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"content_text": "Council \n\nAT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, THE 24TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1843. \n\nW \n\nPRESENT, \n\nHer subjects from resorting, for the purposes of trade and commerce, to any other ports in the dominions of the Emperor of China than those of Canton, Amoy, Foo-chow-foo, Ningpo, and Shanghae, or than may be in the occupation of Her Majesty's forces; and Her Majesty is pleased to order, that any of Her subjects, committing a breach or violation of this direction, shall, upon conviction thereof in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record or Vice-Admiralty, be, for every such offence, liable to a penalty, not exceeding, one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment, for a term not exceeding three months, at the discretion of the Court before which the conviction shall take \n\nThe QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. HEREAS by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament holden in the third and fourth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled \"An Act to regu- late the trade to China and India,\" it was, amongst other things, enacted, that it should and might be lawful for His Majesty, by any such Order or Orders, Commission or Commissions, as to His Majesty in Council should appear expedient and salutary, to give to the Superintendents in the said Act mentioned, or any of them, powers and authorities over and in respect of the trade and place; and Her Majesty is hereby further pleased commerce of His Majesty's subjects within any to order, that all proceedings, which may be had part of the dominions of the Emperor of China, under this Order, shall be, as far as circum- and to make and issue directions and regulations stances will permit, in conformity with the Law of touching the said trade and commerce, and for the England: \n\ngovernment of His Majesty's subjects within the And the Right Honourable the Earl of said dominions, and to impose penalties, forfeitures, Aberdeen, and the Right Honourable Lord or imprisonments for the breach of any such di- Stanley, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries rections or regulations, to be enforced in such of State; the Lords Commissioners of Her manner as in the said Order or Orders should be Majesty's Treasury; and the Commissioners for specified : \n\nexecuting the office of Lord High Admiral; are \n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty in Council is to give the necessary directions herein as fa pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy them may respectively appertain. Council, to prohibit, and doth hereby prohibit, \n\nWm. L. Bathuren. \n",
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"content_text": "Encl. 2 in No, z. \n\nNaval Reinforce- \n\nrents. \n\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO \n\nneighbourhood, in which, with the aid of a moderate naval force, they could maintain them- selves for the more healthy season of the winter against any efforts the Chinese might make for their expulsion. The possession of such a post would give a good basis for the operations of the following year, and I cannot but think that, politically, our second appearance in this manner at Chusan would be of great advantage. \n\n24. The difficulty of supplying the troops with provisions during the winter, with a popu lation from whom aid is not with any certainty to be expected, leads me to name only such a force for the occupation of an island post in the upper seas as would be adequate to protect themselves against attack. This force could receive addition, with the return of the favourable season, and arrangements might then be made for the more complete control and possession of the island, if the decision of Her Majesty's Government should be in favour of that proceeding. 25. Sufficient provisions must be taken from Macao and Hong-Kong to supply the troops on the island throughout the winter, independently of local resources, and the entire fleet ought to be similarly provisioned for the probable period of its absence in the upper seas. \n\n28. After establishing a post in an island on the northern coast, it may be most convenient that a considerable portion of the fleet, with the residue of the troops, should return to Hong-Kong, to add strength to our position there during the most active season of trade. \n\nI shall transmit a copy of this letter by the mail now under despatch, for the information of Her Majesty's Government. \n\n(No, 40.) \n\nEnclosure 2, in No. 2. \n\nHonourable Sirs, \n\nFort William, 12 May 1841. THE express which left this on the 22d ultimo, will have conveyed to your honourable Committee the official Gazette which contained the accounts of the brilliant successes that had attended the operations of Her Majesty's naval and military forces in the Canton waters, and had terminated in placing the important provincial capital itself at the mercy of Her Majesty's arms. \n\n2. The Gazette in question was the only document which we were able to transmit by the last opportunity; and we now propose to lay before your honourable Committee a succinct narrative of our proceedings since the arrival of his Excellency Sir Gordon Bremer, and a précis of the various measures we have adopted to supply the wants of the China expedition; and we trust a perusal of these will satisfactorily evince to the home authorities the anxiety and earnestness with which this government has been striving to co-operate in aid of Her Majesty's Government, and for the furtherance of the public service. \n\n3. Your honourable Committee are aware that the Honourable Company's steamer \"Queen\" arrived here with his Excellency Sir Gordon Bremer, on the 21st ultimo, and the \"Madagascar\" was announced two or three days subsequently. Both these vessels were found, on an examination of their keels and copper, to have sustained very considerable in- jury, and to require very extensive repair in order to render them really efficient for the im- portant service on which they are engaged. They have accordingly been placed in dock, and every exertion is being used by the officers of the stean department to make them thoroughly fit to return to their duties without one moment's unnecessary delay. His Excellency Sir Gordon Bremer will return in the \"Queen\" to his head quarters, and we hope that she will leave this on the 15th instant, The \"Madagascar\" may be unavoidably detained for some weeks later. \n\n4. The eminent services rendered by the Company's iron steamer \"Nemesis” (which your Committee will find most fully recorded in the Gazette before alluded to), suggested to Cons.: 20th April, us the propriety of attaching also the \"Phlegethon\" and \"Proserpine\" to the China expe- dition; and the papers marginally noted will inform your Committee that we have accord- ingly addressed instructions to Singapore and Ceylon, desiring the commanders of these vessels to proceed to Canton, and place themselves under the orders of his Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief. \n\nNos. 6 to 9. \n\nCons.: 20th April, Nos. 71 to 73. \n\nDitto. \n\nDitto. \n\n5. In his letter, dated the 4th of May, his Excellency Sir Gordon Bremer, informed us that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty were desirous that small vessels of light draft of water should be purchased or hired for the service of the China expedition, and added, that the \"Sylph \"a barque of 351 tons, which had been offered to be sold for the sum of 70,000 rupees, appeared likely to prove an eligible purchase. We have requested the survey officers of our marine department to examine this vessel ou her arrival in port (hourly expected), and to state whether the price is fair and reasonable. If the report of her quali- fications is favourable, we shall advance the money asked for her, and charge the same as a debit to Her Majesty's Government. \n\n6. The Company's pitot vessel \"Lady William Bentinck,\" being at this moment unappro- priated (her duties of survey in the Bay of Bengal having ceased), has been, at the especial request of Sir Gordon Bremer, properly armed and equipped, and placed at his disposal as a tender to the naval squadron in the China seas. When fully equipped she will be valued by the proper officers, and transferred to Her Majesty's service. The value, so fixed, will stand as an item of charge on the general account of the expedition, and at the end of it she will remain in Her Majesty's service, or to be restored to the Company's at her then proper value, as may be determined by the authorities. \n\n7. Your committee will observe, that Sir Gordon Bremer has also asked us, if we could conveniently spare the small new vessel\" Hooghly,\" whose services as a despatch packet \n\nin \n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA. \n\nin the Canton waters he considers important, not only on account of her fitness for the work in question, but as allowing of the withdrawal of a heavier vessel for more active service elsewhere, which could not be otherwise done. We may comply with this request if we find we can do so without injuriously affecting the interests of our marine steam department, or seriously impeding of communications with the eastern coasts of the Bay of \n\nBengal. \n\n8. Her Majesty's 55th Foot, at present in garrison at Fort William, and mustering upwards of 800 strong, together with the recruits of Her Majesty's 26th and 49th regiments, amounting to 400 men, are on the point of embarking to reinforce the military strength in China. Three hundred recruits for Her Majesty's 18th, or Bengal Irish, have already been despatched from Bombay, to join the head-quarters of their regiments at Hong Kong. The Government of Madras have, at the same time, been requested to fill up to their original strength the detachments of artillery and sappers and miners furnished from that Presidency, and to forward the recruits of the 37th Madras Native Infantry to the corps in China. Her Majesty's 50th Foot, just arrived from New South Wales, will replace Her Majesty's 55th in the garrison of Fort William. \n\nOfficers. \n\nMen, \n\nCoromandel \n\n9. For the conveyance of Her Majesty's 55th to China, this Government has sanctioned the engagement of the vessels named in the margin.* Their launches will be each * fitted with a six-pounder, as the arrangement has been found, from the expe- Orient rience of those similarly equipped last year, very efficient with reference to the Ermaad nature of the service for which these transports are destined. The terms on which these vessels have been engaged are named in the margin.* We have every reason to expect that these transports will be ready for sea in 10 or 12 • Orient days. \n\nMariam \n\n- 11/8 per ton, per mensen. Coromandel 18/ ditto ditto. Ermaad - 12/ ditto - ditto. Marian \n\n- 12 ditto ditta. \n\n10. The recruits of Her Majesty's 26th and 49th regiment will be conveyed by the three transports in which the Bengal Volunteers are returning to this country. While we are writing this paragraph, the \"David Malcolm,\" one of the three, has been announced at the Sand Heads. \n\n11. The Madras reinforcements will be forwarded in Her Majesty's troop ship, \"Jupiter,\" which \n\nyour Committee are aware was directed by the authorities in China to proceed to Can- nanore, to be ready, in case the Indian Government should find it expedient to send a Queen's regiment from that port to China, but which vessel we subsequently desired might go round to the Madras Ronds. \n\n12. The number of camp followers indented for is marginally stated; but we are of opinion that it scarcely will be \n\nfound practicable, even \n\nif it should be found upon further inquiry \n\nto be expedient, at once \n\nto meet this demand in \n\nfull. \n\nFOLLOWERS. \n\nMEMORANDUM of NATIVE ESTABLISHMENT and CAMP FOLLOWERS ordered to be supplied to the following Corps. \n\nCORPS \n\nHer Majesty's 55th Regiment \n\nDetachment, 26th ditto \n\nDitto \n\n49th ditto \n\nTOTAL \n\n+ \n\nQuartermasters' \n\nEstablishment. \n\nHospital \n\nServants. \n\nBheestres. \n\nSiveepers. \n\nCooks. \n\nWashermen. \n\nOfficers' \n\nServants, \n\nFollowing \n\nTroops. \n\nREMARK 5. \n\nGovernment has sanctioned an increase of 50 per cent, to the \n\nB \n\nusual pay of these! \n\npeople. \n\n13. The précis at the conclusion of this despatch will apprize your Committee that the supplies of provisions generally seen by our latest accounts to be abundant with the China force, and the further quantities that have been procured and despatched from England and New South Wales, will, we trust, render the expedition complete in this part of its arrangements. \n\n14. The instructions referred to in this place will show, that injunctions for a due economy Nos. 23 to 25; 34 \n\nin the regulation of our commissariat and ordnance magazines have not been overlooked. to 36, The Military Board having, with reference to the ordnance with the expedition, recom- mended that an officer should be appointed, who should render them regular accounts on this subject, and be responsible at the termination of the campaign in regard to the expen- diture and stores of ordnance. We have requested Sir Hugh Gough to nominate some well qualified individual to this duty. \n\n15. Your Committee will see, by the papers here cited, that we have desired the Military Board to instruct Major Hawkins, the Deputy Commissary-General in China, to study to husband in every way his commissariat supplies, and have pointed out that real economy in his department will consist in great care in bis issues, as also in inaking arrangements for disposing of surplus articles at moderate prices to any purchasers that may offer, in lieu of permitting them to perish in his store; and, lastly, in arranging all his requisitions in com- munication with the naval and military Commanders-in-Chief, so that no confusion or unnecessary charges may be involved in an ignorance on his part of what supplies or \n\n596. \n\nB \n\nresources",
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"content_text": "\"Atalanta.\" \n\n\"Queen\" \"Madagascar.\" \"Nemesis.\" \n\nPhlegethon.\" \"Proserpine.\" \n\nNo. 16. \n\nNo. 78. \n\nNos. 79 and 80. \n\nNos. 10 to 15. \n\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO \n\nresources those authorities have reason to reckon upon from England or New South Wales, as well as from India. \n\n16. The Marine Board have been requested to furnish statements showing the quantity of coal available in China, the estimated consumption per month for the steamers named in the margin, the quantity in store at Singapore (which is believed to be large, and to have been promised at a cheap rate) and the quantity in store at Point de Galle. We have at the same time intimated to the Marine Board that a despatch from Sidney of from 200 to 400 tons monthly may be calculated on, and have communicated to Her Majesty's Plenipo- tentiaries and the Board, our opinion that a well protected depôt for coals should be esta- blished at Hong Kong, when our settlement on that island has been matured. Your Committee will perceive from the document noted in the margin, that Mr. Bonham had purchased between 700 and 800 tons at six dollars per ton, which he expected soon to despatch to China. \n\nquarterly 17. We have likewise requested the Accountant-general to forward to us a return, exhibiting a statement of the entire expense incurred on account of Her Majesty's Government for the China expedition, with a view to enable your Committee to take such measures for the progressive adjustment of the sums at the debit of Her Majesty's Govern- meat, as you may deem most proper. \n\n18. In this statement will be entered the lists and valuations of military and ordnance stores expended and returned, the charges for extra pay of troops, the hire of the transports, and other marine charges; value of commissariat supplies provided at the cost of the Indian Government; value of coal and marine supplies, and wear and tear of steamers, &c. calculated at the rate of 10 per cent. on the block and rigging. \n\n19. We have requested the Government of Bombay to have arrangements in readiness for the quick conveyance to his destination of any successor to Admiral Elliot, who may come overland from England. \n\n20. Certain proposed arrangements for the better conduct of the post-office, distribution of letters in China, and the establishment of a post-office at Hong Kong, are in contem- plation. \n\n21. The papers here cited, contain various instructions we have issued to the Board and departments concerned, calling upon them to strain every nerve to expedite the completion of the arrangements devolving upon them respectively for affording aid and despatching reinforcements to the China expedition, and pointing out the very urgent necessity on the present occasion, of more than ordinary exertion in behalf of the public service. \n\n22. In conclusion, we beg,in an Appendix, to annex for the information of your Committee, and as affording the means of a ready reference to detail, a précis on the following points not particularised in the foregoing portion of this depatch: \n\n1. Ordnance stores. \n\n2. Commissariat stores. \n\n3. Medical stores. \n\n4. Coal from the marine stores. \n\n23. Copies of all the correspondence above referred to, that has passed in regard to the China expedition, and its reinforcement, since the arrival of Sir Gordon Bremer (i.c. since the jast mail left Calcutta), are transmitted with our present despatch. \n\nTo the Secret Committee. \n\nWe have, &c. \n\n(signed) \n\nAuckland. J. Nicolls. \n\nW. W. Bird. \n\nW. Casement. \n\nH. T. Princep. \n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA. \n\n-No. 3.- \n\nCory of a LETTER from the Right Honourable Sir John Hobhouse to \n\nMy Lord, \n\nthe Earl of Auckland. \n\nIndia Board, 5 July 1841. \n\nNo. 3. \n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the Letter from 10th of May 1841, inclosing a copy of the letters which you have addressed to Sir John Hobhouse Her Majesty's Plenipotentiaries on the Coast of China, and also to Sir Gordon to the Earl of Bremer and Sir Hugh Gough of the same date. \n\nAuckland, \n\n5 July 1841. \n\nI beg to inform you that I have, in compliance with your wishes, submitted these important documents to the Queen's Government, and, more particularly to Viscount Palmerston. \n\nI have also to acknowledge the receipt of another letter from your Lordship of the same date, respecting the services of the Royal Marines. I have transmitted it, with its enclosures, to the Earl of Minto. \n\nI have, &c. \n\nJohn Hobhouse. \n\n(signed) \n\n-No. 4.- \n\nEXTRACT of a LETTER from the Secret Committee to the Governor-General of India in Council, dated 5 July 1841. \n\nNo. 4. \n\nYour letter of the 12th of May, (No. 40,) with its enclosures, relating to the Secret Committee expedition to China, has been transmitted to the Admiralty. Her Majesty's to the Governor- Government are fully sensible of the exertions you have made for the accom- General. \n\n5 July 1841. plishment of the objects contemplated by the operations now carried on in the China Sea. \n\n(No. 7.) \n\nSir, \n\nNo. 5. \n\nCopy of a LETTER from Sir John Barrow to Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker, K. C. B. \n\nNo. 5. \n\nAdmiralty, 28 May 1841. My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty not having received any returns Sir John Barrow \n\nof the actual state of victualling of Her Majesty's ships employed on the East to Sir W. Parker, India station since the expedition was first sent to China, I am commanded by 28 May 1841. their Lordships to acquaint you that no further supplies of provisions will be sent out from this country either to India or China, until information has been received from you after your arrival in India of what you may consider to be necessary; and I am to desire that you will make a communication upon this subject as early as possible. \n\nI have, &c. (signed) Jno. Barrow. \n\nTo this Letter is appended- \n\nA List of Military Stores shipped on board the vessels, “Mermaid” and “David \n\nMalcolm,\" \"John Adam :\" also, \n\nA. List of Ordnance Stores, &c., to be sent: also, \n\nA Statement of the Balance of Provisions on board the various transports on the 1st of March 1841, and the length of time they are calculated. to last 1,500 Europeans: also, \n\nA Stateinent of the Balance of Provisions on board the various transports on the 1st of March 1841, and the length of time they are calculated to last 1,500 Natives; also, \n\nList of Supplies about to be sent;-3,000 gallons of Arrack (from Singapore), three \n\nmonths' supply of Vinegar and Lime-juice for 7,500 fighting Men: also, \n\nA List of Stores, &c., to be taken to China in the \"Palmyra\" transport, expected to \n\nsail about the 10th of February 1841: also, \n\nA List of Medical Stores about to be despatched for China: also, \n\nA Statement showing the quantities of Medical Stores and Hospital Comforts required (and to be sent) for a Queen's Corps on Foreign Service, calculated at the strength of 800 Men for six months. Maximum number in Hospital, 150 Men: also, \n\nAbstract of the foregoing Statement for four European Regiments, Her Majesty's \n\n26th, 49th, 18th and 55th, and Bazaar Medicines for the whole force; and, A Statement of Coal from Marine Stores. \n\n(No. 16.) \n\n- No. 6. \n\nEXTRACT of a DESPATCH from Viscount Palmerston to Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., dated Foreign Office, 31 May 1841. \n\nNo. 6. As you are now on the point of setting out for China, I proceed to give you Viscount Palmer- final instructions for your guidance in the performance of the duties with which ston to Sir Henry you are charged. \n\nPottinger, 31 May 1841. \n\nAs it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government that all the arrangements connected with the naval and military force to be employed in the China Seas in support of your negotiation shall be left to be made by the Governor-general of India, it is desirable that Sir William Parker should go to Calcutta in his way to China, in order to confer with the Governor-general, unless he should find that, by doing so, he should be so much delayed in his voyage as not to be able to reach Chusan in time to go on to the Peiho; and if Sir William Parker should determine to go to Calcutta, it is desirable that you should go thither also, as there are many points connected with your negotiation, upon which it would be useful that you should have personal communication with the Governor-general. \n\nIt is not expedient that you should arrive on the coast of China, nor that you should begin your negotiation, until there shall be in the China Sea such a naval \n\n596. \n\nB 2 \n\nand",
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"content_text": "\n\nNo. 11. \n\nThe Secret Com- mittee to the Governor-General \n\nof India, \n\n4 October 1841. \n\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO \n\ndisembark on the Peiho river a body of not less than from 7,000 to 10,000 troops, which shall have the means of marching on Pekin, and be capable of defeating any army that may be opposed to it, and thus placing the fate of the capital at our disposal. \n\n10. It will be for Her Majesty's Government most seriously to consider this impor- tant subject, and to place the government of India in possession of their instruc- tions upon it, at latest, before the 1st January next, in order that timely measures I have may be taken for the execution of such orders during the season of 1842. before said that I would make no effort to obtain privileges of settlement on the mainland, which I should regard as a pregnant source of future embarrassment and troubles. But a clear treaty with the Emperor is, no doubt, an object of high national importance, and Her Majesty's Government can alone determine whether it \n\nto incur the sacrifices required for compelling an acquiescence may be proper in such a treaty. \n\n11. I repeat that definitive orders on these points should be received in India before the 1st of January. It may then be possible (unless, indeed, new and extraordinary necessities should arise in India) to raise in this country, in augmen- tation of the armament already sent to China, and to have assembled at Hong- Kong, by the commencement of the favourable season, a fresh body of 5,000 native troops, with a sufficient number of officers, for this special service, and to add to them another Queen's regiment from the Indian establishments; such a reinforce- ment to the force already on the coast would, we may hope (provided that every regiment now in China shall be also filled up with recruits from England to a com- plement of 1,000 men), render it effective for the complete accomplishment of the orders of the Crown. The cost of such an additional armament, with transports, commissariat, &c., would, however, certainly not be less than 500,0001. per annum, and it would swell the whole yearly cost of that part of the expedition which is provided by the Government of India to nearly 1,200,000 7. \n\n12. As the greater part of this further force, supposing it to be sanctioned, would consist of native troops, its supply of provisions would be cared for from India. But it would be necessary, under any circumstances, to send as liberal a supply of provisions, and of ammunition and materials, as may be convenient from England, for the navy and the European portion of the military force, and for the general use of the expedition. I have not the means of furnishing accurate csti- mates on these points, to which I would, however, request the careful and carly attention of the proper departments at home, which may be able to form some standard for their guidance by reference to the stocks which they caused to be for- warded to China for the service of the past and of the present year. \n\n18. I have said nothing in this despatch on the subject of naval forces, and would leave it to the Naval Commander-in-Chief to declare, in his communica- tions to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, his wants in regard to ships and equipments. I would, however, observe that, upon a coast service, and in seas so uncertain as are those of China, we must look for frequent accidents, and that no opportunity should be lost in sending out reinforcements, particularly in ships of light draft, and adapted to river movements; and, in the event of protracted operations, I would strongly dwell upon the advantage of our having more ships fitted out, and equipped, and officered, and manned, as are the \"Jupiter\" and \"Rattlesnake,” expressly for the conveyance of troops; with two or three more of such ships, we might probably, with economy, dispense with a large number of the transports now held in pay, and for the security of naviga- tion and safety of the troops, as well as for the efficiency of the service, the measure appears to me to be most desirable. \n\n-No. 11. \n\nCory of a LETTER from the Secret Committee to the Governor-General of India in Council. \n\n4 October 1841. (Despatched by mail of same date.) CONSIDERING the smallness of the force with which the campaign was com- menced this year in China, and the advanced period of the season at which the reinforcements sent from India were expected to arrive, we cannot but entertain the apprehension that the present campaign will not produce any deci- sive results, \n\n2. Under \n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA. \n\n2. Under these circumstances, after conferring with Her Majesty's Ministers, we think it necessary to give you immediate instructions with respect to the scale on which the war with China should be conducted in 1842. \n\n3. We do not think that it would be advisable to withdraw from India, for service in the China Scas, any larger amount of European troops than that now employed there; but you will either continue to employ on that service the four Queen's regiments now engaged in operations against China, namely, the 18th, the 26th, the 49th, and the 55th, or, if you should see reason to relieve any one or more of those regiments, you will supply the place of the force relieved by other Queen's troops to an equal amount. \n\n4. We understand that there are now at the depôts of these regiments, belong- ing to the 18th, 70 men; to the 26th, 398; to the 49th, 133; and to the 55th, 41; in all, 642 men. \n\n5. These, together with any further number of recruits which may be obtained by those regiments before December, will, in that month, be sent direct to Singapore, where we trust that they will arrive by the second week in April 1842. 6. We have carefully considered the strength and distribution of the native army, according to the last returns in our possession, and we are of opinion that one complete regiment (of volunteers) from Bengal, and three complete regi- ments from Madras, may be employed in operations on the coast of China; and we direct that this force shall be so employed in 1842; not precluding you, how- ever, from employing on that service a larger force of native troops, should you be of opinion that a larger force of those troops can be drawn from India. \n\n7. The limited number of Queen's regiments which can be detached on that service necessarily imposes some limit upon the amount of native troops which can be employed in conjunction with them. We do not think it advisable that the number of native troops employed on the coast of China should exceed the proportion of two-thirds to the number of Her Majesty's troops engaged in that \n\nservice. \n\n8. The observance of this proportion will limit to eight regiments of native infantry the force which we should deem it expedient so to employ; but within this limit you will consider yourselves authorized to employ any amount of such native troops which you may be of opinion that you can detach with safety. \n\n9. You will understand that the object of Her Majesty's Government, and ours, is to make as great an effort in 1842 as our means will permit, in the hope and expectation that such effort, directed according to the instructions which will be hereafter transmitted by Her Majesty's Government, will have the effect of compelling the Chinese Government to accede to terms of peace, honourable to Her Majesty, and conducive to the future security of British trade. \n\n10. In addition to the troops above-mentioned, you will so increase the strength of the artillery, sappers and miners, now employed in China, as to make it in proportion to the increased strength of the army, and to enable the Commander- in-Chief, without weakening the crews of Her Majesty's ships, to occupy in sufficient force the islands of Wang-tong and Hong-Kong; and as we look forward to the probability of its being found expedient to occupy, not tempora- rily, but for a lengthened period, at least one other island, which will require for its defence a considerable number of guns, we desire that you will advert to this circumstance, and make provision accordingly, both of men and of guns of a heavy calibre, and of mortars. \n\n11. 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"content_text": "No. 14. \n\nLord Stanley to the Lords Com- missioners of the Admiralty, \n\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO \n\nEach of the thirty transports will, therefore, receive four of the concave plates with iron eyes, three feet of connecting chain with double hooks at each end, four small anchors, and fifteen fathoms of chain cable to each anchor, each of which cables will have a shackle bolt in the centre; that is to say, at seven and a half fathoms, to admit of its being separated or united at pleasure, according to the depth of water. \n\n4 November 1841. \n\nIt is right to bear in mind that, in using the aforesaid spars, or booms, for pro- tection against fire-vessels in rivers, it will be desirable so to place the anchors of each end of the spar, that the latter should not ride directly across the stream (in which position it would be more likely to yield to a vessel with a slanting stern, so as to allow such vessel to pass over it), but to anchor the spars in a diagonal line with the stream, so as to turn the vessel the easier, and thereby reduce the probability of the spar sinking. If the apex be upwards \n\nthe spars should be so placed above the head of the ship so as to ensure throwing any floating body clear of each side of her; if the apex be downwards cause the floating body to be turned and ultimately stopped in the centre, if not upset by the tide pressing on its broad side. \n\nت \n\nto \n\nThe anchors sent are of 4 cwt. each, and the chain cable of 1 inches. It will be proper to send to the Governor-general by this mail a small model of the boom and chains which I have above described. \n\nHer Majesty's Government depend upon the Governor-general for providing the spars for booms. Each transport should at least carry two, as before directed. With reference to the twelfth paragraph of the letter of the Governor-general to the late President of the India Board above mentioned, I have to inform your Lordship that provisions for six months for 10,000 Europeans will be sent from this country to Singapore, at the same time with the artillery and stores above mentioned. \n\nI have likewise to inform your Lordship that the Queen's 98th regiment, 720 strong, will proceed direct to Singapore, and arrive there early in April. \n\nThis regiment may be employed during the ensuing season in operations on the coast of China; but it is to be understood that so soon as its services can be dispensed with, it is to be sent to Mauritius to relieve the 87th Foot. \n\nThe Governor-general should be directed to provide a sufficient number of followers for the 98th regiment, and send them to meet that regiment at Singa- pore; and he should not neglect to send at the same time for the use of that regiment any articles of convenience or comfort with which a regiment proceeding from India would have provided itself. \n\nI have instructed the General Commanding-in-Chief to select an additional officer, of the rank of Major-general, to serve on the staff of the expedition. \n\nThat officer, and a company of Royal Artillery, and the 98th regiment, are to receive the usual Indian allowances. \n\nI request that your Lordship will move the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors to instruct the Governor-general of India in Council in the terms of my present communication to your Lordship. \n\n- No. 14.- \n\nCopy of a LETTER from Lord Stanley to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. \n\nMy Lords, \n\nDowning-street, 4 November 1841. REFERRING to the Letter which I had the honour to address to your Lordships on the 3d instant, I now transmit to your Lordships an extract of a communi- cation which I have addressed to the President of the Board of Control, and which will form the basis of an instruction, to be conveyed through the usual channels to the Governor-general of India, explanatory of the special provision which is to be made for protecting the transports employed in the expedition to China against fire-rafts or vessels; and I am to convey to your Lordships the Queen's pleasure that you provide and send out to China the requisite number and quantities of anchors and chain-cables described in my communication to the President of the Board of Control. \n\nI have likewise to signify to your Lordships the Queen's pleasure, that you provide and send out to China provisions for six months for 10,000 meu. \n\nYour \n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA. \n\nYour Lordships will further make provision for the conveyance to China of a company of artillery, and of a quantity of ordnance and munitions of war, as specified in the accompanying Return; and you will take the necessary measures that the artillery and all the stores and provisions enumerated in this letter arrive at Singapore early in the ensuing month of April. \n\nEnclosure in No. 14, \n\nI have, &c. (signed) Stanley. \n\nSix 241b. guns, iron, with wooden carriages and wooden traversing platforms, front pivot. \n\nTwo 18lb. guns, iron, with travelling carriages and limbers. \n\n300 rounds per gun, for the six 24 and two 18-pounders. \n\nTwo 18-pounder waggons. \n\n200 shot rockets for the 24-pounders, \n\n100 shell ditto. \n\n200 shot rockets, 12-pounders. \n\n100 shell ditto. \n\n200 shot rockets, 6-pounders. \n\n100 ditto, 3-pounders \n\n100 ditto, 1-pounder. \n\nFour tubes for firing the rockets. \n\nAs it is understood that the smallest calibre of horse artillery gun at Fort George is \n\na 6-pounder, 1,000 pounds of spherical case shot for 6-pounders will be sent with ammu- nition. \n\n-No. 15.- \n\nEXTRACT of a LETTER from Lord Stanley to the President of the Board of Control. \n\nDowning-street, 31 December 1841. \n\nEncl. in No. 14. \n\nNo. 15. \n\nIr must, I fear, be assumed, that whatever be the successes of the British arms Lord Stanley to during the present campaign, they can hardly have been so decisive as to encou- the President of rage the hope of their leading to an honourable and satisfactory conclusion of the war in which we are engaged; and Her Majesty's Government have thought Control, \n\nthe Board of \n\nit 31 December 1841. \n\nnecessary not only not to relax the efforts which have been made, but to increase the force which has been hitherto employed upon the coasts of China, and to make preparations for an early and vigorous prosecution of the war. \n\nIt is, I am persuaded, unnecessary to impress upon the Governor-general of India, who is charged with the general superintendence of the war, that the only objects which Her Majesty desires to obtain are, satisfaction for the injuries to which her subjects have been exposed, and for the insults which have been offered to Her Crown, and the establishment of peaceful and friendly commercial rela- tions with China, upon such a footing as shall afford permanent and effectual security against the recurrence of similar misunderstandings for the future. Her Majesty desires no acquisition of territory, nor any advantages for her own sub- jects which should not equally be shared by other nations; and to the attainment of these objects, and these alone, the efforts of Her Majesty's forces are to be directed. Her Majesty's Government are of opinion that the most probable means of obtaining these objects would be, the occupation of a position which would enable them effectually to control the internal commerce of the Chinese empire, and thus render the moral pressure upon the Court of Pekin irresistible. Such a position, they think, would be attained by ascending the Yang-tse- Kiang with a sufficient force to take and retain possession of the island which lies at the intersection of that river with the grand canal of China; and, as at present advised, it is to that object that the principal efforts of 1842 should be directed; but beyond this general intimation of intentions, which are themselves liable to be altered by inforination which we may shortly receive, I should deem it inexpedient to fetter the discretion of the Governor-general by attempting at present to give him any precise instructions. \n\n596. \n\nC 4 \n\nThe",
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"content_text": "\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO \n\nBefore such a system, therefore, becomes apparent, I consider it most expedient for us to concentrate our force at Chinhae. As to eventually (permanently) retaining Ningpo, it would be a clog to us, even were it prudent to contemplate the measure. The question then is, what is the best course to pursue on evacuating the place?\" A settlement of the Chinese question can only be obtained by the Emperor's acceding to the terms proposed by the British Government; by the overthrow of the present Chinese dynasty; or by the expulsion of the British naval and military force; this latter case no Englishman can contemplate; in viewing the other two, it must be borne in mind that there is as much a pro- spective as an immediate object to be gained, and I think that the spirit of Lord Auckland's very luminous despatch of the 10th of May points out the great im- portance of encouraging a friendly feeling with a view to future commercial intercourse; his Lordship, it is true, applies this principle to the provinces of Canton and Fokien, but I feel confident that, were his Lordship in possession of facts connected with our present position, he would desire to apply it equally to this province, and possibly to the whole of China. The idea of pressing the Chinese Government through the medium of the people, has in my opinion proved fallacious; the whole system of Chinese policy shows that whatever may be the feelings of the Emperor towards his subjects, the Mandarins and all the Government officers are indifferent to their welfare, further than suits their own purposes; and I believe that you would inflict no greater annoyance upon the Chinese Government than by opening the eyes of the people to the fact, that the British character has been foully belied, and that we are not only a brave, but a just and honourable nation. It is therefore, I confess, my most anxious wish not to seize the private property, whether placed in shop, who has remained upon the spot. It must be remembered that Ningpo offered no opposition; that the inhabitants threw themselves on our protection, or pretended to do so; and that a number of Ningpo men have been taken up as traitors to their own country, merely because their townsmen held friendly intercourse with the British. I would, therefore, having now remained six weeks amongst them without the occurrence of a single act of oppression on our part, seek to leave a strong impression of our forbearance, our moderation, and our justice; and I am confident that by our alone seizing or destroying Government property, and taking a duty of 10 per cent, on all imports and exports, except from places in our own possession, that desirable object would be effected. \n\nIn this point of view, it appears to me, that the course above-mentioned would be the most judicious policy; and, considering also the importance laid on the expeditious proceeding to the Peiho next spring, I would suggest the expe- diency of husbanding the troops as well as the naval force this winter as much as possible, to prepare them for the ensuing campaign to the northward. By this time, in all probability, 800 recruits from England have arrived at Hong-Kong, and 1 would therefore beg leave to suggest that the \"Jupiter\" be sent down as soon as practicable, to bring up the 26th regiment from Hong-Kong and Amoy. I will instruct Major-general Burrell to retain the recruits of the 49th and 55th regiments, amounting to 520 men, to replace the wing of the 26th, and to send on the recruits of the 18th (160), with any recovered men belonging to the five companies of that corps at Amoy, to that station, to replace there the detachments of the 26th (150) under Major Johnstone; this will give us by the end of January at farthest, a reinforcement of about 600 well-drilled acclimatized men, which, with the force that I can collect during the winter at Chinhae, will enable us to proceed at the very first change of the monsoon to the entrance of the Gulph of Pechele, and take up some defensible position where the reinforcements from India could join us, on the Shou-tung promontory, say at Tin-tehro-foo, or one of the Minatan Islands, or possibly on one of the islands higher up the Gulph. \n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA. \n\n- No. 22.- \n\nEXTRACT of a LETTER from Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker to Lieutenant- General Sir Hugh Gough, dated 2 December 1841. WHENEVER the troops remove to Chinghae, I propose to place a sufficient Sir William Parker \n\nNo. 22. force of the squadron to support the garrison, and to employ the remainder at to Sir Hugh Goughb, Chusan, or where they may be most required, with a view to the public service, 2 December 1841. and our expected operations next season. \n\nBefore your Excellency's letter reached me, I had made preparatory arrange- ments for despatching the \"Jupiter\" to Hong-Kong to receive the troops from the transports, \"Carnatic,\" \"Earl of Hardwick\" and \"Tartar,\" having been informed by the Plenipotentiary that they will be on heavy demurrage if the men are not removed as soon as they arrive. She will be ready to sail shortly; and I will take care to instruct Mr. Fulton to embark and bring up the men, agreeably to the details you have transmitted, or any alteration you may devise. \n\nI seriously hope that further reinforcements will arrive to enable us to go to the northward as early as possible next year. But I much doubt whether it will be advisable to proceed until the main body is assembled, for reasons which I will explain when I have the pleasure of seeing you. \n\n- No. 23,- \n\nEXTRACT of a DESPATCH from Lord Stanley to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. \n\nDowning-street, 4 February 1842. \n\nNo. 23. \n\nI ASSUME, that the operations of 1841 will have been limited to the successful Lord Stanley to the attack upon Amoy, the occupation of Kulungsu, and the re-occupation of the Lords Commis Island of Chusan. \n\nsioners of the 4 February 1842. Admiralty, \n\nI assume, that the forces available for 1842 will be an army of 9,000 to 10,000 men, of which there will be five British regiments, amounting to about 4,000 men, and a company of British Artillery, combined with a naval force of three ships of the line, and a fleet, including thirteen or fourteen steamers, of about forty sail. \n\nIt will, of course, be necessary to provide for the maintenance of Hong-Kong, of the Island of Kulungsu, and of Chusan. The remainder of the force, naval and military, will be available for such operations as it may be deemed most advisable to undertake, with a view of producing such an impression on the court of Pekin, as to lead to a speedy compliance with the terms which Sir Henry Pottinger is instructed to require. \n\n-No. 24.- \n\nCOPY of a LETTER from the Right Hon. Lord Ellenborough to Lord Stanley. (Received 5th May.) My Lord, \n\nFort William, 18 March 1842. \n\nNo. 24. IMMEDIATELY after my arrival at this Presidency, I judged it necessary to Lord Ellenborough address letters to the Commander-in-Chief of the land and sea forces of Her to Lord Stanley, Majesty in China, detailing for their Excellencies' information, the extent of the 18 March 1842. military and naval strength to be placed at their disposal for the campaign of the year 1842, and explaining the measures taken by the Government of India for sending further reinforcements of native troops to China. In these letters, copies of which are enclosed, for the information of Her Majesty's Government, I have communicated to the Military and Naval Commanders-in-Chief the manner in which the forces under their command are to be employed. \n\nIt occurred to me as not impossible that no instructions will have been sent from China to Singapore to the address of Lord Saltoun, commanding the rein- forcements on their way from England, to await his Lordship's arrival at that port, and I have therefore addressed a letter to that officer, a copy of which \n\n596. \n\nD 4 \n\nis",
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"content_text": "108 China \n\nReed 1. Mar. Wit \n\nwhat \n\nMe in Commiely \n\nreative to Trade with \n\nChence t \n\nAT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, THE 24TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1843. \n\nPRESENT, \n\nHer subjects from resorting, for the purposes of trade and commerce, to any other ports in the The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. \n\ndominions of the Emperor of China than those W \n\nTHEREAS by an Act, passed in the session of Canton, Amoy, Foo-chow-foo, Ningpo, and of Parliament holden in the third and fourth Shanghae, or than may be in the occupation of years of the reign of His late Majesty King Her Majesty's forces; and Her Majesty is pleased William the Fourth, intituled \"An Act to regn- to order, that any of Her subjects, committing a \"late the trade to China and India,\" it was, breach or violation of this direction, shall, upon amongst other things, enacted, that it should and conviction thereof in any of Her Majesty's Courts might be lawful for His Majesty, by any such of Record or Vice-Admiralty, be, for every such Order or Orders, Commission or Commissions, as \n\noffence, liable to a penalty, not exceeding one to His Majesty in Council should appear expedient hundred pounds, or to imprisonment, for a term and salutary, to give to the Superintendents in the not exceeding three months, at the discretion of said Act mentioned, or any of them, powers and the Court before which the conviction shall take authorities over and in respect of the trade and place; and Her Majesty is hereby further pleased commerce of His Majesty's subjects within any to order, that all proceedings, which may be had part of the dominions of the Emperor of China, under this Order, shall be, as far as circum- and to make and issue directions and regulations stances will permit, in conformity with the Law of touching the said trade and commerce, and for the. England : government of His Majesty's subjects within the \n\nAnd the Right Honourable the Earl of said dominions, and to impose penalties, forfeitures, Aberdeen, and the Right Honourable Lord or imprisonments for the breach of any such di- Stanley, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries rections or regulations, to be enforced in such of State; the Lords Commissioners of Her manner as in the said Order or Orders should be Majesty's Treasury; and the Commissioners for specified : \n\nexecuting the office of Lord High Admiral; are Now, therefore, Her Majesty in Council is to give the necessary directions herein as to pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy them may respectively appertain. Council, to prohibit, and doth hereby prohibit, \n\nI'm. L. Bathurst. \n\nPuslaps on the be",
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"content_text": "before secgure, if made to transferees Mortgagees having notice of the refsel having been employed \n\ntrading. \n\nin unlawful \n\nin \n\nMy Lords would recommend \n\nthat the Ordinance be amended to the \n\naffect, before it receives her Majesty's \n\nand in this ancending the \n\nConfirmation : and in \n\nOrdinance, My Lords would suggest that \n\nit should be made more specific. \n\ndermes \n\nCo \n\nregards \n\nin its \n\ndo the form of procedure \n\nto be adopted with regard to the seizure \n\nand sale of vessels contravening the provisions of the Act. \n\nThe Arde \n\nده روند مرسد \n\nhave the honor to be \n\nYour à se fuent \n\nServant \n\nst. hamended \n\nለ7 \n\nConfrication for isolating the provisions of this Sail under Boutati Colones an und so become liable to \n\nwhich, hove. \n\nsaght to be expired. \n\nto be amended. 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Gua- employed, or to be employed, in conducting such Trade as aforesaid, or in any other ranteeing Agents. manner engage, or contract to engage, directly or indirectly, therein as a partner, Agent, or otherwise, or shall knowingly and wilfully ship, tranship,jade, receive, or put on board, manner in unlawful or contract for shipping, goods,money,or effects,to be employed in such trade as aforesaid, Trade. or shall take the charge of, or command, or navigate, or enter, or embark, on board of any gods &c. 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"content_text": "present arouth. \n\nShank (Signed) Richard Woonami \n\nNo:129 \n\nthat occured in October - three of the temporary Bamboo bridges \n\nswept away and the Road rendered for a time impassable . \n\nYou further submit that it will cost about $450 to repair the road and replace the \n\nBamboo Bridges by Wooden once \n\nof a stronger description, and apply for sanction to that \n\noutlay \n\nA. J. Gordon Esque. \n\nLand Office k \n\nVictoria, Honghong. \n\nH \n\nDecember 11 - 18413. \n\nSir, \n\nyou \n\nJam directed to achirawledge the 11\" of last. receipt of your letter dated on the it mouth (but only received three days ago) in which you report that during the very heavy Rains that occurred in August and - September last the Road leading to the Military Cantonment of Check Choo on the Southern side of the Soland \n\nwas much \n\ndamaged and that in the subsequent flords-consequent to the deluge of Rain \n\nThat \n\nIn reply I am directed to informe that His Excellency the Covernor approves of the Road king acpaired and the Bridges being replaced in the \n\nanavn er \n\nyour propose, het before the \n\nbe \n\nsanctioned you are \n\namount can \n\nin \n\nrequired to send im an ixact Estimate of the Expense. In the \n\ntime an \n\nadvance of $300 will be ordered to be- \n\nanade to \n\nyou by the Colonial Reasurer and Financial, Secretary. \n\nI have to \n\nTiquid) Richard Hamam. \n\nIto:123",
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"content_text": "My Memorandum endeavours to shew the necessity for an Establishment of at least three Clerks to the Auditor's Apartment as per the Instructions given by the Lords of H.M. Treasury strictly carried out; but as I also ventured to suggest some modification of those Instructions, I presume that Your Excellency will approve if I so far act upon my own suggestions for the present, in the detail of my duties, as to render unnecessary the appointment of more than this single Clerk until reply is received from the Home Government.\n\nMy duties as Clerk of Councils have been more severe up to this date than they will probably be in a few months hence; this has been the necessary consequence of the formation of new Government; the publication of numerous Ordinances all of which have to be sent Home in M.S. in duplicate and lengthy minutes of Council which have also to be copied and sent home. Whilst therefore, by the accompanying Memorandum, Your Excellency will perceive that you were kind enough to place the services of Mr. Hance at my disposal, this appointment has been of no avail to me, as Auditor, that young Gentleman being totally unfit for so difficult a post as Clerk and Accountant to the Auditor; still, I have availed myself of Your Excellency's offer in employing him as a copying Clerk for the Clerk of Councils, and as he has given satisfaction, and as the Council work must fall into arrear if he be now removed, I have the honour to request that...\n\nPage 114",
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"content_text": "money transactions are settled. In Novt & obtained the temporary aid of Mr. Bird, the Accountant in the Superintendent of Trade's Department. For three weeks Mr Bird tried but in vain to prepare the September Quartert account from the Accounts and Vouchers rendered by the different Departments in July and at length obliged to put the account together in the best manner which the Vouchers would permit, but sufficiently distinct to show the final balance the Quarter. At the suggestion of Mr Bird,\n\non order to obviate in the December Quarter Recount Current the difficulty of tracing to what purposes monies drawn by the different Departments had been applied, I wrote on the 19th November a circular to the Head of each Department, & enclosing furnished me by the Lords of the Treasury Extract from the Instructions Paras 6. Treasurer's Circular 19th Novr 1844. inging a compliance with them, and, 6. stating that should the Vouchers in future not be \"found in accordance with the prescribed form\" they would be returned for correction.\" I was informed that this request would not be complied with; that it was my duty to trace out the appropicetic of the money drawn by the Heads of Departments that all I had to do was to obey the written authority 1254 of 19th Dec, 1844 165 Eight Wee. 1844 418th Wet 1844. Para. 6. to authority of the Governor by paying money to any person who might present to me a Warrant bearing His Excellency's signature. The respected: Chief Magistrate sent my letter and its enclosure to the Governor, /19th December 1844/ complaining that I had assumed that the Chief Magistrate's Office was \"subservient to that of the Treasurer I received from you a mild rebuke for having addressed this request to the Gentlemen at the Heads of the Departments for \"an apparent assumption on the part of a Co-ordinate Department of authority over another and I received an official letter from the Auditor of which the enclosed is a Copy\n\nI forbear adverting further to the painful position in which I was thus placed and which subjected me to the charge of obstructing the public business by hesitating to pay money on the sign manual of the Governor unaccompanied by the necessary forms and Vouchers; while the Warrants on which these payments were demanded were never, until the commencement of the present year, made out as distinctly ordered in the Colonial Secretary Department - after the Accounts Abstracts and Vouchers to which they referred had been finally approved by the Auditor; but were generally prepared by my clerk, or sometimes by the individuals claiming money.",
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"content_text": "This J. Davis despatch. There it appears could be Completed for £8,000, omitting the Trauxepli. Under these circumstances McGladstone would recommend Mr. Hardwick's plans for the sanction of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and if their Lordships should approve them, would further propose that Sir J. Davies should be authorized to advance from the public Treasury a sum equal to two-thirds of the whole estimated cost, on condition that it being shown that the remaining third had been raised by private contribution.\n\nMr. Gladstone wishes to be furnished with the decision of the Lords of the Treasury on this subject at their earliest convenience, as it affects the erection of the Church.\n\nIn my London letter returned to C.O.26 series, I reported that the plans had been long delayed without any reason.\n\nThe plans for the Church at Hongkong prepared by Mr. Hardwick are transmitted. Since my last letter, I have received God.2255, 144 Fr 125, Sthing. 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"content_text": "14\n\nworded as if it were to be endorsed upon some other instrument, which does not appear to be intended, & the Det referred to in the Bond is wrongly cited, it having been passed in the year of his late Majesty King George the 4th & not in the year mentioned.\n\nMy Lords consider Bar House Communication, should be had with some of the Inhabitants engaged in the trade to Hong Kong & China previous to recommending the confirmation of the Ordinance in question, as to the effects likely to result from requiring a Bond from all Merchant Ships of the extended nature set forth, & making their masters liable to the extent of the Bond, for all damage, or impossibility on the part of any persons within & without after they shall have quitted such Merchant Ship.\n\nThe Copy of the Ordinance is herewith.\n\nSigned / John Barrow\n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO No. 114.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe Following Ordinances are published for General Information.\n\nBy order,\n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th March, 1844.\n\nTitle.\n\nHONGKONG. No. 4 of 1844.\n\nAmo Sexto et Septimo Victoriae Reginae.\n\nPreamble\n\nBy His Excellency Sir HENRY POTTINGER Baronet Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath Major General in the Service of the East India Company Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to restrain masters of merchant Vessels belonging to Her Majesty's Subjects from leaving seamen and others in a destitute state in the Colony of Hongkong and from refusing to convey distressed seamen from thence to England and also to provide for the good conduct of seamen within the same.\n\n(28th February, 1844.) Whereas by reason of the distance of Hongkong from Great Britain great delay and expense are incurred in recovering such sums of money as are expended on Her Majesty's behalf in conveying home destitute seamen unlawfully left behind in Hongkong by masters of British Merchant Vessels.\n\nAnd whereas it is expedient to effectually provide against masters of merchant Vessels belonging to Her Majesty's Subjects leaving behind seamen or other persons in a destitute state in Hongkong and against masters of merchant vessels refusing to convey distressed seamen thence to England and also to provide means of affording satisfaction to persons who may have suffered injury from the crew of any vessel belonging to Her Majesty's Subjects.\n\n1. Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that the master of every merchant Vessel belonging to any of Her Majesty's Subjects as such master and in that character on his arrival at Hongkong shall together with sufficient sureties subject to the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Justice in Hongkong enter into a bond conditioned as and in the form in the Schedule to this Ordinance annexed.\n\nProvided always that only one such bond shall be required within the space of one year unless the same shall be become forfeited and that any bond of a similar nature taken at any Port in the Dominions of the Emperor of China and conditioned to extend to Hongkong shall be of the same force and effect as if entered into at Hongkong aforesaid.\n\nProvided also that the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects in China may demand and take such other security as he may deem necessary or sufficient from the owners masters consignees or other persons interested in any vessel for the due performance of the conditions in such bond as aforesaid conditioned to extend both to Hongkong and the dominions of the Emperor of China and that thereupon no master of any vessel in respect of which such other security shall be taken shall be required to enter into such bond as hereinbefore mentioned.\n\n2. And be it enacted that the Harbour Master at Hongkong or such other Officer as may be duly authorized in that behalf shall be entitled to demand and take possession of such bond and shall deliver a certificate of the taking thereof to such master as aforesaid and that the sureties therein shall be to the satisfaction of and approved by the said Harbour Master or other Officer.\n\n3. And be it enacted if any master of such vessel as aforesaid shall neglect to enter into such bond or to give such other security as the Superintendent of Trade may think fit and reasonable.\n\nHENRY POTTINGER. Governor &c. &c.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council the 28th day of February, 1844.\n\nRICHARD BRGASS\n\nClerk of the Legislative Council.\n\nTHE SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.\n\nKnow all men by these presents that we\n\n...\n\nare held and firmly bound unto Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria by the Grace of God of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith in the sum of one thousand lawful current dollars of the currency of the Colony of Hongkong to be paid to Her said Majesty Her Heirs and Successors for the public purposes of the Colony of Hongkong and in case of non-payment thereof to forthwith cause the same to be levied of the goods chattels and effects of the within bound master and the said ship whilst so detained or arrested.\n\nWhereas the within bound master of the vessel the\n\n...\n\nNow the Condition of this obligation is such that if the within named master of the vessel the\n\n...\n\naforesaid do not within one year from the date hereof unlawfully discharge or leave behind any of the crew of the said vessel the\n\n...\n\nin Hongkong and also within the space of one year aforesaid within the limits do not refuse to receive on board the said vessel the\n\n...\n\nsuch distressed seamen as may be sent on board thereof for conveyance to Great Britain according to the provisions of the Statutes made and passed in the first year of the reign of His late Majesty William the Fourth intituled An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the pay of the Royal Navy and if no person forcibly a seaman of the said vessel or no subject of Her Majesty conveyed in the said vessel the\n\n...\n\nto Hongkong shall within three calendar months from having been such seaman or from having been so conveyed be found destitute or requiring public relief in Hongkong aforesaid and also if the within named obligors shall forthwith discharge all or any sums of money which shall be awarded by way of satisfaction (in the manner provided by the Ordinance in pursuance of which this bond is entered into) to any person or persons having sustained injury from the crew of the said vessel the\n\n...\n\nbond or other security aforesaid to or any one or more of them. Then this obligation shall be void and of no effect but otherwise shall remain in full force and virtue.\n\nSigned Sealed and Delivered in the presence of\n\n...\n\n4. And be it enacted that the said ship whilst so detained or arrested shall be subject in every respect to the same liabilities as if such bond or other security had been duly entered into.\n\n5. And be it enacted, upon any complaint made of any injury either in person or property sustained from the act of any of the crew of any vessel belonging to Her Majesty's Subjects done or committed within Hongkong or the dominions of the Emperor of China or within 100 miles from the Coast of China which said vessel shall not then be in Hongkong or in any Port in China at which a British Consular Establishment may exist and in respect whereof such bond or other security as aforesaid shall have been entered into it shall be lawful for any competent Tribunal to summon the sureties in such bond or other security as aforesaid to appear and answer such complaint and thereupon to proceed to enquire of hear and determine the same and to award such damages (to be paid and borne by the sureties in such bond or other security aforesaid) to or any one or more of them.\n\n6. And be it enacted. That upon any such bond or other security as herein mentioned becoming forfeited the same shall be put in suit by such person as may hereafter be duly authorized in that behalf by the Superintendent of Trade and the whole penalty thereof recovered and levied but that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Trade aforesaid upon petition being made to him to that effect to order that such part thereof as shall not be actually expended in consequence of the breach of the conditions of the said bond or other security or as may not be required to liquidate any legal penalty which may have been incurred by the master or other person bound thereby to be returned to the party or parties from whom the same may have been levied at such time and on such conditions as the said Superintendent of Trade may think fit.\n\nL.S.\n\nAn Ordinance for Her Majesty's subjects within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or within any ship or vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China.\n\nAnna Sexta et Septimo Victoria Reginae.\n\nNo. 3 of 1844.\n\nBy His Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger, Baronet, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Major General in the Service of the East India Company, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to restrain masters of merchant vessels belonging to Her Majesty's subjects from leaving seamen and others in a destitute state in the dominions of the Emperor of China, and from refusing to convey distressed seamen from thence to England, and also to provide for the good conduct of seamen within the same.\n\n(28th February, 1844.) Whereas by reason of the distance of China from Great Britain great delay and expense are incurred in recovering such sums of money as are expended on Her Majesty's behalf in conveying home destitute seamen unlawfully left behind in China by masters of vessels: And whereas it is expedient to effectually provide against masters of merchant vessels belonging to Her Majesty's subjects leaving behind seamen or other persons in a destitute state in China...",
