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        "content_text": "pleased to nominate (mi. \n\nI have the honor lobe, chache gegeten \n\nMy Lord, \n\ncharle \n\nYour Most Obedient. \n\nご \n\nprite, that he should \n\nto for information in abs. \n\n1. \n\nform one of the mod \n\nStumble Servant, it s \n\nYU \n\ninfotential. Anything 29th bet 1/43. \n\nHoll Malcolme Lin \n\n\"Murdoch-19 PeStephen 09 \n\n** Hote LordStanley 20 \n\nIn a despatch dated the 31 July last Six St. Pottinger hasteauomitted to docs Stanley the Copy of a communication which he had addreped \n\nto the Earl. \n\nof Aber \n\nAberdeen \n\non the subject of the \n\nfuture establisheventi \n\nthe Chief Superintendent China and the, \n\nof the \n\nin \n\n4. \n\n& Goverin \n\nof Hongshong accompanied & Schedules of the Offices which it is perford Bereate. He hasn't \n\nthe same time referred dord Stanley Homself \n\nfor any further niformation \n\nqu \n\nthis \n\nsubject \n\nwhich he might \n\ndesire tobtain. \n\nI am therefore direts \n\nWhis doushik trendtone \n\nارات \n\nthat Sis &. Al was walimalis the whole. \n\nKong and in Chevr \n\nthe Sove. \n\nand The Leferimlen. \n\nat upwards of 200,000 per are \n\nSome wh however \n\nwill probably admit of but Akte Dimes tion. The reports of the \n\na sły \n\nat the change of the Publ. Officine \n\nomething everything connected with Public Works and \n\nof the \n\nRefective is Still I should \n\nconparting that the rent of Land and Houser, uided \n\nMerry larg \n\nInttii \n\n· of Customs or of \n\nEx... \n\nthe place of meet He shot \n\nstrange. Hong Kong \n\nwith be the dea \n\nand of a populations \n\nable than thou \n\nal Port on poses. \n\nbranch of the Lovines me \n\nany on the subject watch the qustion of Salaries and Allowances are anna.c \n\nLopery o \n\nnicali \n\nthe \n\nAnd border. \n\nWell Iphin A will \n\nand the Chief Inferintendent in blank. \n\n“' ” \n\nCot manesti con fenores infen \n\nChilled ehr, bython C. \n\nmym \n\n:",
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        "content_text": "on Agrements Bands, Murtgages, Lases, Conv, ances, Settlements, Wells, Certificates ou all legal documents, and other papers proctucible as proofs of \n\nContact or agrument \n\nThe rate of stamp duties on Recepti and Bills \n\nof exchange might be as follows Hamp Recipet: 214. 50 \n\n£104.30 \n\n£ 304 100. \n\n£100 l. 259 \n\n£250 l. 500 \n\n£500 to 1000 uponer 10% \n\nReceipts in full of all demands th Brissof Crchange . Framustry notes Froft's te bearer or order en demand \n\nNot exeqing For a louper \n\n3 months/ \n\nA \n\nperiod 1.6 \n\n3. 6 \n\nUnder £t.... \n\n£10 \n\n£ 10 1.7 Se \n\nh \n\nLe t. Livo. \n\n7.6 \n\nL100 l. £150. \n\n7.6 \n\n10.b \n\n£150 l. £200. \n\n10.6 \n\n15.6 \n\nL2004. Live £300 £ £500 \n\n15. \n\n/909 \n\n£500 l. L1000 \n\n{ \n\nStove AL 2000 \n\n£2000 $3000 \n\n50. \n\nke \n\nBowl Lhen. \n\nbe \n\nLevel 15.000 \n\ndo \n\nBeat Acer \n\n100. \n\nIcannot estimate with. \n\nthe y \n\napprochelle digne these different \n\nthe amoun \n\namant \n\nof accuracy \n\ndifferent sonces \n\nf \n\nof revinic which these laxation might produce, for several reasons 1. \" The unsettledness of the Chinese population whee are continually morning to and from the Colony, and who have no interest at stake in its prosperity. \n\n2 ? The notonously profligate charioter of the Aniese Inviabitants of Hongkong, which u evidenced by the munders, attempts at sunder, Tiracy, Burglaries and hellenes, which have \n\nbeen",
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        "content_text": "Meciale.\n\nSee the\n\nTreaxry\n\nMr. Ball. The Teamy\n\na copy of this deept = pamphlet anneand-/h. 170-180 £ 236-241\n\n7 Jane.\n\nThis is a\n\nsubjut on which\n\nthe\n\ngeneral\n\nsubject is one\n\nwith which do\n\nIs J. Downing has strong opinions. hich I know he entrained Ein Fife his Cant with b H. K.\n\nThe heavy must of Come reltimately\n\ndecide, if any\n\nist 2\n\nThing\n\nJon\n\nMrr Strachey\n\nShackey in 10 familiar, Val I think it woeth as will I but ask him, t tata chars of the cuoch\n\nwill you be good excoughe\n\ninform me what has been the tar\n\nbus to the currency,\n\nн\n\nt. Howl.\n\ngives the law, up to 1048. Since then, I no beleive thin has been new change, except this Order in Commit of Oction 1852. published Hang. King Oct. 1.1853. Oct. 1.1853. Cinating the tender of Bitish silver to 40%... This cadir you\n\nfind\n\n1853\n\nthe Mavistins Collection Anand pr. 89.\n\nThe Wire Bork. If 1054) p. 225: also cortinis\n\n-ng\n\nyus y\n\npromyezgoder juseroton\n\na statement of the\n\nCurrency\n\nlaw., which\n\nhave carry que should here befor 30. 11/21/3\n\ndu couryone.group #f\n\nMy He\n\nберього су пров игр капилляр\n\nges your t\n\n*\n\n✓ (Copy)\n\nJm53/22\n\nYvernment Hema; Kaughing, 24 Monel 1856.\n\nMy Dear Sir,\n\nYou have love, but only\n\nL\n\nirregular and incongruns thaite of\n\nChina.\n\npont, of the perplexitar, bows, aind inconvenienced which gror oct of the\n\nthe\n\nremedy,\n\nsilver currency\n\nwhich would be very profitable to Ithink I can suggest in\n\nпіс\n\nIt is the extablishments, all the circumposent regions. commers, ust only in bliman, but in this belong, crack invemently useful to\n\nCofa Mint\n\nDollar would be established as the Dollar, with its decimal dinsions. Such in doughing, for the courage of british\n\nM.?\n\nformer Wilson, Esquire,\n\nTreauury\n\nLondon.\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely and improve readability, here is a reformatted version in Markdown, then converted to HTML as requested:\n\n## Original Text Reformatted\n### Meciale\nSee the Treasury Mr. Ball. The Treasury a copy of this department pamphlet annexed, p. 170-180 & 236-241  \n7 June  \nThis is a subject on which the general subject is one with which I do... Is J. Downing has strong opinions, which I know he entertained in his capacity as... H. K.  \nThe heavy must of Commerce ultimately decide, if any...  \nThing Jon Mrr Strachey Shackey in 10 familiar, Val I think it worth asking him, to state chars of the cuoch  \nwill you be good enough to inform me what has been the law relating to the currency?  \nT. Howl gives the law up to 1848. Since then, I do not believe there has been any new change, except this Order in Council of October 1852, published Hong Kong Oct. 1, 1853. Oct. 1, 1853, limiting the tender of British silver to 40%... This can be found in the Mavistins Collection Annexed p. 89.  \nThe Wire Book (1854) p. 225 also contains a statement of the Currency law, which should be here before 30. 11/21/3  \n...  \nJm53/22  \nGovernment House, Kaughing, 24 Monel 1856  \nMy Dear Sir,  \nYou have, but only irregular and incongruous state of China.  \nThe remedy, a silver currency which would be very profitable, I think I can suggest...  \nIt is the establishment of the Dollar, with its decimal divisions. Such a coinage, for the encouragement of British commerce, not only in China but in this colony, would be extremely useful.  \nCofa Mint  \nDollar would be established as the Dollar...  \nM. former Wilson, Esquire, Treasury London\n\nMeciale.\n\nSee the Treasury Mr. Ball. The Treasury a copy of this department pamphlet annexed, p. 170-180 & 236-241\n\n7 June\n\nThis is a subject on which the general subject is one with which I do... Is J. Downing has strong opinions, which I know he entertained in his capacity as... H. K.\n\nThe heavy must of Commerce ultimately decide, if any...\n\nThing Jon Mrr Strachey Shackey in 10 familiar, Val I think it worth asking him, to state chars of the cuoch\n\nwill you be good enough to inform me what has been the law relating to the currency?\n\nT. Howl gives the law up to 1848. Since then, I do not believe there has been any new change, except this Order in Council of October 1852, published Hong Kong Oct. 1, 1853. Oct. 1, 1853, limiting the tender of British silver to 40%... This can be found in the Mavistins Collection Annexed p. 89.\n\nThe Wire Book (1854) p. 225 also contains a statement of the Currency law, which should be here before 30. 11/21/3\n\nJm53/22\n\nGovernment House, Kaughing, 24 Monel 1856\n\nMy Dear Sir,\n\nYou have, but only irregular and incongruous state of China.\n\nThe remedy, a silver currency which would be very profitable, I think I can suggest...\n\nIt is the establishment of the Dollar, with its decimal divisions. Such a coinage, for the encouragement of British commerce, not only in China but in this colony, would be extremely useful.\n\nCofa Mint\n\nDollar would be established as the Dollar...\n\nM. former Wilson, Esquire, Treasury London",
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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": "# The Hongkong Register\n\n## VOL. XXXI. No. 18.\n\n### INTIMATIONS.\n\nThe Estate of the late SAMUEL JAMES SINDEN, Master Mariner, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given that persons having Claims against the above Estate, will please send in particulars of the same; and all parties indebted thereto, are requested to make immediate payment to JOHN D. GIBB, Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 25th March, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\n| Position | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| President | Joanne Jardine, M.D. |\n| Vice-President | W. T. MERCER, Esq. |\n| Superintendent | B. S. WALKER, Esq. |\n| Resident Surgeon | G. JACK |\n| Consulting Surgeon | W. A. HARLAND, M.D. |\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\n| Ward Type | Daily Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public Wards | 90 cents |\n| Intermediate Wards | $1.20 |\n| Private Room | $2.25 |\n\nPatients are also admitted on payment of one day previous to the amount deposited being expended.\n\n| Ward Type | Deposit |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public Wards | $10 |\n| Intermediate | $20 |\n| Private Rooms | $30 |\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be responsible for the expenses of Patients sent by them to the Hospital.\n\nNo Hospital Bill to be receipted by the Treasurer only.\n\n### NOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that R. W. F. BEVAN, having an interest in the business of this Office, will sign my name from this date per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN. \"Hongkong Register\" Office, 1st January, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as ATTORNEYS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES PUBLIC, and PROCTORS in Hongkong, was dissolved by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN on the 29th day of April, 1857.\n\nWILLIAM GASKELL\n\nDated this 29th day of April, 1857.\n\nM WILLIAM GASKELL, Solicitor, Notary Public, &c., Queen's Road, Hongkong.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nBENDING the existing troubles at Canton, the undersigned has established himself at this port as MERCHANT, and GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT.\n\nS. ROBERTSON, Macao, 21st September, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has this day commenced business as a Ship, Produce, and Insurance Broker, and Adjuster of Average.\n\nOffice, Queen's Road, second house West from Gralia: Street.\n\nHongkong, 1st July 1857.\n\nY. J. MURROW.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has this day established himself at Macao as General Merchant and Commission Agent.\n\nB. E. CARNEIRO. Macao, 1st January, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nMR ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is authorized to sign for our firm in Glasgow.\n\nHOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Mr. L. K. LEBERT of Hamburg in our Firm ceased on the 4th instant, and from this date our business will be carried on under the Firm of OXFORD & Co., which Messrs. A. BOURJON and Mr. C. A. SCHNEIDER are authorized to sign per procuration.\n\nL. K. LEBERT & OXFORD\n\nMacao, 12th February, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Mr. ROBERT S. STURGIS, Mr. WAND CUNNINGHAM, and Mr. DANIEL X. SPOONER, in our House, ceased on the 31st December last. Mr. N. M. BECKWITH, and Mr. THOMAS WALSH, have been admitted Partners this day.\n\nChina, 1st January, 1856.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned has this day established himself at Macao as General Merchant and Commissioning Agent.\n\nJ. VELEZ\n\nMacao, 1st January, 1858.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nVALUABLE HOUSE PROPERTY FOR SALE.\n\nNo. 1,429\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that CAPTAIN R. B. WADE begs leave to inform the Public, that he has taken the Hotel (formerly Mr. Shaw's) in the Pra da Campo, and has thoroughly refurnished and opened the same under the name of WADE'S HOTEL; and by Wellington Street, on the West by Aberdeen Street, on the South by Gage Street, and on the East by two closes of land registered in the land office as No. 13. The property is situated in the centre of the city and is held for the residue of a term of 999 years commencing on the 23d of April, 1844, at an annual ground rent of $42.12.6.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to Messrs. COOPER TURNER AND BAZELAND, Solicitors and Notaries Public, Hongkong.\n\nHongkong, 19th March, 1858.\n\n### INSURANCES.\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. Established in 1842.\n\nThe undersigned are prepared to accept RISKS on Vessels and Cargoes covered by protecting POLICIES at London (as issued by the various UNDERWRITING COMPANIES) in the PORTS in the ORIENT on ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Canton to ...\n\nMacao, 22d October 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nCAPTAINS & CONSIGNEES of Vessels are requested to take notice, that owing to the enhanced cost of Provisions &c., the Hunters of the SEAMEN's HOSPITAL find themselves under the necessity of raising the rates of Admission which on and after the 1st April 1857 will be as follows:\n\n| Ward Type | Daily Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| PUBLIC WARDS | 90 cents per day |\n| INTERMEDIATE | $1.20 |\n| PRIVATE ROOMS | $2.25 |\n\nH. MAGNIAC, Treasurer.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has established the Ship \"CIRCASSIAN\" as a Receiving Vessel, in Command of Mr. W. K. STANFORD; and is prepared to store OPium, SILK, or TREASURE at moderate rates.\n\nC. R. TAYLOR, Broker and General Commission Agent.\n\nHongkong, 8th March, 1855.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nIn reference to the above advertisement, I have this day established myself as an Auctioneer.\n\nC. R. TAYLOR,\n\nHongkong, 18th April, 1855.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Business hitherto carried on by the undersigned at this Port since 1st instant, now becomes the Agency of Messrs. W. B. FOSTER, JR., heretofore existing, ceases from that date.\n\nHongkong, 6 April, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nCeylon, the Presidencies of India, Sunda, and England.\n\nThe interest in the foregoing Policies is assigned to the P. and O.S.S. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of payment in the event of Loss.\n\nFor further information, apply to\n\n| Name | Location |\n| --- | --- |\n| B. S. WALKER | Hongkong |\n| MAXIMILIAN FILIUS | Canton |\n| B. WARDEN | Shanghai |\n| H. T. MARSHALL | Singapore |\n| A. I. LOVELL | Calcutta |\n| ROBERT FRANCK | Mauritius |\n| JOSEPH BERNARD | Bombay |\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nLondon, 5th January, 1874.\n\n### ALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nThe undersigned having been appointed AGENTS in China for the above COMPANY, are prepared to accept ASSURANCES at Hongkong, as under:\n\n| Risk Type | Premium Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| Buildings of Brick or Stone, covered with TILES, SLATES, or other fire-resisting Material | ... |\n\nDuring the absence from China of Mr. W. M. ROBINET, JR., Mr. J. S. ALVAREZ, who holds our procuration, will manage the Fire Insurance business.\n\nW. M. ROBINET.\n\nHongkong, 6th April, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nAARON MOSES GUBBAY has been admitted a partner in our Firm at Shanghai.\n\nCHARLES JAMESON, Hongkong, 10th February, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nLOUIS HEERMANN, Watch and Chronometer Maker, and Jeweller, begs to announce, that he has commenced business in this Colony, in the Queen's Road, in the lower portion of the premises known as \"Mr. Marsh's Millinery Establishment\".\n\nCHRONOMETERS carefully Cleaned and Rated.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1855.\n\n### THE HONGKONG MONTHLY MAGAZINE.\n\nPublished from the 1st July, commences a series of publications under the above Title, Edited by Mrs. A. E. REED.\n\nThe aim of the Editors will be to establish a pleasant Local Magazine, making it welcome alike to the Household and the Counting Room, and in all respects creditable to the community whence it springs.\n\nOwing to the Cost of Publication, the Proprietress is obliged to call for Subscriptions in advance.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE and GOLDEN SHERRIES.\n\nAlso, Fine Cakes FRENCH CONFECTIONERY.\n\nApply to LYALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nBILLS of the undersigned at Shanghai and Foochow; also Dealing largely in this Colony, occupied at present, by the auctioneer.\n\nHongkong, April, 1857.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nKING & Co. of Canton have received an Invoice of COPPER, and YELLOW METAL SHEATHING, TERRUS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORNAGE.\n\nApply to LYALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nSUPERIOR PORT and BERRY WINE. In Casks, TR. GRO, P. De SILVER will act as my Agent) of 1,2, & 3. Dagen nach; also CHAMPAGNE (93 dozen Cases). BEER in Cases of 3 a 4 dozen each, at East Point Godowns.\n\nDuring my absence from this Colony.\n\nJ. KEENAN,\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1859.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Business hitherto carried on by the undersigned.\n\nThis is done, the conduct of it under the Firm of JOZE M. DA FONSECA & Co., wherein are united Partners Messrs. ANTONIO JOSE DA FONSECA & FILOMENO VICENTE DA FONSECA.\n\nJOZE MARIA DA FONSECA.\n\nMacao, 1st January, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nMr. GEORGE H. HEATON is appointed a SUB-AGENT for LLOYD'S in place of Mr. S. HALL, resigned.\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co., Agents for Lloyd's.\n\nHongkong, 21st January, 1858.\n\nALEX WILSON.\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nADAMS REVOLVERS with Tranter's PATENT.\n\nAlso, for Overland Mail, HAMS and CHEESE, in tins; FISH, FOWL, and GAME; HADDOCKS, and TEMPLES.\n\nMAC EWEN & Co. Hongkong, 14th February, 1878.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nA Bay Stud Breast HORSE, sound and quiet to ride, and well adapted for a Hack or Charger.\n\nApply at the Office of this paper.\n\nHongkong, 22 March, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION. Established by Charter 1720.\n\nThe undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Corporation, are prepared to grant POLICIES against FIRE, to the extent of £16,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Undersigned are appointed Agents, at Hongkong, Canton, and Macao to the Underwriters and MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES, of Hamburg and of Bremen.\n\nDREYER & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nTHIS LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE (Established in 1842.)\n\nIssues POLICIES\n\nSubscription Print, Single Copies.\n\nA few ADVERTISEMENTS may be inserted, at a reasonable rate, and as the Magazine has already Subscribers in Macao, Ningpo, Shanghai, and Siam, it offers inducement as an advertising medium.\n\nThose wishing to subscribe, may address \"Mrs. A. E. Reed, No.1. Stanton Street.\" Single Copies may be had at the stores of Mrs. Joan Lacy, Miss Henrietta MARSH, and Miss GARRETT.\n\nSubscribers are requested to retain their copies in good order for binding, as arrangements will be made to procure a neat European binding at the close of the year at a cost of 20 to 45 Cents per Volume.\n\nHongkong, 24th June, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE OF REMOVAL.\n\nThe undersigned having removed to the premises known as the FLOATING CHAPEL, off the Parade Ground, requests that all Papers and Letters may be sent to the Establishment of NORONHA, Public and Terrace.\n\nJAS. C. BERCHER, Seamen's Chaplain.\n\nHongkong, 28 February, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nAll Notices of Births, Marriages, and DEATHS are respectfully requested to be addressed to the undersigned at the Cemetery.\n\nJ. SMITHERS,\n\nSexton.\n\nHongkong, 7th December, 1857.\n\n### HOME EDUCATION.\n\nA GENTLEMAN'S DAUGHTER, the Widow of a medical Man, who had resided in the East, is desirous of receiving Pupils to educate with her own Daughters, with the assistance of a resident Governess.\n\nFurther particulars and references will be obtained on personal application to the Hongkong Register Office.\n\n### SHIPPING.\n\nFOR SALE OR FREIGHT American Clipper Ship FALCONE BIRD, American Cert, will have cargo for the above port. For Freight apply to SCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 10th April, 1858.\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING. PARTIES having their own ENGRAVED PLATES CAN have Cards printed at the \"Hongkong Register\" Office.\n\nHongkong, 28th April, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe LIBRARY OF MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY, now deposited in a Room at the Rev. Mr. DOYLE's Morrison Hill, is open every day, from 1 o'clock to 9... to Members of the Society, for the giving and lending out of Books. Parties, not members of the Society, may obtain the advantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription.\n\nBy order of Trustees,\n\nHongkong, 13th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary.\n\n### TRANSATLANTIC TOASTS.\n\nToasts-Tables are in great demand in America. At a public meeting, the following \"toast was given (the author of which got \"utterly\" when he reached me) \"The Press-the pulpit-the pews-the three ruling powers, the Press spreads knowledge, the pulpit spreads morals, and the pews spreads considerably.\"\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nParties having BOOKS belonging to AMARIN LIBRARY in their possession, are requested to send them to Mr. Wong-a-shing, London Missionary Society's Premises, Hongkong Branch.\n\nJULIAH COX,\n\nAssistant Secretary.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 8th March, 1864.\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS.\n\nWhat makes the milk so warm? and Betty to the milkman when he bought the cow to the door one morning. \"Please, cum, the pump hall's broke, and Missus took the water from the boiler.\"",
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        "content_text": "ESS\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE NEWCASTLE CHRONICLE AND NORTHERN COUNTIES ADVERTISER, JUNE 25, 1859.\n\nCallwell for his sucenda cbr si ku\n\nTlus\n\nsery Betro and a very indies direction was giben to Tay Filati and Clines, in every part of this clogy and the and lathe ca le game complete em 16 happened rideanly under the time is wan movement forming is that they were about to prossud-on province, which Loval Elgin, at willow was, at teplo\n\nthat Mr. Davis, the Govermens printer, who is tho pro earplugin diétly of arrangement that race o coafated to me to effect any period by the position of affis m pinions by those who must to bato Lucy bettoni Clima nets, that Stone Thin si formar Mahebos Wong In the heat setupon I ftowed their dircase, Rod 1 ceased fole solated way way with My Caldar. pr bay of all, but acted with erent tas made Hoes it a rate the deceatens of the Executirs Council, led quietly and won that treaty of peace which he has rectly\n\nor with the Hong Kong putice: 1 zece monded tomto prema, ected thỏ China Mark watch out, but not to Chin te written on pops of 7 eur, tamparately, list I would be very happy to attaul the Ryecond with China--1 Buy it apours to be not ply Bonn fernd, what will cal by the militar term\n\nDamer the Feng Kong Govt tiszts, heard ally rest, and the rod po del doblard' tras sutive Council whenever ont laid upon the Queen's previointion of that treaty, bat a violate of the p poble, deir riske, and I reported to Gem and apply to two pes of big authority is that of a\n\nwith any clut priests war in piracy, Sir, Andry Tui is wherever the auilt as it was sat in a porta Gercent coner. I forged chai to the. Specibody dline TheRD RET, we bag made to er en Cum 21 of all the no person che serpent\n\nxecutive, a repartol in the recently teavad China hours periment. I pushed my inquiries furter, best, it was a Puties, who had been 3 year in a dy, and he Wide, part, a thirds. Mr. C til 1 had been the colony about a year and fed that magistrate, 291 tl korubarist ler Blojek:yol, Ar Mr. Caldwe. tr. U the \"onsel for #1 pol. ) widet. that. It lirat Cell: ano die atramentis le lle [ from an all-ce of lam kipe willwal heing tre\n\nConnell, however, proasted my lace and without giving pera, the turks by Saglish vowele në wa un village va the real state of the case bow and, but 30, a purte: acl & auf: er, at du head of youto! Umi. Mr. Calendars it at the yangperty of being rist Preng the gross in f\n\nhsburs, on the plesat they had earlcared pices Triviy de hocen to me by the fovercrant printer of 2 let this goal of how Wong depend on the report remember chest as you we who Dr. Bridges was er 1,000 Gollers raiving to and therrunt 50 dus een which they were proceeding, di suport\n\nwhich ore pentlemen, when called opon, ali ratke to barciales, ut, as he calls huself, a legal pencationer feat. Coldwellers and items which reqmen, with a the line pod nadering complnews\n\nHac plutter money aget of ir. Caldwell-tas ufficere Kong, all Covernment officer, whu permitted ans le\n\ncod vessels ringte c his name, wao hat piren tidetres of something 26 tim you. This document anting bera land bucre the Caldwell untie the functions: attracy and brister, and culting less crevicted bobow Wang of pirney and of being appendel, was fed l huew of the\n\n\"\"\"\"The misunsorted catury of Colwell toffees, and who I believe is at tila murent Sau Compilation to the subject to the then vry indiferently wells practitioner, in fat, called engaged in the den Trade,\" \"online! This trade maltet. But, gertlemen, there was netuin which ne\n\nwas hail chwired with compliory with praus Old Daney practiones; and his practice lay shot the salve trades every effort made by Sir Je pred the course of the equity, and which has led simme land; artiny his not la Hong Kong. Tee of opinia Hong Kong papers and allowed to be perated by any\n\nms is out these proceedings blr. Caldwell was the dups of stranger who is have the carically to read it. Iture Chise, abest cutirely, and he was greatly indebted to Mr. Bring to shark any faded millise read eile verr subscrit and indepent quiries befinnestesion the curble genting\n\nbelove luve answared the cations which can ge labelu Wang, that he was rulla scecmplici--his will format 18 a dreamed to longer peizeted by f leg and renneita ascota plice, objectcà dílication which estes, but pulslsked by stance of her Majesty Hóux Koaɛgen; fema watsentations among that body. This doesmeat when fails thaioninate pleinls warga duty Iribunes of quite soother falion Lann a parko Camisin\n\ntrous Lavalon 10 answer. I lepe I have decu suflies dated to All the oflice of Con is is és clear the onia elips and the migrat sipeof Hong Kong icials appointed by a dishonest man. 1 Hy\n\namie Ant in lieu de not what Goschent. They dI makerelerence withose two kentk chlor, and Neting Cokersin! Aureurs 3 bed of rik: the Cene siger cut to whether it is in the course of this savastiguin Liga ti Set time for one your that I have aldened ajab 20 prevented me from coming to lie same siomablá consis\n\nEurope, he retailing the besty the labour contracts in Culan ve réxionable or they age of the tuiszton in theit repor- that previous :0 in, king in and statements as true, and he smitted to, 22 (Dave wagertenice dil return their reports and the Celudis Secheterg the difficulter id exist, and tho ba latterly bemorijay went tur begantu 'he points as wel: I la ramended at 1vano Came of polenta piemetine dating as while of the\n\nsiginta melni y la givere, engin of jingle, the sugoistens of the Camicies, sortsin papers comunes steady no que fully salarised, that when bow instider. trouble with doubts. 1 lien auk apan my the depth overnacht to them. They armed my state perind of his trunce et odice. Chargenti, every Chamwig te taky is overall, a tota aurten with 3\n\nWerg's frin, and which might be but 20derstood, that any gardians yo\n\nsolicita farlor infamathai vil, siguity his wear to c man tho give tim b's versiout had che right to conzerve, ce state of the Colica where it to be stupreetervslus to the Countiesien, lost be dotzegel it find trap- ot trans the plate hume, of speaking of Marlow Wegretta tus com the fast of Mchoho, and they in 2nd Di baling is conviction, but try antepriri culpated very procedony Mr.Childwell. odorandut bich End did sure, that is zeliter had both innuente: iseczunder the\n\nof Corps from Cibo to ong Kong bow toket moest kept the act ever contiment. -\n\npire, but the Ceramic forgot to say 18ct the G-fly it wil eeply with. Br. Asey\n\nsmuted dea seat assist Loud appren50. clerance obtain infertilen veto woke on the cape rock of which, diy had harkeen on citythone wid hato zatit, ClineRoy Government. Tola gelen placed me t\n\nStr. Chawalay salt only remained now the he It has been swurn to the chief, M. Levis the bent of the 'wament te blanche perdon of 3aadow plure. Then there is also number of entries relating some pele. It was iftowards wam to by kir 1 hare before spoke, hauling of the Chine\n\ngunpowder, cufim balls mushais, silk peta, everly, Mr. Dixies, others, in flea kuotave the alterom whics hail for Rive vidence against the gres! Jannthon Wild of England USB come the Cowlingly, herwarde #gured enz. Mr. the bed shon this the evilred a little purchases\n\nagainst Tarrant,” and why were piressaar as Lisé Goundli Bjørð, pap by wit'wet lukorg op ee were in their junes ko\n\nhave that statetent jár before Parliamecut. (Applause.) To me in wel: dolezas witute in the Folies Curt is the \"Cura plustering to the past tween Mulicho Wong is all of tens of war thire se reference call\n\nBevel us Tarrant, by then Clankins of the Comics, terms, and air. Caldwell, and, steve, ilere upprated the uskus tunccties with the Saudiar with ag solenyalur the depare cok place, that Air Joh. Bowring and 1. I reduced his pene in writing in the orthography of t Chicos printing, and 1 kept it on the wall before my desk who was 'cient duly a wine at the Police Chart pater a ser elaborate article September, 1857, & unicat, sie which tice, unter I read Beiges noth awe 10 te consail then on the table one to bem chuqur of a tition by Alt Aut\n\nakutsent in Calia, in which of Manche Wu's he hates, world bat underētur This but an index under and guix on the 14th, reler to lure Aide, statement, a petition to be saloptert to the Queen, Landa, Ban Dat also al tipo ili te pra Chert in the and day from the perind my fras receving e fertation down to the day when the Serenowende of caus They desired walk was pridwally crimes were eatmerated and it was adeffus is to be for the prose of tabling the great to see the\n\nand to cry one of the books and papers as existing denominona, foliowa:-- Whold of the pirater boolé àvul phitest. It ja vakit valuable, nculpated by the reports 'bent in by those ta reperierend pardoned for title that this with ke guilt of many aller\n\nes dy sick that notedy 14 av hea soppra but a Navester, JR, \"Police called upon the, and coke You have cried your\n\nés paid offices, ut lite sails or Tiger nature, po bioause there boil un puhe, a have now been destroyed by\n\nlam ny big which feil fron D. Bulgea or frran Si: Jake at Wil Tarrat, publishes of the Long Kong pois as a ave arrested the sedel, and liavoces, and that hardins erment an oath, Pain\n\npill the end of Chin, was in the 'the' hårda\" of the Hung Kane Covergent, this meinenze\n\nBlock Cum by Liu Govername of t that. Quo him to study on two charges of piracy, Applause). I sony to it by Dr durs, oth nemain the Acting his ca, me of whey be provad is dancreationa\n\nthere was any atention to doutor them. On the stray, lbited by the police count and at die trial were looked \"to prelom leninitim. Sorrest replicationswmulleritsbea Laaksi, Will diese papers be forthcoming the is wht hely a mally Trong and public At that very women bu application is 150 pardon was made, but they all lod. The public age when war awer was Coctaily, tasy will ho forthesising Chetumal miny, of a cele d Governint of Hong Kong, to fit the the i pendina brez the Executive Council, bad baľova a do- up in 196 101minant. 1 Setinal From Callejattu.\n\nwat rond to you this watch of Mr. Dixon, printed Celóuipi Seref.tg-roat will be-1 don't say état with hefurret aby Cian, the pepers en bools which šúré éx bdag too mackerel for Sir Juiz Bowring Stahoe Fogg that these utsnoruuda'ha dolroyd, et troch nieruction cangad the apud Wilham Tut\n\nWithin one week triad crossed that 1 u raken\n\nWaficul reported to me that had upperolie\n\nimoweh, af Tan, aldussed an offels, ferie, tu the goverment\n\nmistion zutenu 57th May. 1 cdled for flow, papers, 014\n\nthe sewer still was, huy s pro3acer May,\n\nthe Chairman of the Come-speaking to what\n\nCarls\n\nren ufereeing one of the LM-\n\nTutte and Within Tarrat peale not pully mil. jabetu, te the Willing Thon BOS, 10\n\nCotinal Sury-by umiva with 517 3 wing, do Govern, duce auch pal and coetic pubic papera a vecius cụ #8 burn, le prevent than tror në tuladhand of teatriinal\n\nThomus Bridgun act\n\nin\n\nJUN PO\n\n1.9\n\nby Sir John Bow-no, not thatatemens 6 M Dixson, the truth-bat ecide not beenvelded by them wil'honey, hit which beleg rund him no the tecore of what had or ne'sunted for in any way on the sapotion of an from wat taken older, M.. Disnou stated was purfacily tree-Theese. You are the kratay of my words, Wall, geûtie- Ch'oet were in luence of their liveandbence begins of e, what did the Govereat do! Nacida That term katson hid in ace to that the parden abel to Premye at Hong Kong The Sup of Police\n\nthe Superintendent of Police, vel sia papers they were, in glee taustmankt Midland. Vältweite Regattar tenor of the Water y lo had the police of the long smakt at his dis in the month of July, 1857. We are now in the sofaxuated; hat the articlo was oothie, for the Fals were\n\nang silence, tid, I can't go on wirdwat my papers. wture Colany, Lotion gave a collops plan\" pesul though, the blud frastarlet: Mr. Calder report fort. 1808 after the firfficial repost do mora, but it be dry for Jorn Rawing an\n\nwale wasiporadia Court as a bit of the Queen again\n\nwhich had bain perferred against hum--to the ellệch that de at the Goved mud of twich ought to have beea pend Hic exartition of Flapot, kiha of re\n\nThay ate prodlacil I will pursue my culence. The answer No one of them cool to lay information apolo\n\nback beca u ursave win ons Machowe Wong lan lo hurtu appene ja support of she another when wrong y cotisidered sacou to disqually Me, Ozidwell from the Cicating letter Was oderossed to the peper of the Tarrant, van de turney General &quited that ever wor, \"They all he rearly 1 C\n\nLa participated in los sela of prasy grof, dasiting him to attend Le Coute (they had set power seruitrios cul ales o cursale should eat feralga, and one morning win ga tuy way to 14- accused 171. Ile was the Jattham Wie de ce. Dission of the event; and still be in there, hod\n\nto try him, tot he was the Goverɔment priaser, Real de night aliteed to tempire 10 Ms. Caldri og Ang'oiler friade of head as a speculturefor I was tune ure Espe when The people were inkry out of thick boats, delube and\n\nhe made these repusta are wet cullat\n\nbave lost cle Govorodent CRITIC). And why? To gite Marchew Weg. Iudouter I got was, that my\n\nappeared as a walness at the diting of the Comarisuon * liberated atmost as he thought. He was I league 10 explain their code is making them, or to dalend\n\nKformation whien manche ebatte ilem to judge of the pro- dalien was on hingartuus and nad għɔeld rescivo apery sten- the worst of proles west theic waters and them; ed on deve at the moment this citron frat, villamenters of Aude. He was the rod of the is the outer and the sccused wit together on the same priety of dehang chow Wos? : ut in followed it up by a cheinending Tetter, and the last to by is gentlenus thut was for the Cen va Berriers of State Bar the Clay time derved probe, and the arreman who repeat to the sarafatio of the Count the gly offend it was my own but in the following teoksile into the Coversio's own verlas d 1st the nad Duiel Dichard Aldest a 1stcat and store. Be informatie and his piratea\" The bad out a speed ease forsoort pesed loss to Sale Whig, wich had a proppo. E in Chatwill interfered with the Bantuñer the rot. The papere leve uit bee a burnt.\" I said, ut papula and then: the publication was for the palie The wil, \"Xo the Governor says he bene in der 11 the lawsti poobslupent of che saith Wa poo them the forgot ng se vitut an exquiry.de fast bivice, Me. Dixon It becued as if a pattiouimely dan pocah as where these the Though the Gerranean'dak noriver, stre Chinese di cozel.. bad be used by may trial. My. Dixon, berdear, while it in the \"realevikov ning meirande; but that the cable\n\nelius amgunnelled to try the sald inferrinse,\n\nvolens be the ustuution qu' bothering til legit, apeared, and with a good deal of virgstol good, we sitesine, to the moverslerved to be ail book burne By wum? I did. An licces Scottir warinda, ses to here for borb the G-scrion fine 'statud jrry the guest relay say his order. I sat Very wel; we ra dialed fa verdict for tlu edenduť sa bech plans; unos ellskog palmat Maheton Wong by Chumer, and upon the first termoz at the out the mad, and said that unicos they tinted be tat me, but yet was zur Tega aga leirit. We have a win in our low that against truth of the churges brought against she al\n\nspoliation navirense da things are to be presumed, and i meat Hong Kong, and that it was for the Tabakor\" of these fay be as convicted, and on the weakest of the behaved to Yew with binabar décenay to would give them one, baterie Pentaton se s tamuuttori 10 'miére jäi prisbas\n\nsil psk you as an hormmable man to 3708 That thesa\n\nIs to jure:nlicy Judge anal coul\n\nthose cinga lid on printed and Lwcase, the stroper ese being fat of all hepsi res information to which they expressed a wish to behet for a cuine of genes; and at lie samé tanie a controa\n\nugulaste si Welt: redentes y lisaks formed me sy se Ori- better informed, and he then third them he could per i prestitute of the town Cathie proton-copale au raping too evides of the gall of the Gospeter Gavravent\n\n4' principal for those il Chizes to the deptpl' süter of the Chis wo\n\narxistence. It is 10 luge, eramus justice, and sound That deal. Machow Wong was marred Sister pered with the tatereating investigation into Mahonjw cl.argue is the publikācá odalineseľ pupure of\n\nneut of Latin. had anguired by consulting' lud nine ended inedin pawnslegs the sem bone Hanece dolars, because sea- Weng'e caso had neily reached itu eczaleca in the Pelico\n\ncgrbury evidence of their cutems, through weld e- zuota, prepared, fre the purpose of tildides kehitet Matolaw innen the pawroker who clonged the scen Court. very last day I was suffering excediating paip\n\nfair in yen to sit it, there are 2 us who can kissin\n\ner (Le 2ad way of led by the \n51 Police, Mr. May. Acsonlingly Malay wis keat for sind be the calvo a farette suni unily Dollars for her person celiginal to hout it. I only to the neuted aleht saiut the aid Duum. Richard Cabluit, it me Jame and bropl his mud with dai, and Ure to nie mate. The coins and it proval batus est quicy. The shain so to be of uly proeid tust a long and iniunaté euangetan\" ja esitt\n\nbetween the Last tratat the whi to mars war Connise Terdila, namen Stieg Lol, who had bees in frequene opinion. I did, 'As to the Tetonada, that is a re publishra, the mud contests of the papers, 27.se, youclow witte : Caldwyn in corted, but rust Calanbend, for they are now Lural, en tan Garethe 2016\n\nallen version had been gled zipost ity Mt. Caldwe-insed to be a hacer by Clause Longe of Mrs Calcon, egg where they are, for they beat Lugu in bis 10 ::fic Governor, to the effect that the entries la Cie Laake reteived from his pawshop Lead a of nonly. Th were mi pogut entrcs, that there was curing leatp dildof the fact wing which they ray n tha hery of the pizate to them-acting whatever, and jority of the Commission are of opinion but it wank het\n\nthis bold step, tw zdevastorm of Tresh crimen were fail\n\nthe Chitovas; they always coupled time with seentza, a less tekig climate the Hong Kong: so the ety-f-every one of the Factz; because of the piestembe: vom Ur.l. for weed trout le Fou Tsepse. You have uses 1392 meat what is culed 1867, ad pracy, went transgrated for 1:15 to the purl 160\n\nMr. May, the Superintendent Police as magistrate or Hog Snar, M. Mar hee nos bem suaded for giving evidence al Mr. Catdoll, and he says konw the a, kowa ce allow Wook, was 57. Caldwell'in pol and trees relied upon to formar. During the whole oftaistime-that leave 1980. never reĥrened wa mate to biolohow Wong, either by the subordinate oleum of the police, ky old kuropan dents, or by\n\nepithetlaring selezenne to his bad chamater. Aes multimel repute and retoriety, I know the Mabel Wong hos for Jezz bron vorsiderad sectortionet, & respect of mines 3. from gambling-house keepers, a condectrale of pirates, SON recrow of telek gooo I Mama plastist nerause of ca 1. work bom postiar witlitegazu to Mr{akdwell—winters\n\nCimen in the coinsy very well knew-that Matchc .. Wong wat sopposed to da in possesion of great down, a ut wan belil in gest dread. Ot the exteat of us dread.\n\nbeste faly aware whenever it was my duty tu laverigune the case ignibet him. Igoko to maug Chinese of stundige 1. and property, and shey all exhuired a bowledge of his\n\neni curacter, but a relualase to do more tia This gentleman was a picnes of a juste vľ the porco, wlas navenbetes is considered a proper person to remain in tikt Chu). Geaca, en son as Sir Walter belt dhe\n\n• covered that 3. Gilbert Alusz, tas Laird of Pargowa, had been code of the press D.nks Flatserais, Book vilectual mesum to hee the Commicion of Price i\n\nBland From !be d'agence of his novion; and foetal y that a literary character like Sir Jatin Bos ring might have very robiy been expected to fellow the exacte setli by Bir Walter Scott. App, chinmay\n\nE Mackow Potrg seded ahir vonviction sp\n\ntraneporation. But no mark the prosem, beause this\n\nbring the a bow head of aging, which, theagh\n\nip of two onlilery others to the court clost 1 might dear the ovalent of the pirate book, andard shose hooks send in the Police Court de slag purled open the dose collow me to pass frena the the is on which was carried into the const; so I hoped to Potion Court interpreter in a loud waies, that it the world, motulit. hack him it in interpretation more wrong, read 11:\"Fə\n\n·Sam Kwei' (bet ie, dr. Calduril, the torturing or kerkida, Need) toey\" ist was an estry, earleazen; ju\n\neate an the all to particular\n\nvaid, \"I will go in again.\" He woak in, and the Governor\n\nI share Caldava 1 cher Wong mad the sail\n\n10, soma, by the said commuistion, Dalit Dad Richard Coldwed bad been, until very best À parter with the sad omviet in a lɔrelia, zrul the mirë,\n\nfursher show that the yard She of the sail.com clas\n\n1a jike parcneshly Jai! 16 between basi and the said venyter met lecat fenci yessels, and that a number of una in their day deơn, at vagina timas, guilty of pray\n\nThat die restliny Eve under the sail Cerriku was gevately printre and culo by truong sung Tern, but väheul indoegmentary videtza Taller! ski the sitesi, el coatiars to the protes of th been the, as was statel oa onth by the arimarenie\n\na. Lan, DONT MICRO, T\n\nQty of Sambon, in Suno which, after a calmed\n\nthe\n\nding, resulted in, obra vùng tha prasiat pagundy pic\n\nsud, \"I kus ibing of the benene of the papera. durd calew ware bort, they were bucat by Dr. Hridge, and not lag sa La broke of the pirate then conter excisation. Olier her speed that own the stricle in the China harsh lemore Mr. Careil on the Commisions for lie sansauranda, 3 know nothing of Lin\" \"he w\n\niesasperateri ilia'j aiges, exspe- hear da the eye of the Govenor, he had applied This? stein is to her gun sence to arcs of various kloun; dietasloudly sessionis flat bosh aya sud see if there were taled 194, and its proton avery' Inquest amus alb sead, it daw was open, nant I could boar hits, stud be was very \"C.\n\nany swab cutes in thdia, And why do you tilus be up theur vers partionfctly Tirumakt. itemquatracce e il ficus imputenbel to neve he solint wort of projectile kunwa drog Paliced by this 1000\n\n2. 118 425 of the the to? Wit, of all men, do you this he employed on the subject, and was again divined to fold is proce The Soaking Berhey mast have own full well had been about of stinkt pat\". payee of Life You a rezolves the book thay cured this var tuusuciata winxber there were any entries in the truth in that Dr. Bridge the Acting Unlonal Secretary tune unsay shout thuthum, Laven Laborants pargnuts,Gestalo Bub Sigler's coins, winch pirate's books incupatory either of the pirate the part who advised the censur, id, sir. Davel was eppo wapiz, then he gitty as, Dr. Bojes, Mid Commission on the ane tril of the Quetu . T\n\nareas were ação by the Canis Eigh me as instants need by picator Sam thaques. Why die parmer, gentediet? This fhda. Lattez to whom he apples wx All this was petal catfury ma vida e con exile in\n\nColwell, after the conviction of tar sa Machow 5 appointment discoting to acting Chineze scoretary to go berwuda before the Commission that let linge was aleau works heftest be wrong thement of the si sūdens 118 parla. immanian theme soboto prazposes of desunto. They\n\nand assist - Durdwell in the inquiry which heal. Can a casing about for a further opportunity and relega pole back paneme ta por seul as other this extructed to the api lagi. profile a catcmple as to bewilder their oppo-\n\nmily had been ducted to make sure prudineert bother the afbringing the Government to save tried sidi de pequena co muy first preferring rise toer hie darges against Mr. Rielar wel! bu is expecially charged with did cre nesta a leg who are about to board, in slu anpe of setting in to tie voocel. kere were numero Commission of Inggning, out in my leg, bead aguchi veu dus sirenastade med. The Government at Caldwell and piles in my place in the Legisle is Majesty's cura in motion against persons whol\n\nall vessels wi entries us of dortrustion as illa, and over sidste to be the witness for the Uras, on the trial one disproved of the chair power confered spend Theftey were they me butt with alleges the pirates, and against all\n\nto je, na galust all places where he algimin· anou een oudceived from Skor Koneen spinet Tarerne, and there a bean doubt of the aduc Mr. Caldwell, and we were able to recourt knowles they were och be useful to Path, go drabt, un videre-thane to fact-Mr. Under the related vend kid mal was in committa the accusel sy wers bau after produ\n\nTait in the pic af ar Malety's outers - I have mest enamcuted them to 300 so I went on, I leave\n\ncott Bad Kwag na he is called, of any purchase of and Mr. Mans asked to must fan and Mr. Modzin when I received fine in peritcedent of bien a letter to presturs them had to have them bed by fur produccion vice plus sole multial inflation of the el aladdy hops in my to: The way was thila—A young\n\nGen ego. And what you they deal and Caldwell in all arch of lige Tak Art of educadou, ef grea: personal-I Acer of Jerodox.0, thein arapaiment, there is LLC chart det til him by tomatogne sunce mages of evidcide to the eff chat held i\n\nTai since the signing of che la ray of p asy beunty, her his aprestake was as that of a fede abondamen there to w Any ROVEor, zealous for herpes to lines that no bundle was very hierdie wise his power for Wing, unfortunely, long\n\nGlina, uvasis of the, Chape coast, in violation IT MA one of it, thus the man who had at all, and that ou the other bundle the bestowed what he abuser of thels in this way, hili he was granting the acting Chinese secratur;) is mee to cama inter car\n\n1rea, lava berume Publiwa, guided and directed by Gešti ... of 1925-lure description in kv 63 2. Was\n\nChina **U WIScuration.\" He says is the dish to bredelskont of his down property, and prae- ryceriu desunie mors, fouad to encumber pas Denici Richand Cudil Brave Cock thick acidéy (tor Mr. Cool: wat pituus elite-341 h a secured wae 220; fix to ra\n\nnot cause all the textements he pub to Mr. Cromwell, eating with effect ultricies that there untied, to se ging Clumése Ofies. They diù in bing to the Chase Ofe 15 the following mes ocurral in the wqeriş il 2. At Une trial in Lile book which he beat writea oui Ciminin Quotes of the Fuzon (Apple)\n\nand he does not think Me: Cafdwell torstited tum, chance our prasowe property. According tid The Leugd de Palin fce, it is true might Apr: st: u of uret, as evide and where we believe, was inckie oue stated like being the Ostwall Commi, nd Mr. ther be gh: mot disse his fly in Anzies, she Davies, wind, and when the oil age to know that Mr. Caldwell was bore Wirk, berise se thakter, with the wires, believe sunt them there and ought to take the pubes her Majesty's valicza plesal the sole er upperial allegat of th were of the best cepeccability-in Earth me of Este, even to the poial of the full towards with a number of the when Ireland Council, and I sakithar duodin ruveta test faluzea du bat i asked tise Guarner and he told\n\nDaniel Ric Caldwelt: he had cuker and give to Mic Morgan to perse and Mr. the ordinate for the purse veftig das Legistar merak The Bulger, and De. Trigga yaki • Thụp only ruchan, 1 expediu 10th of Mr fast ga Boys, and he was to my proseptic, at Attorney Genry), I rekla ile ago, at de woods [aan? to tried and evicted-1 au sorry to y, c the 4 were defano I went into the court resapan, without staring them with the date\n\nto heridong any pecay void the ral aid \"Tyler is ofte the dus of the Ladeperdendof the enuio of piracy, the xys this The Antorery Geotul's shot when our they were all rigs and the report was diawn up and eat from the for! size string to aty ko mase Ti said be Tacy are mere end undertaler were banale\n\nwastog : Weng grunt-end volevo che grad-very properly not be Mr. Nenu,\n\nof the power ferret an M. Caldweb...) Deaked wat was uneven plan is the site out of bagi the Loring of opinion dit he had not convicted e\n\nis is feetly opmeet. We has only wired ac, Mr. Chudwell. Mr. Clewell reported to the Govi moric motely, but Me Colwell spent. A lire put of the day due to create der is so that he was merely convicted of piracy, smal\n\nEst addressed her pabely happen ontiment which have sexa, aut wiret 1 hp will be and reported Shubho was hity the azett. Est de properly sting of the cuss in depatruling w \nke,\" Free which cut is Chinnan Day the\n\nvaez the Funga V Danë newspaper, qüuhag fas published at less eleverd het book. You may chuka urtean city of Wade Wig Tit Sourke,\n\n--Fast flokit - statuiest, teic, \"Tuus the pinaka charge, it ALANYAGİLİNDARION I am labouring & avatare wies) 43 30 pacer. w you wish to set pure so to sey e vet toptir He began in crale\" vie\n\n@miate or uw why I did it. We crmitory, o'i chy' way incapatory; if bind when I was spinel Libes Way, seven weeks at that knd la that safe of as they\n\nDodwell come all took us session the Hundwist Bisur ne lastics tim this, bet no cler yet, it is lyriba for his was consolib and date ich t kad mad prizes old bundy, watery Chinese Jesele and good, but of ureja veeeels and get porter on the art flow Cart Mr. Called Buklear?But it get farther on this. Megan, on stated alub, Le way adding the Guercituent, whi\n\n- Thi ly ra cho tiện, việc nghind: 1 Júlio Kucose, is 'nce, 'crite end to abile,\n\nestiollant Wind in partueze of: che meses\n\nhunder to avitas tenser sind, herefte We\" who ale to be thic ecofioing theres to tlit \"bom juscy wi it is entered vesla og Chistice, eye care, trig winds to how were wilt duration et dedans want. 11 ist fuch has evo sing the appointment in these Le\n\nA proceeded to take aud' wakt prizes of Potgier and even of English It could be .icd-bigbut them we were duething to stay away or tu forges they to ir healthy why do te dore Sime' and look us et Mens specifice- these day a wine to the Crown site pircle beta oponed and face way, that even casi toto hepere forts had básn ichkir tó\n\nHe, Caldwell out on so Desk While the Chief Maglenkad bet akarate the dress of pure atentia to the age of her with tweed in the driting, and who was the marterly speeches I ever lado ati ang dile-iliat did no Berred; baie wuld he lied dot the listed og bin rated 1.16 118 REBOZDey-Centrul Zur the Crown, were] Lind Hberation of Mahshow 'Won, fecia the clucose that Fredd2 attunewars I'died the confoluit of Vedelendum is, these referral to, in this case of the Conferuerteve) Non him by a pirate und ( nviting atmose tire pel the bar and file wiends toere le cos hand that i helion well to Sir Bowl of 9. Jest Tarar chat him out from his chues of just\n\nla reging by \"verbering to her Majesty the can.\" -¿Lead cyplinsé:)' Wit By such they preted to ocnyvaz editions, thors bei gwa sila, and otheeatunc\n\ncant Ohmamen ging video liber was the peper or fabricion of do you think the govt to my of Intent freibe becaues te jugs, who always to grow ranting i\n\nsideration they were struck with the vente of barget, or confort of main, lad deteraped that gul angle, jugil a Lehmkomptly honnante unek bad been re- Mr. Davies is an pourable and opright, but u moet olen and that\n\nbuk shio was deo much uses on a Torted in enter to procure the lure or Latest they new grups to into iteme tarp barat tify a splations liel, soit un\n\nLiyur petitioners ate infor not the public pessa ut excuse to for you to judge af ik validity. Bat I have a\n\nthe commutes at the ears Mspite a Grown wines add beca bring to to say the Bar appened to Car, nodingly this was declare is a pufed with the bobeer defence. Br what actity\" do you, the men of\n\nbit, thend or hisgistrate who was on the Benus, said to me the Cow 489, nd he was akhez of lore furodde teulement of ants or inphns; fest to bring the avertent isto uttal i con- Hong Kong was with the gravest sharges against her uro Ebook, I think you ought torkowest Mank is an generally falls ad the fut of Hong Kong sila, banghts one in Secretary of State se ga je ten, Sw, Mr. arrunt ipad vg for alué deine, 1 blogg's local unit, suising out of the sets of the ni Tunel Fabia Caldwell, witasub ny stopa bʊng teken Hong Kong, prosamo to tyo, ka Ararian cisÓN, DE\n\nrest in which ouius fi torebet upan hi h serious, and he been cool of he told the that Me.\" Mag'a ↑ W Many palmerit; trest, siunt is prasandhang no, preg as\n\nAriel enly echte boned having followed the ukamulu saslim\n\njusty's Gurraient at horny, Jby the British comede e period of Jig de good)Malawidity rephormorandy were to the Courel, de milite of should says, whenever let me extence: not a tal on w, by tur ecce as\n\nulo kauly, Theta quite a misuke, Nix. Eug in ne subtitri Coupe,\" ays My Dixsongengrene, mm, Fabere ready to righend what was sad, ra, wana boju til, denying to That you diners e farther informa chot ́́s Youlo en ability hoy resucher: sis cake of Mr. Caldwell, who she promett, Alferplant in Jeppe.tjie\n\nin consequence or be acts Court. The young picafe turbel, un lam with TRON\n\nhar for life. This pewnią kair, whose appearance oply ja ¿very respect most preprenenting, lidil, nesici furlega, \"Litez +the cance of this phraga ditere perods\n\na from the are 1855, 1856, ADG 1857, for as long an x-\n\nde, hoving her treat it the posite by what, gezišlą miejų a\n\nsoftly exjoyment out of a lui Delagian\n\nNalci Poiy,\" and supped fra te te sime with\n\npas pedagowa by the struct\n\nsul collars in money, and welty for cos janda\n\nof those from. Mol whore willing the\n\nof to re\n\nShu or anong gani, the tuik of whic\n\nand Led by resi\n\nHow was unt invest gatal. Batore The Beaton Bona's a li\n\n· Mu brei, nad who exprend is read\n\nto\n\nadjuskuse on the case, and it new apposes fram, eisal decoration of the Case Castor At B\n\nLut the legal piracy Ye\n\nJaw jacc\n\ndatid cerfi-zion of a Sales\n\nat the corn the gastropod the test -1, exquis ook pult, I was pureaued tri the Atrey-\n\nyies distant from Peng Kang, viktse\n\nFWninos 4 ใน Mu\n\nJun+\n\nacity were onwering the waller or city with Chinese cứ duratione pre by me, they m;,\"store, L'insverfus Ceageer be thhed infuñà÷hoi si't the very chané de \"wasture Legs undertaken atlasswise păzi şJelitoraizly, quid rich di alluzbi àltevės ro angelu salt into the saidilir. and dezambiaron und muraus où desituelium and deadh, tiež pevaaja this most Ring'hérorë · Henriečkkaemisă when'] Conkeret ón metody. (Rudnnà těšiai vah tribal with bad de Guabip. Processing wers commod in the Pulica / voliars were under preple\n\nCual will your to a prosecution ser libel of the sail towns with two hours,\n\nlisa proprietor of that jupur Sir Th\n\nasenBalion Charmy of Expeti funt:c:ky m5- per with British dominion), tor property hall 19 bapa luier. tu2+)?) \n\n| peurs ing Lo maid mutes u flazbe Woo), but willing any peccf, or injẢ ĐỀ\n\npref, 13 coline; the sald sewn with this ad allest\n\nto petablish the truth of such si logetion. Towing the said verds in thus suidtuint of\n\nand the prizeutics of clues weioner's Report, i\n\nquica by bis partadi, Sri Culkin Ayplay.j'. Pagkus Mache Wang, M. Caldwelź ext 20 the Bestivité decurrente, the fin# Peľ was tete 10 där fets, abg no wories of hopeat knutý, Ahri saytigt, on rebooveything in the law tit jouds to the liberty or places Five Queed to Ja!! Rhad calli\n\nzeli yua win he riv \"Yes, graden.cu buld centered these pirnoje, I basoetatud may\n\nwell, you shoổ tut teava, the Coat. It 1 sog\n\n- In\n\n-1\n\ncontinue to bold la ulices of epistur-Borland Pro-\n\nfasten object, and Justion of the Pen\n\n-\n\nopas\n\nThat one piles huully pray your Maganly tost The Dichand Sawell as the anodica phed from extresings said does of gist-renca\n\nyour Majesty was fiber, state such sy\n\nut your Alaiys Critical. -\n\ne naved\n\nThis yields totank to tini) zei; flua elitize\n\nTeplagent on board'éco ether piste junk, dist c£5 on krainie Mchoben Wong. I day day i dennepéviter is primasda eru re” Cure of 9.964 Kiz the toho, ability;\">ub' #1 to Flis millest was 13, 11 to jrove the justi ofera zné 'bu fiɔmė gl Gran Maxis, he adopted, amig\n\noy the Mayur se belesif of 11e meetings una chut the See petilien to clean, Lyk Lyness to the fart Bluts for biome Afain the requested to press the abu Bin Silben : the Ainge of Commiting\n\nBog ur Neeraden cephes, 1 for F and Northumberless be formed with appien se sa notition, and requested to support is pron,\n\nthe\n\nNar\n\nsinty ever happened. Toward the end on aller case der is met. Promate. Cats?#eliftektálation Jowy cerunkenyíčel, † sleges vanitý tu da in Boug Kong. · (Apple) I kids in, but afttraing that he wrote dijose only of a 3k)- j offiser of known el which your petitions - Bohinch 1 new before saw equales, and it ben boxks pered to sa ikat is, the Ott hectate)-Mr. ULIENTE This front mas altérfi sa' Mr. Beyond wilmot hafte u work I stukut bajene it. vienmant sälja vasant clue $2000 18 Guseramcul, all hasing ban aakrod to: recueile unencre, - nepest of tetth He Mind My Cali-Gadwol in Mashow Wong's adapter. 2, in may have dr. Moun n this white car; oist I live desires norieteni which sa stuffziest to gue secres, such as, e con las cerefore ether nigrisane ne kely to low.\n\nmil adoped father, I do know 1-made of the teak up del did I bet white m\n\nTelit for the subjput of the thugplit his to take up that they rely institute en iy te teece to have entered this Et any or stannak a the time but the end of the case al beat fit to hy weed the traits de trait in and tie was, beet this honour last selgus, and the Judge of the culpis hold the rare of the petition to the Bouses of Lek's bu Ame of thee. bis are here, you, who quietly to br. Caldwed, are heard thank Mrforcuccino w This is of the resty je dny, day in atribut to delete the honour, Crown gut ferised: me time this career of orhng thall be caldwell, abent, your patios with the vase, was there wadh son why He bave tent with the date the 17th of May, 1938 verli, by the Crava prassence, wild as suid was opes Justine, but the prayer of the polition to the Queen was us aland with the exceeded, wit alig volubility. were sur stod say they wereteeming of nettur-argir the nor this roler received master tour the Secretary or to trove (by gality of the cavenient, and having fo\n\ntions contéptet ut per the indin dietider Sveces of Bahar One you Brus kete but in jautify the bed, for it woul A late costance będe tamu Walbe present at the inquiry, the you le coună-\n\nder wet br, 1 of the you struction by us that promet, pa ih the more in loved in reported. ll, gentlesser, e il be. For m piece of polios of European xures, such pe chara\n\nlierter thing, tid old role puude hink you go. Prot. I said no more excel, had her mull I have no large, penta Tanpired the trial sint tag were decle of in the Chincre, 'and 'which has said lid al com from Mi. chatyour penceration I have inter reeds graminacey kist ever themiubit of ang us Job By illegal enguant nur short pet she hinten, end Faction of ds: Pease pu Caldwell. Els declared his red padon, and I bar. 22201 Wes 11. ca corte e (9-12 chapter conveyed in the hose leidu libus petition is at to the cold try me that tetece prated suit circuled, but nav ar pilkul in the berzerie, in deferi he had shton s prson, popne in which altere med acts. Doudy, Jay, the mind one part of the needs office. I let it has previouidered themed parts as at the agreeing \"The información rize is functions were detepeisles de Messina. *Caldwellende brother, Mulishow Wong, boating Colonel Mexicozy requetudo so take a vase pooch Ms. Monpais. 19isit there is how to me hall work in the Maglażba përt of cha\n\nErs Lovereanett warno longer thrë qi | er himself to have bòân”- chicago-wiens, M. Card it as is May's case. Day Bekles, the Aoting Colegiary'sy And Siver : \"they clä salis dots i had e, mladinkoneiden 2011 (5)\n\nwellen into a sent, ithead of bustin By original par Services, axplained to me that ho-bellevad bir. Any toe papers entrere, but netan ere were states are with her disputs this postion the did not prove it by ban wings, me he was sing Folded in the magnity of policing & levels -pose, and leaving the conce, or pyvalme to the curt te 10 rowe way pajudined sponu (whom day-thak, penele tormeil the subject of agres' o'what's the ahy, for while, at the word things, tien j\n\nditions viice cheek Crowu wănesiép, far, Irlikes, T. Môngán, 1. Youll here: China bưng v? tự nghe Hob Reig I new nit! new show h, tht to chat retr -proteo! kin, or askroje leuve for one in Mr. Calovali? No † sgaipet).MuleLow Wang.\n\nBet him in the end i Amk fasi ya desch wert hate Bowed it, arc wies and a Con Me two tur conuicted to theke animement when the retele dena; be ligicha zaid against in. Caldeuil sound he beerture\n\nstein and tornou mierer the fuse \"szért made bye debet my Bi peace, une with a head & mods Setween fives, and couple it very cosible that would take my are John Bosdag Mi. Wade's reporte feicis alliesenstar and piratant explain is al even un acknow\n\nFred, nad valeur was giche che il sola hile manner carrying witle is convxtion of the truth of the bention to doing so had solely we tras sie dasise: Vitalne the Chilies State Stad ductinenda, no he is bunds: llame Gentieren bi the charse of this wel die tui rilaktin senfessions of Dr. Bridgy instit, Lord Lyndhurst tank they, interes, it is not\n\nSecretaty a theory, lemort me cretary gra street. ket ky eye'sed en thas unter -May focuya sheld poke hazz, nach ki mua jimata'y Ark whit a Na\n\nin the inghest terms the petitions freia this tea Pannte man, an his sat there under the allerlag demanesi\n\narranged that we zi.ould hath with Then it big avil swenney-General Mi; Aditz? tals Rated; wart referred 'te li kiengrity whel, masel tuplasente, at å which they acheidint The jury issing of the morient I 2054 to live Twish His Old Crawstway's) Buty cümiselled h ting if the young pirate, and I saw in's deco the\n\naridanse ho goes on to say shas Mr. Catwell, corac! ene basereperietes bere thou and Bi. \"Caldwell's tagdermit sipan 1992 finds of them on seat or é difractal We donder the bulȚ most abject ped the most complete ecofen his guit, use of the sopranotation which have to the gut being discovered, but on when do that'dule the kit, and which they reledere etract fra jast bed by the evidite of the Chow it to remind apture from the primary f The Fout Atheriyan te vektoriced and prukaḥed, bas it\n\nCoperto, adul not to alter a future, as a note his eye. Note that it is tuc late for a while but when & boy well lavori Urresting bars for the brought to pressure politi\n\nbe maling; and taped that Mr. Edila Janes Skul jameting, thinkingrachtdi duetzibál, eď trials Enlu Karena lester to clears pederskil to inquirero\"\". (Apple) libre o letroduced during de tre petiolo probability which is, you wil of my career what was gutted to Bir Jolin Howalny ió qu consider a very probablu jebak de Walpole, and who is full order dứt the I put me in the of the Combat is the defence et gallly even notice in a los 67 Court on this He herbure, poskirted skal pla ne, was committing to the huge of lesbiete or inferabuty, rape they iron going to jure in the dataset made pés justa 2 Wand they uid, que\n\nquestions of etiquette agits zu Lin waived, st that it Tầng ki the tiásẽ of every mandlily édes of the\n\ndece did de desert-lum Att. Ha di 201 forell possinterpret the Hugh find withly my enter the Ses of Bret' I' prutekidit in die name or Theron appisil to the judge for costs, all. eet the low/high af te dzieje 1.5in pha Sapd bubbly fut he had hail and who had the bài)? Panimadiratokeo Motion Manama wakiel cortese again it that-ridistrikt, The viler bf the | gj\n\n\"Well, under Lord Cupbell's Ko, and appe be there did so the court sec on this Calls. And what bids Mr. Caldwed, aduca be the feat-by-1 Patio, Ingileifilutleie het urituli eie se lest is labele se ili beg capered he wwn sees of the car by giving their day siege the harsin af Mr. Jones. Ep erine Fant doch and maile report of thuto welched magicTalen top? Way, clasped Co. by one dette noen taryf die stider in or on Bareng dati, bis spits against the Crown (ie will it pr. A skal med to add, but Afr. Zuniga, Devoting theesin the principal portion to the trial of mion--. 19 old do not forex Burette, user einiglitz traway! -it we never intended to a tie mors will repect to the asthey sweary of longer euitendag with the misrule of the British\n\ndaily in runt litet habeating cocutare. hát to thee tới mướn that the demandar obale trave power to intulegt at, mal bei 1 600 6. Every harding will invest at long Rog, had exchang Bags, the barone of what the sail, ed I desired, found that the magistrato was in kyler Milmiy's later, and bore the com\n\nsha mabject of a terrenet to Mr. Whe, the belt Crizelse i uthe Sometime of Moet dank the sulfat peckers the pot of the clung being tiled fur by: of han ritate infesty or be a corp\n\nImperio Major the inspaene på.China, al luced by Mr. Gibidwalk to syrept of dreindly low. Ieder\n\nand Ferlinuculary grant. is not er mis to nevid Passion of the peace ng Kai-for 1 yo amend in vana, de haciz Mahshow Wong Seo have here ofered in whichrit-lan at leiðarokk of isim num amzkurt, and then\n\nJr. Pouncilor Disparas had great paying -the grace of attlag is the same commission with Mr.\n\nJuden in your for debt for a few days storm which was, wiesenet was the thing trial selbe just denial, the wasthead like on of Xeconds whey should Gard well stated, I say, die sold pity the time previous levertheless, Mahshow Tong was conan the inquirix: 2 . Monti Multish Mit John da to re e thuit made of this Bits This la cuve of the meta, mut had lead her than su\n\nPA Take y ethere of serall be real, and all\n\nmatic aire dent where of Mr. Anne, Justy par foto bn up and vend au wordt had his bovision, tabe ploca examination every and the by, beg byg\n\n·Topptation and Palipahoy world i purua exopt up this line got store' Jer, that public sandal bed but unt evary at: was made By 31s. Caldwell specə > where: Weijl.\n\nlowers and now; & fou verds buice's lake wave of you a The motion was carried shotiniously. Moines unlock to do this there by the look of saying Whit cheaped in Net of begin by requatuo: there in\n\nMr. To HET. LE. Weid bus tree the ter seun which the-hop gelo x want wien, si mor of 16 slet Buc me to my how much ist das picot's stal\n\nbeing met. Et the dayvalter I had that vidunderlie the prevés szacujalise Kaving Goch. RIMI, o l'alvo,amt ákotek Mr. Caldwell'; but the I imew\n\nMelchion, Fung may Birthink that by as: Alengan akute todo che continue miter which has earninus of miley clite Tr wickelly of churae, that it win pofidetty true that Max. Los reparted LTE WHICH TO: + with lenth of coma de double all ye hi! I want to perfore by suols Bands Racid, the pipe that having bags to the May, des -terpie fri eventibử with the Afti dhanon or getting off???ed:hu nad a perk von Grace | Pelketeart' scathifi. Mit Pulbosat sitt which in med tobeat du the puLE U VARse to you by Mr Crświley. Yən muşť 1.22 sagpry this term\n\nhew Werk, who was storeddy beefed with\n\nTechpod, 30 in abm.com. To juman who actuel far as 37. 3. Tinker went the not by let the great chase motor and bridal suites and find a bygons matter. 1 were, hub is me rent Why 5, whethe\n\ncoction, plow, stall be same. The Constant at se injured into, and the guilty paulühe becue, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TINE: Maya cha kar moer Urinalty.” The » de is a liesing sakit and in werial agent, if\n\nIf not 'somotáing more than my Kingsky was a young maling in\n\n- Str. Gæstwa Pradoodle for disproves in cybe long ng this first of things last né make up r impant, fur Nejeng's Arte Karilor; and (riffet laat, if so vary w pipe of stem of\n\n• A Lake? Kako se kockat ng ma¦¦:00 Unilure - Chelausen | *apen som to neposers' Chaetesi Por jo mirik, kalya Aith is shorty sit bonarofublimitlam of\n\ndot pri e nuhrer, in the jolske dit Manwhere. hald rentours/niche e victime to the fokus, or out apposte, 1 won by oral by allies in a hit doe\n\nGoverment aut tømn-it. Nag hat dare to train so my lets tred that di Ihres most prouxing toidetle in which a slaan Kong. I maat, kovretta, say 'dolara, `· Eltem, hear dibéo be a f“ „Antikks sward and spank the broth, and I näded: \"Thein sa det aru Koz brady, given\n\nEd 9 wat gate yek böcker at Fangio go that they considerare ding with Mr. Cash has drawn ittich, whit szer kle bir that choctagonar Dagisee. Wain of A Kimpoti in his shade-tzat, lac did lesa quets At ja pelamath now to be to ice for Age in weid, and 70 at hall to say one of the praling the last 92 ci ad pedas entry-it-14) beendal this is (open toyiq queue o to me to be not vil poting that stenty of\n\n· Kgreat improvements Fita a intrbelicëdürzatean of GTE\n\nto\n\nis\n\nreach Een the book in the Kunde DL.\n\njust-abs that they havʻstake' is \"die\" \"chinë '18 Do ↑ Deen ashamed to' hace punimi, sext which I povedled agains l'stä! Is your variet 11 yes that ly | Phèz họ to come how chèt couhl as the objects of\n\ncbeth\n\nונו\n\nMaliciru: w' pa oval 10 joule the supension of this en de 1e eit.al Crown gut áľ sestdise Prielled it 4, Grey Strare, by. WALK Winajan k\n\nresiding eV hit; and publisket by biel Atistis Sunet Neroun-Xn-Tymer, 50, Hommed B Sieci: Digli Studi Samiecians; and Kesant g Durban, i am as gunu gharama\n\nSaturday, Jun 25, 1959.\n\n3974\n\n229\n\n\"Hirveastly for 27 1854\n\nI have the honor\n\nto forwurdt\n\nBook Prst le\n\nZen\n\nAug\n\nby\n\n& Pettern\n\nfrom the down yerrwonath\n\nther Miprsty, which\n\non behalf of the public meeting, at which it was allatibit.\n\nA is\n\nmy duty respectfully to mequest",
