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        "content_text": "\nAppendix to First Report of Selest Committe \n\n4. \n\nin the Affairs of the East India Compe. \n\n4. Establishments. \n\nEstablistements 1 . - An Account of the Expense of The East-Initia Company's Estuchment at Canton ; the Hames of the Servants, and the irmount of Sataris \n\nand & mathoments of Each and the thote Post for the Maintenance of the same in each \n\nActaries and Emoluments \n\nBeing the propertion of Commission assigned \n\nto Servant of Salaries to t \n\ntil tant \n\nکی تحریم \n\nelle Commission \n\nandole distinet Officed at the tonal \n\nFast my \n\nSupra Cargued and Writers \n\nseason of app cifutes. I \n\n1061/1 \n\nSir James Brabazon lekinston Kut stumes Maloneys, \n\n1001/2 Star Thuna \n\nSie am burts Fig \n\nCastings Jugne, Eng \n\nEnglund \n\nund \n\nIndia \n\nchina to Cristeand li Chinia, and from \n\nbon chend to the in Consignhunt British Arth \n\n10.001 \n\n0333 P. 3.33 \n\nPr 337 \n\n6.945 \n\nsous 5. William Henry Chicheley Howden, Esgr 6.250 \n\n1003/4 - Favenci Itas \n\nwulf 7. William Bay, \n\nres, Exght \n\nwa710- Charles MEllell Ege \n\nin Consignment from England and Shutia to China, and fu Cheria to Engl \n\n\\on Consignmiy \n\nWorth Hor \n\nChoric to the \n\n10,001 \n\n.333 \n\n20.333 \n\nتو تی تھی میں \n\n7.60 \n\n7.669 \n\nвідно усво \n\n6.250. \n\n6.341 \n\nمر کے لوگو با کمری \n\nOlab \n\n9.304. \n\n4-723 4.96 137: 5.0023 \n\nChesa porn England and India To China, and pens. \n\nOn Conveyor next \n\nOn Campignanents \n\nfrom China to the \n\nBritish Nort \n\nTotal \n\n1026/27 \n\n• im löysignment \n\nfrom china to Greytownt \n\nfrom England \n\nIn Cançoignnex lši \n\n* Dentin to Chwin, ty \n\nSom Chena ly the \n\nBailik Forth \n\nPurity where \n\nIctal \n\nYear \n\nSince \n\n10/27/20 \n\nIndia to China fron \n\nfrom England and \n\nOn Cungrynonents \n\nChina to England \n\nJun, Chania to thre \n\nAmerican Colonics \n\nBritish Barth \n\nTotal \n\npom England and \n\nPontia le cheñce V \n\nfan Chine to \n\nEngland \n\nfrom Chua Vo the \n\nBulish Na. \n\n9.682 11.242 \n\n297 11.539 7.689 \n\n7.34 \n\n7.233 \n\n233 174 7.407 \n\n2.379 \n\n7.022 \n\n0.069 \n\n9.368 \n\n9.615 9.507 \n\n5,707 \n\n2/17.020 176. 6.817 57.0762 \n\n0.069 \n\n9.360 \n\n9.6157.009 \n\n7.427 \n\n6.321 \n\n247 206 57.630 185 37845 \n\n7.674 9.360 \n\ng.b157009 \n\n€9,877 7.342 7.342 \n\n2.1/3 \n\n1.000 \n\n2.113 1.052 \n\n6.527 7.000 \n\n2.014 $:900 \n\n2/1 \n\n6.119 \n\n0.679 7.144 \n\n0.000 \n\n6.623 \n\n7.026 \n\n7.2/237317 \n\n5.507 \n\n4.006 \n\n2.301 \n\n2.50/ \n\n4.311 \n\n2.273 \n\nStudent of the Chous \n\n2. 2017 \n\n2.346 \n\n3.750 2.267 \n\n6.009 \n\n6.250 4.607 \n\n4.772 \n\n3.9300 \n\n5.448 \n\n4.016 \n\n4.159 \n\n3.042 \n\n2.341 \n\n2.811 \n\n7t \n\n2.203 \n\n4:278 \n\nsingunge \n\n1.966 \n\n2.032 \n\n2.499 \n\n2.37.5- \n\n1.005 \n\n1.005 \n\n2.029 1.649 \n\n1.695 \n\n1.695 \n\n71749 2.031 \n\nLalgo 2.0051-637 \n\n1.950 \n\n3.175 \n\n1.649 \n\n1.695 \n\n-4.51 \n\n2.03/ \n\n1891/13-James Bannerman, Ergh. \n\n1016/15. \n\nکی سر ترکی کے دورے کے \n\nChat Muja \n\n'cribanks, Reg. \n\nJohn. I fancis Davis Engli \n\nبه \n\nattuwances as a \n\nJames Frederick Mugont Duniell. Exy = 1.805 \n\nHomus Charles Smith, Esqu \n\nDo.. Allowana ws \n\nSonn Jackson, Bratz \n\nDo... \n\nQ, \n\nStudent of the \n\naliowane as a \n\nChinese Sivnguage. Stückent of the \n\nachinise Surgeat D for attending examination of \n\nO for the purpose of learning the \n\n1818/19 Gange Best te benior Esgt, \n\nRobert Burland Huddlestone, Erg Edward W \n\nکی شرح کنه \n\nدندیم رہا ہے \n\nکر کے رقم کمه \n\nخری تور آ گیا \n\nboo \n\n46.00 \n\nStudent of the Chimie \n\nther \n\nde \n\n1020/21 Hugh Hamilton Lesietray Eugh \n\nDr. ullowunes \n\nPotent Inglis, Engr. \n\nFallowance as \n\nDe \n\n10rups Juhn Hawer ustell Enghe \n\nHenery \n\nMatthew Clarke „Est \n\n44.2 \n\nJohn Bensley Thornhill, Esq \n\nHertz Their as Stavershaw, Engh \n\n10287 Frederick Juha Morris, Exep- \n\nPersons fitting \n\nProfessional and within die texist Officis \n\nind the Factory \n\nHead Henry Hauling \n\nChaplain \n\nHenry actoth. \n\nde \n\nGood Gopeansed, Secageen, inclucting Table Allowana, \n\naccount of hi vidike, at Mucon, \n\nus Curturing store \n\nJohn \n\nThomas Cutledge \n\nSamat 3 Au \n\nJohn Fleeved \n\ndo \n\nنا لگا کر \n\nlitering to Hey, if afectory \n\nito- \n\n1.244.0 \n\n1.975 1.503 \n\n1.000 \n\nکورہ مودی کو وا کرے انگری \n\n} \n\n1.340 \n\n1.240 \n\nک عورت کیا کر \n\n3.00 \n\nواع لولا مجيب \n\nجو امریکی محور \n\n2.0052.127 76 \n\n2.005 1.537 \n\nf \n\n1.592 2.030 \n\n1.592 \n\nгод \n\n174 | 7.310 \n\n167 6.790 \n\n4.300 \n\nگری که \n\n3.262 \n\n2.007 \n\nJUC \n\n1.759 \n\n500 μου \n\n900 900 1.32 \n\n4.4.577 \n\n1490 17.333 \n\nJou \n\n!། \n\n\"700 \n\nJy \n\nSin you \n\nwww \n\nво \n\n4.00 \n\nbo \n\n1.240 \n\n2.000 \n\n1.000 \n\n2.000 500 1.000 \n\n1.240 \n\nJ \n\n1.248 \n\n14y \n\n2.500 \n\n2.500 \n\n1.964 \n\ndtv. \n\nARZ Juhn Francis Davis, Alting \n\ndo-- \n\nJohn Russell Reeves Assistant dow \n\nRead Dr. Murrison. 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        "content_text": "# 12\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nEnclosure 12.\n\nMEMORANDUM on the JUNK TRADE of HONG KONG, during the Year 1851.\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, 20th January 1852,\n\nChinese Secretary's Office.\n\nIt was explained in a Memorandum of the 14th March 1850, upon this subject, that no information, at all reliable, could be obtained respecting the native Junk Trade in any anchorage except that of Victoria.\n\nMonthly returns drawn up in the manner described in the same document show that in 1851 Victoria Harbour was visited by 1,004 Marine Junks, carrying sundry cargoes; an increase of nearly 20 per cent. upon the monthly average of 1850.\n\nThe monthly returns of the salt monopoly state an import of 280,300 piculs of that article in 543 junks. The quantity is not above four fifths of the import of 1850, and the far greater number of salt junks can only be accounted for by the fact that much of the salt has been imported by vessels carrying a mixed cargo. These have doubtless been included by the salt monopolist in his total of salt junks.\n\nIn the stone trade there is a slight increase; the monthly returns of the stone monopoly showing an export of 565 cargoes from the Colonial quarries.\n\nThe subjoined table will give some idea of the monthly progress of the native trade during the year under review. The larger portion of it by far is done by junks from small towns and villages along the coast of the Kwang Tung Province, east of the Canton River. These send areca nut, betel leaf,\n\nMarine Junks belonging to\nJanuary\nFebruary\nMarch\nApril\nMay\nJune\nJuly\nAugust\nSeptember\nOctober\nNovember\nDecember\nTotal\n\nTien-tsin\n\n7\n\nPuh-kien Coast,\n\n98\n1\n\nAmoy\n\n1\n\nFormosa\n\n786\n\nKwang Tung\n88\n268\n268\n29\n\n47\n\nCanton\n\n100\n000\n10\n1\n\n40\n\nKwang Tung West\n\n80\n54\n\n41\n\nHainan\n28,400\n40\n104\n17\n\n1\n\ng\n\n&\n\n113\n91\n44\n\n4\n\n24,500\n23,800\n23,800\n21,200\n19,700\n\n1\n\n90\n41\n60\n41\n\n1,004\n\nMonthly total of Salt Junks\n75\n46\n70\n\n83\n47\n\n543\n\nMonthly total of Imported Salt\n21,700\n41\n72\n40\n\n280,300\n\nMonthly total of Stone Cargoes exported\n24,500\n40\n76\n47\n24,300\n10\n101\n46\n24,000\n\n70\n41\n19,900\n562\n\ncharcoal, cotton, cloth, crockery, and ready-made clothes, new and second-hand, drugs, dried fruit, dried meat, eggs, firewood, grass-cloth, hams, hardware, iron, lard, linseed, livestock, nankeen, oil, potato flour, pease, coarse paper, rice, sugar, saltfish, salt, skins, sugar canes, shoes, silk, soy, tobacco leaf, vegetables, fresh and salted, wine and wheat.\n\nThe junks from Canton and the coast west of it bring much the same cargoes. The latter more properly speaking, belong to the districts along the west bank of the river.\n\nThe Tien-tsin junks brought rugs, cotton cloths, cotton, skins, deers horns, deers sinews, lams, dried fruits, pears, cabbages, pease, beans, wine, and drugs.\n\nThose of the Fuhkien coast and Amoy, alum, camphor, coal, salt, and sulphur, cotton, cotton cloth, grass cloth, nankeen, sheep skins, shoes, bricks, tea, sugar candy, pease, beans, and potato flour.\n\nA single junk from Formosa, coal and sulphur.\n\nThose from Hai-nán, bark, wood, rattans, sandalwood, skins, drugs, soy, salt beef and mutton, salt, barley, beans, rice, oil, cocoa nuts, areca nuts, live stock, dried fish, sharks fins, rock-suckers, and biche-de-mer.\n\nThe Cochin Chinese carried cloths, cotton yarns, rice, and drugs.\n\nThe three Siamese junks, nutmegs, Brazil wood, peppers, skins, areca nuts, bark, drugs,\n\nglasses, rattans, sandalwood, dried fish, rice, and biche-de-mer.\n\nThe four Singaporeans, the same, as also cotton yarns and opium.\n\nThe single Penang vessel, drugs, nutmegs, pepper, and sandalwood.\n\nThe Tien-tsin junks are said to take away opium in no small quantities, and much is of course carried in the Kwang Tung coast junks, some of which, belonging to the nearer ports, make as many as six voyages in the year to and from Hong Kong.\n\nThere is nothing to account for the great decrease of the salt imported. The stone trade is considerably above what it has been for the last two years, and the marine junk trade, which is of the chief consequence, better than it has been for the last three years; as will be seen by the following table :--\n\nJunks and Cargoes\n1848\n1849\n1850\n1851\n\nMarine, average per month\n80\n72\n83\n\n83\n\nSalt Junks\n524\n334\n456\n543\n\nImported, piculs salt\n207,050\n335,350\n345,050\n280,300\n\nStone junks\n777\n407\n\n562\n\n(Signed)\n\nTHOMAS WADE,\n\nAssistant Chinese Secretary.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nEnclosure 13.\n\nLIST of WHALERS arrived in HONG KONG. 1851-1852.\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.\n\nVessels Names\nMasters\nWhere owned,\nAgents or Owners,\nMonths out\nSperm Oil, in Barrels of 31 Gallons old Measure\nWhale Oil, in Barrels of 314 Gallons old Measure\nBone\nArrived\nSailed,\nWhere bound\nConsignees in Hong Kong\n\nGeorge and Mary\n\n4,400\n\nDec.\n\nCruise\nRawle, Drinker, & Co.\n\nMetacom\n\n74,174\n\n4 Jan. 19\n\nCruise\nRawle, Drinker, & Co.\n\nHibernia\n\nRawle, Drinker, & Co.\n\nCondor\n\nFeb. 12\n\nCruise\nRawle, Drinker, & Co.\n\nStephania\n\nCruise\nRawle, Drinker, & Co.\n\nRhone\n\nRawle, Drinker, & Co.\n\nHercules\n\n244\n2194**\n\nMount Wollaston\n\nNew Bedford\n\nMorca\n\nHobomok\n\nHarvest\n\nSt. George\n\nFrancis\n\nWilliam Hamilton\n\nGeneral Pike\n\nFriends\n\nBrougham\n\nWashington Roman\n\nIllinois\n\nCharles\n\nCarrol\n\nAdeline\n\nCossack\n\nMalherbe\n\nHavre\n\nTaber\n\nAllen\n\nMiller\n\nPhillips\n\nGraham\n\nBailey\n\nHammond\n\nWeaver\n\nSwift\n\nWing\n\nWoodbridge\nHathaway\n\nNew Bedford\n\nG. 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        "content_text": "Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, & China.\n\nINCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER.\n\n52, THREADNEEDLE STREET.\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL, £500,000 - RESERVE FUND, £50,000.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS, 1859-1860.\n\nW. HOWARD, Esq., (Late Advocate General, Bombay)---CHAIRMAN,\n\nD. LARNACH, Esq., (Director of the Bank of New South Wales, and London Joint-Stock Bank.)\n\nW. S. GREY, Esq., (of MESSRS. GREY & COLES.)\n\nG. G. NICOL, Esq., (of Messrs. BUCHANAN, HAMILTON, & Co.)\n\nGEORGE PALMER ROBINSON, Esq., (Late Manager in Bombay,)\n\nGEORGE MAY, Esq., (of MESSRS. MAY, PICKFORD, & Co, Calcutta.)\n\nALEXANDER ANDERSON, Esq., MANAGER.\n\nLONDON BANKERS.\n\nBANK OF ENGLAND.\n\nLONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK.\n\nSOLICITORS.\n\nMESSRS. CLARKE AND MORICE, COLEMAN STREET.\n\nAUDITORS.\n\nMESSRS. COLEMAN, TURQUAND, YOUNGS, & Co., PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS.\n\nJ. SMITH, Esq., of MESSRS. W. NICOL & Co., Bombay.\n\nTHOMAS STENHOUSE, Esq., of Messrs. Bates, Stenhouse, & Co., Liverpool.\n\nBRANCHES.\n\nBombay.\n\nDAVID TRAIL ROBERTSON, Esq., INSPECTOR.\n\nROBERT DAVIDSON, Esq., Agent.\n\nCalcutta.\n\nDAVID TRAIL ROBERTSON, Esq., Agent.\n\nMadras.\n\nJOHN INNES GEDDES, Esq., Agent.\n\nSingapore.\n\nWALTER ORMISTON, Esq., Agent.\n\nColombo.\n\nEVAN ORMISTON, Esq., Manager.\n\nHongkong.\n\nJOIN COSTERTON, Esq., Manager.\n\nShanghai.\n\nWILLIAM HOWARD, Esq., Manager.\n\nKandy.\n\nF. W. LAMARCHAND, Esq., Agent.\n\nMauritius.\n\nROBERT GLASSPOOL LANCASTER, Esq., Manager.\n\nPenang.\n\nWILLIAM JACKSON, Esq., Agent.\n\nThe Bank, at its Head Office in London, grants Drafts on its various Agencies and Branches, issues Letters of Credit, purchases approved Bills on India, China, Ceylon, and Mauritius; undertakes the purchase and sale of Government and other Securities, and the collection of private and Mercantile Bills at the ports and places at which its agencies are established; receives Deposits at interest for fixed periods, the terms of which may be ascertained on application, and transacts generally all Indian Banking business, including the receipt of pay, pensions, and dividends, on stocks of all kinds.\n\n52, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON, E. C.\n\nOffice Hours from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M.-Saturdays from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M.",
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        "content_text": "Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, & China.\n\nGENERAL BALANCE FOR THE HALF-YEAR, ENDING 30th JUNE, 1859.\n\n  \n    LIABILITIES.\n    \n    \n    ASSETS.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Proprietors' Capital\n    £\n    500,000 0 0\n    Cash on hand at Head Office and Branches\n    £\n    486,611 7 10\n  \n  \n    Current Accounts, Fixed Deposits, Drafts, & Notes in Circulation &c.\n    \n    3,076,117 11 8\n    Government Securities and Bullion at Head Office and Branches\n    \n    245,015 4 8\n  \n  \n    Profit and Loss\n    \n    37,898 12 2\n    Bills of Exchange, Bills Discounted, Loans, &c.\n    \n    2,876,839 6 1\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Office Furniture at Head Office and Branches\n    \n    5,550 5 3\n  \n  \n    \n    £\n    3,614,016 3 10\n    \n    £\n    3,614,016 3 10\n  \n\nPROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT,\n\n  \n    1859.\n    \n    \n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n  \n  \n    June 30.\n    To Dividend on 20,000 Shares, at 10 per cent. per Annum\n    \n    25,000\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    \n    To Balance carried forward to next Half-year\n    \n    12,898\n    12\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    £37,898\n    12\n    2\n  \n  \n    1859.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Jan. 1.\n    By Balance from last half-Year\n    \n    109\n    11\n    4\n  \n  \n    June 30.\n    Net Profit for half-Year, after deducting Rebates and all Charges\n    \n    37,788\n    17\n    10\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    £37,898\n    12\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    Balance carried forward to next half-Year, brought down\n    \n    £12,898\n    12\n    2\n  \n\n(Signed)\n\nA. ANDERSON, Manager,\n\nW. M. DAVIDSON, Accountant.\n\n(Signed) W. HOWARD, Chairman,\n\nAUDITOR'S REPORT.\n\nWe have examined the several statements transmitted from the Managers of the several branches, and also the Books in London, upon which the above Accounts have been framed, and hereby certify to their correctness according to such Documents and Books, to the 30th June, 1859.\n\n(Signed)\n\nCOLEMAN, TURQUAND, YOUNGS, & Co., PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS,\n\n16, Tokenhouse Yard,\n\nAuditors.\n\nJ. SMITH,\n\nTHOMAS STENHOUSE.\n\nLONDON, 24th October, 1859.",
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        "content_text": "JURY LIST,--Continued.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nJURY LIST,—Continued.\n\nNAME,\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nSoermann, Auguste\n\nSpeechly, Samuel\n\nParker, Edward\n\nParker, Ebenezer Francis\n\nParker, M. D.\n\nParker, R.\n\nParkin, W. W.\n\nPattell, P. N.\n\nPearce, James W.\n\nPemberton, J.\n\nPepson, N.\n\nPereira, Jose L.\n\nPerkins, W. H.\n\nPestonjee, Barzinjee\n\nPhotographer, Staunton Street\n\nInnkeeper, Queen's Road\n\nMerchant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nShip Broker, Queen's Road\n\nClerk, J. A. Brooks\n\nMerchant, Olyphant & Co.\n\nBroker, Wellington Street\n\nClerk, H. Duddell & Co.\n\nAssistant, Johnson & Co.\n\nEllissen, G.\n\nEllis, P. P.\n\nElmenhurst, J. Henry\n\nElton, W. M.\n\nEmeny, William\n\nEndicott, Henry Collins,\n\nEscherick, J. W. 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Logans.\n\nClerk, Augustine Heard & Co.\n\nBroker, Wellington Street\n\nMerchant, Staunton Street\n\nBroker, Caine Road\n\nStaunton Street\n\nAssistant, Mercantile Bank\n\nAssistant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nMerchant, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nAssistant, Birley & Co.\n\nAssistant, Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n\nClerk, Emigration Agency\n\nAssistant, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nStorekeeper, F. P. Soares & Co.\n\nTalbot, Henry Eustace\n\nTalbot, S. H.\n\nTapp, W. H.\n\nTaylor, J. B.\n\nThom, William\n\nThomas, G.\n\nThompson\n\nThompson, L.\n\nThompson, George\n\nThomson, Gavin\n\nThomas, Louis\n\nThorburn, S. D.\n\nThorne, J.\n\nTillinghast, T. 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G.\n\nWatmore, Robert\n\nWatson, Alexander S.\n\nWatson, James B.\n\nWatson J. C.\n\nWebster, James\n\nWeld, Daniel\n\nWelsh, David\n\nWetmore, W. Shephard\n\nWheeley, Alfred A.\n\nWhitley, F.\n\nWhite, Augustus\n\nWiese, Frederick\n\nWiese, Ludwig\n\nWilkins, George\n\nWilson, Alexander\n\nWilson, Edward\n\nWilson, G.\n\nWinniberg, Henry\n\nWilson, James\n\nWilson William\n\nWoodford, J. D.\n\nWoodin, Edward L.\n\nWoodruff, Samuel C.\n\nWoodward, R. H. S.\n\nWong Ashing\n\nWordsworth, George\n\nYoung, W. C.\n\nH. Jürgens and Co.\n\nAssistant, Turner & Co.\n\nAssistant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nClerk, De Silver & Co.\n\nClerk, Lane, Crawford & Co.\n\nCommission Agent, Queen's Road\n\nCommander Fort William\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nMerchaut, Russell & Co.\n\nMerchant, Queen's Road\n\nClerk, S. P. Hall\n\nAssistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nPiano Tuner, Shelley Street\n\nMerchant, Turner & Co.\n\nClerk, D. Lapraîk\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nAssistant, Olyphant & Co.\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nDruggist, Queen's Road\n\nInnkeeper, Queen's Road\n\nClerk, Blackhead & Co.\n\nAccountant, Oriental Bank\n\nAssistant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nAssistant, Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n\nMerchant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nBanker, Bank of India\n\nAssistant, Siemssen & Co.\n\nMerchant, Siemssen & Co.\n\nBilliard Table-keeper, Queen's Road\n\nStorekeeper, MacEwen & Co.\n\nClerk, Turner & Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Company\n\nStorekeeper, Queen's Road\n\nClerk, MacEwen & Co.\n\nClerk, MacEwen & Co.\n\nAssistant, Walker, Borradaile & Co.; Clerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nStorekeeper, Queen's Road\n\nAssistant, Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n\nPrinter, London Missionary Society\n\nAgent, G. Holmes & Co.\n\nJ. C. POWER, Acting Sheriff.\n\nRevised and amended, and the Special Jurors designated, by His Excellency The Governor and the Legislative Council, this 24th Day of February, 1862.\n\nL. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.\n\nJack, John\n\nShipwright, Mr. Lamont\n\nPalmer, W. H.\n\nElgin Terrace",
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        "content_text": "# N. 44.\n## Financial\n\nAneu 2 20.127-26 July /65\n\nSir,\n\n**RECEIVED**  \nJULY H  \n1865  \nStoughtons,  \n10th May, 1865\n\nI have the honor to report that I have appointed, subject to your approval, Mr. Joseph Burt to be Boarding Officer in the Harbour Master's department, in the place of Mr. Thomas Purdy.\n\nThe Right Honorable  \nHoward Cardwell...",
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        "content_text": "; \n\n1\n\n61\n\nYour Memorialists, in addition to objecting to the imposition of a Stamp tax as being in principle wrong, even for providing for a temporary deficit, do most solemnly and earnestly protest against the even more injurious policy, declared in Your Excellency's letter, of seizing the opportunity, of there being an alleged need of money, for a purely temporary and transitory purpose, to impose upon the Colony, and its trade, a yearly additional tax of $120,000, being equal to one seventh of the present annual Revenue.\n\nThe only argument Your Memorialists have heard in favour of taxation in this manner, is, that it is not politically expedient to derive all Revenue from one or more specific sources, but if this be true as an abstract proposition of political economy, surely the fact that, since the existence of the Colony, the Legislature have followed this course without even demur on the part of those taxed, is sufficient to shew, that Hongkong, in its circumstances, is in an exceptional position, and must be dealt with as the position requires, and not in the manner required by any abstract dogma or theory.\n\nThere are many other objections to the imposition of any Stamp tax, partly to the principle, and partly to the operation, of such a measure, on which Your Memorialists will not dilate, but they may point out, as instances, the severity and stringency of the provisions punishing breaches of the Ordinance, the difficulty and cost of collection, and almost certain evasion of it by such of the Chinese as retain here, its vexatious intricacy, and its inequality, in leaving untaxed a large body of Residents who, if not individually wealthy, are wealthy as classes or interests, and who ought to contribute to these local requirements.\n\nYour Memorialists in conclusion beg to express their conviction that though this is a Crown Colony, and they can be taxed by an Order in Council, or an express Order from the Government to the Governor here to levy a tax, or raise a subsidy, yet when, in compliance with the Standing Orders of the Legislative Council, and the whole previous course of practice here, the Council, as such, are asked to pass, or reject, a measure involving the mere mode of raising the requisite sums, Your Memorialists are then entitled to have their ideas on that subject received through the recognized medium, the Non-Official Members of the Council, and as their remonstrances were of no avail, they conceive themselves further entitled to bring before the Government the strong opinions they entertain on the matter, and firmly, though respectfully, to urge Your Excellency to a reconsideration of what is, at best, a mere question of expediency, affecting their interests only, and upon which they ought to be considered, if not the best judges, at least as the best exponents of the balance of benefit or prejudice that may result from the measure.\n\nYour Memorialists therefore humbly beg Your Excellency to reconsider the question, to defer such portion of the Expenditure as is not of immediate or vital import to the Colony to a more auspicious period; to raise any Sums that may be presently needed by some other, and less hurtful method, and to postpone indefinitely the further consideration of any Stamp Tax or at least until all other available and usual sources of taxation have been exhausted.\n\nAnd Your Memorialists will ever pray:\n\nB. W. Gutton\n\nE. F. da Silva\n\nSIGNATURES.\n\nJardine Matheson & Co.\n\nH. Murray\n\nW. Hastings.\n\nW. Kirby.\n\nChas Livington,\n\nA. C. Sandilara.\n\nPeter G. Innes.\n\nH. G. James.\n\nAugustine Heard & Co.\n\nJ. Dossett.\n\nLewis P. Thomas.\n\nOlyphant & Co.\n\n... Koze.\n\nSmith Archer & Co.\n\nAlexander Ross.\n\nJ. Stirton.\n\nBosman & Co.\n\nC. H. Barrow.\n\nBurley & Co.\n\nP. F. Cama & Co\n\nGhose & Co.\n\nWilliam Paske.\n\nCharles Denne.\n\nA. M. Gillies.\n\nJ. A. Costa.\n\nHajau, Habener & Co.\n\nA. Brajau.\n\nC. Booth.\n\nFred. Claus.\n\nReynolds & Co.\n\nJas Bowditch.\n\nJ. A. Rosario.\n\nV. Kresse.\n\nC. Moodie.\n\nJ. Ruith.\n\nJ. Jackson.\n\nE. R. Smith.\n\nL. Mackintosh.\n\nE. Asthan.\n\nRobert Gold.\n\nJ. A. Taylor.\n\nH. Nelson.\n\nH. Jorge.\n\nSiemssen & Co.\n\nF. Hohocker.\n\nP. G. Jube.\n\nH. Kook\n\nP. Gabrial.\n\nH. Hopping.\n\nB. Werdich.\n\nA Von Leesen.\n\nLyall Still & Co.\n\nAlfred S. Post\n\nR. Lyall\n\nG. E. Stokes.\n\nK. C. Smith.\n\nC. F. d' Ozorio.\n\nT. Schroeder.\n\nT. Marwig.\n\nFrancis Chomley.\n\nDent & Co.\n\nE. Overbeck,\n\nJ. T. Kindersley.\n\nDuncan Davidson.\n\nA. J. Else\n\nT. B. Endicott,\n\nThe Hogg & Co.\n\nWin. C. Morvina,\n\nL. P. Ward\n\nSevers & Co.\n\nReynaad Brothers,\n\nHoliday, Wise & Co.\n\nHoward Hodges.\n\nJ. S. Coughlan.\n\nT. C. Adames.\n\nW. S. Foster.\n\nPeterson Brothers.\n\nT. G. Dettmar.\n\nT. Bauson.\n\nJ. C. Welbread.\n\nBroadbent Antony & Co.\n\nJohn Burd & Co.\n\nM. Porissen,\n\nB. Jensen,\n\nBart\n\nD. Ruttonjee. Keis & Co.\n\nWilliam Morgan.\n\nA. Kenealy.\n\nA. Hay Anderson.\n\nJames H. Cox\n\nM. M Walker\n\nE. Figgin\n\nJames Greig,\n\nH. M. Davidhan.\n\nA. Newton.\n\nGilford F. Parker,\n\nN. Mody & Co.\n\nGeorge, K. Gleivius.\n\nF. J. Beynolds,\n\nT. Major.\n\nJul. Baker.\n\nG. P. Thomson.\n\nEd. Norton.\n\nCrawford D. Kerr.\n\nCarlowitz & Co.\n\nDavid Welch. William Keene. Oxford & Co.\n\nArthur J. Kast.\n\nCharles L. Wocks.\n\nRichard Deacon,\n\nJ. McDouall\n\nD. Sassoon, Sons & Co.\n\nJ. Cameron.\n\nJ. J. Elias.\n\nRussell & Co.\n\nW. H. Koster.\n\nE. D. Barbour,\n\nEmil Vogel.\n\nChas. A. Loret\n\nClas. A. Gilson:\n\nJohn W. Terry.\n\nC. A. Endiarrez.\n\nSmith Kennedy & Co.\n\nVaucher & Co.\n\nE. Heard.\n\nBowen, fl\n\nBorneo Co. Limited.\n\nGeorge Christie.\n\nH. Nichol.\n\nDe Silver & Co.\n\nH. de Silver.\n\nE. Mullish.\n\nS. W. Baker & Co.\n\nA. Shao.\n\nJ. B. Miller.\n\nAlfred L. Turner.\n\nJ. M. Matsou\n\nG. C. Scott.\n\nF. J. Barros.\n\nC. M. Carvalho.\n\nCharles T. Gaupp & Co\n\nH. Hollman.\n\nHease & Co.\n\nH. Kirchhof\n\nJ. Hauschild.\n\nFrancis Cowan & Co.\n\nSilveira & Co.\n\nW. A. Middleton.\n\nA. Uhlmann.\n\nW. G. Couns.\n\nC. Bongs & Co.\n\nTalbot & Co.\n\nF. Blackwood & Co.\n\nThomas Algar,\n\nK. Rapp\n\nC. Schmidt.\n\nAdam Scott & Co.\n\nH. Johnston.\n\nC. Tuddi,\n\nJohn Craig.\n\nJ. P. Caps.\n\nNico. Withers\n\nJ. Edutee.\n\nC. Bastonjes. Thomas Callis\n\nCharles D. Weeks.\n\nD. L. Wadia.\n\nJ. F. Catois\n\nW. R. Baltic.\n\nW. Kaye.\n\nW. T. Peda. Phillips,\n\nMoore & Co. Charles C. Cohen. M. Moore.\n\nB. Waller & Co.\n\nBhua Brothers & Co.\n\nE. Garetta.\n\nL. Lyon.\n\nFursatjee Nusserwanjee & Co.\n\nEugene Sequeira\n\nGibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nJohnson & Co.\n\nTurner & Co,\n\nA. Melwood.\n\nWm. C. Gomm.\n\nH. S. Innes.\n\nHobart Lambert\n\nT. B. Slatter.\n\nA. Einhorn. A Scott.\n\nThomas C. Russell\n\nJ. H. lton.\n\nJ. Smith\n\nJ. McEwen & Co.\n\nF. L. D. Sullivan.\n\nLane, Crawford & Co.\n\nT. Willardez.\n\nWidium Punchiappu,\n\nCharles Jameson,\n\nJ. B. Toppin,\n\nJ. Fairbairn.\n\nJohn L. Cox.\n\nR. Cathcart.\n\nM. G. de Souza.\n\nBonario & Co.\n\nWilliam T. Arney.\n\nH. Ralph.\n\nDwyer & Co.\n\nKaehner Roy & Co.\n\nFrancisco A. Gomes.\n\nDouglas Lapnik, & Co.\n\nJosiah E. Munger,\n\nJ. B. Abbott.\n\nE. Slate.\n\nWilliam H. Nolles.\n\nJ. Mantlehoy\n\nJ. D. Woodford.\n\nL. C. da Silva.\n\nRay & Co.\n\nA. Joinfo\n\nC. H. C. Lammerts,\n\nClare Latteiner. Otto Fridrich. George Whitehouse. A. Conill, Edward Rogers. W. S. Riddell.\n\nH. Kaiser.\n\nJ. Jackson, Jr,\n\nJ. Stone.\n\nGeorge A. Weller.\n\nW. Hunter.\n\nEdward H. Pollard,\n\nH. C. Caldwell.\n\nJ. S. Betts Jr.\n\nJ. Pouth.\n\nA. Percy Smith.\n\nBennett & Co. James Gardiner.\n\nD. Klukeo.\n\n17\n\nAlfred T. Munger.\n\nA. F. dos Remedios.\n\nM. de Sousa\n\nJohn Lapreik, 905. H. K.\n\nW. D. C.\n\nGeorge S. Minta, manager H. K. &\n\nW. D. Co.\n\nCharles Mentozk.\n\nJ. D. Starkey.\n\nKawlins, Melon & Co.\n\nWilliam Gaskell\n\nJohn J. Francis.\n\nS. J. S. Magniac\n\nEdward J. Sugg. John Patten.\n\nA. Boyer.\n\nJ. F. Collage.\n\nL. Thevenin.\n\nFawogel & Co.\n\nA. Bleecker.\n\nJohn J. Pewive\n\n(Falconer & Co.\n\nJ. Noble.\n\nA. W. Smith.\n\nB. E. Baker.\n\nA. Harday. Aspinall & Co.\n\nFriedstein & Co.\n\nC. G. Oldham.\n\nCamajee & Co.\n\nJ. M. Gonzales,\n\nJ. W. Hagsten.\n\nK. Backer.\n\nBaynal & Co.\n\nGeorge Holmes & Co.\n\nJ. Marico & Co.\n\nB. D. Rustomjee.\n\nG. F. Ebrahim.\n\nNowrojee Horsabhoy.\n\nF. B. Cama & Co\n\nM. Laljee\n\nDiorabhoy Poonjabhoy.\n\nJ. Hothboy.\n\nA. Sapoorjee,\n\nE. N. Usibio.\n\nA. Buliboi.\n\nC. P. Charter.\n\nWilliam Wetherall,\n\nH. F. Allymah.\n\nW. F. Dwijal.\n\nJ. Seare.\n\nE. Littlay.\n\nJ. Whistler\n\nC. A. Spring\n\nH. Nusserwanjee & Co.\n\nH. A. Shethjee & Co.\n\nFazal M. Dundy.\n\nT. D. Badabhoy & Co.\n\nH. M. Patel.\n\nNarmonjee & Co.\n\nB. Y. Guzder.\n\nB. Damodardas.\n\nJ. Nuthoo.\n\nL. Rissam.\n\nB. Ahadcolally:\n\nJairam Manjee & Co.\n\nP. Estanho\n\nM. M. Moren\n\nAbdoolally, Ebrahim & Co.\n\nA. Alexander.\n\nF. V. H. Eduljee & Co.\n\nN. Abdoolally.\n\nH. H. Oozeer.\n\nMohanbhai\n\nVaurynsey & Co.\n\nM. D. Handy & Co.\n\nM. Bomonji.\n\nD. Vursajee & Co.\n\nA. Teetuji.\n\nP. & A. C. Canjee & Co.\n\nCowasjee Pullan & Co.\n\nB. Rustomjee.\n\nJudah & Co.\n\nJeshna & Co.",
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        "content_text": "203\n\nNov. 18, 1872.] THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,\n\nAUSTRALIA, AND CHINA.\n\nHATTON-COURT, THREAD NEEDLE-STREET, LONDON\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter. Paid-up Capital, £800,000.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS, 1872-75. CHAIRMAN.\n\nANDREW CASSELS, Esq. Frederick W. Jeligers, Esq. Emile Lenta, Esq. John Jones, Esq.\n\nWm. Maenganan, Esq. Thomas Lancaster, Esq. William Paterson, Esq.\n\nLudwig Wiese, Esq.\n\nMANAGER.\n\nJohn Howard Gwyther.\n\nSUB MANAGER.\n\nJames Macdonald,\n\nSECRETARY.\n\nWillem Charles Mallins.\n\nBAKERS.\n\nLondon The Bank of England; the City Bank. Scotland-The National Bank of Scotland.\n\nBombay.\n\nAGENCIES AND BRANCHES.\n\nRangoon.\n\nSingapore. Batavia\n\nHong Kong\n\nCalcutta.\n\nShanghai, Amoy.\n\nHankow. The Corporation buy and sell, and receive for collection, Bills of Exchange, payable at the above-named places; issue Letters of Credit; undertake the purchase and sale of Indian Government and other Securities; hold them for safe custody; and receive Interest or Dividends as they become due.\n\nDeposits of money are received for not less than twelve months, bearing Interest at 3 per cent. per annum.\n\nHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK\n\nOF INDIA, LONDON, AND CHINA.\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter,\n\nHead Office-65, OLD BROAD-STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nBranches and Agencies:\n\nBombay, Calcutta, Madras. Colombo. Kandy. Galle, Matric.\n\nSETTLEMENTS and Java-\n\nIn INDIA\n\nCEYLON\n\nSTRAITS\n\nCHINA\n\nJAPAN\n\nSingapore, Penang, Batavia.\n\nHong Kong, Foochow, Shanghai,\n\nCanton, Hankow\n\nYokohama.\n\nBankers:-\n\nBank of England,\n\nLondon Joint-Stock Bank.\n\nThe Bank receives money on deposit, buys and sells Bills of Exchange, issues Letters of Credit and Circular Notes, and transacts the usual Banking and Agency business connected with the East, on terms to be had on application.\n\nCOMPTOIR\n\nD'ESCOMPTE\n\nDE\n\nPARIS.\n\nIncorporated by National Decrees of 7th and 8th of March, 1848, and by Imperial Decree of 20th July, 1854, and 31st December, 1868.\n\nRecognised by the International Convention of 30th April, 1862\n\nCAPITAL, fully paid up, £3,200,000,\n\nReserved Fund ... 1,200,000... £800,000\n\nHEAD OFFICE.-14. Rue Bergere Paris.\n\nAGENCIES AT-Lyons. Marseilles, Nantes, Mulhouse, Roubaix (France) Brussels Belgium, Alexandria (Egypt), Calcutta. Bombay, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Saigon (Cochin China), Bourbon (Reunion), and Yokohama (Japan).\n\nLONDON BANK-The Union Bank of London.\n\nLONDON AGENCY-144. Leadenhall-street E.C.\n\nMANAGER.-Theod. Dromel.\n\nThe London Agency grants Drafts and Letters of Credit, and purchases or collects Bills payable at the above-named places.\n\n819\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter, August 30, 1851.\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL. £1,500,000.\n\nRESERVED FUND, £444,000.\n\nThe Corporation grant Drafts and negotiate or collect Bills payable at Bombay, Calcutta, Colombo, Foochow, Hong Kong, Kandy, Madras. Mauritius, Melbourne, Point de Galle, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Yokohama, and Ningpo, on terms which may be ascertained at their office. They also issue Circular Notes for use of Travellers by the Overland Route.\n\nThey undertake the agency of parties connected with India, the purchase and sale of Indian and other Securities, the custody of the same, the receipt of Interest, Dividends, Pay, Pensions, &c., and the effecting of remittances between the above-named dependencies.\n\nThey also receive deposits of £100 and upwards for fixed periods, the terms for which may be ascertained on application at their offices.\n\nOffice hours, Ten to Three: Saturdays Ten to Two.\n\nThreadneedle-street, London\n\n1272\n\nCHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE\n\nCOMPANY (Limited).\n\nIn conformity with the SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS, adopted and confirmed at the EXTRAORDINARY MEETINGS of SHAREHOLDERS held at HONG KONG on the 1st and 15th Feb., altering clauses Nos. 13, 14, 132, and 139 of the Articles of Association (such changes to take effect from 1st November, 1871), the net Profits of the Company will, from that date, be distributed as follows, viz.:\n\nTwo-thirds (2/3) to all contributors, whether Shareholders or not, in proportion to the net amount of premia contributed by each.\n\nOne third to Shareholders generally, according to the number of Shares held by each.\n\nLONDON AGENTS-FEARON AND CO., 54, GREAT ST. Helen's. E.C., By whom risks to all Eastern ports are taken at current rates.\n\nHONG KONG AND SHANGHAI\n\nBANKING CORPORATION.\n\nCapital, $6,000,000. Paid up, $1,500,000. Reserve Fund, $900,000.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS AND HEAD OFFICE IN HONG\n\nKong.\n\nLONDON MANAGER-W.H. Vacher, #2, Lombard-street\n\nBANKERS-London and County Bank.\n\nBRANCHES AND AGENCIES\n\nHong Kong Shanghai\n\nFoochow Ningpo\n\nHankow\n\nYokohama\n\nHiogo Manila\n\nSaigon\n\nSingapore\n\nBombay Calcutta\n\nThe Bank grants DRAFTS upon and negotiates or collects BILLS at any of its Agencies or Branches; also receives DEPOSITS for fixed periods, at rates varying with the period of deposit.\n\nTHE HIGH PRICE OF MEAT.\n\nGreat economy effected by using\n\nWALL LIGHTS AND LUSTRES FOR\n\nGAS AND CANDLES. CHANDELIERS IN BRONZE AND ORMOLU. MODERATOR LAMPS AND LAMPS FOR INDIA. TABLE GLASS OF ALL KINDS. ORNAMENTAL GLASS, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN\n\nLONDON-Show Rooms, 45, Oxford-street, W.\n\nBIRMINGHAM-Manufactory and Show Rooms Broad-street.\n\nESTABLISHED 1807.\n\nTHE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE IN CHINA.\n\nFOUNDED IN PEKING Nov. 1871, under the patronage of the Foreign Ministers and Residents in the Chinese Capital, Secretary in Peking, De S. W. Bade (Britt Legation): Sec. for Great Britain, Professor Summers (Chair Once, 3, George-yard, Lombard-street, who will be happy to receive the names of gentlemen who desire to become members, or to subscribe to the Peking Magazine, published by the Society. Sub. £3 per annum. The Magazine to non-members, 6s. per annum from members.\n\nTWO\n\nEDUCATION.-ST, LEONARD'S-ON-SEA.\n\nTWO LADIES of great experience, and possessing excellent testimonials, RECEIVE A limited number of YOUNG LADIES or CHILDREN needing sea air, careful training, and education.\n\nPARENTS residing abroad would find this most desirable home. References can be given for England, India, China and Japan.\n\nFor terms Co., address M1. H., London and China Telegraph Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill, E.C.\n\nK. de PIOTROWSKI, COMMISSION MERCHANT & GENERAL AGENT\n\nHIOGO-KOBE,\n\nJAPAN.\n\nCOWASJEE DINSHAW. Close to the Landing Place, Depot of EUROPEAN, CHINA, AND INDIAN GOODS. WINE, BEER, CHAMPAGNE, and SPIRITS of the best quality Bombay-made Soda Water and Lemonade Perfumery, Confectionery, Oilman's Stores, and Stationery of every description. Sola Topees and Canvas Shoes, &c., &c.