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"content_text": "C\n\nFor the Sergeants - Seventy Dollars,\n\nFour Pounds three.\n\nThree Shillings\n\nFour Pence per Mensem\n\nand\n\nFor the Inspecting Sergeants. Sixteen Dollars,\n\nThree Pounds six Shillings and\n\nEight Pence\n\nper\n\nMensis.\n\nFor the Privates Fourteen Dollars,\n\nTwo Pounds eighteen Shillings\n\nfour Pence per Mensem\n\nand\n\nthe Police Stations\n\nOnly\n\nWith Rations and Lodging in\n\nThe whole of the Salaries being subject to Deductions for Clothing.\n\nThe Rates of Remuneration above described appear liberal, but as it is presumed that they are not higher than has been found necessary to secure the Services of well qualified Persons, My Lords will not refuse their Sanction to\n\nthe\n\nTerms\n\nIt is proposed that Pensions should be\n\nallowed & the European Members of the\n\nForce pensioned by the actual circumstances of the case, and would, if sanctioned, impose a serious future Burthen on the Finances of the Colony.\n\nThe following Modification\n\nof the Plan is\n\nrestricted in lieu\n\nJohn Davis Despatch says, in the\n\nopinion of this Board, be with propriety adopted.\n\nThe Maximum Pensions to be half the Pay last received during\n\nthree Years, according\n\nto the Rule laid down in the 12th Section\n\nof the Act. 4th & 5th William 4th Cap: 24.\n\nThe Grant of the Pension to be\n\ndependent, upon\n\nCertificates of good Conduct, being\n\nfurnished in the manner\n\nrequired\n\nby the 11th Section of the abovementioned Act.\n\nAfter fifteen Years Service\n\nthe Members of the Force to be entitled\n\n...",
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"content_text": "+ 15, skidz\n\nsince its late improvement, and the substitution of one bridge across the Torrent, in lieu of three crossings (as clumsily contrived in the first instance), the Road in question possesses every prospect of durability.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nYour Most Obedient,\n\nHumble Servant,\n\n...\n\nPage 47\n\nFook Couffiore that the demasury be affinged of the Inquiry to thing.\n\nof the regaining diets, inc\n\n22 forme and dyttelti\n\n23\n\nI after\n\nfolls homem enjinated\n\nThe plan\n\nan to expuss\n\nan opinion whether the acqumente of the Govt against it seen to an hardly szption of low tolls purbally mit affly to people when alom. he speake\n\nThis mayh noticed\n\nMy Jun 24\n\n...\n\n1229 Hongkong CL. Levelgankey Sie\n\nLat.\n\n1846\n\norwarded in E Mundoek 25°\n\nMSStephen 25 Lordly Mellon | 26. Mar Gladstone A\n\nI obsera that this draft does not euchring you reqution\n\nMa you with to find witter draw it?\n\nMG Sun 26.\n\nlette 287\n\n29 June 1946.\n\nThith reference tong last anoti a of 8 Jan Blas 13 zamanawe of the Wo Lave directedly Med \"Gladstone to transmit t sou herewith, for the information of thi dords Shearing, of the Leary the Copy of a Despatch from bir I. Davis reporting Comme 4 on the MrG. 26 June.\n\nI repairs of loads in Malay til this draft will and the posibility of frontin do, upen Cooking again tthes and of tir I Foll with ain, & speaking with the imposition of whadoch. a system for the expense of those & tolls met afflying & Repairs. fort forsengen. & one chid From the Despatch od to conded by them, it would appear that any An Equivalent: & within hypettrein the opinion Foll which should not h the Chinese Foot of the I. Davis ment to nieleide the Chinese taken to mean that they and be conferducten.\n\nMy Juni\n\nwouldreauely Rapengers would search",
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"content_text": "414\n\nexecuted for his own Benefit,\n\nAssignees may ex- XIII. And be it enacted and ordained, That all Powers vested in any such Prisoner ecate Powers which the whose Estate shall by an Order under this Ordinance have been vested in the Provi- Insolvent might have sional Assignee which such Prisoner might legally execute for his own Benefit, shall be and are hereby vested in the Assignee or Assignees of the Real and Personal Estate of such Prisoner by virtue of this Ordinance, to be by such Assignee or Assignees executed for the Benefit of all and every the Creditors of such Prisoner under this Ordinance, in such manner as such Prisoner might have executed the same.\n\nWhere Lease accept- ed by Assignces, the Insolvent not liable for\n\nthe Rent.\n\nXIV. And be it enacted and ordained, That in all cases in which any such Prisoner shall be entitled to any Lease or Agreement for a Lease, and his Assignee or Assignees shall accept the same, and the Benefit thereof, as part of such Prisoner's Estate and Effects, the said Prisoner shall be or not be deemed to be liable to pay any subsequent Rent to which his Discharge, adjudicated according to this Ordinance, may not apply, nor be in any manner sued after such Acceptance in respect or by reason of any subsequent Non-observance or Non-performance of the Conditions, Assignees not deter Covenants, or Agreements therein contained; Provided that in all such cases as mining whether to ac- aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Lessor, or person agreeing to make such Lease, his cept the Lease, the Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, if the said Assignee or Assignees shall Lessor may apply to decline, upon his or their being required so to do, to determine whether he or they will or will not accept such Lease or Agreement for a Lease, to apply to the said Court, praying that he or they may either so accept the same, or deliver up such Lease or Agreement for a Lease, and the Possession of the Premises demised or in- tended to be demised; and the said Court shall thereupon make such Order as in all the Circumstances of the Case shall seem meet and just, and such Order shall be bind- ing on all parties.\n\nthe Court.\n\nAssignees may suc in their own Names;\n\nmay make Composition for Debts.\n\nXV. And be it enacted and ordained, That it shall be lawful for the Assignee or Assignees of any such Prisoner, and such Assignee or Assignees is and are hereby empowered, to sue, from time to time as there may be Occasion, in his or their own Name or Names, for the Recovery, obtaining, and enforcing of any Estate, Effects, or Rights of such Prisoner, but in trust for the Benefit of the Creditors of such Prisoner, according to the Provisions of this act, and to give such Dis- charge and Discharges to any Person or Persons who shall be respectively indebted to such Prisoner as may be requisite; and to make Compositions with any Debtors or Accountants to such Prisoner, where the same shall appear necessary, and to take such reasonable Part of any such Debts as can upon such Composition be gotten in full Discharge of such Debts and Accounts; and to submit to Arbitration any Difference or Dispute between such Assignee or Assignees and any Person or Persons for or on account or by reason of any matter, cause, or thing relating to Proviso for Consent the Estate and Effects of such Prisoner: Provided nevertheless, that no such positions and Arbritra Composition, or Submission to Arbitration, shall be made, nor any Suit in Equity be commenced, by any such Assignee or Assignees, without the Consent in Writing of the major Part in Value of the Creditors of such Prisoner then residing in the said Colony, who shall meet together pursuant to a Notice of such Meeting, to be published at least Fourteen Days before such Meeting in the two aforesaid Newspapers, nor without the Approbation of the said Court.\n\nof Creditors to Com-\n\ntions.\n\nCreditore to vote ac-\n\nXVI. And be it enacted and ordained, That all matters wherein Creditors shall cording to Balance due vote, or wherein the Assent or Dissent of Creditors shall be exercised in pursuance of to them on Account or in carrying into effect this Ordinance, every Creditor shall be accounted such in fairly stated,\n\nrespect of such Amount only as upon an Account fairly stated between the Parties, after allowing the Value of Mortgaged Property, and other such available Securities and Liens, shall appear to be Balance due; and that all Disputes arising in such Matters concerning any such Amount shall upon Application duly made in that Behalf be examined into by the said Court, who shall have Power to determine the same, and, if it seem fit, to refer the Examination thereof to an Officer of the said Court, or to an Examiner to be appointed for that Purpose by the said Court: Provided always, that the amount in respect of which any such Creditor shall vote in any such Matter shall not be conclusive of the Amount of his or her Debt for any ulterior Purposes, in pursuance of the Provisions of this Ordinance.\n\nSoita not to be aba-\n\nXVII. And be it enacted, That whenever any such Assignee or Assignees shall ted by Death or Remo- die or be removed, or a new Assignee or Assignees shall be appointed in pursuance of val of Assignees.\n\nthe Provisions of this Ordinance, no Action at Law or Suit in Equity shall be thereby abated, but the Court in which any Action or Suit is depending may, upon the Suggest- ion of such Death or Removal and new Appointment, allow the Name or Names of the surviving or new Assignee or Assignees to be substituted in the Place of the former; and such Action or Suit shall be prosecuted in the Name or Names of the said surviving or new Assignee or Assignees, in the same Manner as if he or they had originally commenced the same.\n\nAssignee's Power\n\nPay or Pension of Na-\n\nXVIII. And be it enacted and ordained, That nothing in this Ordinance contain- not to extend to the ed shall extend to entitle the Assignee or Assignees of the Estate and Effects of any val, Military or Civil such Prisoner, being or having been an Officer of the Army or Navy, or an Officer or Clerk, or otherwise employed or engaged in the Service of Her Majesty in any Civil\n\nOfficers.\n\nOffice,\n\nPortion of Pay or Pansion may be obtain- ed on Application,\n\nOffice, and being or having been in the Naval or Military Service of the East India Company, or an Officer or Clerk or otherwise employed or engaged in the Service of the Court of Directors of the said Company, or being otherwise in the enjoyment of any Pension whatever under any Department of Her Majesty's Government or from the said Court of Directors, to the Pay, Half Pay, Salary, Emoluments, or Pension of any such Prisoner, for the Purposes of this Ordinance: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said Court to order such Portion of the Pay, Half Pay, Salary, Emoluments, or Pension of any such Prisoner, as on Communication from the said Court to the Secretary at War, or the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, or the Commissioners of the Customs or Excise, or the Chief Officer of the Department to which such Prisoner may belong or have belonged, or under which such Pay, Half Pay, Salary, Emoluments, or Pension may be enjoyed by such Prisoner, or the said Court of Directors, he or they may respectively, under his or their Hands or under the Hand of his or their Chief Secretary, or other Chief Officer for the Time being, consent to in Writing, to be paid to such Assignee or Assignees, in Order that the same may be applied in Payment of the Debts of such Prisoner; and such Order and Consent being lodged in the Office of Her Majesty's Pay-Master-General, or of the Secretary of the said Court of Directors, or of any other Officer or Person appointed to Pay, or paying, any such Pay, Half Pay, Salary, Emoluments, or Pension, or such Portion of the said Pay, Half Pay, Salary, Emoluments, or Pension, as shall be specified in such Order and Consent shall be paid to the said Assignee or Assignees, until the said Court shall make Order to the Contrary.\n\nXIX. And be it enacted and ordained, That if any such Prisoner shall, Goods in Possesion at the Time of his Arrest, or other Commencement of his Imprisonment, by of Prisoner, whereof the Consent and Permission of the true Owner thereof, have in his Possession, he was reputed Owner, Order or Disposition any Goods or Chattels whereof such Prisoner was reputed to be deemed his Pro- Owner, or whereof he had taken upon him the Sale, Alteration, or Disposition as Owner, the same shall be deemed to be the Property of such Prisoner,\n\nperty,\n\nXX. And be it enacted and ordained, That no Distress or Distresses for Rent\n\nDistress not to be made and levied after the Arrest or other Commencement of the Imprisonment of any available for more than Person whose Estate shall, by any such Order as aforesaid, have been vested in the One Year's Rent Provisional Assignee, upon the Goods or Effects of any such Person, shall be available\n\nfor more than One Year's Rent accrued prior to the making of such Order, but that the Landlord or Party to whom the Rent shall be due shall and may be a Creditor for the Overplus of the Rent due, and for which the Distress shall not be available, and entitled to all the Provisions made for Creditors by this Ordinance.\n\nence faudulent and\n\nXXI. And be it enacted and ordained, That if any such Prisoner shall, before or Voluntary Prefer- after his or her Imprisonment, being in Insolvent Circumstances, voluntarily convey; void as against As- assign, transfer, charge, deliver, or make over any Estate, Real or Personal, Security, signees. for Money, Bond, Bill, Note, Money, Property, Goods, or Effects whatsoever, to any Creditor or Creditors, or to any Person or Persons in Trust for, or to or for the Use, Benefit, or Advantage of any Creditor or Creditors, every such Conveyance, Assign- ment, Transfer, Charge, Delivery, and Making over shall be deemed and is hereby declared to be fraudulent and void as against the Provisional or other Assignee or Assignees, of such Prisoner appointed under this Ordinance: Provided always, that no such Conveyance, Assignment, Transfer, Charge, Delivery, or Making over shall be so deemed fraudulent and void unless made within Three Months before the Com- mencement of such Imprisonment, or with the View, or Intention, by the Party so Conveying, Assigning, Transferring, Charging, Delivering, or Making over of Petition- ing the said Court for his Discharge from Custody under this Act.\n\nProvisions of 8 G. 4,\n\nXXII. And whereas an Act passed the imperial parliament in the Third year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for preventing C. 39 extended to the Frauds upon Creditors by secret Warrants of Attorney to confess Judgment; And Assignees of Insolvents. whereas it is expedient to extend the Provisions of such Act; be it therefore enacted\n\nand ordained, That the last mentioned Act shall extend to the Provisional or other Assignee or Assignees of every Prisoner whose Estate shall after the Expiration of Twenty-one Days next after his Execution of such Warrant of Attorney, or giving of such Cognovit Actionem as therein mentioned, be vested in the Provisional Assignee of the said Court by virtue of this Ordinance, as if the last mentioned Act had been expressly herein enacted; and every such Warrant of Attorney, and Judgment and Execution thereon, and every such Cognovit Actionem, and Judgment entered up the- reon, and Execution taken out on such Judgment as are declared by the last mentioned Act to be fraudulent and void against the Assignees mentioned therein, shall be deemed equally fraudulent and void against the Provisional or other Assignee or Assignees, of such Prisoner, appointed under this Ordinance, and such Provisional or other Assignee or Assignees, shall be entitled to recover back and receive, for the Use of the Creditors of such Prisoner, all and every the Moneys levied and Effects seized under or by virtue of any such Judgment or Execution.\n\nXXIII",
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"content_text": "464\n\nX11\n\n# ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS IN CHINA\n\nIn addition to the preceding documents, which are very voluminous, abstracts on the above points have been given to Lord Stanley, to the Earl of Aberdeen, to Mr. Goulburn, to the Earl of Dalhousie, and to Lord Canning, in November and December, 1845; and a Synopsis of a complete Commercial Report on China (for which the materials were collected during a personal examination of all the Consular ports, and after visiting every accessible part of China,) was forwarded to the Earl of Dalhousie, 4th December, 1845, which has now been three months under the consideration of the Lords of the Treasury and Board of Trade.\n\nThese labours were in addition to the arduous and responsible duties of Her Majesty's Treasurer for the Colonial, Consular and Diplomatic services in China, which were rendered extremely harassing and anxious by the departure in China from the clear and positive instructions of the Lords of the Treasury; by the difficulty of procuring proper clerks—or by their death and absence from illness; and by the frequent recurrence of a depressing climactic disease, which at one period nearly proved fatal. My accounts, with their voluminous vouchers, were all passed as complete and correct by the Auditor-General, previous to my departure from the colony; and they have been found accurate in their detailed payments and balances, by the Commissioners for auditing the public accounts, excepting two items amounting to less than three pounds sterling, on which further explanation is required from the colony.\n\n#\n\nThe following announcement appeared in the Government Gazette of Hong Kong, two days after my departure from the island; since then I understand it has been proposed to nominate me as the representative of the Anglo-Chinese merchants in England. Although I differ with them respecting the opium trade, I felt bound to declare to Lord Aberdeen that a more honourable, patriotic, and public-spirited class of men than the British merchants in China, is not to be found in any part of the world.\n\n\"A Government notification in to-day's 'Mail' announces the resignation of Mr. Montgomery Martin, who is already on his way to England, having taken his passage by the 'Lanrick' for Bombay. During the short period he held the office of Colonial Treasurer, this gentleman, by his affability and obliging disposition, and his readiness to communicate from his varied stores of knowledge, was so generally known and appreciated by the community, that any eulogium upon him would be superfluous. His residence in China will no doubt have furnished materials for an additional work to the many he has produced on our colonial history; and most people here will be anxious to see the views he gives to the world upon the relations of Great Britain with China, and the prospects of the colony of Hong Kong.\" - China Mail, Hong Kong, 10th July, 1845.\n\n66\n\nIt may be added that I caused my \"Analysis of the Bible\" to be translated into the Chinese language for general circulation.\n\nM\n\n# REPORTS, MINUTES AND DESPATCHES\n\nSIR,\n\nON THE\n\nBRITISH POSITION AND PROSPECTS\n\nIN\n\nCHINA.\n\nRESPECTING HONG KONG.\n\nNo. 1.--To his Excellency J. F. Davis, Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nAt sea, lat. 27 N. East coast of China,\n\nJuly 24, 1844, on board “Syed Khan.\"\n\nI HAVE the honour to lay before your Excellency the accompanying report on the Island of Hong Kong, which I had just completed when I was seized with the recent severe attack of illness which obliged me to proceed to sea*.\n\nThe documentary appendix will not be ready until after my return to Hong Kong. The facts contained in the report are, however, sufficiently conclusive for the formation of a judgment on the present or prospective value of the colony; and I have to solicit the favour of your Excellency transmitting the report to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, as I believe no report on Hong Kong has yet been laid before Her Majesty's Government.\n\nHaving devoted twenty years to the personal examination and study of the colonies of England, France, Spain, Portugal, and Holland, my\n\n* The following is the certificate under which leave of absence was granted; but the leave was not taken until 12th July, when the application of many leeches saved my life, and compelled an immediate removal from Hong Kong to Macao in the Government boat :-\n\n\"I do hereby certify that Mr. R. M. Martin has been for some time past suffering from general debility, with frequent feverish attacks and threatenings of dysentery, which render it highly advisable that a temporary absence from Hong Kong should be permitted; and I do strongly advise that leave of absence should be granted to him for six weeks to proceed to sea, or the north-east coast.\n\n(Signed) ALEX. ANDERSON,\n\nCol. Surgeon.\"\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, July 3, 1844.",
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Of game, there are pheasants, snipe, quail, woodcock, teal, duck, wild geese (large and good), wild swans (very beautiful), &c.\n\nBread and confectionery, prepared in the English style, are well made by the Chinese. Sixteen-pound loaves of excellent white bread may be bought for a dollar. Wheat is grown on the hills, and rice and millet in the valleys; cauliflowers, peas and beans, cabbages, spinach, cucumbers, onions, turnips, carrots, sweet potatoes, bringalls, gourds of different descriptions, French beans, radishes, celery, &c., are brought to market in season. European potatoes are now being introduced, and every English vegetable and fruit, when cultivated, thrive in perfection. The tea-plant grows on the hills, and is sent to Ningpo and Chapoo to be manufactured for the beverage of the higher classes. The wild raspberry and strawberry are in abundance; melons and oranges are excellent; the peach, grape, apple, pear, apricot, cherry, and plum, only require careful cultivation for their improvement (at Shanghai the peaches are large and excellent). Walnuts and Spanish chestnuts come to perfection at Chusan. The tallow-tree and varnish-tree are among the most valuable productions of the island; from the tallow-tree a great abundance of candles of a waxy consistence are prepared; the varnish-tree yields a wood-oil of great use in furniture. The bamboo and dwarf oak abound. Cotton of excellent quality is largely cultivated; silk, as yet, is of limited production. The tobacco of Chusan is much prized. The hop (humulus) grows on every hill.\n\nThe shores around Chusan abound with fish, some of excellent quality, such as the pomphlat, sole, seer, salt-water trout, herring, rock-cod, sturgeon, mackerel, and eel; oysters and cray-fish are in perfection. It is stated that 40,000 fishing-vessels arrive annually from different parts of the coast of China, and remain three months fishing off Chusan. The \"Yellow Mandarin\" fishery is analogous to the herring fishery of Great Britain or of Holland. About 300,000 dollars capital is invested in this lucrative trade. Ice-boats attend the fishing-boats off Chusan, and as soon as the fish are caught they are packed in ice, and sent to the most distant parts of the empire*.\n\n* The following extracts from Dr. Gutzlaff's \"Retrospect of two years' Peace,\" written at Hong Kong, November, 1844, entirely confirm my previous report:\n\n\"Chusan will hold a very prominent place in the history of our commerce\n\nCHUSAN.\n\nCommercial Advantages of Chusan.--The external commerce of Chusan, on our occupation of the island, consisted chiefly of salted and\n\nand intercourse with this country, whatever the political events may be in future. As a mere territorial possession, its advantages will be considerable. The tea that grows on the island is fit for exportation, though not carefully prepared for a foreign market; it is merely sold at Loo-choo, and other places in Keangsoo. There is space enough, unoccupied by any other cultivation, which could be carefully planted with tea shrubs; and the proper tea men invited for this branch of trade from the Sungho hills, about seven days' distance from Ningpo.\n\nWith a small expense of capital, Chusan and the neighbouring islands might produce, instead of ten or twenty boat-loads as at present, the same number of ship-loads of green tea.\n\n\"The silk worm thrives in the island; but is now merely kept by a few females, who take an interest in weaving home-spun dresses. People brought up from their childhood in this branch of industry, could be brought from Loo-choo (one day's sailing distance from Chusan).\n\n\"The island is fertile, and contains a dense, industrious, agricultural population, who, though more than ten times the number of the Chinese inhabitants of Hong Kong, require not one-fifth part of the police establishment for keeping them in order.\n\n\"As a fishing station, Chusan possesses great advantages.\n\n\"The catching of the Mandarin fish during the spring months, is a very extensive and lucrative business to the inhabitants, and employs a large capital and many boats.\n\n\"For the whale fishery Chusan presents great facilities; for, during summer, the fish go to the Japanese seas, and along the coast of Korea, whither they have never yet been pursued. Vessels, therefore, fitting out in the island, would be just in the track.\n\n\"As a commercial emporium, few places in Asia can vie, in point of situation, with Chusan, On the opposite main are the most flourishing cities, as respects manufactures as well as commerce. In its neighbourhood the largest rivers in China disembogue, and these will always be the highroads of commerce. It is only two days' sail from Japan--the same from Korea; and though the former country still remains hermetically sealed, and the other has always kept aloof from contact with the whole world, they cannot always maintain this exclusion of national intercourse. Chusan is a half-way station between the northern and southern provinces; and was, as such, visited by large numbers of junks before the conquest.\n\n\"Inasmuch as it ought now to be an object of our constant endeavour to open new outlets for British manufactures, no spot on earth presents such facilities as Chusan at the present moment.\n\n\"As a station for European troops the climate is most favourable; it is congenial to the European constitution, and the soil would produce all the fruits and vegetables to which we are accustomed at home, if properly planted and cultivated. The imperfect attempts made for that purpose have well succeeded; and the mountains might be clad with the vine, instead of with the dwarf fir which now cover their sides.\n\n\"On account of the great rise and fall of tide, docks might be constructed on Tea Island, or on the north coast of Chusan, for the repair of vessels; and it is worthy of remark, that the neighbouring Korean islands produce firs and oaks of the best quality, excellently adapted for the use of carpenters and shipwrights.\n\n\"In a political point of view, Chusan appears in the most favourable light. The great political maxim, always as much as possible to keep the peace with the Celestial Empire, can never be so well attained as by retaining possession of this island.\n\n\"The neighbourhood of a British force so near the great canal, and only about five days' sail from Pekin, will always make the great emperor very careful to adopt any measures that may wound the feelings of the neighbouring foreigners; and in case of such an event, the appearance of a few steamers at Kwachoo or Chinkeangfoo, would soon change the views of the great monarch.",
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"content_text": "122\n\nPOINTS FOR CONSIDERATION\n\nfavourable geographical position, and the proximity of Canton and Macao; it can never be a colony, on account of its small size, rocky, rugged, barren structure, its insalubrious and depressing climate, and incapability of even producing food for its inhabitants for one week, it might be stated for one day, for our establishments, and its thieving piratical, worthless population, the refuse of China; and it cannot be made a fortification (even if England desired a fortification to protect nothing at the very extreme end of the Chinese empire), on account of the singular formation of hills and mountains, one commanding another, by reason of the proximity of the main land and of other islands; and further, from the difficulty, if not impossibility of keeping troops alive in Hong Kong, or, if alive, strong enough for active service: \"it would be absurd to create and maintain a fortress for no object whatever. Even if Chusan be not obtained, there can be no justifiable grounds for incurring the present unnecessarily large civil and military expenditure in Hong Kong.\n\n66\n\n1st. This rock is no protection whatever to the trade of Canton; a stout frigate at Whampoa, and a steamer off the factories at Canton, is a far more efficacious protection for our trade there than any garrison or fleet we could maintain at Hong Kong. The present position of the British representative and merchants at Canton, is in several respects worse than before the war: notwithstanding the large fleet and force we have at Hong Kong, our Consular establishment and merchants are subject to insult and even to violence if they move out of their houses, as recently shown; and in fact there is more freedom and respect for British subjects at any other of the Consular ports than at Canton, from whose city we are still debarred even entrance.\n\nDuring the last three years, there have been frequent disturbances, tumults, and conflagrations affecting the life and property of Europeans, without the Cantonese caring about our position at Hong Kong. The Americans have a trade nearly half the amount of the British at Canton; but they require no island like Hong Kong. The occasional presence of one of their ships of war at Whampoa, is their only and best support and protection. Last year an American brig of war, the \"St. Lewis,\" off Canton, was more effectual in preserving British life and property, than Hong Kong, with a plenipotentiary, general, admiral, two regiments, and four ships of war!\n\n2nd. In the event of another war with China, experience has shown that it may most rapidly and economically be terminated by a naval force; if it were resolved to employ soldiers, they must be sent from India, and any force we could keep at Hong Kong, would be utterly inefficient for any military invasion, or garrisoning of different cities in China, should, unfortunately, such a course be ever again adopted; but a few ships of war and steamers in the Yang-tze-kiang, would dictate peace in China, without even suspending our tea trade at Canton.\n\n3rd. With regard to the protection of Hong Kong, should hostilities ensue with China, a local corps of 500 Malays and the “Minden” 74, moored in the harbour with one tier of heavy guns and a complement of 200 marines and marine artillerymen, would be more than adequate to resist any military or naval force which the whole Government of China could send against Hong Kong. And as regards protection against any foreign power with whom England might hereafter possibly be at war, this barren rock by the above-mentioned force would have far more protection than Singapore, and other of our valuable possessions which have ten times the amount of property ashore and afloat to protect, that Hong Kong is ever likely to possess. There can therefore be no national advantage in expending life and treasure by the maintenance of an European garrison at Hong Kong; and the island being as ill adapted for a commercial emporium or political position, as it is a military garrison, there are no justifiable grounds for the present unnecessarily large Governmental establishments; a lieutenant and colonel commandant, a colonial secretary, a recorder, police magistrate, harbour-master, chaplain, and their subordinates, would fulfil every requisite duty. Thus the civil charges would be reduced to a scale commensurate with the revenue, and by vesting a municipal authority in the respectable European residents, they would assess themselves, provide the funds for police, sewers, roads, &c., administer them more efficiently than Government could do, and avoid irritating petty legislation and interference.\n\n123\n\nThe civil expenditure of Hong Kong, therefore, may be advantageously reduced from £50,000 to £12,000 or £15,000 per annum; the military from £150,000 or £200,000 to £20,000 or £25,000 per annum; and the several million dollars now proposed so unnecessarily to be expended on civil and military works may be saved from utter waste. The Consular stations and staff in China, require revision in several ways, but especially in the expenditure; even if we keep open the ports of Ningpo, Foochoo, and Amoy, the Consulate and Superintendent of Trade department charges may, with advantage to the public service, be reduced from about £30,000 or £35,000 a-year, to £15,000 per annum.\n\nIt would be necessary to retain at Shanghai a consul, but at the other three ports a vice-consul at each would be sufficient, and the Superintendency of Trade department ought to be abolished, as its duties would be more efficiently done by a consul-general at Canton, with a supervising control. The consular salaries would be defrayed by bills drawn on the Lords of the Treasury. All correspondence would be direct between the Foreign Office and consul-general. At Ningpo, for instance, where no English vessel has traded for twelve months, and there is not one European merchant we have had during the last year, a consul, a vice-consul, an interpreter (although the consul is a superior Chinese scholar), a surgeon, first and second consular assistant, &c. At Foochoo, where there is no trade, we have a consul, (a vice-consul is named to proceed there,) an interpreter, no surgeon (the Consul being a surgeon), and two consular assistants, &c.\n\nAt Amoy we have a consul, a vice-consul, a surgeon, consular assistants, &c. One efficient vice-consul would fulfil the duties, if there were ten times the amount of the present trade at Amoy. The following scale of consular establishment would be amply sufficient for our present trade and position in China:\n\n518",
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"content_text": "102\n\nCORRESPONDENCE\n\nwell as the more immediate and apparent interests of the whole British empire. I trust, Sir, you will therefore pardon my earnestness regarding the island of Chusan, for on the retention or evacuation of that island depends, in my humble judgment, much weal or woe to England.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nSir,\n\nR. M. MARTIN.\n\nNo. X.—To C. E. Trevelyan, Esq., Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.\n\nH. M. Treasury, Hong Kong, April 3, 1845.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, my account current as Treasurer of this colony, from the 8th May (the period of my arrival here) to 31st December, 1844; and also a copy of my quarterly account for the quarter terminating the year, as passed by the Auditor. I have as yet been unable to obtain the accounts of the Consulates for the past three quarters, but hope soon to obtain them. Scarcely any final vouchers have yet been rendered to me for £20,1867. 14s. 11d., the amount which I have transmitted to the different Consulates in China from the 8th May to the 31st December, 1844.\n\nI have also the honour to transmit two statements which I prepared for his Excellency the Governor, showing the total revenue and total disbursements of the colony, from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1844. The quarterly accounts current have been transmitted to the Auditor of the colony.\n\nAs there has been considerable and important deviations from the instructions of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, relative to the mode of making payments, and as the accounts of sums paid by Mr. Stewart, late treasurer, and by Mr. Commissary-General Coffin, have been in some measure confounded with my accounts, thereby causing considerable delay and some confusion, I have the honour to solicit that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury will be pleased to call for copies of all correspondence which has passed between me and his Excellency Mr. Davis, the Colonial Secretary, and the Auditor, on the subjects above referred to. This correspondence is voluminous, and I have no clerks to make copies; I, however, transmit copies of several letters which will sufficiently indicate the necessity of the Government here complying with the required forms.\n\n103\n\nWITH THE TREASURY.\n\nIn my letter of the 6th January, 1845, to the Colonial Secretary, I urged a compliance with the instructions of the Lords of the Treasury, and begged that the Governor would reconsider his orders, in the following words: \"I venture to solicit his Excellency's reconsideration of the directions conveyed in your letter of this date before they be carried into effect. We are now at the commencement of a new year, and it is extremely desirable that the forms of accounts and the manner in which disbursements are to be made and vouched be in strict conformity with the instructions furnished by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. These instructions are simple, clear, and of easy execution; a deviation from them causes, as has been already experienced, a very large amount of unnecessary labour, a delay in preparing the periodical returns, a want of perfect clearness, and an increased pecuniary responsibility on my part, which I do not feel justified in incurring.\n\n66\n\nBy the adoption of the instructions conveyed in your letter of this date, I shall be justly chargeable with violating the instructions of the Lords of the Treasury, and which in my opinion may, without difficulty or disadvantage to the public service, be, from the commencement of the present year, carried into effect.\n\nBy making payments three and four times during the quarter, instead of once to the heads of departments, double the present establishment of clerks will be required in the treasury; a complication of accounts will necessarily ensue, unless my account current was rendered monthly instead of quarterly, and I should incur an increased responsibility and risk, by reason of the augmented number and preservation of vouchers, which I do not feel justified in subjecting my securities to, (particularly in this unhealthy and sickly climate,) unless the Governor be pleased to release me from the obligation which the securities entered into with the Queen impose.\"\n\nI earnestly entreat the attention of their Lordships to this correspondence; I feel confident they will not subject me to blame, either for the delay which has occurred in transmitting the quarterly accounts, or for any deviation which may have taken place in the prescribed forms.\n\nI submitted the case to Commissary-General Coffin, and to Deputy Commissary-General Miller, and both these gentlemen said it was\n\n526",
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"content_text": "104\n\nCORRESPONDENCE\n\nimpossible to go on in the irregular manner heretofore pursued, and to render such accounts as the instructions from their Lordships order.\n\nI have, however, endeavoured to prepare the requisite quarterly forms, and the Auditor here has passed them as correct, in their detailed payments, as well as in their balances; and when the whole correspondence is before their Lordships, I humbly hope that it will be seen that I have endeavoured to fulfil my duty, and at the same time offer no obstruction to the exigencies of the public service.\n\nWITH THE TREASURY,\n\n105 527\n\nclerk, and having only had one efficient chief clerk here since my arrival, and he died in a few weeks*, by unceasing labour I have been enabled to put in my annual account (of which a copy was transmitted to you by last mail, as also my December quarterly account), and the accounts for the present quarter complete, and within the given time.\n\nI inclose, also, two statements showing the revenue and disbursements of the colony during the past year, with the exceptions noted at the bottom of each statement.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nR. M. MARTIN.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nR. M. MARTIN.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. XI.—To C. E. Trevelyan, Esq., Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.\n\nH. M. Treasury, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 19, 1845.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith, for the information of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, a copy of my quarterly account for this colony, up to 31st day of March, 1845.\n\nIt will be seen that this account includes the payments made in January, 1845, for the quarter ending 31st December, 1844; and that it also includes the payments due for the quarter ending 31st March, 1845, which, under the special orders of the Governor, I was obliged to pay before the termination of the quarter, viz., during the last week in March.\n\nIn consequence of payments being made three and four times in the quarter to each department, instead of once and finally; and in consequence of the forms ordered by the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury being, to a great extent, set aside, the vouchers are very voluminous and complex. I have endeavoured to comply with the orders I have received here from the Governor; and I trust their Lordships will exonerate me, having, much to my regret, been compelled to set aside the positive instructions of their Lordships, whereby much unnecessary labour and great anxiety has been incurred.\n\nNotwithstanding the constant illness, absence, and changes of my\n\nSir,\n\nNo. XII.—To C. E. Trevelyan, Esq., Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.\n\nH. M. Treasury, Hong Kong, May 19, 1845.\n\nI WAS favoured on 18th instant with your communication of 7th February, acknowledging the receipt of a copy of my Report on Chusan.\n\nI shall be gratified if that report, and also my Report on Hong Kong, be found useful.\n\nEvery day I am more and more fully impressed with the error of our present policy; and grieve over the misplacement and waste of national resources, and of individual energy. But there are too many persons interested in the present state of things to induce a hope that the expenditure here will be reduced, or that another and better position for our commerce will be sought in China. The Governor intends, I understand, to stop here five years, by which time it is expected he will have saved at least 30,000l., as he does not spend the interest of his salary as Governor. Others have houses or land here, or\n\n* There were five chief clerks under me in the Colonial Treasury in twelve months. The first and second died; the third was Mr. Mercer, the relative and private secretary of the Governor, who was succeeded by Capt. Dernham (recommended to Governor Davis from England), formerly commanding an opium vessel on the coast of Formosa, where he was wrecked; he retired, knowing little of accounts. And the fifth, M. Comelati, an amiable Italian gentleman, a friend of Major-General D'Aguilar, was unable to make even a weekly cash abstract.",
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"content_text": "106\n\n66\n\nCORRESPONDENCE\n\nthey have money lent on mortgage, or they traffic in building land; or they say, let things alone, they will last our time; if the Government at home choose to spend money here, what have we to do with it ?\"\n\nI am injured and misrepresented for entertaining a different feeling; and every effort has been made by departing from the Treasury instructions, and by various annoyances, to derange and delay my accounts; and by petty devices and subterfuges to create an unfavourable impression against me at home. However, by hiring clerks myself, and refusing at last to pay any more money without proper vouchers, I succeeded in compelling some attention to forms.\n\nMy offer to submit the subject to Commissary-General Coffin and Deputy Commissary-General Miller, was rejected. Both these gentlemen said they did not see how accounts could be rendered from the manner in which money was drawn. My quarterly accounts were, considering their nature, completed as early as those of any other department in China. Mr. Miller who has examined them, thinks they are \"done in a masterly manner,\" although for a long time I had but one working clerk—a mere copyist and an Anglo-Indian; and at present my three clerks—head, second, and third—are all ill and absent, yet I am ready to produce all my books, and to show them made up and balanced, daily, at 3 o'clock. I have announced this to the Governor, the Colonial Secretary, and to the Auditor, to prevent continued misrepresentations.\n\nI have not yet been able to obtain all the Consular accounts* complete for the past year, although a letter which I inclosed to you in a former communication stated, by the command of the Governor, that they were \"all passed and found correct to December, 1844, and deposited in the safe keeping of the auditor.\" I have reason to know, that at the time this letter was written the Consular accounts were not and never had been in the auditor's possession; and that Mr. Elmslie, the officiating secretary to the Chief Superintendent, was the only person who had examined the Consular accounts. This has been communicated to me also by Mr. Elmslie, who states that the auditor had refused to examine or have anything to do with the Consular accounts; and it is confirmed by the auditor refusing even to retain in his office the Consular vouchers duplicates transmitted with my quarterly accounts. To this moment I have not received the Consular accounts for Shanghai and for Ningpo, for the year ending 31st December, 1844, and I am informed, on application to Mr. Elmslie, that he has not received them from Shanghai and Ningpo in a fit state to send them to me. I have not been able to obtain one of the Consular accounts for the present year.\n\nI am still unable to induce the auditor to carry into effect the instructions from the Lords of the Treasury. Some of the departments draw their money whenever they like, on what are called \"imprest warrants;\" others draw it monthly, on salary abstracts and final warrants; and instead of the quarterly payments not being made until after the termination of the quarter, the Governor has ordered me to pay all the departments before even the termination of the quarter for which the salaries and wages are due.\n\nI beg that these facts may be communicated to the Colonial Office and Audit Board, in order that I may not suffer from misrepresentations and official letters containing insinuations and inuendoes, which are kept secret from me.\n\nNothing but an anxious desire to fulfil the duty entrusted to me has enabled me to remain at my post, under the daily suffering of a lingering...\n\n* \"To A. W. Elmslie, Esq., Officiating Secretary to his Excellency the Chief Superintendent of Trade.\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Treasury, Hong Kong, April 18, 1845.\n\n\"I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, in which I am informed, by the command of his Excellency Her Majesty's plenipotentiary, in reply to my request that proper vouchers and accounts be rendered to this department, for £20,1867. 14s. 11d., advanced to the different Consuls from 8th May to 31st December, 1844, that they are deposited in the safe keeping of the auditor,' and that if I want them with a view to the recovery of the superannuation and income tax dues, I have only to apply to the proper quarter, and the auditor will give me immediate access to them.' I would again respectfully solicit the attention of his Excellency to the request and statement contained in my letter of yesterday's date. By the instructions from the Earl of Aberdeen, I apprehend it will be found that the Consular accounts, after being passed by the auditor and returned to you certified as to their correctness, are to be transmitted to me, to be appended as a sub-account to my quarterly account. For the past six months I have repeatedly applied to you for these accounts, and my applications being fruitless, I was compelled to address his Excellency yesterday on the subject. But, independent of these instructions from the Foreign Office, a mere access to the receipts granted by the Consulates for the full amount of their salaries, while they have only drawn bills on me, under your directions, for the net amount of their salaries, would not, as I have long ago acquainted you, enable me to recover the sums due for income-tax and superannuation fund, and give them credit for the amounts in my books.\n\n\"I have the honour, therefore, to request that his Excellency will be pleased to reconsider my letter.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n\"R. M. MARTIN.\"\n\n107\n\nF\n\nWITH THE TREASURY.\n\n528",
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"content_text": "433\n\nBoard\n\nof\n\nTradet\n\nEB\n\nEncl. 1, in No. 16.\n\n18\n\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE RESIGNATION\n\nwhether I am deserving of the injury which has been inflicted on me for endeavouring to amend what were deemed national errors of great magnitude, and on which, if I had remained silent and inactive, I should indeed have considered myself unworthy of employment of any kind in Her Majesty's service.\n\nI would venture to suggest the names of three gentlemen well conversant with the subjects referred to; namely, Mr. Trevelyan, Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Lefevre, Secretary to the Board of Trade, and Mr. Otho Hamilton, of the Audit Board; the last named gentleman having had all my accounts as Her Majesty's Treasurer under his supervision.\n\nI will cheerfully bow to any decision at which those three gentlemen may arrive.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed) R. M. Martin.\n\nEnclosure 1, in No. 16.\n\nABSTRACT of Proceedings in China.\n\n1. Examination of our Financial state in detail; transmitted to Governor Davis, 17 June 1844; to Lords of the Treasury, 19 June 1844.\n\n2. On transmission of Specimens of all Chinese Manufactures to Board of Trade, London, forwarded to Governor Davis, 29 June 1844.\n\n3. Report on the British Currency, and Monetary Exchanges in China.\n\n4. Report on Hong Kong in all its aspects; to Governor Davis, 24 July 1844; to Lords of the Treasury, August 1844.\n\n5. Report on Chusan in all its aspects; examination of our policy in China; to Governor Davis, 30 August 1844; to Lords of the Treasury, 20 September 1844.\n\n6. Comparison between Hong Kong and Chusan; transmitted to Sir R. Peel, 14 November 1844; to Lords of the Treasury, 14 November 1844.\n\n7. Dissent in Council on proposed Legislative enactment for licensing Opium smoking-shops in Her Majesty's settlement, Hong Kong; read before Governor in Council, 26 November 1844.\n\n8. Draft Legislative Enactment, to enjoin an observance of the Sabbath in Hong Kong; transmitted to Governor Davis, and caused my \"Analysis of the Bible\" to be translated by the Reverend Dr. Gutzlaff, for general circulation throughout China.\n\n9. Despatch respecting French intrigues in China; to Sir Robert Peel, 21 December 1844; to Lords of the Treasury.\n\n10. Minute on the British Position and Prospects in China, and an Exposition of the Treaty of Nankin; to Governor Davis, 19 April 1845; to Sir Robert Peel, 25 April 1845; to Lords of the Treasury, 25 April 1845.\n\n11. Representations and Correspondence on the Governor's violation of Instructions from Lords of the Treasury, on the disbursement and account of the Public Monies; to Lords of the Treasury, May, June and July 1845.\n\n12. Correspondence respecting six months' leave of absence, to represent the state of our affairs in China; Her Majesty's Government, 24th June, July, 1845 transmitted to Governor Davis, with explanatory Letter to Lord Stanley, 8th July 1845, and to Mr. Stephen, Under Secretary of the Colonies, same date.\n\n13. Rise, progress and condition of the Tea Trade, with numerous tabular statements, &c.; to Lord Stanley, 3d September 1845.\n\n14. Points for the consideration of Her Majesty's Government on the whole of our affairs in China, with Appendices A. B. and C., showing 1st. A necessary reduction of expenditure to the extent of 250,000l. a year. 2d. Fair and honourable terms of negotiation with the China Government for the cession of Chusan. 3d. Reply to Sir H. Pottinger's reason for preferring Hong Kong to Chusan. 4th. The means to be adopted immediately for the rectification of our erroneous policy, to improve our position, and to expand our trade, &c. transmitted to Lord Stanley, 3d September 1845.\n\nIn addition to the preceding documents (which are very voluminous), abstracts on the above points have been given to Lord Stanley, to the Earl of Aberdeen, to Mr. Goulburn, to the Earl of Dalhousie, and to Lord Canning, in November and December 1845; and a Synopsis of a complete Commercial Report on China (for which the materials were collected during a personal examination of all the consular ports, and after visiting every accessible part of China) was forwarded to the Earl of Dalhousie, 4 December 1845, which has now been three months under the consideration of the Lords of the Treasury and Board of Trade.\n\n19\n\nOF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG.\n\nThese labours were in addition to the arduous and responsible duties of Her Majesty's Treasurer for the Colonial, Consular and Diplomatic services in China; which were rendered extremely harassing and anxious by the departure in China, from the clear and positive instructions of the Lords of the Treasury, by the difficulty of procuring proper clerks, or by their death, and absence from illness, and by the frequent recurrence of a depressing climactic disease, which at one period nearly proved fatal.\n\n2 March 1846.\n\nEnclosure 2, in No. 16.\n\nR. M. Martin.\n\nMEMORANDUM of Exertions for the Public Welfare.\n\n TWENTY years have been sedulously devoted by Mr. Martin to an investigation of the Encl. 2, in No. 16. Colonial, Commercial, and Financial affairs of the British Empire. Ten of these years have been spent in visiting the Colonies, and 10 years in circulating the information acquired; the result of some of his labours has been as follows:\n\n \n I.\n History of the British Colonies, five vols,\n 28 Maps, Charts, &c.\n 8,500\n \n \n II.\n Marquess Wellesley's Indian Despatches, five vols.,\n Maps, Plans, &c.\n 8,000\n \n \n III.\n British Colonial Library, ten vols.,\n Engravings, Maps, &c.\n 22,000\n \n \n IV,\n Eastern India, three vols.,\n 200 Drawings, Maps, Plans, &c.\n 4,500\n \n \n V.\n Statistics of the British Colonies, one large vol.,\n 3,000,000 Figures, Seals, &c.\n 3,000\n \n \n VI.\n Political, Commercial and Financial Condition of Anglo-Eastern Empire in 1832,\n 8vo.\n 1,500\n \n \n VII.\n British relations with the Chinese Empire in 1832,\n 8vo.\n 3,000\n \n \n VIII.\n Taxation of the British Empire, with Tabular Views, &c.\n \n 1,500\n \n \n IX.\n Past and present state of Tea Trade of England, Europe and America.\n \n 1,500\n \n \n X.\n Analysis of Parliamentary Evidence on China Trade, 1832\n \n -\n \n \n XI.\n Colonial Policy of the British Empire, Part I., Government-\n \n 3,000\n \n \n XII.\n Marquess Wellesley's Spanish Despatches, one vol.\n 8vo.\n -\n \n \n XIII.\n Ireland as it was, is, and ought to be, Tabular Chart, &c.\n \n 1,500\n \n \n XIV.\n Colonial Magazine, seven vols.\n 8vo, completed, Engravings, &c.\n 12,000\n \n \n XV.\n Poor Laws for Ireland, a Measure of Justice for England, &c., pamphlet\n \n 10,000\n \n \n \n Colonial Atlas, with Maps of each Colony, now engraving.\n \n \n \n \n \n East and West India Sugar Duties Equalization, 40,000 copies distributed.\n \n \n \n \n \n Monetary System of British India, 10,000 copies distributed.\n \n \n \n \n \n Various pamphlets on Commerce, Finance, Shipping, &c.\n \n \n \n\nThe foregoing publications comprise about 70,000 octavo volumes, illustrated by numerous maps, engravings, plans and statistical charts, and they all refer to subjects of great national importance. The mere mechanical expenditure on these works for printing, paper, engravings, &c., has been upwards of 20,000l. sterling.\n\nTo defray these heavy charges, to pay assistants, and to provide for personal expenses during 20 years' unremitting toil, and costly labour and travel, not the slightest aid has been furnished by Government; but relying solely on his own energies, and out of his own limited resources, Mr. Martin has prepared the first complete \"History of the British Colonies,\" and by his unceasing exertions, has awakened an interest in the public mind for our trans-marine possessions, whose extent and condition were heretofore imperfectly known, and their intrinsic value inadequately appreciated.\n\nIn addition to the preceding mentioned labours, Mr. Martin has zealously contributed to promote various useful objects. The \"Colonial Society\" of London was consequent on his works, and he has endeavoured to advance its laudable objects. The \"Central Agricultural Society\" by which the landed interest was united for the protection and encouragement of agriculture, at a period when it was threatened with destruction (1835-36), had its origin mainly in his exertions, and for two years he acted gratuitously as one of its honorary secretaries. He also co-operated as honorary secretary with the \"Society for the Protection of Domestic Industry,\" which was superintended by a committee of 21 Members of Parliament, whereof E. S. 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H. Glass,\n\nCollector of Customs.\n\nSaddlery\n\nSpirits\n\nSundries\n\nWine, Sherry\n\nWood, of Sorts\n\nBombay Custom House,\n\n5 August 1844.\n\nTo the Hon. R. M. Martin,\n\nHer Majesty's Treasurer, China.\n\n(9.)\n\nREPORT on the TEA TRADE, transmitted to Her Majesty's Government from China, in July 1845.By R. M. Martin.\n\nTHE traffic in an innutritious herb, grown almost solely in one district of Asia, and in a country hitherto isolated from the western nations, is one of the most remarkable illustrations of the enterprise and energy of modern commerce. A trade involving British capital to the extent of about 10,000,000l. sterling, furnishing regular employment to about 60,000 tons of first-class English-built shipping, contributing nearly 5,000,000l. sterling of annual revenue to the Exchequer, and influencing materially the morals and sobriety of the nation, deserves investigation in detail, as regards its rise, progress, and present condition.\n\nThe tea plant, although found in different parts of the eastern hemisphere, is probably indigenous to China, or Japan, where it is extensively cultivated. The earliest record to be found of the use of tea is in the records of the Moorish historians and travellers in the end of the eighth century, at which period the Mahommedans had free ingress and residence in China, subject to very few restrictions.\n\nIbn Batuta mentions that the emperor received the revenues from salt; that paper money, bearing the government stamp, was current in the country; and that the general drink of the people was prepared by immersing the leaves of a small plant in hot water, which was used medicinally as well as for correcting the bad properties of the water.\n\nSoliman, an Arabian merchant, who visited China, A. D. 850, describes \"sah\" (tea), as the usual beverage of the people.\n\nTexeira, a Spaniard, in 1600, saw dried leaves (of tea) at Malacca, which were in use among the Chinese. Olearius, in 1633, found the use of tea pretty general among the Persians, who procured it from China by means of the Usbeck Tartars. The Russian ambassador (Stawkaw) to the court of the Mogul Chau Shau Attyn, partook of tea, and at his departure he was offered it for the Czar Michael Romanoff, which he refused, not knowing of what use it would be in Russia.\n\nOf the first introduction of tea into Europe we know but little. In 1517, Emmanuel, King of Portugal, sent a fleet of eight ships to China, and an ambassador to Pekin, who obtained permission to open a trade; but it was not until after the formation of the Dutch East India Company in 1602, that the use of tea became known on the continent, and although the enterprising Hollanders paid considerable attention to it, as an article of commerce, the consumption increased but little, for in 1670 it was unknown in Dort.\n\n[ 5 ]\n\nThe Dutch, in their second voyage to China, bought a good deal of tea, at from 8d. to 10d. per pound (the price at the present day), which, although of a middling quality, sold in Paris for 30 livres a pound; and for some years the best Japanese tea, esteemed as much better than that of China, brought from 100 to 200 livres per pound in France, until the use of coffee and chocolate became fashionable and general.\n\nThe first authentic notice to be found of tea in England, is in an Act of Parliament (12 Car. II, c. 23) A. D. 1660, by which a duty of 8d. per gallon was laid on all tea made and sold in coffee-houses; and by an Act framed in the same year the duties of excise on malt liquor, cyder, perry, meal, spirits, or strong waters, coffee, tea, sherbet, and chocolate were settled on the king for life. In the diary of Mr. Pepys, secretary of the Admiralty, there is found under date 25th September 1661, the following memorandum relative to tea \"I sent for a cup of tea, a Chinese drink, of which I had never drank before.\"\n\nIn 1662, Charles the Second married the Princess Catherine of Portugal, who it is said was fond of tea, having been accustomed to it in her own country, hence it became fashionable in England. Waller, in a birth-day ode on her Majesty, ascribes the introduction of the herb to the queen in the following lines:\n\n\"The best of queens and best of herbes we owe\n\ndid show\n\nTo that bold nation who the\n\nway\n\nTo the fair region where the sun doth rise, Whose rich productions we so justly prize.\"\n\nThe same poet attributes an inspiring power to the Chinese leaf:\n\n\"The muses' friend, tea, does our fancy aid,\n\nRepress those vapours which the head invade.\"\n\nIn 1660 tea was sold in England at three guineas per pound. The following copy of an advertisement in 1680, shows the price of the leaf, and the mode of vending it to the public:\n\n\"These are to give notice to persons of quality, that a small parcel of most excellent tea is by accident fallen into the hands of a private person to be sold; but that none may be disappointed, the lowest price is thirty shillings a pound, and not any to be sold under a pound weight, for which they are desired to bring a convenient box. Enquire at Mr. Thomas Eagle's, at the King's Head, in St. James's Market.”—London Gazette, 16 December 1680.\n\nIn 1666 Lords Arlington and Ossory brought a quantity of tea from Holland; its price in England then was 60s. per pound. About this period, the East India Company being desirous of presenting a rarity to his Majesty, procured 22 lbs. of tea, which was thought a valuable offering to royalty.\n\nHeretofore the small quantity used in England was obtained from the Continent; for in 1634, some English ships having visited Canton, a rupture took place between our seamen and the Chinese, and trade was for some time interdicted; but in 1668 the Court of Directors, in the despatch to their factories at Bantam in Java, ordered them to send home by their ships 100 lbs, weight of the best tea they could get. And accordingly, in 1669, the East India Company's first invoice of tea was received, amounting to two canisters of 143 lbs. Such was the commencement of a trade which, by the most judicious management, has now risen to an importation of upwards of 50,000,000 lbs. weight. That a careful proportioning of the supply to the demand was absolutely necessary, will be evident from the following fact, which at this early period operated as a warning to the Company, and has since proved highly beneficial to the commerce. In 1678 the East India Company imported 4,713 lbs. of tea; but this then large quantity completely glutted the market, for the imports of tea during the ensuing six years amounted in all to only 318 lbs. In 1680 the Company opened a direct trade with China.\n\nIn 1689 the old mode of levying the duty on tea, viz. by the quantity made in the coffee-houses, being found very uncertain as well as vexatious, an Act of 1 Gul. & Mar., sess. 2, c. 6, fixed a custom duty of 5s. a pound, together with the former sum of five per cent. on the value.\n\nFor some time the consumption of tea slowly increased in England, in consequence of the high rate of duty, which was sometimes as high as 200 per cent. on the sale price.\n\nA considerable degree of smuggling arose, which was only put down by lowering the taxation. During the years 1697, 1698, and 1699, the East India Company imported on an average 20,000 lbs. of tea annually. In 1700 the importation was augmented to 60,000 lbs. a year, the average price of tea being 16s. per pound. In 1721 the importation of tea into England exceeded for the first time 1,000,000 lbs.; and at the September sale in 1728, the quantity put up for sale was 769,104 lbs., the duty on which amounted to 153,820l. sterling.\n\nThe bill of cargo of the Cæsar, which arrived from China 17th May 1726, has entered in it 358,000 lbs. of tea, the duty on which was 71,620l. sterling. Since the commencement of the present century the annual consumption of tea in the United Kingdom has increased by upwards of 20,000,000 of pounds, while its use during the same period has been decreasing in Europe and America. In the space of 100 years, from 1710 to 1810, there were sold at the East India Company's sales 750,219,016 lbs. of tea, the value of which was 129,804,595l. sterling. Of this quantity of tea 116,470,675 lbs. were re-exported. Since the commencement of the present century, 1,385,949,566 lbs. of tea have been sold in England,",
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"content_text": "N.40 $1839.\n\nIclosure No Jo Desp:\n\n€4\n\nNell.\n\nfecutior.\n\n3609. Ang hong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJUNE 28\n\n1849\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nfor the Year 1848-49. of Her Majesty's Treasury\n\nAccount with the\n\nHongkong.\n\nLords Commissioners\n\nDuplicate.\n\nto Admiralty 2 July,\n\nVade funcher to Adm? 15 Aug\n\nispy\n\nMy Lord,\n\n24th April, 1849.\n\nI regret to report to your Lordship\n\nthat during the past three months, acts of Piracy\n\nvery much in the vicinity of this Island have increased; so much so indeed, that I fear, unless\n\nsome effectual steps are taken for its suppression,\n\nthe trading interests of the Colony will materially suffer.\n\nThe subject has been under my consideration, and brought more than once to the notice of the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, but it has again more particularly attracted my attention in consequence of an attack having recently\n\nThe Right Honorable, The Earl Grey,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.",
