[ { "id": 426494, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 276, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "Y 90\n\neruaofonž\n\n272\n\n¿stalvano) canregel\n\nodnoй\n\nrobnu nattsožnumioa toy of enco1otez dziw\n\nbenoqong and gnihtagor ̧S»N\n\n+\n\nok ‚DIеI ..ɗta omul to odab ord\n\n**M MJżw boðlely ovari I‚cuitotometo has Ioqaɗo a rot odla\n\nerit om troa voy naiq edd ni awode eoniq ont ,YJuqob “uoy,#dmiww\n\nat oodata:oo oft dełw moltativanoo Todta ban,xeb ronido\n\nBA STAJA od rodit vd bedaeuper MA I omodon side dełw moltoernoo\n\nt\n\nto lay out the proposed site now, rather than incur the expenses of an extension to the cemetery which will be rendered necessary before very long if the present death rate continues. I shall be very much obliged if the Government will see their way to giving the matter their favourable consideration with a view to the completion of the work at an early date.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) J. Fanatsu,\n\nConsul and Acting Consul-General for Japan.\n\n(bonogong atka ofis of notcooldo on al stoɗ\"\n\n-:awolfot\n\n•\n\nI\n\nars of qu haor niam sit mort hansqo od dtag nogong ⋆ bobivorg\n\no* figurone obtw od tam steq effe etta odt of enloq Jasleen\n\n.garaer a to ogɛɛnaq odd to dieba\n\nbrto legado a tot atke orit ovad od slažw ow\n\nS\n\n**oot OSI vď toot 08 od blnow dołstw to sero edit «muirodamoto\n\nod ol'da Jnemasevol Istnofoð ode to ongegro ert és bojlovol\n\nomod od ,000 to,!Itw eqnibliud odt to moltosno ode to 1800\n\nyðtrapmoð sɛenaqet erið v\n\nbile aviy I£tw zuernzovoð odt onlo eqor ev\n\ngalalotbs plotaiboril chavors BUÍZO\n\nanobrag two galvai to onoqwq odt 10%,evods bonoltram otla ent\n\nas slow art exac od avoÈzna ets ow an egathfind one humor\n\n.eldinnog 88 8ɔnetasrga ni olteltze\n\n.b\n\n#norшtevoð ÍsinoIo0 edt tærð erlɛeb onía eV\n\nvinbarod eldetivo e to nottoore odt to 2000 ori? Teod IItw\n\n.097o elody ed÷ bavor Bonet\n\nOta av Jaris suo talog of god I moteviomoo MT\n\nodd evLovat Illw stła ode to molteraqonq add jald eravano Fon\n\nod evar I notice anno alás al and ‚ozneɖe omoe nt fromпtevoD\n\nmodosom yttauratoo Oronaqpt one guore otez fisnob ori? tarit oteta\n\nIssimomode exom ad Hirow 2) Zaid bus,runne veq as to ogarTOVS NS\n\nHon. Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427721, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "Japanese Consulate,\n\nHongkong, 21st December, 1910.\n\nWith reference to your despatch of the 30th November, regarding the bounty on sugar exported from Formosa, I have the honour to inform you that I have just received a telegraphic answer from the Formosan Government to the following effect:-\n\n1. Formosa Government has never given any export bounty on sugar exported from the Island.\n\n2. Sugar cane planters in Formosa are granted by the Government the cost of necessary seeds and a part of expenses for manure.\n\n3. All export duties of the Island have been abolished, including those on sugar.\n\nI hope that the above information will meet with your requirement.\n\nTo Hon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) T. Funatsu,\n\nConsul and Acting Consul-General for Japan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430958, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 2\n\n## (II.)\n\nJapanese Consulate, \nHongkong, 14th November, 1910.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your dispatch No. `6038/07` under date of 29th October, regarding the erection of a crematorium and a chapel in Sookumpoo Valley.\n\nAfter careful consideration, The Japanese Community request me to convey their sincere thanks for the approval of the grant to them of a Crown Lease at a nominal rent of site in the Sookumpoo Valley for the purpose, and report to you as follows:-\n\n### I.\nThe aggregate cost of the erection of the crematorium, chapel, and laying out the compound as a garden will be about $3,500, which would mean rather a heavy burden for so small a community as that of the Japanese in this Colony.\n\n### II.\nUnder such circumstances, it would be beyond the means of the Japanese community to raise a further fund for the levelling and fencing the proposed site. If, however, the expenses are not great, the said community will bear the cost by means of a loan raised at home.\n\n### III.\nThe Japanese Community wishes, therefore, to know whether the Colonial Government would kindly make an estimate of the total expenses of levelling and of erecting a boundary fence.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n**(Sd.) T. Funetsu,** \nConsul and Acting Consul-General for Japan.\n\nThe Honourable \nThe Colonial Secretary, \nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2.\n\n(IV.)\n\nJapanese Consulate,\nHongkong, 23rd November, 1910.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 17th instant, giving me estimate for levelling and erecting fences of the site for the crematorium and chapel.\n\nI beg to convey to you sincere thanks of the Japanese Community, here, for the kind steps you have taken in making out the estimate.\n\nYou will please note that the Japanese Community is quite willing to bear the cost by means of which I have mentioned in my previous letter.\n\nI have etc.,\n**(Sd.) T. Funatsu,**\nConsul and Acting Consul-General for Japan.