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        "content_text": "by the same\n\nMail, via Southampton, and\n\nwill arrive at that port, on P. & O. Company's Steamer from there to-morrow afford\n\nheat day.\n\nboard\n\nAri\n\nAlexandria, could\n\nHe will, no doubt; you from very reformation in his\n\npower suspecting it.\n\nI am,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's most obedient and\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nF. Thesiger Astley\n\nof Newcastle\n\nThe Most Noble the Duke\n\nof state for\n\ntheir\n\nH.M. Principal Secretary\n\nthe Colonies\n\nDouring\n\nacknowledge with the\n\nAnstey. The Corps on\n\nMr. Merivale\n\nprevious letter\n\n8492.\n\nAug 31\n\n2.-9.\n\nAppendix.\n\nIn 8647/19\n\nAppendix.\n\nOVERLAND FRIEND OF CHINA,\n\nTHE case of the Tepo of Choongwan was enquired into by Mr May, Acting Assistant Magistrate, on Wednesday, and stands postponed until Tuesday—the Tepo in the mean time being out on bail. From what we can hear it is likely that he will then be discharged; the trouble of carrying the case on being unsuited during the present hot weather, to the energies of the Colonial Office.—Friend of China, June 25,\n\nTHE Tepo case was duly entered on on Thursday, both Dr Bridges and Mr Parsons appearing for the prisoner. The only witness was Mr Acting Superintendent Jarman, who, sworn, stated that on the previous day the Chinese prosecutors in the trial at the Supreme Court, out of which the present case arose, were duly in attendance; but now they were not; nor could they be found;—he did not think they could be produced.\n\nUpon this Dr Bridges moved for a discharge, and in the course of his address to the Court turned round on Mr Parsons, the Solicitor in defence of the pirates for whom the Tepo was security. He believed, he said, that Mr Parsons was the most to blame,—Mr Parsons's persuasive powers were well known.—\n\n[Would this worthy and most learned member of the Hongkong bar have it to be supposed that Mr Parsons concocted the defence? No one in Hongkong will credit such a supposition. We thought the Crown Solicitor was chaffing when he said, in a jocular way the day before, that Mr Parsons ought to be prosecuted as well as the Tepo]\n\nHis Worship, Mr May replied that as the case stood there was certainly not enough evidence to warrant him in committing the Tepo for trial at the Supreme Court. But with regard to a discharge, why, under the circumstances, it was as unfortunate for him, the Tepo, as for the ends of justice. He, the Tepo, would leave that dock a deeply disgraced man. By the representation of a Jury he stood implicated as the confederate of Pirates—a nice position for one whose office gave him the power to be a blessing instead of a curse to the thousands who looked up to him.\n\nThe prisoner was then discharged.\n\nThe case had been forced on so hurriedly, that the Crown Solicitor did not arrive till the matter was ended; so that the evidence touching the Tepo's ownership of the piratical boat was not gone into—Friend of China, July 2.\n\nOUR Police Court Reporter was present at a curious investigation by Mr Mitchell this morning. Seven Fish stall holders in the Central market complained to Mr May that certain clansmen of the notorious Mah chow-wang were in the habit of extorting cash from them daily, so summonses were granted and they were brought up. A defendant forcibly took fish from him. The value of the fish carried away on that occasion (the 26th ult.) was 1300 cash Evidence being adduced of this forcible seizure, Mr Mitchell said he should treat it as a larceny, and award a punishment of three months imprisonment, and two dozen lashes to be inflicted this evening in the Central Market where the extortion was effected. Evidence was also given of three similar larcenies, and for each the Magistrate awarded three months imprisonment, in all one year.\n\nMr Caldwell took his place on the bench beside the Magistrate, and on behalf of the prisoners said they took the cash as for dues to the Lan provided by Ordinance.\"\n\nThe Magistrate rejoined that that point had long since been settled. The Lan is provided for the accommodation of market men. If they make use of it they pay—if they do not go into it, payment cannot be sought. There had been quite enough of it, and so far as lay in his, the Magistrate's, power, the terror of Mah-chow-wang's name should be removed.—Friend of China, June 23,\n\nWE stated in our last that the case of the Tepo of Choongwan, the security for the pirates convicted at the Criminal Sessions, was postponed until Tuesday. But yesterday happened to be the Queen's Coronation Day, and the Courts had a holiday, so it had to stand over until today. To-day again Dr Bridges applied for a postponement until to-morrow at two, and it stands so postponed. Dr Bridges, Mr Parsons joining, was very anxious to know what the Crown proposed to do with the Tepo—on what charge was he to be prosecuted? \"Well,\" said the Crown Solicitor \"I have some evidence of his being the actual owner of the piratical boat, or I may go on the perjury—Mr Caldwell's evidence proving perjury so far as the allegation went that the people who were robbed were on a list of Heangshan denounced.\" We repeat, this case though the most important ever brought into our Police Court is likely to fall through by reason of want of energy in the Colonial Secretary. We predicted, he has not troubled his head one jot about the indicated communication with Heangshan authorities Now we would recommend this functionary to be careful what he is about. Sleuth hounds are on the trail of all the Hongkong officials, and we know what Solomon has told us a listless man may be likened to.\n\nAttending the Police Court to hear the above Tepo case, we found Mr May engaged in hearing another of the Central Market Fish \"Pidgins.\"\n\n* The Lan are entrepôt for wholesale dealers in 'swine fish fowl, vegetables, & fruit—authorised by the Markets Ordinance, No. 4 of 1858.\n\none of the complainants, stated that prior to Mah-chow-wang's deportation the Fishmongers were in the habit of paying him fees for presumed protection, either by himself or some one in higher authority.\n\nThe levy was usually after the rate of 20 cash of every thousand at which their fish was valued. Deponent's proportion was sometimes as much as one hundred and fifty and 200 cash a day. Altogether there are 47 stall holders, and the average amount collected by the minions of Mahchow-wang or some one in higher authority, might be 5000 cash a day. On one occasion deponent objected to pay, and then the defendant...\n\n137",
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        "content_text": "I laughed when I saw 4070-\n\nThis Peninsula can be at once seen from the Annexed Fracing t Sports & Boy King\n\nthe desced portion abuts\n\n\"defined Ques 3177/4\n\nare a 423 7774 carniting of\n\n\"flat pound & the remainder \"the it is that which the Colering y into the Harbour.\n\nshonte L. the Town of opposite Victoria - qui about 3 square entis in extent, & acuerding Br\" Aivertige l. Br. H\n\nif met ingular form Imeface, conficsony amprising boundary Lin the bor bai ar of how\n\nthe dry sandy \"Duluit, reving therefrom \" \" \"i every imaginelle form of hile a hillock.com.\n\naccted with \" A long sridge ranging Натал Keighli 6400 varying from to con feet love the bean \"hool of the Sea\"\n\nThat portion abut zi open to the WxŚ",
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        "document_key": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863",
        "page_number": 291,
        "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863",
        "content_text": "My God: 22.\n\nholl\n\ntươi ong trong\n\nAECEITED\n\nRE\n\n20 JAN\n\n1863\n\n287\n\nThen sung Chambers.\n\n(20th January 1863.\n\nWill & reference to your letter of the 8th instant, I am directed by the Lord Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit to you, for your information, a copy of a letter from the Duke of Newcastle, and a copy of a letter from the Directors of the Oriental Bank Corporation regarding the reception of the notes of the Bank at the Treasury at Hongkong, with a copy of the reply thereto. My Lords have directed the address to the Directors of the Bank, and I am to request that you will move accordingly.\n\nIan 7. Rogers Bart :\n\nMis\n\n17th",
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        "content_text": "written shortly before barings China -\n\nI am fir\n\nJou must obedient Swant\n\n21-7\n\nbal minder any\n\nгори\n\nbe conndication with reference & pecvrons confondren\n\ndefaliber 4991 = 4990 thould be sent to the War office\n\nEllut\n\nSie H. Rotrason is\n\nCommunuation with he\n\n& han Ilchain muda inuiderable.\n\nlegress Grandes tie atterrents of thir\n\nI pute apel\n\nLontoon quation.\n\nwith S. B. R.\n\ndt D. Howl's ful.\n\nsee 25 of 4991-\n\nZone\n\nmert olutionalle\n\nluno\n\nm\n\nпроду\n\n30\n\n3859\n\nday to be fell little doubt that ke Se f Hite for Wen would concur with him\n\nих\n\ntx dr. Honc's Defort was wet calculated\n\nbo had t\n\nA\n\nLarmonious\n\nconcert-beleven.\n\nthe Military & bil buthilies?\n\nSin 7. Rogers.\n\n11.30. May 63\n\nI am greatly shocked to find\n\nthese papers (marked by me to make a Small inquiry\n\non the following morning\n\nof\n\nW Cox) accidentally concealed at the bottom of a\n\nheap\n\npapers until this morning.\n\nf\n\nattier\n\nmay now go on\n\nJouppree\n\nthat these papers\n\non to the war office. But I\n\nConfess that I cannot apre either with\n\nrv Cox or\n\nof\n\nLei St. Robinson about the tone\n\nDr Hume's\n\nwarant a\n\nreport.\n\n\"I have carefully\n\nsearched it through several times, and cannot discover anything which would complaint of it to the wav Undribedly the tone is that Office. Undribedly\n\nconfident in his own\n\na man\n\ntoo\n\nand too blind to the existence\n\nopinim\n\nanother",
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        "document_key": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]",
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        "content_text": "## THE DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY AUGUST 1965\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG\n\nthe acting Attorney General formally presented the case.\n\nTUM\n\nWows Arurdwand Cunniline. How critic, wither be rug use, RACANY to 1 Quorem wede ja abia cenu!\n\nby amann othut Jerice, if the tenny, which Re very touch dobe, die He is to colon se wire Bosk\n\n'To Lei.\n\n2713 omdat psico. Spratly or in Waltres special two-storied Godorum Hiland on the Primu close for Monate. 1. Hupy, outer was perf M\n\n21 Best of Meesce Gibb, Livingst, & 60,\n\nAppl\n\nENFORD & O\n\nFor Sale.\n\nEXORATOR. PARLARE.\n\nnines Sail Femmes B. Wii U of James Tuila\n\nHenty, in Hid by Axrorud Skin i. Bile, the inlene hran\n\nAda |\n\nmil\n\nFor Sale.\n\nWALL PAPER, of different patterns\n\nLAMMERT ATZINGON A GE\n\n9 Bengkong, 11th July. D5665.\n\n-- NEW CALINIURIATMOATS,\n\nWhite Male Barille. Ladis Fashivele li Rehner, is at Clack\n\nMuk Estic Kit Glowny, de vente per mišri\n\n1758 +2, 26 July, 1966,\n\n--16, 20\n\nsaid Wong Strong our fa Alyce Builder 150 Tipping, Cure, 15.\n\ngigin ritused on a basin, sive credetion of angi\n\n********* + LIST OF HOLD... the virus of af every hid the Sint ser inte bereof to pruce Lier theic clits TOMIZAM she is by be done the Lot of word and PARINIC LOT NO. 185 siteated esraw the lindore of the portusing by tee Jo-band ef 5 Cibany Sector 1 orang, Print, Fenuraga 120 rive? the whole political pond foaring Lo Mucker and over aantal interest 50,70 feet\n\nFor Paris, noply to 1619 Qllion in the Ren, 2nd find grafite these! paw wing vờ là\n\nhat no Tube 38, at 67-. This was like sivon, em ciment met\n\nCethi pendest bande? io. Prit you! That Watdhere wither art i Let of Gora) REK İTEMİnce will be and par roRRIL Pmmixas |\n\nalimevine\n\nLased the ith day if June, I HÃN,\n\nPI MAZELAND, Crown Poikat, Sprazse t'bars Floșua\n\nponte Exeggut te themid Deerce This the ice an the slatamine published in presidente für mühital leuinney, we pretend that Noch 13ton Berlin B'ame of Monday Topky. The joint Sind of political peristirauzito mmsplate and ¦\n\n2 was a (bimargan, angazed at se merah pez ¦ soarchive sa propustion to the politimil Indagine Death a thin was te-fer hia do we e-the time of the safetcher, at mental. Ens while of the wrath. I was in tay chân, whaết kho minit facturilting these are al maaż, when pha sirrak. ↑ End vermeintó en deck; the roles of aperosive latimay, that the tmekih 13:15 25. The chief officer was no desk at hammaitišs of the ouso require at it the na The Hon. When we strups the tide we zonningthilation of the political influrane of the thin\n\n3. Beat the only offices in of the sumption facty, me tepress var ATE: Watts on the month lard of the & Worked hope that the Ararins ument may CITORAGS may la bed in das fun GRA Tha pink shann? The answer. The gone bey the men da to this malier in mak sut maruple to 98, 12) SITS MODOWY8, under Mesen, Bowrat\n\nsom, the hewing thracht went snerul et following tin bail example vs have int & Cela Oker, Janga Weste\n\nPD-\n\nbesar 9 miles W, of Gutaki lemn, met in Gris the gunichaorac, of pic\n\nhow pur ai the Engelsolent. & alaleak in the lived disquitostira thers Du\n\nWe at 1.55 cm. The ah 1116 removal is tim allenal, spīdenda splinting\n\nwas wete aking at the sloan. Wie we sterke, Kér, Dariu rad Kr. Menjanin ko sāc ammalanandirm\n\nJ 1351\n\nStorage.\n\nBORAGE,\n\npartia moyle to\n\nLANTATION ♣ tìu. Broky, Jely, 13\n\n***** UNINTERAGE AND STORAGE. ****\n\n8 Bndervigovt will modertake to lush Cut j 1.\n\nWhon et druck. That would fart ways of Mr. Langeln, or 018 in the ing of the bar Badets and kar rodine phth the sama te fuit heas vary strutiva, opal Not/lem eius-Tat there be red for thema I that on his plane thart Werk the punish it fairly found elty, their own to see the rai e. The rate was thiet all that night with petuity patentined in fun. But logs in fascines that dunsæirnal clear intervala. We pay the four Fight in 4-4-one pic lead slow, abrose who wreck.\n\nthe Actions overnement vinafoxtet are its tale carme. power god ite plamenes, hitherty na elemolly short throughout this m\n\npilate\n\nBORT. & WALKER $ 20. Prae. 4th and 1863\n\nK. Serið vit of the India Rock, sid: to such us as the iTEAGE, ona be bus in Grantle Unde\n\n1GA\n\nandling Huntington How Long love foto dhe i orchellaity of Quar's Road 11\n\nPombe given the the fut\n\nut\n\nApply\n\nABSINBBOY MATHABLOY A UV.\n\n£ *ing ffomplete. 1716 May, 196\n\nBoad,\n\nAered in a central puition in law's like forme kugejaten ErdalwooA, Apply\n\nty to\n\nGIRS LIVINGSTON 4. US,\n\n981 Bobek, tand there. 18,\n\nEVOKE ASH COAL 2.41 sal!\n\nAndesit tho moha un cha\n\nand CDs Cur Festraller has 1' intues\n\nRon. Liz Houghnan, 2741 they. 15.\n\nand\n\n-- 200 Cod Nagar\n\n20 Bamenda Shil' Better\n\nPlate He\n\nhot napros\n\nEn fiscu\n\nFrant Roses, furs.\n\napply w\n\nNULLER I OLAFSSES.\n\ndegli utes the risin 125 Banglang, 2716 demon. Is\n\nBrant Fair. Apple\n\nAWUTH ARCHEN A. UO.\n\n1973 Hongkong. Via duly, 1968,\n\nPOR SALE\n\nCourt the Boone\n\nFor Sale\n\nFanted,\n\n12 invica of White Wine, ventining\n\nA\n\nPlayer.\n\nBLiu=Äiryihu:r.\n\nHolder\n\nSing Kn\n\nLAY & Cu\n\nJes\n\n1 1997 Strugkong. With fun. 1786,\n\nRoyal Traning of stooty-bound S\n\neating of\n\nblood's Memorite.\n\nSugar Talie Twis\n\nIT W\n\nFrank Polar\n\nMaurice you\n\nPur Surin Hres\n\nHär july's Meilė.\n\nfred Mytaty.\n\nMislandReMAG.\n\nSasha Buy.\n\nH\n\n1. Ma\n\nRuban Mill.\n\nhalshei\n\n16.\n\nStambe\n\nkcjuesin\n\nMand, & Rym of Honma Storrien, Porst, d'incert. Tipuram, Sr. An\n\nYHO HET A to.\n\na mekong eth Mey, G.\n\nREAL ILAVANA USUA 155 dealing art s\n\napezio ya AYANA, w picast uppisis. Peopren of de ret d'Bauge.\n\nHongkong, 3rd October, 1\n\nA BRIDAN Tap uggies and Harney.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.\n\nASTELLÀTE JURNYCHEN.\n\n1802\n\nHEY, Appelt. z. 1.1-%PNER, Royanini. A EL or Coste\n\nAug 11th 75 Beleinet............. \n\nbridgwa\n\nChristine Matana.\n\nHaish A White's Horaitors and Car\n\nBar\n\nUcpb-towding Carblown and Car-\n\nNow Halas\n\nJahn Kerchwoni's Lagaay,\n\nseals.\n\nwilgen.\n\nand e fal aviv slu.\n\n11\n\n30 barrels Ty DEKAT\n\nSark Pictionary\n\n109 Bargond's Cebuan.\n\n100 pana, Clavul,\n\nBranty.\n\nWap-asi los 11 Tow Shipbone ol Opera,\n\nFor in When\n\nmut, Selz July, căni,\n\nAT THE MAMLS, AND LAVITE GIRA23 NICHOL\n\nGinkley Heart, ita 3\n\nDear Ms Papa'\n\ndie Spri Gazdag, suitabin fur jumtheshaver oriolum in zạn vừw the whole busbuat.\n\napply to\n\n1. NOW HOJEK\n\n:bout to 1$ (), a. Un mm (16h, July 1965.\n\ntrendition of this ufen, had dintainen fumust be the Free Consul at duties and dug Eve-aghaimile of comeings sirength. Mr. Unik Shea pot in the praizng dễ an beroditzes prieve The whose children met set up e claim re they seep-\n\nwing of the Lelie Garth. I hid tifant. I was on lesk when the prank. for obesen mitte). That is as siguture. migaie kurky wann whim pátek.\n\n2nd I hank self at about th Inet vant nf the Soud T\n\nCow be limo hits The Heuring witter benciagani? tem, and gas balwynn Të fal, and a falla. The¦unan háu arvid Hera Togstd in Las parta Seve silat won deck armyding a Getin mhaft of me\n\nnxise\n\nnil sevic1950 kerak.\n\nUeberal\n\nBULAT A DO\n\nFind t\n\nALISHMENT.\n\nstock of fusion fraus nad ellers nat\n\nmi tyllawz si ¡Curta CleNu, 2 in Lance ni falan napki\n\n-N. 2 Marila\n\nCh-2\n\n-N\n\nin the Qera's Hond\n\n| Qubules then, thh thosher, L. HOUKE at Wis corner Polynomialund atau and Alerter Sets SF Orgas sa bounties of as juh\n\nApply\n\nBAY 4 C\n\n778 voksing, sech Juno, Elñ\n\ndis B\n\nA. DE AXEVEDO Slary 6, 1955.\n\nAwacasion can be given all tema.\n\nApplyin\n\nchai, bering Yes fromag\n\nk 100,000 pecula to Uranics Gran, The night who think, met dienend un att was Amasened, a cinne frapriyononang for two gene\n\nwon to hit Lion\n\nLoft for Farm' were her half a male art. Fruta se ne in a heavy within them lepity ficha was 112,000. 34.00 time befel riu sil alteratione ta iñe rovran | fiammdias felines. As for General Yes, we front 1 (9,000 and 10,000 phula vapecity. mens synde lap the risk. The chorus per mat chekje in not bear that be in likely to ba zied. It may\n\nApply arate hueyproendor of the lan to was this the\n\nYADONIU & fo\n\nsedež josed the Falls Hankh be a refellss of big surrender reccted; thazine. 29th Art, 1803.\n\nFAME Marr add-I belang is the firm is only senda military tribanals. Has it will Mat, Mass & Co. Mao nútilin Gaita Punkk's de su fátalu mistake for this Amarjan Garen. pilte had been in the Mieszank for more. Rest aliand is seem to kmak na handcrabin msbeslan i\n\nin druik dievny these\n\nvor. The Captain winloyed the pilot on raiding, ang de Bu\n\nafo de Bic Amil B\n\neranon dating of the gramadore has with its who will have Burping Hut Orneral Ice in 4- name of the few, Sua loka Anet and black cepting thatarem profereal him by General Grant.\n\nThe meter to the Zing wakunellen that run bison Anti den on there\n\ncha vile was concretant to take charge. Captia | Kich of the Government at Washington. Voitib\n\nHard.\n\nROYAL HOTEL.\n\nSMACAO.\n\nat studenty Mutal, mitad\n\nPraja Buče, and convsiolog, mors airy\n\nF\n\nHO TEIK SHEN, in the Juda house, Elgin Stewk ja 1, od Zum, test.\n\n*** Reserved a Frat Jendea of\n\nwerd eer and timp Works\n\nBOWRA & (3.\n\n4 1804 Wenzhong Lakh July 18th,\n\n\"BOUND and well stances PORT FIE\n\nOperior seality as 80 per dora.\n\nApply to VAUCHER A tio.\n\nU15 Fong, 1415 March, 1BUS\n\nPOF BALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED. *** Anke aru platz.\n\nPet Tiber and Marks.\n\nKidgenore de én,\n\ndil\n\nBaler Pinas mul. Päristä. Naila, wote kiza.\n\ntar\n\nGURPIEN MEARD A Q\n\nHongkong, 17% July 1805 Just landed ex St, Lowi,\"\n\nMothern arzivnie Latizo.\n\n160TR PADIES. HE Dric and beak! THAT Bri\n\n¡D SOLA\n\nX N, Q's harp RACKAY NUES Cakes vad Ixora Bun\n\ningerlag. Apply to\n\nATKA.\n\nTANG ALOR 77 Huge, A. Parte 16.\n\nA. BOTER\n\nCantenas! 105% Mouse, tark Juos, ¡nus.\n\nAN 13055, abreast WHARPAGH AND HODOWNA, * \n\nA WARTHI WHARU, with or wilboat\n\nof the Throw comparish where elabor\n\ncan te bied word change.\n\nmis might bir karm busier klippa hamurable understuives cadetin et socity ramon dark, eta arra le not her. elves, will be 21 true policy for Mr. Febo monded for its aculation. to invalide and don't know the pilti\n\nCar Ren, temi me feel at the Averaged and seality outrea the pilota. The head pi'ne www uzat no bound by is Government, Borisave won kirs to mine wat!\n\nIggy's Cabina),\n\nthe war, and the uthet was gut by Mr. bagi inipla in, and\n\n30MITTEY\n\nST facin $25 Apr 1929\n\nRIFTE ROTEL\n\nQURENS GOAD, VIIST.\n\nTesme Moderate\n\nMarried Couple; jam No25- Single\n\nThe the Hot was in sharps I 5d 10\n\n10 sena webus pelasimlas, with fewer inoltant at chitty bility, and well mit have thunght of fotorfaring and rage mi the pros of tha vinkors than nay whe with Min. priniet in thick visher Ines ia lürtme can akon, ertad by a palies a sur pela for ship, an lạp xy a gapeval charge tonin Shan vished ordinary pliuy as of the omare more ziwa by the pilot, dan obair porce to tom pang than the purpos enland and and it had ben many bandingy victor-it onto y p elter the conrea in tan vaidle wares, je i den gammle populue Omenomana (muling the way yue half a print or a prane. I should me have meninisty and levity, suis already od tamil cited.\n\nthe www in fentilado Bourage, that we earnished\n\n| Scent the Amazingas pomis to do all to their por\n\nA ducho made to beater providing\n\nany longue iban two punthe\n\n6. P. BENSOWA 1. SHAS\n\nApply to\n\nBig Couple 244 Blends, 1858.\n\nGarter of Wellingen wel 19 Aguilar Straps,\n\nHAB juive by late Mail tim blowing\n\nundicia...\n\nPrinted Musline for Salvarer Danm\n\nWe do plain for Ju\n\n901 Onch and Cerradict\n\nRizet elly Tuse Headete,\n\nBook Silk Monties\n\n45 Ledion and Children\n\net fashion,\n\nTHE OFFICE and Emad Sues and other\n\nnar of Welingt and herd Street Parsle\n\nWeak ire\n\nCharmi EN\n\nPoudel Vares,\n\nChanna Mug\n\nLes Diun\n\n11-1\n\nan Etnice of Cruysa & Blackwelle Dilaware Store\n\n$1 Overland Nail Shokes, and Sweda,\n\nPARK & va 15ay Dongsong, 6th July, 1858.\n\nDEVOLVER B, and\n\nP\n\nTE\n\nYusibor Accoutmupants. for Fates, Áu\n\nSeit lieth, (bow great..\n\nCut Mag, 1.3, 1. 9. nad 1 fret, vivo.\n\nAu Lovaine of Bell-bangirqa\n\nTel. 20, 12, 36, 40, nuð ák le. figlio, veli\n\nfi.\n\nKing, sith Bayon\n\nBerulating Hill Chebures.\n\nSim Pattern Spacial Ki\n\nDouble Navy Cabins, Swivel Beds from L'ali.\n\naber Torry.\n\nLOWRA & Or.\n\n1 162 Tongkang, bra July, 1665.\n\n¿Murein in quarts and its\n\nFNGLISH NO\n\nA larga smartment of Breakfast Clazzes, Vilau- Ikan Jerawat Sur Suluan\n\nBased from vintage of Mayaia of Hur!\n\nچھا کھا کر رہے لیئے\n\nLAMMERT, ATKINSON & C\n\nા 99 hu to 24 Yra sud\n\nJust resaved, wire B\n\nIN OLD PALE BRANDY\n\nAle poz\n\nJ. Kudaan & On,'n Brundy. $10 per Ona.\n\n| Olies khljarnan, g? per daa.\n\nULARETS.\n\n| Breasturi ask, er de\n\nMerays Morina, $44 par Que\n\n8. Raton St. Kilim and 9 Zoophe, do naci\n\nTená a presont le dba eccnpzion of Merera In a teremy Hole gee. in Mont Reuseres and Want Hare,\n\n$0.\n\n¦ Pastekaoter zud Server.\n\n150\n\nFar purtiem apply in\n\ny\n\n10.\n\n16 litung, 7th\n\n- \n\nThe Aperatura Large and bity, and wih\n\n· H\n\ni vozy embora Casa, containing & Bass\n\nBa\n\nAapry as face of die Paper,\n\ndoves and cathcurex, compridog Xt!\n\nThis our coins their wich thick weather it or in formints Bhis shasan ghatween and maket van Sally supplot well az dejo. Stridine.for three ones, a citruse!\n\nwould hawa horn wore prudent to bere anchored • centick with a eley m genervus thus it may he\n\nBut the washer alerted, no tad having fees deth fan and makeling mo at their foes. The be froix\n\nlogone a Lighterḥing and ship bara malind is soe vespesitta was so interprys thin\n\nwas beat through an areas in pigment, augen Cretinem. 14: them interprat le triba as weak allece un barb Teen site for the amnge heatating veira whiring a\n\nbene, 17h Jaly, 1865,\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL,*****\n\nSHANGHAI. subed in S\n\nses of heat ce- North Daily Herityisil insscert in Ho Chi Mi\n\nwhich shall and only induta lie aver Frasines 6\n\nThe Treatment of the Hovalva Kiviky\n\nthe Nock.\n\nthe even give, Se the beamediate gregent, my\n\nfirst-ime furile Sokol in pomurgnased,\n\nPaged in it own graurők, it in po-\n\nmuch frein so be without expiry comfort and trenians\n\nLiis altres her for those who have selenjing in this clar. opptareve, to thons aan band julierly healthy and need in hinggis role Chemian, advice in the aut i hon fielding for the wine of the apparent,\n\nLinea, and it is so much adrien uocally esen 6igatop wita ma-The per\n\nHas an in. Fadi popot so batus of ananasam\n\npertama severance of the wal genities of te\n\nstaro otrained hithuria from bowl. ; \n\ning the crowd of patienter sansellore of America, !\n\nIf hazar, the people : shri United Statan will i\n\nfun to 2 Kegljah is at all, they may GOVERNMENT. LEGAL AND\n\nach a gun to that of\n\nwho here brid verunt'y tu sbale mocno while t\n\noch vill meantzinicý sad zarten! ignaming co\n\nAn o, xd who Yuma Yujulani la tènir m\n\ncer ble lagt need the\n\non with for rikiuly ma tome sited the tank!\n\n6. fur cost be too hip nt all degran, in f\n\npating in war plea for aderatiza in victory a\n\nrols which so fitta mule appro-i Arion\n\npriate the tenet that ir, fees faire sored ise svanging it\n\nbeing four content?\n\nPan, the hollowness of whide thr\n\ndomusdur tili azt flizeugh in a mout\n\nCONSULAR NOTICES\n\nIN THE SOPREME OVOR OF\n\nTONGLONG.\n\nCileriyent Pousasutus, Praag,\n\nrd\n\nof Hype Huracany Uma\n\ntending wider the\n\nand 12. Okka asp Öpmeyne tot Frudunt.\n\n11\n\nBEREAR an Aativus murdin\n\nIn in place, shen, we got urge de\n\nte\n\nthe Coat Ribe it the ke s\n\ny l'hom-bhoy alnut za\n\ne bloed |\n\nAmands of forteren te tus of langlich preesdens. Kyzurine Safranur Gal rowing an Enced\n\nRazmik, aut Lastris base basen witów die land for to project the age of Frosinoned by\n\nin\n\nEine Apartacuse are Medios and away Furnisho The Table waily up), and the\n\nle, all ughed with the choice Win a\n\n| Spirte-impratā dienņa.\n\nflat\n\nkobani ka for Ezard by the munch on\n\nMajas sash Carringe on Livogy and lera. Jason Camper mia plese pixies, 40-\n\nutiectulio lbs Hol\n\nBaiba cirnos pimey.\n\nThe Somehow fridge in kolom 4: Baudega,\n\nしてMATS\n\n.. MADON\n\nProprietor\n\n.6bu Unike is mades the dreador of Caspariancad Kronal excke.\n\nblondes-hurge $100 Fblic Dates and Tali Numers smppbel of 1264 27.4 Shanghai, 2nd March, 1965,\n\nOTEL DES COLONIER\n\nHONAM, CANTOS.\n\nar 1070 Benchng, 16h Tang, 1885, BUTO ZA LET DE SOLD\n\nSTAR HUUSK God 2000WNE, at perut soupled by Howwes, Junday & tal Apply to the Manager af Ban Bane of Hirla. t+.. \n\n198 Hoogkung, 25dı May, juos,\n\nThe Prop OWN \"ALI; Ph...\" hay. | ng Fans of Righty these foot at Wengin Rodag hitters and of on andret and foca. A burunea at coming parfarini kamu vs alone kutua aquesta featu\n\nAantal Bread (ma 21233.6.\n\nFor Pristine purligabuen uppelz ko\n\nTHE LIVINGTON D #beng Wih Priruary, 1964.\n\n***NOTICE OF RIGÓVÁL\n\ntybine kod Calerud Cicamel.\n\nColer things in Tel.\n\nThread Socks, Erst quality,\n\nLim Shirts and Cullers!\", \n\nTreatief Ardy Hate,\n\nwed\n\nRemchid Eugliah Peglunes. Trailing Bag\n\nAlse\n\nper do\n\n¡ Chataan Palmer and Tašken, $10 pử Jez.\n\n: Chau,pagan, satin, in quarte au pines.\n\nOlagte to wood.\n\nS. Jumilion, Juliem, apuk 154. Besophis,\n\nApply\n\nlike Hongkong, 5th Marril, bang\n\nA well bleed furnies de Blame\n\nEthertona. 3rd April, 1962.\n\nHandül\n\nNEW GOODS\n\nnext!\n\nEX \"TARFIX\" \"BANIAN \"EATHS. 73.s?:Y?LDS\"\n\nSew Bucks, weil selecta.\n\nTitle and Floor Hoe be the vizele\n\nOCT\n\nPany Car\n\na\n\nDany Baturajand\n\nCite! Wy\n\n||JA_BOUSTELA, has removed in Sianlay\n\n1 street, two lanes from Fastinger Street. În\n\nFear of iba tornaertiul Buck\n\nIf 1815 Hongkong Jacz le\n\nTHE Busine of the Melis B and Seat\n\nWater Mufiny c\n\nrevamped to the upparit fit of the Road,\n\ntl coupled v Messrs HotAY, Wase & Co., natriu Muzeju. Trucar & Co. and Mentre, BILET & Co.\n\n17 Honghena, a June, 1995. THE HOUSE, in the Gun Road,\n\nABAY 1.ANDANG BER eined and theat it Menarik kebilder, Wise & Ch\n\nti\n\n1323\n\nis Premis is enver\n\nTURVER & C Hongkong. Si Kay. I milă,\n\nNE\n\nCatriski Tom Chasin\n\nMemalise in iyon, Briting, Des\n\nPauta and S\n\n신디오XT 살리고,\n\nJellip\n\ncncbair.\n\nfaper Hangings, reckly chatur.\n\nPlaner Vand thiet Butle\n\nShine Histor\n\nMala Gas\n\nPild til i TUZON.\n\nLANG, CRAWFORD & U\n\n* 1956 Tow Song. 17ta Jun 1865,\n\n11TERN Hops of all sizes.\n\nBrigit artik\n\nVerma.\n\nkai de, str. Casa. Mikill and phrase: „Pranck's juegos Espuelli\n\nTE DANIJA Shapine.\n\nZia Au\n\nCAMMER, ATKINSON &\n\n40 (gong, 1ých Juan, can. DAVID. \"Ohrine and thus. Cum Hard Ter\n\nJ'aimky, Linment GI! and Purpentine\n\nyou say never wiha mubal lesdner. Cho anty loved and friars and Why Gout, for dying to Toe die Public Part she had changel precedent the ac mau yukidnon, is any anan meen 1 mages for managerpaing certain there: the my that of Hate! iso findings. For\n\nhipones parties, witch we can pleach, is Horeban; and Statua\n\nComm-tip 5.5. azove stablishment with almars be kept with our fastment in the brzo of the Potato-Gapittel, tarpainst\n\nfree in Ch 13 the anal dacis shit squforts. Not indick of\n\nmachine Eng Toure be Baba in Iran. Al these the eye of Defends what mid shaver sus Eefendant be actasun will be shared in the faute d'itheadhan ratus Bodine u\n\nAnauce, that is in totally need to Hape. padaltem is ev slight that the prunedenk juny he! or actes Sena de Vinili se pridjor flares. to boost nasies in disc sējam directivul. A varral¦ Os prlos shareef; and time raulay paid by 'ibo Bear in attenten on arrival at Herer Stemmer ndvatur his autor for Henry, willak wid korenitor\n\nfar netenden at talmát ábree num, proposing to disopter it me Plaintiff for t\n\nat Iris\n\ntear Ball Bea; de chavez Phuseneste ta the Hotel, tree of sEnego, and soul fatima mokier. De $25 per viomac fr nespreted Mr. Sinis O'Brien for the Pole-incere far te bere izen by the Kadome Lasne will aka Silke Beariera \"st. Stanger anil $29 for? szer.\n\nT. HARINY Garden Rebellion, what pandant should we | Pole the Thement of my tue from the moderato luxion. late indicted on him if he`trat, ben er agminasful | Plažati to the Defendant: nad it being alleged¦ Mr. Jetorean Ladis — monii pot field an un- that the mht Bycunjee Hormujee Deuna dega mot t\n\nPendeng in Judia w roeide wishin this folyad na je de\n\nTHE P\n\nVAL LANDINE,\n\nKaroger.\n\nSM SWAT Frogs fiz okresent struth asi matiunny. ! Writ of Yonaga áthassants, ) Fra 2016 Couten, 27th July, 1850.\n\nLavio jasued\n\nTHE EASTERN PRIVATE\n\nFAMILY HOTEL.\n\n142 enge, Jetli Awil, 1005.\n\nFor Sale.\n\n'UNE STRİNEERS 1657\n\nsapoys and exccasid valanez bositation a webus torvable nu slík firem any of dupsi arah, stone-i\n\nvilian retoma ather she rabellion had ingejin Zestonjeo kapuciiarýni Neris of Vlabria, in Ben the Peas simture. Az example, the deliny on Brezhong. Marchet, and withic nets a low waste. Y e In Faring Hand and there arly lead of the places Fadies. dba, bulerardengs nes dartsinly not kerplamikdo į same plate, alarphanie, sky Canisters,\n\nJ\n\nour Propria fe how this BOOK JOANNES 1857, Cams of\n\nà vishing this Pet and the poshte semenity, the br\n\nSPARKLING WELLS KOMPA\n\nBOOK EHRYSPREITEIN. CALE, in Cush\n\nthan the man of the Bouth. Again aut noly were Notes is hereby given thareut and testbed his prins uppste e tuls the bars of the Reach pepelin 1945 cases time hefte nje in akis, unto the forcibly to the thousan Club, bad then, but new last and to beat code só pranja Rocca Care, darurier Boss in the viraniay of 11.X. of 1 arzon. hlari Enst Mehon 204 Mr. Hallam, shhör;anid, or say too on bẩy beha) w give the\n\nBead Ford (juven's Food, Eat. The Ronna absolutely justify one intimate their bidu ja Pavony i zamurity and miljer mod file the sapretencë e” piem í of the bayering za judiamus. Ailer the groak bejuteve ny thin Ordnance of thận dictio Finach war, hee heen ramulis pad ont in led An Uzitsuer to provide facile expenas buvo kompared in were he for acantemporary, Land, d'arthronyl din vce merupli\n\nces in Actions Live agvities porn kentut Frandow, Bush of a destly lives vu tu pro\n\ntance his bug that haploon will be devas the tolong, the at anche m\n\n하\n\nTech] vt og França, blid as rebel uthe Dinoinen, dewward and exreated, and wax only dentaʻul of\n\nthy wisins of this course bruauen he dought it\n\nKain wharbre it would taarl to lexicutiva\n\nwith adeintertainty. Is may be mid «bot if a gonze vabullion in Ireland were now w break 12 sustained for indz barn, we emrinialy shod na burg, the useful anders alik tu! wa hope not, has we contesa ven Sunt very Bes\n\nnotave advent or friends\n\non to who mighards, what clapeceriă-nts ¦\n\ncamily in print are, on the arbete, zo very itide in ganzdanas min bai hepthooke\n\nNet veze the American oran\n\nDabad this 15 dag er lag, vu. 16,\n\nF. C. R. OVEN\n\nil Honghont, 2846 Suty, 1905.\n\nmultica Bam strange igen wlish, Relm me prevalent, wat all canaing for\n\nMetota zgre e\n\ndisainioston rebellion and only in\n\nthe South ledths the energ\n\nmar, the asing of the delito extendun. I\n\nriseer in the fate) SALT\n\nIN TAN SORAME COCKT OF BOSAKOND.\n\n• riktad with antico now\n\ntre altringe shacagimas, me to pay no\n\nEides the wine listing teams Fan Town Pipes\n\nTable d'lium et ull hwch. Tama moderne.\n\nApply k\n\nREYJULIA &tio.\n\nisan ungling, 10th June, 1904, tANNE), (036, (ia Ling-brads) todella mit\n\nHuosobit parfe\n\nGEORGE HOTELIXELMORA,\n\nHeunge and Propriece\n\nChammer i\n\nChanapar in\n\nde d\n\nSeantech\n\nfeet, and\n\nSets, Fue\n\nApply to\n\n12m 1974 Hoogk veg, Vuk Juna. 1962,\n\nconclude, in 3 doors, camın,\n\nFEED, T. SMITH,\n\n6pkan, \"Hi Jasonery. 1863,\n\nManil\n\nVivian's drug and Sees Slow Me!\n\nand patio Nais. Tourism M\n\nSOLD & Co lungo, but Now, 18,\n\n1Jght thedra F\n\n7062 Gari Makra\n\nHigh Barden Mara.\n\nLight Sebie Forks pic\n\nLight Garden Spader.\n\nContbrug'n Boer Guns, Herman Mackin\n\nSOWKA (. \n\nTin loi khen nhing, ach July, 194\n\nAN Ince of \"terated Wan\n\nJA\n\n! \n\nGRERURY & SA\n\nPUGHT W\n\nBugg, thing,\n\nPBLIC TOISES \"Gura Bed\"\n\nto Con\n\nThis Pess.\n\negnng, 18th July, 15%.\n\nUN; FOR SALMI\n\nCAMILANA man dah party Thar porannes YOCOYSAD Lo Frears, and White su mi beitehing Splab Berd\n\nFurthering Sew Sight Cowered Hockeklu Twowane, the Osvinge is van Polve and tw: pairs of i\n\nShames of double 15 mana\n\n\"Apply t\n\nBrakes darrers dann, wanau, Housos, Lands, Tenements, de, Wiki,\n\nTKY MANOR,\n\n2. Tikai\n\nsau, Wiz\n\nJa rank WH\n\ntably tention the Hiɲlk.\n\nhe firm of JARGIR, Here\n\nG3MPANY Pkalabif's,\n\nJoey Manny Porci\n\nha\n\nda\n\nthecate, or fires of les P Sam Lnfanduma,\n\nde court al the veil of chen sinte\n\nTO LET\n\nEw to Becek. A\n\nTDE lower part of the Previze wind by\n\n|| \n\nWhite Pigs And Varjoile Wa\n\n2.06.\n\n' Club,\n\nדי ריח\n\nБаром\n\nBokkie, curd Ple Meram. I. Mazur, & tra Torgan. Tucs, and Beck and Doors Aprons\n\nALLES & CLAUSSHN Rosis patira in the same Bilding\n\nLANG vs. 24th Hwch, thu5.\n\ntientars, syple 15\n\nC. DAVID, My blessing Seal, from 14 to 3d ca\n\ntf 1956 Hongkong, 24th July 1955, mj........ \n\neping on the age of His returning prufiga Resas ar Adon hub carenced rises to 2 and S. Ten Staviti sladusent | Nothing can be. We do but to my\n\nAlly\n\n18ng, Juan 12 18415,\n\nPesa Pangong Pir Maker\n\n13. this walk is mar (granen of the stars Jacifios. Ja sall, Juma che i cones Contato and der 500,000) Pak and Berú trag\n\n13+ and 250 win\n\n-- TEENS RAPDV DONGKONG.\n\nAt Cheap essay.\n\nthe Penisy Port.\n\nKry\n\nChurcia, Greakfast and Pieter,\n\nPapolis, vintaga täna., \n\nArded Tigur\n\nPurane.\n\n3 wit\n\nBeauty (Ougima).\n\nChablir,\n\nSewer\n\nAwes\n\nKindly\n\n15 Honglung, 25ch February, Tauð,\n\nNeonora Druse & Hinckwell.\n\nPUSENJE Cauliomis\n\nHorse Ma\n\nT\n\nFrench and Spanish Diam\n\nPraits in So\n\nin Seyrand Birmaly\n\njuter, in engural finalen\n\ned, and Twine.\n\nGist White Impe\n\nLinand Di\n\n14.\n\nIran Boller Pinces and sheets, True) að a\n\ndivacion, in caster whine and vary,\n\nThi\n\nAir\n\nBerriro Klant\n\nBURNOG & tr. Peru's Whart\n\nHong, 153 May, 1836.\n\nPERER DETON KUTTER, in begs of 12\n\nSant Wilk Crators,\n\nPickled Cabbage (Singochami) za jara Danch Curry Stent Rotden (Wyuan :Parbiak.)\n\nBitless Reeserantine Spiritmes.\n\ndise;\n\nPer read\n\n4 van fartion of Berelvets with sout\n\nKai attached, neu kucesine,\n\nAVAAN. BETHEUS & SK, \n\nFAANDUYA\n\n3 making, 1919 Jejuny, 1395\n\n† CAT KRORIYBO, vid Fry Nrie by the\n\nCurlersigued.\n\nSharp's Ourlinen. Sartridger and Primer, Pools Lamplvera\n\nKorkbod Wren's Havelters. (Bian haecalled\n\nsilver plate.) \n\nDESUVAR A 12,\n\n28: Hongkong, 29 Macuh, 1800.\n\nANTEMRIOR PRINTING PAPER, in vuriuka\n\nSKSSE ULLERA & Ca\n\nrapon Himgiring, Bist July, Jan.\n\nTESTADA. Syable uram.\n\ning from 5 set, ta do mar,\n\nBAY 4\n\nbongkeun. 199th June, Tams.\n\nUde zopired by the gezurizued- 360 for matc\n\nAn astmoul of Confection in Torvides of time, f, and boo\n\n142_55 par god below, tóm market prius, a\n\nVruitia Cherplsia\n\nFivefingar, tin Ch\n\nCe\n\nPagri\n\nP\n\nwilevice Mangalent\n\nPioklys, Lumina, Tutt\n\nSobique. Opferd nan Gamesonge Surges,\n\nin\n\n\"T4TH FS 6.4.0.\n\njul IANA MOJ bany, Beh dhir, |Rajh\n\n- TE\n\nCARA MAIGN. Szennina Muke) \n\nU\" Dag de Murtikale.\n\nLurace Nei, he panels are Pte.\n\nJenterar à 03.\n\nCart Blanket Dani Pinin,\n\nBurgen liegt.\n\nFrau de Grene, ir. Qaside and Pints. Lienaine Buck.\n\n1837. Det\n\nkan warIPS & OM 1 - July, 1\n\nVALJARLY 15 AT TORPOTEN\n\nLOW OF GROUND, steprising almus 24. ALES. Finner at of the maliy Encautios Putolous, Trolig bal Fio of the Hurrading Smery, sad Bayonining other Spice ta thi, tavržen there. of Ke of Thron Bungalow, Broken, unig 3121 por Šante\n\nestinoria of way\n\nHuco Vercheni Taich, in skin.\n\nPusher Ektoms.\n\nc.prizing-- \n\nPrint Wine Event Leather BOOTS\n\nK\n\nCall JOTS\n\nTel\n\nFou\n\n해\n\nSi\n\n- BTS\n\nCalf SHONY.\n\nDouble SHOES,\n\n/Xo!o Eiding_kkis,\n\ni Shoes, A\n\nguzleð kirola.\n\nOpkomnes veliking the Coung of Hongkang si Food tray\n\nother Brun That,\n\nand italt shoes 1 sist sie die waer\n\nactiuter\n\nBy ldalon Persian\n\nVOTORIA SXCHAÑON.\n\nPRALOCK, q qurat poctivate w TOS, he hadle of this\n\nCoy is ted and place Mwick of My Dracena the flimpïve andun\n\nHANDY DREA\n\nSi huge walvis, 30 to 30 prouts que pode Poles. Cort Arsantren, 21 586 por Tickle Mix Glute A2 in at Singa\n\nthe Rilling Kabis. Plains Mulajen, in laygro wapinday.\n\nMALINS 30 French Fried Acuez, 25 behin pure. de\n\n2 min. 33 werdet for gir\n\nsriginal price 50 Dunte\n\nThe above in met missy in find at Po a trates muck of his bangk Ubogazin, SE\n\nPer dir\n\nLolizam\n\nAjgilz\n\nLevastik\n\nBOWRA .\n\nP Hongkong, Sur Sarch, 1865.\n\nPROVOU VILIANO, Tom &\n\nis plan mynted and Figured.\n\nDUESS HAKIKO\n\nI move the inwangement of the claws Doors\n\nMake fuck hy kan desal. having\n\nAris dans Gun, Culte alle exere in large Ents, ni\n\nApply un\n\nARNEMANN 4\n\n4132 Hungring 16 May, 1844\n\nHONGKONG\n\norder\n\nrecht so fize will be really and Hougang 10 July, 1955,\n\npred\n\n·MARKETS\n\nthe tick Jelly --- \n\nEniet othe\n\n2.40s. Wilt Shirkog\n\nb. Grcy Shielangs\n\nPri she above we are now for Holiday. Wine & iu 1795 169 own? Amie Bounce, War and\n\nTROMAS UNT & de\n\nJeweler\n\nPrime 220\n\n10 1ngking Apr. 195) \n\nJAYITAMIN KRANDY BUT 190, OHAME\n\nSUDREY Y\n\nPORT\n\n414\n\nBULLY A\n\nMagt jose kandež os si\n\ncitation. Facinaren everywhere spak ma il | drow, fierbert Si. Loger Marrige, Velius Ken is were a bites desapalatinos to dana to find cink, and Edsall Whiteall, trading as aforesaid, rants Reoma, und Ukaitanto, having a Depactes i jab duck up o lat iulier one mat, termed rebeliion voce nest, crazyding is the aber Tarand dahi bareng Purpia, * 15 1ા મમત store al lago into perse nun sanity. Do they \n\nvreuliug në uformaid, to recuror the sum at Miner\n\n#upport than the of thờ kiuď vogli bove boru; The and heren Hundent paltarlar bioves\n\nتا نا نیام در ایه \n\nJ. 2. FOR RENKLOS.\n\nFraght without adinal didapata në voglat prime pad by the Phinish wed for the Redes. It new! Hangkang, 80th July. Pasa,\n\nke, nové that that radical difference will destas ! dene qe his request and the money mos ng she jam\n\npeas within clot? There is no queries in Doen and the inlets TEB in Rabins Was. Iemelawly | Ahut in uldlar mary but dixinal werkstangy fee from dis Defined on the Platati\n\nJa the Averman, allow the sad thorne et jazera by the Priest\n\npakiti 15 of the the Bates to be fond stity requel and for unty fun\n\naqua Nia more intacters which jus be ou fecam the Dubzidays ca un Palujte! governed them\n\nTo\n\n| \n\nmit the mat. dry badlew be vight ang with e great grin or sunt stated beson shem; and bein leg there with John Mariat Punto Enez Ju\n\ncombining dir\n\nIYA FTL & Co\n\n4\n\nFaran, Hama,\n\nSet of this Athics.\n\nFor parientes, apply to\n\nFasa\n\n5th Jetz, 1896.\n\n70\n\nONE SET.\n\ncambo nk komen; noul, adtes vietas, to leh tus aveda treslila ucărie shim belyden ja Joycedente 1 of diced he trackpen, afzend wizzled by a show, Weis of Foreign Attachment is hiền sưmund te | Donmakinar Stara tag in lint in the 1st aya temp for the purees of tuneteen the S\n\n·Samrih day of\n\ndiets and hewan lés, suply in Willen Bur\n\nof ruk girara! \n\n1. Was the pth and event of sine mesi\n\nNearer the zhip even\n\nCain and Burgoede Uriends Ransely pint by them, albo 2. C\n\nAir\n\nNAWROJEY\n\ndagawiwjng Mela, ut Hongyoug. Merabunt, Aus Bize all wieght we mag wecution, that there Barles Beard, of in sum Hot\n\nza pipeady buen oder Choker\n\nthued wear a trended Free State Onrried.\n\nthere too on the Coin, and that in dieci wish held Musica heretg gian thereof and what it extime in ape thy with y te ako anal judgment in Action dha rotalon white is lastel, and of course in and Jehu Yutres is 355\n\nthe things were read. Is the bebull will va size security arise and wants or plea verdited by the di-\n\nww\n\nFinalists dowy ( refired a rote when of this Salad intituled and\n\nJa kivan nat O'ERINTY MUJAN to the rebelikon\n\n5. Bintly shwer had advised the preside for and regelves Job\" Bessili\n\nNe party in Married in-thes mahtinas persoas Cru the\n\nie withou\n\ntucco, in Byftient selvm] \n\nvation weak - og Beted the 2d Jay of July, 4.9. 16,\n\nsiniz: neten die water prículo, giving jurge\n\nmajozition pary where for inquineis úti eyein\n\ntocked with the wit regime, if thick be pro-\n\ndolly allowed sint wit cards recebus slavery\n\nR 1% 8. UKER\n\nLitointiglia Kiliman\n\nSu Kang, 294) July 7865\n\nSown\n\nefect Tesk Kinder. Plus | \n\nRards. Cool tlich up 14 techniques.\n\nBUR SPARS-rea whes to 21 initum; \n\n#par\n\nŠHIPS ENRE pieces izoma 15 15 16 inches\n\nFor Male to Suit at the\n\nNOTES YARD,\"\n\nStrayer Thway.\n\nAps & BERGEN & Bosa\n\n360changani Cozu\n\nTESUUR\n\n! Pay!\n\nFORLEANS\n\nLASTS, RAWFORD & 4%.\n\nethering that pow T de. Parth who began at\n\nBirty & Co.\n\n3 08\n\nI\n\n200 asured Fartings\n\n| Funk hig kong\n\n** the L'atang.' \n\ni bunso C, Tinted\n\nea.30\n\n? warg\n\n121 Bangkang 22rl. June, 12495.\n\n1.605\n\n409\n\nRhrers Eil Bhil\n\nYoru\n\n| €15,00\n\nTye-shire-we\n\n1 on pes. 2-4 na. Pray Bridge\n\n130\n\nmag-m-Laong\n\nx5\n\ndazivno, 35, an\n\n12.\n\nમ\n\n-1\n\n20.\n\nClu\n\nNG\n\n| fvek-bing-hunk\n\ni\n\n10\n\nCheong-bong\n\nk.\n\n30.00 yu-shing-wo\n\n1.\n\n12.00\n\ntiger deg. Harab-qu\n\n21 50\n\nParker lied Shirtings\n\n3.24\n\nleis are\n\nYETU\n\n110.00ascon Karham\n\n31\n\n24\n\n3.\n\n22.0\n\n1024\n\nAc\n\n130.00\n\nGewerchan\n\nlouratio\n\ntialum\n\n20.10\n\n26.25\n\nTin-wa-oberg\n\n31.C\n\njworg-buce s\n\n4.-17\n\n245\n\n2.\n\nForely\n\ng-bu fa\n\nST Tunin\n\nTrueline B.\n\nJuha Pright,\n\napply\n\nLANNERY, STRIXSON & Ga\n\nIf 168 Torghan, The Jans, 1968.\n\n2413' (or Durga Marie\n\nChange, petent les ad homes. To triedy and Be Pittings, Michael Sol\n\nste v\n\nMy 50 PAD. Gut. Often 1874 Hengzung 1 day 1815.\n\nFase of us wider to ban s\n\nMajce, Jokana à 116 Chi\n\na tha Putpu X, babarza Munata\n\nÁ do\n\nCali- \n\norquays Ropish Had Kreno Preement on \n\n- Tuilet, Deanor Breakfas \n\nzuht sa] Yorgungen by Dan, Disarm- 3 22:46, Kuat Mersin, and Thegara Ip: As Brandier, Jus ita in Cangre.\n\nis Barth, 1945. 20'er\n\nBAHLMANN & dig, \n\ngkung, 1th July, 1866 \n\nDosen's Blood Court foo \n\nor Dwelling an \n\nPrata \n\nAMM \n\nINSON & C \n\ngloog, the Hay, 0. \n\nProna Yok Emiliefire Über.. \n\nJuru tandı) Jur bulu \n\n.. Walker of tin \n\n--beg \n\nLegall, Stijl & 12% \n\nSamyang 192 \n\nPaonian & 130. \n\nSorrahjen & Co. \n\nWing-clock \n\nTHURAS The retine A28. Merchant \n\nFARMENT, ATKINSON & DA. \n\nLese Hengene. 14th June, 145. \n\n50 \n\nBars New AMB PK. \n\nAily in \n\nLANNUT, ATKISHON & 1709 Hongline, 20 June ish \n\nWho-is-long \n\n60. \n\nWashing-doing \n\nwith. Kanny & Co. Kwang-y-luk \n\nPralon de \n\n2004, e intere \n\n195 \n\nAd Cletu \n\nhangbai Cheat \n\n4] plm, #gi°2 cce \n\n3,0ewekwang, Tele Pr \n\n4 bursima The \n\n1.000 es No. 1- Iran Na Rad \n\n240 \n\n•pla. Black Pepper \n\nJ. Am Merchant \n\nSHANGHAI LATEST QUOTATIONS \n\nWejdy, renting, 2001 July, 1949, \n\nwo Jen diradi, « ma, No 3ja per Tir \n\nse for fries/every Orucite 5ANILA GUERGO, LISANS VGBANGK-Lututionament: Race, e. vs. e. a Cocrate, & 10f2 Run. 1.97 \n\npline agosto de59955 \n\nBLACKHEAD & Bo. \n\nned travele ve- of 10 Xue \n\nlegs bond the Stora Ship \"N-: \n\nBands Bour \n\n2. GARRITA, ! Honghong, Is Noveller, 1801, ARRAY, P. Memile, Chassagne, las \n\nH \n\n! telt.\" (lats\" People' \n\n505 \n\n42 CM. Todel & feather's Park Sherry and Hardy. \n\napply on \n\nIBR, LEVIX497UN 3. \n\n1994 Vengkang tich July 1960. \n\nis Deements, \n\nUn Port-dila je Fig. 7.4 per \n\nthe Paiteta \n\n4. \n\njülla Ansonicat, 345. Re. 15. \n\nInflatabog, strand, sin\n\nHuskongan Ball: 217 pg Jince. Hvirale 15 e 291 901 w26 dinch Heck, and Brass, Alp Bra Fate ALMON 73.25. Carlos-7.42. Cal Blues, disco Tim. 66. Bar Silver, Lin, Bles Back mud barking.\n\nApply to\n\nSXV & io.\n\nlong+60) \n\n111 Capper Cali. 1,225 p OPICH-utum, Nor. In 132, DOVOD\n\nArt Ke Te 30 £16.24, Pik, 23.30 pet Yin of så fre\n\n¡FREIGHT 2 Milk, 61 poron of short.\n\nTap.\n\nI's Ney Turk\n\nAttending veiving Inadravšiegs to nocain Mr. Poland, A. Drying Heizwer decked and Crgy,...... Acinding Mr. Polland reurcuith... \n\n1 \n\n} \n\n3 \n\nJeding 26. Peifend fixing Cumarie-so tang Pascallado as Cnread with Mr. Foliard also a Chanel joining Istine Jacky demateris sud vaporta ve! \n\n10 \n\n260 \n\n1 base bere . . . Cond \n\nP. Puted prin fre... \n\nCe \n\nJuice, 24th Jalan Sovata laying her mominj See the Appritet uticaling Mr. Fabj jant hath apa ciaria, Crocolitis, į Aveng (inmal zi Coursiu mna jur \n\nvastag bremsest, and Opinions delivered! 5 Til Hr Polled his B....... \n\nUG",
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        "content_text": "# \nIti \n\n} \n\nSo \n\nmacht arm und macht reich, aber Niemanden glücklich, sagen die Chinesen und lassen sich nur schwer belehren, daß die Wissenschaft, die uns so weit führte, uns auch noch weiter bringen wird, daß sie keineswegs einer ethischen Seele entbehre, und daß auch die allerhöchste Moral und Weisheit von eben derselben Lehrmeisterin, der Natur, die dem nur schauenden Auge so materiell sich darbietet, den Menschen geschenkt werden wird, wenn diese denkende Menschen studiren.\n\nDie unerhörten Grausamkeiten und Ruchlosigkeiten, das Raffinement und System der Kulihändler freilich wirken nicht als eine Demonstration dieser erhabenen Doktrin, bestätigen vielmehr die Anschauungen der Chinesen, und tragen viel dazu bei, den Eindruck anderer übler Erfahrungen zu verstärken und den chinesischen Europafeinden Macht und Einfluß zu geben. Nicht mehr Kunst und Liebe am Verkehr des Volkes, sondern Furcht ist es, was die Chinesen noch halbe und kümmerliche Zugeständnisse machen läßt.\n\nZwar ist es vornehmlich nur das eine europäische Volk der Portugiesen und Spanier, welche den Kulihandel hauptsächlich von der Station Macao aus, gewerbsmäßig betreiben, aber andere Nationen werden mit hineinverwickelt und betheiligen sich jetzt – die Deutschen nicht ausgenommen – bereits in ausgedehntem Maße daran. Der Reflex dieser abscheulichen Schändlichkeiten fällt auf alle Europäer, die in chinesischen Häfen verkehren, gleichmäßig, und wirkt lähmend, zerstörend und demoralisirend auf die ganzen Handelsverhältnisse ein, wie sie mit Mühe und Zeit in China sich haben herausbilden lassen. Wie schnell und tief das durch solche Uebergreife geschaffene Mißtrauen und die unsägliche Schlechtigkeit, die dieser Menschenhandel erzeugt, wirken können, sehen wir an Afrika, dessen Küsten-Völker den Teufel weiß malen, den Verkehr mit Europäern dem Verrath gleich achten und ganz im Gegensatz zu den Binnenvölkern auf das verachtendste und feindseligste ihnen zu begegnen, für gebotene Moral halten. Es ist schon jetzt nach kaum zwanzigjährigem Verkehr hohe Zeit, daß die europäischen Regierungen im Interesse der allgemeinen Wohlfahrt und Humanität ihres guten Rufs und des ferneren Handels mit den Ostasiaten nicht mehr erlauben, daß deren anfängliches Vertrauen und Entgegenkommen durch Menschenraub und Verleitung der Behörden zur unergründlichsten Verrätherei durch Bestechung mißbraucht und definitiv verscherzt werde.\n\nWenn man lesen muß, daß die japanischen Behörden ein peruvianisches Schiff, mit Kulis aus Macao befrachtet, welches auf seinem Wege nach Callao verschlagen, in Yokohama einzulaufen gezwungen war, sofort in Beschlag nahmen, die Gefangenen nach China zurücksandten und den Kommandanten des Schiffs, einen peruvianischen Marine-Kapitän, zu einer ehrenrührigen Strafe verurtheilten, so fragt man sich, wie dies möglich ist, da doch monatlich Kulischiffe in den holländischen Häfen Ostindiens, in Mauritius und Reunion, ja selbst in der Kapstadt einlaufen und sich dort, Kohle und Wasser einnehmend, wochenlang aufhalten, ohne im Mindesten von den europäischen Behörden dieser Häfen molestirt zu werden. Entweder that die japanische Behörde zu viel, oder diese letzteren vernachlässigten ihre Pflicht. Und wenn wir gegenüber mancherlei Zweifeln nun weiter vernehmen, daß diese unsre europäischen Beamteten ganz ebenso berechtigt gewesen wären, gegen die Kulischiffer einzuschreiten, wie die japanischen, und daß die Thatsachen ebenso himmelschreiend in den Häfen europäischer Kolonien, wie in Yokohama gewesen, womöglich noch schlimmer, und die Japaner ihrerseits für den Präcedenzfall, den sie schufen, die vollste Anerkennung jedes rechtlich gesinnten Menschen verdienten, so müssen wir mit Beschämung auf die Indifferenz blicken, die bisher allgemein gegen die Atrozitäten des Kulihandels in Europa geherrscht. Freilich fragen wir weiter, wie es möglich sei, in China derartige gräuliche Frachten zu kontrahiren. Giebt es dort keine Regierung, keine Behörden, die ihre chinesischen Unterthanen vor Gewalt, Raub und Betrug schützen? Und wäre es nicht einfach, diesen die fernere Fürsorge zu überlassen?\n\nAbgesehen davon, daß ein solches laisser faire unsern civilisatorischen Bestrebungen kaum entsprechend und ebenso unklug als moralisch verwerflich sein würde, müßte die Kompetenz der Chinesen über europäische Schiffe in ihren uns eingeräumten, von ausländischen Statthaltern und Konsuln besetzten Häfen dermaßen erweitert werden, daß jeder Uebergriff ihrerseits sich rechtfertigte und der Weg zu einem entschiedenen Rückschritt im Verkehr zwischen den westlichen und östlichen Kulturvölkern gebahnt sein würde. Unsere Indifferenz, unser \"Laisser faire\" würde, mit Recht, sich in beschämender Weise strafen. - Beides aber ist nicht nur diese Indifferenz unleugbar vorhanden, sondern es fehlte sogar nicht an Aufmunterung und Unterstützung dieses unverhüllten Menschenraubs und raffinirten Sklavenhandels. Portugiesen betrieben ihn planmäßig mit voller Sanktion ihrer Regierung, und die holländische Kolonialregierung hat mehrfach dazu die Hand geboten, entlaufene Chinesen einzufangen und nicht in ihre Heimath, sondern wieder an ihre Peiniger auszuliefern. Ganze Frachten von an der javanischen Küste gestrandeten Schiffen wurden auf diese Weise für die Sklaverei behördenmäßig eingefangen und aufbewahrt, auch französische Kriegsschiffe haben sich in dieser Richtung hervorgethan, da sie im Dienste ihrer Seelenverkäufer einer Auslieferungsweigerung gegenüber ihre Breitseiten aufwachten. Ja, neuerdings beschäftigen die Holländer sogar Kulisklaven in ihren Kriegen gegen die Atchinesen. Ferner ist zu konstatiren, daß auch englische Hafenkommandanten, die unter ihrer Jurisdiktion mit Gewalt geraubten Chinesen sich zu befreien für nicht befugt hielten und selbst deutsche Konsuln, Rheder und Kapitäne sich in dieser Hinsicht Vorwürfen ausgesetzt haben. Erst neuerdings ist, hauptsächlich auf Anregung des in dieser Weise unermüdlich thätigen General-Konsul F. I. Sturz, eine Aenderung eingetreten. Derselbe hat wiederholt auch den deutschen Reichstag durch Petitionen aufgefordert, dahin zu streben, daß allen deutschen Schiffern bei Verlust ihres Bürgerrechts die Betheiligung an diesem Handel verboten sein solle, und somit in dieser Frage auf dem Wege der Kultur voranzugehen. Leider ist, was auch immer noch geschehen könne, zu diesem \"Vorangehn\" in gewisser Weise jetzt die Zeit verpaßt, denn die Engländer haben jenen Wink nicht an sich vorübergehn lassen und Ihrer Majestät Regierung hat nun ein Gesetz dekretirt, laut dessen wenigstens im Prinzip die Scheußlichkeit des Kulihandels, wie er von Seiten der Spanier, Portugiesen und Franzosen betrieben wird, als solche gewürdigt werden. Es darf hinfort kein Chinese unter Arbeitskontrakt von Hongkong in außereenglischen Schiffen und nach anderen als englischen Häfen überhaupt auswandern, und kein fremdes Schiff in diesem Hafen für den Kulihandel in Macao ausgestattet werden. Nicht minder hat die portugiesische Regierung ein Dekret gegen den Kulihandel von Macao aus gerichtet, vermag es aber bei der tiefen Korruption ihrer Kolonialbehörden ebensowenig dasselbe in Kraft zu setzen, als sie es in früheren Zeiten auch nur einen ihrer von England erzwungenen Beschlüsse gegen den Sklavenhandel auszuführen vermochte. So wird es uns denn nur übrig bleiben, zu gemeinsamen internationalen Maßregeln anzuregen, wie sie dem Sklavenhandel gegenüber gestanden, in Hongkong den Kulihandel für Piraterei zu erklären, wie dies in der That schon vom Richterstuhl aus geschah.\n\nEs hatten sich nämlich die in Macao eingenommenen Chinesen auf dem französischen Schiffe Penelope gegen Kapitän und Mannschaft erhoben und waren an die Küste angelaufen, wo sie sich zerstreuten. Einen dieser Kulis hatte die Schiffsmannschaft nachträglich wieder festgenommen und wegen Meuterei auf hoher See vor den Oberrichter Mr. John Smale gestellt, der ihn wider Erwarten aller Betheiligten freisprach. Er erklärte Meuterei auf hoher See für gerechtfertigt, soweit sie sich gegen Kulihändler richte, denn diese seien Piraten. Für wie ungenügend die englischen Maßnahmen, welche Engländern den Kulihandel gestatten, von eben diesem Mr. Smale noch gehalten werden, geht wohl daraus hervor, daß derselbe schon im Jahre 1868 Protest gegen die fernere Gestattung der Kulianfuhr selbst nach englischen Kolonien unter den noch bestehenden Reglements erhob, ein Protest, der aber nur zu einer Beruhigung der \"so heftig angeregten Frage\" von Seiten des Gouverneurs Veranlassung gab, da die chinesische Auswanderung nach den arbeitersbedürftigen englischen Kolonien ein viel zu wichtiger Gegenstand für alle Betheiligten sei, \"als daß sie vorzeitig nur auf leichte Gründe hin aufgehoben werden könnte.\" Bei den \"mangelhaften Reglements\" wäre allerdings, wie uns scheinen will, eine andere Beschwichtigung mehr an der Stelle und zu wünschen gewesen, daß das letzte Dekret der englischen Regierung weniger einseitig ausgefallen wäre.\n\nInsofern bleibt also der deutschen Regierung noch immer der Vortritt, durch Verbot der Kulifracht in deutschen Schiffen und Beschäftigung von Kulis durch Deutsche, soweit unbillige und gewisse Normativ-Bedingungen überschreitende Paßrechte und Sohnkontrakte dabei im Spiel sind, die Nothwendigkeit der erwähnten Maßnahmen zu demonstriren. Es würde dieses Vorgehen für unser Verhältniß zu den ostasiatischen Völkern, als politische Landmacht einerseits und als zukünftige Seemacht von wesentlichem Einfluß sein und von Seiten der Japaner und Chinesen nicht ohne Erkenntlichkeit aufgenommen werden.\n\n## \nAus den verschiedensten Berichten von Augenzeugen gewinnen wir durchweg die eine unerschütterliche Ueberzeugung, daß die Lehre vom \"freien Vertrag\" sich in diesen Regionen nicht bewährt.\n\nEin solcher freier Vertrag lautet zuweilen – wenn auch selten – unverfänglich, ist aber stets die unverschlossene Thür zu den ärgsten Mißbräuchen, und dessen Unterzeichnung wird, was das abscheulichste ist, von portugiesischen Beamten, von den Chinesen im gefangenen Zustande erzwungen und von peruvianischen oder spanischen Konsuln legalisirt und mit ihrem respektiven National-Wappen versehen in einer dem Chinesen unverständlichen Sprache aufgesetzt, denn das entsprechende, nicht gleichlautende, sondern von hohen Verheißungen voll chinesische Dokument, wird ihm weggenommen, sobald man auf See ist. Der Vertrag ist dann nur rechtskräftig vor Richtern jener Länder, die, meist selbst Plantagenbesitzer, den armen Kontrahenten als guten Ersatz für die früheren Sklaven betrachten und als rechtlos laut Kontrakt behandeln. Auf diese mehr oder weniger subtile Weise werden fast alle armen Auswanderer zu den unsinnigsten Kontrakten gebunden - von denen einige sogar den Passagier für irgend eine imaginäre Summe, die man ihm vom Paßgeld will erlassen haben, auf Lebenszeit zu blindem Gehorsam verpflichten! Und dies findet nicht etwa in Macao allein, sondern auch in Swatow, in Amoy, in Foochow statt, während nebenbei noch die Möglichkeit besteht, Leute aus den besten Verhältnissen mit Gewalt wegzukapern und unter Deck einzusperren. Letzteres geschieht und geschah namentlich in den kleineren Häfen mit so unerhörter Frechheit, daß Europäer in vielen Orten sich nicht auf der Straße blicken lassen dürfen, ohne Gefahr zu laufen, der allgemeinen Wuth zum Opfer zu fallen. Andrerseits sind - und anders ließe sich das Umsichgreifen dieses Systems auch nicht erklären - trotz der größten Erbitterung des Volks die chinesischen Unterbehörden den Emigrantenkapitainen in allem bis auf den Geldpunkt sehr günstig. Trotz der bindendsten Vorschriften von Seiten der chinesischen Regierung, die ja leider eher dem Fremden jede Vergünstigung vorenthält und ihn also zur Bestechung der Beamteten selbst erzieht und nöthigt, weiß der Kulihändler sich ziemlich gut mit Hafenpolizei und Douaniers zu stellen, so daß sie selbst Menschenraub straflos begehen können, da die phlegmatischen Herren von der Behörde beneidenswerthe lange Bedenkzeit zur Disposition haben, ehe sie sich irgendwie einzuschreiten entschließen. Es steht zweifellos fest, daß sie zuvor ihren Geschäftsgenossen, den fremden Kapitän, von einem beabsichtigten Besuch benachrichtigen, worauf dieser im Nothfall echappiren und mit seinem Hause den Hafen verlassen kann. So führte im Jahre 1871 ein Engländer in Ping-o unverrichteter Sache bei den Mandarinen Klage über einen spanischen Kapitän, der bereits gegen 20 Chinesen aller Stände geraubt hatte, denn obwohl man einzuschreiten versprach, war es dem Spanier - und dennoch möglich, über Nacht den Hafen zu verlassen. Sobald vom Land hört die Gerichtsbarkeit auf.\n\nDie chinesischen Unterbehörden stehen aber nicht allein im Sold der Kulihändler selbst, sondern werden auch von den Besitzern der Spielhöllen, die in allen chinesischen Häfen zahlreich und privilegirt sind, zu Konniviren bewogen, natürlich mit demjenigen Mittel, das mehr als tausend Redner werth ist, wenn es gilt, einen Chinesen zu überzeugen. Diese Spielhöllen bilden den Abschaum für alle mauvais sujets in China und die größten Schurtereien, wie sie kaum wo anders als in China erhört sind, haben solche Treibhäuser des Lasters zur Wiege. Was man immer den Chinesen Gutes in Bezug auf Fleiß, Nüchternheit und Sparsamkeit nachsagen mag, und nachzusagen verpflichtet ist, so ist doch gewiß, daß sie fahrlässig in materieller und moralischer Hinsicht, gleichgültig gegen das Leben, fatalistisch und spielwüthig sind. Es giebt deren, die im Opiumrausch (und das Opium potenzirt all diese Laster) ihr Vermögen, und sich selbst ihre Freiheit dazu verspielen. Ist alles dahin, so nimmt man seine Arbeitskraft auf Lebenszeit zum Ginjah (gegen eine schon gewohnheitsmäßig feststehende Summe) von Seiten der Bank und ist, wie das Unglück, mehr oder weniger Eigenthum des Spielhöllenfürsten, der über Kraft und Zeit des Verlierers von dem Moment an verfügt und zwar in so ausgedehntem Maße, daß er ihn einsperren oder anderweitig vermiethen - auf Lebenszeit - also thatsächlich verkaufen kann. Dies geschieht dann auch, und da Arbeit in China selbst nicht sehr hoch im Werthe steht, auch kein Chinese sich gern mit einem dissoluten Sklaven, den er nicht kennt, auf Lebenszeit belastet, während so großes Angebot freier Arbeiter ihm zur Disposition steht, so ist es natürlich sehr viel vortheilhafter, den fremden Kapitän, der eine Fracht von Emigranten für Zucker- oder Kaffeeplantagen sucht, zum Geschäftsfreund zu haben, der einem den Landsmann und Kompatrioten gern für eine gute Entschädigung abnimmt. Daß dies eine der schrecklichsten Metamorphosen der Sklaverei ist, wer...",
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        "content_text": "# \n## 30. All correspondence with the Government on subjects connected with this code must be sent through the Inspector of Schools for the time being,\n\nHongkong, 25th April, 1879.\n\n## Application Schedule\n(To be filled up when application is made for a Grant-in-aid.)\n\n1. What is the name of the School?\n2. Is it a Public School? (a.)\n3. Is it a Boys', or a Girls', or a Mixed School?\n4. Where is it situated?\n5. What are its Dimensions? (b)\n6. What is the Average Attendance? (a.)\n7. Is the school-work conducted by a Time Table? (d.)\n8. Is there a regularly kept School Roll? (e)\n9. What Books are to be used under the several Standards? (f)\n10. What are the School-hours?\n11. What 'four hours' are to be assigned to instruction in the subjects of the Standards?\n12. What Holidays are given, and when?\n13. What is the Manager's name, and what is his profession or occupation?\n14. What is the paid Master's name?\n15. How many years' experience as a teacher has he had?\n16. What Assistants has he, and what are their names?\n17. What is the Salary of the paid Master, and that of each of his Assistants?\n18. What annual sum is derived from School-fees?\n19. What annual sum is derived from Donations and Subscriptions?\n20. Has the School any other, and what, means of support?\n21. What are the various headings and amounts of Expenditure?\n22. Is there any, and what, Debt connected with the School?\n\nNumber.\nSignature of Applicant\nDate of Application.\n\n5.\n\nE. J. EITEL, PH.D., Inspector of Schools,\n\n(a.) A Public School shall mean a school where education is given in the subjects of the Standards, and where no child is refused admittance on other than reasonable grounds.\n(b.) Give the length, breadth and height of the room or rooms, with the extent of wall-space available for maps.\n(c.) The Average Attendance is the total number of attendances marked in the roll within a certain period, divided by the number of days the school has been taught during the same period.\n(d.) Enclose a copy.\n(e.) Enclose a specimen page.\n(f.) Forward a copy of each.\n\n## Examination Schedule\n(To be filled up and forwarded to the Inspector seven clear days before the date fixed for the examination.)\n\n| Name of Scholar | Date of Admission to this School | Number of Attendances in the Year | In what class in School | Birth-day | Under what Standard Last Year | Under what Standard to be examined |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\nSignature of Manager\nDate\nRemarks.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in Inspector of Schools' Letter No. 36 dated 25th April, 1879.\n\n## TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS, WHOSE AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE WAS UNDER 20, FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS.\n\n| No. | Average Daily Attendance | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Aberdeen, | 11.05 | 9.01 | 17.45 | 13.87 | 12.50 |\n| 2 | Hok-in, |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3 | Hung-hòm, | 10.95 | 16.00 | 12.55 | 10.40 | 15.20 |\n| 4 | Little Hongkong, |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 5 | Mi-tau-chung | 14.37 | 17.46 | 13.65 | 13.03 | 14.47 |\n| 6 | Mi-tau-ts'ün, | 11.98 | 18.29 | 12.08 | 11.68 | 19.58 |\n| 7 | Mong-kok, | 16.54 | 14.21 | 12.96 | 12.23 | 13.55 |\n| 8 | Pok-fú-lam, | 10.37 | 13.88 | 8.62 |  | 14.76 |\n| 9 | Shúi-wún, |  | 12.84 | 11.50 | 8.15 | 11.82 |\n| 10 | Shek-ò, | 0.18 | 12.02 | 0.78 | 7.84 |  |\n| 11 | Tang-lung-chau, (Hákká), | 13.56 | 9.93 | 17.78 | 13.15 | 15.24 |\n| 12 | Tang-lung-chau, (Puntí), |  | 15.59 | 8.34 |  | 18.57 |\n| 13 | T-kwá-wán, (Hoklò), | 16.51 | 16.20 | 16.32 | 18.67 | 13.45 |\n| 14 | Ts'at-tez-múi, |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 15 | Wong-pai-ch'ung, | 17.34 | 16.82 | 18.85 | 16.31 | 12.80 |\n| 16 | Yau-má-ti, | 9.67 | 15.90 | 16.22 | 11.85 | 14.71 |\n|  |  |  | 11.70 | 19.57 | 17.20 | 18.05 |\n\n## HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G., TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, BART., M.P.\n\n[No. 33.]\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 29th March, 1879.**\n\nSIR,---I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 15 of the 6th of February, transmitting copies of two reports of Mr. STEWART on Education in Hongkong, and conveying to me your instructions with respect to the points raised in those reports and in some despatches I had written on the subject.\n\n2. I believe the decision you have arrived at on the various questions which from time to time I felt it my duty to submit for your consideration, will give very general satisfaction to the parents whose children are to be educated in Hongkong, and will undoubtedly place the public instruction of the Colony on a thoroughly satisfactory basis.\n\n3. As to the Central School, I enclose for your information a copy of a minute in which I indicated my wish to have the revision of the School fees and the other points in the management of that important establishment, determined as far as possible in accordance with Mr. STEWART's views.\n\n4. In creating the separate Office of Inspector of Schools, with a salary of $2,400 a year, you say that you should have instructed me to offer the appointment to Dr. EITEL, but that I desired to employ his services in another capacity. The question of an Interpretation Department being however still unsettled, and as there is no other gentleman in the Colony whom I could recommend for the post, I have complied with the spirit of your instructions and provisionally appointed Dr. EITEL Inspector of Schools. I have informed him that in continuing the work on which he has been so usefully employed for the last twelve months, he is, in future, to have nothing whatever to say to the Central School, which will be under the sole control of Mr. STEWART. I enclose an Extract from the `Estimates for 1879`, showing that due provision has been made for the separate office of Inspector, whilst retaining to Mr. STEWART his full salary as Head Master.\n\n5. Though in all that I have written or spoken on the subject of Education, the only suggestion of mine as to the separation of the Head Mastership of the Central School and the Inspectorship of Schools is contained in my observations early last year at the Central School, (`Despatch No. 12 of 27th January, 1878`), in which I expressed a preference for giving the Inspectorship to Mr. STEWART, yet I must admit that further experience has entirely convinced me that the deliberate decision now given by Her Majesty's Government is undoubtedly the best.\n\n6. There is no one in Hongkong who possesses in so eminent a degree the qualifications essential for the responsible office of Head Master of the Central School; and by now devoting his whole time to the School, Mr. STEWART will, I have not the slightest doubt, render it a most valuable institution.",
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        "content_text": "རྞྞ: \n\n(6)\n\n  ち \n\nrepair and leaks, the filthy water trickling down and polluting the walls of the houses. The foundations of these houses look anything but safe; the inhabitants expect them to tumble down before long, as the houses in front of them have already done.\n\nBack of Market Street, Tai-ping-shan, a gully three feet wide, down which an open drain runs, the black and putrid filth trickling slowly along or standing in puddles.\n\nBack of Tank Lane, a gully with no name. Pigs in the upper and lower stories, and in holes let into the foundations of the houses. Place filthy, baskets of putrid rubbish standing about outside the houses. In the midst of puddles of filth in the broken pavement, saw a hole sunk in the ground, with a machine for pounding rice in it opposite to the doorway of a hole which could not be called a room, as it was not more than seven feet square, and was only large enough to contain a bed, in which a family slept, and underneath which were a lot of pigs.\n\nAnother gully with no name, one end of which opened into Caine Road, just below Dr. ADAMS' house; the other end into Market Street. This gully is floored with a platform of boards, raised about two feet above the ground; the earth below is sodden with black liquid filth, and underneath this fowl are kept, which afterwards go to the markets. The houses here are cramped-up little hovels, with filthy floors, and the inhabitants are licensed to keep pigs, as many as ten each.\n\nway\n\nFirst Street, Sai-ing-poon, is a wide street, in which the houses look well from the front; pigs kept, of course. At the back of these houses are gullies of the foulest description, the stench from which is horrible, and in the rooms in these gullies the people keep pigs.\n\nWai On Lane.-A gully at the back of, and composed of the basement floors of Third Street; nearly every room contained pigs, there being nearly a hundred in the place. I could not stay to inspect it properly, as the stench drove me out retching violently. These places, taken from different quarters of the town, are quite sufficient to illustrate what I have said,\n\nAn intimate acquaintance, during the course of my student life in hospital practice, with the worst quarters of Lambeth, Waterloo Road, St. Giles and Somers Town, enables me to say that I do not believe there could be found in London worse places than are to be found in Hongkong, if so bad, and in Indian towns filth of the description found here would not be permitted by the \"Caste\" of the inhabitants.\n\nHere the people inhabiting the worst quarters are not so poverty stricken; they wear good clothes and pay high rents, indeed, exorbitant rents, and nowhere have I seen anything approaching to the poverty I have seen in London or India.\n\nFew European residents of this generally supposed clean town know of or would believe the things I have brought to notice in this and my report of the brothels, and it is no wonder, under the circumstances, that, in their ignorance, they think the town is clean enough and more water is not required, seeing, as they do, only the best quarters, and those that are fair enough outside but foul within and behind.\n\nIn many places the people have to go long distances for water, or else get it from foul wells; so that they have to do without it as much as possible, not because they don't want it, but because it is a great deal of trouble to procure. They never wash or clean the floors of their houses, because the construction of the floors does not admit of it; so water is not used in this way.\n\nI am of opinion that, in the town, there is no fit or proper place for pigs to be kept at all, and this, at all events, should not be sanctioned by Government; but that places should be found out of town, over at Kowloon, and the pigs brought to market when required.\n\nNo house in the town should be permitted to have floors so constructed that they cannot be properly cleaned; in upper floors the boards should be well fitted together, so that they can be washed, and all ground floors should be well tiled and kept in repair. For the same reason, no mud floors should be permitted; every house should be well whitewashed within, ceilings and all, every six months, or at least every year. The landlord should be held responsible for these things, and for the drains being in proper order that belong to the house.\n\nin\n\nPromi\n\n(7)\n\n450\n\nIn some cases, however, the house drainage cannot be managed, as there is no proper drainage to the streets or gullies.\n\nIn future, no houses should be built without sufficient yard space at the back, and in no case should they be built back to back.\n\ngood\n\nWith such a state of things as I have reported here, no one will dispute, I think, that there is reason for my prognostications as regards typhus and typhoid fever, and it is not to be wondered at that cases become more and more frequent. I have seen three this week. A cholera epidemic here would be something too dreadful to think of, and small-pox, crowded as the inhabitants are, is by no means to be thought lightly of.\n\nHonourable J. G. AUSTIN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nI have the honour to be.\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nPn. B. C. 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        "content_text": "apply directly to the Gunal fur\n\nthe band Ion.\n\nshould not\n\nLe cet om\n\nwhy\n\nin this crow\n\nauquiesce in\n\nfor the future,\n\n3. The litt in dcare\n\nis obviaanly\n\nwhich\n\non the ocean off the birthday\n\nThe band\n\nour art of corenting\n\nconst insist\n\nbut to with hold it would be\n\nan\n\na cz\n\nI\n\nextreme redeness\n\nand I would say\n\nRegulatio\n\nAo\n\ner\n\n-(in civil teams)\n\n12 merely\n\nI suppore that the gover\n\nin the colony\n\nwhere he is\n\n\"I give the word\" L.E.\n\nthe \"pass word \"for the night for day),\n\nas\n\nthe Soverign\n\n4. The many we\n\naque entirely\n\nI believe\n\nsve\n\nview of the Geveining\n\nI would express\n\ninn\n\nCh\n\nGA\n\ndres hire\n\nIn the beati\n\nen almet,\n\ncompleti\n\nMorne guad\n\nExcell wit ofisit\n\nBut what\n\nto the\n\nwater subjust\n\nIt is written\n\nto give\n\nlitter ?\n\nIt ranns\n\nlust paragouple but one\n\nof w.o.\n\na\n\ni gener\n\nat question. Might and\n\nnot ask W.O. what alterations\n\naus they\n\nThey would\n\nDraft & 4.0. dc.\n\nof the regulations suggest? Let\n\nK Sept 18/80\n\nJagru\n\ncommand draft auntingly\n\nlet me for\n\ntee it often\n\nW.0: 13795. Hoy Keng\n\nThis draft to the W.O. has been\n\nwitter in awndance with the\n\nBut I do not feel\n\nminutes. sume that So at\n\nM\n\nMas\n\nto mul\n\nthe Various\n\nbetween\n\n346\n\nintended t\n\ndetail\n\ninto\n\nquations at pre the General & the foremor?\n\nof the rules &\n\nregulations are the altered in is perhaps nocepans\n\nA do so, but I should be inclined.\n\n4.5\n\nto mit all this draft after J.\n\nand say with regard of the\n\namendment\n\nAngguted amen\n\nThe\n\nRegulations that Land Hinterly is dispored to think that\n\nThes\n\nwhole they have hitherts worked\n\nholl\n\n£ Ling\n\nhoved Leen\n\nwirth while to alter their\n\nconseguem f\n\nEx\n\nwhit\n\nof wholly suptione\n\nom Childers is\n\nto m\n\nis is trule al\n\nof a contriony ofr\n\n2° fummberly will be quite prepond\n\nalteration the may suggest\n\ncomider day\n\nwith a view to uscation in the Colonial. Regulation\n\nK out 3\n\nRm 2919",
