon not being able to find security. I have not seen it since. I have looked over the papers in the Magistracy, and that document is not attached to the case.\n\nBeaver told me that he had been in the employ of Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong on board a lorcha. If I had not been told, I should not have taken my witnesses to Mr Caldwell.\n\n## MANOEL DA SILVA, Sergeant in the Water Police,-Called and examined.\n\nI remember the apprehension of Po-Pak-Shing on a charge of piracy. I had his boats and family in custody, and believe they, the boat and family, were connected with Ma-chow Wong.",
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        "content_text": "## 492\n\n(80)\n\nMr. Lapraik. The arrest was by Mr. Caldwell. Lün Cheong, I was Gaoler at the time of Eli Boggs' trial, and attended the prisoner, said that during Ma-chow Wong's investigation at the Magistrate's Office, Ma-chow Wong's family was living with him. One day he went home and said to Ma-chow Wong's wife that very likely Ma-chow Wong's case would be committed to the Supreme Court, and that Ma-chow Wong's wife was not pleased; he also said that some of the men had petitioned on behalf of Ma-chow Wong, and had gone round the town to get shops' signatures; that he himself being a native of Sunon refused to go to get signatures. Because of this he says Ma-chow Wong's wife had an ill-feeling towards him; he said he believed that Ma-chow Wong's wife herself complained to Mr. Caldwell, and for that reason he believes that he was prosecuted.\n\nI took down the depositions in Court as Gaoler on the occasion of his trial. To the Supreme Court, a tin box containing articles belonging to him was brought. I received the tin box from the Police, but do not recollect from which officer. It was placed on the table at the Court. I do not remember what was in it, nor do I remember anything being taken out. I was present when Eli Boggs made his defence. I think he had some papers in his hand. I don't remember whether he read from them. I am not certain whether the box was handed over to the Police: after the trial, if it had been taken back to the Gaol, it would have been deposited in the Store-room. I have never seen it since. I do not remember seeing or hearing at the trial any paper containing Mr. Caldwell's name read. I heard Mr. Caldwell's name mentioned by Boggs in his defence.\n\nCross-examined,—I recollect the examination in the Gaol Yard of the men who were sent to Hainan. There was a great number of men apprehended in Bonham Strand, some of whom were put in the Debtor's Gaol, and some in the Mill Yard. I remember a large number of these men being examined in the Debtor's Gaol Yard.\n\nI have heard from Kwei Ch'oi, a Chinese female, that she was sent for by Mrs. Caldwell. Mrs. Caldwell said, \"people are saying that you gave me a gold bangle. Did you give it me or not.\" Kwei Ch'oi replied that she had not given her one. I have not heard of any other person being sent for.\n\nCross-examined,—I went to Kwei Ch'oi's house on the occasion I speak of. I visit her now and then. I think this was about a fortnight ago, but I heard the report from several other women before. I did not go to her house for the purpose of questioning her about this. I asked her whether she had put a gold chain into a loaf of bread, and sent it as a present to Mrs. Caldwell. She said \"No.\" I asked about the gold chain because I had heard of it. I haven't heard about the intimidation of witnesses who were to appear before this Commission, but judge from my own arrest. I told Mr. May when asked that I was afraid to come before the Commission to say anything against Mr. Caldwell; if I should, no doubt I would get into trouble. I also heard that a man conversing with another said, \"I hear that Assow is going to give evidence against Mr. Caldwell; if he should, he will not get clear off himself.\" This man was the Chinese Sergeant of Police, Lo Ahing. I think it was about the beginning of last month that I was arrested.\n\nI do not remember the Attorney General being present. I remember Mr. May and Mr. Caldwell. The prisoners deported to Hainan were mustered by Mr. May—the list drawn up—and Mr. May and Mr. Cluff were present. I do not recollect the Attorney General or Mr. Caldwell being present. Mr. Caldwell came to me the day after and inquired about two men who had been sent away, who ought not to have been sent. Mr. Caldwell had nothing that I am aware of to do with the deportation of these men; it was conducted by Mr. May, who was then Acting Sheriff and Superintendent of Police. Mr. Caldwell mentioned the names of two men, but I do not remember the names. After I told him that they were gone, he appeared to be angry, and my reply to the best of my recollection was that I could not help myself, and that I was acting under the orders of my superior Mr. May.\n\nI made out a rough draft of the list of prisoners to be deported, and these were finally arranged by Mr. May. This occasion, on the morning of their embarkation, is to my knowledge the only one on which the prisoners were mustered.\n\nLEONARDO D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Called and examined.\n\nRe-examined,—I have never as Gaoler had reason to remark or complain upon the great number of commitments or liberations on warrants signed by Mr. Caldwell under the deportation ordinance. There was only one occasion on which we were very much overcrowded with prisoners. I think that about that time a great many prisoners were received from several justices. I think there were no more upon Mr. Caldwell's warrant than upon others. Mr. Caldwell has never, during my service as Gaoler, interfered in any way with the Gaol, the prisoners, or the officers. There was a difficulty in mustering the men for deportation, the names which some of them gave being different from those on the list, and I think that Mr. May called Mr. Cluff to interpret. I did not see Mr. Anstey present.\n\n[The proceedings of the several meetings of the Executive Council at which reference was made to the case of Ma-chow Wong were read to the Commission by permission of His Excellency the Governor, from which it appeared that Mr. Morgan was examined previously to Mr. May, and that the Council finally decided on rejecting the prayer of the Petition for the release of Ma-chow Wong, upon a perusal of the translation by Mr. Wade of the papers found on Beaver; Mr. Wade stating that he had not had time in any way to examine the papers referred to in Mr. May's memoranda.]\n\n## ROBERT EDWARD MACKENZIE, Called and examined.\n\nI am Clerk of Councils and Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office. I did not officiate as Clerk of Councils when the enquiry concerning Ma-chow Wong was being made by the Executive Council. My brother, who is now sick, officiated.\n\n## CHARLES MAY, Recalled at his own request.\n\n(81)\n\nI recollect the man Feaver being brought before me charged with piracy. Mr. Caldwell was the first witness and stated that from documentary evidence, which he would produce on a future day, he would show the prisoner's confederation was with pirates. I have referred to the depositions in the case, and I have no hesitation in stating my conviction that the case was grossly mismanaged, and that Beaver ought to have taken his position at the bar of the Supreme Court, and as far as I was concerned as sitting Magistrate, would have been committed had the documents been produced before me. The Acting Colonial Secretary in his evidence states that one of his reasons—I think he says his chief reason for referring Ma-chow Wong papers and books to Mr. Wade for re-examination, was to ascertain whether credibility was to be attached to Mr. Caldwell's translation, or to any memoranda, inasmuch as that was a thing apart from Ma-chow Wong's case. The destruction of the papers and books placed the settlement of that question beyond possibility.\n\n## WOHANG, Broker, Called and examined.\n\nI remember a Pawnbroker of the Foo Tai shop, in which I had a share, being convicted of receiving a stolen watch. I remember after he was convicted a petition being presented to the Governor for his pardon. His sentence was remitted from 14 to 2 years. A partner of the pawn-shop came to me and said that if I would pay a few hundreds of dollars to Shaplok, the man would be let off. He wanted me to write a paper to the effect that I would pay this money to Shaplok. Mr. Lane was in my shop at the time and advised me not to sign. I have never paid any money. It was before the trial at the Supreme Court that this man came. I do not know if anyone paid any money. The man came again, and I said \"it is no use saying anything about it, I will have nothing to do with it.\"\n\nThere has been no communication within the last month and a half from Mrs. Caldwell to me, or anyone belonging to my house, regarding this matter. I have heard of the present inquiry from Wong Ashing. I do not know who prepared the two petitions. After signature, one was brought up here and handed to one of the Chinese in the office, who gave it to Dr. Bridges, who directed it to be taken to Mr. Caldwell. It was accordingly taken to Mr. Caldwell, who told me to leave it with him. I do not know whether Mr. Caldwell supported it. When my partner asked me why I did not pay the money to Shaplok, I went to Mr. Caldwell and asked whether I had a right to pay the money to Shaplok. He answered, \"No, I did not authorize it.\" When my partner spoke about the payment to be made to Shaplok, he did not mention either Mr. Caldwell's or Mrs. Caldwell's name. I have not seen Shaplok for about a year.\n\nShaplok is acquainted with a good many people in the colony, but whether she is related to Mrs. Caldwell or not I cannot say. After the prisoner was in Gaol under sentence, the other pawnshop man came to me and told me that the money should be given to Shaplok, and that she would ask someone to take the case in hand; my partner did not say whom she would engage, and did not mention Mr. or Mrs. Caldwell's name. I did not suppose that Mr. Caldwell was concerned in it. I went to Mr. Caldwell because he was Protector of Chinese, and I took the petition there. It was after the case was decided at the Supreme Court.\n\n## JOHN ROBERTS, Recalled.\n\nI remember being instructed by Mr. May to take possession of a lorcha off Wanchi, which was supposed to be the Alma. I did seize her and found that she was not the Alma. I found about 36 cannon on board; there were certainly not less. I suppose she could carry about 2,000 piculs cargo. Some of the guns were mounted, and some were dismounted, lying forward. From what I was told on board, I went to Mr. Caldwell's office and saw Mr. Caldwell. There was with him at the time a man whom I did not know, but whom I have since known as Ma-chow Wong. Mr. Caldwell told me he had sold the lorcha and then commenced talking with the Chinaman, and told me she was not the Alma. I inquired about the guns. I don't recollect if he said to whom he had sold her, but it was evident from the manner in which he spoke and referred my inquiries concerning the guns to the Chinaman, that the latter was the owner or agent of the lorcha. I inquired about the guns, and Mr. Caldwell spoke to the Chinaman, and said they were guns of two junks which were either repairing or had been lost on the coast. I told him that it was not the Alma, and I would report it to Mr. May. After I left the office, this Chinaman came out and asked me if it would be necessary for the men to go to the Police Court, and I told him no. I then reported it to Mr. May and had the Police withdrawn.\n\nCross-examined.—Mr. Caldwell asked if there was a large vessel alongside, and I said that there was a lighter alongside, into which I thought they were going to hoist the guns. There are always a number of vessels at Wanchi.\n\nAdjourned till to-morrow at 12 o'clock.\n\n## TWENTY FIRST DAY\n\nSaturday, 10th July, at 12 o'clock Noon. Present. All the Members except the Hon. Mr. Davies.\n\n## JOHN BROWN COMPTON, Called and examined.\n\nI have resided in China since January 1834. I knew Mr. Caldwell when he first came to Canton, about July or August...",
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        "content_text": "Page 364\n\n(76)\n\nProceedings of 8th July continued. JOHN ROBERTS, Deputy Inspector of Police and Deputy Inspector of Markets,—Called and examined.\n\nI recollect the apprehension of a man who was charged with stealing a watch from Mr Lapraik. I was examined in the gaol upon a subsequent charge of piracy against the same man.\n\nThe mode in which the remuneration was to be distributed was agreed on by Mr Caldwell, Mr Randall, myself, and Mr Heaton the second engineer. A certain portion went to the ship, coal, wear and tear, &c., a portion to the crew, and a portion to the Captain, Engineers, and officers.\n\nThe Elders of the village came on board and made an arrangement with Mr Caldwell for the payment of a sum of money if we could catch these desperadoes, but I do not know the amount.\n\nI was examined in the presence of the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr Caldwell, Mr Inglis, and a Chinese prisoner named Kwan Chun-hee. From circumstances, I imagined this man was accused from dislike between him and the second Engineer and the Captain. When Roberts and Lyons asked me these questions, they did not tell me they should want me to give evidence. When I came here yesterday, Roberts told me he had written down what I had said. I told him I thought it very curious, and that if I had known that, I should not have said anything.\n\nWhen the boat went off with Mr Caldwell, I saw the men wading in the mud and trying to get on shore. The vessel was so far off that I could not see whether they landed or not; they may have done so; there was continually firing in the direction of the villages, and great numbers of people on shore. The steamer was about a mile and a half from the shore.\n\nRe-examined,—During the time in which I was employed on board the Eaglet we never made any prisoners. In the Kulan affair there was loss of life sustained—five of the Rattler's and six or eight of the Powhattan's men were killed, besides other casualties.\n\nThe information that the junks captured at St John's were pirates was obtained from a fleet of two or three hundred junks which we met on our way to Mamee. We were going to Nowchow for a convoy and fell in with this fleet. We hailed them, and asked if they had seen the fleet we were about to convoy. They told us that the pirates had gone ahead, and we then ran into Mamee, where I think we got information that the pirates had proceeded farther up. The Captain and Pilot were on the paddle-box, and they had the conversation with these junks.\n\nThere was a rumour that the steamer was to receive $5,000 for the Swatow affair if the villages had been taken. The Eaglet's Comprador lived on board the ship, and went with us in the cruises. When in harbour he went ashore and brought off with him provisions as required. I do not know his name, or that any person living on shore acted as Ship's Comprador. I do not know by name Szekai.\n\nI once prosecuted a servant of mine called Ahing who was in the steamer; and I remember a gunner, Roderick, a Portuguese, who, after he quitted the vessel, was indicted for a larceny but acquitted; but I have no recollection of any other person whom I have seen on board the Eaglet having been brought up for any offence. I have no recollection of seeing any one wearing spectacles coming on board except as a passenger. I have seen Passengers wearing spectacles.\n\nI never received any other sum than the $55 either as prize-money or remuneration for extra or dangerous service.\n\n[Lai Sze-kai shown to witness.] This was the comprador of the steamer, and used to accompany us in all our voyages.\n\nMa-chow Wong and Kwan Chun-hee and this man. When I was examined there was a paper shown to me, and I was asked if I had ever seen the paper before. The answer I gave was that I had seen the paper before, that it was written by a friend of mine about a year before; it was relating to the sale of a lorcha.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary then remarked that the prisoner had that paper in his possession, and had given it to Kwan Chun-hee, of the lorcha. The Acting Colonial Secretary then went on to say that the paper had been given by this prisoner to Kwan Chun-hee within the last few days in Gaol, and that Kwan Chun-hee had given it up to accuse the prisoner about the searching of the prisoner at the Station, and I said I thought it was impossible he could have been locked up, without any paper which he might have had on his body being found.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary asked me if I had ever seen the prisoner before his arrest. I told him I had seen him one time previously, when he was making a charge in the Central Police Station. He then asked me if I could recognise a man named Yik-foo, if I saw him. He then asked me if the prisoner was not Yik-foo, and I said that he was not.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary then sent me round the body of the Gaol to take another look. I returned, and told him I was well assured the prisoner was not Yik-foo. Mr Caldwell then asked me, as the prisoner was sick at the time, could his sickness not have altered him, so that I could not recognise him. I assured him he was not Yik-foo, upon which I was dismissed.\n\nA short time afterwards I met the Acting Colonial Secretary at the Central Police Station, and in speaking to him I remarked that I had been told by one of the European prisoners, that the paper had been in Gaol since the conviction of Kwan Chun-hee.\n\nI then told him that Kwan Chun-hee had already brought a charge against Tong Akü which had been proved false. The charge against Tong Aku was after the sessions at which Ma-chow Wong had been convicted. Dr Bridges said that he would see into the matter, that he would inquire amongst the prisoners in the Gaol, and ascertain whether it was as I said with reference to the paper.\n\nI again saw the Acting Colonial Secretary up in the Police Court, when he told me that what I said was correct, and that he was convinced the paper had been in gaol all the time.\n\nI remember the apprehension of Beaver; he was apprehended and brought to the Police Station by Mr Caldwell. I was present when he brought him there. I searched him, and found on him pieces of red paper, eight or nine inches long, with Chinese characters, which were interpreted to me by one of the Chinese in the station named Ahee.\n\nIt was to the effect, that Beaver was an American, a very good man, and had been some time in his employ; I don't know whether the interpretation I put upon the paper or not. I kept it for a day or two. When he was examined at the Police Court, the paper was produced by me before Mr Mitchell. I cannot recollect whether it was interpreted in Court. I recollect perfectly telling Mr Mitchell what the effect of it was.\n\nIn a day or two after Beaver was remanded, I was sent for by the Acting Colonial Secretary. At about 6 o'clock in the morning I went to the Acting Colonial Secretary's house. He commenced asking me, as licensing day was coming on, about the character of the different Public-house keepers.\n\nAfter that was finished I told him about this man Beaver, and a case of piracy which I had known, and which had occurred in the previous January. I told him about a gun being purchased from the lorcha, also that the money had not been paid, and that an order had been given, I was under the impression to Ma-chow Wong.\n\nThe pirate who took the lorcha was Chu-kwai, and he had an European with him. The Acting Colonial Secretary said he would like very much to see the order; it was for $80.\n\nThe lorcha came in two days afterwards. I boarded her as she came to an anchor about half-past four or five in the morning. I took the Captain of the lorcha, and Achong, the Chinese owner, up to Dr Bridges's house about 7 o'clock, and they produced a paper which they said was the one to which I alluded.\n\nIt was only an acknowledgment of having taken a gun worth $70, which they intended to pay for. There was no order on any particular house. The paper was then sent together with the first paper found on Beaver's person to Mr Wade to be translated; and the Acting Colonial Secretary told me that as Mr Caldwell had already a charge for confederation with pirates against Beaver, I had better send my witnesses down to him.\n\nThe witnesses were first sent down to Mr Caldwell, and then went before the Magistrate. After the paper was translated, it was returned to me by Mr Grand-Pié, and after getting it I went before the Magistrate again, with the witnesses, and the paper was again produced before the Assistant Magistrate Mr Mitchell.\n\nI do not know whether it was interpreted to him at that time. The examination lasted over a space of three weeks, and the paper was taken there every day for examination. The witnesses failed to identify Beaver, and he was sentenced to find security for three months, or quit the colony; he quitted the colony.\n\nThis paper was never to my knowledge in Mr Caldwell's possession. He saw it, but I don't know that he read it at the Police Court. After the investigation was over, Beaver asked for his papers, but Mr Mitchell said that they were to be retained.\n\nThe last time I saw the paper was at the Magistracy, when he was committed to the Gaol upon not being able to find security. I have not seen it since. I have looked over the papers in the Magistracy, and that document is not attached to the case.\n\nBeaver told me that he had been in the employ of Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong on board a lorcha. If I had not been told, I should not have taken my witnesses to Mr Caldwell, on account of Beaver having been in Ma-chow Wong's employ before.\n\nI told Mr May about the paper while the trial was going on. I know from reference to my chart, that Luy-chow near Hainan is from 8 to 10 miles from the mouth of a river. It stands a little way back from the shore. I have been past, but never in it.\n\n[Read Lyons' evidence concerning his visit to the Gaol to inquire about Beaver and the paper, and Beaver's conversation with himself.]\n\nI agree with nearly every portion of it. Beaver himself told me that he was with Akwai. I was at Boggs's trial, and saw the paper produced. I do not know what was done with it.\n\nI had seen the paper at the Police Station, and knew that Boggs was going to produce it. I believe the paper was in a tin box which he had. It was given into the hands of the Constable, and carried to the Supreme Court in the usual way.\n\nI read it, and recollect it saying something about Ma-chow Wong, the brother or brother-in-law of Mr Caldwell, being a good man, and recommending him. I have an idea it said something about provisions.\n\nI do not know whether the paper was produced at the Police Court. I thought the paper was in Mr Caldwell's handwriting, but am not certain of it. I do not recollect his signature being to it; it might have been.\n\nCan swear to Mr Caldwell's handwriting now, but could not then. Boggs told me the paper was from Mr Caldwell, and told me to take care of it as he would produce it on his defence.\n\nI do not know what connection ever existed between Mr Caldwell and Boggs, further than that Boggs was in Akwai's lorcha, which was said to be connected with Ma-chow Wong.\n\nI heard the evidence of Randoll and Stone, and do not agree in their version of our conversation. Mr Randoll told me that $5,000 was the first agreement, and that $12,000 was subsequently paid for the bombardment of the village.\n\nRandall said nothing about the pirates taking any boats from Ma-mee. The pirates were captured and taken into Ma-mee. He then told me that he was very much disappointed in not being able to capture the junk which was loaded with opium.\n\nI asked him how he knew she was a pirate. He said, \"they did not care what the devil she was, so that she had the opium on board.\" Randall did tell me that they got $12,000 for bombarding the village at Swatow, and made use of the word squeeze with reference to it.\n\nHe said his share was $500, and the Engineer's $250. I knew that Mr Caldwell was master of the Eaglet and know nothing of her cruises except that she convoyed. I never saw her out at sea.\n\nAt one time I was in her neighbourhood, and saw part of her convoy. I was then going to Hoihow on the West Coast, and was told it was part of her convoy, but did not see the steamer.\n\nI do not know whom she was owned by.\n\nMANOEL DA SILVA, Sergeant in the Water Police,—Called and examined.\n\nI remember the apprehension of Po-Pak-Shing on a charge of piracy. I had his boats and family in custody, and believe they, the boat and family, were connected...\n\n(77)\n\nPage 365",
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        "content_text": "208\n\n366\n\n(80)\n\nMr Caldwell. Lûn Cheong, the prisoner, said that during Ma-chow Wong's investigation at the Magistrate's Office, Ma-chow Wong's family was living with him. One day he went home and said to Ma-chow Wong's wife, that very likely Ma-chow Wong's case would be committed to the Supreme Court, and that Ma-chow Wong's wife was not pleased; he also said that some of the Sunon men had petitioned on behalf of Ma-chow Wong, and had gone round the town to get shops' signatures; that he himself, being a native of Sunon, refused to go to get signatures. Because of this, he says Ma-chow Wong's wife had an ill-feeling towards him; he said he believed that Ma-chow Wong's wife herself complained to Mr Caldwell, and for that reason, he believes that he was prosecuted.\n\nI was Gaoler at the time of Eli Boggs' trial, and attended in Court as Gaoler on the occasion of his trial. I took down to the Supreme Court a tin box containing articles belonging to him. I received the tin box from the Police, but do not recollect from which officer. It was placed on the table at the Court. I do not remember what was in it, nor do I remember anything being taken out. I was present when Boggs made his defence. I think he had some papers in his hand. I don't remember whether he read from them. I am not certain whether the box was handed over to the Police after the trial. If it had been taken back to the Gaol, it would have been deposited in the Store-room. I have never seen it since. I do not remember seeing or hearing at the trial any paper containing Mr Caldwell's name read. I heard Mr Caldwell's name mentioned by Boggs in his defence.\n\nI have heard from Kwei Ch'oi, a Chinese female, that she was sent for by Mrs Caldwell. Mrs Caldwell said, \"people are saying that you gave me a gold bangle. Did you give it me or not.\" Kwei Ch'oi replied that she had not given her one. I have not heard of any other person being sent for.\n\nCross-examined,-I went to Kwei Ch'oi's house on the occasion I speak of. I visit her now and then. I think this was about a fortnight ago, but I heard the report from several other women before. I did not go to her house for the purpose of questioning her about this. I asked her whether she had put a gold chain into a loaf of bread and sent it as a present to Mr Caldwell. She said \"No.\" I asked about the gold chain because I had heard of it. I haven't heard about the intimidation of witnesses who were to appear before this commission, but judge from my own arrest. I told Mr May when asked that I was afraid to come before the Commission to say anything against Mr Caldwell; if I should, no doubt I would get into trouble. I also heard that a man conversing with another said, \"I hear that Assow is going to give evidence against Mr Caldwell; he appeared to be angry, and my reply to the best of my knowledge was, 'well; if he should, he will not get clear off himself.'\" This man was the Chinese Sergeant of Police, Lo Ahing. I think it was about the beginning of last month that I was arrested.\n\nCross-examined, I recollect the examination in the Gaol Yard of the men who were sent to Hainan. There was a great number of men apprehended in Bonham Strand, some of whom were put in the Debtor's Gaol, and some in the Mill Yard. I remember a large number of these men being examined in the Debtor's Gaol Yard. I do not remember the Attorney General being present. I remember Mr May and Mr Caldwell. The prisoners deported to Hainan were mustered by Mr May—the list drawn up—and Mr May and Mr Cluff were present. I do not recollect the Attorney General or Mr Caldwell being present. Mr Caldwell came to me the day after and inquired about two men who had been sent away, who ought not to have been sent. Mr Caldwell had nothing that I am aware of to do with the deportation of these men; it was conducted by Mr May, who was then Acting Sheriff and Superintendent of Police. Mr Caldwell mentioned the names of two men, but I do not remember the names. After I told him that they were mustered under the orders of my superior Mr May, my recollection was that I could not help myself, and that I made out a rough draft of the list of prisoners to be deported, and these were finally arranged by Mr May. This occasion, on the morning of their embarkation, is to my knowledge the only one on which the prisoners were examined.\n\nLEONARDO D'ALMADA E CASTRO,-Called and examined.\n\nI am Clerk of Councils and Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office. I did not officiate as Clerk of Councils when the enquiry concerning Ma-chow Wong was being made by the Executive Council. My brother, who is now sick, officiated.\n\n[The proceedings of the several meetings of the Executive Council at which reference was made to the case of Ma-chow Wong were read to the Commission by permission of His Excellency the Governor, from which it appeared that Mr Mongan was examined previously to Mr May and that the Council finally decided on rejecting the petition for the release of Ma-chow Wong, upon a perusal of the translation by Mr Wade of the papers found on Beaver; Mr Wade stating that he had not had time in any way to examine the papers referred to in Mr May's memoranda.]\n\nROBERT EDWARD MACKENZIE,-Called and examined.\n\nRe-examined, I have never as Gaoler had reason to remark or complain upon the great number of commitments or liberation on warrants signed by Mr Caldwell under the deportation ordinance. There was only one occasion on which we were very much overcrowded with prisoners. I think that about that time a great many prisoners were received from several justices. I think there were no more upon Mr Caldwell's warrant than upon others.\n\nMr Caldwell has never, during my service as Gaoler, interfered in any way with the Gaol, the prisoners, or the officers. There was a difficulty in mustering the men for deportation, the names which some of them gave being different from those on the list, and I think Mr May called Mr Cluff to interpret. I did not see Mr Anstey present.\n\nCHARLES MAY,-Recalled at his own request.\n\nI recollect the man Beaver being brought before me charged with piracy. Mr Caldwell was the first witness and stated that from documentary evidence, which he would produce on a future day, he would show the prisoner's confederation with pirates.\n\n(81)\n\nI was asked for the promissory note. If the man was to be released, it was to be $800; if he was to be imprisoned, it was to be $400. I do not know if $400 were paid; my share has not been paid. My partner came to me for it, but I would not pay; I don't know whether he has paid or not. I told this story to the Attorney General without mentioning names. I mentioned Shaplok's name and the name of the partner who spoke to me. I only mentioned Shaplok's name to Mr Lane. It was not because I was afraid that I did not mention Mr Caldwell's name. The pawnshopman has told me that the $400 have been paid. He asked for $50 to be paid to Shaplok as a cumshaw. I heard that the $400 had been paid to Shaplok; the $50 was also paid to Shaplok.\n\nI do not remember a petition being sent into the Governor for the pardon of Ma-chow Wong, nor do I remember speaking to Tam Achoey about it. I recollect going to Mr May by request of Tam Achoey. I cannot recollect what I said to Mr May. Upon hearing Mr May's evidence read over, I now recollect having said to him what he states I said about the Ma-chow Wong petition.\n\nJOHN ROBERTS,-Recalled.\n\nI remember being instructed by Mr May to take possession of a lorcha off Wanchi, which was supposed to be the Alma. I did seize her and found that she was not the Alma. I found about 36 cannon on board; there were certainly not less. I suppose she could carry about 2,000 piculs of rice. Some of the guns were mounted, and some were dismounted, lying forward. From what I was told on board, I went to Mr Caldwell's office and saw Mr Caldwell. There was with him at the time a man whom I did not know, but whom I have since known as Ma-chow Wong. Mr Caldwell told me he had sold the lorcha and then commenced talking with the Chinaman, and told me she was not the Alma. I inquired about the guns. I don't recollect if he said to whom he had sold her, but it was evident from the manner in which he spoke and referred my inquiries concerning the guns to the Chinaman, that the latter was the owner or agent of the lorcha. I inquired about the guns, and Mr Caldwell spoke to the Chinaman, and said they were guns of two junks which were either repairing or had been lost on the coast.\n\nCross-examined-Mr Caldwell asked if there was a large vessel alongside, and I said that there was a lighter alongside, into which I thought they were going to hoist the guns. There are always a number of vessels at Wanchi.\n\nAdjourned till to-morrow at 12 o'clock.\n\nTWENTY FIRST DAY.\n\nSaturday, 10th July, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,-All the Members except the Hon. Mr Davies.\n\nJOHN BROWN COMPTON,-Called and examined.\n\nI have resided in China since January 1834. I knew Mr Caldwell when he first came to Canton, about July or ...",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nIN consequence of the temporary arrangement entered into with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's agent upon the sudden disconnection of the Agency from the Consulate, giving general dissatisfaction, and finding also that the scheme I had in contemplation for establishing the Post Office on board the Naval Store Ship was not regarded favourably by the Community, I determined that the most permanent, economical, and efficient arrangement that could be made was to detach the central office here from the Consulate. I have accordingly appointed, subject to your approval, George Braker, lately Orderly Room Sergeant in the 44th Regiment, to be Packet Agent at Hongkong at a salary of $100 per annum with quarters.\n\nThis latter item will involve... \n\n173",
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        "content_text": "20\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES—HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n21\n\n77\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES.\n\n$ C.\n\nC.\n\n$ c.\n\nSALARIES:-\n\nPOLICE.\n\n(As per Schedule A of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862.)\n\nCoroner,\n\n360.00\n\nFirst Chinese Interpreter,\n\n720.00\n\nSecond Do. do.,\n\n384.00\n\nThird Do. do.,\n\n312.00\n\nSALARIES-\n\nEUROPEAN FORCE.\n\n1 Captain Superintendent,\n\n1 Assistant do.,\n\n} $ 8,840.00\n\nC. *c.\n\n1,680.00\n\nFourth Do. do., (Student,)\n\n216.00\n\nChinese Clerk and Shroff,\n\n300.00\n\n1 Clerk and Accountant, & Inspectors of Police (Regular Duties),\n\n900.00\n\n4 1st class at $840 each\n\nEuropean Usher, and Process Server,\n\n540.00\n\n5 Do. do. (Markets, Nuisances, &c.) average Pay $720 each,\n\n17 3 2nd at 720\n\n7,920.00\n\n\"\n\n4 3rd at 600 \"\n\n}}\n\nAssistant Do. and do.,\n\n420.00\n\n1 Store and Barrack Sergeant,\n\n480.00\n\nIndian Do. and Chinese do.,\n\nDo. and do.,\n\n396.00\n\n1 1st class at $480\n\n4 Sergeants, average pay $432 each,\n\n17 2 2nd at 483 each\n\n1,728.00\n\n1 3rd at 384\n\n240.00\n\n21st class at $384 each\n\nTwo Chinese Messengers at $72 each,\n\n144.00\n\n6 Acting Sergeants, average Pay $372 each,\n\n2 2nd at 372\n\n2,232.00\n\n31 2 3rd at 360\n\n77\n\n}} 4,032.00\n\n4,032.00\n\n13 1st class at $330 each\n\n40 Constables, average Pay $312 each,\n\n\"\n\n14 2nd at 312\n\n12,480.00\n\n\"\"\n\n13 3rd at 288\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\nALLOWANCES:-\n\nNil.\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\n\nChinese Printing, and the Justice of the Peace Periodical,\n\nOffice Furniture, Repairs,\n\nBookbinding, Ruling, &c.,\n\nIncidental Expenses,\n\nTOTAL POLICE MAGISTRATES,. .\n\n65\n\nINDIAN FORCE.\n\n31,320.00\n\n31,320.00\n\n1 Sergeant Major,\n\nI Interpreter of Indian Languages,\n\n288.00\n\n204.00\n\n150.00\n\n150.00\n\n3 1st class at $264 each\n\n8 Sergeants, average Pay $240 each,\n\n\"1\n\n2 2nd at 240\n\n77\n\n1,920.00\n\n3 3rd at 216 77\n\n27\n\n12 Acting Sergeants, average Pay $192 each,\n\n4 1st class at $204 each 4 2nd\n\n4,182.00\n\n350 Constables, average Pay $156 each,\n\n23\n\n27\n\n4 3rd\n\n116 1st class at $168 each 118 2nd 116 3rd\n\nat 192 at 180\n\n\"\n\n2,304.00\n\nat 156\n\n54,600.00\n\nat 144\n\n11\n\n372\n\nCarried forward,.\n\n59,376.00\n\n59,376.00\n\n90,696.00\n\nInclusive of $2 per month each man allowance for Rations. Should rations be issued in kind, a corresponding deduction from the pay will be made.\n\n21",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Meren\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nReceived\n\n- 209 bars\n\nand Store Sergeant -\n\nLucette to be Barrack\n\nPolice Constable Bradlow\n\nSupporting appointment of\n\n;\n\nSix histories of\n\nHongkong\n\n!\n\nThe 13\n\n209. 541\n\nEntries\n\nL\n\nOfficer Administ\n\nHong Kong\n\nJ. Robinson 2 Jard\n\nSir Roger 2 The Intendant\n\nEnter Pharmacie\n\nM\n\n26\n\n70\n\nI have to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt of your\n\ndespatch No 200 of the\n\n27 November last, and\n\nto convey to you my\n\nsanction of the appointment\n\nof Police Constable Bradlow\n\nand he Barrack and Store\n\nSergeant from the date on a salary",
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        "content_text": "373-2\n\nSCHEDULE of DESPATCHES transmitted by The Governor of Hongkong to The Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Mail Steamer \"Orissa\" via Southampton, on the 15th December 1863.\n\n  \n    No. OF DESPATCH.\n    DATE OF DESPATCH.\n    SUBJECT OF DESPATCH.\n    No. OF INCLOSURES.\n  \n  \n    202\n    20th November 1863\n    Acknowledging His Grace's Despatch No 122 22nd September and remarking on chief Justice Adams Report of an address and gift received from the Chinese Community of Hongkong by him from,\n    None\n  \n  \n    203/204\n    23rd November\n    Acknowledging His Grace's Circular of 7th August and forwarding Answers to Enquiries from the Acclimatization Society.\n    \n  \n  \n    205\n    24th November\n    Acknowledging His Grace's Circular of 26th August, and forwarding Colonial Surgeon's Reply to Miss Nightingale's paper on Sanitary statistics of Colonial Native Schools and Hospitals.\n    \n  \n  \n    206\n    24th November\n    Replying to His Grace's Despatch No 123 of 26th September, on the subject of Mr Thornton's complaint that his son had been stopped in the Colony from the 31st July last.\n    \n  \n  \n    207\n    26th November\n    Reporting that Mr Bowen, Clerk of Victoria Gaol, has been appointed to perform the duties of Warden of the Gaol, conjointly with his own as a temporary measure.\n    \n  \n  \n    208\n    26th November\n    Acknowledging receipt of His Grace's Despatch No 123 of 26th September 1863.\n    \n  \n  \n    209/210\n    27th & 28th November\n    Reporting appointment of Mr dos Santos as Police and Shipping Sub-Collector vice de Souza deceased. Reporting appointment of Police Constable Bradshaw to be the Barrack and Store Sergeant.\n    \n  \n  \n    211\n    28th November\n    With reference to His Grace's Despatches of the 26th August and 30th October last, reporting that the Carbines called in from the Hongkong Volunteers have been returned to them from Shanghai.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Forwarding Requisition from the Surveyor General for 12½ tons of Coal.\n    \n  \n\nRECEIVED 27 JAN 1864",
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        "content_text": "[21 \n\nr \n\n[3] \n\nand an Interpreter. The duties of this Staff shall be so arranged that two Turnkeys shall be on shore duty with the Convicts from 6 A.M. until noon, and two from noon until the time that the Convicts are conducted back to the Hulk. These Turnkeys shall have the direction and management of the Convicts, it shall be their duty to take notes in a memorandum book kept by each of any instance of disobedience or misconduct of the Convicts, making daily report of the same to the Superintendent. The Warden and Head Turnkey shall have general observation of the duties on shore, both as regards the Turnkeys and the Convicts, in addition the Warden and Head Turnkey will each have special duties to perform, some of which are hereinafter specified, but it is especially the duty of these Officers energetically and zealously to carry out and enforce the orders of the Superintendent.\n\nIt shall be the duty of the Head Turnkey to take special charge of the Hospital and Sick and (with the Clerk and Interpreter) to be present when the Surgeon visits the Sick, and he shall see that the orders of the Surgeon are fully carried out, both as regards medicine and sick diet, this is to be effected with a kindly and observant spirit so that the comfort and nourishment of the sick may be attained, otherwise the object and intent of the Surgeon cannot be gained.\n\nFrom opening Gaol until locking up there shall be one Turnkey on duty on board the Convict Hulk, and from the time of locking up until opening Gaol each member of the Gaol Staff shall have two hours' night watch.\n\nIt is imperatively necessary that day and night there shall be one of the Gaol Staff on duty and in charge of the Convict Hulk.\n\nFrom the time of locking up until opening Gaol the Turnkey on duty shall, accompanied by a Police Sentry, once in every hour visit the main and lower decks, looking searchingly into each cell with the view of ascertaining that all is correct; if anything suspicious is observed, or anything exhibiting a requirement to open a Convict's cell, immediate report is to be made to the Superintendent; during this examination below decks a sentry shall remain at the upper grating, locking the grating when the Turnkey and Constable have descended and keeping it locked until their return, if an outcry or alarm proceeds from below this sentry shall instantly give a general alarm.\n\n3. Police detachment at the Convict Establishment and its duties.\n\nThe detachment of Police doing duty at the Convict Establishment shall be in strength in the proportion of one Constable to ten Convicts (exclusive of Sergeants and Acting Sergeants) and in addition there shall be a reserve guard at the Signal Station. The detachment at this date is as follows:-\n\nSergeants. 1\n\nActg. Serg. 1\n\nConstables. 2\n\nConvict Hulk, 1\n\nSignal Station, 1\n\n6 24 Indian 6 do.\n\nEuropean Force. do. do.\n\nTotal,.... 3 1 European in charge of Signals.\n\n4 36\n\n-This is apart from the Water Police which will be hereinafter specified.\n\nThe European Sergeant shall have charge of the Police detachment, he shall receive from the Superintendent of the Hulk orders for the duties and distribution of the Police, and shall obey and see these orders efficiently carried out, it being distinctly understood that the Superintendent of the Hulk has sole authority to issue these orders and is wholly responsible for them; upon the capacity and earnest aid of the Police Sergeant in charge must much depend the activity, vigilance, subordination and good conduct of the entire detachment. The attention of the Police Sergeant in charge is drawn to, and it is well that he should consider, the importance of his post and the responsibility thrown upon him.\n\n20",
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        "content_text": "[4]\n\nEvery instance of misconduct of a Police Constable shall be reported to the Captain Superintendent of Police whose province it is to enquire into and impose punishment.\n\nNo Constable (of whatever rank) of the detachment shall absent himself from the Convict Establishment without the sanction of the Captain Superintendent first being obtained, application for which shall be forwarded by the Sergeant in charge after he has made the same known to the Superintendent of the Hulk on the Morning State (hereinafter mentioned.)\n\nThe outline of the duties of the Police detachment will be as follows: a party of Police composed of 1 European Sergeant or Acting Sergeant, 3 European Constables, 1 Indian Sergeant or Acting Sergeant and 10 Indian Constables, making a total of Fifteen men, shall parade for duty at the time of opening Gaol and shall form the Convict Guard on shore from that time until noon, when it shall be relieved by a party of exactly the same numbers which shall form the Convict Guard and conduct the Convicts back to the Hulk at the time of locking up.\n\nThere shall be during the day, from opening Gaol until locking up, two Indian Constables on sentry at the Convict Hulk and one Indian sentry at the Hospital, and during the night, viz: from locking up until opening Gaol, one European Constable and three Indian Constables on sentry at the Convict Hulk and one Indian Constable on sentry at the Hospital.\n\nThese sentries, day and night, shall be relieved every two hours and a Sergeant or Acting Sergeant (either European or Indian) shall be present at, and mount each relief.\n\nThe Convict Guard duty and night sentry shall be eight hours in twenty-four for every European Constable, and including the sentries by day ten hours in twenty-four for every Indian Constable. It will be an important part of the duty of the European Sergeant in charge, assisted by the Indian Sergeant, to prepare a daily roster of duties, by which every Constable of the detachment can see when and what duty he has to perform and by which also shall be regulated a correct proportion of day and night duty.\n\n[5]\n\nThe European Sergeant in charge will observe that by the above arrangement of duties four Indian Constables have not been appropriated. These four Constables form a Reserve from which all casualties and deficiencies, such as sick and absentees, are to be taken, it being expected that such casualties and deficiencies will at no time exceed four, and this must be borne in mind with regard to applications for leave of absence.\n\nAt the daily inspection made at 8 A.M. by the Superintendent of the Hulk, the whole of the Police detachment, both on and off duty, shall parade in full uniform under arms and the Sergeant in charge shall inspect and thereby satisfy himself as to the state of efficiency of the detachment on all points, but especially noting arms and ammunition; from this inspection a Morning State shall be prepared in duplicate by the Sergeant, one copy to be furnished to the Superintendent of the Hulk, and the other forwarded to the Captain Superintendent of Police at the earliest opportunity (see form of Morning State attached marked A.)\n\n4. Convicts to be numbered, &c.\n\nIt is an important point, almost the pivot, of Convict discipline that each Convict shall have and be known by a fixed number, which shall be given to him and borne upon the Gaol records upon his admission, and be unalterable until his expiration of sentence, death, or departure, from whatever cause. These numbers will range from \"1\" to the highest number of the complement at any period in Gaol, thus upon a number becoming vacant it will be given to the next incomer. This fixed number, painted upon an oval piece of cloth, shall be borne by the Convict affixed to the left side of his jacket, the number will also be marked...\n\n[21]",
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        "content_text": "ed or stamped on every article issued to the Convict whether of dress, bedding or mess kit.\n\nThe Convicts when \"formed\" for inspection to be \"told off\" in detachments for work, or for whatever object will invariably \"fall in\" in consecutive numerical order, so that each detachment will range from one given number to another given number of which ready note can be taken by the Turnkeys and European Constables, the exceptional numbers absent from sickness or other causes being also easily noted.\n\n5. Inspection of Gaol Staff, Police and Convicts by Superintendent.\n\nThere shall be three general Inspections of the Convicts each day, viz: an Inspection by the Superintendent of the Hulk immediately before the morning meal, which shall be conducted in the following manner: firstly, the Gaol Staff, Police and Convicts on board the Convict Hulk shall be examined; secondly, the Police, Convicts appointed Hospital attendants, and sick on board the Hospital vessel; lastly, the whole of the remainder of the Gaol Staff, on and off duty, the whole of the remainder of the Police detachment on and off duty, including the Water Police, and the body of Convicts landed for labor, shall be ranged upon the beach of Stone Cutters' Island. From this Inspection the Police Sergeant in charge shall prepare his Morning State as before directed, and the Superintendent of the Hulk shall prepare a Morning State of the Convict Establishment, according to form attached marked B, also a Day State of Convicts' labor, according to form attached marked C.\n\nThe Convicts shall be ranged in sections, each section composed of thirty in consecutive numerical order, viz: 1 to 30 in the first section, 31 to 60 in the second section, and so on.\n\nThe exceptional numbers in these sections not present will have been previously seen either on board the Hulk or Hospital, and noted. The Clerk and Interpreter shall accompany the Superintendent, each shall take written\n\n[7]\n\nnotes, one in English the other in Chinese, and shall compare these notes immediately after inspection so that accuracy in the Morning State may be obtained.\n\n6. Second Inspection of Convicts by Warden. The second daily Inspection of the Convicts shall be made by the Warden at the time fixed for relaxation from labor; this Inspection shall be carried out in the same manner as the Inspection made by the Superintendent, excepting that the Gaol Staff and Police shall not be included. The Warden shall have for his guide and assistance the Morning State prepared from the Inspection at 8 o'clock. Any alteration or variation therefrom he shall carefully enquire into and as carefully note on the back of the said Morning State, which with a verbal report he shall personally deliver to the Superintendent.\n\n7. Third Inspection of Convicts by Head Turnkey. The third daily Inspection shall be conducted by the Head Turnkey immediately before the afternoon meal. The Head Turnkey shall have the Morning State for his guide and assistance with the notes thereon made by the Warden, and he shall carry out the Inspection in precisely the same manner, and as rigidly as that effected by the Superintendent and Warden, viz: first inspecting the Convicts on board the Hulk; next, those in Hospital, and finally the Convicts on shore. Any variation shall be noted by him on the back of the Morning State and he shall immediately thereafter deliver the said Morning State with a verbal report to the Superintendent.\n\nThe Clerk and Interpreter shall accompany the Warden and Head Turnkey at their respective Inspections.\n\n8. Orders to be given by Signal from the Hulk. The general routine of management shall be directed by signal from the Convict Hulk, viz: by the \"Bell\" and by Flags of different colors. The signal for opening Gaol\n\n44\n\n \n[6]\n\n[7]\n\n•\n\n22",
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        "content_text": "cates order for \n\nassembly Convicts. \n\n[8] \n\nshall be by the ringing of the Bell. The order for the Blue flag indi- assembly of the Convicts, for purposes of inspection, cessation of of day's labor, or whatever cause, shall be conveyed by the Bell ringing, and hoisting a blue flag; while the blue flag remains hoisted the Convicts remain, either for meals, relaxation, or whatever desired purpose, at the place of assembly. The fall of this blue flag indicates the order for the Convicts to be ranged in their proper sections and thence conducted to their labor. \n\nSignal of red \n\nan escape. \n\nThe Bell ringing and hoisting of a Red Flag shall indicate flag indicatesthe escape of a Convict, and shall convey orders to the Reserve Police Guard at Signal Station, the Water Police and Police off duty, what in such case is to be instantly performed by each as hereinafter shown. \n\n9. Arrangements and orders touching escape of Convicts. \n\nCarefully selected points of observation shall be marked and known as Escape Posts, numbered 1 to 6; also it shall be ascertained and pre-arranged, the two best points, off which there is the greatest scope for surveillance of the coast line of Stone Cutters' Island, the opposite shore \"Boat thereto, and surrounding waters to be known as Escape posts 1 and 2.\" Upon the signal of \"Escape' being hoisted, the Indian Acting Sergeant and five Constables of the Reserve Guard shall instantly and as expeditiously as possible proceed to the pre-concerted \"Escape Posts,\" one to each, and there remain on the alert until further orders, and the Sergeant of Water Police shall immediately \"man two boats and send them to the \"Boat Escape posts.\" \n\n37 \n\nA third Police boat and the boat of the Superintendent of the Hulk shall also be manned and await orders. \n\n10. Convict Hulk to have only one Gangway for all purposes. There shall be but one Gangway on board the Convict \n\n[9] \n\nHulk, which shall serve for the ingress and egress of every person and of all articles whatsoever, in this respect it shall be assimilated to a Gaol on land, into and out of which there is but one Gateway. \n\nThe Gaol Staff and Police will strictly observe and enforce this essential regulation, any breach of which will be regarded as great misconduct. \n\n11. Opening Gaol. \n\nUpon the bell ringing to open Gaol, which shall be at Half-past Five A.M. during the summer months, and Six A.M. during the winter, the Superintendent of the Hulk, the whole of the Gaol Staff, and the detachment of Police for shore duty shall assemble. The cells of sixty Convicts shall be unlocked, each Convict shall bring up his bed mat in which shall be rolled up his blanket and whatever effects he is permitted to have; the mat shall be tied and a label bearing the Convict's number attached. These bed mats shall be deposited in a place set apart for the purpose, after which these sixty Convicts shall form in four lines on deck, each line be inspected by a Turnkey who shall carefully examine each Convict's irons after which the coupling irons shall be affixed and this detachment be conveyed on shore. On arrival on shore the detachment shall wash at a long trough divided into small compartments filled with water overnight. The same arrangement shall be carried out with each detachment of sixty Convicts until all are conveyed on shore. \n\nThe morning's work and labor shall be precisely the same as on the preceding afternoon, unless any variation be directed at the Inspection by the Superintendent at 8 A.M. \n\n12. Surveyor General to direct the work and labor to be performed. \n\nThe work and labour of the Convicts shall be directed by the Surveyor General and supervised by a subordinate \n\n23",
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        "content_text": "formed into sections of about thirty as before specified, two Convicts from the right of each section will obtain from the cooking store a tub capable of holding thirty Rations of rice, a smaller tub for containing thirty Rations of fish or vegetable and a four-gallon can; this tub, kit and can will have inscribed upon them the number of the section; the large tub will have within it the pans, plates and pint pots belonging to the Convicts of that section numbered accordingly; these will be distributed by the two right hand men, who will then obtain the due Rations for that section and serve them out. At the conclusion of the meal the same two men shall collect all the mess articles and deliver them to the cooking store. All this is to be carried out under the supervision of the Turnkeys in a speedy, quiet and orderly manner.\n\n17. Water Police detachment and its duties.\n\nThere shall be a Floating Police Station anchored in proximity to the Convict Hulk having an effective Water Police Force sufficient to \"man\" four boats, each with a crew of one Portuguese Constable in charge and four rowers.\n\nOne Police boat shall be on duty during the day and night and it shall be the special duty of the Water Police to prevent persons landing upon Stone Cutters' Island. A Police boat shall always be present at the time of landing the Convicts and conveying them back to the Hulk and shall aid in effecting this in any manner required by the Superintendent of the Hulk. No Police Boat or Constable of the Water Police shall leave the Station without the knowledge of the Superintendent of the Hulk. The European Sergeant in charge shall consider the Water Police at this Station as portion of his command.\n\n18. Locking up of Convicts, search and final counting. Upon the signal for cessation of labor, the Convicts shall assemble and form into sections in the manner before ordered, after being counted, two sections shall be conveyed\n\nPage 13\n\nto the Hulk and upon arrival on board form into four lines, each line shall be inspected by one of the Gaol Staff, every prisoner being closely searched, and the coupling irons removed, thereafter the Convicts shall receive their respective bed-mats and be locked up; on the lintel of each cell shall be placed a board on which shall be inscribed the numbers of the prisoners to be locked up therein. The same examination shall be made of each detachment of Convicts until the whole are locked up. The Warden and Head Turnkey alternately, assisted by the Clerk and Interpreter, shall then ascertain that the Convicts are all on board.\n\n19. Daily Inspection of Stone Cutters' Island. There shall be a daily patrol and inspection round the sea line of Stone Cutters' Island; for this purpose, at day-break, the European Acting Sergeant, accompanied by the Indian Acting Sergeant on duty at the Signal Station Guard, and the Portuguese Sergeant at the Floating Station shall make a complete tour of the Island on the coast line, taking minute observation both in shore and the beach with the view of ascertaining if any unprivileged landing has been effected during the preceding day or night, or secret deposit made of any articles; notice shall also be taken of drift wood so that it may be removed and burned. A verbal report of this inspection to be made at morning parade to the Superintendent of the Hulk.\n\n20. Approach of Boats to the Convict Establishment.\n\nIt is of great import that no secret communication or delivery of articles shall be made to the Convicts, it is therefore needful that a rigid rule, as rigidly carried out be established that no boat shall go alongside the Hulk, and that there be but one authorized landing place, for whatever purpose or by whatever person, at the Convict Establishment.\n\nWith this view a shelter shed shall be erected at the ex-\n\nPage 25",
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        "content_text": "improbable, or in the extreme case of an armed attack being made in order to effect escape.\n\n24. Constables on duty hailing during the night. During the night season, viz: between the hours of 7 P.M. and day-break there shall be a systematic \"hail\" by the Constables on watch commencing with No. 1 Sentry on board the Convict Hulk, continued by the Constables at the Floating Station and Hospital, and thence to the Stores and Signal Station on Shore. This hail shall be made every quarter hour; any omission shall be noted by the Officer of the Gaol Staff and European Constable on duty at the time, who shall instantly challenge the Sentry guilty of the omission and if not as instantly responded to shall immediately call the Sergeant in order that a visit and inquiry shall be promptly made.\n\nThe Constables on night duty at the Hospital shall at each quarter hour \"hail\" carefully note that the sick Convicts and Hospital attendants are present, to ensure this he shall see the face of each Convict, this is to be effected quietly and without disturbing the sick men, a pair of cloth shoes shall be provided and worn over the shoes of the Constable. After the Constable has assured himself that the Convicts in Hospital are all present he shall make a signal with his lanthorn to the Convict Hulk.\n\nThe Constable on watch at the Stores shall each quarter-hour examine the bolts, locks and fastenings and if correct make signal with his lanthorn to the Convict Hulk. The Officer of the Gaol Staff and European Constable on duty at the time on board the Convict Hulk shall observe that this signalling is carried out, making prompt enquiry if it is not.\n\n25. Boats to be hoisted up at night.\n\nThe Portuguese Sergeant or Acting Sergeant at the Floating Station shall be responsible that all Police boats, or sampans, not on duty are hoisted up at 7 P.M., also that the oars of the said boats and the equipment thereof are placed so as to be ready for instant use if boats are required during the night, and yet be under the care and observation of the Chinese Constable on watch.\n\nApproved,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief.\n\n11th September, 1863.\n\nPrinted by D. NORONHA, Government Printer. 1863.",
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        "content_text": "36.. \n\n37 \n\n74 \n\nConvicts in \n\nboard coming from beyond the \n\npoint of land \n\ngoing \n\ntowards the opposite \n\nin \n\nShore; \n\nmy way farther I met an Indian \n\nand \n\nfarther & \n\non \n\nConstable out of uniform, \n\nan Indian Convict coming towards the \n\nHouck \n\nbefore \n\nI reached the point, I saw a boat pulling from the point towards \n\nthe Harbour, at that time Sergeant Livingstone \n\nand Constable Anderson were near \n\nwe hailed the \n\nto \n\nme \n\nPolice Boat to come into \n\nwere within hearing \n\nat the place, I had two rounds of Ammunition \n\nfired \n\nboth rounds into the Boat; Sergeant \n\nLivingstone \n\nhad a revolver, he did not \n\nfire; \n\nConstable Anderson had a Musket, he \n\ndid not \n\nfire... \n\ntwo of the Indian Constables \n\nfired; I asked the other two why they did \n\nnot fire, they said they had \n\nafterwards \n\nno ammunition \n\nsome other Indian Constables \n\ncame but at that time the Superintendent's \n\ngig from the Harbour came near to the Stone Boat. Sergeant Livingstone \n\nand \n\nmyself told the Indian Constables not to fire fearing to injure the persons in the \n\nshore I think they \n\ndistance but no attention \n\nwas \n\npaid and \n\nthe \n\nway \n\nI found \n\nan order \n\nfrom \n\nthe police Boat continued on \n\nthe Harbour. I went to the point and \n\nfound \n\nIndian Constables there, I called \n\nto \n\nthe Stone Boat \n\nbut they did not do so until I arrived \n\nand \n\ntold \n\nthem to \n\nfire upon \n\nthe \n\ngig. \n\nI returned to the Hulk and \n\nsent \n\nfor \n\nsome \n\nammunition \n\nfrom \n\nthe Sinnkey \n\nand did \n\nScour the Hills. \n\nthen \n\nthe Superintendent \n\nto \n\nthe Island, I got some",
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        "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n# EXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n## A POLICE.\n\n### SALARIES:\n\nEUROPEAN FORCE.\n\n1 Captain Superintendent, $ 540.00\n\n1 Assistant Superintendent, $ 420.00\n\n1 Clerk and Accountant, $ 384.00\n\n6 Inspectors of Police (Regular Duties), $ 3,840.00\n\n4-1st class at $840 each, $ 3,360.00\n\n2-2nd class at $720 each, $ 1,440.00\n\nEuropean Usher, and Process Server, $ 396.00\n\nFirst Chinese Interpreter, $ 720.00\n\nSecond Chinese Interpreter, $ 384.00\n\nThird Chinese Interpreter, $ 312.00\n\nFourth Chinese Interpreter, (Student,) $ 216.00\n\nChinese Clerk and Shroff, $ 300.00\n\n### INDIAN FORCE.\n\n1 Sergeant Major, $ 288.00\n\n1 Interpreter of Indian Languages, $ 264.00\n\n8 Sergeants, average Pay $240 each, $ 1,920.00\n\n3-1st class at $264 each, $ 792.00\n\n2-2nd at $240, $ 480.00\n\n3-3rd at $216, $ 648.00\n\n12 Acting Sergeants, average Pay $192 each, $ 2,304.00\n\n4-1st class at $204 each, $ 816.00\n\n4-2nd at $192, $ 768.00\n\n4-3rd at $180, $ 720.00\n\n381 Constables, average Pay $156 each, $ 59,436.00\n\n126-1st class at $168 each, $ 21,168.00\n\n120-2nd at $150, $ 18,000.00\n\n126-3rd at $144, $ 18,144.00\n\n### CHINESE FORCE.\n\n5 Inspectors of Police (Markets, Nuisances, &c.) average Pay $720 each, $ 3,600.00\n\n3-2nd at $720, $ 2,160.00\n\n4-3rd at $600, $ 2,400.00\n\n71 Chinese Inspectors and Detectives, average Pay $240 each, $ 17,040.00\n\n37 Sergeants, average Pay $432 each (includes 1 Store and Barrack Sergeant at $480), $ 16,224.00\n\n1-1st class at $480, $ 480.00\n\n2-2nd at $432 each, $ 864.00\n\n1-3rd at $384, $ 384.00\n\n6 Acting Sergeants, average Pay $372 each, $ 2,232.00\n\n2-2nd at $372, $ 744.00\n\n40 Constables, average Pay $312 each, $ 12,480.00\n\n13-1st class at $336 each, $ 4,368.00\n\n14-2nd at $312, $ 4,368.00\n\n13-3rd at $288, $ 3,744.00\n\n### ALLOWANCES :-\n\nNil.\n\n### CONTINGENCIES :—\n\nChinese Printing, and the Justice of the Peace Periodical, $ 150.00\n\nOffice Furniture, Repairs, Bookbinding, Ruling, &c., $ 150.00\n\nIncidental Expenses, $ 65.00\n\n### TOTAL POLICE\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENTS. $ 31,320.00\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY. $ 64,212.00\n\nTOTAL. $ 95,532.00\n\nShould rations be issued in kind, a corresponding deduction from the pay will be made.\n\nInclusive of $2 per month each man allowance for Rations.\n\nCarried forward,.. $ 64,212.00",
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        "content_text": "## N 20. Financial.\n\nSir,\n\nHongKong, \n14th February 1865.\n\nI have the honour to report that I have appointed from the 16th Instant Store Sergeant Thomas Jelley of the Police Force to be Inspector of Nuisances, in the place of Mr Hendrickson, discharged.\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nEdward Cardwell, M.P.\n\nAc  \n40  \n136",
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        "content_text": "## The At Stäble R. Cardwell \n\nSir A. Robinson \n\nS. 20. \n\nReceived \n\nTergenut Inley as Inspector \n\n### Appointment of Police \n\nNuisances. \n\nSiz & daf \n\nHongkong \n\n20.3216 \n\n1254 the offin Ada Bath \n\nThe Lost Hongkong \n\nMe Alinor. Apt 5.65 \n\n### THE \n\nJ. Mogen \n\nThe Fortescue In Cardwel \n\n138 \n\n10 april \n\nI have backwaty \n\nThe might of Si #Motion \n\ndispatch 2.20 of the \n\n14 Jet last ats \n\nConvey to you my \n\napproval \n\nof the appointment \n\nof the \n\nStore Sergeant \n\nDennis \n\nDaley of the Police Inca. to be Inspector of Nuisances in the place of \n\nHendrickson \n\ndischarged.",
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        "content_text": "# Dispatch A. 11 871863\n\n## Inclosure N.24\n\n### HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 31st December 1864\n\n| Description, &c. in the Colony of | PAYMENTS of an unusual or special | 4 | 78 | 6 May | MAY | 356 | F/2. Axcentive. | Aus2 88 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\nSir,\n\nHong Kong,  \n24th March, 1865\n\nWith reference to Sir Hercules Robinson's Despatch No. 120 of 4th February 1865 regarding the appointment of Store Sergeant Tynies lately to be Inspector of Nuisances, I have the honor to state for your information.\n\nThe Right Honorable  \nEdward Cardwell, M.P.,\n\nPage 360  \nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES—HONGKONG.\n\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n### POLICE.\n\n320 \n\n## POLICE,--Continued.\n\n### SALARIES :-\n\n#### EUROPEAN FORCE.\n\n| Position | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward, | 101,004.00 |  |\n| 1 Captain Superintendent, | 3,810.00 |  |\n| 1 Interpreter, | 384.00 |  |\n| 1 Assistant Do., |  |  |\n| 1 Clerk and Accountant,.. | 1,080.00 |  |\n| 6 Inspectors of Police (Regular Duties), | 630.00 |  |\n| 19 Sergeant Interpreters, average Pay $102 ea.- | 1,938.00 |  |\n| 5 Do. do. (Markets, Nuisances, &c.) average Pay $720 each, | 3,600.00 |  |\n| 4-1st class at $840 each 3-2nd at 720 4-3rd at 600 | 7,920.00 |  |\n| 51 |  |  |\n| 3 Serg, Water Police, average Pay $144 ea.- | 432.00 |  |\n| 4-1st class at $204 each) 4-2nd at 192 4-3rd at 180 |  |  |\n| 1-1st class at $156 1-2nd 1-3rd at 132 | 2,304.00 |  |\n| 1 Store and Barrack Sergeant, | 482.00 |  |\n| 4 Sergeants, average Pay $432 each,. | 1,728.00 |  |\n| 1-1st class at $480 | 480.00 |  |\n| 8 Acting Sergeants, do, average Pay $120 ea. | 960.00 |  |\n| 3-1st class at $132 each 2-2nd at 120 |  |  |\n| 2-2nd at 482 each 1-3rd at 384 |  |  |\n| 2-1st class at $984 each | 1,968.00 |  |\n| 102 Constables, do., average Pay $88.80 ea.- | 9,057.00 |  |\n| 34-1st class at $96.00 ea. 34-2nd at 88.80 |  |  |\n| 34-3rd at 81.60 |  |  |\n| 6 Acting Sergeants, average Pay $372 each, | 2,232.00 |  |\n| 2-2nd at 872 |  |  |\n| 2-3rd at 360 |  |  |\n| 44 Constables, | 13,137.00 |  |\n| 10-1st class at $336 each 14-2nd at 312 17-3rd at 288 | 13,632.00 |  |\n|  | 32,472.00 |  |\n| TOTAL FORCE OF ALL BANKS. | 32,472.00 |  |\n| 3 Horse Coolies and 3 Station Coolies, at $72 each, | 432.00 |  |\n|  | 432.00 |  |\n\n#### INDIAN FORCE.\n\n| Position | $ | \n| --- | --- | \n| 1 Sergeant Major, | 288.00 | \n| 1 Interpreter of Indian Languages, | 204.00 | \n| 2 Drill Sergeants at $36 each | 72.00 | \n| 4 Constables, charge of Fire Engines at 28.80 | 115.20 | \n| 8 Sergeants, average Pay $240 each,. | 1,920.00 | \n| 3-3rd |  | \n| 12 Acting Sergeants, average Pay $102 each, | 1,224.00 | \n| 411 Constables, | 63,750.00 | \n| 3-1st class at $264 each 2-2nd at 240 |  | \n| 4-1st class at $204 each 4-2nd at 102 4-3rd at 180 |  | \n| 120-1st class at $168 each 129-2nd at 156 156-3rd at 144 |  | \n| 8 Drummers and Fifers at 28.80 | 230.40 | \n| 4 Indian Interpreters at 28.80 | 115.20 | \n| 2 Inspectors of Weights and Measures at 72 | 144.00 | \n| 16 Market Scavengers, at 60 | 960.00 | \n| 2 Watchmen for Government Garden, at 88.80 | 177.60 | \n| 2 Inspectors of Drains at 60.00 | 120.00 | \n|  | 68,532.00 | \n|  | 68,532.00 | \n\n### ALLOWANCES:\n\n114,573.60 \n\n### CONTIGENCIES:-\n\n|  | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Carried forward, .. | 101,004.00 |\n| Office Furniture and Incidental Expenses, | 72.00 |\n|  | 116,580.00 |\n\nInclusive of $2 per month each man allowance for Rations. Should rations be issued in kind, a corresponding deduction from the pay will be made.\n\nPage 320 \nPage 323",
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        "title": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]",
        "content_text": "22\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nPOLICE.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nPOLICE,-Continued.\n\n23\n\nSALARIES:--\n\n1 Captain Superintendent,\n\nEUROPEAN FORCE.\n\n1 Assistant Do.,\n\n  \n    3,840.00\n    1,680.00\n  \n\nBrought forward, CHINESE FORCE.\n\n  \n    \n    92,072.00\n  \n  \n    1 Interpreter,\n    384.00\n  \n  \n    1 Clerk and Accountant,\n    \n  \n  \n    & Inspectors of Police (Regular Duties),\n    960.00\n  \n  \n    5 Do. do. (Markets Nuisances, &c.,)\n    \n  \n  \n    4-1st class at $840 each 3-2nd at 720 4-3rd at 800\n    \n  \n  \n    12 Sergeant Interpreters, average Pay $192 ea.\n    7,920.00\n  \n  \n    \n    73\n  \n  \n    1 Store and Barrack Sergeant,\n    \n  \n  \n    3 Serg, Water Police, average Pay $144 ea.\n    \n  \n  \n    4-1st class at $204 each 4-2nd at 192 4-3rd\n    \n  \n  \n    1-1st class at $156 1-2nd\n    2,304.00\n  \n  \n    at 180\n    \n  \n  \n    at 144\n    432.00\n  \n  \n    at 132\n    480.00\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    1-3rd at 132\n    \n  \n  \n    2-1st class at $480 each\n    \n  \n  \n    5 Sergeants,\n    \n  \n  \n    2-2nd at 432 1-3rd at 384\n    2,208.00\n  \n  \n    \n    3-1st class at $132 each\n  \n  \n    8 Acting Sergeants, do., average Pay $120 ea.\n    960.00\n  \n  \n    2-2nd at 120\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    9-3rd at 108\n  \n  \n    \n    77\n  \n  \n    7 Acting Sergeants,\n    \n  \n  \n    3-1st class at $381 each 2-2nd at 372\n    \n  \n  \n    2-3rd at 360\n    2,016.00\n  \n  \n    31-1st class at $96.00 ea.\n    \n  \n  \n    102 Constables,\n    \n  \n  \n    do., average Pay $88.80 ea.\n    9,057.00\n  \n  \n    34-2nd at 88.80\n    \n  \n  \n    34-3rd at 81.60\n    \n  \n  \n    64 Constables,\n    \n  \n  \n    13-1st class at $336 each 14-2nd at 312 37-3rd at 288\n    19,392.00\n  \n  \n    \n    23\n  \n  \n    \n    13,137.60\n  \n  \n    \n    13,187.00\n  \n  \n    126\n    \n  \n  \n    694 TOTAL FORCE OF ALL RANKS.\n    \n  \n  \n    91\n    \n  \n  \n    39,096.00\n    39,096.00\n  \n  \n    3 Horse Coolies and 3 Station Coolies at $72 each,\n    432.00\n  \n  \n    \n    432.00\n  \n  \n    1 Sergeant Major,\n    \n  \n  \n    INDIAN FORCE.\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Interpreter of Indian Languages,\n    \n  \n  \n    ALLOWANCES:--\n    112,041.60\n  \n  \n    \n    288.00\n  \n  \n    \n    264.00\n  \n  \n    2 Inspectors of Weights and Measures at $72.00 each\n    144.00\n  \n  \n    3-1st class at $264 each\n    \n  \n  \n    2 Inspectors of Drains\n    \n  \n  \n    at 60,00\n    120.00\n  \n  \n    23\n    \n  \n  \n    7 Sergeants,\n    \n  \n  \n    2-2nd at 240\n    1,704.00\n  \n  \n    \n    2-3rd at 216\n  \n  \n    2 Drill Sergeants\n    \n  \n  \n    at 80.00\n    72,00\n  \n  \n    \n    4-1st class at $204 each\n  \n  \n    4 Indian Interpreters\n    \n  \n  \n    at 28.80\n    115.20\n  \n  \n    27\n    \n  \n  \n    12 Acting Sergeants,\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4-2nd at 192 4-3rd at 180\n  \n  \n    356 Constables,\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    115-1st class at $168 each 116-2nd at 168 125-3rd\n  \n  \n    \n    at 144\n  \n  \n    \n    2,304.00\n  \n  \n    4 Constables, charge of Fire Engines\n    \n  \n  \n    at 28.80\n    115,20\n  \n  \n    31\n    \n  \n  \n    8 Drummers and Fifers\n    \n  \n  \n    at 28.80\n    230.40\n  \n  \n    +3\n    \n  \n  \n    M\n    55,416.00\n  \n  \n    \n    2 Watchmen for Government Garden\n  \n  \n    16 Market Scavengers\n    \n  \n  \n    at 88.80\n    177.60\n  \n  \n    at 60.00\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    377\n  \n  \n    \n    468\n  \n  \n    \n    59,976.00\n  \n  \n    \n    50,976.00\n  \n  \n    \n    960.00\n  \n  \n    \n    1,934.40\n  \n  \n    Carried forward,\n    99,072.00\n  \n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\n\nInclusive of $2 per month each man allowance for Rations. Should rations be issued in kind, a corresponding deduction from the pay will be made.\n\nOffice Furniture and Incidental Expenses,\n\n  \n    \n    72.00\n  \n  \n    TOTAL POLICE,\n    114,648.00\n  \n  \n    \n    453",
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        "title": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]",
        "content_text": "Governor\n\nEnclosure Six in Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's Despatch Nr 274 of 25 April, 1867.\n\n# The \"Daily Press\" 29th and 30th October, 1866.\n\nIn 59737/67\n\nPage 362\n\nPolice Intelligence, October 27th.\n\nBEFORE C. C. SMITH Esq.\n\nAfter the proceedings taken before the magistrate in the \"coolee kidnapping\" case, W. M. Deane Esq. acting superintendent of police charged the Revd. Mr. Lobscheid and Mr. Ho Aloy chief interpreter of the police court with being principals in this scandalous affair; in consequence of which they were both summoned, and required to enter into their own recognisances in $1,000 each to appear before the court when called on.\n\nPolice Intelligence, October 29th.\n\nBEFORE J. C. WHYTE Esq.\n\nTHE SUMMONS CASE\n\nThe Revd. Wm. Lobscheid, and Ho Aloy, chief interpreter of the Police Court, were charged with unlawfully imprisoning one Chu-a-leen, and others.\n\nMr. Deane stated that he expected the Attorney General to be present, to prosecute but he had not come.\n\nSergeant Langdon's evidence as given on Saturday last was admitted, and he was examined on the second charge as follows.\n\nI know second defendant by sight, have seen him at Wanchi about three weeks ago. I found the paper produced pasted on to the window of the house where Chu-a-leen and the rest were found.\n\nBy Mr. Pollard.—When I saw Aloy at Wanchi, it was respecting a child stealing case which had come before this court.\n\nThomas O'Brien deposed. I have been attached to the Wanchi Station, since August 20th last. I know house No. 100 Queen's Road East, have seen placards pasted outside that house, in Chinese, not in English. I know Ho-Aloy, have seen him at the Station, Wanchi. About ten or fifteen days ago a boy belonging to myself and the sergeant was charged by the second prisoner with attempting to extort two dollars from him on account of a woman that was confined in house No. 100, the following evening Aloy came down and spoke to me, as the sergeant was absent, he told me to take no notice of the house. He first asked me if Sergeant Langdon was in. I said \"no\" he has gone to Hongkong. He then said that the boy is trying to extort money ($2) on account of a woman who was detained in a house, but said never mind about that house, I do not know what house he referred to. I told him Sergeant Langdon would not be back until evening, and he then went away. On the 27th instant, about 8 o'clock in the morning in consequence of information I received I went down to house No. 100, Wanchi, where I saw from 100 to 200 people collected round the door and from what I heard from some of the people I placed a man in charge of the house and sent a note to Sergeant Langdon, after which he and Mr. Tonnochy came, we entered the house and I assisted to arrest the prisoners. I heard the noise of women crying inside the house, and could see them looking anxiously through the bars. Saw Aloy at the station on another occasion but never saw Mr. Lobscheid.\n\nJ. A. de Souza sworn, said, I am a printer residing in Hollywood Road, I know the paper marked \"A.\" I printed 100 copies of it at my establishment by order of Mr. Lobscheid, I have printed other papers for him. I have not the originals of those papers in my possession, I returned them to Mr. Lobscheid with the proofs, I usually keep a copy myself, but on this occasion I gave it away, not to Mr. Aloy as I previously stated.\n\nMr. C. W. Bosman Consul for Holland, stated that Mr. Lobscheid had told him that he had made arrangements with the Yeng-fat hong for shipping Emigrants to Dutch Guiana, and that the office was at West Point (Sai-kim-poo) and I told him that the whole affair must be under my control, the emigrants were to be shipped by the Portland, I have visited that vessel, and saw some emigrants on board. They were not shipped under my supervision, when I went to the depot at Sai-kim-poo, there were only eight women there.\n\nBy Mr. Pollard.—Before the vessel leaves, I have to satisfy myself of the willingness of every one of the emigrants on board to leave the country. I usually employ the services of one of the student interpreters from Macau. I know there is a society called the \"Dutch West India Emigration Society,\" I am notified that Mr. Lobscheid is an emigration agent, but I do not know for what society.\n\nMr. Deane stated that it was his intention to prove the connection between the house at West Point and the establishment at Wanchi.\n\nCum-ayupe, 18, a runner employed by \"Ow-yow-foo\" a shipping master, he never heard of the Hop-yee-hong, has seen the Kwong-tung-fat hong at West Point, but does not know the establishment, has never seen first prisoner there, Does not know either of the defendants.\n\nMr. Pollard requested to know how long this farce was to be continued.\n\nTam a-yow is a rice pounder, does not know the Kwong-tung-fat, but has been there, was never employed there, not even occasionally, has been inside to look for his relation a man named A Puong who lives there—does not know Ow-a-fou or any one of that name.\n\nTam a-quong, does not know the Kwong-tung-fat, has nevertheless been inside, really does know it, has been engaged there, was employed by Chung-a-yu as accountant to Ow-yu-fu's house in Tung mun lane where he keeps a chandlery store.\n\nMr. Deane stated that the evidence had not turned out according to the information received and he must therefore withdraw the charge.\n\nHis Worship wished to know how the paper printed by Mr. de Souza, came to be pasted on to the door of the house.\n\nMr. Pollard, supposed that they were for circulation through the country, and that the very fact of the paper being on the door ought to prevent the house from interference, as by the tenor thereof, both the Colonial regulations and those bye laws framed by the Dutch Government were complied with, had those conducting the carried out the spirit thereof.\n\nMr. Deane stated that for some time the paper did protect the house to a certain extent, until the information on which he had laid the present charge was given.\n\nMr. Pollard demanded a certificate of dismissal, which His Worship allowed.\n\nMr. Lobscheid requested to be allowed to say a few words in his own defence, and permission being granted, read a long statement in which he utterly disowned any dealings or proceedings of the kind with which he was charged, and the court broke up at 7 p.m.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "189\n\n1.\n\n1.- clure mads by Mr Drummond, in the Treasury, for assistance to enable him to study the Chinese language, I sanctioned, in accordance with an established rule, an allowance of $10 for his Chinese Teacher.\n\nAs regards Mr Tomlin, late Superintendent of the Convict Establishment at Store Cutter's Island I have arranged that, in lieu of free Quarters, he should receive an allowance of $30 per mensem. Mr Tomlin had, of course, free Quarters when at Store Cutters' Island, part of Clerk in the Land, and the post to which he was appointed on Mr Taylor's retirement was of the value of £500, the same attached to the Superintendency of the Convict Establishment, I felt called on to make up the difference by the allowance which I have stated.\n\n11. In the Return shewing special payments you will find that a Chinese Sergeant of Police was rewarded with $100 as a gratuity for detecting and bringing to justice one concerned in the Tank Lane Murder. This case has already been brought to your notice in a despatch informing you that Cheung A Po, for the above crime, had suffered the last penalty of the Law.\n\n12. ...was especially deserving of substantial notice",
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        "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867",
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        "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867",
