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        "content_text": "# The Malarial Mosquito in Hongkong\n\nFROM THE 44 CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\nThe accompanying notes concerning the existence of the Malarial mosquito in Hongkong were read by Mr. C. V. Ladds at a meeting of the South China Branch of the British Medical Association on Monday evening :-\n\nIn a Circular Despatch from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated December 6th, 1898, His Excellency the Governor was requested to forward to the Colonial Office a collection of mosquitos from the colony with a view to investigating the possible connection of Malaria with this genus of insect. Two collections were forwarded as requested upon August 18th and November 24th respectively, and none of the species Anopheles having been included in these collections it was thought at that time that they did not exist in Hongkong. Having always taken a great interest in the Malaria question, and not being satisfied with the result obtained during the above investigation, I determined to take up the subject privately, and commenced work in December, 1899.\n\nAfter going thoroughly into the matter, and after having cultivated the larva of many varieties of mosquito, I at length found that the Anopheles undoubtedly did exist in the colony and was to be found in most of its known malarial districts. I first discovered them close by a Government Bungalow at Kennedy Town. The different occupants of this house having been subject to repeated attacks of fever ever since its erection in 1895, I determined to make this place my starting point, and after a very careful examination, I found a small pool swarming with Anopheles larvæ within fifty yards of the building.\n\nExtending my search I found the same species near the Kennedy Town Fever Hospital, at Magazine Gap, at Wong-nei-cheong village, near a house on Bonham Road, at Quarry Bay, close by the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, all round the camp of the Welch Fusilier detachment at Kowloon, and in many other places.\n\nThis being sufficient evidence of their existence over a considerable area of the colony, and having now no doubt that they were to be found in all the malarial districts, I next proceeded to examine the particular kind of pool which the Anopheles appeared to select as most suitable for the propagation of its species.\n\nA small shallow pool containing algae, or green flocculent water-weed, and fungoid growths, abounding in all kinds of aquatic insect life, and which is not quite stagnant (or if stagnant at the time of discovery is not likely long to remain so, but is renewed occasionally by small flushes of rain water), appears to be their favourite habitat.\n\nIn early every instance I found them only in such pools, which were in most cases fed by minute streams issuing from small springs in the hill side, and those not being of sufficient volume to carve out a channel of their own, just spread themselves over the surrounding lower ground, and so help to form and feed the typical Anopheles pool.\n\nThey do not seem to inhabit pools which are entirely stagnant (or likely to remain so long) or which contain no water weed; and appear to be particularly careful in their selection, as, although there may be dozens of pools in the locality, only a few of them may contain Anopheles.\n\nHaving repeatedly found the mosquito hovering round a pool which contained the same species of larva, it is probable that the adult insect returns to its original home to deposit its eggs, and this theory may, if correct, account in a measure for their not being found scattered indiscriminately about everywhere. After once seeing the particular kind of pool which these mosquitos affect it is easily recognized, but it is not quite so easy to describe it correctly; yet I trust that I have given a fair general idea of what to look for.\n\nREG 16 AUG 371\n\nI find by experimenting that the Anopheles larvæ appear to feed upon the algae or water weed which is found in their particular pools, and also possibly upon some of the animalcula which they contain. This I proved by placing some larvæ in clear tap water and others in water taken from an Anopheles pool which contained water weed; those in the former dying quickly, while those in the latter hatched out in due course. I should not say that the larval stage of the insect is a long one, probably about a week to ten days, this depending a good deal upon the nature of the pool; after which time they emerge therefrom as adult mosquitos. The life of the mosquito itself probably extends over a period of several weeks, perhaps longer.