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        "content_text": "## TABLE 1 - NUMBER of SCHOLARS attending Schools subject to Government Supervision during 1880.\n\n1. Aberdeen,  \n2. Ap-li-chan,  \n3. Basel Mission Boarding School (Girls),  \n4. Basel Mission Day School (Boys),  \n5. Baxter Vernacular D'Aguilar Street School (Girls),  \n6. Baxter Vernacular High Street School (Girls),  \n7. Baxter Vernacular Hollywood Road School (Girls),  \n8. Baxter Vernacular Sai-ying-p'ún School (Girls),  \n9. Berlin Foundling House School (Girls),  \n10. C. M. S. St. Stephen's School, No. 1 (Boys),  \n11. C. M. S. St. Stephen's School, No. 2 (Boys),  \n12. C. M. S. St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial School (Girls),  \n13. C. M. S. Sai-ying-p'ún School (Boys),  \n14. C. M. S. Sheung-wan School (Boys),  \n15. Central School,  \n16. Diocesan Home School (Mixed),  \n17. Girls' School,  \n18. Ha-vít,  \n19. Hok-tsúi,  \n20. Hok-ün,  \n21. Little Hongkong,  \n22. L. M. S. Hollywood Road School (Boys),  \n23. L. M. S. Staunton Street School, No. 1 (Girls),  \n24. L. M. S. Staunton Street School, No. 2 (Girls),  \n25. L. M. S. Tai-ping-shán School (Mixed),  \n26. L. M. S. Wan-trai School (Boys),  \n27. L. M. S. Wán-tsai School (Girls),  \n28. L. M. S. Yau-má-ti School (Boys),  \n29. Mi-thu-chung,  \n30. Má-tau-ts'üu,  \n31. Mong-kok,  \n32. Pok-fú-lam,  \n33. Sai-ying-pún (English),  \n34. Sai-ying-pún (Hákká),  \n35. Shái-wán,  \n36. Sham-shui-pò,  \n37. Shau-ki-wán (English),  \n38. Shau-ki-wán,  \n39. Shek-ò,  \n40. Shek-t'ong-tsui,  \n41. Shoung-wan,  \n42. Stanley (English and Chinese),  \n43. St. Joseph's College Chinese School (Boys),  \n44. St. Joseph's College Portuguese School (Boys),  \n45. St. Paul's College Hongkong Public School (Boys),  \n46. St. Paul's College Mission School, D'Aguilar Street (Boys),  \n47. St. Paul's College Mission School, Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys),  \n48. Tái-kok-tsui,  \n49. Tái-tam-tuk,  \n50. Tai-wong-kung,  \n51. Tang-lung-chan (Hákká),  \n52. Tang-lung-chau (Puntí),  \n53. To-kwá-wán (Hákká),  \n54. To-kwá-wán (Hoklò),  \n55. Tsat-tsz-múi,  \n56. Tung-lo-wan,  \n57. Victoria School (Boys),  \n58. Victoria School (Girls),  \n59. Wan-trai (English),  \n60. Wán-tsai,  \n61. Wong-kok-tsúi,  \n62. Wong-nai-ch'ung (English and Chinese),  \n63. Yau-má-ti (English and Chinese)\n\n## TABLE II - PROPORTION of SCHOLARS to POPULATION in the CITY OF VICTORIA and in the VILLAGES in 1880.\n\n| Category                        | Number  |\n|---------------------------------|---------|\n| Native Central Schools School (Government) | 21      |\n| Native Grant-in-Aid Schools (Aided)     | 52      |\n| TOTAL                           | 109     |\n| Schools                         | 59      |\n|                                 | 26      |\n|                                 | 10      |\n|                                 | 90      |\n|                                 | 19      |\n|                                 | 49      |\n|                                 | 38      |\n|                                 | 52      |\n|                                 | 49      |\n|                                 | 24      |\n|                                 | 13      |\n|                                 | 26      |\n|                                 | 108     |\n|                                 | 94      |\n|                                 | 40      |\n|                                 | 33      |\n|                                 | 588     |\n|                                 | 1,121   |\n|                                 | 369     |\n\nCITY AND HARBOUR OF VICTORIA.\n\nPopulation as per Census of 1880.................. 118,578  \nNo. of Scholars............................... 1,121  \n\nVILLAGES.\n\nPopulation, including Boat Population, ............ 25,571  \nNo. of Scholars............................... 369  \n\n### Schools in the City of Victoria\n\n1. Basel Mission Boarding School (Girls)............. 59  \n2. Basel Mission Day School (Boys).................. 48  \n3. Baxter Vernacular D'Aguilar Street School (Girls).... 18  \n4. Baxter Vernacular High Street School (Girls)....... 29  \n5. Baxter Vernacular Hollywood Road School (Girls)... 45  \n6. Baxter Vernacular Sai-ying-p'ún School (Girls)...... 52  \n7. Berlin Foundling House School (Girls)........... 30  \n8. C. M. S. St. Stephen's School, No. 1 (Boys)......... 85  \n9. C. M. S. St. Stephen's School, No. 2 (Boys)......... 26  \n10. C. M. S. St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial School (Girls) 61  \n11. C. M. S. Sai-ying-pún School (Boys)............... 93  \n12. C. M. S. Sheung-wan School (Boys)................. 73  \n13. Central School................................. 174  \n14. Diocesan Home School (Mixed)..................... 112  \n15. Girls' School................................... 109  \n16. L. M. S. Hollywood Road School (Boys)............. 52  \n17. L. M. S. Staunton Street School, No. 1 (Girls)...... 55  \n18. L. M. S. Staunton Street School, No. 2 (Girls)...... 46  \n19. L. M. S. Tai-p'ing-shán School (Mixed)............ 51  \n20. L. M. S. Wan-trai School (Boys).................... 97  \n21. L. M. S. Wán-tsai School (Girls)................... 77  \n22. L. M. S. Yau-má-ti School (Boys)................... 52  \n23. Sai-ying-pún (English)........................... 71  \n24. Sai-ying-pún (Hákká)............................. 90  \n25. Shau-ki-wán (English)............................ 48  \n26. St. Joseph's College Chinese School (Boys)......... 36  \n27. St. Paul's College Hongkong Public School (Boys)... 21  \n28. St. Paul's College Mission School, D'Aguilar St. (Boys) 83  \n29. St. Paul's College Mission School, Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys) 84  \n30. Victoria School (Boys)........................... 103  \n31. Victoria School (Girls)........................... 94  \n32. Wan-trai (English)............................... 51  \n33. Wong-nai-ch'ung (English and Chinese)............ 33  \n34. Yau-má-ti (English and Chinese)................... 252  \n\nTotal........................................... 1,121  \n\n### Schools in Villages\n\n1. Aberdeen...................................... 21  \n2. Ap-li-chau...................................... 52  \n3. Bok-tsúi....................................... 11  \n4. Hok-ün......................................... 26  \n5. Little Hongkong.................................. 18  \n6. Má-tau-ts'ün..................................... 21  \n7. Mong-kok....................................... 10  \n8. Pok-fú-lam...................................... 74  \n9. Shái-wán....................................... 19  \n10. Sham-shui-pò.................................... 28  \n11. Shau-ki-wán..................................... 49  \n12. Shek-ò........................................ 59  \n13. Shek-t'ong-tsui.................................. 74  \n14. Shoung-wan...................................... 10  \n15. Stanley (English and Chinese)..................... 52  \n16. Tái-kok-tsui..................................... 18  \n17. Tái-tam-tuk...................................... 10  \n18. Tai-wong-kung.................................... 49  \n19. Tang-lung-chan (Hákká)............................ 51  \n20. Tang-lung-chau (Puntí)............................ 24  \n21. To-kwá-wán (Hákká)............................... 24  \n22. To-kwá-wán (Hoklò)................................ 24  \n23. Tsat-tsz-múi..................................... 13  \n24. Tung-lo-wan...................................... 26  \n25. Wong-kok-tsúi.................................... 51  \n26. Yau-má-ti (English and Chinese)................... 33  \n\nTotal........................................... 774  \n\nProportion to Population....................... 3.02 per cent.\n\n## TABLE III - NUMBER of SCHOLARS at the Government Schools during 1880, and Expense of each School.\n\n| School Name                          | Boys | Girls | Total | Expense    |\n|--------------------------------------|------|-------|-------|------------|\n| Aberdeen                             | 21   |       | 21    | $210.50    |\n| Ap-li-chau                           | 52   |       | 52    | 123.60     |\n| Central School                       | 583  | 5     | 588   | 11,398.47  |\n| Girls' School                        |      | 109   | 109   | 638.10     |\n| Hok-tsúi                             |      | 52    | 52    | 368.10     |\n| Hok-ün                               | 26   |       | 26    | 62.10      |\n| Little Hongkong                      | 18   |       | 18    | 62.10      |\n| Má-tau-ts'ün                         | 21   |       | 21    | 63.10      |\n| Mong-kok                             | 10   |       | 10    | 76.10      |\n| Pok-fú-lam                           | 74   |       | 74    | 368.29     |\n| Sai-ying-pún (English)               | 90   |       | 90    | 155.90     |\n| Sai-ying-pún (Hákká)                 |       | 90    | 90    | ...        |\n| Shái-wán                             | 19   |       | 19    | 62.10      |\n| Sham-shui-pò                         | 38   |       | 38    | 63.60      |\n| Shau-ki-wán (English)                | 49   |       | 49    | 210.07     |\n| Shau-ki-wán                          | 24   |       | 24    | 138.10     |\n| Shek-ò                               | 74   |       | 74    | 327.60     |\n| Shek-t'ong-tsui                      | 77   |       | 77    | 340.60     |\n| Sheung-wán                           |       |       |       | 293.87     |\n| Stanley (English and Chinese)        | 52   |       | 52    | 45.10      |\n| Tái-kok-tsui                         | 10   |       | 10    | 73.10      |\n| Tái-tam-tuk                          |       | 52    | 52    | 321.65     |\n| Tai-wong-kung                        | 49   |       | 49    | 144.60     |\n| Tang-lung-chau (Hákká)               | 51   |       | 51    | 259.60     |\n| Tang-lung-chau (Puntí)               | 24   |       | 24    | 64.60      |\n| To-kwá-wán (Hákká)                   | 24   |       | 24    | 57.10      |\n| To-kwá-wán (Hoklò)                   | 24   |       | 24    | ...        |\n| Tsat-tsz-múi                         | 13   |       | 13    | 63.60      |\n| Tung-lo-wan                          | 26   |       | 26    | 47.10      |\n| Victoria School (Boys)               | 103  |       | 103   | 321.33     |\n| Wán-tsai (English)                   | 94   |       | 94    | 182.60     |\n| Wong-kok-tsúi                        | 40   |       | 40    | 312.83     |\n| Wong-nai-ch'ung (English and Chinese) | 20   | 33    | 33    | 369.75     |\n| Yau-má-ti (English and Chinese)      |       |       |       | ...        |\n\nTotal                                | 1,940 | 138   | 2,078 | $17,625.86 |",
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        "content_text": "TABLE IV.—AVERAGE EXPENSE of each SCHOLAR at the Government Schools during 1880,\n\nTABLE VI—MAXIMUM and MINIMUM ENROLMENT and DAILY ATTENDANCE at the Government Schools during 1880.\n\n637\n\nCENTRAL SCHOOL.\n\nExpenditure, $11,398.47\n\nVILLAGE SCHOOLS.\n\n  \n    Maximum Monthly Enrolment.\n    Minimum Monthly Enrolment.\n    Maximum Daily Attendance.\n    Minimum Daily Attendance.\n  \n  \n    (Monthly Average.)\n    (Monthly Average.)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Expenditure,\n    Travelling Expenses,\n    Assistant Inspector's Salary,\n    Chinese Writer's Salary,\n  \n  \n    $6,227.39\n    $2,400\n    288\n    180\n  \n\n1. Aberdeen, 17 9 13.00 37.5 6.55 16.78\n\n2. Ap-li-chan, 43 26\n\n3. Central School, 456 381 426.05 350.54 2,868.00\n\n4. Girls' School, 71 49 62.11 41.56\n\n5. Ha-wán, 38 29 31.09 24.38 $9,095.89\n\nTotal Expenditure for the year :----\n\nCentral School, $11,398.47\n\nOutside Schools, $9,095.89\n\n6. Hok-tsúi, \n\n7. Hok-ün, \n\n9. Matsu-ch'ung, 11 11 11.00 9.5\n\n8. Little Hongkong, 18 10 17.47 7.23\n\n10. Má-tan-ts'ün, 20 13 19.12 10.19\n\n11. Mong-kok, 20 9 17.00 6.67\n\n$20,493.86\n\n12. Pok-fú-lam, 9 6 8.04 5.56\n\n13. Sai-ying-pún (English), 61 34 $7.95 32.67\n\n14. Sai-ying-p'ún (Hákká), 62 41 56.1 35.08\n\n15. Shái-wan, 18 12 17.33 10.54\n\nA.\n\n16. Sham-shoi-pò, 34 17 32.35 13.52\n\nAverage Expenses calculated by the Enrolment.\n\n1. Average Expense of each Scholar at Government Schools, \n\n17. Shan-ki-wán (English) 37 28 33.00 23.15\n\n18. Shau-ki-wán, 37 14 29.2 9.00\n\n2.\n\n72 23 T \"\"\n\nat Government Central School, \n\n3.\n\n21 J ;; \n\nat Outside Schools, \n\nB.\n\n$8.48\n\n19. Shek-ò, 21 14 19.14 8.47 19.38\n\n20. Shek-t'ong-tsui, 49 29 41.6 24.74 4.18\n\n21. Shéung-wan, 56 36 48.72 30.75\n\n22. Stanley (English and Chinese), 51 20 49.32 17.59\n\nAverage Expense calculated by the Average Daily Attendance.\n\n1. Average Expense of each Scholar at Government Schools, \n\n23. Túi hok tsúi, 11 6 11.00 6.37\n\n24. Tái tâm t'ing 9 G 8.32 4.62\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\n\"\n\n25. at Government Central School, \n\nat Outside Schools, \n\n$14.55\n\n25. Tai-wong-kung, 34 29 31.00 26.57 29.04\n\n26. Tang-lung chau (Hákká), 38 15 30.67 14.19 7.60\n\n27. Tang-lung-chau (Puntí), 39 17 38.5 14.25\n\n28. To-kwá-wán (Hákká), 22 17 19.65 12.33\n\nTABLE V.--AVERAGE MONTHLY ENROLMENT und DAILY ATTENDANCE at the Government Schools for 1880.\n\n29. Tò-kwá-wán (Hokló), 18 14 16.37 11.7\n\n30. Ts'at-tsz-múi, 13 12 12.48 8.62\n\n31. Tung-lo-wáu, 26 21 24.33 19.29\n\nAverage Monthly Enrolment. Average Daily Attendance.\n\n32. Wan-tsai (English), 73 21 65.5 21.00\n\n33. Wán tái 78 61 71.75 52.19\n\n34. Wong-kok-tsúi, 30 18 27.1 14.93\n\n35. Wong-nai-ch'ung (English and Chinese), 82 27 28.26 23.00\n\n1. Aberdeen, 2. Ap lí chian, 36. Yau-má-ti (English and Chinese), 33 10 29.3 9.28\n\n12.33 9.64 35.67\n\n3. Central School, \n\n4. Girls' School, 25.17\n\n1,619 1,082 1,468.70 936.99\n\n420.00 392.49 57.08 48.14\n\n5. Ha-wán, 33.5\n\n6. Hok-tsái, 28.19 11.00 10.18\n\n7. Hok-ün, 13.67\n\n8. Little Hongkong, 11.86\n\n9. Má-tau-thang, 13.92 14.46 17.17 13.81\n\n10. Má-tan-ts'ün, \n\n11. Mong-kok, 17.33 14.56 12.92\n\n12. Pok-fá-lam, 11.06\n\n13. Sai-ying-pún (English), 7.67 7.17 52.42 49.54\n\n14. Sai-ying-pún (Hákká), \n\n15. Shái wán, 53.45 45.92\n\n16. Sham-shui-pò, 16.00 13.79\n\n17. Shau-ki-wán (English), 27.75 24.23\n\nTABLE VII—NUMBER of DAYS on which the Government Schools were taught during 1880.\n\n34.9\n\n18. Shan-ki-wán, 28.38 25.75\n\n19. Shek-ò, 20.38\n\n20. Shek-tong-tsui, 17.27 14.29\n\nSchool Days.\n\nSchool Days.\n\n21. Shéung-wán, 40.5 33.42\n\n2. Tái kok ini, \n\n22. Stanley (English and Chinese), 47.75 41.98 37.18 31.6\n\n161\n\n19. Shek-d, 249\n\n1. Aberdeen, \n\n24. Tai-tam-tuk, 9.70 8.92\n\n2. Ap-li-chal, 269\n\n20. Shek-t'ong-tsui, 257\n\n24. Tái wong king, \n\n26. Tang-lung-chan (Hákká), \n\n27. Tang-lung-chau (Puntí), \n\n28. T-kwa-wán (Hákká), \n\n29. Tò-kwá-wán (Hokló), 7.92 6.73\n\n3. Central School, 252\n\n21. Shoung wán 258 30.92 27.83\n\n4. Girls' School, 257\n\n22. Stanley (English and Chinese), 247 20.17 17.22\n\n5. Ha wán, 257\n\n23. Tái kok thui, 216 28.92 22.15\n\n6. Hok-tsúj, 259\n\n24. Túi-tâm-tuk, 250 20.75 17.87\n\n7. Hok-ün, 260\n\n25. Tai-wong-kung, 257 16.33 13.07\n\n30. Ts'at-taz-múi, \n\n8. Littlo Hongkong, 258\n\n26. Tang-lung-chau (Hákká), 256 12.1\n\n31. Tung lo-wá, 10.6\n\n9. Mu-t'an-ch'ung, 259\n\n27. Tang-lung-chan (Punti), 259 24.9\n\n32. Wán-tsai (English), 20.92 259\n\n28. Tò-kwá-wán (Hákká), 259\n\n10. Má-lau-tsfür, 57.88\n\n33. Wan-tsai 52.5\n\n11. Mong-kok, 260\n\n29. Tò-kwá-wán (Hokld), 268\n\n70.3 61.28\n\n34. Wong-kok-tsúi, \n\n12. Pok-fú-lam, 257\n\n30. Ts'at-tez-múi, 227 25.58 21.68\n\n35. Wong-nai-ch'ung (English and Chinese), 28.75\n\n36. Yau-má-ti (English and Chinse), 26.35 17.00 14.21\n\n13. Shái-wán \n\n14. Sai-ying-phún (Hakka), \n\n13. Sai-ying-p'ún (English), 254\n\n31. Tung-lo-wán, 229 251\n\n32. Wún-tsai (English), 257\n\n23. Win-Ésau, 221\n\n16. Sham-shui-pò, 259\n\n34. Wong-kok-tsúi, 257\n\n1,376.40\n\n17. Shau-ki-wán (English), 225\n\n35. Wong-nai-ch'ung (English & Chinese), 259 1,211.59\n\n18. Shau ki win, 246\n\n36. Yau-má-ti (English and Chinese), 257",
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        "content_text": "## Step 1: Understand the task\nThe task is to proofread OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, specifically correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, rejoining broken sentences, restoring paragraph breaks, and indicating missing words, all while maintaining the original content and format as much as possible and converting it into standard Markdown.\n\n## Step 2: Identify the content\nThe given text appears to be a statistical report from 1880 regarding schools under government supervision in Hong Kong, including the number of scholars and expenses.\n\n## Step 3: Correct spelling errors and formatting\nThe text contains several tables with information about schools, including their names, number of scholars, and expenses. The first step is to correct any spelling errors in the school names and other text.\n\n## Step 4: Fix spacing issues and rejoin broken sentences\nThere are several spacing issues and potentially broken sentences due to OCR errors. These need to be corrected to ensure the text is readable and accurate.\n\n## Step 5: Restore paragraph breaks and indicate missing words\nThe text needs to be formatted into proper paragraphs where necessary, and any missing words due to OCR damage should be indicated with `...`.\n\n## Step 6: Convert to Markdown format\nThe text should be converted into standard Markdown format, including headers, tables, and bold text where appropriate.\n\n## Step 7: Apply the rules for file references and page numbering\nFile references should have no spaces inside parentheses, and page numbering lines should be preserved as they were originally used to delineate page metadata.\n\n## Step 8: Reorder newspaper texts and reconstruct tables if necessary\nAlthough the given text is not from a newspaper, if there were any similar issues, they would need to be addressed by reordering the text and reconstructing tables.\n\n## Step 9: Finalize the Markdown output\nEnsure that the final output is in standard Markdown format, with proper headers, tables, and formatting.\n\nThe final answer is:\n\n## TABLE 1 - NUMBER OF SCHOLARS ATTENDING SCHOOLS SUBJECT TO GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION DURING 1880\n\n1. Aberdeen,  \n2. Ap-li-chau,  \n3. Basel Mission Boarding School (Girls),  \n4. Basel Mission Day School (Boys),  \n5. Baxter Vernacular D'Aguilar Street School (Girls),  \n6. Baxter Vernacular High Street School (Girls),  \n7. Baxter Vernacular Hollywood Road School (Girls),  \n8. Baxter Vernacular Sai-ying-p'ún School (Girls),  \n9. Berlin Foundling House School (Girls),  \n10. C. M. S. St. Stephen's School, No. 1 (Boys),  \n11. C. M. S. St. Stephen's School, No. 2 (Boys),  \n12. C. M. S. St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial School (Girls),  \n13. C. M. S. Sai-ying-p'ún School (Boys),  \n14. C. M. S. Cheung-wán School (Boys),  \n15. Central School,  \n16. Diocesan Home School (Mixed),  \n17. Girls' School,  \n18. Ha-wán,  \n19. Hok-tsúi,  \n20. Hok-ün,  \n21. Little Hongkong,  \n22. L. M. S. Hollywood Road School (Boys),  \n23. L. M. S. Staunton Street School, No. 1 (Girls),  \n24. L. M. S. Staunton Street School, No. 2 (Girls),  \n25. L. M. S. T'ai-p'ing-shán School (Mixed),  \n26. L. M. S. Wan-tsai School (Boys),  \n27. L. M. S. Wan-tsai School (Girls),  \n28. L. M. S. Yau-mă-ti School (Boys),  \n29. Má-tau-chung,  \n30. Má-tau-t'íen,  \n31. Mong-kok,  \n32. Pok-fú-lam,  \n33. Sai-ying-p'ún (English),  \n34. Sai-ying-p'ún (Hákká),  \n35. Shái-wán,  \n36. Sham-shui-pò,  \n37. Shau-ki-wán (English),  \n38. Shan-ki-wán,  \n39. Shek-ò,  \n40. Shek-t'ong-tsui,  \n41. Sheng-wáng,  \n42. Stanley (English and Chinese),  \n43. St. Joseph's College Chinese School (Boys),  \n44. St. Joseph's College Portuguese School (Boys),  \n45. St. Paul's College Hongkong Public School (Boys),  \n46. St. Paul's College Mission School, D'Aguilar Street (Boys),  \n47. St. Paul's College Mission School, Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys),  \n48. Túi-kok-tsui,  \n49. Tái-tam-tuk,  \n50. Tai-wong-kung,  \n51. Tang-lung-chau (Hákká),  \n52. Tang-lung-chau (Puntí),  \n53. T'ò-kwá-wán (Hákká),  \n54. T'ò-kwá-wán (Hokló),  \n55. Ts'at-tai-múi,  \n56. Tung-lo-wán,  \n57. Victoria School (Boys),  \n58. Victoria School (Girls),  \n59. Wan-tsai (English),  \n60. Wán-tsai,  \n61. Wong-kok-tsúi,  \n62. Wong-nai-ch'ung (English and Chinese),  \n63. Yau-má-ti (English and Chinese)\n\n## TABLE II - PROPORTION OF SCHOLARS TO POPULATION IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA AND IN THE VILLAGES IN 1880\n\n| Location        | Schools in the City of Victoria | No. of Scholars | Location        | Schools in Villages | No. of Scholars |\n|-----------------|--------------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------|\n| Central School  |                                | 588             | Aberdeen        |                     | 21              |\n|                 | Basel Mission Boarding School (Girls) | 59              | Ap-li-chau      |                     | 52              |\n|                 | Basel Mission Day School (Boys) | 48              | Hok-tsúi        |                     | 11              |\n|                 | Baxter Vernacular D'Aguilar Street School (Girls) | 43 | Hok-ün          |                     | 20              |\n|                 | Baxter Vernacular High Street School (Girls) | 29 | Little Hongkong |                     | 18              |\n|                 | Baxter Vernacular Hollywood Road School (Girls) | 45 | L. M. S. Yau-má-ti School (Boys) |                     | 86              |\n|                 | Baxter Vernacular Sai-ying-p'ún School (Girls) | 52 | Má-tau-chung    |                     | 26              |\n|                 | Berlin Foundling House School (Girls) | 30 | Má-tau-t'íen    |                     | 24              |\n|                 | C. M. S. St. Stephen's School, No. 1 (Boys) | 61 | Mong-kok        |                     | 21              |\n|                 | C. M. S. St. Stephen's School, No. 2 (Boys) | 106 | Pok-fú-lam      |                     | 30              |\n|                 | C. M. S. St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial School (Girls) | 61 | Shái-wán        |                     | 81              |\n|                 | C. M. S. Sai-ying-p'ún School (Boys) | 93 | Sham-shui-pò    |                     | 106             |\n|                 | C. M. S. Cheung-wán School (Boys) | 73 | Shau-ki-wán (English) |                     | 10              |\n|                 | Central School  | 588             | Shan-ki-wán     |                     | 51              |\n|                 | Diocesan Home School (Mixed) | 48 | Shek-ò          |                     | 22              |\n|                 | Girls' School   | 109             | Shek-t'ong-tsui  |                     | 74              |\n|                 | L. M. S. Hollywood Road School (Boys) | 112 | Tai-kok-tsui    |                     | 11              |\n|                 | L. M. S. Staunton Street School, No. 1 (Girls) | 53 | Tai-tam-tuk     |                     | 10              |\n|                 | L. M. S. Staunton Street School, No. 2 (Girls) | 46 | T'ò-kwá-wán (Hákká) |                     | 24              |\n|                 | L. M. S. T'ai-p'ing-shán School (Mixed) | 51 | T'ò-kwá-wán (Hokló) |                     | 24              |\n|                 | L. M. S. Wan-tsai School (Boys) | 97 | Wong-kok-tsúi   |                     | 34              |\n|                 | L. M. S. Wan-tsai School (Girls) | 53 | Tung-lo-wán     |                     | 13              |\n|                 | Sai-ying-p'ún (English) | 25 | Yau-má-ti (English and Chinese) |                     | 33              |\n|                 | Sai-ying-p'ún (Hákká) | 90 |                       |                     |                 |\n|                 | St. Joseph's College Chinese School (Boys) | 36 |                       |                     |                 |\n|                 | St. Joseph's College Portuguese School (Boys) | 252 |                       |                     |                 |\n|                 | St. Paul's College Hongkong Public School (Boys) | 21 |                       |                     |                 |\n|                 | St. Paul's College Mission School, D'Aguilar Street (Boys) | 83 |                       |                     |                 |\n|                 | St. Paul's College Mission School, Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys) | 73 |                       |                     |                 |\n|                 | Victoria School (Boys) | 51 |                       |                     |                 |\n|                 | Victoria School (Girls) | 27 |                       |                     |                 |\n|                 | Wan-tsai (English) | 103 |                       |                     |                 |\n|                 | Wong-nai-ch'ung (English and Chinese) | 40 |                       |                     |                 |\n\n## TABLE III - NUMBER OF SCHOLARS AT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS DURING 1880, AND EXPENSE OF EACH SCHOOL\n\n| School Name | Boys | Girls | Total | Expense |\n|-------------|------|-------|-------|---------|\n| Aberdeen    | 21   |       | 21    | $210.80 |\n| Ap-li-chau  |      | 52    | 52    | $123.80 |\n| Central School | 588  |       | 588   | $11,398.47 |\n| Girls' School |      | 109   | 109   | $638.10 |\n| Ha-wán      | 52   |       | 52    | $368.10 |\n| Hok-tsúi    | 11   |       | 11    | $62.60  |\n| Hok-ün      | 26   |       | 26    | $63.30  |\n| Little Hongkong | 18   |       | 18    | $62.10  |\n| Má-tau-chung | 26   |       | 26    | $77.60  |\n| Má-tau-t'íen | 24   |       | 24    | $62.10  |\n| Mong-kok    | 21   |       | 21    | $63.10  |\n| Pok-fú-lam  | 74   |       | 74    | $368.29 |\n| Sai-ying-p'ún (English) | 90   |       | 90    | $155.90 |\n| Sai-ying-p'ún (Hákká) | 19   |       | 19    | $62.10  |\n| Shái-wán    | 38   |       | 38    | $63.60  |\n| Sham-shui-pò | 49   |       | 49    | $240.07 |\n| Shau-ki-wán | 51   |       | 51    | $110.60 |\n| Shek-ò      | 22   |       | 22    | $138.10 |\n| Shek-t'ong-tsui | 74   |       | 74    | $327.60 |\n| Stanley (English and Chinese) | 73   | 77    | 150   | $340.80 |\n| Tai-kok-tsui | 52   |       | 52    | $293.87 |\n| Tai-tam-tuk  | 11   |       | 11    | $48.10  |\n| Tai-wong-kung | 10   |       | 10    | $73.10  |\n| Tang-lung-chau (Hákká) | 52   |       | 52    | $321.65 |\n| Tang-lung-chau (Puntí) | 45   | 47    | 92    | $144.60 |\n| T'ò-kwá-wán (Hákká) | 61   | 54    | 115   | $259.60 |\n| T'ò-kwá-wán (Hokló) | 24   | 24    | 48    | $64.60  |\n| Ts'at-tai-múi | 24   |       | 24    | $57.10  |\n| Tung-lo-wán  | 13   |       | 13    | $53.60  |\n| Wan-tsai (English) | 103  |       | 103   | $321.35 |\n| Wong-kok-tsúi | 94   |       | 94    | $182.60 |\n| Wong-nai-ch'ung (English and Chinese) | 34   | 40    | 74    | $74.60  |\n| Yau-má-ti (English and Chinese) | 40   |       | 40    | $312.83 |\n\nTotal |  |  | 3112 | $17,625.86",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW\n\nIn this code to the local peculiarities of each individual Colony, are a clear proof that this code is but the natural and progressive out-growth of practical life, an a posteriori deduction from a complex mass of facts, not an a priori theory super-imposed upon the Colonies.\n\nThe very absence of a predetermined Colonial policy, the very disregard of the old exploded theory that schemes of policy and legislation are omnipotent and that things will go right when laws and regulations are made to make them go right, and finally the very diversity of systems tried by individual Governors in view of the special peculiarities of individual Colonies, secured a healthy atmosphere of liberty in the Colonial nurseries, where, powerful as the Governors might be, the governed had but to stand together and howl una voce to make the Imperial Government indulge them to any reasonable extent, if but for the sake of peace and quietness. The liberty thus given to emotional individuality, in both the governing and the governed, secured full play for the development of character in the administration of the several Colonial communities. That great lesson, taught by modern Sociology, that forms of government are valuable and successful only where they are vitalized by national and local character, is palpably verified and is the real explanation of the secret of success exhibited by the English Colonies in general and the Colony of Hongkong in particular.\n\nThis Colony of Hongkong, if any one asked her how she came into existence—how her executive, administrative, judicial, educational and even mercantile establishments were formed, would have no better answer to give than that of Topsy, \"I specs I growed.\" The abolition of the East-India Company, the obstinate hatred of the Chinese and the blind folly of the Macao Governments, unitedly compelled the English trade to take refuge in Hongkong; the Island was ceded to Great Britain, as much almost against the wishes of the English as the Chinese Government, in 1841, the cession being confirmed by the treaty of Nanking in 1842, and under the pressure of circumstances subsequently enlarged by the cession of a small slice of the opposite mainland, the Peninsula of Kaulung, by the treaty of Tientsin in 1861. This small barren island of Hongkong, counting but a few hundred inhabitants before 1841, rapidly became peopled by settlers from all parts of the world, English, Americans, Germans, French, Portuguese, Parsees, Hindoos, but principally by Chinese from the adjoining districts of the Canton and Fuhkien Provinces, amounting now to a total of 132,524 persons exclusive of the Naval and Military establishments. Nevertheless members of Parliament, as well as leading newspapers in England, are occasionally not quite sure whether Hongkong is one of the open ports of China, with a British Consul to represent English interests there, or actually a British Colony. The Colonial Office List, until a few years ago, used specially to state that \"Hongkong perhaps comes more under the designation of a trading station than that of a Colony,\" and the ordinary Englishman at home has but a hazy notion that Hongkong is somewhere near Timbuctoo or Timbuctoo somewhere near Hongkong.\n\nThese popular facts are but exponents of the truth, that the Colony of Hongkong came into the world like an uncalled-for and unwelcome addition to the family circle of English Colonies, that it was supplied with Governors, Magistrates, Judges, Schools and Prisons and all the other paraphernalia of government simply because, having once come into being, it had to be done something to, but all the same it was systematically ignored as long as possible. Thus this precocious baby, nailed Hongkong, was first helped into the world by Sir Charles Elliot (1841), nursed and kept barely alive by the reticent Sir Henry Pottinger (1842-1844), painfully taught its A B C of government and administration by the learned Sir John Davis (1844-1848), then after a quiet spell of rest under Sir George Bonham (1848-1854) it was taken to the schoolroom by that sham-Sinologist Sir John Bowring (1854-1859); at last having grown to years of discretion, there came the age of enlightened reason, with Sir Hercules Robinson and Mr. William T. Mercer (1859-1866); then followed some years of stern discipline and training at the hands of Sir Richard MacDonnell (1866-1871), until the youthful Colony of Hongkong enjoyed the blissful happiness of being actually made love to, though in a very quiet and dignified style, by \"the good\" Sir Arthur Kennedy (1872-1877).\n\nBy the preceding brief sketch I intended to give prominence to the lesson derived from history that British Colonies flourished because, and in so far as, the special requirements of each individual Colony received their due share of consideration by the representatives of legislation and government. If this proposition is granted, it will be easy to prove the necessary sequel, that in a Colony like Hongkong, where 95 per cent of the population are Chinese, severed by an immense abyss from the governing classes in manners, customs, religion and ways of thinking, being moreover totally ignorant of the language, laws and modes of procedure of the governing classes, that in such a Colony successful government depends upon the measure in which the governed classes, the Chinese, and the governing classes, the English, understand each other. In other words, English education among the Chinese people of the Colony, and Chinese knowledge among the English officials of Hongkong, are the two factors upon which the success of the general scheme of English colonial policy to a great extent depends as far as the Colony of Hongkong is concerned. To make good this proposition I propose in the first instance to review the progress of Anglo-Chinese studies in Hongkong from the foundation of this Colony to the present day; next I shall endeavour to state the present condition of affairs, with special reference to official interpretation in the Courts of Justice; and finally I shall venture to suggest some remedies.\n\n## CHINESE STUDIES AND OFFICIAL INTERPRETATION\n\nI. The early history of Hongkong (from 1842 to 1859) reveals a most distressing picture of official incapacity in high places and of immorality, rowdyism and general lawlessness among the great mass of the people. The successive governors of Hongkong were all men of high moral character, well meaning and intelligent, some even enjoying a European reputation as scholars of first rank, yet Ordinance after Ordinance was passed during the first fifteen years of the Colony, based either on a thorough misunderstanding or thorough disregard of the peculiar wants of the Colony, so that in January 1859 the legal advisers to the Secretary of State for the Colonies had to censure the local legislature for the careless manner in which British Acts of Parliament had been adopted in Hongkong. The heads of departments, during this period, were with scarcely a single exception men of culture and unimpeachable integrity, yet even so high an officer as a Colonial Secretary (Dr. Bridges) had to be put on his trial for bribery and corruption, an Attorney General (Mr. Austen) admitted in his letters to the Secretary of State that bribes had more than once been offered to himself, referring to which a Registrar General (Mr. Caldwell) publicly stated in his self-defence (p. 22) that there were (in 1852) \"some wealthy officers still in the police who are not strangers to the latter practice.\" Again and again native interpreters, employed at the Magistracy and in other departments, were dismissed for corrupt practices, but the cases of detection were probably few as compared with the amount of rascality carried on undetected. As to the native population, it is sufficient to state that Hongkong was up to the time of Sir Hercules Robinson (1859) the chief residence of smugglers and pirates, the paradise of gamblers, thieves, robbers and incendiaries. In 1846 an official notification \"advised\" all European residents to carry arms.",
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        "content_text": "They concur with His Lordship in thinking that permission should be granted to the above company to land in Hongkong, under the usual conditions, the cable which they propose to lay between Canton and that Colony. I have the honour to be, Your Sir, obedient Servant, J. Mol DRAFT.\n\nT4183 Hongkong\n**Confidential**\nSir J. Hennessy Hemy\n\nナ \nMr.\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\nducas. 10 March\nDe Robeck to.\nMr. Wingfield.\nMr. Bramston.\nMr. Meade.\nMr. Herbert.\nMr. Courtney.\nLord Kimberley.\n\nM. Bramston \nOn 2nd thoughts I would hold this deep back.\n\nCPL \nYes. The H.K. Canton cable will...\n\nhlaise \nImagin \n1878. qu. West \nblow \nSin \n\nWith reference to your telegram of March 1882. my ... to the celt. I have the honour to enclose for Your information a copy of a memo. which has been addressed both to this department and to the Foreign Office by the ... Clacton que of the ... FOREIGN ... holl...",
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        "content_text": "REGINA v. LOGAN.\n\nMr. Wise—Are they so much alike that if dressed in similar clothes a person strange to them might mistake one for the other?\n\nWitness—I know them both.\n\nIs there any similarity between the two? To a stranger there might be a little.\n\nFung Lan Kok said—I am a schoolmaster and keep a school above the Yen Wow Sun tea and silk hong, in Nam Ngon. I remember the 12th August; that morning about six or half past I was upstairs and I heard a woman crying in the street. I saw the woman from upstairs, and we had to push our way through them. About 20 feet down the cross-street we came upon the dead body of a Chinese boy about thirteen or fourteen years old lying on the pavement. I noticed that he was wounded but I did not look at the wound. I also saw a wounded Chinaman leaning against the wall nearer to the corner of the street. He was wounded on the hip at the back. At the time I formed an opinion that the boy's wound was caused by a shot. Later in the day I saw the boy's body again in the same place. I was then in company with Dr. Wales. I do not know what has become of Neilsen except by hearsay; I understand he is a Norwegian; as to Johnson, he says he is a Russian Finn. I knew a man in the Customs service of the name of Oehl; I believe he was taken from Canton to the Hongkong hospital, where he died; he was accompanied by Mr. Jochland and Mr. Von der Loiten.\n\nLater in the day I visited the prisoner's house in company with Mr. Duncan, the Constable. The prisoner's door is in the middle of the house. There was then a wire door on the outside, and a wooden door inside it. I do not remember whether there is a fan light over the door, but there are windows on both sides. I went in from the back, and going to the front I noticed that the front door was closed, with an iron bar across it. I disconnected the bell wire as it was constantly being pulled by someone outside. I noticed a lot of stones on the floor of the lower front room. There were about twenty, more or less.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Wise—The street was very much crowded when I first heard the noise in the street. The street was full, and there was great excitement and much shooting. I made out the word \"ta\" being called out. The reports of the revolver I heard came from the back of the house, I don't think they came from the street. I cannot say what Mr. Logan was firing into the pond for; there are lots of fish in the water. I did not see the prisoner fire in the street.\n\nMr. Wise—You saw the stones in the prisoner's house when you went there with the constable; how do you think they got there?\n\nWitness—In my opinion they were thrown there by Chinese. Someone in the crowd threw a stone towards me when I was looking out of my window. I have known the prisoner nearly two years, and as far as I know he has the best of characters. He is a quiet, peaceable man and not at all likely to create a disturbance. The prisoner was dressed in white that morning, Johnson in blue in a material called Spanish stripes, and Neilsen, I think, had a white suit. I do not know Neilsen well, but I have often seen him; he is a little taller than the prisoner and fairer, with a light moustache.\n\nThree foreigners. The woman was crying and the three foreigners put up their hands and told her to go away. They were standing in the street opposite the wire door, which was opposite the tea hong seven or eight Chinese feet towards the west. The woman did not go away, and the foreigners pushed her away, and one of them pointed a short firearm at the woman. One of these foreigners was the prisoner, and it was he who pointed the firearm. The woman was crying out, \"Taipan, you must heal me.\" Towards the east in the street there were ten or twenty Chinamen; some were standing on the bridge, some below the bridge, and some at the corner of my house. They were calling out and telling the woman not to walk away, and to tell the foreigners to heal her.\n\nThe Chinese did not do anything but cry out to the woman, and when the man with the firearm heard the noise of the people calling out he ran back into the house, and in an instant he brought out a long firearm, between one and two Chinese feet in length. Then someone from within the threshold gave him some cartridges with both hands, and then the boy who gave him the cartridges came to the door. The prisoner took the firearm and hastily went to the east. The people in the east ran, and the prisoner went on to the bridge and stood there. I saw him lower his body and heard the report of a firearm. I was frightened and went down and shut the window. I heard the people in the street say that someone was killed. It was the prisoner who fired. The stout one followed him at a distance of several Chinese feet, and the other was still farther back, several feet, than the stouter one. I did not see anything in their hands. The prisoner fired towards the east. After he had taken several steps the people ran to the east.\n\nThe Crown Advocate—Did any of them do anything to the prisoner or threaten him?\n\nWitness—No, they only called to the woman.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Wise—I only heard one shot fired. I had never seen the prisoner before that day. The prisoner had on white clothes, and the others both black coats and trousers.\n\nREGINA v. LOGAN,\n\n16\n\nteach my pupils to speak the truth, and I carry it out myself. I have spoken about the case to the Consul, but I have spoken of it to no one else. I keep a school and do not go out and in. The Crown Advocate objected to Mr. Wise's statement that there was a difference in the witness's statements; there was no difference between the two except some omissions in the statement before the Consul. He wished to have those depositions put in.\n\nMr. Wise said he was willing to accept the statement of the Crown Advocate.\n\nCross-examination continued—The boy handed a great many cartridges to the prisoner, but I did not see what he did with those he had left after loading the firearm. When I was before the Consul I told him I saw the prisoner lower his body at the bridge. I heard a report immediately after the prisoner lowered his body, but I did not see him pull the trigger, nor any smoke come from the weapon, as I am near-sighted.\n\nRe-examined by the Crown Advocate—When I was here before the Consul I answered all the questions that were put to me, and I answered truly, and to-day too. I saw with my own eyes the prisoner bring a longer firearm out of his house, also the foreigners push the woman. I saw with my own eyes the prisoner point the firearm, and heard with my own ears the woman cry out to the foreigners, \"Taipan, heal me,\" and I also heard with my own ears the crowd call to the woman to tell the foreigners to heal her. I have only stated to-day what I have seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears.\n\nMr. Ball, after interpreting this answer, said he heard someone hiss behind him when the witness gave his answer; he was not looking behind at the time, and did not see who it was.\n\nThere were several Chinese in the doorway near the witness.\n\nMr. Wise—Did you tell the Consul you saw the woman? Is not that something you have since learned?\n\nWitness—No, I am telling what I saw myself. I passed last night in my school.\n\nDid you say before the Consul that the expression \"Taipan, hoal mo\" was used?—No.\n\nDid you say the foreigner went into his house and got a firearm?—I said the foreigner stood at the door holding a firearm, and the boy handed him the cartridges.\n\nAnswer the question.—I do not remember clearly.\n\nYip A Piu, deposed—I am unemployed. I was a fruit seller. I remember the 12th August last; on that day I was residing in the chief street of Nam Nguo. I have seen the prisoner before; he was living in the same street as I was, my house being to the west of his about eight or ten houses.\n\nI saw three foreigners passing along the street, and when I saw this I ran also to the east to the cross-street. I passed the prisoner's house and the bridge, and turned into the cross-street, which is two or three cheong past the bridge. After a time I came out to look; I looked along the chief street to the west as far as the bridge. As I did so I saw a foreigner firing a firearm; he was at the bridge, and he was facing towards me when he did so. He was kneeling down with the firearm resting on his arm. I saw that myself. [Witness put himself in the position he described and rested his hand across his left arm in the way a revolver is sometimes rested.] I saw it projecting beyond his arm about...\n\nDid you say so or not?—I did say so.\n\nMr. Wise applied that the interpreter should read to the witness his deposition taken before the Consul, and then he repeated the question.\n\nWitness—It is so long ago that I do not remember; I think I must have said it.\n\nHis Lordship said he thought it was not important; if he had contradicted himself it would be a different thing. He could not say how it would affect the jury, but that was how it seemed to himself.\n\n22",
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        "content_text": "403 \n\nPrinted for the use of the Foreign Office. August 29, 1887. \n\n**C.0.** \n**19424** \n**RECP** \n**REG926 SEP 87** \n\nSir J. Walsham to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received July 25.) \n\nMy Lord, \n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith to your Lordship the second part of the Report, accompanied by a Map, which Mr. Bourne, until recently Her Majesty's Consular Agent at Ch'ungking, has drawn up relating to his journey in South-west China. \n\nPeking, May 27, 1887.\n\nAs I anticipated in transmitting the first part of this Report to the Earl of Rosebery in my despatch of the 22nd July last, the progress of Mr. Bourne's work was much delayed by the events connected with the outbreak at Ch'ungking last summer, but I am glad to say that he is still in a position to complete the Report, the other sections of which I shall have the honour of forwarding to your Lordship as soon as they are finished. \n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) **JOHN WALSHAM**\n\n## Inclosure 1. \n\n### Second Part of Report by Mr. F. S. A. Bourne relating to his Journey in South-west China. \n\n#### Part II.-Pi-chieh Hsien to Yünnan Fu. \n\nTHE second part of this Report with a Map was finished and lying packed for transmission when on the 1st July last my house at Ch'ungking was looted by the rioters and the packet lost, as well as the portion of my journal from Yunnan Fu to P'u-erh Fu and all my observations for longitude and latitude. It being thus impossible to construct original Maps I have copied the principal positions from the Map in Rocher's Yunnan. This and the next Map are merely intended to display, in convenient form, the contour observations. \n\nIn the interesting picture which the remembrance of the country between Pi-chieh Hsien and the plain of Yunnan Fu recalls to the traveller's mind, one of the most abiding features is the poverty-stricken look of the people. But this is really merely a matter of clothes, that is, of cotton. The district lies about halfway between the plain of the Lower Yang-tzu and Burmah, whence North Yünnan gets its cotton. \n\nA scanty population off the trade route, with nothing to offer in exchange but a little opium, the inhabitants of this part of the plateau, well off in some respects, are half-naked or in rags. Food is extraordinarily cheap in this part; eggs, for instance, costing a penny for fourteen and a fowl 3d. \n\nThis district was the border land between the Mahommedan rebellion in Yünnan and that of the Miao-tzu or Aborigines in Kuei-chou, and many places were taken and retaken by both hordes of rebels and by the Imperialists, each engagement ending in an indiscriminate slaughter and burning. The district between Pi-chieh and Hsuan-nei once flourished on the profits of silver and brass mining. The metals are still there the natives say, and I was invited over and over again to open works. The condition of the people will doubtless improve here, as in Chao-t'ong Fu on the north-west, when the mines are worked again. \n\nAfter passing the picturesque valley of the Chi-hsing River through narrow limestone gorges, we reached half-way between Chi-chia-nan and Hui-shui-tang, a place named \n\n[46]",
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        "content_text": "# 2\n\nTien-ch'iao (natural bridge), where a stream emerges from beneath limestone hills. Here there was once a flourishing silver mine, but the workings were buried by a landslip many years ago, as the natives said, since which the ore has only been worked by squatters, who wash it and send it away in small quantities to be smelted: the ore is said to yield both zinc and silver.\n\nSince scaling the plateau up to Hui-shui-t'ang the rocks have been the same, namely, limestone, generally argillaceous, and shale with sandstone only at the bottom of the deep valleys beneath the limestone. After Hui-shui-t'ang the argillaceous limestone is supplanted by a harder rock, apparently siliceous limestone. The gorges, bluffs, caves, and underground rivers that filled the landscape with romantic nooks and picturesque surprises now give way to broad valleys and hills, hard, round, and desolate. The villages are terribly poor. Some, as Yao-chang, were evidently once more considerable, for there are well-hewn blocks of limestone lying about that would not disgrace a London warehouse. But over a pile of such stones there are now nothing better than brushwood shanties, into which an English farmer would scruple to put a cow.\n\nOn the 18th November we reached Wei-ning Chon, which was burnt several times during the rebellion, a wretched place, commercially speaking, but interesting from its position on a lake, and from the fact of its being one of the highest towns in this part of the world (7,330 feet). I have put the lake into my sketch as it appears on the District Magistrate's Map, where it is described as follows:\n\n\"This was formerly a marsh, but has now become a water domain (lake), with a circuit of 100 miles (much indented). There are hills all round, much rock and sand, and a poor soil, cold and barren, not worth cultivation.\"\n\nI gathered from the people who came to gossip as I stood on the wall overlooking the lake, that the water encroached to its present size only in 1858. Before that date there had been no more than an inundation of a narrow basin round the river in summer, much the greater part of the present area of the lake being planted with mao pui (identified at Kew as *Panicum frumentaceum* Roxb., *P. Crus-Galli* var.). The same year an attempt was made to drain the lake to the north-west, and a hill was cut through with that object; but the attempt failed, for hail or other like phenomena always stopped the work, showing that it was the will of Heaven that their fields should remain flooded. It is probable that the cause of the lake's extension is the blocking up of an underground channel as at T'ung-tzŭ Hsien (see last part of this Report).\n\nOn the way down to the lake at Wei-ning we noticed for the first time a deposit which is a distinctive feature of the Yunnan plateau—a loamy earth of a warm red colour which lies high up in the hills in sheltered places—in gullies, for instance—as well as on the floor of the valleys where it has been cut through by water as by a knife, leaving vertical sides often more than 100 feet in height. Sometimes it bears clear evidence of deposit by water and sometimes appears almost granular, so as to remind one of descriptions of the loess of Shansi. It has evidently never been subjected to pressure. Wherever it has been washed away limestone appears beneath. This bright-coloured earth, pleasant to walk and ride upon and well stocked with game, is one reason amongst many which make the plain of the Yunnan lakes a pleasant land to the European traveller.\n\nA large sheet of water is always interesting to dwellers in mid-continent; but this lake supplied us with bodily as well as mental food, so as to impress itself on the memory of the whole party; the water-fowl were easy to get at and of excellent flavour; while the question where all this water came from baffled comprehension and excited curiosity. A few miles to the south-west, at Lien-san-p'o, the road reaches an elevation of 7,770 feet, the highest point touched during the present journey, beyond which the country drains towards the K'o-tu River. On the north side the line of water parting appears to be only a few miles distant from the lake, and the lake is said to drain off towards the north-west. There may be very high land somewhere on the east to reward the traveller of the future's time to leave the road.\n\nFrom Lien-san-p'o to the K'o-tu River, a distance of about 27 miles, there is a descent of 2,550 feet. This stream is about 30 yards across where we passed it, but with a bed at least 100 yards broad, strewn with blocks of shale, sandstone, and limestone, but of no rocks of igneous or volcanic origin.\n\nThe boundary between the Yunnan and Kuei-chou Provinces is formed by a brook that joins the K'o-tu River on its left bank, and then by a range of hills that meets the river west of the crossing. The bridge referred to in the name K'o-tu-ch'iao is that over the brook. On the way down to the river we passed two human heads in cages, blackened by months' exposure. They had belonged to men in General Pao's force, who had plundered an officer's baggage. These heads had done good service, for the whole army had the advantage of passing within two yards of them.\n\nThe descent to the river much resembled that to the Ch'ih-shui River, but was shorter and steeper.\n\nAs soon as the K'o-tu River is crossed the inevitable ascent begins, and in 8 miles, covering an ascent of 2,100 feet, the water parting between the K'o-tu and the T'ang-t'ang streams is reached at an altitude of 7,420 feet above the sea; and a further 7 miles, covering a descent of 1,590 feet, the latter part very steep, bring us to the dilapidated village of T'ang-tang, once a famous mining township. There are many disused copper-mines, but very little is being done at present. The same story was told us here as everywhere else, that nothing was wanted but capital.\n\nI should have mentioned that on the 12th November, at Ta-che-p'ing we met numbers of Lolos, or, as they are here more politely called, I-chia (barbarian families) (see Lolo Vocabulary, No. 1). They are very numerous in this part of the plateau; the men wear the Chinese dress, and can usually speak Chinese. There being no mining to inspect at T'ang-tang, I went for a walk with my Chinese clerk to inquire about the Lolos, and if possible discover a man who could write their character, when, while standing in the dry bed of the stream that runs past the village, I saw a man riding down a mountain-path towards us on a good pony, with big brass stirrups, and two mounted servants behind him. A boy who was following me thereupon said, \"You were asking about the I-chia; look, there is the T'u-ssŭ (aboriginal Chief) coming into town.\" I went back to the inn at once, and sent my writer to make friends with the T'u-ssŭ, and, if possible, bring him in to see me, which he succeeded in doing.\n\nThe T'u-ssŭ was a heavy-featured, stolid man, with whom it was difficult to make way. After time and native spirit had taken the edge off his dulness and suspicion, he gave us an account of the wrongs he and his tribe had suffered lately at the hands of the Mahommedan Chinese who were encroaching on his lands, ending with a request that I would go and see a youth of his tribe who had just been half-killed in an affray. We found a youth of 18, who had just been brought into the village for treatment, lying on a leather mattress spread on the floor in the middle of the room, alongside a wood fire. He had bad sword cuts on the shin, knee, and wrist. The wounds had been covered by an aboriginal practitioner with a plaster of simples, which it would not have been prudent to remove, so I gave him the safe advice not to drink and smoke too much, and left some carbolic oil to be applied when the dressing was removed. The T'u-ssŭ was now my friend, and invited me to go back with him to his place in the country, within a few miles of which there lived, he said, a perma, or sorcerer, who could write the Lolo character.\n\nWhen I got up next morning it was raining cats and dogs. However, the chance was too good to be lost, so at 7 A.M. I went round with one servant. The T'u-ssŭ was in bed, and we had the pleasure of seeing him make his toilet. I was now very much afraid that he would delay our departure, because of the rain which was falling in torrents; not at all; our stolid friend walked straight out and had the horses brought round, without even remarking that it was raining. We followed a bridle-path that crossed torrents and wound round the edge of precipices, sometimes riding through water up to the horses' knees, sometimes toiling on foot through mud over the ankle. We had gone on thus for about three hours, but our host still said his house was far ahead. About 11 o'clock my servant urged that we could go no further, as we should not have time to get back to the inn, a matter of some importance to him, for he would not touch food in the houses of the Lolos, for fear of being poisoned. Just as I had decided that we must turn back we came in sight of a cottage, which our host indicated as the abode of his sorcerer, where I persuaded him to introduce us. The perma was unfortunately thirty miles away, officiating at a funeral, but his wife and brother were in the house, and five or six other Lolos soon arrived from cottages higher up the hill. The distance of the Chief's house still remaining an uncertain quantity I excused myself from going further, and set to work to learn what I could from the Lolos present.\n\nAs it was cold and we were wet through, wood was thrown on the fire, round which we sat eating walnuts—the only food to be got. The Chief lay down and smoked opium. About the sounds given in the Vocabulary (Lolo No. 2) of these people's language I am fairly confident, because the six or seven Lolos present were all agreed about them. The perma's brother, our host, could not write; but he professed to be able to pick out a character here and there in his brother's MSS. I copied the following characters from his indication, but he was not very clear about them, and they must be accepted with some doubt:\n\n# 3",
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        "content_text": "## OCR Proofread Text\n\nThe brother told me that the MSS. contained nothing but religious forms, charms, and such like--the only purpose, so far as I have heard, for which the Lolos employ their writing. I now begged one of the MSS. The wife and brother of the absent perma both saw insuperable obstacles, but the T'u-ssu overruled their objections and insisted that I should have one. This MS. is now in the British Museum.\n\nThese Lolos had bigger and more irregular features than average Chinese. The colour of the skin seemed much the same, but the eyes were deeper sunk. They are divided into three tribes, known in Chinese as \"Hei,\" \"Pai,\" and \"Kan\" (Black, White, and Dry) Lolo, or I-jên, a meaningless distinction, but corresponding to a real tribal division apparently. They believe in a future state of retribution, burn the dead, worship their ancestors with the sacrifice of an ox, and have no idols. Four pieces of brown paper were said to represent the potentialities of the other world, and three sticks of bamboo their ancestors.\n\nThe Tang-tang River is an insignificant stream, but has a broad bed covered with débris from the hills, and is, like the K'o-tu River, no doubt a formidable stream in the rains. At Shih-ya-k'ou we passed the first cart I had seen since leaving Shanghae. This cart we took to be a promise of better things, for it was of such a clumsy construction, with solid wooden wheels, which were worn unevenly into oblate form, that no power of bullock could have dragged it over the roads we had passed. And, sure enough, a turn from the village brought us on to a plain, so that we had actually before us a level horizon--the first that I had set eyes on since leaving I-ch'ang. For the next 10 miles, to the first town in the Yunnan Province--Hsüan-wei Chou--our road ran over an expanse of dry red loam, with scarcely a house or tree in sight.\n\nHsüan-wei Chou is a town about which a pioneer of commerce cannot find much to say. My Chinese clerk went out as usual, armed with samples, to discover what the inhabitants paid for foreign imports, but returned to say that the only trade was in hams, and that there was no one in the place worth $200.\n\nThis plain has been almost cleared of wood, probably at the time of the rebellion, when 200,000 men are said to have been encamped here. But the lack of wood in the neighbourhood of towns is the rule in Yünnan. After the ascent from T'ang-t'ang on to the plain coal is met no more, and during the next three months which we are to spend in the Yunnan Province coal will only be once met with (at Lin-yan Fu). Nearly all the towns burn wood, which the Lolos and other inferior races bring in for sale, often having to go 5 miles from the town to find it. On the other hand, in Kuei-chou and Ssu-ch'uan, coal is found everywhere.\n\nEveryone one meets is armed here. Between Hsüan-wei Chou and Chau-i Chou we met a man carrying a weapon I had never seen before, but which I found afterwards to be very common all over the Yunnan Province. It is a rod of iron about 3 feet long, with a sword handle at one end, and at the other a bar at right angles to the rod about 5 inches long, pointed and sharpened on the inner edge. Asked what it was for and how used, the man replied for men or wild beasts it would give a stab by striking or a cut by pulling. This weapon is called `kou-lien` (hook).\n\nThere is plenty of food for the gun in this part, and probably for the rifle. The lakes are covered with water-fowl, and the country infested by an enormous bird with black head, black tips to feathers, and slate-coloured body called `ching-chuang` or `huo` by the Chinese, probably a kind of crane. I noticed a Proclamation by the Magistrate of Ma-lung Chou offering a reward of 2 dollars each for wild dogs, whatever that may mean, and other beasts who attack children and dig up dead bodies.\n\nAt Ma-lung our road unites with the main western road which runs across China from Hankow to Burmah. This part of it has been described by several travellers, and need not detain us.\n\nAt Yang-lin I noticed for the first time a curious custom that appears widely spread over Western China. Wherever there is an overhanging ledge of rock the coolies brought bits of wood and twigs of trees to prop it up. Under some of these ledges there are hundreds of such diminutive supports; the only explanation I could get was that if they helped the rock it would help them in return, and save them from aching feet and back.\n\nOn the 3rd December we reached Yünnan Fu, the capital of the province, a bright and clean city for China, evidently containing a well-to-do population. The straight broad streets, new p'ai-fangs blazing in gorgeous colours, and gaily dressed women, who affect light blue gowns with bright red linings to the sleeves, and a red band round the ankle, set off by the magnificent clear bright weather, were very striking after the narrow streets and sombre blue clothing of Ssu-ch'uan.\n\nAlthough the city has an altitude of 6,420 feet fever is not unknown, and several of our party suffered badly. The north of Yunnan has a climate probably as suited to Europeans as any in this part of the world. It should be noted that Yunnan Fu is situated on a lake which is at the bottom of a gentle but somewhat extensive depression. I was told that formerly there was no outlet for the water of this basin, and that only in the thirteenth century was the canal cut which now carries the water from the south-west side of the lake into a stream that flows north to the Yang-tzu, and is shown on Mr. Baber's chart west of Anning-chou.\n\nIt is impossible to convey a clear idea of the commercial capabilities of this city without giving a general sketch of the configuration of the great plateau on which it stands, and thus anticipating the latter portions of this Report. This plateau, if so it may be called, for it is everywhere broken by hills and cut through by rivers, and in some parts even traversed by mountain ranges, is on the eastern slope from the Himalayas to the China Sea, and is nearly conterminous with the Chinese Provinces of Yunnan and Kuei-chou. To show the nature of the ground, I cannot do better than make a circuit of the routes that lead to Yunnan Fu. Starting with the road we have followed, reference to Part I of this Report will show that navigation from the Yang-tzu ended at Yung-ning Hsien, 1,060 feet above the sea, and that in two stages the road reached an elevation of 4,340 feet, and touched 7,770 feet before Yünnan Fu was reached. Next to the west comes the route by Chao-t'ong Fu; here navigation from the Yang-tzu ceases before Lao-wa-t'an (Baber, 1,140) is reached; and the route passes Chao-t'ong Fu (Baber, 6,580) and Tung-ch'uan Fu (Baber, 7,190). West of this comes the neck of high land that connects the plateau with the Thibetan uplands traversed by the Hui-li Chou (Baber, 6,000) route, and by the Wei-hsi route. (See Gill's \"River of Golden Sand,\" vol. ii, p. 255.)\n\nFrom Bhamo (430), the terminus of the navigation of the Irrawaddy, the great Burmese trade route runs through Têng-vueh Chou (5,540), Yung-ch'ang Fu (5,880), and Ta-li Fu (6,550). The next route is that by the valley of the Shui-li, past Lung-ling Chou, by which there is said to have been once a considerable traffic, killed since the rebellion. Next comes the caravan route by way of the valley of the Mekong, to Ssu-mao (4,480), and on to Yunnan Fu by an extraordinarily difficult road (see Sketch 3). The next route is that by the Red River, through Lao-kai and Mêng-tzu Hsien. Mêng-tzu is on the southern edge of the plateau, with an elevation of 4,530 feet, from which to Lao-kai there must be a descent of something like 3,500 feet. Next comes the Canton West River, by Po-sé (530)--two days above which the navigation comes to an end--to Kuang-nan Fu (4,310). To the east again is the Kwang-si land route, which passes through Ch'ing-yuan Fu (490), and Tu-shan Chou (3,460), to Kuei-yang Fu, the capital of the Kuei-chou Province. Next comes the great western road from Hankow, traversed by Margary, which follows the Tung-ting Lake and the Yuan River to Chên-yuan Fu (altitude not known), where navigation ceases. From Chên-yuan Fu the traffic is by caravan to Kuei-yang Fu (3,530). Lastly, there is the route between Ssu-ch'uan and Kuei-yang Fu, by a tributary of the Yang-tzu to Chi-chiang Hsien (880), where navigation ceases, through Tung-tzu Hsien (3,020) to Kuei-yang Fu.\n\nIt appears, then, that Yunnan and Western Kuei-chou are very nearly conterminous.\n\n[496]\n405",
