[ { "id": 248219, "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": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "page_number": 291, "title": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "content_text": "Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, & China.\n\nINCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER.\n\n52, THREADNEEDLE STREET.\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL, £500,000 - RESERVE FUND, £50,000.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS, 1859-1860.\n\nW. HOWARD, Esq., (Late Advocate General, Bombay)---CHAIRMAN,\n\nD. LARNACH, Esq., (Director of the Bank of New South Wales, and London Joint-Stock Bank.)\n\nW. S. GREY, Esq., (of MESSRS. GREY & COLES.)\n\nG. G. NICOL, Esq., (of Messrs. BUCHANAN, HAMILTON, & Co.)\n\nGEORGE PALMER ROBINSON, Esq., (Late Manager in Bombay,)\n\nGEORGE MAY, Esq., (of MESSRS. MAY, PICKFORD, & Co, Calcutta.)\n\nALEXANDER ANDERSON, Esq., MANAGER.\n\nLONDON BANKERS.\n\nBANK OF ENGLAND.\n\nLONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK.\n\nSOLICITORS.\n\nMESSRS. CLARKE AND MORICE, COLEMAN STREET.\n\nAUDITORS.\n\nMESSRS. COLEMAN, TURQUAND, YOUNGS, & Co., PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS.\n\nJ. SMITH, Esq., of MESSRS. W. NICOL & Co., Bombay.\n\nTHOMAS STENHOUSE, Esq., of Messrs. Bates, Stenhouse, & Co., Liverpool.\n\nBRANCHES.\n\nBombay.\n\nDAVID TRAIL ROBERTSON, Esq., INSPECTOR.\n\nROBERT DAVIDSON, Esq., Agent.\n\nCalcutta.\n\nDAVID TRAIL ROBERTSON, Esq., Agent.\n\nMadras.\n\nJOHN INNES GEDDES, Esq., Agent.\n\nSingapore.\n\nWALTER ORMISTON, Esq., Agent.\n\nColombo.\n\nEVAN ORMISTON, Esq., Manager.\n\nHongkong.\n\nJOIN COSTERTON, Esq., Manager.\n\nShanghai.\n\nWILLIAM HOWARD, Esq., Manager.\n\nKandy.\n\nF. W. LAMARCHAND, Esq., Agent.\n\nMauritius.\n\nROBERT GLASSPOOL LANCASTER, Esq., Manager.\n\nPenang.\n\nWILLIAM JACKSON, Esq., Agent.\n\nThe Bank, at its Head Office in London, grants Drafts on its various Agencies and Branches, issues Letters of Credit, purchases approved Bills on India, China, Ceylon, and Mauritius; undertakes the purchase and sale of Government and other Securities, and the collection of private and Mercantile Bills at the ports and places at which its agencies are established; receives Deposits at interest for fixed periods, the terms of which may be ascertained on application, and transacts generally all Indian Banking business, including the receipt of pay, pensions, and dividends, on stocks of all kinds.\n\n52, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON, E. C.\n\nOffice Hours from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M.-Saturdays from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252344, "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": "CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861", "content_text": "# CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON & CHINA.\n\n52, Threadneedle Street. \nHong Kong & London 25th February 1861.\n\n## RECENT\n\n26 FEB 1861.\n\nHis Excellency's Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nCopy\n\nThe Governor, &c. &c. &c.\n\n28th March 1861.\n\nSir,\n\nIn accordance with Article 178 of the Act of Settlement of the Charter, I forward & you a statement of the Affairs of the Bank at 30th June last, of which please acknowledge receipt.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Obedient Servant,\n\nRobert D. Hamilton \nManager\n\n165 \n1775 \n\nTo \nMartin Le Fanu, Esq. \nfor the information of His Excellency.\n\nWhether the form of the Balance was sanctioned.\n\nAll letters to be addressed to the Manager.\n\nPage 165 \nPage 1775", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257871, "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": 428, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "Arnica\n\nfr Merinfo. tie of the word miche Mancamy\n\na\n\nWhen a desfilit\n\nれ\n\nWhich H.G. has\n\nadduped to the reveal Cotmail Gavments of besten\n\nMay Kay Manit enching referend choing copies of\n\nD\n\nenelmune.\n\nJam\n\n2\n\nI. KE.\n\n2099\n\ndustan dogo\n\nI cullemen\n\nIn 8093,\n\n(Chartered Mercantile Bank of India\n\nLondon Mhina.\n\n52 Threadneedle Street\n\nLondon - 6th August 1863\n\nI am requested by the Court of\n\n424\n\nDirectors of this Bank to bring under the notice of the Lords of the Treasury,\n\nthe hope and wish of the Directors that they may be allowed to participate in the Government Deposit Exchange business transacted by Banks in Her Majesty's Colonies in the East.\n\nAnd I trust that the following particulars respecting the position of this Bank may satisfy their Lordships that it is entitled to a share of their confidence.\n\nIt was established by Royal Charter in the year 1857, and possesses Branches at Ceylon, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mauritius and others in the three India Presidencies.\n\nThe paid-up capital is £500,000.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260567, "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": "CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864", "content_text": "Council Office\n\nS.70535 Hong Kong\n\n18th Nov. 1864\n\nChartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China\n\n52 Threadneedle Street,\n\nRECEIVED\n\n16 NOV. 1864\n\nLondon 15th November 1864\n\nTo Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nSir,\n\nIn terms of the Deed of Settlement of this Corporation, I have the honor to transmit herewith, General half-yearly Statement to 30th June last, shewing the amount of the then debts, liabilities and engagements, and of the assets, property, credits and securities belonging to the Corporation, such Statement including an account of the amount of Promissory Notes of the Corporation in circulation and of the coin held in the establishment; the said statement being authenticated by the signatures of two of the Directors, the Chief Manager and the principal Accountant of the Bank in London.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nDI Robuchon, Chief Manager\n\nEngland.\n\n \nIt appears the original text had some OCR errors and formatting issues. 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Someone 196\n\nChartered Mercantile Bank of India London, 19th May 1865\n\nTo Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nSir,\n\nIn terms of the Deed of Settlement of this Corporation, I have the honor to transmit herewith General half-yearly Statement to 31st December last, shewing the amount of the then credits and securities belonging to Engagements, and of the debts, liabilities and assets, property, credits of the Corporation, such Statement including an account of the amount of Promissory Notes of the Corporation in circulation, and of the coin held in the establishment, the said Statement being authenticated by the signatures of two of the Directors, the Chief Manager, and principal Accountant of the Bank in England.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nD.I. Robuchon, Chief Manager\n\nTreasury\n52 Threadneedle Street. \n1935 -> likely OCR error, no correction made as per rule 6. However, the date is suspicious and may be a mis-OCR of \"1865\". Still, the original is preserved.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 263538, "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": "CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865", "content_text": "# Pully \n\n11842 Hong Kong - Canton \n\nChartered \"Mercantile Bank of India London\" Cama 52 Threadneedle Street 237 \n\n**RECEIVED London 1st December 1865.**\n\nC:0: DEC 6 1865 \n\nTo Her Majesty's Secretary of the Colonies. \n\nSir,\n\nIn terms of the Deed of Settlement of this Corporation, I have the honor to transmit herewith, General Half-Yearly Statement to 30th June last, shewing the amount of the then debts, liabilities and engagements, and of the assets, property, Credits and securities belonging to the Corporation, such Statement including an account of the Amount of Promissory Notes of the Corporation in circulation and of the coin held in establishment the said Statement being signed by the Directors, the Chief Accountant and principal Agents in England.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nDJ Robuchen \nChief Manager", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 263540, "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": "CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865", "content_text": "# CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON & CHINA\n## 239\n### Threadneedle Street, E.C.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nLondon: 6th Dec. 1865\n\nI have received your note of 5th inst., accompanied by the Parliamentary paper referred to and to thank you for the same.\n\nI beg to state with satisfaction that no...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 268096, "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": "CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866", "content_text": "In 4239\n\nAak! 1 Jan 137-\n\nMise: Offices\n\n11726\n\n5303 trong trong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJUNE 2\n\n1866\n\n73\n\nChartered Bank of Asia, Australia & China\n\n52, Threadneedle Street\n\nLondon, 30th May 1866.\n\nHer Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nIn terms of Deed of Settlement\n\nhave the honor to transmit herewith, the General half-yearly Statement to 30th December last, shewing the amount of the then debt liabilities and engagements, and of the assets, property, and securities belonging to the Corporation, such Statement including the account of Notes in circulation, and Coin held by the Corporation, and of Promissory Notes and other securities belonging to the establishment.\n\nThe said Statement, being authenticated by the signatures of the Chairman, Chief Manager, and Principal Accountant Longland, I am\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nCharter Chief Manager.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282983, "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": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "content_text": "# THE BRITISH-AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED.\n\n189\n\nIn connection with the Falmouth Gibraltar and Malta; the Anglo-Mediterranean; the British-Indian Submarine; the British-Indian Extension, and the China Submarine Telegraph Companies Limited.\n\n## CAPITAL £660,000\n\nIn 66,000 Shares of £10 each, of which £120,000 will be taken in fully paid Shares by the Contractors, leaving for Subscription 54,000 Shares.\n\n**DEPOSIT £1 ON APPLICATION, AND £2 ON ALLOTMENT.**\n\nThe Balance, £7 per Share, to be paid by Instalments not exceeding £3 per Share at intervals of not less than Three Months, commencing 1st July, 1870.\n\n### Directors\n\n* **THE RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT MONCK.** Chairman\n* LORD WM. MONTAGU HAY, Chairman of the Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph Company.\n* THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM NATHANIEL MASSEY, Chairman of the British-Indian Extension Telegraph Company.\n* JOHN PENDELL, Esq., Chairman of the Falmouth Gibraltar and Malta, the British-Indian Submarine, and the China Submarine Telegraph Companies.\n* SIR JAMES ANDERSON, Managing Director Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph Company, &c.\n* WILLIAM MCARTHUR, Esq., M.P. (Messrs. W. and A. McArthur), Coleman Street.\n* CHARLES WM. EARLE, Esq., Managing Director.\n\n### Consulting Electrician\n\n* FLEEMING JENKIN, Esq.\n\n### Engineers\n\n* LATIMER CLARK, Esq.\n* HENRY CHARLES FORDE, Esq.\n\n### Bankers\n\n* THE CONSOLIDATED BANK, 52, Threadneedle Street.\n\n### Solicitors\n\n* Messrs. FRESHFIELDS, 5, Bank Buildings, London.\n\n### Secretary (pro tem)\n\n* T. H. WEDDELL, Esq.\n\n**OFFICES:--100, PALMERSTON BUILDINGS, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C.**\n\nThis Company has been formed to establish Telegraphic communication with the Colonies of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. It is considered that such an enterprise can only be successfully undertaken in connection with the Companies, who will be the proprietors of the Direct Submarine Telegraph lines between England, India, and Singapore, and accordingly exclusive arrangements have been made with them for working the whole Line between England and Australia at through rates, and under such management as will practically place the conduct of the traffic throughout in charge of a single Committee of Directors, comprising representatives from all the Companies concerned.\n\nIt is anticipated that by these means undue competition will be avoided, and the business be carried on to the satisfaction of the Shareholders and to the public.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283275, "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": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "page_number": 483, "title": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "content_text": "To the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.\n\n13376 481 28 Threadneedle Street\n\nMy Lord,\n\nLondon, 26th March 1870.\n\nIn the 22nd instant, we made a communication to the Colonial Office in reference to a concession made to us by the Spanish Government for a Submarine Cable between Manila and Hong Kong.\n\nUpon enquiry at the Colonial Office today, we were informed that the Papers had been sent to the Foreign Office. I beg now to inclose Copy of a despatch received from the Spanish Government, from which Your Lordship will observe that if we shall not within the term of fifteen days furnish proofs...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283277, "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": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "page_number": 485, "title": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "content_text": "the latter place and the concession \n\nwhich was \n\ngranted to you by \n\nДели \n\netc which of the 25th Bon? His Highness the Regent \n\nof the Kingdom, therefore, bearing in \n\nmind that in case such a denial shall \n\ncession ottament \n\npicue correct the conce \n\nbecomes null & void as must \n\nnecessarily \n\nUnilateral \n\nSabre place \n\nrespect of any \n\nContract the fulfilment of which is \n\nwithin the Termi \n\nnated by the impossibility of carrying out one of its conditions, has been pleased to direct that you do, furnish proofs to this \n\nMinistry in due form, showing that \n\nyou \n\nhave \n\nobtained permission from \n\nthe British Govt to commence the Cable with Singapore of Hong Kong in the \n\nunderstanding that you fairly \n\nin \n\ndoing, the concession granted on \n\nyour \n\nbehalf \n\nwill be preserved with, \n\nBy H.H.'s order, I beg to notify the \n\nsame \n\nto \n\nyou for your Information \n\nand effects consequent \n\nTo Mess's David Han \n\nI remain at \n\nthereon. \n\ny \n\nE.W. Graham \n\nThe Spanish Consul General \n\nUrbano Montego. \n\nMesses David Han & I.W. Graham \n\n28 Threadneedle street \n\nLondon. \n## Page 483 \n\nNo other content on this page.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283597, "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": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "# \n\n301\n\nRobert GW Herbert Esq.\n**Colonial Office**\nDowning Street\n\nAnse? 257\nCoping to 2.\n\n15 March 1870\n\n7.co.\n2571\n\nSir,\n\nIon\n168, 28 Threadneedle Street, London\n22 March 1870\n\nIn November last the Spanish Government granted to us a **Concession** \"for a Submarine Cable from Manila to Hong Kong and Singapore\", and the Manila Hong Kong and Singapore Marine Telegraph Company was formed for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the Agreement with that Company. It was provided that in certain events, which have occurred, the Agreement should be cancelled and annulled, and that we should be remitted to our original position in the matter, as absolute Owners of the Concession.\n\nIt is under these circumstances that the Secretary of the Company has handed to us your Letter to him of the 12th instant, and with reference thereto we beg to state our readiness to hold that under our said Concession we have no monopoly.\n\nWe are ready to lay Cables to connect the Philippine Islands with...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283605, "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": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "page_number": 177, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "## R. G. W. Herbert on 206 Hongkong 178\nColonial Office \nDowning Street \n28 March 1870\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. \nThreadneedle Street \nLondon\n\n26 March 1870\n\nReferring to our letter to you of the 22nd instant, and to what took place at the interview with you today, we beg leave to enclose copy of communication made to us by the Shannon Government, and extracts from Section 5 thereof, which we deem of importance to have the matter decided within a few days to enable us to meet the requirements of the Spanish Vice-Consul government.\n\nA copy of the Spanish Government's Notice has been sent to the Foreign Office.\n\nWe remain,\nYour obedient Servants, \nFr. C. W. Graham & self\n\n`Hongkong 178` \n`206` \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present, hence not included. The file reference is not present in the original text.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283614, "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": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "## \n\nBearing in mind that in case such advices should prove correct, the Concession obtained becomes null & void, as must necessarily take place in respect of any bilateral Contract the fulfilment of which is prevented by the impossibility of carrying out its conditions, His Majesty the King of Siam has been pleased to direct that you shall, within the term of fifteen days, furnish proof to this Ministry in due form showing that you have obtained permission from the British Government to connect the Cable with Singapore & Hong Kong; in the understanding that should you fail in so doing the Concession granted in your behalf will be pronounced void.\n\nBy His Majesty's order, I beg to notify the same to you for your information and the consequences consequent thereon.\n\nI remain, Gentlemen,\n\nYour very obedient Servant,\n\nUrbano Montes\n\nThe Spanish Consul General\n\nTo Messrs. David Hean \nC.W. Graham's \n`185` \n`7` \n`28 Threadneedle Street` \nLondon", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283615, "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": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "page_number": 187, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "# Robert GW. Herbert Ey 870. Hong Kong \n\n## Colonial Office \n\nCopy Treasury cons = 18 April 1870.\n\n28 Threadneedle Street \nLondon \nReceived 13 April 1870.\n\nReferring to the conversation I had with you yesterday on the subject of the Concession granted to Messrs Graham and myself for a Telegraphic Submarine Cable between Manila and Hong Kong and Singapore, I beg to call afresh upon the attention of Her Majesty's Government to the hardship of our case, and the necessity for a speedy settlement.\n\nThe English Government refuse permission to us to land our Cable at Hong Kong and Singapore, on the ground that our Concession is exclusive, and that it is undesirable that the monopoly of telegraphic Communication between the Philippine Islands - a Spanish possession - and Her Majesty's Colonies of Hong Kong and Singapore, should be in the hands of one Company.\n\nWe would however desire to point out that owing to the limited trade at present existing between these Ports, such monopoly...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288838, "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": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "203\n\nNov. 18, 1872.] THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,\n\nAUSTRALIA, AND CHINA.\n\nHATTON-COURT, THREAD NEEDLE-STREET, LONDON\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter. Paid-up Capital, £800,000.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS, 1872-75. CHAIRMAN.\n\nANDREW CASSELS, Esq. Frederick W. Jeligers, Esq. Emile Lenta, Esq. John Jones, Esq.\n\nWm. Maenganan, Esq. Thomas Lancaster, Esq. William Paterson, Esq.\n\nLudwig Wiese, Esq.\n\nMANAGER.\n\nJohn Howard Gwyther.\n\nSUB MANAGER.\n\nJames Macdonald,\n\nSECRETARY.\n\nWillem Charles Mallins.\n\nBAKERS.\n\nLondon The Bank of England; the City Bank. Scotland-The National Bank of Scotland.\n\nBombay.\n\nAGENCIES AND BRANCHES.\n\nRangoon.\n\nSingapore. Batavia\n\nHong Kong\n\nCalcutta.\n\nShanghai, Amoy.\n\nHankow. The Corporation buy and sell, and receive for collection, Bills of Exchange, payable at the above-named places; issue Letters of Credit; undertake the purchase and sale of Indian Government and other Securities; hold them for safe custody; and receive Interest or Dividends as they become due.\n\nDeposits of money are received for not less than twelve months, bearing Interest at 3 per cent. per annum.\n\nHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK\n\nOF INDIA, LONDON, AND CHINA.\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter,\n\nHead Office-65, OLD BROAD-STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nBranches and Agencies:\n\nBombay, Calcutta, Madras. Colombo. Kandy. Galle, Matric.