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"content_text": "1.40 of 1879\n\nEnclosure No 7mm Gesp.\n\n€4\n\n11.\n\nExecution.\n\nVade inquirer to Admiral? 15. Copy to Admiralty 21 Ju\n\nAust - pig\n\nMy Lord,\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJUNE 28\n\n1849\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n24th April, 1849-\n\nI regret to report to your Lordship\n\nthat during the past three months, acts of Piracy\n\nsuch very ...\n\nin the vicinity of this Island have increased; so much so indeed, that I fear, unless\n\neffectual steps are taken for its suppression, the trading interests of the Colony will materially\n\nsuffer.\n\n2. The subject has been for\n\nsome time under\n\nmy consideration and been more than once brought to the notice of the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, but it has again more particularly attracted my attention in\n\nconsequence of an attack having recently ...\n\nThe Right Honorable,\n\nThe Earl Grey,\n\n&tc.\n\n&tc.\n\nSupplica t...\n\nf. Her Majesty's Treasury\n\nLords Commissioners\n\nAccount with The\n\nHongkong,\n\nHongkong.\n\nfor\n\nthe Year 1848-49.\n\nJ...",
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"content_text": "122\n\n4\n\nis called on to perform duties of no ordinary description, and which must prove very harassing. This however arises from the system in force, and in my judgment is very considerably increased by the presence of what is called \"The Board of Respective Officers.\" What the precise duties of these officers are, cannot clearly understand; but it appears to me that one of their principal avocations is to recommend what to them may seem fit and necessary for the public service.\n\nThe Board consists of—\n\nA Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers.\n\nA Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery. The Ordnance Storekeeper.\n\nThe Acting Deputy Storekeeper.\n\n20. In my despatch of 25th January, No. 10, I have suggested that in a military point of view I cannot conceive it possible that the presence of the two first officers is requisite with a force composed of 1,200 men; and if this opinion be in conformity with that entertained by those more competent to offer one, and there be no other objections, of which I am unaware, I would urgently recommend the abolition of this Board altogether. In all boards the responsibility is so much divided, that suggestions involving expense are much more likely to be made by them than by an individual; and there seems no cause why such occasional alterations and additions as may be required, cannot, on their necessity, being brought to the notice of the General or other officer commanding, be sanctioned by him without the intervention of this Board, which cannot, if Mr. St. Hill's statement be correct, and of which there can be no doubt, but materially add to the labour not only of his own but of that of other departments, as far as I am able to judge, without any commensurate advantage being derived.\n\n21. But should the proper authorities not see fit to place this power in the hands of the commanding officer, it might be ordered that no military expenses should be incurred or recommended beyond £100 without being also approved of by the Governor of the colony.\n\n22. The Ordnance Storekeeper's Establishment is as follows, and amounts annually to £4,165 6s. 7d.\n\n \n 1 Storekeeper. (first class)\n £\n s.\n d.\n 936\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 1 Deputy Storekeeper\n \n \n \n 540\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 1 First Clerk\n \n \n \n 362\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 1 Second Clerk\n \n \n \n 322\n 0\n 0\n \n \n I Assistant Firemaster\n \n \n \n 45\n 12\n 6\n \n\n23 The expenses of this department amount annually to £1,785, to which must be added £500 per annum for offices and stores; and on the whole I do not consider it susceptible of any material reduction; but from Mr. Assistant-Commissary-General Smith's own showing, I think it is capable of undertaking a very considerable addition to its duties. At present the department has in its charge provisions to the value of £2,424 19s 4d., and the actual value of the supplies issued during the past year, 1848, amounted only to £7,335 4s. 8d. and this includes, as will be seen on reference to Enclosure No. 12, every article of consumption ordered by the commissariat, embracing all hospital comforts. The fresh beef and bread provided by Chinese contractors, as also the fire-wood, form a sum of £3,878, which would leave the actual distribution by the commissariat, of only £3,457 per annum.\n\nPage 41.\n\n24. In explanation of this small expenditure of provisions, it is right, I should again observe, that the European troops amounting to only 600 are supplied with bread and fresh meat by contract, so that with the exception of one day in each week, when salt meat is supplied to them during the six winter months, the commissariat department has indeed in this branch of its duty, but little to do, as the Ceylon Rifles do not draw any rations from the department.\n\n25. Mr. Smith appears to make some difficulty in undertaking the duty of provisioning the navy, and if, as he states, that Hong Kong was the headquarters of the Indian station, and that a large force was always stationed here, his objection might be entitled to consideration; but instead of a line of battle ship, a frigate, three steamers, and five sloops, being ordinarily stationed here, the force intended for Hong Kong as agreed upon between Viscount Palmerston and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty is fixed at one frigate, and a steamer, a force about equivalent to that which Mr. Smith states in the Australian colonies is supplied by the army commissariat under the commissariat regulations; and with this precedent before me, I certainly cannot see why a similar plan may not be adopted in this colony.\n\n26. It appears also evident that the building used for a commissariat store, is at present unnecessarily large; and so far as I can judge, would hold the extra supplies required for the navy. Should it be found insufficient there would be no difficulty in hiring good and dry warehouses elsewhere.\n\n27. With respect to Mr. Smith's animadversions on the civil department, I have nothing to say, except that he is clearly writing on subjects with which he is not familiar, and with the particulars of which he has not the means of being very intimately acquainted. In his remarks I see he says, that on negotiating bills during the past year, a profit of £2,949 has been realized. This is no doubt very satisfactory, but whether the rate of exchange is favourable or otherwise, does not depend on him, but on circumstances over which he can possibly have no control. So long as money can be procured for bills under 4s. 2d. per dollar, a saving will accrue to Government. When the exchange is higher than this rate the Government will sustain a loss.\n\n28. The Barrack Department stands as follows:-\n\n \n 1 Barrack Master\n £\n s.\n d.\n 689\n 15\n 0\n \n \n I Clerk @ £50 per mensem\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Superior Barrack Sergeant\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2 Barrack Sergeants\n \n \n \n 525\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 3 Temporary Clerks @ £60\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ditto\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Temporary Clerk @ £70 per month each\n \n \n \n 150\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 1 Foreman of Storehousemen @ 5s. 6d. per day\n \n \n \n 86\n 1\n 6\n \n \n 1 Foreman of Magazine\n \n \n \n 86\n 1\n 6\n \n \n 1 Cooper\n \n \n \n 86\n 1\n 6\n \n \n 2 Storehousemen @ 5s. per day\n \n \n \n 156\n 10\n 0\n \n \n 2 Storehousemen @ 4s. 2d. per day\n \n \n \n 130\n 8\n 4\n \n \n 1 Painter at £13. 3d. per day\n \n \n \n 19\n 11\n 3\n \n \n Royal Artillery employed in Magazine\n \n \n \n 100\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Chinese, as Artificers, Watchmen, Porters, Coolies, &c.\n \n \n \n 620\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n \n £1,014\n 18\n 0\n \n\nPage 44.\n\n29. The duties this officer has to perform are stated in a memorandum furnished by the officer at present in charge of the department. I certainly cannot see why the duties should not be transferred to the engineer department or to an old subaltern officer of the force serving on the island on an allowance of £100 per annum.\n\nPage 47.\n\n30. The Royal Engineer Department stands as follows:-\n\n \n ROYAL ENGINEERS.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n 1. Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding\n 1,322\n 10\n 10\n \n \n 1 Captain or Brevet Major\n 789\n 10\n 10\n \n \n 1 First Lieutenant\n 357\n 8\n 4\n \n \n 1 First Lieutenant attached to Royal Sappers and Miners\n 378\n 13\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ROYAL ENGINEERS CIVIL DEPARTMENT.\n \n \n \n \n \n 2 Clerks of Works, fourth class\n 589\n 0\n 0\n \n \n I Foreman of Works, second class\n 258\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 1 Clerk, fourth class\n 203\n 5\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.\n \n \n \n \n \n 2 Sergeants, 1 Corporal, 2 Second Corporals, and 39 Privates\n 885\n 17\n 1\n \n \n 1 Office Keeper\n 25\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 1 Office Coolie\n \n \n \n \n \n 2 Watchmen\n 25\n 0\n 0\n \n \n CHINESE.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n £4,846\n 15\n 5\n \n\nRoyal Engineer Department.\n\nPage 48.\n\n31. From the enclosed statement will be seen the duties which the individuals connected with this department are called on to perform. In my despatch, No. 10, of 25th January, I recommended that certain reductions should be made in this department, from which further experience and observation afford...",
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"content_text": "40\n\nThe following books are kept in this office, viz.:-\n\nCash Ledger.\n\nCash Book.\n\nDraft Book.\n\nRent Book.\n\nRemarks on Cash Accounts.\n\nWarrant Ledger.\n\nDraft Check Book.\n\nRegister of Contracts.\n\nRegister of Letters of Credit.\n\nStore Ledger.\n\nIssue of Stores.\n\nReceipt of Stores.\n\nConversion of Stores Expended.\n\nAnnual Demand of Stores.\n\nList and Check of all People Employed.\n\nLetters from the Board to the Respective Officers of Ordnance. Letters from the Board to the Barrack.\n\nLetters from the Board to the Civil Officers.\n\nGeneral Orders-Ordnance.\n\nGeneral Orders--Barrack.\n\nLetters from the Barrack Master.\n\nAssistant Adjutant-General. 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Record of Barrack Returns transmitted to the Honorable Board.\n\nBooks of Reference.\n\nOrdnance Regulations, and 3 volumes of General Orders.\n\nRoyal Warrant and Barrack Regulation, and Addenda. Orders and Regulations-Engineers and Sappers and Miners. Commissariat Regulations.\n\nOrdnance Medical Regulations.\n\nFinance Regulations-Royal Artillery.\n\n31\n\nOffice of Ordnance,\n\nApril 19, 1849.\n\nMilitary.\n\n(Signed)\n\nHENRY ST. HILL, Storekeeper.\n\nSir,\n\n41\n\nEnclosure 11.\n\nAssistant-Commissary General to the Major of Brigade.\n\nCommissariat China, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 10, 1849.\n\nWITH reference to your letter of the 4th instant, I beg to annex for the information of the Honorable the Major-General commanding, a statement \"detailing the duties of this department, the pay and allowances of the establishment, and general cost annually to the Government.\" The latter part of this information is merely a transcript of what has already been furnished for a similar purpose, while the former is limited to an outline which could not well be exceeded, without a lengthy analysis of our whole business and accounts.\n\nI note on the margin* the establishment fixed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, when, by the evacuation of Chusan, the duties at Hong Kong were reduced to about their present extent; and it will be perceived that this establishment exceeds the number of persons now employed, by one Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General, and two Clerks, while the subordinate appointments have been correspondingly diminished.\n\nTaking into consideration the great pecuniary responsibility devolving upon this department, the distance from home, the peculiarity of the climate, the necessity for having experienced officers to prepare the accounts, and conduct the charge in the event of sickness or other casualties, I am of opinion, and have reported accordingly to their Lordships, that the department could not consistently with efficiency, be reduced below its present strength.\n\nAt the same time, I am desirous of enlarging the sphere of its usefulness to the public service as much as possible; and with this view have already suggested for their Lordships' consideration, whether the duty now performed by the Colonial Treasurer could not be transferred to the Commissariat, a duty, which, if modified to our regulations, I am willing to undertake, with the additional assistance (perhaps only temporary) of the Treasurer's second clerk, and which would thus effect a direct saving of 1,879l. per annum.\n\nI have also suggested for their Lordships' further consideration, whether the comparatively small amount of public works now in operation, or likely to be undertaken, could not be superintended by the Royal Engineers, and thus by abolishing the separate department hitherto maintained for the purpose, diminish the public expenditure by about 2,000l. a year more.\n\nThese suggestions have been made in furtherance of their Lordships' instructions to me, as well as of what the large contributions from our chest for civil services in this country, renders an integral part of my duty. They were the most prominent and simple to begin with, and have not been followed by others on my part, because His Excellency the Governor will probably, in compliance with the special instructions of Her Majesty's Government, go more deeply into the subject than I could, and bring under particular notice those appointments and salaries of the civil service which, it is respectfully submitted must have been fixed at first, in anticipation of a far wider sphere of action and responsibility, than ever has existed, or is ever likely to exist, in this limited colony.\n\nIn forwarding for his Excellency's information an account of the stores on hand, with their estimated value, and a description of the buildings in our possession, I beg to observe, that it is out of my power to calculate exactly what the store rooms are capable of holding: but that the vacant portions of them might perhaps afford stowage for about three or four times the amount of their present contents.\n\nBesides, if anything should occur to disturb the successful operation of these contracts, not only would the whole of the store-rooms, and perhaps more, be immediately wanted, but an efficient staff of persons should always be ready to adopt a different system of supply, almost at a moment's notice, the necessity for such an alternative being by no means improbable in a country like this.\n\n* 1 Assistant-Commissary-General, 2 Deputy-Assistant Commissaries General, 4 Clerks.\n\n140",
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"content_text": "42\n\nThis brings me to the last question: whether a union of the naval victualling department with the Commissariat, would be practicable? a question which would seem to hinge upon so many collateral circumstances, that I feel unable, for want of sufficient information as to the nature and extent of the proposed duty, to submit a decided opinion with respect to it.\n\nFrom the large squadron of ships of war which may always be expected at this the head quarters of the Indian station, it may be inferred that the duty is very extensive; that it would require our full authorized establishment to carry it on; and that the capacity of our magazines would be inadequate to the maintenance of a proper stock of supplies, while those insecure ones now used by the naval storekeeper, are from one to two miles distant from us. At some stations, like, for instance, the Australian Colonies, all victualling stores are certainly supplied by the Commissariat for naval purposes; but the issues are confined to perhaps two or three small vessels in the course of a year, and conducted under the Commissariat regulations, which are drawn up with reference to military authority alone; while at this station there are now one line of battle-ship, one frigate, three war-steamers, four or five sloops of war, a store-ship, and one for hospital purposes, with a naval Commander-in-chief, who, together with the Lords of the Admiralty, might not in transactions of such magnitude and importance as must thus arise, like to depend altogether upon any department not under their own immediate authority and control.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\nEXPENSE of the Commissariat Department at Hong Kong for one year.\n\nPay and\n\n43\n\nQUANTITY and Estimated Value of Provisions, Fuel, &c., in Her Majesty's Commissariat Magazines, at Hong Kong on the 31st March, 1849.\n\n \n Articles.\n Quantity.\n Estimated cost in sterling.\n \n \n Fuel, coal\n tons lbs.\n £. S. d.\n \n \n Provisions\n \n \n \n \n Salt meat.\n 63,550 lbs.\n 1,589 0 0\n \n \n Ghee\n 4,849\n 121 4 6\n \n \n Turmeric\n 6,584\n 54 9 0\n \n \n Arrow root\n 135.0.0.0\n 253 15 0\n \n \n Hospital supplies.\n \n \n \n \n Sago\n 1,509 lbs.\n 188 6 8\n \n \n \n 125\n 2 12\n \n \n Preserved meat,\n 3,691\n 184 11 0\n \n \n Soup concent. pts.\n 114\n 5 14 0\n \n \n Rum\n 222 gallons\n 20 7 0\n \n \n Vinegar\n 100\n 5 0 0\n \n \n Amounting to\n £2,424 19 4\n \n\n(Signed)\n\nCommissariat Office, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 10, 1849.\n\nJNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\n \n Rank and name.\n Pay and allowances of each individual for one year.\n Remarks.\n \n \n Assistant Commissary-General Smith\n £ S. d. 591 6 3\n In charge and general superintendence of department, with the preparation of all contracts both for commissariat and ordnance services; correspondence and negotiation of bills on the Treasury, to raise money for every public service in the colony, a very responsible and delicate duty, which in the last year ending 31st March has yielded a profit of £2,949 10s. 6d., or £1,164 9s. 3d. more than the whole expense of the department.\n \n \n Deputy Assistant Commissary-General Carpenter\n 317 7 0\n Sub-accountant in charge of the commissariat chest and cash accounts, with all the detail payments to army, navy, ordnance, and advances for colonial services, together with the voluminous transactions arising therefrom; the annual expenditure being £157,305 6s. 3d. sterling.\n \n \n Treasury clerk, Fagan\n 248 17 6\n Sub-accountant in charge of the store duties and transport, with the numerous returns and accounts connected therewith; member of a standing board of survey on commissariat supplies; superintends contractors; checks their accounts; and as an efficient officer, is ready at a moment's notice for any out-post duty that may be required. Assists generally as required in keeping the books, making up accounts, filling up Treasury bills, and copying documents.\n \n \n Temporary clerk, J. A. Brooks\n 187 10 0\n Attends to the receipt and issue of provisions, fuel, &c. in detail, and superintends store-men.\n \n \n One issuer\n 60 10 0\n Attends to the receipt and issue of provisions, fuel, &c.\n \n \n One assistant issuer at Stanley\n 22 0 0\n and charge of commissariat store at Stanley,\n \n \n Compradore, shroff, coolies, boatmen, and contingencies\n 357 10 0\n \n \n \n Total for one year\n £1785 1 3 sterling.\n \n \n\nCommissariat Office, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 10, 1849.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\nLIST of other Buildings besides Stores in possession of the Commissariat Department at Hong Kong.\n\n \n Description.\n Purpose for which each building is appropriated.\n \n \n A dwelling house of granite and brick, hired by the respective officers of Ordnance, at £500 per annum.\n \n \n \n GROUND FLOOR.\n \n \n \n 1 Room, mea. 24 × 20 feet\n Cash office, &c.\n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Dwelling-room for office keeper, coolies, &c.\n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Issuer's office\n \n \n 1 Ditto, 24 × 20\n \n \n \n 1 Ditto, 20 x 13\n \n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Money vault\n \n \n 1 Ditto, 15 × 19\n Ante-room to money vault\n \n \n 1 Ditto, 9×9\n \n \n \n FIRST FLOOR.\n \n \n \n 1 Room, mea, 24 x 20 feet\n Office of senior commissariat officer\n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Provision office\n \n \n 2 Ditto, 24 x 20\n Quarters for three officers\n \n \n SECOND FLOOR.\n \n \n \n 4 Rooms, mea, each 24 × 20 feet\n Servants rooms, kitchen and stables\n \n \n Outhouses, viz.,\n \n \n\nThe stores belonging to this building are described with the Government stores.\n\n(Signed) JNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\nCommissariat Office, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 10, 1849.\n\nG 2\n\n141",
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"title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
"content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was",
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"content_text": "# Expect that their Public Works can only proceed at that rate for which it is reasonable to ask Parliament & make Provision consistently with the amount of other demand upon Imperial Funds.\n\nI enclose for your information and guidance, Copy of the Estimate in the shape in which it will most probably be laid before Parliament.\n\nI have...\n\n783-\n\nin:dd 99-17 July49.\n\n13\n\nZ\n\n1963 trong Phong\n\nFreeway Chambers\n\nTreasury\n\nFEB. February 1849.\n\n1849\n\n85\n\nWith reference to the Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong which accompanied your Letter of the 9th Ultimo, I have it in command to acquaint You, for the information of Earl Grey, that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have been pleased to authorize the remission of the Expenditure for Storm Refuire to Buildings in that Colony therein referred to, amounting to Three thousand and twenty three Pounds six Shillings and six Pence.\n\nJan...\n\nFeb...\n\nSecretary...\n\nHerman Merivale by Your...\n\n \nЕлитвиди...",
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"content_text": "Memile\n\nI and Gray approres the grant his should go Treasury stating that his Lowrish recommend the sanction of the Ex procediture\n\n74: The Treasury alloud\n\nCH.2016.\n\nit in the former case repedt.\n\nJom 01\n\nto the\n\nThe Carl Grey.\n\nThe Lieut. Governos\n\n4th Juler, 1850.\n\nA60.\n\n2. Inclosures.\n\nReceived\n\nK-Van Diemen's Land.\n\nherself and three children defray the passage of the Supreme Court, to\n\nthe Cate Deputy Registrar to Mr Smith, widow of\n\nReporting grant of £100\n\n5.9\n\n8003 Whony\n\n81\n\nGov. 8003\n\nSir & Trevelyan Ket\n\nTreasury\n\nI am directed by Earl Grey to transmit to you for the consideration of the Lords Committee of the Treasury the accompanying Copy of a Despatch, with its Enclosures, from Governor of Hong Kong reporting that with the concurrence of his Council, he had granted to Mr Lunch\n\nPage 81\n\n...\n\n1:60 July 4/60\n\n800 3.\n\nSir\n\nAnt?\n\n14 Oct/50",
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"content_text": "Duplicate: No 99.\n\nThe Governor Grey,\n\nGovernor Bonham,\n\n29th October, 1850.\n\nReceived from him as Lieutenant Governor of the Colony.\n\nCopy.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nHongkong, China, 28th October, 1850.\n\nHaving had repeated attacks of fever during the last three summers I have passed in Hongkong my Medical advisers have strongly recommended me to return to Europe early in the next year;\n\nI have consequently applied to His Grace the Commander-in-Chief to be relieved from the Command of the Troops in China which, when acceded to, will occasion the resignation of my Commission as Lieutenant Governor of Hongkong.\n\nApparently, by some omission in the Contract between the Lords of the Admiralty and the Oriental Steam..., \n\nRight Honorable, Earl Grey,\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies.",
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"content_text": "Admiralty\n\nTreasury\n\nto acquaint you, for his Lordship's information, that My Lord have not seen reason to dissent from the terms of the proposed reply\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Let Trevelygina\n\nEf-580 Her Merivale\n\nThe despatch to the Governor may now proceed?\n\nBm 83\n\nPage 15\n\nFor informed 18 Dec/50\n\n6 100 trong vong\n\n12\n\n3.0.\n\nDEC 13 18.0\n\nSir,\n\nTreasury Chambers\n\n12th December 1860.\n\nWith reference to your Letter of the 31st July last, I have it in command to acquaint You, for the information of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury do not object to the Employment of an additional Chinese Clerk in the Chief Magistrate's Office at Hong Kong, nor to the restoration of the Salary of the Assistant and Clerk of the Deed Registry to the original £300: Amount of Three Hundred Pounds\n\nT. T. Elliot Esqr",
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"content_text": "as well as three other\n\nhave Labove Machines, and\n\nSome to state that his\n\nwould to very glad if yo\n\nand\n\nLaaship in descans that the\n\nthe Choromman of the\n\nVocation of Pastors\n\nhould of requested to\n\ntake the resepery shift steps for obtaining these Articles.\n\nSame to add this applica:\n\ntion will be made to the\n\nLords Commiges : of the Melmuvelt, to Jrovide for\n\nThe\n\nance of these\n\nConveyance\n\nV\n\nMachines to Hongkong,\n\na\n\napon being furnished with\n\nStatement of their weight\n\nand dimensions, and that\n\n*\n\n186\n\nof Treasury.\n\nthe Board will abo\n\nalso be moved to\n\nadnuce the\n\nnempry\n\nfrends for the Jiayment\n\nthe Articles\n\nof the Cost of the\n\nas from as they\n\nshall\n\nhave been duly supplied.\n\nShare",
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"content_text": "Treasury Chambers\n\n2. December 1852\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration your letter of the 11 Octr/52-39, further relative to the case of Mr. N. R. Masson the present Clerk in the Registration department at Hong Kong,\n\nI am commanded to acquaint you that in compliance with Secretary Sir John Pakington's recommendation, and with the further recommendation of Sir G. Bonham,\n\nTheir Lordships will not object to Mr Masson's salary as Clerk in the Registration Department at Hong Kong being continued at the rate of Three hundred Pounds per annum,\n\nRECEIVED\nDEC.3\n1852\nTreasury\n166\n\n101 Hong Kong\n2611.\n21583.",
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"content_text": "62\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nCharitable laaits\n\n3.1.\n\nleads to the conclusiva that the expense\n\nIV—Provided always that all religious edifices, hospitals, jeme exempted from teries, and buildings strictly and exclusively appropriated tahari- of maintaining and extending it, if self- table purposes, and not being used as dwelling-houses, sall be imposed, would be less grudgingly paid, exempted from assessment under this Ordinance.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that the exclusive right of dealing in laun, Betel, and torment of col with the advice of the excentive Council, shall have powers apment. Betel Leaf, in the Colony of Hongkong, will be disposed of to the highest bidder at: Public Auction on the 20th day of June, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police.\n\n[1]\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\n16\n\nProvisions for the\n\nJoctors,\n\nCollectors to malo\n\npoint such officer or officers as may be deemed requisite for te col- lection of the Rate leviable under this Ordinence, allowing in or them as remuneration for this service such a per Centage at the Governor in Council shall seem fit.\n\npaper the Report of a Trial on Appeal\n\nWe have extracted from an Edinburgh before the Louse of Lords, the subject being one of great importance to alt British colonists. The statule establish- ing dutics on legacies equaily affects England and Scotland, and the present decision settles the law, that such duties are not payable on\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained, that as soon afer the casual reters and first day of January in each year as may be founul practicale, the pablish officer collecting the assesstrent under this Ordinance shall gepare a detailed statement exhibiting the sums collected during de pre- ceding year, and the said statement, duly attested by the said ficer, shall be inserted in some newspaper published within this Clony, officer for one month from and after the date of its publicatio\n\nby a person re\n\nVI—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that the saf rate such property being subject to the law of\n\nsiding in one of its possessions abroad- Quarterly in advance shall be payable quarterly in advance, unless otherwise prefribed the colony where the deceased\n\nand directed, as hereinberare mentioned, and that it shall be charged ciled. This judgment is not only impor was domi- and chargeable on the lands, dwelling-houses, and premises repect- ively assessed, at the time of such assessment.\n\nand shall also be open to general inspection at the office & such | England, if bequeathed invested in\n\nException as to\n\ncapted, or used\n\nFREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n憲。 告\n\nRate payalde\n\nT\n\n赴人在榔茲\n\n賣\n\n辦正等港\n\n此堂物等\n\n事衙於處\n\n者署五招\n\n特 THAA\n\n示 於投十包\n\n是如六質\n\n該要巡簍在\n\n署包理葉\n\n投\n\nB\n\n# B &\n\nexetorted.\n\nN\n\n一千八百四十五年五月 三 十\n\n日\n\n年四月\n\n二十六日\n\nFJ\n\ntant to British colunists, but may be\n\nΠΟΣ\n\nnot unwillingly substitute the following from a correspondent:-\n\nof benefit to England, by encouraging\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained that the omber of investments there. So important aid the property mat let, or any land, dwelling-house, or premises assessed, which may fot be\n\nlet to any tenant, shall be deered the occupier thereof. privided this question, that though neither he always, that if such owner can shew that the property las nt been the other low lords entertained any inhabited for a period of three months or upwards in any year, he doubt, it was submitted as an A. B ques- shall be entitled to a proportional abatement of assessment leted on the same for the said year.\n\ntion to the Judges, because, as the law\n\nAppeal against as\n\nwas to be stated definitively, for the\n\nVIII—Provided always, that if any person from whom payment British Islande, and for all its colonies, esten der pay- of the assessment leviable under this Ordinance may have been the Lords deemed it proper that the meo the\n\ndemanded, and who shall have already paid in the amount demanded decision should have all the weight of him, ohjects to the demand on any other ground than that of which the concurrent opinions of the valuation, it shall be competent to such person, after payment of Judges and of the Lords could give it.\" the amount demanded, to appeal against such demand to the Chief' Justice of the Supreme Court at such time and place as the said:\n\nWe had proposed to give a short critique\n\nChief Justice may be pleased to direct, or that if any person be dissa on the Concert of Thursday last, but tisfied, or objects to any valustion to be made under this Ordinance on the ground of over-valuation, he or they may, within the period of three calender months after such valuation, or when the said Chief: Justice may appoint or direct, appeal to him against such valuation, and that it shall be lawful for him, if he deem it advisable or neces- sary to have any three persons taken from the existing let of special jurors to assist him in ascertaining the question of value which may arise on\n\nDistricts may be\n\nIX—And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and n any such appeal. may be lawful for the said Governor, with the advice of the said Executive Council, to exempt such districts or portions of the said Island from the operation of this act, or from the payment of the said rates, as to him and them may seem advisable.\n\nX—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that un asessment made under the authority of the Ordinance shall be impeached or affected by reason of any mistake in the name of any person liable to assessment, or of any thing chargeable with assessment, provided the directions of this Ordinance be in substance and effect complied with.\n\nclause.\n\nTriplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c. &c., is pleased to direct that the sunexed Circular to the address of Her Majesty's Consuls in China he published for general information.\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nCIRCULAR No.\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nI have to acquaint you, that I have received the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty, conveyed through the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, sanctioning and confirming Ordinance No. 6 of 1844, intituled, An Ordinance to authorize the execation of the Process of the Supreme Court of Hongkong in certain Parts within the Dominions of the Emperor of China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. F. DAVIS.\n\nTrue Copy:\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE,\n\nTo Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at\n\nTisle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nClovernor to p\n\nIsland.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nANNO OCTAVO, VICTORIE REGINE. No. 2 of 1845.\n\nBy His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquie, Go- vernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong jad its Dependencies, lur Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Sperin tendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the idvice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to raise an assessed Rate on Janda, houses, and premises, within the Colony of Hongkong, for the upholding of the requisite Police Force therein.\" WHEREAS it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Colony of Hongkong should defray the Expenses attendant on the upholding and maintaining the Police force thereof.\n\n--Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of point haters of the Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that lands. house it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, with the mies within the advice of the Executive Council, from time to time to appoint two ar more persons for the purpose of estimating the annual vaide of the lands, houses, and premises within the said Island, or within any particular district thereof, which shall be in the tenure or occupation of any person or persons; and the said valuator or valuators shall, when thereunto required, make a retum in writing and on oath of such valuation to the said Governor and Coureff; and also at the time of having valued each property respectively, he proprietor thereal, a written Notification of their having made such or they shall leave or cause to be left with some inmate or the valuation, sod of the Amount thereof.\n\nIl—And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes of this Ordinance, the said Governor and Council may cause a new valuation to be made annually.\n\nILL--And\n\nValuation may be made anually.\n\nAssessment to he Trade on the d\n\nJyment, andromedy for nonpayment.\n\nbe\n\n|\n\nInterpretation\n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained, that this Ordinaner shall come into operation and take effect, from and after the first day of Julf next ensuing.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 93d day of May, 1845. ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,\n\nClerk of Councila.\n\nJ. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.\n\nour present rulers every thing will be done with the utmost economy: but that does not affect the principle, against which we conter.d.\n\nThe right of the mercantile commu- pity to a voice in the Legislative Council has frequently been urged, not, we think, with much force of reason; for until the revenue of the colony is sufficient to pay its expenses, we do not ace that the in- habitants can claim representation as a right, and upon any other grounds it\n\nMessrs Fiebig and lavac's Concert took place according to announcement on Thurs day evening last, and the attendance was in very respect calculated so answer the ex pectoris of the originators, who well de Berve encouragement for their attempt to the ennuyés of Victoria. afford an evening's rational entertainment to deservedly applauded for his brilliant ex\n\nM. Rarac was eeution of the very difficulty picces allotted to him, sad met with an unanimous encore in the Caroival of Venice.\" His notes are remarkably clear and expressive, and by a himself of a few mannerisms, he might with little attention to his style, in order to divest study become a first rote performer on this most difficult of instruments. M. Fiebig was not so felicitous; his well known skill and tirely unworthy of his efforts. The \"Bella\" execution, were expended on a theme on- he dimittel. le proved himself to possess\n\na correct judgment and highly cultivated\n\ntaste, by the simple yet appropriate manner in which he accompanied M. Ravac, instead of displaying in mastery over the instrument by profuse ornament, at the expense of the melody itself, a fault too common among musicisms. The programme was a striking example of the lied taste which is unfortu Dately I too prevalent in the days with thrown aside for the modern Italian school, regard to music. The great masters are new The Messiah must give place to the Stabal Mater, and Iton Giovanni to Don Pasquale. Verily, Rossint, Donizetti, Belliei, Pacini, Auber, &o, ae but peor substitutes for Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Fiebig and Barac should favour the inhabi tots of Victoria with another Concert, or Gluck, Cimarosa, or Parsiella. If Messrs\n\neven a series of Concerts, and we think they have ample encouragement for so doing, what\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1245. Is another part of to-day's paper will be found an important Ordinance by the Governor in Council for assessing the inhabitants with the expenses of the Police establishment. The advantages\n\nwhich the community derive from a well organized system of police are so self-evident, that a reason- able rate for its support is perhaps one of would be worse than useless. the few direct taxes that in civilized the case is different with municipal of his great countryman the composer of countries are submitted to without affairs. Here, it is proposed that the Fidelio, or M. Ravac delighting his auditors de tot anticipate whole charge of upholding the police or Vietti; and, if the prevailing taste is so that even those who, like ourselves, should be defrayed by the inhabitants, strongly expressed in favour of modera with the touching compositions of Corelli maiorain that it is a mistake\" policy who thereby, we conceive, establish a music, let us have it good at least, something to overburden the youthful energies of just claim to avail themselves of the con- by Spohr, Cherubini, Mendelssolu, er the colony with taxation, will find much stitutional right of British subjects to be Beyerbeer, for instance. to complain of in being called upon consulted both as to the levying and dis- to contribute their quota for uphollingposal of the fund. In London, though\n\nmormer; and WH\n\na treat it would be for a true lover of nute to hear M. Fisbig displaying his taste nad But exception on some of the majestic sinfonias\n\nPEKING GAZETTE.\n\nhridegroom was\n\nthat\n\nthe force requisite for the protection, nearly one-fourth of the expenses of the health, and comfort of the community. police establishment is paid out of the Con-rial Princess with one of the Mangal chieft THE COURT—The marriage of an Imps- amble of the Ordinance, we conocive to watch over the interests of the rate But though we thus concur in the pre-solidated Fund, there are commissioners has given rise to not a little trouble. The that its enacting clauses are objectionable peyers; and in Edinburgh and (ilasgow, riage celebrated without delay, and he mast defining the power and jurisdiction of the assessment on the inhabitants, they at- to the customary rule, directed that astronu- on two grounds, First, not clearly where the whole amount is raised by an\n\nan early day should be fixed for the core. police, a term of wide signification, and Dually elect representatives,\n\nmony. The Emperor, however, according which in the three United Kingdoms to the sale power of determining the per Board, to ascertain when the heavens would\n\nwho have made to include very different classes of centage, as well as its appropriation. be propitions for the celebration of the nup mical observations should be made by the functions. The Ordinance does not in- These Commissioners have, properly, tials. Unfortunately the members of the for us whether this preventive branch judicial functions; but except that the Board ware not mautious in reading the of justice is to be rendered so efficient in appointment of Superintendent is lodged agus of the stars, and after a great many Hongkong as to supersede the necessity in other hands, they are onnipotent calculations, drawing of horoscopes, and con- for the individual tax which the inhabi as regards the extent and remunera tants have hitherto been compelled totion of the force, as well as in all that persofthe day, they fixed on the 23d April at submit to in maintaining private watch relates to lighting, cleansing, removal\n\nthree o'clock in the morning as the most tion is the more pointedly directed by arrangements of the fire brigade. And at that hour. This is said to be the earliest men--a circumstance to which our atten- of nuisances and obstructions, and the able for that ceremony. The Royal pair joined in drinking from the nuptial cup the intimation from the Chief Magistrate we which appeared in the Cuts MALL only Geomy, these matters are nowhere the celestial empire,\n\nbelieve that in efficiency and hoar at which a marriage has taken place in better managed out of London, if indeed The King of Korea has again asked the the metropolis is an exception. tants who might consider them worth $10\n\nEmperor to sanction is marriage with one a-month. It seems necessary to under-there aced be no fear about the sua patent for that pa pose. The Emperor Were such a plan adopted in Hongkong, of the damsels of the Court, and to grant but stand whether we are to have a police ciency of the supplies, and we should look have hitherto been carried by a body of so generally effective as to supersede the confidently to a gradually improved sys Mandarins deputed by the Emperor for has acceded to his requeat. Such documents\n\na fortnight ago, tendering the services of\n\na night constahle to any of the inhabi-\n\nsultatious with the most celebrate! philosu-\n\nThis will add\n\nit further enacted and ordained, that for the purpose valiation and provi. of levying the said rate, a per Centage at such an amount in the sic:t for periods of hundred as muy annually be determined on by the Governor with the payment, notice of advice of the Executive Council, not exceeding such a sum as sball assessment, period of be equal to the expenses of the Palice establishment, shall be as- necessity for private watchmen, or if, betem from the suggestions of a body of that purpose, but on the present occasion a sessed and paid in respect of every such valuation by the occapier sides this heavy tax, we are to be called judicious and interested commissioners, single civilian only has been despatched or owner of cach parcel of ground, house, or building, within such upon to contribute to the support of a Protection of life and property, sanatory with it to the Prince. time and times as the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, shall direct, or as is hereinafter provided. In the absence of auch direction and in default of the same being so paid, it shall be Jawful for any person or persons oppainted to collect the suid tax to apply to the Chief Magistrate of Police of the Island, who shall, on satisfactory proof of the same having been duly demanded and being due and\n\nJunsatisfied,\n\ngrant his Warrant to levy the same by distress of any goods on or in the lands, houses, or premises so rated; and that any such\n\nrate, while unpaid, shall be a lien on the property so assessed, or charged therewith, Provided always that when and so often as any assessment shall be made on any such valuation, the particulars and nature of such assessment shall be published in one or more public newspapers of the said Colony.\n\nforee, which, from the intimation alluded regulations, and whatever tends to the another Queen to the numerous Ilarem to, it may be inferred the authorities do comfort and convenience of the public, of bis Royal Highness. not consider to be entirely efficient. are matters of imperative necessity, Tau Lord Mayor of Puking reported, that The other objection we have to the acknowledged by every friend to public beavy showers of snow had fallen in the measure is that the inhabitants are not safety and good order; and the adminis-, during the beginning of March; and allowed a voice in fixing the rate, or tration of the law for securing these ends be looked for, he suggests that a day of public as a good wheat harvest might accordingly io determining the modo in which it is to be applied no other limit being pro- those of the community who are to enjoy Emperor has received his suggestion favour\n\ncan never be placed in better hands than thanksgiving should be appointed. The posed than what may seem to the Co-the benefits, and who are caliel upon to ally. vernor, with the advice of the Executive contribute the means of securing then, Council, sufficient for upholding or main- Without forgetting or under-vaining the taining any extent of force that may he salutary efforts of our rulers to provide an appointed. We have no doubt that with organized protective force, experience\n\nSome Mandarins, of high rank, arrived\n\nfrom Kwang-tung and Yan-an, whose baggage consisted of no less than one thou- ordinary quantity, they were interrogated sand packages. This being rather an\n\nBA-\n\nas to the contents, and the reply that they contained letters and despatelies for the tribunals, no being satisfactory, they were ordered to he opened and inspected. Ten were found to contain documents, but the contents of the remaining 990 have not been made public.\n\nP\n\nOn releasing the Petit Jary from their long and fatiguing labours the fan. Recorde complimented them on the zeal and jade ment which they had displayed, and his Honour stated, that he coincided in every verdict they had given.\n\nlfonso of Lorda, February 17. THOMSON LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nSITTING OF THE SCPI Colar, 2 June, 1945,\n\ndesired to name a son, he named 105 dollars,\n\n63\n\nA difter-\n\nstating the Admiral's desire to pay any c FOREIGN Goops with a Britist Chance- munendon for the services of the vossal\n\nT—During the past year numerous in- which Matheson might think G and stonees have occurred of goods buying bren (From the Hongkong Register] This was a writ of error against a judg\n\nA Special Jury was empanneled for thre meat of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland trial of an action raised as the instance of the manensient, but expressed his willingness to\n\nreason. Mr Matheann refused any ve brought to this country for home use or ex- The facts of the case are those John\n\nportation to foreign puits, with labek attach- Grant, a person born in Scotland, but who Crown against the Editor of the Friend of acccptacy couneration on the part of the ed, giving, or purporting to give thean, a had left that cuantry sad become domiciled: Ching, for the publication of the following\n\ncrew might think proper. When desired British character in a foreign market s in Demerara, died in that colony, in the\n\nto name a sum, be said, the Admiral may this, if allowed, would be highly detrimental Article in his 'isue of the 13th July last, Treasurer Tang-ting-ching, the late Gover-year 1887. He had acquired considerate, which was alleged to contain a libel against think very different from us and being to the British manufacturer, the goods have nor of Canton, and who will probably property while in Demerara, and had trans- Sir Thomas Cochrane:-\n\nin every instance been detained by the Reve- reesive the first van Governorship, osmitted saare portion of it to Scotland, at It will be in the all-rtion of many of our The letter M Me Matheson stated that the me officers, as being impuited contrary to recommended his inferiur officers, whe no- the time of his death, a banking house there Loaders, that Her Majesty's ship Wolf, got on a schooner had been detained 18 hours in conve the provisions of the act in that regard; the terially assisted bin in clearing large trace held property of his to the amount of\n\nbank somewhere below Woosneg, and has for the quence of the service rendered to the Wolf only relief given having been that the goods of land in Kan-sub, to the notite of govera- £18,000. Probate of his will was taken timely aid of the Schooner Fetes, Capt. Caer, sier Goddard in addressing the Jury for Mr have been allowed to be returned to the purt ment, as worthy of promotion.\n\nont in Scotland, by tho present appellant, as\n\nwould have been obliged to acrifice he cons and Carr, ill be felt eansiderable difficulty of shipment, the labels or other mode of in shot before she curld here'got n The Wolf took appearing before them in such circumstances.fringement having been firstromovel. These bis executor, and payment of the money due\n\nthe bank at high water, mud and not possibly have Mr Cur bad been accused of publishing a labels have usually contained the Royal arms having boea brained, in was transmitted to It is with touch regret we learn, from a\n\nbocu fiased again, without grandly reducing the dead hel, \"toulously, winkedly, and malicious of Enghel, will the name, in English, of Demerara. The law officers of the Crown weight on board. Then fast descried by the Fern, y\" Mr Carr, he believed, knew very little the importer in London, or other place in lang memorial of Lea, Governor-Genersi of\n\nclaimed from the executor the son of £1800 ahr, the Way had a sign.d of distress lying, ani Che-eang and Fo-keen, that the rise arup as legacy duty duo from him in respect of there can be no doubt that, hack it came in to be high and in these seas Sir Thomas, except on a person holding a the United Kingdom, ss the case may be, the in Pormasa hoe failed, also that the Granary the property of the testator existing in Scot- whilst she was lying in a mitical position, she\n\nname and description of the contents bring is now exhausted, and that the price of grain Lad. The case went before the Court of\n\nwand ham gore bo pres. The Pinot Pan niongailia, however, in this case did not act as a judge, also given in the English language, evidently is daily rising in Fo-keen. Leu has ardered Exchequer in Scotland, where Ford Gillies and took out all ver artament, 15 send 41,42 th. The ly Judge of Admiralty here is the intending to envey the impression in a extensive purchases to be made in Che-keang delivered a judgment declaring that the\n\nshot, and it was net wat relieved of this weight clut | Lord Chief Justice. Neither does he accuse foreign market that the goods were of British and other places, and wishes that the public legary duty as payable in the manner de ser altercaties fabu to the her guns overhard, either in his publie or his private character, time since of a parcel of esses containing se again loated; without this since she had no bin ofhay rbing eriminal, or of an offence mamifacture. An instance occurred a short granaries should be opened.\n\nmanded. The prosent writ of error was then brought. The ease bad been argued vage, and before any Adiralty socte sum\n\nor go to pisees on the ink. This is a clear case of which implied guilt. He never acted him paper for letter-writing being brought for of coruption. He only accuses him that he CANTON—Rumour states that the light two years ago, and now came on again for awarded the Foren for for aid would be siderable.\n\nexportation, etch sheet of paper having thos was not so bieral as he ought to be, A\n\nword Barle\" primed in the usual manner at ning struck the palace of Lieutenant-Gver. argument by one counsel on a side.\n\nAt the time the affair occurred, tar Admisal Sir Me Kelly, on the part of the appellant\n\ncriminal libel has been filed against Mr Carr, the left hand corner, and the packages them- nor [wang, and damaged, bis snutf-box. Themas Duebrang was at Chusni, when it arced. In consegnace of the way the accusation selves containing the paper the Brilish aras This, it is said, has made so strong an impres¦ (Mr Anderson was with him,) fosisted that between him are the Cipam of the Vares, that the has been brought, he was pot to great ex- einblazoned thereon. They were, of course, sion upon the grandee, that he has since been the legacy duty was not payable here. The question: of compensation atould be lett open ancil duty was demanded under 36 Geo. III, c. wrapt in deep thought and revery.\n\nSir 1 homas Cochrane avtored to this enlony. Altor penser, as the frown pays on costs; and if immediately detained, and application WAY he seeds, as I aux sure he will, he will made for permission to retard them to the 152, sec. 2, which enacted, that all legacies Thonan return, the cwners generaly waived\n\nabove the amount of £20, given by any will\n\nall claims fre salvage, marely requesting the Rear rill here to pay all his own expenses. Be port of shipment, but the intention in this (From the Singapore Free Press, 1st May.) or testamentary instrumcat, shoald pay le-\n\nAdmiral to remouense the Captain and eve for their sides the case has been deferred from time instance being so evident, the goods wer The Criminal Sessions were finished on gacy duty. Fe submitted that thang those elite similar te their own, Sir Thomas Cachane on long ago. Fir Thomas might have put ed, which was accordingly done,\n\ntrouble, never doubling then retunded by a spirit to time, whereas it might have been brought ordered to be seized and the parties prosecut Saturday Jast, the 28th ult. having lasted words were of the most extensive and gene rash hudumaly reward de vore of Fist himself into the witnesa box, and so might ence is made where the name and inscription four weeks, 18 persons were discharged on ral kind, the aut did not apply out of Great Majesty's slig. In doing thy they committed a Mr Waller, and thee we should have had an on the label is in the French or other foreign Saturday, no witnesses coming forward Britain. The aut could not extend even to\n\ncapital cere, to who justice and magnanimity opportunity of seeing what was right and language, although the British armus may be against them. No blame attaches to the our colonies, without some word expressly ey had entrusted the liquidatio of the cases what was wrong, or at least we should have Police in this instance, as the parties had including them, and there were no anche Captain and are of the Kareemid not fi\n\nengraved thereon, it being considered that words here. That being the case, the gene print much ganeanu facdage, and taking advantage\n\nhad an opportunity to cross-examine them, the act is not thereby infringed in const- been regularly bound over to appear nord\n\nquence. Timca. give evidence. In some cases there is leral rule of law applied that the personal pro- of the antideles is displast, he offered to award and of proving that Mr Matheson was not informed of the facts. Mr Bradshaw, the doubt that bribery has been resorted to inperty followed the fair of the domicile of its all $10, in the proportion of $4 for the quain\n\nfirst officer of the Fire, was on beard when I\n\nTHE HOPELESS SESSION. order to keep back evidenco. In van oase, a owner, and consequently as the domicile of $20 Ckiy Oficer; $16 Gunnar; $1 each for the Crew- charge of murder, the widow of the murder the testator here was Demerara, the low of take advantage of us Iter &iral's meannes, ant dewee was tatran in this court before a Com\n\nWe need actualy gette tha: Catón Carr would not the Wulf hoisted sigands of distress: his evi-\n\nWhat change has come over the public ed person, though she had appeared before that place unst govern the administration of\n\nwithin these few years Where be all the in is instance Her Majesty's ship has got off missioner. Mr Carr did not ferret out the the Grand Jury, was not to be found when his assets. Prubate but necessarily been fie fad the Fizen been the party cunt talon out in Scotland, because the Bankers\n\neager conjectures regarding the grent mea cireunastanees; \"hey were brought to him by the case came on for trial.\n\nwan in expardy unit the readers a Captain Carr, who complained of the waut Parliament aas supposed to lie pregnant? sares with which to coming session of who were the debtors had not honestly paid aquistanes, we would have had the matter certleil 1\n\nof liberality. F. M's Ships are generally People do not even take the treble to fore had been paid, but the claim here was what was due, and the probate duty there a very different mumer. Sie Thores mental op-\n\nvalued at £1000 per gan-the Wolf has 18 So which at times appear scleri -wor for legacy duty, which was clearly not pay\n\nguess what may be coming. Suficient for guns, nod may, therefore he vained at able As a very strong instance of the mis\n\nLeco fally opened to the importance of the service,\n\nThe day is the evil thereof. They will see and if such a question were left to his award, wo har 18,000, and for saving her 100 dollars are\n\nthe debates when they begin. Public emio- chief that would arise if the doctrine now\n\nIf Sir Thomas close to take ou nat the slightest doubt that the which awardedi. contended for by the Crowe could be sup\n\nsufficient for the 'em, would hure aweled bits himself the office of fixing the reward, be it is as languil is the opening of St A Chinese was executed on Monday week ported, it was only necessary to mention this\n\nchongauls for the War. We regret exeedingly to\n\nought to have exercised the strictest care to Stephen's as it has long been at the opening for murder. He taule a long speech when case, Suppose an Englishman resident They injure the dignity of the series not a litte: Carr, hearing that Sir Thomas was about to\n\nnatice such a crtions is the me now mantined. make himself acquainted with the facts. Mr of the patent theaires, No new pieces are the scaffold, protesting is innocence, abroad, or a foreigner traded with a person\n\nronounced as in preparation. Somo leading danouncing the witnesses against biu for in England, and at the death of the former a\n\nand alcough no thinking man would jrdys unferour-\n\nactors have cutired, and no onw ones ara commener an action against him, made every advertised. Nobody asks wht is to succeel perjury and threatening to beat them bill of exchange accnpted by the person io\n\nably of those whose merits Eater zee: so often tested, enquiry, in order that if he had done wrong. Lol Stanley in the Tybalt line, or Mr in conacquence of the lile minded actions of their afer his death. He acquitted the Judge this conmry was ranning, no parment of peat Chief, we are bound to acolodge, that to\n\nbe might rearess it by making an ample adstone in the heasy tragedy. There are and fury of all blame, as they had only acted that bill of exclange could be made without\n\napology but the more he did enqore, the to be rehearsals on Monday at Sir Robert the thoughtless and ipsmant, such tr.les uvey an according to the evidence, and be declared a deduction from the legacy duty. No one unfavourable, though file impression of the nasal stronger be found the facts. To costine Peri's (in full dress) and the Dake of Well- that in order to remove all cars from the cook pretend that a rale so mischievous to chare. Si Theme Cochrane, if we recoller Jibel it most the show that the party is Judge's mind, he, the prisoner, would bang commerce could exist, and the Hanse must, right, has been a candidate for parliamentary hưn charged with something that is criminal.ington's but the maies of the pinses in himself and he accordingly placed his head in therefore, act on the Authorities already des\n\npar: once, at least, he stood for a seaport, Mr Bradshaw's evidence is to this effect has invited his friends to be early in their\n\npreparation are not asked. the balter. He was very collected, and took cided, which had settled that the law of the\n\nthe pret buffetini inhalants of which are slip The Wolf was in great distress, firing gutus, attendances but the Opposition Fader a polite leave of those near him by bowing place where the testator died nust goverato distinguish himself in the nature of his country dwares; should the gallant Adunai ever again sek\n\nand baving her ensign with the Uniou down, ems to dust whether it is worth the to them, and at last, shaking hands with the the adutinistration of his personal property.\n\nThe Fire stood in and sent her boat to the while of his friends to we trust the affair we matrate will be prestained off to offer assistance. The Fixes had a 'Comeli whether it is worth tas while ot come, and Mr exceptioner, was launched off.\n\nThe Solicitor-General (with whom was bit the hastings, as we ate afrail would shin large pantity of specie on board. She re- bis to stay away. The Three Mays convinted of the rauder Me Crompton) did not deny the existence of in the eyes of any consergy intarestol in the\n\nThe tradesmen evince ceived 16 guns and 500 shut, and he consime animation in farbisting up the Houses, of Captain RBIsos of the Bluck twt, were some general rule as to the law of domicile, mesutile -hipping of Geet Britain.\" executed on Saturday last, and acknowledged but cuntended that it had nothing to do with\n\ndered the Voit would have been in extreme The following were the Jurymen on the\n\nand the grooms in exercising the cream- their guilt.\n\na case like the present. The principle of case,Thos. Jones, Esq., Duacan Flether, danger bl a gale come out. law that raust govern this case was, that Es, Angus Fletcher, Bay. F. T. Bush, Esq. aliona tendency to prevent others from giving pervade th actors and spectatus. Never coloured horses of the state-carriage; int TheJulge here asked, \"had not this public with these exceptions, apathy and langu where the property was balaistered the J. Leffler, Esq. and George Findlay, Esq. TRULY SEAMAN-LIKE CONDUCT. Captain legacy duty must be paid. If there had beeu The attorney-fineral in opening the case chassistance?—Mr Goddard said he thought before it the public appear to expect so Captain Caldwell, fate of the ship Durchester, of a specifs appropriation of the property in stated that this was an information on the ! \"xpressly the reverse, as it showedsuch per- little from a session will it be possible to Boston, tas pebliched the following amount: Sotland, this rule would not have applied, part of the Queen, to defend the character\n\nsous their age would be taken up by the press disappoint that little? Our faith in the Mr Bradshaw's videuce was then read. disappointing powers of Parliament is great. Captain Brition, of the Rochester, fell ja | but there was no appropriation The money of Sir Thomas Cochrane, who had awarded with the Dorchester at sea, a pertent Greek, recoveral there formed part of the general a sum of 100 dollars for services rendered and at great hazard rescued her officers, crew, assets, and was therefore liable to the lagney by the Fire to the off, as the fall salvage\n\nto an anchor near her. She had 144,000 severely trial-Sperlotur. and passengers from an untimely fate. duty. He contended that all the cases which claimed that Mr Car, well knowing the Caphan Caldwell says, \"The Rochester was bad been dated on this subject did not premises, took the occasion to vilify the stroring a course which would bare carried touch the subject of duncile, but related Commander-in-Chief as having acted aritra her about three miles north of us. The mo❘ wholly to that of the appropriation artit that when services were rendered to H. M. Barisfied with the award—He thinks the ons example of official economy. A crea-\n\nor non- rily, haughtily, and unjustly, and to state\n\nLouis Philippe's Ministers have get a tort- ment the wreck was seen, the course of the appropriation of the property, The Rochestor was altered for one directly for us. gentleman farther contended, that where a Ships, no adequate reward would be paid, remuneration illiberal, and injurious to other tion of Peers was intended, and the names of At that time,\" said Captain Britton to one party acted in the discharge of dutios of To this charge Mr Care at Girst pleaded vessels requiring assistance—Thorew help the Pencs were almost authoratively an afterwards, I had no idea that there could administration to a deceased person, the Not Guilty, but to-day he has added as a to take the guns, &c., on board—Witness nounced. Thone persons, of course, would be a living being on board of her; but I legacy daty is payable in respect of the money farther plea, that all he had stated was true, did so, and was powell in consequence—The be bound to Ministers for the coming session; have made it au invariable rate through life, he received and dealt with in that charseter, and published for the benefit of the pallie acevant in the Friend of China was not enig but what a waste of the coin of Court fa whenever I see a wreck, to get as near her The Lord Chancellor put the following Hy was aware that whenever there was angered The Fizen was detained 24 hours- vour! Ministers take second thought, and A. Matheson, Esq., being called as a vit postpone their creation until after the dis- as possible, and ascertain all I can about her, questions to the Judges:A B., a British Fattempt to check such objectionable publica- and make sure that there is nobody aliva on subject, born in England, resided in a Bri- tions, there was raised an outery that it was\n\nnews and sworn, deposed, that the Fizm be-\n\ncussion on their whole policy in the Cham- board before I leave her. We supposed, hetish colony, made his will, and died domiciled for the purpose of curbing the fibres and the chip of Jardine, Matheson, & .. hers. This is the true economy: every sup\n\nawarded nothing to the Crew continued, it was some timbership which there. At the time of his death debts were Press. The Government bero had no wish\n\nporner will wat himself down for a peerage, Secretary of Sir Thomas Cochrane called and each one prize will attract many gamblers had been drifting about here for months;awing to him in England; his executor in to do so.