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        "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\npockets, but that you wish to do away, as much as possible, with needless Sunday labour (Loud applause). That, I think, you have a right to do. It is my firm opinion that you have a right to do this, because you'll only be asking for that which men somewhat similarly situated as yourselves already have conceded to them. I refer to Europeans in this port who are engaged in directing Chinese workmen, and in this connection, I specially refer to foremen in the employ of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company. These men, such as engineers, ship-wrights, moulders, and boiler-makers, are indeed well educated. They are \"picked\" men from home, experts at their profession, who came out here on fixed liberal salaries, and are granted double pay for Sunday and all overtime work. I think, therefore, that you will be perfectly right in asking for, and expecting, extra pay for unnecessary labour on Sunday—the working of cargo in port on Sunday. (Hear, hear). I know a good many of these Dock employees, and have asked them for their opinion on this very question, and they all assured me that they would rather forego the extra pay than work on Sunday. The Sunday is as dear to us as it is to them. I will now ask you a question, as a representative body of officers, and I want you to answer me truly and conscientiously. Which would you rather receive, extra pay for Sunday labour or be sure of your Sunday to yourselves?\" (Shouts of \"free Sunday,\" \"no Sunday labour,\" and applause).\n\nContinuing, the Speaker said—I am informed that the members of the Public Works Department of this Colony receive extra pay for Sunday and all overtime work. I am confident that in asking for this extra pay from your owners, you will, in respect to unnecessary Sunday labour, carry with you the full sympathy not only of men similarly situated as yourselves, but also of the general public as well. I don't say that you should ask for this at once, for it will be better that you should discuss it amongst yourselves at ordinary meetings, so that every member may have an opportunity of expressing his candid opinion upon the subject. Should owners concede this extra pay, it will be a small step gained towards what we still hope to attain—the compulsory cessation of labour in this harbour on Sunday (Loud cheers). That, Gentlemen, is all you can do at present to forward this Sunday labour question. I don't think you'll get much money by the request for extra pay, but you'll be pretty sure to get more Sundays to yourselves (Laughter and applause), for it will be the object of owners and agents to avoid this extra pay if possible. By doing as I suggest, you will receive the tacit gratitude of all shipping clerks and all people on shore, who have necessarily to attend to the business of unnecessary Sunday labour on board ship (Applause).\n\nOn this question, I would, than the Rev. Mr. Goldsmith—although it may be presumptuous on my part—and go further say that I entirely disagree with their Excellencies who have laid it down that compulsory legislation in this connection is inadvisable. It would, I am sure, be beneficial.\n\n## The Benefits of Stopping it.\n\nI honestly believe that if Sunday labour was compulsorily stopped, both ashore and afloat, it would result in lasting benefit to the inhabitants of this Colony. I believe that if the Government of the Colony passed such an Act, the Act to come in force say one year after its passage through the Legislative Council, the Chinese themselves would have time to weigh this question, and might be by that time assured of the benefits of such legislation. My experience of Hongkong has not been brief; it has been that of a great number of years, and I can truly say that I have never known any innovation in the law to be passed which was of lasting benefit to the Chinese in particular that was not virtually forced upon the community. Doubtless, as soon as the first inkling of such a law was caught by the masses, we should hear an outcry and wail from the entire Chinese community, who would urge that the foreigners were trying to force upon them laws which were entirely opposed to their religious instincts, and would go on to predict that by the passage of such laws the Colony would be utterly ruined.\n\nWe should hear that every shop-keeper, labourer, contractor, and boatman would be robbed of 52 days' pay every year! Gentlemen, I've heard such wails, such lamentations, before—these baseless forecasts of utter ruin. In fact, whenever any great innovation of the law is forced upon the Chinese, they invariably object to it. I remember about the year 1865 a great fire occurred in the west part of this Colony. All the Chinese quarter, in fact, the whole town from the great cross roads for at least quarters of a mile, the houses were razed to the ground. It was, in fact, one of the largest and most disastrous fires ever known in Hongkong. In the fire of '78, too, the Chinese were heavy sufferers, because they were not insured. They did not understand the system of insurance then, as they do now. But the losses by fire did not worry our Celestial friends nearly so much as the fact of a law being passed which enacted that the Chinese tenements should be constructed in modern style with fire-proof walls, etc., etc. The Chinese offered strenuous objections to this, and all sorts of ridiculous rumours of calamity floated about. However, the houses were built as now seen, and no great ruin, in fact, no loss at all befell this Colony. The upshot was, that the Chinese themselves admitted that the new law was really very beneficial in its operation.\n\nI have known of several outcries and prognostications of utter ruin raised in this Colony respecting certain Ordinances before the Council. Such laws, in the face of violent opposition, have invariably been passed, and none of this utter ruin has come about; on the contrary, increased prosperity has been the net result. I remember a particularly loud wail when not only the Chinese but also nine-tenths of the Europeans joined in the outcry. They said that the Colony would be ruined, property depreciate in value, whole families be brought down to the lowest condition of poverty, the junk trade leave us, and, in fact, that chaos would reign supreme here. This, Gentlemen, was at the time Sir Richard MacDonnell insisted on the passage of the Stamp Act. At the time he came here as Governor, the finances of this Colony were in a most deplorable condition—bankruptcy stared the Government in the face. Sir Richard decided that to raise revenue, a Stamp Act must be passed. \"What,\" said the people, \"have a Stamp Act? Why, to do so would be to bring utter ruin upon the town! Not only did the Chinese set up this howl, but fully nine-tenths of the Europeans joined in the chorus. Nevertheless, Sir Richard, a man of strong will, got his Ordinance through, and six months later the Chinese and Europeans were loud in their praises of the operation of the new law. So, you see, compulsory legislation has hitherto benefited this Colony, and I am convinced that were the Government to pass a law respecting the cessation of Sunday labour, it would eventually be a blessing to every man, woman, and child in Hongkong.\n\n## The Chinese will appreciate it.\n\nNo doubt we shall, in such case, hear the usual wails; but if the law is passed and in operation for a year, I believe every Chinese workman would by that time heartily appreciate his Sunday, just as much as his white fellow in Europe. (Applause). No amount of talking or persuasion will induce him to believe it though—it must be forced upon him. Having had to obey such a law for a year, it would dawn upon the Chinese that they were not robbed of 52 days' pay, but that they were actually getting seven days' pay for six days' labour. At the year's end, if you asked a coolie or a stone-cutter or a boatman to work on Sunday, he would promptly tell you that such labour being unusual, he could only undertake it provided you gave him a double pay! I am aware that you cannot make a man moral or virtuous by Act of Parliament, but you can make him cleaner and healthier by the operation of laws; and being cleaner and healthier, he will be stronger and better able to work. One day of rest out of seven will make him a better man in many ways; and that should be undoubted by all reasonable men (Applause). I trust, gentlemen, that we shall all live to see the day when in no part of Her Majesty's dominions it will not be compulsory for every man to take one day's rest out of seven, except in such cases where labour is absolutely necessary in the interest of the general weal of the community at large (applause); and that, too, by direct command of Her Majesty the Queen (loud applause).\n\nWith a cordial vote of thanks to the Chairman for his very interesting address, proposed by Mr. Maddox and seconded by Mr. St. John, the proceedings terminated, after the announcement that on Tuesday, the 9th instant, there would be a general discussion upon the Sunday labour question.\n\nTHE Sunday Labour question in Hongkong has assumed a new phase by its adoption as an important portion of the platform of the Hongkong Mercantile Marine Officers' Association, and it is hardly too much to say that the practical abolition of this anything but creditable relic of old time slavery in a British Colony has at last been placed within measurable distance. For the work that takes place in Hongkong harbour every Sunday—requiring shipping offices being...",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nOffice \n\nBrought forward | 70026 | 5988 \nR. E. Eager Overseer | 180 \nFolder | \nSalary Allowed Remarks. \nOffice. \nJ. Comple Overseer | 960 \nét. Mason | 720 \nA. A. Nino. | 960 \net. Mason | 720 \nD. Haywood | 720 \nHolder. | 600 \n\nSalary Allows Remarks. \nBrought forward. | 68074 | 63844 \nJ. Coyle | 420 \nA. C. Solomon | 365 \nAssistant Foremen. Foreman \nW. Samuel | 300 \nAssistant Foremen. Foreman \nS. J D'almeida | 480 \nC. Grant | 360 \nVacant | 360 \nA. Jan Lum Kok. | 200 | 300 \nA. Lin | \nJ. Abraham | 240 \nLi Fook | 144 \nFoo A lung Lo A pio. | 108 \nM. Samuel | 300 | 360 \n| 360 | 300 \n| 300 | 300 \n| 240 | 180 \n| 144 | 120 \n| 108 \n\nWater Works. \nJuspector \nF.D. Draper | 720 \nWatchman at Jaitam \nE. Lewis | 648 \nPokfulam \nV. St. Thompson | 300 \nWatchman at Pokfulam \n| \nTaitam Filter Beds \nBowl Sing Tytan | 240 \nAdam Moosa | 240 \nReservoir \nWatchman at Faitan \nPikpulan \nFaitan Filter Backs \nPokfulam \nWatchman at Tytam Reservoir \n| 720 | 600 \nWhen opportunity recur, \n| 240 \n| 240 \nWong Chine | 84 \nLi ä Kai | \nYip | 84 \n\nForward | 79595 | 6168 \nForward. | 76114 | 6384",
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        "content_text": "Habent of\n\nhundred.\n\nlabour\n\nGlassworks' hospital under the management.\n\nThe Tung Wah Committee became seriously overcrowded, there being some 200 patients in a building capable of holding about a hundred owing to the great scarcity of accommodation, it was necessary to build refuge huts fast. The new building recently finished for a Pig and Fowl Dépôt has about to be placed at the disposal of the Sanitary Board and the Staff of the Bacteriological branch. The hospital had offered its services to the Government.\n\nI was heartened, however, before these transfers could be effected, factors of the Benevolent Hospital at Canton, through the agency of the Viceroy, requested that any sick Chinese subjects who were British subjects and were sent to Canton on vessels in case of death, their corpses might be forwarded in specially prepared junks to their native villages.\n\nSeveral of the compradors employing large numbers of coolies also requested that they might be allowed to take the sick, wherever found, to Canton and they also gave a pledge that if at that time remitted they would remain in this Colony, and not take part in the general exodus. Failing that permission, they would have to leave at once, thus placing the banks and houses of businesses in an even more precarious position than they were at the time the application was made.\n\nAfter serious consideration, I did not feel justified in acceding to their requests. It is true that the Chinese hospital was considerably overcrowded, and that the Chinese doctors had not proved that they were capable of dealing with the plague, whereas there was no doubt that compliance with the request would have more or less defeated the efficiency of the house-to-house visitation, and that cases of sickness would not have been reported to the Police as they were then and are now obliged to be.\n\nAfter consultation with my Executive Council, the majority of members agreed with me.",
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        "content_text": "Not to suction to subs. (3) Infaction of Dedinaes bet Intruction cospondy (3) f with the subs, (4) Home to compounding, and tim Ordinamen for on section b. den frem, Drawi AR • 2679 jiven above ...\n\nHowa ofer From im 10 the ducision asting for with. Identical auctio Home -2 Z 71879 act of 1879 No person shall old. wonder exording porally not £20. Identical Dec. f with of Home Act 7.7878 No form shall tandar eta not £20. small excording to 8.12 of Equivalent Hom pain lage but, regt of 170 en tim dok setter Might diffe from Moun s.13 th f Public analysi Mis Ju Fate or derated Att donate to llege pr chatur a.avalk. 11219 Vie. 30, &.) Fently d compound. ford or crite. 194 & 32 Vio. e. 53, B. 7.) Proportion Bende offence by Prot.biz sainen the Khalation of Buy part of NT tinta of foli Before lo nix. Porter in Porcha or sell of food or drug to inse ft,nalysed I, 18.3 Of anted A: food ar deng count c analyst. (this,13)\n\nProvisions for dealing with Purclused.\n\n(1) Where any matter or ingredient not injurions to bealth has been added to the food or drng because the same is required for the production or prepuration thereof us an article of commerce, in a state fit for carriage or consump tion, and not fraudulently to increase the buik, weight, or mousure of the food or drug, or conceal the inferior quality thereof;\n\n(2) Where the drug or food is a proprietary medicine, or is the subject of a patent in force, and is supplied in the state required by the specifica- tion of the patent;\n\n(3) Where the food or drug is unavoidably mixed with some extraneons matter in the process of collection or preparation.\n\n7. In any prosecution under the provisions of this Ordinance for selling to the prejudice of the purchaser any article of food or any drug which is not of the nature, substance, and quality of the article demanded by such purchaser, it shall be no defence to any such prosecution to allege that the purchaser, having bought only for analysis, was not prejudiced by such sale. Neither shall it be a good defence to prove that the article of food or drug in question, though defective in nature or in substance or in quality, was not defective in all these respects.\n\n8. Any person, who shall sell any compound article of food or compounded drug which is not composed of ingredients in accordance with the demand of the purchaser, shall be liable in every case, upon summary conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and in default of payment of the said fine to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months with or without hard labour.\n\n9. Provided that no person shall be guilty of any such offence as aforesaid in respect of the sale of an article of food or a drug mixed with any matter or ingredient not injurious to health, and not intended to fraudulently increase its bulk, weight, or measure, or conceal its inferior quality, if at the time of delivering such article or drug he shall supply to the person receiving the same a notice, by a label distinctly and legibly written or printed on or with the article or drug, to the effect that the same is mixed.\n\n10. Any person who shall, with the intent that the same may be sold in its altered state without notice, abstract from an article of food any part of it so as to affect injuriously its quality, substance, or nature, and any person who shall sell any article so altered without making disclosure of the alteration, shall be liable in every case, upon summary conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and in default of payment of the said fine to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months with or without hard labour. Any person selling \"skimmed milk\" to a purchaser demanding \"milk\" shall be liable to the same punishment.\n\n11. Any purchaser or seller of an article of food or of a drug shall be entitled, upon payment of the sum of five dollars to the Government analyst or to any analyst appointed by the Governor for the purposes of this Ordinance, to have such article analyzed by such analyst, and to receive from him a certificate of the result of his analysis.\n\n12. Any inspector of nuisances, or inspector of weights and measures, or inspector of markets, or any police constable acting under the written instructions of the Secretary to the Sanitary Board or of the Captain Superintendent of Police or of the Medical Officer of Health may, at the cost of the Government, procure any sample of food or drugs, and, if he suspect the same to have been sold to him contrary to any provision of this Ordinance, shall submit the same to be analysed by the Government analyst or by some analyst appointed by the Governor for the purposes of this Ordinance, and such analyst shall, upon receiving payment as is provided in the last section, with all convenient speed analyse the same, and shall give a certificate to such officer, wherein he shall specify the result of the analysis.\n\n13. 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        "content_text": "VERORDNUNG\n\nBETREFFEND DIE BEFÖRDERUNG CHINESISCHER PASSAGIERE AUF DEUTSCHEN SCHIFFEN IN DEN ÖSTASIATISCHEN GEWAESSERN.\n\n2.7.\n\nBei Abfahrt des Schiffes sollen für jeden Passagier pro Tag der durch das Kaiserliche Vice-Consulat festzustellenden Normal-Reisedauer an Bord mindestens vorhanden sein:\n\nReis 600 Gramm.\n\nGerörrter oder gesalzener Fisch 150\n\nGemüse 250\n\nWasser 4.5 Liter.\n\n136\n\n1.\n\nDeutsche Segel-und Dampfschiffe, welche mehr als 30 Chinesische Passagiere von Swatow aus nach Cochin-China, Siam, den Spanischen, Holländischen oder Englischen Besitzungen Ostasiens befördern, sind den nachfolgenden Bestimmungen unterworfen.\n\n# 2.\n\nFür jeden über 12 Jahre alten Passagier, bezw. für je zwei jüngere Passagiere zwischen 1 und 12 Jahren müssen wenigstens freigehalten werden:\n\n1, auf SEGELSCHIFFEN, welche während der Monate October bis März einschliesslich auslaufen, sowie auf DAMPFERN ohne Unterschied der Jahreszeit,\n\na, für ZWISCHENDECKS-PASSAGIERE eine Fläche von 0.84 Quadratmetern = 9 Englischen Quadratfuss und ein Hohlraum von 1.53 Kubikmetern = 54 Englischen Kubikfuss im Zwischendeck, sowie ausserdem eine Fläche von 0.37 Quadratmetern = 4 Englischen Quadratfuss auf dem Oberdeck,\n\nb, für DECK-PASSAGIERE eine Fläche von 1.11 Quadratmetern = 12 Englischen Quadratfuss auf dem Oberdeck,\n\n2, auf SEGELSCHIFFEN, welche während der Monate April bis September einschliesslich auslaufen:\n\na, für ZWISCHENDECKS-PASSAGIERE eine Fläche von 1.11 Quadratmetern = 12 Englischen Quadratfuss und ein Hohlraum von 2.15 Kubikmetern = 72 Englischen Kubikfuss im Zwischendeck, sowie ausserdem eine Fläche von 0.49 Quadratmetern = 5.3 Englischen Quadratfuss auf dem Oberdeck,\n\nb, für DECK-PASSAGIERE eine Fläche von 1.49 Quadratmetern = 16 Englischen Quadratfuss.\n\nHerrschen ansteckende Krankheiten im Einschiffungshafen, so kann die nach den Bestimmungen dieses Paragraphen erlaubte Anzahl der vom Schiffe zu führenden Passagiere durch die Kaiserliche Konsularbehörde des Einschiffungshafens zeitweilig beschränkt werden.\n\n# 3.\n\nBei Berechnung des den Passagieren auf dem Oberdeck zuzutheilenden Raumes ist der für die Leitung des Schiffes erforderliche Raum vorher in Abzug zu bringen.\n\nChinesische Köche und Supercargos gelten für Passagiere.\n\n# 4.\n\nDer für weibliche Passagiere im Zwischendeck bestimmte Raum soll von demjenigen für die männlichen Passagiere getrennt sein.\n\n# 5.\n\nEine angemessene Lokalität ist als Krankenraum zu reserviren und als solcher in entsprechender Weise herzurichten.\n\n# 6.\n\nDas Zwischendeck soll gehörig ventilirt, das Schiff mit Latrinen, Kochplätzen und ordnungsmässig befestigten Leitern zwischen Ober-und Zwischendeck in ausreichender Weise, mit wenigstens zwei Rettungsboyen und nach Verhältniss der eingenommenen Passagiere mindestens mit der nachstehenden Anzahl von Booten versehen sein:\n\nAuf 300 Passagiere\n\nBrennholz (bezw. entsprechende Quantität Kohlen) 1 Kilogramm.\n\n28.\n\nDie Schiffe müssen den Verhältnissen entsprechend mit Arzneimitteln versehen sein. Über Art und Menge derselben entscheiden erforderlichen Falles Aerzte.\n\n# 9.\n\nPassagiere und deren Gepäck dürfen erst nach Einnahme der gesammten Ladung an Bord Aufnahme finden.\n\n/ 10.\n\nSpätestens 3 Tage vor der Ausclarirung und zwar vor Einnahme der Passagiere hat der Schiffer den Namen des Schiffes, die Grössenverhältnisse der Decke und den Bestimmungshafen des Schiffes dem Kaiserlich Deutschen Vice-Consulate anzugeben, worauf diese Behörde erforderlichen Falles nach Besichtigung des Schiffes die höchst erlaubte Zahl der vom Schiffe zu führenden Passagiere bezeichnet. Unmittelbar vor Abgang des Schiffes hat der Schiffer die Anzahl der Passagiere dem Kaiserlich Deutschen Vice-Consulate zu bezeichnen und Letzteres dieselben an Bord zählen zu lassen. Sind die Vorschriften dieser Verordnung sämmtlich erfüllt, so werden die Schiffspapiere nebst einer amtlichen Bescheinigung über die Zahl der thatsächlich eingenommenen, sowie die höchst erlaubte Anzahl der vom Schiffer zu führenden Passagiere dem Schiffer ausgehändigt, welcher diese Bescheinigung demnächst an die Deutsche Consularbehörde des Bestimmungshafens abzuliefern hat.\n\n# 11.\n\nNach Empfangnahme dieser Bescheinigung seitens des Schiffers im Abgangshafen dürfen weitere Passagiere nicht ohne Bewilligung des Vice-Consulates aufgenommen werden.\n\n12. Für jede Zuwiderhandlung gegen diese Verordnung ist eine Geldstrafe bis zu 150 Reichsmark zu erlegen.\n\n  \n    300-600\n    2 Boote.\n  \n  \n    600-900\n    3\n  \n  \n    900-1500\n    4\n  \n  \n    Über 1500\n    5\n    6",
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        "content_text": "VERORDNUNG\n\nBETREFFEND DIE BEFÖRDERUNG CHINESISCHER PASSAGIERE AUF DEUTSCHEN\n\nSCHIFFEN IN DEN OSTASIATISCHEN GEWAESSERN.\n\n$7\n\nBei Abfahrt des Schiffes sollen für jeden Passagier pro Tag der durch das Kaiserliche (Vice) Consulat festzustellenden Normal-Reisedauer an Bord mindestens vorhanden sein:\n\nReis ... 600 Gramm.\n\nGedörrter oder gesalzener Fisch ... 150 Gramm.\n\nGemüse ... 250 Gramm.\n\nWasser ... 4.5 Liter.\n\nBrennholz (bezw. entsprechende Quantität Kohlen) ... 1 Kilogramm.\n\nAuf Grund des § 24 des Gesetzes betreffend die Organisation der Bundes-Consulate vom 8ten November 1867 und des § 17 alinea 2 des Preussischen Gesetzes vom 29sten Juni 1865, betreffend die Gerichtsbarkeit der Consuln, verordnet das Kaiserlich Deutsche Consulat in Ansehung des Transports Chinesischer Passagiere durch Deutsche Schiffe, unter Aufhebung des dieserhalb für den Hafen von Amoy erlassenen provisorischen Regulativs vom 1sten November 1878, was folgt:\n\n$1\n\nDeutsche Segel- und Dampfschiffe, welche mehr als 30 Chinesische Passagiere von Amoy, Futschau, Takao, oder Tamsui aus nach Cochin-China, Siam, den Spanischen, Holländischen oder Englischen Besitzungen Ostasiens befördern, sind den nachfolgenden Bestimmungen unterworfen.\n\n$2\n\nFür jeden über 12 Jahre alten Passagier, bezw. für je zwei jüngere Passagiere zwischen 1 und 12 Jahren müssen wenigstens freigehalten werden:\n\n1. auf SEGELSCHIFFEN, welche während der Monate October bis März einschliesslich auslaufen, sowie auf DAMPFSCHIFFEN ohne Unterschied der Jahreszeit,\n\na. für ZWISCHENDECKS-PASSAGIERE eine Fläche von 0.84 Quadratmetern = 9 Englischen Quadratfuss und ein Hohlraum von 1.53 Kubikmetern = 51 Englischen Kubikfuss im Zwischendeck, sowie ausserdem eine Fläche von 0.37 Quadratmetern = 4 Englischen Quadratfuss auf dem Oberdeck,\n\nb. für DECK-PASSAGIERE eine Fläche von 1.11 Quadratmetern = 12 Englischen Quadratfuss auf dem Oberdeck.\n\n2. Auf SEGELSCHIFFEN, welche während der Monate April bis September einschliesslich auslaufen:\n\na. für ZWISCHENDECKS-PASSAGIERE eine Fläche von 1.11 Quadratmetern = 12 Englischen Quadratfuss und ein Hohlraum von 2.15 Kubikmetern = 72 Englischen Kubikfuss im Zwischendeck, sowie ausserdem eine Fläche von 0.49 Quadratmetern = 5 Englischen Quadratfuss auf dem Oberdeck,\n\nb. für DECK-PASSAGIERE eine Fläche von 1.49 Quadratmetern = 16 Englischen Quadratfuss.\n\n$3\n\nBei Berechnung des den Passagieren auf dem Oberdeck zuzutheilenden Raumes ist der für die Leitung des Schiffes erforderliche Raum vorher in Abzug zu bringen.\n\nChinesische Köche und Supercargos gelten für Passagiere.\n\n$4\n\nDer für weibliche Passagiere im Zwischendeck bestimmte Raum soll von demjenigen für die männlichen Passagiere getrennt sein.\n\nEine angemessene Lokalität ist als Krankenraum zu reserviren und als solcher in entsprechender Weise herzurichten.\n\n$5\n\n$6\n\nDas Zwischendeck soll gehörig ventilirt, das Schiff mit Latrinen, Kochplätzen und ordnungsmässig befestigten Leitern zwischen Ober- und Zwischendeck in ausreichender Weise, mit wenigstens zwei Rettungsboyen und nach Verhältniss der eingenommenen Passagiere mindestens mit der nachstehenden Anzahl von Booten versehen sein:\n\n  \n    Auf 300-600 Passagiere\n    2 Boote\n  \n  \n    Über 600-900\n    3\n  \n  \n    900-1500\n    + 1\n  \n  \n    \"1500\n    \"2\n  \n  \n    \n    22\n  \n  \n    \n    6\n  \n  \n    \n    ++\n  \n\n$8\n\nDie Schiffe müssen den Verhältnissen entsprechend mit Arzneimitteln versehen sein. Über Art und Menge derselben entscheiden erforderlichen Falles Aerzte.\n\n$9\n\nPassagiere und deren Gepäck dürfen erst nach Einnahme der gesammten Ladung an Bord Aufnahme finden.\n\n$10\n\nSpätestens 3 Tage vor der Ausclarirung und zwar vor Einnahme der Passagiere hat der Schiffer den Namen des Schiffes, die Grössenverhältnisse der Decke und den Bestimmungshafen des Schiffes dem Kaiserlich Deutschen (Vice) Consulate anzugeben, worauf diese Behörde erforderlichen Falles nach Besichtigung des Schiffes die höchst erlaubte Zahl der vom Schiffe zu führenden Passagiere bezeichnet. Unmittelbar vor Abgang des Schiffes hat der Schiffer die Anzahl der Passagiere dem Kaiserlich Deutschen (Vice) Consulate zu bezeichnen und Letzteres dieselben an Bord zählen zu lassen. Sind die Vorschriften dieser Verordnung sämmtlich erfüllt, so werden die Schiffspapiere nebst einer amtlichen Bescheinigung über die Zahl der thatsächlich eingenommenen, sowie die höchst erlaubte Anzahl der vom Schiffer zu führenden Passagiere dem Schiffer behändigt, welcher diese Bescheinigung demnächst an die Deutsche Consularbehörde des Bestimmungshafens abzuliefern hat.\n\n$11\n\nNach Empfangnahme dieser Bescheinigung seitens des Schiffers im Abgangshafen dürfen weitere Passagiere nicht ohne Bewilligung des (Vice) Consulates aufgenommen werden.\n\n$12\n\nFür jede Zuwiderhandlung gegen diese Verordnung ist eine Geldstrafe bis zu 150 Reichsmark zu erlegen.\n\nAmoy, den 15ten November, 1876.\n\nDer Kaiserlich Deutsche Consul.\n\nIn Vertretung.\n\nH. BUDLER.\n\nUnter Bezugnahme auf den § 7 der vorstehenden Verordnung wird die Normal-Reisedauer für Schiffe, welche von Amoy nach einem der folgenden Hafen auslaufen, festgestellt, wie folgt:\n\n  \n    1. für Segelschiffe nach\n    Manila\n    Saigon\n    Singapore\n    Bangkok\n    Batavia\n    Samarang\n    Penang\n  \n  \n    Wahrend der Monate October bis März.\n    Auf ... Tage\n    ... 18 ...\n    ... 20 ...\n    ... 26 ...\n    ... 26 ...\n    ... 20 ...\n    \n  \n  \n    Wahrend der Monate April bis September.\n    Auf ... Tage\n    ... 21 ...\n    ... 34 ...\n    ... 46 ...\n    ... 61 ...\n    ... 81 ...\n    \n  \n  \n    1. für Dampfschiffe nach\n    Saigon\n    Singapore\n    Bangkok\n    Batavia\n    Samarang\n    Penang\n  \n  \n    \n    ... 10 ...\n    ... 23 ...\n    ... 13 ...\n    ... 13 ...\n    ... 13 ...\n    ... 11 ...\n  \n\nAmoy, den 15ten November, 1876.\n\nDer Kaiserlich Deutsche Consul.\n\nIn Vertretung.\n\nH. BUDLER.",
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        "content_text": "## 17 \n\nHospital with very favourable results. Therefore for comparison of case mortality with the people treated locally it was considered better to take the period embracing the first half of the epidemic. In that time there were 123 cases of Chinese patients of whom 106 died showing a mortality of 86.17 per cent. In the experimental block 35 cases were reported of which 10 were already dead. The number treated was therefore 25, with 21 deaths, showing a mortality of 84%. I am aware that these numbers are too small to afford a sound basis for scientific comparison yet it is satisfactory to find that so far as it went, the result of the experiment was apparently in its favour to the extent of 1.83%. In noting this result the disabilities of the system of local treatment as tried by me must be considered. I have stated that the prescriptions given by the Chinese doctors are good, so far as they go.\n\nBut with the administration of medicine the care of the average Chinese practitioner ceases, and the question of nourishment and all the assuagements that come under the head of nursing are neglected. The sufferers in my district would take no medicine save the usual prescription given by the Chinese doctor, which they obtained from the local druggist. The doctor, at my request, prescribed port wine, and beef tea, both of which I had supplied to the druggist, who was one of the most active members of the Kai-fong, and anxious to do anything in his power that might increase the chances of recovery. But the patients refused to take them, and I found them having nothing but rice, or congee, which is water thickened with rice flour. In Kennedy Town I understand that patients take the nourishment ordered for them without difficulty, and I am of opinion that with properly equipped local hospitals under proper supervision and with trained nurses the mortality would be sensibly diminished.\n\n## 19. \nWe found it difficult to trace the means of infection. The immunity of people living, sometimes for several days, in the same room went far to disprove the theory of contact. With the exception of Chu Kom and Wong Sam from No. 4 Sheung Fung Lane none of the people of that house who were attacked worked together, or partook of the same food. Fourteen days after Sheung Fung Lane had been cleansed out I directed that as many fleas, bugs, &c., as could be found should be sent to the Government Bacteriologist for examination. A number of bugs and a spider were found, and on the 10th June Dr. HUNTER reported that in both bugs and spider were found plague bacilli. At the same time he reported as the result of examination of a number of bugs, flies and fleas from No. 4 Sheung Fung Lane, where several cases of plague had arisen, that no bacilli were found. Again, after the death of the two boys who lived on the first floor of 109 Second Street, bugs were procured from the first floor and from the ground floor. Dr. HUNTER reported that in the two bugs from the first floor no bacilli were found, but a number of bugs from the ground floor were found infected with several plague bacilli. During a visit to the Plague Hospital at Kennedy Town, I observed a large number of flies in one ward, numbers of which had settled on the patients. I directed that a number should be sent for examination. On the 9th July, Dr. HUNTER reported that the majority of the flies were plague-infected. He reported at the same time that several cockroaches caught in a stall in the Central Market contained `B. pestis`. On the 1st June it was reported that fowls from the Western Market were found to have died of plague, and as the poorer classes of Chinese eat the entrails of fowl with their rice in a semi-cooked state, a notice was issued that such food if not thoroughly cooked was dangerous. On examining specimens of various foods exposed for sale, Dr. HUNTER has since found the `B. pestis` in inferior rice. I have suggested to Dr. THOMSON to find by experiment if mosquitoes which fed on plague patients contain bacilli, and several have been examined by Dr. HUNTER with negative results. The examination is, however, being continued.\n\n## 20. \nWe have from Professor SIMPSON's report evidence that pigs, calves, sheep, monkeys, geese, ducks, turkeys, hens, pigeons and rats are susceptible to plague, which may be contracted by food or by inoculation direct, or by means of suctorial insects. To this list the examination mentioned above adds bugs, spiders, flies and cockroaches. I may add that quails kept in the market for sale were also found to be infected. In paragraph 22, page 100, Professor SIMPSON points out that domestic animals suffer from chronic plague and surmises that this is probably one of the bridges by which the interval of the attacks in man is connected. I have for a considerable time been of opinion that man is himself subject to chronic plague, which may either pass away after a considerable time, or continue dormant over the winter months regaining activity with the annual movement of Spring when the sugar curve of the epidemic is almost constant. This opinion was strengthened by the fact that in August, 1899, the body of a Chinese lift-man at Queen's Buildings who was accidentally killed when attempting to enter the lift while in motion was found to contain plague bacilli. A similar result followed the examination of a man who on the 4th March, 1901, was killed at Tai Koo sugar works by a bag falling on his head from a height of 20 feet; while on the 2nd April, 1903, in the body of the chief steward of a ship lying in dock, found floating with a large wound on the head, were also found plague bacilli. Early in June several men from H.M.S. Ocean were sent to the Naval Hospital, suffering from pneumonia; on examination of their blood seven were found to be suffering from mild cases of plague. In like manner two Officers of the Sherwood Foresters who developed feverish symptoms were, on having their blood examined, found to be similarly affected. In the `Boletim Official` of Macao containing the report on the plague epidemic, 1895, Dr. GOMES DA SILVA, the Medical Officer who published the report in 1895, stated that during the height of the epidemic he had discovered plague bacilli in his own excreta.\n\n## 21. \nIn June I directed Inspector GIDLEY to obtain as many specimens of blood as possible, on slides procured from the Government Bacteriologist. He obtained 110 specimens from men, women and children taken at random. These slides were sent to Dr. HUNTER for examination, who reported that in five slides he found plague bacilli, and in seven slides \"bacilli were present in considerable numbers, some of which showed bipolar staining. They were not sufficiently distinctive, however, to be regarded as `B. pestis`.\" These slides were obtained between the 23rd June and 10th July. Since they were obtained there were but three cases of plague in the district, from none of which was a specimen of blood taken.\n\n## 22. \nI am not unmindful of the fact that these reports were the result of microscopic examination only. But the examination was the same as that on which a great many of the cases treated in Kennedy Town Hospital were sent to that institution where their cases ran the usual course of plague invasion.\n\n## 23. \nNow, putting aside the five doubtful slides, it will be seen that of those people examined at random 4.54 % were found to be infected with plague though to all appearance perfectly healthy. If we exclude all the well-to-do, and take the working coolie population alone, they probably number 180,000 and, assuming the same average amount of infection, there are among that class alone 8,172 persons at present infected in Hongkong. If even a quarter of that average be accepted for the 105,000 inhabitants of superior class the number of infected will be increased to 9,361. In Appendix G will be found the number of rats examined in each month of the present year with the proportion of infected rats. I am afraid that the incidents mentioned in para. 5 weakens deduction as regards Hong-kong. But from whatever source the rats were procured the proportion of infection in June was 9% or 4.46 % more than the percentage of the slides examined, or, if the doubtful cases mentioned by Dr. HUNTER be included, 1% less, while in January the proportion falls to 0.8 %. This being so, with the complete circle of vermin, insects, food, rats, domestic animals and man all infected in possibly similar, possibly different proportion, it appears to me unsound to concentrate attention upon the rat as the principal means of bridging over the dormant season.\n\n## 24. \nI do not know whether the conduct of a culture of the bacillus pestis has ever been observed for an annual cycle. I am informed that the usual culture in a culture tube dies in a short period, either by having exhausted the nutriment from the culture medium or by having poisoned it by its own toxin. If the blood of those in whom plague bacilli now exist without producing the usual effects of plague could be periodically examined all through the coming year much light might be thrown upon the dormant period, and the highly important question of the infectivity of these people might be solved. But failing this I have suggested the possibility of preparing a culture in so large a quantity of culture medium as will permit of the spread of the bacillus to the utmost extent during the period shown to be that of annual activity and still leave the medium in sufficient quantity to support any renewal of propagation. In this way I suppose that the annual movement of the bacillus might be observed.\n\nPage 230",
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        "content_text": "Bale \n\nSubject- \n\nColonial office 19 Nov. Slide of Admin of Hong Kong by A. Ireland Col. Bursling Accounts Appt. of Hurre \n\nChina Assocn. 26. Judicial Ships Exemption Ordce. Wesleyan Army Chaplain ball. Wesleyan Soldier Sailors Home merchant Service Guild 23 Dec. Harbour Mastership. \n\nBrine E.A. \n\nIndividuals. \n\n16 Jan. Asst. Director of Public Works. \n\nBenson Dr J.H. 6 Feb. Am. J. Carroll. Badeley F.J. May. \n\n18 \n\nCarrol, J \n\nMay. Colonial Statistics 1902. 23 Smuggling 27 Dec. Water Police. \n\nFeb. Pension. \n\n26. \n\n3 June \n\nArms with China \n\nCarrington Sir J.W. 9. New Codification of Ordces. \n\nDickinson Co. M.Cpl. Tramways! \n\nFord 6. \n\nHall. J. \n\n30 July \n\n5 Nov \n\n15 Dec. Flora \n\nHumphreys J. 11 May became in H. Kong. \n\n26 Sept Refixation for pension. \n\nHoward I Nov. Sale of marine lot house \n\nJones \n\nO.N.S. 2. Jan. Affet. \n\nIreland A 22 May Index of Bills. Chamber Library Kiphe J.H. June Transfer. \n\n$ \n\nNov. Complaint apt. Ch. Justice. \n\nA \n\nR \n\n22 \n\n30 Dec. His Case. \n\nLethbridge J.B. & Apl Col: service. \n\nLowson J.A \n\nDefective eyesight of Er Witshell \n\nFrom \n\nBali \n\nSubject \n\nLewis C. C. 10ling. Sterling Salary. Lawson Hon H.W 17 Sept. Petition of & Holl Manson Dr.P. 5-Feb. Or Barnett. \n\nHong Kong J. Daylor. \n\nMacGregor family is Dec. Death of W. Mac Gregor. \n\nPollock E.M. 15 Nov. Pecuniary Assistance for tens bin -ray. Rumsey Khm 15 Dec. Pension \n\nSimpson Prof W. J. 9 Nov. Walls Works Ordce Passage to Colony \n\nSouthey t \n\n3/ \n\nSquare Dr M. 22 Apl. & Mitchell \n\nSimpson Dr. W. J. 7 July Public Health + Building Ordce Stephens kr. 1.0.23 Oct. Complaints agst. W.W. Kiphe \n\nSaylor J. 14. Cpl. Pecuniary Resistance \n\n30. Compensation for injuries \n\nTaylor J. 27 July Case of J. Taylor. I. 4 Aug Injury to health. \n\nWedlake H 30 June Petition of P. I British. Watson huiss 6. 14 Dec. Gratuity. Young I. E 16 Sept. WHO. Fund \n\n.3 \n\nreign \n\nPage",
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        "content_text": "5\n\n246\n\nHsin Hsing is the only Yünnan woven cloth which can be depended upon for length, breadth, and evenness of texture.\n\nPonies and Mules.-I cannot doubt that if the Government of Burmah is inclined to take the matter up, Yünnan would in time become an important source of supply of mules and ponies; but it would be necessary to send competent and, I may add, patient officers into the breeding districts to explain the requirements of Burmah. Burmah gets the off-sweepings of Yunnan in the way of ponies-the halt, the maimed and the blind.\n\nAt present, for ponies, the best, but probably also the dearest, market is Yünnan-fu itself, where there is a much wider choice of animals than anywhere else.\n\nAt Hsia Kuan the number of ponies sold is small, but all over the part of Yunnan which I traversed, ponies and mules are bred in considerable numbers, and hardly any village is so poor as not to have a few ponies and donkeys.\n\nThe Chien Chang (south-west) corner of Szechuan is also an important pony-breeding ground, and I have seen a very few mules from the same district which would, I think, be large enough for batteries, prices asked being 60 to 80 taels (now 120 to 160 rupees).\n\nI also met several caravans of ponies (30 to 50 in each) en route from the Chien Chang to Burmah via the Kun Long Ferry; many were mares in foal, and for the rest their obvious destiny was to draw a ticca gharry in Mandalay. There is a steady movement of animals from these districts down to Yung Chang and Teng Yueh to supply transport for the Burmah and the salt trades. It is, however, very hard to get exact numbers, because animals are mostly privately sold, and not exposed on the open market, so as to avoid those official exactions which ruin the internal trade of China, and especially of Yunnan. One dealer, who was taking ponies to Mandalay from Hui Li, in the Chien Chang, told me that by dodging the cities and markets he managed to get across the province without paying taxes more than five times, or, in all, 4 rupees per beast, which represents about 12 per cent, ad valorem at his home.\n\nAt Hoching, five days north of Ta Li, there is a specially good class of mule engaged in the salt trade. He is hardly big enough for a battery, but he carries 215 lbs. over very severe mountain roads an average of 15 miles a-day, day in and day out.\n\nBut the main source at present of the Burmah pony supply is Chung Tien, ten days north of Ta Li, across the Yang-tsze, the inhabitants of which are Thibetans known as Ku Tsung men. I have not yet been able to visit their country, but it is stated to supply a large number of a strong, though not elegant, type of pony. They seem, however, not to thrive in a hot climate, and receive so little attention on their long journey down that they usually reach Teng Yueh in a very poor condition. Besides horse-dealers, a number of other Ku Tsung men come down to West Yunnan every year with beasts which they let out for hire for transport, and take back to their homes at the end of the spring.\n\nThe Fowl's Foot Mountain is near Ta Li.\n\nLeaving Pin Chuan by the North Gate, we followed the road down the valley towards the Yang-tzse for a mile, and then turning west across the stream which inadequately waters the plain, marched slightly west of north across downs and foot-hills which fringe the west side of the valley. The road is cut at intervals by several streams flowing from the mountains which shelter the east shore of the Ta Li Lake, eastward into the Pin Chuan Plain, and along these streams there is garden-like cultivation and picturesque villages. After three hours' march we crossed a road leading from Nui Kai to Wa Ch'i, a market on the east shore of the Ta Li Lake, whence a boat can be taken across to Ta Li Fu.\n\nPassing the market of Lien Tung, which is situated above the rich padi valley of Fu Tien Chuang, whose fields are mostly owned by the monks of the Chi Tsu Shan (Fowl's Foot Hill). On the grassy slopes near our camp, pheasants, quail, and partridges abounded.\n\nAll day long we had seen in front of us a huge hog-backed mountain rising up from the Pin Chuan Valley in a west direction across fifteen points of the compass, and terminating on the west in an isolated castle-like pinnacle, on the summit of which could be seen the white glitter of a temple.\n\nOn the next day we continued over-hill and down towards the great mountain, having on our left the range which hangs over the east shore of the Ta Li Lake, and after two and a-half hours' march we emerged from a forest into the beautiful valley of Sha Chi, which nestles along the south foot of the Fowl Mountain. The broad flank of the mountain is densely clad with forest, amid which may be discerned the roofs and pagodas of the lower temples, and a pellucid stream flows past the padi terraces of Sha Chi in an easterly direction towards the Yang-tzse. In the afternoon we ascended the hill to 7,800 feet through dense forest, and then, turning east along a good path, reached the beautiful temple of Shih Tan Ssu, entirely surrounded by virgin forest.\n\nThis is the residence of the Seng Cheng Ssu, or Controller of all the temples and monks on the hill. He administers corporal punishment, or in bad cases can expel the offending bonze from the precincts of the hill. The office is now filled by a pleasant old monk of about 60 years old, who has spent all his life on and near the hill, and, having lived through the Panthay rebellion, during which the temples were alternately and impartially pillaged by the followers of the Prophet and the followers of Confucius, has many tales of adventure to relate. At present he seems to be more interested in getting in his rents than in attaining Nirvana, and in the price of the drugs which his hill produces, than in the Buddha, the law, or the order.\n\nTwenty-nine temples are shown on a native map of the hill; they are all, with the exception of the summit shrine, situated on the south slope of the mountain, and buried in a magnificent growth of forest, but many are now abandoned and in ruins.\n\nFrom Shi Tak Ssu a good cornice road leads along the mountain slope in a west direction to Chin Lan Ssu (Golden Orchid Temple), which is at the foot of the west pinnacle. Besides this main road, there are wood-cutters' paths in all directions, and pleasant walks through the cool depths of the forest, where the stately silver pheasant and the elegant Amherst pheasant may be seen strutting in their native wilds.\n\nWhen the winter sun of Yünnan floods the whole hill with light, the view of forest and mountain is so superb that it is easy to believe that a spot so conspicuous, so accessible and so beautiful, must have attracted the religious devotion of men from the time when they were first moved by the conception of the spiritual or the sublime. Legend attributes the earliest temples to the Tang dynasty, and the Chi Kwang Ssu is even stated to have been founded by Han Ming Ti, who sent a Buddhist Embassy to India; A.D. 58. But, in point of fact, there is nothing in the buildings at present standing to take the dedication of the hill to Buddha further back than the Ming dynasty. The style of the architecture of these temples strongly resembles that of the Ming tombs near Peking, save that in some of them there are graceful bell-towers of wood built into the main structure on the right and left of the first court. There are also some good specimens of the ornate carved eaves, such as are to be seen in the British Legation at Peking, and these I take to date only from the early days of the present dynasty. From tablets and inscriptions still to be seen in the temples, it is clear that there was a powerful Buddhist movement in Yünnan in the reigns of Tien Chi and Wan Li of the Ming, 1573, 1621.\n\nMany of the wooden tablets are of great size, and of value as specimens of Ming calligraphy; it is said—and it is quite likely—that there were also valuable collections of altar furniture and pictures which were looted during the Panthay rebellion. In the Shih Tan Ssu, the residence of the Controller, are the usual Wan Sui, or 10,000 year tablets in honour of the reigning Emperor, and also tablets which are supposed to secure the prosperity of the high provincial officials, each of these dignitaries having a separate tablet with his titles and the characters \"lu wei\" (seat of official prosperity) inscribed thereon. Apart from this, the images in the temples are all purely Buddhist. The three precious Buddhas, representing the Buddha, the law, and the order, Kuan Yin in a side shrine, and the Ju Lai Fo, are the commonest of the idols. The usual Chinese heroes and demi-gods are conspicuous by their absence. Thibetan influence is very marked, and, indeed, the impulse of Buddhism probably came here from Thibet. The walls have been scribbled over with Thibetan script by pilgrims from the north. Thibetan charms dangle from the walls, and the main court of Shih Tan Ssu is adorned with Thibetan tiles.\n\nIn all the chief temples morning and evening services are celebrated, but there is little or no knowledge of the faith among the Bonzes. The total number of the holy men on the hill is about 300; the Shih Tan Ssu has about thirty and Hua Yen Ssu forty.\n\nThe rents of Shih Tan amount to 300 piculs of grain yearly, derived from lands in the neighbourhood. Hua Yen Ssu is also fairly well off, but on the whole the Bonzes have fallen on bad times and begging, or the subscriptions of visitors at the end...\n\n[2021 - 1]",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nof the year, the time of the great pilgrimage form their chief means of subsistence, and most of the buildings are falling into a sad state of disrepair.\n\nAnother feature of the Shih Tan Ssu is a balustrade of Ta Li marble, some 30 yards long, before the chief shrine which contains three colossal Buddhas. Leaving Shih Tan Ssu and following the main cornice road to the summit in a westerly direction through the forest, we first passed the minor temples of Hsing Hsien Ssu and Wan Sheng An, and so arrive at Ta Chueh Ssu (Monastery of Great Perception), which is one of the Wa T Ssu or five great temples (Ta Chueh, Shih Tan, Chin Lan, Hua Yen, and Mo Ni An).” Ta Chueh Ssu consists of three courts in a tumble-down condition. Close to Ta Chuch is Chi Kwang Ssu, which claims to be the oldest of all the shrines. In it are seven images of the Jn Loi Buddha, with the mystic symbol on their breasts; also a small Buddha on a white elephant, and two enormous rice boilers of bell-metal dating from the Ming Emperor, Tien Chi. The forest then opens out, allowing fine views of the valley of Sha Chi and of the large Hua Yen Ssu, situated lower down the hill on a wooded height. After ascending 2,000 feet in 5 miles we arrived at the foot of the western pinnacle of the mountain, and put up in the comfortable Chin Lan Ssu, otherwise known as Chia Sha Ssu, where we found only three monks. From this temple the ascent to the Chin Tien, or Golden Shrine, on the summit takes about 1 hour. Winding up a steep stone path between limestone precipices, we passed several caves in which holy but dirty monks lay in wait for the cash of the faithful. A few hundred feet below the summit is the Tung Fo Ssu, a small temple dating from this dynasty with a roof of copper. A steep and dizzy climb brought us from this to the top, at an elevation of 11,800 feet. The Chin Tien is a tumble-down little temple in the centre of the chief court, of which is a shrine with door and roof of copper, and surrounded by a Ta Li marble balustrade, closely resembling the copper shrine at Wu San Kwei's temple near Yünnan-fu.\n\nIn front of the shrine is a large and artistically-shaped incense burner of bell-metal, about 5.8 feet high.\n\nThe view from the summit of the Chi Shan is of surpassing magnificence, and embraces a large portion of the Ta Li Prefecture. To the east the ridge of the Chi Shan slopes away to the Pin Chuan Valley, while its forest-clad heights slope gradually down to the valley of Sha Chi at the spectators' feet. To the south-east were the mountains which we had crossed in our journey from Ta Yao, running north and south in parallel ranges. To the south are the masses of hills between the Ta Li Lake and the plain of Yunnan Hsien. To the west a magnificent view is obtained of the isolated range of the Tsang Shan, which, with its nineteen peaks, rising to about 13,000 feet, forms a vast screen on the west side of the Ta Li Lake. No snow was visible in early December, and, indeed, the attitude of this range is well under the snow-line in this part of Yunnan. Glimpses of the lake are obtained, and though the city of Ta Li is hidden, the pagodas outside the north gate of the city can be seen. But the most conspicuous object of all in the whole panorama is to the north, where the great white dome of the Lichiang snow-peak, towering high above all rival summits, glitters in the winter sun. From the Chi Shan it is distant 65 miles in an air-line.\n\nLeaving the Ka Sha Ssu and passing through the forest for a mile, we cross a col, 9,200 feet, and descend in a north direction down a beautiful glen, where slopes of bracken and fields of oats are diversified with shrubberies of rhododendrons and pines. On the north side of the mountain there is only one temple, the Feng Chen Ssu, inhabited by a villainous-looking bonze, who apologized for the disordered state of his temple because he had only just come out after six months in the Teng Chuan Gaol. Some mules, it appeared, had vanished from near the holy man's abode, and here, as elsewhere, the world is very censorious. From this undesirable spot my muletcer hastened us down a rough road, with views of bare mountain ranges to the north in front of us, down to the bed of a small stream, along the banks of which runs the high road from Ta Li to Yung Peh. This stream flows east into the Yang-tsze, and we followed up its course in a west direction, along a narrow strip of cultivation, until we found a camp-ground at the little village of Ta Wang Miao. The next day, at [F] miles, we passed out of the valley and over a grassy col, insignificant in itself, but important as being the divide between the Yang-tsze and the Mekong. Shortly after the north end of the Ta Li Lake came into sight- the flourishing villages, dense cultivation round the fringe of the lake, the numerous fishing-boats, and the flocks of wildfowl forming a striking contrast to the bare, lonely slopes of the mountains above. We struck the lake near a marshy pond full of mallards, which enabled us to replenish the larder; and after an easy and interesting walk past the flourishing market of Chiang Wei (where excellent fowl and snipe shooting is to be had) and past flourishing villages, we crossed the bridge of boats\n\n7\n\nwhich spans the river which feeds the north end of the lake, and marched into Shang-Kuan under the shadow of the Tsang Shan.\n\nThe influence of Buddhism-of which the temples on the Chi Shan are the outward and visible sign-is still strongly marked in the Ta Li valley, which is popularly spoken of as the \"Land of Buddha.\" A number of military officers come from Ta Li, Hoching, and Lichiang: and most of them (including Chiang, the late provincial Commander-in-chief) are devotees of Buddha. Their piety is sometimes usefully and elegantly displayed by the construction of bridges and the ornamentation of temples. Sometimes it breaks out in inconvenient places. Thus, the military authorities in Yunnan are very fond of forbidding the slaughter of animals for food, though whether their motive is, as they state, \"respect for heaven-given life\" or the prospect of a squeeze \"for permitting breaches of their own regulations, I leave to be determined by those who know the mandarins. Shortly before I arrived the Captain of the City Guard at Ta Li had issued a strange Proclamation. After pointing out that \"all the myriads of created beings love life,\" he proceeds to assert that eels and magpies in particular have a \"meng,\" or destined course of life, with which it is impious to interfere. Accordingly, it is strictly forbidden to catch these creatures, and all and sundry who would indulge in the surreptitious pleasure of fried eels, or the more doubtful joys of magpie shooting, are warned that the eye of the Captain of the Guard is on them.\n\nCC\n\nTu Li-fu and the Valleys near it.\n\nIt is.\n\nfrom\n\nThe importance of Hsia Kuan, at the south of the Ta Li Valley, as a centre both of foreign and native trade cannot fail to strike the traveller; it is the commercial capital\n\npasses of West Yünnan, and if we can insist on respect being paid to transit Burmah, will soon become the largest market in the province. The li-kin is one of the best in the province, the amount collected chiefly on native opium being from 40,000 taels to 50,000 taels per annum. The town is increasing rapidly, and rents are far higher than at Ta Li, the greater part of the latter city being still in ruins, and being cursed by the presence of a number of officials. Hsia Kuan has a population of over 12,000, nearly all of whom are engaged in trade; the town is situated on both sides of a small river which flows out of the south-west corner of the Erh Hai or Ta Li Lake, and The ruins of the old rans west into the Yangpi River, and so to the Mekong. Rivan, or fortified wall, which ran from the foot of the mountains to the lake, are still standing in picturesque dilapidation on the north bank of the river.\n\nNot only is Hsia Kuan a resort of merchants of all kinds-dealers in foreign goods from Tengyueh, cloth-sellers and opium buyers from Lin Au (South Yünnan), Canton opium buyers, pedlars from Szechuan, Thibetans, and Li-chiang traders with ponies, mules, woollen cloth, drugs, and musk to exchange for tea, salt, sugar, and cottons-but it is an important centre of opium production and general consumption. I estimate that at least half of our imports from Burmah go up to Hsia Kuan.\n\nThe mountains press close on the east shore of the lake, while on the west the feet of the great Tsang Shan range are only 15 li, or 4.4 miles from the water, but the Ta Li plain, though narrow, is very thickly populated, and to the north and south of the lake are a series of rich agricultural valleys. The district of T'ai Ho Hsien, which comprises only the plain between lake and mountain, and between Hsia Kuan and Shang Kuan- say, 44 miles by 30 miles-has nearly 250 villages, besides the towns of Ta Li and Hsia Kuan; and the population can hardly be under 100,000. The sub-Prefecture of Chao Chou at the south end of the lake and of Teng Chuan at the north head of the lake have a large area of rich agricultural land and an abundant supply of water; further south are the plains of Meng Hua, 20 miles by 4 miles, and Hung Ai, 18 miles by 5 miles, which resemble the valleys of Szechuan in their richness; while to the north of Teng Chuan are the plains of Lang K'ung, Chien Chuan, Hoching, and Lichiang.\n\nI estimate that quite 1,250,000 persons and the best-to-do in the province are supplied from Hsia Kuan, and in a province the whole of which does not probably contain more than 10,000,000 inhabitants, this is a high figure. I would advocate the establishment of a Chinese agency at Hsia Kuan by some foreign firm. If arrangements can be made to send opium to Canton via Burmah, the prosperity of the country will be greatly increased.\n\nThe great majority of the peasants in the Ta Li plain and the valleys to the north are Minchia. They are, however, especially in the Ta Li plain, very mixed with Chinese. It is said that between the lake and the mountain there are only two villages of pure Minchia, but the majority of the population along the actual shore of the lake\n\n247",
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        "content_text": "Y.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nREVISED ESTIMATE.\n\n154\n\nVoi zotonignine\n\nbowl Gam\n\nIn forwarding this Revised Estimate amounting to $7,947,580 for the British Section of the Kowloon Canton Railway, I would give the following explanation of the great increase over the preliminary Estimate made by Mr. Bruce.\n\nMr. Bruce's Estimate for the Line was $4,470,500 and the Estimate by the Honourable Director of Public Works for the reclamation of Kowloon Station Yard was $585,000. The sum of these two Estimates is therefore exceeded by $2,900,000 approximately.\n\nIt is very difficult to make out from his report how Mr. Bruce made his Estimate as he gives no quantities or rates. Some of the figures are extremely low.\n\nTake for instance \"Earthwork\" which he estimates at $651,700. According to the section which he drew, his banks far exceeded his cuttings especially round the coast between Shatin and Taipo. The total amount allotted to Earthwork would not have been nearly sufficient for his alignment even at half the rates usually paid in the Colony. The amount allocated to protection of Banks is much less than my estimate though his line was far more exposed and I do not think the rates I am calculating my estimate on are any too large.\n\nThe original Estimate for the tunnel is about right as it included plant which in this revised estimate is charged to a separate head.\n\nMr. Bruce in my opinion very much underestimated the Bridges. His section shows 49 Bridges for a total cost of $393,000 giving only an average of $8,000 per bridge.\n\nThe most expensive Bridge on his alignment was 20 spans of 20 feet on screw piles in a depth of 30 feet water at L.W.O.S.T. The other Bridges near Taipo would all have to be on well foundations or on cylinders as they are out...",
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        "content_text": "368\n\nVigoy 19bn BOTA Víð SIinw amey atsl to Jud,noldi menoa to noi. stioqrik slic bauscroni viibsota und aniño mi notteritius (£6 ja al on to atnt .bealfoon bad miiqo nsiere¶ bus makluĮ rwiyo to możzontbong of Jart Joat wit of eub &rsq mi atueve jeniqk əlov, wie ni aqoro evitaremumet dæos e it to eno al ail to pilaeng, vrið al dusmevorgni Laubung edo od gaino sliN. ertameqia etom edt gutociqer v[lauber of aldt mumb evitan .sfolds betroqni od Ga nottelup eit otni palog JUONSIV cils gangguɛ glanti N **£*ta og 11 neve,88iw as Ji mədəniy\n\nto call mat gerth na ww I die 10 troa eroa oven Boot oyidan ba, velio gis otree od dow so beauds ton et et eo qnol ou foli laza,bemtis eritdie wat a ;' jquox* 103 wuriyo Zo eas wild to notaðingua Istot elT Live 9810w [lita & An tA pete ucmi bbyo t sobib ni it bei b vi yhsenie ust ater bas vijnwoo end nog: eris,eri:igro. belliq \"koziqo-kla\" bellað ut 20 ne bezsenon! ecsetont end no antea noitostał obirebowy yɗ ret‡al edit to ea Alt to boonquodiglen sri ni vitaIUJËSTBU • bročke gaftrisi£\n\nenteroð síet ind all daið guldėl DA SILV -ntevoð Labem I e 3 talees 0. Towog utt må (Ix ob binora nam bus IladZIO ODES O ush Hoida turasta ɛvotre vis ni † (nat lima od anne... 6 di origo to sau mir aze qqua ayoliteq (latani jiu Holw Xalx et egale Bid 35 t...o jatoq of sior .iaso vættirmoð beyondack foald jel'inƐ to nultoee alarisv a anival to mart s .mobi, squoo evitan to Jitsued and not vision on [fov Μl àÅ (Is es ainioitto [su muid at vino Jon jeurigo got to molèstroyrúi erit of beaoqqo to drog et ta betoelfos,mixel LIN: PAS OBIA JUỐ , grub Stoq sniðinak Istreqril of yu anixs¶ of bastine\" guled bus,vitne end of taol al mortereid Jitong eubi to soltano Ils amoteMO bezator NA KON or at Jariw e9a oriw aetjhodžμA Isionivor¶ iwo tiers ddiw gnideqhão bius ensitrød risið qutaesq efoldrS opium.\n\nThe cultivation of native opium is largely in the hands of high Chinese Officials and is of course a source of enormous revenue to them and to all through whose districts it passes or in which it is consumed.\n\nIt is quite probable that several of the leading officials in the Empire are quite sincere in their wish to check the production and consumption of opium, in which no doubt they are being to a certain extent supported by what may be described as a popular movement but though edicts to this effect may be issued, it is quite another matter to carry them into effect, particularly in the more distant parts of the Empire and it is inconceivable that within so short a space of time as ten years the whole cultivation of the poppy can be put an end to.\n\nLarge districts in many of the provinces and countless thousands of Chinese of all classes are dependent upon this opium industry for a living and too sudden a change, if they are forced to stop the production, or transportation, of opium can only result in failure of the movement or rebellion.\n\nThe point therefore that the Committee would wish to impress upon His Excellency is that no steps should be taken by His Majesty's Government to curtail the foreign opium trade until there is ample evidence that a proportionate reduction is being made in the production of the native drug.\n\nThe Committee consider that as matters now stand there is no guarantee that the Provincial Authorities as a whole seriously intend to suppress opium smoking but are merely taking advantage of the present movement to further their own personal ends and increase their own revenue at the expense of a very valuable section of British trade.\n\nFor the information of His Excellency I beg to enclose copy of a telegram which is being sent through the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation to His Majesty's Minister",
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        "content_text": "at ou ta't evue etate to une J97DER 5.\n\n145\n\nin my opinion, subject to the legal duty of complying with the\n\nBonsaibro ode to ros;do niwa erit og brano* malvs.\n\nJaf bogi\"ba\"\n\n50 of blei ad con bloo -- .* Tehnu mo?\n\nxs to rawol ATE\n\n70 so I sognetsh i\n\nJ\n\n\"yarb Janef to baix\n\nNatw holyos\n\nto dezont szív od naviy meri as\n\nMy nb puastupos\n\nenotato b\n\n“O RALNOG stol s tl mah bial road nad dohíw eiqiUMINU\n\n0.\n\nDS #\n\nisobotnath s\n\n# al motta1062k all to Palotaxe eris、US-\n\nA 20% Dg pidenour a mi ti malo-axe of VAND\n\n* belidant of víno ngo nedar nultos 5:12 28'? bra ¡ronne.\n\nNorẫy sa nao koltemal jõe előrHORSE“\n\nps of nevin reul mar Holw solvha o`t die\n\nconditions under which that section was introduced. The exer-\n\ncise of the discretion in the case of Mr. Ho Tung does, in the\n\nopinion of Dr. Ho Kai, one of the Chinese residents and a\n\nmember of Council, who withdrew his opposition to the Ordinance\n\non condition that the exemption clause should be introduced,\n\ninfringe those conditions. The subsequent opinion of Dr. Ho Kai\n\nwhich was given to the Colonial Secretary, having been given\n\nunder a misapprehension of the actual facts of Mr. Ho Tung's\n\nproposed tenancy of my house, is, as I have already stated, now\n\nwithdrawn; and he maintains the view originally expressed to me,\n\nthat the refusal to grant the exemption to Mr. Ho Tung in the\n\ncircumstances was in violation of the agreement come to with the\n\n# T\n\nnutzen ablu on piedrogi sta æti.\n\ni. #osido rtem sili varit twon-[[ew vfrostnej\n\nto rolinxo Az pron xa, benihontal Jer}'t aøw ennanib~O\n\nChinese residents.\n\n5.\n\nThe Secretary of State further says that he\n\nSAAB \"no ground for the contention that the Government in\n\nbannbrada ef of het alia sælt hus\n\ndsel aut mont\n\nCouncil did not exercise a reasonable and proper discretion\n\nIro me h\n\nnetreroath ext to Balotexe\n\nA\n\nnew root drogong at) at womankhÒ\n\n,beauthorsal wil broda „b la dant\n\nJon ba、..a to dosjša miøs ellt of heraton of stuterija Join\n\nunder s. 4. of the Ordinance\". \"ith much regret I cannot\n\nacquiesce in that view for the following reasons:-\n\nSome of the Members of the Executive\n\nCouncil were in favour of the exemption being granted. Others\n\nvild bhe ¡9unciibro or to tosiɗo ntan end of\n\nopposed it on the ground that the Furie was so close to Mountain\n\n,nå Ikawrot ortrime. at zavarevo? ede ut botuer nolteroalb 11t\n\nLodge that no Chinese should be allowed to rent it: (see His Excellency's\n\nIt appears that the original text is heavily corrupted due to OCR errors. I will correct the text to the best of my abilities while following the given rules.\n\nHere is the corrected text in HTML format:\n\nPage 145\n\nIn my opinion, subject to the legal duty of complying with the\n\nconditions under which that section was introduced. The exercise of the discretion in the case of Mr. Ho Tung does, in the\n\nopinion of Dr. Ho Kai, one of the Chinese residents and a\n\nmember of Council, who withdrew his opposition to the Ordinance\n\non condition that the exemption clause should be introduced,\n\ninfringe those conditions. The subsequent opinion of Dr. Ho Kai\n\nwhich was given to the Colonial Secretary, having been given\n\nunder a misapprehension of the actual facts of Mr. Ho Tung's\n\nproposed tenancy of my house, is, as I have already stated, now\n\nwithdrawn; and he maintains the view originally expressed to me,\n\nthat the refusal to grant the exemption to Mr. Ho Tung in the\n\ncircumstances was in violation of the agreement come to with the\n\nChinese residents.\n\n5.\n\nThe Secretary of State further says that he\n\nsees \"no ground for the contention that the Government in\n\nCouncil did not exercise a reasonable and proper discretion\n\nunder s. 4. of the Ordinance\". With much regret I cannot\n\nacquiesce in that view for the following reasons:-\n\nSome of the Members of the Executive\n\nCouncil were in favour of the exemption being granted. Others\n\nopposed it on the ground that the Furie was so close to Mountain\n\nLodge that no Chinese should be allowed to rent it: (see His Excellency's\n\nLet me know if you need further assistance!",
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        "content_text": "# 122 \n## 14 \n\nLeaving on the 24th April, we moved slowly over the plain in a south-westerly direction towards the Yellow River. Villages were fairly frequent, but, except in the immediate neighbourhood of these, the ground was uncultivated, a good deal being marsh land, and a good deal being white with saline efflorescence. Geese and wild duck abound, while the fields swarm with a large species of mouse. The inhabitants of the villages (all Chinese) are exceedingly poor; their chief food is millet and potatoes, though a sheep is surprisingly cheap, only costing 2 dollars (`48.`). They drink tea or water. A young pony can be bought for twenty dollars (`24`). The huts are lit with bean oil, the usual lighting, where the Standard Oil Company have not so far penetrated. In the early afternoon of the 26th April we reached Tütschong and 2 miles later Hokou, both small, industrious, prosperous settlements on the Yellow River, with a small boat trade. Just before reaching Tütschong we passed the ruins of the ancient walled city of Chengadou. The size of the walls show that it must once have been of great strength. The north wall is still excellent, but the others are in a state of decay. All the space within the walls is under cultivation. The town stands some 150 feet above the river and about 300 yards away from it.\n\nAt Tütschong we turned south, down the valley of the river between a low mud ridge and the backwaters of the stream, over cultivated land, and 10 miles later reached the ferry. Here a few inhabitants have built some cabins, but there is no village. It took us two hours to cross the stream, this time including the unloading and reloading of the camels. The current is fairly swift at this point, and we drifted 150 yards downstream during the passage. The ferry is said to be used by a great number of Mongols. The marshes on either side abound in wild fowl of every kind. The huge barges, which are used as ferry boats, are capable of holding a great number of animals and passengers at the same time. It is said that sixteen camels can be ferried over at once. Our animals gave the usual amount of trouble to make them embark, and kicked, spat, and refused to enter the boat till their forelegs were hauled by ropes, while leverage with spades and poles was brought to bear on the hind legs. Even when inside the boat they made a great deal of trouble, and kept jumping up, and threatened to upset us.\n\nHaving crossed the stream we were then in the country of the Ordos, and keeping north again for some 3 miles, turned west over rolling grassy country to the Mongol Settlement of Anental, to which one of the ferrymen guided us. The settlement is situated on the fringe of the sand hillocks, the beginning of the Ordos desert.\n\n## Route\n\nThe route now lay in a south-westerly direction through the Mongol tribes of Djungar, Wang, Djassak, Wushin, and Ottok, to Borobalgasson. Turning south here for a day to Hsiaochaaopan and thence westwards through the Great Wall into Kansu Province and north-west to recross the Yellow River near Ninghsiasu, a return to Kweihuacheng was eventually made through the northern Princedoms of Hangkin and Talat.\n\n## General Description\n\nThe Ordos is bounded on three sides, the east, north, and west, by the Yellow River. On the south the Great Wall running over mountain ranges separates it from Shansi and Shensi, and the same (running over the plain) from the Province of Kansu. The Great Wall in this part of China is, however, more a historical term than a reality, for it has long crumbled away for most of its length to a large mound.\n\nAs regards its physical aspect, the Ordos may be divided into two sections—the Highlands and the Lowlands, and these sections into further sub-sections as follows:\n\nThe Highlands into---\n\n(a) The short range of the Arbusula in the extreme west running north and south along the Yellow River. This range is bleak, rugged, and devoid of vegetation. It is probably seen at its best from the river, but in no place deserves a higher adjective of praise than \"fine.\"\n\n(b) Low hills which run north-east to south-west, parallel with the Great Wall, and as far as the plain of Borobalgasson. These hills cover the ground to a distance of perhaps 50 miles from the Great Wall. They are broken by many gullies and broad torrent beds, some stony, others sandy, but all entirely dry except perhaps for a short time after the rains, and also by numerous narrow valleys down which a small stream still trickles. These hills form a distinct water parting, for though all the streams find their way into the Yellow River, some do so by flowing northwards, while others flow south to merge their waters in Shansi rivers which join the Yellow River many degrees to the south. These hills are in some districts of red sandstone.\n\nThe Lowlands may be sub-divided into-\n\n| Sub-division | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | The vast undulations of land which comprise the greater portion of the country. The soil is entirely sandy, lightly covered with grass, or with a low scrub perhaps for many miles, never more than a foot high. In the scattered lower depressions are the remains often only in the form of marsh or dry mud thickly covered with saline efflorescence of the waters which once covered the whole of the Lowlands, making the country one vast lake. From these depressions great quantities of salt are extracted. After rains they may take the form of lakes again for a short season. |\n| (b) | The fertile portions of the valley of the Hoangho which can be reached by irrigation canals from the river. In this portion tall trees are numerous, and wheat, millet, maize, kaoliang, and even a little poppy may be cultivated. |\n| (c) | The sandy deserts devoid of all vegetation and with little animal life save perhaps for badgers and a few birds. The best known of these regions are the Kuzuptchi sands, which are a succession of hillocks (40 or 50, rarely 100, feet high) lying side by side, and composed of yellow sand. The upper stratum of this sand when disturbed by the wind blowing on either side of the hills, forms loose drifts which have the appearance of snowdrifts. These sands are from 10 to 50 miles wide, and run from almost the meridian of Bautu to where the Yellow River bends into Alashan. Another bad stretch of sands, such as those described above, lie in South Ottok between Borobalgasson and Hsiao chiao Pan, and are some 8 miles wide. |\n\nThe absolute height of the lowlands has been found to be between 3,000 and 3,500 feet.\n\n## The Tribes and their Government\n\nThe country is divided among seven tribes, who are entirely separate and distinct from the other Mongol tribes. Each is governed by a Prince; the hereditary system prevails, and on the death of a Prince his eldest son succeeds if 19 years of age. He has to be confirmed in the succession by the Chinese Government. There have been cases of minors being allowed to succeed, and the present King of Ottok is an example of this. He was only 9 years old when his father died. His succession was allowed, thanks to the intervention at Peking of the Roman Catholic Bishop of West Mongolia.\n\nThe names of the tribes and their positions are as follows:\n\nOn the north going from the east to west, Talat and Hangkin, south of Hangkin lies Ottok, which extends to the Great Wall; going eastwards from Ottok comes Wushin Djassak, Wang, and finally Djungar, the last touching the Yellow River, two days south-west of Kweihuacheng. The Isikung Prince of the Orots has a small strip of land north of Talat and in the valley of the Hoangho, but he has nothing to do with the Ordos tribes, from whom he is quite distinct. The country is very thinly populated, and there are no towns; the only villages even are those created by the Chinese immigrants who have penetrated into the more fertile portions of the country, i.e., the extreme south and the valley of the Hoangho in the territory of Talat. Consequently, the only inns to be met with are those found in Chinese villages.\n\nThe inhabitants are a purely pastoral people; their wealth consists in the number of their herds and flocks and droves. The Princes are shepherd kings with the same interests as their subjects; they are said to tend their own flocks at times. The nearest approach to Mongol villages are the huge lamaseries which are scattered over the country and into which two-thirds of the male population drift. The traveller may journey for several days and never see a habitation, that is if he keeps to the main tracks, for the Mongols avoid these and live in the hills away from the highways.",
