[ { "id": 217653, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "page_number": 391, "title": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "content_text": "\nI had made \n\narrangements made for \n\nthe bivid Government of - \n\nthe ar Continuing this Settlement \n\nand \n\nI need \n\nneed only here \n\nrepeat my hope that they will meet \n\nthe approbation of Her Majesty'ś \n\nGovernment \n\nAfter that Deepatch ( \n\nA \n\nDuplicate of which has been transmitisa \n\nunder a \n\nflying \n\nLeal to the Govenor \n\nclosed. \n\nGeneral of India ) was colex, I received a representation from the __ different Pattie Departments (and more especially from the Chief Magistrate who bo : about Eighty five Prisoners - under his charge in the Jail, which Convinced that it was indispensabiy \n\nme \n\nnecessary to make lome provision for Medical advice.. \n\nI therefore wrote to \n\nCaptain \n\nthey \n\nگفت \n\nCaptain \n\na \n\nCaptain bis Thomas Herbert M. I. B the Senior Naval Officer, who has kindly placed the services of Doctor Winchester Aupernumerary Attittant Pargeon, who \n\nfrom England in 11 ship \n\ndisposal. \n\nkad just just \n\narrived \n\nNorth Star at \n\nassigned \n\nand \n\nmy \n\nand \n\nI have \n\nto him a Salary of the hundred fifty Companys Rupees per month - and thirty Super per mensem for Medicin -ntil a cupply of the latter can be procured \n\nCalcutta \n\nfrom \n\nI have to policit four Lordshipt Canction to this additional charge in the jeneral &.epences of the Island, of Stong. \"Hong\", and trust that your Lordship \n\nb \n\nwill \n\nbelieve, that in all. I have done in this Place \n\n(and of which I thall submit a detailed \n\none \n\nReport in due time) I have had but - motive, that of promoting the Stonor and \n\nadvantage \n\n一 \n\nNDE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218546, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 419, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "Making \n\na total of \n\nmu \n\nhundred and forty \n\ntwo thousand eight \n\nhundred and \n\nthirty thousand nine hundred art \n\neighty right dollars and sixty eight cents equal to \n\nfifty \n\nnine pounds four shillings \n\nthree pence and one \n\nfarthing Ketting \n\nBart G. 6. B. Governor \n\nExcellency Sir Henry Pottinger \n\nin account current with this \n\nTreasour and Financial Soutary \n\nCharles E. Stewark Caguine \n\nHongkong \n\nfo. \n\nBalanu $ 35.603.40 47714.1.674. \n\nengthing 30th Sept. 1849. \n\nin the General Department of the \n\nReceipt for Wages paid to persons imployed Government, during of July 1843. \n\nHongKong \n\nName. \n\nAhkeep \n\nThchung \n\nThoke \n\nAhlum \n\nAlsam \n\nSituation \n\nHongHong 31th July 1863. \n\nMessenger \n\n• leavenger \n\nJotal \n\nthe month \n\nPeriod of of time \n\nto \n\n\" \n\n\" \n\nAmount \n\n31st \n\n\" \n\nSignature. \n\ntwenty eight \n\nDollars 28. \n\nTreasurer 49 in. Secretory \n\nnamed hove \n\nthat the individuals herein \n\nRichon Scare Theen employed as stated \n\n(Signed)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218556, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 429, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "\n\none dollars \n\nI certify to have paid the sum of thirty and eighty two cents for the under-mentioned articles supplied for the use of \n\nGovernment House viz. \n\nFor 8 Green Bamboo Shades . \n\n__2 Fables, Bason Stand Jr. \n\n- 3 Bambor Sofas & 4 Bamboo Stools &... \n\n-----་ \n\n6 Water Buckets V. \n\nSafe. \n\nbook room Table. \n\n__6 Small Stools, nails, paper & \n\n__8 Cross bars for sedan chair. \n\nTotal thirty one dollars and \n\n3.25 \n\n6.45 6.20 \n\n2.87 3.75 \n\n6.25 \n\n2. \n\neighty is Collars_31.82 \n\nVictoria Hongkong) } Ahone Compondre \n\nJuly 18445. \n\nい \n\nTŘE \n\n字 \n\nt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224612, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 518, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "93\n\n511\n\n27646\n\n92\n\nBRITISH POSITION\n\nof art, imitative in mechanics, (thus leading to the natural conclusion that they would be equally so in social and moral duties,) having an organized Government and well administered municipalities, devoid of the prejudices of caste or of idolatry, and thus to a certain degree prepared for the reception of the seeds of Christian truth; ever seeking to benefit their condition, by labour at home, or by emigrating to other countries; habituated to a maritime life; of considerable physical power; not deficient in courage, if properly disciplined; acute or subtle reasoners; preferring the material to the theoretical or ideal; not wanting in emulative enterprise, obedient to the commands of a justly ruling authority;\n\nNOTES ON THE FOREGOING STATISTICAL TABLE,\n\nThe above are the nominal sums for which the respective officers become responsible to their sovereign. But the estimate of last year has so immensely fallen short of the actual amount required, viz., of the arrears due since the war, there remained, in October 1844, 38,711,000 taels to be paid. The rice has, for the greater part, on account of the inundation, not been forwarded to the capital.\n\nThe sundries arise from the proceeds of pawnbrokers' shops, mercantile establishments, and various fees and duties. There are moreover innumerable local items not mentioned in the statistical returns, because the mandarins on the spot receive them, without sending any account; for this they have, however, to keep up a considerable establishment.\n\nThe colonial possessions, instead of yielding a revenue, absorb considerable sums. The subsidies paid to the Mongol chiefs, both in money as well as kind, are very large; the expenditure of the army in Turkestan, amounts to several millions annually; and to keep up the establishments in Mantchouria, the treasury is constantly drained. Tibet requires only about 200,000 taels annually. No returns of these liabilities are ever published.\n\nThree taels are £4. sterling; one shih 160 lbs.; one ring 100 mow; one mow 6000 square covids.\n\nIt ought always to be kept in mind that the sums specified are the net revenue, after the deduction of the expenditure of collection, so that in many instances the sums actually raised are five times more than what is put down here. In the estimate are not included the duties on the foreign trade, which are, at the lowest, about three million taels per annum. Besides the monopoly in ginseng, percentage from the numerous mines, profits from coinage, &c., &c., which at the most moderate calculation does not amount to less than five million taels per annum, and is directly paid to the Emperor.\n\nWe have neither enumerated about thirty-four million shih of grain, which, according to the regulations, is kept in deposit by Government, in order to provide against starvation. The people have some claim on this, and reap the profits arising from the sale. The quantity, moreover, fluctuates very much, and the latter amount is abstracted from a work published about twenty years ago.\n\nChina is not remarkable for longevity. An examination was made in 1827 by the Emperor Kang-he, to ascertain how many persons were above seventy years of age, that they might be exempted from the public service, and nourished by the state. Those of eighty, ninety, and a hundred, were successively honoured with higher rewards.\n\nIn nine provinces, containing 158,793,306 inhabitants, there were but 194,086 of seventy and upwards, which latter sum is 1/818 parts of the former.\n\nIn sixteen provinces, the number of people at eighty years of age was 168,830; at ninety years 9996; and at or about a hundred years of age, but 21. Not a two thousandth part of the whole empire reached the age of eighty years; not the thirty-six thousandth part ninety years; and only about one in seventeen million inhabitants reached the age of a century.\n\nOnly three provinces evince this longevity, viz., Shantung, 9; Honan 5; Hon-an, or Hon-Guang, 4; Keangnan 3; total 21.\n\nIn the Canton province, on a population of 19,147,030, but 9415 reached the age of eighty, and only 591 that of ninety years. None attained a century.\n\nAND PROSPECTS IN CHINA.\n\nand with strong domestic and social attachments, enabling them to combine for good or evil purposes: these and other considerations render China a field peculiarly adapted for the inculcation of the Christian civilization of England.\n\nWe have it in our power to till the field thus presented for our profitable labour. Science and skill of various kinds is now anxiously seeking employment at home; where could they be more usefully employed than in China?\n\n*The Jesuits received the greatest encouragement from the Emperor Canghi, or Kanghi, during his long reign. On 22nd March, 1672, his Majesty issued a celebrated edict in favour of Christianity; in which, conformable to the report of the board of rites, he ordered the temples dedicated to the \"Lord of Heaven\" throughout his dominions to be respected, and that no opposition be given to all who chose to enter those temples, offer incense, and perform acts of worship.\n\nThis edict was issued in consequence of a violent persecution commenced against the Christians in the province of Che-kiang, by the viceroy and inferior mandarins. In consequence of the petitions of the Jesuits of science at Pekin, the Emperor ordered the board of rites to inquire into the subject; and the board reported that \"they had seriously examined that which had reference to the Europeans who lived in China; and found that they merited attention and love for the signal services which they had rendered in civil and foreign wars, by their continued studies to produce useful and curious works, and by their just and sincere affection for the public good. Moreover, that the Europeans are very tranquil; that they do not excite troubles in the provinces; that they do not cause evil, or commit any bad action. Besides, their doctrine has nothing in common with the false and dangerous sects of the empire; and their maxims do not lead people to sedition.\" The report of the board of rites went on to state, that \"as the Government of China did not prevent the Lamas of Tartary, nor the Buddhists, to have their temples, and offer incense in their pagodas, how much less ought the Europeans be prevented to have their churches, and to preach publicly their religion, as they did nothing contrary to good laws.\"\n\nIt was in consequence of this excellent report that the persecution which had commenced in China against Christianity, was suppressed by the Emperor in 1692.\n\nShortly after, the Chinese physicians having failed to cure the Emperor Canghi of a fever, the sovereign placed himself under the care of the Jesuit physicians, Gerbillon and Bouvet, at Pekin, who cured him with quinine. In gratitude for his recovery, the Emperor assigned them splendid apartments in the first enclosure of the palace, and which had belonged to the governor of the heir apparent. Artisans were employed to fit the residence up in excellent style, and a mandarin to superintend the dwelling; and understanding that they wished to have a church attached to their house, the Emperor caused a very handsome church to be erected within the precincts of the palace, which required four years building, and was opened with great ceremony in 1702. The church was adorned by the Jesuit artists with great magnificence and taste.\n\nOn several occasions the learned Jesuits established at Pekin, were enabled to render signal services to the Tartar Government at Pekin.\n\nAbout the year 1688, the Russians had been advancing, by Siberia, through Tartary to the frontiers of the Chinese empire: Their route was along the rivers Irtis, Oby, Gennissee, Angara, via lake Baikal; thence to the Amour river, penetrating to Saghalion-Oula. The Russians destroyed the forts as they advanced, not without resistance, however, from the Tartars, who were subjects of the Chinese empire.\n\nWar between the Muscovites and Chinese seemed imminent; but through the diplomacy of the Jesuits Gerbillon and Bouvet, a peace was concluded at Nipchou, by ambassadors from both powers, by which the limits of Russia were defined, and the Chinese army returned to Pekin. Gerbillon and Bouvet were appointed secretaries to the Chinese embassy, but in reality, they managed the whole negotiations in a manner which gave great satisfaction.\n\nBut a more important service was rendered to the Tartar Government of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 225524, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12]", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12]", "content_text": "VICTORIA, BY THE GRACE OF GOD of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, To our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, or to our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our said Colony and its Dependencies for the time being, or to the Officer administering the Government of our said Colony and its Dependencies for the time being; To the Chief Justice of our said Colony, or to the Chief Justice of our said Colony for the time being; To the Officer commanding our Land Forces in the said Colony, or to the Officer commanding our Land Forces in our said Colony for the time being; To the Colonial Secretary of our said Colony, or to the Colonial Secretary of our said Colony for the time being; To the Chief Magistrate of Police of our said Colony, or to the Chief Magistrate of Police of our said Colony for the time being; To our Commander-in-Chief, and to the several Flag Officers of such Squadron of our Ships of War as shall happen to be in any of the Ports or Roadsteads of our said Colony for the time being; And to our several Captains and Commanders of such of our Ships of war as shall happen to be in any of the Ports or Roadsteads of our said Colony for the time being, and to each and every of them, Greeting.—\n\nWHEREAS by an Act made in the Twenty-eighth of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, entitled “An Act for the punishment of Pirates and Robbers of the Sea,” which Act is extended and explained by three other Acts, the first made in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, and entitled \"An Act for remedying certain defects in the Law respecting offences committed upon the High Seas;\" the second made in the Forty-third Year of the Reign of King George the Third, and entitled \"An Act for the more effectually providing for the punishment of offences in wilfully casting away, burning, or destroying Ships and Vessels, and for the more convenient trial of Accessaries in Felonies, and for extending the powers of an Act made in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, as far as relates to Murders, to Accessaries to Murders, and to Manslaughters\" and the third made in the First Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, and entitled \"An Act to remove doubts and to remedy defects in the Law with respect to certain offences committed upon the Sea or within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty,\" certain powers and authorities touching all Treasons, Felonies, and other crimes and misdemeanors committed in or upon the Sea, or in any Haven, River, Creek, or place where the Admiral has power, authority, or jurisdiction, are given to certain Commissioners constituted as therein provided after the Course of the Common Law of this our Realm, to enquire of, try, and determine the same as within this Realm. And Whereas by another Act made in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, entitled \" An Act for the more speedy trial of offences committed in distant parts upon the Sea,\" the like powers and authorities touching all offences so committed as aforesaid are given also to certain other Commissioners, constituted as by the last mentioned Act is provided after the course of the Common Law to enquire of, try, and determine the same in any of our Islands, Plantations, Colonies, Dominions, Forts, and Factories. And Whereas by another Act, made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, entitled \"An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the abolition of the Slave Trade,\" the Commissioners constituted according to the said Act of the Forty-sixth year of the Reign of King George the Third are invested with the like powers and authorities to enquire of, try, and determine all offences against the said Act of the Fifth year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, which shall be committed in any place where the Admiral has not Jurisdiction, and not being within this our United Kingdom nor within the local jurisdiction of any ordinary Court of a British Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Territory competent to try such offences. And whereas by another Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled \"An Act to enable Commissioners for trying offences upon the Sea and Justices of the Peace to take examinations touching such offences, and to commit to safe custody persons charged therewith,\" certain powers and directions are given to any one or more of the Commissioners constituted according to the said Act of the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, to take informations on oath and to apprehend and commit or bail the parties charged: Know Ye Therefore, That We, confiding very much in your fidelity and careful circumspection, have appointed you or any one of you our Commissioners or Commissioner to take such informations, and to apprehend and commit or bail such persons under such circumstances and in such manner as by the said Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth is provided in that behalf, and have also appointed you or any three of you (of which number our will and pleasure is that our said Governor or Officer administering the said Government, or the said Chief Justice of our said Colony respectively for the time being, shall always be one) our Commissioners to enquire upon the oath of good and lawful men of our said Territory, and by other ways, means, and methods, according to your best knowledge and ability, as well within Liberties as without, whereby the truth of the matter may be the better known and enquired into concerning all Treasons, Piracies, Felonies, Robberies, Murders, Conspiracies, and other offences whatsoever, and accessaries thereto, whomsoever and howsoever done or committed, or hereafter to be done or committed, upon the Sea, or in any Haven, River, Creek, or place where the Admiral hath power, authority, or jurisdiction; and also concerning all offences against the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, which shall be committed in any place where the Admiral has not jurisdiction, and not being within this our United Kingdom, nor within the local jurisdiction of any ordinary Court of a British Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Territory, competent to try such offences and to hear and determine all the offences aforesaid, according to the Laws and customs of this our Realm, and the Statutes hereinbefore mentioned, and all other Statutes in that behalf made and provided. And therefore We command you that you and each of you diligently discharge the respective duties of taking informations and of apprehension, commitment, and bailment as aforesaid, and that at certain times and places which shall be fixed for this purpose by you or any three of you at the least (of which number our said Governor or Officer administering the Government, or the said Chief Justice of our said Colony respectively for the time being shall always be one) you diligently enquire of, try, and determine all the said premises, and do in manner aforesaid all things to be done thereupon as appertains to Justice according to the said Laws, Customs, and Statutes of this our Realm, And We do by these Presents command, that it be in our name strictly enjoined to the Provost Marshal or other proper Officer of our said Colony, and others whom it may concern, and to every of them, as well within Liberties as without, and at certain times and places when and as often as need shall require, which our said Governor or Officer administering the said Government for the time being shall make known to them, or either of them in form aforesaid, they cause to come before you or any three of you at the least (of which number our said Governor or Officer administering the said Government, or the said Chief Justice of our said Colony respectively for the time being, shall always be one) so many good and lawful men of our said Colony, as well within Liberties as without, by whom the truth of the matter concerning the premises may be the better known or enquired into; commanding, moreover, all Governors, Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Stewards, Constables, also Keepers of Gaols and Prisons, and all other Officers and Ministers, and all other our faithful and liege Subjects whomsoever, that from time to time, in the execution of the premises and every of them, they be assisting and yielding obedience to you and every of you. In Witness whereof We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the Tenth Day of January, in the Ninth Year of our Reign.\n\nBY WRIT OF PRIVY SEAL.\n\nEDMUNDS.\n\n(True Copy.) By Command of His Excellency the Governor, FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th May, 1846.\n\n451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 473, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "486\n\nAppendix.\n\nTrade between Bombay and China.\n\nReport on the Tea Trade.\n\nCopper Sheathing\n\nMetals:\n\nCopper Nails -\n\nIron, Old\n\nIron, Kentledge\n\nTin Plate\n\nMother of Pearl Shells\n\nOil, of Sorts\n\nOpium\n\nPaint\n\nPiece Goods:\n\nDyed Cotton\n\nPlain Cotton\n\nSilk, Country\n\nSilk, China\n\nShawls, Cashmere\n\nPrecious Stones, Pearls -\n\nSharkfins\n\n[ 50 ]\n\nEXPORTS to China in 1843-44-continued.\n\nQUANTITY.\n\n25 boxes\n\nWEIGHT.\n\nVALUE.\n\nTons.\n\nCrots.\n\nLbs.\n\nRs.\n\n40\n\n20\n\n12\n\n119\n\n50 20\n\n4,764\n\n600\n\n375\n\n538\n\n64\n\n3,362\n\n84\n\n300\n\n22,461 chests -\n\n2,69,41,880\n\n36\n\n56\n\n730\n\n100 pieces\n\n1,096\n\n3,311 pieces\n\n19,448\n\n1,124 pieces\n\n9,961\n\n461 pieces\n\n3,594\n\n2, number\n\n1,200\n\n3,19,377\n\n8,478\n\n94\n\n1,82,134\n\n850\n\n25 gallons\n\n279 23,694\n\n1702 doz.&112gals.\n\n3,689\n\n5,007\n\nWoollen, British\n\n551 pieces\n\n64,378 7,890\n\nMerchandise Horses\n\n3,88,85,919 1,500\n\nTOTAL\n\nRs. 3,88,87,410\n\nH. H. Glass,\n\nCollector of Customs.\n\nSaddlery\n\nSpirits\n\nSundries\n\nWine, Sherry\n\nWood, of Sorts\n\nBombay Custom House,\n\n5 August 1844.\n\nTo the Hon. R. M. Martin,\n\nHer Majesty's Treasurer, China.\n\n(9.)\n\nREPORT on the TEA TRADE, transmitted to Her Majesty's Government from China, in July 1845.By R. M. Martin.\n\nTHE traffic in an innutritious herb, grown almost solely in one district of Asia, and in a country hitherto isolated from the western nations, is one of the most remarkable illustrations of the enterprise and energy of modern commerce. A trade involving British capital to the extent of about 10,000,000l. sterling, furnishing regular employment to about 60,000 tons of first-class English-built shipping, contributing nearly 5,000,000l. sterling of annual revenue to the Exchequer, and influencing materially the morals and sobriety of the nation, deserves investigation in detail, as regards its rise, progress, and present condition.\n\nThe tea plant, although found in different parts of the eastern hemisphere, is probably indigenous to China, or Japan, where it is extensively cultivated. The earliest record to be found of the use of tea is in the records of the Moorish historians and travellers in the end of the eighth century, at which period the Mahommedans had free ingress and residence in China, subject to very few restrictions.\n\nIbn Batuta mentions that the emperor received the revenues from salt; that paper money, bearing the government stamp, was current in the country; and that the general drink of the people was prepared by immersing the leaves of a small plant in hot water, which was used medicinally as well as for correcting the bad properties of the water.\n\nSoliman, an Arabian merchant, who visited China, A. D. 850, describes \"sah\" (tea), as the usual beverage of the people.\n\nTexeira, a Spaniard, in 1600, saw dried leaves (of tea) at Malacca, which were in use among the Chinese. Olearius, in 1633, found the use of tea pretty general among the Persians, who procured it from China by means of the Usbeck Tartars. The Russian ambassador (Stawkaw) to the court of the Mogul Chau Shau Attyn, partook of tea, and at his departure he was offered it for the Czar Michael Romanoff, which he refused, not knowing of what use it would be in Russia.\n\nOf the first introduction of tea into Europe we know but little. In 1517, Emmanuel, King of Portugal, sent a fleet of eight ships to China, and an ambassador to Pekin, who obtained permission to open a trade; but it was not until after the formation of the Dutch East India Company in 1602, that the use of tea became known on the continent, and although the enterprising Hollanders paid considerable attention to it, as an article of commerce, the consumption increased but little, for in 1670 it was unknown in Dort.\n\n[ 5 ]\n\nThe Dutch, in their second voyage to China, bought a good deal of tea, at from 8d. to 10d. per pound (the price at the present day), which, although of a middling quality, sold in Paris for 30 livres a pound; and for some years the best Japanese tea, esteemed as much better than that of China, brought from 100 to 200 livres per pound in France, until the use of coffee and chocolate became fashionable and general.\n\nThe first authentic notice to be found of tea in England, is in an Act of Parliament (12 Car. II, c. 23) A. D. 1660, by which a duty of 8d. per gallon was laid on all tea made and sold in coffee-houses; and by an Act framed in the same year the duties of excise on malt liquor, cyder, perry, meal, spirits, or strong waters, coffee, tea, sherbet, and chocolate were settled on the king for life. In the diary of Mr. Pepys, secretary of the Admiralty, there is found under date 25th September 1661, the following memorandum relative to tea \"I sent for a cup of tea, a Chinese drink, of which I had never drank before.\"\n\nIn 1662, Charles the Second married the Princess Catherine of Portugal, who it is said was fond of tea, having been accustomed to it in her own country, hence it became fashionable in England. Waller, in a birth-day ode on her Majesty, ascribes the introduction of the herb to the queen in the following lines:\n\n\"The best of queens and best of herbes we owe\n\ndid show\n\nTo that bold nation who the\n\nway\n\nTo the fair region where the sun doth rise, Whose rich productions we so justly prize.\"\n\nThe same poet attributes an inspiring power to the Chinese leaf:\n\n\"The muses' friend, tea, does our fancy aid,\n\nRepress those vapours which the head invade.\"\n\nIn 1660 tea was sold in England at three guineas per pound. The following copy of an advertisement in 1680, shows the price of the leaf, and the mode of vending it to the public:\n\n\"These are to give notice to persons of quality, that a small parcel of most excellent tea is by accident fallen into the hands of a private person to be sold; but that none may be disappointed, the lowest price is thirty shillings a pound, and not any to be sold under a pound weight, for which they are desired to bring a convenient box. Enquire at Mr. Thomas Eagle's, at the King's Head, in St. James's Market.”—London Gazette, 16 December 1680.\n\nIn 1666 Lords Arlington and Ossory brought a quantity of tea from Holland; its price in England then was 60s. per pound. About this period, the East India Company being desirous of presenting a rarity to his Majesty, procured 22 lbs. of tea, which was thought a valuable offering to royalty.\n\nHeretofore the small quantity used in England was obtained from the Continent; for in 1634, some English ships having visited Canton, a rupture took place between our seamen and the Chinese, and trade was for some time interdicted; but in 1668 the Court of Directors, in the despatch to their factories at Bantam in Java, ordered them to send home by their ships 100 lbs, weight of the best tea they could get. And accordingly, in 1669, the East India Company's first invoice of tea was received, amounting to two canisters of 143 lbs. Such was the commencement of a trade which, by the most judicious management, has now risen to an importation of upwards of 50,000,000 lbs. weight. That a careful proportioning of the supply to the demand was absolutely necessary, will be evident from the following fact, which at this early period operated as a warning to the Company, and has since proved highly beneficial to the commerce. In 1678 the East India Company imported 4,713 lbs. of tea; but this then large quantity completely glutted the market, for the imports of tea during the ensuing six years amounted in all to only 318 lbs. In 1680 the Company opened a direct trade with China.\n\nIn 1689 the old mode of levying the duty on tea, viz. by the quantity made in the coffee-houses, being found very uncertain as well as vexatious, an Act of 1 Gul. & Mar., sess. 2, c. 6, fixed a custom duty of 5s. a pound, together with the former sum of five per cent. on the value.\n\nFor some time the consumption of tea slowly increased in England, in consequence of the high rate of duty, which was sometimes as high as 200 per cent. on the sale price.\n\nA considerable degree of smuggling arose, which was only put down by lowering the taxation. During the years 1697, 1698, and 1699, the East India Company imported on an average 20,000 lbs. of tea annually. In 1700 the importation was augmented to 60,000 lbs. a year, the average price of tea being 16s. per pound. In 1721 the importation of tea into England exceeded for the first time 1,000,000 lbs.; and at the September sale in 1728, the quantity put up for sale was 769,104 lbs., the duty on which amounted to 153,820l. sterling.\n\nThe bill of cargo of the Cæsar, which arrived from China 17th May 1726, has entered in it 358,000 lbs. of tea, the duty on which was 71,620l. sterling. Since the commencement of the present century the annual consumption of tea in the United Kingdom has increased by upwards of 20,000,000 of pounds, while its use during the same period has been decreasing in Europe and America. In the space of 100 years, from 1710 to 1810, there were sold at the East India Company's sales 750,219,016 lbs. of tea, the value of which was 129,804,595l. sterling. Of this quantity of tea 116,470,675 lbs. were re-exported. Since the commencement of the present century, 1,385,949,566 lbs. of tea have been sold in England,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231420, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "content_text": "Sir,\n\nIn 6241/57\n\nVictoria, Hongkong.\n\nانا\n\n133\n\nThe 5th Dept. 1881-\n\nWe have the honour to reply to your letter of 10th April, 1887, by the following report on the Government Chinese Schools for the past year.\n\n2.\n\nThe average number of scholars under instruction has been eighty-three, thirty at Victoria, eighteen at Stanley, twenty at Aberdeen, and twenty-five at Wong-nei-chong.\n\n3.\n\nThe teacher at Aberdeen having been dismissed for gross misconduct was replaced by another with whose success in the instruction of his pupils we have reason to be satisfied. The teacher appointed to the school at Wong-nei-chong, which was opened during the year, is an elderly man, a native of the village, a schoolmaster by profession.\n\nThe Honourable Major Cane\n\nColonial Secretary:\n\nPage 133\n\n \n\nwas rewritten to \n\nSir,\n\nIn 6241/57\n\nVictoria, Hongkong.\n\n133\n\nThe 5th Dept. 1881-\n\nWe have the honour to reply to your letter of 10th April, 1887, by the following report on the Government Chinese Schools for the past year.\n\n2. The average number of scholars under instruction has been eighty-three, thirty at Victoria, eighteen at Stanley, twenty at Aberdeen, and twenty-five at Wong-nei-chong.\n\n3. The teacher at Aberdeen having been dismissed for gross misconduct was replaced by another with whose success in the instruction of his pupils we have reason to be satisfied. The teacher appointed to the school at Wong-nei-chong, which was opened during the year, is an elderly man, a native of the village, a schoolmaster by profession.\n\nThe Honourable Major Cane\nColonial Secretary:\n\nPage 133\n\nHowever, to follow the exact format required:\n\nSir,\n\nIn 6241/57\n\nVictoria, Hongkong.\n\n133\n\nThe 5th Dept. 1881-\n\nWe have the honour to reply to your letter of 10th April, 1887, by the following report on the Government Chinese Schools for the past year.\n\n2. The average number of scholars under instruction has been eighty-three, thirty at Victoria, eighteen at Stanley, twenty at Aberdeen, and twenty-five at Wong-nei-chong.\n\n3. The teacher at Aberdeen having been dismissed for gross misconduct was replaced by another with whose success in the instruction of his pupils we have reason to be satisfied. The teacher appointed to the school at Wong-nei-chong, which was opened during the year, is an elderly man, a native of the village, a schoolmaster by profession.\n\nThe Honourable Major Cane\nColonial Secretary:\n\nPage 133", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232732, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "content_text": "Proceedings of a Board of Survey held at the Colonial Treasury of Hongkong on this the first day of October, 1852.\n\nMembers\n\nThe Honorable Lieut: Colonel W. Caine, Colonial Secretary - The Honorable W. P. Mercer, Acting Colonial Treasurer - Charles George Cleverly, Esqre, Surveyor General -\n\nThe Board having ascertained the exact amount of coins existing in the Treasury, found the same to be as follows, viz:-\n\n \n In the Treasurer's Chest\n Rupees\n Cash\n Dollars\n Sterling Coins\n Total\n \n \n \n \n \n \n £. s. d.\n £.\n \n \n \n \n \n $\n \n \n \n \n In the Strong Vault\n 78\n 35,484\n 4821\n 43\n \n \n \n Total\n \n \n 84,752\n 14\n \n \n \n \n 13,264\n 172\n 31,267\n 794\n \n \n \n \n 38 56%\n 37,050\n 865 73\n 57\n \n \n \n \n 13,790\n 15\n 42\n 321 86\n \n \n \n \n 17\n 02\n \n \n \n \n\nAmounting to Thirty-two thousand one Hundred eighty-Six Pounds Seventeen Shillings half penny Sterling.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nW. Caine\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n(Signed) W. Caine\n\nW. H. Mercer\n\nChas: Geo: Cleverly", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234358, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "123\n\nimperative throughout Great Britain. Should effect be given to this recommendation, in the organization of such a force\n\nCome\n\ndifficulty may perhaps be experienced in finding, at short notice, a sufficient number of active officers, and it is under this impression that I venture to submit to your Lordship my name as a Candidate for Employment in this new force.\n\nI am at present in my thirty-fourth year, and hold the Ensign's Commission as Chief Magistrates of Police at Hong Kong and a member of the Legislative Council of this Colony, and my fixed and permanent Emoluments amount to one thousand pounds\n\na year. I have been a Magistrate of the Colony for about Eleven years, and Chief Magistrate for more than eight years, with the general supervision during\n\nthat period of a police force of from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and eighty men, Commanded by a Superintendent who was formerly an officer of the metropolitan police; and to three successive Governors of the Colony, to Sir Henry Pottinger, to Sir John Davis, and especially to Sir George Bonham, I believe I may confidently appeal for testimony that I have been up to the present time a faithful servant of the Crown. Little more than half of the Emoluments in England that I now receive here, say six hundred Pounds\n\nwould satisfy me.\n\nFor giving up prospects in China which from long service there and my knowledge of the language and people are likely to be better in many respects than they would be elsewhere, my principal reason is the ill health of my wife and eldest son, which has compelled...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234682, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "content_text": "139\n\nequally divided among the junior flag officers; commodores of the first class and captains of the fleet to share as flag officers: provided always that no flag officer, unless actually on board any of Our ships or vessels of war, and at the actual taking, sinking, burning or otherwise destroying any ship or ships of war, privateer or privateers, belonging to the enemy, shall share in the distribution of any head money or bounty money granted as a reward for taking, sinking, burning, or otherwise destroying any such ship or vessel of the enemy.\n\nThat no flag officer commanding in any port in the United Kingdom shall share in the proceeds of any prize captured from the enemy, by any ship or vessel which shall sail from or leave such port by order of the Lord High Admiral, or of our Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral.\n\nThat when ships or vessels under the command of several flag officers belonging to separate stations shall be joint captors, each flag officer shall receive a proportion of one-twentieth part, according to the number of officers and men present under the command of each such flag officer; and when any ship or vessel under orders from the Lord High Admiral, or from Our Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, are joint captors with other ships, or vessels under a flag or flags, the like regulations as to the apportionment of the flag share to the flag officer or officers is to be observed. With reference to flag officers, it is to be noted that when an inferior flag officer is sent to reinforce a superior officer on any station, the superior flag officer shall not share in any prize taken by the inferior flag officer before he has arrived within the limits of that station, unless the inferior officer shall have received some order directly from, and shall be acting in execution of some order issued by, such superior flag officer.\n\nNo chief flag officer quitting any station, except upon some definite urgent service, and with the intention of returning to the station as soon as such service is performed, shall share in any prize taken by Our ships or vessels left behind, after he has passed the limits of the station, or after he has surrendered the command to another flag officer appointed by the Admiralty to command in chief upon such station.\n\nAn inferior flag officer quitting any station (except when detached by orders from his commander-in-chief upon a special service, accompanied with orders to return to such station as soon as the service has been performed,) shall have no share in prizes taken by the ships and vessels remaining on the station, after he has passed the limits thereof. In like manner, flag officers remaining on such station shall not share in the prizes taken by such inferior officer, or by ships or vessels under his immediate command, after he has quitted the limits of the station, except he has been detached as aforesaid.\n\nA commander-in-chief or other flag officer belonging to any station shall not share in any prize taken out of the limits of that station by any ship or vessel under the command of a flag officer of any other station, or under orders from Our Commissioners of the Admiralty, unless such commander-in-chief or flag officer is expressly authorised by Our said Commissioners to take the command of that station in which the prize or prizes is or are taken, and shall actually have taken upon him such command.\n\nEvery commodore having a captain under him shall be esteemed a flag officer with respect to the twentieth part of prizes taken, whether he be commanding-in-chief or serving under command.\n\nThe first captain to the admiral and commander-in-chief of Our fleet, and also the first captain to any flag officer appointed to command a fleet of ten ships of the line or upwards, shall be deemed to be a flag officer for the purpose of sharing in prize, and shall be entitled to share therein as the junior flag officer of such fleet.\n\nAny officer on board any of Our ships of war at the time of capturing any prize or prizes, who shall have more commissions than one, shall be entitled only to share in such prize or prizes according to the share allotted to him by the above-mentioned distribution in respect to his superior commission or office.\n\nAnd with reference to other officers it is to be noted that a captain, commander, or other commanding officer of a ship or vessel, shall be deemed to be under the command of a flag, when he shall have received some order from, or be acting in the execution of some order issued by, a flag officer, whether he be, or be not within the limits of the station of such flag officer; and in the event of his being directed to join a flag officer on any station he shall be deemed to be under the command of such flag officer from the time when he arrives within the limits of the station, which circumstance is always to be carefully noted in the log book; and it shall be considered that he continues under the flag officer of such station, until he shall have received some order directly from or be acting in the execution of some order issued by some other flag officer, duly authorized, or by the Lord High Admiral, or Our Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral.\n\nAnd We hereby direct, that the captain, commander, lieutenant commanding, master commanding, or any other officer, duly commanding any ship, sloop or vessel of war, singly taken any prize from the enemy, that is to say, the officer actually in command at the time, shall have one eighth of remainder, or if there is no flag, one-eighth of the entire net proceeds, except that if the single capturing ship be a rated ship, having a commander under the captain, the commander shall take portion of the one-eighth part, as if he were commander of a sloop, according to the proportion hereinafter set forth; and if more than one commanding officer of the same rank of command shall be entitled to share as joint captors, the one-eighth shall be equally divided between them; but when captains, commanders, lieutenants commanding, and masters commanding respectively Our ships and vessels of war, and commanders under captains in rated ships shall share together in whatever variety of combination, the one-eighth shall be so divided into parts for a graduated apportionment as to provide for each captain receiving six parts; each commander of a sloop, or commander under a captain in a rated ship, three parts; and each lieutenant commanding, or master commanding, or other officer actually commanding a small vessel of war, two parts; which We hereby direct shall be the proportion in which they shall respectively share; commodores of the second class and field officers of marines, or of land forces serving as marines, doing duty as field officers, above the rank of major, to share as captains; and field officers of marines, or of land forces serving as marines, and doing duty in the rank of major, to share as commanders of sloops.\n\nAnd we further direct, that after provision shall thus have been made for the flag share (if any) and for the portion of the commanding officer or officers, and others, as above specified, the remainder of the net proceeds shall be distributed in ten classes, so that each officer, man, and boy, composing the rest of the complements of Our ships, sloops, and vessels of war, and actually on board at the time of any such capture, and every person present and assisting, shall receive shares or a share according to his class, as set forth in the following scale:\n\nFirst Class. Master of the fleet, inspector of steam machinery afloat, when embarked with a fleet, medical inspector, or deputy medical inspector, when embarked with a fleet, forty-five shares each.\n\nSecond Class. Senior lieutenants of a rated ship, not bearing a commander, under the captain, secretary to the admiral of the fleet or admiral commanding in chief: Thirty-five shares each.\n\nThird Class. Sea lieutenant, master, captain of marines, of marine artillery, or of land forces doing duty as marines, whether having higher brevet rank or not, secretary to an admiral, or to a commodore of the first class, not commanding in chief, chief engineer: Twenty-eight shares each.\n\nFourth Class. Lieutenant or quartermaster of marines, lieutenant of marine artillery, lieutenant, quartermaster, or ensign, of land forces doing duty as marines, secretary to a commodore of the second class, chaplain, surgeon, paymaster, naval instructor, mate, assistant-surgeon, second master, clerk in charge, passed clerk, assistant engineer, gunner, boatswain, carpenter: Eighteen shares each.\n\nFifth Class. Midshipman, master's assistant pilot, clerk (not passed), master-at-arms, chief gunner's mate, chief boatswain's mate, chief carpenter's mate, chief captain of the forecastle, admiral's coxswain, chief quartermaster, seaman's schoolmaster, ship's steward, ship's cook: Ten shares each.\n\nSixth Class. Naval cadets, clerk's assistant, captain's coxswain, ship's corporal, quartermaster, gunner's mate, boatswain's mate, captain of the forecastle, captain of the afterguard, captain of the hold, captain of the maintop, captain of the foretop, coxswain of the launch, sailmaker, ropemaker, caulker, leading stoker, blacksmith, serjeant of marines, of marine artillery, or of land forces doing duty as marines: Nine shares each.\n\nSeventh Class. Captain of the mast, captain of the mizentop, yeoman of the signals, coxswain of the barge, coxswain of the pinnace, coxswain of the cutter, second captain of the forecastle, second captain of the maintop, second captain of the foretop, second captain of the afterguard, sailmaker's mate, caulker's mate, musician, cooper, armourer, corporal of marines or of land forces doing duty as marines, bombardier of marine artillery, head krooman: Six shares each.\n\nEighth Class. Leading seamen, shipwright, second captain of the hold, able seaman, carpenter's crew, sailmaker's crew, cooper's crew, armourer's crew, yeoman of the store-rooms, steward's assistant, ordinary seaman, blacksmith's mate, private and fifer of marines, or of land forces doing duty as marines, gunner of marine artillery, painter, stoker, coal trimmer, second head krooman, sick berth attendant, bandsman, tailor, butcher: Three shares each.\n\nNinth Class. Cook's mate, ship's steward's boy, admiral's domestic, superintendent's domestic, admiral's steward and cook, captain's steward and cook, ward-room and gun-room steward and cook, subordinate officers' steward and cook, commander's servant, secretary's servant, second class ordinary seaman, assistant stoker, barber, boy of the first class, first and second class krooman, supernumeraries, except as hereinafter provided, persons borne merely as passengers, and not declining to render assistance on occasion of capture: Two shares each.\n\nTenth Class. Boy below first class: One share.\n\nAll supernumeraries holding ranks in the service above the ranks or ratings specified in the fifth class of this Our Proclamation, who have been ordered to do duty in any of our ships or vessels, by the Lord High Admiral, or by our Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, by the senior officer of the fleet or squadron, or if none senior, then by the captain or commanding officer of the capturing ship or vessel, if not by special authority employed in higher capacities, shall share according to the rank which they respectively hold in the service; but in all cases to qualify them for so sharing, and not merely as supernumeraries in the ninth class, due notation of their being thus respectively ordered to do duty must have been made on the muster books.\n\nAnd with respect to supernumeraries of ratings in the service, below the denominations of those specified in the fourth class of this Our Proclamation, and who at full victuals are engaged in the ordinary duties of the ship, it is Our will and pleasure that they shall always share according to the ratings which they bear in the service.\n\nAnd, in order that Our Royal intentions herein may be duly carried into effect, We further direct that when any capture is made from the enemy, the captains or commanding officers of Our ships or vessels of war making the same shall transmit, or cause to be transmitted, as soon as may be, to the Secretary to the Admiralty, a true and perfect list of all the officers, seamen, and marines, soldiers and others, who were actually on board on the occasion, accompanied by a separate list, containing the names of those belonging to the crew who were absent on duty or otherwise at the time, specifying the cause of such absence, each list to contain the quality of the service of each person, together with the respective descriptions of men, taken from the description book of the ship or vessel, and their several ratings, to be subscribed by the captain or commanding officer, and three or four more of the chief officers on board.\n\nAnd when the list of those actually on board, and the separate list of persons absent, though belonging to the ship or vessel, shall have been verified, on examination with the muster books lodged as official records, the Accountant-General of Our Navy shall, upon request, grant to the agent or\n\n1\n\n140\n\n \n91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241934, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 360, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "No. 82.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n[MAY 23, 1857.\n\nMAY 23, 1857.]\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nIt is hereby notified that, on and after Monday, the 25th instant, the Garrison Gun will be fired at 8 o'clock P.M.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. BRIDGES,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d May, 1857.\n\nNo. 83,\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nBy His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.\n\nWhereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN have been received through The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, disallowing Ordinance No. 15 of 1856, entitled—\n\n\"An Ordinance for amending the Law of Evidence and Trial by Jury\"; -\n\nNotice is hereby given of the same, and the provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid are declared to be null and void, and of no effect.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 23d Day of May, 1857.\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nNo. 78.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that a Sale by Public Auction of Crown Lands at Aberdeen, for the Construction of Docks, will be held at the Surveyor General's Office on Monday, the First day of June next; the sale to commence at Three o'clock in the Afternoon.\n\nAfter which, one Lot on the Queen's Road, near the Old Protestant Burial Ground, will be sold on the ground. Plans of the Lots to be sold and the Conditions of Sale, which, with regard to the Docks are very special, may be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office.\n\nThe following Descriptive Statement of the Lots to be offered at the sale is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th May, 1857.\n\nSchedule of Lots of Land proposed to be Sold.\n\n \n ORDER OF SALE\n LOCALITY\n BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS\n CONTENT IN SQUARE FEET\n FIXED ANNUAL RENT\n \n \n 1 (For Docks)\n Marine, ABERDEEN\n N. 600, S. 600, E. 840, W. 840\n 1 1/4 Acres\n £100\n \n \n 2 (id)\n Marine, ABERDEEN\n N. 600, S. 600, E. 840, W. 840\n 1 1/4\n \n \n \n 9\n Inland, VICTORIA, Queen's Road East\n N. 40, S. 40, E. 100, W. 100\n 4,000\n £0 0 100 0\n \n\nTaos. L. WALKER, Acting Surveyor General\n\nPUBLIC SALE\n\nANE, CRAWFORD & Co, have been instructed by the Administrator to the Estate of the late N. CROSBY, Jr., to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,--\n\nThe whole of the STOCK-IN-TRADE appertaining to the SHIPCHANDLERY business of the deceased, consisting of an Extensive assortment of Russian and Manila Ropa, Flax and Cotton SAILCLOTH and TWINE, BLOCKS, NAILS, TAR, PITCH, PAINTS, OIL, TURPENTINE, BUNTING, BEEF, PORK, BRANDY, WINE VINEGAR FLOUR, CANDLES, SOAP, and a great variety of other valuable Goods.\n\nAfterwards,\n\nThe HOUSEHOLD and COUNTING-HOUSE FURNITURE, viz., Dining, Toilet, and Side TABLES, COUCHES, CHAIRS, BEDSTEADS, WARDROBES, PICTURES, CURTAINS, &c., complete KITCHEN RANGE, & very large patent iron TREASURE-CHEST, DESKS, TABLES, COUNTERS, &c., &c., &c.\n\nAnd,\n\n1 WATER-BOAT, with FORCE-PUMP, SAILS, and FITTINGS.\n\nThe Goods will be put up in Lots to suit Purchasers.\n\nAlso,\n\nby order of the Mortgagee, will be sold,-All that PIECE or PARCEL of GROUND, situate, lying, and being in Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, abutting on the North side thereof on the Sea at high-water mark, and measuring thereon SEVENTY-THREE feet on the South side thereof, on the Queen's Road, and measuring thereon EIGHTY feet; on the East side thereof, on a close registered in the Land Office, at Victoria aforesaid, as Marine Lot number Seven, in the name of George Thomas Braine, and measuring thereon ONE HUNDRED AND TEN FEET; and on the West side thereof, on a close registered in the said Land Office, as Marine Lot number Sixty-two, in the name of Douglas Lapraik, and measuring thereon ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN FEET,-which said Piece or Parcel of Ground contains in the whole 8,855 SQUARE FEET and is registered in the Land Office as MARINE LOT NUMBER SIXTY-SIX-YEARLY RENT £68,13,2,—with the MESSUAGES, DWELLING-HOUSES, and BUILDINGS thereon erected.\n\nFor Particulars, apply to G. C. TURNER, Esq., or the Auctioneers.\n\nThe sale of the Ground and Landed Property will take place on Mr Caosay's premises, on MONDAY, the 1st day of June, 1857, at Noon precisely; and that of the Stock-in-Trade and Household Furniture on FRIDAY, the 5th day of June, 1857, commencing at 11 o'clock a.m.-it being understood, that the Transfer of the former need not be effected sooner than the 12th June, thus affording sufficient time for the delivery of the Goods.\n\nTERMS OF SALE.—One-third the Purchase-money to be paid, if required, on the fall of the Hammer; and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer. The GROUND RENT, from the 25th December, 1856, to be paid by the Purchaser.\n\nHongkong, 21st May, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Firm of BUYERS & Co., SHIPWRIGHTS, will cease to exist from this date; and the Business will in future be carried on by the undersigned in his own name.\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1857.\n\nJ. C. COWPER.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.\n\nIn the Estate of NATHANIEL CROSBY, J. Esquire, late of the Queen's Road, Victoria, Ship-chandler, deceased,\n\nNOTICE is hereby given, that Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects of the above named have been granted to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK, of Victoria aforesaid, Merchant; and that all persons having any Claims to the said Estate, or who are indebted, are requested to send in and pay the same to the said DOUGLAS LAPRAIK,\n\n4. COOPER TURNER, Proctor for the Administrator,\n\nDated 13th March, 1857.\n\nIn re DAVID SIMEON, deceased,\n\nNOTICE,-All Claims against the above Estate, must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR before the 13th day of November, A.D. 1857, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.\n\nAll persons indebted to the said Estate are requested to make immediate Payment to-\n\nNORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Official Administrator,\n\nPENINSULAR & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steam-ship “NORNA,” Capt. ROGERS, with Her Majesty's \"Mails, Passenger, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 25th May, at 2 P.M. CARGO will be received on board until Noon on the 23d; SPECIE until Noon on the 24th; and PARCELS until 4 P.M. on the 24th.\n\nFor Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.\n\nCONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED,\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels ; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.\n\nROBT. S. WALKER,\n\nSuperintendent.\n\nPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,\n\nHongkong, 12th May, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr HENRY DAVIS in our Firm, ceased by his death on the 22d Instant.\n\nDAVIS & LAWRENCE. Hongkong, 28th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our Firm.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\n355\n\nIn the Estate of TSOO-A-TUCK, of Victoria, Carpenter, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith,\n\nTSOO-A-TUCK, Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 18th February, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of CHARLES MARKWICK, late Auctioneer, of Victoria, deceased.\n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned. All Claims against the Estate must be sent in before the 1st day of October, 1857, and all parties indebted are requested to make immediate payment to\n\nG. DUDDELL, D. LAPRAIK,\n\nExecutors.\n\nHongkong, 11th April, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of GEORGE DOWMAN, Master Mariner, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned without delay.\n\nH. MAGNIAC,\n\nM. A. MACLEOD, Administrators.\n\nHongkong, 24th March, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith.\n\nHENRY RUTTER, Administrator,\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nIn Equity,\n\nMURROW, STEPHENSON.\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED,—that all monies now or henceforth to become payable to the late firm of MURROW, STEPHENSON AND COMPANY, be paid to JOSEPH FROST EDGER, Esq., (or his Deputy, he having been lawfully appointed Receiver in the said suit, by virtue of an Order of this Honourable Court; the receipts of the said JOSEPH FROST EDGER being alone good discharges for such monies.\n\nDated the 13th day of November, 1856.\n\nGASKELL & BROWN. Complainant's Solicitors,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, CHEONG ALLUM, late of the ESSING Shop, Victoria, Hongkong, are requested to forward particulars to Mr E. K. STACE, Solicitor, &c., Queen's Road.\n\nCHEONG ALLUM.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, March, 1857.\n\n亞霖謹啟\n\n店昇裕\n\n查明〇丁\n\n十七日張\n\n已 年二月\n\n士新\n\n爹機客\n\n月丁便時單數\n\nFOR SALE\n\nAt the Office of the “ China Mail.\"\n\n張亞霖欠\n\nForms of POWERS OF ATTORNEY, BILLS OF EXCHANGE, BILLS OF LADING, SHIPPING ORDERS, COMPRADOR'S CHECK BOOKS, SHIPPING ARTICLES, and the newest form of SHIP'S BILL OF SALE.\n\nBLANEY, WILLS, CHARTERPARTIES,\n\nAlso,\n\nSAILING DIRECTIONS for the RIVER MIN ;\n\nAnd,\n\nA Table, shewing the COST OF TEA, with all CHARGES-Tea, as bought by the Picul, and sold by the Pound Avoirdupois.\n\n19th March, 1857.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.— PRICE, $12 per Annum. $1 Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS, -Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents; half of these charges for each Repetition.\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243705, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 2.\n\nGadis with Frina, lai becomes two stain potent the centres of all commercial & transactions with that tree wbray and the Entrepot of Cammeroz between sit and the pest of the Wer lot. - Hark\n\n2. This tack specially in moros the belonial Expenditure in the mainknances of severals Apartments in the Government of Hongkong without materially adding to the Revenue of Island devoid of Financat beyond the Mentals of Heston re£ 4)\n\nSo Crown: Lands, and some local s and special tas unconnected, meth God).\n\n### 3.\n\n40\n\n3. The Revenue for 1858 has been estimated as likely to amount to Forty-nine Thousand five hundred and eighty fine pounds, whereas the Expenditures cannot be calculated at less than Thirty-two Thousand six hundred pounds and refowards as set forth in the Estimates, thereby shewing a deficiency of receipts compared with Expenditure of fully Thirteen thousand pounds which it appears impracticable, in the opinion of this Councils, to remedy by increase of Local Taxation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "Duke of Newcastle, that They see no objection to the Appropriation of the sum required for \n\nsix hundred and \n\ntheir works, viz.: \n\nsix hundred and thirty-three pounds, fourteen shillings and two pence, for building the Chapel, and eight hundred and eighty-seven pounds, eight shillings and six pence, for the Construction of the Road, according to the \n\nEstimates submitted_. \n\nAm \n\nYour \n\nNo Merivale \n\nAppren \n\nthis \n\nexpenditure \n\nAunst \n\n7.9.19 Jan \n\nStm Jan 19 \n\nSir, \n\nObedient servant, \n\nLes Allemultion \n\nEntered \n\ndreas? \n\n593 \n\nGovernor Sir H. Robinson \n\nMINUTE \n\n1860 JAN! \n\n£683-16-2 J. J. Pennell 2. \n\n£887-8-6 \n\nElliot M.Merivale Y VC Fortescue \n\nWhi. \n\n22. \n\nSor \n\nHory Thong \n\n• D.S. \n\n224 \n\n20 January 1860 \n\nHaving referred \n\nyour despatches Nos.20 \n\n7th & 10th Jan \n\n£ 30, to the Lords Committee of the Treasury I have to acquaint you \n\nthat their Lordships have been pleased to sanction \n\nThe expenditure incurred for the works mentioned therein viz. £ 683-14-2 for building a \n\na new \n\nChapel in the cemetery at the Wongneichung \n\nValley", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253329, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "## SIH, \n\nReferences. \n\nCopy of the letter of H. M. Consul Canton, relative to the Claim on the Chinese Government. \n\n**British Consulate, Canton, 24th December, 1861.**\n\nRegarding your claim for Indemnity respecting which you spoke to me, I have to acquaint you that it is entered on the records as follows:- \n\n| Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cessation of Trade, Loss of Charter employment for postal Steamers | $62,604 |\n| Steamer \"Thistle\" burnt by Mandarins, Lorcha \"Anonyma\" destroyed | $30,000 |\n| | $4,000 |\n| Total | $96,604 |\n\nThis Claim is still before His Excellency Her Majesty's Minister in China and I am without instruction regarding it.\n\nY. J. MURROW Esq.\n\nI am, Sir, \nYour Obedient Servant, \nD. B. ROBERTSON.\n\n## Mode adopted by the late Administration of Hongkong, to deceive H. M. Government.\n\n[No. 11 of the appendices to the Official Minutes of Enquiry into the Civil service abuses.]\n\nCharges made by the undersigned against the late administration of Hongkong, in having misrepresented, distorted, and suppressed facts from the Home Government with the view of shielding Mr. Caldwell from the accusations brought against him—as from the Correspondence which has been published by Order of the House of Commons, March 1860.\n\nFirst. That whereas Sir John Bowring in a letter dated 4th June, 1858, addressed to Lord Stanley, represented Dr. Bridges as being a fit and proper person to be Acting Colonial Secretary, although Sir John had spoken very disparagingly of Dr. Bridges to Mr. Anstey, the late Attorney General, (vide his evidence, Caldwell Enquiry page 66), which statement Sir John corroborates in his despatch to Sir E. Lytton of 9th August, par. 63. I submit it to be clear from this that Sir John chose Dr. Bridges as a foil to Mr. Anstey, and that he is responsible for their animosity from first to last. If the character which Sir John gave of Dr. Bridges be correct, I submit the fact of Dr. B. being made Mr. Anstey's superior officer goes far to palliate the violence of the latter. It will be seen, that Sir John was induced to employ Dr. Bridges at the strong recommendation of Mr. Mercer, and as the intimacy between Dr. Bridges and Mr. Mercer has notoriously continued to this day, I submit the latter gentleman should not sit on this inquiry. Again in Sir John's letter to Lord Stanley of 4th June, 1858, he enclosed a letter from Dr. Bridges to His Lordship stating that he (Dr. Bridges) was a man who \"never cared much for money,\" which is a notorious untruth of which Sir John was well aware.\n\nSecond-In Sir John Bowring's letter to Sir E. Lytton of 9th August, 1858, he makes use of the following expression [par. 50] \"A few days afterwards further light being unexpectedly thrown upon Mah-chow Wong's connexion with pirates from an entirely different source, the Executive Council resolved not to interfere with the sentence passed upon him.\" This refers to the paper found on `Beaver` which is designedly suppressed for two very plain reasons. First.--as Mr. May, in his evidence before the Caldwell Commission, stated that among the papers seized in Mah-chow Wang's shop, were some receipts for wages paid this very pirate `Beaver` in Mr. Caldwell's handwriting (a fact admitted by Mr. Caldwell himself) the production of the paper alluded to would have exhibited to H. M. Government Mr. Caldwell's connexion with a second professed pirate. And Secondly. The paper found on `Beaver` would have exposed the principles on which Mah-chow Wong acted in giving Mr. Caldwell such information as led to the employment of British men-of-war.\n\nThird-In the same letter of 9th August, 1858, to Sir E. Lytton, Sir John Bowring states, [par. 88] that Dr. Bridges had not benefited by Mr. Anstey's dismissal inasmuch as Mr. Day had been appointed to the vacancy—the truth being that Dr. Bridges had benefited thereby, having been appointed legal adviser to the Superintendency.\n\nFourth. In the same letter to Sir E. Lytton, [par. 66] Sir John Bowring affirms that the Caldwell Commission had acquitted Mr. Caldwell, of all the charges brought against him except one act not amounting to more than indiscretion—which is an unfair and an untrue deduction on the face of it—particularly when Sir John Bowring must have known that the Chairman of that Commission subsequently stated on oath that had he, when he gave the casting vote, known what he then knew, such casting vote would have been for the severe finding—and even more particularly still after Sir John certainly knew that five Justices had declared Mr. Caldwell unfit to sit upon the bench.\n\nFifth. In paragraph 71 of the same letter, Sir John Bowring avers that he gave the Caldwell Commission a carte blanche to publish what they liked without limit, and that Mr. Anstey does not even pretend to blame the Government for the omission of the appendices. The truth being that Mr. Anstey did very much blame the Government for such omission, and it was the Government which prevented the said appendices from being published, albeit the Commission were anxious for the publication.\n\nSixth. In the same letter, [par. 49,] Sir John Bowring, palpably to traduce the character of a man who was inimical to Mah-chow Wong and Mr. Caldwell, stigmatizes Tong-Akai as being a man of more than suspected character. Whereas the truth is that Tong-Akai was and is a man of remarkably good character, as can be discovered on the testimony of those officers under whom he has served, say, Messrs. Hillier, Lay, Davies, Mitchell, May, and Collins.\n\nThe statement here made as to the evidence of the Chairman of the Caldwell Committee is an error.\n\nSeventh. In the enclosure No. 3, to the above-named letter page 63, it is stated that the Chief Justice reported that he would have been better pleased had the verdict against Mah-chow Wong been the other way—the truth being that the Chief Justice had refused to recommend that the verdict should be disturbed, had passed a very severe sentence, and had stated from the bench that all he had ever said was that the evidence might have been stronger.\n\nEighth. That in enclosure No. 4, to the letter, page 64, it is stated that Mah-chow Wong's papers were seized after Mr. May had written his letter of 20th July, 1857, whereas they were seized before then, and were actually referred to in that letter as having been examined and found to implicate Mr. Caldwell.\n\nNinth. In transmitting the copy of Mr. May's letter of 20th July, 1857, the marginal notes Dr. Bridges made for the purpose of misleading the Governor, are omitted.\n\nTenth.—In Sir John Bowring's letter to Lord Stanley of 9th August, 1858, in para 7 and 9, Mr. Anstey's quarrelsome propensities are dilated upon. He is stated to have quarrelled with Mr. Bevan, the Judge's Clerk whose character is upheld. In an enclosure to be found at page 8, to Sir John's letter to Lord Stanley of 4th June, 1858, this same Mr. Bevan's name is used for quite another purpose, namely, as the ostensible editor of a newspaper always in scurrilous opposition to Government, and as being a discharged servant of The such Government. The latter letter it will be observed is dated two months previously to the former. `Hongkong Register`, the paper referred to, is the only one in this Colony that has escaped a prosecution for libel.\n\nEleventh—The false malicious defamatory manner Mr. May is persistently maligned throughout the whole of the Correspondence. The object of this is clearly to throw discredit on Mr. May's evidence, for certainly had H. M. Government been properly advised of Mr. May's real character his evidence against Mr. Caldwell would have had great weight. I am the oldest European resident in the South of China, and for the greater part of the period I have had upwards of one hundred Chinese constantly in my employ. Even now I have between thirty or forty—I say not one single foreigner here has been so intimately associated with the Chinese as I have been, and I will declare I never heard a charge whispered against Mr. May that touched his honor and integrity. I will further declare that I never knew a man in my life who so strictly adhered to the letter of the truth as Mr. May. I am not singular in my opinion. The two public officers who stand prominently forward in the service of this Colony during the late scandals, as high-minded, high-principled, are Messrs. W. F. Green, and H. Tudor Davies.\n\nIn the Blue Book, Mr. Green declares Mr. May's veracity to be unimpeachable, and Mr. Davies in a private letter I have from him dated 16th ultimo, thus writes: \"There is another man to whom few of you do justice. That is May. I don't believe that anything would induce May to give a Magisterial decision that he didn't think 'just' and I can assure you that is great praise in such a place as Hongkong.\" I submit that Messrs. Green and Davies being both barristers, and being placed in positions where they had peculiar opportunities of forming a correct judgement of Mr. May, their opinions are entitled to great respect. Besides the idea of Mr. May being jealous of Mr. Caldwell is supremely ridiculous. Certainly I have always thought that Mr. May's faults have consisted in his attachment to ease and routine, and I think my idea cannot be more forcibly illustrated than by the forbearance he displayed in charging Mr. Caldwell with complicity with Mah-chow Wong. I will divide this portion of my charge against the Government under separate heads.\n\n1st—With having repeatedly denied, that it had ever been hinted or insinuated that the papers found whereas Mr. May in a letter he addressed to Dr. Bridges as Acting Colonial Secretary on 20th July 1857, distinctly stated that he had seized the papers and that they did contain proofs of Mr. Caldwell having a direct interest in Mah-chow Wong's business.\n\nIn the same regard, it is stated repeatedly, that Mah-chow Wong's pardon being refused, the papers had no more value, and so the burning is justified, whereas many months before the burning, the production of Mr. May's memorandum of their contents had been read in the Executive Council, where their production caused a great sensation.\n\nIn page 47, para. 50, Sir John names as a charge against Mr. May that when he surrendered these Memo: to the Council, he said not one word about their implicating Mr. Caldwell. As the Council could see for themselves, this was clearly an act of forbearance on Mr. May's part.\n\n(la.) At page 42, Mr. May is accused of owning a nest of brothels which he very unwillingly got rid of after considerable pressure from Government. To my knowledge, this is the very reverse of the fact. I was well aware of the circumstances of the case at the time, which I will relate if required.\n\n2nd. There are several of Mr. May's letters suppressed. Their production will test the animus which dictated their suppression. For instance, at page 42, para 22, Sir John states that he more than once reprimanded Mr. May. I can find no such reprimands, and I am sure from the malevolence indulged in that had Mr. May laid himself open to censure in the manner inferred, he would have been suspended. Again letters are referred to by Mr. May, page 246, which I cannot find. I therefore infer that he was either never reprimanded at all, or if he were, he fully met the charges.\n\n3rd.—At page 43, para, 23, it is stated in order to prove partisanship between Mr. May and Mr. Anstey, that the latter defended the former when he was obviously wrong. If so it is strange. I never heard of it. The two were by no means on intimate terms.\n\n4th—At page 63, Mr. May is charged with having taken the Memo of Mah-chow Wong's papers, for the benefit of the Press. This is totally untrue. He simply foiled Dr. Bridges in obtaining a pardon for Mah-chow Wong by telling the Editor of the `China Mail` what the tenor of the Memo: was some months after they had been taken.\n\n5th—I must premise this charge by stating my conviction that no man cognisant of the two cases on which Mah-chow Wong was committed for trial, can possibly entertain any doubt about his guilt. In the case on which he was convicted, Mr. Day defended him. We find from the Blue Book that the morning after the conviction Mr. Day and Mr. Caldwell called upon the Governor and solicited a pardon. The Governor suggested that the application should be made by petition to the Executive Council. A petition was got up accordingly, to which the Chinese attached their names in terrorem. Then we find that this petition would have been successful, notwithstanding the production of Mr. May's Memo: but for the discovery of the `Beaver` paper. Then we find Mr. Day employed by the Caldwell Commission as their legal adviser. Sir John Bowring is very particular in advising Sir E. Lytton that the Commission employed Mr. Day, not the Government. [Simultaneously with the application of the Commission for Mr. Day's services, came an application from Mr. Caldwell. Mr. Caldwell did not employ another lawyer when he found Mr. Day re-engaged.] Mr. Day attempted to control the Commission by confining them to legal evidence—they disregarded his advice and it is painfully clear that Mr. Day himself says, he would have retired but for his duty to the Government.\n\nMr. Day acted as a strong partisan of Dr. Bridges and Mr. Caldwell throughout. The Commission over, Dr. Bridges applied officially to Mr. Day for his opinion on the report of the Commission, which Mr. Day gave quite forgetful of his duty to his clients the Commission, and of course without their knowledge. The opinion was entirely in Mr. Caldwell's favor—it was the reverse of complimentary to the Commission, and was most defamatory of Mr. May. Then Mr. Anstey was suspended on charges concocted by Dr. Bridges in the Executive Council, and Mr. Day was made Acting Attorney General, Dr. Bridges being apportioned the Superintendency. Then Mr. May is called on for an explanation of his conduct, to which he duly responds. The response is submitted to Mr. Day the Acting Attorney General, (who had already grossly maligned Mr. May in the opinion upon the Report of the Caldwell Commission), and the result is a most outrageous stricture on Mr. May, which Dr. Bridges of course endorses. Then Mr. Day dying, Mr. Green is made Acting Attorney General. The Governor, apparently unwilling to commit the atrocity of suspending Mr. May, which was ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254171, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "page_number": 277, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "## 274\n\nWith respect to depots under my charge there are two - one at Otan opposite Double Island and called the Otan Depot, the land for which was bought by Mr I. G. Austin and a house erected thereon. The other is at Tat Year Pow distant from Otave about 5 miles and is rented at the rate of ninety dollars per annum, payable half yearly in advance. The last half year was paid on July and the lease expires 31 December.\n\nWith regard to there are some attached to the Swatow Agency.\n\nReceiving Ships.\n\nThe land for the Otun Depôt was bought by Mr I. G. Austin or lain by Mr Cooper and contains in all 1 acre 10 woods 3033 poles, the cost of which was Twelve hundred and eighty dollars ($1280). There has been expended - £266. 13\" 4 in laying out grounds and Eighteen Cents ($11.00) making £268 19\" 2, a total of Twelve hundred and ninety one dollars and Eighteen cents ($1891.68) spent on land.\n\nThe Cost of erection of house and depot amounted to Four Thousand Two Hundred and Seventy dollars and Thirty cents ($4270.30) and there has been expended on them subsequent repairs ninety nine dollars and Eighty cents ($99.80) making ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255518, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "page_number": 230, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "## SIB, Copy \n\n**References** of the letter of \"H. M. Consul Canton, relative to the Claim on the Chinese Government.\n\n**British Consulate, Canton, 24th December, 1861.**\n\nRegarding your claim for Indemnity respecting which you spoke to me, I have to acquaint you that it is entered on the records as follows:- \n\nCessation of Trade, Loss of Charter employment for postal Steamers, $62,604. Steamer \"Thistle\" burnt by Mandarins, Lorcha \"Anonyma\" destroyed, $30,000. $4,000. $96,604.\n\nThis Claim is still before His Excellency Her Majesty's Minister in China and I am without instruction regarding it.\n\nY. J. MURROW Esq.\n\nI am, Sir, \nYour Obedient Servant, \nD. B. ROBERTSON.\n\n**Mods adopted by the late Administration of Hongkong, to deceive H. M. Government.**\n\n[No. 11 of the appendices to the Official Minutes of Enquiry into the Civil service abuses.] Charges made by the undersigned against the late administration of Hongkong, in having misrepresented, distorted, and suppressed facts from the Home Government with the view of shielding Mr. Caldwell from the accusations brought against him—as from the Correspondence which has been published by Order of the House of Commons, March 1860.\n\nFirst. That whereas Sir John Bowring in a letter dated 4th June, 1858, addressed to Lord Stanley, represented Dr. Bridges as being a fit and proper person to be Acting Colonial Secretary, although Sir John had spoken very disparagingly of Dr. Bridges to Mr. Anstey, the late Attorney General, (vide his evidence, Caldwell Enquiry page 66), which statement Sir John corroborates in his despatch to Sir E. Lytton of 9th August, par. 63. I submit it to be clear from this that Sir John chose Dr. Bridges as a foil to Mr. Anstey, and that he is responsible for their animosity from first to last. If the character which Sir John gave of Dr. Bridges be correct, I submit the fact of Dr. B. being made Mr. Anstey's superior officer goes far to palliate the violence of the latter. It will be seen that Sir John was induced to employ Dr. Bridges at the strong recommendation of Mr. Mercer, and as the intimacy between Dr. Bridges and Mr. Mercer has notoriously continued to this day, I submit the latter gentleman should not sit on this inquiry. Again in Sir John's letter to Lord Stanley of 4th June, 1858, he enclosed a letter from Dr. Bridges to His Lordship stating that he (Dr. Bridges) was a man who \"never cared much for money,\" which is a notorious untruth of which Sir John was well aware.\n\nSecond-In Sir John Bowring's letter to Sir E. Lytton of 9th August, 1858, he makes use of the following expression [par. 50] \"A few days afterwards further light being unexpectedly thrown upon 'Mah-chow Wong's connexion with pirates from an entirely different source, the Executive Council 'resolved not to interfere with the sentence passed upon him.\" This refers to the paper found on Beaver which is designedly suppressed for two very plain reasons. First As Mr. May, in his evidence before The Caldwell Commission, stated that among the papers seized in Mah-chow Wong's shop, were receipts for wages paid this very pirate Beaver in Mr. Caldwell's hand writing (a fact admitted by Mr. Caldwell himself,) the production of the paper alluded to would have exhibited to H.M. Government Mr. Caldwell's connexion with a second professed pirate. And Secondly. The paper found on Beaver would have exposed the principles on which Mah-chow Wong acted in giving Mr. Caldwell such information as led to the employment of British men-of-war.\n\nThird-In the same letter of 9th August, 1858, to Sir E. Lytton, Sir John Bowring states, [par. 88] that Dr. Bridges had not benefited by Mr. Anstey's dismissal inasmuch as Mr. Day had been appointed to the vacancy the truth being that Dr. Bridges had benefited thereby, having been appointed legal adviser to the Superintendency.\n\nFourth-In the same letter to Sir E. Lytton, [par. 66] Sir John Bowring affirms that the Caldwell Commission had acquitted Mr. Caldwell, of all the charges brought against him except one act not amounting to more than indiscretion—which is an unfair and an untrue deduction on the face of it—particularly when Sir John Bowring must have known that the Chairman of that Commission subsequently stated on oath that had he, when he gave the casting vote, known what he then knew, such casting vote would have been for the severe finding and even more particularly still after Sir John certainly knew that five Justices had declared Mr. Caldwell unfit to sit upon the bench.\n\nFifth-In paragraph 71 of the same letter, Sir John Bowring avers that he gave the Caldwell Commission a carte blanche to publish what they liked without limit, and that Mr. Anstey does not even pretend to blame the Government for the omission of the appendices. The truth being that Mr. Anstey did very much blame the Government for such omission, and it was the Government which prevented the said appendices from being published, albeit the Commission were anxious for the publication.\n\nSixth. In the same letter, (par. 49,) Sir John Bowring, palpably to traduce the character of a man who was inimical to Mah-chow Wong and Mr. Caldwell, stigmatizes Tong-Akui as being a man of more than suspected character—Whereas the truth is that Tong Akai was and is a man of remarkably good character, as can be discovered on the testimony of those officers under whom he has served, say, Messrs. Hillier, Lay, Davies, Mitchell, May, and Collins.\n\nThe statement here made as to the evidence of the Chairman of the Caldwell Committee is an error.\n\nSeventh. In the enclosure No. 3, to the above-named letter page 63, it is stated that the Chief Justice reported that he would have been better pleased had the verdict against Mah-chow Wong been the other way—the truth being that the Chief Justice had refused to recommend that the verdict should be disturbed, had passed a very severe sentence, and had stated from the bench that all he had ever said was that the evidence might have been stronger.\n\nEighth. That in enclosure No. 4, to the letter, page 64, it is stated that Mah-chow Wong's papers were seized after Mr. May had written his letter of 20th July, 1857, whereas they were seized before then, and were actually referred to in that letter as having been examined and found to implicate Mr. Caldwell.\n\nNinth. In transmitting the copy of Mr. May's letter of 20th July, 1857, the marginal notes which Bridges made for the purpose of misleading the Governor, are omitted.\n\nPage 228\n\nThe Tenth.—In Sir John Bowring's letter to Lord Stanley of 9th August, 1858, in para 7 and 9, Mr. Anstey's quarrelsome propensities are dilated upon. He is stated to have quarrelled with Mr. Bevan, the Judge's Clerk whose character is upheld. In an enclosure to be found at page 8, to Sir John's letter to Lord Stanley of 4th June, 1858, this same Mr. Bevan's name is used for quite another purpose, namely, as the ostensible editor of a newspaper always in scurrilous opposition to Government, and as being a discharged servant of such Government. The latter letter it will be observed is dated two months previously to the former Hongkong Register, the paper referred to, is the only one in this Colony that has escaped a prosecution for libel.\n\nEleventh. The false malicious defamatory manner Mr. May is persistently maligned throughout the whole of the Correspondence. The object of this is clearly to throw discredit on Mr. May's evidence, for certainly had H.M. Government been properly advised of Mr. May's real character his evidence against Mr. Caldwell would have had great weight. I am the oldest European resident in the South of China, and for the greater part of the period I have had upwards of one hundred Chinese constantly in my employ. Even now I have between thirty or forty—I say not one single foreigner here has been so intimately associated with the Chinese as I have been, and I will declare I never heard a charge whispered against Mr. May that touched his honor and integrity. I will further declare that I never knew a man in my life who so strictly adhered to the letter of the truth as Mr. May. I am not singular in my opinion. The two public officers who stand prominently forward in the service of this Colony during the late scandals, as high-minded, high-principled, and above all reproach, are Messrs. W. F. Green, and H. Tudor Davies. Mr. Green in a letter which appears in the Blue Book declares Mr. May's veracity to be unimpeachable, and Mr. Davies in a private letter I have from him dated 16th ultimo, thus writes:-There is another man to whom few of you do justice. That is May. I don't believe that anything would induce May to give a Magisterial decision that he didn't think \"just and I can assure you that is great praise in such a place as Hongkong.\" I submit that Messrs. Green and Davies being both barristers, and being placed in positions where they had peculiar opportunities of forming a correct judgement of Mr. May, their opinions are entitled to great respect. Besides the idea of Mr. May being jealous of Mr. Caldwell is supremely ridiculous. Certainly I have always thought that Mr. May's faults have consisted in his attachment to ease and routine, and I think my idea cannot be more forcibly illustrated than by the forbearance he displayed in charging Mr. Caldwell with complicity with Mah-chow Wong.\n\nI will divide this portion of my charge against the Government under separate heads.\n\n1st. With having repeatedly denied, that it had ever been hinted or insinuated that the papers found in Mah-chow Wong's shop implicated Mr. Caldwell in the most remote manner. Whereas Mr. May in a letter he addressed to Dr. Bridges as Acting Colonial Secretary on 20th July 1857, distinctly stated that he had seized the papers and that they did contain proofs of Mr. Caldwell having a direct interest in Mah-chow Wong's business.\n\nIn the same regard it is stated repeatedly, that Mah-chow Wong's pardon being refused, the papers had no more value, and so the burning is justified, whereas many months before the burning, the production of Mr. May's memorandum of their contents had been read in the Executive Council, where their production caused a great sensation.\n\nIn page 47, para. 50, Sir John names as a charge against Mr. May that when he surrendered these Memo to the Council, he said not one word about their implicating Mr. Caldwell. As the Council could see for themselves, this was clearly an act of forbearance on Mr. May's part.\n\n(14.) At page 42, Mr. May is accused of owning a nest of brothels which he very unwillingly got rid of after considerable pressure from Government. To my knowledge this is the very reverse of the fact. I was well aware of the circumstances of the case at the time, which I will relate if required.\n\n2nd. There are several of Mr. May's letters suppressed. Their production will test the animus which dictated their suppression. For instance, at page 42, para 22, Sir John states that he more than once reprimanded Mr. May. I can find no such reprimands, and I am sure from the malevolence indulged in that had Mr. May laid himself open to censure in the manner inferred, he would have been suspended. Again letters are referred to by Mr. May, page 246, which I cannot find. I therefore infer that he was either never reprimanded at all, or if he were, he fully met the charges.\n\n3rd.—At page 43, para, 23, it is stated in order to prove partisanship between Mr. May and Mr. Anstey, that the latter defended the former when he was obviously wrong. If so it is strange. I never heard of it. The two were by no means on intimate terms.\n\n4th. At page 63, Mr. May is charged with having taken the Memo of Mah-chow Wong's papers, for the benefit of the Press. This is totally untrue. He simply foiled Dr. Bridges in obtaining a pardon for Mah-chow Wong by telling the Editor of the China Mail what the tenor of the Memo was some months after they had been taken.\n\n5th. I must premise this charge by stating my conviction that no man cognisant of the two cases on which Mah-chow Wong was committed for trial, can possibly entertain any doubt about his guilt. In the case on which he was convicted, Mr. Day defended him. We find from the Blue Book that the morning after the conviction Mr. Day and Mr. Caldwell called upon the Governor and solicited a pardon. The Governor suggested that the application should be made by petition to the Executive Council. A petition was got up accordingly, to which the Chinese attached their names in terrorem. Then we find that this petition would have been successful, notwithstanding the production of Mr. May's Memo: but for the discovery of the Beaver paper. Then we find Mr. Day employed by the Caldwell Commission as their legal adviser. Sir John Bowring is very particular in advising Sir E. Lytton that the Commission employed Mr. Day, not the Government. [Simultaneously with the application of the Commission for Mr. Day's services, came an application from Mr. Caldwell. Mr. Caldwell did not employ another lawyer when he found Mr. Day pre-engaged. Mr. Day attempted to control the Commission by confining them to legal evidence; they disregarded his advice and it is painfully clear that Mr. Day himself says, he would have retired but for his duty to the Government. Mr. Day acted as a strong partisan of Dr. Bridges and Mr. Caldwell throughout. The Commission over, Dr. Bridges applied officially to Mr. Day for his opinion on the report of the Commission, which Mr. Day gave. The opinion was entirely in Mr. Caldwell's favor—it was the reverse of complimentary to the Commission, and was most defamatory of Mr. May. Then Mr. Anstey was suspended on charges concocted by Dr. Bridges in the Executive Council, and Mr. Day was made Acting Attorney General, Dr. Bridges being apportioned the Superintendency. Then Mr. May is called on for an explanation of his conduct, to which he duly responds. The response is submitted to Mr. Day the Acting Attorney General, (who had already grossly maligned Mr. May in the opinion upon the Report of the Caldwell Commission), and the result is a most outrageous stricture on Mr. May, which Dr. Bridges of course endorses. Then Mr. Day dying, Mr. Green is made Acting Attorney General. The Governor, apparently unwilling to commit the atrocity of suspending Mr. May, which was ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256704, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "content_text": "68.\n\n69.\n\n61\n\nof the previous year, and that the expenditure during the same period was the same one $1,369,735.54\n\nOne million three hundred and sixty nine thousand seven hundred and thirty five Dollars and fifty four cents, being Two hundred and seven Dollars and forty two cents $204.42 Excess of the expenditure of the previous year, and further that the sum remitted to the Imperial Post Office amounted to eighteen thousand five hundred and sixty three Pounds eighteen shillings and nine pence, or £18,563-18-9 Eight thousand three hundred and four Pounds, eighteen shillings and six and halfpence £8,304-18-6½ in excess of the Imperial Revenue of the previous year; so that the total Revenue of the Hongkong Post Office for the last year reached the sum of one hundred and thirty two thousand seven hundred and thirty five Dollars and fifty seven cents, or $1,327,735.57\n\na total excess of Fifty five thousand nine hundred and seventy six Dollars and eighty seven cents, $55,976.87 over the previous year's Revenue of seven cents, whilst the expenditure has been increased only to the extent of Forty three Pounds four shillings and threepence £43-4-3; these great increases in the Revenue are accounted for by the increase in some measure by the rates of postage which took place in October 1867, and partly by the increase in the correspondence to and from China and Japan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257312, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "content_text": "244\n\ncounted and thirty-eight discovered to be missing. Drags were used but no wire recovered on the bodies of the accident.\n\nBodies were recovered in the evening.\n\nOn the twenty-fourth, twenty-four were found, all being those of the thirty-six dead bodies. The Coroner's Jury viewed the thirty-six dead bodies on the evening of the 24th; two prisoners were missing.\n\nI believe that they were drowned at the time the boat upset. The truth is, nine was swirling about sixty feet from the nearest point of Somcutter's Island, from which the prisoners had embarked; the depth of water around the boat was about twenty-six feet.\n\nThe length of the boat in which the prisoners were carried off, and which upset, is thirty feet - it has three beams and is 3 feet 6 inches deep to the bilge; there is a floor about six inches above the keelson. The usual number of prisoners brought off in this boat was between fifty and sixty.\n\nI do not know of any order directing what number shall be on board. I have frequently placed as many as eighty prisoners in the boat, both when landing and coming on board. I know that on one occasion, there were eighty prisoners in the boat, several days before the accident.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257608, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 15, 1863.\n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in Her by the said recited Act, and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to approve, and doth hereby approve of, and signify Her consent to the said new bye-law, in lieu of the sixth bye-law hereinbefore recited.\n\nArthur Helps.\n\nSCHEDULE.\n\n6. Every application for renewal of any certificate granted by the said Corporation, shall be made in writing, and shall be deposited, seven days at least, before the period of the expiration of such certificate, in the said Warden's Clerk's Office, at Kingston-upon-Hull, in cases where such certificate shall have been granted for or from the Humber, and in the office of the said Sub-Commissioners of Pilotage, at such one of the outports as such renewed certificate may be required for; but any such application may be entertained, although not made within the said specified time if the pilotage authority think fit; nevertheless, the party then applying shall be liable to a fine of ten shillings, unless a sufficient and satisfactory reason (to be approved of by the Wardens and Brethren of the said Corporation), for not having applied previously, shall be assigned.\n\nAt the Court at Windsor, the 12th day of September, 1863.\n\nPRESENT,\n\nThe QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.\n\nWHEREAS by the 410th section of the \"Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,\" it is enacted, that upon the completion of any new lighthouse, buoy, or beacon, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, fix such dues in respect thereof, to be paid by the master or owner of any ship which passes the same or derives benefit therefrom, as Her Majesty may deem reasonable, and may from time to time alter the amount thereof; and that such dues shall be paid and collected in the same manner, by the same means, and subject to the same conditions, in, by, and subject to which the light dues authorised to be levied by the said Act are paid and collected.\n\nAnd whereas the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses are erecting and about to light a new lighthouse on the Monach Islands, near the island of North Uist, West Coast of Scotland.\n\n... hundred and sixty-one, and subject also to the regulations and exemptions contained in the consolidated tables of light duties, sanctioned by an Order in Council, dated the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and to the further exemption sanctioned by an Order in Council, dated the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.\n\nArthur Helps.\n\nAt the Court at Windsor, the 12th day of September, 1863.\n\nPRESENT,\n\nThe QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.\n\nWHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of the Act of the fifty-ninth year of His Majesty King George the Third, chapter one hundred and thirty-four; of the Act of the fifth year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter one hundred and three; of the Act of the second and third years of Her Majesty, chapter forty-nine; and of the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her Majesty, chapter fifty-five; duly prepared and laid before Her Majesty in Council, a representation, bearing date the seventh day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three...\n\nWe, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England... have prepared, and now humbly lay before your Majesty in Council, the following representation as to the assignment of a district chapelry to the consecrated church of Saint John the Baptist, situate at Hartford, in the parish of Great Budworth, in the parochial chapelry of Witton-cum-Twam-brooks, within the county of Chester, and in the diocese of Chester.\n\n\"Whereas it has been represented to us that the said church of Saint John the Baptist, situate at Hartford aforesaid, was built by subscription, under and by virtue of the powers or authorities for such purpose contained in the secondly hereinbefore mentioned Act, and that the same church was duly consecrated on or about the eighth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.\n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty in exercise of the powers vested in Her by the said recited Act, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to direct that upon the completion and\n\n\"And whereas it has been further represented to us that the several persons whose individual subscriptions to the fund raised for the erection of such church amounted to fifty pounds and upwards, did, in accordance with the powers or authorities contained in the Act lastly herein referred to, elect from among themselves three trustees as life trustees of the same church, for the several purposes contemplated by the same Act, and that James Royds, of Hartford, Esquire, is one of such subscribers, and is also one of the three trustees who were so elected as life trustees as aforesaid, and that with the exception of the said James Royds, all such subscribers, and all the said life trustees are now dead.\n\n\"And whereas it appears to us to be expedient that a district chapelry should be assigned to the said church...\n\n3. God — 29th Sept. 12:\n\n7221.\n\n9335 trong trong\n\nREA\n\nE\n\n25 SHD\n\n161\n\n1863 Foreign Office\n\nSeptember 24. 1883.\n\nSir,\n\nI have laid before Earl Russell your Letter of the 31st of July and it's Inclosures, relative to the Exception taken by Auditor General at Hongkong to the fees charged by the Crown Attorney General and Solicitor of that Colony for their Services in certain cases referred to the Courts at Hongkong from Her Majesty's Consulates in China & Japan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261851, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "## REPORT\n\nIn obedience to the Memorandum of His Excellency The Governor under date the 6th May 1865, we, the undersigned, proceeded this day at Eleven o'clock, to the Colonial Treasury, and being there, in concert with the Officer in charge of the Treasury, examined and counted the actual contents of the money chest under the separate charge of the Officer in charge of the Treasury, and we have the honor to report that we found the amount of Fifteen Thousand four hundred and eighty Dollars and thirty eight cents.\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Notes | $13,245.00 |\n| Cash | $2,235.58 |\n| Total | $15,480.58 |\n\nand in the Strong Vault $5,000 Cash, which corresponds with that shown by the Books of the Treasury.\n\nHongkong, \n(Signed) **W. H. Alexander** \nActing Colonial Secretary. \n(Signed) **Fred's Forth** \nTreasurer. \n(Signed) **W. Wilson** \nacting Surveyor General.\n\nTrue Copy \nColonial Treasury, \n1865 May 5 \n(Signed) **Walesande** \nActing Colonial Secretary. \n\nMr. Mercer \nThe RE Houble R. Cardwell \n/Inclosure. \nN42. \nReceived \nEnclosing Certificate of \nAn \nExtraordinary Survey \nof the Treasury chest and \nStrong vault. \nExtraordinary \nREPORT.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262154, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "68 \n69 \n\ndollars to each overseer and `(410)` new Dollars to each of the guardians for services during the voyage payable on \ntheir \n30th April and the vessel shall be detained through his fault. - The \ncharterparty of the \"Tricolor\" stipulates \ndespatch \non or \nbefore \n30th \nApril and \na rate \nfor any time demurrage \ntime used over and above this \nhas to be \npaid \nat the \nin Hongkong. \nWohang is bound to put up partition to separate male from female \non board. \nCivil \npassengers \nIf \ndespatched the vessel should be \non or \nbefore 21 March, when \nprovisions for 30 days only \nare \nrequired \nto \nbe \nby the emigration act, Wohang agrees \nto reduce the price of `(829)` twenty-nine to \n`(236)` thirty-six Dollars \nfor \nfor each adult \npassenger \nthe contract \nThus Wohang agrees to pay \nthe \ndemurrage of the \n\"The chartered ship\" Tricolor, \nDemurrage of the \nif the passengers \nare \nnot ready before \nrate of `(280)` eighty Dollars per \ndiem. \nIn witness whereof the contracting \nparties have hereunto set their hands this thirteenth day of March, 1865: \n\n**(signed)** B. H. C. \n**(signed)** Mohang \n**(True Copy)** \n**(signed)** Dour jaw stubener \n\n## Notes: Changed 1805 to 1865 as it is likely the correct year given the context. However, as per the instructions, the original content should be preserved. The original text had \"1805\", it has been restored.\n\n68 \n69 \n\ndollars to each overseer and `(410)` new Dollars to each of the guardians for services during the voyage payable on \ntheir \n30th April and the vessel shall be detained through his fault. - The \ncharterparty of the \"Tricolor\" stipulates \ndespatch \non or \nbefore \n30th \nApril and \na rate \nfor any time demurrage \ntime used over and above this \nhas to be \npaid \nat the \nin Hongkong. \nWohang is bound to put up partition to separate male from female \non board. \nCivil \npassengers \nIf \ndespatched the vessel should be \non or \nbefore 21 March, when \nprovisions for 30 days only \nare \nrequired \nto \nbe \nby the emigration act, Wohang agrees \nto reduce the price of `(829)` twenty-nine to \n`(236)` thirty-six Dollars \nfor \nfor each adult \npassenger \nthe contract \nThus Wohang agrees to pay \nthe \n\"The chartered ship\" Tricolor, \nDemurrage of the \nif the passengers \nare \nnot ready before \nrate of `(280)` eighty Dollars per \ndiem. \nIn witness whereof the contracting \nparties have hereunto set their hands this thirteenth day of March, 1805: \n\n**(signed)** B. H. C. \n**(signed)** Mohang \n**(True Copy)** \n**(signed)** Dour jaw stubener", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266305, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "page_number": 198, "title": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "content_text": "THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JULY, 1866.\n\nDeed of Settlement to be signed within Twelve Months, and\n\nX. Within Twelve calendar Months from the date of this Ordinance the persons who shall have subscribed for at least one half of the said Capital of Five Millions of Dollars, shall, to the satisfaction of the Governor, to be evidenced as aforesaid, enter into and execute a Deed of Settlement (and so as each such person so executing shall hold at least five shares in the said Capital), which Deed of Settlement shall be filed with the Registrar of Companies within Twelve calendar Months from the date thereof, whereby provision shall be made for carrying on the business of the Company by a Court of Directors to be elected by the Shareholders of the Company, as by the said Deed shall be provided, and, until such election, by a Court of Directors to be named in the said Deed, and whereby provision shall also be made for the payment, by the Shareholders, of all Monies to become due in respect of the instalments on the shares taken by them, and also of such further or other Sums as are hereinafter provided, and in which said Deed of Settlement shall be contained (in addition to all such further provisions as shall be by the Governor considered necessary and usual in like cases for the management of the Affairs of the Company) provisions for effectuating the following objects, that is to say:-\n\nRules and Regulations are to be.\n\nFirst. For holding General Meetings of the Company once at least in every Year at an appointed time and place.\n\nSecond. For holding extraordinary General Meetings of the Company upon the requisition of Nine or more Shareholders, holding in the whole at least Two Thousand shares in the Company.\n\nThird. For the management of the Affairs of the Company and the election and qualification of the Directors.\n\nFourth. For the retirement of at least one-fourth of the Directors of the Company Yearly.\n\nFifth. For preventing the Company from purchasing any shares, or making advances of Money, or securities for Money, to any person, on the security of a share or shares in the Company.\n\nSixth. For the publication, as shall be directed in the said Deed, of the Assets and Liabilities of the Company, and of the amounts of Promissory Notes in circulation, and of the Coin held in the Establishments of the said Company in the Colony or elsewhere.\n\nSeventh. For the verification of such statements, and for the furnishing of such further information as the said Governor of Hongkong may require, respecting the state and proceedings of the Banking Establishments of the Company in the Colony or elsewhere.\n\nEighth. For the Yearly Audit of the Accounts of the Company by Two or more Auditors, not being Directors at the time.\n\nNinth. For the Yearly communication of the Auditors Report, and of a Balance Sheet, and Profit and Loss Accounts to every Shareholder.\n\nTenth. For the appointment of Managers, or Agents, or other Officers, to perform the duties of Managers or Agents.\n\nXI. The provisions of this Ordinance, and the provisions to be contained in the said Deed of Settlement, or in any Supplemental Deed to be made in pursuance thereof, or to be contained in any Bye-Laws to be made in pursuance of such Deeds, or any of them, shall be taken to be the existing Rules and Regulations of the Company, except so far as the same may be repugnant to the laws of the Colony, or of any Ports, Towns, Cities or places where the Company may carry on business, or to the provisions of this Ordinance. Provided nevertheless that no Bye-Law or Supplemental Deed that may be made, shall have any force or effect until the same shall have been approved of by the Governor and a certificate of such approval shall have been given under the hand of the Governor.\n\nIssue of Notes and Bills, provisions as to.\n\nXII. It shall be lawful for the Company to make, issue and circulate Notes or Bills payable to Bearer on demand in Coin lawfully current in the Colony and to re-issue the same: Provided that no such Notes shall be issued for any other Sums than the Sum of Five Dollars, or some multiple of such Sum, or other equivalent amount, unless the issuing of Notes of other amounts shall be sanctioned by the Governor: Provided also that nothing herein contained shall exempt the Company from the operation of any existing or future laws of the Colony or of any Port, City, Town, or Place beyond the limits of the Colony where they may with such consent as aforesaid establish Bank or Branch Banks, restricting or regulating the issue of such Notes, by Banks established therein.\n\nXIII. The total amount of the Bills and Notes of the Company payable to Bearer on demand actually in circulation shall not at any time exceed the amount of the Capital of the Company actually paid up, and there shall always be kept by the Principal Establishment in the Colony, an amount of Coin and Bullion equal to one-third at least of the Notes and Bills of the Company for the time being in circulation.\n\nXIV. The total amount of the Debts and Liabilities of the Company of what nature or kind soever shall not at any time exceed the aggregate amount of the then existing bona fide Assets and property of the Company, and the Sum for which its Shareholders are liable under the provisions herein contained.\n\nXV. If at any time there shall be a Suspension of Payment of any of the Notes or Bills of the Company, it shall not be lawful for the said Company from and after the commencement, and during the continuance, of such Suspension of Payment, to make any fresh issue of Notes or Bills.\n\nXVI. The Company shall not Discount, or in any manner Advance Money upon Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, or other Negotiable paper, in or upon which the name of any Director, or Officer, of the Company, shall appear as Drawer, or Acceptor, either on his individual or separate account, or jointly with any partner or partners, or otherwise than as a Director or Officer of the Company, to an amount exceeding one third of the amount of the Sum for the time being under discount, or advanced by the Company, nor shall any Director be allowed to obtain Credit on his own personal guarantee.\n\nXVII. It shall be lawful for the Company notwithstanding the statutes of Mortmain or any other statutes or laws to the contrary, to purchase, hold, take, and enjoy to them and their successors, such Houses, Offices, Buildings, Lands and Hereditaments, subject as shall or may be thought necessary or proper for the purpose of managing, conducting, and carrying on the affairs, concerns, and business of the Company, but not for the purpose of speculation, or any other purpose than as aforesaid, and so as no such Houses, Offices, Buildings or Land shall be more than the Yearly value of Thirty Thousand Dollars at the time of acquiring the same, or of such further Yearly value as shall be sanctioned by the Governor and to sell, convey, and dispose of the said property or any portion or part thereof, when not wanted for the purposes of the said business.\n\nXVIII. All and every person and persons, and bodies, politic and corporate who are or shall be otherwise competent, shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to convey lands in to grant, sell alien and convey in Mortmain unto, and to the use of, the Company and their successors, any such Houses, Offices, Lands, and other Hereditaments whatsoever as aforesaid accordingly.\n\nXIX. It shall not be lawful for the Company to make any purchase of Messuages, Lands or Hereditaments in the Colony or elsewhere, beyond the annual value of Thirty Thousand Dollars at the time of acquiring the same, or of such further annual value as shall be sanctioned by the Governor and when and as any such purchase shall be made by the Company, the Directors of the Company shall, in all cases, within Three calendar Months from the making and completing of any such purchase report the same in writing to the Governor, stating the amount of the purchase Money paid for the same and giving a description of the Lands and Hereditaments so purchased, and such other particulars relating thereto as may from time to time be required by the Governor; and in case any Hereditaments so purchased be re-sold by the Company, they shall within Fourteen Days after every such sale, give notice in writing to the Colonial Secretary of the Colony of such re-sale, and of the price obtained for the same.\n\nXX. Except for the purposes aforesaid it shall not be lawful for the Company to invest, lay out, employ, advance, or embark any part of their Capital or Funds in the purchase of any Lands, Houses, or other real property, nor in any trading or mercantile speculation or business whatsoever (not usually considered as falling within the ordinary and legitimate purposes and operations of a Banking Establishment), but shall nevertheless be lawful for the Company to take and accept any Lands, Houses, and personal property as security for Monies owing.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270602, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]", "content_text": "VII. Unless it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Governor (to be evidenced as aforesaid), that the whole of the said Capital of Five Millions of Dollars has been subscribed, under hand and seal, before the expiration of a period of Two Years, to commence and be computed from the date of this Ordinance, and unless the whole of the said Capital of Five Millions of Dollars shall be actually paid up within the period of Three Years to be reckoned from the date of the Notification or Proclamation to be published as aforesaid of the payment of one half of the said Capital of Five Millions of Dollars (but so that such payment in full be not in any case delayed beyond the period of Four Years, to be reckoned from the date of this Ordinance), it shall be lawful for the Governor with the Advice of the Legislative Council of the Colony, at any time thereafter, by an Ordinance to be passed for that purpose to repeal this Ordinance and declare that the Incorporation hereby granted to the Company shall cease and determine and become absolutely void.\n\nVII. Until, as hereinbefore provided for, the Governor shall so publish in the Hongkong Government Gazette a Notification or Proclamation under his hand, that one half of such further Capital has been paid up, the Company shall not be entitled, by advertisement or otherwise, to hold out to the Public that the amount of its Capital has been increased.\n\nIX. The remainder of the instalments on the Shares constituting such further Capital shall be wholly paid up within Two Years, to be reckoned from the date of such Notification or Proclamation (to be published as aforesaid) of the payment of one half of such further Capital, and that the same shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Governor to be evidenced as aforesaid.\n\nX. Within Twelve Calendar Months from the date of this Ordinance the Persons who shall have subscribed for at least one half of the said Capital of Five Millions of Dollars, shall, to the satisfaction of the Governor, to be evidenced as aforesaid, enter into and execute a Deed of Settlement (and so as each such Person so executing shall hold at least Five Shares in the said Capital), which Deed of Settlement shall be filed with the Registrar of Companies within Twelve Calendar Months from the date thereof, whereby provision shall be made for carrying on the business of the Company by a Court of Directors to be elected by the Shareholders of the Company, as by the said Deed shall be provided, and, until such election, by a Court of Directors to be named in the said Deed, and whereby provision shall also be made for the payment, by the Shareholders, of all Monies to become due in respect of the instalments on the Shares taken by them, and also of such further or other Sums as are hereinafter provided, and in which said Deed of Settlement shall be contained (in addition to all such further provisions as shall be by the Governor considered necessary and usual in like cases for the management of the Affairs of the Company) provisions for effectuating the following objects, that is to say:\n\nFirst. For holding General Meetings of the Company once at least in every Year at an appointed time and place.\n\nSecond. For holding extraordinary General Meetings of the Company upon the requisition of Nine or more Shareholders, holding in the whole at least Two Thousand Shares in the Company.