\n\nSETTLEMENTS and Java-\n\nIn INDIA\n\nCEYLON\n\nSTRAITS\n\nCHINA\n\nJAPAN\n\nSingapore, Penang, Batavia.\n\nHong Kong, Foochow, Shanghai,\n\nCanton, Hankow\n\nYokohama.\n\nBankers:-\n\nBank of England,\n\nLondon Joint-Stock Bank.\n\nThe Bank receives money on deposit, buys and sells Bills of Exchange, issues Letters of Credit and Circular Notes, and transacts the usual Banking and Agency business connected with the East, on terms to be had on application.\n\nCOMPTOIR\n\nD'ESCOMPTE\n\nDE\n\nPARIS.\n\nIncorporated by National Decrees of 7th and 8th of March, 1848, and by Imperial Decree of 20th July, 1854, and 31st December, 1868.\n\nRecognised by the International Convention of 30th April, 1862\n\nCAPITAL, fully paid up, £3,200,000,\n\nReserved Fund ... 1,200,000... £800,000\n\nHEAD OFFICE.-14. Rue Bergere Paris.\n\nAGENCIES AT-Lyons. Marseilles, Nantes, Mulhouse, Roubaix (France) Brussels Belgium, Alexandria (Egypt), Calcutta. Bombay, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Saigon (Cochin China), Bourbon (Reunion), and Yokohama (Japan).\n\nLONDON BANK-The Union Bank of London.\n\nLONDON AGENCY-144. Leadenhall-street E.C.\n\nMANAGER.-Theod. Dromel.\n\nThe London Agency grants Drafts and Letters of Credit, and purchases or collects Bills payable at the above-named places.\n\n819\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter, August 30, 1851.\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL. £1,500,000.\n\nRESERVED FUND, £444,000.\n\nThe Corporation grant Drafts and negotiate or collect Bills payable at Bombay, Calcutta, Colombo, Foochow, Hong Kong, Kandy, Madras. Mauritius, Melbourne, Point de Galle, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Yokohama, and Ningpo, on terms which may be ascertained at their office. They also issue Circular Notes for use of Travellers by the Overland Route.\n\nThey undertake the agency of parties connected with India, the purchase and sale of Indian and other Securities, the custody of the same, the receipt of Interest, Dividends, Pay, Pensions, &c., and the effecting of remittances between the above-named dependencies.\n\nThey also receive deposits of £100 and upwards for fixed periods, the terms for which may be ascertained on application at their offices.\n\nOffice hours, Ten to Three: Saturdays Ten to Two.\n\nThreadneedle-street, London\n\n1272\n\nCHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE\n\nCOMPANY (Limited).\n\nIn conformity with the SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS, adopted and confirmed at the EXTRAORDINARY MEETINGS of SHAREHOLDERS held at HONG KONG on the 1st and 15th Feb., altering clauses Nos. 13, 14, 132, and 139 of the Articles of Association (such changes to take effect from 1st November, 1871), the net Profits of the Company will, from that date, be distributed as follows, viz.:\n\nTwo-thirds (2/3) to all contributors, whether Shareholders or not, in proportion to the net amount of premia contributed by each.\n\nOne third to Shareholders generally, according to the number of Shares held by each.\n\nLONDON AGENTS-FEARON AND CO., 54, GREAT ST. Helen's. E.C., By whom risks to all Eastern ports are taken at current rates.\n\nHONG KONG AND SHANGHAI\n\nBANKING CORPORATION.\n\nCapital, $6,000,000. Paid up, $1,500,000. Reserve Fund, $900,000.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS AND HEAD OFFICE IN HONG\n\nKong.\n\nLONDON MANAGER-W.H. Vacher, #2, Lombard-street\n\nBANKERS-London and County Bank.\n\nBRANCHES AND AGENCIES\n\nHong Kong Shanghai\n\nFoochow Ningpo\n\nHankow\n\nYokohama\n\nHiogo Manila\n\nSaigon\n\nSingapore\n\nBombay Calcutta\n\nThe Bank grants DRAFTS upon and negotiates or collects BILLS at any of its Agencies or Branches; also receives DEPOSITS for fixed periods, at rates varying with the period of deposit.\n\nTHE HIGH PRICE OF MEAT.\n\nGreat economy effected by using\n\nWALL LIGHTS AND LUSTRES FOR\n\nGAS AND CANDLES. CHANDELIERS IN BRONZE AND ORMOLU. MODERATOR LAMPS AND LAMPS FOR INDIA. TABLE GLASS OF ALL KINDS. ORNAMENTAL GLASS, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN\n\nLONDON-Show Rooms, 45, Oxford-street, W.\n\nBIRMINGHAM-Manufactory and Show Rooms Broad-street.\n\nESTABLISHED 1807.\n\nTHE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE IN CHINA.\n\nFOUNDED IN PEKING Nov. 1871, under the patronage of the Foreign Ministers and Residents in the Chinese Capital, Secretary in Peking, De S. W. Bade (Britt Legation): Sec. for Great Britain, Professor Summers (Chair Once, 3, George-yard, Lombard-street, who will be happy to receive the names of gentlemen who desire to become members, or to subscribe to the Peking Magazine, published by the Society. Sub. £3 per annum. The Magazine to non-members, 6s. per annum from members.\n\nTWO\n\nEDUCATION.-ST, LEONARD'S-ON-SEA.\n\nTWO LADIES of great experience, and possessing excellent testimonials, RECEIVE A limited number of YOUNG LADIES or CHILDREN needing sea air, careful training, and education.\n\nPARENTS residing abroad would find this most desirable home. References can be given for England, India, China and Japan.\n\nFor terms Co., address M1. H., London and China Telegraph Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill, E.C.\n\nK. de PIOTROWSKI, COMMISSION MERCHANT & GENERAL AGENT\n\nHIOGO-KOBE,\n\nJAPAN.\n\nCOWASJEE DINSHAW. Close to the Landing Place, Depot of EUROPEAN, CHINA, AND INDIAN GOODS. WINE, BEER, CHAMPAGNE, and SPIRITS of the best quality Bombay-made Soda Water and Lemonade Perfumery, Confectionery, Oilman's Stores, and Stationery of every description. Sola Topees and Canvas Shoes, &c., &c.\n\nSTEAMER POINT, ADEN. Drawing and Reading-room free to Passengers. The London and China Express ON SALE.\n\nT. W. JACKSON,\n\nLIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT\n\nOF MEAT.\n\nRead carefully the printed instructions. CAUTION.-None genuine without Baron Liebig's the inventor's, signature.\n\nBeware of all imitation extract.\n\nCEYLON.\n\nCOFFEE ESTATES FOR SALE,\n\nSAN\n\nFRANCISCO.\n\nTHE LONDON & CHINA TELEGRAPH. THE FOURTEENTH Volume of this\n\nJOURNAL commenced on the 1st of January 1872. Terms for advertising, 2s. 6d. per five lines and 6d. for each additional line.\n\nSubscriptions and Advertisements received abroad by the following Agents:- Paris\n\nRICHARD & Co. Passage des Princes.\n\nThe Agency will conduct Banking business of every description with the Continent. India, China, &c., upon terms to be ascertained at the Office.\n\nin size from 48 to 1,500 acres, and in price from £200 to £24,000,\n\nALEX. BROWN,\" Kandy.\n\nN.B. Fifty-seven estates now on the register.\n\nTHE AGRA BANK (Limited).\n\nEstablished in 1839.\n\nCAPITAL 1,000,000.\n\nHead Office: NICHOLAS LANE, LOMBARD-STREET,\n\nLONDON.\n\nBranches in Edinburgh, Calcutta Bombay, Madras, Kurrachee. Agra, Lahore, Shanghai, Hong Kong.\n\nCurrent accounts are kept at the head office on the terms customary with London bankers, and interest allowed when the credit balance does not fall below £100.\n\nDeposits received for fixed periods on the following terms, viz.:-At 4 per cent. per annum, subject to twelve months' notice of withdrawal. For shorter periods deposits will be received on terms to be agreed upon.\n\nBills issued at the current exchange of the day on any of the branches of the Bank free of extra charge; and approved bills purchased or sent for collection.\n\nSales and purchases effected in British and Foreign Securities, In East India Stock and Loans, and the safe custody of the same undertaken, Interest drawn, and army, navy, and civil pay and pensions realised.\n\nEvery other description of banking business and money agency, British and Indian, transacted.\n\nJ. THOMSON Chairman.\n\nSCHOUT AND CO., SHIPBROKERS AND FORWARDING AGENTS, AMSTERDAM\n\nALEXANDER BROWN, ESTATE AND GENERAL AGENT, KANDY, CEYLON,\n\nVISITS and reports on Coffee Plantations, estimates Crops, values Properties, buys and sells Lands, Goods, and Produce on Commission, and transacts all kinds of Estate and Agency Business.\n\nHOLLOWAY'S PILLS\n\nCOUNSEL AND COMFORT. A disordered stomach throws the whole system out of gear, and renders us unfit both for work and enjoyment. A few doses of these strengthening and purifying Pills, however, speedily restore order, and re-enable the taker, according to the accompanying directions, will, without difficulty, enable the stomach to digest its food.\n\nThese excellent Pills are suitable alike for the peer as the peasant, the soldier and the sailor, and particularly for those in foreign climates.\n\nHolloway's Pills are very useful in checking feverish attacks, bilious complaints, and inflammation; they have also made the most signal cures in cases of dropsy and disease of the kidneys, heart, and lungs, when the sufferers seemed past the aid of medicine.\n\nHamburg Bremen\n\nLisbon.\n\nMr. Cocoto,\n\nR.CARL.\n\nG. STEINMEYER.\n\nHolland-Rotterdam 1.A. Kramers.\n\nAmsterdam MACKAY, BOGERT,&nd Co.\n\nALGUSTE PEDRO CABILIO.\n\nRua des l'oyaes de'. Bento 20.\n\nWN.II. FOGG & C.,82, Burling\n\n80p.\n\nNew York............\n\nSan Francisco.......\n\nAlexandria\n\nSuez.... Aden\n\nPoint de Galle..........\n\nColombo....... Singapore, Labuan, and Sarawak ......\n\nPenang\n\nSaigon.... Batavia Samarang. Sourabaya.. Anjer-Straits\n\nSamla......\n\nManila ......\n\nHong Kong, Canton, Macao and Swatow Amoy\n\nFoochow many\n\nHankow....................\n\nShanghai\n\nTien-Tsin.....\n\nJ. W SULLIVAN 510, Washing\n\nton-street.\n\nCOWASJEE DINSHAW,\n\nMr CM. Bauxsa, Oriental,\n\nHotel.\n\nLAITLAND & Co.\n\nJOHN LITTLE & Co., Singapore\n\nSANDLANDS BUTTRAF, & Co.\n\nW. G. HALK and Co.\n\nHonorow & Co.\n\nJACORSON, VAN DEN BERG & Col\n\nHOUGHTON & Co.\n\nG. Scauir, Anjer Hotel.\n\nLOTZAGA & Co.\n\nMacEwen & Co.\n\nBROWN & Co.\n\nHEDGE & Co.\n\nVIRGO, MATTHEWS, & Co.\n\nIT, Fogg & Co.\n\nJAMES HENDERSON\n\nNagusaki-Japan... PIGNATEL & Co.\n\nYokohama\n\nOsaka and Hiogo... K. DE PIOTROWSKI\n\nOFFICE, 2, COWPER'S-COURT, CORNHILL, E.C\n\n(Over the JERUSALEM.)\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH. [Nov. 18, 1872\n\nCHINA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED),\n\nIN CONNECTION WITH THE\n\nEASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nTARIFF TO CHINA AND JAPAN.\n\nOn and after 15th OCTOBER the following Rates for Telegrams\n\nof Twenty Words will come into force:--\n\nFROM LONDON,\n\nTO HONG KONG)\n\nSHANGHAI JAPAN\n\n£6 0 0\n\n7 0 0\n\nFROM PROVINCIAL\n\nSTATIONS.\n\n£6 1 0\n\n7 1 0\n\nHalf the above Rates for every additional Ten Words beyond Twenty Words.\n\nNo charge for Postage will be made on Messages to China and Japan, which are posted at Hong Kong, Shanghai, or Nagasaki.\n\nMessages should be given in at the Falmouth Company's Office, No. 74, OLD BROAD-STREET, LONDON.\n\nMessages sent from Postal Stations should be ordered\n\nVIA FALMOUTH\n\nthese words being signalled as an instruction by the Postal authorities free of charge.\n\nTHOMAS FULLER, Secretary.\n\nOld Broad-street, London, E.C..\n\n9th October, 1872\n\nDRUGS, CHEMICALS, &c..\n\nWHOLESALE AND FOR EXPORTATION.\n\nDRUGS, &c., guaranteed genuine as imported, and PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS made in strict accordance with the Pharmacopoeia.\n\nW. L. H. SKEEN AND CO.,\n\nPHOTOGRAPHERS,\n\nCOLOMBO, CEYLON.\n\nInvite inspection of their large collection of\n\nAll Orders accompanied by Drafts, or sent through Merchants, attended to promptly, and VIEWS OF CEYLON, NATIVE CHARACTERS, &C\n\nexecuted upon the best terms.\n\nBAISS BROTHERS & CO.,\n\nDRUG MERCHANTS, &c., GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS\n\nFOR CHEMICALS, &c.,\n\n102. LEADENHALL STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nTHE CHINA AND JAPAN AGENCY.\n\nFor the Purchase and Shipment of Goods of all kinds to Ports in China, Japan, the Straits Settlements, &c. Orders for Furniture, Stores, Books, and Personal Requirements of every description promptly executed, either by Overland Route or Clipper Sailing Vessels.\n\nThe articles in all cases are carefully selected by persons who have had personal experience of the wants of residents in China and Japan.\n\nOrders should be accompanied either by a remittance, or a reference for payment in London, All communications to be addressed, and remittances made payable, to\n\nTHE MANAGER, AND JAPAN AGENCY, Cowper's-court, Cornhill, London, E.C.\n\nCATALOGUES POST FREE.\n\nMAC EWEN AND CO., QUEEN'S ROAD\n\nHONG KONG, GENERAL STOREKEEPERS AND COMMISSION AGENTS.\n\nSpecial Agents for the\n\nLondon and China Express.\n\nCAUTION\n\nSTEEDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS for Children Getting their Teeth. Purchasers are requested to BEWARE OF IMITATIONS of this Medicine, and to observe in every case that the words \"John Steedman, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey,\" are engraved on the Government Stamp affixed to each packet, without which none are genuine.\n\nSold by all Chemists and Druggists, in packets at 1s. 1d. each.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 293418, "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": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "content_text": "to be disposed of.\n\n24/2\n\nSie A Clacke, & the people of Supafone generally, would desire that Caft Duulcher who is now acting as Commissioner of Police in the Plunket's absence should be appointed permanently of the Commissionership.\n\nRECEIVED FORM. CONTINELL\n\n| Date | Time | Office and Submarine Telegraph Office | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 19:5 | 4 | 75 | alt.o. 20.74. |\n| | | OFFICE AND SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH OFFICE, 58, THREAD NEEDLE STREET | 20.3743 |\n\nDated from Addressed to. 572 on the Es 263 any Received the following Telegram...\n\n7491\nOffer Susurden Puisue pudgeship Hong Kong salary seventeen hundred\nTelegraph reply. Rewit Feb 24 yes\n\n24/2 Sent h R. Recorders within 24/2/744 Lee For Confid 2466. See for Tel in And 2121\n\nJobre ary declins frumaton alterne pera derstels Sever\n\nNo Inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Paper.\n\nPublic are respectfully requested to take Notion that the **SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY** will not be responsible for any mistake or delay in the transmission or delivery of Messages. Will meet with every attention on being brought under the notice of the Secretary.\n\nR. CLARKE & Co., Printers, &c., 61, Threadneedle Street, and 2, White Hart Court, Bishopsgate, B.C.\n\nAny complaint, however,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 293429, "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": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "content_text": "## RECEIVED FORM — CONTINENTAL TELEGRAM. 228\nPOST OFFICE AND SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS.\n\nThe Submarine Telegraph Company Received the following Telegram.\n\n### LONDON OFFICE\n68, THIRD.\n\n| Foreign No. | No. of Words | At.. | Dated from | Addressed to. | REMARKS | Clerk's Initiala |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 6410 | 17 | 11.44 | 187... | ... | on the | ... |\n\nAppointment to Un Bowdler at Hong Kong; pure has stopped at the place I have marked in 14th Round; minute. I think the offer is a fair one and still may be accepted without guarantee or Mauritius. I will take advantage from it if a telegram is sent today. Will you take last month's mail at Aden? (Celegraph). Offer Bowdler office of Assistant Surveyor General Hong Kong salary, allowances sixty. Free passage if he goes at once. Seven hundred telegraph reply \"accepted\" at once. Ret Mar 12.\n\n### Notice\nNo Inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Paper.\n\nThe Public are respectfully requested to take Notice that the SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY will **not** be responsible for any mistake or delay in the transmission or delivery of Messages. Will meet with every attention on being brought under the notice of the Secretary.\n\nR. CLARKE, TALT, 3, Threadneedle Street, near 3. White Hart Court, Bishopsgate Street. \nAny complaint, however...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306358, "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": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "The only information in my possession is that conveyed in the reports of the Directors furnished to this Branch from time to time by the Head Office, London. I now beg to enclose a copy of the latest report in our hands dated 22nd September 1849, with accounts made up to 30th June of that year: trusting that the same will supply what is required.\n\nI have to,\n\n[signed] R. H. Sandeman\n\nManager at Hong Kong-\n\nNATIONAL BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.\n\nRegistered in London under the Companies Act of 1862, on the 23rd March, 1866,\n\nEstablished in Calcutta, 29th September, 1863.\n\nSubscribed Capital... £933,000\n\nPaid-up Capital ... £465,250\n\nReserve Fund ... £20,000\n\nNumber of Shareholders... 550\n\nHEAD OFFICE -- 394, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON, EC.\n\nBRANCHES: CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, MADRAS, SHANGHAI, HONG KONG.\n\nAGENTS AT COLOMBO: BANK OF MADRAS.\n\nAGENTS IN EDINBURGH: Messrs. COWAN & DALMAHOY, W.S., 12, Hill Street.\n\nAGENTS IN GLASGOW: Messrs. MACKENZIE, GARDNER & ALEXANDER, 158, St. Vincent Street.\n\nBoard of Directors.\n\nR. O. CAMPBELL, Esq., Chairman.\n\nJOHN BORRADAILE, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.\n\nSETU A. APCAR, Esq.\n\nHENRY BERNERS, Esq.\n\nJ. I. BOYSON, Esq.\n\nR. P. HARRISON, Esq., C.S.I.\n\nH. KNOWLES, Esq.\n\nDAVID REID, Esq.\n\nLondon Bankers.\n\nBANK OF ENGLAND,\n\nNATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND,\n\nNATIONAL BANK OF SCOTLAND.\n\nSolicitors.\n\nMESSRS. LAWRANCE, PLEWS & BAKER,\n\nPage 113\n\nPage 113\n\nPage 113", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306360, "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": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "115\n\nNATIONAL BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.\n\nTWENTY-FOURTH REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, DATED 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1879.\n\nTHE NATIONAL BANK OF INDIA, Limited.—Notice will be CLOSED from the 23rd to the 30th September instant, both dates inclusive,\n\nBy order of the Board,\n\nR. O. SAWERS, \n J. ROSS CAMPBELL, } Managers.\n\nNational Bank of India, Limited, 394, Threadneedle Street, City.\n\nLondon, 18th September, 1879.\n\nWaterlow and Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351037, "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": 705, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "Sun Insurance Office.\n\nThreadneedle Street.\n\nLondon:\n\nE.C.\n\n16TH AUG 1892\n\nFOREIGN DEPARTMENT.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS\n\nRE. LONDON.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO\n\nSECRETARY.\n\nSUN\n\nFIRE\n\nESTABLISHED 1710.\n\n692\n\nMessts Frank L.H. Collins & Sons\n\n76 Cheapside\n\nE.C.\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nWith reference to your enquiry of today, beg to state that we do not consider that any property on the Island of Hongkong would be endangered if petroleum in tanks was stored at the site indicated by you on the Kowloon Harbour, namely, on the North-West in the vicinity of the Cosmopolitan Dock.\n\nI am, Dear Sirs,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n...\n\n789.........\n\n \n10 BZ\n\n \n\nI made the following changes:\n1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"ESTABR\" to \"ESTABLISHED\", \"KAULUNG HA\" to \"Kowloon Harbour\", \"leh laurells\" to \"...\", \"Bile\" to \"petroleum\", \"Messts\" to \"Messrs\").\n2. Fixed spacing issues and removed extra spaces.\n3. Rejoined broken sentences.\n4. Restored paragraph breaks.\n5. Indicated missing words with \"...\".\n6. Applied Markdown formatting is not required as per the final instruction, instead, I used HTML tags for paragraphs.\n7. Ensured that file references are not present in the given text, so rule 10 is not applicable.\n8. Page numbering is not present, so rule 11 is not applicable.\n9. Reordered text as per the original writing, assuming it was a letter. \n\nHowever, to fully comply with the final output instruction, the output is already in HTML format using \n\n tags.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353284, "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": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "270\n\nAll Letters, to be addressed to the CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: PIETAIL\n\nThe Honble.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China.\n\nHatton Court; Threadneedle Street-\n\nLondon: 4th March 1893.\n\nRobert Henry Meade\n\nUnder Secretary of State\n\nfor the Colonies.\n\nRECD\n\n0.0.\n\n3718\n\nRead 6 MAR 93;\n\nSir Alfred Dent K.C.M.G. &c. &c.\n\nSir,\n\nMy Co-Directors and myself had on Thursday an interview with Sir Reginald Welby at the Treasury on a matter connected with the business of the Bank. We were given to understand that the subject will be referred to the Colonial Office, and then discussed; we therefore request that we may have an opportunity of seeing you in connection therewith.