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        "content_text": "netisqefi tuodis\" \n\n.A \n\n(.111 010993 of) \n\n164 \n\nor\\pars \n\nATEN LOIGLence po hoWL JOSSGL *** \n\n-:awolfot að 9233e of god I „Znatant .dtë art to \n\na*rodasit tuodteli mor1% Jasijze of branet DI \n\n76718 Itém: dadt state of god I ‚010I,tadmovolí .bić to v‡uulæ \n\nTobro za 1odenter Jon ob Itoiz etsi and to gnåbaboada odê \n\nbobтoodt 195bre na down at non rotual woďtall odd zď norly HAV \n\nLidno bongta od of prow atqlooon on tard dood 10510 ont al \n\natqlaɔat wet ytor ze on be sta I duoda,berisset asw Trava odź \n\n«KIN MO12 2ðast qua Issonoo tom hib 1 .1lowym \n\nto TƐ .olf tafuorio .0.0.3 od ooterotox ai \n\nadditional messenger to serve the bills\" and the Harbour Mastor replied \"Oh, no, the shroff can serve them but he must not wait for money\". If my humble suggestion had been adopted, the shroff would have no opportunity of collecting some bills on the way \n\nwhen he served bills on the firms. \n\n6. \n\nMr. McIver, the First Clerk was Supervisor \n\nof the whole office and after he went on leave in Jume last Er. \n\nLenfestey was made Supervisor of the whole office. \n\nP.S. \n\nI have etc.... \n\n(Sd.) Chan Pui. \n\nThe Harbour laster'« Order (Mamo. No. 434 \n\n& \n\neldið ¡Moova yenom vyra eibnad toa hib I,0001,Todmoon? „EJAI \n\nJon bib I bna “Cluss977 902 #ort sonarba on bartenet themtxa{{of \n\n.emo “ue of estreina to zbonavba vas oottoriżma \n\n„dita ord to radustri0 Curap*\" BÖTAROT BÁ \n\nwodrall eat of nuora víub naw nafvoni” olds ,0001 \n\n$ \n\nor 31.10.10) to the effect that for the future, no receipts are \n\nis to be to be sent out, already signed, as bills and no money \n\ncollected by any shroff except in the arbour Office was only \n\nissued 10 days ago. \n\nto aoljostq od3 Tobro don bib 32 moon gnivad tošta ode tedesM \n\n- \n\nI .bowattmooath of of 3noe anlod uncted allld Ila galosta \n\n.zoqlooot wot (Hoy to on bergis tion- \n\nand to ttordß baoll nav 11quin bobnoonde ode \n\n.a \n\netH .omod 'ataikat odd bra oɔlttü aniqqtúe odt,svit70 woɗTal \n\norid ja bnotta od had on bas ebol favo`kal ni saw ooitto noqonq \n\nbas zakatoa movo smoli 'arokkan oriz za ned? bus soltto galqqida \n\n-naqod oda al zhodyzova of momi Liow eww ¤à „noomtofta Ciore \n\nsocumin wet a tot exit tuodxall eda ja baliso vinu od tree, \n\n\"abuonbe\" •Tahol yrave no .m.q 06.E niaga bas .m.s 08.II Juoda \n\nodí zabruda? bas \"tabatud? •Esboo/T \"Iovo no sitriw qabl** baa \n\nond redde arið yd batasiloo venom oɗd revo exist at beliaɔ vine \n\nald rova doado on asw uroda „Ínsä o*ai #nomçaq tot eTtoula \n\nBid of TaÐy Jual rodmovok na “pol as bataonqua I .ażne: (OVOM \n\noɗs avion of bogayno od birorta Tognazza a 2sift rates) quediaFT \n\nan gd boar abrow toxxo sɗe **#drsors** (19) * 88 78t as bus allid \n\n• \n\n# \n\nna Jaloqa hluoda ow did I TIR\" :orow tojual \"woɗist oft of \n\nLaurol+Abba \n\nThe Honourable \n\nSir P. I. May, K.C.M.G.. \n\nColonial Secretary. \n\n(Intld.) C.P. \n\n•",
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        "content_text": "Page 188\n\n.noidaeup ni asinoloD пworƆ\n\n5538/10.\n\nCO 288\n\n5486\n\nRECR Rra 23 FEB 10 FORLICK OPPre-\n\nasimolo) sailsneq of audit sidanoaserow areeqqø JI\n\ne sd blow ti bna,aboog done^t #imbs Vieert doldw\n\nsd blwoy JASM:TIƏvo✪ doneTI sat ti au of 9olvisa jae79\n\nnodeid edd ynisoqmi notatoeb aJi WATONJIW od beoubat\n\n.зnox noн Ja VIIxiosqas,Doqqidan.IJ ONTBɔ noqu seldub\n\n*\n\n-Te ed alvoo #1 t belg od bivoria swaldt galist\n\n-uger s to 9gødnevbs sne nevtg ed bluoda ew dedt begnSI\n\nTedald and aeview ridw\n\nsmodavo doneti edt to moital\n\n-X9 TOT ON NOH JA\n\nJnemqi dansïd to 988ɔ nt astðub\n\nqidarseja amea eft to snill \"yrous8004* NA MOri,siqma\n\nau of beautex Jnoaang ja at egetnybs BINT VILBYMOD\n\naлOH OF TеvuoorsV mori egsyov ons døde baworz und no\n\nJa no aromaeda to solvrea o Tot wol ood at anox\n\n+\n\n.9пld Vroe89508 14 8a bebruget ed of SJVOT\n\nGentlemen:-\n\nFebruary 19\n\n1610.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 15th.\n\ninstant respecting the application of the \"rench runar-\n\nal Tariff to tinned salmon from British Columbia, when\n\ntranshipped at Hongkong, I am directed by Secretary Sir\n\nF. Grey to inform you that this question has already\n\nbeen raised by Messrs. Timpson, Roberts and Company of\n\nLiverpool, and that it has been thoroughly examined.\n\nIt appears, however, that in view of the existing regu-\n\nlations in France no useful result would ensue from of-\n\nficial representations and Sir Edward Grey therefore\n\nhesitates to address the French Government on the sub-\n\nject.\n\n#TS SW\n\n(Derr312)\n\n.sqmoo bis JIH bertA\n\nMessrs. Alfred Holl and Company,\n\nIndia Buildings,\n\nWater Street,\n\nLiverpool.\n\nI am,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\n(Signed)",
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        "content_text": "of we. Bothen lay Gurdh 132 haitim may trying hr. Contre dos hot that was Ad know, y what Doing for him & he finds bey So Li difficult & divermaging. samsthing silly. for 7. by wood boce him that to obtain thon holl may hot Jucceed & that in the meantime not may i Ion might wand to the indoid utt. 6 cartinue the contrivedy amfleyt A we shall take such steps however, take £.3.13. The 4.0 might also be worth A Bagich for Fackag toying Sisfactor chife.\n\nW. Collin Coby of my The in B&C 21/1 he as his interstr. letter attached. Sanote lask week to P.5.3, L.E.B.V. B. of T. & have how sent the hobers a cloud with this letter to the ... Jy latter toto. will probably go to-day. You have agreed to direct the attention of CA. to the case.\n\nNext ho Major Cameran Will jo hist this bandh & halve mar münte Mir Collins ame\n\nA *4-01-000'9-62991 lock at hot. in spacial hote her. Carter? Iss Lund Gews's 703. ASC 3/2 We have noted him a will not overlook him 274 will not overlook him if Mauce occurs but he is for, rarely asked probably be wanted, practical bame x then K M sort of younger men there is I fear there Mul + LO L come",
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        "content_text": "DESP. NO.\n\nbout\n\nbony.\n\nTek.\n\n4G.\n\n30.\n\n$2.\n\nDATE\n\nx\n\nTel. 10\n\n526.\n\nic\n\nbout 10\n\n13\n\n55\n\n13\n\n20\n\n6221\n\nbout by-\n\n21\n\n22\n\n22\n\nby guy\n\n71. Zay\n\nbowl 28 Tel. 28\n\nSUBJECT\n\nkan thithing of prisoners.\n\nbas,\n\nFeb. M.t. Today bo's. fear of disturbances.\n\nTrafficking, by Shroffs in subsidiary coinage. Passenger certs of I. I. \"Paul Bean Salary of best. brown Solicitor. Lease to ufanese Firm- Postat legencies in China. Ummended tot. Reys.\n\nRegistration at China companies. Disposal of Lematics.\n\nDr. Kelly's apple.\n\nInformation as to Poslat Rates.\n\nExtradition of German in 1900. bok. Vet Surgeon & fawate consulting worth. Ceppen. of new leave rules to nursing sisters Japanese Craffic in arms for Chinese Revolutionaris leppt. us Registrar of heed. College Colombo. Amendt. of Penalties Amendt. Ordes. 1911\n\nHausing of Chief Police Officer.\n\nAquendl. of Interpretation Ordce. 1911. Salaries\n\nDate.\n\n1912\n\n3\n\nst previous Paper.\n\n36622\n\nom.\n\nT\n\n19 March\n\n7211\n\nmay vel\n\nof Soul: hasme Surveyor thissistants. Lease to Japanese Community of site for Bhuddhit tempe Draft Full Court Ordre.\"\n\nRegistrarship, heed. College, bolonelo.\n\nOd I put 10 of Lave a cond\n\n.06.\n\nC O\n\n2\n\n2725\n\nRece\n\nRE27 JAN 12\n\n2725\n\nOrdinance No 59 of 911:\n\nUniversity Further Amende\":\n\nSuomits\n\nSpace comes to haver Noted;\n\nPlay/28/3.\n\nBd of E.\n\nrequiremento\n\norch. Stubbs\n\nThe\n\n(14022 (11)\n\namendments\n\nare\n\n(31553)\n\nto\n\nthe principal Ondre\n\nmainly those\n\nsuggested by the\n\namal\n\nReam\n\nto\n\nfulfil their\n\nIn first instance\n\nBd of E. for obs ons\n\n95\n\nthe words\n\nset forth\n\nIn 2(e)\n\nimp Set 13 (2)\n\nas well.\n\nShang\n\nThis\n\nskom we\n\nsanction) subsequent Paper\n\n6691 euro\n\nought to have deleted\n\ncan be mentioned\n\ncuro\n\nMinimin the art tile\n\n1 daher wür\n\nIth properes I defer\n\nLive\n\nboo Bund\n\nWt.28,046——17. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E.W.\n\nEn's Aservatio\n\n4511\n\nO.D.\n\n5FEB\n\nст\n\n207\n\natrine Hill 3\n\n31",
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        "content_text": "1 2 , v 1 \n\nIt ve 200 eruth 10 30^ LA SLANG \n\nB. Jauce \n\nCOWL OL ITTIQUC ND \n\n70'000 \n\nLLAM JA VO \n\n**600 \n\nAne OL BELL) NŢEL \n\nJETNE 01 0127088 \n\nA \n\n70* \n\nBLONŢI \n\n00. \n\nTX \n\n1*000 \n\nhejds OL GOGOAJ \n\nHjem Lella bṛel I('000 1eep up 0*00 \n\n10'000 \n\nCOUT apeg \n\n**000 \n\nOR*000 \n\n20'000 \n\n20'000 \n\n*00 \n\nXsar'ose \n\n28'200 \n\nLele obboaŢƒG \n\n貍\n\nIS'000 f \n\n1'000 \n\nJean arith C\\o I ramo) \n\nTOTTO DUSŢU \n\nBLOU \n\nTOA AOT \n\nCOAGL \n\nT \n\nTemp Conbuch Po (OAWL), 48U {*} \n\nLand Reclamation Company. \n\nGovernment to Land Reclamation Company. \n\n  \n    Ends of 2 roads\n    area 9,000 at £4\n  \n  \n    Land Reclamation Company to Government.\n    \n  \n  \n    Plot 1\n    137,610 at 2\n    $36,000\n    275,220\n  \n  \n    K. M. L. 75\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    K. M. L. 74\n    area 2\n    78,780 at 2\n    157,560\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    126,459\n    125,795\n    252,264\n  \n  \n    \n    area 3\n    81,840 at 2\n    163,680\n    \n  \n  \n    Less strip\n    \n    80,347 at 2\n    160,694\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    60/0 x 394)\n    \n    Balance 8793, 154\n  \n  \n    \n    29,078\n    \n    $822,232.\n    \n  \n  \n    60/0 x 384)\n    \n    46,696\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    205,558 at $4\n    \n    t\n    8822,232.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    8822,232.\n    \n  \n\nIf the 60/0 strip is not reserved, the balance is increased to $215,862.",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSir,\n\nC.O. 10.963 1493 7FC2 COB 27 1 8 12\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 29th April, 1912.\n\nMr. C. Clementi has informed me that among the presents received by him from his personal friends on the occasion of his marriage to Miss Eyres on the 16th April were the following from certain Chinese gentlemen:\n\n1. A silver tray and tea-set from Mr. Ch'an King-wah, the present Head of the Police in the Kuangtung Province. Mr. Ch'an King-wah and Mr. Clementi have been friends for some 9 years past and originally became acquainted in 1903 when Mr. Clementi was seconded for famine relief work in Kuang-si Province where Mr. Ch'an was at that time Magistrate of the Kuei Hsien District.\n\n2. A jade brooch from Mr. Ho Fook.\n\n3. Two Chinese tea cups and a necklace of jade beads from Mr. Chau Siu-ki.\n\n4. A table cloth and a piece of silk from Mr. Chiu Yü-t'in.\n\n5. A table cloth from Mr. Lau Chü-pak.\n\n6. A silver tea-set from Mr. Ng Hon-tsz.\n\n7. A silver flower-bowl from Mr. Ch'an Kai-meng.\n\n8. A table cloth from Mr. Un Lai-ch'ün.\n\n9. A necklace of jade beads from Mr. Ho Kom-tong.\n\n10. A silver crumb-scoop, 12 spoons and one pair of sugar tongs from Mr. Fung Wa-ch'ün.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P., &c., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "# 62\n\n## CO\n\n## FAB ILLO\n\ni). Seib Iivu hrte Leo Advt 30 vog ork un maidqmao to go Chim amodoeqsmi esde frøet mild to the world ga bas, DAIdog no vuld as no qužog 1£ijn ni nait qu'rusa eebareb nude ste orra unfeledtura xeting, edd, aduirí Iereyes td bew PUZIKÁ hauigaro B1 82, 200 volume of ƒsiunå ørid zevo Vunc novog zbole WW os nolu orld cowl od homerung dom at død (Iteд9 (Tev sine sor vlady 0.10 nd quand no nitium ons e✪ltiroddua prstima orld to nožjom *Ouku muu ki belbomor ad quo bus serjaojsk T‡1G) 36: bowertec 17 ro oscarpe dosa yď Jaid befogmelen ed urigao JI -wy ord i grady Dubai em songolyme herido bre arodsnqual seedi yeme *mordowani tezli bis n♬lded boʻre portali zertro bas got Id 、enoiden vid to moldetorq and ret Irtsoatgalb ena enotson Jokow wiłobła maf bras apred dnom neiduriat odd gated I erstenbe Ogod grade. swwi hrte yule olli benetlus evad at Bad To dostdra certidao old to atedmem erið Lía bus avioamenii asiteejom zied) tes eldewoval ziedð evig Liiv Jaoqa okderdag ym eidi eed IIte ost bis Ievaineib fзyelli ya entover brug Ise ITS Vm od moijaroblamış nidam orid Tol Jom, em Jondage adnails Iqmon Lagolt ont dainug £ISA to buong ni dnu priovoð att dobta roʻl, voldavį, erst zot Jud .borowia odoxart era oaяo Isgelli erid to søl edt \n\n## Leger I \n\nobbe J. \n\nDate. 1912 :7 \n\nSuch Last previous Paper. 6330. \n\n**ĐỘNG KONG** \n\n**UGANDA** \n\n**PATRONAGE** 9658 \n\nAppe rea INF: 29 MAR 12 as Mesical Officer For re Exquires rossersion of дшей dectives offer.. ♪ as to other med: appt, whether JR. B. S. & would entitle time to a better affli Mr Shith. ? Now offer & Dr. Hailstone \n\nI understand from 37 Wixdian that one I the to wtrs. useur men haw in training at the S.T.M. is С dark cowpad Abu metoda.. rodina th39¶-x& ..MO Vertoll & wo2436 Butch[00 BTB20. \n\nabsequent Paper my anxions to go to. colony where he is take his Theufore Dr H. ufures this horne in mind). p. If man ساس to to the most 9 8 Cotter latter I know the Straits (rather the Thaits P.C.M.0.) is rey auxions to get men with food impical ∙W:-26,946——17, 40,000. 11/11. A.&E.W.",
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        "content_text": "hamuoni si ti ode brita\n\nHLJ KONA MÁŠ Of saliætəbimhư0Q\n\nkomnal #da plážny að snam da boɑner; dan alasan\n\n12 jou ti fanżening ali noiniço e 'yan\n\nett 20\n\n193 coinu, saj to\n\nst\n\nbetesat si yo god.\n\n \n\n#i mis ta.\n\noil wiba\n\nU-4\n\nR. 7UAN\n\n1. Africa though.\n\nSo hand\n\nLord Gladstine.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nthin\n\n44448\n\n13\n\nHHery\n\n436\n\n \n\n8 Jange914.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWith\n\nreference\n\nmy\n\nthe\n\n350593 despatch No 454 of\n\nX\n\nako ng\n\nReport is marked Confidential.\n\n25th Oct last\n\nI have the\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr.\n\nDAT. Howal 7/1/100 Mr. Vernon /. fr.\n\nhonour\n\nto transmit to\n\nyour\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nLord Emmott.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\nEx. to\n\nbe laid before your\n\nMinistry\n\nthe accompanying\n\ndated the 1st October\n\n=\n\nReport in 44948,\n\n13\n\ncopy of the Report of\n\nSecond,\n\nho\n\nBritish delegate to the tutor\n\nOpinn\n\nConference 1913\n\nIn",
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        "content_text": "881\n\nsit no ‡quetta tresor sit ekam dolde sodanig to gang oɗe to dias ent no \"aw gm/nb\".8.8 ad‡ botaniq dolɗw hna \"m0 IST\".2.2 aɗt,Efef,reďotel dia2 ad♪ nó \"asstromk”.8.8 adð „ÞIVI „doral .8,8 adi bua „8101 „redzoved dit och an \"as▼ undo znowX”,8.8 Iset af með 31.6% da otov „kIVI„dotali talƐ adi no \"ist galdy\"\n\ngray add to stobasť odt .onogi ta will grecft na% 8,0% baa\n\n•fice,Desak ta bevil [La sayli met bas tae? fowl ‚amer amej of onnal stafy of bean yamizam at tœebiser vax of bemen CAR S babawow asw goer gæred „eredš utohasi edit to agaiteen bustta grodynek ni vhodavo at won at bas \"n© laT\" add no fostra sit ni\n\n„antný od veiðibatizo galtlaws\n\nadd to mats bid 20 Tiam tad♪ bevorg od nas I\n\nlaw lat ire (81.0% ta vavod a'gmoï amel da iqui oraw soİSTİQ bra \"kat gatɗ8\",8,” add breed no beats amra odć tad? bus\n\nbra goodyreft of asoal Kott tovo tnes erew \"a0 laT\".2.8 odt „medt to brood no sentiqmoos yd aitanov spoɗt noqu beysvaro\n\nadd to yostiq add to alloqu act Jadi sarabiva at oaïs at #I\n\net osoak of nadat orer BTAMBOJU Teɗto to bas \"Ist galia”,8,8\n\ntón exew odw andariq adft CIs w9VOSTOM .babivið oraďt ed\n\nDMBO \"no Lat\" eft bra \"lat gaida\" add to wezo add to steɗoma .gnodanoë ni síðasov onoɗt no bedraɗus bas osaali most taVO\n\ngray art to atodimm adt Jadź quia fost add at $I\n\nni semiro Triedt to abessory sdt galbasqe to tidad eɗt al etow darīt bba of evaď of Jetyer I bas,osoaï nt sequod gatidmay add atodiam adi yď nevly saw yonan daun tada tdron sistki ak erect mt smið a'votio}[œë enougudro¶ a,ist zmaɔ of gasp edt to idƆ nay) nat bus mit geoff vai savitoetab evenido of bas •\n\n„aalfo¶ osoæl add to (sman fola a ak zinkelw)\n\nadd nejta tadi y#itadium boog no hemmotni a I\n\ntaeser adt at bearsonoo astmig sala odt de osoak ta tuotta belt aïotosrado baď vždyta tuoda ‚\"no laT\".8.8 sɗt no Xaatta\n\na dard kootuds quoitev mort berrotat onEs m I .osaali moT↑\n\n100m The Gaon mì TỪ HAI OF 10 tới ahl Tre, amon sun\n\nJI .angland viacft two verso of modt sidans of astariq of abort\n\n189\n\nis said that the Police at Maono are well acquainted with this man's character but that no action is taken for want of specific proof of the charges against him. If this is so I would venture to suggest to Your Excellency that the hospitality of Macao might well be denied to a person suspected of such nefarious practices.\n\n7.\n\nIn the course of investigations by the Captain Superintendent of Police into the presence of pirates in and around the Delta of the Kwangtung Province it appears that there is reason to believe that the islands of Wong Kam and Lantao are still used as refuges by pirates; and I would ask Your Excellency to take measures to prevent these places and Macao being used in this manner. I am aware of the difficulties in connection with Wong Kam the Portuguese jurisdiction over which is not recognised by China. Perhaps the present serious condition of piracy in and around the Delta may furnish grounds for settling this question.\n\nIn conclusion I beg to assure Your Excellency that I do not wish to throw the whole responsibility for the \"Tai On\" disaster upon the Government of Macao. It is established that one of the ringleaders in the plot was resident in this Colony. My efforts are unceasing to prevent this Colony being used as a base or as a refuge by robbers and pirates. The difficulties, like yours, are enhanced by the untrustworthiness of Chinese Police as a class. All I ask is Your Excellency's earnest co-operation in suppressing as far as in our power lies a scourge which preys at once upon the trade and upon the good name of the Colonies entrusted to our governance.\n\nI have, etc.\n\nSd.\n\nT. K. KAT\n\nGovernor,",
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        "content_text": "Leung Shu Pong staten: –\n\n190\n\n南沙\n\nIn October last year I came to Macao from Fam Sha\n\nSah\n\n15\n\nvillage in the District of Shun Tak. Leung Young has\n\nsent for me saying he would get me work stamping Shan Piu\n\n蔣 Lottery tickets. I went to live with him at No.7 Chop\n\n善\n\n彭亜六\n\nVacao, his wife Pang A Lok, was also there. Leung Yeung had no\n\nemployment. I eventually got employment or to be correct\n\nstarted as apprentice to an old man surnamed \"Lau\" who occupied the next room to Leung Young stamping Shan Piu lottery tickets.\n\nAfter spending about two months at the trade I returned to the\n\ncountry where I remained for over a month.\n\nWhen I came to Vacao on this occasion I went to live\n\nwith Leung Young at 15, Sui Tai Tai. I paid nothing for my keep.\n\nI wished to start again at the lottery ticket business but had\n\nno money. I tried to borrow $10 from Leung Young to start at\n\nthe business but he said he had none to spare just then.\n\nFrom the time I first came to Macao Leung Young\n\n郭 七\n\nfollowed no honest occupation. Kok Tsat,\n\n無樹邦\n\n牛\n\nLeung Shu Chỏng and others used to call on him regularly at his\n\nfamily house where private meetings were conducted. They called\n\n林家圍\n\n水带\n\non him at No.7 Chen Tai, Hoal Lam Ka Wai And No 16 Sui Thi\n\nLoung Young dressed well. At times he would be absent from his\n\nhouse for several days at a stretch. I have known Tam Ngau to\n\n三巴仔 have been living at 14, Bam P■ Ɛgai, since the end of February\n\n1914. I don't know how long before this he had been living there. He occupied the ground floor. You could always find over\n\nten men there, the men who used to visit Leung Young were there.\n\n板樯\n\nI went there to fetch Leung Young.\n\nI have known No.6 Pan Chẳng Viu about the same length\n\n楊\n\nof time, Yong was principal tenant of the ground floor. The\n\nsame gang used to visit this place and smoke opium there. I do\n\n瑞记花圃 not remember seeing this gang visit 56, Shúi Xi Fa Yuen,\n\nTsat(a family house.\n\nKwok\n\nI do not know anything about the Island adjacent to\n\n(1).\n\nJ\n\nVacao.",
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        "content_text": "3779\n\nEn\n\nWhong\n\nSxx\n\n386\n\nDRAFT.\n\ncong hong\n\nMINUTE.\n\nSecur\n\nMr. Robiilor 17/10\n\n15 Cowell\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nHoll\n\nLord Emanoti Islington.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\n377957\n\nrasti.\n\n17.10\n\n14\n\nf\n\n1\n\nThanks to track the rest\n\n7. scout hep the 12t\n\nAng sporting on the\n\naction tällen\n\nMy fort\n\nconnexion with the on threak Iar inth Germany\n\n2.\n\nI desire to express my high\n\nappreciation (the attitude\n\nTo. Army Wo. &\n\nzyirbalion LFF\n\nDuplicate had better go to P.D.\n\nI do not think Enclosures need be printed, but usual inshus should be obtained \"on this point. Hol.\n\n1th Chinese Community\n\nas described in para\n\n26\n\nty. derp, of the quesons\n\nghen tại Ho Tung\n\nwhich you report in para. 27.\n\n72.A.",
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        "content_text": "263\n\nEASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nClerk's Name.\n\nT\n\nISSUED FROM\n\n& 42, PARLIAMENT\n\nNo.\n\nSTREET.\n\nREMARKS.\n\nLONDON STATIONS: ELECTRA HOUSE,\n\nFINSBURY PAVEMENT, E.C.\n\nII, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C.\n\n8, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C.\n\n29, MINDING LANE, E.C. MARKET,\n\n28, MARK LANE, E.C. J BLDGS.!\n\nNo.\n\n(3692 Wall) 4 lines\n\n(8632 Wall) (851 Avenue)\n\n(852 Avenue)\n\nThe following TELEGRAM Received at\n\nGove\n\nFrom Foreign\n\nNo.\n\na:ref\n\nNo.\n\nWords\n\nTrested to ang\n\nfean w\n\nWootension fund\n\nch\n\n[and] 2d aday]\n\n\"a Ref\n\nway be\n\nmarth at\n\nColmeal Volunteer\n\npeshebo\n\n*This sfan error in\n\nL\n\nt\n\n37, HOLBORN CT, EC. 1914 Halborn) 449, STRAND O CEDA2528 Gerrard)\n\nTBRSERY 41 41 & 42, PARLIAMENT LIARDE BW, 925T6 Gerrard)\n\nFOREIGN AUCTION HALL : COVENT GARDEN, W.C. THE BALTIC, ST. MARYJXG, E.C +$408 Avenue! *2942 Hopl I &42, PARLIAMENT ST, S.W.\n\n6. DERMAN STREET, BOROUGH, S.E.\n\nDated\n\n_Time____\n\n19\n\nciá \"Eastern.\"\n\nAug to th pensionable\n\nmather still under carsan\n\nCoding shobe parasavy\n\nMa\n\n= 2d.\n\nReco Co. (0.2) am\n\n869114\n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern,\n\nDoubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. See Rule Book\n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy.\n\nWaterlow & Sons Ltd., Printers, London Wall, London.",
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        "content_text": "# 313\n## Govern' \n### 1914 \n#### 14 Nove\n\nLast previous Paper. 130  \n4225-2- by m  \nSext subsequent Paper.\"  \n\n**HONG KONG**  \n45038 Expulers & German from Hong Kong.  \nCopy Lee.mn from Peking  \n\nGX Ji  \n45038 **RES 16 NOV 14**  \nREC  \n\nbermen't had is J. Jordan's news  \nتها Wat which W. comour).  \n3 Ark to: ht  \nя правит Holl 17.  \nMa Colling alonce  \nVor J. Jaden thinks it unnecessary & undesirable to make an announcement.  \nSo did we; so does the FO.  \n\nB186) W1.31,068–38, 45,000, 1243, A MH..  \nAVC  \n? Iugh alonce K19/11/14 19.11.14  \n23-1.16",
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        "content_text": "## FOREIGN OFFICE\n### December 21st, 1914.\n\nWith reference to the letter from this Office of the 7th instant I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herewith copy of a telegram from His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo regarding the internment of German prisoners from Kiaochow at Hong Kong.\n\nIn view of the last paragraph of Sir C. Greene's telegram Sir E. Grey presumes that the Governor of Hong Kong will take the necessary steps for the conveyance of the prisoners from Kiaochow to the place of internment.\n\nA copy of the telegram and of this letter has been sent to the Director of Military Operations.\n\n? add H in accordance with tel. H.M's Ambassador at Tokyo. from H.M's \n\nBut as the object is to \"influence Chinese public opinion\", is it quite fair to put the whole expense on Hong Kong?\n\nIt is understood by Governor, I suppose, that the Colony will be responsible for the keep of the prisoners: but what about their transport?\n\nI suggest to C.O. that cost of transport should be reimbursed.\n\nHoll 22.12.14 \n\nIn any further communication on the subject, please quote No. 84822/14.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London.\n\nSir:- \n$1066 Page d. 22 Dec. 14 \nFOREIGN OFFICE \n403 \n\nBut Hong Kong is profoundly interested in influencing opinion in S. China in the right direction. I don't think we need say anything about cost, at any rate until the Gov. raises the question. Of course the matter will have to be cleared up ultimately, but I would not raise it from here at the outset. We shall have proposals from the Colony in due course.\n\nH. Kong did not bargain for wounded men, but as they can be moved they are presumably well on the way to recovery.\n\n7.0. tel. as proposed. \nAwe \nSund tell C.O. that we 22.12.14. \n£ 3.12.14 presume that the cost of transport pay on account of prisoners will be reimbursed & send way to ...\n\nUnder Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nI am, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, \nhumble Servant, \nWangley \n\n(1 Year) \nM F.O 48642 \n>mediate. Anding They of thi \n... \n`XCR(85)72` is not present, but file reference `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is also not present. However, there is `No. 84822/14`.",
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        "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n41848\n\nConsul General for France at Marseilles  \n1914  \n28 Sept  \n7  \n\n**REC**  \n41848  \n**REG 29 OCT 14**  \n456  \n\nPassage for Mrs. Frank Allen  \nwhether he  \nLast previous Paper.  \nher £10.  \nQuod tel. 29 Oct. Cagents 31004 cornes 70. 31 Oct  \n12  \nReply to Gov. 291. 31 Oct.  \nNext subsequent Paper.  \n\nG  \nmay  \nadvance  \ntowards cost of the passage of Wife of Sanitary Inspector  \nMr. Towell.  \n\nSent £1.50,  \n50 + $58 29 0417/14  \nBritish Consul General Marseilles ten pounds advance to Mr. Ahen  \ndisbursed under Sanitary Inspector's  \napplication for the Colonial Secretary's  \nfunds on demand from T.  \ncopy comm 270. of st  \nR29/ome  \n_JUL196) WE$1,086–15. £5,000, 12/19, A ME W._  \nHoll  \n29.10.14  \nat once,",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT MINUTE\n\n18098 Why it St Karl No 10%\n\nIn May Mr. Wolfe 22/14/13  \nMr. Forell Holl 23.4  \nSir G. Fiddes  \nSir H. Just  \nSir J. Anderson  \nLord Islington  \nMr. Harcourt  \nDir, Shave t back:  \nYou the receipt of Asp No 88 of the 11th March th  \nInform to that I approve Your recommendations that the Salary of the Just of Asst Medical Officer at Kowloon should be $1320 be rising to $1800 by biennial increments.",
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        "content_text": "## \n1 \n\ntro \nt \nI \na \n555 \nLov. May 1915 \nBoth April \nLast previous Paper. \nHONG KO \n27576 \nTrading with Enemy \n\"47213\" \n27016 \nREG 15 JUN 15 \n\nCalls attention to suspected \nCase of Eastwood and Holl. \n13 \n? \nM. Join \n2. Copy `KB. NT 17` \n`R17/4/15`. \nToysm \n0 \nPerhaps \nAlum aus dopts \nthis wh? go to 1.0. \ntro \nA&C \nsh \n19.6. 7.6N- \n06.176.2 \n4/17/6/11-- \nVelling \n4.0. \nEach ca. \nA \n18.6.147 \n\nNext subsequent Paper \n34842 \n(88,103). WL. 31,086—15, 45,000, 12/7S, `A.&E.W.` (107,089) \n31,007–51. 45,000. 13/14 \n++",
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        "content_text": "# contest of tin this building \nand ship refitting facilities \n\nAking \nsapfested \nthe \nBoard, unless you see \nany strong; and \nI would suggest \nthat \nyou \nshould proceed \nsligtly under \nThe Out of \nThe \nBoft \n\n## HONG KONG \n## STRAITS \n35452 \n198 \ni i 35452 \nIREC \nREG 27 JULIC \n1916. \n\n26 \nTransm \nunder Workmen's Compensation Aer. 1986. \nCoffey \nCatter add. to the Home Office \n\nLast previous Paper suggests that the \nGour \n50261 \nShak \nArrangts made. should be communicated to Singapore \nas indicated requesting necessary action \nken \nthe Connel \n2645 \nThe \nbut 1896 \n16 \nharch 1816. \n\n3. Funds \nDan C \nC \nRavand coe \nf \nThe 21t \ndecide to adopt \nKatha this comruse so \n7 \ncoran \nValle thi \naction, as \nwill \nhe can \nindicated \nay \nmy despatch of the shi apul, to bring the band of the U Mantages into pection in the Colony, before issuing any regulations on the subject \n\nUnder reference \nAwad & Aug 16 \nI Straits \n· 243 \nNext subsequent Paper. \n\nthe Board \nto Whing Strails \nasking them to proceed on \nlives suggestit \n250 \nS \nrefly \nMB \n2577/16 \n(00082) Wt. 25800-8. 45,000. 12/15. B M & 9. \n\nHoll \n29.7.16 atonce \nco.",
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        "content_text": "SE\n\n325\n\nBAOIJE\n\nApogel-redol nå\n\nmable ju að ámul „1l sto soitti ini.slot\n\nJa tukid to wi Lilanog\n\nJoe the M - C.B bosgan nutqo ni\n\n1\n\nkistan 20 kWord) naine\n\nཞ rot na pagarTG\n\n: \n\n.sutudmoot\n\n7\n\n1900\n\n: \n\n1\n\nן:\n\nL\n\nquilone be sulelavetų\n\n(..\n\nAndy Made\n\n* DC17 a .94T\n\n. £.\n\n.I\n\nnot\n\n·I300 N3 Neuron broni... and wi yltowBU 1.noith e. to.\n\n掌\n\njaoitwas and ise io to\n\nwwe Zuo 9.\n\ninfratto dope hadre qfar að dul\n\nJOB, BOWL\n\nwen not foto N\n\naw abigo ni\n\n9\n\nCino datit\n\nC\n\nis nothing, except a fine of £5 or £10, to prevent a broker selling considerable amounts of opium by retail to any person who offers to buy. There is no provision against the preparation of chandu in the United Kingdom and consequently opium can be obtained and made into chandu with considerable ease.\n\nUnder present conditions the export of the drug is forbidden but there is no doubt that the ingenuity of the Chinese, who are the chief agents in the trade, enables them to smuggle large quantities out of the country.\n\nThe Conference consider that the following procedure, which is largely based on the recommendations of a Committee appointed to consider what legislation would be required to enforce in the United Kingdom the provisions of the Hague Opium Convention, would be effective. All importers of opium should be required to be licensed in the same way as diamond importers must be licensed at the present time. All wholesale dealers, opium retailers, and manufacturers should also be required to take out a licence. No person other than a licensed importer, dealer, broker, or manufacturer would be permitted to import or deal wholesale with opium.\n\nThe only classes of persons to whom such sale should be permitted should be registered medical practitioners, dentists, pharmacists, persons licensed under the Cruelty to animals Acts and such persons as may be granted by the proper authority a licence to purchase\n\n1\n\nPage 330\n\nPage 331",
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        "content_text": "174\n\nr\n\n* Iferte szczuodal\n\n2000HST 3-dooq ↑ Junedad Contract: vagė Ha.... Ne sado tul\n\n1\n\nano sice (amily prove hru dexost ano embauonj ↑\n\nBái gf bloq od FItw\n\nBetaent gotad negonyab **),adivo ha od uti90 $1 -Ienuao ron ore ano 14 Men32\n\nAl Jus f127 saxet ar = it mot cegaw við to JOŽJA)\n\nano Juoda ja edinɔ *I\n\nmost marundo! *** stemɛmaa Cj' jele on aari yusquod *NI\n\nf labourers\n\nfter expir-\n\nion of their ontract, wish\n\nenter into agreement\n\nth the Comp-\n\nby for a\n\nWether\n\nriod, they all receive ring the\n\nfat year of bir second ntract 46 a.(N.I.Curr)\n\nr diem (less\n\n4 Cts. for\n\nhod) and the\n\njoond year\n\n.1[V\n\n•pfimet sid\n\n▸\n\nIIIV\n\najah at 10\n\n730 od\n\ninəmestga SITA\n\n: Joender,\n\nf\n\nfrom a mot shem al t\n\nnomin Heli da bòngla\n\n#1600\n\nto tob -ng to gais\n\nthe new ntract an tre emium of\n\nCte. .I.Curr.)\n\n.favima ald weƒtu\n\nPWAT KANTIER quefanteg edgetstat a:T\n\nhool fo Le mão,king beda kar\n\nTELRODOLF\n\nBeth 24 42 (božnog matnos. 2 mut josnjaco 23 jratz Brid\n\n1\n\nwboy & tea\" J1:9 adi to antiurtaxe p\n\n12108\n\n12 bro\n\na rot J.10 to\n\naď..\n\nnervadel 503\n\n36\"\n\nWEL\n\nagreement with the company for a further period, they\n\nshall receive during the\n\n3rd. period of 12 months 56 Cts. per day\n\n4th.\n\n#\n\n• 18\n\n#\n\n58 31\n\nM\n\nplus an extra 6 cents premium p.d. total 64\n\nCts. per day\n\n5th. period of 12 months 60 Cta. per day\n\nplus an extra 6 Cts. premium p.d. total 66 Cte. per day.\n\n6th. period of 12 months 62 Ots. ner day\n\nplus an extra 6 Ots. premium p.d. total 68 cts.\n\nper day.\n\n68 cta. per day being the maximum wages for general labour labour IX.The labourers bind themselves, in case the estate should\n\nchange ownership, to fulfil their obligations under this agreement towards the new owner, provided that the new owner undertakes to fulfil the obligations undertaken by the Company under this agreement.\n\n------000-------\n\nvfter Jo qmanundel af s it vexedrobiu ('reqmoð »T.E\n\nradi gathans refe, Jeandano alert to noljezique no\n\nnd humutam ad of fate 70*) ** lateqerfosalwald -ledi\n\nPlantɔɔ 5*1 to fans are da sub at usmod «tedt\n\naurlaxa som vit sjølzjaqa” od nolsagtido aril\n\neno althy miknudroqno aldi ho veltweit Ilava Jɔn ob\n\nmeri od hohaaf ass! omad BROTATIpastekli mutta finom\n\nkriðsfatmahau ynaqis offT.0\n\nerid for tenetubo aft to solder baxu aid to smij arij ment\n\n·\n\naf qikuwdroggo Jun17\n\nfilm manuodel atra\n\nKa mne A haɔ098 97% kaotad\n\nmuefortas adeataalaë afi vd hayɔfaws malad mind to\n\nmatta ** Brus #10 #8 to syaw (llah a prqation Jan M\n\nnick madna od daty mañj joand 100 ~tard to noljerique",
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        "content_text": "# LONG KONG \n372 \nMay \n1918 \n**Conf.** \n2 Mch. \nLast previous Paper. \n10792 \n2134 \n1347 \n7 \n**REC** \nREG I MAY 18 \n1000 \n**Report on British Trade in the Far East after the war** \nconfidential copy to Ch. of Commerce. \nMs Sowell \nCopy with why to Dept. of O.S.T. \nNext subsequent Paper. \nC.D \n14 MAY \n(`XCR(85)72`). Wt. 5426-16 \n30m. 11 17 \nDX 5. G 122' 41. \nTo \nDep't of O.S.T. pho \nL.F. \n3/5/18 \nHoll \n4-5-1 batonic",
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        "content_text": "## 419\n\nVital Guiwetujem Notelexe to exc~ne moliquore Juondiw mal on diet \n\nqead of te 70 ni ejsede dɛametuo ede to anoideguiroo & al beosIq \n\n**FPIRIT (LOW TO Aṛuk şu spa orada”** \n\nfrom ni æde ade retuo edit so so and gaimyo a0 \n\nmerit ZAİTEÞOOT collerá bem beibato ed at bewo) staw mereo sát to two gnistil no „beaosto onia snew walad seedt to taom bem unele mar at exord add to ynom „yi labores team arab naw doide,steada edi \n\nbestil nede ddałow to nient reed don hlượn yadë drát zakwada \n\nend to mujer e gallem ai requodarotë Tel© aựt has does de \n\n-Teq ed+ bna bedostoru ore bos beibaða med oved dekrim ndoade \n\nent egedeerd yd ngemeh adi men? diegu að lag \n\ndove si benequno ere sésade and solder Yo Labrodom and Yo otud E \n\nmeve to den hem alodied må Imiradem eft „ssefonu madi rabnar of \n\nnodizzando i Lundle thicke ordi? euroodsa ent .suomiokat vo stutowsta «lis do jdjiew on vred 10kw steede cóż ban \"drodis\" si med? \n\nbegombou Letovou noqu obom staat haií oveď I \n\nedo to yniosqu erit of laupe nagu a da iedreqque made são ocu ed ora gairolla? add bow .ai ð „s? 5.0.1 „loor add to amling \n\nodt de beligge beel bedøstnaongo a Tekau slord Jesdā .(a) \n\n.dt .po reg vedi 28 of ‡melavtupe nage and 10 astres One laviups beef boðaðirðulb ɣinove m robom odord Jood .(d) \n\n.37 „pa mag .edi buti od \n\nI morì bacçorb .adi RI to Jigiow a robnus salevd food? .(o) \n\nGet me odd da bellaga ha deana odě ovoce too? \n\nmenorq baku lažnozired a gatuerend \n\nedi 00 to \n\nadd de bluem Yoot nicớ no stumaang İsaran salt „Joo? .pe Taq \n\nbluar efeeds east bedt om „tœ↑ «pe mq .adí OS #uedo od mominim -doelgen Ile vi sidT .hool skríð bæcðadékw of dyreen amnên ed Jon to or add no erow com a ti boliqqa od blvem dolew bool odd gal• bne pateade and gaiyel somadeni jevit odd ni mre vo gaitkaqor Joods ▲ chhol e sbue droqque pidineoq dom bivoo Istredem virð \n\n## 4180\n\ncan easily be broken by standing on it before full the weight is applied and many pieces can be broken by hand. \n\nUnder these circumstances I have condemned the material as being useless and I think you will agree with me as to this being the only course open. \n\nWe are now faced with the proposition of finding a substitute and I think that the best thing to do will be to construct a reinforced concrete slab roof since it will take a considerable time to get a supply of genuine \"Lammit\" and if you agree I will have drawings prepared and tenders called for. I hope that it may be possible to obtain some recompense, for the material and delay caused, from the makers. I am not understanding how this material was allowed to be shipped if it was properly inspected, nor am I understanding how the makers managed to pack it without breaking scores of sheets. Had the Crown Agents sent out the material specified or even some material of equal quality for I understand there are other makers, I am certain that matters would have been different. \n\nWhile on the subject of this Indent I would point out two other instances in which the Crown Agents have passed the material for this extension though not in conformity to the Drawings. \n\n(a) The down pipes were shown on the drawing which was sent home as being in three six foot lengths all of which were dimensioned. On the drawing prepared by the Crown Agents which was practically traced off the one we sent the middle length of down pipe has been marked, and check marked also, as a five foot length though it scales six feet. This has caused the downpipes to be one foot short, and we will require to have extension pieces made. \n\n(b) Bed plates were shown on all the cross girders where they rested on the walls and these were omitted. These we have had to have made locally.",
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        "content_text": "## 7477/18/19\ncha 1919 \nHong Kong \n\nCeylon \nHC. \n383 \n10 \n1213 \n\nREG 18 FC 18 \n\nAnd I have to request you to be so good as to send any six copies of Ceylon Housing & Town Improvement Ordinance, 1918.\n\n### Last previous Paper\nNo. 31 of 1919 \n\n### Transhipment of goods for re-export to small markets without formalities\nWhether he may now permit British produce to be re-exported (already arrived or to arrive) to small markets without form.\n\nOrdinance, By No 19 of 1915, with amendments, to the OAG of HK., for consideration of the connection with the housing portion of that Colony.\n\n### straits \nHoll Coff W.T.D. Consor. 24 tel. \nJas 2 Jaw. /19.62505 \nano & Tel. 17. Jan 19 mod copy above is. T.D. 21 Jan 191 Fr. l WTD.\n\n### Next subsequent Paper\n0.4.95 \n62805 \nMr Dixon $73 \nCopy to W. T..D, ref to previous corresp, and ask for Dixon's + tell each that a similar letter is being sent to the other] \nB.A.7. \n\n### Notes\n21/12/15 \nI don't think that we need ... Customs are only concerned with the formalities...\n\n21/12/18 \nMr. Emmans \nat once",
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        "document_key": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]",
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        "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]",
        "content_text": "# 615\n\n## Correspondence\n\n... ai molt dərib mind mi mat on mealad moitas ,erul „diOS add badab tað Jei e ai beniadnos Isinalcü eft od ume ... Laco it all wild mort meddel a grittindus soit 10 trnið đuď,.bèl yo quod noldswitnað ofstoelX orld gażyłeiden es bobregat að donoso yosquɔɔ dedd raro nl „dremmevað sɗt to atmaNETİNOOT Jadi wodne rang suos orad yam Inemmtevað adj bre benoemmoo ed 1 fiw noidovitongo to amor add visesedem ad iliw ti glavoitibeqre no baİTTAD To omit odd je „tisɔqab of stadomorą add rot dnedre end of yðiruses „dnemørgå ont gains in eldit bevorqgo to deso ni tedt je 000,00k to aốt ni hədistrol ad af ydirmer súð „ebesb bar bedouidenoo grieɑ doa yament add to Jasve mi beitioeqe smit edd nidź iw zebro gaiarow aż ant to moldroq a trembergå eď to TS emur lo ni .(d) ni bene boerve ed deum reebrodi do def↑ [abið ilams Tol sguter noodqył z mot of rebro ed litw howl To aesa Joalariupe as has „Šiom .of beergs need ybeetle sad vidt,betonTO „beððimo ad eum frembergå erit to 05 sem() .(o) -mrevað est qu mwath saw Jnemmergå odd soni? jesso edt gmois brev s betoustemos und & cam- dekofw d¿bbw mi jest ¿S oð di mort gaiyuaT To bas Isl sdt hoor bear end to dzaq aETY OF silduq ent ni ed ton bluow di San zrodymol adt at idgit evisulote yaa Juary of des TOJAI To vodom to saivres silduq a aut od sredom ng sát vidt of tão dos a så „sto yi lord nas[Ilar Bradomong and moqu ilno Jon IIkw JemTISTOÐ to droo end abrować 000,05% to sue edi yaq ɔð „que chue to diaq yas to boot act zalash be .(b) \n\n### 3.\n\n**(d)** The Government reserves to itself the right to permit any Electric or Gas Company to carry their cables or pipes either above or below ground within the areas over which the promoters have rights and that in so doing the reasonable facilities contemplated under clause 24 of the Agreement will be in no way infringed. In this connection it is understood that, provided satisfactory terms can be arranged, the promoters intend to utilise the current from the new power station of the Hongkong Electric Company for all their purposes.\n\nAs Mr. Bowley is leaving for England tomorrow he will be able to confer with Mr. Williams, and make the necessary financial arrangements. The Government will not entertain any proposals for financing the undertaking except from a Corporation or Company, which is in a position to execute the work of construction.\n\n### 1.\n\nGentlemen, \n\nYour obedient servant, \n\n**(Sd.) M. Fletcher**, \nColonial Secretary.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919",
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        "title": "CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919",
        "content_text": "fox \n\nDiffe \n\nHong không \n\nNo 254. \n\nOAG Se \n\nreque-t \n\nt \n\nJo \n\navanger for \n\ndu Pattaron, his wife & his two children \n\nIs trand together to H.K. at the \n\nearliest possible dante \n\nSis \n\nP. \n\n211422 Hony Kay \n\n21 g1919 \n\nتا \n\nWith rof. to my dasp.. No. 144 \n\nof the 28th J March, \n\n: hanmmit E \n\nI have at he \n\njou, for your conson, \n\nthe \n\naccout: cofy I correst with du H. J. Patterson, \n\nJou H.K Police Force, regarding an acfermon \n\nwith full salary \n\nThis leave of absea from H.K. Nanding margune's bang made for his wife, his \n\ntwo children a hunself to travel together E the Col. \n\nI to the \n\nI love the \n\n2.0.0.13/5 \n\n(15047) \n\ndu Collins \n\nFronden Patterson - Jap Troll Palterna (diff leucate). \n\n2 \n\n13 \n\nComor \n\n3dfs \n\n \n\nPhillipo \n\nHONG KONG \n\n27483 \n\nA.. Estate of late St. 3. Jouls \n\n1919 \n\nbray. \n\nLast previous Paper. \n\n27493 \n\nRemission of estate duty \n\nRequests recommendations \n\n442 7 MAY 19 \n\nin day to obtain \n\nAnod \n\ncom.. \n\n30 mg \n\nFor anod 17 June. 32758/10 \n\nCopy. Bd of Inland Reax: 265 June 19 W.0. \n\n32958. \n\nden Bisley \n\nMag \n\n1VC \n\nhave \n\nJour obsons, flean. \n\nCren dift. \n\n270. \n\n14/5/19 \n\nchr \n\nDeath dates \n\non the fails stated her it seeme \n\ncan within the Act of 1914 \n\n(Kitt \n\nin was het \n\ncumbers of these cases \n\nlos has had a lumbers of \n\nr \n\nperhaps you can for what trimer \n\nif any \n\nW \n\nconfirmatias \n\nof statements made by applicanti \n\nbiken issing \n\nrecommendation \n\n28.1.148149 \n\nThe Risley \n\n440 \n\nNext subsequent Paper. 10.0. \n\nSu 151673/11 \n\nIgagaland an holl m \n\nfile \n\n536 \n\nmrank \n\nwhich ? give what \n\nZder \n\n+Jas 19/3/19 \n\nTO \n\n32958. \n\n(20194-4b.) Wt. 30376-81. 50m, 11/18. D 8. G. 128/ 41.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]",
        "content_text": "Tel, AdurERA \n\n'SIGNALLY, AVE,'' LONDON, \n\nTelephone -3832 LONDON WALL \n\nTELEGRAM \n\nISSUED FROM CHIEF CABLE STATION, ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVE \n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED \n\nVia Eastern \n\nDoubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. Geo Rute Book No inquiry respecting this talagram can be attended to without production of thù i \n\nSee back of form for list of Company's Stations in London and Telephone Numbers. \n\nTH \n\nTIME \n\nIN \n\nLETTERS \n\nOuter Corale A M Inner Grele PM \n\nOF \n\nTHE CLOCK \n\nExamp❘01, PW -3.44 p.m. \n\nHL 8.85 am. \n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED. \n\nDIRECT CABLE ROUTES FOR TELEGRAMS \n\nPa \n\nAUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, GREECE, TURKEY, EGYPT, ALL PARTS OF AFRICA, &c., &c. \n\nSTATIONS IN BEAT BRITAIN. \n\nTINES OF OPENING AND CLOSING. \n\nClerk's Name. \n\nTime Recelerd. \n\nLONDON STATIONS I \n\nCENTRAL CABLE STATION. \n\nALWATH OPEN. \n\n4. \n\nHoll \n\nZee Tvement. L.Q. : \n\n1 A \n\n1.69 \n\n440$ \n\n26168 \n\n1014 \n\nTEMPORARY ARRANGO \n\nex. \n\n1.0.3 \n\nMay Lane, 2.0.3 \n\nEitance, LLC : \n\nALWAYS \n\nDIA, X.O.: \n\nSt Borough, SCF.. \n\nCentral Station of \n\naccepted at the Indo-Europaan Telegraph Company, Ld., 10. - § Broad Straat, E.C. 2 \n\nPROK \n\nSTATIONS: \n\n+ \n\n6700 \n\n707 - \n\nPAR? 9. Colmar Row BRA ORD. \n\nA \n\n• Atreat \n\n4418 \n\nr \n\nDIFF: \n\nnge \n\n+ \n\n782 \n\nBIGBURGH:- Ta \n\nGLASİ DA », theyal Bait Dr \n\n11 \n\nחן יי ך \n\n:) \n\n+ \n\n0:21 \n\nLIVE POOLE, BA \n\nThe Oott \n\nHumaninga \n\nhang \n\nMANCETER: Mine Datin \n\n▲ NEW:JABLE ONTVKEN \n\nA \n\nI \"Englima son, Bailliagh; Quay: 11e \n\nPORT OUR NOW, CORNWALL \n\nALWAYS OPEN. \n\nHEAD OFFICES OF THE COMPANY: ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT, LONDON, E.C. 2. \n\nTelegraphie Address; KASTERN EVE, LONDON, Telephonaj 1137, LONDON \" \n\nT \n\nANREVIATED ADDED 14, - ww \n\nCARE T \n\n20 \n\n24 \n\nוד..י \n\nLEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES REGISTERED FREE OF COST. \n\nMasterandi + Corry, wat \n\n* VIA EASTERN.\" \n\nSoļi?a miterotic.c \n\nClock abovej \n\nXan 72 55 \n\n373 \n\nTICALS \n\n118 WELDGAS TI \n\nPOINT 01 ROUBLES \n\nWEJ SHAGE \n\n4/2 \n\nPOINT WH NO CART PESOS WEIGHINGENS POINT \n\nWEDELVISI JAVE BUILDERS WILLBEAN \n\n075 SILVER GOD FOLLOWING CLAIMS \n\nLOCAL CON TROLLER \n\nWED GEWOLF \n\n1102 \n\nPOINT \n\ncontested FORSKTOP \n\nWED BE TUSK \n\n$ TUB B& \n\nWEDGESHIP \n\ndespatch flowe WEDSÉWORN. BERMULI SA \n\nC.G",
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        "content_text": "made \n\nfor the afft. of the 5 W. Stammalton \n\nCadet Ances as Administrator of \n\nMy Burn's estate, \n\nwill be pant in due \n\na \n\nfur, report \n\nbut the \n\ncourse; \n\nFw. states that at fresent it does not affect probable that the ansats in the Colony will be much more \n\nthan sufficent to west local clannis agamist the estate. \n\nHamilton \n\nwill commmmmate durict with \n\nJavi \n\nto ascertain \n\nJy's \n\nwishes with \n\nmgard \n\n6 \n\nany questions of a personal nature \n\nthat \n\nthat \n\nmay \n\nange \n\nan \n\n3. Sir RE Stubbs requests \n\nar pression of the symfacky \n\nthe Port. of 19 aning & offent \n\nof the \n\ncolleagues may be conveyed to \n\nBurns' relatives. \n\n(Signed) &. GRINDLE \n\nFROM \n\n1922 \n\nYou Stubbs bonf \n\nFOR CIRCULATION :- \n\nMr. Grindle \n\nSir H. Lambert \n\nSir H. Read \n\nSir J. Masterton Smith \n\nMr. Wood \n\nMr. Churchill \n\nPrevious Paper \n\n03123101 \n\nHONG KONG \n\nDATE. \n\n2 January, 1923 \n\nSUBJECT \n\nCost of Living \n\nEn closed \n\nscale \n\n9610 \n\n12 \n\nRECE Rea \n\napproved \n\nfor the Civil service, together were th hand boot \n\n· Remarks as to difficulties: \n\nin compilation of \n\nLee for 385721 (Handbook) \n\nCopy to copy encls & Tread) \n\nAdy \n\n8.3.22 \n\nSo hot. Hayes (Aday ) - 23 May 1922. You \n\nFur \n\nLa Parker (e) 9 June. so, \n\n---- \n\nTo bol Lee HK com 4 DEC 1924 35 \n\ncopy with one \n\nMINUTES \n\nWhy J \n\ncucle to \n\nЧу, Асия \n\n10. \n\num \n\n677 \n\n15/per alou \n\nI \n\nAB \n\nSubsequent Paper \n\nIN HOLL \n\n(*1401) W%20877-36 60,000 1122, T.S\n\nCorrected version:\nmade \n\nfor the afft. of the late W. Stammalton \n\nCadet Annes as Administrator of \n\nMy Burn's estate, \n\nwill be paid in due \n\na \n\nfurther report \n\nbut the \n\ncourse; \n\nFw. states that at present it does not affect probable that the assets in the Colony will be much more \n\nthan sufficient to meet local claims against the estate. \n\nHamilton \n\nwill communicate direct with \n\nJava \n\nto ascertain \n\nJava's \n\nwishes with \n\nregard \n\nto \n\nany questions of a personal nature \n\nthat \n\nmay \n\narise \n\nin \n\n3. Sir RE Stubbs requests \n\nan expression of the sympathy \n\nof the Govt. and colleagues may be conveyed to \n\nBurns' relatives. \n\n(Signed) G. GRINDLE \n\nFROM \n\n1922 \n\nYour Stubbs conf \n\nFOR CIRCULATION :- \n\nMr. Grindle \n\nSir H. Lambert \n\nSir H. Read \n\nSir J. Masterton Smith \n\nMr. Wood \n\nMr. Churchill \n\nPrevious Paper \n\n03123101 \n\nHONG KONG \n\nDATE. \n\n2 January, 1923 \n\nSUBJECT \n\nCost of Living \n\nEnclosed \n\nscale \n\n9610 \n\n12 \n\nReceived \n\napproved \n\nfor the Civil service, together with the handbook \n\n· Remarks as to difficulties: \n\nin compilation of \n\nLee for XCR(85)72 (Handbook) \n\nCopy to copy encls & Read) \n\nAdy \n\n8.3.22 \n\nSo hot. Hayes (Ady ) - 23 May 1922. You \n\nFur \n\nLa Parker (e) 9 June. so, \n\n---- \n\nTo Bol Lee HK com 4 DEC 1924 35 \n\ncopy with one \n\nMINUTES \n\nSubsequent Paper \n\nIN HOLL \n\nGR1178/1922/32(III) W%20877-36 60,000 1122, T.S",
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        "content_text": "NOTICE\n\nW. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.\n\nENGINEERS &\n\nSHIPBUILDERS. KOWLOON.\n\nHARBOUR REPAIRS\n\nCan Flag \"L\"\n\nTugs, Barges, Light Draft and\n\nHigh Speed Vessels and\n\nMotor Craft.\n\nSole Agents for\n\n\"KELVIN MOTORS.\"\n\n'Phones:-\n\nWorks......... Kowloon 21\n\nManager...... Kowloon 633\n\nSTEAM LAUNCH FOR SALE.\n\nMETALS\n\nof all kinds, especially for ship-\n\nBuilding and engineering works\n\nComplete stock. Best immediate delivery.\n\nSINGON & CO.,\n\n(Established A.D. 1880.)\n\nHING LUN.... 7. Phone Central 515.\n\nPIANO\n\nFOR HIRE\n\nat moderate Prices.\n\nTSANG FOOK PIANO\n\nCOMPANY.\n\n94. Wanchai Road.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE HONGKONG\n\nK-673\n\nH.K. 4002\n\nFOR HIRE\n\nMOTOR\n\nLORRIES\n\nFOR\n\nBUILDING\n\nMATERIALS\n\nTAKEN TO ALL PARTS OF THE COLONY.\n\nDOMINION MOTOR\n\nTRANSPORT.\n\n145, PRAYA EAST.\n\n'PHONES\n\nCentral 4002 Kowloon 673\n\nTELEGRAPH.\n\nKOWLOON CRICKET\n\nCLUB.\n\nProposed Limited Liability Company.\n\nSATURDAY.\n\nas well practically all the club's I Kowloon, in King's Park. As members were aware, two years ago they started raising debentures with the view to erecting a new Club home and some $18,000 were raised\n\nthe\n\nprivate Club they had no legal The annual general meeting of existence whatever, and the ques- members of the Kowloon Cricket tion of raising debentures was im- Club, held last evening, was pre- sided over by the genial President, because, supposing the Club went Dr. C. Forsyth. He was supported bankrupt suddenly, the only per- by the Vice-President (Mr. sons who could be held responsible R. E. Lindell), the Hon. Secre- for the debentures were those who tary (Mr. E. J. Edwards) and had signed them on behalf of the the Hon. Treasurer (Mr. H. E. Club. That seemed hardly fair on Stevens) There was a large the \"poor mugs\" who signed them gathering of members, all the seat- having signed a few hundreds ing accommodation being occu- himself. (Laughter). Many of the pied.\n\n[sporting clubs in the Colony had, in The President heartily congratu- recent years, converted themselves lated the Club on the very success- into limited liability companies ful season they had had, both Articles of Association. in spite and financially. Here!! ipslanced regretted that circumstances had United job provided, high being seau morg\n\nHongkong Rugby Club, and often at the Club, but he assured thought highly desirable members that he took the same that the Kowloon, cricket Club When they! great interest in it to-day as he had should have a: some future date! done when he was a not a time to max at some future date! member. The President thought to the new ground where could un- the Club could congratulate itself domotedly have the vase money th un- having won the League last bild a new pavilion, At pres\n\na unique achievement the debentures were being • shes meet \" had every hope that they would do the Club a min stroža jovation | the same this year. With regard financially. Jeg turi to busė a: to the other sections be was pleased further be gras on debentumn in to know that they were flourishing the future they could do it ma They had some yuting ron company with preh ing on to take the place of Seramy liability hired therein. - Gren in tennis, and the golf sud bowls players were going very strong.\n\nyeur\n\nA Leakage Somewhere. Referring to the question of fin- ances, the President drew attention\n\nAfter a short discussion the mot ing unanimously approved the p- posal, the proposition of Mr. Lindsell seconded by Mr. Nailson.\n\nThe Financial Year. The President mentioned that it| × PUBLISHED ANNUALLY to two items, the first being the end of the financial year of the was desired that the date for the expenditure on entertainment, Club should be changed from the which was about $500 more than 31st August to the 31st July, the\n\nHe explained that this\n\nTHE\n\nLONDON DIRECTORY\n\nlast year.\n\nwith Provincial & Foreign Sections\n\nwas accounted for by the fact that reason being that the Club had, enables traders to communicate direct with they had played double the number grown to such an extent that the MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS of cricket matches and more tennis Hon. Secretary and Hon. Trea- super found it difficult to compile |\n\nthe Continent of Europe. The\n\nin London and in the Provincial Towns and matches and bowls matches, con- their statements in time for the Industrial Centres of the United Kingdom and sequently the figure must natur- annual meeting, addresses and her details are classified under ally go up.\n\nHe would like! The other item was members to express their opinions more than 2,000 trade headings, including.\n\nperhaps a not quite so popular one. on the matter. He intimated that\n\nEXPORT MERCHANTS\n\nwith a detailed particulars of the Goods\n\nand the Colonial and Foreign Market»supplied/-referred to by sales. Whilst both in regard to forming the Club|\n\nSTEAMSHIP LINES\n\narranged under the Ports to which they sail,\n\nand indicating the approximate Sailings,\n\nOne-Inch BUSINESS CARDS of Firms dealing\n\nto extend their connections, or Trade Cards ?\n\nDEALERS SEEKING AGENCIES\n\ncan be printed at a cost of 30 shillings for each trade heading under which they are inserted.\n\n· Larger advertisements from £2 2s to £15.\n\n215,\n\nSEPTEMBER 30. 1922.\n\nElectricity for Everyone.\n\nResidents of outports who are forced to do without electric light and other conveniences of electricity may now get all these desires fulfilled by the use of a Westinghouse Self- Contained Lighting Plant.\n\nThis apparatus is a complete little generating equipment which supplies sufficient electricity for the average home and can be operated simply and economically,\n\nIt is easy to operate and there are thou- sands of homes which should be enjoying the advantages of this wonderful Westinghouse Lighting Unit\n\nW\n\nWESTINGHOUSE\n\nELECTRIC\n\nWestinghouse\n\nWESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL CO.\n\nP.O. Box No. 461, Hongkong.\n\nCable address: WEMCOEXPO, Shanghai, Hankow, Hongkong.\n\nthe Club was not a commercial insti- tution he confessed that he and to charging the date of the financial year, extraordinary general!! undertaking he considered the profit very small,\n\nThe spange suggested by the ing green for next summer. Sd suggested to the incoming Bar- ident fund favour with the Committee that they should adopt\n\nYour Committee were informed by the Government in May last that. a new system with the view to dir-\n\nvering just where the leakage is\n\nfake brány Mostaraj do Club would have, in a few yet: 2. Serretung and H. Tould be incised from to move from its grounds to On behalf of the Club the Ped-\n\nsite in King's Park. THE LONDON DIRECTORY CO., LTD. dent said he would like to thank|\n\nThe join. 0. 25, Abchurch Lane, London. E.C4, Mr. Weller for the handsome shield and large number were forth.\n\nproposals of the various clubs con- Tax Preporodeurstidered for the allocates of the new England.\n\nbe had presented to the Club on comin which he promised should its been forwarded to the occasion of their won the receive the sideration of the Government for approval. The Cricket Leagues. Mr. We wan Committer.\n\nA copy of the directory will be sempre\n\nYoni Yös 40 Shilling\", Aust nash such sedež. \"\n\nPHONE CENTRAL 2127.\n\n4\n\n:\n\nMASSAGE HALL.\n\nX\n\nBUSINESS ESTABLISHED 18 YEARS.\n\n23. WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nMRS. H. MORITA.\n\nMRS. HAN INOKUCHI.\n\nTelephone Kowloon 754\n\nNo. 21. Ashley Road. Kowloon, Back of Star Theatre.\n\nCERTIFICATED EXPERT MASSAGE, HAND & ELECTRIC, given at residence by experienced masseuse.\n\nMiss Tora Tookuchi QUALIFIED MID-WIFE\n\nNo. 21, Ashley Road, Kowloon. Back of Star Theatre\n\nTelephone No. Kowloon 754.\n\nMASSAGE EXPERTS.\n\nHARRY FURUKAWA, AND K. SAKAI\n\n19. WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nGREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED.\n\nPORTLAND CEMENT.\n\nCasks of 375 lbs, net.\n\nIn Bags of 250 lbs net.\n\nSHEWAN, TOMES & CO.\n\nGeneral Managers\n\nHongkong.\n\nMARTIN'S\n\nPIOL & STEEL\n\nPILLS\n\nArt Ladies PILLS\n\nA Fresh Remedy for all irregularities\n\nThousands of Ladies always keep a bottle of Martin's Pills in the house, so that the slightest sign of any irregularity of the System a Cure is sure to follow.\n\nThese Pills are bom- IPONDE- and them, hasss their DND)MOM=ale. Al Übera and Elores set them bonbont the World, povi sraeli-, MARTIN Okamisi, Bentheony303, Mag.\n\nMARTIN'S\n\nAPIOL & STEEL\n\nPILLS\n\n14, Beaconsfield Arcade.\n\n-:0:-\n\nArtistic photographs\n\nfor all occasions. Call, or 'Phone Central No.\n\nNOTICE TO AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS.\n\nour \"tadin.\n\nBroke.\n\na close\n\nAnnual Report.\n\nClub is indebted to Messrs. Black- burn and Stevens for their good work in this connection.\n\naur\n\npractically a newcomer to the A Bearby vote at tuanks to Dr. Club but they admired his sporting tozzyth for his able conduct of the MING YUEN STUDIO.. (Hear, hear). The Chair- meeting brought the pings to It will naturally be some time be-\n\nman concluded by expressing the\n\nore the new ground will be ready bope that the tennis players would shine more brilliantly this year than\n\nand in the meantime our pavilion they did last. They would have to\n\nThe report was as follows\n\nbuilding scheme has had to be for hock up if they were to retain the\n\nFinance. The profit for the year thandoned, and the debentures prominent position they bad al-\n\nwas $5,125.81, as compared with raised for that purpose redeemed. ways occupied in this sport. The $7,019.78 in the previous year. The A donation of $500 was received 4310|K Č.C vas a spotting Club entre- difference is largely accounted for from our President. Dr. C. Forsyth ly, and he did not wish to me its by the reduction in profit on refresh and this sum has been spent on im- achievements eonfined to any un- ments.\n\nMost of the items of ex- penditure are greater on account of The Club obtained five first and The thanks of the Club\n\ngeneral increase in cost of labour two second prizes at the last Hor. If you want in take flue 'rictures,\" we | sheet.\n\nand materials, and of water. fall in tienltural Show, and the flowers and recommend thar AGFA'S Z LL of FILM- Mr L. J. Blackburn having dollar value, etc. should be used which can be obtained seconded,\n\nlants about the ground have added The credit shewn in regard to greatly to be beauty of our Mr. J H. Oxberry, referring to Children's Sport is apparent, hut roundings. DEST QUALITY AT MODER-the profit on refreshments to which\n\nThe thanks of the Club ATE PRICE.\n\nthe President had already alluded, not real. A sum of $175 kindly sub- are again due to the Ground Sub- said he felt it ought to be a great scribed (and expended) in connee- Committee for their untiring efforts deal more. He agreed that there tion with the previous year's event Pavilion. For Teasons already must be a pretty considerable did not rome to hand until too late- explained the proposal to build a leakage somewhere.\n\nto be included in the 1920 21\n\nnew pavilion on our present ground The resolution was unanimously accounts.\n\nhas been abandoned, and it has carried.\n\nAs explained later, our scheme for been found necessary to embark on building a new pavilion had to be an extensive scheme of painting and The meeting then proceeded to suspended. Your Committee there- repair our present pavilion.\n\nthe election of officem for the fore decided that all debentures It is hoped that when this work i ensuing year, and the following should be redeemed, in order to completed the building will be mor were the successful candidatos\n\navoid the les involved in paying in presentable, and in a fair state o Prezident: Dr. Forsyth.\n\nterest for an indefinite period. repair, since it must serve our need: Vice-President · Mr\n\nTronces were duly súft to all holders until such time as a suitable Clul and, at the time of writing, some house can be erected on the now three-quarters of the issue have ground. heen redeemed, and interest paid.\n\nMEE CHEUNG.\n\nlee House Stret, and Beaconsfield\n\nArcade.\n\nJAPANESE MASSAGE.\n\nMRS. H. SUGA\n\nMR. U. SIGA\n\nNo. 11, D'Aguilar Street, 2nd Flour.\n\nMRS SEKAI\n\nMASSAGE\n\nTHE CANION BANK, 2nd Floor,\n\nNo. 2 ]]]] ST HONGKO G\n\nA PODICURE\n\nAND\n\nMANIC RE Mrs N. Tauchinka 31. Wyadhwas Street, HONGKONG PRINTING OFFICE First Floor, Room 12.\n\nJAPANESE MASSAGE.\n\nMRS. S IZUNOVE, 2nd. Floor, Watchmaker's Garage, 18. Prays East, Wanchai.\n\nFOR HAIPHONG AND\n\nHOMOW.\n\nfor Hongkong and Haiphong mar-\n\naltersale Taraday,\n\nThe favourite passenger Master HAL-MUN\n\n(Capt. Charles E. Pago`.\n\n19957 Thon, Coah and Bone se Po Ming Dat\n\nLindell.\n\nThe New Officers.\n\nCaptain: Mr. J. P. Robinson. Vice-Captain Mr. B. D) Evans Hon. Secretary: Mr. P. H Heathente.\n\n&\n\nCricket.\n\nMembership. During the year 9) Cricket. In many ways the crick- new members joined the Club, et season of 1921-22 was the best the Stevens.\n\nseveral resigned and the names of a Club has ever had. More member: General Committee: Messrs. E. number of members who have left took part in the game than ever be- Abraham, L. J. Blackburn, the Colony, or been absent for fure, More matches were arranged: WE Davidsen, B. D Evans, tong period, were removed from the than ever F. G. Herridge, H. Overy, J. Mac- list\n\nbefore-altogether 42 Thus the membership list now matches were played, 21 by the Ist Morte and F. P Shroff.\n\ntands at 400 (as against 394 for XI and 21 by the 2nd XI. The 1st Ballotting Committee: Messrs.\n\n1920-21.) J Cornley. G W. Avenell, J. H\n\nXI won 11, drew 7, lost 3 and head. Osberry, K K\n\nThe Committee record with deep the 1st division of the League. Staple. J. C. Fletcher, J. H Kynoch, N. L. H. regret the deaths of Mr. G. L. The 2nd XI won 13, drew 2, lost Railton, W. Guldenburg. F. 17. Vezine and of Mr. W. T. Elson, a nd topped the 2nd division of the Thompson and R. C. Hunter. Life Member of the Club, and League. During the scason ceo.\n\nvery keen participator in all its| Rries were compiled by E. activities.\n\n|Braga, B. D. Evans and F. E. Law- The most consistent hats\n\nRemoval to New Grounds.\n\nronce.\n\nDg.\n\ntrong in batting, but not in bowl- ing, but had a long tail in bat- MR. JOFFE SERIOUSLY\n\nThe 2nd XI was strong in\n\nILL.\n\nwling, but had a long tail in bat- ing. The two teams were cap. ained by veterans J. P. Robinsʊu\n\nPeking, Sept. 29-Official tele and A. U. Brawn--both have played\n\nfchul 2 Hongkong 22 years.\n\ngrame report that Mr. Joffe, the Tennis.--The outstanding feature Soviet representative is seriously the reason was the great im- ill of typhoid. Docter Krieg 16 provement shown in the play of the going to (ha gchun from Peking\n\nto-day.--Kruter.\n\nyounger members, whose success in\n\ne two open events in the tourna- ment was quite unexpected.\n\nWe entered team\n\nIk\n\nin each division of the Hongkong Tennis Tho \"A\" team performeu differently, but the \"B\" team did little better and were placed\n\nague.\n\nfourth, in their division.\n\nBowls. The Bowls section has ad another fairly successful year. the competitions have been keenly ntested, and are nearing com- pietion.\n\nFREEMASONRY IN CHINA.\n\nPeking, Sept. 29.-A function unique in the history of China took place yesterday afternoon, wh- Mr. Prince, Grand Master of the Freemasons of Massachussets, M Hilton Grand Warden), Mrs Prince and leading officers of th\n\nThe rinks, however, leave much to International Lodge of Peking and their wives, were received in audi ence by President Li Yuan hung being introduced by Wang Chung huai, himself a member of the in ternational Lodge.\n\ne desired, but in the near future we hope to have green that will 3.mpare favourably with the best oi hose in the Colony. It 18 noped\n\nwhen the new green is completed here will be many young members articipating in the so called \"Old\n\nJan's Game.\"\n\nGolf Section. This section retains\n\nThe President heartily wele- med the distinguished visitor, adding that Mr. Wang informed him that Masonry debarred the discussion ul religion and politice, which pleased to old time popularity and the Sub- bim. He was glad to learn that Committee note with pleasure the Masonry was spreading in China mprovement made by some of the\n\nand hoped it would continue to de- less-experienced players. Seven competitions\n\nwere held Suring the year and the Mead\n\nhampionship Shield was won by\n\nir. J. Stalker.\n\nThree matches were played against the U.S.R.C., and in the\n\nnd game we defeated our re- loubtable opponents for the first ime in six years. Both matches ayed against the K.B.G.C. result ed in our favour.\n\nChildren's Spurts. This event was he'd as usual on New Year's Day and proved a great success The Committee tender their thanks the generous subscribers, and the Indies and gentlemen who so kind. ty assisted on that occasion.\n\n10.\n\n:\n\nReplying, Mr. Prince expressed appreciation of the honour show the party and said that befor leaving America 'he saw President Harding, who sent cordial greetin to the Masons in China.-Router\n\nBASEBALL\n\nLast Game of Season. The Hongkong Bayball Club met the South China Athletic Club this alternoon at 4 o'clock op the Hongkong Football Club ground in the last game of the semen The gante will jove exceptionally in tetesting, Since each sade has won\n\nthe fore di eide the rubber. two games and to day's game will\n\nConcerts. Two enable open air concerts were held under the\n\nThe Ime up of the Hongkong team ble direcion of Mr V. Č. Labrumi\n\n18 265 is How Scott fe). Brown und the Concert Sub-Committee.\n\np. Hodgkin (1), Church (2h), Dancs. Two well attended\n\nDone (s), 0 Cons or (3b), Keb dances were held in the Kowloon | (11.), Proulx (cf. Bradford Theatre during the winter months. (r. f.). Dr. Urquhart will umpire\n\nCommittee thank\n\nPrizes. The\n\nLimited Liability Com any. On the invitation of the Presvlent, Mr. Landsell asked the meeting for. HD expression of opinion for the Ground. The cricket-pitch has ran was C. I. Stapleton, who finish guidance of the incoming Com- een carefully looked after during ed with an average of 41. The best the numerous donors of prizes for mittee with regard to the Club be- the summer months and should be all-rounder was B. D. Evans, who Cricket, Tesia Golf and Bowls ing formed into a limited liability in good trim for the coming season. tional bowling feats-in 3 League\n\nseveral times accomplished ansa- competitions matches he captured 7 wickets for In May they were told definitely that at some uncertain future date. Very satisfactory.\n\nThe Committee runs, 5 for 10 and 3 for\n\ni\n\nthey would have to move and that have recently authorized the level- lauce at the appended averages ≈ site would be prepared for them, ling of a portion of the top ground, will show that the lat XI was very\n\nThe Hell Mark of Superiority THE VICTROLA MOUTRIES:-Exclusive Distributors.\n\nLONG LIVED W]|\n\nliams, nedal of Mrs. Mary James, aged 94; at Dolgell, y, still leaves three nonagenarians in the district. Although not related they all bar the same prname: Mr. Richard Williams. 96; Mrs. Osborne Williams, 95; and Mrs. Mary Wiliamne, 93.",
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        "content_text": "1922\n\n45\n\nChinese National Yel Assembly\n\nFOR CIRCULATION --\n\nMr. H\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Grindle LG\n\nSir H. Lambert\n\nSir H. Read\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith\n\nMr. Churchill\n\nPrevious Paper\n\nS Gov 13827\n\naf\n\nCasy Qu Carp soapril mob\n\nCopy 3.0. Cons. 34. 3. 22\n\nSubsequent Paper\n\n4016356\n\n(*1403) Wt. 90817-18. 10,000. 117 T. &.\n\n54\n\nHONG KONG\n\nDATE.\n\n22 March, 1922\n\nSUBJECT\n\nSeamers Strike\n\n1 -\n\nREC\n\n362\n\n14412\n\nREG 27 AR22\n\nYas resolution protesting against the foring upon of things pedestriano, 3 of whom were killed quine wounded, and appeals for redreso.\n\nPL.\n\nMINUTES\n\nare in circulation.\n\nThis has been exceives in Holl. and\n\nThe latter have ast\n\n20\n\nhat it\n\n&\n\na\n\nandle any\n\nany Barn\n\nlange extent their affaing sure\n\nit emanates from Cantons, & ferman Official body there.\n\n70. have already had\n\nJ\n\nthe shooting incidents\n\ndifferently coloured.\n\nthe Son accorat\n\nwhite is very\n\n? elpy to to asking for\n\nstrous generally\n\nRiz\n\nConsider\n\nGust\n\nwhether\n\nany\n\nstifer And be\n\nlakin B\n\nafly to thine ufumulations, or biting the We to the mother of the Hole.\n\nClas\n\n(when\n\nbe auf\n\n> put them reply, {er. that\n\nthat this lit far from Weime\n\nMa\n\nI ages, with additions incorpora 24/3/22\n\nadrower. Any fly wight be considered to in other some sort of ecopuition\n\nAreas of defort of chine by 1998. G. G. 28.1127",
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        "content_text": "251\n\n.ygob\n\n176\n\nIUITATEA▲ЯT\n\nqoria of ner! ada to na¶ dowl sack,remold it94\n\n#versti (stone) Va, ok eldaruonch erit od JiudUF and to noo_ rJII era ni 33 crista avenidü 101 prajemeƐ nunƐ ynot,neci nui Lot (I36I) oiIduqen onu to masy stor ,aburj oj al inú od op as retoqorq nad zarfo tra di nad zaMË Go Trudiuit@q baxaa beta bury bedalugida raw JI and yď si tú od bagouts him l and to duct ado de (imal own{ali (8.2) imam \"ymal fod* .2.8 bra mesï unk pro Jard has 100tdamond re&t) nook MJII\n\nbine 5990\n\n,abirouri to? Day. Jeg binona grab mudik yol has turk Madů DE‚noldsaimare sys sur 70% OBT¢ us¶ mand jnemtuzçel eroberquotes, on TING\n\nyenom to emua ezent\n\nni zad, matka kat buch 2 bas Jauma-IeroD BILO meu to -morq bum #IIND J. beta.../ de, of amild (Aiasinsisu,,MIJOI -anodzrok of foud Jona ana verið ?i genom erit twist of gnisi pers (191,79 fresa) Noči) nool dal\" „ds to d‡ël adj #x0 al sï badoan'ı yada olien uns 191ASJE set bisod ne Jnow ‘o daa aru no (amĩa0) wh foʻlem bn's) *ay cho nuom Erit ars\n\nmilo, and ji neniamh agew Jud (SSRI mobcow „ at event\n\nTied..di to dno sejou bewolke jam 9187 ots Wibl tud nede, zamu astad Ila staw nuvioit sysabaq his soażlow misjon sal mo (amino)an al dl :. bellao 19mwete vledt yond (SSEI,itzq* d301) nota brű melt to djel ødź no synɣOv beroser bus amende grid 1šą soliai ant yď boðsinsɑqez SISW (amul faff) rsey ninu nook d‡d and to brCS odd av yacsyno♬ ngierol ojni ayim ozeninü to enotiks rast dass (SSEI noij anidweb tieft je hraf of bewolfa lia eza bra,retijnKPOS STA . */ #19:÷â¬{Kenoð add mor? cairlout & evadi yudi 13 „Igiena)-[nanov aliru arid yd betreeni naad sad jasmer İJAN Vba ad oa uut palƐ od bednjoɛça nad met dwell oflduq melt ya byt is on di iw noisoenaça al sveninud Ila vetta fool of Jnsya sid\n\npassage to Chile, and a Consul General who is a Government officer.\n\nshould not commit any breach of faith. Most of\n\nthe Chinese emigrants do not understand the language of Chile, and the Consul-General should be responsible for any mistake in connection with Wuchiaos and passage tickets. He has given a bond to petitioner's friends in return, and he should not evade responsibility. Petitioner's friends have paid the money to the Consul-General, and as they have not been allowed to land, the Consul-General must return\n\nthe money.\n\nTherefore petitioner prays that the Honourable Secretary for Chinese Affairs will send for the Consul-General and ask him to return the money to petitioner's friends.\n\nDated 1922.",