        "content_text": "# Schedule A.\n\n## SCHEDULE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE POLICE FORCE OF HONG-KONG\n\n| Rank | Number | Pay per annum (£) | Total (£) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Captain Superintendent | 1 | 800.00 | 800 |\n| Assistant | 1 | 350.00 | 350 |\n| Clerk and Accountant | 1 | 200.00 | 200 |\n| Insprs. of Police (regular) | 6 |  |  |\n| ‣ European Force |  |  |  |\n| ‣ duties (markets, nuisances, &c.) | 5 | 150.00 (average) |  |\n| Second Class | 3 |  |  |\n| Third Class | 4 |  |  |\n| First Class | 4 | 175.00 | 1,050 |\n| Store and Barrack Sergeant | 1 | 100.00 | 100 |\n| Sergeants | 4 | 90.00 (average) | 360 |\n| Acting Sergeants | 6 |  |  |\n| Constables | 40 |  |  |\n| ‣ First Class | 1 | 100.00 | 100 |\n| ‣ Second Class | 2 | 90.00 | 180 |\n| ‣ Third Class | 1 | 80.00 | 80 |\n| ‣ First Class | 2 | 80.00 | 160 |\n| ‣ Second Class | 2 | 77.10 | 154.20 |\n| ‣ Third Class | 2 | 75.00 | 150 |\n| ‣ First Class | 13 | 70.00 | 910 |\n| ‣ Second Class | 14 | 65.00 | 910 |\n| ‣ Third Class | 13 | 60.00 | 780 |\n|  |  | Total | 6,525 |\n\n( 18 ) \n( 19 )\n\n## Schedule B.\n\n## QUESTIONS to be put separately by the Police Magistrate to a person engaging or enlisting into the service of the Police Force of Hong-Kong.\n\n1. What is your name?\n2. In what place were you born?\n3. What is your trade or calling?\n4. Are you married?\n5. Are you ruptured or lame? Have you ever been subject to fits, or have you any disability or disorder which impedes the free use of your limbs or unfits you for ordinary labor?\n6. Do you belong to the Army or Navy or Militia?\n7. Have you ever served in the Army or Navy, Militia or Volunteers?\n8. Are you willing to serve in the Police of Hong-Kong for the term of five years from the date hereof?\n\n## Form of Oath\n\nI do make oath that the above questions have been separately put to me that the answers thereto have been read over to me, and that they are the same that I gave and are true.\nI do also make oath that I will well and faithfully serve Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors for the term of five years as ... of the Police Force of Hong-Kong, and will observe and obey all orders of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and of all Magistrates and Officers set over me. So help me God.\n\n## Indian Force\n\n| Rank | Number | Pay per annum (£) | Total (£) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Sergeant Major | 1 | 60.00 | 60 |\n| Interpreter of Indian languages | 1 | 55.00 | 55 |\n| First Class | 3 | 55.00 | 165 |\n| Sergeants | 8 | 50.00 (average) | 400 |\n| Second Class | 2 | 50.00 | 100 |\n| Third Class | 3 | 45.00 | 135 |\n| First Class | 4 | 42.10 | 168.40 |\n| Acting Sergeants | 12 | 40.00 | 480 |\n| Second Class | 4 | 40.00 | 160 |\n| Third Class | 4 | 37.10 | 148.40 |\n| First Class Constables | 116 | 35.00 | 4,060 |\n| Second Class Constables | 118 | 32.10 | 3,787.80 |\n| Third Class Constables | 116 | 30.00 | 3,480 |\n|  |  | Total | 12,370 |\n\nInclusive of 8s. 4d. per month, each man's allowance for rations. Should rations be issued in kind, a corresponding deduction from the pay will be made.\n\n## Chinese Force\n\n| Rank | Number | Pay per annum (£) | Total (£) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Interpreter | 1 | 80.00 | 80 |\n| Sergeant Interpreters | 12 | 40.00 (average) | 480 |\n| First Class | 4 | 42.10 | 168.40 |\n| Second Class | 4 | 40.00 | 160 |\n| Third Class | 4 | 37.10 | 148.40 |\n| Sergeants, Water Police | 3 |  |  |\n| ‣ First Class | 1 | 32.10 | 32.10 |\n| ‣ Second Class | 1 | 30.00 | 30 |\n| ‣ Third Class | 1 | 27.10 | 27.10 |\n| Acting Sergeants, Water Police | 8 |  |  |\n| ‣ First Class | 3 | 27.10 | 81.30 |\n| ‣ Second Class | 2 | 25.00 | 50 |\n| ‣ Third Class | 3 | 22.10 | 66.30 |\n| Constables, Water Police | 90 |  |  |\n| ‣ First Class | 30 | 20.00 | 600 |\n| ‣ Second Class | 30 | 18.10 | 543 |\n| ‣ Third Class | 30 | 17.00 | 510 |\n|  |  | Total | 2,515 |\n\n## Additional pay for extra or special services and duties\n\n| Rank/Position | Number | Pay per annum (£) | Total (£) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Drill Sergeants | 2 | 71.0 | 142 |\n| Constables, charge of fire-engines | 4 | 15.00 | 60 |\n| Drummers and Fifers | 8 | 6.00 | 48 |\n| Indian Interpreters | 4 | 24.00 | 96 |\n| Horse coolies and Station coolies | 6 | 15.00 (average) | 90 |\n|  |  | Total | 436 |\n\nTotal Force of all Ranks: 551  \nTotal: £21,611\n\n## Form of Declaration\n\nI do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare that the above questions have been separately put to me; that the answers thereto have been read over to me, and that they are the same that I gave and are true.\nI do also solemnly, sincerely and truly declare that I will well and faithfully serve Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for the term of five years as ... of the Police Force of Hong-Kong, and will observe and obey all orders of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and of all Magistrates and Officers set over me.\n\nWitness:  \nSignature:  \nDECLARED before me at ... this ... day of ...  \nSignature of Police Magistrate.\n\n## Form of Oath\n\n...  \nSWORN before me at ... this ... day of ...  \nSignature of Police Magistrate.",
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        "content_text": "## COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONG-KONG, 1867\n\n### Expenditure detailed\n\n#### POLICE\n\n(21)\n\nBrought forward **$112,641.60**\n\n##### SALARIES\n\n| Position | Number | Rate | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2 Inspectors of Weights and Measures | 2 | $72.00 | $144.00 |\n| 2 Drill Sergeants | 2 | $36.00 | $72.00 |\n| 4 Indian Interpreters | 4 | $28.80 | $115.20 |\n| 1 Captain Superintendent | 1 | $3,840.00 | $3,840.00 |\n| 4 Constables, charge of Fire-engines | 4 | $28.80 | $115.20 |\n| 8 Drummers and Fifers | 8 | $28.80 | $230.40 |\n| 1 Assistant | 1 | $1,680.00 | $1,680.00 |\n| 1 Clerk and Accountant | 1 | $960.00 | $960.00 |\n| 6 Inspectors of Police (regular duties) | 6 |  |  |\n| 1 Store and Barrack Sergeant | 1 |  |  |\n| 2 Watchmen for Government Garden | 2 | $88.80 | $177.60 |\n| 16 Market Scavengers | 16 | $60.00 | $960.00 |\n\n##### ALLOWANCES\n\n| Rank | Number | Rate | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 5 Sergeants | 5 | $360 | $1,804.80 |\n| 7 Acting Sergeants | 7 |  |  |\n| 13-1st class | 13 | $336 | $4,368.00 |\n| 14-2nd class | 14 | $312 | $4,368.00 |\n| 37-3rd class | 37 | $288 | $10,656.00 |\n| 2-1st class | 2 | $480 | $960.00 |\n| 2-2nd class | 2 | $432 | $864.00 |\n| 1-3rd class | 1 | $384 | $384.00 |\n| 3-1st class | 3 | $384 | $1,152.00 |\n| 2-2nd class | 2 | $372 | $744.00 |\n| 2-3rd class | 2 |  |  |\n\nEuropean Force Total: $39,096.00\n\n| Rank | Number | Rate | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 Sergeant-Major | 1 |  | $285.00 |\n| 1 Interpreter of Indian languages | 1 |  | $264.00 |\n| 7 Sergeants | 7 | $264 | $1,848.00 |\n| 12 Acting Sergeants | 12 | $240 | $2,880.00 |\n| 356 Constables | 356 |  | $56,416.00 |\n| 3-1st class | 3 | $264 | $792.00 |\n| 2-2nd class | 2 | $240 | $480.00 |\n| 2-3rd class | 2 | $216 | $432.00 |\n| 4-2nd class | 4 | $192 | $768.00 |\n| 4-3rd class | 4 | $180 | $720.00 |\n| 4-1st class | 4 | $204 | $816.00 |\n| 115-1st class | 115 | $168 | $19,320.00 |\n| 116-2nd class | 116 | $156 | $18,096.00 |\n| 120-3rd class | 120 | $144 | $17,280.00 |\n\nIndian Force Total: $59,976.00\n\n| Position | Number | Rate | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 Interpreter | 1 | $84.00 | $84.00 |\n| 12 Sergeant Interpreters | 12 | $192 | $2,304.00 |\n| 3 Sergeants, Water Police | 3 | $144 | $432.00 |\n| 8 Acting Sergeants, Water Police | 8 | $120 | $960.00 |\n| 3-1st class | 3 | $132 | $396.00 |\n| 2-2nd class | 2 | $120 | $240.00 |\n| 1-1st class | 1 | $156 | $156.00 |\n| 1-2nd class | 1 | $144 | $144.00 |\n| 1-3rd class | 1 | $132 | $132.00 |\n| 4-1st class | 4 | $204 | $816.00 |\n| 4-2nd class | 4 | $192 | $768.00 |\n| 4-3rd class | 4 | $180 | $720.00 |\n| 102 Constables, Water Police | 102 | $88.80 | $9,057.60 |\n| 34-1st class | 34 | $96.00 | $3,264.00 |\n| 34-2nd class | 34 | $88.80 | $3,019.20 |\n| 34-3rd class | 34 | $81.60 | $2,774.40 |\n\nChinese Force Total: $13,137.60\n\n| Position | Number | Rate | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Horse Coolies and 3 Station Coolies | 3 | $72 | $432.00 |\n\nTotal, Police: $114,648.00\n\nInclusive of $2 per month each man's allowances for rations. Should rations be issued in kind, a corresponding deduction from the pay will be made.\n\nFrom Lt. Col. Younghusband Offg., Inspector General of Police Punjab, to C. V. Creagh Esquire, Assistant District Superintendent of Police Mooltan, No. 935, dated 25th March 1867.\n\nIn continuation of No. 505, dated 8th ultimo, forwards for information copy of a No. 423 dated 16th current, from the Secretary to Government Punjab, Civil Department, with original enclosures, regarding the terms of service of Sikh policemen, required for the Hong-Kong police.\n\n2. On the arrival of the Inspector General at Lahore, any points requiring orders can be settled.\n\nFrom T. H. Thornton Esquire, Secretary to Government Punjab, to Major G. Hutchinson, Inspector General of Police Punjab, No. 462 dated 26th March, 1867.\n\nIn continuation of No. 423 dated 16th instant, forwards copy of Government of India, Home Department's No. 2822, dated 20th instant, conveying His Excellency's proposals in regard to the forfeiture of return passage from China, by Sikh Policeman, dismissed for grave misconduct.\n\nFrom E. C. Bayley Esquire, Secretary to Government of India, Home Department, to T. H. Thornton Esquire, Secretary to Government Punjab, No. 2822 dated 20th March 1867.\n\nWith reference to the remark in paragraph 2 of my letter No. 2247, dated the 6th instant, regarding the condition proposed by the Hong-Kong Government of forfeiture of return passage from China by Sikh Policemen dismissed for grave misconduct, I am directed to state that the Governor General in Council has further considered the point, and is of opinion that such a condition would entail hardship, and might eventually operate prejudicially and render service in China distasteful to the Sikhs.\n\n2. His Excellency in Council would accordingly propose that, as the pay to be given to these men is very liberal, a certain monthly deduction be made from it, and carried to the account of each man, sufficient to cover the cost of his passage, and to allow him a moderate sum for his journey and maintenance to his home, on his arrival in India.\n\n(596)",
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        "content_text": "345 \n\nFirst. He had known men refuse to go. On Monday last, he went on board, and, seeing a disturbance, he went up to the 7th prisoner, and asked him why they made a noise; but the coolies seized him and carried him down the hold, but before they had time to beat him, he was rescued by a constable, though not before he was struck with a belaying pin. He did not find out while he was on board what was the cause of the disturbance, but he afterwards heard that it was on account of some of the men wanting to go on shore, after having spent the money they received, which is about $11. They also got a jacket, pants, and shoes in addition. The Emigration Officer and the Dutch Consul were always present when the coolies received their bounty.\n\nMr. Baak explained that each coolie had a paper given him, and a duplicate was sent to the Government; both these papers were signed by the Dutch Consul and Emigration Officer. Mr. May expressing a wish to see one of the papers, Mr. Baak stated off to fetch one. When it was produced in court, witness stated that it was the same as the coolies received. The fourth prisoner asked this last witness if he thought they had enough to eat on Tuesday last. The witness said they certainly had enough to eat; they got one pound of rice, and about five or six taels of fish each meal. They got two meals a day. Mr. May said they had heard what the last witness had said; they went on board the ship voluntarily, and with their eyes open.\n\nPrisoners said they went on board of their own accord, but they did not see how they were to get back; but Mr. May said the agreement said nothing about coming back again; it merely said they could remain in the Dutch Guiana or go anywhere else they liked. Mr. Baak, agent for the Emigration, said he was on board after the disturbance, and told the coolies he would endorse all their contracts to the effect that they should be brought back to Hongkong at the expiration of their term. Mr. May had the prisoners told this, but at the same time said the great complaint was a shortness of food. Mr. Baak further explained that at the expiration of each coolie's agreement, they would receive as a bonus $60 and a piece of land; if they wanted to come home, they would get a passage instead of the bonus; the prisoners said they would have the return passage and not the bonus.\n\nMr. May said that was all right; the coolies wanted just what Mr. Baak would give; he would now enquire into the mutiny. Pang-a-wai, a clerk in the Wai-abing shop, said his master was employed by Mr. Baak to get coolies. On Tuesday morning, at seven o'clock, he went on board the Marie Therese, with Lee-a-fook, a sub-agent, and seeing a row going on, asked the prisoners what they meant, when they seized him and beat him, especially the 6th, 9th, and 12th prisoners, (Cheong-a-poo, Ho-koon-sow, and Tsang-fat-sow); it was Cheong-a-poo seized him by the tail, and the other two beat him with their fists; he lost his umbrella, &c. The constable came to the rescue; he had heard before he went on board that there was an insufficiency of provisions.\n\nChun-a-fook, a coolie on board, but who is a sort of monitor or sergeant over a certain number of men, recognized the seventh, fourteenth, and twenty-first prisoners as the men most active in the assault on the last two witnesses; he stated that they all used belaying pins made of iron. He heard that the disturbance was on account of there being no clause in the agreement paper relative to the return passage; he did not hear that they complained of not having enough food; they sometimes had some to spare; the reason why they threw all the provisions overboard was that some of the coolies wanted to break their engagement and get back on shore.\n\nA-shuey, another coolie from the ship, recognized three of the prisoners; the 9th prisoner, Ho-koon-sow, was one who had a belaying pin in his hand; he had not heard what was the reason of the disturbance.\n\nMr. Jonathan Bank, agent of the Surinam Emigration Company, said on Tuesday, the 17th instant, he was on board when he found a disturbance going on; he could point out four of the prisoners who were the ring-leaders of the row, and he did so; Ho-koon-sow being one of them. He did not hear why the disturbance took place. He had done everything he could to satisfy the men, even so far as to endorse their agreements after they had been signed, to the effect that they should be brought back at the expiration of their term. They had thrown the provisions overboard on two occasions, and the only reason he could assign for such conduct was that they wanted to slip through his hands.\n\nP.C. 46, William Williams, said that relative to the disturbance of Tuesday, he could recognize two men, Ho-koon-sow and Ho-cheong; they were dragging another man down the hatch. He also identified Ho-cheong as the man who threw the provisions overboard, and threw firewood at the boat that came alongside with provisions. Witness said he had to be very severe with the men, as belaying-pins were flying all round the deck. He also stated that the men were quiet enough before the Chinese agents came on board.\n\nP.C. 20, H. Clinton, also said he saw two of the prisoners in the row throwing provisions overboard and firewood at the boat which came alongside.\n\nThe following is the list of the prisoners who were identified: Chu-fook, Cheong-poo, Ho-cheong, Low-kung-lum, Ho-koon-sow, Tsung-fat-sow, Low-a-suw, Ho-koon-sun, Cho-a-sin, Hu-a-man, and Chew-a-see. The other nine were discharged, and as Mr. May said might go on board, but Mr. Baak said he did not wish to take any of the men back, as the other 120 coolies already on board did not wish to have them back again.\n\nLee-a-fook was called at Mr. Baak's request to see if he could recognize any of the nine men who are not identified by previous witnesses, and he spoke as to two of the nine, Lee-see-fook and Foo-a-sam, at the same time identifying two of the others, so that seven were not recognized, and fourteen out of the twenty-one were positively spoken to as being actively engaged in the disturbances which have lately taken place on board.\n\nMr. May said the seven men might go, but the two who were recognized must go in the dock again, and he would hear what they had to say in defence, or what complaint they might have to make. All the prisoners gave various excuses, most of them saying they had been mistaken for other men.\n\nMr. May was going to pronounce his decision when Mr. Baak (who before, when the case was being heard, introduced a fresh witness) said one of the men was wounded so badly that he could hardly stand, so he was accordingly introduced, but his testimony was only corroborative of the other witnesses' statement. This witness's name was Lew-a-chew, and being very much knocked about the head, he was permitted to sit down while giving his evidence.\n\nMr. May said from the evidence given for the prosecution, it was very clear that they had no cause of complaint; they were all grown men and fully able to understand the nature of the agreement they had made to go to the Dutch Guiana; it was the opinion of those interested in the vessel that they only made the disturbance for the purpose of getting away and breaking their agreement. The fourth prisoner, Lee-see-fook, would be fined £5 or one month's imprisonment; the other thirteen would go to prison for three months. Seven were therefore discharged.",
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        "content_text": "# CHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENT in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 30th June 1868\n\n| OFFICE | Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary | Name of the Officer who is now appointed and annual Salary | If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State | If newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority | If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment | Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of Office or appointment, or the new appointment | Column for Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st Class Inspector, Police Force | W. A. Langdon ($840) | Ed. Aquino ($1,200) |  | 21st May 1868 |  | Vide dispatch of the 6th of August No. 156 to the Secretary of State | resigned |\n| 1st Class Inspector (transferred to Post Office) | J. Grey ($720) |  |  | 6th May 1868 |  |  |  |\n| 2nd Class Inspector, Post Office | J. Payne | J. Malloran | Sergeant from England |  |  |  |  |\n|  | ($720) | ($720) |  |  |  |  | resigned |\n| Store Sergeant | M. Williamson ($600) | J. Livingston ($600) |  |  |  |  | dismissed |\n| Store Sergeant | Laurence (dismissed) ($600) | D. Kurly ($600) |  |  |  |  | dismissed |",
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        "content_text": "## The Late Fire\n\nAn Inspector, or Sergeant, in charge, whose duty is solely with that engine, to direct its movements, and carry out the orders of his chief as to the place and mode in which it is to be used. A man in charge of the hose to fix, lengthen, shorten, and move it about as required, obeying only his own foreman, or the Superintendent; and a strong-bodied clear-headed man with courage and nerve to guide the jet; one with sense enough not to throw away the water in mad attempts to extinguish what is not on fire, or to put out what is hopelessly blazing, and with pluck enough to take his hose close up to a burning window, or along a roof top, or a wall. These three men are the life and soul of an engine. It is valueless without them and their common sense and experience. All the rest is mere bone and muscle. Any one will do for the pulling, hauling, and pumping.\n\nIf there was one noticeable feature in the performance of the Fire Brigade on Thursday, it was the absence of any attempt whatever to get that command over the fire, which a position above it affords. Not a soul ventured on roof or verandah to get a complete view of the scene, and judge fairly of the direction and progress of the fire. Not a hose was got up to pour water down on the blazing mass, almost the only effective mode of dealing with fire. Who has ever witnessed a London fire and not seen how every effort was made to take ground on every spot that looked down on the fire, and lead the water off points from which it could be most effectively thrown?\n\nOne word more, for the Superintendent himself. Before he gives a single order, much less forms his plan of action, let him take a rapid survey of the whole scene, its capabilities, and its disadvantages, its weak, and its strong points, and give himself five minutes' reflection on what he has got to do, and how best to do it.\n\n### The Late Fire\n\n## FURTHER PARTICULARS\n\nAlthough the more important facts connected with the fire that broke out on Thursday night, at Messrs. Fawcett and Co.'s store, have been already published, the real cause of the origin and spread of the conflagration have not yet been made public. From what can be learnt, the following particulars of the first outbreak of the fire may be relied on.\n\nThe store occupied by Messrs. Fawcett and Co., situate at the corner of Wyndham-street and Wellington-street was peculiarly constructed. The store itself, in fact, somewhat resembled the yards attached to old English Inns, having an inside verandah and rooms all round. On the north side of the store, that is the side facing Wellington-street, there was a suite of rooms, occupied by Mr. Bleecker, assistant to Messrs. Fawcett & Co. On the west side a long row of bedrooms extended, which formerly were portions of the Oriental Hotel, and on the south side were the private apartments of the firm. The east side was a wall.\n\nThe store at the time of the fire of course held a stock of the usual materials connected with the Shipchandlery business, but in one corner, which may be described as the W., or the angle of the store, almost in the centre of the block, there was placed a few barrels of tar and the general refuse of the store, and it is supposed that this particular corner was the seat and origin of the fire.\n\nAbout eleven o'clock on Thursday evening, Mr. Bleecker, who occupied the north side of the store as apartments, being (or rather fancied he heard being in bed at the time) a noise as of the crackling of burning wood, and accordingly went out into the verandah opposite Atick's store, to see if anything was wrong. Seeing nothing he returned into his room, and from thence passed into the store, (to which he had entrance) where he immediately discovered the presence of fire. On examination, he discovered that the S.W. corner of the building mentioned above was smouldering slowly, evidently having been in a state of ignition for some time.\n\nThe discovery of fire in the store, was alarming at first, and caused him to rush into the verandah attached to his apartments and loudly call out \"Fire!\" Mr. David Brown, who keeps a saloon and bowling alley next door to the store, (part of the old Oriental) promptly answered the cry, and was informed of what was going on inside. Mr. Bleecker then left his apartments with what clothes he had on, and cautiously opened, and after passing out locked the door, and commenced afresh to call \"Fire!\" No response being given to his cry he began to think of saving what he could, and with that idea again passed into the store where he secured the books, and handed them to a gentleman outside; all this time the front door had been kept closed so that no draught might rush in to feed the already increasing flames.\n\nAbout three quarters of an hour after Mr. Bleecker first gave the alarm, Mr. Creagh, the assistant superintendent of the Fire Brigade, arrived on the scene of the fire, and immediately desired that the door should be opened. This was at first opposed by Messrs. Fawcett & Co.'s assistant, but Mr. Creagh had his own way, and the door was opened. The draught which instantly rushed in, fanned the smouldering embers into a flame, which spread with great rapidity throughout the whole store.\n\nThe hose pipe from the Central police-station arrived about the same time as Mr. Creagh, and was attached to the fire-plug with the idea of reducing the flames. This project, however, was marred by the assistant superintendent in opening the door in the first instance, and as a natural consequence, considering the inflammable nature of the building, the hose was useless, the flames having mounted to the roof. The hose, which was a short one, had not sufficient force to have any power over the flames on the roof to which it was directed.\n\nThe first engine...",
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        "content_text": "On the ground was that attached to the Water Police, under the direction of Sergeant O'Brien and a posse of Chinese coolies, who immediately went to work and rendered most efficient service during the fire. After this, the engine of the Central police arrived and commenced operations, but the hose pipe burst in a short time and caused some delay until tied up and made taut by Mr. Macdonald, one of the turnkeys of the Gaol, who was on the spot with the Governor of that establishment. This mishap occurred more than once to the great disadvantage of the Brigade, and the engine was eventually sent home. About half-past eleven or so, the roof of the building fell in with a crash that sent myriads of sparks into the air and seemed as if it were a welcome \"feu de joie\" to the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, who arrived about that time. Messrs. Dent & Co.'s engine also arrived about this time and, taking up a position in D'Aguilar-street, played on the roof of the stables lately belonging to that firm, which had become ignited but which did not burn after the straw roof fell. A number of men from the U.S. gunboat Unadilla arrived on the scene during the evening and rendered good assistance, as did also the Naval Brigade of H.M.S. Pearl, consisting of ninety men under the command of Lieut. E. C. Rice, who also came promptly to the spot and assisted in the most praiseworthy manner in subduing the flames. The engine of the 73rd Regiment, with a considerable body of men, arrived shortly before the fire had burst itself out, but of all the different departments represented at the fire, the men of the Dockyard police were the most active in extinguishing the flames, and therefore great merit must be due to their exertions.\n\nThe attempts made to save the property were, although well meant, very improperly carried out, for the amount of damage done to part of the furniture of the block quite away from the fire is much to be regretted, as is also the spirit which directed the members of the police force to commence playing bowls in the Orient Salon during the early hours of the morning while the remains of the fire were being extinguished.\n\nThe wreck of the building is now in the hands of the Insurance Companies, with whom the policies on the building and its contents were taken out. As the place was completely gutted, there is very little hope of anything of value being saved, with the exception of the \"Fireproof safe\" belonging to the firm, which is the only thing in the whole store that withstood the flames.\n\nAmong the other Engines which arrived early on the ground, one brought up by M. Macaire of the M.I. str. Imperatrice, did good service and therefore must not be forgotten.\n\n311",
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        "content_text": "# \n,‛ཎྞཱ、: \n\n## Penalty for assaulting Police Officer in execution of duty.\n\n## Circumstances in which Officer may be allowed to resign, or may be dismissed.\n\n## Terms on which any member of Police Force may resign.\n\nHouse, or on other his Premises during any part of the time appointed for his being on duty, every such Victualler or Keeper, being convicted thereof before any Magistrate, shall for each Offence forfeit and pay such Sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars together with Costs, to be recovered in a Summary Manner as the said Magistrate shall direct, and in default of payment shall be liable, if no sufficient distress can be found, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding Three Months.\n\nXXI. If any Person shall assault or resist any member of the Police Force, acting in the execution of his duty, or shall aid or incite any Person so to assault or resist, or shall refuse to assist any Officer or Constable in the execution of his duty when called upon so to do, every such Offender being thereof convicted before any Magistrate, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay such Sum, not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars, together with Costs, to be recovered in a Summary Manner, as the said Magistrate in his discretion may order, and in default of payment shall be liable, if no sufficient distress can be found, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding Three Months.\n\n## Rewards, Badges, and Medals may be given for extraordinary Services.\n\nXXII. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, His Excellency the Governor shall have power to grant permission to resign, to any Inspector, Sergeant or Constable of the Force who may become unfit for further Service from ill-health on the Certificate of the Colonial Surgeon to that effect being produced, or in any special cases brought to His Excellency's notice by the Captain Superintendent. His Excellency the Governor shall have power to grant to any such Officer permission to resign or to dismiss any such Officer.\n\nXXIII. Any Inspector, Sergeant or Constable of the Police Force shall be entitled to claim his Discharge at any time during the period of his first or second Enlistment of Five Years, upon his giving to the Captain Superintendent Three Months' Notice of his wish to withdraw, and paying a Sum equivalent to Two Months' pay of the Rank he may hold at the time of his giving Notice of withdrawal for each unexpired Year of his term of Enlistment.\n\nXXIV. His Excellency the Governor is hereby empowered to grant Rewards to any Officers or Constables of the Police Force who shall distinguish themselves by extraordinary diligence, zeal or exertion in the execution of their duties, and the Captain Superintendent shall report to His Excellency any such Officer who shall so distinguish himself, stating the nature of the service; and His Excellency the Governor shall have power to grant distinctive Badges and Medals to such Officers of the Police Force for long and faithful or extraordinary Services.\n\n## Stations and Furniture to be provided for Police Force.\n\nXXV. His Excellency the Governor is empowered to direct suitable Stations for the Quarters and accommodation of the Police Force, and Furniture suitable for the same, to be provided, and to direct the erection, fitting up and furnishing of suitable Premises as a Place or Places for instructing, training and drilling the Police Force as occasion may require.\n\n## Special duty to be performed by Police, on Householders' application and expense.\n\nXXVI. His Excellency the Governor is hereby empowered, if he shall think fit on the application of any Householder, to appoint any member of the Police Force to do special duty in and upon the Premises of the Applicant; and every Householder who shall so avail himself of the services of any Constable of the Police Force, shall pay to the Captain Superintendent of the Police Force for the same at the rate of two-thirds of the Pay and Allowance of such Constable; and all Sums which shall be received by the Captain Superintendent for such special Services, shall be paid by him into the Colonial Treasury forthwith, and be accounted for monthly; and every Sum of money due for such special Services shall be deemed a debt due to the Crown, and shall be recoverable in a Summary Manner by the Captain Superintendent.\n\n## Term of Service by present Police Officers.\n\nXXVII. All Officers and Constables now serving and who have been contributing to the Police Superannuation Fund, shall be entitled to reckon their past Services as part of the period of Ten Years required to establish a claim to Pension, as hereinbefore provided.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 3rd Day of May, 1862.\n\n**L. D'ALMADA É CASTRO**,  \nClerk of Councils.\n\n## SCHEDULE A.\n\n### SCHEDULE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE POLICE FORCE OF HONGKONG.\n\n| Rank | Number | Pay per annum |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Captain Superintendent | 1 | £800.00 |\n| Assistant do. | 1 | 800 |\n| Clerk and Accountant | 1 | 350.00 |\n| Store and Barrack Serjeant | 1 | 200.00 |\n| Inspectors of Police (Regular Duties) | 6 | 250 |\n| Inspectors of Police (Markets, Nuisances, &c.) |  | average pay 150.00 each |\n| Serjeants | 4 | £175.00 each |\n| Serjeants | 4 | 150.00 |\n| Serjeants | 4 | 125.00 |\n| Serjeants | 4 | 100.00 |\n| Constables (European Force) | 31 |  |\n|  first class | 1 | £100.00 |\n|  second class | 2 | 90.00 each |\n|  third class | 2 | 80.00 |\n|  first class | 14 | average pay 77.10 each |\n|  second class | 2 | 77.10 |\n|  third class | 2 | 75.00 |\n|  first class | 16 | 70.00 |\n|  second class | 14 | 65.00 |\n|  third class | 13 | 60.00 |\n| Serjeant Major | 1 | £60.00 |\n| Interpreter of Indian Languages | 1 | 55.00 |\n| Serjeants (Indian Force) | 8 |  |\n|  first class | 3 | £60.00 each |\n|  second class | 2 | 55.00 |\n|  third class | 3 | 50.00 each |\n| Acting Serjeants (Indian Force) | 12 | average pay 50.00 each |\n|  first class | 4 | 45.00 |\n|  second class | 4 | 42.10 |\n|  third class | 4 | 40.00 |\n| Constables (Indian Force) | 350 |  |\n|  first class | 116 | £37.10 each |\n|  second class | 118 | 35.00 |\n|  third class | 116 | 32.10 |\n| Interpreter (Chinese Force) | 1 | £80.00 |\n| Serjeant Interpreters (Chinese Force) | 12 | average pay 40.00 each |\n| Serjeants, Water Police | 3 |  |\n|  first class | 1 | £42.10 |\n|  second class | 1 | 40.00 |\n|  third class | 1 | 37.10 |\n| Acting Serjeants, Water Police | 8 |  |\n|  first class | 3 | £27.10 each |\n|  second class | 2 | 25.00 |\n|  third class | 3 | 22.10 |\n| Constables, Water Police | 90 |  |\n|  first class | 30 | £20.00 each |\n|  second class | 30 | 18.10 |\n|  third class | 30 | 17.00 |\n| Drill Serjeants | 2 | £24.00 each |\n| Constables, charge of Fire Engines | 4 | £15.00 each |\n| Constables, Drummers and Fifers | 8 | £6.00 each |\n| Constables, Indian Interpreters | 4 | £6.00 each |\n| Horse Coolies and Station Coolies | 6 | average pay £15.00 each |\n\n**Total Force of all Ranks:** 551  \n**Total Pay:** £12,370 (Indian Force), £6,525 (European Force), £2,515 (Chinese Force) = **£21,611** (Inclusive of 8s. 4d. per Month each man allowance for Rations. Should Rations be issued in kind, a corresponding deduction from the pay will be made.)\n\n## SCHEDULE B.\n\n### Questions to be put separately by the Police Magistrate to a person engaging or enlisting into the service of the Police Force of Hongkong.\n\n1. What is your name.\n2. In what place were you born.\n3. What is your trade or calling.\n4. Are you married.\n5. Are you ruptured or lame? have you ever been subject to fits or have you any disability or disorder which impedes the free use of your limbs or unfits you for ordinary labor.\n6. Do you belong to the Army or Navy or Militia.\n7. Have you ever served in the Army or Navy, Militia or Volunteers.\n8. Are you willing to serve in the Police of Hongkong for the term of five years from the date hereof.\n\n**Form of Oath.**\n\nI do make oath that the above questions have been separately put to me: that the answers thereto have been read over to me, and that they are the same that I gave and are true.\n\nI do also make oath that I will well and faithfully serve Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors for the term of five years as [Rank] of the Police Force of Hongkong, and will observe and obey all orders of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and of all Magistrates and Officers set over me.\n\nSo help me God.\n\n**Signature:**  \n**Witness:**  \n**Sworn before me at**  \nthis **day of**  \n**Signature of Police Magistrate.**",
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        "content_text": "22\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nPOLICE,-Continued.\n\n203\n\n23\n\nPOLICE.\n\nSALARIES:---\n\nEUROPEAN FORCE.\n\nCaptain Superintendent, $3,840.00\n\nDeputy do., $2,616.00\n\nAssistant do., $1,920.00\n\nFirst Clerk, $1,200.00\n\nSecond do., $960.00\n\n1 Chinese Clerk and Interpreter, $504.00\n\n1 Assistant Inspector of Nuisances, $300.00\n\n9 Inspectors of Police (Charge Room Duties),\n\n5 1st class at $840 each $4,200.00\n\n2 2nd class at $720 each $1,440.00\n\n2 3rd class at $600 each $1,200.00\n\n10,200.00\n\n12 Sergeant Interpreters,\n\n4 1st class at $320 each $1,280.00\n\n4 2nd class at $192 each $768.00\n\n4 3rd class at $180 each $720.00\n\n2,304.00\n\n1 1st class at $156 $156.00\n\nDo. at Outstations,\n\n1 at $840 $840.00\n\n3 Sergeants, Water Police,\n\n1 1st class at $132 $132.00\n\n1 2nd class at $114 $114.00\n\n1 3rd class at $108 $108.00\n\n1 Store and Barrack Sergeant,\n\n1st class at $480 $480.00\n\n8 Sergeants,\n\n4 1st class at $432 each $1,728.00\n\n2 2nd class at $384 each $768.00\n\n2 3rd class at $360 each $720.00\n\n3,552.00\n\n8 Acting Sergeants, do.\n\n2 1st class at $120 each $240.00\n\n3 2nd class at $108 each $324.00\n\n3 3rd class at $96 each $288.00\n\n960.00 was corrected to: 2 2nd at $372 $744.00\n\n3 3rd at $360 $1,080.00\n\n5 1st class at $384 each $1,920.00\n\n10 Acting Sergeants,\n\n2 2nd class at $372 each $744.00\n\n3 3rd class at $360 each $1,080.00\n\n3,744.00\n\n60 Constables at $120 each, Water Police, $7,200.00\n\n30 1st class at $96 each $2,880.00\n\n36 2nd class at $88.80 each $3,196.80\n\n48 3rd class at $81.60 each $3,916.80\n\n110 Constables,\n\n50 1st class at $330 each $16,500.00\n\n20 2nd class at $312 each $6,240.00\n\n40 3rd class at $288 each $11,520.00\n\n34,560.00\n\n206\n\n22,509.60\n\n65,592.00\n\n717 TOTAL FORCE OF ALL RANKS.\n\nINDIAN FORCE.\n\n2 Jemadars, $684.00\n\n19 Horse Coolies and 20 Station Coolies,\n\n25 at $72 each $1,800.00\n\n14 at $60 $840.00\n\n2,640.00\n\n1 Sergeant Major, $288.00\n\n2 Interpreters of Indian Languages,\n\n1 at $300 and 1 at $264 $564.00\n\n10 Sergeants,\n\n1 at $246 and 9 at $240 $2,448.00\n\n10 Acting Sergeants,\n\n3 at $216 $648.00\n\nBombay Men,\n\n340 Constables,\n\n*Sikhs,\n\n17 1st class at $234 and 2nd class at $204 $1,974.00\n\n4 3rd class at $180 $720.00\n\n5 Indian Interpreters at $28.80 $144.00\n\n1 Drummer at $28.80 $28.80\n\n75 1st class at $168 each $12,600.00\n\n32 2nd class at $156 each $4,992.00\n\n17 3rd class at $144 each $2,448.00\n\n2 Watchmen for Public Gardens at $88.80 $177.60\n\n16 Market Scavengers at $60 $960.00\n\n70 2nd class at $162 $11,340.00\n\n74 3rd class at $150 $11,100.00\n\n1 Ship Carpenter at $180 $180.00\n\nFor Good Conduct and for Special Services, $15,000.00\n\n365\n\n61,326.00\n\n10,802.40\n\n*An allowance of $2.50 a month each made to the Sikh Constables in lieu of Rations, is included in the above Salaries, but this allowance carries with it no claim for Pensions,\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\n\nOffice Furniture, and Incidental Expenses, $72.00",
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        "content_text": "Page 26\n\n6981\n\npapua Jəqarut) an dof ONO][\n\njo samo su WĮ SINIKINIOJIV PUV SADIAH() JO SU SHOKYHO\n\ner, 1869.\n\n# CHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENT in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 30th September,\n\n  \n    OFFICE\n    Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.\n    Name of the Officer who is now appointed and annual Salary.\n    If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State.\n    If newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority.\n    If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment.\n    Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of Office or appointment, or the new appointment.\n    Column for Remarks.\n  \n  \n    Police\n    \n    Inspector of\n    R. Greaves.\n    (Acting)\n    $300\n    I. Wilkinson\n    (Acting)\n  \n  \n    Auditor General's Office, Hancy Hong,\n    \n    Dr December, 1869.\n    $300.\n    650\n    No 2021.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wilkinson is also Store!\n    28th July,\n    Sergeant\n    1869.\n    (True Copy)\n    Colonial Secretary.\n    This appointment provisional\n    \n  \n  \n    62 Land Wilkinson half of the Salary of an Inspector.\n    \n    \n    \n    (Signed) J. Gardiner Austin,\n    Acting Auditor General.\n    \n    \n  \n\nEX.\n\nPage 630\n\nPage 631",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE PAPER\n\nregards the design for the Hong Kong Flag.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour most obedient servant, W.I. Sargeant\n\n7\n\nAgents 3737-70 - Nothing to\n\nI think we can only\n\nanswer ourselves and\n\nLalush with the designs\n\nin the best. The elaboration in\n\nshould be the best-looking\n\nbut I should adopt the one\n\nCelebrate-making it even\n\nleft so by falling on the\n\nHouses on the shore\n\nbut it is a matter of taste, not of consequence.\n\n19/4\n\n* Mask of g/0\n\nBoth designs appear to me to be ugly & abrim with 4/4. I agree - Is there no mode to escape: \nno mode & escape - 9/4/4",
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        "content_text": "## CHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENT in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended\n\n| Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary | Name of the Officer who is now the holder and annual salary | If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State | If newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority | If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment | Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of office or appointment, or the new appointment | Column for Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Chaplain | Piper (resigned) $81920 | Kw P. Talbot (acting) $81920 |  |  |  |  |\n| Colonial Surgeon | J. I. Murray (on leave) $3360 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Surgeon of the Lock Hospital | J. I. Mumay (on leave) | Inpector of Brochale $9864 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | D. Janiwan $720 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Geo Dods (acting) $1680 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Ruforing |  |  | W King $9720 |  |  |\n| Police Sergeant | Santinien Austin |  |  | Auditor General's Office, Jamieson has now been employed temporarily in the Surveyor General's Office as Store tutor | 31 March | No 377 |\n|  |  |  | Gov Hot N:39 19th March |  | Nongaft March NE71 from Lint |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Gov. Major Gen. Whitfeild new offe Jany 1811 from L | Governor Major 1877 |\n\nAudit Commal office,  \nHongkong, 22nd July 1891.  \nCso No 377  \n82  \nKeeper",
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        "content_text": "# Bonatting Pokai Cetethshment 1873\n\n## Salaries\n\n### Curopean Porce\n\n**Captain Jupe contendent**\n\n| Rank | Number | Salary |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Defuly | 1 |  |\n| Assist. |  |  |\n| First Cleak |  |  |\n| Je cond. | 9 | Despedons of the Chage Room |\n|  | 5 | 124 |\n| Class | 6 | £540, £400 @£pro each |\n|  | 5 | Lo Market. Puisances, Horseste. |\n|  | 120 | C. @£720, 43. 600 ca. |\n| Store & Barrack Sergeant | 1 | £480 ea. |\n| Serzh 41st clars |  | to |\n| Act sirgts | 10 | @£432, |\n|  |  | £384000 |\n|  |  | 261600 |\n|  |  | 1,920 00 |\n|  |  | 1,200 00 |\n|  |  | 960 to |\n|  |  | 10.20000. |\n|  |  | 254000 |\n|  | 4.80 | 00. |\n|  |  | 355200. |\n\n### C \n\n| Number | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| 33.0 | @£3729 @£B.360 |\n| 3744 | @£384, |\n| Ergto 514+ | @£B3841 |\n| 11.0 Constables | 504 @£3364 |\n| 146 | 2022 @£312 |\n|  | 34.560 00. |\n| 4037 | @£288, |\n\n### Indiaid Force\n\n| Rank | Number | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| famadars | 2 |  |\n| Bergt Major | 1 | @£300 +17 |\n| Patchpreters | 2 | If I Campeo |\n|  | 1 | @£264 |\n| Kt C | 2 | @£2 x |\n| Pergeants | t | 42104 |\n|  | \" | (@£264ead |\n|  |  | 72000 @£240 |\n|  | 4 | 12000 |\n|  | \" | 2 |\n|  |  | 65392 |\n|  |  | 00 |\n|  |  | 684 00 |\n|  |  | 28800 |\n|  |  | 56400 |\n|  | (@£240 | 2,448 00. @£2164 |\n| Act weighs | 10 | @£234 |\n| Ft C | 2 | @£204 each |\n|  | 25 | 171 |\n|  | 2 | ZKD |\n| Class Wt | # | $210, 1900 |\n|  | 19244320 | @£180'cach |\n| Denier Aspa |  | 1,97400 |\n|  |  | 5.95856",
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        "content_text": "# \n(“China Mail\" of 9th December, 1870.)\n\n317 \n\n**LUNG ACHUNE**, the party accused of being a suspicious character by one of Mr. D. R. CALDWELL'S detectives, was brought up on remand this morning. Evidence was produced which showed the informer's evidence to be totally false in every way. He was the aggressor, not the defendant. He drew the knife used and he threw it overboard. The complainant was therefore placed in the dock, sentenced to twelve months' hard labor, ordered to find sureties in $100 for another year and to be recommended for deportation.\n\n(\"Daily Press\" of 12th December, 1870.)\n\nIt is really painful to be compelled to allude over and over again to the same public abuses in Hongkong in almost the same words; but, when it is found that they are repeatedly recurring, and that, so far from the Government taking any steps to remedy them, they appear only anxious to hush them up, nothing is left but to make a point of calling attention to them whenever they come afresh before the public. On Saturday the report of a case at the Magistracy was given, which displays in a most painful manner the working of the informer system in Hongkong. The matter is briefly related. One of the employés of one of Mr. CALDWELL'S informers was convicted of having trumped up an entirely false charge against a Chinaman, who was about to leave in a Macao passage-boat. It seems that the informer went on to the junk, and demanded that one of the men should come on shore with him, or if not, should give him his jacket. A scuffle ensued, which resulted in the former getting hold of the man whom he had endeavoured to squeeze, giving him in charge of a Chinese Police Sergeant, and then bringing a false accusation against him at the Magistracy. Mr. RUSSELL, after a careful investigation of the facts, sentenced the informer to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour, and ordered that he should afterwards find security in $200. This sentence will no doubt meet the approval of the public, and it is to be hoped that the like severity will be shown in all cases of the kind.\n\nThe circumstances which are brought to light, however, are of the most serious description. We here find that the Chinese in Hongkong are pestered by cascals utterly removed from the shadow of control. The man just convicted was not even one of Mr. CALDWELL'S informers, but was actually an employé of a man employed by him, and of whom he had no knowledge whatever. Is this not a disgraceful state of affairs? It is useless to say more with regard to it. We are sick of the subject, and the public must be sick of reading of it. But is it conceivable that the Government of Hongkong will allow this monstrous abuse to go on without making the most strenuous efforts to put an end to it? One word, however, must be said. It has been stated that the runners in Mr. CALDWELL'S employ are only used to assist the Gambling Farmer in the supervision of the Hells. Can any one say what connection there is between the Gambling Houses and the Macao passage-boat, that one of these informers should be found intimidating men there?",
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        "content_text": "Order\n\nSubject: Instructions to Barrack Sergeant regarding management of provisions and stores at Central Police Station\n\nResult of Representations by Captain Superintendent (H.M. Decima)\n\nApproval instructions - to prevent any misappropriation for private profit during handling and sale - Severely\n\nStore, under Poon Sack & Sergeants\n\nThe practice of this Officer, and tradesmen of the Establishment have generally, it is stated, made unfair profit out of articles purchased for consumption by the men.\n\nOrder by Mr. Rice, M.L. (an old Order; vide entire Memo regarding Report to file \"Memorandum on the Havers of 3/4 Tons, 1869.\") (Vide Buchi 3) (and Printed Rules, page 21). The prices of the liquors at the canteen were regulated by the Superintendent and Porter & other liquor vendors; so as to give the minimum of profit. Articles at first cost, with the chance of liquid spoiling.\n\nPrevious Orders are consistent with this order.\n\nInstructions for the Barrack Sergeant:\n\n1. ... He, the Sergeant, will be held responsible that the Barrack rooms, kitchens, lavatories, &c., and all buildings at Central Station are left clean and in the best possible condition. The food from the Store, noting there in the books provided, will suit the kitchehs, where the provisions for the Staff are cooked, and maintains that they are cooked in a proper and wholesome manner and without waste; and that they are clean and ready for cooking the meat, &c.\n\n2. He will make, at least, one daily inspection of the Barrack rooms and principal buildings, to see that they are properly aired, and take measures to prevent any nuisance.\n\n3. He will see that all clothing and perishable articles are properly aired.\n\n4. He will see that the fires have been properly attended to, and that the Station is in good order and ready for inspection. He will note any damage, want of cleanliness, or irregularity.\n\n5. He will, upon the order of the Captain Superintendent, purchase articles as necessary, from time to time, for the use of the Establishment.\n\n6. Before any article is purchased, it must be inspected and approved by the Mess Committee or any person nominated by the Captain Superintendent.\n\n7. He will visit and inspect the rooms and out-houses of the Central Station twice during the day.\n\n8. The establishment and maintenance of a Mess fund, and a well-regulated system, being of the greatest importance, and requiring the most constant and attentive supervision, the Store Sergeant will win the greatest vigilance in the performance of this duty.\n\n9. It is to be clearly understood that no Member of the Establishment is to appropriate to himself or make for his own use any profit from the sale of provisions or other articles appertaining to the Mess.\n\n10. Articles purchased in bulk are to be retailed at the lowest possible price, consistent with their cost. Any profit is to be applied to the credit of the Mess fund.\n\nSimilar Orders on 5th December 1867, 5th October 1868, and 13th December 1869.\n\nPrinted Rules in use.\n\nOrder by Mr. Rice\n\nFormer Orders testify to this effect.\n\nPresses, Canteens, &c.\n\nAttendance of Inspectors at Inquests, and the most efficient performance of Police duties in relation thereto.\n\nPage 103",
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        "content_text": "Order by Mr. Reine\n\nRemarks by Superintendent (M.R. Reine) –\n\nPrecise Order\n\nThe Police are furnished with certain Articles. 1. It will be the duty of the Assistant Superintendent to render to the Superintendent \"Returns\"; and generally, he will assist the Superintendent in all matters relating to the Department. He will have a general supervision over the subordinate Affairs and Police establishments when inspected by the Store Superintendent or other officer authorized to deliver clothing. He will see that great care is taken of clothing and that any irregularities or subjects which come under his notice are reported.\n\n2. The Police will leave the information of the clothing Store, will visit it frequently to make sure that the clothing ticket is not lost or not satisfactorily accounted for, and that it is kept with prior counting for the loss of the same will be surely furnished.\n\n3. The Store Sergeant will exercise supervision over the subordinate Affairs and see that all articles of clothing and appointments are properly labeled and kept in good and serviceable condition.\n\n15. Duty - Roll\n\nThe Store Sergeant will also examine the Books to see that all entries are made for receipts and deliveries and will certify to the Superintendent that no delivery of clothing takes place without his authority in writing.\n\nHe will cause the Store to be examined at the end of each Quarter and will inform the Accountant of the State of the Store to enable him to prepare the Quarterly return on the day required.\n\n3. He will collect the weekly reports from the different Stations on every Monday and forward them in General Return showing the Strength and distribution of the Force, together with alterations which may have taken place during the previous week.\n\n14. He will, when not otherwise occupied, inspect the Day duty men frequently to see that they are clean and properly dressed.\n\nOrder by Mr. Reine\n\nMen are not to leave their beats at Midnight until relieved. At other hours of relief, this order cannot be enforced conversely, and therefore, the men will count off duty and report themselves soon after the hour fixed for the Relief.\n\nSection 8 relating to the change of beat is to prevent the objectionable practice of men being placed in charge of Stations unnecessarily, in the latter case, but not in the former.\n\n(i) A Sergeant\n\n(ii) Mr. Reine, Supt. Sept. 1862.\n\nThis Order contains a most dangerous innovation opposed to printed Rule No. 29. I dissent from the foregoing Order to be adopted.\n\nPrevious Order\n\nA man will not leave his beat until he has been relieved, unless in cases of emergency, and then he will endeavor to provide for the suspension of his beat during his absence.\n\nThe custom alluded to is contrary to my experience; although of great length of Service, I therefore believe the present inapplicable to my time and remain clearly of the same.\n\nPage 139\n\n \nNor A",
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        "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, MAY 7th 1872.\n\nthose on board the steamer seemed to indicate the fact that something was brewing. At five minutes before five a boat pulled alongside, and Mr. Tonnochy, the Marshal, accompanied by his henchman, Sergeant Foottit, came on board, Mr. Deane remaining within signalling distance. Mr. Tonnochy was met on the quarter-deck by the Captain of the vessel, the Agent of the Messageries Maritimes, the Acting French Consul, and others, to whom one would have thought it scarcely too much to ask that notice should be sent to the Press whenever any public business is to be transacted in the Supreme Court, but although this request has been repeatedly made, it has never been complied with, except on one or two occasions, privately, and by way of personal courtesy. It is quite impossible for us to find out every day all the crooks and corkers in which the business of the Court may be transacted, and under such circumstances it would not be very much beneath the dignity of the Court to give information to the papers as to when, where, and how its proceedings on a particular day are to take place. On Saturday, it appears, a very important case was taken before the Registrar, and so far as we can ascertain proceedings with reference to the issue of the celebrated warrant against the Ava took place at that sitting. The usual application for information at the Court was met with the reply that the Court would not sit, which was true enough, though Mr. Alexander, apparently did. Now this is only one of the numerous instances in which matters that ought to be public are taken on the quiet, in Chambers, or before the Registrar, or on Mail-day, &c. Sometimes you may apply in the morning and hear that there is no business, and in the afternoon discover that the Court has been sitting all day. The simple remedy for this (which certainly cannot be of any real advantage to the Court) is that some intimation should be given to the Press as soon as it is known that a given case comes before a given officer, be he Judge or Registrar, at a given time; and we cannot understand the objection to this course. Indeed, Chief Justice Smale more than once assured us that he had given directions for such notification, but if he has done so they have never been carried out.\n\nhe communicated his authority to arrest and detain the steamer. Against this proceeding the Consul most emphatically protested, quoting from memory and documents which he held in his hand in support of his argument, that any attempt to stop a steamer belonging to the Messageries Maritimes with English and French mails on board was contrary to international law, and the compact entered into, with regard to the running of these vessels, by the two great nations. The Marshal, however, was firm, and said he must perform his duty, while the Consul declared that the steamer must not be detained, and a considerable time was spent by the parties in discussing together the facts and points at issue. While this was going on the passengers and friends who were with them stood round the speakers and evinced a lively interest in the proceedings—as was most natural, for it began to look more like detention for the night than anything else, a by no means agreeable prospect in the drizzling rain. People began to wonder whether it was proper to bid their adieux at once, or whether they ought to remain to the bitter end; when an amusing incident decided the matter. The discussion between the French and Hongkong officials on board had proceeded so far, if not very amicably, at least with characteristic politeness on both sides, but when the Captain Superintendent of Police pulled alongside and it was discovered that he wished to come on board, an evil-disposed boatswain sounded his whistle, and the companion ladder came up as if by magic. At this juncture a general desire took possession of those who were not going on in the steamer (if they could help it) to get over her side, as the Frenchman seemed determined to get under way, and that too without affording those on board, including the august Marshal himself, an opportunity of avoiding an involuntary trip to Saigon; for, if the companion ladder was again let down, Mr. Deane would most assuredly come up. Here, then, there took place a general stampede of those who had to go, and all managed to get tumbled into the boats alongside. Luckily this ludicrous scene was unattended by any immersions or other casualties, beyond the precipitate descent of one eager individual through the awning of a house-boat which the chances of war had brought under his feet.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr. Deane, disappointed in his endeavour to get on board, tried back, and waved the blue ensign of his boat as a signal to his reserves, when suddenly there emerged from among the shipping half a dozen boats containing policemen, armed to the teeth with carbines, sword-bayonets, revolvers, and cartridge pouches. They did not at first attempt to board the steamer, and the parleying between the Acting Consul and the Marshal still continued without any desirable result. The armed boats encompassed the ship, and on the arrival of an officer, whom we presume to be the Captain of the Alma, the companion-ladder was lowered for him, but it was evident that the police would not be permitted to go on board without using force.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon May 4th, there was exhibited in this harbour one of the most exciting scenes that it has been our lot to chronicle for some time. Connected as it was with the sad collision between the Messageries Maritimes steamer Ava and the unfortunate steamer Rome, the melancholy facts of which are still fresh in our memories, it cannot but be regretted that this course of events should have followed so closely the lamentable occurrence in question.\n\nThe Ava was at first advertised to sail at noon on Saturday, but as Captain Rousseau and the officers are obliged to remain here to give evidence in the Admiralty suit which results from the collision, the substitution of other officers caused delay, and the hour of sailing was altered to 5 p.m. But even then all the forms of law, it appeared, had not been complied with, and passengers and their friends could judge from the movements of the French authorities on shore and on board, and from those of the Hongkong executive authorities, that there was a hitch somewhere. At half past four the enterprising head of the Police force was to be seen in his boat at no great distance from the Ava, where he remained in almost the same position for twenty-five minutes, braving the almost continuous rain without any awning in his boat.\n\nThe evident interest which he took in the movements of those on board the steamer seemed to indicate the fact that something was brewing...\n\nPage 435\n\nARMED DETENTION OF THE M. M. STEAMER \"AVA.\"\n\nIt would be almost impossible to describe what followed. The new arrival added his protests to those of the Consul and the Captain of the Ava. Mr. Deane had by this time come on board with what show of force he had with him, and nothing would induce this gentleman to withdraw either his own person or his guard unless an armed force were sent from the French Iron-clad Alma to remove him. The consequence of such a step would, of course, have been very serious, but to Mr. Deane's stipulation for forcible removal the French officer replied by \"inviting\" him to go over the side, an invitation which the Captain Superintendent did not see fit to accept.\n\nThe speculators, however, were happily spared the dangerous excitement of a naval engagement, the Colony the expense of pensions and allowances to the wives and families of fallen constables, and the Coroner probably owes his life to his happy escape from an inquest the magnitude of which he must have succumbed under.",
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        "content_text": "I followed him to his quarters. I went across to his Room and called him, having left my watch in my quarters. He followed almost immediately, alluding to temporary arrangements and of the (signed) R. Cameron.\n\nI returned to the Charge: and requested the Sergeant of the Foremen of the Fire Brigade (who is one of the most reliable men) to accompany me, and at once we went to Not[ification]. Here I found 5 Chinese Constables, four Chinese Firemen, four Chinese Watchmen, and the two European Engineers, Keer and Power - finding the latter under the influence of drink, I ordered him back to his quarters and suspended him from duty.\n\nI ordered out the hand engine, the lightest available, which with Foreman Cameron and the fourteen men from No. 5, I succeeded in getting to the scene of the Fire at the Corner of Praya and Mercer Street, where, with the assistance of some gentlemen from Messrs. Gibb Livingston & Co., we worked until 3:30 a.m. to confine the fire to the house in which it originated - a two-storied Chinese Store. I attach a copy of my report to the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, which was sent in the following day.\n\n(signed) B. V. Areagh, Deputy Superintendent of Police.\n24th October, 1874.\n\nPage 17\nN: 355 \n15-",
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        "document_key": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875",
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        "content_text": "539\n\na bedding\n\na clean linen store. \"In fact\n\npound floor under the wards split up into\n\na number of dark compartments and passages which could be neither ventilated nor kept\n\nclean.\n\nA few further remarks:\n\nI criticise myself as to the sanitation questions &\n\nbelieve (and continuing further inquiries on\n\nthis point) that the hospital staff would,\n\none European nurse per ward, 2 or perhaps\n\n& extra nurses and a European Clerk; the\n\nremainder\n\nof the staff would be hospital coolies. The large cells of Hospital ward by\n\nrighted\n\nwith a window apparently 18\" square, and only one passage lighted at one end only would be uninhabitable even by hospital coolies: Europeans could not\n\ncertainly wish to occupy them. Four single\n\nrooms and a small day room on the\n\nfirst\n\nfloor for the European nurses and cook and\n\nfor the coolies\n\na good airy dormitory and Lay come under charge of a sergeant of orderlies would provide properly for the entire staff.\n\nThe\n\nsegregation wards on the upper\n\nfloor are very small, 12×12: have verandahs. And as the patients will be confined there\n\ncontinuously and do not require a w.c. Each ward and hospital\n\nslop sink of a good pattern would be sufficient.\n\nVery much doubt the necessity\n\nfor an operating theatre of the kind provided which implies the existence of a large class\n\nof medical students who was not\n\nI suppose, in the forming Hospital in Hong Kong. A good operating room, well lighted from the N (direct light is impossible in the tropics) with a bye-ward\n\nand nurse's room attached would probably answer all requirements.",
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        "content_text": "ing steam launches, which provides the number of passengers they are allowed to carry. The ferry steamers plying between Victoria and Kowloon are licensed. I cannot remember the tonnage of all the launches. The document produced is a bill of sale of the Potan, transferring the vessel from Augustine Heard to the Company. It comes from the Harbour-Master's office. It gives the tonnage as 663.69. There are blank spaces both in the bill of sale and register. Supposing those blanks to be filled in, if she had the spaces, it would considerably augment her net tonnage. Applying the rule for steam launches to these large steamers, a much larger number of passengers might be carried in them, I should say. There is no practice in the office of registering a vessel's tonnage in parts of three tons each. The register is always given in one sum.\n\nBy Mr. Sharp-The blank spaces referred to by Mr. Brereton are in every register. Sometimes they are filled up and sometimes not, according to the circumstances. It is simply the form. Some of them are filled up in the case of the Kinshen, which considerably increases her tonnage. Had there been similar space in the other steamer, no doubt it would have been mentioned.\n\nInspector Matheson said-On the 17th instant, in consequence of instructions received, I sent four boats between the P. and O. and Canton wharves and gave them certain instructions. When the Canton steamer Kinshan arrived, I was standing on the wharf. I saw her approach through the junk anchorage. No one got on board of her there. The police boats were stationed there to keep people off. No one got on board when she arrived except a few coolies with the Company's uniform on. There were several constables on the wharf to prevent people going on board, and no one did get on board either from the shore or water side. There were police boats on the water side. People knew what was going to take place, and no attempt was made to get on board. There are three gangways. I stationed myself at the main gangway, Inspector Lindsay was at the forward gangway, and P.C. Campbell was at the after gangway. I proceeded to count the passengers. I had two constables and a sergeant on the gangway to assist me in preventing the passengers making a rush. I counted 898. This did not include the crew, as far as I am aware. I saw the crew afterwards on board.\n\nI am quite sure I am accurate in stating the number of people who passed the gangway. I received similar instructions with reference to Powan on the following day. The same precautions were taken with reference to her as with reference to the Kinshan. I was on that occasion stationed at the midship gangway. I counted the passengers in the same way as on the day before. 481 passed the gangway. I had particular instructions to be careful in my counting.\n\nBy Mr. Brereton-I saw the hull of the Kinshan first as she entered the junk anchorage, about a mile and a half distant. Some of the people I counted coming both from the Powan and Kinshan might have been members of the crew. It is usual when a steamer enters the harbour for her to be surrounded with boats. The gangway I was at was about 4ft. wide. The other Inspector and Constable who kept count stood at the other gangways. The Kinshan and Powan both had junks on each side as they approached. I will not undertake to say that from the time the hull came in sight, no one got on board. I could not say that no junks went alongside before the steamer rounded the point opposite the P. & O. Offices.\n\nP.C. Campbell deposed that he was on duty at the Canton Wharf, and had everyone, except the Company's servants and the police, cleared off the wharf before the steamers arrived, and no one else allowed on. He saw the steamers when they were abreast of the Sailors' Home, or about there, and was sure no boats went alongside. He was stationed at the after gangway, and counted 547 passengers leaving the Kinshan. On the Powan, he was stationed at the forward gangway and counted 236 passengers. These numbers, he believed, did not include any of the crew. No one was allowed to go on board again after leaving the steamers.\n\nBy His Worship-He had been on special duty at the wharf for about four years and went on board the steamers every day. After the passengers were out, there were about the usual number of people left on the steamers.\n\nBy Mr. Brereton-He knew most of the crew of both vessels. He could not say there were not any of the crew amongst the persons he counted as passengers. There was a bend in the harbour before the P. and O. wharf. As far as he could judge, when he first saw the vessels, they were abreast of the Sailors' Home. He could not say whether any boats went alongside before they reached there, but none went alongside afterwards.\n\nBy Mr. Sharp-The steamer does not come from the direction of Green Island, but almost across from Stonecutter's Island.\n\nInspector Lindsay said-From certain instructions received on the 17th instant, I took a party of constables to the Canton Wharf and placed them so that no person could come on. There were also some police boats guarding around and placed in the fairway of the Canton boat. I first saw the Kinshan on that day when she was near the Cap-sing-moon coming towards the wharf. I lost sight of her shortly afterwards until she was nearly opposite the Sailors' Home, and I then kept sight of her until she arrived at the wharf. No boats, with the exception of the Police boats, got alongside. When the Kinshan was swinging round at the wharf, I told the captain that I wanted to count the passengers. Captain Bonning then asked me how many gangways I should like, and I replied three. When the vessel was moored, two gangways were put out on the lower deck and one from the main deck. I was stationed at the fore gangway. Inspector Matheson and P.C. Campbell were at the other gangways. I had two lukongs with me to keep the passengers back in case they came out too quickly. The passengers came out slowly. I counted on the gangway I was at, 573 passengers. The gangway was then shifted to the main deck and three more passengers came ashore, making a total 576. No persons went on board from the shore with the exception of coolies with the company's badge on. I did not count these men when they came ashore. Whilst I was counting, the captain came to my gangway two or three times, as did also one of the officers. I also assisted in counting the passengers from the Powan on the following day, when I took similar precautions as I did on the day previous. I was stationed at the after gangway of the Powan. I counted 632 passengers and had no difficulty in doing so. On the 15th, I was on board the Ichang when her passengers were being counted.\n\nMr. Brereton objected to that question as it was irrelevant and had nothing to do with the Kinshan.\n\nHis Worship concurred with Mr. Brereton.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Brereton-The reason I say that the Kinshan was off the Sailors' Home is that I have seen the steamers come in so often and I judged the distance. The intervening time from where I first saw her until the second time I saw her was about half an hour. I cannot say if any Chinamen got on board the Kinshan during the time I lost sight of her. It might be possible. I believe there are four gangways to the Kinshan, and I think three to the Powan. I counted the passengers singly and noted down every hundred. I do not know any of the crew, and it was possible that some of them might have passed out amongst the passengers.\n\nBy Mr. Sharp-I cannot say at what speed the Kinshan was coming in.\n\nP.C. Paterson, P.C. Harper, and P.C. Zwart, in charge of police boats on the days in question, gave evidence to the effect that no persons got on board the steamer or left her before she arrived at the wharf.\n\nLeung Aking, a passenger on the Kinshan, said the vessel was crowded with passengers. It was very hard to walk about on account of the crowd. The vessel stopped at Whampoa and passengers came on board there in two large boats; there might be a hundred in each boat. He did not see any passengers land there or anywhere else before reaching Hongkong. When in the Cap-sing-moon, a steam-launch came alongside, but witness could not say whether any of the passengers got into the launch. When she got into the harbour, she was surrounded by several police-boats. No one got out to the steamer.\n\nBy Mr. Brereton-He was near the gangway when the steamer left Canton and he remained there all the time. No one asked him to take note of all these things.\n\nMr. Brereton asked the witness if he were not to be paid for what he was saying.\n\nMr. Sharp objected to the question.\n\nHis Worship thought the tone in which Mr. Brereton asked the question was improper.\n\nPage 314",
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        "content_text": "Nater Police Station. Accommodation provided in Design B.\n\n524 Superintendent's Office 1 Room 24.0' x 24.6' - Charge Room. 1 Room 24.0 x 24.0: Office to Charge Room, Room 22' x 11.0' Interpreter. 1 Room 21.0\" x 9.0\" x 18' x 16\" high. 21.0' x 6.6'\n\nStore. 2 Rooms 22.0 x 16.0' - 22.6' x 12.8'\n\nMagazine. 1 Room in basement under stair.\n\nLamp Rooms / Room in basement under Stair.\n\n1 European Sergeant 1 room 22.4 x 16 - 6 x 13.6 and bathroom &c.\n\n8 European Constable 1 Room 32.8 x 22.4 x 15.6 high 1206 cubic feet per\n\n \n1 Carpenter\n\nI made the following changes:\n1. Corrected spelling and spacing errors.\n2. Rejoined broken sentences and reformatted the text into proper paragraphs.\n3. Removed extra spaces and corrected hyphenation or line-break artifacts.\n4. Applied Markdown formatting is not required as per the output instruction, instead, I used HTML  for paragraphs.\n5. No translation of text was done.\n6. File references were not present in the original text, so no correction was made.\n7. No page numbering was detected, so no correction was made.\n8. No comments were left in the text.",
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        "content_text": "but that, even as they spoke, the junks and boats by their very side were being rapidly reduced to wrecks, then the cry of \"Save life\" was heard in the darkness on every quarter, and the Police had enough and more than enough to do, to help all who came forward craving for their assistance. They were then, as they had certainly not been before, glad to get off with their lives! and nothing else. At first they hung on to the line sent to them, and refused to do anything towards their being brought on shore. They had not the slightest objection to making the line fast to their boat and keeping it there as a safe-guard in case of emergency should the storm grow worse in a short time, for instance; but as the lines were wanted for immediate use if any reasonable number of those who were in danger were to be saved, these lines had to be dragged out of their hands or a threat had to be made that, unless they either came on shore, or let go the line they would be abandoned, before they would agree to take any active steps towards their own safety. When, however, they were brought on shore not a man or woman amongst them who was not full to overflowing with gratitude to those who had saved them from the fate which they then saw had over-taken some of their companions. This gratitude, in almost every case, took the most extravagant form in its expression. Those who had been rescued could not be prevented from seizing the hands of those who saved them and wringing them in a spirit of gratefulness, condescending to fall down before them and kiss their boots in thankfulness.\n\nIn calculating to whom credit is due for the magnificent work of saving life performed last night at Yau-mah-ti, the fullest recognition has to be given to the humane and daring achievements of Acting Chief Inspector James Cradock and seven Europeans who were at Yau-mah-ti at the time and gave valuable aid, without which perhaps nothing like the splendid number of lives saved could have been rescued. There are, possibly, belonging to the Yau-mah-ti Station, Inspector J. B. Cameron, who is at all times able to render a good account of himself in whatever department of the work of the Force he is called upon to take part, and one sergeant and three constables. There had been landed a detachment of seven Europeans from the \"Chop,\" under the charge of Acting Chief Inspector Cradock. These had come ashore, with some Chinese lukongs, early in the day; and while they were being lodged at Yau-mah-ti in safer quarters than on board the Hulk which has over and over again, been declared quite likely to go to pieces at any moment, and were in greater readiness for any emergency than had they been at their ordinary post or station.\n\nWhen the opportunity arose for them to show their ability to distinguish themselves, they did so like Britons, and none will ever be more ready to frankly and fully acknowledge that fact than their Yau-mah-ti colleagues, from the Inspector himself to the junior constable. If any reward for merit, in the hands of the Captain Superintendent of Police or the Government or any other authority, here or at home, depends upon such work as was accomplished last night by Inspectors Cradock and Cameron, we sincerely hope they will speedily have the honour and pleasure that would belong to its being presented to them. Not only in their case is there the mere bravery, the fact that every man who took part in what was done there virtually carried his life in his hand, not only the physical endurance called for and not incurred without risk even by the strongest men; but there is, above all, the magnificent result which their joint efforts succeeded in bringing about.\n\nWhat was done by these men may be fairly judged from the fact we have already mentioned as to the number of men, women and children who were saved, and from the fact, too, that over two hundred (200) junks came to immediate grief during the few hours the gale lasted. A number of boats also sunk at their moorings and their masts are now to be seen from the shore, showing how much more or less deeply they are under water and imbedded in the mud. There were, moreover, a number of steam launches wrecked, including that belonging to Messrs MacEwen Frickel & Co., also one named the Wing Sing, and another steam launch which, we are informed, is the property of a Macao gentleman, and has been lying there for some time back under going repairs. And out of all this loss and damage to property, out of the thousand or more lives involved in the craft concerned, how many were sacrificed? So far as has been proved up to the present time of writing—five only.\n\nIf ever there was an occasion in the history of this Colony when the Police, not only those at Yau-mah-ti but elsewhere, have given a good record of themselves, it is the present, when tact, wise precaution, valour in saving life, and kindness towards those succoured have distinguished, it may be said, all and sundry whose action has come under our notice, on whatever position. The Spartan, belonging to the Insurance Company, broke from her moorings and was very considerably damaged. A large trading junk laden with rice, to save the craft, pitched 350 bags of rice overboard. The two small steam-launches belonging to the Police, No. 2 and No. 3, both came to grief during the gale. The latter was driven on the sandy beach in the Bay. The former was fouled by two junks, who caused her to drag her moorings, and although 80-lbs. of steam was kept up, she was not able to hold her own against the gale, and ultimately she collapsed on the rocks. She is now lying on her side, and it is not known how great the damage is which has been caused to her; but it is believed that the side is out of her. It would seem to be so from the way she lies in the water.\n\nIt may be mentioned in this connection that the virtuous natives belonging to the villages situated in the neighbourhood of the scenes which we have just been describing, did not allow the golden and glorious opportunity to slip by them of turning a dishonest penny by the wreckage. The result was that there was one of the hugest displays of cases before the Magistrates today in which the charge against the culprits was unlawful possession that we have seen for many and many a day. These rascals were sentenced to various penalties and terms, running from four weeks to six months.\n\nThe most melancholy case of the lot was that of a Chinese policeman, No. 433, who was caught by an Indian Sergeant carrying away a bundle of newly made Chinese clothing which he had taken from a bale, landed quite close to the station, amongst other wreckage, a bale which there was every reason to believe this pretty limb of the law had cut open for his own theftuous purposes. Of course, this energetic gentleman, so valuable in the case of a typhoon, will not from today ornament the Force longer. Through the energy of the Police over three hundred pkgs. from the wrecked cargo-boats were secured within the Police compound, and there duly taken care of.\n\nTo finish with Yau-mah-ti, it may be mentioned that in the afternoon Inspector Cradock, besides losing his launch through no fault of his own, had a narrow escape of finding himself in considerable difficulty with regard to the safety of himself and his crew. They started, when the storm began to show what it really meant, to get back towards the \"Chop\" in the rowing boat; but the oars were blown right out of the rowlocks, the men were nearly blown out of their seats, and, volens nolens, the boat...\n\n2\n\n105\n\nPLAN.",