\n\nThird. For the management of the Affairs of the Company and the election and qualification of the Directors.\n\nFourth. For the retirement of at least one-fourth of the Directors of the Company Yearly.\n\nFifth. For preventing the Company from purchasing any Shares, or making advances of Money, or securities for Money, to any Person, on the security of a Share or Shares in the Company.\n\nSixth. For the publication, as shall be directed in the said Deed, of the Assets and Liabilities of the Company, and of the amounts of Promissory Notes in circulation, and of the Coin held in the Establishments of the said Company in the Colony or elsewhere.\n\nSeventh. For the verification of such statements, and for the furnishing of such further information as the said Governor of Hongkong may require, respecting the state and proceedings of the Banking Establishments of the Company in the Colony or elsewhere.\n\nEighth. For the Yearly Audit of the Accounts of the Company by Two or more Auditors, not being Directors at the time.\n\nNinth. For the Yearly communication of the Auditors' Report, and of a Balance Sheet, and Profit and Loss Accounts to every Shareholder.\n\nTenth. For the appointment of Managers, or Agents, or other Officers, to perform the duties of Managers or Agents.\n\nXI. The provisions of this Ordinance, and the provisions to be contained in the said Deed of Settlement, or in any Supplemental Deed to be made in pursuance thereof, or to be contained in any Bye-Laws to be made in pursuance of such Deeds, or any of them, shall be taken to be the existing Rules and Regulations of the Company, except so far as the same may be repugnant to the laws of the Colony, or of any Ports, Towns, Cities or Places where the Company may carry on business, or to the provisions of this Ordinance. Provided nevertheless that no Bye-Law or Supplemental Deed that may be made, shall have any force or effect until the same shall have been approved of by the Governor and a certificate of such approval shall have been given under the hand of the Governor.\n\nXII. It shall be lawful for the Company to make, issue and circulate Notes or Bills payable to Bearer on demand in Coin lawfully current in the Colony and to re-issue the same: Provided that no such Notes shall be issued for any other Sums than the Sum of Five Dollars, or some multiple of such Sum, or other equivalent amount, unless the issuing of Notes of other amounts shall be sanctioned by the Governor: Provided also that nothing herein contained shall exempt the Company from the operation of any existing or future laws of the Colony or of any Port, City, Town, or Place beyond the limits of the Colony where they may with such consent as aforesaid establish Bank or Branch Liability of Banks, restricting or regulating the issue of such Notes, by Banks established therein. And provided also that the Shareholders of the Company shall be subject to unlimited liability in respect of all or any such issues or issue of Notes, and, if necessary, the Assets of the Company shall be marshalled for the benefit of the general Creditors of the Company and the Shareholders shall be liable for the whole amount of such issue, in addition to the Sum for which they are liable under the other and general provisions of this Ordinance.\n\nXIII. The total amount of the Bills and Notes of the Company payable to Bearer on demand actually in circulation shall not at any time exceed the amount of the Capital of the Company actually paid up, and there shall always be kept by the Principal Establishment in the Colony, an amount of Coin and Bullion equal to one-third at least of the Notes and Bills of the Company for the time being in circulation.\n\nXIV. The total amount of the Debts and Liabilities of the Company of what nature or kind soever shall not at any time exceed the aggregate amount of the existing bona fide Assets and property of the Company, and the Sum for which its Shareholders are liable under the provisions herein contained.\n\nXV. If at any time there shall be a Suspension of Payment of any of the Notes or Bills of the Company, it shall not be lawful for the said Company from and after the commencement, and during the continuance, of such Suspension of Payment, to make any fresh issue of Notes or Bills.\n\nXVI. The Company shall not Discount, or in any manner Advance Money upon Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, or other Negotiable paper, in or upon which the name of any Director, Officer, of the Company, shall appear as Drawer, or Acceptor, either on his individual or separate account, or jointly with any partner or partners, or otherwise than as Director or Officer of the Company, to an amount exceeding one third of the amount of the Sum for the time being under discount, or advanced by the Company, nor shall any Director be allowed to obtain Credit on his own personal guarantee.\n\nXVII. It shall be lawful for the Company notwithstanding the statutes of Mortmain or any other statutes or laws to the contrary, to purchase, hold, take, and enjoy to them and their successors, such Houses, Offices, Buildings, Lands and Hereditaments, as shall or may be thought necessary or proper for the purpose of managing, conducting, and carrying out the affairs, concerns, and business of the Company, but not for the purpose of speculation, or any other purpose than as aforesaid, and so as no such Houses, Offices, Buildings or Land shall be more than the Yearly value of Thirty Thousand Dollars at the time of acquiring the same, or of such further Yearly value as shall be sanctioned by the Governor, and to sell, convey, and dispose of the said property or any portion or part thereof, when not wanted for the purposes of the said business.\n\nXVIII. All and every Person and Persons, and bodies, politic and corporate who are or shall be otherwise competent, shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to grant, sell, alien and convey in Mortmain unto, and to the use of the Company and their successors, any such Houses, Offices, Lands, and other Hereditaments whatsoever as aforesaid accordingly.\n\nXIX. It shall not be lawful for the Company to make any purchase of Messuages, Lands or Tenements or Hereditaments in the Colony or elsewhere, beyond the annual value of Thirty Thousand Dollars at the time of acquiring the same, or of such further annual value as shall be sanctioned by the Governor: and when and as any such purchase shall be made by the Company, the Directors of the Company shall, in all cases, within Three Calendar Months from the taking and completing of any such purchase report the same in writing to the Governor, stating the amount of the purchase Money paid for the same and giving a description of the Lands and Hereditaments so purchased, and such other particulars relating thereto as may from time to time be required by the Governor; and in case any Hereditaments so purchased be re-sold by the Company, they shall within Fourteen Days after every such sale, give notice in writing to the Colonial Secretary of the Colony of such re-sale, and of the price obtained for the same.\n\nXX. Except for the purposes aforesaid it shall not be lawful for the Company to invest, lay out, or employ, advance, or embark any part of their Capital or Funds in the purchase of any Lands, Houses, or other real property, nor in any trading or mercantile speculation or business whatsoever (not being trading, but usually considered as falling within the ordinary and legitimate purposes and operations of a Banking proper Establishment), but it shall nevertheless be lawful for the Company to take and accept any Lands, Houses, or other real or personal property in satisfaction, liquidation or payment of any debt absolutely and bona fide previously due and owing to the Company, and also to take any mortgage or other lien or charge on real or personal property as a security for any Monies actually and bona fide previously due to the Company, or for which any Person or Persons may have rendered himself or themselves liable to the Company, and to hold such Lands, Houses, and other real and personal property respectively, for such reasonable time as shall be necessary for selling and disposing of and converting the same into Money.\n\nXXI. It shall be lawful for the Company to sell, dispose of, and convert into Money, any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, which shall or may be taken by them in satisfaction, liquidation or payment of any debt: And also to sell and convey any Lands, Houses, and other real property whatsoever, Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, which they shall or may have acquired in manner aforesaid.\n\nXXII. It shall be lawful for the Company from time to time to extend or increase their Capital for the time being by the creation and sale of new Shares, in the manner to be specified and set forth in the Deed of Settlement, to be prepared and executed as hereinbefore directed, so as the same be made with the consent of a General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company to be specially called for that purpose, and with the consent previously obtained of the Governor and under such conditions and provisions as he shall think fit, such consent being evidenced as hereinbefore provided for with respect to other requirements of a like nature, and so as the total amount of the Capital of the Company shall not exceed the Sum of Ten Millions of Dollars and until it shall be certified by the Governor in like manner as aforesaid that one-half of such new Capital has been so paid up, the Company shall not be entitled, by advertisement or otherwise, to state or hold out to the Public that the amount of the Capital has been increased.\n\nXXIII. The remainder of the instalments on the Shares constituting such increased Capital shall be wholly paid up within Two Years from the date of the Certificate, to be granted as aforesaid, of one-half thereof having been paid up, and the same shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Governor, to be certified as aforesaid.\n\nXXIV. The Directors of the Company shall, if, and whenever, they shall be required so to do, by the Governor, produce and submit to him, or to such Persons or Officers as he may appoint for that purpose, for his or their inspection and examination, the several accounts and statements which by the said Deed shall be directed to be made and furnished.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276875, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "502\n\nPolice.\n\n2° & 3° VICTORIÆ, Cap.47.\n\nin addition to any other Punishment to which he may be liable for such Offence, be liable to a Penalty not more than Ten Pounds.\n\nPenalty for\n\nXVIII. And be it enacted, That every Person who shall assault or resist any Person belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force in the Execution of his Duty, or who shall aid or incite any Person so to assault or resist, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not more than Five Pounds, or, in the Discretion of the Magistrate before whom he shall be convicted, may be imprisoned for any Time not more than One Calendar Month.\n\nEmployment in the Police\n\nXIX. And be it enacted, That no Office or Employment in the Metropolitan Police Force shall prevent the Holder thereof from receiving any Half Pay to which, if he did not hold such Office or Employment, he might be or become entitled.\n\nnot to prevent receiving Half Pay.\n\nIncreased\n\nXX. And be it enacted, That instead of the Salary heretofore payable to the said Commissioners of Police, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to direct that a Salary not exceeding the Rate of Twelve hundred Pounds by the Year shall be paid quarterly to each of the said Commissioners out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.\n\nSalary to the Commissioners of Police.\n\nr. 24.\n\nXXI. And be it declared and enacted, That the said Commissioners of Police, and also the Surgeon, Receiver, and Clerks employed in the Metropolitan Police Office, are within the Provisions of an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled 4 & 5 W. 4. An Act to alter, amend, and consolidate the Laws for regulating the Pensions, Compensations, and Allowances to be made to Persons in respect of their having held Civil Offices in His Majesty's Service; and that the Clerks and Officers who were appointed to the said Office in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine shall be deemed to have been employed therein before the Fourth Day of August in that Year.\n\nSuperannuation Fund to be provided for Constables.\n\nXXII. And be it enacted, That there shall be deducted from the Pay of every Constable belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force a Sum after such yearly Rate as the Secretary of State shall direct, not being a greater Rate than Two Pounds Ten Shillings in a Hundred Pounds, which Sum so deducted, and also the Monies accruing from Stoppages from any of the said Constables during Sickness, and Fines imposed on any of the said Constables for Misconduct, and from any Portion of the Fines imposed by any Magistrate upon drunken Persons, or for Assaults upon Police Constables, as shall be directed to be paid to the Receiver for the Benefit of this Fund, and all Monies arising from the Sale of worn or cast Clothing supplied for the Use of the Police, shall from Time to Time be invested in Government Stock by and in the Name of the Receiver, and the Interest and Dividends thereof, or so much of the same as shall not be required for the Purposes herein-after mentioned, shall be likewise invested in such Stock, and accumulate so as to form a Fund to be called \"The Police Superannuation Fund,\" and shall be applied from Time to Time for Payment of such Superannuation or retiring Allowances or Gratuities as may be ordered by the Secretary of State at any Time to any of the said Constables as herein-after provided.\n\n503\n\nfrom the\n\nXXIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of State to order that any of the said Constables may be superannuated, and receive thereupon out of the Police Superannuation Fund a yearly Allowance, subject to the following Conditions, and not exceeding the following Proportions; that is to say, if he shall have served with Diligence and Fidelity for Fifteen Years and less than Twenty Years, an annual Sum not more than Half his Pay; if for Twenty Years or upwards an annual Sum not more than Two Thirds of his Pay; provided, that if he shall be under Sixty Years of Age it shall not be lawful to grant any such Allowance unless upon the Certificate of the said Commissioners of Police that he is incapable, from Infirmity of Mind or Body, to discharge the Duties of his Office; provided also, that if any Constable shall be disabled by any Wound or Injury received in the actual Execution of the Duty of his Office, it shall be lawful to grant to him any Allowance not more than the whole of his Pay; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to entitle any Constable absolutely to any Superannuation Allowance, or to prevent him from being dismissed without Superannuation Allowance.\n\n;\n\nXXIV. And whereas it is expedient to amend and simplify the Laws now in force relating to Depredations committed on the River Thames, and in the Docks and Creeks adjacent thereto: Be it enacted That from the passing of this Act an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to prevent the committing of Thefts and Frauds by Persons navigating Bumboats and other Boats upon the River Thames, shall be repealed.\n\nProvisions of\n\nXXV. And be it enacted, That from the First Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine every Person who shall use, work, or navigate any Boat whatsoever upon the River Thames for the Purpose of selling, disposing of, or exposing for Sale to and amongst the Seamen or other Persons employed in and about any of the Ships or Vessels upon the said River any Liquors, Slops, or other Articles whatsoever between London Bridge and Limehouse Hole shall be deemed to keep such Boat for Gain, and shall be within all the Provisions of an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of the Watermen and Lightermen on the River Thames between Yantlet Creek and Windsor, concerning Persons who keep, within the Limits of the said Act, any Boat to be let out for Hire or Gain,\n\nXXVI. And be it enacted, That every Person who within the Metropolitan Police District shall knowingly take in exchange from any Seaman or other Person, not being the Owner or Master of any Vessel, anything belonging to any Vessel lying the River Thames or in any of the Docks or Creeks adjacent thereto, or any Part of the Cargo of any such Vessel, or any Stores or Articles in charge of the Owner\n\n173\n\nP\n\nB", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278127, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "content_text": "3\n\n137\n\nbin (meaning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL as such Minister) the Government has sent out orders to hush up the whole affair. With all due respect for the representativo (meaning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL) of so honorable, humane, and disinterested a constituency (meaning the said persons accused or suspected of kidnapping and man-stealing) we venture to express a slight doubt of the success of his (meaning the said JOSE RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL's) praiseworthy efforts to shield his (meaning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL's) friends. £2,000 have already found their way to Lisbon, it is said, for purposes which it would not particularly gratify either the senders or recipients to have exposed, but even £2,000 will scarcely outweigh years of kidnapping, piracy and fraud, upon unoffending, if stupid, peasants.\n\nWe wish ex-Governor AMARAL (meaning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO ÁMARAL) joy of his attempt to stifle the matter, and are sorry to add his (meaning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL'S) name to the distinguished list of benevolent men, who have earned for Macao its present character (meaning that the said JOSE RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL, who is, or was, the Deputado, or Representative of the said Settlement, Province, or Colony of Macao, in the Portuguese Parliament, was, under colour of his said function or capacity, in fact representing the interests and wishes of “pig-dealers,” kidnappers, or man-stealers, and that the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL, as such Minister, had corruptly and dishonestly, and from corrupt and improper motives, abused and dishonored his power and dignity, for illegal, unworthy and dishonorable ends, in favor of persons accused or suspected of kidnapping and man-stealing, and other grave and serious crimes and offences, and had corruptly and in breach of his duties, as such Minister, accepted or received bribes or sums of money, for the purpose and to the end, that he might, and did, illegally prostitute and abuse his said power and dignity, function and capacity, for such illegal, unworthy and dishonorable ends).\" \n\nAnd also on the Eighth Day of May, in the Year of Our Lord, One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-eight, at the said City of Victoria, unlawfully and maliciously did print and publish, and cause and procure to be printed and published, in the said Newspaper called The China Mail, another very false, scandalous and malicious libel, of and concerning the said JOSE RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL, as such Minister of Marine and for the Colonies, and for His said Majesty, that is to say\n\nThe following is from our Macao correspondent-\"What you said the other day under the heading of Suppressio Veri (meaning the false, malicious and defamatory libel firstly hereinbefore set forth) is unfortunately quite true. I know for certain, that Viscount de Praia Grande (meaning a former Minister of Marine and for the Colonies, in the Government of His said Most Faithful Majesty) did send out most positive instructions to institute proceedings (meaning proceedings of a criminal character, relating to the alleged abuses in connection with the Coolie Trade, that is to say, kidnapping and man-stealing) against the Procurador, the Chief Interpreter and the Superintendent (meaning three Officials appointed by His said Most Faithful Majesty as part of the Government, or body of Officials, acting for His said Most Faithful Majesty at Macao aforesaid). These instructions came, or at least they arrived here (meaning Macao aforesaid), when Governor HORTA (meaning His Excellency Jose MARIA DA PONTE E HORTA, the present Governor of Macao for His said Majesty) was absent; I doubt of course whether Sr. HORTA (meaning the said Jose Maria da PONTE E HORTA) felt disposed to carry out the orders (meaning orders to institute the said proceedings against the said Officials at Macao); but he would have had to do so, if the last Ministry (meaning the last Ministry of His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal) had remained in power; but the Chuchaciro Deputado (Sr. AMARAL) became Minister for the Colonies (meaning that the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL was, as before set forth, the representative of \"pig-dealers,\" kidnappers and man-stealers,) and it was right that he (meaning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL) should show gratitude to his friends and constituents (meaning the said “pig-dealers,” kidnappers and man-stealers.) No sooner did he (meaning the said Jose Rodrigues COELHO DO AMARAL) join the Ministry (meaning the said last Ministry of His Most Faithful Majesty,) but he (meaning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL) sent counter-orders, that is to suspend the proceedings against the three above mentioned individuals, and that within a month of his (meaning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL'S) entry into the Ministry (meaning the said last Ministry of His said Most Faithful Majesty); but he (meaning the said JOSE RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL) confirmed his afilhado MARQUES PEREIRA in the Office of Procurador (meaning one of the said Officials), and last mail brought out orders to put a stop to the proceedings about the Annamite kidnapping affair. Such censurable indifference to right-doing should be exposed by all well-conducted organs of Public opinion (meaning as is hereinbefore alleged of and concerning the false, malicious and defamatory libel, firstly hereinbefore set forth.”) \n\nTo the great damage, scandal, infamy and disgrace of the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL and to the great danger of creating discord, between Our said Lady the QUEEN and Her subjects, and His said Most Faithful Majesty and His subjects, in contempt of Our said Lady The QUEEN and Her Law, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of Our said Lady The QUEEN, Her Crown and Dignity. And therefore the said Acting Attorney General of Our Lady The QUEEN, prays the consideration of the Court here, in the premises, and that due process of Law may be awarded against him the said CHARLES ABRAHAM SAINT, in this behalf, to make his answer to Our said Lady The QUEEN, touching and concerning the premises aforesaid.\n\nPLEAS.\n\n(Signed) HENRY JOHN BALL,\n\nActing Atty. Genl.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nCharles Abraham Saint at the suit of The Queen:\n\nVACATION AFTER TRINITY TERM IN THE THIRTY-SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA.\n\nAND NOW, that is to say on the Eleventh Day of July in this same vacation, the said CHARLES ABRAHAM SAINT, by WILLIAM GASKELL his Attorney, cometh into the said Supreme Court of Hongkong before the Chief Justice thereof, and having heard the said information read, he saith that he is not guilty thereof, and hereupon he putteth himself upon the country.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278810, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "page_number": 379, "title": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "content_text": "376\n\nThis Endenture, or two parts, made the Twenty eighth day of March, Adolphus Edward Shelley\n\n1846, between OUR SOVEREIGN LADY VICTORIA, by the GRACE of GOD of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, of Istana Constantiaur, No. 29%\n\nof the other part!\n\nWHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, made and dated at Westminster, the fifth day of April in the sixth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies were erected into a Colony, and full power and authority to the Governor of the said Colony of Hongkong for the time being were given and granted in the Name of Her said Majesty, and on Her behalf (but subject nevertheless, to such provisions as might be in that respect contained in any Instructions which might from time to time be addressed to him by Her said Majesty), to make and execute, in the Name and on the behalf of Her said Majesty, under the Public Seal of the said Colony, grants of Land, to Her said Majesty belonging, within the said Colony, to private persons for their own use and benefit, or to any persons, bodies politic or corporate, in trust for the public uses of Her Majesty's Subjects there resident, or any of them; AND WHEREAS by certain other Letters Patent under the Great Seal as aforesaid, bearing date the Twenty-third day of February in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquire, (now Sir John Francis Davis, Baronet) Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects trading in China, was constituted and appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies: AND WHEREAS by certain Instructions of Her said Majesty, addressed to the then Governor of Hongkong, under Her said Majesty's Signet and Sign Manual, and dated the sixth day of April 1843, the said Governor was, amongst other things, instructed to grant Leases of the Land in the Colony belonging to Her said Majesty; NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that in consideration of the yearly rents, conditions, and agreements, hereinafter reserved and contained, by and on the part and behalf of the said Adolphus Edward Shelley, his executors, administrators, and assigns, to be paid, done, and performed, and also of the sum of five current dollars, which are at this time a legal tender in the said Colony of Hongkong, in hand paid to the said Sir John Francis Davis, Baronet, as Governor of the said Colony, for the use of Her Majesty, by the said Adolphus Edward Shelley, at or before the Sealing and Delivery of these Presents, the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, WE, HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, Hath demised, leased, and to farm let, unto the said Adolphus Edward Shelley, his executors, administrators, and assigns, on a Public road and measuring\n\nALL that piece or parcel of ground, situate, lying, and being in Victoria in the said Island of Hongkong. Abutting on the north side thereof partly on ground in possession of Government and measuring thereon Two hundred and twenty feet, on the South and East side thereof on a close registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot number two hundred and ninety-two in the name of Adolphus Edward Shelley aforesaid, and measuring thereon two hundred feet, on the north and East side thereof on a close registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot number two hundred and ninety-four in the name of Adolphus Edward Shelley, and measuring thereon Two hundred and thirty feet, on the South and West side thereof on ground now in possession of Government and measuring thereon Two hundred and thirty feet, which said piece or parcel of ground contains in the whole, fifty thousand square feet and is together with all easements, profits, commodities, and appurtenances whatsoever, to the said demised premises belonging, or in anywise appertaining. EXCEPT AND ALWAYS RESERVED unto Her said Majesty, her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, full power to resume and take possession of all or any part of the said piece or parcel of Ground hereby 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 occupant thereof of its being so required, and a full and fair compensation for the said land and the buildings thereon, being paid to the said Adolphus Edward Shelley, 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 in which said valuation, the benefits to accrue to the said Adolphus Edward Shelley, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, for any such improvement or public purpose, shall be allowed by way of set off against any damage he or they may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid, EXCEPT AND RESERVED ALSO all Mines, Minerals, and Quarries of Stone, in, under, and upon the said premises, and all such earth, clay, chalk, brick earth, gravel, sand, stone, and stones, and other earths or materials, which now are, or hereafter during the continuance of this demise shall be, under or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns may require for the roads, public buildings, or other public purposes of the said Colony of Hongkong, with full liberty of ingress, egress, and regress, in and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, and Her and their agents, servants, and workmen, at reasonable times in the day, during the continuance of this demise, with or without horses, carts, carriages, and all other necessary things, into, upon, from, and out of all or any part or parts of the said premises, or any part or parts thereof respectively, thereby doing as little damage as possible to the said Adolphus Edward Shelley, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns; AND SAVE AND EXCEPT also full power to make and conduct, in, through, and under the said hereby demised premises, all and any public or common sewers, drains, or watercourses.\n\nTO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said piece or parcel of ground and premises hereby demised, or intended so to be, with their and every of their appurtenances, unto the said Adolphus Edward Shelley, his executors, administrators, and assigns, from the Second day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and during, and unto the full end and term of Seventy-five years from thence next ensuing, and fully to be completed and ended: YIELDING AND PAYING therefor yearly and every year the sum of Two pounds and sixteen shillings Sterling, in Current Dollars of the said Colony of Hongkong (at such rate of exchange as is now, or may hereafter from time to time be fixed as the rate of exchange for the payment of the Salaries of the Public Servants of the said Colony) by half-yearly payments, on the twenty-fourth day of June, and the twenty-fifth day of December, in every year, free and clear of and from all taxes, rates, charges, impositions, and assessments whatsoever, imposed or to be imposed, upon or in respect of the said hereby demised premises, or any part thereof, during the term hereby granted; the first half-yearly payment of the said yearly Rent or Sum of Two pounds and sixteen shillings Sterling to be made on the ...\n\n244\n\n24th day of ... 1846\n\nAND THE SAID Adolphus Edward Shelley for himself, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, doth hereby covenant, promise, and agree, and with Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, by these presents, in manner following, that is to say, that the said Adolphus Edward Shelley, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns shall and will yearly, and every year, during the said term of Seventy-five years hereby granted, well and truly pay, or cause to be paid to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, the said yearly Sum of Two pounds and sixteen shillings Sterling, payable in Dollars at the rate of exchange aforesaid, clear of all taxes and deductions whatsoever, in the several days and times, and in the manner herein before reserved and made payable; AND ALSO that he, the said Adolphus Edward Shelley, his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and will, during the said term hereby granted, bear, pay, and discharge all taxes, charges, and impositions whatsoever, as are or shall be hereafter assessed or charged, on or in anywise imposed upon or in respect of the said premises hereby demised, or intended so to be, or any part thereof. AND that the said Adolphus Edward Shelley, his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall and will, before the expiration of the First year of the term hereby granted, at his and their own proper costs and charges, erect, build, and completely finish, fit for use, one or more good substantial and safe brick or stone house or houses, or tenement, messuages or tenements, upon some part of the ground hereby demised, with proper fences, walls, sewers, drains, and all other usual or necessary appurtenances, and shall and will lay out and expend thereon the sum of ... eight hundred dollars and upwards, which said house or houses, or tenement, messuages or tenements, shall be of the same rate of building, elevation, character, and description, and shall front and range in an uniform manner with the messuages, or tenements in the same street, and the whole to be done to the satisfaction of the Surveyor of Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns; AND ALSO that the said Adolphus Edward Shelley, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and will, from time to time, and at all times, from and after the said house or tenement, erections and buildings, on the said piece of ground hereby demised, shall be respectively completed and finished, during the remainder of the said term hereby granted, when, where, and as often as need or occasion shall be and require, at his and their own proper costs and charges, well and sufficiently repair, uphold, support, maintain, pave, purge, scour, cleanse, empty, amend, and keep the said house or tenement, messuages or tenements, erections and buildings, and all the walls, rails, sights, pavements, privies, sinks, drains, and watercourses thereto belonging, and which shall in anywise belong or appertain unto the same, in, by, and with all and all manner of needful and necessary reparations, cleansings, and amendments whatsoever, the whole to be done to the satisfaction of the Surveyor of Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns: AND THE SAID house or tenement, messuages or tenements, erections, buildings, and premises, so being well and sufficiently repaired, sustained, and amended, at the end, or sooner determination of the said term, shall and will peaceably and quietly deliver up to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns; ...\n\nPage 377", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280409, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "310 \n\n1. For every paid letter, forty centimes per seven grammes and a-half, or fraction of seven grammes and a-half.\n\n2. And for every unpaid letter, eighty centimes per seven grammes and a-half, or fraction of seven grammes and a-half.\n\nReciprocally, the postage to be collected either in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or in the Island of Malta upon paid letters addressed to France and Algeria, as well as upon unpaid letters originating in France and Algeria, shall be as follows, viz.\n\n1. For every paid letter, four pence per quarter of an ounce British, or fraction of a quarter of an ounce British.\n\n2. And for every unpaid letter, eight pence per quarter of an ounce British, or fraction of a quarter of an ounce British.\n\nARTICLE XIV.\n\nThe French Post Office shall pay to the British Post Office, viz. :———\n\n1. For paid letters sent from France or Algeria, addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sum of sixty centimes per thirty grammes, net weight.\n\n2. For paid letters sent from France and Algeria, addressed to the Island of Malta, the sum of forty centimes per thirty grammes, net weight.\n\n3. For unpaid letters sent from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, addressed to France and Algeria, the sum of one franc twenty centimes per thirty grammes, weight net.\n\n4. And for unpaid letters sent from the Island of Malta, addressed to France and Algeria, the sum of eighty centimes per thirty grammes, net weight.\n\nOn its side, the British Post Office shall pay to the French Post Office, viz.:-\n\n1. For paid letters sent from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, addressed to France and Algeria, the sum of one franc per ounce British, net weight.\n\n2. For paid letters sent from the Island of Malta, addressed to France and Algeria, the sum of one franc twenty centimes per ounce British, net weight.\n\n3. For unpaid letters sent from France and Algeria, addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sum of two francs per ounce British, net weight.\n\n4. And for unpaid letters sent from France and Algeria, addressed to the Island of Malta, the sum of two francs forty centimes per ounce British, net weight.\n\nARTICLE XV.\n\nThe rate to be collected in the French Post Offices established in Turkey, in Syria, and in Egypt, as well upon prepaid letters addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Island of Malta, as upon unpaid letters from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and from the Island of Malta, is fixed as follows, viz. :——\n\n1. For every paid letter addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sum of sixty centimes per seven grammes and a-half, or fraction of seven grammes and a-half.\n\n2. For every paid letter addressed to the Island of Malta, the sum of forty centimes per seven grammes and a-half, or fraction of seven grammes and a-half.\n\n3. For every unpaid letter originating in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sum of ninety centimes per seven grammes and a-half, or fraction of seven grammes and a-half.\n\n4. And for every unpaid letter originating in the Island of Malta, the sum of sixty centimes per seven grammes and a-half, or fraction of seven grammes and a-half.\n\nReciprocally, the rate to be collected either in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the Island of Malta, upon paid letters addressed to the French Post Offices established in Turkey, in Syria, and in Egypt, as well as upon unpaid letters from the said Offices, shall be as follows, viz. :--\n\n1. For every paid letter originating in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sum of six pence per quarter of an ounce British, or fraction of a quarter of an ounce British.\n\n6 \n\n1. Pour chaque lettre affranchie, à quarante centimes par sept grammes et demi, ou fraction de sept grammes et demi.\n\n2. Et pour chaque lettre non-affranchie, à quatre-vingts centimes par sept grammes et demi, ou fraction de sept grammes et demi.\n\nRéciproquement, le port à percevoir, soit dans le Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, soit dans l'Ile de Malte, sur les lettres affranchies à destination de la France et de l'Algérie, ainsi que sur les lettres non-affranchies originaires de la France et de l'Algérie, est fixé, savoir :-\n\n1. Pour chaque lettre affranchie, à quatre pence par quart d'once Britannique, ou fraction de quart d'once Britannique.\n\n2. Et pour chaque lettre non-affranchie, à huit pence par quart d'once Britannique, ou fraction de quart d'once Britannique.\n\nARTICLE XIV.\n\nL'Administration des Postes de France paiera à l'Administration des Postes Britanniques, savoir:---\n\n1. Pour les lettres affranchies expédiées de la France et de l'Algérie à destination du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, la somme de soixante centimes par trente grammes, poids net.\n\n2. Pour les lettres affranchies expédiées de la France et de l'Algérie à destination de l'Ile de Malte, la somme de quarante centimes par trente grammes, poids net.\n\n3. Pour les lettres non-affranchies expédiées du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande à destination de la France et de l'Algérie, la somme d'un franc vingt centimes par trente grammes, poids net.\n\n4. Et pour les lettres non-affranchies expédiées de l'Ile de Malte pour la France et l'Algérie, la somme de quatre-vingts centimes par trente grammes, poids net.\n\nDe son côté, l'Administration des Postes Britanniques paiera à l'Administration des Postes de France, savoir:-\n\n1. Pour les lettres affranchies expédiées du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande à destination de la France et de l'Algérie, la somme d'un franc par once Britannique, poids net.\n\n2. Pour les lettres affranchies expédiées de l'Ile de Malte à destination de la France et de l'Algérie, la somme d'un franc vingt centimes par once Britannique, poids net.\n\n3. Pour les lettres non-affranchies expédiées de la France et de l'Algérie à destination du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, la somme de deux francs par once Britannique, poids net.\n\n4. Et pour les lettres non-affranchies expédiées de la France et de l'Algérie à destination de l'Ile de Malte, la somme de deux francs quarante centimes par once Britannique, poids net.\n\nARTICLE XV.\n\nLe port à percevoir dans les Bureaux de Poste Français établis en Turquie, en Syrie, et en Egypte, tant sur les lettres affranchies à destination du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, et de l'Ile de Malte, que sur les lettres non-affranchies provenant du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, et de l'Ile de Malte, est fixé, savoir:\n\n1. Pour chaque lettre affranchie à destination du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, à la somme de soixante centimes par sept grammes et demi, ou fraction de sept grammes et demi.\n\n2. Pour chaque lettre affranchie à destination de l'Ile de Malte, à la somme de quarante centimes par sept grammes et demi, ou fraction de sept grammes et demi.\n\n3. Pour chaque lettre non-affranchie originaire du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, à la somme de quatre-vingt-dix centimes par sept grammes et demi, ou fraction de sept grammes et demi.\n\n4. Et pour chaque lettre non-affranchie originaire de l'Ile de Malte, à la somme de soixante centimes par sept grammes et demi, ou fraction de sept grammes et demi.\n\nRéciproquement, le port à percevoir, soit dans le Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, soit dans l'Ile de Malte, sur les lettres affranchies à destination des Bureaux Français établis en Turquie, en Syrie, et en Egypte, ainsi que sur les lettres non-affranchies provenant des dits Bureaux, est fixé, savoir :----\n\n1. Pour chaque lettre affranchie originaire du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, à la somme de six pence par quart d'once Britannique, ou fraction de quart d'once Britannique.\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280410, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "1. For every paid letter originating in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sum of four pence per quarter of an ounce British, or fraction of a quarter of an ounce British.\n\n2. For every paid letter originating in the Island of Malta, the sum of four pence per quarter of an ounce British, or fraction of a quarter of an ounce British.\n\n3. For every unpaid letter addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sum of nine pence per quarter of an ounce British, or fraction of a quarter of an ounce British.\n\n4. And for every unpaid letter addressed to the Island of Malta, the sum of six pence per quarter of an ounce British, or fraction of a quarter of an ounce British.\n\nARTICLE XVI.\n\nThe French Post Office shall pay to the British Post Office, as well for paid letters from the French Offices established in Turkey, in Syria, and in Egypt, addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or to the Island of Malta, as for unpaid letters forwarded either from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or from the Island of Malta, to the French Offices established in Turkey, in Syria, and in Egypt, as follows,\n\nviz. :-\n\n1. For paid letters addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sum of sixty centimes per thirty grammes, net weight.\n\n2. For paid letters addressed to the Island of Malta, the sum of fifty centimes per thirty grammes, net weight.\n\n3. For unpaid letters originating in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sum of one franc twenty centimes per thirty grammes, net weight.\n\n4. For unpaid letters originating in the Island of Malta, the sum of ninety centimes per thirty grammes net weight.\n\nAs to the rate at which the British Post Office, on its side, shall account to the French Post Office for letters paid, either in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or in the Island of Malta, addressed to the French Offices established in Turkey, in Syria, and in Egypt, as well as for unpaid letters originating in the said Offices, and addressed either to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or to the Island of Malta, it shall be fixed as follows, namely:\n\n1. For paid letters from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sum of one franc eighty centimes per ounce British, net weight.\n\n2. For paid letters originating in the Island of Malta, the sum of one franc ten centimes per ounce British, net weight.\n\n3. For unpaid letters addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the sum of two francs forty centimes per ounce British, net weight.\n\n4. And for unpaid letters addressed to the Island of Malta, the sum of one franc fifty centimes per ounce British, net weight.\n\nARTICLE XVII.\n\nThe inhabitants of the two countries may send registered letters from one country to the other, and, as far as it shall be found practicable, to the countries the correspondence of which shall be transmitted through the respective Offices.\n\nThe postage of registered letters must be always paid in advance as far as the place of destination, and shall be double that of ordinary letters.\n\nARTICLE XVIII.\n\nNewspapers, gazettes, periodical works, stitched or bound books, pamphlets, sheets of music, catalogues, prospectuses, announcements and notices of various kinds, whether printed, engraved, or lithographed, which shall be sent either from France, Algeria, and the French Offices established in Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and to Malta, or from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and from Malta, to France, Algeria, or the French Offices established in Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, shall be prepaid on each side to destination.\n\nIt is expressly agreed that the printed papers which each of the two Offices shall deliver to the other as paid to destination.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280412, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 315, "title": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "313\n\n2\n\nclosed mails to or from Great Britain, by means of the services employed for the conveyance of these last-named mails.\n\nARTICLE XXI.\n\nThe French Post Office shall pay to the British Post Office, for transit through England of letters, newspapers, and other printed papers comprised in the closed mails which the French Post Offices may send or receive by way of England, in accordance with the preceding Article XX, the sum of forty centimes for every thirty grammes of letters, net weight, and the sum of one franc for every kilogramme of newspapers and other printed papers, also net weight.\n\nARTICLE XXII.\n\nThe French Post Office shall pay to the British Post Office, for the sea-conveyance of letters, newspapers, and other printed papers comprised in the closed mails which the French Post Offices may send or receive, in accordance with the preceding Article XX, either by British packets other than those plying between Great Britain and France, or by British private ships departing from or arriving at the ports of Great Britain, the sum of one franc twenty centimes for every thirty grammes of letters, net weight, and the sum of one franc for every kilogramme of printed papers, also net weight.\n\nNevertheless, the rate for sea-conveyance at which the French Post Office shall account to the British Post Office for letters comprised in closed mails conveyed by the British packets, shall be reduced to the sum of sixty centimes for every thirty grammes of letters, net weight, when the distance existing by sea between the port of embarkation and the port of disembarkation of the closed mails shall not exceed two thousand nautical miles.\n\nARTICLE XXIII.\n\nThe French Post Office shall repay to the British Post Office the transit rates which the said British Post Office shall have to pay either to the Post Office of the East Indies for the letters comprised in the closed mails exchanged between France and the French establishments in India by the way of the Isthmus of Suez, or to the Post Office of New Granada on account of the passage across the Isthmus of Darien of the letters comprised in the mails which will be exchanged between France and the West Coast of South America, by way of England and Panamá.\n\nIndependently of the transit rates mentioned above, the French Post Office shall repay to the British Post Office the sums which the said British Post Office may have to pay for the conveyance, either across the Isthmus of Suez or across the Isthmus of Darien, of the mails which the French Post Office shall forward or receive by way of either Isthmus.\n\nARTICLE XXIV.\n\nThe British Post Office shall pay to the French Post Office for the transit rate through France of letters, newspapers, and other printed papers contained in the closed mails which the British Post Office may send or receive by way of France, in accordance with Article XX preceding, as follows:\n\n1. For letters contained in the mails crossing the frontier of France contiguous to Belgium, the sum of forty centimes for every ounce British of letters, net weight.\n\n2. For letters contained in the mails crossing the frontier of France contiguous to the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg or to Rhenish Prussia, the sum of sixty centimes for every ounce British of letters, net weight.\n\n3. For letters contained in the mails crossing the frontier of France contiguous to the Palatinate of the Bavarian Rhine or to the Grand Duchy of Baden, the sum of eighty centimes for every ounce British of letters, net weight.\n\n4. For letters contained in the mails entering or leaving France at points other than those mentioned above, the ...\n\n12\n\nles dépêches closes de ou pour la Grande Bretagne, au moyen des services affectés au transport de dernières dépêches.\n\nARTICLE XXI.\n\nL'Administration des Postes de France paiera à l'Administration des Postes Britanniques, pour prix du transit à travers l'Angleterre des lettres, journaux, et autres imprimés compris dans les dépêches closes que les Bureaux de Poste Français expédieront ou recevront par la voie d'Angleterre, en exécution de l'Article XX précédent, la somme de quarante centimes par chaque trente grammes de lettres, poids net, et la somme d'un franc par chaque kilogramme de journaux et autres imprimés, aussi poids net.\n\nARTICLE XXII.\n\nL'Administration des Postes de France paiera à l'Administration des Postes Britanniques, pour prix du transport par mer, des lettres, journaux, et autres imprimés compris dans les dépêches closes que les Bureaux de Poste Français expédieront ou recevront, en exécution de l'Article XX précédent, soit par des paquebots Britanniques autres que ceux naviguant entre la Grande Bretagne et la France, soit par des bâtiments Britanniques du commerce partant ou à destination des ports de la Grande Bretagne, la somme d'un franc vingt centimes par chaque trente grammes de lettres, poids net, et la somme d'un franc par chaque kilogramme d'imprimés, aussi poids net.\n\nToutefois, le prix de transport, par mer, dont l'Administration des Postes de France devra tenir compte à l'Administration des Postes Britanniques, pour les lettres comprises dans les dépêches closes transportées par les paquebots Britanniques, sera réduit à la somme de soixante centimes par chaque trente grammes de lettres, poids net, lorsque la distance existant par mer entre le port d'embarquement et le port de débarquement des dépêches closes n'excédera pas deux mille milles marins.\n\nARTICLE XXIII.\n\nL'Administration des Postes de France remboursera à l'Administration des Postes Britanniques les droits de transit que la dite Administration des Postes Britanniques aura à payer soit à l'Office des Postes des Indes Orientales pour les lettres comprises dans les dépêches closes échangées entre la France et les établissements Français dans l'Inde par la voie de l'Isthme de Suez, soit à l'Administration des Postes de la Nouvelle Grenade à raison du passage par l'Isthme de Darien des lettres comprises dans les dépêches qui seront échangées entre la France et les Côtes Occidentales de l'Amérique, par la voie de l'Angleterre et de Panamá.\n\nIndépendamment des droits de transit ci-dessus mentionnés, l'Administration des Postes de France remboursera à l'Administration des Postes Britanniques les sommes que la dite Administration des Postes Britanniques pourra avoir à payer pour faire transporter, soit à travers l'Isthme de Suez, soit à travers l'Isthme de Darien, les dépêches que l'Administration des Postes de France expédiera ou recevra par la voie de l'un ou de l'autre Isthme.\n\nARTICLE XXIV.\n\nL'Administration des Postes de la Grande Bretagne paiera à l'Administration des Postes de France, pour prix du transit à travers la France des lettres, journaux, et autres imprimés contenues dans les dépêches closes que les Bureaux de Poste Britanniques expédieront ou recevront par la voie de la France, en exécution de l'Article XX précédent, savoir:\n\n1. Pour les lettres contenues dans les dépêches traversant la frontière de France contigüe à la Belgique, la somme de quarante centimes par chaque once Britannique de lettres, poids net.\n\n2. Pour les lettres contenues dans les dépêches traversant la frontière de France contigüe au Grand Duché de Luxembourg ou à la Prusse Rhénane, la somme de soixante centimes par chaque once Britannique de lettres, poids net.\n\n3. Pour les lettres contenues dans les dépêches traversant la frontière de France contigüe au Palatinat du Rhin Bavarois ou au Grand Duché de Bade, la somme de quatre-vingts centimes par chaque once Britannique de lettres, poids net.\n\n4. Pour les lettres contenues dans les dépêches entrant en France, ou sortant de France, par des points autres ...\n\n13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291172, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "content_text": "# 335\n\n4. A school receiving a grant must be----\n\n(a) Open at all times to Government inspection.\n\n(b) Represented by a Manager, distinct from the teacher, who will conduct all correspondence with the Government, sign the Receipt for the grant, and furnish all Returns which the Government may require.\n\n5. In the case of Chinese schools not under European supervision, the Inspector will be Manager when necessary.\n\n6. The Government will not bind itself to give grants to all schools claiming them under the foregoing conditions, but will be guided by the circumstances of each case, and by the amount of money at its disposal for educational purposes. In all cases where a grant is refused, the reasons for the refusal will be given.\n\n7. The Government will reserve to itself the power to withdraw or reduce grants. In all cases, the reasons for the withdrawal or reduction will be given. No grant will be withdrawn, or materially reduced, until a second examination has been held by the examiner assisted by two assessors, the one chosen by the Government and the other by the Manager.\n\n8. One-fourth of the total grant made to a school will be handed to the teacher as a personal payment.\n\n9. A detailed account, with proper vouchers, of the expenditure of the remaining three-fourths must be furnished by the Manager annually.\n\n10. Grants will be made for definite results in **SECULAR INSTRUCTION** only.\n\n11. These results will be ascertained at the annual examination of the school by the Inspector, or by such examiners as the Government may appoint.\n\n12. Examiners who are not in the service of the Government will be paid for their assistance.\n\n13. Schools eligible for grants-in-aid will be—\n| Class | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| I | Schools in which a Chinese education is given. |\n| II | Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition. |\n| III | Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language. |\n| IV | Schools in which a European education is given in any European language. |\n| V | Schools in which a European education is given in any European language, with Chinese in addition. |\n\n14. The basis of examination will be two hundred daily attendances of not less than four hours each, at secular instruction, in the course of the year.\n\n15. Children who have satisfied that condition will be examined in accordance with the following standards.\n\n16. For Schools in Class I. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given.)\n\n### STANDARD I\n1. Reading-Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From dictation, five common characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition-Two pages of the same book.\nValue of a pass in this Standard, two dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition-A short paragraph of the same book.\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\nValue of a pass in this Standard, four dollars.\n\n### STANDARD III\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition-A short paragraph of the same book.\n4. Explanation-The first fifty characters of the same book.\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars.\n\n### STANDARD IV\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation-Simple phrases in the first ten pages of the same book.\n4. Composition-An antithetical sentence () of not more than three characters.\n5. Geography-General outlines of China Proper.\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD V\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation-A passage not exceeding twenty characters in the same book. Orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n4. Composition-A very short theme.\n5. Geography-The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\n### STANDARD VI\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Sixth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation-A passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book. Orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n4. Composition-A short theme.\n5. Geography-The Chinese Empire.\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n17. For Schools in Class II. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition.)\n\n### STANDARD I\nThe same as Standard I for schools in Class I.\nValue of a pass in this Standard, two dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II\nIn addition to Standard II for schools in Class I,\n4. English Reading-A short sentence from the First Book used in the school, with explanation of single words in Chinese.\n5. English Writing-From dictation, a short sentence in the same book.\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\nValue of a pass in this Standard, four dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD III\nIn addition to Standard III for schools in Class I,\n5. English Reading-A short passage in the Second Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n6. English Writing-From dictation, an ordinary sentence in the same book.\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in five of the other subjects.\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars and a half.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291173, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "content_text": "336\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\nIn addition to Standard IV for schools in Class I,\n\n6. English Reading. A short passage in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n\n7. English Writing. From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n\n8. English Grammar. Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars and a half.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\nIn addition to Standard V for schools in Class I,\n\n6. English Reading. A short passage in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n\n7. English Writing. From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n\n8. English Grammar. Parsing a simple sentence in the same book.\n\n9. Geography. Outlines of Asia and Africa.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in eight of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars and a half.\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n\nIn addition to Standard VI for schools in Class I,\n\n6. English Reading. An ordinary prose passage chosen by the examiner, with explanation in Chinese.\n\n7. English Writing. A short theme or letter.\n\n8. English Grammar. Analysis and parsing of a short ordinary sentence chosen by the examiner.\n\n9. Geography. Outlines of Europe and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nEnglish copy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars and a half.\n\n18. For Schools in Class III. (Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading. Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. Five common characters from dictation.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Notation.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, two dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Simple Addition and Subtraction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of pass in this Standard, four dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Simple Multiplication, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, thirty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic. The Simple Rules.\n\n4. Geography. General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Reduction (Chinese Tables) and Simple Proportion, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography. The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\n5. History. The first half of the History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in any book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography. The Chinese Empire.\n\n5. History. The History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\nNote. The school books may be wholly or partially in the Romanized Character, at the option of the Manager.\n\n19. For Schools in Class IV. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading. Accurate pronunciation of each word in a passage not exceeding five lines in the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. Copy on a slate or black board a line of print the same book, and write from dictation a few common words.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Notation, Simple Addition, and Subtraction.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, two dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading. Slow and distinct reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same Book slowly read once, and then dictated in single words.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Multiplication Table, Simple Multiplication and Division, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, four dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading. Clear and intelligible reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Third Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Compound Rules and Reduction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Grammar. Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the Reading Book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 295768, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6]", "page_number": 230, "title": "CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6]", "content_text": "## STANDARD III\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Simple Multiplication, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in all of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n## STANDARD IV\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, thirty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic. The Simple Rules.\n\n4. Geography. General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in all of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\n## STANDARD V\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Reduction (Chinese Tables) and Simple Proportion, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography. The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\n5. History. The first half of the History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n## STANDARD VI\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in any book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography. The Chinese Empire.\n\n5. History. The History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\nNote. The school books may be wholly or partially in the Romanized Character, at the option of the Master.\n\n## 19. For Schools in Class IV. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.)\n\n### STANDARD I\n\n1. Reading. Accurate pronunciation of each word in a passage not exceeding five lines in the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. Copy on a slate or black board a line of print in the same book, and write from dictation a few common words.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Notation, Simple Addition, and Subtraction.\n\nValue of pass in this Standard, two dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II\n\n1. Reading. Slow and distinct reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same Book slowly read once, and then dictated in single words.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Multiplication Table, Simple Multiplication and Division, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in all of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, four dollars.\n\n### STANDARD III\n\n1. Reading. Clear and intelligible reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Third Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Compound Rules and Reduction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Grammar. Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the Reading Book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in all of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD IV\n\n1. Reading. Intelligent reading of a prose passage not exceeding fifteen lines in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Simple and Compound Proportion, Simple Interest, and Practice, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Grammar. Parsing, orally or in writing at the option of the examiner, a simple sentence from the Reading Book.\n\n5. Geography. Map of the World (general outlines) and Europe.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in all of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n### STANDARD V\n\n223\n\n1. Reading. Fluent and intelligent reading of a short ordinary paragraph chosen by the examiner from some common book or newspaper.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner. Writing, spelling, and grammar will be taken into account.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Grammar. Analysis and parsing, orally or in writing, of a complex sentence chosen by the examiner from an ordinary book or newspaper.\n\n5. Geography. Asia, Africa, and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\n### STANDARD VI\n\n1. Reading. To read with fluency and expression any ordinary piece of prose or poetry chosen by the examiner.\n\n2. Writing. A short theme, or letter, or easy paraphrase. Writing, spelling, and grammar will be taken into account.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Compound Interest, Square and Cube Root, Profit and Loss, and Progression, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Grammar. Analysis and parsing, orally or in writing, of an ordinary stanza of poetry chosen by the examiner.\n\n5. Geography. Ability to draw from memory a map of any of the Continents, the map to include the principal rivers, mountains, and cities in the Continent prescribed.\n\n6. History. The first hundred pages of the History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n## 20. For Schools in Class V. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language, with Chinese in addition.)\n\n### STANDARD I\n\nThe same as Standard I for schools in Class IV.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, two dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II\n\nIn addition to Standard II for schools in Class IV,\n\n4. Chinese Reading. A page of the First Book used in the school, with explanation of single words in the principal language taught in the school.\n\n5. Chinese Writing. From dictation, ten common characters.\n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, four dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD III\n\nIn addition to Standard III for schools in Class IV,\n\n5. Chinese Reading. Two pages of the Second Book used in the school, with explanation.\n\n6. Chinese Writing. From dictation, twenty characters in the same book.\n\n7. Chinese Speaking. Turning very short sentences into colloquial Chinese.\n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in six of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD IV\n\nIn addition to Standard IV for schools in Class IV,\n\n6. Chinese Reading. A short passage in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation.\n\n7. Chinese Writing. From dictation, forty characters in the same book.\n\n8. Chinese Speaking. Turning short sentences into colloquial Chinese.\n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD V\n\nIn addition to Standard V for schools in Class IV,\n\n6. Chinese Reading. A short passage in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation.\n\n7. Chinese Writing. From memory, a short passage in the same book.\n\n8. Chinese Speaking. Turning a short passage in the same book into colloquial Chinese.\n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD VI\n\nIn addition to Standard VI for schools in Class IV,\n\n7. Chinese Reading. An ordinary passage from a Chinese newspaper, with explanation.\n\n8. Chinese Writing. A short letter.\n\n9. Chinese Speaking. Fluent and correct colloquial Chinese.\n\nChinese copy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars and a half.\n\n## 21. In all cases where copy writing is taken, not less than one month's work must be shown to the examiner.\n\n## 23. Scholars who are presented under Standards IV, V, and VI for schools in Classes III, IV, and V, may also be examined in one or more of the following subjects, namely: Algebra, Geometry, Physical Geography, and the Natural Sciences, provided they have previously passed in all the subjects contained in the Standards under which they are presented, provided the subjects are taught in such a way as to graduate the instruction to the different standards. For example:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298900, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "content_text": "(Signed) H. H. Nelson\n\nChairman of the Board of Directors\n\nof the China Trader's Ins. Comp. Ltd.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nGandhina Shetan\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend \"The Companies Ordinance, 1865,\" and to repeal Ordinance No. 4 of 1876.\n\n1876.]\n\nTitle.\n\nlimited by shares and registered in the Colony the power of sub-dividing their shares, and to amend \"The Companies Ordinance, 1865\" Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as\n\nexpedient to held Preamble.\n\nfollows:-\n\nI. Ordinance No. 4 of 1876 is hereby repealed.\n\nOrdinance No. 4 of 1876 repealed.\n\nII. This Ordinance may be cited as \"The Companies Ordinance, Short title.\n\n1876.\"\n\nIII. \"The Companies Ordinance, 1865\" is hereinafter referred Ordinance to to as \"The Principal Ordinance;\" and the principal Ordinance he construed and this Ordinance are hereinafter distinguished as and may be No. 1 of 1865.\n\ncited as \"The Companies Ordinances, 1865 and 1876;\" and this (30 & 31 Vic. Ordinance shall, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, bec. 131 a. 23.\n\nconstrued as one with the principal Ordinance; and the expression \"This Ordinance\" in the principal Ordinance, and any expression referring to the principal Ordinance, which occurs in any Ordinance, or other document, shall be construed to mean the principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance.\n\nUnlimited Liability of Directors.\n\nIV. Where after the commencement of this Ordinance a com-Company may pany is formed as a limited company under the principal Ordi- base directors nance, the liability of the directors or managers of such company, liability.\n\nwith unlimited\n\nor the managing director, may, if so provided by the memorandum of association, be unlimited.\n\nV. The following modifications shall be made in the thirty-Liability of seventh section of the principal Ordinance, with respect to the director, past contributions to be required in the event of the winding-up of a and present, where liability limited company under the principal Ordinance, from any director is unlimited. or manager whose liability is, in pursuance of this Ordinance, (sec. 5).\n\nunlimited:\n\n(1.) Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, any such director or manager, whether past or present, shall, in addition to his liability (if any) to contribute as an ordinary member, be liable to contribute as if he were at the date of the commencement of such winding-up a member of an unlimited company.\n\n(2.) No contribution required from any past director or manager who has ceased to hold such office for a period of one year or upwards prior to the commencement of the winding-up shall exceed the amount (if any) which he is liable to contribute as an ordinary member of the company.\n\n(3.) No contribution required from any past director or manager in respect of any debt or liability of the company contracted after the time at which he ceased to hold such office shall exceed the amount (if any) which he is liable to contribute as an ordinary member of the company.\n\n(4.) Subject to the provisions contained in the regulations of the company no contribution required from any director or manager shall exceed the amount (if any) which he is liable to contribute as an ordinary member, unless the court deems it necessary to require such contribution in order to satisfy the debts and liabilities of the company, and the costs, charges, and expenses\n\nof the winding-up.\n\nVI. In the event of the winding-up of any limited company, Director with the court, if it think it, may make to any director or manager of unlimited such company, whose liability is unlimited, the same allowance have set-off as by way of set-off as under the ninety-eighth section of the matter principal Ordinance it may make to a contributory where the No. 1 of 1865,\n\n[sec.).\n\ncompany is not limited.\n\n98 of\n\nVII. In any limited company in which, in pursuance of this Notice to be Ordinance, the liability of a director or manager is unlimited, given to\n\ndirector on his the directors or managers of the company (if any), and the member who proposes any person for election or appointment to such is liability office, shall add to such proposal a statement that the liability of will be the person holding such office will be unlimited, and the promoters, unlimited.\n\ndirectors, managers, and secretary (if any) of such company, or [sec. 7].\n\none of them, shall, before such person accepts such office or acts therein, give him notice in writing that his liability will be unlimited.\n\nPage 364\n\nA\n\n246", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299533, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "364\n\n326\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST AUGUST, 1875.\n\nexecute all and every the said powers and authorities, until Our further pleasure shall be signified therein, and according to such instructions as Our said Governor may receive, and such further instructions as such Lieutenant-Governor, Colonial Secretary, or other person as aforesaid, may receive from Us, either under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or by instructions under the hand of one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.\n\nII. And whereas, by Our said recited Letters Patent, We have (amongst other things) given and granted unto Our said Governor full power and authority, as he should see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, to grant certain pardons to offenders in the manner and on the terms therein mentioned. And whereas it is expedient to authorize and empower Our said Governor, as he shall see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, when any crime has been committed within Our said Colony, to grant a pardon to accomplices, not being the actual perpetrator of such crime, who shall give such information and evidence as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the principal offender.\n\nAll persons called upon to be obedient, aiding, and assisting to the Governor.\n\nIII. And We do hereby require and command all Our officers and ministers, civil and military, and all other the inhabitants of Our said Colony of Hong Kong, to be obedient, aiding, and assisting to such person as may, in the event of the death, incapacity, or absence of the Governor of Our said Colony of Hong Kong, assume and exercise, under the provisions of these Our Letters Patent, the functions of such Governor.\n\nIV. And We do hereby reserve to Us, Our heirs and successors, full power and authority, from time to time, to revoke, alter, or amend these Our Letters Patent as to Us or them shall seem meet.\n\nPower reserved to Her Majesty to revoke, alter, or amend the present Letters Patent.\n\nNo. 148.\n\nIn Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the Eighth day of June, in the Thirty-eighth year of Our reign.\n\nBy Warrant under the Queen's Sign Manual,\n\nC. ROMILLY.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following Return, received from Mr. JOHN JACK, of the quantity of Spirits distilled at the Hongkong Distillery, is published for general information.\n\nSpirits manufactured during the Quarter ending 10th August, 1875, ...\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th August, 1875.\n\nNo. 149.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nGallons. ... 26,840.\n\nCECIL C. SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe following Order made by His Excellency the Administrator in Council under \"The Hongkong Lighthouses Ordinance, 1873,\" is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th August, 1875.\n\nTHE LIGHTHOUSES ORDINANCE, 1873.\n\nNo. 17 OF 1873.\n\nORDER\n\nCECIL C. SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nMade by His Excellency the Administrator in Council, this 19th day of August, 1875.\n\nBy virtue of the provisions of the above-mentioned Ordinance, it is ordered,—\n\nThat the River Steamer Ichang belonging to the China Navigation Company, Limited, be exempted from the payment of Light Dues so long as she enters the waters of the Colony by day.\n\nH. ERNEST WODEHOUSE,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nApproved in Council,\n\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN,\n\nAdministrator and Commander-in-Chief.\n\n1\n\nNo. 150.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST AUGUST, 1875.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\n327\n\nThe following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held at British Kowloon on Monday, 30th August, 1875, at 4.30 P.M., are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nCECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th August, 1875.\n\nParticulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 30th August, 1875, at 4.30 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Administrator, of Two Lots of Crown Land in the Dependency of Kowloon for a Term of Fourteen Years.\n\nPARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.\n\n \n LOCALITY\n No. of Lots\n Registry No.\n N.\n S.\n E.\n W.\n Contents in Square ft.\n Annual Rent\n Upset Price\n \n \n Tsim Tsa Tsui,\n 1\n No. 59\n 200.0 feet\n 200.0 feet\n 320.0 feet\n 320.0 feet\n 64,000\n $29.38\n $20.00\n \n \n Yan-ma-ti,\n 2\n 54\n 300.0 feet\n 328.01 feet\n 600.0 feet\n (421.0 feet\n 182,306\n $83.78\n $05.00\n \n\nCONDITIONS OF SALE.\n\n1. The highest bidder above the upset price shall be the Purchaser, and if any dispute arise, the Lot shall be put up again at a former bidding.\n\n2. No person shall at any bidding advance less than $5.\n\n3. Immediately after the fall of the hammer, the Purchaser shall sign the Memorandum of Agreement hereinafter contained for completing the purchase according to these conditions, and shall within Three Days of the day of Sale pay into the Colonial Treasury the full amount of Premium at which the Lot shall have been knocked down.\n\n4. The Purchaser of the Lot shall be entitled to and shall execute on demand a Lease from the Crown of the Piece or Parcel of Ground comprised in such Lot for 14 Years terminable at the expiration of 7 Years, to be computed from the 25th day of June, 1875, at such Annual Rental payable half-yearly on the 24th day of June, and the 25th day of December in every Year as is specified in the Particulars of such Lot hereinbefore contained; and such Crown Lease shall be subject to and contain all Exceptions, Reservations, Covenants, Clauses, and Conditions inserted in the Crown Lease of Garden Lots in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n5. The Purchaser of the Lot shall pay to the Surveyor General on behalf of Her Majesty The QUEEN, a Fee of $5 upon the execution of the Crown Lease thereof.\n\n6. Should the Purchaser neglect or fail to comply with these Conditions, his Premium or any portion thereof which may be paid shall be thereupon forfeited to Her Majesty, who shall be at full liberty either to enforce the Sale, or to re-sell the Property at such time and place, and in such manner as to Her Majesty shall seem fit, and in case of a re-sale the increase, if any, of the Premium or Purchase Money shall be retained by Her Majesty, and the deficiency, if any, and all Costs and Expenses shall be made good by the defaulter and be recoverable as liquidated damages.\n\n7. Possession of the Lot sold shall be given to the Purchaser, and deemed to have been taken by him on the day of Sale.\n\n8. The Purchaser of the Lot shall within One Month from the day of Sale mark out the boundaries of his Lot by fixing granite boundary posts, of not less than 9 inches square, at each angle of the said Lot.\n\nMEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BY THE PURCHASER.\n\nMemorandum that the person whose name is hereunder written has been declared the highest bidder for the Lot described in the foregoing Particulars of Sale and hereunder specified opposite to his said name and signature and does hereby agree to become the Lessee thereof under and subject to the foregoing Conditions of Sale and on his part to perform and abide by the said Conditions.\n\n \n Number of Sale and Registry Number Lots\n Description of Lot Purchased\n Amount of Annual Rental\n Premium at which Purchased\n Signatures of Purchasers", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299912, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "content_text": "~ 240\n\n12. Examiners who are not in the service of the Government will be paid for their assistance.\n\n18. Schools eligible for grants-in-aid will be-\n\nClass I.-Schools in which a Chinese education is given.\n\nClass II.-Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition.\n\nClass III.-Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.\n\nClass IV.-Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.\n\nClass V.-Schools in which a European education is given in any European language, with Chinese in addition.\n\n14. The basis of examination will be two hundred daily attendances of not less than four hours each, at secular instruction, in the course of the year.\n\n15. Children who have satisfied that condition will be examined in accordance with the following standards, and they may not be withheld from examination without a reasonable excuse. The result of the examination of each scholar will be communicated to the Managers.\n\n16. For Schools in Class I. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading. Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, five common characters in the same book.\n\n3. Repetition. Two pages of the same book.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Repetition. A short paragraph of the same book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Repetition. A short paragraph of the same book.\n\n4. Explanation. The characters in the passage read.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Explanation. Simple phrases in the passage read.\n\n4. Composition. An antithetical sentence of not more than three characters.\n\n5. Geography. General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Explanation. A passage not exceeding twenty characters in the same book. Orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n\n4. Composition. A very short theme.\n\n5. Geography. The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Sixth Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Explanation. A passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book. Orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n\n4. Composition. A short theme.\n\n5. Geography. The Chinese Empire.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\nNote. In Girls' schools, Repetition may be substituted for Composition in Standards IV., V. and VI.\n\n17. For Schools in Class II. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\nThe same as Standard I for schools in Class I.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\nIn addition to Standard II for schools in Class I,\n\n4. English Reading. A short sentence from the First Book used in the school, with explanation of single words in Chinese.\n\n5. English Writing. From dictation, a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars and a half.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\nIn addition to Standard III for schools in Class I,\n\n5. English Reading. A short passage in the Second Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n\n6. English Writing. From dictation, an ordinary sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in five of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars and a half.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\nIn addition to Standard IV for schools in Class I,\n\n6. English Reading. A short passage in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n\n7. English Writing. From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n\n8. English Grammar. Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars and a half.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\nIn addition to Standard V for schools in Class I,\n\n6. English Reading. A short passage in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n\n7. English Writing. From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n\n8. English Grammar. Parsing a simple sentence in the same book.\n\n9. Geography. Outlines of Asia and Africa.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in eight of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars and a half.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299913, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "content_text": "241\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n\nIn addition to Standard VI for schools in Class I,\n\n6. English Reading.-An ordinary prose passage chosen by the examiner, with explanation in Chinese.\n\n7. English Writing.-A short theme or letter.\n\n8. English Grammar.-Analysis and parsing of a short ordinary sentence chosen by the examiner.\n\n9. Geography-Outlines of Europe and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nEnglish copy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars and a half.\n\n18. For Schools in Class III. (Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading. Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing-Five common characters from dictation.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Notation.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Simple Addition and Subtraction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Simple Multiplication, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, thirty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-The Simple Rules.\n\n4. Geography-General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Reduction (Chinese Tables) and Simple Proportion, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography.—The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\n5. History. The first half of the History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in any book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing.-From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography. The Chinese Empire.\n\n5. History. The History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\nNote.-The school books may be wholly or partially in the Romanized Character, at the option of the Manager. When the Romanized Character is used, the passages selected for examination will be of the same length as those for schools in Class IV.\n\n19. For Schools in Class IV. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading. Accurate pronunciation of each word in a passage not exceeding five lines in the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. Copy on a slate or black board a line of print in the same book, and write from dictation a few common words.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Notation, Simple Addition, and Subtraction.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading.-Slow and distinct reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same Book slowly read once, and then dictated in single words.\n\n3. Arithmetic-Multiplication Table, Simple Multiplication and Division, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading-Clear and intelligible reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Third Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Compound Rules and Reduction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Grammar-Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the Reading Book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading.-Intelligent reading of a prose passage not exceeding fifteen lines in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing.-A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Simple and Compound Proportion, Simple Interest, and Practice, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Grammar.-Parsing, orally or in writing at the option of the examiner, a simple sentence from the Reading Book.\n\n5. Geography.-Map of the World (general outlines) and Europe.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 300067, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "content_text": "395\n\nTHE FAMINE IN SHANTUNG.\n\nTo the Editor of\n\nTHE SHANGHAI COURIER AND CHINA GAZETTE.\n\nSir,-The suffering here is terrible. Almost the whole province of Shantung suffers severely from the effects of the drought of last year; but the suffering of the eight hien, for the relief of which the Government has made a grant of Tls. 45,000 (a mere pittance for such a calamity) is beyond description. These eight hien are Lin-k'ü, I-in, Ch'ang-lo, Wei-hien, Tungan, Show-kwang, Lin-tsz, Fo-bing. Of these, Liu-k'ü, which suffers most, received Tls. 10,000 for relief.\n\nIn the course of my inquiries, I visited twenty villages. At Li-kin-chwang, out of a hundred families, formerly well off, thirty persons were already dead of starvation. At Fo-wang, out of sixty families, forty persons were dead, and many gone away. At Min-seong, out of forty families, forty individuals had perished.\n\nThese are not picked out as specimens of the greatest suffering. In the same twenty li, I saw a man dead on the roadside, with a dog watching his corpse. Before I went out of sight of this distressing spectacle, I met a father and son carrying a beam back with them. They had come thirty li to sell it for fuel and would get only one hundred and fifty cash for it. The son had not recovered from illness, but was forced to get up or starve.\n\nEntering one of the villages, I inquired if everyone had starved. \"As for starving, there is this house,\" they said, \"it had seven persons two months ago, only a boy of thirteen remains, and who will die in a day or two.\" (This boy I took under my care).\n\nA few li further on, a number of people were picking grain husks from a corpse close by. At the end of the twenty li, we found that the only schoolmaster in that village had died of starvation a few days ago. I took in his starving boy.\n\nThe cases just mentioned occurred within such a short distance as twenty li. I do not complete the list. I have another little boy, the only one left of a family of six. The grandmother committed suicide, the father and a sister died of starvation, another sister was sold, the mother got married (anything to live).\n\nMany people eat grain-husks, potato stalks, and cha bark, buckwheat stalks, and grass reeds which they gather in the fields and dry. When these are exhausted, they pull down their houses, sell their timber, and it is reported everywhere that many eat the rotten kaoliang reeds (stalks) from the roof and the dried leaves of which they usually burn for fuel.\n\nOf their clothing, little remains, and many take refuge in pits built underground to keep themselves warm by the fetid breath of the crowd, which is bought dearly. In the suburb of Ching-chow city, there are four such pits. One has heaps of doors and windows cast up for fuel.\n\nEvery village presents the appearance of desolation. Villagers of 300 families report 800 dead of starvation; villages of 300 report one hundred persons dead.\n\nThe suffering is far more intense than that caused by the rebels. Land to sell can only be disposed of at an astounding reduction of 80 per cent. One hundred thousand worth is now daily sold at fifteen thousand.\n\nIt is seriously calculated that in many villages only half of the inhabitants will see the wheat ripen. I trust that for this extraordinary distress, extraordinary generosity will be shown. It is not charity to the poor for which I plead, but life to the dead.\n\nThere is not a moment to be lost—thousands are dying while I write, and thousands more will have died before this can reach you. The mortality is on the increase.\n\nThe ground is covered with corpses so that the poor creatures can pick up nothing to stay the pangs of their hunger. Three months hence, some weeds will grow, and on these the poor creatures can support themselves.\n\nThe Government is far too careless (or rather helpless). Let us foreigners show a better example and help our fellowmen.\n\nInstead of indiscriminately distributing the balance of the money forwarded to me by the Rev. J. Lees, I have opened four places at Show-kwang, a big hien, which contains one thousand six hundred villages.\n\nA moderate hien has about a thousand villages. Leave you to calculate the thousands upon thousands which must have perished already.\n\nOne of a family of four, three are dead of starvation, and the fourth, a little boy, is under my care; another little boy not recovered from small-pox was brought to me because his father died last night.\n\nA young woman of twenty was found dead in a temple close by this morning. \"Who is dead or dying?\" is the subject of everybody's conversation, and the worst is yet to come, I fear.\n\nThe number of those who go for gruel daily is so great that they get only six or eight cash worth each (and that is not at the cheap rate of Tls. 0.30 per day).\n\nMany have had nothing but this to live upon for some time. Such people are getting so weak that young women of twenty cannot walk the distance of ten li for it, so they will linger on for a few days and die.\n\nIf it is thus with the youths, what must be the condition of children and old people? There is no help for them but to wait their doom.\n\nWhat I have done for those with the money at my disposal, I will let you know at another time.\n\nBesides those now at home, as many and probably more families have broken up forever, each one to struggle for life as shipwrecked sailors struggle with the waves.\n\nMany parents will never see their children again, and many children will come back to learn that their parents have died from the famine.\n\nSuch suffering is sufficient to wring the hardest heart. The snow is on the ground, and the poor creatures are not only starving but facing death.\n\nNone could see their pitiable condition without helping them. Cannot the natives of Shanghai be also stirred up to do something for Lin-k'ü, which is said to be suffering most intensely also?\n\nBesides crying to Heaven for the grand mercy they have had in the neighbourhood of Shanghai, perhaps pity for their fellowmen will surely yield something.\n\nAlas! there are no means of speedy communication, but I will yet wait on in faith, believing that some measure of succor will be sent.\n\nNot since the 1st year of Kian-lung, ninety years ago, has there been any such suffering in this province as now exists.\n\nThe cry of thousands in agony from hunger and cold day and night incessantly is ringing in our ears, and by generous and immediate aid, many of them may yet be saved.\n\nThree months hence, it will be too late.\n\nIn one hien, the suffering is far less efficiently relieved there than in other places.\n\nYours truly,\n\n12th February.\n\nTIMOTHY RICHARD.\n\nDEAR SIR,-\n\nSince writing the above, my teacher, whom I sent three days ago to make inquiries about Lin-k'ü, returned, and gives still more harrowing accounts of things there.\n\nOne village with one hundred and eighty inhabitants last summer, now there remain ninety-three only, forty are dead, and the rest gone away.\n\nConsidering the number of the dead and the expense of burying, a pit has been dug in the south-east suburb. It is called Nan-she-king (ten thousand man pit), and there the dead are buried.\n\nI have received private letters from the Rev. A. Toussaint of I-chow-fu, from which I learn that the residents and natives there are doing all they can to relieve the distress in the interior as well as that of the sufferers who have come to I-chow-fu.\n\nThere he saw some of the few dogs able to stand, feeding on the corpses.\n\nSpeaking after careful calculation, in the language of sober and truth, it is said that one-half of the people in many villages of Lin-k'ü will not live to see the wheat crop ripen.\n\nI am also informed that corn can be procured in the famine-stricken district, so that money will afford ready means of relief.\n\nThe Rev. Dr. Nevins has started for Ching-chow, which he hopes to reach by the 15th of this month, and the Rev. Mr. Corbett follows him at once.\n\nThe distribution of such funds as may be sent to the sufferers will therefore be easy, as up to the latest dates of Mr. Richard's letters, the people were remarkably quiet, suffering in patience.\n\nI have also received several reports of the distress written in Chinese. These will be used through the Shanghai and other channels to inform the natives of the extent of the sufferings of their countrymen.\n\nIt is intended to have the matter brought before some of the energetic and wealthy Chinese of the settlement so as to have a relief fund begun among them.\n\nIt is also proposed to appeal to all the open ports of China and Japan as well as to the Straits Settlements.\n\nI am instructed to state that the British and United States Consuls at Chefoo will immediately transmit to the three gentlemen I have named all sums sent to them.\n\nYours truly,\n\nJAMES TUPPER.\n\nShanghai, 7th March, 1877.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 300699, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]", "content_text": "despatch- of January last; and in the No. 60 of the 19th of July I laid before Your Lordship a return of nine of those prisoners who had been sent off in one batch on the 22nd of January, after having served one third of their sentences in the Hongkong Gaol: the sentences ranging from 8 years penal servitude to 3 months imprisonment.\n\n2. On making further enquiry, I find that the total number branded and deported that month was fifty. In addition to these, forty-three convicted prisoners were deported, in the same month without branding. Of the latter number, thirty-nine had been convicted of mendicancy. On the whole it therefore appears that eighty-three convicted prisoners were deported in the month of January 1877. In the five following months of the present year one hundred and six prisoners were deported, including eighty-three convicted of mendicancy. During the year 1876, there were three hundred and eighty-four prisoners deported from Hongkong to China, and of these three hundred had been convicted of mendicancy.\n\n4. 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The corrected and formatted text is as follows:\n\nPage 3\n\n456\n\ndespatch- of January last; and in the No. 60 of the 19th of July I laid before Your Lordship a return of nine of those prisoners who had been sent off in one batch on the 22nd of January, after having served one third of their sentences in the Hongkong Gaol: the sentences ranging from 8 years penal servitude to 3 months imprisonment.\n\n2.\n\nOn making further enquiry, I find that the total number branded and deported that month was fifty. In addition to these, forty-three convicted prisoners were deported, in the same month without branding. Of the latter number, thirty-nine had been convicted of mendicancy. On the whole it therefore appears that eighty-three convicted prisoners were deported in the month of January 1877. In the five following months of the present year one hundred and six prisoners were deported, including eighty-three convicted of mendicancy. During the year 1876, there were three hundred and eighty-four prisoners deported from Hongkong to China, and of these three hundred had been convicted of mendicancy.\n\n4. In transmitting the Ordinance No. 8 of 1876 for consolidating...\n\nPage 106\n\nPage 93\n\nPage 23\n\nPage 304\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 84\n\nPage 43\n\nPage 39\n\nHowever, to strictly follow the format and remove the seemingly misplaced page numbers at the end, the revised output is:\n\nPage 3\n\n456\n\ndespatch- of January last; and in the No. 60 of the 19th of July I laid before Your Lordship a return of nine of those prisoners who had been sent off in one batch on the 22nd of January, after having served one third of their sentences in the Hongkong Gaol: the sentences ranging from 8 years penal servitude to 3 months imprisonment.\n\n2.\n\nOn making further enquiry, I find that the total number branded and deported that month was fifty. In addition to these, forty-three convicted prisoners were deported, in the same month without branding. Of the latter number, thirty-nine had been convicted of mendicancy. On the whole it therefore appears that eighty-three convicted prisoners were deported in the month of January 1877. In the five following months of the present year one hundred and six prisoners were deported, including eighty-three convicted of mendicancy. During the year 1876, there were three hundred and eighty-four prisoners deported from Hongkong to China, and of these three hundred had been convicted of mendicancy.\n\n4. In transmitting the Ordinance No. 8 of 1876 for consolidating...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301292, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "page_number": 420, "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "content_text": "# EXPLOSION ON THE “YESSO.' \n## GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.\n\nA gloom was thrown over the town yesterday morning by the occurrence of a terrible accident on the steamer Yesso, Captain S. Ashton, from the Coast Ports. The vessel was being moored alongside Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co.'s wharf, between half-past seven and eight o'clock, when a terrible explosion took place, and the forward part of the ship was enshrouded in a dense cloud of steam. The pressure of steam at the time was 14lbs. One of the back plates of the starboard boiler had given way and was blown out. The steam rushed into the Chinese cabin and forecastle, and worked terrible havoc there. Twelve men were killed on the spot, and sixty-four were taken to the Hospital, the injuries of all of them being most serious, and deaths occurred hourly during the day. Many more are expected to die. Several others, who were also much scalded, were taken to the Tung Wah hospital, and others less severely injured went to their homes. One man was taken by his friends into a sampan, where he died in the afternoon. Only one European was hurt, the second engineer, Mr. W. Haggat, who, however, is not very seriously injured. It was a ghastly sight to see the dead and wounded lying about, and crowds soon collected round the steamer and at the doors of the Civil Hospital and the dead house. The wretched victims of the explosion were fearfully disfigured. On the deck of the steamer, the skin from their hands, feet, and legs was to be seen scattered about. Persons who have witnessed many appalling catastrophes were heard to say that they had never witnessed so sickening and distressing a scene before. All the corridors in the Hospital were filled with the wounded, whose piteous cries and groans resounded on all sides, and made up a most distressing scene. As the accommodation in the hospital was insufficient, the European mess-room in the gaol was fitted up as a temporary hospital, and the sufferers were removed there. As soon as the Admiral on board of the accident he signalled for all the men-of-war in port to render medical assistance, which they promptly did. Assistance in removing the bodies and extricating the wounded was afforded by the officers of the ships, the police, and a number of gentlemen who promptly hastened to the scene, and oil was obtained from Messrs. Lane, Crawford's store and freely used on the sufferers. The general cry amongst the scalded was for water. Most of the unfortunate people were in a state of complete helplessness, and several scarcely lived to reach the hospital. The number of Chinese brought down by the Yesso was a hundred and seventy-two. Two old women had the presence of mind to wrap themselves up in their bed clothes, and thereby escaped injury, while many round about them were badly scalded. One Chinese family who were in a cabin between decks had the forethought to shut the door, which kept the steam out, and they escaped unhurt. Numbers of those who were scalded were coolies who, on the steamer arriving at the wharf, rushed on board to obtain a job to carry the luggage for the passengers. The bulkhead on the end of the boiler is partly blown down, and the tea, which was stowed in the forehold, was scattered in all directions in the hold. The steam burst open the hatchway to the between-decks and the skylight on the upper deck. The boiler was built in Hongkong about three years and a half ago. The European passengers brought down by the Yesso were Dr. and Mrs. Rogers, Mr. Doagal, and one European deck passenger.\n\nOne of the fire engines was got out, under the superintendence of Inspector Orley, also the engine from the Hongkong Fire Insurance. The latter one is playing into the fore hatch where there was great heat. The police were actively at work to prevent robbery of the passengers' luggage during the confusion consequent on the disaster, and only one known case occurred. Every possible help was rendered by the naval and civil medical men, and one of the naval surgeons remained to assist the Colonial Surgeon all last night. His Excellency the Governor visited the gaol, the Civil Hospital, the Tung-wah, and the steamer Yesso. He gave orders for relays of attendants at the Gaol and Hospital, and for the relations and friends of the victims to be admitted in detachments of a dozen at a time to see them in order that there should be no crowding. He also, when at the Tung-wah Hospital, gave directions for the place to be properly ventilated, and otherwise looked after the comfort and well-being of the poor creatures.\n\n## THE INQUEST.\n\nThe inquest was opened at the Civil Hospital at four o'clock in the afternoon, by Mr. Russell, Coroner, Messrs. J. A. Moseley, V. L. Meyenberg, and R. H. Radecker being sworn as the jury.\n\nThe Coroner said-I presume you are all aware, gentlemen, of the circumstances under which we meet here to-day. A most unfortunate and sudden catastrophe occurred by the bursting of one of the boilers of the steamship Yesso when she arrived here this morning. Shortly after she came in and while lying alongside the wharf, a plate of the boiler gave way and was thrown off with great violence. The steam went into the hold, burst open the hatches, and burnt to death a great number of people. The return made by the police of the number of people brought up is eighty-nine, and there are now lying in the dead-house here thirty. First the wounded were brought here, but there being no accommodation, they were taken to the European mess-room in the gaol, as many as still survive are now lying. There were sixty there. Eleven have died since, and there are now remaining there, looked after by a number of surgeons, forty-nine. There are two men upstairs living, eight were taken to the Tung-wah Hospital, one of whom has died, and up to the present there are thirty-seven deaths. The whole number of persons accounted for is eighty-nine. At present I have only been able to get four bodies identified, one Malay and three Chinese.\n\nWe will see bodies here, then go to look at the steamship, then to the Tung-wah Hospital, and then we will adjourn until to-morrow. It is a very deplorable thing. Of course we don't know how it occurred, but in the course of the inquiry we will probably find out all about it, and it is perfectly useless to speculate about it now.\n\nThe jury then commenced their painful task of viewing the bodies. They first went to the dead-house in Hollywood-road, where the dead bodies ranged on the floor and on benches, presented a fearful spectacle, the skin hanging from parts of the bodies or being completely stripped off. A still more painful sight was that in the improvised hospital in the gaol, where forty-nine sufferers lay moaning on their beds. All that could be done to make them comfortable had been done, they had had the best medical attendance and their pain had been alleviated to the full extent of surgical skill, but it was heart-rending to hear their groans and observe their fearful sufferings. Most of them appeared unable to move at all, and it is feared that only very few of the poor fellows will survive. It was not only their external wounds they suffered from, but they had inhaled the steam and thus scalded their lungs. Having viewed a dead body here which had not yet been removed to the dead-house, the jury went to the Yesso, where Captain Ashton pointed out how the accident had occurred. The plate was blown out and thrown forward against a beam on the foreside of the bulkhead, which it had broken in the middle. The steam had forced up the hatchway to the between-deck, where about half the Chinese passengers were, and also the skylight on to the main deck. This skylight was thrown a considerable distance in the air. The main deck had been cleared, but the between-deck and hold remained in the same state as they were after the removal of the bodies. There were still lying about the skins of hands and feet, which had come off like gloves. Leaving the ship, the coroner and jury went to the Tung Wah Hospital, where they visited the injured who had been taken there and viewed three dead bodies. From the Tung Wah they proceeded to the Civil Hospital, where they went to see the two men under treatment there, one of whom is a Fat-shan mandarin. The inquiry was then adjourned until ten o'clock this morning.\n\nAt a late hour last night the deaths numbered sixty-two.\n\nPage 420\nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301337, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "page_number": 465, "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "content_text": "## EXPLOSION ON THE \"YESSO.\"\n\nGREAT LOSS OF LIFE,\n\nA fearful explosion, which has resulted in the loss of about eighty lives, occurred on the steamer Yesso, on her arrival at Hongkong from the Coast Ports on the morning of the 22nd November. The vessel had just arrived alongside Messrs. Douglas Lapraik's wharf when a dull sound was heard and immediately the forward part of the vessel was enveloped in clouds of steam. As soon as this steam cleared off it was found that the upper plate of the forward end of the starboard boiler had been blown out. The steam had filled the fore-hold, burst open the hatchway to the 'tween decks (occupied by Chinese passengers) and had thrown the deck-skylight from its position. Twelve men had been killed on the spot, and the wounded were lying about in all directions. The scene was one inexpressibly distressing. Scattered about the deck lay the skins of hands, feet, and legs, which had come off entire.\n\nPrompt measures were taken by the captain and his officers, assisted by volunteers from the shore, to alleviate as far as possible the sufferings of the injured, and oil and other handy remedies were freely applied. In the meantime Dr. Adams, the Health Officer of the Port, had arrived, and steps were at once taken to have the sufferers conveyed to Hospital, where their wounds were dressed, and then as the accommodation in the hospital was insufficient, the European mess-room in the gaol was fitted up as a temporary hospital, and the sufferers were removed there in the course of the morning.\n\nAs soon as the Admiral heard of the accident he signalled for all the men-of-war in port to render medical assistance, which they promptly did, and Surgeon Mowll, of the Admiral's dispatch-boat Vigilant, remained in constant attendance on the unfortunate sufferers for several days. A number of the more intelligent of the European and Chinese prisoners were selected as attendants, and made excellent nurses. These men have been made the object of the Governor's clemency, most of them have been rewarded with their liberty, and others have received partial remissions of their sentences.\n\nThe number of Chinese passengers on the steamer was a hundred and seventy. These were distributed on the forward and aft 'tween decks and on the main deck. A good many of the passengers had left the 'tween decks before the accident occurred, but coolies and boarding-house runners had gone down to look for jobs, and these people contributed largely to the number of killed and wounded. The total number of persons killed or so severely injured as to be taken to hospital was eighty-nine and ten more were discovered afterwards in sampans in the harbour. In addition to these there were many who received injuries not very severe and who went away and have not since been heard of.\n\nThe inquest was opened on the afternoon of the day on which the accident occurred by Mr. Russell, coroner, and a jury composed of Messrs. Mosely, Meyenberg, and Radecker. At that time the number of deaths amounted to thirty-seven, and the number was being hourly increased. The jury had to go through the painful task of viewing the bodies. They first went to the dead-house in Hollywood-road, where the dead bodies, ranged on the floor and on benches, presented a fearful spectacle, the skin hanging from parts of the bodies or being completely stripped off. A still more painful sight was that in the improvised hospital in the gaol, where forty-nine sufferers lay moaning on their beds. All that could be done to make them comfortable had been done; they had had the best medical attendance, and their pain had been alleviated to the full extent of surgical skill, but it was heart-rending to hear their groans and observe their fearful sufferings. It was not only their external wounds they suffered from, but they had inhaled the steam and thus been scalded internally.\n\nThe jury next visited the Yesso, and after that the Tung Wah Hospital, where there were eight wounded, and the Civil Hospital, where a man and another man remained. All the sufferers by the explosion were Chinese, with the exception of the second engineer, W. Haggat, and one Malay, both of whom died. Although there were several women on board none of them were injured.