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        "content_text": "Table IV.\n\nMogul Dongal Hox of Plante-syretku Kam IRING THE Yeok 1924.\n\nVir or Vi TORIA.\n\nStar Rattan\n\nShe Doeti 1949,\n\nTo feed Rais,\n\nDapat lama\n\nToval..\n\n12\n\n143 1\n\nFa\n\nAt Minut\n\n2\n\nals\n\n| محد ميحد\n\nMONTILLY Distanction of PLAŁ KANEZUTRU Rs\n\nStany crime on im\n\nMan Denmark Dj\n\nTora! Intl (TA\n\nDOING THE YRA 1922,\n\nKOWLOON.\n\nMag.\n\nLaude),\n\nHpart-\n\nof Plugbek med,\n\nThe col mumber of Kats arught\n\nEl.\n\n110.\n\n#1\n\nin Hongkong\n\nKowlcom\n\nSeptember\n\nNovember.\n\nCAUSES.\n\n1. Baterie Faver .....\n\n2. Paratyphoid Forer\n\n(0) Reinsing Foror\n\n1\n\n(b) Malta. Faves\n\n4. Mariu.....\n\n3. Small-pox (8) Vaccinated) mari\n\n(4) Nat vascinated.of.\n\ngry Dealafol pi 29\n\n5. M.....\n\nV\n\n41\n\nr-h\n\n7. Dengue Fever.......\n\n109,296\n\n8. Whooping Cough\n\n9. (2) Diphtheria.........................\n\n(4) Madlımını Laryng fina\n\nJ\n\nCivil.\n\nwww.\n\nKAITINI\n\nAND\n\n--\n\nRETURN sharing NUMBER and CAUSES of DEATHS Begistered during the Year ending the 31st day ' December, 1932.\n\nVILTOKIA.\n\nCOMNTXUTT.\n\nTeatro PATRIOT.\n\nA PRIY.\n\n... \n\n10. Tubadeta\n\n14\n\n13\n\n11. Fever, Candetised)\n\n12. Modern Nostruk\n\n13. Plague\n\nIt\n\n18\n\nId Yellow Faces\n\n17. Leprosy makika naman\n\n18. Erysipelas HHHHẨ\n\nFIL\n\n10, Omber Epidemie dienserzeką.\n\n--\n\nL\n\nTop WinkyJo\n\nţă, German carsaler\n\n() Varicelin\n\n(f) Chicken-pox..................\n\n---\n\n20. (a) Pyaemia\n\n(4) Septimemin amen a\n\n(6) Varvinia\n\n21. Silander -\n\n22. Antima\n\n22. Ralim-Hyıllı\n\n24. Tene\n\n23, (ar) Arizon\n\n(4) Other myen\n\n26. J'ellagm\n\n27. Hari Harf\n\nCurried jornal...........\n\nJ\n\n#\n\n1\n\n***\n\n---\n\n.....\n\nI\n\n14\n\n+\n\nIN\n\nKA\n\nTa\n\n-\n\n7\n\n佰\n\n2\n\nMY NI\n\n23 LÊN\n\nITI\n\n06\n\nF\n\nNo. 75.\n\nCHINESE COMMUNITY\n\nNo. 19.\n\n8\n\n10\n\nH\n\nF\n\n32\n\nE\n\n--\n\n15\n\ntr-\n\nrir\n\n16\n\n--\n\nTHE\n\n1\n\nTotal at the Doppement Aak Pemicu.\n\n1\n\nKawis DISTRILT.\n\nSEALAN\n\nDISTT.\n\nANKNULES DEAT WILT\n\nSTANLKY автанг\n\nTier 1\n\nפיין\n\namadı.\n\nMHP 19\n\nMaler S\n\n5 yumr\n\numer 14+\n\n15 years bd\n\n23 Juri\n\nMurder 20\n\nTHI Her 15\n\n4 vous\n\nnd Omber 20\n\nVORN\n\nделать гра\n\nrears.\n\nyance.\n\nLaiki\n\nT\n\nPopulation.\n\nL\n\nས\n\n40\n\n14\n\nT\n\n2\n\n19\n\n*\n\n90!\n\n220\n\n32\n\n051\n\nH\n\nTH\n\n1\n\nITI\n\n27\n\n21\n\n102\n\n94\n\n71\n\n144\n\n구\n\n---\n\n153\n\n195\n\n190\n\n201\n\nAN\n\n|| 973\n\n19\n\nwww.r\n\nAN\n\nww\n\nצו\n\nEMT\n\nPopulation.\n\nBowl\n\nPopalarion,\n\n- ' Caml\n\nprog\n\nPopulation.\n\nPolation. Population. Laal\n\nPapal\n\nNon-Chinma\n\nlainer.\n\nSat-l'hit-one.\n\nChinese.\n\nNon-Chiuere.\n\nH\n\n6\n\nIN\n\nX\n\n1\n\n3\n\nJE\n\n#\n\n4\n\n1\n\nיוי\n\nwww\n\nNon-Chiness.\n\nL'hinese.\n\nNon-Chinese,\n\nw\n\n1\n\n24\n\n93\n\nI\n\n+1\n\n18\n\n15\n\n18\n\n+\n\nI\n\n1+1\n\n19\n\n---\n\nす\n\n+\n\n151\n\nINI\n\nChiname\n\nNow-Chinose.\n\n:\n\n---\n\n46\n\n2\n\n90\n\n2\n\nIT 1\n\n19\n\n2\n\n76\n\nA\n\n41\n\n1\n\n}\n\n141\n\n5\n\n”\n\n18\n\n---\n\n--\n\nH\n\nTh\n\nTH++\n\nIT\n\n---\n\n1\n\n*\n\nFIN\n\nCFI\n\nst\n\nH\n\n167\n\nSUJ\n\n141\n\n30\n\nI\n\n116\n\n31\n\n77\n\n48\n\n9\n\nI\n\n76\n\n6 134\n\n&\n\n2:0\n\n432\n\n11 1500\n\n12,\n\nSUU\n\n4\n\nJIL\n\n---\n\nLL\n\nNon-Chines\n\nLJN\n\n---\n\n829\n\n1,347\n\n107\n\n60 rem\n\nAlter.\n\nJe t'\n\nkwww.\n\n1\n\nChimnet.\n\n**\n\nChinave.\n\n154\n\n184\n\n30\n\nILI\n\nG\n\nME\n\n•1+\n\n115\n\n3\n\n1\n\n-\n\n240\n\n---\n\n』\n\n73\n\nt\n\nGBARD\n\nTHTAL..",
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        "content_text": "MINUTES.\n\n? Reply that on the fact before him Mr. repeats that he cannot approve of the King's accepting the bowl, even the condition affected, clear that referral is the case for way kuoreen as Кибриття unless it is and gave serious offence, a جو بھی Di Couth decisions when latein\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ✓ noted\n\nI think it clearly would give offence to refuse it absolutely, & we might approve of Ja. King's accepting the bowl on behalf of the Force to live a 12.2.34 a challenge esp ON THIS SIDE.\n\nN°371.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n.4181 23 JAN 24\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 14th December, 1923.\n\n454\n\nI have the honour to inform Your Grace that on the 16th July, 1923, an attempt was made to assassinate Mr. Shum Tez Liang, Head of the Chinese Telegraph Administration in this Colony. Mr. Shum was severely wounded but has since recovered.\n\nAs a token of his respect he has presented to Mr. T. H. King, Deputy Superintendent of Police and Director of Criminal Intelligence, a Chinese silver bowl on which is inscribed Mr. King's name.\n\nI do not consider that this is a gift which Mr. King can properly accept for his own use but as his name has already been inscribed on it I would suggest that he be authorised to accept the bowl on condition that it is handed over to the Police Force as a challenge cup. This proposal appears appropriate as the gift is presumably a tribute to the efficiency of the Police protection afforded to Mr. Shum.\n\nIf this proposal is approved it is proposed that the trophy shall be held for one year by the best shot in the Chinese contingent.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's most obedient humble servant,\n\n7.2. 8. Stutt Governor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.,\n\n80.. wo.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nI work in comfort during the day and rest in comfort during the night.\n\nSKETOCIDE\n\nand quickly rid the Office and Home\n\nof\n\nMOSQUITOES, FLIES, SANDFLIES,\n\nLICE, ETC.\n\nSKETOCIDE, with nil hazards, is administered.\n\nSKETOCIDE is pleasant as water.\n\nSKETOCIDE is compressed.\n\nTHE PHARMACY\n\n1, Queen's Arcade\n\nD. J.\n\nSHAMPOOING RUGS AND CARPETS\n\nMakes them\n\nBright\n\nand Clean\n\nOnly 50 cts.\n\nper yard.\n\nCollection and Delivery Free.\n\nRolls of Dirt carried away.\n\nRolls of Cleanliness brought back.\n\nSTEAM LAUNDRY CO.\n\nHEAD OFFICE & WORKS: YAKATI.\n\nDEPOS: 26, Stanley Street, Vol.\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL\n\nKOWLOON DEPOT: 3, Cau'chi Ham\n\nFLAK HOTEL DEPOT:\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL: (Visit only;\n\nJ. T.\n\nSHAW\n\nLADIES & GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR\n\nFIRST QUALITY ONLY\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nINVEST YOUR CAPITAL\n\nSAFELY\n\nIN DIAMONDS.\n\nCHAIN BLOCKS\n\nELECTRIC BLOCKS & TRANSPORTING GEAR\n\nHERBERT MORRIS, LTD.\n\nAGENTS\n\nBRADLEY & CO., LTD.\n\nChute food.\n\nMachinery Dept.\n\nTel. 2020.\n\nMessrs. J. ULLMANN & Co, of Chater Road\n\nEstablished 1860,\n\nhave always pleased their Customers with the quality and the price of their diamonds.\n\nLOCAL\n\nAND\n\nGENERAL.\n\nLighting-up the to-day is at present cases of warfare cholesal 6.46 PATTY\n\nThe closing rate of the dollar on demand yesterday was 28. 9/16d.\n\n...\n\nhave declared amongst Japanese residents in Huanghai between August 15 and 18\n\na new treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between Spain and Siam, together with a tariff.\n\nAbout Chinese, who landed in Lockor on July rate Cake, whence they had been expelled, more taken in charge by the new municipal police, and started to Spain forthwith\n\nThe Yang di Pertuan Besar, etor Negri ehk and lady He Tag were mess of Mrs Balavin,\n\nPassengers departing fav Hong Kong. Saturday included r, Paus the proteoc? along the lacs of the Hodgene, Mr. G. H. Hew, Major? Siamess American trendy of 1999, Weelings, and Mr., 34, and ise e sigurd in Merid on Anavat on Fady 25, 94, 16, Domaingreet, at Iemington.\n\nA petition has Theon sout to the\n\nracuptă a fur Gvarveen visiter M\n\nHigh teries evidently comment sobars of the Gevorazi mitted by a well organized, clever\n\nThe Paanhou Lataa Gempiains of\n\nGovernmanni by the pork solleve, gang ut Paeves within the a tre the melameree of Wataishae and gui asking that casures a week within the district berlinese is autors to rear to Laken preten, hop-oil bow by Ceiles, Mabini, Herren. Taj Pukius its no s paзig y hel kore front selling\n\nstreets.\n\npark in the\n\n41 The Co, AF have lecie tight anda.\n\nsing the Manila poliem aud secret water, or festive is na mumer Murvico division.\n\n1\n\nPalm Beaches, Gabardines, Alpsets, Tropical aiting, Dress Harondt, who will rive in the wedding- ever believed to be rephor during the tide the\n\nMaterials, Sc. B\n\nJUST RECEIVED English made Officers Sam Browne Belts, Haversacks, Fox Pattles, Khaki Tles, Metropolitan Whistles, War\n\nribbons and nature medals.\n\n11, Reaconsfield Arcade.\n\nINSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED\n\n(Opposite City Hall.\n\nGrand Opening Sale\n\nStep in and compare our Goods and Prices\n\nINSPECTION INVITED\n\nPOPULAR SILK STORE\n\n(Opposite Kangkang Hotel;\n\nChina Building, No. B, Pedder Street.\n\nPrices\n\nAL\n\nVERMIN\n\nLOTOL\n\nKILLS ALL VERMIN\n\nSold by\n\nA. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Sole Agents:-\n\nAnd all Chemists & Stores.\n\n#4\n\nThe forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. Weer varick! Mr. and Mex James Fold v The captain on the genderzeɛ Who Knoke, Tung Shan Canton, to Westenzoyland, Somerset, have rele. I was ersicted of murdufeg the com. and his wife and Mies Jobs Auguste Paula bunted die 71 iversong of their wint Onyi\n\nalore guique The busbaudienthoate as Token, wali ho relent and Eje wife a your younger. Mojot from prison shoes the unddie of lower the 92, relatives war Log Sepeansion songlazenie Nieto, konta\n\none from Australi\n\nColony by the ss. Oldestory.\n\nThe Chinese Brunumie Slonthig for August has detailed cla cussion of Shane agricultural practice, wita interesting 3.1\n\nLoving\n\nA Chinese 2d Japanese nurs are among tbury who have promised to monk at the International Co Surse of Sick-Norses, which opened dengtors, aly 20, aut is laing sitended by Jelegnies from\n\nentiona of the appliances weed, Maveled Chang Teo-in bas Jeans Sericulture cotton-growing timed Mex 000 rough General ber markerg.\n\nчто? ecuneuit so in the Stedent Anda bots my in diferent regions of the Bumiy Univexity Jay Chinu are also very interativolyj and Erogel Tieptene) far- Realt with.\n\nof ge pour white Kanziar. Studenata,\n\n*\"\n\nalvd, is differort suuntaies\n\nTwo hurr-one, with ts, ad\n\nTeal vien, two if who were the other ten would lus beau un- portion of shell, obtaled Frogs * mnied with daggers, com with a hur to corrpite their contres esingi tas estruese deposit in Heuer,\n\nCaina, have been presented to thei! Crevolver. and the other with at lesk, of Curta,\n\ntieological Department of the Bri-3\n\n| pair of scissors, heid up a Chinese j\n\nin Jubilee Sheet, yasierday even\n\n*.*\n\nA Shanghai ziceaz soole who di ti ser by Me Fulhas pior,\n\ning at twerty minutes to seven woneret that & malo passenger till we repris par des of\n\nand rubbed him or $66. The led a paringe of jewelley worth, victim showed a little restaurace 2.000 16 bir terba, took the package, and was slightly stabbed on the\n\n**\n\nThe ees of assault agaturi Tam\n\nballeha\n\nMr J. L. North, estrator of thin\n\nto Sins Police Station, where the toys Potande Boruty, who for on owner of it appearad Isten gave the coulis8568TOWY PRO expstimating with for his honesty. The englie left leave, is growing worch this year\n\nthe statica in bewildoriams, count\n\n**\n\nuL Chiswick. where they serni\n\nto or doing well in North is alre\n\nhaving nya Ibalit grown >1\n\nRonding and Talesbury, in see The Thienene of faunilton is alen\n\nPat, who is de cercandong the aver so he went for intiraidson against a Chineas!\n\nreporter, wan dismissed by bir. W Hamilton a the Kowloot: The Italian Cotobato wtrises tuv\n\nMagiswans yesterday,\n\nThe de the election which took place re-swing it in Willshire. fendant was alleged to have a crucis at Felermo, a large alias] aulted twe men of the Hup Lee city of over 200,000 inhabitants, in night-nd contractors, folfering a vordim of Fall, liberty of meeting\n\nspute. The intimidation case is fart beard.\n\n*u?\n\nSeven Chiuole wrament, pisacing\n\nsilty to charge of unlandaily rat\n\nand votea, tesuited in the ting wi damaging trees at a Govern- |\n\nwende ictor of the Fascist's\n\nmort plantation at Nagan Bye War, list showing that be Fascis Karison, were anak fied Bio by Mu Bozerament is enjoying not only W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon The return of notifiuble dlecases povar, but also the full conádenca) Magistracy this neunbug. The de- for the 24 hours ending August of the Italian people.\n\nfendant were stati fu kavu deng e number or rase weighing Organised by the Koristang, aflens cha 90 unties derenstation be GONOMETRUJANJ\n\n124, showa tự, uszeg ni enteria | fever, que Bnglish (mynted) and joze Chinese. The return for the)\n\n**\n\nun\n\nweek ended August shows tour the fatha e Chinese who lost Me J. Tokugawe, autơi pensily Uses of enteric fever with two this list in the cover of Vi rekirst Secretary and Auting deaths, Chinese, Drs Japan, dishares heat. Hanko lloc to the imprese Bibery in Jo Indika su one Philippine (in and where he held at the Ties London, has been appointed facia porter) and cae care of parki An Men Pakun August 12 new Consul General et. Sydres, phoid fever, Chiacan, te death W92 114 Target, aticoded, Australia; and Mr. K Hogi, vulli\n\nfrom intussen is also reported. Spence wore and by various roses Japaneen Commanerai wanch in Londen, has been appointed Kuomintang Isagera\n\nAs the embur. of the late Panchal Fannin perialine\n\nCho\n\nequal\n\nVilla were lowered over the aid of renties\n\ninbor of the Japaness Legution Ah Beking. Both diplomats wetu\n\nths President Harvizos at Yuda,\n\n**\n\nmost popaliw ti Landen esrides.\n\nnot and was heard thosaglomm\n\nAccording to a story appearing w\n\nfier T\n\nArhus Guy Carless. 35, patiseer,\n\nAll operations were ele\n\npender. Thoes of heads were the Shaters Time, a Chinese mer\n\nBared. The lus table of the des chant, F. T. Canag of Narking, was\n\nbe best post in Shanghai in 1915,\n\na bed enteroed at Birmingham\n\nA detective.\n\nTEST YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR BY READING THESE\n\nCHILDREN'S FUNNY SA UNGS gelikatel, ke D--B: Kora $2.75 The nices Eubiour a chuit is perkara the west amusing This book contrine headrede of\n\nof all forras of Auu.\n\nchildren a whimsical sayings.\n\nSPORTING AND DRAMATIC VADNS, 65 R. 1. B. Seliar 32.45 Theas ven stories to note-sad quote at one's non-in the drawing seca, in the club sowking-room, and in pinces where charming peuple assemble in hosz hores make after- Sinter speechan.\n\nrick engines, as the body, in a coffin hirisapped by invite cu demanded to gnicon rasuthy' impris shrouded by the American Bag, nt is wito raumNot for coupting to obtail money by Embed the dude, luc broke the paid within two weeks, otherwise false referatations. silsues Wrenting of lowers, given they rentended to kill the bushand inspector said that Carinus, who, by the Filipine communities of hole; The wife, who did not a vleie inther was Town Cleak of victor\n\nthirty years, failed ia hist Yokoburn, Shanghai and longkong, og i pay the consent, arferred for\n\nher rabant's predicaron examinations for the Bar and and Atually evanized ice by came a farmer. u 109 his father banking self\n\nGloc audi he then travelled on a Coloidea in America be opened an\n\nwere laid is the eart\n\nDuring the interval betzen the\n\ndeparture of Sir Edward Stubbs,\n\nthe\n\nAtontreal, but va\n\nQUOTABLE ANECDOTER nollected by D. B. Koox ...\n\nThe special feature di Usungen mandje oghter providing book is its quctableness. Most of the anecdotes are Lovel And extremely envenug but the peculiarity that distin. guisbes them as than they cku be rubly quoted in spoe thes, articles and etzversublock.\n\nRAVAM Chinesa doajors ut Manila; rates with another inu, had atter K. C. M. G., and the arrival of car\n\nGovernor (Mr. Cecil Cle-have been senght selling the mixed they bad obtained $5,000 eme nienti) Sir Claud Severn, E. P. E, vi arushed its of glass A warr-appiicans for the position of mave will uet an Officer Administering to the public to beware of buyer the couple disappeared. Thay\n\nEdwardice in Chinese \"sari-sa\" moves were eresied Government. Bir\n\nwe tested by the health services. Tabel the morey. Paperý sledi Stubbs.\n\ntc according\n\nhas also been disovered that a few they find engaged in similar dealings Arrangements and provided the Chinese reice dealers we also selling in various part of Canada, and the local situation pomte, will leave lard aflated with pontos al Toronto authorities bustested Hongkong during the early part) Sume Chiese store keepers and am pretensional “rooks\" and of October, his successor beloties merahnuts see now facing it-nordenen tiskaters. From Adelaido due to arrive atout Puree weeks watigation by officials of the head was reperied in 1969 that Cur Jater. Sir Clad Severn expects to series. Proceention fer violation of loss rat another man sarried proceed Home on leave in Deeen the pore food and drug law will be operations (is donhiul shararterį\n\nlie that were. isted against sum of timin.\n\nber,\n\n$8.15\n\nKELLY & WALSH, LIMITED. Carb Koed.\n\nEx 9. FRENCH MAIL AMBOISE,\"\n\nA NICE ASSORTMENT-OF BEST KIND OF FRENCH PRESERVES\n\nIncluding\n\nBeans, Peas, Celery, Spinach, Mushrooms, Whole Artichokes, elc,\n\nMacquerel, Sardines, Tunay, Herrings, Auchovies, etc., in White Wine, Oil, Tomato or Various Sauces.\n\nFoie Gras Naturel Forced, Pigs Feet, Truffed Boudins, Hare Pate, Veul Head Sauce Tortue Turkey Galantine.\n\nPort-Salut Cheese, Face Maggi, etc, etc.\n\nMAG - SIN GENERAL The Corner Shop\n\nPhone C5312\n\nTAMANTER\n\nThe latest designs\n\nLADIES' PLATINUM WRIST WATCHES SET WITH DIAMONDS\n\nfrowe\n\n$200\n\nSwiss Made\n\nAT\n\nSENNET FRERES\n\nTHE ALEXANDRA CAFE\n\nCAN SUPPLY\n\nBREAD AND CAKES.\n\nBirthday Cakes, Christenning Cakes, Wedding Cakes,\n\nand all kinds of fancy Cakes.\n\nAGENTS\n\nHUNG CHEONG, Kowloon. FOOK CHEONG TAI, Quarry Bay.\n\nSIMPLEX PLASTER PARTITIONS\n\nAND\n\nGEILINGS\n\n5 Beaconsfield Arcade\n\nThe SIMPLEX SYSTE\n\nHARPER'S\n\nSUMMERTIME SPECIALITY.\n\nMOSKA-CIDE\n\nA little of this wonderfu) commate apickled on subirea ce pillows wül kap rayosquito from thu vio.usty of your bedside or couch\n\nBartles $1.00 and $2.00. MOSQUITOES WON'T COME NEAR IT. Obtainable only ai\n\nQueen's Dispensary\n\nTel. No. 492.\n\nC. W. HANDLEY & CO. 29, Dog Vonx Rund, Centesi,\n\nGrand Prize of Honour\n\nPanama-Pacific International\n\nExposition\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, 1913\n\nAsahi-Beer\n\nSold Everywhere.\n\nSOLE AGENTS :\n\nMITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.\n\n\"BARGAINS\"\n\nIN\n\nREFLEX CAMERAS & FOLDING CAMERAS\n\nWind with the failu-wing user\n\nCooke F2-5, F3-λ, F4-5 & F5-3,\n\nDallmeyer F2 3, F36, F4-5, & F6-3.\n\nZrise F36, FI-S & P6.3.\n\nKOER 4-5, 56 & 76-2.\n\ncall at\n\nA. TACK & Co.\n\n26 De Road Central.\n\nTHE\n\nFIRE PROOF\n\nSOUTH\n\nCHINA MORNING POST\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26,\n\n1925.\n\nSPORTS fall SORTS\n\nHONGKONG BASEBALL\n\nGAMES FOR TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.\n\nIn accordanLE with the re-41- ranged schedule wijet makes pro- valon for rener insiche, betw9) altores the Coague, there wit\n\nTHE WEET DAUGHTER\" GOLF CLUB,\n\nMORE STRIKE FIGURES.\n\n(By. \"Missolputts\" for the\n\nS. C. M. Post.)\n\nLAWN TENNIS.\n\nJOHNSTON WINS TROPHY.\n\nNewport R ), Aug 24. In the final of the Newport Ja vitation singles bowl, Johnson heat Norrou 63, 63, 8.3, thus) winning the trophy entright. And the Durables, fobistan and fin boat Serien and Casey 6, S1, 5,7, 26, 6.3. Treater Ancorican, Service.\n\nTHE OLD FAVOURITE\n\nBOORD'S\n\nOLD TOM GIN.\n\nCAT on BARREL BRAND\n\nOBTAINABLE AT ALL FIRST CLASE STORES.\n\nBred 111, Arg 24. Miss talen Wills roteinod the Women's National Lawa Tennis Championship, defeating Miss\n\nSale Agente\n\n3\n\nIn convection with the lies Meus 3:6, 6/9, 4,3 Reder's CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd.\n\nbe two mid-week games played off moule corved daring the month at American Snowce juu the Houpy Valley dirmeist this \"ono Daughter Weep Golf\n\nin the opening matches of the\n\nBrookline, August 25,\n\nThe Grai u thoso i tired to Chuh,, za patience is \"Backpi's\" comurance at 5 pm, today, when festes on the 2nd instat, I wanted National Dumbles Championships the Filipino Club wil meet the Iu the courtcess Setreing of the Kinsey brothers, holders, boat dian R. P., who are at present at Clah with\n\nbtaining Hot and Halia Smuth, 7-6,6-4, 8-4; the boils of the Lable. To can- Purcher statintizm\n\nDemagis and Reignon beat Levazil noo but be anticipated that the\n\n02 mors\" mit hallused Vansien, 6-3,7-5, 6-3, Mili ant Filipino side will win, although Geoval, po fiering a co vite, jone Casey bost Shuster and Jonkines. the Indian team is alowing better those that one that isly, 7-5,6-4, 4; Westcased Emen Dora and pat up a stering came which we leerely devined. Pirids and Wasaki. 6-2,66, agalust the Japannes na Saturday Rogel tot To Golf Cirs le proad 6-2; Vildog and Wience boat Jopen last. The Arst guns between for its sacreen reden for Angvei, bal and logeshest, 6-4,56, 618-N--;\n\nthem treated in win for the do not for a moment eaypow that ¦ Bruter's American Service. Filipines by 15 to three.\n\nxo am entering into ang serious The Volunteer Defence Corps jrivalry with the Hant You: anl are scheduled to meet the base werk High Rocks or any other straling Japanese at 5, p.no, tommur- jorganization; and also you wil cow and a goat game la expected, please remember that we are far too wing the Volunteers falling to hard bung to provide full statistics of our the lesboinly percet Nipponesa, attivities weile stila\" Full who will have the velcer of the prof this was indeed patent in Playing x Chesterboid, La recevabtable ishimatsu as pitcher. teribe what of typewriter, calbire defence Derbyshire by Their earlier woering ended in au calculating machine pencil shara intings and 132 rans. Bears: Joverwhelming victory for the rengly want other Inclinary by Laucalice, 278.\n\nDerbyshire, S7 and 78. Japanse by 18 to four, which jbich we were surtunJed considering all things, was a good\n\nThe highest contributora Fressed however, harp. Ex tuore Lancashire wore Watson 62, Hal- for showing by the Volunteers. It gres, the aubice of tus peindust and Pewires 15, whikt. hoped that they will ranke an eventer wired papur and pen Towsond, Derby's Bowler, took better nue tomorrow.\n\nNo icons have bean received.\n\nJani alter serve nderful work y\n\nthe\n\nYACHTING.\n\nMR. BLAKE ON 6 METRE COMPETITION,\n\nQualities of Monsoon.\n\nHOME CRICKET.\n\nLANCASHIRE'S EASY WIN.\n\nLondon, Aux. 24.\n\nIr.\n\ntied staff of the sarees, four wickets for 57 rina. Your Peri Sage, Spoke and Darby's first innings, Tyldesley Chr was able to give us the jojowok eight wiekota for 40 runt, Seg infertuskinn.\n\nard in Derby's second krock Years ago, before the great Get Sibbles took fire wickets for 30\n\n| xuan---Herten hendi, Mr. Pineb valeukased that the jaar generated by jutits missed on iche gli con of Great Brita in jose past wuulih, it properly tiliaest, jelove and feed a men for six\n\nTHE ST. LEGER.\n\nMANNA IS FAVOURITE.\n\nLondon, Aug. 24.\n\nA reported in these columns jaga; working on the sette foarala, from me to rina, Bir. Blake's 1 may say than the host genercial Mouser from Singapore has met in me year by balta bene lost t\n\nTo be rst esiinrer of the Sz. Find a rery successful sencon at Weep lygter wee tothe and Legs at tex Victoria Cob to-day,\n\nhorse, but has been consistently red suitably ten Canton Bolshevicts Manza\n\nwas installed favourite, read at all the South Coast re- or the terms of their wanatabil Res 4 in 1 otuz taken and offered\n\nsttas. Writing From England may say that in their counter.\n\nto Singapore, 3. Blake says he original formula bo beru varieg\n\nabout racing away et rout of lightly and wilde fond be be avecis viven for the Eolant Dussafak, of rice per die red for Classes round about Sonthampton, labing t\n\nbut so far without getting a win- niux Beg.\n\nTheatre Class ic\n\nja very bor any, including as it\n\nA Few Move Piprez,\n\nits la empaled that the number\n\nLEAGUE'S OPIUM\n\nCOMMITTEE.\n\nBRITISH APPOINTED CHATEMAN,\n\nGeneva, Aug 24. The campout snriggling of\n\nduce the rack helicamen and ni rada not dancer in the Cleb frzewa of the South Coast of Eug-House after dinact by ki wh\n\nlead, and Mr. Blake feels quite have dine there is equal to the ex- SOUND PROOFd that his yacht can five plant of the ads in this Colony, drugs was one of the principal\n\nSending Now Thavidurios This, I take subjects of discussion of the) among them at all.\n\nManwood is best in light breezes, it, is a striking testimony the League's Advisory Committen on Togain, which niet te-lay, and but when it blow up she anot excelience of this fre 15wvinna.\n\nHONGKONG EXCAVATION, PILE DRIVING & CONSTRUCTION Co., Ltd.\n\nTel. 01. 8718.\n\nZad Floor, Powell's Building.\n\nCalfore pure de Ferments lactiques bulgares sur mitinu végétaj\n\nGLEED-INTÉZ\n\nBARRELS, CONTALIONS\n\nTELL Sza\n\nSAPAN Am\n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND.\n\nCONDIAL FAREWELL\n\nEXPRESSIONS.\n\nign to windward with the other - munder of Brinks prottered looted Sir Makrola Delovingue bosts, not being an ait This fee and refused by rubenbers wond Cosieman, and he dermian, due to her hul beine constructed unt, if poured into the ses at Wey. Professor Terr Acainuno, as Vice-Chainman. The absence of of teakwood, which takes a lot Daughter Bag, effent the love of the the Chien delegate, Mr. Chr ECONOMICAL extra weight, which is evidert wules of Weiss Buy is in 2-sue of instructions, in the keels of the other Boula mass of an inch at ordinary Spisens no sarprise in view of the better advantage.\n\nWides\n\nChinese wishdrawal from the on- Still, Mr. Make sud his com Enter of tadies invading ference on February 7th- Raster. : jpanions pog swag, learning of ine lide menie zgacha romte and bee in a\n\nine, and the international Rules (week would, if it were possible (and į row have no terrors for the Jusirable) to stand them end on end, when designing another bout.\n\nterm a dle appwainuately venel ini\n\nMr. Blake says that if he was height to Mount Kellet; moly thei in England for good he would take two lower was, however, jassustic cat that tenkwood darks of Mon- that the pile were rigid and not zour and replace them with pine- foent) would be able to see into tha wood, as lighten up further mens dressing room, iters and put the weight a\n\nes proves in the greons at Week! gained down amongst the read. Daughter theory approximately age to the reale vs New The rigat and mash pane in the tran-font of their own Zealand says: A view our Cine sama very light compared weight in aarti Jaily. It is there parting with feelings of sadness. with what they are eastern- torn, eniculated that this were at the ehost space of two weeks ed to oul East, mud would ut feultured over a year it would'ng the varicas detachments of the lagi long with natives as crews. Jquire 20 even the size of the Priest have grown to love your pouple Mr. Blake adds that he personal- jdenk of the, Club to carry the earth and your counky, Oar twenty- ty, and lab the Royal Siegapuce iya yarde in three days\n\ntwo thend men will go home nich Yach Club, are deeply indehind The notices posed to use various\n\nspeak intelligently of Ney Hackelahi-Smith, the Chul Buses in car year comes Zolnud. iry M.\n\nYou may be sure thes Editor of The Fachling Monthly Įpaar fomitbag the rapina filed in sili ev as twenty-two thousan for the great trouble he has taken the office) uneagh to acce eft the well-wishers and boosters of your on behalf of Monsoon.\n\nFairways of de Chan verine Wonderful country.\"-- Restor\n\nPROCITIES, AZŠNES QRAPIN, ARTISTE PALZEMENTS DIE challe DERSGITUNES, TORKULASES SEGET STUMATHYRA PYCRPUDES Frog Taktiken i 19ŠEČE VYVENIŠE OSATIZIRA\n\nBULGARINE\n\nTHEPENIER\n\n14 COMPRIMIR grustten Swaggia - » POUDRY\n\nAdalton Suver dans compolnas;\n\nBukemeina 206 25mideure\n\nJapan 16 a 2 par jour).\n\nEntente: te doua.\n\nPricer, if\n\nFocuirer\n\n3 par jom,\n\nLARGRAT JIRE 4 PERMYNYS A. FAEPENISA. f. 1. Or,\n\nCompagnie Optorg\n\nAptu\n\nAMERICAN EXPRESS\n\nRAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP\n\nTICKETS\n\nTRAVELLERS' CHEQUES Express and Freight Forwarding.\n\nHONGKONG\n\n44 Des Voeux Ecad,\n\nTel. C. 4825.\n\nBOXING.\n\nPROSPECTS OF AN INTERESTING SEASON.\n\nIn at Interview with Afr. J. Bronk of the Hougkong Boxing Asesora-\n\nsica yesterday, our representative\n\ncanreek In this connection it is in- teresting to note, drag experiments face huing carried and with a new ane resobling real turf in gastify Frero which it is byped that pertines Butter beter juraced turd igzurady mag re nitized for revuling the greDAT\n\nthe various Courasi,“\n\nWellington, Aug, 21. Admiral Shortz in a tazewell\n\nwwwwwww.xxx.com.com GERMAN PULĪTICS.\n\nHERR WIRTH RESIONS.\n\nBerin Aug 24.\n\nPelion des are exload by ex-Chancellor Wield's resigna\n\nAt this point several telepboursion from berlap of the\n\nbelle mang, for routies appeared Centrists owing principally, to\n\nwas informed that there is every with chit hooks and with the depot disapproval to the Party's action prospect of a brilians winter se regret I was torcel is te ry son in the fisticuff sphere of Rong parure.\n\n[korg.\n\nYoungsters are coming along in\n\ngood style, he suic, and there will\n\nbo no dearth of entries in the possibility of arme of these being various classes. Hittorio.\n\nthe induced to come forward and put\n\npozices have given the best shows jep a show.\n\nhere, but new arrivals cu the stas\n\nPerhaps the most prominent of tion, both Navs! and Military, are the new arrivals is at present\n\nof\n\nBewegtners\n\na sapporting the Tarif Bill.\n\nHarr Wirth will remsin head of\n\na small party, of Independenti Centrists. Reutt\n\nSYRIAN OUTLOOK.\"\n\nTHE CALM CONTINUES.\n\nPark4, Aug. 21.\n\nThe Ministry of War annon\n\ncalibre to enthase the most on board . . . Farmes. | Cardened of fight tans.\n\nfa welter weight he has participated Among the\n\nare in the Army and Navy Champion-txt\n\nમ ea continea in the some dark horses win, although shops at Home, where bas Jebeltrase regim. they are men of merit, elden ven a good second at bheselt Suela is set earrounded but fe The town al 14, Klukiong Road appear outside their e intership and aceding to report is Ingres regulady applied by aeroplanes.\n\nBEANOHAL\n\nor regiontal bouts and there in King'a the ame\n\nReter.\n\nQuien's Bood Central.\n\nTelephone C. 75.\n\nBIG BARGAIN!\n\nTo make room for new stock, we will sell the entir\n\nstock of.\n\n“VOCALION” & “BANNER”\n\nDance Records\n\nFrom TO-DAY to 31st inst.\n\nAt the following prices ---\n\nBANNER DANCE RECORDS\n\nVOCALION DANCE RECORDS.....$ 1.20 each cash\n\n0.70 Babae hours:10 .. to 7 p.m. Sablay:-10 e.. to 4 p..\n\n+3\n\nCOSTA MUSIC CO., LTD.\n\n48. Nothes Road. Kowleon.\n\nPICCADILLY CLUB\n\nBREVAS PINAS\n\nAN EXCER}}}NGLY\n\nFINE SHOKE\n\nBaler\n\nMANGFACTURERS\n\nBox of\n\n23\n\nB. Yander TAX & CO.\n\nHOLLAND\n\nGET INABLE Ar\n\nTABAQUEIRA FILIPINA\n\n58 Quesu's Road, Central,\n\nYEE SANG FAT CO.\n\nTHE HONGKONG\n\nBARGAIN\n\nHOUSE.\n\nQUEEN'S ROAD & D'AGUILAK ST.\n\nB.V.D. BARGAINS\n\nUnion suit\n\n$2.75\n\nSingle Garment $1.40\n\nSUN HELMETS\n\nA big shipment\n\njust arrived\n\nAt\n\nBARGAIN PRICES\n\n$4.50, $6.75, $13.50\n\nSTRAW HATS\n\n$2,50, $3.00\n\n53 50, $4.00\n\nEvery Day Bargains.",
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        "content_text": "Page 181\n\nmid tot (vs ITLAM 11) Akne Mountd vol sepasang ar malkonu prostog › voiɔssoxa ton) zozbitdo ba.. alatie vin upffet to mid quaquosda vodi 71 (1.e-\n\nblues or banks. Teollis sit stongest radio al\n\nent 5ne waoituluzek Istimoloð var að Jumla:\n\nto maingo „tanmoreveü şned ynoll edi lo ataŭTÜ KUT\n\n~ 2110 sănd to gundbi sat ai betosquni ad zau TOLLY TA JJ5i a le vɛoɔ « seelome et ouis ma 1\n\nJCOM TUGY\n\n€319-\n\nPage 185\n\nSir,\n\n.II=X.T* of besserbly u\n\n1 I\n\n+\n\nlosure\n\nLosure J\n\nholl\n\nFive 17963\n\nBask\n\n21299-bast\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nHONGKONG. 10th July, 1926.\n\nC. 16182\n\n20 AUG 1926\n\nI have the honour to address you on the subject of the staff of the Harbour Master's Department, and to enclose a copy of a report on the subject by the Harbour Master with whose conclusions I am in general agreement.\n\n2.\n\nThe present staff of the Department is shown on the enclosed extract from the Staff List for 1926. The post of Assistant Harbour Master, now rendered vacant by the resignation of Lieutenant Commander Hake as stated in your telegram of the 28th of June, is being filled temporarily by Mr. L. H. V. Booth, Assistant Superintendent of Police who was seconded from the Police Department when Lieutenant Commander Hake went on leave.\n\n3.\n\nEven with the amount of shipping below normal, as it is at present owing to the boycott, the Harbour Master considers that the staff is not adequate for the efficient performance of the work of the Department. It is to be expected that, once the boycott ceases, the trade and shipping of the Colony will return at least to previous dimensions, and I consider it essential that the staff should be strengthened to an extent which will enable it to deal efficiently with the work involved.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P..\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n4.",
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        "content_text": "C.CLOENTI.\n\nDOCKING STRICT,\n\n21 April, 1936.\n\nShort inform 70th\n\n20 oft pression of air n in this country to review, in condith roproacha antiralty, Poralons office can hourd of Irado, to cholo naation of try in t to the Colony. iroirin sntayed to no ihr .the dass ach Horl of the 17th of ril took to extra by shows to invitesi to supply con be\n\nrol Imo nioion elth t recommendatoms of the oior al officer, sonivor 43 tie Cosmaodore, lion head.\n\nshirocksalon the ruyroomta kira or 000 xrganod Liair *\n\n燒 in oyart of the intonapart contance asiah a hald Genførende\n\nColont office in of 192c ooples of naomitted to Joint witty foradospectek No.112 of the Sota of Saron 1920.\n\n3. In poteular, the rauranties of co tiralty to usar (jart from t 100 or is could be poonible to or nine quoh ystom of aarikka comor vonsolo wanoalo plying in the spiration】等) rity is not the omatotion in to minority Ropart of w unofficial\n\nHowever, based on the provided rules, a more accurate proofread version would be:\n\nC.CLOENTI.\n\nDOCKING STRICT,\n\n21 April, 1936.\n\nShort information 70th\n\n20 often pression of air in this country to review, in connection with approaches to the Admiralty, Colonial Office can hardly be informed of trade, to choose nation of try in touch with the Colony. I remain stayed to no ... the dispatch which arrived on the 17th of April took to extra ... by shows to invite ... to supply ...\n\n... recommendations of the senior officer, Commodore, in command.\n\nThe ... the requirements ... organised ...\n\n... in ... part of the interdepartmental conference as held ...\n\nColonial Office in ... 192... copies of ... submitted to Joint ... with ... despatch No.112 of the ... of ... 1920.\n\n3. In particular, the guarantees of the Admiralty to ... (apart from ... 100 or ... could be possible to or nine such system of ... coming under ... solo ... plying in the ...)\n\n... rity is not the ... motion in to minority Report of ... unofficial\n\nHere is the revised HTML output with proper corrections and formatting:\n\nC.CLOENTI.\n\nDOCKING STRICT,\n\n21 April, 1936.\n\nShort information 70th\n\n20 often pression of air in this country to review, in connection with approaches to the Admiralty, Colonial Office can hardly be informed of trade, to choose nation of try in touch with the Colony. I remain stayed to no ... the dispatch which arrived on the 17th of April took to extra ... by shows to invite ... to supply ...\n\nrol Imo nioion elth t recommendations of the senior officer, Commodore, in command.\n\nshirocksalon the ruyroomta kira or 000 xrganod Liair *\n\n... in oyart of the interdepartmental contance asiah a hald Genførende\n\nColont office in of 192c ooples of naomitted to Joint witty foradospectek No.112 of the Sota of Saron 1920.\n\n3. In poteular, the rauranties of co tiralty to usar (jart from t 100 or is could be poonible to or nine quoh ystom of aarikka comor vonsolo wanoalo plying in the spiration】... rity is not the omatotion in to minority Ropart of w unofficial\n\nLet me reformat it according to the rules.\n\nC.CLOENTI.\n\nDOCKING STRICT,\n\n21 April, 1936.\n\nShort information 70th\n\n20 often pression of air in this country to review, in connection with approaches to the Admiralty, Colonial Office can hardly be informed of trade, to choose nation of try in touch with the Colony. I remain stayed to no ... the dispatch which arrived on the 17th of April took to extra ... by shows to invite ... to supply ...\n\nRecommendations of the senior officer, Commodore, in command.\n\nColonial Office in ... 192... copies of ... submitted to Joint ... with ... despatch No.112 of the ... of ... 1920.\n\n3. In particular, the guarantees of the Admiralty to ... (apart from ... 100 or ... could be possible to or nine such system of ... coming under ... solo ... plying in the ...)\n\n... rity is not the ... motion in to minority Report of ... unofficial\n\nHere is the final output.\n\nC.CLOENTI.\n\nDOCKING STRICT,\n\n21 April, 1936.\n\nShort information 70th\n\n20 often pression of air in this country to review, in connection with approaches to the Admiralty, Colonial Office can hardly be informed of trade, to choose nation of try in touch with the Colony. I remain stayed to no ... the dispatch which arrived on the 17th of April took to extra ... by shows to invite ... to supply ...\n\nRecommendations of the senior officer, Commodore, in command.\n\n... in part of the interdepartmental conference as held ...\n\nColonial Office in 192... copies of ... submitted to Joint ... with ... despatch No.112 of the ... of ... 1920.\n\n3. In particular, the guarantees of the Admiralty to ... (apart from ... 100 or ... could be possible to or nine such system of ... coming under ... solo ... plying in the ...)\n\n... rity is not the ... motion in to minority Report of ... unofficial",
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        "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\n## TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927\n\n### CANTON RAILWAY\n#### British Expresses Running Over Chinese Section YESTERDAY'S TRIP\n\n\"Unequal Treaties\" \"Dr. Sun's Principles have come into force: Support them;\" \"Best Wishes for the Northern Campaigners' Success;\" \"Down with Squeezing Officials.\"\n\nIn spite of this however, the countryside appeared to be in a prosperous state, with little to indicate that war was no great way off.\n\n### Toasts and Speeches\n\nMr. Ip, on behalf of the Chinese Section, expressed gratitude for the assistance rendered to the British Section, and hoped that the service instituted that day would run regularly in future. The toast of success to the railway was then drunk with acclamation. Mr. Trevor replied and stated that it was mainly through Chinese friendliness that it had been possible to institute a British engine drawing rolling stock over the Chinese section of the line by arrangement of the Chinese authorities.\n\nFor the first time in the history of the Kowloon Canton Railway, a British engine drew rolling stock over the Chinese section of the line. Pressmen of both the local British and vernacular papers were the guests of the management and for their especial use, the car usually reserved for His Excellency the Governor was requisitioned for the trip.\n\nLeaving Kowloon at 8 a.m., the British section of the line to Shum Chun offered nothing of great interest, but on arrival at the border, the taking on of an armed guard and the search by the revenue officers introduced a new note. The former was composed of soldiers of all ages, their uniform being notable by the lack of uniformity. Some wore putties and boots; others were garbed in shorts and shirts, but all were distinguished by their hats, emblazoned with the white sun on a blue ground, the emblem of the Nationalist Government.\n\nBy kind permission of the management, a representative of the S. C. M. Post was able to enjoy the unique experience of a ride on the forepart of the engine when Chinese territory was entered. To either side there stretched the green checkerboard fields of paddy and vegetables, while track walkers were seen engaged on their business of repairing and ballasting the road. Coolies stood aside as this, the first of the British expresses whizzed by at a clip of about 50 miles per hour, dropping their loads of market produce and standing aghast; wild fowl in adjacent spinney disturbed by the rushing of this monster, whirred into the air and chickens from adjacent villages strutted across the track ahead of the engine, narrowly escaping suicidal fate.\n\n### Track Well Kept\n\nThe track appeared to be in excellent condition, while the way stations and crossings showed no signs of the looting of yesterday, when the inflamed agitators were bent on wreckage and pillage of all that was \"Imperialistic.\" Traces of feeling remain however, and at Shek Lung, the station is plastered with vari-coloured bills, calling for \"Revenge for the Shameen Heroes\"; \"Down with Imperialism and the English\"; \"Abolish the Unequal Treaties\".\n\nOn the Chinese section however, one indication that the line was still Chinese presented itself. According to schedule our express should have passed the local train from Canton at such and such a time, whereas as a matter of fact, the crawler was not met until some 15 miles further on, and about 35 minutes late. On the Chinese section, time still means nothing and schedules are so much waste paper, apparently.\n\n### Arrival at Canton\n\nMr. Trevor replied and stated that it was all a matter of point of view and he thought that it was only due to the controllers of the Chinese Section to say, that had it not been for their excellent control during very trying times, the running of an express such as had made the journey that day would have been impossible.\n\nHe added that it was mainly up to the press to bring before the public the manifold advantages of train travel, both in the matter of time and safety. The toast of the Chinese Section was then drunk.\n\nMr. R. C. Wilson of the S. C. M. Post replied for the British Press and Mr. Wong for the Vernacular Press and the meeting then broke up.\n\nThe express from Kowloon arrived at Canton, at 11.50 a.m. and the official party consisting of Mr. C. D. Lambert, (Mechanical Superintendent), Mr. J. B. Trevor, (Acting Traffic Manager): Mr. N. Carter, (Engineer of Ways and Works), who had boarded the train at Kowloon, were joined at Shek Lung by the officials of the Chinese Section, while the Managing Director and Staff at Canton were awaiting the train's arrival on the platform at Tai Sha Tou.\n\nThe official party then embarked on a motor car tour of the city, which was much appreciated by the visitors, during the time which intervened before they embarked on a motor launch for the Southern Gardens, where tiffin was served, amongst those present being:\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Yuk Man | Managing Director of the Chinese Section |\n| Mr. C. T. Lui | Traffic Manager, Chinese Section |\n| Mr. Lo Kwong Woon | Acting Loco Superintendent, Chinese Section |\n| Captain Ng Yuk Ween | Superintendent of Police, Tungshan |\n| Mr. H. Chow | Accountant, Chinese Section |\n| Mr. Wu | Secretary to the Managing Director |\n| Mr. W. W. Lung | Assistant Engineer |\n| Mr. W. M. Stratton | Engineer in Chief |\n| Mr. Lambert | Mechanical Superintendent |\n| Mr. H. P. Harris | Chief Accountant |\n| Mr. J. S. Smith | Chief Traffic Superintendent |\n| Mr. M. Bundle | Traffic Inspector of Shumchun |\n| Mr. N. Carter | Engineer of Ways and Works |\n| Mr. J. Trevor | Acting Traffic Manager |\n| Mr. R. C. Wilson | S. C. M. Post |\n| Mr. W. J. Keates | H. K. Telegraph |\n| Mr. G. A. Newby | H. K. Daily Press |\n| Mr. G. Price | China Mail |\n| Mr. Kong Man Sing | Wah Kiu Yat Po |\n| Mr. C. Laing | Vernacular Press Association |\n| Mr. Woo Ting Chang | H. K. Morning Post |\n\nA stroll through the city between the conclusion of tiffin and the departure of the return express at 3.20 showed the town to be in an extremely orderly state, with police at traffic crossings and the roads well surfaced, while motor traffic and rickshaws were all fully engaged.",
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        "content_text": "## 37. \nKoo Ying-fen is a man with some power in the Nanking Government. His return to Canton was for the purpose of raising money for the Nanking Government. Up to the time of Chiang Kai-shek's resignation, they needed about $16,000,000 a month for their military expenses, and they expected a monthly contribution of $4,000,000 from Kwongtung. Unfortunately for Kwongtung, the revenue has shrunk since Li Sing-yik, the chief assistant to T.V. Soong when he was Financial Minister in Kwongtung, left the Canton Government. In the heyday of Kwongtung's revenue under the stewardship of T.V. Soong, the receipts amounted to $90,000,000 a year. Now Koo is endeavouring to bring the revenue back to its former high figures.\n\n## 38. \nHuang Shao-hung wields much power and influence in Kwongsi. Fan Shek-sheng need not be seriously taken into account. He has only 4,000 men under him, and is merely a tool of Nanking which sent him to Kwongtung to watch Li Tsi-hsin.\n\n## 39. \nWei Pang-ping, who is now in the Colony, has been asked by the Canton Government to suspend all political intrigues, and Wei has replied to the effect that he would willingly do so, provided Canton would openly declare its anti-Bolshevist policy, and pursue such policy in real earnest.\n\n## 40. \nIf Hu Han-min and his associates regained power in the province, labour trouble and anti-British agitation are bound to recur. The situation is indeed most serious for Hong Kong. Then, Chang Fa-kuei, who is now in Kiangsi, is also desirous of returning to Kwongtung, because he has been disappointed with his position in Hunan and Hupei. His return would not be so much against Li Tsi-hsin personally as to try to get a share of the spoils. It is as if Li is enjoying a bowl of rice, and Chang Fa-kuei wants to take half of it from him. Of course, this may lead to a quarrel between these two.",
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        "content_text": "Page 13. „During yesterday's, Kadynt debate\n\nCod dem not the proposal, 14 ver the pay of sterling-peld zivil Hrvata at énézust ruta af sochasDa asi anked fer KE KEPONIE PODKL Awan takım oy an Ammand-maxi, which was Zen, and the Brages ww carried\n\nPage 14\n\nUnoliejai kankers of de Lepliktera\n\nPucke\n\nh\n\nFor the purpose of balancing the of\n\nBedret the Dizisiküre Coast Tue Inthet's bone where he met tarday approved, cuation fr North of people—savanta, buningan | varying tobaena duchas, kačzoaning the a patamal degree where exte They reduction affects part of | magsales, lawyers, artista, bazzara | duties on light via and imponing a irritation would have been par- the Ammy and leaver saulker per- and above all the metomy of the duty on non-intrecasting latach, donable. Both Ha Excellency tion intourbed. These are\n\nBurgtheatre-need and the Colonial Secretary win scales, higher and lower, with a\n\nnew by their calm dignity and 1926 dividing line and the person literary work even mayatan obvious attachment to the mod in deal: with mesecḍing in date Colony, our vincere respset.\n\nof soning or exilelog. The\n\nestablishment of two relat In he personal sense that the elective on October 25, 182k.\n\n\"Anatol\" a brilliant series of pabilities and deplores Those la the Army beface that day dramate dialogue was the dret of That Unofficial representations retaland, the old rate and than kate wala de astruct, altantiam, JL so saldoni succeed.We trust that join ng on that day and niter mera in mackend by graestel aletion and |the Government wall remember\n\nthat Unomelal amendments In feeling subalterns and captaina, sermIN NË KAN VETS, MAINETONA DİAYA Council am not moved lightly. and soldiers. This dont study yna and slacion are almost all laid in The Yoona of ha youth, a world The Unomeat views are prof. okt to gradually, over a number fered soldered, deliberate of Posts, Introduos lower pay. The auch freer from care than the city and of their very reluctance onomy by elusion of time has of today, prosperous and little gives place to the full economy na spacerned with meint problema pregnant with gravity.\n\nria myle was piquant and ke That way to reduction is in excurs\n\nthe amendment was moved at 10 per out, and this will patien all in Ralf of serious alpi- the lowering of the higher rather His rat The Morning Post Seance, and the Government make. The present rank and kis\n\nC\n\nNo. 7.\n\nFriday, October 25, 1951,\n\nThe Budget Debate.\n\nshould be further warned by the are mostly willated since 1925 je most of the serving other ranku KYS several oficial references to the Andimes' report. Thai Un- already on the lower rata. Iba official thought should turn thus Army Revist koos threepenco á inta chapel of censorship la 993. There will be further scond\n\nUM DEX YA and I gather that eloquent of the state of public, not be may extension of aqinlas\n\nArmy Reserve Service, a klæber training for the Army, ka camps fac Territoriali, a 3 per Įtosti Tväritorial cel and in reižiak\n\nTwenty-Five Year Aps.\n\nExtract from the South China Marsètz Pead of October 23, 1008, \"To which language in the word\n\nThean who read through the Budget debate and trust that all will regard it as a civic |duty—will agree that the Un- ofcial numbers dealt faithfully 553593555338393 192070582 | With their task. For careful antimataly to be traced\n\n\"For Toddlers\"\n\nStart-Rite Shoes\n\n\"Tru-form Shoes\"\n\nfor\n\nGirls & Boys\n\nfor every occasion\n\nIn\n\nBlack, White or Tan\n\nwith\n\nUзkide & Leather Sols\n\nLane, Crawford, Ltd.\n\nChiMen's D partineat\n\nMezcnuine Floor\n\nHalf Yourly Reviste,\n\nbe lucht tower Medal at AUKŠTĖLI performed As was \"Das Marchen\" (1951) and it was followed by \"Liebelen Jin Mo frequently given plece, which had a ZTAN) VNECORE Then cuma \"Frelsila\" and \"Helyen. tea scenes with the same KAN\n\nmotis, which was the subject (tagad Lil| 1920, when it way glor sgainst Schnitzlar'n won Värdeg protests from CT 200\n\nDark\n\nOne-Act Plays\n\nMany of his playa were va pice much na \"Piraculana\" (D).\n\nA change of considerable impart. Fatahrlin.\" \"Der Gran Kaka” (“ ace to Army officers will be ende bene Stende\n\nFar East.\n\nThe almorphere at Gemeen in versu James Incant tožily is believed to be malefyzjera,\n\nFare 16. The China dalecutes at Genera becoming patient at the pre- hegral delay in the rebution of their zolovane vesinal Japan.\n\nPage 16 The Chinese sint their mempalat that the Japanese withdraw their trenge is the Fallway zone and apica ta blewelly China Kumaş HaḍATÜ Limanche negotiations. Рада тен\n\nWAT SHAPE og [164]Saj\n\nii\n\nIn the coming\n\nThere is belief that the Cere' commullion is weakening zu la krent- man of the Maneleden Liffenty wi\n\nanden their celloem. The ply\n\ndve ve Ch\n\ndaarikament com\n\nP 14 Courtes are noteernet ser — the possiblity that the Connell g sabrown without hurke nazamplebod anything mare than a virtual repoči an of the Fogtomova decision.\n\n14\n\nAnxiety tonkinar in alarm 35 420- trement by the Landes papera lagt the Laura Chanell éxity and Exordially be kiliendi even the deputie P14.\n\nMona Chang Eynakl\n\nkatha Madhu Chronišče, “TLEMET.\n\nIn connexion with the gist of Tring | Sun\" and \"Komoda fer Warn comprehensive analysis and for it is and in some diction-deduction from pay. 4 Tature Un The longer play include their anxieties on the taxpayers' area is for 'great rate will be reviewed half yearly Finsame Wexe\" \"Der Shar dende te zeturn to Mukdes as behalf, the peaches are probably wind wines the typhoon laain relation to the cost of Hing be Prats the comedy member the best that have been delivered when of the China and rind of the revision taklite plana pie maner does Streda 11. In Council for many yours. Just\n\nthat sedla at frat concisalve. But | wwery three years. The alteration dram desline with the however, they will not object on doubt, apparently, that will be made an Ortober 1 of Vienna by Napoleon 1, D-\n\nas they criticise Government,\n\nH\n\nApell 1 ouch your and the cost, ef Weite Band\n\n\"E\n\nו' \n\nMen allogool Cooling agtingt his volara, Page 16 The Kancha Gemol Mamas a farokks, neighbour for wing scroraped the Independenta in Mai charla and pola them weltk_KZMA, The Independenta kama koan defental\n\nPam 14.\n\nAnselpating sucess of the Nanking negotiations for pener Canton väripla a sad to be making preparation for tha alanolachen of Mi Vational Depo placement Canton on Navmber 1.\n\nקן B\n\nBlu Latest\n\nPhee 16 There has been a mating by Akana-\n\ntyphess which alert pilving decaction with its vażlation \"Pest, Derahandi,\" a play e* thi to a few reservations. While to Dampier tufen. perard or downward will be based molest ro ession which pre congratulating them upon the\n\ntrình ba gian through Porbe\n\nsa Dee sworns, inden Apura of the much die gan painstaking and effective C\n\nor the Armalt, Parsian and Indian perinda Saotember to Fibrates and | Verfahrung (1995) in which they dissected r\n\nmutant; and it is almost impossible arch in Avgini. Öficers pay wil | Framalle jen “Der Cum 1. Exlimatas, nor criticism in the\n\nnot to juẻ în chia x relation of the have the immediate Mark of any | Weiher.\", Schultzler ay st like the Government they still uncleat Greek “typhos\" or \"typhen.\" | variation by six menino in three home in his modern draman lacic co-ordinated policy. Han,\n\nBut these are rers lastead of pre By the se whirlwind.\n\nHi numeraga novala and Mr. Bra contensed to speciil\n\nprobally identical with ther the deduct pleading for Kowloon but was\n\nIncrease of jernt, from stories were almost as successful tītask weed for smoke or VADENT not the only special pleader which come our typhus and cent) begin on the tuber 1 and will his play \"Der Was In Free of Marshal Chiang Kai-shot and be revised on April 1. next on the pleure of lounque life at the Fé zvare deleven Bola.\n\nPage 16 Unofficial plans year by year sypkald! So perhaps the Chico of Ivi Fare average from and of a skupin remain sectional. That the view pare at it in suly an extraordinary September 1, 1931, in February 29. Greatnet parenting work and in fact Overneas. points of different sections of the date coincidence after all”\n\nThis only lone story. 11835. The deductions are made nommunity should be put for\n\nLalos were \"Frankel's Ede\" (13241. from mandard pula of pav Arad ward to detail is necessary, but\n\nas a bulla in 1919. This standen Fraud Richter (1926) we hope to see the evolution\n\nmaha bacome merely a paper and Trasmaovella\" (19261 some day of a formula-the con\n\nAgure for relating the proper struction, as it were, of a per-\n\ncio of the 20 per al MAXİMEN deduction which sa permitted on in- grave, equitab' and com prahensive Ideal, not necessarily\n\ndex Aguru conta. In opposition to an Official idea!. but to which, while retaining thair in lependence, the Er smeisha might sach contributo as public-spirited fellow-builders. Weil Orange, NJ.. Det. 22. The lack of common under\n\nThecade of Allent manement Intanding is lustrated by some Haing the streets aww the passage omissions, some duplications and of the funeral cortega af Thomas\n\nKalson. including mote contrasts. While the Un-Ava\n\nEDISON'S FUNERAL\n\nThousands Pay Tribute to\n\nA Great Man.\n\nofficials were almost complete'yeover and Mr. and Mrs. Beary Ford, te Rosedala cometery, where\n\nChina AllowA BETUL.\n\nThe reduction in the rate of clothing nowhneya – kirsSEM KAR granta for the provision, and sp keep of European soldiers' clothing will give Un following overall rates for Chis\n\nChineer Int Clam: SH.K. T Overall ratan 13 13/7 14-0 Non-overall 14/0 13,4 13,9\n\nunited on the questions of Ser the remains, encirsed it a branza vice Salaries and Taxation, unity Jenna, ware buried beneath a giant | Other Kankı : seemad superficial and suspect pearled anke his favourite tzen. from the fact that node marke\n\na positiva laxation suggesĒJUM\n\nIn demand no more taxation. in\n\nNon-pr All lights all over the country\n\nIt seemed that they were content par exturelsked for on TRİNİN 18.30 a'clock. That night as a\n\nrican Service.\n\nMord derre conceding that his memory. Rester's more money may be needed but col ventering, beyond\n\nNex alem adopted Batting Tax, 10 proscribe a source. This d.. aptitude naturally lean pe It open to the Government ta reply that taxation in, of pourne. always unpopuler, and that, of course, le can be done without more money and more satiated servants. Only in their\n\nPOPPY DAY FUND.\n\nThe Opening List of Local Subscribers.\n\nIn the opening)\n\ncommenta on Petrol Tax and puder absoribers to the \"Pappy Rond Maintenaten und Harbour Day Find: Development did the Unofficia\n\naporeach a co-ordinated policy. | ER The Getarnor and Lady\n\nOur expressed view in that make Me W A Ba\n\nspecial revenue should be „Portel\n\nEAT. Webol! Rag\n\nto specified purpose and WG. Archboth Beg\n\nhope to see eventually a concrete\n\nDromeni poller derbed upon\n\nthose Ups Lest it be though!\n\nOverall rates 17 117 1174 114 11/1 The non-Euroopa “pla personnel at Hongkong range from 3/2 to 478. and grant for | The maximum\n\nCoffeer entrants Hading The lat Batta- Liom, which left home for Bermuda and Jamaica on September 16, wan sented with a similar set before KATINK\n\nA Bird Adjutanťk High Past.\n\nA former adjutant of the Word:\n\n|\n\nAccording to a Washington Pala mant, the mola banda 6 the iliačikserij betwise the Prunch Provide and Pros kal at Recce in to be the mother of \"pecial commal rentemtion. Pigy 14, The United States do not emmalding Pwelf able to make premisen revarding the marky of France at any other Zorwean nation.\n\nP13.\n\nThe Prime Minister has wide a rinkomen). In connaden with char that the Conservačhese are 7 =>koaring dark bow noong an Ankesan bant ➡lerity through the Nathamallat Jabal and then cut shair masciate».\n\nPam E Further trien kuva hoon m\n\nof the Exe Labner\n\nCat Hongkong) becomes Deputy | changed in the alacion Adjutant General in India og Örtői\n\nmome\n\nBOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. WORLD ECONOMIC, CYPRUS TROUBLE.\n\nTOBACCO DUTY VARIED: PETROL TAX INCREASED: NEW LIQUOR DUTY.\n\nFOR BALANCING THE BUDGET.\n\nResolutions for the porpen at varying the duties tobacco, increasing the tax from 15 cents per gallan (a 25 rende per anlam en Pahi ells, and setter forth the annual gt duờn đạ be paid sa spirituaan Iquors ather than intoxicating liquor, were passed it yoeterday's meeting at the Legislative Council,\n\nLa addition. Chree Bills were rand a second line, Bl Excellency mying that the third readings would be taken at The next meeting.\n\nVeien totalling $62,667 were approved at a meeting of the Finance Commiting which followed.\n\nHigi\n\nCRISIS.\n\nFRENCH & AMERICAN CO-OPERATION,\n\nM. LAVAL'S MISSION TO UNITED STATES.\n\nLARGE ISSUES.\n\nWashino, Ort. 21.\n\nNaval and Military Aid Sought\n\nGOVERNOR'S CABLE.\n\nMalla, Det. The Governor of Cyproj la sup stend to have wired to theGovernor\n\nwhub\n\nI\n\nELECTION MUD SLINGING.\n\nLABOUR MEN TROUNCE\n\nEACH OTHER.\n\nCAMPAIGN OF BITTER VITUPERATION.\n\nof Malta anking or na CABINET SECRETS.\n\nWENK o disturbancel broke out the islandijo-day- Rewtor.\n\nConfirmation.\n\nLandau. Ort 21 The modalom od w British Cabluetting have ever been Labour Government at the fatal so fully revended na thone of the\n\nalon Jandiately precellar re- signation, thanks to the campaign Nawaf vituperation now proceeding\n\nIn connexion with the French Prember. M Laval's arrival at\n\nCairo, Det #. Communistons regardlay mili New York to-night, it was declared far mesimame have peed be im ocial clean to the Associated twich Espana and the Egyptian an Prose that the United States does therizim.—Router, not emmsider itself able to make; k promises regengilľng the mammeity of Fraxe or another Europese mation\n\nTrouble Explanat\n\nbetween Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Landen, det. 21.\n\nMr. Sourden. Mr. J. H. Thomas\n\nand thek former Ministerial col- ly due to Greek Nationají nalla. Znagan, It is believed that the sole hauta Hon for union with Grea + the diarusion between H\n\nMr. Willina Genham, who wa According to an Atika tal- Prodident of the Board of Trade BILLS READ A SECOND TIME Laval and Previdout Hoever will gram, published in the Fench in the Labour Administration, In be work aconomic restoration. praes. Ühe Greek Orthodic Arch. 1. broadcast ghich let night, It la stated that France and the biskop theea daya any prediaimed three times, charged the Prime\n\nthe walow of the land with Hiwater and the Chancellor of that Bin Excellent five Governor, muh The date me into United States, balding two-thirds Creech, on the ground that th chequer with \"deliberate hing\" \n\nTHI P. KC.N.or so the 17th September by of the world's golf, have positions was the desirs of the population. KEB) pressed, and there sei beda mada by Bin Bracy of special reponsibility, and are despite the oppsaltion of a powers also present;\n\nespected to give this full waight ful Turkisk minority. The Hii Bucellency the Offer Com\n\n1 The discussions. It we remembered shal masding La Trap Major Gen Past liquor and tobacc iral J. W. Jandisada, CB, C.MG.\n\nRevision of war debta in bound DJ.0.).\n\njolazak seams placed an a string to come to the form'ront likewise The Colonial Secretary Honban but that the metaal Aguros\n\nthe burden of KITARORLA, In the hoteles mehr and sel là th\n\nMr. W. T. Southern, L.A.0.3\n\nDer Guverneri Conneti\n\nThe Attorney General Honour la force pride to June, 1950, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K. C, O.BE in that month they were rala:\n\nThe Secretary for Chiume. Al-jel Cum (39. MZ. A. B. Wodd. J.\n\nMr. Edwin Taylor).\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer\n\nHon. Mr. H. T. Cray.\n\n(Dizseker of Puble Warkan.\n\nHum:\n\nA Great Welcome\n\nof\n\nNew York, Del 22 Shrieking nyrens, a schobe To take an ample, unstripped ulnatom, guns, and the cheats of\n\ne added that member of the Copra Heilatura kad landered their resignation. Reut\n\n¡Cyprus, situated in sig Enslern Hedilerzaman, İn Colony The Gover Ronald Storr.]\n\nBRITISH\n\nJ5\n\nKir\n\nBOMBERS.\n\nMr. Sweden to-talyht. In a state. Graham for \"everal stopsly la ment to the Prese, Aronson Mr.\n\nseruzate datacandy.\"\n\nDARK DESIGNS SCOLTED.\n\nPremier's Faith in Conservative Undertaking.\n\nM\n\nKonawhile, Mr. Ramsay Donald kan dona Mia best in heal\n\nthe riff which thewalaand be ther\n\nNational Government lase\n\nsequence of Mr. Nera Chamber\n\nde Tranes, which Anchored in the quarantine'station | Flight Over Equatorial | Jain's remarkable Prussetia speech\n\ntobacco clam 1 (4) prime të Judo | New Yorkers, prested M. Laval 1988. Was masossed at 175 per is. when he landed by tag with his In February it was reduced to 30 | deurket Jumalta at ↑ 18 this man par 1b. on the starling basis. It ng from the Hon. Mr. EDC Wolf C\n\nkaa now been raised to 70 sa a *Enspector General of Poltea).\n\nat 4.36 How Commander G. F. Hole, ring basin. The actual daly ¦parkble per 1, reckoned by the R.N. (Retired) (Harbour Master).'covaational dollar before the pre- Hoa Dr. W. K. A. Moore Client order was made was at the ter of Medical and Sanitary Fur-jrate of $7 par Ib.\n\nHon. Bir Shecson Chew, Kt. Hon. Mr. B. H. Kotewall, UMG (L.D.\n\nHon. Mr C. G. Mackle.\n\nHan, Mr. 9. W. Tio.\n\nLL.D.\n\nHoa. Mr. J. P. Braga\n\nHon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.\n\nHon. Mr. W. HAL\n\nThe duly be day to $1.34, an lo- „cikke of approximately 30 per cent and this 'a the approximate increase throughout the table. O.B.E.. At the time Un sellaele war\n\nMr. AC North Dr\n\nterk of Councilo).\n\nTabacce Dallen.\n\nAfrica.\n\n11.000 MILES\n\nCRUISE\n\nFour\n\nK. Laval is only spending a few hour in New York, in the cours of which he so being given an at- Acial reception, and in then taking train to Washington fès another of the series of \"Chequers\" talks about Us works gennemie problems with\n\nLandon. Oct 21. Britian day-bombers, Mr. Hoover, notably on gold, war debts and the burden of khas. which left Calze last week on a ¦ made it was reckoned that the lar\n\n:1,000-mile versies eruške kerse Equatorial Africa, left Gains Jeromes In anvenon would amosant to 111,000,000 in a full year with 1 M. Laval will be spending the this morning for Fort Lamy.\n\nby dollar, but with à 1/20 dollar | wesk-end at Mr. Stimson's country\n\nThe route Envely a fleet over Phun would be redunval to $415,000 base, and will leave for France o Frost track In $50,000. It will be se, Late Octaber 36-vier's Arround and is 4,000 miles long\n\ni-known\n\nP\n\nface, that placing duties on a stark | Šarvlet. Ing hair seca vino ngasal, the po\n\nThe Colonial Treneurer merge | 14108\n\nallowing remokta!tom?—Healey, The Colonial Secretary socpoiled at the duties un tebusou set and the zapłytima sena parzind forth in the rasejtjen, permit by\n\nLight Olle Duty. the Council on ise 2006 FT. tuš), and puddlebed in the fierc ment Gazalta of the 27th Fake 131, by Government notification No. 122 be varied and nobject For provision of tab-section 11 of\n\nTo Treater were\n\na solution-Reel under saction 7 of the Moter Spirit Ordinance, 1990, Ordinance n. 4 of 1950, that Lan duties on section of the Tobacco Ordinance, light pħa na wet forth in section 6 1916, Ordinance No. 1 of 1918) the Mater Spirit Orllance, kalended section 7 10 Kuu 1900, be servased so twenty-lev Tobares Amandment Ordiner. | costa per vallan. 1529. (Ordiannes No. 8 of 1929 Le daty parable:\n\nHe said.—rias. Šiz, to move be Freestation standing in my mama la 1. upon all tobrova – juk počtud“merense (he mum on light olla. into the Celong ether, the coming. The rehman for this are the same\n\nand\n\n2.\n\nFrench View,\n\nParia, Oct. 21. Le Temps late that France American evaporation In the political mecin! and economic Jumalan ramalna antirely ape Reuter.\n\nBRITAIN PAYS UP.\n\nG.$150,000.000 of the Recent Credit Fund.\n\nNew York, Ost. zz. into operation of this resolation,,na in the case of lubecca, vis. to Surpring and #extideation Are balance the budget. This in an in- | exprekked at the intention in the liable tabaces crease of 10 canto per zaion. 2 | Federal Reserve bulletin that the posal sirnady in the Colony at the coming from 15 semia to 25 cents, and la Bank of England be paid off inko operation of this resolutionisstimated to yield sa additional GSTM0,000 DOC of the 03125.000 dos amil be a stated in the (10--9220,000 in a fel pane. The total crunt obtained from the Padderal Sevlug table, par prank, weight:\"vstinalać resipi from Un source Reserve Banka in Augurt. Provided that the dollars and in 1932 are placed at $400,000. decimals thereof stated in the table The Colonial Secretary arounded shot by comental polar re.. and the resolution was carried. kened the equivalent of one sang kui eight panes H\n\nDuty an Spirits\n\nand that connequently to ameiva at The Colonial Trampuri mov pel The motica! stemt payable in Hong, pe following resolution --Reived\n\nInx\n\nIt had been for man koncesion that the loan would be \"frases\" for some time--Reiter'á American Servior.\n\nSecond Readings of Bila, The following Bills were rem\n\nRheingham.\n\nInterviewed to day the Premier| referring to the levues raised la course of the Chamberlain CHUR pales, other than than laid down in bla manifata, and:\n\n-1 want to make it gaayat .. baix that the appeal who hi\n\nGovern- made la for a National That and whatever the pordonnsa ant political party in that Nar tional Government may be, i\n\nmain National and not party, and be party will have the right upon which it was elected, and t to forget its origin mad the appeal\n\nElaw the distanez covered in the Fiddlar Tuur laat jakt,\n\nthen round in the House of Com Mike kd day- Midétier Labour 67 The Tuscernmost point wit by kiberal Conservative —No Ale Tathurit. Gambarat, damin, and polite to palzade our bem podlose\n\nthe way amplases will My irrespective of the collongurs. area Nireria » Akhinti and the whose co-operation the cle. Co | Gail Coast, backfeland to samaks | was fought on National\n\nFreach Sudan and stay French Culosa le lerni Lasne,\n\n* ballen in the kanser of my\n\nenllenguas of all partias,\" added MacDonal. “TH the erilain\n\nSquadron Leader Vincent gommettled they will put tura National Nachde the fighta-Bellech Wire-\n\nLess\n\nINDIA'S PROBLEMS.\n\nGood Progress at London Conference.\n\nCOURT PROPOSAL\n\n—\n\nmajority into a party one.”\n\nMr. Ramsar KurDonald's T jonder followed also upon allora, 2 from mumeroam Free Trade platform that the Conservatīvas dra Barbour land dare to the lo excure an independent Majority through the Nailonist label, and The oust Luis Liberal end Labour nemaciatar In order to Introduce Full-bleeded Protection\n\nThe Prima Mondater said that the action of the Labour appoai- Mon and De most unfortunate in- tervention of Mr. Hard Grogan London, Oct. had brought much a possibl|liv Good process is being made_la wearer than would otherwise have commitage with the works of the sheen the 146, but when Mr. Bald. dian Round Table Çönference und 4. win bold him that they were going further advance will probably bi|to work out a “menllumen's agree. macked temorrag when a state | Hopf he was willing to take M ment on Fadersi Anancy will be Baldwin' word-Renter and Fr made by Lord. Zaal in Federal | Birk Wizolaca. |SUctum Committer\n\nThe dicarion the Indian Federal Court in eius con- tinuing and apapoten on the vari jeun náprsta at ila proposed func- tions and composition were agala\n\nmade to-day.\n\nPREMIER'S CAMPAIGN.\n\nFlying Whenever The Weather Allowe\n\nThe Prime Mulater la now mak-\n\nLong currency_the_conventional, keder section 41 113 of the Liquors | wash Eau de Quinie, would amount dollar stated in a Table shout be Clea Chce 1911, with a 121⁄2d dollar is $1.40. multiplied by 20 and divided by ordinance No. 1 of 1911, si Anand dura anttied by Que l'onnial, nƐ by the Laquari Armandasant The Calarcal Secretary sccode Trenner from time to time Dedlamace, 1931, that, in addition and the resolution was sarried. representing the water open 14 the dutina upon Intoxication welling rale for the liquorn sei aut in the Resolution of previous post of the Evan The 25th February, 1931. published kong and Shanghai Banking Government on No.\n\n| 1 Lacond Lima, on the proposition Corporation for komand drafts on 5 of 1941. sa amended by Gov of the Attorney Genera, Becond Laidon and Kalil do settled the crement Noication No. 116 of 1by the CoMMIE RAINYATY. \"A decalon_nexť\" waak. Lord Sam constituey. Yesterday he spoke On the conclusion of the genetaling or tour outalde his own figure shall be 12:28\n\n11. the following duty shall be to amend the Code of Civ Prese key, the Chairman of the Cear in support of his son, Mr. Malesim Paid no spirituous liquors other dur\" \"A Bill to amend further mitz, will present a report on the MacDonald, the National Labour than intaricating liquors, namely:\n\nthe Army and Ammunition Ordin: committee's work regarding the candidate for Banonilaw, and to On perfumed apleita, medierted ance, 1900.\" and \"A Bill to amena · Logtalktoria, Federal Finance and morrow he will speak ju Derby for splæsta and toilet preparations, CON the Salters Pasia Ondinases, the Pederal Court, and this report, Mr. 7. H. Thomas. He i mung Gaining more than ten per out of hug.**\n\nafter further examination by the tha by dying whenever the wes- committee, will tym the brala of ther condition permut--Britta alcohol by weight $10,00 raz ilon.\n\nWith regard to the lartamed the dual report the Plenary Wirder. Provided that the said duty of Will. when in commliter, na adil | Newsiom uď Eve Conference. $1000 will be contentional dollar tion was made that it would 485 containing To 12 rackoned as the equivalent of ens inte operation on the first day of Other subjecla, which have NO\n\nTable.\n\nA-DA JAMANufactured tebran (1) If waste:pped:\n\nPar 11.\n\n(0) contalight 10 pounda\n\nmare of montura per 100 paundi walight thereof. $0.70.\n\n| bar 24. in Major General German at kag vilaparation at much Page 13 Thorpe. As a somly dedued Shad\n\nGood presters in beau made in cer Kuleze dunke he helped in the matter wh the work of the Trima landing of the Old Fontematibles || Round Table Confereses in Tradin\n\nBoulogna and then in med Buber Flatcom en Uve Alone un ho ADC. Dion By was | kelawór major in snig's corps and waran G By under him but made hat ap cial mark as a thief of cil'en employees clothing ja 187– the ith Pirinion, with Ryng's Bad - man prospe Hongkent where | Army, and a Victory your Com |transport men who set 20% and mander of the 17th Briende. Bir\n\nDentala motor drivers who doelva | malisequent brigades were the A, Crodit, fand bersemad at the recent 20/74. The Colonial allowemises on and S. Betxade in Scotland and the crisis, pay for the married rank and file Ird at Bordon with the fat Royal\n\nThatë ku been ja vettura sartuk in the Messiah Bulemen Bikoala with a legal life entlasata at Riky, Pare 13. Further urugʻinny kaj been made the four Betxules kambers which are making an 11.500 mila berriro e 11 Court-rial Africa Tape 12\n\nThe Bank of Busind bei pod back G8500,000,000 at the Ameri\n\nin China in fxed at 10 venta a day. Beola Fasilers in IL He joined broken out in Cypini.\n\nBugle for the 2nd N.J.\n\nDu Caneta chief the Rhine Sports. and had a hand in the evacuation\n\nWhen the 2nd Nochmab-pland | plana under Sir William Thwaites. Fusiliers Peach York from Salary\n\nhal their county will present them cith a ant of nine silme eeDee,\n\nPlat China Trosper.\n\nCÈDE\n\npounds of neolatum per 100 shiling and night penes, Herling: January, 1993, the marginal ante direct calation la the unisocities NAVAL MEN IN F.MS.\n\nand veneequently to arrive at the being the word \"commitment\" \". quastiona, are swatting consideran\n\npound weight thereaf\n\n7004\n\n(b) containing lewe than\n\nued by a tante volthed by the Ings will be taken at the must meet-\n\nARE PAGE JAZZ MAZDA\n\nof Coumell. Cel da\n\nFinance Committer.\n\nKrajkyat Manag=\"bed. 3\n\nSEVERE QUAKE,\n\npoenda weight therauf.\n\nDon by the commffler during (1...!