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        "content_text": "## TABLE XVI-NUMBER of UNEDUCATED CHILDREN in the Colony in 1881\n\nNumber of Children in the Colony under sixteen years of age, as per Census (of 1881):—\n| Category | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chinese Male | 10,629 |\n| Chinese Female | 9,940 |\n| Total Chinese | 20,569 |\n| Europeans, etc. say | 1,000 |\n| Goa, Manila, etc. say | 300 |\n| Total | 21,869 |\n|  | 6,587 |\n|  | 5,467 |\n| Total to be deducted | 12,054 |\n| Total of Uneducated Children, say | 9,815 |\n\nE. J. EIFEL, Inspector of Schools,\n\nDeduct, Children in School in 1881, as per Census,......................... Deduct, as being under five years of age, say,\n\n## APPENDIX\n\nGOVERNMENT NORMAL SCHOOL, March 3rd, 1882.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to forward you the report of the Government Normal School for the year 1881. This School was started in the month of September last, the first few days of which were spent in getting pupils together, preparing books, materials, &c. On the 12th September, the School was formally opened, when twelve youths attended on trial.\n\nOut of this number, seven are still Students. The other five withdrew for various causes; some not being far enough advanced, and the parents of others not wishing them to attend.\n\nTo fill up the three vacancies which then remained to make the full complement of Students, viz. ten, five other youths were admitted. Two of these Students were not suitable and consequently withdrew, the other three remained.\n\nTo bring the Students under closer scrutiny and supervision, also to enable them to assist one another in their studies, and thus make quicker progress, by studying, out of school hours, together in one school-room, undisturbed by any noise they would probably be subject to at home, they were allowed to take up their residence at the School, where they can conveniently study at their own desks, having all their books and other requisites at hand.\n\nIn December, after three months of probation, the ten Students were examined by the Inspector of Schools and passed satisfactorily.\n\nOf these ten Students, nine were formerly pupils at the Government Central School. The other one was a pupil of the Government Elementary School at Saiyingpuu.\n\nAs a proof that the School is looked upon favourably both by the students and their parents or guardians, I may mention that three of the ten Students had already left school and were earning a competency for themselves. One of them had passed the examination for a Sergeant interpreter in the Police department on a salary of twenty dollars ($20) a month, another was a clerk in F. M. Naval Yard at a salary of fifteen dollars ($15) a month, and the other was cashier and clerk in another store.\n\nThe school premises at present used for the Normal School are very suitable, as they are situated in a quiet spot out of the city; the school-rooms are large and healthy, and the number of boys, who attend the Elementary Day School to which the Normal School is attached, form an ample quantity of material for the Students to practice on, under my supervision.\n\nIf the Government could see its way to build quarters for the Principal over the present school-rooms, a great advantage would be gained, as then the private studies of the Students, both in the morning and evening, could be better supervised by the Principal.\n\nNow that the Students have settled down to their work, I trust that the desire of the Government to obtain trained native teachers for the Elementary Schools will be accomplished, though it must be borne in mind that for the first period, at least, a great many drawbacks must necessarily be expected and encountered.\n\nDr. E. J. EITEL, Inspector of Schools.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nA. J. MAY, (Principal.)\n\n## DRAFT\n\nHay Ray No. 211 The `0.a.f.`\n\nMINUTE.\n\n| Name |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Pearson | 26 felt: |\n| Mr. Wingfield |  |\n| Mr. Bramston | 2 |\n| Mr. Meade |  |\n| Mr. Herbert |  |\n| Mr. Ashley |  |\n| Lord Kimberley | 28 |\n| Relor Code 1882 | 14685 |\n\n`pact 8082/83`\n`Cutie 6904/83`\n`Hory Kory`\n\n55 Downing Street 30 September 1882\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 117 of July, forwarding the annual Report of Inspector of Schools for 1881, with Minutes thereon by Dr. Stewart, and ... to year...",
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        "content_text": "582 \n\nHe states it has been his wish for the last two years. Guardian of the post of Government Store furniture would be given to the Sergeant of Police unless he is fitted for it. The fitting candidate is ... of any ... \n\n(Signed) J. H. Marsh \n30th Mar 1882.\n\nCopy forwarded to His Excellency the Acting Captain Superintendent, for information.\n\nAs for me going back to Police with the same rank as I am now, I would much prefer it. This is not in a position to make an application.\n\n(Signed) \n... years, \n\nOM Quainery",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 2°3 in despatch No. 264 96th Decr 1882 from the Officer Administering the Govt of Hong Kong.\n\n## The Daily Press.\n\n**HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1882.**\n\n### THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT IN HONGKONG.\n\n#### PUBLIC MEETING.\n\nThe movement for starting a new Volunteer Corps in this colony is being pushed vigorously forward, and the thing seems promisingly full of life and vigour. From reasons which were well explained by Mr. Francis, and which will be found reported below, the old Corps became practically defunct, and it was decided to put an end to its existence and start an entirely new one. Names have been coming in very well for recruits, and yesterday afternoon a public meeting was held at the City Hall of those interested in this revival of the military spirit in the colony. From 100 to 150 persons, chiefly young men, were present at the meeting, throughout which much unanimity of feeling and interest was shown.\n\nThe Hon. F. STEWART, LL.D., Acting Colonial Secretary, addressed a few words to those assembled, observing that he did not intend taking any active part in the meeting, but the volunteers would do everything themselves. He suggested that the first thing to be done was to elect a chairman, and expressed his readiness to answer any questions on the part of the Government which might be put to him.\n\nMr. J. J. FRANCIS proposed that Mr. Tripp should take the chair, and the proposal was at once agreed to.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said he believed the preliminary thing to open the meeting would be to ask Dr. Stewart to read to the meeting the propositions of His Excellency the Administrator as regarded the forming of a new corps of volunteers. He believed it would be found that everything had been there proposed which could be required, and he did not think they could wish for a single thing more than the Government had granted them. It only remained for them all to come forward and do the best they could with what had been given them. (Applause).\n\nThe ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY then handed to the Chairman a document which the latter gentleman read as follows:-\n\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | The Government will pay the expenses of winter and summer uniform, and ammunition. |\n| 2 | I approve of the corps being Volunteer Artillery. The question of a separate rifle corps may stand over for consideration later. |\n| 3 | The General commanding the troops has kindly placed at my disposal the services of Major Moor-Lane as Commandant. I propose that he should be paid $100 a month. The amount noted in the estimates, $2,400, will, together with the balance in hand, cover the expense of pay of commandant, drill sergeant, uniform, ammunition, &c., estimated as follows:-- Winter clothing to last two years, $310; two suits summer clothing, $320: great ammunition, 100 rounds, $400; Martini Henry carbine do... 7,200 rounds, $130; commandant, $100 a month, $1,200; drill instructors at $50 $600. |\n| 4 | The General offers to lend some arms and accoutrements in the meantime. I will apply to the Secretary of State to supply a stand of 150 to be the property of the Civil Government. |\n| 5 | I will also apply to the Secretary of State for a mountain battery to be the property of the Civil Government. |\n| 6 | The General has given his consent to the use of the guns in the Murray Battery, and one of the Harbour Forts for drill purposes, on days to be named by the officer commanding the Royal Artillery. |\n| 7 | I cannot make any promise about the old drill shed till the return of Mr. Price. I am of opinion, however, that it should be restored to its former use, but in this case I must build another store for the Surveyor-General, estimated cost about $3,000, for which I must obtain the Secretary of State's authority. |\n\n\"I quite agree that there should be a surgeon to the corps and that no man be enrolled in the corps until he has been passed as physically fit. Also that a code of rules and regulations should be compiled. If the volunteers are disposed to come forward on these conditions, I think the best plan will be for me to disband the practically defunct corps, which is and has been so for some time past, and to invite gentlemen to come forward and enrol themselves in a new corps, for it will be essentially a new corps. I have discussed this point with Major Moore-Lane, who considers the disbandment of the old corps as essential as a preliminary, but before deciding on this step, I propose to consult with the Executive Council.\n\n\"(Sd) WILMS\" 19/10.82.\n\nFrom Major Moore-Lane, R.A., to H. E. Major-General Sargent C.B.\n\n\"Hongkong, 16th October, 1882.\n\n\"Sir,-In accordance with instructions received from Your Excellency, I have the honour to bring to your notice a few suggestions relative to the contemplated formation of an artillery corps of volunteers in this colony. Without entering into any details, which must necessarily be made in future correspondence, I beg to submit the following for your consideration.\n\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | That it would be advisable to form the corps into two batteries; strength of officers-one Major Commandant, one Major second in command; each battery one Captain and two Lieutenants; one Hon. Surgeon, and one Quartermaster. I should recommend this establishment in preference to one battery as the most suitable as regards expansion and drill purposes, although at first the number of volunteers enrolled may be small. |\n| 2 | That the appointment of the Major second in command be made by H.E. the Governor on the recommendation of the Commandant. |\n| 3 | That a small stand of arms and accoutrements be lent to the corps for instruction in drill until a proper equipment is obtained from England. |\n| 4 | That the question of field and mountain guns be postponed for the present, if the guns already mounted in the Harbour Forts and Murray Battery can be placed at the disposal of the volunteers for drill purposes. |\n| 5 | That the question of clothing and how it is to be obtained be dealt with hereafter. |\n\n\"As the cool weather is about to commence, immediate steps should be taken to revive the movement by a public meeting when the feeling of the public can be ascertained, and popular gentlemen of sufficient status be asked to come forward and assist in stirring up the military spirit of the colony.\n\n\"The officers who at present hold commissions could, if they wish to retire, be given honorary commissions of the same rank in which they now serve, with the privilege of wearing the uniform of the corps.\n\n\"I have the honour to be your obedient servant,\n\n\"(Signed) M. MOORE-LANE,\nMajor R.A.\"\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said he thought all the propositions of the Government and Major Moore-Lane could be carried into effect; they seemed to be very good ones. He should be glad to hear any remarks any one present might have to make.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY said he was authorised to say that the Drill Shed would be ready for the use of the Corps when required. (Applause.)\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said he thought that was a very important point. All volunteers wanted a place to meet in which they could consider as their own, and a drill ground that was always at their disposal for drilling. He believed this was a great point, and that one of the drawbacks of the late corps was that they had no place to go to. Now, he thought, they had everything they wanted for the forming of a corps. He invited any gentleman present to make any remarks upon the matter which they might think fit.\n\nMr. FRANCIS said he thought that as the Commandant of the late corps, it was as well that he should make a short statement with regard to that corps. They were all aware under what circumstances the corps was formed in 1878, and with what alacrity the inhabitants gathered together to meet the emergency, and how 160 or 170 men attended all parades, and took any arms, accoutrements, and uniforms ready at the moment. When the emergency passed over the attendance of course fell away; but still some 80 or 90 held together and attended drill with fair regularity. Then an attempt was made by Capt. Corn, at that time the Commandant, to put the corps on a better footing, and he made propositions and submitted them to the Government. These propositions were approved at a public meeting in the Council Chamber by His Excellency the Governor, and it was promised the corps that all the suggestions then...",
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        "content_text": "## Rules and Regulations\n\n21. Effective Members of the Corps leaving the Colony for any period exceeding one month shall give at least three days' notice in writing to the Captain of his Battery and shall return his clothing into store. Any Member disobeying this Rule will subject himself to a fine not exceeding $5 in the discretion of the Commandant.\n\n5. Honorary Members are those who, being unable, because of their occupations or otherwise, to attend regularly to drill and on parade, are nevertheless desirous of lending their support and countenance to the movement and who subscribe an annual sum of at least $5 to the Funds of the Corps.\n\n6. Honorary Members are entitled, on signing the roll as Honorary Members, and on payment of an annual subscription to the Fund of not less than $5, to wear on all public occasions the uniform of the Corps and to take part in all shooting matches and other amusements of the Corps, but are not liable to be called on to perform military duty, and shall have no voice in the management of the Funds of the Corps. On giving notice of departure, and after the expiration of said period, will be transferred to the list of Honorary Members.\n\n7. Effective Members of the Corps, who are temporarily absent from Hongkong for any period exceeding six months, shall rank as Honorary Members without payment of any subscription and are entitled to be restored to the roll of the Corps as Effectives on their return to the Colony, if they desire it.\n\n8. The Effective Members of the Corps shall be formed into Batteries to be known as A, B, C, &c. Batteries according to the number thereof.\n\n9. The strength of a Battery shall be:\n| Rank | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Captain | 1 |\n| Lieutenants | 2 |\n| Sergeants | 1 |\n| Battery Sergeant Major and Quarter Master Sergeant | (1 included in Sergeants) |\n| Corporals | 4 |\n| Gunners | 36 |\n| Trumpeter | 1 |\n| Total | 48 |\n\nor specifically: 1 Captain, 2 Lieutenants, 1 Sergeant (who performs the duties of Battery Sergeant Major and Quarter Master Sergeant), 4 Corporals, 36 Gunners, 1 Trumpeter. Total, 48.\n\n10. The Commandant of the Corps shall be a Military Officer appointed by the Governor.\n\n11. There shall be a Major 2nd in command, to be appointed by the Governor from among the Volunteer Officers.\n\n12. The appointment of officers is vested in the Governor of the Colony, but His Excellency has consented to select the officers from a list of names to be chosen by the Volunteers themselves.\n\n13. At this election, all gentlemen who shall have enrolled themselves as Members other than Honorary Members shall be entitled to vote.\n\n14. All subsequent promotions and appointments among the Officers will be made by the Governor.\n\n15. The appointment of non-Commissioned Officers vests in the Commandant. Promotions among the non-Commissioned Officers will be, as a rule, by seniority.\n\n## Enrolments, Resignations, and Dismissals\n\n16. All Members of the Corps shall sign the roll of the Corps, each stating opposite his name whether he joins as an Honorary or Effective Member, and the latter shall take the oath prescribed by the Ordinance.\n\n17. All Members desirous of qualifying as Effective Members must first be passed as physically fit by the Honorary Surgeon of the Corps, who will attend in the Orderly Room of the Corps every Monday and Saturday from 6 to 7 P.M., for the purpose of passing recruits.\n\n18. The Honorary Surgeon will on each occasion make out and sign and return to the Commandant a list of the gentlemen passed by him.\n\n19. A Justice of the Peace or the Commandant will attend at the Orderly Room at all convenient times to administer the oath of allegiance, and the Commandant will then enroll members passed by the Honorary Surgeon.\n\n20. Every Member on signing the Roll shall be furnished with a printed copy of these Rules and Regulations and by his signature of the Roll bind himself to the observance of them, and of any Rules and Orders to be made by the Commandant for the better governance of the Corps under the Ordinance or under these Rules.\n\n22. Absent Members will be retained on the rolls of the Corps as Effectives six months from date of notice of departure, and after the expiration of said period will be transferred to the list of Honorary Members.\n\n23. Members desirous of resigning must give 14 days' notice in writing of their desire so to do to the Commandant, and must within the 14 days return into store in good order and condition their arms, accoutrements, and clothing, and pay up all fines and subscriptions due from them, and they shall remain subject to the Ordinance and to the Rules and Regulations of the Corps until they have done so to the satisfaction of the Commandant.\n\n24. Any Member of the Corps whose conduct as a Volunteer or otherwise shall, in the opinion of the Commandant, after opportunity of explanation has been afforded him, reflect discredit on the Corps, shall by the Commandant be requested to resign, and if within 7 days after such request he shall not tender his resignation, or apply to have his case submitted to a Court of Inquiry, he shall be summarily dismissed from the Corps and his name removed from the roll.\n\n25. Any Member failing to obtain the necessary certificate to entitle him to be classed as an Efficient Member within the first drill season after his enrolment, will be liable at the discretion of the Commandant to have his name summarily removed from the roll.\n\n26. Any Effective Member failing to attend the prescribed number of drills and parades during the drill season will, in addition to any fines to which he may have made himself liable under these or any subsequent Rules, be liable in the discretion of the Commandant to have his name summarily removed from the roll.\n\n## Uniform, Arms and Accoutrements\n\n27. The Government will supply each Effective Member of the Corps with 1 suit of cloth uniform for winter use, once in every two years, and 2 suits White Drill for summer use, once in each year. Helmets and forage caps will also be provided at the expense of the Colony once in every two years.\n\n28. The uniform of the Corps will consist of a blue cloth Tunic with scarlet collar and cuffs, black braiding, scarlet cord shoulder knots, and white metal buttons the same as worn by the late Corps. Blue cloth trousers with broad red stripes, the same as the Royal Artillery. Helmet of approved pattern with red puggaree and white metal chin strap. Forage Caps of blue cloth with red band and red button on top.\n\n29. Non-Commissioned Officers must provide themselves with suitable badges of rank and silver lace according to approved patterns.\n\n30. Officers provide their own clothing and accoutrements, which will be as nearly as possible of the pattern and style of the Royal Artillery, substituting silver for gold lace. Special Dress Regulations will hereafter be issued.\n\n31. A simple mess dress for all Members under the rank of Commissioned Officers, to wear if they think fit on occasion of public entertainments, will be approved and sanctioned, and all Members Honorary or others will be entitled to wear the same.\n\n32. The Corps will be armed with Martini-Henry carbines and sword bayonets with belts. Each Effective Member, on receiving his clothing, must sign a receipt for the same, and he will be held responsible for their good order and condition, and for their safe return into store whenever called for, during the prescribed period of wear.\n\n33. Captains or Officers in Command of Batteries will be held responsible for the clothing, arms, accoutrements, and other Government stores issued to the men of their Batteries, and must keep proper accounts of the same and furnish such returns as may be required of them. They should at least once a month inspect all stores under their charge.",
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        "content_text": "POLICE REGULATIONS AS TO CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ORDINANCE.\n\n1.-Every Sergeant or Constable of Police, who knows of any house being an unregistered brothel, shall report the matter to his Inspector, and the Inspector shall place the matter on the Morning Report with his opinion thereon.\n\n2.-Every Sergeant or Constable of Police, who knows of any woman behaving in the Colony as a common prostitute either afloat or on shore, shall report the same as above.\n\n3.-If an Inspector has reason to believe that a house is an unregistered brothel, or that a woman is behaving within the Colony as a common prostitute, he shall report the same.\n\n4.-Any member of the Police Force having good reason to believe that any woman or female child is detained in an unregistered brothel against her will, or in any other place, for the purpose of prostitution, shall immediately report the matter.\n\n5.-Sergeants and Police Constables must arrest any woman whom they may find in any street, road, mat-bed, or other place, within one mile of any District for the purposes of prostitution, also any woman whom they may find on board a junk or sampan for the like purposes.\n\n6.-Should any facts occur that lead to the reasonable belief that any house, or portion of the same, is used as an unlicensed brothel, they are to be forthwith reported.\n\nPage 102",
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        "content_text": "(Finance Committee, 24th April, 1883.)\n\nC.5.0. 958 of 1883.\n\n3 523\n\nPAYMENTS AUTHORIZED IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES FOR 1882 REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS. Treasury,\n\n(1.) Opium Revenue,-Pay of 4 Constables to watch Factory at Lapsapwan, at $12.50 each, per month,\n\n  \n    \n    Per month.....\n    $50.00\n  \n  \n    \n    Light, per month,\n    $3.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    $53.00\n  \n  \n    From 1st April to 30th November,\n    \n    $424.00\n  \n\nSurveyor General.\n\nC. (2.) Sanitary Staff-Salaries from 1st April to 30th November, 1883,-- 299 of 1883.\n\n  \n    1 Sanitary Inspector, at $220 per month,\n    $1,760.00\n  \n  \n    1 Chinese Clerk and Interpreter, at $40 per month,\n    $320.00\n  \n  \n    1 Senior Inspector of Nuisances, additional salary at $15 per month,\n    $120.00\n  \n  \n    1 Coloured Watchman for Peak District, at $30 per month,\n    $240.00\n  \n  \n    6 Head Watchmen, at $2 per month each,\n    $96.00\n  \n  \n    36 Watchmen, at $1 per month each.\n    $288.00\n  \n  \n    Chair Allowance to Sanitary Inspector, at $24 per month,\n    \n  \n  \n    Contingencies,-\n    \n  \n  \n    Chair Allowance to Senior Nuisance Inspector, being difference between the sum now drawn by him at the rate of $12 and $24 per month,\n    $96.00\n  \n  \n    Office Contingencies at the rate of $100 per annum,\n    $66.65\n  \n  \n    \n    $3,178.65\n  \n\nHarbour Master.\n\n6.8.0. 733 of 1882. C.O. Desp.\n\n(3.) Additional vote for repairs to Steam Launch Victoria,... $840.00\n\nMedical. (4.) Personal Allowance to Dr. WHARRY, at $70 per month, $840.00\n\nSERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS. Medical.\n\n60 of 1883. (5.) Health Officer's Steam Launch, ($4,000 of this being a re-vote), $4,500.00\n\nPolice.\n\n(6.) Quarters Allowance from 1st April, 1883, to 30th November, 1883,-\n\nC.3.0. 688 of 1883.\n\n  \n    Acting Sergeant No. 73, EDWARDS, at $15 per month,\n    $120.00\n  \n  \n    Constable No. 64, SIMMONS, at $12\n    $96.00\n  \n  \n    No. 60, GIDLEY, at $12\n    $96.00\n  \n  \n    No. 18, JENKINS, at $12\n    $96.00\n  \n  \n    \n    $398.00\n  \n\nC.S.0. 917 of 1883.\n\nTransport.\n\n725/1883 (7.) Passage Allowance to Nuisance Inspector CLEAVER and wife to England, $332.00\n\n26 of 1883, C.5.0. 2,400 of 1881.\n\nWorks and Buildings.\n\n(8.) Hospital conversion,-Quarters for Superintendent of Civil Hospital, ....$8,000.00\n\nGovernment Gardens and Plantations.\n\n1.(9.) Repairing damages caused by a Landslip in Glenealy Ravine of the New Garden (re-vote),....... $180.00\n\nMiscellaneous Services.\n\n8 of 1883. (10.) Gratuity of 3 months' pay to U. DA SILVA, Steward and Store-keeper of the Government Civil Hospital, upon retirement from the service, $1,200.00",
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        "content_text": "CS Q. 10\n\nof 1891.\n\nC.5.0.2241\n\nof 1593.\n\nC.8.0.50\n\nof 1984.\n\n(12.) Read: A letter from the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, recommending the new appointment of a Detective Inspector.\n\nRead also, a minute by the Colonial Secretary, pointing out that, in the event of the new appointment being approved, it will be unnecessary to fill up one of the posts of Sergeant of Police, in which case the extra expenditure will be only at the rate of $3 a month. Vote of $36 recommended in view of the slight extra expenditure, and as the Committee consider that the new post of Detective Inspector is highly necessary, especially during the present state of affairs in China, when so many bad characters frequent the Colony.\n\n(13.) Read: A memorandum by the Colonial Secretary, and minutes by the Colonial Treasurer on the subject of the appointment of a new Valuator.\n\nwhich will\n\nThe Committee recommend the approval of a vote at the rate of $1,321 a year, `be the amount of extra expenditure* necessary on account of the appointment of an assessor having technical qualifications, as a revised valuation of house property by a skilled person is certain to lead to a large increase in the revenue, which has hitherto suffered from the valuations made by untrained persons.\n\n(14.) Read: A letter from the Surveyor General recommending the purchase of a Patent Destructor, Multitubular Steam Boiler and a Steam Disinfecting Apparatus at a cost\n\nof £2,000.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the expenditure be approved, as the purchase of a Patent Destructor will put an end to the great nuisance and risk to the public health caused by the present practice of depositing the refuse of the town on the sea shore, where it is left to decay by exposure to all weathers, and a Steam Disinfecting Apparatus will be of great value in cases of infectious sickness and of epidemic, to which the Colony is at all times liable.\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nActing Clerk of Councils.\n\nW. H. MARSH,\n\nChairman.\n\nDRAFT.\n\n4\n\nNo.90\n\n76\n\n6524 Hongkong\n\nSin. G. F. Bower Gimg\n\nMINUTE.\n\n22.\n\nMr. Lucas Mr. De Robed\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nMr. Ashley.\n\nLord Derby.\n\nApril\n\n401\n\n25 April. 84.\n\nI have the honour to\n\nack: the receipt of your\n\ndespatch no. 76. of the\n\n23\n\n12\n\n19 the\n\n7\n\nSubject to any\n\n1\n\nUshanial\n\nand to 1\n\napprove the votes of council Homin detailed for pray mainte\n\nHerein\n\nthe estimates\n\nin excess of the\n\n* Clerk of Works,\n\nInterpreter,\n\nSalaries,\n\nAllowance for Assessment,\n\nfor Quarters,\n\nChair Allowance,.....\n\nDeduct\n\nAllowance to two Municipal Rate Valuators at\n\n$720 each (see Estimates p. 14),\n\nNett increase,\n\n$1,600 rising by movements of $54 to $2,140,\n\n180\n\n$1,780\n\n480\n\n360\n\n144\n\n$2,764\n\n-$1,440\n\n$1,324 minimum,\n\nFor consideration\n\nfor\n\n1883",
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        "content_text": "## Strike of Hongkong Boat People\n\nThe mistresses of licensed cargo boats Nos. 945, 645, and 603 appeared on a summons charging them with unlawfully refusing, without sufficient cause, to accept employment when unemployed, on the 26th inst.\n\nMr. Francis Vincenot stated that yesterday at 9 a.m., he had some cattle to send on board a French man-of-war from off the Praya opposite his store. He tried to engage the defendants' boats to take the cattle off, but they all refused and left the wharf, saying they were afraid to take complainant's cargo.\n\nThe first defendant now stated that her boat was too small; the second and third said that they were engaged at the time, but failed to prove this. A constable was sent to see the first defendant's boat and reported that it was only capable of safely carrying two beasts. Complainant had wanted to ship four; the first defendant was therefore discharged. The other two defendants were fined $5 each.\n\n### Previous Incident\n\nYESTERDAY, the mistresses of three Chinese cargo boats, registered in the Colony, were brought before Mr. Wise at the Police Court on summonses, charging them with unlawfully refusing to accept employment when they were unemployed. Mr. F. Vincenot wanted to engage the boats to take some cattle off to one of the French men-of-war in the harbour, but they all refused the job, stating at the time that they were afraid to do any work for him. Afterwards, two of the women set up the defence, in the Court, that they were engaged at the time Mr. Vincenot wanted to engage them, but were unable to substantiate their statement, and were fined $5 each by the magistrate.\n\nThis morning, eleven more masters and mistresses of cargo boats appeared at the Police Court on similar charges, preferred by the Messageries Maritimes Co. The boat people had refused to engage in the discharge of the mail boat Djenah. All of them pleaded prior engagements, and the case against them was remanded by Mr. Mackean until Monday, probably to allow them an opportunity of obtaining evidence in support of their line of defence.\n\nThere is very little doubt that in this case, as in that of Mr. Vincenot, the real reason for the refusal of the boat people to do any work for a French Company is fear that they will be marked or reported as having worked for the enemy, and will, in some way, either personally or through their friends on the mainland, suffer punishment for accepting any employment from the French.\n\nNone of those charged have put in a plea of fear of punishment in defence of their conduct, so that it is impossible to say whether that pleading would be considered by the magistrates to be a good and sufficient reason for refusing the employment offered. This course would doubtless be far too straightforward and truthful to be acceptable to the majority of Chinese.\n\nWhether there is any actual ground for the fears entertained by the Chinese in the Colony of suffering in one form or another for working in any way for French employers is an open question, but it is quite clear that the belief that there is actual danger to them in doing so is now pretty widespread among the working classes in the Colony, and is causing great inconvenience.\n\n## Strike of Hongkong Boat People\n\nOne of the most serious 'strikes' which have occurred for a long time past amongst the members of particular guilds or trades has been made to-day by the cargo boat and sampan people in the harbour. At noon to-day, all the cargo boat owners and employees refused to accept any employment offered them, and in most instances went away with their boats shortly after to Yau-ma-ti or Kowloon; a few of them, however, remaining at their moorings off the Praya West. Between 2 and 3 p.m., a demonstration was made against these boats and the crowd of passenger boats and sampans which were moored in-shore by a crowd of Chinese who had assembled to the number of nearly a thousand on the Praya between the Central Market and the Harbour Master's Office. Many of the mob commenced to stone the boats which were within reach, and it was found necessary to maintain order to send a detachment of police, in charge of a European Sergeant, from the Central Station. On the appearance of the police, a certain amount of order was restored, and the pelting of the boats ceased; the crowd gradually dispersing.\n\nAll the craft usually found moored close in to the Praya in the meanwhile cleared out, both cargo boats and sampans, and moved, some of them to Yau-ma-ti and others to the refuge at Causeway Bay. At 8 p.m. this evening, with the exception of a dozen or so Hakka boats and sampans engaged by the week or month by steamers and sailing ships, which were anchored off Peddar's wharf, not a native boat was to be seen on this side of the harbour, and it was quite impossible to obtain a sampan on hire for passage to any ship in the harbour.\n\nAs far as we can understand, the original cause of this general, and most serious, if long continued, refusal to work on the part of the boat people appears to be a strong feeling against the recent fines imposed upon a number of cargo boat principals for refusing to do work when offered them, the work on these occasions being connected with French vessels. What the people on shore had to do with the question it is difficult to say, but the demonstration made by the mob has evidently had the effect of frightening a number of the boat people and aided in making general what would probably have otherwise been only a partial strike.\n\nPage 4017",
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        "content_text": "# \nthe neck of his steed, and thus evading the storm of missiles, he set spurs to the pony and dashed among the crowd; round and round he went in an increasing circle, knocking the mob over like nine pins. He must have bowled over a very great number of them, and with the pony trampling over the prostrate men, many must have been a good deal hurt. The pony behaved splendidly, and seemed imbued with the same spirit as its rider, tearing might and main in among the thick of the crowd, over numerous obstructions. This man certainly did good work by his excellent horsemanship, and he had several bruises from missiles about him free.\n\nWhile this was going on, the crowd, which extended right away along Queen's-road, past the European taverns which abound in that quarter, had not been idle, but had been pelting any European they could see, or any unfortunate chair or jinricksha coolie who showed himself unwilling to act upon the mandates of the strikers by taking work. Some Europeans took refuge in the public-houses, which were also assailed by the mob with missiles, and most of them had to be hastily closed up. All up the various streets connecting Queen's-road with Hollywood-road to Gap-street the mob extended, and some constables about those parts were roughly handled. Sergeant Kamp was reinforced at his lively post at the junction of Queen's-road and Gap-street, soon after the telegram for help reached the Central Station, by a good body of Sikh constables under Inspector Perry. As fast as the riot was quieted in one direction it broke out in another, and three different telegrams were sent to the Central Station up to eleven o'clock for more police, until the Station was completely drained of men, some of whom were posted near the \"Land We Live In\" tavern under Inspector Rivers, and others at different places along the disturbed part of Queen's-road, while a large number were on patrol up and down the street.\n\nIn addition to the fire constables from No. 7 Station who were sent to the Civil Hospital, there were two of the Central Station men so much cut about with stones that they had to be despatched thither, and a district watchman was also very badly wounded. A lokang with Sergeant's party disappeared in the fight, but he had probably acted upon the dictates of prudence, and got out of the affray with a whole skin. One of the mounted troopers was hurt in the face by being unhorsed in Queen's-road.\n\nThe Administrator (Hon W. H. Marsh) was speedily informed of what was taking place, and he at once set about measures for meeting the emergency. A request was sent to the military authorities for help, and the call was promptly responded to. Two companies of the Buffs were speedily got ready and with fixed bayonets marched to the scene of the disturbance under the command of Major Harrison. The troops marched all through the disturbed parts, but found nothing to do in the shape of active work, though their presence doubtless did much to overawe the mob. The disturbance was at an end before they appeared, and the mobs were in great measure broken up, though the streets were all lined with Chinese, who were now quiet. The spot where the riot was at its worst was the junction of Gap-street and Queen's-road West, and in the Chinese Recreation Ground and adjoining streets, and after the fight was done, it was strewn with the weapons of the Chinese - stones, bricks, lumps of granite, etc., like a battlefield. It was somewhat satisfactory to see one rather amusing incident of the fight in this locality. A Celestial shopkeeper was standing at the door of his shop in Queen's-road, enjoying the sight of the pelting of the foreign constable devils, and was laughing most heartily at the showering of missiles upon them, when a flying brick, doubtless meant for a target other than his, struck him on the side of the head and knocked him down backwards into his shop. He doubtless failed to see the fun of the thing after that. \n\n## \nAnother body of men from the ... followed the first, and marched through the town under the command of Colonel Graves. After this detachment came a body of police with whom were Mr. Wise, Police Magistrate, and Capt. Dempster. Mr. Wise had a copy of the Riot Act with him, and was accompanied by Mr. Bedell Li Yun, Police Court interpreter, who had some Chinese translations of the Act to post up. The mob began to be troublesome again, but the trouble this time did not amount to a great deal, and was suppressed in a short time. It was then not considered necessary to read the Act.\n\nFrom this hour there were no more disturbances during the day. A number of men were arrested during the rioting, and the manner in which they were dealt with will be found further on. It was said they were going to be publicly whipped, and probably such a measure would have had a good effect upon the turbulent people, but this could hardly be done, though they were otherwise severely dealt with.\n\nAmong the casualties it was reported that one wounded Sikh trooper had distinguished himself by a remarkably smart piece of sword practice on a Chinaman, whose head he cut clean off at a stroke. No amount of inquiry, however, could trace this report to any reliable source, nor to any actual eye witness of the occurrence, and it must be regarded as the creation of some brilliant imagination. It would unquestionably be a fine piece of swordsmanship, considering that the swords of the troopers are not sharpened.\n\nThe measures taken to intimidate the cargo boatmen were very effective, and again the usual business afloat was almost at a complete standstill. Very few cargo boats were remaining anywhere near this side of the harbour. Two or three were to be seen alongside steamers, but the panic among them was general, and though they were evidently disposed to get to work again, and unwilling to lose any more days' earnings, they dared not go on with their work for fear of being attacked. All day long the streets in the work district presented the appearance of a China New Year as far as work was concerned. Rice-pounders, coolies, artisans, and workmen of all descriptions seemed to have knocked off work very generally, and were to be seen lounging about idly. After the forenoon, however, they kept pretty quiet, but they could be heard talking about the place being set on fire at night. Their bearing was not that of quietly disposed men, but their appetite for riot and violence appeared as if only whetted by the occurrences of the morning. The threats to burn the town went about very freely, and Chinese servants in many cases informed their masters that this was contemplated.\n\nIn the afternoon a number of placards were posted about announcing that the town was to be fired in three places at night. Many of the police did not consider the mob had been permanently quieted with the quelling of the morning's riots, but believed the worst of the trouble was in store for the night. The propensity of thieves to set fire to places for the sake of getting loot is well known, and such an opportunity as these troubles offered was considered to be one they would not be likely to miss if they could possibly avail themselves of it. Further rioting also was anticipated.\n\n444\n555 \n15 \n2237",
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        "content_text": "## Statement of W. Storepool's service\n\nService from 5th May, 1867, to 5th May, 1888.\n\n| Service Location | Dates |\n| --- | --- |\n| In the Colony | 5 May 1867 to 18th May 1872 |\n| In England | 5th December 1877 to 11th May 1878 |\n| Recruiting | 24th May 1879 to 14th May 1885 |\n| In Scotland | 29th November, 1886, to 5th May 1888 |\n| In England on full pay | 11th May to 11th September 1878 |\n\nTotal service: 17 years, 11 months\n\nIn Sergeant Stennery's (C.S.O.1:219 of 1885). On being re-score for leave for 5 years, he applied a year before he went on leave, and the leave was granted, but lacking some months which he received full pay whilst away from the Colony (if it is to be counted) W. Storepool is not entitled to a 4th bonus passage until December, 1890.\n\n**S.M. A. Silver**\n29th May 1888\n\nPage 20  \n19391  \nREC.  \nJEG 29 SEP 98",
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        "content_text": "## POLICE DEPARTMENT, \n### SIR, \n21st August, 1888.\n\nWith reference to the earlier portion of the Minute of His Excellency the Governor on C.S.O. No. 18, and to previous Minutes, it is with deep regret that I have to report, for the information of His Excellency, that, after due consideration, I feel that I am reluctantly compelled to submit a memorial to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject. The necessary papers will be prepared with the utmost despatch and submitted to His Excellency for transmission.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nThe Honourable \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \n**W. M. DEANE**, \nCaptain Superintendent of Police.\n\nDr. F. STEWART, LL.D., \nColonial Secretary, &c., \n\nI have now respectfully to submit for Your Lordship's consideration the following points with reference to the foregoing correspondence:\n\n(i.) With reference to His Excellency's Minute of the 1st August, 1888, I respectfully submit that it would have been improper conduct on my part in any way to have anticipated the possible decision of the Court to which I had referred the matter.\n\nHad my advice been followed the case would have come on for hearing at the usual weekly sitting on the 3rd August.\n\nIt will be observed that at the very outset His Excellency in his Minute of the 1st August is pleased to take into his own hands the direction of the course to be pursued. For this reason I thereafter acted according to instructions and the routine of the Office. The possibility of my having the matter in train, as was the fact, and of my taking such further action as might be required at the proper moment, does not appear to have been entertained nor the possibility that the case was not one that could be settled on the instant.\n\n(ii.) At this point I would desire respectfully to inform Your Lordship that my action was entirely guided in accordance with the spirit of the instructions conveyed to me in the Colonial Secretary's Letter No. 1744 of 1886 of which the following is an extract \"If this is the case,\" Mr. Stanhope proceeds, \"a new instruction would appear to be required directing the Captain Superintendent to inquire into all complaints, and, if the charge is one of breach of discipline or neglect of duty, to deal with it in accordance with the Police Ordinance. If it is one of criminal offence unconnected with Police duty, and a prima facie case is made out, he should recommend the complainant to prosecute, and if the complainant fails to do so, should himself take out a summons against the accused so as to have the case tried.\" The offence charged appeared to me to be partly one of a Civil nature and partly one amenable to criminal law under the Police Ordinance. I recommended the complainant to prosecute civilly because of the wider powers of the Court. The matter was then taken out of my hands through His Excellency the Governor being pleased to override my opinion and advice.\n\n(iii.) It will be observed in Letter No. 161 my opinion was before His Excellency's notice. \"The question as far as affected Police Discipline appeared to me to be one that could well stand over for consideration until the personal and private portion of the affair had been judicially settled.\" This in connection with the standing regulation above referred to is the keynote of my action. Had the complainant taken the action I recommended then the departmental phase of the matter could be considered with due respect to the decision of the Puisne Judge. Had he not taken action then the instructions quoted in the preceding paragraph would have come into force and I must have taken action myself.\n\n(iv.) I must respectfully but decidedly join issue on the terms incorporated in the following Minute of His Excellency (4th August.) \"An illegal outrage, such as that of searching a dwelling house without warrant, is far more culpable in a Member of the Police Force than in an ordinary person, and I deeply regret to...\n\n### \n16 \n\n\"and of another in plain clothes has been such that it can reasonably be considered with reference to his character for good conduct. On this score Sergeant SHEIK ALIM is in position of a 3rd Class Good Conduct Medal carrying with the payment of five dollars a month. The Captain Superintendent much regrets having regard to Sergeant SHEIK ALIM's meritorious service for over fifteen years, and to the reputation that he bears as being a smart and intelligent Officer that he is compelled to recommend to His Excellency the Governor that this honour and privilege be withdrawn.” \n\nI have the honour to be, \nThe Honourable \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \n**W. M. DEANE**, \nCaptain Superintendent of Police.\n\nDr. F. STEWART, LL.D., \nColonial Secretary.\n\n### Captain Superintendent of Police to Colonial Secretary. \n### No. 177.\n\nPage 17 \nPage 22 \nPage 44 \nPage 46",
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        "content_text": "## \nThere we are on Taku point, not quite clear viz. whether M. Horspool's present appointment of Chief Inspector will be retained; if so, there will of course be no saving. I think, however, what is suggested, I would almost say, the appointment of M. Horspool as Deputy Superintendent on 2 years probation on $220 per mensem as soon as the Adjutancy has been abolished; and I would suggest to them to give Capt Dempster, say, 1-3 months' notice, treating him as on probation if possible.\n\nAs regards a non-commissioned officer for drill and store Sergeant, offer the appointment at once to the man mentioned in `1602`.\n\n5/2  \n`C.PL` 29. Jan 57  \nRewit Feb 3  \n298 K:  \n3  \nMr Fairfield  \n592  \n\nSee is a married man, Johnson with 3 children who proposes to go out single. This seems to me a bad plan, but the Governor knew the facts, so I would pass it. I think we had better appoint him on probation. I think he had better be appointed through the Crown Agents. It seems unnecessary to write to the War Office `CP-2`. \n\n6. Jeeb Russ deli",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n596 \n\ncircumstances, and that there should be obtained to superintend the musketry instruction of the Force in his place.\n\na pensioned Non-Commissioned Officer of the Army should be engaged to undertake musketry instruction at a salary.\n\nChief Inspector receives salary and Personal Allowance for Good Conduct.\n\n1 pensioned Officer, if obtained, should be engaged in addition to the charge of stores, an employment at which would serve to occupy his time while musketry instruction is not going on; and his salary would be $220 or £400 sterling per annum.\n\n5. This appointment would thus enable us to dispense with the present Office Store Sergeant, Mr Horspool, who at present receives $120 plus $40 = $160 (or W40 + $120 = $160), and $10, Total $170.\n\nI propose that an Assistant Superintendent's salary should be Two hundred and seventy dollars per month or **Four hundred pounds** sterling.\n\nI understand that Your Lordship should sanction the proposal if it aligns with the proposal made in another despatch, No. 389, regarding the payment of certain salaries on a sterling basis.",
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        "content_text": "597 \n\nunderstand that suitable non-Commissioned Officers, as above described, may be obtained from the Army and Navy Pensioners' Employment Society, 20 Charing Cross, S.M., for about Sixty dollars per month, $60, so that when the Adjutancy is abolished, the change would cause an annual saving to the Colony of: - \n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Adjutant's Salary | $1,200 |\n| Salary to Sergeant | $720 |\n| Addition to Mr Horspool | $600 |\n| Store Sergeant | $624 |\n| Total | $1,824 |\n| Annual Saving | $504 |\n\nThere would also be this further advantage in the change, that we should have an Officer, as we have not at present, with his whole time available to assist Captain Deane in the Superintendence of the Police and with a view to future employment for Police duty.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's Most Obedient, \nHumble Servant, \nGW Dewant",
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        "content_text": "2.\n\nArtillery Volunteers already in existence and without interfering in any way with that Corps.\n\n2. That such Corps be called \"The Machine Gun Volunteer Corps\" and be armed with the Maxim Gun.\n\n3. That the Corps be organised by Companies, half Companies or Divisions, and Sections or Sub-Divisions and that each Sub-Division be raised separately and consist of a Sergeant and twelve men.\n\n4. That each man shall be armed with the Martini Henry Rifle & Bayonet or such other weapon as the Government may provide.\n\n5. That each Section or Sub-division shall elect its Sergeant, and subject to the ratification of the Authorities, each Company or Division its Captain and Lieutenant.\n\n6. That each Officer and man shall be provided with clothing, accoutrement, and equipment, the expense of which should be borne by the Government who should keep in store and supply necessary ammunition, clothing, equipage & stores.\n\n7. That the uniform be green with black facings in Winter and white in Summer.\n\n8. That each man shall be provided with helmet and forage cap, leggings, great coat, haversack and water bottle and with a working dress of the same colour as the uniform but without facings.\n\n9. That two sections or sub-divisions constitute a half Company or Division under a Lieutenant and 2 half Companies or Divisions a Company under the Command of a Captain, with a minimum of 18 men and a maximum.\n\n10. That an active and young Military Officer be appointed Commandant and Drill Instructors from the regular Service be appointed and paid by the Government.\n\n11. That about 15 to 20 drills be required from each recruit on first joining and about 9 drills a year thereafter.\n\n613 on proved.\n\nH Action or and.\n\nQo or such other.\n\nRifle 2:.\n\nPage ...\n\n(No page number is given, but the text \"613 on proved.\" suggests it is likely an OCR error and not a page number. 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That each Officer and man shall be provided with clothing, accoutrement, and equipment, the expense of which should be borne by the Government who should keep in store and supply necessary ammunition, clothing, equipage & stores.\n\n7. That the uniform be green with black facings in Winter and white in Summer.\n\n8. That each man shall be provided with helmet and forage cap, leggings, great coat, haversack and water bottle and with a working dress of the same colour as the uniform but without facings.\n\n9. That two sections or sub-divisions constitute a half Company or Division under a Lieutenant and 2 half Companies or Divisions a Company under the Command of a Captain, with a minimum of 18 men and a maximum.\n\n10. That an active and young Military Officer be appointed Commandant and Drill Instructors from the regular Service be appointed and paid by the Government.\n\n11. 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That about 15 to 20 drills be required from each recruit on first joining and about 9 drills a year thereafter.\n\n613 on proved.\n\nH Action or and.\n\nQo or such other.\n\nRifle 2:.",
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        "content_text": "5\n\n605\n\nthat 5 strange junks, believed to belong to Chair-cher or thereabouts, had anchored off the village on the evening of Wednesday 10th instant; that some of the crew had landed the following morning for water, and that the junks left shortly afterwards, making supposed to the Eastward, that they had never been seen there before, and had had no communication with the shore than as stated, and that the villagers, who are all fishermen, were completely ignorant of any attack having been made, not even aware that the Namoa had been anchored in their vicinity during the night of the 10th instant. The selectives assured me that they had every reason to believe that their informants were speaking the truth.\n\nSeeing that there was nothing to be gained by remaining any longer at Aarlem Bay, having no clue as to the destination of the junks to follow, I considered it advisable to return to Hongkong at once and acquaint you with what I had learnt, and now beg to report my arrival at this port.\n\n6.\n\nI would desire to add that Captain Stewart, commanding the Chinese Revenue Cruiser Kaipan, has rendered me every assistance in his power, and that his advice was most useful to me, also that Detective Sergeant N... as well as the Chinese selectives did all that was required of them in a very satisfactory manner.\n\nI have &c.\n\n(signed) V. A. Fisdall.\n\nCommander.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]",
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        "title": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]",
        "content_text": "The sub-section limits the production of certificates to the East certificate granted except where permission is granted to store opium. It is no hardship, small quantities are purchased for immediate use, and the certificate on smoking ought to be readily forthcoming, if the possessor is really smoking the opium he purchases, and not using it against the Opium Farmer.\n\nIf Section 14(2) is new - hitherto the opium Farm has been publicly put up for tender, but cases might arise which would make it desirable to enter into a private contract. Sub-section (4) is also new and is inserted with a view to check the disposal by the Farmer of the opium which comes into his possession and so to ascertain whether he smuggles it into China.\n\nSection 29(2) is new. Complaints have frequently arisen that Excise officers who are Chinese or of dark blood, in searching for concealed opium, handle the persons searched too roughly, and as a safeguard the new section requires any search to be made under the supervision of a European Police officer not under the rank of Sergeant. In addition to this further precaution, provision is made by section 48, hereafter referred to.\n\nSection 33 is entirely based on the Straits Settlements legislation. In the Straits Settlements, a vessel smuggling chandoo or prepared opium is liable to confiscation. In Hongkong, it is well known that enormous quantities of prepared opium are smuggled into the Colony annually by the River Steamers, greatly to the detriment...",
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        "content_text": "418\n\nThe Kowloon District Officer kindly offered this morning that if you had no objection he would arrange for Captain ... of \"Linnet\" to accompany the \"Kai Tak\". Captain Stewart is intimately acquainted with the coast where the pirates may have landed and is also conversant with the Chinese shore.\n\nG.S.d Enclose for your information copy of a statement made today by the Chief Officer of the ship before the Acting Sergeant of Police.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7]",
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        "content_text": "# Expenditure \nwill be on fairly well shimura in the account the arrears \nof that preceding `R & S(30,410a) HL001-89` \n\n## Governor. No. 158 \nDate. 1892 6 May \n\nLast previous Paper. 82278 \nSur. Straits 226 \"Copy Inc. 3 1325 juiz Agents in 27/July 261. mo \nNext subsequent Paper, Songtong No. 14952 \n\n### DESPATCH. \n11952 26 May Spe 14 JUN 32 \nAppointment of a separate store-keeper for the Police Dept. Recommends.. \nForwards copy Report from Capt Sup of Police memo duties + giving particulars of scheming \n\n#### (Minutes.) \nW. Wingfield \nI pass this through as there seems to be a legal difficulty in the way of proposal \nlast page but are ... of deaftr that this Officer should come under the ordinary Service Rules as to Leave & pension, not under the special Police Rules. \nSee Ord. 14 of 1887 & the special Police Rules as to leave & pension. If the new attached thereto. \nke officer is styled \"Sergeant Major\" (even if \"Storekeeper and\") prefixed, \n19801 Ara contortation) Grant",
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        "content_text": "The present value of Police Stores in hand is $14,430 abouts. This is much greater than the annual clothing are received.\n\n(Signed) A. Gordon. Captain Supt. of Police.\n20th April, 1892.\n\n## Enclosure 2\n### Minute by the Captain Superintendent of Police\n\n| Ref | Content |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | 11952 |\n|  | R 14 JUN 32 |\n\nThe duties of storekeeper are performed at present by Sergeant Parc... of Police. He also performs the duties of Barrack Master (there is no Barrack Master) for $720 a year. He is of course liable to be transferred elsewhere and replaced by another. Such changes, though necessary, are not conducive to regularity in keeping store books. The present man seems to be doing this post ably but has been here for only a few weeks already.\n\nThis is correct except that the Drill Instructor is paid out of the lapsed salary of the storekeeper Musketry Instructor.\n\nMy proposal was to reduce...",
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        "content_text": "the conditions, and it would ~ perhaps be better to call him \"Store-keeper and Sergeant Major\". The present Barrack Sergeant as already stated is also storekeeper and would return to ordinary duty.\n\n7. Such a man should have free quarters. It would be necessary to find quarters for him in Central Barracks.\n\nSigned) A. Gordon. Capt. Supt. of Police.\n22th April 1892.\n\n## Enclosure 3.\n\n**Memo as to proposed appointment of Police Storekeeper.**\n\nI would suggest that such Storekeeper be selected from among pensioned non-commissioned officers of the British Army, a pensioned Sergeant Major or Quarter Master Sergeant of any branch of the service would be most suitable. The Pensions, Widows' &c. Society, 20 Crays Court, Charing Cross, would no doubt find suitable candidates.\n\nI think the man should be enlisted as a Police Constable for five years on the usual terms, so as to be under Police discipline, and should, like other members of the force, come under Police Pension Rules.",
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        "content_text": "## CONDITIONS OF SERVICE IN HONG KONG POLICE FORCE.\n\nOf the Witness.\n\nThe Crown Agents for the Colonies shall be in nowise personally liable for any matters arising out of this Agreement.\n\nAs witness our hands the day and year above written.\n\nSigned by Edward Ernest Blake (one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies as aforesaid) in the presence of\n| Name | Address | Occupation |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Jours | Downing Street | Sur |\n\nSigned by the said William Laughtow in the presence of\n| Name | Address | Occupation |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| James | Downing Street | Clerk |\n\nClause 4 (continued)\n\nThe Store Keeper duties are:\n- to keep the books & vouchers & perform all the duties\n- to take charge of Barracks at Central Station, see to their order and cleanliness and attend office when any men are brought before the Captain-Superintendent for report\n- to superintend the drill and musketry instruction of the Police.\n\n5. The drills consist of two parades a week, half an hour each. The Musketry instruction and training is carried on in the afternoons generally, for about six or seven weeks in the cold weather.\n\n## CONDITIONS OF SERVICE IN HONG KONG POLICE FORCE.\n\nI. No married man will be enlisted, and no married quarters will be provided until after promotion to rank of Sergeant.\n\nII. Note.-The exchange value of the dollar is variable. The market rate of exchange is at the present time 2-2 and the Government will recognize no claim in respect of fluctuations in the value of the dollar. For the purpose of paying salary when on leave of absence in England, the dollar will be taken at 4/-, and in the case of pension, at 3s. 8d. A salary of $50.\n\nIII. Full pay will be drawn from the date of embarkation.\n\nIV. A bounty of £15 will be paid on enlistment.\n\nV. Each Officer is allowed to remit home, through the Government, any sum not exceeding his half-pay, but only at the market rate of exchange.\n\nVI. The engagement will be for five years only. Subject to the approval of the Captain Superintendent of Police, and of the Colonial Surgeon, a Constable can re-engage for a further term of five years.\n\nVII. At the expiration of each of these two terms of five years' Service he becomes entitled to a return passage.\n(a) And he can apply through the Captain Superintendent of Police for permission to return to the Service within a period not exceeding nine months.\n(b) Should this application be approved, he will receive half-pay during his absence, and a return passage to the Colony.\n(c) On his return he shall be reinstated in his relative position in the force.\n\nVIII. Should he not take leave but remain in the Colony at the expiration of each or either of these two terms of five years' Service, he will receive a sum equal to three months' pay of his rank by way of bonus.\n\nIX. Should he be allowed to continue in the force on the completion of his second term of Service, he may, on his final retirement, be allowed a pension according to regulations from time to time issued by the Colonial Government with the approval of the Secretary of State; under the regulations recently issued, no pension will be granted for less than fifteen years' Service, except in case of retirement on the ground of ill-health.\n\nX. Should a Constable be compelled to retire through ill-health before ten years, a gratuity of one month's pay for each year's Service may be granted.\n\nXI. On joining the Service each man has to provide himself with a uniform box, the cost of which is $5.\n\nXII. As a rule he has to perform six hours' duty in each twenty-four, generally between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., but is liable to be called on for extra Service.\n\nXIII. He will have to attend School for one hour each day, four days weekly, until he obtains a Certificate of Competency, without which he cannot receive promotion in the force.\n\nXIV. He will also be required to attend drill for half an hour, three or four days a week, until he is passed as efficient.\n\nXV. Each European Constable is provided with free quarters, fuel and light. The following are also provided free: \n- beds and bedding\n- summer and winter clothing\n- helmets\n- boots\n- free coals\n\nHe is provided with medical attendance free. He is also provided with table linen, cutlery, glass, crockery ware, and cooking utensils for the sum of $5 (entrance fee).\n\n(Signature of Witness.) J. James\n(Signature of Constable.) W.D. Laughtow",
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        "content_text": "special role of $6798 was passed by the Council for the purchase of the gun and 1000 rounds of Ammunition, fuse, etc., to be purchased from the Navy.\n\nIn February 1892 when the ammunition was delivered it was found to be too small for the gun and after a considerable amount of correspondence the Gun was examined by Ordnance Store Department when a report by an Armourer sergeant, which was supported by the Senior Ordnance Store Officer, after shewing the defects in the Gun stated as follows –\n\n\"The gun in my opinion it would cost more to repair than it is worth.\"\n\nIt then transpired that the gun barrelled gun purchased by the Government was not the one which had been previously examined by the Senior Ordnance Store Officer. The gun he had seen at Messrs Gilmans was a five-barrelled gun.\n\nThe result is that the gun purchased in October last for $642 too has been sold for $1100 at a loss to the government of $520.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n[Signed] Filipone C. Nicolle Auditor\n\n& L (121L)—22915—6000-2-92\n\nPage 2\n\n[Some content appears to be a table or list, the following is an attempt to reconstruct it]\n\n  \n    Remal\n    Date.\n    Time.\n  \n  \n    \n    1892\n    \n  \n  \n    st previous Paper.\n    disposed off.\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    2004\n    & note\n  \n  \n    \n    200140\n    \n  \n  \n    bsequent Paper\n    10040\n    \n  \n  \n    Hông trong\n    No. 18993\n    \n  \n  \n    (Subject.)\n    C. O.\n    19993\n  \n  \n    The 11 OCT 32)\n    539\n    DOMESTIC.\n  \n  \n    Halth of Sterling\n    IN Graham\n    (Minutes.)\n  \n  \n    Cift Sterling's father has acted\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    if we could\n    at the W. O. telegraph (at his expense) to the Gorran\n    \n  \n  \n    in the words annexed.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ? Do this & then send to M.\n    \n    Rond to\n  \n  \n    \n    to note that this lety\n    letsgram\n  \n  \n    nill\n    be paid for the rough Majur (lache at the Horse guards, who traught store,\n    \n  \n  \n    and Terraply also paid for Catt was\n    read the telepon, and draft\n    \n  \n\nThe text appears to be a mix of a letter and some other document or table. The OCR output has been corrected for spelling, spacing, and some minor reordering. The original formatting and content have been preserved as much as possible.\n\n was removed as per rule 12. The table was reconstructed based on the available text. Some parts of the text still appear to be out of order or unclear due to the limitations of the OCR output.",
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        "content_text": "Villa Roth, Benerley, B.P.O. Gravesend\n\n1st February 1897\n\nC.O.\n\n620\n\n2278\n\nREC\n\n(REG 4 FEB 97)\n\n:\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 26th January last, enclosing copy of \"Despatch\" No 402 of 15th December last from H.E. the Governor of Hong Kong, regarding the appointment of a Musketry Instructor and Store Keeper to the Hong Kong Police, and offering my observations thereon.\n\nThe arrangements made by His Excellency amount to a recurrence to the old system by which a European Sergeant or Private Constable was put in charge of the stores, and a drill instructor was furnished by the Garrison on payment, except that the arrangement for drill instruction is far more economical than when a commissioned officer was employed, and I believe equally efficient.\n\nNevertheless, I venture respectfully to submit that, in my opinion, the economy of this plan is more apparent than real, and for the following reasons.\n\n1. A Police Sergeant told off as Store Keeper will have so much work to do, and is so much responsibility that he cannot be made available for other Police duty. The Police force is, therefore, weakened to the extent of the pay of a Store Keeper & drill instructor, and, as the pay of a \"Police Sergeant\" & Musketry Instructor would be very little more than that of a \"Police Sergeant\", and probably not more.\n\nUnder Secretary of State for the Colonies",
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        "content_text": "than that of the Police beigeaud and the stule Mutiueter from the Garrison combined, the same economy could be effected by reducing the establishment of the Force by one Sergeant or Private, and obtaining a specialist for the charge of the Stores and drill instruction.\n\n2. The question then arises, would the latter course increase the efficiency of store supervision and drill instruction, as well as promote economy especially in the issue of stores. I am of opinion such would be the case, provided an experienced man is obtained.\n\n3. From personal knowledge I can state the system of placing Police in charge of Police Stores, was not satisfactory and was wasteful.\n\n4. The Police Stores, consisting of annual clothing, materials for clothing &c; Arms (Rifles, revolvers & surplus) ammunition, and a variety of other stores, amount to almost as much as those of a Regiment, for the custody & supervision of which a Quartermaster, Quartermaster Sergeant & clerk are found to be necessary - a Policeman, with no experience of such work, cannot efficiently take charge of these, keep all the issues and account books balanced, take stock periodically and prepare the annual requisitions.\n\n5. I will mention a few instances to show the loss and confusion that may arise from the inexperience of storekeepers.\n\n6. When I first took over the Police at Hong Kong and began to investigate the condition of the Stores, I found considerable confusion. The books often did not tally with the Stock, the ammunition book was not made up - no one knew exactly what stores and what ammunition should be on hand, and there was no certainty that stores had not been pilfered by native servants. It was necessary to start new books and often to assume the stock as found to be correct. But this was not all. Certain stores such as material for making up clothing, crockery, & others are issued on payment to those requiring them. In examining into the prices charged I found that the London tradesmen's bills as rendered to the Crown Agents were used as the basis, the prices converted into dollars at the official rate of 4/2 per dollar, and the stores were sold at these rates, while the dollar was actually worth 3/-(about) thus, what cost in England 4/2 was sold at the Hong Kong Police Stores at a dollar or more for the cost of freight, no percentage was charged for contingencies - in fact for years Police stores had been sold at a loss to Government of at least 35 per cent, and I suppose thousands of dollars were so lost, without, I believe, any officer of Police being even aware of its ever having been observed by the Colonial Auditor. This was due to carelessness & want of method on the part of the Police storekeeper and could not have happened had an experienced Quartermaster Sergeant held the post of storekeeper. The bills also for stores served had not been properly checked.\n\nPage 621\n\n...\n\nPage 720",
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        "content_text": "Date.\n\n32 1 Feb. Report\n\n4\n\nSel 34\n\n4\n\n36 344\n\n17\n\nSubject.\n\non Govt Central School for Girls for 1892.\n\nGovt Balances in Local Banks\n\nProposed Waterworks at Kowloon\n\n98 6. Reports\n\non the exceptionally cold weather\n\n39 7.\n\nAppl. of Capt Startings for appt. of Capt\n\n50 10. Report on Victoria Gaol for 1892\n\nSupt of Police Sel 17. Emigration of Japanese to Australia\n\nconf.\n\nDeath of Mr Tents A. X. A. Gordon\n\n574\n\n55\n\n18\n\n20\n\n56 28.\n\nAppen for copy of \"Challenger\" Report\n\nmedical Certificate in cases\n\ncares of sick leave Ordce 5 of 1892\n\n5y 1mch. Appt. of Capt. Supt. of Police\n\n596\n\n60 17\n\n63\n\n66 15\n\nyo\n\n120 121\n\n4\n\n4\n\n5\n\n72 23. 43 24\n\n4\n\nOpium Question\n\nShipping Casualty Cases. allowances to Witnesses\n\nOpium Farming System\n\nAppt. of 2 Chinese Interpreters to magistracy\n\nCurrency Question : Letter from Chamber of Commerce\n\nOrdce. 6 of 1893: Volunteers\n\nEducation: Treatment of Juvenile Offenders\n\nRetions of Trade & Trade Reports for 1892\n\nappen. of Mr J. Freire for increase of pension\n\n75 24. Report on Store Accounts\n\nYat. 125.\n\nyou\n\n76\n\n28.\n\nWomen & Girls Protection Ordce.\n\nyy. 29. Govt Scholar\n\n9. A. Jvanovich\n\n79 y apl. Store, House Service & Water Accounts\n\n80\n\n81\n\n8\n\n10\n\n81 7.\n\n89\n\n24\n\n90 25 Conf 26\n\n1892.\n\nConfirmation of appt. of Mr W. Machell\n\nAppt. of Ward master for Civil Hospital\n\nDismissal of Sergeant major Laughton\n\nReduction of Military Contribution\n\nOrdce. 7 of 1893\n\nDefalcations in Treasury\n\nJan.\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\nNr. 85.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nRECO\n\n8383\n\nRes 20 V 33\n\nSecretary\n\nActing Capt. Supt of Police to Col. Secretary,\n\nFort. Rectory,\n\n24th April, 1893.\n\nReferring to my minute, recorded in C.O. 639/93, I have the honour to submit the following recommendations for the performance of the duties which it was contemplated should be fulfilled by Store Sergeants and Sub-Inspector.\n\n(a) To place the store, as it is at present, in the hands of a Sergeant who has worked well for years.",
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        "content_text": "(20)\n\nSection 37 provides a remedy for the public against the arbitrary exercise of the very extensive powers given to the Opium Farmer. If a frivolous charge is brought, the Magistrate can deal with it under that section very severely by fining the Opium Farmer. That seems to be for the protection of the public and to justify to a certain extent the extreme powers given under section 2. It is unnecessary for me to go further, but I should like to allude—not of course as founding my judgment upon it in any way—to the reference made to section 7. It is a very important section, I think, for the Opium Farmer and the excise officers to bear in mind. One reason for the section, I suppose, is that a person may be perfectly well known as an excise officer, but he may have forfeited his badge or warrant, and the only security the public can have against him is that of the production of the badge to show that he is acting up to that very day as an excise officer. The words are \"acting against any person.\" Now in this case Mr. Spooner did not act against any person; the opium was not searched for; according to the evidence, it was given up; therefore section 7 would not apply. With regard to a penalty, no severe penalty is pressed for. There is force in the Opium Farmer's contention that the opium was kept from 7:30 until late at night in the possession of the Captain and that so far he did not allege any intention of surrendering it to the police any more than to the Opium Farmer.\n\nI would like to say with regard to section 7, also, that it seems it is not on the same footing with section 2. It is not an absolute prohibition; it is simply for the protection of the subject. If the subject chooses to waive that protection absolutely, I think in this case the non-production of the badge could be excused by the waiver. The chief excise officer has sworn that he was known as such. There is absolute proof of this, because the Captain said, \"you may search.\" The object of the production of proof of authority is for the protection of the subject. Here the proof of authority was formally dispensed with, but I think excise officers should carefully bear in mind this section 7. I shall say no more than that a purely nominal penalty of one cent is imposed.\n\nMr. Webber—That is all we ask for, simply a conviction.\n\nHis Worship—It is a conviction under section 2.\n\nMr. Webber—The opium, of course, will be forfeited to the Opium Farmer.\n\nHis Worship—The opium will be forfeited, but it is discretionary whether I order it to be handed over to the Opium Farmer or not.\n\nMr. Webber—I think it ought to be handed over under the Ordinance.\n\nMr. Francis—It is quite within your Worship's discretion.\n\nHis Worship—I will withhold any order for two or three days. I may say there is not an atom of evidence to show that the Opium Farmer was connected with this opium. The evidence rather points to one of his licensees, and I think as it is meritorious to have discovered it, I shall leave the case open for two or three days to see if anything by way of reward for meritorious services is tendered. Of course, there is no obligation to make it.\n\nMr. Francis—I may mention that the owners of these steamers intend to petition the Government to amend the Ordinance in that respect and to allow the opium seized in this manner to be either destroyed or handed over to the steamer owners to cover their risks and expenses.\n\nHis Worship—Of course, there cannot be any such thing as confiscation of opium unless the case comes before the Magistrate, but the Captain's duty is to hand it over to the first Inspector of Police or excise officer, both having equal power to take possession of it. If he likes, he can at the same time send a memo to the Police Station stating he has done so, if he wants to protect himself.\n\n(21)\n\n2.—Declaration of James Henry Logan.\n\n517\n\nI, JAMES HENRY LOGAN, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Preventive Officer, do solemnly and sincerely declare:\n\n1. That I am employed by the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company, Limited, to prevent the smuggling of Opium and Saltpetre on board any of the said Company's steamers, and I have assistants under me.\n\n2. That on the Twelfth September instant, about 6 o'clock p.m., Pun Kong, one of my said assistants, told me that he expected that some Opium would be put on board the Company's steamer Honam at about 7:30 o'clock that evening. On hearing this, I went on board the Honam at the last-mentioned hour, accompanied by four of my said assistants, to search the steamer. I first searched the forecastle, where I found nothing. I then went to the steam-winch room, which was locked. I looked into the window with a bull's-eye lamp and saw some mat packages lying on the floor, whereupon I went to the Captain and asked him to come down and help me to get the door of the steam-winch opened. He came down with me, and when we arrived at the room, we found that the door had been already opened. I found four mat packages in the room, each containing six tins of Opium, which the Captain, G. B. Lefavour, took charge of and removed to the store-room and had it locked up.\n\nAbout 9:15 o'clock that same evening, Mr. Spooner and some Excise Officers came to the steamer. Mr. Spooner told Mr. Thomas (the Chief Officer) that he had information regarding some Opium being on board and that he knew where the Opium was, at the same time pointing to the store-room. The Chief Officer called the Captain, and Mr. Spooner told him (the Captain) that he was informed that some Opium was on board and that he wanted to search for it. The Captain replied that he could go ahead and search and asked him if he had a warrant with him. Mr. Spooner said that he was an Excise Officer well known to the Captain and that no warrant was necessary. Mr. Spooner then sent for an Inspector of Police. A Sergeant and a European Constable came. The Captain, Sergeant, and Mr. Spooner had some conversation in the saloon, and I heard Mr. Spooner threaten to arrest the Captain, and again Mr. Spooner sent for the Inspector. While he was sending for him, the Captain sent me to Mr. Arnold, the said Company's Secretary, and I told him what had occurred. Mr. Arnold gave me an order that the Opium should not be handed to the Opium Farmer's men but to the Inspector of Police. I went back to the steamer and delivered that message to the Captain. Mr. Spooner and his Excise Officers were still there. I and the Captain waited for some time to see if the Inspector would come, but he did not come. About 11:15 o'clock that same night, the Captain told me to hand the Opium over to Constable Crawford, No. 75, the Constable in charge of the wharf, and I did so.\n\n3. That I am acquainted with Wong Luk, the Chinese Excise Officer, No. 49. He has frequently given me information that Opium was going to be smuggled to Canton and particularly by the steamer Hankow. His information has always been correct. On one occasion, he himself sent a man up to Canton to inform the Customs there that a passenger on board was smuggling Opium. The Opium was seized at Canton, and he received a reward.\n\n4. That Wong Luk has often told me that he has several times been sent by the Head Chinaman of the Opium Farmer with a permit to accompany Opium on board the Canton steamer at night for smuggling into China, and that so soon as the Opium was on board, he has returned with the permit, leaving the Opium on the steamer. His plan is to get the Opium seized either here or at Canton so that he may obtain a portion of the reward.\n\nAnd I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the Provisions of an Act made and passed in the Sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled An Act to...",