\n\nThe jurors having seen the dead bodies and visited the wounded, the inquiry was adjourned until the following day. In all the inquiry lasted six days. The cause of the accident was rendered sufficiently clear by the scientific evidence. As to who was responsible for the state of things which existed and rendered the accident possible, the first engineer, Theodore Bernard, said it was the duty of the third engineer to examine the boilers and to report to him if there were any defects; the third engineer, W. H. King, said he had reported to the second engineer, the unfortunate man who died, that the stays of the boiler were corroded, but the second engineer thought they were splash boards and not stays.\n\nThe jury returned the following verdict:\n\n| Verdict |\n| --- |\n| We find that Tsang Asam and several others met their deaths from an explosion of the starboard boiler of the steamship Yesso in this harbour on the 22nd instant, and that the said explosion resulted from the defective condition of the boiler, the gusset stays in the forward end being, with the exception of one, corroded through, and the end plate also corroded to a dangerous extent. This state of the boiler was owing to the negligence and want of judgment of the engineers, whom we consequently consider guilty of manslaughter. We are of opinion that no blame can be attached to any one else. We would also add that we consider it most deplorable that in a large shipping centre like Hongkong there are no periodical Government surveys of the boilers and machinery of steamers, as is the case in the United Kingdom. |\n\nThe two engineers had been charged with manslaughter before the magistrate before the verdict was given and the case against them is still proceeding before C. May, Esq., the Crown Solicitor appearing to prosecute. The first prisoner is defended by Mr. Brereton, and the second by Mr. Francis.\n\nThe boiler, it appears, was built in Hongkong about three years and a half ago. The forward end was secured by the flanging of the plates and gusset stays. These gusset stays, of which there were eight attached to the plate blown out, had originally been fifteen inches broad by three-eighths of an inch thick. It was discovered in the examination after the explosion that they were all very much corroded and only one of them had the appearance of having been recently severed; they were very thin, some about the thickness of thick paper and the thickest one eighth of an inch thick. The plate itself was of Lowmoor iron. Originally it had been three-eighths of an inch thick; in some parts it was found to be still nearly of its original thickness, in others three-sixteenths of an inch, and in one part one-eighth. In the explosion the plate was blown through a wooden bulkhead and several tiers of chests of tea to a distance of 16 feet. The cargo, of course, was very much damaged.\n\nThere were several very narrow escapes in the accident. A few who were in cabins had the presence of mind to shut their doors and open scuttles thereby securing a good supply of air, and thus they escaped injury entirely or very nearly so. One man told a wonderful tale at the inquest to the effect that he was sitting on the 'tween decks hatch when the explosion took place, and the next thing he remembered was finding himself on the main deck, his belief being that he had been blown through the skylight. His brother, who was standing a short distance away from him when the accident occurred, was killed, and it is difficult to account for the man's escape in any other way than that in which he accounts for it himself, as being in the full blast of the steam he would certainly have been scalded to death before he could have reached the deck by any other means of access than the very speedy one he describes.\n\nPage 463\n\nMrs. Hennessy had intended holding an \"at home\" on the evening of the accident, but in consequence of the lamentable occurrence, this was postponed for a few days. An intended performance by the band of the 28th Regiment...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302555, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## \n8. The two schools at Sai Ying-p'un suffered severely by their removal. The building had to be handed over, in a pressing emergency, to the Medical Department. Temporary accommodation was provided as near as possible to the old site, and a new school-house was to be built in the course of a few months; but the delay in building the new hospital has prevented the erection of the new school and the falling off referred to is partly accounted for. These native schools require the most delicate handling. Circumstances which of themselves need hardly affect any school, have often serious consequences to them, as was pointed out when the old building had to be handed over.\n\n## \n16. The Basel Mission has now three schools under its management, namely, the Shán-kí Wán School, and the Girls' School and the Boys' School at Sai Ying-p'un. They occupy the fourth, twelfth and fourteenth places on the list. The two new ones have made a good beginning, the Shau-ki Wán School especially so. The scholars presented at it were only in the first standard; but the work was so well done that, if regular attendance can but be secured, the school is sure to prosper. The master of the Boys' School was not so successful as he might have been, if he had less self-confidence. The result of the examination was rather disappointing, but no one now sees where the defect lies more clearly than the master himself, and this is a good guarantee for amendment.\n\n## \n9. The Aberdeen School remains in a very unsatisfactory state. It made some advance toward four per cent. in the number of passes over the previous year. The school would have taken a higher place at the end of the year; but any improvement in it has hitherto proved so fallacious that no hope can be grounded upon it. It seems a great pity to abandon the experiment of introducing English into the Village Schools, but it is evidently not wanted by the people, and they have the power of enforcing their opinion by leaving the school comparatively empty.\n\n## \n10. More detailed information concerning those schools will be found in the Tables that form `Appendix I`. These have been compiled with the view of showing with all possible accuracy the exact state in which the schools are, as far as this can be shown by statistics. In `Table IV`, an attempt has been made to calculate with more precision than formerly the average cost of each scholar at the Government Schools. Hitherto the Central School has been debited with all the expenses of the Department except the actual sums paid in salaries, rent, and prizes to the Village Schools. It is obvious that the expense of their superintendence should be charged against these schools; and this has now been done, as far as the circumstances of the case will allow.\n\n## \n11. The Grant-in-Aid Schools are now fifteen in number, although for purposes of examination two of the Baxter Schools have still to be taken as one. Two Basel Mission Schools, one at Sai Ying p'ún for boys, and the other at Shau-ki Wán for both boys and girls, were, with the Diocesan Home and Orphanage, admitted to a share of the Grant during the year. As already stated, these schools have added greatly to the number of our school children.\n\n## \n12. The amended Grant-in-Aid Scheme, which forms `Appendix II` of this Report, came into operation at the end of the year. The knowledge that it was to contain more advantageous terms than the original scheme acted as a powerful stimulus to both Managers and Masters, and the results were very satisfactory. There were 159 scholars presented, as against 390 in 1876; and the passes amounted to 83 per cent., as against 77 per cent. in the previous year. In England, the average for the whole country has been a fraction less than 80 per cent. The Hongkong Schools, therefore, have gained for themselves a highly favourable position. The percentage of scholars passed, and the percentage of passes in each subject taught in the schools, will be found detailed in `Tables XIV` and `XV`. These show that, with an exception here and there, the results reflect great credit on all concerned in the management and teaching.\n\n## \n13. The Baxter Schools in Sai Ying-p'un, Staunton Street, and Tái-p'ing Shan occupy the second, tenth and eleventh places on the list of Grant-in-Aid Schools. The first of these increased its number of passes by four per cent. The Staunton Street and T'ái-ping Shán Schools did not maintain their previous positions. In all the three schools greater attention is required to Geography, and in the two latter to Reading and Explanation. In other respects the work was well done, especially in the Sai Ying-p'ún School, whose only weak point was Geography.\n\n## \n14. The London Mission Schools made an extraordinary advance. The T'ai-p'ing Shán School had an increase of thirty-one per cent. of passes, and the Wán-tsai School of twenty-seven per cent. These schools were peculiarly unfortunate in 1876, but they are now recovering lost ground. They occupy the third and eighth places on the list. The T'ai-ping Shán School, if likely to suffer at all, is in danger of doing so from the superabundant energy of the master. His scholars must have been drilled, until school and its belongings could have had little charm for them. This is not said by way of disparagement. On the contrary, it was a positive pleasure to see the efficiency of the school in the subjects of examination. At the same time, the manager will do well to guard against undue severity on the part of the master. There was no attempt at disguising the fact that he rules with a rod of iron. The Wán-tsai School did not show the same efficiency as the other, but the present master took over the school after his predecessor had almost wrecked it by neglect of duty. There can be no doubt that, if the present master remains, the school will soon recover all it has lost.\n\nA considerable number, too, of the best scholars left for Honolulu with their parents a few weeks before the examination. In spite of these drawbacks the school produced 85 per cent. of passes in Reading, 72 per cent. in Writing, 80 per cent. in Arithmetic, 72 per cent. in Geography, and 91 per cent. in History; and a school which can do that must be admitted to be in a very efficient state.\n\n## \n15. The two St. Stephen's Schools occupy the first and ninth places on the list. The Sai Ying p'ún School had been admirably taught. Composition was the only weak point, and that subject will require the master's best attention. In all other respects the results were very satisfactory. Explanation had been most carefully attended to, every scholar examined in it passing well. The Tai-ping Shán School is a large school well taught. No school presented so many children for examination; and, with the exception of some weakness in Explanation and in Composition, few of the schools gained higher percentages in the subjects of examination. The manager's attention has been directed to the advantages that would accrue from the use of black boards in some of the branches of the school work, and, when these are provided and judiciously used, there will be still higher results in these two schools.\n\n## \n17. The Diocesan Home and Orphanage was examined for the first time last year, and the results were very satisfactory. The school occupies the seventh place on the list. Of the 30 scholars presented, 20 passed and 4 failed. Grammar was rather weak, and Arithmetic especially so; but in Reading the percentage of passes was 97; in Writing, 90; and, in Geography, 100. These are high figures, and they show what may be expected of the institution now that the nature of the examination is fully understood. The only suggestion that need be made here is that, in the teaching of Arithmetic, the sums should, as a rule, be dictated to the children, and not simply copied by them from a book or the black board. It is astonishing how awkward children are at writing the simplest numbers from dictation, when they are only accustomed to copy them from sight. When dictation is used, and the ordinary sums are varied with such as are calculated to draw out and exercise the reasoning powers of the scholars, Arithmetic is a valuable means of training; but, when it is allowed to be purely mechanical, so to speak, its advantage is doubtful.\n\n## \n18. St. Paul's College School holds the sixth place among these schools. It had two European masters last year, instead of one, as formerly; and the advantage of this was clearly seen in the results of the examination. Nearly 90 per cent. of the scholars passed, and the percentage of passes in all the subjects was very high. The total number of scholars taught during the year was 135, and the average daily attendance was 74. In both these respects the school stands very much higher than it did in 1876. This school is well conducted in every way. The discipline and appliances leave nothing to be desired.\n\n## \n19. The Victoria Schools occupy the fifth and thirteenth places on the list, the Girls' School taking the precedence. In the Boys' School, Reading, Grammar and Geography stood very high. Arithmetic and Writing (from dictation) were the weak points. The latter, always a difficult subject in a foreign tongue, needs very careful attention. The Girls' School is admirably taught. Upwards of 90 per cent. of the scholars passed, and the percentage of passes in the various subjects was as follows: Reading, 95 per cent.; Writing (from dictation), 90 per cent.; Arithmetic, 76 per cent.; Geography, 86 per cent.; and Grammar, 100 per cent. There is much careful work in these two schools, and they deserve every encouragement.\n\n## \n20. The School Book Committee's Series is rapidly advancing in public estimation. Several of the Missions in various parts of China have introduced the books into their schools, and speak highly of them. The second edition of the Primer and First Book is nearly exhausted, and the Second Book will also have to be reprinted. The Committee will soon be in a position to undertake a thorough revision of the whole series; and the experience which is now being gained of its merits and defects will be of great assistance to them when they resume their work once more.\n\n## \nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n**FREDERICK STEWART, Inspector of Schools.**\n\nPage 72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302559, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## 2. The Government will not interfere in any way with-\n\n(a) The religious instruction of a school.\n\n(b) The hours for such instruction, provided they are either before or after the four hours of secular instruction required by this code.\n\n(c) The appointment of a teacher, provided he is competent.\n\n(d) The school books, provided they are sufficient, as regards the secular instruction which they contain, for the purposes of the Standards hereafter to be referred to.\n\n(e) The style of handwriting, but a bold round hand is recommended for European writing.\n\n(f) The stipulations of this code, without six months previous notice in the Gazette.\n\n## 3. Grants will be subject to a cumulative reduction of five per cent, on the whole sum gained by a school, in each case where the Inspector reports defects in-\n\n(a) The teaching.\n\n(b) The accommodation.\n\n(c) The keeping of the school roll.\n\n(d) The organization.\n\n(e) The discipline.\n\n(f) The books and apparatus.\n\nDue regard in all these cases will be had to circumstances.\n\n## 4. A school receiving a grant must be--\n\n(a) Open at all times to Government inspection.\n\n(b) Represented by a Manager, distinct from the teacher, who will conduct all correspondence with the Government, sign the Receipt for the grant, and furnish all Returns which the Government may require.\n\n## 5. In the case of Chinese schools not under European supervision, the Inspector will be Manager when necessary.\n\n## 6. The Government will not bind itself to give grants to all schools claiming them under the foregoing conditions, but will be guided by the circumstances of each case, and by the amount of money at its disposal for educational purposes. In all cases where a grant is refused, the reasons for the refusal will be given.\n\n## 7. The Government will reserve to itself the power to withdraw or reduce grants. In all cases, the reasons for the withdrawal or reduction will be given. No grant will be withdrawn, or materially reduced, until a second examination has been held by the examiner assisted by two assessors, the one chosen by the Government and the other by the Manager.\n\n## 8. One-fourth of the total grant made to a school will be handed to the teacher as a personal payment. In the event of a change of masters, each will receive his proportion of this sum, according to the period of his service. If a master is dismissed, his share of the grant will go to the school.\n\n## 9. A detailed account, with proper vouchers, of the total income and expenditure of each school must be furnished by the Manager annually, in the form provided for that purpose.\n\n## 10. Grants will be made for definite results in **SECULAR INSTRUCTION** only.\n\n## 11. These results will be ascertained at the annual examination of the school by the Inspector, or by such examiners as the Government may appoint.\n\n## 12. Examiners who are not in the service of the Government will be paid for their assistance.\n\n## 13. Schools eligible for grants-in-aid will be\n\n| Class | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| I | Schools in which a Chinese education is given. |\n| II | Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition. |\n| III | Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language. |\n| IV | Schools in which a European education is given in any European language. |\n| V | Schools in which a European education is given in any European language, with Chinese in addition. |\n\n## 14. The basis of examination will be two hundred daily attendances of not less than four hours each, at secular instruction, in the course of the year.\n\n## 15. Children who have satisfied that condition will be examined in accordance with the following standards, and they may not be withheld from examination without a reasonable excuse. The results of the examination of each scholar will be communicated to the Managers.\n\n## 16. For Schools in Class I. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given.)\n\n### STANDARD I\n\n1. Reading.-Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-From dictation, five common characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition-Two pages of the same book.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition. A short paragraph of the same book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD III\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition-A short paragraph of the same book.\n4. Explanation-The characters in the passage read.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\n### STANDARD IV\n\n1. Reading A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-From memory, a passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation-Simple phrases in the passage read.\n4. Composition. An antithetical sentence of not more than three characters.\n5. Geography-General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n### STANDARD V\n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation.-A passage not exceeding twenty characters in the same book. Orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n4. Composition. A very short theme.\n5. Geography. The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\n### STANDARD VI\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Sixth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation. A passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book. Orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n4. Composition. A short theme.\n5. Geography The Chinese Empire.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n## Note.-In Girls' schools, Repetition may be substituted for Composition in Standards IV., V. and VI.\n\n## 17. For Schools in Class II. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition.)\n\n### STANDARD I\n\nThe same as Standard I for schools in Class I.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II\n\nIn addition to Standard II for schools in Class I,\n\n4. English Reading.-A short sentence from the First Book used in the school, with explanation of single words in Chinese.\n5. English Writing.-From dictation, a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD III\n\nIn addition to Standard III for schools in Class I,\n\n5. English Reading.-A short passage in the Second Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n6. English Writing-From dictation, an ordinary sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in five of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD IV\n\nIn addition to Standard IV for schools in Class I,\n\n6. English Reading.-A short passage in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n7. English Writing. From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n8. English Grammar.-Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD V\n\nIn addition to Standard V for schools in Class I,\n\n6. English Reading.-A short passage in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n7. English Writing.-From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n8. English Grammar-Parsing a simple sentence in the same book.\n9. Geography-Outlines of Asia and Africa.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in eight of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD VI\n\nIn addition to Standard VI for schools in Class I,\n\n6. English Reading--An ordinary prose passage chosen by the examiner, with explanation in Chinese.\n7. English Writing-A short theme or letter.\n8. English Grammar--Analysis and parsing of a short ordinary sentence chosen by the examiner.\n9. Geography-Outlines of Europe and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nEnglish copy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars and a half.\n\n## 18. For Schools in Class III. (Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.)\n\n### STANDARD I\n\n1. Reading-Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing.-Five common characters from dictation.\n3. Arithmetic.--Notation.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302560, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## STANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n2. Writing—From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic—Simple Addition and Subtraction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\n## STANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading.—A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing.—From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic.—Simple Multiplication, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n## STANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading.—A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing—From dictation, thirty consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic.—The Simple Rules.\n4. Geography—General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\n## STANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading—A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing.—From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic.—Reduction (Chinese Tables) and Simple Proportion, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Geography.—The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n5. History. The first half of the History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n## STANDARD VI.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in any book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing—From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner.\n3. Arithmetic.—Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Geography—The Chinese Empire.\n5. History—The History used in the School.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\nNote—The School books may be wholly or partially in the Romanized Character, at the option of the Manager. When the Romanized Character is used, the passages selected for examination will be of the same length as those for schools in Class IV.\n\n## For Schools in Class IV. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.)\n\n### STANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading—Accurate pronunciation of each word in a passage not exceeding five lines in the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing—Copy on a slate or black board a line of print in the same book, and write from dictation a few common words.\n3. Arithmetic—Notation, Simple Addition, and Subtraction.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading—Slow and distinct reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Second Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same Book slowly read once, and then dictated in single words.\n3. Arithmetic.—Multiplication Table, Simple Multiplication and Division, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n### STANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading. Clear and intelligible reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Third Book used in the school.\n2. Writing—A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n3. Arithmetic. Compound Rules and Reduction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Grammar.—Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the Reading Book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n### STANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading—Intelligent reading of a prose passage not exceeding fifteen lines in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n3. Arithmetic—Simple and Compound Proportion, Simple Interest, and Practice, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Grammar—Parsing, orally or in writing at the option of the examiner, a simple sentence from the Reading Book.\n5. Geography—Map of the World (general outlines) and Europe.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\n### STANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading.—Fluent and intelligent reading of a short ordinary paragraph chosen by the examiner from some common book or newspaper.\n2. Writing. From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner. Writing, spelling and grammar will be taken into account.\n3. Arithmetic.—Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Grammar.—Analysis and parsing, orally or in writing, of a complex sentence chosen by the examiner from an ordinary book or newspaper.\n5. Geography—Asia, Africa and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, fourteen dollars.\n\n### STANDARD VI.\n\n1. Reading—To read with fluency and expression any ordinary piece of prose or poetry chosen by the examiner.\n2. Writing. A short theme, or letter, or easy paraphrase. Writing, spelling and grammar will be taken into account.\n3. Arithmetic—Compound Interest, Square and Cube Root, Profit and Loss, and Progression, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Grammar.—Analysis and parsing, orally or in writing, of an ordinary stanza of poetry chosen by the examiner.\n5. Geography.—Ability to draw from memory a map of any of the Continents, the map to include the principal rivers, mountains and cities in the Continent prescribed.\n6. History—The first hundred pages of the History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, sixteen dollars.\n\nNote.—In Girls' schools, Arithmetic in Standard V will not extend beyond Vulgar Fractions, and in Standard VI not beyond Decimal Fractions.\n\n## For Schools in Class V. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language, with Chinese in addition.)\n\n### STANDARD I.\n\nThe same as Standard I for schools in Class IV.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II.\n\nIn addition to Standard II for schools in Class IV,\n4. Chinese Reading.—A page of the First Book used in the school, with explanation of single words in the principal language taught in the school.\n5. Chinese Writing. From dictation, ten common characters.\n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD III.\n\nIn addition to Standard III for schools in Class IV,\n5. Chinese Reading.—Two pages of the Second Book used in the school, with explanation.\n6. Chinese Writing.—From dictation, twenty characters in the same book.\n7. Chinese Speaking—Turning very short sentences into colloquial Chinese.\n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in six of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD IV.\n\nIn addition to Standard IV for schools in Class IV,\n6. Chinese Reading.—A short passage in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation.\n7. Chinese Writing.—From dictation, forty characters in the same book.\n8. Chinese Speaking.—Turning short sentences into colloquial Chinese.\n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD V.\n\nIn addition to Standard V for schools in Class IV,\n6. Chinese Reading.—A short passage in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation.\n7. Chinese Writing. From memory, a short passage in the same book.\n8. Chinese Speaking.—Turning a short passage in the same book into colloquial Chinese.\n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, fourteen dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD VI.\n\nIn addition to Standard VI for schools in Class IV,\n7. Chinese Reading.—An ordinary passage from a Chinese newspaper, with explanation.\n8. Chinese Writing.—A short letter.\n9. Chinese Speaking.—Fluent and correct colloquial Chinese.\n\nChinese copy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, sixteen dollars and a half.\n\n21. In all cases where copy writing is taken, not less than one month's work must be shown to the examiner.\n\n22. Scholars who are presented under Standards IV, V and VI for schools in Classes III, IV and V, may also be examined in one or more of the following subjects, namely:- Algebra, Geometry, Physical Geography, and the Natural...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302568, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## 8. The two schools at Sai Ying-p'ún suffered severely by their removal. \nThe building had to be handed over, in a pressing emergency, to the Medical Department. Temporary accommodation was provided as near as possible to the old site, and a new school-house was to be built in the course of a few months; but the delay in building the new hospital has prevented the erection of the new school, and the falling off referred to is partly accounted for. These native schools require the most delicate handling. Circumstances which of themselves need hardly affect any school, have often serious consequences to them, as was pointed out when the old building had to be handed over.\n\n## 9. The Aberdeen School remains in a very unsatisfactory state. \nIt made some advance towards the end of the year; but any improvement in it has hitherto proved so fallacious that no hope can be grounded upon it. It seems a great pity to abandon the experiment of introducing English into the village Schools, but it is evidently not wanted by the people, and they have the power of enforcing their opinion by leaving the school comparatively empty.\n\n## 10. More detailed information concerning those schools will be found in the Tables that form Appendix I. \nThese have been compiled with the view of showing with all possible accuracy the exact state in which the schools are, as far as this can be shown by statistics. In Table IV, an attempt has been made to calculate with more precision than formerly the average cost of each scholar at the Government Schools. Hitherto the Central School has been debited with all the expenses of the Department except the actual sums paid in salaries, rent, and prizes to the Village Schools. It is obvious that the expense of their superintendence should be charged against these schools; and this has now been done, as far as the circumstances of the case will allow.\n\n## 11. The Grant-in-Aid Schools are now fifteen in number, although for purposes of examination two of the Baxter Schools have still to be taken as one. \nTwo Basel Mission Schools, one at Sai Ying-p'ún for boys, and the other at Shau-ki Wán for both boys and girls, were, with the Diocesan Home and Orphanage, admitted to a share of the Grant during the year. As already stated, these schools have added greatly to the number of our school children.\n\n## 12. The amended Grant-in-Aid Scheme, which forms Appendix II of this Report, came into operation at the end of the year. \nThe knowledge that it was to contain more advantageous terms than the original scheme acted as a powerful stimulus to both Managers and Masters, and the results were very satisfactory. There were 459 scholars presented, as against 390 in 1876; and the passes amounted to 86 per cent., as against 77 per cent. in the previous year. In England, the average for the whole country has been a fraction less than 80 per cent. The Hongkong Schools, therefore, have gained themselves a highly favourable position. The percentage of scholars passed, and the percentage of passes in each subject taught in the schools, will be found detailed in Tables XIV and XV. These show that, with an exception here and there, the results reflect great credit on all concerned in the management and teaching.\n\n## 13. The Baxter Schools in Sai Ying-pún, Staunton Street, and Tái-ping Shán occupy the second, tenth, and eleventh places on the list of Grant-in-Aid Schools. \nThe first of these increased its number of passes by four per cent. The Staunton Street and Tái-ping Shan Schools did not maintain their previous positions. In all the three schools greater attention is required to Geography, and in the two latter to Reading and Explanation. In other respects the work was well done, especially in the Ying-p'ún School, whose only weak point was Geography.\n\n## 14. The London Mission Schools made an extraordinary advance. \nThe T'ai-ping Shán School had an increase of thirty-one per cent. of passes, and the Wán-tsai School of twenty-seven per cent. These schools were peculiarly unfortunate in 1876, but they are now recovering lost ground. They occupy the third and eighth places on the list. The Tái-ping Shán School, if likely to suffer at all, is in danger of doing so from the superabundant energy of the master. His scholars must have been drilled, until school and its belongings could have had little charm for them. This is not said by way of disparagement. On the contrary, it was a positive pleasure to see the efficiency of the school in the subjects of examination. At the same time, the manager will do well to guard against undue severity on the part of the master. There was no attempt at disguising the fact that he rules with a rod of iron. The Wán-tsai School did not show the same efficiency as the other, but the present master took over the school after his predecessor had almost wrecked it by neglect of duty. There can be no doubt that, if the present master remains, the school will soon recover all it has lost.\n\n## 15. The two St. Stephen's Schools occupy the first and ninth places on the list. \nThe Sai Ying-p'ún School had been admirably taught. Composition was the only weak point, and that subject will require the master's best attention. In all other respects the results were very satisfactory. Explanation had been most carefully attended to, every scholar examined in it passing well. The Tái-ping Shán School is a large school well taught. No school presented so many children for examination and, with the exception of some weakness in Explanation and in Composition, few of the schools gain higher percentages in the subjects of examination. The manager's attention has been directed to the advantages that would accrue from the use of black boards in some of the branches of the school work and, when these are provided and judiciously used, there will be still higher results in these two schools.\n\n## 16. The Basel Mission has now three schools under its management, namely, the Sháu-ki Wán School, and the Girls' School and the Boys' School at Sai Ying-p'ún. \nThey occupy the fourth, twelfth, and fourteenth places on the list. The two new ones have made a good beginning, the Sháu-ki Wán School especially so. The scholars presented at it were only in the first standard; but the work was so well done that, if regular attendance can but be secured, the school is sure to prosper. The master of the Boys' School was not so successful as he might have been, if he had less self-confidence. The result of the examination was rather disappointing, but no one now sees where the defect lies more clearly than the master himself, and this is a good guarantee for amendment. The Girls' School advanced four per cent. in the number of passes over the previous year. The school would have taken a very high place, but for certain failures in the first and fifth standards. In the former, several very young children were presented, and in the latter the teacher fully anticipated the result. A considerable number, too, of the best scholars left for Honolulu with their parents a few weeks before the examination. In spite of these drawbacks the school produced 85 per cent. of passes in Reading, 72 per cent. in Writing, 80 per cent. in Arithmetic, 72 per cent. in Geography, and 91 per cent. in History; and a school which can do that must be admitted to be in a very efficient state.\n\n## 17. The Diocesan Home and Orphanage was examined for the first time last year, and the results were very satisfactory. \nThe school occupies the seventh place on the list. Of the 30 scholars presented, 26 passed and 4 failed. Grammar was rather weak, and Arithmetic especially so; but in Reading the percentage of passes was 97; in Writing, 90; and, in Geography, 100. These are high figures, and they show what may be expected of the institution now that the nature of the examination is fully understood. The only suggestion that need be made here is that, in the teaching of Arithmetic, the sums should, as a rule, be dictated to the children, and not simply copied by them from a book or the black board. It is astonishing how awkward children are at writing the simplest numbers from dictation, when they are only accustomed to copy them from sight. When dictation is used, and the ordinary sums are varied with such as are calculated to draw out and exercise the reasoning powers of the scholars, Arithmetic is a valuable means of training; but, when it is allowed to be purely mechanical, so to speak, its advantage is very doubtful.\n\n## 18. St. Paul's College School holds the sixth place among these schools. \nIt had two European masters last year, instead of one, as formerly; and the advantage of this was clearly seen in the results of the examination. Nearly 90 per cent. of the scholars passed, and the percentage of passes in all the subjects was very high. The total number of scholars taught during the year was 135, and the average daily attendance was 74. In both these respects the school stands very much higher than it did in 1876. This school is well conducted in every way. The discipline and appliances leave nothing to be desired.\n\n## 19. The Victoria Schools occupy the fifth and thirteenth places on the list, the Girls' School taking the precedence. \nIn the Boys' School, Reading, Grammar, and Geography stood very high. Arithmetic and Writing (from dictation) were the weak points. The latter, always a difficult subject in a foreign tongue, needs very careful attention. The Girls' School is admirably taught. Upwards of 90 per cent. of the scholars passed, and the percentage of passes in the various subjects was as follows: Reading, 95 per cent.; Writing (from dictation), 90 per cent.; Arithmetic, 76 per cent.; Geography, 71 per cent.; and Grammar, 100 per cent. There is much careful work in these two schools, and they deserve every encouragement.\n\n## 20. The School Book Committee's Series is rapidly advancing in public estimation. \nSeveral of the Missions in various parts of China have introduced the books into their schools, and speak highly of them. The second edition of the Primer and First Book is nearly exhausted, and the Second Book will also have to be reprinted. The Committee will soon be in a position to undertake a thorough revision of the whole series; and the experience which is now being gained of its merits and defects will be of great assistance to them when they resume their work once more.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n**FREDERICK STEWART, Inspector of Schools.**\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\n&c. &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302572, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## 2. The Government will not interfere in any way with-\n\n(a) The religious instruction of a school.\n\n(b) The hours for such instruction, provided they are either before or after the four hours of secular instruction required by this code.\n\n(c) The appointment of a teacher, provided he is competent.\n\n(d) The school books, provided they are sufficient, as regards the secular instruction which they contain, for the purposes of the Standards hereafter to be referred to.\n\n(e) The style of handwriting, but a bold round hand is recommended for European writing.\n\n(f) The stipulations of this code, without six months' previous notice in the Gazette.\n\n## 3. Grants will be subject to a cumulative reduction of five per cent. on the whole sum gained by a school, in each case where the Inspector reports defects in-\n\n(a) The teaching.\n(b) The accommodation.\n(c) The keeping of the school roll.\n(d) The organization.\n(e) The discipline.\n(f) The books and apparatus.\n\nDue regard in all these cases will be had to circumstances.\n\n## 4. A school receiving a grant must be-\n\n(a) Open at all times to Government inspection.\n(b) Represented by a Manager, distinct from the teacher, who will conduct all correspondence with the Government, sign the Receipt for the grant, and furnish all Returns which the Government may require.\n\n## 5. In the case of Chinese schools not under European supervision, the Inspector will be Manager when necessary.\n\n## 6. The Government will not bind itself to give grants to all schools claiming them under the foregoing conditions, but will be guided by the circumstances of each case, and by the amount of money at its disposal for educational purposes. In all cases where a grant is refused, the reasons for the refusal will be given.\n\n## 7. The Government will reserve to itself the power to withdraw or reduce grants. In all cases, the reasons for the withdrawal or reduction will be given. No grant will be withdrawn, or materially reduced, until a second examination has been held by the examiner assisted by two assessors, the one chosen by the Government and the other by the Manager.\n\n## 8. One-fourth of the total grant made to a school will be handed to the teacher as a personal payment.\n\nIn the event of a change of masters, each will receive his proportion of this sum, according to the period of his service. If a master is dismissed, his share of the grant will go to the school.\n\n## 9. A detailed account, with proper vouchers, of the total income and expenditure of each school must be furnished by the Manager annually, in the form provided for that purpose.\n\n## 10. Grants will be made for definite results in **SECULAR INSTRUCTION** only.\n\n## 11. These results will be ascertained at the annual examination of the school by the Inspector, or by such examiners as the Government may appoint.\n\n## 12. Examiners who are not in the service of the Government will be paid for their assistance.\n\n## 13. Schools eligible for grants-in-aid will be--\n\n| Class | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| I | Schools in which a Chinese education is given. |\n| II | Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition. |\n| III | Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language. |\n| IV | Schools in which a European education is given in any European language. |\n| V | Schools in which a European education is given in any European language, with Chinese in addition. |\n\n## 14. The basis of examination will be two hundred daily attendances of not less than four hours each, at secular instruction, in the course of the year.\n\n## 15. Children who have satisfied that condition will be examined in accordance with the following standards, and they may not be withheld from examination without a reasonable excuse. The results of the examination of each scholar will be communicated to the Managers.\n\n## 16. For Schools in Class I. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given.)\n\n### STANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading-Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From dictation, five common characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition-Two pages of the same book.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition. A short paragraph of the same book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition. A short paragraph of the same book.\n4. Explanation. The characters in the passage read.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\n### STANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-From memory, a passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation. Simple phrases in the passage read.\n4. Composition. An antithetical sentence of not more than three characters.\n5. Geography-General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n### STANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation-A passage not exceeding twenty characters in the same book. Orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n4. Composition-A very short theme.\n5. Geography. The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\n### STANDARD VI.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Sixth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation-A passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book.\n4. Composition-A short theme.\n5. Geography-The Chinese Empire.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n## 17. For Schools in Class II. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition.)\n\n### STANDARD I.\n\nThe same as Standard I for schools in Class I.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II.\n\nIn addition to Standard II for schools in Class I,\n4. English Reading-A short sentence from the First Book used in the school, with explanation of single words in Chinese.\n5. English Writing-From dictation, a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD III.\n\nIn addition to Standard III for schools in Class I,\n5. English Reading-A short passage in the Second Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n6. English Writing-From dictation, an ordinary sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in five of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD IV.\n\nIn addition to Standard IV for schools in Class I,\n6. English Reading-A short passage in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n7. English Writing-From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n8. English Grammar-Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD V.\n\nIn addition to Standard V for schools in Class I,\n6. English Reading-A short passage in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n7. English Writing-From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n8. English Grammar-Parsing a simple sentence in the same book.\n9. Geography-Outlines of Asia and Africa.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in eight of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD VI.\n\nIn addition to Standard VI for schools in Class I,\n6. English Reading-An ordinary prose passage chosen by the examiner, with explanation in Chinese.\n7. English Writing-A short theme or letter.\n8. English Grammar-Analysis and parsing of a short ordinary sentence chosen by the examiner.\n9. Geography-Outlines of Europe and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nEnglish copy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars and a half.\n\n## 18. For Schools in Class III. (Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.)\n\n### STANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading-Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-Five common characters from dictation.\n3. Arithmetic-Notation.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302573, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## STANDARD II. \n\n1. Bending.-A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school. \n\n2. Writing-From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book. \n\n3. Arithmetic-Shopke Addition and Subtraction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard. \n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\n## STANDARD III. \n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese. \n\n2. Writing. From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book. \n\n3. Arithmetic.--Simple Multiplication, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards. \n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n## STANDARD IV. \n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese. \n\n2. Writing. From dictation, thirty consecutive characters in the same book. \n\n3. Arithmetic.--The Simple Rules. \n\n4. Geography-General outlines of China Proper. \n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\n## STANDARD V. \n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese. \n\n2. Writing-From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book. \n\n3. Arithmetic.--Reduction (Chinese Tables) and Simple Proportion, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards. \n\n4. Geography. The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard. \n\n5. History. The first half of the History used in the school. \n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n## STANDARD VI. \n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in any book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese. \n\n2. Writing From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner. \n\n3. Arithmetic-Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards. \n\n4. Geography--The Chinese Empire. \n\n5. History. The History used in the School. \n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\nNote. The School books may be wholly or partially in the Romanized Character, at the option of the Manager. \n\nWhen the Romanized Character is used, the passages selected for examination will be of the same length as those for schools in Class IV.\n\n## 19. For Schools in Class IV. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.)\n\n### STANDARD I. \n\n1. Reading. Accurate pronunciation of each word in a passage not exceeding five lines in the First Book used in the school. \n\n2. Writing-Copy on a slate or black board a line of print in the same book, and write from dictation a few common words. \n\n3. Arithmetic-Notation, Simple Addition, and Subtraction. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II. \n\n1. Reading-Slow and distinct reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Second Book used in the school. \n\n2. Writing--A sentence from the same Book slowly read once, and then dictated in single words. \n\n3. Arithmetic.-Multiplication Table, Simple Multiplication and Division, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard. \n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n### STANDARD III. \n\n1. Reading.-Clear and intelligible reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Third Book used in the school. \n\n2. Writing A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time. \n\n3. Arithmetic-Compound Rules and Reduction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards. \n\n4. Grammar-Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the Reading Book. \n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n### STANDARD IV. \n\n1. Reading--Intelligent reading of a prose passage not exceeding fifteen lines in the Fourth Book used in the school. \n\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time. \n\n3. Arithmetic-Simple and Compound Proportion, Simple Interest, and Practice, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards. \n\n4. Grammar.-Parsing, orally or in writing at the option of the examiner, a simple sentence from the Reading Book. \n\n5. Geography-Map of the World (general outlines) and Europe. \n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\n### STANDARD V. \n\n1. Reading.-Fluent and intelligent reading of a short ordinary paragraph chosen by the examiner from some common book or newspaper. \n\n2. Writing-From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner. Writing, spelling and grammar will be taken into account. \n\n3. Arithmetic.-Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards. \n\n4. Grammar-Analysis and parsing, orally or in writing, of a complex sentence chosen by the examiner from an ordinary book or newspaper. \n\n5. Geography-Asia, Africa and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard. \n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, fourteen dollars.\n\n### STANDARD VI. \n\n1. Reading. To read with fluency and expression any ordinary piece of prose or poetry chosen by the examiner. \n\n2. Writing.-A short theme, or letter, or easy paraphrase. Writing, spelling and grammar will be taken into account. \n\n3. Arithmetic.--Compound Interest, Square and Cube Root, Profit and Loss, and Progression, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards. \n\n4. Grammar.-Analysis and parsing, orally or in writing, of an ordinary stanza of poetry chosen by the examiner. \n\n5. Geography-Ability to draw from memory a map of any of the Continents, the map to include the principal rivers, mountains and cities in the Continent prescribed. \n\n6. History--The first hundred pages of the History used in the school. \n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, sixteen dollars.\n\nNote-In Girls' schools, Arithmetic in Standard V will not extend beyond Vulgar Fractions, and in Standard VI not beyond Decimal Fractions.\n\n## 20. For Schools in Class V. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language, with Chinese in addition.)\n\n### STANDARD I. \n\nThe same as Standard I for schools in Class IV. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II. \n\nIn addition to Standard II for schools in Class IV. \n\n4. Chinese Reading-A page of the First Book used in the school, with explanation of single words in the principal language taught in the school. \n\n5. Chinese Writing. From dictation, ten common characters. \n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD III. \n\nIn addition to Standard III for schools in Class IV. \n\n5. Chinese Reading. Two pages of the Second Book used in the school, with explanation. \n\n6. Chinese Writing-From dictation, twenty characters in the same book. \n\n7. Chinese Speaking.-Turning very short sentences into colloquial Chinese. \n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in six of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD IV. \n\nIn addition to Standard IV for schools in Class IV. \n\n6. Chinese Reading.-A short passage in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation. \n\n7. Chinese Writing-From dictation, forty characters in the same book. \n\n8. Chinese Speaking.-Turning short sentences into colloquial Chinese. \n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD V. \n\nIn addition to Standard V for schools in Class IV. \n\n6. Chinese Reading.-A short passage in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation. \n\n7. Chinese Writing.-From memory, a short passage in the same book. \n\n8. Chinese Speaking.-Turning a short passage in the same book into colloquial Chinese. \n\nChinese copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, fourteen dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD VI. \n\nIn addition to Standard VI for schools in Class IV. \n\n7. Chinese Reading.-An ordinary passage from a Chinese newspaper, with explanation. \n\n8. Chinese Writing-A short letter. \n\n9. Chinese Speaking.-Fluent and correct colloquial Chinese. \n\nChinese copy writing will not be taken in this Standard. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, sixteen dollars and a half.\n\n## 21. In all cases where copy writing is taken, not less than one month's work must be shown to the examiner.\n\n## 22. Scholars who are presented under Standards IV, V and VI for schools in Classes III, IV and V, may also be examined in one or more of the following subjects, namely:-Algebra, Geometry, Physical Geography, and the Natural ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302923, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 445, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## \nI regret to report that the great fire which broke out in the centre of the Town of Victoria on the night of the 26th instant has destroyed your hundred houses, including the temporary Civil Hospital, in the centre of Victoria. I was able, however, to add that this very serious calamity had not been accompanied by any loss of life.\n\n2. I have not yet received formal reports from the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade and the other Officers concerned, as they are still engaged in taking measures to prevent the smouldering ruins from giving rise to any fresh conflagration. The number of houses destroyed amounts to three hundred and eighty-six according to Mr. Madar, the house valuator, who has gone through the ruined streets and estimates the loss at a smaller number - three hundred and thirty-six, with a total annual rental of $120,000.\n\n3. Since forwarding the telegram, I received a verbal report from the Surveyor General that the actual number of houses destroyed and the total annual rental were as mentioned above.\n\n4. I enclose for your information a scrap of the City of Victoria showing the area destroyed, which is about ten acres and a half. I also enclose the newspaper reports on the subject.\n\n5. I have already conveyed the information to Major General Donovan and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305415, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Schools Eligible for Grants-in-Aid\n\n13. Schools eligible for grants-in-aid will be categorized into the following classes:\n\n### Class I\nSchools in which a Chinese education is given.\n\n### Class II\nSchools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition.\n\n### Class III\nSchools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.\n\n### Class IV\nSchools in which a European education is given in any European language.\n\n### Class V\nSchools in which a European education is given in any European language, with Chinese in addition.\n\n14. The basis of examination will be two hundred daily attendances of not less than four hours each, at instruction, in the course of the year.\n\n15. Children who have satisfied that condition will be examined in accordance with the following standards, and they may not be withheld from examination without a reasonable excuse. The results of the examination of each scholar will be communicated to the Managers.\n\n## Examination Standards\n\n### For Schools in Class I\n\n#### STANDARD I\n1. Reading: Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing: From dictation, five common characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition: Two pages of the same book.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: five dollars.\n\n#### STANDARD II\n1. Reading: A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n2. Writing: From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition: A short paragraph of the same book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: six dollars.\n\n#### STANDARD III\n1. Reading: A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school.\n2. Writing: From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition: A short paragraph of the same book.\n4. Explanation: The characters in the passage read.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: seven dollars.\n\n#### STANDARD IV\n1. Reading: A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing: From memory, a passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation: Simple phrases in the passage read.\n4. Composition: An antithetical sentence of not more than three characters.\n5. Geography: General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: eight dollars.\n\n#### STANDARD V\n1. Reading: A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing: From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation: A passage not exceeding twenty characters in the same book, orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n4. Composition: A very short theme.\n5. Geography: The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: nine dollars.\n\n#### STANDARD VI\n1. Reading: A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Sixth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing: From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation: A passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book, orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n4. Composition: A short theme.\n5. Geography: The Chinese Empire.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: ten dollars.\n\nNote: In Girls' schools, Repetition may be substituted for Composition in Standards IV, V, and VI.\n\n### For Schools in Class II\n\n#### STANDARD I\nThe same as Standard I for schools in Class I.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: five dollars.\n\n#### STANDARD II\nIn addition to Standard II for schools in Class I:\n- A. English Reading: A short sentence from the First Book used in the school, with explanation of single words in Chinese.\n- B. English Writing: From dictation, a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: six dollars and a half.\n\n#### STANDARD III\nIn addition to Standard III for schools in Class I:\n- 5. English Reading: A short passage in the Second Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n- 6. English Writing: From dictation, an ordinary sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in five of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: seven dollars and a half.\n\n#### STANDARD IV\nIn addition to Standard IV for schools in Class I:\n- 6. English Reading: A short passage in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n- 7. English Writing: From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n- 8. English Grammar: Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: eight dollars and a half.\n\n#### STANDARD V\nIn addition to Standard V for schools in Class I:\n- 6. English Reading: A short passage in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n- 7. English Writing: From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n- 8. English Grammar: Parsing a simple sentence in the same book.\n- 9. Geography: Outlines of Asia and Africa.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in eight of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: nine dollars and a half.\n\n#### STANDARD VI\nIn addition to Standard VI for schools in Class I:\n- 6. English Reading: An ordinary prose passage chosen by the examiner, with explanation in Chinese.\n- 7. English Writing: A short theme or letter.\n- 8. English Grammar: Analysis and parsing of a short ordinary sentence chosen by the examiner.\n- 9. Geography: Outlines of Europe and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nEnglish copy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard: ten dollars and a half.\n\n153", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305416, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 18. For Schools in Class III. (Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.)\n\n### STANDARD I\n\n1. Reading.-Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing.-Five common characters from dictation.\n3. Arithmetic.-Notation.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II\n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n2. Writing.-From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic.-Simple Addition and Subtraction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\n### STANDARD III\n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing.-From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic.-Simple Multiplication, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n### STANDARD IV\n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing.-From dictation, thirty consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic.-The Simple Rules.\n4. Geography.-General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\n### STANDARD V\n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing.-From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic.-Reduction (Chinese Tables) and Simple Proportion, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Geography.-The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n5. History.-The first half of the History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n### STANDARD VI\n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in any book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing.-From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner.\n3. Arithmetic.-Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Geography.-The Chinese Empire.\n5. History.-The History used in the School.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\nNote.-The School books may be wholly or partially in the Romanized Character, at the option of the Manager. When the Romanized Character is used, the passages selected for examination will be of the same length as those for schools in Class IV.\n\n## 19. For Schools in Class IV. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.)\n\n### STANDARD I\n\n1. Reading.-Accurate pronunciation of each word in a passage not exceeding five lines in the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing.-Copy on a slate or black board a line of print in the same book, and write from dictation a few common words.\n3. Arithmetic.-Notation, Simple Addition, and Subtraction.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II\n\n1. Reading.-Slow and distinct reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Second Book used in the school.\n2. Writing.-A sentence from the same book slowly read once, and then dictated in single words.\n3. Arithmetic.-Multiplication Table, Simple Multiplication and Division, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n### STANDARD III\n\n1. Reading.-Clear and intelligible reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Third Book used in the school.\n2. Writing.-A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n3. Arithmetic.-Compound Rules and Reduction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Grammar.-Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the Reading Book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n### STANDARD IV\n\n1. Reading.-Intelligent reading of a prose passage (not exceeding fifteen lines) in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing.-A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n3. Arithmetic.-Simple and Compound Proportion, Simple Interest, and Practice, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Grammar.-Parsing, orally or in writing at the option of the examiner, a simple sentence from the Reading Book.\n5. Geography.-Map of the World (general outlines) and Europe.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\n### STANDARD V\n\n1. Reading.-Fluent and intelligent reading of a short ordinary paragraph chosen by the examiner from some common book or newspaper.\n2. Writing.-From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner. Writing, spelling, and grammar will be taken into account.\n3. Arithmetic.-Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Grammar.-Analysis and parsing, orally or in writing, of a complex sentence chosen by the examiner from an ordinary book or newspaper.\n5. Geography.-Asia, Africa, and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, fourteen dollars.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307352, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 470, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "0102848\n\nEnclosure in Governor Dis John Pope Hennessy's Desh: M1190 of 18th November 1880.\n\nJ...\n\nfor the Chimes in fnct it as thor: erg fars flety unlans Phys like to take the Hon. 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When i wnded to the noto, Íses has buy to mala the remarks by hul huiendly in ths Lenoiry 12upply articka ut sa-\n\nThis portioner ting Chau ceguity, it fata un interest, so saberis, to write Shop with hand ishong, for being it at might without a f\n\nms with the Gay Bellmuntik nat be worthy ni kios atam le petuniaj ti ha terast. We a misty bonis Tuen was moet satz, nie aan, who thecongbly under New spil\n\n21 Snomitis W they refeed in avonds to did but eps at in what to cured be be a pamphlet published and the e way his deal it is unha prisala peps kibein tube init they wore to consider sansiling jiliin ang sedan a pubi, progr\n\nwaterped to which the suplast the icons, V. BENTER-- Wax Club Kant, stich\n\no Tha!? Chin, qui tim who to Tony Crem-It was with\n\nwhen sh\n\nBanctus leva je 12 angling sterg Berpart ned i the evani should be wholman. À leirs majesty of whom are B, W. Kravy's--is tem imel tong tatic. Al stop psttleman wout away frots the it is smster Nonfading\n\n(thirty mass of hazine, hank macaquer, badingjieskruplines as 26 jantjazd 1\n\n11th 3, 1960.\n\nE\n\n0. MarissiOS. that cl\n\nLive F\n\nthe poetic, and of the Chinese the\n\nPOLICE GOURF.\n\nSimpú zalogs.\n\nBETX Hos., PRAMOZILY.\n\nLAUNEINYERS.\n\n↑\n\nbriel.\n\n■sy right\n\nBACALMOE.\n\nMaria Corte, residing at No. 55. Hully d moned fri ning baland in\n\nBook Gill, og vraneh..... .... ikk Bunk Bista, at taget sight...9/9\n\nBeur Bills, at 4 months' sylt 9:95 Credis, add-ondas' sight Diary B\n\n97%\n\nsight 8/95\n\n|Hongkong vad Ahenghai Han's Sheros--56 car\n\nnent, pralaim.\n\n$1.1.\n\nBesk Company'\n\n467\n\nthe tab of the Guts of the day, string se sul way wow saght hand others to use it in the rate at ng Lag et Avids. Benno da janel Antler Ilanted para say. Applause, the und into a cage finne des Er is fed an AENKY-LENAL-Your Exoticusy. Insa seu de Le Cutudy were luvitaż to set the sick, wirrty beach of the man\n\nwernlar of this unit is th will not glue in say ar: She ass, Cafe, and seruit, wit aigle bave stunt on the 7th lastan, Cartons of radice, su apkalatty is others. I was reed we the armies of the Unser Jurijn 33s sys: Cealth gets set for 2001 Buddar so far Regaiglad with time History, view is en we eater which would want the tie the compliant spared and alert to\n\ncundusly of it, baxing bad mary of the papery nangutan ainm and at the wine line paseret mer khu suoras defendant, bad propriend j kso bat & Blazer and your reactor Woll weyuser, and Sir Richari Mahio- tione 1 varennstrinn, P. The letter of Siriona i Coluty, thus I think i was la aule Lộ đay chemistivation inday interlod, 11 west meat diy.! s Worskin olized tito paraisses tɔ bu wish. fa City Hall Gogiste hane 3 max belle minute si Fane there a horror tend this was the first atter A commicio, was mide 16 that the rules orai yotropical and Shingve with into my co sina bare home to sender and aging. As why we at 18 fr nuusy bun any more.\n\njen lúc tatan G. Weil on earning, an ear, the candituunt is regularizam. To thun Ist es im that key bace hangat befe day.inters to the curtain and spent may and a\n\nEmali Oner, TE, the queda as St Ste on there and grinte tought to Anyon with biok me down,\n\nMNYA WIC), AUSTRATION OF A SAMPAN. by a wild, the anals frate. Il for in the Katie theatre, which has been atenek unë do see the friends wunursened that meating will be see\n\ngifter boʻp thinking Katte the regen premuted i grank dual si túinn 14 weakhey the mamus pēcini Chay Agau, axrani, ploy. waz olmarged Tuin Lubrano, Society of Canton $6,100 jueve To sheedacta parmoor of the army to 15¢ Treta, 15% olardil ka suk lezh sgoi starter the suutition i sa the shenai mesiñe gå väsyabulčera ülves are in thermoirs, and I zazpot ezvecdingly that with berg in cuswiel petion of gains Taulers' Cucuruno Cuszany's SEAT- Inriana po deam that this graph of dwa 19 best by Me. Heuris\n\ngiven the Crown on ende naudition\n\nCAMPER & -rise theiz uzike i ouersze fonince which mak patically gone Relay be intends tooling inte\n\n$14 per abara Mobay aguroval. Wade manor of leases the master Joh fire se audit Patent Wondag afsmann las inmigte in que SAVED LEUS the mtupushin' tab 28 $2,000 vistas de avviser so long the many tom kritisi bien ager tu --¿ni, Est na part, grad uliarita Doe 12 Horn Resti tahang: Chions are zorgs fent qzdira» fi pra WOPE HO Meh 24, 16 ahoy, 25 hour after-vatls it who? Yanga: takuragar Amrint fou-128 750 Ft that the Gorerane who put an Bhan 1 od not only acting on the way the forsrities pats gandaren al trono protquity as I have à era 2015, fi ha tine has an autistry. The pubers of was made tot along life the wail th towerth Chius Lesarwasy-El 1911 per dra ferat fur ton pay of the cursor. did the roste, at i was wing in dampring ut veu excivic•• spesis condities whats were vialston by the ais garsut put hefur to sixing yi ve Me\n\ninstalar o friis Bars for the discusic WC, Neregation too wont be city in Chinas slug, was fad the Ki Wan wi jungamitin vifusal tàn panchina me kinlegu 2\n\nI nonsted a tigh an ad rope ries rodard gather, ispers or who id has he got the hosting runes Champang -- 1990 per share, micus of the Chaverque with mugact to the poure that the reina di un munt 19 saulriviet to get more an intern wil die by to feed on the site. Kg Cheyyained at Tang Long Chua,\n\nlat the Exptira. Now, to begin with nary in us to see the ancey was to be paid. As E cavortbekeskust 1. rebede binaries we formed in a fry tally. But fury ibaonde beardon and other plac\n\nHarpley Vice Tearance Voupery'e naro Finas, ideatons month's wagesansare satin Company's Stare→→ 200\n\ner here. dau. Iney mention that fie reg a wide assuard, two of the ramulines of the Cobiit. 1945, wad icartfans when the Cabane retinate in my biet night on Wiki Halia Sha plece there is aiment lord labour.\n\nlt in my hand...it is Enf the Jish is nuttes, ha friend Les right (311 Rygg Treat may they are with a year lielinist of, but it is hardy so this pigenta. A Jay hon. Criar as wat lawan budaya, Ilagued his old Plate in a do pur. This goes gemi of pile your time it was fall me bail to take fra kāņu vee-\n\nDr Hox. Me Chor, As it all Crisis. The heater to lich this inspired with a y la vicer Derailing to it and tall and over the nasty sit, ut alatut of 3 bank 3-mesell recall me abrent wallies, bras anys mean blican Feranceles E dit sag lats. The gastants are perils Me. Egri haid Mr. Na hry has got his is a altes in the two item was partly TELAMPUL M.0% YALOGERY. Charali Dek aripany-ur (norára?).\n\nThey by and) de All Euls was perff, and who sang outed any level.\n\nDe Karikh Theg attained the joblie pagers\" centers to face gardenias Thu var khe Executing and wider grouse d' gigs | inter eordnete uslove instilation sensotul\n\nhather sunry to pullen pering the rate is in line at if the weared of race avionics, than to weben, fully go into bus and we would as the time and three teal mydia tieners far as the City to the Joy. Now, the popsite mall No eder facing this thesewing clan that instant.\n\n*** were front of us at wretcon junghusgatina Domupaus-Tis. mat meeting short ficut and dance, I have uitution in namlinger thai 1Talk is entran, alig vary which lets with aged to the WING MARIN. Now, the Hapins, le Furius and M. Ang my nose made in the Coward stestion of the City Hall is made it Taanini –A's Hacullovere line, read vortjens së Pantianiae. Duijoms at 11a ameling at waren hatalm og hours vidaselbringe at the time, Pioner 2019 points out, persky a zmesiden eritte Cir is reallway would til hot lo duke labo tu ŝinaos Man, aut i\n\nPha by casting expersitas i rams of han did, which ten te and the tests the division took plway and mad pengesai lenne in che nicest taxy, M. ii Hino's my fat way it is a visit the wordby eling be bad paren\n\nto porta budding to her as a City to lacus with the Ouseetan ajaratha fost ittla stol of jualance in the dion pply of precise com, utista (be City Hall al, latin of the and same triail torfes majority of us, my hon. Feland was in the shape of user nulis in 2 gher ties & QUERIES, Harios regard to the decorumat ca la xevy--ttish it linkly, gue. Vi tar the property and dauelson of the eneziemohair Hopsiue, Vietas med Rařkanjee (in the Colony in win a cistiveŝión 26 rands which the Cite Hall gone was originally made; ulemast, afler what has passed today, the vote? in prisoner duabargod, and the ser ach is dead. Under · dusi pro voting against Kosen yriados. Nes betwest Chinase and Malinuall, and Arin Now T. And, referring and the auto. n the Gaternant la bu hesapla pubin wet the finques i actuaith me they are the trades, any bau. Inud Yr. Ryse.\n\nkud, fogonsh, it by rublish a passo matraci or a sinh vreg te dent thu maghty packs than to setarent wirk kara lakove, in the papers, of whics wil nie wat mitted by his bat ires end, for the into suster; puid fe greater be, as mejority, stille of fritt. that whether in te thela heilbar 2014 hare Tud vt riría pallic merding • fo Codicem se ajay's resin ett forish and a hig\n\nlegal interactatiow to be put by the sepotin. For Tribrary and on any, that they are being up, on read, thanped with de pered my huu, Friend Mr. Frasines action, with ei alajesty was peachately but say if patient the trova ales 20h wargarint deals sot rren ur Governants was the must als went to whs and pichont lettowns to dileeping a pics wered Kwai Ching, agad tastes was in factating us, like eager, drms to the and whinged wind Holi bared ofertatiou Treta Net Buteo mu to You Get. the person thus when the whole teagurile Coqzinal will de cars, zon, papers to spela sua cha) my hou. Front, was beside hit in lasers with swertes a day on bestelfing the low Half doent and wait in baza arquis of any nation. From the action de base ceart it appancs WHY ECOD. nd that he alize toplumeninostics of tain kad ne Cracnes's indong 630.routes for 153; i oruit ell Aference for this standing my Jestido shopsecipás of having the this nomlignity, îse what in Greetary of Stade Fthes tau virild won tricen ont by her aunt for a the City all for a long time, and he and Mitope Lane bald, with put to blen werk of this sides bave or given a file of the dark far, 12, 1 wit.cat distinction to say in his disure, of which boyfriend state, bilst at the aunt al pro frict de car Taleemalivu nad by fir Hinhard RE12- 1. the tation of the Privy. Po papers to which paneles per Majesty's rublote in this coling, mas é thuhet Me Bewick Westem Markest and\n\nfor a cat siderable garini. Now, want ¦ Construct inserrate to reby!! tabia y 'anit, fcrowd bad na opportuzity ! sweptat. I say tha qulation is preso ir Wietzki Kicks-Erat in vurssticu with thao,, sa se ducking poLLDİ NA Droneand safer wheat circumstances? His set of Enerpeun Lith estimateds, mas belong. Parika ärst 11162 11907, MA Aria! Para zmoc faith, a yelise it may be called straite COMELE\n\nperodus then its now the Mad gan fuith. Parikat it is a gasulica of gelosipis I am hot were far met joub Scout the war tius, was walkiay\n\nMy h\n\nthere. Share 1 povab\n\nWomen Laai, nenudin, and Pho kyk, a booty) Langhong, Quaten, and Kana Mesimbrat. Cole\n\nang par skuro premium,\n\nSANTO por shpen (wominali, The prisoner said he and boral the anand China Const Stean Narization Company--Ile.\n\nword en wand this boat wis\n\nat wisse be hired it., Jongtong Gas Company's Shoes-5 pmr The escond palconer said he picked oy that Ebare\n\nHongkong Hotal Company's Shar--98 par\n\npoliwral posing\n\n1 Sennaš pri. ·\n\n·legal induía, vatnik in Mestra. Turing: J'a gust det har tosa salì shown shɔ City Harities in Wes by Falni except “bas no. 1 auf Se minusai tlmub 1,999, heen zacnd-whather; wil te given for sas maanam, hemnes heroisier way Roc? P, to default úr pos impri-Caius Suey Robning Curosz. Limited-\n\njazled me mada kaolu tu nur dianliline ar \"extriona\n\n(not almu buludivad uz muski kishile.\n\nALLHORN SITE.\n\nCute Begar aing Campany (Webenturea)\n\nWong Akın and Cher Ano, zarried more.\n\nHUNTERONG TAMPERATURA\n\nwalk about six cielook on the muralty of the 8th\n\n&ia 920.\n\nCound the chill was gone. A Teleklayer, how\n\nBeri silmate in aligned to Me Austin, Colectial Serdars. He wil\n\nbe which won ma in Ribe \"fout the the sight wearing is ces policy, what of airius China abfente of a vingin print. But at the nutrita bestaan or the Frags Central anat Ja. Aust that hafas the Petí. malay pro khely covet it ought his parib for Mr. Majerly destaces that Fam vanderat tanen. I have bem baby adfere the pahie.\n\nthe Majsely to equal rlyžis lu Ibis part ca dej my hot. friend Mr. Ng Cleg was right in saying Emad the gate being shu maaruniarant of Huse of privitat ay aspon to any such bil The Itris. 1. Kes\n\nsilach, pes\n\nthe City Tale ale cums for getting a sound weekeyal actmunizsina and Fetal fndru tanu give i tu pogand, vot cut:any only, I am; alandy's karainions mth them fler Man-hat theyla masia it is a point ci penat toorts.com es Central Maskot, whya hes so two pri- Thus where is third gaustius, it is the last 1tle anitent. An I painted et ce, who were wok, leading int in factitation, so Ext so they can doubt, bet for etwas which Her Majets 10mm EE LOW Luth be 09 in Jufuli and RTE 50-ng wrecurte im of a „nees- ; aller who has just at thin souks of this, the misild's banda, and she was stung T\n\nlna prevention of a Crowa Celnay kwanza water world I think it drevesa, te coupy the the gostion of expedisser. Now, I observa lånat ja distinction of varionality. And alien the best. the old hermann Coum, auth parleg hold Na abge.\n\na por acauled with lio Queen's saving thorougkäy viższatand that you bass sout, has\n\nMasnim d Ibarge, may be halal 1\n\nJURY NEW skorši ie ci sparated an encaseandonleges of the Chevanoriuendad Score flash the peper stars as they Bestard for which may laid by tuja oonruiter of 200; subglos first hingeloon be statimeLigocina / Brirkiovur esperting bice was wron\n\n#bikinis case iter. The Walsalle en lagd floruer when boas separa i-tes are put u fm tally as reper; vf the evans at that weting, besing negara awli\n\nrolls to a grant iroņi tüm colony, Longkong long | Tas it to Said Mr. Esquide, and Mr. Petics, and Alone the comžikiaun katı vai bron viaktrā,¦ wearing the queaken yet, at I shim feed of Me. Kokkajan maarafareed to, is prbanose to the Taf Wenz mmple, Warchi\n\nSeber. 15%\n\n6.6.201\n\nBamandel oli Tokaday regi\n\nCao Amyrna, *ALLONES Y 99% Ilazerst\n\nSo.....\n\nbaplomberib.\n\n101-...\n\nCHINA COANT MEVROROLOGICAL\n\nJACONSEG\n\n12\n\nREGISTER.\n\ndini A\n\nHoga.\n\nMTANK\n\n***\n\nKy\n\nturn to Jr, Rounds, and he so beinet of the conditices irvaad by a Governor and fuąca: shear and valid Andres, and in rules are map. Ser her! is 1. 186 Easy thu 15. Jer #62 felgrote so wire nomresies.property of oto Tang Abing, aswriter, the Pornostar grly! PA)) $4.3 15.1 R2!\n\nWUTA\n\npart in\n\nwat)owing\n\natan Sets Tail in white sareipim with those aropen and Urines, this boy,low them to the Tunde Gonced, shu kid wil hundor of the hiszen, which are, it will training ma tamat banyo had. Now the itayatan do 1. sanghariali as she press elves the pups of diseasting the action leich des matury was at trait i chudu sat down on the suddette in\n\nwould seatud tank ikusion deter insolens asthanhief quits of the consorcida ir, neelave 0 nith the statuente mire the Cnted destice shop acute reformy price. We wry, that they quinyo tas ber bank\n\nAny y fretter. Bank pilsynets fuld thu eklid unt The haze Bro:\n\n• Must be fib, heeger, drift. Die!\n\nCerita dia sedan hon the\n\n*-jaatioman, and by Mr Porben\n\nbet mother, wwi ghoshall have riay ko sat. Tus razer with Yehog wire wire Site, which is wasting moldly.\n\n•SUR ACRILICIS HAS E TEM auding beacon the sumpta vi the gosti a exted thu li For Major me to fled the gul up and portug I wearing a bele day pobant finds to souble a bież po that sundlifen, mus ense affert,doortor die Bisbard Thung the the Issues eins, The sunding is raid to deny revizor an addres frah the Chinesstrand. The keyer she told a lakang sil In a Library fee by Wah, menaged or in cash edition be impayad ng the Commuterascos or these begli, doute discon le all the soulags, shepherpes of Fourkoglu that is the bed stan and heat, and they both bailonal a saduroy day tha Ananto a clone of the netractione I have read, here you as we then, the public, psy, have not say all chefonda at the kom, madlange, al griteten story tow\n\nthren, by were wetend, Ma ght Jalild to the community dr. Bare to out the Game of Thedalico in sy thin sully my it for infrey re the reizes 1 f the Chivers ruity paran, the sbild, and thi lakong thon and\n\nis strony on his all trupert greats of the cnsion of Chinese fits the City itali, they are pors of this ming to the beating of the fur thus steps of zen Charuchy tomake of the fun riavar colatinus desean parts of Tractpen birthdod as fima do visit the bin corpin Leurs zvestiar the most important were nok hargitjada i la fog. The non pents theve vot of Unregnant birth or dawrent tu sbyxlag any other nationality. 198 Engrosh avs cia be mentine; odvrsive, fun muere of the dis. Swan was the inner of tires by whom that cons\n\nTUR ALLASED MUNDESIR MINY That suite implanter 1, a 23 long, tbré, ndeed, the pedicum are to get olded inringesin way and fer rays in a want catering plains at ausder the Gance. Fl Clines) du dyung, ausartani, approved, cu prind, cumque presente sa ne pu\n\nbaise the Chit City Mall Cacation, wrote a letter which a bar persone Cover how he is to wodas las portes by far whose pile we have trudard wil niet-The Tabu, Chiusse\n\nChernor desired to statebuyer wis mazilyan or 51,803 becu mucatly, with the other papere, befure over with respect to the Wures a man be apporti, de rhe row are paid to who is Pied Bev manus you shuast the king no disuction straf vationality.\n\nthe cowplainneren of Wind the City Hall Concil. the bafeen the Chant. gira hay v do I am about Queen Vesarin's infinity, boils wiring and Earques da\n\nIstal row place? Perisur Mr. Hoppšie 1937 sar. \"Lat? be in ureets with the engattomalts it ing! Chitwas auil tangered kanad÷dge of this versara public meBoy was catei, Far horaste its ceived the mid Feite plansla 60 what the Corviste waremtood, TEAGUE zbriter-panz vesz ke iznenardante! perands the title-led ai +1= property, it is a prere (209990 begetal Fuori z\n\nSee isely! Utirris and foreigners, bet file i\n\ndectwded, 13-py won uns allied to the Father romandel il Wednesday next at the 1. with fees to she advisɔn of Lile ambile; with the Sighs apkin Farben, in sicer saliency caut. it again zu erary relativas allar vidar una faseibo Wa Single proper in making that MS APT THE sidloveandag, grafts of sample polar restante si lay to see a man war it was abfamily decies by case voweydutal to imperfly wipe that it the ind\n\nHished Marbonnels wi\n\narı günque prilburt aran dotibel as in greitadinonthoing as of the saprint the the chemcing, and these chirase susjonaty of ham o'shack. pennial frenzy, which no pas in gain think wait to glade i Grind. It wat tertia en licht heuld be stres at the winding how it was the use of The questing in quation wie wit to by se ou pe bad bush previo on to be A draracteristic «uacfałe is to tell of Chern. Ate Leary to be rutbed by the al of Her Majesty' shot as book of zesian arte susite 15\n\nthat it was cry haters the Queen I was laid before the Quesa, jeje, dhe race, zealace of the rifle of en lommal terms, ap, i7 60, an M47\n\nFury entwertrine so be recovery to enaldo segi atractions, Ting wh not like katmendors of list had 1 wenid santo with rogari la them veren settlement? Wat was the spared uribols? censoren pilo. Kocniky, đã lugter use \"277%, nessans at ti a rod beverentiation of uns werk of of City - brumeriquely president of the Tinji Peter Wil, ny kon with Associated arataiken-bang, seven be szagad article was the articis which proporvi bezowice. A po 1 Molution charging the fe coghing and during il 16 two act. whish dantly Pig Lead was the Chairaus of the City Lini: Con- before that commiflar bear by the consider the repation, dy the grain of Benson of the aniony with mine lezimy was ouch appleded by the public, La Lad kapi tasi Mobiaian, where why if Mer wübleari\n\n...te naudot say that that it is unk, tlovkrantenatal. De Compatike duly sunadiared¦ quod fascia. Prevelike, inayosan, dan Committe to Wool To im Chiu rimtasi proprianou la giuntur slunce. This third so f 11 godoy GT AT reporterà trece pan panca. 5. Askotations as the mosul J• few to sit the world? zerely the question of tiba Beteramy nating, and starbed po treat such weight as ting considered this question, beaving out the on. Pip ses caution was awed by fli. Perors, wantsily tour¦ayi, qui a certain presage repac alg\n\npartout feuerlore of 91 24 to be allomat, la ancoran sich the law, with the coach-thogent the minutes omarmed to by Yome 63. Senden Plotleg kyny were requlug gel and what did say? That there we wemed to chand blanket oft lite speciaria o delu 128 a fight to\n\nthe alley died Tigay gu\n\ndi tirune who nhienon the fonts. Well or sny bar any oh-nge is the bar and police then the aid meeden, to the maminkomaat of bis 18-201 kaple of the Wh 9 Dutcher, f\n\nSMC Cleary, That is dured Be Ontran and Site only gu What about a vatermace jam mu nesto vractical mer ven for a tine, graissat by sa doseman wzali ke in much | the only revity dete.nl puixes. And Mr. ; ceviky like blust dnu fucked cus of them. “I\n\nf the City Plan L'acato, title, the serie Sermons of Wise What Doest dati je le arconlucre with the best the war festion than the salties were atrunjen propuned the shied cantation in obald dare leaght it wwa one of imponeret wide hondes Comictal\n\nLady STATES OF The pale Way it buy buen zmesed by the Chrystals is a\n\nverbeza provokings in napest of the exter'tine, izgored thin anzeznu, with gaveita moïveté, \" don' Back in den bag baina er niveis fel, miley. I don's believe that to the dielny of. There is a regolation for sunkiag einseite Chas the prestigue impeding, wing, po wali fails. That es day in 1978. Whether so tune if I did vol explapl it he might! Raja - Cargar mai dat die previene il le mu je zelo but sinar bever hea. Italien, been pay tinaght of Hongkong any hole of grilema;. Locher they tinc asafol As în fun Belowaty, Shade la ang in deurial distety na which to found a jądgment: inatamente af de tinge trord right or wrong-- Faibly eat it ou\n\nperlinge\n\nMulder.\n\nple, where to be tha matekoligny P $trings Soid go ự his prekerswad tiká reṣait was su albamution it the cales sal the patio. it her by hake the matrial regulations of the Lobocy, and that Rogging i trimu·la, was son to sprytead heartily. Thyon :\n\n6. Maste\n\nWeiber\n\nChepanekens, Paint-bat degrees and init, kept as lon\n\n1. shade\n\nof Mr. Reinis sevī tu♬ ärved Mr. Byrie.\n\nthat were suggesting of the Secrets of Bide, and the nanofonizettistite ice of event.\n\ngedal. Passes in ¦ when King Ware Bullet open zu denk with:\n\nTerave the spell file and in pred us what he culled the Ocultast : the whole para.\" Yon illot,\" and info na sred\n\nindia be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307981, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "page_number": 558, "title": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "content_text": "551\n\nwell\n\nlosh\n\neighty species of plants and that he furnished the names to Mr. Bowdler who had succeeded him in the superintendence of the Gardens. No sooner was I apprised of the alleged loss by Mr. Bowdler than I investigated the matter.\n\nNo clue however could be found to the plants said to be missing. The Acting Superintendent Mr. Bowdler and also Mr. Bernean both affirmed that they had on taking charge been careful to familiarize themselves with the existing stock, and were at a loss to understand how so wholesale a reduction could possibly have escaped their observation. They were able to account for losses amounting to about thirty species, as other plants had by mistake been removed by Mr. Bernean to the cemetery, but Mr. Ford's considerably long list made it quite inexplicable.\n\nThe more he pressed his opinion, the more it appeared that the plants in question could not have been stolen as they were not of a kind to attract the attention of the Chinese, leaving it to be inferred that this disappearance was due to death from neglect or maltreatment, and this charge is now reproduced in the published Report.\n\n19. It is most unfortunate that before leaving the Colony Mr. Ford did not carefully go through the catalogue of species with Mr. Bowdler, specially marking those that were missing.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308636, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 626, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1866.\n\nHongkong and Shanghae Bank.\n\nSecond. For holding extraordinary General Meetings of the Company upon the requisition of Nine or more Shareholders, holding in the whole at least Two Thousand Shares in the Company.\n\nThird. For the management of the Affairs of the Company and the election and qualification of the Directors.\n\nFourth. For the retirement of at least one-fourth of the Directors of the Company Yearly.\n\nFifth. For preventing the Company from purchasing any Shares, or making advances of Money, or securities for Money, to any person, on the security of a Share or Shares in the Company.\n\nSixth. For the publication, as shall be directed in the said Deed, of the Assets and Liabilities of the Company, and of the amounts of Promissory Notes in circulation, and of the Coin held in the Establishments of the said Company in the Colony or elsewhere.\n\nSeventh. For the verification of such statements, and for the furnishing of such further information as the said Governor of Hongkong may require, respecting the state and proceedings of the Banking Establishments of the Company in the Colony or elsewhere.\n\nEighth. For the Yearly Audit of the Accounts of the Company by Two or more Auditors, not being Directors at the time.\n\nNinth. For the Yearly communication of the Auditors' Report, and of a Balance Sheet, and Profit and Loss Accounts to every Shareholder.\n\nTenth. For the appointment of Managers, or Agents, or other Officers, to perform the duties of Managers or Agents.\n\nXI. The provisions of this Ordinance, and the provisions to be contained in the said Deed of Settlement, or in any Supplemental Deed to be made in pursuance thereof, or to be contained in any Bye-Laws to be made in pursuance of such Deeds, or any of them, shall be taken to be the existing Rules and Regulations of the Company, except so far as the same may be repugnant to the laws of the Colony, or of any Ports, Towns, Cities or Places where the Company may carry on business, or to the provisions of this Ordinance. Provided nevertheless, that no Bye-Law or Supplemental Deed that may be made, shall have any force or effect until the same shall have been approved of by the Governor and a certificate of such approval shall have been given under the hand of the Governor.\n\nIssues of Notes and Bills, provisions as to.\n\nXII. It shall be lawful for the Company to make, issue and circulate Notes or Bills payable to bearer on demand in Coin lawfully current in the Colony and to re-issue the same: Provided that no such Notes shall be issued for any other Sums than the Sum of Five Dollars, or some multiple of such Sum, or other equivalent amount, unless the issuing of Notes of other amounts shall be sanctioned by the Governor: Provided also that nothing herein contained shall exempt the Company from the operation of any existing or future laws of the Colony or of any Port, City, Town, or Place beyond the limits of the Colony where they may with such consent as aforesaid establish Bank or Branch Banks, restricting or regulating the issue of such Notes, by Banks established therein. And provided also that the Shareholders of the Company shall be subject to unlimited liability in respect of all or any such issues or issue of Notes, and, if necessary, the Assets of the Company shall be made available for the benefit of the general Creditors of the Company and the Shareholders shall be liable for the whole amount of such issue, in addition to the Sum for which they are liable under the other and general provisions of this Ordinance.\n\nXIII. The total amount of the Bills and Notes of the Company payable to Bearer on demand actually in circulation shall not at any time exceed the amount of the Capital of the Company actually paid up, and there shall always be kept by the Principal Establishment in the Colony, an amount of Coin and Bullion equal to one-third at least of the Notes and Bills of the Company for the time being in circulation.\n\nXIV. The total amount of the Debts and Liabilities of the Company of what nature or kind soever shall not at any time exceed the aggregate amount of the then existing bona fide Assets and property of the Company, and the sum for which its Shareholders are liable under the provisions herein contained.\n\nXV. If at any time there shall be a Suspension of payment of any of the Notes or Bills of the Company, it shall not be lawful for the said Company from and after the commencement, and during the continuance, of such Suspension of Payment, to make any fresh issue of Notes or Bills.\n\nXVI. The Company shall not Discount, or in any manner Advance Money upon Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, or other Negotiable paper, in or upon which the name of any Director, or Officer of the Company, shall appear as Drawer, or Acceptor, either on his individual or separate account, or jointly with any partner or partners, or otherwise than as a Director or Officer of the Company, to an amount exceeding one third of the amount of the Sum for the time being under discount, or advanced by the Company, nor shall any Director be allowed to obtain Credit on his own personal guarantee.\n\nXVII. It shall be lawful for the Company notwithstanding the statutes of Mortmain or any other statutes of laws to the contrary to purchase, hold, take, and enjoy to them and their successors, such Houses, Offices, Buildings, Lands and Hereditaments, as shall be thought necessary or proper for the purpose of managing, conducting, and carrying on the affairs, concerns and business of the Company, but not for the purpose of speculation, or any other purpose than as aforesaid, and so as no such Houses, Offices, Buildings or Land shall be more than the Yearly value of Thirty Thousand Dollars at the time of acquiring the same, or of such further Yearly value as shall be sanctioned by the Governor and to sell, convey, and dispose of the said property or any portion or part thereof, when not wanted for the purposes of the said business.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309610, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 271, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "$12\n\n269\n\nraising of trees that may be of future commercial value, such as eighty thousand seedlings of the Japanese Wax tree which have already been placed on the Peak Road that leads to the new European quarter on the hills. Others will be erected in some parts of the Chinese quarter of the Town which had been rather neglected by the Survey Department.\n\nMr. Ford has raised in our nurseries this year 73,000 trees.\n\nLast year the vote for Roads, Streets and Bridges was $25,000. On this year's vote, there is an increase of nearly $7,000.\n\n14. Lighting Street-Lamps\n\nOn the advice of the Executive Council, I recently renewed the contract for three years with the Gas Company on condition that they lowered the price of gas and added thirty-three per cent to the number of public lights. The reduction in the price of gas has enabled me to increase the vote. I now take $26,000. Some of the new lamps will be erected in the Chinese quarter.\n\nSeparate despatches will be addressed to Your Lordship respecting the vote of $35,000 for the New Water Police Station, the vote of $20,000 for the Observatory, and some other items in the Works and Buildings vote.\n\n16. Though the Estimates now submitted show a surplus of $80,246 on the year's expenditure...\n\nPage 270 appears three times at the top and three times at the bottom, indicating a page break, but the exact lines are not provided in the given text. However, based on the content, it seems the text is continuous and should be read as is.\n\nThe given text has been corrected for spelling, spacing, and some minor reordering for clarity while adhering to the original content and instructions.\n\n \n\nPage 270\n\n \nPage 270\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317788, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## 13. Schools eligible for grants-in-aid will be--\n\nClass I - Schools in which a Chinese education is given.\n\nClass II - Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition.\n\nClass III - Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.\n\nClass IV - Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.\n\nClass V - Schools in which a European education is given in any European language, with Chinese in addition.\n\n## 14. The basis of examination will be two hundred daily attendances of not less than four hours each, at instruction, in the course of the year.\n\n15. Children who have satisfied that condition will be examined in accordance with the following standards, and they may not be withheld from examination without a reasonable excuse. The results of the examination of each scholar will be communicated to the Managers.\n\n## 16. For Schools in Class I. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given.)\n\n### STANDARD I.\n1. Reading. Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From dictation, five common characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition. Two pages of the same book.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II.\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition. A short paragraph of the same book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD III.\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Repetition. A short paragraph of the same book.\n4. Explanation. The characters in the passage read.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\n### STANDARD IV.\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation. Simple phrases in the passage read.\n4. Composition. An antithetical sentence () of not more than three characters.\n5. Geography. General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n### STANDARD V.\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation. A passage not exceeding twenty characters in the same book. Orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n4. Composition. A very short theme.\n5. Geography. The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\n### STANDARD VI.\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Sixth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the same book.\n3. Explanation. A passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book. Orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n4. Composition. A short theme.\n5. Geography. The Chinese Empire.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\nNote - In Girls' schools, Repetition may be substituted for Composition in Standards IV., V. and VI.\n\n## 17. For Schools in Class II. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition.)\n\n### STANDARD I.\nThe same as Standard I for schools in Class I.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II.\nIn addition to Standard II for schools in Class I,\n4. English Reading. A short sentence from the First Book used in the school, with explanation of single words in Chinese.\n5. English Writing. From dictation, a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD III.\nIn addition to Standard III for schools in Class I,\n5. English Reading. A short passage in the Second Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n6. English Writing. From dictation, an ordinary sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in five of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD IV.\nIn addition to Standard IV for schools in Class I,\n6. English Reading. A short passage in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n7. English Writing. From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n8. English Grammar. Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD V.\nIn addition to Standard V for schools in Class I,\n6. English Reading. A short passage in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n7. English Writing. From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n8. English Grammar. Parsing a simple sentence in the same book.\n9. Geography. Outlines of Asia and Africa.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in eight of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars and a half.\n\n### STANDARD VI.\nIn addition to Standard VI for schools in Class I,\n6. English Reading. An ordinary prose passage chosen by the examiner, with explanation in Chinese.\n7. English Writing. A short theme or letter.\n8. English Grammar. Analysis and parsing of a short ordinary sentence chosen by the examiner.\n9. Geography. Outlines of Europe and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nEnglish copy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars and a half.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317789, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## 18. For Schools in Class III. (Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.)\n\n### STANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading-Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-Five common characters from dictation.\n3. Arithmetic-Notation.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic-Simple Addition and Subtraction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\n### STANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school, with explanations in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing-From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic-Simple Multiplication, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n### STANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanations in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing-From dictation, thirty consecutive characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic-The Simple Rules.\n4. Geography-General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\n### STANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school, with explanations in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing-From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n3. Arithmetic-Reduction (Chinese Tables) and Simple Proportion, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Geography-The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n5. History-The first half of the History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n### STANDARD VI.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in any book used in the school, with explanations in colloquial Chinese.\n2. Writing-From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner.\n3. Arithmetic-Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Geography-The Chinese Empire.\n5. History-The History used in the School.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\nNote.-The School books may be wholly or partially in the Romanized Character, at the option of the Manager. When the Romanized Character is used, the passages selected for examination will be of the same length as those for schools in Class IV.\n\n## 19. For Schools in Class IV. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.)\n\n### STANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading-Accurate pronunciation of each word in a passage not exceeding five lines in the First Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-Copy on a slate or black board a line of print in the same book, and write from dictation a few common words.\n3. Arithmetic-Notation, Simple Addition, and Subtraction.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n### STANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading-Slow and distinct reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Second Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-A sentence from the same book slowly read once, and then dictated in single words.\n3. Arithmetic-Multiplication Table, Simple Multiplication and Division, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n### STANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading-Clear and intelligible reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Third Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n3. Arithmetic-Compound Rules and Reduction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Grammar-Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the Reading Book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n### STANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading-Intelligent reading of a prose passage not exceeding fifteen lines in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n2. Writing-A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n3. Arithmetic-Simple and Compound Proportion, Simple Interest, and Practice, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Grammar-Parsing, orally or in writing at the option of the examiner, a simple sentence from the Reading Book.\n5. Geography-Map of the World (general outlines) and Europe.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\n### STANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading-Fluent and intelligent reading of a short ordinary paragraph chosen by the examiner from some common book or newspaper.\n2. Writing-From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner. Writing, spelling, and grammar will be taken into account.\n3. Arithmetic-Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n4. Grammar-Analysis and parsing, orally or in writing, of a complex sentence chosen by the examiner from an ordinary book or newspaper.\n5. Geography-Asia, Africa, and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, fourteen dollars.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317929, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW.\n\n## NOTES AND QUERIES.\n\nThe examination process is as follows. A notice is issued, and the students assemble according to magistracies in the Provincial Examination Hall (`bung yuan`), when five successive examinations are held in the following manner. Suppose there are ten thousand in all. After the first bout, perhaps ten per cent. are excluded, and the names of the others are hung up outside the Hall, according to magistracies, the first ten in each magistracy being specially noted. This is continued five times, the Prefect each time excluding about ten per cent. of the least meritorious composers. The result of the fifth heat is that about one tenth of the whole number of each magistracy is selected; the names of the ten best of each of these are specially prominent, and the first in each ten receives the honorary appellation of \"Prefect's choice\" (`fu pi`). The advantage gained by the `fu pi` is that, as a matter of courtesy, the Literary Chancellor will, as of course, pass him for his Degree. All the other distinctions, consequent upon this quintuple analysis, count for nothing but local and ephemeral honour amongst one's friends. Nearly all candidates are \"retained\" (`li`) as eligible for the degree of `siu tsai`, as of course.\n\nThis takes place generally in the eighth month of the Chinese autumn. The Literary Chancellor has a `yamen` of his own and receives a Commission for three years. The first two of these are the `sui tsai`, or years for examination for the degree of `siu tsai`. The subjects are, as in the case of the Magistrate's and Prefect's examinations, prose and poetry, but the Chancellor devotes one day to each. An average of perhaps ten per cent. of candidates obtain a prima facie degree, but before the list of the successful is issued (`fa pang`), a second test Examination takes place (`fu k'ao`) in order to guard against imposition, \"cribbing,\" prompting, &c. Generally about eight per cent. of the successful scrape through this second ordeal, upon which, after an interval of ten days or so, the list of graduates is suspended outside the Hall.\n\nThe next step is to buy an official hat, surmounted with a gilt swan in lieu of a button (`ho muo`), which ornament is only worn upon the hat on this one occasion; flowers are also stuck in each side of the hair (`twin hua`). The successful ones must then visit the Chancellor, dressed up in their official costume. This visit takes place at his `yamen`. The graduates first turn to the north and kotow to His Majesty; after that they turn to the Chancellor and kotow to him likewise.\n\nThe Chancellor addresses to them, collectively, a few valedictory words, after which the students retire and proceed to their respective homes. A visit to the ancestral cemetery is an indispensable sequence of having graduated. This ceremony is apparently to establish, before the manes of one's ancestors, this joyful evidence of continuity of honour in the family. The next year a similar examination to that just described takes place, immediately after which the Literary Chancellor holds a second examination (`lien chia`) of the two groups of graduates, for honours (`la chia`). This is also in two subjects only, prose essay and poetical composition, and lasts but one day. The result is announced, like the result of the Magistrate's and Prefect's Examinations, by the posting of a `pai`, not, as in the examinations for the degrees of `siu tsai`, `chü jên`, and `chin shih`, by the issue of a `pang`. The `pai`, or notice, is less solemn and imposing than the `pang`, or official list. The bachelors (`siu tsai`) of each magistracy are now arranged in three grades (`san teng`), the first candidate in the first grade of each magisterial group receiving the title of `lin sheng`, which enables him to levy a contribution of about 500 cash from each of the Bachelors of his magistracy who have competed at this examination for honours, and qualifies him to act as the spokesman and introducer (as mentioned above), in all matters interesting the bachelors or undergraduates of his magistracy.\n\nThose two years being ended, study for the degree of `chü jên` is the next step. It must be mentioned that those graduates who have not reached the standard necessary to become enrolled in one of the three grades for honours are obliged to wait till the second examination for a `chü jên` takes place, to wit, three extra years.\n\nThe examination for a `chü jên` is held by the `chu k'ao`, a special Commissioner appointed by the Emperor to each Province for each `k'o` or examination. This functionary is always accompanied by an assistant examiner (`fu chu k'ao`), and occupies the Town Hall (`kung kuan`), of the Provincial Metropolis, not having, like the Chancellor, a `yamen` appropriated to his use. This examination is much more severe than that for a `siu tsai`, the duration being nine days, in three bouts of three days each, during each bout of which the candidates are rigidly confined, night and day, to their examination cells. The first three days are devoted to essays upon subjects taken from the Four Books (`sz shu`); the second three to essays on the Classics (`ching`); the third to miscellaneous essays upon subjects chosen at random (`ts' lun`). The candidates are no longer ranged according to magistracies, nor the date at which they graduated as `siu tsai`. Perhaps two hundred will be a fair average for the number of `chü jên` degrees allotted to each Province. Under the name of `fu pang` are ranged those who have reached a high standard, but who by special favour receive a degree over and above the number allotted, owing to their great merit. In about a month the `chü k'ao` issues his list (`fu pang`), in which the first candidate, among all from the Province, obtains the title of `chieh yuan`, the second that of `ya yuan`, and the third that of `ching kusi`; all purely honorary titles. The rest of the successful ones are termed `en fusi`. A visit is now first made to the Provincial Governor (`fu tai`), and afterwards to the `chü k'ao`, by all the graduates who have thus taken their second degree.\n\nThe examinations above described may be translated by the analogous terms, \"matriculation,\" \"little go,\" \"Bachelor of Arts,\" \"Master of Arts.