\n\nths if tripped:\n\nactual_amount payable in Hong:\n\n(a) containing 10 pounds\n\nkner Carvery, the conventional\n\nAdjournment.\n\nJakartal while the Sankey report in |\n\nof\n\n13\n\nmere of moisture per\n\ndollar shall be multiplied by 20 and\n\n11⁄2 Bronlancy.---The third read\n\n100\n\nColonia) Trauree from\n\ntime 1/6\n\nIn\n\nPage 18.\n\nEm repenting the\n\nAverag\n\npounds of moisture per venda welch theref 30.35 B-Oufactured tablecer\n\n200\n\n10\n\nvious month of the Honghent and\n\nper selling calan for the pre-\n\nShakal Bamicing Corpsentia for\n\nST00\n\n300\n\nBeren Sanabal players hawa day 'tels Bed their Intention al making the tris le Maker for the cricket informert. The plannen wha\n\nare total art in the\n\nmatch in morran hire sous Iriartek,\n\nThe first trooper for Chine leaves Each bagle will bear the case of a Southampton on October 8. This leading door those bebug Lard vessel. Dan Neuralla, con the Armstrong, Kije Tam Kan. 2nd Royal Welsh Funillern 10 The Merries mandle heat the Mar Lower\n\nVisualess Allendale | G baller and du Delakar 14 Inaysayan Chisma at fondial] partering 'I W WatsonArmatering. Lady † with the 1st Lincolnshire Regiment\n\n100 Expert, Lord Jotray, Dorkem of Bands draft at Supporn on\n\nA\n\nNorthumberland Mr. V. Thow November 8th and Hongkoor opened their war in AustraMA-\n\n15 and 3f Weller Bundinn. The 30\n\nThe Beth African cricketers havi\n\nNovember 13, and dimmbark the\n\nP\n\nTI\n\nGeorge's baden is engraved on ouch\n\nLimeon at hanghai on Nawet\n\nin intended for the\n\nbee 16 in relief of Usa End N. F.— N. G. D. Newa.\n\nOmar hai qualist în megal 17, Tipammanit in the pea host of the Open Lawn Bowl Champimahiy\n\nhum 1.\n\n$275 barle, one of which has a spacial\n\ndoug Kal\n\n(3) Cigarettes,\n\nA meeting of the Plounce Gem-\n\ndemand drafts on London and until witte follow at which est\n\n|se vetlled the Bevine shall ke 12.\n\nSmall Cent In Public.\n\nile ad—This tax was est'mant-\n\nning $42,487 were approved. Referring to a vater af $1,287 for Comesking Enginigro far in con- nexion with the inseniiation tale-autographle plant in Hear\n\nLoss of Life in Solomon Islands.\n\nParticulars Asked For by Government.\n\nKuala Lumpur, Del, 13.\n\nAll officers, peltý adfrers, and men on the active or retired Hat of the Royal Navy, Royal Marinas, Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserva, who take up they aldance in the FMR he who have liken up thely reel- Genen la the PHS, alege Jan. 3,\n\nThoroughly Reliable\n\nPanama Jak je than an h\n\na dar makada di\n\nválky krumah alam, da pa dy\n\nsanya mapabana shu yonder de ska man\n\nBUCHANAN'S\n\n\"BLACK&WHITE\"\n\nSCOTCH WHISKY\n\nWORLD-RENOWNED FOR ABE AND QUALITY\n\nSole Agent -\n\nDODWELL & CO. LTD.\n\nIN THIS YEAR'S NEW SPELLING\n\nK. and\n\nW.\n\nspells\n\nYour Lett's Diary for 1932\n\nOur stock is here.\n\nKELLY & WALSH, LTD.\n\nYarding.\n\n(cerpecaked in Hong Kong)\n\nSaving\n\nMoney\n\nor saving your teeth?\n\nChater Bond.\n\nPahaco is a toothpaste for round for toothpasta, da people who desire a cantilica– you? Certainly not.\n\nwhich will clean and preserve\n\ntheir teeth and set up and\n\nmaintain a hygienic condition of the mouth it is for people willing to pay for this service, jul they pay for good medical and dental services. You don't go shopping\n\nPEBECO\n\nBut you de-al lead you should — oxorcisa, caution about quality. In other words, You are customer Pabaco wants, a person guided by reason in matters of hygienic science. Give a late trial, then,\n\nto\n\nPEBECO\n\nTOOTH-PASTE\n\nChina Expert-impart & Bani Ca. Läd Hangkang P. O. B. 59\n\nThat notum Lesdan of\n\nBen an indan Dell on the stapa në femalig mið and cipar year but if the delar remaini keng, the Hon. Mr. Paterson asked that a severa argue the Under Betary to Cavern, 1999 MYT The GHON ST CALLS qurolated in E. M. Felice Court akse\n\nTRSE. A rented to forward to Captain Clerks, kale of Ifra 124 Yanchuan Kood, Bhanchhu n\n\nCollege Tjong Kim and the tamed Sejmelna which peared fatal. ment F. 8. Kola Lumpur, their cirka mestral under trasle, decom\n\nwhat it waA.\n\nLandon, Ört. 71.\n\nThe Colonial e annouNTER\n\nA\n\nBritish Soloman talantam Metaber 4th, with Jan\n\n(3). Other manufactured tobacco'ed in produce $150,000 in a fe\n\netings.\n\nPort 1724 the rod will e maly 5 21,000. The retry cost to The reasons for the the pesurid pablle when by wer The Cella! Secretary—It is salonated al ́ifty. PATTERN WITH explained by the meal arch would be amali. An\n\nwhich wil MAČKİNƏ Honal Semtare when po an example, the doty\n\nplat tangan, in the exact form r The Colonial Sacretary Jag the Brit, seedfig of the Appro- bella of the perfume. Eau de which they are written, by wire- sent a Pans of ayale polation Bill on the lot of El Cologna, se on a pint of the hair home.\n\nKrytính Wizolean.\n\n11\n\nmame, address, take while in the waters at the inquant, it was waard imparat conducted by Mr. C. H. Kui maye seniority and inelul qually that he hit kabon (yanide se punkt on the body, at decessed, Durang has denton, whether In revelat et klum kiter a dt af depression, having Singh, a watchman, a verdet mat res newal pension at retainer, and momkled and kit menney and IARE AT Died of death from spre\n\nthe end of hun Yükeuteek.\n\nenved meridantly. grown of LN. Reserve\n\nre\n\n## Step 1\nThe task requires proofreading OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, transforming the text into standard Markdown, correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, rejoining broken sentences, restoring paragraph breaks, indicating missing words, and following specific formatting rules.\n\n## Step 2\nThe given text appears to be a mix of articles, news, and advertisements from a newspaper, likely the South China Morning Post, dated October 23, 1931. 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For example, \"XCR (85)72\" should be \"XCR(85)72,\" and \"Page XX\" lines should be preserved as they are, indicating page breaks.\n\n## Step 9\nGiven the complexity and the volume of the text, a detailed, line-by-line correction is necessary to ensure accuracy and adherence to the specified formatting rules.\n\n## Step 10\nThe final output should be in HTML format using  for paragraphs and \n only when necessary, without including markdown or code fences.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nPage 13. „During yesterday's, Kadynt debate\n\nCod dem not the proposal, 14 ver the pay of sterling-peld civil servants at certain ruta af sochasDa asi anked fer KE KEPONIE PODKL Awan takım oy an Ammand-maxi, which was Zen, and the Brages ww carried\n\nPage 14\n\nUnofficial members of the Legislative Council\n\nFor the purpose of balancing the budget\n\nBetween the District Officer, Coast and the inhabitants' bone where he met tarday approved, caution fr North of people—savants, buningan | varying tobaccoena duchas, causing the a patamal degree where exte They reduction affects part of | magsales, lawyers, artista, bazzara | duties on light via and imponing a irritation would have been par- the Army and leave saulker per- and above all the economy of the duty on non-intrecasting latach, donable. Both His Excellency tion intourbed. These are\n\nBurgtheatre-need and the Colonial Secretary win scales, higher and lower, with a\n\nnew by their calm dignity and 1926 dividing line and the person literary work even mayatan obvious attachment to the mod in deal: with mesecḍing in date Colony, our vincere respset.\n\nof soning or exilelog. The\n\nestablishment of two relat In he personal sense that the elective on October 25, 182k.\n\n\"Anatol\" a brilliant series of pabilities and deplores Those la the Army beface that day dramate dialogue was the dret of That Unofficial representations retaland, the old rate and than kate wala de astruct, altantiam, JL so saldoni succeed.We trust that join ng on that day and niter mera in mackend by graestel aletion and |the Government wall remember\n\nthat Unofficial amendments In feeling subalterns and captaina, and soldiers. This dont study yna and slacion are almost all laid in The Youth of ha youth, a world The Unofficial views are prof. okt to gradually, over a number fered soldered, deliberate of Posts, Introduos lower pay. The auch freer from care than the city and of their very reluctance onomy by elusion of time has of today, prosperous and little gives place to the full economy na spacerned with meint problema pregnant with gravity.\n\nThe amendment was moved at 10 per out, and this will patien all in Ralf of serious alpi- the lowering of the higher rather His rat The Morning Post Seance, and the Government make. The present rank and kis\n\nNo. 7.\n\nFriday, October 25, 1951,\n\nThe Budget Debate.\n\nshould be further warned by the are mostly willated since 1925 je most of the serving other ranku KYS several oficial references to the Andimes' report. Thai Un- already on the lower rata. Iba official thought should turn thus Army Revist koos threepenco á inta chapel of censorship la 993. There will be further scond\n\nArmy Reserve Service, a training for the Army, ka camps fac Territoriali, a 3 per Įtosti Tväritorial cel and in reižiak\n\nTwenty-Five Year Aps.\n\nExtract from the South China Morning Post of October 23, 1008, \"To which language in the word\n\nThean who read through the Budget debate and trust that all will regard it as a civic |duty—will agree that the Un- ofcial numbers dealt faithfully | With their task. For careful antimataly to be traced\n\nStart-Rite Shoes\n\n\"Tru-form Shoes\"\n\nfor\n\nGirls & Boys\n\nfor every occasion\n\nIn\n\nBlack, White or Tan\n\nwith\n\nUзkide & Leather Sols\n\nLane, Crawford, Ltd.\n\nChina Department\n\nMezzanine Floor\n\n...\n\nBOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. WORLD ECONOMIC, CYPRUS TROUBLE.\n\nTOBACCO DUTY VARIED: PETROL TAX INCREASED: NEW LIQUOR DUTY.\n\nFOR BALANCING THE BUDGET.\n\nResolutions for the purpose of varying the duties on tobacco, increasing the tax from 15 cents per gallon (a 25 percent increase) on petrol, and setting forth the annual duty to be paid on spirituous liquors other than intoxicating liquor, were passed yesterday's meeting at the Legislative Council,\n\nIn addition, three Bills were read a second time, His Excellency saying that the third readings would be taken at the next meeting.\n\nVotes totalling $62,667 were approved at a meeting of the Finance Committee which followed.\n\nCRISIS.\n\nFRENCH & AMERICAN CO-OPERATION,\n\nM. LAVAL'S MISSION TO UNITED STATES.\n\nLARGE ISSUES.\n\nWashington, Oct. 21.\n\nNaval and Military Aid Sought\n\nGOVERNOR'S CABLE.\n\nMalta, Oct. 21. The Governor of Cyprus is understood to have wired to the Governor of Malta...\n\nELECTION MUD SLINGING.\n\nLABOUR MEN TROUNCE EACH OTHER.\n\nCAMPAIGN OF BITTER VITUPERATION.\n\nof Malta anking or Cabinet Secrets.\n\nWENK o disturbancel broke out the islandjo-day- Reuter.\n\nConfirmation.\n\nLondon, Oct. 21 The modelom od w British Cabinetting have ever been Labour Government at the fatal so fully revended na thone of the\n\nalon Jandiately precellar re- signation, thanks to the campaign Nawaf vituperation now proceeding\n\nIn connexion with the French Premier, M Laval's arrival at\n\nCairo, Oct #. Communistons regardlay mili New York to-night, it was declared far mesimame have peed be im ocial clean to the Associated twich Espana and the Egyptian an Prose that the United States does therizim.—Reuter, not consider itself able to make; k promises regarding the security of France or another European nation\n\nTrouble Explained\n\nbetween Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, London, Oct. 21.\n\nMr. Snowden, Mr. J. H. Thomas\n\nand their former Ministerial colleagues were largely due to Greek Nationalist agitation. It is believed that the sole cause was the desire for union with Greece.\n\nAccording to an Athens telegram, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop there yesterday proclaimed three times, charging the people of the land with \"deliberate sin\"\n\nTHE P. KC.N.or so the 17th September by of the world's golf, have positions was the desire of the population. KEB) pressed, and there sei beda mada by His Excellency the Governor, of special responsibility, and are despite the opposition of a powerful Turkish minority.\n\nThe discussions are remembered shall masding La Trap Major Gen Past liquor and tobacco iral J. W. Jandisada, CB, CMG.\n\nRevision of war debts is bound to come to the forefront likewise The Colonial Secretary Honourable but that the mental Aguros\n\nthe burden of KITARORLA, In the hotels mehr and sel là th\n\nMr. W. T. Southern, L.A.0.3\n\nDer Guverneri Conneti\n\nThe Attorney General Honourable Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K. C, O.BE in that month they were rala:\n\nThe Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Hon. Mr. A. B. Wood, J.P.\n\nMr. Edwin Taylor.\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer\n\nHon. Mr. H. T. Cray.\n\n(Director of Public Works.\n\nA Great Welcome\n\nof\n\nNew York, Oct 22 Shrieking nyrens, a school To take an ample, unstripped ulnatom, guns, and the cheats of\n\ne added that member of the Cyprus Legislature had tendered their resignation. Reuter\n\nCyprus, situated in sig Eastern Mediterranean, is a Colony The Governor Ronald Storrs.]\n\nBRITISH\n\nBOMBERS.\n\nMr. Swinton to-night. In a statement to the Press, Mr. Graham for \"several stopsly la ment\n\nDARK DESIGNS SCOLDED.\n\nPremier's Faith in Conservative Undertaking.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr. Ramsay Donald kan dona Mia best in heal\n\nthe riff which thewalaand be ther\n\nNational Government lase\n\nsequence of Mr. Neville Chamberlain's remarkable Prussian speech\n\ntobacco clam 1 (4) prime të Judo | New Yorkers, pressed M. Laval 1988. Was masossed at 175 per is. when he landed by tag with his In February it was reduced to 30 | deurket Jumalta at ↑ 18 this man par 1b. on the sterling basis. It ng from the Hon. Mr. EDC Wolf C\n\nkaa now been raised to 70 sa a *Inspector General of Police).\n\nat 4.36 How Commander G. F. Hole, ring basin. The actual daly ¦parkble per 1, reckoned by the R.N. (Retired) (Harbour Master).'covaational dollar before the pre- Hoa Dr. W. K. A. Moore Client order was made was at the rate of $7 par Ib.\n\nHon. Sir Shenton Chew, Kt. Hon. Mr. B. H. Kotewall, CMG (L.D.\n\nHon. Mr C. G. Macleod.\n\nHon. Mr. 9. W. Tso.\n\nLL.D.\n\nHon. Mr. J. P. Braga\n\nHon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.\n\nHon. Mr. W. H. AL\n\nThe duty be day to $1.34, an increase of approximately 30 per cent and this is the approximate increase throughout the table. O.B.E.. At the time Un sellaele war\n\nMr. AC North Dr\n\nClerk of Council).\n\nTobacco Duties.\n\nAfrica.\n\n11,000 MILES\n\nCRUISE\n\nFour\n\nK. Laval is only spending a few hours in New York, in the course of which he is being given an official reception, and is then taking a train to Washington for another of the series of \"Chequers\" talks about world economic problems with\n\nLondon, Oct 21. Britain day-bombers, Mr. Hoover, notably on gold, war debts and the burden of khas. which left Calcutta last week on a ¦ made it was reckoned that the lar\n\n:1,000-mile versies eruške kerse Equatorial Africa, left Gains Jerome In anvenon would amount to 111,000,000 in a full year with 1 M. Laval will be spending the this morning for Fort Lamy.\n\nby dollar, but with à 1/20 dollar | week-end at Mr. Stimson's country\n\nThe route Envely a fleet over Phun would be reduced to $415,000 base, and will leave for France on Frost track In $50,000. It will be se, Late October 36-vier's Around and is 4,000 miles long\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer moved | allowing remission?—Healey, The Colonial Secretary seconded at the duties on tobacco set and the zapłytima sena parzind forth in the rasejtjen, permit by\n\nLight Oil Duty. the Council on ise 2006 FT. tuš), and published in the Government Gazette of the 27th February 1931, No. 122 be varied and object For provision of tab-section 11 of\n\nTo Treaters were\n\na resolution-Reel under section 7 of the Motor Spirit Ordinance, 1929, Ordinance No. 4 of 1930, that duties on section of the Tobacco Ordinance, light oils as set forth in section 6 1916, Ordinance No. 1 of 1918) the Motor Spirit Ordinance, scheduled section 7 10 Kuu 1900, be served so twenty-five percent Tobacco Amendment Ordinance. | costa per gallon. 1929. (Ordinance No. 8 of 1929 The duty payable:\n\nHe said.—Mr. President, to move the resolution standing in my name is 1. upon all tobacco – juk počtud“merense (the duty on light oils. into the Colony, the coming. The reasons for this are the same\n\nand\n\n2.\n\nFrench View,\n\nParis, Oct. 21. Le Temps states that France and America are entirely opposed in the political and economic spheres. Reuter.\n\nBRITAIN PAYS UP.\n\n$150,000,000 of the Recent Credit Fund.\n\nNew York, Oct. 22. into operation of this resolution, as in the case of tobacco, vis. to Surpring and #extideation are balance the budget. This is an increase of 10 cents per gallon. 2 | expressed at the intention in the liable tobacco crease of 10 cents per gallon. 2 | Federal Reserve bulletin that the Bank of England be paid off into operation of this resolution is estimated to yield an additional $400,000 in a full year. The total amount obtained from the Federal Reserve Bank in August. Provided that the dollars and in 1932 are placed at $400,000. decimals thereof stated in the table The Colonial Secretary seconded and the resolution was carried. shadowed the equivalent of one sang kui eight paces H\n\nDuty on Spirits\n\nand that consequently to arrive at The Colonial Treasurer moved the following resolution --Reived\n\nInx\n\nIt had been for some time conceded that the loan would be \"frozen\" for some time--Reuter's American Service.\n\nSecond Readings of Bills. The following Bills were read\n\nRheingham.\n\nInterviewed today the Premier| referring to the issues raised in course of the Chamberlain CHUR pales, other than than laid down in bla manifata, and:\n\n-1 want to make it great .. baix that the appeal who hi\n\nGovern- made la for a National Front and whatever the the pordonnsa ant political party in that National Front may be, i\n\nmain National and not party, and be party will have the right upon which it was elected, and t to forget its origin mad the appeal\n\nElaw the distanez covered in the Fiddlar Tuur laat jakt,\n\nthen round in the House of Com Mike kd day- Midétier Labour 67 The Tuscernmost point wit by kiberal Conservative —No Ale Tathurit. Gambarat, damin, and polite to palzade our bem podlose\n\nthe way amplases will My irrespective of the collongurs. area Nireria » Akhinti and the whose co-operation the cle. Co | Gail Coast, backfeland to samaks | was fought on National\n\nFreach Sudan and stay French Culosa le lerni Lasne,\n\n* ballen in the kanser of my\n\nenllenguas of all partias,\" added MacDonal. “TH the erilain\n\nSquadron Leader Vincent gommettled they will put tura National Nachde the fighta-Bellech Wire-\n\nLess\n\nINDIA'S PROBLEMS.\n\nGood Progress at London Conference.\n\nCOURT PROPOSAL\n\n—\n\nmajority into a party one.”\n\nMr. Ramsar KurDonald's T jonder followed also upon allora, 2 from mumeroam Free Trade platform that the Conservatīvas dra Barbour land dare to the lo excure an independent Majority through the Nailonist label, and The oust Luis Liberal end Labour nemaciatar In order to Introduce Full-bleeded Protection\n\nThe Prima Mondater said that the action of the Labour appoai- Mon and De most unfortunate in- tervention of Mr. Hard Grogan London, Oct. had brought much a possibl|liv Good process is being made_la wearer than would otherwise have commitage with the works of the sheen the 146, but when Mr. Bald. dian Round Table Çönference und 4. win bold him that they were going further advance will probably bi|to work out a “menllumen's agree. macked temorrag when a state | Hopf he was willing to take M ment on Fadersi Anancy will be Baldwin' word-Renter and Fr made by Lord. Zaal in Federal | Birk Wizolaca. |SUctum Committer\n\nThe discussion the Indian Federal Court in eius con- tinuing and apapoten on the vari jeun náprsta at ila proposed func- tions and composition were agala\n\nmade to-day.\n\nPREMIER'S CAMPAIGN.\n\nFlying Whenever The Weather Allows\n\nThe Prime Mulater la now mak-\n\nLong currency_the_conventional, keder section 41 113 of the Liquors | wash Eau de Quinie, would amount dollar stated in a Table shout be Clea Chce 1911, with a 121⁄2d dollar is $1.40. multiplied by 20 and divided by ordinance No. 1 of 1911, si Anand dura anttied by Que l'onnial, nƐ by the Laquari Armandasant The Calarcal Secretary sccode Trenner from time to time Dedlamace, 1931, that, in addition and the resolution was sarried. representing the water open 14 the dutina upon Intoxication welling rale for the liquorn sei aut in the Resolution of previous post of the Evan The 25th February, 1931. published kong and Shanghai Banking Government on No.\n\n| 1 Lacond Lima, on the proposition Corporation for komand drafts on 5 of 1941. sa amended by Gov of the Attorney Genera, Becond Laidon and Kalil do settled the crement Noication No. 116 of 1by the CoMMIE RAINYATY. \"A decalon_nexť\" waak. Lord Sam constituey. Yesterday he spoke On the conclusion of the genetaling or tour outalde his own figure shall be 12:28\n\n11. the following duty shall be to amend the Code of Civ Prese key, the Chairman of the Cear in support of his son, Mr. Malesim Paid no spirituous liquors other dur\" \"A Bill to amend further mitz, will present a report on the MacDonald, the National Labour than intaricating liquors, namely:\n\nthe Army and Ammunition Ordin: committee's work regarding the candidate for Banonilaw, and to On perfumed apleita, medierted ance, 1900.\" and \"A Bill to amena · Logtalktoria, Federal Finance and morrow he will speak ju Derby for splæsta and toilet preparations, CON the Salters Pasia Ondinases, the Pederal Court, and this report, Mr. 7. H. Thomas. He i mung Gaining more than ten per out of hug.**\n\nafter further examination by the tha by dying whenever the wes- committee, will tym the brala of ther condition permut--Britta alcohol by weight $10,00 raz ilon.\n\nWith regard to the lartamed the dual report the Plenary Wirder. Provided that the said duty of Will. when in commliter, na adil | Newsiom uď Eve Conference. $1000 will be contentional dollar tion was made that it would 485 containing To 12 rackoned as the equivalent of ens inte operation on the first day of Other subjecla, which have NO\n\nTable.\n\nA-DA JAMANufactured tebran (1) If waste:pped:\n\nPar 11.\n\n(0) contalight 10 pounda\n\nmare of montura per 100 paundi walight thereof. $0.70.\n\n| bar 24. in Major General German at kag vilaparation at much Page 13 Thorpe. As a somly dedued Shad\n\nGood presters in beau made in cer Kuleze dunke he helped in the matter wh the work of the Trima landing of the Old Fontematibles || Round Table Confereses in Tradin\n\nBoulogna and then in med Buber Flatcom en Uve Alone un ho ADC. Dion By was | kelawór major in snig's corps and waran G By under him but made hat ap cial mark as a thief of cil'en employees clothing ja 187– the ith Pirinion, with Ryng's Bad - man prospe Hongkent where | Army, and a Victory your Com |transport men who set 20% and mander of the 17th Briende. Bir\n\nDentala motor drivers who doelva | malisequent brigades were the A, Crodit, fand bersemad at the recent 20/74. The Colonial allowemises on and S. Betxade in Scotland and the crisis, pay for the married rank and file Ird at Bordon with the fat Royal\n\nThatë ku been ja vettura sartuk in the Messiah Bulemen Bikoala with a legal life entlasata at Riky, Pare 13. Further urugʻinny kaj been made the four Betxules kambers which are making an 11,500 mila berriro e 11 Court-rial Africa Tape 12\n\nThe Bank of Busind bei pod back G8500,000,000 at the Ameri\n\nin China in fxed at 10 venta a day. Beola Fasilers in IL He joined broken out in Cypini.\n\nBugle for the 2nd N.J.\n\nDu Caneta chief the Rhine Sports. and had a hand in the evacuation\n\nWhen the 2nd Nochmab-pland | plana under Sir William Thwaites. Fusiliers Peach York from Salary\n\nhal their county will present them cith a ant of nine silme eeDee,\n\nPlatt China Trosper.\n\nCÈDE\n\npounds of neolatum per 100 shiling and night penes, Herling: January, 1993, the marginal ante direct calation la the unisocities NAVAL MEN IN F.MS.\n\nand veneequently to arrive at the being the word \"commitment\" \". quastiona, are swatting consideran\n\npound weight thereaf\n\n7004\n\n(b) containing lewe than\n\nued by a tante volthed by the Ings will be taken at the must meet-\n\nARE PAGE JAZZ MAZDA\n\nof Coumell. Cel da\n\nFinance Committer.\n\nKrajkyat Manag=\"bed. 3\n\nSEVERE QUAKE,\n\npoenda weight therauf.\n\nDon by the commffler during (1...!\n\nths if tripped:\n\nactual_amount payable in Hong:\n\n(a) containing 10 pounds\n\nkner Carvery, the conventional\n\nAdjournment.\n\nJakartal while the Sankey report in |\n\nof\n\n13\n\nmere of moisture per\n\ndollar shall be multiplied by 20 and\n\n11⁄2 Bronlancy.---The third read\n\n100\n\nColonia) Trauree from\n\ntime 1/6\n\nIn\n\nPage 18.\n\nEm repenting the\n\nAverag\n\npounds of moisture per venda welch theref 30.35 B-Oufactured tablecer\n\n200\n\n10\n\nvious month of the Honghent and\n\nper selling calan for the pre-\n\nShakal Bamicing Corpsentia for\n\nST00\n\n300\n\nBeren Sanabal players hawa day 'tels Bed their Intention al making the tris le Maker for the cricket informert. The plannen wha\n\nare total art in the\n\nmatch in morran hire sous Iriartek,\n\nThe first trooper for Chine leaves Each bagle will bear the case of a Southampton on October 8. This leading door those bebug Lard vessel. Dan Neuralla, con the Armstrong, Kije Tam Kan. 2nd Royal Welsh Funillern 10 The Merries mandle heat the Mar Lower\n\nVisualess Allendale | G baller and du Delakar 14 Inaysayan Chisma at fondial] partering 'I W WatsonArmatering. Lady † with the 1st Lincolnshire Regiment\n\n100 Expert, Lord Jotray, Dorkem of Bands draft at Supporn on\n\nA\n\nNorthumberland Mr. V. Thow November 8th and Hongkoor opened their war in AustraMA-\n\n15 and 3f Weller Bundinn. The 30\n\nThe Beth African cricketers havi\n\nNovember 13, and dimmbark the\n\nP\n\nTI\n\nGeorge's baden is engraved on ouch\n\nLimeon at hanghai on Nawet\n\nin intended for the\n\nbee 16 in relief of Usa End N. F.— N. G. D. Newa.\n\nOmar hai qualist în megal 17, Tipammanit in the pea host of the Open Lawn Bowl Champimahiy\n\nhum 1.\n\n$275 barle, one of which has a spacial\n\ndoug Kal\n\n(3) Cigarettes,\n\nA meeting of the Plounce Gem-\n\ndemand drafts on London and until witte follow at which est\n\n|se vetlled the Bevine shall ke 12.\n\nSmall Cent In Public.\n\nile ad—This tax was est'mant-\n\nning $42,487 were approved. Referring to a vater af $1,287 for Comesking Enginigro far in con- nexion with the inseniiation tale-autographle plant in Hear\n\nLoss of Life in Solomon Islands.\n\nParticulars Asked For by Government.\n\nKuala Lumpur, Del, 13.\n\nAll officers, peltý adfrers, and men on the active or retired Hat of the Royal Navy, Royal Marinas, Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserva, who take up they aldance in the FMR he who have liken up thely reel- Genen la the PHS, alege Jan. 3,\n\nThoroughly Reliable\n\nPanama Jak je than an h\n\na dar makada di\n\nválky krumah alam, da pa dy\n\nsanya mapabana shu yonder de ska man\n\nBUCHANAN'S\n\n\"BLACK&WHITE\"\n\nSCOTCH WHISKY\n\nWORLD-RENOWNED FOR ABE AND QUALITY\n\nSole Agent -\n\nDODWELL & CO. LTD.\n\nIN THIS YEAR'S NEW SPELLING\n\nK. and\n\nW.\n\nspells\n\nYour Lett's Diary for 1932\n\nOur stock is here.\n\nKELLY & WALSH, LTD.\n\nYarding.\n\n(cerpecaked in Hong Kong)\n\nSaving\n\nMoney\n\nor saving your teeth?\n\nChater Bond.\n\nPahaco is a toothpaste for round for toothpasta, da people who desire a cantilica– you? Certainly not.\n\nwhich will clean and preserve\n\ntheir teeth and set up and\n\nmaintain a hygienic condition of the mouth it is for people willing to pay for this service, jul they pay for good medical and dental services. You don't go shopping\n\nPEBECO\n\nBut you de-al lead you should — oxorcisa, caution about quality. In other words, You are customer Pabaco wants, a person guided by reason in matters of hygienic science. Give a late trial, then,\n\nto\n\nPEBECO\n\nTOOTH-PASTE\n\nChina Expert-impart & Bani Ca. Läd Hangkang P. O. B. 59\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1931\n\nTO-DAY\nQUEEN'S THEATRE\n\nIX\n\nTHEYES OF THE WORLD\n\nA'vored drumna uf the age old baits bitrans good and arli, lors and bate.\n\n——\n\nJOSEPH SCHENCK-pros DOLORES DEL RIO BAD ONE EDME JOWN GEORGE FRIZMAURICE PRODUCTION\n\nSERVING MOODCEA.\n\nJOIN WE CONSIDINE JK ALBITED AUNTY, PICTURE\n\nTO-DAY & TO-MORROW\n\nWilliam STAR HAINES A Helen-Goldwyn-Mayer Producten\n\nat 2.30, 5.10, ||| 7.15 9.20.\n\n= 2,801, 3.20, 7.20 9.20.\n\nTHE WORLD SPORT\nCURRENT COMMENT\nThe Last Four in the Open Bowl Championship.\n\nONE TITLE HOLDER.\n\nSTATOR.MI Kanta Chamke hadap that parate talk\n\nLOCAL FOOTBALL\n\nServices Beat Malayan 'hinese Team,\n\nYESTERDAYS GAME.\n\nRUNAWAY VICTORY.\n\nE. M. Umar Shows Good Form in Bowl Game.\n\nE LAPSLEY BEATEN.\n\nPlaying on the K-WAL yesterday afternoon, L. CLC. atwn! Omar, the Laponing of the Kawinan Dank by fi akata la 7 km the last số the third round MALENA AC Ca Opan Lavy Bondi Campanelly,\n\nSPORTS FIXTURES\nProgramme of Forthcoming Hongkong Evenia.\n\nHNKEY MATCH.\n\nKackey-gang Hockey Club ATV KDPA. (king's Park).\n\nSaturday, Del 24\n\nPicket Interport Trink Hang- kang 005; Pink Dvdaka, India\n\nY. RAS.C val Engineer SAM (L);\n\nThe Happy Valley plaque ita semi- My Navy LII IC thì bay tự ti t and Irumii the beginning has the bather of win Opponent Alter taking the war wɛGE a that on the Courth head, Plaan 19- crossed his névantaen at slutat marg kanal trail the 16th, when be qualiBal Lament N. Drummand by sangyong a ent of them. Örnen.\n\nKEY QUIT 'a Thaen went a pink allminang al the Garrison growid yesterday to wha Sang Dhe nacer match hormoon, the | Heati | Malaya Kencing saam sal A CHAN\n\nWalk El Các Loài Cá Địa Jana Cal. Comena. The Servren wom\n\npod pine by T, cool, ta,\n\nThe Sirvious tonic The Band withkans\n\nThe Argylle, “hy Lamma Hiding PEL AS wc\n\nLo the J w down 1-10 Jul Kumala 3 do melaber amochur Kay-Lew Thin-chan:\n\nom diski that the¦ Choukrik, And Then Aktik; Te Tuban B dusserad his Tou-kent, Jeka. Then and Way Bew ATRANA NAJAN HAD NO alat ketang. Chất Hees. Goon_Kek-zing. un posted. Elena ly the and and ass - Taong Shutower, Foong York-long\n\nPOLNO KING KERRANANA performance | Servies--Bryan (25); Make katha member her de vie plurinn, (5.1.3) and Dion (2656); Marzan a forde prof LANK Klangh to her and Zyme (573) Ele\n\nHe had on native la\n\nComment from whatsan Devanand Ja The célják ·4 J. R. Santone who procket den A. M. Holland med\n\nRafieną, Mr. Alan LN,\n\nMalayk, wòn the lose and Langmead started the game. The Beckong at The other munte 2., uses attackal Lam Ting from Čaute van akne Žan 1. Cullen med | Davian Hazeli formad a venger an\n\nThe Keeleon placing wall from the ing Bike. Dock ally k na pood at simplen facanda tak place i le parlan ma de la un Media vienationa nad nad Yna kimad the ball in towards\n\nLast year he yu Jenten in the pre-ball into the net open the soari Habary vond U21, Baka by Kane | See the Service what almikor is,\n\nLate Digimon est in and when With Or Da bi se pusterday the Four tackled jabbed the ball in the mos\n\nBei den Tea 17 IT. WAK, J. LAGE, newch, Langmand hosting late the X. Demtemena * U. M, Oh EN MAL Fast named Take the volg ommpačkor\n\nwho has prakije won the ticke\n\nPlay Tw Inak and Sling\n\nSercions incontand their land vehen Diekimasa tuppal the 193, fram a Apresent Amanda on the bar- dag ber and turning quickly, best hour ride page 71 have vines deen | 15 with a FAST HEART BASE. Stammad dan C (Cake. Du veteran, The Servirna went further ahead Med second to 35 palikowanan a par kick. Chenk hendes\n\nMod Kirin meet Ebbed back ment 14 yo by mal in the saened Skiner who into the net, ering the\n\nThe made TV Maher tid\n\nreal chance. Cap On kle Then the\n\nthe five ma\n\nKaya 21 hat agen, these poner\n\nduring the four half but wank ilye on seračal pedaalid,\n\nJELMAYA Made the tray to trea\n\ndungan after the future? Efori\n\nnglewmed to Jack, Army H, Aling the ten pes Skamby nuraag IN LAKE IN A hunt key GP muža na kata kama ana\n\nLOCAL HOCKEY\nInteresting Matches Yesterday.\n\nLADIES SEEN IN ACTION,\n\nTw men's from $5. Aaker's Chil, man\n\nms of in hockey matchas yatandaş,\n\nthe word vielecy and a dryw then feiner shading, der spalle with Pe Kawloon 3.5FRA. MAN U Cha butter handbag the \"mengat\n\nThatch way plast Thor' School, the BE AF drency (hh winning_from_He Fir\n\nbold wear, hat bed to begin math E\n\nCapa mafia – kph core game. A part\n\nYerk gewoandeng \"van albekend.\n\nhave workers dark. Tenha trapped the hall Zesty park And I make me 1, and runding Kullaga mat in a\n\nhot. Bavage made a will. Jšek,\n\nWeber pad het missed and the bill entered the\n\nFor the time they sai Indian Kim Mo Andesh Chub an\n\nS. AFRICAN VISIT.\n\nthen put in s Cricketers Commence Their\n\nAustralian Tour.\n\nM's as escoed pul\n\nBabama. The final goal for the Bees can w the back, and by maand by langeal. Dickier took (Fall well down kid slipped to the (centre, Dingmand, suppri spine\n\nBlse Telu, pane wind sticking in in Bhat shoẽ thực Ube the 1-5 java, the goalie ma phones. The\n\nPerth sin Nary Ren Kay, Oct. 20.\n\nPeeing Meet, pang Por the Chal\n\nIM Women, Oct 2 Morty - Betim, p\n\nEl Call Club (Balm May là te it an\n\nRacing Thoroder fer Γι\n\nEary 5 2\n\nINTERIORT CRICKET.\nSome of Shanghai's Men Already Selected.\n\nSEVEN \"TERTAINTIES\"\n\n-SOINES MEYE Hook-\n\n•liber for TW beam Hader's\n\nLOCAL TRIAL GAME\n\nPlayers For To-morrow's MaLEN án Hongkong C., Ground\n\nEN ! trial math whưk a to be played in Man Bergkong 15\n\nttn following platan ten ham zelegan\n\nTKT (Pam), A Rab4, 1o D. Tomim. A 46 5. 11 kale. D. J. N\n\nspred 14 kr 1. Malaya\n\nF KOWLOON FOOTBALL CLUB\n\nANNA Cunity Taber Chowin\n\nBILLIARDS.\n\nled Team for Tomorrow Afternoon's Games.\n\nThe film — k janna pintam com two well known repérerat Kalos FC. First Flyven\n\nDA, AK Futball St. Patrick's Club Defeat\n\n„The Intent rail from America Ta That In A Patual Spermment planeta were naked fa_wa_hardpen in the Kapakah thaps been the endte Ame\n\nKhan at Kradling\"\n\nmakes mark a meg menerima se\n\nMekalsa Bla Hon Timberlake, Urland, Fanean.\n\nKenze: uttan,\n\nThe following hari kerma fon1:\n\nI'mvaulty's Team\n\nThe 1975ơmẳng hatt ban choothe Hai VOTRE ↑ T'atvaralty ind. XD ngulmet.\n\nthe Titan mema frendly.\n\nPANE AT Can A 5. k. Kyum zni\n\nMercantile Bank.\n\nLume to the Mr Kanka\n\nW P. a. A. 1. This-\n\nVardy v. 35. & K tima na the sale of a mang | repensent Kawlam P.C. Sgrond Flesen Benntnerek, Sat de Bartekin reddies, why non agtually pakke school term the Là vị di Karison themselves the vlekara, bank \"working ther why themseh Parma Cleh grenad ok 2 jam. Như\n\ncolate\" and Apunëve sin at theit - Home day:\n\nAußer 'WA, Gillekent: I OPREM\n\nvalery who hade kameed be my disenberg, Whae, Wh. Als\n\nin London and Traming that\n\nsuht to fazekagera da vialt, padanya Blank Stan Som peking a gott tour ad Barone and ba Cabri\n\n25.\n\nThe following team has been meteen\n\nTáto repeat the fat X1 of\n\nHongkong Presbali Club on Saturday,\n\nMesh agamat Kowloon on the Cik daud\n\n4.30 Happy Valley 1:\n\nM Pila and Strings, M. Kan and Ballwin, RM, Pete Ben F. Strange wind des\n\nW A Lid\n\nJAPAN LOOKS ADEAD.]\n\nHupest of Securing the T Olympic Gamer of 1940.\n\nANOTHER WIN.\n\nThe Following all spement dur CNN a fékros matchi the E. & 3.0 $ in the macpaw\n\nW. E. Ch ingement The\n\nWale Jam at Fou Cakapan, E. G B\n\nSouth Africans Beat the\n\nMidland Counties.\n\n7 The grity to day mange nyt Tür, brikete vere eficed for maka ka the defraded Mingelen, wurmented to do their crow vne pommerns of Da sa, Xn\n\nde shendy apponent of the above | sang, Acrmed plunder that he got 2007 by na Termitesi Oline Men\" tickets from another went bad\n\nká nas imam that they were fabr\n\n-key are predpodle the bk Coustics. Hichem poin\n\nCENTRAL THEATRE\nCOMMENCING TO-DAY\n\nA: 2.30, 3.0, 1.la ở D.20 p\n\nGIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!\n\nWHAT WOULD YOU DO If you married a made all his decl slom for him?\n\nVIRTUOUS HUSBAND !\n\nArtech Hotel Zemenki vla Need a land labor male model Bačvangla kockenen\n\nIT'S THE LAUGH HIT OF THE YEAR! HCT T LA BAN 3\n\nNEXT ATTRACTION\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1871\nJIM FERRIER.\n\nCHESS NOTES\nBeaton Australian Open Campionship.\n\nCapablanca Still Hopes for Return Match.\n\nA AOUTPUT. ROYAL WITH WORLD CHAMPION, Jim Ferrar MERIT Th\n\nLEY PERPETUAL CHECK:\n\nThe key mero sa laat mpaka pra Problem No. 213 A. J. Mackenze Bark ( plen Whose sa play and mate a\n\nThe detract Vention to last week's Zroblem was reparved fruen \"Anjos,\" | Paka Kadenen, formar world's themales, ka rectly returned be DET METTE ZRvman after an absence DÍ APMENT manaka. Ka exported lu ratura de New York for an rakhallen Love same time in October. The hopes\n\nJatent resect A Plan 13 Sungkai kaj ak prosky, St.\n\nIvy Wikica, A Whetsen in Tha m\n\nDuring three dug 1 24th ier Lig p\n\nThe event wers salsa DNA, the Stat Det led by abans Perrier anestesia d\n\nMAALTY Ot il Amatrulu, I mg 14 D JA%ormed.\n\nAn Australia ser just received 14 WHILLARY ure the mr je je ile bench La serango a retuen match wolle Ale | arrenga\n\nkhina bulaen the end of the year 1 turn la sua in\n\nM. PR la acting sa pobetween yandar, Colemand ka\n\n* negotiation wek Alekkim,\n\nwww cuk ve lhe (limbokalaia that th serpage Back of vergony In Alampura aleatorie sang. Use\n\nmečosdály Khanehad, backing. Lapk Bed Math and Mama Dematte detaan Dr. Bwww.\n\nshe pulplared bear in the heat Hart- - W WILL YONA DE PER Kakaj s w the\n\nNË ME 190 (7 - Tusend KTM ajské oder a cori\n\nKING'S THEATRE\n\nThe Most Comfortabte and The Only Air-Cooled Theatre in Hongkong.\n\n6 THE GAMERAMANT, SE A JOAN JE ZVIRA peitere ku a kizembly better than either Alkine | inde a fatal M or Hageljukan man able to do. Each Karely duľanked Kawa by s\n\nP 1 JUN fet from c Chike youth the b Look Alao Vi over again Like a world's champion AŬ WOMAN in the tournment hole concurrently HOM level kada sana dispari vo—it maritan: Lag Universal\n\nLAST TWO DAYS at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.\n\nCYLINDER LOVE\n\nNewspaper Thrill-a-second... Laugh-a-minute with SPENCER TRACY SIDNEY FOX Edward Everett Herton Una Markal zi krendal\n\nBeats by play, 'Elx Oylenia Law? by Willum Jashang McCum Dicked by 140MHTON MEELA, NA\n\nLimousine tastes on a diver income and love bits the bumps, Blow- outs cause blowups in this comedy joy ride. Trade in your cares for a snabby 1931 Laugh model\n\n“You say he toega you...why dwu't he defend you BOW' Now you need him, Waaro he Whole be? Why doesn't he Care come for ward!' Masa kura benchik has retained her | Nothing else bu\n\nThere when fem represives, and Fun Furla dhani har- Emakiki seara sesa 3.\n\nreal Fras Walk-Kalmer, bed but s pedia\n\nThe modern, draw in Dhoby to be a 1 x which detele asc vana, sargknet key – 195 sàng, werkher in The State golf champ. 3.\n\nPATH, WOW a goddamble 30-terday.\n\nIn the mormint, at Katom, he pesondly to the Whorenie spijeme. slurked the bit gro\n\nM one TUM irst\n\nRetailter competition,\n\nCab D AN E then went loan to Many Sk Drakkarunot the\n\nAme- to Australan paper. The same that fallens, champimally the interesting, merely harasse -f the reputations of its costasčanta. Dr. Alkima le the avabalt weck'n chakiviplom. Markdan a the world's meet promising youngst piper. Tha fact that Alisa kiman had, the that Rachian war from kan alati eflding ades, velleni po vitsien after watcher with the netwčas zal compress el a gread master, maka I dowały na Experianced players\n\nse redkar mu Esschertta al wook and para madings probably the\n\ner wwali paraly hava bën veter\n\nchoc iron with it. The Triton về Ferro a round at Ken. single, where a motoring Wester!) andde sett larm «i. Pirull, epecially on the green, WA T Forest Ag med\n\nAll handling of the and COUNTING CHICKENS,\n\nFrance Forgees Meeting with America & Success.\n\nNowa PICTURE\n\nAnd FOX MOVIETONE NEWS presents Through the courtesy of the NATIONAL FLOOD RELIEF COMMISSION, SCENES OF DEVASTATED DISTRICTS between NANKING and HANKOW, photographed personally by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh while making an aerial survey for the National Flood Relief Commission.\n\n·NEXT ATTRACTION. Commencing Sunday, 25th October.\n\nTHE VICE. SQUAD\n\nA Game Sichuan PAUL LUKAS KAY FRANCIS\n\nBUY! BUY! BUY!\n\nUST arrived a new shipment C PEKING CARPETS & RUGS in the last date and bright sid\n\nIF YOU WANT TO BUY YOUR CARPETS & RUGS please don't lose this rare opportunity\n\nH CHUNG HSING & CO.., 17 Wyndham K 74 ed very hard to\n\nEMME WHA QUANT LAMiki. Potikned\n\nNEXT YEAR'S DAYIN CUP.\n\nBlack Kankdan K-K M B-KI 11 EL QE RK P 47 K K Op o the -- -- --\n\nbut the wh Corker and Bruger: (2) Γατο\n\nING.T is. mathemated Victories at Benet, would Cat Whaag now on appeali positional advantage amber fe ha con inal of the contro and 22k's squa Iced M.\n\nXX, XX; 23 152 KB, 2x with a cary win (145) Afar 40 KOCAELIAN 82\n\nRaoul Walsh's OF ALL WOMEN NATIONS with VICTOR McLAGLEN EDMUND LOWE GRETA NISSEN EL BRENDEL\n\nThey love to fight - and fight to love perpetual foes and permanent friends those two cock eyed marines, Vic and Eddie, in a trave laugh of love, kissin' and Nissen. The Famous Stallings ant Andersen characters, Flagg and Qadri en, a new vandage\n\nBOOKING AT THE THEATRE Telephons 25813.",
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        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nBOOKSHELF.\n\nINDO-CHINA PARADISE. SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS.\n\nHealth Resort in Hills of Annam.\n\nAN ATTRACTIVE BOOK.\n\nOne of the Loves garden spots, commonly known as the Parade of Indo-China, where H. Paul Doumer, then Governor, decided in 1895 to establish a health resort. Some years later, Governor Doumer completed the preliminary work and established a zamindari, which has a cinema attached.\n\nA great deal has been added to the station, and these are, including uno de... of mulled...y, a psychological problem, not a menace of lunar... Bong... a number of separate villas were erected. As a health resort, it has proved a great success.\n\nProf. Simpson's Radio Lectures.\n\nThe literature concerning Shakespeare is vast. Pekin... und... work, what a vast amount will ever realize Peking and not wet... weeting he might have spared Passing so it is saw officially call the world.\n\nThe third edition retains the original title of the book, mounting. The aspect that a opera may apology for hancared to excite either wonder... Milton to make change Murray.\n\nAlready the literature concerning Shakespeare is vast. The author has no more interest in the manuscripts, all of which are at Pekme th...\n\nMr. J. L. Feed Mokitur. Lauru, saya, \"of three.\n\nProf. Simpson, MA. Kiny Further ripete, by Rokeri rejubel Ali KULCE-BES.\n\nHot Welsh, Ltd., Heughang US1. Kelly and Wani, on some year later that Gover-BES.\n\nDog Samt completed the pre-Aukerman, Prof. Som\n\nThi\" :4 giá vi testada, minary work and stablished a zaminda ua, wha a playwright. The of thrth, along with 1And\n\near perice. Afler 1935 under Parsimmople for Tudat tocamp a bukatutave—a coma un langs tikkay noY meckáty becaus and posing olur!terpart of Soul, wwwf the'rwn Th\n\nSizes 1972 a great deal has been phor. no an historias, a peri, writing about him as a philowa it ja Ke Bhat are bowl mi\n\nadded to the station, and these are, a typien) Elizabethin, na E MUE Sarah tela, including uno de¦ of mulledży, sa paychological prob-char, which has a cinema attached.\n\nAs a health re- so on. Yet Sazkompenza wa k -the art it has proved a great succo, diminatit: so much was he a dra specially for the The ad mate that he never thought r Cart Mad_129 wastaged to be ruined from a way, han playa sa anything but playa\n\nking\n\npopularity may\n\nthe Ex-* of them\n\nenlarged\n\nif\n\nthere are told in a wall illnad Daca the secera and mastered the run into kuite 3 by the Imprimerie!words, ka had no more Interest in bedre. Hanel.—W, 2. the manuscripts, all of which are\n\nRapin da ima 5-10, Mr. J. L Feed Mokitur. Lauru, | saya, \"of\n\nthree ril well\n\nof Pekme th\n\n. ר\n\n3\n\nAlready the literature\n\ncern\n\nSayMerry\n\na da 1984. Hud be passed to have di corrected verdien, Together *** Tanese crount of himself, ka ir weld those who respect blatory. Pekny und bin work, what a vast amount Will ever rezala Poking and not wet weeting he might have spared Pasping so it is saw officially call the world.\n\nBunce it in that the author the tand edition retains the Log Shakeupare in unarmane, yel Urinal title of the book, motiounting.\n\nThe spect that a ofera may apology for hangcared to excite either wonder Thilton to make change Murray.\n\nWhat do ou\n\nHing kimmelf seven shment, howevez, ja the fact, attoned the wing of thithak in all possibla la bay some- ** name of 13.1.5 mg, thing Jew about Shaksporto\n\ned material infr !m the\n\nProf Ківельном так виго any per both a malap -\"he kite\n\nI of Fectures he de- Ameth Ms of the world, Invered on the wireless undye the \"actors who there in only one Paking Wanape of the Houng Broly the fontact cities with\n\nComm 14. Thos\n\n-- 20\n\n-* - 5 they under\n\nميا\n\nlec\n\nCheations for the Ret.L \"Nevertheless,\" he adde\n\nall, however. Chery ars tarea have now been published by ally several Zeng, and itara Kelly & Walsh Ltd. hav\n\n·Fold interest of the place der hetle Farber Shake-the eye and thway i\n\nFiend and bear\"\n\nit\n\nThe Spick of chứn\n\ncite. Them me with the komore ye\n\ngraceful\n\nThe\n\n*A which | IT\n\nhurterada\":\n\nJust to\n\nram by dim.\n\nForm 20 de 1\n\nThere when tele\n\nCAR on them re\n\nSome parts you i\n\nmore fully at home\n\ntheatre, the tex\n\ntermen la kin proface of ureal Indly work an\n\nde that Shakespora 1. read over The average modern \"epigrammatic Darin ach writer, he coatings in me d Much trying t\n\nTo Your Friends at Home Christmas with a suitable Gift from \"Hongkong TEA\n\nPrice per 3 catty box $18.50 net (Approx 7 lb.)\n\nFinest Fo.com > Per 5 catty box $17.00 net\n\n„Mauge Pakos Peyta 5 lbs. $17.60 net. THE PRI ES QUOTED INCLUDE ALE CHARGES to any add was in the Corvel Kisgdom, GINGER IN SYRUP In syrup barnat Memo SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR US. Portest of tina 5 lb jars. $18.00 net. Per case of Twelve 24 1. pats, $21.00 bet\n\nTUE PRICES QUOTED IM.LUDE FREIGHT PAID to London Docka mole DRIED GINGER IN TINS Te pareof x 1 lb, ins. $10.50 net Including age to the United Kingdom.\n\nORDER EARLY, LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Grocery Dept. Tel. 25813.\n\nK\n\nRESTRINGING AND REPAIRS. We take a WERCIAL PRibk a son work RAÇERIŲ PAGEág ky on enny with Thing (HARANPE | RESTRIN\n\nAAA DUNLOP POTESTA ATIN AMERICAN ORGA [WUN cur OWN SUPERFINEL seunted Caloun) L7 רים with Our DAWON OUT NO. A WARNINGAPORE ONO 27 WAL CHINA GU 207 AUTERIINE N OWN A Out, and duly stunzsataed doe Umenia.\n\nIMPORTANT Badly sale that PACKETA Matrung with SKPAIRING A BINDING L Cocket T and Horkey Munka zīmu balag Earl by en vindurata: sharem\n\nPEITT KEPAIRS CE Tok A TRIAL ORDERS. 1.10137D G.S. BROTHERS, SPEITA MITATTERS 11. Ha Tha Maan deer w Paul kveland MAJESTIC TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AL $30, 5,34, 7.30 and the prom\n\nON-THE-SPOT Newa EL BRENDEL is in town So is FIFI EXORSAY. PIPI dances at \"The Golden Slipper,\" where a gang of crooks hang out. Think BRENDEL is the Big Shotof GANGLAND Sings MyRacket You”\n\nEL BRENDEL FIFI DORSAY When MENDEL, gazes into them eyei, he loses those balance! For hilarious and azciting details see\n\nMr.femon of Orange PRINCE'S THEATRE SHOWING TO-DAY mt 2 80, 7 15 & 9 15 Special matinee al 5 15 on Saturday and Sunday\n\nMGM Prezenta\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POUL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1933.\n\nSTAGE & SCREEN NOTES. NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE THEATRE | IN HONGKONG AND ABROAD.\n\nMANY NEW FILMS DUE AT KINGS.\n\nCentral: \"Tirta Husband.\" K-x Cylinder Løve\" Princesdarlaune,” 36x/mtk-\"Mr. Lemon of Urange.” Queen'—\"Byon of the World.\" Malm 24. Son of Zorra,” Star:-\"Navy Bl\n\nHart,\n\nSESSIONS CONCLUDE.\n\nCROSS-WORD PUZZLE\n\nJury Request Lenleney for Convicted Man.\n\nPOWERS OF POLRE\n\nLkg and Account + the rest of the Jury for Sonebhe Chief Jurka (Sir Joxeph Kemp posterday montered heung Leung, charged with an Haulting Ho Ka, with intent to rab, to onu yaar's hard labour.\n\nA cond defendant w charged, after being found Not KURS:\n\nThe jury came to a uxlam decleton in co, L majority recommensent For Live Frat kocke. Esa Lord- skip, in passing contamos, d posure that although ka did not know on what grounds the jury asked for Reel\n\nAvel, Adrama d'AM | saba Viadalat, John 25. Sk Kec. Earry Deebie,\n\naphoriag artista.\n\nspyme of the World\" chamanend the other 2 ren of the Queen's Themire yubordiy (rmacja. and will be Wosened to day, mid 500 | Damon, 3.\n\nThe picke vividly poes kesevarų, trayed, tha pint fine tena mier than Pin, B. we good kid evil, butwaan Zee wną among tu Peter Kiwalan kewen, mas and Winner 1 tik vaode ong af ka maen\n\nMaloda 1. Bu da versat in Deve tam bu a je\n\nand much of the thrill in the parture in dus to Kinds O'Mall, who dan berk Amerikes 14 sm of the\n\nPencoed by Fly from Carty With seven adaptation of an wegt et slagg by John Parsaw,\n\nHuery Kwa dzeeted the pesëse. The young Petikan M\n\nThe Grown Salicitor Mr. Somer\n\nast Filerey) prosecuted, and the\n\n– dret defendant wear represented by\n\nThe Juzy, via composed of Mr. F. Austin (formmanĮ, Makra T c Patterson, F. A. Xavier ? Kd warda, W. H. B. Muskett, S. J. Her\n\nwho and R. V. đa Batal\n\nand 19 pachakty | sualni kan veren van La Sin paneel Doer dicted one, Lichudin Una Terbil pomen, men and Osat una sdern Jibs Holland. 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The rhag ka ba vanjlager\n\n| Str. Fitzroy the převlong day.\n\nCoumiul contended that the no caned was asked a series of quer\n\n\"What Trice tory?\" and \"The Cack smployee d sent in the toes and gums Fred WorldTM Filma Tented for the bin the ew batween repkytam Best future are the Zene Ora Luar te facing by Mr. Fremy from a docu-\n\n*The\n\nHvala, wak Ri- kane, WA 11 Agata\n\nWho The meat before him and which was\n\nchmod apk Tax Wren \"The Sema Pinko AT LANGKAÈn tai skin, while not produced and on which he woul\n\nAt the crusti | prompted by Barmant Kreism-\n\nwith Gorge ('Brien and \"The Bazzal mejnega and NË PAS be d\n\nWho Was The chance of the came in\n\nCAL\" KM Buy AW ME DUNN by Team MM MATTract the Court below arbai, ka mall lý ho Sparring Cherating Te and indelen Edward\n\nww\n\nThe Lee Ponds,\" and in mind t tion. Chernivt in\n\nUncal Sirm, ANAL Etion are that be in supported ku Cullen who played avessee him, an\n\nBy P\n\nF\n\nciia: Han Bans\n\n*The Say!\n\nAir. Flizey's Denial\n\nMr. Fitary replied that that\n\nBrendel | was votarly wrong.\n\nICON\n\n“Maculo 12 dan\n\nto the Philip\n\neh Aaměře\n\nAnd View\n\nKthe adver\n\nWalak's \"W\n\n------- koown the\n\n„Paramount \"adaption at 1psaka, dope the feet the\n\nTrurody.\"\n\nak the year'ı oylabanding\n\nEL\n\ndrama tadeg volan have been kid wall a\n\ni af peng Paramust-seek Wektu z\n\nA\n\nM\n\nENG. Medal any que\n\nIt And #hdraw Hawaii. | allegation, but be nerd cut pat k\n\nBy Sa kavu\n\n...a mikety traversed by Dee. The produ Tom mundi ho vt à Men standard as Helogion and Magal šita adventuzen Tregunda consca work and election. An enon me deig, remnALI ANA\n\nThe ganlys who mada Ekkunarak\"\n\n--\n\nBangla - »\n\nנוי\n\nONN IPE AT ASTORA FITE DETER S FEMININEUNDING\n\n4 The Cars à mata ya mch S LLLNESS DY\n\nexpart, a given a\n\nSAMED UPARMA : 5 Baje a sale (PA),\n\nCafe de tank ESA MHOOGEE NK\n\nMakole.\n\nLENT.\n\nSende ut pt, it was\n\nTOO MUCH RAIN.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WETEN OLUB.\n\n+\n\nGun-Fire to Scatter Clouds Firefert.\n\nThe\n\ndeant were L'ecend point has **\n\nbo had bes Nelle säter kari *** question a man helm time he wan\n\nmtipp at Shops Saturday, 2016 A\n\nmrning at s\n\nThe Ti\n\nThe bell an 1.50 p.m.\n\n• Tupe at\n\nlar\n\nMEMBERS ENCLOSURE\n\nbant Iv\n\nc\n\nLw.\n\nHa Caperdalla mild there was no\n\nHom\n\n-Badgon prominently diedlaved.\n\nTh\n\nHATO\n\nfeat the Leving to galler\n\nInds\n\n!! so for\n\nNo nos with duw be ducisted to the Member Enclo\n\nH\n\nΠότε\n\nthat the rate:\n\nIn all\n\nwith\n\nPing A\n\nk.\n\nin the lemngs ralel, and they in a\n\njeant in the first point, Mr. Estroy\n\nSatu\n\npi\n\npret den attempted to provi\n\nThough the pr\n\nDE AL Xaume” thu Is \"Van \"Mandy Long Legs,\" which laa Fax penalu. 1. Which spans Ho 60- reremmendations a simple sunčeky at the King' romance, in murther that the King's Times, 12. mg leve sama playa doubt that 192\n\nQue half of the good\n\nJRATI\n\nCand then argued that the\n\nMabeled. A For Um it has a hung by ra, that chasing team mỹ pgeht east, handed by Janet Gagner utorack to be finest rent in consider was the and Warner Baxter, anypacing by Vas Pros Glen\n\nThe Go Best Kathy) Chade Gollingwater and WHIL“\n\nThe tape her maderage inkej had un the case.\n\nAmong the English Tina palane te\n\nThe King 198 “A Warm Corner,\" with them to maps, Panama, Sean\n\nLease Bening handing a bla saat\n\nThe post sets l\n\nZpi\n\n10%. \"The Bui Ose\" with 12...\n\nvw the Am\n\namaria, Bicipi ane right to the\n\nCrowt\n\nT==bay.\n\nFert bloc\n\nMaga, and wea\n\nJI\n\nEnder's ViewA\n\nHis Lovedanip, in dealing\n\nA gami\n\nMembers are method that they\n\nneeded to barn end end day be and their Ladies must wear thell\n\nRader! 'membam\n\nThe Xeba Parkoure and chai, kuomu at 3 Coffee Clemen and be for Ladies\n\nretary pon her, auch\n\nDANGER!\n\nYOU ARE A VICTIM OF\n\nHONGKONG FOOT\n\n- X\n\n1 ויי}\n\nare pet\n\nBul\n\nHom\n\nPulling a man va where t\n\nbr\n\ned to Pale, durić\n\nand chop, chapters on all the\n\n::\n\nago.\n\nkega romalam 1.\n\nlone Park are linked and Vienna and Cɔnstantinoplu topal interest and the ther places of a De De Cachet the *** Turtast lu z ze red melty which w much of Chinese history in the Tanabe of the\n\nand the Ming T same way that London in so suck in parson by the of Earlich history and Katebest! - mention the le to make of Scottish Water\n\nchu thora\n\nwho at ng T\n\nmed sound? What did that About 15-re questions that a.)ør read:\n\nmutwick at every line charmine\n\nto the unwary reader, 15. zid they may fall to jenderstand Seku\n\naliment\n\n- mas cut in-,apekre.\" in another occasion,!\n\nsenten in\n\nserie Simpson they prosadia to For that mentioned Bond Street. holy the to one of the m\n\ntermed it, \"Say where, Julius Caesar drawing attent Bond Streette and what it .'\"\n\nil 1L to the material th Prod. Simpana in poking fun at 110ry, the means by which the\n\nmat men te wore a palat armaterial se\n\nCreated a simpla stary, Prof\n\nnom met deals with a comp morativ The Merh\n\ndrawn, lara bimanit open to the thmosh setnext and an th Nan die that bu qasten Tim Clarke, are interesting even with...\n\nTHE TRÊN 10 say who Tema Clarke tage productions.\" Have Blowj ted, Tom Clarke, farmerly a member of\n\nin Jul Comer how Shai KOBART fall the staff of Usa Sauch China Morm Test the Past, in at present editor je a let me burg to lack tha the free elition of her book pen is tur. is set able to share imposeze the opportun\n\n(ie Dowager'a tomb bar London newspaper-- 1 Ventes. Passing to Macbeth, Pif\n\n04, the levar, bagʻng herself 2. Chapters as Peking But Northline'n cietumn's trade or some timely remicy abe of the great fald carts shop, the fun to bursity, for haement and the critics of Shakespe Thursa history, the far and Fernand Northclife, it become necessary and in the Anal lecture on Teach\n\nV drama Lucia the Immacours of her to say who he wen, and that one Night be duals with the mportant Lioa era lay wala the Managers of Shinh than it le lente Prof. Simy various plays were printed\n\nImagine. In mo poore,\n\nnecessary qntion of the dates at which the principal from Rose in Feling for\n\nin in Flonchon\n\nTen to the Plays\n\nthrough whe KABI.\n\nThe Pletin) Side. There could be no better pok for the park\n\nww\n\nPurther Encouragessed,\n\nWhen the lectures were deter An Admirable lift.\n\n2nd on the wirejena na maential part However, It was not Frať, Simp. of the programme was the rad Akough anentially popular se's purpose to demonstrate the ing of selections from the playe than dusest of Tuklay and its wandoto Abazity of thelife' d'etur referred to.\n\nProf. Simpson Belst Halten for the general reader, which to the hd would redure that there is ung intimate region of the the Sonk is not Jacking in scholar wetting to places of interest in the KR: VIL\n\nwed readers with know-Howment, a Capital sat out wellia a pendik tune of Ch\n\nthose meninos Shor Motoral information.\n\nBorn Exited\n\nA p\n\nta\n\nre\n\n15\n\nof a book wal t For my The prepared from the eartipuð (menn ka dhe mes di Cuocomore. will be glad tv!\n\nare it in b same tiike, and ma tam kende stof such the sections referred to in\n\nகாென்பன, Hunt v Postala paladinckeri that the characters Apa\n\noranch An Kiven\n\nexceed in plaga dealt with, Prof. STI Which, along with the Mandarin roman-gun Bret Simms palataly the float of readers will!\n\n* The ** need hava ho froze on that tomber to quicken thaj imalen of proper AMOA of the randor. The the excellent Indar, the list of the avizugu Tekdes skoon ac-ughtiully\n\nare usually engh to discourage in be aluminted by la of the intrations, In-festivals and some of the mapa Jayaintance with Shakomprare la turning to the Diaze with tradi pleasant sibula kata eral that are new to PM author bas undertakana nisen limited to a simple try jinternet and enjoyment.\n\nAfted at mhant. Prof im\n\nThe format of Further Shut PH kedv et 'sprato 14 keeping aluse papn'rcent nature of the subject and the al- more repetal study of tractive MAST in which at bast Three or four plan, the necessary i barn treated. The pubilakēņu are! -ed in the\n\nCouraged mörkt be provided, to be complimented on an exce ath and it was with this thought in, pick! Lhu\n\n|| Ylvable an an aid to further and that he first wrote tha te taken care to explain in\n\nwork. Prof. mpan of ancient And modern Pekrending, particularly sa St Maż turon nud has new published them then that the lectures, will ather Hyacinth Ditchuria bern Me 101 pti dute in the their present form.\n\nland in my pettent enlillen.\n\nkambing. The book is packed with action that \"the study of Shako Taking as his text his own as 1. Und antywowell! Formation sh of weare should be based on an un-\n\nthe\n\nand 1.\n\nf how b\n\nJuring\n\n12\n\ndies are T\n\nW\n\ninally for broadenstag, and co\n\nanar pertain elementa zonalder\n\nof specialty suitable for that par poak, “have not been tempered |\n\n| e» it would use anve\n\nThe bibliophile\n\nConfidence!\n\nHe, boobby uhašty, kia apasar- ance—fodile confidence. Figurally, No is successful and pajusige, Strong bomitky, attractive loath, are essential ta that set of cance\n\nIt's significant that ha god thawrands al ather haakby, successful man usa Squikų Dental Cream. They use it canidan in the karvadedge that I will protect Hair teeth at the Danger Line-ther veinar- abi polat where puma mati fuath, where so much denial trouble actors, and where\n\nleom the dangerous add which being 40 decay and gum diseases, Squibb Dantul Cream, osade with over sc Squibb mik el Magnesia, a 2009- Ing antacid which dembels have we for years, effectively neutroičnes than ocide Bralects the Danger Line and helpis keop the gums fem pad healthy. It comes me gël, ne astringents, nothing to harm the delicate Nouns, I cleans brou Helly but catety, and it is remarkably placent to the testo, Begle the use of Paula Dental Cream Haley.\n\nSQUIBB DENTAL CREAM\n\nQuards the Danger Line\n\nKÖLNE, KARN & GO, IL\n\ncata\n\nE. R. SQUIBB & SONS, NEW YORK Cheran je de\n\nMRS. MOTONO.\n\nHand and Electrle Massage,\n\n91b, Wyndham Street. MISS MARU\n\nment at høy fles or patients\n\nM\n\n400, Mathan Row\n\nARRŞUN K. ANINDSZŲ. 1ÏËM, NONNA, ARTS & KISAKI\n\nRecommanded for many ram Go Crimpia Peak Hosptal ed by ill the bal\n\n24. Wyndham Street Tel\n\nel tion Includes a cost for quotation. alike for derstanding of his storfes and at with in the haps of turning fake Front Jaykhom maaponés görse kemat map of the Forb the intrinsic Interest of the suh appreciation of the means liked to have are the back furslab- Ohy, with the building coloured ject and the delightful manner in he made his stories Ively.\" red for grater clerussa Band-which atas kein gurated, but Prof. Simmon ha constructed. W with an index ertag through the unending thei ranston at counyards and thin e\n\ntom of the Bookshelf four half hour lecture dating would also have appreciate Imposal, a \"posan then to netewartly less that The plays he and alerted for his difficult to supply with such a This view, with four of the best known play strip down the bark with the title. tion of the drug the Forbidden 2-4, 3-\n\nwild na bá completa, perpose are Julion Career The elander volume but none the lasa Cemplane fight ris book at a piece of bank proder Twelfth N'ekt: or What You Wil.\n\nsad sauted to extrol the Merchant of Venice, Kachet and welcome when there.-M. e porose- and a map on worth of the Press of Madera. Before coming to the play with\n\ndelight to porn Kally & Walak Hid, from when which it deals, mch chapter sets bringing out a plody of the caden\n\nbirders. WE HATE Journed to expert\n\nAllen and Cowin are doctor Ever Peking\"\n\ndla Karal remarks about \"Though no longer the caplast ghest order.\n\nFiprison as well as practice espeare and his work and tion, entitled \"Lauashing and * China,\" wellan Julet Brem (the paper and the Imntent ona ara; (bieling part of Law book.\n\nlang sa taka from not the least they\n\nTehn Par East,' by Misa Trda MISS TAKAMURA In one of the reload pottfans of all excellent and othing more Desling with Shakespeare's art, in\n\nTrising real one of attractive devamad in the fent chapter, Prof. Power Wears. Jonathan Casa's Trurol- text \"Blog\" cition in the the way of a gift book, partieslar points out that the best way to and reverenza la due to tly from the paint of ew of the pr ancient\n\nThe\n\nwork\n\nTory\n\nSat, 21 Play lucky cipient.\n\nTh\n\n·\n\n•\n\nElectric and Hond\n\nOw of the latest addition to\n\nHommage Expen\n\n14 Wyndham Street\n\nIl performed in the theatre by Echoen of Japan Inter Life, By\n\nFirst Floor\n\ntake quite a la ane tih Jers, Library la Kokora, Him And\n\nLafeadin Read\n\nMedical Profesian Sinza\n\nTOCKTAKING\n\nALE! GENUINE REDUCTIONS OF FROM 10% TO 30%.\n\nTO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW STOCK MI-TAJMAHAL\n\nSILK STORE\n\nKing's Theatre Building D'Aguilar Street,\n\nof all the ad! wonderful b motive! most wonderful thing\n\nM\n\nThe dog man w\n\nIF YOUR\n\nit ba\n\n*The Bad\n\nMacmilk\n\nThe motor\n\nah...\n\nMarion\n\nDAVIES\n\nARIANNE\n\nMarion Davies will tell you what it is in a wonderful way\n\nDet mire the\n\npicture.\n\nAdded Attraction\n\nFox New\n\n-Commencing October, 25th.-\n\nM. M. production.\n\n\"MADAME X\"\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\nEX-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\n\"BAD ONE\"\n\nUNITED\n\n-EDMUND\n\nWE LOWE\n\n++ תרי\n\nThe\n\nOne.\"\n\nCommode Vandrehte in du tainas 40 mothe\n\nHaplorer la take advantage vĩ marsh Fich of a prisoner 19 kay patu DATE been pokémo\n\nKowald E\n\npremta Model Ra in Arctle explore new here\n\nwaterft.al vate enteng Lase\n\n* hurt af | Kechik\n\n2 straks | mada nə\n\nT\n\nודייי\n\nAll derided to charge ze palett\n\ngenre being braid to charge, tha\n\nfi..\n\nFEET\n\nPelice Rickt\n\n1\n\nLice ofrer we put\n\nと\n\nDON'T DELAY - APPLY\n\nABSORBINE JE\n\nIT KILLS THE GERMS OF\n\nHONGKONG FOOT\n\nALAND ATWOMPINE DE – NOW — 11 ki.18 Uhermafbok KONG\n\nני קל\n\nן\n\nkkk i EAIS the\n\nackly.\n\nWe\n\nJTCH BURN the Meeting.\n\nTam are obtulykkly at PEEL P.-- movided that CRACK Penad Tom The No 1 kg 3\n\num 1 Mid Gelaber BLISTER\n\n|:\n\n1920.\n\nthe\n\n10\n\nTele\n\nPUBLIC ENCLOSURE\n\n1\n\npist tɔ the\n\nt\n\n1\n\nיז' Bethevert, der Bernama LiDALJE\n\nKevin La\n\nBurc\n\nder. CROWN,\n\nSecretary-\n\nاجد\n\nHannah .:\n\nFirst, the text is re-formatted into standard Markdown, correcting headers, sub-headers, bold-type, and tables using Markdown table syntax.\n\nHere is the corrected and reformatted text in HTML as per the instructions:\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nBOOKSHELF.\n\nINDO-CHINA PARADISE. SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS.\n\nHealth Resort in Hills of Annam.\n\nAN ATTRACTIVE BOOK.\n\nOne of the Loves garden spots, commonly known as the Parade of Indo-China, where H. Paul Doumer, then Governor, decided in 1895 to establish a health resort. Some years later, Governor Doumer completed the preliminary work and established a zamindari, which has a cinema attached.\n\nA great deal has been added to the station, and these are, including ... of mulled...y, a psychological problem, not a menace of lunar... Bong... a number of separate villas were erected. As a health resort, it has proved a great success.\n\nProf. Simpson's Radio Lectures.\n\nThe literature concerning Shakespeare is vast. Pekin... und... work, what a vast amount will ever realize Peking and not wet... weeting he might have spared Passing so it is saw officially call the world.\n\nThe third edition retains the original title of the book, mounting. The aspect that a opera may apology for hancared to excite either wonder... Milton to make change Murray.\n\nAlready the literature concerning Shakespeare is vast. The author has no more interest in the manuscripts, all of which are at Pekme th...\n\nMr. J. L. Feed Mokitur. Lauru, saya, \"of three.\n\n...\n\nTo Your Friends at Home Christmas with a suitable Gift from \"Hongkong TEA\n\nPrice per 3 catty box $18.50 net (Approx 7 lb.)\n\nFinest Fo.com > Per 5 catty box $17.00 net\n\n„Mauge Pakos Peyta 5 lbs. $17.60 net. THE PRICES QUOTED INCLUDE ALL CHARGES to any add was in the Corvel Kingdom, GINGER IN SYRUP In syrup barnat Memo SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR US. Portest of tina 5 lb jars. $18.00 net. Per case of Twelve 24 1. pats, $21.00 bet\n\nTUE PRICES QUOTED INCLUDE FREIGHT PAID to London Docka mole DRIED GINGER IN TINS Te pareof x 1 lb, ins. $10.50 net Including age to the United Kingdom.\n\nORDER EARLY, LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Grocery Dept. Tel. 25813.\n\nK\n\nRESTRINGING AND REPAIRS. We take a COMMERCIAL PRick a son work RAÇERIŲ PAGEág ky on enny with Thing (HARANPE | RESTRIN\n\nAAA DUNLOP POTESTA ATIN AMERICAN ORGA [WUN cur OWN SUPERFINE seunted Caloun) L7 רים with Our DAWON OUT NO. A WARNINGAPORE ONO 27 WAL CHINA GU 207 AUTERIINE N OWN A Out, and duly stunzsataed doe Umenia.\n\n...\n\nSQUIBB DENTAL CREAM\n\nQuards the Danger Line\n\nKÖLNE, KARN & GO, IL\n\ncata\n\nE. R. SQUIBB & SONS, NEW YORK Cheran je de\n\nMRS. MOTONO.\n\nHand and Electric Massage,\n\n91b, Wyndham Street. MISS MARU\n\nment at høy fles or patients\n\nM\n\n400, Mathan Row\n\nARRŞUN K. ANINDSZŲ. 1ÏËM, NONNA, ARTS & KISAKI\n\nRecommanded for many ram Go Crimpia Peak Hosptal ed by ill the bal\n\n24. Wyndham Street Tel\n\nel tion Includes a cost for quotation. alike for derstanding of his storfes and at with in the haps of turning fake Front Jaykhom maaponés görse kemat map of the Forb the intrinsic Interest of the suh appreciation of the means liked to have are the back furslab- Ohy, with the building coloured ject and the delightful manner in he made his stories Ively.\" red for grater clerussa Band-which atas kein gurated, but Prof. Simmon ha constructed. W with an index ertag through the unending thei ranston at counyards and thin e\n\n...\n\nMADAME X\" COMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\nEX-DOLORES DEL RIO \"BAD ONE\"\n\nUNITED -EDMUND WE LOWE\n\n...\n\nDON'T DELAY - APPLY ABSORBINE JE\n\nIT KILLS THE GERMS OF HONGKONG FOOT\n\n...\n\nPage 177",
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        "content_text": "278\n\nNotes Comments\n\n281\n\nORNITHOLOGY.\n\n[280]\n\nNOTES AND COMMENTS.\n\nEASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL (Motacilla flava taivana).\n\nA female of this species, also known as the Chinese Green Wagtail, was identified on November 12th in the Ping Shan district. It was feeding in a stream-bed near a village in company with a number of White-faced and Streak-eyed Wagtails. This is the first occasion that we have recorded this species in the Colony. Prominent colours, head and back greenish-gray; upper tail coverts more heavily washed green, tail dusky, outer tail feathers white; wings gray; under parts rich yellow; and a prominent yellow eyebrow above a gray eye-streak.\n\nJAPANESE ROBIN FLYCATCHER (Siphia mujimaki).\n\nOn the afternoon of November 12th in the Ping Shan district, several of this species were observed and identified. First a solitary male was observed then later in the afternoon three or four other birds, always solitary, both males and females were noticed. Only once before has this species been recorded from the Colony, on that occasion a solitary male was seen March 19th of this year in the Shum Chun valley, vide H.K.N. III. p. 147.\n\nBIRDS OF PREY.\n\nThe first dates on which the different species visiting the Colony were observed are given below. Sparrow hawks are abundant in the city district and buzzards and kestrels quite common above the hillsides away from the houses.\n\nRough-legged Buzzard, Buted lagopus pallidus, circling over the Peak 22. X. 32.\n\nEastern Sparrow Hawk, Accipiter nisus nisosimilis, University Compound 28. X. 32.\n\nKestrel, Cerchneis tinnunculus, 2. XI. 32. seen from Mount Kellet.\n\nEastern Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus, 2. XI. 32. chasing a buzzard over Mount Pottinger, a pair were reported seen at Kam Tin during the following week.\n\nEastern Marsh Harrier, Circus a. aeruginosus, 12. XI. 32. Two harriers, probably this species, were observed hawking the paddy fields in the Ping Shan district.\n\nEastern Red-legged Falcon, Falco vespertinus amurensis., 19. XI. 32. A female of this species was observed, quite closely, through field glasses at about gunshot range, from a hill-top near Bias Bay. Two kites were hawking the same ground but the falcon did not interfere with them.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nBuzzard and Fowl.\n\nOn the morning of 28. XI. 32 a friend was disturbed by a great commotion outside his window. On looking out he saw a large bird fly away and on looking down onto the lawn noticed that it was strewn with feathers. The fowl that had been attacked rushed off to the hen-house and promptly laid an egg! I enquired whether it had thereby established a precedent but this was not the case as it had laid eggs on previous occasions.\n\nGOLDEN-EYE DUCK, Bucephala c. clangula.\n\nA Whistler or Golden-eye duck was shot on 6. XI. 32 in the New Territories and sent to us to check the identification. It was a specimen of this species in eclipse plumage. We have not recorded this species previously from the Colony.\n\nNESTING NOTES.\n\nMr. H. Green, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, has kindly sent us a number of observations on nests and eggs of local birds; a selection of these we list below. We are especially grateful for the interest Mr. Green continues to take in this subject.\n\nChinese Magpie, Pica p. seicea.— The first nest was found on 17. III. 32 thirty feet from the ground in a pine tree at Kai Lung Wan. The three young birds it contained appeared to be not less than 14 days old. Other nests were found on 17. III. 32 (one egg) 19. III. 32. (2 eggs). Pines and Persian lilacs were the selected trees.\n\nBlack-eared Kite, Milvus lineatus.— Below Lugard Road, on 18. III. 32, eighteen feet from the ground in an old Litsea tree, nest composed of twigs, rags and an old hemp bag, (1 egg). Below Harlech Road, 18. III. 32, in a pine tree, 25 feet from ground, nest composed of twigs, rags, paper, etc., (3 eggs, faintly marked). At Magazine Gap, 22. III. 32, in a tree, 18 feet from ground a nest of twigs rag and paper, (3 eggs heavily marked, one darkest at blunt end, one sharp end and one evenly spotted).\n\nCollared Crow, Corvus torquatus.— At San Tin, N. T., on 17. III. 32, in a Banian tree, 40 feet from the ground, nest composed of small branches, grass and mud, containing 3 young birds apparently a week old. On 29. III. 32, eighteen feet up in a pine tree at Tin Wan near Aberdeen, nest of small branches and pine needles and lined apparently with cotton wool. (5 eggs).\n\nBlack-faced Laughing Thrush, Dryonastes p. perspicillatus.— Nest, 25 feet up in bamboo near Peak Road, of usual type, pine needles, creeper-stems and bamboo leaves, 1. IV. 32, (3 eggs). Another in Cratoxylon tree 20 feet up at Protestant Cemetery (3 eggs).\n\nChinese Spotted-necked Dove, Streptopelia c. chinensis.- In pine tree, 2. IV. 32, (one egg). In Lung Ngan tree 25 feet from ground, 8. IV. 32, (2 eggs). In a Casuarina equisitifolia tree, Cheung Chau Island, (2 eggs), 19. VI. 32.\n\nDecember 1932.\n\n279",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nCommander Holl will be in town again the 13th & 14th July and will go to the B/T then. We were doing about this. He has had a copy of (1) direct from Hong Kong & is of the opinion that the B/T is not really in a position to question or criticise any recommendations which he puts before them. I understand that Commander Hole has stated his additional staff requirements as 2 Ship Surveyors & 2 Engineer Surveyors. One of the Engineer Surveyors will fill an already established post which has been left vacant as foreshadowed by the S/S in his comments on the Report of the Retrenchment Committee. So if his proposals are eventually approved by the B/T the creation of the said additional posts will be created.\n\nHow Jameso 27.6.33\n\n- Commander Hole  \n3 TBT  \n봄  \n4  \nTo C  \n-(la 1.6.44 to auchs)  \nCORS  \n-4/4/35.",