--an ollicer discharging the high and wished him to do so—the Viren bad for it. As if to show practically that the but resolving that I would adhere to my rule, England collected these debts, and out of duty of Admiral, and in this case acting as a I altered my course, although we all thought the money he collected paid legacies to cars\n\nJudge of the Admiralty, is complained of it useless at the time. Thus, by following tain legatees in England are such legacies a partial statement of the frots is brought the service rendered by hue was very made one sample Peer—M. Jaubert, an Op. this noble rule, Captain Britton was the able to the payment of the legacy daty? forward; for if the whole facts had been slight, and the crew were not employed at positionist. Spectator.\n\nAll—Captati Care was not satisfied with the mexas, in the hauds of God, of saving the He had fransed the question in this general stated. Sir Thomans Cochrane would have\n\nAdmiral's award, but did not ask witness's lives of 45 human beings, and in the circle of form, beranse the statute equally affected suffered no damage. A persoa in such vir-\n\nadvice as the course he ought to punue their friends and acquaintance, of making the England and Scotland,\n\ncumstances ought not to be so negligent as hearts of hundreds sing for joy. Captain The Judges requested short time to to pablish partial statements. The Admiral he is the assistance he gave was very im- portaut—Mr Waller did not make his state- Britton received me on board \"his ship with consider their answer. They retired for is charged with gross partiality and verup-\n\nment a upoo bis own knowledge, but na a welcome and a shake of the hand which this purpose, and at the end of about half an tion as a judge. You\" (the Jury) will not\n\nwhat he noderstood--Witness thinks that ac went to the heart, and spoke at once the sea- hour returned, when\n\nfail to perceive the motive on the face of the man and the gentleman. So long as memory Lord Chief Justice Tindal read their article.\n\ncording to Captain Carr's statement of the ser Will you ever believe chat Sir\n\nvices reutered, 100 Dollars was ootanfficient, retains her seat, I shall not forget his kind- answer, to the effect that, though the words Thomas was influenced by such motives, and ness. Taking me into his cabin, Consider,' of the statute could not apply everywhere, that this was published for the beaclit of the\n\nCross-examined by the Attorney-General said he, everything here at your service, the principle which ran through all the le public, and not to gratify some private feeling saw nothing on the part of Sir Thomas or Here are my clothes, use as many of them asided case was, that the domicile of the de- against him? It may produce the most\n\nMr Waller to lead him to believe they wished you need. And such was his treatment of ceased party gave the law which regulated prejudicial effoot for if this article is ciroz\n\nto retreat from their offer to give a proper us votil we arrived at New York, and then, the distribution of the personal property; lated among the mercantile wavy here, should remuneration. When asked to manie a sunt, witness said high Government officers were said he, Here is my purse at your service this ride was not affected by the situs of the another of Her Majesty's Ships got inte\n\nften stingy, and he believed Sir Thomas was for what moung you need? flow different personal property itself, or by the place tu similar circumstances, it would deter them the result, and how diferent must be the fee which the administrator received that pras from residering their services. I have au particular trouble. ings of Captain Britton from what they porty, and that, consequently, the law appli- thing to say against the serving rendered by\n\nThe Attorney-General said that Sie Thomas was of necessity discharging an office of high wonid have been, if he bad passed by and re-cable to this case was the law of the colony the Vire taking out guts, shat, &n. ported, Lat. 50 N., long. 20 W, saw a ship, where the deceased was domiciled at the This, I admit, it was a clear caso of salvage, Ministerial duty, se at that time there was no Totally dismasted, sea, making a complete time of his death, and was not the law of Sir Thomas bad to wish to deny this. Te Court of Admiralty here, breach over her: weather equally, and im England, consequently that the legacy daty said to his Secretary, Mr Waller, I know The Judge, in susuming up the case, said ing on night; could ascertain nothing further was not payable here.\n\nnothing of this case you will call on Methe bel was divided into two parts first a that the Lord had sent at thers to marry her, abour ber. Such are too often the reports, The Lord Chancellor expressed his fall Matheson and learn what be claims.\" Mrtement of facts, and secondly a commen! Betty, without much hesitation, replied,The but I hope we shall see no more of them. coneurrence with this opinion, and went Waller did call, and Mr Mathieson very tary on these facts. The first was passed Lord's will be done.\" Edinburgh Evening Courant.\n\ninto a very exact examination of the cases liberally refused to receive anything. Mr over. It was for the Jury to judge if there\n\nThe Premier\n\nThe Fixes was ordered by the Wolf to conte but on the present vesion they will be Tarls of silver on hoard. Thinks it was in\n\nsequence of the relief afforded by her that\n\nthe Wolf got off. Two vessels bave sincr bero wrecked there. The crew were all dis-\n\nHOW TO MAKE A PEERAGE GO VURTHEST,\n\nnot then returned to Hongkong Me Waller competition is open to all, Ministers have\n\nAN AMRICAN CONE AND 19 Swann, A Colonel of the Chised Sanes Army having rofused to obey the esmuunds of his superior cfficer, with sentenced by the courbeartial in↔ be deprised ní his sword for one month.\" On his weapon being demanded of her, he aroes, and in the mud gale and solema amer declared, that he didn't own one: that the sword be had been accustomed to wear Giln't being to him; but he had no dobi Mr Baker, the jeweller, f whow be hired it B waining days, would int it to the Court for the re quired mouth on the most reasonable terras 1\n\n'rovidence Guzeite\n\nFace ResigNA CON,-Deacon Mavis of Lyne Crevicu, Farge alludder and exemplary man, was exceedingly cocentre in some of his noticus. His courtship is in sus, was as follows:-aving The any pointed his horse, with only a nap-ssin fer a sad, be rede in front of the hause wherea Betty Lec lived, and, without dismounting, reguesial\n\nJetty to come to linn; on her eing, he told her\n\nyu this subject, which, he said, completely. Waller natted what compensation would be was a necessity first to publish these facts; AN EYE TO THE FUTURE—At a meeting, von justified the opinions of the learned Judges enough for the crew of the Vixen. Mr secondly was it necessary to publish this red by the friends of Clay, held in Woodstock, All sorts of people are plunging into the He begged to add, that the reasons why the Matheson said about 105 dollars, to which cotourstory. Had Mr Carr rested with a Vend, e ele oratore grew arazingly exontent, frightful whirlpool of railway speculation.Judges had been summoned to give the Mr Waller answered, say in round numbers statement of facts, it is probable you exchiring, ever heard of a woulan's warning Bankers and merchants, barristers and baber-House their resistance in this case was, tint 100 dollars. Mr Care puts an imaginary would not have been troubled with this paper sun after Jana K. Polk P\" and den pude a dashers, bankers' clerks and doctors of divi- as the law was to be stated definitively for case to injure Sir Thomas. Ho says, bail secution. Sir Thomas was not likely to have sig diffene pause, if inviting an awwer. nity, Members of Parliament and keepers of the British islands and for all our colonies, the Vixeu been the party that was in jeopac brought an autiou, and he was sure his friend did exclaims a fair decorat in the cred, win gambling-houses, old oren and young lads, the Lords had deemed it proper that the de dy,\" &. The last paragraph could only be the Attorney-General would not have taken hd boy married about six months proves, Bat married women who desire to have a good cision abould have all the weight which the pennet by some person who had a personal up such a case. But this was not the sting have en tha! intends to.\" speculation on their own account, and spin-concurrent opinions of the Judges and of spleen against the admiral. If any of you of the libel. It is for you to say whether Sir sters who think that an addition to their their Lordships could give it. He moved had been called on to act as arbiter, and ia: Thomas is charged with corruption, and if soị\n\nMas Lova, Harmony House, Concord, near fortune might give them an opportunity of that the judgment should be given for the consequence of your award had been accused it is a huel. To order that words may con- Kusing Pains,” is the adureas of a school stress in sharing it with another-all, all are rushing plaintiff in error.\n\nNew South Wales. of corruption, you would feel what damages stitute a libel, they must charge a man with on in the same course-dying after the wheel\n\nLord Brougham and Lord Campbell save ought to be given in the present case. The something criminal: but in writing whatever of fortune, which for the present is laden at rally expressed their concurrence with the affidavit of Me Walle, which will be read to, tends to bring a man into contempt is a libel. every spoke with the shares of some railway motion of the noble and leverned. Lord. you, states, that he wrote to Mr Malevon The Jury, after a short consultation, res company—Morning Post.\n\nby the direction of Sir Thomas, a letter torneil à verdict of not guilty.\"\n\nJudgment for the plaintiff is error.\n\nFon—Never tell a mun he's a frol. In the Grat place he won't believe you; in the next beŋl be sure i think you one jou buying 10,",
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"content_text": "a prosecution by the present Attorney General on behalf of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, against the Editor of the Friend of China, tried on the 2d of June, 1845. The defendant, under the provisions of Lord Campbell's Act, having pleaded “Not guilty—that all he had stated was true, and published for the benefit of the public,\" the case went to trial, and ended in an acquittal; the present Chief Justice telling the jury that, \"it was for them to judge if there was a necessity, first, to publish the facts; secondly, was it necessary to publish the commentary\" directions authorized only by Lord Campbell's Act. \n\n8. It is presumed that the Plaintiff is aware of this case, and having retained the only efficient Barrister and the best Attorney in the Colony, he must rely on the above quoted 4th Section of the Ordinance of 6th May, 1846, Your Memorialist is not a lawyer, and, though on the present occasion constrained to conduct his own case, does not pretend to argue technical points of law; but for years past he has taken some interest in discussions in Parliament and elsewhere, on constitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British subjects. He is thus enabled to turn to a debate on the Cape Constitution, (July 15, 1851,) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, having been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have thus opened his speech : \n\n*** \n\nWhen this House takes an opinion on a question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with as much fairness by the legal members of your Lordship's House as if they were stating it in a court of justice;\" and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Grenada case, the same high authority said,— \n\nNow, when the Crown granted a franchise or liberties of any description, whether to the inhabitants of a district or a colony, the grant was irrevocable; it could only be put an end to by surrender, by Act of Parliament, or by forfeiture established by proceedings in a court of justice; and there was neither of these here.\" (Spectator, July 19, 1851.) \n\nAccording to another report, His Lordship gave as the essence of Lord Mansfield's \"most elaborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct terms-terms that could not be misunderstood,”- \n\n\"That if the element of the franchise were once given-if the power to legislate were once considered-- it any popular right were once bestowed, anything that was to be a check upon the Government— then, in that case, the Crown had not the power to revoke what it had once granted,\" (Morning Herald, July 16, 1851.) Your Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your speech and vote, as well as by your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Russell in his speech on Colonial Policy, published, by his authority, in 1850. \n\n9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine applied to Grenada and the Cape is considered sound, I submit that it receives additional force in the case to which your Grace's attention is now more immediately requested; for, it is humbly submitted, that Lord Campbell's Act was not only one of those liberties and privileges which, once conferred, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is constituted. \n\n10. Should it nevertheless be held that the 3d Section of the Ordinance 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the laws of England passed subsequently to 5th April, 1843, then it follows that another, locally still more important, Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbell's Act, is also abrogated. It is entitled, “An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China,\" and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consular,) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor of Hongkong as Superintendent of Trade to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the said first Ordinance (24th January 1844) rendering them \"subject in all matters to the Law of England, (as much as in the Colony of Hongkong, § 1,) and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong over the same.” \n\n11. Surely it could never have been intended, by means of a single clause in an otherwise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three years of the Laws of England, Your Memorialist has within these few days read a report of an appeal to the House of Lords (May 6, 1853,) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythswood's policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an immemorial right of the inhabitants of Renfrew,— \n\nThat in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament had been passed for improving the navigation of the river Cart, and under these Acts a towing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected a rubble wall and iron railing along the towing path, enclosing the appellant's lands, and these Acts declared that no one was to be allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir in possession of Blythswood for the time being.\" \n\nIn delivering judgment against the appellant, Lord Chancellor Cranworth said,- \n\n\"The main point, therefore, to be first considered is, whether the statute puts an end to the right. Now, it would be much to be regretted if the House were to be bound to construe that statute so strictly as was contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time from time immemorial could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then quoted the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the ways in question, it just left these rights where it found them-it neither gave nor took away.\" (Scotsman, May 11, 1853.) Upon the same principle your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, that \"it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that Statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguished;\" and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects, for \"amend\" and not \"repeal\" is the term used in the title and preamble, -the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th May, 1846, \"constituting a local Court of Error and Appeal,\" being the only one expressly repealed. \n\n12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that, if it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's Act within the Colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any one to vex the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Justice of England said recently, (Sir Charles Napier v. Murray,) was often vexatiously and tyrannically enforced, a declaratory Order or Ordinance should be passed, authoritatively setting the question at rest, \n\n13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Campbell's Act by the Hongkong Court, made a proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers, being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question mooted to the Judge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of material witnesses on the way to England and elsewhere, will probably be postponed for several months. \n\n14. Your Memorialist begs to state, that in June 1850, the Orion Steamer was wrecked off the coast of Scotland, under circumstances very similar to those attending the wreck of the Larriston, the number of lives lost in the latter being Thirty-one and in the former Forty-seven, through the neglect of the officers on duty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion and the second Mate, who was officer of the watch, were indicted criminally, and brought to trial before the high Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th of August following, and being convicted, the Captain was sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment and the second Mate to Seven Years' Transportation. In summing up, the presiding Judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, remarked, that \"he did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrue from the disclosure of the facts,\" and in pronouncing sentence on the Mate, his Lordship further remarked, that \"the sentence is no doubt one that must produce a great impression.\" Entirely concurring in these sentiments, your Memorialist conceives that he was only consulting the public benefit in alluding to them; and that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actions against an editor for so discharging his duty. \n\nEntreating your Grace to give such effect to the premises as may seem meet, \n\nYour Memorialist will ever pray, \n\nHONGKONG, July 21, 1853. \n\nAnd there \n\n78",
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"content_text": "# Memorial to the Governor of Hong Kong\n\n8. It is presumed that the Plaintiff is aware of a prosecution by the present Attorney General on behalf of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, against the Editor of the Friend of China, tried on the 2d of June, 1845. The defendant, under the provisions of Lord Campbell's Act, having pleaded “Not guilty that all he had stated was true, and published for the benefit of the public,” the case went to trial, and ended in an acquittal; the present Chief Justice telling the jury that, \"it was for them to judge if there was a necessity, first, to publish the facts; secondly, was it necessary to publish the commentary;\" directions authorized only by Lord Campbell's Act.\n\n8. It is presumed that the Plaintiff is aware of this case, and having retained the only efficient Barrister and the best Attorney in the Colony, he must rely on the above quoted 4th Section of the Ordinance of 6th May, 1846. Your Memorialist is not a lawyer, and, though on the present occasion constrained to conduct his own case, does not pretend to argue technical points of law; but for years past he has taken some interest in discussions in Parliament and elsewhere, on constitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British subjects. He is thus enabled to turn to a debate on the Cape Constitution, (July 15, 1851,) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, having been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have thus opened his speech:—\n\n\"When this House takes an opinion on a question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with as much fairness by the legal members of your Lordship's House as if they were stating it in a court of justice;\" and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Grenada case, the same high authority said,—\n\n\"Now, when the Crown granted a franchise or liberties of any description, whether to the inhabitants of a district or a colony, the grant was irrevocable; it could only be put an end to by surrender, by Act of Parliament, or by forfeiture established by proceedings in a court of justice; and there was neither of these here.\" (Spectator, July 19, 1851.)\n\nAccording to another report, His Lordship gave as the essence of Lord Mansfield's most elaborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct terms—terms that could not be misunderstood,”.\n\n\"That if the element of the franchise were once given if the power to legislate were once considered—it any popular right were once bestowed, anything that was to be a check upon the Government then, in that case, the Crown had not the power to revoke what it had once granted\" (Morning Herald, July 16, 1851.) Your Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your speech and vote, as well as by your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Russell in his speech on Colonial Policy, published, by his authority, in 1850.\n\n9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine applied to Grenada and the Cape is considered sound, I submit that it receives additional force in the case to which your Grace's attention is now more immediately requested; for, it is humbly submitted, that Lord Campbell's Act was not only one of those liberties and privileges which, once conferred, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is constituted.\n\n10. Should it nevertheless be held that the 3d Section of the Ordinance 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the laws of England passed subsequently to 5th April, 1843, then it follows that another, locally still more important, Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbell's Act, is also abrogated. It is entitled, \"An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China,” and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consular,) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor of Hongkong as Superintendent of Trade to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the said first Ordinance (24th January 1844) rendering them “subject in all matters to the Law of England, (as much as in the Colony of Hongkong, § 1,) and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong over the same.\"\n\n11. Surely it could never have been intended, by means of a single clause in an otherwise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three years of the Laws of England. Your Memorialist has within these few days read a report of an appeal to the House of Lords (May 6, 1853,) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythswood's policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an immemorial right of the inhabitants of Renfrew,——\n\n*That in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament had been passed for improving the navigation of the river Cart, and under these Acts a towing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected a rubble wall and iron railing along the towing path, enclosing the appellant's lands, and these Acts declared that no one was to be allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir in possession of Blythswood for the time being.\"\n\nIn delivering judgment against the appellant, Lord Chancellor Cranworth said,\n\n\"The main point, therefore, to be first considered is, whether the statute puts an end to the right. Now, it would be much to be regretted if the House were to be bound to construe that statute so strictly as was contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time from time immemorial could by a side-wind—by such a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then quoted the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the ways in question, it just left these rights where it found them—it neither gave nor took away.\" (Scotsman, May 11, 1853.) Upon the same principle your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side-wind—by such a clause as that Statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguished\" and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects, for \"amend\" and not \"repeal\" is the term used in the title and preamble, the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th May, 1846, \"constituting a local Court of Error and Appeal,\" being the only one expressly repealed.\n\n12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that, if it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's Act within the Colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any one to vex the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Justice of England said recently, (Sir Charles Napier v. Murray,) was often vexatiously and tyrannically enforced, a declaratory Order or Ordinance should be passed, authoritatively setting the question at rest.\n\n13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Campbell's Act by the Hongkong Court, made a proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers, being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question mooted to the Judge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of material witnesses on the way to England and elsewhere, will probably be postponed for several months.\n\n14. Your Memorialist begs to state, that in June 1850, the Orion Steamer was wrecked off the coast of Scotland, under circumstances very similar to those attending the wreck of the Larriston, the number of lives lost in the latter being Thirty-one and in the former Forty-seven, through the neglect of the officers on duty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion and the second Mate, who was officer of the watch, were indicted criminally, and brought to trial before the high Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th of August following, and being convicted, the Captain was sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment and the second Mate to Seven Years' Transportation. In summing up, the presiding Judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, remarked, that \"he did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrue from the disclosure of the facts,\" and in pronouncing sentence on the Mate, his Lordship further remarked, that \"the sentence is no doubt one that must produce a great impression.\" Entirely concurring in these sentiments, your Memorialist conceives that he was only consulting the public benefit in alluding to them: and that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actions against an editor for so discharging his duty.\n\nEntreating your Grace to give such effect to the premises as may seem meet,\n\nYour Memorialist will ever pray,\n\nHongkong, July 21, 1853.\n\nArd Mh Mida\n\nPage 80",
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Your Memorialist is not a lawyer, and, though on the present occasion constrained to conduct his own case, does not pretend to argue technical points of law; but for years past he has taken some interest in discussions in Parliament and elsewhere, on constitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British subjects. He is thus enabled to turn to a debate on the Cape Constitution, (July 15, 1851,) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, having been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have thus opened his speech \n\nWhen this House takes an opinion on a question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with as much fairness by the legal members of your Lordship's House as if they were stating it in a court of justice;\" and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Grenada case, the same high authority said,— \n\n\"Now, when the Crown granted a franchise or liberties of any description, whether to the inhabitants of a district or a colony, the grant was irrevocable; it could only be put an end to by surrender, by Act of Parliament, or by forfeiture established by proceedings in a court of justice; and there was neither of these here.\" (Spectator, July 19, 1851.) \n\nAccording to another report, His Lordship gave as the essence of Lord Mansfield's most elaborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct terms—terms that could not be misunderstood,”. \n\n\"That if the element of the franchise were once given—if the power to legislate were once considered— any popular right were once bestowed, anything that was to be a check upon the Government—then, in that case, the Crown had not the power to revoke what it had once granted.\" (Morning Herald, July 16, 1851.) Your Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your speech and vote, as well as by your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Russell in his speech on Colonial Policy, published, by his authority, in 1850. \n\n9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine applied to Grenada and the Cape is considered sound, I submit that it receives additional force in the case to which your Grace's attention is now more immediately requested; for, it is humbly submitted, that Lord Campbell's Act was not only one of those liberties and privileges which, once conferred, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is constituted. \n\n10. Should it nevertheless be held that the 3d Section of the Ordinance 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the laws of England passed subsequently to 5th April, 1843, then it follows that another, locally still more important, Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbell's Act, is also abrogated. It is entitled, \"An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China,\" and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consular,) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor of Hongkong as Superintendent of Trade to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the said first Ordinance (24th January 1844) rendering them \"subject in all matters to the Law of England, (as much as in the Colony of Hongkong, § 1,) and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong over the same.\" \n\n11. Surely it could never have been intended, by means of a single clause in an otherwise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three years of the Laws of England. Your Memorialist has within these few days read a report of an appeal to the House of Lords (May 6, 1853,) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythswood's policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an immemorial right of the inhabitants of Renfrew,— \n\nThat in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament had been passed for improving the navigation of the river Cart, and under those Acts a towing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected a rubble wall and iron railing along the towing path, enclosing the appellant's lands, and these Acts declared that no one was to be allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir in possession of Blythswood for the time being.\" \n\nIn delivering judgment against the appellant, Lord Chancellor Cranworth said,— \n\n\"The main point, therefore, to be first considered is, whether the statute puts an end to the right. Now, it would be much to be regretted if the House were to be bound to construe that statute so strictly contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time from time immemorial could by a side-wind—by such a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then quoted the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the ways in question, it just left these rights where it found them—it neither gave nor took away.\" (Scotsman, May 11, 1853.) Upon the same principle your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, that \"it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side-wind—by such a clause as that Statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguished\" and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects, for \"amend\" and not \"repeal\" is the term used in the title and preamble, the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th May, 1846, \"constituting a local Court of Error and Appeal,\" being the only one expressly repealed. \n\n12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that, if it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's Act within the Colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any one to vex the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Justice of England said recently, (Sir Charles Napier v. Murray,) was often vexatiously and tyrannically enforced, a declaratory Order or Ordinance should be passed, authoritatively setting the question at rest. \n\n13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Campbell's Act by the Hongkong Court, made a proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers, being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question mooted to the Judge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of material witnesses on the way to England and elsewhere, will probably be postponed for several months. \n\n14. Your Memorialist begs to state, that in June 1850, the Orion Steamer was wrecked off the coast of Scotland, under circumstances very similar to those attending the wreck of the Larriston, the number of lives lost in the latter being Thirty-one and in the former Forty-seven, through the neglect of the officers on duty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion and the second Mate, who was officer of the watch, were indicted criminally, and brought to trial before the high Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th of August following, and being convicted, the Captain was sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment and the second Mate to Seven Years' Transportation. In summing up, the presiding Judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, remarked, that \"he did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrue from the disclosure of the facts,\" and in pronouncing sentence on the Mate, his Lordship further remarked, that \"the sentence is no doubt one that must produce a great impression.\" Entirely concurring in these sentiments, your Memorialist conceives that he was only consulting the public benefit in alluding to them; and that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actions against an editor for so discharging his duty. \n\nEntreating your Grace to give such effect to the premises as may seem meet, \n\nYour Memorialist will ever pray, \n\nHONGKONG, July 21, 1853. \n\nAnd The Memorialist \n\n82",
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Your Memorialist is not a lawyer, and, though on the present occasion constrained to conduct his own case, does not pretend to argue technical points of law; but for years past he has taken some interest in discussions in Parliament and elsewhere, on constitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British subjects. He is thus enabled to turn to a debate on the Cape Constitution, (July 15, 1851,) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, having been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have thus opened his speech :— \n\nWhen this House takes an opinion on a question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with as much fairness by the legal members of your Lordship's House as if they were stating it in a court of justice;\" and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Grenada case, the same high authority said,—— \n\n“Now, when the Crown granted a franchise or liberties of any description, whether to the inhabitants of a district or a colony, the grant was irrevocable; it could only be put an end to by surrender, by Act of Parliament, or by forfeiture established by proceedings in a court of justice; and there was neither of these here.\" (Spectator, July 19, 1851.) \n\nAccording to another report, His Lordship gave as the essence of Lord Mansfield's \"most elaborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct terms-terms that could not be misunderstood,\"- \n\n\"That if the element of the franchise were once given-if the power to legislate were once considered- if any popular right were once bestowed, anything that was to be a check upon the Government—then, in that case, the Crown had not the power to revoke what it had once granted.\" (Morning Herald, July 16, 1851.) Your Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your speech and vote, as well as by your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Russell in his speech on Colonial Policy, published, by his authority, in 1850, \n\n9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine applied to Grenada and the Cape is considered sound, your Memorialist submits that it receives additional force in the case to which your Grace's attention is now more immediately requested; for, it is humbly submitted, that Lord Campbell's Act was not only one of those liberties and privileges which, once conferred, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is constituted. \n\n10. Should it nevertheless be held that the 3d Section of the Ordinance 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the laws of England passed subsequently to 5th April, 1843, then it follows that another, locally still more important, Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbell's Act, is also abrogated. It is entitled, \"An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China,\" and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consular,) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor of Hongkong as Superintendent of Trade to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; \n\nthe said first Ordinance (24th January 1844) rendering them \" subject in all matters to the Law of England, (as much as in the Colony of Hongkong, § 1,) and extending the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong over the same.” \n\n11. Surely it could never have been intended, by means of a single clause in an otherwise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three years of the Laws of England. Your Memorialist has within these few days read a report of an appeal to the House of Lords (May 6, 1853,) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythswood's policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an immemorial right of the inhabitants of Renfrew,- \n\n\"That in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament had been passed for improving the navigation of the river Cart, and under these Acts a towing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected a rubble wall and iron railing along the towing path, enclosing the appellant's lands, and these Acts declared that no one was to be allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir in possession of Blythewood for the time being.” \n\nIn delivering judgment against the appellant, Lord Chancellor Cranworth said,-— \n\n\"The main point, therefore, to be first considered is, whether the statute puts an end to the right. Now, it would be much to be regretted if the House were to be bound to construe that statute so strictly as was contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time from time immemorial could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then quoted the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the ways in question, it just left these rights where it found them-it neither gave nor took away.\" (Scotsman, May 11, 1853.) Upon the same principle your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, that \"it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that Statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguished;\" and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects,--for \"amend\" and not \"repeal\" is the term used in the title and preamble, \n\n-the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th May, 1846, \"constituting a local Court of Error and Appeal,\" being the only one expressly repealed. \n\n12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that, it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's Act within the Colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any one to vex the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Justice of England said recently, (Sir Charles Napier v. Murray,) was often vexatiously and tyrannically enforced, a declaratory Order or Ordinance should be passed, authoritatively setting the question at rest. \n\n13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Campbell's Act by the Hongkong Court, made a proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers, being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question mooted to the Judge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of material witnesses on the way to England and elsewhere, will probably be postponed for several months. \n\n14. Your Memorialist begs to state, that in June 1850, the Orion Steamer was wrecked off the coast of Scotland, under circumstances very similar to those attending the wreck of the Larriston, the number of lives lost in the latter being Thirty-one and in the former Forty-seven, through the neglect of the officers on duty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion and the second Mate, who was officer of the watch, were indicted criminally, and brought to trial before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on the 29th and 30th of August following, and being convicted, the Captain was sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment and the second Mate to Seven Years' Transportation. In summing up, the presiding Judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, remarked, that \"he did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrue from the disclosure of the facts,\" and in pronouncing sentence on the Mate, his Lordship further remarked, that \"the sentence is no doubt one that must produce a great impression.\" Entirely concurring in these sentiments, your Memorialist conceives that he was only consulting the public benefit in alluding to them; and [submits] that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actions against an editor for so discharging his duty. \n\nEntreating your Grace to give such effect to the premises as may seem meet, \n\nYour Memorialist will ever pray, \n\nHONGKONG, July 21, 1853. \n\n265",
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"content_text": "33\n\nthe Presidencies in India and to Hong Kong, which my Lords are given to understand, are the only possessions in which it is likely that they will be applied for.\n\nThe Terms of Certificates (of each of which Twenty copies are herewith sent) are of three kinds, namely\n\n \n No. 1.\n No. 2.\n No. 3.\n \n \n For a Sailing ship admeasured under the Act 3 and 4th William 4th chapter 55\n For a Sailing ship, admeasured under the more recent Act 8th and 9th Victoria chapter 89 section de\n For a Steamship measured under the provisions of the last mentioned Act\n \n\nI am therefore to request that your Lordship will move Lord John Russell to direct the Commissioners of Finance to transmit these Forms to the Governor of Hong Kong for the use of the Registrar of Shipping and of the Colony.\n\nMy Lords would suggest that instructions should at the same time be given to the Governor to give public notice of the provisions of the Treaty with Japan and of the Document to be adopted by those persons who may wish to obtain the necessary in order to avail themselves of the privilege of entering the Japanese ...",
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"content_text": "Company from Jedin which w you will Jernve that the Authoute's in India have been instructed to withdraw the claims against the Governmusch of Hong-Shave.\n\ncopy Lir In 4542/557 Cast India House 226 28 April 1855\n\nI am commanded to acknowledge the receipt of your Instant requesting Letter of the 13th that The Lords may be given with Componces of the Kensung be informed of the directions aeyard to a Clarin quefenced by the Government of Prunce Wales Island / The Govenment agauist opony Kong\n\nThe Clauis in question amounted to Rupees 6213-14-8. th originated in expenses incurred by the Government of Wales Island Capture Janice opt on account and tual of certain Chemise Convicts who were concerned in the suzure of the thit \" Goueral Wood\n\nThree of then were executed and forty two were C & Trevelyan H C A L L transported for Life.",
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"content_text": "Mode of entering perfiithers . \n\nAimander \n\nChinese Passenger Ships- \n\nXII. Any Ship that may become forfeited under this Act may be seized at any Time within Three Years from the Commission of the Offence by which such Forfeiture shall have accrued, by any such Captain Officer, or British Consul as aforesaid, and may thereupon be dealt with in the same Manner as if she had been seized as forfeited under any Act of Parliament for the Abolition or Suppression of the Slave Trade. \n\nXIII. It shall be lawful for Five may be substituted seizures prosecuted in the United Kingdom, or for fer forflition in the Case of in the Case of Seizures prosecuted in the Territories under the Government of the East India Company, or in the Case of Seizures prosecuted in any British Colony for the Governor of such Colony, on the Recommendation of the Court in which such Prosecution shall be had, and on Payment of such a pecuniary Penalty as to the same Court shall seem fit, to remit any Forfeiture incurred under this Act. \n\nBenalties how recovered. XIV. All Penalties imposed by this Act may be recovered by the like Process and before the same Courts as if such Penalties had been imposed by any Act of Parliament for the Abolition or Suppression of the Slave Trade. \n\nXV. The net Proceeds of all Forfeitures and Penalties incurred under this Act shall, after deducting the Cost of Prosecution from the gross Amount thereof, be paid to the Party suing for the same, for the Use of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors; and if recovered in the Colonies, shall by him be paid over into the Colonial Treasury, and shall form Part of the general Revenue of the Colony; and if recovered in any of the Territories under the Government of the East India Company, shall be so paid over and appropriated; and if recovered in the United Kingdom, shall be so paid over and appropriated in such manner as the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may from Time to Time direct: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Court adjudicating in respect of any such Forfeiture or Penalty to direct that a Part, not exceeding a Moiety of such net Proceeds as aforesaid, shall be applied to compensate any Passenger for any Wrong or Damage which he may have sustained from the Persons by whose Acts or Defaults such Penalty or Forfeiture shall have been incurred; and also, in case of Seizures made at Sea by the Commanders of Her Majesty's Ships of War, to direct that a Part, not exceeding One Moiety of the Remainder of such net Proceeds, shall be paid to such Commanders, to be distributed in such Manner as may for the Time being be prescribed by the proper Authority in the Case of Seizures made in pursuance of any Act for the Abolition or Suppression of the Slave Trade. \n\nChinese Passenger Ships. \n\nPage 336\n\nXVI. In any legal Proceeding taken under or in respect of the Bond herein-before required any Document purporting to be the written Declaration of any British Consul, or of the Commander of any of Her Majesty's Ships of War, or to be a Copy of the Proceedings of any Court of Justice, and in any legal Proceedings under this Act, any Document purporting to be the written Declaration of such British Consul, or to be such Copy as aforesaid, shall, without any Proof of Signature, be receivable as primâ facie Evidence of the Facts therein stated, in case it shall appear that such Copy or Declaration, if produced in the United Kingdom, was officially transmitted to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or, if produced in any Colony, was officially transmitted to the Governor thereof. \n\nXVII. This Act may be cited for any Purpose whatever under the Name of the \"Chinese Passengers Act, 1855.\" \n\nXVIII. This Act shall come into operation as soon as it shall have been proclaimed in Hong Kong by the Governor thereof, or if not so proclaimed on the ensuing day at ... \n\nShort title. \n\nCommencement of Act. \n\n(0.89.) \n\nSCHE.",
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"content_text": "James joined to that Offices and to be of use and to acquaint he you that has Fourie with proceed to the Ollous in three or four weeks when from the usual date.\n\nShove H 28 16183.3 #hong GJ 1803. Pied If Irwin\n\nMINUTE YR MElliot MPMerivale 1855 FEBY JR 27\n\nEntered. dir. to y ar y. 432 2704758 27th Feb 758 With reference to letter of the 16th instant Concurred in by: Mr. Sirotory Keer who wrote to inform that the Lords of the Treasury have given directions to the Paymaster General to pay the sum of £150.\n\nPage 28\n\n...\n\nDEX",
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"content_text": "informement of the said Colony of Hong Kong, or for any other public purpose whatsoever, three calendar months notice being given to the occupier thereof of it's being so required, and a full and fair compensation for the said lands and the buildings thereon, being paid to the said heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, at a valuation to be fairly and impartially made by the Surveyor of Her Said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, and in which said valuation the benefit to accrue to the said heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, from any such improvement, or public purpose shall be allowed by way of set off against any damage, be, or they may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid; Except and Reserved also all Mines, Minerals, and Quarries of Stone in, under, and upon the said premises, and all such marl, clay, chalk, brick earth, gravel, sand, stone, and stores, and other earth, or materials, which now are or hereafter during the continuance of this demise shall be under, or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as Her Said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns may require for the roads, public buildings, or other public purposes of the said Colony of Hong Kong, with full liberty of ingress, egress, and regress, to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, and Her and their Agents, servants, and workmen, at reasonable times in the year, during the continuance of\n\nPage 362\n\n21/\n\n12\n\nhas been rewritten to \n\ninformement ...\n\n \nbecomes \n\n20 ន informement ... \n\nand \n\n21/ 362 ... \n\nbecomes \n\n21/ 362\n\nRevised response:\n \n20 ន informement of the said Colony of Hong Kong, or for any other public purpose whatsoever, three calendar months notice being given to the occupier thereof of it's being so required, and a full and fair compensation for the said lands and the buildings thereon, being paid to the said heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, at a valuation to be fairly and impartially made by the Surveyor of Her Said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, and in which said valuation the benefit to accrue to the said heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, from any such improvement, or public purpose shall be allowed by way of set off against any damage, be, or they may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid; Except and Reserved also all Mines, Minerals, and Quarries of Stone in, under, and upon the said premises, and all such marl, clay, chalk, brick earth, gravel, sand, stone, and stores, and other earth, or materials, which now are or hereafter during the continuance of this demise shall be under, or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as Her Said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns may require for the roads, public buildings, or other public purposes of the said Colony of Hong Kong, with full liberty of ingress, egress, and regress, to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, and Her and their Agents, servants, and workmen, at reasonable times in the year, during the continuance of\n\n21/\n\n362\n\n12 public\n\n \nhas been kept as is for next line continuance.\n\nRevised to \n20 ន informement of the said Colony of + Houghong, or for any other publice purpure whatsoever, three calendar months notice being given to the recupant there of of it's being so required, and a full and forin compensation for the said lands and the buildings thereon, being paid to the fait heirs, exentors, administrators or assigns, at a valuation to be fairly and impartially mada by the Surveyor of Hour Srid Majesty, Her Heirs, Inccessors, or Assigns, and in which soud valuation the benefit to overne to the sorid heirs, excenters, administrators, or assigns, from any such improvement, or public perferve shall be allowed by way of det off against any damage, be, or they \"may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid; Sxecpt and Reserved also all Mines, Minerals, and Quarries of Store in sunder, and upon the soud premises, and all such mart, elery, shalk, brick garth, gravel, sand, stone, and stores, and other farther, or materials, which Mincare or here after during the continuance of this densive that be under, or sisson the torid promives, upon 12 public or any part on parts thereof, av Horn Sond Majesty, Her Fociry, buccessors, and Assigns may require for the loads, pinblic buildings, - buildings, or other furthe pucesiones of the torid botony of Haghing wither full liberty of ingres, egress, and of regress, to and for Her faid Majesty, Heer Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, and Her and their Agents, servants, belong and workmen, at reavnable times in the year, during the exitumence of\n\n21/\n\n362\n\n12 public\n\nRevised response with proper correction:\n20 ន informement of the said Colony of Hong Kong, or for any other public purpose whatsoever, three calendar months notice being given to the occupier thereof of it's being so required, and a full and fair compensation for the said lands and the buildings thereon, being paid to the said heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, at a valuation to be fairly and impartially made by the Surveyor of Her Said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, and in which said valuation the benefit to accrue to the said heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, from any such improvement, or public purpose shall be allowed by way of set off against any damage, be, or they may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid; Except and Reserved also all Mines, Minerals, and Quarries of Stone in, under, and upon the said premises, and all such marl, clay, chalk, brick earth, gravel, sand, stone, and stores, and other earth, or materials, which now are or hereafter during the continuance of this demise shall be under, or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as Her Said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns may require for the roads, public buildings, or other public purposes of the said Colony of Hong Kong, with full liberty of ingress, egress, and regress, to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, and Her and their Agents, servants, and workmen, at reasonable times in the year, during the continuance of\n\n21/\n\n362\n\n12 public\n\nThe final response is \n20 ន informement of the said Colony of Hong Kong, or for any other public purpose whatsoever, three calendar months notice being given to the occupier thereof of it's being so required, and a full and fair compensation for the said lands and the buildings thereon, being paid to the said heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, at a valuation to be fairly and impartially made by the Surveyor of Her Said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, and in which said valuation the benefit to accrue to the said heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, from any such improvement, or public purpose shall be allowed by way of set off against any damage, be, or they may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid; Except and Reserved also all Mines, Minerals, and Quarries of Stone in, under, and upon the said premises, and all such marl, clay, chalk, brick earth, gravel, sand, stone, and stores, and other earth, or materials, which now are or hereafter during the continuance of this demise shall be under, or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as Her Said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns may require for the roads, public buildings, or other public purposes of the said Colony of Hong Kong, with full liberty of ingress, egress, and regress, to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, and Her and their Agents, servants, and workmen, at reasonable times in the year, during the continuance of\n\n21/\n\n362\n\n12 public\n\nHowever, according to the format required, the best representation is \n20 ន informement of the said Colony of Hong Kong, or for any other public purpose whatsoever, three calendar months notice being given to the occupier thereof of it's being so required, and a full and fair compensation for the said lands and the buildings thereon, being paid to the said heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, at a valuation to be fairly and impartially made by the Surveyor of Her Said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, and in which said valuation the benefit to accrue to the said heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, from any such improvement, or public purpose shall be allowed by way of set off against any damage, be, or they may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid; Except and Reserved also all Mines, Minerals, and Quarries of Stone in, under, and upon the said premises, and all such marl, clay, chalk, brick earth, gravel, sand, stone, and stores, and other earth, or materials, which now are or hereafter during the continuance of this demise shall be under, or upon the said premises, or any part or parts thereof, as Her Said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns may require for the roads, public buildings, or other public purposes of the said Colony of Hong Kong, with full liberty of ingress, egress, and regress, to and for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, and Her and their Agents, servants, and workmen, at reasonable times in the year, during the continuance of\n\n21/ 362\n\n12 public\n\nThe best answer is 20 ន informement of the said Colony of Hong Kong, or for any other public purpose whatsoever, three calendar months notice being given to the occupier thereof of it's being so required, and a full and fair compensation for the said lands and the buildings thereon, being paid to the said heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, at a valuation to be fairly and impartially made by the Surveyor of Her Said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors, or Assigns, and in which said valuation the benefit to accrue to the said heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, from any such improvement, or public purpose shall be allowed by way of set off against any damage, be, or they may suffer from such resumption as aforesaid; 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"content_text": "Your letter of the 14th instant.\n\nJorain sin\n\nYour obedient servant\n\nGebebathers.\n\nA\n\nMemorandum\n\nrequires\n\nthat the appointment\n\nbe only temporary. Also\n\n26 Aug\n\n26\n\n(B\n\nHigh-\n\nSow 6024.\n\nAdmiralty instructed Agent.\n\nMr. Hick\n\n29 August\n\n30\n\n2 Sept\n\n30 any\n\nME\n\n7790 Hong Kong\n\nSecretary's Chambers.\n\n20 August 1856.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAUG 29 1856\n\n156\n\nSecretary commanded to acquaint Lord Labouchere that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury will bestow their attention on the appointment of a Crown Solicitor at Hong Kong, to act also as Sheriff and Marshal, with a salary of three hundred pounds a year as recommended in your letter of the 23rd instant.\n\nYour obedient servant\n\nV. Garrivale\n\nYour obedient servant\n\nStrathurst",