\n\nI have so far not succeeded in finding the Anopheles larvæ in any of the healthy districts of the colony, or far distant from human habitations, nor have I yet found them in rice fields, in large pools of water, in rapidly running streams, in pools with sandy bottoms, in wells, old broken pottery, tubs, pans, etc., as in the case of Culex, which may be found in almost anything which contains water.\n\nIn contradistinction to the Anopheles, water weed does not seem to be necessary to the existence of the Culex larvæ, they being often found in pools, etc., from which it is entirely absent. A further distinction between the two species being that the former appears to be much more delicate than the latter. It is not necessary here to describe the Anopheles larva or mosquito, they being so entirely different from the other species as to be easily recognised after having been once seen. Having satisfied myself as to the existence of the Anopheles in the colony, and having given a brief description of its habitat, etc., I will now pass on to the possibilities of its extirpation from the island. With this object in view, I have been testing the effects of various insecticides. I found that kerosene used as described by the African Commission was very effective in still pools, or in those which were temporarily stagnant; gas tar also proved to be very useful, but in my opinion Jeyes' Fluid is the best of those which I have tried up to the present.\n\nSo far as my experiments have gone, I find that one part of Jeyes' Fluid to 10,000 of water kills both Anopheles and Culex larvæ in a few hours, very much weaker solutions destroying them after a longer interval.\n\nPermanganate of potash appears to be of very little use. In a solution of 1 to 1,200 of water, equal to one in five of Condy's Fluid, the larvæ lived for twenty-four hours, and were as lively as ever at the end of that time, while in a solution of 1 to 500, equal to nearly one in two of Condy's Fluid, they lived for four hours without there being any appreciable effect upon them, and even after twenty-four hours more than half of them were alive.\n\nHence by treating all Anopheles resorts frequently with Jeyes' Fluid, kerosene, or gas tar, during the whole of the dry season, when such pools are comparatively scarce, and by paying particular attention to surface drainage in malarial districts, much might be done toward effecting their partial, if not total, extermination.\n\nIn conclusion, I think I may safely say that by working upon these lines, and given the services of half-a-dozen intelligent coolies, some one to look after them, and the necessary supplies of the above-mentioned chemicals, in a very short time it would be possible to cause the Anopheles to become so scarce in Hongkong that should they prove to be the only source of infection by malaria, cases of malarial fever would soon be as rare as cholera, and the finding of the Anopheles larvæ in any part of the island as difficult a matter as looking for the proverbial needle in a truss of hay.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]",
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        "content_text": "347\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 2.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong to Mr Lyttelton.\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, March 11, 1904.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that complaint has been received from Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Jardine, Matheson, and Company, the two firms concerned in the sugar industry in this Colony, regarding the alleged issue by the Indo-Chinese Customs authorities of a strict prohibition of the import of sugar from Hong Kong. They have been informed by their Haiphong correspondents that this action has been taken on the ground that Hong Kong is a self-governed Colony, and is not considered to have adhered to the Brussels Convention.\n\n2. I have referred the matter to the authorities of Indo-China through the French Consul for this port, who has been informed that Articles V and VIII of the Convention apply to the Crown Colonies of the British Empire even though such Colonies have not adhered to the Convention as a whole; and that in any case this Colony intends to adhere to the Convention as soon as the necessary legislative action has been taken. The Consul has communicated on the subject with the Government of French Indo-China, but has not yet received a reply. Meanwhile, I consider it advisable to bring the matter to your knowledge in case you should desire to communicate with the Foreign Office with a view to diplomatic action being taken in the matter. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Jardine, Matheson, and Company point out that the principle involved is one of very great importance to the sugar refiners in this Colony.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) F. H. MAY, Officer Administering the Government.\n\nP.S.-An Ordinance is being introduced at the next meeting of the Legislative Council giving the Governor-in-Council power to make Regulations to give effect to the Sugar Convention.\n\nWith the exception of certain Chinese sugars, no sugar may be imported unless it comes from a Contracting State or from a Colony of such a State. Sugar refined in Hong Kong would therefore be entitled to admission on payment of a duty of 6 fr. per 100 kilog., whatever the source of the raw sugar used, provided that it did not come from a country which the Permanent Commission, appointed under the Brussels Convention, had decided to be a country which gave bounties on raw sugar.\n\n3. It would, therefore, be necessary that refined sugar exported from Hong Kong to French Indo-China should be accompanied by a certificate showing that none of the raw sugar used had come from such a country, since if any portion of the raw sugar used were of this description it would be useless to send the refined product to Indo-China at all, as it would be refused admission.\n\n4. I understand that in the Dutch Colonies in the East the import of bounty-fed sugar is not prohibited, but countervailing duties are levied. The point will only affect Hong Kong if any refined sugar is exported from Hong Kong to those Colonies, and you will doubtless be able to obtain definite information on this point from the Netherlands Consul-General at Hong Kong.\n\n5. The decisions of the Permanent Commission as to the countries which give bounties, announced up to the present time, have been communicated to you in my predecessor's Circular despatch of the 30th July, 1903, and my Circular despatch of the 19th December, 1903, and any further decisions will be duly communicated from time to time.\n\n6. I shall be glad to learn in due course, with reference to Sir H. Blake's despatch of the 14th October, 1903, what arrangements have been made with regard to the issue of certificates of origin.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) ALFRED LYTTELTON.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 2.\n\nF. H. M.\n\nMr. Lyttelton to the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nDowning Street, April 13, 1904. REFERRING to your despatch, Colony should not adhere, but must give effect to Articles V and VIII, see my predecessor's Circular despatch of 30th July and my despatch, 24th March.\n\nSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs will be requested to make representations to French Government,\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 2.\n\nMr. Lyttelton to the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong.\n\nDowning Street, March 24, 1904. WITH reference to Sir H. A. Blake's despatch of the 31st July, 1903, I have the honour to request that you will be so good as to inform me from what countries raw sugar is imported into Hong Kong for refining, and what are the places to which refined sugar is exported from the Colony.\n\n2. I would point out that in the despatch above referred to, Sir H. A. Blake speaks only of sugar imported into Great Britain and Ireland, whereas Mr. Chamberlain's Circular despatch of the 30th July, 1903, to which no answer has yet been received from Hong Kong, refers to the necessity for certificates of origin in the case of all imports of sugar into any of the States which are parties to the Brussels Convention, including any of the Colonies of such States, e.g., French Indo-China. I inclose a copy of the Customs Regulations of the latter Colony,* from which you will see that, with\n\n* Not printed.",