\n\nThe Honourable\nThe Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432200, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "page_number": 408, "title": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "content_text": "402 \n\n2. \n\nTo this letter no reply has been received up to date from Siem, but on the 18th October, 1910, M. T. Funatsu, Acting Consul-General for Japan, replied as follows:- \n\n*(1). \n\n(2). \n\nJapanese Government is strictly prohibiting the use of Opium, Morphine and Compounds of Opium except for medical purposes, and no one, without licence, is allowed to sell, or buy, or possess them. All of the dross Opium is burnt by the Government and no one can obtain it. \n\nCustom Officers are exercising every effort to prohibit the import and export of Opium, Morphine, Compounds of Opium and Dross Opium, other than for medical purposes. \n\n(3). As to the particulars of co-operation among the contracting parties of the Shanghai Opium Conference in carrying out its resolutions, the Japanese Authorities are of opinion that it would be better to wait the decision of the coming conference, which the American Government invited the interested parties, with the purpose to make regulations in order to give full effect to the resolutions of the Shanghai Conference.\" \n\n3. \n\nOn the 26th July, 1910, Mr. S. Fuller, American Vice-Consul in charge, replied as follows:- \n\n\"The Secretary of State of the United States of America notes your statements that the Notifications in regard to the prohibition of the exportation of Opium from Hongkong are in conformity with and are intended to give effect to the Resolutions of the Shanghai Opium Commission, and your request that", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435803, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[35795]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[September 11.]2749\n\nSECTION 2.970\n\n29 OCT ||\n\nColonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received September 11.)\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street, September 8, 1911.\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, reference to letter from the Colonial Office of the 1st September, copy of despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the prohibition of the importation of opium into Hong Kong.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nJOHN ANDERSON.\n\nGovernor Sir F. Lugard to Mr. Harcourt.\n\n(Confidential.) Sir,\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, July 25, 1911. WITH reference to your Confidential despatch of the 13th July, 1910, I have the honour to inform you that on the 4th April, 1910, the Colonial Secretary wrote to the consular authorities in this colony for Siam, Japan, United States of America, France, and the Netherlands, forwarding copies of Government notifications Nos. 93 and 94 of the 1st April, 1910, and requesting them to be good enough to bring these notifications to the attention of their Governments, and to state that this step had been taken in order to give effect to the resolution of the Shanghai Opium Conference, and that I hoped that their respective Governments would reciprocate by prohibiting the export of prepared opium, dross opium, morphine, or compounds of opium to this colony except for medicinal purposes.\n\n2. To this letter no reply has been received up to date from Siam, but on the 18th October, 1910, Mr. T. Funatsu, acting consul-general for Japan, replied as follows:-\n\n(1). Japanese Government is strictly prohibiting the use of opium, morphine, and compounds of opium except for medical purposes, and no one, without licence, is allowed to sell or buy or possess them. All of the dross opium is burnt by the Government and no one can obtain it.\n\n(2.) Custom officers are exercising every effort to prohibit the import and export of opium, morphine, compounds of opium and dross opium, other than for medical purposes.\n\n\"(8.) As to the particulars of co-operation among the contracting parties of the Shanghai Opium Conference in carrying out its resolutions, the Japanese authorities are of opinion that it would be better to wait the decision of the coming conference, which the American Government invited the interested parties, with the purpose to make regulations in order to give full effect to the resolutions of the Shanghai conference.\"\n\n3. On the 28th July, 1910, Mr. S. Fuller, American vice-consul in charge, replied as follows:-\n\n\"The Secretary of State of the United States of America notes your statements that the notifications in regard to the prohibition of the exportation of opium from Hong Kong are in conformity with and are intended to give effect to the resolutions of the Shanghai Opium Commission, and your request that they be brought to my Government's attention with an expression of the hope of his Excellency the Governor that my Government will reciprocate by prohibiting the exportation of prepared opium, dross opium, morphine, or compounds of morphine to the Colony of Hong Kong except for medicinal purposes.\n\n\"I am directed to inform you that the Department of State has drafted and transmitted to Congress amendments to the Opium Exclusion Act approved the\n\n[2182 7-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437309, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "page_number": 362, "title": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "content_text": "Page 353\n\nI humbly crave that the lot be granted gratuitously, if possible.\n\nThe kindly consideration of the Colonial Government to their petition will be greatly appreciated by the Japanese Community, as well as by myself.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\n...\n\nI have etc..\n\n(Sd.) T. Funatsu,\n\nConsul and Acting Consul-General for Japan.\n\nUpon reviewing the original text and applying the given rules, the following steps were taken:\n\n1. **Reordering and correcting OCR output**: The original text was heavily distorted due to OCR errors. 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