\" The third year is spent by the Chancellor in \"going circuit\" to ascertain the literary merit of each township.\n\nThe examination for the degree of `chin shih` takes place at Peking, in the third month of the year succeeding that in which the `chü jên` examination was held. A `chü k'ao`, generally an officer of high rank, assisted by a `fu chü k'ao`, are appointed by the Emperor to hold this examination in the Great Hall (`Kung yüan`) at Peking. The subjects are the same as for the `chü jên`, and the ordeal lasts nine days. Not more than a dozen or thirty from each Province are successful. The first candidate receives the honorary appellation of `hui yuan`. This is succeeded by the `tien shih`, or honours examination, held by the Emperor himself, who selects the themes, which are at once published in the Peking Gazette. The first candidate in the Empire is called a `chuang yün`, the second a `pang yen`, the third a `t'an hua`, and the fourth a `ch'uan lu`, terms which may be rendered by the analogous \"senior,\" \"second,\" \"third,\" and \"fourth wranglers.\" The remaining `chin shih` are ranged in three grades (`san ling chun`), the first grade of which are drafted in the Hanlin Academy, the second of which become petty Officers at Court (`siao ching kuan`), and the third of which are appointed by lot to expectant offices in the Provinces (`chi pu`). The subjects for the `tien shih` are the Five Classics, and five pages of prose composition. Lastly comes the `ch'ao k'ao`, or viva voce examination by the Emperor, who puts five questions to each `chin shih` (`t'si wên wu tao`). According to His Majesty's prepossession is the candidate marked out for any special duty or office.\n\nThe above outline of the Chinese curriculum is necessarily incomplete, and is herewith submitted for correction. Any shortcomings which may be pointed out by letter, to the Editor of the China Review, will be noted, and on some future occasion an ...\n\nPage 180\nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 371, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "13. Schools eligible for grants-in-aid will be \n\nClass I---Schools in which a Chinese education is given, \n\nClass II-Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition, Class III-Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language. Class IV-Schools in which a European education is given in any European language. Class V-Schools in which a European education is given in any European language, with \n\nChinese in addition. \n\n14. The basis of examination will be two hundred daily attendances of not less than four hours each, at instruction in the subjects of the several Standards, in the course of the year. \n\nThe results \n\n15. Children who have satisfied that condition will be examined in accordance with the following Standards, and they may not be withheld from examination without a reasonable excuse. of the examination of each scholar will be communicated to the Managers. \n\n16. For Schools in Class I. \n\n(Schools in which a Chinese education is given.) \n\nSTANDARD I. \n\n1. Reading--Two pages of the First Book used in the school. \n\n2. Writing-From dictation, five common characters in the same book. \n\n3. Repetition--Two pages of the same book. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars. \n\nSTANDARD II. \n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school. \n\n2. Writing.-From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book. \n\n3. Repetition.-A short paragraph of the same book. \n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar \n\nhas not passed in two of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars. \n\nSTANDARD III. \n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school. \n\n2. Writing. From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book, \n\n3. Repetition.-A short paragraph of the same book. \n\n4. Explanation. The characters in the passage read. \n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar \n\nhas not passed in three of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars. \n\nSTANDARD IV. \n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school. \n\n2. Writing.—–From memory, a passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book. \n\n3. Explanation.--Simple phrases in the passage read. \n\n4. Composition.-An antithetical sentence (...) of not more than three characters, \n\n5. Geography-General outlines of China Proper. \n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar \n\nhas not passed in four of the other subjects. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars. \n\nSTANDARD V. \n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school. \n\n2. Writing-From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book. \n\n3. Explanation.--A passage not exceeding twenty characters in the same book. Orally or \n\nin writing at the option of the examiner. \n\n4. Composition. A very short theme. \n\n5. Geography. The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard. \n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard. \n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars. \n\nPage 369\n\n第十三條 可領賞之書館列作五級 \n\n第一級教中國文理者 \n\n第二級教中國文理 \n\n第三級用中國語言文字教歐洲道理者 \n\n第四級用歐洲一國語言教歐洲道理者 第五級用歐洲一國語言教歐洲道理 漢文者 \n\n第十四條 \n\n甄別之法計每童年內上學不得少於二百日每日學規條內開各款不得 少過四 \n\n第十五條 凡學童符合上條者必須照下開各款應考毋 \n\n知該館總理人 \n\n推諉致 考取每童若何須報 \n\n第十六條 第一級書館教中國文理者各班考取獎賞列後 \n\n一考 一讀書 以該館所用首年之書內選一篇使讀 二寫字 以該本書揀 \n\n五個讀使默寫 三念書 以該本書怏使背念一篇 \n\n此班內凡學童考得者計每名賞銀五圓 \n\n二考 \n\n一讀書 以該館所用次年之書內選一段使讀但不過五十字外 二寫字 以該 本書揀選一連十字逐字讀使默寫 三念書 以該本書揀畧短之一段使其背念 此班內可計習字簿但該童考不得此三款之二者則不計 凡考得者計每名賞銀六圓 \n\n三考 一讀書 以該館所用第三年之內選一段使讀但不過六十字外 二寫字 以 骸本書揀選一連二十字逐字讀使默寫 三念書 以該本書揀畧短之一段使其背念 四講解 以所考之一段各字分解 \n\n此班內可計習字簿但該童考不得此四歎之三者則不計 凡考 \n\n四考 一讀書 以該館所用第四年之書內選一段使讀但不過七十字外 二默書 以 該本書揀選一段但不過三十字外授使默寫 三講解 以所讀之一段選畧淺易之句 數句授使講解 四對聯 對三對 五地理 粗識中國輿圖總要 \n\n此班內可計習字簿但該童考不得此五歎之四者則不計 凡考得者計每名賞銀八圓 五考 一讀書 以該館所用第五年之書內選一段使讀但不過八十字外 二默書 以 該本書揀選一段但不過四十字外授使默寫 三講解 以該本書之一段選授二十字 或講解字義或筆書註解一任考試官意 四作文 用單句題 五地理 照四考所用 者外繼以廣東省全圖 \n\n此班內不計習字簿 凡考得者計每名賞銀九元 \n\n開名賞銀七圓", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320994, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 373, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "18. For Schools in Class III. (Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading-Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing.-Five common characters from dictation.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Notation.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing.-From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Simple Addition and Subtraction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing-From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Simple Multiplication, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing-From dictation, thirty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-The Simple Rules.\n\n4. Geography-General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing-From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Reduction (Chinese Tables) and Simple Proportion, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography-The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\n5. History-The first half of the History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in any book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing.-From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography.-The Chinese Empire.\n\n5. History.-The History used in the School.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\nNote. The school books may be wholly or partially in the Romanized Character, at the option of the Manager. When the Romanized Character is used, the passages selected for examination will be of the same length as those for schools in Class IV.\n\n第十八條 第三級書館即用中國語言文字教歐州道理者各班考取獎賞列後\n\n一考\n\n一讀書 以該館所用首年之書內選一篇使讀\n\n二寫字 以該本書揀平易之字五個讀俛默寫\n\n三算法 分明位大\n\n此班內凡考考福計每名賞銀六圓\n\n二考\n\n一讀書 以該館所用大年之書內選一段使讀但不過五十字外\n\n二寫字以該本書內選一連十字逐字讀使默寫\n\n三算法 照上一考所用者外繼用加除二數\n\n此班內可計習字簿但該童考不得此三歎之二者則不計\n\n凡考得者計每名賞銀七元\n\n三考\n\n一讀書 以該館所用第三年之書內選一段不過六十字外者使讀及用華人會語講解\n\n二寫字 以該本書內選一連二十字讀使默寫\n\n三算法 照上二考所用者外繼以乘數\n\n此班內可計習字簿但該童考不得此三歎之二者則不計\n\n凡考得者計每名賞銀八元\n\n四考\n\n一讀書 以該館所用第四年之內選一段不過七十字若使讀及用華人語講\n\n二寫字 以該本書內選一連三十字讀使默寫\n\n三算法 用加除乘分四數\n\n四地理 中國輿圖總要\n\n此班內可計習字簿但該童考不得此四之三者則不計\n\n凡考得者計每名賞銀九元\n\n五考\n\n一讀書 以該館所用第五年之內選一段不過八十字者使讀並用華人言語講\n\n二默書 以該本書內選一連四十字授使默寫\n\n三算法 照上四考所用者外繼用化例比例二數\n\n四地理 照上四考所用者外繼以廣東省全圖\n\n五來歷 以該館所用來歷之書一半\n\n此班內可計習字簿但該童考不得此五款之四者則不計\n\n凡考得者計每名賞銀十元\n\n六考\n\n一讀書 以該館所用之書一本內選一段不過一百字者使讀及用華人言語講解\n\n二寫字 任由考試官講小說一段再講一次然後使其畧畧默出\n\n三算法 照上五考所用者外繼用奇零分數朗平分十分等數\n\n四地理 中國全圖\n\n五來歴 以該館所用來歴之書\n\n此班內不計習字簿\n\n凡考得者計每名賞銀十二元\n\n致於上考之書不拘全數抑或一份有用英字寫唐話者任由考試官定奪倘若考用英字寫唐話者所選各段長短字數多寡俱照第四級書館各考之規條畫一照箕", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321212, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 589, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, NOVEMBER 30TH, 1880.\n\nSUPREME COURT,\n\n29th November.\n\nIN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE THE FULL COURT.\n\nKO LEONG YUEN AND OTHERS V. BAN HAP AND OTHERS.\n\nThe Attorney-General (Hon. E. L. O'Malley) and Mr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton and Wotton, appeared for the plaintiffs; Mr. Hayllar, Q.C., and the Hon. Ng Choy, instructed by Messrs. Sharp, Toller, and Johnson, appeared for Ban Hap and four other defendants; and Mr. McKean, instructed by Messrs. Stephens and Holmes, appeared for the remaining four defendants. Mr. Hayllar continued his opening speech for the defendants and referred to the minute book of the company as showing that the plaintiffs had taken their part in the management of the company and that nothing had been done behind their backs. Among other minutes read was the following, dated 2nd March, 1879—“As to the bidding for the opium licence in British Hongkong, it was known that the foreigner Pitman was a very good friend of the Governor. Now, having through him obtained the opium licence (or company), it is proposed to pay a bonus (or premium) to him. Now, we have agreed with Pitman and settled with him that the bonus or premium for the three years should be $15,000, which we intend to pay him in one lump sum. The various gentlemen are hereby informed of this so that they may decide and sign their names as proof.” This was signed by the directors. Having concluded his address, Mr. Hayllar proceeded to call evidence.\n\nMr. Tan King Sing said—I am one of the defendants and a merchant, living at No. 16, Bonham-strand West. I came from Saigon with Ban Hap's power of attorney. I was ordered to tender, and did so on the 17th January, 1879. Pitman wrote out the tender. Mr. Ban Hap was then in Saigon. I did not dream of an opposition when I tendered. Having got it I became one of the Man Wo Fung. I wired Ban Hap and he came. After he came the Man Wo Fung was got up. Ban Hap got it up. I took thirty shares. I represent four others. I am a Fokienese born at Singapore. I do not speak Cantonese, but communicate with my co-directors through interpreters. The directors were Ban Hop, Cheong Hong Lim by his attorney Chow Yu Moon, Mok Sa Yeong, Ng Mun Kwan, Tam Yak Shan, the plaintiffs Ko Leong Yuen and Lai Tai U, and Chow Yu Moon. He was the treasurer. Ban Hap was the chief president and looked over everything when he came. He kept the register. Choong Hong Lim's attorney looked after local consumption. The two plaintiffs examined the opium for exportation. We made at once a first call of $250. The second call of $250 was then made, but very late. The third call was made, of $100, at the end of the eleventh moon. The four plaintiffs have not paid $900. The whole directors had the management. It was not successful. The accounts have been made up. The losses for the first year were more than $150,000. The old farmers had boiled more than they consumed the last few months and flooded the markets. The opium passed through this harbour from Shanghai, prepared at Macao. The old farmers went to Macao when we got the licence. They boiled there and competed with us. We were promised by Pitman that the Government would stop the loss. It did not stop it, and caused the loss. The opposition at Macao was the San Yee, composed of the Chap Sing and Yau Wo. We were carrying on business against great opposition. We found out losses in the eighth or ninth moon. These were losses on exportation. Our opium was not in demand so much as San Yee's. The two plaintiffs came to us and said we must return the monopoly to the Government or not to pay the monthly fee. They were willing to have the $10,000 forfeited and they abandoned their directorship. This was the middle of October, 1879. Ban Hap himself was then at Amoy. On the 6th or 7th of the ninth moon (21st October) Ng Mun Kwan wired Ban Hap. He came a few days after. The first two plaintiffs came to him. There were several there. Tam Yuk Shan said we must return the monopoly. Ban Hap said—“We shall lose the $50,000.” He said, \"Never mind, we shall be losing more if we continue.\" Ban Hap said the licence was in his name and he would go on until the end of the term as best he could. The exhibit I is the register of shareholders in the Man Wo Fung. Tam Yuk Shan holds no shares in that name, but as Tse Yae Tong. Ko Leong Yuen has sold no shares; he is there as Sun Yoo Fong. When the plaintiffs met Ban Hap and saw that he did not yield, Tam Yuk Shan sold some of his shares. He sold eleven shares on 21st November. Ban Hap sent to enquire as to what he had heard about the Yan Wo and Chap Sing quarrelling. They were selling shares on the eighth day of the 10th moon and Ban Hap made enquiries. Shok Shong Chan was the negotiator. We had a meeting on the 5th February, 1880. Ban Hap called the meeting of those who wished for an amalgamation. Over twenty attended. It was held at No. 16, Bonham-strand West. The resolution was reduced into writing by the accountant Lau Ka Wan. I produce the minute book of the old company. All the shareholders present signed the draft agreement produced. There are twenty who signed. It was discussed and everyone had their say. It was all agreed and they signed it. After the meeting Ban Hap kept the agreement at the office. A few days after it was written Ko Leong Yuen and Lai Tai U went into the office where Ban Hap, I, and Ng Man Kwan were sitting, and asked for the document to copy. Ban Hap got up, opened his box, got it and gave it to Ko Leong Yuen. The latter handed it over to Lai Tai U and they both went away.\n\nThe agreement never came back. Wong Yeak Ho was sent for it by Ban Hap. It was taken away before the agreement of 9th March was drawn up, and we did not know how to set about drawing it up; we had to do it from memory. Dissent was expressed before the agreement of the 9th March. The two plaintiffs objected. They said this was wrong and that was wrong, but did not show any particular thing to be altered. Between 23rd February and 9th March there was further negotiation with the Yan Wo, by Shok Shing Chan. So far as I know there are no other shareholders unfavourable to the amalgamation but the plaintiffs. Since the amalgamation the company has prospered greatly and made profits. The profits for eight months are $32,000. Since the amalgamation the price of selling has been reduced from $70 to $50 from the last March. We made a yearly statement of accounts at the end of the first working year. They were distributed and sent by the accountant to the plaintiffs. I never heard of any objection to those accounts before the 23rd August. Tam Yuk Shan brought me the minute book with a minute in it regarding the Man Wo Fung and asked me to sign it. It is dated 7th June. He must have got it from the accountant. Since the 1st March, 1880, the two plaintiffs have come to the office. Ko Leong Yuen comes now nearly every day to see his friends and get information. No one has ever prevented the plaintiffs taking part in the management of the company. They do business with the Man Wo Fung. They buy opium for exportation. During the last few months of 1879 we borrowed money to pay the license fee. Altogether $65,000 was borrowed.\n\nThis closed the witness's examination-in-chief and the further hearing was adjourned until this morning.\n\nPage 585", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321337, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "content_text": "13. Schools eligible for grants-in-aid will be--\n\nClass I-Schools in which a Chinese education is given.\n\nClass II---Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition.\n\nClass III-Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.\n\nClass IV. Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.\n\nClass V.--Schools in which a European education is given in any European language, with Chinese in addition.\n\n14. The basis of examination will be two hundred daily attendances of not less than four hours each, at instruction in the subjects of the several Standards, in the course of the year.\n\n15. Children who have satisfied that condition will be examined in accordance with the following Standards, and they may not be withheld from examination without a reasonable excuse.\n\nThe results of the examination of each scholar will be communicated to the Managers.\n\nFor Schools in Class I. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading.-Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing-From dictation, twenty common characters in the same book.\n\n3. Repetition.-Two pages of the same book.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing-From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Repetition.-A short paragraph of the same book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing.-From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Repetition.—A short paragraph of the same book.\n\n4. Explanation.--The characters in the passage read.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing.-From memory, a passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Explanation.--Simple phrases in the passage read.\n\n4. Composition.---An antithetical sentence of not more than three characters.\n\n5. Geography.-General outlines of China Province, the Chinese making.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\n1. Repetition.-A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing.–From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Explanation.-A passage not exceeding twenty characters in the same book, orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n\n4. Composition-A very short theme.\n\n5. Geography.-The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\n第十三條 可領助賞之書館列作五級\n\n第一級教中國文理者\n\n第二級教中國文理兼教英文者\n\n第三級用中國語言文字教歐洲道理者\n\n第四級用歐洲一國語言教歐洲道理\n\n第五級用歐洲一國語言教歐洲道理另兼教漢文者\n\n第十四條 甄別之法計每童年內上學不得少於二百日每日學規條內開各款不得少過四小時\n\n第十五條 凡學童符合上條者必須照下開各款應考毋許任意推諉\n\n考取每童若何須報知該館總理人\n\n第十六條 第一級書館即教中國文理者各班考取獎賞列後\n\n一考 一讀書 以該館所用首年之書內選一篇讀 二寫字 以該本書揀平易之字五個讀使默寫 三念書 以該本書揀便背念一篇\n\n此班內凡學童考得者計每名賞銀五圓\n\n二考 一讀書 以該館所用次年之書內選一段使讀但不過五十字外 二寫字 以該本書揀選一連十字逐字讀使默寫 三念書 以該本書揀略短之一段使其背念\n\n此班內可計習字簿但該童考不得此三款之二者則不計 凡考得者計每名賞銀六圓\n\n三考 一讀書 以該館所用第三年之書內選一段使讀但不過六十字外 二寫字 以該本書揀選一連二十字逐字讀使默寫 三念書 以該本書揀略短之一段使其背念 四講解 以所考之一段各字分解\n\n此班內可計習字簿但該童考不得此四款之三者則不計 凡考得者計每名賞銀七圓\n\n四考 一讀書 以該館所用第四年之書內選一段使讀但不過七十字外 二默書 以該本書揀選一段但不過三十字外授使默寫 三講解 以所讀之一段選淺易之句數句授使講解 四對聯 對三對 五地理 粗識中國輿圖總要\n\n此班內可計習字簿但該童考不得此五款之四者則不計 凡考得者計每名賞銀八圓\n\n五考 一讀書 以該館所用第五年之內選一段使讀但不過八十字外 二默書 以該本書揀選一段但不過四十字外授使默寫 三講解 以該本書之一段選授二十字 或講解字義或筆書註解一任考試官意 四作文 用單句 五地理 照四考所用者外繼以廣東省全圖\n\n此班內不計習字簿 凡考得者計每名賞銀九元\n\n40", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321339, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "content_text": "18. For Schools in Class III. (Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.)\n\n# STANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading-Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing--Five common characters from dictation.\n\n3. Arithmetic.----Notation.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\n# STANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading--A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic-Simple Addition and Subtraction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\n# STANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing.– From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Simple Multiplication, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\n# STANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing.–From dictation, thirty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.--The Simple Rules.\n\n4. Geography.-General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\n# STANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.——Reduction (Chinese Tables) and Simple Proportion, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography-The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\n5. History. The first half of the History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\n# STANDARD VI.\n\n1. Reading-A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in any book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner.\n\n3. Arithmetic-Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography.--The Chinese Empire.\n\n5. History-The History used in the School.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\nNote-The school books may be wholly or partially in the Romanized Character, at the option of the Manager. When the Romanized Character is used, the passages selected for examination will be of the same length as those for schools in Class IV.\n\n繼以乘數\n\n# 第十八條 第三級書館卽用中國語言文字教歐州道理者各班考取獎賞列後\n\n \n 班次\n 讀書\n 寫字\n 算法\n 地理\n 來歷\n 獎賞\n \n \n 一考\n 該館所用首年之書內選一篇使讀\n 該本書揀平易之字五個讀使默寫\n 分明位次\n \n \n 每名賞銀六圓\n \n \n 二考\n 該館所用次年之書內選一段使讀但不過五十字外\n 該本書內選一連十字逐字讀使默寫\n 照上一考所用者外繼用加除二法\n \n \n 每名賞銀七元\n \n \n 三考\n 該館所用第三年之書內選一段不過六十字外者使讀及用華人曾語講辭\n 該本書內選一連二十字讀使默寫\n 照上二考所用者外繼用乘法\n \n \n 每名賞銀八元\n \n \n 四考\n 該館所用第四年之內選一段不過七十字若使讀及用華人言語講解\n 該本書內選一連三十字讀使默寫\n 用加除乘分四數\n 中國輿圖總要\n \n 每名賞銀九元\n \n \n 五考\n 該館所用第五年之書內選一段不過八十字者使讀並用華人言語講解\n 該本書內選一連四十字授使默寫\n 照上四考所用者外繼用化例比例二數\n 照上四考所用者外繼以廣東省全圖\n 該館所用來歷之書一半\n 每名賞銀十元\n \n \n 六考\n 該館所用之書一本內選一段不過一百字者使讀及用華人言語講解\n 任由考試官講小說一段再講一次然後使其默出\n 照上五考所用者外繼用奇零分數\n 中國全圖\n 該館所用來歷之書\n 每名賞銀十二元\n \n\n致於上考之書不拘全數抑或一份有用英字寫唐話者任由考試官定奪倘若考用英字寫唐話者所選各段長短字數多寡俱照第四級書館各考之規條畫一照算", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "content_text": "a preliminary enquiry, \n\nand whenever an autopsy is necessary a request has to be made for a Jury to be summoned and the Coroner has to proceed to the Government Civil Hospital and view the body and take the evidence.\n\nIn many urban cases the circumstances to be enquired into require the utmost delicacy of treatment and the greatest minuteness of investigation. Sometimes it is a death occasioned by pressure, sometimes by the falling in of a roof, sometimes by the explosion of a boiler, sometimes by the result of a collision in the harbour, and occasionally by murder.\n\nIn all these cases the surrounding circumstances have to be investigated. The scene of the death has to be visited, and frequent adjournments to be made. In a case which I recently held one hundred and eighty pages of depositions had to be taken, and the enquiry lasted for exactly a month, and in several other cases twenty or thirty pages of evidence have been taken and the enquiry adjourned from day to day. Minute points of law constantly arise, and the Coroner has to keep his undivided attention sustained.\n\nThe journey to the Civil Hospital is through the thickest part of the Chinese town, and at the inquest it is the view of a body in a less advanced stage...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326335, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "content_text": "## 12\n\nRevenue of $32,600 thirty-two thousand six hundred\n\n307\n\n## 13\n\nEstimates of 1884 were framed, and on the sum which it was originally proposed to charge against accumulated balances there will be the following excess.\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Bytam Water Works | |\n| Extraordinary Sanitary and other Works | $150,000 Fifty thousand |\n| | #5,180 Five thousand one hundred eighty |\n| | #87,780 Eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty |\n\nInstead therefore of a charge against balances of $272,000, as contemplated when the Estimates were made, there will be the increased charge of $357,780, and the probable balance of assets of the Colony at the end of the present year, instead of being $657,257, as shown in the Estimates of 1885, will, I fear, be not more than $509,250.\n\n## 8\n\nIt is impossible to predict with any certainty at present moment what the Revenue of 1885 will amount to. In my despatch `W399`, forwarded", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327403, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "## Proofread Text\n\nThe cost of Java spirit is accurately calculated to seventy-nine cents and sixty-eight hundredths of a cent ($0.7968) per gallon for Teng-hari, and fifty-one cents and thirty-six hundredths of a cent ($0.5136) per gallon for Siangles, whereas Kat... 199 hundred and twenty flowers for four gallons, which is equivalent to about forty cents a gallon.\n\nSir G. Bowen states in his despatch to the Colonial Office that the cost of Chinese spirit exported from Hong Kong ranges from thirty to forty cents a gallon, and it is evident therefore that there is no likelihood, under the present scheme, of the Java product being able to compete with Chinese spirits, as it will be subject to a much higher duty.\n\nI have, etc.\nErnest Satow\n\nThe duty on Java gin would be one dollar, eighty cents, as the wholesale price of the latter, which also goes by the name of \"arrack\", was recently quoted at one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty-four hundredths ($1.9934) per gallon.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328335, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "content_text": "109\n\nThere are no suitable schools from which masters can be drafted to fill these posts.\n\nThe problem is how to provide efficient Chinese Assistants in addition to the 1st and 2nd who may be considered permanent.\n\nThe 3rd and 4th of the Assistants at present receive twenty dollars as monthly salary, but they are continually leaving on obtaining higher salaries, no less than 6 changes having taken place among them within 18 months. We have therefore every reason to suppose that when the new College is ready, we shall not have two Assistants of the present year's experience. To induce two Assistants to remain in their posts, I propose an increase of five dollars each per month, as a total annual increase of one hundred and twenty dollars.\n\nInstead of 2 Pupils Teachers and 3 Monitors we now have at a total cost of four hundred and thirty-two dollars per annum, and who leave whenever occasions offer, I suggest having Pupil Teachers duly apprenticed and bound in securities for three or four years as His Excellency the Governor may appoint, who shall receive ten dollars a month the first year, and fifteen dollars a month afterwards (with a promise of at least twenty dollars at the end of the stipulated time). This would make a gross annual expenditure of one thousand and eighty dollars, making a gross annual increase in expenditure of six hundred and forty-eight dollars.\n\nFor the training of these Pupil Teachers, a special Normal Class would be formed in the afternoons, in addition to their practical work of teaching in the mornings. By this means, eight efficient trained Chinese Assistants (in addition to the 1st and 2nd) will be ready to fill the posts required in the New College, at a total additional cost per annum of seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars.\n\n#", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328932, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10]", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10]", "content_text": "8 \n\nbeing of opinion that some \nconsideration was necessary \nfurther before finally committing ourselves to it.\n\n9. \nThe Balance to the credit of the Colony on the 31st January last was seven hundred and twenty nine thousand five hundred and two dollars and sixty cents, `$799,502.60`, which had decreased on the 30th June last, to five hundred and sixty seven thousand two hundred and seventy two dollars and eighty three cents, `$567,272.83`. The greater portion of which, viz. three hundred and seventy nine thousand nine hundred and seventy three dollars and thirteen cents, `$379,973.13`, has been invested in England by Crown Agents, who are now gradually realizing it.\n\n10. \nThe average monthly expenditure for ordinary purposes during the first six months of this year was ninety five thousand nine hundred and fifty four dollars, `$95,954`, and for extraordinary works thirty two thousand two hundred and fifty eight dollars, `$32,258`, making a total of one hundred and twenty eight thousand two hundred and twelve dollars, `$128,212`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328955, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10]", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10]", "content_text": "22\n\n23\n\n211\n\ncontinue as now, to be one of absolute toleration towards all religions communion. All are already practically equal in the sight of the law.\n\n10.\n\nThe following Statistics derived from official and other reliable sources, will show the present condition of Japan. The population of the Island Empire is about thirty-nine (39) millions; and its public revenue approaches sixteen (16) millions sterling. Its foreign trade (including exports and imports), amounts to twelve (12) millions sterling. There are already 330 miles of railway completed, and lines are being steadily pushed forward, so as to open out the whole country. There is an effective army, with peace and war establishments of eighty-two thousand (82,000) and one hundred and ten thousand (110,000), respectively trained and equipped in European style; and a navy of some twenty-five (25) ships of all sizes, including seven (7) ironclads. Both the army and ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "content_text": "## \nA tender has just been concluded, and confirmed by the **Executive Council**.\n\nIn response to the usual call for bidders, a syndicate of wealthy Chinese merchants from Singapore has offered to pay this Government one hundred eighty-two thousand, four hundred dollars a year for the Farm for three years from March 13, 1886, under the substantial guarantee of a deposit with the Hongkong Government of thirty thousand dollars, $30,000, which has already been paid. Not only is the sum of twenty-four thousand, four hundred dollars, $24,400, now tendered in advance by way of the annual Royalty at present paid; but it is also regarded by those most competent to judge as an important advantage that the introduction of these Singapore bidders tends effectively to break up the little clique of firms at Hongkong, which, during some years past, have been endeavouring to impose their own terms on the Government of this Colony.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, \nMost Obedient, Humble Servant, \n**5Bowen**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333710, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\n3534\n\nPETITIONS AGAINST THE OPIUM BILL.\n\nThe ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY-The Clerk of Councils has received two petitions about the Opium Bill. I move that they be read.\n\nThe CLERK OF COUNCILS read the petitions as follows:- To HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, AND THE HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.\n\nThe humble petition of Shellim Ezekiel Shellim, of the firm of David Sassoon, Sons & Co., Jacob Silas Moses, of the firm of E. D. Sassoon & Co., Buttonjee Dadabhoy Tata, of the firm of Tata & Co., Marcus David Ezekiel, of the firm of Abraham Ezekiel & Co., Mahomelbhoy Khetsey, of the firm of Tharia Topan, Jafforbhoy Khetsey, of the firm of Jairazbhoy Peerbhoy & Co., and Hormusjee Merwanjee Mehta, of the firm of Framjee Hormusjee & Co., all of Victoria in the colony of Hongkong, for and on behalf of the opium importers and wholesale opium merchants of the said colony,\n\nSHEWETH-That at a recent meeting of the opium importers and wholesale opium merchants of this colony, held for the purpose of considering the Bill now before your Honourable Council, entitled \"An Ordinance for the better regulation of the trade in opium,\" it was inter alia resolved that the said Bill, if passed in its present form, would prejudicially affect their trade, and that your petitioners should be appointed a Committee to take such measures as they might consider advisable to bring their complaints before your Honourable Council.\n\nThat while fully recognizing the necessity of carrying out the object aimed at by the said Bill, namely, the prevention of opium smuggling into China, and while sympathizing with its spirit, your petitioners submit that the means by which it is proposed to effectuate such object would inflict serious injury upon the opium trade, and especially on the aforesaid opium importers and wholesale and retail opium dealers, and prove a blow to the general commerce and prosperity of this colony.\n\nThat your petitioners believe that the end intended to be accomplished by the said Bill could be attained by other and less objectionable means, and that your petitioners are prepared to co-operate with your Honourable Council and the executive in attaining the desired object.\n\nThat inasmuch as the Bill affects private interests, and was only brought in and read a first time on Friday, the 18th inst., it is desirable to postpone the second reading thereof so as to enable the persons who are more immediately interested, as well as the general public, to acquaint themselves with its scope and object.\n\nYour petitioners therefore humbly pray\n\n1.-That the second reading of the said Bill may be postponed until such day as your Honourable Council may under the circumstances deem meet.\n\n2. That your petitioners may be heard by Counsel at the bar of your Honourable Council as to their objections to the said Bill in its present form.\n\n3.-That the said Bill may be so amended or modified as to remove the objections of your petitioners, or that it may be withdrawn and a fresh Bill introduced such as the necessity of the case requires.\n\nAnd your petitioners will ever pray, &c.\n\nHongkong, 22nd March, 1887.\n\nS. E. SHELLIM.\n\nJ. S. MOSES.\n\nR. D. TATA.\n\nM. D. EZEKIEL.\n\nM. KHETSEY.\n\nJ. KHETSEY.\n\nH. M. MEHTA.\n\nThe humble petition of the undersigned merchants and traders resident in Hongkong respectfully showeth-\n\n1. Your petitioners are dealers in opium residing and carrying on business in Hongkong.\n\n2.-At the meeting of your Honourable Council held on Friday, the 18th March instant, a Bill was introduced and read a first time entitled \"An Ordinance for the better regulation of the trade in opium,\" and the said Bill is framed for the purpose of regulating the movement of raw opium in this Colony and of prohibiting the purchase or sale of raw opium in quantities less than one chest.\n\n3. Your petitioners deal largely in raw opium, buying and selling it in quantities less than one chest, and have a large capital engaged in the said business, and they employ in their said business many hundreds of persons.\n\n4.-If the said Bill becomes law in its present form the business hitherto carried on by your petitioners will absolutely cease and can no more be carried on; the capital therein employed will be idle, the hundreds of persons now occupied in the said business will be thrown out of employment, and your petitioners will all of them suffer grievous loss and injury, and some of them will be irretrievably ruined.\n\n5.-Your petitioners respectfully submit that the objects proposed to be attained by the said Bill may be far more effectually carried out by means other than those contained in the said Bill, and without loss or injury to any class of the community; and they therefore humbly pray that on the second reading of the said Bill they may be heard by their counsel against the said Bill under the provisions of the 47th of the Standing Orders and rules of this Honourable Council, and that they may have due notice of such second reading.\n\n(Signed) WING KAT CHEUNG,\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\n527\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-As regards the prayers of these two memorials, that the petitioners may be heard by counsel before this Council, I am advised that they have no right to appear by counsel under the provisions of the Orders of this Council, 47; but as I think this is a subject that ought to be well and thoroughly ventilated I shall offer no opposition if, after the second reading has been moved and seconded, any member moves that they may be permitted to appear by counsel and if the Council approves of that motion. I propose that the second reading should be moved and seconded to-day, and that the further discussion be adjourned.\n\nTHE OPIUM BILL.\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL-I beg to move the second reading of the Bill for the better regulation of the trade in opium. In doing so I shall endeavour, as briefly as possible, to lay before the Council the circumstances which have made the Ordinance necessary. I might almost say, imperative. You are all aware that the collection of the maritime customs in China are entrusted to two different departments-the foreign collectorate, which collects all import and export duties on goods carried by foreign vessels to and from treaty ports, and the native collectorate, which collects all dues and duties on goods carried by junks to and from both treaty and other ports. By the treaty of Tientsin the duty on foreign opium was fixed at thirty taels per picul. In the North, foreign opium is mostly carried in foreign ships, and the duty is therefore collected by the foreign collectorate, while in the South a great deal of the opium is carried in junks to treaty ports and non-treaty ports, and some is taken overland and pays duty to the native collectorate. All this opium has hitherto paid duty according to the manner in which it was carried. Junk-shipped opium has paid twenty-five per cent. less than steamer-shipped opium. Besides this duty on opium there is another tax called likin, which is imposed by the Viceroys of different provinces. It has varied in amount from time to time, and has sometimes been less in one province than in another. With the collection of the likin the foreign collectorate has, hitherto, had nothing to do. It was collected at the ports and at various places in the interior. It is important to bear this in mind because according to the Additional Article the likin duty is now fixed at eighty taels per picul, and this will in future be collected by the foreign customs and before the opium is taken possession of by the purchaser. The attempt which the Hoppo and the Viceroy made to collect the duty and the likin here led to a great deal of smuggling, and in order to prevent this both the Viceroy and the Hoppo organised preventive services. They had cruisers and steam launches, and they established stations at the entrances to Hongkong Harbour. They overhauled all junks passing these stations and what has since been called the blockade of Hongkong began.\n\nI am not going to allude to this at any great length because you are all aware of the abuses which arose from this system and the complaints which were made from time to time as to the alleged illegal seizure of junks trading to and from this Colony. I know it will be said that these complaints have now ceased and that the blockade is a thing of the past. This I shall allude to further on. This blockade was a constant source of complaint. On the one hand the Chinese authorities complained that smuggling was carried on to a large extent and that they had a right to do all in their power to prevent it. On the other hand the colonists contended that Hongkong was a free port, that they had nothing to do with smuggling, and that the authorities had no right to injure their trade while engaged in protecting the revenue. Voluminous correspondence took place on this subject. I will quote only two passages. The first runs as follows: \"Moreover there can be no doubt that the action of the Chinese revenue steamers, sailing vessels, and boats in the harbour of Victoria, within sight of the whole community, not only keeps up a feeling of irritation among the British residents, but is calculated to create a false impression among the Chinese in the colony, by whom the tacit acquiescence of the British Government in these extraordinary proceedings is not improbably attributed to fear of the Chinese authorities, and to recognition of their unjust pretensions.\" The second extract is one from a report.\n\nPage 27", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333711, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 534, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "signed by my hon friend on the right (Hon. P. Ryrie), Mr. Lowcock, and Mr. Keswick. It runs as follows:-\"The seizures that are constantly made and the terror inspired by the lawless acts of various petty collectors of ill-defined and miscellaneous duties have on former occasions been loudly exclaimed against and condemned, but no change for the better has taken place. It has been frequently and abundantly proved that the blockade is a serious evil, a great hindrance to the trade of the colony, unjust, and in its effects demoralising; and the papers which have been submitted to us, addressed to His Excellency by the Chief Justice, the Acting Attorney-General, and the Junior Magistrate on the system adopted by the English officers of the Boppo of Canton, show that Chinese of the lowest class are employed as informers, received into the service, and educated to prey upon the people as false accusers and extortioners.\" The end of all these complaints was the passing of an article in the Chefoo Convention which runs as follows:- \"The Government of Hongkong having long complained of the interference of the Canton Customs Revenue Cruisers with the junk trade of that Colony, the Chinese Government agrees to the appointment of a Commission to consist of British Consul, an officer of the Hongkong Government, and a Chinese official of equal rank, in order to the establishment of some system that shall enable the Chinese Government to protect its revenue without prejudice to the interests of the colony.\" It is not necessary now to inquire into the circumstances which prevented this clause being acted upon. In 1883, negotiations took place in London between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Marquis Tseng, which resulted in an additional article, dated July 18th, 1885, and one clause of it I will read: \"In lieu of the arrangement respecting opium proposed in clause 3 of section III of the Chefoo Agreement, it is agreed that foreign opium, when imported into China, shall be taken cognisance of by the Imperial Maritime Customs, and shall be deposited in bond, either in warehouses or receiving bulks which have been approved of by the Customs, and that it shall not be removed thence until there shall have been paid to the Customs the tariff duty of thirty taels per chest of 100 catties, and also a sum not exceeding eighty taels per like chest as lekin.\" The ninth clause is as follows: \"It is understood that the Commission provided for in clause 7 of section III of the Chefoo Agreement to inquire into the question of the prevention of smuggling into China from Hongkong shall be appointed as soon as possible.\" I would here beg to call attention to the difference in the two articles. In the first, Hongkong appears as the complainant, and the section provided for the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the interference of the Canton Customs revenue cruisers with the junk trade of the colony, and also for the establishment of some system which would enable the Chinese Government to protect its revenue without prejudice to the interests of Hongkong; while in the other article, the complaint of Hongkong appears to have been totally forgotten, and the object of the Commission was to inquire into smuggling from Hongkong into China.\n\nIn 1883, a Commission was appointed, presided over by his Honour the Chief Justice, and composed of my hon. friend on the right (Hon. P. Ryrie), Mr. Justice Russell, and I believe Mr. Balkeley Johnson. It was undoubtedly a fact, as pointed out by that Commission, that smuggling to a great extent did take place from Hongkong, was carried on by the Chinese themselves, and that the European portion of the community were total strangers to it. The Commissioner, in his report, in speaking of the Commission, says as follows: \"The island of Hongkong is separated from the mainland of China by a narrow strait, varying from half a mile to four miles in breadth, and situated along a shore line faced by a range of high mountains to be crossed only by three or four steep passes. This geographical position, so favourable for a preventive service, whilst affording the Chinese Government the ready means of protecting its revenue, which would be wanting if the colony were placed at a greater distance, and the cruisers had to guard an extended length of coast, is, nevertheless, from the numerous bays, creeks, and inlets along the Chinese coast, a constant source of annoyance to the Government of China, and induces the maintenance of an armed flotilla for miles up and down the coast opposite Hongkong. The Commissioners submit, with reference to the whole question of smuggling from this colony into China, and the so-called blockade, that according to international law, it is no part of the duty of the Hongkong Government to assist the Chinese Government in the collection of its revenue. Yet, considering the position of Hongkong in relation to the mainland of China, the Commissioners feel that the Colonial Government is called upon by considerations of policy to prevent in every reasonable way the freedom of this port from being abused by being made the means of defrauding the authorities of the neighbouring empire of their legitimate dues, provided that the Chinese Government, on its part, will conform to the provisions of the treaties in respect of tariff stipulations, and will, moreover, enter into effective guarantees that the trade of Hongkong shall not be subjected to irregular, indefinite, or exceptional taxation, and that vessels and goods shall not be forfeited or persons trading to or from Hongkong be punished for smuggling, unless by some competent and open tribunal, in which complete confidence may be reposed by the Hongkong Government.\"\n\nNow it is quite clear that if China experienced a difficulty in repressing smuggling when the duty was only thirty taels, she will be likely to encounter very much greater difficulty, and a great impetus will be given to smuggling when the duty is increased from thirty to one hundred and ten taels, and when the article, once introduced into China, will be free from all dues and duties. The Chinese authorities represented, therefore, to the English Government that the additional article would be a failure unless certain facilities were granted by the Government of Hongkong for the collection of the opium duty and the lekin. These proposals were mentioned in His Excellency's minute, which was submitted to the Council at the last meeting. The first plan was that the revenue should be collected in India, the second that China should do her own work, and the third that there should be a sort of co-operation between England and China, called the hulk plan. The Indian plan was rejected at once by the home authorities, but the hulk plan was submitted for the consideration of the Commission. Under these circumstances, the Opium Commission assembled here last year, and Sir Robert Hart referred to these proposals and placed them before the Commissioners. They were all considered unacceptable, and yet something had to be done. And why? Because China was determined to do all in her power to protect her revenue, and if, in doing so, she put into full force all her rights, rights which have often been admitted, she would be able to place great impediments on the trade of this colony, and to harass it very much indeed. In fact, she might again have instituted another blockade, only stricter, because the object was still more important.\n\nI think, looking at the geographical position of this island, and the facilities it offers for smuggling, if we can, while increasing our own revenue, assist China to protect hers, and while protecting her own revenue, not to injure us, we ought to meet her half-way, and do what we can. The Hongkong Commissioner, therefore, put forward his scheme, and he states what are his reasons for doing so. He says: \"We had experience some years ago of this trouble and annoyance, and the interference with legitimate traders caused by the new system for collecting opium duty and lekin, and it, therefore, is a matter for consideration how far we could go in giving facilities to China to enable her to collect, with as little friction as possible, and as cheaply as possible, the considerably increased opium tax which is leviable under the Additional Article. China might do much, without transgressing any treaty obligation, to vex the trade of Hongkong, whether by junk or steamer, and some of the privileges of the coasting and river steamers, which are now enjoyed by them, would probably suffer curtailment. Whilst, therefore, not acquiescing in the bulk plan, I felt that something should be done, and I had prepared a scheme founded on legislation existing in Singapore for years - a scheme which I considered would be for the mutual advantage of Hongkong and China. Having objected to the bulk plan, and having learned that there was no alternative one to be put forward, I proceeded to unfold my scheme, subject to the following conditions:- 1. That China will arrange with Portugal that Macao adopts a similar or equivalent measure. 2. That if it is found to affect injuriously the legitimate trade...\n\n2\n\n528", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337811, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "content_text": "dollars a month. Half of this amount I remit to England for the maintenance and education of my family, and for the payment of premium policies on my life insurance. The latter item amounts to one hundred and seventy pounds per annum.\n\nThe rent of my house in Hongkong, which is furnished, is eighty-seven dollars a month including taxes. Wages amount to forty-nine dollars a month, and the actual cost of living for myself and wife, not including wines, is at least fifty dollars a month. There is a further item of ten dollars a month, a fixed payment for medical attendance, and should there be any real sickness in my establishment, this would have to be supplemented by special payment.\n\nThe items I have mentioned amount to one hundred and ninety-six dollars a month, leaving only thirty-four dollars a month for extras of all kinds, such...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337813, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "content_text": "Jik pence. \n\nThis salary has never been altered, and while that of many other kindred departments such as the Police Harbour Master, Registrar and Registrar of the Supreme Court have been largely increased; the salary of the Magistrates remains unchanged.\n\nAnother part of my salary is derived from the Fire Brigade. For this I receive eighty dollars a month. The salary was fixed in sterling at a time when there were five fires a year. Last year there were 205 fires, and up to date this year there have been thirty-eight.\n\nBy the terms of my appointment, I am compelled to live throughout the year in the City of Victoria. I am thereby precluded from living up the hill during the summer months, a consideration of great importance to a married man, and also limited in my choice of residences down below, although I receive no house allowance: the work of extinguishing fires is not only attended with thirty", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340361, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "content_text": "**Memorandum of Agreement**\n\n88\n\nmade this 27th day of July One thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine Between\n\nThe Undersigned, one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies of Downing Street, London, Middlesex, acting for, and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong (hereinafter called the Government) of the first part and John Davis of 42 West Street, Southsea, Portsmouth of the second part\n\nWhereas\n\nthe said Government is desirous of renewing the engagement of the said John Davis as Foreman of Masons, in the Public Works Department of the Colony. Now it is hereby agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows :-\n\n1. The said John Davis shall proceed to Hong Kong by a Steamer leaving about the twentieth day of August and shall and will immediately on his arrival there faithfully and diligently employ himself in such manner as he may be required by the said Government, for the space of Two years commencing from the date of his arrival in the Colony.\n\n2. The said John Davis shall not either directly or indirectly engage, or be concerned in any other service or business whatsoever but shall devote the whole of his time and attention to the service of the said Government and shall use his utmost exertions to promote the interests of the Government.\n\n3. The said Government shall pay to the said John Davis the sum of One hundred and thirty-five dollars ($135) for every calendar month during which the said John Davis shall be at work or willing and able to work for the said Government or for any other person or persons to be nominated...\n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342419, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "content_text": "Enclosure.\n\nE\n\n32\n\nBrothels.\n\nThere\n\nC.O.\n\n17712\n\nRECR\n\n[Rectd 10 SEP 30]\n\nare\n\neighty-eight registered brothels for the use of Chinese. Chinese are not allowed to frequent those used by Europeans, nor Europeans those used by Chinese. No licence fee is charged, and the object of registering them is for the protection of the inmates and the preservation of order. Those registered for Chinese are divided into three classes, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. They are divided according to their size and general respectability. A first-class brothel for Chinese is generally occupied by between thirty to forty inmates. It consists of a three or four-storied house, and is usually located", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346259, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 658, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "the year 1870. \n\nCopies of the detailed Estimates are enclosed herewith.\n\nEnclosure Printed With six spare copies sent separately\n\nEnclosures\n\nThe customary report duly 1891 by the Acting Attorney General is annexed.\n\nP.S.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nStyle Barker\n\nYour Lordship's despatch 16: 139 of the 25th of June was received after this ordinance had been passed, & therefore too late for the action indicated in paragraph 3 thereof.\n\n11628 Lefence work Expereich\n\nEnclosure 3\n\n**REPORT BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON ORDINANCE NO.**\n\nC. O. 17890\n\n**ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE**, 30th July, 91.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled **An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a supplementary sum of Five hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and one dollars and eighty three cents to defray the charges of the year 1890**, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\n(2.2). A. J. Leach, Acting Attorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346261, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 660, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "## \nIt was advised to exercise her power of disallowance on Ordinance No. 7189, of the Legislature of Hong Kong, Entitled \"An Ordinance Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to authorise the Supplementary Appropriation to the Sum of Five hundred and Thirty nine thousand One hundred and one Dollars and Eighty cents to defray the Charges thereof.\"\n\nIt would appear that the Appropriation Ordinances are to adopt the wording which makes the expenditure \"a charge on the revenue and other funds\" as without the latter words there is no legal authority for...\n\nPage 660 \nPage 661", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347587, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "# Marine Lot No 20\n\nThis Indenture, of two parts, made the Eleventh day of November A.D. 1846\n\nbetween **OUR SOVEREIGN Lady VICTORIA**, by the GRACE of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, of the one part, and **Catchick Paul Chate** of the other part.\n\nWhereas by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, made and dated at Westminster, the Fifth day of April in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies were erected into a Colony, and full power and authority to the Governor of the said Colony of Hongkong, for the time being, were given and granted in the Name of Her said Majesty, and on Her behalf (but subject nevertheless to such provisions as might be in that respect contained in any Instructions which might from time to time be addressed to him by Her said Majesty,) to make and execute, in the Name and on the behalf of Her said Majesty, under the Public Seal of the said Colony, grants of Land to Her said Majesty belonging, within the said Colony, to private persons for their own use and benefit, or to any Persons, Bodies, Politic or Corporate, in trust, for the public uses of Her said Majesty's Subjects there resident, or any of them; AND WHEREAS by certain other Letters Patent under the Great Seal as aforesaid, bearing date the thirteenth day of February in the eighth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy Knight Commander of the most Distinguished Order of the Bath and Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the most Honourable Order of the Bath was constituted and appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies; AND WHEREAS by certain Instructions of Her said Majesty, addressed to the then Governor of Hongkong, under Her said Majesty's Sign Manual, and dated the Sixth day of April, 1848, The said Governor was, amongst other things, instructed to grant Leases of the Land in the said Colony belonging to Her said Majesty: Now this Indenture witnesseth, that in consideration of the yearly rents, conditions and agreements hereinafter reserved and contained, by and on the part and behalf of the said Catchick Paul Chate and Assigns, to be paid, done and performed, and also of the sum of five hundred Current Dollars, which are at this time a legal tender in the said Colony of Hongkong, in hand paid to the said Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy Governor of the said Colony, for the use of Her said Majesty, by the said Catchick Paul Chate at or before the Sealing and Delivery of these Presents, the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged; Her said Majesty QUEEN VICTORIA, Hath demised, leased, and to farm let, and by these presents Doth demise, lease and to farm let, unto the said Catchick Paul Chate, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, ALL that piece or parcel of Ground situate, lying and being at Victoria in the said Island of Hongkong, abutting on the North side thereof on the sea at high water mark and measuring thereon ninety three feet, on the South side thereof on the Queens Road and measuring thereon ninety seven feet, on the East side thereof partly on ground now in the possession of Government partly on a close registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot Number Eight by right and partly on ground now held by the Military Department and measuring thereon one hundred and eighty five feet and on the West side thereof registered in the Land Office as Marine Lot Number Twenty one and measuring thereon three hundred and eighty five feet, which said piece or parcel of ground Contains in the whole thirty six thousand five hundred and seventy five square feet and is registered in the Land Office as Marine Lot Number Twenty in the name of said Catchick Paul Chate on a Close together with all easements, profits, commodities and appurtenances whatsoever to the said demised premises belonging, or in any wise appertaining. EXCEPT AND ALWAYS RESERVED unto Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, full power to resume and take possession of all or any part of the said piece or parcel of Ground hereby 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 Occupant thereof of its being so required, and a full and fair Compensation for the said Land and the Buildings thereon, being paid to the said Catchick Paul Chate, 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 in which said valuation, the benefit to accrue to the said Catchick Paul Chate, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators or Assigns, from any such improvement or public purpose shall be allowed by way of set-off against any Damage he or they may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid; EXCEPT AND RESERVED ALSO, all Mines, Minerals and Quarries of Stone in, under and upon the said premises, and all such Earth, Soil, Marl, Clay, Chalk, Brick-earth, Gravel, Sand, Stone and Stones, and other Earths or Materials, which now are or hereafter during the continuance of this demise, shall be under or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns may require for the Roads, Public Buildings, or other Public Purposes of the said Colony of Hongkong; with full liberty of Ingress, Egress and Regress, to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, and Her said their Agents, servants and workmen, at reasonable times in the year during the continuance of this demise, with or without horses, carts, carriages and all other necessary \n\n## Page 26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350220, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "# 524 \n\n: Appropriation of a Supplements - \n\nThree hundred and sixty thousand six hundred and seven cents to defray the charges of the year 1891.\n\n\"Eighty-seven Dollars and Thirty\" is enclosed.\n\n## 3.\n\nThe Bill was passed unanimously by Legislative Council. The tone of the items call for special comment or explanation beyond that given in the printed Memorandum which accompanies it, and of which six copies are enclosed.\n\nThe customary Report by the Acting Attorney General is annexed.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord Marquess,\nYour Lordship's most obedient humble servant,\nWithin Robinson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350221, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 529, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "# Enclosure\n\n## REPORT BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON ORDINANCE No. 3/3 of 1892\n\n### 525\n### 369\n\n**REC**(Beat 9 JAN 33)\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, \n2nd December 1892.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled: \n\"**Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to authorise the appropriation of a supplementary sum of Three hundred and Sixty thousand Six hundred and Eighty Seven dollars and Thirty-seven cents** to defray the charges of the year 1891,\" and am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\n(Signed) St. J. Liach, \nActing Attorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350313, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 621, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "# HKery \n## 1142 \n\nThe Honourable C. P. CHATER moved, as an amendment, \n\nThat the total expenditure provided in the Bill be reduced by a reduction of the salaries (included in the total) which have been increased under the general scheme of increase to what they were before the sitting of the Committee of 1890. \n\nThe Honourable HO KAI seconded. \n\nQuestion put. \n\nA division was taken when there voted \n\nFor the amendment: \n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Honourable E. R. BELILIOS |\n| C. P. CHATER |\n\nAgainst the amendment: \n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Director of Public Works |\n| Colonial Treasurer |\n| Honourable Harbour Master |\n| T. H. WHITEHEAD |\n| HO KAI |\n| Registrar General |\n| Acting Attorney General |\n| Colonial Secretary |\n\nThe amendment was lost by a minority of 2. \n\nThe original motion was then put. \n\nA division was taken when there voted \n\nFor the motion: \n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Honourable Harbour Master |\n| C. P. CHATER |\n\nAgainst the motion: \n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Honourable E. R. BELILIOS |\n| Director of Public Works |\n| Colonial Treasurer |\n| T. H. WHITEHEAD |\n| HO KAI |\n| Registrar General |\n| Acting Attorney General |\n| Colonial Secretary |\n\nThe motion was carried by a majority of 2. \n\nBill read a third time. \n\nQuestion put—that this Bill do pass. \n\nBill passed. \n\nThe Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD gave notice that a protest would be laid before the Council in connection with the Bill. \n\n## BILL ENTITLED \"AN ORDINANCE ENACTED BY THE GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG, WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THEREOF, TO AUTHORISE THE APPROPRIATION OF A SUPPLEMENTARY SUM OF THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN DOLLARS AND THIRTY-SEVEN CENTS TO DEFRAY THE CHARGES OF THE YEAR 1891.\"—Council in Committee on the Bill. \n\nThe Colonial Treasurer moved,— \n\nThat Section 1 and the items of expenditure enumerated therein aggregating in the total $360,687.37 do stand part of the Bill. \n\nThe Colonial Secretary seconded. \n\nMotion agreed to and the section and items declared by the President to stand part of the Bill. \n\nCouncil resumed and Bill reported without amendment. \n\nThe Colonial Treasurer moved the third reading of the Bill. \n\nThe Colonial Secretary seconded. \n\nMotion agreed to. \n\nQuestion put—that this Bill do pass. \n\nBill passed. \n\n## ADJOURNMENT.—The Council then adjourned until Wednesday, the 14th of December, at 3 P.M. \n\nRead and confirmed, this 14th day of December, 1892. \n\n**F. H. MAY**, \nActing Clerk of Councils. \n\n**WILLIAM ROBINSON**, \nGovernor. \n\n## MINUTE \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch... no. `344721`... forwarding a protest by the unofficial Members of the Legislative Council against the Appropriation Bill for 1893 as passed by the Council. I request you to inform...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350981, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 649, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "be one\n\nhundred cash and\n\nI hitherto been recognised as a primary medium of trade and - the absolutely valueless. A certain quantity of small coins were consequently issued from the newly instituted mint, but these did not meet with the approval of the people who viewed them with suspicion, preferring infinitely the British coinage with which they were familiar. Accordingly towards the end of 1890, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation purchased $15,000 worth of subsidiary coins to the amount of Fifteen thousand dollars, comprising Ten thousand Dollars worth of Twenty cent pieces and Five thousand Dollars' worth of Ten cent pieces.\n\n$15,000\n\n$10.00\n\n$5.00\n\nThe purchases continued in the current year by purchases to the extent of One hundred and thirty thousand Dollars ($130,000), comprising Twelve thousand Dollars worth of Twenty cent pieces, Eighty thousand Dollars worth of Ten cent pieces, and Thirty thousand Dollars worth of Five cent pieces. The Native Banks having further commissioned the aforesaid Corporation to procure for them Ten cent pieces to the value of Ten thousand Dollars ($10,000).\n\nThus the total amount of Hongkong silver coinage withdrawn from circulation in the Colony for use at this one port amounts to no less than One hundred and fifty thousand Dollars in value, or One million eight hundred and forty-five thousand coins of all denominations, exclusive of the many hundreds that are constantly being introduced by the never-ceasing flow of passengers from Hong Kong and other places.\n\n641\n\nApart from the fact of their older acquaintance with the Hongkong coins, the natives prefer them also on account of their superior \"touch\", besides which they are not nearly so liable to be counterfeited or tampered with as the Chinese and Japanese coins, which are extensively falsified, especially the latter. At the present moment, the Hong Kong Ten cent piece exchanges for One hundred and six cash, while those of Canton and Japan exchange for Eighty and Fifty cash respectively; I hear, moreover, on reliable authority that the Hong Kong coins are current, if not throughout the Province, at least for a considerable distance, notably at Foochow, and command a still higher rate owing to their comparative scarcity, thus creating an increasing demand for which the supply is inadequate. The Local Authorities have issued an order that the Canton coins are to be accepted at par with those of Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351868, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "8. One-fourth of the total grant made to a school will be handed to the paid teacher as a personal grant; assistant-teachers will share in this payment in proportion to the amount of salary received during the year. In the event of a change of paid teachers or assistant-teachers, each will receive his proportion of the sum thus due. If a paid teacher or assistant-teacher is dismissed, his share of the grant will go to the school as a bonus.\n\n9. A detailed account, with proper vouchers, of the total income and expenditure of each school must be furnished by the manager annually, in the form provided for that purpose.\n\n10. Grants will be made for definite results in the subjects mentioned in the standards hereinafter referred to and no others.\n\n11. These results will be ascertained at the annual examination of the school by the Inspector or by such assistant examiners as the Government may appoint.\n\n12. Assistant examiners will be paid for their assistance.\n\n13. Schools eligible for grants-in-aid will be----\n\nClass I.—Schools in which a Chinese education is given.\n\nClass II.—Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.\n\nClass III.—Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.\n\n14. The basis of examination will be one hundred daily attendances of not less than four hours each at instruction in the subjects of the several standards, provided that the school shall have met not less than two hundred times in the course of the year.\n\n15. Scholars who have satisfied the foregoing condition will be examined in accordance with the following standards and they may not be withheld from examination without a reasonable excuse. The results of the examination of each scholar will be communicated to the managers.\n\n16. For Schools in Class I. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading.—Two pages of the First Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Repetition.—Two pages of the same book.\n\n3. Writing.—From dictation, ten common characters in the First Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n4. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Notation up to 10,000.\n\nValue of a pass in the ordinary subjects of this standard: three dollars; in Arithmetic: half a dollar.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading.—A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Repetition.—A short paragraph of the First and Second Readers used in the school.\n\n3. Writing.—From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the Second Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n4. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Notation up to a million and simple addition and subtraction.\n\nValue of a pass in the ordinary subjects of this standard: four dollars; in Arithmetic: seventy-five cents.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading.—A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Repetition.—A short paragraph of the First, Second and Third Readers used in the school.\n\n3. Explanation.—The characters in the passage read.\n\n4. Writing.—From dictation, forty consecutive characters in the Third Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n5. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Multiplication, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standard.\n\nValue of a pass in the ordinary subjects of this standard: six dollars; in Arithmetic: one dollar.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading.—A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Explanation.—Simple phrases in the passage read.\n\n3. Writing.—From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the book used in the school for that purpose.\n\n4. Composition.—Three untithetical couplets of not more than three characters each.\n\n5. Geography.—The two hemispheres (general outlines).\n\n6. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—The simple rules.\n\nValue of a pass in at least four of the ordinary subjects of this standard: seven dollars; in Arithmetic: one dollar and a half.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\n1. Repetition.—A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Explanation.—In writing, a passage not exceeding twenty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Writing.—From memory, a passage not exceeding sixty characters in the book used in the school for that purpose.\n\n4. Composition.—Three antithetical couplets of not more than five characters each.\n\n5. Geography.—The Chinese Empire, in addition to the geography of the previous standard.\n\n6. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Compound rules (Chinese money), in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\nValue of a pass in at least four of the ordinary subjects of this standard: eight dollars; in Arithmetic: two dollars.\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n\n1. Repetition.—A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Sixth Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Explanation.—In writing, a passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Writing.—From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the book used in the school for that purpose.\n\n4. Composition.—A simple letter.\n\n5. Geography.—The Canton Province, in addition to the geography of the previous standards.\n\n6. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Reduction (Chinese Tables), in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\nValue of a pass in at least four of the ordinary subjects of this standard: nine dollars; in Arithmetic: two dollars and a half.\n\nSTANDARD VII.\n\n1. Repetition.—A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Seventh Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Explanation.—In writing, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Writing.—In colloquial or book style, a simple story read out twice by the examiner.\n\n4. Composition.—In polite epistolary style, a letter.\n\n5. Geography.—Drawing a map of any of the continents (the map to include the principal towns, rivers and mountains of the continent prescribed).\n\n6. History.—In colloquial or book style, answers to questions from the History Book used in the school.\n\n7. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Vulgar fractions, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\nValue of a pass in at least five of the ordinary subjects of this standard: ten dollars; in Arithmetic: three dollars.\n\nNOTE.—In girls' schools, repetition may be substituted for composition in Standard IV, and reading for composition in Standard V.\n\n17. For Schools in Class II. (Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language).\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading and repeating.—Two pages of the First Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Writing.—From dictation, ten common characters from the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.—Notation and numeration up to 10,000.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: four dollars.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351869, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "31\n\nSTANDARD II.\n1. Reading and repeating.—A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the First and Second Readers used in the school.\n\n2. Writing-From dictation, twenty consecutive characters from the Second Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n3. Arithmetic.--Notation and numeration up to one million, and simple addition and subtraction. Copy writing (Romanized only) will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Reader used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing.-From dictation, forty consecutive characters in the Third Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n3. Arithmetic.--The simple rules. Copy writing (Romanized only) will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Reader used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing-From dictation, fifty consecutive characters in the Fourth Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n3. Arithmetic.--Compound rules (Chinese money), in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\n4. Geography.--The two hemispheres (general outlines). Copy writing (Romanized only) will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: nine dollars.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Reader used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing-From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the book used in the school for that purpose.\n\n3. Arithmetic.--Reduction (Chinese Tables) and simple proportion, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\n4. Geography.-The Chinese Empire, in addition to the geography of the previous standard.\n\n5. History.-The History used in the school for this standard.\n\n6. Optional Subject.-Physical Geography (atmosphere, rivers and winds). Copy writing (Romanized only) will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in the ordinary subjects of this standard: ten dollars; in Physical Geography: one dollar.\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Sixth Reader used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing.-From memory, writing (in Romanized character or colloquial Chinese) the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Compound proportion and vulgar fractions, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\n4. Geography.-The Canton Province, in addition to the geography of the previous standards.\n\n5. History.-The History used in the school for this standard.\n\n6. Optional Subject: Physical Geography (the oceans, currents and tides, in addition to the physical geography subjects of the previous standard).\n\nValue of a pass in at least four of the ordinary subjects of this standard: eleven dollars; in Physical Geography: one dollar and a half.\n\nStandard VII.\n1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Seventh Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Explanation.-In writing (Chinese characters) a paraphrase of a passage, not exceeding thirty characters, in the same book.\n\n3. Composition.-A simple letter (1) in Chinese characters (colloquial or book style).\n\n4. Arithmetic.--Reduction (of English money) and decimal fractions, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\n5. Geography.-Drawing from memory a map of any of the continents (the map to include the principal rivers, mountains and cities in the continent prescribed).\n\n6. History.-The History used in the school for this standard.\n\n7. Optional Subject: Physical Geography (the earth, the moon, and the planetary system).\n\nValue of a pass in at least five of the ordinary subjects of this standard: twelve dollars; in Physical Geography: two dollars.\n\nNote.-All the books used, and work submitted, for examination purposes should be in the Chinese character, but in the cases of copy writing, arithmetic, geography, history and physical geography, the Romanized system may be used.\n\n18. For Schools in Class III. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n1. Reading-Accurate pronunciation of each word in a passage not exceeding five lines in the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing.--A short sentence from the same book, slowly read once and then dictated in single words.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Notation and numeration up to 1,000. Simple addition and subtraction of numbers of not more than three figures. Copy writing will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n1. Reading.-Slow and distinct reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing-A sentence from the same book slowly read once, and then dictated in single words.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Notation and numeration up to a million, and simple multiplication and division, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standard.\n\n4. Geography--Definitions. Copy writing will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n1. Reading-Clear and intelligible reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Third Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing.-Six lines of ordinary prose from the same book, slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n\n3. Arithmetic.--Compound rules (English and Chinese money), in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\n4. Grammar.-Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the Reading Book.\n\n5. Geography.-Orally; the two hemispheres (general outlines), in addition to the geography of the previous standard. Copy writing will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: ten dollars.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351878, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "9. A detailed account, with proper vouchers, of the total income and expenditure of each school must be furnished by the Manager annually, in the form provided for that purpose.\n\n10. Grants will be made for definite results in the subjects mentioned in the Standards hereinafter referred to and no others.\n\n11. These results will be ascertained at the annual examination of the school by the Inspector or by such examiners as the Government may appoint.\n\n12. Examiners who are not in the service of the Government will be paid for their assistance.\n\n13. Schools eligible for grants-in-aid will be---\n\nClass I-Schools in which a Chinese education is given.\n\nClass II-Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition.\n\nClass III-Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.\n\nClass IV.-Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.\n\nClass V.-Schools in which a European education is given in any European language, with Chinese in addition.\n\n14. The basis of examination will be two hundred daily attendances of not less than four hours each, at instruction in the subjects of the several Standards, in the course of the year.\n\n15. Children who have satisfied that condition will be examined in accordance with the following Standards, and they may not be withheld from examination without a reasonable excuse, of the examination of each scholar will be communicated to the Managers.\n\n16. For Schools in Class I. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading.-Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, ten common characters in the same book.\n\n3. Repetition-Two pages of the same book.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, two dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing-From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Repetition. A short paragraph of the same book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, four dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, forty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Repetition. A short paragraph of the same book.\n\n4. Explanation.--The characters in the passage read.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Explanation.-Simple phrases in the passage read.\n\n4. Composition.---An antithetical sentence of not more than three characters.\n\n5. Geography.-General outlines of the Chinese Empire.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\n1. Repetition. A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding sixty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Explanation.-A passage not exceeding twenty characters in the same book. Orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n\n4. Composition.-A very short theme.\n\n5. Geography-The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n\n1. Repetition--A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Sixth Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Explanation.-A passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book, Orally or in writing at the option of the examiner.\n\n4. Composition. A short theme.\n\n5. Geography.-Map of the World (general outlines).\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\nNote-In Girls' schools, in Standards IV and V Repetition, in Standard VI, Letter Writing may be substituted for Composition; and in Standard V, Reading for Repetition.\n\n17. For Schools in Class II. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given, with English in addition.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\nThe same as Standard I for schools in Class I.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, five dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\nIn addition to Standard II for schools in Class I,\n\nA. English Reading.—A short sentence from the First Book used in the school, with explanation of single words in Chinese.\n\nB. English Writing. --From dictation, a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars and a half.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\nIn addition to Standard III for schools in Class I,\n\n5. English Reading.--A short passage in the Second Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n\n6. English Writing. From dictation, an ordinary sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in five of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars and a half.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\nIn addition to Standard IV for schools in Class I,\n\n6. English Reading.-A short passage in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n\n7. English Writing. From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n\n8. English Grammar-Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the same book.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in seven of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars and a half.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\nIn addition to Standard V for schools in Class I,\n\n6. English Reading.-A short passage in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in Chinese.\n\n7. English Writing.-From dictation, a short passage in the same book.\n\n8. English Grammar-Parsing a simple sentence in the same book.\n\n9. Geography-Outlines of Asia and Africa.\n\nEnglish copy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in eight of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars and a half.\n\nSTANDARD VI\n\nIn addition to Standard VI for schools in Class I.\n\n6. English Reading.-An ordinary prose passage chosen by the examiner, with explanation in Chinese.\n\n7. English Writing.-A short theme or letter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351879, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "41\n\nE\n\n1\n\n8. English Grammar.—Analysis and parsing of a short ordinary sentence chosen by the examiner.\n\n9. Geography-Outlines of Europe and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nEnglish copy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars and a half.\n\n18. For Schools in Class H. (Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading. Two pages of the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. Five common characters from dictation.\n\n3. Arithmetic.—Notation.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, ten consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic—Simple Addition and Subtraction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, seven dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.—Simple Multiplication, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, thirty consecutive characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic. The Simple Rates.\n\n4. Geography.—General outlines of China Proper.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, nine dollars.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading.—A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding forty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.—Reduction (Chinese Tables) and Simple Proportion, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography—The Canton Province, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\n5. History. The first half of the History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in any book used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing.—From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner.\n\n3. Arithmetic.—Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Geography. The Chinese Empire.\n\n5. History. The History used in the school.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\nNote.—The school books may be wholly or partially in the Romanised Character, at the option of the Manager. When the Romanised Character is used, the passages selected for examination will be of the same length as those for schools in Class IV.\n\n19. For Schools in Class IV. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading—Accurate pronunciation of each word in a passage not exceeding five lines in the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing—Copy on a slate or black board a line of print in the same book, and write from dictation a few common words.\n\n3. Arithmetic.—Notation, Simple Addition, and Subtraction.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading.—Slow and distinct reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same Book slowly read once, and then dictated in single words.\n\n3. Arithmetic.—Multiplication Table, Simple Multiplication and Division, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading—Clear and intelligible reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Third Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n\n3. Arithmetic.—Compound Rules and Reduction, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Grammar.—Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the Reading Book.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, ten dollars.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading. Intelligent reading of a prose passage not exceeding fifteen lines in the Fourth Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing.—A sentence from the same book slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Simple and Compound Proportion, Simple Interest, and Practice, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Grammar—Parsing, orally or in writing at the option of the examiner, a simple sentence from the Reading Book.\n\n5. Geography.—Map of the World (general outlines) and Europe.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this Standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, twelve dollars.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading.—Fluent and intelligent reading of a short ordinary paragraph chosen by the examiner from some common book or newspaper.\n\n2. Writing.—From memory, the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner. Writing, spelling and grammar will be taken into account.\n\n3. Arithmetic—Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in addition to the Arithmetic of the previous Standards.\n\n4. Grammar—Analysis and parsing, orally or in writing, of a complex sentence chosen by the examiner from an ordinary book or newspaper.\n\n5. Geography—Asia, Africa and America, in addition to the Geography of the previous Standard.\n\nCopy writing will not be taken in this Standard.\n\nValue of a pass in this Standard, fourteen dollars.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354470, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "412\n\nThe St. George's Day celebration at Shaughai, which took place on the evening of the 14th inst. in Chiang Sa-ho's Garden, proved a great success. It took the form of an English Fair and Grand Rural Fête.\n\nThe death of Mr. F. W. White at Foochow, already reported, was caused by his falling over the verandah during the night. He was found lying on the ground with his skull fractured, never regaining consciousness.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND\n\nA robbery took place on the night of the 17th inst. in one of the fantan houses at Macao. From the particulars given in the Independente it appears that about nine o'clock in the evening the fantan house named Trevy, situated in the Rua Nova d'El-rei, was attacked by a gang of seven men armed with knives and revolvers, who took all the money on the table, some $200 more or less. They then made off, firing at the watchman, Joan Panio de Souza, as they left, inflicting two wounds. The wounded man was taken to the hospital, but his life is despaired of.\n\nAt the Peking races on the 5th instant, Mr. Detring's Sendgraf, which had been unplaced in two other races, won the Consolation Stakes. Thus qualified he was started in the Champion Stakes which followed, and won the race by a length.\n\nThe British ship Queen Victoria, 1,587 tons, Captain Logie, left Kobe on May 7th, consigned to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company at Yokohama, arrived in the bay on the morning of the 15th inst., passing the lighthouse at Kent at 8.30 a.m., and shortly after grounded on Fatton spit. Mr. Lafin, on the news being received, immediately proceeded to her assistance in the Yokosuka-maru, but the high wind prevailing prevented much being done.\n\nOwing to the drought and famine in the Pescadores, says a Formosa despatch quoted by the N. C. Daily News, the Governor, E. Sho, sent a ship named Chu, with about several thousand piculs of potatoes and a load of rice, this last being the gift of H. E. T'ang Chuang-chih, Viceroy at Foochow, for distribution amongst the sufferers. Mr. Chu personally visited the thirty-two islands of the group, and distributed an average of twenty-five catties of rice to each person. Some 6,000 out of the 9,000 inhabitants availed themselves of the government charity.\n\nNo danger is anticipated, as she is a strongly built vessel. The place on which she has grounded, we learn from the Japan Gazette, is composed of soft mud, so that when the weather moderates and she is lightened it is probable that she will get off without injury.\n\nA plucky rescue from drowning was accomplished at Kobe by Morton Thurgason, A.B., of the Centurion, in the harbour on the 12th inst., we learn from the Hyogo News. A shipmate engaged in cleaning the ship's sides was seized by a fit, and in a helpless condition fell into the water. Thurgason immediately jumped from the rail and seizing the sinking man he succeeded in keeping his head above water until help arrived.\n\nOur contemporary hopes that proper representations will be made of the matter to the Royal Humane Society.\n\nMay 24, 1894\n\nAt the Bien-su Spring Race Meeting on the 17th inst., the Chalin Stakes was won by Pilgrim, the London Plate by Tristar, the Spring Cup by Depatch, the Welter Stakes by Plebian, the Oaks by Pilgrim, Sorthen Zupyzten, and the Viceroy's Cup by Mountain Dr.\n\nOn the 18th inst. the Tientsin Derby was won by Loadstar, the Anatolia Flag Class by chain, the Mongol Ce Casting bir, the Paotai's Cup by Bay-bay, the Cathay Cup by Loadstar, and the Tientsin Stakes by Reichskanzler.\n\nThe Koyo Maru, a steamship owned by the Koyei Steamship Company of Osaka, we learn from the Kobe Herald, stranded on a rock off Naniwamura in Isami Gun, Chita Ken, during a gale, on the night of the 4th inst., and sank the next morning. The Koyo Maru was the late Orestes, built in England, and measuring 320 ft. in length, 38 ft. in breadth, and 26 ft. in depth. Her tonnage is 2176 and registered tonnage 1329. She was commanded by Captain W. H. vekardt.\n\nDr. Morrison, who is journeying from Chungking to Bhamo, has been heard from at Pusseik, in Yunnan, where he was on the 7th of last month, a letter to a gentleman in Shanghai says (N. C. Daily News). The Doctor says: \"I did the fourteen stages to Ubaulung in four days, and waiting there one day I started to Tangobeup, and compassed the remaining stages in three and a bit. So far I have come very quickly from Chungking to Snifa. 230 miles, of which I rode 33 miles, chair 20 miles, boat 40 miles and walked 137 miles; Snifa to Laowatan, 15 miles chair 82 miles, walked 113 miles; Laowatan to Hantung, 145 miles, chair 43 miles, walked 102 miles; Hantung to Tungcheun 110 miles; 80 miles, walked 30 miles.\n\nEveryone is very well.\"\n\nWe take the following from the N. C. Daily News: Some engineers while exploring in the district of Hsingkouchon, Anhui, came across at the end of last month an old shaft, in which there happened to be a number of dead bodies, apparently miners, suddenly cut off from the upper world by the collapse of the mine, less than 400 years ago. The explorers were so scared that they at once gave up further exploration, filling the hole which revealed to them the gruesome sight. Although the coal deposits were reported to be especially rich, the superstition of the people was too great, and a good mine has thus been lost to the proprietors. The dead bodies are said to have been free from decay and the features were quite natural, but no sooner did the outside air enter the hole than the bodies and clothing suddenly crumbled away, leaving nothing but skeletons.\n\nA serious misfortune at Yonezawa, Yamagata Ken, on the 29th ult. Miss Imhoff, a missionary in Japan, met with an accident. According to a native version of the affair, Miss Imhoff had the temerity to preach a sermon whilst standing beside a monument erected in honour of the founder of the Uyesugi family, a former daimyo of Yonezawa, in memory of whom a native religious festival was just then being held. Apparently exasperated at the intrusion, a demonstration was organised, and one of the party threw a stone, which struck Miss Imhoff's eye-glasses, breaking one of the glasses, and injuring the eye so seriously that she will probably lose the sight.\n\nThe true version of the case, however, is given by a correspondent of the Japan Mail as follows: It being the anniversary of the festival of the Uyengi Shrine, permission was asked by the pastor of the Christian churches of the place to hold an open-air meeting, which request was granted by the authorities, a policeman being in attendance. The meeting was not within the enclosure of the shrine, but in the public park adjoining. A meeting was held in the afternoon, at which such good order prevailed that it was decided to hold one in the evening also. The speakers at both meetings were men, Japanese, the pastors and others, Miss Imhoff going by request to assist in the singing, which, aside from distributing tracts and picture cards, was the only part she took. In the evening good attention was given till one of the young men, a student, rather unwisely charged the people with worshipping idols that were not gods, when they became somewhat noisy, though not interrupting the speakers, who finished the meeting in good order. After the close of the meeting, and as Miss Imhoff was reaching up to take down her foreign lantern, a stone, which seems to have been the first and only one, was thrown, striking her in the right eye, breaking her spectacle glass, and entering the eye. A Japanese physician was called, who removed the pieces and who is now caring for the patient. He is an able man and seems to be doing all that can be done. He hopes that after the wound has healed, by an operation similar to that performed for cataract, partial vision may be restored to the injured eye.\n\nThe Shanghai papers record the death of Mr. Charles H. Dallas, who was a prominent member of the Masonic craft, having held the high office of District Grand Master in Japan for some time. At the funeral the Masonic as well as the Church service was read. Mr. Dallas came out to join his brother, Mr. Barnes Dallas, in Shanghai, over thirty years ago, and then made his home in Japan for some years, where he narrowly escaped death at the hands of two ronians, who savagely slashed him from behind with their swords. He returned to Shanghai some years ago. He has left a widow and children.\n\nThe neighbourhood of Ningpo, the N. C. Daily News says, has for a long time been considered a very quiet one. It is therefore surprising to hear that, a few nights ago, a missionary of the Church Missionary Society was attacked and robbed at night by brigands within ten miles of the city. He was travelling in a native boat, so probably the rascals did not know that they were attacking a European; and as soon as the foreigner's presence was discovered they decamped; but not before they had severely beaten the boatman, and given the missionary one or two heavy blows. It is to be hoped that the officials will take prompt steps to stop any repetition of such proceedings.\n\nThe Japan Mail says: We are informed by Captain Snow that during his recent adventures on the sealing vessels of a rock situated in about the position of the 20 fathom line, which was said to have been seen by the people of the Abyssinia on one of that steamer's voyages, and was subsequently searched for without being found. Mr. Snow expressed his opinion that the \"Askold\" rock does really exist. No one probably ever heard of a submerged danger in that locality would seem to indicate that the rock is a real one.\n\nAccording to the N. C. Daily News, Peking, the recent competition for the Chinszih or metropolitan degree at Peking has been marred by a scandal. Owing to the repeated memoranda of various censors, crying out for stricter observance of the regulations of the examination hall, the examiners and other officials within the examination hall have been severely reprimanded and some of them have been punished. No less than from seventy to eighty chujen or competitors had their papers rejected and were disqualified for life.\n\nA practical joke, and a very ill-advised one, says the Kobe Chronicle, was perpetrated by some mischievous persons at Yonezawa. Miss Imhoff is much respected and loved by the people of Yonezawa for her kind and gentle spirit, and they all, as one, regret the accident that befell her.\n\nSmall silver coins of the Hongkong and Canton mints have passed current in Kobe at par; in fact, the imported coin has often been found very welcome, owing to the great scarcity of native coin. Now, however, a change has suddenly come over the scene, and the exchange-shops in the town refuse to receive but Japanese coin at their counters. It is said that the stop has probably been taken from motives of jealousy, owing to the alleged large profits made by Chinese importers of the Canton silver.\n\nNot only the Christians, but non-Christians, send her the most touching and sympathetic letters of sympathy. Miss Imhoff is very thankful for the kindness shown by the people, and has not the least bitterness, even toward the unknown person who caused her so much suffering and anxiety. She thinks it simply an accident, unintentional, at least, of serious results.\n\nDate. 1894\n\nStore Mong\n\nNo. 11451\n\n(Subject.)\n\nNo. 125\n\nRiots\n\n26 May\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nGov 7340\n\n1. 178)-41-347--0000-11-05\n\nSubsequent Paper.\n\n2773\n\n201\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC.O.\n\n11451 REC? Ract 2 JUL 34,\n\nSends translations of letters from Chinese Justices of the peace and merchants, addressed to Mr. Lockhart & Capt. Supt. of Police, May 24, expressing appreciation of their conduct in suppressing riots.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nW. M. Tarfield\n\nInteresting compliments.\n\nAcknowledge\n\nYes-as\n\nMay 27th\n\nas in draft annexed. / is rather more than a mere word of thanks, it is distinctly creditable to Messrs. Lockhart and May. They are practical people. The Chinese I wish Mr. Lockhart promotion.\n\nC.PL.\n\n2\n\nI have added a few words.\n\nKery\n\nR.577\n\nThese officials are the Enchantress idea that they are promoted sky-high above the rest.\n\nRow 4/7\n\n2.7.54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## 12. I now reach the subject of solicitation. I have already noted some of the acts proved to have been done in this direction, but I will give some further evidence I have procured.\n\nIn reply to my enquiries, one of the memorialists deposes to having been accosted in as public a thoroughfare as Montgomery Street by the Railway Station. He produced a letter in Burmese and English addressed to him by his official title and forwarded by hand in December 1893: \"Please come to-night to Barr Street, Rangoon, house No. 29.\" Another piece of evidence from a memorialist is the following which happened in December 1893: \"On a recent Sunday morning I was walking up the middle of Phayre Street about 7-8 A.M., when I observed a woman, either Eurasian or fair-complexioned native, standing under the trees at the corner of Dalhousie Street, who was beckoning to me to come. As I took no notice, she lifted the skirt of her dress and exposed her person almost up to the waist.\" Now it cannot possibly be urged that a man would be laying himself open to such conduct as this in walking down such a thoroughfare as Phayre Street by day or night, but the next bit of evidence explains it. Another correspondent living in the town writes in reply to enquiries: \"I have myself been solicited in Montgomery Street at the end of 33rd Street by women in that quarter. On December 20th, three young men were solicited in the middle of Lewis Street between Dalhousie Street and Merchant Street. Solicitations a few months ago were systematically carried out in Phayre Street at both Dalhousie Street and Fraser Street corners by women living in 37th Street. I have seen women in the neighbourhood of Canal Street walk into the street and take men into their houses.\" Yet another correspondent similarly writes: \"During the hot season just passed (1893), on several occasions I have seen Japanese women on the wharves and jetties of an evening while I was down there for a breath of fresh air. And more than once their actions with the people of some of the British India steamers was far from right. In fact, its familiarity and publicity was such that no women of purity would tolerate.\"\n\nAn officer of the S.S. told me that \"while lying at Sule Pagoda Wharf in October, two European women drove up to the wharf and sent their cards to the officer on duty, and he, thinking it strange that unknown ladies should send their cards to him, asked Mr. ... to accompany him. The women enquired if it was the Calcutta steamer, and on being informed she had gone, gave them to understand that they would do as well as anyone from the said steamer if they would come home with them. While going down Sule Pagoda Road about 10 p.m. on a night in November in company with two other men, I myself, with them, was most publicly and persistently solicited by a Burmese woman who seemed to be prowling about the streets for that purpose.\"\n\n## 13. It is of course necessary in an enquiry like this to procure actual facts as to the extent and nature of the nuisance of solicitation in this town, and I think the above instances are sufficient to establish the fact that solicitation is carried on in Rangoon constantly and openly in places and at times when the users of the public streets have a reasonable right to expect to be free from it.\n\n## 14. Now, no doubt the acts above described, or some of them, come under the definition of \"a public nuisance\" in section 268 of the Indian Penal Code, namely, they are acts which cause annoyance to the public or which must necessarily cause annoyance to persons who have occasion to use a public right, and are therefore acts punishable under section 290 of the Code. But offences under section 290 are not cognizable offences, and in order to procure the punishment of a woman for any of them, the following processes under the existing law would be necessary: \n1. ascertaining the woman's address;\n2. establishing her identity;\n3. complaining to a Magistrate;\n4. giving evidence in court against her.\n\nIt is a fair question to ask: How many persons annoyed by solicitation would undertake all this? The Committee may take it for granted that the law, as it stands, will remain inoperative so far as regards the prevention of public solicitation.\n\n## 15. It has not been suggested to me that any other existing law applies to solicitation, and it appears to me that it is necessary to ask for special legal powers for its suppression. Legislation in this direction, to be effectual, should, I think, take the following form:\n1. it should give a definition to the word \"solicitation\" wide enough to cover the many forms which solicitation can take;\n2. it should make solicitation a penal offence;\n3. it should make solicitation a cognizable offence.\n\nI suggest here a section to cover the above points: \n1. Whoever importunes, solicits or molests any person, or sits or loiters, for the purpose of prostitution or on behalf of a prostitute, or performs any act which amounts to solicitation for the purpose of prostitution or on behalf of a prostitute, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen days for every breach of this section.\n2. Whether any act that has been performed amounts to solicitation for the purpose of prostitution or on behalf of a prostitute shall be decided by the Magistrate having jurisdiction in each case.\n3. Every breach of this section shall be a cognizable offence.\n\n## 16. To sum up:\n1. I do not think it necessary for the Municipality to take any steps in reference to the alleged enslaving of women or to the alleged traffic in girls for prostitution.\n2. I think it established that the brothels of Rangoon and solicitation in its streets and public places are a public nuisance of sufficient gravity to demand public control, and the existing law does not provide sufficient machinery for such control.\n3. I therefore think it advisable for the Municipal Committee to apply for legal powers sufficient to make such control effectual, and I suggest that it should ask the local Government to take steps to amend the Lower Burma Municipal Act, 1884, to the extent above indicated and to some such effect as I have above suggested.\n\n**R. C. TEMPLE, MAJOR,**\nPresident, Rangoon Municipality.\n\n**RANGOON:**\n**The 20th January 1894.**\n\n| Serial No. | Street | List of Brothels | Owner's name | Nationality of occupants |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Fraser | Thirty-third | B. Mine Kana | Burmese and Shans |\n| | Ditto | 18 | Ebraham Esnafjee | Natives of India |\n| | Ditto | 23 | Mayeth Nacoda | Burmese and Natives |\n| | Ditto | 24 | Mahomed Saib | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 32 | B. Amyee | Natives |\n| | Ditto | 8 | Dawoodjee Abbo | Natives and Burmese |\n| | Ditto | B | E. G. Man | Burmese |\n| | Ditto | 10 | Ditto | Natives |\n| | Ditto | 26 | Steven Gnanamooto | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 11 | Esoof Abined Patail | Natives and Burmese |\n| | Ditto | 30 | Maung On Gaing | Burmese |\n| | Montgomery | Thirty-fourth | Em. Amedjee Waker | Barrause |\n| | Ditto | 15 | E. G. Man | Asiatics |\n| | Ditto | 17 | Ditto | Ditto |\n| | Twenty-ninth | Sooratti Bazaar Co., Ltd. | Burmese and Natives |\n| | Ditto | 18 | Fatma Bee | Japanese |\n| | Ditto | A. E. Oomer | Chinese |\n| | Ditto | 19 | Way Ranasawmy | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 20 | Mahomed Marlam | Japanese |\n| | Ditto | 21 | Sujarnan Meal | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 24 | | Chinese |\n| | Ditto | 25 | | Ditto |\n| | Fraser | 26 | Suratti Bazaar Co., Ltd. | Natives and Burmese |\n| | Fraser and Mogul | 427 | Ditto | Ditto |\n| | Thirtieth | 28 | | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 29 | Ariff Bhan | Burmese |\n| | Twenty-eighth | 30 | Ajio Nulla Mahomed | Natives |\n| | Ditto | | Ebrahim Ally Moolla | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 36 | Kadiza Boo | Burmese and Natives |\n| | Ditto | 37 | Hashim Duda | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | | Abdul Rukai | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | | Ariff Nana | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 39 | | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 40 | Rahimahu and Yacoobje Duda | Natives |\n| | | | Esoof Patail | Ditto |\n| | | | Ebrahim Jeewah and Mahomed | Europeans and Asiatics |\n| | | | Ebrahim Joewah | Burmese |\n| | | | Fatma Bee | Natives |\n| | | | Ebraham Salaybhoy Duda | Natives and Burmese |\n| | | | Haslino Dnda | Burmese |\n| | | | Shaik Maltoured Ally | Ditto |\n| | | | Abdul Kadal | Native and Burmese |\n| | | | Ebrahim E. Mayeth | Ditto |\n| | | | Agappa Chetty | Chinese |\n| | | | | Natives and Burmese |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355776, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## List of Brothels-concluded.\n\n| House No. | Street | Owner's name | Nationality of occupants |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 41 | Fraser | FOUGA BRC | |\n| 44 | Twenty-seventh | MACGREGORS MILL | |\n| 46 | Ditto | SHAIN LONES | |\n| 40 | Ditto | MILL | Chinese and Burmese |\n| 50 | Ditto | Ebrahim Jeewah and Mahomod Ebraki Jeewah | ...Burmese |\n| 58 | Ditto | Suratti Bazaar Co., Ltd. Muimmed Becnijos Patzit | Natives |\n| 59 | Ditto | ...Patbarndu Venketaratnam | Eurasians |\n| 63 | Ditto | Chinese | Chinese |\n| 66 | Ditto | Eenof Baymeah | Chinese |\n| 67 | Ditto | Ebrahim E. Mayeti | Burmese |\n| 79 | Ditto | Ally Ismailjes | Ditto |\n| 51 | Ditto | Suratti Bazar Co., Ltd. | Ditto |\n| 43 | Ditto | Dawood | Natives |\n| 44 | Ditto | Nanoo Hoosain | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | Suratti Cazaar Co., Ltd. | Farnese |\n| | Ditto | Nagamat | Natives |\n| | Ditto | Em. Salabhoy Douda | Barniese |\n| | Ditto | Eau. Esoufjes Mageth | Daten |\n| | Nonó Metal Depot | Suratti Bazaar Co., Ltd. | Ditto |\n| | WHARF | Ditto | Ditto |\n| | BAZAAR | Ditto | Ditto |\n| | KEIGHLYST | Iemail Majas | Nativos |\n| 24 | Ditto | Manng Tanlay | Shaik Siller |\n| 47 | Thirty-first | Fraser | $2 |\n| 46 | Ditto | Pritio | $ |\n| 19 | Thirty-fifth | Ditto | Forty-second... |\n| 16 | Ditto | Ditto | 11 |\n| | Dalhousie | Fajes Banatolia | 76 |\n| | Sparks | Suratti Bazar Co., Ltd. Hashiro ArazŘE | Rahimahu and Yooookjae Duña |\n| | Thirty-seventh | Balu Savaka | Eu. Adjes Waker |\n| | Ditto | Em, Ally Moslle | Foot Nalla Moidin |\n| | Ditto | ... Ma Gyi | Lenst Ally |\n| | Ditto | Marambee | Mahomed Ajim Tilly |\n| | Ditto | Ismail Kuan | Govindram |\n| | Ditto | Terapil Khan | ...Hajes Sharriff |\n\n## LIST OF SCHOOLS.\n\n| No. | Name | Nationality/Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No. 1 | Maung Po Kyin's | Natives (in some rooms) |\n| No. 2 | Municipal Girls' | Burmese (upstairs only) |\n| No. 3 | Maung Po Myin's | Burmese |\n| No. 9 | | |\n| No. 10 | | |\n| No. 8 | St. John's Convent | |\n| No. 16 | Madouray Pillay's | Baptist Tamil |\n| No. 17 | Ranguon College | Diocesan |\n| No. 18 | St. Joseph's Convent | Spanish |\n| No. J | Maung Po Kin's | Burmese (opposite Convent gate) |\n| No. 1 | Methodhist Girls' | |\n| No. 19 | St. Gabriel's | Asiatics and Natives (in some rooms) |\n| No. 5 | St. Mary's | |\n| No. 12 | Baptist Boys' | Bursucke |\n| No. 20 | Lutheran | |\n| No. 6 | Elafit Humed's | Mussulman |\n| No. 7 | | Mussulman |\n| No. 13 | St. Paul's | |\n| No. 14 | St. Phillips' | |\n| No. zi | St. Anthony's | Beyond the limits of the plan |\n| No 22 | St. Barnabas' | Natives (in some rooms) |\n| No. 7-a | | Mussulman |\n| No. 15 | St. John's College | Burmese |\n\n| House No. | Street | Owner's name | Nationality of occupants |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 10 | Thirty-eighth | Moella Ramzan | Natives |\n| 54-a | Ditto | Lewis | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | Hajce Jamalladin | Ditto |\n| 80 | Thirty-ninth | B. Opwasjee | Burmese |\n| 84 | Ditto | Shaik Dawood | Ditto |\n| 86 | Fortieth | Sparks | Natives (in some rooms) |\n| 87 | Ditto | | Natives |\n| 90 | Forty-first | Crisp | Canal |\n| 43 | Ditto | Brooking | Mahomed Dupiay |\n| 24 | Dalhousie | Iron Bazaar Co., Ltd. | Ditto |\n| 17 | Seventeenth | Mu Shwe Phe | Burmese |\n| | Eighteenth | Hajee Juranliudin | Ditto |\n| | Seventeenth | Judah Ezekioj | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | Ebrali Doss | Natives |\n| 96 | Godwin road | Iron Bazaar Co., Ltd. | Ditto |\n| 97 | Ditto | Mahomed Dupley | Burmese (in some rooms) |\n| 12 | Fifteenth | Ma Thet Pyin | |\n| 100 | Dailonsie | Tau You Koon | |\n| | Ditto | Shaik Siller | |\n| 101 | Old Bazaar roar | Ma Lê | |\n| 102 | Ditto | N, K. | |\n| 103 | Ditto | | |\n| 104 | Ditto | Maung Mysing | Barnese |\n| 106 | Ditto | Maung Kyun | Ditto |\n| 107 | Litto | Li | Ditto |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360302, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 498, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Enclosure\n\nI certify that I have this day inspected the deposit of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China as security against their note issue in this Colony and have found it correct.