\n\nSTEAMER POINT, ADEN. Drawing and Reading-room free to Passengers. The London and China Express ON SALE.\n\nT. W. JACKSON,\n\nLIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT\n\nOF MEAT.\n\nRead carefully the printed instructions. CAUTION.-None genuine without Baron Liebig's the inventor's, signature.\n\nBeware of all imitation extract.\n\nCEYLON.\n\nCOFFEE ESTATES FOR SALE,\n\nSAN\n\nFRANCISCO.\n\nTHE LONDON & CHINA TELEGRAPH. THE FOURTEENTH Volume of this\n\nJOURNAL commenced on the 1st of January 1872. Terms for advertising, 2s. 6d. per five lines and 6d. for each additional line.\n\nSubscriptions and Advertisements received abroad by the following Agents:- Paris\n\nRICHARD & Co. Passage des Princes.\n\nThe Agency will conduct Banking business of every description with the Continent. India, China, &c., upon terms to be ascertained at the Office.\n\nin size from 48 to 1,500 acres, and in price from £200 to £24,000,\n\nALEX. BROWN,\" Kandy.\n\nN.B. Fifty-seven estates now on the register.\n\nTHE AGRA BANK (Limited).\n\nEstablished in 1839.\n\nCAPITAL 1,000,000.\n\nHead Office: NICHOLAS LANE, LOMBARD-STREET,\n\nLONDON.\n\nBranches in Edinburgh, Calcutta Bombay, Madras, Kurrachee. Agra, Lahore, Shanghai, Hong Kong.\n\nCurrent accounts are kept at the head office on the terms customary with London bankers, and interest allowed when the credit balance does not fall below £100.\n\nDeposits received for fixed periods on the following terms, viz.:-At 4 per cent. per annum, subject to twelve months' notice of withdrawal. For shorter periods deposits will be received on terms to be agreed upon.\n\nBills issued at the current exchange of the day on any of the branches of the Bank free of extra charge; and approved bills purchased or sent for collection.\n\nSales and purchases effected in British and Foreign Securities, In East India Stock and Loans, and the safe custody of the same undertaken, Interest drawn, and army, navy, and civil pay and pensions realised.\n\nEvery other description of banking business and money agency, British and Indian, transacted.\n\nJ. THOMSON Chairman.\n\nSCHOUT AND CO., SHIPBROKERS AND FORWARDING AGENTS, AMSTERDAM\n\nALEXANDER BROWN, ESTATE AND GENERAL AGENT, KANDY, CEYLON,\n\nVISITS and reports on Coffee Plantations, estimates Crops, values Properties, buys and sells Lands, Goods, and Produce on Commission, and transacts all kinds of Estate and Agency Business.\n\nHOLLOWAY'S PILLS\n\nCOUNSEL AND COMFORT. A disordered stomach throws the whole system out of gear, and renders us unfit both for work and enjoyment. A few doses of these strengthening and purifying Pills, however, speedily restore order, and re-enable the taker, according to the accompanying directions, will, without difficulty, enable the stomach to digest its food.\n\nThese excellent Pills are suitable alike for the peer as the peasant, the soldier and the sailor, and particularly for those in foreign climates.\n\nHolloway's Pills are very useful in checking feverish attacks, bilious complaints, and inflammation; they have also made the most signal cures in cases of dropsy and disease of the kidneys, heart, and lungs, when the sufferers seemed past the aid of medicine.\n\nHamburg Bremen\n\nLisbon.\n\nMr. Cocoto,\n\nR.CARL.\n\nG. STEINMEYER.\n\nHolland-Rotterdam 1.A. Kramers.\n\nAmsterdam MACKAY, BOGERT,&nd Co.\n\nALGUSTE PEDRO CABILIO.\n\nRua des l'oyaes de'. Bento 20.\n\nWN.II. FOGG & C.,82, Burling\n\n80p.\n\nNew York............\n\nSan Francisco.......\n\nAlexandria\n\nSuez.... 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[Nov. 18, 1872\n\nCHINA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED),\n\nIN CONNECTION WITH THE\n\nEASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nTARIFF TO CHINA AND JAPAN.\n\nOn and after 15th OCTOBER the following Rates for Telegrams\n\nof Twenty Words will come into force:--\n\nFROM LONDON,\n\nTO HONG KONG)\n\nSHANGHAI JAPAN\n\n£6 0 0\n\n7 0 0\n\nFROM PROVINCIAL\n\nSTATIONS.\n\n£6 1 0\n\n7 1 0\n\nHalf the above Rates for every additional Ten Words beyond Twenty Words.\n\nNo charge for Postage will be made on Messages to China and Japan, which are posted at Hong Kong, Shanghai, or Nagasaki.\n\nMessages should be given in at the Falmouth Company's Office, No. 74, OLD BROAD-STREET, LONDON.\n\nMessages sent from Postal Stations should be ordered\n\nVIA FALMOUTH\n\nthese words being signalled as an instruction by the Postal authorities free of charge.\n\nTHOMAS FULLER, Secretary.\n\nOld Broad-street, London, E.C..\n\n9th October, 1872\n\nDRUGS, CHEMICALS, &c..\n\nWHOLESALE AND FOR EXPORTATION.\n\nDRUGS, &c., guaranteed genuine as imported, and PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS made in strict accordance with the Pharmacopoeia.\n\nW. L. H. SKEEN AND CO.,\n\nPHOTOGRAPHERS,\n\nCOLOMBO, CEYLON.\n\nInvite inspection of their large collection of\n\nAll Orders accompanied by Drafts, or sent through Merchants, attended to promptly, and VIEWS OF CEYLON, NATIVE CHARACTERS, &C\n\nexecuted upon the best terms.\n\nBAISS BROTHERS & CO.,\n\nDRUG MERCHANTS, &c., GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS\n\nFOR CHEMICALS, &c.,\n\n102. LEADENHALL STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nTHE CHINA AND JAPAN AGENCY.\n\nFor the Purchase and Shipment of Goods of all kinds to Ports in China, Japan, the Straits Settlements, &c. Orders for Furniture, Stores, Books, and Personal Requirements of every description promptly executed, either by Overland Route or Clipper Sailing Vessels.\n\nThe articles in all cases are carefully selected by persons who have had personal experience of the wants of residents in China and Japan.\n\nOrders should be accompanied either by a remittance, or a reference for payment in London, All communications to be addressed, and remittances made payable, to\n\nTHE MANAGER, AND JAPAN AGENCY, Cowper's-court, Cornhill, London, E.C.\n\nCATALOGUES POST FREE.\n\nMAC EWEN AND CO., QUEEN'S ROAD\n\nHONG KONG, GENERAL STOREKEEPERS AND COMMISSION AGENTS.\n\nSpecial Agents for the\n\nLondon and China Express.\n\nCAUTION\n\nSTEEDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS for Children Getting their Teeth. Purchasers are requested to BEWARE OF IMITATIONS of this Medicine, and to observe in every case that the words \"John Steedman, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey,\" are engraved on the Government Stamp affixed to each packet, without which none are genuine.\n\nSold by all Chemists and Druggists, in packets at 1s. 1d. each.",
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        "content_text": "# Selections from Testimonials.\n\n306\n\n## Army Medical School, Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, 1st April, 1878\n\nThe Professors of the Army Medical School having been authorised by the Director General, A.M.D., by letter quoted in the margin, to bear testimony regarding the connection of Surgeon F. C. Hewett, A.M.D., with the School, and his position in the list of candidates who entered the service contemporaneously with him, hereby certify that Mr. Hewett went through the Netley courses of instruction on two occasions, viz., firstly as a Naval Medical Candidate in the Summer Session of 1873-74, when he took the first place in the list of Naval Candidates, gaining a combined total at London and Netley of 4,317 marks; and secondly as an Army Medical Candidate in the winter of 1875-76, when he took the first place in the list of Army Medical Candidates, gaining a combined total at London and Netley of 5,012 marks. Surgeon Hewett was attentive to his duties at Netley, and proved that he had good professional abilities.\n\n**T. LONGMORE, Surg.-General, Professor of Military Surgery; M. C. MANIFOLD, Surgeon-General, Professor of Military Medicine; WILLIAM AITKEN, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Pathology; F. de CHAUMONT, M.D., Professor of Hygiene; J. D. MACDONALD, M.D., F.R.S., R.N., Professor of Naval Hygiene**\n\n## Army Medical Department-No. 55,235-12-W, 0.-27th March, 1878\n\n### Naval Hospitals-Inspector-General's Certificate\n\nThis is to certify that Mr. Frederick C. C. Hewett served in the Royal Hospital at Haslar, under his appointment as Surgeon of H.M.S. \"Duke of Wellington,\" from the 12th February, 1873, to the 6th March, 1874, during which time he has complied in every respect with the regulations of the Hospital, and his general conduct has been such as to merit my approbation.\n\nGiven under my hand this 6th day of March, 1874.\n\n**WM. R. E. SMART, Inspector-General of Haslar Hospital**\n\n## Halifax, N.S., Feb. 22nd, 1878\n\nI have pleasure in testifying to Surgeon Hewett's administrative ability and professional skill; he has had charge of the Military Hospital here for two years and has filled the duties to my entire satisfaction.\n\n**AUGUSTUS SHELTON, P.M.O., Dpt. Surg. Genl.**\n\n## 11, Grafton Street, Berkeley Square, London, Jan. 25th, 1879\n\nMr. F. Cresswell Hewett has been well-known to me for some years. During his pupillage at St. Bartholomew's Hospital he had an excellent reputation for diligence and general intelligence. For some years past he has done good service in the Medical Department of the Army, and would have taken a high position in that service had he elected to remain in it. I am of opinion that Mr. Hewett is eminently qualified to hold any Poor Law appointment that he may aspire to, and I need only further add that I shall be prepared to congratulate any community upon securing the services of so skilful and energetic a medical officer.\n\n**DYCE DUCKWORTH, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Assistant Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Examiner in Pract. of Physic in the University of Edinburgh**\n\n## Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Jan. 28, 1879\n\nWith much pleasure I bear testimony to the merits of Mr. F. Cresswell Hewett. He was a diligent student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and subsequently he passed, making the first place in the examination for the surg. I believe him to be fully qualified for the appointment he seeks.\n\n**WM. S. SAVORY, Surgeon St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and Examiner in Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons**\n\nMost obedient Servant,\n\nF. C. Hewett.\n\nTo the Crown Agent for the Colonies,\n\nDowning Street.\n\n## 2, Harley Street, Cavendish Square. April 2, 1878\n\nIt is with much pleasure that I bear testimony to the professional attainments of Mr. F. C. Hewett. He has been for some years a most zealous and industrious student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and at the close of his curriculum he passed as first among the many candidates at Netley Hospital. Mr. Hewett distinguished himself in his medical career by carrying off some of the highest prizes at the Hospital School, while in the Hospital he filled the various offices with great advantage to the Institution. I can therefore with much pleasure express my conviction that Mr. Hewett, from his excellent abilities and great attainments, is admirably qualified to occupy the important position of Resident Officer to the Royal Free Hospital.\n\n**J. LANGTON, Assistant-Surgeon in, and Lecturer on Anatomy at, St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Surgeon to the City of London Truss Society**\n\n## 36, Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, W., March 26, 1878\n\nI have known Mr. F. C. Hewett for some years, and have been led to form a very high estimate of his ability and acquirements in his profession. At St. Bartholomew's Hospital he was always conspicuous for his intelligence and his constant industry, and he won a foremost place among the best men of his year. I feel sure Mr. Hewett is one who needs only the opportunity to achieve high distinction in the Army Medical Department; for, besides being a thoroughly well-read and well-informed surgeon, he has seen a large amount of practical work, and he is possessed of great resource, tact, and promptitude in meeting and overcoming difficulties and dealing with emergencies, and he is very careful, punctual, and thoroughly conscientious in discharging any duties which he undertakes. I beg leave to state my full conviction that he is very highly qualified to fill with distinction the very important position he is now anxious to obtain.\n\n**HOWARD MARSH, Assistant Surgeon and Demonstrator of Surgery at Bartholomew's Hospital**\n\n## Woolwich, March 23, 1878\n\nI have very great pleasure in testifying to the high professional attainments of Surgeon Hewett. After serving in the Franco-Prussian war, he obtained first place, Sept. 1875, in the Army Board Examination, which is one of the most severe tests of a medical graduate's abilities and professional knowledge. He also served at the same station with me at Halifax, N.S., and I consider him to be an officer of high medical attainments and proficiency.\n\n**W. S. OLIVER, M.D., Surgeon Major**\n\n## 6, Harley Street, W., March 26, 1878\n\nMr. F. C. Hewett was well known to me some few years ago as a very promising young student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; since that time his various appointments and activity in Hygienic research appear to me to point him out as a gentleman well qualified for an appointment as Assistant Professor at Netley, since in teaching and prosecuting physical inquiries he will be following the bent of his natural inclination, and probably will devote his entire energy to his work.\n\n**REGINALD SOUTHEY, M.D., F.R.C.P., Physician and Lecturer at St. Bartholomew's Hospital**\n\nAnd other Testimonials from **Sir James Paget**, **William MacCormac**, **George W. Callender**, **Thomas Smith**.",
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        "content_text": "# Selections from Testimonials.\n\n307 \n\n## Army Medical School, Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, 1st April, 1878\n\nThe Professors of the Army Medical School having been authorised by the Director General, A.M.D., by letter quoted in the margin, to testify regarding the connection of Surgeon F. C. Hewitt, A.M.D., with the School, and his position in the list of candidates who entered the service contemporaneously with him, hereby certify that Mr. Hewett went through the Netley courses of instruction on two occasions, viz., firstly as a Naval Medical Candidate in the Summer Session of 1873-74, when he took the first place in the list of Naval Candidates, gaining a combined total at London and Netley of 4,317 marks; and secondly as an Army Medical Candidate in the winter of 1875-76, when he took the first place in the list of Army Medical Candidates, gaining a combined total at London and Netley of 5,012 marks. Surgeon Hewett was attentive to his duties at Netley, and proved that he had good professional abilities.\n\n**THOMAS LONGMORE, Surg.-General, Professor of Military Surgery; M. C. MACLEAN, Surgeon General, Professor of Military Medicine; WILLIAM AITKEN, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Pathology; F. de CHAUMONT, M.D., Professor of Hygiene; J. D. MACDONALD, M.D., F.R.S., R.N., Professor of Naval Hygiene.**\n\n*Army Medical Department-No. 55, 22-12-W. 0.-27th March, 1878.*\n\n## Naval Hospitals-Inspector-General's Certificate.\n\nThis is to certify that Mr. Frederick C. C. Hewett served in the Royal Hospital at Haslar, under his appointment as Surgeon of H.M.S. \"Duke of Wellington,\" from the 18th February, 1873, to the 6th March, 1874, during which time he has complied in every respect with the regulations of the Hospital, and his general conduct has been such as to merit my approbation.\n\nGiven under my hand this 6th day of March, 1874.\n\n**W. R. E. SMART, Inspector-General of Haslar Hospital.**\n\n## Halifax, N.S., Feb. 22nd, 1878.\n\nI have pleasure in testifying to Surgeon Hewett's administrative ability and professional skill; he has had charge of the Military Hospital here for two years and has performed the duties to my entire satisfaction.\n\n**AUGUSTUS SHELTON, P.M.O., Dpt. Surg. Genl.**\n\n## 11, Grafton Street, Piccadilly, London, Jan. 25th, 1879.\n\nMr. F. Croswall Hewett has been well-known to me for some years. During his pupilage at St. Bartholomew's Hospital he had an excellent reputation for diligence and general intelligence. For some years past he has done good service in the Medical Department of the Army, and would have taken a high position in that service had he elected to remain in it. I am of opinion that Mr. Hewett is eminently qualified to hold any Poor Law appointment that he may aspire to, and I need only further say that I shall be prepared to congratulate any community upon securing the services of so skilful and energetic a medical officer.\n\n**DYCE DUCKWORTH, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Assistant Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Examiner in Pract. of Physic in the University of Edinburgh.**\n\n## Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Jan. 24th, 1879.\n\nWith much pleasure I bear testimony to the merits of Mr. F. Cresswell Hewett. He was a diligent student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and subsequently passed, taking the first place in the examination for the army. I believe him to be fully qualified for the appointment he seeks.\n\n**Wm. S. SAVON, Surgeon St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and Examiner in Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons.**\n\n## 2, Harley Street, Cavendish Square, April 2, 1879.\n\nIt is with much pleasure that I bear testimony to the professional attainments of Mr. F. C. Hewett. He has been for some years a most zealous and industrious student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and at the close of his curriculum he passed as first among the many candidates at Netley Hospital. He distinguished himself in his medical career by carrying off some of the highest prizes at the Hospital School, while in the Hospital he filled the various offices with great advantage to the Institution. I can therefore with much pleasure express my conviction that Mr. Hewett, from his excellent abilities and great attainments, is admirably qualified to occupy the important position of Resident Officer to the Royal Free Hospital.\n\n**J. LANGTON, Assistant-Surgeon to, and Lecturer on Anatomy at, St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Surgeon to the City of London Truss Society.**\n\n## 96, Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, W., March 28, 1878.\n\nI have known Mr. F. C. Hewett for some years, and have been led to form a very high estimate of his ability and acquirements in his profession. At St. Bartholomew's Hospital he was always conspicuous for his intelligence and his constant industry, and he won a foremost place among the best men of his time. I feel sure Mr. Hewett is one who needs only the opportunity to achieve high distinction in the Army Medical Department; for, besides being a thoroughly well-read and well-informed surgeon, he has seen a large amount of practical work, and he is possessed of great resource, tact, and promptitude in meeting and overcoming difficulties and dealing with emergencies, and he is very careful, punctual, and thoroughly conscientious in discharging any duties which he undertakes. I beg to state my full conviction that he is very highly qualified to fill with distinction the very important position he is now anxious to obtain.\n\n**HOWARD MARSH, Assistant Surgeon and Demonstrator of Surgery at Bartholomew's Hospital.**\n\n## Woolwich, March 23, 1878.\n\nI have very great pleasure in testifying to the high professional attainments of Surgeon Hewett. After serving in the Franco-Prussian war, he obtained first place, Sept. 1875, in the Army Board Examination, which is one of the most severe tests of a medical graduate's abilities and professional knowledge. He also served at the same station with me at Halifax, N.S., and I consider him to be an officer of high medical attainments and proficiency.\n\n**W. S. OLIVER, M.D., Surgeon Major.**\n\n## 6, Harley Street, W., March 26, 1878.\n\nMr. F. C. Hewett was well known to me some few years ago as a very promising young student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; since that time his army appointments and activity in Hygienic research appear to me to point him out as a gentleman well qualified for an appointment as Assistant Professor at Netley, since in teaching and prosecuting physical inquiries he will be following the bent of his natural inclination, and probably will devote his entire energy to his work.\n\n**REGINALD SOUTHEY, M.D., F.R.C.P., Physician and Lecturer at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.**\n\nAnd other Testimonials from **Sir James Paget, William MacCormac, George W. Callender, Thomas Smith**.",
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R., 20.00\n20.00 \nMui Cheung Wo, 20.00\n10.00 \nJoohma, K., 50.00\nLaung Lin Po, 100.00\nMuncherjee, D. 15,00\n50.00 \nMunro, John, 1.00\n\nCarried forward ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .$ 8,150.60\nCarried forward......................$11,504.60\nCarried forward....................... $14,303.60\nCarried forward..........................$16,273.42",
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        "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]",
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        "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]",
        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\nC O.\n\n455\n\n16\n\nRECP\n\nREGE 9 JAN 84\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 400.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue a fresh Commission of the Peace for this Colony, and the names of the gentlemen therein are hereby published for general information, viz. :- His Excellency Major-General JOHN NEPTUNE SARGENT, C.B.\n\nThe Honourable WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.\n\nThe Honourable JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nThe Honourable FREDERICK STEWART.\n\nThe Honourable ALFRED LISTER,\n\nThe Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nThe Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.\n\nThe Honourable FRANCIS BOLKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nEDWARD JAMES ACKROYD, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM STANLEY ADAMS, Esquire. JAMES ROSS ANTON, Esquire. FRAMJEE HORMUSJEE ARJANEE, Esquire. PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY AYRES, Esquire. HERBERT MAINWARING BAILY, Esquire. WILLIAM NEISH BAIN, Esquire. SAMUEL BARFF, Esquire. EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS, Esquire. JOHN BELL-IRVING, Esquire. SOTHEBY GODFREY BIRD, Esquire. CHARLES DAVID BOTTOMLEY, Esquire. EDWARD BOWDLER, Esquire. JOHN SHERREN BREWER, Esquire. CH'AN KWAN-I, Esquire.\n\nCATCHICK PAUL CHATER, Esquire.\n\nCHOY CHEE-MEL, Esquire.\n\nJAMES BELLINGTON COUGHTRIE, Esquire.\n\nJOHN SAMUEL COX, Esquire.\n\nATWELL COXON, Esquire.\n\nHENRY LISTON DALRYMPLE, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM DANBY, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM HOMFREY FULLER DARBY, Esquire.\n\nWALTER MEREDITH DEANE, Esquire.\n\nHENRY DICKIE, Esquire.\n\nNATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.\n\nCHARLES FORD, Esquire.\n\nHENRY FOSS, Esquire.\n\nJOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire.\n\nJOHN GERRARD, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM HARTIGAN, Esquire.\n\nJOHN GORDON TALBOT HASSELL, Esquire.\n\nHO KAI, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM KERFOOT HUGHES, Esquire.\n\nTHOMAS JACKSON, Esquire.\n\nBENDYSHE LAYTON, Esquire.\n\nJAMES HALDANE STEWART-LOCKHART, Esquire. LUK SHAU-T'IN, Esquire. ROBERT LYALL, Esquire. EDWIN MACKINTOSH, Esquire. ALEXANDER MACIVER, Esquire. ERNEST MACKEAN, Esquire. ALFRED THOMAS MANGER, Esquire. JOHN MELVILLE MATSON, Esquire. ALEXANDER PALMER MCEWEN, Esquire. JAMES PAINTER MCLUEN, Esquire, R.N. HORMUSJEE MERWANJEE MEHTA, Esquire. HORMUSJEE NOROWJEE MODY, Esquire. GEORGE EDWARD NOBLE, Esquire. FREDERICK THOMAS PEARCE FOSTER, Esquire. DITUNJEEBHOY RUTTONJEE, Esquire. FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON, Esquire. MEYER ELIAS SASSOON, Esquire.\n\nJAMES HENRY SCOTT, Esquire.\n\nARATHOON SETH, Esquire.\n\nHORMOSJEE COOVERJEE SITNA, Esquire. GRANVILLE SHARP, Esquire.\n\nJAMES STOCKWELL, Esquire.\n\nHENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, Esquire, R.N.\n\nJOHN THURBURN, Esquire.\n\nARTHUR KENNEDY TRAVERS, Esquire. HENRY JOHN HOWARD TRIPP, Esquire. JOHN YARDELY VERNON VERNON, Esquire. WEI YUK, Esquire.\n\nTHOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD, Esquire. ALFRED GASCOYNE WISE, Esquire. HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, Esquire. WONG SHE-TAI, Esquire.\n\nWOO LIN YUEN, Esquire.\n\nRICHARD YOUNG, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM STEWART YOUNG, Esquire.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st December, 1883.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nfor the Colonial Secretary.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]",
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        "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]",
        "content_text": "In the Police Court of Hongkong.\n\nHONGKONG Minutes of Proceedings.\n\nTO WIT.\n\nTuesday the 25th day of August.\n\nDefendant: Fung On, 25 of Lump, Esquire JP.\n\nPALD\n\n\"I\n\nin Court\n\nCharge As on the other side\n\nmui, Carpenter\n\nHenry John Howard Tripp states: I am agent for the Elliken Bishi Company in Hongkong and I reside in No 61 Wyndham Street. The defendant is in charge of a religious ceremony which is being held in D'Alquilar Street and the adjoining lanes. The Religious Ceremony consists of a large mat house in D'Aquilar Street, and of smaller wattled buildings in the adjacent lanes. Incessant playing of music, beating of gongs, and other Chinese musical instruments went on in all these buildings. It commenced at 7 p.m. on the 24th August and lasted without intermission until 11.30 p.m., the effect being that the whole neighbourhood was disturbed. From 11 p.m. to 11.30 p.m., there was shouting, screaming and what sounded something like a riot. I live in the vicinity of D'Aquilar Street, and the noise was intolerable.\n\nTo question but defendant states: best to stop it at 10.30; but the I did my people in the street who have paid the subscription objected to its being stopped so soon.\n\nThomas Arnold sworn states: I am Secretary to the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company and reside in Wyndham Street. I can entirely corroborate what the last witness states. The noise was going on incessantly from 7.30 to 11.30 p.m. and it is an intolerable nuisance. The effect with regard to myself has been that it has given me such a headache as\n\nPage 145\n\n \n(Three lines at the bottom are kept as is, assuming they are part of the page numbering information)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888",
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        "title": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888",
        "content_text": "My Lord,\n\nin his letter of 14 Nov, I have been apprised to thank that Sir St. Stollane, by using the word \"percior\", does give any...\n\nI have the honour to inform you that upon receipt of the letter from Mr Bramston to me dated the 29th September 1887, I at once instructed Mr Thomas Howard, my Agent and Attorney at Hong Kong, to settle my Claim with the Hong Kong Colonial Government with respect to the Crown Lease granted to me for Marine Lot No. 184 in that Colony, in such way as might be just, and in the terms of your Lordship's directions as expressed in Mr Bramston's letter.\n\nI now beg to inclose for your Lordship's perusal a copy of the correspondence which has taken place between the Hong Kong Government and Mr Howard, from which your Lordship will observe that no reasonable terms of settlement have been offered by the Colonial Government, for although the $1700 offered is a fair price for the bare ground, it is in no way commensurate with the loss sustained by me.\n\n# \nI am reluctantly compelled therefore to trouble your Lordship again in the matter and to beg your Lordship will either settle the matter with me here, or transmit such explicit orders to the Hong Kong Government that the matter may without further trouble or delay be settled there. I gathered from an interview I had with Mr Bramston that an impression prevailed...\n\nLombard Street, London E6  \n16th January 1888.\n\nReceived  \nIN 15/1  \nBetter 48  \nWITH 10/1  \n10.  \n456  \n16964  \nIn 200  \n383  \n\nFile references should be kept as is, e.g., `IN 15/1`, `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present but if it were, it would be kept as is. The text \"dobро\" and other non-relevant text are removed as they seem to be OCR errors or unrelated to the main content. The Chinese character \"ๆ\" is kept as is.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]",
        "content_text": "Enclosure 1.\n\n628\n\nTo the RIGHT Honourable HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.\n\nTHE HUMBLE Petition of THOMAS HOWARD of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong Merchant and MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS of the same place Solicitor.\n\nSheweth :\n\n1. Your Petitioners are the registered Crown Lessees of Marine Lot No. 184 situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong upon which are erected substantial Warehouses and Godowns belonging to your Petitioners for the Storage of Merchandize.\n\n2. During the years 1885 and 1886 your Petitioners with the sanction of the Government and at considerable expense erected a hardwood Pier or Wharf in front of the said Marine Lot No. 184 for the purpose of enabling steamers of the greatest draught to come alongside and discharge or take in passengers and cargo which cargo could be removed into or from the said Warehouses and Godowns direct from or to the steamers alongside the said Pier. The said Pier was 305 feet in length and 100 feet in width at the end or T head thereof. A copy of the Plan of the said wharf is comprised in the Appendix hereto (Appendix No. 1).\n\n3. In the year 1889 an Ordinance No. 16 of 1889 intituled the Praya Reclamation Ordinance 1889 was enacted to carry out a scheme for the reclamation of the foreshore opposite the city of Victoria which scheme comprises the reclamation from the sea of the frontage of your Petitioners' Lot and the destruction of your Petitioners' Pier or Wharf and by section 7 of the said Ordinance it was agreed that the cost of the works should include (inter alia) a sum not exceeding $180,000 by way of compensation to Owners and Occupiers of Wharves and Piers along the line of the proposed Reclamation. A copy of this Ordinance is comprised in the Appendix hereto (Appendix No. 2).\n\n4. The Plan of the said Reclamation deposited in the Land Registry Office under the provisions of the said Praya Reclamation Ordinance 1889 shews the line of the Reclamation divided into seven sections numbered 1 to 7 and the Wharf of your Petitioners opposite to Marine Lot No. 184 is situated in No. 1 of the said Sections. A copy of the said Plan so far as relates to Section 1 is comprised in the Appendix hereto (Appendix No. 3).\n\nAppendix No. 2.\n\nAppendix No. 4,",
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        "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]",
        "content_text": "## 5.\nIn the year 1893, difficulties having arisen in reference to the apportionment of the said sum of $180,000 among the several owners of the wharves and piers along the line of the Reclamation works then in progress, an Ordinance intituled \"The Praya Wharves and Piers Ordinance 1893, being Ordinance No. 7 of 1893, was enacted. And by such Ordinance, it was provided that the Valuers therein named should, in manner therein mentioned, cause to be prepared a Table of Compensation, in which should be entered the names or descriptions of each of the said private wharves and piers along the line of the said Reclamation, and the amount allotted as part compensation in respect of each of the said private wharves and piers. And it was thereby further provided that the amounts should be arrived at as follows: \"From the sum of $180,000 should be deducted the 'Public proportion of compensation' and the fees payable under Section 9, and the balance shall be divided pro ratâ between the said private wharves and piers according to the estimated probable cost of removal and re-erection, after deducting therefrom the estimated amount for structural depreciation.\" Section 4 of the said last-mentioned Ordinance provides that such Table should be published in the **Government Gazette**, and thereupon it should be final and binding on all persons in respect of the amounts to be paid on account of each Wharf and Pier named therein. Section 5 of the said Ordinance provides that there shall also be published in the **Gazette** a list of the respective persons to whom it is proposed to pay the respective sums mentioned in the said Table. And Section 8 provides that the respective sums published in the aforesaid Table shall be payable as thereinafter mentioned, viz.:----\n\n| Condition | Payment Terms |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) Where the Wharf or Pier is situated in any portion of the said Reclamation actually in course of construction | Payment or payment into Court shall be made after the expiration of six months from the publication of the aforesaid Table. |\n| (b) Where the Wharf or Pier is not situated in any portion of the said Reclamation actually in course of construction | Such sum shall be paid or paid into Court after the expiration of six months from the date of the commencement of such portion. |\n\nA copy of this Ordinance is comprised in the Appendix hereto (`Appendix No. 4`).\n\n## 6.\nThe Table of Compensation was duly prepared and published in the **Government Gazette** of Saturday, the 28th October 1893, and such Table comprises the Pier belonging to your Petitioners opposite to their Marine Lot No. 184, and the amount payable as compensation therefor is stated therein to be $22,063.79. A copy of this Table is comprised in the Appendix hereto (`Appendix No. 5`).\n\n## 7.\nWithin one month from the publication of the said Table in the **Gazette**, there was also duly published in the **Government Gazette** of Saturday, the 25th November 1893, a List of the respective persons to whom it was proposed to pay the respective sums mentioned in the said Table, and in such List was contained the name of your Petitioner \"M. J. STEPHENS\" as the person to whom it was proposed to pay the sum mentioned in the said Table as the compensation payable in respect of the Pier belonging to your Petitioners. A copy of this List is comprised in the Appendix hereto (`Appendix No. 6`).\n\n## 8.\nThe period of six months from the publication of the aforesaid Table referred to in Section 8 of the said **Praya Wharves and Piers Ordinance 1893** expired on the 27th April 1894, but although your Petitioners' Wharf or Pier has been damaged and disturbed by the Praya Reclamation Works now in progress in Section 1 of the Praya Reclamation Works, and although the other owners in this and other Sections whose Piers have been disturbed by the works have been duly paid the compensation awarded to them, yet your Petitioners have been refused payment by the Government of the sum so awarded to them as aforesaid. Your Petitioners therefore crave leave to lay before your Lordship the facts relating to the disturbance of the Pier and the refusal of the Government to pay the compensation, in order that your Lordship may direct that relief be granted to your Petitioners under the circumstances here set forth. Such facts are as follows:-\n\n## 9.\nDuring the month of November 1891, the works in connection with the construction of the Reclamation of the said Section No. 1 were being carried out close to the Eastern boundary of your Petitioners' Pier, and the laying of the pierre perdu foundations in the work of reclamation damaged and disturbed a great portion of the Pier. Such portion of the Pier was soon afterwards removed with the consent of the Government and is coloured \"Red\" on the plan comprised in the Appendix hereto (`Appendix No. 1`). The remaining portion of the Wharf not yet removed is coloured Black on the said plan. From this, your Lordship will see that the whole of the Pier was, in consequence of the construction and progress of the works of the Reclamation, rendered quite useless for the purposes for which it was built and has since had no berthing power whatever, as no Steamers can now come alongside the Wharf. The portion coloured blue is simply used temporarily by some of your Petitioners' Chinese customers for packing sugar, for which no charge is made.\n\n## 10.\nOn the 19th September 1891, finding the works of the Reclamation would soon necessitate the removal of the greater portion of the Pier, your Petitioner THOMAS HOWARD wrote to the then Acting Colonial Secretary, the Honourable W. M. GOODMAN, the letter of that date set out in the Appendix hereto (`Appendix No. 7`), and in reply, Mr. HOWARD received the letter of the 24th October following from the Acting Colonial Secretary (`Appendix No. 8`), in which, as regards the Pier, he stated that if the Wharf or Pier is removed, your Petitioners would be entitled to claim a proportion of the sum not exceeding $180,000 set apart by the Ordinance for compensation for such removal, and that the Government then invited them (your Petitioners) in anticipation of such removal to make such representations as to the amount eventually to be paid to them, and otherwise as they (your Petitioners) might think fit.",