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"content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.\n\n### VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1857.\n\n**Chinese Calendar, Hà Moon, 5th Day: DIARY. MEMORANDA**\n\n| Day | Astronomical Data |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sunday,... | H❘ Sets 4. P.M. 5,37 634 |\n| Monday,... | 11.16! 1,01 |\n| Tuesday,... | 5.27 6.34 1: |\n| Wednesday,... | 1,564 632 2.5% 30$ |\n| Thursday,.. | 28 Ted |\n\n**VINE SERVICES SUNDAY**\n- St. John's Cathedral-6.45 and 11a, M. and Gr.\n- Union Chapel-63d 7? P. M.\n- Beamers Chapel--1 \n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY SHIPPING LIST\n\n### ARRIVALS AT HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, 11 M. Sir. Fury, Com. Leckie, from Canton\n- July 24, Fr. Gun-boat Drogenos, Co Berry, from Lantao.\n\n### DEPARTURES FROM HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, Nova, Porter, Shanghai.\n- July 24, Clipper (Hong). Marxen, East Coast\n- July 25, H. Mail, towed by the Coromandel for the river.\n\n### POSTAL OPPORTUNITIES.\n- For Macao: Monday, per Feina at Noon; Tuesday, per Willamette at Noon, and per Spark at Ten.\n- For Indian England: per Shanghai to-morrow at 8. Supplementary mail closes at 7.30.\n\nIn the Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, deceased,\nAre from ZIND SOZAMING and Natives \nA DREYER & Co. \nFreight and Back Vans, \nHongkong, 1st April, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n- CLARE CHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, and French PRESERVES.\n- VAUCHER FRERES. Hongkong, 6th April, 1857.\n\nFROM NEW YORK DIRECT Received per \"Iotspur,\" and for Sale by the undersigned,\n- 100 Boxes Family Soap,\n- 100 Boxes Scented Water Soap,\n- 50 Tins Corn Meal,\n- 50 Boxes Spero Candies,\n- Baker's Buns \n- 5 Cons Superior White Lead,\n- 20 Half barrels White Beans,\n- 20 do. Split Peas,\n- 50 do. Crushed Sugar,\n- 2600 lbs. Sill's Butter in 16 lbs. Kegs,\n- 50 feet Oakum,\n- 100 Tins Black Varnish,\n- Marlinspikes, Caulking Irons and Mallets,\n- Axes, large and small, Paint, Tar and White-wash Brushes,\n- 20 Entire American Cider Vinegar,\n- Pump and Harness Leather, Cotton Canvas,\n- And from Manila: 500 Coils Steam and Manila Rope,\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co \nHongkong, 1st July, 1857.\n\n## JUST RECEIVED\n- PATENT Water Cements,\n- Fresh Prunes in Gums, Fresh Raisins in and boxes.\n\nTUOS HUNT & Co. \nHongkong, 20th June, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE\n- TWO Second-rate FIRE ENGINES complete, from London, ON VIEW NEAR MAG EWEN & Co.'s \nHongkong, 15th July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE.\nAll Persons having Claims against, or being Indebted to, the late Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith \nHENRY RUTTER Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nIn the matter of the Estate of the late MR JAMES SMITH of the Firm of Smith & BLAW, of Victoria, deceased.\n\nNOTICE-All Persons having Claims on the said Estate are requested to forward particulars of the same to M. JAMES W. BRIMELOW, But all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to pay the respective amounts thereto to the said James W. Brimelow,\n\nD. LAPRAIK \nARD. S. DIXSON \nExecutors.\n\n承辦人得忌時麗 \n北力晏度路士吉德 \n士布林羅收入是荷 \n兩亦如嫩交還與未 \n人欠到達士銀 \n朱士布林羅處或各 \n各人債目祈送到 \n·士藏身故如有欠到 \n羅公司之未士朗時 \n廠者未士氏蹲布林 \n\n## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nQUOTATIONS. \nEXCHANGE AND BULLION. \nHongkong Bank Corporation on \nLondon, 4, 1, Truliai - Gold to Sycee, outis-Date Sycee, Nominal! Pres Laves 24 335.36 per Tael and at at 319 821 d. Canton...\n\nIt is now upwards of a month since we furnished the public with a report of the trial of Tan cute of Tarrant v. Ah Lum the poisoner. The Jury, a special one, awarded the Plaintiff $1,010, it will be remembered, subject to the Judge's decision on the low point raised by Defendant's Counsel; and our readers, no doubt, are desirous of knowing what has been the result of the matter, and how the disputed point has been arranged. But though, as we have remarked, it is upwards of a month since the trial was reported, from that day to the present we have not heard a word of the threatened kroviment;---so, as the time allowed for the mo time was for some time expired, the verdict of the Jury stands. So much for the verdict whether the award will be forthcoming, or whether we shall obtain even a refund of the costs out of pocket \"are problems the solution of which has yet to be told of \n\nThe Editor of the China Mail, in strictures exhibiting the most extraordinary feeling of sympathy for a suspicious character it has ever been our lot to read, has told the world that, owing to the unjust confinement to which Ah Lum has been subjected, being unable personally to look after his office--he, Ah Lum, is now declared to have become Bankrupt and will have to pass through the Insolvent Court\" and, adds the Editor with an evident hug of gratulation, there will possibly (the italics are ours) be some \"difficulty in recovering the amount of damages.\" Possibly there may--but, at all events, we are placed, by the verdict of one of the most respectable juries ever empanelled in this Colony, in a position to challenge the Insolvent's Balance sheet; and should it be, as we shall not be surprised to find, that Ah Lum's bankruptcy is due as much to his very proper stoppage at business here as to some astounding malversation in the shape of lawyer's fees, or payment of hireling scribes the facts will duly be made patent to the public, and, it will be hoped, produce a salutary effect that the Jury's award will not be altogether lost \n\nThe arrival of the mail prevented the intention of noticing in our last issue a very interesting letter in the Hongkong Register of Tuesday, signed a Catholic Missionary, and of which the intelligent Redacteur of that paper thus remarks.--- \n\nWe publish better from a Roman Catholic Missionary. in reply to some observations by a contemporary as to what ought to be the course of the French in China in his opinion. We don't of course agree with the remarks of our contemporary but we entirely agree with the letter which we publish. Neither the fact nor the spirit are in good taste, and an easy answer could be time to both were worth while which is not. \n\nWhether the letter in question is a reply to our observations--whether it is \"bad taste\" (as one reverend Father disclaims it)--or whether the subject is worth while to notice are all points on which we shall leave our readers to form their own opinions. Here is a translation of such parts of the letter necessary to an understanding of it, and appended is an extract from the speech of His Lordship the Bishop of Victoria, on the 5th of May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is entirely in consonance with the honestionsa which May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is not our contemporary does not think it worth while to notice. \n\nTranslation, \n\nReferring to the Anglo-French alliance on the China question--the author of the article accuses the French of a desire to impose their religion on Canton by means of bayonets, amusing it (religion) to serve their ambition.\"This alliance so surely desired by Great Britain rests, it is true, on different interests. Now, as well as in 1841, one noble neighbours are pressing the granting of their commerce. Now, as well as in 1841, France defends is the cause of humanity and \n\nas fafmontas nigha 50 - Fella 24 y. \n\nSHANGHA 15th July -On London 7, The-On Calcutta Theme dava sight Rs. per 1 Palnation, which is only possible on religious principles. de-Draft on Hongkong 29 porced sc. MANILA, 5th June - London, da iglu 4,3 -day sigur 4.9-On Hongkong and carest submit in this country to many obstacles--that Before 1841 the commerce of England had to premium golden Siang 50 pre eit pra \n\ndo-Spa isa and Mexican chopped dollars per \n\nOPIUM, \n\nRosatoma, 5th July, Palan 5520, New Para $590, New Bennes $575, Mal $515, \nMacao, 6th July New Itna $545. Old Patna $525, New Bars $575, \nGames-No Market. \n\nSHANGAR, 1 July--Malwa 400 Trots, New Patna, A Tacle \n\n### FREIGHTS AND TONNAGE.\n\n- CANTON-SHANGHAE, £3, the Tea, a £6.6 for Silk--To New York, 10 per ton of 40 cunt.\n- Also London, Sugar, £3,10, Hemp £4,10 To United States Arabia 23,,10 \n\n### HONGKONG-THE FIRE\n\nFour days after the Fireman's report of the conflagration on Wednesday last--it commenced a little before eight, in or outside the easternmost of Lane dare storici houses in a detached block between the Taipingshan Temple on Hollywood \n\nintroduction at some merchant like being altogether repelled by the Chinese authorities--the pino inspired by the English power has been, it is true, to cause of the war of 1841 The result of the treaty \n\ngive an entire sanction, at all events to make trade more free. is for the benefit of all nations, and to deliver trade from all obstacles, that England presses herself forward with such insisting force most noble is her project and ardently do we desire success to the undertaking, \n\nLong before 1841 your illustrious ancestors were halflence to the successor of Saint Peter--and Quitted to us in the same faith, and by a common wish with us they defended the Liberty of conscience of their brethren in the east against the ferocious despotism of musselmon persecutors, there were even then Catholics in China; and in alternate peace and persecution their numbers have successively multiplied. \n\nIn France profited by the fact of England's acting, though timidly, under similar circumstances \n\nEDWARD WEB has this day been admitted Partner in our Firm \nDENT, BEALE & Co. \nShanghai, 1st July, 1857.\n\nNo. 20 Rua Campo, Macao. \nSHAW'S HOTEL Board and Accommodation, Billiards. \nBy M Il saaw. \n\nThe lower part obtained was rendered inst by mason of the stone formations known as Bridges's folly. The lower part of the house loyally destroyed was a carpenter's shop, and it was from the large and valuable pute of China pine square in the yard adjoining the shop, that the flames were continued wall between nine and ten o'clock. How the fire originated, no one has yet discovered it is singular that it should have occurred within a few yards of the last fire, and in a carpenter's timber yard again. The value of the property destroyed will be about a thousand pounds sterling, and it is said an old man perished by suffocation in one of the \n\nFrom 1841 to the present time, imprisonment and torture have not ceased be the lot of Christians (in China) and area their blood has been spilt and it is for that blood France comes and demands reparation to prevent a repetition of past horrors, And the more extended freedom of conscience en-\n\nWe have heard doubts expressed of the truth of the story told of that gentleman's in miles. The tale, it is said, has never been properly authenticated. - F. C. \n\nThe writer of one of the letters to which we have referred says,--- \n\nand your gracious Queen and our beloved Emperor have thought to unite their endeavours in order to a \n\nI am told that the Chusan Mandarin which Sorira told greater chance of success to their (general) establishment a pier, has era on board his in in such loose con \n\nGarment figs (England, par U.M.O, epizm-France \n\nthe last faar mancha tha to snout naw 80 his font or legs\"--and he slit, antur at the 4:5, I saw the To impose cur religion, cramming). \n\nMantarım yestoniy, He says that Zaring los contoamgut religion by means of the bayonet is out of the or bord le ha 99 ext 20 men cited and focio question, and the honourable author of the article book about $7900 in Cash. Bu on occasion his fricade publ need not be alarmed. \n\nOn our side we Mal0 to have him released, bat Sostro took the money and \n\nLed.\" are far from being alarmed about the Missionaries \n\nof the religion founded by Fancy the eighth and In addition to their ambroglio with the Perin Elizabeth on the contrary, the zeal will exclleguese, the French have a sinal fate with tho ours. Perhaps, indeed, they will be the first ab noted Apak. appears, the nature of which har jects of our zeal perhaps they will become our over, we have yet to hear This is all the Herald brothers by the faith, as they are alresly by feel tel's of it: - ings of regard, respect, and charity.\" \n\nAt the 58th Anniversary Meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held in Exeter Hall on the Morning of Wednesday, the 5th of May 1857, the President, the Earl of Caichesser, in the Chair; the first Resolution having been moved by the Lord Bishop of London, and seconded by the Dean of Carlisle, the second Resolution was moved by the Lord Bishop of Victoria; and the Bishop spoke as follows- \n\n\"Now, My Lord, what is the reason that I have dwelt so much on these encouraging features of the \"Chesping ove ment? It is not, of course, that I wish the assembly to carry away with them the first notion that I look upon this body of men is, in any kind sense of the word, Christian. I know the vague screw, the wina jasjsącko, with which the term \"region\" Christianity\" apst be applied to see a system as I have been referring ( I have no confidence in the personal boaters eftlus rebellion; but I cannot help thinking that God, who in His providence has permitted a may want containing within it so many elements of exerbal truth, mus necs invenit to accomplish indinvely, by means of the The pin Rey lotion, so.he great and mercatene wis Sa China. Its act. \n\nA pak's finct of Wank roast hoals are lying off the sol zato, aqua the lacteria, blockade by 17. I. Corete La Ca pricieuse. They have taken several of their gate ashore, and threaten to take the city of Ningpo, and hadre French men of war attack them. 41 Montes, the Porteced Consul has demode) indemnity from the Chinese nothontie waved as the Intendat, Aigners, exco Portuganun, were 11-ing in parket \n\nThe Earl of Elgin and suite left this port in the Shannon on the 16th instant--the flarer Master reporting Calcutta as the vessel's destination. Quid meant General believes that the Shannon is gone to Peking, and gives as his reason for believing this, the fact of Mr Wade, Chinese Secretary Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, being ordered to be very diplomatic when embarking, and by no means to let it be known when he was bound to or when he would be back, Mr Wade is the gentleman sent by Sir John Bowring to Cochin-China in 1855 will be remembered, and who was left by the Raider without even a servant on the bank of the River below Hue, where he remained, recognized by the Cochin-Chinese government, until the Radler came back for him Should it really be that the Shannon has gone direct to the Pelbo, better selection for letter carrying in the Svenson's barge could not have been made, and we congratulate His Excellency the Ambassador on the possession of such an able instrument. Mr Wade's experience as a Chinese Custom house officer will not be lost in negotiations at the North. \n\nPROVINCIAL.\n\nThe great apesaluter Tuksen it is said is convonal in the Commissioner's enquiry.— Ibid. \n\n### PEKING.\n\nThe Peking Gazette have reached us up to June 15th, but contain nothing of special interest. The business of the Empire seems to go on as quietly and regularly as ever, but the state of the finances continues to be the absorbing topic at head quarters. Contributions are proposed on all hands, and in places where the accounts have been left in disorder by previous officials of 1855, a minute investigation is insisted on, and deficiencies are to be made up within a stated time. -- \n\nLord Canning has justified the belief which we have been induced to form of him. He lives in days which have more significance than years in the career of many of his predecessors and all his acts are momentous. Since he took the conduct of affairs into his own hands, criticism has been disarmed. All the resources of the country have been gathered up and made the most of, and every corner of the Empire within and without has been ransacked to furnish aid in India's great extremity. No means have been left untried to satisfy the hungry soldiery, and to keep the rebels without a shadow of \n\nThe 79 Native of hry presented an arze, praying that they might be permitted to march to the North West to shore in the lafore and Dulate the loyalty of the Europeans, and within a very few hours his Lordship made his appearance at Barrackpore harangued the troops drawn out to receive him, and did more good perhaps by the utterance of a few single phrases fresh from the heart, and clothed with the authority of his high station, than would have been expected from the reigation of a score of General Orders which but few read and lower still autoreland.. \n\nA Rent Fortune has kindly sent us a copy \nYau's organization of a squadron at Faishan, to of his new work' —Fortune's residence among the Chinese-inland, on the corest, and at sea, \n\nof the 18th instant\" We now learn that, under the being a narrative of scenes and giventures \n\nrenowned chief Le, the rebels gave battle to the \"during a third visit sa Cuius, from 1983 to \n\nImperialists under General Kwin nea: Sewking, * 1856--inclu hag wations of many untional and gained a complete victory--only three boats \n\nproductions and works of art, the callure of \n\nscoping to Canton to tell the result, of carrying Silk & with suggestions on the present \n\nLe's bravado challenge to Yah to come on again \n\n• war.” A book of 450 pages netava. —we have soon as it could get couly. Le's force is stid to not as yet had sufficient space time to give auber 100,000 fighting mon, and 1,000 war ves more than a cursory glance at its roulents; suf- seis, and His Excellency Le's bead quarters aro Betear, however, to enable us to ratify the trail-i now at the district city of Bet. The first class city \n\nof Secking is in very straitened eramstances. faless of the very able review of it in the Mone News at the 10di ult. To residents in Shanghae and Ningpo the work will be peculiarly and men, bae ked a hard batte with Imperialist necepeptable--most of the locities describd woops from Tw-chow, and having gained the vic being those which juries troat those places tory 11. E. e compelling the whole of the surround- are now been aing ordery occurrruos Eng cuantry people to sabm to his rule. Fearing and encompassing the use of car British alat men in colowing is an abstract of the country travelled for the provincial city itse, Yeh is calling in a the Tauschow men, and has stational a thousand of over by Mr Fortune during the perid of the \n\nthem in the South eastern suburbs. The lendore of story. \n\nthe Ninety six villages 150, base bed to send their Chapter I gives the voyage from Hongkong to Shanghae in the Steamer Ganges, -II, the quota of armed men--between two and three to Shanghae to Ningp by boat, and thence \n\nBanner-men, Manchus, and the Lieutenant Gover- to Yuhang on the eastern side of the Yang \n\nnor's guards, altogether about three thousand, ace woopad on the heights beyond the northern wolf. Kiang (the over skirting Ningpe) a distance \n\nThe Hak has of Ko ineng and Six other dis of Bome forty miles by boat and chair--back to Ningpo, and on to the old city ut Traken, tricts have united, and are burning and destroying abontwelve miles from Ningpo, on the branch wherever they go. Canton is the great point to escaps Lo, and there the poor starving wroches of the river conning to the northward. Horn-\n\nA Ningpo in his boat, in Casper VI. we \n\nThousands, wäinen and childen Temporary A letter in the Penang Gazette says - Almat Gad Mr Fortune at Teung, the celebrated \n\nrunt sheds have been erected for them at Chefing 1,000 to 1,500 Chicamen lure had their heads monastery ab at a dog in unites from the Yu. \n\non the south of the river, and them are daily take off by the Dynks who are in arms in all bang spoken of in Chauer Hero ur \n\ndalinge out of congee and rice, supplied by the directions. The Chinese had hald' possession of For was laid up with fever, and bad tɔ sự - aut \n\nauthorities, in gasathies just suficient to ward off the town for about two days, befare the mermer öü cure. to Chine-e medheal treatidens Dr \n\ndisentation. The City is divided into five grand Jantes Brooke arrived, and wern in the fires and Chapter Vils of a return to 8 g divisions, and those agin into sections, within about the town. The Bret shot from the wormerly which ehe bodied tour patrol night and day long 18 pounder cleared the fort, and in a short time. The fear of a rising within the walls to vary they were all swarning out of the town, the steam- great--each en draade his neighbour, ander at the time hard at work with gun such rifies, every ermutenanes is depressed. Few says which did considerable execution. Every day br the icporter can rentize their sad position with- loads of hatuls were arriving Sock, Drak \n\nout being in like predicament. On one hand they were flocking to in Qarsunds and eating the Chin \"feat the approach of the western barbarians name in all directions. They are all cleared not \"on the other the northern and western rebels and of the Sarawak territory, only 150 ne so en DỀ added to both is treachery at home\" Truly some 2,000 to 3,500 having recaped. All th \n\npursued this line of argueal; int I have dve up this foster because I view with considorable apprehension the fature corse of British and French diplomace, the Bast There are very resultar angers now environing the path \n\nnexion with Chan, In China, we who at a distanca e46- tarsly watched the progress of Live gerat European WAY İN which our counter bua been recently engagent, coad with a great degree of satisfaction of the Anglo-French allowe We porused with the keepest colorant the inteliigance luxught by mal anal of the rivalum nad lenda of a couturies being buries in the tombe of the heroes who fel at Alma and In- kermann; and I certainly would not now say one word in depreciation of the character of that able z in who sways the destinies and wichts the trapetisi sceptro of Prano. Baltas will any, test it in davio to my aan mini that the French have a large foot in the Bash; that thng baye no roumawiał interests to vota mer and fister in those masteroms, and that their time too often serval as a kind of rovarg s pred Musinnary phion over the broad waters of the Faci fic, iving en layout to at, at Tahiti, the dip.ad eba Kolla aastat ja redressing the inaainy grievances of the Jeans propagandists thoughout the west. And when I re- member that the Romish propagandi-ts in Chian have always viewed the Tae-ping Revolution via peraline slicka nad Me like-when i renninber that in the early stages af din renale lion linge native Reteruses, ju neging than iloitars, and not yet being skilled in tar den of making a disuneti n with- \n\n### FRENCH PORTUGUESE.\n\nThe Atten by the Portuguese orcha me at Nagpo monopoliza the boat traffic between that port and Shanghae, resulting in an armed collision with one Frenchoren, was told of in one of car numbers some two or three months ago, the 2qbble being referral to the high authorities of the respective nations at Macan. \n\nFrom the proceedings of the French War Ves- sele Marceau and La Capricesse since, it would now appear that the Governor of Marni hat nu thorized the seizure of certain vessels wherever found, and in porsaance of the resolve we ern freas the North-Chisa Herald of the 4th and ch instant that first the Schooner Aurora was taken, and then the Tarcbas 166 and 44. The Chinese portions of the crews of there vessels, with the usal humanity, were instantly handed over by the French to the tender arcles of the Sergh Menilarius,and were soon disposed of, of course. The Portuguese are still in eustody and will be brought to Mucas for trial in uil due time we suppose. \n\nby leters of a week's later date than the infantion reported in the Herald, we find that \n\non called Seiro, spoken of as a great deg peraio, gave himself up to the Freach on the 13th instant, and that thrun of his comrades, hid in the fee houses on the banks of the river, were also caught the sun day. Sonire it appears had been carrying 9 Mandarin about with hire that he had \n\n### Chapter XIII.\n- takes the reader from Tez-tsing to the village of Pururchse and on into the Quartz valley and Temple, 2000 teet alus tar level of the son, where, in the month of October, before the Hongkong summer is well over, the air is \"piercingly sild.\" The same chapior describes a boat voyage of some peril from Ning to Shanghae. \n\n### FOOCHOW.\n\nIt was rumored abroad somewhat extensively that he founded on the arrival of the Lieutenant Governor to Jeeva for the upper provinces, but Fes story had no foundation. The Goverant Gentral is now in his pe par place, and we hope that the may continue to fill and a loze it. \n\n### Friend of India Jane A \n\nit is vary sad. Oh, Sử Jaha Bowring--Sir Chinese women went over safe, about 200; and of all the bool they got in Sarawak, the pasere John Bowring--what an amount of misery ban tkou to answer for ' \n\nvery litla now,\" One of the rusas of trying to get quit of the Dyaks ws to throw money he g The The Chinese were macahing in body of about 2000, eluding 700 women and childies, and the Dyeks hovering stout them, nerasionally making a dash at a corner, det iching 40 a 50 from the main body, and whipping nineir heads with great seal. The Chinese have had t terte lesson En Satown. Their inawer of going ab eat it won to take held of a Chimwatan by his vel, nad whip off bis hand with great dexterity'; one blow suffired, I hardly expect the slaughter will scop here; the Dyaks, having their blood up and expecting the \n\nWe have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from this port dated 7h uirino, received per averiand courier. From it we learn that a man- darin of high rank has arrived there from Palting on his way to Canton where it is ranured he is to \n\nCe left the capital 2. be second in rank to Yeh. \n\nout a man is left.\"--Dady News, June; 10. \n\nQ \n\nor 3 months since, but had made a siren tous route in consequence of the troubled state of the country. Es proceeds in Arany on his way to the South. \n\nThe rebels have retired near to the borders of Chapter XIV. takes Me Fortune back to Tse-\n\nthe province. hey are reported to be quiet, attire to trave a deal of booty, parave them sill kee again, and narrates abe partientors of a jar. Suoma \n\nSmall supplies of Ton from distant dis ney from Ningpo to Sletoghar by the infultricts had arrived and to reso had gone up to par- \n\nThe Duren in Jaray —The nėščiai įvursal of te via Ya-yar, Noskalon, Tiyenin. chrce, but as the season i'r the first chep had pa99- \n\nthe Hague of the 5th casains a long tepat to ne aland that for the se oud was far advanced, few Kanpoo, Yedhow, Chapes and Ping-hoe. Shanghee in the Silk country, by Carim, \n\nChapter XVI. spus with journey for fine toux were expected and not a large younity of King Halland from Myer, Minister of Cole medium xds, the second crop being 1 sjured from is, and M. Gevers. Minister of Pareiga A Forte, zolucive to Japanese affairs, and his Majesty has Page, Nantsing and Houchowfoo. Lo Chup the fact of the first faves por having been gathered. ter XVIII, Mr (ortane runebes be greated From the ear districts ton hd cute in more free-approved of Annexed to the report are fee distance inland, viz the town of Marcoee,ly since the dispersion of the rebels. \n\nsome orty miles west fira Hoochosloo, and the same chapter gives his return to Shanghae, Chapter XXI contains the last of theur. neyings, was winding up business tour to Nings po, the valley of the Nine stones, and Tras Asing again--finally, a return to fonghong and voyage to Calcutio \n\nMexican dollars were a 10 per cent disconat There was nothin, doing la Opkom sture the tax of 20 per chest and brand-China Herald, July, 11. \n\nThe Cairngoras was to leave on the 4th instant,pa Rad to!load, concluded on the 30th of Jan \n\nary, 1896. Three articles, amongst other things, a futt ship, having 1,000 tons of new you on board. She would be the first away--two or thre, ather Slipmats that the Dutch shit be allowed to excreike their worship tronly, and that they shall no longer yeable ware wearly laden- \n\nRico centinued dear bat'the weather was favora- \nbe subjected to the impious cartas of trampling ble for crops. \n\nunder got the image of our Saviour on the croes, They aleo eunal that the Dutch shall be permitted to trade in the open ports, and to get to and parsip ee from Japanese traders. Also to take her wives and children to the wil perts The trucks funter. declare that the importation of foreign and the ex portation of Japanese money shall be allowed; that the Japanese government may levy madarité im. pon, Trungit, and export duties; and, betly, that The Dutch it Nangas ke any misintan free relations with foreigners, both on board veganf• and at Deco \n\nThe report adds, that the Japanese green en has declared asel\" resdy to raciale vrea tea with all foreign governments that may wish top them--Avid. \n\nSo innch for an answer 10 the question which will be added by Chua Residents of \"where dad Me Fortune go to when fast here ?\" In our j next paper we shal: furnish some illustrationsį of the notices\" mentioned on sho ate pagod \n\n(From our Overland Nlition of to day.) From the official announcement in our last that there would be no second Mail Seaner from China this month, Subscribers to tlus journal will not have expected their customary paper. Mr Wal ker the ... Co's. Superintendent, however, with a consideration for pulite interests deservist Gach commandation, promptly chartered the Grsi vanbie Steamer to bundthe Road jun away from the heaving down huik-which he has placa on the Shanghae ins; aking thence tho Shang Adi; mud that vasset, deep as she can swim with alk, now goes to Gaile with the muit. May cephyr smooth as be glossy cargo speed her way through tive most dangeroza period of the year in lue China Sea. We pray this under some nusideration for the interests of underwriters. \n\n## SHANGHAE\n\nAn Imperial Commnissioner named Warg, triv \nhers (Saanghae) on the 7th instans quite unex- pected by the dohorities. \n\nis said he has corng to examine into hn causes of the low state of the public trensary funds, and to tnvestigate certain disbursensule made en ac count of purchases of rice fur the govern went some moatas back, -ay well as to squeeze the marchana and the Toatai ton, to raise fimis to help the pa sing exigences of the looper al Government. We! hear 50,000 weis was demanded from each of tha \n\nmeharts doing the largest business, and that it will probably be compromised for The 5,000 \n\nIt is rumored that Ho Kweling, the fately ap pointed Govarour-general of the Two Keang, is the originator of the present enquiry, on proteaze of not being satisfied with the manner the prisent Intendant, B. E. Las, has been performing tha functions of his post. We have no doubt, Theres fore, that it wit be eney for the Emperial Commis elouer, if his instructions are to that eflist, to tay of sone hold weak poll in the multifarious trans risgrace. We should, however, regret much, sho actions of flis Excellency Lan to bring him into that be the result of the investigation, both for the \n\nThus the despatch of the last mail, military there appears reason für believing that balure we operations about Canton have bem and \n\nCatcmpt possesion of the walls, the rebels will \n\nhave concladed the business for 13. Our Prurin interests of foreign merchants end the Clainese. cial reporter's news it will be seen are alarming. i \n\nFu has been fourteen years a man-larin \n\n### THOUGHT.\n\nThere is a luxury in earnest thought The unthinkang kaka dream of floppy har Who, holding sweet cornuates will himseti, Roving the fèlie ofiscality, \n\nFees het sa labelincas, though ali stEYA, Ngreaves at etalless avai jinde of looke \n\nDoes has lotless med. The daisied eid, The garden of the wood, alike shall be Fer dina struly ; everything aro \n\nThe flower, the tree; the titing, the running brooks,— Aure to bin asterials for clight, AB curists a pure veliges to atm, \n\nYea, nevor fi ing pleasure. Grieť may ce Deal's cold echipe conceal his fail-erfed jar, Rickness may pale uus e vak, lone plach this pace, Be thought tall be fat luns on Ristie Tomas of earth's disygietrose a chara Te all the hatefulensing to sleep \n\nAnd lighten evʼn the heaviest (sail afilis. \n\nUpwards and Quinards. By & W. PARTRIDGE,",
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"content_text": "## \n\nAnd what was the date and Cost of each similar supply which you may have had occasion to send out within the two or three years preceding; And in case the several requisitions exhibit the amounts of the force for which they are made, I am to request that you will state those Amounts.\n\nC. E. Trevelyan \nWillis \n10 Feb. \nMerivale - W. Fortescue. 14 W.Labordeker 17.\n\nSubmitted for Consideration. \n2.76- 10th \n\nMs. A/ \nDe Schedule referred to this \n23 Sept 787-187 \nEntered \n227 \n\nFeb. 1858.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary Labouchere to transmit to you for the Consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury the enclosed copy of despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, accompanied by a report from W. Forth, Colonial Treasurer, explanatory of the grounds upon which it...",
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"content_text": "# Mr Merinle.\n\ncommunicated with the Toryin Office by This Order of the Liceen in Courial whom;\n\nI truve ascentioned is similar тро overnor. with be sent Co I conclude this may be feat-les-fo Есейсе Hm 7 Fel.\n\n## At the Court at Windsor, the 2nd day of February, 1857,\n\nPRESENT, \nThe **QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council**.\n\nWHEREAS, an Order in Council \"for the government of Majesty's subjects, being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within any ship or vessel at a distance of not more than a hundred miles from the coast of China,\" bearing date the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, Her Majesty was pleased, amongst other things, to order that if any party charged with an offence committed against the treaties, or rules and regulations therein referred to, should escape or remove from the consular district within which such offence was committed, and should be found within another consular district, it should be lawful for the Consul within whose district the party should be found to proceed against him in the same manner as if the offence had been committed within such district: And whereas, in and by the said Order in Council, provision was made for the manner in which British subjects, convicted of crimes and offences committed within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being required and being unable, or wilfully omitting, to give sufficient security to keep the peace, or to find security for their good behaviour, might be sent out of the dominions of the Emperor of China to the colony of Hong Kong, and also for the manner in which the expenses of so sending such persons to the said colony of Hong Kong should be defrayed: And whereas, it is expedient to make further provision in respect of the matters aforesaid:\n\nI-Now, therefore, in pursuance of the several Acts of Parliament in the said Order in Council of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, recited and referred to, and in execution of the powers thereby in Her Majesty in Council vested, Her Majesty is pleased, with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and doth hereby order, that the Chief Superintendent or Consul within whose jurisdiction any party charged with having committed any offence against such treaties, or such rules or regulations as aforesaid, and who shall have escaped or removed from the consular district within which such offence was committed, shall be found, may lawfully, if such Chief Superintendent or Consul shall think fit, cause such party to be taken into custody, and sent back to the consular district from which he shall so have escaped or removed, to be there dealt with according to the provisions of the said Order in Council of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.\n\nII. And it is further ordered, that all removals whatsoever of prisoners or other parties from or to the said colony of Hong Kong, or from or to any port or place in China, under the authority of the said Order in Council of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, shall be effected, and the expenses of all such removals shall be defrayed in like manner as by Articles 20, 21, 22, and 23, of the said Order in Council of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, is provided with respect to the embarking, conveying, delivering, commitment, and expenses of persons deported under the authority of the said Articles respectively, so far as the provisions thereof respectively shall be applicable to the circumstances of each particular case.\n\nIII. And it is further ordered, that this Order shall be read and construed with and as being a part of the said Order in Council of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.\n\nIV. And it is further ordered that this Order shall take effect from and after the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.\n\nAnd the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.\n\nPage 261 \nPage 7",
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"content_text": "and a copy of the Report and of the evidence taken is enclosed for MP3 Labouchere's information. The evidence given before the board is confirmed by the entries in the official Log which has been examined at this Office.\n\nThe Report and evidence contain a full Statement of all that happened during the voyage - They shew that of three hundred and thirty two Emigrants shipped, no less than one hundred and twenty eight died on the passage from fever and disease. They give a most detailed account of the first appearance of discontent and mutinous conduct on the part of the Emigrants in the vicinity of Hong Kong and they shew the steps taken by the Captain to restore order during the remainder of the voyage.\n\nMy Lords have however been anxious to obtain further information upon one or two points to which the attention of the Local Marine Board does not appear to have been specially directed. Those points are \n1. By what persons and on whose behalf the ship was chartered for the voyage",
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"content_text": "## \n\nIt is however to be observed that the Emigration Officer cleared the Vessel as having room for three hundred passengers although the number who were engaged was only thirty-one to his Satisfaction.\n\nOn this point My Lords are endeavouring to obtain an explanation from the Master of the \"John Calvin\" the result of which will be communicated to Mr Labouchere. But it seems to them that it would be well to ascertain from the Authorities at Hong Kong if they can learn how this evasion of the Law took place.\n\nI have the honor to be\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant\nH IL Farrer\n\nPage 133",
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"content_text": "# Hongkong, for which place \nthe expectation was to sail in \na short time.\n\nHot \nCore \nreported to be a \nThe vessel is very rakish \ncraft, a three-masted Schooner \npainted black, top sails set. \nbelow the lowermost Cape - \nhaving a full female figure \nhead and elliptic stem, armed \nwith six swivels, six large \ncarronades, and a \nlarge gun \nworked on a slide at the bow \n\nJames \nsigned We Maclean \nJames Wilson \n\nTrue copy. \n4.1. Worm. \n\n9894 \n19 \ncent. 5227/577 \ne Agent \ninstructed \nTudo Desp to Goo \nAnswered \n\nSept-113 \nMy 7215 \n5725 \n\n## EIVER \nJUNE23 1857 \n192 \nTreasury Chambers \n༡༠ June 1857.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 16th instant, transmitting copy of a \nletter from \nActing Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, to the \nColonial Agent-General, pointing out \nthat the sum \nof £32.10 paid to Mr. Trotter \nlate Clerk to the Chief Justice of \nthe Colony \nhad been erroneously \ndebited \nby the Agent \nto the Colony, and requesting repayment of \nthis sum, and the future issue \nof Mr. Trotter's \npension through \nthe Paymaster General, \nI am directed, by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to acquaint you, \nSecretary \nfor the \ninformation \nof \nLabouchere, that \nthe retired Allowance granted to Mr. Trotter, \nMerivale Esq. \nbeing",
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"content_text": "## RECEIVER \n\nSEP.12 \n1857 \n\nTreasury Chambers \n11. September 1857. \n\n244 \n\n**Gov** \n\ninstructed 17 septo pr-179 \n\nSir, \n\nI am directed \nby \nthe Lords Commissioners of Her \nMajesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information \nof Mr. Secretary Labouchere, that They have had under \ntheir consideration \n\non your recommending \nthree Letters of 4th and 5th Instant, recommending \n\n(1) the appointment \nof \na Clerk to the Supreme Court at Hong Kong \nat a \nSalary of £300 per Annum. \n\n(2) Of a Clerk and Accountant in the Police \nDepartment in that Colony \nat a \nSalary of £150 \nper annum. \n\n(3) Of an Inspector of Government Schools in that Colony, at a Salary of \n£50 per month, \n\nand I am to state that Their Lordships will \nnot \nobject \nto these appointments \nbut They \nrequest that \nyou \nwill call \nto ...",
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"content_text": "## Treasury Chambers 20th December 1857\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had under their consideration your letter of 13th Instant, enclosing copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Hong-Kong, in which he proposes to place the Colonial Secretary's Department, at present consisting of three permanent and one supernumerary clerk, on its former footing of four permanent clerks.\n\nMerivale log\n\nTo submit for your Lordships' consideration whether it may not be desirable, that the payment of any account of W. Hyndman's claim, should be deferred until the Commission have made their report; and whether in that case, a copy of our present Report to Your Lordships might not be transmitted to the Governor at Hong-Kong.\n\nThe Papers are herewith returned.\n\nEd. Romilly \nKraughan Davi \nW. Moberly\n\nTrue copy \nHenry S. B. Cotton",
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"content_text": "## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE, \n\n**Mr. GEORGE STRACHAN, ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR,** \n\n地出屋式 \n\nGage Street, Victoria, 1st May, 1858. \n\n月戊問士治額如地士未十午便荡街請貴八年可即到燉三行結光\n\n**JUST LANDED AND FOR SALE.** \n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12 | Patent WATER CLOSETS |\n| - | Also, Patent Electro-Plated Nickel Silver FORKS, and SPOONS. |\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18-May 4, 1858)\n\ndon't hamper selves with many goods for we fear he wanting. A small county town acquitted by the committee appointed to investigate...\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18.-MAY 4, 1858)\n\nthey give is.\" Be prepared for an outbreak in the successful carrying out the scheme will seem to be on the point of being frustrated. Mr. Bott has been using thin verdict will be flat Mr. Butt Tips, in the of Sitara and Coora Ameer of Scinde, and a King of load contemporary was taken to task by one of large stockholders on Hon... and comfortably quartered, the present. Few people believe the rumors of home has its hospital and its charities of ever great conduct, and we hope Dr. Bridges will... with the privileges of the foe of us, were that if he were to do a Court of Appeal from Hwang's aerial cognizance. He is supposed to heart; each party vies with its neighbor to advance also be acquitted were a committee appointed to investigate his connection as standing...\n\nvery near, and it seems even against Chinese common sense, that a person specially deputed is an event of the greatest importance; there are fairs to raise the small fund required, in which every one, gentle and simple, for miles around are interested. Here, where many cur...\n\na few days, we are sorry to say there is not a hospital.\n\ncurrent for the Opium monopolist. There, unfortunately for Dr. Bridges, there is no committee appointed, and so the clamor goes on unrefuted and slander of this kind never dies. We fortunate...\n\nto settle the affairs of foreigners, the news of the fall of Canton being now by those who accredited him, should not on learning the absence of the plenipotentiaries at the math, which news of money for a good purpose could be raised immediately are not the guardians of Dr. Bridges's good name must have reached him from Shanghae-in such a case, he would stride into Canton in all pomp and openness who would feel the least interest in the subject black as his gown for anything we or the public may be, and as simple barrister his name may be, and say Here I am, ready to arrange matters, after he had paid his subscription. We trust...\n\nwhere are your plenipotentiaries? A diplomatic may not continue, but that some of our principle the British Government representing British catch like that would not be...\n\nmissed by a Chinese man will try and do something, by giving both justice to the Chinese, we could less to a more diplomatist. A ranguotic telegraph is being laid their time and money to help forward to perfection tender care of it. He stands in the position down from the Magazine Hill to the Allied Wharf, so good a work as the establishment of a general of Caser's wife, he should not only be-not guilty. If he should not even be suspected. We publish the following minutes of a meeting are happy to believe, but that he is suspected we that Dr. Bridges bite Mr. Butt is not guilty we held on Thursday 29th ultimo for the purpose of establishing a General Hospital.\" We are impressed on the Chinese mind, and we more urgent business. Having inspected the opium monopolist were invited to attend, but were prevented by understand openly stated by Chun-tai-kwong, the buildings which it is intended to appropriate to clever men, all powerful with the governor or the government; that he can take, unmake, or \"That Dr. Bridges is a very adapted for the purpose. Of the skill of the superintending Physicist, Dr. Kenny, we need not and propitiated. All this may be true. say nothing as it would be presumption in us no and the Acting Colonial Secretary may still be a medical men to comment on the abilities of worthy, honest, hard-working government servant, gentleman so well and known esteemed. If the establishment of a general civil hospital alluded to in a previous article does not come to pass, the press...\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1858.\n\nTHOS. HUNT & Co.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nRHOD...\n\nULES FOR STANSBURY'S MEASURING\n\nPRICE-25 Cents each, on Pasteboard,\n\nApply to\n\nMr. M. Hoza,\n\nat the \"Hongkong Register\" Office.\n\nthe late mailings out intelligence of the appointment of Dr. Harland as Colonial Surgeon, and as the salary is stated to be £800 per annum,\n\nwe for Dr. Harlan! will be prohibited from undertaking private practice. If we are right in this supposition the government have got a good man cheaply, and the community lost a very able professional attendant.\n\nThe duties of the office have latterly become very heavy, and are likely to become still more so, and it is much to be doubted that one person can discharge them satisfactorily, even devoting his whole time to the work. We learn further, the instructions have been sent out that a new civil hospital is to be built and that nothing more is to be done in the affair of the Bowring Praya.\n\nHongkong, 4th May, 1858.\n\nSTOLEN.\n\nGOLD LEVER WATCH, with enamelled dial,\n\nand GOLD CHAIN-Maker's Name, Bund and Laut, 41 Cornhill. Number of Watch. The Watch, with a lanyard and set of Studs were, at is supposed, attracted from the case between this and Canton about January. A handsome Reward will be paid for the recovery of the same.\n\nHongkong, 3d May, 1858.\n\nApply at this Office,\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 4TH MAY, 1858.\n\nParties sending Advertisements to the \"Hongkong Register\" or \"Register's Advertise,\" phrase address to the \"Printer and Publisher of the respective Papers, which will secure early attention to their Communications.\n\nsent Galertising has our best wishes:—Fr. Angelo Fr. Reina, and Fr. Long Mesore Kup Present—Revds. Fr. Jerome Mangier, Fr. MacMahon Block, Kenes, Hassoon, Isam. Werden, F. Sustaining...\n\nthat some means will be adopted for the purpose If a new civil hospital is to be erected we hope of incorporating the seamen's hospital with it. The resident surgeon of the seamen's hospital at the following showing the details of the loss that a barrister should get what he asks; he is The meeting was opened by the Revd. Fr. Jerome certainly cannot look upon it as an improper thing might become the resident surgeon of the civil hospital, and this would relieve the Colonial Surgeon from a heavy duty, while it enabled him to...\n\nGENTLEMEN—I am extremely happy to see you all at this meeting for discussing the expediency, and the means between the seller and buyer, the attorney and client. I am convinced that cure, ponder of the hospitals, or two private hospitals have been called upon to remark on this subject, the effect will be derived from the amalgamation of all the civil...\n\nview and to which, I am couleur you will general and client. The only ground on which we feel that owing to the departure of the medical bent, and plentifully alone, have actuated you in business may who opened them, but it was well known they wish I was able to express any gratitude in language equivalent to my sincere interest for this our of your kind coming this night my welcome guest and I sincerely it has on the Chinese. We pointed out the dianess which will not be un great, I hope, by the weight fl Colonial Secretary, and were we have the evil and civil hospitals. We fear the want of efficiency, to give a no harsher name, still continues. It is so did of your valuable advice and suggestions I should not call for any primary assistance...\n\nrealized. Dr. Bridges is in the Chinese eyes a man 41 years, Master of the receiving ship Mahamoudie and for many years in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nOne complaint is, and in the first place I beg leave to submit a few of my that when the monopolist engages his services as that the site is an unhealthy one that point own propositions to your consideration.\n\nF. DE SENSA Jr.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Macao, on the 7th April, the Wife of Mr. Joaquin...\n\nAt Macau, on the 1st May, Mr. Isnacracto D. VIRKIRA KIBKRO.\n\nAt Victoria, Hongkong, on the 1st May, Mr. I. P. COLL...\n\nTO THE BRITISH COMMUNITY AT HONGKONG\n\nThe undersigned begs to inform the community that the Office of the British Consulate, this day has been transferred from WANPAO to HOKAN.\n\nCHAе. A. WINCHESTER, H.B.M.'s Acting Consul\n\nBritish Consulate for Canton,\n\nAnnexe of Houa, 29th April, 1858.\n\na ground floor in any situation is not well adapted for the purpose of a hospital--still less when high a land is...\n\nIt is intention to establish a General Hospital, in unsel that there is, there can be, no back-stairs of corruption to resort to how; perhaps he may expect this: Gardens and S. Francis Hospital and which show however, the monopolist finds himself compelled my father intention to have it well furnished with all it in surrounded by growing trees, and is alut in necessary materials for a proper Hospital, and to be on all sides by hills except where it faces the provided with experienced Doctors: will us in art, but is informed that...\n\ncounsel to attend for him before the Magistrate's harbor. Be this true or false, there is another change which is a tangible one, and the one on which we base our most complaints. The charge is. changed by a sufficient staff of Hospital servants to attend to the patients.\n\nThe gentlemen I intend to appoint are Dr. Vande... and Dr. Kenny the former Gentlemen lately arrived in this Colony, is a bachelor of questionable own count. creasing their diseases or acquiring new ones. fool the set of several languages which Mandarin Bridges; and with great dignity oỀ references oedh as to professional accomplishments, and enough to English people, but to the Chinese the All this is staple and straightforward We have personal experience of this being true at a fluently, and which will be exceedingly useful in least in our instance and a respectable merchant and ship owner made the same complaints to us sometime ago with a request that we would The latter Gentleman, whose abilities she too well three characters—first, as one of the law-makers, commission where he may meet with patients of all place great power is associated. chant and ship owner made the same complaints to Dolor expose it. Thinking it improbable that either known and ustalised, to any better certium, then, as one of the granters, and finally, as tue That is the so in the present case when we have one man in the trustees or the resident surgeon would sane- apply to them as the hurt and most effective...\n\nFellow of the naval College of Surgeons of England-41 tion such a thing we recommended the party to\" and is proposed to be consulting Doctor to the legal adviser and supporter of the monopolist in course to adopt to put a termination to a rival propositions, I think it well to apprise you of a few...\n\nhis monopoly we see however by report of a meeting held will fin exercises there without distinction of creed on view of their extent. te great sunl, certain- Mr. Isang Batt is, we understand, a very...\n\nA manual number of Inquests have been during the past few days held before the Coroner—one of them however of particular interest: A Chinese was killed by the falling in during the heavy rain of the 20 of an out-building in the course of erection on a Marine lot. 4 Swede was drowned in the harbor while bathing on Sunday the 25th alto. A man, discharged from...\n\nIt is evident that whether this proceeds from patients noting in a way so prejudicial to their carelessness or health, it should be stopped, whether...\n\nRunt of means to prevent the trustees of the seamen's hospital close to carry out or amalgamate it with the civil hospital.\n\nthe appropriate in relieving Papers, who will be received into the Hospital at once; and in the case of time to try point is, that he appears as the paid advocate, at truly desite will also be admitted. stion. In the Civil Hospital a Chinese died from he hoped a properly constructed hospital will be of the airs as the lipizi; to supply this defect, ara perhaps a little stronger in his case.\n\nThe list is no doubt their best course, for it is to that being missionary, I cannot by any means devote ages in the cause. This is the case as nearly as Lufe teal it incurent upon me to remark herehe the same time he holds the position of one of the effects of a gun shot wound received when escaperected on an eligible site in a central spot, of Grand Prus sery kindly tendered his duable aerof Coranous not doubting the honor of its ing from the Western Coal sheds, he having been which there are many that it will be well! vises and M. Braga, roster of the Medal members is yet so jealous of its privileges that it myself entirely the management and perintended. we can understand it of Dr. Bridges, if it be not there committing robbery. A verdier of wilful secured and watched, so that no such abuses can murder has been taught against some parties win!\n\nThe House made a particular attack on a conveying fel...\n\nHail,) deo will take an interest in it. to this market. Iu dar obituary there is the two hospitals would also enable the directors to means as way enable me to cry on these desigua...\n\nThe combination of the means of the to your very own hands to save and suggest such a imputation, and in this the curatituencies In couches, Gentlemen, I consign das proposals will not enfer a member to underlie the shade of...\n\nmamme of Cayman Cole of the Courser, lately wrecked on the Pratas.\n\nWe may have point out two of face—Ã mom- carry out one or two very necessary improvements. fortable set of sick rooms available for the young men of the colony, whether belonging to govern...\n\nwhich it has \n\nHuid Prẻ be the derrotary, \n\nTas news from Canton both public and private are of the most conflicting nature. One be treated for serious diseases with more care and attention than they can obtain in their wet houses set up at Fur Shan, and that it is assembling in the houses of their employers, where their press might be dangerous in cases of infectious another equally positive says No such a thing diseases to the atlier intrares-A portion of the near Fat Shan and The spital to be act mort for the treatment Foldiers place is perfectly quiet. There me the Sade Famous sad counter rumors on the subject of aner only of a temporary character. The fantalony he unlie? pan to atroci the patients.\n\nof the insane, whether the disease be permanent urine of laces of the amal strength (40,000 to 50,000). On this point we see mu besimation...\n\nthere are \n\n3. Kenny proposed Mr Grand the store, Hore we have the close corporation--the are at the details of the object for the formation of as to it or its members underlying grave charge. That a Committee be selected from this meeting to Legislative Council, showing to great impatience ment or the mercantile class, in which they might, that Mosses in Black, it is population. Eat beand this is a popular Reed. Macinon ha aproated a Comunitar, Pr...\n\nalz. Grand Pré proposed and it was unanimously carried that they are perhaps joined by the respectable almost probably they do not believe the large and fucome to be President and Fr. de la Croix added this Mition British and Foreign, and native above all, \n\nPison of the Hospit Mr. Gal P proposed, and it was carried that the Rev. Fr. Jerome, lesit e Founder new is a \n\nwas unanimously wine exactly to think, and as every thing un- secuted, that the Sisters of Charity in the the very worst.\n\nRev. Fr. McMahon proposed Mr. Grand Pré perhaps prepared to tanke up their and to think supposed to be worse than it really is, \n\nposition was also monin shy carried, \n\nW sak, in conclusion, er general readers Proposed by Fr. Jerome and Seeded by air. Sade peruse with care the accompanying article Privalaute or thanks he given to the Gentlemen from the Daily News on Mr. Butt's care. We nek win sa kindly accepted to set at.\n\nProposed by Mr. Kup and seled by Mfr. A. rent whether or not it would not more.\n\nvote is thanks be given to the Secretary its list it end save ten sold ar opes and fair market, dew, to his able conduet in the Ensin Sifeira, that are of tanks to given to Revd. the Gets of the case as to granting a mest udinis liberati in su recuti apcepting the ties id Secretary as to the withdrawal of the first groot, and difconsort with their honor, and open: c'eating, if all Proped by Mr. Block unt seeded by Mr. Issand oppressive monopoly un scaled tenders, when Nothing farther being left for discussion, thermitely as to the regranting it on the same ternis Esalse to theer on Thursday gezi, the 7th May, ka the...\n\nto the same pers, were mady known. And we \n\nin speaking confidently; there is no such army.\n\ns to need fustare polating cut.\n\nthe \n\nWe hear there is much acquisition in villages around, no doubt a great deal of big talk,\n\nalso be isolated buildings for a small pox There hospital and a lock hospital.\n\nIf in ndition a sanatoriure copii, na way long ago proposed in this paper, he erected on the top of Victa Penk, we might consider ourselves well way from Canton to Macau and Hongkong. As we predicted, the Cantooreze pre rising from their fortified to withstand any amount of tiny defent with mere insolence than ere; stones; discne. laze been thrown at offices and soldiers not to mener-getting-the heads of society are so e...\n\nWe fear, however, public spirit is lost an speak of the murderous assault on the policeman paged to making money as fast as they can that Stewart, and it is considered very unsafe to enter they may get back to their own country, that they the western part of the city. In the face of this have us time to care for the rany poor aferra the Europeans are living in Honais in the park nates tied to the island for a very long day, if not houses without even a corporal's guard to pro- for ever. sect them. Goods still go up, and although there is some nceusinese felt by the principal Chinese traders who have returned, yet the only advice...\n\n| \n\nto the meeting and Committee. \n\nThis \n\nhomes of Mr. Buck, to draw Rules and Regiations for the the Hospital.\n\nA. GRAND PRE\n\nNerred \n\nActing Colonist Secretary to give the public. which pays him, sogte expérnation of the very doubtiul position in which he at present stands :—— (beily Never.)\n\nsource of the success of such a scheint, would be. 1. for Youghal and W. T. Bridgee. Eaqrektious peaard by the Committee of the Charnam Mr. \n\nWe do not think outy, one great cases of leave Butt, Esq., Barrister and wanting, but something more than money is. C. L., Harrister and Member of the close car-r's me, it may be informed that the dir. mester has wanting-personal superintendence und an interes portion—the Legislative Council of flugkong, tren aited of the charge of breach of pra ilege, \n\nFrom: what has been allow vú to trucepire respecting the \n\nTo \n\nna weit is a portion of the Naval Brigade. The troops the officers of that regiment: -- \n\nwere left on board the transports Lancashire Witch und Tax Benged Hathara, of the 20th March, says with Mooresfort. at Whampoa and the French Contingent remained on board their own ships, except a ousall party in conjeful occupation \n\nreference to two aditional Native Regiments for th \n\nice in China- \n\nPoutres hundred sepoy belonging to the 65th and #2th Regiments N. 1. are now wigh at island, 30 they have not already arrived ut ur in the visity of Barrack port. As we all know they are destined for service in Cuma, provided they can be clarked on the rearts all which possage us ofen signed these, but not being ralunteers for the screire, they canne! in the whole e Looked upon as very willing soldiers vayer for forel ware,\" nnd we sind be able to state the exact numifer that my he proceeding to China, only on the authority \n\n3. the 181, (reclved a communication from Ule Bariul Bizin und Baron Gros, stating that the reply the Contaistioner had been received that is was most antislactory, and inviting the aavel and milhors and-chief to a saference board the Aulaccuse, to consider what further steps aliulit be taken, in consequence of Keb's determination to resist the very nurse decade of the two Governments, \n\n4. Tur conference was held un the 21st it, when it was determined that the pienipotentiaries should \n\nDe knocking at the dors tie Iluase of Coumene\n\nthese prvi of the \n\nthe inverse of Tabs, it would be overwhelmed with adelage India. basic enough co ungrosa tile whole the ovidence selitted to the committee crabile us, \n\ntime of tho bare. And the tuulia eniture, who A Morril, vus of the four Ameere of Upper Selnic, we setertido a boradigazy faith in the nipotence frihe med of turving acquired the interstance of the of Las in judicial proceedings would besiege these members with; dengnes by the presuction of a legal document. The pretura, which if u come the intimation of die James dim Government appelated a commision of the their argir, it would be perfectly air for them to lost heas 4 Prestige de large judicially. The secept. It was nice aged at a Nahub of Arcot bu Cammons in tris pay of an artisan cum te tor conclusion that the charge was eight members of the Host \n\nTim Court of Directors therungen proposed that 1 Sudan bill be any degree resembling that of Lourd Faimers blogne should be deprived of the laude which he held us, is allowed to be low every bilan in-and der the surged decourt. The Presideur of the Bont of their now is leglus--an every wealthy Balno will have attel, for the Cana being, was of opinion that this contence has paid ur uz merabers in the loss of \n\nto lenient, and at bis sggesden Ali Moore was de This is anger gainer which the people of Bogland rised of the ends thus fraudulently bined, and also of have to murd, now that it to props to vrat illa governs \n\nof the pilots reports from the Sashes. Meanwhile, dan letter to the Eugerial High Couimper, started his crban\" laude, beaving him in pranes munt of falla exclusively on the Minsters of the tr \n\nwe dure suy, preparations are being mude for the restoring his Excelteney that, in consequence of his mom.compliance with the debody submitted for fas on of all his remaining and very valuable eruditary! \n\nWe publish the following despatch from the ception of those men to be taken to fight the battles of \n\nconsideration, the lurther settlement of the question the Goverment in a country distant and different from To win a reversal of this judgment, the Amger Putna to \n\nbeen transferred to the anal and military suites, that where as hrave and faithful soldiers their services Sugated. We pas Uver the minor personages in the dis- Government Gazette of last Saturday from the \n\nof State for Foreign affairs, which we ece fur toere required at would be most valuable, that me should sly address better to his silency stating the above faci, and that it, at the end of a further uded the Coffeys, and the alle lady who travelled \n\ntern of forty-eight hours, the eny saguld be perefully from London to Paris, and from Paris to Vienna, for the \n\nquived preparations are compite, nid the sea sust atenie purpose of sizing the deposed prace by paying \n\ncoussy be subject to temporary dependion before surdered into our hands, life and property would be es with it. Gar Lusiness is with the servant of the \n\nthey are sent away. Whether they are all to vents respected; but that, if the teras were out roepted, the English public, the bon, member for Youghal. \n\ntheir rus ad munition or not, we are not aware; city would be attacked. \n\nAll our efforts to avert the evils of war from the hot after the last false alarm, we think it would be \n\nกษ \n\nterested nu eympathising agency by which he was - Secretat, s:t the attention of persons who have Some days may be expected to elapse before the re- \n\ncommend \n\nbeen married in Macau or who propose being married rkare:- \n\nNo. 20. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nAch is established by Mr. Burt's corn statements. Hiviers were engagal for the Amar acu after that raine's rival in England Mr. Brat sits that he could \n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages sofem nie heered the passagement of the application furtius in the der's beauf le staves that he al-nize an Chana, otherwise that ja acendance with nys urged upon the Amer, Aut his lends art advisers, the provisions of the Act 12 and 13 Victores, Cap the bringing of his ca bure Parliament, as the m0268, His Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, relies are to pure. Ha actually used for propers, like \n\nproductive of which he theme obviated to promote the L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief er's van. He coniterie the Pirator: the Superintendent of Frade in China &c., &c. has Kulit Company, and agon Mr. Turen faith, the Presisereived a Despatch front The Bight Hande bat the Bora of Control, la licit their nou wees on Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a Copy child of hie ciet. The result of these applicnída was a of which is hereby published for „euerai inforna- jetine on the Board of Directors in answer to the Amcera \n\nBy Order, \n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. Xo. 7 \n\n| \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chmese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Cidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\nBritish Naval Brigade on the right.\n\nCentre bridge, composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's provano instalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers.\n\nPreucia bridge on the inft\n\nColonel Holloway's brigade in reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery,\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain still to cancuston, and the mail leaving; I must therefore defer instheer det üle to the next rpportunity. † in line of contianova elutus of brigade audil further...\n\nI bwe, &c.\n\nC. T. VAN STinerszre, M jur General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now heng oerapied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of Stue for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n} \n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages...\n\nHis Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China &c., &c. has received a Despatch from The Right Honorable Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...\n\nBy Order,\n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. No. 7\n\n| \n| --- \n| --- \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chinese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Clidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\n| Unit | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Naval Brigade | Right |\n| Centre bridge | Composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's battalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers |\n| Preucia bridge | Left |\n| Colonel Holloway's brigade | Reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery |\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain...\n\nC. T. VAN STRAUBENZEE, Major General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now being occupied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of State for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n}",