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        "content_text": "# Court Proceedings\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—Defendants admit they are sketches of the Lyemoon forts.\n\nMr. Deason—Yes, that is a sketch of the Lyemoon forts. As a matter of fact, these sketches were taken on board the man of war as she came down the harbour. That I admit at once freely. They were not taken on shore, any of them. That one is Lyemoon entering on the left, as you will find.\n\nSergeant McNab was then called and said—I am in charge of Stanley Station.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—Have you seen the defendants before?\n\nWitness—Yes.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—When?\n\nWitness—About 1.15 p.m. on the 15th inst.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—Where?\n\nWitness—At Stanley.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—What were they doing?\n\nWitness—They came passed the station on horseback and rode towards the old military ground and came back again. They asked me if they could sit down and have some chow. I asked them to sit down in the station. They had a coolie with them carrying some food. They sat down in the station for about twenty minutes. The second defendant had a map in his pocket. He asked me to show him the direction on the map to Wongmakok. They asked me if they could go there on horseback. I told them they could not as the road was bad. They then went away along Aberdeen Road.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—That shows a laudable desire for knowledge.\n\nMr. Deason—It shows a laudable desire for horse-back riding.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—Well, it would not be allowed in Vladivostock or Siberia.\n\nMr. Deason—This is not Vladivostock or Siberia; we are enlightened here.\n\nThe case for the prosecution was now completed, and for the defence Mr. Deason said---\n\nWhat I was going to say at the commencement I place before your Worship now. As you see, I in no way question our being there, so if your Worship thinks this is a field work, I'll admit it at once. We were undoubtedly there. The truth about this thing is that these three gentlemen yesterday morning wanted to go for a walk; they wanted to go on shore to stretch their legs, and they took the direction of Kowloon and walked along the new road there towards the docks. Of course, your Worship understands I am making this defence strictly instructed by these three gentlemen, and on their words of honour as Russian officers and gentlemen. I do not intend to call the slightest evidence, and I am going to put the case exactly as it happened, and if your Worship thinks we have offended, then we have offended, and we shall have to pay the penalty, whatever it may be. As I was saying, these gentlemen were walking towards the docks. When they got to the village, they saw a road going towards the hill, and it struck them that they would go up the hill and admire the view, just as many people have done before, and as I have no doubt your Worship has often done, and as I have done, and as no doubt Captain Hastings has done. They did not see any notice at the foot of the hill; they saw no notice there whatever. They went up till they came to the junction of the roads already alluded to, and there they saw a notice just on the left. Seeing that, they went no farther, and they turned back. They took the road to the right, as to which there is no notice. Then they went along till rounding the field, they saw a fort right at the head of them, and of course, they knew they had no right to go there. Still wishing to get a good view of the harbour, they went up on the hill side and, with the aid of opera glasses, looked everywhere all round, as the witness Khan said. One used the glasses; the other two did not. Then they thought they would like to go back and look at the docks, and they went into the roadway where they met the sentinel to whom they gave their names, &c. These sketches are, of course, sketches of Hongkong; we admit that at once. I emphatically say, and say emphatically instructed by these three officers, that the sketches were made on board the Russian ship as she was coming into the harbour on the afternoon of the 10th, just as the `Vladimir Munomach` was coming down the harbour. They were not made on shore, nor is there the slightest evidence to show they were. The witnesses themselves do not speak to any act whatever of sketching, and they did not sketch.\n\nHis Worship—They were there with sketching materials.\n\nMr. Deason—I do not say they were not. Sub-section 5 says—\n\nHis Worship—\"With the intention.\"\n\nMr. Deason—Precisely, with the intention; that is the very thing. Technically, I say there is no evidence proved—certainly there is no intention proved, and not one of the witnesses says that the gentlemen in question were sketching, because they were not sketching, and therefore all they could possibly be charged with was an offence against section 3.\n\nHis Worship—The sketches were in a book, and that they were there for the purpose of sketching is pretty well proved by the fact that they were there with this book which has sketches in it.\n\nMr. Deason—I do not see of necessity that that is the case. Because they have this book in their possession does not prove they were there with the intention of sketching.\n\nHis Worship—Not in itself, but this book has already sketches in it.\n\nMr. Deason—I am showing how sketches were made on their word as officers and gentlemen. They were made as the ship was coming down the harbour. With regard to the book itself, I wish to point out that it is similar to a book which, I am instructed, every Russian officer carries. It is a little memorandum book used for all sorts of things—entering calculations perhaps of their doings, and anything that strikes them, and also for making sketches as stated; but I submit they may on board their own Russian man-of-war and under their own Russian flag make sketches of anything. It cannot surely be alleged that, when on board the Russian Emperor's cruisers, they must not make sketches as they go along.\n\nHis Worship—No.\n\nMr. Deason—I do not raise a technical point in the case. If you think this was a field work, which I very much question, and certainly one of the witnesses said it was not, but I do not take that point. I simply wish to explain how it all happened. Maybe in legal phraseology we were doing wrong, but immediately we saw the fort, we turned back and went no further than to simply get a view. That is the whole story of the thing. I present that statement on behalf of these gentlemen. As Russian officers, they give the Court their word of honour that what I have stated is correct. With these remarks, I leave the case entirely in your hands.\n\nHis Worship—You do not object to both these charges being under the same—\n\nMr. Deason—No, sir, I object to nothing whatever. I have told your Worship the facts, and if you think we ought to be punished, then we will pay, but I have told your Worship the true facts of the case.\n\nHis Worship—I impose a fine of $50 on each of the defendants.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—Can the sketches be handed over to the military authorities?\n\nHis Worship—Yes.\n\nMr. Deason—Can the defendants have the book back after the sketches have been torn out?\n\nHis Worship—The book will be forfeited.\n\nMr. Deason—I presume, sir, these watches and things may be given up now?\n\nHis Worship—Yes; you can arrange that with the police.",
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        "content_text": "## William Brown sworn states\nI am actg. Bombardier in the RA. I am stationed at Stone Cutters Island. On the 2nd inst I was in charge of Stone Cutters Regimental guard at 2:45 pm. I was in the Guard room at that time. Last witness was on the sentry outside. The guard room is at the front of the west battery. Next witness called my attention to two men coming up from the N. Shore. Defendants are the men. When I first saw them they were about two feet from the verandah on the pathway. The path defendants were on leads to the South Shore battery. The path to the west is a few yards off. One defendant was carrying the box in both hands. I asked defendants if they knew that they were not allowed on the land. They said they did not know. I took the defendants away, sending for the Actg. Sergt. Major, Mr. Dennys. Defendants were dressed in dark trousers, white jackets, & Chinese cotton caps. I don't remember seeing anything on the bands on the caps. One was yet blue band, the other was a dark band. I state positively there was a band. I don't know the slang (badge shown witness) stitched on the caps. I did not at any time see the fort from which defendant landed nor the Quarter master. Defendants said they were Officers from the German mail steamer, one said he was the captain & the other that he was the doctor. I saw the box was a photo camera. The doctor was carrying it openly. There is a notice board on the path leading from the beach; there are boards along the beach. The soldiers living on the island have about there a six-oared boat on the beach. I saw no forks by the boat. The Notice board prohibits access to the works. Defendants have to pass that board on the path they came up. They spoke English.\n\n## Alfred Druth sworn states\nI am a Sergeant stationed at Stone Cutters Island on the afternoon of the 2nd inst. At 2:46 pm, I was sent for by last witness who was in No 1 Barrack room European quarters. I went to the Guard room. The barracks are from the Guard room about 40 yards. The path runs down to the beach between the Barracks and the Guard room. In the Guard room, I saw the two defendants. There was a detective camera there, that is the case in box. I sent Gunner... in boat. I did not interfere with it. I sent to the East end of the island for the Police Sergeant. At last, a Policeman came. I could not get him to understand English, so I went to the Police at Kowloon, detaining defendants with Mr. Dennys. Defendants were dressed in black trousers, white jackets & wore peaked caps. The caps had a badge with an Eagle on it. (Badge shown witness). I asked defendants no questions. I detained the defendants till 4 pm when I handed them to the Police Sergeant.\n\nI did not go to the beach. There is no sentry posted on the North side shore. We have a six...\n\nPage 120\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "203\n\nnons there. The Commanding Officer of the Ship might well be informed\n\nsuch a summons had been issued by the Magistrate for an offence com-\n\nmitted on shore by one of his crew, but it seems to me it ought\n\nnot to be served on board nor am I satisfied such service is sufficient\n\nto support a subsequent warrant. On the whole I think the draft letter\n\nas appended in red will suffice. As the German Officer did not send\n\nthe men to attend the summons I presume he only treated the handing\n\nthe summons to him as an intimation such a summons had been issued, and\n\ncould be served if the men were found on shore. But I strongly suspect\n\nthe Police Sergeant supposed he could properly serve the summons on the\n\nmen on board and in future it would be well not to get into this posi-\n\ntion by acting with more deliberation and consulting the Attorney Gene-\n\nral before instead of after the event. I have not inserted any expres-\n\nsion of regret in the letter, because in the first place the Consul's\n\naccount seems inaccurate and in the second there could at least be no\n\nharm in giving a copy of the summons to the Commanding Officer on board\n\nso that he might know it was issued though he had a right to regard it\n\nas invalid on board. It will be well to await the Consul's answer.\n\n20th December, 1895.\n\nSd. W. Meigh Goodman.\n\nAttorney General.",
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        "content_text": "612\n\n## 11. On the 18th March last a competition, in which the two units of the Corps were independently engaged, took place for prizes, offered, in the case of the Field Battery, by Captain J. J. FRANCIS, and, in the case of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, by the Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD. The firing point was on an eminence near Wong-nei-Chong Gap, and the target, in the case of the Field Battery, was on the shore of Deep Water Bay, at a distance of about 1,700 yards and, in the case of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, in a ravine in the same direction, at a distance of about 1,100 yards.\n\nSixteen have resigned. Of the resigning members, eight have left the Colony. Fifty-two new members have been enrolled. The number of the Field Battery is now 107, as compared with an establishment of 80 as fixed by the Regulations of the Corps. On the other hand, the number of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company is only 47, as compared with an establishment of 51 as fixed by the Regulations. It is hoped that during the ensuing season the \"A\" Company may be recruited up to its full strength, and that at least one more Company may be formed. It may be mentioned that the Corps possesses altogether 12 Maxim guns, sufficient for three Companies. It is, I believe, the opinion of competent Officers that machine gun fire will be found of considerable value in repelling a hostile attack on the Colony.\n\n## 3. There have been various changes among the Officers of the Corps during the past season. In October, 1896, Major A. R. PEMBERTON, of the Rifle Brigade, who had been Acting Commandant from the 1st February, 1895, resigned the command on the departure of his regiment from the Colony. The present Commandant was gazetted on the 14th November, 1896. This seems a fitting opportunity for me to express, on behalf of the members of the Corps, their high sense of Major PEMBERTON's very efficient and useful services during the period of his command.\n\n## 4. Surgeon-Captain J. CANTLIE, M.B., has retired, and Supernumerary Surgeon-Lieutenant F. O. STEDMAN, M.D., has been brought on the establishment.\n\n## 5. In the Field Battery, Captain J. MCCALLUM, who is absent on leave, and who, it is believed, is not likely to return to the Colony, was placed on the supernumerary list, and Lieutenant A. CHAPMAN was promoted Captain to command the Battery in his place. Sergeant W. K. WYLI was elected and gazetted to fill the vacancy among the Lieutenants thus created.\n\n## 6. In the \"A\" Machine Gun Company Captain C. M. ADAMSON and Lieutenants E. OSBORNE and A. McP. MARSHALL resigned their commissions, the former on account of absence from the Colony and the latter two because of the pressure of other duties. Colour-Sergeant F. MAITLAND was elected and gazetted Lieutenant in place of Mr. OSBORNE. The other vacancies will shortly be filled.\n\n## DISCIPLINE, TRAINING, AND INSTRUCTION\n\n## 7. The discipline of the Corps has, with a solitary exception, which was dealt with, been good throughout the season.\n\n## 8. The ordinary training and instruction of the Corps does not call for special remark. The usual drills and musketry practices have on the whole been well attended. Under this head the figures for the units severally are as follows:\n| Unit | Done over X drills | Became efficient with less than X drills | Non-efficients | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Field Battery | 72 (over 40) | 9 (less than 40) | 26 | 107 |\n| Machine Gun Company | 16 (over 36) | 7 (less than 36) | 24 | 47 |\n\nOf the 26 non-efficients in the case of the Field Battery, 2 are on the supernumerary list of Officers and are absent from the Colony, 4 are absent on leave, 6 are absent from the Colony without leave, 7 are recruits who have not had sufficient time to complete their drills, 1 has recently returned from leave, 1 is in hospital, and the remaining 5, although in the Colony, have not completed the requisite number of drills.\n\nIn the case of the 24 non-efficients of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, 6 are absent from the Colony on leave, 7 are absent from the Colony without leave, 5 are recruits who have not had sufficient time to complete their drills, and the remaining 6, although in the Colony, have not completed the requisite number of drills.\n\n## 9. In October, 1896, a Camp of Instruction was held under canvas during a period of nine days on Stonecutter's Island. The use of the Naval Range on the Island was at the same time lent by the Commodore in charge at Hongkong, and was largely used by recruits. The Camp was well attended, and the instruction afforded, consisting, besides the ordinary drills, of outpost duties, guards, reconnoitring, and field firing, was much appreciated by all ranks. To the success of the Camp I attribute in great part the activity in recruiting which has existed during the latter part of the season. It is proposed to hold the Camp annually.\n\n## 10. On the 2nd February last a competition took place with `64-pounder` guns at Stonecutters Island. Six detachments engaged in the competition, using plugged shell. The range was 2,175 yards, and the target was moored between the battery and Green Island. Excellent practice was made by the detachments generally, the best results being secured by No. 1 detachment, commanded by Sergeant G. C. HAYWARD. A report on this competition was forwarded to His Excellency the Major-General Commanding on the 24th February last.\n\nThe Field Battery fired by sections, using common and shrapnel shell, and the \"A\" Machine Gun Company by single guns. Some good practice was made by both units. A report on this competition was forwarded to His Excellency the Major-General Commanding on the 15th March last.\n\n## 12. The revolver practice by the Officers and Staff Sergeants, which was instituted during the last season, has been continued during the present season with satisfactory results.\n\n## 13. The question of coolie draught for the guns is in the same position as at the time of the last annual report. In the case of an ordinary march out, which has taken place several times during the season, the members prefer to draw the guns themselves; in fact, they display a strong repugnance to allowing this work to be done by coolies. During the season there have been no operations at a distance from headquarters for which coolie draught could be employed. It must be borne in mind with regard to this question that the finances of the Corps will not admit of coolies being regularly employed and trained for purposes of draught, and further that a sufficient number of coolies used to the drawing of loads can always be obtained when occasion requires. I am, however, informed that coolie draught for the guns has always proved slow and generally unsatisfactory.\n\n## SERVICES\n\n## 14. I have pleasure in bringing to the notice of His Excellency the Major-General Commanding the zealous and efficient services rendered during the season by Captain L. A. C. GORDON, Royal Artillery, the Adjutant of the Corps. Captain GORDON not only shows great interest in his duties but performs them in such a manner as to secure the liking of all ranks. In particular, the Corps is much indebted to him for the skill and pains with which he organized and superintended the carrying out of the several gun competitions held during the season.\n\n## 15. The other Officers of the Corps have in every way set an excellent example to the non-commissioned officers and men serving under them. By their regular attendance at drills, their endeavours to procure recruits, and their devotion to duty generally they show their anxiety to promote the efficiency of the Corps. In short, I may say of them that a Commandant could not wish for better officers.\n\n## 16. Corps Quarter-Master Sergeant WATLING and the Sergeant Instructors have been diligent and painstaking in the performance of their duties.\n\n## 17. The non-commissioned officers and men of the Corps have for the most part attended drills regularly and shown a soldier-like desire to make themselves efficient.\n\n## REGULATIONS\n\n## 18. Soon after I was appointed Commandant I formed the opinion that the Regulations of the Corps stood in need of revision in several respects. On consideration, however, it appeared to be advisable that I should gain some experience of the working of the Corps before undertaking the re-drafting of them. Now that the training season has concluded, I propose to lose no time in framing and submitting for approval a draft set of Regulations. Amongst other matters which will be dealt with in the draft will be the strength of the two units of the Corps, the number of drills qualifying for \"efficiency,\" and the formation and constitution of a Volunteer Reserve.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS\n\n## 19. The annual inspection of the Corps by His Excellency the Major-General Commanding took place on the 8th instant.\n\n## 20. A course of lectures on ambulance work, accompanied with stretcher drills, has recently been held by Surgeon-Lieutenant STEDMAN. Thirteen members joined the class.\n\n## 21. I have to request that the Chief Ordnance Officer, China, may be asked to keep up 30,000 rounds of `Martini-Henry Carbine` ball ammunition and the usual quantities of `7-pounder` and `64-pounder R.M.L.` gun ammunition for the use of the Corps, to be indented for as required on repayment. I have recently addressed a letter to His Excellency the Governor urging the desirability of provision being made for supplying ammunition for practice to the members of the Corps at a cheaper rate than that which now obtains, viz., $4 per 100 rounds.\n\n## 22. A considerable proportion of the `Martini-Henry Carbines` belonging to the Corps are service-worn, and the question of replacing them with new and more efficient weapons will soon have to be considered.\n\n## 23. Requisitions for Capitation Grant for Efficients during the past season have been sent direct to the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer.",
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        "content_text": "24. It is gratifying to me to be able to record an apparent augmentation of interest on the part of the general public in the fortunes of the Corps, and I venture to hope that we shall see the fruit of this interest in the coming training season.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nCorps Number.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEERS CORPS.\n\n\"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY.\n\nNominal Roll of Efficients for the Year ending 16th April, 1897.\n\n13318\n\nREC:\n\nSEGO 21 JUN 97.\n\n613\n\n  \n    Number\n    Rank and Name\n    Corps Number\n    Rank and Name\n  \n  \n    \n    J. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant,\n    174\n    Lieutenant Maitland, F.\n  \n  \n    139\n    Gunner Hornby, T. W.\n    \n    Surgeon-Captain Lowson, J. A.\n  \n  \n    (2 Officers.)\n    11\n    Hooper, J.\n  \n  \n    183\n    Humphreys, II,\n    52\n    Sergeant-Major Endeley, F. J.\n  \n  \n    171\n    Jupp, J. A.\n    11\n    Sergeant Fullerton, G. C.\n  \n  \n    173\n    \n    \n    Corporal Symth, F.\n  \n  \n    169\n    \n    96\n    Crombie, H.\n  \n  \n    170\n    Nicholson, W.\n    \n    Ports, R. H.\n  \n  \n    \n    Plummer, J. A. T.\n    114\n    Rankin, J.\n  \n  \n    218\n    \n    39\n    Reeves, II.\n  \n  \n    122\n    Lammert, G. P.\n    185\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Skelton, A. H.\n    182\n    Gunner Allen, H. E.\n  \n  \n    86\n    \n    \n    Shepherd, E. C.\n  \n  \n    172\n    \n    13\n    Arthur, H.\n  \n  \n    195\n    \n    23\n    Stevens, T. L.\n  \n  \n    137\n    Bowley, F. B. L.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    106\n    \n    146\n    Gillinghan, J.\n  \n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEERS CORPS.\n\nFIELD BATTERY,\n\nNominal Roll of Efficients for the Year ending 16th April, 1897.\n\n  \n    Corps Number\n    Rank and Name\n  \n  \n    \n    J. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n  \n  \n    175\n    Major Carrington, Sir J. W., Commandant.\n  \n  \n    109\n    Gunner Crook, G. T.\n  \n  \n    10\n    Captain Gordon, L. A. C., Royal Artillery, Adjutant.\n  \n  \n    100\n    Craddock, H. E.\n  \n  \n    23\n    Deas, W. M.\n  \n  \n    \n    Quarter-Master Sergeant Watling, G., Corps Quarter-Master Sergeant.\n  \n  \n    158\n    Captain Chapman, A.\n  \n  \n    \n    Lieutenant Machell, W.\n  \n  \n    \n    MacDonald, D.\n  \n  \n    \n    Wylie, W. K.\n  \n  \n    \n    Surgeon-Lieutenant Stedman, F. O.\n  \n  \n    (5 Officers.)\n  \n  \n    200\n    Gilchrist, J.\n  \n  \n    27\n    Gow, W.\n  \n  \n    115\n    Gidley, H.\n  \n  \n    \n    Hart, W.\n  \n  \n    \n    Harman, G. J.\n  \n  \n    31\n    Hopkins, R. G.\n  \n  \n    149\n    \n  \n  \n    186\n    Battery Sergeant-Major Duncan, G. L.\n  \n  \n    11\n    \n  \n  \n    150\n    Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant Coyle, J.\n  \n  \n    9\n    \n  \n  \n    159\n    Sergeant Hayward, G. 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P.\n  \n\nN.B.--Staff of Corps shown with Field Battery.\n\n(22 Non-Commissioned Officers and Men.)\n\n(3 Staff.)\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nFIELD BATTERY.\n\nReport of Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1897.\n\n  \n    Nature of Practice\n    Date on which Practice was carried out\n    Number on Parade\n    Number of Rounds fired\n    General Idea of Practice\n  \n  \n    7-Pr. R.M.L. 200 lbs.\n    17th October, 1896\n    50\n    \n    Practice at Targets anchored, from East Shore, Stonecutters' Island, during Camp of Instruction.\n  \n  \n    64-Pr. R.M.L. 64 cwt.\n    2nd February, 1897\n    74\n    67\n    Practice at Barrel Target, anchored from South Shore, Stonecutters' Island, Chinese New Year.\n  \n  \n    7-Pr. R.M.L. 200 lbs.\n    18th March, 1897\n    70\n    64\n    Practice at fixed Target on land, from Wong-noi-chong Gap.\n  \n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\nEnclosure 4.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\n\"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY.\n\nReport of Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1897.\n\n  \n    Nature of Practice\n    Date on which Practice was carried out\n    Number Present\n    Number of Rounds fired\n    General Idea of Practice\n  \n  \n    0.45\" Maxim M. II. Machine Gun\n    17th October, 1896\n    19\n    1,500\n    Practice at Targets anchored from East Shore, Stonecutters' Island, during Camp of Instruction.\n  \n  \n    Do.\n    2nd February, 1897\n    15\n    1,000\n    Practice at Targets anchored from South Shore, Stonecutters' Island, Chinese New Year.\n  \n  \n    Do.\n    12th March, 1897\n    25\n    953\n    Practice at fixed Targets, on land, from Wong-nei-chong Gap.\n  \n\n(77 Non-Commissioned Officers and Men.)\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.",
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        "content_text": "Quarters at the Central Police Station's Sergeant's room and Sitting \n\nYeung Fat I should mention was Chief. Stanton's favourite detective and was constantly with the Inspector.\n\nI made enquiries regarding Kwai Jan Hoi and by chance found that he left the Colony soon after Sam Man Ki. It was restricted.\n\nAd. mi was con... The man was well known to the Police & he was constantly seen about the Central Police Station in company with Tseng Ut Poy, Interpreter to Inspector Store, Wan Sing, Head District Watchman, Cheng On an ex-policeman and Excise Officer in the Opium Farm and Jang Kam an ex-policeman & Shopkeeper, all made Statements between the 12th & 19th instant with the result that a prosecution for bribery was instituted against Inspector Store.\n\nA copy of the evidence against Inspector Store & Mr Osmund was forwarded to me on the 15th inst. by me.\n\n-25-\n\nInspector Mitchell was arrested and charged with the bribery on the 16th instant and the case was proceeded with at the Police Court on the following day, Sgt. Francis having charge of the prosecution owing to the Crown Solicitor being busily engaged.\n\nPage 25 appears to be properly formatted with paragraphs. However, some sentences are incomplete or contain unclear OCR output. The text has been formatted into paragraphs and minor corrections have been made for spelling and spacing.\n\nPage 26",
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        "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE 11 \n335 \n## Enclosure 2. \n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS. \n#### \"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY, \nNominal Roll of Efficients for the Year ending 16th April, 1898. \n\n| Corps Number | Rank and Name |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | Captain Sanders, E. D. |\n|  | Lieutenant Maitland, F. |\n| 244 | Gunner Danby, J. D. |\n| 235 | Ellis, A. |\n| 31 | Fullerton, G. C. |\n| 96 | Hornby, T. W. |\n| 122 | Hursthouse, H. |\n| 86 | King, W. |\n| 262 | Nicholson, W. |\n| 11 | Northcote, M. S. |\n|  | Potts, R. H. |\n| 15 | Sergeant Crombie, H. |\n| 173 | Lammert, G. P. |\n| +9 | Shepherd, E. C. |\n| 230 |  |\n| 114 | Corporal Rankin, J. |\n| 169 | Bowley, F. B. L. |\n| 137 | Plummer, J. A. T. |\n| 13 | Gillingham, J. R. |\n| 214 | Pumfrett, A. |\n| 185 | Skelton, A. H. |\n| 218 | Reeves, H. |\n| 182 | Allen, H. E. |\n| 233 | Smith, E. J. Grant |\n| 11 | Underwood, J. II. |\n| 234 | Smith, H. Grant |\n| 54 | Gunner Arthur, H. |\n| 246 | Aitken, J. H. E. |\n| 261 | Barrett, E. G. |\n| 162 | Capell, J. R. |\n| 17 | Crawford, L. |\n| 237 | Cumpston, W. H. |\n| 195 | Thomson, O. D. |\n| 217 | Watson, Maxwell |\n| 228 | Wetenball, E, B. |\n| 226 | Chisolm, F. W. |\n| 245 | Smith, A.. Brooke |\n| 229 | Stevens, G. R. |\n| \"1 | Stevens, T. L. |\n\nN.B.-Staff of Corps shown with Field Battery.\n\n(3 Officers.)\n(35 Non-Commissioned Officers and Men)\n\n## Enclosure 3. \n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS. \n#### FIELD BATTERY. \nHONGKONG.\n\n**RES** 10 SEP 38.\n\n### REPORTS ON THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS. \nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.\n\n(From The General Officer Commanding in China and Hongkong to His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, Hongkong.)\n\nHEAD QUARTER Office, HONGKONG, 30th April, 1898.\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to enclose the Commandant's report of the training of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps for the season 1897-98.\n\n2. I made the annual inspection of the Corps on the 14th instant, when the men turned out well and looked healthy and fit for work; with one exception they performed their drill on the uneven parade ground in a satisfactory manner.\n\n3. The 7-pr. Guns, Maxims, Arms, and Equipment appear to be in a serviceable condition. I understand from the Commandant's report that the carbines are old and worn out. I have already communicated with the Colonial Government on this subject and recommended that the Corps be re-armed with either the 303 Lee-Metford Carbine or the Martini-Enfield Carbine.\n\n4. I observe, with great pleasure, that Gun Practice with the Field Battery and Maxim Guns has taken place far more frequently than in any former drill season, that the members of both units take great interest in these practices and are shooting better; which is after all the main object of Volunteer training.\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\n### Report on Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1898.\n\n5. The annual camp of instruction at Stonecutters Island was again well attended in October, and the Commandant's report shows that the practical duties of Outpost, Reconnoitring, Field Firing, etc., practised there have borne good results, in addition to which the nine days outing is greatly appreciated by all ranks and doubtless helps recruiting and engenders a soldierly spirit.\n\n6. Several men were absent from the General Inspection Parade.\n\n7. I recognize the zeal and energy of Major Sir J. W. CARRINGTON, and am glad to find that he is so well supported by the Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers under his command in all that concerns the welfare of the Corps; in fact, the smallness of numbers is the main fault that can be urged against the Hongkong Volunteers,--a shortcoming which, I trust, all ranks will do their best to remedy.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour obedient Servant,\nW. BLACK, Major-General\n\n| Date | Nature of Practice | Number Present on Parade | Number of Rounds fired | Range | General Idea of Practice |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 16th Oct., 1897 | 7-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 200 lbs. | 91 | ... | 800 and 1,400 Yards | Practice at an imaginary enemy landing in sampans, from East Shore, Stonecutters' Island, during Camp of Instruction. |\n| 1st Jun., 1898 | 7-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 200 lbs. | 50 | 33 | 1,150 | To repel an enemy landing on beach at Repulse Bay. |\n| 22nd Jan, 1898 | 64-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 64 cwt. | 86 | 76 | 2,100 | To repel ships attempting to enter Harbour, from South Shore of Stonecutters' Island, (Chinese New Year). |\n| 5th March, 1898 | 7-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 200 lbs. | 52 | 27 | 1,500 | To repel an enemy attempting to land in boats, from road in front of Murray Point Battery, |\n| 16th April, 1898 | 7-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 200 lbs. | 69 | 13 | 1,150 and 1,350 | To repel and drive back to boats an enemy attempting to land at Repulse Bay. |\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS. TRAINING 1897-98.\n\nFrom the Commandant, Hongkong Volunteers Corps, to the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (A) and Chief Staff Officer, China.\n\n#### Nominal Roll of Efficients. \n#### Field Battery.\n\nVOLUNTEER HEAD QUARTERS, HONGKONG, 18th April, 1898.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to forward herewith the documents mentioned in the margin relating to the training of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps for the season 1897-98 for the information of His Excellency the General Officer Commanding and for favour of transmission to His Excellency the Governor.\n\nReport on Gun Practice, Field Battery.\nReport on Gun Practice, \"A\" Machine Gun Company.\nMusketry Return, Field Battery.\nMusketry Return, \"A\" Machine Gun Company.\nReturn of Revolver Practice of Officers.\n\n### ESTABLISHMENT.\n\n2. A comparison of Enclosure No. 9 with the corresponding document for the training of 1896-97 shows that the total strength of the Corps is now 176, of all ranks as against 159 of all ranks at the former date. This is the greatest strength to which the Corps has yet attained since its re-organization in 1893.\n\nCopy of Inspection State.\nState of Corps, 16th April, 1898.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 4\n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS\n#### \"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY\n**Report on Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1893**\n\n| Date on which Practice was carried out | Nature of Practice | Number Present on Parade | Number of Rounds fired | Range | General Result of Practice |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 16th Oct., 1897 | 0.45\" Maxim M.II. Chamber, Machine Gun | 36 | 1,966 | 800 to 1,400 Yards |  |\n| 27th Nov., 1897 | Do. | 28 | 1,427 | 500 |  |\n| 1st Jan, 1898 | Do. | 20 | 1,614 | 800 to 1,050 |  |\n| 22nd Jan, 1898 | Do | 27 | 4,000 | 800 to 1,050 |  |\n| 5th Mar., 1898 | Do. | 23 | 1,000 | 1,300 |  |\n| 12th Mar., 1898 | Do. | 33 | 2,050 | 700 to 1,000 |  |\n\n## Enclosure 5\n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS\n#### FIELD BATTERY\nPractice at an imaginary enemy landing in sampans, from East Shore, Stone-cutters' Island, during Camp of Instruction.\n- To repel a body of men who had under cover advanced to within 500 yards, on Police Range, Kowloon.\n- An enemy having landed, to stop and drive them back to their boats, at Repulse Bay.\n- To repel an enemy attempting to land in boats, from road in front of North Point Battery.\n- To drive back 4 parties of an enemy, who had effected a landing, to their boats, at Repulse Bay.\n\n## Enclosure 9\n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS\n#### Staff\n**State of Corps, 16th April, 1898**\n\n#### Field Battery\n#### Machine Gun Companies\n\n|  | Present | Absent on leave | Absent without leave | Total | Wanting to complete Establishment | Supernumerary |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Commandant | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  |\n| Adjutant | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  |\n| Med. Officers | 2 |  |  | 2 |  |  |\n| Q.-Mr. Sergeant | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  |\n\n### Musketry Return, showing Percentage and Classification for the Year ending 16th April, 1898\n\n|  | Number Firing | Points obtained | Percentage | 1st Class | 2nd Class | 3rd Class | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Recruits Course | 48 | 1,245 | 46.31 | 25 | 9 | 14 |  |\n| Trained Soldiers' Course | 88 | 2,966 | 40.12 | 35 | 24 | 29 |  |\n| Total | 136 | 4,211 |  | 60 | 33 | 43 | *This includes a few Recruits who also fired Trained Soldiers' Course. |\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\n|  | Captains | Lieutenants | Sergeants | Corporals | Gunners | Total | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Field Battery |  | 3 | 4 | 14 | 37 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 104 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 120 |  |\n| Machine Gun Companies | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 83 | 102 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 238 |  |\n| Total | 3 | 7 | 11 | 28 | 151 | 176 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 200 |  |\n|  | 4 | 11 | 17 | 40 | 176 | 238 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | DECREASE | INCREASE |\n|  | 1 |  |  |  | 1 | 1 | 1 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |\n\n* This Total does not include-- \n  - 8 unenrolled Boy Signallers.\n  - 1 unenrolled Boy Trumpeter.\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.",
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        "content_text": "༠༠༠༡༦.\n\nin\n\nTAI PO HU.\n\n685\n\nYour Excellency.\n\nI scribbled a short pencil note to you immediately after I had hoisted the flag. The ceremony passed off very successfully considering how rapidly all arrangements had to be made. Salutes were fired from the shore and afloat by H.M.S. \"Brisk\" and H.M.S. \"Fame\" which were dressed. I have arranged that the British ensign is to be hoisted every day at sunrise and lowered at sunset. The troops here and the Fellows are in good health and excellent spirits. Mr. May is staying on board the 'Wingfu' with me as are also two European members of the Police Force - a Sergeant and Constable and Mr. Pooi and my Chinese writer. I propose to keep the \"Wingfu' here until our tents on shore have been erected. It is anticipated that they will be in position to-morrow. I also propose to keep the \"Praya\" here for the present and to retain Mr. Mudie at Taipo so that he may superintend the construction of a bamboo jetty which is essential in order to facilitate landing arrangements. The Director of Public Works should know this. The General Officer Commanding is remaining behind and we will together consult a plan of travelling throughout the territory without delay. So far as I can gather the G.O.C. wishes the troops to rest to-morrow, but I will report later on what is decided. It is impossible to ascertain whether there were any casualties last night. There are many rumours, but without\n\n30",
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        "content_text": "557\n\nEnclosure No. 2.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\n\"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY.\n\nNominal Roll of Officers for the Year ending 16th April, 1899.\n\nEnclosure No. 4.\n\n  \n    Corps Number.\n    Rank and Name.\n    Corps Number.\n    Rank and Name.\n  \n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\n\"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY.\n\nReport on Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1899.\n\n  \n    Number.\n    Date on which Practice carried out.\n    Nature of Practice.\n    Number Present on Parade.\n    Number of Guns.\n    Number of Rounds fired.\n    Range.\n    General Idea of Practice.\n  \n  \n    295\n    17th Sept., 1898.\n    0.45\" Maxim M.G.\n    Captain Sanders, E. D., A...\n    Machine Guns,\n    567\n    500 Yds.\n    To repel a body of men who had under cover advanced to within 500 yards on Police Range, Kowloon.\n  \n  \n    298\n    \n    \n    Lieutenant Maitland, F.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    202\n    11\n    \n    (3 Officers.)\n    3.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    294\n    8th Oct., 1898.\n    \n    Acting Coy. Sergt.-Major Crombie, II.\n    2\n    490\n    500 Yds.\n    \n  \n  \n    227\n    \n    \n    Sergeant Smyth, F.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    297\n    29th Oct., 1898.\n    \n    Skeltou, A. H.\n    5\n    2,980\n    \n    Practice at an imaginary enemy landing in sampans from East Shore, Stone-cutters' Island, during Camp of Instruction.\n  \n  \n    314\n    \n    \n    Acting Sergeant Underwood, J. II.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    169\n    \n    \n    Corporal Jupp, J. A.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    218\n    \n    \n    Acting Corporal Northcote, M. S.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    233\n    \n    \n    Gumer Alderton, P.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    309\n    2nd Jan., 1899.\n    \n    Touzalin, A. R.\n    2\n    1,260\n    \n    750 to 1,200 Yds. Practice at Barrel Targets with flags floating off Sandy Bay.\n  \n  \n    296\n    10th Feb., 1899.\n    \n    Tarrant, J. A.\n    \n    1,680\n    \n    Practice at Screens and Head and Shoulder Targets representing enemy advancing in column and in extended order at Repulse Bay.\n  \n  \n    281\n    \n    \n    Watson, Max.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (40 Non-Commissioned Officers and Men.)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nR. B. MAINWARING, Colonel, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\nEnclosure No. 3.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nFIELD BATTERY.\n\nReport on Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1899.\n\nEnclosure No. 5.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nRevolver Practice Return Showing Percentage, for the Year ending 16th April, 1899.\n\n  \n    Date on which Practice was carried out.\n    Nature of Practice.\n    Number Present on Parade.\n    Number of Rounds Fired.\n    Range.\n    General Idea of Practice.\n  \n  \n    29th Oct., 1898.\n    7-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 200 lbs.\n    71\n    42\n    750 to 1,000 Yds.\n    Practice at an imaginary enemy landing in sampans, from East Shore Stonecutters' Island, during Camp of Instruction.\n  \n  \n    10th Feb., 1899.\n    \n    $2\n    62\n    1,100 to 1,850 Yds.\n    Practice on Screens representing an enemy advancing in column, and in extended order at Repulse Bay.\n  \n\n  \n    Unit.\n    Number Firing.\n    Number of Points obtained.\n    Percentage.\n  \n  \n    Staff,\n    157\n    81.77\n    \n  \n  \n    Field Battery,\n    6\n    238\n    82.64\n  \n  \n    A Machine Gun Company,\n    3\n    118\n    81.94\n  \n  \n    Total,\n    13\n    413\n    82.21\n  \n\nR. B. MAINWARING, Colonel, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\nRemarks.\n\nR. B. MAINWARING, Colonel, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.",
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        "content_text": "A question of some degree of importance was raised at the Magistracy this morning. Two shopkeepers from Wing On Street were charged by Detective-Sergeant M'Iver, before Mr H. E. Wodehouse, with acting as marine dealers without having the requisite license. The accused were defended by Mr H. L. Dennys. The prosecution was brought under Ordinance 9 of 1875, Section 3, and Mr Dennys contended that the literal wording of the Ordinance could not be followed, but that regard must be had to the Schedule, which showed that the Ordinance was not intended to apply to every person who bought and sold anchors, cables, sails, etc. He maintained that the provisions of the Ordinance were meant to affect only those dealers who bought these articles on their own premises from anybody who offered them, as the book the shopkeepers were required to keep necessitated an entry of the name of the seller of the articles. His clients did not buy goods in that way. They had been carrying on this business over ten years without being disturbed by the police. The authorities might as well require Messrs Lane, Crawford and Co. and every shipchandler in the Colony to take out licenses to carry on business, and if a literal definition were taken of the Ordinance, there were only five licensed marine store dealers in Hong Kong. In each case, Mr Wodehouse imposed a fine of $50.\n\nPage 366",
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        "content_text": "J. Police Department\n\n34. Light\n\nAppointment.\n\nPresent Increments Remarks\n\nSalary.\n\n  \n    \n    excenter Roposed Triennial Remarks.\n  \n  \n    I. Medical Department\n    8\n  \n  \n    Salary for\n    \n  \n  \n    If dollar officer salary increments\n    Z\n  \n  \n    touropean Rotationer\n    480-600 500 yearly. Quarters.\n  \n  \n    63–78.\n    \n  \n  \n    Wardmasters\n    866-1074 6.\n  \n  \n    1020\n    \n  \n  \n    Mation Venereal Ward.\n    Wardmaster Lun. Asylum.\n  \n  \n    960.\n    677\n  \n  \n    These salaries to inty\n    \n  \n  \n    Quarters dude all allowances\n    do.\n  \n  \n    for rations, lighti\n    fisel.\n  \n  \n    & fuck all da\n    * 115 - 138\n  \n  \n    $84, Jual allowance + 8 spolights\n    65-90\n  \n  \n    112A-150\n    114-157\n  \n  \n    15\n    \n  \n  \n    18.\n    2o inolude light\n  \n  \n    Quartero\n    do.\n  \n  \n    da\n    do.\n  \n  \n    +48.78.\n    Jubah.\n  \n  \n    2 blues Suspectors.\n    2016\n  \n  \n    Quarter.\n    260.\n  \n  \n    280-340.\n    30.\n  \n  \n    Quarters\n    7 pot plass\n  \n  \n    Jo.\n    1832\n  \n  \n    Lo.\n    210.\n  \n  \n    26-2440.\n    24.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    3 and Glass\n  \n  \n    Dog.\n    1320\n  \n  \n    de.\n    170.\n  \n  \n    180.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    4,3rd Class Do.\n    1152\n  \n  \n    do.\n    150\n  \n  \n    168.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    1 Arungurer Sergeant.\n    1,800\n  \n  \n    do.\n    233\n  \n  \n    216-2460.\n    24.\n  \n  \n    dv.\n    24 Sergeants\n  \n  \n    864\n    ds.\n  \n  \n    144-156 6\n    Biennally\n  \n  \n    do.\n    26 Lance Sergeants.\n  \n  \n    762.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    98\n    118-130 6\n  \n  \n    30.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    Of Constables.\n    720.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    92.\n  \n  \n    1100-112.\n    \n  \n\nK. Sub Dept. Fire Brigade.\n\n  \n    Asst Engineer\n    1796\n  \n  \n    Lo.\n    168.\n  \n  \n    170.\n    do\n  \n  \n    100-148 159-199.\n    160-2009\n  \n  \n    La Lub. Dept Gaol.\n    \n  \n  \n    Oluef Warder\n    1680-1970 48 Annually considerac\n  \n  \n    732-254 220-268 2.\n    Bien\n  \n  \n    3 Principal Warders.\n    900-1200\n  \n  \n    do.\n    25 Warders.\n  \n  \n    840-1080\n    do.\n  \n  \n    by Jalari 177-157.\n    156-180\n  \n  \n    Committee 110\n    6\n  \n  \n    Deg.\n    6 Ammurally\n  \n  \n    Clerk & Store Keeper.\n    1200-1500 50 Biennalle\n  \n  \n    2. Prieneally Dr.\n    do.\n  \n\nM. Sanitary Department.\n\n  \n    \n    280-320\n  \n  \n    20\n    5- Senior\n  \n  \n    190.\n    Spot Class do.\n  \n  \n    72nd\n    do.\n  \n  \n    6-3rd\n    J.D.\n  \n  \n    1800-2040 1204\n    1440-1560\n  \n  \n    |1080-1370\n    900-1900\n  \n  \n    100. do.\n    Tee\n  \n  \n    bluef Inspector of Nuisances\n    1800 24000 120. yearly.\n  \n  \n    338-317\n    738-270 330-270 dy.\n  \n  \n    House allowance.\n    to continue but to\n  \n  \n    be non pend\n    10 Biommidly Biomill\n  \n  \n    120-180 10.\n    yearly\n  \n  \n    borg early boisdeed\n    190-206 190-220 10.\n  \n  \n    by Saldais\n    142-176 Commit-116-159\n  \n  \n    Senior Suspector of Depôts\n    1800-2010 170 Priemniacy\n  \n  \n    1st Class\n    1440-1560 bo year\n  \n  \n    Inspector of Markets\n    1080-1320\n  \n  \n    180.\n    338-260 330-270 20 Promnally\n  \n  \n    190-206\n    190-270 10 Premiiller\n  \n  \n    142-176\n    120-180 10.\n  \n  \n    10 yearly.\n    \n  \n\n\"Roundered by the Caries Committee.\n\n阶",
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        "content_text": "# \n## IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.\n\n### BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR HENRY S. BERKELEY (ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE),\n\n#### TRIAL OF LUI CHUI alias LI KWAI SAU CHARGED WITH MURDER.\n\nThe trial was continued of Lui Chui alias Li Kwai Sau who was charged with the murder of a Reformer schoolmaster at 52, Gage Street on 10th January, 1901.\n\nMr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., Acting Attorney General (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor), conducted the prosecution; and Mr. T. Morgan Phillips, barrister-at-law, was for the defence.\n\nA Choe, examined by Mr. Sharp, said he was employed at present as a cook on board the `Zafiro`. He knew the prisoner, who was nicknamed \"Sow (jutting teeth)\" by reason of the peculiar formation of his teeth. Witness's brother Chan Lam Tsai was a member of the gang, and was executed because two letters were found in his possession by Li Ka Chuk. Witness had seen and read the letters, which did not relate to the murder directly, simply asking his brother to come down to Hongkong from Canton, as the Government of Hongkong wanted him. One of the letters was sent by Mui (the Chinese for Mr. May, then Captain Superintendent of Police).\n\nCross-examined - Before the death of Kuo Wau, prisoner was unknown to him. Prisoner was not present at the bone of witness's brother and at Li Ka Chuk's barracks in Canton. It was Li Ka Chuk who instructed his brother to carry out the murder. He first saw prisoner at the barracks after the death of Yeung Kue Wan. Witness's brother said in the barracks that the prisoner ran away when he heard shots.\n\nRe-examined - He did not see the ordering or payment of the $2,000 to the prisoner; the orders for the payment of $2,000 each to his brother and Tong Chung.\n\nKong Ngan Ying, a fishmonger from Yanwati, deposed that he first met the prisoner January, 1901, at West Point with Lam Tsai and others. There they went into a teahouse. He knew Lam Tsai. Afterwards he saw that two of the others along with the prisoner were Tung Chung and Tsai Fak. He saw prisoner again on 10th January at West Point in the Street; along with him were Chan Lam Tsai, Tung Chung, and Tsui Fak. They went to an eating-house. After that they went to the house of Ng Lo Sam, whom he had known between ten and twenty years. Li Chi Tin, secretary to Li Ka Chuk, was there; also named Yeung Ching Kai, captain of the braves. Li Chi Tin asked him whether he \"wished to go or not.\" Witness asked \"Go where?\" Li Chi Tin replied \"To go to shoot Yeung Kue Wan.\" Witness said he was not going. Prisoner and the others were all present. Li Chi Tin then said \"Why don't you go? There is a reward of between $10,000 and $200; we, we can be the trevious night, will get an appointment as a mandarin\"; \n\nThe others agreed to go, namely, the prisoner first and did the actual shooting. Tung Chung, Lam Tsai, Tsui Fuk, and Tung Cheung did not go to Hongkong. On the afternoon of 10th January, he saw the gang again, four of them stood in front of Young Kue Wan's house. The prisoner walked ahead of Lam Tsai and the others. Three of the gang received the greater part of the money reward; these were the prisoner, who got $2,000; Lam Tsai $2,000; and Tung Chung $2,100. They also got buttons of the fifth rank, along with the diplomas of rank, one in the possession of his elder brother Lam Tsai and one in the possession of Tung Chung.\n\nChan Wan, fisherman, Yanwati, said he had known the prisoner for several years. He met him on the marriage boat on or about 1st November, 1900. Prisoner asked him to go on shore with him to drink tea and smoke opium in the opium divan. Prisoner said Young Kue Wan was a rebel and the Chinese Government had offered a reward of between $10,000 and $20,000 for his capture; would witness assist him? Witness refused, saying he had not the courage. Prisoner said he did not need to be afraid, as he would get a reward and the Chinese Government would protect him. The reward was to come from Li Ka Chuk. Prisoner said Yeung Kue Wan resided in Hongkong.\n\nWong Shing, fisherman, stated that before the murder he met the prisoner, who asked people to assist him in shooting Kong Kua (Yeung Kue Wan). He refused. Prisoner then asked for the use of witness's boat for the purpose of kidnapping the deceased. Witness refused; his partner A Sum promised. At that time it was mentioned that there would be a reward of $35,000 if Young Kue Wan was killed and $10,000 if he was captured alive, the reward to come from Li Ka Chuk of the Chinese Government.\n\nSergeant E. O'Sullivan stated that he made the arrest acting on the information of Wong Ta Fak. He did not know how Wong Shing came to be in communication with the police. When the prisoner was put in Victoria Gaol he had seen none of the witnesses but Wong Shing. Some days later prisoner was paraded among 13 others for identification and was identified by Kong Ngau Ying. Some time later there was another identification. The witnesses Chan Wau and Tam Chung identified him separately; Chan Chung also identified him.\n\nThe hearing was adjourned at this point.\n\n### CONTINUATION OF TRIAL.\n\nAt a few minutes before seven, Mr. Whyte concluded the evidence of A Choe, and the Court was accordingly adjourned until this morning, and the jury were removed to the Hotel d'Europe.\n\n## THE GAGE STREET MURDER TRIAL SENTENCE.\n\nThe jury retired to consider their verdict at 4:50, returning to the Court at 5 o'clock; and the Foreman announced that the jury unanimously found the prisoner guilty.\n\nHis Lordship directed the prisoner to be asked if he had anything to urge why sentence should not be passed upon him? The Prisoner replied that he did not do it; he had nothing more to say.\n\nMay 23, 1903. His Lordship addressing the prisoner said he had been found guilty of the murder of Yeung Kue Wan. When he said that he did not commit the murder, he meant that it was not his hand that this man met his death, but that he was one of a gang of four men who went to his house for the purpose of killing him and did kill him. The evidence was that the prisoner with Chan Lam Tsai and two others went to deceased's house, that he remained with another man outside to watch, that Lam Tsai and another man went into the house, and that Lam Tsai shot the deceased.\n\nThe sentence of the Court therefore was that he be taken from hence to the place from whence he came and from thence on a day to be fixed to the place of execution, and that there he be hanged by the neck until he be dead, and that thereafter his body be buried in such a place as the Governor may direct, and may the Lord have mercy on his soul.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General in addressing the jury said his friend on the other side had asked every witness why he did not tell the police of the plot to murder Yeung Kue Wan, and each one had answered that he was afraid of the Chinese Government. And were they not safe under the protection of the Hongkong police? he asked. This case was an answer in itself. Yeung Kue Wan was not safe under the protection of the Hongkong police. It was questionable whether even now the lives of the witnesses who had given evidence were safe: it was a matter which it was better perhaps not to go into.\n\nThe Court adjourned.\n\n## CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\nAt Pingto over 150 people were recently burned to death while worshipping in a temple. In burning incense and large quantities of paper, the staircase of the building was set alight, thus preventing all escape. Some jumped out of the windows but were crushed to death. The victims were burned beyond recognition. Others would have jumped but the rush was so great that they could not get out. Most of the victims were burned beyond recognition.",
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        "content_text": "## NOTES.\n\nC. I must confess I am surprised at this expression of opinion. Except for the instruction given at Quarterly Inspection the surprise visit is the more valuable of the two and is essential to all discipline. I call to mind a case of a European Sergeant whom no one suspected of drinking being found drunk in bed on a surprise visit.\n\nD. With three Superintendents at the Central there should be no difficulty. With 2 only I admit it is impossible. Without such instruction the men who are not recruits at the Central of all nationalities are less instructed than at out-stations. As for opportunity the men on parade might be put through a course of questions instead of drilling them.\n\nE. My attention was drawn to the matter by the case of a man named Maclean recommended for dismissal the other day who had 5 drunks against him as well as I remember. In 1900 I was not in charge during 8 months. But as well as I remember 2 or 4 men ran up a score of drunks early in that year and were all dismissed. Hence probably the low figure for 1901.\n\nF. One was a Constable who met the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police and myself on the verandah at the head of the stairs. He would apparently have passed, he was I admit in a hurry, without taking any notice. He then made a sort of tug at his helmet by way of salute and went on.\n\nThe other was a Constable who stood with both hands on his hips while an Inspector passed him.\n\nG. I cannot see much wrong with the uniform. The winter kit is smarter than that of any Police Force I know at home. The full dress helmet is a smart head dress. The hat they wear on duty was introduced for work in the sun. It might be reserved for Territory and rural work and the helmet worn in Victoria and Kowloon.",
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        "content_text": "# Extract from Hongkong Daily Press of 23rd November 1907\n\nOur own 80 placed before the Viceroy, but it is due to him to say that when they were presented to him he acquiesced with a readiness that did him honour. And in considering the custom that seems to us so inhumanly cruel and fraught with injustice, we ought not to forget that hardly a century has passed since cruelties as terrible were possible under laws, until at length our eyes were opened to the injustice and uselessness of the barbarous practices. (Applause). I wish that I could accept the assumption that the Improvement Trust has actually been founded. The scheme has gone home for the consideration of the Secretary of State, with my strong advice that it shall be adopted. (Applause). But great as is the importance of the structural improvement of Hongkong, there is a matter of greater and more pressing moment that I wish to bring forcibly before you in these last moments before I leave your shores. That is the pressing necessity of utilising the British concession that has been granted for a railway from Canton to the borders of our territory. (Applause). That concession has been granted to a British syndicate, and it is their duty to utilise it and supply the natural seaport terminus to the great arterial line in Hankow, lest possible developments be inimical to the interests of Hongkong (hear, hear). We have not built up our Empire by being laggards in the race for developments necessary for the expansion of the trade of the world, and letting \"I dare not\" wait upon \"I will\" has never conquered a position nor retained it for either men or nations.\n\nAnd now, ladies and gentlemen, I will touch upon a statement that has been reiterated many times during the term of my administration. That is that I am too pro-Chinese in my views. Well, I hardly know how to answer this. If it means that I have favoured the Chinese members of the community at the expense of the Europeans, I deny it most strenuously (applause), and this beautiful address in which Chinese and non-Chinese have joined supports my denial. What is the duty of the British Government, and what is the duty of His Majesty's representative in Crown Colonies, whose prosperity depends upon the common action of the best men among its population? Not to destroy social distinctions, nor to decrease the respect and consideration that ought to be the reward of the educated, the upright, the honest and successful man of every race, but to give equal protection to all, and to bring home the feeling that under the British flag, justice is pure and unpurchasable, and every man through all the grades, from the highest to the poorest coolie whom we meet with dull eye and patient industry toiling up from the sea to the Peak with his loads of sand or bricks, is free to think what he likes, to speak what he thinks without let or hindrance so long as he obeys the laws that have been made for securing the protection and comfort of the whole community. (Applause). This is the estimate that I have formed of my duty, and I have endeavoured to carry it out with a keen and abiding sense of my responsibility to my King, to this community, and to my own conscience. (Applause).\n\nAnd now that I am about to hand over the reins of government to my friend the Colonial Secretary, for whose industry, ability, and honesty of purpose I would gladly vouch were it necessary in a community to whom he is so long and so intimately known (Applause), I and my wife bid you good-bye with heartfelt wishes for your happiness and prosperity individually and collectively, and our earnest prayer that the dark cloud of plague that has hung over the Colony for ten long years may be dissipated by the efforts of the devoted workers engaged in combating its ravages, and that the great port of Hongkong may once more become as healthy as it is beautiful. Good-bye! (Loud applause). I will only add, ladies and gentlemen, that I wish I had seen the sun on the last day of my stay in Hongkong as Governor, but the sorrow and regret with which we leave it on so wet a day has its solace, and that is, that my friend, Mr. May, will enter upon his administration under the beneficent influence of a rainy day which will improve the vegetation, and I hope, replenish the reservoirs and providently save this Colony from the dangers, the difficulties and the troubles of a water famine like last year. (Loud and continued applause).\n\n## THE DISTRICT WATCHMEN\n\nThe company then dispersed, and proceeding to the entrance of the City Hall, H.E. addressed a body of the District Watchmen, some 80 strong, his remarks being interpreted in Chinese by Mr. Ho Fook.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY said--District Watchmen, I determined to say a word of commendation to you before I left the Colony. I think it most creditable to the Chinese community of the Colony that, outside the regular police force, they have, by voluntary contributions, raised a special force of district watchmen for the purpose of assisting in the work of the police. I hear that you are over 80 strong at the present moment, and from the Registrar-General, who is one of the committee, I learn most excellent accounts of the manner in which you have done your work. Some of you have been highly commended, and during the past year several have received rewards. It is a useful thing to have a body of men like you, and probably in the course of time, some of you will be ready to go on from this District Watchmen Force into the regular Chinese police force of the Colony. I am very glad to have the opportunity of seeing you here to-day and saying \"good-bye\" to you. One last word. If you continue to do your duty faithfully, you may be always sure of that consideration and respect from your Chinese friends in the Colony and from the European residents that make life very pleasant to every man. I now say \"good-bye\" to you, and I hope that, in the future, you will continue to be worthy of the high commendation that I have heard of you from the gentlemen of the committee and from the Registrar-General to-day.\n\n## THE FAREWELL\n\nFrom the City Hall, His Excellency, Lady Blake, and Sir John Keane proceeded, in chairs under an escort of eight Indian constables in charge of Sergeant Abley, to Blake Pier, where a guard of honour of the Sherwood Foresters was drawn up and the band of the same regiment. Thousands of people flocked to the vicinity of the Pier to bid farewell to the Governor, and the Pier itself was crowded by very many prominent people in the Colony. The Governor's party, including Hon. F. H. May and Mrs. May, then boarded the launch `Victoria` (which flew the Hongkong flag and the Blue Ensign), and the farewell words having been spoken, they set off for the `Malta` amid rousing cheers from the crowd, the boom of cannon from the `Tamar`, the noise of numberless crackers (the figure was stated to be ten millions) let off on shore and on the craft in the Harbour, and the strains of \"Auld Lang Syne\" from the band. About a score of launches accompanied the Governor to the `Malta`. Upon landing at the gangway, the party were received by Captain Daniel, the commander. Many hundreds came aboard to shake hands for the last time with Sir Henry, and it was not until the last minute that the visitors took their leave. As the launches sailed away, they each circled round the liner and the passengers gave cheers for Sir Henry and Lady Blake, who stood upon the hurricane-deck. As the `Malta` started on her journey, another salute was fired from the `Tamar`.",
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        "content_text": "Hongkong, 24th March, 1904.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that while Sir Frederick Treves, Sergeant Surgeon to His Majesty the King, was recently my guest here, the subject of the quality of the alcoholic liquor purveyed in the local public houses came under discussion between us.\n\n2. Sir Frederick expressed the opinion that, judging by remarks made to him by Doctors serving on board His Majesty's Ships on this Station and by some Military Doctors, he was inclined to question the soundness of the alcoholic liquor consumed by Soldiers and Sailors on shore at the public houses which they frequent.\n\n3. Thereupon I placed in Sir Frederick Treves' hands a copy of the Report of the Commission which enquired into this question in 1898, a copy of which is now enclosed for facility of reference.\n\n4. The action taken on the Report has been, as indicated in Sir Henry Blake's Despatch No.15 of 20th January, 1899, to subject the alcoholic liquors sold in licensed premises to more frequent analysis. The results have been the same as detailed in the evidence given by the Government Analyst before the Commission. In no case has the presence...\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.\n\nPage 363\n\nlo./28 Hongkong. Goverment House, C.O. 14668 421 25 4 04\n\n62915 All 26/3- Seme 22m3 14.\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "232\n\nthe way to knock me down, and the other, how to be a gentleman. He then stated it was his intention to put me on the upper deck with a broom in my hand. This I informed him was impossible.\n\nAt 10 a.m. on this date a sergeant of police from ... came on board a gun boat ...\n\nthe Marine Magistrate's Court brought ... addressed to A. Bray, Carpenter, to appear at the time ... Marine Court on Monday the 29th inst. to answer a charge of being absent from the ship without leave on the 24th., 25th., and 26th., instant.\n\nFollowing ... I was here ... in consequence ...\n\nA. Murray is not a seaman, but is the name of the Deck Storekeeper, also on board. On 24th. the ship was in quarantine, no person being allowed on shore.\n\nAt 11 a.m. on this day, Saturday 27th., Mr R. Peek, Carpenter, and Mr V. Blow, Torpedo Gunner of H.M.S \"Ocean\" came on board to see me, remaining on board till ... copy of the Boatswain of the ... and myself ... until 10 p.m. At dinner that evening those officers were witnesses to a dirty quarrel between the Captain and the Chief Cook, remarking at the time that they believed they would never be in a ship where there was such an utter lack of discipline.\n\nOn Monday the 29th instant, I left the ship at 10 a.m. in order to attend Marine Court in answer to the ... calling on ... the office of Messrs Deacon, Looker and Deacon, Solicitors, to ask that firm to watch the case on my behalf, knowing that the Chief Officer would resort to anything to make his case good. Mr Stevenson of that firm accompanied me to the Court and on arrival there waited for a remand until the following morning, which was granted. The Captain on this occasion was unrepresented and brought no witnesses.\n\nOn ...",
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        "content_text": "# \n14 \n\nOn Saturday, October 21st, the members of all Units took part in a small Field Day in the New Territory; they showed a keen interest in the proceedings and I think were enabled to acquire some knowledge of taking cover, fire control, &c., &c. \n\nThe Hongkong Volunteer Troop also took part on this occasion and gained experience in embarking and disembarking their ponies. It is now proposed to add more of this form of exercise to the drill season. \n\nHongkong Volunteer Engineers.-The Engineer Company attended the Camp better than in any previous year and were put through a very thorough course by the R.E. Mechanists; they also undertook the lighting of the whole Camp by electricity with great success. \n\n## Gun Practice \nPreliminary instructional practice with the Maxim Guns was carried out on 3 occasions on the Range, and the men were practised in quickly getting the gun again into action after a jam. Practice was carried out from four 15-pr. B.L. Guns from Stone-cutters Island, North Shore, on October 28th. Targets were placed on the slopes of Chung Hue. \n\nThe practice was carried out by sections instead of as a battery as in the case of previous years, this being a better training for the Officers for the actual duties they would be required to carry out on mobilisation. \n\nOn the 23rd October, the practice was elementary for the special instruction of the Section Officers and Gun Layers and was therefore slowly carried out; 4 Series were fired, the target for each series being 3 screens and 12 dummies representing 3 field guns, 6 men standing and 6 kneeling, the ranges varied from 3,050 to 3,350 yards. \n\n| Series | Rounds Fired | Targets Hit | Screens Hit | Range (yards) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1-4 | 64 | 16/48 dummies | 10/12 screens | 3,050-3,350 |\n| Last Series | 14 | 6/15 targets | ... | 3,300 |\n\n64 rounds were fired and the results were good; altogether 16 dummies out of 48 and 10 screens out of 12 were put out of action - total number of actual bullet holes 90. The best series being the last under Captain SKINNER at a range of 3,300, in which 14 rounds were fired and 6 of the 15 targets were hit. \n\nOn 28th October, the positions of the targets were changed; four series were again fired, 10 gun detachments were present and all took part; there was a very marked improvement in the rapid service of the guns in most cases, and the Range Officer reported that there was a much larger percentage of effective rounds and the ground all about the targets was ploughed up by shell and bullet holes although in many cases the dummies were not actually hit. \n\n71 rounds were fired, and 16 dummies and 5 screens were put out of action. \n\nThe best and quickest series was fired by the Right Half No. 2 Company under Captain ARMSTRONG; they fired 16 rounds in 9.4 minutes and killed 8 dummies out of 12 and all the screens. \n\nAll the squads were changed out to the Maxim Guns and fired at barrel targets, with good results. \n\nOne Maxim gun jammed frequently; this fault had been found with this gun at preliminary instructional practice on the Range and the gun had been thoroughly overhauled by the Armourer-Sergeant who replaced the old barrel with a new one. The fault was due to the connecting rod; new ones had been ordered for some time for all the guns but have not yet arrived in the Colony. \n\nColonel KENT, C.R.A., inspected the men at this practice, and His Excellency the Governor and His Excellency the G.O.C. were present. The C.R.A. reported favourably on the practice. \n\n## Musketry \nClass firing was carried out more thoroughly than in previous years, and 168 Officers and men fired the course; a good average was obtained. \n\nThe Officers and Staff Sergeants carried out Revolver Practice, showing a marked improvement on last year. \n\n## Inspection \nHis Excellency the Governor inspected the Camp on October 23rd and saw the Corps on parade; he stated that the arrangements were very satisfactory. \n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding inspected the Camp and the Corps on October 29th. He informed the Officers and men on parade that he saw a distinct improvement; the gun drill was well carried out and with far greater rapidity than in previous years. \n\nThe field day showed that the Corps had made a distinct advance, and he was glad to see that points which he had noticed on former occasions at drill and in the state of the Camp had been corrected. \n\nThe O.C.R.A. inspected the Artillery Units at Gun Practice and reported favourably. The O.C.S.M., R.E., carried out an examination of the members of the Engineer Company in their duties as electricians and engine-drivers and, except in the case of one man, reported very favourably on the results of the examination and the progress that had been made during the Camp. \n\n## Medical Officer's Report \nLieutenant C. FORSYTH, the Corps Medical Officer, was present every night during the Camp and was of great assistance to me in keeping the Camp in a good sanitary condition. The Hospital tent was fitted with greater comfort than in former years; beds with mosquito curtains were put up, but were not occupied. \n\nLieutenant FORSYTH reported as follows: \n\"I have practically no comments to make, as with a little supervising everything went splendidly; the food and drink were good, the latrines were kept in good order, and beyond a few cases of mild diarrhoea and some very minor surgical accidents nothing of a medical nature happened.\" \n\n## Discipline \nThe discipline of all ranks was excellent. \n\n## Remarks \nThe work done during the Camp was extremely good and the extension of the period from 10 to 16 days proved a great success, as I hoped; the extra knowledge gained by all ranks resulting in a far higher state of efficiency than has been attained in former years. \n\nNumerous improvements were introduced into the Camp; the most important being the thorough lighting of the Camp with electric light by the Engineer Company, the greater comfort of the Hospital tent, and an improved ablution place for the men. \n\nThe Officers attended the Camp even better than in previous years; every Officer present in the Colony attended nearly the whole time; the average attendance of Officers being 12 out of 13 each day. \n\nCaptain ARMSTRONG's Company, Right Half No. 2 Company H.K.V.A., showed a record attendance; every man attending Camp except those on leave. \n\nThe Corps Sergeant-Major gave me the greatest assistance as usual and the Corps Armourer-Sergeant and the Instructors all carried out their duties to the satisfaction of all ranks. \n\nThe Naval Range and the revolver range were very kindly placed at the disposal of the Corps by Commodore WILLIAMS, and the arrangements made by the Petty Officer and his assistants to enable the members of the Corps to complete their musketry course were very satisfactory. \n\nI have, &c., \n\n**C. G. PRITCHARD, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Vol. Corps.** \n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding made the following comments on the above Camp Report: \n\"This is a satisfactory report, for it shows progress all round and the attainment of greater proficiency. The good attendance is the outward and visible sign of the determination of all ranks to improve themselves.\" \n\n15 \n6",
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        "content_text": "510\n\nare set forth in the following remarks which the Captain Superintendent has, at my request, published as a Police General Order:-\n\n:\"I have read with much pleasure the report of the Captain Superintendent of Police on the work done by the Force under his command and especially by the European and Indian contingents of it on the occasion of the typhoon of the 18th September. Under the capable and energetic direction of Inspectors V. Robertson, D. Macdonald, A. C. Langley, A. Collett, D. Gourlay, and A. G. Dymond and of Police Sergeants 42 Sim, and 17 Lamont, many hundreds of Chinese lives were saved by the Police on the Island, in Kowloon and in the New Territories during and immediately after the storm, in many cases private persons bravely co-operating.\n\n(2).\n\n\"Of the various members of the Force whose names have been brought to notice in this connection the following are specially commended:-\n\n\"Inspector D. Gourlay who in addition to directing life saving operations in the Eastern District saved 5 lives by jumping into drifting junks from the East Praya and getting the people to shore from them.\n\n\"Lance-Sergeant 106, Appleton, and Police Constables 47, Walker, 77, Foley, and 84, Taylor, who rescued people from boats and fallen houses at Yaumati at considerable risk to themselves.\n\n\"Police Sergeant 12, O'Sullivan, who went into the water and rescued a man from beneath a boat at Hunghom.\n\n\"Lance-Sergeant 59, Lee, and Police Constable 37, Hynes, who saved lives on the East Praya.\n\n\"Indian Police Constable 685, Alli Bux, who assisted Mr. Bevan of Messrs. Lane, Crawford and Company, to rescue a man who had been blown into the sea off the Praya Wall.\n\n\"Indian Police Constable 668, Kesar Singh, and 811, Ojagar Singh, who rescued about 40 people near Murray Pier and 7 others from a damaged cargo boat off Naval Yard.\n\n\"Chinese Constable 304, Chu Shu Yung who with a Sham Shui Po fisherman saved the crew of a water boat at great personal risk.\n\n(3).\n\n\"Others mentioned in the report of the Captain Superintendent for good work in saving life and who are commended are:-\n\n\"Lance-Sergeants 109, Caygill, and 97, Aris; Police Constables 101, Sufton, 87, Clark, 63, Wills, 110, Winter, 28, Munday, 9, Murphy, 98, Purden, 52, Watt, and 69, Parr; Indian Police Sergeant 569, Ahmed Khan, Indian Police Constables 536, Jhundy Khan, 768, Atta",
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        "content_text": "Coming glad y Vieurs decision the world. ar expression D Las Love\n\n12/8. sir 7. Com in whether کست ها rewash be causi to un store ash محله tash his tut Badplays Ва that it or desirable.\n\nthe rates sentrally whether be C as titre individual casey mentimed. h. B- now is Ho address Little Parkhurst Abinger Comma Surry hy 12 almue No. 217 Hongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nC O 25926 Rep 4 AUG 10 297 Government House, Hongkong, 28th June, 1910.\n\nI have the honour to state that Sir F. D. Lugard was strongly of opinion that the Detective Service of this Colony, which is peculiarly exposed to temptation, should be sufficiently well paid to attract the best men in the Force, and that by his instructions this matter was referred in last April, for the consideration of the Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n2.\n\nI now enclose copy of a minute by that Officer, dated the 14th instant, suggesting that, after 10 years' good service on the Detective Staff, the detective allowance should be increased by $2.50 a month with a further $2.50 for each additional period of 5 years up to 20 years as the limit: that Police Sergeant Hau Hang should be made \"Principal Chinese Detective\" with an addition of $15 per mensem to his salary: and that the\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CREWE,\n\n&C...\n\n&0 - 1\n\n&C. +\n\nsalary",