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        "content_text": "SIR,\n\nNo. 7.\n\nHongkong, 19th September, 1891.\n\nFROM a Government Notification I see that it is requested that Owners of Wharves and Piers claiming to be entitled to compensation under Section 7 of Ordinance 16 of 1889 should appoint a representative to confer with the Surveyor General on the principle to be adopted in apportioning the $180,000 set apart for compensation.\n\nMr. M. J. D. Stephens and myself are owners of Marine Lot No. 184 and of the Pier in front thereof, and claim to be entitled to compensation; but to what extent, I am unable to determine: because the Government is not carrying on the Reclamation Scheme in accordance with the Ordinance, but is leaving out Marine Lots Nos. 184, 191, 190, 180, and 188.\n\nAlthough our Lot is being left out, yet, the Scheme as at present proposed will render it necessary to remove part of the Pier, and thus will arise a claim for compensation under the Ordinance.\n\nOf course, if it is intended to complete the Reclamation in front of these Lots, as soon as the other part of the Section is finished, then the Government would have to claim the whole of the compensation for the Pier, inasmuch as Marine Lot No. 184 would have to be resumed, I suppose, under the covenant in the Crown Lease: for Mr. M. J. D. Stephens and myself, as owners of the aforesaid Lot 184, have not agreed to the Reclamation Scheme.\n\nI should therefore be glad to know if the Government propose to carry out the Scheme in accordance with the Ordinance.\n\nThe Hon. W. M. GOODMAN,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD.\n\nNo. 8.\n\nNo. 1918.\n\nSIR,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th October, 1891.\n\nIn acknowledging your letter of the 19th ultimo, I regret that owing to the representations you made and to the enquiry thereby necessitated there should have seemingly been some delay in answering it.\n\nI have the honour now to inform you that as you and Mr. J. D. Stephens have not come into the Scheme, the Government is advised that you have no claim as of right to any compensation in respect of your Marine Lot 184, but that if the Wharf or Pier in front thereof is removed you will be entitled to claim a proportion of the sum not exceeding $180,000 set apart by the Ordinance for compensation for such removal and that the Government now invite you in anticipation of such removal to make such representations as to the amount eventually to be paid you and otherwise as you may think fit.\n\nIn reference to your statement that the Government is not carrying out the Reclamation Scheme in accordance with the Ordinance, I have to point out to you that although the Ordinance authorises a general line of reclamation commencing from a point opposite Marine Lot No. 188 and terminating at a point opposite Murray Pier, there is no duty cast upon the Government of commencing the work of reclamation at any given point and there is no reason to suppose that the Scheme will be carried out otherwise than in accordance with the Ordinance.\n\nTHOS. HOWARD, Esq.\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) W. MEIGH GOODMAN,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n636",
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        "content_text": "No. 9.\n\nNo. II.\n\nSCR.\n\nHongkong, 28th October, 1891. I have to thank you for your letter of the 24th instant, in reply to mine of the 19th ultimo, in which you state that :-\n\n\"There is no reason to suppose that the Scheme will be carried out otherwise than in accordance with the Ordinance.\"\n\nI have also to thank you for your courtesy in telling me that, in view of the carrying out of the Scheme, the Government now invite me to make a claim for my proportion of the $180,000 set apart for compensation to Pier owners.\n\nI do not, however, acquiesce in the opinion that a Crown Lessee of a Marine Lot has no claim to compensation when the very thing that makes the Lot valuable, namely, access by water, has been taken away.\n\nThe Hon. W. M. GOODMAN,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.\n\nI have, &c., (Signed)\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD.\n\nSuz.\n\nHongkong, 4th November, 1891. With reference to my letter of the 30th October, claiming compensation for our Pier in front of Marine Lot No. 184, I have now to inform you that the weight of the stones thrown upon a mud bottom close to our Pier has made the Pier rise to the extent of about two feet at one end: and I suppose, as the work progresses, the same effect will be produced over the greater part of the length of the Pier, and thus damage the whole.\n\nI shall be glad, therefore, if the Government will tell me if my claim of $16,000 will be allowed, so that I may commence the removal of the Pier.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) THOMAS HOWARD,\n\nThe Hon W. M. GOODMAN, Acting Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.\n\nNo. 12.\n\nSIR:\n\nNo. 10.\n\nHongkong, 30th October, 1891.\n\nIn compliance with the invitation of the Government, contained in your letter No. 1918, under date 24th October, now to make such representations as to the amount eventually to be paid to us for the removal of our Pier, opposite Marine Lot No. 184, I have to submit that the time has now arrived when the amount set apart for us should be paid.\n\nFor, although the Pier has not been removed, yet with the work of Reclamation now going on close to our Lot, and that which has to be done, as laid down on the plans, our Pier will be an obstruction to the boats coming to our Godowns, and the removal of the greater part thereof has therefore become a necessity.\n\nAnd as you have already informed me that the scheme of Reclamation will be carried out, it is best that the whole amount apportioned for our Pier should now be paid.\n\nMore particularly so, when it is borne in mind that our claim against the Government will be lessened by the amount we now receive, when the Government has to resume Marine Lot No. 184; for it will be remembered that we are not consenting parties to the scheme of Reclamation in so far as the aforesaid Lot is concerned; and I have already in a previous letter, intimated to you that when access by water is taken away, our Godowns, as such, will no longer be valuable, and consequently the Government, as I am advised, will have to pay full and fair compensation in accordance with the covenant in the Crown Lease.\n\nI believe Mr. Price caused a schedule to be made of the apportionments for the Piers, and so far as I remember, my views accorded with his in that matter, but what the amount apportioned to us is, I do not know; but I estimate the present value of our Pier, with the cost of removal at the sum of Sixteen thousand ($16,000) dollars.\n\nI hardly need say that I shall be glad if you will give this matter your earliest attention, for I want to begin to remove the Pier at once.\n\nThe Hon. W. M. GOODMAN,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD.\n\nNo. 657.\n\nSIR,\n\nSurveyor General's Office, Hongkong, 10th November, 1891.\n\nIn reply to your letters of the 8th ultimo and 4th instant respecting the compensation claimed by you for the removal of the Pier in front of Marine Lot 184, I am directed to inform you that your claim will be considered together with those of the Pier Owners whose Piers will have to be removed during the construction of the Praya Reclamation authorized by Ordinance 16 of 1889.\n\nI have further to inform you there is no objection to you removing your Pier at as early a date as you may think fit, but the actual compensation to be given to you cannot be settled pending the settlement of the compensation to be given to Owners of the other Piers above referred to.\n\nSI,\n\nTROS. HOWARD, Esq.\n\nNo. 13.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nFRANCIS A. COOPER,\n\nActing Surveyor General,\n\nHongkong, 29th April, 1892.\n\nOn the 19th September last, I wrote to the Acting Colonial Secretary with reference to compensation for Piers under the Praya Reclamation Ordinance,\n\nSince that time our Pier was damaged by the work of the Reclamation and with the consent of the Government, the greater part of it has been removed and the use of it has thus been lost.\n\nI have therefore, now to ask if His Excellency the Governor will give instructions that the amount of our claim, if in order, may be paid; and if not in order, I should feel obliged for information as to what is wrong with it.\n\nThe Hon. G. T. M. O'BRIEN, C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Secretary, Hongkong.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD.\n\n637",
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        "content_text": "SEE \n\n12 \n\nNo. 14. \n\n13 \n\nwww. \n\nNo. 17. \n\nSIR,\n\nHongkong, 12th May, 1892, On the 29th ultimo I wrote to you asking if His Excellency the Governor would give instructions that the amount of our claim for Pier compensation should be paid; but as yet, I have not received a reply.\n\nI trust that His Excellency will not consider me importunate in repeating my request, considering that it is now more than three years since the amount to be paid to the Owners and Occupiers of Piers along the line of the Reclamation was settled and incorporated in the Praya Reclamation Ordinance 1889.\n\nThe Hon. G. T. M. O'BRIEN, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD.\n\nNo. 1232.\n\nSIR,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th July, 1892.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant and to inform you in reply that no apportionment of the block sum of $180,000 in respect of compensation to pier and wharf owners can be made until either an Ordinance in that behalf has been passed, or all the parties concerned have bound themselves by a deed of agreement approved by the Government to submit to arbitration in respect of their several claims.\n\nT. Howard, Esq.\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nG. T. M. O'BRIEN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nNo. 853.\n\nNo. 15.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th May, 1892.\n\nSIR,\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 12th instant and 29th ultimo and to inform you in reply that a Bill to enable the sum of $180,000 under Ordinance 16 of 1889 to be apportioned will be introduced into the Legislative Council on Monday next.\n\nT. Howard, Esq.,\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nG. T. M. O'BRIEN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nNo. 16.\n\nNo. 18.\n\nSIR,\n\n18, Bank Buildings, Hongkong, April 27th, 1894.\n\nTHE PRAYA WHARVES AND PIERS ORDINANCE 1893.\n\nOn applying to the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer for payment of the sum of $22,008.79 due this day as compensation for the private pier opposite to Marine Lot No. 184, the Colonial Treasurer informed me he had not received any instructions with reference to such payment.\n\nI have therefore to ask that you will be good enough to issue the necessary directions that such sum be at once paid to me.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nThe Hon. G. T. M. O'Brien, C.M.G. Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Signed)\n\nMATTHEW J. D. STEPHENS.\n\nSIR,\n\nHongkong, 2nd July, 1892.\n\nYou have not replied to my letter of the 14th May in which I asked for a list of Measurements and Values of the Piers included in the $180,000 set apart by Ordinance as compensation to Owners and Occupiers.\n\nI am now writing to say that I do not require it, having seen a list of the Piers and Values, but no Measurements, whereby the Values were arrived at.\n\nHowever, as the list has been endorsed as reasonable by the Director of Public Works, I have nothing more to say about it, save to ask that His Excellency the Governor will give instructions that the amount $16,016 entered in that list as the Value of our Pier may be paid to me at once.\n\nHis Excellency will see the justice of this request when he is informed that the greater part of our Pier has been removed in consequence of the progress of the Reclamation, and the use of it is therefore lost to us.\n\nThe Hon. G. T. M. O'BRIEN, C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Secretary, Hongkong.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD.\n\nNo. 681\n\nSIR,\n\nNo. 19.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd May, 1894.\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 27th ultimo, I am directed to inform you that His Excellency is unable to issue instructions for the payment to you of the sum referred to.\n\nI am further directed to point out to you that the reclamation in front of Marine Lot No. 184 has not yet been commenced, and that inasmuch as the Pier for which you claim is not situated on any portion of the Reclamation actually in course of construction, the sum apportioned to you as the Owner of the Pier, is not payable until six months after the commencement of the work on the portion of the reclamation opposite Marine Lot No. 184.\n\nM. J. D. STEPHENS, Esq.\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n638",
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        "content_text": "## HONGKONG. IN THE MATTER OF MARINE LOT NO. 184\n\n**Petition of the OWNERS THOMAS HOWARD and MATTHEW J. D. STEPHENS**\n\nDATED 20th JUNE 1894.\n\n18. The Petitioners are the registered Crown Lessees of Marine Lot 184, situated in Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, upon which are erected Godowns for the storage of \"Bonded Goods\"; and the Lot has a frontage to the present Praya of 100 feet.\n\nDuring the year 1885/7 Government granted to Mr. J. D. Stephens (one of the Petitioners) permission to ... in front of Marine Lot...\n\n$22,063.79 awarded. THE COLONIES for payment to them of **PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR** to the RIGHT HONOURABLE HER MAJESTY'S \n\nEnclosure 2. In `eso. 1017 c. 8.` \n\n641 \n15585 \nRust 3 SEP 34/ \n\nReport and Comments on the accompanying Petition of Thomas Howard, of Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, Merchant; and of Matthew John Denman Stephens of the same place, Solicitor.",
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        "content_text": "## HEW \nW. Cox \n27/4 \n\nStep-17/4 at the end of her despatch. I think the Governor says it is for us to see the papers. The only inference that can be drawn is that the Secretary of State has to interfere with the decision given by virtue of section 7(vi) of Ordinance 16 of 1889.\n\n## No.59 \nSC02 258 \nExd 10 APR 19 \n\n**Government House, Hong-Kong, 15th March, 1899.**\n\nHaving regard to the express provisions of sections 7(vi) and 8 of Ordinance 16 of 1889, which give the Governor an absolute discretion in determining the amount of compensation, I think that the only conclusion to be drawn is that the Secretary of State sees no ground for interference. But the Ordinance is not a satisfactory one; it would have been much better to have inserted a provision for assessing compensation by arbitration in the first instance, so that the adequacy of the amount of the award could be reviewed. In effect, the proper compensation is somewhere between the two figures given by the Governor and the claimants, who appear to me to base their claim at much too high a figure. But we should not be drawn into discussing this question at all, but stick to the words of the Ordinance.\n\n## Answer \nas per Mi-Wilson \nCPL 22 \nSuggests to reply. I could not understand how the Governor arrived at his valuation, as the present value of the property - but the law gives him the absolute discretion.\n\n| Date      | Reference     | Amount     |\n|----------|---------------|------------|\n| Eu 24 M  |               | $110,000   |\n|          | 1616/44       |            |\n\n## 4th Feby. 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to transmit in duplicate a petition from Messrs. M.J.D. Stephens and Thomas Howard, Crown Lessees as Tenants in Common of Marine Lot 184, praying for redress in the matter of an award of $15,000 which was made to them by Major-General Black, lately Officer Administering the Government, under the provisions of section 7 sub-section (VI) of Ordinance No.16 of 1889.\n\n2. A copy of General Black's award and a copy of the memorandum on which he based that award are enclosed herewith.\n\n3. I shall not enter into the merits of the award made by my predecessor, who, I am advised, had full power under section 7 sub-section (VI) of Ordinance 16 of 1889 to award such a sum of money as he in his absolute discretion thought sufficient, because the question of compensation appears to be concluded by the award made by General Black under the above provisions of this Legislation.\n\n4. A brief précis of the history of this claim, with the newspaper reports of the hearing of the claim for a mandamus by the petitioners, is attached hereto.\n\nThe Right Honourable \nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P. \n800-2 \n800. etc. 1 \n5.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 1.\n\n258\n\nTo the **RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,**\n\nSheweth:-\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies,\n&c.,\n&c.,\n&c.\n\n**THE HUMBLE PETITION** of MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong Solicitor and THOMAS HOWARD of the same place Merchant.\n\n1. Your Petitioners are Crown Lessees as tenants in common in equal shares of Marine Lot No. 184 situate at Victoria West in the Island of Hongkong upon which they have erected valuable godowns or warehouses for the storage of goods and produce.\n\n2. At the time of the purchase of the Lot by your Petitioners in the year 1884 the land was lying rough and waste having been used as a slipway for the repair of vessels, and this land was selected by your Petitioners from its immediate proximity to deep water and because it was a Marine Lot and was purchased by them for the express purpose of laying out large sums of money upon it in improvements and erecting godowns for the establishment of a godown and money lending business in connexion therewith, to be formed and carried on by your Petitioner THOMAS HOWARD.\n\n3. Soon after the completion of your Petitioners' purchase it was discovered that the measurement of the Lot did not correspond with the measurements stated in the Crown Lease thereof, owing to the making and alteration of roads and other circumstances; and your Petitioners were called upon by the Government to surrender the Crown Lease and to accept a new Crown Lease with adjusted measurements and boundaries, which your Petitioners accordingly did. Such new Crown Lease was granted on the 13th September 1884 for the original term of 999 years commencing on the 25th June 1861 at the annual Crown Rent of $249, the area of the Lot being 32,820 square feet.\n\n4. Your Petitioners thereupon commenced to level the ground and build foundations for the godowns to be erected on the said Lot, when legal proceedings were taken against your Petitioners by an adjoining owner who claimed part of the ground as already comprised in his Lease, and although your Petitioners' Lease was supported by the Government, judgment was given against your Petitioners and 339 square feet taken away from them under the judgment of the Supreme Court.\n\n5. By reason of this and under the directions of your Predecessor the Right Honourable Sir HENRY T. HOLLAND, Bart, your Petitioners were compensated by the Colonial Government to the extent of $1,700 being $5 per square foot, the then market value of the ground in question as stated in the letter of the Honourable FREDERICK STEWART the then Colonial Secretary dated the 22nd November 1887 No. 1804 addressed to your Petitioners.",
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        "content_text": "## Appendix No. 1.\n## Appendix No. 2.\n\n6. Your Petitioners then completed the building of the godowns on the diminished area, with granite and brick, at, to them, a great cost, so that the said godowns should be suitable for the storage of flour and other produce requiring exceptionally clean storage.\n\n7. Your Petitioner THOMAS HOWARD then undertook the management of the said godowns and by his knowledge and influence with the merchants in Hongkong and Canton, succeeded in establishing a sound business to the full extent of the working capacity of the godowns.\n\n8. The very essence of your Petitioners' said business was in having direct access to the sea which your Petitioners were entitled to, and believed was fully secured to them as Marine Lot holders.\n\n9. In the year 1889 the Praya Reclamation Ordinance was passed for the reclamation of the foreshore of the Harbour from the Military ground East of Victoria Central to the West of the City of Victoria, and beyond where your Petitioners' Lot is situated. A copy of this Ordinance is annexed hereto, marked Appendix No. 1.\n\n10. By the 2nd Section of this Ordinance the works authorised by the Ordinance and all works for the effectual and convenient carrying out of the same are declared to be works for the improvement of the Colony and for a \"public purpose,\" within the meaning of that term as contained in the Crown Leases of Lands in the Colony. A copy of that portion of your Petitioners' Crown Lease which contains this term is also annexed hereto marked Appendix No. 2.\n\n11. By section No. 6 of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance all rights of all persons whomsoever to the land to be reclaimed under the Ordinance are declared to be absolutely extinguished and determined.\n\n12. Section 7 of the said Ordinance recites, inter alia, that it had been agreed that the cost of the said works should include a sum not exceeding $5,000 for preliminary expenses, a sum not exceeding $180,000 by way of compensation to owners of wharves and piers along the line of the proposed reclamation, and a further sum not exceeding $105,000 for the purchase of a portion of the land in course of reclamation opposite Marine Lots Nos. 95, 96, 97, 98, and 105, near your Petitioners' Lot, being at the rate of $5 per square foot for the land required for the purpose of widening the Old Praya from 50 feet to 75 feet.\n\n13. The said Section No. 7 contains provisions for the agreements to be entered into by the Marine Lot holders assenting to the scheme and for the cost of the works to be paid by them.\n\n14. Sub-section VI of section 7 provides that in case any lessee shall not signify his acceptance in the manner and within the time provided in other sub-sections, he shall have no claim to any compensation in respect of any depreciation of his lot by reason of the said works, but the Governor may, if he thinks fit, award to him such a sum of money or such a Crown Lease of new land as he may in his absolute discretion think sufficient as and by way of compensation for any injury that such lessee may have sustained by the said works.\n\n15. Sub-section VIII provides that so much of the cost of the said works as shall not be contributed by the lessees under the provisions of that Ordinance shall be defrayed out of the public revenues of the Colony.\n\n16. Section No. 8 enacts that, except as in that Ordinance provided, no Marine lot holder or other person shall be entitled as against the Crown to any damages or compensation for the depreciation or injurious affecting of his property or business caused by or resulting either directly or remotely from any of the said works.\n\n17. Your Petitioners did not signify their acceptance of the portion of the land assigned to them on the deposited plan, inasmuch as your Petitioners' Lot lies near the extreme western end of the proposed reclamation, where the profit to be derived from such reclamation was out of all proportion to the prospective loss your Petitioners would sustain by reason of the reclamation works closing your Petitioners' direct access to the sea, without which direct access your Petitioners could not carry on business except at a great loss.\n\n18. Your Petitioners therefore objected to the scheme so far as it was proposed to extend the reclamation in front of their property, but your Petitioners' objections were not listened to by the Colonial Government because the Governor would have it in his power by the Ordinance to award us a sufficient compensation for any injury your Petitioners might sustain.\n\n19. The profit to arise from the construction of the Praya Reclamation is estimated at several million dollars, in which the Government will largely participate from the reclamations in front of Government buildings and ground, but such large profits arise only in respect of the Marine Lots in Victoria Central, and the Eastern portion of Victoria West to the East of where your Petitioners' lot is situated.\n\n20. The works of the Praya Reclamation under the Ordinance were commenced sometime after the passing of the Ordinance, and in the year 1891 the works of Section No. 1, in which your Petitioners' lot is situated, were commenced from and including the greater portion of Marine Lot No. 185 immediately adjoining your Petitioners' godowns to the East.\n\n21. By reason of these works your Petitioners' Pier, to which steamers and other vessels came up to discharge and receive their cargo to and from your Petitioners' godowns, was partly destroyed so that steamers could no longer come up to the pier to the grievous loss of your Petitioners' business and to the injury of their property as godowns.\n\n22. Your Petitioners, however, continued to carry on their business and to receive and discharge cargo from and into boats and junks which could approach the end of the pier, although so damaged as aforesaid.\n\n23. In October 1894 further damage was done to the remainder of the pier, and blocks of stone and earth were washed down by a storm from the adjoining reclamation works into the sea immediately in front of your Petitioners' godowns, so that it became dangerous for boats to come near them.\n\n24. In the month of May 1895 your Petitioners, at the request of the Government, removed the remainder of their pier, and they were afterwards paid by the Government, out of the Praya Reclamation funds, the pier compensation to which they were entitled under the provisions of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance.",
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        "content_text": "# Appendix No. 3\n\n25. Your Petitioners then applied to the Governor, through the Colonial Secretary, that they might be awarded compensation for the losses they were sustaining by reason of not being able to receive and discharge cargo at low water, owing to the silting and the raising of the bed of the sea there, caused by the Praya reclamation works immediately adjoining your Petitioners' property, and in answer to their applications your Petitioners were informed that their claim to compensation for injuries to their lot would be taken when the reclamation works were commenced immediately in front of your Petitioners' lot and that until such works were commenced your Petitioners' claim was premature.\n\n26. In the year 1896, as the loss to your Petitioners was becoming great they applied to the Government that the Governor would assess to them compensation within the meaning of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, but your Petitioners' request was refused and, acting under the advice of Counsel, they then commenced proceedings in the Supreme Court of Hongkong against the then Governor Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, for an Order of Court to compel him to make his award in accordance with the Ordinance, but Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON left the Colony in February 1898, pending the proceedings, and Major General W. BLACK became the Officer Administering the Government.\n\n27. Your Petitioners' suit came on for hearing before the Full Court on the 30th March, 1898, when the Attorney General, Mr. GOODMAN, informed the Court that \"Certainly at the present time the Government had never said it would not take into consideration and fairly and rightly even if only morally bound decide as to any damage which might have occurred to Mr. HOWARD's premises in consequence of the Reclamation Works.\" The Attorney General also further stated that \"when the reclamation work was carried on in front of Mr. HOWARD's godown then would be the time for the investigation of the claim he had to damage by the interposition of the Reclamation Works between his godowns and the harbour, and that when he made his claim for that damage the Attorney General would have no objection to his making such further claim as he could substantiate for intermediate damage caused by the alleged silting up of his foreshore during the period before the Reclamation Works actually reached the front of his premises.\"\n\n28. Your Petitioners thereafter, when the Reclamation was carried on in front of the Godowns, placed all their facts and figures at the disposal of the Government, and forwarded to the Colonial Secretary a statement of your Petitioners' rents and cost of earning, which statement is annexed hereto marked **Appendix No. 3**. This statement was examined on behalf of the Government by the Local Auditor with your Petitioners' books of account and found correct.\n\n29. Your Petitioners, however, never heard any more about the matter until after the departure of the Attorney General, Mr. GOODMAN, on leave, when Petitioner THOMAS HOWARD was requested to see the present acting Attorney General Mr. POLLOCK.\n\n30. Your Petitioner THOMAS HOWARD then placed himself at the disposal of Mr. POLLOCK and was cross-examined by him and by the Director of Public Works, Mr. ORMSBY.\n\n31. Mr. POLLOCK, then on the 3rd November 1898, wrote to your Petitioner THOMAS HOWARD the letter of that date hereto annexed and marked **Appendix No. 4** stating that if he did not materially modify his views he would send the papers back to the Acting Governor to make such Award as he in his absolute discretion should think sufficient; but no precise information was vouchsafed to your Petitioners as to where or in what manner your Petitioners' views were wrong or to what extent they required to be modified. However your Petitioner THOMAS HOWARD wrote to Mr. POLLOCK in reply the answer a copy of which is hereto annexed marked **Appendix No. 5** which gives a short account of your Petitioners' case and, for the reasons therein stated, and in which he offered to accept $200,000 as the lowest value of the Lot as a Marine Lot, the value of the Lot as an Inland Lot to be determined in such way as to the Government should seem best, the Government, having the new Marine Lot in front, being in a position, in your Petitioners' opinion and belief, better able to realise a higher price for your Petitioners' Lot as an Inland Lot than your Petitioners could do by sale of their Lot as an Inland Lot alone without the reclamation.\n\n32. Your Petitioners then, without further notice or explanation, received the Award of His Excellency Major General BLACK hereto annexed marked **Appendix No. 6** under which your Petitioners are awarded the sum of $15,000 as compensation.\n\n33. Inasmuch as this sum does not even represent the intermediate loss of rentals your Petitioners have sustained during the progress of the reclamation works, that sum could not represent compensation for the injuries they have sustained by the conversion of their Marine Lot into an Inland Lot. Your Petitioners have therefore not accepted such Award and have returned the cheque for that amount which accompanied the Award.\n\n34. Your Petitioners are therefore compelled to present this Petition to you praying for redress under the circumstances under which they are suffering.\n\n35. Your Petitioners would remark that they were induced to withdraw their opposition to the Praya Reclamation Ordinance because it was stated by the then Governor Sir G. WILLIAM DES VOEUX that your Petitioners and others not coming into the scheme would be compensated to the extent of the difference between the value of their Lots as Marine Lots and the value of such Lots as Inland Lots when the reclamation works had changed the Marine Lots into Inland Lots. Your Petitioners, who had full faith until now in the integrity of their Leases from the Crown, have sought for nothing more.\n\n36. Your Petitioners have now called for a Report from Messrs. LEIGH & ORANGE two of the most experienced Surveyors in this Colony, and such Report, verified by Statutory Declaration is annexed hereto marked **Appendix No. 7**.\n\n37. From this Report it will be seen that the value of your Petitioners' Lot, calculated in three different ways, is as follows:\n| Method | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) Value of the ground and buildings the market value of the ground being $5 per square foot, with 10 per cent added for compulsory sale | $239,805 |",