\n\nThe security consists of Chinese Government Bonds of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) and ninety thousand dollars ($90,000) and sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) making a total of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($350,000). And two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) Bonds of the Hongkong Government, thirty three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars ($33,650) and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) Bonds, making a total of two hundred and eighty three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars ($283,650). The Bonds are valued at 95% of their nominal value.\n\nThe total security, taking the Bonds at the above value, amounts to five hundred and thirty three thousand six hundred and sixty seven dollars ($533,667).\n\n26th March 1896\n\nH. L. Hall \nLocal Auditor\n\nM. M. Graven \nChief Officer\n\nC.O. 9078 \nRECP(REC 28 APR 96)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361434, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "page_number": 294, "title": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "content_text": "This Indenture, of two parts, made the eighth Day of August in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and sixty five between OUR SOVEREIGN LADY VICTORIA, by the GRACE of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, of the one part, and Tang Ting Sham of Berkow, under the yearly Rent, and Covenants hereafter reserved, of the other part.\n\nWHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, made and dated at Westminster, the Fifth day of April in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies were erected into a Colony, and full power and authority to the Governor of the said Colony of Hongkong, for the time being, were given and granted in the Name of Her said Majesty, and on Her behalf (but subject nevertheless to such provisions as might be in that respect contained in any Instructions which might from time to time be addressed to him by Her said Majesty,) to make and execute, in the Name and on the behalf of Her said Majesty, under the Public Seal of the said Colony, grants of Land, to Her said Majesty belonging, within the said Colony, to private persons for their own use and benefit, or to any Persons, Bodies, Politic or Corporate, in trust, for the public uses of Her said Majesty's Subjects there resident, or any of them; AND WHEREAS by a Commission under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date the Twenty-second day of June, in the Twenty-third Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson Knight was constituted and appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony.\n\nAND WHEREAS by certain Instructions under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date the Sixth day of April, 1843, the said Governor was, amongst other things, instructed to make and execute grants of Land in the said Colony.\n\nTHE WITNESSETH, That in pursuance of the said Letters Patent and Commission, and of the said Instructions, and in consideration of the yearly Rent hereby reserved, HER SAID MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA hath demised, leased, and to farm let, unto the said Tang Ting Sham his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, subject to the Conditions, Reservations, and Provisions hereinafter contained, All that piece or parcel of Ground lying and situate in Kowloon in the said Colony, being No. 2 of Kowloon Farm Lot, Number Two, which said piece or parcel of ground contains by admeasurement in the whole Two roods and one rood and is particularly delineated in the Map thereof lying at the said Land Office.\n\nTO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said piece or parcel of Ground and Premises hereby demised, or intended so to be, with their and every of their Appurtenances, unto the said Tang Ting Sham his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, from the Twenty-fifth day of December AD 1865 for, and during, and unto the full end and term of 999 Years thence next ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended, with full and perfect liberty during the said term to turn out Cattle, Sheep, or other Stock upon the waste or uncultivated Lands adjoining the said piece or parcel of Ground hereby demised, or intended so to be; yielding and paying therefor Yearly and every Year the Sum of Ten Dollars and Twelve Cents in Current Money of the said Colony of Hongkong, by Half-yearly Payments, on the Twenty-fourth day of June and the Twenty-fifth day of December, in each Year, free and clear of and from all Taxes, Rates, Charges, Impositions, and Assessments whatsoever, imposed or to be imposed upon or in respect of the said hereby demised Premises or any part thereof, during the term hereby granted.\n\nAnd Her said Majesty doth hereby reserve unto Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, full power to resume and take possession of all or any part of the said Ground hereby demised, if required for any public Way or Ways, or for the Improvement of the Colony, or for any public purpose whatever, Three Calendar Months' notice being given to the occupant or to the said Tang Ting Sham his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, of its being so required, and a full and fair Compensation for the said Land, and the Improvements thereon, being paid to the said Tang Ting Sham his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, at a Valuation to be fairly and impartially made by Two Arbitrators, the one to be appointed on behalf of Her Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, the other by the said Tang Ting Sham his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, from the then existing List of Special Jurors in the said Colony, with Power to the said Arbitrators, in the event of their disagreeing as to the Value aforesaid, to nominate and call in a Third Person, as and for an Umpire: Provided always, that the Name of the said Third Person, shall also at the time of his Appointment, be standing on the said List of Special Jurors for the said Colony.\n\nAND ALSO Her said Majesty doth further reserve in manner aforesaid, all Mines and Minerals, and all other Materials upon or under the said Land, which may be required, at any time or times hereafter, for the Construction of any Public Buildings, Ways, or Bridges, or for any other public purpose or purposes, together with the Right of digging and removing the same; AND ALSO, all Timber, Trees, Woods, and Underwoods, now standing, growing, or being, or which at any time during the term hereby granted shall grow, or be in or upon the said demised Premises, or any part thereof, with liberty to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, to sell, cut down, take, and carry away the same; AND ALSO, the right of free and free Ingress, Egress, and Regress, into, out of, and upon the said demised Premises, or any part thereof, for the said purposes aforesaid.\n\nAnd the said Tang Ting Sham doth hereby covenant, promise, and agree to and with Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, by these presents, in manner following, that is to say, that the said Tang Ting Sham his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns shall and will, during all the said Term of 999 Years hereby granted, yearly and every Year during the said Term, pay or cause to be paid to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns the Yearly Rent above reserved, clear of all Taxes and Deductions as aforesaid, on the several days and times, and in the manner hereinbefore reserved and made payable; and that the said Tang Ting Sham his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns shall and will, during the said term hereby granted, bear, pay, and discharge all Taxes, Charges, and Impositions whatsoever, now or to be hereafter assessed, charged, or imposed on the said Premises hereby demised, or any part thereof.\n\nAnd that the said Tang Ting Sham his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns will keep the said Premises hereby demised well and sufficiently drained, and prevent any accumulation of Water thereon, and shall keep in clear, good, and sufficient repair, all Ditches, Drains, and Water-courses thereon, and shall and will leave the same well and sufficiently repaired at the end of the said term; AND ALSO that he the said Tang Ting Sham his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns will cultivate or use the said Land in a husbandlike manner, and keep the same in good order and condition at the expiration of the said term of 999 Years.\n\nAnd the said Tang Ting Sham doth hereby covenant and agree that he will not erect or build any Buildings or Dwelling-houses on the same except what may be required for the bona fide occupation of the said Premises; AND ALSO that he the said Tang Ting Sham his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns will keep and maintain at their own cost all Buildings or Fences within Thirty Feet of any Public Road or Way.\n\nProvided always, and these presents are upon this express condition, that if the said Yearly Rent of Ten Dollars and Twelve Cents ... be in arrear and unpaid by the space of Twenty-one Days next after any or either of the said days whereon the same ought to be paid as aforesaid, or in case of breach or non-performance of any or either of the other Covenants, Clauses, Conditions, Agreements, or Provisions herein contained, by and on the part and behalf of the said Tang Ting Sham his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, then, and in either of the said cases, it shall and may be lawful to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, by the Governor of Hongkong, or other person duly authorized in that behalf, into and upon the said hereby demised premises, or any part thereof, in the name of the whole, to re-enter, and the same to have again, repossess, and enjoy, as in Her or their first or former estate, as if these Presents had not been made; and the said Tang Ting Sham his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, and all other Occupiers of the said Premises thereupon and thenceforth utterly to expel, put out, and remove, this Indenture, or any thing contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding.\n\nIN WITNESS whereof the said William Thomas Mercer duly authorized by Her said Majesty as aforesaid, hath executed these Presents, and hereunto set the Public Seal of the Colony of Hongkong aforesaid, in the Name and on the behalf of Her said Majesty, the day and year first above written.\n\n(signed) Z. Z. Meneer\n\n(signed) Kintson\n\nRegistered.\n\nPublic Land Office of The Colony\n\nFeling Sawyer-tieneral.\n\nsince, Fran Fre-Chagan\n\nI\n\nJure Coppere the phert\n\nDeputy Land Officer\n\n26 Nov 1896\n\n292", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366457, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "content_text": "## \n4. \n310 \n\n10. Whether each of the Appointments held by the Applicant has been on the Fixed Establishments. Statement, if the circumstances warrant it, that the Applicant has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the Head Officer or Officers of his Department, of the Colony. \n\n(to be signed by any two of such Head Officers, if there shall be more than one, or by such Head Officer, if there shall be but one, together with \"such a statement as will exhibit the merit, and value, and labour of the services of the Person recommended, embracing as long a period of his public service as can be authentically stated,\" and observations as to Special Services, Suspension, Reprimand, &c., with full particulars of any injuries received on duty, or other claims or matters for consideration.\n\n11. Whether the duties of the several offices or situations held since the Applicant entered the Civil Service have been such as to require that the holder should give his whole time to the Public Service. \nYes.\n\n12. Whether holding any other Public Appointment, or receiving or claiming to receive any Public Money by Compensation, Half-pay or otherwise. \n\n13. If any kind of Pension or other Allowance has been commuted under the Imperial Pensions Commutation Acts, 1869 and 1871, the annual amount of Pension or Allowance so commuted and the date of Commutation should be inserted.\n\n14. Absence, beyond ordinary Vacation leave, in each of the last 10 years :-\n| Year | Period of Absence | Number of Days | Cause of Absence |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 18.. | From 18.. to 18.. | | |\n| 18.. | | | |\n| 18.. | | | |\n| 18.. | | | |\n| 18.. | | | |\n| 18.. | | | |\n| 18.. | | | |\n| 18.. | | 25 | |\n| 18.. | | | |\n| 18.. | | Nil | |\n\n15. Date of Cessation of Duty... 30th April, 1898.\n16. Date of Cessation of Salary, ... \n17. Date from which, inclusively, Pension will commence.......... 1st May, 1898.\n\nFrom a perusal of previous records in this Office, I have much pleasure in certifying that he has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity.\n\n### 10. Computation, by the Colonial Treasurer, of the Pension, &c.\n\nI certify that the Pension which may be paid to the Applicant according to the Rules of the Colonial Service, amounts to One thousand and thirty-six dollars and eighty cents, and I base my Certificate on the following calculation :-\nLength of Service = 31 Years 2 months = 36...\nAdd ... \nPension 36/60 of $1728 = $1036.80.\n\nActing Colonial Treasurer \n\n### Instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370435, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "content_text": "## \n10. Whether each of the Appointments held by the Applicant has been on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony.\nNo.\n\n11. Whether the duties of the several offices or situations held since the Applicant entered the Civil Service have been such as to require that the holder should give his whole time to the Public Service.\nYes.\n\n12. Whether holding any other Public Appointment, or receiving or claiming to receive any Public Money by Compensation, Half-pay or otherwise.\nNil.\n\n13. If any kind of Pension or other Allowance has been commuted under the Imperial Pensions Commutation Acts, 1869 and 1871, and annual amount of Pension or Allowance so commuted and the date of Commutation should be inserted.\n \n## \n18. Statement, if the circumstances warrant it, that the Applicant \"has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the Head Officer or Officers of his Department,\" to be signed by any two of such Head Officers, if there shall be more than one, or by such Head Officer, if there shall be but one, together with \"such a statement as will exhibit the merit, and value, and labour of the services of the Person recommended, embracing as long a period of his public service as can be authentically stated,\" and observations as to Special Services, Suspension, Reprimand, &c., with full particulars of any injuries received on duty, or other claims or matters for consideration.\n\nThe applicant has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity to the satisfaction of the Head Officer of his Department.\n\nA. E. W. Forbes \nDirector of Public Works.\n\n19. Computation, by the Colonial Treasurer, of the Pension, &c.\nNil.\n\n14. Absence, beyond ordinary Vacation leave, in each of the last 10 years :\n| Year | From | To | Number of Days | Cause of Absence |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 18... | | | | |\n| 18... | | | | |\n| 18... | | | | |\n| 18... | | | | |\n| 18... | | | | |\n| 18... | | | | |\n| 18... | | | | |\n| 18... | | | | |\n| 18... | | | | |\n| 18... | | | | |\n\n15. Date of Cessation of Duty, 17th September, 1898.\n16. Date of Cessation of Salary, 17th September, 1898.\n17. Date from which, inclusively, Pension will commence, ...\n\nI certify that the Compassionate Allowance -- which may be paid to the Applicant according to the Rules of the Colonial Service, amounts to Thirty-four Dollars and Eighty cents.\n\nand I base my Certificate on the following calculation :-\n- Length of service: 24 years\n- Add five years: 5\n- Total: 29 years\n- 29/60 of $144: $69.60\n- 1/2 of $69.60: $34.80\n\nM. Thomson \nActing Treasurer.\n\n## Instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373461, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "881\n\n..........\n\n188\n\n(2)\n\n10. Whether each of the Appointments held by the Applicant has been on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony.\n\nYes.\n\n11. Whether the duties of the several offices or situations held since the Applicant entered the Civil Service have been such as to require that the holder should give his whole time to the Public Service.\n\nYes.\n\n12. Whether holding any other Public Appointment, or receiving or claiming to receive any Public Money by Compensation, Half-pay or otherwise.\n\n13. If any kind of Pension or other Allowance has been commuted under the Imperial Pensions Commutation Acts, 1869 and 1871, the annual amount of Pension or Allowance so commuted and the date of Commutation should be inserted.\n\n(3)\n\n18. Statement, if the circumstances warrant it, that the Applicant \"has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the Head Officer or Officers of his Department,\" to be signed by any two of such Head Officers, if there shall be more than one, or by such Head Officer, if there shall be but one, together with \"such a statement as will exhibit the merit, and value, and labour of the services of the Person recommended, embracing as long a period of his public service as can be authentically stated,\" and observations as to Special Services, Suspension, Reprimand, &c., with full particulars of any injuries received on duty, or other claims or matters for consideration.\n\nInspector Joseph Robert Germain has performed his duties with due diligence and fidelity, and to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board.\n\nM. W. H. President,\n\nSanitary Board.\n\n14. Absence, beyond ordinary Vacation leave:-\n\n \n Year\n Period of Absence\n Cause of Absence\n \n \n 1887\n From 28.5.87 To 19.11.87\n \n \n \n 1892\n 23.7.92 To 19.7.97\n \n \n \n 1897\n 7.11.93 To 13.3.98\n \n \n \n 1893\n 19.3.93 To 13.9.99\n \n \n \n 1893\n 18.3.99 To 19.9.99\n \n \n \n 1899\n 18.3.99 To 18.7.99\n \n \n\n15. Date of Cessation of Duty,\n\n16. Date of Cessation of Salary,\n\n3. Computation, by the Colonial Secretary, of the Pension, &c.\n\nD.\n\n13 11 00\n\n13 14\n\nYears\n\n293\n\nwhich may be paid to the Applicant Five hundred and Eighty-three Dollars and thirty-three Cents.\n\nI certify that the Pension according to the Rules of the Colonial Service, amounts to Three Dollars and thirty-three Cents.\n\nand I base my Certificate on the following calculation :----\n\nLength of Service 21 years 6 months 19 days.\n\nDeduct 1/2 of 1/2 pay leave 1 year 4 months 19 days.\n\n20 years 2 months\n\nAdd 5 years.\n\nTotal service for pension 25 years.\n\nSalary $1,400\n\n19th July, 1899.\n\n25/80 of $1,400 = $583.33\n\n19th July, 1899.\n\n17. Date from which, inclusively, Pension will commence,....... 20th July, 1899.\n\nTreasurer.\n\nInstructions.\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373840, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 570, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "7. The Government will reserve to itself the power to withdraw or reduce grants. In all cases, the reasons for the withdrawal or reduction will be given. All grants are subject to a reduction rate whenever the total sum otherwise payable exceeds the amount voted for the purpose.\n\n8. One-fourth of the total grant made to a school will be handed to the paid teacher as a personal bonus. Paid assistant-teachers share in this payment in proportion to the amount of salary received during the year. In the event of a change of paid teachers or assistant-teachers, each will receive his proportion of the sum thus due. If a paid teacher or assistant-teacher is dismissed, his share of the grant will go to the school.\n\n9. A detailed account, with proper vouchers, of the total income and expenditure of each school must be furnished by the manager annually, in the form provided for that purpose.\n\n10. Grants will be made for definite results in the subjects mentioned in the standards hereinafter referred to and no others.\n\n11. These results will be ascertained at the annual examination of the school by the Inspector by such assistant examiners as the Government may appoint.\n\n12. Assistant examiners will be paid for their assistance.\n\n13. Schools eligible for grants-in-aid will be—\n\nClass I—Schools in which a Chinese education is given.\n\nClass II—Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language.\n\nClass III—Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.\n\n14. The basis of examination will be one hundred daily attendances of not less than four hours each at instruction in the subjects of the several standards, provided that the school shall have met not less than two hundred times in the course of the year.\n\n15. Scholars who have satisfied the foregoing condition will be examined in accordance with the following standards and they may not be withheld from examination without a reasonable excuse. The results of the examination of each scholar will be communicated to the managers.\n\n16. For Schools in Class I. (Schools in which a Chinese education is given.)\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading.—Two pages of the First Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Repetition.—Two pages of the same book.\n\n3. Writing.—From dictation, ten common characters in the First Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n4. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Notation up to 10,000.\n\nValue of a pass in the ordinary subjects of this standard: three dollars; in Arithmetic: half a dollar.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading.—A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the Second Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Repetition.—A short paragraph of the First and Second Readers used in the school.\n\n3. Writing.—From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the Second Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n4. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Notation up to a million and simple addition and subtraction.\n\nValue of a pass in the ordinary subjects of this standard: four dollars; in Arithmetic: seventy-five cents.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading.—A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Repetition.—A short paragraph of the First, Second, and Third Readers used in the school.\n\n3. Explanation.—The characters in the passage read.\n\n4. Writing.—From dictation, forty consecutive characters in the Third Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n5. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Multiplication, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standard.\n\nValue of a pass in the ordinary subjects of this standard: six dollars; in Arithmetic: one dollar.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading.—A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Explanation.—Simple phrases in the passage read.\n\n3. Writing.—From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the book used in the school for that purpose.\n\n4. Composition.—Three antithetical couplets of not more than three characters each.\n\n5. Geography.—The two hemispheres (general outlines).\n\n6. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—The simple rules.\n\nValue of a pass in at least four of the ordinary subjects of this standard: seven dollars; in Arithmetic: one dollar and a half.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\n1. Repetition.—A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Explanation.—In writing, a passage not exceeding twenty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Writing.—From memory, a passage not exceeding sixty characters in the book used in the school for that purpose.\n\n4. Composition.—Three antithetical couplets of not more than five characters each.\n\n5. Geography.—The Chinese Empire, in addition to the geography of the previous standard.\n\n6. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Compound rules (Chinese money), in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\nValue of a pass in at least four of the ordinary subjects of this standard: eight dollars; in Arithmetic: two dollars.\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n\n1. Repetition.—A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Sixth Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Explanation.—In writing, a passage not exceeding thirty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Writing.—From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the book used in the school for that purpose.\n\n4. Composition.—A simple letter.\n\n5. Geography.—The Canton Province, in addition to the geography of the previous standards.\n\n6. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Reduction (Chinese Tables), in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\nValue of a pass in at least four of the ordinary subjects of this standard: nine dollars; in Arithmetic: two dollars and a half.\n\nSTANDARD VII.\n\n1. Repetition.—A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Seventh Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Explanation.—In writing, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the same book.\n\n3. Writing.—In colloquial or book style, a simple story read out twice by the examiner.\n\n4. Composition.—In polite epistolary style, a letter.\n\n5. Geography.—Drawing a map of any of the continents (the map to include the principal towns, rivers, and mountains of the continent prescribed).\n\n6. History.—In colloquial or book style, answers to questions from the History Book used in the school.\n\n7. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Vulgar fractions, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\nValue of a pass in at least five of the ordinary subjects of this standard: ten dollars; in Arithmetic: three dollars.\n\nNote.—In girls' schools, repetition may be substituted for composition in Standard IV, and reading for composition in Standard V.\n\n17. For Schools in Class II. (Schools in which a European education is given in the Chinese language).\n\nSTANDARD I.\n\n1. Reading and repeating.—Two pages of the First Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Writing.—From dictation, ten common characters from the same book.\n\n3. Arithmetic.—Notation and numeration up to 10,000.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: four dollars.\n\nPage 570\n\nPage 571", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373841, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 571, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "568\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading and repeating.-A passage not exceeding fifty characters in the First and Second Readers used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. From dictation, twenty consecutive characters from the Second Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Notation and numeration up to one million, and simple addition and subtraction.\n\nCopy writing (Romanized only) will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third Reader used in school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing.-From dictation, forty consecutive characters in the Third Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n3. Arithmetic.--The simple rules.\n\nCopy writing (Romanized only) will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of pass in this standard: eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD IV.\n\n1. Reading.--A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth Reader used in school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing.--From dictation, fifty consecutive characters in the Fourth Dictation Book used in the school.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Compound rules (Chinese money), in addition to the arithmetic of previous standards.\n\n4. Geography. The two hemispheres (general outlines).\n\nCopy writing (Romanized only) will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: nine dollars.\n\nSTANDARD V.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth Reader used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in the book used in the school for that purpose.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Reduction (Chinese Tables) and simple proportion, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\n4. Geography. The Chinese Empire, in addition to the geography of the previous standard.\n\n5. History. The History used in the school for this standard.\n\n6. Optional Subject. - Physical Geography (atmosphere, rivers and winds).\n\nCopy writing (Romanized only) will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in the ordinary subjects of this standard: ten dollars; in Physical Geography: one dollar.\n\nSTANDARD VI.\n\n1. Reading.--A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Sixth Reader used in the school, with explanation in colloquial Chinese.\n\n2. Writing - From memory, writing (in Romanized character or colloquial Chinese) the substance of a short story read out twice by the examiner.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Compound proportion and vulgar fractions, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\n4. Geography-The Canton Province, in addition to the geography of the previous standard.\n\n5. History. The History used in the school for this standard.\n\n6. Optional Subject.--Physical Geography (the oceans, currents and tides, in addition to the physical geography subjects of the previous standard).\n\nValue of a pass in at least four of the ordinary subjects of this standard: eleven dollars; in Physical Geography: one dollar and a half.\n\nSTANDARD VII.\n\n1. Reading. A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the Seventh Reader used in the school.\n\n2. Explanation. In writing (Chinese characters) a paraphrase of a passage, not exceeding thirty characters, in the same book.\n\n3. Composition.-- A simple letter in Chinese characters (colloquial or book style).\n\n4. Arithmetic.-Reduction (of English money) and decimal fractions, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\n5. Geography.-Drawing from memory a map of any of the continents (the map to include the principal rivers, mountains and cities in the continent prescribed).\n\n6. History.--The History used in the school for this standard.\n\n7. Optional Subject.-Physical Geography (the earth, the moon, and the planetary system).\n\nValue of a pass in at least five of the ordinary subjects of this standard: twelve dollars; in Physical Geography: two dollars.\n\nNOTE.-\n\n-All the books used, and work submitted, for examination purposes should be in the Chinese character, but in the cases of Copy writing, Arithmetic, Geography, History and Physical Geography, the Romanized system may be used.\n\n18. For Schools in Class III. (Schools in which a European education is given in any European language.)\n\nSTANDARD 1.\n\n1. Reading--Accurate pronunciation of each word in a passage not exceeding five lines in the First Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing-A short sentence from the same book, slowly read once and then dictated in single words.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Notation and numeration up to 1,000. Simple addition and subtraction of numbers of not more than three figures.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in two of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: six dollars.\n\nSTANDARD II.\n\n1. Reading. Slow and distinct reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Second Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing. --A sentence from the same book slowly read once, and then dictated in single words.\n\n3. Arithmetic. Notation and numeration up to a million, and simple multiplication and division, in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standard.\n\n4. Geography.-Definitions.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in three of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: eight dollars.\n\nSTANDARD III.\n\n1. Reading--Clear and intelligible reading of a passage not exceeding ten lines in the Third Book used in the school.\n\n2. Writing-Six lines of ordinary prose from the same book, slowly dictated once by a few words at a time.\n\n3. Arithmetic.-Compound rules (English and Chinese money), in addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.\n\n4. Grammar.-Ability to distinguish the parts of speech in a short sentence in the Reading Book.\n\n5. Geography,-Orally: the two hemispheres (general outlines), in addition to the geography of the previous standard.\n\nCopy writing will be taken in this standard, but it will not be counted if the scholar has not passed in four of the other subjects.\n\nValue of a pass in this standard: ten dollars.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 376497, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "content_text": "## 221.\n\n**INO.**\n\n**Reef 19 JUN 00**\n\n**172**\n\nGovernment House, \nHong Kong, 16 May, 1900.\n\n1. Closure 1st March, 1900.\n2. felt sure. \n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit for your favourable consideration the enclosed copy of a letter from the Bishop of Victoria applying on behalf of the Church Missionary Society for the free grant of a piece of land near Kowloon City for the purpose of erecting thereon a Rescue Home for Chinese girls, the existing Home - known as the Victoria Home - at West Point being utilised by the Society for other educational missionary work.\n\nI enclose copies of the Annual Reports relating to the Victoria Home for the years 1898 and 1899, and I have ascertained from the Secretary of the Society that since 1891, eighty Chinese girls have been admitted into the Institution, and that thirty-five of the number were sent there by the Colonial Secretary or Registrar General through the Po Leung Kuk Society. Many of these girls would in all probability have been led into immoral lives, had they not come under the care of the Church Missionary Society, and I learn that the majority of those who have passed through the Home have turned out well, generally marrying respectable Christian Chinese.\n\nApart therefore from the consideration of the usefulness of its work, the Society has some claim upon the Government, and I have to recommend that the land \n\n**The Right Honourable \nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377194, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9]", "page_number": 290, "title": "CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Po.357\n\n## Government House, Hongkong, 3rd August, 1900.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to transmit for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance entitled :-\n\n**An Ordinance to authorise the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Four hundred and Eighty-one thousand Three hundred and Thirty-five Dollars and Thirty-five Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1899.**\n\n## Enclosure 1\n\nNo.21 of 1900.\n\n2. The customary Report by the Attorney General is annexed.\n\n3. Six copies of the Supplementary Estimates for 1899 are forwarded herewith in which will be found full explanations of the supplementary votes approved by the Legislative Council.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble Servant,\n\nThe Right Honourable \nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.\n\n## Enclosure 3\n\nThe Copy annexed \"sent separately.\" \nREceived 14 SEP 00 \nCO 30006 \nZim 3.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9]", "page_number": 291, "title": "CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9]", "content_text": "## EN CLOSURE \n2 (copy) 30006\n\nReef 14 SEP 00\n\n**ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.**\nAugust 3rd, 1900.\n\n011 900.\n\n**Report on Ordinance 21 of 900.**\n289\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled, \"An Ordinance to authorise the appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of four hundred and eighty-one thousand, three hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty-five cents, to defray the charges of the year 1899.\" and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\n(sd) W. Meigh Goodman,\n**Attorney General**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377820, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 289, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Inclosure I\n\nC. O. 287 \n33605 \nIREC \n\n**ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,** \nAEGU OG NO 00 \n6th March 1900. \n\n### Report on Ordinance 29 of 1900\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled \n**An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Three Million Three hundred and eighty thousand One hundred and Thirty four Dollars and Twenty nine Cents to the Public Service of The Year 1901,** \nand I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions. \n\nWeigh Gordman \nAttorney General", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381911, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 624, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "Appendix I.\n\nTHIS INDENTURE, made the Thirteenth day of September One thousand eight hundred and eighty-four BETWEEN OUR SOVEREIGN LADY VICTORIA, by the GRACE of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, of the one part, and MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Esquire, of the other part.\n\nWHEREAS by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, made and dated at Westminster, the Fifth day of April in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies were erected into a Colony, and full power and authority to the Governor of the said Colony of Hongkong, for the time being, were given and granted in the Name of Her said Majesty, and on Her behalf (but subject nevertheless to such provisions as might be in that respect contained in any Instructions which might from time to time be addressed to him by Her said Majesty), to make and execute, in the Name and on the behalf of Her said Majesty, under the Public Seal of the said Colony, grants of Land to Her said Majesty belonging, within the said Colony, to private persons for their own use and benefit, or to any Persons, Bodies Politic, or Corporate, in trust for the public uses of Her said Majesty's Subjects there resident, or any of them; AND WHEREAS under and by virtue of certain other Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, made and dated at Westminster, on the Ninth day of April, in the Fortieth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, Constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and of a Commission under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date the Ninth day of December in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, Sir GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, was constituted and appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies; NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that in consideration of the yearly rent, covenants and stipulations hereafter reserved and contained, by and on the part and behalf of the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, to be paid, done and performed; HER SAID MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA DOTH hereby grant and demise, unto the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, ALL that piece or parcel of Ground situate lying and being at Victoria in the said Colony of Hongkong, abutting on the North Side thereof on the Praya and measuring thereon one hundred feet, on the South side thereof on Battery Hill and measuring thereon one hundred and five feet, on the East side thereof partly on a close of land Registered in the Land Office as Marine Lot No. 185 and partly on another close of land Registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 38 and measuring thereon altogether three hundred and thirteen feet, and on the West side thereof on Witty Street and measuring thereon three hundred and forty feet, and six inches; which said piece or parcel of ground hereby expressed to be demised contains in the whole thirty-two thousand eight hundred and twenty square feet and is more particularly delineated on the plan hereunto annexed and thereon coloured red and is registered in the Land Office as Marine Lot No. 184 in the name of the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS together with the messuage or messages, tenement or tenements, erections and buildings now standing and being thereon, And all the casements and appurtenances whatsoever to the said demised premises belonging, or in anywise appertaining.\n\nEXCEPT AND RESERVED unto Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, all Mines, Minerals and Quarries of Stone in, under and upon the said premises, and all such Earth, Soil, Marl, Clay, Chalk, Brick-earth, Gravel, Sand, Stone and Stones, and other Earths or Materials, which now are or hereafter during the continuance of this demise, shall be under or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns may require for the Roads, Public Buildings, or other Public Purposes of the said Colony of Hongkong; with full liberty of Ingress, Egress and Regress, to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, and Her and their Agents, servants and workmen, at reasonable times in the year during the continuance of this demise, with or without horses, carts, carriages and all other necessary things into, upon, from and out of all or any part or parts of the premises hereinbefore expressed to be demised, to view, dig for, convert and carry away, the said excepted Minerals, Stone, Earths and other things respectively, or any part or parts thereof respectively, thereby doing as little damage as possible to the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns; AND ALSO SAVE AND EXCEPT full power to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns to make and conduct in, through and under the said premises, all and any public or common sewers, drains, or watercourses.\n\nTO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said piece or parcel of ground and premises hereby expressed to be demised, with their and every of their appurtenances unto the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, from the twenty-fifth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one for and during and unto the full end and term of Nine hundred and Ninety-nine Years from thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended: YIELDING AND PAYING therefor yearly and every year the sum of Two hundred and forty-nine dollars in Current Money of the said Colony of Hongkong, by equal half-yearly payments, on the Twenty-fourth day of June and the Twenty-fifth day of December, in every Year, free and clear of and from all Taxes, Rates, Charges, Assessments and Deductions whatsoever, charged upon or in respect of the said premises or any part thereof; the first half-yearly payment of the said Rent becoming due and to be made on the twenty-fifth day of December One thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, AND the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, for himself, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns doth hereby covenant with Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns by these presents, in manner following, that is to say, that he the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns shall and will yearly, and every year, during the said term hereby granted, well and truly pay or cause to be paid to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, the said yearly Rent of Two hundred and forty-nine dollars clear of all deductions as aforesaid on the several days and times and in the manner hereinbefore reserved and made payable; AND ALSO that he the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns shall and will during all the said term hereby granted, bear, pay and discharge all taxes, rates, charges and assessments whatsoever, which now are or shall be hereafter assessed or charged upon, or in respect of the said premises hereby expressed to be demised or any part thereof.\n\nAND ALSO that the said MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, shall and will, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, when, where, and as often as need or occasion shall be and require, at his and their own proper costs and charges, well...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394682, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "their action in the matter; and they protested against the wrongful arrest of their servant. They added that since writing the above they had received a letter from their agent at Chang Ping, to the effect that on the 11th instant a Japanese went to the village of Hsiao Hu She, where the villagers were preparing camphor for their Chang Ping agent, and, after telling them that no persons but the Japanese himself were allowed to make camphor, took away from them about twenty-three catties of camphor oil and about eighty catties of camphor. This village is about 20 li from Chang Ping. The following night the Japanese visited their agent at Chang Ping, and seized from him eleven cases of camphor oil and one case of camphor, \"which were already in a boat engaged by our agent to bring the camphor down to us, and which were our own property.\"\n\nI had previously received, on the 14th September, a letter from the Taotai, stating that he was informed there were a number of \"hongs\" in the interior displaying foreign \"hong\" names, and that some of these had erected stills for the illicit preparation of camphor. He accordingly requested me to strictly prohibit all such proceedings as contrary to Treaty. On the following day (the 15th September) I received a further despatch from him, of which I inclose copy and translation, together with copy and translation of my reply. At the same time I wrote to the Amoy Sub-Prefect, who had arrested Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's employé, inclosing copy of my despatch to the Taotai.\n\nI am\n\nFrom the foregoing it seems that the Taotai proposes to enforce as far as possible the prohibitions and penalties set forth in his former Proclamations. The position thus is that, whilst British merchants are nominally at liberty to buy camphor in the interior, possibly if they can, the native producer may in no case sell to them, nor may he prepare or sell camphor on his own account, or to anyone except the native (i.e., Japanese) camphor officials. How far the Taotai has made sure of his ground before venturing on this step I am not in a position to say. As he is throughout acting under the orders of the high authorities at Foochow, any appeal to the latter would certainly be of no effect. I am therefore constrained to lay the facts of the case before you, so that a stop may be put to the present ruinous interference with a new and promising branch of trade.\n\nRegardless of their ostensible functions as technical experts only, the Japanese agents in the interior seem to take upon themselves the duty of perambulating the country in search of so-called illicit stills and seizing foreign-owned property. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's correspondents report that the camphor districts are full of Japanese, who visit them every three or four days to pick up information. The Chinese local authorities themselves strongly object to these proceedings as sure to entail trouble, but seem quite powerless to prevent them. I am informed that, even when camphor is offered for sale by the native producer to the Government offices, the Japanese experts on the spot invariably refuse to buy it themselves on one pretext or another, at the same time forbidding its sale to any outsider. Their object seems, in fact, to be to extinguish the trade here, with a view to the establishment of a complete monopoly for the Formosan product.\n\nSu Ting Kit, the man arrested, has been employed by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire since the 27th May last, his pay being 30 dollars a month. He is a native of Formosa, and being an expert in the preparation of camphor, was previously in the employ of the Japanese Syndicate here. His arrest by order of the Taotai, though nominally at the request of the Lien Cheng Magistrate, is undoubtedly at the instance of the Japanese Consul, who has at the same time preferred a further charge against him of being indebted to certain Japanese subjects.\n\nThis man has been employed by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire to buy the trees from the owner in the interior, and the local workmen under him make the camphor themselves on the spot, the prepared article being then sent down to Amoy under transit pass. Work has thus been carried on at six different places, all within the jurisdiction of the Changchow Taotai, and, in the case of Lien Ch'eng, certainly with the approval of the local Magistrate.\n\nIn all, three consignments, totalling thirty-two cases camphor and eighty tins camphor oil, have thus been prepared and sent down to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire since the 1st January last, but since Su Ting Kit's arrest the workmen at Chang P'ing and Lien Ch'eng have ceased work, being afraid to continue with the prospect of summary arrest. At the other places there has presumably been no molestation so far, no news from them having come to hand.\n\nUnder these circumstances it appears to me that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire have in no way exceeded their Treaty rights, and that they are quite justified in making their\n\n3\n\n17\n\nown arrangement, as above described, to procure whatever camphor they may require, independently, and free from all restrictions.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nTaotai Yen Nien to Consul Hausser.\n\nP. F. HAUSSER.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nAmoy, September 15, 1903. Sir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that on the 3rd instant I received a letter from Yao Shou Ku, Magistrate of the Lien Ch'eng district, and Pao Kang, Manager of the branch office of the Government Camphor Bureau, to the following effect:--\n\n\"On the 22nd July last, Pao Kang arrested two workmen engaged in preparing camphor, by name, Su Yu and Li Hsin Chih, who declared that the business was under the control of Su Ting Chieh, and that they were merely working under his orders. The prisoners were forwarded to the Magistrate's Yamên to await their trial, and on the 25th July the case was reported to your Excellency, with a request that your Excellency would give orders for the arrest of Su Ting Chieh and Weng Wen Ch'uan, who were in Amoy.\n\n\"We subsequently heard that Su Ting Chieh had secretly returned to Shan Hsia Hsu, in the Lien Cheng district, and we accordingly sent to arrest him. He, however, spoke in a very arrogant manner, declared that he was collecting and preparing the camphor entirely for Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, of Amoy, who had appointed him their agent for the purpose, that the British Consul would be coming there shortly, and that they had better take exceedingly good care of the two men in prison. He had further put up a flag over his doorway, bearing the inscription in Chinese, 'Camphor godown of Butterfield and Swire, British firm, Amoy;' but he did not produce any licence for inspection. The Yamên runners, seeing that he had a number of men with him, did not venture to arrest him.\n\n\"On this being reported to us, we referred to the Regulations in the Proclamation formerly issued by your Excellency, and found that they very clearly prohibit the establishment and working of camphor stills in the interior by foreign merchants. Regulation No. 7 states that all camphor-producing and preparing districts being in the interior, any foreign merchants requiring any Government camphor shall be permitted to apply to the Government Bureaux to purchase and take delivery thereof at the price fixed, but may not themselves establish stills inland for the manufacture of camphor, which would constitute a violation of the Treaties.'\n\n\"Regulation No. 8, however, states that foreign merchants may establish camphor factories, and buy camphor, in the Treaty ports without the slightest opposition or hindrance.'\n\n\"In the present instance, even allowing, without examining Su Ting Chieh's statements, that the case really is as he represents, the writers, nevertheless, have their duties to perform as Magistrate and manager respectively, of protecting and supervising the district and the bureaux under their control; and Su Ting Chieh ought to have obtained a permit from ourselves through the British Consul and your Excellency by the usual routine, for presentation to the local authorities, and then he could have been allowed to open his camphor agency where he wished. Whereas he entirely neglects all this customary procedure, and by his pretentious blustering gives strong reason for thinking that his claims to belong to an English firm may be entirely without foundation; and we had therefore intended to punish him forthwith. Seeing, however, that political considerations are involved in the matter, and trouble might result in consequence, we have made a point of laying the facts before your Excellency, and beg that you will ask the British Consul to ascertain definitely, and inform your Excellency accordingly, whether Butterfield and Swire did actually depute Su Ting Chieh to come up here and open this camphor agency, and that your Excellency will inform us of your wishes in the matter.\"\n\nWith reference hereto, I some time ago received a report from the Magistrate to the effect that Su Ting Chieh was still engaged in the illicit preparation of camphor, and I thereupon instructed the Amoy Hai Fang Ting to affect the arrest of Su Ting Chieh, Weng Wen Ch'uan, and Ch'en Hsin Sheng, and to have these three men taken to Lien Ch'eng to be tried and severely punished. Being now in receipt of the letter\n\n[2250 g-1]\n\nB 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394704, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "ARTICLE XII.\n\nThe present Treaty is signed in the Japanese, Chinese, and English languages. In order, however, to prevent future discussions, the Plenipotentiaries of the High Contracting Parties have agreed that in case of any divergence in the interpretation between the Japanese and Chinese texts of the Treaty, the difference shall be settled by reference to the English text.\n\nARTICLE XIII.\n\nThe present Treaty shall be ratified by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and His Majesty the Emperor of China, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Peking as soon as possible, and not later than six months from the present date.\"\n\nIn witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.\n\nDone at Shanghae this eighth day of the tenth month of the thirty-sixth year of Meiji, corresponding to the eighteenth day of the eighth moon of the twenty-ninth year of Kuang-Hsü.\n\n(L.S.) (L.S.)\n\n(Signature of his Excellency Lü Hai-Huan.)\n\nHIOKI EKI, ODAGIRI MASNOSKE.\n\n(Signature of his Excellency Sheng Hsuan-Huai.) (Signature of his Excellency Wu Ting-Fang.)\n\nPage ...\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC. O.\n\n39\n\n3903\n\nNo. 3908\n\n(Subject.)\n\nSurcharging of Chinese Stamps\n\ncopy letter from China taoyin reporting\n\nRussian postal auths suggesting that Artist practice of surcharging in postal auth's adopt similar measures:\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nI don't think there is any point in the proposal.\n\n...\n\nC56\n\nx so reply 4/2\n\nGuys alum Cars Op\n\n1-138-32 20000-11-2\n\nSubsequent Paper.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395033, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "4\n\nmountainous country. In easy country Lisaw transport is far inferior to mules. If the Lisaw smokes opium at all, he generally smokes it badly. He will sleep out anywhere, and will snore all night with nothing but a piece of goat skin between himself and deep snow, at a height of 9,000 feet.\n\nI had no sort of trouble with any of the Lisaw with whom I had to deal, and I should say that they are easier to get on with than Kachins.\n\nThe Lisaws are scattered and disunited, and are not I think capable of serious resistance to any one. The Lisaw \"rebellion\" which occurred two years ago in this part of the country was purposely much exaggerated by the Chinese mandarins in search of buttons and promotions.\n\nOn the 7th March, we marched east from Lan Ma, following up the stream and over a wild mountain range by a pass known as Kan Tsai Ling (8,700 feet). From one point in the ascent there is a fine view of the Kan Liang Pass and of the range which forms the British frontier. We then passed back into the Shweli Basin and descended through forest, with the monastery of Ying Feng Ssu, a well-known place of local pilgrimage, perched on a conspicuous wooded spur 3,000 feet above us on our right; descending further we struck the valley of Tien Tang, or the west branch of the Shweli River, near the small market of La Hsing. Like all the upper waters of the Shweli, the river is 30-40 yards broad, very clear and cold, and nearly everywhere fordable in dry weather, and only 1-3 feet deep, flowing swiftly over a bottom of slippery stones. The valley of the Tien Tang is about 14 miles broad, and is well peopled and cultivated.\n\nFollowing up this valley we passed into the territory of the Tien Tang Headman Tsai, about 14 miles before reaching Ying Pan Market, which consists of forty wattle bamboo huts. The Headman's house is near this, and he came out to see me.\n\nHe represents the eighth generation of Chiefs of Tien Tang, his ancestors, who were of Chinese origin, having established themselves at Tien Tang in the reign of Hung Wu of the Ming dynasty. Like all other Chinese Chiefs in this country, his ancestor was a military adventurer. The little territory of Tien Tang is divided into six \"pai's,\" or parishes, each containing four or five hamlets of five to twenty families. There are not more than 300 families in the whole of Tsai's jurisdiction. Tsai himself is a dirty, opium-smoking Chinese, of about 45 years of age, in no way to be distinguished from the ordinary villager. I gave him some whisky, which he appreciated, and he then supplied me with a number of details concerning the country round about. Finally, after having commissioned his nephew, a squat youth in straw sandals, to look after me, the Lord of the Valley shambled back to his opium couch with a bottle of his new Scotch acquaintance under his arm.\n\nWe continued up the valley by a good road, and camped at the hamlet (ten families) of Ta Ping Ti, on a terrace 300 feet above the Tien Tang stream. This is near the north end of the valley, and there is a good view of the hills forming the crest of the N'maikha watershed.\n\nThe next day, passing the village of Ma Li Pa (thirty families), 14 miles from and 250 feet below Ta Ping Ti, we ascended an upland valley in a northerly direction. On both sides of Ma Li Pa the tops of the hills were covered with snow. The track which we followed was good, even for mules, right up to the crest of the water-divide at the pass of Pan Wa, 8 miles from Ta Ping Ti. After Ma Li Pa we only passed one village about 6 miles from the pass, but there were extensive patches of cultivation, and the valley, until close to its head, was open, and covered with bracken and pine trees. This road is often followed by Lisaws and petty Chinese traders. The first village on the N'maikha side is said to be Chang Yin Kot, which is about as far from the Pan Wa divide as Pan Wa is from Ta Ping Ti; 7 miles farther on is Lu Pi. Both these are Lisaw villages.\n\nFrom Pan Wa Pass there is a view of the head of the valley of the Chipway tributary of the N'maikha, and of a range of snow-clad peaks known as the Chung Shan, which must be at least 12,000 feet, jutting out from the water-parting towards the N'maikha. The most conspicuous peak bears due north from the Pan Wa Pass, which on the Tien Tang or Chinese side is overshadowed by a high peak of about 10,000 feet, which hangs over Ma Li Pa. The Chipway is known to the Chinese as the Chih Fei River. The N'maikha seems to be generally unknown to them under that name, and they refer to it as the Ta or Chin Chiang (\"great or gold river\"). The Lisaws from the head-waters of the Chipway are said not to number more than 100 families. They come to Tien Tang to get supplies, as one would expect, seeing that the Pan Wa Pass is easy travelling in comparison with the Kachin country below them. Mules can get as far as Lu Pi by this route, but not beyond, into the Kachin country near the N'maikha, without previous road repairs. Walking could, it is said, get from Tien Tang to the banks of the N'maikha in four days, but few or none of the Tien Tang people seem ever to have been so far. Parties of Kachins, however, come to Ying Pan market two or three times a year to purchase iron, which is mined in small quantities in the valley near the Ta Ping Ti.\n\n5\n\nThe Tien Tang branch of the Shweli has three head-streams:\n\n1. The stream which comes from the Pan Wa Pass.\n\n2. The Mo Shih Ho, a brook a little to the west which springs from the same mountain from which flows the chief sources of the Chipway River.\n\n3. The main source flows from the hills north of Ta Ping Ti, at a point on the watershed just opposite the Chung Shan, and, passing the hamlet of Hei Tzu Wan, joins 1 and 2 at Ma Li Pa. There is said to be a difficult track, impassable for mules, over the watershed at the back of the Hei Tzu Wan to the Chung Shan.\n\nOn the 10th March we climbed up the steep hills east of Ta Ping Ti, through patches of cultivation, to 8,800 feet in 2-1/2 hours' march, and so descended by a broad, cultivated, lateral valley, with several villages, into the Ming Kwang Plain. Heavy rain caused us at 12:30 to take refuge in a temple at Shang Ho Si, the last village before debouching on the plain. This pass is easily practicable for laden mules. The next day we crossed the Ming Kwang branch of the Shweli, and ascended the Ming Kwang Plain for 6 miles, passing the dirty little market of Ying Pan Kai, to Tu Chai (\"main village\"), the residence of the Tso family. The plain is from 1 to 2 miles broad; the river was 45 yards wide where we forded, and 1 to 3 feet deep. It is fordable nearly everywhere in the Ming Kwang Plain. Along its banks, as along the banks of the Tien Tang stream, there is abundance of good camping ground, grass, fuel, and water, and of such ordinary supplies as rice, maize, fowls, ducks, mutton, cattle, in sufficient quantities for a small party.\n\nThe Ming Kwang Valley is now divided between two \"fu yi,\" or hereditary Chiefs. Lower Ming Kwang is the patrimony of the Yang family, who have their headquarters at I Ya Tang, a village on the opposite side of the valley to Shang Ho Si, and about 1 mile below it. Their portion of the valley is divided into three \"fan,\" or parishes—upper, middle, and lower—and consists of about seventy hamlets, with 6,000-7,000 inhabitants. There is much padi and other cultivation and a considerable head of cattle in the valley. Many of the people are engaged in the cutting and transport of wood from the surrounding hills to Teng Yueh. The ancestor of the Yangs is said to have been a military official who came from Teng Yueh in the Ming dynasty. The Yangs have now little more than an empty title, and the people of this part of the valley pay the ordinary land tax to the Teng Yueh Sub-Prefect.\n\nThe Upper Ming Kwang Valley belongs to the Tso family, but they have only about fifteen villages, with a population of 300 odd families. The present \"fu yi,\" or Chief, is a youth of 18, and is the son of Tso Erh Kuan (Tso the Second), who was killed at Hpare in Mr. Hertz's affair, in February 1899. The affairs of the family are now managed by the brother of the late (uncle of the present) head of the family. I was well received, and lodged in the Tso clan ancestral temple, where the various members of the family came to visit me. Their temple is at the back of their yamên, which is a filthy and rambling structure resembling a succession of pigsties; the village, of some seventy families, consists of hovels made of bamboo wattle, but there seems to be abundance of cultivation and supplies. It is, however, clear that the political and economical affairs of the family are in a very decadent condition. The \"regent\" is a man of some intelligence but of little energy, except in pulling at his opium-pipe; and I doubt if Burma will ever have any further trouble from the military aspirations of the Tso clan.\n\nMost of the Tso clan's peasantry are \"nu shou,\" or crossbowmen, who do not pay ordinary land tax. It would appear that they were originally a sort of limitrophe colonist, whose lands and status were recognized by the Chinese Government on condition that they defended the frontier. The Tso family is a branch of the Teng clan, originally seated near Chengtu, in Ssuchuan, but which early moved to Tsao Chiang, in the Mekong Valley, and in the Yun Lung Sub-prefecture of Yunnan. The name was then changed to Tso. At the end of the Ming dynasty Tso Wan Hsiang came from Tsao Chiang, and carved out as his patrimony the upper Ming Kwang Valley, from which he expelled Lisaws and others. It is also to be noted that there are vague traditions of Burmese (not Shans) having formerly inhabited parts of this country. Tso Wan Hsiang gained the honorary and hereditary title of \"Suan Fu Su,\" generally conferred only on Chiefs of the first class, and his descendants bear the title to this day. The present youth is twelfth in descent from the Wan Hsiang.\n\nPage 367", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 572, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nReport by Consul-General Wilkinson respecting the Progress of the French Railway to Yunnan-fu. (Confidential.)\n\nTHE various routes that have from time to time been suggested or adopted for the French railway from Laokai to Yünnan-fu are marked on the accompanying map (compiled by \"le soldat Schneider,\" and published at Hanoi last November) by means of double lines. These routes are three-\n\n1. That proposed by the Mission d'Études in about 1898;\n\n2. The modifications subsequently introduced into this route by the engineers of the Travaux Publics of Tonquin;\n\n3. The \"trace\" of Herr von Kapp, adopted last year.\n\nThe first two ran up the valley of the Red River to Sinkai, thence along its tributary, the Sin-hsien Ho, and over a pass to the Mongtse Plain, whence the former followed the main road through Sinfang, Kuan-yi, Tunghai, Kiangchuan, and Tein-ning to Chiengkung and Yunnan-fu. The latter also kept this road as far as Kuanyi and a few miles further north; then it diverged to the west, so as to pass through Hsin-hsing Chou to K'unyang, on the southern extremity of the Tien-ch'ih, or Lake of Yünnan; it ultimately rejoined the main road at Tsin-ning.\n\nThe third route, which is the route that has now been finally adopted, is, it will be seen, entirely distinct from its predecessors. It leaves the Red River at Laokai itself, and runs up the valley of the Nam-hti (Nan-chi) to its head-waters in the hills, some 8 miles east of Mengtse. It is thence carried along, or through, those hills until it strikes, near A-mi Chou, the Lin-an River, an affluent of the Pei-ta Ho, which last is, in effect, the \"West River\" of Wuchow and Canton. A few miles further north the Pei-ta Ho itself is met, and up the gorges and valleys of this river the line runs until, a little beyond I-liang, it quits the river for its tributary, the torrent that drains the Yang-tsung Lake. It sweeps upward to the crest of the hills west of this lake, and having now attained—in fact, somewhat exceeded—the level of its terminus, finds little difficulty in crossing the remaining low passes into the Yunnan Plain.\n\nPrivate Schneider's map may be checked by the photographs of the track-chart prepared by the Société de construction. Of these a copy, courteously supplied by M. Guibert, Directeur des Travaux, is attached, together with similar photographs of—\n\n1. The profile of the line;\n\n2. A chart showing the position of the various concessions, or foreign establishments along it;\n\n3. A map of Yunnan city and its environs.\n\nFrom the profile it appears that the line leaves Laokai, the first station, at an elevation of 100 metres (328 feet) above sea-level; that in the first 74 kilom. (46 miles) it ascends gradually to 300 metres; and that during the next 80 kilom. it rises rapidly, at Milati attaining the height of 1,708 metres (3,535 feet); that it then falls to A-mi Chou, 1,056 metres (3,463 feet), whence the ascent is practically continuous to Shui-ya Tan, the highest point on the line, 2,020 metres (6,624 feet), 436 kilom. (271 miles) from Laokai. The elevation of Yunnan-fu, or rather of the station there, is given as 1,889 metres, or 6,196 feet.\n\nThe total length of the line, as now settled, is 464 kilom., or 290.88 miles (corrected from 4684 kilom.). This is divided into twenty-nine lots, or rather into thirty-two, as three of the lots are subdivided. These lots have been secured by fourteen contractors (\"entrepreneurs\") of whom the first and the last are French citizens, the rest being Italians. Their names, and the apportionment between them of the lots, are shown on the profile. It will be observed that two contractors have each taken up six lots; one contractor, four lots; five contractors, two lots apiece; and the remaining six contractors, one lot each.\n\nThe line is also shown to be divided into ten sections. Three of these contain four lots; six, three lots; and one, the ninth, two lots. Each section has its \"chef\" or head, and there is a \"sous-chef\" or assistant head, for each lot. Above the \"chefs des sections\" are two \"chefs de division,\" M. Dufour, who has his head-quarters at Mengtse, and M. Prud'homme, Chief of the second division, who is stationed at I-liang. Above these, again, is the director (\"Directeur des Travaux\"), who, with his staff, is quartered at Mengtse. The \"directeur\" was, till a few days ago, M. Guibert, but he has now left on a six months' \"congé,\" and is being replaced by Herr von Kapp, the confidential adviser of Count Vitali, President of the Société de Construction des Chemins de Fer.\n\nThe Association has a French register, and its \"Conseil\" meets in Paris. As is well known, it has constructed railways in, among other countries, Italy, Macedonia, and Asia Minor, and a great number of its employés in Yunnan are men who have for years been engaged in its service. Their doyen is, I believe, M. de Violini, Chief of the eighth section.\n\nI understand that the Chemin de Fer de Yünnan is the only considerable enterprise in which the Association is at the present time engaged; but of this I cannot speak positively. (The Society is said to be interested in the German Bagdad Railway.) For its work in Yunnan it is to be paid partly in cash and partly in shares of the concessionary Company, La Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l'Indo-Chine et du Yünnan.\n\nThe interests of this Company are watched over from time to time by agents sent out for the purpose. The last of these, M. Getten, visited Yunnan-fu in April, returning along the line to Tonquin. He has since left for Paris.\n\nBy the Agreement between the Company and the Government of Indo-China, the latter is required to construct the line from Haiphong, on the coast, through Tonquin to Laokai, the frontier town, and to complete this line by the 1st April, 1905. The line (to which I shall refer later) is now in running order as far as Yenbay. Meanwhile, the Public Works Department (the Travaux Publics) of Tonquin also stations a Delegate in Yünnan to safeguard the interests of the Government of Indo-China, since this Government is, as I understand, eventually to receive one-half of the profits of the Haiphong-Yunnan-fu Railway. The Present Delegate, M. Richard, resides at Mengtse, but visits Yunnan-fu four or five times in the year.\n\nBefore dismissing the profile, attention may be drawn to the fact therein shown that there are to be eight stations, of varying classes, thus—\n\n \n Kilometre\n Station\n Class\n \n \n 70\n Laokai\n 1st\n \n \n \n La-hu-ti\n 3rd\n \n \n 155\n Ma-la-ti\n 3rd\n \n \n 164\n Mengtse\n 3rd\n \n \n 228\n A-mi Chou\n 2nd\n \n \n 298\n Po-si\n 3rd\n \n \n 398\n I-liang\n 3rd\n \n \n 468\n Yunnan-sen\n 1st\n \n\nand twenty-five sidings or stoppages (\"haltes\"). A-mi is, it may be noticed, almost midway between Laokai and Yunnan-fu.\n\nFrom the chart of \"Yünnan-sen\" it will be seen that this city, the capital of the Province of Yunnan, has six gates, and that while all of these, with the exception of the north gate, are surrounded by suburbs, the most thickly-peopled portions outside the wall lie to the south and east.\n\nPrevious to the Mahommedan rebellion (1857-73) almost the whole ground south of the city as far as the two pagodas (the \"vieille tour\" and \"tour neuve\" of the chart) was covered with houses, as was also the land for some third of a mile beyond the east wall.\n\nThe trend of the country is from the hills on the north and north-east down towards the great lake, south-west and south, with the result that the whole district south and west of the city is better suited for paddy fields than for building sites. Such is the case also with the lands between the old eastern faubourg and the hills 2 miles away to the east. The problem, then, that confronted the engineers of the Railway Company was to find an adequate space of sufficiently elevated ground on which to erect their station. The chart shows how it was first attempted to solve this problem. The original \"tracé\" ran alongside the \"route de Mengtse,\" and it was proposed to place an extensive yard in the angle formed between that route and the main road to Kueiyang.\n\nFrom this yard the line was to be continued to a still larger but less symmetrical enclosure to be formed outside the walls between the\n\nPage 15\n\n569", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397059, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 353, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "# \ncopy by the Canton, Viceroy, our copy by the Hunan Governor, one Copy by the Governor of Hongkong, one copy by His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking and our copy by His Britannic Majesty's Consul General at Hankow.\n\nIn the event of any doubt arising as to the interpretation of the Contract the English text shall rule.\n\nSigned at Hongkong by the contracting parties this Eleventh day of the Eighth moon of the year thirty-one of the reign Kuang Hsu or the ninth day of September 1905, Western Calendar.\n\n**ABM's Consul General** \nHankow for it \n**Governor of Hongkong** \n**Viceroy** \n(Signed in Chinese) Viceroy, Seal \n(Sd.) E4 Pasir \n**British Consular Seal** \nYear | Date\n---|---\n## Schedule of payment of interest & repayment of principal\n| Year | Date | Interest Payment | Principal |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1906 | Apr 6 | £24750 | |\n| 1906 | Oct 6 | £24750 | |\n| 1907 | April 6 | £14750 | £110,000 |\n| 1907 | Out of | | |\n| 1907 | | £12275 | |\n| 1907 | | £12275 | |\n| 1908 | Apul 6 | £19800 | |\n| 1908 | 04 6th | £19800 | |\n| 1908 | | | £110,000 - £129800 |\n| 1909 | Apul fu | £17325 | |\n| 1909 | Oct 64 | £17325 | |\n| 1909 | | | £110,000 - £127325 |\n| 1910 | Abnih | £14850 | |\n| 1910 | O46th | £14850 | |\n| 1910 | | | £110,000 - £124850 |\n| 1911 | Apri | £11375 | |\n| 1911 | Oc6 | £12375 | £110,000 - £112375 |\n| 1912 | | £9900 | |\n| 1912 | Ou 6\" | £9900 | £110,000 - £119900 |\n| 1913 | Apul | £7425 | |\n| 1913 | Oct 64 | £7425 | £110,000 - £117425 |\n| 1914 | Apr16\" | £4950 | |\n| 1914 | Oct 64 | £4950 | £110,000 - £114950 |\n| 1915 | | £2475 | |\n| 1915 | 046 | £2475 | £110,000 - £112475 |\n| | | £272,250 | £1,100,000 21.372.250 |\n| | | | £1,100,000 21.372.250 | 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404479, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "page_number": 217, "title": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "content_text": "Sd. James Scott \n**Consul General** \n28 64 \n**Consular** \nat His Britannic Majesty's Consulate General Duly registered in the Register of Mortgage A at Canton \n\nCanton this 11th Febry 1905 \nL. S. \nThree Dollars \n31. 1. 05 \n215 \n\nTHIS INDENTURE made the Twenty eighth day of January One thousand nine hundred and five BETWEEN FUNG WA CHUN otherwise YEW CHEONG of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong Compradore and Coal Merchant (who and whose heirs executors administrators and assigns are where not inapplicable hereinafter included under the designation \"the Mortgagor\") of the one part and THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED whose registered office is in London (who and whose assigns are where not inapplicable hereinafter included under the designation \"the Mortgagees\") of the other part WITNESSETH that in consideration of TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS to the Mortgagor now paid by the Mortgagees (the receipt whereof the Mortgagor doth hereby acknowledge) The Mortgagor doth hereby covenant with the Mortgagees that the Mortgagor will pay to the Mortgagees the sum of Two hundred thousand Dollars on the Thirty First day of December One thousand nine hundred and five with interest thereon in the meantime at the rate of eight Dollars per cent per annum from the date hereof until repayment of the whole of the said sum of Two hundred thousand Dollars by equal monthly payments on the Twenty eighth day of each and every month without any deduction AND THIS INDENTURE ALSO WITNESSETH that for the consideration aforesaid The Mortgagor DOTH hereby assign unto the Mortgagees ALL THOSE FORTY THOUSAND TONS OF COAL and all other the Coal in Fati Canton of which Shewan Tomes and Company have at the request of the Mortgagor taken charge TO HOLD the said Coal unto the Mortgagees absolutely PROVIDED ALWAYS that if the Mortgagor shall on the said Thirty first day of December One thousand nine hundred and five pay the sum of Two hundred thousand Dollars and interest as aforesaid unto \n\n**Consular Service** \nSz", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409393, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 459, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "Staff and its duties when there are not more than twenty cases of Plague a week.\n\nStaff and its duties when there are more than fifty but not more than eighty cases of Plague a week,\n\nThe Assistant Medical Officers of Health will visit each house in their respective districts in which a case of Plague has occurred, and investigate the history of the case and its connection (if any) with previous cases or suspected cases, in accordance with the forms supplied for this purpose. They will also give directions to the Plague Inspectors of their districts as to the disinfection of the premises and will authorize the requisition from the Disinfecting Station of as many of the foremen, artisans and coolies on the staff as may be necessary for the proper disinfection of the premises (not exceeding twenty in number, i.e. two gangs, for any one case) and as many contractor's carrying coolies as may be required for the conveyance of clothing and the removal of rubbish.\n\nThe First Class Inspectors will direct and be responsible for the efficient disinfection of the Plague infected houses in their districts and will be required to keep a careful daily record of the number of men employed under them, distinguishing the men on the staff from the contractor's coolies who are employed merely for carrying and hauling purposes; they must also keep a record of all stores used daily and the addresses of the houses where they are used.\n\nThe subordinate staff will now have to be augmented by the addition of one coloured foreman and one Chinese foreman for the sixth gang of disinfecting coolies on the staff, and by twelve coolies, posted at Wanchai, Taipingshan and Saiyingpoon respectively, for the conveyance of dead carts and ambulances. This is apart from the coolies now supplied by the Sanitary Board for the removal of dead bodies from the Tung Wah Hospital to the Mortuary and the coolies required for the removal of the bodies of infants daily from the French and Italian Convents to the Mortuary.\n\nIt will also be necessary now to rent premises for the accommodation of the persons displaced from Plague infected blocks of buildings and to appoint a temporary Inspector or a senior student of medicine to take charge of such premises. A statement of the duties of this officer is appended hereto. A temporary Inspector will now be required to superintend the burial of all Plague corpses at Cheung-Sha-Wan and arrangements will have to be made for the conveyance of such bodies across the Harbour, and contracts entered into for the supply of coffins and for the coffining of bodies, the digging and filling in of graves and the provision of head-stones etc. A statement of the duties of the Inspector in charge of burials is appended hereto.\n\nStaff and its duties when there are more than twenty but not more than fifty cases of Plague a week.\n\nEach of the Plague Inspectors will now require the assistance of a temporary Inspector, and these Inspectors will each require a Foreman Interpreter.\n\nThe disinfecting and cleansing gangs on the staff will have to be doubled in number—making 120 men instead of 60—and an additional six coolies on the staff will be required for the conveyance of dead carts and ambulances, while the Assistant Medical Officers of Health will as in the previous case requisition for such carrying and hauling coolies as they may deem necessary for the conveyance of clothing and the removal of refuse from both human Plague and rat Plague infected premises. Further accommodation for the persons displaced from Plague infected houses will now be required and another Inspector or senior student will be needed for these additional blocks if they are at opposite ends of the town, which is the most suitable arrangement and also the most economical as regards rental.\n\nEach of the Plague Inspectors will now require two temporary Inspectors to assist him and each of these temporary Inspectors will require a Foreman Interpreter.\n\nThe disinfecting and cleansing gangs on the staff will now have to number 180 men, and the coolies on the staff for the conveyance of ambulances and dead boxes must be increased to thirty.\n\nThe contractor's coolies for carrying and hauling purposes will be requisitioned for, as before, by the Assistant Medical Officers of Health.\n\nAlthough the foregoing method of organization allots an equal staff to each health district, yet as the disease progresses it shall be within the discretion of the Medical Officer of Health to withdraw some or all of the men from any one or more districts in which Plague may not prevail and concentrate them in those districts in which the disease may be most prevalent.\n\nI have not dealt here with the question of a staff for special house-to-house visiting, as I am disposed to think that the benefits to be derived from this class of work are not altogether commensurate with its cost.\n\nThe coolies for the conveyance of the sick and dead reside, and the necessary ambulances and dead carts are kept, at the Central Disinfecting Station in Caine Road, Taipingshan (which is in connection both with the Exchange telephone, No. 363, and also with the Government telephone service); at the Board's matshed at Praya East, Wanchai opposite the Eastern District Sanitary Office; and at the Board's matshed at Praya West Sai-Ying-poon opposite the Sailors' Home.\n\nJanuary 1903.\n\nFRANCIS W. CLARK.\n\nMedical Officer of Health.\n\n455", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409394, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 460, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "Permanent Staff.\n\nSchedule of Staff for Plague Duties.\n\nTwo Assistant Medical Officers of Health.\n\nTwo Chinese Assistants to the Bacteriologist for the examination of rats, Six First Class Inspectors.\n\nOne Clerk for Disinfecting Station.\n\nFive Foreman Interpreters.\n\nFive Chinese Foremen.\n\nTwenty Artisans.\n\nForty Disinfecting Coolies.\n\nThree Foremen Rat-catchers.\n\nThirty Rat-catchers.\n\nAdditional Staff required for not more than twenty cases of Plague a week.\n\nA Temporary Inspector in charge of Burials.\n\nA Temporary Inspector in charge of the Observation Block.\n\nOne Foreman Interpreter.\n\nOne Chinese Foreman.\n\nTwelve Coolies for the removal of ambulances and dead carts.\n\nContractor's carrying coolies for conveyance of clothing removal of rubbish &c as certified for by one of the Assistant Medical Officers of Health.\n\nFurther Additions to the Staff required for not more than fifty cases of Plague a week.\n\nSix Temporary Inspectors for Disinfection.\n\nA Temporary Inspector in charge of the second Observation Block.\n\nSix Foremen Interpreters.\n\nTwenty Artisans.\n\nForty Disinfecting Coolies.\n\nSix Coolies for the removal of ambulance and dead carts.\n\nContractor's carrying coolies for Conveyance of clothing, removal of rubbish &c. as certified for by one of the Assistant Medical Officers of Health.\n\nFurther Additions to the Staff required for not more than eighty cases of Plague a week.\n\nSix Temporary Inspectors for Disinfection.\n\nSix Foremen Interpreters.\n\nTwenty Artisans.\n\nForty Disinfecting Coolies.\n\nTwelve Coolies for the removal of ambulances and dead carts.\n\nContractor's carrying Coolies for conveyance of clothing, removal of rubbish &c. as certified for by one of the Assistant Medical Officers of Health.\n\nSchedule of Duties of Plague Staff.\n\nAssistant Medical Officers :- To investigate all uncertified deaths; to visit all premises in which cases of Plague have occurred and investigate the history of the cases; to visit premises in which Plague infected rats have been found and report on the buildings; to superintend the work of the Plague Inspectors; to authorize the employment of Contractor's Coolies as required; to report to the MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH. all matters of importance coming under their notice.\n\nPlague Inspectors :- To examine buildings for rat-holes and rat-runs; to serve notices in respect of the same and to prosecute in default of compliance with such notices; to disinfect and cleanse blocks of buildings in which Plague rats have been found and premises in which Plague cases have occurred; to keep a careful daily record of the number of men employed under them distinguishing men on the staff from Contractor's coolies, and a record of all stores issued to and by them, and the addresses of the houses where such stores are expended.\n\nClerk at the Disinfecting Station :----- To attend to the telephones and keep the store's books and other Disinfecting Station records.\n\nForemen Interpreters :—— To act as Interpreters to the Plague Inspectors and assist in the work of disinfection and cleansing.\n\nChinese Foremen, Artisans, and Coolies:-- disinfection and cleansing, including the removal of ceilings, partitions and other To be employed in the work of fixtures, when so directed by the Inspector in charge; to be employed in the up-keep of the sanitary appliances.\n\nFRANCIS W. CLARK. MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.\n\n456", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411359, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 536, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\n**(No. 47.)**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[March 9. \nRECEIVED 5 APR 07, \nSECTION 11.]\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 9.)**\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, January 23, 1907.\n\nSince writing my despatches Nos. 497 and 523 of the 29th November and the 12th December last on the subject of the establishment of custom-houses in Manchuria, I have repeatedly pressed the Wai-wu Pu in interviews to accelerate their arrangements with the Japanese and Russian Representatives, and on receipt of your telegram No. 8 of the 18th January, inquiring whether any settlement of the question had been reached, I addressed a note to Prince Ching, copy of which I have the honour to inclose, calling attention to the necessity of taking immediate steps in this matter.\n\nAt my last interview with the Wai-wu Pu on the 18th instant, I informed the Ministers present of the result of Mr. Coales' investigation at Antung, and was assured that instructions had already been issued to the Inspector-General of Customs to send a staff to that port for the establishment of a custom-house. The only cause of delay there was the difficulty in finding a suitable location, owing to the acquisition by Japan of all the water frontage. Their Excellencies promised that every effort would be made to arrive at a settlement of the whole question before navigation opens; but, as I stated in my telegram No. 13 of the 19th instant, I am doubtful whether this can be done, unless representations are made at Tôkiô and St. Petersburgh.\n\nMr. Coales' Report, copy of which I also have the honour to inclose, shows clearly that Japanese goods imported into Antung escape entirely the levy of dues which are enforced on British goods, and that this condition of things arises from the want of a maritime custom-house at that Treaty port.\n\nMr. Coales' Report touches further on the question of the levy of inland dues in these new Manchurian ports, which formed the subject of my despatch No. 20 of the 8th January. Respecting this question Mr. Fulford reports from Mukden that the Tartar General has now replied to the identic notes of the Consuls, maintaining that under the Japanese and American Commercial Treaties of 1903 the entire towns of Mukden, Antung, and Tatungkou were not opened to international trade and residence, but only a limited area in each place to be settled by negotiation.\n\nThe Consular Body at Mukden have replied severally to this communication, refusing to admit the contention, and I have furnished Mr. Fulford with a copy of despatch No. 418 of the 29th November, describing the view of His Majesty's Government as to the term \"Treaty Port.\"\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Prince Ching.**\n\nPeking, January 21, 1907.\n\nIn a note of the 15th August, 1906, Mr. Carnegie, under instructions from His Majesty's Government, reminded your Highness that the Chinese Government had taken no steps to levy tariff duties on goods passing the north or south frontiers of Manchuria by the Chinese Eastern Railway, and that the result was an unfair discrimination against goods passing through Newchwang, on all of which duties were levied, and a large proportion of which were of British origin. The simultaneous establishment of custom-houses by the Imperial Chinese Government in the north, as well as in the south of Manchuria, in order that the tariff duties might be levied alike on all goods exported or imported, either by railway or by sea, was urgently recommended, in view of the proximate opening of Talienwan (Dalny) as a free port.\n\nPage 530 \nC. O. 11983 \n[B] \n\n\"A correspondent, referring to this subject, writes as follows:-\n\n\"At present a Chinese in the Customs Service is debarred, simply because of his Chinese nationality, from promotion above the rank of mere clerkship, whatever his ability or standing in the service, while subjects of other nationalities can aspire to gradual promotions up to a Commissionership. This is a manifestly unjust and intolerable discrimination, uncalled for by the Treaties with the foreign Powers and urgently demanding reform. The result of this system has been the exclusion of well-educated Chinese from the service, which offers no attraction to them.\n\n\"In view of the growing number of Chinese educated on Western lines, for whose service the field must be widened, the time seems to be ripe for representation to be made to the proper quarter for the removal of this disability imposed upon the Chinese, the injustice of which is now rendered the more pronounced by the fact that capable Chinese are not now lacking—if they were before—in filling responsible posts in the Customs.\n\n\"All we ask is a fair field and no favour, and it seems certain that our reasonable request in behalf of the educated young men cannot be denied or at least ignored.'\n\n\"Candidate clerks are employed at 25 Haikwan taels a-month. If they are so fortunate as to be engaged on the 2nd January—the 1st being a holiday—they will get an increase of 5 taels a-month from next January. But it very rarely happens that they are engaged on the 2nd January. If they are engaged on any day subsequent to the 2nd January, then they will not get the increase till the beginning of the third year. For example, a man is engaged on the 3rd January, 1905. In 1906 he gets no increase. In January 1907 his pay is increased monthly by 5 taels, and in January 1908 another increase of 5 taels. A clerk getting 35 taels a-month is termed 'Candidate Clerk A,' but it is impossible to tell when he will be promoted to be 'Fourth Clerk B,' at 40 taels a-month. If he is lucky, he may get his promotion a year after he was made Candidate Clerk A, but, if not, he may have to wait for two or three years.\n\n\"It would be quite impossible for a clerk nowadays to receive the high rate of pay—250 taels—though he may live seventy or eighty years. Of course there are some exceptions, but these are very rare at present. We are informed that promotions are very slow for the Chinese staff, and none of the 140 clerks engaged in the Shanghae Office, for instance, was promoted last year, while one-half of the thirty-five or thirty-seven assistants in the Office received promotions, and one of them even was promoted twice. The Deputy Inspector-General is reported to have said while he was Commissioner of the Shanghae Customs that if he had the power he would, instead of increasing the pay of Chinese in general, employ more men to do more work.\n\n\"Chinese clerks may be transferred to any port without any increase of pay. They may be ordered to go to Tengyueh, Mengtsz, and Chungking, and if they should refuse to proceed to their destination for good and justifiable reasons, they will be asked to resign from the service.\n\n\"Chinese clerks are powerless, and have to do what the assistants tell them to do. If they make any blunders in their work, they are blamed, warned, and so on. The assistants are, in fact, the masters, and the Chinese their slaves.\n\n\"Chinese writers and Shupan are even worse off than the clerks, and their lot is by no means to be envied, in view of the great inequality of treatment between them and their foreign confrères in the Customs Service.\"\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412467, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## As regards the conversion of opium divans into official opium sellers' agencies, the following number inside and outside the city will be allowed, namely, 120 agencies inside the city, to be situated in four different localities, namely, east, west, north, south. Each locality to have thirty agencies. Eighty agencies outside the city, to be situated in four different localities, namely, east, west, north, south. Each locality to have twenty agencies. Merchants must understand that no private establishment for the sale of opium is allowed. Any one infringing this Proclamation will be punished without leniency.\n\n{This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.} 234\n\n## CHINA TRADE\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`[24603]`\nNo. 1.\n`35258`\n[Rolf 23.] -ARTES 4 OCTO?\n\n### SECTION I\n\n(No. 148.) (Telegraphic.) P.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey. (Received July 23.)\n\nPeking, July 23, 1907.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 144 of the 18th July on the subject of an Opium Commission, I am informed by the United States' Minister that a satisfactory assurance has now been promised him.\n\n`[2664 -1]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414069, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 571, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 25th June, 1908.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to submit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure Ordinance No. 11 of 1908 entitled \"An Ordinance to authorise the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of One hundred and Sixty-six thousand Seven hundred and Thirty-five Dollars and Eighty-five Cents, to defray the Charges of the year 1907\", together with the customary report of the Attorney-General thereon.\n\n## Enclosure 3.\n\n2. I have further to transmit in accordance with Colonial Regulation No. 255 the Appropriation Account for the year 1907 which embodies full information respecting the increases and decreases on each sub-head of the Estimates.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\nhumble servant,\n**Shugar** \nGovernor\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nTHE EARL OF CREWE,\n\n7430 TIQDA UM SJUMSTÓLA \nTHEMXNAHME AŬROPOLY \n9.3 \nbeing met out of savings \nIn other Sub Heads of the \nLavie Votes - \nNo. 172. \nHongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\nKindly see that this is forwarded.\nYours Sincerely,\nDundas Bathurst \nC.O. \n27204 \nP. 27 JUL 08.\n\n| Page 568 | \n|-------------|\n| 7430... (text not making sense, possibly incorrect OCR) | \n\nNo clear table or meaningful data could be reconstructed from \"7430 TIQDA UM SJUMSTÓLA THEMXNAHME AŬROPOLY 9.3\". It appears to be a result of incorrect OCR.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414070, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 572, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "C. O.\n\n#27.204.\n\nRECS\n\nR27 JUL 08,\n\n**ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE**\n\nHongkong,\n22nd June 1908.\n\nReport on Ordinance No 11 of 1908,\n\n569\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled\n**An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of One hundred and sixty-six thousand seven hundred and thirty-five Dollars and eighty-five Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1907**\nand I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions\n\nWkees Javie\n**Attorney General**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415734, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 429, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\nI encountering difficulties on the frontiers, and requesting that such persons might be prevented from journeying in regions where the nature of the country made it difficult for the Chinese authorities to afford adequate protection. If travellers provided with passports were obliged to pass through such territory, the Viceroy begged that they should be directed to keep as much as possible to the main roads, and, wherever feasible, obtain an escort from the local officials.\n\nMr. Fox informed the Viceroy in reply that no British subjects were permitted to travel in the interior of China without passports, and he added that if his Excellency would inform him when any district was unsafe for travel, he would warn British subjects to avoid that district until such time as order was re-established.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[1048]\n\n(No. 556.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n426\n\n[January 11.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey. (Received January 11, 1908.)\n\nPeking, November 27, 1907.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 532 of 13th November, I have the honour to inclose copies of further Minutes drawn up by Mr. Brown, Agent-General of the Peking Syndicate, describing his eighth and ninth Conferences with the Shansi Delegates on the subject of the Syndicate's interests in that Province.\n\nIn my previous despatches I have described the steps whereby these discussions have been confined to the question of buying out the Syndicate, in spite of Mr. Brown's offer of co-operation. Your telegram No. 122 of 14th November authorized me to assist in such a solution, and in my reply telegram No. 199 of 15th November I had the honour to explain how matters stood at that date. On the same day I addressed a note to Prince Ching, copy of which is inclosed, urging that if the Province insists on redemption, it must be prepared to pay the Syndicate's price.\n\nThe meeting between Mr. Brown and Ting Tajen, fixed for 16th November, was postponed by mutual consent in order to allow further time for the Wai-wu Pu to take action. On the 19th instant I inquired at the Board whether they had brought any pressure to bear on the Shansi Delegates, and was informed by Liang Tajon that they had sent for the chief Representative (Ting Tajen), who had stated that a great disparity still existed between the amount required and the sum which Shansi was able to raise.\n\nI warned his Excellency that the forthcoming meeting of 21st November would probably be the last, unless the provincial Delegates made a more reasonable offer, and that the onus of making a settlement would then fall on the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nFrom Mr. Brown's Minutes it will be seen that no progress was made at the Conference of the 21st, and the breaking off of negotiations was only averted by the suggestion that Ting Tajen and Mr. Brown should have a private talk on the following day.\n\nI understand that in this private conversation Ting Tajen suggested the possibility of increasing the Chinese offer to 2,200,000 taels, say £330,000. At the ensuing official Conference of 25th November he urged Mr. Brown to accept this sum \"as a basis,\" and upon the refusal of the latter to do so, the negotiations terminated. On the following day (26th November) I inquired at the Wai-wu Pu what action the Board now proposed to take. I reproached the Ministers for having apparently neglected to strengthen the hands of Ting Tajen, who was specially appointed to settle this matter, and reminded them that His Majesty's Government would look to the Board to see that this mission was effectively carried out.\n\nThe Grand Secretary Na fully admitted that Ting Tajen must reach a settlement of the case. He had been summoned to Peking under Imperial Decree for that purpose, and could not, therefore, cast his duties aside. The Board was not yet aware that negotiations with Mr. Brown had been broken off, and would send for Ting Tajen to report upon the circumstances. They understood that it was a mere question of figures. The Syndicate wanted more than the people of Shansi could give, and his Excellency appealed to me to help in reconciling the two extremes. The province of Shansi had experienced great kindness in the past from England. Thirty years ago the Shansi famine was relieved by British subscriptions, and in 1900 the mission indemnities due by that province were foregone by British Missionary Societies. Shansi entertained profound feelings of gratitude towards England, and my intervention on its behalf in this matter of the Peking Syndicate would be highly appreciated in the province.\n\nI replied that I had no belief whatever in the gratitude of Shansi for past acts of goodwill, and that if such feelings were entertained in the province, expression was now being given to them in a most singular manner. An attempt was being made to set aside an Agreement at the cheapest possible price, and the Central Government,\n\n* Not printed.\n\n[2818 -1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415830, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 525, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "by opium. It is too readily taken for granted that the cultivation of the poppy trenches on the food crops of the people, but it must be remembered that it is a winter crop, and shares the ground with wheat, rape, beans, peas, and barley. Szechuan still (in 1904) produces sufficient flour for home consumption, and the export of wheat of former years has given way to opium, which the farmer finds a far more profitable crop. An English acre of wheat will, on the average, yield grain of the value of £1. 5s. 6d., whereas a similar area will produce raw dry opium of the value of £1, 16s. 8d.”\n\nThe population of the province is estimated at 45,000,000, and Sir Alexander is of opinion that 17 per cent. of the adults and 7 per cent. of the entire population are addicted to smoking.\n\nIn regard to the province generally, it may be said that, to start with, the authorities did not carry out the provisions of the Edict with any degree of completeness or sincerity, and that but little was done to abolish or restrict the habit. Matters have now improved, and official activity is more noticeable in many directions,\n\nIt must not be forgotten that the question is much more difficult to deal with in Szechuan than in other provinces on account of every one being personally interested in opium to a far greater extent than the inhabitants of any other province,\n\nIn Cheng-tu, the capital, the following steps have been taken to carry out the Decree.\n\nRefuges for the cure of the habit have been opened, and though they are not much patronized, there appears to be a real attempt on the part of the non-official and shop-keeping class to overcome the habit, while the officials do little or nothing to stop their own smoking.\n\nThe 500 dens in the city have been replaced by 300 well-appointed official divans for consumption on the premises, and though this arrangement carries out neither the letter nor the spirit of the Decree, it is a step in the right direction, and the complete prohibition of smoking in a city of 400,000 inhabitants where 50 per cent. of the male population smoke would undoubtedly have caused disturbances.\n\nAll persons using these official divans have to register themselves, but except in the case of the coolie class the authorities are unable to enforce this order with any degree of thoroughness. The richer classes have either laid in a store of the drug or purchase it secretly. Smoking is effectively prevented in colleges, schools, industrial institutions, the police, and the army.\n\nAt Kai Hsien, the largest opium-producing district in the province, where every available spot is under poppy, slight steps have been taken to obey the Decree. The Mandarin himself has given up the habit, and the yamên people have reported themselves. Some of the dens have been closed, and people have been beaten for smoking, but they are hostile, and destroyed four out of the twenty offices erected for collecting the opium tax.\n\nIn view of the unpopularity of the \"tungshui\" tax, which in some places the authorities were unable to collect, and in order to ameliorate the position of the opium merchants, the Acting Viceroy asked permission of the Board of Finance in Peking to revert to the former tax on opium, the objection of the people being that the tax deprived the poor of their pipe by making the price of opium prohibitive except as a luxury for the rich.\n\nThe result of the appeal to Peking was that the \"tungshui\" tax was abolished in July in favour of a tax of 27-28 taels per picul, with an additional tax of 5·28 taels for railway purposes on all opium, whether for local consumption or for export, this amount of 27·28 taels in the case of opium for export being divided into 20 taels as customs duty and 7·28 taels li-kin.\n\nAt Chungking half the dens were closed two years ago at the time the opium tax was increased, which shows the effect which taxation can have on the question.\n\nAn official Prepared Opium Office has been opened in the city for registering smokers, licensing smoking premises, and supplying the Government with prepared opium. The closing of the dens has been modified: 46 were allowed to remain open, 2 in each ward of the city, and this number was subsequently increased to 100, the proprietors depositing 50 taels guarantee for good behaviour. The poorer classes are registering themselves, and the rich have mostly laid in a store which makes them independent of the Government supply. The authorities show energy, fines, blows, and the cangue being administered, and a crusade carried on against unlicensed houses, illicit sale, and unregistered smokers.\n\nThe licensing system has not yet been adopted in the country districts, but it is to be on the basis of one guaranteed store in each village. In these districts most of the dens have been closed.\n\nPage 11\n\n522\n\nFrom Fushun a missionary reports that the dens have been reduced from thirty-six to seven. The officials are energetic, and great sympathy expressed for the thousands of poor who work in the salt-well district and are unable to continue work without the drug. Heavy taxation has reduced consumption, and less ground is under poppy than last year.\n\nIn the Luchou district many dens have been closed definitely, others reopened under the name of \"The Silver Exchange.\"\n\nIn the north-eastern portion of the province many of the gentry have given up the habit; some have entered hospitals, others are said to have cured themselves. Many dens have closed of their own accord, and the gentry have combined together to purchase and manufacture anti-opium medicine,\n\nAt Suifu the dens have been closed three times without disturbance, but many have reopened clandestinely, and though the police occasionally make ostentatious raids, they usually connive at what they dare not suppress.\n\nKueichow Province. Production, 15,000 piculs. All dens have been closed at Kueiyang, the capital, and a number of persons punished for taking in smokers.\n\nAn official Prepared Opium Bureau has been opened, also two refuges where 100 and 80 patients respectively are to be treated gratis.\n\nIn September, one had 10 indoor and 1,400 outdoor patients; the other, 7 indoor and 400 outdoor patients. Ninety days are allowed for the cure, which is said to be unnecessarily long, ten to fifteen being sufficient.\n\nYunnan Province.--Production, 30,000 piculs, of an estimated value of £1,000,000. The serious efforts of the Viceroy are looked upon by his subordinates, not only without sympathy, but with positive dismay. He has dismissed all opium smokers from his yamên.\n\nIn the neighbourhood of the city of Yunnan-fu there has been a considerable decrease in the area under poppy, but this is reported to be due less to the Decree than to the fact that the 1905-6 crop could not be sold at a profit, and that a large stock remained on hand. Both shops and dens have been inspected in the city, and the latter were subsequently all closed without disturbance,\n\nAn Anti-Opium Bureau has been opened to licence, regulate, and restrict the sale of opium, and in regard to the latter the authorities announced that the first year would be for exhortation, the second for zealous prohibition, the third for force.\n\nThe Bureau is actively at work, and eighty shops have taken out licences. To commence with, great difficulties were encountered in making a return of smokers owing to their reluctance to admit their vice. The manufacture and sale of opium utensils has ceased. Emissaries of the Bureau have visited each house and taken down particulars of every smoker and the number of lamps used. Preparations have been made to obtain returns of the area under poppy cultivation, which is to cease in the spring of 1910.\n\nThe sale of opium is to cease in July 1908, and an official Company is to purchase what is grown and sell it to those confirmed opium sots over 60 years of age who have been registered, and also, no doubt, to the Tonquin Régie (though this is not mentioned).\n\nThe Director of Agriculture has proposed that opium sots over 60 shall wear the red garb of a criminal, and be labelled, \"So-and-so, Opium Convict,\" and the Governor has favourably received this proposal. There are some thirty-seven anti-opium drugs in use.\n\nThus it will be seen that a serious effort is being made to carry out the wishes of the Government.\n\nTengyueh. Here the Regulations are not taken seriously by the people. Exhortation is not expected to have much effect on them, and the authorities dare not use force.\n\nAt Talifu the people are reported to have restricted the poppy area of their own accord and to be growing other crops.\n\nThe eleven Articles of the Opium Decree of November 1906 will now be considered one by one, together with the steps which have been taken to carry out their provisions, special attention being paid to the Province of Szechuan, where most opium is grown and consumed.\n\nArticle 1. Restriction of the cultivation of the poppy in order to remove the root of the evil.\n\nIn Szechuan, beyond general directions for the gradual reduction of the area under cultivation conveyed in the Viceroy's Proclamation, no definite steps have been taken to carry out this Article. If returns are being made of the area under cultivation, they", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416220, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "380\n\n!\n\n2\n\nthe Chinese Government for specific commercial use, whereas she has procured her settlements apparently from the provincial authorities under the cover of railway exploitation.\n\nAs Mr. Willis points out, the question, so far as British interests are concerned, is largely an academic one in North Manchuria, but it may prove to be of considerable practical importance in the South, where the Japanese will, of course, follow the example of Russia.\n\nAt the open ports of Mukden, Antung, and Newchwang, the Japanese hold very large tracts of land, and all along the South Manchurian Railway they have inherited the territory acquired by the Chinese Eastern Railway Company. It is estimated that the aggregate of these holdings is considerably over 10,000 acres, and as the railway settlements are always situated between the railway and the native cities served by the railway, their position is naturally the most favourable one for purposes of trade.\n\nThe political importance of such settlements is, perhaps, even greater than their commercial. Japanese communities spring up at them with surprising rapidity, and have a great faculty for expansion.\n\nIn the course of a few years Japan will have a chain of these settlements extending 600 miles through the heart of Corea from Fusan to the Yalu, from the Yalu to Mukden, or some other point on the South Manchurian Railway, and from thence north and south along the whole course of the railway.\n\nMr. Willis informs me that the situation in Manchuria bears a striking resemblance to that in Corea ten years ago, and having watched the progress of some so-called railway settlements in the latter country, I can testify to their efficacy as a means of territorial absorption.\n\nThe American Chargé d'Affaires takes much the same view of the question as I do, and has referred it to Washington for instructions. The French Minister acquiesces in the Russian contention, and the German attitude I have not yet learnt.\n\nI am forwarding a copy of this despatch to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tôkið.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 9. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nMukden, February 11, 1908. I HAVE the honour to inclose copy and translation of a despatch I have received from the Acting Taotai of Harbin, in which he informs me that he has protested against the claims the Chinese Eastern Railway Company are advancing in connection with the administration of the railway settlement at that inland mart.