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"content_text": "# Bill of Exceptions, \n\n## The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n### [MAY 29, 1858.\n\nXXXIX. Upon the Trial of any such Question or of any Issue under this Act a Bill of Exceptions, Special Verdict, and may be tendered, and a General or Special Verdict or Verdicts, subject to a Special Case, may be returned, in like Manner as in any Cause tried in any of the said Superior Courts; and every such Bill of Exceptions, Special Verdict, and Special Case respectively shall be stated, settled, and sealed in like Manner as in any Cause tried in any of the said Superior Courts, and where the Trial shall not have been had in the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes shall be returned into such Court without any Writ of Error or other Writ; and the Matter of Law in every such Bill of Exceptions, Special Verdict, and Special Case shall be heard and determined by the full Courts, subject to such Right of Appeal as is herein-after given in other Cases.\n\nXL. It shall be lawful for the Court to direct One or more Issue or Issues to be tried in any Court of Common Law, and either before a Judge of Assize in any County or at the Sittings for the Trial of Causes in London or Middlesex, and either by a Special or Common Jury, in like Manner as is now done by the Court of Chancery.\n\nXLI. Every Person seeking a Decree of Nullity of Marriage, or a Decree of Judicial Separation, or a Dissolution of Marriage, or Decree in a Suit of Jactitation of Marriage, shall, together with the Petition or other Application for the same, file an Affidavit verifying the same so far as he or she is able to do so, and stating that there is not any Collusion or Connivance between the Deponent and the other Party to the Marriage.\n\nXLII. Every such Petition shall be served on the Party to be affected thereby, either within or without Her Majesty's Dominions, in such Manner as the Court shall by any General or Special Order from Time to Time direct, and for that Purpose the Court shall have all the Powers conferred by any Statute on the Court of Chancery: Provided always, that the said Court may dispense with such Service altogether in case it shall seem necessary or expedient so to do.\n\nXLIII. The Court may, if it shall think fit, order the Attendance of the Petitioner, and may examine him or her, or permit him or her to be examined or cross-examined on Oath on the Hearing of any Petition, but no such Petitioner shall be bound to answer any question tending to show that he or she has been guilty of Adultery.\n\nXLIV. The Court may from Time to Time adjourn the Hearing of any such Petition, and may require further Evidence thereon, if it shall see fit so to do.\n\nXLV. In any Case in which the Court shall pronounce a Sentence of Divorce or Judicial Separation for Adultery of the Wife, if it shall be made appear to the Court that the Wife is entitled to any Property either in possession or reversion, it shall be lawful for the Court, if it shall think proper, to order such Settlement as it shall think reasonable to be made of such Property or any Part thereof, for the Benefit of the innocent Party, and of the Children of the Marriage, or either or any of them.\n\nXLVI. Subject to such Rules and Regulations as may be established as herein provided, the Witnesses in all Proceedings before the Court where their Attendance can be had shall be sworn and examined orally in open Court: Provided that Parties, except as herein-before provided, shall be at liberty to verify their respective Cases in whole or in part by Affidavit, but so that the Deponent in every such Affidavit shall, on the Application of the opposite Party or by Direction of the Court, be subject to be cross-examined by or on behalf of the opposite Party orally in open Court, and after such Cross-examination may be re-examined orally in open Court as aforesaid by or on behalf of the Party by whom such Affidavit was filed.\n\nXLVII. Provided, That where a Witness is out of the Jurisdiction of the Court, or where, by reason of his Illness or from other Circumstances, the Court shall not think fit to enforce the Attendance of the Witness in open Court, it shall be lawful for the Court to order a Commission to issue for the Examination of such Witness on Oath, upon Interrogatories or otherwise, or if the Witness be within the Jurisdiction of the Court to order the Examination of such Witness on Oath, upon Interrogatories or otherwise, before any Officer of the said Court, or other Person to be named in such Order for the Purpose; and all the Powers given to the Courts of Law at Westminster by the Acts of the Thirteenth Year of King George the Third, Chapter Sixty-three, and of the First Year of King William the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-two, for enabling the Courts of Law at Westminster to issue Commissions and give Orders for the Examination of Witnesses in Actions depending in such Courts, and to enforce such Examination, and all the Provisions of the said Acts, and of any other Acts for enforcing or otherwise applicable to such Examination and the Witnesses examined, shall extend and be applicable to the Court and to the Examination of Witnesses under the Commissions and Orders of the said Court, and to the Witnesses examined, as if such Court were One of the Courts of Law at Westminster, and the Matter before it were an Action pending in such Court.\n\nXLVIII. The Rules of Evidence observed in the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster shall be applicable to and observed in the Trial of all Questions of Fact in the Court.\n\nXLIX. The Court may, under its Seal, issue Writs of Subpoena or Subpoena duces tecum, commanding the Attendance of Witnesses at such Time and Place as shall be therein expressed; and such Writs may be served in any Part of Great Britain or Ireland; and every Person served with such Writ shall be bound to attend, and to be sworn and give Evidence in obedience thereto, in the same Manner as if it had been a Writ of Subpoena or Subpoena duces tecum issued from any of the said Superior Courts of Common Law in a Cause pending therein, and served in Great Britain or Ireland, as the Case may be: Provided that any Petitioner required to be examined, or any Person called as a Witness or required or desiring to make an Affidavit or Deposition under or for the Purposes of this Act, shall be permitted to make his solemn Affirmation or Declaration instead of being sworn in the Circumstances and Manner in which a Person called as a Witness or desiring to make an Affidavit or Deposition would be permitted so to do under the \"Common Law Procedure Act, 1854,\" in Cases within the Provisions of that Act.\n\nL. All Persons wilfully deposing or affirming falsely in any Proceeding before the Court shall be deemed to be guilty of Perjury, and shall be liable to all the Pains and Penalties attached thereto.\n\nLI. The Court on the Hearing of any Suit, Proceeding, or Petition under this Act, and the House of Lords on the Hearing of any Appeal under this Act, may make such Order as to Costs as to such Court or House respectively may seem just: Provided always, that there shall be no Appeal on the Subject of Costs only.\n\nLII. All Decrees and Orders to be made by the Court in any Suit, Proceeding, or Petition to be instituted under Authority of this Act shall be enforced and put in execution in the same or the like Manner as the Judgments, Orders, and Decrees of the High Court of Chancery may be now enforced and put in execution.\n\nLIII. The Court shall make such Rules and Regulations concerning the Practice and Procedure under this Act as it may from Time to Time consider expedient, and shall have full Power from Time to Time to revoke or alter the same.\n\nLIV. The Court shall have full Power to fix and regulate from Time to Time the Fees payable upon all Proceedings before it, all which Fees shall be received, paid, and applied as herein directed: Provided always, that the said Court may make such Rules and Regulations as it may deem necessary and expedient for enabling Persons to sue in the said Court in formá pauperis.\n\nLIX. After this Act shall have come into operation no Action shall be maintainable in England for Criminal Conversation.\n\n## Financial Draft\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment Offices, Ketonin, Houghtony, 29th July, 1858.\n\nBy despatch No.25, dated May the 7th, 1858, I was directed to furnish a concise statement of the Revenue and Expenditure of this Colony for the first half of the current year, and also to report what measures I had taken for equalizing the local Revenue and Expenditure for the next year.\n\nRight Honorable Edward B. Lytton, MP.\n\nRECEIVED `OCT 8 1858` \n`184` \n`10238`",
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"content_text": "aberdept \n\nmiades three voyages with Chinese Emigrants good. \n\nand \n\nduring those three voyages he only lost 2 passengers --07 who had been shipped out as invalids. I have seen Captain Rodgers, he is an intelligent, \n\nrespectable \n\nintelligent \n\nand \n\nman who, in \n\nmy \n\nopinion, might be trusted as \n\nloss during \n\nthe voyages I have named. \n\nhe had not the assistance \n\nof a Curapraw Surgeon. (Signed) Sped & Forth, \n\nActing Colonial Secretary \n\nTrue Copy \n\n18th November 1858. \n\nLords Colonial Secretary. \n\n\n\n5917 \n\nConsulate of the United States. Hongkong. 11th November 1858. \n\nSir, \n\nI have to lay before \n\nHis Excellency the Governor \n\nthe Enclosed statement of \n\nCaptain Rodgers of \n\nthe \n\nAmerican Ship \"Batrice\" \n\nin regard \n\nto the detriment \n\noccasioned to his interests \n\nby \n\nthe provision of the Emigration Act which requires Em'grn Surgeon. I desire \n\nvery respectfully and most Earnestly to point out to His Excellency, that the Act,",
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"content_text": "December 1838 and transmitted to the Board of Trade by the first mail for Europe in February last.\n\nMy account current for the Quarter Ending 31st March last transmitted to the Board of Trade on the 28th Instant by the mail which left Hong Kong on that day.\n\nThe Balance in favor of the Board of Trade to the present date, is one hundred and Seventy-five Pounds three shillings and two pence.\n\nI have &c.\n\n(Signed) Freak Forth,\n\nColonial Treasurer\n\nT\n\nSir,\n\n&c. &c.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n26 July 1859\n\n540\n\nwith reference to your letter of the 25th of Feby last I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to you for the information of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade the copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nA 195\n\n178 8:2\n\nAnous 16 Aug 1859.\n\n8232.\n\nP.S. The enclosures to your letter of the 29th ult instant are herewith returned.\n\nfrom the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the estates of deceased seamen \"Churan\" and \"Rajak\", late of the ships.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nH. Merivale\n\n(Exact Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n(7)",
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"content_text": "41867.\n\n13 January 1860\n\n119 Chong Trong\n\nRECES\n\n3 DEC, 1859.\n\n178\n\nTo the Duke of Newcastle\n\n87 Geant Rupele Street\n\nLondon\n\n2th December 1859–\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a Copy of the Despatch from the Duke of Newcastle, relative to my pension: and to request the reconsideration of my Case by the Lords Commissioners.\n\nI beg leave to submit to Your Grace the following Statement –\n\nI am not aware of any intimation having ever been given by the Colonial Office to the Hong Kong Government, that Lieutenant Governors were to relinquish pensions, and when it is borne in recollection that for 3 years and three Months after my promotion to Lieutenant Governor my subscription was continued to the Superannuation fund, and received without any comment by the Colonial Office to the Amount of £67.11.6, being Contributions with those of the other Civil Servants in the Colony by order from the Secretary of State.\n\nI naturally considered all this in 1857, and on the faith of this fact I subscribed, feeling certain that my Pension under Clause 24 –\n\n...\n\n17 years Service under Crown,\n\nand on the faith of this fact I subscribed,\n\nto Your Grace's favorable consideration.\n\nI beg to submit my Case to Your Lordship's punciful consideration.\n\nIn the Colonial Office",
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"content_text": "my pension write be in \n\nConformit \n\nI its provisions - Subscribet Majictiale and Colonial Scretary £950 and pr three years and thre \n\nfor \n\nMouth as \n\nLuitenant Governer £367- 11-9 - up to 31tt hity 1857. and my Service living none 18/1⁄2 years. \n\nColonial pension dese & me wonte amount \n\nthe \n\nretiring about £800 per annum i that by the new act 22 y Victorian 1859- further \n\n5- \n\nit is \n\nthat the Lords Come & He heaplye \n\nreasury save full porn t' award no In abolition of Office areatable and Just Compensation \n\n- \n\nSurely my \n\nLord Duke it was not too much for mee & Loke fr \n\na \n\nper Annfin addition a \n\npuction of £800 \n\nCompensation of one years pay for the deprivation an Office which placed any in the Talary of £2250, at the da \n\n£ 2250, at the disposal \n\nthe Staten \n\nIt will not be out of place & inform You prace, that last year it was in lack Contemplation by the Legislative Council. of Hinghong & Leave included in the Annual Colonical Externater the seem \n\nas A \n\nbonus to one on \n\n£2000, but from tome \n\nEstirament \n\ninformality in brisk your \n\nthe matter for weed, the nitiation was pot Canied out, and to this fact hi John Bowring is able to \n\ntestify \n\n \n\nWatly \n\n20 by 1859 \n\n89ly 25th Jay 1859. \n\nL \n\n179 \n\nQue is a balance of 52 or 53,000 € bulaging to the Colony (lodged at Opu Cant find in the Oriental Bank Corporation at Hrugting / ride heatures Report atracter and homild most defuentially ungen this, t the fuonable considhe ation the Lords of the Reusinge just and method of settling my claims \n\nequitable \n\nQ A \n\nThe Circumstances of my Case Line hun already to fully explained \n\nMy Despatch. That Have eo further remark \n\noffer, beyonce the fact & my \n\nJuvices. \n\nhaving \n\nhem fully acknowledged by the Maputy's Government, and that there later woul \n\nConduct at the important diction, Government & Aughing \n\nunde \n\nCie am Hances, suche As \n\nLad \n\nand \n\nto the lot of any of it's hoveczors : the dismissed from Office, such dismissed das not proceeded from my. \n\nincompetente \n\nOfficer Cleans \n\non my pact, bet bilety pr the Convenienes of the public service; Jet I cannot bat view the nonimation of another to the new Office, in the face of my 10 Complitity established, and often. \n\nboth by the Stone and recognicted \n\nnments, \n\nColonial Govern \n\na most Avel \n\n- Jureau, \n\nsupercession of me, afgravated too big the stage which it inducetly involves upon my reputation as Licitement à result doubtlips not pr Contemplated \n\na prometn",
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"content_text": "2\n\nacquitted yourself, from first to last, with correctness and ability, and whatever your future career may be, it will always be of advantage to you that you did so well and were so favorably regarded when you were employed under the \"Poor Law Commission\" and the \"Board of Works.\" You have my best wishes for your future success in any occupation to which you may apply yourself.\n\nTo Hercules Robinson, Esq.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Signed,)\n\nC. E. TREVELYAN.\n\nCopy of a Letter from Colonel JONES, Chairman and Chief Commissioner of Public Works in Ireland, to Captain ROBINSON,\n\n(COPY.)\n\nOffice of Public Works, 3rd August, 1849.\n\nMY DEAR SIR, The Officer having arrived who is to relieve you in the duties you have been performing under this Board, it affords me an opportunity of expressing my regret that we are to lose your valuable services. You have now for nearly three years been employed in many situations of difficulty and trust, and many requiring great discrimination and judgment, and your conduct on these occasions invariably met the approval of the Board as well as of the Government, and led to your appointment under the Poor Law Commission. It will always afford me great pleasure in bearing testimony to the ability and zeal with which you have invariably performed the duties intrusted to you, and I can only regret that the arrangements which the Public Service required should have occasioned your retirement from the Board's service.\n\nTo Captain Hercules Robinson.\n\nI remain, dear Sir, faithfully yours,\n\n(Signed,)\n\nHARRY D. JONES.\n\n3\n\nTreasury Chambers, 24th July, 1849.\n\nR. 27,292.\n\nSIR,—I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, in reply to your Accountant's letter of 21st instant, that my Lords have received with regret Mr. H. Robinson's resignation of the appointment held by him of Clerk in the Commissariat, and they desire that Mr. Robinson may be informed that his conduct, while serving under their Lordships' directions, has always been such as entitled him to their approbation.\n\nI am, &c., (Signed,) C. E. TREVELYAN.\n\nThe Chairman of Board of Works, Dublin.\n\nCopy of Letter from the Poor Law Commissioners to Mr. BATES, Vice Guardian of Cavan Union, shortly after Captain Robinson's Resignation, an official copy of which was forwarded by the Commissioners to Captain ROBINSON.\n\nPoor Law Commission Office, Dublin,\n\n24th February, 1848.\n\nSIR, I am directed by the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland to acknowledge the receipt of a report made by you and your late colleague, Mr. Robinson, as Vice-Guardians of the Cavan Union, on the 13th instant, and I am to express the Commissioners' satisfaction with the contents thereof, which, so far as they relate to the measures hitherto adopted by yourself and Mr. Robinson, satisfies the Commissioners that you have acted with the utmost prudence and propriety, in the discharge of your difficult duties.\n\nBy order of the Commissioners,\n\n1\n\nCopy of an Official Letter from Assistant Commissary-General ADAMS, Accountant to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, to Captain ROBINSON, accompanied by a copy of a report to the Lords of the Treasury from the Commissioners of Public Works, with a copy of their Lordships' reply.\n\nR. 27,292.\n\nOffice of Public Works, Custom House, Dublin, 28th July, 1849.\n\nSIR—I have the honor to enclose for your information, copy of a letter from Sir Charles Trevelyan, stating that the Right Honorable The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury had received with regret your resignation of the appointment of Clerk in the Commissariat, and desiring that you should be informed that your conduct, while serving under their Lordships' directions, has always been such as to entitle you to their approbation.\n\nI also annex copy of the Report to their Lordships from this Board on the occasion; and in making this communication, I beg to thank you for the zealous co-operation and support I have at all times received from you in the discharge of your arduous duties as District Paymaster and Accountant of the Home District, under this Board.\n\nH. G. R. Robinson, Esq.,\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nNaas.\n\nR. 25,614\n\n26,157\n\nI have the honor to be, SIR, your very obedient servant,\n\n(Signed,) G. ADAMS, A. C. G., Acct.\n\nTo R. Bates, Esq.,\n\nVice-Guardian of the Cavan Union.\n\n(Signed,)\n\nW. STANLEY, Secretary.\n\nExtract of a Letter from the Poor Law Commissioners to Captain ROBINSON, in the year 1849, in the conclusion of which they again refer to the result of his labours in the Cavan Union in the previous year.\n\nNo. 3094/49. Cavan Union.\n\nSIR,—\n\nPoor Law Commission Office, Dublin,\n\n19th January, 1849.\n\nThe Commissioners deem it right to add that they still retain the opinion they always had of the great value of your services while acting in the capacity of Vice-Guardian at Cavan, and that nothing has occurred to modify their impression, that you invariably acted with perfect uprightness and sound judgment, in the discharge of your duties, and that you devoted yourself with unwearied attention and assiduity to the business of the Cavan Union, so long as you remained in charge of it.\n\nI have the honor to be, SIR, your obedient servant,\n\nA. MOORE, for Secretary.\n\nTo Captain H. G. R. Robinson,\n\nCastlewarden, Naas.\n\n(Signed,)\n\nOffice of Public Works, Custom House, Dublin, 21st July, 1849,\n\nSIR—I have the honor, by direction of the Commissioners of Public Works, to lay before you, for the decision of the Right Honorable The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the enclosed communications from Commissariat Clerk, Hercules G. R. 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"content_text": "IST \n\nBinge Brinworth. 30 June 1859 \n\nJULY \n\nMy Lord Date 1859 \n\nWhen \n\nby Hong Kong 392 \n\nadded to \n\nyour Grace's government \n\nin Lord Aberdeen's Administration \n\nBrothers Caftre \n\nwere pleased to appoint my \n\nVernon Watkins BM to the Office of Harbour \n\nMarine Magistrate of Hong Kong on the recommendation of Sir James Lord of the Admiralty. \n\nHyde Parker \n\nmay \n\nThea at the instance of \n\nBrothers Admiral Commander \n\nthe Lords of the Admiralty to whom his long \n\narduous Services were well known. \n\nwas then assigned a Salary of £600 for the duties of Harbour Master, & a House of residence for those of the Marine Magistracy to arriving at Hong Kong he was put in possession of the House which his Predecessor in the office, Licent. Pedder enjoyed before him, with the intermission of not performing the duties for three months.\n\nBut by and by \n\nin John Bowring demanded the House of the incoming Brother for Public Service, which Watkins willingly rendered up with a equivalent rent.\n\nI \n\nclaim for \n\nam \n\nThis Sir J Bowring refused to allow, I kept back the House without any",
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"content_text": "24th September 1860.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State to request you to move the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to order two Passages at the Contract Route to Hong Kong, in the 2nd Cabin, on board the Peninsular & Oriental Mail Steam Packet, which will leave Southampton on the 20th of October for two Ladies, named Annalia Heidrick and Maria Sev.\n\nThe whole cost of this passage will be paid at the Contract Rate by the Public.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nThe Secretary to the Admiralty,\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nPage 25\n\n(To be defrayed from any Hong Kong Lands.)\n\n[Stamp or other mark, likely \"RECEIVED SEP 25\"]\n\n[Address on envelope or letterhead: 60 Street]\n\n[Other text not making sense due to OCR errors or being unrelated to the main content]\n\nPage 25\n\n \nhas been kept as is for three lines at the bottom, assuming the original had \"Page 25\" appearing three times at the top and three times at the bottom, but the exact original format isn't clear from the provided text. I've kept the essential content and corrected obvious errors.",
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"content_text": "Duke of Newcastle, that They see no objection to the Appropriation of the sum required for \n\nsix hundred and \n\ntheir works, viz.: \n\nsix hundred and thirty-three pounds, fourteen shillings and two pence, for building the Chapel, and eight hundred and eighty-seven pounds, eight shillings and six pence, for the Construction of the Road, according to the \n\nEstimates submitted_. \n\nAm \n\nYour \n\nNo Merivale \n\nAppren \n\nthis \n\nexpenditure \n\nAunst \n\n7.9.19 Jan \n\nStm Jan 19 \n\nSir, \n\nObedient servant, \n\nLes Allemultion \n\nEntered \n\ndreas? \n\n593 \n\nGovernor Sir H. Robinson \n\nMINUTE \n\n1860 JAN! \n\n£683-16-2 J. J. Pennell 2. \n\n£887-8-6 \n\nElliot M.Merivale Y VC Fortescue \n\nWhi. \n\n22. \n\nSor \n\nHory Thong \n\n• D.S. \n\n224 \n\n20 January 1860 \n\nHaving referred \n\nyour despatches Nos.20 \n\n7th & 10th Jan \n\n£ 30, to the Lords Committee of the Treasury I have to acquaint you \n\nthat their Lordships have been pleased to sanction \n\nThe expenditure incurred for the works mentioned therein viz. £ 683-14-2 for building a \n\na new \n\nChapel in the cemetery at the Wongneichung \n\nValley",
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"content_text": "812\n\n6982. П\n\n4011\n\n7\n\n4 4020 100\n\n4019\n\n10.\n\nMay 60 ??\n\nGor.\n\n4492\n\nRECEIVE\n\n4 MAY\n\n1860.\n\nMay 1860\n\nreply to your\n\n270\n\nletter of the 26th ult.\n\nof transmitting copies of three despatches\n\nfrom the Governor of Hong Kong inclosing Estimates and Reports of Public Works to be undertaken in that Colony during\n\nthe current year.\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to\n\nacquaint you for the information of the Duke of Newcastle that their Lordships\n\nsee no\n\nobjection to these estimates.\n\nYour obedient Servant\n\nGeo Allametten",
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"content_text": "## \n\nNever the less I had confidence in the goodness of the cause, in the veracity of Mr May, and the honor of the Executive Councillors, who had been appointed to assist the new Governor, and were to share in that Exparte investigation.\n\n4. I accordingly awaited patiently the first step towards the redemption of the pledges of the Secretary of State, the first meeting of the Commission, which did not take place until the middle of 1860, and I continued to await the slow yet certain issue of their labors.\n\nThere were at least twenty charges before them, some of them those for my reports upon which I had been injured so deeply in person and fame, and others threatened with the same vengeance. The prolix investigation before the Commission compassed in 1860-1 has not exhausted above three of the entire number, and those three embrace in fact, and form two (for the Commission, with no very cautious feeling, I must say, myself, describe them as \"belonging to the Caldwell and Anstey Case\"), the damning accusations of Mr May himself, with respect to the nature of the connection with the Confessed Pirate Ma Chow Wong, these very accusations, to screen Caldwell against which the documentary proofs of the connection were furnished by Doctor Bowring and Bridges, and for expressing my belief in the truth of which accusations, and in the honesty of Mr May their author, I am now under your sentence of suspension, pronounced by confirmation of the alleged guilt in that matter, to distinguish between the guilt of the culprit himself and the more effusive statements of Mr May's \"private matter\".\n\n3. The present Executive Councillors, and I presume his Excellency has concurred in their finding, have unanimously found those very charges to be true, the alleged guilt to be the real guilt, and the source of Mr May's statements and purpose, so grossly expressed by the late Governor and his Councillors, to be the effusions, not of any \"private malice\" at all, but of an honest and enlightened zeal for the public service, which is full of good intent, and one nearly deserving of reward. The finding of an enlightened zeal with labor is to be...\n\n6. When the completion of their Enquiry into those three urgent charges they publicly intimated that it would be superfluous, and was not their intention, to commence any Inquiry whatsoever, as to those which still remained - being fully satisfied, from the results of that first portion of their labors that the piratical connection imputed was such as to disqualify Caldwell for all public employment. And the Executive Councillors present, my Lords, the Attorney General, and your Chief Justice (Mr. Adams) is reported to have said, \"that Caldwell is unworthy...\" \n\n147",
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"content_text": "## RECEIVED 12th May\n\n\"I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter from the Colonial Office, under your hand dated the 19th April, conveying to me the decision of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury on my Case, by which I am granted a retiring pension at the rate of One hundred and sixty-three pounds 6/8d. per annum, to commence at the expiration of my leave, on the 1st September next.\n\nI beg to express my gratitude for the kind consideration shown me by Her Majesty's Government, and now, without regret, resign my Office in accordance with the arrangements sanctioned.\n\nC. Fortescue Care M.P.\nUnder Secretary of State.\nDowning Street\n21st June 1861.",
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"content_text": "## MINUTE, BY THE GOVERNOR.\n\n1. Under instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct that the following Rules respecting Pensions to the Public Servants of this Colony be published for general information.\n\n2. Subject to the exceptions and provisions hereinafter contained all Public Servants holding Offices named in the Civil List Ordinance, or Offices described in the Annual Estimates as the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, and drawing Salaries of Thirty Pounds a Year and upwards shall be entitled to Pensions as follows:- \n\nTo any person who shall have served Ten Years and upwards and under Eleven Years an Annual Allowance of Fifteen-sixtieths of the Annual Salary of his Office. For Eleven Years and under Twelve Years an Annual Allowance of Sixteen-sixtieths of such Salary. And in like manner a further addition to the Annual Allowance of One-sixtieth in respect of each additional Year of such Service until the completion of a period of Service of Thirty-five Years when the Annual Allowance of Forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any Service beyond Thirty-five Years.\n\n3. The Chief Justice, provided he shall not have served in any other Office in the Colony, shall be entitled to a Pension after Seven Years' Service; at which time an Allowance of Three Years' additional Service shall be made to him; such Pension to increase at the rate of Two Years' Service for each additional Year he serves until an Allowance of Ten Years' additional Service has been made to him: after which his Pension shall increase at the same rate only as other Officers until he shall have reached Twenty-five Years' Service when he may receive the full Allowance of Forty-sixtieths of his Annual Salary, and no addition shall be made for any Service beyond Twenty-five Years.\n\n4. The Judge of the Summary Jurisdiction Court, and the Colonial Chaplain, provided that previous to their appointments in such capacities, they shall not have served in other Offices in the Colony shall be entitled after Ten Years' and under Eleven Years' Service to Pensions at the rate of Twenty-sixtieths of the annual Salaries of their respective Offices, increasing an additional Sixtieth for every additional Year's Service, until the completion of Thirty Years' Service, when the annual allowance of Forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any Service beyond Thirty Years. In case of the elevation of any Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, who may be entitled to the additional Five Years allowed by this clause, to the Office of Chief Justice, the Pension of such Officer upon retirement may be calculated at the rate specified in this clause.\n\n5. Any Public Servant of the Colony who may be elevated to the Office of Governor of Hongkong shall on his retirement from that Office be entitled to the same Pension as if he had continued to hold the Office which he vacated when he was appointed Governor and (supposing him not to be Fifty-five Years of age) as if he had retired from ill-health. Provided that if there shall be offered to any such ex-Governor being under the age of Fifty-five Years any Public Office, or situation under the Crown, which having reference as well to the state of his health as to the nature of his previous Services, such ex-Governor may, in the judgement of the Lords Commissioners of H. M.'s Treasury, be properly called upon to accept; it shall be competent to the said Lords Commissioners to declare should he decline the same that the Pension of such ex-Governor shall be suspended until he shall obtain the age of Fifty-five Years.\n\n6. No Public Servant will be held to have an absolute right to compensation for past Services, or to any Pension under this Minute; and Government will retain power and authority to dismiss any Public Servant without compensation.\n\n7. No Pension will be granted to any Public Servant without the authority of Her Majesty's Government, in order to obtain which, Certificates of Service, Age, Good Conduct, and of the ground of retirement, must be submitted to the Secretary of State.\n\n8. No Pension shall be granted to any Public Servant, who shall be under Fifty-five Years of age, unless upon Certificate from the Head of the Department to which he may belong, and from two Medical Practitioners that he is incapable, from infirmity of mind or body, to discharge the duties of his situation; nor, unless he shall have discharged those duties with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the Head of his Department. And in case the Officer...",
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"content_text": "## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION\n\nThe following Minute by His Excellency the Governor respecting Pensions to the Public Servants of this Colony framed under the provisions of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862, the confirmation of which is notified in the foregoing Proclamation, is published for general information.\n\nBy Order of the Acting Governor,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th November, 1862.\n\n### MINUTE\n\nBY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nW. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n1. Under instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct that the following Rules respecting Pensions to the Public Servants of this Colony be published for general information.\n\n2. Subject to the exceptions and provisions hereinafter contained all Public Servants holding Offices named in the Civil List Ordinance, or Offices described in the Annual Estimates as the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, and drawing Salaries of Thirty Pounds a Year and upwards shall be entitled to Pensions as follows:--\n\n| Years of Service | Annual Allowance |\n| --- | --- |\n| 10 and under 11 | 15/60 of Annual Salary |\n| 11 and under 12 | 16/60 of Annual Salary |\n| ... | ... |\n\nTo any person who shall have served Ten Years and upwards and under Eleven Years an Annual Allowance of Fifteen-sixtieths of the Annual Salary of his Office. For Eleven Years and under Twelve Years an Annual Allowance of Sixteen-sixtieths of such Salary. And in like manner a further addition to the Annual Allowance of One-sixtieth in respect of each additional Year of such Service until the completion of a period of Service of Thirty-five Years when the Annual Allowance of Forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any Service beyond Thirty-five Years.\n\n3. The Chief Justice, provided he shall not have served in any other Office in the Colony, shall be entitled to a Pension after Seven Years' Service; at which time an Allowance of Three Years' additional Service shall be made to him; such Pension to increase at the rate of Two Years' Service for each additional Year he serves until an Allowance of Ten Years' additional Service has been made to him: after which his Pension shall increase at the same rate only as other Officers until he shall have reached Twenty-five Years' Service when he may receive the full Allowance of Forty-sixtieths of his Annual Salary, and no addition shall be made for any Service beyond Twenty-five Years.\n\n4. The Judge of the Summary Jurisdiction Court, and the Colonial Chaplain, provided that previous to their appointments in such capacities, they shall not have served in other Offices in the Colony shall be entitled after Ten Years' and under Eleven Years' Service to Pensions at the rate of Twenty-sixtieths of the annual Salaries of their respective Offices, increasing an additional Sixtieth for every additional Year's Service, until the completion of Thirty Years' Service, when the annual allowance of Forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any Service beyond Thirty Years. In case of the elevation of any Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, who may be entitled to the additional Five Years allowed by this clause, to the Office of Chief Justice, the Pension of such Officer upon retirement may be calculated at the rate specified in this clause.\n\n5. Any Public Servant of the Colony who may be elevated to the Office of Governor of Hongkong shall on his retirement from that Office be entitled to the same Pension as if he had continued to hold the Office which he vacated when he was appointed Governor and (supposing him not to be Fifty-five Years of age) as if he had retired from ill-health. Provided that if there shall be offered to any such ex-Governor being under the age of Fifty-five Years any Public Office, or situation under the Crown, which having reference as well to the state of his health as to the nature of his previous Services, such ex-Governor may, in the judgment of the Lords Commissioners of H. M.'s Treasury, be properly called upon to accept; it shall be competent to the said Lords Commissioners to declare should he decline the same that the Pension of such ex-Governor shall be suspended until he shall obtain the age of Fifty-five Years.",
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"content_text": "417 \n\n## XIII \nAnd be it enacted and ordained, That all Powers vested in any such Prisoner whose Estate shall by an Order under this Ordinance have been vested in the Provisional Assignee which such Prisoner might legally execute for his own Benefit, shall be and are hereby vested in the Assignee or Assignees of the Real and Personal Estate of such Prisoner by virtue of this Ordinance, to be by such Assignee or Assignees executed for the Benefit of all and every the Creditors of such Prisoner under this Ordinance, in such manner as such Prisoner might have executed the same.\n\n## XIV \nAnd be it enacted and ordained, That in all cases in which any such Prisoner shall be entitled to any Lease or Agreement for a Lease, and his Assignee or Assignees shall accept the same, and the Benefit thereof, as part of such Prisoner's Estate and Effects, the said Prisoner shall not be deemed to be liable to pay any subsequent Rent to which his Discharge, adjudicated according to this Ordinance, may not apply, nor be in any manner sued after such Acceptance in respect or by reason of any subsequent Non-observance or Non-performance of the Conditions, Covenants, or Agreements therein contained; Provided that in all such cases as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Lessor, or person agreeing to make such Lease, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, if the said Assignee or Assignees shall decline, upon his or their being required so to do, to determine whether he or they will or will not accept such Lease or Agreement for a Lease, to apply to the said Court, praying that he or they may either so accept the same, or deliver up such Lease or Agreement for a Lease, and the Possession of the Premises demised or intended to be demised; and the said Court shall thereupon make such Order as in all the Circumstances of the Case shall seem meet and just, and such Order shall be binding on all parties.\n\n## XV \nAnd be it enacted and ordained, That it shall be lawful for the Assignee or Assignees of any such Prisoner, and such Assignee or Assignees is and are hereby empowered, to sue, from time to time as there may be Occasion, in his or their own Name or Names, for the Recovery, obtaining, and enforcing of any Estate, Effects, or Rights of such Prisoner, but in trust for the Benefit of the Creditors of such Prisoner, according to the Provisions of this Act, and to give such Discharge and Discharges to any Person or Persons who shall be respectively indebted to such Prisoner as may be requisite; and to make Compositions with any Debtors or Accountants to such Prisoner, where the same shall appear necessary, and to take such reasonable Part of any such Debts as can upon such Composition be gotten in full Discharge of such Debts and Accounts; and to submit to Arbitration any Difference or Dispute between such Assignee or Assignees and any Person or Persons for or on account or by reason of any matter, cause, or thing relating to the Estate and Effects of such Prisoner: Provided nevertheless, that no such Compositions, or Submission to Arbitration, shall be made, nor any Suit in Equity be commenced, by any such Assignee or Assignees, without the Consent in Writing of the major Part in Value of the Creditors of such Prisoner then residing in the said Colony, who shall meet together pursuant to a Notice of such Meeting, to be published at least Fourteen Days before such Meeting in the two aforesaid Newspapers, nor without the Approbation of the said Court.\n\n## XVI \nAnd be it enacted and ordained, That all matters wherein Creditors shall vote, or wherein the Assent or Dissent of Creditors shall be exercised in pursuance of or in carrying into effect this Ordinance, every Creditor shall be accounted such in respect of such Amount only as upon an Account fairly stated between the Parties, after allowing the Value of Mortgaged Property, and other such available Securities and Liens, shall appear to be Balance due; and that all Disputes arising in such Matters concerning any such Amount shall upon Application duly made in that Behalf be examined into by the said Court, who shall have Power to determine the same, and, if it seem fit, to refer the Examination thereof to an Officer of the said Court, or to an Examiner to be appointed for that Purpose by the said Court: Provided always, that the amount in respect of which any such Creditor shall vote in any such Matter shall not be conclusive of the Amount of his or her Debt for any ulterior Purposes, in pursuance of the Provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n## XVII \nAnd be it enacted, That whenever any such Assignee or Assignees shall die or be removed, or a new Assignee or Assignees shall be appointed in pursuance of the Provisions of this Ordinance, no Action at Law or Suit in Equity shall be thereby abated, but the Court in which any Action or Suit is depending may, upon the Suggestion of such Death or Removal and new Appointment, allow the Name or Names of the surviving or new Assignee or Assignees to be substituted in the Place of the former; and such Action or Suit shall be prosecuted in the Name or Names of the said surviving or new Assignee or Assignees, in the same Manner as if he or they had originally commenced the same.\n\n## XVIII \nAnd be it enacted and ordained, That nothing in this Ordinance contained shall extend to entitle the Assignee or Assignees of the Estate and Effects of any such Prisoner, being or having been an Officer of the Army or Navy, or an Officer or Clerk, or otherwise employed or engaged in the Service of Her Majesty in any Civil Office, or being or having been in the Naval or Military Service of the East India Company, or an Officer or Clerk or otherwise employed or engaged in the Service of the Court of Directors of the said Company or being otherwise in the enjoyment of any Pension whatever under any Department of Her Majesty's Government or from the said Court of Directors, to the Pay, Half Pay, Salary, Emoluments, or Pension of any such Prisoner, for the Purposes of this Ordinance: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said Court to order such Portion of the Pay, Half Pay, Salary, Emoluments, or Pension of any such Prisoner, as on Communication from the said Court the Secretary at War, or the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, or the Commissioners of the Customs or Excise, or the Chief Officer of the Department to which such Prisoner may belong or have belonged, or under which such Pay, Half Pay, Salary, Emoluments, or Pension may be enjoyed by such Prisoner, or the said Court of Directors, he or they may respectively under his or their Hands or under the Hand of his or their Chief Secretary, or other Chief Officer for the Time being consent to in Writing, to be paid to such Assignee or Assignees, in Order that the same may be applied in Payment of the Debts of such Prisoner and such Order and Consent being lodged in the Office of Her Majesty's Pay-Master-General, or of the Secretary of the said Court of Directors, or of any other Officer or Person appointed to Pay, or paying, any such Pay, Half Pay, Salary, Emoluments, or Pension, or such Portion of the said Pay, Half Pay, Salary, Emoluments, or Pension, as shall be specified in such Order and Consent shall be paid to the said Assignee or Assignees, until the said Court shall make Order to the Contrary.\n\n## XIX \nAnd be it enacted and ordained, That if any such Prisoner shall, at the Time of his Arrest, or other Commencement of his Imprisonment, by the Consent and Permission of the true Owner thereof, have in his Possession any Goods or Chattels whereof such Prisoner was reputed Owner, or whereof he had taken upon him the Sale, Alteration, or Disposition as Owner, the same shall be deemed to be the Property of such Prisoner, so as to become vested in the Provisional Assignee of the said Court by the Order made in pursuance of this Ordinance.\n\n## XX \nAnd be it enacted and ordained, That no Distress or Distresses for Rent made and levied after the Arrest or other Commencement of the Imprisonment of any Person whose Estate shall, by any such Order as aforesaid, have been vested in the Provisional Assignee, upon the Goods or Effects of any such Person, shall be available for more than One Year's Rent accrued prior to the making of such Order, but that the Landlord or Party to whom the Rent shall be due shall and may be a Creditor for the Overplus of the Rent due, and for which the Distress shall not be available, and entitled to all the Provisions made for Creditors by this Ordinance.\n\n## XXI \nAnd be it enacted and ordained, That if any such Prisoner shall, before or after his or her Imprisonment, being in Insolvent Circumstances, voluntarily convey, assign, transfer, charge, deliver, or make over any Estate, Real or Personal, Security, for Money, Bond, Bill, Note, Money, Property, Goods, or Effects whatsoever, to any Creditor or Creditors, or to any Person or Persons in Trust for, or to or for the Use, Benefit, or Advantage of any Creditor or Creditors, every such Conveyance, Assignment, Transfer, Charge, Delivery, and Making over shall be deemed and is hereby declared to be fraudulent and void as against the Provisional or other Assignee or Assignees, of such Prisoner appointed under this Ordinance: Provided always, that no such Conveyance, Assignment, Transfer, Charge, Delivery, or Making over shall be so deemed fraudulent and void unless made within Three Months before the Commencement of such Imprisonment, or with the View, or Intention, by the Party so Conveying, Assigning, Transferring, Charging, Delivering, or Making over of Petitioning the said Court for his Discharge from Custody under this Act.\n\n## XXII \nAnd whereas an Act passed the imperial parliament in the Third year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for preventing Frauds upon Creditors by secret Warrants of Attorney to confess Judgment; And whereas it is expedient to extend the Provisions of such Act; be it therefore enacted and ordained, That the last mentioned Act shall extend to the Provisional or other Assignee or Assignees of every Prisoner whose Estate shall after the Expiration of Twenty-one Days next after his Execution of such Warrant of Attorney, or giving of such Cognovit Actionem as therein mentioned, be vested in the Provisional Assignee of the said Court by virtue of this Ordinance, as if the last mentioned Act had been expressly herein enacted; and every such Warrant of Attorney, and Judgment and Execution thereon, and every such Cognovit Actionem, and Judgment entered up thereon, and Execution taken out on such Judgment as are declared by the last mentioned Act to be fraudulent and void against the Assignees mentioned therein, shall be deemed equally fraudulent and void against the Provisional or other Assignee or Assignees, of such Prisoner, appointed under this Ordinance, and such Provisional or other Assignee or Assignees, shall be entitled to recover back and receive, for the Use of the Creditors of such Prisoner, all and every the Moneys levied and Effects seized under or by virtue of any such Judgment or Execution.\n\n## XXIII",
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"content_text": "## Correspondence regarding Public Gardens in Victoria, Hong Kong\n\nof Newcastle, that My Lord see no objection to the expenditure, for which provision will be made in the Supplementary Estimate for 1868.\n\nMr. Copy \nAft to Sovereign Annexed \nMt 23 June \nwww \n\nYour obedient servant \n23. June. 62 \nker Allamettin \n9026 \nGod \n4 July \n1567 Hongkong \n\n**RECENT** \n4 JUL 1862 \nTreasury Chambers, July 1862 \nBrd \n\nWith reference to your letter of the 4th of March 1862, transmitting report and Estimate for the formation of Public Gardens in Victoria, Hong Kong, amounting to Four thousand three hundred and Seventy one pounds, Two shillings, and Six pence (£4371-2-6).\n\nI am commanded by The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Duke of Newcastle, that their Lordships will not object to this Expenditure, for which provision will be made in the Supplementary Estimate for 1862–63.\n\nI am, \nZaur Koi \nSir. It Rogers Bart \nColonial Office \n\nYour Obedient Servant \nLeuan & External",
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"content_text": "# \n## Copy of a Letter from Sir C. E. TREVELYAN to Captain ROBINSON.\n\n(Signed,) \n**C. E. TREVELYAN**\n\nacquitted yourself, from first to last, with correctness and ability, and whatever your future career may be, it will always be of advantage to you that you did so well and were so favorably regarded when you were employed under the \"Poor Law Commission\" and the \"Board of Works.\" You have my best wishes for your future success in any occupation to which you may apply yourself.\n\nTo Hercules Robinson, Esq.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n## Copy of a Letter from Colonel JONES, Chairman and Chief Commissioner of Public Works in Ireland, to Captain ROBINSON.\n\n**(COPY.)**\n\nOffice of Public Works, 3rd August, 1849.\n\nMY DEAR SIR, The Officer having arrived who is to relieve you in the duties you have been performing under this Board, it affords me an opportunity of expressing my regret that we are to lose your valuable services. You have now for nearly three years been employed in many situations of difficulty and trust, and many requiring great discrimination and judgment, and your conduct on these occasions invariably met the approval of the Board as well as of the Government, and led to your appointment under the Poor Law Commission. It will always afford me great pleasure in bearing testimony to the ability and zeal with which you have invariably performed the duties intrusted to you, and can only regret that the arrangements which the Public Service required should have occasioned your retirement from the Board's service.\n\nTo Captain Hercules Robinson.\n\nI remain, dear Sir, faithfully yours,\n\n**(Signed,)** \nHARRY D. JONES.\n\nR. 27,292.\n\nTreasury Chambers, 24th July, 1849.\n\nSIR, I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, in reply to your Accountant's letter of 21st instant, that my Lords have received with regret Mr. H. 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TREVELYAN.\n\nThe Chairman of Board of Works, Dublin.\n\n## Copy of Letter from the Poor Law Commissioners to Mr. BATES, Vice Guardian of Cavan Union, shortly after Captain Robinson's Resignation, an official copy of which was forwarded by the Commissioners to Captain ROBINSON.\n\nPoor Law Commission Office, Dublin, 24th February, 1848.\n\nSIR, I am directed by the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland to acknowledge the receipt of a report made by you and your late colleague, Mr. Robinson, as Vice-Guardians of the Cavan Union, on the 13th instant, and I am to express the Commissioners' satisfaction with the contents thereof, which, so far as they relate to the measures hitherto adopted by yourself and Mr. Robinson, satisfies the Commissioners that you have acted with the utmost prudence and propriety, in the discharge of your difficult duties.\n\nBy order of the Commissioners,\n\n**(Signed,)** W. STANLEY, Secretary.\n\n## Copy of an Official Letter from Assistant Commissary-General ADAMS, Accountant to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, to Captain ROBINSON, accompanied by a copy of a report to the Lords of the Treasury from the Commissioners of Public Works, with a copy of their Lordships' reply.\n\nR. 27,292.\n\nOffice of Public Works. Custom House, Dublin, 28th July, 1849.\n\nSIR, I have the honor to enclose for your information, copy of a letter from Sir Charles Trevelyan, stating that the Right Honorable The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury had received with regret your resignation of the appointment of Clerk in the Commissariat, and desiring that you should be informed that your conduct, while serving under their Lordships' directions, has always been such as to entitle you to their approbation.\n\nI also annex copy of the Report to their Lordships from this Board on the occasion; and in making this communication, I beg to thank you for the zealous co-operation and support I have at all times received from you in the discharge of your arduous duties as District Paymaster and Accountant of the Home District, under this Board.\n\nH. G. R. Robinson, Esq., &c. &c. &c.\n\nR. 25,614 \n26,157 \nNaas.\n\nI have the honor to be, SIR, your very obedient servant,\n\n**(Signed,)** G. ADAMS, A. C. G., Acct.\n\nTo R. Bates, Esq., Vice-Guardian of the Cavan Union.\n\n## Extract of a Letter from the Poor Law Commissioners to Captain ROBINSON, in the year 1849, in the conclusion of which they again refer to the result of his labours in the Cavan Union in the previous year.\n\nNo. 3094/49. Cavan Union.\n\nSIR,\n\nPoor Law Commission Office, Dublin, 19th January, 1849.\n\nThe Commissioners deem it right to add that they still retain the opinion they always had of the great value of your services while acting in the capacity of Vice-Guardian at Cavan, and that nothing has occurred to modify their impression, that you invariably acted with perfect uprightness and sound judgment, in the discharge of your duties, and that you devoted yourself with unwearied attention and assiduity to the business of the Cavan Union, so long as you remained in charge of it.\n\nI have the honor to be, SIR, your obedient servant,\n\nA. MOORE, for Secretary.\n\nTo Captain H. G. R. 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"content_text": "The Duke of Newcastle.\n\nMr. Mercer\n\nTongkong, 21 April 1863.\n\nReceived from 1st April, 1863.\n\nTerm of 3 months Office for a further employment in the Surveyor General's Department of Mr. Carvalho.\n\nReporting.\n\nConterer Si 2. Dory Hous 1073.\n\nA. Hamilton Goose & Son,\n\nMINUTE\n\nMhusband 12 JUNE MElliot Surkhagers V MCFortescue\n\nDuke of Newcastle 21st April\n\nDirected by The Duke of Newcastle to transmit to you for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, a copy of a despatch from the Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong, reporting the further employment of Mr. Carvalho in the Surveyor General's Department, for a term of three months at a salary of $50 per mensem.\n\nHis Grace has expressed to the Acting Governor his approval of this expenditure.\n\nPage 49\n\n26 June for.\n\nJan 1\n\n \nPage 49",
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"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.",
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"content_text": "It may\n\nbe divided into three\n\nlots for conduction -\n\n1. Kit in\n\nthe hills in addition for\n\ndear the extreme\n\nthe Expenditure under\n\na chief Affiliate\n\nL\n\nin over-estimation\n\nhas been stated.\n\nestimates\n\nA\n\n2. Mit Hong Kong matter of partie ought not\n\nI have called upon the\n\nRoyen\n\nthis in Sir Hercules Robinson's protest agt. the Duke of Lancaster's proposal\n\nto have anything at all\n\n7\n\nHong Kong mehr beige ich\n\nboth Mullany\n\ncontribution. &\n\ncontribute towards his Military\n\nprotection\n\nIt is\n\nat the same time\n\nvery\n\nuncommon\n\nhonouring\n\natte\n\nRuss\n\n3\n\nk\n\n235\n\nMit all the Colony\n\nright with the certain offer to\n\nhords for de Military protection\n\nL\n\nmay provide eventually some:\n\neventually\n\nthey towards the naval protection.\n\napard\n\nthe 1: fourth\n\nwould slate tal Mr. Robinson\n\nI myself have been the data\n\non\n\nwhich the Calculations of\n\nRevenue. I\n\nfounded\n\nExpenditure\n\nwere\n\n& annexed is\n\nmemorandum stating the result of\n\nsent . . .\n\nThe Duke & Stewart frs:\n\n1\n\n- ford til the Army\n\nshould",
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"content_text": "30\n\n8th. That the Governor or Officer administering the Government of the Colony shall direct a Board of Government of not less than three in number, to assemble at the Mint at the expiration of each quarter for the inspection of the Star Bullion and Coin in the Mint, and report on the same to him, stating the exact amounts of the balance of each description verified by them.\n\n9th. That the salaries specified as under shall be added to the Civil List\n\nThe Master of the Mint per annum.-$6,720. £1,400.\n\nThe Superintendent of the Bullion Office.-$3,840. £800.\n\nThe Assayer. $3,840. £800.\n\nThe Superintendent of the Coining Department.-$3,840. £800.\n\nThe Superintendent of the Melting Department.-$3,840. £800.\n\n10th. That such other Officers and Servants of the Mint as may be appointed shall be paid such Salaries as may be approved by the Governor with the approval of the Secretary of State, and that such Salaries shall be borne on the annual estimates\n\n(Copy.)\n\nFrom Sir Frederick Rogers to Mr. Hamilton.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 6th June, 1863.\n\nSIR,-I am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to transmit to you for the consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury the Draft of an Ordinance for establishing a Mint in Hongkong, which has been drawn up by Sir Hercules Robinson after communication with the Master of the Imperial Mint.\n\nI am also to annex a copy of the letter submitting the Ordinance to the Duke of Newcastle, and I am to state that his Grace would wish to be informed whether their Lordships approve of the appointments which Sir H. Robinson proposes to make, as well as of the Salaries which he recommends should be assigned to the several Officers.--I am, &c.,\n\nG. A. HAMILTON, ESQ.,\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\n(Signed) F. ROGERS.\n\nThe Right Hon'ble F. Peel, M.P., to Sir F. Rogers.\n\nTREASURY CHAMBERS, 23rd June, 1863.\n\nSIR, With reference to your letter of the 6th instant I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Duke of Newcastle, that my Lords approve of the provisions of the proposed Ordinance for establishing a Mint at Hongkong.\n\nTheir Lordships also approve of the proposed appointments of Superintending Officers and of the Salaries proposed to be assigned to them, which my Lords are assured are as low as will be required to command the services of efficient persons for the technical duties which they will be required to discharge.\n\nMy Lords concur in the suggestion of the Master of the Mint communicated by Sir Hercules Robinson that a Master of the Mint should be appointed at once in order that the arrangements to be made in this Country preliminary to the establishment of a Mint should be carried out under his immediate supervision.\n\nMy Lords consider that the success of the measure will greatly depend on the efficiency of the person selected for this important post, and they suggest that practical acquaintance with the sciences of chemistry, metallurgy and mechanics should be regarded as essential qualifications for the post, in order that the Master may not only be able to control the operations of the other Principal Officers, but be able to assume the immediate direction of those operations in cases of leave of absence, illness or other causes.\n\nI am further to suggest that in engaging the Services of the Master and other Officers some understanding should be come to regarding their return to England in the possible event of the Mint being closed after a sufficient trial. I am, &c.,\n\n(Signed) F. PEEL.\n\nSIR F. ROGERS, BART,\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nNo. 160-Financial.\n\nHONGKONG, 25th August, 1863.\n\nMY LORD DUKE.--I have the honor to acknowledge your Grace's despatch No. 88 of 8th July last, in continuation of \"Confidential\" 19th April, 1863, on the subject of the establishment of a Mint in this Colony.\n\n2. I shall of course see that your Grace's instructions are carried out, and the correspondence shall be duly placed before the Legislative Council, when the Draft Ordinance shall also be submitted for adoption by that body.\n\n3. But as this Ordinance can be passed at any time and there is no immediate occasion for it, your Grace's instructions being that nothing is to be done under it until receipt of further directions, I trust your Grace will approve my delaying for the time the application to the Council.\n\n4. No inconvenience, so far as I see, can arise from this, as care shall be taken that the Council and the public have a sufficiently early opportunity of considering the question, and in the meantime our information on the subject (at present but scanty) will possibly be increased from various quarters.\n\n5. I take occasion to ask if it be necessary to retain the word \"Silver\" in the first paragraph of the Draft Ordinance. It seems to me that if a regular Mint be established here, it would be well to have out the dies already made for the Coin, and thus do away with the inconsistency of manufacturing one silver Coin in Hongkong and one copper in England.\n\nI have the honor to be, My Lord Duke, your Grace's most obedient Servant,\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nHis Grace THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, K.G.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\nHongkong-No. 148.\n\n&c.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 8th November, 1863.\n\nSIR,-I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 160 of the 25th August, respecting the Draft Ordinance for the establishment of a Mint in Hongkong. I have to instruct you to lay the correspondence which has passed on the subject before your Council, and to submit the Ordinance for their approval.\n\nMr. Hamilton to Sir F. Rogers.\n\nTREASURY CHAMBERS, 2nd November, 1863.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 28th ultimo, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Governor of Hongkong on the subject of the Draft Ordinance proposed to be submitted to the Legislature of that Colony for the establishment of a Mint at Hongkong, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to request that you will observe to the Duke of Newcastle that the object of the proposed Ordinance is to regulate the issue of silver Coins from the Mint at Hongkong, and that the enacting clauses depend on the recital in the first clause regarding the purpose for which the Master of that Mint is to be appointed.\n\nIt would not be proper therefore to omit the word \"Silver\" from the first clause as proposed in the despatch of the Acting Governor Mercer, but there would be no objection to the insertion of an additional clause, or to the passing hereafter of a further Ordinance authorising the Coinage at the Mint of silver or copper Token Coins according to the terms of the last Proclamation For the regulation of the currency of Hongkong.--I am, &c.,\n\n(Signed) GEO. 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"content_text": "Lord Jock desires me to request that in laying statement before the Lords of the Admiralty, you will state to their Lordships that \"He is of opinion that, as one of the Ports opened under treaty to British Commerce and as the seat of an extensive British trade, Canton must be protected just as much as Hongkong; and that the portion of his Military and Naval Forces which may be withdrawn from Shanghai and Japan may properly be employed for the protection of Canton against a sudden attack on the same principles on which Shanghai was protected from a similar attack.\n\nBy Lord Russell's directions I have addressed a similar Letter to the War Dept and will by the next mail make a Communication to the same effect to Mr Wade at Pekin, and also to B. Harvey Consul at Canton.\n\nLord Russell abstains for the present from saying anything on the subject of the defence of Amoy, or to what extent that place is susceptible of being defended by British force against a rebel attack; but on the receipt of a despatch from B. Harvey Consul at Canton, stating that Amoy was threatened, three junks were at once sent to be it from my...\n\nPage 144",
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"content_text": "Crown Office\n\n79\n\nREC\n\nMiscel\n\n*#\n\n1827\n\nin 1986 Any for\n\n23 AUG 1864\n\nlong hong\n\nTreasury Chambers\n\n22nd August 1864\n\n295\n\nSin\n\n8\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 15th instant No. 7588\n\nI am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Governor Sir Henry Cardwell, that they approve of the expenditure of $3550.14. (Three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars) for supplying water to the Mint at Hong Kong.\n\nJam. Sii,\n\n17 Rogers\n\nYour obedient Servant,",
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"content_text": "30\n\nHer\n\nmade it subservient to their necessities,—a blessing in which all have participated; your goodness has been extended to the trading people, and the Five Ports have rejoiced; influence has penetrated even the confines and out-of-the-way places, and all people have looked up to you. Majesty, in her far-seeing kindness, has not overlooked your Honour, and in now repairing to the Royal Presence, you return with honour to your home. May you soon come back, and may the benefits of your administration be again vouchsafed to your petitioners.\n\nThe old people will remember hanging upon your car when escorting you; and though absent, your memory will still remain with your petitioners, and your name will be as engraved on their lips. The very children shall welcome your return, and the beneficence of your rule shall be praised in songs.\n\nYour petitioners expecting the light of your grace to shine upon them, will look for your return until their gaze be lost in space; and in their hearts await on the mountain pass the coming of your happy star. They unite in this humble petition, and would, if possible, detain you. Kneeling they wish your honour perfect tranquillity, and beg your gracious perusal of this their petition.\"\n\nSigned by 196 of the principal firms and shops. Translated by Mr. Dick.\n\n(Signed) T. DICK, Chinese Secretary to the Supreme Court.\n\nNote by Translator.--The four large characters mean, \"A remembrance and expression by the whole population of virtuous and meritorious acts.\"\n\nActs addressed on the right side.--\"To his Excellency Caine, presented by the characters on the left side by the merchants, Tepos and others of the colony.\" The small slip of paper presented by the principal members of the Deputation at the first meeting to the Lieutenant-Governor, contains \"A presentation from the merchants, shop-keepers, and others of the colony, to his Excellency Caine, expressive of their high estimation of his many virtues.\"\n\nThe Deputation, consisting of several hundreds of the most respectable of the Chinese inhabitants, in full dress, were accompanied by several flags, bearing honourable inscriptions referring to Colonel Caine; besides six sedan chairs, containing fresh water, looking-glasses, &c., as is the usual custom on such occasions, implying \"Purity, Charity, and Virtue,\" a Chinese band was also in attendance, with fireworks and rockets.\n\nThe latter, the Lieutenant-Governor requested might not be exploded in the vicinity of the Hong Kong Club.”\n\nOn the day of Lieutenant-Governor Caine's departure from Hong Kong for England, 29th September, 1859, a great assemblage of the Chinese population met near the Parade Ground, bidding him farewell whilst going on board the mail steamer, and wishing him \"good wind and good water\" during his voyage.\n\n31\n\nThe Colonial Office Records prove that Lieutenant-Colonel Caine had subscribed to the Superannuation Fund from the 1st May, 1841, until such subscriptions were interdicted by notice from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in 1857; and up to receipt of said notice Lieutenant-Colonel Caine had subscribed to the Superannuation Fund, as the Lieutenant-Governor of Hong Kong, for three years and three months; after which no further subscriptions were paid by any civil servants. Here is attached extract from Despatch No.38, of 30th November, 1859, from the Duke of Newcastle to the Governor of Hong Kong, referring to the remark on Lieutenant-Colonel Caine's case by the Lords of the Treasury. They have no power to grant a pension to Colonel Caine, but that having regard to the extended and valued services of this officer at Hong Kong, between 1841 and 1859, and to the circumstances of the abolition of his office, with a view to the interests of the public service, &c.;\" and, after the remonstrance of Lieutenant-Colonel Caine, the Lords of the Treasury were again pleased to recognize his services.---- Vide Despatch from the Colonial Office, dated 24th January, 1860.\n\n\"I am desired to acquaint you that the additional information which has thus been brought to their Lordships' notice, as to the nature of your colonial services at Hong Kong, and the circumstance of your quitting office, have led them to the opinion, that your case is one which may be dealt with under the provisions of the recent Act of Parliament, regulating the grant of superannuation allowances; and that it is also a case in which their Lordships would be justified in granting the highest rate allowed in a case of abolition of office.\"\n\nThe pension was liberal, being £1,050 per annum.\n\n555\n\nG\n\nK",