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        "content_text": "## No. 2.\n\n261 \n\n0.0. \n\nSC02 READ && Red 15 APR 19 \n\nand that their estimate of the Lot as an Inland Lot to which it has been reduced \n\nPROVISO (contained in Crown Lease of Marine Lot No. 184) for resumption by the Crown, $86,000. This amount deducted from the lowest value of the Lot as a Marine Lot leaves $153,805 as the least injury which your Petitioners have sustained.\n\nunder the Reclamation Ordinance, and which amount should be paid to them by the said Matthew John Denman Stephens his executors Administrators and Assigns on its being so required and a full and fair compensation for the said Land and the Buildings thereon being paid to the said Matthew John Denman Stephens his heirs executors administrators or assigns at a valuation to be fairly and impartially made by the Surveyor of Her said Majesty her heirs successors or assigns and on the exercise of such power the term and estate hereby created shall respectively cease determine and be void.\n\n## \n\n38.-Messrs. LEIGH and ORANGE'S valuation can be supported by other evidence if necessary.\n\n39.-Your Petitioners therefore submit that the Award of Major General BLACK is void because it was an arbitrary act not based on any evidence applicable to cases of compensation, because it is against the weight of evidence submitted to the Government by your Petitioners, which evidence was never disputed and by reason of its being unjust to your Petitioners.\n\n40.-Your Petitioners are willing to refer the matter to arbitration either in England or in Hongkong as to you may seem best. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray:\n\n1.-That under the above circumstances and inasmuch as the method of compensation provided by the Reclamation Ordinance, 1889, has proved a failure, you will direct that the compensation to be paid to your Petitioners, if not agreed to between your Petitioners and the Government, be ascertained by Arbitration in the usual manner, either in England or Hongkong.\n\n2.-That a local Ordinance may be passed to provide when Her Majesty's Lessees are disturbed in the enjoyment of their Crown Leases, legal means for ascertaining the amount of compensation to be paid for any such disturbance, similar to the means provided in England under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts.\n\n3.-Such other relief as the nature of the case may require and as to you may seem right and just to your Petitioners.\n\nI.D. \n\nMatthew J. D. Stephens\n\nHongkong, February 22nd, 1899\n\n## No. 3.\n\n### HOWARD'S GODOWNS\n\n#### WORKING ACCOUNT of Godowns on Marine Lot No. 184, being copy of Statement taken by Petitioners' local Auditor, Mr. NICOLLE, on the 7th July, 1898.\n\n| Year | Crown Rent | Rates | Charges | Insurance | Wages | Repairs | Total Gross Expenses | Rentals |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1885 (part) |  |  |  |  |  |  | $2,206.71 | $7,821.83 |\n|  | $452.58 | $1,879.73 |  | $76.48 | $75.10 | $301.00 |  |  |\n| 1886 | $124.50 | $574.40 | $785.43 | $170.54 | $1,262.00 | $89.84 |  |  |\n| 1887 | $249.00 | $816.40 | $263.18 | $135.20 | $1,716.00 | $24.75 | $3,194.58 | $14,212.05 |\n| 1888 | $249.00 | $871.00 | $345.19 | $97.70 | $1,327.00 | $77.90 | $2,967.79 | $18,157.18 |\n| 1889 | $249.00 | $858.00 | $262.94 | $77.42 | $994.00 | $15.80 | $2,447.16 | $16,472.46 |\n| 1890 | $249.00 | $258.00 | $258.03 | $97.70 | $1,017.00 | $30.44 | $2,510.17 | $16,323.12 |\n| 1891 | $249.00 | $858.00 | $225.60 | $82.42 | $1,020.00 | $184.00 | $2,619.02 | $15,102.42 |\n| 1892 | $249.00 | $858.00 | $241.86 | $85.45 | $1,031.00 |  | $2,465.31 | $16,516.19 |\n| 1893 | $249.00 | $858.00 | $267.31 | $95.45 | $1,309.00 | $23.75 | $2,602.51 | $14,494.89 |\n| 1894 | $249.00 | $858.00 | $369.11 | $95.45 | $1,111.00 | $93.48 | $2,770.04 | $17,508.12 |\n| 1895 | $249.00 | $858.00 | $269.46 | $95.75 | $1,200.00 | $197.21 | $2,869.42 | $18,276.81 |\n| 1896 | $249.00 | $858.00 | $237.40 | $71.37 | $1,200.00 | $246.75 | $2,662.52 | $12,451.22 |\n| 1897 | $249.00 | $858.00 | $236.68 | $90.50 | $1,200.00 | $39.44 | $2,673.62 | $12,954.40 |\n| 1898 (part) | $249.00 | $429.00 | $98.26 |  | $600.00 | $61.13 |  | $5,159.35 |\n\n1st February, 1899. The Reclamation is now being carried on in front of the Godowns, and gross rent for January, 1899, was only $471.74, from which the cost of earning has to be deducted.\n\nThe rent now offered for the whole of the Godowns is only $300 per month, owners paying rent and Insurance.\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD.",
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        "content_text": "# No. 4.\n\n262 \n\nPatilion Paragraph \n\nNo. 31, \n\nPetition \n\nParagraph \n\nNo. 31 \n\nDEAR SIR, \n\nA. G. Chambers, \n\n3rd November, 1898, \n\nI REGRET that, owing to pressure of business, your letter of the 25th ultimo should have remained unanswered. \n\nI am sorry to say that it is entirely out of the question that I should advise the Government (even if they were willing to compensate you upon the basis of buying up your godown business, a basis they have hitherto declined to accept) to allow you to capitalize the value of that business at a figure like 16 years' purchase. \n\nUnless you are prepared to very materially modify your views upon the above point and you notify me to that effect within the next few days, I shall have no option but to return all the papers to His Excellency for him to award such a sum of money or such a Crown lease of new land as he in his absolute discretion thinks sufficient. \n\nI am, dear Sir, \n\nT. HOWARD, Esq. \n\nH. E. POLLOCK, Esq. \n\nDear Sir. \n\nYours faithfully \n\n(Signed) HENRY E. POLLOCK. \n\n## No. 5. \n\n### MARINE LOT 184. \n\n7th November, 1898 \n\nI HAVE to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant, in which you inform me it is entirely out of the question that you should advise the Government to allow me to capitalise the value of Godown business at any figure like 16 years' purchase, and that unless I very materially modify my views you will return the papers to His Excellency for him to award such a sum of money or a Crown lease of new land as he may in his absolute discretion think sufficient. \n\n1. ... \n2. Either I have not made my claim to compensation sufficiently clear, or I do not understand your letter. \n\n3. You are aware that on account of my health I offered to sacrifice a large sum in order to obtain a speedy settlement of the matter after nine years' suspense and uncertainty as to what the Governor, representing the Marine Lot holders, would do about compensation; and, as I have already informed you, I am willing to accept a sum, lower than the very lowest sum at which the value of Lot No. 184 could ever fairly be assessed, namely, $200,000 as an even sum, as the value of the Marine Lot. \n\n4. My Godown business, which consisted chiefly in storing goods and lending money on goods stored in our own Godowns, I could have removed to other Godowns if there had been any which I could have acquired for the purpose, but my loss and consequent claim to compensation for Marine Lot No. 184 would have remained identically the same, as I did not include any loss of business in my original claim, and therefore there is no claim for such loss included in my modified and reduced claim of $200,000. \n\n5. I have never asked the Government to buy up my Godown business, nor have I asked to be allowed to capitalise that business at 16 years' purchase, as you seem to imply, but merely the net rental... \n\n6. My claim is for the destruction of our Marine Lot, which, by the Reclamation works in front, is now no longer a Marine Lot, nor could it be sold as such after the passing of the Reclamation Ordinance in 1889. The whole value of a Marine Lot depends upon its having direct access to the water of the Harbour. That access being utterly put an end to, so far as the use of my buildings, specially built as Godowns, is concerned, the Marine Lot, No. 184, so far as I am concerned as owner, is also utterly put an end to. \n\n7. The question then is, what is the condition of the Lot now that it is no longer a Marine Lot, and the answer has been admitted on all sides that it is that of an Inland Lot, and can or appropriately be described as such, as Inland Lots are known in this Colony. \n\n8. Thus the compensation to which I am entitled is the value of Marine Lot, 184 before the loss caused by destruction of access occurred, less any sum which the Lot will realise as an Inland Lot. \n\n9. The only discussion which I could anticipate would be the best method of ascertaining these values. The value as an Inland Lot can only be ascertained by sale at auction, or by tender, or privately at an agreed figure, but it occurred to me that it would be more valuable if the Government would couple with it the Reclamation in front, and, as it is only the Government who can give this increased value, I have not taken any step to ascertain the value by sale to the detriment of the Government or the Lot holders upon whom the payment of compensation may fall, with which question, I believe, I am in no way concerned. \n\n10. The Attorney General, the Honble. W. M. Goodman, having informed the full Court that the Government had never said that they would not fairly and rightly assess the compensation, even if only morally bound, I, as you will no doubt have observed from the former papers, placed myself unreservedly in the hands of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and following the course which I believed was the only proper course to pursue, I forwarded my claim, through the Colonial Secretary, based upon the net rentals of the Godowns actually received by me, which I venture to affirm is the only correct way of arriving at the fair value, at all events, it is the way adopted by London Valuers. \n\n11. The two Judges, Sir James Russell and Sir Fielding Clarke, in the City Hall case, said that the greatest care should be taken that no injury be inflicted without adequate compensation, but you object to pay for actual loss of rentals since 1895, caused by obstruction of access, as also the customary 10 per cent. for disturbance of business. I have not claimed loss on money lending on goods stored in our Godowns. \n\n12. As you are aware, the rentals from freehold land in England are capitalised at 33 years' purchase, and for freehold land and buildings in similar cases to ours at 20 to 25 years' purchase, and therefore I believed, as I still believe, that considering the term of our Crown lease is 999 years, and therefore equal to freehold, I was only acting fairly and rightly in showing the capitalised value at 16 years' purchase for this colony. \n\n13. My figures have been checked and my books examined by Mr. Nicolle, the local auditor, and I know he has found my figures correct to the last cent. \n\n14. No reason has ever been given to me why I should not find the value of the Marine Lot by capitalising the net rentals as I have done, and yet I am told that unless I very materially modify my views upon that point, that is, as I read your letter, unless I am prepared to commit an act of great injustice to myself and to my co-owner, you will return all the papers to His Excellency. \n\n15. I have no objection to this course, for I am satisfied that you would not advise His Excellency to exercise his discretion so as to effect a manifest injustice, and I feel sure that His Excellency in exercising his discretion will not do so for the purpose of doing a wrongful injury, nor without giving consideration to my evidence. \n\n16. If you require further evidence of value from me by surveyors or others, I am quite ready to furnish it, but I wish it to be clearly understood that if my sacrifice down to $200,000 be not accepted as the value of our Marine Lot, I reserve to myself the right to withdraw this offer and place myself in the hands of my professional advisers. \n\n17. In justice to myself, I will ask you to kindly forward this letter to His Excellency. \n\nI am, dear Sir, \n\nYours truly \n\n## No 6. \n\n(Signed) THOMAS HOWARD. \n\nHongkong. \n\nColonial Secretary's Office, \n\n22nd November, 1898. \n\nParagraph \n\nWith reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the claim for compensation for the Petitioners, you and Mr. M. J. D. Stephens, as lessees of Marine Lot 184, in consequence of the Praya Reclamation Works, I have the honour to transmit the enclosed award made by His Excellency the Governor, together with a Cheque on the Colonial Treasury for $15,000. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir, \n\nYour most Obedient Servant, \n\n(Signed) T. SERCOMBE SMITH, \n\nActing Colonial Secretary. \n\n...conferred upon me by Section 7 Subsection (VI) of Ordinance 16 of 1889, Thomas Howard and M. J. D. Stephens, lessees of Marine Lot 184, the sum of $15,000 as compensation for the injury that they have sustained by the Praya Reclamation Works.\n\n(Signed) W. ROBINSON",
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        "content_text": "## ENCLOSURE 3\n\n### C.\n\n269. 0002 & PECD Rect 15 APR 19\n\nUnder the powers conferred upon me by section 7 sub-section (VI) of Ordinance 16 of 1889, I hereby award to Messrs. Thomas Howard and M.J.D. Stephens, lessees of Marine Lot 184, the sum of $15,000 as and by way of compensation for the injury that they have sustained by the Praya Reclamation Works,\n\n**(sd.)** **WILSONE BLACK**,  \n**Major-General**,  \n**Officer Administering the Govt.**",
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        "content_text": "## 36\n\nThe Government, however, cannot have much difficulty in coming to a decision without the advice of that body. The building of houses on archways over the entrance of lanes is entirely opposed to sanitary principles. The objection is of course greater in proportion to the height of the houses in the lane and the height of the obstruction, but any obstruction whatever is objectionable as it necessarily interferes with the free circulation of air and more or less excludes the direct rays of the sun. It would be an anachronism for any civilised Government of the present day to sanction such structures or to sanction their continuance when the lapse of vested interests permits of their removal. The Director of Public Works seemed to be influenced in his opinion by what he considered the hardship to the owner of the house built over the ground in question. If there is any real hardship in the matter it would be better to meet it by monetary or other compensation than by permitting the continuance of the obstruction. Where for any reason the renewal of a Crown lease is refused, liberal consideration should be given to the interests of the parties affected thereby, for when a person holds land on lease from the Crown it is always assumed that a renewal will be obtainable on the expiry of the lease, though possibly at a higher rental, to be fixed in accordance with the value of the surrounding property. The idea of dispossession without compensation seldom or never presents itself to a Crown leaseholder. If, therefore, there is any hardship in the Lau Kwai Fong case, let the owner be properly compensated, but the Government would commit a grave error if it sanctioned the continuance of an obstruction at the entrance to a lane. Granting of an annual lease would be a very inadvisable expedient, as it would lay up difficulties for the future and prevent improvements in the lane.\n\n## REPORTERS AT EXECUTIONS\n\nThe question of the admission of representatives of the Press to executions has been engaging the attention of the Institute of Journalists and it was decided some time ago to appeal to the Home Secretary to lay down a uniform rule on the subject. At present the practice varies in different gaols; in some reporters are not admitted at all, in others one only is admitted, and in others a number are admitted. The duty of attending executions is a disagreeable one of which the reporters are no doubt glad to be relieved, but on grounds of public policy it seems expedient that they should be allowed to be present. The reason for the change from public to private executions was to do away with the demoralising influences attendant upon the drawing together of a big crowd to witness the death of a fellow creature; but it was not intended, we believe, that a veil of strict secrecy should be drawn over what actually took place in connection with the event. Sensational and morbid descriptions are of course undesirable and from that point of view there may be something to be said in favour of the exclusion of the Press, but on the other hand the presence of spectators not belonging to the official circle is one of the best guarantees for decency and the avoidance of the painful accidents that sometimes result from carelessness in the arrangements. The Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, on being applied to for orders of admission for the Press in connection with the execution that took place on the 12th January, replied that he had decided not to admit reporters. Whether this decision was arrived at on his own authority, or after reference to the Government, we do not know, but if the former it seems desirable that some rule should be laid down on the subject and that the practice should not be allowed to vary with the individual views of the officials who may successively be in charge of the Gaol. On the occasion of previous executions in the Gaol, orders of admission have always been given to representatives of the Press, and that seems the wiser course.\n\n## SUPREME COURT\n\n### 12th January\n\n#### IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION\n\n**T. HOWARD AND M. J. D. STEPHENS V. SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON, G.C.M.G., AS GOVERNOR**\n\nThe plaintiffs' claim was for a writ of mandamus.\n\nMr. J. J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Messrs. Deacon and Hastings), appeared for the plaintiffs, who are Thomas Howard and Matthew John Denman Stephens. The Attorney-General, Hon. W. M. Goodman (instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, Crown Solicitor), appeared for the defendant.\n\nMr. Francis said the claim was for a writ of mandamus and the proceedings were taken under the provisions of section 85 of the code. A petition had been filed by the plaintiffs and an answer filed by the defendants, and the Chief Justice in chambers had settled the issues arising between the parties on those pleadings and had directed that the first two of those issues, which involved the settlement of important questions of law, should be disposed of first. At the suggestion of the plaintiffs and with the consent of the learned Attorney-General, it was arranged that the matter should be tried before the Full Court.\n\n### 13th January\n\n#### IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION\n\n**BEFORE SIR JOHN CARRINGTON (CHIEF JUSTICE) AND MR. WISE (PUISNE JUDGE)**\n\nMr. Francis - I did not, else I should have looked before. It was not until I was finally preparing my argument that I noticed it. The Chief Justice (after conferring with the Puisne Judge) - We both agree that the refusal or neglect to perform the duty - assuming the duty exists - is implied in the form of the question, but if the plaintiffs wish it we see no objection to stating it more expressly. Therefore, we will insert the words \"And assuming that the defendant has refused or neglected to perform such duty, is the duty one of which the Court, having regard, &c.\"\n\nThe Attorney-General - I can only say that I strongly object to this sudden alteration at the last moment.\n\nThe Chief Justice - Mr. Attorney, we have ruled on the point. When we have ruled on a point we cannot hear you further.\n\nThe Attorney-General - You have not heard me at any length. I certainly must protest against this point--\n\nThe Chief Justice - It is not correct when the Court has ruled that counsel should get up and protest against the ruling.\n\nThe Attorney-General - Would it not be sufficient to say \"assuming that the Governor should refuse or neglect\"?\n\nMr. Francis - I submit it is beyond the jurisdiction of the Court to try that question.\n\nThe Chief Justice - I do not think there is any real difference. The assumption is purely hypothetical and will not affect the merits of the case.\n\nThe issues, as settled by the Chief Justice, were as follows: - (1) Assuming that the property or business of the plaintiffs has been depreciated or injuriously affected by reason of the works authorized by the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889, does the said Ordinance throw any duty on the defendant to inquire into and assess the amount of such depreciation or injurious affecting?\n\nMr. Francis said primarily the Ordinance was passed for the benefit of the colony, but the reports of the meetings of the Legislative Council and the public meetings would show that the Ordinance was really passed for the benefit of the Marine lot-holders and that the Government had to spend nothing on the works. The public of the colony had to spend nothing except in respect of lots of land on the old Praya which were actually owned by the Government. The whole cost of reclaiming the buildable land, of constructing the sea walls and drains - the whole work from beginning to end - was paid out of the pockets of the Marine lot-holders who signed an agreement, and not out of any other pocket whatsoever. Plaintiffs asked for a mandamus, which would make the Governor investigate their case and make an award. The result of the award was of course beyond the control of the Court.\n\nThe Chief Justice - You contend that the Court can enforce the Governor to make an award?\n\nMr. Francis - We have the most implicit belief that if the matter were properly inquired into there would be no difficulty whatever in granting compensation, and it would be found we were fighting for something substantial.\n\n### THE NAM SHANG FIRM V. HIP WAT LAM, TRADING AS THE YAU CHEONG FIRM\n\nPlaintiffs, who are timber merchants carrying on business at 141, Taikoktsui, Kowloon, claimed $3,979.72, being the balance due for goods sold and delivered to the defendant, who is a contractor and carried on business until recently at 19, High Street, Hongkong.\n\nMr. Pollock (instructed by Mr. Gedge, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes, and Master) appeared for the plaintiffs. The defendant did not appear, nor was he represented by counsel.\n\nMr. Pollock said the plaintiffs from time to time supplied goods and materials to the defendant, who made occasional payments, and balances were struck. There was now owing to the plaintiffs the sum of $3,979.72. At the time of the issue of the writ the defendant had got into pecuniary difficulties and absconded from the colony. A writ of foreign attachment was obtained against him and the present proceedings were taken under that writ. Counsel proposed to proceed with the examination of the garnishees and to ask his Lordship what property, movable or immovable, was subject to attachment under the writ, and to then ask for leave to issue execution.\n\nMr. M. W. Slade (who was instructed by Messrs. Deacon and Hastings) said he appeared for two of the garnishees, Father Torres and Mr. W. Danby, who had no property liable to attachment in their hands.\n\nMr. Pollock objected to his friend appearing. The plaintiff had certain admissions that certain money and materials belonging to the defendant were on the premises of the garnishees. If the garnishee intended to set up some title in the money and materials they should have put in a claim to the property.\n\nHis Lordship thought the best course would be for the plaintiffs to prove their original claim first, and the question of the garnishees could be dealt with if the claim was established.\n\nMr. A. Brown, Assistant Bailiff, spoke to serving copies of the writ of foreign attachment on the garnishees, who are the Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Limited, Messrs. Palmer and Turner, Reverend Father Torres, and Mr. W. Danby.\n\nJudgment was given for the plaintiff for the amount and costs.\n\nThe Court then granted counsel power to examine garnishees.\n\nMr. Clement Palmer was examined. The Court determined that any sums due under the contract with Humphreys Estate and Finance Co. were subject to attachment, and gave leave to issue execution in respect thereof, the writ as regards the other garnishees to remain subsisting.\n\n## 37\n\nMr. Francis said he was afraid his arguments would extend to some considerable length. He proposed first of all to indicate very shortly his contentions on both points. First, as to the construction of the Ordinance, he submitted that the rule laid down in \"Maxwell on Statutes,\" page 49, must be applied. He and his learned friend greatly differed as to the interpretation to be put upon the words of section 7 and therefore the duty of placing an interpretation upon them was unfortunately in this case imposed upon their Lordships. It was contended on the part of the defendant that that sub-section of the Ordinance, read in conjunction with the whole of the Ordinance, imposed no duty on His Excellency the Governor in respect of claims arising out of the process of the Praya Reclamation Works, and that as there was no duty imposed upon him by law, therefore this Court had no power or no jurisdiction to make any order against him requiring him to give effect to his obligation as imposed by that section. The contention on behalf of the plaintiffs was that the Ordinance clearly empowered the Governor to give compensation to all persons injuriously affected by the works. Plaintiffs contended that if that was so, the duty was necessarily imposed on him in every fit and proper case of exercising that power. If he was empowered to give compensation, it was an indisputable requirement of justice that he should hear both sides, giving each an opportunity of hearing what was urged against the other, or in other words, before he could use his award?\n\nThe Puisne Judge - I may be wrong, but I always thought that the Ordinance was framed for the benefit of the colony and not for the benefit of the Marine lot-holders.\n\nMr. Francis submitted that the Court could order an investigation, although in the end the award might be that plaintiffs had suffered no injury at all.\n\nThe Chief Justice - It seems to me that the plaintiffs are fighting for a shadow.\n\nMr. Francis - We have the most implicit belief that if the matter were properly inquired into there would be no difficulty whatever in granting compensation, and it would be found we were fighting for something substantial.\n\n## HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD\n\nA meeting of the Sanitary Board was held on 13th January at the offices. Hon. F. H. May (Captain Superintendent of Police) presided and there were also present Hon. R. D. Ormsby (Director of Public Works), Dr. Clark (Medical Officer of Health), Mr. N. J. Ede, and Mr. H. McCallum (Secretary).\n\n### MINUTES\n\nThe minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.\n\n### MORTALITY RETURNS\n\nFor the week ended 1 January the death rate was 18.7 per thousand per annum, as against 15.8 for the corresponding period of last year. For the week ended 8th January the rate was 18.3, as against 20.9 for the corresponding week of last year.\n\n### THE OBSTRUCTION OF PRIVATE LANE\n\nAn application having been made for the renewal of a lease of property in Lan Kwai Fong Lane, the Medical Officer of Health wrote objecting to the application being granted as the property obstructed the entrance to the lane. The Director of Public Works was in favour of the renewal, as there was enough light and air in the lane and very little obstruction.\n\nA discussion ensued.\n\nThe Medical Officer of Health - I am afraid the Director of Public Works is not aware that for the past eighteen months this Board has been strenuously fighting for the passage through the Legislative Council of a by-law prohibiting the obstruction of private streets and lanes. That by-law has quite recently been passed. The opposition to the by-law came not naturally, perhaps, from property owners and their representatives, and the sole argument against the by-law was, I believe, that the property owners would, in future, be deprived of the rentals which they might derive from such buildings built at the entrance to these streets and lanes. The arguments of the Board, on the other hand, in favour of the by-law, were that the buildings obstructed light and air and were detrimental to the health of the people living in such streets. In this particular case, it is not a property owner but the Government who will derive the benefit of the rents from the obstruction to the lane, and if the Board were to recommend that this application be granted, it will certainly have the appearance of stultifying its action during the past eight months, for it would certainly lend weight to the assumption that although the Board object to property owners deriving rents from obstruction to streets and lanes, there is no objection to the Government themselves doing so. That can hardly be deemed a wise policy for this Board to fawn upon with regard to...",
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        "content_text": "## EXPULSION OF A BRITISH JOURNALIST FROM SIAM\n\nThe expulsion of a British journalist from Siam has naturally excited great interest at Bangkok, and the subject is discussed at length in the journal affected and the other local papers. Mr. LILLIE has declared that he will not leave the country voluntarily and presumably he will therefore be placed on board a steamer leaving for Singapore or other British port. He has further declared his intention of taking legal proceedings in the home courts against the British Minister in Siam. Meantime his newspaper, the Siam Free Press, was advertised to be sold by auction on the 16th inst.\n\nThe Siamese Government has no doubt received extreme provocation from Mr. LILLIE, but the course taken in expelling him appears to be a blunder. The adoption of that course was only rendered possible by the withdrawal of British protection from Mr. LILLIE, and the legality of the withdrawal is doubtful. Mr. LILLIE is not only a British subject, but has also, it is stated, complied with the form necessary to establish his nationality in Siam, having been duly registered at the consulate. Under these circumstances, he was therefore subject to British jurisdiction alone; if he had committed any offence, it was by the British courts that he should have been tried and, if found guilty, sentenced.\n\nThe blunder of the Siamese is more in the nature of an indiscretion than of an illegality, for if Mr. LILLIE was not entitled to foreign protection, the Siamese Government would be within its rights in expelling him. The indiscretion seems to have been a matter of temper. Mr. LILLIE's writings, which appeared to be intended to stir up difficulties between France and Siam and to incite the French nation to aggressive action against Siam, were no doubt exasperating, but it would have been better either to have treated them with contempt or to have taken constitutional action against the writer in the courts of his own nationality.\n\nNewspapers have within recent years had to be proceeded against both in Egypt and India for incendiary or seditious writings, and the same course might have been adopted in Siam. If the law did not quite meet the case, a short Order in Council would readily have authorised the Minister to make regulations for the maintenance of friendly relations between British subjects and Siamese subjects and \"authorities,\" and a regulation could be made under that authority which would constitute abusive and insulting writings of and concerning the King and Government of Siam a punishable offence.\n\nHowever, Mr. LILLIE seems to have been dealt with illegally, and although his conduct has not been such as to win for him much sympathy, he is entitled to a fair trial.\n\n## CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nHowever, to be some danger that while attention is so strongly concentrated on the Yangtsze, the importance of our interests in the South may be underestimated or overlooked. In this connection, we would invite attention to the following extract from an excellent article on the Japan Mail:--\n\nThe Hongkong Weekly Press says that France is asking China to guarantee that no part of the provinces of Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Yunnan shall be ceded to a Foreign Power. What does that mean? Considered cursorily, it appears to be analogous to England's recently obtained guarantee that no part of the Yangtze Valley be alienated. But in truth, the two conditions are radically different. England's object is to secure the free navigation of China's great waterway, which, with its tributaries, affords access to some sixteen provinces. The closing of the Yangtsze to British vessels would involve the ruin of British trade with China, and England is determined that it shall be kept open to the ships of all nations and that no foreign Power shall acquire a position from which its navigation could be interrupted, or the freedom of trade on its waters hampered.\n\nA guarantee with regard to the three provinces of Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Yunnan cannot be construed in any similar sense. It is plainly an attempt to establish a \"sphere of influence\" with a view to future contingencies. In short, the recent proceedings of Russia and France are obviously directed to the dismemberment of the Chinese empire; Russia taking Manchuria, with, perhaps, the vast project of gradual extension thence in westerly and northerly directions until all the provinces north of the Yellow River, together with Mongolia, are absorbed; France appropriating the three southern provinces; and England being left to work out her destiny in Central China along the Yangtze Valley, sandwiched between Russia and France.\n\nEngland, however, already possesses an island lying off the coast of Kwangtung, where she has created the Liverpool of the East. She also possesses a portion of the mainland of Kwangtung and has been for some time openly thinking of asking for more. She has, further, large trade operations with Canton, and it was through her enterprise that the West River was opened, which runs through two of the very provinces included in the French demand. It must be presumed that England intends to keep the West River open to the trade of the world just as she intends to keep the Yangtsze open.\n\nThe establishment of French control in Kwangtung and Kwangsi would mean the ruin of Hongkong and the exclusion of British commerce from Canton and the whole of the regions watered by the West River. That would scarcely be tolerable.\n\n## SUPREME COURT\n\n### IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION\n\n#### Before SIR JOHN CARRINGTON (Chief Justice) and MR. JUSTICE WISE (Puisne Judge)\n\n**HOWARD AND ANOTHER V. ROBINSON**\n\nThe hearing of the case Howard and another v. Robinson, which was before the Court on January 13th, was resumed.\n\nThe plaintiffs were Thomas Howard and Matthew John Denman Stephens, the defendant being Sir William Robinson, in his capacity as Governor of the colony. The claim was for a writ of mandamus, and the proceedings were taken under the provisions of section 85 of the Ordinance.\n\n| Date        | Event                                                                 |\n|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| 28th March  | Hearing resumed                                                       |\n| 30th March  | Argument continued                                                    |\n\nMr. J. J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Messrs. Deacon and Hastings) appeared for the plaintiffs, and the Attorney-General, Hon. W. M. Goodman (instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, Crown Solicitor) for the defendant.\n\nThe Attorney-General said that since the last date of the arguing in this case, the defendant had left the colony on the 1st February, and it became impossible for him to comply with the desire of the plaintiffs that he should assess the damages alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiffs.\n\nMr. Francis objected to any evidence being put before the Court except by affidavit and stated that he had simply come there to continue the argument on the issue of law.\n\nThe Chief Justice ruled that the Attorney-General was entitled to argue whether he could go into the matter.\n\nThe Attorney-General submitted that the fact that Sir William Robinson had ceased to be Governor of the colony was a public fact and a matter of which the Court should take judicial notice.\n\nThe Court adjourned after a little further argument.\n\nOn the 30th March, the Court was moved by the Attorney-General on behalf of Sir William Robinson for leave to introduce into the answer in this suit, by way of amendment, the fact that from the 1st day of February, 1898, the defendant ceased to be Governor of this colony, and to stay the further hearing of the arguments on the issues already settled until the question whether the Court could properly grant a mandamus directing the defendant after he has ceased to be Governor of Hongkong to do an act which can only be done by the Governor of such colony is decided.\n\nMr. Francis, on behalf of the plaintiffs, gave notice of motion for leave to amend the writ of summons and pleadings by substituting for the name of the defendant, Sir William Robinson, the words \"Major-General Wilsone Black, C.B., the officer administering the Government of Hongkong\" or \"the Governor for the time being of the colony of Hongkong.\"\n\nThe Chief Justice said that the fact of this question having arisen at all must lie on the shoulders of the plaintiffs, as the action commenced two years ago, and it was only just before Sir William Robinson left the colony that plaintiffs brought it into court.\n\nThe Court ultimately decided that the point raised by the Attorney-General should not be raised without fair notice being given to the other side.\n\nThe Hon. H. E. Wodehouse has been invalided home and retires on a pension. He left on the Empress of China on Wednesday next.",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.59 of the 15th of March last, forwarding a petition from Messrs. M.J.D. Stephens and Thomas, joint owners of Marine Lot 184, Howard, regarding the matter relating to the award made then by Major General Blake's award of $15,000 as compensation for the depreciation of...",