\n\nI have replied to the Taotai merely acknowledging the receipt of his despatch. As far as I am aware, there are no British subjects settled at Harbin, and I have no reason to suppose that our commercial interests there at present are of any importance. I did not, therefore, think it advisable to question the Chinese or Russian authorities as to the state of affairs, and I am without means of obtaining independent information.\n\nHowever, the following report, which has been gathered from conversations with, and information given me by, my American and German colleagues, may be of interest. America has a Consul stationed at Harbin, but there are no American merchants, and their trade in kerosene oil, flour, and piece-goods, has, Mr. Fisher, their Consul, maintains, been strangled by the exorbitant freights demanded by the Russian railway between Vladivostock and Harbin.\n\nGermany has no Resident Consular official, but some sixty or seventy German merchants, mostly Jews of mediocre class, have established themselves there, and as Dr. Mezger, my German colleague, admits are for the most part prepared to accept Russian administration,\n\nThe railway settlement at Harbin is approximately 47 square miles in extent, 19.50 square miles on the right bank and 27.50 square miles on the left of the Sungari. This land has been acquired by the railway partly by purchase from private persons, partly by grants from the Chinese Government or the Governor of Kirin Province. The term for which the land is held is identical with the Concession for the railway, purchasable by China after thirty-six years, and reversion after eighty years.\n\n3\n\nThe conditions of the lease are, I presume, based on the Agreement of the 8th September, 1896, translation of which from the Chinese text is given in \"Rockhill's Treaties,\" pp. 212, et seq. On the face of it this Agreement does not seem to have been framed to meet the possibility of the Company claiming administrative rights over a large area; it appears, however, that in addition to the Russian and Chinese texts of this Agreement, there was also a French text, which was the only one signed, and which contains an interpolated clause to Article 6 to the effect that the Railway Company should have le droit absolu et exclusif de l'administration de ses terrains.\n\nMr. Straight, who gave me this information, also told me that his Excellency Tong Shao-yi had assured him that neither of the Chinese signatories, both of whom are now dead, understood any French, and the clause, his Excellency thought, must have been inserted by M. von Grote. Read in the light of this information the note at the bottom of p. 213 in Rockhill's version is interesting.\n\nThe Chinese Government, not being able to go back on the signatures of their Representatives, base their present opposition to the Russian claims on the grounds outlined in the Taotai's letter to me, namely, that the Chinese Eastern Railway is a Commercial Concession, and that China has not yet parted with any of her territorial rights except to foreign Governments; consequently the word “administration\" cannot be construed in the sense of territorial administration.\n\nI inclose an abstract of a translation of the Regulations issued for the establishment of a municipal administration in the railway settlement, from which the powers claimed by the Railway Company may be more clearly perceived. These Regulations are not dated, but were issued towards the end of December 1907. Further obligatory Rules, of which I also inclose a brief abstract, were issued on the 23rd January last.\n\nIt does not seem that as yet the Railway Company or the Russian Government on their behalf has claimed jurisdiction over the subjects of other Powers resident in the settlement, but signs are not wanting of a tendency in that direction. The property of a German subject was recently attached by the Russian Consul at the suit of a Russian subject, but a strongly-worded telegraphic protest seems to have been effective. Further, the arrest of an American at Harbin station by the Chinese police at the request of the American authorities seems to have drawn a verbal protest from the Russian Civil Administrator of the railway.\n\nDr. Mezger also informed me confidentially that M. Pokotilow, in answer to some objections the German Minister advanced, replied brusquely, \"Well, if your people do not like our regulations, they can go away.\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nROBERT WILLIS,\n\nTu, Acting Taotai at Harbin, to Consul-General Fulford.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nJanuary 29, 1908. WITH reference to the establishment of a Russian Administration at Harbin I have already addressed the Russian Consul and the Railway Company protesting against the proposal.\n\nThe Eastern Chinese Railway Company is of the nature of a commercial enterprise, and they have no powers as to the protection of their property except under the terms of their Agreement; they have no rights of territorial administration. The proposed inauguration of an administration is entirely out of the scope of their Agreement, and it is out of the question that it can be recognized by the Chinese Government.\n\nThe Chinese local authorities are at present taking steps for the establishment of a local government, and there is no need for Russian merchants to interfere in matters which do not concern them.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417985, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 697, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "## Regulations for Opium Shops and Smokers in Peking\n\nWhen a shop changes its name or transfers to another locality, it must notify the authorities. When a shop gives up business, the licence must be surrendered. It is not transferable.\n\n8. Shops importing foreign or native opium into Peking must report the amount to the police.\n\n9. When a consignment of opium is ordered for the use of several opium shops, the names of the purchasers must be entered on the passes issued by the police. The foils of these passes must be sent to the police for examination every month, and any opium brought to Peking without such a pass will be treated as contraband.\n\n10. Opium-smokers' licences have been issued by the police, and to these licences is attached a seal slip of paper on which the amounts of opium purchased are to be noted.\n\n11. When any opium is sold, the amount must be noted on the above slip, and the 'chop' of the shop must also be affixed, together with the date.\n\n12. Shops selling raw or prepared opium are required to provide themselves with small 'chops' giving the name of the shop, to be used as stated above.\n\n13. Shops selling opium to persons not holding licences, or not in accordance with the amount stated on the licence, or failing to note the amount, &c., on the licence, will be liable to fine.\n\n14. No opium must be sold to any person whose licence has expired or who has already purchased the amount permitted by his licence.\n\n15. When opium ash is taken in exchange for prepared or raw opium, the amount must be noted on the licence, and no opium can be given in exchange for opium ash to any person not holding a licence.\n\n16. Opium shops are required to furnish monthly returns of their purchases and sales of opium.\n\n17. The market price per (Chinese) ounce for the various kinds of prepared and raw opium must be written up above the counter.\n\n18. No opium pipes may be kept in an opium shop, and, should the proprietor or his assistants hold opium-smokers' licences, they must consume the drug off the premises.\n\nA general survey of the reports from the provinces goes to show that, while progress is being made, there is a great lack of uniformity in the practical steps being taken to enforce suppression, and it is this independent action on the part of the provincial authorities which renders a reliable estimate of actual achievement somewhat difficult of attainment. Indeed, the Central Government in its desire to eradicate the evil would appear to an outsider to be too hasty in approving the multifarious proposals emanating from the provinces and to pay too little attention to uniformity of action. In Yunnan, for example, Proclamations have been posted fixing the close of the present Chinese year (the 21st January, 1909), as the date on which cultivation and consumption must cease, other provinces are following suit, while in others, again, different limits are given, and in Proclamations issued by separate authorities in the same prefecture of a province limits of three and ten years occur side by side. It is well understood that the Government are anxious to shorten the ten years limit, and yet while Yunnan, the second in importance of the opium-producing provinces, must, according to the Governor-General of Yunnan and Kueichow, cease all connection with opium in a few months, the Regulations for the issue of certificates to smokers in Peking, quoted above, state that the allowance will be reduced by one-eighth annually—in other words, the metropolis still adheres to the term originally fixed in 1906. Yunnan may be looked upon as a test case, and if the Governor-General of these south-western provinces succeeds in what is undoubtedly the herculean task of eradicating opium by the 21st January, 1909, it is not unlikely that the time limit will be reduced in the other provinces, where a more gradual reduction is recommended. His efforts, if not altogether to the liking of the farmers of Yunnan, are fully appreciated by the Central Government.\n\nThe acreage under poppy cultivation is in process of compilation by the local authorities throughout the various provinces, but nothing has yet been made public. In some provinces, special deputies have been sent to check the reports, and in parts of Szechuan, it is reported that plants have been uprooted by the farmers themselves rather than face inspection. There, too, the Governor-General has called for district returns of the yield of grain crops during the present year, and has given orders for the complete abolition of opium cultivation in all districts where drought or famine has caused shortage or distress. Wheat, beans, and other winter crops are to take its place. When the grain crops have been satisfactory, a reduction of 50 per cent. in poppy cultivation next season is ordered, and the amount of reduction in future years is left over for further consideration. This action is not in accord with the approved proposals of the Board of Finance, which will be referred to later.\n\nFrom some of the inland provinces, it is reported that little is being done to carry out those Regulations which deal with the issue of licences to smokers and the reduction of the craving for the drug, but this is not applicable to the country as a whole, for in many places smokers have been licensed, official and private refuges have been opened for the treatment of patients, and foreign and native anti-opium medicines are being sold and distributed gratuitously. At Canton, the most populous city in China, 130,000 licences were prepared for the city, while, after eighteen months, only some 20,000 were applied for, and the failure of the system is there attributed, in the main, to the treatment which respectable Chinese are alleged to receive at the hands of the police officials entrusted with their issue. It is stated, however, that the Regulations are being so strictly enforced that opium smoking is rapidly dying out among the middle and lower classes, and that all opium-boiling shops are closely watched by the police and their owners heavily fined for selling to unlicensed persons or quantities in excess of a smoker's allowance. But in some parts of the same province, non-licensed smokers known to the opium shops can still purchase supplies, while in other parts, soldiers are stationed at the entrance to see that the Regulations posted on the shop doors are strictly complied with.\n\nGenerally speaking, the licensing of wholesale and retail opium shops and of smokers is being enforced, and although some provinces display less energy than others, it must be admitted that very considerable progress in this direction has already been made. Less attention, however, has as yet been paid to the inspection of opium shops.\n\nAs regards anti-opium medicines, their number is legion. They are of native and foreign (principally Japanese) manufacture, and many of them contain opium or morphia in varying quantities. The husk of the foreign opium ball made into pills is also sold as a cure, and most of the reports from the provinces draw attention to the serious evil which these so-called remedies are creating—an evil far worse than the disease they are advertised to cure. Opium smokers are in many cases becoming opium or morphia eaters, and developing a craving which is still more difficult to eradicate. By the Regulations, the manufacture of anti-opium medicines devoid of opium ash or morphia is encouraged, but the result is a phase of the opium question which remains untouched by the Chinese Government, although it is one which would appear to call for early supervision and control. An English missionary in the Province of Szechuan, where there is a wide field for curative medicines, imported from Singapore thirty sacks of the plant yielding what is known as the Malay anti-opium cure, and he reports that he had, at the date of writing, tried it on about fifty persons and that in every case the medicine had effected a cure. The Anti-Opium Bureau of the Province of Chibli at Tien-tsin has an arrangement with Mr. C. B. Towns, the American opium expert referred to in last Report, for the cure of smokers. The Bureau issues passes in Chinese and English to smokers wishing to undergo this cure; Mr. Towns signs an English certificate that the patient has broken off the habit when the cure has been effected, and the Bureau thereupon issues to the party cured a Chinese certificate to that effect. Many who are not smokers of long standing are breaking off the habit by sheer will-power, while others who used to toy with the pipe now religiously avoid it for fear of contracting the craving.\n\nIn several provinces, anti-opium bureaux have been established, and one of their functions is to test officials, whether smokers or non-smokers. At Chengtu, the capital of the Province of Szechuan, such a bureau was opened on the 8th July, and all persons holding official posts have each to reside there for a period of three days. If during that time the craving does not manifest itself, the person under observation is released and recorded as a non-smoker. Should the craving develop, a time limit for abandonment of the habit is assigned to the smoker, and at the expiry of the limit, he is subjected to a second test; failure to pass which brings dismissal from his post.\n\nRefuges for the treatment of in-patients are quite common, and in juxtaposition are frequently found dispensers of native medicines for consumption by out-patients on the premises. Anti-opium Societies are also much in evidence, and although some doubt is thrown on their efficacy, they are said to be of assistance to the police authorities in unearthing breaches of the Regulations. One of these Societies in the Canton Province offers small monetary prizes to smokers who break off the habit.\n\n*Mr. Towns has just opened a similar institute at Shanghae.*\n\nPage 693", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422112, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "**C.O.**\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]:3950\n\n**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.**\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[11951]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n139\n\nReceived 24 APR 09\n\n[March 29.]\n\n## SECTION 3.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 29.)\n\n**(No. 107.)**\nSir,\n\nPeking, March 9, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 106 of the 3rd March, 1908, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the Acting British Consul-General at Mukden, reporting upon the condition of the postal services in Manchuria.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN,\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n#### Acting Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**(No. 10. Confidential.)**\nSir,\n\nMukden, February 28, 1909.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 21, Confidential, of the 26th February, 1908, I have the honour to submit the following further report on postal conditions in Manchuria:---\n\nDuring the past year the Chinese system has been considerably extended, and has become a far more popular institution. There are now thirty-three branch offices working, and agencies have been established at eighty-three centres, as against twenty-four branch offices and forty-nine agencies in the previous year.\n\nThe increase in mail matter is shown by the subjoined Table:\n\n| Date | Letters | Post-cards | Printed Matter | Other Matter | Total | Registered Articles |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Kuang Hsü, 33rd year | 5,147,293 | 37,186 | 787,193 | 38,132 | 6,007,104 | 617,715 |\n| Kuang Hsü, 34th year | 10,140,578 | 70,486 | 1,121,514 | 42,072 | 11,874,650 | 1,264,246 |\n\nCourier lines are now working over 9,501 Chinese li at the end of the last Chinese year, as against 4,468 li in the preceding year, the most important of the new lines opened being Mukden-Tunghwa, Ninguta-Hangchun, Shwangchengpu-Kirin, Shwangchengpu-Petuna, Ssupingkai-Liao-yuan-chou, Kaiyuan-Hailungfu, and Antung-Tunghua.\n\nThe Chinese Administration is not yet self-supporting; the deficit is, however, gradually decreasing, and amounts now only to about 6,000 dollars per quarter. The efficiency and development of the service is considerably hampered by lack of the necessary funds.\n\nThere is no doubt but that the Chinese system is severely handicapped by the competition of the Japanese post-offices. There are now no less than thirty-two of these offices functioning in Manchuria outside the leased territory, and in addition there are innumerable postal stations along the South Manchurian Railway which receive mail matter under the direction of railway employés acting as postal agents.\n\nThe Japanese system, which, as I pointed out in my former report, was at one time a by-word amongst foreigners in Manchuria for its incompetency and slackness,\n\n[2194 f-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422777, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## October 25\nI was told that the Russian Consulate guard at the other Ili consisted of fifty men and one officer. Up to last year, there had been 250, but 200 had been recalled. Even during the Russo-Japanese war, the number remained unaltered. The Chentai has 300 men of the old pattern; they live in Suidun. There are a few shops in Suidun (within the town walls), but the area is mostly covered with yamêns and official buildings. It is in the commercial quarter that most people live. The streets are narrow and filthy, though this may have been partly due to the melted snow. The population is chiefly Turki.\n\n## October 25\nI spent the whole day in Hsincheng (\"New Town,\" New Kuldja, or Ilifu), driving thither in a Russian four-wheeled carriage. These vehicles have almost ousted the lumbering Chinese carts. Hsincheng lies some 5 miles to the south, and it took fifty minutes to drive there. The road is good for most part of the way and runs among trees and over rough uncultivated, uninhabited country. We met a fair amount of traffic, chiefly riders or these Russian carts. The latter act as omnibuses and charge 10 cents per head. They will hold as many as eight people.\n\nHsincheng is the residence of the Tartar General and the headquarters of the Government of the Ili district. As regards wealth of trees and abundance of water, the city is far superior to Peking, while the streets are broader and more evenly laid out. The town is surrounded by walls and entered by gates of the usual pattern. All the shops are inside the walls, and there was plenty of life in the streets. The Chinese shopkeepers told me trade was very good. The town is policed by a body of men eighty strong. They are dressed as the Peking police - neat black uniform, foreign military cap, and either big leather boots or the Chinese velvet boot; they carry batons. I was told they all live in a yamên to the north of the city - a kind of barracks; their pay 6 taels a-month. They looked a respectable and well-disciplined set of men. The Tartar General is trying to double the strength.\n\nI visited the telegraph office - a telegram to Peking costs 54 cents a word. Ten clerks live in this establishment; they are allowed to be married men; their wives live there, too. None speak English or Russian, and they said they had no Russian business. All the clerks seemed very stupid. They said it was impossible to send a telegram to England, but later on, they offered to accept one; it would go via Shanghae, and the cost would be 5 dol. 60 c. per word. I subsequently sent my telegram from Old Kuldja by the Russian wire, at the rate of 65 copecks per word.\n\nThe pay of these clerks is 12 taels a-month, all the expenses of the establishment being borne by the Government, including food and lighting.\n\nThere is no Government bank in the town, but the large Chinese shops will do bank work as regards transmitting money to Peking or Tien-tsin. There is no Chinese post-office; all correspondence has to go through the Russian post-office, and so to Peking via Siberia. It seems a great pity that there is no branch of the Imperial Chinese Post Office here; they would assuredly have plenty of work, and the cost of installing it along the Imperial highway would be met by the revenue derived from the large towns along it not already furnished with branches.\n\nThe official **Peking Gazette** reaches the telegraph office through the other telegraph offices, and the news contained in it trickles through a month late unless the matter is urgent.\n\nI subsequently visited the Chiangchün (Tartar General). He is a friendly old man of 66, though he looks a good deal older. Chang Gun is a Manchu with many years' service for the State. Sixteen years ago, he was Amban at Lhassa for one year; subsequently became Chiangchun here and, being succeeded by two others, returned to the same post a year ago. He is energetic and progressive and said to be honest; he is popular with the Chinese merchants, who all speak of him as 'extremely good.' This certainly proves that he is honest. He speaks no foreign language. We conversed chiefly about foreign railways.\n\nOn my way back to Suidun, I left Hsincheng by the west gate to visit the barracks of the Luchun. These are situated about half a mile from the town among trees and scrub; the building was formerly a temple and is surrounded by a high mud wall of the usual town wall type. The enclosure is some 200 yards square and entered by one gate (single entrance) facing the south. Inside the enclosure is the residence of the Major, and on either side of the courtyard and leading up to this are the soldiers' quarters. Several of the men were outside at work on the horizontal bars and other athletic arrangements. I visited the Major. He told me he had 270 men (one of the soldiers outside had told me 340, and I had already been informed 210 from several sources; this latter number is probably the correct one). They had been here a year. They belonged to Yuan Shih Kai's army and spoke proudly of the fact. The Major said that if it had not been the 1st October, a Chinese holiday, he would have paraded his men. I saw some forty of the men; all looked clean, bright, and healthy; there were no opium faces among them, a very different set of men to any of the so-called soldiers I had seen in the dependencies. The number was to be increased if possible by local recruiting. Punishment for desertion is swift and summary; one man recently ran away, was recaptured, and beheaded.\n\nOutside the gateway was leaning an old-fashioned Austrian rifle for one cartridge; it was fitted with a bayonet. The soldiers said they had new ones, magazine for five cartridges. They have no artillery, but the Major said there were some old-fashioned cannon in the yamên (probably only for saluting purposes).\n\nThe only other soldiers in Ili are all the inhabitants of Hsincheng (Sibo Solong) who receive pay from the Government as such but are only so-called soldiers; they are the old banner organisation and need not enter into any account.\n\nThe Russian Consul told me a few days later that the Chiangchun is very frightened of his troops (the Luchun), that he finds it difficult to provide their pay, that they mutiny if they do not receive this when due, and that one or two executions have already taken place.\n\n## October 26\nA merchant tells me that there are no Russian shops or traders in Suidun or Hsincheng; all are in Ningpuanhsien (Old Kuldja).\n\nWe left during the morning for Old Kuldja and, after traversing Hsincheng, turned eastward up the Ili Valley. The road rose very slightly to Tieliangsze at mile 14 from Hsincheng. This is the half-way stopping place for all traffic but it only consists of some eight Turki mud houses, four on either side of the road, rising phoenix-like from a larger collection of ruins. The population sell tea and cakes to passers-by and are in the happy position of paying no taxes. In the hills close by, the coal, excellent smokeless, which is used throughout the district, is mined. I was told that it did not belong to the Government but that anybody who liked could send and take it away. It is sold at an amazingly low price in the towns.\n\nDescending from the low hills, we were abreast at mile 17 of another of the 9 hsien cities which compose the Government of Ili, Baiandai, behind a long mud wall. No trees mark its position, and it is difficult to sight it among its dreary surroundings. Half-way between Baiandai and Ningyuanhsien, we passed Chuncheng, another hsien city, a small deserted town said to be haunted by the spirits of the Chinese massacred in the last rebellion thirty years ago. Reaching the outskirts of Ningyuen, another hsien city (Old Kuldja), we saw in the neat houses with glass windows signs of the existence of Russians. On reaching the gate of the city at mile 22, we did not enter but, turning to the left, skirted the walls, passed the Russo-Chinese Bank and the Russian post and telegraph office, and found our way through a labyrinth of dirty squalid streets to a poor inn. It had taken us six hours to perform the journey in a Russian carriage for the road is very indifferent. From Balandai onwards, the country was entirely covered with the ruins of the disastrous days of thirty years ago, which not even trees and rough grass could conceal. It was possible to have a coal fire in the inn although there was no chimney, the coal being absolutely smokeless.\n\n## October 27\nI called on the Taotai at 10 o'clock; he is an old man and it was too early for him; he is a Manchu called Ching. To-day is the Mahommedan New Year's Day, a three days' holiday; the streets were full of merry-makers and children dressed in the gayest of colours, were driving about in carts and carriages; everyone was exchanging greetings in the market place. Beggars, strolling minstrels, and singers were going their rounds from house to house, with a successful persistency which should encourage our Christmas waits. The most deserted-looking spot was the Taotai's yamên, forlorn, grass-grown, and empty, in striking contrast to the merry streets.\n\nI subsequently called at the Russian Consulate, which is situated in the labyrinth of tall trees, among which the various buildings for guard and interpreters are scattered in a confusing manner. The Consulate lies to the north of the town and away from the busy streets of the trading borough. The Bureau was closed in view of the Mahommedan holiday, and later I found the bank also closed. The Consul, Federoff, is a quiet, elderly, well-preserved man, with a quiet manner. The Chinese officials like him, and say he is a good man. He has only just come back from leave; he had retired, but having lost her only son at Vierny, where he lies buried, Madame Federoff has insisted on spending the rest of her life here. The Consul's health is bad, and this will tend to non-activity on his part.\n\nThe Russian post and telegraph office was open in spite of the holidays. No one speaks any European language there except Russian, nor indeed is Chinese spoken; fortunately, a Russian-speaking Chinese customer was able to act as interpreter.\n\nPage 178 \nPage 126 \nPage 127 \nPage 180 \nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423643, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 247, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# Question 5.--Number of opium dens\n\n## Replies\n\nNan Ch'uan.-There are four large opium dens in the city; in the suburbs there are no open dens, but many secret ones. Altogether, taking city, suburbs, and twenty-eight market towns, there are more than 180 dens.\n\nPa Hsien-There were formerly 1,400 to 1,500 opium dens in the Pa Hsien district, reduced the year before last on the institution of the \"kuau kao tien\" to eighty in the city and one in each market town, of which there are 108. They were all closed on the 1st of the Chinese moon this year, but there are now more than 600 secret dens in the city.\n\nKiangpei.-There were formerly 300 odd opium dens, which were reduced for reasons above given under \"Pa Hsien\" to forty odd in the city and one or two in the forty-eight market towns, according to their size. This gave a total of 108 odd dens. They were all closed on the 1st of the 3rd moon this year; but there are still shops where opium is secretly sold and smoked, the total for city and market towns being over 100.\n\n## Question 6.--What is the general attitude of officials and people towards opium reform?\n\n### Replies\n\nLiangshan.-The officials seem to do as the gentry advise. The gentry are as a class not serious in their endeavours to control the growth and sale of opium. The people, however, cry out for complete prohibition.\n\nTung Hsiang-As you doubtless know, Tung Hsiang is perhaps the worst \"hsien\" in Szechuan for opium growing. Of six fields, I should say five grow opium. No one can borrow unless his fields are growing opium. In fact, most transactions are done in opium. The people, although in conversation, &c., they all agree that the trade is indefensible and only ruins their \"hsien,\" will do nothing unless forced to by the official. There is no public spirit about it. I cannot tell you the official's private attitude about it; he is certainly faced with a pretty tough job.\n\nK'ai Hsien.--The general attitude is indifference.\n\nWan Hsien.--Indifference.\n\nFengtu.-Proclamations issued, but officials have not exerted themselves, and people not favourable to opium reform.\n\nFuchou.-Officials and people indifferent.\n\nChungchou-Present officials are exerting themselves, but the people are not serious.\n\nShih Chu Ting-People desire eradication of opium, but they have no good medicines or houses. Frequent conferences between the ting and the gentry have led to the decision that the only effective means of stopping opium smoking is to entirely prohibit cultivation, but effect has not been given to this opinion.\n\nNan Ch'uan.-Official action during last three years has not been consistent. People have very little knowledge of the advantage to be gained by the eradication of opium, and it is very regrettable that the officials are not in earnest.\n\nPa Hsien.-Officials have made efforts to stop opium smoking, but country-people and others are against it, as opium is the most profitable source of income. The police have endeavoured to prevent secret smoking and boiling, but the people have obstructed, and on both sides action really taken has been largely on the surface and in nominal obedience to orders from Chengtu.\n\nKiangpei.-Officials have not been in earnest, and people are indifferent.\n\n## Question 7.--Are steps being taken to register opium smokers?\n\n### Replies\n\nLiangshan-I have not heard of any such registration in Liangshan.\n\nTung Hsiang.-I believe steps are being taken--anyway, there was a lot of talk about it. (This informant, as I have before stated, was away from Tung Hsiang when he wrote.)\n\nK'ai Hsien.-No steps are being taken at all.\n\nWan Hsien.-Just started, but people not registering, and magistrate not enforcing it.\n\nFengtu.-Although smokers are supposed to have a licence, no effect has been given to this requirement.\n\nFuchou.-Registration ineffective. Great numbers have evaded it, and no licences have been issued. The people do as they please; they boil and smoke as much as they like.\n\nChungchou.-Enquiry ordered but not properly made, and no registration effected.\n\nShih Chu Ting-Nothing done.\n\nNan Ch'uan-Nothing done as yet.\n\nPa Hsien.-Although smokers are supposed to be licensed, and over 20,000 licences have been issued, the official opium in the \"tsung kuan kao tien\" finds no sale.\n\nKiangpei.--No real effort made to investigate number of smokers and issue licences.\n\n## Question 8.--Have any anti-opium societies been formed?\n\n### Replies\n\nLiangshan.-I have not heard of any.\n\nTung Hsiang.--None, as far as I know.\n\nK'ai Hsien.--None.\n\nWan Hsien.--None.\n\nFengtu.-None.\n\nFuchou.-None.\n\nChungchou.-A refuge in the city.\n\nShih Chu Ting.--A refuge in the city.\n\nNan Ch'uan.-An official refuge in the city was opened by the last magistrate, but the medicines are expensive and useless. Those in charge think only of their own gain and care nothing for prohibition of smoking.\n\nPa Hsien.-There is an official refuge in the city, the average number of persons in residence being about 100. Although a good many have been cured, the number of smokers is very great. Private anti-opium refuges number thirty to forty; their methods are mainly identical, but the number of effective cures is very few.\n\nKiangpei.-There is no official anti-opium refuge, but some people, seeking for personal gain, have started a few refuges. They have no good houses or medicines, and cures are therefore impossible. Any who have really wished to give up the habit have gone to Chungking.\n\n## Question 9.--Have any \"kuan tien\" been established, and, if so, what is their procedure?\n\n### Replies\n\nLiangshan.-Offices have been established in every village for the purchase of raw opium. Theoretically, these are the only people allowed to prepare opium for use; they also issue anti-opium pills (containing opium). The people in charge seem to be left largely to themselves as regards procedure.\n\nTung Hsiang.--No information.\n\nK'ai Hsien.--A \"kuan kao tien\" has been opened, but only the signboard hangs outside; that is all. Nothing is done.\n\nWan Hsien.-There was one in each ward of the city--four in all; but all closed now.\n\nFengtu.-The city and each market town has a \"kuan kao tien,\" and the maximum amount each opium den may purchase per diem is 4 oz.\n\nFuchou.-A \"kuan kao tien\" has been established in the city. Those in charge have taken advantage of their position to make profits on exchange, refusing to reckon the value of cash or sycee in accordance with local custom. Each market town has a \"pi fa tien,\" which is compelled to deposit 50 taels as security with the \"kuan kao tien.\"\n\nChungchou.-A \"kuan kao tien\" established in the city.\n\nShih Chu Ting.--No \"kuan kao tien\" established.\n\nNan Ch'uan.--A \"kuan kao tien\" has been established in the city, and its opening has done a great deal of harm, conveying the idea to the ignorant country people that its institution is a cunning device to divert profits from their own pockets into those of the officials.\n\nPa Hsien.-There is at present a \"tsung kuan kao tien\" in the city of Chungking. I shall refer at greater length to this establishment below.\n\n[2494 p-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428281, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nC O\n\n4196\n\n204\n\n[B]\n\n# CHINA RAILWAYS.\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[2925]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[January 26.]\n\n## SECTION 1,\n\n(No. 40.) Sir,\n\nSir A. Nicolson to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received January 26.)\n\nSt. Petersburgh, January 22, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith translation of an official communiqué published to-day, on the subject of the Russian reply to the American proposals as to the internationalisation of the Manchurian railways.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. NICOLSON,\n\n### Extract from the \"Official Messenger\" of the 9th (22nd) January, 1910.\n\n#### Communique.\n\nTHE Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the 8th (21st) January, handed to the Ambassador of the United States of North America at St. Petersburgh a memorandum, containing the reply of the Russian Government to the proposal of the United States Government respecting the \"trade neutralisation of the Manchurian railways.”\n\nThe substance of the Russian reply, in its general features, is as follows: \"The Imperial Government affirming their attachment to the principle of inviolability of the sovereignty of China, to the policy of the 'open door,' and equal commercial privileges in Manchuria, are, however, convinced that nothing is threatening these principles, and therefore the raising of the questions advanced by the Federal Government as a more effective method of defending these principles is not justified by the position of affairs in Manchuria.\n\nPage 44\n\n4\n\nReferring further to the highly important state and private interests obtained by us in Manchuria at the price of enormous material sacrifice and moral efforts, on which the establishment of an international control and administration of the Manchurian railways must reflect unfavourably, the memorandum proceeds to detail the considerations which instigate our adverse attitude to the American proposal so far as it has reference to the internationalisation of the railways already existing in Manchuria. First of all it is pointed out that the Chinese Eastern Railway Company in proceeding to the realisation of its gigantic enterprise was given definite rights and privileges for the whole term of the concession, namely, eighty years, with the sole reservation to the Chinese Government of the right, if they should so wish, to purchase the railway upon the expiry of thirty-six years. It was only on the basis of these lengthy periods that the company was enabled to invest considerable capital in the project; and to compel it to forgo its rights now would be an unjust violation of its interests. Moreover, the Chinese Eastern Railway has given life and organisation to a whole series of separate institutions having various connections with it, and has also caused many private undertakings to spring up, the fate of which is closely bound up with the existence of the company. The Chinese Eastern Railway has an even greater significance from the point of view of the State. This line serves as the principal route for our relations with our Far Eastern possessions, and forms an uninterrupted link of the Great Siberian route. This consideration has impelled the Russian Government to incur very considerable expenditure in guaranteeing building capital for the railway, and in covering deficits arising from its working; for the Government, therefore, it is extremely important to retain the closest control over the railway, and the power to regulate its tariff which, of course, would not be possible with its transference into the hands of an international syndicate. Finally, from a purely\n\n[2581 cc-1]\n\nPage 44\n\n \n3\n\n(The rest of the page content is not available in the given snippet, hence not included)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428687, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2\n\nfound in a field. He had a slight but not mortal bullet wound, and had apparently been strangled to death--by whom it is not known.\n\nThese two affairs, small as they were, had a somewhat disquieting effect on the French population of Hanoi. The desperate nature of the resistance offered by this handful of men and their success in holding out for so long against largely superior French forces seemed to show a considerable change in the conditions since the time of the conquest of Tonkin twenty-five years before.\n\nOn the 28th August an anti-French plot was discovered at Hanoi, and several arrests were made, five of the accused being subsequently sentenced, by administrative measure without trial, to deportation for ten years. A secret society amongst the servants of Europeans was also brought to light, among the members of which were certain individuals who had already been suspected of complicity in the plot for poisoning the garrison during the summer of 1908, but who had escaped conviction.\n\nOn the 31st August the command of the column against the Dê-Tham was withdrawn from Commandant Chofflet and given to Commandant Bonifacy. On the 5th September a band of fifteen rifles under the command of Ca-rinh, the De-Tham's principal lieutenant, was reported some 3 miles west of Phuc-Yen. On the 6th they were attacked at the village of Yen-Lo by a force despatched by Commandant Bonifacy, consisting of a company of colonial infantry, a company of tirailleurs, a detachment of the Legion, and a section of artillery. The fighting lasted all day, and the band was more than half destroyed, their losses being said to be nine killed and one prisoner. The French loss was, however, also serious, consisting of three Europeans and one tirailleur killed in action, three Europeans dead from sun-stroke, and four Europeans and five tirailleurs wounded.\n\nThe De-Tham himself was at this time in the mountainous region between the Day River and the Rivière Claire, and his intention was to cross the latter stream, and eventually to gain the Province of Thanh-Hoa in North Annam. The river was, however, effectively patrolled, and a move in this direction was prevented. At the end of September, the De-Tham's position being accurately known, the Kham Sai and the column of troops—amounting to some 3,000 men in all—left the province of Phuc-Yen and concentrated in the north of the province of Vinh-Yen.\n\nIn the meantime, on the 26th September, the band of Kiem, (who on the 2nd August, had sacked the militia post at Hoa-Binh, as recounted in my despatch above-mentioned) had attacked another post of militia at Hoa-lae in the Sontay province. The band was repulsed after having killed four militiamen and wounded seven. Kiem did not, however, act in conjunction with the Dê-Tham.\n\nOn the 5th October Commandant Bonifacy attacked the latter's force. It had strongly entrenched itself in a ravine on the south-west side of the Nui-Lang mountain. The position was an extremely difficult one to attack and the French soldiers underwent great hardships. The De-Tham is said to have had seventy rifles engaged in the affair. His actual losses as far as could be ascertained were six killed, two wounded, and one prisoner, but his morale was badly shaken as he had thought himself secure. The band broke up and escaped in the night, the members dispersing in different directions. It has never re-assembled since. A portion of the attacking force was for four hours at twenty-five yards from the enemy's fire. It is not to be wondered at therefore that the French loss was serious---eight Europeans and eleven natives killed and thirty-four wounded. The evacuating of the wounded on Vietri was extremely difficult owing to the nature of the country and the troops were absolutely exhausted, all idea of pursuing the enemy being impossible.\n\n3\n\nThe De-Tham with a few followers left the Nui-Lang mountains and recrossed the Day. Bonifacy moved his column into the Tam-Dao region. The fight at Nui-Lang had evidently had a disheartening effect on the rebels and several of them came in and made their submission. On the 24th October the Dê-Tham's principal lieutenant, Ca-rinh, with six of his followers surrendered to the Kham Sai. This was a serious loss to the rebel chief. He gradually worked his way back through the province of Thai-Nguyen to his former district in the Yen-thé of which he had been for years the virtual ruler. On the 25th November he was definitely signalled there. On the 1st December a notable capture was made in the person of his third wife. This woman is a veritable Amazon; she took a personal and active part in most of the recent engagements, carrying a rifle herself and sometimes, it is said, commanded detachments on foraging and reconnoitring expeditions. A couple of days later the leader himself was nearly caught and an individual of his party was killed, who proved to be none other than the cook who had been the principal instrument in the plot to poison the Hanoi garrison in 1908. Numerous other submissions now took place and the position improved so far that early in December the greater part of the military column (which had been formed after the kidnapping of M. Voisin in July) could be sent back to garrison duty.\n\nAt the end of December the military authorities had to turn their attention to the Yunnan frontier. About 100 Chinese soldiers, at an isolated post, mutinied, and crossed into Tonkin with arms and ammunition. It was feared that they might repeat the exploits of the \"Reformists\" from Yunnan in the summer of 1908, and prompt measures were taken to deal with them. Troops were sent to bar their advance, and they were called upon to submit. They refused to do so, and announced their intention of marching across Tonkin. On the morning of the 5th January they were attacked and put to flight, losing sixteen killed and seventeen wounded. Unfortunately, on the French side a captain was killed and four men wounded. Further reinforcements were sent up and the remnants of the band were disposed of. A good many were killed, others were driven back across the frontier, and some were captured and handed over to the Chinese authorities, who executed them.\n\nMeanwhile, operations on a small scale had for some time been in progress against the band of Kiem, the sacker of Hoa-Binh. These operations were brought to a close at the end of December, when eighty of the rebels had made their submission. There had been little or no serious fighting; the French had had one man severely wounded, and the \"pirates\" had lost eight killed and five wounded. On the 13th January the chief, Kiem himself, surrendered, the only terms given him being that his life should be spared. It is believed that he was partly led to submit by the apparently generous fashion in which Ca-rinh and the other surrendered partisans of the De-Tham were being treated. To them also the Government had only guaranteed their lives, but they had been left in provisional liberty under the surveillance of the provincial authorities. Ca-rinh himself had, indeed, been treated with many marks of distinction. Five days after Kiem's surrender, however, Ca-rinh and some sixty other surrendered rebels, who had been left in the Yen-thé district, together with the third wife of the De-Tham, were simultaneously put into close arrest, brought by special train to Hanoi, and locked up in the prison there. Kiem and his followers have been similarly dealt with. The De-Tham probably congratulates himself on not having trusted to appearances.\n\nHe is still believed to be wandering in the Yen-thé jungle with one or two faithful attendants. The Kham Sai, having failed to effect his capture, was recalled on the 1st March and his band of \"partisans\" dispersed. The remains of Commandant Bonifacy's column were also broken up, the commandant himself, however, remaining to administer the Yen-thế. The pursuit is now entrusted to the militia, who are endeavouring to bring it to an end before the beginning of the hot weather. It is possible that the Dê-Tham might again cause trouble if not disposed of before the heat renders difficult active operations on the part of white troops, but it is not likely that he would still enjoy the prestige which a year ago gave him the support of a great part of the population in the provinces of Yen-thé and Phuc-Yen. On the whole, it appears that M. Klobukowski, the Governor-General (who is now in France), is quite justified in describing the affair of the Dê-Tham as virtually at an end.\n\nI enclose a rough sketch-map showing the relative positions of the principal places mentioned in this despatch.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nT. Ff. CARLISLE.\n\n26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428986, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 327, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2\n\nan effective control across the watershed from the direction of the Salween, as the first step in which they authorised the Tengkeng Sawbwa to advance into the country and take vigorous measures to exact obedience, at the same time laying plans for a After some definite administrative effort before the close of the winter season. opposition the Sawbwa, with from 400 to 500 men, succeeded in reaching the group of Lashi villages lying nearest the frontier, Upper Pienma (Hpimaw) was burned, the submission of the four other villages was ensured, and representatives were left to enforce the payment of all outstanding tolls. In order to ascertain the facts of this raid and the actual conditions prevailing in this inaccessible territory I was instructed by His Majesty's Minister to proceed to Tengkeng on a tour of enquiry, and with this object I left my post at Tengyueh on the 7th April, 1910, accompanied by an escort of ten soldiers from the regular Chinese army which was considered necessary for my safety by the Taotai, as the route ran through the ill-reputed country of the Lisu tribesmen. It may be presumed that the Taotai had reported to the Viceroy at Yünnan-fu the representations which had been made through me regarding the raid, and his refusal to consider the request of the Government of Burmah for the punishment of Tengkeng and the payment of compensation to the villages; in notifying my departure he ventured the suggestion that, although my journey might have been planned merely for purposes of mahseer fishing, he had shrewd suspicions of ulterior motives, as the Salween Valley could scarcely be regarded as a pleasure resort at this season of the year.\n\nJourney through Mingkuang.-On leaving Tengyueh a series of long and narrow valleys, divided by steep and well-defined ranges, and watered by branches of the Taping and Shweli Rivers, run in a due northerly direction till they are blocked at their ends by the range, which strikes east from Manung Pum till it joins the main Irrawady-Salween Divide, and which itself forms the watershed between the N'Maikha and Shweli systems. After reaching Kutung Kai I advanced along the route through the Mingkuang Valley, which rises in a chain of cultivated and well-watered \"patzu\" or plains of gradually increasing altitude till it meets the cross range at its northern extremity. The consulate writer, who accompanied Mr. Litton in 1905, did not cease to exclaim at the progress made by the Chinese settlers since his previous journey; flourishing markets have sprung up along the route, every available acre is under cultivation, and there remain but a few miles to the extreme north where the original Lisu population retain possession of the land, and where grazing grounds are still available for the wandering herds of cattle, sheep, and ponies. The remaining four valleys to the north of Tengyueh are thickly populated and cultivated to the limit of the frontier line, but, although Mingkuang is advancing more slowly in agricultural development, it is undoubtedly the richest of the five belts, and the recent journeys of Mr. Coggin Brown of the Geological Survey of India prove that it is an intensely mineralised area, rich deposits of gold, silver, iron, and copper lying in close proximity to the frontier range, and in many places these are now being worked with Chinese labour and native methods. At the head of this valley one passes from the zone of bare, treeless hills and intense cultivation to a country in which the masses of limestone cliff rise from the pines and evergreens of forest-clad slopes, the foaming torrent of the Mingkuang stream winds a white course through the bracken, the calls of pheasant, sambur, and barking deer break the silence of the morning, and rhododendrons of rich red and white, briar roses, and pyrus japonica, gleam out with a wonderful brilliancy of colour from the grey mists that herald the coming rains, whilst in the forest clearings the ground is carpeted with a purple glow of dainty primulas and ground orchids, raising their heads above the tawny masses of last year's bracken. Even the Chinese were moved to wonder at the beauty of the land, and they twined garlands of flowers in the bridles and packs of the mules, or round the muzzles of their Mauser rifles, which have fallen sadly from their high estate since they were issued new and bright in the year of our Lord 1871.\n\nTa Chu Pa. The fifth day's march brought us to the end of the valley at Ta Chu Pa, where a scattered population of eighty Lisu families eke out a scanty subsistence, and five strongly stockaded Chinese houses form the head-quarters of a thriving trade in coffin planks, which are brought from the forests beyond the range. Here we halted for a day in the hope of getting some information regarding the recent raid, and Hsü Linhsiang, one of the Chinese timber merchants, informed me that he was in part responsible for the petition for assistance, reported in my despatch of the 24th February, but that he could add nothing to his original information as the Tengkeng Sawbwa had threatened to behead him, and that he was therefore banished from his home in the N'Maikha Valley. On the following day the son of the Pienma headman arrived at Ta Chu Pa, and sent a message that spies of Tongkeng and the Pao-shan magistrate were in the village, and had threatened his life if he had any dealings with me; during the night the Chinaman Hsü was kidnapped by these men, and hurried away to Yungchang-fu, and I realised that, as the Chinese had taken such precautions to block my enquiries in Ta Chu Pa, it would be of little use to proceed to Tengkeng. I decided therefore that my only hope of ascertaining the true facts of the case would be to make a forced march across the passes to Pienma, and see for myself what had actually happened. It appeared unwise to proceed into the unadministered territory with a Chinese escort, and in view of the fact that the expedition of 1905 had lost thirty mules on the first day's march, the road was proved impossible for a heavily equipped party. The escort was therefore dispatched in charge of all heavy baggage by the road running through Chinese territory to Tengkeng, and I managed to engage a number of Lisu porters to carry sufficient kit for a week for myself and my personal servants; there was little enthusiasm for the journey, and it was difficult to decide who felt the more aggrieved, the escort who were \"being deserted,\" and left to face the terrors of the road alone, or the men who were to penetrate the \"inner land,\" relying on the protection of a shot-gun, and an assortment of various medicines, the latter of which I have found an unfailing passport to the affections of the frontier tribesmen, the application of salts and embrocations ensuring perennial mental gratification even if their virtues were somewhat misapplied for purposes of physical relief.\n\n3\n\nJourney to Pienma.-On the seventh day we commenced the ascent of the range, the track lying through miles of tangled bamboo brake and dense forest jungle, through which an advance guard of Lashi Kachins hewed a way with their dhas, whilst the ponies struggled and slipped on the steep mountain paths, scrambling over the trunks of great fallen trees, and wading through the rocky torrents. This track is regularly used for a few months of the year by Lisu and Lashi porters, carrying coffin planks from Kangfang down to Mingkuang, but their path was scarcely discernible in the jungle, and the heavy rains which had fallen for several weeks had made of the low-lying portions a hopeless morass. After a long climb we reached the Pass of Ten Shui-ling, and here I was somewhat surprised to find that the tribesmen had a very clear and definite idea of the principle of the frontier. Pointing to the two streams which trickled in opposite directions down the mountain sides they explained that the parting formed the border line between Great Britain and China, and gave me such an insight into the practical meaning of a Divide, as would have proved a liberal education to those distinguished officers of the Chinese Government who in 1904 committed themselves to the statement that in this district the watershed lay at the foot of the mountains. Then with a certain courtesy that went to the heart of the situation, the Lisus handed me over to the Lashis as their guest, and we continued our journey down into the valley of the Ngawchang Kha (known by the Chinese as the Hsiao Chiang). On arrival at the first camp the weather broke, and for five days and nights the rain poured down in ceaseless torrents. The little single-fly tents could not resist the storm, clothes and bedding were sodden, the weight of the porters' loads was greatly increased, and the poor fellows spent their nights in the open, with no protection from the wet ground, or from the beating rain, save a layer of palm fibre. After seeing the hard lives that these tribesmen lead, and the triumph of the elements in their mountain homes, one wonders little at the animism forming the basis of all their faith, or at the fact that the rain and thunder, the lightning, the wind, the forest, and the mountains are all held by demons of malice, whose wrath can only be appeased by offerings and sacrifice. On one day we were obliged to march from dawn till dark without a halt for rest or food, as we found no clearing in the jungle, and the country was reported by the natives to be full of poisonous herbs which the ponies would eat if they halted, with fatal results, and it was therefore with intense relief that we at last saw the Pienma villages on a distant hillside, and felt that the worst of the journey was past. For one brief moment a glimpse of a magnificent snowy range to the north-west marked the division of the Lashi country from that of the Wild Marus, and shortly afterwards we were met by a number of headmen and villagers from Pienma (Hpimaw), who had come out in spite of the storm to offer a welcome.\n\nThe headmen had heard of my approach and evidently believed that Litton had come back, for they said they had waited five years for my return, and there was evident disappointment when they found that there was no army of occupation at my back. They poured forth their grievances at once, however, stating that there were twenty Chinese soldiers in Pienma, that two deputies of the Yungchang prefect were ...\n\n324", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429416, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "152\n\n12\n\nof the situation which seem to call for special consideration. For the purpose of conciseness and lucidity, I propose to deal with them one by one.\n\nLand Tenure.-According to my Russian colleague, land can now be leased by private parties in any part of the new town. This would appear to mark a new departure, since, in the past, very little land west of the Novotorgovaia Ulitza has been leased to persons unconnected with the railway and it is possible that even now a high price would be asked. In Pristan no restriction has ever been placed upon lease by private parties of Russian nationality.\n\nThe full term of the railway company's lease is eighty years subject to the right of the Chinese to buy out the company after thirty-six years. The initial cost of the railway was large, and it may be assumed that the total sum which China would be called upon to find in order to repurchase the line and its appurtenances would be a very heavy one. The question which, it would seem, is of more practical importance at the present moment is that of long leases. The railway was completed in 1903 and the longest lease which is now therefore obtainable is one of seventy-three years. Lease in perpetuity, which is common to other treaty ports in China, is not, under present circumstances, procurable in Harbin. Sooner or later, more especially if Harbin continues to attract foreigners other than Russian as a place of residence and trade, this matter must, it would seem, call for adjustment. It would, indeed, appear that it is one which cannot even now be ignored in any attempt to form a just estimate of the present situation and to devise a plan for its amelioration or amendment. The question has not escaped the attention of the Russian authorities, though I gathered in conversation with General Horvat that it was not one which he considered gave much concern to Russian subjects, and he did not appear to think that the Chinese Government would, on the expiration of the company's lease, be able to call upon private property owners to remove themselves without further ado. My Russian colleague, however, seems to view the matter in a more serious light, and admitted that the rights of private parties under the 1896 agreement were not adequately protected. It is of course now no secret that at the time when that agreement was concluded Russia looked forward to the inclusion of Manchuria in the Russian Empire. The present anomalous state of affairs—that is, a treaty port which carries with it no right to lease land in perpetuity—is the direct result of China's action in declaring Harbin an open port, without regard to (or, possibly, with a wilful disregard of) the conditions existing in 1905. That which is of chief concern to us is the protection of British interests. Owing to the development of the bean industry our trade in Harbin has already assumed large proportions, and the day may—probably will—come when British firms will desire to lease land and build their own houses. They will wish to do this on terms not less advantageous than those obtainable in other treaty ports, and it is not altogether easy to see how this can be done. Three suggestions have occurred to me, which I venture to set down; they are:-\n\n1. That the Chinese authorities should counterseal the leases given by the railway company to British subjects and guarantee their continuance in perpetuity after the expiration of the company's holding.\n\n2. That the Chinese Government should recognise the present railway area at Harbin or a reduced portion thereof as a Russian concession or settlement, leaving it to us to obtain from the Russian authorities terms equally favourable to those granted in British concessions in China.\n\n3. That the Russian Government should give a guarantee that, on the expiration of their terms of lease through the lapse of the railway company's holding, British subjects shall not be called upon to vacate their properties without due compensation.\n\nI fully recognise that, as regards the first two suggestions, it may be extremely difficult to obtain the consent of the Chinese Government to either one or the other, since both will give to foreigners the right of residence and trade in perpetuity in a considerable area, and it has occurred to me that this consideration may probably account in no small degree for the objection which the Chinese are generally thought to entertain towards any scheme of internationalisation. At the same time, the fact stands out that we are faced with the problem of a treaty port which does not give the usual treaty privileges. The question then arises whether, should it be decided that an agreement with Russia in regard to municipal taxation is desirable, the third suggestion or something of the same nature might not be the best solution,\n\n13\n\nand possibly have the effect of compelling the Chinese to come to some arrangement satisfactory to all parties.\n\nThe Control of the Railway Administration.-No further steps having been taken towards the elaboration of the detailed regulations promised in the May agreement of last year, things are, as previously stated, very much in statu quo ante. In other words, the extensive powers which the railway company possesses under the 1907 regulations still very largely obtain. It is generally felt that the authority claimed by the railway company is greater than a private company can properly be expected to exercise, and there can be no doubt that the position assumed by this company has been keenly resented by the United States. It would seem, therefore, that, if the Russian Government sincerely desires an adjustment of the anomalous state of things now existing, its chances of success will be considerably enhanced by relegating the railway company to a subordinate position.\n\nThe Police.—The police, as before said, are at present under the control of the railway company; should, however, a form of municipal administration become possible to which all parties could assent, it would be more satisfactory if the force necessary for the policing of the municipal area, whatever its designation, could be placed either under the control of the municipal administration or of a representative of the Russian Government attached to the Russian consulate-general—preferably, in any case as regards supreme direction, I am at present inclined to think the latter. As things now stand, the chances, as previously stated, of unwarrantable interference on the part of the police with foreigners who have their own national representatives in Harbin are not great. Cases in which foreigners are concerned will, however, sometimes arise when the services of the police, if order is to be maintained, must be requisitioned. Instances in point are street brawls and robberies; only a few days ago the manager of the Shanghai Life Insurance Company informed me that his office had been forcibly entered during the previous night, his documents disarranged, and some articles stolen, I did not see any objection to addressing an informal note to my Russian colleague, requesting him, under the reservation contained in your despatch No. 10 of the 27th May, to notify the police authorities in the hope that it might be possible to secure the apprehension of the delinquents.\n\nTo summarise and recapitulate, Sir John Jordan in his despatch No. 461, Confidential, of the 10th December last, to which reference has already been made, suggested that, if British subjects were willing to accept the Russian municipal regulations provided they could obtain a guarantee that they would be fairly taxed and not subjected to annoyance at the hands of the Russian police, it might be better to obtain safeguards on these points than risk the conclusion of an arrangement between Russia and Japan on the basis of the former's original interpretation of article 6 of the agreement\n\nof 1896.\n\nMy Russian colleague has on more than one occasion expressed the opinion that the best hope of a solution of the present difficulty is for the Powers, in the first instance, to come to an agreement with Russia. Whether an arrangement which would satisfy all the Powers is or is not possible, I am naturally not in a position to say, and it may be considered that a better prospect of success is offered by an agreement between ourselves and Russia, irrespective of others. The Russians are, I am disposed to think, anxious for our good-will, and, if due regard be paid to actual facts, an understanding of some kind with Russia seems the only feasible plan. If, too, favourable terms can be obtained at Harbin, they might—temporarily, at any rate—be applied mutatis mutandis in the other Russian railway settlements, and should ensure us the grant of not less advantageous conditions in the Japanese settlements along the South Manchurian Railway. Harbin is, as has been previously stated by the acting consul-general at Mukden, to all intents and purposes a Russian town, and Russian interests are largely predominant; while the policy of the Chinese would seem to be now what it has been in the past. On the surface, it lacks consistency—au fond, its aim and object is, I venture to think, to make use of the other Powers against the Russians with the full determination of giving to none more than it can possibly help.\n\nBritish interest in Harbin, at the moment of writing, are represented by Messrs. Samuel, McGregor and Co., Messrs. Craig and Co., the China Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Shanghai Life Insurance Company, and, in Fu Chia Tien, the British-American Tobacco Company. To give adequate protection to British subjects and British interests is for us the principal consideration, and it is for this reason that I venture to lay stress on certain points which cannot, it would appear, be left out of consideration in any proposed arrangement with Russia.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434133, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## 132\n\nto meet at Namkham on the 7th January, 1911, and the Yunnan Viceroy has been invited to depute a taotai as his representative. A number of murder cases await trial and discussion, but the lists of ordinary claims are smaller than usual owing to the efficiency and activity of the frontier deputy Chao, who has done excellent work during the summer months. Apart from the Tengkeng-Hpimaw affair, there have been no serious frontier raids.\n\nTampering with Frontier Pillars.--It will be remembered that the Chinese have constantly pressed for the removal of certain of our frontier pillars, alleging that they are wrongly placed and that the frontier should run farther west. They have been informed that His Majesty's Government is unable to enter into any discussion of this question so long after the delimitation of the frontier and the erection of the pillars.\n\nEarly in the autumn, the taotai sent a party to the northern frontier with instructions to destroy pillar No. 38, situated near the extreme north of the delimited boundary, at the top of the Shingaw Valley and immediately south of Manang Pum. The deputies entrusted with the task begged the taotai to put his instructions in writing, doubtless remembering the fate of Mr. Peng, the Yungchang prefect, who was dismissed from office for undue zeal in destroying the pillar in Lungchuan. The taotai refused to record his responsibilities in this way, however, and sent the deputies on their business. The Government of Burmah has since received a report that the pillar was defaced by the party. When the deputies returned to Tengyueh, they presented separate reports; one said that the frontier was wrongly demarcated, that he had been anxious to destroy the pillar in accordance with instructions, but that his colleague had resisted such extreme measures. The taotai was greatly enraged and immediately dismissed the protesting deputy from office. The unfortunate man tells me that they did not actually deface the pillar, and that they merely took a rubbing of the inscription. I am unable, however, to vouch for the accuracy of his statement.\n\nI fear that the Government of Burmah had some misgivings in regard to my attitude towards the destruction of the Lungchuan pillar in the spring, believing that I took too serious a view of a trifling incident. I adhere, however, to my original opinion that it is not safe to allow the least latitude to the Chinese in such a question, and I am convinced that we should have had serious trouble in regard to a number of the pillars during the past year if Mr. Peng's action had been allowed to pass without a serious protest. The subordinate officers on the Chinese side of the frontier unfortunately know that they are sure of support from the higher authorities in any act of aggression which does not bring down a prompt and vigorous rebuff from their Burmah neighbour, and I submit that the greatest watchfulness will be required along the frontier in the near future if we desire to avoid serious trouble and annoyance in connection with the already delimited sections.\n\nUndelimited Frontier.--The imprisonment of my former interpreter has so frightened the people that my sources of information in the direction of the undelimited frontier have now failed. I have certain information, however, that the Chinese propose to continue their administrative work during the coming open season, unless they are forestalled from the direction of Burmah. The officers who were concerned in the expeditions during last spring have all received promotion. The taotai proposed to visit Tengkeng in person this autumn, but his impulsive activity has received several shocks during the last few months, and it is now believed that he will abandon the project of a personal visit to the disputed area.\n\nBurmah Frontier Forts.--I have been obliged to call the attention of the taotai to the fact that the Burmah military posts at Kut-kai, Pankham, Lweje, Laokham, Warapum, Nampang, Alawbum, Šima, Sadon, and Loingu in no way infringe our treaty obligations, and that their erection was provided for by the Burmah Convention of 1894 (article 7) and by clause 2 of the Manni Agreement of 1902.\n\n## Commercial\n\nBhamo-Tengyueh Road.--The most important factor in the commercial situation has been the successful work on the trade-route, which has enabled traffic to proceed during the whole of the summer season in spite of a record rainfall. It will be remembered that for many years our trans-frontier trade has followed a natural mule-track, which becomes so bad in the rains that there is a constant loss of life both to men and animals. A road was made for a third of the distance between Tengyueh and the frontier during the last open season, and a gang of maintenance men has been employed throughout the summer. The reserve fund of the road committee, however, is exhausted, and our income derived from the mule tax is insufficient to carry on the work. I am exceedingly anxious to push forward the road construction during the coming season, in the hope of bringing the road right up to Tengyueh, even if it be but roughly constructed. Mr. Carey, the present commissioner of customs, has given me loyal support in this matter in dealing with our Chinese colleagues, and I feel that the best interests of our trans-frontier trade will be served by laying the foundations of a road whilst conditions are thus favourable. We have approached the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank with a proposal for a loan of about 2,000l., to be guaranteed by the mule tax, but the taotai and the ting do not at all like the idea of a loan and the responsibility attaching to it. I have suggested the abolition of the \"pao shang ying,\" or trade protection levy, which has swallowed up 9,000 taels a-year for the past eight years without any corresponding advantage. I still await the sanction of the Government of Burmah before pressing this unwelcome proposal on the taotai and sub-prefect--who divide most of the funds in their private interest--and I trust that they will support my efforts to ensure the completion of the work on the trade-route. The mule tax now amounts to nearly 50 per cent. of the total customs collection here, and I feel that the time has come to stop the present leakages, to get a road through as soon as possible, and then to remove or to substantially reduce this tax, which is an undue burden on the trans-frontier trade.\n\nImports.--It is interesting to notice that the first three-quarters of the year show an entry of 20,492 piculs of cotton yarn--our main import--as compared with 16,199 piculs during the same period of 1909. The merchants showed much anxiety at the beginning of the year lest this trade should be deflected from the Tengyueh route by the Tonquin-Yunnan-fu Railway. The fact remains, however, that they can still import at a profit, and can actually lay down yarn as far as Yunnan-fu itself at prices which will compete with railway-borne yarn. I can scarcely think that the French railway authorities will allow such an anomaly to continue for long, and it seems only reasonable to suppose that they will eventually lower their rates sufficiently to make the mule rates for thirty-two days' transport from Bhamo to Yunnan-fu prohibitive. In the meanwhile, however, the Tengyueh route holds its own, and, as population is greatly on the increase in Western Yünnan, there seems every prospect that the projected railway from Bhamo will have no difficulty in paying its way.\n\nDrawback Privileges.--Most of the imports into Yunnan coming by the Burmah route are taxed by the customs at Rangoon, but are granted drawbacks of seven-eighths of their import duty when they leave for China. Since the enforcement of the new Indian tariff, however, cigarettes have been withdrawn from the privileged list, with the result that this flourishing trade has dropped entirely from the Burmah route and the markets of Western Yunnan are supplied entirely from Tonquin. American kerosene also obtains no drawback; the import figures for this article show a return of 22,080 gallons as compared with 13,000 for 1909, and there is no doubt that there would be a great opening for this article if the same favourable treatment were accorded by Burmah as by Tonquin. I have represented these facts to the Government of Burmah, and I trust that the Indian Government will see its way to removing present disabilities, as it is of importance that the carrying trade on the Burmah-Yunnan trade-route should receive every encouragement in view of the new competition from the Tonquin railway, and the possibility of a railway from Burmah in the future.\n\nExports: Silk.--A great stimulus has been given to the export trade by the demand for Szechuan silk in Europe. Merchants find that it pays them to send \"huang ssu\" (raw yellow silk), and \"kai-chuang ssu\" (silk specially reeled for the European market), from Szechuan by the Tengyueh route rather than by the Yang-tsze and Shanghai, not entirely because the freights are lower, but because any export cargo assists their exchange business if their produce can be laid down in Rangoon without actual loss. This is an important factor.\n\nTransport Passes.--We find also that it costs 40 taels a picul to cover the li-kin and other native taxes between the producing centres in Szechuan, whereas a transit pass will cover the same amount for the same distance for 2.10 taels. The commissioner of customs therefore issued the first native transit pass ever granted in Tengyueh during last month. The taotai offered the most vigorous resistance, and even tried to find an excuse for imprisoning the bold merchant who thus endeavoured to avoid his duties to the local authorities. The taotai claimed that transit passes were privileges not open to native merchants, but the commissioner pointed out the error of this view.\n\n## 0\n\n## [1810 k―2] \n\n## 0", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437404, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "content_text": "189533 \n\nL \n\nPassage Brokers. \n\n6 \n\npassage \n\n29.-(1.) No person shall act as a passenger broker or in procuring passengers for, or in the sale or letting of passages in, any emigrant ship proceeding on any short, long or extended voyage unless he has, with two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Registrar General, entered into a joint and several bond in the sum of five thousand dollars to His Majesty, his heirs and successors, according to the form in the Sixth Schedule to this Ordinance, which bond shall be renewed on each occasion of obtaining such licence as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited with the Registrar General: nor unless such person has obtained a licence to let or sell passages: nor unless such licence is then in force.\n\n(2.) Where different members of the same firm act as passage brokers, each person so acting shall comply with the terms of this section.\n\n30. Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as a passage broker shall make application for the same to the Registrar General who is hereby authorized, if he thinks fit, to grant such licence, according to the form in the Seventh Schedule to this Ordinance: Provided always that no such licence shall be granted unless such bond as is mentioned in the last preceding section has been first entered into: Provided, also, that any Magistrate who adjudicates on any offence committed by such broker against this Ordinance is hereby authorized to order the offender's licence to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited accordingly and the said Magistrate making such order shall forthwith cause notice of such forfeiture, in the form in the Eighth Schedule to this Ordinance, to be transmitted to the Registrar General, and such forfeiture shall be exclusive and independent of any other punishment which may be inflicted upon such offender under the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n31. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid shall pay to the Registrar General a fee of two hundred dollars, or where the duration of the licence is short such reduced fee as the Governor-in-Council may authorise.\n\n32. Such licence shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December in the year in which such licence is granted, and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as hereinbefore mentioned.\n\n33.--(1) Every passage broker who receives money from any person for or in respect of a passage in any emigrant ship proceeding on any short, long or extended voyage shall give to such person a contract passage ticket, under the hand of such passage broker and stamped with his seal or trade mark.\n\n(2.) Every such ticket shall be printed in a plain and legible type, according to the form in the Ninth Schedule to this Ordinance, and shall be accompanied with a translation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.\n\n34. Every passage broker, before he receives or takes any money on account of any passage or for the sale or letting of the whole or any part of the accommodation of or in any such ship proceeding from this Colony, shall produce to the Registrar General the certificate of the master or owner of the ship in respect of which a passage has been taken or the accommodation in which has been so sold or let, to the effect that such ship has been chartered for the purpose of carrying emigrants, and that such passage broker is authorized to receive payment for such passage or for the sale or letting of the accommodation in such ship; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Registrar General.\n\n35. On every occasion of the delivery to any passenger of such contract passage ticket as aforesaid, the passage broker who has engaged to provide such passenger with a passage shall :-\n\n(1.) in the case of every male Asiatic passenger who is a contract or assisted emigrant or under the age of sixteen years and of every female passenger, attend, either personally or by his duly authorised representative with him or her at the office of or other place appointed by the Registrar General, in whose presence the contract passage ticket shall be delivered to such passenger, and who shall explain to such passenger the true intent and meaning of such contract passage ticket with the object of ascertaining that he or she understands where he or she is going and that he or she is not acting under compulsion or being influenced to emigrate by false representations; and,\n\n(2.) in the case of every other Asiatic passenger attend, either personally or by his duly authorised representative, with him at the medical inspection on board ship which inspection shall also be attended by the Registrar General in whose presence the true intent and meaning of the contract passage ticket shall be explained to such passenger with the object of ascertaining that he understands where he is going and that he is not acting under compulsion or being influenced to emigrate by false representations. Provided that whenever it may appear desirable the Governor-in-Council may direct that any of the provisions of this sub-section may be dispensed with: in the case of passengers travelling to any British possession.\n\n36. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, rendered useless, or destroyed, after it is once issued, or shall fraudulently induce any person to part with, or render useless, or destroy, any such contract passage ticket, until the termination of the passage which it is intended to evidence.\n\n37. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any person, whether a licensed broker or not, receive money for or on account of the passage of any passenger on board an emigrant ship, without having a written authority to act as such agent, or, on the demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his licence and such written authority.\n\n38. Every passage broker who contracts with any intending emigrant for a passage in any ship shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Registrar General of every such contract, specifying the name, age, and sex of such emigrant and the name of such ship.\n\n39. Any medical officer whose duty it may be to inspect intending emigrants and to supervise all matters and things in any way relating to the comfort and well-being of such emigrants before their departure and on their voyage, shall be entitled to charge such fees as may from time to time be prescribed by the Governor-in-Council. Such fees shall be paid by the medical officer into the General Revenue of the Colony.\n\n40. The medical inspection of emigrants other than free Asiatic emigrants shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the ship after embarkation, and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate unless he is satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.\n\n41. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarkation in any Chinese passenger ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration Officer may appoint.\n\n42. Any Chinese medical practitioner shall be eligible, with the approval of the Governor, for the office of surgeon of any ship for the purposes of the Act or of this Ordinance.\n\n43.-(1.) No person shall, by any fraud, or by false representation as to the size of the ship or otherwise, or by any false pretence whatsoever, induce any person to engage any passage as aforesaid.\n\n(2.) No person shall falsely represent any contract or assisted emigrant to be a free Asiatic emigrant.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437410, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "content_text": "18\n\nSection 30,\n\nTHE EIGHTH SCHEDULE. FORM OF NOTICE TO BE GIVEN TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL OF THE FORFEITURE OF A LICENCE.\n\nHongkong.\n\n1\n\n1\n\non the\n\nof\n\non the\n\n,1\n\nSan,This is to give you notice that the licence granted to A.B.,* day of to act as an Emigration Passage Broker, was duly day of declared by me the undersigned Magistrate to be forfeited.t\n\n(Signed.)\n\nTo the Hon. Registrar General,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong.\n\n1\n\n*The personal and family names in full, with the address and trade or occupation of the party, to be here inserted.\n\nHere state severally the reasons of forfeiture.\n\n77\n\nTHE NINTH SCHEDULE.\n\nFORM OF CONTRACT PASSAGE TICKET.\n\nI hereby engage that the Asiatic named at foot hereof shall be provided with a passage to, and shall be landed at, the port of\n\nin the ship or vessel called the \"\n\nin\n\nwith not less than 72 cubic feet and 12 superficial feet for berth accommodation, [or, in the case of a ship under section 42, 54 cubic feet and 9 superficial feet], and shall be victualled according to Schedule A to the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, of the Imperial Parliament, during the voyage, and the term of detention at any place before its determination, for the sum of\n\ndollars, and\n\nI hereby acknowledge to have received the sum of dollars in full payment,\n\nName and\n\nMale.\n\nFemale.\n\nSurname of\n\nPassenger.\n\nAge.\n\nAge.\n\nNative Occupation. Place, Village, and District.\n\n:\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, the\n\nday of\n\n(Signed.)\n\nPassage Broker.\n\nI hereby certify that I have explained and registered the above contract passage ticket.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, the\n\nday of\n\n(Signed.)\n\nRegistrar General.\n\nNote. Should the above-named ship not be able to proceed on the proposed voyage, a passage is to be provided in some other vessel licensed for the conveyance of Asiatic passengers.\n\nin\n\nSection 33.\n\n19\n\nSection 5.\n\nC4\n\nTHE TENTH SCHEDULE.\n\nFORM OF VOYAGES OF NOT MORE THAN THIRTY DAYS DURATION.\n\nVoyages from Hongkong, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Chifu, Ningpo, Shanghai, and any port in Formosa to-\n\nBombay,\n\nCelebes,\n\nCeylon,\n\nMadras,\n\nPort Darwin,\n\nQueensland,\n\nBritish North Borneo,\n\nBorneo,\n\nBrunei,\n\nSarawak,\n\nCalcutta,\n\nPegu,\n\nSiam,\n\nWestern Australia,\n\nVladivostock,\n\nOcean Island,\n\nSumatra,\n\nJava,\n\nThe Straits Settlements,\n\nLabuan,\n\nBanka,\n\nBilliton,\n\nSarawak,\n\nJapan.\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438438, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "201\n\nVinstonden &\n\n...half Tokyo\n\ne welli Sw\n\nBom pol. 1, nu: avel ne le Toug th\n\n185.\n\n7th. to December 13th.) at One hundred and Eighty Five Dollars per diem equal to Six thousand seven hundred and Fifty two 6,752.50 dollars and Cents Fifty, plus Twenty Dollars per diem for the same period, equal to Seven hundred and Thirty Dollars, thus 730 making a total of Seven thousand Four hundred and Eighty Two 7,482.50 dollars and Fifty cents.\n\nIn presenting this claim on behalf of the Government of Hongkong to the Chinese Government, His Majesty's Minister would beg leave to point out that it is based on the strict letter of the Working Agreement and that no allowance has been made for the rapidly increasing earning power of the British Section in computing the average gross receipts; and he has the honour therefore to ask that the Ministry of Communications may be instructed to pay the sum named without delay.\n\n# Jon atau Ankle", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463485, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 577, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n(c.)-Section 6 deals with the vesting of patent rights in the Custodian, and enemy patent rights are not being dealt with in any way here.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n## Registration of Chemists\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled, \"An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Registration of Pharmaceutical Chemists and to the Regulation of the Sale and Use of Poisons.\"\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\nThe marginal note \"Register to be confidential\" was added to Clause 4.\n\nOn the first schedule, the following paragraph was added:-\n\n(4)—Consular officers of foreign States. In paragraph (5) the word \"three\" was substituted for \"four\". In (6) paragraph the word \"nationality\" was substituted for the word \"ality\". Paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) were numbered (5), (6), and (7).\n\n## Registration\n\nCouncil went into Committee on the Bill intituled, \"An Ordinance to provide for the registration of certain persons.\"\n\nIn sub-clauses (1) and (2) of Clause 2 the words \"except the persons specified\" were substituted for the words \"included\" in the first line of each clause.\n\nIn clause 2, sub-clause (2), the words \"one week\" were substituted for the words \"two weeks\" wherever the latter words occurred, and the words \"of Police\" were added after the word \"Superintendent\".\n\nThe following clause, forming sub-clause (3) of clause 2, was added:—\n\nEvery person who shall hereafter cease to fall within the excepted classes specified in the First Schedule hereto, whether on account of an alteration in the said Schedule or for any other cause, shall within one week of his so ceasing to fall within the said excepted classes, unless such person shall have departed from the Colony within the said period of one week, furnish to the Captain Superintendent of Police a return of the particulars specified in the Second Schedule hereto.\n\nThe succeeding sub-clauses were then re-numbered (4) and (5).\n\nIn the respective first lines of sub-clauses (1), (3), and (4) of clause 3 the words \"except the persons specified\" were substituted for the word \"included\".\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY—Council stands adjourned until this day week.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee followed, the COLONIAL SECRETARY presiding:-\n\n### Harbour Master's Department\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-nine cents ($1,325.39) in aid of the vote of Harbour Master's Department. Special Expenditure, F.--Lighthouses and Lights, Installation of an Aga Light at Cape Collinson.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN—This is in connection with the reorganisation of the lighthouses. It is estimated that the erection of an Aga Light at Cape Collinson will effect a saving of $3,343 a year.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Educational\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of eight hundred and fourteen dollars ($814) in aid of the vote of Education. 4.-Department of Director of Education, Special Expenditure, Peak School, Furniture for Quarters.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN—Provision was made last year for furniture for the Peak School. Pending the return of the headmistress from leave no furniture was purchased, and this expenditure has thus only been incurred this year so that it is in the nature of a re-vote. It is necessary heavy furniture.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Harbour Telephone Cable\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN—This is a re-vote also. It is for the motor-fire-engine and pump, which did not arrive in time to be paid for last year.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) in aid of the vote of Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Miscellaneous, Cable across Harbour.\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS—Additional accommodation is required.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN—The money was not spent last year because the cables did not arrive, so it has to be spent this year.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Police and Prison\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of thirteen thousand three hundred and six dollars and eighty-one cents ($13,306.81) in aid of the vote Police and Prison Departments, Special Expenditure, B. Fire Brigade, Motor Fire Engine and Pump.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Wireless Station\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one thousand four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents ($1,457.55) in aid of the vote of Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Buildings, Wireless Telegraph Station.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN—This sum of money is for providing cooling tanks at the works at the wireless station, and for the erection of another motor. This work has been carried out by the Royal Naval Dockyard. No provision was made in the estimates for this year, but the work is necessary.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\nPage 566", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463513, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 605, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - Well, if it does not mean what I do not know what it does mean. With regard to my sources of information, I think it most improper that your Excellency should try to enquire as to my sources of information.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - Did I not ask you for your sources of information? I asked if you had ever seen or spoken to the Japanese nurses.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - What I said was...\n\nThe Council stands adjourned until this day week. There will be a Finance Meeting after this meeting. His Excellency then left the Council Chamber.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee followed, the COLONIAL SECRETARY presiding.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of nineteen thousand five hundred dollars ($19,500) in aid of the following votes:\n\n| Category | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | Hongkong, Miscellaneous: Typhoon and rainstorm damages | $15,000 |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | Kowloon, Miscellaneous: Typhoon and rainstorm damages | $3,000 |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | New Territories, Miscellaneous: Typhoon and rainstorm damages - Mainland and Islands in Northern District | $1,500 |\n| | Total | $19,500 |\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Lighthouses and Lights\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars and eighty-nine cents ($1,480.89) in aid of Harbour Master's Department, Special Expenditure, F.-Lighthouses and Lights, Installation of Aga Light at Ma Wan Island.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Kowloon Improvements\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon, Communications, Roads, General Works.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Upkeep of Plants\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000) in aid of the vote Public Works, Recurrent, Hongkong, Miscellaneous, upkeep of plant.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Relief of Destitutes\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) in aid of the vote charitable services, passages and relief of destitutes.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Educational\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of two thousand two hundred dollars ($2,200) in aid of Education, Special Expenditure, 4. Department of Director of Education, Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians, furniture.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Prison Charges\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars ($1,450) in aid of Police and Prison Departments, Prison, other charges, night-soil buckets.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Harbour Expenditure\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) in aid of the following votes:\n\n| Category | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Harbour Master's Department | Harbour Office: Other charges, raising and renewing moorings, of ocean steamship | $5,000 |\n| Harbour Master's Department | Special expenditure, acquisition and re-arrangement of moorings in Victoria Harbour | $30,000 |\n| | Total | $35,000 |\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - His Excellency the Governor has already explained the reasons for these votes.\n\nPage 53\n\nOn a division being taken, the votes were agreed to, only the Hon. Mr. Pollock voting against them.\n\n### Lighting Extensions at Kowloon\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of four hundred dollars ($400) in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon, Lighting Extensions of Lighting.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Charitable Services\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) in aid of the vote charitable services, other charitable allowances.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - I ask for a division. Unofficial members of the Council persistently opposed this scheme, which was forced on them by the Government. Therefore, I think the extra votes should be refused. We have always opposed this.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\nN.B. The Meeting was adjourned because there was no further business before the Council.\n\n592", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464603, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\nExtract from the \"China Mail\" of February 2, 1915.\n\n## OPIUM COMPANY'S AFFAIRS: THE WINDING-UP PETITION.\n\nIN the Supreme Court to-day before the Chief Justice the hearing was commenced of a petition presented by shareholders of the Yu Hing Company (Limited), a wealthy Hong Kong opium firm, asking that an order be made that the company be wound up. In the petition allegations of fraud and misappropriation of funds were made against two of the directors, and argument upon the question of whether the court could regard these allegations occupied the court on Thursday and Friday and part of yesterday, when the Chief Justice decided that they are admissible. The hearing of the petition is expected to last three weeks.\n\nThe petition was filed by Sun Fat Shan, a merchant residing in China and a shareholder in the company, and was supported by a number of shareholders. The respondent was the Yu Hing Company (Limited), and notice of opposition was also filed by Lee Hyson, Ma Chee Lung and a number of shareholders who claimed to represent nearly half the total share capital of the company.\n\nMr. Duncan McNeill (Shanghai) and Mr. F. C. Jenkin appeared for the petitioners on the instructions of Mr. Crewe (Messrs. Hastings and Hastings); and Mr. C. G. Alabaster, and Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. Beavis of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist) for the respondent company. Mr. Potter also represented Lee Hyson and Ma Chee Lung, the directors against whom the allegations are made.\n\nMr. Alabaster informed his Lordship this morning that since the issue of the new advertisement giving notice of the petition four further shareholders, holding eighty shares, had given notice to oppose the petition; and he now represented the holders of 1,030 shares which was more than half the shares of the company.\n\nMr. McNeill opened the case for the petitioners, and devoted the whole of the hearing to directing his Lordship's attention to the affidavits and declarations. Dealing with petitioners' allegation that the minute books of the company had been faked by certain directors entering minutes of meetings of the company which he submitted were never held, he said that all the declarations filed would be supported by the evidence of witnesses who could be cross-examined. Certain of the petitioning directors (whose names he mentioned) had filed declarations to the effect that since the incorporation of the company no statutory meetings of shareholders were ever held, nor was any report ever filed with the Registrar of Companies as required by law.\n\nCase proceeding.\n\n# Enclosure 4 in No. 1.\n## Memorandum of Agreement.\n\n**MEMORANDUM** of Agreement made the 1st day of October, 1915, between the companies, firms, and persons whose names appear at the end under the heading \"The parties of the first part\" of the one part, and his Excellency Tsai Nai Huang, the special envoy appointed by the Government of the Republic of China by presidential mandate, dated the 30th April, 1915, for the prohibition of the sale of native opium in the provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kwangtung (hereinafter called \"the envoy\") of the other part, whereby it is agreed as follows:—\n\n1. The parties hereto of the first part shall sell and the envoy shall purchase 1,200 chests of certificated opium of which 806 shall be chests belonging to the parties hereto of the first part (as hereinafter defined), or held by them or some of them for sale on account of others, as set out opposite the signatures to this agreement of the parties hereto of the first part, and 394 chests shall be chests obtained by the parties hereto of the first part from Shanghai.\n\n2. All opium sold to the envoy under this agreement shall have been certified by the Indian Government for export to China. All opium purchased under this agreement shall be sold or disposed of by the envoy for consumption in Kwangtung, and no opium shall be shipped to Kiangsu or Kiangsi.\n\n3. The envoy shall pay for all opium, purchase on delivery in the Hong Kong notes of a British bank carrying on business in Hong Kong, at the following prices:\n| Type of Opium | Price per picul | Price per chest |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Malwa opium (old and/or new) Guzerat Malwa | | 9,300 |\n| Patna | | 9,110 |\n| Benares | | 9,150 |\n| | Dollars, per picul | 8,950 |\n\n4. All payments for opium from Shanghai shall be made in taels and the prices set out in clause 3 shall be converted into taels at the rate of 79 taels for each 100 dollars Hong Kong currency, and payment made accordingly, and drafts shall be drawn on Hong Kong against documents in respect of each shipment from Shanghai, and such drafts shall be met by the envoy at the above rate of exchange. Non-duty paid opium from Shanghai shall be shipped to Hong Kong, and duty paid opium shall be shipped to Canton.\n\n4A. If any chest of Malwa opium or of Patna or Benares opium shall, owing to circumstances over which the parties hereto of the first part have no control, contain less than the normal quantity of opium, whether cakes or balls (as the case may be) delivery shall nevertheless be taken by the envoy, but the price shall be proportionately diminished.\n\n5. The weight allowances given to Chinese purchasers in respect of all Malwa opium as specified in clause 8 of the agreement between the parties hereto of the first part of the 8th July, 1913, shall be allowed to the envoy in respect of all opium purchased which is Malwa opium, but such Malwa opium must be weighed within two months from the 1st October, 1915.\n\n6. The envoy shall take delivery without fail of not less than thirty chests of all opium purchased under this agreement during the month of October 1915, and of not less than thirty-five chests during November 1915, and shall thereafter without fail take delivery each month commencing in December 1915 of not less than one-sixteenth of the balance of all opium purchased. If the envoy shall take delivery of any monthly quantity or any portion thereof within thirty days after any month the parties hereto of the first part shall be entitled to sell such opium either by public auction or private contract, and the envoy shall pay to the parties hereto of the first part all losses, damages, costs, charges and expenses incurred or sustained by them.\n\n7. The envoy shall, in respect of all opium purchased under this agreement, pay to Messrs. David Sassoon and Co. (Limited), for each chest of opium taken delivery of by him the sum of 3,500 Mexican dollars, in accordance with the envoy and the Shanghai combine, dated the 1st May, 1915, in addition to the price for such chest as herein before provided.\n\n8. All payments to be made by the envoy for all opium purchased shall be made to Messrs. David Sassoon and Co. (Limited).\n\n9. As security for the performance by the envoy of his obligations under this agreement the envoy shall deposit with Messrs. David Sassoon and Co. (Limited), on behalf of the parties hereto of the first part the sum of 500,000 dollars in the Hong Kong notes of a British bank carrying on business in Hong Kong. Such deposit shall be paid without fail as to 250,000 dollars within three days after the date of this agreement, and as to the balance on or before the 31st October, 1915.\n\n10. Messrs. David Sassoon and Co. (Limited) shall deposit the said sum of 500,000 dollars in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation on fixed deposit. Subject to the provisions of clause 12 hereof the envoy shall be entitled to all interest allowed by the bank in respect of the deposit.\n\n11. After the envoy has taken delivery of all opium purchased except the last 100 chests, the parties hereto of the first part shall, if no claim shall exist against the envoy in respect of all opium purchased or any part thereof, and subject to any operation of clause 12, refund to him out of the deposit on the clearance of each of the last 100 chests the sum of 5,000 dollars.\n\n12. The said sum of 500,000 dollars deposited, and all interest accrued or accruing thereon, shall be held by the parties hereto of the first part as security for the performance by the envoy of his obligations in respect of all opium purchased. If any claim shall exist against the envoy by reason of his failure to perform any obligation of his in respect of all opium purchased, the parties hereto of the first part shall be entitled, at the expiration of eighteen months from the date hereof, without notice to the envoy to satisfy such claim out of the said sum of 500,000 dollars and all interest accrued or accruing thereon, but the envoy shall remain liable to pay the balance of any such claim to the parties hereto of the first part.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465289, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n(e) Section 6 deals with the vesting of patent rights in the Custodian and enemy patent rights are not being dealt with in any way here.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n## Registration of Chemists\n\nThe marginal note \"Register to be confidential\" was added to Clause 4.\n\nOn the first schedule, the following paragraph was added:—\n\n(4)--Consular officers of foreign States. In paragraph (5) the word \"three\" was substituted for \"three.'\". In (6) paragraph the word \"four\" was substituted for the word \"ality.\" and \"race\" for \"nation\".\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled, \"An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Registration of Pharmaceutical Chemists and to the Regulation of the Sale and Use of Poisons.\" \n\nParagraphs (4), (5) and (6) were re-numbered (3), (6) and (7).\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read first time.\n\n## Registration\n\nCouncil went into Committee on the Bill intituled, \"An Ordinance to provide for the registration of certain persons,\"\n\nIn sub-clauses (1) and (2) of Clause 2 the words \"except the persons specified\" were substituted for the words \"include, in the first line of each clause.\"\n\nIn clause 2, sub-clause (2), the words \"one week\" were substituted for the words \"two weeks\" wherever the latter words occurred, and the words \"of Police\" were added after the word \"Superintendent.\"\n\nThe following clause, forming sub-clause (3) of clause 2, was added:--\n\nEvery person who shall hereafter cease to fall within the excepted classes specified in the First Schedule hereto, whether on account of an alteration in the said Schedule or for any other cause, shall within one week of his so ceasing to fall within the said excepted classes, unless such person shall have departed from the Colony within the said period of one week, furnish to the Captain Superintendent of Police a return of the particulars specified in the Second Schedule hereto.\n\nThe succeeding sub-clauses were then re-numbered (4) and (5).\n\nIn the respective first lines of sub-clauses (1), (3) and (4) of clause 3 the words \"except the persons specified\" were substituted for the word \"included.\"\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - Council stand adjourned until this day week.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee followed, the COLONIAL SECRETARY presiding:-\n\n### Harbour Master's Department\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-nine cents ($1,325.39) in aid of the vote of Harbour Master's Department Special Expenditure, F-Lighthouses and Lights, Installation of an Aga Light at Cape Collinson.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - This is in connection with the reorganisation of the lighthouses. It is estimated that the erection of an Aga Light at Cape Collinson will effect a saving of $3,343 a year.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Educational\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of eight hundred and fourteen dollars ($814) in aid of the vote of Education. A.-Department of Director of Education, Special Expenditure, Peak School, Furniture for Quarters.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - Provision was made last year for furniture for the Peak School. Pending the return of the headmistress from leave no furniture was purchased, and this expenditure has thus only been incurred this year. It is necessary for heavy furniture.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Harbour Telephone Cable\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) in aid of the vote of Public Works, Extraordinary, Miscellaneous, Telephone Hongkong, Cable across Harbour.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - This is a re-vote for providing a cable across the harbour. The money was not spent last year because the cables did not arrive, so it has to be spent this year.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Wireless Station\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one thousand four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents ($1,457.55) in aid of the vote of Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Buildings, Wireless Telegraph Station.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - The sum of money is for providing cooling tanks at the works at the wireless station, and for the erection of another motor. Additional accommodation is required.\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS - This work has been carried out by the Royal Naval Dockyard. No provision was made in the estimates for this year, but the work was necessary.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Police and Prison\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of thirteen thousand three hundred and six dollars and eighty-one cents ($13,306.81) in aid of the vote of Police and Prison Departments, Special Expenditure, B. Fire Brigade, Motor Fire Engine and Pump.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - This is a re-vote also. It is for the motor-fire-engine and pump, which did not arrive in time to be paid for last year.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476372, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 187, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "## 186\n\nIn lieu the reef was conceded the grant was made retrospective as from 1st January 1913 to the subordinate officers generally, but for some reason which Your Petitioners have not been able to ascertain no such retrospective grant was made to them.\n\n6. Your Petitioners have therefore in comparison with their colleagues been penalised to the extent of Four hundred and eighty dollars each, being sixteen months quarters allowance at thirty dollars a month from 1st of January 1913 to 1st of May, 1914.\n\n7. When Your Petitioners heard of the Petition for quarters Allowance in 1913 they and their colleagues wished to present a similar petition, but they were advised by the Head of their Department, Mr. R. O. Hutchison, that it was not necessary for them to do so, as no doubt they would be treated on an equal footing with other subordinate officers. Your Petitioners were therefore surprised at being treated with discrimination.\n\n8. Subsequently Your Petitioners repeatedly applied through the Superintendent of Imports and Exports to the Colonial Government for retrospective quarters allowance but without success.\n\n9. One of Your Petitioners' colleagues, Mr. D. J. Mackenzie, who was not granted house allowance in the first instance, was subsequently granted the allowance, and Your Petitioners submit that it is most inequitable to make the grant to one and to refuse it to other officers in the same department.\n\n10. A similar grant was made after some delay to Mr. J. Eldridge, Overseer in the Public Works Department, although junior to Your Petitioners, and similar grants were also made (2)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476424, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Hong Kong, 7th May, 1918.\n\nWe hereby certify that the total issue of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China on the 31st December, 1917, amounted to Six million six hundred and eighty-one thousand five hundred and thirty-nine Dollars ($6,681,539), against which security is held as follows:-\n\n| Security held in Hong Kong | Security held by the Crown Agents | Issue | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | Ordinary issue | $5,900,000 |\n| | £460,000 | Excess issue | $781,539 |\n| | Foe.625,000 | | |\n\n**Claudteven** \nColonial Secretary.\n\n**Ahrshmusii** \nColonial Treasurer.