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        "content_text": "I discuss re-exporting at all with a refund of duty; they must pad against the refund on deanbach leading to bounty, object whatever. But there is no countrevailing duties ball, which moreover would entail the establishment of some Customs Dept. We are still waiting for a reply to one Desp. of 24 March on 32565, but, as I understand, no Australian sugar goes to Hong Kong, it worked in much the same plan to facilitate all foreign Commission.\n\nWhich sugars, being can the certificate of origin would be a simple matter. The alternative is to rely on the certificates of origin to secure such supervision by the Hong Kong Refinery as may be necessary for exportation. Mr. To be alleged what von 528 referring countervailing duties. I submit a draft to the Customs for approval with reference to the Prill & Regulations. There can be no hesitation wired with so far as they may affect.\n\nI do not Jessore let and a copy of the Desp. as it is solely wide of the mark & would only confuse the Customs. I hand this I would not wait a & the F.O. but wait for one Desp. on 02560 and 22/5 C.Pd.24 J.J.R.23/5 at once.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904",
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        "content_text": "Colonial Office\n\n27th May, 1904.\n\n483\n\n16 May;04\n\nDear Mr Parry,\n\nVery many thanks for your letter and for opening mine to Pittar in his absence. I enclose a letter I have received from him this morning but he has evidently forgotten that the Crown Colonies, though not parties to the Convention, are parties to Articles V and VIII and that French Indo-China is bound to accord to Hong Kong sugars the privileges of Article V. This question was raised at the meeting of the Commission in March and Bergne's reply is given at p.3 of the enclosed Procès Verbaux; no objection was raised at the time by the French Delegate, nor, so far as I know, have the French Government questioned the correctness of Bergne's reply since. Pittar agrees with you and Bergne as regards bounty-fed sugar refined in France after paying the regular countervailing duty and then re-exported.\n\nBut please see passage marked in the enclosure to Sir C.Phipps' despatch of 14th August, which forms one of the enclosures to the Circular despatch of 5th November last, of which I enclose a copy. This is a Belgian, not a French regulation, but it raises the point as to which I feel some slight doubt. The Crown Colonies are non-contracting states so far as Article IV is concerned, and so Hong Kong would apparently be obliged to furnish a certificate that the raw sugar used in a Hong Kong Refinery had not come from a bounty-giving...",
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        "content_text": "of the 24th of May-\n\n3.\n\nwould\n\nyour Desp: no 195\n\nthey of May\n\nwhich uses value received, that no\n\nCounty, for Sugar is at present imported into Hong Kong, my further that no further\n\nHong Kong refinery is entitled to any\n\nexport duty of the Contracting\n\nRates, although if\n\nthis is done\n\nnot understand a statement\n\nthe story for the boy of finding\n\nIfor statement made\n\nMessrs: Butterfield & Swire & Messrs: Jardine Matheson\n\n& No 19988\n\n491\n\nflop reported in your\n\nDesp: no. 104 of the\n\n(125/08) 11th of March) - Have\n\nthe exclusion of Hong Kong sugar\n\nIndo China involved\n\n4.\n\nA fact\n\nfrom this however if\n\nit is the case –\n\nthat\n\nfrom France\n\nJenififle of sugar\n\nbounty. fed\n\nanisat querent.\n\npect importation into\n\nI dagen Refiner while comer Ratify you\n\nthe Colony\n\nif the Colony-\n\napparently\n\n111012508\n\nTo prohibit the importation of all\n\nforeign sugar which The Huanat\n\nCommission\n\nhas",
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        "content_text": "I \n\nEnclosed caper \n\nof \n\ncopies \n\n义 \n\nColles/ondeninit \n\nwith the Foreign \n\nOffice of the. \n\nstatement made \n\nby Mr. Henry \n\nat the \n\n26th sitting of !! \n\n6. \n\nBrussels Conference \n\nAugust Commission to which reference \n\nis made in the \n\nletter \n\nfrom \n\nthe \n\nBoard of Trade \n\nof the 17 \n\nnor 10209 Thote \n\nJustif \n\n义 \n\n... \n\nSeda \n\n1250814874 \n\n+1174 \n\n‡Mi 20562 \n\n2 \n\nIn \n\nmy \n\n493 \n\nDispatch referred to above I have suggested \n\nthat the simplest \n\ncourse to \n\nadopt \n\nby Hong Kong will be to prohibit the importation of all \n\nforeign sugar which the Sugar \n\nRefiners Commission \n\nhave decided \n\nto be bounty-fed; \n\nin this connexion \n\nI should explain \n\nto \n\nyou \n\nthat, apart \n\nfrom \n\nthe \n\nalternative suggestion \n\nof \n\nMr. Hoong and Mr. Rory regarding a tariff \n\nThe adbo \n\nDecorah Convention",
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        "document_key": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]",