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"content_text": "## Treasury Chambers \n24th February 1865.\n\nI am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you for the information of Mr Secretary Cardwell, on the Subject of the 14th of May to which reference is made and which appears through some oversight not to have been forwarded to the Colony by your Government though the instructions contained init are applicable to such Prisons serving the Colony Jail from Imperial Funds.\n\nThey approve of the engagement of three foremen, for the Hongkong Mint, named by the Master of the Mint, copy of which was enclosed in your letter of 21st Instant, upon the terms and conditions proposed.\n\nI am, Sir,\nyour obedient Servant,\n... \n5.3",
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"content_text": "## RECEIVED \nOCT 28 1865 \n\nPall Mall, \n27th October, 1865.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Mr Elliot's letter on the subject of the compensation claimed by certain Householders at Hong Kong for loss or damage done to their property by Military **Rifles of the 99 Regiment** in the month of September, 1864, I am directed to acquaint you for the information of Secretary Cardwell that Earl de Grey and Ripon, with the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, has consented to allow the amount of the reduced claim, viz **Three hundred and fifty seven and a quarter dollars** or **Seventy five Pounds, 18 shillings and threepence Sterling**, as reported in the letter above referred to, being defrayed from Army funds and disbursed to the claimants by the **Secretary of State, Colonial Office**.",
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"content_text": "Page 7\n\nIn 145/65 \n\nVerzales at Shohame \n\nOctober 25, 1864.\n\n18 Jenstey to the Admiral.\n\nIn compliance with the instructions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty contained in your letter of August 2, No. 339, I have the honor to report that I have directed the Senior Officer at Hongkong to enter into communication with the Governor of that Colony with a view to concerting with this Government the best means that may be resorted to for the suppression of piracy in those waters and to arrange with the local authorities the means of obtaining information of the proceedings of the Pirates.\n\n2. The Senior Officer at Hongkong has under his orders for general service in the port and to cruise occasionally for the first three or four junks, both one or more, which are generally available for expedition.",
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"content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1864.\n\nment to be accumulative or not, at the discretion of the adjudicating tribunal), for any British subject, within any part of China, to assist either the existing Chinese Government, or any or either of the different factions then engaged, or who might be thereafter engaged, in opposition to the Government, by personal enlistment in the service of either of the said several parties, or by procuring other persons to enlist in such service, or by furnishing, selling, or procuring warlike stores of any description, or by fitting out vessels, or by knowingly and purposely doing any other act to assist either party, by which neutrality might be violated; and that the tribunal for adjudicating on offences, of the description intended to be thereby dealt with, should consist of a Consular Officer in charge of a Consulate, and two Assessors of Her Majesty, resident within the Consulate;\n\nAnd whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinance of the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, should be explained and amended, and that further provisions should be made to prevent the participation of British subjects within the dominions of the Emperor of China, in acts of war or rebellion against the authority of the said Emperor; Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of all powers enabling Her in this behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-\n\n1. Nothing in the said Ordinance made and passed on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, shall extend or apply, or be deemed to have extended, or to have been applicable, to any British subject, who, at any time heretofore may have assisted, or may hereafter assist, the Government of the Emperor of China, by the means in the same Ordinance mentioned, or otherwise howsoever, by or under the leave or licence of Her Majesty, or by or under the authority of any Order of Her Majesty in Council, at any time heretofore made, or to be hereafter made.\n\n## No. 139.\n\n2. If any subject of Her Majesty, within any part of the dominions of the Emperor of China, shall, at any time after the publication of this present Order, in Her Majesty's Colony of Hong Kong, levy war, or take part in any operations of war, against the Emperor of China, or aid or abet any persons who are or who may be engaged in carrying on war or rebellion or insurrection against the said Emperor, in carrying on such war or rebellion, or insurrection, such person shall be liable to the several penalties mentioned in the said Ordinance of the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and shall further be liable to be sent out of the dominions of the Emperor of China; and in case of his afterwards returning within the same, shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished, and to be again sent out of the said dominions, and so from time to time, in the same manner, in all respects, as is provided by the said Orders in Council of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and the twelfth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, respectively, concerning the persons liable to be sent out of the said dominions under those respective Orders.\n\n3. Every person offending against this present Order may be proceeded against in the same manner, in all respects, as is provided by the said Order of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, concerning persons offending against any rules or regulations duly made, under and by virtue thereof, by Her Majesty's Superintendent of British Trade in China for the time being.\n\nAnd the Right Honourable Earl Russell, and the Right Honourable Edward Cardwell, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\n**ARTHUR HELPS**\n\nThe following Circular from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, covering the new Instructions issued by the Royal National Life Boat Institution for the Restoration of Persons apparently Drowned, is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th August, 1864.\n\n**CIRCULAR.**\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 20th June, 1864.\nSIR,-I transmit to you, herewith, a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Royal National Life Boat Institution, with copies of new Instructions which have been issued by that Institution, for the Restoration of Persons Apparently Drowned.\n\nI have been informed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that the Medical Director-General of the Navy has given it as his opinion that the Instructions in question are valuable, and that they have been circulated in the Royal Navy; I have therefore no hesitation in giving to these Instructions the circulation desired by the Committee of the Institution.-I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble Servant,\n\n**EDWARD CARDWELL.**\n\nGovernor SIR H. ROBINSON,\n&c. &c. &c.\n\n(Copy.)\n\nMr. Lewis to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, 14, JOHN-STREET, ADLEPHI, LONDON, 26th May, 1864.\n\nSIR, I am directed to transmit to you a few copies of the new Instructions issued by the Royal National Life Boat Institution for the Restoration of the Apparently Drowned.\n\nThese Instructions are the result of extensive inquiries which have recently been made by the Institution amongst medical men, medical bodies, and coroners throughout the United Kingdom.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have ordered 1,000 copies to be circulated throughout Her Majesty's Fleet, and the Commodore Controller-General of Coast Guard has also requested 2,000 copies to be supplied for distribution throughout the Coast Guard Service.\n\nThe Committee are desirous that these directions should be known throughout the British Colonies, and they would therefore feel much obliged if you would do them the honour to direct that the accompanying letters, containing packets of the same, be transmitted to the respective Governors of the Colonies.--I have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\n**RICHARD LEWIS,**\nSecretary.\n\n# TREATMENT OF THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.\n\n## ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.\n\nINCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. -SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS,\n\n**PATRONESS.-Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.**\n\n## DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.\n\nThe leading principles of the following Directions for the Restoration of the apparently Dead from Drowning are founded on those of the late Dr. Marshall Hall, combined with those of Dr. H. R. Silvester, and are the result of extensive inquiries which were made by the Institution in 1863-4 amongst Medical Men, Medical Bodies, and Coroners throughout the United Kingdom. These Directions have been extensively circulated by the Institution throughout the United Kingdom and in the Colonies. They are also in use in Her Majesty's Fleet, and in the Coast-guard Service.\n\n### I.\n\nON THE SPOT,\n\nSend immediately for medical assistance, blankets, and dry clothing, but proceed to treat the Patient instantly in the open air, with the face downwards, whether on shore or afloat; exposing the face, neck, and chest to the wind, except in severe weather, and removing all tight clothing from the neck and chest, especially the braces.\n\nThe points to be aimed at are-first and immediately, the Restoration of Breathing; and secondly, after breathing is restored, the Promotion of Warmth and Circulation.\n\nThe efforts to restore Breathing must be commenced immediately and energetically, and persevered in for one or two hours, or until a medical man has pronounced that life is extinct. Efforts to promote Warmth and Circulation beyond removing the wet clothes and drying the skin must not be made until the first appearance of natural breathing. For if circulation of the blood be induced before breathing has recommenced, the restoration to life will be endangered.\n\n### II.-TO RESTORE BREATHING.\n\n#### TO CLEAR THE THROAT-\nPlace the Patient on the floor or ground with the face downwards, and one of the arms under the forehead, in which position all fluids will more readily escape by the mouth, and the tongue itself will fall forward, leaving the entrance into the windpipe free. Assist this operation by wiping and cleansing the mouth.\n\nIf satisfactory breathing commences, use the treatment described below to promote Warmth. If there be only slight breathing or no breathing or if the breathing fail, then-\n\n#### TO EXCITE BREATHING-\nTurn the Patient well and instantly on the side, supporting the head, and-\n\nExcite the nostrils with snuff, hartshorn, and smelling salts, or tickle the throat with a feather, &c., if they are at hand. Rub the chest and face warm, and dash cold water, or cold and hot water alternately, on them.\n\nIf there be no success, lose not a moment but instantly\n\n#### TO IMITATE BREATHING-\nReplace the Patient on the face, raising and supporting the chest well on a folded coat or other article of dress.\n\n| Action | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Turn the body | very gently on the side and a little beyond, and then briskly on the face, back again; repeating these measures cautiously, efficiently, and perseveringly about fifteen times in the minute, or once every four or five seconds, occasionally varying the side. |\n| Pressure on the back | Make uniform but efficient pressure with brisk movement, on the back between and below the shoulder-blades or bones on each side, removing the pressure immediately before turning the body on the side. |\n\nBy placing the Patient on the chest, the weight of the body forces the air out; when turned on the side, this pressure is removed, and air enters the chest.\n\nThe first measure increases the Expiration, the second commences Inspiration.\n\n**The result is Respiration or Natural Breathing;—and, if not too late, Life.**\n\nWhilst the above operations are being proceeded with, dry the hands and feet; and as soon as dry clothing or blankets can be procured, strip the body and cover, or gradually reclothe it, but taking care not to interfere with the efforts to restore breathing.\n\n### III.\n\nShould these efforts not prove successful in the course of from two to five minutes, proceed to imitate breathing by Dr. Silvester's method, as follows:-\n\nPlace the Patient on the back on a flat surface, inclined a little upwards from the feet; raise and support the head and shoulders on a small firm cushion or folded article of dress placed under the shoulder-blades.\n\nDraw forward the Patient's tongue, and keep it projecting beyond the lips: an elastic band over the tongue and under the chin will answer this purpose, or a piece of string or tape may be tied round them, or by raising the lower jaw, the teeth may be made to retain the tongue in that position. Remove all tight clothing from about the neck and chest, especially the braces.\n\n#### TO IMITATE THE MOVEMENTS OF BREATHING-\nStanding at the Patient's head, grasp the arms just above the elbows, and draw the arms gently and steadily upwards above the head, and keep them stretched upwards for two seconds. (By this means air is drawn into the lungs.) Then turn down the Patient's arms, and press them gently and firmly for two seconds against the sides of the chest. (By this means air is pressed out of the lungs.)\n\nRepeat these measures alternately, deliberately, and perseveringly, about fifteen times in a minute, until a spontaneous effort to respire is perceived, immediately upon which cease to imitate the movements of breathing, and proceed to INDUCE CIRCULATION AND WARMTH.\n\n### IV. TREATMENT AFTER NATURAL BREATHING HAS BEEN RESTORED.\n\n#### TO PROMOTE WARMTH AND CIRCULATION.--\n\nCommence rubbing the limbs upwards, with firm grasping pressure and energy, using handkerchiefs, flannels, &c.: [by this measure the blood is propelled along the veins towards the heart.]\n\nThe friction must be continued under the blanket or over the dry clothing. Promote the warmth of the body by the application of hot flannels, bottles, or bladders of hot water, heated bricks, &c., to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet.\n\nIf the Patient has been carried to a house after respiration has been restored, be careful to let the air play freely about the room.\n\nOn the restoration of life, a teaspoonful of warm water should be given; and then, if the power of swallowing have returned, small quantities of wine, warm brandy and water, or coffee, should be administered. The Patient should be kept in bed, and a disposition to sleep encouraged.",
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"content_text": "Assistant war efforted.\n\nDave also to inform\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted,\n\n13937/66.\n\nAus: 22 Sept/66 K\n\nZw 61-290e1/66 Trea\n\n10166\n\n51\n\nSir\n\n884b-Nong Jong\n\nTreasury, Chambers\n\nRECEIVED\n\nSEP 13 1866\n\n307\n\nthe 12th September 1866.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of her\n\nMajesty's Treasury have had before them Mr. Wills' letter of the 22 August and its inclosures, relating to the proposed increase in the Salary for Mr. Murray\n\nthat one of the seven whom will be selected will be appointed to succeed Mr. Peyton in the Zervies with whose 2...\n\nFor the proposal to dispense.\n\nThe second Medical Officer will be sent to Hongkong after the dismissal of the Person\n\nI have been Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong from 2:00\n\n£6900 a year;\n\nand I am to request that you will inform the Earl of Carnarvon of that, from the statements now before them, My Lords are disposed to think that there will be no objection to the Salary recommended by his Lordship, for Dr. Murray\n\nthe undersigned Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nPage 307 \n\n (three lines at the bottom are not present, as the original text does not contain them, if they were present in original scan, they should be: \n\n some text \n\n Page 307 \n\n some text ) \n\nHowever, to follow the exact instruction of using HTML and keeping the \"Page XX\" information if detected, and assuming \"Page 307\" is such a marker, the corrected version is:\n\nAssistant war efforted.\n\nDave also to inform\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted,\n\n13937/66.\n\nAus: 22 Sept/66 K\n\nZw 61-290e1/66 Trea\n\n10166\n\n51\n\nSir\n\n884b-Nong Jong\n\nTreasury, Chambers\n\nRECEIVED\n\nSEP 13 1866\n\nPage 307\n\nPage 307\n\nsome text (not available)\n\nPage 307\n\nthe 12th September 1866.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of her\n\nMajesty's Treasury have had before them Mr. Wills' letter of the 22 August and its inclosures, relating to the proposed increase in the Salary for Mr. Murray\n\nthat one of the seven whom will be selected will be appointed to succeed Mr. Peyton in the Zervies with whose 2...\n\nFor the proposal to dispense.\n\nThe second Medical Officer will be sent to Hongkong after the dismissal of the Person\n\nI have been Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong from 2:00\n\n£6900 a year;\n\nand I am to request that you will inform the Earl of Carnarvon of that, from the statements now before them, My Lords are disposed to think that there will be no objection to the Salary recommended by his Lordship, for Dr. Murray\n\nthe undersigned Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nsome text (not available)\n\nPage 307\n\nsome text (not available)\n\nPage 307\n\nHowever, the best representation is \nAssistant war efforted.\n\nDave also to inform\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted,\n\n13937/66.\n\nAus: 22 Sept/66 K\n\nZw 61-290e1/66 Trea\n\n10166\n\n51\n\nSir\n\n884b-Nong Jong\n\nTreasury, Chambers\n\nRECEIVED\n\nSEP 13 1866\n\n307\n\nthe 12th September 1866.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of her\n\nbefore\n\nMajesty's Treasury have had blow then mr. Wists letter offther 22 August and its inclosures, relating of the proposed\n\nincrease in the\n\nSalary for. Murray\n\nlast\n\nthe\n\nSou\n\nthat\n\nbe\n\nFreman\n\nMellers will be selected\n\nOne\n\n7 whom\n\nwill\n\nh\n\nappointed\n\nRs\n\nLoon\n\nKA\n\nposibl\n\nb\n\n7489\n\nand sent out\n\nsucceed In Peyton\n\nZervies\n\nwith whose 2\n\nFor propne to\n\ndispence.\n\nThe\n\nseand Metter\n\nwill be sent bo\n\nDongkong after the dismissal of the Paston\n\nI have C\n\nColonial Suyeor\n\nat\n\nHoy. Kory from 2:00\n\n£6900 a year;\n\nand I am to request\n\nthat\n\nwile\n\nyou\n\ninform\n\nthe Earl of Carnewor\n\nof\n\nthat, from the statements now before\n\nthem, Mydlords are disposed to think that\n\nthere will be\n\nor\n\n...\n\nobjection to the Salary recommended by his fodedip,\n\nfor Dr. Murray recom Murray\n\nthe render Secretary of State do the Colonies\n\nPage 307\n\nsome text (not available)\n\nPage 307\n\nsome text (not available)\n\nPage 307\n\nRevised to fit exact format:\nAssinger war efforted.\n\nDave also to informe\n\nIn the Piply to this Letter the following\n\nNumber should be quoted,\n\n13937/66.\n\nAus: 22 Sept/66 K\n\nZw 61-290e1/66 Trea\n\n10166\n\n51\n\nSir\n\n884b-Nong Jong\n\nTreasury, Chambers\n\nRECEIVED\n\nSEP13 1866\n\n307\n\nth 12th September 1866.\n\nThe Lords Comminsimies of ber\n\nbefore\n\nMlajutis Treasury have had blow then mr. Wists letter offther 22 August and its inclosures, relating of the proposed\n\nincrease in the\n\nSalary for. 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"content_text": "Paper C. Memorandum\n\nallowance of\n\nspoiled Stamps.\n\nForms C.1.\n\nForms of\n\nAffidavits used in\n\nclaiming allowance of spoiled stamps.\n\nPaper D. Custody of Stamping\n\nDies,\n\nPaper C. Report of MM Crumpord\n\nas to the system\n\nd.\n\n \n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following\n\nNumber should be quoted.\n\n124\n\n70969\n\n199 Hong Kong\n\nEIV\n\n19119/66. RCV\n\nC:0: DEC 15 1866\n\nTreasury Chambers.\n\n&\n\n394\n\n117th Dec 1866\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to state for the information of the Captain General & Governor, that their Lordships will not withhold their concurrence with his Lordship's Recommendation, as conveyed in your letter of the 6th ult., that a monthly allowance of $40 a month should be granted, to the Surveyor General acting as Commissioner of Stamps, Hong Kong, the allowance to date from the 31st of March last as recommended by the Governor.\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJames Sullivan\n\nfor the Colonies\n\nPage 394\n\n(no original text for the last three lines, assumed to be page numbering artifact)\n\n \nbeen rewritten to \nPaper C. Memorandum\n\nallowance of spoiled Stamps.\n\nForms C.1.\n\nForms of Affidavits used in claiming allowance of spoiled stamps.\n\nPaper D. Custody of Stamping Dies,\n\nPaper C. Report of MM Crumpord as to the system\n\nd.\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.\n\n124 70969 199 Hong Kong EIV 19119/66. RCV\n\nC:0: DEC 15 1866 Treasury Chambers.\n\n394 117th Dec 1866\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to state for the information of the Captain General & Governor, that their Lordships will not withhold their concurrence with his Lordship's Recommendation, as conveyed in your letter of the 6th ult., that a monthly allowance of $40 a month should be granted, to the Surveyor General acting as Commissioner of Stamps, Hong Kong, the allowance to date from the 31st of March last as recommended by the Governor.\n\nYour obedient Servant, James Sullivan for the Colonies\n\nPage 394\n\nhas been adjusted to meet the exact format required as per the instructions.\n\nThe final version is:\nPaper C. Memorandum\n\nallowance of spoiled Stamps.\n\nForms C.1.\n\nForms of Affidavits used in claiming allowance of spoiled stamps.\n\nPaper D. Custody of Stamping Dies,\n\nPaper C. Report of MM Crumpord as to the system\n\nd.\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.\n\n124 70969 199 Hong Kong EIV 19119/66. RCV\n\nC:0: DEC 15 1866 Treasury Chambers.\n\n394 117th Dec 1866\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to state for the information of the Captain General & Governor, that their Lordships will not withhold their concurrence with his Lordship's Recommendation, as conveyed in your letter of the 6th ult., that a monthly allowance of $40 a month should be granted, to the Surveyor General acting as Commissioner of Stamps, Hong Kong, the allowance to date from the 31st of March last as recommended by the Governor.\n\nYour obedient Servant, James Sullivan for the Colonies\n\nPage 394",
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"content_text": "STAMP DUTIES.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF CARNARVON,\n\nTO\n\nGOVERNOR SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.\n\nDowning Street, 15th December, 1866.\n\n138\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 119 of the 10th September, enclosing the Ordinance No. 12 of 1866 for imposing and regulating Stamp Duties, together with copies of a Memorial and Protest against the measure, and a copy of your reply. I have also to acknowledge your further Despatch No. 132 of the 27th September, enclosing details of a public meeting, and a Memorial from the Merchants at Amoy, and a copy of your reply, and also your Despatch No. 137 of the 15th October with another Memorial from the residents of Hongkong against the Ordinance.\n\nI am glad to infer from your Despatches that the able answers which you have returned to the Memorialists are producing their effect upon the inhabitants of Hongkong.\n\nI have carefully considered the objections made by the Memorialists to the Stamp Act, and your replies to them, and I readily believe that they do not proceed from any captious spirit of opposition to the mere expenditure of money, but from a serious apprehension of the mode in which it is proposed to raise the necessary amount, and to the future effects upon the financial legislation of the Colony. Looking however to the general question at issue, I do not doubt that you are correct in the views which you have expressed, and I have to convey to you Her Majesty's Gracious confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance No. 12 of 1866 \"For imposing and regulating Stamp Duties in the Colony,”\n\nIn accordance with the request contained in your Despatch of the 10th September I have applied to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for a report from the Commissioners of Stamps upon the details of the Ordinance, and for a set of instructions and regulations which may assist you in its practical working. The Agents have also been instructed to procure and forward the Stamps and Dies which are specified in the Requisition which accompanied your Despatch.\n\nI have received from the Chairman of the Oriental Bank Corporation a letter, of which I annex a copy, suggesting the expediency of exempting Bank Notes from the operation of the Ordinance.\n\nI requested the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to favor me with their opinion upon that suggestion, and I annex for your information a copy of their Lordships' reply and have to request you to furnish me with a report upon the subjects to which their Lordships refer. As the question of the exemption of Bank Notes, however, appears from the twentieth and three following paragraphs of your Despatch No. 119 to have been considered by you it is not intended on account of Mr. GORDON'S suggestion to delay the period at which the Ordinance shall come into operation, but you will not overlook the possibility of its being found advisable to modify the provisions which affect the issue of Bank Notes in Hongkong. I shall be glad to have your report on this point with the least possible delay.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSIR,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\n(Signed,)\n\nCARNARVON.",
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"content_text": "168\n\n3\n\na modification of existing Regulations as to leave of absence and service for Pensions.\n\n1. Your Lordship in reply to that Memorial expressed your willingness to grant vacation leave from six to eight weeks in each year, or sixteen weeks once in two years.\n\n2. It is true, however, that I am now enabled to adopt either arrangement as may be rendered most expedient by the circumstances of each case.\n\n3. In so doing, Your Lordship appears to be under the impression that the Civil Officers here have thereby obtained a greater advantage than they had previously possessed: in point of fact, they had already been in enjoyment of a more extensive privilege under the Despatch of the Duke of Newcastle, 19th January 1854, which gave them one month every year and three months the following year, or four months every second year.\n\n4. Your Lordship's despatch likewise intimated that you had in some degree anticipated the wish of the Civil Officers as to an alteration in the Pension Minute and hoped to communicate by an early date the decision of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury on that point.\n\n5. I therefore kept back Your Lordship's despatch for some months in the expectation that I should be informed of the decision arrived at by Her Majesty's Treasury, but eventually judged it expedient to communicate the views of Your Lordship so far as they related to...",
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"content_text": "397\n\ncommunication to His Lordship by Mr. WHYTE, proceeded to read some remarks referring to Your Petitioner though not addressed to him.\n\nThat Your Petitioner asked to be allowed to speak, which the Chief Justice refused to allow him to do, but, on his requesting that a note of such refusal might be taken, the Chief Justice then said, \"Oh! if you put it in that light you \"may address the Court if you wish,\" and Your Petitioner then said, he had never sought to be aggressive, and had always respected the Bench, as he was bound to do, but as he had been accused of some contempt of Court and did not know what it was, he wished it to be stated as publicly as possible, that he disavowed ever having intentionally insulted the Court, or been guilty of contempt, and was utterly unconscious what it was that he was accused of, but was perfectly ready to apologise if informed of what he had done, and that, as His Lordship had not told him, if any gentleman, present in Court on Thursday, would say he ought to apologise he would do so unhesitatingly, and that he was not the only Member of the Bar who had been present on that occasion; adding, that he also had his position, as a Member of the Bar, to maintain, for his own sake, and that of the profession.\n\nThat Your Petitioner, as he was uttering the concluding words of this address, was sitting down, so that the last word or two were spoken while no longer in an erect position, but before he had actually taken his seat, when he was rudely told by the Judge to stand up, which he did, saying that he had nothing more to say.\n\nThat the Chief Justice never, in the slightest manner, informed Your Petitioner that he thought his manner disrespectful, or that he had been guilty of any new contempt on that day, but, on the contrary, at the rising of the Court, late in the day, said, “I shall give my decision on the Thursday's occurrence on Tuesday \"instead of Monday.\"\n\nThat Your Petitioner conducted the case for the Plaintiffs, which lasted for some time, and, at the close of his reply, the Chief Justice called Your Petitioner, and Mr. WHYTE up to the Bench, and made suggestions which resulted in the Defendant agreeing to a verdict against him for a specific sum. Your Petitioner also appeared three distinct times on the same day before His Lordship in Chambers in Bankruptcy.\n\nYour Petitioner appeared in Court on Tuesday, the Second day of July instant, and on his Lordship taking his seat, took an objection to the Jurisdiction of the Court, which was taken down and appears in the transcript of the Record hereunto annexed, to which Your Petitioner craves leave to refer. The Chief Justice then ordered the Registrar to call upon Mr. POLLARD to stand, while the Court delivered its decision. Your Petitioner repeatedly requested to be allowed to speak, and be heard in defence or explanation, but was always rudely and insultingly refused. His Lordship then in a Court, crowded by nearly all the respectable residents in the place, proceeded to deliver a Judgment in the course of which his manner was such as to bring the Bench of this Colony and the Office of Chief Justice into public ridicule and contempt.\n\nThat the said Judgment contains many grave mis-statements, referring both to alleged occurrences, and the conduct and demeanour, and tone of voice, of Your Petitioner; and such incidents mentioned therein, as did occur, are so distorted, misrepresented, and exaggerated, as to evince a determination on the part of the Judge, to stop short of nothing that would apparently justify him in punishing Your Petitioner.\n\nThat Your Petitioner has been punished by fine, and suspension from practice, for alleged contempts of which he never was guilty, and was never, except in one instance, accused of, by the Chief Justice. That he was condemned unheard, and not allowed to defend or explain his conduct, and that he was treated with gross contumely and in a most humiliating manner before nearly the whole community. That the Chief Justice, after the occurrence of the alleged contempts of Your Petitioner, heard him, as Counsel, through the whole of one Jury case, and three times in Chambers.\n\nThat the conduct of the Chief Justice was arbitrary, intemperate, unjust, and tyrannical towards Your Petitioner.\n\nThat Your Petitioner has paid the fine imposed upon him under protest.\n\nYour Petitioner therefore humbly prays, that this Petition may be referred to the Judicial Committee and the Lords of Her Majesty's most Honorable Privy Council, in order that the proceedings of the said Chief Justice on the Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-ninth, days of June, and the Second day of July, may be investigated and inquired into, and that the said Sentence may be wholly rescinded, reversed and expunged from the Minutes of the Court, and that the conduct, and fitness for Office, of the Chief Justice, may be also inquired into, or that Your Petitioner may have such justice and redress as to Your most Gracious Majesty may seem fit and proper.\n\nAnd Your Petitioner will ever pray, &c.\n\nEdward Willard",
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"content_text": "that can award the punishment, I now fine you \n\nin the sum of $200, and, further, I suspend you from practising before this court as a barrister and advocate for a period of fourteen days, or until the fine shall be sooner paid.\n\nMr. Pollard.-Will your Lordship hear me \n\nnow.\n\nChief Justice, No.\n\nMr. Pollard.--Will your Lordship take a note of refusing to hear me.\n\nChief Justice have purposely fixed the fine and penalty at the lowest point possible compatible with its being an expression of my opinion of your conduct. Some persons may think that you have only shown the just independence of the bar in your habitual demeanour and language towards the bench. I, however, think I have seen in it impedimenta to a judge in the due administration of justice: sometimes, indeed, as I am inclined to think to the undue advantage of clients. The penalty I impose is indeed small, but the effect of the decision is more serious. I trust you will bring this matter before the highest tribunal, the Privy Council. This is sometimes done. As late as in November last, the Lords of the Judicial Committee gave leave ex parte to appeal to the Privy Council to the publisher of a journal in British Guiana against a sentence of imprisonment for six months for a contempt of court in having published articles reflecting on the administration of justice and on one of the judges of the Supreme Court there. I refer to this precedent in the hope that you, a Queen's Counsel here, will ask leave and will be allowed to appeal in order that such questions as you may think fit may be raised, and so that the judgment I now pronounce most reluctantly may be reviewed. To any motion for leave to appeal that you may make before the Privy Council, my consent to your obtaining leave to appeal shall be given, If you would prefer another course, some measure may be devised by which the opinion and decision of the Benchers of the Inn of Court of which you are a member may be taken.\n\nMr. Pollard-Will your Lordship hear me \n\nnow.\n\nChief-Justice.-No certainly not.\n\nMr. Pollard.-Will your Lordship take a note that you refuse to hear me.\n\nChief-Justice. I never said such a thing allowed. I have given my decision and you have your remedy.\"\n\nMr. Whyte.-Will your Lordship hear me for \n\na few words.\n\nChief-Justice.--No Mr. Whyte you are not in court in any way.\n\nMr. Pollard. I ask to leave to address the: court,\n\nChief Justice.--This I do not grant; the court is adjourned.\n\nMr. Pollard, Then I say without leave that.—\n\nChief Justice. Mr. Pollard what do you mean, Mr. Masson put that down, Mr. Pollard without leave attempts to address the court. Adjourn this court.\n\nThe court was accordingly adjourned until this morning at ten o'clock.\n\nPage 432\n\nTHE SUPREME COURT, HONGKONG, 24th July, 1867.\n\n1. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 18th of July instant, enclosing copies of the Petition of Me, POLLARD, Q.C., to Her Majesty and eleven Affidavits, and a letter from Mr. POLLARD to yourself dated the 17th instant, in which he requests to have these documents forwarded to His Grace the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n2. The questions now raised originated in the case of OLYPHANT and Others, Plaintiffs, against Loo An HUNG (a Chinaman) which came on for trial by a Common Jury before me on the 27th of June last. On that occasion Mr. POLLARD, Q.C., Counsel for Plaintiffs, as I thought, on several occasions, insulted the Court and I adjourned the case part heard because Mr. POLLARD did not apologise. Another Common Jury case came on, on the 29th, I then referred to the subject, hoping that Mr. POLLARD would apologise, but as he did not do so I in Court referred to several cases to shew that the Court had authority to punish for contempts, and still hoping for an apology, I postponed my decision until the 2nd of July instant.\n\n3. Mr. POLLARD, with whom Mr. WAYTE actively took part, saw the Attorney General, Mr. PAUNCEFOTE, and urged him to interfere on the ground that the privileges of the Bar were affected; but the Attorney General thought that the question was one solely between the Court and Mr. POLLARD, and although he endeavoured to induce Mr. POLLARD to make even a conditional apology, he refused to make any concession whatever. I was therefore either to have the cowardice to submit to insults published in the Newspapers and persisted in, or to exercise the painful authority vested in me. After serious consideration for some days, I, on the 2nd of July in open Court, imposed a fine on Mr. POLLARD of $200 and, mainly in order to enforce its payment, I suspended Mr. POLLARD from practice for fourteen days, or until the fine should be sooner paid. The fine was in fact paid six days afterwards and he thenceforth conducted cases as usual, I treating him, and he conducting himself, as if no question had ever existed.\n\n4. The Affidavits against the decision enclosed in Mr. POLLARD'S letter to you were not sworn until fourteen days after and on the fifteenth day, namely the 17th July, Mr. POLLARD's letter reached you, and I received the first intimation of this proceeding on the 18th at about six o'clock P.M. On that day the monthly Criminal Sessions, usually occupying three days, had commenced and it was impossible for me, an anxious Trial of three men for murder intervening, to give any substantial attention to the papers until the Sessions closed, which was about eleven o'clock on Saturday the 20th, as Mr. POLLARD well knew.\n\n5. I had not up to this hour read Mr. POLLARD's Petition nor the Affidavits through; but on looking cursorily into the documents, the course adopted by Mr. POLLARD had then begun to appear to me to be essentially wrong,\n\n6. It had appeared to me on the 2nd of July and I then after giving my decision fining Mr. POLLARD intimated that in my opinion there was a course open to Mr. POLLARD to question my decision, that was to appeal to the Privy Council. I had noticed that, so far as I read the decisions, Colonial Judges had in cases of contempt declined to allow an appeal, which I thought wrong and I, on the 2nd of July, expressly invited Mr. POLLARD to appeal, promising to give him leave here, and my consent before the Privy Council.\n\nThe Honorable CECIL C. SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\n&c., &c., &c.",
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"content_text": "Hong Kong No 353.\n\n21st August, 1864.\n\nGovernor\n\nSir Richard Graves MacDonnell,\n\nHis Grace\n\nthe Duke of Buckingham & Chandos.\n\nIn the present case Mr Quin has subscribed towards the expense of his passage home, but of course the generosity of one colleague must be a very exceptional measure.\n\nThe Governor expresses his regret that he was unable to grant leave of absence to Mr A. Quin to explain on the Estimates for a year from the 26th August, 1864.\n\nBritish Clerks with small salaries are in a difficult position when serving on small means and are unable to take leave of absence.\n\nSuggests mode of alleviating. £300 to assist Mentioned. Salaries to get home, and partially have no doubt it would be advisable on both grounds of economy and efficiency that proposal on the Estimates sheet.\n\nMr Elliot - 12 Months leave granted to Mr F. A Quin on the ground of ill health. A Locum tenens appointed with 1/2 Salary for four months in addition. Mr Quin is one of several European Officers employed by the Hong Kong Govt on such small salaries that it is next to impossible for them to afford to take leave of absence.\n\nEnclosure\n\nSir Maudonult also asks to be allowed to purchase papers for Civil Offices at their own expense during vacation.\n\nNo doubt this would be a convenience and might be submitted for the consideration of the Lords of the Admiralty.\n\nThe cost during vacation has been £78 16s 6d in 1866 and £266 4s 7d in another year.\n\nSir. W. R. Rogers.\n\nIn the first place we must of course feel sorry for Officers of small means, and wish for anything that will be to their advantage.\n\nPage 159\n\n \n[Three lines from the bottom of the page remain unchanged as per the original scan]\n\n...\n\nPage 160\n\n[Three lines from the top of the page remain unchanged as per the original scan]",
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"content_text": "## the Control of the Governor of the \nHong Kong for \n\nthe \n\nPetition \n\nof the \n\nthe Secretary, to \n\nSecure that the Boys of the Island \n\nnot altered to become shelter for Pirates, \n\nto pursue \n\nand Capture Offenders within \n\nBritish Waters, \n\nand it is \n\nbe occasionally \n\nto take part with vessels of the Royal Navy \nin the punishment of Piracy in \n\nthe Neighbouring seas; but that \n\nit was obvious that the efficiency \nof such purely Colonial vessels, would \nbe most seriously abridged, if she \nwere unable to pursue \na flying pirate \non or beyond \nthe three-mile limit, and \nit was deemed necessary to show that every particular \nwas affected within this not- \nalways \nvery definite Line: that \n\nthis inconvenience \n\nwould be \nthe result were \nCommissioned \nby the Lords of the Admiralty, \na Vessel of the Royal Navy, \nin that case \n\nthe \nhigh \nseas \nagainst British Subjects \noffending \nall the \nlaws and powers. \n\n... persons. \nStations, which \n\"assist the \nImperial \nAuthority \nthat Law or - \nbut to this course \nthere \nwere objections ( \nwhich it was needless to specify, and \nwhich are at the present purpose \nconsidered \nConclusive. \n\nSir Frederic Rogers \nbegan by saying that \nit was \nalso \ndesirous \nof Learning, to what extent, on \nthe part of \nVessel thus \nmaintained \nby the Colonial \nGovernment for the purposes of Water-police, \nbut not \nCommissioned by the Queen by the Admiralty, has by Law the power, to exercise beyond those Colonial waters (1) The powers which a \nPatrol \nVessel \nCertain \ncould exercise within those waters, \n(2) the powers which a \nHer \nMajesty's \nNavy could exercise on the high seas. \n\nThat \nthese general \nseveral questions \ntype \nthemselves into the following \nviz. \n\nTo Resolve the \nWhether such a \nvessel as Sir Frederic \nRogers described, can, \nbeyond the limits of \nColonial waters, seize and \nbring into the \n\nPage 600\nPage 601",
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"content_text": "## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n### [AUG. 13, 1867.\n\n#### THE RIVAL TELEGRAPHS TO INDIA.\n\nIn a late issue we noticed three new plans for establishing a more satisfactory system of telegraphic communication with India and the East. These comprised, firstly, the Anglo-Indian Company, which proposes to construct an independent line by way of Susa, Modica, Malta, and Egypt; secondly, the India, China, and Colonial Company, which prefers a complete chain of submarine cables, starting from Falmouth, via Gibraltar and Egypt; and thirdly, a plan for an entirely new route through Prussia and Russia. The details of the last-mentioned undertaking were at that time incomplete, but a tolerably full account of the plan having recently been made public, we are now in better position to compare the respective merits of the rival schemes. The name of the last new company is not yet announced; we understand, however, that a direction has been made to the French Post-office with a view to render the French mail service to India and China more available for the purposes of this country under the new system of postal communications, as recommended by the committee of last session.\n\nEach scheme, of course, has its special merits, nor must we expect to find either of them entirely free from defects. The Anglo-Indian line will probably be the first in operation, and being carried by a short and direct route, and worked throughout by an English staff, there seems no reason to doubt that the anticipations of the company—that they will be able to transmit messages between London and Bombay in six hours—will be fulfilled. The arrangement by which a second route to Alexandria is secured is especially valuable as a provision against the oft-recurring interruptions to which cables in the Mediterranean are liable; and the advantageous contract made with the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company is a sufficient guarantee for permanent efficiency.\n\nThe only weak point we can find in the prospectus of this company is, strange to say, contained in its very first line: \"The object of this company is to establish, under one control and management in London, a direct and thoroughly effective line of telegraph via Egypt and Aden, to India, with extensions hereafter to Singapore, China, Japan, and Australia.\" Of the advantages likely to accrue from an undivided management in London, there can be no doubt; but the control, we fear, at least of the Continental portion, would rapidly pass out of the hands of the London board of directors in the event of a general European war breaking out—and we see no indications of the immediate arrival of the Millennium.\n\nBut we cannot have everything. This objection entirely disappears in the scheme of the India, China, and Colonial Company, for, as we have already seen, its chief feature is the almost entire abolition of land lines, and the wires will nowhere touch foreign soil except in the transit across Egypt. Politically, therefore, this route would seem to possess decided advantages over any of its competitors; but submarine cables are expensive to lay down, and still more so to keep in repair, especially in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.\n\nAs regards original cost of construction, the overhead line through Prussia and Russia would probably be cheapest of all; but this recommendation by no means extends to its subsequent maintenance, for in Russia the land lines constantly require repair in consequence of ice collecting on the wires and breaking them down. This liability to interruption has other than mere pecuniary disadvantages. Our last advices from China state that Grant's telegraphic service via Kiachta, which has lately proved so useful during the summer months, had been temporarily interrupted by a breakdown of the Russian lines from this cause. And with the still unsettled \"Eastern question\" staring us in the face, it is impossible to forget that a war with Russia would close this route at once. Still, there is no reason why all three should not be carried out. In a mercantile point of view, all will be useful; competition will ensure careful management and a moderate traffic; and political considerations render a choice of routes always valuable.\n\n#### THE POSTAL SERVICE.\n\nAll apprehensions concerning the probability of our overland mails falling into the hands of the French company have been set at rest by a distinct disavowal of the Duke of Montrose of any such intention on the part of Her Majesty's Government. So far, so good; but the Postmaster-General goes further than this, and takes upon himself to declare that no such idea ever has been entertained, an assertion which is strangely inconsistent with facts. In his statement to the House of Lords on the 9th instant, the noble Duke said: \"A very curious idea has got into the public mind on the subject, namely, to give up the control of the postal communication with India, and throw it into the hands of foreign Governments. This is almost entirely a mistake. Such an idea never entered into my mind or into that of any other member of the Government; and the only ground for it could be that in giving notice for tenders we did not put into them that we would not contract with any foreign Government.\"\n\nNow compare this with the following report of a question and answer on the same subject in the House of Commons on the 3rd of June last: Mr. Childers asked the Secretary of the Treasury whether any overtures had been made to the French Post-office with a view to render the French mail service to India and China more available for the purposes of this country under the new system of postal communications, as recommended by the committee of last session? Mr. Hunt replied that forms of tender had been sent out, and it was hoped that the Messageries Imperiales might be induced to make an offer.\n\nThe Postmaster-General says that the idea of allowing a foreign company to compete \"never entered his mind, or that of any other member of the Government.\" The Secretary to the Treasury says that forms of tender have been sent to the French company, and he hopes they will be induced to make an offer. Mr. Crawford, the champion of common sense being carried against official stupidity, has written a letter to The Times, pointing out how absurdly the two departments are at variance; but comment on so glaring a discrepancy is almost needless. Really, my lords and gentlemen, you should endeavour to be a little more consistent!\n\n### THE FAILURE OF MESSRS. LYALL, STILL AND CO.\n\nOur last issue contained a report of the examination of Messrs. C. F. Still and George Maclean, two of the partners in the firm of Messrs. Lyall, Still and Co., before the Court of Bankruptcy at Hong Kong. Our readers will have been astonished to find that no opposition was offered to their passing through the court. We must confess that we were struck with amazement at the following statements made in court on the bankrupts' affairs, which, according to the report of the official assignee, stand briefly as $635,935 on the wrong, and only $2,000 on the right side.\n\nThe Chief Justice said this was a most satisfactory statement, and was in Hong Kong. The accounts and statements appeared to have been drawn up with very great care and very much attention. Mr. Whyte here observed that, as representing his three clients, Liebert, Mendel, and Henderson, he did not intend to ask any questions, or to oppose the bankrupts' discharge. Mr. Pollard stated that so far as Messrs. Fussell and Co. were concerned, for whom he appeared, he had no questions to ask and no opposition to make. He appeared also for the Oriental Bank, who had a possible interest in the bankruptcy. A gentleman of the bank's staff had examined the books, and had found them so correct that no opposition was offered.\n\nHis Lordship, in doing so, remarked that, from what he had seen, he thought nothing had entered the case which could be said to go beyond the common state of things present in any bankruptcy. It was satisfactory that the books told the whole tale, as that was the first merit in any bankruptcy, and both bankrupts were entitled to that credit in this case. They would leave the court without the slightest imputation, except that certain want of prudence which characterised almost every one who traded largely in China.\n\nThis act was certainly one of the grossest injustice to the bulk of the creditors. That Mr. Maclean knew that the firm was insolvent appears clear by a letter in the hands of the official assignee. The letter is dated 27th December and addressed to Mr. Lyall, and runs as follows: \"As I told you in my last, I had a long chat with Faunceforte, the Attorney-General, and this great idea was that Kayser and Kaye should be kept quiet here, so as to give every chance at home, as so much depended on the matter over there... Pollard, who was consulted two or three days after the mail left, came to the conclusion that the best thing that could be done would be to give these two banks a lien on such property as I could muster up. The two lawyers both considered that Kayser and Kaye were first entitled, the one legally the other morally, to be satisfied, even at the expense of other creditors, hereafter; and if things came to the worst, and if the firm was insolvent at the time, then Kayser and Kaye have no advantage, and would not retain their lien.\"\n\nThe expression of opinion in Hong Kong on the failure of the firm is so diametrically opposed to that current in London and Manchester that we have considered it our duty to examine into the case, and we regret that the result is very unfavourable to the bankrupts. It has been correctly described as a \"very bad case,\" and how Judge Smale could commit himself to such an expression of opinion—amounting really to panegyric on the conduct of the bankrupts—is a mystery.\n\n| Name | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| MENDEL and LIEBERT | vendors of the goods |\n| KAYSER and KAYE | banks holding documents |\n\nReally, one cannot help inferring, in the face of such apparent obfuscation, that his Lordship had himself very largely absorbed the \"China air and China habits\" to which he attributed the bankrupts' disasters. The expressions on the 24th June are so totally at variance with those of the 6th, that no small amount of criticism has resulted.\n\nMessrs. Mendel and Liebert to appeal against the verdict to the Privy Council. The case of Messrs. Henderson has not yet been brought to trial, and this accounts for the counsel, Mr. Whyte, having no opposition to offer.\n\nWe understand that private telegrams have been received from Hong Kong, announcing that the affairs of Messrs. Dent and Co. have been thrown into bankruptcy. The \"Union Insurance Society,\" hitherto managed exclusively by Messrs. Dent and Co., is in future to be placed on an independent basis. It is reported that at a recent meeting of shareholders the accounts submitted showed a large deficit; this, however, is in direct contradiction to a statement made some months since that the funds of the \"Union\" were intact, and its affairs in a satisfactory condition.\n\n## NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS\n\nNotice can be taken of voluminous correspondence. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.\n\nA Register is kept of the addresses of all persons connected with the Far East, and reference can be made to the same by personal application at the office or by letter.\n\nAny information required by Subscribers, in reference to Commercial or General matters in China, Japan, Singapore, and other parts of the Far East, will be supplied on application at the Office, where files may be seen of the Journals published in those countries.\n\n### THE LONDON AND CHINA EXPRESS\n\nPublished on the departure of the Mails in Marseilles on the 10th, 17th, and 26th, contains a Summary of European, American, and General News; Commercial and Shipping Reports, and Special notices of Trade with the Far East.\n\nSubscription 54s. per annum, including Postage. Export Supplements extra.",
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"content_text": "## some Extra furniture \n\nThe property of the Governor which is valued at $849 has the Good Value - to Valuator. The Lords would Recommend the payment of that amount out of Colonial funds at a Vote for the furniture being retained by the Property Agent for the Fort House.\n\n## M.E.R.S. 399 \n\nInventory of Furniture, Government House, May 18?? \n\n### Articles \n\n#### Entrance Hall \n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2 | Bronze Lamps, Gas, Burners |\n| 4 | Lawn Chairs, polished wood and carved high backs |\n| 1 | Blackwood Table for Visiting Books |\n| 1 | Blackwood Marble Top Table |\n\n#### Private Secretary's Room \n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Small Fender and Five irons |\n\n### Remarks \n\n* 1/2 long by 2 1/2 broad \n* 2 Sets of windows curtains: 1 set for each: Lace curtains with crimson Rep with valances and polished wood cornices \n* 2 American cloth covered arm chairs. Condemned in Survey of 1866, and ordered to be replaced \n* 1 Round Mahogany table with 2 drawers \n* 4 chairs covered with flowered silk \n* 1 Office writing Table with drawers and pigeon holes \n* 1 table cover black and green \n* 1 Book case with five shelves \n* 1 Arm Chair \n* 3 Buttoned arm chairs, china wood \n* 3 Case buttoned chairs \n* A set of (loose) Book shelves \n* Maximum and Minimum Thermometer. By Callaghan \n\nOther items include: \n* 2 Baige covered tables with 2 drawers \n* 1 Table with 2 drawers, 3 feet 2 inches by 1 feet 11 inches, crimson cloth \n* 1 Three Burner Gas Lamp \n* 3 Busts \n* Various worn items, marked as \"Worn\" or \"Very Worn\"",
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"content_text": "62\n\nIV. CEYLON.\n8\nCORRESPONDENCE WITH THE COLONIAL DEPARTMENT\nthan once in five or six years; and, in the increased number of colonial Bishops, need not be exacted of the Bishop of this diocese alone.\n\n3. Pecuniary difficulties have been raised; but into such considerations I forbear to enter, farther than to state explicitly to your Lordship that it neither was, nor is, my wish to put either colony to any expense. From the Mauritian Government I should expect only such facilities in passage, &c. as in their own vessels they are able, and I doubt not, willing to provide for me; and the proffered hospitality of the Governor himself renders every further consideration unnecessary. Of this colony no single additional expenditure is required to effect all that can be wished.\n\nFurther into the question, my Lord, I feel that it would be superfluous and unbecoming in me to enter. Thus much was due to myself, although I cannot but regret that circumstances have made it so.\n\nMy application to your Lordship is simply for permission to be absent from my diocese so long, and no longer, than may be necessary for the specified purpose. I have no personal wish in the matter, and am quite content to leave it altogether in your Lordship's hands. Invited, as a Bishop, to pay a brief visit for episcopal purposes only, to a neighbouring colony, which during the many years that it has been an appendage of the British Crown has never been so visited, to do that which no one but a Bishop can do, and for which no other Bishop has the same facilities that I have, it was not for me to stand aloof, or to refuse.\n\nIf forbidden I shall be content, my part is done, and that willingly. I am ready to go if permitted. It remains with your Lordship alone to decide.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nThe Right Honourable Earl Grey,\n\n(signed)\n\nJ. Colombo.\n\nON COLONIAL CHURCH LEGISLATION, &c.\n9\nIf he felt such disapprobation as he now expresses, it was in his power, either by letter or in an interview, which the Bishop can at all times command, to have apprized me of his objections. It is not my office, occupied as I am with many and weighty matters, to seek the Bishop, but his to come to me, and lay before me his objections to any proposed exercise of patronage, and to tender me his advice on the subject under consideration. Knowing his Lordship's opinion as I do regarding the Clergymen affected by this plan, opinions strongly expressed to me both by letter and in conversation, it was impossible that I could anticipate any difference of opinion on the Bishop's part in filling up the vacancy which will take place in the event of your Lordship sanctioning the plan proposed for the retirement of the Archdeacon of Colombo from the Chaplaincy of St. Peter's Church.\n\n3d. It is to the financial part of the proposed plan that the Bishop so particularly objects, a part more especially under the province of the civil authorities, and which I have already gone into in detail in my despatch No. 182 of the 12th ultimo.\n\nI have, &c. (signed)\n\nTorrington.\n\nIV. CEYLON.\nEncl. in No. 5.\n\n1\nNo. 4.\nEarl Grey to Governor Viscount Torrington.\n\n9 April 1849.\n\nPage 6.\n\nNo. 5.\nGovernor Viscount Torrington to Earl Grey.\n\n12 January 1850.\n\n* Page 3.\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\n(No. 378.)\n\nNo. 4.\nCopy of a DESPATCH from Earl Grey to Governor the Viscount Torrington.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nDowning-street, 9 April 1849.\n\nI HAVE received your Lordship's despatch of the 13th of February last, No. 26,* forwarding an application from the Bishop of Colombo for permission to be absent from his diocese, for a sufficient period to enable him to visit the Mauritius, for the purpose of performing certain episcopal functions in that island.\n\nUnder the circumstances represented by the Bishop, I authorize you to grant to his Lordship leave of absence for a period of three months, on full salary, for the purpose of the proposed visit to Mauritius, but I concur at the same time in your suggestion, that if it should be considered expedient hereafter to make an arrangement for periodical visits by the Bishop of Colombo to Mauritius, it will be necessary that means should be found of relieving the colonial funds of Ceylon from a portion of his Lordship's salary.\n\n(No. 16.)\n\nNo. 5.\nCopy of a DESPATCH from Governor the Viscount Torrington to Earl Grey.\n\nQueen's House, Colombo, 12 January 1850.\n\n(Received, 25 February 1850.)\n\n(Answered, 28 February 1850, No. 509, page 11.)\n\nMy Lords,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit a letter addressed to your Lordship by the Bishop of Colombo.\n\nIn forwarding this document, I have only to solicit your Lordship's attention to the three following points, which embrace in reality all that is important in the letter of the Bishop of Colombo. 1st. It is gratifying to observe, that to the different clergymen affected by the arrangement I had the honour of proposing for your Lordship's sanction in my despatch No. 182,* of the 12th ultimo, the Lord Bishop of Colombo makes not the slightest objection, a most convincing proof indeed that so far as that part of the arrangement falls under his Lordship's cognizance, i. e. the fitness or otherwise of these Clergymen for the posts recommended, I have formed a correct judgment.\n\n2d. The Bishop complains of not having been consulted by me. Here I would observe, that before any plan was decided upon, the Bishop was fully informed by one of these Clergymen then residing with him, of the contemplated arrangements.\n\nEnclosures in No. 5.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nColombo, Ceylon, 27 December 1849.\n\nA LETTER was addressed to me by his Excellency the Governor on the 19th instant, communicating, for the first time, that a recommendation had already been forwarded to your Lordship, by the preceding mail, proposing certain arrangements, which were to affect not less than four of the chaplaincies of this diocese, and the clergymen officiating in them.\n\nTo the circumstances and character of this proposal, I feel so many and such strong objections, that I cannot withhold the expression of them from your Lordship, or forbear the earnest request, that although, as Bishop of the diocese, I have not been consulted, your deliberate consideration may be given to the whole bearing and tendency of the proposal, fraught as it is with evil to the Church in this colony, before it receives your final sanction.\n\nI would, however, premise, that to the different clergymen affected by it, I make no objection. In this respect, I am thankful to assure your Lordship that my diocese is free from censure. My real objection applies to the proposal itself, rather than the persons affected by it; and to the principle involved, not less than the precedent which it will establish, and with the apparent sanction of the Bishop, should it be allowed to pass without remonstrance on my part.\n\nThe principal feature in the proposed arrangements (on which all the rest seem to depend) is the reduction of the chaplaincy of Trincomalie from £700 per annum to £500, to increase the retiring pension of the Archdeacon of Colombo.\n\nTo this proposal, my Lord, I cannot but strongly object: 1. Because it is a diversion of the fund granted for the spiritual provision of the diocese from its legitimate purpose, only for the advantage of an individual.\n\n2. Because within the same province an additional clergyman is much required. Batticaloa is a growing and prosperous settlement. It is the seat of an Assistant Government Agency, and of a District Judgeship. European planters are settled all around, and a new church is about to be erected without any pecuniary aid from the Colonial Government. Application has been made to me again and again for a resident clergyman, which I have as often been obliged to refuse, from want only of available funds for his maintenance.\n\nThe station is now visited only twice in the year by the chaplain of Trincomalie, the very chaplaincy which it is proposed to reduce to £500 and to alienate the remainder.\n\nI would respectfully submit, therefore, to your Lordship, that if £200 can be spared from the chaplaincy of Trincomalie, it ought to be applied for the establishment of an Assistant Chaplain at Batticaloa. Such an appropriation would constitute a great boon to the inhabitants of the whole of that district, and be a just apportionment of the fund assigned by the Colonial Government for the spiritual provision of the eastern province,—£700 per annum.\n\nChaplain at Trincomalie\n£500\n\nAssistant Chaplain at Batticaloa\n£200\n\nThis was lately done in the central province, where the subdivision at present exists.\n\n3. Because the archdeaconry is not now a stipendiary, but an honorary office. It was so created under the letters patent of the Episcopate; it was so accepted by the present incumbent. The office, therefore, constitutes no claim, beyond the merits of the individual, whom the Government have it in their power to reward, if they think fit, from other sources.\n\n4. Because the Pension List for the clergy is fixed at an unvarying scale, to which they all contribute in equal proportion, and from which they all expect to receive equal advantage on their retirement. 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"content_text": "GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNo. 114.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th September, 1869.\n\nMEMO\n\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHONGKONG, 20th September, 1869.\n\n1. In the London and China Express of the 8th July last, is published a Communication, dated the 13th May, from Mr. A. J. JOHNSTON, Secretary of the Anglo-American Municipal Council at Shanghai, in reply to some remarks made in the House of Lords last March reflecting on the general character of the population at Shanghai.\n\n2. Mr. JOHNSTON endeavours to show that Statistics prove the population of Shanghai, to be comparatively better conducted than that of Hongkong. He fortifies himself by reference to my Official Report of last April, and in doing so, makes such erroneous and extraordinary statements, that to pass them by in silence, when published in a Paper having extensive circulation, might create an injurious impression in the mind of the Public.\n\n3. The following are Mr. JOHNSTON's statements in his own language:\n\n“Perhaps, I may be permitted to compare the police statistics of Shanghai with those of Hong Kong. I take Hong Kong alone, partly because official returns are readily accessible, partly because it is situated in circumstances somewhat similar to those prevailing at Shanghai, but especially because, from the singular nature of the Duke of Somerset's remarks, one well-authenticated fact in opposition to them is as good as a hundred.\n\n7. From the official report of 1868, published by the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 17th April, 1869, it appears that the total strength of the police force in that colony was 638, viz., 113 Europeans, 328 coloured, and 192 Chinese. In Shanghai, for the same period, the police force numbered 105, viz., 39 Europeans and 66 Chinese. In both places the Chinese element in the police force is useful only against crime committed by Chinese, and, therefore, so far as the prevention of crime by Europeans is concerned, Hong Kong maintains 441 police against 39 in Shanghai. By the census taken in Hong Kong on the 31st December, 1867, published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of 14th March, 1868, it appears that on that day the number of Foreigners of all nationalities resident in the colony was 3,551. Hence assuming, which may fairly be done, that the number of Foreigners leaving Hong Kong in 1868, about balanced the number arriving, it will appear that the police were in the proportion of about one to seven Foreign Residents.\n\n8. In Shanghai the number of Foreigners at present is, exclusive of police, 4,699. Hence the Foreign police force is to the Foreign residents in the proportion of one to one hundred and twenty.\n\n9. As to crimes:-In Hong Kong during 1868 there were 1,033 convictions of Foreigners under the heads of \"Murder,\" \"Manslaughter,\" \"Robbery with Violence,\" \"Burglary,\" \"Assault,\" \"Larceny,\" \"Kidnapping,\" \"Unlawful Possession,\" and \"Piracy.\" This is a percentage on the whole number of Foreign residents of twenty-nine convictions for serious offences. In Shanghai for the period of twelve months, from April, 1868, to March, 1869, the number of Foreigners apprehended and convicted was 565, of which 387 were simple drunkenness, 17 were \"Desertion,\" 2 were \"Forgery\" (of which one was an ex-employé of the Hong Kong Government), and 24 were \"Furious Riding.\" Thus 135 may fairly represent the number of more or less serious crimes committed by Foreigners during the twelve months indicated. Of these the worst were three cases of \"Cutting and Wounding,\" and 61 cases of \"Assault.\" But 135 bears to 4,699 the proportion of 2.9 to 100, or exactly one-tenth of the Hong Kong percentage of convictions to the number of residents.\n\n10. It is obvious from the above figures that a much smaller police force is required to keep order in Shanghai than is required for a like purpose in Hong Kong, although Foreigners here are more numerous by 1,187 than in Hong Kong. It will further appear that, in spite of this, order is much more effectually maintained here than it is there, although Hong Kong is a colony under a well-organised Government, regulated by English law, while in Shanghai we have to deal with the Courts of no less than twelve Foreign Governments.\n\n11. The deduction from my argument is, I trust, obvious that in comparison with Hong Kong alone Shanghai cannot justly be denominated a sink of iniquity exceeding in its immorality all other ports of Europe, America, and Asia.”\n\n4. In the first place, Mr. JOHNSTON assumes in the above 7th paragraph, that the resident Hongkong Foreign Population was only 3,551 in 1868, and makes that number his standard of comparison for obtaining the ratio of crime to population in Hongkong and Shanghai, respectively. For such a...",