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        "content_text": "Wedd\n\ndependent as it is upon the business incidental to a great shipping port of call. The Governor observes with satisfaction that the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce are prepared to accept cheerfully the increased taxation that will probably be necessary to meet the heavy expenses of contemplated measures for the general improvement of sanitation.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nT. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nTHE SECRETARY,\n\nChamber of Commerce.\n\n31.The foregoing statements prove that the local Government has failed to give effect, save in a very qualified form, to the measures so frequently urged upon it by its own Medical Officers and other experts; its efforts, so far, have met with so little result, indeed, that the Colony is now suffering severely from the annually recurring visitations of plague and, in a lesser degree, of enteric fever and small-pox. The inadequacy of the measures adopted by the local Government in dealing with so grave a crisis may, we submit, be regarded as equivalent to a tacit admission on its part that it is beyond its Power, of its own initiative, to undertake the gigantic task which a thorough and efficient reform of the Sanitary conditions of the Colony, with the heavy expenditure and sacrifices attending it, would involve\n\nThe conviction has consequently been forced upon us that no really effectual measures will be taken to grapple with the Sanitary problems of the Colony and to arrest the progress of disease until an appeal is made to the responsible Minister of State for his intervention. These annual epidemics are pressing acutely on the Commerce and Industries of the Colony, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain labour, whether European or Chinese. This year the Plague has again produced a cessation of Emigration, and the loss to the Shipping and Trade generally through quarantine restrictions and other delays has been very great. Native workmen are leaving Hongkong in thousands, and there is not an important industry or commercial undertaking in the Colony, employing and dependent on Chinese labour, that has not suffered.\n\nUnder the circumstances hereinbefore referred to your Petitioners most humbly Pray that you will be pleased\n\nthis 25th day of June, 1901.\n\n1.-To appoint a Commission consisting of a person or persons wholly unconnected with the Colony to proceed forthwith to Hongkong to investigate and report\n\n(a) On the Sanitary Condition of the Colony; (b) On the measures to be adopted for the improvement of the City of Victoria and of the Colony as it at present exists.\n\n2.That you will be pleased to attach to the said Commission some independent Sanitary Expert to advise.\n\n3. That after receiving and considering the Report of such Commission, you will give directions for the Recommendations of that Commission to be forthwith carried into effect.\n\nT. H. WHITEHEAD, J.P. (Mem. Legislative Council)\n\nJ. C. VICTORIA (Rt. Rev. Bishop of Victoria)\n\nL. M. PIAZZOLI (Rt. Rev. R.C. Bishop of S. China)\n\nNO. J. FRANCIS, K.C.\n\nEDWARD OSBORNE, J.P. (Mem. Sanitary Board)\n\nC. GERLACH, M.D.\n\nWILLIAM HARTIGAN, J.P., M.D., D.P.H.\n\nF. OSMUND STEDMAN, J.P., M.D., B.Sc. (LOND.)\n\nJ. W. NOBLE, D.D.S.\n\nFREDERIC H. BOWERS, D.D.S.\n\nG. MONTAGU HARSTON, J.P., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (LOND.)\n\nR. MACBEAN GIBSON, M.D., C.M. (EDIN.)\n\nL. R. BELL, D.D.S.\n\nROBERT LAMORT, M.D.\n\nG. APACIBLE, M.D., B.A.\n\nF. P. SOARES, P.M.\n\nHERBERT W. BIRD, A.R.I.B.A.\n\nCHRIS. B. THOMAS, A.R.I.B.A.\n\nWM. DANBY, J.P., M.I.C.E.\n\nA. DENISON, J.P., A.M.I.C.E.\n\nL. GIBBS, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nB. BROTHERTON HARKER, C.E.\n\nW. H. WICKHAM, A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.C.E.\n\nR. K. LEIGH, J.P., M.I.C.E.\n\nED. ROBINSON, J.P.\n\nH. W. SLADE, J.P.\n\nH. A. RITCHIE, J.P.\n\nW. HUTTON POTTS, J.P.\n\nJ. ORANGE, J.P., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., M.AM. Soc. C.E.\n\nCLEMENT PALMER, J.P., F.R.I.B.A.\n\nAGOSTINHO G. ROMANO (Consul-General for Portugal)\n\nJ. J. LEIRIA (Vice-Consul for Brazil)\n\nW. D. BRAIDWOOD, M.A.\n\nJ. A. SWANN, L.R.C.S., L.M., L.R.C.P., L.M.\n\nF. MAITLAND, J.P.\n\nJ. H. COX, J.P.\n\nW. J. McLOUGHLIN, P.H., C.H.\n\nB. BYRAMJEE, J.P.\n\nM. G. SASSOON, J.P.\n\nE. SHELLIM, J.P.\n\nA. J. RAYMOND, J.P.\n\nC. S. GUBBAY, J.P.\n\nD. E. BROWN, J.P.\n\nR. L. RICHARDSON, J.P.\n\nR. SHEWAN, J.P.\n\nJ. A. MCKAY, J.P.\n\nG. W. F. PLAYFAIR, J.P.\n\nCHAN A FOOK, J.P. (Mem. Sanitary Board)\n\nD. MACDONALD, C.E.\n\nA. E. GRIFFIN, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nW. G. CLARKE, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nW. POATE, J.P.\n\nD. GILLIES, J.P.\n\nC. S. SHARP, J.P.\n\nT. H. REID, J.P.\n\nA. S. GOMES, M.D., M.R.C.S.\n\nW. H. SHIRRIFF, M.B., C.M., L.S.A.\n\nB. FITZALAN HOWARD, B.A.\n\nR. 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        "content_text": "Page 379\n\nGoverment House, Hongkong, 21st September, 1901.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to a Petition of Right to His Majesty the King from Matthew John Derman Stephens and Thomas Howard, which has been forwarded by Messrs. Stephens and Thomson, Solicitors in this Colony, for presentation to the Privy Council, and of which I attach two copies. I have the honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed copy of a minute by the Acting Attorney-General and to request you to be good enough to take such steps as may be needful to protect the interests of this Government in connection with the Petition of Right, by engaging such Solicitors and Counsel as may appear to be necessary and advisable.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\n[Signature]\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., &c.\n\nPage 371\n\n(enclosure No1 Duplicates)\n\n(enclosure No2 Duplicate)\n\nPage 614\n\n...cat)\n\n(No text is available for this page)\n\nPage 125\n\n(No text is available for this page)\n\nPage ...\n\n \nno more text is available for further processing.",
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        "content_text": "To \n\n618 \n\nIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY \n\nEDWARD VII OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH AND EMPEROR OF INDIA. \n\nTHE HUMBLE PETITION of MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Solicitor, and of THOMAS HOWARD of the same place, Merchant. \n\nAppendix L \n\nMOST RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH :- \n\n1. Your Petitioners have incurred many and heavy losses through the action of the Government of Your Majesty's Colony of Hongkong and through the inability of Your Majesty's Courts of Justice in Hongkong to afford adequate or any relief or redress to your Petitioners under the special circumstances of their case and your Petitioners have no hope of obtaining compensation for their losses amounting in all to the sum of $171,808 (excluding any claim for interest) except by Petition of Right addressed to Your Most Gracious Majesty in the full assurance that Your Majesty will be pleased to refer the same to the Judicial Committee of Your Majesty's Privy Council and to direct that right be done. \n\n2. Your Petitioners were at the time of the happening of the events hereinafter narrated Lessees, under the Crown, as Tenants in Common in equal shares of Marine Lot No. 181, situate in Victoria West, Hongkong, upon which they had erected valuable warehouses (godowns) for the storage of merchandise and in connection with which they were carrying on an extremely profitable business as storekeepers and as money lenders, advancing money on the goods stored in their warehouses. \n\n3. The great value of this lot to your Petitioners depended entirely on the fact that it was a Marine Lot separated from the waters of the harbour by the width of the Praya or Sea Road, only fifty feet wide, and to its immediate proximity to deep water so that merchandise could be landed and stored and re-shipped at but a trifling expense. \n\nYour Petitioners had a water frontage of 100 feet and cargo boats could load and discharge alongside the sea wall at all states of the tide. \n\n4. Your Petitioners held the said Marine Lot under a lease dated the 13th September, 1884, for a term of 999 years from the 25th June, 1861, and the said lease, copy of which is herewith annexed, was granted by Her Majesty the late Queen and contained a proviso to the following effect :- \n\n\"PROVIDED also, and it is hereby further agreed and declared that Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, shall have full power to resume, enter into, and re-take possession of all or any part of the premises hereby expressed to be demised, if required for the improvement of the said Colony of Hongkong, or for any other public purpose whatsoever, Three Calendar Months' notice being given to the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns of its being so required, and a full and fair Compensation for the said Land and the Buildings thereon, being paid to the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS,",
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        "content_text": "20. In October, 1894, further damage was done to the remainder of the pier, and blocks of stone and earth were washed down by a storm from the adjoining reclamation works into the sea immediately in front of your Petitioners' godowns, so that it became dangerous for boats to come near them,\n\n21. In the mouth of May, 1895, your Petitioners, at the request of the Government, removed the remainder of their pier, and they were afterwards paid by the Government, out of the Praya Reclamation funds, the pier compensation to which they were entitled under the provisions of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance.\n\n22. Your Petitioners then applied to the Governor, through the Colonial Secretary, that they might be awarded compensation for the losses they were sustaining by reason of not being able to receive and discharge cargo at low water, owing to the silting and the raising of the bed of the sea there, caused by the Praya Reclamation works immediately adjoining your Petitioners' property, and in answer to their applications your Petitioners were informed that their claim to compensation for injuries to their lot would be taken when the reclamation works were commenced immediately in front of your Petitioners' lot and that until such works were commenced your Petitioners' claim was premature.\n\n23. In the year 1896, as the loss to your Petitioners was becoming great, they applied to the Government that the Governor would assess to them compensation within the meaning of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, but your Petitioners' request was refused, and, acting under the advice of Counsel, they then commenced proceedings in the Supreme Court of Hongkong against the then Governor Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, for an Order of Court to compel him to make his award in accordance with the Ordinance, but Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON left the Colony in February, 1898, pending the proceedings, and Major-General WILSON BLACK became the Officer Administering the Government.\n\n24. Your Petitioners' suit came on for hearing before the Full Court on the 30th March, 1898, when the Attorney General, Mr. GOODMAN, informed the Court that certainly at the present time the Government had never said it would not \"take into consideration and fairly and rightly even if only morally bound decide as to any damage which might have occurred to Mr. HOWARD'S premises in consequence of the Reclamation Works.\"\n\n64\n\nThe Attorney General also further stated that \"when the reclamation work was carried on in front of Mr. HOWARD'S godown then would be the time for the investigation of the claim he had to 'damage by the interposition of the Reclamation Works between his godowns and the harbour, and that when he made his claim for that damage the Attorney General would have no objection to his making such further claim as he could substantiate for intermediate damage caused by the alleged silting up of his foreshore during the period before the Reclamation Works actually reached the front of his premises.\"\n\n25. Upon these statements of the Attorney General and at the suggestion of the Court your Petitioners consented to the further hearing of their suit being adjourned sine die.\n\n26. Your Petitioners forwarded to the Colonial Secretary for the information of the Government full particulars of their claims, and submitted for the inspection of the Government all their Books of Account and Vouchers.\n\n27. Subsequently your Petitioner the said THOMAS HOWARD had, at the request of the Government, sundry interviews with the Director of Public Works (Mr. R. D. ORMROD) and with the then Acting Attorney General (Mr. H. E. POLLOCK) with a view to a friendly settlement if possible, but it was found impossible to come to any terms, and your Petitioner was then informed by Mr. POLLOCK that the matter must be left to the award and order of the then Acting Governor His Excellency Major-General BLACK.\n\nAppendix V.\n\nAppendix VI.\n\nAppendix VII.\n\nAppendix VIII.\n\nAppendix IX.\n\n620\n\n28. A short time after, your Petitioners, without having had any further notice from the Government or from General BLACK, and without having seen General BLACK or being heard by him in support of their claim, and without having had any opportunity of seeing or knowing what evidence was laid before General BLACK in opposition to their claims, received from the Government what purported to be the award, under the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, of His Excellency General BLACK, by which he adjudged them the sum of $15,000 and no more.\n\n29. Your Petitioners applied to the Supreme Court of Hongkong in its Original Jurisdiction to set aside the award of the said General BLACK on the grounds indicated above and the said Supreme Court dismissed their said suit and refused to set aside the said award on the ground that under the provisions of section 7 sub-section 6 of The Praya Reclamation Ordinance the Governor was not in the position of an Arbitrator, had no duty imposed on him towards your Petitioners, was not called or empowered to exercise any judicial or quasi-judicial functions and possessed an absolute and uncontrolled discretion in the premises.\n\n30. Your Petitioners on the 30th day of September, 1899, after widely advertising the said Lot for sale and after offering it for sale by public auction sold their said Land and Buildings, then in fact an Inland Lot and removed from the sea front by a distance of 310 feet and by building land, for the sum of $110,000 the best price that could then be obtained for it.\n\n31. The said Marine Lot, with the buildings thereon, was in the year 1895, prior to the extension of the Reclamation Works to its immediate neighbourhood, of the value of $256,666 as appears from the Declaration and Valuation of Messrs. LEIGH and ORANGE, Civil Engineers, Land Surveyors and Valuers, hereunto annexed, and by the conversion thereof into an Inland Lot by the Praya Reclamation Works it became of the value of $110,000 only, as proved by the price realized on the sale thereof as aforesaid.\n\n32. Your Petitioners therefore suffered a loss of $146,666 in the actual value of their said property by the carrying out of the said Reclamation in front of their lot and during the progress of the work of Reclamation they suffered from the obstruction of their access to the sea by the silting up of the foreshore in the immediate front of their lot and by the consequent diminution of their business as shown by the statement hereunto annexed, a loss on rents of $25,142, making a total money loss to your Petitioners of the sum of $171,808 without including in this amount any consequential losses suffered by them in their business of lending and advancing money at interest on goods wares and merchandise stored with them.\n\n33. Your Petitioners humbly submit that an award of $15,000 made by General BLACK under the circumstances hereinbefore stated is a wholly inadequate compensation for a proved money loss of $171,808.\n\n34. Your Petitioners crave leave to annex and refer to copies of their correspondence with the Government of Hongkong and with the officers of that Government in connection with their said claims from the 27th day of March, 1889, to the 25th day of November, 1898.\n\nAnd they humbly pray\n\nThat YOUR MAJESTY will be graciously pleased to refer this their humble Petition to the Judicial Committee of Your Majesty's Privy Council and direct that Right be done in the premises.\n\nAnd Your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray, &c., &c.\n\nThe Solicitor\n\n15th September 1901\n\nM. J. D. Stephens Misch 17. Attorney. Could Witho\n\n1:",
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        "content_text": "632\n\nNo. 2142.\n\nSTB.\n\n28\n\nAppendix V.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHongkong, 22nd November, 1898.\n\nWith reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the claim for the injury sustained by you and Mr. M. J. D. Stephens as lessees of Marine Lot 184 in consequence of the Praya Reclamation Works, I have the honour to transmit the enclosed award made by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government together with a Cheque on the Colonial Treasury for $15,000.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nThomas Howard, Esq.\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nT. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nUnder the powers conferred upon me by Section 7 Sub-section (VI) of Ordinance 16 of 1899, I hereby award to Messrs. Thomas Howard and M. J. D. Stephens lessees of Marine Lot 184 the sum of $15,000 as and by way of compensation for the injury that they have sustained by the Praya Reclamation Works.\n\nAppendix VI.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nIN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nWEDNESDAY, BLACK, Major-General.\n\nSaturday 1st December, 1900,\n\nBEFORE HIS LORDSHIP Sir dous Canningros, C.M.G. (Chief JUSTICE.)\n\nHOWARD AND STEPHENS v. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.\n\nThe Chief Justice gave judgment in this case. The plaintiffs were represented by Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. Stephens) and the Attorney-General (the Hon. W. Meigh Goodman, Q.C.) appeared in person, instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. F. B. L. Bowley.)\n\nThe Chief Justice said In this case the Court is called upon to determine the following issue of law-\" Assuming all the facts stated in the Petition to be true and having regard to the provisions of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889, has the Court jurisdiction to inquire into the proceedings connected with the award referred to in the Petition and to set aside the said award and declare it null and void ?”\n\n29\n\nFor the purpose of determining this issue, I think it will be convenient in the first place to state the facts set out in the Petition, in the second place to state the provisions of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889, so far as they have any bearing on the issue, and, lastly, to state the conclusions to which an examination of the facts and of the Ordinance seems properly to lead.\n\nAs the facts set out in the Petition are to be taken as true, I will state them in the form of a narrative, in the same manner as if I were setting forth findings established by evidence.\n\nThe plaintiffs were until quite recently the Crown lessees and the owners and occupiers as tenants in common of Marine Lot No. 184 in the City of Victoria. There were godowns erected on the Lot and the plaintiffs carried on there the business of godown-keepers.\n\nThe Lot is situate in the western district of the City, and from the time when the Crown lease for it was granted, that is, in 1884, until about April, 1898, it abutted on the north side for a length of 100 feet on the Praya and was only separated from the sea in the Harbour by the Praya. At that point the Praya was about 50 feet wide.\n\nUntil the construction of the reclamation works which will be presently mentioned, the sea in the Harbour came at all times of the tide to the foot of the sea-wall bounding the Praya, and the plaintiffs were able, at all times of the day and night and at all states of the tide, to bring cargo-boats to the sea-wall, to load and unload goods into and from them, and to convey such goods easily and cheaply from and into their godowns.\n\nAbout the year 1891 the Governor, acting under the authority of the Ordinance already mentioned, commenced to construct an embankment along the Harbour front of the City, from a point to the westward of the plaintiffs' Lot to a point to the eastward of it, and to construct a sea-wall, and to reclaim and fill in the foreshore and bed of the Harbour between the Praya and the new embankment and sea-wall. These works have been carried on ever since and are still being carried on, and the result of them, as far as the plaintiffs' Lot is concerned, has been that the Lot has been converted from a Marine Lot into an Inland Lot; it no longer abuts on the Praya or sea road, and no longer has any direct access to the sea, but is separated from it by the old Praya, by a piece of reclaimed land, the property of the Crown, of about 185 feet in width, and by the new Praya and sea-wall, of about 75 feet in width.\n\nDuring the progress of these works the plaintiffs' access to the sea along the whole front of their Lot was seriously impeded and diminished, and they suffered heavy losses in their business as godown-keepers, and upon the completion of the works the Lot was seriously depreciated in value by being entirely shut out from direct access to the sea and by being converted from a Marine into an Inland Lot. By the diminution of their business during the construction of the works the plaintiffs suffered a loss of about $25,000, and by the depreciation in value of their Lot they suffered a further loss of about $90,000. Before the commencement of the works the Lot, with the buildings thereon, was of the value of about $200,000 at the least. After the completion of the works in the immediate front of their Lot, the plaintiffs were unable to obtain more than $110,000 for the Lot and the buildings thereon, and this depreciation was entirely owing to the conversion of the Lot from a Marine into an Inland Lot.\n\nThe plaintiffs were not assenting parties under the provisions of the Ordinance to the execution of the reclamation works, and accordingly, acting on their opinion as to the construction of the Ordinance which is stated in paragraph 10 of the Petition, viz., that it is the duty of the Governor to inquire into all cases of",
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        "content_text": "48\n\n49\n\n642\n\nNo. 554.\n\nSIR,\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHong Kong, 29th March, 1892.\n\nIn reply to your letter of 26th instant, I am directed to request you with a view to enabling the Governor to decide whether any, and, if so, what compensation should be made to you, to furnish the Surveyor General with proof of the alleged depreciation of your property.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nG. T. M. O'BRIEN,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHONGKONG, 30th March, 1892.\n\nSIR,\n\nHONGKONG, 21st June, 1892.\n\nOn the 30th March last, I addressed you with reference to the Reclamation in front of Marine Lot No. 184, but up to this date have not received a reply.\n\nI now desire to bring to the notice of His Excellency the Governor that this delay is affecting me prejudicially; for, if the Reclamation is to be carried out in front of our Lot, I wish to look out for another desirable place for Godowns, and if not to be so carried out, then to make arrangements to develop the business connected with our present Godowns.\n\nIt will be apparent that a prudent man will not act in such a matter except upon certain knowledge, hence my reason for again asking what is proposed to be done with us.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nT. HOWARD, Esq.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th instant in which you request me to furnish the Surveyor General with proof of the alleged depreciation of our property, situated on Marine Lot No. 184.\n\nIn reply, I have to say that as the Reclamation has not yet interposed between our property and the sea, no depreciation has at present taken place, and it is therefore impossible to prove an unascertained loss.\n\nAnd further, were the Reclamation an accomplished fact, I do not know any method by which the depreciation could be ascertained except by a sale of the property.\n\nIf, however, His Excellency still desires it, I shall have much pleasure in putting myself in communication with the Surveyor General.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nTHOS. HOWARD.\n\nThe Honourable G. T. M. O'BRIEN, C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nNo. 160.\n\nSIR,\n\nTHOS. HOWARD.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 23rd June, 1892.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 21st instant, and to observe that your letter of 30th March last stating your willingness to place yourself in communication with the Director of Public Works required no answer.\n\nIn reply to the enquiry contained in the last paragraph of your letter under acknowledgment, I am to refer you to my letter of 24th March last, and to inform you that the Governor has nothing to add to it.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nG. T. M. O'BRIEN,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nThe Honourable G. T. M. O'BRIEN, C.M.G.,\n\nSIR,\n\nHONGKONG, 29th April, 1892.\n\nOn the 19th September last, I wrote to the Acting Colonial Secretary with reference to compensation for Piers, under the Praya Reclamation Ordinance.\n\nSince that time, our Pier was damaged by the work of the Reclamation, and with the consent of the Government, the greater part of it has been removed, and the use of it has thus been lost.\n\nI have, therefore, now to ask if His Excellency the Governor will give instructions that the amount of our claim, if in order, may be paid; and if not in order, I should feel obliged for information as to what is wrong with it.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nTo the Honourable G. T. M. O'BRIEN, C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nTHOS. HOWARD.\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD, Esq.\n\nSIR,\n\nHONGKONG, 24th June, 1892,\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, referring me to your letter of the 24th March for an answer to my letter addressed to you on the 21st instant.\n\nI have referred to that letter, and it states that His Excellency proposes to consult with the Surveyor General before deciding whether any, and, if so, what compensation should be made.\n\nIt is now three months since that letter was written, and, as yet, nothing definite has been arrived at.",
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        "content_text": "57\n\n646\n\nNo. 1615.\n\nSIR,\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 27th August, 1892,\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 18th instant, I am directed by the Governor to inform you that from soundings taken over that portion of the foreshore between the Reclamation works in front of the adjoining Lot No. 185 and your pier in front of Lot No. 184, it has been ascertained that the level of the foreshore is practically the same as in 1889 prior to the commencement of the works,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n[SER]\n\nHONGKONG, 28th August, 1894.\n\nMarine Lot No. 184.\n\nOn the 18th August, 1892, I called the attention of the Government to the fact that the works in connection with the Praya Reclamation had so affected the access by water to our frontage that, at low tide, boats laden with sugar could not come alongside as formerly; but nothing has, as yet, been done.\n\nAs time goes on, the matter becomes intensified, and to-day it is so bad that boats cannot come near the front.\n\nI have therefore again to ask if His Excellency the Governor will give instructions to dredge the place and restore our means of access to the same condition that it was before the commencement of the Praya Reclamation.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nTHOS. HOWARD.\n\nTo\n\nG. T. M. O'BRIEN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nThe Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nHONGKONG, 30th August, 1892.\n\nNo. 1727.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th instant, in reply to mine of the 18th instant, in which you inform me that it has been ascertained from soundings taken that the level of the foreshore in front of our Godowns situated on Marine Lot No. 184, is practically the same as in 1889, prior to the commencement of the Reclamation works.\n\nWhat meaning Government officials attach to the word \"practically\" in the above sentence, I do not know; but, if used in its restricted sense of \"exactly,\" all I can say is that it is a strange freak of nature that the level should have risen, as pointed out in my letter to the Acting Colonial Secretary, under date 4th November, 1891, of which fact the Engineer in charge of the Reclamation works and his overseer had ocular demonstration, and now have sunk again without the cause having been removed.\n\nIt does not, however, require soundings to ascertain that the access to our frontage is not the same as in 1889; for, at that time, no foreshore could be seen at low water, whereas now at low water the foreshore prevents deeply laden boats coming up to the Praya Wall as formerly. I have, therefore, again to ask that the Government will restore our means of access to what it was before the Reclamation works commenced, unless the Reclamation has immediately to be proceeded with in front of our Lot.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nThe Honorable G. T. M. O'BRIEN, C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nTHOS. HOWARD.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 5th September, 1894.\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 28th ultimo, I am directed to refer you to Mr. O'BRIEN'S letter No. 1615 of the 27th August, 1892.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nTo\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD, Esq.\n\nHONGKONG, 6th September, 1894.\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date in reply to mine of the 28th ultimo with reference to the silting up of the foreshore in front of our Marine Lot No. 184.\n\nFor an answer, you refer me to Mr. O'BRIEN's letter No. 1615, of the 27th August, 1892.\n\nThat letter was no answer to my request, dealing, as it did, with soundings; while my request had reference to the foreshore only, where soundings were not required to ascertain that which was visible to any observer at low tides.\n\nConsequent upon the works of the Praya Reclamation on one side, and the sand coming from the Whitty Street drain on the other side of our Lot, the silting up of the foreshore has become serious, in that it precludes boats coming close to the Praya at low tides; and to such an extent has it increased that, during these low tides, boats have to be discharged opposite to the Gas Works, thus necessitating extra expense for carrying cargo to our Godowns.",
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        "content_text": "656\n\n76\n\nIn reply to your letter of this date informing me that Mr. H. C. Nicolle has been appointed to inspect our books and will call at my office for that purpose at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, the 7th instant, I have to say that I will be in attendance at the time and place named.\n\nThe Honourable T. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD.\n\nSIR,\n\n-\n\n77\n\nHONGKONG, 29th August, 1898.\n\nMarine Lot No. 184.\n\nI shall feel obliged if you will be good enough to inform me if His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government is in a position to tell me the amount which has been arrived at as compensation for the conversion of our Marine Lot No. 184 into an Inland Lot, by which the Godowns thereon will soon be useless for the purpose for which they were built.\n\nIt is now more than seven weeks since the Government Auditor verified the figures of my claim, which claim was made in accordance with the principle laid down by the Attorney General in the Taipingshan Resumption cases; and, with the further information I have furnished of Governor Des Voeux's value of the Land and Messrs. Bird & Palmer's value of the Buildings, I am at a loss to know the reason for delay.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nWith reference to your letter to Mr. Thomas Howard No. 1118 of yesterday's date I have the honour to inform you that any arrangement arrived at with the Government and Mr. Howard in respect of Marine Lot No. 184, I will be bound by.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nMATTHEW J. D. STEPHENS.\n\nThe Honourable T. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nSIR,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nTHOS. HOWARD.\n\nHONGKONG, 5th September, 1898.\n\nThe Honourable T. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nSIR.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\nHONGKONG, 15th August, 1898.\n\nMarine Lot No. 184.\n\nIn accordance with your intimation to me under date 5th July, Mr. Nicolle came to inspect our books on the 7th July, and on a subsequent day, and obtained all the information he asked for.\n\nSeeing that I made out the value of our Godowns upon the principle laid down by the Attorney General in the Taipingshan Resumption cases, I do not understand the delay in settling the compensation to be awarded.\n\nPossibly it would facilitate a settlement if the value of the Land and Buildings thereon were arrived at in terms of the Crown Lease; to which end I now enclose statement of values by the highest authorities, Governor Des Vœux and Messrs. Bird & Palmer, in the year 1888, the year before the passing of the Reclamation Ordinance.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMarine Lot No. 184,\n\nAnother week has passed and no reply from you as to whether any claim for compensation in respect of Marine Lot No. 184 has yet received the attention of the Government.\n\nConsidering that it is nearly seven years since the subject was brought to the notice of the Honourable W. Meigh Goodman, then Acting Colonial Secretary, and that it is more than four months since my claim was sent in to the Government, and more than eight weeks since the figures in that claim were verified by the Government Auditor, I do not understand the delay in arriving at a decision.\n\nI may mention that the amount of rentals for the last eight months is $5,779.58 less than for the same period in 1895, which loss has been occasioned solely by the Praya Reclamation.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nThe Honourable T. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nTHOS. HOWARD.\n\nThe Honourable T. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nTHOS. HOWARD.\n\nSIR,\n\nHONGKONG, 19th September, 1898.\n\nMarine Lot No. 184.\n\nI shall feel obliged, if you will bring to the notice of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government that after repeated applications I am still without any reply when the Government will pay our claim for compensation for",