        "content_text": "# Memorandum\n\nThe upshot of the correspondence respecting the withdrawal of His Majesty's Government from the Brussels Sugar Convention (**Commercial No. 3 of 1913**) covered by the S. of S.'s Circular of the 16th August, 1913, would seem to be that as the result of the withdrawal of His Majesty's Government from the Brussels Sugar Convention and as a further result of the policy of His Majesty's Government to continue, notwithstanding its withdrawal, to issue certificates of origin of Sugar exported to the States still remaining within the Convention, the form of the certificate has had to be materially altered. The form which is now to be adopted and which has apparently been accepted by the States which remain under the Convention is given on page 8 of the correspondence referred to above. From the certificate and from the correspondence which led up to it, it will be seen that it contains two points.\n\n(a) that the sugar covered by the certificate is the product of a refinery at which the operations are carried out under the rigorous control of the Customs authorities. I take it that the \"control\" means such supervision as to make it certain that the Raw sugar employed at such refinery originates exclusively in States of the Sugar Union or countries not giving bounties on the production or exportation of sugar.\n\n(b) that the Raw sugar employed in the manufacture of the refined sugar destined for exportation and covered by a certificate originates exclusively in States of the Sugar Union or countries which have not been declared by the permanent commission established by the International Sugar Convention to give bounties on the production or exportation of sugar.\n\nNow this certificate apparently differs from the old certificate which was used in Great Britain. Our Hongkong certificate which we issue is not based upon any local Customs examination or supervision which would per se enable us to declare positively the origin of the Raw sugar used in the preparation",
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        "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]",
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        "content_text": "26\n\nwas not a trace of the materials of the structure or the stalls.\n\nRELIVED DROWNED.\n\nwoman\n\nIn a report made by a Chinese married woman at Bay View Station, she stated that her father-in-law, 67 years of age, is missing and is believed to have been drowned.\n\nThe report states that the old man went out of the hut at 3 o'clock in the morning to save his chickens. At this time water was rushing down the hillside and the man was not seen again.\n\n3\n\nChinese\n\nQUARRY BAY DEATH?\n\nAlthough not reported officially, it was gathered from a reliable source yesterday that a Chinese was electrocuted and died at Quarry Bay. He came in contact with a high tension wire which had been dislodged by boulders on the hillside above the quarters of the Sugar Refinery staff.\n\nIt was also stated that a matshed at this point was carried away by falling boulders, but whether there were any occupants in it at the time is not yet known.\n\nTWO MORE DEATHS.\n\nThe death of Private Nihala Ram, of the 2/5 Punjabi Regiment, who was killed as a direct result of being struck by lightning - the only casualty so far reported from this source - was advised by Whitfield Barracks yesterday. The man was sleeping in his quarters at the time. So far as police reports are concerned, this is the only death ascertained in addition to the fatalities at the 3 pumping station.\n\nA report was made by a blacksmith of Pak Tin village, in the Shamshuipo district, of the death of his 16-year-old nephew by drowning in a pond at Kowloon City yesterday forenoon. It is stated that the lad attempted to retrieve a basket of vegetables and was carried away by the flood. The body has not yet been found.\n\nKOWLOON CHAI\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nnullah, otherwise all the houses would have been inundated.\n\nTRAM SERVICES.\n\nDuring the night a passage for tramcars was made through the debris between Arsenal Street and Garden Road and by 8 o'clock this morning tramcars were running on the main route from Causeway Bay to the Hongkong Bank. It is hoped it will be possible to run right through to Whitty Street.\n\nPokfulam reservoir, at the foot of the Peak, on the south side of the island, was dry in some parts on Sunday. Yesterday morning, the water overflowed.\n\nOwing to the absence of jurors prevented from attending the Criminal Sessions yesterday on account of the flood, Mr. Justice J. X. Wood (Puisne Judge) adjourned the Criminal Sessions until next Monday.