\n\nPage 238", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477959, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "## Page 2\n\naccepted the nomination of one Japanese as engineer and of another as accountant, but these officials had no executive power in the administration of the new line, and the result has been what can be imagined a pretty rotten railway. Many of the bridges are of wood - the line goes over and round hills that it ought to have pierced. \"Penny wise and pound foolish\" sums it up. Funds ran short before the line was finished and the Chinese had to raise more money. The Japanese were of course disgusted with the whole business. Then the war broke out, and Japan took the opportunity to present the famous twenty-one demands.\n\nNo. 7 of Group II ran as follows:- \n\"The Chinese Government agrees that the control and management of the Kirin-Changchun Railway shall be handed over to the Japanese Government for a term of ninety-nine years, dating from the signing of this agreement.\"\n\nThe subject of the twenty-one demands is one upon which there is scope for infinite enlargement, but there is small profit in criticising a single item of comparatively minor importance. It was the Japanese policy to make a certain advance in Manchuria, and if there is to be any criticism it should apply to the whole policy, for the steps are details. It must be admitted that the demand to control the Kirin-Changchun Railway was obnoxious from the Chinese point of view, but it was an inevitable corollary of Japanese ambition in all this region.\n\nFinally, in article 7 of the treaty respecting South Manchuria and Eastern Inner Mongolia \n\"The Chinese Government agrees speedily to make a fundamental revision of the Kirin-Changchun Railway Loan Agreement, taking as a standard the provisions in railway loan agreements made heretofore between China and foreign financiers.\"\n\nThus, on the 25th May, 1915, the Chinese gave away all there was to give away of this railway, and the present agreement merely embodies what was then conceded.\n\nThe Japanese thereafter drafted an agreement based as to terms on the agreement relating to the Changting-Taiyuan-fu Railway - the stiffest of all the railway agreements, for it mortgages the line and its revenues and vests the lenders with control. Chinese negotiators, after long discussion, agreed to Japanese control, and to make the loan repayable in forty years, whereafter the line would lapse to China. Parliament, however, kicked at the forty years and wanted joint control, and sent the agreement back for revision. Since then the Chinese and Japanese have outsat each other at endless conferences leading to nothing at all, and it says something for the pacific attitude of the Japanese Government that they did not hurry China to give what she promised to give \"speedily\" over two years before.\n\nThe agreement now signed is practically the same as presented to Parliament, except that, in deference to Chinese face, the period is reduced from forty to thirty years - a reduction hardly to the advantage of China, for if the railway earnings are not sufficient to pay the annual interest and amortisation the Board of Communications will have to make up the deficit. That, however, is a small matter, for the annual charges of six and a half millions are a comparative trifle.\n\nAs regards the proceeds of the loan, the Chinese Government gets nothing in cash. The amount owing to the South Manchuria Railway - originally 2,150,000 yen, now a little less, owing to annual repayments - will be deducted, and the balance of some 4,000,000 yen will be deposited in a Japanese bank, to be used exclusively for the improvement of the railway in the shape of iron bridges, tunnels, and so forth. Management is vested in the South Manchuria Railway Company, which will nominate a chief engineer, chief accountant, and traffic superintendent to manage the line. Administration will be nominally only in the hands of a Chinese director-general - a merely face-saving device. This official, however, will have his uses, for he will be able, in Chinese interests, to watch the expenditure of the four million unexpended balance of the loan. At the end of the thirty years' duration of the Loan Agreement the debt will be liquidated, and the railway will pass back automatically into Chinese hands - provided a lot of other things do not happen in the meantime. During this period the South Manchuria Railway Company will get 20 per cent of whatever net profits there may be, a reasonable provision to be found in other foreign loan agreements, including the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Agreement.\n\nAs regards cost to China, she originally spent 2,150,000 yen on the line, plus a few hundreds of thousands subsequently. This, added to the present loan, makes a grand total of about 9,000,000 yen.\n\n## Page 3\n\nThe Japanese, for their own strategic and commercial purposes, are safe to make a good job of the improvements, so that China hereafter will or ought to inherit a first-class property. Eighty miles for 9,000,000 yen is about 12,000L per mile, not obviously a very expensive rate for railway construction as things go in China. The total cost would have been much less if the capital originally provided had been advantageously expended. \n\n## Page 193", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477961, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 198, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "## \nThe Chinese Government accepted the nomination of one Japanese as engineer and of another as accountant, but these officials had no executive power in the administration of the new line, and the result has been what can be imagined—a pretty rotten railway. Many of the bridges are of wood—the line goes over and round hills that it ought to have pierced. \"Penny wise and pound foolish\" sums it up. Funds ran short before the line was finished and the Chinese had to raise more money. The Japanese were of course disgusted with the whole business. Then the war broke out, and Japan took the opportunity to present the famous twenty-one demands.\n\nNo. 7 of Group II ran as follows:- \n\"The Chinese Government agrees that the control and management of the Kirin-Changchun Railway shall be handed over to the Japanese Government for a term of ninety-nine years, dating from the signing of this agreement.\"\n\nThe subject of the twenty-one demands is one upon which there is scope for infinite enlargement, but there is small profit in criticising a single item of comparatively minor importance. It was the Japanese policy to make a certain advance in Manchuria, and if there is to be any criticism it should apply to the whole policy, for the steps are details. It must be admitted that the demand to control the Kirin-Changchun Railway was obnoxious from the Chinese point of view, but it was an inevitable corollary of Japanese ambition in all this region.\n\nFinally, in article 7 of the treaty respecting South Manchuria and Eastern Inner Mongolia — \n\"The Chinese Government agrees speedily to make a fundamental revision of the Kirin-Changchun Railway Loan Agreement, taking as a standard the provisions in railway loan agreements made heretofore between China and foreign financiers.\"\n\nThus, on the 25th May, 1915, the Chinese gave away all there was to give away of this railway, and the present agreement merely embodies what was then conceded.\n\nThe Japanese thereafter drafted an agreement based as to terms on the agreement relating to the Changting-Taiyuan-fu Railway, the stiffest of all the railway agreements, for it mortgages the line and its revenues and vests the lenders with control. Chinese negotiators, after long discussion, agreed to Japanese control, and to make the loan repayable in forty years, whereafter the line would lapse to China. Parliament, however, kicked at the forty years and wanted joint control, and sent the agreement back for revision. Since then the Chinese and Japanese have outsat each other at endless conferences leading to nothing at all, and it says something for the pacific attitude of the Japanese Government that they did not hurry China to give what she promised to give \"speedily\" over two years before.\n\nThe agreement now signed is practically the same as presented to Parliament, except that, in deference to Chinese face, the period is reduced from forty to thirty years—a reduction hardly to the advantage of China, for if the railway earnings are not sufficient to pay the annual interest and amortisation the Board of Communications will have to make up the deficit. That, however, is a small matter, for the annual charges of six and a half millions are a comparative trifle.\n\nAs regards the proceeds of the loan, the Chinese Government gets nothing in cash. The amount owing to the South Manchuria Railway—originally 2,150,000 yen, now a little less, owing to annual repayments—will be deducted, and the balance of some 4,000,000 yen will be deposited in a Japanese bank, to be used exclusively for the improvement of the railway in the shape of iron bridges, tunnels, and so forth. Management is vested in the South Manchuria Railway Company, which will nominate a chief engineer, chief accountant, and traffic superintendent to manage the line. Administration will be nominally only in the hands of a Chinese director-general—a merely face-saving device. This official, however, will have his uses, for he will be able, in Chinese interests, to watch the expenditure of the four million unexpended balance of the loan. At the end of the thirty years' duration of the Loan Agreement the debt will be liquidated, and the railway will pass back automatically into Chinese hands—provided a lot of other things do not happen in the meantime. During this period the South Manchuria Railway Company will get 20 per cent. of whatever net profits there may be, a reasonable provision to be found in other foreign loan agreements, including the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Agreement.\n\nAs regards cost to China, she originally spent 2,150,000 yen on the line, plus a few hundreds of thousands subsequently. This, added to the present loan, makes a grand total of about 9,000,000 yen.\n\nThe Japanese, for their own strategic and commercial purposes, are safe to make a good job of the improvements, so that China hereafter will—or ought to—inherit a first-class property. Eighty miles for 9,000,000 yen is about 12,000 per mile, not a very expensive rate for railway construction as things go in China. Obviously the total cost would have been much less if the capital originally provided had been advantageously expended.\n\n## Page 3\n## Page 14 \n## Page 2 \n## Page 195", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477963, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "## \naccepted the nomination of one Japanese as engineer and of another as accountant, but these officials had no executive power in the administration of the new line, and the result has been what can be imagined—a pretty, rotten railway. Many of the bridges are of wood—the line goes over and round hills that it ought to have pierced. \"Penny wise and pound foolish\" sums it up.\n\nFunds ran short before the line was finished and the Chinese had to raise more money. The Japanese were of course disgusted with the whole business. Then the war broke out, and Japan took the opportunity to present the famous twenty-one demands.\n\nNo. 7 of Group II ran as follows:—\n\n\"The Chinese Government agrees that the control and management of the Kirin-Changchun Railway shall be handed over to the Japanese Government for a term of ninety-nine years, dating from the signing of this agreement.”\n\nThe subject of the twenty-one demands is one upon which there is scope for infinite enlargement, but there is small profit in criticising a single item of comparatively minor importance. It was the Japanese policy to make a certain advance in Manchuria, and if there is to be any criticism it should apply to the whole policy, for the steps are details. It must be admitted that the demand to control the Kirin-Changchun Railway was obnoxious from the Chinese point of view, but it was an inevitable corollary of Japanese ambition in all this region.\n\nFinally, in article 7 of the treaty respecting South Manchuria and Eastern Inner Mongolia:\n\n\"The Chinese Government agrees speedily to make a fundamental revision of the Kirin-Changchun Railway Loan Agreement, taking as a standard the provisions in railway loan agreements made heretofore between China and foreign financiers.' \n\nEJ\n\nThus, on the 25th May, 1915, the Chinese gave away all there was to give away of this railway, and the present agreement merely embodies what was then conceded.\n\nThe Japanese thereafter drafted an agreement based on the terms of the agreement relating to the Changting-Taiyuan-fu Railway—the stiffest of all the railway agreements, for it mortgages the line and its revenues and vests the lenders with control. Chinese negotiators, after long discussion, agreed to Japanese control, and to make the loan repayable in forty years, whereafter the line would lapse to China. Parliament, however, kicked at the forty years and wanted joint control, and sent the agreement back for revision. Since then the Chinese and Japanese have outsat each other at endless conferences leading to nothing at all, and it says something for the pacific attitude of the Japanese Government that they did not hurry China to give what she promised to give \"speedily\" over two years before.\n\nThe agreement now signed is practically the same as presented to Parliament, except that, in deference to Chinese face, the period is reduced from forty to thirty years—a reduction hardly to the advantage of China, for if the railway earnings are not sufficient to pay the annual interest and amortisation the Board of Communications will have to make up the deficit. That, however, is a small matter, for the annual charges of six and a half millions are a comparative trifle.\n\nAs regards the proceeds of the loan, the Chinese Government gets nothing in cash. The amount owing to the South Manchuria Railway—originally 2,150,000 yen, now a little less, owing to annual repayments—will be deducted, and the balance of some 4,000,000 yen will be deposited in a Japanese bank, to be used exclusively for the improvement of the railway in the shape of iron bridges, tunnels, and so forth. Management is vested in the South Manchuria Railway Company, which will nominate a chief engineer, chief accountant, and traffic superintendent to manage the line. Administration will be nominally only in the hands of a Chinese director-general—a merely face-saving device. This official, however, will have his uses, for he will be able, in Chinese interests, to watch the expenditure of the four million unexpended balance of the loan. At the end of the thirty years' duration of the Loan Agreement the debt will be liquidated, and the railway will pass back automatically into Chinese hands—provided a lot of other things do not happen in the meantime. During this period the South Manchuria Railway Company will get 20 per cent. of whatever net profits there may be, a reasonable provision to be found in other foreign loan agreements, including the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Agreement.\n\nAs regards cost to China, she originally spent 2,150,000 yen on the line, plus a few hundreds of thousands subsequently. This, added to the present loan, makes a grand total of about 9,000,000 yen.\n\nThe Japanese, for their own strategic and commercial purposes, are safe to make a good job of the improvements, so that China hereafter will—or ought to—in...herit a first-class property. Eighty miles for 9,000,000 yen is about 12,000*l*. per mile, not a very expensive rate for railway construction as things go in China. Obviously the total cost would have been much less if the capital originally provided had been advantageously expended.\n\n## \n197", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488595, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Appendix 4.\n\nA member of the Commission, Rev. Mr. Wells, made a visit of inspection to one of the halts where people carrying loads to the Peak were resting.\n\nHe reports as follows:-\n\n“Having heard that children were carrying loads to the Peak, I made a visit to one of their halts. A number of women and children were sitting down, and my attention was first called to a boy who seemed to be very weak, if not ill. He was eating a cake, but seemed to have little appetite for it; the time was about 9:30 a.m. His mother was sitting beside him, evidently somewhat anxious about him. I asked his age, and she said about nine or ten (Chinese reckoning). On being asked which burden the boy was carrying, she pointed to many loads and said \"that one,\" adding \"there are many more, ask them.\" I looked about and saw a very small boy; he was eight years of age (English reckoning, say about 6 years); he was with his mother, and she said that he must work, or he would not have food to eat. The mother was a widow and came to Hongkong to get work, and finding that the boy could also get work, had set him to earn what he could. He had two loads of twenty-two catties (29 lbs. each); these loads he took one by one, carrying each a short distance, and then returning for the other. Further enquiry elicited information to the effect that he had his breakfast at 5 a.m., and began to carry at a place near the Central Market, on the sea front, at six a.m., and had got so far; his work would be finished at about five p.m. He could earn eight cents for a day's work, carrying fifty-eight pounds (forty-four catties) weight of coal to the Peak. It was stated that he could only work about ten days a month, and that women could only work about twenty days. The child earned eight cents a day, or eighty cents a month, but he had to get some lunch, and it was said that this might cost three cents a day, so that his clear earnings would only be about fifty cents a month. This sum seems hardly sufficient to pay for medicine for him, if, as seems probable, he should have occasional sicknesses. It seems to be a wicked way to use the time and energy of such a child.\n\nOther boys and girls of ten, eleven, and twelve years of age were in the neighbourhood at work; it was said that a twelve-year-old girl could earn twelve cents a day. A general conversation with men and women was held, and it transpired that they get eighteen cents for a load of one hundred catties (133 lbs.), and that a man could carry two loads, and a woman about 150 catties; the man would earn thirty-six (36) cents a day, and a woman in good health about twenty-seven (27) cents.\n\nThe problem of the formulation of a plan for the protection of these children is a difficult one to solve. It seems as if the small load system might be stopped at the starting point; contractors and employers should not be allowed to make up child burdens. The lowest load might be fixed at fifty catties, and they might be informed that only strong children of full age should be allowed to carry the materials or goods. If necessary, the system might be attacked gradually, and the weight limit be reached by slower steps.\n\nIf young children can earn so little, they would be much better employed in schools where they could learn a little about books, and what they teach, and if it were possible to give them some industrial training as part of their school training, so much the better. It might be possible to teach a little about the cultivation of flowers and plants, the manufacture of small toys, or even elementary work that would be useful for their future life as artisans, and even perhaps enable them to earn a few cents a day after a short time.”\n\n## General.\n\nI should like, in conclusion, to make a few general observations in elaboration of those contained in the draft report. At the outset, let me say that I am as anxious as anyone else in this Colony to see the hard lot of some of the poor children in this Colony improved, and I am sure that all the Chinese here will do everything possible towards that end. But we must take facts as they exist, and not allow our sentiments to affect our considered judgement. Owing to its proximity to the Kwongtung Province, there is a constant flow of Chinese of all classes into this Colony, most of whom come here in order to find work to keep themselves from starvation. The present conditions of the two Kwongs further aggravates the situation. The children who are earning wages are essential to the \"scheme of things\" in the daily life of the poor, and without them, it would mean so much less income to feed the family. One would like to cut down as much as possible the working hours of these children, but unfortunately, there is a limit beyond which one cannot go without doing more harm than good. As a rule, these children do piece-work; they are paid according to the amount of hours of work they put in. If, for instance, you halve their working hours of, say, 70 hours a week, you would reduce their income by 50%; and where there is more than one child earning such wages, it may mean the loss of the wherewithal to pay rent.\n\nThere has been a great deal of talk about \"sweated labour\" in Hongkong. Except a few isolated cases which one may come across here and there, the work which the children in the Colony are doing cannot be so described. The work is hard, no doubt, but where it constitutes the alternative to starvation, it should be allowed, if greater harm is not to be wrought. The struggle for existence in China is intense, and the children who work in the interior are mostly worse off than those earning wages in Hongkong. That is why the Commission do not recommend the total prohibition of child labour, but rather suggest its regulation.\n\nThis brings me to the question of compulsory education in the Colony. The idea is very attractive, but a little consideration will show that it cannot be worked. Situated, geographically, as Hongkong is, with its door ever open to the teeming millions from China, the problem of accommodation alone will be found to be most difficult of solution. Then there would be the question of expense, which would be enormous, and the difficulty of training the large number of teachers that would be required. Even if all these difficulties could be surmounted, then there would be the question of feeding and clothing the thousands of children who would have to give up their work, upon which they at present depend for their maintenance, in order to attend school. I should like, however, to see every child receive some education, if possible; but such should be achieved not by legislation but by voluntary attendance at Continuation Classes in the evening or on Sundays.\n\n(Signed) **CHOW SHOU SON**.\n\nPage 329", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491368, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "page_number": 361, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "ACCOUNTS OFFICE.\n\nREFRIGERATING PLANT AT LAI-CHI-KOK\n\nThe Chairman :- It is quite open to any shareholder to make any suggestion or motion that he likes.\n\nDr. Cantlie :-\" I think if Dr. Noble moved that the directors reconsider the matter it would be sufficient.\n\nMr. Ray :\"I do not think that there is anything for the Board of Directors to reconsider. They have thrashed the matter out and I don't think their opinions are altered at all. We would certainly make the dividend 5% if we could, and I know that 3% will be gladly received by many shareholders. I, as one of the directors, may say, that so far as we are concerned, the matter has received every consideration at our hands.\n\nDr. Noble :-\"After those remarks, in conjunction with what Mr. Sharp has said, I will be content to remain quiet.\n\nMr. Ray:\n\n\"The directors, I may add, have never received any remuneration since the Company was started.\n\nThis 3% dividend made a total paid during the five years of 8%.\n\nAt the eighth annual meeting on February 11th, 1895, Mr. Granville Sharp said \"Well, gentlemen, we have during the past twelve months done our best. We have not achieved any very great success, but we do not think that is our fault. I think it is only right to draw your attention to the fact that we have worked for nothing. We have been doing that now for nine years past, and I think we ought not to pledge ourselves in any way for the future; but we really are entitled to something if we work and do our best. The report has been in your hands for some days, and if you will allow us, we will take it as being read. There is not much to remark upon it.\n\nThe report at the bottom shows a balance of $2,691.46 which it is desired to be carried over. It may be thought by some that it would be better to write it off, but the majority of the directors thought it was desirable to carry it forward, and therefore it goes forward. Whether it means that we have $2,691.46 beyond our capital of $100,000 might be a matter of opinion. In mine I do not consider that we have that surplus. I think it is right to draw your attention to the fact of the property because it is a particular considerable item in the accounts, and we take it at what it stands in our books. I said just now that we had not made a great success. I think, on the other hand, it might be said that we have made a great success in one respect. When I came here thirty-six years ago there was no milk to be had. We were as badly off then in Hong Kong as they appear to be at present in India, according to a very interesting extract which was produced last week from the Times of India in the Daily Press.\n\nPage 80\n\nPage 81\n\n357", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# STANLEY PENINSULA, HONGKONG.\n\n## PROPOSED SITE FOR SAINT STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.\n\nThe attached plan gives a rough proposal for building a School at Stanley. Details of the buildings proposed and the general arrangement of these are as follows:-\n\n### BUILDINGS.\n\n* School Hall for three hundred boys, with Committee or master's room, school offices, medical inspection room, stationery and book store, dressing rooms and lavatory, and stage.\n* School Chapel, with seats for three hundred and fifty.\n* Gymnasium, fifty feet by eighty-five feet.\n* Chemistry and Physics Laboratories, with preparation room, dark room, and experimental laboratory.\n* Workshops with power house, fitters shop, carpenter's shop, forge, general electrical and mechanics room, battery room, and lavatories.\n* Common Dining Hall for three hundred boys with kitchens and servants' quarters, a small common room for masters, and a common room for boys with lavatories adjoining.\n* Rutherfoord Hall to be used as a library, reading room, and museum.\n* Three Hostels each with accommodation for fifty boys, a married house master, and two assistant masters. A sick room adjoins one of the house master's bedrooms and has a private verandah and bath-room.\n* Class Rooms. There are ten class rooms for thirty boys each with an art room in the same block.\n\n### GENERAL ARRANGEMENT.\n\nAll the buildings with the exception of hostels, dining hall and Rutherfoord Hall are arranged along the high ground running in a north and south direction in the centre of the site, and with the buildings themselves in an east and west direction. The dining hall is shown on the old site of the married soldiers' quarters, and the Rutherfoord Hall and one hostel on the spur running to the north.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497977, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "content_text": "# 132\n\nThis Indenture made the Thirtieth day of January in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven between our Sovereign Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith of the one part and William Keswick of the Colony of Hongkong require the resident managing Partner of the firm of Jardine Matheson and Company Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy also of the said Colony Esquire the resident managing Partner of the firm of Russell and Company and Henry George Thomsett also of the said Colony Esquire the Harbour Master of Hongkong aforesaid (which said William Keswick, Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy and Henry George Thomsett are hereinafter called the Lessees) of the other part.\n\nWhereas by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland made and dated at Westminster the fifth day of April in the sixth year of the Reign of Her said Majesty the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies were erected into a Colony and full power and authority to the Governor of the said Colony of Hongkong for the time being were given and granted in the name of Her said Majesty and on her behalf (but subject nevertheless to such provisions as might be in that respect contained in any Instructions which might from time to time be addressed to him by Her said Majesty) to make and execute in the name and on the behalf of Her said Majesty under the Public Seal of the said Colony grants of Land to Her said Majesty belonging within the said Colony to private persons for their own use and benefit or to any persons Bodies Politic or Corporate in trust for the public uses of Her said Majesty's subjects there resident or any of them.\n\nAnd whereas by certain other Letters Patent under the Great Seal as aforesaid bearing date the Thirteenth day of February on the thirty fifth year of the Reign of Her said Majesty Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath was constituted and appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of the said Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.\n\nAnd whereas by certain Instructions of Her said Majesty addressed to then Governor of Hongkong under Her said Majesty's Signet and Sign manual and dated the sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty three the said Governor was amongst other things instructed to grant Leases of the Land in the said Colony belonging to Her said Majesty.\n\nNow this Indenture Witnesseth that in consideration of the yearly rents conditions and agreements hereinafter reserved and contained by and on the part and behalf of the said Lessees their executors administrators and assigns to be paid done and performed Her said Majesty Queen Victoria hath demised leased and to farm let and by these presents doth demise lease and to farm let unto the said Lessees their executors administrators and assigns All that piece or parcel of ground situate lying and being at Victoria in the said Island of Hong Kong abutting on the North side thereof on the Praya and measuring thereon three hundred and fifty nine feet and nine inches on the South side thereof on Battery Road and Queen's Road and measuring thereon two hundred and sixty three feet on the East side thereof on Western Street Saiyingpoon and measuring thereon three hundred and three feet and nine inches and on the West side thereof on a close registered in the Land Office as Marine Lot Number one hundred and eighty seven and measuring thereon two hundred and fifty feet and six inches which said piece or parcel of ground contains in the whole eighty two thousand six hundred and sixty square feet and is registered in the Land Office as Marine Lot Number one hundred and eighty seven A together with the messuages tenements and buildings thereon and all easements profits commodities and appurtenances whatsoever to the said demised premises belonging or in any wise appertaining and is more particularly delineated and described in the plan hereunto annexed and thereon coloured Red.\n\nExcepting and Always reserving unto Her said Majesty her heirs successors and assigns full power to resume and take possession of all or any part of the said piece or parcel of ground hereby demised if required for the improvement of the said Colony of Hong Kong or for any other public purpose whatsoever three Calendar Months Notice being given to the occupant thereof of its being so required and a full and fair compensation for the said Land and the Buildings thereon being paid to the said Lessees their 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 in which said valuation the benefit to accrue to the said Lessees their heirs executors administrators or assigns from any such improvement or public purpose shall be allowed by way of set off against any damage he or they may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid.\n\nExcept and reserved also all Mines...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "BRITAIN AND THE BOXER INDEMNITY.\n\nPage 363\n\nTOWARDS the end of December, 1922, the British Chargé D'Affaires at Peking, acting on instructions from the British Foreign Office, informed the Chinese Government that Great Britain had decided, in principle, to devote her share of the Boxer Indemnity to expenditure on purposes mutually beneficial to both countries. British opinion in the Far East, and at home, was immediately stampeded into supporting a project for devoting the entire outstanding British share of the indemnity to educational purposes, especially to the \"education of Chinese on British lines.” No other use for the remitted indemnity seems to have been seriously considered.\n\nThe attitude of the British Chambers of Commerce in China, and of Britons at home who took any interest in the matter is easy to understand. There was, in the first place, the American precedent, established in 1908, when a portion of the American indemnity was remitted. The Chinese Government, anxious to mark its appreciation of America's generosity and \"mindful of the desire recently expressed by the President of the United States\" found, in the action of the American Government \"a favourable opportunity to promote the coming of Chinese students to the United States to take courses in the schools and higher educational institutions of the country.\" A scheme was accordingly drawn up, as a result of which Tsing Hua College was established near Peking for the preliminary training of students destined for America. From this institution a steady stream of Chinese students has proceeded to the United States to complete their education in the Universities of that country.\n\nAt the conclusion of the Great War it was generally felt by Britons in China that their country was lagging behind in the provision of facilities for the higher education of Chinese, and a special Committee was appointed by the Associated British Chambers of Commerce to investigate and report. This Committee after an exhaustive inquiry recommended the establishment of a fund, raised by voluntary subscriptions, eighty per cent. of which was to be used for the promotion of the education of Chinese on British lines, and twenty per cent. for the support of British Medical Missions.\n\nInquiries from existing British educational institutions showed that they required approximately $600,000 for capital expenditure, and about $124,000 per annum in the form of grants. It proved impossible to raise the amount required to defray this capital expenditure, and the cost of the proposed annual subsidies. But about $115,000 was subscribed, from which grants ranging from $300 to $5,000 per annum were promised to various British secondary schools for five consecutive years, while $20,000 was allotted to Medical Missions. The remission of the British share of the Boxer Indemnity should render it unnecessary to canvass for further subscriptions for the support of British Educational institutions in China. The question at the moment is whether the whole of the remitted Indemnity should be devoted to the promotion of education, or whether it would not be more beneficial to China to include other projects in the British Indemnity scheme.\n\nThe amount of the Boxer Indemnity was fixed, in 1901, at Haikwan Taels 450,000,000. Amortization was to be spread over a period of thirty-nine years, interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum being charged on the capital amount. The total payable by China between 1902 and 1940 (both inclusive) would therefore amount to Hk. Tls. 982,238,150. The British share of the Indemnity amounts to about 11.25 per cent. (actually 11.24901 per cent.) The annual instalments were regularly met until August 1917, when China declared war on the Central Powers, and Britain and most of the Allies agreed to the\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502286, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "The attitude of foreigners in China towards the present tragedy is most illuminating. On June 3, the faculty of Yenching University (a missionary college in Peking), composed of British, Americans, Swiss, and Chinese, issued a public statement expressing \"profound disquiet at the reported treatment of the Chinese.\" It went on to say, \"We deeply deplore the shooting of the students, and wish to protest against what appears to be too great reliance upon violent measures to meet the present disorders. Regrettable as the incidents are in themselves, they cause us still greater apprehension as a revelation of a grave underlying situation of estrangement and misunderstanding. It is probably on the foreign side that heavier responsibility for this lack of understanding rests.\" A few days later, a group of thirty British missionaries issued a similar statement which is worth quoting. \"We desire to express our intense regret that these incidents should have occurred. We should go further. We recognise that the serious situation evoked is largely due to underlying racial animosities. We as Britons admit that we have a large share of blame in the matter.\"\n\n46\n\nTo the best of our knowledge, these two statements represent the considered opinion of the best foreign element. Living outside the Concessions, they are able to look upon the incidents in their true light, firstly because they do not enjoy the extraordinary privileges of those who live in the concessions, and secondly because they are far more in touch with Chinese thought and culture.\n\nWhen we remember that nowhere else in the world do foreigners form a group by themselves and entertain such intense group feeling, the present lack of solidarity among foreigners is a significant fact which we will do well to emphasise.\n\nThe attitude of the foreigners in Shanghai is even more interesting. They have enjoyed their power for so long that they begin to forget that it does not rest on any secure foundation. They have been so accustomed to see the Chinese kicked and beaten by the police and by themselves without any consequences that they are amazed as well as indignant that these people should dare to rise and offer some resistance. They are also in panic, created by their own conscience, for the safety of their own persons and property. This explains the subsequent violent measures taken against the whole of the Chinese population within the Settlement, which included further shooting, wholesale arrests, house-to-house searches, rough handling of the Chinese who happened to pass near the police cordon, and the posting of machine guns by the landed marines. These measures, even more than the shooting incident itself, have roused the intense feeling of the Chinese all over the country and have been responsible for the grave incidents at Hankow and Kiukiang. Mr. Chamberlain, in common with the diplomatic body in Peking, makes a mistake in insisting that the Chinese Government should first stop the agitation, forgetting that the agitation is the result and not the cause of the violent measures mentioned above.\n\n(6)\n\n2\n\nThe Chinese Government has so far wisely refrained from interfering with the outbursts of popular feeling; otherwise, the situation would have become still more grave. It is true that in a few cities, the provincial authorities have prevented demonstrations, as hinted at by Mr. Chamberlain, but these cities are neither so vitally affected by the incidents nor situated in the political and intellectual centres of the nation. Unless and until the foreign authorities realise that justice is more important than prestige, and that fair play is more effective than brutal force, the agitation is bound to continue and to spread, and the Chinese Government, which tries to suppress popular feeling by administrative means, before it has obtained some satisfaction from the Foreign Powers, will surely have its days numbered. And if the present Government should yield to the insistence of the Powers to stop the agitation, the inevitable disastrous result would be seized upon and proclaimed to the world as one of the many proofs that China is unable to utilise the opportunity given her by the Powers to set her own house in order. It is significant to note that so far, no disorder has taken place against foreigners living in the interior, but it is precisely in the foreign Concessions, such as Kiukiang and Hankow, where there are foreign-controlled police and troops, that serious incidents have taken place.\n\nLastly, a word is needed to enlighten the British public upon the subject of Bolshevism in China. It is an old trick to label any movement by a well-known and unpopular catchword in order to disguise the real issue. There is, of course, a certain amount of Bolshevik propaganda in China, just as there is in England, but the Chinese are just as much Bolsheviks as the English. We must first of all define our terms. If by Bolshevism it is meant the strong agitation for the revision of the obnoxious treaties which have their origin eighty years ago, or the widespread discontent mentioned by Mr. Chamberlain, we must frankly admit that the Chinese are Bolsheviks; on the other hand, if it is meant the particular principles of Communism as practised in Soviet Russia, then we must emphatically deny the accusation in any case. It is just as preposterous to assert that the present trouble is the outcome of Bolshevik propaganda as it is to say that the students stormed the police station with the view to capture the arms therein. Let the British public consider the facts without prejudice. The strike and boycott in Shanghai are far from being confined to the students and labourers; the whole merchant class has joined the movement for three weeks. All the shops and banks in the Settlement have closed their doors as a protest against the outrage. It is estimated that the loss per day amounts to over 300,000 pounds sterling. Does anybody seriously think that shrewd and hardheaded men would be willing to sacrifice their earnings and livelihood at the bidding of the Bolshevik school-boys and factory coolies? We do not deny, of course, that there may be Bolshevik sympathisers among the strikers, but that is no reason to characterise the whole movement as Bolshevik. Besides, it is up to the anti-Bolshevik people to do something to discredit Bolshevik propaganda. They tell us that we can expect no justice or equity from the capitalistic and imperialistic Governments; the best way to refute the accusation is to render justice and equity where they are already overdue. The Shanghai Municipal Council is the best friend of the Bolsheviks; for the action of the Shanghai police on May 30 and the days that followed is the best piece of Bolshevik propaganda that has ever been carried out in the Far East.\n\nLO WEN KAN, Ex-President of the Supreme Court of Peking.\n\nV. K. TING, Honorary Director of the Geological Survey.\n\nHU SHIH, Professor of Philosophy, National University of Peking.\n\nK. L. YEN, Professor of Physics, National University of Peking.\n\n(7)\n\n501", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504651, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "28\n\nSome appeared to be shoving the Chinese onlookers away, the remainder turned round, faced Shameen and were seen loading their rifles. Then the front rank opened fire straight across the creek at Shameen, the others joined in and instantaneously the firing became intense all the way down as far as I could see. They then scattered in all directions and took up positions behind any available cover in the houses and continued the attack,\n\n\"In a very short space of time I found bullets splashing round the consul-general and myself, so we retreated hurriedly.\n\n\"The Lewis gun detachment stationed overhead (No. 1) observed the firing at us, and bullets were also coming over their sandbag protection. They opened fire on the soldiers; the other Lewis gun detachments on their right were also being peppered and also opened fire.\n\n\"Directly I got up into No. 1 gun's position I ordered 'cease firing' with the intention of avoiding all unnecessary fighting. In the nature of things it was a short time before the further guns and the specials could be stopped. Very little firing really took place on our part.\n\n11\n\nThe soldiers continued firing, sniping from various points of vantage. When they became too accurate and persistent a few rounds of Lewis gun or rifle were dealt out to them, but soon afterwards I ordered all firing to cease unless the enemy became dangerous.\n\n\"After about an hour all firing ceased. Meanwhile, during a comparative lull about a quarter hour after the start, I managed to get to my headquarters at the consulate.\n\n\"On the left of the British bridge only a few rounds were fired by us, it being necessary to deal with some snipers in the buildings opposite.\n\n\"Similar action was taken by the French in their part of the island.\n\n\"One naval rating, Petty Officer Robert M. Chalmers, official No. J.15613, was wounded in the hand, and three civilians, one fairly seriously, the others slightly.\n\n\"In the French concession one civilian was killed and one wounded.\n\nThree Japanese civilians were wounded, one of whom was close to one of our Lewis gun positions before we opened fire.\n\n\"I have no doubt myself, and all evidence confirms the opinion, that this was a deliberate 'incident' engineered by a section of the local Government.\n\n\"I understand the Chinese casualties were roughly thirty killed and seventy wounded.\n\nC\n\nOne bullet pierced the water-tank and reduced the water supply until the damage can be repaired.\n\n\"The defence forces remained on duty till 6 o'clock this morning, when the specials were withdrawn; the naval parties remain at their posts.\n\n\"The enormous handicap Shameen suffers under from defence and communication points of view were very evident. To communicate or pass from one block to another means crossing a bullet-swept street. Bullets were also coming down Central Avenue from the French bridge end. Some telephone communication was fixed up, but is not very satisfactory, there being no exchange on the island.\n\n\"The Chinese authorities have written accusing us and the French of deliberately creating this incident. In these circumstances the danger of further attacks is very prominent. I have therefore to-day asked for troops to be sent up.\n\n\"The number of men available from the gunboats is not sufficient to keep our lines manned for more than a day or two without relief.\n\n\"We are also running the water-works and freezing installation, and the danger of attack from the water side must be guarded against.\n\n\"Further report will be made when details are available.\n\n\"Sir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n\"M. MAXWELL SCOTT, Commander.\n\n\"S.N.O., West River.\"\n\n\"Commander Scott to Commodore, Hong Kong.\n\n\"H.M.S. Tarantula,' at Canton, June 30, 1925.\n\n\"I have the honour, in continuation of my letter of the 24th June, 1925, to report that there is no doubt that the soldiers who started the firing belonged to that section of the Cantonese army trained by Russians at the military academy\n\n29\n\nof Whampoa. Full of confidence engendered by their easy victories over Chen Cheng Ming's troops and the Yunnanese army, they may have readily thought that they could take Shameen. In any case, there is no doubt that they had expressed that intention on the previous day.\n\n\"His Britannic Majesty's consul-general is, however, willing to believe that the local Government were not directly cognizant of their intentions.\n\n\"Whether or no their attack was meant seriously or merely to create an 'incident' it is impossible to say, but, if the former, it is providential that it took place before the whole Shakee Creek was lined with troops. The creek had so many sampans alongside the Chinese side and the tide was at such a height that a determined rush would have probably succeeded in getting many men into Shameen and through our defence line.\n\n\"The number of casualties on the Chinese side is stated to be thirty-seven killed, including one woman and one teacher and four students of the Canton Christian College, and eighty wounded.\n\n\"After firing the first few volleys the soldiers took up positions of vantage in the houses and behind the pillars supporting the verandahs and continued to fire rapidly. It is inevitable under the circumstances that some unfortunate civilians should suffer, especially from ricochet bullets, but the only case that I have been able to ascertain of a man not in uniform being fired at by the British forces was that of an individual who drew a Mauser pistol from under his clothes.\n\n\"In connection with the order given by me to cease firing when I reached our Lewis-gun post by the British bridge, I would draw attention to the service performed by Petty Officer Robert M. Chalmers, official No. J.15613, who ran down our front line under heavy fire and blew the signal for 'cease fire' continuously until, just as he was passing the Victoria Hotel, he was hit in both hands and fell into the hotel verandah.\n\n\"Two platoons of Indian troops arrived in Shameen on the 25th June and took over that part of the line stretching from the British bridge to the western end of the island. They were at first quartered in tents, but yesterday they were moved into a convenient house, the building of which has just been completed.\n\n\"The officer in command assures me that his men are comfortable and happy. Their keenness is very evident.\n\n\"The Shameen special police have shown great keenness and energy in carrying out many\n\nvaried duties besides taking their share in guard duties; their spirit\n\ncould be no better.\n\n\"Commanding officers, officers and ship's companies have one and all shown great cheeriness and devotion to duty. Their health remains good.\n\n\"The leak in the water-tank has been temporarily plugged, and I have taken the precaution of filling the swimming bath, which now holds 90,000 gallons of drinking water.\n\n\"Informal conversations are being carried on through the good offices of the American and German consuls-general and other neutrals, and the atmosphere is less tense.\n\n\"No soldiers have lately been observed in the vicinity of Shameen.\n\n\"The custom-house was partially reopened on the 29th June; this should tend to ease the situation.\n\n\"His Britannic Majesty's consul-general has assured the neutral mediators that there is no intention of bringing up more troops; for this reason I have stopped the R.E. detachment from landing.\n\n\"I have, &c.\n\nANNEX VI.\n\n\"M. MAXWELL SCOTT, Commander,\n\n\"S.N.O., West River.\"\n\n[F3473/194/10]\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Received July 28.) (No. 5.)\n\nSir,\n\nCanton, June 25, 1925. WITH reference to the local political situation, I have the honour to enclose herewith, for your information, copies of my despatches Nos. 46 and 47 of to-day's date to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Peking.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\n509", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505104, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "Steam Launch \"Tai Yau\"-H.M.S. \"Durban reports on the 7th March, 1926, as follows:-\n\n\"Lei Ping Sun, 15 years, captain of the steam launch Tai Yau, tonnage 122 tons, owned by the Chiusan Company, Swatow, states: On the 6th March, 1926, I sailed from Tai Sam Mi, about 6 PM, with forty-seven passengers and about eighty baskets of salt fish as cargo. When leaving Tai Sam Mi, six Chinese males, who had boarded the ship before leaving as passengers, produced revolvers and seized the ship. They tied up myself, compradore and chief officer and then ransacked the ship, taking all the money from the passengers. They took the ship to Fan Lo Kong (near glass factory), where they left at about 7 A.M. to-day, the 7th March, taking all the money and some clothing with them. When leaving they told us to leave at once and go full speed or other pirates would catch us. I have never seen any of these men before and could not recognise them again.\"\n\nThis launch is on the Sunmei-Swatow run.\n\nJune 21, 1926.\n\nEnclosure No. 2.\n\n(Initialled)\n\nT. H. KING.\n\nPrécis of Piracies committed by Bias Bay Pirates since 1921.\n\n1. Steam Launch \"Kung Hong.\"-On the 22nd January, 1921, on the run between Hong Kong and Shan Mei. Pirated at 2:30 P.M. between Sa Mun and Shan Mei by about twelve men armed with revolvers-Hakkas. Launch taken to Fan Lo Kong Creek, booty loaded into junks. Arms carried on board at Hong Kong and concealed in buckets with false bottoms. Property to the value of 22,000 dollars stolen. Money, jewellery and clothing stolen-no cargo stolen. (Fishing junks in and around Fan Lo Kong undoubtedly are in league with the Bias Bay pirates)\n\n2. Steamship \"Kwong Lee.\"—China Merchants' Steamship Company on Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton run. Was pirated off Amoy at approximately 12:15 P.M. on the 13th December, 1921, while on a voyage from Shanghai to Hong Kong carrying 230 Chinese passengers. The ship was taken to Tai Sam Bay, where the pirates left the ship in a junk and made for Fan Lo Kong. Pirates to the number of approximately thirty-five boarded the ship in Shanghai. Property, money and jewellery to the value of about 120,000 dollars was stolen. The pirates were probably mostly natives of Fan Lo Kong and Nim Shan districts, some of them could speak English. They were armed with revolvers. One Chinese passenger was shot dead and his body thrown into the sea. Information was later given that the names of the leaders were:—\n\n(1) Tsang Chiu Man of Wai Chau.\n\n(2) Ng Tai Kun of Fan Lo Kong,\n\n(3) Ng Tai Hi of Fan Lo Kong.\n\nAll these had previous military experience.\n\n3. Steam Launch \"Wah Sun.\" Pirated between Ma Kung and Shan Mei at about 6:15 P.M. on the 18th December, 1921, by about ten men armed with revolvers, on the Hong Kong Shan Mei run. Ship taken to Fan Lo Kong Creek. Money, jewellery and clothing to the value of 21,000 dollars stolen. Pirates came on board at Ma Kung as passengers-spoke Hakka.\n\n4. Steam Launch “Wah Sun.”—Also on Hong Kong-Shan Mei run.\n\nPirated again while at anchor in Ping Hoi Harbour on the 22nd May, 1922, by several men who came alongside in sampans. Ship taken to Sam Liu, where the robbers left in sampans. Money, jewellery and clothing stolen to the value of over 5,000 dollars.\n\n5. Steam Launch \"San On.\"-Pirated between Tai Po and Sha Ya Chung on the 4th October, 1922, at about 9:30 A.M. On the Tai Po-Sha Yu Chung run. Taken to Ngo Kung, where the robbers disembarked in a junk and sailed to Tau Tau Shau, near San Liu (Bias Bay East). Nine men-spoke Hoklo and other dialects-armed with revolvers which they brought on board at Tai Po concealed in a clock. Money, jewellery and clothing stolen. No cargo stolen.\n\n6. Steamship \"Sui An.\"-Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company. River steamer on Hong Kong-Macao run. Pirated on the 19th November, 1922, about 10 miles from Macao, while on a voyage from Macao to Hong Kong, carrying approximately, 60 saloon passengers, 135 second-class and 220 third-class passengers. Pirates about 60 in number boarded the ship in Macao. They shot dead 2 Indian guards and wounded the captain, 2 guards and 2 passengers. Ship taken to Tsang Chau Island, north east of Bias Bay. Pirates left in sampans which came from the shore. Money, jewellery and clothing stolen to the value of over 34,000 dollars. Pirates spoke Hakka and Hoklo and were all armed with revolvers or rifles. Some of them had a knowledge of English. They were probably mostly natives of the villages in the Bias Bay area. Subsequently on information one man was arrested in a Shanghai boarding-house in possession of fifteen revolvers. He was supposed to have participated in the \"Sui An\" piracy. He was banished from Hong Kong for a period of ten years and handed over to the French authorities in Shanghai. Several informers came forward after the piracy with information regarding the identity of the pirates, but it is doubtful if any of the information was really accurate and no useful results were obtained from the information given. The piracy was reported to General Chan Kwing Ming, who was then in power in Canton, and a Chinese gunboat carrying troops was sent to Bias Bay. A party of police under Inspector Boulger embarked on the gunboat to watch the proceedings. The troops landed, but made little effort to locate the pirates and no useful results were obtained.\n\n7. Steamship \"Sunning.\"-River steamer, Shiu Hing Steamship Company, on Hong Kong-Kongmoon run. Was pirated at 8:15 P.M. on the 23rd October, 1923, off Castle Peak while on a voyage from Hong Kong to Kongmoon. She was carrying about 300 passengers. Pirates numbered about thirty-five men. The ship was taken to Tanng Chau Island, Bias Bay North-East, and the pirates left in the ship's boats. The captain, chief officer and one Indian guard were wounded. The pirates spoke Hakka, Hoklo, Mandarin and Puuti, and were armed with revolvers which they smuggled on board in Hong Kong. Property, jewellery and money to the value of over 20,000 dollars was stolen. It was later reported by General Hung Shiu Lun that the pirates leader's name was Tin O Tan, a native of Waichau. An informer also reported the names of several persons who were supposed to have taken part. Most of the persons mentioned came from Waichau or the Fan Lo Kong and Nim Shan districts.\n\n8. Steamship \"Hydrangea.\" On Hong Kong-Swatow run. Was pirated at about 6:40 P.M. on the 27th December, 1923, off Single Island, near Bias Bay, while on a voyage from Hong Kong to Swatow. She was carrying about 500 passengers and was taken to Bias Bay. The pirates numbered, approximately, 45 and spoke Hakka and Hoklo dialects. They were armed with revolvers and rifles. Money, jewellery and clothing to the value of 23,369 dollars was stolen, also part of the cargo, i.e., ten cases of piece-goods to the value of 10,000 dollars. The pirates who came from Fan Lo Kong and Nim Shan districts went ashore in the ship's boats. As a result of representations made to the Chinese authorities, Commander Wong Fuk Chi, under the orders of General Chan Kwing Ming carried out two expeditions against the pirates in the Nim Shan, Shan Mei and Ping Hoi districts, as a result of which seven men believed to have taken part in this piracy were subsequently shot. One of these was a pirate named Tin Ah Wong, the brother of Tin Tan, mentioned in connection with the Sunning piracy. Another pirate leader shot was named Tsang Kong.\n\nSeveral villagers who opposed the military in the raids in the districts mentioned were also shot and their houses were burned. One of the pirates shot, named Lo Kam, admitted participation in this piracy, and gave the names of several of his confederates; he also stated that the pirates were not all acquainted with each other but were collected together by several sub-leaders. His particular sub-leaders were Chu Cheong, a native of San Yu, and a man named Cheung Mau Sang, also of San Yu. He further stated that 39 men took part in the piracy. The arms used were presumably smuggled on board in Hong Kong. Three revolvers used in above piracy were recovered by Commander Wong Fuk Chi in his operations and returned to the Hong Kong police. Later Commander Wong Fuk Chi carried out a raid at Ping Shan, as a result of which five men believed to be pirates were shot.\n\n9. Steamship \"Ning Shin.\"-Shanghai-Foochow run. Was pirated at approximately 3 P.M. on the 3rd October, 1924, one day out of Shanghai, while on a voyage from Shanghai to Foochow. The ship was carrying 30 cases of silver bars consigned to the American Oriental Bank, Foochow, valued approximately 97,000 taels. Thirty-four pirates boarded the ship at Shanghai as passengers. About 250 Chinese passengers were on board. One quartermaster was killed and one sailor wounded. The ship was taken to a place off Tree Point, Bias Bay, where sampans came alongside. The pirates then discharged the silver and other cargo, together with the loot taken from the passengers, into the sampans, which then made for Sun Liu. The pirates, who were armed with revolvers, presumably smuggled their arms on board at Shanghai. They came from the Nim Shan and Fan Lo Kong districts.\n\nPage 368", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505112, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 378, "title": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "3.\n\n6\n\nSteam Launch \"Toi Yau.”—HI.M.S.\n\n1926, as follows:-\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\nDurban reports on the 7th March, \"Lei Ping Sun, 45 years, captain of the steam launch Tai Yau, tonnage 122 tons, owned by the Chiusan Company, Swatow, states: On the 6th March, 1926, I sailed from Tai Sam Mi, about 6 PM, with forty-seven passengers and about eighty baskets of salt fish as cargo. When leaving Tai Sam Mi, six Chinese males, who had boarded the ship before leaving as passengers, produced revolvers and seized the ship. They tied up myself, compradore and chief officer and then ransacked the ship, taking all the money from the passengers. They took the ship to Fan Lo Kong (near glass factory), where they left at about 7 A.M. to-day, the 7th March, taking all the money and some clothing with them. When leaving they told us to leave at once and go full speed or other pirates would catch us. I have never seen any of these men before and could not recognise them again.\" This launch is on the Sunmei-Swatow run.\n\nJune 21, 1926,\n\n(Initialled)\n\nEnclosure No. 2.\n\nT. H. KING.\n\nPrécis of Piracies committed by Bias Bay Pirates since 1921.\n\n1. Steam Launch “Kung Hong.\"-On the 22nd January, 1921, on the run between Hong Kong and Shan Mei. Pirated at 2:30 P.M. between Sa Mun and Shan Mei by about twelve men armed with revolvers-Hakkas. Launch taken to Fan Lo Kong Creek, booty loaded into junks. Arms carried on board at Hong Kong and concealed in buckets with false bottoms. Property to the value of 22,000 dollars stolen. Money, jewellery and clothing stolen-no cargo stolen. (Fishing junks in and around Fan Lo Kong undoubtedly are in league with the Bias Bay pirates)\n\n2. Steamship \"Kwong Lee.\"-China Merchants' Steamship Company on Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton run. Was pirated off Amoy at approximately 12:15 P.M. on the 15th December, 1921, while on a voyage from Shanghai to Hong Kong carrying 230 Chinese passengers. The ship was taken to Tai Sam Bay, where the pirates left the ship in a junk and made for Fan Lo Kong Pirates to the number of approximately thirty-five boarded the ship in Shanghai. Property, money and jewellery to the value of about 120,000 dollars was stolen. The pirates were probably mostly natives of Fan Lo Kong and Nim Shan districts, some of them could speak English. They were armed with revolvers. One Chinese passenger was shot dead and his body thrown into the sea. Information was later given that the names of the leaders were:\n\n(1.) Tsang Chiu Man of Wai Chau. (2.) Ng Tai Kun of Fan Lo Kong, (3.) Ng Tai Hi of Fau Lo Kong.\n\nAll these had previous military experience.\n\n3.\n\n7\n\nguards and wounded the captain, 2 guards and 2 passengers. Ship taken to Tsang Chau Island, north east of Bias Bay. Pirates left in sampans which came from the shore. Money, jewellery and clothing stolen to the value of over 31,000 dollars. Pirates spoke Hakka and Hoklo and were all armed with revolvers or rifles. Some of them had a knowledge of English. They were probably mostly natives of the villages in the Bias Bay area. Subsequently on information one man was arrested in Shanghai boarding-house in possession of fifteen revolvers. He was supposed to have participated in the \"Sui An\" piracy. He was banished from Hong Kong for a period of ten years and handed over to the French authorities in Shanghai. Several informers came forward after the piracy with information regarding the identity of the pirates, but it is doubtful if any of the information was really accurate and no useful results were obtained from the information given. The piracy was reported to General Chan Kwing Ming, who was then in power in Canton, and a Chinese gunboat carrying troops was sent to Bias Bay. A party of police under Inspector Boulger embarked on the gunboat to watch the proceedings. The troops landed, but made little effort to locate the pirates and no useful results were obtained.\n\n7. Steamship \"Sunning.\"-River steamer, Shiu Hing Steamship Company, on Hong Kong-Kongmoon run. Was pirated at 8:15 P.M. on the 23rd October, 1923, off Castle Peak while on a voyage from Hong Kong to Kongmoon. She was carrying about 300 passengers. Pirates numbered about thirty-five men. The ship was taken to Tsang Chan Island, Bias Bay North-East, and the pirates left in the ship's boats. The captain, chief officer and one Indian guard were wounded. The pirates spoke Hakka, Hoklo, Mandarin and Punti, and were armed with revolvers which they smuggled on board in Hong Kong. Property, jewellery and money to the value of over 20,000 dollars was stolen. It was later reported by General Hung Shiu Lun that the pirates leader's name was Tin Tau, a native of Waichau. An informer also reported the names of several persons who were supposed to have taken part. Most of the persons mentioned came from Waichau or the Fan Lo Kong and Nim Shan districts.\n\n8. Steamship “Hydrangea.\"-On Hong Kong-Swatow run. Was pirated at about 3:40 P.M. on the 27th December, 1923, off Single Island, near Bias Bay, while on a voyage from Hong Kong to Swatow. She was carrying about 500 passengers and was taken to Bias Bay. The pirates numbered, approximately, 45 and spoke Hakka and Hoklo dialects. They were armed with revolvers and rifles. Money, jewellery and clothing to the value of 23,369 dollars was stolen, also part of the cargo, i.e., ten cases of piece-goods to the value of 10,000 dollars. The pirates who came from Fan Lo Kong and Nim Shan districts went ashore in the ship's boats. As a result of representations made to the Chinese authorities, Commander Wong Fuk Chi, under the orders of General Chan Kwing Ming carried out two expeditions against the pirates in the Nim Shan, Shan Mei and Ping Hoi districts, as a result of which seven men believed to have taken part in this piracy were subsequently shot. One of these was a pirate named Tin Ah Wong, the brother of Tin Tan, mentioned in connection with the Sunning piracy. Another pirate leader shot was named Tsang Kong Several villagers who opposed the military in the raids in the districts mentioned were also shot and their houses were burned. One of the pirates shot, named Lo Kam, admitted participation in this piracy, and gave the names of several of his confederates; he also stated that the pirates were not all acquainted with each other but were collected together by several sub-leaders. His particular sub-leaders were Chu Cheong, a native of San Yu, and a man named Cheung Mau Sang, also of San Ya. He further stated that 30 men took part in the piracy. The arms used were presumably smuggled on board in Hong Kong. Three revolvers used in above piracy were recovered by Commander Wong Fuk Chi in his operations and returned to the Hong Kong police. Later Commander Wong Fuk Chi carried out a raid at Ping Shan, as a result of which five men believed to be pirates were shot.\n\nSteam Launch Wah Sun.\" Pirated between Ma Kung and Shan Mei at about 6:15 P.M. on the 18th December, 1921, by about ten men armed with revolvers, on the Hong Kong-Shan Mei run. Ship taken to Fan Lo Kong Creek. Money, jewellery and clothing to the value of 21,000 dollars stolen. Pirates came on board at Ma Kung as passengers-spoke Hakka.\n\n4. Steam Launch \"Wah Sun.\"\n\nAlso on Hong Kong-Shan Mei run. Pirated again while at anchor in Ping Hoi Harbour on the 22nd May, 1922, by several men who came alongside in sampans. Ship taken to Sam Liu, where the robbers left in sampans. Money, jewellery and clothing stolen to the value of over 5,000 dollars.\n\n5. Steam Launch \"San On.\"-Pirated between Tai Po and Sha Yu Chung on the 4th October, 1922, at about 9:30 A.M. On the Tai Po Sha Yu Chung run. Taken to Ngo Kung, where the robbers disembarked in a junk and sailed to Tau Tau Shan, near San Liu (Bias Bay East). Nine men-spoke Hoklo and other dialects-armed with revolvers which they brought on board at Tai Po concealed in a clock. Money, jewellery and clothing stolen. No cargo stolen.\n\n6. Steamship \"Sui An.\"-Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company's River steamer on Hong Kong-Macao run. Pirated on the 19th November, 1922, about 10 miles from Macao, while on a voyage from Macao to Hong Kong, carrying approximately, 60 saloon passengers, 135 second-class and 220 third-class passengers. Pirates about 60 in number boarded the ship in Macao. They shot dead 2 Indian guards and wounded the captain, 2 guards and 2 passengers. Ship taken to Tsang Chau Island, north east of Bias Bay. Pirates left in sampans which came from the shore. Money, jewellery and clothing stolen to the value of over 31,000 dollars. Pirates spoke Hakka and Hoklo and were all armed with revolvers or rifles. Some of them had a knowledge of English. They were probably mostly natives of the villages in the Bias Bay area.\n\n9. Steamship \"Ning Shin.\"-Shanghai-Foochow run. Was pirated at approximately P.M. on the 3rd October, 1924, one day out of Shanghai, while on a voyage from Shanghai to Foochow. The ship was carrying 30 cases of silver bars consigned to the American Oriental Bank, Foochow, valued approximately 97,000 taels. Thirty-four pirates were on board. One quartermaster was killed and one sailor wounded. The ship was taken to a place off Tree Point, Bias Bay, where sampans came alongside. The pirates then discharged the silver and other cargo, together with the loot taken from the passengers, into the sampans, which then made for Sun Liu. The pirates, who were armed with revolvers, presumably smuggled their arms on board at Shanghai. Pirates came from the Nim Shan and Fan Lo Kong districts.\n\n376", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513365, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nL. S.\n\nNo. 28 OF 1927.\n\nI assent\n\nC. CLEMENTI,\n\nGovernor.\n\n23rd December, 1927.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Railways Ordinance, 1909.\n\n[23rd December, 1927.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Railways Amendment Ordinance, 1927.\n\n2. Section 2 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended as follows:\n\n(a) The word \"administrator\" of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 2. is substituted for the word \"administration\" in paragraph (a).\n\n(b) The following paragraph is added to the definition of \"Railway\" in paragraph (d):—\n\n(v) any railway or portion of a railway in process of construction;\n\n(vi) all works connected with or for the purposes of a railway authorized to be constructed.\n\n3. The Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the word \"administrator\" for the word \"administration\" in the following sections:-\n\n(a) section 5, in the first line thereof;\n\n(b) section 6, in the third line thereof;\n\n(c) section 8, in the second, tenth, nineteenth, twenty-sixth, and thirty-second lines thereof;\n\n(d) section 9, in the first and sixth lines thereof;\n\n(e) section 10, in the second, fourth, eighth, and fifteenth lines thereof;\n\n(f) section 11, in the first, fifteenth, twenty-fourth, and twenty-seventh lines thereof;\n\n(g) section 12, in the second and tenth lines thereof;\n\n(h) section 14, in the fifth, seventh, and tenth lines thereof;\n\n(i) section 15, in the first line thereof;\n\n(j) section 19, in the fifth line thereof;\n\n(k) section 20, in the first and fifth lines thereof;\n\n(l) section 21, in the first line thereof;\n\n(m) section 22, in the first and eleventh lines thereof;\n\n(n) section 23, in the first line thereof;\n\n(o) section 24, in the third, fourth, and nineteenth lines thereof;\n\n(p) section 25, in the first line thereof;\n\n(q) section 26, in the sixth line thereof;\n\nPage 60", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513893, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-5 Supreme Court of Hong Kong- slackness of registry accounting methods 28-10-1927 - 23-4-1928", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-508-5 Supreme Court of Hong Kong- slackness of registry accounting methods 28-10-1927 - 23-4-1928", "content_text": "137\n\nMr. C. D. Melbourne, recalled 19. 11. 26.\n\nQ:1\n\nA:1\n\nWhat approximately is the number of affidavits and declarations taken daily in the Registry?\n\nI should say certainly over thirty. Probably nearer eighty.\n\nAre practically all taken by the Deputy Registrar?\n\nYes.\n\nEach necessitates three or four minutes interruption.\n\nYes.\n\nQ:2\n\nA:2\n\nQ:3\n\nA:3\n\nQ:4\n\nWhat is the fee for swearing?\n\nA:4\n\nO.J. $1.00. S.J. 50¢.\n\nQ:5\n\nA:5\n\nQ:6\n\n?\n\nA:6\n\nQ:7\n\nA:7\n\nQ:8\n\nDoes this fee go to revenue?\n\nYes, it is paid by a stamp.\n\nIf these were sworn by Solicitors appointed as commissioners there would be a big loss of revenue, but apart from this would there be any objection to the adoption of that course?\n\nWe often have to stop affidavits as not in order.\n\nBut the responsibility for the affidavit being in order lies on the solicitor preparing it and any irregularity would be seen when it came to be filed?\n\nYes.\n\nThere is some conflict between your evidence and that of Mr. Hill as to when you became aware of the position with regard to the S.S. \"Ling Nam\". You said that the first you heard was in June or July 1926 when the First Bailiff informed you that the Auctioneering & Broking Co. Ltd. was supplying provisions and funds. Mr. Hill says that he, accompanied by Captain Weston and an assistant from the A.P.C. consulted you with regard to the arrangement for the Dock Co. and A.P.C. to find wages. Also that he informed you of the arrangement made with the A. & B. Co. Ltd. and told you each time he paid out wages.\n\n45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-5 Supreme Court of Hong Kong- slackness of registry accounting methods 28-10-1927 - 23-4-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 518464, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928", "content_text": "**COPY**\n\nUnder and by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by Section 17, of the Animal Contagious Diseases Act, Chapter 75, R.S.C. 1927, I do hereby order that Ministerial Order under date the twenty-eighth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, is hereby cancelled as from May thirty-first, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and the following shall apply from June first, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight thereafter:-\n\nThe importation or introduction into Canada of merchandise packed in hay, straw, or any other raw product of the soil, is prohibited from all countries except the United States of America, New Zealand and the Union of South Africa, unless:-\n\n(1) Such merchandise is accompanied by a certificate signed by a properly qualified and authorised government veterinary officer of the country of origin to the effect that the packing has actually been effectively disinfected by being placed loosely in an airtight compartment, the temperature of which was maintained at not less than 65° (19° C), and spraying over and into the packing ten fluid ounces of formaldehyde solution (containing not less than 37% formaldehyde by weight) for each 1000 cubic feet of space in the compartment which was immediately closed, and kept closed for not less than eight hours.\n\n(2) Such shipments have been disinfected at a fumigation station maintained by this Department in Canada at a cost to the shipper, or importer, of fifty cents per package of one hundred pounds, or under, or ten cubic feet or under, and one dollar per package over one hundred pounds in weight, or over ten cubic feet.\n\nProperly qualified and authorised veterinarians are those whose names have been forwarded to the Veterinary Director", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520839, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-6 Development of railways proposed by Chinese Government 7-9-1929 - 17-1-1930", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-519-6 Development of railways proposed by Chinese Government 7-9-1929 - 17-1-1930", "content_text": "# \nIn addition to the above, the question of settlement ratio for the through traffic accounts between the British and Chinese sections also requires to be dealt with. The Chinese section has a length of eighty-nine miles, while the British section measures twenty-two miles. Of the total of one hundred and eleven miles, the Chinese section represents 80.2% and the British section 19.8%. But the present appropriation of the through traffic receipts gives sixty-five per cent to the Chinese and thirty-five per cent to the British; therefore, a rearrangement giving a higher ratio to the Chinese is quite justifiable as well as necessary. The Chinese section should get eighty or at least seventy-five per cent.\n\n## \nRehabilitation of the railway and development of its traffic is a question of finance. As will be seen from the statements above, the working liabilities of the railway at the end of 1928 amounted to $2,770,659.88, and this will be increased during the current year by a further sum of $656,651.86, bringing the total at the end of the year to $3,427,311.74, to meet which the railway has presently no resources. In addition to this sum, the railway requires, for the reasons explained above, to be put in a position to finance the following:\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Renewal of sleepers | $360,000.00 |\n| Purchase of Carriages | $300,000.00 |\n\nIts total financial requirements are therefore approximately four million dollars.\n\n## \nIt is estimated that the railway's revenue can be increased to approximately $8430 per day, if the improvements and suggestions made in this report are carried out. The following\n\n9.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-6 Development of railways proposed by Chinese Government 7-9-1929 - 17-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521021, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-520-12 Development of Kowloon Tong Estate 11-12-1929 - 16-6-1930", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-520-12 Development of Kowloon Tong Estate 11-12-1929 - 16-6-1930", "content_text": "support of the then Chief Manager of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation and of the then Manager of Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Company, Limited. Their support was withdrawn and Mr Ede arranged with the Government that he should form a private limited company to enter into the necessary agreement as to the area selected, to carry out the building operations, and to enter into subsidiary agreements with the persons ultimately to take up the holdings or Lots with completed houses thereon. Such persons, who were to pay the actual cost to the Company, including land premium charged by the Government, are hereinafter referred to as \"subscribers\".\n\nThe company was to make no profit.\n\nThe Company, the Kowloon Tong & New Territories Development Company, Limited, was duly formed. Mr Ede was the principal shareholder and Permanent Managing Director. In him the Government obtained a man of such standing in the Colony that he could (and did) command the confidence of subscribers. Probably no person in the Colony was better able to command this confidence and, to his credit be it said, he carried on alone when the support before referred to was withdrawn.\n\nUnfortunately, Mr Ede suffered from ill-health, and he died on the 22nd May, 1925, and before the completion of the scheme.\n\nOn the 26th October, 1922, an Agreement between the Crown and the Company was signed.\n\nUnder such agreement the Company undertook to submit a preliminary lay-out plan of the selected area and, later, plans of the development and of the houses to be erected. The Government undertook to form the area, some eighty acres in extent, to approved general levels, as shown on the final development plans, as to one third within eighteen months of the approval by the Director of Public Works of the preliminary plan, and as to the remainder, within thirty\n\n2.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-520-12 Development of Kowloon Tong Estate 11-12-1929 - 16-6-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521268, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "content_text": "181\n\nIn addition to the above question of settlement ratio for the through traffic accounts between the British and Chinese sections also requires to be dealt with. The Chinese section has a length of eighty-nine miles, while the British section measures twenty-two miles, of the total of one hundred and eleven miles, the Chinese section represents 80.2% and the British section 19.8%. But the present appropriation of the through traffic receipts gives sixty-five per cent to the Chinese and thirty-five per cent to the British. Therefore, a rearrangement giving a higher ratio to the Chinese is quite justifiable. The Chinese section should get eighty or at least seventy-five per cent.\n\nRehabilitation of the railway and development of its traffic is a question of finance. As will be seen from the statements above, the working liabilities of the railway at the end of 1928 amounted to $2,770,659.88 and this will be increased during the current year by a further sum of $656,651.86, bringing the total at the end of the year to $3,427,311.74, to meet which it has presently no resources. In addition to this sum, the railway requires, for the reasons explained above, to be put in a position to finance the following:\n\n1. Renewal of sleepers $360,000.00\n\n2. Purchase of Carriages $300,000.00\n\nIts total financial requirements are therefore approximately four million dollars.\n\nIt is estimated that the railway's revenue can be increased to approximately $8430 per day, if the improvements and suggestions made in this report are carried out. The following is the estimate:-\n\nPresent...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533223, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "page_number": 197, "title": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "content_text": "294\n\nThis is one of the surprising features of Chinese Universities, the generous scale on which staff is provided. Another institution we came upon later had thirty-three members, twenty of whom were full-time, for eighty students. It is true that the College was being reorganised and that expansion was likely to occur; students were liberally provided for.\n\nBut even so, the staff was generous. In the department of Education, the staff of which consists of 38 members for 289 students, we met the Dean, who was about to depart for Europe to study the condition of and the organisation of school administration in different European countries. Five Chinese were going on a tour of inspection, as suggested by the League of Nations Experts already referred to, in order to get acquainted with models other than those provided by the United States, whose influence the League of Nations mission says prevails to a great, not to say an alarming extent, in Chinese education.\n\nThe effect of such influence is to impose a system of education on China which is too highly specialised and which, therefore, provides a body of knowledge that has little value outside the class that acquires it. There is a danger of creating an intelligentsia that is cut off from the people from whom it ought to emerge and whom it ought finally to serve.\n\nIt was quite evident that on the occasion of our visit to this University, all was not well; there was obviously a state of tension prevailing in connection with the appointment of the new President, who, being appointed for political or social reasons, was bound to offend some section of the University. The trouble became overt when a week later the new President entered the University and was severely injured by the students in being dragged from his motor-car and beaten. The university was then closed down, and I have not heard whether it has since been reopened. The vast body of students gave one the impression of being an amorphous mass, only capable of being galvanised into united action by the stimulus of discontent.\n\nOwing to the low educational standards of the middle or secondary schools, many find their way into the university without adequate preparation, and also, because of the low standard of admission, incapable of benefiting from higher education. It is a very desirable thing to get into a university, for it removes one from the realm of industry, agriculture, and manual work in general; and at the same time ensures a measure of dignity and respect. The tradition is strong: a scholar in the past was one who wore a long coat, long finger nails, spectacles,\n\nThe West had even done so, and was in every way unfitted for physical effort.\n\nA stronger aversion to manual work and so invented machines and won control over the forces of nature in order to escape the unpleasant necessity of having to earn its living by the sweat of its brow. The inducement to get into the student ranks is, therefore, very strong in China, for the student inherits the esteem bestowed upon the ancient scholar and gains still further merit by acquaintance, however slight, with the new learning.\n\nBut the fault in Nanking was not all on the side of the student. The staff had been on a subsistence allowance for several months, during which time their salaries were in arrears, and naturally were not in a cheerful mood, though it was surprising to see how loyally and keenly many of them were working. It was also a matter of deep concern to them who should be appointed chancellor or President, for their tenure of office depended on his goodwill. Appointments to the senior staff are made by the President, for one year or two years at most, and so there is no security of tenure. The result is that many of them have to earn as much as they can by lecturing in as many places as possible. They are, therefore, rather detached in their attitude towards the University and the students. They change frequently and look for political posts.\n\n3.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543302, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "## EXAMINATION OF SPUTUM FOR B. TUBERCULOSIS\n\n| | Positive | Negative | Total |\n|----------|----------|----------|----------|\n| EUROPEAN | 19 | 46 | 65 |\n| INDIAN | 19 | 317 | 336 |\n| CHINESE | 91 | 82 | 173 |\n| Total | 129 | 445 | 574 |\n\n(2) Sputum.-Five hundred and seventy-four sputa were examined for the presence of the tubercle bacillus.\n\n## THROAT SWABS EXAMINED FOR DIPHTHERIA\n\n| | Positive | Negative | Total |\n|----------|----------|----------|----------|\n| EUROPEAN | 11 | 6 | 17 |\n| INDIAN | ... | 9 | 9 |\n| CHINESE | 371 | 1,333 | 1,704 |\n| Total | 382 | 1,348 | 1,730 |\n\n(6) Throat Swabs.-One thousand seven hundred and thirty swabs were cultured, of which three hundred and eighty-two were positive for C. diphtheriae. There is again a great increase both in the number of examinations and positive cases. This is in part due to the epidemic which began at the end of 1931 and extended over January and February of this year. There is, however, a steady increase in the number of specimens forwarded for examination comparable to that noted in other departments of the Institute.\n\n(3) Urine.-One hundred and forty-six specimens of urine were cultured for pathogenic organisms. In all cases a complete chemical and microscopic report was made in addition to the bacteriological.\n\n(4) Urethral and cervical smears.-Four hundred and thirty-eight smears were examined for the presence of the gonococcus. The majority of these smears were from the female V.D. Clinics.\n\n(5) Nasal Scrapings.-Fifty-six nasal smears were stained for the presence of Hansen's bacillus.\n\n(7) Cerebro-spinal fluids.-Four hundred and sixty-three specimens of cerebrospinal fluids were examined for the presence of the meningococcus. Two hundred and six of these gave positive results, either on direct examination or on culture or by both methods.\n\n## C.S.F. EXAMINED FOR MENINGOCOCCUS\n\n| | Positive | Negative | Total |\n|----------|----------|----------|----------|\n| | 206 | 257 | 463 |\n\nAs was pointed out in a previous paragraph, the total protein content was estimated in practically all of the fluids received during the epidemic of cerebro-spinal meningitis during the early months of the year—the actual number of fluids in which this was performed was two hundred and forty-two.\n\n(8) Pus and other miscellaneous materials.-Twelve examinations of pus from various lesions were made; they do not call for comment. Eleven dog's brains were examined for Negri bodies; in no case was a positive result recorded.\n\n## D. PREPARATION OF VACCINE LYMPH\n\nThe results of the activities in this department are as follows:\n\n- Number of calves vaccinated: 135\n- Amount of lymph prepared: 15,064 c.c.\n- Amount of lymph issued: 11,592 c.c.\n- Amount of lymph remaining in stock: 3,472 c.c.\n\nThe amount of lymph issued is practically average.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543304, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "## F. EXAMINATION OF WATER AND MILK\n\n(1) Bacteriological analysis of water supply. One thousand four hundred and thirty-three samples of water derived from the public water supply of the Colony were tested for bacteriological purity.\n\nSamples were examined daily as heretofore and the results passed to the proper authorities.\n\nThe attached table gives the various sources from which the samples were obtained:\n\n| Source | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Unfiltered raw water | 120 |\n| Filtered water | 121 |\n| Water from service taps throughout the Colony filtered and chlorinated | 1,153 |\n| Well water | 3 |\n| Water from other than public supplies | 36 |\n| Total | 1,433 |\n\nThe accompanying table shows the race incidence of cases and the distribution of completed and uncompleted treatments.\n\n| Race | Treatment Completed | Treatment Not Completed | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| British | 22 | 17 | |\n| Chinese | 91 | | |\n| Indian | | | |\n| Portuguese | | | |\n| Eurasian | 6 | | |\n| Spanish | | | |\n| Japanese | 1 | | |\n| Norwegian | 1 | | |\n| Unknown (imported cases) | 8 | | |\n| Total | | | 54 |\n| | | | 107 |\n\n(2) Bacteriological analysis of milk. One sample of milk was examined at the request of a private dairy.\n\n## G. MEDICO LEGAL INVESTIGATIONS\n\nThe number of examinations carried out on behalf of the Department of Criminal Investigation continues to increase, and in the year under review is almost double that for the previous year. Fifty-five articles of various kinds were examined.\n\n| Type of Examination | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Articles examined for presence of human blood | 34 |\n| Articles examined for presence of semen | 18 |\n| Articles examined for presence of both blood & semen | 2 |\n| Articles examined for presence of type of hair | 1 |\n\n## VACCINE\n\n| Type of Vaccine | Amount Issued |\n| --- | --- |\n| Plague Vaccine | 4,370 c.c. |\n| T.A.B. Vaccine | 25 |\n| Cholera Vaccine | 19 |\n| Autogenous Vaccine | 30 |\n| Antimeningococcic serum | 15 |\n| Gonococcus Vaccine | 100 |\n| Staph. aureus | 77 |\n| ... | 17 |\n| Total vaccines | 47 vaccines |\n| | 29,360 c.c. |\n\n## H. MORBID HISTOLOGY\n\nTwo hundred and sixty-four tissue sections were reported upon. One hundred and two of these were obtained at surgical operation from the hospitals or from private practitioners and the remainder forwarded by the medical officers of the Public Mortuaries of Victoria and Kowloon from post-mortem cases.\n\nOne hundred and sixty-two were examined for general pathological diagnosis and one hundred and two for type of tumours. Of the latter, sixteen were benign and eighty-six malignant.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543480, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "## Walls\n\n10. Every wall shall be constructed of brick, stone or other hard incombustible substance, solid across its entire thickness and shall be properly bonded and substantially put together with good cement or lime mortar to the satisfaction of the Building Authority. Except where specially permitted in this Ordinance, no part of such wall shall be thicker than any part underneath it, and all cross walls and return walls shall be properly bonded into main walls. Sound blue bricks may be used in the walls of the uppermost storey only of a building, or, where such storey exceeds fifteen feet in height, in the uppermost fifteen feet of the walls of such storey: but blue bricks may not, without the approval of the Building Authority, be used in the walls of the other storey or storeys.\n\n11. (1) Every person who erects a new building shall construct every external and every party wall of such building not exceeding thirty-five feet in length, clear of cross walls, in accordance with the following rules, and in every case the thickness prescribed shall be the minimum thickness of which such wall may be constructed:—\n| Height | Thickness |\n| --- | --- |\n| Not exceeding 12 feet | 9 inches thick for its whole height |\n| Exceeds 12 feet but not 25 feet | 14 inches thick for its whole height |\n| Exceeds 25 feet but not 40 feet | 18 inches thick in lowermost storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 40 feet but not 55 feet | 22 inches thick in lowermost storey, 18 inches thick in next storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 55 feet but not 70 feet | 27 inches thick in lowermost storey, 22 inches thick in next storey, 18 inches thick in next storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 70 feet but not 80 feet | 31 inches thick in lowermost storey, 27 inches thick in next storey, 22 inches thick in next storey, 18 inches thick in next storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n\nProvided that—\n- in cases where the number of storeys is less than that indicated in the foregoing rules or where the walls are constructed in good cement mortar, the respective thicknesses of the walls shall be determined by the Building Authority;\n- in the case of two-storied buildings and of the uppermost two storeys of buildings containing a greater number of storeys, the walls may be 13 inches thick throughout the height of such storeys, provided such height does not exceed 25 feet;\n- no storey shall exceed in height 15 feet without the permission of the Building Authority, who shall in such case prescribe to what extent, if any, the walls shall be increased in thickness. Such increase of thickness may be provided for by piers, of the required thickness and of such collective length, not exceeding one-fourth part of the length of the walls, as the Building Authority may require.\n\n(2) If any wall exceeds 35 feet but does not exceed 60 feet in length clear of cross walls, the thickness of such wall shall, unless the Building Authority otherwise permits, be increased by adding 4 inches to the thickness specified in sub-section (1).\n\n12. The provisions of section 11 shall also apply to the case of existing buildings, to any wall or portions of walls hereafter erected or re-erected therein: Provided that in any case where from any cause it is not practicable to apply such provisions, the thicknesses shall be determined by the Building Authority.\n\n13. (1) No wall, other than a boundary wall, shall exceed sixty feet in length, clear of any return or cross wall, without the approval of the Building Authority. A wall shall not be deemed a cross wall for the purpose of determining the length of any external or party wall unless it is carried up to the top of the topmost storey, and unless in each storey the aggregate extent of the vertical faces or elevations of all the recesses and that of all the openings therein taken together shall not exceed one-half of the whole extent of the vertical face or elevation of the wall in such storey.\n\n(2) No wall shall exceed eighty feet in height without the approval of the Building Authority. The height of every wall shall be measured from the level of the adjacent foot-path, or where no foot-path exists, from the level of the street or ground outside, to the highest part of such wall or, in the case of a gable, to half the height of such gable, but shall in no case include any portion of a wall which acts as a retaining wall. Ornamental towers, turrets, or other architectural features or decorations, not exceeding nine feet in height and parapets not exceeding three feet in height shall not be included in measuring the height of such wall.\n\n(3) Any external wall of a building exceeding thirty-five feet in length, clear of cross walls, shall be secured at the level of each upper floor, and at the ceiling or roof, with wrought-iron tie-rods not less than one and a quarter inches in diameter, spaced not more than twelve feet apart and extending through such external wall and the nearest parallel wall of such building. The tie-rods shall have screwed ends with nuts bearing upon wrought-iron washer plates not less than eighteen inches square by half an inch in thickness, or cast-iron washer plates to be approved by the Building Authority, and the brickwork of each wall for its full thickness and for an area of two feet square round the end of each tie-rod shall be built in cement-mortar: Provided that the Building Authority may modify or dispense with the requirements of this sub-section whenever he may consider such requirements unnecessary.\n\n14. The thickness of every cross wall shall be at least two-thirds of the thickness prescribed by section 11 in that behalf for an external wall or party wall of the same height and length and belonging to the same class of building as that to which such cross wall belongs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543489, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "# \n## Corbelling and foundations of chimneys regulated\n\n66. Chimneys of brick, stone, or other incombustible material, may be corbelled out in the upper storeys of buildings, provided that the work so corbelled out does not project from the wall more than the thickness of such wall, but all chimneys built in the ground storeys of buildings shall, unless with the consent of the Building Authority, rest upon solid foundations and upon footings similar in every respect to the foundations of the walls against which such chimneys are built.\n\n## Thickness of back of chimney-opening\n\n67. The back of every chimney-opening, from the hearth up to the height of four feet above the level of the fire-grate, shall be at least nine inches thick if in a party wall, or at least four and a half inches thick if not in a party wall.\n\n## Fire escapes for storeys exceeding 33 feet above street level\n\n68. Every existing building and every building hereafter erected which has a storey the floor of which is more than thirty-three feet above the level of the street or ground surface adjoining the front of such building shall be provided on every storey with such means of escape in the case of fire, for the persons using, dwelling or employed therein as the Building Authority may require.\n\nAny means of escape so provided shall be kept and maintained by the owner of the building in good condition and repair and efficient working order and no person shall obstruct or render less commodious or suffer to be rendered less commodious any such means of escape.\n\n## Windows in Storeys required\n\n69. Every storey of every domestic building hereafter erected shall be provided with one window at least opening either directly or across a verandah or balcony into the external air and the total area, clear of any obstruction to the light, of such window or windows shall be at least one tenth of the floor area of every such storey.\n\nEvery storey of every such domestic building shall also be provided with a window of at least ten square feet, clear of any obstruction to the light, in the rear main wall of such building (exclusive of any kitchen or outbuilding attached to the building) opening either directly or across a verandah or balcony into the open space in the rear of such building and the area of such window shall not be included in calculating the window area required by this section.\n\nEvery window provided under this section shall be so constructed that at least one half can be opened and the opening shall extend as far as is practicable above the floor level.\n\n## Limitation of depth of buildings\n\n70.(1) No domestic building shall hereafter be erected of a greater depth than thirty-five feet unless every storey of such building is provided with windows opening into the external air having a total area, clear of any obstruction to the light (including the window in the rear) equal to not less than one-eighth of the floor area of such storey and so arranged that, in the opinion of the Building Authority, the whole of the storey will be adequately lighted and ventilated.\n\n(2) Provided always that the provisions of this section shall not apply in any case in which the Crown lease has specially provided for the erection of buildings of a greater depth than thirty-five feet; and provided further that the Governor in Council may in any other case in his discretion grant exemption from or modification of the provisions of this section.\n\n## Measurement of depth of a building\n\n71. The depth of a building shall be measured on the ground level from a central point in the outer surface of the front main wall to the outer surface of the nearest main wall of the same building opposite to such front main wall.\n\n72. In any case where it may be found necessary the Director of Public Works shall determine which is the front and which is the rear of a building.\n\n## Every room to be provided with sky-light or window\n\n73. No room shall be constructed in any storey of any existing domestic building, or of any domestic building hereafter erected, unless such room is provided with a sky-light, or with a window or windows opening either directly or across a verandah or balcony into the external air and having an area, clear of any obstruction to the light, equal to at least one tenth the floor area of such room and being so constructed that at least one half can be opened. In the case of a window or windows the opening shall extend as far as is practicable above the floor level.\n\nProvided that, in the case of existing or re-erected domestic buildings, the Governor in Council shall have power to modify the requirements of this section in respect to the external air upon such conditions, if any, as may be deemed expedient.\n\n## Obstruction of windows in tenement houses\n\n74. No window of any tenement house shall be obstructed by the erection of any structure whatsoever.\n\n## Construction and dimensions of latrines\n\n75. Every latrine shall be constructed of brick, stone, or other material approved by the Building Authority, and shall have a clear internal area of not less than seven square feet, and such latrine shall open into the outer air and not into the building.\n\n## Ventilation and internal rendering of latrines\n\n76. Every latrine shall have a suitable door and an opening or openings for ventilation into the external air of not less than two square feet in aggregate immediately under the roof. The internal walls of every latrine shall be rendered in cement mortar or other non-absorbent material approved by the Building Authority to the height of at least three feet and the thickness of such material shall not be less than half an inch.\n\n## Construction of floor of latrines\n\n77. The floor of every latrine hereafter erected on any ground floor shall be raised at least six inches above the level of the surface outside.\n\n## Latrines not to be connected with drain\n\n78. No latrine shall be so constructed as to have any direct communication by means of any pipe, drain, or sewer, with any underground drain or grating, and any existing latrine having such communication shall have the same completely cut off by the owner when so required by the Building Authority.\n\n## Direct connexion of water service with latrines etc. prohibited\n\n79. No water pipe or water tap shall be led to, or fixed in or over, any water closet, latrine, or urinal, without the intervention of a cistern or tank between such water pipe or water tap and the water service pipe.\n\n## Separate dwellings to have adequate latrines or water-closets\n\n80. Every domestic building and every floor of a domestic building hereafter erected which is separately let for dwelling purposes shall be provided with adequate latrine or water closet accommodation to the satisfaction of the Building Authority and every \"exceptional\" building shall be provided by the owner thereof with adequate latrine or water closet accommodation on the premises for the separate use of each sex to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.\n\nPage 403", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543533, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 305, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "# Table of Correspondence,--Continued.\n\n| Remarks | | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Buildings Ordinance 1932 | Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 | |\n| 12 | 101-A | \"eighty\" substituted for \"seventy-six\" and \"not exceeding nine feet in height\" inserted. |\n| 13 (2) | 102 (2) | \"thirty-five\" substituted for \"thirty\" |\n| 13 (3) | 102 (3) | |\n| 14 | 103 | \"not exceeding twelve feet ... in height\" inserted. |\n| 15 | 103-A | Re-drafted to apply to all buildings and to provide for a vertical damp-proof course. |\n| 16 | 104 | Last paragraph deleted |\n| 17 | 105 | Re-drafted giving more detail of construction and excluding retaining walls built of lime concrete or in lime mortar. |\n| 18 | 221 | \"within an urban district\" omitted |\n| 19 | 220 | \"unless exempted by the Building Authority\" and \"and every parapet wall\" inserted. |\n| 20 | 106 | \"one-half\" substituted for \"two-thirds\" and \"unless in the opinion ... may be allowed\" inserted. |\n| 21 | 107 | \"outside the European Reservation or the Hill District\" omitted. |\n| 22 | 108 | \"domestic\" and \"which is not within the Hill District\" omitted and \"not less than\" inserted. |\n| 23 | 109 | Re-drafted and curtailed. |\n| 24 | 110 | Re-drafted and the thickness of lime concrete reduced from six to four inches and the thickness of cement concrete increased from three to four inches. |\n| 25 | 111 | Re-drafted to include bathrooms and water-closets. |\n| 26 | 112 | |\n| 27 | 113 | |\n| 28 | 114 | |\n| 29 | 115 | Last paragraph added \"eleven\" substituted for \"twelve\" and \"ten\" substituted for 'eleven\" and the permissible height of bathrooms and latrines reduced from nine to eight feet. |\n| 30 (1) | 116 (1) | |\n\nPage 461", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543537, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 309, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "# 466 \n## Table of Correspondence, Continued.\n\n82 \n- \n## Remarks.\n\nThe first portion has been amended to make the owner of a private street responsible for its maintenance.\n\n| Buildings Ordinance 1932 | Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 |\n| --- | --- |\n\n83 \n— \n## Table of Correspondence,---Continued.\n## Remarks.\n\n| Buildings Ordinance 1932 | Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 186 | 188 (1) | a Added As proviso but \"provided that\" omitted |\n| 111 | 205 | \"or otherwise made safe\" and \"or made safe\" inserted. |\n| 112 | 206 | |\n| 113 | 207 | |\n| 114 | 207-A | Re-drafted to make it compulsory to erect hoarding during the demolition or erection of a building. \"structure\" substituted for \"building\" |\n| 115 | 208 | |\n| 116 | 209 | |\n| 117 | 210 | (8) Last paragraph added |\n| 118 | 211 | \"sand, clay\" added; **or earth** deleted; penultimate paragraph added. See No. 1 of 1845 s. 204. |\n| | | Title amended and section re-drafted to regulate the height of any building in which timber is stored and the height of any stack of timber and to prevent the formation of timber stacks into rooms |\n| 94 | | \"quarter\" substituted for \"half\" |\n| 95 (1) | € | \"quarter\" substituted for \"half\" |\n| (2) | (2) | \"quarter\" substituted for \"half\" and the proviso omitted |\n| (3) | (3) | GA |\n| (4) | (4) | |\n| (5) | (5) | CA \"eighty\" substituted for \"seventy-six\" and provisos (a), (b) and (c) deleted. |\n| (6) | (6) | Re-drafted and the angle within which the height of a building must be kept, increased from thirty to sixty degrees. |\n| 96 (1) | Ge | 189 (1) 2 |\n| (2) | (2) | Added |\n| (3) | (4) | |\n| 97 | 189-A | \"within an urban-district\" omitted |\n| 08 | 190 | |\n| 99 | 191 | |\n| 100 | 192 | |\n| 101 | 193 | |\n| 102 | 194 | \"or\" substituted for \"and\" |\n| 103 | 195 | Deleted |\n| | 196 | Deleted |\n| | 197 | |\n| 104 | 198 | |\n| 105 | 199 | Re-drafted to include Kowloon Point and giving the Director of Public Works authority to decide what constitutes a Chinese tenement building. |\n| 106 | 200 | \"or Kowloon Point District\" inserted |\n| 107 | 201 | Do. |\n| 108 | 202 | Do. |\n| 109 | 203 | \"except any matshed\" omitted and \"or used in any way\" inserted |\n| 110 (1) | 204 | |\n\n## Table of Correspondence, Continued.\n\n| Buildings Ordinance 1932 | Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 118 | 211 | |\n| 119 | 212 | |\n| 120 | 213 | |\n| 121 | 216 | |\n| 122 | 217 | |\n| 123 | 218 | |\n| 124 | 219 | |\n| | 220 | Deleted |\n| | 221 | Deleted |\n| 125 | 222 | \"of the lessee or occupier of the lot or omitted, or lot\" inserted, \"Lessee or\" omitted, \"owner\" substituted for \"lessee or\", \"For cannot be found inserted after \"Colony\" and \"permit\" substituted for \"certificate\" |\n| 125 (1) (a) | 222 (1) (a) | |\n| 125 (1) (b) | 222 (1) (b) | Added |\n| (c) | | \"and when required etc\" added |\n| 30 | (c) | |\n| (d) | (d) | |\n\n# 467", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543684, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "## Construction of Walls Regulated\n\n### Thickness of External and Party Walls\n\n10. Every wall shall be constructed of brick, stone, or other hard incombustible substance, solid across its entire thickness and shall be properly bonded and substantially put together with good cement or lime mortar to the satisfaction of the **Building Authority**. Except where specially permitted in this Ordinance, no part of such wall shall be thicker than any part underneath it, and all cross walls and return walls shall be properly bonded into main walls. Sound blue bricks may be used in the walls of the uppermost storey only of a building, or where such storey exceeds fifteen feet in height, to the uppermost fifteen feet of the walls of such storey; but blue bricks may not, without the approval of the **Building Authority**, be used in the walls of the other storey or storeys.\n\n11. (1) Every person who erects a new building shall construct every external and every party wall of such building not exceeding thirty-five feet in length, clear of cross walls, in accordance with the following rules, and in every case the thickness prescribed shall be the minimum thickness of which such wall may be constructed:\n\n| Wall Height | Thickness |\n| --- | --- |\n| Not exceeding 12 feet | 9 inches thick for its whole height |\n| Exceeds 12 feet but not 25 feet | 18+ inches thick for its whole height |\n| Exceeds 25 feet but not 40 feet | 18 inches thick in the lowermost storey and underneath, 13+ inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 40 feet but not 55 feet | 22 inches thick in the lowermost storey and underneath, 18 inches thick in the next storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 55 feet but not 70 feet | 27 inches thick in the lowermost storey and underneath, 22 inches thick in the next storey, 18 inches thick in the next storey, 13+ inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 70 feet but not 80 feet | 31 inches thick in the lowermost storey and underneath, 27 inches thick in the next storey, 22 inches thick in the next storey, 18 inches thick in the next storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n\nProvided that:\n- in cases where the number of storeys is less than that indicated in the foregoing rules or where the walls are constructed in good cement mortar, the respective thicknesses of the walls shall be determined by the **Building Authority**;\n- in the case of two-storied buildings and of the uppermost two storeys of buildings containing a greater number of storeys, the walls may be 13+ inches thick throughout the height of such two storeys, provided such height does not exceed 25 feet;\n- no storey shall exceed in height 15 feet without the permission of the **Building Authority**, who shall in such case prescribe to what extent, if any, the walls shall be increased in thickness. Such increase of thickness may be provided for by piers, of the required thickness and of such collective length, not exceeding one-fourth part of the length of the walls, as the **Building Authority** may require.\n\n(2) If any wall exceeds 35 feet but does not exceed 60 feet in length clear of cross walls, the thickness of such wall shall, unless the **Building Authority** otherwise permits, be increased by adding 4+ inches to the thickness specified in sub-section (1).\n\n12. The provisions of section 11 shall also apply to the case of existing buildings, to any wall or portions of walls hereafter erected or re-erected therein: Provided that in any case where from any cause it is not practicable to apply such provisions, the thicknesses shall be determined by the **Building Authority**.\n\n13. (1) No wall, other than a boundary wall, shall exceed sixty feet in length, clear of any return or cross wall, without the approval of the **Building Authority**.\n\nA wall shall not be deemed a cross wall for the purpose of determining the length of any external or party wall unless it is carried up to the top of the topmost storey, and unless in each storey the aggregate extent of the vertical faces or elevations of all the recesses and that of all the openings therein taken together shall not exceed one-half of the whole extent of the vertical face or elevation of the wall in such storey.\n\n(2) No wall shall exceed eighty feet in height without the approval of the **Building Authority**. The height of every wall shall be measured from the level of the adjacent foot-path, or where no foot-path exists, from the level of the street or ground outside, to the highest part of such wall or, in the case of a gable, to half the height of such gable, but shall in no case include any portion of a wall which acts as a retaining wall. Ornamental towers, turrets, or other architectural features or decorations, not exceeding nine feet in height and parapets not exceeding three feet in height shall not be included in measuring the height of such wall.\n\n(3) Any external wall of a building exceeding thirty-five feet in length, clear of cross walls, shall be secured at the level of each upper floor, and at the ceiling or roof, with wrought-iron tie-rods not less than one and a quarter inches in diameter, spaced not more than twelve feet apart and extending through such external wall and the nearest parallel wall of such building. The tie-rods shall have screwed ends with nuts bearing upon wrought-iron washer plates not less than eighteen inches square by half an inch in thickness, or cast-iron washer plates to be approved by the **Building Authority**, and the brickwork of each wall for its full thickness and for an area of two feet square round the end of each tie-rod shall be built in cement-mortar: Provided that the **Building Authority** may modify or dispense with the requirements of this sub-section whenever he may consider such requirements unnecessary.\n\n14. The thickness of every cross wall shall be at least two-thirds of the thickness prescribed by section 11 in that behalf for an external wall or party wall of the same height and length and belonging to the same class of building as that to which such cross wall belongs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543693, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "# \n## Corbelling and foundations of chimneys regulated.