\n\nShould it meet your convenience, we would be glad if you could see us next week either on Wednesday at 3.30 or ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353292, "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": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 280, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "278\n\nAll Liners to be addressed to the CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA AUSTRALIA & CHINA.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS-\"AUSTRAL\"\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China.\n\nHatton Court Threadneedle Street\n\nLondon : 11th March 1893.\n\nRES?\n\n0.0.\n\n4212\n\nREG 13 MAR 93\n\nThe Honourable\n\nRobert Henry Meade\n\nUnder Secretary of\n\nState\n\nfor the Colonies.\n\nDowning Street\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the interview Sir Alfred Dent had with you a few days ago, and in compliance with your desire that certain information then given verbally, in support of the Bank's memorial to the Treasury regarding its Note Circulation in the Straits Settlements and Hongkong, should be placed before you in the shape of a memorandum. I have now to make the following remarks.\n\nThe contraction in the total amount of Bank notes circulating in the before-mentioned Colonies has been the means of, and is causing great inconvenience", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353300, "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": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 288, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "醫\n\n286\n\nAll Letters to be addressed to the CHARTERED Bank of India, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS-PISTAIL.\n\nChartered Bank India, Australia & China.\n\nCote this Pen Hatton Court Threadneedle Street, London; 28th March 1893\n\nGrafthere\n\nThe Honourable\n\nRobert Henry Meade, C.B.\n\nUnder Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nDowning Street,\n\nI beg to inform you that since the interview which my colleague Sir Alfred Dent and I had with you, the Directors have had occasion to carefully reconsider the clauses in the Bank's Charter dealing with its note circulation.\n\nThe conclusions they have come to are embodied in the enclosed copy of a letter which I have this day addressed to Reginald Welby at the Treasury.\n\nThis letter will show you plainly in what light the matter is now viewed by the Bank's Directors and it is thus unnecessary for me here to enlarge on it.\n\nTrusting that the reading of the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353302, "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": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 290, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "Charter dated 20 July 1861\n\nCopy\n\n288\n\nChartered Bank of India Australia & China\n\nSir Reginald E Welby G.C.B.\n\nSecretary\n\nHatton Court, Threadneedle Street\n\nLondon 28th March 1893.\n\nC. O.\n\nH.M. Treasury\n\n5131\n\nWhitehall\n\nREC\n\nDear Sir,\n\nELG1:20 MAR 93,\n\nReferring to recent correspondence and to the subject discussed at the interview which I and my colleague Sir Alfred Dent had with you, I now beg to inform you that the Directors have had occasion to carefully consider the clauses in the Bank's Charter relating to its Note Circulation. The conclusion they have come to is that they have hitherto wrongly interpreted the conditions in the Charter regulating the Note Issue.\n\nFor the sake of reference we give in extenso the special provisions in the Charter relating to the Bank's Note Circulation:-\n\n\"And we do further will and ordain that it shall and may be lawful for the said Company during the continuance of this Our Royal Charter at and from such Banks or Branch Banks or any of them as they may hereafter establish under or by virtue of this Our Royal Charter to make issue and circulate Notes payable to bearer on demand or otherwise and to re-issue the same provided that no such Notes shall be issued in the island of Ceylon for any other sum than the sum of ten shillings local currency or of five rupees or some multiple of such ten shillings or of such five rupees or other equivalent amount or ten shillings sterling and for the Island of Hongkong and other places in China for any other sum than five dollars or one pound sterling or some multiple of such five dollars", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353340, "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": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "The amount of Bank deposits is different in each colony for colonial Depositors. It would be an advantage if this information could be published for both Hongkong and the Straits Settlements, but if any objection is felt to giving the information for both, just for the purpose in question.\n\nLetters to be addressed to the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China.\n\nFULLER'S LIST - DETAILS\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China.\n\nHatton Court, Threadneedle Street\n\nLondon; 30th August 1893.\n\nC.O.\n\nThe Honble Robert Henry Meade,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nSir,\n\n[Ref 31 Aug 93]\n\nWe have been informed by Hongkong Manager that an application had been addressed to him by the Colonial Secretary for information as to the amount of Deposits in this Bank at 31st December last.\n\nWe enclose copy of this letter, and if the enquiry refers to the total amount of Deposits with this Bank, the information can be furnished by us here, and we shall be glad to hear from you on this point.\n\nWe are, however, unable to understand why this request should reach us from Hongkong, seeing that no similar enquiry has been made in Singapore.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nThomas Forrest\n\nManager.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353347, "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": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 335, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "245\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China,\n\nHatton Court Threadneedle Street\n\nLondon 11th Sept. 1893\n\n333\n\nC.O.\n\n15614\n\nReceived the Colonial Office 12 SEP 93\n\nThe Under Secretary of State\n\nColonial Office\n\nS.W.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of 6th inst. regarding the amount of deposits with Hongkong Branch, we have to inform you that we have been in communication with our manager by telegraph and he requests us to await advice from him by letter. We have therefore to ask you to allow us to defer replying definitely on the subject until we have received your manager's letters, when we shall have much pleasure in recurring to the matter.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant\n\nThomas Jackson\n\nManager", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356154, "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": 431, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## Memorandum\n\nThe report is correct, try that and Ripen will await receipt of Zall's note on the subject before taking any action. Add that whatever change is adopted in the Currency of Hongkong, it would have to be considered in conjunction with the Order in Council (similar to that of 21 Oct. 1890, of which I send a copy) repealing the local Legislation, so as to produce greater uniformity in Colonial currency Legislation. Ask for copies of all the Proclamations issued under Act 1864 and tell W. Gwyther that action must await definite proposals from Hongkong.\n\n### Annexed Report\n\nThe Mint Report referred to above is now annexed. It adds little to the 1874 Report (at the end of Printed \"Corresp. Currency, 1874\") respecting the Hongkong currency.\n\nSir C. Fremantle puts the Mint charge at 2 per cent, & further charge for freight at 1 per cent.\n\nE.W. Gwyther understands that the Bombay Mint might do it at 1 1/2 to 2, to which would have to be added about 2 percent for freight, making it dearer than Mexican dollars in ordinary times.\n\nI am not quite sure what papers are in actual fact available, we have spare copies of some/they are in old Volumes (Gazettes) 557 2015.\n\n**E.W. HOWARD GWYTHER**\n\n## Memorandum\n\nARRED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA,\nHATTON COURT,\nTHREADNEEDLE STREET,\nLONDON, E.C.\n\nTo Sir Robert R. Meade, K.C.B.\n\nFor your guidance, I beg to enclose copy of telegram received from Hongkong Branch this morning.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356177, "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": 454, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "dollars were little cheaper for last half of 1893, at an average premium (above the value of the fine silver contained in them) of 3.4 percent; or if we omit the three first quoted (very special) figures, at an average premium of 2.66 percent.\n\nDuring the present year they have begun to be a little cheaper: \n\n| Date | Price |\n| --- | --- |\n| Jan. 16 | 3/2 |\n| Jan. 29 | 30 76/3150 (mm) |\n| Feb. 4 | 30 21/3021/3076, 2.99 to 2.57 |\n\nand Messrs. Pixley & Abell (see annexed letter to Agents) anticipate that they will become still cheaper very shortly.\n\nWe (With reference to the last part of the annexed letter) find that the Matrices of the old Hong Kong Dollar are in the custody of the Royal Mint.\n\n**Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China** \n1886 Hutton Court: Threadneedle Street \nLondon, 30th Jan'y 1894\n\nDear Sir Robert,\n\nI have this morning received from our Hongkong Manager, instituting a telegram of which the annexed is a copy, and I suggest to our Bombay Agent by wire to suggest to the Indian Government that they should follow the same course indicated.\n\nYours sincerely, \nN. Nowrojee\n\nSir Robert Meade, H.C.B., \nColonial Office.\n\n...the Governor would suggest for consideration the advisability of advising the Indian Government that they are willing to accept about ... (Seignorage) ...\n\n`Sug 8.M.J. 67b. 877.2 C.Pd.5` \nPutley Rue 12/2 \nKimberley by wire", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356187, "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": 464, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## Colonial Office \n(through the India Office)\n\nNo doubt you are aware \n\nof his line \n\nwill achieve \n\nsuggestion, \n\nDear Sir Robert \n\nYours truly Mowbray \n\nSir Robert Meade KCB, \nColonial Office.\n\nTK \nHatton Court; Threadneedle Street \nTELEGRAPHIC EXPRESS PRIVATE. \nAll letters to be addressed to the CHARTERED BANK of Australia & China and marked \"Private\".\n\nLondon, 31 Jan'y 1894 \n\nDear Sir Robert,\n\nI have just received `(4/11)` the following Telegram, dated Bombay at 2p.m., in reply to my message of last evening: \n\n\"We have reason to believe that the Indian Government will answer the question (touching the cost of coining a British Dollar) if requested to do so by you.\" \n\n456", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356224, "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": 501, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, Hatton Court, Threadneedle Street.\n\n493\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS PIGTAIL,\n\nAll letters, to be made safe to the CHARTERED BANK of India, Australia & China \nand not to any Individuals.\n\nLondon, 31 March 1889\n\n5963\n\nDear Sir Robert,\n\nAPR 24\n\nI think it well to \nmention that very urgent telegrams have been received from the \nHongkong, Singapore, & Penang Branches of \nthe Bank regarding the British Dollar, more \nespecially from the first mentioned Port, \nwhere clean Mexican Dollars are now \nat 3 1/2% premium. This shows \nthat the stock is running perilously low, and \nclearly relief can only be obtained by \nthe importation of ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356228, "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": 505, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## Lee back of 12th June \n\nLondon \n\nA \n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China, Hatton Court Threadneedle Street, \n\n497 \n\nTelegraphic Address: PLOTAIL. \n\nAll letters to be addressed by the \n\nSHAREHOLDER BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA \n\nBranch and to any individuals. \n\nLondon, 13th April \n\nDear Sir Robert, \n\n**REC(EGL 19 APR 94)**\n\nMany thanks for your letter of yesterday's date.\n\nI agree with you that the present attitude of the Indian Government *vis-à-vis* the proposed British Dollar is not calculated to inspire much hope of success in **DUAALA** favors.\n\nI endeavour to create the new coin.\n\nI should be much obliged if you", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356230, "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": 507, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "499 \n\n**Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China**. Hatting Court Threadneedle Street, 14th April 1896.\n\nMy dear Robert,\n\n6710 Cs 19 British Dollars. I now take up for further reply your letter of 11th instant.\n\nYou say that the Banks could not guarantee the circulation of any certain sum per annum at the Indian dollar or Mexican dollar rate, as the amount they would require to circulate would depend entirely on the supply price of Mexican Dollars, both of which, as you know, are uncertain quantities.\n\nAlthough my interview with Sir W. Fremantle did not encourage me to make an official application to the Royal Mint, it might be worth while to consider whether the Colonial Office should make the Essay. One advantage which would arise from your taking steps in the matter would be to show that both the Government and the Banks had thoroughly endeavored to find...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356271, "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": 548, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "# 540 \n\n**Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China**\n\nIn \nHatton Court: Threadneedle Street. London \n11th September \n\nSir Robert A. Meade K.C.B. \nColonial Office \n\nSir, \n\nFor \n**REC** \n4 C.O. \n16189 \n**(Recd 12 SEP 04)** \n\nFor your information I have the honour to forward you copy of letter addressed by the Manager of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank and myself to the Master of the Mint with reference to the weight of the new British dollar. \n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient servant \nManager", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356294, "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": 571, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "5 \n\nAlt feltorzi to, he addressed to the **Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China**. \n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, POSTAL \n\nme as \n\n2075 \n\nC.O \n\n22498 \n\n28 EC J \n\n563 \n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China. Hatton Court: Threadneedle Street \n\nLondon: 28th Dec 1894: \n\nMATT \n\nEdward Fairfield Eve 6. M. 9. \n\nColonial Office \n\nWhitehall S.W. \n\nSir \n\nI beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 21st December, with reference to the new British dollar, and inviting me to express an opinion as to whether it would be well to take advantage of the new Orders in Council to provide that all coins whatever, whether of the old or the new coinage, if chopped on the one hand, or otherwise stamped on the other hand, should be demonetized or whether such provision would cause inconvenience. \n\nAs regards the Straits Settlements, the practice of chopping dollars does not prevail there, and such dollars would not be received as currency either by the Banks or by the public. \n\nIn the case of Hongkong it is...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359279, "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": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "Libri to be addressed to the **Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China** - TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, METAL.\n\nZeopaies \n45 \n\n**Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China**.\n\nHatton Court, Threadneedle Street \n\nLondon 8th June 1895.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State \n\nSir,\n\nColonial Office\n\nYou C.O. 9988 \nIRECR \nREG 10 JUN 95 \nletter\n\nI beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 1st instant (9/56/95) handing letters on the subject of legislating against British Dollars being chopped in Hongkong, addressed to the Colonial Secretary by the Chamber of Commerce and Mr Thomas Jackson, the Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, together with a newspaper report of the meeting of Chamber of Commerce at which the question was discussed. In obedience to the request of the Secretary of State that I should inform him whether my previously expressed opinions have been modified, I beg to state that they have not. Mr Jackson's experience of Hongkong has been much greater than mine, and is entitled to the highest respect. I am not aware that anything has led to a declaration on his part of the existence of any public or practical inconvenience from the practice of chopping dollars. These considerations certainly tend towards inducing me to modify my opinion on the subject.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368774, "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": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 595, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "# Chartered Bank of India Australia & China\n\nHatton Court, Threadneedle Street.\n\nLondon 7th July 1898.\n\nTo the Lords Commissioners \nof Her Majesty's Treasury \nWhitehall S.W.\n\nC.O. 15340\n\n**REC 11 JUL 20**\n\nMy Lords,\n\nWith reference to our letter of 15th June 1897, in which we gave you particulars of the appropriation of the limit for our Note Issue, we have now to inform your Lordships that the amounts have been altered as follows:\n\n| Location | Amount |\n|-----------|--------------|\n| Penang | $2,000,000 |\n| Singapore | $2,000,000 |\n| Hongkong | $3,000,000 |\n| Shanghai | $500,000 |\n| Bangkok | $100,000 |\n| Total | $7,600,000 |\n| Leaving unappropriated | $400,000 |\n| | $8,000,000 |\n\nFor the whole amount of the limit, security has been deposited in London, Singapore, and Hongkong. To prevent any misunderstanding, however, we shall be glad if you will telegraph at our expense, to the Colonial Treasurer in Hongkong, authorising the increase in the limit at that point from $2,750,000 to $3,000,000, and instruct him to receive from our Manager there Cash as security to the extent of $83,334, being one third of the additional amount of $250,000. This will leave an aggregate amount of security in excess of that required, and we will communicate with Your Lordships on this subject later on, when it may be more convenient to you.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lords,\nYour most obedient servant,\n(Sd) Wm. Hoggan \nSecretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369541, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## \n\nFrom GT0128\n\nThe Mercantile Bank of India \n40 Threadneedle Street, \nLondon EC2. \n26th August 1898.\n\nTo the Right Honorable \nSir Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. \nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State \nfor the Colonies \nDowning Street, S.W.\n\nI have been requested by the Board of Directors of this Bank to approach you on the following subject:\n\nThe Mercantile Bank of India (Limited) has Branches in the Colonies of Hongkong and Singapore, and does a general banking business in these Colonies.\n\nThe Bank is the successor of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, under a scheme of reconstruction which was carried out early in 1893. The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China had the privilege of issuing Notes in Hongkong and the Straits Settlements, and in 1891, the last complete year for which statistics are available, its average circulation was upwards of $1,380,000 in the Straits Settlements, and $1,860,000 in Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374803, "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": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "Issue notes in \n\nthe \n\nS.S \n\nthe amendment of its Articles of Association, \n\nS.; although we should have the power of damaging those notes by refusing to accept them at the Treasury, we suggest to the Straits to pass \n\nAM \n\nOrdinance similar to the H.K \n\nK \n\n1. Kong \n\npass \n\nWAGER. \n\nA note to \n\nADDRESS LONDON \n\nAs to any alteration of help not wanted \n\nwe cannot possibly settle the \n\nfor some \n\nmonths to come; and we had better \n\ninform the Bank that we should not \n\nbe able to return them on this account before the meeting of their \n\nshareholders, \n\nas some \n\ntime must elapse \n\nbefore the Governor's reply on the subject can be expected. \n\nCam sony \n\nW Graham \n\nC.W. J: 27/2 \n\nI have discussed this so \n\nI have talked this over with Johnson and I agree \n\nwith her minute. The Bank shareholders have \"thought of this at the time of the reconstruction (1893). I think in view of the \n\nfor some time it would be advisable to pass an \n\nordinance like 2 of 1875 (Hongkong) \n\nHEB \n\n27/2 \n\nThe letter to the Bank has been returned; pass this \n\non to you to forward. \n\nCW.J (AF) \n\n4/4 \n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED. \n\n20, Threadneedle Street \n\nLondon: 9 February 1899. \n\n3437 \n\nRec'd 10 FEB 39 \n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 19414/98, of the 30th ulto, in \n\nreference to mine to all. Secretary (Chamberlain 26th August last. \n\nIn your letter you inform me that, as a \n\nresult of the \n\nGovernment Note Scheme being introduced into the Colony \n\nof the Straits Settlements, \n\nthere \n\nwas \n\nthe question of Extending to another bank the right of issuing Notes for circulation in that Colony, but as \n\nregards Hong Kong you say \n\nthat the question of a Government note scheme is under consideration, and that a further communication would be addressed to me \n\nwhen that question is settled: \n\nYour letter has been submitted to \n\nmy \n\nDirectors, and \n\nI am desired by them respectfully to point out that, even \n\nas regards the Straits Settlements, the granting the application \n\nof the 26th August last, can scarcely be considered as Extending the right of issuing Notes for circulation in that Colony \n\nas the Bank \n\nis a mere reconstruction of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India London offices, accepting, and taking over, the whole \n\n6/4", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387303, "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": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "# TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS PIGTAIL \nLetters to be addressed to the **Chartered Bank OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA** and not to une individuals.