\n\nThe flood of water at the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, caused exposing in some cases and tombstones carried away by the flood, some being deposited on the race course. The Jockey Club wall was also broken by the same current which carried away part of the cemetery wall.\n\nSeveral graves were affected by\n\nOn the Shaukiwan Route cars have been running all morning as far as North Point and it is expected that an extension to Quarry Bay will be possible this afternoon. Owing to a landslide at Taikoo it will be impossible to run between Quarry Bay and Shaukiwan for some time.\n\nOn the Happy Valley route cars are being worked via Broadwood Road but it is necessary for them to turn back at the Dragon Motor Garage and this of course results in single line working.\n\nBy Courtesy of Hak Tin Yat\n\n15\n\nThe\n\nMany have been\n\nAs a result of the flood which inundated Kowloon Chai, numerous villagers were left homeless and penniless in view of the loss of their livestock. They were allowed to occupy untenanted and partially completed houses on the Kowloon Tong site. Other small villages in this neighbourhood have been practically wiped out.\n\nKowloon Tong itself by no means escaped the general damage, one house being struck by lightning and practically cleft from top to bottom. A big lake of water which was in process of being filled in overflowed and the residents combined in diverting the flow to a nullah, otherwise all the houses would have been inundated.\n\nChair coolies are reported to be making attempts to obtain extortionate payments for carrying residents to the Peak. A demand for $6 was made of one resident returning home last night. Needless to say, this was not met.\n\n[No. 2998.—July 22, 1926.]\n\nshould be boiled.\n\nThere is also an official announcement regarding supplies to the Peak and higher levels.\n\nWATER ECONOMY.\n\nThe following official communiqué has been received:\n\nHis Excellency desires to impress on all householders on the Peak and Upper Levels, who are affected by the water restrictions rendered necessary by the damage to Pokfulam Pumping Station, the absolute necessity for the greatest economy in the use of water, and the strict control of their staff with this end in view. He feels sure that he can rely upon their loyal co-operation in this matter.\n\nDamage wrought on the Lachi-kok Road by the flood.\n\nThe earliest date by which the Peak tram service will again be in commission is given as Saturday.\n\nSTORM ITEMS.\n\nMr. F. Sutton, of the Public Works Department, and a popular turf enthusiast, had an arm badly cut by glass at the Hongkong Club about 3 a.m. yesterday, at the height of the storm. Mr. Sutton (who stays at the Club) rose to close a window, slipped and his arm went through the glass. Lt. Col. T. A. Robertson and others rendered assistance and Mr. Sutton was conveyed to hospital by ambulance.\n\nWATER RATIONS.\n\nAs from today, the water supply on the island is to be \"rationed,\" owing to damage to works.\n\nIn all areas main districts East of Eastern Street, there will be a two hours' supply daily. West of Eastern Street, water will be turned on from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily.\n\n(Eastern Street is the uphill thoroughfare, leading from the western waterfront, up past the tram lines, to Queen's Road West, by the Government Civil Hospital and Lunatic Asylum to Bonham Road.)\n\nAll water for potable purposes should be boiled.\n\nTHE PEAK.\n\nJuly 20.\n\nMessrs. A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd. can supply and deliver Distilled Water to the residents of the Peak and Hill Districts in one pint and 1 gallon bottles and in 3-gallon jars. The efforts of this enterprising company will be appreciated by the many who are suffering from shortage of drinking water.\n\nThe wedding was announced to take place in Shanghai on Friday, the 16th July, between Omar Rumjahn, son of Mrs. A. Rumjahn of Tientsin and Gladys Tamil, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Ismail of Hongkong.\n\nNo. 2998. July 22, 1926.)\n\n37 YEARS AGO.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\n249\n\n27\n\nSTORM ITEMS.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nstill in cases, unopened. Many thousands of dollars were sacrificed in that one place. The tin lining was no protection; mud and water enveloped the lot.