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        "content_text": "## South China Morning Post, Aug. 29th, 1933\n\n### SALE OF A CHILD\n\nA MAN AND WOMAN SENT TO PRISON\n\n**OFFENCE ADMITTED**. Convicted on a charge of having taken part in a transaction for the sale of a male child, Wong Kwan-ting (11), a man named Fan Sang, an earth coolie, and Leung Ho, 76, widow, were sentenced to twelve months and six months imprisonment respectively, by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon.\n\nMa Fung-wan, a boatman, another defendant in the case, was discharged on the police withdrawing the case against him, and his evidence was used against the other defendants. Chang Yi, described as a kept woman, was discharged after evidence.\n\nAt the previous hearing of the case, Chiu Chau-ming, an unemployed man, was convicted of kidnapping the boy, and sentenced to twelve months hard labour. The offence was committed at 254, Tai Nam Street.\n\nMr. Hiu-shing Lo appeared for Ma Fung-wan, the defendant against whom the police withdrew the charge, and Sub-Inspector Eiston prosecuted.\n\nMa Fung-wan said that the boy was brought to him at the Tak Yee lee shop, Saikung, by the second defendant, who claimed he was her grandson.\n\nOn the previous day, August 4, he was approached by a casual friend of his, Yau Fat, who asked him whether he wanted a son. He met the first and second defendants at Yau Fat's house, and the following day the second defendant brought the boy to him. He paid $101 for the boy, but did not know who actually received the money.\n\n### DEFENDANTS PLEAD\n\nThe first defendant said that Yau Fat asked him to take the child over to the purchaser.\n\nThe second defendant admitted taking the boy to Yau Fat's place and that he had been sold.\n\nThe third defendant said she knew nothing about the matter.\n\nAnother witness, Ho Sin, the principal tenant of No. 254, Tai Nam Street, said that the first defendant and his wife, the third defendant, lived on the first floor. The old woman, the second defendant, came on August 3, bringing the boy with her, and gave him in charge of the first defendant, who took him away that very night. The second defendant stayed overnight, and left the following morning, to return again on August 5, leaving on August 6. She came again on August 10 to look for the first defendant and was arrested the following morning.\n\nRemarking that there was no evidence against the third defendant, except that she was living with the first accused, Mr. Wynne-Jones discharged her.\n\nAddressing the first and second defendants, he said that they had pleaded guilty to the second charge in their statements, and he was going to convict them. Sentence was passed as stated above.\n\n## South China Morning Post, Oct. 12th, 1933\n\nA young woman, Tse Sam-tai, was sent to prison for two years, and her father, Tse Po, and mother, Chau Sai-mui, were sentenced to one year's hard labour each, by Mr. Schofield and Mr. Balfour, sitting together at the Central Police Court yesterday afternoon. The mother took ill during the afternoon and was seated in the dock throughout the hearing.\n\nTse Sam-tai was convicted on a charge of kidnapping a girl, Ng Oi-san, aged seven years, from 33, Main Street West, Shaukiwan, and the parents on charges of harbouring her at Yung Shu-wan, Lamma Island.\n\n\"It looks almost as if the first defendant conceived the whole idea, and brought her parents into it,\" remarked Mr. Schofield.\n\nDet.-Sergt. Fowlie prosecuted.\n\nThe girl, whose face could barely be seen above the witness stand, told the Court she lived with her parents at Shaukiwan and the first defendant was a lodger. About a month ago, while the witness was on her way to buy some sweets, the first defendant took her on a tram. She was then transferred to a boat and taken to Lamma Island. The second defendant made her work boiling pig wash. She slept on a camp bed in the third defendant's hut. She was called 'Chan Tai.' The third defendant beat her on both legs with a small bamboo because he said she took too much time in washing clothes. The first defendant visited her once and stayed the night.\n\nUnder the pretext that she was going out to wash clothes (this she was allowed to do) she made her way to the Yung Shu Wan Police Station where she reported and stayed the night.\n\nEvidence of the arrest of the first defendant in Shaukiwan and her parents in West Point was given by a Chinese detective.\n\nThe girl's mother said Ng Oi-san was her adopted daughter, and produced the deed of presentation. When the girl was missing, the first defendant remained at the house and, according to the witness, \"pretended to cry when she heard of the news.\"\n\n## South China Morning Post, Oct. 18th, 1933\n\n### SALE OF A CHILD\n\n**WOMEN'S IGNORANCE OF THE LAW**\n\n**RETURNED BANISHEES**\n\nBefore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, two Chinese women, Cham Ying and Wong Kan, were charged with illegally transacting the sale of a child, niece of the first defendant. The two women pleaded guilty, the first defendant saying that as she was hard up she sold the child to the second defendant.\n\nThe second defendant said, \"I am a widow and want a girl to bring up as my daughter. I plead ignorance of the law.\"\n\nInspector A. J. W. Dorling, prosecuting, said that the child's father was left a widower in 1925 and, as he worked as a fireman on an ocean-going steamer, he left his daughter under the care of the first defendant. Early last May, the child fell ill and was taken for treatment to a herb seller. During the course of treatment, the herb seller said she knew of a woman who wished to buy a child. The first defendant willingly agreed to sell the girl.\n\n### CHILD SOLD FOR $100\n\nThe two defendants met and on May 29 the girl was taken to the second defendant's house to stay for 24 hours. On May 30, they all went to the Tin Hau Temple armed with a document stating that the child had been sold for $100. Inspector Dorling believed the exact sum paid over was $99. Out of this money, the first defendant received $47.\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: What happened to the rest of the money?\n\nInspector Dorling: The money was split up, $5 going to the herb seller and the remainder to one, Li See, who acted on behalf of the first defendant.\n\nIt appeared that on the same day of the transaction, the child and the first defendant disappeared. The matter was reported to the police who later found the first defendant and the child and heard of the sale.\n\nThe second defendant was also a herb seller. The girl's father had not given authority for the sale. It also appeared that six years ago, the first defendant had been banished from Singapore and on her arrival in this Colony in 1927 had been banished for ten years. The father of the child did not know the first defendant was a returned banishee.\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: According to the second defendant, the transaction was bona fide.\n\nInspector Dorling: Yes. The girl would have been better off under the second defendant's care.\n\n### SENT TO PRISON\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: The first defendant will have to take the maximum sentence of six months' imprisonment, and on the charge of returning from banishment, I give her another six months. As for the second defendant, I believe she was actually bona fide over the transaction, but I want her to understand that in Hongkong they are not allowed to act like this. This does not mean she can't adopt a child. There is a certain procedure to be gone through when adopting children. I advise her to visit the S.P.C.A. for advice and once she has gone through that procedure, she will be safe from any further trouble.\n\nThe Magistrate fined the second defendant $25 as she only possessed $40 all told, and was unable to pay the original fine of $50.\n\nBefore fining the defendant, the Magistrate said, \"I have got to discourage people from doing this but, on the other hand, if I take her $10 away from her, I will drive her to some other crime. As this is a very special case, I will reduce the fine from $50 to $25. However, I don't want anybody to consider that this has established any sort of precedent.\"\n\n## South China Morning Post, Aug. 1st, 1933\n\n### A MUITSAI CASE\n\n**ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF SMALL GIRL**\n\n**SEARCH FOR PARENTS**\n\nThe alleged ill-treatment of a six-year-old girl led to the appearance of Cheung Yau, a married woman, before Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy yesterday.\n\nThe defendant was charged by Sub-Inspector Fraser, of the S.P.C.A., with having kept an unregistered mui tsai, Wong Kiu-houng; with having ill-treated her, and alternatively with having ill-treated a child, who was under her care.\n\nThe defendant denied the girl was a mui tsai, and said she was an adopted daughter. She admitted beating the child for being mischievous.\n\nSub-Inspector Fraser said that on Saturday, a lady inspector visited the girl. The girl was in a very dirty condition, and was suffering from a form of prickly heat. She had a number of bruises on the back, the right arm, left shoulder, and back of both hands. She said she had slept on a stool outside the cubicle. She also alleged that she was given only one bowl of rice a day. She had been bought by the defendant for $150 two years ago.\n\nMr. Schofield remanded the defendant until tomorrow in order for the girl's parents to be found. Defendant was allowed bail in $200.\n\n## South China Morning Post, Aug. 3rd, 1933\n\n### HUMAN CATTLE\n\n\"The centenary of the death of William Wilberforce did not pass unnoticed in Hongkong. Fittingly, the Anti-Mui Tsai Society rendered due homage to this champion of the slaves, and its members have been inspired to greater vigilance and activity in the Abolition of a bad old system. Those who have followed the movement appreciate that much has been done to make happier the lot of Hongkong's chattels. As the result of agitation, the authorities may no longer rely upon the unctuous professions that slavery is unlawful under the British Flag, that no property rights in human beings are recognised, etc. A more positive attitude has been enforced. Sales and purchases of people are forbidden. Existing mui-tsai must be registered and must receive wages. In time, except for those brought in from China, the mui-tsai will grow up and as a class disappear.\n\nUnfortunately, however, there is still much evasion of the law. The Ordinance can be rendered ineffective by pretence of adoption, and the protection of children will not be complete until there is compulsory registration of adoptions also, even adoptions by relatives, with periodical visits by inspectors. This further stage of the emancipation campaign appears to carry the necessary work beyond the Anti-Mui-tsai Society—or at least beyond its title. Reorganisation may therefore be required, and in this connexion it may be timely to suggest again amalgamation with the Society for the Protection of Children.\n\nThe latter Society is also doing excellent work, which touches closely, at one point at least, the labours of the older organisation; both are watchful against cruelty. The amalgamation suggestion has been discussed several times, but, while outwardly there appears to be no obstacle, beneath the surface suspicion seems to remain. Ardent abolitionists still appear to regard the Society for the Protection of Children as something of an official whitewash brush for the mui-tsai system, for sweating of child labour, rack-renting, etc., with education and charity as the only approved remedies.\n\nOn the other hand, the members of the Society for the Protection of Children appear to regard the Anti-Mui-tsai Society as over-advanced and dangerous. These mutual suspicions are unworthy, and more may be done by more definitely co-ordinated effort. Failing early amalgamation, the best possible use must be made of the existing weapons, and here we have a criticism to address to the Magistrates of the Colony.\n\nThose guilty of cruelty to children are sternly and properly punished; but the sentences upon traffickers are still inadequate. Looking over our files we find the mistress of a sly brothel fined only $150 or three months' hard labour, and the seller of a small boy fined $1,000, or one year. For kidnapping a seven-year-old child, a man was sentenced to twelve months and twenty strokes. In two other sly brothel cases the fines were $100 and $75. And then a case of kidnapping of a child in which the sentence was six months, while the owner of a number of girls employed in immoral traffic was fined only $50, and for the sale of an infant the fines were also $50, or six weeks.\n\nThese penalties are inconsistent and inadequate. For comparison, a returned banishee received sentence of one year as did a thief who stole from a house at Magazine Gap. For stealing a fountain pen, sentence was six months, and the same sentence was imposed upon a snatcher. Opium cases offer stronger contrasts, but for these there is a scale of penalties and they can be left out.\n\nThe magistrate, of course, must be permitted to allow the circumstances to guide him. Speaking generally, however, it must be said that offences against children, involving their lives, are as yet insufficiently discouraged. All kidnappers and traffickers should be flogged—even to those who buy children and thus create the market.",
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        "content_text": "# South China Morning Post, Aug. 29th, 1933\n\n## SALE OF A CHILD.\n\nA MAN AND WOMAN SENT TO PRISON.\n\nOFFENCE ADMITTED.\n\nConvicted on a charge of having taken part in a transaction for the sale of a male child, Wong Kwan-ting (21), a man named Fan Sang, an earth coolie, and Leung Ho, 76, widow, were sentenced to twelve months and six months imprisonment respectively, by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon.\n\nMa Fung-wan, a boatman, another defendant in the case, was discharged on the police withdrawing the case against him, and his evidence was used against the other defendants. Chang Yi, described as a kept woman, was discharged after evidence.\n\nAt the previous hearing of the case, Chiu Chau-ming, an unemployed man, was convicted of kidnapping the boy and sentenced to twelve months hard labour. The offence was committed at 254, Tai Nam Street.\n\nMr. Hin-shing Lo appeared for Ma Fung-wan, the defendant against whom the police withdrew the charge, and Sub-Inspector Elston prosecuted.\n\nMa Fung-wan said that the boy was brought to him at the Tak Yee tea shop, Saikung, by the second defendant, who claimed he was her grandson. On the previous day, August 4, he was approached by a casual friend of his, Yau Fat, who asked him whether he wanted a son. He met the first and second defendants at Yau Fat's house, and the following day the second defendant brought the boy to him. He paid $10 for the boy, but did not know who actually received the money.\n\n## DEPENDANTS PLEAD\n\nThe first defendant said that Yau Fat asked him to take the child over to the purchaser.\n\nThe second defendant admitted taking the boy to Yau Fat's place and that he had been sold.\n\nThe third defendant said she knew nothing about the matter.\n\nAnother witness, Ho Sin, the principal tenant of No. 254, Tai Nam Street, said that the first defendant and his wife, the third defendant, lived on the first floor. The old woman, the second defendant, came on August 3, bringing the boy with her, and gave him in charge of the first defendant, who took him away that very night. The second defendant stayed overnight and left the following morning, to return again on August 5, leaving on August 6. She came again on August 10 to look for the first defendant and was arrested the following morning.\n\nRemarking that there was evidence against the third defendant, except that she was living with the first accused, Mr. Wynne-Jones discharged her.\n\nAddressing the first and second defendants, he said that they had pleaded guilty to the second charge in their statements, and he was going to convict them. Sentence was passed as stated above.\n\n# South China Morning Post, Oct. 12th, 1933\n\nA young woman, Tse Sam-tai, was sent to prison for two years, and her father, Tse Po, and mother, Chau Sai-mai, were sentenced to one year's hard labour each, by Mr. Schofield and Mr. Balfour, sitting together at the Central Police Court yesterday afternoon. The mother took ill during the afternoon and was seated in the dock throughout the hearing.\n\nTheir Worships convicted Tse Sam-tai on a charge of kidnapping a girl, Ng Oi-san, aged seven years, from 33, Main Street West, Shaukiwan, and the parents on charges of harbouring her at Yang Shu-wao, Lamma Island.\n\n\"It looks almost as if the first defendant conceived the whole idea, and brought her parents into it,\" remarked Mr. Schofield.\n\nDet.-Sergt. Fowlis prosecuted.\n\nThe girl, whose face could barely be seen above the witness stand, told the Court she lived with her parents at Shaukiwan and the first defendant was a lodger. About a month ago, while the witness was on her way to buy some sweets, the first defendant took her on a tram. She was then transferred to a boat and taken to Lamma Island. The second defendant made her work boiling pig wash. She slept on a camp bed in the third defendant's hut. She was called 'Chan Tai.' The third defendant beat her on both legs with a small bamboo because he said she took too much time in washing clothes. The first defendant visited her once and stayed the night.\n\nUnder the pretext that she was going out to wash clothes (this she was allowed to do) she made her way to the Yung Shu Wan Police Station where she reported and stayed the night.\n\nEvidence of the arrest of the first defendant in Shaukiwan and her parents in West Point was given by a Chinese detective.\n\nThe girl's mother said Ng Oi-san was her adopted daughter and produced the deed of presentation. When the girl was missing, the first defendant remained at the house and, according to the witness, \"pretended to cry when she heard of the news.\"\n\n# South China Morning Post, Oct. 18th, 1933\n\n## SALE OF A CHILD.\n\nWOMEN'S IGNORANCE OF THE LAW.\n\nRETURNED BANISHEE\n\nBefore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, two Chinese women, Cham Ying and Wong Kan, were charged with illegally transacting the sale of a child, niece of the first defendant. The two women pleaded guilty, the first defendant saying that as she was hard up she sold the child to the second defendant. The second defendant said, \"I am a widow and want a girl to bring up as my daughter. I plead ignorance of the law.\"\n\nInspector A. J. W. Dorling, prosecuting, said that the child's father was left a widower in 1925 and, as he worked as a fireman on an ocean-going steamer, he left his daughter under the care of the first defendant. Early last May, the child fell ill and was taken for treatment to a herb seller. During the course of treatment, the herb seller said she knew of a woman who wished to buy a child. The first defendant willingly agreed to sell the girl.\n\n## CHILD SOLD FOR $100.\n\nThe two defendants met and on May 29 the girl was taken to the second defendant's house to stay for 24 hours. On May 30, they all went to the Tin Hau Temple armed with a document stating that the child had been sold for $100. Inspector Dorling believed the exact sum paid over was $99. Out of this money, the first defendant received $47.\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: What happened to the rest of the money?\n\nInspector Dorling: The money was split up. $5 going to the herb seller and the remainder to one, Li See, who acted on behalf of the first defendant.\n\nIt appeared that on the same day of the transaction, the child and the first defendant disappeared. The matter was reported to the police who later found the first defendant and the child and heard of the sale.\n\nThe second defendant was also a herb seller. The girl's father had not given authority for the sale. It also appeared that six years ago, the first defendant had been banished from Singapore and on her arrival in this Colony in 1927 had been banished for ten years. The father of the child did not know the first defendant returned banished.\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: According to the second defendant, the transaction was bona fide?\n\nInspector Dorling: Yes. The girl would have been better off under the second defendant's care.\n\n## SENT TO PRISON.\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: The first defendant will have to take the maximum sentence of six months' imprisonment, and on the charge of returning from banishment, I give her another six months. As for the second defendant, I believe she was actually bona fide over the transaction, but I want her to understand that in Hongkong they are not allowed to act like this. This does not mean she can't adopt a child. There is a certain procedure to be gone through when adopting children. I advise her to visit the S.P.C.A. for advice and once she has gone through that procedure, she will be safe from any further trouble.\n\nThe Magistrate fined the second defendant $25 as she only possessed $40 all told, and was unable to pay the original fine of $50.\n\nBefore fining the defendant, the Magistrate said, \"I have got to discourage people from doing this but, on the other hand, if I take her $10 away from her, I will drive her to some other crime. As this is a very special case, I will reduce the fine from $50 to $25. However, I don't want anybody to consider that this has established any sort of precedent.\"\n\n# South China Morning Post, Aug. 1st, 1933\n\n## A MUITSAI CASE.\n\nALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF SMALL GIRL.\n\nSEARCH FOR PARENTS.\n\nThe alleged ill-treatment of a six-year-old girl led to the appearance of Cheung Yau, a married woman, before Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy yesterday.\n\nThe defendant was charged by Sub-Inspector Fraser, of the S.P.C.A., with having kept an unregistered mui-tsai, Wong Kin-heung; with having ill-treated her, and alternatively with having ill-treated a child who was under her care.\n\nThe defendant denied the girl was a mui-tsai and said she was an adopted daughter. She admitted beating the child for being mischievous.\n\nSub-Inspector Fraser said that on Saturday a lady inspector visited the girl. The girl was in a very dirty condition and was suffering from a form of prickly heat. She had a number of bruises on the back, the right arm, left shoulder, and back of both hands. She said she had slept on a stool outside the cubicle. She also alleged that she was given only one bowl of rice a day. She had been bought by the defendant for $150 two years ago.\n\nMr. Schofield remanded the defendant until tomorrow in order for the girl's parents to be found. Defendant was allowed bail in $200.\n\n# South China Morning Post, Aug. 3rd, 1933\n\n## HUMAN CATTLE.\n\nThe centenary of the death of William Wilberforce did not pass unnoticed in Hongkong. Fittingly, the Anti-Mui Tsai Society rendered due homage to this champion of the slaves, and its members have been inspired to greater vigilance and activity in the abolition of a bad old system. Those who have followed the movement appreciate that much has been done to make happier the lot of Hongkong's chattels. As the result of agitation, the authorities may no longer rely upon the unctuous professions that slavery is unlawful under the British flag, that no property rights in human beings are recognised, etc. A more positive attitude has been enforced.\n\nSales and purchases of people are forbidden. Existing mui-tsai must be registered and must receive wages. In time, except for those brought in from China, the mui-tsai will grow up and as a class disappear. Unfortunately, however, there is still much evasion of the law. The Ordinance can be rendered ineffective by pretence of adoption, and the protection of children will not be complete until there is compulsory registration of adoptions also, even adoptions by relatives, with periodical visits by inspectors. This further stage of the emancipation campaign appears to carry the necessary work beyond the Anti-Mui-tsai Society—or at least beyond its title. Reorganisation may therefore be required, and in this connexion it may be timely to suggest again amalgamation with the Society for the Protection of Children.\n\nThe latter Society is also doing excellent work, which touches closely, at one point at least, the labours of the older organisation: both are watchful against cruelty. The amalgamation suggestion has been discussed several times, but, while outwardly there appears to be no obstacle, beneath the surface suspicion seems to remain. Ardent abolitionists still appear to regard the Society for the Protection of Children as something of an official whitewash brush for the mui-tsai system, for sweating of child labour, rack-renting, etc., with education and charity as the only approved remedies. On the other hand, the members of the Society for the Protection of Children appear to regard the Anti-Mui-tsai Society as over-advanced and dangerous. These mutual suspicions are unworthy, and more may be done by more definitely co-ordinated effort. Failing early amalgamation, the best possible use must be made of the existing weapons, and here we have a criticism to address to the Magistrates of the Colony.\n\nThose guilty of cruelty to children are sternly and properly punished; but traffickers are still inadequately dealt with. Looking over our files we find the mistress of a sly brothel fined only $150 or three months' hard labour, and the seller of a small boy fined $1,000, or one year. For kidnapping a seven-year-old child, one man was sentenced to twelve months and twenty strokes. In two other sly brothel cases the fines were $100 and $75. And then a case of kidnapping of a child in which the sentence was six months, while the owner of a number of girls employed in immoral traffic was fined only $50, and for the sale of an infant the fines were also $50, or six weeks. These penalties are inconsistent and inadequate.\n\nFor comparison, a returned banishee received a sentence of one year as did a thief who stole from a house at Magazine Gap. For stealing a fountain pen, the sentence was six months, and the same sentence was imposed upon a snatcher. Opium cases offer stronger contrasts, but for these there is a scale of penalties and they can be left out. The magistrate, of course, must be permitted to allow the circumstances to guide him. Speaking generally, however, it must be said that offences against children, involving their lives, are as yet insufficiently discouraged. All kidnappers and traffickers should be flogged—even to those who buy children and thus create the market.",
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        "content_text": "21\n\nbackyard.\n\nI noticed him bend over the side of the window and look outside. We finished our meal and accused again begged my brother to be so good as to separate from the girl.\n\nThe girl interrupted and said \"I don't care about the affairs of your people\".\n\nAccused said \"I am not talking to you, girl”.\n\nAccused then said goodbye and went away.\n\nI saw him again next day about 10 a.m. in the stairway.\n\nI was returning to the house when I met accused, he said he was looking for An Keung.\n\nI knocked at door and when door was opened accused followed me in.\n\nI went into kitchen and accused remained in passage called \"Ah Keung, Ah Keung\".\n\nI heard my brother shout \"Who are you\"?\n\nAccused replied and my brother said she had gone to Tai Lo Tin. Accused then said \"No, she's at home\".\n\nMy brother again said she was at Tai Lo Tin and accused left the house.\n\nNext day I again saw accused between 3 and 4 p.m.\n\nHe came to the door and it was opened to him.\n\nI was in verandah with Chu Ping and the girl Keung.\n\nKeung took the accused into the rear cubicle and I followed and so did Im Chun.\n\nAccused told my brother that he had lived with the girl for years.\n\nHe added that he left the girl in Hong Kong while he went to Canton to study.\n\nHe asked my brother to leave the girl.\n\nThe girl said \"As you have just said what has happened what do you mean by coming here now to look for me? Do what you please\"\n\nAccused said \"I don't know how many lives you want to settle this matter\"\n\nKeung replied \"I don't know whether it would be you or me: Why do you talk like that\".\n\nAccused then went away.\n\nI next saw accused at the police station.\n\nOn evening of 21st July we had meal in cubicle between 5 and 6 p.m.\n\nI went to sleep on verandah between 8 and 9 p.m.\n\nI last saw my brother and Keung between 7 and 8 p.m.\n\nAbout 3 a.m. I was awakened by a commotion.\n\nI heard the girl shout twice then I heard the noise of a bowl being broken.\n\nI called to my brother but got no reply.\n\nI tried to open the cubicle door but couldn't.\n\nFinally I broke open the door with help of Im Tui.\n\nInside I saw my brother lying dead.\n\nThere was a lamp held by Im Yan.\n\nMy brother was lying on the floor.\n\nKeung was lying on the bed dead.\n\nThey were both naked.\n\nI saw a wound on my brother's chest and also one on her breast.\n\nI saw a broken bowl on the floor.\n\nThe window was open.\n\nThe police came and I went with them to Shanshuipo Station where I saw accused.\n\nI made a report to police.\n\nAt mortuary on 21st July I identified both bodies.\n\nI didn't touch anything in the cubicle.\n\nSgd. Hin Shing Lo.\n\nMy brother and Keung were married.\n\nMy brother has a kit fat wife in the country.\n\nI said before magistrate my brother and Keung were not married.\n\nThey were not properly married - just living together.\n\nI didn't tell the magistrate about accused saying \"I don't",
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        "content_text": "22\n\n\"know how many lives you want to settle this matter\",\n\nI gave that statement at Yeumati: I don't remember if I said it to the magistrate.\n\nIf you say I didn't say it let it be so.\n\nI don't speak Puntei well but I can understand it.\n\nAccused and my brother and the girl Keung were speaking Puntei. It is not true that accused had only one interview with my brother and Keung.\n\nThe girl sometimes wore a long coat and sometimes a short coat. My brother was unemployed.\n\nRexd. Fraser.\n\nI made a statement to Police at Yaumati on 24th July.\n\nMy brother had a business in the Straits.\n\nHe was here on holiday only.\n\nOriginal deposition of Im Hei before magistrate read to Jury.\n\nChu Ping dd.xí.Fraser.\n\nReal Full name Chu Yan Ping 2 Hukka,\n\nIn Hei is a distant nephew of mine.\n\nOn 21st July I was principal tenant of 3rd floor of Lai Chi Kok Road.\n\nIm Chun occupied rear cubicle with a girl Keung Sau Lin.\n\nThey were there about two weeks from 6th July.\n\nIm Yau Span occupied middle cubicle.\n\nI occupied verandah and Im Mei slept on verandah also, also Im Himi..\n\nShortly before Im Chun's death a man surnamed Keung came to see the girl Keung.\n\nIt was about two days before the death.\n\nOn night of 20th July I went to bed about 11 p.m.\n\nI heard Keung screaming and I wakened up.\n\nI also heard the smashing of a bowl.\n\nI got up and called to my nephew Yim Lui to open the door.\n\nI had a lamp lit and on the floor I saw Im Chun lying dead.\n\nPolice came shortly after and we got the door open.\n\nThere is a bamboo fence separating 211 from 213.\n\nNext morning it was bent.\n\nThe previous day it was quite upright and straight.\n\nxxd.hin hing Lo.\n\nWhen the door was broken open I saw that Im Chun had a handkerchief in his hand.\n\nIt may have been a towel.\n\nOn 18th July about 8 a.m. a man named Keung came to our floor. I didn't see the man again.\n\nOn 19th July I was at home between 8 and 9 a.m. and between 9 and 4 p.m.\n\nI wasn't asleep.\n\nNo stranger came to my premises then.\n\nOn morning of 17th July I was at home between 9 and 11 a.m. Nobody came there then.\n\nAh Chun and Keung were both naked.\n\nShe was on the bed.\n\nre xd. Fraser.\n\nThe door is always closed and bolted.\n\nI usually open the door when anyone knocks.\n\nOther people sometimes answer the door.\n\nI'm Kui dd.xd.Fraser.\n\nOn 20th July I was living on 3rd floor of 211 Lai Chi Kok Road. I slept on verandah.\n\nI was asleep that night when I heard Keung scream twice \"Ai yah, ai yah”.\n\nI got up and so did the others.\n\nWe went to rear cubicle and broke the door open.\n\n7",
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        "content_text": "-7--\n\n1 say the bodies of Im Chun and Keung.\n\nIm Chun was on the floor and Keung on the bed. We had a lamp\n\nOn the window sill I saw a dagger like Ext.2.\n\nI saw blood on the blade.\n\n23\n\nI saw a broken bowl, one part on the window sill and the other on the floor.\n\nIt was a bowl like Ext.13.\n\nWindow was open.\n\nI didn't go into the cubicle nor touch anything.\n\nI noticed a rope hanging down by the window.\n\nI saw it from the kitchen window.\n\nI had never seen that rope before.\n\nI don't know how the rope was fastened to the roof.\n\nI only saw it hanging down.\n\nIm Yen hang dã. xả Fraser. Sand contractor.\n\nOn 20th July I was at 211 Lai Chi Kok Road 3rd floor. That night I was wakened between 3 and 4 a.m.\n\nI came home about 10 p.m.\n\nWhen I came in I closed the door and bolted it. Then I wakened I lit a lamp.\n\nChung Hei Tsz ss. xd. Fraser. Missionary of Gospel Mission 56 Belcher Street.\n\nI have known accused for two years.\n\nHe came to my mission towards end of June and stayed there until 20th July.\n\nThat day he told me he was going back to his country and went away about 8.30 p.m.\n\nThere was a prayer meeting which he attended that night.\n\nHe had a bag like Ext.15 which he took away with him.\n\nI have known accused since end of year before last.\n\nI saw him only occasionally.\n\nI don't know if he had a wife.\n\nHe sometimes brought a lady to prayer meetings.\n\nAlways the same lady.\n\nI thought they must have been his wife.\n\nI addressed her as Yeung Si Lai.\n\nThey didn't seem very happy couple.\n\nThe girl in Ext.17 is the lady to whom I refer.\n\nI have seen this lady carrying a baby boy.\n\nUnfortunately the child died.\n\nI know Luk Tai Koo.\n\nI don't know if I have ever seen accused and the woman in Ext.17 at a prayer meeting at which Luk Tai Koo was present. At the beginning of this year accused went to a school of theology in Canton.\n\nHe came here on a holiday and stayed at the Temple with me. While accused was in Canton the woman in Ext.17 was living at Wet Point.\n\nI don't know with whom she lived.\n\nI don't know a midwife named Chui Suk Hing.\n\nI don't remember how long ago it was since I saw accused with the girl in Ext.17.\n\nI saw them this Chinese year.\n\nIt was in the first moon (14th Feb to 14th March).\n\nSince then I have seen the girl in Ext.17 alone, in second moon.\n\nChu Lan dd. xd. Fraser. Caretaker Gospel Tabernacle in Lai Chi Kok Road.",
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        "content_text": "At that time I had no knowledge of events at 211.\n\nKo Hok Kyong dd. xd. Fraser P.C.D.33 Shame huipo\n\nOn morning of 21st July I was at station when Bergt.Davies brought accused to station in ricksha.\n\nIt was about 3.10 a.m.\n\nSergt.Davies called me out and left me in charge of Deft.in ricksba.\n\nI didn't know why accused was in custody.\n\nI didn't speak to accused or question him.\n\nHe suddenly made a statement.\n\n28\n\nI can't remember it all now but when I went into the Charge room I took it down.\n\nIt was five or ten minutes after the statement was made.\n\nThis is my notebook containing the note.\n\nHe spoke Punti which I understand.\n\nxxd.Hin Ching Lo\n\nHe muttered the words to himself. It wasn't in answer to questions.\n\nRexd. Fraser\n\nI have no doubt as to what he actually said.\n\nAdjourned to 2.30 p.m.\n\ned.A.D.. MacGregor C.J. 18.9.34.\n\nAt 2.30 p.m. Court resumed.\n\nAppearances as before. Accused present in custody.\n\nJurors all present and answer to names.\n\nYung Chuen\n\ndd.xd. Fraser.\n\nP.C. C.409 Shamshuipo.\n\nOn morning of 21st July I went to 3rd floor 211 Lai Chi Kok Rd. About 3.30 a.m. I took charge of two bodies and about 8 a.m.\n\nI removed them to Kowloon Public Mortuary.\n\nAt 9 a.m. I identified them in presence of Dorling.\n\nNo xxn.\n\nArthur James William Dorling ss. xd.Fraser.\n\nInsp.of Police: Det.Insp.for Kowloon. Yaumati Station. At 3.30 a.m. on 21st July I went to 211 Lai Chi Kok Road. I got there ten minutes later.\n\nIn rear cubicle I found two bodies\n\nin Ex.5.\n\nman and woman, lying as\n\nBoth naked. Both dead. Each had wound over heart.\n\nBy legs of dead man I found Ex.13, two pieces of broken bowl. Both on floor.\n\nOn window sill inside I found knife (Ex.2).\n\nIt was against woodwork about 8\" from right hand side of window. Window was wet with blood on both sides.\n\nHandle was broken - split from the bottom as now.\n\nNo trace of blood on handle.\n\nThe window was open in both halves - fastened back as in Ex.7 I look at Ex.5. Stain on window sill and on wall below it is blood.\n\nThere was blood smear outside the window on the outer wall which looked like the smear of a blood-stained hand.\n\nBlood just below body of male and blood on bed below body of female.\n\nNot much blood.",
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        "content_text": "44\n\n114\n\nSUNG HOK-P'ANG\n\nThe ordinary vegetables such as Buddhist priests eat, but they smelt very fragrant, and tasted delicious, and the travellers had never tasted anything as good before. When the meal was over, they asked the priest how to get to the capital city, who answered \"From here to the capital is more than 200,000 miles, but do not worry, make up your mind to go and you will reach there quickly.\" Then he asked Chue \"Do you know Pooi To?\" The minister answered \"Yes, I know him well.\" Then the priest pointed to the north wall and showed him a cloth sack, a tall Abbot's staff, and a priest's alms bowl hanging there. He said \"Those are Pooi To's things. I beg you to give him back this alms bowl when you see him, and this letter that I will give you. And here is a green bamboo stick, which when you get back to your boat, throw into the water in front of the boat and shut the windows of the boat and sit quietly. You need not trouble to row or sail, for you will arrive at the capital very speedily.\"\n\n1\n\nThey all said goodbye and a young priest took them to the monastery door and showed them a path to follow which would bring them back to their vessel quickly. Once more on board, they did what they had been told, and soon found to their amazement that the boat had left the water and was sailing over the tops of the trees. After three days of this novel means of travel, they reached the Waai river (淮河) and arrived at a place named 'Chue Tseuk' (朱雀) not far from the capital. Here they espied Pooi To riding along on a big horse, urging it along with a whip. Chue and his companions threw themselves down and began to worship Pooi To, who entered their boat, and they gave him the alms bowl and the letter. Now there were many people about, and when some of them saw the letter, they recognized it as that which Pooi To had written in Chan's house, for it was on two bits of yellow paper and only consisted of a few characters which were ugly and no-one could understand them. Pooi To held the alms bowl in his hand, and laughed. He said “Oh, they want me to go home and throw this bowl into the sky and catch it again. But I haven't seen the bowl for four thousand years!\"\n\nAnother version of this story recounts that when Chue reached the island, he met a priest carrying the alms bowl who said \"I was a pupil of Pooi To. Formerly I held this bowl, but I died in Ye Shing Monastery (冶城寺). Now I ask you to return this bowl to Pooi To for me. When you get to your boat, hold it in front of the boat and let one man hold the tiller, and you will reach the capital safely.\" And the minister did what he had been told, and reached Pooi To, as described before.\n\nPooi To must have returned to Chan's family by then because the story tells that on that day, he had left Chan's house early and did not return till dark. The following morning, Chan rose up early, and found that Pooi To had disappeared, but on his door, written in childish and uneducated characters, were the words \"Happiness family. The holy man will come and live there.\" After that, Pooi To never returned to Chan's family again, but he made several mysterious appearances and disappearances in the city, working miracles and curing sick people.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.",
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        "content_text": "# LOCAL SPORT REVIEW\n\n## Haymes' Creditable Achievement on the Course\n\nTHE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & \n\nThere was plenty over the last week-end to whet the enthusiastic taste of sports fans. The chief attraction was, of course, at Happy Valley on Saturday, when the Ninth Extra Race Meeting was held, in glorious weather. Of the many race-goers, none can have had more reason to be happy than the lucky holder of ticket No. 37163 in the Kwang-tung Handicap, who had the immense satisfaction of seeing Mr. A. C. Pih bring Plain View in first by a head, to net him the first prize of $31,813.60 in the big Sweepstakes.\n\nOn the cricket field, there was one very fine performance by a new recruit of the Hong Kong Cricket Club, F. Haymes, playing for the Club's second eleven against the Indian Recreation Club, achieved the distinction of taking all ten Indian wickets. Going on first change, he sent down 13.3 overs, five of which were maidens, and had 47 runs hit off him. Six times he hit the stumps and on another occasion, he accepted a hard return from N. Singh when the latter looked like winning the match for the other side. It is true that the batting strength of the Indians in this game was very weak, compared to the days when Sirda Khan, F. M. el Arculli, and M. R. Abbas had charge of the side, but the performance is nevertheless a very fine one and will probably earn for Haymes a trial in senior cricket. On another ground, R. T. Broadbridge gave an exhibition of what was described in certain quarters as a Jessopian piece of hitting. Though the bowling he encountered was comparatively weak, there is no doubt that Broadbridge has improved out of all knowledge in the past few seasons, and his play for the Kowloon Cricket Club this year will be watched with much interest.\n\nOn Sunday, the well-patronised hockey match between the Shanghai Ladies' team and a team from the Central British Association Ladies saw a brilliant come-back by Miss Margaret White. Playing a fast and skilful game, she scored the only goal of the match and was responsible for the Association's victory over a side which, on the run of play, was little inferior.\n\n## October 29, 1937\n\n### O.A.G. AMONG LAWN BOWLERS\n\n#### Saturday's Successful Dinner\n\nHis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. N. L. Smith, His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Athol MacGregor, and Commodore E. B. C. Dicken were among the distinguished guests at the dinner of the Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association, held in the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel on Oct. 23.\n\nA large gathering of lawn bowlers were present for the prize distribution and the concert which followed.\n\nFollowing dinner, the Loyal Toast was honoured, after which the president of the Association, Mr. R. Basa, welcomed the guests and remarked that the function brought to a close all the activities under the auspices of the Association. The Interport contest, to which all lawn bowlers had been looking forward, had unfortunately been cancelled owing to Northern trouble, and he was sure he expressed the feeling of all present when he extended sympathy to Northern bowlers in their present ordeal.\n\nThe Craigengower C.C., although finishing second in both the first and second divisions, had the consolation of winning the three open championships of the Colony.\n\n#### H.E.'S SPEECH\n\nHis Excellency, the Officer Administering the Government, said: It is a great honour to have been asked to present the prizes to-day, but I confess that I was a little disturbed when I found that this entailed the making of a speech. What with the Budget and a visit to Macao, I think that the reading public has had more than enough of me during the last few days. But what is more to the point is that I suppose of all the people in this room, I am the least qualified to speak about the noble game which is our concern to-night.\n\nSouth China Athletic Association's senior football team delighted their supporters at Caroline Hill by beating a full side from the Hong Kong Football Association by the odd goal in three. In their fine victory, the Chinese had a lot for which to thank the old \"master,\" Fung King-cheung, who scored one of the goals, was partly responsible for the other, and throughout was a source of worry to the F.A. defence.\n\nI used to play in the early days before I came out East, but I must confess that I have never rolled a bowl in anger in this Colony. That is my own fault, and I hope to be able to overcome it in the years to come if I am admitted to the fellowship. Lawn bowls has the great feature of attuning hand and brain, which is, I suppose, the chief object of all games. Those who run about between goal posts or between wickets, or who stride over the country after a small ball may pretend to despise it, but I should say it is in some ways the chess of ball games, calling for foresight and skill and a steady nerve.\n\nAs a social asset, it is unnecessary for me to praise the bowling green. The faces round this table are surely sufficient evidence of this.\n\nI have great pleasure in supporting the toast of the Association, and I thank you for inviting me here to-night.\n\nMr. C. B. Hosking, Hon. Secretary of the Association, proposed the health of the guests in a witty speech, and Commodore Dicken replied. Sir Atholl MacGregor also spoke.\n\n## \"CLOSING DAY\" AT C.S.C.\n\n\"Closing Day\" at the Civil Service Cricket Club on Saturday saw six rinks in play, the \"visitors\" beating their hosts by 4 shots. After the game, spoons were presented to the guests.\n\n| Team | Players | Score |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| C.S.C.C. | J. R. Pengelly, H. F. 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        "content_text": "## \n| Date of Incident | Type & No. of Junk | Name of Master | Crew | Junk & Gear | Loss or Damage | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 31.7.40 | Trading Junk T4524H | Ho Chat of Kwong Hoi (C.T.) | 5 males<br>3 females | Armament | $200.00 | Nil |\n| 5.8.40 | Trading Junk T4038H | Lilian Yau of Kwong Hoi (C.T.) | 7 males<br>1 female | Junk & property | $12,000 | Nil |\n| 5.8.40 | Trading Junk T4061H | Lai Siu Chan of Kwong Hoi (C.T.) | 6 males<br>3 females | Junk & belongings | $10,000 | Garlic $3,500 |\n| 6.8.40 | Cargo boat 2532V | Li Chiu of Tai Ping (C.T.) | 3 males | Licence | ... | ... |\n| 9.8.40 | Trading Junk T4347H | Po Chung Pak of Tung Kun (C.T.) | 15 males | Junk | $2,000 | Fowl & ducks $200.00 |\n\n## Nature of Incident\nJapanese boarded near Sem Hun (C.T.) from a schooner. They pushed the cannons overboard and allowed the junk to go. No one injured.\n\nBoarded by Japanese near Sem Hun (C.T.) from schooner No. 2. The crew was sent away and the junk set afire. No one injured.\n\nJapanese boarded near Sem Mun (C.T.) from schooner No. 4. Crew were sent away and the junk set afire, but they returned and extinguished the blaze. No one injured.\n\nJapanese boarded near Tai-Shan (C.T.) from warship No.18. The cargo & licence was taken. No one injured.\n\nJapanese boarded near Sam Mun (C.T.) from a trawler. T4347H was towed to Sam Mun and kept by Japanese who gave the crew an unlicensed boat in which they returned to Hong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "# \nor two ladies in our groups fainted, which is possibly the very thing the Japanese wished for.\n\nArriving some two and a half hours later on the other side of Hongkong, we saw what was to be our home for the next 21 months; however, little did we realize then that this little strip of land was to be our jail for the best part of two years.\n\nOn a narrow neck of land between the main part of the island and the Stanley Fort, we were enclosed by barbed wire in a space of approximately 50 acres. Our community of British, Americans, and later Dutch, Belgians, Norwegians, etc., were housed in buildings that were originally built for European, Indian, and Chinese jail warders' quarters, and the College with adjacent buildings which formerly housed the St. Stephen's College and staff.\n\nAs a result of the heavy fighting that took place on the Stanley Peninsula, many of the buildings were badly damaged to such an extent that they were unfit for human habitation, yet the inadequate housing accommodation made it necessary that such buildings be occupied.\n\nOur first, and real, problem was making these buildings habitable, but without the necessary materials for repairs, this, and the construction of communal kitchens, clinics, was a task in itself, and for the first few weeks, life in the Camp was very hectic.\n\nThe next problem was to get satisfactory cooks able to boil rice. If the rice wasn't almost raw, it would be burnt or overcooked to a mash, and it was some time before the kitchen staffs were able to maintain consistency in their cooking.\n\nOur food those first days was sickening. Twice a day, a bowl of rice and a small cup of fish soup full of bones with boiled lettuce leaves made up our diet, but even such unpalatable food in those winter days was looked forward to. Hunger was our chief complaint, and on many occasions, internees have broken down and cried from sheer hunger and exhaustion. During that first spring in Camp, food deficiency diseases began to break out in earnest, beri-beri in various forms, and a general loss of energy throughout the whole Camp. This was more marked among the middle-aged and elderly persons. Figures taken throughout the entire period of our internment showed that the average bodily loss in weight was approximately 25%.\n\nTo give some idea of the rations received in Camp, it is best to give the daily ration figures received over the entire period of confinement per person in ounces. These were as follows:\n| Food Item | Quantity (oz.) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Flour | 4.0 |\n| Rice | 7.0 |\n| Oil | 1/5 |\n| Salt | 1/3 |\n| Sugar | 1/4 |\n| Firewood | 9.5 |\n| Combined Meat and Fish | 5.5 |\n| Vegetables | 7.1 |\n\nThe meat consisted of buffalo, of which 65% was bone, occasionally pork, and for a period of six weeks, mutton, this latter being cold store stock which the Japanese and Chinese do not eat. The fish sent in to us was of the poorest quality, either conger eel, mackerel, or a local many-boned small fish, and more than was necessary, it arrived in the first stages of putrefaction, especially during the summer months, when ice packing as refrigeration was inadequate. The vegetables were usually made up of gourds (melon, pumpkin, marrow, turnips, etc.) and a few greens usually consisting of lettuce, water spinach, and local Chinese cabbage. On many occasions, when meat or fish was rejected on the grounds that it was diseased or putrefying, and representations were made to the Japanese Authorities, our requests for replacement of this deficit were only ignored, so that the figures shown above of the daily rations do not represent the true figures, but only those received.\n\nPossibly the most disheartening part of the early internment came when, after spending weeks of hard labor in preparing and seeding new gardens, where gardens had never been before, the Authorities cut off the gardens with barbed-wire fencing, placing them outside our boundaries, and thus cutting off all access to them. With the food situation so meagre, this act was unjustifiable and unforgivable.\n\nWith the arrival of the Red Cross supplies in November 1942, the general health of the Camp took a definite upward trend. Whereas, prior to receiving these life-giving supplies, the clinics and hospitals were unable to cope with the number of septic cases in Camp, after the first two weeks of absorbing proteins, etc., septicaemia dropped to a minimum among the internees, and cases that had been receiving treatment for weeks now began to cure very quickly.\n\nIt was at this time that the Japanese perpetrated another unforgivable crime in the eyes of us all in Camp. Received in parcels from friends in town were canned goods foreign to Hongkong, but the same as that received in our Red Cross parcels, showing that these foodstuffs had been looted and sold in town.\n\n64251-1\n\n14",
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        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, THURSDAY, MARCH\n\n'VARSITY CONGREGATION NEW BUILDING\n\nDEGREES CONFERRED\n\nImpressive Ceremony In War-Scarred, Roofless Great Hall\n\nFIRST SINCE LIBERATION\n\nIn the war-scarred, roofless Great Hall of Hong Kong University yesterday, the first official Congregation since the liberation was held in the presence of a large and distinguished gathering. His Excellency the Governor and Chancellor, Sir Alexander Grantham, conferred forty degrees, many of which were wartime. Three awards were posthumous.\n\nUNIVERSITY MACE\n\nDr L. T. Ride, Vice-Chancellor, in his speech at the University Congregation yesterday, referred to the Mace which was stolen from the University library in February, 1945. The makers had been traced, he said, and a photograph had been taken of a newspaper cutting which depicted the Mace. An exact replica, he added, would cost $10,000.\n\nDuring tea, after the official opening of the new School, Mr Leung Yew promised Dr Ride a donation of $10,000 towards the cost of the Mace, it is learned. Mr Leung took part in the official Procession at the Congregation.\n\nfine arts, and music has place within our academic walls\n\nFor years we have been all too conscious of this formidable list of deficiencies, and before the war my predecessor Dr Sloss started the huge task of dealing with it. With renewed and amazing vigour he tackled it again after the war, and largely as the result of this, plus the keenness and enthusiasm of our present staff, I am optimistic enough to predict that before the next Congregation...\n\nArchitecture School Opened\n\nBY GOVERNOR\n\nFollowing the Congregation at the University yesterday, His Excellency the Governor, with the turn of a gold key, opened the new Duncan Sloss School of Engineering and Architecture in Pokfulam Road.\n\nThe building, which is very simple and neat, is of three floors with the basement used for hydraulics. The ground and first floors are for engineering and the top for architecture.\n\nMessrs Harry Way and G.A.V. Hall, the architects, were introduced to His Excellency.\n\nOn view in the various rooms were exhibits which included a model of the proposed new Ho Tung Hall for a women's hostel, the Henry Yeung collection, some objects of Chinese art from the University Museum, a bas-relief bust of Dr Duncan Sloss and a model plan of the University grounds.\n\nVisitors inspected the building and tea was served.\n\nThe Band of 3 Commando Brigade, R. M., rendered a programme of appropriate selections both at the Congregation and at the opening ceremony.\n\nIn the course of his address, the Vice-Chancellor, Dr L. T. Ride, said that whatever our creed, whatever our standard of learning, \"surely in this year of grace 1950 it is to the advantage of humanity as a whole that there should remain in the Far East yet one institution of higher learning where freedom of thought still exists, where freedom of expression is not at the mercy of any one political party and where freedom to choose one's beliefs remains unthreatened by an iron fist or untrammelled by a curtain, be it of iron or bamboo. That is the justification of a British University in Hongkong.\"\n\nSeated on the dais on His Excellency's right were Dr L. T. Ride (Vice-Chancellor), Mr Malcolm Macdonald (Visiting Chancellor from Malaya), Prof. S. M. Banfill (Dean of Medicine), Prof. R. K. M. Simpson (Dean of Arts), Lt-Gen Sir E. C. Robert Mansergh, the Hon. R. R. Todd, Bishop Valtorta, the Hon B. C. K. Hawkins, the Hon D. F. Landale, the Hon T. N. Chau and the Hon E. A. Boyce. On the Governor's left were the Hon Sir Arthur Morse, Prof. F. A. Redmond (Dean of Engineering), Prof. D. F. Davies (Dean of Science), Mr B. Mellor (Registrar), Bishop Follows, the Hon C.G.S. Follows, the Hon S. N. Chau, the Hon Sir Man-kam Lo and Dr the Hon I. Newton. Also on the dais were members of the Court and Senate and senior Staff members.\n\nIn the front row of the audience sat Lady Grantham, Lady Morse, Prof. Edwards, Miss Dorothy Ride, Mrs Scott, Mrs Banfill, Mrs Redmond, Mr Cassels, Mr C. J. R. Dawson, ADC, and Capt J. Baker, ADC.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor with Dr L. T. Ride, Vice-Chancellor (left) and Mr G. A. V. Hall, architect (right) after opening the new Duncan Sloss School of Engineering and Architecture. — (Staff Photographer).\n\nDr Ride, addressing the gathering, said: This is the 38th Congregation of our University, and the first official Congregation held in this building since May, 1941. It is customary on these occasions for the Vice-Chancellor to review the salient activities of the University since its Congregation last met; but nine years is a large proportion of the life of a University barely 40 years old, so I do not propose to-day to attempt to cover in detail the vicissitudes of the University during all that period. I shall confine my remarks in the main to what I consider the most outstanding and supremely important outcome of the trial of war.\n\nI believe that from this veritable test of fire this University has emerged, firmly established in its own right, as an integral, permanent and valuable, though small, part of the community of Hongkong; and I believe it has attained this status not merely through the wise deliberations of the influential citizens who serve on its governing bodies, but through the solid achievements of those trained within its walls.\n\nA university presents to its members a way of life, and we in the British Empire believe that our way of life, founded on Christian principles, has something to offer to perplexed humanity. If ever the world needed it, it needs it now, as Osbert Sitwell has said: \"Of wolf-and-buffalo politics, where to howl over your prey is to be realistic, where to bellow is to prove strength, and to whine is to show grace: the world in which we sull—but only just—survive: the world in which the sabre-toothed tiger and the ant are each paragons and the butterfly is doomed for its wings, which are uneconomical...\n\nBritish Way of Life\n\nThe University is here, not to force any particular political, religious, social, economical, or scientific beliefs on its students, but to make available to those who so choose, the advantages they may find in the British way of life and learning.\n\nWhen we start talking about standards of University degrees, we are on very debatable ground. In general, no standards are laid down; a university fixes its own, but in some of the professions there are definite standards; for example, in medicine a very rigid standard is set for the protection of the public by a statutory body known as the General Medical Council.\n\nIn engineering, there is no such legal yardstick, but each year standards are checked by the Department sending the examination papers to London University for assessment by their professors.\n\nThe Fine Arts\n\nBut in the other sciences and the arts we have no such outside help, and the departments concerned are more at the mercy of local university conditions, mainly financial.\n\nIt is only fair to the citizens of the Colony that claims for assistance in the higher education of its people should receive equal consideration by the Colonial Office with the claims from other colonies.\n\nDr Ride continued, \"We have never lacked critics. I admit here and now, without shame, that in those years just prior to the war, our final year students were of their number: I often asked myself: 'What useful purpose do we serve here in Hong Kong.' My head wagged in unison with those who doubted whether we were fulfilling any really useful purpose in this community, whether the result of our efforts was worth the outlay.\n\nAbundance of Critics\n\nIn this, as in other things, it is fortunate that we have had the guidance of our academic and administrative staff, and further, the solid achievements of those trained within our walls.\n\nThe University has therefore made application to the Colonial Office for an allocation from the sum set aside under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1945. Our request was placed before the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies for their recommendations.\n\nIt is expected that these visitors will arrive in the very near future.\n\nDr Sun Yat-sen, in a speech on February 20, 1923, said, \"It is a place where students, through close association with their teachers, learn to apply the knowledge of the past to the problems of the present and future, and thus become, by the attainment of a recognised standard of general and technical education, useful citizens of their community.\"\n\nA university exists for the benefit of the community and not merely for the instruction of a few selected individuals.\n\nIn the course of his address, Dr Ride said, \"This blue-print for a University gives the architect a very wide scope, but in other words, the instruction broadens the field for the critic. The loose usage locally of the term 'student' has recently been the subject of just comment by the Director of Education.\n\nA student is one who is matriculated in, or otherwise admitted to, an institution of higher education.\n\nThe conception we in the British Empire have of a university, like many other things British, has undergone numerous changes, some gradual, some radical, through the centuries.\n\nAt an International Conference held at Utrecht in August, 1948, the \"Role of a University\" was one of the major subjects for discussion.\n\nDr Ride said, \"I would put to you that the definition by which we should judge a university should at least be extended somewhat as follows: It is a place where students, through close association with their teachers, learn to apply the knowledge of the past to the problems of the present and future, and thus become, by the attainment of a recognised standard of general and technical education, useful citizens of their community.\"\n\n(Contd. on Page 10, Col. 2)",
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        "content_text": "Hong Kong's trade policy \n\nJulia's \n\nAnnual Labour \n\npolicy \n\n9 \n\nAttached \n\npass \n\nas \n\ncopy of \n\nthe colony's \n\nwage fixing machinery. Paragraph 48 of the \n\nReport for \n\n48-9 shows \n\nremains as stated in the 28 despatch. \n\n2018 \n\npass through Legal Library to attach a \n\n1940 \n\nTrade Boards Ordinance \n\n271 referred \n\nthe despatch. \n\n21 \n\n7 \n\nGeneral statement \n\n(Induans) \n\nI attach at (7) opposite \n\nnote \n\na \n\nwhich I think \n\ncovers \n\nthe points \n\nraised by \n\nthe sofs \n\nin (1) opposite. \n\nof the 48/9 \n\n(2) opposite, the '48 Annual Report Labour Department Report and (1) on 12284/17/48. \n\nIt is \n\nbased on \n\n3 \n\nThe comparison is amazing! \n\n1/3/50 \n\nThe figures in para 10 of (2) are of interest in showing that \n\nat present although Hong Kong imported \n\napprox £8 million of \n\nBritish textiles, exports to the U.K. amounted to only a few \n\nthousand yards worth of H.K. textiles. \n\nIn brief although production costs in H.K. are below those ruling \n\nin other countries, e.g. U.K. \n\n1. K. workers are the highest paid in the Far East. \n\nTu. Watson. \n\nHallall 1/2 \n\n...\n\nconditions in the Far East are not valid. The Temporary Statement prepared is not reassuring. The industry is poorly managed, the hours are very long & conditions do not ensure efficiency in the industry. The shirts coming here will be in competition. Don't there we be a howl? I think the H.C. should look into the labour side of the industry - hours, wages, etc. The Trade Board fixing can \n\n...\n\nWhat happened here in the early days of the Trade Boards when the wages \n\n\"Determined by conditions of the \n\nable-bodied of the last efficient workshops. As key in being 1/2 \n\n...\n\nThere should be an outcry. \n\n4450 \n\n3-6 \n\nThanks for preparing \n\n...\n\nPage information preserved as per instruction 11 is not detected in this case. If it is detected, it will be kept as is. \n\nAlso, the text has been corrected for spelling, spacing, and some minor reordering as per the instructions. However, some parts of the text still appear to be nonsensical or fragmented, likely due to the quality of the original OCR output or the complexity of the text. Newspaper reordering (instruction 13) and table reconstruction (instruction 14) were not applicable in this case as there were no clear indications of multi-column text or tables. The text has been formatted using HTML with  tags for paragraphs.",
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        "content_text": "CMYME NEW3 \n\nکار جیم \n\nShut the door on the shilling shirt \n\nR\n\nEMEMBER how, fifteen years ago, British folk were shocked by the shilling shirt? \n\nMade in Japan, it was flooding the markets of the world. It was five shillings cheaper than anything the mills of Lancashire could produce. It put Lancashire cotton workers out of jobs by the thousand. \n\nAnd the busy Japanese were not only making shirts. They sold the world sixpenny socks, 3d.-a-dozen matches, bicycles that were pounds cheaper than anything Britain could turn \n\nAll out. seemed like the \"genuine article\" Britain had been proudly making for decades. \n\nIs it all going to happen again? At this vital moment in Britain's recovery drive is there a chance that we shall have to meet the Japanese on the unfair terms that poorly-paid labour can give the manufacturers of the Far East? Many British businessmen think so. \n\nThey see the way things are going by the arrival here of East's first 3s. 6d. the Far shirts. A thousand dozen piled up in a big Manchester warehouse last week. \n\nTrue, these aren't Japanese shirts sneaked in from Hong Kong under Imperial Preference - they were made in Hong Kong itself from yarn either spun locally or originating in the Empire. \n\nBut British manufacturers see the possible danger. Nearer home, too, they see how post-war Germany may try to enter their markets with cut-price goods. \n\nNow let us take a close-up of two average workers in Japan and Germany. Sunday Empire News special correspondents yesterday cabled these first-hand reports: \n\nTOKIO \n\nFrom Richard Hughes \n\nO\n\na\n\nUT into the snow and drizzle of black Osaka winter morning clops 35-year-old Torao Zuzuki, textile worker at Keneguchi cotton mills. \n\nZuzuki-San, the shabbiest man in the world, wears darned slop clothes, wooden geta (clogs), carries his lunchbox of rice, dried fish and pickles under his arm. \n\nHe faces a half-hour railway trip in a packed car to his factory, where he begins work at 8 a.m. and finishes at 5 p.m. Six days a week, earning 4,000 yen (say £4) a month. \n\nHe shares a three-roomed paper and bamboo home near the main Osaka canal with his in-laws, whose own home was burned down in the early American fire raids. \n\nWith his wife, his mother-in-law, father-in-law, and two children, he sits, eats and sleeps on the matting floor of his tiny home, where all the fuel for cooking and heating is provided by charcoal. \n\nOnce again Britain may face peril from the sweated mills of Japan and a new Germany out to get rich again. \n\nHere is the first-hand background to a story which affects every worker in Britain. \n\nor\n\nHere is the first 3s. 6d. boy's shirt Britain has seen in years. But it isn't a Japanese product - it comes in from Hong Kong, made from locally-spun Empire yarn. \n\nAt the factory, where American rationalisation methods have recently been spurring on production and cutting operating costs, he labours earnestly and uncomplainingly to produce inferior textiles at one-third the cost of Lancashire textiles. \n\nCrowding into the stuffy railway carriage beside him is his neighbour, Kenichi Takahashi, who wears a 1918-style white mask as a protection against tuberculosis germs and who labours in a gimcrack toy factory near Kaneguichi textile mill. \n\nTakahashi-San smears yellow paint on mass-produced duck toys made in imitation of an English model and now selling at one-quarter of the English cost in Indonesia, India, South America. Takahashi-San is a relatively unskilled worker, but because he has four children he earns five thousand yen (£5) a month. \n\nNeither Zuzuki-San nor Takahashi-San, who part with elaborate bows at the factory gates, has money, opportunity, nor leisure - nor the desire for recreation or sport. \n\nEach solemnly throws a baseball to his companion at the half-hour meal break and the two toss down a few glasses of sake (warm rice wine) or excellent Japanese beer after work on the way home. \n\nThey take their children for a walk on their weekly day off, and they are still far more comfortable in their yukata (informal Japanese) than in kimono Western-style dress. \n\nThey tend to suspect the union organisers, who urge them to unite for higher wages and a higher standard of living. So long as they have enough to eat - and by comparative standards they are eating more than English workers are - they content to continue the ancient Japanese tradition of Spartan hard work, living, and obedience to authority. \n\nThey know that their Emperor saved them - and the world - from hardship and suffering by graciously ending the war, which the Americans were using hideously unfair bombing, and they know that the Americans are now busily helping them recover industrially. \n\nThey blandly accept their coolie rice-bowl standards of living - because they still know no other. On the bowed shoulders of eighty million Suzukis and Takahashis Japan is doggedly hoping to win its way back to Asiatic leadership and leadership of the world markets. \n\nBERLIN \n\nFrom Antony Terry \n\nC\n\nUTLERY, cars, cameras, toys, textiles and Rhine wine are some of the things Germany hopes to sell to the world in increasing quantities during the next few years. \n\nTypical of the energy Germans are putting into rebuilding their export trade is the spectacular post-war comeback of the £2,000,000 people's car plant near Brunswick. \n\nFour miles of factory built by Hitler to make amphibious jeeps to carry his armies across France and Russia finished up a mass of twisted scrap-iron after a dozen heavy R.A.F. raids in 1944. \n\nWhen British troops took over the plant the official description was 70 per cent. destroyed.\" British Control Commission officials who followed the troops immediately set about putting the Volkswagen factory on its feet again. \n\nThe brilliant American-trained director of the Volkswagen plant hopes eventually to oust British cars from Scandinavia and other European markets and to step up output to 60,000 cars a year. \n\nWorking conditions in the Volkswagen factory, where 10,000 are now employed, are good by German standards. Forty-nine-year-old Kurt Schroeder, who earns £5 a week fitting \"luxury upholstery\" inside the £440 export model of the Volkswagen, pays 10s. a week for his spotlessly clean, simply furnished single room on the Nazi-built housing estate and, of course, he has no fares to pay. \n\nHe cycles to work, pays £1 a week to his landlady for a single meat-meal a day and takes a packet of brown bread and dripping for his mid-shift meal. \n\nMy Sidebottens. \n\nMEHA. Hall. \n\nMr. Faircli \n\nMe Adio",
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        "content_text": "File No. 54510/51\n\nSAVINGRAM\n\nSent. 28 hours.\n\nTELEGRAM\n\nC.O.\n\nTo: Mr. Anderson, Mr. Holl\n\nThe word Priority may be entered here, if necessary.\n\nGor' H.K.\n\nRepeated to: Sir Permt. U.S. of S., Parly. U.S. of S., S. of S.\n\nPriority: Reply urgently required. Nil.\n\nImportant. Immediate. Most Immediate: 194.\n\nFor transmission No........ In Clear Code Cypher ...\n\nRestricted.\n\n(8) Your tel. no $16. Netherlands Harbour Works\n\nDistribution: As for (8) except that Mr Gooch NOT Mr Foxley of C.As should receive a copy.\n\nFurther action: subject to approval except as noted below\n\nrelieved of agreement on terms proposed in your para 1.\n\nbe in your para 2.\n\nArrangement can be confined to this firm, subject to exception that if they wish to apply above to any other firm it should be done only if occasion arise for extension of these terms to another firm my prior approval will be required.\n\nWt. 21408/757 10m 7.48 Wa. & Co 51/3\n\nW.t 20277/474 50m 7.49 Wa. & Co. 51/3",
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