\n\n## Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China\nHatton Court Threadneedle Street \nLondon, 10th May 1890.\n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies \nDowning Street\n\nSheet 18867 \n13 MY 02\n\nSir,\n\nWe understand from the Manager of Hongkong Branch that the Government of Hongkong have telegraphed to you in support of an application that we should be permitted to issue notes in excess of our limit of $8,000,000, in consideration of our depositing coin or bullion equal to the whole value of such excess, for the time being actually in circulation.\n\nIn connection with this matter, we inclose a copy of our letter of 18th instant to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and of telegrams which have passed between us and our Hongkong Manager, which will explain the situation.\n\nWe trust that, as it is very advisable there should be no undue delay in arranging for the excess issue, you will kindly transmit to the Treasury, as soon as convenient, the purport of the telegram received by you in support of our application.\n\nI am, Sir, \nYour obedient servant, \nMorewakworpher \nChairman.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387324, "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": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "## \n76 \n\n**GRAPHIC ADDRESS PITTALL**. Instructions to be addressed to the \n\n**BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA**. Send not to an intermediate \n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China, \n\nHatton Court, Threadneedle Street \n\nLondon, 15th August 1902 \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, \n\nC.O. \nS.W. \n\nSir, \n\nWith reference to your letter of 26th June last, No. 380/1902, I enclose herewith copy of letter from Sir Edward W. Hamilton, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., regarding the proposed supplemental charter authorising an extension of this Bank's power of note issue. \n\nAs soon as you receive the necessary authority, I shall esteem it a favour if you will notify the officer administering the Government of Hongkong by telegraph that notes may be issued in accordance with the terms of the charter against the deposit of Coin and Bullion of equal value to the excess issue, and inform me that this has been done.\n\nYours obedient servant, \n\nMoreton Frewen, Chairman", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387325, "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": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "**ADDRESS PLOTAIL.** Addressed to the **INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA**.\n\nA. J.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China, 77 \nHatton Court; Threadneedle Street \n16 AUG 07\n\nLondon, 18th Augt 1907\n\nEdward, W. A. Hamilton, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. \nTreasury Chamber, Whitehall.\n\nIn connection with my letter of 19th June furnishing the draft of the proposed supplemental charter authorising an extension of the Bank's power of note issue, I shall esteem it a great favour if you will let me know how the matter now stands. The recent illness of His Majesty no doubt interfered with the despatch of business, but I hope that you will soon be in a position to give the necessary authority for the issue in Hongkong of Notes in excess of $8,000,000 against the deposit of Coin and/or Bullion of equal value to the excess issue.\n\nYour obedient Servant, \n(Sgd) J. Howard Gwyther \nChairman", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387329, "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": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "## Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, Hatton Court. Threadneedle Street, London, 16th Septr. 1902.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.\n\n**Sir**,\n\nWe have the pleasure to inform you that we are now in possession of the supplemental charter referred to in our letter of 15th August, authorising the issue of notes in Hongkong against the deposit of bullion and for Bullion, in excess of the amount previously provided for.\n\nNo reference has however been made to communication having been made by telegram on the subject to the Officer administering the Government in Hongkong, and as we wish if possible to avoid giving further trouble to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, we may compare it with the draft that the legal adviser may approve it before sending it. Yes, I'm told that the Charter has some time been with me.\n\nfor Little order that we may compare it with draft thus the legal adviser before sending Yes I'm told. \nR. E. Stubbs 7.9.1902.\n\nDembi 17.9.02\n\nYou now have been told to me. I am glad that The Charter has some time been with me.\n\n## TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS. \"CHARTDIR\" \nAll Letters to be addressed to the **Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China**. Not to any individual.\n\n| Ref. | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| 33950 | 81 |\n\nPage 363 (as per original scan marker, if applicable, not explicitly stated in the prompt but following the instruction for page numbering)\n\nC. O. \n38777 \n17 SEP 02 \nRec?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387332, "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": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "## Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China\nHatton Court, Threadneedle Street \nLondon, 19th Sept. 1890\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street.\n\n**TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS PIGTAIL.** All Letters to be addressed to **THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA**, and not to any Department.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 18th instant No. 38444/1902 addressed to the Chairman of this Bank. As requested therein, I have pleasure in handing you the supplemental charter which has just been received from the Home Office, which please return to me when convenient.\n\nI am, Sir, \nYour obedient servant, \nJ. B. Bougan \nSecretary.\n\n84 \nC.O. 39140 \n20 P 02)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391098, "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": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "ELEGRAPHIDERE\n\nDEAM EAR\n\nOPI\n\nAll Letters to be addressed to the\n\nCHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA\n\n2. Barbus must.\n\nA\n\nPlomo Vitam wont wally\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nCare\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China. Hatton Court, Threadneedle Street\n\nLondon, E.C.\n\n29th Jany, 1903.\n\nI beg to enclose for the information of your goodself and the Members of the Straits Currency Committee, copy of a letter received by me today from Mr. Edward Brush, Secretary of the American Smelting and Refining Co., dated New York, 19th January 1903, and remain.\n\nYours very truly,\n\nM. Whitehead\n\nSir David Barbour, K.C.S.I., K.C.M.G.,\n\nChairman,\n\nStraits Currency Commission,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDOWNING STREET, S.W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394649, "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": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "page_number": 639, "title": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "content_text": "I have friendly relations with \n\nthis office \n\nC.P.O. \n\n22 \n\nat once \n\n635 \n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS \"PICTAIL.\" \n\nLetters to be addressed to the \n\nCHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. \n\n \n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China. \n\nHatton Court: Threadneedle Street \n\nLondon, 20th Dec. 1904. \n\nC.O. \n\n43004 \n\nThe Under-Secretary of Colonial Office \n\nPresent. \n\nSirs, \n\n \n\nDowning Street, S.W. \n\nIn retiring from the Board of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China, I desire to express my sense of the invariable courtesy I have received from the officials in your Department, during the 35 years in which I have been connected with this Bank as Manager or Chairman. \n\nI am, Sirs, Yours faithfully, \n\nHoward", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406501, "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": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 506, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "STATISTICAL STATEMENT relative to the Revenue, Expenditure, and Shipping of Hong Kong from 1895 to 1905.\n\nTenders will be received on Tuesday, the 20th of February, up to 12.30 p.m. at No. 1, Tokenhouse Buildings, and 1 p.m. at Whitehall Gardens.\n\n \n Year.\n Revenue.\n Expenditure.\n Shipping Cleared and Entered.\n \n \n 1895\n Dollars. 2,486,228\n Dollars. 2,972,373\n Total Tonnage. 15,632,113\n \n \n 1896\n 2,609,878\n 2,474,910\n 16,515,953\n \n \n 1897\n 2,686,914\n 2,641,409\n 15,938,174\n \n \n 1898\n 2,918,159\n 2,841,805\n 17,265,780\n \n \n 1899\n PAR 3,610,143\n 3,162,792\n $17,133,331\n \n \n 1900\n 4,202,587\n 3,628,447\n $17,247,023\n \n \n 1901\n 4,213,899\n 4,111,722\n $19,325,384\n \n \n 1902\n 4,901,073\n 5,909,548\n $19,709,451\n \n \n 1903\n 5,238,857\n 5,396,669\n $21,903,348\n \n \n 1904\n 6,809,048\n *6,376,235\n $22,299,582\n \n \n 1905\n 7,080,100\n †7,175,192\n Estimated.\n \n\nStock Certificates to Bearer, of the denominations of £1000, £500 and £100, with coupons for the half-yearly Dividends attached, will be obtainable in exchange for Inscribed Stock at the Crown Agents' Transfer Office, No. 1 Tokenhouse Buildings, E.C., on payment of the prescribed fees, and such Certificates can, if desired, be re-inscribed.\n\nThe allotments will be made to the highest bidders, provided the rates offered are not below £99 in money for every £100 of Stock.\n\nIn the event of the receipt of tenders in excess of the amount to be allotted at or above the minimum price, the tenders at the lowest price accepted will be subjected to a pro rata diminution.\n\nIf no allotment be made, the amount forwarded with the tender will be returned in full, and if a portion only of the amount applied for be allotted, the surplus will be appropriated towards the payment of the second instalment.\n\nTenders must be for even hundreds of Stock, and those at a fraction of a shilling other than sixpence, will not be preferentially accepted.\n\nThe first payment must accompany the tender, and the subsequent payments are to be made at No. 1, Tokenhouse Buildings, E.C., not later than the dates above mentioned.\n\nPayments may be made in full on the 27th of February, or any subsequent date prior to the 17th of May, under discount of 3 per cent. per annum.\n\nIn the case of default in the payment of any instalment at its due date, the deposit and instalments previously paid will be liable to forfeiture.\n\nScrip Certificates will be ready for delivery on and after the 15th of March, and will be issued at No. 1, Tokenhouse Buildings, E.C., in exchange for the receipts for the amounts payable on Allotment.\n\nThe Scrip Certificates when paid in full may be inscribed either at the Crown Agents' Office in Whitehall Gardens, S.W., or at their Transfer Office on and after the 16th of March, when the existing Stock will become ex-dividend.\n\nThe Revenues of the Colony of Hong Kong alone are liable in respect of the above Stock and the Dividends thereon, and the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom and the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are not directly or indirectly liable or responsible for the payment of the Stock or of the Dividends thereon, or for any matter relating thereto (Act 40 and 41 Vict. cap. 59).\n\nPublic Debt £341,800.\n\n* Includes $1,382,814 Public Works Extraordinary. † Includes $1,815,300 Public Works Extraordinary. Excluding local junk trade, but including for 1901 steam launches trading to ports outside Colony.\n\nForms of Tender, and a Statistical Statement relative to the Public Debt, Revenue, Expenditure, and Shipping of the Colony from 1895 to 1905 may be obtained by applying at the Offices of the Crown Agents for the Colonies in Whitehall Gardens, S.W., and at No. 1, Tokenhouse Buildings, E.C.; at that of Messrs. MULLENS, MARSHALL and Co., 4, Lombard Street, E.C.; of Messrs. J. and A. SCRIMGEOUR, South Sea House, Threadneedle Street, E.C.; of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 31 Lombard Street, E.C.; and of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, Hatton Court, Threadneedle Street, E.C.; and copies of the Ordinance and of the Agreement with the Viceroy at Wuchang, may be seen on application at the Office of the Crown Agents in Whitehall Gardens.\n\nOFFICE OF THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES,\n\nWHITEHALL GARDENS, LONDON,\n\n14th February, 1906.\n\nPage 501", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 410607, "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": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]", "page_number": 231, "title": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]", "content_text": "c. 827, 1804\n\n158707\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China to Crown Agents.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nHatton Court,\n\nThreadneedle Street,\n\nLondon.\n\n8th January, 1907.\n\nHong Kong & Straits Settlements.\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 7th instant we have to inform you that according to our latest advices from the Straits Settlements, the amount of our note circulation was:-\n\n$311,035 on 8th December at Singapore and $600,075 on 30th November, at Penang,\n\nWithout reference to us these Branches may issue between them notes to the extent of $2,250,000, but we do not anticipate that there will be any great increase over the figures of the actual issue above quoted. Trusting this information will meet your requirements.\n\nI am,\n\n(Sgd.)\n\nManager.\n\n-2-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421111, "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": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 421, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "## COPY\n### RECO\n#### C.O. 15650 412 KEGS 10 MAY\n**THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,**\n40 THREADNEEDLE STREET, \nLONDON, W.C. \nApril 7th 1909.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of \nHis Majesty's Treasury, \nWhitehall, \nLondon, S.W.\n\nMy Lords,\n\nThe enclosed copy of a letter addressed by me to His Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor of Hongkong, bears on the question of Note Issues and the position of legal tender Currency in that Colony. I have been informed in reply that the points raised are having the consideration of His Excellency, and that I shall in due course receive a further communication from him.\n\nMy object in writing Your Lordships at the present juncture is respectfully to ask that no definite action regarding the metallic or paper issues of the Colony, or the privileges and monopolies enjoyed in connection therewith, be taken without my being given an opportunity of personally presenting to Your Lordships a statement of the disabilities entailed by the present conditions, not only on ourselves but on the Government and community of Hongkong.\n\nI have the honour to be \nYour Lordships' most obedient Servant \n**(Sd) JAS. CAMPBELL** \nChief Manager.\n\nP.S. I am sending a similar letter to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421112, "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": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 422, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "# C.O. 15650 RECR 413 MEGP 10 MAY O\n\n## THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED, \n40 THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\n4th May 1909.\n\n**Sir George H. Murray, GC.B., I.S.O, \nPermanent Administrative Secretary to the Treasury, \nTreasury Chambers, \nWhitehall, S.W.**\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 21st ultimo informing me that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have now under consideration the issue of a New Charter to the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, one of the Banks possessing the right of Note-issue in Hongkong, and further stating that Their Lordships will be prepared to give their careful consideration to any representations which I may think proper to submit to them in writing on the subject of the proposed renewal of the Charter.\n\nI do not propose to put forward any arguments in opposition to the claims of the Bank named. It is no part of The Mercantile Bank of India's case to oppose or interfere in any way with the renewal of the Charter, and the right of Note Issue of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. It is manifest that any refusal on the part of Their Lordships to continue the privilege to that Bank, without making adequate provisions in other directions, would", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421115, "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": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 425, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "## C.O. COPY 7710\n### TREASURY CHAMBERS, 21st April 1909.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 7th instant, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to inform you that They have now under consideration the issue of a new Charter to the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, one of the Banks possessing the right of note-issue in Hong Kong.\n\nNo material alterations in the conditions of the Bank's note issue are at present contemplated and it does not appear to Their Lordships that the interests of the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, are directly concerned in the matter.\n\nThey will, however, be prepared to give Their careful consideration to any representations which you may think proper to submit to Them in writing on the subject of the proposed renewal of the Charter.\n\nThe question of the establishment of a Government note issue in Hong Kong or the bestowal of note issue privileges upon your Bank is primarily one for the consideration of the Colonial Government and My Lords would therefore be precluded from entering into direct discussion with you on these subjects.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\n(Sgd) G.H. MURRAY.\n\nThe Chief Manager,\nThe Mercantile Bank of India Ltd.,\n40 Threadneedle Street, E.C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421116, "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": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 426, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "9836 \n\n00 \n\n15650 \n\n`RECP417` \n\n`KEGP` 10 MAY OS \n\nTAKASURY TIMBERS. \n\n# May 1909 \n\n**Sir,**\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant, stating that the Mercantile Bank of India does not desire to make any representations in connexion with the proposed issue of a new Charter to the Chartered Bank of India Australia and China.\n\nWith reference to the last paragraph of your letter I am to say that in Their Lordships' opinion the question raised in your letter under reply is primarily one for the consideration of the Colonial Government concerned and the Secretary of State for the Colonies to whom your letter has accordingly been forwarded.\n\nI am, \nSir, \nYour obedient servant, \n\nThe Chief Manager, \nThe Mercantile Bank of India Ltd., \n40 Threadneedle Street, \nE.C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423809, "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": 413, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA LIMITED\n40, Threadneedle Street, London; \nC.O. \n12146 \nReceived 3 APR 1909 \n7th April 1909.