\n\nFurther particulars have been received with regard to the carrying away of a matshed by a landslide at Shaukiwan, opposite the main entrance of Taikoo Sugar Refinery (briefly reported yesterday). It appears that two Chinese lads, preparing the morning meal, were in the shed at the time and were crushed to death. Their bodies have not yet been recovered.\n\nOn Monday, the \"China Mail\" referred readers to a storm on May 30, 1889 - 37 years ago.\n\nMr. Yee Cheong, portrait painter of Wyndham Street, who has had his studio in this locality for over 40 years and never shifted elsewhere, gave his experiences of those days.\n\nAnother old resident writes the following:\n\nAs far as I can remember about the great storm of 1889, the rain was quite as heavy as Sunday night. The lightning and thunder were of a different character, but just as alarming.\n\nMurray Barracks on the Queen's Road side was a heap of sand thrown up from bursting drains just outside.\n\nFOUND SHOT.\n\nJuly 21. Mr. W. Blakey, Inspector of engine fitters, was found shot dead in the Naval Yard yesterday during the luncheon interval.\n\nHe was half-way from the house to the pumping station when a heavy shower began to fall. Debating whether he should go on to the pumping station or return to the house for shelter, he eventually decided in favour of the second alternative and no sooner was he safely inside than the huge boulder crashed into the station. This boulder is estimated to weigh between 2,500 and 3,000 tons.\n\nWith regard to the Pokfulam pumping house disaster, it appears that Mr. P. G. Tacchi, brother of Mr. C. J. Tacchi, who was examining stores some olives at the house near the station, had a very narrow escape.\n\nWhilst this was in progress Mr. Blakey left the house. Almost immediately a report was heard. He was found lying on the ground with a revolver nearby and wounds in the head which led to instantaneous death.\n\nDeceased had only arrived in the Colony last May from Portsmouth. He was unmarried and leaves a widowed mother in England. His age is thought to be 30.\n\nThe funeral will take place this evening.\n\nMore Damage Then.\n\nMore damage was done then than this week. Voeux Road was then the Praya. Sampans were up in Pedder Street. The Clock Tower was many feet in sand, the streets were opened up in all directions, drains were choked, huge trees up by the roots were scattered everywhere.\n\nBeautiful Glenealy as it was in those days was entirely ruined. The only house there then was the American Consulate, which stood in grounds far back from the road. Palms grew in Glenealy that have not been seen anywhere since.\n\nH.K. Club in Queen's Road. At the junction of the path from Albert Road was a very fine centre piece. This was torn up by bursting drains, carrying all before it down to Queen's Road.\n\nDakin's Dispensary was then at the corner where the A.P. building now stands. It was flooded out. Sugar-coated pills were being thrown out. Street urchins stood waist-deep in water fishing for them, thinking they were sweets. Their faces were studies when they tasted them.\n\nThe Hongkong Club was where Yee Sang Fat and others are today.\n\nA. S. Watson's were at the corner of D'Aguilar Street, where Tak Cheung is. Then McEwen, Frickel and Co. and Powell's had parts of the ground floor and the top. So much water and sand had accumulated there that it took many days to remove it. The fire engine was kept very busy.\n\nLane, Crawford & Co. were opposite Hall and Holtz. They had godowns below. All their new stock had arrived, but was still in cases, unopened.\n\nThe Good Old Days.\n\nRobinson Road was then the highest road. The Public Gardens were unrecognisable. Everything was torn up and sand enveloped the lot.\n\nRoofs did not leak the same as they do today. Better work was done, or else materials were of better quality.\n\nPhoto by A Fong,\n\nFour men armed with daggers entered a house at Tung Lo Wan Road, Causeway Bay, on Saturday night and held up the occupants. They stole money and jewellery to the value of $1,800.\n\nAh Men Hing Cheong.\n\nThis is striking testimony to the havoc wrought by the boulder which crashed into No. 3 pumping station, Pokfulam Road, killing several workmen. The photo shows the size of the great rock, as contrasted with what remains of the building.\n\nOwing to the fact that 80 feet of piping has been carried away on Stubbs Road, it has been found necessary to restrict the water services in areas main districts east of Eastern Street and also to the higher levels and the Peak. All the reservoirs in the Colony except Tytam Tuk, which is 5 feet 3 in. below overflow, are overflowing.\n\nMASTS STRUCK.\n\nJuly 21. The coastal s.s. \"Telemachus\" was struck by lightning on Monday morning, taking away the flag pole on one of her masts.\n\nThe Government rescue tug \"Kau Sing\" was on patrol duty in the harbour during the storm, and lightning struck her mast, splitting it from the \"truck\" to the \"hounds.\"\n\nSo far as can be ascertained, this was the full extent of the damage suffered by local shipping in the violent storm.\n\nAn order was made by Mr. J. H. E. Nihill, at the Kowloon Magistracy on July 20, for the confiscation of eight revolvers and 800 rounds of ammunition which were abandoned by a Chinese in Reclamation Street on Saturday night.",