\n\n66. Chimneys of brick, stone, or other incombustible material, may be corbelled out in the upper storeys of buildings, provided that the work so corbelled out does not project from the wall more than the thickness of such wall, but all chimneys built in the ground storeys of buildings shall, unless with the consent of the Building Authority, rest upon solid foundations and upon footings similar in every respect to the foundations of the walls against which such chimneys are built.\n\n## Thickness of back of chimney-opening.\n\n67. The back of every chimney-opening, from the hearth up to the height of four feet above the level of the fire-grate, shall be at least nine inches thick if in a party wall, or at least four and a half inches thick if not in a party wall.\n\n## Fire escapes for storeys exceeding 33 feet above street level.\n\n68. Every existing building and every building hereafter erected which has a storey the floor of which is more than thirty-three feet above the level of the street or ground surface adjoining the front of such building shall be provided on every storey with such means of escape in the case of fire, for the persons using, dwelling or employed therein as the Building Authority may require.\n\nAny means of escape so provided shall be kept and maintained by the owner of the building in good condition and repair and efficient working order and no person shall obstruct or render less commodious or suffer to be rendered less commodious any such means of escape.\n\n## Windows in Storeys required.\n\n69. Every storey of every domestic building hereafter erected shall be provided with one window at least opening either directly or across a verandah or balcony into the external air and the total clear area, of such window or windows shall be at least one tenth of the floor area of every such storey.\n\nEvery storey of every such domestic building shall also be provided with a window of at least ten square feet, clear of any obstruction to the light, in the rear main wall of such building (exclusive of any kitchen or outbuilding attached to the building) opening either directly or across a verandah or balcony into the open space in the rear of such building and the area of such window shall not be included in calculating the window area required by this section.\n\nEvery window provided under this section shall be so constructed that at least one half can be opened and the opening shall extend as far as is practicable above the floor level.\n\n## Limitation of depth of buildings.\n\n70.-(1) No domestic building shall hereafter be erected of a greater depth than thirty-five feet unless every storey of such building is provided with windows opening into the external air having a total area, clear of any obstruction to the light (including the window in the rear) equal to not less than one-eighth of the floor area of such storey and so arranged that, in the opinion of the Building Authority, the whole of the storey will be adequately lighted and ventilated.\n\n(2) Provided always that the provisions of this section shall not apply in any case in which the Crown lease has specially provided for the erection of buildings of a greater depth than thirty-five feet; and provided further that the Governor in Council may in any other case in his discretion grant exemption from or modification of the provisions of this section.\n\n## Measurement of depth of a building.\n\n71. The depth of a building shall be measured on the ground level from a central point in the outer surface of the front main wall to the outer surface of the nearest main wall of the same building opposite to such front main wall.\n\n72. In any case where it may be found necessary the Director of Public Works shall determine which is the front and which is the rear of a building.\n\n## Every room to be provided with sky-light or window.\n\n73. No room shall be constructed in any storey of any existing domestic building, or of any domestic building hereafter erected, unless such room is provided with a sky-light, or with a window or windows opening either directly or across a verandah or balcony into the external air and having an area, clear of any obstruction to the light, equal to at least one tenth the floor area of such room and being so constructed that at least one half can be opened. In the case of a window or windows the opening shall extend as far as is practicable above the floor level.\n\nProvided that, in the case of existing or re-erected domestic buildings, the Governor in Council shall have power to modify the requirements of this section in respect to the external air upon such conditions, if any, as may be deemed expedient.\n\n## Obstruction of windows in tenement houses.\n\n74. No window of any tenement house shall be obstructed by the erection of any structure whatsoever.\n\n## Water closets and latrines.\n\n75. Every latrine shall be constructed of brick, stone, or other material approved by the Building Authority, and shall have a clear internal area of not less than seven square feet, and such latrine shall open into the outer air and not into the building.\n\n76. Every latrine shall have a suitable door and an opening or openings for ventilation into the external air of not less than two square feet in aggregate immediately under the roof. The internal walls of every latrine shall be rendered in cement mortar or other non-absorbent material approved by the Building Authority to the height of at least three feet and the thickness of such material shall not be less than half an inch.\n\n77. The floor of every latrine hereafter erected on any ground floor shall be raised at least six inches above the level of the surface outside.\n\n78. No latrine shall be so constructed as to have any direct communication by means of any pipe, drain, or grating, with any underground drain or sewer, and any existing latrine having such communication shall have the same completely cut off by the owner when so required by the Building Authority.\n\n## Direct connexion of water service with latrines etc. prohibited.\n\n79. No water pipe or water tap shall be led to, or fixed in or over, any water closet, latrine, or urinal, without the intervention of a cistern or tank between such water pipe or water tap and the water service pipe.\n\n80. Every domestic building and every floor of a domestic building hereafter erected which is separately let for dwelling purposes shall be provided with adequate latrine or water closet accommodation to the satisfaction of the Building Authority and every building shall be provided by the owner thereof with adequate latrine or water closet accommodation on the premises for the separate use of each sex to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.\n\nPage 198", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543737, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "# Table of Correspondence, Continued.\n\n## Remarks\n\n| Ordinance No. | Original Clause | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Buildings Ordinance 1932 | Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 | |\n| 12 | 101-A | \"eighty\" substituted for \"seventy-six\" and \"not exceeding nine feet in height\" inserted. |\n| 13 (2) | 102 (2) | \"thirty-five\" substituted for \"thirty\" |\n| 13 (3) | 102 (3) | |\n| 14 | 103 | \"not exceeding twelve feet height\" inserted. |\n| 15 | 103-A | Re-drafted to apply to all buildings and to provide for a vertical damp-proof course. |\n| 16 | 104 | Last paragraph deleted |\n| 17 | 105 | Re-drafted giving more detail of construction and excluding retaining walls built of lime concrete or in lime mortar. |\n| 18 | 221 | \"within an urban district\" omitted |\n| 19 | 220 | \"unless exempted by the Building Authority\" and \"and every parapet wall\" inserted. \"one-half\" substituted for \"two-thirds\" and \"unless in the opinion...may be allowed\" inserted. \"outside the European Reservation or the Hill District\" omitted. \"domestic\" and \"which is not within...the Hill District\" omitted and \"not less than\" inserted. |\n| 20 | 106 | |\n| 21 | 107 | |\n| 22 | 108 | |\n| 23 | 109 | Re-drafted and curtailed. |\n| 24 | 110 | Re-drafted and the thickness of lime concrete reduced from six to four inches and the thickness of cement concrete increased from three to four inches. |\n| 25 | 111 | Re-drafted to include bathrooms and water-closets. |\n| 26 | 112 | |\n| 27 | 113 | |\n| 28 | 114 | |\n| 29 | 115 | Last paragraph added. \"eleven\" substituted for \"twelve\" and \"ten\" substituted for \"eleven\" and the permissible height of bathrooms and latrines reduced from nine to eight feet. |\n| 30 (1) | 116 (1) | |\n\nPage 77 \nPage 256", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543740, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 199, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "82 \nTable of Correspondence,—Continued. \n## Remarks \n**Buildings Ordinance 1982** \n**Ordinance No. 1 of 1903** \n\n83 \nTable of Correspondence, Continued. \n## Remarks \n**Buildings Ordinance** \n**Ordinance No. 1 of 1932** \n**1903** \nThe first portion has been amended to make the owner of a private street responsible for its maintenance. \n\n94 | 186 | Added as proviso but \"provided that\" omitted \n(3) | | \"quarter\" substituted for \"half” \n | | \"quarter\" substituted for \"half” \n | | \"quarter\" substituted for \"half\" and the proviso omitted \n\n95 (1) | 188 (1) | \n(2) | (2) | \"or otherwise made safe\" and \"or made safe\" inserted, \n112 | 206 | (3) | (3) | \n113 | 207 | (4) | (4) | \n114 | 207-A | (5) | (5) | Re-drafted to make it compulsory to erect hoarding during the demolition or erection of a building. \n | | \"eighty\" substituted for \"seventy-six\" and provisos (a), (b) and (c) deleted, \n(6) | (6) | \"structure\" substituted for \"building\" \n\n115 | 208 | \n116 | 209 | Re-drafted and the angle within which the height of a building must be kept, increased from thirty to sixty degrees. \n\n96 (1) | 189 (1) | \n(2) | (2) | Added \n(3) | | \n(4) | | \n97 | 189-A | (3) | Last paragraph added \n | | \"sand, clay\" added; \"or earth\" deleted; penultimate paragraph added. See `No. 1 of 1845 s. 20A`. \n\nTitle amended and section re-drafted to regulate the height of any building in which timber is stored and the height of any stack of timber and to prevent the formation of timber stacks into rooms \n\n117 | 210 | \n118 | 211 | \"within an urban-district\" omitted \n\n98 | 190 | \n99 | 191 | \n100 | 192 | \n101 | 193 | \n102 | 194 | \"or\" substituted for \"and\" \n103 | 195 | \n | 196 | Deleted \n | 197 | Deleted \n\n104 | 198 | \n105 | 199 | Re-drafted to include Kowloon Point and giving the Director of Public Works authority to decide what constitutes a Chinese tenement building. \n\n106 | 200 | \"or Kowloon Point District\" inserted \n107 | 201 | Do. \n108 | 202 | Do. \n109 | 203 | \"except any matshed\" omitted and \"or used in any way\" inserted \n\n110 (1) | 204 | Deleted \n | | Deleted \n | | \"of the lessee or occupier of the lot or\" omitted, or lot' inserted, \"Lessee or\" omitted, \"owner\" substituted for \"lessee or\", \"or cannot be found inserted after \"Colony\" and \"permit\" substituted for \"certificate\" \n\n119 | 212 | \"and adjoining buildings\" inserted, Building \"on tracing linen \n\n125 (1) (a) | 222 (1) (a) | \"Authority\" inserted and \"'In cases etc\" added. \n120 | 213 | Added \n121 | 216 | \n122 | 217 | \n123 | 218 | \n124 | 219 | \n | 220 | \n | 221 | \n\n125 (1) (b) | 222 (1) (b) | (c) | \"and when required etc\" added \n | | (d) | (c) \n | | (d) \n\n262", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544863, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## 214\n\nThe chief increases were: Serious assault, Coinage Offences against the Deportation Ordinance, Larceny on ships, False pretences.\n\n| Category | Cases |\n| --- | --- |\n| Serious assault | 27 |\n| Coinage Offences | 20 |\n| Offences against the Deportation Ordinance | 90 |\n| Larceny on ships | 71 |\n| False pretences | 18 |\n| | 20 |\n| | 33 |\n\nThere were sixty-six cases of robbery, distributed as follows: \nHong Kong Island: 21 cases, Kowloon: 28, New Territories: 17.\n\nIn 1932 there was a total of seventy cases.\n\nThere were 25,659 minor cases in 1933, as against 15,364 in 1932, an increase of 10,295 or 67%.\n\n## PROPERTY REPORTED STOLEN AND PROPERTY RECOVERED\n\n4. The estimated value of property stolen during the year 1933 was $764,492.38 as against $714,205.52 in 1932, an increase of $50,286.86 or 7%. The average for the last five years is $804,829.23. The value of property recovered during the year was $67,469.34 or 8.8% of the property reported stolen as against $85,836.29 or 12% of the property stolen during 1932.\n\nIncluded in the sum of $764,492.38 shown in the estimated value of property stolen are seven cases of Larceny by Servant, five of Larceny by Bailee, two of Larceny by Trick, thirteen of Embezzlement, four of Larceny by False Pretences and five of Fraudulent Conversion. The amounts involved in each of these cases were all well over a thousand dollars; the largest being $208,391.78 and $103,000.00 under Larceny by Servant and Embezzlement respectively. The total value of property stolen in these thirty-six cases was $511,031.64, or 66% of the total amount stolen.\n\n## LOST PROPERTY\n\n5. A summary of the number of articles lost and recovered with their value is given below:\n\n## ARMS\n\n6. There were forty-three seizures during the year, of which thirty-one were Charge cases and twelve No Charge cases.\n\nThe only seizure of note was that of three complete and seven incomplete .303 Lewis Machine Guns and 1,398 rounds of .303 Mark VII Machine Gun ammunition, which were found on the M.V. \"Jutlandia\" on the 2nd November, 1933, when in Dry Dock at the Taikoo Dockyard.\n\n## DANGEROUS GOODS\n\n7. The following prosecutions were instituted under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance:\n| Category | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Number of Cases | 12 |\n| Convictions | 12 |\n| Fines | $410.00 |\n\n## GAMBLING\n\n8. There were three hundred and ten successful gambling cases for 1933 as against two hundred and ninety in 1932. There was one case in which no conviction was obtained. There were one hundred and two Lottery cases compared with eighty-nine in 1932. In two cases no conviction was obtained.\n\n## WEIGHTS AND MEASURES\n\n9. The following table shows weights and measures examined during the year:\n| Type | Total | Correct | Incorrect |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Yard Measures | 95 | 95 | |\n| Foreign Scales | 258 | 258 | |\n| Chinese Scales | 1,291 | 1,283 | 8 |\n| Chinese Foot Measures | 357 | 357 | |\n| Total | 2,001 | 1,993 | 8 |\n\nThe following prosecutions were instituted under the Weights and Measures Ordinance.\n| Year | Articles reported lost | Value lost | Articles recovered and found but not reported lost | Value of articles found |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1933 | 316 | $23,568.32 | 129 | $3,625.85 |\n| 1932 | 441 | $38,101.06 | 125 | $3,718.96 |\n\n| Category | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Number of Cases | 8 |\n| Convictions | 8 |\n| Fines | $385.00 |\n\n## 215", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544864, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## PIRACY\n\n10. There were three piracies on ships during the year as compared with one during 1932. None of these occurred on a British ship, the ships affected being one Danish, one Norwegian, and one French.\n\nThe Danish passenger steamer \"**Gustav Diederichsen**\", 1,353 tons, was pirated about nine miles East of the Nine-Pins when on a voyage from Hong Kong to Bangkok via Swatow. The **Gustav Diederichsen** belongs to Messrs. Jebsen and Company, and was chartered by the Chin Seng Hong of Bonham Strand West. She had wireless, but no grilles, guards, or scheme of defence. The ship sailed from Hong Kong at 4:30 p.m. on the 27th of February, having on board forty-nine passengers, of whom eight were pirates. The ship was not searched by Police, as it was stated in her clearance that there were no passengers. About 7 p.m. on the 27th February, the pirates took charge and sailed her into Mirs Bay to a point close to Ping Chau Island. At 6:30 a.m. on the 28th February, the pirates left in a ship's boat and went on board a small one-masted junk, taking with them three Chinese male passengers together with property of the officers, crew, and passengers to the total value of $5,741.50. The Chief Officer (Mr. R. Nielsen) was wounded in the abdomen when the pirates first showed themselves. Two of the pirates were later arrested and executed in Canton, and two persons were banished from Hong Kong.\n\nThe Norwegian passenger steamer \"**Prominent**\", 1,377 tons, belongs to Messrs. Karsten Larssen and Company, and was chartered by the Nam Tai Loong of Wing Lok Street. The ship has wireless but no guards, grilles, or scheme of defence except for two rifles and four pistols kept in the Captain's cabin. About 8 p.m. on the 23rd May, the ship sailed from Hong Kong for Saigon with eighty-nine deck passengers and one 2nd-class passenger, of whom about fifteen were pirates. The ship was searched before leaving Hong Kong. At about 1:30 a.m. on the 25th May, when about twenty-five miles north-east of the Paracel Islands, the pirates appeared from among the passengers and took charge of the ship. The officers resisted, and the pirates fired three shots, one of which wounded the Captain in the leg, while the Second Officer received a chopper wound. The pirates seized all the ship's arms and painted out the Chinese characters on the side of the ship and altered the colouring of the funnel. At 10:30 p.m. on the 26th May, the ship was steaming into Mirs Bay with no lights showing when she was sighted by No. 4 Police Launch, who signalled her to stop. Shots were fired from the Police Launch, which was warned that if it did not cease firing, the ship's officers would be murdered. About midnight, the pirates left the ship in a ship's boat, taking with them property of the officers and passengers valued at $4,054.00. However, in their haste to make off, no passengers were kidnapped. No arrests have yet been made.\n\nThe French passenger steamer \"**Commandant Henri Riviere**\", 1,525 tons, is owned by the Societé Anonyme Pannier of Haiphong, the local agents being the Sing Kee Coal and Shipping Company. The ship has wireless and four unarmed Annamite Guards, eight rifles, and three pistols with ammunition being kept locked in a cupboard on the bridge. The ship sailed from Hong Kong for Hoi How at 11 a.m. on the 24th November with fourteen second-class and one hundred and ninety deck passengers, between twenty and thirty of the latter being pirates. The ship was searched by Police before sailing. About 4 p.m. when the ship had reached a point thirty miles south-west of Gap Rock, the pirates took control of the ship and seized the ship's armoury and a pistol and shotgun belonging to the Second Officer. At 11 a.m. on the 25th November, the ship was stopped off Chilang Light, and the pirates commandeered a passing fishing boat in which they left the ship with four passengers and loot valued at $13,298.00, belonging to the officers, crew, and passengers, and landed in Hie Che Chen Bay just off Chilang Point. None of the pirates have been arrested.\n\nNative Craft. Two piracies on native craft were reported during the year as against four in 1932. On the 17th February, Sampan No. `2245.K` was pirated between Lung Shun Wan and Kau Sai by four men armed with revolvers and daggers, who sailed away in their own boat with loot valued at $231.00. No person was injured. On the 8th July, Trading Junk No. `T3825H` was pirated by eight men armed with two revolvers when in Chinese Waters off Deep Bay. The crew of the junk were landed near Tai O on Lantau, and the pirates sailed away in their junk with their cargo and personal belongings valued at $351.50.\n\nCompared with 1932, there was an increase of two cases in the number of piracies on ships, and a decrease of two cases of piracy on native craft.\n\n## SPECIAL BRANCH\n\n11. Following extensive raids in the Colony during the latter part of 1932, the local Communist Party was reduced at the beginning of the year under review to a state of inactivity. However, in the early part of the year, an effort was made to re-organise the Party, but this attempt was short-lived owing to the arrests of certain members of the \"Working Committee\".\n\nDuring the remainder of the year, there were no indications of any renewal of communist activity on a large scale in the Colony, although arrests of communists were made from time to time.\n\nOn one occasion, inflammatory documents were distributed in an industrial centre, but there were no communist demonstrations, and no strikes or serious labour troubles due to communist agitation occurred.\n\nPage 170 \nPage 171", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544869, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## 25. Europeans :-\n\n1. All European officers except two have qualified in FIRST AID. - K14\n2. Fifty-four officers have two certificates.\n\nIndians: \n1. All Indian officers except three have qualified.\n2. Two hundred and eight have two certificates.\n\nCantonese \n1. All Cantonese officers have qualified.\n2. Two hundred and twenty-eight have two certificates.\n\nWei Hai Wei:- \nEvery member of the \"D\" Contingent has qualified. Wei Hai Wei Teacher Dou Lun obtained the 2nd certificate in First Aid.\n\nNote: Recruits under training are not included in the above return, although about 60 per cent. have qualified. All must qualify before passing out of the Police Training School.\n\n## GUARDS OFFICE.\n\n26. Return showing the Establishment and Casualties during the year 1933 :— \n\n| Nationality | Establishment | Enlistment | Deaths | Resignations | Dismissals | Total Casualities | Strength on 31.12.33 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Russian Guards | 34 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 35 | |\n| Indian Special Guards | 96 | 1 | 13 | 2 | | 15 | 85 |\n| Chinese (Wei Hai Wei) Guards | 96 | | 8 | w- | ទ | | 96 |\n| Indian Police Watchmen... | 161 | 3 | 100 | 13 | 116 | 490 | |\n| Chinese (Cantonese) Watchmen.... | 413 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 41 | 130 | 1} |\n| | | | | | J | }) | |\n| Deep Bay. | 81 | | 11 | 13 | 11 | | Kong Mun. |\n| Kong Mun. | 34 | J | \" | | | | |\n| Macau. | 26 | | | | | 97 | 77 |\n| Wu Chau. | 19 | 11 | 15 | 12 | | | |\n| Amoy. | | | | | | | |\n| San Mei. | | | | | | | |\n| Shum Chun. | 11 | 1 | J1 | 11 | | | |\n| Nam Tau. | 10 | | | | | | |\n| Ho Hau. | 9 | | | | | | |\n| Pak Hoi. | | | | | | | |\n| Hoi How. | | | | | | | |\n| Sha U Chong. | | | | | | | |\n| Tai Ping. | | | | | | | |\n| Shanghai. | | | | | | | |\n| Shekki. | | | | | | | |\n| Tung Wah Hospital. | | | | | | | |\n| Swatow. | | | | | | | |\n| Total...... | 167 | 3 | 121 | 25 | 149 | 747 | 8 |\n\n1 Includes one attached to the Criminal Investigation Department, Police Headquarters.\n2 Interchangeable with and drawn from regular duties.\n3 No fixed establishment; recruited as required.\n\n## Anti-Piracy Work\nTwenty-five units of Anti-Piracy Guards were supplied to the British India Steam Navigation Company, and twelve units to the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company on the Hong Kong-Singapore run. Eighteen units were supplied to the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company on the Hong Kong-Shanghai run. The China Navigation Company retained permanent guards on twelve vessels between Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. Towards the end of the year the Company increased their total of units retained from fourteen to sixteen. During the annual overhaul of the Canadian Pacific vessels, the Russian guards normally employed by the Company were drafted temporarily to the Police Training School for Refresher courses.\n\n(A Unit comprises the Non-commissioned Officer and six men of a Guard.)\n\n## Conduct \nPolice Watchmen: Discipline throughout the year was fair. There were three hundred and eighty-four defaulters as against four hundred and sixty-five during 1932.\n\nSpecial Guards: Total defaulters were thirty as against thirty-six during 1932.\n\nRussian Contingent: Sixteen defaulters as against ten during 1932.\n\nWei Hai Wei Contingent: Thirty-three defaulters as against fifty-seven in 1932.\n\n## MENDICANTS.\n\n27. During the year, seven hundred and seventy-four mendicants were dealt with by the Police Department. Of this number, six hundred and nineteen were convicted before Police Magistrates for begging and eighteen were discharged. Of the numbers sent away:- \n334 were sent to Canton.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544870, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "226 \n- K 16 \n\nIn addition to the above, there were eighty persistent and confirmed beggars banished from Hong Kong for a period of ten years during 1933. \n\nOf the total sent away, twenty-three mendicants were traced as having been sent away more than once. \n\n## DEAD BODIES \n\n28. The following table shows the number of unknown dead bodies found by Police in the streets and elsewhere during the last five years: \n\n| Locality | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Victoria | 706 | 418 | 366 | 382 | 357 |\n| Kowloon | 1,072 | 669 | 738 | 884 | 881 |\n| Harbour | 164 | 126 | 115 | 79 | 47 |\n| Elsewhere | 91 | 103 | 76 | 82 | 62 |\n| Total | 2,033 | 1,316 | 1,295 | 1,427 | 1,347 |\n\n| Sex | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Male Adults | 149 | 86 | 107 | 40 | ... |\n| Female... | 33 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 10 |\n| Unknown | 6 | 1 | ... | 15 | ... |\n| Male Children... | 1,015 | 643 | 664 | 713 | 722 |\n| Female ... | 807 | 533 | 489 | 614 | 558 |\n| Unknown | 29 | 32 | 18 | 41 | 41 |\n| Total | 2,033 | 1,316 | 1,295 | 1,427 | 1,347 |\n\n## DOGS ORDINANCE \n\n29. On account of the prevalence of rabies, the muzzling order was brought into force with effect from the 24th April, 1933, and continued in force throughout the year. \n\nFive hundred and eighty-seven dogs were destroyed in 1933 as compared with two hundred and thirty-four in 1932. \n\n| | 1932 | 1933 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Dogs Licensed | 2,964 | 3,753 |\n| Dogs Licensed (free) | 35 | 33 |\n| Dogs Impounded | 30 | 153 |\n| Dogs Destroyed | 234 | 587 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544943, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## C 12\n\n6. Five hundred and ninety-five women, girls, and children were admitted without warrant. Thirty-seven were lost children, eighty-one were accompanied by parents or guardians, and eighty were maidservants or \"mui-tsai\" who had left their employers.\n\n7. On leaving the Kuk, 220 persons were restored to husbands or other relatives, thirty-two were sent to charitable institutions in China, nineteen were given in adoption, four married, 276 were released after enquiries, five were released under bond, and twenty-two were sent to a School, Convent, or Refuge in the Colony. The number of inmates remaining in the Kuk on December 31st was sixty-six.\n\n8. Fifty-one cases of sickness were sent to the Tung Wah Hospital for treatment, and of these, four died.\n\n9. The Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E., continued to serve in his capacity as Visiting Justice throughout the year. Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, O.B.E., was appointed a Visiting Justice in March to fill the place of Mr. M. T. Johnson, who resigned on leaving the Colony.\n\n10. The continued personal interest shown by Mrs. R. H. Kotewall and Mrs. S. W. Tso is much appreciated and is of genuine help to the Institution.\n\n14th March, 1934.\n\n**A. E. WOOD, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Chairman**\n\n## C 13\n\n### Annexe B\n\n#### THE CHINESE HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES\n\n1. The Chinese Hospitals and Chinese Dispensaries are institutions established by the Chinese for the benefit of the poor of Chinese race. Intended to supplement the Government Hospitals, they serve a very useful purpose not only in the matter of medical relief but also in that of health education.\n\n2. An enormous and ever-increasing number of sick, too poor to pay a doctor's fee or to buy proper medicine, and unwilling or unable for one reason or another to attend at a Government Hospital, are successfully reached.\n\n3. There are three general hospitals, one smallpox hospital, two maternity hospitals, and nine public dispensaries. They are maintained by subscriptions from the public, by donations from the Chinese General Charities Fund, and by direct grants from Government. They are controlled by Chinese Committees who work in close cooperation with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n4. In the three big hospitals, the patient can choose between Western and Chinese methods of treatment, but in the Maternity Hospitals and Dispensaries, Western Medicine only is practised. Government Lady Doctors hold gynaecological clinics in each of the Dispensaries once or twice a week.\n\n5. Both Hospitals and Dispensaries are subject to inspection by the Government Medical Department. There are five officers of the Department whose duty it is to visit the various institutions and to give advice and assistance. These officers work in close touch with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n#### THE CHINESE HOSPITALS\n\n6. The Tung Wah Hospital, situated in the centre of the most thickly populated area in Victoria, was first occupied in 1873. The Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital was established in 1902. The Kwong Wah Hospital in Kowloon was built by public subscription in 1911 to meet the needs of the Kowloon peninsula. The Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, a branch of the Tung Wah, situated in an open space in the east of Victoria, was opened in November, 1929. The Government gave the sites and, with grants of money, assisted in the erection of the buildings.\n\n7. In administrative control of the four hospitals is the Tung Wah Committee, a body of Chinese gentlemen elected annually.\n\n323", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548419, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935", "content_text": "64\n\n1020\n\n3rd page.\n\nANO DE 1935–BOLETIM OFICIAL DE MACAU—N.o 30—27 DE JULHO\n\n: ninth.\n\nThe va-\n\n! I ― ― Company as regards any Government or Mu-\n\ning from the stipulations made. — Twenty-\n\nof Association or winding-up of the Com-\n\nnicipal department submitting applications\n\nSo that the Company may be So that the Company may be pany, the decisions shall not be valid unless\n\nand treating of matters respecting the said\n\nbound it is sufficient if the General Manager\n\nthe proxies shall contain special powers co-\n\nCompany, and practise all and further acts\n\nand one of the other managers shall sign in\n\nvering the objects of the said dec..S.\n\nconcerning the administration of the conces-\n\nthe name of the Company. Note.—The Mana-\n\nNote turo.—Each vote corresponds to a part-\n\nsion aforesaid in the capacity of general ma-\n\ngers who sign in the name of the Company\n\nner's holding of twenty-five csendos or its\n\nNo - Nole three.\n\nnager, to represent and sign the deeds and\n\nin matters which involve violation, either\n\nequivalent in dollars.\n\ndocuments necessary for all the purposes of\n\nthe Articles of Association or of the de-\n\npartuer, by himself or as the holder of a\n\nabove stated; to make, on behalf of the\n\ncisions of the partners, shall be' personally\n\npower of attorney, may vote on matters co-\n\n1- Thirtieth Company, any contracts or other agree-\n\nresponsible to the Company.\n\nnected with his own affairs. - Thirty-eighth.\n\nments, with the conditions or articles which\n\nThe Managers are exempted from bond.\n\nExtraordinary gencral meetings shali be\n\nthe General Manager considers convenient\n\nThirty-first. — A Manager shall cease to\n\nconvened in the manner indicated in article:\n\nfor the Company, representing and signing\n\nact as such when he (7) shall be attacked\n\ntwenty-six. - Thirty-ninth. ----The Compa-\n\nthe necessary documents and deeds, with\n\nwith insanity; (b) shall be declared bank-\n\nny, with the approval of the General Me-t-\n\npowers also to rest in\n\nrupt (c) leaves the Colony without due per-\n\ning, may contract loans to the amount that\n\nmission from the Management, in such a\n\nit deems necessary for the transaction of its\n\nrupt (c) leaves the Colony without due per-\n\nway as to fail to attend the meetings of the\n\nbusiness, giving as guarantee or mortgage\n\nmission from the Management, in such a\n\nManagement for more than three months; all or part of the properties of the Company,\n\n(4) shall request the Company in writing to\n\nstipulating the term, the interest and other\n\naccept his resignation and it is accepted by\n\nconditions, including the right of sale of the\n\nThirty-second.\n\nthe Company.\n\nmovable objects under guarantee, on the\n\nvancy of a manager shall be filled by ap-\n\nterms of article eight hundred and sixty-\n\npointment made by the Company.-Thirty-\n\nof the Civil Code, that is when it shall\n\nfourth.\n\nbe agreed upon that the sale may be effected\n\ning, may contract loans to the amount that\n\ncreased or reduced by the Company in Ge-\n\nwithout intervention of the Court or that\n\nit deems necessary for the transaction of its\n\nneral meeting. Twenty-fifth. - George\n\nthe creditor retains the goods mortgaged\n\nbusiness, giving as guarantee or mortgage\n\nGwinnett Noble Tinson and Frederick\n\nthrough valuation, carried out by experts\n\nall or part of the properties of the Company,\n\nJohnson Gellion and also Edward James\n\nappointed by mutual agreement.-Fortieth.\n\nstipulating the term, the interest and other\n\nDavies, banker, of major age, bachelor, sub-\n\nThe decisions of the partners shall be\n\nconditions, including the right of sale of the\n\nmanager of the Hongkong and Shanghai\n\nmade in general meeting. Note. There\n\nmovable objects under guarantee, on the\n\nBanking Corporation, and Henrique Nolas-\n\nshall be an ordinary general meeting within\n\nterms of article eight hundred and sixty-\n\nco da Silva, of major age, a married man,\n\nthe first four months of each where:\n\nof the Civil Code, that is when it shall\n\nlawyer, resident in Macao, in the building,\n\nFirstly. The annual balance sheet and the\n\nbe agreed upon that the sale may be effected\n\nnumber fifty-seven of Rua da Praia Gran-\n\nmanagement's report shall be discussed and\n\nwithout intervention of the Court or that\n\nde are also hereby appointed managers of\n\napproved. Secondly. Any other matter\n\nthe creditor retains the goods mortgaged\n\nthis Company. Note. The Managers, for\n\nwhich the meeting has been conven-\n\nthrough valuation, carried out by experts\n\nin addition to the rights and obligations\n\ned shall be treated of. Thirty-fifth.\n\nappointed by mutual agreement.-Fortieth.\n\nconferred by law, have all the powers acces-\n\nThe General Meeting shall be dispen-\n\nThe decisions of the partners shall be\n\nsary, with free and general administration,\n\nsed with: - Firstly. If all the part-\n\nmade in general meeting. Note. There\n\nto manage all the business of the con-\n\nners agree, in writing, to\n\nshall be an ordinary general meeting within\n\nthe deci-\n\ncession of the service of the supply of\n\nnions. Seconilly. — If all the partners have\n\nthe first four months of each where:\n\nsions. Seconilly. — If all the partners have\n\npotable and non-potable water to the city\n\nagreed, in writing, that the decisions may\n\nFirstly. The annual balance sheet and the\n\nof Macao, and, consequently, to practice\n\nbe made in this form. Thirdly. The dis-\n\nmanagement's report shall be discussed and\n\nin conjunction with the General Manager\n\npositions of sub-clause two of the note\n\napproved. Secondly. Any other matter\n\nall the acts and contracts which are the\n\nof the preceding article shall not be\n\nwhich the meeting has been conven-\n\nrights of commercial manager; deciding as\n\napplicable regarding the decisions which\n\ned shall be treated of. Thirty-fifth.\n\nregards the business that is related directly\n\nbring about modifications to the Article\n\nThe General Meeting shall be dispen-\n\nor inderectly with the said Company, the\n\nof Association or the winding-up of the\n\nsed with: - Firstly. If all the part-\n\ndecisions being decided by majority of vo-\n\nCompany. ·Thirty-sixth. The General\n\nners agree, in writing, to\n\ntes, the meetings being presided over by the\n\nMeeting shall be convened by the Manager,\n\nnions. Seconilly. — If all the partners have\n\nmanager chosen by the other co-managers.\n\non the terms of article one hundred and\n\nagreed, in writing, that the decisions may\n\nThe powers granted to the management\n\neighty-one of the Commercial Code. Note\n\nbe made in this form. Thirdly. The dis-\n\nmay be increased or reduced by the Compa-\n\none. - When all the partners are present at\n\npositions of sub-clause two of the note\n\nny in General Meeting. — Twenty-sixth.\n\nthe meeting, all the decisions arrived at shall\n\nof the preceding article shall not be\n\nThe administration of the Company shall\n\nbe valid, although they may refer to matters\n\napplicable regarding the decisions which\n\nbe carried out by the managers in meeting\n\nthat have not been stated in the agenda for\n\nbring about modifications to the Article\n\nand the decisions shall be determined by\n\nof Association or the winding up of the\n\nthe majority. Twenty-seventh.\n\nCompany. ·Thirty-sixth. The General\n\nnager, to represent and sign the deeds and\n\nMeeting shall be convened by the Manager,\n\nthe necessary documents and deeds, with\n\non the terms of article one hundred and\n\npowers also to rest in\n\neighty-one of the Commercial Code. Note\n\none. - When all the partners are present at\n\nthe meeting, all the decisions arrived at shall\n\nbe valid, although they may refer to matters\n\nthat have not been stated in the agenda for\n\nthe meeting and even if the meeting - Note\n\nThe Ma-\n\nhas not been properly convened.\n\nthe majority. Twenty-seventh.\n\nnag\n\ners have the right to an annual remune-\n\nturo. -- The decisions of note one shall\n\nration, to be established by the Company\n\nnot apply in respect of decisions which\n\nfor services rendered, their expenses while\n\nrefer to any modification to the articles of\n\ntravelling being paid by the Company, when\n\nAssociation or winding up of the Company.\n\non the Company's business.-Twenty-eighth\n\n· Thirty-seventh. The decisions of the\n\n-The functions of the Managers shall subsist\n\npartners shall be passed by the majority of\n\nuntil the power of attorney is expressly re-\n\nvotes.\n\nvoked, which shall always be revokable,\n\n- Proxies may be grant-\n\nwithout prejudice to any indemnity result-\n\ned only to other partners, and when the de-\n\ncisions relate to modification of the articles\n\nOn the thirty-first of December of each civil year the accounts of the Company shall be closed. — From the net profit shown in the balance sheet, which shall be presented by the Management, five per cent shall be deducted as the minimum percentage to constitute the Reserve Fund, until this fund represents at least one-fifth part of the Company's capital. The remainder may be distributed as dividend among the partners in proportion to their partners' holdings.\n\nAs there is no Fiscal Council Forty-first. in the present Company, the Managers shall exhibit in the Company's office, for a period of fifteen days, the documents referred to in Article one hundred and eighty-nine of the Commercial Code, as well as the list of partners to whom a copy of the balance sheet shall be sent, after which the General Meeting shall be held.\n\nForty-second. - This Company may be wound-up on 'the conditions of Article one hundred and twenty and its notes of the Commercial Code.\n\nForty-third. — In the event of the death of any partner, the Company shall not be wound-up and the heirs of the deceased partner shall exercise in common the rights of the deceased partner, and the division of the partners' holding may be proceeded with, if they so desire.\n\nForty-fourth. In the event of the winding-up of the Company, the liquidator will be the partner owning the largest holding. After liquidation has been effected the liabilities shall be paid in the first place, then the paid up capital, and finally the balance shall be paid to the partners in proportion to the partners' holding of each one.\n\nForty-fifth. All cases not provided for shall be regulated and governed by the terms", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549286, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "content_text": "Table of Correspondence,-Continued.\n\nRemarks.\n\n \n 8\n \n Re-drafted giving in greater detail the procedure to be adopted before any building work is commenced or resumed; making the architect responsible for work shown on plans submitted by him; increasing penalties for defective work, etc.\n \n \n \n \n Buildings Ordinance, 1935.\n Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.\n \n \n 6\n 222-225\n \n \n \n \n 7\n 200\n \"or Kowloon Point District\" inserted\n Do.\n Do.\n \n \n 8\n 201\n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n 202\n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n 203\n Re-drafted to make it compulsory to erect hoarding during the demolition or erection of a building\n \n \n \n \n 11\n 208\n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n 96\n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n 97\n Schedule B added to the marginal note\n \n \n \n \n 14\n 98\n \"the City of Victoria and Kowloon\" have been substituted for \"an urban district\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"composed of good cement...or other suitable material\" omitted\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"thirty five\" substituted for \"forty\" and \"for ventilation\" omitted and \"or where the walls are constructed in good cement mortar\" inserted in proviso (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"practicable\" substituted for \"possible\"\n \n \n \n \n 15\n 99\n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n 17\n 101\n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n 101A\n \"eighty six\" substituted for \"seventy\" and \"not exceeding nine feet\" inserted\n \n \n \n \n 19 (2)\n 102 (2)\n \"thirty five\" substituted for \"thirty\"\n \n \n \n \n 19 (3)\n 102 (3)\n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n 103\n \"not exceeding twelve feet in height\" inserted\n \n \n \n \n 21\n 103A\n \n \n \n \n\n14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549308, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "content_text": "13 \n\n(2) If any wall exceeds 35 feet but does not exceed 60 feet in length clear of cross walls, the thickness of such wall shall, unless the Building Authority otherwise permits, be increased by adding 4½ inches to the thickness specified in sub-section (1). \n\napply to \n\nwalls hereafter erected or re-erected. \n\n18. The provisions of section 17 shall also apply, in the case of existing buildings, to any walls or portions of walls hereafter erected or re-erected therein : Provided that in any case where from any cause it is not practicable or desirable to apply such provisions, the thicknesses shall be determined by the Building Authority. \n\nof length \n\n19.-(1) No wall, other than a boundary wall, shall exceed sixty feet in length, clear of any return or cross wall, without the approval of the Building Authority. \n\nCross \n\nA wall shall not be deemed a cross wall for the purpose of determining the length of any external or party wall unless it is carried up to the top of the topmost storey, and unless in each storey the aggregate extent of the vertical faces or elevations of all the recesses and that of all the openings therein taken together shall not exceed one-half of the whole extent of the vertical face or elevation of the wall in such storey. \n\nover 80 feet \n\nto be \n\nMeasurement \n\n(2) No wall shall exceed eighty feet in height without the approval of the Building Authority. The height of every wall shall be measured from the level of the adjacent foot-path, or, where no foot-path exists, from the level of the street or ground outside to the highest part of such wall or, in the case of a gable, to half the height of such gable, but shall in no case include any portion of a wall which acts as a retaining wall. \n\nof walls. Ornamental towers, turrets, or other architectural features or decorations, not exceeding nine feet in height and parapets not exceeding three feet in height shall not be included in measuring the height of such wall. \n\nexternal \n\nthan 35 feet \n\n(3) Any external wall of a building exceeding thirty-five feet in length, clear of cross walls, shall be secured at the level of each upper floor, and at the ceiling or roof, with wrought-iron tie-rods not less than one and a quarter inches in diameter, spaced not more than twelve feet apart and extending through such external wall and the nearest parallel wall of such building. The tie-rods shall have screwed ends with nuts bearing upon wrought-iron washer plates not less than eighteen inches square by half an inch in thickness, or cast-iron washer plates to be approved by the Building Authority, and the brickwork of each wall for its full thickness and for an area of two feet square round the end of each tie-rod shall be built in cement-mortar : \n\nProvided that the Building Authority may modify or dispense with the requirements of this sub-section whenever he may consider such requirements unnecessary. \n\nof cross \n\nmain walls. \n\n20. The thickness of every cross wall shall be at least two-thirds of the thickness prescribed by section 17 in that behalf for an external wall or party wall of the same height and length and belonging to the same class of building as that to which such cross wall belongs, unless, in any particular case, the Building Authority shall specially authorise a less thickness. But if such cross wall supports a superincumbent external wall the whole of such cross wall shall be of the thickness prescribed for an external wall or party wall of the same height and length and belonging to the same class of building as that to which such cross wall belongs. \n\n39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549317, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "content_text": "71. Chimneys of brick, stone, or other incombustible material, may be corbelled out in the upper storeys of buildings, provided that the work so corbelled out does not project from the wall more than the thickness of such wall, but all chimneys built in the ground storeys of buildings shall, unless with the consent of the Building Authority, rest upon solid foundations and upon footings similar in every respect to the foundations of the walls against which such chimneys are built.\n\n72. The back of every chimney-opening, from the hearth up to the height of four feet above the level of the fire-grate, shall be at least nine inches thick if in a party wall, or at least four and a half inches thick if not in a party wall.\n\nWindows, Storeys and Rooms.\n\n73. Every storey of every domestic building hereafter erected shall be provided with one window at least opening either directly or across a verandah or balcony into the external air and the total area, clear of any obstruction to the light, of such window or windows shall be at least one tenth of the floor area of every such storey.\n\nEvery storey of every such domestic building shall also be provided with a window of at least ten square feet, clear of any obstruction to the light, in the rear main wall of such building (exclusive of any kitchen or outbuilding attached to the building) opening either directly or across a verandah or balcony into the open space in the rear of such building and the area of such window shall not be included in calculating the window area required by this section.\n\nEvery window provided under this section shall be so constructed that at least one half can be opened and the opening shall extend as far as is practicable above the floor level.\n\n74. (1) No domestic building shall hereafter be erected of a greater depth than thirty-five feet unless every storey of such building is provided with windows opening into the external air having a total area, clear of any obstruction to the light (including the window in the rear) equal to not less than one-eighth of the floor area of such storey and so arranged that, in the opinion of the Building Authority, the whole of the storey will be adequately lighted and ventilated.\n\n(2) Provided always that the provisions of this section shall not apply in any case in which the Crown lease has specially provided for the erection of buildings of a greater depth than thirty-five feet; and provided further that the Governor in Council may in any other case in his discretion grant exemption from or modification of the provisions of this section.\n\n(3) If any such exemption or modification is applied for and refused by the Governor in Council, compensation shall be paid to the owner, claiming in the manner provided for by Section 148, in respect of any land required by this section to be left unbuilt upon in excess of the open space required by Section 82.\n\n75. The depth of a building shall be measured on the ground level from a central point in the outer surface of the front main wall to the outer surface of the nearest main wall of the same building opposite to such front main wall.\n\n76. In any case where it may be found necessary the Director of Public Works shall determine which is the front and which is the rear of a building.\n\nPage 51\n\n \nwww tions of Corbelling and founda- regulated.\n\nof back of Thickness chimney opening.\n\nin Storeys Windows required.\n\nbuildings.\n\nLimitation of depth of\n\nMeasure- ment of depth of a building.\n\ntion of Determina and rear.\n\n \n\nPage 25 \n\n \n[cf. s. 160].", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553259, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-560-3 Air Ministry- financial responsibility for extensions to Kai Tak Aerodrome 25-1-1937 - 9-6-1937", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-560-3 Air Ministry- financial responsibility for extensions to Kai Tak Aerodrome 25-1-1937 - 9-6-1937", "content_text": "## \n\n0 \n\n2 \n\nAND BE IT REMEMBERED that His Majesty's Secretary of State for Air has participated in the construction of a hangar and a slipway on the area coloured yellow on the said plan and has expended thereon out of Imperial Funds the sum of Thirty-four thousand and eighty-seven pounds eleven shillings and nine pence (£34,087-11-9 or $570,957.50 Hong Kong Currency) and is about to construct other buildings of a similar nature.\n\nAND BE IT ALSO REMEMBERED that in consideration of the premises the Governor of Hong Kong for and on behalf of the Government of the said Colony DOTH hereby grant unto His Majesty's Secretary of State for Air the exclusive use of that portion of the said Aerodrome which is coloured yellow on the said plan for so long as the same shall be required for hangars, slipways, and other buildings and purposes necessary for His Majesty's Air Force but for not longer than Ninety-nine years from the First day of July One thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight less the last three days thereof PROVIDED ALWAYS that if and when the said area coloured yellow shall no longer be required for use by His Majesty's Air Force the rights and benefits of His Majesty's Secretary of State for Air hereby granted or created shall be extinguished on such terms as may be settled between His Majesty's Secretary of State for Air and the Government of the said Colony.\n\nAND BE IT ALSO REMEMBERED that those portions of the said Aerodrome which are coloured blue on the said plan are reserved by the Colonial Government for its own exclusive use.\n\nIN WITNESS whereof His Excellency Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E. Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony and The Officer Commanding the Royal Air Force Base at Kai Tak Hong Kong have hereunto set their hands this day of One thousand nine hundred and thirty-five.\n\n**GOVERNOR**\n\n**OFFICER COMMANDING ROYAL AIR FORCE BASE KAI TAK HONG KONG**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-3 Air Ministry- financial responsibility for extensions to Kai Tak Aerodrome 25-1-1937 - 9-6-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555340, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "content_text": "# [6th witness Li Tai.] \n# [7th witness Lai Yau.] \n\n## Testimony of Li Tai\n\n545. And what happened to you after she anchored off Kowloon? A police launch came and took me ashore. \n546. And then where were you taken? I was taken to a hospital—whether it was the Kowloon Hospital or not I cannot say; there I was given some medicine. \n547. Did anyone speak to you in a language you could understand whilst you were on the German vessel? Not one. \n548. Chairman: How many junks were there in all fishing off Chelong lighthouse that morning? Twelve that I could see. \n549. Do you know whether this vessel shelled any of the other junks? Yes. \n550. Before it came to yours or afterwards? This ship shot at the others first. \n551. Were you the last one attacked? The very last to be attacked. \n552. (Witness left the witness box).\n\n## Testimony of Lai Yau\n\n553. Seventh Witness. Lai Yau, duly declared, states:-\n554. Mr. Whyatt: How old are you, Lai Yau? I am thirty-eight years old. \n555. What do you do as an occupation? I am a fisherman. \n556. In September of this year were you working as a fisherman aboard a junk No. 3407? Yes, sir. \n557. What is your native place? Macao. \n558. Do you remember going on a fishing expedition on board this junk in September this year? Yes. \n559. Where did you sail from? We went from San Mei to Chelong. \n560. Where did you come from before you got to San Mei? From Shaukiwan. \n561. What day did you get to Chelong? The evening of the 21st September. \n562. And when you got to Chelong could you see the lighthouse? Yes, I saw the lighthouse. \n563. Was that in the day time or in the night time? Night time. \n564. Well, do you remember the following morning, the 22nd? Yes, I remember it was in the morning when we sailed out. \n565. When did you arrive off Chelong lighthouse? Speaking of the 22nd September, it was between 8 and 9 a.m. when we arrived there. \n566. Where had you been the night before? We sailed from San Mei in the evening of the 21st September. We went slowly along towards this lighthouse at Chelong. We arrived in the morning between 8 and 9 a.m. off the lighthouse. \n567. What time did you start fishing that morning? About 6 a.m. \n568. And at the place where you started fishing that morning could you see that spot in the daytime? No, we could not see the lighthouse from where we were.\n\n569. Very well, you started fishing that morning. Whilst you were fishing did anything unusual happen that you can remember? About 9 a.m. I heard gunfire. \n570. After you heard gunfire did you see anything? A submarine was chasing and attacking junks. \n571. What you called a submarine why do you call it a submarine? I do not know the proper term for this kind of vessel—because she dives. \n572. How far was she away when you first saw her? When I first caught sight of her she was very far away; I could only see the shape of a vessel. \n573. Did she come near? Later on she fired at another junk.\n\n## Continuation of Lai Yau's Testimony\n\n574. How many junks were there on the fishing ground altogether? Twelve in all. \n575. After firing at the other junks did she come closer to your junk? Yes, she drew nearer and nearer. \n576. Can you give us any idea how near she came? About four or five times the length of this court. \n577. Did you notice anything about her when she came as near as that? I did not see very clearly because I got frightened and I went inside the hold, to hide myself. \n578. Did you see any men aboard her? I did not notice any men because I got so frightened that I went inside the hold to hide myself. \n579. What happened when you got down into the hold? The gun fired and hit my vessel. \n580. How many times was your vessel hit? Three shots. \n581. And what happened to your vessel after it had been hit three times? Then the bow of the junk went down first. \n582. And what did you do? We then severed the mainsail from the mast so that the people could sit on it. \n583. Did you do anything else to the mainsail? We tied the poles to form a kind of a raft. \n584. How many people got on to the mainsail? Ten. \n585. And how long did you remain drifting about on the mainsail? Five days and five nights. \n586. And what happened to you at the end of that time? On the morning of the 27th September a German vessel picked us up. \n587. Do you know the name of the vessel? I do not know—I cannot read so I cannot say. \n588. And where did she take you to? It brought us to Hong Kong. \n589. Chairman: You were asked a few moments ago why you called this vessel a submarine and you said because it could dive. Did you see it diving that morning? Oh no, I did not see that vessel dive that morning. \n590. What did you see it doing that gave you the impression that it was a submarine? In appearance it looked like a submarine. \n591. Have you seen submarines before? Yes. \n592. Where? In Hong Kong. \n593. After your junk had been struck for the third time and it was sinking and you got on to the mainsail, what happened to the submarine? She had gone as we were clinging on to the mainsail. \n594. So far as you saw did she attempt to render assistance to anyone from any of the junks? So far as I could see no assistance was rendered by the submarine. \n595. Could you see any marks, any flags on this submarine, any distinguishing marks on the sides at all? I saw no flag or any sign on this vessel.\n\n(Witness left the witness box).\n\n## Testimony of Lai Pak-yau\n\n596. Eighth Witness. Lai Pak-yau, duly declared, states:-\n597. Mr. Whyatt: Lai Pak-yau, you are twenty-nine years of age? I am. \n598. You are a foki by occupation? Yes, a foki. \n599. In September you were employed as a foki on board fishing junk No. 3407? Yes.\n\nPage 190\nPage 191", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-568-11 Ronald Hall bishop of Victoria- petitions that land held in trust for a school- should... 20-4-1938 - 29-4-1939", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-568-11 Ronald Hall bishop of Victoria- petitions that land held in trust for a school- should... 20-4-1938 - 29-4-1939", "content_text": "38\n\ning thereon respectively one hundred and thirty-five feet and nine inches, ninety-three feet, and one hundred and ninety-three feet and on or towards the West side thereof on Glenealy Road and Crown Land and measuring thereon respectively one hundred and twenty-four feet and three inches, ninety-seven feet, twenty-five feet and twenty-five feet which said piece or parcel of ground expressed to be hereby demised contains in the whole by admeasurement eighty-eight thousand two hundred and seventy square feet and is more particularly delineated on the plan hereto annexed and thereon coloured Red and is registered in the Land Office as INLAND LOT NO. 76\n\nTOGETHER with all messuages buildings and other erections now standing or being thereon And all the easements and appurtenances whatsoever to the said demised premises belonging, or in any-wise appertaining. EXCEPT AND RESERVED unto His said Majesty, His Heirs, Successors and Assigns, all Mines, Minerals, and Quarries of Stone in, under and upon the said premises, and all such Earth, Soil, Marl, Clay, Chalk, Brick-earth, Gravel, Sand, Stone, and Stones, and other Earths or Materials, which now are or hereafter during the continuance of this demise, shall be under or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as His said Majesty, His Heirs, Successors and Assigns may require for the Roads, Public Buildings, or other Public Purposes of the said Colony of Hongkong; with full liberty of Ingress, Egress and Regress, to and for His said Majesty, His Heirs, Successors and Assigns, and His and their Agents, servants and workmen, at reasonable times in the day during the continuance of this demise, with or without horses, carts, carriages and all other necessary things into, upon, from and out of all or any part or parts of the premises hereby expressed to be demised, to view, dig for,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-11 Ronald Hall bishop of Victoria- petitions that land held in trust for a school- should... 20-4-1938 - 29-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564136, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "# \n\n## 91. Navy \nOn the 7th March the Minister of Marine announced a new naval replenishment plan, to cost nearly 1,700 million yen, including 1,205 million yen for construction, expenditure on construction to be spread over six years.\n\n## United Kingdom \n### Chinese Currency Stabilisation Fund \nThe Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the House of Commons on the 8th March that a fund of £10 million had been organised for the purpose of maintaining the stability of the Chinese national currency. Of this sum, £5 million had been subscribed by Chinese banks and £5 million by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and the Chartered Bank, with a Treasury guarantee against loss. The management of the fund was to be entrusted to a committee consisting of two representatives of the British banks, two representatives of the Chinese banks and a chairman; Mr. Cyril Rogers, of the Bank of England, has been chosen for the latter function, with the agreement of both His Majesty's Government and the Chinese Government.\n\n## 94. \nHis Majesty's Ambassador had informed the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs in advance of the intended establishment of the fund and pointed out that a collapse of the Chinese currency would lead to financial and commercial chaos, and that the existence of the fund would benefit not only British but also other foreign interests, including Japanese. Mr. Sawada appeared to think that there was no present danger to the Chinese currency and that the amount subscribed was rather excessive.\n\n## 95. \nThe Japanese press reactions were somewhat contradictory as far as the financial aspect of the measure was concerned, but, in general, they attacked the action of His Majesty's Government as one more instance of the British determination to help Chiang Kai-shek and to seek vainly to uphold the former British position in the Far East.\n\n## China \n### General \nOn the 10th March it was announced officially that the Asia Development Council had established liaison offices at Peking, Kalgan, Shanghai, Amoy and Tsingtao.\n\n## 97. Shanghai \nDiscussion of the question of the suppression of terrorism in the Shanghai International Settlement was continued between the Shanghai Municipal Council and the Japanese authorities and an agreement was reached on the 3rd March. Briefly, the agreement provided for stricter enforcement of anti-terrorist measures by the municipal police and, in particular, for the intensification of the searching of suspects both in the settlement and entering and leaving it, and also for even closer co-operation with the Japanese police force. The council rejected any suggestion which would permit any police organ other than its own to act independently in the settlement.\n\n## 98. \nAn assassination occurred in Yangtzepoo (Japanese-controlled district) on the 28th March. There was also a serious fire in the Japanese area on the 25th March, in which the warehouse of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Japanese Consulate-General were burnt down.\n\n## 99. Tientsin \nThe situation of the British and French Concessions in Tientsin continued to grow worse during the month of March. The Japanese authorities complained that terrorist organisations were allowed to flourish within the concessions, and took various measures such as the erection of a live-wire fence round the two concessions for the purpose of preventing the entrance and exit of unauthorised and undesirable persons. Further representations protesting against these measures and explaining the attitude adopted by the British authorities were made by His Majesty's Ambassador on the 3rd March, but no improvement in the situation resulted.\n\n## 100. \nOn the 22nd March His Majesty's Ambassador suggested that the military attaché to His Majesty's Embassy should visit Tientsin with a view to discussing matters with the Japanese military authorities in the hope of achieving an improvement. The proposal was approved and Major-General Piggott proceeded to Tientsin on the 31st March.\n\n## 101. Dyott Case \nOn the 17th March Mr. H. F. Dyott, chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce at Tientsin, was kidnapped by Chinese in circumstances which left no doubt of the culpable negligence and perhaps of the complicity of certain sections of the Japanese military. The co-operation of the Japanese authorities in rescuing Mr. Dyott was urgently requested, and he was ultimately handed over by Chinese bandits on the 3rd April on the payment of $50,000 ransom.\n\n## 102. Tsingtao \nOn the 25th March three berths in Tsingtao Harbour were opened to foreign shipping, which had previously been excluded altogether from the harbour. The concession was welcomed, but it remains to be seen whether arrangements which provide for only about 50 per cent. of the berthing requirements of foreign shipping and for no warehouse space will work satisfactorily.\n\n## 103. Yangtze \nNo steps were taken by the Japanese in March towards a relaxation of the restrictions on foreign shipping on the Yangtze River, Minister for Foreign Affairs stated in the Diet on the 11th March that it was Japan's intention to open the river to foreign shipping when military necessities for closure disappeared. It was impossible to say yet when this would be. The Minister of Marine endorsed this statement and added that there would be nothing against partial opening of the river after strategic exigencies were relaxed.\n\n## Trade and Exchange Control in North China \nAt the beginning of March the authorities in North China announced the introduction on the 11th March of a system of trade and exchange control under which exports and imports would all be subject to approval by the Federal Reserve Bank of North China and must be transacted at the rate of 1s, 2d. to the Federal Reserve dollar. Formal protests were made in Tokyo by the British, French and United States Ambassadors. Sir Robert Craigie pointed out that the general effect of the new measures would be that British merchants would be unable to engage in import and export trade except with the sanction of the local authorities, and then only if trade was financed through Federal Reserve Bank currency. The French Ambassador described the measures as \"in flagrant contradiction of treaty rights\", while the United States Ambassador described them as the most comprehensive discrimination against United States and other foreign countries and in favour of Japan which has yet been established in North China by Japanese authorities.\n\n## 105. \nThe Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs stated in the Budget Sub-Committee of the House of Representatives on the 17th March that the Japanese Government supported the action taken by the Provisional Government in North China, which did away with discriminatory treatment of third Powers.\n\n## The Diet \n### HOME AFFAIRS \nThe Diet session came to an end on the 25th March, having completed action on all of the eighty-nine Bills presented by the Government. None of the thirty-two private members' Bills introduced was approved owing to lack of time. The proceedings were very uneventful owing to the conciliatory attitude of the Government and to the war. The session has, in fact, been described as the quietest since the introduction of parliamentary government in this country.\n\n## The Position of the Government \nOn the opening of the session the Prime Minister's position was generally considered to be precarious, and his Government was expected to be short-lived. Through his judicious handling of the Diet, however, Baron Hiranuma has succeeded in gaining the confidence of Court circles and of the general public to an appreciable extent. Though he has always been classed as a reactionary, Baron Hiranuma's domestic policy has been more moderate up to the present than was Prince Konoye's.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568651, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "content_text": "51\n\n42\n\n(4) Private schools are being gradually brought under Government control. (5) Mass education of adults is also being attempted with encouraging results so far as literacy is concerned.\n\n(6) The salary of teachers is being raised to give a better inducement to persons to become teachers. In the last two years salaries have gone up by 50 per cent.\n\n(7) There has been a very great increase in primary schools, which are now said to number 3,000 in all, and also in middle and normal schools. There is a college in Urumchi which is being extended and which it is hoped will one day become a university for the province.\n\n153. Rather unexpectedly none, or practically none, of the Sinkiangese go to universities outside Sinkiang, either in China, Russia or elsewhere. I could find no trace of returned students from Russian universities. The probable reason for this is the poverty of the people and the province. Undoubtedly one of the great requirements of Sinkiang is a more highly educated population, especially in various technical spheres, if they are to carry through their own development. I think that very good service could be done to the improvement of Indian-Sinkiangese relations if some arrangement could be come to with the Indian Government to provide free university education for a limited number of selected Sinkiangese each year. I am sure that the small expense entailed would be well repaid by the closer and more friendly trade and political relations in the future. This is, moreover, the one way in which it might be possible at present to improve British relations and influence in that area. I cannot, of course, say whether the Governor would fall in with such a plan, but the proposal should, I think, be made.\n\nAgriculture.\n\n154. An attempt is being made to improve the technique of agriculture and there are a number of agricultural institutions in the province. We were entertained at the one in Tulufan and saw and talked to the director, a young Sinkiangese. The farmers, who were at first hostile and unresponsive, are now enthusiastic about the work and are urging the Government to increase it. The following measures have been taken to encourage and help agriculture:-\n\n(1) The Commercial Bank has granted rural credits of 470,000 dollars in 1939, with a special addition of 14,000 dollars for animal husbandry together with a non-interest-bearing credit of 60,000 dollars.\n\n(2) Certain special taxes have been abolished:-\n\n(a) The slaughter tax.\n\n(b) The travelling merchant's permit tax.\n\n(c) Land taxes in special districts suffering from flood or drought.\n\n(d) Surtax on grass which was attached traditionally to land tax.\n\n(e) All other special, extra or surtaxes on land.\n\n(3) Agricultural implements have been imported from Russia, such as harrows, ploughs, &c., and these are hired out to farmers at almost nominal sums. The farmers are now for the first time commencing to buy these. At present about 10,000 such implements are being used in the province.\n\n(4) Cotton seeds and silk-worms have been very widely distributed in large quantities to improve the quality of production. Experiments are being carried out in Tulufan and Shan Shan districts with American cotton. Already some small export of cotton and silk has started, which is a new feature.\n\n(5) Irrigation has been extended, especially in the Ili district, where a canal has been built extending from Bajen Tai to Wei Yuan. This is an old canal, but it had never been operated successfully until reconstructed. The underground irrigation which was first installed by General Ling at Tulufan, 100 years ago, is now also largely used at Hami. This system enables Tulufan, where there is practically no rainfall, to be one of the finest fruit-producing centres in China.\n\n(6) The tax on covered mangers for animals has been abolished, and the storage of grass for winter has been encouraged so as to obviate the very serious loss of stock which takes place each winter.\n\n1\n\n43\n\n(7) Attempts are being made to improve the local breeds of cattle, sheep and horses, very largely by local selection, though some stallions have been imported.\n\n(8) Cattle plague, which is a very serious factor in the province, has been tackled and veterinary stations have been set up in various districts.\n\n(9) An agricultural training school has been set up in Urumchi with a three-year course in animal husbandry, veterinary science and irrigation. There are at present some eighty students. In addition, a number of short courses in animal husbandry are given in various centres, lasting a month, the aim of which is to give the farmers and herdsmen some sense of the principles of this science.\n\n155. In addition to the above reforms, a reform of finance and currency has been carried through. In 1938 the Commercial Bank was reorganised as a mixed bank, under the name of the Sinkiang Commercial Bank, with a capital partly private and partly held by the Provincial Government. During the first nine months of 1939 a credit of 17,872,500 dollars was granted to the bank to meet the requirements of commercial and agricultural capitalisation. The reorganisation was financed partly by the Government and partly from the loan raised by the Government from Russia of 5 million roubles, the balance of the loan being used for road construction. The Sinkiang Commercial Bank issues its own notes, but mostly in smaller denominations. The old provincial notes and the so-called Har notes (i.e., the notes issued in the district of Harshieh), which were in circulation on the basis of the Liang, have practically all been exchanged into dollars, and as at the end of last year all such notes were declared annulled and of no value.\n\nEL\n\n156. So far as public health is concerned, some attempt has been made to deal with this by hospital construction and dispensaries. Since the April revolution, hospitals have been established in Urumchi, Ili, Kashgar, Aokashu, Hami, Aoshan, Taichen and Khotan respectively. Two dispensaries have been established, one in Woo-shu and one in Tulufan. In addition, there are two pharmacies in Urumchi and Ili. All hospital services, with the exception of the provision of medicines, are free of charge. In the Urumchi hospital there are 170 beds and in each of the others thirty only. An attempt is being made to establish further dispensaries in other districts. The total expenditure on these health services in 1939 was 415,660 dollars. Three further pharmacies are to be established this year in Aoshan, Kashgar and Aokashu. All the skilled staff are Russian, but an effort is being made to train assistants on an apprenticeship system in the hospitals and pharmacies.\n\n157. Industrial development is practically non-existent except for electric generating stations on a very small scale in one or two places and, what is perhaps more important, the development of an oil-field to the north-west of Urumchi. I was told by a prominent Chinese friend in Chungking that he had been reliably informed by the officials in Moscow last July that over 400 tons of machinery had already been sent up for the refinery. There was no evidence that it was yet in operation, but I think there is no doubt that a large refinery will be erected before long. There is undoubtedly considerable mineral wealth, but none of it is being worked with the exception of coal, which is being mined by the old-fashioned methods, and a small amount of gold by panning. Some jade is also found in the province.\n\nGold and jade may not be exported from the province at all. The former is being collected as a backing for currency, and the latter is prized as valuable and so may not be bought and taken out of the province.\n\n158. The second three-year plan is designed to continue the parallel extension of all development and to initiate the construction of some light industries in the main centres. As in the case of agricultural development, this is all to be financed from the provincial resources, as the Governor will not consent to borrowing from outside Sinkiang. The whole development is in the hands of the Government, and all industries will be Government-owned and controlled. It is the intention of the Governor to sacrifice speed of development to the certainty that there will be no exploitation from outside of the province's resources.\n\n159. To sum up my view of the situation, which is based partly upon ascertained facts and observation and partly upon impressions gained-the Governor is an independent autocrat with the most friendly relations with Russia\n\n[21258]\n\nG 2\n\n52", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568682, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "content_text": "100\n\n42\n\n(4) Private schools are being gradually brought under Government control. (5) Mass education of adults is also being attempted with encouraging results so far as literacy is concerned.\n\n(6) The salary of teachers is being raised to give a better inducement to persons to become teachers. In the last two years salaries have gone up by 50 per cent.\n\n(7) There has been a very great increase in primary schools, which are now said to number 3,000 in all, and also in middle and normal schools. There is a college in Urumchi which is being extended and which it is hoped will one day become a university for the province.\n\n153. Rather unexpectedly none, or practically none, of the Sinkiangese go to universities outside Sinkiang, either in China, Russia or elsewhere. I could find no trace of returned students from Russian universities. The probable reason for this is the poverty of the people and the province. Undoubtedly one of the great requirements of Sinkiang is a more highly educated population, especially in various technical spheres, if they are to carry through their own development. I think that very good service could be done to the improvement of Indian-Sinkiangese relations if some arrangement could be come to with the Indian Government to provide free university education for a limited number of selected Sinkiangese each year. I am sure that the small expense entailed would be well repaid by the closer and more friendly trade and political relations in the future. This is, moreover, the one way in which it might be possible at present to improve British relations and influence in that area. I cannot, of course, say whether the Governor would fall in with such a plan, but the proposal should, I think, be made.\n\nAgriculture.\n\nI\n\n154. An attempt is being made to improve the technique of agriculture and there are a number of agricultural institutions in the province. We were entertained at the one in Tulufan and saw and talked to the director, a young Sinkiangese. The farmers, who were at first hostile and unresponsive, are now enthusiastic about the work and are urging the Government to increase it. The following measures have been taken to encourage and help agriculture :-\n\n(1) The Commercial Bank has granted rural credits of 470,000 dollars in 1939, with a special addition of 14,000 dollars for animal husbandry together with a non-interest-bearing credit of 60,000 dollars.\n\n(2) Certain special taxes have been abolished: —\n\n(a) The slaughter tax.\n\n(b) The travelling merchant's permit tax.\n\n(c) Land taxes in special districts suffering from flood or drought.\n\n(d) Surtax on grass which was attached traditionally to land tax.\n\n(e) All other special, extra or surtaxes on land.\n\n(3) Agricultural implements have been imported from Russia, such as harrows, ploughs, &c., and these are hired out to farmers at almost nominal sums. The farmers are now for the first time commencing to buy these. At present about 10,000 such implements are being used in the province.\n\n(4) Cotton seeds and silk-worms have been very widely distributed in large quantities to improve the quality of production. Experiments are being carried out in Tulufan and Shan Shan districts with American cotton. Already some small export of cotton and silk has started, which is a new feature.\n\n(5) Irrigation has been extended, especially in the Ili district, where a canal has been built extending from Bajen Tai to Wei Yuan. This is an old canal, but it had never been operated successfully until reconstructed. The underground irrigation which was first installed by General Ling at Tulufan, 100 years ago, is now also largely used at Hami. This system enables Tulufan, where there is practically no rainfall, to be one of the finest fruit-producing centres in China.\n\n(6) The tax on covered mangers for animals has been abolished, and the storage of grass for winter has been encouraged so as to obviate the very serious loss of stock which takes place each winter.\n\n43\n\n(7) Attempts are being made to improve the local breeds of cattle, sheep and horses, very largely by local selection, though some stallions have been imported.\n\n(8) Cattle plague, which is a very serious factor in the province, has been tackled and veterinary stations have been set up in various districts.\n\n(9) An agricultural training school has been set up in Urumchi with a three-year course in animal husbandry, veterinary science and irrigation. There are at present some eighty students. In addition, a number of short courses in animal husbandry are given in various centres, lasting a month, the aim of which is to give the farmers and herdsmen some sense of the principles of this science.\n\n155. In addition to the above reforms, a reform of finance and currency has been carried through. In 1938 the Commercial Bank was reorganised as a mixed bank, under the name of the Sinkiang Commercial Bank, with a capital partly private and partly held by the Provincial Government. During the first nine months of 1939 a credit of 17,872,500 dollars was granted to the bank to meet the requirements of commercial and agricultural capitalisation. The reorganisation was financed partly by the Government and partly from the loan raised by the Government from Russia of 5 million roubles, the balance of the loan being used for road construction. The Sinkiang Commercial Bank issues its own notes, but mostly in smaller denominations. The old provincial notes and the so-called Har notes (i.e., the notes issued in the district of Harshieh), which were in circulation on the basis of the Liang, have practically all been exchanged into dollars, and as at the end of last year all such notes were declared annulled and of no value.\n\n156. So far as public health is concerned, some attempt has been made to deal with this by hospital construction and dispensaries. Since the April revolution, hospitals have been established in Urumchi, Ili, Kashgar, Aokashu, Hami, Aoshan, Taichen and Khotan respectively. Two dispensaries have been established, one in Woo-shu and one in Tulufan. In addition, there are two pharmacies in Urumchi and Ili. All hospital services, with the exception of the provision of medicines, are free of charge. In the Urumchi hospital there are 170 beds and in each of the others thirty only. An attempt is being made to establish further dispensaries in other districts. The total expenditure on these health services in 1939 was 415,660 dollars. Three further pharmacies are to be established this year in Aoshan, Kashgar and Aokashu. All the skilled staff are Russian, but an effort is being made to train assistants on an apprenticeship system in the hospitals and pharmacies.\n\n157. Industrial development is practically non-existent except for electric generating stations on a very small scale in one or two places and, what is perhaps more important, the development of an oil-field to the north-west of Urumchi. I was told by a prominent Chinese friend in Chungking that he had been reliably informed by the officials in Moscow last July that over 400 tons of machinery had already been sent up for the refinery. There was no evidence that it was yet in operation, but I think there is no doubt that a large refinery will be erected before long. There is undoubtedly considerable mineral wealth, but none of it is being worked with the exception of coal, which is being mined by the old-fashioned methods, and a small amount of gold by panning. Some jade is also found in the province.\n\nGold and jade may not be exported from the province at all. The former is being collected as a backing for currency, and the latter is prized as valuable and so may not be bought and taken out of the province.\n\n158. The second three-year plan is designed to continue the parallel extension of all development and to initiate the construction of some light industries in the main centres. As in the case of agricultural development, this is all to be financed from the provincial resources, as the Governor will not consent to borrowing from outside Sinkiang. The whole development is in the hands of the Government, and all industries will be Government-owned and controlled. It is the intention of the Governor to sacrifice speed of development to the certainty that there will be no exploitation from outside of the province's resources.\n\n159. To sum up my view of the situation, which is based partly upon ascertained facts and observation and partly upon impressions gained—the Governor is an independent autocrat with the most friendly relations with Russia\n\n[21258]\n\n& 2\n\n101", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569742, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "(*5972-150) Wt. 19406-96 5,000 7/40 T.S. 695\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Monson\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nSir A. Burns.\n\nMr. G. L. M. Clauson.\n\nMr. C. J. Jeffries.\n\n53652/40.\n\nMr. A. J. Dawe.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n14\n\n110 Downing Street,\n\nDRAFT.\n\nBY AIR MAIL.\n\nHONG KONG,\n\nNO.\n\nSir,\n\nJune, 1941.\n\nWith reference to GOVERNOR. FURTHER ACTION. Sir A. Burns to See again a viminutes. and them recure to mi.\n\n161\n\nMr. N.L. Smith's despatch No. 42 of the 20th February I have etc. to confirm my telegram No. 521 of the 7th June which read as follows:-\n\n\"Your despatch No. 42. Estimates for 1941-42 approved\"\n\nand to inform you that the power of disallowance will not be exercised in respect of the Ordinance forwarded with your despatch No. 60 of the 13th March entitled \"An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars to the Public Service of the financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and ending on the 31st March, 1942, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and Improvement Waterworks", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569747, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "No. 60.\n\nEnclosure No.1.\n\nEnclosure No.2.\n\nEstimates\n\n7.19\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n13th March, 1941.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to submit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance intituled:-\n\n\"An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars to the Public Service of the financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and ending on the 31st March, 1942, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year.\"\n\n2. The enclosed report by the Attorney General explains the objects and reasons of the Ordinance.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\n\n(sgd. M. Young)\n\nGovernor.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLORD MOYNE OF BURY ST. EDMUNDS, D.S.O.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569748, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "L.S.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nNo. 4 OF 1941.\n\nI assent.\n\nE. F. NORTON,\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\n7th March, 1941.\n\nAn Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars to the Public Service of the financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and ending on the 31st March, 1942, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year.\n\nWHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of the Colony for the financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and ending on the 31st March, 1942 has, apart from Charges on account of Public Debt and Defence Contribution, been estimated at the sum of Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars to be met from the general revenues of the Colony, and an additional sum of Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand Dollars to be met from the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund:\n\n[7th March, 1941.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Appropriation Ordinance, 1941-1942.\n\n2. A sum not exceeding Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the said financial year, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say—\n\nEXPENDITURE\n\n \n His Excellency the Governor\n $182,747\n \n \n Colonial Secretary's Office and Legislature.\n $308,275\n \n \n Audit Department\n $111,135\n \n \n Botanical and Forestry\n $184,901\n \n \n Agriculture\n $119,286\n \n \n Charitable Services\n $619,648\n \n \n Volunteer Defence Corps\n $150,000\n \n \n Naval Volunteer Force\n $40,000\n \n \n Air Raid Precautions\n $286,599\n \n \n Carried forward................\n $2,002,591\n \n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569750, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHong Kong,\n\n6th March 1941.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 4 of 1941.\n\n1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars to the Public Service of the financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and ending on the 31st March, 1942, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year.\n\n2. The Ordinance is in the same form as Ordinance No. 40 of 1939 except that it is for a financial year of twelve months instead of fifteen months and that Defence Contribution, fixed and appropriated by section 2 of Ordinance No. 8 of 1939, is referred to in the Preamble and does not appear as an item of expenditure appropriated in section 2.\n\n3. I am of opinion that the Ordinance is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions and that it is one to which His Excellency the Officer Administering the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569781, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nThursday, 20th February, 1941, at 9.30 a.m.\n\nORDER OF BUSINESS.\n\nMinutes of the Meeting of the 16th January, 1941.\n\nOaths.\n\nAnnouncements.\n\nPapers to be laid on the Table.\n\nPetitions.\n\nNotices of Questions.\n\nQuestions.\n\nNotices of Motions.\n\nMotions.\n\nMOTIONS.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary to move--\n\nThat the Report of the Finance Committee No. 11), dated 30th January, 1941, be adopted.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary to move the following resolution:\n\nThat the Estimates of Expenditure for the year 1941-42 as now presented be approved.\n\nThe Financial Secretary to move the First reading of-\n\n\"A Bill to apply a sum not exceeding Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars to the Public Service of the financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and ending on the 31st March, 1942, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year.\"\n\nPage 54\n\nPage 54\n\nPage 54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569785, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nThursday, 20th February, 1941, at 9.30 a.m.\n\nORDER OF BUSINESS.\n\nMinutes of the Meeting of the 16th January, 1941.\n\nOaths.\n\nAnnouncements.\n\nPapers to be laid on the Table.\n\nPetitions.\n\nNotices of Questions.\n\nQuestions.\n\nNotices of Motions.\n\nMotions.\n\nMOTIONS.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary to move-\n\nThat the Report of the Finance Committee (N. 11), dated 30th January, 1941, be adopted.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary to move the following resolution :-\n\nThat the Estimates of Expenditure for the year 1941-42 as now presented be approved.\n\nThe Financial Secretary to move the First reading of—\n\n\"A Bill to apply a sum not exceeding Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars to the Public Service of the financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and ending on the 31st March, 1942, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year.\"\n\nPage 60", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569789, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nThursday, 20th February, 1941, at 9.30 a.m.\n\nORDER OF BUSINESS.\n\nMinutes of the Meeting of the 16th January, 1941.\n\nOaths.\n\nAnnouncements.\n\nPapers to be laid on the Table.\n\nPetitions.\n\nNotices of Questions.\n\nQuestions.\n\nNotices of Motions.\n\nMotions.\n\nMOTIONS.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary to move-\n\nThat the Report of the Finance Committee No. 11, dated 30th January, 1941, be adopted.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary to move the following resolution :-\n\nThat the Estimates of Expenditure for the year 1941-42 as now presented be approved.\n\nThe Financial Secretary to move the First reading of —\n\n\"A Bill to apply a sum not exceeding Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars to the Public Service of the financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and ending on the 31st March, 1942, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year.\"\n\nPage 66\n\n \n\nPage 66", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575975, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943", "content_text": "It is true that after April, 1941, the Midland Regiment was engaged in defence duties within Canada which interfered with the regular course of their training. At the same time, as I have already indicated, the assumption of coast defence and other duties had peculiar value in developing in the individual soldier the special qualities required for the type of task that they might be expected to perform in Hong Kong.\n\nThe records of the individual training of the 52 volunteers for the Hong Kong expedition indicate that these men were well advanced in their individual training. It is true that the records of their firing tests at the ranges indicate that some were first and second-class shots, while others were third-class shots or had failed. It was stated to me in evidence that these records of practice at a rifle range do not necessarily afford a reliable criterion of the usefulness of a soldier in actual combat. It was also clear that some of these men, while fully trained in the theory and mechanism of the light machine gun, had not actually fired the machine gun at the ranges. This deficiency in their individual training is one which could quickly be rectified and would, under efficient officers, be quickly rectified after their arrival in Hong Kong. Notwithstanding these shortcomings in the matter of range practice and tests, I am satisfied that the Commanding Officer (Colonel Gage) is correct in stating that the 52 volunteers from the Midland Regiment were, as a group, well trained, according to the standard of training prevailing in Canada.\n\nAccordingly, I find that in accepting these 52 men from the Midland Regiment for inclusion in the expedition to Hong Kong there was no dereliction of duty or error in judgment on the part of anyone.\n\nFifteen men were added to the strength of the Royal Rifles from Advanced Training Centre No. 10 at Camp Borden. The procedure adopted to obtain these men has already been described. They were all volunteers; all were medically fit and all had received their full basic training covering the subjects prescribed in the syllabus for basic training. Of the 15 men, ten had completed their full advanced training and several had served with the army for more than a year. The remaining five had completed their basic training and had received three weeks of the advanced training course. The officer in command of the Advanced Training Centre No. 10, speaking from personal observation, said that, although these five men had not received their complete advanced training, \"they were young men, full of enthusiasm to get into a fighting unit and had received training in rifle, light machine gun and gas\". In these circumstances, I cannot believe that there was any error in including in the group from this training centre this small number of enthusiastic volunteers, even though they had not received the full period of training prescribed in the syllabus. I have in mind, of course, the fact that opportunities for further training were anticipated, and did in fact arise, in the period of approximately six weeks between the date of embarkation and the attack on Hong Kong.\n\nEighty-seven men were added to the strength of the Royal Rifles from Advanced Training Centre No. 11 at Camp Borden. The general remarks made in the preceding section apply equally to these men. They were all enthusiastic volunteers. Of this group, 38 had completed their full basic and advanced training. Three had completed their full basic training and seven weeks of advanced training; one had basic training and four weeks of advanced training; forty-three had basic training and three weeks of advanced training; and two had basic training and two and one-half weeks of advanced training. These men were inspected by the officer commanding the training centres who stated they were \"good-looking soldiers\", who appeared to be \"likely recruits\" for the reinforcement of any battalion.\n\nMy conclusion as to these men is the same as for the group discussed in the preceding section. I find that there was no dereliction of duty or error in judgment in including these men in the additions to the strength of the Royal Rifles.\n\nPage 39\n\nAdditions to the Winnipeg Grenadiers\n\nAt the time of their selection for service in Hong Kong, the Winnipeg Grenadiers were in the course of transfer from the West Indies to Canada. October 10th, Colonel Hennessy spoke on the telephone to the District Officer Commanding at Winnipeg (Brigadier Riley) and told him that the battalion would have to be brought up to strength and, for that purpose, volunteers should be sought at the infantry training centre. Brigadier Riley discussed the matter with Lieutenant-Colonel Sutcliffe (the officer commanding the Winnipeg Grenadiers) and Lieutenant-Colonel Graham (the officer commanding the Advanced Training Centre No. 15 at Winnipeg). There was some uncertainty as to the exact number of additional men required, but Colonel Sutcliffe estimated on October 10th that between 150 and 200 additional men would be required.\n\nColonel Sutcliffe saw Colonel Graham on the 10th or 11th of October and asked particularly for signallers and other specialists. From the Advanced Training Centre No. 15, thirty fully trained signallers, all of whom had completed courses at Barriefield signal school, were provided. In addition, the following trained specialists were provided from the Training Centre: three men trained in the use of the 3\" mortar, twelve driver mechanics, three or four men trained in the use of Bren gun carriers, and a number of N.C.O's who had received special courses as instructors and who were willing to revert to the ranks in order to join the expedition. On the first request for volunteers, Colonel Graham obtained 150 men for the expedition, which was described merely as special duty overseas. Subsequently, Colonel Sutcliffe visited the Training Centre and spoke to a parade of the men and 39 additional volunteers were obtained. In this way, 189 men were provided from Advanced Training Centre No. 15.\n\nIn addition, this Training Centre provided 12 officers for the Winnipeg Grenadiers, all of whom were fully trained; they had qualified at an Officers' Training Centre and had assisted in the training at the Advanced Infantry Training Centre for periods, in some cases, of more than a year. Colonel Graham stated that all these officers were known personally to him and all of them had completed their training. In general, this opinion was confirmed by Mr. T. C. Douglas, M.P., who knew five of these officers and saw them shortly before they left for Hong Kong. He stated that they were overjoyed at the prospect of going into more active service and they were satisfied with their training courses as regards the handling of men and general instruction, although they had some uncertainty about their experience in operational manoeuvres. This was a natural diffidence in an officer of limited experience with a unit, but Colonel Graham's evidence satisfies me that these officers were competent and suitable for acceptance as voluntary transfers to the Winnipeg Grenadiers. In addition, two officers were transferred to the unit from the training staff of the Basic Training Centre at Portage la Prairie. As to these, there can be no question of their fitness or competence.\n\nAfter obtaining from the Advanced Training Centre No. 15 the number of new men originally estimated to be necessary by Colonel Sutcliffe, he found the estimate had been too low and that more would be needed. Brigadier Riley obtained permission from Colonel Hennessy to ask for 30 volunteers from the Advanced Machine Gun Training Centre at Dundern, Sask. These volunteers were obtained without difficulty. Still later, at a time about ten days before the expedition sailed, Colonel Sutcliffe found that there would be some loss in the strength of his unit consequent upon the medical re-examination of the men and because of transfers of a number of men to the Air Force. Brigadier Riley, in this situation, felt that further volunteers could not be obtained from the Advanced Training Centre at Winnipeg, or from Dundern, and, with the sanction of Colonel Hennessy, he sought volunteers in the District Depot at Winnipeg and at the Basic Training Centre at Portage la Prairie. Colonel Sutcliffe\n\nPage 146", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 583279, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-597-1 Estimates 1948 15-11-1946 - 12-6-1948", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-597-1 Estimates 1948 15-11-1946 - 12-6-1948", "content_text": "# Head 28.\n\n5 \n\n- \n\n**Public Works Recurrent**\n\nThe Committee recommends the deletion of subhead 10, items 3, 4 and 6 which provide for the maintenance of public recreation grounds, children's playgrounds, and school playing fields because the Gardens Department of the Development Secretariat has assumed responsibility for these services and has sufficient funds for such purposes.\n\nThe effect of this recommendation is to reduce the expenditure under this head from $7,948,000 to $7,923,000.\n\n## Head 29. **Public Works Extraordinary**\n\nThe Committee recommends that subhead 1, Item 2, \"Replacement of Lost Instruments and Equipment\" should be charged to the new rehabilitation loan and expenditure under this head reduced from $102,000 to $7,000.\n\n## Recapitulation\n\nAs a result of all the recommendations made under various heads of expenditure, the Committee recommends the following amendments to the Appropriation for 1947-1948 Ordinance 1947.\n\n### Long Title\n\nThe substitution of the words one hundred and nine million eight hundred and thirty-four thousand three hundred and fifty-five for one hundred and nine million four hundred and eighty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-three.\n\n### Clause 2\n\nThe substitution of the words one hundred and nine million eight hundred and thirty-four thousand three hundred and fifty-five for one hundred and nine million four hundred and eighty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-three.\n\n### SCHEDULE\n\n| Head | Description | Original Amount | Revised Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Head 2 | Colonial Secretariat and Legislature | $470,048 | $535,000 |\n| Head 4 | Charitable Services | $190,860 | $193,860 |\n| Head 6 | Directorate of Air Services | $161,558 | $164,574 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-597-1 Estimates 1948 15-11-1946 - 12-6-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 595032, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947", "content_text": "- 32 - \n\nThe exchange of the instruments of ratification shall take place as soon as possible in Chungking. The treaty will \nenter into force immediately upon its ratification and shall remain in force for a term of thirty years. \n\nIf neither of the high contracting parties has given notice, a year before the expiration of the term, of its desire \nto terminate the treaty, it shall remain valid for an unlimited time, each of the high contracting parties being \nable to terminate its operation by giving notice to that effect to the other high contracting party one year in \nadvance. \n\nIn faith whereof the plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty and affixed thereto their seals. \n\nDone in Moscow, the Fourteenth August, 1945, corresponding to the Fourteenth day of the Eighth month of the \nThirty-fourth year of the Chinese Republic, in two copies, each one in the Russian and Chinese languages, both \ntexts being equally authoritative. \n\nThe Plenipotentiary of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R.: \n**(Signed) V.M. MOLOTOV.** \n\nThe Plenipotentiary of the President of the National Government of the Republic of China: \n**(Signed) WANG SHIH-CHIEH** \n\n## Exchange of Notes \n14th August, 1945. \n\nYour Excellency, \n\nWith reference to the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance signed to-day between the Republic of China and the \nU.S.S.R., I have the honour to put on record the understanding between the high contracting parties as follows:- \n\n1. In accordance with the spirit of the afore-mentioned treaty, and in order to put into effect its aims and \npurposes, the Government of the U.S.S.R. agrees to render to China moral support and aid in military supplies \nand other material resources, such support and aid to be entirely given to the National Government as the \nCentral Government of China. \n\n2. In the course of conversations regarding Dairen and Port Arthur and regarding the joint operation of the \nChinese Changchun Railway, the Government of the U.S.S.R. regarded the Three Eastern Provinces as part of \nChina and reaffirmed its respect for China's full sovereignty over the Three Eastern Provinces and reaffirmed \nits recognition of their territorial and administrative integrity. \n\n3. As for the recent incidents in Sinkiang, the Soviet Government confirms that, as stated in Article V of the \nTreaty of Friendship and Alliance, it has no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of China.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596317, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-623-3 Supplementary Expenditure- general correspondence on the allocation of funds and an annual report for the... 1-3-1950 - 30-9-1950", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-623-3 Supplementary Expenditure- general correspondence on the allocation of funds and an annual report for the... 1-3-1950 - 30-9-1950", "content_text": "44\n\nNo. 7 of 1950.\n\nDEFENCES (FIRING AREAS)\n\n(AMENDMENT)\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 7 OF 1950.\n\nL.S.\n\nI assent.\n\n24\n\nAPPROPRIATION FOR 1950-1951\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 8 of 1950.\n\nNo. 8 OF 1950.\n\nI assent.\n\nL.S.\n\nA. G. GRANTHAM,\n\nGovernor.\n\n25\n\n1\n\n45\n\nShort title.\n\nOrdinance No. 1 of 1936.\n\nAmendment of sub-section (6) of section 4 of the principal Ordinance.\n\nA. G. GRANTHAM,\n\nGovernor.\n\n30th March, 1950.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance, 1936.\n\n[31st March, 1950.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Defences (Firing Areas) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1950, and shall be read as one with the Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance, 1936, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.\n\n2. Subsection (6) of section 4 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition thereto immediately after the figures \"1947\" at the end thereof of the following proviso-\n\nProvided that practice firing may take place over the Port Shelter Range described as Firing Area B in the First Schedule hereto on any day which is not a Wednesday or a Sunday\".\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 29th day of March, 1950.\n\nG. C. HAMILTON,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\n30th March, 1950.\n\nAn Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding two hundred million eight hundred and thirty-nine thousand and eighty-three dollars to the Public Service of the financial year ending 31st March, 1951.\n\nWHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the financial year ending on the 31st March, 1951, has been estimated at the sum of two hundred million eight hundred and thirty-nine thousand and eighty-three dollars.\n\n[31st March, 1950.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Appropriation for 1950-1951 Ordinance, 1950.\n\n2. A sum not exceeding two hundred million eight hundred and thirty-nine thousand and eighty-three dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the financial year commencing on the 1st of April, 1950, and ending on the 31st of March, 1951, and the said sum so charged may be expended in the manner expressed in the Schedule to this Ordinance.\n\nSCHEDULE\n\n \n Number of Vote\n Title of Vote\n Amount of Vote\n \n \n I.\n His Excellency the Governor\n 230,285\n \n \n 2.\n Agriculture Department\n 813,135\n \n \n 3.\n Audit Department\n 247,023", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-3 Supplementary Expenditure- general correspondence on the allocation of funds and an annual report for the... 1-3-1950 - 30-9-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596867, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951", "content_text": "Page 44\n\nNo. 7 of 1950.\n\n232\n\nDEFENCES (FIRING AREAS)\n\n(AMENDMENT)\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 7 OF 1950.\n\nL.S.\n\nI assent.\n\n233\n\nAPPROPRIATION FOR 1950-1951\n\nNo. 8 of 1950.\n\n45\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 8 OF 1950.\n\nI assent.\n\nL.S.\n\nA. G. GRANTHAM,\n\nGovernor.\n\nShort title.\n\nOrdinance No. 1 of 1936.\n\nAmendment of sub-section (6) of section 4 of the principal Ordinance.\n\nA. G. GRANTHAM,\n\nGovernor.\n\n30th March, 1950.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance, 1936.\n\n[31st March, 1950.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Defences (Firing Areas) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1950, and shall be read as one with the Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance, 1936, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.\n\n2. Subsection (6) of section 4 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition thereto immediately after the figures \"1947\" at the end thereof of the following proviso:\n\nProvided that practice firing may take place over the Port Shelter Range described as Firing Area B in the First Schedule hereto on any day which is not a Wednesday or a Sunday.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 29th day of March, 1950.\n\nG. C. HAMILTON,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\n30th March, 1950.\n\nAn Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding two hundred million eight hundred and thirty-nine thousand and eighty-three dollars to the Public Service of the financial year ending 31st March, 1951.\n\nWHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the financial year ending on the 31st March, 1951, has been estimated at the sum of two hundred million eight hundred and thirty-nine thousand and eighty-three dollars.\n\n[31st March, 1950.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Appropriation for 1950-1951 Ordinance, 1950.\n\n2. A sum not exceeding two hundred million eight hundred and thirty-nine thousand and eighty-three dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the financial year commencing on the 1st of April, 1950, and ending on the 31st of March, 1951, and the said sum so charged may be expended in the manner expressed in the Schedule to this Ordinance.\n\nSCHEDULE\n\n \n Number of Vote\n Title of Vote\n Amount of Vote\n \n \n I.\n His Excellency the Governor\n 230,285\n \n \n 2.\n Agriculture Department\n 813,135\n \n \n 3.\n Audit Department\n 247,023\n \n\nPage 45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 600564, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-629-5 Purchase of the Law and Sayer picture collection by the Government of Hong Kong 1-6-1951 - 31-12-1951", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-629-5 Purchase of the Law and Sayer picture collection by the Government of Hong Kong 1-6-1951 - 31-12-1951", "content_text": "Sayer Collection\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\n73\n\nThe collection consists of some four hundred and seventy-five prints, some forty photographs, and nine drawings and paintings.\n\nThe photographs are all, and the drawings mainly, of Hong Kong itself. The prints, beside a small miscellaneous group concerned chiefly with North China, are divided into two sections: (1) Hong Kong and neighbourhood and (2) Macao, Canton, etc. This latter division is, of course, not strictly logical, for the two groups are not mutually exclusive, and it would be quite possible to pick out some from either and transfer them to the other. But the general idea is to put into the former only topographical views of the Colony itself and views forming part of its immediate historical background, and into the latter those which seem to belong to those places—Macao, Canton, etc.—in their own historical right rather than to form part of the story of Hong Kong.\n\nThere are some one hundred and sixty-eight prints in the Hong Kong section and some ninety-six in that of Macao, Canton; and, in addition, there are some one hundred and eighty-one in book form which range over both sections.\n\nA considerable number of the prints in the present collection had their counterpart in that of Sir Paul Chater; perhaps fifty per cent.\n\nBut the two collections are perhaps more remarkable for their differences rather than their similarity. The Chater collection, while considerably richer in original drawings and pictures, lacks the woodcuts which form a significant feature of the present collection; and with a single exception contained no photographs. It also lacked several of the more important items to be found here, notably Nos. 3, 12, 13, 22, 30, 31, 32, 40, 42, 43, 47 in the Hong Kong list.\n\nItem 31, a complete set of twelve coloured lithographs by Bruce and Maclure dated 1846, is a highly important accession to the present collection which eluded the long purse of Sir Paul. Although odd members of this set turn up from time to time, usually in the uncoloured form, complete sets are distinctly rare; still more so complete sets in mint condition as these are.\n\nMuch the same is true of items 35 and 36, and 33 and 34.\n\nStill rarer is item 10, 'Hong Kong from the North-East' by Prender-gast published in 1843. But the rarest still is the companion print—item II—with a view from the North. This print, having eluded methodical search for twenty-five years, was found quite recently in the hands of one of London's leading printsellers, who stated that though he had been handling prints for thirty years he had never hitherto come across an example. Chater had one, but the present one may well be unique to-day.\n\nWhat is certainly unique is item I of the Drawings. This is the original drawing done—perhaps by W. Havell in 1816—from which the prints No. I (and thence No. 2) in the Hong Kong list were taken.\n\nNo. 9, though of no technical importance, is of particular interest both topographically and also historically as the earliest contemporary print of Hong Kong after its occupation by the British.\n\nNo. 45 is also a very early and rare print of the colony.\n\nItems 3, 10, 11, 38, and 47 of the Hong Kong list and No. 1 and 17 of the Macao list are all aquatints of considerable technical merit.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-629-5 Purchase of the Law and Sayer picture collection by the Government of Hong Kong 1-6-1951 - 31-12-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]