\n\n412 \nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, S.W. \n\nSir,\n\nThe enclosed copy of a letter addressed by me to His Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor of Hongkong, bears on the question of Note Issues and the position of legal tender Currency in that Colony. I have been informed in reply that the points raised are having the consideration of His Excellency and that I shall in due course receive a further communication from him.\n\nMy object in writing you at the present juncture is to respectfully ask that no definite action regarding the Metallic or Paper issues of the Colony, or the privileges and monopolies enjoyed in connection therewith, be taken without my being given an opportunity of personally presenting to you a statement of the disabilities entailed by the present conditions not only on ourselves but on the Government and Community of Hongkong.\n\nI am, Sir, \nYour obedient servant, \n**Chief Manager**\n\nP.S. \nI am sending a similar letter to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury.\n\n### Enclosure References\n- `58427/4` \n- Copy of letter to His Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor of Hongkong.\n\n\"THE CHIEF MANAGER. \nTELEGRAM-ADDRESS. \n\"PARADISE. LONDON\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423810, "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": 414, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED \n40, Threadneedle Street, London E.C.\n\n12146 \nReceived 6th Novr. 1908.\n\nTo His Excellency, \nSir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., \nGovernor & Commander-in-Chief, \nHong Kong\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nWhen Sir George Murray was recently in Hong Kong on a visit of inspection of the Bank's business in the Colony, Your Excellency was good enough to accord him the honour of an interview on what I may term the currency problem as it presents itself to us as a Bank carrying on an Exchange Banking business in Hong Kong.\n\nIt will be convenient if I recapitulate the points to which Your Excellency's attention was called. Under the Queen's Order in Council of the 2nd Feby., 1895, British and Mexican Dollars of specified weight and fineness of Silver are made legal tender in the Colony. Whilst, however, these Silver Dollars constitute the sole legal tender of the Colony, they labour under this disadvantage, that the shroffing of the dollars and the moving of any quantity of them from point to point entail a great deal of time and trouble, and even some expense.\n\nConsequently the favourite medium of currency is the Notes of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, by means of which, as a matter of fact, the great majority of monetary transactions are settled. These two Banks have a monopoly of the privilege of Note Issue in the Colony, and the convenience afforded in settling commercial transactions in paper money as compared with silver coin is so great and so much appreciated that the legal tender coin is generally at a discount, or to put it perhaps more correctly, the paper money, which is not legal tender, commands a premium over the legal tender coin.\n\nDuring the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423814, "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": 418, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# Letters to be addressed to THE CHIEF MANAGER\n\n## THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA LIMITED\n40, Threadneedle Street, London\n\n6th Novr. 1908.\n\nThe Hon. A. M. Thomson, \nColonial Treasurer, \nHong Kong.\n\nDear Mr. Thomson,\n\nBy to-day's mail the Chief Manager of the Mercantile Bank of India, Ld. is writing His Excellency the Governor on the subject of Note Issue in your Colony. I think the letter deals fully with the position as we find it.\n\nAt the interview I had at Mountain Lodge with the Governor, the Colonial Secretary, and yourself, you raised the point of our willingness to accept the right of issuing Notes against depositing as security dollar for dollar in Coin. I replied that I could not say what the attitude of the Directors of the Bank would be towards such a suggestion, but that personally I felt that such a distinction in treatment between the Hong Kong and Chartered Banks and ourselves would not be fair. The privileges granted the Banks named were in the case of the Hong Kong Bank by local ordinance, and in the case of the Chartered Bank by its charter, limited and not continuous. Such privileges were to expire by effluxion of time, yet they have, notwithstanding any principle to the contrary laid down, been quite lately renewed in each case separately by special legislation.\n\nIn the copies of the 1898 correspondence accompanying the letter to His Excellency you will see that at the time of that correspondence we claimed the continuity of the Note Issue privilege which the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China had enjoyed, this Bank registered under the Limited Liability Act, being in every way a continuation, without interruption, of the old", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423816, "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": 420, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED \n## 40 Threadneedle Street, London EC.\n### 26th August 1898.\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, \nDowning Street, S.W.\n\nI have been requested by the Board of Directors of this Bank to approach you on the following subject:\n\nThe Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, has Branches in the Colonies of Hongkong and Singapore, and does a general Banking business in these Colonies.\n\nThe Bank is the successor of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China, under a scheme of reconstruction which was carried out early in 1893. The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China, had the privilege of issuing Notes in Hongkong and the Straits Settlements, and in 1891, the last complete year for which statistics are available, its average circulation was upwards of $1,280,000 in the Straits Settlements, and $1,160,000 in Hongkong.\n\nUnder the scheme of reconstruction the present Bank took over all the Assets and Liabilities of its predecessor, and I may mention that the scheme was carried through with open doors; it entailed no loss or inconvenience on any Creditor of the Bank; all obligations and liabilities were met in the usual manner on presentation or at maturity and this without touching by way of call or otherwise on the reserve liability of the Shareholders which amounted to £750,000.\n\nBut one effect of the reconstruction (which was carried out under the Companies Act 1862 to 1890) was that all Notes presented for encashment had to be withdrawn from circulation and cancelled and that until fresh powers were obtained the privilege of Note Circulation possessed by the old Bank lapsed.\n\nPage 420\nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423820, "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": 424, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED\n\n41, Threadneedle Street, \nLondon EC \n9th February, 1899.\n\n**C.O. 12146** \n**REG 8 APR OC**\n\nAll Setters to be addressed to \n**\"THE CHIEF MANAGER\"** \n**(PRIVATE ADDRESS)** \n**PARADISE, LONDON** \n**423**\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 414/98 of the 30th ulto. in answer to mine to Mr. Secretary Chamberlain of the 26th August last.\n\nIn your letter, you inform me that as a Government Note issue is being introduced into the Colony of the Straits Settlements, there can be no question of extending to another Bank the right of issuing Notes for circulation in that Colony, but as regards Hong Kong, you say that the question of a Government Note Issue is under consideration, and that a further communication would be addressed to me when the question is settled.\n\nYour letter has been submitted to my Directors, and I am directed by them respectfully to point out that even as regards the Straits Settlements, the granting of the application contained in my letter of the 26th August last can scarcely be treated as extending to the right of issuing Notes for circulation in that Colony. The position is that the Bank is a mere reconstruction of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China, accepting and taking over the whole of its liabilities, and among them those of Note Issue enjoyed by that Bank, and which Notes are still to some extent in circulation in the Colony, and there accepted as part of the circulating medium as freely as those of any other Bank. It is simply desired to keep up and continue this existing state of things, though in the more convenient shape of the Bank being at liberty to issue Notes of its own without the inconvenience of Notes as they come in and are paid, having to be withdrawn from circulation through the inability to reissue.\n\nSurely thus keeping up and continuing an existing Issue cannot be regarded as any Extension interfering with the Note Issue of the Government, and as such, my Directors will be glad if Mr.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423834, "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": 438, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## \n437 \n\nSie C. Lucas I saw him some months ago. He promised that if we let him know anything from Hong Kong, he would let him know. We did not promise to submit Lugard's proposals to him for obvious reasons, but merely to help him so that the Secretary of State could submit any objections that he wished. We let him say whether in person or in writing what he thought.\n\nLetters to be submitted to *THE CHIEF MANAGER.*\n\n## \n12146 \nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS. \n\"E.LONDON\" \n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED \nThreadneedle Street, \nE.C. \n\nMay 4th, 1909.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, S.W. \nLondon.\n\nIn continuation of my letter of 7th ulto., I have the honour to enclose copy of correspondence that has since passed between the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and myself on the subject of Note Issue in Hongkong.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, \nYour obedient Servant, \n**Chief Manager**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423835, "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": 439, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA LIMITED\n40, Threadneedle Street.\n## C 0.\n15120\n## TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: \"MADISE, LONDON\"\n\n4th May, 1909.\n\nSir George L. Murray, K.C.B., I.S.O.\nPermanent Administrative Secretary to the Treasury,\nTreasury Chambers,\nWhitehall, S.W.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 21st ultimo informing me that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have now under consideration the issue of a New Charter to the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China, one of the Banks possessing the right of Note issue in Hongkong, and further stating that Their Lordships will be prepared to give their careful consideration to any representations which I may think proper to submit to them in writing on the subject of the proposed renewal of the Charter.\n\nI do not propose to put forward any arguments in opposition to the claims of the Bank named. It is no part of The Mercantile Bank of India's case to oppose or interfere in any way with the renewal of the Charter, and the right of Note Issue of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China. It is manifest that any refusal on the part of Their Lordships to continue the privilege to that Bank, without making adequate provisions in other directions, would only aggravate the evil complained of. My desire, on the contrary, is so materially to widen, under all necessary safeguards, the privilege of Bank Note Issue as to destroy the premium value attaching to the Notes and to remove the unnatural advantage they at present enjoy over legal tender coin.\n\nThe continuance of a monopoly that is unfair in its operation, and the fostering of conditions that place the legal tender coin of His Majesty's Colonial Government at a disadvantage cannot be the desire of the Supreme Government, such conditions being the result of the limitation of the privilege.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423837, "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": 441, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# 0931 NT 520\n\n## Treasury Chambers\n### 21st April, 1909\n\n440\n\n**Sir,**\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 7th instant, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to inform you that they have now under consideration the issue of a new Charter to the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, one of the Banks possessing the right of note-issue in Hong Kong.\n\nNo material alterations in the conditions of the Bank's note issue are at present contemplated, and it does not appear to Their Lordships that the interests of the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, are directly concerned in the matter.\n\nThey will, however, be prepared to give Their careful consideration to any representations which you may think proper to submit to Them in writing on the subject of the proposed renewal of the Charter.\n\nThe question of the establishment of a Government note issue in Hong Kong, or the bestowal of note issue privileges upon your Bank, is primarily one for the consideration of the Colonial Government, and My Lords would therefore be precluded from entering into direct discussion with you on these subjects.\n\nI am,\n**Sir,**\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) G. H. Murray,\n\nThe Chief Manager,\nThe Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd.,\n40, Threadneedle Street,\nB. C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423909, "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": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS PIOTAIL. All Letters to be addressed to the Chartered Bank OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China, \nHatton Court, Threadneedle Street \nLondon, 13th September 1909.\n\nThe Right Hon: The Earl of Crewe, K.G., \nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies, \nDowning Street, S.W.\n\nC.O. 80604 \nReceived 14 SEP\n\nMy Lord,\n\nOn 15th April last the Hongkong Government intimated to our Branch there that His Excellency the Governor had under consideration the question of the introduction into the Colony of a Government Note Issue on the lines of the system already adopted in the Straits Settlements and our Manager was asked for an expression of the views of this Bank on the subject. Our Hongkong Manager referred the matter to us in a letter dated Hongkong 23rd April last, but unfortunately neither the original nor the duplicate of the said letter reached our hands. When a copy of the letter was received by us, we on 16th July last communicated with our Hongkong Manager to the following effect:-\n\n\"As the Colonial Secretary's letter to you of 15th April, asking for the views of this Bank on the subject of the proposed note issue, does not appear to have elicited any reply from you, beyond a mere acknowledgment, we now take up the matter.\n\nThe currency of Hongkong presents the anomaly of legal silver tender being at a discount vis-a-vis notes issued by private Banks, and any practical arrangement to remedy this is entitled to receive support at the hands of the Banks. If therefore the Government of Hongkong carry into effect their intention of issuing Notes about the beginning of next year, and are prepared to receive silver currency in Exchange therefor, dollar for dollar, without any charge, and to pay out silver currency in redemption of their notes, dollar for dollar, when asked to do so, the effect would be to place the silver currency...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423960, "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": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS. PISTAIL. All letters to be addressed to the **CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA**.\n\nCuppy \n91 \nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China, \n$604 \n(1) \n\nThe \nSir, \nHatton Court, Threadneedle Street \nLondon \n15th November/9009 \n\nUnder Secretary of State, \nColonial Office, S.W. \n\n37433 \nIRECR Recd 16 NOV 09 \n\nGentlemen, \n\nWe beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 35645/1909 dated 8th instant enclosing copy of a draft Ordinance to provide for the issue in Hongkong of Government Paper Currency, and enquiring whether we desire to add to the observations contained in our letter of 13th September last.\n\nWe confirm what we wrote in our said letter and in continuation and extension thereof we would draw attention to the following points:- \n\nThe entire absence of any control by the Hongkong Government over the Silver Currency in the Colony must sooner or later involve the Government in serious difficulty because of their obligation under the proposed Ordinance to issue notes to any extent in exchange for current coin, viz: Mexican Dollars & British Dollars. Under the present Currency Enactment, Mexican Dollars, and British Dollars are legal tender to any amount, and can be and are imported into Hongkong without restriction. British Dollars can be minted by the public to any extent. This might lead to an accumulation of silver coinage by the Government to an extent which might readily prove disastrous. The only remedy for this would be that the Government assume control of the Silver Currency in the Colony by closing the Mints in India to the coinage of silver into British Dollars on behalf of anyone tendering the necessary silver, and also by preventing the free import of Mexican Dollars.\n\nSuch a procedure has not been considered, so far as we are aware, and if enacted we believe that it would...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427026, "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": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "content_text": "A \n\nA BILL \n\nEXTITLED \n\nсо \n\n34446 \n\nRece ReGPIO NOV 10 \n\nNo. 35-(8.10.10.-1.] \n\nAn Ordinance to provide for the issue by the Mercantile Bank of India Limited of Bills and Notes payable to Bearer on Demand. \n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- \n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Mercantile Bank Short title, \n\nof India Note Issue Ordinance 1911. \n\n2. In this Ordinance :-- \n\n\"Company\" means the Mercantile Bank of India Limited whose chief office is at Threadneedle Street, London, England. \n\n\"Current coin\" means coin which for the time being \n\nis lawfully current in the Colony. \n\n\"Notes\" means bills and notes payable to bearer on demand in current coin. \n\n\"Secretary of State\" means one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. \n\nDefinitions. \n\n3.-(1.) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, Power for it shall be lawful for the Company to make, issue, reissue Company to and circulate notes in the Colony. \n\nmake and issue bills \n\n(2.) Such notes shall not be issued for any other sum and notes than the sum of five dollars, or some multiple of such sum. \n\n(Provided the Company may issue and reissue a limited issue. number of notes for the value of one dollar subject to their unconditional withdrawal from circulation should the Governor-in-Council decide to issue notes of lower denomination than five dollars. The total value of such one dollar notes shall not exceed in value an amount to be fixed by the Governor-in-Council from time to time.) \n\n(3.) Except as specified in Section 6 the total amount of such notes actually in circulation shall not at any time exceed the amount of the capital of the Company actually paid up. \n\n(4.) The notes shall be in such forms and of such designs and printed from such plates and on such paper and be authenticated in such manner as may be approved by the Secretary of State. \n\n(5.) The plates shall be prepared and notes printed, issued and cancelled under such regulations as the Secretary of State may make for the purpose of preventing fraud and improper issue. \n\n(6.) The Company shall pay all expenses which may be incurred by the Colonial Treasurer in giving effect to the provisions of this Ordinance. \n\n(7.) Such notes shall be redeemable in current coin at the office of the Company in the Colony but shall not be legal tender. \n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428007, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 555, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "15126/10\n\nсо\n\n23756\n\nRECR\n\nRec 22 AUG 10\n\n548\n\nCHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA,\n\nTo the Lords Commissioners\n\nof His Majesty's Treasury. S.V.\n\nHatton Court,\n\nThreadneedle Street,\n\nLondon.\n\n8th August 1910.\n\nMy Lords,\n\nAs your Lordships are aware, the limit for the issue of notes by the various Branches of this Bank in the East, is $8,000,000 (say eight million dollars), secured to the extent of one third of the whole amount by the deposit with the Bank of England in the names of the Crown Agents for the Colonies of:-\n\nTransvaal Government 3% Guaranteed Stock £160,000.\n\nNew South Wales Government 3% £50,000.\n\nQueensland Government 3% £30,000\n\nBelgian 3% 2nd Series. £25,000\n\nPrussian Consolidated 3% State Loan £25,000.\n\nNew Zealand Government 3% £10,000.\n\nIndia 2½% £25,000.\n\nCape of Good Hope Consolidated 3% Stock £10,000.\n\n£335,000.