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        "title": "CO129-524-1 Reports of Salaries Commission 31-12-1929 - 27-10-1930",
        "content_text": "97\n\n--3--\n\nRESULT OF THE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE\n\nWe have carefully considered the Report in detail, tabulated it, and sent copies of the tabulated schedules with a covering letter and explanatory notes to the following, as representing the largest employers in the Colony :-\n\nMr. B.D.F. Beith, on behalf of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd., the Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., and the Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd.,\n\nMr. H. Bell, on behalf of the Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S.C.) Ltd.,\n\nMr. R.H. Dyer, on behalf of the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd.,\n\nMr. I.T. Johnson, on behalf of Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co., and the P. & O., B.I. and E. & A. Lines.\n\nMr. F.R. Marsh, on behalf of the Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd.,\n\nMr. T.H.R. Shaw, on behalf of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, Taikoo Dockyard and the Taikoo Sugar Refinery.\n\nThe tabulated schedules referred to and the replies from the various firms are attached, together with a precis of the same, and from the latter it will be seen that the consensus of opinion is adverse to the recommendations of the Commission.\n\nIn applying the recommendations in so far as they affect sterling salaries, it was seen that the dollar equivalent to be drawn would be slightly less than at present, assuming an exchange rate of 2/-, this rate, or one very near it, being the level on which the Commission based their recommendations. On the face of its recommendations we think it may be safely assumed that the recent fall in the dollar to 1/7, and under, was not foreseen by the Commission.\n\nIn order to illustrate the variations caused by a violent fluctuation in exchange such as has been recently experienced, we will take the case of a married officer in receipt of a salary of £1,000 a year, at present, and as it would be at demand rates",
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        "content_text": "Extract from letter from Joseph Hill to Mr. Pennefather-Evans dated 16th April, 1946.\n\nReferring to the \"Q.B.\" night 18th Dec. 1941\n\nI left my station which was east of Q.B. at about 7:30 p.m. I had to evacuate; no water supply, lights, and telephone were out of commission, dead bodies and wounded were everywhere, and fires were breaking out with each new turn of the bombardment, so I made my way to \"Q.B.\" which was then \"Q\" division H.Q.\n\nAfter reporting to Inspector O'Conner, I waited in the quarters for perhaps an hour. Inspector O'Conner was called to the charge room, and on his return, he told us that the C.O. of 5/7th Rajputs had asked the police to reinforce his Rajputs because they had been cut up rather badly in Kowloon. Many of their officers had been killed, and the Japs were then making a landing on the beach west of the sugar refinery.\n\nWe turned out in force, complete with Indian P.C.'s, with the exception of Sgt. Ross, who was already out on patrol with an ordinary duty patrol west of \"Q.B.\" He must have been ambushed on King's Road. We did not see him again.\n\nThe remainder of the police went into action under Inspector O'Conner and Inspector Post. It was really a hopeless turnout because things had happened so quickly; we did not know where the Indian troops were, and worse still, many of them, being unwarned of our assistance, took us for Japs in the darkness and opened fire on us. We were eventually recalled by a Lt. of the Rajputs and returned temporarily to \"Q.B.\" charge room. The roll call showed that Inspector O'Conner and Inspector Post were missing; Sgt. Porrit was badly wounded.\n\nWe",
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