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        "content_text": "659\n\n•\n\n+\n\n82\n\nlonger a Marine Lot, and the answer has been admitted on all sides that it is that of an Inland Lot, and can only be appropriately described as such, as Inland Lots are known in this Colony.\n\n8. Thus the compensation to which I am entitled is the value of Marine Lot 184 before any loss caused by destruction of access occurred, less any sum which the Lot will realise as an Inland Lot.\n\n9. The only discussion which I could anticipate would be the best method of ascertaining these values. The value as an Inland Lot can only be ascertained by sale at auction, or by tender, or privately at an agreed figure, but it occurred to me that it would be more valuable if the Government would sell with it the Reclamation in front, and, as it is only the Government who can give this increased value, I have not taken any step to ascertain the value by sale to the detriment of the Government or Marine Lot holders upon whom the payment of compensation may fall, with which question, I believe, I am in no way concerned.\n\n10. The Attorney General, the Hon'ble W. M. Goodman, having informed the full Court that the Government had never said that they would not fairly and rightly assess the compensation, even if only morally bound, I, as you will no doubt have observed from the former papers, placed myself unreservedly in the hands of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and following the course which I believed was the only proper course to pursue, I forwarded my claim, through the Colonial Secretary, based upon the net rentals of the Godowns actually received by me, which I venture to affirm is the only correct way of arriving at the fair value, at all events, it is the way adopted by London Valuers.\n\n11. The two Judges, Sir James Russell and Sir Fielding Clarke, in the City Hall case, said that the greatest care should be taken that no injury be inflicted without adequate compensation, but you object to pay for actual loss of rentals since 1895, caused by obstruction of access, as also the customary 10 per cent. for disturbance of business. Loss on money lending on goods, stored in our Godowns I have not claimed.\n\n12. As you are aware, the rentals from freehold land in England are capitalised at 33 years' purchase, and for freehold land and buildings in similar cases to ours at 20 to 25 years' purchase, and therefore I believed, as I still believe, that considering the term of our Crown lease is 999 years, and therefore equal to freehold, I was only acting fairly and rightly in showing the capitalised value at 163 years' purchase for this colony.\n\n13. My figures have been checked and my books examined by Mr. Nicolle, the local auditor, and I know he has found my figures correct to the last cent.\n\n14. No reason has ever been given to me why I should not find the value of the Marine Lot, by capitalising the net rentals as I have done, and yet I am told that unless I very materially modify my views upon that point, that is, as I read your letter, unless I am prepared to commit an act of great injustice to myself and to my co-owner, you will return all the papers to His Excellency.\n\n15. I have no objection to this course, for I am satisfied that you would not advise His Excellency to exercise his discretion so as to effect a manifest injustice, and I feel sure that His Excellency in exercising his discretion will not do so for the purpose of doing a wrongful injury, nor without giving consideration to my evidence.\n\n16. If you require further evidence of value from me by surveyors or others, I am quite ready to furnish it, but I wish it to be clearly understood that if my sacrifice down to $200,000 be not accepted as the value of our Marine Lot, I reserve to myself the right to withdraw this offer and place myself in the hands of my professional advisers.\n\n83\n\n17. In justice to myself I will ask you to kindly forward this letter to His Excellency.\n\nI am,\n\ndear Sir,\n\nYours truly,\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD.\n\nH. E. POLLOCK, Esq.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHONGKONG, 7th November, 1898.\n\nDEAR SIR,\n\nMarine Lot No. 184.\n\nI beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date.\n\nThe papers relating to this matter will be returned by me to His Excellency the Governor, to whom your letter will be submitted as you request.\n\nIt seems unnecessary for me to comment upon the various points which are mentioned in your letter.\n\nT. HOWARD, Esq.\n\nNo. 2091.\n\nI am,\n\ndear Sir,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nHENRY E. POLLOCK.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 12th November, 1898.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 7th instant addressed to the Acting Attorney General, I am directed to request that you will transmit to this office not later than Wednesday, the 16th instant, any reports and plans relating to the alleged silting of the foreshore in front of your Marine Lot 184 which you may desire to lay before the Officer Administering the Government who purposes giving his decision upon your claim in the short time which elapses before the arrival of Sir H. A. Blake on or about the 24th instant.\n\nT. HOWARD, Esq.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nT. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nHONGKONG, 15th November, 1898.\n\nMarine Lot No. 184.\n\nIn compliance with the request in your letter of the 12th instant, I have now the honour to send you Photographs, Plans, Reports, and Declarations relating to the condition and silting up of the Foreshore in front of our Marine Lot No. 184, which I desire to lay before His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, a list of which is on annexed sheet,",
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        "content_text": "84\n\nI also desire to refer to the Plan of soundings taken by the Government in 1888 for the purpose of the Reclamation, which shows plenty of water opposite our Godowns; and to the Plan of soundings produced by Mr. Ormsby at our recent conference in the Chambers of the Attorney General.\n\nThe Plan marked No. 2 in annexed list I should like to be returned to me, it being an original belonging to Messrs. Leigh & Orange.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, THOS. HOWARD.\n\nL\n\n85\n\n660\n\nUnder the powers conferred upon me by section 7 sub-section (VI) of Ordinance 16 of 1889, I hereby award to Messrs. Thomas Howard and M. J. D. Stephens, lessees of Marine Lot No. 184 the sum of $15,000 as and by way of compensation for the injury that they have sustained by the Praya Reclamation Works.\n\nWILSONE BLACK, Major-General, Officer Administering the Government.\n\n22nd November, 1898.\n\nThe Honourable T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nList of Photographs, Plans, Reports and Declarations,\n\n1 Photograph taken in 1874 or 1875 showing Foot Bridge in front of Marine Lot 184, with plenty of water over Slipway.\n\n2 Plan by Sharp & Danby, dated 1879, of proposed Sea Wall, in front of Marine Lot 184, showing plenty of water at low water Spring Tides.\n\n3 & 4 Photographs showing Foreshore in 1895 and 1896.\n\n5 & 6 Sketch Plan and Report of Messrs. Palmer & Turner.\n\n7 & 8 Sketch Plan of Soundings and Report by A. Denison,\n\n9 & 10 Sketch Plan of Soundings and Report by R. K. Leigh.\n\n11, 12 & 13 Declaration by Tho. Howard, M. J. D. Stephens and Kong Chim.\n\n14 Observation on tides and obstruction of access in 1895 and 1896.\n\n15 Printed Correspondence, with references (marked) to silting up.\n\nSIR,\n\nHONGKONG, 23rd November, 1898.\n\nMarine Lot No. 184.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, enclosing award made by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government under the powers conferred upon him by section 7 sub-section 6 of Ordinance 16 of 1889, as also cheque for $15,000, as and by way of compensation for the injury Mr. Stephens and myself, owners of Marine Lot No. 184, have sustained by the Praya Reclamation Works.\n\nOn behalf of myself and co-owner, I cannot accept this award, and therefore return the cheque herewith.\n\nI shall feel obliged if you will kindly return to me the photographs, plans, reports and papers sent to you on the 15th instant, as I require them to enable me to state our case for submission to the Secretary of State.\n\nThe Honourable T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nNo. 2171.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, THOS. HOWARD.\n\nNo. 2142.\n\nSI8.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 22nd November, 1898.\n\nWith reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the claim for compensation for the injury sustained by you and Mr. M. J. D. Stephens as lessees of Marine Lot 184 in consequence of the Praya Reclamation Works, I have the honour to transmit the enclosed award made by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government together with a cheque on the Colonial Treasurer for $15,000.\n\nT. HOWARD, Esq.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nSIR,\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 25th November, 1898.\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 23rd instant, I am directed to express regret that you do not find the award made by His Excellency the Officer lately Administering the Government under section 7 sub-section (VI) of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance No. 16 of 1889 satisfactory.\n\nI may remind you however that the validity of His Excellency's award is in no way dependent upon its acceptance by you or your co-owner.\n\nThe cheque which was returned in your letter under acknowledgment will be held at your disposal.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "講\n\nAny further communication on the subject of this letter should be addressed \nto-- \n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, \n\nHOME OFFICE, \nLONDON, S.W., \n\nthe following number quoted :---- \n\nB37068. \n\nSir, \n\nSECRETARY \nOF \nSTATE \nDEPARTMENT \n\n38253 Foreign \nOffice \nW \n102 \n\nReal 31 OCTOBER HALL. \n\n30th October 1901. \n\nI am directed by Mr Secretary Ritchie to transmit to you, herewith, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a Petition of Right which has been lodged at the Home Office by Messrs Trass and Enever of 25 Coleman Street, E.C. on behalf \nof Mr. Matthew John Denman Stephens and Mr. Thomas \nHoward both of Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, \n\nand I am to request that you will move Mr. Chamberlain \nto favour Mr. Ritchie with any observations he may \ndesire to offer upon the Petition before it is \nreferred in the ordinary course for the opinion of \nHis Majesty's Attorney General. \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office. \n\nI am, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \n\nStewry/mypha",
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        "content_text": "LAW OFFICERS OF THE CROWN,\n\n407\n\nC. O.\n\n44323\n\nDIRECT\n\nLAW OFFICERS' DEPARTMENT, REG 17 DEC 01\n\nROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE\n\n29th November 1901.\n\nSir,\n\nI was favoured with your letter of the 11th instant, stating that you were directed by Mr Secretary Ritchie to transmit to me the accompanying Petition of Right of Mr Matthew J.D. Stephens and Mr Thomas Howard, both of Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, together with a letter from the Colonial Office with reference thereto, and that you were to request that I would be so good as to favour Mr Ritchie with my opinion whether there was any objection to the Petition being endorsed in the usual manner \"Let Right be done\".\n\nI have taken the matter into my consideration, and have the honour to Report\n\nThat I do not think that this Petition should be endorsed \"Let Right be done\", and indeed, I do not think there is any power to do so.\n\nThe Petition asks that it may be referred to the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council. His Majesty has power under 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 41 s. 4 to refer matters to the Judicial Committee for hearing or consideration, and the Committee are thereupon to hear and consider the same and advise His Majesty thereon. But a reference of this kind does not proceed upon a fiat, and I cannot see that the present case is suitable for such reference.\n\nThe Petitioners' course is to apply to the Privy Council for leave to appeal from the decision of the Court\n\nS Murdoch, Esq., C.B.,\n\n&c &c\n\nHOME OFFICE\n\n7",
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        "content_text": "18 Bank Buildings  \nJuly 14th 1902  \n\n13 AUG 488  \n\nMay I be allowed to refer you to an interview you were good enough to give in the month of November last regarding the Claim of Mr Thomas Howard and myself to losses sustained with reference to the Praya Reclamation in front of Marine Lot Number 184.\n\nSince the Petition of Right was considered the wrong course to adopt, I have moved the Action here by applying to the Supreme Court for leave to Appeal and the application was refused on the ground that we were not within the time limited. I then petitioned the Court for leave to Appeal to His Majesty in Privy Council, which was granted as a matter of right.\n\nI have since prepared and forwarded by the last Mail to the Registrar of Privy Council the Record of the Proceedings as required by the Orders regulating appeals to His Majesty in Privy Council, and the Petition will be presented and the matter carried through by my London Agents, Messrs Trass & Burver, in due course.\n\nThe Petition of Right having been before you, and you having taken such a kindly",
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        "content_text": "S 33400 you F 18 Bank Buildings đang trong bu August 16th 1902. 38490 Rece \n\nI had the honour of addressing you on the 14th Ulto with reference to the Claim of Mr. Thomas Howard and myself in relation to Marine Lot 184 and the Graya Reclamation when I forwarded to you a print of the Record of Proceedings to be used on the appeal before the Privy Council.\n\nThe Acting Crown Solicitor having requested that Extracts from the Ordinance, referred to in the Record of Proceedings should also be printed and forwarded to the Registrar of Privy Council, this was consented to on behalf of the Plaintiffs and has since been done. At the same time, I proposed to the Acting Crown Solicitor that the Message of Governor Sir G. William Des Vœux of the 22nd March 1889 to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong should be printed together with the Extracts from Ordinances, but to this proposal the Acting Crown Solicitor would not consent.",
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        "content_text": "3:00 \n\n3. 2 174\n\nAs to Mr. Lyttelton being satisfied that the sum of $24,367 now offered is adequate and equitable, I can only regret that he did not state his reasons for being so satisfied, for it bears no comparison with $172,000, difference in value estimated by Messrs. Leigh & Orange, which estimate is now, according to the actual sales, found to be understated, as pointed out in my letter to you of the 16th March last.\n\nFor the above reasons, I am again compelled to ask the reasons put forward by the Hong Kong Government against our claim, or that the Secretary of State for the Colonies will agree to adopt the course pointed out by Her late Majesty's Government in 1857 and let assessors be appointed on behalf of the Crown and the proprietor of the Marine Lot to ascertain the amount that should be paid to us; for, it is unfair that the settlement should be left to the caprice of one man or set of men interested on one side only who have no special knowledge of adjusting claims for compensation.\n\nThat we are entitled to know the reasons put forward by the Acting Governor of Hong Kong against our claim, is, according to Chief Justice Sir John Carrington, beyond doubt; and the necessity of knowing them is emphasized by the same authority in the following quotation;-\n\n\"It was very properly admitted by the Attorney General that if the Governor is indeed an arbitrator under the Ordinance, some of the things which are stated to have been done by the Acting Governor cannot be supported and the Court will be justified in interfering in the exercise of its general jurisdiction over subordinate tribunals.\"\n\nThat the Governor is an Arbitrator under the Ordinance is clear from the Award itself, which runs:-\n\n\"Under the powers conferred upon me by section 7 subsection #6 of Ordinance 16 of 1889, I hereby award to Messrs. Thomas Howard and M.J.D. Stephens, lessees of Marine Lot No. 184, the sum of $15,000 as, and by way of compensation for injury that they have sustained by the Praya Reclamation Works.\"\n\n4. \n\n5. \n\n6. \n\nH 9573",
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        "content_text": "679\n\nThe Earl of Elgin presents his humble duty to Your Majesty and begs to submit to Your Majesty the accompanying print of two petitions relating to the claim of Mr Thomas Howard for redress for losses which he considers himself to have suffered in connection with certain Reclamation works at Long Tăng.\n\nThe first of the two petitions, which is dated the 22nd of May, 1908, and signed\n\n22nd",
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        "content_text": "by Matthew\n\n~ John Renman Stephens' and\n\nThomas Howard was laid before Your Majesty by Mr Chamberlain, in that year. Mr Chamberlain pointed out that the Acting Governor of Hong Kong had made his award in the case in accordance with the law of the Colony and stated that in all the circumstances he was unable to advise Your Majesty that that award was improper. He accordingly humbly advised Your Majesty that you should decline to give any directions in regard to the Petition and Your Majesty was graciously pleased to follow that advice.\n\nSubsequently, Mr Howard addressed a further appeal to Mr Lyttelton, at that time Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Mr Lyttelton consented to refer the matter again to the Government of Hong Kong. As a result, that Government offered £9020, purely as an act of grace since Messrs Howard and Stephens had no legal claim,",
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        "content_text": "PETITION\n\nTO\n\nHis Most Gracious Majesty\n\nEDWARD VII., by the Grace of God, of the United\n\nKingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, KING,\n\nDefender of the Faith,\n\nEmperor of India\n\nFROM\n\nMATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS\n\nAND\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD\n\nWITH REFERENCE TO MARINE LOT No. 184 IN THE CITY\n\nOF VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.\n\nPage 683\n\n \n \n\nPage 683\n\n \n \n\nPage 683",
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        "content_text": "To \n\nHIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY \n\nEDWARD VII., BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS, KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, EMPEROR OF INDIA. \n\nTHE HUMBLE PETITION of MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Solicitor, and of THOMAS HOWARD of the same place, Merchant \n\nMOST RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH :-- \n\nI. \n\nYour Petitioners have incurred many and heavy losses through the action of the Government of Your Majesty's Colony of Hongkong and through the inability of Your Majesty's Courts of Justice to afford adequate or any relief or redress to your Petitioners under the special circumstances of their case and your Petitioners' only means of obtaining compensation for their losses amounting in all to the sum of $165,142 and upwards (excluding any claim for interest) is by Petition addressed to Your Most Gracious Majesty in the full assurance that Your Majesty will be pleased to direct that such relief as to Your Majesty may seem just may be granted to your Petitioners. \n\n2. Your Petitioners were at the time of the happening of the events hereinafter narrated, Lessees, under the Crown, as Tenants in Common in equal shares of Marine Lot No. 184, situate in Victoria West, Hongkong, upon which they had erected valuable warehouses (godowns) for the storage of merchandise and in connection with which they were carrying on an extremely profitable business as Godown-keepers. \n\n3. The great value of this lot to your Petitioners depended entirely on the fact that it was a Marine Lot separated from the waters of the harbour by the Praya or Sea Road, only fifty feet wide, and to its immediate proximity to deep water so that merchandise could be landed and stored and re-shipped at a trifling expense. Your Petitioners had a water frontage of 100 feet, and cargo boats could load and discharge alongside the sea wall at all states of the tide. \n\n4. Your Petitioners held the said Marine Lot together with all easements and appurtenances appertaining thereto under a lease dated the 13th September, 1884, for a term of 999 years from the 25th June, 1861, and the said lease, copy of which is hereto annexed, was granted by Her late Majesty Queen VICTORIA, and contained a proviso to the following effect :\n\n\"PROVIDED also, and it is hereby further agreed and declared that Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, shall have full power to resume, enter into, and re-take possession of all or any part of the premises hereby expressed to be demised, if required for the improvement of the said Colony of Hongkong, or for any other public purpose whatsoever, Three Calendar Months' notice being given to the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns of its being so required, and a full and fair Compensation for the said Land and the Buildings thereon, being paid to the Said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators or Assigns at a valuation, to be fairly and impartially made by the Surveyor of Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, and upon the exercise of such power the term and estate hereby created shall respectively cease, determine and be void. \n\n684 \n\nPage 690\n\nPage 691",
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        "content_text": "left the Colony in February, 1898, pending the proceedings, and Major-General WILSONE BLACK became the Officer Administering the Government.\n\n19. Your Petitioners' suit came on for hearing before the Full Court on the 30th March, 1898, when the Attorney General, MR. GOODMAN, informed the Court that \"Certainly at the present time the Government had never said it would not take into consideration and fairly and rightly, even if only morally bound, decide as to any damage which might have occurred to Mr. HOWARD'S premises in consequence of the Reclamation Works.\" The Attorney General also further stated that \"when the reclamation work was carried on in front of Mr. HOWARD's godown then would be the time for the investigation of the claim he had to damage by the interposition of the Reclamation Works between his godown and the harbour, and that when he made his claim for that damage the Attorney General would have no objection to his making such further claim as he could substantiate for intermediate damage caused by the alleged silting up of his foreshore during the period before the Reclamation Works actually reached the front of his premises.\n\n20. Upon these statements of the Attorney General and at the suggestion of the Court your Petitioners consented to the further hearing of their suit being adjourned sine die.\n\n21. Your Petitioners forwarded to the Colonial Secretary for the information of the Government, full particulars of their claims, and submitted for the inspection of the Government all their Books of Account and Vouchers.\n\n22. Subsequently your Petitioner, the said THOMAS HOWARD had, at the request of the Government, sundry interviews with the then Director of Public Works (Mr. R. D. ORMSBY) and with the then Acting Attorney General (Mr. H. E. POLLOCK) with a view to arriving at a satisfactory settlement, but it was found impossible to come to any terms, the representatives of the Government not having offered any sum of money by way of compensation or proposed any means of settlement or any mode of hearing and adjusting your Petitioners' claim and your Petitioner the said THOMAS HOWARD was then threatened by Mr. POLLOCK that unless your Petitioners were prepared to very materially modify their views he had no option but to return all the papers to His Excellency the Acting Governor for him to award such a sum of money or such a Crown Lease of new land as he may in his absolute discretion think sufficient.\n\n23. A short time after, your Petitioners without having seen General BLACK or being heard by him in support of their claim, and without having had any opportunity of seeing or knowing what evidence was laid before General BLACK in opposition to their claims, received from the Government what purported to be the award, under the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, of His Excellency General BLACK, by which he adjudged them the sum of $15,000 and no more, and this too notwithstanding the statement of the Attorney General before the Full Court that the Government would act fairly and rightly even if only morally bound, and would recognise a claim for intermediate loss of rents.\n\n24. Your Petitioners applied to the Supreme Court of Hongkong in its Original Jurisdiction to set aside the award of the said General BLACK on the grounds indicated above and the said Supreme Court dismissed their said suit and refused to set aside the said award on the ground that under the provisions of section 7, sub-section 6 of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance the Governor was not in the position of an Arbitrator, had no duty imposed on him towards your Petitioners, was not called upon or empowered to exercise any judicial or quasi-judicial functions and possessed an absolute and uncontrolled discretion in the premises.\n\n25. A Petition for Special leave to appeal from the aforesaid decision has recently been presented to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council but it was dismissed with costs against your Petitioners on the ground that the words of the Ordinance constituted the Governor the Executive Officer to award compensation, and that his decision being absolute, the rules and regulations which bind an Arbitrator over whom the Courts had jurisdiction did not apply to the Governor, and consequently no useful result would attend the granting of the application for leave to appeal.\n\n26. Your Petitioners on the 30th day of September, 1899, after widely advertising the said Lot for sale and after offering it for sale by public auction sold their said Land and Buildings, then in fact an Inland Lot and removed from the sea front by a distance of 310 feet and by building land, for the sum of $110,000 the best price that could then be obtained for it.\n\n27. The value of the said Marine Lot with the buildings thereon in the year 1888 before the passing of the Reclamation Ordinance was upwards of $200,000, and in the year 1895, prior to the extension of the Reclamation Works to its immediate neighbourhood, of the value of upwards of $250,000 as appears from the Declaration and Valuation of Messrs. LEIGH & ORANGE, Civil Engineers, Land Surveyors and Valuers, hereunto annexed, and by the conversion thereof into an Inland Lot by the Praya Reclamation Works it became of the value of $110,000 only, as proved by the price realized on the sale thereof as aforesaid.\n\n28. Your Petitioners therefore suffered a loss of upwards of $140,000 in the value of their said property by the carrying out of the said Reclamation in front of their lot and during the progress of the work of Reclamation they suffered from the obstruction of their access to the sea by the silting up of the foreshore in the immediate front of their lot and by the consequent diminution of their business as shown by the statement hereunto annexed, a loss on rents of $25,142, making a total money loss to your Petitioners of upwards of the sum of $165,142 without including in this amount any consequential losses suffered by them in their business of lending and advancing money at interest on goods wares and merchandise, stored with them.\n\n29. Your Petitioners humbly submit that an award of $15,000 made by General BLACK, under the circumstances hereinbefore stated is a wholly inadequate compensation for a proved money loss of upwards of $165,142.\n\n30. Your Petitioners crave leave to annex and refer to copies of their correspondence with the Government of Hongkong and with the officers of that Government in connection with their said claims from the 27th day of March, 1889, to the 25th day of November, 1898, and to copies of documents in the Appendix.\n\n31. Under the above circumstances your Petitioners feel they are justified in approaching Your Majesty in order that your Majesty may direct that they may be awarded full and fair compensation for the losses they have sustained as before mentioned but which your Petitioners are unable to obtain except by Petition to Your Majesty.\n\nAnd your Petitioners most humbly pray That YOUR MAJESTY may be most graciously pleased to grant this their humble Petition and Direct that such Compensation and Relief may be granted to them in the premises as to YOUR MAJESTY may seem just.\n\nAnd your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray, &c., &c.\n\n(Sgd.) MATTHEW J. D. STEPHENS.\n\nTHOS. HOWARD,\n\nDated Hongkong, 22nd May, 1903.\n\n686",
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        "content_text": "A FURTHER PETITION\n\nΤΟ\n\nHis Most Gracious Majesty\n\nEDWARD VII., by the Grace of God, of the United\n\nKingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, KING,\n\nDefender of the Faith,\n\nEmperor of India\n\nFROM\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD\n\nWITH REFERENCE TO MARINE LOT No. 184 IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG,\n\n687",
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        "content_text": "To \n\nHIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, \n\nEDWARD VII., BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, AND OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS, KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, EMPEROR OF INDIA. \n\nTHIS FURTHER HUMBLE PETITION OF \n\nTHOMAS HOWARD \n\nMOST RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH :- \n\nI. \n\nSince the Petition to your Most Gracious Majesty by Matthew John Denman Stephens and Thomas Howard, under date the 22nd May, 1903, in reference to their claim for Compensation for losses sustained by the conversion of their Hongkong Marine Lot 184 into an Inland Lot, by the Works of the Praya Reclamation, regarding which Petition your Majesty was not pleased to give any commands, certain correspondence has taken place between the Home Secretary, the Colonial Secretary, and your Petitioner Thomas Howard, with the result that the question was referred by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to Sir Matthew Nathan, Governor of Hongkong, for enquiry, whether further compensation could justly be paid to your Petitioners, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, and without prejudice to the strict legal rights as defined by the Ordinance and the Courts of Law. \n\n2. Under the Ordinance, Governor des Voeux, who passed it, in his Message to the Legislative Council wrote, that the Frontage Lot Holders are strictly entitled to compensation, only in respect of the actual depreciation of their property by the Reclamation in front of it, but by the provision in question (Compensation clause) there can be taken into account the moral claims, so that instead of being a hardship to the dissentient Lot Holder, the clause in reality will operate for his protection. \n\nHe also wrote that it is needless to say that the Government had no desire to accord other than the fullest justice in respect of private rights. \n\nMr. C. A. Cripps, K.C. has written that the Award being under the Ordinance, the Governor is bound to decide upon proper and legal grounds and not in an arbitrary manner. \n\nJustice Fielding Clarke stated that it was within the competency of the Hongkong Legislature to modify, alter, and even destroy existing rights; although of course, the greatest care should be exercised that no injury be inflicted without adequate compensation. \n\nChief Justice Sir John Carrington endorsed this, and added that although the legal right is taken away, it cannot but be a point of honour with the Governor to pay full regard to the moral right. \n\nAttorney General Goodman stated before the Full Court on the 30th March, 1898, that the Government had not said that it would not fairly and rightly assess the damage, even if only morally bound, and he recognised the loss of intermediate rents as a proper subject of claim for compensation. \n\nThe Present Chief Justice of Hongkong, Sir F. T. Piggott, who sat as Judicial Assessor on the recent Enquiry, stated that in his opinion the case falls within the principle given in \"Cripps on Compensation\" (4th Ed.) p. 128, and the owner is entitled to compensation for depreciation; and as to loss of rents, he states that if silting occurred, this is a proper subject for compensation and may be awarded under the Ordinance. \n\nPage 688",
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        "content_text": "10. Sir Matthew disallows our claim of $25,142 for loss of rents before the Reclamation was brought actually in front of our Lot because no evidence was brought to show that there was any shoaling between the 1st January, 1896, and the 1st September, 1898. Evidence to show shoaling between those dates was not necessary because the shoaling which obstructed access to the sea-wall in front of our Lot had taken place before that time, and the Executive Engineer of the Reclamation stated that after March, 1896, the causes which had produced the shoaling ceased to operate. Sir Matthew Nathan admits that as a result of the construction of the right angle sea-wall in 1891 and 1892 there was an alteration of the sea bed, which may have been further affected by the demolition of our wharf, and the consequent dispersal of the stone filling under it. What necessity for stone filling under a wooden pier, or how the removal of wood piles should cause a rise in the sea-bed is not easy to understand, but when 27,000 tons of mud have to be displaced by depositing the pierre perdue a rise in the sea-bed must take place.\n\nWhat is called the stone filling under the wharf were stones and earth carried from the demolition of part of the new rubble sea-wall and earth filling behind it on the adjoining Lot, and the sinking of five stone boats alongside our pier during a typhoon.\n\n11. Before the Reclamation, sea-going steamers were brought alongside our pier, but after 1895, when the pier was taken away, cargo boats could not be brought to the seawall in front of our Lot at low tides, and when they were brought at high water and the tide receded, so many were damaged by grounding on the stones that owners refused to bring their boats, and coolie hire for carrying cargo a distance of 310 feet instead of 50 feet advanced to about three times the former rate, and many of our customers gave me notice that they would discontinue using our Godowns after 1895, and the number gradually decreased from more than 300 to about 30, and the net rents decreased from $15,406 in 1895 to $4,308 for 283 days in 1899 when the Godowns were sold, yet the Experts for the Crown said that the Reclamation had been a benefit to us.\n\n12. The loss of rents, however, is not disputed, and had the Government settled our claim for depreciation when called upon to do so in 1896 there would not have been a claim for loss of rents. Thus the laches of the Government necessitated the claim and the Government is equally bound to pay the loss as it was to pay interest $17,294 for 6 years 334 days' delay in settling the depreciation.\n\n13. As to having regard to all the circumstances of the case as proposed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, Sir Matthew leaves out of consideration the fact that $148,500 have been paid into the Colonial Treasury, being proceeds of the sale of reclaimed land in front of our Lot, and the right to erect a pier in front thereof, and after deducting $32,897, the cost of reclaiming, there remains the sum of $115,603, out of which, $35,729 have been paid to us as compensation, leaving a profit of $79,874, which it is now sought to appropriate by an arbitrary act on the part of the Governor in repudiating the value of the land as given by his predecessor, Governor des Voeux, who passed the Reclamation Ordinance, and who may reasonably be expected to know the value of the land in question; and he disregards the circumstance of the new land being sold for $133,500 at which rate our old land would have a value of $285,277; and also the destruction of a profitable business of money lending on goods stored in our Godowns for which we have not claimed, ought to be regarded as one of the circumstances of the case.\n\n14. My remarks upon the Award have been sent to my co-owner, Mr. Stephens, with the request that he would ask Sir Matthew Nathan to reconsider his decision in the light of the facts in evidence, but this he has refused to do.\n\n15. I have therefore again to appeal to Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to exercise his prerogative and allow a Government Official experienced in matters of compensation and myself to meet to settle the principle upon which the amount of compensation shall be ascertained, and, if need arise, allow a disinterested Expert to act as umpire, and thus end a matter which ought to have been settled 16 years ago when the Reclamation Ordinance was passed, and remove the grievance we are entitled to feel because the justice in respect of private rights promised by Governor des Voeux has not been accorded to us.\n\nSir,\n\nNOTE.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nTHOMAS HOWARD,\n\nIn the course of the Enquiry it was stated by our Counsel that the Crown objected strongly to our bringing in Oral Evidence to prove an offer of $200,000 made to me for the property in 1888. On the 13th August, 1889 I had another offer $220,000, which I refused.-T.H.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n25th November, 1905.\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th instant, with regard to the sum which has been awarded to you by the Government of Hongkong as compensation for injury to the former Marine Lot No. 184.\n\n2. This matter has already received full consideration and you were informed in the last paragraph of the letter from this department of August 9th, 1904, that the Governor's decision must be taken as a final settlement, and that Mr. Lyttelton would be unable to entertain any proposals for a modification of it.\n\n3. Mr. Lyttelton, therefore, regrets that he cannot continue the discussion of the case.\n\nT. HOWARD, Esq.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nC. P. LUCAS.\n\n691",