\n\nThe aggregate amount of $8,000,000 is appropriated at present in the following proportions :-\n\nSingapore", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429600, "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": 337, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n336\n\n4\n\nwill wish, under present circumstances, to be involved in the discussion of a side issue provided it is possible to avoid it. With the new Sungari regulations a fait accompli, a modus vivendi in respect of the Aigun regulations should, with a little give and take, not be difficult to secure.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nH. E. SLY.\n\nP.S.-Since writing the above, I have been informed by a member of a local British firm that the Amur Steam-ship Company, a British company registered in London, which has for some years past been running a steam-ship service on the Amur for the carriage of goods only, is now in liquidation. It possesses twelve first-class steam tug-boats and about twelve steel lighters, 75 feet length, of which it now seeks to dispose.\n\n0\n\nH. E. S.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[37193]\n\n[October 13.]\n\nSECTION\n\nNo. 1.\n\n34588\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received October 13.)\n\nREC REG 11 NOV 10.\n\n(No. 332.) Sir,\n\nPeking, September 22, 1910.\n\nIn his general report for the year 1908, Sir John Jordan mentioned that an internal loan had been authorised for the purpose of supplying the deficit which would result from applying a portion of the Anglo-French loan of 5,000,000l., raised for the redemption of the Peking-Hankow Railway, to other \"productive purposes.” He added that the project came to naught, and that the Board of Communications found themselves obliged to raise the necessary funds by borrowing in silver, at 7 per cent., from various foreign banks.\n\nThe loan above referred to, which received Imperial sanction on the 8th October, 1908, was for 10,000,000 dollars, bearing interest at 7 per cent. per annum and redeemable in twelve years. Bearer bonds of 100 dollars each were to be issued, which would entitle the holder to a 25 per cent. share in the net profits of the Peking-Hankow Railway. Beyond the fact that bonds to the value of some 500,000 dollars were subscribed by Chinese officials in Peking, and that the foreign banks in China had refused to undertake the flotation of the loan, nothing more was heard of the matter until a few weeks ago, when a rumour became current that the Board of Communications, finding themselves face to face with the necessity of providing a sum of at least 2,500,000 dollars for urgently-needed repairs to the Lu-Han line, had arranged to borrow from a Japanese group, represented by Mr. E. F. Birchal, a sum of 10,000,000 dollars—in other words, that they had at last succeeded in floating the loan above described.\n\nThis rumour was in part confirmed on the 17th September, when the agent of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in Peking received a telegram from London stating that the London City and Midland Bank, acting on behalf of Messrs. Dunn, Fischer, and Co., of Threadneedle Street, E.C., and by arrangement with the Board of Communications in Peking, were about to float a loan for 450,000l., the equivalent, at a fixed rate of 100 dollars = 9l., of 5,000,000 dollars. The bonds, of a face value of 9l., would be issued at 108, the board receiving 97 or 97l. 3s., the difference to go to defraying the expenses of flotation. Interest was to be at 7 per cent. per annum, and the bonds were to carry a 25 per cent. share in the net profits of the Lu-Han Railway.\n\nFrom another source I learn that a further loan of 2,500,000 dollars has been placed in Japan, also on a gold basis (88 yen = 100 dollars) and under similar conditions, and that the balance of 2,000,000 dollars will not be issued for the present.\n\nThe moving spirit in the flotation is, I am informed, the Director-General of Railways, Liang Shih-yi.\n\nWhere questions of Chinese finance are concerned prophesies are notoriously apt to fail, but there appears to be a consensus of opinion among foreigners well qualified to judge that the issue of this loan is a measure financially unsound, which is likely to have a prejudicial effect on China's credit.\n\nIf the Chinese Government, whose credit has hitherto been so good that they have been able to borrow money to an almost unlimited extent in the markets of the world at 5 per cent. interest on production of reasonable security, deliberately turn aside and endeavour to obtain money on practically no security at all, for which they naturally have to pay a higher rate of interest, they inevitably arouse suspicions as to their financial standing, and thereby seriously compromise their powers of borrowing. The present moment is, moreover, a peculiarly inopportune one for making a departure from traditional methods of finance, in view of the fact that 3,000,000l. worth of the 5 per Cent. Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan will in a few days probably be placed on the London and Berlin markets.\n\nWhile it is undoubtedly true that the Chinese Government and people are showing increasing signs of resentment at what they consider the harsh and\n\n[2948 n-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429837, "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": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "All letters to be addressed to \n\n'HE CHIEF MANAGER\" \n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, IRADISE LONDON \n\n137648/39 \n\n7226407/09 \n\nC O \n\n2121 \n\nReco \n\nRecd 21 JAN 10, \n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA LIMITED. \n\n40, Threadneedle Street, \n\nLondon \n\n21st January, 1910. \n\nPage 27\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, \n\nColonial Office, \n\nDowning Street S.W. \n\nSir, \n\nI have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 13th inst. inviting attention to the communication addressed to me by your department dated 8th November to which was attached a draft of the proposed Ordinance for providing the Colony of Hong Kong with a Government Note Issue. \n\nI have hitherto deferred conveying to you the views of my Directors on the proposal as we are not yet in possession of our Hong Kong Manager's opinion, not only on the proposal itself, but also as to its bearing upon this Bank's application for the privilege of Note Issue which has for some time past been under the consideration of the Colonial Office and the Government of Hong Kong. \n\nMy Directors are of opinion that the Government proposal as embodied in the draft ordinance if carried out cannot but prove of great benefit to the community of Hong Kong, especially the commercial and trading portion of it, and also to the general interests of the Colony. It would at once put an end to the injurious effects which have developed out of the monopoly of note issue hitherto confined to two private Banking Corporations, a monopoly which in its present restricted form has proved totally inadequate to the needs of the Colony and has, as I informed you in the correspondence submitted to you on 4th May last, resulted \n\nPage 28\n\n110-120/09. \n\nin ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433291, "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": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "page_number": 276, "title": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "content_text": "# No. 35:—[29.9.11.—5.]\n\n## A BILL\n\n## ENTITLED\n\n**An Ordinance to provide for the issue by the Mercantile Bank of India Limited of Bills and Notes payable to Bearer on Demand.**\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the **Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinance, 1911**.\n\n## Short title.\n\n2. In this Ordinance :-\n\n- \"Company\" means the Mercantile Bank of India Limited whose chief office is at Threadneedle Street, London, England.\n- \"Current coin\" means coin which for the time being is lawfully current in the Colony.\n- \"Notes\" means bills and notes payable to bearer on demand in current coin.\n\n## Definitions.\n\n3.-(1.) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Company to make, issue, reissue and circulate notes in the Colony.\n\n## Power for Company to make and issue bills and notes.\n\n(2.) Such notes shall not be issued for any other sum than the sum of five dollars, or some multiple of such sum.\n\n(3.) Except as specified in section 6, the total amount of such notes actually in circulation shall not at any time exceed the amount of the capital of the Company actually paid up.\n\nIf the Company issues notes in excess of the amount anticipated by the provisions of subsection (3), the manager of its office in the Colony shall each be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars a day for every day during which such excess of any sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars shall continue and to a further fine not exceeding fifty dollars a day for every day during which such excess shall continue for every complete additional sum of ten thousand dollars in notes so issued in excess.\n\n(4.) Such part of the books of the Company as may contain any entry relating to the notes issued or to be issued by the Company or relating to the amount of such notes in circulation from time to time, or any account, minute or memorandum, in the possession of the Company or of any person in its employ, the sight or inspection whereof may tend to insure the rendering or taking of true accounts for any period of the average amount of such notes in circulation or to test the truth of any such account, shall be open for the inspection and examination at all reasonable times of any person authorised in that behalf in writing signed by the Colonial Treasurer.\n\nEvery such authorised person shall be at liberty to take copies or extracts from any such book, account, minute or memorandum.\n\nIf the Company or any person in its employ keeping any such book, account, minute or memorandum or having the custody or possession thereof or power to produce the same shall on demand made by any such authorised person showing if demanded his authority on that behalf, refuse to produce any such book, account, minute or memorandum to him for his inspection and examination or to permit him to inspect and examine the same or to take copies thereof or extracts therefrom, the Company and such person in its employ shall each be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.\n\nProvided that the Colonial Treasurer shall not exercise or cause to be exercised the powers aforesaid without the consent of the Governor.\n\n(5.) Such notes shall not be legal tender but shall be redeemable at the office of the Company in the Colony in current coin which is for the time being legal tender in the Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434170, "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": 171, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[37193]\n\nC\n\n[October 13.]\n\n1168\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\nREGE 13 JAN 11 No. 1.\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received October 13.)\n\n(No. 332.)\n\nPeking, September 22, 1910.\n\nSir,\n\nIN his general report for the year 1908, Sir John Jordan mentioned that an internal loan had been authorised for the purpose of supplying the deficit which would result from applying a portion of the Anglo-French loan of 5,000,000l., raised for the redemption of the Peking-Hankow Railway, to other \"productive purposes.\" He added that the project came to naught, and that the Board of Communications found themselves obliged to raise the necessary funds by borrowing in silver, at 7 per cent., from various foreign banks.\n\nThe loan above referred to, which received Imperial sanction on the 8th October, 1908, was for 10,000,000 dollars, bearing interest at 7 per cent. per annum and redeemable in twelve years. \"Bearer\" bonds of 100 dollars each were to be issued, which would entitle the holder to a 25 per cent. share in the net profits of the Peking-Hankow Railway. Beyond the fact that bonds to the value of some 500,000 dollars were subscribed by Chinese officials in Peking, and that the foreign banks in China had refused to undertake the flotation of the loan, nothing more was heard of the matter until a few weeks ago, when a rumour became current that the Board of Communications, finding themselves face to face with the necessity of providing a sum of at least 2,500,000 dollars for urgently-needed repairs to the Lu-Han line, had arranged to borrow from a Japanese group, represented by Mr. E. F. Birchal, a sum of 10,000,000 dollars—in other words, that they had at last succeeded in floating the loan above described.\n\nThis rumour was in part confirmed on the 17th September, when the agent of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in Peking received a telegram from London stating that the London City and Midland Bank, acting on behalf of Messrs. Dunn, Fischer, and Co., of Threadneedle Street, E.C., and by arrangement with the Board of Communications in Peking, were about to float a loan for 450,000l., the equivalent, at a fixed rate of 100 dollars = 91l., of 5,000,000 dollars. The bonds, of a face value of 91l., would be issued at 108, the board receiving 97 or 97¼, the difference to go to defraying the expenses of flotation. Interest was to be at 7 per cent. per annum, and the bonds were to carry a 25 per cent. share in the net profits of the Lu-Han Railway.\n\nFrom another source I learn that a further loan of 2,500,000 dollars has been placed in Japan, also on a gold basis (88 yen = 100 dollars) and under similar conditions, and that the balance of 2,000,000 dollars will not be issued for the present.\n\nThe moving spirit in the flotation is, I am informed, the Director-General of Railways, Liang Shih-yi.\n\nWhere questions of Chinese finance are concerned prophesies are notoriously apt to fail, but there appears to be a consensus of opinion among foreigners well qualified to judge that the issue of this loan is a measure financially unsound, which is likely to have a prejudicial effect on China's credit.\n\nIf the Chinese Government, whose credit has hitherto been so good that they have been able to borrow money to an almost unlimited extent in the markets of the world at 5 per cent. interest on production of reasonable security, deliberately turn aside and endeavour to obtain money on practically no security at all, for which they naturally have to pay a higher rate of interest, they inevitably arouse suspicions as to their financial standing, and thereby seriously compromise their powers of borrowing. The present moment is, moreover, a peculiarly inopportune one for making a departure from traditional methods of finance, in view of the fact that 3,000,000l. worth of the 5 per Cent. Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan will in a few days probably be placed on the London and Berlin markets.\n\nWhile it is undoubtedly true that the Chinese Government and people are showing increasing signs of resentment at what they consider the harsh and \n\n[2958 n-2]\n\n169", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436457, "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": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "page_number": 289, "title": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "content_text": "Letters to be addressed to\n\nCHIEF MANAGER\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS\n\nRADISE, LONDON\n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,\n\n407, Threadneedle Street\n\nLondon, EC2\n\nAug. 10, 1911\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nWith reference to our representative's call this morning concerning the Ordinance to provide for the issue by this Bank of Notes in Hongkong, we beg to confirm the following extract from a telegram received from our Hongkong Office:\n\n\"Security to be approved by the Secretary of State for the Colonies and to be deposited with Colonial Treasury of Hongkong; no provision is made for Crown Agents for the Colonies or Trustees otherwise; must arrange immediately or it is useless; telegraph instructions.\"\n\nAs explained to you to-day, it is very important that we shall have the option of depositing the Securities with the Crown Agents for the Colonies or Trustees here, as provided in the Draft Ordinance shown to us, as well as with the Colonial Treasury, Hongkong. We are wiring to this effect to our Hongkong Office to-night.\n\nHoping you will see your way to confirm this, and awaiting the favour of your reply,\n\nI am,\n\nDear Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nChief Manager.\n\n(P.T.O.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436582, "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": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "page_number": 414, "title": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "content_text": "agruty maunfacture what spins it reg) for consumption hi its own Carretons, and for that alove. Each power will therefore bund itself not to notifere by enouggling or otherwise with the mandpoly of the other and will thus have complate control of opium con. Inception in its own territories.\n\nI see no objn to it & lordsay to, provided it does not interferebat our arrangenerats in the healay Reinierata.\n\n१\n\nVa.16.12\n\ngree withe sin\n\nZaq\n\nJ.\n\n14.12.12.11\n\na\n\nAnderson\n\nSir,\n\n40205-\n\nR 16 FC II\n\n37, THREADNEEDLE STREET, E.C.\n\n15th, December 1911.\n\n412\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 39909/1911, requesting that the Secretary of State may be furnished with a copy of any Regulations relating to the export and import of prepared Opium in force in British North Borneo at the present time, for transmission to the British delegates to the International Opium Conference now sitting at the Hague.\n\nI accordingly enclose a copy of Proclamation 16 of 1901 entitled \"A Proclamation to consolidate and amend the law for collecting a Revenue of Excise on Opium and the Preparations thereof\", and I am to express the hope that this document will supply the requirements of the British delegates.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S. W.\n\nI am, sir, Your obedient servant,\n\nSecretary.\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely and correct the OCR output:\n\nAgreement manufacture what spins it (reg) for consumption in its own territories, and for that above. Each power will therefore bind itself not to interfere by encouraging or otherwise with the monopoly of the other and will thus have complete control of opium consumption in its own territories.\n\nI see no objection to it & Lordsay to, provided it does not interfere with our arrangements in the Far East.\n\nPage १\n\nVa.16.12\n\nAgree with sin\n\nZaq\n\nJ.\n\n14.12.12.11\n\na\n\nAnderson\n\nSir,\n\n40205-\n\nR16FCII\n\n37, THREADNEEDLE STREET, E.C.\n\n15th, December 1911.\n\n412\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.39909/1911, requesting that the Secretary of State may be furnished with a copy of any Regulations relating to the export and import of prepared Opium in force in British North Borneo at the present time, for transmission to the British delegates to the International Opium Conference now sitting at the Hague.\n\nI accordingly enclose a copy of Proclamation 16 of 1901 entitled \"A Proclamation to consolidate and amend the law for collecting a Revenue of Excise on Opium and the Preparations thereof\", and I am to express the hope that this document will supply the requirements of the British delegates.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W.\n\nI am, sir, Your obedient servant,\n\nSecretary.\n\nLet's correct and format it according to the given rules and output it in HTML as requested.\n\nAgreement manufacture what spins it (reg) for consumption in its own territories, and for that above. Each power will therefore bind itself not to interfere by encouraging or otherwise with the monopoly of the other and will thus have complete control of opium consumption in its own territories.\n\nI see no objection to it & Lordsay to, provided it does not interfere with our arrangements in the Far East.\n\nPage १\n\nVa.16.12\n\nAgree with sin\n\nZaq\n\nJ.\n\n14.12.12.11\n\na\n\nAnderson\n\nSir,\n\n40205-\n\nR16FCII\n\n37, THREADNEEDLE STREET, E.C.\n\n15th, December 1911.\n\n412\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.39909/1911, requesting that the Secretary of State may be furnished with a copy of any Regulations relating to the export and import of prepared Opium in force in British North Borneo at the present time, for transmission to the British delegates to the International Opium Conference now sitting at the Hague.\n\nI accordingly enclose a copy of Proclamation 16 of 1901 entitled \"A Proclamation to consolidate and amend the law for collecting a Revenue of Excise on Opium and the Preparations thereof\", and I am to express the hope that this document will supply the requirements of the British delegates.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W.\n\nI am, sir, Your obedient servant,\n\nSecretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439808, "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": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "page_number": 300, "title": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "content_text": "www\n\nTercentile Bank of India\n\nAgents\n\n293\n\n40 Threadneedle Street B.C.