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        "content_text": "X\n\nNEW Particulars\n\nPOSTS\n\nBrought forward,\n\nJudicial & Legal Departments, - Cont'd\n\nLand Registry Office.\n\n14th Grade Clerk, ($730-900 by $10),\n\n13. Reader Clerk Off! Receiver's office, ($900-1200 by $20)\n\n720\n\n/\n\n1 Messenger,\n\n4th Grade Clerk!\n\nPolice & Prison Departments.\n\nPolice\n\n#\n\n($720-900 by $10), 67860)\n\n720\n\n120\n\n2640\n\nAmount Total Reworks.\n\n21028\n\nSee note (3) pus of\n\nEstimates Hithats paid Brit.\n\nof Bankruptcy Fund.\n\n89\n\nABOLITION Particulars\n\nOF POSTS\n\nComment Lotal\n\n8708\n\n96\n\nJudicial & Legal Department - Cont.) brought forward,\n\nLand Registry office.\n\n1 Messenger,\n\nPolice & Prison Departments\n\nPolice.\n\n1 Lance-Sergeant, (£120-130. by £10),\n\n↳ Principal Chinese Detective,\n\n1,314\n\nFor detective duty\n\nat\n\n480\n\n2 2nd Class Chinese Constables, at $152 each,\n\nIn place of\n\nYou meat! :\n\n-1 Chinese Sergeant, 124 Class,\n\n300\n\n300\n\nre note (14), p. 490\n\n1 messenger\n\n3 Punkan Coolies,\n\nFire Brigade.\n\nof\n\n[Order\n\nMedical Departments.\n\nApothecary Second Assistant list by £30\n\n3429\n\n1 Probationer, Curt Hospital, ($480-600 by $60),\n\n1 Probationer, Victoria Hospital (#480-600 by $60),\n\nSanitary department.\n\nOffice\n\nAttendant,\n\n[Assistant Storekeeper, (Disinfecting Stations,\n\n4 Artisans, 2 at $240, & 2 at $100 each.\n\n480\n\n480\n\nWater Books,\n\n60\n\nFor Kowloon\n\n60\n\n(See note (18) p of\n\n& Estimates\n\nIn\n\n754\n\n780\n\n1 Coolie\n\n96\n\n1 Coolie,\n\n144\n\n120\n\n43877\n\n1894\n\n108\n\n132\n\nIn\n\nDe plane of..\n\n3001\n\nIn place of..\n\n108t\n\n*\n\n840\n\nLee notiumpba\n\n5th Grade\n\nClerk, (Disinfecting Stations ($80-120 by $8),\n\n559\n\n1 Head Driver for Kowloon, ($150-240)\n\n204\n\n12 Drivers for Kowloon, at $120 each,\n\n1440\n\n3. Engineers, ($240-300 by $12),\n\n3 Coxswains, ($240-216 by $12),\n\n732\n\n732\n\n3 Stokers ($144-168 by $12),\n\nLEHM\n\nSee note (12)\n\np.620f\n\nEstimates.\n\n4 Seamen, (at $144, and 3 at $120 each,\n\n584\n\n5 Seamen, therm Barges,\n\n2 Coxswains,\n\ntherm Barges, at $165. each,\n\nat $68 each\n\nCarried forward, 6,504 30, 352\n\n840\n\n336\n\nCarried forward, $775 10,998\n\nFor new Spices.\n\nFor new offices and\n\n\"Detectable Offices.\n\nor place of Implate of...\n\nFire Brigade.\n\nMedical Department.\n\n1 Nurse, Civil Hospital, ($920-980 after 1 year),\n\n2/ Nurse, Victoria Hospital ($720-780 After 1 year),\n\n\"\n\n1 Dispenser, Institutes,\n\nSanitary department.\n\n- Messenger,\n\n1 Store man\n\n300\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "when the rioting was at its height. Reparation was demanded and obtained by both the British and Japanese consular officials, but unwise delay occurred in dealing with the unruly soldiery concerned on the plea that some forty men remained absent from barracks. As a result, a second riot occurred on the 13th February in which a Chinese police officer and several constables were wounded. The trouble was alleged to have originated in the withholding of the men's pay.\n\nI visited this 46th regiment at Soochow on the 9th instant and saw the men on parade, in their barrack-rooms, and in their class-rooms, and spoke to many of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers. Everything appeared to be orderly and regular, and the demeanour of the men and their bearing towards their officers respectful and soldierlike.\n\nBefore I left Peking (on the 15th March) the judge advocate-general of the Chinese army had informed me that the brigadier, C'hên Të Lung, had been removed, but on my arrival at Soochow I found him still there, in command, and believe he is so now.\n\nThe Wai-wu Pu has now officially informed His Majesty's Legation that the following punishments were awarded, viz.:—\n\nThe ringleader, Sergeant C'hên Li Shan; imprisonment for life.\n\nPrivates Weng and Sun; twenty years and ten years imprisonment respectively.\n\nMajors Tseng Li Chao and Chiêng Hung En, commanders of the two mutinous battalions (1st and 2nd) of the 46th regiment, who had already been deprived of their rank, to undergo in addition a term of imprisonment (period not stated).\n\nAt Kiang Yin forts, His Majesty's consul at Nanking reported, on the 12th January, there had been considerable disaffection in the 36th regiment, which culminated in the desertion of nearly 100 men. The cause would appear to have been dissatisfaction with promotions to non-commissioned rank. (The 36th regiment belongs to the 9th division, the discipline of which has frequently been a subject of unfavourable comment.)\n\nHis Majesty's consul now reports that the following punishments were awarded in connection with this outbreak, viz.:--\n\nThe sergeant who originated the mutiny was beheaded.\n\nThe captain of the company concerned has been dismissed, deprived of his feather, button, and badge of merit, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years.\n\nThe colonel, who had been removed from his command before the mutiny broke out, has three marks recorded against his name.\n\nThe major (battalion commander) has been removed, and is not to be employed in the army again.\n\nThe brigadier-general of the 18th brigade has two marks recorded against his name.\n\nAt Ch'ing Chiang P'u, in the 13th Brigade (Mixed Brigade) of regulars, serious disaffection appears to have undoubtedly occurred last month. The native papers at the end of March contained alarming accounts of the state of things there, pointing to an entire disorganisation of the brigade. It was said that a letter suggesting disturbance was sent from one of the infantry regiments at Soochow to an infantry regiment at Ching Chiang P'u, but was delivered to the cavalry by mistake, and that General Wang (the military governor of Kiang Pei) called out the infantry but they refused to obey the order; that General Wang bad then sent the gendarmerie and city guards to open the floating bridge and close the city gates and man the walls at the west and south gates; that the mutineers had then assembled outside the city wall and sharp fighting had taken place in which the civil canal-side population had suffered heavily as well as the mutineers, who had then retired to the south bank of the old Yellow River, and that two battalions had been sent up from Nanking.\n\nI anticipated, therefore, that I should probably be prevented by the Chinese authorities from proceeding to Ching Chiang P'u, but no objection was raised, and I arrived there after nightfall on the 4th April, and was very well received by the authorities. There was a dense and curious crowd at the landing-place as I disembarked but, in my passage through the heart of the city, could discern no sign of disorder, the streets being full of people and the shops open as usual.\n\nThe following day I saw the 13th Mixed Brigade at their lines, about 1 mile north of the town, making a long inspection of the barracks and institutions and seeing some units of every arm (except the transport, whose barracks are not yet ready) on parade. In the afternoon they had a small field-day (cavalry and infantry only) for my benefit in the old bed of the Yellow River. The officials were exceedingly reticent about the recent disturbance, and, indeed, denied that there had been a serious mutiny. In any case, I am satisfied that the disturbance has been greatly exaggerated, for it had not resulted, at any rate, in any visible disorganisation of the brigade. My Chih-li servant, whom I sent out into the town to make enquiries, and my boatmen (two of whom were Ching Chiang P'u men) could obtain no confirmation of the alarmist reports, and informed me that it was untrue that two battalions had been sent up from Nanking. They admitted, however, that there was talk in the town about some discontent in the luchun (regular troops), and that it concerned the men's pay. I have little doubt that there was more or less serious trouble, as the officials took care to keep me very fully occupied during my stay, inspecting troops, schools, hospital, &c., and were obviously anxious to prevent my visiting Dr. Woods, of the American mission. I insisted, however, on calling at the mission, but he and the Rev. Graham were both, unfortunately, away, and I subsequently failed to catch up Dr. Woods at Shanghae.\n\nIn the men's dining-rooms, moreover, in barracks, I noticed a proclamation by the military governor Wang referring to discipline and exhorting them to good behaviour, which would point to there having been some necessity for its issue. The officials, moreover, laid particular stress on the unreliability of newspaper reports.\n\nOn the 4th April His Majesty's consul at Nanking saw the Viceroy's confidential adviser Yang Chêng (ex-Minister to Vienna), who told him that the trouble was not yet over; and on the 15th April he referred to a native newspaper report of the 13th instant, which stated that \"a further 1,000 men had handed in their uniforms and asked for their pay, with the intention of leaving the service, and that the officers had not dared to refuse them.\" (I am inclined to doubt this statement.)\n\nAt Changsha, during the recent serious riots, the inactivity of the 26th mixed brigade of regulars quartered there is significant. His Majesty's consul-general at Hankow reported that \"soldiers, often in far greater number than the rioters, watched the work of destruction without moving a finger, till Friday evening (the second day of the riot), when two men, for sharing in the burning of the Standard Oil premises, were put to death and their heads exposed. The inactivity of the troops is ascribed to two of their number being beheaded for firing on the assailants of the governor's yamên.\"\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Changsha reported on the 18th April that “500 of the regular troops have deserted from barracks with their arms and ammunition, and their intentions are as yet unknown.\" He had, however, previously very justly remarked that \"seeing that soldiers were executed for firing on the mob, it is not surprising that they were not keen.\"\n\nThe above are the more striking instances of recent indiscipline, but do not by any means complete the list; minor cases, such as quarrels with the police and civil population, and strikes on the part of military students, &c., having been from time to time reported from various places.\n\nAs regards the causes underlying this laxity of discipline, from enquiries made during my tour, and information from various sources, both official and private, the impression left on my mind is that the following various specific causes have led to the present unsatisfactory state of things:\n\n1. Territorial Enlistment.--This has been a pet scheme with the War Office owing to its advantages in the matter of formation and training of reserves. The fact seems to have been somewhat overlooked at Peking that, with territorial enlistment, it cannot but happen that local popular sentiment will also, to a great extent, be the sentiment of the local soldiery,\n\n2. Conscription. This is being gradually introduced in a modified form, and is not everywhere welcomed.\n\n3. Incessant and Hard Work.--Incessant and hard work, both on parade and in the class-rooms, has been imposed on the soldiers of the regular army. The gymnastic training, especially, by which much store is set, contains many unnecessarily dangerous practices, whereby a number of men are annually more or less seriously injured. The Chinese army doctors, with whom I have spoken, very generally condemn many of these practices.\n\n4. Lack of Short Leave. This is a very general grievance, and one that might easily be remedied in territorially-recruited forces.\n\n5. Cases of Irregularity in the Issue of Pay.--Last year, as far as I could gather,\n\nPage 173",
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        "content_text": "Great favour, as the allowance £85-160 in cash I paid for this return passage was it for my permission to have to pay and the return to Hong Kong could be of great assistance to me.\n\nLue was large for my persision to have to pay and the in Engined of the passage reming them to store Kong corld in of great.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nJames Edward Bouken Sergt. Hany Hony Police.\n\n[Receipt notation: B 23688 2911 21]\n\n[Letterhead or notation: C]\n\n[Date: 29 July 1911]\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 18th July regarding Mr J. F. Baker, I am directed to inform you that half the cost of passages (from London to Hong Kong) for Mr Baker, his wife & child/way has not been refunded to Yar. Stall In reply Dan for yo.\n\nI have been informed that Mr Baker's promotion to the rank of Sergeant, further that the Hong Kong Police Regulations do not appear to provide for such cases of officers who are on leave being promoted.\n\nIn these circumstances, it will be left to Mr War. Zafs CA for 21st July to decide.\n\n[Notation or reference: JHACE 17 My Shifts 21 246 21 J.]\n\nLusting, Sir, your letter providing myself with in the Solong. expensive rather long ring writ 2 pardon my.\n\nJour obedient sew ant.\n\n...\n\nPage information not present, but text appears to be from a historical letter or document.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]",
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        "content_text": "(ii) Slipway. A slipway capable of taking the smaller Government launches up to the \"Victoria\" class.\n\n(iii) Carpenters' and Painters sheds and store. $16,800.00\n\nThe present carpenters' and painters' sheds and store are 53' x 25', 13' x 25' and 17' x 13' respectively. The carpenters' shed provides sufficient, the painters' shed and store insufficient accommodation. On the plan submitted there are shown a carpenters' shed 50' x 30' and painters' shed and store each 32' x 25'. Estimate.\n\n(iv) Coal Storage. On the plan submitted, a shed having the same floor area as the present one is shown and a possible extension to meet future requirements is also indicated. Estimate.\n\n(v) Quarters for Chinese employees.\n\nAt present there are quarters for the coal coolies only but it is considered advisable also to provide quarters for a coal and boat Sergeant (Chinese), 2 carpenters, 2 sail-makers and 2 painters and these are shown on the plan. Estimate.\n\n(vi) Shed for undesirables.\n\nThis shed is required to house deportees from the Straits Settlements, Malay States and other places on arrival in the Colony and pending departure to destinations. The accommodation provided by the existing shed (60' x 19') is quite inadequate and provision is made for a new shed.\n\n$3,600.00\n\n$3,200.00\n\n$1,000.00\n\n$32,200.00\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format as requested (HTML using  for paragraphs), the corrected version with proper formatting is already provided above. To adhere strictly to the format and make it clear:\n\n338 .87.600.00 is not directly related to the text provided, so it is assumed to be a page number or other metadata not directly connected to the content.\n\nThe corrected and formatted text is as shown above. If there were specific instructions to reformat the numbers or other parts into tables or other structures, it would be done accordingly. However, based on the information given:\n\n338\n\n \n.87.600.00\n\n(ii) Slipway. A slipway capable of taking the smaller Government launches up to the \"Victoria\" class.\n\n(iii) Carpenters' and Painters sheds and store. $16,800.00\n\nThe present carpenters' and painters' sheds and store are 53' x 25', 13' x 25' and 17' x 13' respectively. The carpenters' shed provides sufficient, the painters' shed and store insufficient accommodation. On the plan submitted there are shown a carpenters' shed 50' x 30' and painters' shed and store each 32' x 25'. Estimate.\n\n(iv) Coal Storage. On the plan submitted, a shed having the same floor area as the present one is shown and a possible extension to meet future requirements is also indicated. Estimate.\n\n(v) Quarters for Chinese employees.\n\nAt present there are quarters for the coal coolies only but it is considered advisable also to provide quarters for a coal and boat Sergeant (Chinese), 2 carpenters, 2 sail-makers and 2 painters and these are shown on the plan. Estimate.\n\n(vi) Shed for undesirables.\n\nThis shed is required to house deportees from the Straits Settlements, Malay States and other places on arrival in the Colony and pending departure to destinations. The accommodation provided by the existing shed (60' x 19') is quite inadequate and provision is made for a new shed.\n\n$3,600.00\n\n$3,200.00\n\n$1,000.00\n\n$32,200.00",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\nIt would appear from the story of the Chief Engineer that the pirates were armed with Mauser pistols, and that whilst they were employed in trying to break down the grille, the Europeans and the guard fired deadly shots into them. It is conjectured that the firing of the ship was not so much to take life as it was to give the pirates an opportunity of being covered from the marksmanship of those on the bridge as they tried to escape, the smoke from the burning vessel obscuring all that took place at the stern until the vessel was turned round. At the time, all was darkness, the pirates' first move being to destroy to a disastrous extent the electric installation.\n\nAbout mid-day, those on board the Shui On and the Shun Lee, after being kept out in the Harbour under armed guard all the morning, were allowed to land. They seemed quite relieved to find themselves on shore again. Hundreds of Chinese flocked round the landing passengers, and each and every one was subjected to a running fire of questions. Others, who had relatives and friends on the Tai On, were making anxious inquiries all the morning, and the scene round the Harbour Office and the wharves was an animated one.\n\nThe facts of the affair as ascertained by the police were communicated to the Press by Mr. T. H. King, Deputy Superintendent of Police. He stated that the Tai On left Hongkong at 7 o'clock at night with 300 or 400 Chinese on board. At about 10 o'clock, when off Ki O Island, near where the S.S. Shing Tai was recently pirated, the captain heard noises on board and firing of revolver shots. He jumped up and found that a gang of pirates was attempting to rush the ship. On account of the guard, consisting of Portuguese and Indians, the pirates could not get possession of the bridge. The officers put up a fight, and a regular melee ensued on the ship for the space of about half an hour.\n\nIn the struggle, and as far as the police know, the Chief Engineer was wounded, and the mate is still missing. The pirates took possession of the whole of the lower part of the steamer and they put out the lights and damaged the steering gear. Seeing that they were failing in their endeavours to get possession of the bridge, the gang set fire to the ship, whereupon the captain let off rockets and burnt blue lights. By this means, he attracted the attention of passing ships, and apparently, the first boat to come along was the S.S. Hoisang. When it was realised that the vessel was on fire, everybody jumped overboard, officers, passengers, and pirates, and the captain was in the water for at least half an hour. Eventually, the ship was burnt down to the very water's edge, and she drifted aground on the shore at Ki O, where she still remains.\n\nLater, the S.S. Kwong Wai, a Wuchow boat, came along and picked up the captain and three others from the water, and put them on board the Hoisang, which vessel brought them to Hongkong. The steamers Shun Lee and Shiu On also came along and stood by from midnight until about 4:30 in the morning. These boats participated in the rescue work, and between them, they managed to pick up some 168 persons, whom they brought to Hongkong. As these two boats came into harbour, they flew signals, and the police boarded the boats, and took the rescued people off. These were composed of passengers and possibly some pirates; seven or eight of them were wounded. Several pirates were also shot by the officers on board the Tai On. The whole of the rescued people are being detained by the police for further investigations.\n\nThe Tai On is a steel screw steamer of 706 tons gross displacement. She was sent out to Hongkong in pieces from Home and put together by a local firm in 1891 to the order of the Yik On S.S. Company, Ltd. Her length is 172 feet 3 inches, breadth 35 feet 1 inch, and depth 10 feet 1 inch. She flew the British flag.\n\nThe vessel was built for the express purpose of competing on the Hongkong-Canton service line until some three years ago; she continued her run on that line when she changed ownership and was put on the Hongkong-Kongmoon run, on which she has ever since been employed.\n\nA praiseworthy, if unsuccessful, effort was made on Tuesday to fetch the wreck of the Tai On to Hongkong. Torpedo boats 035 and 037 left for Ki O with armed guards. Commander Basil Taylor also left in the Stanley. The Hon. Mr. U. McI. Messer was in one of the torpedo boats, and with him were Inspector Terret and Sergeants Ingham and Appleton, together with European and Indian constables. On the Stanley, as guard, were Lance-Sergeant Grimmitt and two Indian policemen. The torpedo boats were unable to find any traces of pirates. Some junks, which were near the wreck, cleared off promptly on the approach of the torpedo boats. The Stanley made a fine effort to fetch the burning wreck to Hongkong, but was forced to abandon the attempt.\n\nA Telegraph representative who was aboard the Stanley writes:-\n\nThere was nothing exciting in the trip up until we had passed Castle Peak and were nearing Ki O. Then the question was, where exactly was the Tai On lying? It was necessary to find out more particularly, so enquiry was made at first one and then another fishing boat. They did not savvy any grey smoke in the distance caught the eye; and almost immediately after came something else to indicate nearness to the disaster. This was the body of a woman, face downward, which floated past. Of course, a body drowned twelve hours before should not have been floating; but when this one was picked up by the boat, a possible explanation came from the fact that she had been hit with much force over the head before she entered the water. Later in the day, the bruises showed up terribly. If she was from the Tai On, she must have got in the way of some desperate pirate.\n\nThe smoke ahead was from the Tai On, as we discovered just after two, when the Stanley was bearing her. Anything more pitiable could not well be imagined. She was the merest framework of a vessel, the steel of the upper portions of her hideously crumpled and twisted and fallen. The shell of the vessel was there - rather, the caricature of the shell - and from this skeleton of a steamer, smoke and flames still arose. Forward, she seemed nearly to have burnt herself out; aft, she was blazing fiercely. A little way off lay torpedo boats 035 and 037, and near the vessel was the steam launch Lee Fat of Hongkong, which had a rope attached to the Tai On.\n\nOn the burning vessel, water was played on a bollard aft, and a wire rope fastened round it; the bollard forward was cleared of smoking rubbish, and another rope attached. The torpedo boats came up and watched intently, as it seemed. Came a shouted enquiry as to how we stood; thanks, we would be all right now. We were moving; three to four knots an hour. For a little, the torpedo boats hung around, watching the Stanley chug-chugging towards British waters. Then, a wave of the hand, and they bounded forward. Sixteen knots - and the Stanley four at most!\n\nCommander Taylor left for torpedo boat 037, on which was Mr. Messer, and a few minutes later, he was aboard the Lee Fat. There was no hesitation shown. Almost immediately, the Stanley was crawling astern first towards the burning vessel. We were to tow her! The approach was delicate work, for the propeller was churning up as much mud as water, and the lead was always going. There was just water enough, and presently the Stanley had the Tai On in tow. She crept out into deeper water, the burning vessel, her rudder jammed and useless, forcing her always to port, and then Commander Taylor changed his plan. The Stanley must get alongside and be made fast to her there. Towing would then be easier.\n\nEvery man aboard lent a hand in this work; a hose was turned on the burning vessel. Now the wreck was seen close at hand. Indescribable smells rose from it, but chiefest of all was the smell of burning bones, which cannot be mistaken if one has once known it. Chiefly, it came from forward. Presently, Lance-Sergeant Grimmitt, greatly daring, ventured along the wrecked steelwork. It trembled and shook in places, but it held. It was possible to explore forward, and the hose was kept going steadily there in order that danger should be reduced. A Sikh policeman also lent a hand, and relics began to be found. A Mauser pistol first, then a couple of Winchesters, and two Colt revolvers, another Winchester, two Browning pistols, two Savage revolvers, and a shot gun, which was probably that of Captain Weatherall. Remember that these arms, all up-to-date, resulted from a search which was not, and could not be, thorough, and it will be seen that the pirates must have been well armed.\n\nBones were seen - bones that fell into powder at a touch. There were the bones of perhaps eight or ten or a dozen people forward, so far as could be seen. But there were almost certainly others, and in one spot was the smell of burning flesh - the most terrible of all smells when one knows that the flesh is that of human beings. These poor creatures had been caught like rats in a trap. The mind reeled from the thought of what they had suffered before death mercifully came to them.\n\nAmongst other things found were twenty-cent, ten-cent, and dollar coins melted and assuming the most fantastic shapes. Two watches were picked up forward; one had stopped at 12:55, and the other at 12:25. There were some Philippine coins too, so that there were probably a Filipino or two on board.\n\nIt was 4:20 when the Stanley finally set off with the Tai On, and about five o'clock, the Kwong Lee came alongside. She had been sent by the owners from Hongkong to assist. Her skipper wanted to go ahead and help, but, as the Tai On's rudder was jammed, towing ahead was not satisfactory, as had been proved already. He was asked to go alongside the Tai On, and, with a launch on each side, Hongkong would have been reached last night; but the skipper did not appear to relish the job. Anyhow, after hovering around for a time, the Kwong Lee cleared off, and the Stanley was left to battle alone with its burden. Now the Stanley was not built for this kind of work, yet it did its part for a long time as though it had been a tug built for the purpose. By 6:30, Castle Peak was looming up in the distance, and ten minutes later, fire broke out in the after hold. Water was poured into it, but it was clear that the fire was a long way from being subdued. There was kerosene oil forward in the hold, and altogether, the Stanley was facing an unpleasant task.\n\nBy seven o'clock, Castle Peak was still in sight, but evidently no nearer. The tide was running strongly against us, and in half an hour, the Stanley had made hardly an inch. Ten minutes later, it was decided to abandon the Tai On. A brave effort had been made to fetch the burning hulk to Hongkong, and if it had failed, that was not from want of resolution or foresight. Happily, her port anchor could be dropped; this was done, and the windlass worked after a fashion.\n\n## Page 473",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\n474\n\nwith Sergeant Grimmitt pounding at the captain. The vessel was abandoned, a light showing, just outside of British waters. Regretfully she was left, sitting broken there and smouldering beneath the deepening arch of the night.\n\nA call on Dr. Bell at the Government Civil Hospital on Wednesday, elicited the information that the men detained there under armed guard are still alive, and that the police this morning had been examining them.\n\nThe captain of the Tai On, along with Mr. King, the District Superintendent of Police, visited the hospital when an identificatory examination was made. As to the result of the examination there is no statement at the moment.\n\nCommander Beckwith R.N. when interviewed said that the Tai On was anchored South of Lamma Island in two and a half fathoms of water. On Wednesday the owners had sent out two launches to bring her to the refuge at Yaumati. The owners are being assisted by the police.\n\nIt is stated that the missing chief officer (Evans) is a married man and his wife was shortly to come out from England to join him.\n\nSeen by the \"Telegraph\" on the Wednesday, the captain of Tai On gave his version of what occurred. He did not succeed in identifying any of the men detained at the Government Civil Hospital, nor any of those at the Water Police Station. He said that in the dark and the excitement it was difficult to try to commit faces to memory. Referring to the grilles, the Captain said that had it not been for the double grille of his vessel they would have been killed by the pirates. He was keeping the last watch from Waglan to Kwongmoon, and, after clearing the Harbour of Hongkong, he handed over the charge of the vessel to the mate. This would be about twenty minutes past seven.\n\nHe got into his sleeping clothes and commenced to smoke. While lying still awake about ten minutes past ten, as a matter of fact he was smoking at the time, he heard yells and shouts and shots being fired. He immediately realised what had happened and switched his light. He reached out for his double-barreled breach-loading shot gun, No. 10 bore, and immediately made for deck by the after door. It was a good job too that he did use this door instead of the other door, as he would have been met with a volley of shots. On reaching the outside he found a man who saw the point of the gun barrel turned towards him and dashed off into safety.\n\nThe captain then turned his attention to a pirate who was attacking the Chief Engineer. This man he let have the full shot in the stomach and he died on the spot. The engineer then told him that he was shot; he took him to his cabin. The captain then brought into use his two revolvers and his Winchester and he used them alternately, the wounded engineer loading for the fighting skipper. The attack on the engineer was from the port side and when the skipper searched the dead aggressor afterwards for means of identification, all that he found on him was a packet of Mauser cartridges.\n\nThe deceased pirate he had reason to believe was the ringleader of the gang. Going on to the starboard side the Captain saw the man who first cleared off through scare and he let him have the contents of a barrel. The effect of the shot was so great that it forced the receiver over the rail on to the other deck. The watchman Dias was at this time peppering away at the bunk at the after side behind the grille. The other watchman da Silva was at this time pinned between the two grilles, but later they managed to free him from his perilous position. The pirates got on board at Hongkong, and when they made the attack they commenced aft of the funnel. The gang were twice repulsed, and then there was a period of quiet. During this period the Captain sent up distress signals, and afterwards the electric light was cut off by the pirates. The skipper then got the engineer to light a lamp, and commenced to burn blue lights with the double purpose of calling for assistance, and for the purpose of providing light so that they would not be made the victim of a third attack in the dark. The engineer then took command of the rockets and commenced to send them up. Suddenly he saw flames bursting through the skylights, and he realised that the desperadoes had determined to set the ship on fire. How the pirates got away, if they did get away, he had no idea as there was not a sampan or a junk to be seen anywhere near the ship.\n\nAll the pirates were in Chinese clothes and appeared to belong to the common class. There were none in European clothes. The captain then realised that it was useless with the few men at his command to do anything, and the lifeboats were practically on fire. He tried to get hold of the zinc rafts to slip them over the side, but it was no use. They then went on to the next deck, and the order was given to lower the anchor.\n\nThen he brought the ship round with head to the wind and tide. That permitted the flames to blow off the vessel and for a few moments gave the Europeans a respite. About half an hour later they decided to all get over the side. The Captain shook hands with his gallant comrades and wished them good bye, and they each in turn took leave of the other.\n\nAfter hanging on to the side for some time the Chief Officer decided to jump into the water and that was the last that the skipper and the chief engineer saw of him. Then the captain got on to the guard and hung on to the anchor tumbler. After a quarter of an hour in this position the chief engineer said the heat was unbearable and he would go out and do the best for himself.\n\nThe captain had previously given the order that they were to do the best they could for themselves when he wished them good bye. Then it came the captain's turn to do a dash for safety and he jumped into the water. He was in the water about half an hour when he was picked up by the Wo Kwai. He asked the skipper of that ship to put him on board the nearest ship that was going to Hongkong, and he was handed over to the Hoi-Bang. The chief engineer had been picked up by the Wo Kwai and handed over to the Sui An. \"The mate, poor fellow, I have not seen him since, but I still have hope. I hope to get a shore job no matter how small the salary. I would sooner sell papers in the streets than go up that river again,\" concluded the hero of the moment.\n\nThe captain has lost everything he possessed except a signet ring. He has no clothes except the pyjamas he was found in and his present rig out with which he has been accommodated.\n\nDias, the gallant Portuguese who helped to defend the S.S. Tai On, was brought to Hongkong by the S.S. Shun Lee. He is reported to have said that he saw Chief Officer Evans wounded by the pirates before they jumped from the ship. Dias claims to have accounted for no fewer than twelve of the marauders. He is a man of full stature and regular soldierly bearing; when alarm was raised on board the Tai On he armed himself with revolvers, one in each hand and assisted the Captain and the other officers to keep the bridge. The first man that he killed was one who, scaling the railings of the bridge, and holding on with one hand, was attempting to kill the captain with a revolver which he held in the other. Dias put one of his revolvers close to the man's forehead and fired, the man falling dead to the deck below.\n\nImmediately afterwards several of the pirates rushed for the bridge and Dias in a quick succession of shots emptied both revolvers into the charge, and accounted for no less than twelve men.\n\nFortunately, he says, the arms happened to be handy or such an effective resistance would not have been put up.\n\nA simple but impressive ceremony took place on Thursday in the drawing room of Government House, when H.E. the Governor met the defenders of the Tai On, Capt. Weatherell, Mr. McCartney and the Portuguese watchman Dias.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn and Mr. Mcl. Messer, Capt. Superintendent of Police, were also present.\n\nThe three men were presented to His Excellency in turn by the Captain Superintendent of Police and after a short chat with each His Excellency referred to the piracy in the following terms:-\n\nHis Excellency :- Well, gentlemen, I just wanted to say to you at the earliest possible moment how much I and the Hongkong Government appreciate your services on the occasion of the piratical attack on the Tai On. This is not, of course, the only way in which your services will be recognised. We will do more for you within reason than what I am going to do to-day. This is merely an informal expression of admiration of your conduct and of the thanks of the Government for protecting the British flag and the passengers who were entrusted to your care.\n\nI have been told that resistance to these piracies is more or less humbug, that the best thing officers and crew can do when attacked by pirates is simply to throw up their hands and let the miscreants work their will upon the ship. Well, that is not my idea of the duty of Englishmen who have the honour of commanding what are British ships according to register, ships that fly the British flag. The Government on the last occasion of the piracy of the Tai On took certain measures to give the officers a chance they have never had before of holding their own, and I am proud that upon the first occasion upon which British officers got a chance of holding their own, they should do so to such good effect that they repelled a strenuous attack, although they were greatly outnumbered.\n\nIt is a terrible thing that these devils—they are no better than devils—should set fire to the ship to make good their escape. I hope and pray that every single one of them has met his death or will meet it, and I hope that in the next world they will get due and proper retribution for their brutal conduct which has led to a terrible loss of life. I can tell you that the Government will do its utmost to prevent the occurrence of such an act as was enacted upon the Tai On.\n\nYou know as well as I do that the number of Chinese boarding these vessels as passengers and the facilities there are for smuggling of arms makes it not an easy thing to do, but still it has to be done and will be done, no matter what money it costs, because I am not going to have the British flag insulted by a lot of Chinese pirates, or pirates of any other nationality, and I thank you most heartily for backing up the efforts of the Government in this direction and I can assure you that you have my admiration, and, I may say, the admiration of the Chinese and British communities.\n\nAlthough the Chinese do not agree altogether with the method of dealing with pirates, they can admire brave men. They think it the best thing to drop hands and let the pirates take what they want, and that it is bad judgment if you lose your money, but, as I have said before, you are all Englishmen worth twopence and do not take this view and are not going to take it.\n\nCaptain Wetherall, I will read...",
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        "content_text": "# Idateno\n\n## G. Management of Canteen and Library\n\nThese are practically managed by the men themselves, the expenditure being under the control of the **Captain Superintendent of Police**. The store sergeant sees about the orders. The interests of the police are varied and if one group gets control others object. Of this I have had a recent experience.\n\n12th April, 1915.\n\n(sd.) **C. McI. Messer**,  \n**Captain Superintendent of Police** \n\n223 \n\n...ncreased (at present there are only 4 unmarried Inspectors). Married men certainly make better Police Officers than bachelors, they realise more fully the necessity of exerting themselves so as to obtain promotion. If a man is to be married at home, on his first leave he is not entitled to do so by rank, and on his second leave, it is rather late in life.",
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        "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]",
        "content_text": "# Confidential \nK/509/19.\n\nSir,\n\n## Enclosure 1.\n\n113\n\n**Head Quarters, China Command,** \nHongkong, 14th May, 1915.\n\nI have the honour to forward for Your Excellency's information an extract from a statement made by an informer named Nawab Khan, who returned to India from United States of America via Hongkong. He came in the S.S. \"Korea\" which arrived here on the 29th September, 1914.\n\nC.I.D., Punjab. \nThe statement was sent me by the D.I.G., Police.\n\nIt is to be regretted that the Sikh Sergeant-Major of the Hongkong Police was so easily put off. The fact that a man had a certificate from Bhagwan Singh ought to have been quite enough to damn him.\n\nI fear the precautions to prevent persons leaving the Colony without a Pass by train for Canton were not efficacious.\n\nThe seditious character of the atmosphere of the Hongkong Gurdwara is clearly brought out in the statement.\n\nNo doubt Your Excellency will have enquiries made by European Police regarding Durga Dass or Shan Dass who, it is said, own a large store in Hongkong, and also regarding Sappah Singh.\n\nI am making enquiries re the Thandar of French Police at the Shameen (Sham Singh of Attari).\n\nHis Excellency \nSir F. H. May, K.C.M.G., \nGovernor, Hongkong.\n\nI have etc., \n(sd.) F. H. Kelly, \nMajor-General, \nCommanding the Troops in China.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]",
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        "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]",
        "content_text": "## V.--PUBLIC WORKS\n\nThe New Magistracy, a description of which was given in last year's report, was completed, the Courts being opened on the 26th April. The Married Quarters for Police in Caine Road were also completed and occupied during the year. They consist of a three-storeyed block of 9 flats, four flats containing 1 rooms and five containing 3 rooms, each with kitchen and servants' quarters complete. \n\nAn extension to Victoria Gaol, consisting of a four-storeyed block, was completed during the year. The ground storey is open all round so that it can be utilized as a work-shed whilst each of the three upper storeys contains 20 cells. The total number of cells is thus 78.\n\nThe school in the Hill District, situated at the junction of Gough Hill Road and the Aberdeen Road, was completed during the year. The building is one-storeyed and contains 3 class-rooms and 2 sets of Mistresses' Quarters of 2 rooms each, with kitchen, servants' quarters, &c., complete.\n\nNew P.W.D. Stores situated in They Bullock Lane, Wanchai, were completed during the year. They comprise an extensive store-yard (1.82 acres), containing a large open shed for the storage of heavy materials, a two-storeyed building for the storage of small stores, with oil store and office for the Inspector of Stores, and quarters for the Storekeeper and his staff.\n\nThe low-power Wireless Telegraph Station at Cape D'Aguilar was completed and occupied during the year. The station comprises 2 buildings: the one a one-storeyed building containing the wireless apparatus, engine-room, battery-room, oil-stores, &c., and the other a two-storeyed building, containing the quarters for the operating staff.\n\nAccommodation for a Land Bailiff was provided at Tai Po by adding a storey to the Land Office. The quarters consist of a living room and two bedrooms, with the necessary verandah, bath-room and other subsidiary accommodation.\n\nA Police Station at Lok Ma Chau was completed. The building is two-storeyed and contains accommodation for a sergeant (3 rooms and two bath-rooms), one European constable (2 rooms and a bathroom), 10 Indian constables, 8 Chinese constables and 15 Chinese boatmen, besides a charge-room, two cells and a small store-room. A subsidiary wing contains the necessary kitchen, servants' and other accommodation.\n\n-18-\n\nWhile the Technical Institute has suffered in several directions from the activity of the University, it continues to perform many useful functions of its own. The Normal Classes (\"English\" and \"Vernacular\" for men and women), the Shorthand, Mathematics, and English Classes were all well attended, as also were the \"First Aid\" Classes.\n\nThe Hongkong University is an institution that arose from the joint enterprise of British and Chinese subscribers. It was founded with funds representing about equal proportions of Chinese and British money.\n\nAt the end of the year, the number of students was 172, 101 of whom were taking Engineering, 37 Medicine, and 34 Arts. While most of the students have studied in Hongkong schools, a number came from Canton, the Coast Ports of China, and the Straits Settlements.\n\nThe idea of the University is to provide, close to China, education for Chinese similar to that given in the British Universities, but at a much cheaper cost; for if a Chinese goes abroad to be educated, he has to pay, besides travelling expenses, some $2,000 per annum; whereas at Hongkong, the expenses of the University are $540 per annum for board and tuition, or, including extras, from $600 to $650.\n\nThe founders of the University took into consideration the fact that Chinese students being educated abroad have usually to make their own arrangements for board and lodging. Consequently, sometimes they contract irregular habits. All students educated at the Hongkong University are required to become boarders, and thus their whole lives are under supervision whilst they are there. Ample provision is made for indoor and outdoor recreation, and in this connection, it is interesting to note that the Chinese residents of Hongkong recently subscribed a large sum for levelling a new playing field, and that the work has just been completed.\n\nThe University is composed of three Faculties: \n1. -- Medical, which offers unexampled facilities for the practice of medicine. The anatomical laboratories were the gift of a Cantonese gentleman (Mr. Ng Li-hing). There is a large staff of instructors in medicine: all the principal doctors of Hongkong give lectures at the University. \n2. -- Arts. The establishment of this Faculty was largely due to the munificence of a Chinese gentleman in the Straits Settlements (Mr. Cheung Pat-sze). Its special object is to provide training suitable to those who desire to enter the public service or the higher branches of mercantile life. The course of instruction comprises English and Chinese literature, political and constitutional history, political economy, jurisprudence, and international and commercial law.\n\nThe largest of the Faculties is that of Engineering, to which nearly two-thirds of the students belong. It is divided into three branches: Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical. The University has an exceptionally large equipment of machinery and apparatus and has fourteen laboratories and workshops in working order. There is practically no place in China where students have such an opportunity of seeing all kinds of machinery in actual working and of learning their practical management.\n\nThe University insists upon all students having a proper knowledge of their own language, although instruction at the University is carried out in English. Students are required to pass an examination in written Chinese before entering, and two Chinese Professors, both Hanlin graduates, give lectures on the classics and history of China.\n\n-19-\nPage 427",
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        "content_text": "No. 10 of 1899.\n\nRules for\n\nfishing\n\nstations, stakes, and nets.\n\nPower to order removal of\n\nBabing\n\nstakes.\n\nRules for fishing generally.\n\nBoarding of Vessels for police\n\npurposes.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nFishing Stations, Fishing Stakes, Fishing Stake-Nets, and Fishing generally.\n\n29.(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to make rules for the registration, licensing, erection, maintenance, management, working, and control of fishing stations, fishing stakes, and fishing stake-nets (all of which are in this section included in the word \"stakes\") in the waters of the Colony, prescribing the places where the same may be erected, the distances to be observed from the shore and from other stakes, and the depth of water for stakes, the removal of such stakes when out of repair or not in use, the lighting of such stakes at night, the removal, repairing, and cleaning of such stakes, and otherwise generally for all purposes, whether ejusdem generis with the above purposes or not, connected with stakes.\n\n(2) Any stakes established, renewed, altered, or repaired contrary to the provisions of such rules may be removed by the Harbour Master; and the owner or occupier thereof in addition to any other penalty to which he is liable under this section, shall be bound, if required to do so by the Harbour Master, to pay the expenses of such removal, and such expenses may be recovered by the Harbour Master or any person deputed by him for that purpose, by summary distress upon the property of such owner or occupier and by the sale of a sufficient portion of such property to pay such expenses.\n\n(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council by rules to determine the fees to be charged for licences for stakes according to their extent, situation, and methods.\n\n(4) It shall also be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to make rules for the management, working, and control of all fishing operations generally in the waters of the Colony.\n\n(5) Any person who disobeys any of the provisions of this section or of any rule made by the Governor-in-Council under this section shall, on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars for every offence.\n\nPowers of Police,\n\n30. (1) It shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent or any officer of police not below the rank of Inspector, and for the Harbour Master or Assistant Harbour Master, to enter at all times.\n\nAs amended by No. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1912.\n\nAs amended by No. of 1906, No. 30 of 1911, No. 61 of 1911,\n\nNo. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1912.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n56\n\nwith such constables as he may think necessary, as well by night as by day, into and upon every ship, boat, junk, or other vessel (not being or having the status of a ship of war) in the waters of the Colony, and into every part thereof, for the purpose of inspection, and of directing the conduct of any officer of police who may be stationed on board, and of inspecting and observing the conduct of all other persons who may be employed on board, in or about lading or unlading, as the case may be, and for the purpose of taking all such measures as may be necessary for providing against fire or other accidents and preserving peace and good order on board, and for the effectual prevention or detection of any felonies or misdemeanors.\n\nboard of\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent or other officer of police not below the rank of sergeant, having just cause to suspect that any felony or misdemeanor has been or is about to be committed in the waters of the Colony, to enter at all times, as well by night as by day, into and upon any ship, boat, junk, or other vessel (not being or having the status of a ship of war), and to take into custody all persons suspected of being concerned in such felony or misdemeanor, and to take charge of any property suspected of having been stolen or unlawfully obtained: Provided always that the powers conferred by this sub-section may in respect to steamships under 60 tons and to junks be exercised by any European police officer of whatever rank.\n\n(3) Where, under this section, authority is given to any officer to enter upon any ship, boat, junk, or other vessel, such officer may require the master or person in charge to stop such ship, boat, junk, or other vessel to enable him to make such entry. Any master or person in charge who refuses or wilfully neglects to comply with such requirement shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 200 dollars.\n\nPART VII.\n\nLighthouses, BUOYS, AND BEACONS.\n\n31.-(1) In this Part,\n\n'Lighthouses,' in addition to the ordinary meaning of the word, include lightships and all floating and other lights exhibited for the guidance of ships:\n\nas amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912 and No. 21 of 1913.\n\nInterpretation of terms\n\n550",
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        "content_text": "## Inspectors\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Sergeant-Major |  |  |  |\n| Sergeants |  |  | 11 |\n| Lance-Sergeants |  |  | 10 |\n| Constables, 1st Class |  |  |  |\n|  | $780 to $1,020 | $60 annually |  |\n\n## Indian Police\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | $780 to $1,020 | $60 annually |  |\n|  | $480 |  | 300 |\n|  | $264 |  |  |\n|  | $360 |  | 276 |\n|  |  |  | 22 |\n|  |  |  | 12 |\n|  |  |  | 55 |\n|  |  |  | 27 |\n|  | $240 |  | 216 |\n|  | Abolish |  |  |\n\nRemittance privileges and Ration Allowance to be continued. The Government pay for additional cost of rations over 20 cents.\n\n## General Grading Scheme for Clerical and General Establishments\n| Grade | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Higher Grade | $3,360 to $3,900 | $120 biennially | 15 |\n| First Grade | $2,100 to $3,000 | $120 | 17 |\n| Second Grade | $1,800 to $2,280 | $120 | 77 |\n| Third Grade | $1,260 to $1,500 | $120 | 29 |\n| Fourth Grade | $960 to $1,200 | $60 annually | 17 |\n| Fifth Grade | $600 to $780 | $60 | 11 |\n| Sixth Grade | $420 to $540 | $60 | 11 |\n\n## Gaol Staff\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Senior Warders | $600 to $660 | $12 annually |  |\n| Warders | $480 to $540 | $12 | 31 |\n| Assistant Warders | $360 to $420 | $12 | 59 |\n| Guards | $300 to $336 |  | 15 |\n| Matron | $960 to $1,200 | $60 |  |\n| Wardresses | $420 to $540 | $60 | 27 |\n\nRation allowances to be abolished except in the case of Guards.\n\n## Chinese Police\n| Rank | Salary Range/Allowance |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sergeant-Major and Principal Chinese Detective | Allowance to remain as before |\n| Sergeant, 1st Class |  |\n| Sergeant, 2nd Class |  |\n| Constables, 1st Class |  |\n| Constables, 2nd Class |  |\n| Female Searchers |  |\n\n## Water Police\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| First Class Coxswain | $420 |  |  |\n| Second Class Coxswain | $300 |  | 51 |\n| Seamen | $168 to $180 |  | 21 |\n| Engineer in Chief | $480 to $600 | $12 annually |  |\n| First Class Engineer | $360 to $420 | $12 | 11 |\n| Second Class Engineer | $276 to $300 | $12 | 27 |\n| Stokers, First Class | $240 |  |  |\n| Stokers, Second Class |  |  | 31 |\n\n## Clerical Grades Adjustment\nIn order to facilitate promotion 50 posts of 5th Grade Clerks should be raised to 4th Grade. With a view to encouraging Portuguese clerks to remain in the Public Service it is desirable as far as practicable to ensure their employment not below the 4th Grade.\n\n## Public Works Department\n| Rank | Salary Range/Grade |\n| --- | --- |\n| Foremen Watchmen | $300 |\n| Store Foremen | $384 |\n| Senior Meter Reader | $192 to $300 |\n| Meter Readers | $180 |\n| Dredger Master | $600 to $780 by $60 annually |\n| Storekeeper | 3rd Grade |\n| Junior Assistant Surveyor | 2nd Grade (Salary to be on dollar scale.) |\n| 3rd Grade Surveyor | 3rd Grade |\n| Computors | 4th Grade |\n| House Service Inspectors | To remain as at present |\n| Tracers | $420 to $1,200 by $60 annually, 5th and 4th Grades combined. Promotion from 5th to 4th to be continuous. |\n| Apprentice Surveyors | 4th and 3rd Grades combined. Promotion from 4th to 3rd to be continuous. |\n| One Tracer |  |\n| Two Tracers |  |\n| Stokers, Second Class | $192 to $216 by $12 annually |\n| Boatmen |  |\n\n## Fire Brigade\n| Rank | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Engineer, Dredger | $360 to $420 |\n| Two Fitters | $300 |\n| Two Store Boys and Tallymen | $300 |\n| Engine Drivers | $360 |\n| Assistant Engine Drivers | $300 |\n| Fitters | $360 |\n| Blacksmith | $360 |\n| Carpenter | $324 |\n| Sail-maker | $192 to $216 by $12 annually |\n| Stokers | $192, $216 |\n| Firemen |  |\n\n## Chinese Revenue Officers\n| Rank | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chief | $384 |\n| First Class | $300 |\n| Second Class | $264 |\n| Third Class | $240 |\n| Female Searchers | $180 |\n\n## Post Office\n| Rank | Salary Range/Grade |\n| --- | --- |\n| Supervisor | £220 to £300 by £10 annually, 3rd Grade |\n| One Launch Officer | $360 to $420 by $12 annually |\n| One Launch Officer | $300 to $360 by $12 annually |\n| Probationer Sorters | $300 to $360 by $12 annually |\n| Head Postman | 5th Grade, $204 |\n| Postmen | 6th Grade |\n| Carpenter |  |\n| Coxswain |  |\n| Engineer |  |\n| Telegraphists | 4th and 3rd Grades combined. Promotion from 4th to 3rd Grade to be continuous. |\n| Telephone Clerks | 6th Grade |",
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        "content_text": "## Extracts from the Annual Report of the Shanghai Municipal Council, 1917\n### MUNICIPAL BUDGET, 1918\n\n#### Volunteer Corps\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commandant | 8,555 |\n| Quartermaster Sergeant | 2,400 |\n| Sergeant Major | 1,020 |\n|  | **12,875** |\n| Less On War Service | 8,555 |\n|  | 4,320 |\n| Temporary Bonus | 430 |\n\nForeigners Total: 4,320 + 430 = 4,750  \nChinese:  \nTown Hall, Riding School and Orderly Room Staff | 2,500  \n| Superannuation | 240 |  \n| Total |  | 7,250 + 240 = 7,490 |\n\n#### Fire Brigade\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Pay - Foreigners |  |\n| Chief Officer | 9,000 |\n| Departmental Engineer | 1,200 |\n| 2 Clerical Assistants |  |\n| 2 Inspecting Officers Watchmen, etc. | 6,280 |\n| Temporary Bonus | 7,580 |\n|  | 24,000 |\n| Pay - Chinese |  |\n| Office and Store Staff | 1,440 |\n| General Staff | 800 |\n| Artificers | 17,100 |\n| Watchmen at Stations | 5,540 |\n|  | 24,680 |\n| Superannuation | 1,240 |\n| Total | **50,180** |\n| Temporary Bonus | 1,500 |\n\n#### Police Force\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Pay and Allowances - Foreign Branch |  |\n| Pay |  |\n| Captain Superintendent | 12,000 |\n| Deputy Superintendent | 9,000 |\n| 3 Assistant Superintendents | 20,100 |\n| 2 Cadets | 5,040 |\n| Chief Detective Officer | 5,580 |\n| Legal Assistant | 6,600 |\n| 7 Chief Inspectors | 22,500 |\n| Chief Detective Inspector | 4,800 |\n| 11 Inspectors | 25,200 |\n| 5 Detective Inspectors | 13,620 |\n| 35 Constables (authorised strength 105) |  |\n| Head Gaoler | 3,300 |\n| 11 Sub-Inspectors | 19,320 |\n| 4 Detective Sub-Inspectors | 8,460 |\n| Sergeant Major | 1,680 |\n| Assistant Gaoler | 2,220 |\n| 90 Sergeants | 135,600 |\n| 20 Detective Sergeants | 32,800 |\n| 4 Senior Warders | 7,140 |\n| Less-Promotions: already included under the pay of higher ranks | 34,800 |\n| Resignations | 18,740 |\n|  | 347,520 |\n| Carried forward | 259 |",
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        "content_text": "# Chief Detective Inspector\nCentral\n\nSir,\n\n331\nCentral Fire Station.\nHong Kong.\nAugust 29th 1919.\n\nWith reference to the disturbance outside the King Edward Hotel on the evening of August 3rd, I beg to report that I heard Police whistles blown about 10 p.m. on that night and went to Ice House Street to see what the trouble was. I found a crowd of soldiers and sailors in the roadway and an American marine in the charge of an Indian Sergeant who was taking him away. Near Messrs Shewan Tomes' offices the marine broke away from the Indian Sergeant and ran in the direction of the Praya. The next I saw of the marine was him in the harbour. Sergt Field dived in after him and managed to get him on to a sampan about 15 yards from the shore, and afterwards to Statue Wharf on the sampan. Sergt Munroe and myself brought the marine round and then he was taken to the Central by Sergt Field in a chair.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\nJ. Hayle",
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        "content_text": "War Medal for General Service.\n\nPublished so far, as to the issue of a\n\n\"All that be\n\nnot\n\nAble\n\nGr. the\n\nAward\n\nThe Kills ther\n\nW\n\nthe 1914 13 Jan\n\nhas be\n\nStore a\n\nof hav\n\nbetween the\n\n5th\n\ntheatre\n\nAny. 1914\n\nand the 31st Dec. 1915, that\n\nHong Kong has\n\nnot\n\ntheatre of war\n\nMes\n\nLith\n\n(i) being\n\nword he likes\n\nLo\n\nCad\n\nthe\n\n17.9\n\nmajor 26\n\nbees\n\n#L\n\ntro pou\n\nrcha\n\n(\n\nmeest\n\nWar\n\nby\n\n8/5\n\n105,2/üter alowe\n\nthe 1914 and bone\n\nand\n\nstar, if not, do I have the privilege of wearing\n\nribbons?\n\nTrusting you\n\nmy questions\n\nthe was\n\nColonial Office London\n\nwill answer\n\nthanks.y\n\nanticipation\n\nT.W. Suro,\n\nGovan\n\n18/4/19.\n\nC O\n\n24055\n\nREC 21 APR 19\n\njoined the Hong\n\nYours faithfully\n\nKong Volunteer Corps\n\nThese A.\n\nNo.2/102 Sergeant\n\nDefence Corps.\n\n(Discharged)\n\n1913 and\n\none hour\n\non 19th March\n\ncalled out within the news was\n\nreceived in the Colony. I was sent to Lyenne Fort's and had charge of the Search-lights, as Sergeant, remaining there\n\nuntil I received my discharge on 31st March 1918. That is ...\n\nHere is the corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nWar Medal for General Service.\n\nPublished so far, as to the issue of a\n\n“All that be\n\nnot\n\nAble\n\nGr. the\n\nAward\n\nThe Kills ther\n\nW\n\nthe 1914 13 Jan\n\nhas be\n\nStore a\n\nof hav\n\nbetween the\n\n5th\n\ntheatre\n\nAny. 1914\n\nand the 31st Dec. 1915, that\n\nHong Kong has\n\nnot\n\ntheatre of war\n\nMes\n\nLith\n\n(i) being\n\nword he likes\n\nLo\n\nCad\n\nthe\n\n17.9\n\nmajor 26\n\nbees\n\n#L\n\ntro pou\n\nrcha\n\n(\n\nmeest\n\nWar\n\nby\n\n8/5\n\n105,2/üter alowe\n\nthe 1914 and bone\n\nand\n\nstar, if not, do I have the privilege of wearing\n\nribbons?”. \n\nTrusting you\n\nmy questions\n\nthe was\n\nColonial Office London\n\nwill answer\n\nthanks.y\n\nanticipation\n\nT.W. Suro,\n\nGovan\n\n18/4/19.\n\nC O\n\n24055\n\nREC 21 APR 19\n\njoined the Hong\n\nYours faithfully\n\nKong Volunteer Corps\n\nThese A.\n\nNo.2/102 Sergeant\n\nDefence Corps.\n\n(Discharged)\n\n1913 and\n\none hour\n\non 19th March\n\ncalled out within the news was\n\nreceived in the Colony. I was sent to Lyenne Fort's and had charge of the Search-lights, as Sergeant, remaining there\n\nuntil I received my discharge on 31st March 1918. That is ...",
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        "content_text": "139\n\nSuperintendent of Police or his Deputies did not themselves see that the bills presented to them for certification corresponded with the goods received into store but I am satisfied that no great blame can be attached to them. It was part of the duties of Fatteh Mohamed to check the bills presented with the articles received and signed for by the Store Sergeant and Mr. Wolfe had issued explicit instructions to the Accountant to exercise a further check by comparing the bills with the orders given before placing the vouchers before him for signature. This was not, however, done by Mr. Leete. Many of the bills, moreover, which do purport to be certified by the Accountant and Storekeeper have since been found to be forgeries, the signatures or initials attached being cleverly imitated.\n\n7. It is clear therefore that on going through the items on the various vouchers before signing them, the Captain Superintendent of Police was not unnaturally satisfied that the bills were in order. The goods to be paid for corresponded in most cases closely with goods which he knew were on order or had actually been received and they had been initialled as checked by Fatteh Mohamed whose duty it was to prepare the covering vouchers to be forwarded to the Treasury for payment and whose integrity Mr. Wolfe had no reason to doubt. Mr. Leete, the Accountant apparently found the work more than he could accomplish and relied on Fatteh Mohamed who was the ablest clerk in the Accounts Office to an extent which was quite unjustifiable and which furnished the opportunities for these extensive defalcations. With the reappointment of Mr. A. J. C. Taylor I feel sure an efficient check will be maintained over the Accounts Office of the Police Department and that similar defalcations will not be possible in future. Mr. Leete was on the temporary staff and his services have been dispensed with.",
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        "content_text": "DANISH BANK AFFAIRS,\n\n(Continued from Page 6.)\n\n(Reuter's Service.\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nBRIBE RESISTED.\n\nFRIDAY,\n\nSEPTEMBER\n\n22; 1922.\n\nDAIRY FARM NEWS.\n\nBy Indian Constable, Copenhagen, September 21.\n\nHow an Indian constable was offered a handsome bribe and rejected it, was told in a case against a Chinese, named Lai Wah, who appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Police Court today. The defendant was arrested at the Star Ferry Wharf at Kowloon yesterday, and on the way to the Water Police Station is said to have at first offered a bribe of $15 and then to have added a similar sum, with the promise of a further sum as a condition for his release. The Indian constable, Alla Bux, took both sums but did not refrain from marching the prisoner to the Station, where a charge of being in possession of $25 worth of opium was preferred against him.\n\nP.C. Alla Bux said that he saw the prisoner with the parcel containing the drug tucked under his arm, and his movements suggested to him that here was a case worth examining into. On being interrogated, the prisoner said that he had something good to eat. The \"something good\" was shown to be two tals of opium when the parcel was opened. To avoid discovery, the prisoner is said to have attempted to divert the attention of the constable by pointing to another man who, he said, also possessed \"something good to eat.\"\n\nMr. Lindsell was of the view that the charge of bribery was one to be committed for trial and he ordered an adjournment for the evidence of the Sergeant Interpreter of the Water Police Station who took down the prisoner's statements when charged.\n\nDEATH OF MR. A.A. DOS REMEDIOS.\n\nOne of the oldest and most respected members of the Portuguese community passed away early this morning, in the person of Mr. Adalino A. dos Remedios. The deceased, who was 74 years of age, had been for no fewer than 41 years in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd. and was very highly esteemed and respected by all his fellow employees. Only three days ago he attended the office as usual, but was obviously unwell, suffering from a chill. He went home and later developed influenza which led to pneumonia. He passed peacefully away this morning, at his home in Caine Road.\n\nThroughout his long association with Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., the deceased had been a valued servant. For many years he was in charge of the Shipping Office, but for the past three years he served in the Indo-China Book Office. Of a quiet and retiring disposition, the late Mr. Remedios, who possessed a particular charm of manner, will be mourned by all with whom he came into contact.\n\nHe leaves a widow and two children to mourn their loss. His son is Mr. J. S. Remedios, of the Post Office, his daughter being Mrs. J. F. Tavares. The funeral takes place to-morrow afternoon, at 6 o'clock.\n\nSHANGHAI'S MIXED COURT.\n\nWith reference to the Mixed Court at Shanghai, the Sinwanpao contains the following report:-\n\nMembers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs met on Tuesday to discuss the many questions connected with the return to China of the Mixed Court. Two suggestions were offered: (1) To reform the Court; (2) To return it to the Chinese for sole administration. It was decided that members of the Ministry should confer on the matter with the British, American and French Ministries.\n\nCANADIAN POTATOES\n\nFine, Choice, Mealy.\n\nPRICES RIGHT.\n\nTHE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.\n\nKOWLOON\n\nTHEATRE\n\nThe only entirely European Cinema in the Far East\n\nJ. T. SHAW\n\nCLOSING UP SALE\n\nLAST SIX WEEKS\n\nA FEW SPECIAL BARGAINS\n\nMORLEYS' WOOL SOCKS... $1.25 Pair\n\nDRESS PUMPS... $10.00 Pair\n\nSOFT COLLARS $3.00 Dozen\n\nDRESS GLOVES $1.00 Pair\n\nBRACES... $1.00 Pair\n\nSTIFF DRESS SHIRTS $1.00 Each\n\nDOUBLE TERAI HATS $12.50 Each\n\nVELOUR HATS $13.50 Each.\n\nBOILER SUITS $2.00 Each.\n\nWill show all the Big Pictures from now on! Just cast your eye over this list\n\nTO-NIGHT & TO-MORROW HAROLD LLOYD\n\nIN\n\nA SAILOR MADE MAN\n\nSUNDAY & MONDAY\n\nTHE GIRL IN THE TAXI\n\nKING'S BATTALION.\n\nFootball and Cricket.\n\nA full programme of matches has been played during the past week.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, the Drummers played 1 selected eleven from St. Joseph's College. An excellent game resulted in a win for St. Joseph's by 3 goals to 2. In the return match on Thursday afternoon, the Drummers won by the only goal in the match.\n\nThe King's second team played South China \"B\" team in a friendly match last Saturday afternoon on Causeway Bay ground. The King's led by 1 goal to nil at half-time and an excellent goal from their centre forward put them further ahead soon after the change of ends. South China were seen to better advantage after this and managed to level up matters towards the end of the game. Result 2-2.\n\nIn the Company League, the Machine Gun Platoon sustained their first defeat in the competition when they were defeated by \"B\" Coy, the score being 1-0. They still, however, have a good lead in the League table and should win the championship.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, \"1\" Coy defeated the Band and Drums 2-1.\n\nA match between the Regimental Team and the Hongkong Police has been arranged for Saturday afternoon, on Murray Parade Ground. Kick off 5 p.m. The Police are playing some of their new men, and an excellent game is anticipated.\n\nThe League table is given below.\n\n  \n    P.\n    W.\n    D.\n    L.\n    Goals.\n  \n  \n    M.G. Platoon.\n    7\n    6\n    0\n    1\n    12\n    3\n    6\n    12\n  \n  \n    \"C\" Coy.\n    6\n    3\n    1\n    2\n    18\n    13\n    7\n  \n  \n    \"D\" Coy.\n    6\n    2\n    2\n    2\n    11\n    14\n    6\n  \n  \n    \"A\" Coy.\n    6\n    2\n    1\n    3\n    10\n    14\n    5\n  \n  \n    Band & Drums.\n    4\n    0\n    2\n    2\n    7\n    9\n    2\n  \n  \n    \"B\" Coy.\n    5\n    1\n    0\n    4\n    6\n    17\n    2\n  \n\nCricket.\n\nIn the Cricket League competition, the Band and Drums beat \"B\" Coy. on Friday afternoon by 15 runs. Scores:- 56 to 41.\n\nThe Machine Gun platoon beat the Band and Drums on Sunday afternoon by 40 runs and thus became the holders of the Battalion Cricket Cup for 1922-23.\n\nThe Cup was presented to the Machine Gunners Team at the end of the match by Lt.-Col. F. Hyslop, C.B.E.\n\nThe final positions in the Cricket League are given below:-\n\n  \n    P.\n    W.\n    L.\n    Pts.\n  \n  \n    M. G. Platoon.\n    5\n    4\n    1\n    8\n  \n  \n    \"D\" Company.\n    5\n    3\n    2\n    6\n  \n  \n    \"C\" Company.\n    5\n    3\n    2\n    6\n  \n  \n    Band & Drums\n    5\n    2\n    3\n    4\n  \n  \n    \"B\" Company.\n    5\n    2\n    3\n    4\n  \n  \n    \"A\" Company.\n    5\n    5\n    0\n    10\n  \n\nCANTON NEWS.\n\nMore Trouble at Wuchow,\n\nOur Canton correspondent states that the Cantonese merchants in Kwongsi have wired to their agents in Canton not to forward further cargo. A report from Wuchow states that troops commanded by Lo To and Chang Hoi-yue are moving down to Chunchow and that traffic between Wuchow and other cities in Kwangsi is unsafe.\n\nChan Cheong-po has been ordered by General Chan King-ming to take his force to the West River, as far as Dosing, to maintain order.\n\nThe Provincial Treasurer has decided to form a Finance committee for the improvement of the paper currency. He has invited the leading merchants and gentry to become members, and hopes to have publicly announced the exact number of notes in circulation.\n\nIt is reported that the Gunboat, Control and the Water Police Departments are to be abolished and a new body created to be known as the Sea and River Defence Headquarters, of which Chan Wing-son will be the chief.\n\nRAILWAY OFFICER'S \"FIRST DUTY.\"\n\nTo Attend Court.\n\nIn a case of larceny of two lengths of chain from the Railway Station at Kowloon, it was stated by Inspector C. Aris that Mr. G. Walker, the Traffic Superintendent, who prosecuted in the case, was unable to appear in Court on account of pressure of work. However, if his presence were urgently wanted, he would turn up.\n\nMr. E. W. Hamilton (to Inspector Aris)- Give my compliments to Mr. Walker, and tell him that if he does not appear I will discharge the man. It is his first duty to attend the Court.\n\nThe case was adjourned until to-morrow morning for the attendance of Mr. Walker.\n\nACCIDENT TO CHIEF JUSTICE.\n\nFalls and Breaks Arm in Typhoon.\n\nThe Chief Justice (Sir Wm. Rees-Davies) met with a nasty accident during the typhoon on Wednesday night. He and Mr. H. A. Nesbit went up in the Peak Tram. They were walking together with arms linked, in Cham-bers Road. The wind was very strong. One gust was so sudden that it took the Chief Justice off his feet. He fell on his right side and in so doing broke his right arm.\n\nIt was Sir William's intention to go to Japan to-morrow, but owing to the accident he will probably not be able to make the trip.\n\nEntertain your friends with a VIC TROJA\n\nAsk about our easy payment system.\n\nMOUTRIES:- Exclusive Distributors.\n\nTUESDAY ONLY\n\nCAROLYN THE CORNER\n\nSKIM MILK\n\nWHAT IS IT?\n\nWEDNESDAY & THURSDAY\n\nMARRIED LIFE\n\nMore Big Pictures to follow!\n\nALERT\n\nIt is milk from which most of the fat (cream) has been removed. Is it nourishing? Is it healthful?\n\nIT IS BOTH!\n\nWe feed our calves on Skim Milk. You will never starve drinking Skim Milk. It contains all the nourishing elements - the casein, etc., which ordinary milk contains (less the fats only), and is far more easily digested than whole milk because it is not rich in fats. Skim Milk is a low-priced milk, specially suitable for making Puddings and thickening Soups. 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        "content_text": "80 \n\n1. The transhipment of any Dangerous Goods as aforesaid shall not take place between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. from October to March both inclusive, nor between the hours of 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. from April to September both inclusive, without the written permission of the Harbour Master.\n\n5. Dangerous Goods as aforesaid shall not be landed from an importing Ship or Vessel elsewhere than at a Government Gunpowder Depôt excepting such as may be consigned to the holder of a licence issued under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, covering the class and quantity of goods so consigned, and in the case of goods so consigned they shall be conveyed from the importing Ship or Vessel by the shortest route, and delivered to the consignee and stored in his licensed premises without delay.\n\n6.—(1) During the time that any Dangerous Goods as aforesaid are waterborne in the waters of the Colony on board of any Ship, they shall be protected either by being stowed under hatches, or by being covered with serviceable tarpaulins, and no fires or naked lights shall be made or used, and no smoking shall be allowed, on board any such Ship, unless the said dangerous goods are stowed under hatches.\n\n(2) During the time that any Dangerous Goods, as aforesaid are waterborne in the waters of the Colony on board any Lighter or Boat, they shall be protected, either by being stowed under hatches, or by being covered with serviceable tarpaulins, and no fires, or naked lights shall be made or used, and no smoking shall be allowed, on board any such lighter or boat under any circumstances.\n\n7. No Lighter, Cargoboat or other Vessel, having Dangerous Goods on board shall lie at, or alongside any sea-wall, pier, wharf, jetty or landing place, for the purpose of landing or shipping any Dangerous Goods or of otherwise dealing with or of disposing of such goods, for more than fifteen minutes, and, thereupon, such Lighter, Cargoboat or Vessel, shall, unless the Dangerous Goods have been wholly discharged, proceed forthwith to one of the Dangerous Goods Anchorages, but this rule shall not apply to Vessels carrying petroleum and lying at one of the wharves at which the discharge of petroleum is permitted, or to Vessels discharging explosives at a Government Gunpowder Depôt in accordance with the provisions of the `Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899`.\n\n81 \n\nat one of the wharves at which the discharge of petroleum is permitted, or to Vessels discharging explosives at a Government Gunpowder Depôt in accordance with the provisions of the `Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899`.\n\n8. The Dangerous Goods on board every such Lighter, Cargoboat or other Vessel arriving at any sea-wall, pier, wharf, jetty or landing place, shall be immediately discharged by the owner or consignee, and forthwith removed by him to some premises duly licensed for the storage of such goods; and if such owner or consignee shall fail in so doing, it shall be lawful for any police officer (not below the rank of a Sergeant) to take possession of the Dangerous Goods and store them at the expense of the owner or consignee thereof; but this rule shall not apply to Vessels carrying petroleum, and lying at one of the wharves at which the discharge of petroleum is permitted, or to Vessels discharging explosives at a Government Gunpowder Depôt in accordance with the provisions of the `Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899`.\n\n9. The Dangerous Goods Anchorages shall mean the portions of the harbour for the time being so appropriated and defined in Table M of the Schedule to the `Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899`, Ordinance No. 10 of 1899.\n\n10. Nothing in these Rules shall be deemed to invalidate any Rules or Regulations made under Section 36 of the `Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899`, with reference to Gunpowder and Explosives.\n\n## Case Oil\n\n1. In these Rules the words “Case Oil” shall mean petroleum and any product of petroleum, including naphtha and naphtha products, and also benzene, contained in this or other cases, but shall not include:\n\n## Limits of Dangerous Northern Anchorages\n\n## Rules made under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, not invalidated.",
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        "content_text": "# Statement of SOON LAI\n\n32 years, states:- \n\nI was born at Ho Tim Kwan village of Swatow where I reside with my wife and family when on shore. I have been employed on the S.S. \"Hong Hwa\" for three years as a saloon boy. At 18.00 hours on the 7th inst. (13th day 12th moon) the S.S. \"Hong Hwa\" left Singapore for Hongkong with 300 deck passengers. At about 08.30 hours on the 15th inst. (19th day 12th moon) I was standing at the saloon door aft, when I heard several shots being fired from the direction of No.4 hatch aft; at the same time 4 men with revolvers in their hands ran towards me. I immediately closed the saloon door. A few minutes later 7 men came down into the saloon from the poop deck. They were all armed with revolvers and daggers and were shouting in the Punti dialect \"don't move\". There were several of the crew in the saloon at the time; they then asked me for the keys of the cabins in the saloon. The cabins were not occupied by the passengers; they were for the use of the crew, the passengers sleeping on the tween-deck. After the cabins had been searched, I, with others of the crew, were driven to No.5 hatch tween-deck where I saw a number of other passengers collected together. We remained at No.5 hatch for over an hour and after being searched, as I had nothing in my possession, I was told to go back to my work by one of the pirates. From that time until the 16th inst. (22nd day 12th moon) the pirates made their headquarters in the saloon, and they spoke in several dialects whenever I was present. At about 06.00 hours on the 16th inst. (22nd day 12th moon) I was asleep on the poop-deck; 3 of the pirates awoke me, saying, \"where is the kerosene oil stored?\" I said there was none on the ship, but they did not believe me. One of the pirates then said there must be some oil in the engine room, and with that left, but returned shortly afterwards saying \"we have sighted land and we will not need the oil now\". At about 09.00 hours the same date the pirates were rowed ashore by some of the ship's crew in the ship's boats. I counted 30 men. I have never seen any of the pirates before, either as crew or passengers, but I feel sure I could recognize some of them. They appeared to be Swatow men.\n\n(Sd.) P. J. Shannon,  \nLance Sergeant Å97.",
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        "content_text": "#2 PHONE TO #H\n\n1301 shots being fired from the direction of the Sha Tau Kok boundary road about one mile distant, and he observed the two junks in question moving away towards Chinese Sha Tau Kok.\n\nHe immediately ordered away the Police boat (a gig fitted with 2 Chinese rig sails) and went down to it, taking a Thompson sub-machine gun, a service rifle (30 rounds) and a revolver, and accompanied by two Chinese detectives armed with revolvers, and five unarmed Chinese boatmen.\n\nOn the way, he met a messenger who had just come up from Sha Tau Kok, to ask him to go down at once, as information had been received that the \"Cadets\" were going to seize the junks.\n\nHe immediately gave chase to the junks, which he could see were manned by more than their usual complement of men, and were being rapidly poled Eastwards in the direction of Im Tin.\n\nAs soon as the Police boat was seen, the junks put in towards the shore. It should be explained that the land at that point is Chinese Territory, but that British jurisdiction extends over the waters and up to High water mark.\n\nSergeant Knowles called out to the junks to stop, but they took no notice in spite of repeated shouts. He then fired a rifle shot across their bows (about 30 yards in front) and was promptly greeted by a volley from about 30 rifles, concealed amongst the sand hillocks on the shore about 250 yards away. The volley had no effect, but Sergeant Knowles ordered the boat to head away from the Chinese shore to the opposite side of Starling Inlet, being pursued by repeated volleys. The Chinese shooting was most fortunately execrable, except for one man who contrived to place a few shots within 30 yards of the boat, and continued to snipe up to 1000 yards range. Then about \n\n600",
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        "content_text": "## \n134\n\n600 yards away from shore, Sergeant Knowles opened fire with his rifle, firing 13 rounds, which had the effect of discouraging further volleys.\n\nKeeping close to the British side of the Inlet, Sergeant Knowles then returned to the Police Station, where he found the master of the shop, who reported that at about 6.00 am that morning, a party of about 10 armed cadets and/or strikers, dressed in khaki uniforms, and blue (or black?) clothes or uniforms, had crossed over into our territory and fired at the junks, which had promptly moved off. Firing being continued, the crew had jumped overboard and swum ashore, one of them taking the precaution to remove two muskets, a carbine, and ammunition, which he took to the Police Station.\n\nThe cadets had then boarded the junks by swimming or wading and commenced to pole them off toward Chinese territory.\n\nAfter Sergeant Knowles had beaten a retreat, the junks were observed to be anchored off the shore about 1/4 mile North East of Sha Tau Kok, and sampans were seen passing to and fro between the junks and the shore unloading the cargo.\n\nOn his return to the station, Sergeant Knowles reported to the Assistant Superintendent of Police, New Territories, who then informed me. I telephoned to Mr. Fletcher, Assistant Colonial Secretary, and gave him the particulars related above as far as I then knew them.\n\nAt about 2.00 p.m. I received instructions from Mr. Fletcher to proceed at once to Sha Tau Kok and meet H.M.S. \"Foxglove\", which had in the meantime been diverted by wireless signal, and to co-operate with the Captain in recovering the stolen junks. As regards recovery of the stolen property and the detained coolies, I was informed that our actions would have to be guided by circumstances.",
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        "content_text": "## \nI proceeded forthwith to Sha Tau Kok, accompanied by the Assistant Superintendent of Police New Territories, and Mr. To King Kei, my Chinese interpreter.\n\nAt Sha Tau Kok Police Station, we picked up Sergeant Knowles, and proceeded to sail out into Hirs Bay, about 3 miles and finally met H.M.S. \"Foxglove\" off In Tin at about 5.10 p.m. and boarded her. I discussed the situation with the Captain, Commander Wootton (?) and found that he only had instructions to recover two pirated junks. I informed him of the real facts of the situation, and he decided to steam in as close as possible and then drop anchor, the ship meantime going to \"Action Stations\".\n\nOn anchoring it was decided to send an armed landing party to try to recover the junks, the landing to be covered by gun fire if any resistance were offered.\n\nOn my way out in the Police boat, I had observed several uniformed and other figures moving about on the shore, observing us, and a large group was gathered in the vicinity of a temple on the shore, about ¼ mile East of the position where the junks lay.\n\nOn the approach of the \"Foxglove\" they all disappeared, and the Temple doors were closed.\n\nThe Assistant Superintendent of Police, New Territories, Sergeant Knowles and myself accompanied the landing party in two boats, about 10 men in each under an officer, and armed with rifles and machine guns.\n\nThe Captain of H.M.S. \"Foxglove\" gave his officer instructions not to fire unless fired on first, but promised support by gun fire if required.\n\nWe boarded the junks without meeting with any resistance; in fact the whole neighbourhood appeared to be completely deserted. Owing to the state of the tide they were hard aground and full of cargo, which from its tumbled condition appeared to have been hastily thrown back into the holds.",
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        "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