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        "content_text": "g kay 1983 the 22nd y may & signed by matthew \n\nJohn Drumman Stopheus and Thomas Howard \n\nwas laid before your majesty by for thanks in that your. \n\nWor \n\nChamberlain pointed out that the Acting Governor of Hong Kong \n\nhad made his award in the case in accordance with the laws of the Colony as stated and that in the circumstances he was unable to advise Y.M. that the award was improper. The Chamberlain accordingly advised your majesty that you decline to give any directions in regard to the Petition and J. M. was pleased to follow that advice. It appears that Suggestion. \n\nSubsequently, Thomas Howard addressed further appeal to Lyttelton, who was at that time Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Lyttelton consented to refer the matter ...",
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        "content_text": "# Memorial from J. J. Howard\nDate: 16 May 1911\n\nMemorial from J. J. (Howard) regarding:\n1. His dismissal\n2. Inadequate inspection of buildings\n\nWith explanatory report by D. P. Co.\n\n## Details of the Memorial\n\nHe has been in the service since April 1909.\n\n1. That he acted in the place of Mr. Thomas during the latter's absence on leave but was not granted the half salary.\n\nThe D.P.W. state that he was not given the extra allowance because the Overseer who could be spared was appointed by Mr. Thomas, but I do not see the motive of that.\n\n## Related Papers\n\n- Previous Paper: `185.413). Wt.28.032-50.`\n- Subsequent Paper: `1991600`\n\n## Other Information\n\n- `40,000. 11:10. A.&EW.` \n- `LANA KONG 1911 REC? 20` \n- `Page ...` (if page numbers were present, they would be included here as metadata)",
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        "content_text": "## denyth Mr Howard's claim to be paid in accordance with Col Ry 76.\n\nThe initial salary of Mr. Howard is $360.\n\nMr. Thomas' post...\n\n(2) His second grievance is his dismissal on the ground of prejudice sustained by him from it.\n\nI hardly think it proper for Lam... Moreover, Howard should not intervene with regard to the Government's discretion in this matter. He was given the opportunity of resigning and withdrawing his letter, and his desire for...\n\nMy care... the dismissal should be expunged from the record. It can hardly be granted if he is not willing to expunge the letter of abuse written by him as his own.\n\nRefuse to intervene... the question of dismissal. The latest say is that the SMS does not see that he is not able to perform duties professionally assigned.\n\nOverseer - Ho... was doing the work. Salary was paid. He was therefore...\n\nThe salary question is not over clear, but it is obviously not a case in which an officer was appointed to act temporarily in an office of a superior and more highly paid grade. The Govt. of H. Kong are only too apt to give acting pay in excess of the limits laid down in the Col. Regs. and need to be pulled up rather sternly.\n\nDecline to intervene.\n\nBr1 2078\n\nDecline to intervene.\n\nWu Al... Arc... Pt. 25... there is reason for disagreement as to the pay. So far as can be seen, the man was required...\n\n`RAW 20/6` \n`GR 1178/1922/32(III)` is not present but `Br1 2078` and `RAW 20/6` are.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nNOTWITHSTANDING THAT MR. PERKINS HAD, UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY, THREE EUROPEAN ASSISTANTS (NOW TWO ONLY), FOUR CHINESE CLERKS, AND ONE DRAUGHTSMAN, IT IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO KEEP THIS SYSTEM UP TO DATE. BUT HE MUST REQUISITION THE SERVICES OF THE FOUR OVERSEERS WHO ARE KEPT IN OFFICE THE GREATER PART OF THE DAY AND DO NOT AVERAGE, SAY, THREE HOURS A DAY AT THEIR LEGITIMATE DUTIES, AS EACH INSPECTOR'S DAILY REPORT WILL SHOW; SUCH REPORTS BEING SIGNED DAILY BY THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER OF HIS DEPARTMENT.\n\nTHE CONSEQUENCE IS THAT MANY NEW BUILDINGS ARE ERECTED WITHOUT PRACTICALLY ANY SUPERVISION WHATEVER; MANY ALTERATIONS ARE CARRIED OUT WHICH ARE NEVER INSPECTED UNTIL THE WORK HAS BEEN LONG FINISHED, OWING TO THE AMOUNT OF OFFICE WORK THE INSPECTORS ARE CALLED UPON TO DO.\n\nAS FOR INSPECTION OF OLD AND UNSAFE BUILDINGS, UNLESS NOTICEABLE FROM THE STREET OR SPECIAL ATTENTION CALLED BY TENANTS OR OTHERS, NOTHING IS DONE.\n\nI AWAIT WITH CONSIDERABLE TREPIDATION THE NEXT TYPHOON OR HEAVY DOWNPOUR OF RAIN, WHICH MUST BE ATTENDED WITH SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE, WHICH, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, COULD BE MODIFIED IF INSPECTORS WERE ALLOWED TO CARRY OUT THEIR LEGITIMATE DUTIES, VIZ., THE PROPER SUPERVISION OF ALL NEW BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS AND PERIODICAL INSPECTION OF OLD BUILDINGS.\n\nAPOLOGISING FOR TAKING UP SO MUCH OF YOUR VALUABLE TIME, I HAVE THE HONOUR TO REMAIN, YOUR MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT, R. I. STOWANE\n\nCOPY.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\n225\n16 JUN 11\n\nMr. Howard applied for employment in this Department about the end of 1908 and, as there was a vacancy for an overseer for Buildings Ordinance work, he was appointed to it on a temporary footing in February 1909. It was arranged that he should take up his duties on the 1st April. On the 5th March, the Police Magistrate (Mr. Kemp) informed me that a case had been called on before him that morning in which the defendant had given the name and address Robert Howard, Inspector of Buildings, P.W.D., the charge being \"Drunk and incapable\". Defendant did not appear and his bail was forfeited.\n\nI interviewed Mr. Howard, who had not then taken up his duties, and he admitted the occurrence and stated that, since suffering from smallpox, a small quantity of liquor was sufficient to upset him. He promised to give up liquor entirely and I informed him that, unless he did so, it was useless for him to take up his appointment and further that, if anything of the sort occurred after he had entered the service of the Department, he would be instantly dismissed.\n\nHe commenced duty on the 1st April and no report of any insobriety during the 22 months he was in the service has reached me. I mention the incident, however, to show that he was not a man of unimpeachable character.\n\nWhen Mr. Longstaff, overseer, resigned his appointment on the 31st May last year, at a month's notice, I was unable to arrange for the performance of his duties otherwise than by detailing one of the Buildings Ordinance Overseers to fill his place until his successor had been appointed.\n\nOwing to the absence on leave of Mr. Thomas, Clerk of Works, Mr. Longstaff had been temporarily supervising both the Law Courts and Post Office and it was necessary for the one who filled his place to do the same.\n\nThe reason for selecting Mr. Howard was that, whilst believed to be capable of carrying on Mr. Longstaff's duties temporarily, he had been found to be the least useful of",
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        "content_text": "## 228 the Buildings Ordinance\n\nOverseers and his withdrawal would therefore cause the least amount of interference with the work of that office. Under these circumstances, I did not feel justified in recommending that he should receive any gratuity for the duties he was called upon to perform. Mr. Longstaff, whose place he filled, was a 1st Class Overseer, the same as himself, but, having longer service than Howard, was in receipt of his first increment. I do not consider that Howard exerted himself in any special degree or was called upon to perform any duties of a special nature. He was relieved of the supervision of the Post Office on the arrival of Mr. Hamer, on the 8th October, and on the return of Mr. Thomas from leave on the 20th November he resumed his ordinary duties.\n\nShortly after Mr. Howard's resumption of his duties, Mr. Perkins, Executive Engineer in charge of the Buildings Ordinance work, complained verbally to me with regard to the way in which he was performing them. The complaints had reference to inaccuracies in reports received from him and to lack of system in dealing with the papers referred to him. They culminated in the matter which led to Howard's discharge.\n\nIn that case, it transpired that Howard had entered the house of a respectable Chinese citizen, a member of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, and knocked holes in one of the walls because, as he alleged, in passing along the street, he had seen what appeared to be a recently-repaired crack in it. The occupier subsequently informed Mr. Perkins that the crack in the wall had been in the same condition for a number of years and also that, a few days after Howard's visit, he had received a call from an Architect in private practice who enquired whether he would employ him to do any necessary work in connection with his house. Howard made no report of the matter to his superior officer, Mr. Perkins, and it only came to light through a letter from a firm of Architects, complaining that the house of a client of theirs had been entered by someone of the name of Howard, who had knocked some holes in the walls.\n\nAs it would obviously be most unsatisfactory...",
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        "content_text": "## TAS\n14 BROKA.LA BALOK\n\nmvendet „t \n? \nJohn D. Polley. \nJ. McCormack \nD. H. Mackay \nD. Young \nL. J. Blake \nVa, J, Clark \nD. Austin \nJ. A. Hunter \nA, Leon \nD. McNail \nJohn P. Middleton \nAlex. A. Whitehor \nP. Valtor Rumasay \nWm. Ball \nWalter Henry Prowse \nAndrew William Millar \nCharles Mackay \nThomas Grimshaw \nJ. C. Ferguson \nJ. Millar \nJohn Wair \nJ. Brand Chapman \nWilliam Lyle \nDavid Waring \nAndrew M. Simpson \nL. G. Blackburn \nJames Porter Robinson \nFrank L. Cooke \nS. A. Gruan \nH. Uvory \nG. Duncan \nJ. W. Christina \nDavid S. Cooper \n\n-8- \n\nJames S. McIntosh \nJ. Vincent Braga \nA. D. Go \nOscar R. Chunnett \nR. Abraham \nJ. Stalker \nNorman L. Railton \nR. L. Atkinson \nI. \nAbraham \nA. B. Beyson \nD. Neilson \nV. L. Venser \nJamon Hyde \nDavid Mason \nClark Atkinson \nE. A. Nicholson \nRobt. Howard \nH. R. Wilson \nD. A. Goodwin \nR. F. Kannody \nDavid Gow \nDavid A. Purves \nP. L. Fred. Stone \nW. Nicholls \nAndrew R. Kinross \nJ. Colin Gwan \nV. H. Whiteley \nJ. J. Spradbery \nW. Tulip \nD. Keith \nJames G. Garraway \nArthur Fraser \nDavid Gordon Bicoll \n278",
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        "content_text": "328\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nPASSENGER LISTS.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\nPer s.s. Haiching, on March 20th: - Mr. H. W. Hill, Mr. Dains, Dr. J. H. Gray, Mr. C. Momicot\n\nPer s.s. Sicilia, on March 18th: - Mr. and Mrs. I. Ian, Mr. Nahaput, Mr. Wilain, Mr. and Miss Parherness, Mr. Gibbins, Mr. Larcester, Major Coats.\n\nPer s.s. Shidzuoka Maru, on March 17th: - Mr. S. Gamnieter, Mr. G. S. Phillips, Mr. W. O. Barringtin, Mrs. L. V. Flower, Mr. J. B. Salem, Mr. S. Ashing.\n\nPer s.s. Arafura, on March 17th, from Australia: - Mrs. E. Kella, Mr. C. H. Dodds, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. H. Lemm, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Farrell, Miss L. Preston, Mr. J. M. Cameron, Mrs. D. Leigh, Mr. W. C. Andrewartha, Miss R. Watkins, Senator J. Bakhap, Mr. R. A. Gladwell, Mr. W. C. Darby, Mr. R. E. Reid, Mr. T. Hobbs, Mr. S. Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Bower and Mr. H. R. Ferguson.\n\nPer T.K.K. s.s. Taiyo Maru, on March 22nd: - Mr. G. S. Armsby, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Backmann, Miss J. Breslauer, Mrs. H. H. Bristow, Mr. E. C. Bronoson, Mr. B. L. Burwell, Mr. F. Caro'an, Mr. W. L. Courtnaey, Dr. C. E. Davis, Mr. H. C. Douglas, Mr. T. G. Drakeford, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Edge, Mr. S. Y. Erven, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Evans, Mrs. W. D. K. Gibson, Mrs. I. M. Hanna, Miss C. Hendry, Mr. and Mrs. E. Hilton, Miss K. D. Hubbard, Capt. W. E. Kent, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Loomis, Mr. J. L. Milligan, Mr. and Mrs. N. Parker, Mr. T. B. Paul, Mr. N. H. Pettit, Mr. J. Powley, Mr. A. Schofield, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Selson, Mr. C. Smith, Miss J. S. Smith, Mr. A. Weill, Mrs. E. C. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wallace and Mrs. E. Weatherby.\n\nDEPARTURES.\n\nPer s.s. Tango Maru, on March 23rd: Mr. H. G. Magno, Mr. F. Garriz, Mr. D. T. Farrel, Mrs. M. L. McKeen, Mr. H. C. Langhorst, Miss N. C. Gibson, Mrs. H. A. Baxter, Mr. A. E. White, Mr. E. H. English, Mr. I. Abat, Mr. and Mrs. R. Sind inger, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Loomis, Mr. P. H. Ludington, Miss A. G. Slone, Mrs. M. K. Bayne, Mrs. M. E. Airey, Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Worley, Mr. S. D. Burno, Mr. N. Hartery and Mrs. L. Adekawai.\n\nPer R.M.S. Empress of Asia, on March 23rd: - Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Anderson and family, Mr. and Mrs. P. Alther, Mr. G. S. Andrews, Miss Baderston, Mrs. A. E. Black, Miss L. Glement, Mr. and Mrs. M. Clapp, Mr. C. Crew, Miss A. Clinton, Mr. and Mrs. L. Chotsen, Mr. and Mrs. F. Dickman, Miss M. Dickman, Mrs. L. A. Davis, Miss A. Dulmage, Miss E. B. Day, Mr. J. Dewar, Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Drake, Mr. C. H. Dodds, Mr. W. S. Davies, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Dinsda'e, Miss J. Earl, Mr. J. Ezra, Dr. F. Evans, Dr. R. A. Falconer, Miss K. Falconer, Mr. P. C. Fenwick, Dr. H. Fowler, Mr. R. F. Fitch, Mr. R. Fairnie, Mr. and Mrs. W. Gacksen, Miss D. Gacksen, Miss B. H. Gunther, Dr. A. Gurd, Miss P. Gurd, Mrs. A. C. Garson, Mr. C. S. Gubbay, Rev. J. C. Hardy, Mr. M. Haguenaner, Mr. and Mrs. E. Howard, Mr. A. G. Harrison, Mr. C. Hur'e, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Henderson, Major F. A. B. Johnston, Mrs. F. Kittermaster, Miss H. B. Lay, Miss L. R. Leonard, Master D. L. Law, Miss G. Law, Mrs. B. S. Lay, Mr. H. M. Landsborger, Mr. W. Lancaster, Mr. H. Mullen, Miss C. MacAdie, Mr. D. C. Miller, Miss A. Macrac, Mrs. R. B. Miller, Mr. M. R. Negro, Mr. J. Nahapict, Mr. R. A. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Parker, Mr. A. Pirovano, Mr. W. T. Palmes, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Parmaloo, Mrs. Milton Shirk, Mr. L. S. Sabin, Mr. T. H. R. Shaw, Mrs. W. M. Stevens, Miss M. N. Stevens, Miss O. Taft, Mr. and Mrs. P. V. Thomas, Dr. Oscar Thompson, Capt. R. O. Thomas, Mrs. F. O. Uscher and children, Miss C. A. Wharton, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Weedon, Miss L. S. Weeks, Mr. R. H. Whiteford, Mr. J. M. Withington, Mrs. H. L. West and children, Mr. R. W. Watkins, Mr. Perry Wearne, Mr. E. Woodward and Mr. Zimmerman.\n\nCOMMERCIAL.\n\nHONGKONG TRADE IN 1921.\n\nLARGER TRADE SHOWS HEAVY DECREASE IN STERLING VALUES.\n\nWe have received from the Government printers a copy of the volume of the Trade and Shipping Returns of the Colony for 1921.\n\nThe following comparative statistics show a heavy fall in the value of merchandise imported and exported in the year 1921:\n\n  \n    \n    Imports\n    Exports\n    Total\n  \n  \n    1921\n    £68,143,059\n    £67,691,877\n    £135,834,936\n  \n  \n    1920\n    £103,932,602\n    £108,369,937\n    £212,302,539\n  \n\nThe grand total of Imports and Exports of merchandise for 1921 was, in round numbers, £136,000,000 as against £212,000,000 in 1920, a decrease of 35.8 per cent. The total Imports were £68,143,059, a decrease of £35,789,563, or 34.4 per cent., and Exports showed a decrease of £40,678,060 or 37.5 per cent.\n\nTreasure movements were as follows:\n\n  \n    \n    Imports\n    Exports\n    Total\n  \n  \n    1921\n    £13,797,095\n    £17,981,357\n    £31,778,452\n  \n  \n    1920\n    £31,754,331\n    £45,292,645\n    £77,046,976\n  \n\nMr. N. L. Smith, Superintendent of Imports and Exports, says in his introductory note: - The apparent decrease in the Imports is entirely due to the lower rate of exchange used in the conversion of local currency into sterling. The actual dollar figures show an increase of over $40,000,000.\n\n  \n    Unit of Quantity\n    1920\n    1921\n  \n  \n    Pieces\n    1,723,205\n    1,326,689\n  \n  \n    Impl. Gallons\n    16,470,336\n    3,133,382\n  \n  \n    Piculs\n    23,382,843\n    23,189,015\n  \n  \n    \n    26,458,777\n    \n  \n  \n    Piculs\n    1,013,165\n    291,265\n  \n  \n    \n    3,817,069\n    1,625,376\n  \n  \n    \n    4,467,825\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,446,539\n    6,645,287\n  \n  \n    \n    2,476,279\n    3,109,978\n  \n  \n    \n    3,980,060\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    15,865\n    16,911\n  \n  \n    \n    228,311\n    552,806\n  \n  \n    \n    138,043\n    603,008\n  \n\nExports when expressed in local currency show an increase of about $8,000,000 over 1920 due to a small increase on a large number of items.\n\nThe shipping total has again increased, 1921 showing an advance of three and a quarter million tons over 1920. British tonnage has increased by about one million tons and foreign by about one and a half million tons, the balance is due to an increase in the junk trade. American tonnage declined by approximately 100,000 tons and Russian by 50,000 tons, but Japanese and Dutch tonnage made up the increase in the total.\n\nTHE YARN MARKET.\n\nEFFECT OF THE STRIKE.\n\nMessrs. Polishwalla and Kotwall, cotton and yarn brokers, of Hongkong, in their latest circular state: - Since our last report on January 31st the prolonged seamen's strike during this long period had paralysed the entire business, so our yarn market also remained extremely dull and small lots have changed hands for urgent requirements at a decline of $3 to $7 per bale, with business resulting in about 4,000 bales.\n\n  \n    Unit of Quantity\n    1920\n    1921\n  \n  \n    Piculs\n    1,018,250\n    1,089,393\n  \n  \n    Impl. Gallons\n    28,668,598\n    27,161,905\n  \n  \n    \n    116,008\n    \n  \n  \n    Piculs\n    1,359,815\n    2,751,305\n  \n  \n    \n    1,348,029\n    4,598,068\n  \n  \n    \n    55,863\n    2,016,868\n  \n  \n    \n    5,265,667\n    8,791,356\n  \n  \n    \n    8,984\n    2,465,929\n  \n  \n    \n    474,131\n    12,405\n  \n  \n    \n    6,147,454\n    600,865\n  \n  \n    \n    181,092\n    77\n  \n  \n    \n    121,238\n    \n  \n\nAn unusual feature has been direct exportation from Shanghai of a large quantity of Indian yarn to Canton supplied at lower rates than those ruling at our place. This has further affected our market, which has been very inactive.\n\nAs the seamen strike is now entirely settled and business is assuming the normal aspect, we have every hope of a good inquiry from consuming districts from Yunnan Province which is sure to give an impulse to the present depressed state of our market. Unsold stock 2,600 bales; Bargains in Chinese hands 8,000 bales.\n\nShanghai. - The eagerness of the Foreign holders to part with their stocks, which are rather heavy, at lower rates, have prompted Chinese buyers to fill up their immediate requirements and the latest reports show a tendency towards continued inquiry from surrounding countries.\n\nJapanese Yarn. - Owing to a substantial drop in the prices of this yarn in Japan, there has been a fall of $7 to $9 per bale at our place and the uncertainty of the condition of the market in Japan is causing buyers from making further bargains in spot or forward deliveries.",
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        "content_text": "B. L. Frost.\n\nJ. Stokes.\n\nH. W. Petley.\n\nH. De V. Booten.\n\nN. A. Farrell.\n\nRobt. Hunter.\n\nT. Gibbiam, Sen.\n\nT. O. Stokes.\n\nJ. N. McDougall.\n\nO. R. Rowe.\n\nA. R. Whyte.\n\nA. J. Edmond.\n\nD. M. Burley\n\nA. N. McColl.\n\nWm. E. Douglas.\n\nE. W. Lovis\n\nA. G. Langston\n\nD. McLaren\n\nA. E. Benson\n\nH. Brown\n\nH. Macdavid\n\nD. C. Phillips\n\nP. V. Janssy\n\nT. Marius Logan\n\nA. Beagle\n\nM. B. Karanjai\n\nA. E. Whiten\n\nW. L. Forster\n\nDonald Macrae\n\nRichard Clark\n\nD. Austin\n\nE. Boulton\n\nS. Howard.\n\nE. C. A. Sell.\n\nM. E. Scriven.\n\nRika Macfarlane.\n\nJ. Gibson.\n\nT. Baker.\n\nK. Fetterly.\n\nL. Jennings.\n\nJames P. Gibbon.\n\nR. Wetherell.\n\nJ. F. Donald.\n\nJ. M. Drinston.\n\nC. M. Wilson.\n\nP. T. Farrell.\n\nJ. B. Spiers. J. Raldroy\n\nR. J. J. Sneddon\n\nE. A. M. Stewart\n\nG. P. Curry\n\nCharles E. Page J. K. Daughty\n\nH. A. Gauld\n\nA. J. Clark\n\nW. S. Cooper\n\nJohn R. Kingborn\n\nA. Vivian Hogg Sydney Edward A. G. Lowe\n\nL. O'Brien\n\nD. L. Lyle\n\nJ. Muirhead\n\nThomas Grimshaw\n\nJohn McIntyre\n\n816",
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        "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925",
        "content_text": "AIT\n\nTientsin British Chamber of Commerce.\n\nREMISSION OF BOXER INDEMNITY.\n\nMinutes of Discussion on the subject of the remission of British portion of the Boxer Indemnity at the Annual General Meeting of the Tientsin British Chamber of Commerce, held in the Gordon Hall Committee Room January 4, 1925.\n\nPresent:\n\nW.P. Ker, Esq., C.M.G., H.B.M. Consul-General and Honorary President of the Chamber.\n\nCommittee.\n\nMr. E. C. PETERS.\n\nM. WOLFERS.\n\nE. W. CARTER.\n\nR. G. BUCHAN.\n\nD. B. WALKER.\n\nB. C. M. JOHNSTON.\n\nHOWARD PAYNE.\n\nC. M. WATSON.\n\nJ. TWYFORD THOMAS,\n\nH. BAILEY.\n\nM. BONIFACE.\n\nT. H. BUTLER,\n\nV. L. BEDDINGTON,\n\nG. CHARLETON.\n\nE. COOK.\n\nP. E. CADMAN.\n\nS. F. CHUBB.\n\nF. A. FAIRCHILD,\n\nL. C. HURST,\n\nJ. S. JONES.\n\nP. D. MACFEAT.\n\nK. W. MOUNSEY.\n\nL. V. LANG,\n\nH. L. N. SNOW.\n\nW. C. D. TAYLOR.\n\nH. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E.\n\nRepresenting\n\nJardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nArnhold & Co., Ltd.\n\nHatch, Carter & Co.\n\nWilson & Co.\n\nWilson & Co.\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nCollins & Co., Ltd.\n\nEastern Trading Co. (China).\n\nSecretary.\n\nJ. Whittall & Co., Ltd.\n\nMackenzie & Co., Ltd.\n\nCaldbeck, Macgregor & Co., Ltd.\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd.\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd.\n\nCook & Anderson.\n\nWalter Hardy Ltd.\n\nShewan Tomes & Co.\n\nFairchild & Co., Ltd.\n\nWm. Forbes & Co.\n\nJ. Twyford & Co.\n\nKailan Mining Administration.\n\nKent & Mounsey.\n\nArnhold & Co., Ltd.\n\nArnhold & Co., Ltd.\n\nBritish Cigarette Co., Ltd.\n\nTientsin Press Ltd.\n\n311",
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        "title": "CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929",
        "content_text": "## FRIDAY'S BANQUET. \n### A NOTABLE GATHERING.\n\nH.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester was the guest of honour on April 26 at a banquet given at the Peninsula Hotel. The function was arranged by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and the local branch of the China Association, and not far short of two hundred of the leading residents of the Colony were present. It was mainly a gathering representative of all the principal foreign commercial and industrial interests established in Hong Kong—a gathering of men who, each in his own way, has contributed a share toward the development of the Colony. The company included men who have spent the better part of their lives in Hong Kong, and others who, while not such old residents, yet represented concerns which have been established in business in the Colony for well over half a century. In addition to the members of the mercantile community who were acting as hosts for the occasion, there were present among the guests representatives of the Administration, the Navy and Army. A most noteworthy gathering, and an occasion to be long remembered.\n\nThe Duke of Gloucester reached the hotel at 8.15 p.m., accompanied by H.E. the Governor and members of the Duke's suite. The party was met at the entrance to the hotel by Mr. Neilage S. Brown, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and President of the China Association, and by the Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Beith (Vice-Chairman of both organisations). The Royal visitor was escorted to the sixth floor of the hotel, and as he entered the ante-room where the company had assembled awaiting him, the Band of the 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers struck up the National Anthem.\n\n### Presentations.\n\nIn the interval before dinner was served the Committees of the Chamber of Commerce and China Association were presented to the Duke. These gentlemen were the Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes, the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, Mr. W. H. Bell, Mr. Paul Lauder, Mr. M. T. Johnson, Mr. T. E. Pearce, Mr. F. A. Perry and Mr. J. P. Warren (the foregoing being members of the Committees of both bodies); also Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., K.C., and Mr. A. H. Ferguson, who are members of the Committee of the China Association only.\n\nAfter tea, His Royal Highness moved among the guests, and stopped to speak to certain of them, who were present, accompanied by their respective staffs, M. F. Key, Secretary of the two organisations, also presented to His Royal Highness.\n\nAt a near view, it is seen that Prince Henry is, though slight of figure, little shorter than Sir Cecil Clementi. He has typically English blue eyes and fair hair, and was wearing yesterday a brown lounge suit with a brown Homburg hat, and a rose in his buttonhole.\n\nAt 8.30 p.m. the Duke of Gloucester entered the Rose Room with His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by Mr. Neilage Brown and followed by the principal guests. The beautiful room presented a most artistic appearance, the tables being daintily decorated with roses and violets of tints in harmony with the general colour scheme of the room. The seating plan had been ingeniously devised by the hotel engineer (Mr. Brearley) to make the best use of the space available, and consisted of a horse-shoe table down three sides of the room and within it an H-shaped table. The high table occupied the middle of the horse-shoe. A word of praise is due to Mr. Key, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, for the very excellent arrangements made whereby guests were able to find their places at the tables easily and quickly.\n\nThe menu was as follows:-\n| Dish |\n| --- |\n| Iced Caviar |\n| Mock Turtle Soup au Marsala |\n| Garoupa Cardinal Chaudfroid Paysanne |\n| Roast Rack of Lamb Britannia |\n| Pont Neuf Potatoes |\n| French Beans Saute |\n| Bombe Grand Duc |\n| Moka |\n| Fruit |\n\nThere were no speeches during the evening, and only one toast, that of His Majesty the King, proposed by the Chairman. During dinner, the K.O.S.B. band, under Mr. W. H. Fitz-Earle, bandmaster, played a number of selections, all of which were greatly appreciated.\n\nThe proceedings terminated shortly after 9.30 p.m. when His Royal Highness left the Hotel, being accompanied to his car by H.E. the Governor and attended by the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the gathering.\n\n### GUESTS AT THE BANQUET.\n\nThe following is a list of the guests present at the banquet:-\n\nH.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O., and the following members of his suite: Major-General Sir Hugh Elles, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., Rear-Admiral the Hon. Herbert Meade, R.N., D.S.O., the Earl of Airlie, Mr. H. Lloyd Thomas and Capt. Howard Kerr.\n\nH.E. the Governor of Hong Kong (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.), the Commander-in-Chief (H.E. Vice-Admiral A. K. Waistell, C.B.), the General Officer Commanding (H.E. Major-General J. W. Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.), the Chief Justice of Hong Kong (His Honour Sir Henry Gollan, Kt., C.B.E.), the Consul-General for Japan in Hong Kong (Mr. Y. Murakami), Commodore R. A. S. Hill, R.N.\n\n| Title | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| Director of Public Works | the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, C.B.E. |\n| Senior Unofficial Member of Council | the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Kt., K.C. |\n| Senior Chinese Unofficial Member of Council | the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Kt. |\n| Acting Captain Superintendent of Police | the Hon. Mr. T. H. King |\n| Harbour Master | the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole, R.N. |\n| Director of Medical and Sanitary Services | the Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington |\n|  | the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga |\n|  | the Hon. Mr. S. W. T'so, O.B.E., LL.D. |\n| Clerk of Councils | Mr. D. W. Tratman |\n\nCapt. A. J. L. Whyte, R.E., Capt. P. Perfect, K.O.S.B., Capt. F. G. Sillitoe, R.M. and Mr. W. Scott (A.D.C.'s to H.E. the Governor), Lieut. D. P. Evans, R.N. (A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief), Capt. D. R. M. Cameron (A.D.C. to the General Officer Commanding), and Pay Lieut.-Commdr. D. W. Pasmore, R.N. (Secretary to the Commodore).\n\nMr. M. Kato (representing the Press of Japan in Hong Kong for the Royal visit), Mr. G. W. C. A. Burnett (China Mail), Mr. Hicks (Hong Kong Telegraph), Mr. D. J. Evans (Hong Kong Daily Press), and Mr. B. Petheram (South China Morning Post).\n\n### The following is a list of those seated at the high table:-\n\n#### On the Chairman's right:\n- H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O.\n- the Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Beith\n- H.E. Vice-Admiral A. K. Waistell, C.B.\n- the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton\n- Major-General Sir Hugh Elles\n- Mr. W. H. Bell\n- His Honour Sir Henry Gollan, Kt., C.B.E.\n- Mr. A. H. Ferguson\n- Mr. Y. Murakami\n- Mr. J. P. Warren\n- the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G.\n- Capt. Kerr\n- the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Kt.\n- the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North\n- Mr. A. H. Compton\n- the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy\n- Mr. J. Abe\n- Sir Robert Ho Tung\n- Mr. W. L. Pattenden\n- the Hon. Mr. S. W. T'so, O.B.E., LL.D.\n\n#### On the Chairman's left:\n- H.E. the Governor of Hong Kong\n- the Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes\n- H.E. Major-General J. W. Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.\n- Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., K.C.\n- Rear-Admiral the Hon. Herbert Meade, R.N., D.S.O.\n- Mr. Paul Lauder\n- the Earl of Airlie\n- Mr. F. A. Perry\n- Commodore R. A. S. Hill, R.N.\n- Mr. T. E. Pearce\n- the Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp, C.B.E., K.C.\n- Capt. A. J. L. Whyte, R.E.\n- Mr. M. T. Johnson\n- the Hon. Mr. C. Mel. Messer, C.B.E.\n- Mr. Allan Cameron\n- the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Kt., K.C.\n- Mr. T. E. Mitchell\n- the Hon. Mr. T. H. King\n- Mr. R. M. Dyer\n- the Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington\n\n### The following is a list of members of the Chamber of Commerce and the China Association, Hong Kong Branch, who were the hosts at the banquet:-\nMessrs. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., K.C.; A. W. Hayward and J. K. Ross (Alex. Ross & Co., Ltd.), D. D. Forbes and D. Latimer (Anderson, Meyer & Co., Ltd.), O. Arculli (Arculli Bros.), W. H. Bell (Butterfield & Swire), H. Davenport Browne (Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd.), J. H. Backhouse (James H. Backhouse, Ltd.), T. E. Mitchell (Far East Manager of the General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corporation), W. S. Bailey and C. G. ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-529-1 Diocesan Boys' School and Orphanage- appeal for money 2-1-1931 - 10-5-1932",
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        "title": "CO129-529-1 Diocesan Boys' School and Orphanage- appeal for money 2-1-1931 - 10-5-1932",