\n\nC. O.\n\n12th August 1912\n\nREC?\n\n580\n\nRECE 15 AUG 12,\n\nGentlemen\n\nWe have this day deposited with the Bank of England for credit of John Anderson and others the undernoted securities to be held against our Note Issue in Hong Kong:-\n\n£20,000 India 3½ Stock Certificates\n\n£10,000 Trustees of Port of Bombay 4% Debentures\n\nand we shall be glad if you will cable to Hong Kong the receipt of these securities.\n\nPlease also advise the Bank of England to hand over to us the coupons attached to these Bonds as they become due.\n\n(sd)\n\nChief Manager\n\nPage 300\n\nPage 301", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439855, "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": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "page_number": 347, "title": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "content_text": "C.O.\n\n38464\n\nREC2\n\nREGP 5 DEC 12\n\n0.0.\n\nThe Mercantile Bank of India Ltd to Crown Agents.\n\nGentlemen,\n\n40 Threadneedle Street.\n\nLondon. E.C.\n\n27th November 1912\n\n339\n\nWe are desirous of exchanging part of the security held by you against our Note Issue in Hong Kong. We wish to withdraw Rs.200,000/- East India 3% Promissory Notes (1900/1), depositing in lieu thereof 15,000 Bengal Nagpur Railway Co. 3½% Debentures, and we shall be glad if you will give the necessary instructions to the Bank of England.\n\nI am,\n\n[signature]\n\nP. Mould\n\nChief Manager.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441276, "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": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "content_text": "## GOVERNOR OF STRAITS SETTLEMENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nGovernment House, \nSingapore, 15th August 1912.\n\nWITH reference to your despatch No. 42 of 16th February last, on the subject of the desirability of establishing wireless telegraph stations at Singapore and Penang, I have the honour to report that, after consulting the Chambers of Commerce in both places, I have provisionally entered in the Estimates for 1913 sums of $20,000 and $6,000 (being approximately the amounts suggested in paragraph 3 of your despatch) for installation and upkeep respectively of a low-power station at Penang.\n\n2. The Singapore Chamber of Commerce expressed the opinion that an installation of so small a range as 300 miles would be of little commercial utility, and I have therefore caused no provision to be made for a station in this Settlement.\n\n3. A further communication has, however, recently been received from the Singapore Chamber inquiring whether the proposed Imperial high-power station would be available for the despatch and receipt of commercial messages when not required for Imperial purposes, and asking that, in the event of the reply being in the negative, the question of establishing a low-power station at Singapore may be reconsidered. I would ask to be favoured with instructions on the point now raised by the Chamber.\n\nI have, &c., \n(Signed) **ARTHUR YOUNG** \n&c., \n&c., &c.\n\n## COLONIAL OFFICE to GOVERNOR OF STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.\n\n13 \n12\n\n**GOVERNOR** \nSir A. H. Young, K.C.M.G., \n&c. \n&c. \n&c.\n\nI have, &c., \n(Signed) **L. HARCOURT**.\n\n## COLONIAL OFFICE to POST OFFICE.\n\nSIR, \n27th September 1912.\n\nWITH reference to the letters from this Department of the 19th April and the 28th August relative to the proposed erection by the Government of a low-power wireless station at Singapore, which have not yet been answered, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you, to be laid before the Postmaster-General, the accompanying copy of a despatch from the Governor of the Straits Settlements with regard to the establishment of such stations at Singapore and Penang.\n\n2. Subject to any observations which Mr. Samuel may desire to offer on the question, Mr. Harcourt proposes to inform the Governor, in reply to the third paragraph of his despatch, that the high-power station, to be erected in connection with the Imperial wireless scheme, is intended to carry on long-distance commercial work, but that it is not probable, so far as can be foreseen at present, that it will also be able to carry on short-distance ship-and-shore work, and that for this purpose a separate 13-kilowatt station will be desirable with a range of about 300 miles.\n\nI am, &c., \n(Signed) **HENRY LAMBERT**, \nfor the Under-Secretary of State.\n\n## BRITISH NORTH BORNEO COMPANY to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nThe British North Borneo Company, \n37, Threadneedle Street, \nLondon, E.C., 1st October 1912.\n\nSIR,\n\nTHE Court is entering into a contract with Messrs. Siemens Brothers for the installation of wireless telegraphy in their territory. Jesselton, Sandakan and Selimpopon, which are marked on the enclosed map. There will be stations at These will be small stations for internal use only, and it has occurred to the Court that possibly His Majesty's Government might like to co-operate with them in establishing a large station in their territory, with the object of completing the chain of Imperial wireless stations which it is understood is in contemplation.\n\nI am to ask whether in this case His Majesty's Government would be ready to contribute the difference between the cost of a large and small station either at Jesselton or Sandakan, whichever might be most convenient for their purpose.\n\nI am, &c., \n(Signed) **HARRINGTON G. FORBES**, Secretary.\n\n## COLONIAL OFFICE to BRITISH NORTH BORNEO COMPANY.\n\nWITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 9th instant, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to request you to inform the Court of the British North Borneo Company that His Majesty's Government do not desire to suggest the erection of a high-power or medium-power station in British North Borneo in connection with the Imperial Wireless Scheme.\n\n31st October 1912.\n\nI am, &c., \n(Signed) **H. J. READ**, \nfor the Under Secretary of State.\n\nPage 39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441531, "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": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "page_number": 295, "title": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "content_text": "293\n\nAll letters to be addressed to \n**\"THE CHIEF MANAGER\" AND NOT TO INDIVIDUAL OFFICERS BY NAME.** \n\n**TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, \"PARADISE, STOCK, LONDON\"** \n\n**THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.** \n\n**CAD. Threadneedle Street, London:** \n\n35142 \n\n`REG 6 NOV 12` \n`No. 6, 1912.` \n`B.C.`\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, \nDowning Street, \n\nSir, \n\nNote Issue in Hong Kong \n\nAccording to our latest advices from Hong Kong, the total of Notes issued there amounts to **$600,000.-** against which coin is held earmarked to the extent of **$600,000.-**. \n\nIn addition we have lodged with the Crown Agents for the Colonies Securities to the value of **£290,000.-**, of which we propose to withdraw **£25,000.-** over-deposited, viz. **£25,000.-** Bengal Nagpur Railway Company 3½% Debentures. This will leave Securities in their hands valued **£265,000.-**. \n\nWe should esteem it a favour if you would give the necessary instructions to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, advising us in due course. \n\nI am, Sir, \nYours faithfully, \n**Chief Manager.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 444874, "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": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "content_text": "## The Mercantile Bank of India to Crown Agents\n\nGentlemen,\n\n381, 40 Threadneedle Street \n30th July 1913 \nS.E. \nC \nC \n26503 \nRECO \nRef 2 AUG 13 \n\nReferring to our call yesterday, we wish to withdraw all the securities held by you against our Note Issue in Hong Kong, viz: \n£28,000 India 3½% Stock Certificates \n£35,000 Bengal Nagpur Railway Co. 3½% Debentures \n£10,000 Bombay Port Trust 4% Debentures, \n\ndepositing with you in lieu thereof: \n£45,000 Madras & Southern Mahratta Railway Co., Ltd., 4% Debenture Stock \n£23,040 Southern Punjab Railway Co., 4% Preference Stock Ltd \n\nAccording to our latest advices from Hong Kong, the total of notes issued is $7,50,000 against which coin is held earmarked $3,50,000.\n\nI am, etc., \n(ed) J. Stewart \nChief Manager", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447412, "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": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 510, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.\n\nRegistered in London, under the Companies Acts of 1862 to 1890, on 2nd December, 1891.\n\nAuthorised Capital £1,500,000\n\nSubscribed £1,125,000\n\nPaid-up £562,500\n\nReserve Fund £415,000\n\nBoard of Directors.\n\nR. J. BLACK, Esq., Chairman.\n\nJAMES CAMPBELL, Esq.\n\nJ. A. MAITLAND, Esq.\n\nJ. M. KYRIE, Esq.\n\nH. MELVILL SIMONS, Esq.\n\nSIR DAVID YULE\n\nChief Manager. JAMES CAMPBELL\n\nLondon Bankers.\n\nBank of England.\n\nLondon Joint Stock Bank, Ltd.\n\nAgents in Scotland.\n\nMessrs. R. & E. Scott, 64, Queen Street, Edinburgh,\n\nBranches and Agencies.\n\nBombay.\n\nMadras.\n\nCalcutta.\n\nKarachi.\n\nKandy. Galle.\n\nKota Bharu.\n\nKuala Lumpur.\n\nHowrah.\n\nRangoon.\n\nDelhi.\n\nColombo.\n\nSingapore. Penang.\n\nBatavia.\n\nHong Kong.\n\nShanghai.\n\nNo. 40, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nPage 510\n\nPage 511", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450258, "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": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 410, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "A/581.\n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA LIMITED TO CROWN AGENTS\n\nGentlemen,\n\n40 Threadneedle Street,\n\nLondon, E.C.\n\n3rd February 1914.\n\nYour reference A/581.\n\nWith reference to our letter of 17th January, we have now received the desired information from our Hong Kong Office, as follows:-\n\nNotes in circulation 1st January 1914.\n\nCoin deposited with Colonial Treasurer 1st January 1914.\n\n$ 9,07,500.\n\n$ 4,50,000.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nSigned...\n\nfor Chief Manager.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453073, "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": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 429, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\n## England And Her Part In The Present War\n\nOf making many books upon the present stupendous war in Europe there is no end. Our magazines, periodicals, and daily press teem with news: historical and philosophical articles, relating to the war. The eyes of the world are turned steadfastly on Europe. Neutral as well as belligerent have been drawn to or into the vortex. This writer tells us that the chief cause of the war was the ever-increasing thirst of France to avenge the theft of Alsace and Lorraine in 1871; another sets forth the deep-seated purpose of the Russian Bear to sun himself in peace at Constantinople; again we read that the war blood of Alaric has been boiling for years in the arteries of the kaiser and the German people that they would cross the Alps and annex Italy—would absorb the puny Balkan states and Turkey in their onward march into Asia and a world empire!\n\nAnd the supersensitive Englishman says he could not suffer the brutal betrayal of Belgian neutrality. England has presented her \"white papers\" to the world, wherein she sets forth her diplomatic correspondence just prior to the outbreak of the war, and whereby she would prove how she struggled for peace; Germany offers her \"white papers\" for the same purpose.\n\n### EXCUSES AND APOLOGIES\n\nThese and many similar excuses, apologies, and \"inevitable causes\" flood neutral countries, appealing for their moral support. Every student of history knows that these \"causes\" are for the most part puerile, superficial, temporary expedients. As boys and girls, we were taught in school that slavery was the cause of our Civil War, and it took us many years to learn that aristocracy and democracy, climate and soil, agricultural and manufacturing pursuits, the invention of the cotton-gin, the tariff, the acquisition of new territory, were the real fundamental causes of the war, which the match of slavery ignited.\n\nThe unbiased historian of the future will develop the real causes of the present war in Europe, and when he does, he will lay the burden of blame at the door of England. While England has long since abandoned the doctrine of the divine right of kings, she has never for a moment abandoned the doctrine that \"might makes right,\" and that under \"this buckler of the people's cause,\" she has been divinely appointed to gobble the earth and the fullness thereof. Justifying her greed under this specious plea or that, she has crept into first one nation and then another like a thief in the night, till today she rules one-fifth of the habitable globe—and boasts that the sun never sets upon her domains.\n\nBy what right? By the right of craft, cunning, greed, and violence. England has been the road hog, the commercial pirate, the homestead jumper of the world, for the last 400 years. And now, like every successful burglar, after looting the world and planting her batteries at every strategic point, she holds up her hands, reeking with the blood of every people under the sun, and rolls her hypocritical eyes to heaven and prays, \"Let us have peace!\" With a naval power twice that of Germany, she pleads with the kaiser to limit his armaments! Why? Simply that she may be mistress of the seas, the world's policeman—that she may enjoy her ill-gotten gains without fear of a righteous vengeance. Who says the English have no sense of humor?\n\n## ENGLAND'S POLICY\n\nA running glance at English history proves these statements ad nauseam. She went into India, the garden of the world, by craft, then with the bayonet, and finally with opium in one hand and the Bible in the other. Dreamy India soothed her captivity with the fumes of the drug but repudiated the Bible that came with the sword. From 1774, when Warren Hastings began his nefarious spoliation of India, the natives suffered their subjection to English rule till 1857, when came the Sepoy mutiny, at the close of which these enlightened Christian rulers lashed the leading Sepoys with their backs across the mouths of English cannon and blew them into the orthodox hell of \"Merrie Old England.\" After 140 years of civil and military administration in India, what has England to show the world? The cradle of the human race, the womb of the world's religions, has been given over to spoliation and abortion to fill the coffers of Threadneedle Street.\n\nIn 1704, Sir George Rooke, with \"unscrupulous patriotism,\" stole the rock of Gibraltar, after Charles III had fairly won it. Greedy England, quickly realizing that it was the key to all the Mediterranean states, \"was both unprincipled enough to sanction and ratify the occupation, and ungrateful enough to leave unrewarded the general,\" who by his perfidy and treachery had seized it.\n\nWhen Said Pasha, viceroy of Egypt, had granted a concession to De Lesseps to dig the Suez Canal, and he had begun that great work, who schemed, connived, and plotted to hinder, delay, and block the undertaking? Who brought pressure to bear on the Sublime Porte of Turkey not to give his consent to the construction of the canal? Who inveigled the native labor away from the work and then rejoiced that \"poor De Lesseps must go to the wall?\" Who voted in parliament \"that the power and influence of the country should be employed in obliging the sultan to withhold his consent?\" England, always England! And when, in spite of all obstacles and treachery, the canal was constructed, who gobbled it? England!\n\n### \"CUNNING PHILANTHROPY\"\n\nWho then came forward with cunning philanthropy and loaned money to Egypt? And who then ostensibly sent her troops into Egypt to collect these loans, but in reality to possess and keep this ancient granary of the world, and thus still further strengthen her rights in the Suez Canal? England! England, the buccaneer of the seas, the spoiler of nations.\n\nForeigners, principally British foreigners, between 1880 and 1900, who had come into South Africa, were not satisfied with the rights of burghership, the laws governing the right of franchise. The country of the Dutch republics had been reclaimed from wild beasts and still wilder men. The Boers had fought their way, mile by mile, into the trackless veldt, the rugged mountains, and had carved out homes and a government for a peace-loving, contented people. They justly resented the foreign influx and the demands which would give the absolute control of their national life. Consequently, in 1896, Cecil Rhodes, the English premier of the Cape, sent Dr. Jamieson, with his mounted English police, on that despicable raid into the Transvaal.\n\nIt failed. The civilized world condemned the raid as an outrage, yet England left Cecil Rhodes unpunished, still allowed him his seat in the privy council, and continued his chartered company.\n\nFour years later, without just cause or right, inspired only by greed of gold and lust of empire, she marched an army of her mighty realms against this unoffending, peace-loving, contented, and industrious people, sacked and burned their homes, devastated their fields, and razed their towns, waged a bitter and cruel war against Boer forces, in whose ranks stood grizzled burghers, gray-haired women, and children, fighting for their homes, their liberty, and their native land. When Lord Roberts raised the British flag in Pretoria, he but drove another nail into the coffin of the English empire.\n\nAnd so we might speak of her treatment of Denmark in 1801 and 1807; of the treachery of her much-lauded Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, who was dancing at Brussels while good old Blucher was forming his little army to meet the onslaught of Napoleon; or how, with direct and characteristic brutality, she attacked China in the \"Opium War,\" that she might get plenty of this drug to lull her subjects in India to sleep, and how finally, with her land and naval forces, she wrested Hong Kong from China and forced Canton, Amoy, Shanghai, Fuchow, and Ningpo to do business with the English East India Company, or its successor, the English government.\n\n### \"STIRRING UP OF STRIFE\"\n\nTo whatsoever part of the world we turn, we witness the same measureless treachery and violence, the stirring up of strife, that during the squabble, melee, or war, England may walk in and gobble some coveted prize.\n\nO'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\nThe whole civilized world should indict this British imperialism that has stalked rampant through every weak nation of the globe, trampling upon native religions, customs, culture, and patriotism, with an insatiate greed for gold and a lust for empire.\n\nShe has been tried in the balance and found wanting in her colonies and dependencies. For years, there has been evidence of their earnest desire to throw off her galling yoke. The recent troubles in Ireland, the present uprisings of the Boers, are but fitting illustrations that predict the future. Her thick-headed \"governmental classes,\" her arrogant, greedy, unsympathetic ministers, will eventually alienate her dependencies, as her Norths and Granvilles alienated her American colonies and drove them into rebellion.\n\nThe present war in Europe is, in the last analysis, a war between Germany and England. The issues which Russia and France have thrown into the struggle are trivial when compared with the fundamental actuating causes between Germany and England.\n\nCooped up in a territory smaller than the state of Texas are 60,000,000 Germans. Hemmed in by the Baltic and North seas, the plains of Poland, the mountains on her southern and eastern borders, and by Belgium and the Netherlands on the west, this mighty nation, conscious of its power, its wealth, its wonderful strides in the arts and sciences, industrial and agricultural pursuits, yearly pulsating with ever-increasing pressure against its borders, from the teeming, swelling life within, descended from an empire that ruled Western Europe before England and France had put on their national swaddling clothes—this nation can see no just cause why England should possess one-fifth of the habitable globe, while Germany suffers with growing pains within her limited confines.\n\nEngland wrested from Holland, Spain, and France, in turn, the mastery of the seas and commercial supremacy. A new nation now challenges that supremacy, and therein lies the basic cause of the present war, with its roots running far back into European history.\n\nIn this deep-seated and far-reaching antagonism, England comes to the United States begging, pleading for our moral support. She has sent her financier, Sir George Paish, to hobnob with Wall Street. She has deputized some of her most able writers to come to this country and pen columns of fulsome flattery about the American people—their mighty power, inexhaustible wealth, wonderful individuality, high-power progression, and even hinting at our culture and refinement. Shall we yield to Caesar the things that belong to God? If England is entitled to our moral support, then there is a moral obligation on our part to render it.