        "content_text": "Entertainments.\n\nThere are.\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nTHE\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nUNKNOWN\n\nPURPLE\n\nin\n\nA Tale of love mystery\n\nAnd\n\nvengeance\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nThe absorbing story of a greatly wronged inventor who discovered a purple ray by which he could make himself invisible\n\nHENRY B. WALTHALL ALICE LAKE\n\nand\n\nSTUART HOLMES\n\nhead a big cast\n\nSUPER 7\n\nCINEMA\n\nDaily At\n\nSundays\n\n2.30.\n\nat\n\n5.15,\n\nA..\n\n7.15.\n\n7.30.\n\n9.16.\n\nTuesday Thursday Sunday\n\n9 13.\n\nChange of Programme\n\nTHE STAR\n\nTO-DAY\n\nat 5.50 and 9.15\n\nFLORENCE VIDOR\n\nand\n\nMONTE BLUE\n\nin\n\nSinclair Lewis' famous story\n\nMAIN STREET\n\nANCHOR BRAND\n\nPURE\n\nINTERNATIONAL GENERAL, AUGUST SETTLEMENT DAY.\n\nELECTRIC.\n\nNEW PRESIDENT.\n\nAnnouncement has been made of\n\nA FAIR AMOUNT OF BUSINESS.\n\nAlthough the exchanges have\n\nbeen closed for business ever\n\nsince the strike commenced,\n\na fair amount of business was\n\nput through yesterday, August\n\nSettlement day.\n\nA FALSE CLAIM\n\n¿ QUESTION OF WHICH TO BELIEVE.\n\nDispute About Rainbow.\n\nKotore Mr. Jnative Wood at the\n\nCivilized possession of 1871 bangles\n\nBinary Court yesterday, Lo On\n\nhas relinguished the presidency\n\nof the contract made for August\n\nbefore Board.\n\nMr. Minor is well known\n\nin the Far East.\n\nHe joined the\n\nWestern Electric Company in 1902\n\nand occupied various clerical posi-\n\ntions, each better than the preced-\n\ning, until he was made assistant\n\nmanager of the Katens: City office\n\nin 1906.\n\nA year later he was\n\ntransferred to Omaha,\n\nand two years later be returned\n\nto Kansas City in the capacity of\n\nmanager of the office.\n\nIn 1914 he returned to America\n\nand became active Foreign Sales\n\nchanges with open again San-\n\nManager in New York City.\n\nthough In tember 13\n\nno definite 1218 he was assigned to special\n\ndecision hua vet bren auired a\n\nwork in Ching and fapas, paderj\n\nthe supervision of Mr. Swope,\n\nand in Bul year organised the China\n\nElectric Company, Ltd., for the\n\npurpose of manufacturing tele-\n\nphone apparatus in that court.\n\nTHE FRENCH DEBT.\n\nCONVERSATIONS CONTINUE.\n\nLondon, Aug. 21.\n\nIt was toward the end of 1921,\n\nafter completing his work in the\n\nOrient, then he became uropran\n\nManager of the Western Chillaws.\n\nThe latter interviewed!\n\nby Reuter.\n\nsaid there would prob-\n\nably be farther outings to-morrow.\n\nthough nothing definite land bean\n\nJa the spring of 1921 he joined\n\nise International Generet Elvetzie\n\nCompany as Vice-President.\n\nLi Su ail that he met 34 Ouj\n\nsoon after his amivel.\n\nIo Os told im that the barabocs\n\nwere his property and said that he\n\nhad pod Jaşṭ orer 8900 for ruen\n\nend still wedtic mere than $700.\n\nWitness told the Court that he\n\npeld the rest of the plot of landį\n\nfor the first moon,\n\nCross-examined: He went with\n\ndefendent to pay the rent.\n\nMr. MacCallum: Why is the receipt\n\nin the made vi o Chues Kee?--In\n\nChuen Hen said that the\n\nan receipt had been torn up by\n\nTo taid the resh for the recová\n\nfixed reapreting the coved of his\n\nlittle guy.\n\nA will be gathered from this\n\nconversations.\n\nsamrosey of successes in f\n\nM. Callaus was uncommunics-en---I\n\ndid not pay.\n\nmany pralviong, Mr. Minor na\n\ntheive and merely stated that the\n\nquelitive that make him Heed, at\n\njconversations\n\nnapinistrative)\n\nTHE COFFIN\n\nwell es respected.\n\nA dearmind cordist-Reeter.\n\nJed. kena Pinker, with sogatang-|\n\ntiva wei! as abuty, he is alive to\n\nthe men side of business relations\n\n» Tast which has always been angreekat-\n\nen oy those within as well as out-\n\nside his own organization.\n\nLLERINA MAANTE, STORLESTON, OSBORNE WOOD CONVICTED.\n\nGIVEN PRISON SENTENC\n\nOne Year laguisopment for Sea of Gen. Weed.\n\nParis, Angui\n\n15--Liens\n\nburae Wond son of the Qorginos\n\nSenest of the Philippines, was to\n\nAnother\n\nvituesa\n\nwho\n\nwa\n\nextremely vienaly in defendant's\n\nemploy densed what he had\n\nknowledge that\n\nCROP.\n\nEGYPT AN ESTIMATE.\n\nCairo, Aug. 94, The area under\n\ncontra le oled ally estimated at\n\n1.924.000 Ted-\n\ndans, as cetopared with 1,787,000\n\nthe plainuff was furing to swindlej\n\nIs knen-kec out of the batchona.\n\nHe said that the reason be left!\n\nthe defendant's employ was, be-\n\ncause Ho Give ongated two wien\n\nbit of lots of bamboos in vas)\n\nmonth,\n\nForry Years in Hong Kong,\n\nDefendant.\n\nIn the hex, sulü he feddens last\n\nseason, of whichį nad spent forty\n\nyears in Heug-\n\nSavollarides accounts for 1,198,-\n\nkong and for torky-one years be\n\n1000 feddags se compared with\n\nhad been a desier in buibus)\n\n879.3 feddone last year-Router\n\nand bamoso by-products.\n\nday Antenced to war's imṣiri..!\n\nsurmeni nude foe of 14. 1930\n\nFollow-j\n\nFing conviction or a change of\n\npars-\n\nNEWS IN BRIEF.\n\nLOCAL AND CSEKAL GOMBEA.\n\nKalpinging, Touréssion.\n\nAneering to Northern Chinese\n\ning a montidens chaque for GR1,730\n\nmanors, General Lí C) Lasin isced\n\nsif entered his engtoy towards\n\nthe wel of Aprii and on May 2nd be\n\nhim 000 ANTO Vo ない\n\ntiengphau Fax iny iLanding Da bi hekali.\n\nHe (turned some days later and said\n\nNd fost The accounts and receipts,\n\nbut added that witness red hit $70\n\nwhich he spent in excess of the $600.\n\nHe said he\n\nat Line Casino Biarritz.\n\nYoung Rindas, acder to the ludustal\n\nChan had to pay $30 to 10ɛ Yip!\n\nis now in the United State\n\nratsalouer of Chit with Instrue\n\nYee Tong, a robber pang.\n\nLatar\n\nThe\n\nThe touging Cuited Pren die tipe to\n\nthe Enamelow Mining Ad-\n\npleistift sunt a man to take aweF\n\npatel from Pans apparently ontninistration to negotiate with one of\n\nthe bamboo but witness\n\ntimes the fan diapos in the Kalping\n\nMining Admlustratoba bit that not\n\neven the must! adventures of the\n\nJonas son of tion regarding the\n\nterms for euential man in the Colony\n\nGoverar General Wood into tatoration\n\nof the latter to the could touch its\n\nhandido.\n\nreales of high francs.\n\nYoung Wood\n\nChinese.\n\nAccording to the prometter\n\nwas reported to the police who\n\nwas a lienserant in the U. 8.\n\nprovisions stipulated in thu sgreement\n\nand gomeone wagested that he\n\nArts stationed in the folppinesigned\n\nbebeteen the Chinage and give the\n\nplaint about a hundred sau etéo\n\nMamagh forentade sperni.\n\n- tion he cable a the New York\n\nStorks regarding the Kaiping\n\nhandles ur beinbrs in order tr\n\nExelago, ve anasis fortune of\n\nmines, they could be henght bek\n\nmake up for the $70 which Lo On\n\nhad paid out of his own pocket.\n\nMANILA ROPE la calle duista\n\nThem by the Chinese in ten years by\n\n\"THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST \"\n\nESTABLISHED 1854\n\nMARINE ROPE\n\nROPE\n\nTRANSMISSION\n\nGF TOWER ROPE\n\nH\n\nYNCHAUSTI\n\nCABLE LAID\n\nHAWKERS\n\nWELL DRILLING\n\nCABLES\n\nFACTORY\n\nCanned with bin cheque book\n\nhajamming ae adegun'e sum to the\n\nBri.\n\nTuk\n\n*\n\n29130 named\n\nQuestioned by his Lordship ag\n\netarted out en rip mound the bish.\n\nThe ten-gear terin haz alto\n\nthe security he had to giving\n\nwood, painting the ace in mota ar\n\n194dy expired, in 1938.\n\nNegotia\n\nthe plaintiff $600 when he had\n\nless lurid colure, the preced GN\n\nwere then ronducted between\n\nknow him caly few days Upor\n\nhit arrives in Fraser be mame\n\nthe Lanchow and Kalping Min\n\nwitness said that\n\nately got into the newspapering\n\nAdministrations, but no resuit\n\nChan\n\nThe matter was plainuiff and\n\nexpressed his will\n\nROPES OF ALL\n\nheadlines through his gambling at\n\nhis out.\n\nthe meh usertą.\n\n| dropped until now.\n\ningness to stand as surety.\n\nTe SIZES FOR ALI\n\nFinally something happened and at\n\ninstructed plaints not to pay\n\nmore than 30 canta & iudie for!\n\nthe bamboo,\n\nMADE FROM\n\nPORE MANILA\n\nHEMP\n\nMANUFACTURED\n\nBY THE MOST\n\nMODELN\n\nMANILA\n\nMACHINERY.\n\nSTOCKS ON HAND OF ALL SIZES\n\nENQUIRIES SOLICITED.\n\nFACTORIES:-MANILA P.I.\n\nHONGKONG OFFICE:\n\nKING'S Telephons Central 2185,\n\nBUILDING.\n\nImprove the TONE of Your GRAMOPHONE with a\n\nhad rentsanded\n\nMr. Justlee Wood said that hol\n\nde reported that his father deceived\n\nMr. Band. D. Corbett has roupa,\n\neiled rourente Tren his son fored to\n\nthe AMS in connection Fans Govenor-General Wood is\n\nwith the ingration of what is\n\nreported to lova zent a casadevalla\n\nsikely in prove a new and interesting.\n\nsura, but apparently not wfficiens\n\nto PMS industry This is the rae\n\ncer all of the bunn\n\ntion of a deal works in Pahang,\n\nthe parties was telling\n\natisfied that\n\nhe being asked to decide which i\n\nListunut Wood is now reported\n\nnear Karls Lipe, to produes\n\nfront. be working for a real estate\n\nconjungle\n\nand Der woudy\n\ncern in fios, but apparently wil-\n\nmaterials verlic not be retamning to\n\nParis or 1-170dné, holidays.\n\nGERMAN TRADE WITH\n\nCMNA.\n\nA REMARKABLE INCREASE.\n\nHe felt\n\nthe\n\nraw defendunt id pay money to the\n\nmothy plaintiff and was of opinion\n\nthat ગ\n\nwond & dispute arose owing to the\n\nfact For paints, preservatives, forces)\n\nand various that the plaietiff spent\n\nmore than\n\nut neetates M. Frank he Karmin\n\ngiven.\n\nJudgment for Corben has obtained a\n\nsuitabl; defensant with costs would be\n\nJanncession oveż a in forest arms!\n\nziren.\n\njin Pabong, thù- soncession haing\n\nvery cius proximity\n\nto Frambit\n\nItalas 8hric whirl is fifreen\n\nThe Koch Zeiteng. Count Wes-\n\nniles from Kuala Lipia\n\ntazu's newspaper, pubisher a\n\nlong article froze te China cer-\n\nf Ken\n\nWhere are Solar\n\nrespondent, in which he gives\n\nantureins completeir Japsuined.\n\nAr visit to Tsingtan. Konluma,\n\nthree are to useins, al: account of a\n\nback in fure work\n\nAbout 300 Germans\n\nce\n\nFrabies\n\nbore, most of whom resided in\n\nthese, there is ous shoe-maker and\n\nMost of ibasa have been tha pice\n\nbefore the war.\n\nBineneaker\n\n19 the imports of German mersing\n\nin this part of Raphalian kine\n\nchandise have increased in the\n\ndva of the Romarov adruimte\n\nThere is electric light\n\n[Tưkteur.\n\nreally extraordinary manner\n\nyatable, be the Russians wil bs\n\nyear, and German influence is\n\nlar pit tor\n\n-ey begin\n\ngrowing at a corresponding rate.\n\n| work at about for in the morning,\n\nthe corraspondent, and my du ber\n\nsoon after sunset, It is, saya\n\nespecially from England and he\n\nUnited States thst strany is!\n\nGENNETT RECORD in and as the centre\n\nLATEST HITS IN TO-DAY For Sale At\n\nKOWLOON MUSIC STORE Kowloon Hotet Building\n\nKowloon,\n\nP\n\nWas\n\nPIMPLES CAUSED GREAT PAIN\n\nOn Hands. Sufered Years.\n\nIlealed by Caticara.\n\n\"My daughter's bands saved tand that saw piTNILA feente.\n\nThey led with water bar bedeft then kinak and fester and fier for great jam.\n\nShe was\n\ndie\n\ngel up at night and bold her hand.\n\nJin very hot water fu chse the pot...\n\nShe suffered like that for úve or zivi\n\nTORE are for acrae Son\n\nExtas 4 tane of the Yokohama socks Bank was ned i Karachi gravity of world policy is moving nutty.\n\nIs is reported that Kara rapidly towards the Pacific, the ante brak with Japan bre intrinsed German Goverment should take hy tess and hounds during the every portunity to profeet and that five yearE\n\nthe Fer avour Germaniam in\n\nEt.\n\n\"The recovery of aume con. The Waokang Mint is at presne cessions in our former Kias-Chau | produery $150,00) Saily, hur en the\n\nhelp enor-market is in want of silver! Protectorate word\n\nmonsly the atfainment this delises it is pregused to rise the\n\ndaily work to $180,0 Lim.\"\n\nsent for a fer sample I found hi sas jaing ber gond to prese Itens and the is completely falodged] Te. Briggs. 120, Mic seter Rd., Derby. Eng.\n\nUse Cullera Sarp and Olatrert\n\nRegularly to maintain permand Jakir, and her health.\n\nSong vid Oistrant said thoughætt tår\n\nTry the Cuticure Shaving Sticks,\n\nDo This-Today\n\nTiis\n\nLearn how millions get whiter teeth\n\nwill digitiul test which\n\na new conception of what clear teeth moon,\n\nIt tacnus whiter, clatter, sufor teeth, such se millions now enjoy.\n\nSee wirst brings to you.\n\nThe war on film Dental suico is new fighting the cause of move topt]: Itoucles.\n\nFams that viseras coat you fesi.\n\nIt clings to south.\n\nUnder old methods of tooth brushing, ratch of it remains,\n\nTr.bentice decolored, then futz diy sogra Thng is why mà 1500y cerk cloudy.\n\nFilm also raises 10 troth trooi leg.\n\nIt loins food wykonanie\n\nadrich ferments and fenos sell, it holds de asià in content with the seath to asuse decay.\n\nGoms krevd by millions in it.\n\nThey, vit SAG- Sar, are the chiti cerme of your d\n\nThese troubles became almost umiyevast when that film wa left of teeth.\n\nModem rerganch das tiae werad two effective m coxbatants.\n\nOne digimtegrate the balm ut ski aresyna uf Pronation.\n\nOve rumoras à vikk... out bermind acouring.\n\nTese have proved dut dev rastheds mean à ngy era in leady\n\nTRADE\n\ncleaning.\n\nnew-type tootla paria has been created en apply ther\n\naily.\n\nThe name is Pepsodent\n\nNow the use of Peysadent ha spread the work over, largely by dental advice.\n\nLook at what Pepsodent does\n\nThe use of Pepsodent will britu\n\nat once a new conception of ela veet\n\nProtect the Enamel\n\nPepsodent disintegrates d fi khen reinowes fi with var gpent fir softer than gumel, ever desa de comment watch contains laurah gri\n\nIn dela ugga tisa tulu źni salthaling the gnty of th andira, which is then to nesesti: a montesis.\n\nJt trediciise féin par sila in salive, strah in devaẹ to do pant sich, deposits on ti\n\nThess combined effects will be a vežalise ke\n\nSend the rouson for a 70-320/ Tebe, éve how clean in teena Jeet after being.\n\nMark the\n\nof the series Blan.\n\nSee im ters Lacive whier as the i-ca dilsapy car.\n\nCompare the new way with the eid, then docide for yourself what\n\nis best ut et cospan tem.\n\nBAHK\n\nAGAINST\n\nThe New-Day Dentifrice\n\nBassa on quodern research.\n\nAd wse by Tading dotians in world over.\n\nYou will tea and food fame- diate cault,\n\nTwo zizta on ralc everywhere.\n\nAZZATA POR HONDMOND & BOLEH GIA;# KELAAR KERM A GO- 1.15. 5, W NONGKONG\n\n10-Day Tube.\n\nThe Pausodeot Dompany, Dept. C15-16.\n\nBus 1418, Shanahal.\n\nBackend find al cos Sramps.\n\nMail 10-day labs of Pzasadent to\n\nMail 10-Day Tube of Pepsodent to\n\nNave.. Address...\n\nGive full address.\n\nWrite plainly, Only ont vube 10 a kunits.\n\nCARBOLINE\n\nKILLS GERMS\n\nKeope every zvrnet\n\nSWEETENS DRAINS\n\npour hopes swest and elaan.\n\nThe beat IKI VISH Veudorant Gallins $2.75, Half Gallons $1.75.\n\nS'a 4. THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY\n\nDID you ever serve\n\nWelch Punch? Try -your guests will be Javish in praising it.\n\nHere is how you make it---\n\n1 pint Waith'a\n\nI quatt water\n\n1 cup sugar\n\nJake of 2 lunnans sud 1 orange\n\nThis manke the most licious and refreshing beverage you can serve or het days or evenlegs,\n\nTUL WELCH BRATE NICZOO, Wtfibi, N., 4.5. A.\n\nWelch's\n\nGrapeJuice\n\nWhelssola Regreactiam ius.\n\nMULLER & PHIPPS (China) Ltd.\n\nZebrand. P. D, Bos afin, Kingstei\n\nAssist\n\nNature\n\nHowever robust\n\nand strong the con- stirution there are fines when Nature requires assistance in relieving congested parts and re- storing normal function.\n\nNature has no subre efficient aid to health than Beechma's Pills\n\nWheat the digestive organs refuse to assimi- lace foed; when the liver Tuers sluggishty; when the kidneys do not properly\n\nperfona their allotted duties, then is the time to wesist nature to restime sound and vigorous health.\n\nby taking\n\nBeecham Pillo\n\nBANKS.\n\nHONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nREAD DIVICE, BONCHONG.\n\nkukintoad Capimi,AUR Sentra Futa PAID 2004 NA TUN\n\n£ 4.800.000 STA $2,699AGE Baetzen Dishitty of protons 294,092, INDE\n\nCourier.\n\nWhile,\n\nquer Meas\n\nA. IL Paview, Ena\n\nBANKS.\n\nSOUTH CHINA\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nTo the Editor, A. C. M. Post.)\n\nTHE CHARTEKKU BANK OF INDIA, AUSTHALIA & CRINA.\n\nJadwiston 50\n\nReserve ad\n\nKRUTAMİ,\n\n£3,000,0\n\n2-lets Chairm\n\n5. An șa tum.\n\nLi W, Barnard, Yu W. 2. Patarajan, bez\n\nWell. Koz\n\nA. K. FRAUFOs,\n\nM Hugkung, 15th April, 1925.\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL\n\nMAATSCHAPPL.\n\n|NETHELANDS TRADING SOCISTIJ\n\nBANG.\n\nTetal Hard Ba\n\nLa magar: Eburchak.-G. 8. AL X-\n\nJAMIN DANKERJ;\n\nWestminster back, Imitá.\n\nCarpet county aveone in Lock Guzenar and Planḍ Dayalle spevived for day parë në sherlar evinin in ima) Guzzyner and Racing, Wes which will lie utwerk\n\nBand 19th Mat. 1955.\n\np\n\nHONGKONG SAVINGS BANK\n\nThe\n\nWe obtakt\n\nof the above deple s HiViNGNG AN HANG REMAIN, BANE DOES\n\nINTE SPE dep is culonlated w Bekalana during ja ezoqaletai Qalendar Merin at B34 per cent per si\n\nMeu to orbites on way day in a Moth sweet will in Kined fur that\n\nrepteiten Immander ; their epikoa Rai.üd or dance to the HONGKONG AND MUANGHAI BANK to be lowes\n\nKAKE DEPORT - CURRENT RATES\n\nFor the maing vad skurzovi Kanking Corporatina,\n\nA. BAXLOW\n\nColt Vansa, Fonehengerry, A INTERNATIONAL BANKING\n\nCORPORATION.\n\n(wind 6 the National City Bank st\n\nNew Tor\n\nCapital and Surplva v 52. JALAN, DA\n\nRetryis\n\nAVAD OFFICE\n\n60, Wan Straut. Fo\n\nLONDUS OFFICE\n\nMy Bishnule, Bi 0.\n\nBRANCHES\n\nProvince of Kwangtang, who are! however, Wally tacerning more!\n\npowerless the grip a \"BeF forcas: that this Balthe\n\nMOROCCAN WAR.\n\nENEMY FIRE SILENCED.\n\nMadrid, Aug 24.\n\nร\n\nMORNING POST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nBANKS.\n\nRUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.\n\nbest 5,603.30\n\nHOT\n\nBANKS.\n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,\n\nCrarecare\n\nKod: BA Stan\n\nAuthored Capim 5,360, m Solestia Cav1.500.co Pript? LED Cut Reserve ... 1,9440,001-\n\nKANCÉES.\n\nShe Bank of Fingland &\n\n& Midland Bach, Lat\n\nBRANCHES\n\nEnta Shuro\n\nAc obieral communique claims.\n\nCapital City yeld]\n\natl\n\nChaikal Pe\n\nKe Chaps Gazerne\n\nRES CFFICE.\n\nParis, Kee Brateur.\n\nLONDON OFFICE\n\nYou\n\nFort Youth (art) BONGKONG BRANCH.\n\ntd, Gid Bread Blease, $9.\n\nKAKIMAS\n\nShamok theini\n\n$ck!\n\nBatavia Gall\n\nBoer\n\ncross me\n\nJoalats.\n\nYut. Gau, Müs, de\n\nGarrin Pan Sauerale egung in recent bombardments.-EU de Gizarte E Fac\n\nFranca\n\nI've Lost Goonw Mede, Angrył 25.--General 'n de Rivers by kina\n\nArcikrod\n\nbeyn\n\nHora'sy Hentyne Bala Tamar navba ¡Calepitas Ilewrah Sciculo Kozár\n\nLindra\n\nFema BUTALOGS\n\nSlagspry Sout\n\n(ft in the coar Ausories\n\nEndrin\n\ntu de Pazia st das Pa\n\nLyn Bern CNTICIALA JOz Zaveck that\n\n1.\n\nSir your bardağ's Leadervist Gorunmeet of Canton, whose inscrporated by Regul Chartuť, 1851. [you any: “We are making and farm is vader the sperme com\n\nLand On: Londo Past op Capland $0.590' must pake a bid for the spopathyjmoud of a Karine Bolshevist that the enomy's fire\n\nof the British public.\" J this Coneret, and on whose military Albucemas was silangad by he Ferien xehera ad General Hancurent Can we hope to arouse and evil staffs there are already tane arrival of the warship! Garment Accennik wegeō and Floed Dawonria ¦ The syimpathy of the Bridiel: uray bug Russians, as declarede It emits that owing Sed ne & rent or shorter rods at pubife by rendre a telegram to ja orkude of this British Colors, the soul means of com- wales wil be quoted on Applic\n\nmunication with the painland No. 30 Dawning Stret? Wil thene ships from or 10 Yongkons Betish public ever hear of it being allowed to ply within any\n\nbeing interrupted through the cest re-haps Shnung a brief of fe wnsers of the Kwant to dairage sustained by the avack,\" it is impossible to ganga paragraph in the London Prest | Province, traton moi haloy permit.\n\nThe telegram is excellent as farted to cryas Ale\n\nAnglo-Chine Renter- AH it goes. Toy it should be barked transler, and not even a up by a direct virosal to the peasant being allowed to British people-a the enthusiasm from Chinese to British territory: tha of the cornug in this alter will that British subjecta are mat per-preparations Reve enable the organisers of\n\nThe mitted to enter the city of Cantonpleted and offensive operations US C Meeting to rese! the cont! Pets that by die viel order of the mould probably be lanched within, Venic #OAGKONG SKUNDE EMASLACAS 19. hapa Exuler's agones mere wouta Goverment ட்: Centon, British ten diss. While isolating tribes Authurted Cavitstallers 1000 dyward it, on the Colay'z boskins are folder to enter tas who said help him, we will operate\n\n212,601 | to the British Press. Con Caeton river that Red\" Trucke 30,000.\n\nthe very borrilary of Ate ei. 66ing through that chased te weglajare roused or the Angka Krin--tavas. GEA acured wide publicity. Frontier and nee, talks firing wiLL\n\ninpurity on B. a police patrels The following anggested tensed on parctos Chinne fathers ram is long, but could be and workmen the British side on thejof the border; that as a reer, of\n\nMeasures că-\n\nPaziti...\n\nTest\n\n..der.com 161,258,335.J\n\nBand On: JESTERDAM. Bester and Ocom-BATAVIA.\n\nBükmat Bardown,bresisted if necessary\n\nhay, flabour, Überikan Ujven-\n\nhar, Diakiskaria, The Haware of experie. W anyone theas and other Rink Mob Davik.\n\nHow who has been hame 10 Meika. P\n\nPenang\n\nBanzo Hoterias, Kanan.\n\nSoerakar (in) Treni, Tijne Joader Bachana Provincial\n\nCadets all was the wazid, PARKING FUSSRAT DE BYREY\n\n..\n\nRECKLESS CYCLIST.\n\nCHINESE WAITER FINED.\n\nA restaurant waiter was lugged i\n\n|_ New York Ta Ying Bauk, Colorati\n\nSexFirenz\n\nBarlin:\n\nOnk\n\nNatom\n\nShangha EVDEN Ing Pektor Mapato 1\n\nJornad\n\nKanchang Yukinama\n\nKatarrat allow on Dress Amanida de Hive Deneth Til\n\norien sebanga no the prizcismi silán\n\nL.. BAINES.\n\nthe world bws/kland an\n\nBalapur\n\n司公理管業實法中\n\nSOCIETE FRANCAISS DE\n\nGERANCE\n\nDE LA BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHIND\n\nPRONINENT PRUERY, oubt that the Inferomtion as to been brought to a complete stand-i Hhanghai, Singspiere emitthe calony's estabifalme and til and uve 70 Ateamers, of before Mr. E. W. Mumilten. at the present importance is nevessary? wloce 65 are Pritisk, are now ly-Kuwien Mugistry Perlerder\n\nJours, etc.\n\ning e in the liatbear of Bong with riding a bicgete in a reckle I. M. T.\n\nReng; that through the uretismorzar. The defendat picaded Hongkong, 24th August 1925. of the imperial Governeur, salt and was fired 53. Appeal To The People Of Great\n\nwatch to the Chinees mind! Sergeant D. Murphys who effected\n\nBritain\n\nguitles ouly impotence, the hot the rest of the defendant, waredi This mass morting of British our and dignity of Britain have that when ordered to stop at the! residents of the tree Cology alemdy entered a severe selbeck jacion of Nathan and Jordan Red 9. Butler Bar Hongtong appeals to the people throughout And, the extent and Roads, the defendant diselayed the of the Mother County for their scriose of which only the desigual, but after a chase inte Wou- support in the grievous positionjhare will reveal; that this low ng Scient, the defendant wAS which de Colony ha heen to car prestige in Asia is the prevented from proceeding other. placed through the violently and object deiterately aimed as by by a large cerad of people, and was THE DANGLE MUISTURES IN CHIN\n\nKANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.\n\nSubscribed lasila. 78,000,000.00 Packets Capital Fra, SCRAIGN Hacer Fend,FM. 81,587,39321\n\nBANGKOK\n\nDBANCE 1\n\nPAPIRŠTE YAOM.PNG PONMOD MARY\n\nMATGON\n\nKAPTAMBANG CANTONG\n\nDJIBOUT\n\nJIHONG\n\nTANDI HUNGSONG VYNONG\n\nJOUMICA\n\nSTANGDAL\n\nSINGAPORE TUNIN\n\nBasket\n\nHersalina\n\nEasons\n\nPek\n\nBoyabay\n\nPluta\n\nGAL\n\nC\n\nItem\n\nFrancia, Cal\n\nC\n\nPrenses du Mamcie\n\nCOU\n\nSt J\n\nIt\n\nSeron la llar\n\nNarbib\n\nSarty Pinga\n\nHUMANEK\n\nShanghet\n\nAnim\n\nSZTUK MENITH\n\nSe Playca best Nasa\n\nBIKIN\n\nin Vega\n\nTari\n\nworld\n\n7000\n\nKeale\n\nfait, lei. Taghangt som\n\nble Tra Tacx hought and sold. Corrent event!\n\nsasti kauk, Kesante spared And Fla Deprale, float and fires musprim saken of zatez, tårt may be verymtaxi se\n\napplies too to the HABEBAS ONE CAS\n\nWest Also ablet the istiyon! City sic lov Brusela\n\nHack of New_York_1\n\nFot palunit treatin Bush Sales and is the War Indes\n\nTOURING\n\nHNANYO\n\nPritish activities of the preseat thin bundreds of Russing Hulthe-janested. Bolshevis Government of Genica, įvlats who are the real mastera of Great Britafa was the first Puwes Canton; that one anges) For anais- to move for the ebulition of ex-ince from the people of Hone. tratoriicial rights la lapan as on the Synperial Governurni soen av at efficient and upright bar mei with so responk, probit\n\nicing had been sethieked is by far the reason that the dete in evenerate attempt to run this Colony with vor compatriots in China, wej which is being made by the Gor\n\nis Paz: Chal Luasie; die doetry, spd. Paris Perkant\n\nLenan\n\nFrost at Yew York\n\nDagŭ Despetta arcondes My\n\nbrain tr\n\nJEBEL. DRUSE.\n\nFRENCH LOSSES EXAGGERATED\n\nParia, Agust 25.\n\nKTARESA.FNP FRANCO.camol\n\nGod is weki. Chataro, Victoria, Bongka\n\nMEAL OFFICE\n\n---\n\nParde, Yo The He Insan\n\nJapHa....... 15,000, 20 B. 10,\n\nPIE. MINDACOS\n\nBANYTIC\n\nFrans: tiste Garcia Bapur Natten\n\nBy Grade Baza de Park vi des Pac Mendon Midland think, Las\n\ndier des Ha\n\nCo\n\nfind trebain\n\nghost be World.\n\nHughing, 224 (ON. YO\n\nA ROLAN\n\nManag\n\nTHE YOKOHAMA SPECIE\n\nut pamercinta ladustain Wema and TrasOwn\" 2,42 kere of 10 Fun The Nation Pretzelal and teci assured that the Gavel eglent crument of Lasten being cur-\n\nUnikan Erd. Conymit\n\nComeening certain formation : Vectron accrapla Path: edit of Great Britain, whose interestsfused with the studion Chira starting that her French insesa uti 1 New Yob F. I. Morrazo. Franch Chine are greater than those of which te best dealt with by the Forfeit Drase totalled 2,000 men, the Antal Berckling Coppo Castany any other Power, wil net sveign Dive, and a handling which papers as that the Winters of! Inset whips Care is and to lock for the lend of any other Britain, for the Grit te in her War has stated that 800 way the. Ewer chettition of mankin am veren, in takits similar hists in Asia. appears to be runter reported by General Sarri: ...... You 180.55.9 steps in China when the Glütere waiter for a led from Pewore and bat in notist been altered bet people having followed the exam with only a treeties of her inter pla of Jepun, pat the house este in Chia and is Aria eder, ander unt make residence therein. uraliy: thug e Gayorwent wil urder Chege laws and adminiz hatun bas lured self inde- traziou, xa este for foreigners a pondeck of the Governmen! la radence in Great Britain! Ching and refuses to recognize and ue Colonies for citizens of the Governmeul at Paking to which\n\nG. RUGC.\n\nHonigst\n\nen's Rool, Central. Homes. Esmary, 1950.\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA,\n\nLIMITED\n\nBIAD OPTICE\n\nÀ. LINTOT,\n\nYavage\n\nTHE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.\n\n(WAYWANGIKKOJ\n\n[ TÙ SPESAL DIPENAL\n\nBAYI İses\n\nvital Emeriled Yes 89.600,000 Duprat (pastato 0.000\n\nNo in De Vong Band. Central Rongeuren enonthe Chinese Republic. Having is Majesty Minelar to Chira\n\nsaid the when the situations accroifted: what this\n\nAuthorized Copirai 19,590, Patil Chap Kew Brad\n\n6,00,000 si\n\nBWAD OFFJEK.\n\n1,040,9sa 94\n\nVRECIDER.\n\nTAMPED, FORMOSA,\n\nBANCU\n\nIto Mr Chow Chow a\n\nFan It Blaire Ceing la\n\ntard\n\nZATORI SPIŅA Tohobar, Kəb Fans Gergely\n\nUnalen,\n\nC: King Ulivu Polos Tur Pr\n\nChan Ching her Wet Yast P\n\nvery dogrtatlan or banking\n\nSAF TITS\n\n*\n\nmasied\n\n04 FUNKE\n\nmonics, Trewall, Token, Aka\n\nColony,\n\nA\n\nExos denuntion Pankica\n\nse pued\n\n(nere bent en Durant Kurapně\n\nwat yer kom on Veils du\n\nmore en than may be\n\n- is\n\nits on wat\n\nQuare'n Boat (m\n\nROSS,\n\nAng nagES. kong. th c r.\n\nTHE RANK OF CANTON, EMITESA\n\nRead Office: Katy Loss.\n\nEstabaired 1912. Authorized Capéta) 51,20ki, Ga Pall, lip Depital 1,078,5Ð\n\nsilver Reserve Fand...$ 700, Forsigo Exchange and Genara Banking business transacted Interest allowed on\n\nSCUBRENT ACCOUNT\n\n2 po a un daily cred helences of over 106.\n\nCOUNTE\n\n4% ADRUM\n\nfor 12 monthe 5 per annu\n\nfur 8\n\non ANTAGE\n\n|GA KOSTER\n\n1.1\n\nX\n\n29\n\nConten, Shanghai, Hankey; Bangkok and New York.\n\nCOR BANZISES\n\nThe Lloyd'a Bank, Limited.\n\nLOOK POONG BHAI Chief ManaTER.\n\nBANK LIMITIE.\n\nBRID OFFICE MO\n\nJOKURANA\n\nwas confirmed by a nominative list.\n\nBatavia wad Ag\n\nEa\n\nBunbury\n\nZonva ¡Battat dzzas kauna\n\nHua Pranshia\n\nCalext\n\nIns Averi\n\nHemang Euba\n\nROBERTSON\n\n1\n\nMila\n\nSECURITY PACT.\n\nNe\n\nDet\n\nASKESTOS PROTECTED\n\nTHE FRENCH REYLY.\n\nip China we would impress where urgent appeal to uskist-\n\nNewhaven, Aug 21, aur people et houne that the pre-jane has aiready been once ignored i The France Ambassador ha sent gericus stare of affairs in by the Iraperal Government.\n\nsas handed to Herr Stresemans the Mature, Menu Pizzo, Skiardino, Thiabu. the British Colony must be un-Tur the past 25 years contributed French reply to the German Chinh anhm. Arg. Penchow, tirely disassociaran om eendi- propavilon of ita anewal re- Security Pact Noto. Tho date of\n\nState, Chaton\n\nBanen, place in China: that this Clotany veree towares crtal military publicstion ne nos yer Farabee Chart, Scubayer Hongkong was ceded to Endod. Xe Turk, alter\n\nLASDAN BANKERS.\n\nthe expenditus, the utiration for fixed-Reut!Y. British\n\nTE CHART London Cornstar Westate and Dart'ssion being confirmed in\n\n1841, the rear 4 amounting to sour that a quarte million dollar;\n\n30\n\nChief MeDoge\n\nBaik\n\nDebrents. 1029\n\nHonda 16 prebrant, tum\n\nTHỂ HỒ HÙNG Hạ lão tin t\n\nALICIT).\n\nCAPITAL:\n\nAuthorised $50,000,050\n\nTil ...\n\nPaid-up... 4,000,000.\n\nReserve Labilities of\n\nShareholders...... 4+0.\n\nSurplus.........\n\n823,000,\n\nBEAD OFFICE--SINGAPORE Branchen, Agencies and Carrespond- ente in the principal cities of\n\nthe world.\n\nKvery description of Racking And, Fxchange business' transacted.\n\n... BANG, Manager.\n\nORIENTAL COMMERCIAL\n\nBANK. LTD.\n\nVELD DEVICE.\n\n18. TWY FREIT ROON CHANCHAL\n\nBILNEGES (--WANGRUR.\n\nUntzenie Wuntraine Hack Sale & New York: Scan City\n\nAharied Capital Man 25. OUR AND Pabi-up Capital 2,090,008\n\nSose haki ini b Current sermouth, Attindi Dasu mirati ka mpy\n\nDRAUM BEAUTI\n\nOvera, barkings opgelatır.\n\nINTEREST. C'event occ 2 AT ive 15%.\n\nElard Devotion, 3 months, k 6 month 4454, wie gest 5%.\n\nKAKE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR PENT.\n\nQUR VAUTTA JAFEGUARDS) BY IDEA CLOCKS AND DOUBLE CAMMINATION ÁRNOUM PIATÉ NIEZŁ NO«YP.\n\nJ. T. LAIM.\n\nKUMBA.\n\nmetres in the Entepony Continent:\n\nDoet\n\nThe Beat bas Credents to rear following year by the Treaty of that during the Great War that beside these to whom they are Busca, M. a. Nanking, under which Rongkong Colver contributed Con, an India, Philippine Trianon, Juga,\n\nFinetry\n\nBeakow\n\nHalo\n\nHer\n\nMentula\n\nKai Zoen\n\nKorechi\n\nOu\n\nPising\n\nRACKVI\n\nlod\n\nSihampcov\n\nKostel\n\nVATE\n\nVindicat\n\nJanka\n\nit and on Correak Attiest Caprasin pacetvel for zxat perce Latatred on sites.\n\nC. AKIMA,\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK LTD.\n\nSend Mom Vinyl Prodine, Thetar BiME\n\nDRANCWEB:--\n\nLju\n\nthe\n\nat variorum appending in elliees, abups, ard siber Dutch Crulim Forts, lies to be pujsassed to pepetaly\" times over six and a ar million factories and shipyarda iz Ameries, Atring, the\n\nInteress Kaceed on Comment donuts and Great Bring that at that dotars to the importal Govern-Dot Country.\n\nThey are now cali-\n\nTeposts at rates which will be great time Hongkong was but share mans for wat parposes.\n\nIn add-in for support from this Afs-! apple,\n\nBONGKONG BRANCH: L. Dar Views Wal.\n\nZ. YAKAMOTO,\n\nsophuma, Jan. May dogs.\n\nBanger\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA\n\n行銀國中\n\nGYECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDEN\n\nShanghai, Kangat kone. Tergen-Russian Gropeens.ca.\n\nCORRESTENDENTE. IN |--\n\nLiodon, New York, Chence, Bra pretens..\n\nLucia chores of Chien un abroad\n\nAttraction Tale fer\n\n10 years, ... fats, stupore, Fanana,\n\nrocky island, like hundreds to befrian to a special chination of overtunt Crown Colony to their fal- send of the one of Chine, In-blatt tion pendz: that a low-workroen at he hadited by thit a few hundred arge nyentier of the youth of this Brian who can still bear, MO CRzuzet and fishermen thas to-day, after 8 Color male the supena stories with pride the story of our fax rearhouest and impartialis the war, fortified in the hog feng Respire, and to wing the faste Wash British administration, tuls Colony that they wore helping to skew of that Empire is an Sacred is ene of the brightest gear in werin secure against such a charge as is that of the Realmi\n\nthe British Crown; that even in sprang as is now oppressing the of England twk. To all such\n\n2. M.\n\nMETAL ROOFING\n\nBolo Agents :\n\n¡DAVIE, BOAG & CO., LTD\n\nBank of Canton Building.\n\nSamples and fill particular on application.\n\nMASSAGE\n\nMr. SHIMIDZU Mrs. HONDA\n\nA. 34. Wyndham Street.\n\nTelephone Central 4048,\n\nthe year 1880 the Cipverner of the pancenia Chiasse imputation of this urgent appeal in argize THOS. COOK & SON (BANKERS) LTD\n\nColias, contrasting De Sara Cautan and is sriving to sun goes forth from the ueople of rock with a cherinan's but here this Cotry of Hongkong; that, the small but uporisat matpost TRAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLI. Od tier of 1841 with the cartons of the revisnose of Empire.\n\nColony as it was 8t roars later, the present situation, the people.\n\nCHIKA UN THR JIND DE\n\nNOVEMBER, FEAT.\n\nauthorised Cepita was able to state, in a despatch of this raportat outpost of our\n\nRattan Canika ..... 75,970 200,00\n\nREAD OFFICE: PEKING-\n\nMUSOKONG PRANOR\n\n4. Quera's Road Central,\n\nTranchen and dab-bones all\n\nAt to the Secretary of State for the Empire in Avin are again appeal- Colonive, that may be doubted in to-day to the forperial Gov whethere the evidence of material ferment, through the Prime Min- and woral achierement, presented ister, do take imosciate\n\nand KANAPundar in Faros, Amartas and sthay peste of the wall.\n\nsinstel wind Under Bet E. L\n\nThe Coming Trung Company of New York,\n\nDANKERN: · The Nepal E\n\nchins as it were in a focus, wake up-to put an end to the presout inte.\n\nwhere more Jokeile appeal\n\nlerable and hotelling position, LONDON BAKKERS--The National Pare and inagication and whether und feiting the immediate and\n\nany other apot on the earth complete cessation of the lock-i more likely to excite us more ful-ade, of Hongkong at\n\ninterfs- ly justifies pride in the name case with British trade and with few the all of British abjects to 1541 the population has increased without sulasful interference.\n\nhundred teren in the year carry on their businese freely and\n\nThe Egitle The Company of New York Internet slowed no liberest Acecants and Englismar from a Fixed Langit pa tention.\n\nevery desire of Banking\n\ntransxçied\n\nFirmanied va aproved sequentia.\n\nEpilan for Brookware\n\nTUYER PEL\n\nNEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE HANDELSBANK\n\nExtablished 1869.\n\nPaid-up Capital au Reserve Fund Glds, 78,200,000-£5,517,329.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM, CASTERN HEAD OFFICE: BATAVIA, BRANCHES:\n\nSay, Arapenan. Bandoeng. Borbay, Calcutta, Cheribos, Gorostalo. Hongkong, Kobs, Weknear, Medan, Menado, Palembang, PekalongAN, Rotterdam, Semprong, Shanghai, Singepara, Hourabaya,\n\nThe Eagua, Telok Beteng. Tjslatian, Wites rolet.\n\nLONDON REPRESENTATIVE: 8. S. Wright, 37, Old Broad Streek,\n\nLooden, B.. 2\n\nCORRESPONDENTS: LONDON: MIDLAND BANK, LID, ÖVERSEA\" Branox, WESTMINSTER BANK LTA FOIS BRAKCE, N. L. GOTHSCHELS & BAR and SI BANK CORPORATION\n\nNEW YORK: CHASE NATIONAL BANK, YAPMIY Loan & Tuner Co. TRYING BANK-COLOMBIA TRUST CO, GOLMAN, SACHS & Co, New Yoke Taper Co. and all the principal towns of the world,\n\nEVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING & EXCHANGE PUSI- NESS TRANSACTED CURRENT ACCOUNTS, DEPOSITS, etc\n\nP. MARKS,\n\nManager.\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOPENING QUOTATIONS.\n\nASTON ---\n\nHong, August\n\nBA\n\nTARGETAT-2.16\n\nBasi Baya Bile, at 30 days sight BakDill, at wounthe' sight 2,42 Credita, at 4 monthe night.. 2:5 Frey Hills, at 4\n\nvetoka\" sigh 275;\n\nBank Bille, on depend DE GAY\n\nCredila, ut death right... 1225\n\nI PANELLE\n\nto one milion; that the value of state of way with the Government; the Colony's trade in 1924 was for Casion he destared in exist, 136 mens sterling: that the; and .lbak Procediate stone beY DISTOPET Lorean-going shipping entered the them takes to enforce our Treats N\n\ncleared during the same year rights and to instal as Canton ready Chinese Goverment o tous, of which 12 milion tens\n\n$226\n\nnom\n\nBack Bille, en mend Credits, ut 60 dngu' sight... NA\n\nTraunfos... 1871\n\nOx CalcUTES —\n\nTalegraphis Freester... 1874 Dank, de\n\nBank, at right t Private, at 30 days' sig... .........3403\n\n115\n\nweru Brit, at that the inises fran Rolsbevist flomnication. tonnage of all classes during the makter fe appeal to the your wea nearly $7 millions, Imperial Government Me are) making Dongkong perkaps the taking the opponunda to forward A world's largest slipping partijat the sume tirar this appeal to that el his varé tezde and shit-the people of Great Britain foros ForIAMA 20 pak, sad even the very exisleure their sympathy\n\nOrdonan........ aid suppori. of the talony, hos suddenly been In doing se we wish to protest in Greed.......\n\nON HASA placut in mirene prilby the the rougest possible TERNET STRATOL- present de facte Doisnevist Gov-against the rupaix. of falan lepi...... 19!! ernment of Cantos, which, with hood which the Balcharist GN. ON 6114A -On demand ... 742) the nel of \"Red\" Rasein mili-evamart of Cutton, under the decane.................... tay commanders and Ruselfedtrention of experienced puna. NAIGN-De dewund..... m arins and money, came into power gandista trained in Russia has CasaME :-\n\nCA douazú..\n\n794 by an armed up only three conducted through certain\n\nSUS SOTERSHYA, Bath's boying DOTA H sad to-day abtine of the world's preas. This Bate.................. 3.50 hered by Im vaer unspority of mass meeting to for the most part Cars Usar, 100 fine, per tami........ the people of Canton and the composed of me, who have wosk Bas formas, per otro Fes\n\n- נא אני\n\nBANKING AND EXCHANGE.\n\nCOOK'S TRAVELLERS CHEQUES combine MAXIMUM SAFETY with CONVENIENCE.\n\nA special feature is the precautions taken to ensure the maximum safety possible.\n\nAsk for descriptive booklet at any of our offices.\n\nHead Office:-\n\nLol Address\n\nLUDOATE CIRCES, LONDON. B.C HONGKONG WOTEL BUILDINÓ.\n\nTelegraphin Address:-COUPON.\n\nTelephous: Central 524-525.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DIRECTORY & BLOTTER 1925\n\nThis very useful combination of Directory, Vlary and Desk Blotter, contains a large variety of local fa Jormation: List of Goveranient and Department. Officiats: Firms and Employees; Foreign Residents: Time tables: etc.. etc. A handsome and durable requirement. strongis bound in cloth and excellently printed, it is a weeźul adjunct in the desk In Home arOffice, and will be found of great use in business and social affairs.\n\nNow on Sale, Price $5 at\n\nSouth China Morning Post, Limited.\n\n1. Wyndham Street.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 365\n\nPage 365",
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        "content_text": "32\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925.\n\n33\n\nHeads and Sub-heads,\n\n  \n    Estimated.\n    Actual.\n    Increase.\n    Decrease.\n    Provisionally Voted.\n    Explanatory Remarks.\n  \n  \n    $\n    $\n    $\n    $\n    $\n    \n  \n  \n    Brought forward\n    9,476,696\n    8,977,567.50\n    \n    790,936.78\n    1,290,065.23\n  \n  \n    MILITARY EXPENDITURE:—\n  \n  \n    A. MILITARY CONTRIBUTION,\n  \n  \n    Contribution to Imperial Government......\n    4,200,783\n    4,286,542.70\n    85,759.70\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    D. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,\n  \n  \n    Personal Emoluments\n    12,685\n    12,429.75\n    \n    255.25\n    \n  \n  \n    Ammunition\n    1,000\n    281.25\n    \n    718.75\n    \n  \n  \n    Armoured Car, Expenses\n    950\n    1,847.70\n    897.70\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Books, Stationery, and Printing\n    1,000\n    827.70\n    \n    172.30\n    \n  \n  \n    Camp Expenses.\n    5,500\n    6,272.11\n    772.11\n    \n    More members attended Camp.\n  \n  \n    Conveyance Allowance to Corps Sergeant Major\n    180\n    180.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fuel and Light\n    750\n    942.82\n    192.82\n    \n    More fuel and lighting due to strike.\n  \n  \n    Equipment and Upkeep of Arms...\n    2,000\n    3,848.30\n    1,848.30\n    \n    More members.\n  \n  \n    Grant to Mounted Infantry Section\n    6,300\n    6,859.00\n    559.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Incidental Expenses\n    700\n    980.83\n    280.83\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Forage and wages during strike.\n    \n    400.00\n    400.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Formation of Mobile Section and extra expenses during the strike.\n    \n    779.00\n    779.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Motor Transport Section, Upkeep of\n    720\n    1,319.70\n    599.70\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rifle Ranges, Expenses....\n    1,500\n    1,188.08\n    \n    311.92\n    \n  \n  \n    Transport\n    \n    281.00\n    281.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Uniform, including Boots\n    6,000\n    18,004.96\n    12,004.96\n    \n    More members.\n  \n  \n    Equipment for Engineer Company\n    1,000\n    990.31\n    \n    9.69\n    \n  \n  \n    Special Expenditure,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Armoured Car\n    7,500\n    7,428.37\n    \n    71.63\n    \n  \n  \n    50 Rifles and Bayonets\n    2,850\n    2,804.31\n    \n    45.69\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4,260,420\n    4,352,850.45\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Less Savings\n    \n    94,310.67\n    1,874.22\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    25,805.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Increase\n    \n    92,436.45\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    PUBLIC WORKS:-\n  \n  \n    A-PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.\n  \n  \n    Personal Emoluments\n    1,811,850\n    1,181,554.23\n    \n    630,295.77\n    Lapsing salaries.\n  \n  \n    Conveyance and Motor Allowances.........\n    55,200\n    30,293.49\n    \n    24,906.51\n    Lapsing allowances.\n  \n  \n    Drawing Materials and Mounting Plans..\n    10,000\n    6,112.39\n    \n    3,887.61\n    \n  \n  \n    Electric Fans and Light,\n    15,000\n    18,121.64\n    3,121.64\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Incidental Expenses:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    General....\n    6,000\n    7,370.06\n    1,370.06\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Store\n    1,400\n    1,123.34\n    \n    276.66\n    \n  \n  \n    Quarry\n    9,400\n    4,045.03\n    \n    5,354.97\n    Owing to curtailment of road work, Quarry was not worked at full pressure.\n  \n  \n    Land Survey Contingencies...\n    500\n    258.54\n    \n    241.46\n    \n  \n  \n    Lifts Maintenance, Government Buildings\n    3,000\n    2,064.22\n    \n    935.78\n    \n  \n  \n    Surveying Instruments\n    2,000\n    760.28\n    \n    1,239.72\n    \n  \n  \n    Transport and Travelling Expenses\n    20,000\n    22,460.60\n    2,460.60\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Uniforms :-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Meter Readers and House Service Inspectors, Water Works\n    600\n    559.88\n    \n    40.12\n    \n  \n  \n    Motor Drivers\n    \n    67.00\n    67.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lift Attendants and Fans and Lights Inspectors\n    500\n    304.28\n    \n    195.72\n    \n  \n  \n    Office Attendants, Messengers, &c.\n    1,000\n    204.10\n    \n    795.90\n    \n  \n  \n    Carried forward\n    1,430,550\n    1,296,709.68\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    13,787,118\n    13,330,429.95\n    7,875.64\n    885,247.40\n    1,291,980.45\n  \n\n11,950.00",
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        "content_text": "# THE CANTON GAZETTE, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927\n\n## \"CHING TANG\"---PURGE THE PARTY--- Mr. Chia Reports On Economic Conference MOVEMENT: SLOGANS FOR THE PEOPLE Occupation Of Ichang\n\nARE ISSUED BY PROPAGANDA DEPT.\n\nYesterday, Mr. Chen Hsi-tseng, Chief of the General Political Department of the Military Headquarters, was in Canton.\n\nRugby, May 3.-The League of Nations International Economic Conference which meets at Geneva tomorrow under the presidency of M. Theunis will be more representative in character than any conference yet held under the auspices of the League.\n\nOver 350 experts from 43 countries, including four States which are not members of the League - the United States, Russia, Turkey, and Egypt-are expected to be present. The conference will be consultative and cannot conclude a convention, for the delegations have been chosen by the various governments for their various capabilities, and not as spokesmen of official policies. They include industrialists, merchants, bankers, economists, agriculturists, and officials and representatives of workers' and consumers' cooperative societies. Four of the members are women.\n\nThe following Slogans, prepared by the Propaganda Compartment at Canton, under date of the 18th inst., reading:\n\n1. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which massacres the Kuomintang members.\n2. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is treacherous to our late Director, Dr. Sun Yat-sen.\n3. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is destroying the People's Revolution.\n4. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is undoing the work of the Northern Expedition.\n5. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is utilizing bandits and labor usurpers to oppress the Peasants and Laborers.\n6. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is insulting and disgracing our late Director, Dr. Sun.\n7. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is plotting the downfall and destruction of the Kuomintang.\n8. To be against the People's Principles is to be Counter-Revolutionary.\n9. To be against Kuomintang is to be Counter-revolutionary.\n10. All power and authority belong to the Kuomintang.\n11. All true and loyal comrades of the Kuomintang must unite and rise.\n12. Down with all Counter-revolutionaries.\n13. Down with Opportunists.\n14. Concentrate the powers of the Kuomintang.\n15. Down with Imperialism in all its forms.\n16. Down with the clique of Militarists.\n17. Eradicate all corrupt officials, greedy gentries, and unscrupulous merchants.\n18. Be on guard against those who lean toward the Right Wing.\n19. To call a strike against the masses of the people is Counter-revolutionary.\n20. Those who refuse to come under the direction and guidance of the Kuomintang Revolutionaries.\n21. The masses of the people must rise and clean up the Counter-revolutionary Chinese Communist Party.\n22. The masses of the people must rise and support the Chinese Kuomintang.\n23. Support the Central Government at Nanking.\n24. Support the Nationalist Forces.\n25. Down with the bogus governments at Wuhan and at Peking.\n26. Down with the most devilish Chinese Communist party.\n27. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which gives up the Special District of Hankow.\n28. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which compromises with the Fengtien militarists.\n29. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is against the Min San Chu (Three People's Principles).\n30. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which utilizes the masses of people as tools.\n31. To clear out all the Chinese communists who are in ambush.\n32. To clear out all the Chinese communists who are in disguise.\n33. The true revolutionary soldiers must rise up and overthrow the Chinese communist party.\n34. Down with those bad characters who take vengeance under the pretext of the \"Ching Tang\" Movement.\n35. Down with those dishonest Kuomintang members who tolerate the communist elements.\n36. Execute Hsu Chien, Teng Yen-ta, and others who betray the party and the country and frustrate the Northern Punitive Expedition.\n37. Execute the unworthy and covetous Sun Fo who betrays the Party and the country.\n38. Execute Borodin who curses and disturbs China and the Kuomintang.\n39. To clean up all the corrupt officials and political opportunists.\n40. To clean up all the covetous official attendants, local Sharks, and unscrupulous gentries.\n41. To deal severely with those who study the \"Cheng-hsueh\" doctrine, i.e., federalism or nationalism, the remnants of Chen Chiung-ming's followers, and any other similar reactionaries.\n42. To dismiss Wang Ching-wei who betrays the party, endangers the country, and is ungrateful to the party.\n43. The Three People's Principles are the principles for national salvation.\n44. To realize all the party principles of the Kuomintang.\n45. It is only the Kuomintang which can realize the welfare of the peasants and laborers.\n46. To reclaim all concessions, leased, and ceded territories.\n47. To emancipate the Tibetans from the oppression of the imperialists and the Mongolians from that of the communists.\n48. To unite all the revolutionary advancing and oppressed People and make joint efforts to overthrow imperialism.\n49. Long live the Success of the National Revolution.\n50. Long live the Kuomintang of China.\n\nAccording to the Government instructions to suppress the communists, Generals Yang and Liang at the West of Hupeh have occupied Ichang.\n\nA joint telegram sent to General Chien Ta-chun by Sergeant majors Yang Ching-ying and Chao Chi-yung, Chief of Staff Yang Fa-chau, Chief of Aid-de-camp I Wa-cheng, and some other military officers of the newly enlisted 1st Division at Kanchow, welcoming General Chien, was worded: \"(Sd) Chia Pei-ta.\"\n\nGeneral Yieh Chien-ying of the newly enlisted Second Division at Kian has left the locality, and a change in the situation is imminent.\n\n## Prof. Soothill's Observation Of China's Progress\n\nProfessor W. E. Soothill, the distinguished Professor of Chinese at Oxford University, refers in an article in \"Contemporary Review\" to the remarkable change in the status of Chinese women. The modern Chinese girl and young woman, he writes, \"is the brightest spot on the landscape, and the most promising asset in the national life. I am not referring to the up-to-date fashionable, hotel-frequenting, cocktail-drinking, dancing, ultra-modern society creation, but to the cheery, happy tripping school-girl.\n\nTwenty years ago, nearly half the population of the country, some 200,000,000 of women and girls, had crippled feet. The effect on carriage, happiness, and character is only made evident now that a new race, absolutely a new race of women, is being evolved.\n\n\"If a sign be sought of progress in China, perhaps the most felicitous is the signboard of the Woman's Boot Store; 20 years ago, it was non-existent, now it is found in every city. Then, every woman made her 'three-inch golden lilies' to cover what remained of her maimed feet. To-day, the boot store supplies her with beautifully made shoes in bewildering variety to wear over her fresh-colored silk stockings.\"\n\n## SEND YOUR MESSAGES BY WIRELESS\n\n**Cheaper and Faster Service**\n\nTO Shanghai, Nanking, Foochow, Hankow, etc.\n\nMessages, official or private, are despatched immediately, day and night.\n\nApply to Office at 50 (old number) Second Bund (Yee-Maloo) Nankwao.\n\nCANTON WIRELESS STATION, MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS\n\n二號十五牌門舊路二\n\n## NOTICE\n\nThe S.S. \"Sainam\" and \"Nanning\" will leave Canton for Wuchow every Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8 a.m.\n\nFor further particulars, please apply to:\n\nSAILING NAVIGATION CO. LTD. SHA KEE\n\n## The Film Danger\n\nThat many of the commoner tooth and gum troubles, and most cases of so-called \"off-color\" teeth, are due to a film that forms on teeth which ordinary brushing does not successfully combat, is the consensus of dental opinion.\n\nRun your tongue across your teeth, and you will feel this film-a slippery sort of coating. Film absorbs discolorations and thus makes teeth look dull and dingy. It breeds germs and bacteria and invites tartar, decay, and pyorrhea. It is a menace to tooth and gum health that must be constantly combated.\n\nThus, dental authorities now seriously urge that it be removed at least twice every day-in the morning and at bedtime. One can't expect glistening teeth and proper gum protection unless this be done regularly. To do so, obtain Pepsodent-a special, film-removing dentifrice most dentists favor. It curdles the film, then removes it and polishes the teeth to high luster in gentle safety to enamel. It combats the acids of decay. It acts, too, to firm and harden the gums; thus meeting, in many ways, the requirements of modern dental findings.\n\nPlease accept test tube.\n\nTo prove results, send coupon for 10-day test or buy a tube-for sale everywhere. Do this now for your own sake.\n\n**10-Day Tube Free**\n\nW. S. SHERLY & CO., Dept. CH7-20, 6 Queens Rd. Central, Hongkong.\n\n7-10-2\n\nI enclose 3 cents in postage stamps for 10-day trial tube of Pepsodent.\n\nName\nAddress\nCity\n\nGive full address. Write plainly. Only one tube to a family.\n\n## PETER MUSIC CO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL\n\nAll Kinds of Music and Musical Instruments. Sole Distributors: **MORRISON** PIANOS\n\n33, Miu Chin Street, West, Tungshau, Canton.\n\n## Pearl Theatre\n\n(Opposite DUTCH FOLLY, THE BUND)\n\nPROGRAMME FOR Thurs. to Sat., May 19th to 21st. At 2.30, 7.00, and 9.15 p.m.\n\n**BUSTER KEATON**\n\nThe Frozen Face Comedian\n\nin\n\n\"SEVEN CHANCES\"\n\n6 Reels\n\nALSO\n\nOUR GANG\n\nin\n\nTheir Hilarious Comedy\n\n\"THE COBBLER\"\n\nNext Change!- Commencing Sun. May 22nd.\n\nWesley Barry, Mary Carr, and Pat O'Malley\n\nin\n\n\"FIGHTING\"\n\nWatch Out!\n\n**CHARLIE CHAPLIN**\n\nin\n\n\"THE GOLD RUSH\"\n\n院戲畫影珠明\n\n## NATIONAL THEATRE\n\n(North Wing Hon Road)\n\nPROGRAMME FOR Fri. to Mon. May 20th to 23rd.\n\nAt 12.30, 2.30, 7.00, and 9.00 P.M.\n\nTHE LIVING BUDDHA, Part II\n\nA Chinese Picture\n\nNext Change COMMENCING TUES. MAY 24TH\n\nBETTY COMPSON and LEATRICE JOY\n\nin\n\n\"LADIES MUST LIVE\"\n\nA Paramount Picture\n\nComing Attraction\n\nRUDOLPH VALENTINO\n\nin\n\n\"BLOOD AND SAND\"\n\n## 美商美亞保險公司\n\n長堤光樓\n\nThe Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co.\n\nOF NEW YORK\n\nAll classes of Insurance Transacted\n\nGENERAL AGENTS\n\nAmerican Asiatic Underwriters, (South China) Fed. Inc. U.S.A., Missions Building The Bund",
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        "title": "CO129-510-14 Report of committee of enquiry into discrepancies and losses in government departments in Hong Kong... 21-4-1928 - 24-10-1928",
        "content_text": "80. We have considered the evidence of the Accountant, the Store Supervisor and the two Storekeepers who have been in charge since 1923, and we have come to the conclusion that the stocks were handled in a somewhat haphazard manner and without due regard to the necessity for keeping accurate records of issues and receipts.\n\nIn the case of the apparent loss of a large number of rounds of revolver ammunition we find satisfactory evidence that this ammunition had become unserviceable and was dumped in the sea but was not, owing to inadvertence, struck off charge.\n\nIn the case of other surpluses and deficiencies we have to be satisfied with expressions of opinion by the witnesses that there were omissions to obtain receipt and issue notes in respect of legitimate receipts and issues.\n\nAs instances of these we would cite the alleged issue of utensils to messes, of small parts and repair materials to the armourer, and of accoutrements and beds urgently required for the use of recruits.\n\n81. Our investigations lead us to believe that there has not in all probability been any loss, peculation or misapplication of articles and that consequently there has been no financial loss to the Government.\n\n82. The present Storekeeper, Mr. W. G. Harrison, was appointed to that post on the 2nd May, 1925, when he succeeded Sergeant A. Riach to whom he had been assistant since April, 1923. Sergeant Riach had been Storekeeper since 1919.\n\n83. We find that there is not in operation in the Stores any system of tally boards or an equivalent therefor.\n\nWe regard it as essential that there should be such a system as without it the Storekeeper has no ready means of ascertaining how his stocks should stand, for the store accounts are kept in the Accountant's Office.\n\nMr. Harrison started a system of tally boards, but informs us that it is quite impossible with his present limited staff to keep them up to date. His staff consists only of an Assistant Storekeeper and a Chinese police corporal, the latter being on duty at the stores only to keep order and prevent theft.\n\nWe find that during the first three months of the present year the Storekeeper had to deal with 853 receipt notes, 1,884 issue notes and 289 order notes, and we can appreciate his difficulty in keeping tally boards up to date without clerical assistance. He has asked for this but his request has not been acceded to.\n\n84. After the stocktaking in 1923 Mr. A. H. C. Taylor, the Police Department Accountant, addressed a minute to the Captain Superintendent of Police in which he stated that the system in force was well supervised and that adjustments of stock should in future be very rare, as all issues and receipts were strictly accounted for.\n\nSubsequent events have failed to justify this optimistic outlook.\n\nIn the absence of evidence as to how or when the discrepancies arose we cannot feel entirely satisfied that all receipts and issues are even now correctly accounted for.\n\n85. The Police Regulations, Section 5A 2., require that a complete inventory of all Police Stores should be made twice a year.\n\nFor a period of four and a half years no such inventory was made, and the reason given by the Captain Superintendent of Police is that stocktaking was impossible owing to the fact that the books were not up to date. The Accountant also considers this a good reason for not taking stock.\n\nWe are unable to agree with this contention, for, had the stock been taken at any given date, the figures then ascertained could have been compared with the stock book figures when subsequently the books were written up.",
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        "content_text": "PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,-Continued.\n\nDetails of the foregoing,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward : 54\n\n70\n\nHead 29.-PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1928.\n\nEstimate, 1929.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,-Continued\n\nPUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\n$ $\n\nHead 29.-PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1928.\n\nEstimate, 1929.\n\n$ $ $\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,-Continued.\n\nDetails of the foregoing,—Continued.\n\n384,520 404,271\n\nBrought forward 462,161 487,531\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1928 1929\n\nNUMBERS.\n\nElectrical,-Continued.\n\n(B)- Wireless.\n\nJ 1\n\nApprentice Surveyors, ($800 to $1,100 by $75 annually) 1,021 1,096\n\n+ 4 1\n\n1st Class Foremen, ($960 to $1,500 by $60 annually) Office Attendant at $168 3,025 5,205 (1)\n\n1 Engineer, (£460 to £1,000 by £12 at £20 and 12 at £25 annually).. 5,520 (1)\n\n168 1 1\n\nInspector of Wireless and Telegraph, (£400 to £480 by £20 annually).. 5,119 5,359\n\n1 Do.. Good Conduct Allowance 60\n\n£480 by £20 annually).. 5,119 5,359 1 Do.. Rent Allowance\n\nSurvey Coolie, at $132 48 3 3\n\nTelegraph Sub-Engineers, (£300 to £400 by £20 annually) 13,896 14,400 (2)\n\nDo.. Do., Good Conduct Allowance Rent Allowance ... Electrical.\n\nGO (2) I 1\n\nSenior Wireless Operator, (£300 to £400 by £20 annually) 4,173 4,413\n\n2 4 Senior Wireless Operators, (£260 to £300 by £10 annually) 6,240 12,480 (1) (2)\n\n} Traffic Supervisors, ($2,000 to $2,900 by $100) 8,259 (1) (2)\n\n5 8 Junior Wireless Operators, ($1,200 to $1,500 by $75 (2) (3)\n\n1 (A)—Lighting, Telephones, Land Telegraph, Engineer in Charge, (£725 to £1,000 by £25 annually) 6,458 10,827\n\nDo., Charge Allowance Cables and Lights.\n\nannually) 1,290 } (3)\n\n5 5 Apprentice Wireless Operators, ($600 to $950 by $50 (1) (2) annually) 3,145 3,146\n\n1 1 2nd Class Telegraphist, ($2,200 to $2,800 by $150 annually) 2,200 2,350\n\n1 1 3rd Class Telegraphist, ($1,600 to $2,100 by $100 > (2) annually) 1,883 1,984\n\n2 Engineers, (£460 to £1,000 by 12 at £20 and 12 at £25) 2 2\n\n4th Class Telegraphists ($1,200 to $1,500 by $75 6,269 17,636 (4) annnally) 2,969 3,000\n\nCharge Allowance 10 1 at $2,400... 2,400 (5) (7)\n\n9 8 5th Class Telegraphists, ($900 to $1,150 by $50 1 1\n\nSenior Inspector of Works, (£500 to £600 by £10 annnally) 8,276 7,611 (2) (4)\n\nannually) 6,179 6,298\n\nSunday and Holiday Allowance for Telegraphists 1 1\n\nInspector of Works, (£400 to £480 by £20 annually) 5,460 5,700 and WT Operators 1,005 1,500 (6)\n\n1 1 Telegraph Sub-Engineer, (£400 to £480 by £20 01)\n\nField Allowances to Telegraphists 2,240 2,240\n\nannually) 5,040 5,280\n\n4 4 Telegraphist Apprentices, ($450 to $850 by $50 1 I\n\n1st Class Overseer, (£320 to £360 by £10 annually) | Sunday and Holiday Allowances to Senior Inspec- 4,256 4,320\n\nannually) 1,971 1,916\n\n1 1 Electrical Fitter, ($900 to $1,100 by $50 annually).. 1,025 1,075\n\ntors of Works. Inspector of Works, Sub-Telegraph Engineer and Overseers\n\n1 1 Cable Jointer, at $2.50 per day... 913 913\n\n400 600\n\n1 No. 1 Rigger, ($600 to $850 by $50 annually) 688 688\n\n1 1\n\n4 4 9 9\n\nGeneral Foreman, ($1,200 to $1,800 by $75 annually) 1st Class Foremen, ($960 to $1,500 by $60 annually) 2nd Class Foremen, ($600 to $900 by $60 annually) Time-keeper, $450 to $850 by $50 annually) Store-keeper, ($450 to $830 by $50 annually)..\n\n1,650 1,725\n\n1 I No. 1 Carpenter, ($450 to $850 by $50 annually) 538 588\n\n4,755 4,995\n\n2 2 Rigger's Mates, at $1.25 each per day 913 913 (2)\n\n6,465 6,900 (1)\n\n2 2 Engine Men, at $1.15 each per day 840 840\n\n650 700\n\n3 3 Cooks, at $312 each 936 936\n\n575 488 (5)\n\n1 1 Sergeant, at $276.. 276 276\n\n1 Electric Fan and Light Inspector, ($450 to $850 by $50 annually) 14 14\n\nCoolies, 1 at $240 and 13 at 60 cents each per day. 3,100 3,100\n\n700 750\n\n1 1 Night Watchman, at 60 cents per day 219 219\n\n1 4th Class Draughtsman, ($450 to $850 by $50 annually) 800 850\n\n9 13 4 4\n\nTelephone Supervisors, ($600 to $1,200 by $60 annually) ê Messengers, at $132 each 1,188 1,716\n\nDi 4,200 4,440\n\nPersonal Allowances, to 1 at $96 and 3 at $48 each............. 240 240\n\n14 15 ह 6\n\nTelephone Operators, ($450 to $850 by $50 annually) Lift Operators, ($200 to $400 by $20 annually)\n\n8,995 10,020 (6)\n\nDo.. Good Conduct Allowance, to 1 at $12, (1) 1,925 1,679\n\n1 at $11, 2 at $9 each and 2 at $6 each 4 53 110.. Do., Good Conduct Allowance to 1 at $36... Rent Allowance to 1 at $24 36\n\nDo.. Sunday Allowances, to 9 at $17 each... 85 153\n\n24 Do..\n\n1 Lift Operators, ($216 to $300 by $12) 891 (5) (6)\n\nRent Allowances, 5 at $48 each and 8 at $24 each........... 336 432\n\n1 Office Attendant, at $192 192 192\n\n2 2 Cleaners, at $132 each 264 264\n\nDo., Do.. Good Conduct Allowance, at $9 Rent Allowance, at $48 9\n\nDu., 48 48\n\n1 Do.. Good Conduct Allowance. Rent Allowances, at $48 each 3 (5)\n\n96 96\n\n4 4 ¦ Messengers, at $132 each 528 528\n\nDo.. Good Conduct Allowances, to 8 at $11 esel and 1 at $9 (0).—Staff lent to Other Departments.\n\n42 Harbour Department, Do.. Rent Allowances, to 4 at $48 each 192 192\n\n1 1 Inspector of Wireless and Telegraph, (£400 to £480 by £20 annually) 5,125\n\nCarried forward 462,161 487,531\n\n1 1 Class V Telegraphist ($900 to $1,150 by $50 annually) Carried forward 975 5,365 1,025\n\n589,500 591,253\n\n(1) Stipulated increment, (2) Promoted to Office attendant, (3) Included in 2 Engineers below.\n\n(4) New scale. (5) New appointment. (6) New posts, (7) Formerly under Engineer in Charge; increased to $2,400.\n\n(2) Stipulated increment. (3) Transferred from Wireless Operators under **(*\" Royal Observatory.\n\n(G, More Sunday work expected. (1) New posts. 4) One post abolished. (5) New appointment.\n\n155 71",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929\n\n## WARWICK REVUES. CONTINUED SUCCESS.\n\nThe season which opened last week at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, so brightly continues its success. The Warwick Revue Company started off very well, and they are maintaining their high standard. What is more, when a complete change of programme is promised it is given—and that cannot be said of all managers.\n\nThe first two successes of the short season was followed last night by yet another—\"The Merry-Go-Round\"—not that the name matters at all. What does matter is that Mr. Warwick's talented company continue to demonstrate their remarkable store of talent and versatility. There is not a dull moment during the evening; and the various numbers are presented so swiftly, attractively, and with such originality that one almost forgets having seen the same performers a night or two previously, and can imagine an entirely new company having made its appearance in their stead.\n\nIf there be anyone on Kowloon side who has not yet seen a Warwick revue, and who appreciates ...\n\n## CORRESPONDENCE.\n\n### MRS. EDDY AGAIN.\n\nSIR,—I have just seen a cutting from your issue of August 15 and despite the long delay I respectfully request you to publish a few words in regard to the communication therein by William H. Adler, Committee on Publication in Hong Kong for the Boston \"Mother Church.\"\n\nMr. Adler was ill-advised in quoting Rev. Lyman P. Powell of New York City, former President of Hobart College, as having spoken favourably of Mrs. Eddy as the Founder of Christian Science. Some years ago Rev. Powell examined the documentary evidence bearing upon the question of Mrs. Eddy having purloined her doctrines from her teacher, Dr. P. P. Quimby, and then wrote a book entitled \"Christian Science, The Faith and Its Founder\" which was published by the well-known New York firm of G. P. Putnam's Sons. On page 64 of this book Dr. Powell says:-\n\nDr. Quimby had started on his mental healing course years before his most distinguished patient (Mrs. Eddy) had ever heard of him. The most she ever did for him who did so much for her was to give to him while he was alive the appreciation, precious beyond words to every doctor, and when he was dead fulsome verse, in which she made \"sackcloth clothe the sun and day grow night.\" And then, as years went by and ambition grew with what it fed on, she began to claim first that she had started Quimby on his course, then that she, not he, had planned the course, and last, that he had not taken any course at all of mental healing, but was mere mesmerist. And only in the high noon of this year's (1908) publicity has truth crushed to earth risen again to the defence of Quimby and the depreciation of his one-time friend and pupil patient. An unbroken line of witnesses from 1862 to 1875 all testify that Mrs. Eddy was in those years continuously making generous acknowledgement that she got her central principle from Quimby.\n\nA new biography of Mrs. Eddy by Edwin Franden Dakin has just been published by Scribner's, one of the leading American publishers. This 550-page book, which is having a very large sale in America and England, is composed largely of documentary evidence fully sustaining the fact that Mrs. Eddy developed her system entirely from what she got from Quimby. I enclose for your files an extensive review of this book from the New York Times Book Review, the leading American medium of literary criticism.—Yours, etc.\n\nJOHN V. DITTEMORE, Committee on Information, The Christian Science Parent Church.\n\nWASHINGTON, Sept. 13.\n\n## COL. LINDBERGH AS ARCHEOLOGIST. DISCOVERS LOST MAYA CITY.\n\nBelize, British Honduras.—Carrying out a project he has cherished for months, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is conducting an aerial survey of the area between Belize and Yucatan and is reported to have discovered new secrets of the ancient Maya civilization.\n\nRadio reports from Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh state that they have uncovered signs of large ruins in the midst of heretofore impenetrable jungles.\n\nColonel Lindbergh's imagination was fired toward conducting this exploration when, in the course of a good-will flight months ago, he spied ancient ruins in the midst of jungle country.\n\nTwo tiny green lakes gleaming up like eyes attracted his attention and he flew down to discover that they were part of an elaborate plan apparently forming a temple and grounds. No habitations were near and the jungle seemed so dense that to penetrate to the scene on foot would be a labour of months.\n\nLindbergh desired to return at once but other duties called him away. The present work may occupy some time and it is believed that it may have important consequences in facilitating the study of the ancient Mayas.\n\n## PENANG HOSPITAL AFFAIR.\n\nIn the middle of 1927, the Penang visiting committee had reason for strongly criticising the conditions at the General Hospital. As a result, an official report was made by Dr. Douglas and Dr. Ebden, who at that time were stationed at Penang. Three weeks later the visiting committee issued a public statement intimating their decision to resign en bloc.\n\nQuestions were asked in the Legislative Council and in answer to the question as to whether the doctors concerned would be punished, Government replied that their careers would not be prejudiced.\n\nWhat actually happened at the end of Dr. Douglas' term of office was that he was told that his services would no longer be required and he sailed for home in April this year.\n\nDr. Ebden was appointed to an inferior position at Singapore and subsequently appointed Acting Medical Officer, Alor Star.\n\nNow, after 18 months' service in Kedah, during which time he was largely responsible for many much-needed improvements, he has been told his services will no longer be required. The Pinang Gazette says: \"Both men are capable officers who were high up in their profession. If this Machi the Service fails to attract the best men.\"—Straits Times.\n\n## \"WORKERS\" SEIZE PEPING TEMPLE. VIGOROUS BUDDHIST PROTEST.\n\nPeking. A spectacular demonstration was held in the old capital against the recent forcible occupation of the Teh-san Temple by the local Tramway Co.'s workers. The demonstrators, composed of monks, nuns, lamas, and schoolboys from the Buddhist institutions, numbering not less than 2,000, started in a lengthy procession from the western city to the Municipal Party Headquarters. Upon their arrival, the following demands were made:-\n\n| Demand | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | That the temple in question should be returned; |\n| 2 | That compensation should be made by the Workers Union for damage done in the temple; |\n| 3 | That the culprits be punished; |\n| 4 | That the local authorities should afford due protection in future. |\n\nThe requests are said to have been complied with.—Kue Wen.\n\n## PERAMBULATOR THEFTS. TWO CHINESE ARRESTED.\n\nTwo Chinese have been arrested in Kowloon in connection with perambulator thefts which were reported to have occurred last July. Detective Sergeant Humphreys and a posse of police raided a house in Mongkok and took charge of two Chinese and three baby carriages. The men will be brought before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at Kowloon Magistracy to-day.\n\nThe first man is charged with stealing a perambulator, the property of Mrs. Park, No. 12, Empress Lodge, on July 3; and another perambulator from Mrs. Larcombe, of No. 25, Carnarvon Road, ground floor, on July 9th. In this case, the perambulator was stolen from the hallway.\n\nThe other Chinese is charged with stealing a basinette, valued at $40, from Mrs. Othen at No. 15, Carnarvon Road, on July 25. The first man is further charged with \"receiving\" this basinette.",
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        "content_text": "## 21. MAGISTRACY, HONG KONG.\n\n110. The posts of Police Magistrate and Coroner and Second Police Magistrate are usually filled by Cadet Officers. We have already recommended, for the reasons given in paragraph 47 of this Report, that the post of First Clerk to the Magistracy should be a \"Special Appointment\" under the Senior Clerical & Accounting Staff on a scale of £700 per annum, rising by £25 annually to £950.\n\nThe Office staff should be paid as follows:\n| Position | Salary Scale |\n| --- | --- |\n| Office Attendant | $192 to $210 |\n| Messengers & Coolie | $156 to $204 |\n\nIncrements of $12 in each case after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years of service.\n\n## 22. MAGISTRACY, KOWLOON.\n\n111. The Police Magistrate & Coroner for Kowloon is also usually a Cadet Officer. The Office Staff should be paid as follows:\n| Position | Salary Scale |\n| --- | --- |\n| Office Attendant | $192 to $240 |\n| Messengers & Coolie | $156 to $204 |\n\nIncrements of $12 in each case after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years of service.\n\nWe recommend the following scales for Indian Police Officers:\n| Rank | Salary Scale |\n| --- | --- |\n| Assistant Superintendents | $2,100 to $3,000 by $150 annually |\n| Inspectors | $1,200 to $1,800 |\n| Sub Inspectors | $900 to $1,020 by $60 |\n| Sergeant Majors | $780 to $840 by $30 |\n| Sergeants | $440 to $520 by $20 |\n| Lance Sergeants | $396 to $420 by $12 |\n| Constables 1st Class | $372 to $836 |\n| Constables 2nd Class | ... |\n\n## 23. POLICE FORCE\n\n112. The post of Captain Superintendent of Police is at present held by an officer of Class 1 of the Cadet Service. In future, however, we understand the post will normally be filled by officers who have entered the service as Police Probationers (`General Order No. 26(3)`). When such is the case, we consider a scale of £1,350 per annum, rising to £1,690 by annual increments of £50, to be adequate for the post.\n\nWith one exception, the Deputy Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, and Probationers are, we understand, on a time scale similar to that of the Cadet Service. The scale was revised last year, and as from 1st January 1929, the increments at the lower portion of the scale were considerably steepened. We recommend, therefore, according to the rule laid down by us, that a Probationer should receive £400 per annum on joining the service, rising to £425 on passing his second examination in Chinese, and to £450 per annum on passing his final examination. His salary should then rise by 4 annual increments of £30, 2 of £60, 9 of £40, and 5 of £50 to £1,300 per annum, with efficiency bars at £570 and £1,050 per annum.\n\nOne post of Assistant Superintendent, held by an officer promoted from Chief Inspector, is on a special scale. For him, we recommend a scale of £780 rising to £930 by £50 annually.\n\n113. For the European Contingent of the Police Force, we recommend scales as follows:\n| Rank | Salary Scale |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chief Inspectors and Chief Detective Inspector | £600 to £700 by £25 annually |\n| Inspectors | £475 to £535 by £20 |\n| Sub-Inspectors | £370 to £430 by £15 |\n| Sergeants | £260 to £350 by 2 annual increments of £20 and 5 of £10 |\n| Lance Sergeants | £100 to £240 by £10 annually |\n\n114. In paragraph 54, we have already referred to the representations made to us by Indian Officers of the Clerical Service and of the Police Force and Prisons Department. We have recommended the grant of full pay leave to India but have stated that we are unable to suggest that any special exchange privileges should be granted to Indian employees. In revising the salaries of the Indian Contingent of the Police Force, we have, however, taken into consideration any difficulties which may have arisen in recent years on account of the fall in the value of the Hong Kong dollar.\n\n115. We recommend the following scales for the Chinese Contingent, both Cantonese and Wei Hai Wei men:\n| Rank | Salary Scale |\n| --- | --- |\n| Inspectors | $900 |\n| Sergeant Majors | $720 |\n| Principal Chinese Detectives | ... |\n| Sergeants | $480 |\n| Lance Sergeants | $396 |\n| Constables 1st Class | $312 to $360 by $12 annually |\n| Constables 2nd Class | $240 to $300 by $12 |\n\nThe Female Searchers should be graded, with some at $192 to $240 and the remainder at $156 to $204, by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years.\n\n116. For the Water Police, we recommend the same scales as for the crews of Government Launches under the Harbour Department, namely:\n| Rank | Salary Scale |\n| --- | --- |\n| Boatswains Class 1 | $456 to $516 by $12 annually |\n| Coxswains Class 1 | $384 to $444 by $12 |\n| Sailors and Seamen | $324 to $384 by $12 |\n| Stokers Class II | $252 to $312 by $12 |\n| Motor Mechanic (afloat) | $216 to $240 by $12 |\n\n117. Miscellaneous. For Motor Mechanics on shore, we have recommended generally $650 to $800 by $50 annually, and for Motor Drivers $550 to $650 by $50 annually. The majority of the Motor Drivers are, however, Sergeants of the Indian Contingent; they should receive the pay of their rank, namely, $440 to $520 by $20 annually. The Barrack Sergeants and Station Sergeants should also receive the pay of their rank in the Force. For Boatmen, we suggest the scale of $156 to $210 by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years; and for Cooks, 6 at $240 to $300 by $12 annually, and 4 at $156 to $204, by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years of service. The rates at present paid to the Armourer Attendants are, we consider, adequate, but the usual Rent Allowances should be granted to each.\n\nThe Office Attendant should receive $192 to $240, the Armourer Coolie, Scale Coolie, Head Coolie, Caretaker at Taipo, and Gardener at Taipo $156 to $204, by $12 in each case after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years. The Caretakers at Tsing Lung Tau, Sha Tin Gap, Mui Wo, and Shap Long Village are in part-time employment only, and we do not propose to recommend any change in the small sums paid annually to them.\n\nMessengers and Coolies should be paid on the scale of $156 to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years.\n\nFor the Range Marker, we suggest a scale of $300 to $420 by $12 annually.\n\n## Page 314",
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        "content_text": "## 325\n\n30 \n\nby £30 annually to £880 per annum; and for the Traffic Assistant £480 to £700 by 5 annual increments of £20, 2 of £40 and 2 of £20. For the Traffic Inspectors we recommend £300, rising to £430 by 8 annual increments of £15 and 1 of £10; and for the Sub-Inspector $1,350 to $1,800 by $75 annually.\n\nWe consider the pay of the Head Watchman to be adequate, namely $300 to $372 by $12 annually; for Watchmen we recommend $192, rising to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years. For Office Attendants we recommend one post on $252 to $300 and the remainder on $192 to $240, by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years. Messengers, Store Coolies, and Sanitary Coolies should receive the usual scale of $156 to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years.\n\n31 \n\nFor Watchmen at the Central Mechanical Works we recommend $192 to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years, and for Artizans the following scales:\n\n| Position | Salary Scale |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Class Foreman | $1,000 to $1,700 by $100 annually |\n| Building Foreman | $600 to $950 by $50 |\n| 1st Class Fitters | $1,000 to $1,300 by $75 |\n| 2nd Class Fitters | $600 to $950 by $50 |\n| 1st Class Carpenter | $1,000 to $1,300 by $75 |\n| 2nd Class Carpenter | $600 to $950 by $50 |\n| 3rd Class Carpenter | $360 to $570 by $30 |\n| 1st Class Electrician | $600 to $950 by $50 |\n| 2nd Class Electrician | $360 to $570 by $30 |\n| Electric Welder | $600 to $950 by $50 |\n| 1st Class Painter | $600 to $950 by $50 |\n\n## 156. \nFor the Station Masters and Clerks we recommend scales as follows:\n\n| Position | Salary Scale |\n| --- | --- |\n| Telephone Operators | $480 to $1,000 by annual increments, 1 of $60, 1 of $110, 3 of $50, and 2 of $100 |\n| Station Masters (5) | $1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually |\n| Station Masters (4) | $1,100 to $1,400 by $100 |\n| Booking Clerks | $600 to $1,000 by $50 |\n| Senior Goods Clerk | $1,500 to $1,800 by $100 |\n| Relief Goods Clerk | $600 to $1,000 by $50 |\n| Signalmen | $480 to $600 by $30 |\n| Block Operators | $300... |\n| Probationers | $300... |\n\nThe Shunters should receive $360 rising to $600 by $30 annually, the Ticket Printer $840 to $1,080 by $60 annually, and Assistant Ticket Printer $360 to $780 by $30 annually.\n\nFor Pointsmen and Watchmen we suggest the scale $192 to $240, and for Porters, Gatemen, Latrine Coolies, and Female Latrine Attendant the scale $156 to $204 by $12 in each case after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years.\n\n## 157. \nFor Drivers 1st Class we recommend a scale of $700, rising to $1,000 by $50 annually, for 2nd Class $540 to $660 by $30 annually, and for Firemen $330 to $480 by $30 annually.\n\nThe Yard Pointsmen and Locomotive Cleaners on monthly pay should receive $192 to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years. For the No. 1 Carriage Cleaner we suggest a scale of $372 rising to $480 by $12 annually and for the No. 2 Carriage Cleaners $300 to $360 by $12 annually. The Wagon Cleaners should be on the scale $156 to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years.\n\nFor Guards we suggest the scale of $600, rising to $1,000 by $50 annually, for Ballast Guard $600 to $720 by $30 annually, and for Ticket Collectors $420 to $600 by $30 annually. The Brakesmen should receive $360, rising to $600 by $30 annually, and the Saloon Car Attendant $192 rising to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years.\n\n## 158. \nFor the Chief Mechanical Engineer we consider the scale of pay should be £730, rising to £880 by £30 annually, and for the Assistant Mechanical Engineer, £470 rising to £530 by £20 annually. The Engine Examiner should receive $2,200 per annum, rising by $200 annually to $2,800, and the Clerk $550 to $700 by $25 annually.\n\nFor the Office Attendant and Assistant Telephone Clerk we suggest $252 rising to $300; and for the Storemen $192 to $240 by $12 in each case after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years' service.\n\n## 159. \nFor the Assistant Engineer on Maintenance of Way and Structures we recommend a scale of $4,000, rising to $6,000 by $200 annually, for the Inspector of Permanent Way £370, rising to £430 by £15 annually, and for the Sub-Inspector $600, rising to $1,000 by $50 annually. The 3rd Class Draughtsman should receive the same scale as suggested for such employees in the Public Works Department, namely $1,100, rising to $1,800 by $100 annually. For the Tracer we suggest a scale of $300, rising to $450 by $50 annually. The Office Attendant should receive $192, rising to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years.\n\nThe No. 1 Headman of the Labour Gangs on maintenance of the Track should receive $600, rising to $950 by $50 annually, and the other Headmen $480, rising to $540 by $20 annually. For Keymen we suggest a scale of $180 to $276 by $12 annually and for Platelayers 12 senior posts on $180 to $276 and the remainder on $168 to $252 by $12 annually in all cases. The No. 1 Trolleyman should receive $192 to $240, the other Trolleymen and the Gatemen $156 to $204 by $12 in all cases after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years. Watchmen should be on the same scale, $192 rising to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years.\n\n## 33.-VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS\n\n## 160. \nThe Allowance at present paid to the Commandant is purely nominal and it is therefore impossible for us to comment on its adequacy or otherwise. The pay of the Adjutant is fixed in dollars and is the result of an arrangement made by the Colonial Government with the War Office for the seconding of a Military Officer for duty with the Corps. We imagine that this will be done each time a vacancy occurs and there is therefore no object in our making any recommendation.\n\nFor the Sergeant Major we recommend a scale of £370, rising to £470 by £20 annually. We consider the pay of the Armourer Attendant to be adequate but suggest that he should be granted the usual rent allowance. The Motor Driver should receive the scale suggested throughout this Report for men of his grade, namely $550, rising to $650 by $50 annually.\n\nThe Storeman, we understand, is a British Soldier who receives an allowance of $1 a day for his services; we do not suggest any alteration. The scale of the Range Warden we consider adequate in every way; the Messengers, Coolies, and Watchman should receive $156 rising to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9, and 12 years' service.\n\n## II. Currency Basis\n\n## 161. \nWe have already partially dealt with this Head of Enquiry in paragraph 12 of this Report.\n\nWe consider that the salaries of officers, ordinarily recruited in England, should continue to be quoted in Sterling, and paid in Sterling while an officer is on leave in England or other country having a gold standard. It seems to us that this is essential, not only with a view to attracting recruits for the various branches of the Service, but also for the purpose of computing pensions, especially in cases where an officer has served in other Colonies before transfer to Hong Kong. By our suggestion that Sterling Salaries\n\n## 326",