        "content_text": "## The Diocesan Girls' School, Kowloon \n### Balance Sheet as at 31st December, 1930.\n\n**The Diocesan Boys' and Girls' Schools and Orphanages.**\n\nSubscriptions and Donations to the Joint School Funds for 1930, towards the support of English and Eurasian Orphans and deserving cases at reduced fees.\n\n| Liabilities | $ | cts. | Assets | $ | cts. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  | **GENERAL SURPLUS OF THE SCHOOL:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Per last Account | 132,985.86 |  |\n| SUNDRY CREDITORS | 199.31 |  |  |  |  |\n| Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China-Overdraft in Current Account | 1,144.07 |  | **SCHOOL BUILDINGS (On K. I. No. 1281)** |  |  |\n| Less Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (Credit Balance in Current A/c) | 844.71 | 299.36 | Insured Value, per last A/c | 120,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Add Furniture written off @ 31/12/29, now written back | 475.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Additions during the year- East Wing Extensions | 9,466.74 | 129,466.74 |\n|  |  |  | Less Fixed Deposit (Bowdler Legacy) transferred to Special A/c in Chartered Bank- Provident Fund | 3,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Loss for the year, per Income and Expenditure A/c | 529.31 | 3,529.31 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 129,931.55 |\n|  |  |  | **FURNITURE, LINEN & FURNISHING:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Insured Value per last A/c | 5,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Additions in 1929, previously written off, now re-transferred to this Account | 475.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Additions in 1930 | 1,911.48 | 7,386.48 |\n|  |  |  | **RESERVE FOR PASSAGES:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Per last Account @ Exch. 1/73 | 5,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Less Payments during 1930 | 3,263.80 | 1,736.20 |\n|  |  |  | **SUNDRY DEBTORS (Outstanding Fees, etc.)** | 1,877.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | **INVESTMENT:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Hongkong Government 6% Public Works Loan 1927 | 1,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | (Note.—Furniture and Fittings as well as Employees personal effects, etc., are now insured for $15,000.00). |  |  |\n|  |  |  | (Note. The Trustees hold K.I. L. No. 1281 in trust from the Hongkong Government to whom, in the event of the School vacating this Site, the original Building Grant of $10,000.00 must be refunded). |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  | 139,730.22 |  |\n| Total | 498.67 |  | Total | 139,730.22 |  |\n\nBrought forward ... $1,770.00\nE. Abraham, Esq. | 10.00\nAhmed Din | 10.00\nAnonymous | 50.00\nA. Kyum, Esq. | 2.00\nThe Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S.C.), Ltd. | 50.00\nP. Larken, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Bank Line | 20.00\nK. F. Lay, Esq. | 10.00\nW. Barnes, Esq. | 5.00\nLee Shui Kai, Esq. | 10.00\nDrs. Black, Balean, Koch and Morrison | 25.00\nMessrs. Lee Yu keo & Co. | 5.00\nJ. A. Bloomfield, Esq. | 5.00\nA. Leong, Esq. | 5.00\nA. Bough, Esq. | 10.00\nLi Chor Chi, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Linstead and Davies | 20.00\nMessrs. Bradley & Co., Ltd. | 25.00\nThe British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd. | 25.00\nLi Ping, Esq. | 25.00\nF. A. Broadbridge, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Little, Adams and Wood | 25.00\nW. Broadbridge, Esq. | 5.00\nJ. L. Litton, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire | 150.00\nLi Yau Tsun, Esq., C.B.E. | 10.00\nThe Bank of Canton | 25.00\nM. K. Lo, Esq. | 10.00\nP. S. Cassidy, Esq. | 10.00\nA. A. Lopes, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Estate of the late Mr. Chan Kai Ming | 25.00\nJ. L. Lindblom, Esq. | 5.00\nChau You Teng, Esq. | 25.00\nN. A. E. Mackay, Esq. | 5.00\nChoa Po Sien, Esq. | 20.00\nA. S. MacKichan, Esq. | 25.00\nDrs. Chaun and (haun | 5.00\nE. Manning, Esq. | 5.00\nSir Shou-Son Chow, Kt. | 15.00\nM. S. Churn, Esq. | 5.00\nThe Colonial Dispensary | 10.00\nThe Commercial Press, Ltd. | 20.00\nN. V. A. Croucher, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Ming Yuen | 5.00\nE. J. R. Mitchell, Esq. | 20.00\nG. B. Mooney, Esq. | 5.00\nI. Mooney, Esq. | 5.00\nA. W. Mooney, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Davie, Boag & Co., Ltd. | 50.00\nF. H. Mody, Esq. | 50.00\nMessrs. Deacons | 50.00\nThe National City Bank of New York | 25.00\nMessrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd. | 50.00\nThe Nestles Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co. | 25.00\nMessrs. Douglas, Lapraik & Co., Ltd. | 50.00\nH. B. L. Dowbiggin, Esq. | 50.00\nThe Netherlands India Commercial Bank | 25.00\nMessrs. L. Dunbar & Co. | 5.00\nThe Netherlands Trading Society | 25.00\nE. C. Fincher, Esq. | 5.00\nThomas Ng, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Noronha & Co. | 10.00\nE. F. Fincher, Esq. | 5.00\nJohn Fleming, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Palmer and Turner | 50.00\nH. L. Fox, Esq. | 5.00\nThe Peak Church | 72.05\nMessrs. Pentreath & Co. | 10.00\nJ. Fox, Esq. | 5.00\nFung Ping Shan, Esq. | 10.00\nA. Perry, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., Ltd. | 20.00\nEldon Potter, Esq. | 50.00\nMessrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd. | 25.00\nS. S. Perry, Esq. | 25.00\nH. Gittins, Esq. | 10.00\nJ. L. Quie, Esq. | 20.00\nW. Gittins, Esq. | 5.00\nC. S. Rosselet, Esq. | 10.00\nS. V. Gittins, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Rutonjee and Son | 10.00\nDr. A. Gourdin | 5.00\nMessrs. E. D. Sassoon & Co., Ltd. | 150.00\nG. Grimble, Ess. | 6.00\nI. Schnepel, Esq. | 5.00\nJ. F. Grose. Esq. | 10.00\nThe Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton | 25.00\nF. C. Hall, Esq. | 50.00\nShi Yu Man, Esq. | 50.00\nA. E. Hall, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Sincere Co., Ltd. | 20.00\nJ. M. Hall, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Standard Oil Co. of New York | 50.00\nG. K. Hall-Brutton, Esq. | 10.00\nE. Stone, Esq. | 5.00\nG. A. Harriman, Esq. | 5.00\nDr. S. S. Strahan | 25.00\nWallace Harper, Esq. | 5.00\nTong Fu San, Esq. | 1.00\nMessrs. Hastings, Dennys and Bowley | 25.00\nDr. Coxion To | 10.00\nE. M. Hazeland, Esq. | 50.00\nThe Tsang Fook Piane Co. | 25.00\nIlo Kam Tong, Esq. | 25.00\nThe Vacuum Oil Co. | 25.00\nHo Leung, Esq. | 10.00\nM. St. J. Walsh, Esq. | 5.00\nThe Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |  | \nMessrs. C. E. Warren & Co., Ltd. | 10.00\nM. Weill, Esq. | 5.00\nSir Robert Ho Tung | 100.00\nP. White, Esq. | 5.00\nE. S. Howard, Esq. | 10.00\nMessrs. Wilkinson and Grist | 50.00\nW. J. Howard, Esq. | 10.00\nMessrs. Wing On & Co., Ltd. | 10.00\nHo Wing, Esq. | 10.00\nDr. B. C. Wong | 10.00\nThe Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes | 10.00\nJ. M. Wong, Esq. | 20.00\nMessrs. John D. Humphreys and Son | 25.00\nWong Kam Fook, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Hung Cheong | 10.00\nMrs. Wong Lau Shi | 100.00\nDr. Ip Kam Wah | 5.00\nWong Tak Kwong, Esq. | 20.00\nF. W. James, Esq. | 5.00\nPeter Wong, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. | 150.00\nMessrs. Woo and Nash | 20.00\nMessrs. Johnson, Stokes and Masters | 25.00\nDr. Arthur Woo | 15.00\nJ. E. Joseph, Esq. | 100.00\nDr. Yamasaki | 15.00\nMessrs. Kayamally & Co. | 5.00\nYe Olde Printerie, Ltd. | 50.00\nKo Leong Hoe, Esq. | 5.00\nA. V. Youngsaye, Esq. | 5.00\nDr. C. H. Kwan | 5.00\nTOTAL | $3,230.05\n\nWe have audited the above Balance Sheet and accompanying Income and Expenditure Account with the Books, Account and Vouchers of the School and have satisfied ourselves that they show the position of the School at 31st December, 1930, and the transactions of the Trustees for the year ended on that date.\n\nWe have verified the existence of the Investment and Funds in hand and have ascertained that the Buildings are insured for the amount stated.\n\n**LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Chartered Accountants, Auditors.**\n\nHong Kong, 12th January, 1931.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-539-11 Hong Kong Flying Club- proposed establishment of a Flying Training school at Kai Tak 8-4-1932 - 4-3-1933",
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        "title": "CO129-539-11 Hong Kong Flying Club- proposed establishment of a Flying Training school at Kai Tak 8-4-1932 - 4-3-1933",
        "content_text": "79\n\ncome of $160,000 in return for the carriage of mails, since on only 100 lbs. of mail per trip the Government would receive some $224,000 in Postal Fees. Any surplus of Government subsidy would be earmarked for capital expenditure on improvements.\n\nAfter discussing the above estimates in detail, Major Creagh suggested that a $1,000,000 company could assure Hongkong an excellent service, extending probably as far as Rangoon and Singapore, but he did not see that this was necessary yet. It would be better to experiment with smaller scheme and connect up with the French and Dutch. He was as British as anyone, but he did not want to be so inconveniently British he could not be International. International co-operation was the essence of peace and progress in this part of the world.\n\nOpportunity to Be First. \"From October next the French and Dutch will, between them, run a bi-weekly service to Europe, but, once the French get into Hongkong, our job becomes twice as difficult, because there will only be half the income for us to work on, and, if they do come here, they will not be satisfied to stop at Hongkong but will push on parallel with us in our extensions Northward and Southward. Now is our opportunity to act and show them our willingness, from the beginning, to co-operate and so prove to them that there is no necessity for them to come further east than the confines of their own Colonial Empire.\"\n\nMajor Creagh concluded by inviting the meeting to form itself into a body to foster commercial aviation in the Colony and to form a business organisation having for its object the definite inception of an air line as suggested in his address.\n\nAn interesting discussion followed.\n\nMr. A. Ritchie, invited by Major Creagh to state the views of the Far East Aviation Co. Ltd., of which he is a director, explained that the company has been working for nearly three years more or less on the lines suggested in the speech just delivered. Major Creagh was correct in assuming that the company had experience, qualified men and funds adequate to carry out investigations. At the moment they felt that their plans were not ripe to come before the public with proposals, but they were approaching the Hongkong Government, Imperial Airways and other bodies with a view to forming a Hongkong public company.\n\nCapt. W.E.F. Jones, who represents the aviation department of Messrs. Arnhold & Co., Ltd., mentioned that his company had gone so far as to file a scheme with the Hongkong Government. Air lines in China had often met with failure on account of the political insecurity of the country although, apart from that factor, the country was the most promising in the world from an aviation point of view.\n\nHe thought the time was very close when air lines must be operated from Hongkong, which he regarded as a base of considerable importance to the chain of Imperial Air Routes which would operate from England. Hongkong was probably the crux of eastern air lines because from here lines could radiate in several directions.\n\nA company so operating would look first of all to China, but in that country profit was still far off.\n\nThe question was \"whether it is possible to operate air lines, with Government assistance, over territory which is Chinese, from termini that are not in Chinese territory?\" Capt. Jones suggested that in his estimates Major Creagh had omitted a number of necessary items which would involve increased capital, but points like those could be considered and adjusted.\n\nAir Lines and Flying Club. Finally, Capt. Jones mentioned, with regard to the comprehensive proposals submitted by Messrs. Arnhold & Co., to the Hongkong Government for operating air lines radiating from Hongkong, and also for operating a Flying Club, that his figures were a little more encouraging than he could have hoped for, but he must still rely upon a Government subsidy.\n\nIn reply to Mr. J. A. Plummer (Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce), Major Creagh said that China had not so far entered into agreements with other countries permitting them to fly over her territory.\n\nMr. Ritchie remarked that the subsidy offered by the Hongkong Government was totally inadequate. He suggested that Capt. Jones had formed the same opinion; but Capt. Jones said that, in his remarks, he had not said this.\n\nMr. Ritchie: \"We have satisfied ourselves clearly that it is so.\"\n\nMajor Creagh said that on learning there were two schemes already in the field he withdrew at any suggestion of promoting a third competing company, but he thought that since, before a line could be actually started, either of the two companies would have to go to the public for their capital, the meeting might usefully form itself into a body to speed things up by consulting with established companies and strengthening their appeal to Government by its wider interests.\n\nThe opinion was expressed in several quarters, however, that there would be no advantage in forming a special organisation for such a purpose since the Chamber of Commerce was in a position to judge impartially and already had the necessary strength and representation vis-a-vis the Government. The Chamber of Commerce would not, of course, take sides but it could and should support aviation generally.\n\nMotion Adopted.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. W.E.L. Shenton suggested that the meeting might well pass the following motion:\n\n\"That this meeting approves in principle the establishment of an air line between Hongkong and Hanoi.\"\n\nThis motion was carried unanimously on the proposition of the Hon. Mr. Shenton, seconded by the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.\n\nThe proceedings concluded with an expression of thanks to Major Brasier-Creagh for his interesting and instructive address and to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. Ltd., for the use of their board room for the meeting.\n\nThe meeting was attended by Mr. J. A. Plummer (Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce); the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton and the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson (Members of the Legislative Council); Messrs A.L. Shields, P. S. Cassidy and G. Miskin (Members of the General Committee of the Chamber of Commerce); F. A. Joseph, L. Kadoorie, C. Champkin, F. Stewart Smith, J. H. Ruttonjee, Frank R. Smith, A. Ritchie, R. Vaughan Fowler and Capt. A. V. Harvey (of the Far East Aviation Co. Ltd.); Capt. W. E. F. Jones (Aviation Dept., Messrs. Arnhold and Co. Ltd.); Mr. Li Tze Fong (Bank of East Asia); N. J. Perrin (Manager, Thomas Cook and Son); M. F. Key (Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce); Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O.\n\nLetters of apology for absence on account of business or bad weather were received from the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall (Member of Council); Mr. F. J. Gellion (Macao Electric Lighting Co.); Major E. P. Howard (U.S.A. Special Aviation Trade Commissioner to China); Messrs. Wallace Harper, Frank Austin, H. R. Greatwood (Far Eastern Manager, Union Oil Company), The Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell and Mr. George Potts, who had promised to attend, were away from the Colony.",
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        "content_text": "## 2 \n\n2. The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain in January, 1841, the cession being confirmed by the Treaty of Nanking in August, 1842. The charter bears the date of 5th April, 1843. The Kowloon peninsula and Stonecutter's Island were ceded to Great Britain under the Convention signed at Peking in October, 1860, and under the Convention signed at Peking in June, 1898, the area known as the New Territories including Mirs Bay and Deep Bay was leased to Great Britain by the Government of China for 99 years. The total area of the Colony including the New Territories is about 390 square miles.\n\n3. The importance of Hong Kong has grown with the increase of China's trade with foreign countries. It is now, in respect of tonnage entered and cleared, one of the largest ports in the world. It is the most convenient outlet for the produce of South China as well as for the incessant flow of Chinese emigration to the Netherlands East Indies, Malaya, and elsewhere. It is also the natural distributing centre for imports into China from abroad.\n\n4. The Colony is not primarily a manufacturing centre, the most important of its industries being those connected directly or indirectly with shipping, such as dock and warehouse, banking and insurance undertakings. Sugar refining and cement manufacture are also major industries, and in recent years considerable quantities of knitted goods, electric torches and batteries, and rubber shoes have been produced and exported.\n\n5. The climate of Hong Kong is sub-tropical, the winter being normally cool and dry and the summer hot and humid; the seasons are marked by the prevalence of the S.W. monsoon in summer and the N.E. monsoon in winter. The temperature seldom rises above 95°F. or falls below 40°F. The average rainfall is 85.16 inches, May to September being the wettest months. In spring and summer the humidity of the atmosphere is often very high, at times exceeding 95% with an average over the whole year of 79%. The typhoon season may be said to last from June to October, though typhoons occasionally occur before and after this period.\n\n6. The rainfall for 1933 was 62.35 inches. The mean temperature of the air was 72°.5 against an average of 71°.9. The maximum gust velocity of the wind was at the rate of 67 m.p.h. from S.S.W. on June 29th, and again of 67 m.p.h. from N.N.E. on September 20th.\n\n7. During the course of the year Admiral Sir Frederic C. Dreyer, K.C.B., C.B.E., took over the command of the China Station from Admiral Sir W. A. Howard Kelly, K.C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O., and the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph Kemp, Kt., C.B.E., and the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr. E. R. Hallifax, C.M.G., C.B.E., left the Colony on leave prior to retirement. Among the honours conferred by His Majesty the King were:- K.B.E. Sir Thomas Southorn, C.M.G., Knight Bachelor: Sir William Shenton.\n\n8. The Colony's transport facilities were improved by the unification of the omnibus services on the Island and Mainland respectively and the establishment of a vehicular ferry service between Victoria and Kowloon.\n\n9. Among factors helping to develop Imperial trade may be mentioned the appointment of Mr. G. C. Pelham as H. M. Trade Commissioner for Hong Kong and Commercial Secretary for South China and the holding of the second British Empire Fair, which was attended by some 200,000 people.\n\n10. No major fluctuation in the dollar occurred during the year. The average was 1s. 4¼d., the dollar appreciating gradually from 1s. 3¼d. in January to 1s. 4½d. in December.\n\n## Chapter II\n### GOVERNMENT\n\nThe Government is administered under Letters Patent of 14th February, 1917, and Royal Instructions of the same and subsequent dates, by a Governor aided by an Executive Council, composed of six official and three unofficial members, and by a Legislative Council composed of nine official and eight unofficial members. Prior to 1928 the numbers of the Legislative Council members were seven and six respectively. The six official members of the Executive Council are the Senior Military Officer, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Colonial Treasurer, all of whom are members ex-officio, and the Director of Public Works, appointed by the Governor. The three unofficial members, one of whom is Chinese, are appointed by the Governor. The six official members of the Executive Council are also members of the Legislative Council; the other three official members of this Council, who are appointed by the Governor, are the Inspector General of Police, the Harbour Master, and the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services. Of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council, two are appointed by the Governor on the nomination respectively of the Justices of the Peace and of the Chamber of Commerce; the Governor also appoints the remaining members, three of whom are Chinese. Appointment in the case of unofficial members is for five years for the Executive and four years for the Legislative Council.",
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        "content_text": "## 2 \n\n2. The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain in January, 1841, the cession being confirmed by the Treaty of Nanking in August, 1842. The charter bears the date of 5th April, 1843. The Kowloon peninsula and Stonecutter's Island were ceded to Great Britain under the Convention signed at Peking in October, 1860, and under the Convention signed at Peking in June, 1898, the area known as the New Territories including Mirs Bay and Deep Bay was leased to Great Britain by the Government of China for 99 years. The total area of the Colony including the New Territories is about 390 square miles.\n\n3. The importance of Hong Kong has grown with the increase of China's trade with foreign countries. It is now, in respect of tonnage entered and cleared, one of the largest ports in the world. It is the most convenient outlet for the produce of South China as well as for the incessant flow of Chinese emigration to the Netherlands East Indies, Malaya, and elsewhere. It is also the natural distributing centre for imports into China from abroad.\n\n4. The Colony is not primarily a manufacturing centre, the most important of its industries being those connected directly or indirectly with shipping, such as dock and warehouse, banking and insurance undertakings. Sugar refining and cement manufacture are also major industries, and in recent years considerable quantities of knitted goods, electric torches and batteries, and rubber shoes have been produced and exported.\n\n5. The climate of Hong Kong is sub-tropical, the winter being normally cool and dry and the summer hot and humid; the seasons are marked by the prevalence of the S.W. monsoon in summer and the N.E. monsoon in winter. The temperature seldom rises above 95°F or falls below 40°F. The average rainfall is 85.16 inches, May to September being the wettest months. In spring and summer, the humidity of the atmosphere is often very high, at times exceeding 95% with an average over the whole year of 79%. The typhoon season may be said to last from June to October, though typhoons occasionally occur before and after this period.\n\n6. The rainfall for 1933 was 62.35 inches. The mean temperature of the air was 72°.5 against an average of 71°.9. The maximum gust velocity of the wind was at the rate of 67 m.p.h. from S.S.W. on June 29th, and again of 67 m.p.h. from N.N.E. on September 20th.\n\n7. During the course of the year, Admiral Sir Frederic C. Dreyer, K.C.B., C.B.E., took over the command of the China Station from Admiral Sir W. A. Howard Kelly, K.C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O., and the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph Kemp, Kt., C.B.E., \n\n8. and the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr. E. R. Hallifax, C.M.G., C.B.E., left the Colony on leave prior to retirement. Among the honours conferred by His Majesty the King were:- K.B.E. Sir Thomas Southorn, C.M.G.; Knight Bachelor: Sir William Shenton.\n\n8. The Colony's transport facilities were improved by the unification of the omnibus services on the Island and Mainland respectively and the establishment of a vehicular ferry service between Victoria and Kowloon.\n\n9. Among factors helping to develop Imperial trade may be mentioned the appointment of Mr. G. C. Pelham as H. M. Trade Commissioner for Hong Kong and Commercial Secretary for South China and the holding of the second British Empire Fair, which was attended by some 200,000 people.\n\n10. No major fluctuation in the dollar occurred during the year. The average was 1s. 4¼d., the dollar appreciating gradually from 1s. 3¼d. in January to 1s. 4¼d. in December.\n\n## Chapter II\n\n## GOVERNMENT\n\nThe Government is administered under Letters Patent of 14th February, 1917, and Royal Instructions of the same and subsequent dates, by a Governor aided by an Executive Council, composed of six official and three unofficial members, and by a Legislative Council composed of nine official and eight unofficial members. Prior to 1928, the numbers of the Legislative Council members were seven and six respectively. The six official members of the Executive Council are the Senior Military Officer, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Colonial Treasurer, all of whom are members ex-officio, and the Director of Public Works, appointed by the Governor. The three unofficial members, one of whom is Chinese, are appointed by the Governor. The six official members of the Executive Council are also members of the Legislative Council; the other three official members of this Council, who are appointed by the Governor, are the Inspector General of Police, the Harbour Master, and the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services. Of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council, two are appointed by the Governor on the nomination respectively of the Justices of the Peace and of the Chamber of Commerce; the Governor also appoints the remaining members, three of whom are Chinese. Appointment in the case of unofficial members is for five years for the Executive and four years for the Legislative Council.\n\nPage 40  \nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "53514/1/36.\n\nHong Kong.\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Carstairs.\n\nMr. Bigg.\n\n19/2\n\nMr. Howard. 24\n\n(9/2/36.\n\nAr. Covey 25/2 15X1125/2\n\nSir C. Parkinson.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nfs.\n\nSECRET.\n\n27\n\nN\n\n-\n\n89 Downing Street.\n\n2 February, 1936.\n\nCon son.\n\nSir,\n\nDRAFT.\n\nWith reference to your letter\n\nTHE SECRETARY,\n\nAIR MINISTRY.\n\nFr. O.A.G. 9th December, 1935. (No. 4 on 53514/36)\n\n(5 in do)\n\n(1)\n\ntogether with a copy of subsequent correspondence\n\nworth noting,\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nAirways have/was\n\nThe extension without\n\nwith\n\nS.23417/II (F.W.) of the 30th December\n\nand to further correspondence\n\nlast, regarding the aerodrome at Kai Tak,\n\nHong Kong, I am directed to transmit to you,\n\nto be laid before the Air Council, a copy\n\nof a despatch and enclosure from the\n\nO.A.G. of Hong Kong regarding the filling\n\nand forming of an additional area north of\n\nthe existing aerodrome,\n\n2.\n\nIt has been ascertained that the\n\nAir Commodore, Hong Kong, regards the\n\nextension, which is now nearing completion, as essential\n\n(both for the requirements of\n\nthe R.A.F. and the development of a\n\npermanent civil air service), Mr. Thomas\n\nfor experimental flights.\n\nfeels",
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        "document_key": "CO129-556-13 Traffic in arms to China 6-1-1936 - 13-1-1937",
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        "title": "CO129-556-13 Traffic in arms to China 6-1-1936 - 13-1-1937",
        "content_text": "C.O.\n\n10 124\n\nR 31 MAR\n\nD114/36\n\n31\n\nDowning Street,\n\nResubmitted\n\nDRAFT DESPATCH.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nCyC circulated 25/3 Mr Dade Howard 20/3 In Gent 30\n\nMr\n\non Dale 31\n\nM Cowell\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n519*\n\n?\n\nGOVERNOR.\n\n2 March, 1936.\n\ncon's\n\ncuc. now\n\nCop bo to y\n\nB\n\n(143/53548/35)\n\nbeloco (4))\n\nSFO.\n\n12\n\n1107\n\n27\n\nblog\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to refer to Sir Thomas Southorn's confidential despatch of the 12th November last, regarding the grant of transit facilities to China through Hong Kong in the case of a consignment of arms which was incorrectly described in the bill of lading and ship's manifest, and to inform you that I consider that all possible measures should be taken to prevent the passage of such falsely described consignments in future.\n\nI am advised that action might be based on Section 4(5) and upon production of necessary Export licence, as in the case of a consignment properly described; a misdescribed consignment exported from a State where a licensing system does not obtain should be retained and you should refer to me for instructions.\n\nSection 19 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance,",
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        "title": "CO129-565-14 Vacancy for air raid precaution officer. Includes 1 photograph depicting- Douglas Berwick Maitland- applicant for... 15-11-1937 - 8-2-1938",
        "content_text": "Steel Permits\n\nthe best\n\nof the\n\nequipment which has\n\nalready been despatched to\n\nH.K. for Govt use.\n\nHoward\n\n15th May as Hong Kong SEC:\n\nTo Yok To Cal. Thomas\n\nTo\n\nDESTROYED UNDER STATUTE\n\n3/2 (Wed)\n\nSEC: W/ Cust A\n\n6.A. (uk List +116)\n\n8/2/38\n\nDestroyed in the presence of Secell. Perkins\n\n(witnessed by Secell. Perkins)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938",
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        "content_text": "Page 77\n\n28\n\nChairman:\n\nLADIES WELFARE COMMITTEE.\n\nMrs. N. L. Smith\n\nHon. Treasurer: Lady MacGregor\n\nMrs. Lindsell\n\nMrs. Dicken\n\nMrs. Richards\n\nMrs. Gerrard\n\nMrs. Wolf\n\nHon. Secretary: Mrs. Henderson\n\nMrs. North (ex Committee).\n\nMrs. Frederick\n\nMrs. D. Forbes\n\nMrs. Durran Mrs. Branson\n\nMrs. Pittendrigh\n\nMrs. C. C. Black Mrs. Innes\n\nMrs. Compton\n\nMrs. Glover\n\nI\n\n29\n\nMrs. Mackintosh Mrs. Sleap\n\nMiss Pittendrigh\n\nMrs. Greaves\n\nMrs. H. F. Williams\n\nMrs. Cheetham\n\nMrs. Abbott\n\nMrs. Dunbar\n\nMrs. Scott Harston\n\nMrs. Hast\n\nMrs. Hayward\n\nCentral British School.\n\nMrs. Dick\n\nMrs. Easterbrooke\n\nMrs. Woods\n\nMrs. Bolton\n\nMrs. Donald\n\nMrs. Lawrence\n\nHELPERS.\n\nMrs. J. Roger\n\nMrs. Silkstone\n\nJockey Club.\n\nMrs. Silson\n\nMiss Thomas\n\nMrs. Whyte-Smith\n\nMrs. Selby\n\nMrs. Blakey\n\nMiss Ingram\n\nMrs. Stroud\n\nMrs. Shirley\n\nMrs. Maughan\n\nMrs. K. S. Robertson\n\nMrs. Newill\n\nMrs. Nicol\n\nMrs. Prophet\n\nMrs. Lambert\n\nMrs. Hill Miss Felling\n\nMrs. Godby\n\nMiss Curtin\n\nMrs. Clarke\n\nMrs. Cole\n\nMrs. Crozier\n\nCentral British School.\n\nMrs. Cooper\n\nMrs. Ingram\n\nMrs. Tong.\n\nAppendix 9.\n\nMrs. Grigor\n\nLai Chi Kok.\n\n(and Jockey Club)\n\nMrs. Calthrop (\n\nMrs. Maughan\n\nMrs. Prior\n\n(...\n\n--\n\n27\n\nMrs. Hawkins\n\nMrs. Richardson\n\n)\n\nFurther Helpers.\n\nMiss Abbott\n\nMrs. Shields\n\nMiss Bell\n\nMrs. Kelvin-Stark\n\nMrs. Scott (Shanghai)\n\nMrs. Colter (Shanghai)\n\nMiss King\n\nMrs. Thomson\n\nMrs. Pryde\n\nMrs. Raymond\n\nMrs. O'Connor\n\nMrs. Key\n\nMrs. Margrett\n\nMrs. Norman (and Laichikok)\n\nMrs. Stopani Thomson\n\nMisses Hance\n\nMrs. Perdue\n\nMrs. A. White Mrs. Howard\n\nMrs. Elliott\n\nMrs. G. White\n\nMrs. Baskett\n\nGirl Guides\n\nMrs. Mills\n\nMrs. Dyer\n\nMrs. Westlake\n\nMrs. D. J. Valentine\n\nMiss Rutherford\n\nMrs. Tinson\n\nMrs. L. Garner\n\n!\n\nVOLUNTARY HELPERS.\n\nMr. F. C. Barry\n\nDr. G. W. Pope\n\nMr. A. K. Dimond\n\nDr. Lilias Dovey\n\nMr. F. Lee\n\nMr. Mok Yee Lick\n\nMr. Fred Poon\n\nMr. C. J. Triggs\n\nMiss R. C. P. Xavier\n\nMr. B. A. Proulx\n\nMr. F. W. Kendall Mrs. A. K. Taylor Mr. D. M. Richards\n\nMrs. D. M. Richards\n\nMrs. A. Raymond Mrs. D. S. Gubbay\n\nMrs. R. Weill Mrs. H. Joseph\n\nMr. L. B. Holmes\n\nMr. G. E. S. Upsdell\n\nMr. M. G. O'Connor Mr. H. G. Wallington Mr. D. J. S. Crozier\n\nDr. G. R. Nash\n\nDr. P. Ruttonjee Mrs. P. F. S. Court Mrs. D. Cuthbertson Mrs. G. H. Bond Mrs. C. G. Perdue\n\nMrs. D. Black Mrs. L. R. Shore Mrs. Watson Miss D. L. Lopes Miss Heung Miss Kitty Fox\n\nMiss Irene Anderson Miss Phyllis Churn Miss Sham You Lin Dr. J. A. R. Selby Mr. L. A. Collyer Mr. F. Buckle\n\nMr. N. J. Bebbington\n\nPage 78",
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        "content_text": "# SHEET FIVE\n\n## Particulars of Husband \n| Rank | Surname | Name |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| S/Sgt. | HOLMES | Roy Ronald |\n| Capt. | HOLMES |  |\n| W.O.I | HOOD |  |\n| Lieut. | HOWARD |  |\n| Pte. | HOWE |  |\n| B.Q.M.S. | HOWIESON |  |\n| Mr. Gnr. | HUBBARD |  |\n| C. 2. H.S. V.O.III. | HUMBERSTONE | Doris |\n|  | HUMPHREYS | Maud |\n|  | HUMPHRIES | Annie Lily |\n| S/Sgt. | HUNTER | Anne |\n| Sgt. | HUTTON | Mary Ellen, Cecily |\n| Sgt. | IENT | Myfanwy, Patricia |\n| S/Sgt. |  | Alec James, Ian McLean, Martin |\n| 8/Sgt. | IGOLEDEN | Ivy, Gordon |\n| Sgt. | INGRAM | Christina, Julia Ch., Vivienne M. |\n| Lieut. | JAMES |  |\n| Sgt. | JEFPREE | Violet Ada Eliz., Nellie, Barbara I. |\n| Mrs. | JESSERMAN | (Welfare Nurse - on duty) |\n| B.Q.M.S. | JOHNS | Beatrice, Denzil, David |\n| Sgt. | JOHNS |  |\n| L/Sgt. | JONES | May, Alice |\n| W.O.I | JORDON | Nereen |\n| S/Sgt. | KEAST | Betty, Anthony, George, Heverley, Timothy, Murvin, Wendy |\n| L/Sgt. | KELLY |  |\n| Miss | KENISTON | (Q.A.S.) |\n| V.O.I | KIPFORD |  |\n| Mr. | KLOSS |  |\n| W.O.II | KNIGHTLEY |  |\n| Lt-Col. | LAMB |  |\n| Capt. | LAWDER |  |\n| S/Sgt. | LAVRENCE |  |\n| Sgt. | LETHBRIDGE |  |\n| W.0. I. | LAWRENCE | Peggy Louise, Edina Mary, Sarah Lily, Kathleen Florence, Violet, Isobel Kate, Maureen, Doris Louisa, Bertha, Jessie Hariot M., Roger Wilf., Patricia R., Peter |\n| Lt-Col. | LEVETT | Margaret L., Kenneth L., Veronica B., Janet Eliz., Christine M., Josephine L. |\n| C/Sgt. | LITTLE | Beertha, Lilian, Phyllis D., Thomas, Mavis, Jessie F., John Kay, Kathleen, Esme, Daphne |\n| W.O.I | LLEWELLYN | Ethel Dorothy, Shirley Ivy, Geoffrey N., Gwladys Ethel, Marg. Margaret |\n| W.O.II. | LLOYD | Violet |\n\n## Particulars of Children \n| Full Christian Names of Wife | Date of Birth |\n| --- | --- |\n| Adelaide |  |\n|  | 18/6/28, 21/8/31 |\n| Dorothea Rosalie | 16/7/35 |\n| Florence Nellie, Jennifer M. |  |\n| Violet Emily Edith |  |\n| Nelsie Florence Eleanor | 5/3/28, 1/6/30, 5/11/31 |\n| Mary Elsie |  |\n| Lilian Clarissa |  |\n|  | 15/8/32 |\n|  | 3/1/37, 5/5/38, 4/1/38 |\n|  | 29/3/36, 17/6/38, 2/9/34, 24/7/37 |\n| Ivy | 26/4/37 |\n| Christina | 11/8/30 |\n| Julia Ch. | 11/9/30 |\n| Violet Ada Eliz. | 26/1/40 |\n| Beatrice | 9/11/27, 29/8/31 |\n| May | 9/2/30 |\n| Alice | 7/6/31 |\n| Nereen | 12/12/36, 7/1/40 |\n| Betty | 24/9/27, 19/7/37 |\n| Peggy Louise | 23/4/40 |\n| Edina Mary | 15/2/38 |\n| Sarah Lily |  |\n| Kathleen Florence | 2/4/39 |\n| Violet | 1/7/32 |\n| Isobel Kate | 11/5/35 |\n| Maureen | 18/5/34 |\n| Doris Louisa | 7/2/39 |\n| Bertha | 1/4/30 |\n| Jessie Hariot M. | 25/1/39 |\n| Margaret L. | 22/4/34 |\n| Kenneth L. | 18/6/27 |\n| Veronica B. | 28/5/30 |\n| Janet Eliz. | 1/1/36 |\n| Christine M. | 21/1/35 |\n| Josephine L. | 9/4/29 |\n| Beertha | 29/11/31 |\n| Lilian |  |\n| Phyllis D. | 6/9/34 |\n| Thomas | 23/12/31 |\n| Mavis | 1/12/33 |\n| Jessie F. | 3/12/39 |\n| John Kay | 14/6/30 |\n| Kathleen |  |\n| Esme |  |\n| Daphne |  |\n| Ethel Dorothy |  |\n| Shirley Ivy |  |\n| Geoffrey N. |  |\n| Gwladys Ethel |  |\n| Marg. Margaret |  |",
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        "title": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940",
        "content_text": "# Name \n| Christian Name | Age | Sex |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| GRAY | Jeanie | 54 | F |\n| JEAN | 18 | F |\n| GRIGGS | Florence A. | 54 | F |\n| GREIG | Sarah | 46 | F |\n| OLWIN | 17 | F |\n| GUNN | Hilda May | 51 | F |\n| HARRIS | Mary | 32 | F |\n| ALEXANDER | 5 | M |\n| JOHN | 2 | M |\n| MARJORIE | 10 mths | F |\n| HEADRIDGE | Jessie Wilson R. | 29 | F |\n| MARGARET | 1 | F |\n| ROBBIE |  | F |\n| HEMSLEY | Betty | 24 | F |\n| THOMAS FREDERICK | 2 | M |\n| HIGGS | Katherine L. | 32 | F |\n| KATHERINE B. | 4 | F |\n| HENRY | 2 | M |\n| HILL | Nora | 28 | F |\n| NORMAN | 5 | M |\n| HELEN | 2 | F |\n| HITCHENS | Catherine | 50 | F |\n| ANTHONY WENTWORTH BROWNE | 16 | M |\n| HODGKISS | Ethel | 46 | F |\n| HOPE | Evelyn C. | 42 | F |\n| ELIZABETH | 7 | F |\n| GRANIA A. | 4 | F |\n| ROSEMARY | 3 | F |\n| ROBIN | 1 | M |\n| HOWARD | Jean | 51 | F |\n| HUNT | Gertrude Ellen | 54 | F |\n| ELSIE GERTRUDE | 18 | F |\n| JACKSON | Bessie | 31 | F |\n| HILARY | 1 | M |\n| JAMIESON | Sophie C. | 33 | F |\n| CAROLINE MAY | 2 | F |\n| CHARLES VICTOR | 5 | M |\n| LEONARD JAMES | 4 | M |\n\nSHIP NO. 1  \nSYDNEY.  \n54  \n\nJEACOCK/",
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        "title": "CO129-589-17 Evacuation of British families 14-1-1941 - 27-11-1941",
        "content_text": "# Appendix A\n\n## VOLUNTEERS WHO ASSISTED IN THE CARE OF EVACUEES\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Adamson, Mrs. S. G. |\n| Agnew, Mrs. C. G. |\n| Arundell, Mrs. P. G. H. |\n| Babcock, Mrs. W. R. |\n| Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Golden W. |\n| Bendel, Mrs. John |\n| Bennett, Mrs. Roy C. |\n| Blinko, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. |\n| Bromfield, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. |\n| Brown, Mrs. George S. |\n| Bryan, Mrs. A. I. |\n| Burn, Mrs. W. A. |\n| Cairns, Mrs. J. W. |\n| Cavender, Mrs. Howard M. |\n| Chatfield, Mrs. W. N. |\n| Churchill, Mrs. Lawrence S. |\n| Clear, Miss Barbara |\n| Cogan, Mrs. E. O. |\n| Conyngham, Miss Lenox |\n| Darby, Dr. Hawthorne |\n| Davis, Mrs. Lesleigh |\n| Douglas, Mrs. William |\n| Ehrhardt, Mrs. John J. |\n| Fairchild, Mr. and Mrs. E. Bradley |\n| Fairman, Mrs. F. F. |\n| Farnell, Mrs. T. W. |\n| Ferguson, Mrs. R. O. |\n| Flood, Mrs. R. P. |\n| Fonger, Rev. and Mrs. T. H. |\n| Forrest, Mrs. R. |\n| Fox, Mrs. Hubert |\n| Frost, Mrs. Harry |\n| Gardner, Mrs. H. G. |\n| Goodier, Mrs. Ben D. |\n| Haag, Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. |\n| Hackett, Miss Bessie |\n| Hair, Miss Betty |\n| Hair, Miss Doris |\n| Hair, Mrs. John |\n| Hall, Mrs. E. L. |\n| Harrington, Mrs. Thomas |\n| Herridge, Miss Betty |\n| Herridge, Mrs. J. R. |\n| Heyward, Mrs. A. S. |\n| Higham, Mrs. F. J. |\n| Hobbs, Mr. R. Lee |\n| Jamieson, Mrs. John |\n| Kahn, Mrs. Maurice |\n| Kernot, Mrs. Gavin W. |\n| Kincaid, Mr. Edward |\n| Lamon, Mrs. Wallace J. |\n| Leake, Mr. and Mrs. B. G. |\n| Leyshon, Mr. and Mrs. Frank |\n| Littig, Mrs. J. C. |\n| Livingston, Miss Sadie |\n| Luyendyk, Mrs. Ben |\n| MacGavin, Miss Molly |\n| MacIntyre, Mrs. R. |\n| Macleod, Mrs. Neil J. |\n| Main, Mrs. George |\n| McAvoy, Mrs. D. G. |\n| McGregor, Mrs. J. A. |\n| Moote, Mrs. Leslie E. |\n| Morgenstern, Mrs. Mary |\n| Morris, Mrs. Geo. Ed., Jr. |\n| Murphey, Mrs. Henry S. |\n| Myers, Mrs. J. L. |\n| Oftedahl, Mrs. S. G. |",
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