\n\nMorals are traditional, practical, idealistic. \"Blood is thicker than water.\" \"The Anglo-Saxon nations are bound by a common speech, common customs, ethical and political aspirations to stand together,\" says the idealistic moralist. But nations ever have been and ever will be, while human nature remains as it is, actuated rather by traditional and practical morality. Measured by this latter standard, is England entitled to our moral support? Her oppression and tyranny toward our colonies from the founding of Jamestown to the cooping up of Cornwallis at Yorktown by the French and Americans; her impressment of American citizens into her naval service that led to the War of 1812; her evil wishes, treacherous machinations, subscriptions to Confederate loans, hostile speeches in parliament, building of the Alabama and other ironclads which were fitted out in her harbors and sent forth to prey upon and destroy the ships of the loyal citizens of this country, after she had declared her neutrality in our Civil War; her bold attempt to filch from us this very state of Washington; her constant sneers, cynicism, taunts, and insults, not only to our form of government and our laws but to anything and everything American, that have appeared in the books of her authors and in her daily press, ever since our Civil War down to the breaking out of the present European War—these and many similar acts on the part of England toward this country answer the question whether traditional and practical morality calls upon us now to give her our moral support.\n\nIs it for the benefit of humanity, for our own moral and material benefit, that we ethically uphold the hands of this robber of nations, that she may be strengthened in her grasp upon one-fifth of the habitable globe? Her orators, exhorting a decadent nation to arms, have already begun to cast lots over the spoils of war. Alsace and Lorraine are to be given to France; Russia is, perhaps, to be strengthened in the Balkans on her way to Constantinople; the naval forces of the kaiser are to be wiped off the seas; Belgium is to be reimbursed and rehabilitated as an outside guard for England's southern shore; and the German people are to be relegated to a quiet, pastoral life, with the privilege of exporting their few products in British bottoms!\n\nWe have wisely proclaimed our neutrality in the present war. Let us keep it in good faith and not in treachery, as did England her neutrality in our Civil War. Our people are conglomerate, and naturally, some sympathize with one nation, some with another, but we are all Americans, and loyalty to our own country, loyalty to humanity, forbids that we give moral support to that nation which is seeking to crush Germany—to that nation whose whole history in dealing with other nations smells to heaven of craft, greed, and violence—to that nation who fought us with mercenaries and is now summoning her satraps, her heathen hordes, to the slaughter of the German people, one of the foremost products of modern civilization.\n\n## A SAD CASE\n\nSamuel A. Greeley of Chicago has suffered a serious loss. He will not get the job from the Manila city government nor the P350 a week and all his expenses paid for telling the local garbage wagon drivers whether they are doing their work properly.\n\nIt is indeed a sad case, but why in the name of Sam Hill could he not have been made some kind of an assistant director of the bureau of agriculture? Is this bureau really loaded up with junk and unable to take on more? Where will they put Census Expert Col. Johnston if the legislature fails to pass the necessary appropriation for census work? Really, it is very bad.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n| Company/Organization | Advertisement |\n| --- | --- |\n| Philippine Islands Telephone and Telegraph Company | It is impossible to enumerate the great convenience of the telephone in the home. Plaza Lawton, Manila, P.I. |\n| West Coast Life | THE BEST IN LIFE INSURANCE SPELLS WEST COAST LIFE. WHY? BECAUSE we give you a modern American Policy at U.S. RATES. Write for a Sample. J. NORTHCOTT, Oriental General Agent, Manila |\n| Waldorf Stables | GOOD DRIVERS GOOD HORSES PHONE 266 PROMPT SERVICE RIGHT PRICES 243 Dulumbayan, Manila |\n| The Heffting House | EUROPE IS THE PLACE FOR BATTLES AND MANILA IS THE PLACE FOR JOY. Remember that a live policeman is better than a dead soldier any day. Cheer up and be happy. COME OUT TO THE HEFFTING HOUSE, PASAY, and join the crowd of good fellows. The best of everything in the line of food and drinks. CHARLES HEFFTING, Prop. |\n| Columbia Records | The Constabulary Band Has Gone... But you can Still Hear Them Play Your Favorite Selections on Columbia Records. BECK'S, Escolta |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483189, "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": "CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919", "page_number": 612, "title": "CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919", "content_text": "ARW/1.\n\nWilliams Esq,\n\n11 \"The Drive,\n\nGolders Green, N.W.4.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nHELBERT WAGH & COMPANY LIMITED\n\nSouth Sea House,\n\n37, Threadneedle Street,\n\nLondon, E.C.2.\n\n29th December 1919.\n\nHong Kong South Development Scheme.\n\nWith reference to your proposed letter dated\n\n29.12.19 to The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office,\n\nwe have pleasure in confirming that we will give you a\n\ndefinite decision before February 15th as to whether we are\n\nprepared to finance the scheme you have submitted.\n\nAs a matter of fact we should probably be in a position to give you an answer before February 15th should\n\nour decision be unfavourable.\n\nMay we point out that the name of our firm is as\n\nabove and not as typed in your letter.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nA.R.W.\n\nManaging Director.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496995, "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": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "# 37, Threadneedle Street, LONDON, E.C.2.\n\n26th October, 1923.\n\n## 14\n\nA small number of Chinese (according to the census of November 1920 over 400,000, compared with a total population of about 3.5 million souls) consumes 40 per cent of the total quantity of opium. Accordingly, calculated separately for the Chinese and the Natives, the consumption per capita in 1920 averages for the former 120.4 mata, as against 2 mata for the latter.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. `50189/23` of the 19th instant, transmitting copies of the Report of the 5th Committee of the Assembly of the League of Nations on Traffic in Opium and Dangerous drugs, together with copies of the Report and Minutes of the Fifth Session of the Advisory Committee and copies of a Memorandum on the Opium Policy in the Netherlands East Indies.\n\nYour letter and its enclosures are receiving attention.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\n**Under Secretary of State, COLONIAL OFFICE, Downing Street, S.W.1.**\n235-\nH.Eir t. Colling\nUnder Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497136, "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": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "23 NK.\n\n>/44421/23\n\nWORTH\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRİ \"KINABALU, STOCK, LONDON.\" \nTELEPHONE NO. 1484 \nLONDON WALL\n\n376 \n37 THREADNEEDLE STREET, \nLONDON, E.C.2. \n2nd October, 1923.\n\nDear Sir Gilbert,\n\nIn connection with the Colonial Office letter of the 27th ultimo regarding the Resolutions of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Opium, could you kindly supply figures showing the consumption of chandu in the Federated Malay States during recent years.\n\nI find that we have no more recent figures than for the years 1898-1907.\n\nYours sincerely,\nMig\n\nSir Gilbert Grindle, \nK.C.M.G., C.B., Colonial Office, \nDowning Street, \nS.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497137, "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": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 383, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "TELEGRAPHING ANDRELL, \nNABIĻU \nETOOK, LONDON,\" \nTELEPHONE No. 1484. \nLONDON WALL \nWORTH \nFORKED \n37, THREADNEEDLE STREET, \n377 \n1 \nLONDON, E.C.2. \n22nd October, 1923. \n\nDear Sir Gilbert, \n\nMany thanks for your letter of the 10th instant with figures showing consumption of Chandu in the F.N.S. \nThe information is very useful. \n\nYours sincerely, \nMagery \n\nSir Gilbert Grindià, \nK.C.L.G., C.B., Colonial Office \nS.M.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497197, "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": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "various British Territories \"adult\" should be taken to mean \"of 21 years of age and over\".\n\nI have, etc.\n\n(sgd) Devonshire,\n\n**GOVERNOR**,\n\nSIR R.E. STUBBS, K.C.M.G.\n\n&c.\n\n437\n\n29 NOV 1924\n\n37, Threadneedle Street,\nLondon, E.C.3.\n\n8th November, 1923.\n\n**COLONIAL OFFICE**\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter\n51791/1923 of the 23rd instant, requesting that statistics may be supplied regarding the consumption of Chandu in North Borneo, and to inform you that the matter is receiving attention.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nB. A. Corais\nSecretary.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n**COLONIAL OFFICE**,\nDowning Street,\nLondon, S.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499263, "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": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 372, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "## TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS \n**KINABALU, STOCK, LONDON.** \nTELEPHONE NO. 1484, LONDON WALL \n\n37, THREADNEEDLE STREET, \nLONDON, E.C.2. \n17th October, 1924.\n\nDear Sir Gilbert,\n\nOur delegate for the Opium Conference at \nGeneva next month is due here in a day or two. As \nyou know he is F.W. Fraser, C.B.E., Government \nSecretary, North Borneo.\n\nSo far we have not heard whether any \narrangements are being made for the journey of the \nBritish Delegation to Geneva and for their \naccommodation there. Are we to assume that this \nis being looked after by the Colonial Office, and \nthat we shall learn particulars in due course, \nor is Fraser to proceed to Geneva independently? \nIf the latter, to whom should he report himself, \nand will he find that accommodation has been \narranged?\n\nSir Gilbert Grindle, \nK.C.M.G., Colonial Office, \nDowning Street, \nS.W.1.\n\nYours sincerely,\nA. Chassé", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500927, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 639, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY\n\nLIMITED\n\nDIRECT CABLE ROUTES FOR TELEGRAMS\n\nTO\n\nNEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AMERICA, EGYPT, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, PORTUGAL, GREECE, TURKEY, ALL PARTS OF AFRICA, &c., &c.\n\nGREAT BRITAIN.\n\nLONDON STATIONS:\n\nCentral Cable Station, Moorgate, E.C.2.\n\nOld Broad Street, E.C.2.\n\nCannon Street, E.C.4.\n\nThreadneedle Street, E.C.3.\n\nMarket Buildings, ...\n\nTIMES OF OPENING AND CLOSING\n\nCENTRAL CABLE STATION.\n\nOpen 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays to 5 p.m.\n\nALWAYS OPEN.\n\n...\n\nPROVINCIAL STATIONS:\n\nBIRMINGHAM:—Fulldha Buildings, Pinfold Street\n\nBRADFORD:—1, Commercial Street\n\nBRISTOL:—1, Small Street\n\nCARDIFF:—33, Merchant’s Exchange, Bute Docks\n\nEDINBURGH:—42, George Street (Rear Block)\n\nGLASGOW:—40, Royal Exchange Square, C.1.\n\nLIVERPOOL:—12, Exchange Buildings The Cotton Exchange ... Fruit Exchange ...\n\nMANCHESTER:—16, Spring Gardens\n\nNEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE:—Maritime Buildings, King Street\n\n...\n\nOFFICES OF THE COMPANY:- ELECTRA HOUSE, MOORGATE, LONDON, E.C. 2.\n\nAddress: “EASTERN AVE.” LONDON.\n\nTelephone: LONDON WALL 2244.\n\n...\n\nSOVIET PROPAGANDA IN HONG KONG\n\nSIR R. STUBBS ON ATTEMPT TO RUIN THE COLONY.\n\nLORD STANLEY of ALDERLEY presided at a luncheon of the Royal Colonial Institute, held at the Cannon-street Hotel yesterday, when Sir Reginald Stubbs, late Governor of Hong-kong and Governor-designate of Jamaica, was the principal guest.\n\nSIR REGINALD STUBBS said the 80 years’ possession of Hong Kong was one of which both the English and Scottish races could be proud. Finding it more or less barren and inhabited by fishermen and pirates, whose successors still carried on the same trade, the British settlers had developed a fine city, notwithstanding that all the sites of the houses had had to be hewn from the rock at great expense.\n\n...\n\nHONG KONG LOAN.\n\n“BUSINESS SITUATION VERY SERIOUS.”\n\nWe have received the following telegram from Mr. Birkett, chairman of the Hong-kong Stock Exchange:-\n\nWith reference to statement in the Commons on Monday, the Mr. Ormsby-Gore’s business situation in Hong-kong continues very serious. The original crisis, due to the boycott, was rendered far worse by the immediate stoppage of credits by banks, notably British.\n\n...\n\nIn a written answer to Mr. Spoor on Monday, Mr. Ormsby-Gore said that the Governor of Hong-kong applied in September last for a loan up to £3,000,000 for the purpose of restoring confidence and increasing trade.\n\n...\n\n**A speech by Sir Reginald Stubbs, late Governor of Hong-kong, before the Royal Colonial Institute, is reported on page 18.\n\nTHE HONG-KONG LOAN.\n\nWe have received the following telegram from Mr. Birkett, chairman of the Hong-kong Stock Exchange:-\n\nThere is some misunderstanding in London in regard to my telegram (published in The Times of December 15) relating to Mr. Ormsby-Gore’s reply to the question on the Hong-kong Loan. There is every confidence here in the Government. The losses mentioned in the telegram refer to depreciation, no money having left the colony. Satisfactory arrangements with the Government in regard to the loan are being made.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587713, "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": "CO129-605-5 Government loans 4-2-1948 - 8-1-1949", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-605-5 Government loans 4-2-1948 - 8-1-1949", "content_text": "With Mr. W.A.J. MARSHALL's Compliments\n\nB.C.7/202/01\n\nTREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\nGREAT GEORGE STREET,\n\nLONDON,\n\nE.C.2.\n\n3.\n\n21st December, 1948.\n\nDear Portsmore,\n\nThanks for your letter of the 14th December about the question of the issue of bearer securities in Hong-Kong. Before making any comments on your letter I think it is advisable to await Hong-Kong's reply to Telegram no. 1245.\n\nI am copying this letter to Kelvin Stark at the Colonial Office.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(signed) W.A.J. MARSHALL.\n\nF.J. Portsmore, Esq.,\n\nBank of England.\n\nThreadneedle Street,\n\nLONDON, E.C.2.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-605-5 Government loans 4-2-1948 - 8-1-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587722, "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": "CO129-605-5 Government loans 4-2-1948 - 8-1-1949", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-605-5 Government loans 4-2-1948 - 8-1-1949", "content_text": "With Mr. Marshall's Compliments.\n\nBCA 7/202/01\n\n52126/4/48.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n\nGreat George Street,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n18th November, 1948.\n\nDear Portamor,\n\nThanks for sending me a copy of your letter of 3rd November to Kalvin-Stark about Hong Kong bearer bonds.\n\nWhilst I agree that there is a lot to be said against the registration of such bonds as have been issued, I am a little uneasy at the suggestion that we should agree to the further issue of such bonds.\n\nYou will no doubt remember that I had some correspondence with Johns (my letter of the 10th February on ECA 7/202/01) about the issue of premium bonds in bearer form, and the general conclusion was that such an issue would be dangerous unless we could be satisfied that Trinidad could control the export of such bearer bonds transferred to non-residents and payment of income or capital to residents of Trinidad alone; it seems to me that all these dangers are present in the bearer bonds which have been, or which will be issued in Hong Kong, and I should experience some difficulty in explaining why Hong Kong has been advised differently from Trinidad.\n\nI understand that there are no individual non-resident accounts in Hong Kong as we know them, and whilst the interest and redemption monies of the bearer bonds could be credited freely to the individual accounts, such accounts do not carry the automatic right of transfer. If however Hong Kong refuse to give full exchange for such payments, are they not in effect blocking the interest, etc.? The fact that the dollars could be bought on the free market for those monies is surely irrelevant.\n\nF.J. Fortsmore, Esq.\n\nBank of England.\n\nThreadneedle Street,\n\nE.C.2.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-605-5 Government loans 4-2-1948 - 8-1-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596097, "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": "CO129-622-7 Department of Commerce and Industry- reorganisation and Annual Report 4-4-1949 - 20-2-1950", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-622-7 Department of Commerce and Industry- reorganisation and Annual Report 4-4-1949 - 20-2-1950", "content_text": "(2/48) [16] Wt. 19126/754 50m. 7/48 C.N.Ld. 748\n\n54466\n\n50\n\n12\n\nO.\n\nMr. Morris 15/2 Mr. Sidebotham 16/2 Mr. Gouell Bames 1/2\n\nSuilt Printing\n\nMr.\n\nMr..\n\nDRAFT.\n\nLETTER\n\nYour Reference\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. S.\n\nMinister of State\n\nSecretary of State\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nLetter sent. 20/2.\n\nJust\n\nAnsd. (1) on 50.\n\nFor Sir Dd. Poynton's sig\n\nC. F. Cobbold, Esq.,\n\nBank of England,\n\nThreadneedle Street,\n\nE.C.\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nWe have been considering for some time whether, because of the complexity of its trading problems, it would not be a good thing for the Government of Hong Kong to have an adviser, who would probably be called an Economic Secretary, on its staff. The import and export trade of the Colony are very large and, although there are quite a number of important local industries, its economic health is based upon its large entrepot trade. It is a fairly recent development for Colonies to have economic advisers appointed to them and several of the larger Colonies now have such officers under a variety of titles. The advantage, of course, is that they then have a man with considerable theoretical and practical economic experience, who is not too much tied down to departmental duties and can give advice on the broader aspects of economic policy. The difficulty has always been to find men of the right calibre and experience who are willing to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-622-7 Department of Commerce and Industry- reorganisation and Annual Report 4-4-1949 - 20-2-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 600408, "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": "CO129-629-3 Commerce and Industry Department 1-2-1950 - 31-10-1950", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-629-3 Commerce and Industry Department 1-2-1950 - 31-10-1950", "content_text": "[456B] Wt. 32483 800 100m. 11:48 C.N.Ld. 748\n\n54466\n\n10\n\nc. o.\n\nMr. A. J. Fairclough.\n\nMr.\n\nMr...\n\nMr.\n\n11/3\n\nW.A. Morris 16/3\n\nGraell Bemes 17/3 Srift Prints,\n\nDRAFT. S/o letter.\n\nYour Reference...\n\nC.F. COBBOLD, ESQ.,\n\nBANK OF ENGLAND,\n\n(1)\n\nTHREADNEEDLE STREET,\n\nLONDON, E.C.2.\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nRumah KM- Gunk Bummes for\n\n\"consideration f'x\" in M. Mowis' mwh.. ...\n\nFermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. S.\n\nMinister of State\n\nSecretary of State\n\nLetter, sent. 18/5\n\nguest.\n\nAck (41\n\nFor Sir Hilton Poynton's signature.\n\nDear Mr. Governor,\n\n18-3-50\n\nThank you for your letter of\n\n24th February about the Economic Adviser to the\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong. Since receiving it\n\nwe have heard from Hong Kong that the Governor\n\nhas now found someone whom he considers\n\nsuitably qualified to fill the post and has\n\nappointed him as head of the Department of\n\nCommerce and Industry, in which post\n\nhe would also act as Economic Adviser; so\n\nI fear that on this matter we have troubled you\n\nfor nothing.\n\nIf, however, you should have in mind\n\nthe names of any people whom you would consider\n\nsuitable for the type of post concerned we\n\nshould be most grateful to learn of them since,\n\nas I mentioned in my earlier letter, this\n\ntype of appointment is a fairly recent\n\ndevelopment and one which is likely to spread\n\nin the future. We should therefore be glad\n\nto have a few names in reserve should we be\n\nasked to fill similar vacancies in other\n\ncolonies in the future.\n\nPerhaps", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-629-3 Commerce and Industry Department 1-2-1950 - 31-10-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]