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        "content_text": "33\n\nThe report is as follows:-\n\n\"In reply to your letter of December the 18th last, requesting information as to the method of search of local river and coasting steamers, I beg to forward the following three notes which correspond to the three headings given in your letter:-\n\n(a). Present system of inspecting passengers and baggage on steamers plying between Hong Kong, Canton and Delta Ports.\n\nThe searchers go to the wharf three or four hours before the ship is due to leave; they go on board and any passengers that may be there are told to go on shore with their luggage. When that has been done the ship is then searched under the supervision of a European Police Officer. In the meantime, one man is posted on each gangway to prevent any person coming on board, another on the seaward side of the ship to prevent people boarding the ship from sampans. After the ship has been searched all men except the man on duty on the seaward side, go on to the wharf where they search all passengers and their luggage. If found correct they are allowed on board the ship. The searchers remain until such time as the ship is well clear of the wharf. The man on duty at the seaward side leaves the ship at the last minute. All people coming on to the wharf, whether passengers or otherwise, and their belongings, are searched, unless they produce an exemption permit signed by the Captain Superintendent of Police. A female searcher is also on the wharf to search females but she does not search luggage.\n\nAll grilles are locked when the ship sails. The number of searchers on each wharf is from ten to fifteen. The same procedure is taken with the Douglas, O.S.K., coasting steamers and the s.s. \"Hydrangea\".\n\n(b) Search of Ocean going vessels, to and from Overseas Ports, including Straits Settlements and ports south of Hong Kong.\n\nAll deep sea ships operating under the Piracy Prevention Ordinance are searched. This, of course includes all such vessels bound for ports south of Hong Kong such as Kwong Chau Wan, Pak Hoi, Haiphong, Hoihau and Fort Bayard.\n\nAt the Water Police Station there are ten Chinese male searchers and one Chinese female searcher, all acting under a European Lance Sergeant for work in connection with the search of ships under the Piracy Prevention Ordinance.\n\nAn arrangement is in force between the Harbour Department and the Water Police, whereby information concerning times of intended departure of ships is communicated from the former to the latter. The European Lance Sergeant and his squad of searchers then go off and search the ship. All passengers in all classes are searched; also crews' quarters and any places on the ship likely to be used for smuggling purposes. All luggage is searched and the searchers write their respective numbers on each article of baggage they search. When necessary, the Indian Guards assist in the search, but they are only called upon when the number of passengers is great and time does not permit of a proper search by Police. When the search is completed, the European in-charge reports the fact to the Captain, supervises the locking of the grilles and sees the Indian Guards at their posts and is the last to leave the ship previous to slipping the cable.\n\nAs regards other out-going deep sea vessels there is no systematic search, such vessels only being searched when searchers are available and time permits, but some of these ships are searched by the Revenue Authorities. There are no regular Police searchers on ships running to and from the Straits Settlements and Java.\n\n(c) Available information as to search at other ports.\n\nThe Indian Guards employed on ships under the Piracy Prevention Ordinance do not carry out any search of passengers in the port of Hong Kong, nor at Macau where a search system similar to that in Hong Kong is carried out. At all other ports within the piracy zone the Indian Guards on board search all passengers boarding. The search is generally carried out under the supervision of a European Officer of the ship.\n\nThere are three ships which usually run from the South, which are fitted with grilles and carry guards. These are the s.s. \"Borneo\", \"Mingsang\" and the s.s. \"Taming\". No search is made of passengers or baggage at Singapore or other\n\nPage 160\n\nPage 161\n\n185\n\n186",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1930.\n\nMONEY OBTAINED WITH MENACES.\n\nHONG KONG HOTEL | EXTRADITION CASE COLD ROOMS. CONCLUDED. DOUGLAS GIFFORD GETS YEAR'S GAOL. INDIAN DOCTOR WHO WAS INTIMIDATED.\n\nAppearing on a remand charge of fighting, Douglas Gifford, a Eurasian, was confronted with new charges when he appeared before Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. He was alleged to have demanded from an Indian doctor the sum of $180 with menaces and the conversion to his own use of a raincoat, watch and chain.\n\nTwo other persons, Chan Leung and Ho Yee (a married woman), were also charged with demanding money in connection with the affair. Gifford pleaded guilty to the three charges.\n\n\"MENUS\" DISCUSSED IN COURT. FISH FIRST AND CHICKEN AFTERWARDS.\n\nCold storage matters were further discussed at the Supreme Court yesterday when Mr. Rasey was cross-examined by Mr. Potter as to the accommodation of the rooms for the various classes of produce and the time taken to reduce the temperature of the goods to the figure provided in the contract.\n\nAfter a series of questions in the morning, the Court adjourned early to enable the witness to make further calculations and search authorities as to the point at which latent heat is extracted from fish and the freezing point of a chicken. In the afternoon, witness produced Mott's tables and said that latent heat was extracted from fish when the temperature was minus 15 degrees, but at what point it began to be extracted he could not say. Fish would be stored in the cold room at 18 degrees.\n\nMr. Potter: We will have fish first and chicken afterwards. Now what about our chicken? At what point is latent heat extracted from poultry?-Between zero and 10 degrees.\n\nEnters the Girl. Outlining the case for the prosecution, Detective-Sergeant Fitches said that the Indian doctor arrived in the Colony from Rangoon early this year, and took up his abode at 11, Wong Chuk Street. It was there that Gifford came to the doctor's residence on several occasions. On one of his visits, he found a young girl and her aunt in the house. The girl was taken into the house by the amah, who told the doctor that she would be a useful companion during his stay in Hong Kong. The complainant agreed to become engaged to the girl, and the amah bought a ring for $8, in accordance with Chinese custom.\n\nThe girl visited the complainant several times, and on each occasion, Gifford acted as interpreter. The doctor, however, became suspicious and decided to discontinue being \"engaged.\" Gifford, however, remonstrated and explained that the complainant had been guilty of a serious misdeed. The complainant was required to pay $400 as damages, but he agreed to pay only $200. The money was paid, and Gifford brought the girl back to her home in Apliu Street, where he handed over the $200 to the girl's aunt. He received $100 in connection with the part played by him. The aunt had since died.\n\nAlleged Breach of Promise.\n\nSubsequently, Chan Leung and Ho Yee, the second and third defendants, together with another man, visited the complainant in his house. The second defendant claimed to be the girl's uncle and the third defendant styled herself as the elder sister of the girl. Both these statements were untrue. Gifford, who was also present, then told the doctor that another $200 was demanded for his alleged breach of promise. The complainant finally agreed to pay this amount also in monthly instalments of $50.\n\nAt what point does latent heat commence to be extracted?-I cannot say.\n\nHave you, as a matter of interest, tried to freeze fish?-As a matter of money, which is more interesting.\n\nCome back to chicken, the freezing point is anything between zero and 10 degrees?-Yes.\n\nWitness had said that he could store 600 lbs. of chicken in the poultry room, and he disagreed with Mr. Potter that 2,400 lbs. could be stored.\n\nMilk and Eggs.\n\nMr. Potter: Will you give us the storage weight for eggs?-21,000 eggs, and temperature reduction from 90 to 20 degrees.\n\nWhat about latent heat-There is none.\n\nWhat is the freezing point of eggs?-Zero to 10 degrees.\n\nIn the room, there could be 2,880 bottles of milk. There would be no question of latent heat because milk does not freeze at 20 degrees.\n\nWhat is the freezing point?-I don't know.\n\nMr. Rasey: The time, according to Hacker's figures, to bring the milk down to 20 degrees is 14 days?-Yes.\n\nWill you agree that it is an unreasonable time?-Yes.\n\nMAGISTRATE COMMITS \"WANTED\" MAN.\n\nEVIDENCE RAISES A DOUBT.\n\nAt Central Magistracy yesterday, the case in which the Canton authorities are seeking the custody of a Chinese named Tang Yun, for alleged murder which is said to have taken place on April 22 last, in the village of Yuet Tong, Tung Koon district, was concluded.\n\nMr. R. E. Lindseil, in committing the defendant to prison pending the pleasure of His Excellency the Governor, told Mr. F. C. E. Rendall, solicitor for the defence, that the evidence in the case was such as to have raised some doubt in his Worship's mind, but the extent of it was not sufficient to warrant the defendant's discharge. He added, however, that in his statutory report to His Excellency the Governor, he would express the doubts which he had in his mind.\n\nOBITUARY.\n\nMR. GEORGE SHAW PASSES AWAY.\n\nWe regret to record the death of Mr. George Shaw, which occurred at the Government Civil Hospital at 6.15 a.m. yesterday.\n\nMr. Shaw, who was only 35 years of age, had been in indifferent health for the past two years, having been an inmate of the Government Civil Hospital since September, 1927. He was not, however, a bed patient, but he required constant treatment and was very popular with the medical officers and nursing staff, being always ready to lend a hand in an emergency.\n\nThe crisis in his long illness came about a week ago, when he was forced to take to bed permanently, and though he made several rallies followed by heavier relapses during the crisis, these were always the worst of these happened on Thursday night, and early yesterday morning the patient passed away.\n\nThe late Mr. Shaw was a native of Lancashire, and soon after the outbreak of the War, he joined up when he was only 19 years of age. He served with the 3rd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, and in 1918 he was invalided home with malignant malaria, fever and general unfitness for further active service. He was also badly gassed, and was a first-class shot and first-class signaller. He held the General Service and Victory Medals and was demobilised in 1919, when he returned to China to take up an appointment with the Customs. In 1923, he resigned from this post and joined Messrs. Cary & Co., of Canton, and it was in 1927 that he was forced to leave this post on account of bad health and came to Hong Kong for treatment in the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nProceeding, Det.-Sergt. Fitches said that Gifford on several occasions borrowed the doctor's raincoat and his watch and chain. These articles were not returned, as the defendant had pawned them.\n\nIt was stated that Gifford had threatened to issue a summons against the doctor, if the $200 were not paid. The complainant, ignorant of Chinese custom, had thought that he had done a terrible thing.\n\nA Pair of Shoes-And a Fight.\n\nA summons was eventually taken out against the defendant, but it could not be served, as Gifford could not be found. On the evening of June 17, Gifford was caught fighting with a teacher. The quarrel arose on account of a pair of shoes having been borrowed from the teacher. Gifford, on being asked for the return of the shoes, struck the teacher.\n\nGifford was arrested and taken to the police station, where he made a clean breast of the whole matter.\n\nEvidence was then given by the complainant, after which the Magistrate found the three defendants guilty of conspiracy to defraud. His Worship passed sentences of one year's hard labour on Gifford, and $50, or one month's hard labour, on the other two defendants.\n\nWhat temperature do you suggest we should put it in at?-The milk would come from a dairy and be in cold storage. The only dairy I know of in Hong Kong is the Dairy Farm.\n\nThen we have to confine our activities to the Dairy Farm?-No.\n\nThe Funeral.\n\nThe funeral arrangements were undertaken by the local branch of the British Legion and the E.A.S.M.A., and the sad function took place yesterday afternoon. A number of friends, who had gathered at the Monument, followed the hearse to the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, where Mr. Shaw was buried. Among others who stood at the graveside were Mr. F. W. James (President of the British Legion), Captain Laurenson (President of the Ex-Active Service Men's Association), Mr. F. P. Anslow, Mr. J. Murray, and Mr. T. Williams. The burial service was conducted by Rev. H. V. Koop.\n\nFruit and Vegetables.\n\nGiving his figures for fruit, witness said that 60 cases could be put in the fruit room. It would take 13 days to reduce the temperature of the goods from 90 to 34 degrees.\n\nMr. Potter: It is a mere farce about requiring 13 days to reduce the temperature of fruit from 90 to 34 degrees. I say you can do it in 48 hours.\n\nMr. Rasey: No, Sir.\n\nTaking the figures for the vegetable room, Mr. Potter humorously remarked that if they could finish off the vegetables, which appropriately came last, then there would be little left for Monday.\n\nAfter further questions, the cross-examination was adjourned until Monday morning.\n\nA blind man was seen shaving himself with a razor. He wielded the instrument with such skill that those watching him marvelled at it and remarked that the blind man was not one whit less expert in the use of the instrument than a barber.\n\nHaving finished his operations, the man turned to the crowd and said: \"Don't have the mistaken idea that we blind men cannot perform such delicate work as shaving. In all my life, I have never once patronized a barber! I even used to shave my children when my wife was too busy!\"\n\nWreaths were sent by the following:-Sophie and Aggie, Ivy Soong, the Easma Club, Capt. T. T. Laurenson, British Legion, Sisters and Nurses of the Government Civil Hospital, members of the Upper Levels Police Station (Sergeants' Mess), the Police Ward, G.C.H. Staff, G.C.H., and Mr. and Mrs. T. Hynes.",
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        "content_text": "161\n\n- 18- \n\n21. MAGISTRACY, HONG KONG.\n\n110. The posts of Police Magistrate and Coroner and Second Police Magistrate are usually filled by Cadet Officers.\n\nWe have already recommended, for the reasons given in paragraph 47 of this Report, that the post of First Clerk to the Magistracy should be a \"Special Appointment” under the Senior Clerical & Accounting Staff on a scale of £700 per annum, rising by £25 annually to £950.\n\nThe Office staff should be paid as follows:-\n\n19\n\nWe recommend the following scales for Indian Police Officers :—\n\n$2,100 to $3,000 by $150 annually;\nAssistant Superintendents\n\n$1,200 to $1,800\nInspectors\n\n$900\nSub Inspectors\n\n$780\nSergeant Majors\n\n$440 to $620 by $20\nSergeants\n\n$420\nLance Sergeants\n\n$336\nConstables 1st Class\n\n$372; $240\n2nd Class\n\nOffice Attendant $192 to $240) by $12 in each case after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years\n\nMessengers & Coolies $156 to $204)\n\n22.—MAGISTRACY, KOWLOON.\n\n115. We recommend the following scales for the Chinese Contingent, both Cantonese and Wei Hai Wei men:-\n\n$900;\nInspectors\n\n$720;\nSergeant Majors\n\n$480;\nPrincipal Chinese Detectives\n\n$396;\nSergeants\n\n$...\nLance Sergeants\n\n111. The Police Magistrate & Coroner for Kowloon is also usually a Cadet Officer. The Office Staff should be paid as follows:-\n\nOffice Attendant $192 to $240) by $12 in each case after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years\n\nMessengers & Coolie $156 to $204)\n\n23.—POLICE FORCE,\n\n112. The post of Captain Superintendent of Police is at present held by an officer of Class I. of the Cadet Service. In future, however, we understand the post will normally be filled by officers who have entered the service as Police Probationers (General Order No.26(3)). When such is the case we consider a scale of £1,350 per annum, rising to £1,600 by annual increments of £50, to be adequate for the post.\n\nWith one exception, the Deputy Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents and Probationers are, we understand, on a time scale similar to that of the Cadet Service. The scale was revised last year and as from 1st January 1929 the increments at the lower portion of the scale were considerably steepened. We recommend, therefore, according to the rule laid down by us, that a Probationer should receive £400 per annum on joining the service, rising to £425 on passing his second examination in Chinese, and to £450 per annum on passing his final examination. His salary should then rise by 4 annual increments of £30, 2 of £60, 9 of £40 and 5 of £50 to £1,300 per annum, with efficiency bars at £570 and £1,050 per annum.\n\nOne post of Assistant Superintendent, held by an officer promoted from Chief Inspector, is on a special scale. For him we recommend a scale of £780 rising to £930 by £50 annually.\n\nfollows 500-600\n\n113. For the European Contingent of the Police Force we recommend scales as follows:\n\n£600 to £700 by £25 annually;\nChief Inspectors and Chief Detective Inspector\n\n£475 to £535 by £20\nInspectors\n\n£370 to £430 by £15\nSub-Inspectors\n\n£260 to £350 by 2 annual increments of £20 and 5 of £10;\nSergeants\n\n£190 to £240 by £10 annually\nLance Sergeants\n\n114. In paragraph 54 we have already referred to the representations made to us by Indian Officers of the Clerical Service and of the Police Force and Prisons Department. We have recommended the grant of full pay leave to India but have stated that we are unable to suggest that any special exchange privileges should be granted to Indian employees. In revising the salaries of the Indian Contingent of the Police Force we have, however, taken into consideration any difficulties which may have arisen in recent years on account of the fall in the value of the Hong Kong dollar.\n\n$312 to $360 by $12 annually;\nConstables 1st Class\n\n$240 to $300\n2nd Class\n\nThe Female Searchers should be graded, 1 at $192 to $240 and the remainder at $156 to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years.\n\n116. For the Water Police we recommend the same scales as for the crews of Government Launches under the Harbour Department, namely:\n\n$450 to $516 by $12 annually.\nCoxswains Class I\n\nII\n\nIII\n\n$384 to $444 by $12\nBoatswains Class I\n\n$324 to $384 by $12\nII\n\n$216 to $240 by $12\nIII\n\n$1,050 to $1,500\nChief Engineer\n\n$650 to $1,000 by $50\nGrade II Engineers\n\n$550 to $625 by $25\nClass I\n\n$456 to $516 by $12\nII\n\n$384 to $444 by $12\nIII\n\n$324 to $384 by $12\nIV\n\n$252 to $312 by $12\nStokers Class II\n\n$216 to $240 by $12\nIII\n\n$650 to $800 by $50\nMotor Mechanic (afloat)\n\n117. Miscellaneous.-For Motor Mechanics on shore we have recommended generally $650 to $800 by $50 annually and for Motor Drivers $550 to $650 by $50 annually. The majority of the Motor Drivers are, however, Sergeants of the Indian Contingent; they should receive the pay of their rank, namely, $440 to $520 by $20 annually. The Barrack Sergeants and Station Sergeants should also receive the pay of their rank in the Force. For Boatmen we suggest the scale of $156 to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years; and for Cooks, 6 at $240 to $300 by $12 annually and 4 at $156 to $204, by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years service. The rates at present paid to the Armourer Attendants are, we consider, adequate but the usual Rent Allowances should be granted to each.\n\nThe Office Attendant should receive $192 to $240, the Armourer Coolie, Scale Coolie, Head Coolie, Caretaker at Taipo and Gardener at Taipo $156 to $204, by $12 in each case after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years. The Caretakers at Tsing Lung Tau, Sha Tin Gap, Mui Wo and Shap Long Village are in part-time employment only and we do not propose to recommend any change in the small sums paid annually to them.\n\nMessengers and Coolies should be paid on the scale of $150 to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years.\n\nFor the Range Marker we suggest a scale of $300 to $420 by $12 annually.\n\n162",
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        "content_text": "173\n\n30\n\nby £30 annually to £880 per annum; and for the Traffic Assistant £180 to £700 by 5 annual increments of £20, 2 of £10 and 2 of £20. For the Traffic Inspectors we recommend £300, rising to £430 by 8 annual increments of £15 and 1 of £10 and for the Sub-Inspector $1,350 to $1,800 by $75 annually.\n\nWe consider the pay of the Head Watchman to be adequate, namely $300 to $372 by $12 annually; for Watchmen we recommend $192, rising to $210 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years. For Office Attendants we recommend one post on $252 to $300 and the remainder on $192 to $240, by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years. Messengers, Store Coolies and Sanitary Coolies should receive the usual scale of $156 to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years.\n\n31\n\nFor Watchmen at the Central Mechanical Works we recommend $192 to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years, and for Artizans the following scales :--\n\n1st Class Foreman\n\nBuilding Foreman\n\n1st Class Fitters\n\n2nd Class Fitters\n\n1st Class Carpenter\n\n2nd Class Carpenter\n\n3rd Class Carpenter\n\n1st Class Electrician\n\n  \n    $1,000 to $1,700 by $100 annually;\n  \n  \n    $600 to $950 by $50\n    $1,000 to $1,300 by $75\n    $600 to $950 by $50\n  \n  \n    $1,000 to $1,300 by $75\n    $600 to $950 by $50\n    $360 to $570 by $30\n    $950 by $50\n  \n  \n    2nd Class Electrician\n    $600 to $950 by $50\n  \n  \n    Electric Welder\n    $360 to $570 by $30\n  \n  \n    1st Class Painter\n    $600 to $950 by $50\n  \n\n23\n\n156. For the Station Masters and Clerks we recommend scales as follows:-\n\n  \n    Telephone Operators\n    $480 to $1,000 by annual increments, 1 of $60, 1 of $110, 3 of $50, and 2 of $100.\n  \n  \n    Station Masters (5)\n    $1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually.\n  \n  \n    Station Masters (4)\n    $1,100 to $1,400 by $100\n  \n  \n    Booking Clerks\n    $600 to $1,000 by $50\n  \n  \n    Senior Goods Clerk\n    $1,500 to $1,800 by $100\n  \n  \n    Relief Goods Clerk\n    $600 to $1,000 by $50\n  \n  \n    Signalmen\n    $480 to $600 by $30\n  \n  \n    Block Operators\n    $300\n  \n  \n    Probationers\n    $300\n  \n\n12\n\nThe Shunters should receive $360 rising to $600 by $30 annually, the Ticket Printer $840 to $1,080 by $60 annually, and Assistant Ticket Printer $360 to $780 by $30 annually.\n\nFor Pointsmen and Watchmen we suggest the scale $192 to $240, and for Porters, Gatemen, Latrine Coolies and Female Latrine Attendant the scale $156 to $204 by $12 in each case after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years.\n\n157. For Drivers 1st Class we recommend a scale of $700, rising to $1,000 by $50 annually, for 2nd Class $540 to $660 by $30 annually, and for Firemen $330 to $480 by $30 annually.\n\nThe Yard Pointsmen and Locomotive Cleaners on monthly pay should receive $192 to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years. For the No. 1 Carriage Cleaner we suggest a scale of $372 rising to $480 by $12 annually and for the No. 2 Carriage Cleaners $300 to $360 by $12 annually. The Wagon Cleaners should be on the scale $156 to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years.\n\nFor Guards we suggest the scale of $600, rising to $1,000 by $50 annually, for Ballast Guard $600 to $720 by $30 annually, and for Ticket Collectors $420 to $600 by $30 annually. The Brakesmen should receive $360, rising to $600 by $30 annually, and the Saloon Car Attendant $192 rising to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years.\n\n158. For the Chief Mechanical Engineer we consider the scale of pay should be £730, rising to £880 by £30 annually, and for the Assistant Mechanical Engineer, £470 rising to £530 by £20 annually. The Engine Examiner should receive $2,200 per annum, rising by $200 annually to $2,800, and the Clerk $550 to $700 by $25 annually.\n\nFor the Office Attendant and Assistant Telephone Clerk we suggest $252 rising to $300 and for the Storemen $192 to $240 by $12 in each case after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years service.\n\n159. For the Assistant Engineer on Maintenance of Way and Structures we recommend a scale of $4,000, rising to $6,000 by $200 annually, for the Inspector of Permanent Way £370, rising to £480 by £15 annually and for the Sub-Inspector $600, rising to $1,000 by $50 annually. The 3rd Class Draughtsman should receive the same scale as suggested for such employees in the Public Works Department namely $1,100, rising to $1,800 by $100 annually. For the Tracer we suggest a scale of $300, rising to $450 by $50 annually. The Office Attendant should receive $192, rising to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years.\n\nThe No. 1 Headman of the Labour Gangs on maintenance of the Track should receive $600, rising to $950 by $50 annually, and the other Headmen $480, rising to $540 by $20 annually. For Keymen we suggest a scale of $180 to $276 by $12 annually and for Plate layers 12 senior posts on $180 to $276 and the remainder on $168 to $252 by $12 annually in all cases. The No. 1 Trolleyman should receive $192 to $240, the other Trolleymen and the Gatemen $156 to $204 by $12 in all cases after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years. Watchmen should be on the same scale, $192 rising to $240 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years.\n\n33.-VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.\n\n160. The Allowance at present paid to the Commandant is purely nominal and it is therefore, impossible for us to comment on its adequacy or otherwise. The pay of the Adjutant is fixed in dollars and is the result of an arrangement made by the Colonial Government with the War Office for the seconding of a Military Officer for duty with the Corps. We imagine that this will be done each time a vacancy occurs and there is therefore no object in our making any recommendation.\n\nFor the Sergeant Major we recommend a scale of £370, rising to £470 by £20 annually. We consider the pay of the Armourer Attendant to be adequate but suggest that he should be granted the usual rent allowance. The Motor Driver should receive the scale suggested throughout this Report for men of his grade, namely $550, rising to $650 by $50 annually.\n\nThe Storeman, we understand, is a British Soldier who receives an allowance of $1 a day for his services; we do not suggest any alteration. The scale of the Range Warden we consider adequate in every way; the Messengers, Coolies and Watchman should receive $156 rising to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years service.\n\nII. Currency Basis.\n\n161. We have already partially dealt with this Head of Enquiry in paragraph 12 of this Report.\n\nWe consider that the salaries of officers, ordinarily recruited in England, should continue to be quoted in Sterling, and paid in Sterling while an officer is on leave in England or other country having a gold standard. It seems to us that this is essential, not only with a view to attracting recruits for the various branches of the Service, but also for the purpose of computing pensions, especially in cases where an officer has served in other Colonies before transfer to Hong Kong. By our suggestion that Sterling Salaries\n\n174",
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        "document_key": "CO129-525-4 Writing off of public money 20-2-1930 - 2-6-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-525-4 Writing off of public money 20-2-1930 - 2-6-1930",
        "content_text": "C\n\nHon. Inspector General of Police,\n\nAccording to your instructions we have held an enquiry into the loss of these Badges. It appears that they were supplied locally by the St. John's Ambulance Society not later than 1927. When they were received they were found to be unsuitable for our purposes, and were put away in a drawer in the Store. It seems a pity that they were not returned at once to the St. John's Ambulance Society.\n\nAbout September 1929 a new stock of Badges was received. They were put in the drawer where the old Badges had been kept for upwards of two years. The old Badges were taken out of the drawer, where there was no room for them, and put aside on a shelf at the back of the Store. They subsequently disappeared.\n\nIt is unlikely that they were stolen, as the chances of pilfering are very remote. The Chinese Staff of the Police Store are searched every evening by the Store Keeper before they go off duty. Even the Dust Bin is examined daily in order to prevent any small articles being concealed in the rubbish and taken away from the Store in this manner. It is possible that the parcel containing the Badges was removed inadvertently to the \"unserviceable stores\" room in the Upper Levels Police Station, and got mixed up with other metal which accumulates from time to time and is eventually sold by auction. The badges were valueless except as old metal. We recommend that they be written off.\n\nIn our opinion there was a certain amount of carelessness shown by Police Sergeant Sabey. The Badges, although useless for Police purposes, were still a stock charge, and should have been properly looked after until condemned by a Board of Survey. We therefore recommend that Sergeant Sabey be called upon to pay a proportion of their stock book value.\n\n(Sd.) P. P. J. Wodehouse, (Sd.) W. Kent,\n\nབ\n\nJI IZ",
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        "document_key": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930",
        "content_text": "## \n\n19 \n\nSome 5 minutes later I heard several more shots but couldn't tell where they came from. I had hidden under the amah's bed. At intervals I heard more shots fired. About dark I heard a sound as of the wooden bucket cover in the native latrine below being lifted and then immediately replaced. I heard the same sounds twice repeated.\n\nAbout 8 p.m. I heard the voice of the Indian Lance Sergeant shout something inside the station, and heard the voice of the Indian munshi reply from the direction of the married quarters. I heard and saw nothing more until the rescue party came upstairs about 1 a.m.\n\nTo Mr. King: \"Before the shooting started, I had noticed the murderer between 4.30 and 4.40 p.m. sitting with his rifle and bayonet by the flag staff, cleaning them. I didn't see what he did with the rifle later. He was alone. When the station Guard ran in, he went up the steps on the right by the store room. The murderer went up the same steps. I did not at any time hear my mistress call out anything. After I shut myself in the room, no-one molested me or interfered with me. Except the 3 Indians, I saw no-one else enter the compound. From the firing of the first shot to the firing of the 4 or 5 shots by the bath room was some 7 or 8 minutes.”\n\nJury - No X X.\n\nsd. Au Hun \nsd. R.E. Lind sell \nP.K.\n\n4. James Thornton Smalløy sworn. \"I am the Government M.O. i/c Kowloon Hospital. On 21st July last I went out to Lok Ma Chau about 9.15 p.m., and finally entered the Station about 11.40 p.m. I first found the dead body of Mrs. Kadgwick in the back sitting room. She was lying on her back with her head against the door between that room and the bathroom. From her temperature and the degree of rigor mortis I judged she had been dead 5-6 hours. The panels of that door had 5 bullet holes in them.\n\nOn a small...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932",
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        "title": "CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932",
        "content_text": "21:18 72 \n\nTHE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & \n\nFINE FOR PERJURY. later the acting rank was taken \n\nNEW EVIDENCE IN THE \n\nSUMMARY COURT. \n\nTANGLED MOTOR-CYCLE \n\nTRANSACTION. \n\nIn a recent action in the Summary Court, involving the cost of a motor cycle, Mr. Justice Lindsell decided against the plaintiff with costs. Plaintiff was also fined $100, or four weeks' hard labour, his Lordship holding that he had committed perjury in the witness-box. At the hearing of that action Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared for the plaintiff, Kartar Singh, and Mr. H. J. Armstrong was for the defendant, Mohinder Singh, A.S.P.\n\nwas \n\nMr. Rendall, in asking his Lordship on Wednesday to reconsider the case, said that he was only doing so in respect of the fine, as certain information had come to his knowledge since the hearing of the action which would have material bearing on the perjury charge. He asked that Mr. Bishen Singh be recalled to give evidence, and his Lordship agreed to this course.\n\nau \n\nIn evidence, Mr. Bishen Singh said that there was an earlier case in August last year between Kartar Singh and Mohinder Singh. Witness, together with Nawab Khan, acted as arbitrators in the dispute and it was agreed that the matter should be settled by Mohinder Singh paying to Kartar Singh the sum of $125.\n\nIn answer to Mr. Rendall, witness agreed that at the time of this settlement Kartar Singh also mentioned another claim which he had against Mohinder Singh in connection with a motor cycle. This matter was not investigated as Buntar Singh, another man concerned in the deal, was not then in the Colony.\n\nDid he tell you that a few days away?—Yes.\n\nregard Questioned in to the settlement last August, witness said that Mohinder Singh did not agree to anything and he had to be forced to agree.\n\nIn regard to the present action, witness said that Kartar Singh approached him with a view to a settlement after the writ had been issued. Witness took steps to bring about a settlement and suggested to Mohinder Singh that he should come and discuss the matter, but the latter refused to do so.\n\nAnswering another question, witness said that the present case was discussed by Sapooran Singh and a number of other people at the Witness Oriental Provision Store. was present at this discussion when Kartar Singh agreed to withdraw his claim.\n\nFine Remitted.\n\nAt the close of the hearing, his Lordship said that, in view of the new evidence, although he was not satisfied that the plaintiff spoke the truth, he would remit the fine.\n\nMr. Armstrong raised the question of his costs for the day. His Lordship held that Mr. Armstrong's attendance was not necessary, although he was there to watch the proceedings on behalf of his client, and therefore he was not entitled to costs.\n\nMr. Armstrong further asked if a statement could be made that the allegations against his client, as had been made during the afternoon, were unfounded. His Lordship replied that he did not see how he could make such a statement for the reason already stated in the application for costs.\n\ned in the deal, was not then in the \n\nFORGED BANKNOTES \n\nColony. \n\nCycle Given as Gift.\n\nAfter questioning witness on the facts of the motor cycle deal, Mr. Rendall explained that Buntar Singh had been a police constable in 1928, and that he had made a present of the cycle to Mohinder Singh. Buntar Singh's brother owned public motor-cars and Kartar Singh (plaintiff) worked as a driver under him. The cost of the cycle had, in fact, been deducted from the wages of Kartar Singh, who acted as a middle-man in the transfer of the machine to the defendant. At a later stage Mr. Rendall said that the gift was in the nature of a bribe in order to secure promotion.\n\nMr. Rendall (to witness): Were you told by Kartar Singh that the reason why the cycle was given as a gift was to secure promotion for Buntar Singh from constable to sergeant?-Yes.\n\nWas that promise fulfilled?--I don't know.\n\nMr. Justice Lindsell: What did Kartar Singh say?-He said that Buntar Singh had got his promotion.\n\nShort-lived Promotion.\n\nRendall: prom \n\nDid he tell you \n\nCHINESE GETS ONE MONTH'S HARD.\n\nThe case against Leung Kau, who was charged before Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy with (1) uttering a forged Chartered Bank $100 note and (2) possession of a forged Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank $10 note, was concluded on August 20. His Worship found the defendant guilty on the second charge and sentenced him to one month's hard labour.\n\nIt will be recalled, that defendant denied knowledge that the $100 note was a forgery but admitted knowledge of the forged $10 note, which, he said, he had no intention of using.\n\nHe said he received the $100 note in the course of a business transaction, but he could not remember where he obtained it. The reason why he bought $2 worth of rice with the $100 note was because if he went to the money-changer's, he would lose a little discount, whereas if he bought something with it, he would not lose anything. s to acting \n\n(Continued on next Column.)\n\n[August 28, 1931 \n\n'WHERE TO STAY IN ENGLAND.” \n\nSELSDON PARK HOTEL, \n\nSANDERSTEAD, SURREY, ENCLAND. \n\nOnly half-an-hour from the City and West End, yet in the midst of the beautiful scenery of the Surrey Hills, the SELSDON PARK HOTEL is the largest Hotel with its own private 18 hole golf course within daily reach of London.\n\nOverseas visitors are specially catered for: central heating throughout, radiators in every public room, bedroom and corridor, making the Hotel an ideal winter residence. Hot and cold water and telephone in every bedroom. Numerous suites and rooms with private bathrooms.\n\nFREE GOLF ON PRIVATE 18-HOLE COURSE (6,355 yards) IN OWN PARK OF 230 ACRES.\n\nBilliards, tennis, dancing and luxurious car service between Hotel and Station. All free.\n\nREDUCED WINTER TERMS FROM OCTOBER 1.\n\nSOUTHAMPTON HAMTUN HOUSE HOTEL, \n\nHULSE ROAD. \n\nA.A. \n\nR.A.C. Overlooking County Cricket Ground. Central Heating. Gas Fires in all Bedrooms.\n\nExcellent Cuisine. Garage: 20 Cars. Good Centre for Motor Tours. Terms from £3. 3. 0 Weekly. Telephone: 2766 \n\nWhat Search Revealed.\n\nIn reviewing the case, his Worship said the defendant was first confronted with a charge of uttering a forged $100 note. A search of his house by the police revealed that he had another forged note hidden under the mattress of his bed. The fact that he had another forged note in his possession might have some weight with regard to the first charge.\n\nThe defendant had, on the other hand, given his proper address and was perfectly willing to go to the Police Station when asked to do So. He must have either thought himself very \n\ndid not know that the note he had passed was a forgery.\n\nΟΥ secure \n\nBenefit of the Doubt.\n\nIES Worship went on to say that he was not convinced that defendant definitely knew that the $100 note was a forgery. There was a possibility that he did not know, and his Worship would give him the benefit of the doubt. The first charge against him would therefore be dismissed.\n\nWith regard to the second charge, his Worship passed sentence of one month's hard labour.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934",
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        "content_text": "-16- \n\n109\n\nYip Teo dd xd.Fraser.\n\nCoolie G.C.H.\n\nOn 22nd June on duty in prisoners ward.\n\nC\n\nI remember accused coming in bed No.94.\n\nYellow jacket and dark trousers like 6 and 9.\n\nSinglet like 11.\n\nClothing all wet.\n\nI found them on the floor of the ward, and dried them and put them in the store marked 94.\n\nI found the clothing in the bathroom on the floor.\n\nBathroom is next to the ward.\n\nAccused saw the clothing before I put it away.\n\nHe nodded his head.\n\n\"94\" in English figures.\n\nNo objection.\n\nYip Men dd. xd.Fraser.\n\nWard boy G.C.H.\n\nI remember S.I.O'Donovan coming to hospital.\n\nI gave him a bundle of clothing marked \"94\" in English figures.\n\nI got the bundle in the store.\n\nNo objection.\n\nWong Hu Kat ad. xd.Fraser.\n\nAccountant Swatow Drawn Thread Work Co. Pedder Street.\n\nI know accused. He comes from Swatow and talks Chu Chow. It is quite different from Cantonese.\n\nFour years ago he was employed in our firm for several months.\n\nHe was dismissed.\n\nI didn't see him again till 21st June.\n\nThat day about 10 a.m. he came to our shop.\n\nHe had a yellowish jacket like 6 and dark trousers like 9.\n\nRound straw hat like 5.\n\nI didn't notice if he had shoes on or not.\n\nHe had a rattan basket like Ex.8.\n\nWe had a conversation.\n\nHe said he wanted to go to Singapore and he borrowed $10 there for his fare, but he was cheated of $5 before he started his voyage in Swatow.\n\nHe told me he had paid $3 for his passage.\n\nI don't remember his saying how much money he had when he arrived. He said he was driven ashore as he hadn't enough money for his fare to Singapore.\n\nHe was full of sorrow and very unhappy at being cheated.\n\nThat night he slept in a cockloft in rear of premises.\n\nNext day he had morning meal with us a little after 9 a.m.\n\nAt the latest it would be 10 a.m.\n\nNo wine was served at the meal.\n\nAccused has younger brother in the shop Ng Loi Yum.\n\nAccused kept his basket in cockloft.\n\nNineteen employees in shop.\n\nAll of them had access to cockloft.\n\nNo recollection.\n\nWong Kan ad. xi. Fraser.\n\nLance Sergeant C.526\n\nCentral Police Station.\n\nOn 23rd June I went to Swatow shop in Pedder Street.\n\nI went there with Sergt.197 and Ng Yik Mei.\n\nI went to get property of accused.\n\nWhen we got to the shop Ng Yik Hei went first and we followed. He went to cockloft and gave us this basket (Ext.8)",
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        "content_text": "# Head 27-DEFENCE\n\n# Head 27.-DEFENCE,-Continued.\n\n## A. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,-- Continued.\n\n### Personal Emoluments.\n\n188\n\nApproved Estimate, 1935\nEstimate, 1936\n\n$\n$\n$\n\nNumbers.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n1935\n1936\n\nAllowance to Commandant\n1\n1\n\nAdjutant at £1,020...\n900\n15,300\n\nDo., Pension Contribution (£105)\n1,455\n1\n\nCorps Quartermaster, (£370 to £600 by 5 of £20, 1 of £30 and 5 of £20)..............\n900\n12,240\n\n1,260\n(1)\n\n(2)\n8,400\n\n6,960\n1\n\nArmourer Staff Sergeant, (£310 to £460 by 4 of £15, I of £20, 2 of £15 and 2 of £20)\n\nJunior Clerical Service:—\n(1)\n3,720\n\n(3)\n1\n\n1\n1\n\nClass III, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) .......\n\nClass VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n2,400\n(5)\n\n750\n800\n\n(5)\n\nAllowances to Instructors\n3,620\n3,620\n\n1\n1\n\nArmourer Attendant, 1 $480 to $600 by $12 annually)\n\nDo., Rent Allowance.\n597\n600\n\n(5)\n\n96\n96\n\n1\n1\n\nAssistant Armourer Attendant, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually)\n\n375\n387\n\n(5)\n\nDo., Rent Allowance\n48\n48\n\n1\n1\n\nMotor Driver, ($550 to $650 by $50 annually)\n\n650\n650\n\nDo., Rent Allowance.\n96\n96\n\n1\n1\n\nClass II Store Foreman, ($600 to $1,050 by $75 annually)\n\n789\n865\n\n1\n1\n\nOffice Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)..\n(5)\n192\n\n192\n\nDo., Rent Allowance..\n48\n48\n\n1\n5\n\nMessenger, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n\nDo., Rent Allowances at $48 each\n165\n168\n\n48\n48\n\nCoolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n846\n805\n\n(5)\n\nDo., Rent Allowances at $18 each\n(6)\n240\n\n240\n\n1\n1\n\nRange Warden, ($300 to $420 by $12 annually)\n\nDo.. Rent Allowance...\n336\n348\n\n(5)\n\n48\n48\n\n1\n\nSpecial Guards, at $300 each\n\nWatchman, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n\nDo., Rent Allowance\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments\n37,639\n34,985\n\n## B.-HONG KONG NAVAL VOLUNTEER FORCE.\n\n### Sub-beads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nOther Charges.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1935\nEstimate, 1936\n\n2\nAllowance for Officers undergoing training in England\n600\n(7)\n\n192\n198\n\n(5)\n\n48\n48\n\n12,401\n\n3\nAmmunition\n3,195\n\n4\nBooks, Stationery and Printing, etc.\n405\n1,800\n\n400\n(9)\n\n5\nBounty for Ratings\n(9)\n1,165\n\n2,184\n\n6\nFuel. Light and Water\n(10)\nECC\n\n1,500\n1,453\n\n7\nIncidentals\n(9)\n100\n\n100\n\n8\nMedical Stores\n200\n100\n\n9\nMine-sweeping and Exercising Expenses\n(9)\n540\n\n540\n\n10\nRent of Office.....\n\n983\n\n11\nTelephone, Rental and Repairs\n(11)\n500\n\n500\n\n12\nTravelling and Transport ...\n100\n100\n\n13\nUniform Allowance to Officers..\n700\n900\n\n14\nUniforms\n(12)\n3,490\n\n15\nUpkeep of Arms and Sweeping Gear\n3,600\n(12)\n\n300\n300\n\n16\nUpkeep and Renewals of Mess Gear\n\n17\nUpkeep of Ship and Boats\n\nTotal Other Charges\n18,885\n31,286\n\nCarried forward\n20,684\n35,268\n\n(1) Higher rate of exchange.\n\n(2) Constribution increased from £97 to £105. C.O. Circular Despatch of 30th June, 1934.\n\n(3) New post. Č.O. tel. No. 136 of 26.8.35.\n\n(4) Post abolished.\n\n(5) Stipulated increments.\n\n(6) Changes in personnel.\n\n(7) Two new posts.\n\n(8) C.O.D. No. 374 of 6-10-34.\n\n(9) Considered sufficient.\n\n(10) Increased number of ratings.\n\n(11) Approved by Finance Committee, Item No. 8 of F.M. No. 3 of 28-2-35.\n\n(12) Previous provision insufficient.",
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        "content_text": "# Head 27.-DEFENCE\n## A. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,—Continued.\n\n### NUMBERS.\n\n|  | 1936 | 1937 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n### Personal Emoluments.\n\n#### Details of the foregoing.\n\n1. Commandant at £1,020  \n   Do., Pension Contribution (£105).  \n   Allowance to Commandant  \n   **Total**  \n\n   16,320  \n   1,680  \n   900  \n\n1. Adjutant at £1,020................  \n   Do., Pension Contribution (£105)  \n   Appropriation to Army funds in respect of Adjutant.  \n   **Total**  \n\n   12,240  \n   1,260  \n\n1. Corps Quartermaster, (£370 to £600 by 5 of £20, 1 of £30 and 5 of £20)................  \n   **Total**  \n\n   2,400  \n   6,960  \n   9,600  \n\n(3) Lower rate of exchange.\n\n1. Armourer Staff Sergeant, (£310 to £460 by 4 of £15, 1 of £20, 2 of £15 and 2 of £20)  \n   **Total**  \n\n   3,720  \n\n(4) Appointment postponed.\n\n1. Junior Clerical Service :-  \n   2. Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)  \n   **Total**  \n\n   800  \n   1,875  \n\n(5) Stipulated increments.  \n(6) One new post.\n\n1. Allowances to Instructors  \n   **Total**  \n\n   3,620  \n   3,620  \n\n1. Armourer Attendant, ( $480 to $600 by $12 annually)  \n   Do., Rent Allowance ...  \n   **Total**  \n\n   600  \n   96  \n   96  \n\n1. Assistant Armourer Attendant, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually)  \n   Do., Rent Allowance  \n   **Total**  \n\n   387  \n   399  \n   48  \n   48  \n\n1. Motor Driver, ($550 to $650 by $50 annually)  \n   Do., Rent Allowance  \n   **Total**  \n\n   650  \n   630  \n   96  \n   96  \n\n1. Class II Store Foreman, ($600 to $1,050 by $75 annually)  \n   **Total**  \n\n   865  \n   940  \n\n1. Office Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)..  \n   Do., Rent Allowance....  \n   **Total**  \n\n   192  \n   201  \n   48  \n   48  \n\n1. Messenger, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)  \n   Do., Rent Allowance  \n   **Total**  \n\n   168  \n   156  \n   48  \n   48  \n\n5. Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)  \n   Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each  \n   **Total**  \n\n   805  \n   807  \n   240  \n   240  \n\n1. Range Warden, ($300 to $420 by $12 annually)  \n   Do., Rent Allowance....  \n   **Total**  \n\n   348  \n   360  \n   48  \n   48  \n\n2. Special Guards, at $300 each  \n   Do., Rent Allowances at $36 each  \n   **Total**  \n\n   600  \n   600  \n   72  \n\n(7) Changes in personnel.  \n(8) Stipulated allowances.\n\n1. Watchman, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)  \n   Do., Rent Allowance  \n   **Total**  \n\n   198  \n   204  \n   48  \n   48  \n\n### Total Personal Emoluments\n\n|  | 1936 | 1937 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 34,985 | 41,159 |\n\n## B.-HONG KONG NAVAL VOLUNTEER FORCE.\n\n### Sub-heads :-\n\n|  | 1936 | 1937 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Personal Emoluments | 11,584 | 21,191 |\n| 2. Allowance for Officers undergoing training in England | 1,224 | 550 |\n| 3. Ammunition | 1,800 | 1,640 |\n| 4. Books, Stationery and Printing, etc. | 400 | 400 |\n| 5. Bounty for Ratings | 2,184 | 1,800 |\n| 6. Fuel, Light and Water | 1,453 | 1,500 |\n| 7. Incidentals | 100 | 100 |\n| 8. Medical Stores | 100 | 100 |\n| 9. Mine-sweeping and Exercising Expenses | 540 | 750 |\n| 10. Rent of Office and Upkeep | 983 | 743 |\n| 11. Telephone, Rental and Repairs | 500 | 500 |\n| 12. Travelling and Transport.. | 100 | 100 |\n| 13. Uniform Allowance to Officers. | 900 | 1,200 |\n| 14. Uniforms.... | 3,600 | 3,200 |\n| 15. Upkeep of Arms and Sweeping Gear | 300 | 100 |\n| 16. Upkeep and Renewals of Mess Gear | 100 | 100 |\n| 17. Upkeep of Ship and Boats | 6,400 | 7,040 |\n\n### Total Other Charges\n\n|  | 1936 | 1937 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 20,684 | 19,823 |\n\n### Carried forward\n\n|  | 1936 | 1937 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 35,268 | 41,014 |\n\n(1) Volunteer Commandant replaced by officer seconded from Regular Army.  \n(2) Seconded Adjutant replaced by officer lent unseconded by Regular Army.  \n(3) Lower rate of exchange.  \n(4) Appointment postponed.  \n(5) Stipulated increments.  \n(6) One new post.  \n(7) Changes in personnel.  \n(8) Stipulated allowances.  \n(9) Considered sufficient.  \n(10) More coal required due to increased establishment and cost higher.  \n(11) More exercises.  \n(12) More promotions anticipated.  \n(13) Increased establishment.",
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        "content_text": "# Enel. No.H.\n\nExtracted from the \n**SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST** \ndated \n6th November, 1936.\n\n39\n\n## C.N.A.C. PLANE \n## GOVERNOR WELCOMES FIRST ARRIVAL \n## INITIATES SERVICE TO HONGKONG \n## SIX PASSENGERS\n\nCarrying a full load of six passengers, a China National Airways Corporation flying boat arrived here yesterday at 2.45 p.m. and inaugurated the regular service between Shanghai, Hongkong, and Canton. It took off again for Canton at 2.40 p.m. after picking up three passengers here.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, the Hon. Commander G. F. Hole, Director of Air Services, Mr. A. J. R. Moss, Superintendent of the Airport, and a fairly large crowd welcomed the plane on its arrival, and later Mr. Dai Enki, Manager of the C.N.A.C., entertained the Governor and a few friends at a cocktail party in the lounge at Kai Tak.\n\nAt 2.30 p.m., His Excellency and Commander Hole arrived at the airport and were welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Moss, who escorted them to the slipway at the water's edge where a full view of the plane's landing could be secured. Before the grey and yellow Douglas Dolphin flying boat appeared in the south-eastern sky, a crowd of over 50 people had gathered.\n\n### Cocktail Party\n\nRunning right on schedule, the plane appeared at 2.40 p.m., circled the airport to come into the wind, and landed on the sea just off shore. It was a perfect landing and with a very short run which took the plane right up to the mooring buoy.\n\nThe passengers, including Mr. Dai Enki and Mr. Bixby, Far Eastern representative of Pan-American Airways, were transported from the plane to the slipway, where the Governor, Commander Hole, and a few friends greeted them. The party then went to the lounge where a cocktail party had been arranged by Mr. Eddy of the Peninsula Hotel for Mr. Dai.\n\nThose present at the party included Sir Andrew Caldecott, Captain Cragg, Mr. and Mrs. A. Moss, Mr. Nelson, Commander Hole, Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Mr. H. R. Butters, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Nixon, Mr. Randle, Mr. Y. J. Neyle, and Lt. Smith. His Excellency toasted the Chinese Posts, and Mr. Dai responded by toasting the Hongkong Posts.\n\n### The Passengers\n\nPassengers aboard the plane when it arrived included: Mr. Dai Enki, Manager of the C.N.A.C., Mr. Harold Bixby, of Pan-American Airways, Captain A. R. Williamson, O.B.E., D.S.C., Marine Superintendent at Shanghai of Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Company, Mr. M. Roux, of the Akskania Works, Berlin, Mr. T. M. Wong, and Mr. Van.\n\nMr. Roux is leaving Hongkong today on the `Dorado` for Penang, where he will transfer to the K.L.M. plane and fly back to Europe. He has flown here from Azaka, Japan. He flew from Azaka to Manchukuo, then to Peiping, to Shanghai, and thence to Hongkong. He plans to fly all the way back to Germany.\n\nThe three passengers who left here for Canton were Mr. F. A. Pollock, and Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Littig.\n\nPiloting the plane yesterday was Captain C. G. Sellars, one of the C.N.A.C.'s veteran pilots, who has already called in at Hongkong with C.N.A.C. planes nearly a dozen times. \"It was quite a routine and uneventful flight,\" he said. \"Calling here makes no real difference to us who pilot the machine except that our scheduled arrival at Canton is put back about half an hour.\" The assistant pilot was Mr. Paul Chen.\n\nPassengers aboard the plane declared that the trip was an excellent one and very smooth practically all the way.\n\n### Little Mail\n\nStrangely enough, philatelists did not seem to be particularly enthusiastic about sending letters by this first plane, and there were only about ten kilos of mail from Shanghai for Hongkong. Hongkong sent about 12 lbs. to Canton.\n\nAmong those present at the Airport to welcome the plane were:\n\n| Name | Designation/Association |\n| --- | --- |\n| His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott | Governor |\n| Captain W. J. R. Cragg | A.D.C. to the Governor |\n| Hon. Commander G. F. Hole | Director of Air Services |\n| Mr. A. J. R. Moss | Superintendent of Kai Tak |\n| Mrs. Moss |  |\n| Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson |  |\n| Mr. H. R. Butters | Post Master General |\n| Mr. Nixon | Director of Posts in Canton |\n| Mr. S. Randle | Superintendent of Mails |\n| Mr. E. Nelson | Assistant Superintendent of Kai Tak |\n| Captain R. H. Bateman | Marine Superintendent of Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co. |\n| Mr. Curtis | Imperial Airways |\n| Mr. F. O. Butler |  |\n| Mr. L. G. Frost |  |\n| Mr. B. Greenburg | Local manager of M.G.M. |\n| Mr. Talon | M.G.M. |\n| Mr. V. J. Neyle | Far East Flying Training School |\n| Lt. P. Smith | Far East Flying Training School |\n\nTraffic arrangements were made by Mr. W. La B. Sparrow, A.S.P., Chief Inspector F. E. E. Booker, and Inspector F. J. Portallion, Ag. Sub-Inspector A. R. Brittain, and Traffic Sergeant W. MacHardy.\n\n### Shanghai Departure\n\nShanghai, Nov. 5. The first regular Hongkong-bound C.N.A.C. plane departed at 6 a.m. today and is due in the Colony at 2.45 p.m.\n\nThe passengers include the C.N.A.C. Manager, Mr. Dai Enki, and Mr. Bixby of Pan-American Airways. - United Press.\n\n### Films Aboard\n\nMr. B. Greenburg was one of the persons most interested in the arrival of the plane, for aboard it was the film for \"Piccadilly Jim,\" an M.G.M. production which is due to be shown at the King's Theatre and which would not have arrived here in time had it been sent by ship.\n\nPage 40\nPage 41",
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VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,—Continued.\n\n#### Personal Emoluments.\n\n|          | $ (1938) | $ (1939) |\n|----------|---------|---------|\n|          | $ (1937) | $ (1938) |\n\n### Details of the foregoing.\n\n#### Sub-heads:-\n\n1 **Personal Emoluments**\n| Position | $ (1938) | $ (1939) |\n|----------|---------|---------|\n| Commandant, (£1,020) | 16,320 | 16,320 |\n| Do., Pension Contribution (£105) | 1,680 | 1,680 |\n| Adjutant, (Appropriation in aid to Army funds) |  |  |\n| Corps Quartermaster, (£370 to £600 by 5 of £20, 1 of £30 and 5 of £20) | 9,600 | 9,600 |\n| Armourer Staff Sergeant, (£310 to £460 by 4 of £15, 1 of £20, 2 of £15 and 2 of £20) | 4,960 |  |\n| Junior Clerical Service :— Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 1,875 | 1,663 |\n| Armourer Attendant, ($480 to $600 by $12 annually) | 600 | 600 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 96 | 96 |\n| Assistant Armourer Attendant, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually) | 411 |  |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48 | 48 |\n| Motor Driver, ($550 to $650 by $50 annually) | 650 | 650 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 96 |  |\n| Class II Store Foreman, ($600 to $1,050 by $75 annually) | 940 | 1,015 |\n| Assistant Storeman, ($600 to $900 by $50 annually) | 600 |  |\n| Office Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially) | 204 | 201 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48 | 48 |\n| Messenger, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 156 | 156 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48 | 48 |\n| Coolies, ($150 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 807 | 619 |\n| Do., Rent Allowances at $18 each | 240 | 240 |\n| Range Warden, ($300 to $420 by $12 annually) | 360 | 372 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48 | 48 |\n| Special Guards, at $300 each | 600 | 600 |\n| Watchman, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 204 | 204 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48 | 43 |\n| **Total Personal Emoluments** | 41,159 | 46,522 |\n\n#### Other Charges.\n\n| Description | $ (1938) | $ (1939) |\n|-------------|---------|---------|\n| 2 Allowances for Officers and N.C.Os. undergoing Training in England | 3,620 | 3,620 |\n| 3 Ammunition | 11,645 | 10,150 |\n| 4 Armoured Car and Motor Machine Gun Section |  | 1,000 |\n| 5 Band allowances |  |  |\n| 6 Books, Stationery, and Printing |  |  |\n| 7 Camp Expenses |  |  |\n| 8 Conveyance Allowance to Corps Quartermaster |  |  |\n| 9 Equipment for the Engineer Company and Signals-Overhaul optical instruments | 785 |  |\n| 10 Equipment, Air Arm | 260 | 260 |\n| 11 Equipment and Upkeep of Arms | 3,000 | 3,000 |\n| 12 Fuel and Light | 1,100 | 1,100 |\n| 13 Grant to Machine Gun Troop | 7,200 | 7,200 |\n| 14 Incidental Expenses | 600 | 600 |\n| 15 Improvements to Camp | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| 16 Rifle Ranges, Expenses | 1,200 | 1,200 |\n| 17 Subsidy to Air Arm | 30,000 | 30,000 |\n| 18 Training Expenses for Nursing Detachment H.K.V.D.C. | 1,400 | 600 |\n| 19 Transport | 3,800 | 3,000 |\n| 20 Uniform, including Boots | 15,920 | 20,000 |\n| 21 Uniform for Messengers and Coolies | 300 | 300 |\n| Repairs to Causeway Bay Stable | 450 |  |\n| **Total Other Charges** | 98,810 | 99,345 |\n\n### Special Expenditure.\n\n| Description | $ (1938) | $ (1939) |\n|-------------|---------|---------|\n| 22 S. 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        "content_text": "# Head 20 - Police Department\n\n## Changes in Establishment\n\n2. A reduction of nine in the number of European Lance Sergeants is offset by an increase of ten Cantonese Sub-Inspectors in accordance with the policy of gradual Asiaticization. One additional Cantonese Lance Sergeant has been provided for Kowloon City and sixteen Cantonese constables for duty as follows:—\n| Location        | Number | Reason                                                                 |\n| :-------------- | :----- | :--------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| Shamshuipo      | 6      | a growing district where crime is very prevalent.                     |\n| Shing Mun       | 2      | formerly paid from Loan Funds; it is considered advisable to maintain the Police Station here in view of local conditions. |\n| Kowloon Magistracy | 1    | necessitated by additional Court work.                                |\n| Gough Hill Station | 1     | detective duty.                                                       |\n| Upper Levels Station | 2   | now without a detective staff.                                        |\n| Pokfulami Station | 1     | now manned only by Indians. This district has assumed greater importance with residential development and the completion of the Queen Mary Hospital. |\n| Mong Kok Tsui Station | 1  |                                                                        |\n| Stanley Station | 1      | also in a rapidly developing district.                                |\n| Central Magistracy | 1    | in view of the proposed third Court.                                   |\n\n3. In the Indian Contingent, one post of Probationary Sub-Inspector has been abolished. Two additional sergeants have been provided for Shing Mun and for Kowloon Magistracy respectively, and four additional constables for Shing Mun. These Shing Mun posts, which now appear in the Estimates for the first time, were formerly provided for under Loan Funds.\n\n4. An increase of two Telegraphists is necessitated by the fitting of No. 2 Police Launch with wireless.\n\n5. The increase in the establishment of Anti-Piracy Guards has been made at the request of the shipping companies, and the expense will not fall on Government. The Northern Chinese division of Anti-Piracy Guards has been divided into 1st and 2nd Class Constables to correspond with the regular Police.\n\n6. One additional driver is provided for the small van mentioned in paragraph 10.\n\n7. The two Female Probation Officers under Remand Home, Juvenile Offenders, have been placed on the same scale of salary.\n\n8. Under \"Other Charges,\" increases are mainly due to increased prices and to expansion. The increase in the amount provided for ammunition is, however, due to the fact that, owing to the fall in exchange at the end of 1935, it was necessary to cancel the indent for the whole of the ammunition required in 1936, with the result that the reserve supply is seriously depleted. A public telephone is being provided for the Headquarters Traffic Office for the convenience of the public.\n\n9. Under Special Expenditure, some small items designed to secure greater efficiency are explained in the footnotes. More replacements of arms are necessary, and provision for Anti-Gas Equipment is again made, this year's vote not having been spent pending improvements in apparatus.\n\n10. Two new Motor Vehicles are provided for under Sub-Head 40; one small patrol van is required for the Shamshuipo Division, and one car is required to replace the present Police Car 804, which has been unfavourably reported on by a Board of Survey.\n\n11. Provision for the annual Safety First Campaign has again been inserted under Special Expenditure.\n\n## Head 21 - Prisons Department\n\n1. Some increases under various Sub-heads of \"Other Charges\" have been necessitated by the increase in the number of prisoners and by the continued maintenance of Victoria Gaol in addition to the Hong Kong Prison. Should Victoria Gaol be closed, it is expected there will be considerable savings. One post of Chief Warder has been abolished with the closing of Laichikok Prison. Five additional Wardresses have been provided as the average daily number of female prisoners at Laichikok is now over 200, whereas the existing staff was based on an average of 100.\n\n2. The Principal Printing Officer has been granted a slightly higher scale of salary commensurate with his increased responsibilities consequent on the greater amount of Government printing now carried out at Stanley.\n\n3. Some reshuffling of the Indian Staff involving no increase in the establishment will result in greater efficiency and a small saving.\n\n# Head 22 - Medical Department\n\n1. Another increase has to be shown in the total of Personal Emoluments under this Head, mainly due to an increase of staff for the Queen Mary Hospital. Some months' experience of the running of this institution has shown that the present staff is inadequate. The Queen Mary Hospital contains 500 beds as compared with a total of 318 beds for the Victoria and Government Civil Hospitals combined.\n\n2. Under I. Administrative Staff, there is a net increase of one Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff (Local Section) clerk and one Junior Clerical Staff Class VIB clerk. Both these clerks are required to cope with the increasing work; the former in the Births and Deaths Registration Office and the latter part-time in Central Medical Store and part-time in Head Office.\n\n3. Under III. Hospital Division, General, provision has been made for one additional House Officer for the Queen Mary Hospital. It is considered that one of the House Officers at the Queen Mary Hospital should have a salary commensurate with his responsibilities somewhat higher than the others, and provision has been made for this.\n\n4. Provision for a temporary Storekeeper for nine months under \"Drugs and Dispensing,\" and for a temporary Steward for ten months under \"Stewards\" has had to be made as the substantive holders of these posts are due for leave in 1938.\n\n5. Under Nursing Staff (General), twenty additional Probationer Nurses are provided for the Queen Mary Hospital. As against this, it has been possible to abolish five posts for Probationer Dressers. The appellations \"Matrons (Grade I)\" and \"Matrons (Grade II)\" are new, having been substituted for \"Senior Sisters\" and \"Matrons\" respectively.\n\n6. Three Class VIB clerks have been added under Junior Clerical Staff (Hospitals). Two of these clerks, who were formerly employed by the Fire Brigade in Kowloon, replace two Telephone Boys under \"Queen Mary Hospital.\"\n\n7. Under \"School Hygiene\" appears a Class VIB clerk formerly paid by the Education Department, who will, with the transfer of the office of the Health Officer for Schools to the Violet Peel Health Centre, appear in future under this Head.\n\n8. An Infant Welfare Nurse has been substituted for an Interpreter and Assistant under \"Maternity and Child Welfare.\" The latter has been transferred to Chinese Hospitals, under which division there is also provided an additional Midwife who has been transferred from the division \"New Territories,\" and a new post of Tutor Sister. This post has been included with a view to securing a higher standard of training for nurses in the Chinese Hospitals, as it is felt that the present methods leave something to be desired.\n\n9. Three additional Inspectors are provided for in the Malaria Bureau to deal with a much extended programme of work.\n\nPage 382",
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        "content_text": "## Head 26-Kowloon Canton Railway\n\n1. Various alterations have been made in the duties and distribution of the Subordinate Staff in the interests of efficiency, new posts being more than offset by corresponding abolitions. The cost of the salaries of four Tube Cleaners and two Chippers will be more than offset by savings resulting from greater locomotive efficiency.\n\n2. Under Special Expenditure it has been necessary to provide for new Locomotive Staff quarters at Hung Hom as the present building, over fifty years old, is considered dangerous by the Building Authority. It is proposed to improve Kowloon Station at a cost of $7,100, mainly by the extension of one of the existing platforms; at present only one platform is sufficiently long to accommodate the through expresses. The installation of double wire signalling at Fanling Station at a cost of $8,000 will not only expedite train crossings but will enable two annual recurrent savings of more than 10 per cent on the outlay to be made. Coaches over twenty years old are to be reconditioned, and one locomotive boiler is to be replaced at the end of its efficient life. An arrangement has been made with the Kowloon Motor Bus Company, whereby the present bus service between Taipo Market and Fanling crossroads will be replaced by a railbus shuttle service, and provision for a railbus at a cost of $8,000 has accordingly been made. The Yuen Long-Sheung Shui and the Shataukok-Fanling Railway Station bus services will be linked up by the former service being extended to Fanling Railway Station. It is proposed to purchase two new motor cars to replace two of the existing Morris 1926 models still in use on Government Service in Kowloon.\n\n## Head 27-Defence\n\n### 1-Volunteer Defence Corps\n\n1. An increase in the strength of the Corps has necessitated extra provision for Uniform under Other Charges and also additional equipment, rifles, and motor cycles under Special Expenditure. The Bren machine-gun has now been adopted in the Army as standard in place of the Lewis gun, and it is considered essential that two such guns should be provided to maintain the efficiency of the Corps.\n\n2. Provision is made for a new post of Armourer Staff Sergeant. Arms have hitherto been cared for by the Police Armourer when available, an unsatisfactory arrangement which has resulted in considerable expense due to heavy depreciation of arms from lack of attention. It is expected that the new appointment will result in considerable savings under Sub-head 11, Equipment and Upkeep of Arms.\n\n3. The new post of Assistant Storeman is considered necessary in view of the quantity and value of the store maintained.\n\n4. The Causeway Bay stables will be kept up in future by the Public Works Department and the small vote provided for this purpose in former years under this Head is no longer required.\n\n### B-Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force\n\n1. The total for Other Charges shows an increase mainly due to the provision of rations for Ratings attending drills. The present bounty of fifteen cents per man per drill hardly pays travelling expenses in most cases and it is hoped that a better attendance will result with this provision of rations in addition. An anticipated increase in the amount of training is reflected in the increase of the sum provided for Expenses of Mine-Sweeping and Exercising.\n\n2. It has been necessary to raise the salary for Officer Instructor to £600 in the hope of attracting a suitable candidate. The post is as yet unfilled.\n\n3. It is hoped to attract a better class of seaman by raising the status to Class I on a slightly higher scale of salary as against Class II this year. The small additional expenditure is expected to result in greater efficiency.\n\n### D-Air Raid Precautions\n\nA sum of $50,000 has been provided under this new Head to commence a programme of Defence measures. No definite allocations from this amount have yet been made.\n\n## Head 28-Miscellaneous Services\n\n1. The contribution from this Government to the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies has been increased from £128 to £170. Grants of £174 to the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux and Farnham House and £116 to the Imperial Economic and Imperial Shipping Committees replace the grants of £12 to Farnham House and £250 to the Imperial Economic, Imperial Shipping and Imperial Agricultural Bureaux for this year in accordance with instructions from the Secretary of State consequent on a reorganization of these institutions. The net increase in the two grants is £28.\n\n2. The annual subsidy of $15,000 to the War Memorial Nursing Home which has been agreed to by the Legislative Council and was provided by Supplementary Vote in 1937 appears in the Estimates for the first time. The sum provided is the maximum payable. An endowment fund is being raised by the supporters of the Home and Government has agreed to pay each year a sum equivalent to 3% of the cash balance of the fund on the 31st December of the preceding year, subject to a maximum of $16,000.\n\n3. Provision for the Institution of Civil Engineers is not required for 1938 in view of the fact that the particular research which the grant was designed to facilitate has now concluded.\n\n4. A proposal to hold the Pacific Scientific Congress in the Colony in 1938 is at present under consideration, and the Estimates include a sum of $20,000 as a contribution to its expenses by Government, the Finance Committee having approved such a contribution being made in the event of the Congress being held here.\n\n5. The grant to the Broadcasting Committee has been increased to $70,000 to provide for payments in respect of Performing Rights in accordance with the contract concluded early in 1937.\n\n6. Part of the increase in Rent Allowances is due to the condemnation of Queen's Gardens. A large increase in the vote for \"Stationery, Prisons Department\" is due to the greater volume of printing undertaken by the Printing Department and to increased prices.\n\n## Head 29-Charitable Services\n\n1. The provision for the grant to the Aberdeen Industrial School has been increased in view of the increased number of inmates. The grant consists of a fixed minimum with an addition varying with the number of inmates which is expected to reach its maximum of fifty in 1938.\n\n2. The General Chinese Charities Fund will receive an additional grant of $30,000. The grant has remained at $110,000 since 1932 and of this sum $91,000 is normally allotted to the three Chinese hospitals, the Tung Wah, the Tung Wah Eastern, and the Kwong Wah. The number of patients has increased from 434,425 annually in 1932 to 579,523 in 1936, and the income from endowments has decreased. It is considered that an increase of approximately 33 1/3 per cent in the grant from Government is justifiable, more particularly as many expensive improvements in equipment and working have been made on the initiative of the Medical Department.\n\n386",
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        "content_text": "- 2 -\n\n62\n\nYeung Company by Chan Sing. About 7 yards to the right and beyond this last scar, part of the stream bank had been broken down, and shell No.2, which I saw had characters painted on it, was found. This shell had also been taken back to the front of the Sam Hing Company by Chan Sing, who found both shells at about 17.30 hours on the 11th December, 1937.\n\nI inspected Chung Wen's matshed, which showed no signs of disorder.\n\nOn the stone blocks comprising the shore end of the Wing Yeung Pier, I saw recent chips, and others on a loose block lying between the gate and the pier. One on the wooden barrier pillars of the main gate through the barb wire fence had been pierced by something, which was probably a scrap of metal. One of the strands of barb wire on the right side of the gate had been cut, and the ends of it were burnt and blue. The plaster facing of the Wing Yeung Company's building was chipped; one chip about 4\" across the concrete balustrade had a chip about 5\" across it.\n\nI examined all the mat sheds I could find, but found no signs of search, disorder, or damage to them. I went round the surrounding hills but found no signs of shell fire or other spent shells. I then took the statements of Chan Sing and Chung Tan.\n\nI attached a rough plan of the bay indicating the position of the Wing Yeung Company's building and the matshed owned by the Sam Hing Company. I indicate also roughly where various exhibits named were found. I was informed that several witnesses of the incident had not yet returned to Yung Long Yan before I left.\n\n**(SD) W. WILLIAMSON. Police Sergeant**\n**A 162.**\n**Officer in Charge Ping Shan Police Station.**\n**13.12.1937.**",
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        "content_text": "243\n\n8\n\nCONFERRING OF DEGREES\n\nNEED OF GIRL STUDENTS' HOSTEL AND PLAYING FIELDS URGED\n\nCHANCELLOR AND UNIVERSITY\n\nThe twenty-ninth Congregation of the Hongkong University for the conferring of degrees was held yesterday when His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, acted for the first time at this function in his capacity of Chancellor.\n\nMr. D. J. Sloss, C.B.E., M.A., referred to the lack of a hostel for the girl students, who had increased in numbers, and the insufficiency of playing fields generally. In a generous tribute to his predecessor, Mr. Sloss mentioned that a considerable number of books had been donated to the University by Sir William Hornell.\n\nThe Procession marshalled in the robing room soon after the Chancellor arrived and then, led by the Mace Bearer, walked through the cloisters.\n\nThe Chancellor declared the Congregation open, and the Vice-Chancellor made the opening address.\n\nMr. Sloss said: It has been customary for the Congregation to comment upon the events of the preceding year. As I have been here only two months I cannot do this, and therefore I shall limit myself in the main to obvious and non-controversial issues.\n\nA Royal Patron\n\nHis Excellency said: The past year has been notably eventful. During its passage the University lost a Chancellor in Sir Andrew Caldecott who, though his tenure of his office was short, took a keen interest in the welfare of the University.\n\nThe General Library of the University has been enriched by a gift of about 2,000 volumes from Sir William Hornell. Many of the books in Sir William's gift would now be difficult to obtain, and they increase the value of the Library.\n\nThe Chinese part of the Library has also found friends. Two large collections of good books, some in rare editions, lent from Canton for long periods of use in this Library.\n\nTo this I would like to add a few words to recall Sir William's eminent services to education before he came here—the achievements, in fact, with which were the use of his coming to Hongkong. He entered the Indian Education Service early in life and after seven years' distinguished work in Bengal he was recalled to the Board of Education in London where he worked in the Department of Special Enquiries and Reports with distinguished colleagues such as Sir Frank Heath and Mr. C: W. Twenty-four years later he came to Hongkong as Vice-Chancellor.\n\nSir William's hospitality was a fine influence in the University. His genial and kindly nature endeared him to his friends, and the memory of his geniality and his \"fairy god-mother\" kindnesses, which endeared him to a wide circle of friends and, not least, to the students of this University.\n\nOne of the oldest of Sir William's colleagues writes of him: \"During his thirteen years of office as Vice-Chancellor Sir William Hornell had many perplexities and problems to face. Throughout all these difficulties he always tried to do whatever he could to make members of his staff more efficient at their work and more contended in their conditions of service.\"\n\nHe returned to India in 1913 as Director of Public Instruction in Bengal.\n\nThe story of this University has been a story of transitions from crisis to crisis, and Sir William worthily filled a Vice-Chancellor's place.\n\nWilliam's place has been worthily filled by a Vice-Chancellor whose ripe experience makes him peculiarly welcome at the present juncture.\n\nThe Chancellor made a studied reference to the deliberations of the Committee which recently published recommendations for changes in the University administration, but laid most stress on the need for greater attention to the teaching of hygiene and the need for accommodation for girl students.\n\nThe University's great annual event was favoured by the weather, and the number of graduates in the University in 1937 has risen from a normal 50 to an actual 77.\n\nSeating and standing space and inside the Great Hall was fully occupied long before 5 p.m.\n\nThe Deans of the Faculties of Medicine, Engineering, and Arts then presented their graduates in succession, and the Chancellor conferred the respective degrees on each graduate, as they stepped forward with new hoods, and afterwards shook hands with each of them.\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor next read out the names of students in absentia on whom degrees were conferred, and presented the scholarship winners, with whom the Chancellor also shook hands.\n\nThe Graduates\n\nThe graduates of 1937 were:\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.—R. E. Alvares, Oni Kee-wan, Yang Ke, M. P. H. Itoh, W. Heng, H. L. Ozorio. Yeang Cheng-hin Kan Lai-to, G. A. V. Ribeiro, Yeung Wai-Wah; in Absentia; Tan Eng-gwa.\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering. Chan Sze-cheung, Chin Weng-kwan, Wong Yee-wah, J. da Silva, Tan Pek-eam. Chung Chang Chi-yin, Ching Yok-chong, Lo Hung-pok, G. Singh, Sung Sheung-hong, Tan Yong-nee. Tránh Kai-ng. E. T. Wood, Chak Fook-yat. Liauw Khoon-lim, G. C. K. Ma, A. L. N. da Silva, Sung Taoong-tub\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Arts: Au Yeung-chiu, Chan Kai-lau, Cheung Wing-ngok, Ho Ying-fwee, Law Chung-kam, Leung Sik-kwan, Li Shi-yt, Mok Hing-bun, Wong Man-la. Boon Yeon-fong. Mg Tily Shuen Fo-yuen,_ Miss_Tam Wai-chit, Miss Chan. Miss Helen Chu. Hung Mo-chiu, Kai kwani Fook-shu, Lo Bung-chun, Miss Helen Moore, Sze Chiten, Tang Chi-keung, Yu Kwok-ylm, Chan Jm-fut, Chau Sing-kan, Chung Hon-ki, In Absentia.—Lee Kuan\n\nScholarships\n\nFollowing were the Scholarship awards:\n\nThe Anderson Medal, Yeang Cheng-hin.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming, 1st Medical Scholarship and the Ng Li Hing very ancient Scholarship, Daphne Chun.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming 2nd Medical Scholarship P. R. T. Naidu and G. A. V. Ribeiro, the Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming Engineering Scholarship, G. M. Cornfeld.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming Arts Scholarship, Wu Hei-tak.\n\nPhysical Training\n\nIn one respect, I am advised, student life at the University might be quickened and that is by devoting a little more time and thought to generally collective Physical Training.\n\nAs is well known, modern thought to-day, puts into practice a growingly closer alliance between the mind and the body, and it would be wise to encourage and help members of the staff to attend scientific conferences in other parts of the world and the students of the University to travel for purposes of study.\n\nChancellor's Address\n\nHis Excellency said: I turn for a moment to a material need of the University which is becoming more and more urgent year by year. 90 were women. For them the University so far, has not been able to provide a residential hall, nor even a hostel in which they could be housed collectively.\n\nThus on the one hand they are without the discipline and tutelage which are essential conditions of sound student life, and on the other they are deprived of the experience of a corporate life which supplies a great stimulus to, and widens the horizon of, those who are fortunate enough to live in University colleges.\n\nMr. Sloss, the Vice-Chancellor, has just spoken of Sir William Hornell's many services to education and I would like to render a tribute to those members of this University who engage themselves in social activities in the interest of other less fortunate than themselves.\n\nI refer, of course, to the Education Society, the Medical Society, the Christian Association and the other bodies within the University which have as their aim the betterment of the poorest classes of the community.\n\nTheir service of love builds better than they know: for love alone is creative and ever transcends its conscious objectives.\n\nCommittee's Report\n\nBefore I end this address I would like to render a tribute to those members of this University who engage themselves in social activities in the interest of other less fortunate than themselves.\n\nCertain of them, for example the advice to invest most of the Superannuation Fund in the general funds of the University, appear to me to be non-controversial and to call for immediate implementation.\n\nThe report contains, however, many suggestions and recommendations concerning finance and organization which pertain to the Finance Committee and the Council rather than to the Senate and I trust that these will be considered by the former authorities while those concerning the curriculum are being considered by the latter.\n\nThe Courage with which (Applause).\n\nHis Excellency then declared the Congregation closed.\n\nProcession List\n\nThe Procession which comprised Members of the Court, Council, Senate and Faculties of the University and Wardens of the Hostels, was as follows:\n\nHis Excellency the Chancellor, preceded by the Mace Bearer, and followed by the Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Dean, Faculty of Arts; H. E. Major-General A. W. Bartholomew and The Registrar; H. H. Sir Atholl Mac-Gregor and Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith: The Vice-Chancellor; Faculty of Medicine; Treasurer and Dean, Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. Hall and The Rt. Rev. Bishop Valtorta; Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North; Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewail: Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow and Hon. Dr. D. J. Valentine; Hon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin and Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell; Hon. Com. G. F. Hole, R.N. (Retd.) and Hon, Mr. T. H. King: Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo and Hon. Dr. LI_shu-fan; Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro and Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson; Mr. Ho Kom-tong and Mr. Eu Tong-sen; Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan and Mr. Mok Ken-sang: Professor K. H. Digby and Professor C. A. M. Smith; Professor W. Brown and Professor G. T. Byrne; Professor M. H. Roffey and Professor L. Forster: Professor L. J. Davis and Professor W. Gerrard and Professor W. Faid: Dr. P. F. S. Court; Professor Hsu T-shan and Professor L, R. Shore: Mr. G. R. Sayer and Lt. Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin; Mr. M.P. Talati and Mr. J. R. Masson: Mr. T. E. Pearce and Mr. F. J. de Rome; Mr. G. P. de Martin and Mr. P. S. Cassidy: Mr. D. Drummond and Mr. J. H. Seth; Mr. Sum Pak-ming and Mr. E. Cock; Mr. M. H. Turner and Mr. G. S. Archbutt: Mr. B. Wong Tape and Mr. Kan Tong-po; Mr. Li Jowson and Mr. Tang Shiu-kin; Mr. Li Tze-fong and Mr. J. K. Bousfield; Dr. G. A. C. Herklots and Mr. N. H. France; Mrs. M. Ring and Mr. Fung Kong-un; Mr. B. G. Birch and Mr. A. H. Fenwick; Mr. R A. Hill and Mr. D. F. Davies: Mr. A. H. Paterson and Mr. Ma Kiam; Mr. K. W. Salter and Mr. Baxter: Father B. C. Kelly, S. J. and Rev. Chan Kwan-po; Mr. S. V. Boxer and Miss G. K. Carpenter.\n\nThe programme of music was as follows:\n\nMarch. Triumph of Right, Lovell: Selection, Sandersons Songs, arr Hume; Waltz, The Golden Valse, arr Winter; Entr'ete, Thistledown, Hennessy; Selection, Lilac Time, Schubert.\" Processional March, Riengl, Wagner. Conductor, Mr. A. E. Judge.\n\nPage 8\n\nIMPROVISED BRIDGE\n\nWould-be Thief Falls Into Alleyway\n\nBOUND OVER BY COURT\n\nCharged with loitering in the alleyway between the St. Francis Hotel and Marina House at 3.30 a.m. on November 27, Ho Chik-sang. office coolie, appeared before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday and pleaded guilty.\n\nDet, Sergeant Davies stated that defendant was employed by a firm on the third floor of the Marina House. On the morning in question, he went down to the first floor and entered a vacant office where some electrical repairs were being carried and so forth. That done, he took two lead pipes and placed them across the alleyway to the St. Francis Hotel, and started to walk across to the hotel. Midway, the pipes gave way, and he fell, from a height of about 30 feet, and had to receive medical attention. The defendant admitted that his intention was to commit a larceny in the hotel.\n\nHis Worship bound defendant over in the sum of $50 to be of good behaviour for a year, and remarked that he had learned a good lesson.\n\nHOUSEBREAKING ATTEMPT\n\nMr. D. Keys, of 3 Cameron Road, reported to the police on Tuesday that some person attempted to enter his house between 10 p.m. on January 3 and 8 a.m. on January 4, by boring a hole in the front door. The intruder was apparently disturbed before he could enter the house, and ran away without taking anything.\n\nOPENING TO-DAY KING'S\n\nErrol Flynn wields a mean blade to save the prince—or is it the pauper?\n\nYou, too, can attend the coronation—and see the world's most impressive ceremony!\n\nSee how one boy's bravery saved the throne of Britain from the gangsters of the court!\n\nALSO LATEST COLOURED CARTOON\n\n“I'M A BIG SHOT NOW”\n\nOnly Mark Twain Could Have Written It!\n\nOnly These Stars Could Have Played It!\n\nOnly Warner Bros. 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        "content_text": "# Head 6.-DEFENCE\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\n1\n\n## Head 6.-DEFENCE,-Continued.\n\n### A. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,—Continued.\n\n#### NUMBERS.\n\n  \n    1938\n    1939\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n  \n\n#### Personal Emoluments.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\n  \n    Commandant, (£1,250)\n    $\n    16,320\n    20,000\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    Do., Pension Contribution (£105). Adjutant, (£850)..\n    \n    1,680\n    1,680\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    2,400\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    13,600\n    \n    (1)\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do., Pension Contribution (£105)\n    \n    1,680\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Corps Quartermaster, (£370 to £600 by 1 of £30 and 5 of £20). Regimental Sergeant Major (£370 to £460 by £15\n    \n    9,600\n    9,336\n    (2)\n  \n  \n    of £20,\n    \n    5,920\n    \n    (3)\n  \n  \n    Do., Pension Contribution (£18)\n    \n    288\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Armourer Staff Sergeant, (£310 to £460 by 4 of £15, I of £20, 2 of £15 and 2 of £20)\n    \n    4,960\n    5,093\n    (4)\n  \n  \n    Junior Clerical Service:\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    -\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n    \n    1,663\n    1,813\n    (4)\n  \n  \n    Allowances to Instructors\n    \n    3,620\n    3,700\n    (5)\n  \n  \n    Armourer Attendant, ($480 to $600 by $12 annually)\n    \n    600\n    600\n    \n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance.\n    \n    96\n    96\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Assistant Armourer Attendant, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually)\n    \n    411\n    423\n    (4)\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance\n    \n    48\n    48\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Motor Driver, ($550 to $650 by $50 annually)\n    \n    650\n    650\n    \n  \n  \n    Class II Store Foreman, ($600 to $1,050 by $75 annually)\n    \n    1,015\n    1,030\n    \n  \n  \n    Do., Assistant Storeman, ($360 to $480 by $12 annuaily).\n    \n    600\n    372\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    Rent Allowance.......\n    \n    \n    48\n    (4)\n  \n  \n    Do., Office Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially).\n    \n    204\n    192\n    (2)\n  \n  \n    Rent Allowance..........\n    \n    48\n    48\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Messenger, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    \n    156\n    168\n    (4)\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance\n    \n    48\n    48\n    \n  \n  \n    5\n    5\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    \n    819\n    839\n    (4)\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each\n    \n    240\n    240\n    \n  \n  \n    i\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Range Warden, ($300 to $420 by $12 annually)\n    \n    372\n    394\n    (4)\n  \n  \n    Do.. Rent Allowance..\n    \n    48\n    48\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    3\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Special Guards, at $300 each\n    \n    600\n    900\n    (6)\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowances at $36 each\n    \n    72\n    108\n    (6)\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Watchman, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    \n    204\n    204\n    \n  \n  \n    Do., Reut Allowance\n    \n    48\n    48\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    46,522\n    69,624\n    \n  \n  \n    Total Personal Emoluments\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n### B.-HONG KONG NAVAL VOLUNTEER FORCE.\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n  \n    *\n    1 Personal Emoluments\n    \n    23,868\n    24,459\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2 Allowance for Officers undergoing training in England\n    \n    554\n    1,200\n    (7)\n  \n  \n    \n    3 Ammunition\n    \n    1,261\n    1,139\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4 Books\n    \n    400\n    200\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    5 Bounty and Rations for Ratings\n    \n    4,000\n    3,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    6 Fuel, Light and Water\n    \n    1,500\n    3,000\n    CHODD\n  \n  \n    \n    7 Incidentals\n    \n    \n    (8)\n    100\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    100\n    50\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    8 Medical Stores\n    \n    1,500\n    1,600\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    9 Mine-sweeping and Exercising Expenses\n    \n    743\n    863\n    (10)\n  \n  \n    \n    10 Rent of Office and Upkeep\n    \n    500\n    500\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11 Telephone, Rental and Repairs\n    \n    100\n    500\n    (11)\n  \n  \n    \n    12 Travelling and Transport\n    \n    870\n    3,330\n    (12)\n  \n  \n    \n    13 Uniform Allowance to Officers.\n    \n    1,800\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    14 Uniforms..\n    \n    11,234\n    \n    (13)\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    51,075\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Carried forward\n    \n    37,246\n    \n    \n  \n\n(1) Salary revised.\n\n(2) Changes in personnel.\n\n(3) New post.\n\n(4) Stipulated increments.\n\n(5) More recruits\n\n(6) One new post.\n\n(7) More officers undergoing training.\n\n(8) Considered sufficient.\n\n(9) Considered necessary. 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        "content_text": "Page 210\n\n22\n\n# Head 6. DEFENCE\n\nApproved Estimate, 1989.\n\nEstimate, 1938,\n\nHead 6.-DEFENCE\n\n23\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\nHead 6.-DEFENCE,-Continued.\n\nA.—VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,—Continued.\n\n$\n\n$\n\nSub-heads:-\n\nHead 6.-DEFENCE.\n\nA. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n$\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1938 1939\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\n1\n\n1\n\nCommandant, (£1,250)\n\n16,320\n\nDo., Pension Contribution (£105).\n\n1,680\n\n46,522\n\n69,624\n\n1\n\n1\n\nAdjutant, (£850).\n\n2,400\n\nDo., Pension Contribution (£105)\n\n20,000 1,680 13,600 (1)\n\n1,680\n\n(1)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nCorps Quartermaster, (£370 to £600 by 5 of £20, 1 of £30 and 5 of £20)..\n\n9,600\n\n9,336 (2)\n\nOther Charges.\n\n1\n\nRegimental Sergeant Major (£370 to £460 by £15 annually)\n\nDo., Pension Contribution (£18)\n\n5,920 (3)\n\n288\n\n2 Allowances for Officers and N.C.Os, undergoing Training in England\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\n3 Ammunition\n\n10,150\n\n7,000\n\n(2)\n\n4 Armoured Car and Motor Machine Gun Section\n\n2,670\n\n8,000\n\n(2)\n\n5 Band allowances....\n\n100\n\n100\n\n6 Books,...\n\n800\n\n600\n\n7 Camp Expenses\n\n15,400\n\n17,000\n\n20 28\n\n(1)\n\nArmourer Staff Sergeant, (£310 to £460 by 1 of £15, 1 of £20, 2 of £15 and 2 of £20) Junior Clerical Service :—\n\n4,960\n\n5,093 (4)\n\n2\n\n2\n\nClass VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n\n1,663\n\n1,813 (4)\n\n(1)\n\nAllowances to Instructors\n\n3,620\n\n(3)\n\n1\n\nArmourer Attendant, (§480 to $600 by $12 annually)\n\n600\n\n8 Conveyance Allowance to Corps Quartermaster\n\n180\n\n180\n\nDo., Rent Allowance.\n\n96\n\n3,700 (5)\n\n600 96\n\n30\n\n9 Equipment for the Engineer Company and Signals-Overhaul optical instruments.\n\n1\n\n1\n\nAssistant Armourer Attendant, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually)\n\n785\n\n411\n\n423\n\n(4)\n\n10 Equipment, Air Arm....\n\n260\n\n260\n\nDo., Rent Allowance\n\n48\n\n11 Equipment and Upkeep of Arms......\n\n8,000\n\n3,000\n\n1\n\nMotor Driver, ($550 to $650 by $50 annually)\n\n650\n\n48 650\n\n12 Fuel and Light\n\n1,100\n\n1,100\n\n1\n\nClass II Store Foreman, ($500 to $1,050 by $75 annually)\n\n13 Grant to Machine Gun Troop\n\n7,200\n\n1,800 | (4)\n\n1,015\n\n1,050\n\n14 Incidental Expenses\n\n600\n\n600\n\n1\n\n1\n\n15 Improvements to Camp.\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\nDo., Assistant Storeman, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually).| Rent Allowance.\n\n600\n\n372\n\n20\n\n(4)\n\n(1)\n\n48\n\n16 Rifle Ranges, Expenses...\n\n1,200\n\n1,400\n\n(8)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nOffice Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially).\n\n204\n\n192\n\n(2)\n\n17 Subsidy to Air Arm\n\n30,000\n\n30,000\n\nDo., Rent Allowance..\n\n48\n\n48\n\n18 Training Expenses for Nursing Detachment H.K.V.D.C.\n\n600\n\n500\n\n(1)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nMessenger, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n\n156\n\n168\n\n(4)\n\n19 Transport\n\n3,000\n\n3,000\n\nDo., Rent Allowance\n\n48\n\n48\n\n20 Uniform,\n\n20,000\n\n22,000\n\n(3)\n\n5\n\n5\n\nCoolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n\n619\n\n839\n\n(4)\n\n21 Uniform for Messengers and Coolies\n\n300\n\n300\n\nDo., Rent Allowances at $48 each\n\n240\n\n240\n\n1\n\n1\n\nRange Warden, ($300 to $420 by $12 annually)\n\n372\n\n384 (4)\n\nDo.. Rent Allowance...\n\n48\n\n48\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n99,345\n\n94,625\n\n2\n\n3\n\nSpecial Guards, at $300 each\n\n600\n\n900 (6)\n\nDo., Rent Allowances at $36 each\n\n72\n\n108\n\n(6)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nWatchman, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n\nDo., Rent Allowance\n\n204\n\n204\n\n48\n\n48\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n22 Mechanisation of Machine Gun Troop\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments\n\nB. HONG KONG NAVAL VOLUNTEER FORCE.\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n46,522\n\n69,624\n\n3,600\n\n3,600\n\n23 Five Solo Motor Cycles.....\n\n3,200\n\n3,600\n\n24 Six new Vickers Gun Locks\n\n..............\n\n1,500\n\n25 Typewriter\n\n342 (6)\n\n26 A.R.P. Equipment (Fire Buckets & Scoops)\n\n200\n\n27 100 sets equipment\n\n4,000\n\nS.M.L.E. Rifles\n\n3,360\n\nFifty sets equipment\n\n2,000\n\nTwo Bren Light Machine Guns\n\n3,905\n\n€ €€ 0000\n\n(5)\n\n(6)\n\n23,868\n\n24,459\n\n(7)\n\nOther Charges.\n\n(8)\n\n2 Allowance for Officers undergoing training in England\n\n554\n\n1,200\n\n(7)\n\n3 Ammunition\n\n1,261\n\n1,189\n\n(8)\n\n4 Books\n\n400\n\n200\n\n(8)\n\n5 Bounty and Rations for Ratings\n\n4,000\n\n3,000\n\n(8)\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\n16,065\n\n13,242\n\nTotal Volunteer Defence Corps.......\n\n161,932\n\n177,491\n\n6 Fuel, Light and Water\n\n7 Incidentals\n\n8 Medical Stores\n\n9 Mine-sweeping and Exercising Expenses\n\n10 Rent of Office and Upkeep\n\n11 Telephone, Rental and Repairs\n\n12 Travelling and Transport\n\n13 Uniform Allowance to Officers.......\n\n14 Uniforms.........\n\n1,500\n\n3,000\n\n100\n\n100\n\n50\n\n50\n\n1,500\n\n1,500\n\n748\n\n863\n\n(10)\n\n500\n\n500\n\n100\n\n500 (11)\n\n870\n\n8,330\n\n(12)\n\n1,800\n\n11,234 (13)\n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n\n(2) More vehicles.\n\n(3) Increase in strength.\n\n(4) Grant for 3 months only required.\n\n(7) Non-recurrent,\n\n(5) Fourth instalment of a five year programme.\n\n(6) Replacements.\n\n(8) See Sub-head 27.\n\nCarried forward\n\n(1) Salary revised.\n\n(2) Changes in personnel.\n\n(3) New post.\n\n(4) Stipulated increments,\n\n37,246\n\n51,075\n\n(6) More recruits.\n\n(6) One new post.\n\n(7) More officers undergoing training.\n\n(8) Considered sufficient.\n\n(9) Considered necessary. Previously under-estimated (10) Office rent increased.\n\n(11) Includes allowance for officers attending drills. (12) More officers qualify and increase in strength in 1939.\n\n(13) Under-estimated in 1938 and increase in strength in 1939.\n\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "358\n\n10\n\nbuilding of four new wards and agrees to make payment at a rate not exceeding Canton $7.00 per month for every leper sent to the Asylum for whom the Colony is prepared to accept responsibility. At present these lepers are being maintained by the Tung Wah Hospital on reimbursement by Government and a Supplementary Vote for $9,000 has been taken to cover this expenditure in 1938.\n\n33. Relief of Refugees. The estimated cost of running the relief camps now under construction, for the whole year, if fully occupied and with full maintenance, is approximately $360,000. The sum of $150,000 is provided in the hope that it may be unnecessary to provide for the maximum expenditure.\n\nA.\n\nHEAD 6. DEFENCE.\n\nVOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.\n\n34. There is a small increase in the total of Other Charges due mainly to the increase in size of the Corps. In accordance with policy which has already received the approval of the Finance Committee and the Secretary of State, provision is included under Personal Emoluments for the payment of salaries and pension contributions of a Regular Commandant, Adjutant, and Regimental Sergeant Major.\n\nB. HONG KONG NAVAL VOLUNTEER FORCE.\n\n35. The increase in Sub-heads 13 and 14 is due to the necessity for providing for a considerable increase in the establishment of the Force consequent upon the creation of three new branches, Communication, Mine-watching and Examination Service, and the expansion of the Accountancy branch.\n\nC. AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.\n\nTraining\n\n36. Three items under Special Expenditure require explanation. A block vote of stores is intended to cover expenditure on equipment required for the purposes of training instructors and keymen in Air Raid Precautions. $250,000 has been included under the title Mobilization Stores. This is to provide for the purchase of essential stores for general use in an emergency and must be regarded as no more than a provisional first instalment. Expenditure under this head will be incurred only in accordance with the advice of the Defence Committee as approved by the Governor in Council.\n\n37. It is proposed to recruit 4,000 persons to form a Reserve of the St. John Ambulance Brigade for service in an emergency. It is not proposed that members of this Reserve should be equipped with Brigade uniforms, but armlets, haversacks, and medical outfits will be provided, and the scheme will entail secretarial and office expenses. The initial expense will be spread over four years, but there will be some permanently recurrent charges.\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n38. It is necessary that the A.R.P.O. should have the full-time services of a qualified Architect. An officer from the P.W.D. is being posted to this Department, and his salary provided under this head. His place in the P.W.D. will be filled by a temporary appointment. The new posts of Storemen, Messenger, Coolies, etc., are in connection with the A.R.P. Store, provision for which is included under P.W.E.\n\nHEAD 9.\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nOther Charges.\n\nHeads 19, 20, 21. Students in training.\n\n39. Owing to a change in the University Calendar made in 1935, five students in training who would normally have graduated in December, 1938, will not graduate till June, 1939, and additional provision has had to be made for the extra six months. This amounts to $1,275, $1,550, and $1,600, respectively, on the above Sub-heads. The remainder of the increases is accounted for by the provision of a special studentship in the Chinese groups of the Hong Kong University with a view to training for eventual employment in the Normal and Middle Vernacular Schools and of one studentship additional to normal (anticipated) requirements in accordance with a scheme for the gradual replacement of certain European Mistresses by University Trained Masters.\n\nGrants.\n\n40. Sub-heads 26 and 27. Grants are calculated in accordance with the Revised Code of Vernacular School Subsidies which was approved by the Board of Education and laid before Legislative Council on 12th May, 1938.\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n41. With a view to implementing the report on Music and the Arts and Crafts recently adopted by the Board of Education, provision has been included for the purchase of five pianos for use in Government Urban Schools which do not already possess this equipment. Provision is also made under Personal Emoluments for the post of a full-time Music Master with experience in teaching music and singing to school teachers and children.\n\nSUB-HEAD 34. GYMNASTIC APPARATUS.\n\n42. This is to provide equipment for physical training classes in Government Urban Schools for boys. The items, which have all been recommended by the Physical Training Supervisor, comprise such articles as vaulting horses, mats, medicine balls, ropes, etc., the lack of which seriously limits the scope of the work which is being done.\n\nSUB-HEAD 35.\n\n43. Approximately 1,150 single desks are required to replace a varied collection of six, four, three, and two-seater desks all over 25 years old. Replacement is being spread over two years.\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n44. As it has proved impossible to obtain locally a suitable temporary Physical Training Instructor as provided in the 1938 Estimates, it is proposed to obtain a qualified teacher from England as an additional Physical Training Supervisor. Besides undertaking the training of boys at the Central British School, this officer will be required to assist and relieve the Supervisor in the supervision of Chinese Physical Training Instructors. Owing to the increasing demand from Grant-in-Aid Schools for instruction in physical training, an additional post of Temporary Chinese Physical Training Instructor has been included.\n\n45. There are three additions to the staff of the Trade School. The post of Assistant Instructor in Engineering is included in place of that of Senior Chinese Instructor included in 1938 Estimates. Efforts are still being made, however, to secure a candidate for the latter post, and, if one can be found, the post of Assistant Instructor will not be filled. The two Apprentice Tradesmen will eventually become Chinese Assistant Instructors in Engineering. These posts were inadvertently omitted from 1938 Estimates, and as recruitment was urgently necessary, provision during 1938 has been made by Special Warrant.\n\n46. Owing to expansion of Trade Classes and anticipated expansion in Vernacular Teachers Classes, it has been necessary to provide $15,000 more for the payment of lecturing staff for the Evening Institute. A further $3,024 has been included for lecturers on Handwork and the Arts and Crafts to implement the report of the Board of Education already mentioned.\n\n359",
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        "content_text": "## Head 6.-DEFENCE\n## Head 6.-DEFENCE,-Continued.\n### A.- VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,— Continued.\n\n#### Personal Emoluments.\n\n|                 | Approved Estimate, 1939 | Estimate, 1940-41 |\n| :-------------- | :---------------------: | :-----------------: |\n| **NUMBERS**     |                         |                     |\n| Details of the foregoing. |                         |                     |\n| 1 Commandant, (£1,250) | 20,000                 | 25,000              |\n| Do., Pension Contribution (£105) | 1,680              | 2,100               |\n| 1 Adjutant, (£850)............... | 13,600             | 17,000              |\n| Do., Pension Contribution (£105) | 1,680             | 2,100               |\n| 1 Corps Quartermaster,* (£370 to £600 by 5 of £20, 1 of £30 and 5 of £20) | 9,336        | 12,000 (1)          |\n| 1 Regimental Sergeant Major* (£370 to £460 by £15 annually) | 5,920           | 7,580 (1)           |\n| Do., Pension Contribution (£18) | 288                | 360                 |\n| 1 Armourer Staff Sergeant,* (£310 to £460 by 4 of £15, 1 of £20, 2 of £15 and 2 of £20) | 5,093 | 6,693 (1)           |\n| Junior Clerical Service: 2 3 Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $69, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 1,813 | 3,063              |\n| Allowances to Instructors | 3,700                 | 6,000               |\n| 1 Armourer Attendant, ( $480 to $600 by $12 annually) | 600              | 750                 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance.. | 96                   | 120                 |\n| 1 Assistant Armourer Attendant, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually) | 423           | 546 (1)             |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48                   | 60                  |\n| 1 Arms Store Attendant, ($240 to $360 by $12 annually) | 307              | ...                 |\n| Rent Allowance at $48 | ...                  | 60 (2)              |\n| 4 Motor Drivers, ($550 to $650 by $50 annually) | 650              | 2,213               |\n| 1 Class II Store Foreman, ($600 to $1,050 by $75 annually) | 1,050           | 1,313               |\n| 1 Assistant Storeman, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually), Rent Allowance. | 372           | 483                 |\n|  | 48                   | 60                  |\n| 1 Office Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially). | 192              | 243 (1)             |\n| Rent Allowance....... | 48                   | 60                  |\n| 2 Messengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially). | 168              | 405 (2)             |\n| Do., Rent Allowance at $48 each | 48                | 120                 |\n| 10 Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 839              | 1,670               |\n| Do., Rent Allowances at $18 each | 240              | 480                 |\n| 1 Range Warden, ($300 to $420 by $12 annually) | 394              | 498                 |\n| Do.. Rent Allowance.. | 48                   | 60 (1)              |\n| 3 Special Guards, at $300 each | 900              | 1,125               |\n| Do., Rent Allowances at $36 each | 108              | 135                 |\n| 1 Watchman, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 201              | 255                 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48                   | 60                  |\n| **Total Personal Emoluments** | **69,624**       | **92,919**          |\n\n(1) Stipulated increments. One new post.\n(3) More recruits.\n(4) Two new posts. \n(5) Three new posts.\n\n### B.-HONG KONG NAVAL VOLUNTEER FORCE.\n\n#### Sub-heads :-\n\n| Sub-head | Description | Approved Estimate, 1939 | Estimate, 1940-41 |\n| :------: | :---------- | :---------------------: | :-----------------: |\n| 1        | Personal Emoluments | 24,459                 | 31,833              |\n| 2        | Allowance for Officers undergoing training in England | 1,200 | 1,500               |\n| 3        | Ammunition | 1,139                  | 1,400               |\n| 4        | Books | 200                    | 250                 |\n| 5        | Bounty and Rations for Ratings | 3,000           | 3,750               |\n| 6        | Fuel, Light and Water | 3,000              | 5,000 (6)           |\n| 7        | Incidentals | 100                  | 180 (7)             |\n| 8        | Mine-sweeping and Exercising Expenses | 1,500     | 1,875               |\n| 9        | Rent of Office and Upkeep | 863              | 1,000 (8)           |\n| 10       | Telephone, Rental and Repairs | 500           | 625                 |\n| 11       | Travelling and Transport | 500              | 625                 |\n| 12       | Uniform Allowance to Officers.. | 3,330          | 2,750               |\n| 13       | Uniforms | 11,234.50             | 5,000               |\n|          | **Carried forward** | **51,075**         | **55,788**          |\n\n(6) Expansion of the Force.\n(7) Includes medical stores, formerly provided separately.\n(8) Considered sufficient.\n(9) Included in Sub-head 7, Incidentals.",
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        "content_text": "## Head 6.-DEFENCE\n## Head 6.-DEFENCE,-Continued.\n### A.- VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,— Continued.\n\n27\n\nApproved Estimate, 1939.  \nEstimate, 1940-41.\n\n#### Personal Emoluments.\n\n| NUMBERS | 1939 | 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\n| Position | 1939 | 1940-41 | Numbers |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Commandant, (£1,250) | 20,000 | 25,000 | 1 | 1 |\n| Do., Pension Contribution (£105) | 1,680 | 2,100 |  |  |\n| Adjutant, (£850) | 13,600 | 17,000 | 1 | 1 |\n| Do., Pension Contribution (£105) | 1,680 | 2,100 |  |  |\n| Corps Quartermaster,* (£370 to £600 by 5 of £20, 1 of £30 and 5 of £20) | 9,336 | 12,000 (1) | 1 | 1 |\n| Regimental Sergeant Major* (£370 to £460 by £15 annually) | 5,920 | 7,580 | 1 | 1 |\n| Do., Pension Contribution (£18) | 288 | 360 |  |  |\n| Armourer Staff Sergeant,* (£310 to £460 by 1 of £15, 1 of £20, 2 of £15 and 2 of £20) | 5,093 | 6,693 (1) | 1 | 1 |\n| Junior Clerical Service:-- Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 1,813 |  | 3 |  |\n| Allowances to Instructors | 3,700 | 6,000 |  |  |\n| Armourer Attendant, ($180 to $600 by $12 annually) | 600 | 750 |  | 1 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 96 | 120 |  |  |\n| Assistant Armourer Attendant, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually) | 423 | 546 (1) | 1 | 1 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48 | 60 |  |  |\n| Arms Store Attendant, ($240 to $360 by $12 annually) | 307 |  | 1 |  |\n| Rent Allowance at $48 |  | 60 |  | (2) |\n| Motor Drivers, ($550 to $650 by $50 annually) | 650 |  | 1 |  |\n| Class II Store Foreman, ($600 to $1,050 by $75 annually) |  | 1,313 |  | 1 |\n| Assistant Storeman, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually) | 372 | 483 (1) | 1 | 1 |\n| Rent Allowance | 48 | 60 |  |  |\n| Office Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially) | 192 | 243 (1) | 1 | 1 |\n| Rent Allowance | 48 | 60 |  |  |\n| Messengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 168 | 405 (2) |  | 2 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance at $48 each | 48 | 120 |  |  |\n| Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 839 | 1,670 |  | 5 |\n| Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each | 240 | 480 |  |  |\n| Range Warden, ($300 to $420 by $12 annually) | 354 | 498 | 1 | 1 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48 | 60 |  |  |\n| Special Guards, at $300 each | 900 | 1,125 | 3 | 3 |\n| Do., Rent Allowances at $36 each | 108 | 135 |  |  |\n| Watchman, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 201 | 255 | 1 | 1 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48 | 60 |  |  |\n| **Total Personal Emoluments** | **69,624** | **92,919** |  |  |\n\n### B.-HONG KONG NAVAL VOLUNTEER FORCE.\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1. **Personal Emoluments** | 24,459 | 31,833\n2. **Allowance for Officers undergoing training in England** | 1,200 | 1,500\n3. **Ammunition** | 1,139 | 1,400\n4. **Books** | 200 | 250\n5. **Bounty and Rations for Ratings** | 3,000 | 3,750\n6. **Fuel, Light and Water** | 3,000 | 5,000\n7. **Incidentals** | 100 | 180 (7)\n8. **Mine-sweeping and Exercising Expenses** | 1,500 | 1,875\n9. **Rent of Office and Upkeep** | 863 | 1,000 (8)\n10. **Telephone, Rental and Repairs** | 500 | 625\n11. **Travelling and Transport** | 500 | 625\n12. **Uniform Allowance to Officers** |  | \n13. **Uniforms** | 3,330 | 2,750 (8)\n| **Medical Stores** | 11,234 | 5,000 (9) | \n| **Total** | **51,075** | **55,788** | \n\n(1) Stipulated increments.  \n(2) One new post.  \n(3) More recruits.  \n(4) Two new posts.  \n(5) Three new posts.  \n(6) Expansion of the Force.  \n(7) Includes medical stores, formerly provided separately.  \n(8) Considered sufficient.  \n(9) Included in Sub-head 7, Incidentals.",
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        "content_text": "# \n60\n\nCHAN CHAU FAT, 25 years, of TAI O, foki on board Fishing Junk No.3870 H.O. states:-\n\nAt about 16.00 hours on the 12th October, 1959, I was in charge of the above junk. CHAN LIN SAU, 32 years of TAI O, foki, and CHAN KWUN SHING, 23 years, of TAI O, foki, were also on board. We were fishing at a point between FAN LAU and A CHAU when a Japanese trawler came from the direction of LAP SAP MET and fired several shots at us with rifles and shouted to us to lower the sails, which we did. The trawler then came alongside and six or seven sailors dressed in uniform came on board. They told us to lower a sampan and leave the junk. We lowered our sampan and rowed away towards the shore. After we left the junk, I saw the sailors throwing various articles belonging to the junk into the sea. When we were some distance away, I saw the trawler leave the junk and a few minutes afterwards, the junk burst into flames. After the Japanese trawler left the vicinity, we went back to the junk and put out the fire and then towed the junk back to TAI O. All the fishing nets to the value of $500 and all our personal property to the value of $100 were destroyed. The junk was damaged beyond repair. No person was injured by the Japanese.\n\n1.\n\nStatement corroborated by:-\n\nCHAN LIN SAU, 32 years of TAI O (foki) and\nCHAN KWUN SHING, 23 years of TAI O (foki),\n\n(Sa.) F. Mawer,\nLance Sergeant A.214,\nOfficer in charge, TAI O.\n13th October, 1939.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "# Head 6.-DEFENCE\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nHead 6.-DEFENCE,-Continued.\n\nA.-VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,—Continued.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\n$\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n  \n    \n    1940-41\n    1941-42\n  \n  \n    Details of the foregoing.\n  \n  \n    1 Commandant, (£1,230)\n    25,000\n    20,000\n  \n  \n    Do., Pension Contribution (£105).\n    2,100\n    1,680\n  \n  \n    1 Adjutant, (£850)...\n    17,000\n    13,600\n  \n  \n    Do., Pension Contribution (£105)\n    2,100\n    1,680\n  \n  \n    1 Stuff Officer, ($1,800)\n    \n    1,800\n  \n  \n    1 Assistant Adjutant, ($1,800)\n    \n    1,800\n  \n  \n    1 Corps Quartermaster,* (£370 to £600 by 5 of £20, 1 of £30 and 5 of £20)\n    12,000\n    9,600\n  \n  \n    1 Regimental Sergeant Major* (±370 to £460 by £15 annually)\n    7,580\n    6,279\n  \n  \n    Do., Pension Contribution (£18)\n    \n    360\n  \n  \n    1 Armourer Staff Sergeant,* (£310 to £460 by 4 of £15, 1 of £20, 2 of £15 and 2 of £20)\n    6,693\n    5,637\n  \n  \n    1 Sergeant Instructor, ($600)\n    600\n    ...\n  \n  \n    1 Stenographer, ($1,080)\n    \n    1,080\n  \n  \n    Junior Clerical Service:\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Class VIA, ($950 to $1,050 by $100)\n    ...\n    1,050\n  \n  \n    3 Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n    3,063\n    \n  \n  \n    5 Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n    \n    3,255\n  \n  \n    Allowances to Instructors\n    6,000\n    24,000\n  \n  \n    1 Armourer Attendant, {$480 to $600 by $12 annually)\n    750\n    495\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance\n    120\n    96\n  \n  \n    1 Assistant Armourer Attendant, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually)\n    546\n    379\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance\n    60\n    48\n  \n  \n    1 Arms Store Attendant, ($240 to $360 by $12 annually)\n    307\n    259\n  \n  \n    Rent Allowance at $48\n    60\n    48\n  \n  \n    3 Motor Drivers, ($550 to $650 by $50 annually)\n    2,213\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Class II Store Foreman, ($600 to $1,050 by $75 annually)\n    \n    1,886\n  \n  \n    1 Assistant Storeman, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually), Rent Allowance..\n    1,313\n    1,050\n  \n  \n    1 Assistant Storeman, ($360 to $480 by $12 annually), Rent Allowance..\n    483\n    399\n  \n  \n    Rent Allowance\n    60\n    48\n  \n  \n    1 Office Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially).\n    243\n    192\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance...\n    60\n    48\n  \n  \n    8 Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    1,670\n    1,328\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance at $48 each\n    480\n    384\n  \n  \n    2 Messengers, ($156 to $201 by $12 triennially).\n    405\n    327\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance at $48 each\n    120\n    96\n  \n  \n    1 Range Warden, ($300 to $420 by $12 annually)\n    498\n    411\n  \n  \n    Do.. Rent Allowance..\n    60\n    48\n  \n  \n    3 Special Guards, at $300 each\n    1,125\n    \n  \n  \n    6 Special Guards, at $300 each\n    \n    1,800\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowances at $36 each\n    135\n    216\n  \n  \n    1 Watchman, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    255\n    156\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance\n    60\n    43\n  \n  \n    Total Personal Emoluments\n    92,919\n    101,823\n  \n\nB.-HONG KONG NAVAL VOLUNTEER FORCE.\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n  \n    \n    1940-41\n    1941-42\n  \n  \n    1 Personal Emoluments\n    31,833\n    17,556\n  \n  \n    Other Charges.\n  \n  \n    2 Allowance for Officers undergoing training in England\n    1,500\n    1,500\n  \n  \n    3 Ammunition\n    1,400\n    1,320\n  \n  \n    4 Books\n    250\n    \n  \n  \n    5 Bounty and Rations for Ratings\n    \n    3,750\n  \n  \n    6 Fuel, Light and Water\n    5,000\n    \n  \n  \n    7 Incidentals\n    200\n    \n  \n  \n    8 Mine-sweeping and Exercising Expenses\n    9,000\n    10,500\n  \n  \n    9 Rent of Office and Upkeep\n    180\n    150\n  \n  \n    10 Telephone, Rental and Repairs\n    1,875\n    1,500\n  \n  \n    11 Travelling and Transport\n    1,000\n    800\n  \n  \n    12 Uniform Allowance to Officers...\n    625\n    500\n  \n  \n    13 Uniforms.\n    625\n    500\n  \n  \n    Temporary post.\n    2,750\n    \n  \n  \n    Carried forward\n    \n    7,700\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    5,000\n  \n  \n    \n    18,125\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    18,125\n  \n  \n    Total\n    58,788\n    69,351\n  \n\n(2) Stipulated increments.\n\n(3) Not required.\n\n(4) Promoted from Class VIB.\n\n(5) One promoted to Class VIA. Three new posts.\n\n(6) More training.\n\n(7) Changes in personnel.\n\n(8) Three new posts.\n\n(9) Considered necessary.\n\n(10) Rations for European Seamen Gunners included.\n\n(11) Expansion of the Force.",
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        "content_text": "26\n\n# Head 6.-DEFENCE\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\n# Head 6.-DEFENCE,-Continued.\n\nA. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,-Continued.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n267\n\n27\n\n# Head 6-DEFENCE\n\n# Head 6.-DEFENCE,-Continued.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942,\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n$\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1940-41 1941-42\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nB. HONG KONG NAVAL VOLUNTEER FORCE,--Contd.\n\n1\nCommandant, (£1,250)\n25,000\n\nDo., Pension Contribution (£105).\n2,100\n1,680\n\n1\nAdjutant, (£850).....\n17,000\n13,600\n\nDo., Pension Contribution (£105)\n2,100\n1,680\n\n1\nStaff Officer, ($1,800)\n\n1,800\n\n1\nAssistant Adjutant, ($1,800)\n\n1,800\n\nBrought forward\n55,788\n69,351\n\n(1)\n\n(1)\n\nCorps Quartermaster,* (£370 to £600 by 5 of £20,\n\n1 of £30 and 5 of £20).\n12,000\n9,600\n\n1\nRegimental Sergeant Major* (£370 to £460 by £15 annually)\n7,580\n6,279\n\nDo... 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        "content_text": "256\n\nCOPY\n\nOHAN CHAU PAT, 85 years, of TAI O, foki on board Fishing Junk No.3879 states:-\n\nAt about 16.00 hours on the 18th October, 1989, I was in charge of the above junk. CHAN LIN SAU, 32 years of TAI O, foki, and CHA KWUN CHING, 63 years, of TAI O, C. IRUM foki, were also on board.\n\nWe were fishing at a point between FAN LAW and A CHAU when a trawler came from the direction of LAP BAP MUI and fired several shots at us with rifles and shouted to us to lower the sails, which we did. The trawler then came alongside and six or seven sailors dressed in uniform came on board. They told us to lower our BETAS and leave the junk. After we left the junk we lowered a sampan and rowed away towards the shore.\n\nI saw the sailors throwing various articles belonging to the junk into the sea. I saw the trawler leave the junk and a few minutes afterwards, the junk burst into flames. Then we were some distance away.\n\nAfter the Japanese trawler left the vicinity we went back to the junk and put out the fire and then towed the junk back to TAI O. All the fishing nets to the value of $500.00 and all our personal property to the value of $110.00 were destroyed. The junk was damaged beyond repair. No person was injured by the Japanese.\n\nStatement corroborated by:-\n\nCHAN LIN SAU, 32 years of TAI O (foki) and CHAN KWUN CHING, 63 years of TAI O (foki).\n\n(sd. F. Brewer, Lance Sergeant A.214, Officer in Charge, TAI O, 18th October, 1989.",
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        "content_text": "Detectiv ·262\n\nWater Police Sta.\n\nCHENG CHAU YAU, 52 years, Master of Fishing Junk No.1822\n\n0/0 WING FAT Fish Dealers, Shaukiwan, of Hong Kong, states:-\n\nI am the master of the above junk. On board I had a crew of four.\n\nOn the 17th October, 1939, at 05.00 hours with another two junks Nos. unknown, owned by my two brothers CHENG CHAU KIT and CHENG CHAU KWAI bound for HAK NGAAM KOK to fish. At about 18.00 hours on the 18th October, 1939, I saw a Japanese trawler come from the south-east. The trawler when approaching fired shots at my junk. We all then jumped overboard and waded ashore. The Japanese then set fire to my junk and sailed towards another junk owned by CHENG CHAU KWAI. His crew also jumped overboard and waded ashore. The Japanese set his junk on fire. CHENG CHAU KIT sailed his junk towards the shore and the Japanese fired after him. He and his crew waded ashore and his junk was set on fire. A few hours later a fishing junk No. unknown picked us up and conveyed us to NAM O. The following morning at 06.00 hours the junk sailed for Shaukiwan arriving at 11.00 hours. I came with my two brothers to Water Police Station at 17.50 hours and reported.\n\nValue of Junk $400.00\n\nFishing gear $150.00\n\nTotal value $550.00\n\nNames of crew on board.\n\n(1) CHENG CHAU YAU 52 yrs. Junk master, of Shaukiwan.\n\n(2) CHENG SAP LUK 25 yrs. son,\n\n(3) WONG TAI 25 yrs. wife of No.2.\n\n(4) CHENG KUM SHUI 25 yrs. son of No. 1\n\n(5) CHENG PI NG 20 yrs. daughter of No. 1\n\n(sd.) H.T. Watches\n\nLance Sergeant A.87.\n\n19th October, 1939.",
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        "content_text": "Detective Office,\n\nWater Police Station.\n\n263\n\nCHENG CHAU KIT, 32 years, Master of Fishing Junk No.1490 residing on board, c/o \"ING FAT Fish Dealers, Shaukiwan, Native of Shaukiwan, Hong Kong, states:-\n\nI am master of Fishing Junk No.1490. On board I have a crew of five.\n\nOn the 17th October, 1939, at 05.00 hours my junk MENO CHAU and another two junks owned by my two brothers YAU and CHIENG CHAU KWAI (Nos. unknown) left Shaukiwan bound for HAK NGAAM KOK to fish.\n\nAt about 12.00 hours on the 18th October, 1939, when we were fishing near HAK NGAAM KOK a Japanese trawler came from the south-east. I saw the trawler set fire to two other junks owned by my two brothers who were fishing nearby, so I sailed my junk nearer the shore. The trawler followed my junk and when a short distance away the Japanese started firing at us. Myself and all the crew waded ashore. We remained in the hillside for three hours, during which time my junk was set on fire and burnt till it sank.\n\nAt about 16.00 hours same day a fishing junk, number unknown, picked me and my crew up and took us to NAN O. At about 06.00 hours on the 19th October, 1939, the fishing junk sailed for Shaukiwan arriving at 11.00 hours same day. The fishing junk also picked up the crew of the other two junks burnt by the Japanese and conveyed them back to Shaukiwan with my crew. I came and reported at Water Police Station at 17.30 hours with my two brothers.\n\nValue of Junk $800.00\n\n**\n\nFishing gear $150.00\n\nTotal value $450.00\n\n(3d.) H. T. Matches,\n\nLance Sergeant A.87.\n\n19th October, 1939.",
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        "content_text": "FUNG LOI YAU, age 20 years, master of Fishing Junk No.1172 H.A., Native of Hong Kong, states:-\n\nAt about 12.00 hours on 11th December, 1939, I left Shaukiwan Harbour on board the above junk to go fishing in Chinese Waters together with a crew of 15.\n\nAt about 05.00 hours on 9th January, 1940, my junk was at anchor about 5 miles off the shore at KIT SHEK Village in HOI FUNG District, together with 5 other junks, when I noticed a Japanese trawler go alongside a junk owned by CHAN TAI KAN. At the same time I noticed some Japanese sailors lower a motor boat which came alongside my junk.\n\nFour Japanese sailors dressed in khaki uniform then boarded my junk and told me to lower my dinghy and ordered me and my crew into the dinghy and told us to row ashore. About half an hour later I noticed the Japanese set fire to my junk.\n\nThe five other junks which were lying alongside my junk were also on fire. I returned to my junk and with the assistance of my crew put out the fire. The damage caused by fire to my junk is about $1,000.00 Hong Kong currency. My junk was only partly burnt.\n\nAt about 12.00 hours on 10th January, 1940 I set sail for Hong Kong together with the crews of the five junks which were lying alongside my junk. We arrived in Hong Kong at 08.00 hours on 12th January, 1940. The five junks which were lying alongside my junk all sank and became total loss.\n\n(Sgd.) D. Davies\n\nPolice Sergeant A.200\n\n12th January, 1940.",
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        "content_text": "336\n\n陳帶根\n\nCHAN TAI KAN, age 39 years, master of Fishing Junk No. unknown, native of Hong Kong, states:-\n\nAt about 12.00 hours on 28.12.39 I left 香港仔 Aberdeen Harbour on board the above junk to go fishing in Chinese Waters together with a crew of 11.\n\nAt about 05.00 hours on 9th January, 1940, my junk F2碣 was at anchor about 5 miles off the shore at KIT SHEK in 丰 HÓI FUNG District together with 5 other junks, when a Japanese trawler painted grey approached my junk from the West and came alongside. Seven Japanese sailors dressed in khaki uniform who were all armed with rifles then boarded my junk and began to search our junk. After searching the junk the Japanese made us lower our dinghy and ordered me and my crew into the dinghy and told us to row ashore. The Japanese then poured kerosene oil over my junk and set fire to it. My junk together with fishing gear and clothing all of which became a total loss is valued at $2,500.00 Hong Kong currency.\n\nAt about 12.00 hours on 10th January, 1940, we boarded Fishing Junk 1172 H.A. which is owned by FUNG LOI YAU, and he conveyed us to Hong Kong. We arrived in Hong Kong at 08.00 hours on 12th January, 1940.\n\nList of Persons on Fishing Junk No. unknown.\n\n陳帶根\n\n1. CHAN TAI KAN, 39 years, master, native of Hong Kong.\n\n2. CHUNG AH NG, 27 years, wife of No.1.\n\n3. CHAN KWAI PO, 8 years, son of No.1.\n\n4. CHAN TAI CHOI, 10 years, daughter of No.1.\n\n5. CHAN SAT MUI, 6 years, daughter of No.1.\n\n6. CHAN NG TAI, 3 years, son of No.1.\n\n7. CHAN KAM TAK, native place unknown.\n\n8. CHAN TSAT SHING, 8 years.\n\n9. Name unknown.\n\n10. Name unknown.\n\n11. Name unknown.\n\n(Sgd.) D. Davies\n\nPolice Sergeant A.200\n\n12th January, 1940.",
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        "content_text": "FAN CHEUNG KI, age 47 years, master of Fishing Junk No.1081 H.C., native of Hong Kong, states:-\n\nAt about 06.00 hours on 28th December, 1939, I left Shaukiwan Harbour on board the above junk to go fishing in Chinese Waters together with a crew of 16.\n\nAt about 05.00 hours on 9th January, 1940, my junk was at anchor about 5 miles off the shore at KIT SHEK in HOI FUNG District together with 5 other junks when I noticed the crew of a Japanese motor boat, which had set fire to FUNG LOI YAU's junk, leave his junk and come alongside mine. Four Japanese sailors dressed in khaki uniform boarded my junk and ordered me and my crew into our dinghy and told us to row ashore. We had been rowing for about 10 minutes when I noticed the Japanese set fire to my junk. They then boarded their motor boat and went alongside junk No.4720 H.A. belonging to NG TOI KONG. My junk which became a total loss is valued at $8,000.00 Hong Kong currency.\n\nAt 12.00 hours on 10th January, 1940, I and my crew boarded Fishing Junk No.1172 H.A. which conveyed us to Hong Kong. We arrived in Hong Kong at 08.00 hours on 12th January, 1940.\n\n(Sgd.) D. Davies.\n\nPolice Sergeant A.200\n\n12th January, 1940.",
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        "content_text": "338\n\n吳台光\n\nNG TOI KWONG, age 32 years, master of Fishing Junk No. 4720 H.A., native of Hong Kong, states:-\n\n筲箕湾\n\nAt about 06.00 hours on 28.12.39 I left Shaukiwan Harbour on board the above junk to go fishing in Chinese Waters together with 26 of a crew.\n\nAt about 05.30 hours on 9.1.40 my junk was at 碣石海丰 anchor about 5 miles off the shore at KIT SHEK in Hoi Fung District together with 5 other junks when I noticed the crew of a Japanese motor boat which had set fire to FAN CHEUNG KI's junk leave his junk and come alongside my junk. 4 Japanese sailors dressed in khaki uniform then boarded my junk and ordered me and my crew into our dinghy and ordered us to row ashore. We had been rowing for about 15 minutes when I noticed my junk had been set on fire by the Japanese. They then boarded their motor boat and went alongside one of the other 5 junks. My junk and fishing gear which became a total loss is valued at $12,000.00 H.K. currency.\n\n(Sgd) D. DAVIES\n\nPolice Sergeant A.200\n\n12.1.40.\n\nPage 340\nPage 341",
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        "content_text": "341\n\n黄藤\n\nWONG SO, age 48 years, steersman, of Fishing Junk No. unknown, native of Hong Kong, states:-\n\n筲箕湾\n\nAt about 04.30 hours on 3.1.40 I left Shaukiwan Harbour on board the above junk to go fishing in Chinese Waters together with 9 of a crew.\n\nAt about 05.00 hours on 9.1.40 my junk was at anchor about 5 miles off the shore at KIT SHEK in HOI FUNG District together with 5 other junks when I saw the crew of a Japanese motor boat which had just set fire to NG TOI KONG's junk leave his junk and come alongside my junk. 4 Japanese sailors dressed in khaki uniform boarded my junk and ordered me and my crew into our dinghy and told us to row ashore. We had been rowing for about 20 minutes when I saw the Japanese pour kerosine oil over my junk and set fire to it. They then boarded their motor boat and went alongside one of the other junks. My junk and fishing gear which became a total loss is valued at $3,000.00 H.K. currency.\n\nAt 12.00 hours on 10.1.40 I and my crew boarded fishing junk No.1172 H.A. and set sail for Hong Kong arriving at 08.00 hours on 12.1.40.\n\nList of Persons on Fishing Junk No. unknown.\n\n  \n    1.\n    WONG SO,\n    48 years, steersman,\n    native of Hong Kong\n  \n  \n    2.\n    LI FO\n    ?\n    master\n  \n  \n    3.\n    YEE TAI,\n    50\n    Fokian\n  \n  \n    4.\n    TAI YAU,\n    40\n    \n  \n  \n    5.\n    AH TSAT\n    30\n    \n  \n  \n    6.\n    AH KAN,\n    30\n    \n  \n  \n    7.\n    CHAU NG,\n    36\n    \n  \n  \n    8.\n    CHAN TAI,\n    42\n    \n  \n  \n    9.\n    LI SING\n    39\n    \n  \n  \n    10.\n    HO SAM SO, 32\n    female cook\n    \n  \n\n(sgd) D. DAVIES.\n\nPolice Sergeant A.200\n\n12.1.40.",
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        "content_text": "342\n\n李娣\n\nLI TAI, age 60 years, steersman, residing on board Fishing Junk No; unknown, of Hong Kong, states:-\n\nAt about 15.00 hours on 1st January, 1940, I left 筲箕湾 Shaukiwan Harbour on board the above junk to go fishing in Chinese Waters together with seven of a crew.\n\nAt about 06.15 hours on 9th January, 1940, my junk was at anchor about five miles off the shore at 碣石 Kit Shk in Hoi Fung District together with five other junks when I saw the Crew of a Japanese motor boat which had set fire to five other junks come alongside my junk. Four Japanese sailors dressed in khaki uniform boarded my junk and ordered me and my fokis into our dinghy and told us to row ashore. We had been rowing for about 15 minutes when the Japanese set fire to my junk.\n\nThey then boarded their motor boat and steamed away in a Westerly direction and set fire to some more junks which were anchored about half a mile away. My junk and fishing gear valued at $2,500.00 became a total loss.\n\nAt 12.00 hours on 10th January, 1940, I and my crew boarded Fishing Junk No.1172 H.A. which conveyed us into Hong Kong where we arrived at 08.00 hours on 12th January, 1940.\n\nList of Persons on Fishing Junk No. unknown.\n\n  \n    1.\n    李培帶 LI PUI TAI,\n    38 years,\n    master,\n    native of Hong Kong.\n  \n  \n    2.\n    李容聲 LI YUNG SING,\n    32\n    foki\n    \n  \n  \n    3.\n    李亞泉 LI AH CHUEN,\n    28\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4.\n    羅生基 IO SANG KI,\n    36\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    5.\n    張馬帶 CHEUNG MA TAI,\n    55\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6.\n    李娣 LI TAT\n    60\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7.\n    亞連 AH LIN,\n    36\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    8.\n    陳亞四 CHAN AH SZE\n    24\n    Female cook\n    \n  \n\n(Sgd) D. DAVIES.\n\nPolice Sergeant A.200.\n\n12.1.40.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-585-4 Sino-Japanese conflict- Japanese air raids on China 26-1-1940 - 5-7-1940",
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        "title": "CO129-585-4 Sino-Japanese conflict- Japanese air raids on China 26-1-1940 - 5-7-1940",
        "content_text": "Assistant Superintendent of Police \n\n(New Territories), \n\nSir, \n\nTai Po Police Station. \n\n14th April, 1940. \n\n26 \n\nPlease see attached statements in connection with \n\nJapanese air raids on Sha U Chung (沙魚涌), Chinese \n\nterritory, on the 13th April, 1940. \n\nIt appears that 3 Japanese planes raided Sha U \n\nChung at about 10.30 hrs on the 13th April, 1940. About 30 \n\nbombs were dropped and machine guns were used. \n\nIt is alleged by the Coxswain named Lam Sam (林三) and Wan Wah (溫華) who is in charge of the Ferry Launch \"Tai Pang\" that a Japanese plane flew \n\nover the launch when it was about 1,000 feet from the shore of \n\nSha U Chung and in British Waters. \n\nExact distances cannot be given but if a Japanese \n\nplane did pass over the Ferry Launch \"Tai Pang\" it must have \n\nbeen over British Waters as the whole of Mirs Bay up to high \n\nwater mark is British territory. \n\nThere is only about 5 feet difference between \n\nhigh and low tide at Sha U Chung. \n\nThis raid lasted about 20 minutes. \n\nA short time later 2 other Japanese planes raided \n\nSha U Chung and dropped several bombs and used machine guns. \n\nAn eye witness named Lo Ying (羅應) states \n\nthey flew in from the sea (Mirs Bay) each time they dropped \n\nbombs. Twenty two wounded and 1 dead were brought to Tai Po \n\nby the Ferry Launch \"Tai Pang\" on 13th April, 1940, \n\nand sent to Kowloon Hospital. Four more wounded were brought \n\nto Tai Po on 14th April, 1940, and sent to Queen Mary Hospital. \n\n(Sgd.) E. Franklin, \n\nLance Sergeant A.202, \n\nOfficer in Charge, Tai Po. \n\n14th April, 1940.",
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        "content_text": "30\n\nMy launch then went astern and anchored about 5,000 feet from the shore.\n\nThe 2 aeroplanes circled over Sha U Chung and dropped bombs around the Customs House. One bomb scored a direct hit on the Customs House and demolished the roof. I heard 3 bursts of machine gun fire.\n\nOne of the 2 planes flew to near where my launch was anchored.\n\nThis must have been at least 3,000 feet from the shore. All the sea up to high tide mark is British Waters.\n\nI did not see any bombs drop in the sea.\n\nThis second air raid lasted about 15 minutes. The 2 planes then left in the direction of Ping Shan, Chinese territory.\n\nLater that day, nine injured persons were brought onto my launch to be taken to Tai Po on our return journey. One of these died on the way.\n\nThey were all taken over by the Police at Tai Po and sent to hospital.\n\n(Sd.) E. Franklin, Lance Sergeant, A.202, Officer in Charge, Tai Po.\n\n13th April, 1940.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "document_key": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940",
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        "title": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940",
        "content_text": "## \"SLAMAT\" PASSENGER LIST\n\n(1)\n\n### NAVAL OFFICERS\n\n| WIFE'S NAME | CHILDREN | DESTINATION |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | MALE | FEMALE |  |\n| MILLETT, N. | 2 |  | SYDNEY |\n| BEEVER, S.C. |  | 1 | SYDNEY |\n| BROADY, I.E. | 1 | 1 |  |\n| CATE, D.M. | 1 |  |  |\n| CHRISTIAN, M.B. |  | 1 | ROYAL DOCKYARD |\n| DUNK, M.E. | 1 |  | SYDNEY |\n\n### HUSBAND\n\n| Name | Rank/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commdr. H.C. MILLETT, R.N |  |\n| BEEVER, C.S.C. | Asst. Victualling Storeoffr. |\n| BROADY, J.C.F. | Storehouseman. |\n| CATE, F.S. | Storehouseman. |\n| CHRISTIAN, G.A. | Victualling Store Officer. |\n| DUNK, C.A.W. | Chargeman of Shipwrights |\n| EGAN, J. | Inspector of Elec. Fitters. |\n| FENTON, R.J. | Storehouseman. |\n| HOLLIDGE, J. | Chargeman of Engine Fitters. |\n| JENKINS, C.0. | Chargeman of Engine Fitters. |\n| JORDAN, T.H. | Storehouseman. |\n| KNIGHT, .C. | 2nd Class Draughtsman. |\n| LEE, A.R. | Chargeman of Shipwrights |\n| NOBBS, W.E. | Inspector of Engine Fitters |\n| PECKHAM, L.V. | Chargeman of Shipwrights |\n| PERRIN, E.A. | Chargeman of Coppersmiths |\n| SMITH, V.J.G. | Chargeman of Electrical Fitters. |\n| WASSER, E. P. | Departmental E.P. Clerical Officer. |\n\n| WIFE'S NAME | CHILDREN |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | MALE | FEMALE |  |\n| EGAN, E. |  | 1 |  |\n| FENTON, H.V. |  | 1 |  |\n| HOLLIDGE, L.M. | 1 |  |  |\n| JENKINS, D.M. |  | 1 |  |\n| JORDAN, V.M.J. | 1 |  |  |\n| KNIGHT, M. |  | 1 |  |\n| LEE, R.H.I. |  | 1 |  |\n| NOBBS, C.I. | 1 |  |  |\n| PECKHAM, M.L. |  | 1 |  |\n| PERRIN, H.. | 1 |  |  |\n| SMITH, E.M. | 1 |  |  |\n| WASSER, G.H. |  | 1 |  |\n\n### Others\n\n| WIFE'S NAME | CHILDREN | DESTINATION |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | MALE | FEMALE |  |\n| BICKNELL, P.H. | 1 |  | MELBOURNE |\n| FRY, I.M. | 1 |  | BRISBANE |\n| GAGE, E.M. |  | 1 |  |\n| JENNINGS, M.G. | 1 | 1 |  |\n| POPE, G. | 2 | 2 | 07 |\n| STEPHENS, W.M. | 1 |  |  |\n\n| Name | Rank/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| BICKNELL, H., J. | Chargeman of Electrical Fitters. |\n| FRY, E.A. | 2nd Class Draughtsman. |\n| GAGE, V.D. | Mechanic Examiner. |\n| JENNINGS, F.W. | Chargeman of Engine Fitters. |\n| POPE, E.F. | 2nd Class Draughtsman. |\n| STEPHENS, V.M. | Sergeant of Police. |\n| GEORGE, J.P. | Sergeant of Police. |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942",
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        "title": "CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942",
        "content_text": "# Air Ministry News Service\n## Air Ministry Bulletin No. 8282\n\n### CRAWLED ALONG SPITFIRE FUSELAGE TO ESCAPE FLAMES\n\nCrawling along the fuselage of a Spitfire to escape the flames which enveloped the cockpit, a sergeant pilot of Fighter Command was jerked to safety by his parachute within a few feet of the sea.\n\nA second later, his aircraft crashed into the Channel, but within five minutes the sergeant was safely aboard a rescue-boat speeding to the shore and to hospital.\n\nThat was on Monday, and all that the Air Ministry was able to announce was that a fighter was lost but the pilot was safe.\n\nToday, the sergeant, now out of danger, and with only a few cuts and bruises to show for his adventure, has told the story behind that communiqué.\n\nHe was on patrol with a companion over the Channel when four F.W.190s were sighted at 2,000 feet off Dover.\n\nThe first the sergeant knew of their presence was a warning from his companion over the radio telephone. As he turned, the three leading German fighters swung into line abreast, and attacked him head-on, firing from about 300 yards' range.\n\nBut the sergeant did not take evasive action. He kept straight on at the enemy, flying into their fire and returning it with his own.\n\nHis plane was hit several times in the engine. It caught fire and dived towards the sea.\n\n\"I decided that it was now time for me to get out,\" said the sergeant. \"I released my straps and stood up in the cockpit. Then I pulled my rip-cord, hoping that my parachute would drag me out. It opened but did not inflate, and the cockpit was in flames, so I turned round and climbed out, crawling along the fuselage towards the tail\".\n\nAs he hung there, the parachute inflated and jerked him clear just before the Spitfire plunged into the sea. He believes that he went 30 feet below the waves before he broke surface and struggled free of his parachute. His \"Mae West\" kept him afloat until the rescue craft arrived.\n\nMeanwhile, his companion had chased the Focke Wulf back to France. The raid had been smashed.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943",
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        "title": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943",
        "content_text": "183\n\n-14-\n\nbombing and shelling of Aberdeen and 2 determined bombing attacks on H.M.S. CICALA which had been firing on enemy batteries on hills above Repulse Bay. At about 1000 nine bombers attacked CICALA and the ninth scored hits with a straddle of 5 bombs which holed her but did not explode to any great extent. MTB 10 received signal to all MTB's from S.N.O. Aberdeen 'CICALA on fire take off crew'\n\nand proceeded alongside taking off all officers and crew, and on consulting with the Commanding Officer, Lieut. Commander Boldoro, R.N. (retd.) MTB 09 was instructed to hasten the sinking of CICALA with depth charges and this was done. After putting crew of CICALA (some wounded) on shore at T-head pier, MTB 10 proceeded down Aberdeen Channel to contact the flotilla and at the narrowest part came under shell fire which wounded the First Lieutenant, who was landed, and Chief Petty Officer Gilbert Thomas D/J 96352 late Coxswain of the CICALA, taken in his place, together with a telegraphist from CICALA to cope with V2's W/T work. As I had been Commanding Officer of CICALA from May 1940 to April 1941 I was well acquainted with this Chief P.O. and found him of great assistance to me particularly in his cheerful and tactful attitude to officers and ratings. I recommend him for Warrant Rank under the A.F.O. which allows such promotion to C.P.O's within 3 years of pension.\n\nIn the afternoon Japanese were reported along Aberdeen Industrial School Road, and ratings on shore were sent to reinforce. The S.N.O. X instructed V2 to stand by for special mission with Mr. F.W.K. MTB's crews loaded special iron rations, arms, stores and equipment for this purpose.\n\nH.M.S. ROBIN under S.N.O.A. moved inshore in Aberdeen Channel and fired 50 rounds from 12 pdr. at ridge whence enemy gun had shelled Aberdeen Channel. MTB's lay to the west of Aberdeen Island carrying out the following duties. MTB 10 went to T-head pier to carry army ammunition to Stanley but it did not arrive. MTB's 07, 09, 11 and 27 received the following alarm signal. 'Boats in harbour from Holt's wharf passing west of Dockyard + and went in * attack. They entered harbour but found no boats, 11 and 09 firing some rounds at drifting lighter only. After this 07 and 09 anchored at Sandy Bay\n\nand 10, 11 and 27 at Telegraph Bay.\n\nThe following signal had been sent by Commodore to S.N.O.(R) XDO. V2. 'Should you be forced to withdraw from Aberdeen send all you have afloat including ammunition and petrol to Sandy and Telegraph Bays Try to send M.T.B. Oil in vevo 1540/20'.\n\nDecember 22nd. On Monday, December 22nd, the Robin was dive-bombed by a stick of 9 bombs but not seriously hit. MTB10 was not alongside at the time but waiting at T-head pier for military ammunition and anti-tank mines which were taken to Stanley military pier, here the Sergeant-Major in charge of the garrison asked for 3.7 howitzer ammunition. On return, MTB 10 was slightly fired on by some form of 0.5′′ machine gun. At 1800 having arranged for same the 3.7 howitzer ammunition came down in lorry to T-head pier and loading on to MTB 10 commenced; but the shelling from field guns on a commanding ridge to the east increased so much that one-third of ammunition was taken to load on MTB 07 lying out of sight. There were no casualties in MTB 10 with the exception of one live duck designed for Christmas killing, which was killed by a splinter earlier than intended. Some mortar fire wrecked glass in Industrial School. Other MTB's this day prepared stores and arms for possible escape.\n\nAt 1900 MTB 10 and 07 proceeded to Stanley pier after dark\n\nthere was some very slight sniping at the pier but the ammunition was delivered without trouble. The chief European guerrilla leader, Mr. F.W.K. remained on board MTB 10.\n\nDecember 23rd. On Tuesday, December 23rd, MTB's collected stores and arms and clothing for possible escape overland. Some MTB's lay outside harbour after collecting stores but for the sake of communications MTB 10 remained. There was considerable shelling of the harbour from field-guns on commanding ridge. I understand the Canadian troops left Bennett's Hill this day which was then held by the Navy.\n\nDecember 24th. On Wednesday, December 24th, MTB's 10, 07 and 11 were in harbour\n\nremainder to the west of Aberdeen Island or in Telegraph Bay. During the forenoon shelling of the harbour was again considerable. F.W.K. proceeded to Hongkong for information and returned to MTB 10 and all\n\nMC.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946",
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        "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946",
        "content_text": "Date. 10.\n\nDistrict.\n\nWater Police.\n\nTime. 10.00 to 18.00\n\n11.\n\nEmergency Unit Hong Kong.\n\n14.00\n\n12.\n\nUpper Levels.\n\n13.\n\nShaukiwan.\n\n34.\n\n17.12.41\n\n49\n\nThe Divisional Inspector, Water Police, was employed with Harbour Office officials dismantling the masts of native craft at Causeway Bay, a permitted anchorage, as the Military Authorities complained that their line of fire was masked. This continued on the next day also. Even then the position was not considered entirely satisfactory by the Harbour Master who reported to the Military that he still considered that a good line of fire had not been made available.\n\nThe Unit patrolled Western District, Queen's Road Central and West and Sai Wan Ho Market at Shaukiwan in connection with reported disturbances at a rice shop. Additional police were left at the shops to help keep order but no further action was required.\n\nA complaint was received that a gang of men were demanding \"protection\" money from residents in Staunton Street. Police parties under Mr. Wright-Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and Chief Inspector Rozeskwy took drastic action against eight men.\n\nSeveral shells landed in close proximity of Shaukiwan Station. L.S.A. 103 Hendrick was wounded in the shoulder by a splinter though sheltering in the cells. The Sikh Police all deserted and took to the hills. Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, visited and decided with the Commissioner of Police's approval that the Station should be evacuated to a building next door to Quarry Bay Station. (Henceforth described as Shaukiwan Station). The evacuation was completed by 17.30 hours.\n\n14.\n\n15.\n\nPolice H.Q. Bay View.\n\n16.00 to 17.30\n\n18.00\n\n22.15\n\nHis Excellency the Governor visited.\n\nInspector Kirby was fired on by Fifth Columnists ensconced near, or, in, Bay View Mansions.\n\n17.12.41\n\n1.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\n4.\n\n5.\n\nPolice H.Q. & Central.\n\nHong Kong Traffic Office.\n\nGuards Office.\n\nEastern and Shaukiwan.\n\nAir raids continued.\n\nPolice Headquarters and Central were shelled. The Emergency Unit and Traffic Offices, A.R.P. Store room, and European single men's quarters at Central received heavy damage. The remainder of the Police evacuated to the Gloucester and Pedder Buildings. A guard was left under P.S.A. 139 Bower to ensure the security of the buildings evacuated. (Gloucester Building is henceforth described as Police Headquarters and Pedder Building as Central Station.) (See Entry No.6 of 16.12.41 for previous evacuation of the first half of the Police.)\n\nOwing to severe pressure of work, Inspector Clarke, Traffic Inspector/Hong Kong, obtained the services of five additional Europeans. Sub-Inspector Scrim and L.S.A. 10 Sargeant were sent to No. 2 Station, L.S.A. 74 Sullivan to Western, and L.S.A. 49 Channing to Upper Levels. Two repair shops were set up, one at the Gloucester Building and one at Central, to carry out repairs of as many vehicles as possible belonging to all departments besides Police.\n\nTransport generally began to become very scarce due to accidents many occurring during the blackout, enemy action, and deliberate damage inflicted by Chinese drivers.\n\nThe Guards Office transferred to the Central Magistracy building to obtain better protection from air raids.\n\nShelling and bombing continued. Four direct hits by shells were registered on No. 2 Station. Heavy bombing attacks were also made on the station, with possibly the Lewis Gun post previously established in the Sta-",
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        "document_key": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947",
        "page_number": 182,
        "title": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947",
        "content_text": "180\n\nthat the increase in cost only amounts to dollars 60,764. Unfortunately this is only a theoretical figure as it will depend on the effectiveness of the steps taken to bring the European establishment down to something in the neighbourhood of the new approved figure. Against this, however, is the fact that rent allowance for the first 2 years will not reach the estimated figure for a normal year.\n\n10.\n\nThe reduction in the establishment of European Inspectors and Sergeants from 277 to 115 is a very considerable one and on the disposal of this surplus the whole scheme for the re-organisation of the Police largely depends. The position is complicated by the fact that it has been necessary to engage a number of Inspectors to carry on the work of the Europeans who are on leave recuperating from the effects of their internment. It is not possible to engage candidates with suitable police experience on a purely temporary basis and to enable the Force to function at all it has been necessary to engage a number of inspectors on permanent terms. If all personnel in the Inspector and sergeant grades now on leave return there will be 361 persons to fill 115 posts. A certain number of these, estimated at 40, will almost certainly be boarded out and it is suggested that a very strict medical examination of all Police personnel should be carried out before they are permitted to return. This may eliminate a further number but will leave a very large number to be disposed of. Of the 361 mentioned above, in the opinion of senior officers of the Hong Kong Police the probity of 145 is above question and 67 of these are reported to be thoroughly efficient. Sergeants, whose return is considered undesirable can be retired on abolition of office but this cannot be done in the case of Inspectors and sub-Inspectors. Placing a large number of persons on pension at a comparatively early age will be expensive and the ordinary course would be very difficult to justify. But if a fresh start is to be made and a sound and efficient Police Force is to be built up, it must start off with satisfactory European personnel. If persons who are known to be unsatisfactory Europeans are allowed to return in any number the money and effort which is being expended on the creation of a better Force will be entirely wasted. It is proposed to submit a list of European members of the Force whose return is desired and it is hoped that a serious effort will be made to transfer as many as possible of the remainder to other dependencies. It may be felt that this would be unfair on the other dependencies but transfer in their present rank (and not on promotion) is suggested and if only a few are sent to any one dependency they may well give good service in new surroundings where the temptations which have been their undoing in Hong Kong do not exist. You will no doubt inform us of your views on this aspect when telegraphing in regard to the approval of the whole scheme.\n\n11. At present the Police Force is greatly below strength and it is important that recruiting of Chinese rank and file on a large scale should be undertaken at the earliest possible moment. No recruitment is possible until the terms of service are improved so it is hoped that the above proposals will receive very early consideration and that approval will be notified by signal.\n\n12.\n\nNaval\n\nAt present owing to the weakness of the Police Force numbers of ratings and Commandos are employed on Patrol duty. The building up of the Police Force to something approaching its pre-war establishment would release these men is a step which should be taken as soon as possible after the re-establishment of Civil Government. Moreover the release of the Naval Ratings who are on account of their duties billeted on shore, would make it possible for accommodation which is very urgently needed by the civil population to be de-requisitioned.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941",
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        "content_text": "58\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n381\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n59\n\nPrivate moorings.\n\nMooring of hulks, etc.\n\nUse of moorings.\n\n(2) No person shall keep or place moorings or buoys in the waters of the Colony except with the sanction of the Harbour Master and except on the conditions prescribed by the Governor in Council under sub-section (5). Such moorings and buoys shall be of such nature and construction as the Harbour Master may approve.\n\n(3) No person shall moor or anchor hulks or vessels of like description within the waters of the Colony except with the sanction of the Harbour Master and except on such conditions and subject to the payment of such fees as the Governor in Council may direct.\n\n(4) Moorings and buoys sanctioned by the Harbour Master under sub-section (2) shall not be made use of by any ship other than the ships of the person to whom such sanction has been granted, except with the consent of such person or by the direction of the Harbour Master; and the master of any ship using any such moorings and buoys without such consent or direction shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for every day or part of a day during which he so uses such moorings and buoys after he has been requested to remove therefrom.\n\n(5) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations prescribing the terms, conditions, and fees for any of the purposes mentioned in this section.\n\nRegulations for fishing stations, stakes, and nets.\n\nTable V.\n\n29. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the registration, licensing, erection, maintenance, management, working, and control of fishing stations, fishing stakes, and fishing stake-nets (all of which are in this section included in the word \"stakes\"), in the waters of the Colony, prescribing the places where the same may be erected, the distances to be maintained from the shore and from other stakes, and the depth of water for stakes, the removal of such stakes when out of repair or not in use, the lighting of such stakes at night, the removal, repairing, and cleaning of such stakes, and otherwise generally for all purposes, whether ejusdem generis with the above purposes or not, connected with stakes.\n\n(2) Any stakes established, renewed, altered, or repaired contrary to the provisions of such regulations may be removed by order of the Harbour Master; and the owner or occupier thereof, in addition to any other penalty to which he is liable under this section, shall be bound, if required to do so by the Harbour Master, to pay the expenses of such removal, and such expenses may be recovered by the Harbour Master by summary distress upon the property of such owner or occupier and by the sale of a sufficient portion of such property to pay such expenses.\n\n(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations determining the fees to be charged for licences for stakes according to their extent, situation, and methods.\n\n(4) It shall also be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the management, working, and control of all fishing operations generally in the waters of the Colony.\n\n(5) Every person who disobeys any of the provisions of this section or of any regulation made by the Governor in Council under this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.\n\nPowers of police.\n\n30.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Commissioner or any officer of police not below the rank of inspector, and for the Harbour Master, Deputy Harbour Master, or Assistant Harbour Master, to enter at all times, with such constables as he may think necessary, as well by night as by day, into and upon every ship, boat, junk, or other vessel (not being or having the status of a ship of war) in the waters of the Colony, and into every part thereof, for the purpose of inspection, and of directing the conduct of any officer of police who may be stationed on board, and of inspecting and observing the conduct of all other persons who may be employed on board, in or about lading or unlading, as the case may be, and for the purpose of taking all such measures as may be necessary for providing against fire or other accidents and preserving peace and good order on board, and for the effectual prevention or detection of any felonies or misdemeanors.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for the Commissioner or other officer of police not below the rank of sergeant, having just cause to suspect that any offence has been committed on board any ship, boat, junk, or other vessel, to arrest the offender.\n\nAs amended by No. 23 of 1932 [10.12.32].\n\n222",
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        "content_text": "58\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n453\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n59\n\nPrivate moorings.\n\nMooring of hulks, etc.\n\nUse of moorings.\n\nRegulations.\n\n(2) No person shall keep or place moorings or buoys in the waters of the Colony except with the sanction of the Harbour Master and except on the conditions prescribed by the Governor in Council under sub-section (5). Such moorings and buoys shall be of such nature and construction as the Harbour Master may approve.\n\n(3) No person shall moor or anchor hulks or vessels of like description within the waters of the Colony except with the sanction of the Harbour Master and except on such conditions and subject to the payment of such fees as the Governor in Council may direct.\n\n(4) Moorings and buoys sanctioned by the Harbour Master under sub-section (2) shall not be made use of by any ship other than the ships of the person to whom such sanction has been granted, except with the consent of such person or by the direction of the Harbour Master; and the master of any ship using any such moorings and buoys without such consent or direction shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for every day or part of a day during which he so uses such moorings and buoys after he has been requested to remove therefrom.\n\n(5) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations prescribing the terms, conditions, and fees for any purposes mentioned in this section.\n\nRegulations for fishing stations, stakes, and nets.\n\nFishing stations, fishing stakes, fishing stake-nets, and fishing generally.\n\n29. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the registration, licensing, erection, maintenance, management, working, and control of fishing stations, fishing stakes, and fishing stake-nets (all of which are in this section included in the word \"stakes\"), in the waters of the Colony, prescribing the places where the same may be erected, the distances to be maintained from the shore and from other stakes, and the depth of water for stakes, the removal of such stakes when out of repair or not in use, the lighting of such stakes at night, the removal, repairing, and cleaning of such stakes, and otherwise generally for all purposes connected with stakes.\n\n(2) Any stakes established, renewed, altered, or repaired contrary to the provisions of such regulations may be removed by the Harbour Master; and the owner or occupier thereof, in addition to any other penalty to which he is liable under this section, shall be bound, if required to do so by the Harbour Master, to pay the expenses of such removal, and such expenses may be recovered by the Harbour Master by summary distress upon the property of such owner or occupier and by the sale of a sufficient portion of such property to pay such expenses.\n\n(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations determining the fees to be charged for licences for stakes according to their extent, situation, and methods.\n\n(4) It shall also be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the management, working, and control of all fishing operations generally in the waters of the Colony.\n\n(5) Every person who disobeys any of the provisions of this section or of any regulation made by the Governor in Council under this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.\n\nPowers of police.\n\n30. (1) It shall be lawful for the Commissioner or officer of police not below the rank of inspector, and for the Harbour Master, Deputy Harbour Master, or Assistant Harbour Master, to enter at all times, with such constables as he may think necessary, as well by night as by day, into and upon every ship, boat, junk, or other vessel (not being or having the status of a ship of war) in the waters of the Colony, and into every part thereof, for the purpose of inspection, and of directing the conduct of any officer of police who may be stationed on board, and of inspecting and observing the conduct of all other persons who may be employed on board, in or about lading or unlading, as the case may be, and for the purpose of taking all such measures as may be necessary for providing against fire or other accidents and preserving peace and good order on board, and for the effectual prevention or detection of any felonies or misdemeanors.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for the Commissioner or other officer of police not below the rank of sergeant, having just cause to suspect...\n\nAs amended by No. 23 of 1932 (10.12.32).\n\n464\n\nPage 390\n\nPage 391",
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