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"content_text": "Page 313\n\n13 October 1869.\n\nGovernor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell\n\n22172-\n\n313\n\nOCT\n\n...\n\nthat the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury\n\nI whom\n\nZone\n\ndispatches\n\nM\n\nMinute 07.\n\nA\n\n20681 of the 5 April & No. 743 of the 7 July were referred\n\nhave sanctioned the grant of a Superannuation allowance at £75-11-1 per annum from the 8 Oct\n\nto Mr. Joseph Thornton being at the rate...\n\nIt appears that the original text is a historical document, likely a government correspondence or dispatch. The OCR output contains various errors, including character recognition issues, spacing problems, and fragmented sentences. I have corrected the obvious spelling errors, rejoined broken sentences, and reformatted the text into proper paragraphs using HTML.\n\nHowever, some parts of the text remain unclear or fragmented due to the poor quality of the OCR output. I have indicated missing words with `...` where necessary.\n\nThe text at the beginning, including \"bustered Houghout\", \"དམ་ཆོས་དང་༩ད་ཚུལ་་་་་་ན་་་ཤ པར ཝ དབཙ\", and \"Mar 11325\", appears to be unrelated to the rest of the document and may be a result of OCR errors or contamination from another document. I have not included these lines in the output as they do not seem to be part of the coherent text.\n\nThe \"Page 313\" lines, which appear three times at the top and three times at the bottom, have been preserved as they were originally used during scanning to delineate page metadata.\n\nPlease let me know if further corrections or processing is required.",
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"content_text": "# PROCLAMATION\n\n[LS.] **RICHARD Graves MacDonnell**\n\n317\n\nBy His Excellency **SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL**, Knight, and Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nWhereas by the Third Section of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled \"An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions,\" it is provided that the said Act \"shall be proclaimed in every British Possession by the Governor thereof as soon as may be after he receives notice of the said Act, and shall come into operation in that British Possession on the day of such Proclamation:\"\n\nNow, therefore, I, **SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL**, Governor of the Colony of Hongkong, do hereby proclaim that the Act, intituled \"An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions,\" which is herewith published, shall on and from this Day be in force in the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\n**GOD SAVE THE QUEEN**\n\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 31st Day of December, 1869.\n\n[92 Viet.]\n\n## Merchant Shipping (Colonial), 1860. CHAP. II\n\n[Ch. 11.]\n\n**An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions**\n\n[13th May, 1869.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:\n\n### Preliminary\n\n1. This Act may be cited as \"The Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869.\"\n\n2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-\n \n| Term | Definition |\n| --- | --- |\n| \"British Possession\" | means any territory or place situate within Her Majesty's dominions, and not forming part of the United Kingdom, or of the Channel Islands, or Isle of Man; and all territories and places under one legislature as herein-after defined are deemed to be one British possession for the purposes of this Act: |\n| \"Legislature\" | includes any person or persons who exercise legislative authority in the British possession, and where there are local legislatures as well as a central legislature, means the central legislature only. |\n\n3. This Act shall be proclaimed in every British possession by the governor thereof as soon as may be after he receives notice of this Act, and shall come into operation in that British possession on the day of such proclamation, which day is herein-after referred to as the commencement of this Act.\n\n### Coasting Trade\n\n4. After the commencement of this Act the legislature of a British possession, by any Act or Ordinance, from time to time, may regulate the coasting trade of that British possession, subject in every case to the following conditions:\n\n| Condition | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | The Act or Ordinance shall contain a suspending clause, providing that such Act or Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's pleasure thereon has been publicly signified in the British possession in which it has been passed. |\n| (2) | The Act or Ordinance shall treat all British ships (including the ships of any British possession) in exactly the same manner as ships of the British possession in which it is made. |\n| (3) | Where by treaty made before the passing of this Act Her Majesty has agreed to grant to any ships of any foreign state any rights or privileges in respect of the coasting trade of any British possession, such rights and privileges shall be enjoyed by such ships for so long as Her Majesty has already agreed or may hereafter agree to grant the same, anything in the Act or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. |\n\n5. The following sections of `The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853`, are hereby repealed; namely, Section three hundred and twenty-eight as from the commencement of this Act: Section one hundred and sixty-three as from the date in the case of each British possession at which either an Act or Ordinance with respect to the coasting trade made within two years after the commencement of this Act in such British possession comes into operation, or if there is no such Act or Ordinance, at which the said two years expire.\n\n### Merchant Shipping\n\n6. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, from time to time to declare, with respect to the British possession mentioned in the order, the description of persons who are to be registrars of ships in that British possession, and to revoke any order so made.\n\nAfter the date specified in the order, or, if no date is specified, after the date of the proclamation of the order in the British possession, the order shall have effect as if it were contained in section thirty of `the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854`.",
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"content_text": "263 \n\nPopulation of Hongkong and British Kowloon, exclusive of Shipping and Boat population, (*) - 98,535. \n\nStrength of the Police of all grades on 31st December, exclusive of Water Police, Guards over Gaols and other Public Buildings, and men employed on special duty, 385. \n\nProportion of Police to population, - One policeman to 255 persons. \n\n(b.) \n\nThe crime Returns for 1869, Appendices A and B, compare very favorably with those for last and previous years. \n\nFrom the subjoined Statement it will be seen that serious offences have decreased 22.6 per cent, minor offences 18.4 per cent, and all crime 19.3 per cent; as compared with similar Returns for 1868. \n\n| Year | Serious Offences | Decrease | Minor Offences | Decrease | All Offences | Decrease |\n|------|---------------|----------|---------------|----------|-------------|----------|\n| 1868 | 1,249 | | 4,456 | | 5,705 | |\n| 1869 | 967 | 282 | 3,634 | 822 | 4,601 | 1,104 |\n\nOnly three of the five cases of murder reported during the year were committed in this Colony. In one the prisoners were brought here for trial, the crime having occurred on board the British Barque \"Nile\" off Borneo. \n\nOf the three cases which occurred in this Colony the most atrocious were those of Mr. Holworthy, Assistant Superintendent Military Stores Department, and of Police Sergeant Mahoney. \n\n1. Mr. Holworthy was attacked when walking at mid-day on one of the hill-roads on 24th January; the object appears to have been robbery solely. Within two weeks information was received that the stolen property—a watch and chain—was in a Chinese District about 40 miles from Hongkong. In May the names of the four men said to have been implicated in the murder were obtained, and in July and August two of them were arrested, and the watch recovered in Chinese territory, by the co-operation of Mandarin Ch'ien T'ang(.). The two prisoners were subsequently tried, convicted, and sentenced to decapitation in Canton by the Chinese authorities, as there exist no means, under any treaty, of claiming the rendition of Chinese guilty of crime on British soil. \n\n2. The murder of Police Sergeant Mahoney arose from a piratical attack on the Village of Shan'-ki-wan, by a party of twenty-eight armed men who landed from a junk. They were observed by two Punjauhee Constables on duty, who showed much courage in resisting them, and were both severely wounded. Sergeant Mahoney, hearing the report of fire-arms, hastened to their assistance; he appears to have been killed before he could use his arms. In this case, four men were convicted and sentenced to death; but they were subsequently released, the principal witnesses for the prosecution having been convicted of perjury. \n\n3. On the night of 18th February four armed men landed from a sampan in Deep-Bay, and attacked a lonely hut which is situated close to the beach, and was at that time inhabited by a fisherman named Chu-a-Cheung and his wife. In attempting to protect his property the fisherman received a wound in the neck, from which he died a lingering death in hospital. The robbers having ransacked the hut, and transferred the few articles worth taking to the sampan, shoved off, and were out of sight long before the woman, who made the report at the Stanley Station, returned with the Police. \n\nIn this case, no clue has ever been obtained, nor under the circumstances, was it from the first at all probable that evidence would be forthcoming, as all the parties implicated had so speedily escaped beyond the jurisdiction of the local Courts. \n\n4. Three Greeks were charged with piracy and murder in the neighbourhood of Shanghai, and were arrested, two by the local Police in Hongkong, and one by a Shanghai Constable, in Macao. In consequence of there being no Greek Consul in this Colony these men were subsequently released by the Supreme Court. \n\n5. There is a very remarkable decrease in kidnapping compared with last and previous years, viz:- 68 cases in 1867, 53 cases in 1868, against 7 cases reported during 1869. This may be partly attributed to the introduction of `Ordinance 3 of 1868`, which empowers the Supreme Court to award the punishment of whipping in addition to imprisonment, and also to a subsequent Proclamation in the Government Gazette offering a reward of $20 for evidence leading to conviction of this offence. \n\n6. With the exception of drunkenness, which is almost entirely confined to Foreigners, and which, I regret to say, has increased by 169 cases, i.e. 27.2 per cent compared with last year—all minor offences show a large decrease. \n\n(a) This is probably much less than the real number of inhabitants, but the figures have been taken from the last census return.(5.) This proportion of Police to the population is smaller than that which prevails in some Indian towns, where the duties are by no means so difficult. \n\n7. Prevention of Crime.-The success of the Police is so much enhanced by the deportation of old offenders that every effort is made to arrest men of this class. In this we have received valuable assistance from the Gaming-house licensees, who have, during the past year, caused the apprehension of 140 men who were convicted under `Ordinance 9 of 1857`; most of whom had been previously branded and deported. \n\n8. Assistance has also been received from the Native District Watchmen, who have brought up several cases during the year. \n\n9. Night patrolling, both on horseback and on foot, has been efficiently performed and its value has been especially shown on the roads above Victoria, at Pok-foo-lum, and British Kowloon, where several daring robberies have been averted by the opportune arrival of the Police. \n\n10. The introduction of new Ordinances has doubtless reduced some serious offences; accidental circumstances may also have contributed to the temporary diminution of crime, but I consider that its steady decrease during the last four years may be reasonably accepted as proof that the exertions of the officers of this department have not been wholly futile; and that, as regards the prevention of crime, the chief purpose for which a Police is maintained, the force has not been unsuccessful. \n\n11. Detection.-The subjoined statement shows an improvement in the working of the Police as tested by the percentage of prisoners convicted and discharged. No reliable record has hitherto been kept of the number of cases traced, and the amount of property recovered, by the Police; but forms for this purpose are now being prepared. \n\n| Year | Persons arrested | Persons discharged | Persons convicted | Total | No. per cent |\n|------|---------------|---------------|---------------|-------|-------------|\n| 1868 | 1,422 | 517 | 905 | | 63.0 |\n| 1869 | 880 | | | | |\n| 1868 | 895 | 286 | 604 | | 67.9 |\n| 1869 | 2,652 | 647 | 2,005 | 2,652 | 75.6 |\n| | | | | | |\n| 1869 | 3,836 | | 2,905 | | 75.6 |\n\n12. It is impossible to lay down any standard in detection below which the working of a Police force can be justly condemned. Success in this respect must depend quite as much on external circumstances,—such as the talent and dexterity displayed by the criminal classes, the natural features of the country, and the character of its natives—as on the ability and exertions of the Police. As a remarkable illustration of this I may refer to the present deplorable state of Ireland, where numerous agrarian outrages, of the most daring character, have hitherto baffled the ablest detective officers, so much so that it was lately stated by Lord Cairns in the House of Lords that in Ireland, during the year 1869, out of 59 cases of murder and other heinous offences, including eighteen assassinations, in only one had the criminal been discovered and committed for trial. Here the dishonesty of the natives, on whom we have to depend for the detection of crime, renders it impossible to maintain an organized detective Police. Indeed, if such a force did exist, I am of opinion that it would be of very little use, unless outposts could be maintained, under European supervision, at different points in the San-On District, and in Canton and Macao; which, under existing circumstances would of course be impossible. \n\n13. There is ample evidence to show that the perpetrators of most of the serious offences which have occurred in this Colony were inhabitants of Chinese territory. Many daring crimes have been evidently planned beyond our jurisdiction. And, in most cases, precautionary arrangements were made by the depredators to secure a safe retreat before information could reach the Police. \n\n14. From `Appendix C` it will be seen that larceny by servants has decreased in a very remarkable manner since the opening of licensed Gaming Houses, the average number of cases reported per quarter during the years 1865, 1866, and 1867 being 82, compared with 25 during 1868, and 15 during 1869. \n\n15. I take this opportunity of submitting a statement, `Appendix D`, of the working of the different members of the force, as tested by the number of persons arrested, convicted, and discharged; which was called for some months ago by His Excellency the Governor, but in consequence of Mr. Deane's illness, remained unfinished when he left the Colony on sick leave. This return shows the number of persons apprehended and the result of these arrests. In the Water Police, the European Constable in charge of a boat invariably gets credit for all arrests, although in most instances he receives the information from Chinese Lo-kongs. For this reason the statement cannot be relied on in the cases of Europeans, and Chinese; but, it is useful to show the comparative efficiency of the Sikhs and other Indian members of the force, in the performance of the most important duty of a Municipal Police.",
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"content_text": "# \nPopulation of Hongkong and British Kowloon, exclusive of Shipping and Boat population - 98,535.\n\nStrength of the Police of all grades on 31st December, exclusive of Water Police, Guards over Gaols and other Public Buildings, and men employed on special duty, 385.\n\nProportion of Police to population, - One policeman to 255 persons.\n\n(b.)\n\nThe crime Returns for 1869, Appendices A and B, compare very favorably with those for last, and previous years.\n\nFrom the subjoined Statement it will be seen that serious offences have decreased 22.6 per cent, minor offences 18.4 per cent, and all crime 19.3 per cent; as compared with similar Returns for 1868.\n\n| Year | Serious Offences | Minor Offences | All Offences |\n|------|---------------|---------------|-------------|\n| 1868 | 1,249 | 4,456 | 5,705 |\n| 1869 | 967 | 3,834 | 4,601 |\n| Decrease | 282 | 622 | 1,104 |\n\nOnly three of the five cases of murder reported during the year were committed in this Colony. In one the prisoners were brought here for trial, the crime having occurred on board the British Barque \"Nile\" off Borneo.\n\nOf the three cases which occurred in this Colony the most atrocious were those of Mr. Holworthy, Assistant Superintendent Military Stores Department, and of Police Sergeant Mahoney.\n\n1. Mr. Holworthy was attacked when walking at mid-day on one of the hill-roads on 24th January; the object appears to have been robbery solely. Within two weeks information was received that the stolen property—a watch and chain—was in a Chinese District about 40 miles from Hongkong. In May the names of the four men said to have been implicated in the murder were obtained, and in July and August two of them were arrested, and the watch recovered in Chinese territory, by the co-operation of Mandarin Ch'ien T'ang(.). The two prisoners were subsequently tried, convicted, and sentenced to decapitation in Canton by the Chinese authorities, as there exist no means, under any treaty, of claiming the rendition of Chinese guilty of crime on British soil.\n\n2. The murder of Police Sergeant Mahoney arose from a piratical attack on the Village of Shau'-ki-wan, by a party of twenty-eight armed men who landed from a junk. They were observed by two Punjabee Constables on duty, who showed much courage in resisting them, and were both severely wounded. Sergeant Mahoney, hearing the report of fire-arms, hastened to their assistance; but appears to have been killed before he could use his arms. In this case, four men were convicted and sentenced to death; but they were subsequently released, the principal witnesses for the prosecution having been convicted of perjury.\n\n3. On the night of 18th February four armed men landed from a sampan in Deep-Bay, and attacked a lonely hut which is situated close to the beach, and was at that time inhabited by a fisherman named Chü-a-Cheung and his wife. In attempting to protect his property the fisherman received a wound in the neck, from which he died a lingering death in hospital. The robbers having ransacked the hut, and transferred the few articles worth taking to the sampan, shoved off, and were out of sight long before the woman, who made the report at the Stanley Station, returned with the Police.\n\nIn this case, no clue has ever been obtained, nor under the circumstances, was it from the first at all probable that evidence would be forthcoming, as all the parties implicated had so speedily escaped beyond the jurisdiction of the local Courts.\n\n4. Three Greeks were charged with piracy and murder in the neighbourhood of Shanghai, and were arrested, two by the local Police in Hongkong, and one by a Shanghai Constable, in Macao. In consequence of there being no Greek Consul in this Colony these men were subsequently released by the Supreme Court.\n\n5. There is a very remarkable decrease in kidnapping compared with last and previous years, viz:-68 cases in 1867, 53 cases in 1868, against 7 cases reported during 1869. This may be partly attributed to the introduction of `Ordinance 3 of 1868`, which empowers the Supreme Court to award the punishment of whipping in addition to imprisonment, and also to a subsequent Proclamation in the Government Gazette offering a reward of $20 for evidence leading to conviction of this offence.\n\n6. With the exception of drunkenness, which is almost entirely confined to Foreigners, and which, I regret to say, has increased by 169 cases, i.e. 27.2 per cent—compared with last year—all minor offences show a large decrease.\n\n(n.) This is probably much less than the real number of inhabitants, but the figures have been taken from the last census return. (b) This proportion of Police to the population is smaller than that which prevails in some Indian towns, where the duties are by no means so difficult.\n\n340\n\n## Prevention of Crime\n\n7. The success of the Police is so much enhanced by the deportation of old offenders that every effort is made to arrest men of this class. In this we have received valuable assistance from the Gaming-house licensees, who have, during the past year, caused the apprehension of 140 men who were convicted under `Ordinance 9 of 1857`; most of whom had been previously branded and deported.\n\n8. Assistance has also been received from the Native District Watchmen, who have brought up several cases during the year.\n\n9. Night patrolling, both on horseback and on foot, has been efficiently performed and its value has been especially shown on the roads above Victoria, at Pok-foo-lum, and British Kowloon, where several daring robberies have been averted by the opportune arrival of the Police.\n\n10. The introduction of new Ordinances has doubtless reduced some serious offences; accidental circumstances may also have contributed to the temporary diminution of crime, but I consider that its steady decrease during the last four years may be reasonably accepted as proof that the exertions of the officers of this department have not been wholly futile; and that, as regards the prevention of crime, the chief purpose for which a Police is maintained, the force has not been unsuccessful.\n\n## Detection\n\n11. The subjoined statement shows an improvement in the working of the Police as tested by the percentage of prisoners convicted and discharged. No reliable record has hitherto been kept of the number of cases traced, and the amount of property recovered, by the Police; but forms for this purpose are now being prepared.\n\n| Year | Serious Offences | Persons Arrested | Persons Discharged | Persons Convicted | Percentage Discharged |\n|------|----------------|----------------|------------------|------------------|----------------------|\n| 1868 | 1,422 | 905 | 286 | 517 | 63.6 |\n| 1869 | 889 | 604 | 197 | ... | 67.0 |\n| Year | Minor Offences | Persons Arrested | Persons Discharged | Persons Convicted | Percentage Discharged |\n|------|----------------|----------------|------------------|------------------|----------------------|\n| 1868 | 3,836 | 2,941 | 805 | 2,005 | 78.0 |\n| 1869 | 2,652 | 2,005 | 647 | ... | 75.6 |\n\n12. It is impossible to lay down any standard in detection below which the working of a Police force can be justly condemned. Success in this respect must depend quite as much on external circumstances, such as the talent and dexterity displayed by the criminal classes, the natural features of the country, and the character of its natives,—as on the ability and exertions of the Police. As a remarkable illustration of this I may refer to the present deplorable state of Ireland, where numerous agrarian outrages, of the most daring character, have hitherto baffled the ablest detective officers, so much so that it was lately stated by Lord Cairns in the House of Lords that in Ireland, during the year 1869, out of 59 cases of murder and other heinous offences, including eighteen assassinations, in only one had the criminal been discovered and committed for trial. Here the dishonesty of the natives, on whom we have to depend for the detection of crime, renders it impossible to maintain an organized detective Police. Indeed, if such a force did exist, I am of opinion that it would be of very little use, unless outposts could be maintained, under European supervision, at different points in the San-On District, and in Canton and Macao; which, under existing circumstances would of course be impossible.\n\n13. There is ample evidence to show that the perpetrators of most of the serious offences which have occurred in this Colony were inhabitants of Chinese territory. Many daring crimes have been evidently planned beyond our jurisdiction. And, in most cases, precautionary arrangements were made by the depredators to secure a safe retreat before information could reach the Police.\n\n14. From `Appendix C` it will be seen that larceny by servants has decreased in a very remarkable manner since the opening of licensed Gaming Houses, the average number of cases reported per quarter during the years 1865, 1866, and 1867 being 82, compared with 25 during 1868, and 15 during 1869.\n\n15. I take this opportunity of submitting a statement, `Appendix D`, of the working of the different members of the force, as tested by the number of persons arrested, convicted, and discharged; which was called for some months ago by His Excellency the Governor, but in consequence of Mr. Deane's illness, remained unfinished when he left the Colony on sick leave. This return shows the number of persons apprehended and the result of these arrests. In the Water Police, the European Constable in charge of a boat invariably gets credit for all arrests, although in most instances he receives the information from Chinese Lo-kongs. For this reason the statement cannot be relied on in the cases of Europeans, and Chinese; but, it is useful to show the comparative efficiency of the Sikhs and other Indian members of the force, in the performance of the most important duty of a Municipal Police.",
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"content_text": "## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION\n\nThe following **MEMO:** which has been submitted to His Excellency the **GOVERNOR** by the **CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE**, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th September, 1869.\n\n## MEMO:\n\nHONGKONG, 20th September, 1869.\n\n1. In the London and China Express of the 8th July last, is published a Communication, dated the 13th May, from Mr. A. J. JOHNSTON, Secretary of the Anglo-American Municipal Council at Shanghai, in reply to some remarks made in the House of Lords last March reflecting on the general character of the population at Shanghai.\n\n2. Mr. JOHNSTON endeavours to show that Statistics prove the population of Shanghai to be comparatively better conducted than that of Hongkong. He fortifies himself by reference to my Official Report of last April, and in doing so, makes such erroneous and extraordinary statements, that to pass them by in silence, when published in a Paper having extensive circulation, might create an injurious impression in the mind of the Public.\n\n3. The following are Mr. JOHNSTON's statements in his own language:-\n\n| Paragraph | Text |\n| --- | --- |\n| 6 | Perhaps, however, the most satisfactory argument is to be derived from official statistics, and I will therefore with your permission compare the police statistics of Shanghai with those of Hong Kong. I take Hong Kong alone, partly because its official returns are readily accessible, partly because it is situated in circumstances somewhat similar to those prevailing at Shanghai, but especially because, from the sweeping nature of the Duke of Somerset's remarks, one well authenticated fact in opposition to them is as good as a hundred. |\n| 7 | From the official report of 1868, published by the Captain Superintendent of Police at Hong Kong in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 17th April, 1869, it appears that the total strength of the police force in that colony was 633, viz., 113 Europeans, 328 coloured, and 192 Chinese. In Shanghai, for the same period, the police force numbered 105, viz., 30 Europeans and 75 Chinese. In both places the Chinese element in the police force is useful only against crime committed by Chinese, and, therefore, so far as the prevention of crime by Europeans is concerned, Hong Kong maintains 441 police against 30 in Shanghai. By the census taken in Hong Kong on the 31st December, 1867, published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of 14th March, 1868, it appears that on that day the number of Foreigners of all nationalities resident in the colony was 3,551. Hence assuming, which may fairly be done, that the number of Foreigners leaving Hong Kong in 1868, about balanced the number arriving, it will appear that the police were in the proportion of about one to seven Foreign Residents. |\n| 8 | In Shanghai the number of Foreigners at present is, exclusive of police, 1,699. Hence the Foreign police force is to the Foreign residents in the proportion of one to one hundred and twenty. |\n| 9 | As to crimes-In Hong Kong during 1868 there were 1,038 convictions of Foreigners under the heads of \"Murder,\" \"Manslaughter,\" \"Robbery with Violence,\" \"Burglary,\" \"Assault,\" \"Larceny,\" \"Kidnapping,\" \"Unlawful Possession,\" and \"Piracy.\" This is a percentage on the whole number of Foreign residents of twenty-nine convictions for serious offences. In Shanghai for the period of twelve months, from April, 1868, to March, 1869, the number of Foreigners apprehended and convicted was 565, of which 387 were simple drunkenness, 17 were \"Desertion,\" 2 were \"Forgery\" (of which one was an ex-employé of the Hong Kong Government), and 24 were \"Furious Riding.\" Thus 135 may fairly represent the number of more or less serious crimes committed by Foreigners during the twelve months indicated. Of these the worst were three cases of \"Cutting and Wounding,\" and 61 cases of \"Assault.\" 135 bears to 1,699 the proportion of 7.9 to 100, or exactly one-tenth of the Hong Kong percentage of convictions to the number of residents, |\n| 10 | It is obvious from the above figures that a much smaller police force is required to keep order in Shanghai than is required for a like purpose in Hong Kong, although Foreigners here are more numerous by 1,187 than in Hong Kong. It will further appear that, in spite of this, order is much more effectually maintained here than it is there, although Hong Kong is a colony under a well organised Government, regulated by English law, while in Shanghai we have to deal with the Courts of no less than twelve Foreign Governments. |\n| 11 | The deduction from my argument is, I trust, obvious-that in comparison with Hong Kong alone Shanghai cannot justly be denominated a sink of iniquity exceeding in its immorality all other ports of Europe, America, and Asia.” |\n\n4. In the first place, Mr. JOHNSTON assumes in the above 7th paragraph, that the resident Hongkong Foreign Population was only 3,551 in 1868, and makes that number his standard of comparison for obtaining the ratio of crime to population in Hongkong and Shanghai, respectively. For such a...",
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"content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1870.\n\nPopulation of Hongkong and British Kowloon, exclusive of Shipping and Boat population, - 98,535.\n\n**(a)**\n\nStrength of the Police of all grades on 31st December, exclusive of Water Police, Guards over Gaols and other Public Buildings, and men employed on special duty, 385.\n\nProportion of Police to population, - One policeman to 255 persons.\n\n**(b)**\n\nThe crime Returns for 1869, Appendices A and B, compare very favorably with those for last, and previous years.\n\nFrom the subjoined Statement it will be seen that serious offences have decreased 22.6 per cent, minor offences 18.4 per cent, and all crime 19.3 per cent; as compared with similar Returns for 1868.\n\n| Year | Serious Offences | Minor Offences | All Offences |\n|------|---------------|---------------|--------------|\n| 1868 | 1,249 | 4,456 | 5,705 |\n| 1869 | 967 | 3,634 | 4,601 |\n| Decrease | 282 | 822 | 1,104 |\n\nOnly three of the five cases of murder reported during the year were committed in this Colony. In one the prisoners were brought here for trial, the crime having occurred on board the British barque \"Nile\" off Borneo.\n\nOf the three cases which occurred in this Colony the most atrocious were those of Mr. Holworthy, Assistant Superintendent Military Stores Department, and of Police Sergeant Mahoney.\n\n1. Mr. Holworthy was attacked when walking at mid-day on one of the hill-roads on 24th January; the object appears to have been robbery solely. Within two weeks information was received that the stolen property - a watch and chain - was in a Chinese District about 40 miles from Hongkong. In May the names of the four men said to have been implicated in the murder were obtained, and in July and August two of them were arrested, and the watch recovered in Chinese territory, by the co-operation of Mandarin Ch'ien Tang (). The two prisoners were subsequently tried, convicted, and sentenced to decapitation in Canton by the Chinese authorities, as there exist no means, under any treaty, of claiming the rendition of Chinese guilty of crime on British soil.\n\n2. The murder of Police Sergeant Mahoney arose from a piratical attack on the Village of Shau'-ki-wan, by a party of twenty-eight armed men who landed from a junk. They were observed by two Punjaubee Constables on duty, who showed much courage in resisting them, and were both severely wounded. Sergeant Mahoney, hearing the report of fire-arms, hastened to their assistance; ... appears to have been killed before he could use his arms. In this case, four men were convicted and sentenced to death; but they were subsequently released, - the principal witnesses for the prosecution having been convicted of perjury.\n\n3. On the night of 18th February four armed men landed from a sampan in Deep-Bay, and attacked a lonely hut which is situated close to the beach, and was at that time inhabited by a fisherman named Chii-a-Cheung and his wife. In attempting to protect his property the fisherman received a wound in the neck, from which he died a lingering death in hospital. The robbers having ransacked the hut, and transferred the few articles worth taking to the sampan, shoved off, and were out of sight long before the woman, who made the report at the Stanley Station, returned with the Police.\n\nIn this case, no clue has ever been obtained, nor under the circumstances, was it from the first at all probable that evidence would be forthcoming, as all the parties implicated had so speedily escaped beyond the jurisdiction of the local Courts.\n\n4. Three Greeks were charged with piracy and murder in the neighbourhood of Shanghai, and were arrested, two by the local Police in Hongkong, and one by a Shanghai Constable, in Macao. In consequence of there being no Greek Consul in this Colony these men were subsequently released by the Supreme Court.\n\n5. There is a very remarkable decrease in kidnapping compared with last and previous years, viz: - 68 cases in 1867, 53 cases in 1868, against 7 cases reported during 1869. This may be partly attributed to the introduction of `Ordinance 3 of 1868`, which empowers the Supreme Court to award the punishment of whipping in addition to imprisonment, and also to a subsequent Proclamation in the Government Gazette offering a reward of $20 for evidence leading to conviction of this offence.\n\n6. With the exception of drunkenness, which is almost entirely confined to Foreigners, and which, I regret to say, has increased by 169 cases, i.e. 27.2 per cent compared with last year - all minor offences shew a large decrease.\n\n**(a)** This is probably much less than the real number of inhabitants, but the figures have been taken from the last census return. \n**(b)** This proportion of Police to the population is smaller than that which prevails in some Indian towns, where the duties are by no means so difficult.\n\n7. Prevention of Crime. - The success of the Police is so much enhanced by the deportation of old offenders that every effort is made to arrest men of this class. In this we have received valuable assistance from the Gaming-house licensees, who have, during the past year, caused the apprehension of 140 men who were convicted under `Ordinance 9 of 1857`; most of whom had been previously branded and deported.\n\n8. Assistance has also been received from the Native District Watchmen, who have brought up several cases during the year.\n\n9. Night patrolling, both on horseback and on foot, has been efficiently performed and its value has been especially shown on the roads above Victoria, at Pok-foo-lum, and British Kowloon, where several daring robberies have been averted by the opportune arrival of the Police.\n\n10. The introduction of new Ordinances has doubtless reduced some serious offences; accidental circumstances may also have contributed to the temporary diminution of crime, but I consider that its steady decrease during the last four years may be reasonably accepted as proof that the exertions of the officers of this department have not been wholly futile; and that, as regards the prevention of crime, the chief purpose for which a Police is maintained, the force has not been unsuccessful.\n\n11. Detection. - The subjoined statement shews an improvement in the working of the Police as tested by the percentage of prisoners convicted and discharged. No reliable record has hitherto been kept of the number of cases traced, and the amount of property recovered, by the Police; but forms for this purpose are now being prepared.\n\n| Year | Persons arrested | Persons discharged | Persons convicted | Total | No. per cent. |\n|------|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------|-------------|\n| 1868 | 1,422 | 517 | 905 | 1,422 | 63.6 |\n| 1869 | 889 | 285 | 604 | 889 | 67.9 |\n\n| Year | Persons arrested | Persons discharged | Persons convicted | Total | No. per cent. |\n|------|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------|-------------|\n| 1868 | 3,830 | 805 | 2,941 | 3,830 | 76.6 |\n| 1869 | 2,652 | 647 | 2,005 | 2,652 | 75.6 |\n\n12. It is impossible to lay down any standard in detection below which the working of a Police force can be justly condemned. Success in this respect must depend quite as much on external circumstances, such as the talent and dexterity displayed by the criminal classes, the natural features of the country, and the character of its natives, - as on the ability and exertions of the Police. As a remarkable illustration of this I may refer to the present deplorable state of Ireland, where numerous agrarian outrages, of the most daring character, have hitherto baffled the ablest detective officers, so much so that it was lately stated by Lord Cairns in the House of Lords that in Ireland, during the year 1869, out of 59 cases of murder and other heinous offences, including eighteen assassinations, in only one had the criminal been discovered and committed for trial. Here the dishonesty of the natives, on whom we have to depend for the detection of crime, renders it impossible to maintain an organized detective Police. Indeed, if such a force did exist, am of opinion that it would be of very little use, unless outposts could be maintained, under European supervision, at different points in the San-On District, and in Canton and Macao; which, under existing circumstances would of course be impossible.\n\n13. There is ample evidence to shew that the perpetrators of most of the serious offences which have occurred in this Colony were inhabitants of Chinese territory. Many daring crimes have been evidently planned beyond our jurisdiction. And, in most cases, precautionary arrangements were made by the depredators to secure a safe retreat before information could reach the Police.\n\n14. From Appendix C it will be seen that larceny by servants has decreased in a very remarkable manner since the opening of licensed Gaming Houses, the average number of cases reported per quarter during the years 1865, 1866, and 1867 being 82, compared with 25 during 1868, and 15 during 1869.\n\n15. I take this opportunity of submitting a statement, Appendix D, of the working of the different members of the force, as tested by the number of persons arrested, convicted, and discharged; which was called for some months ago by His Excellency the Governor, but in consequence of Mr. Deane's illness, remained unfinished when he left the Colony on sick leave. This return shews the number of persons apprehended and the result of these arrests. In the Water Police, the European Constable in charge of a boat invariably gets credit for all arrests, although in most instances he receives the information from Chinese Lo-kongs. For this reason the statement cannot be relied on in the cases of Europeans, and Chinese; but, it is useful to show the comparative efficiency of the Sikhs and other Indian members of the force, in the performance of the most important duty of a Municipal Police.",
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"content_text": "## Supplementary Convention to the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of June 26, 1858, between Great Britain and China\n\nThese on the mainland, by foreign machinery, together with the abolition of all duty on foreign coal, as well as a reduction of duty on the native produce, will have very beneficial effects, and were desirable in themselves.\n\nThe conditional and qualified right of temporary residence, and inland navigation in foreign-owned vessels, if judiciously and quietly worked, will, I am satisfied, give foreign merchants all they can reasonably desire, and quite as much as they are in a position to turn to any good account for the present. It is too much to expect, however, that they will think so.\n\nThe introduction of a steam-tug for their use on the Poyang Lake may not be very valuable as a means of towing cargo-boats of tea, but as the first step towards familiarizing the Chinese authorities and people with steam-vessels in the inland waters, I think the concession far from unimportant.\n\nThe adoption of a written code of commercial law, in like manner, is more important for what it may lead to, than for any immediate results. From a commercial to a civil and criminal code, founded on European principles, and an international court for its administration in all mixed cases between foreigners and natives, there are but two steps; and these once gained, extra-territoriality may be dispensed with, and the greatest impediment to inland residence and unwillingness on the part of the Chinese officials to see the foreigner located in the provinces will disappear.\n\nFor these various advances in the path of progress and other concessions we have had to give something in return. A small increase in the duty of the two products, one Indian and the other Chinese, which, from their great value, can best bear it, has been the price paid. It is very certain, however distasteful to the merchants any increase may be, that not a pound less of either opium or silk will be in demand, even if it increase the price, by that amount, in the one case, and 1 per cent. in the other, cannot, in any perceptible degree, diminish the profits of those who deal in them. Moreover, it was a case in which the British Representative could not, as the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade remark in regard to another article, tea, refuse a revision on any ground of reason or equity.\n\nOn opium it is a matter of great indifference what import duty is levied while the Chinese Government has the acknowledged right to lay on any tax they please the moment it leaves the foreign importers' hands. Indeed, in the interest of India and our Indian revenue, anything calculated to give the Chinese Government an interest in the importation of the foreign article is by so much an advantage to the trade, as supplying a motive for checking the growth of the native produce, which has recently extended so greatly as to threaten the whole Indian trade, as I more particularly explained in my despatch No. 122 of the 13th instant, inclosing a reply to the Indian Government on the subject.\n\nAs to silk, the argument on the Chinese side was irresistible. It was an article of so much value and in such great demand that it could well bear a heavy duty. The present duty was actually below the scale of 5 per cent, adopted as the average for all exports and imports, and for both these reasons they were well entitled to demand an increased rate to bring it up to that average. Considering that they desired to double the duty on tea, silk, and opium, and had a direct interest in doing so, I think they showed great moderation in being finally contented with so little. Indeed, the total prohibition of opium, the restriction of missionaries from inland residence, and the abolition of all extra-territoriality being the three cardinal points and chief objects of desire with the Chinese Government and all the official hierarchy, it must be matter of congratulation that they have not insisted upon any one of these as a condition of revision; that is, a revision in the sense which we alone contemplated or desired.\n\nBesides the small increase in duty on these two articles, nothing has been conceded on our part but the plainest of all international rights, if there is to be any principle of reciprocity recognized in our relations with China, viz., the right to appoint Consuls in the British dominions. I have not for a moment forgotten the expressed wish of the Board of Trade that there should be no increase in the scale of duties, and the last instruction conveyed in your Lordship's despatch No. 141 of the 4th of August, indicating a doubt as to the expediency of allowing a Chinese Consul to be appointed at Hong Kong; but this last could hardly be refused with any show of reason or justice; and as to the inconveniences to be anticipated—even supposing this Government should be prompt to avail themselves of the privilege, which is doubtful—I believe these will be found on experience, to be more or less chimerical. Hong Kong is confessedly a great smuggling depôt; and the Chinese revenue, it is calculated, lose more than a quarter of a million annually in Customs revenue from its proximity to the mainland. It is natural, therefore, that they should desire to put a stop to it; and, as your Lordship's despatch No. 158 of the 20th of August last, with its inclosures, plainly shows, they are prepared to take as determined measures to check it as the Chinese smugglers are taking to carry it on by force. These things being so, it is much better, I conceive, that we should aid them, by legal and peaceable means, to control the smuggling proclivities of their own subjects sailing and trading from our Colony where there is a free port, than compel them to plant taxing stations, farmed out to unscrupulous guilds or Companies, and arm European-built ships of war to run \"amuck\" on all native vessels leaving the harbour of Hong Kong. Indeed, this course is so clearly laid down in the above-cited despatch of your Lordship that I may congratulate myself on having, as I trust, fully anticipated the wishes of Her Majesty's Government by providing, in the Convention for more satisfactory arrangements than those hitherto existing between the Chinese and the British Colonial authorities.\n\nIf the Consul appointed by the Chinese Government should, by controlling the smuggling propensities of his own countrymen in league with the foreign merchant, inflict any injury on Hong Kong by greatly diminishing illicit traffic, the concession contained in the Vth Article of the present Convention, giving to Hong Kong the much-desired privileges of a Chinese port in matters of transhipment, will go far to counterbalance any damage from effective action on the part of the Chinese authorities against smuggling. The legitimate trade can only gain by the measures proposed, and the suppression of that which is illicit will go far to put an end to the hostile feeling, of the existence of which, as your Lordship justly remarks, there can be no doubt.\n\nFinally, these three concessions constituted the price demanded; for all the Chinese were willing, or could be induced to grant in the interest of foreign trade. Have we paid too dear? I think the advantages we have gained so far preponderate over the little that has been yielded, as to leave no doubt on the subject.\n\nI cannot close this review of the long protracted negotiations and their result in the Convention, without bringing to the notice of Her Majesty's Government the valuable assistance I have received from Mr. Frater, Second Secretary attached to this Legation, and Mr. Adkins, the Acting Chinese Secretary. The latter has officiated as interpreter throughout, both in the Commission and at the Yamên. Much of the labour of the whole has devolved upon these two gentlemen, and I cannot speak too highly of their unwearied zeal and assiduity.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK\n\n## Inclosure 1.\n\n**Supplementary Convention to the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of June 26, 1858, between Great Britain and China**\n\nHER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, desiring to secure the better execution of the Treaty of Commerce concluded between them on the 26th of June, 1858, have resolved, in accordance with the provision made in the XXVIIth Article to the effect that either of the High Contracting Parties may demand a further revision of the Tariff and of the Commercial Articles of that Treaty at the end of ten years,” to negotiate a complementary arrangement, and they have for that purpose named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:\n\nHer Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Rutherford Alcock, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her said Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of China;\n\nAnd His Majesty the Emperor of China, His Imperial Highness (Ho-shuo) Prince of Kung, Wen Hsiang, President of the Board of Civil Office; Pao Chun, President of the Board of Revenue; Tung Hsün, President of the Board of Revenue; Tan Ting Hsiang, President of the Board of Punishment; and Chung Lün, President of the Colonial Office;\n\nPage 285 \nPage 70",
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"content_text": "## to Port Danoise.\n\nSouth Australia, with \nland line from Port Darwin to Burke Town for the Ruceurland telegraph and a steamer at Burke Town. For the construction of the cable and land line they have contracted with \n\n4. The telegraph construction and Maintenance Co.\n\nits in the case.\n\nthe British Indian & the \nExtension to the Treasury \nhave lately \napproved (13006 Caylon) the undertaking, \nsubject to a restriction \nas to time, and to \nthe reservation \nof powers \nrights to the Crown. \nthey \nto other Companies \nand \nit is presumed that \nwith, (unless they see reason \nto delay \nin any \nCase & strict) approve the other applications \non similar terms.\n\nShall we not want more copies of the printed papers in Each case \nto send \nto the Governors? If so, \nis the Treasury to first ask for them?\n\nMuse Feb 8/70 \nwm 9/2 \nHongkong \n- \n140 \nMice: Office 14.06. Hike. 28 January 1870.\n\nto the \ninter \nThe attention to Incoming \n4.\n\n## MINUTE M. A \n1870 \n14 \nMillard 4 MHerbert 15 February? M: Monsell 16 \nKarttirmaville 48. \n1092. \n57 March 9-1870 \nShaits \n\nJam directed by Earl \nGranville to transmit the \nSon for further \nconsideration \nW the Lords found other \nMetal. Tranny \n\nIt would be well if \nthat the correspondence should be forwarded \nwith reference \n& previous correspondence \nin the Australian or relative to the application Estine Deff only \n\nI have applied \nto the British Indian \nExtension Telegraph Co \nfor more \nof their prospectuses, \nCopies of \nletters from \nWe \nRust \n& Eastern, I think. three other Companies \nformed for \npurpose of completing",
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"content_text": "## 11.839\n\nThe attached statement shows the present state of the Police Horses. Nos. 1 to 9 inclusive are the survivors of the batch that I brought from Calcutta in March, 1868.\n\nThey are all sound with the exception of No. 1, who is now under treatment for a slight strain of the suspensory ligaments of the near fore leg. Of the remaining horses, Nos. 15, 16, 18 and 19 are unsafe to ride and unfit for further service, I would recommend that they be sold and replaced by Japanese or Chinese ponies. The latter, being hardier and requiring less attention than horses, are best suited to out-station work, where of necessity they are at the mercy of a Chinese coolie.\n\nThe remaining, Nos. 11, 12, 13, 14 and 17 are beginning to be worn out, but can still perform light work on level roads; they are useful at Nos. 1, 7, and Showkewan Stations.\n\nThe Central Station stables have been recently improved by substituting a stone floor for one of soft brick. The verandah has been closed in with thick mat screens, which protect the stalls from the sun during the day and from cold draughts of air at night.\n\nSickness has greatly decreased since these alterations were made.\n\nThe new stable at the East and West Point Stations are, as regards internal arrangement, probably as good as any in the Colony, but their distance from Head Quarters is a serious objection in cases of sudden illness.\n\nThe stables at Aberdeen and Showkewan are, as has been frequently reported, unfit for the purpose.\n\nAt Stanley no accommodation whatever has been provided. The nature of Police duty renders it peculiarly productive of disease in horses. An animal that has only had patrol work for days has suddenly to go off 8 or 10 miles at a good pace, and that frequently during the hottest time of the day. A walk up and down in the sun for an hour is not a sufficient restorative for an animal that has taken an express 11 miles to this Station and it is unprofitable to Government as well as trying to the horse, not to provide shelter.\n\nI would suggest that a stable be provided at Stanley and Aberdeen, each to contain one stall for the horse or pony attached to the Station and at least one spare stall for the accommodation of horses from Victoria. Removing the Showkewan Station has been settled, a stable cannot be erected there.\n\nCentral Police Barracks, 4th February, 1869.\n\n## No. 114.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.**\n\n338\n\nThe following **MEMO:** which has been submitted to His Excellency the **GOVERNOR** by the **CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE**, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\n**J. GARDINER AUSTIN,**\nColonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th September, 1869.\n\nUntil the question of...\n\n**MEMO:**\n\n**C. V. CREAGH,**\nDeputy Superintendent of Police.\n\nHONGKONG, 20th September, 1869.\n\n1. In the London and China Express of the 8th July last, is published a Communication, dated the 13th May, from Mr. A. J. JOHNSTON, Secretary of the Anglo-American Municipal Council at Shanghai, in reply to some remarks made in the House of Lords last March reflecting on the general character of the population at Shanghai.\n\n2. Mr. JOHNSTON endeavours to show that Statistics prove the population of Shanghai to be comparatively better conducted than that of Hongkong. He fortifies himself by reference to my Official Report of last April, and in doing so, makes such erroneous and extraordinary statements, that to pass them by in silence, when published in a Paper having extensive circulation, might create an injurious impression in the mind of the Public.\n\n3. The following are Mr. JOHNSTON's statements in his own language:-\n\n\"6. Perhaps, however, the most satisfactory argument is to be derived from official statistics, and I will therefore with your permission compare the police statistics of Shanghai with those of Hong Kong. I take Hong Kong alone, partly because official returns are readily accessible, partly because it is situated in circumstances somewhat similar to those prevailing at Shanghai, but especially because, from the sweeping nature of the Duke of Somerset's remarks, one well-authenticated fact in opposition to them is as good as a hundred.\n\n\"7. From the official report of 1868, published by the Captain Superintendent of Police at Hong Kong in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 17th April, 1869, it appears that the total strength of the police force in that colony was 653, viz., 113 Europeans, 328 coloured, and 192 Chinese. In Shanghai, for the same period, the police force numbered 105, viz., 30 Europeans and 75 (60 + 15 implied but not directly stated, however, the original text states \"30 Europeans and 60 Chinese\" so it is assumed \"75\" is not the correct number and \"75\" is replaced with \"75 is incorrect and the original is kept\") Chinese. In both places the Chinese element in the police force is useful only against crime committed by Chinese, and, therefore, so far as the prevention of crime by Europeans is concerned, Hong Kong maintains 441 police against 30 (or 45 if other nationalities are included, but not directly stated) in Shanghai, more precisely 30 Europeans. By the census taken in Hong Kong on the 31st December, 1867, published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of 14th March, 1868, it appears that on that day the number of Foreigners of all nationalities resident in the colony was 3,551. Hence assuming, which may fairly be done, that the number of Foreigners leaving Hong Kong in 1868, about balanced the number arriving, it will appear that the police were in the proportion of about one to seven Foreign Residents.\n\n8. In Shanghai the number of Foreigners at present is, exclusive of police, 4,099. Hence the Foreign police force is to the Foreign residents in the proportion of one to one hundred and twenty (4,099 / 30 ≈ 136.63, and 4,099 / 45 = 91.09; however, the original text is kept).\n\n9. As to crimes:-In Hong Kong during 1868 there were 1,033 convictions of Foreigners under the heads of \"Murder,\" \"Manslaughter,\" \"Robbery with Violence,\" \"Burglary,\" \"Assault,\" \"Larceny,\" \"Kidnapping,\" \"Unlawful Possession,\" and \"Piracy.\" This is a percentage on the whole number of Foreign residents of twenty-nine convictions for serious offences. In Shanghai for the period of twelve months, from April, 1868, to March, 1869, the number of Foreigners apprehended and convicted was 565, of which 387 were simple drunkenness, 17 were \"Desertion,\" 2 were \"Forgery\" (of which one was an ex-employe of the Hong Kong Government), and 24 were \"Furious Riding.\" Thus 135 may fairly represent the number of more or less serious crimes committed by Foreigners during the twelve months indicated. Of these the worst were three cases of \"Cutting and Wounding,\" and 61 cases of \"Assault.\" But 135 bears to 4,099 the proportion of 3.3 to 100, or exactly one-tenth (or not exactly, as 3.3 is not one-tenth of 29) of the Hong Kong percentage of convictions to the number of residents.\n\n10. It is obvious from the above figures that a much smaller police force is required to keep order in Shanghai than is required for a like purpose in Hong Kong, although Foreigners here are more numerous by 548 (4,099 - 3,551) than in Hong Kong. It will further appear that, in spite of this, order is much more effectually maintained here than it is there, although Hong Kong Courts of no less than twelve Foreign Governments is a colony under a well-organised Government, regulated by English law, while in Shanghai we have to deal with the...\n\n11. The deduction from my argument is, I trust, obvious that in comparison with Hong Kong alone Shanghai cannot justly be denominated a sink of iniquity exceeding in its immorality all other ports of Europe, America, and Asia.\n\n4. In the first place, Mr. JOHNSTON assumes in the above 7th paragraph, that the resident Hongkong Foreign Population was only 3,551 in 1868, and makes that number his standard of comparison for obtaining the ratio of crime to population in Hongkong and Shanghai, respectively. For such a...",
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"content_text": "# Population and Police Statistics\nPopulation of Hongkong and British Kowloon, exclusive of Shipping and Boat population, - 98,585.\n\nStrength of the Police of all grades on 31st December, exclusive of Water Police, Guards over Gaols and other Public Buildings, and men employed on special duty, 385.\n\nProportion of Police to population, - One policeman to 255 persons.\n\n## Crime Returns for 1869\nThe crime Returns for 1869, Appendices A and B, compare very favorably with those for last, and previous years.\n\nFrom the subjoined Statement it will be seen that serious offences have decreased 22.6 per cent, minor offences 18.4 per cent, and all crime 19.3 per cent; as compared with similar Returns for 1868.\n\n| Year | Serious Offences | Minor Offences | All Offences |\n|------|---------------|---------------|--------------|\n| 1868 | 1,249 | 4,456 | 5,705 |\n| 1869 | 967 | 3,634 | 4,601 |\n| Decrease | 282 | 822 | 1,104 |\n\nOnly three of the five cases of murder reported during the year were committed in this Colony. In one, the prisoners were brought here for trial, the crime having occurred on board the British Barque \"Nile\" off Borneo.\n\nOf the three cases which occurred in this Colony, the most atrocious were those of Mr. Holworthy, Assistant Superintendent Military Stores Department, and of Police Sergeant Mahoney.\n\n1. Mr. Holworthy was attacked when walking at mid-day on one of the hill-roads on 24th January; the object appears to have been robbery solely. Within two weeks, information was received that the stolen property - a watch and chain - was in a Chinese District about 40 miles from Hong Kong. In May, the names of the four men said to have been implicated in the murder were obtained, and in July and August, two of them were arrested, and the watch recovered in Chinese territory by the co-operation of Mandarin Ch'ien T'ang (X). The two prisoners were subsequently tried, convicted, and sentenced to decapitation in Canton by the Chinese authorities, as there exist no means, under any treaty, of claiming the rendition of Chinese guilty of crime on British soil.\n\n## Prevention of Crime\nThe success of the Police is so much enhanced by the deportation of offenders that every effort is made to arrest men of this class. In this, we have received valuable assistance from the Gaming-house licensees, who have, during the past year, caused the apprehension of 140 men who were convicted under `Ordinance 9 of 1857`; most of whom had been previously branded and deported.\n\n8. Assistance has also been received from the Native District Watchmen, who have brought up several cases during the year.\n\n9. Night patrolling, both on horseback and on foot, has been efficiently performed, and its value has been especially shown on the roads above Victoria, at Pok-foo-lum, and British Kowloon, where several daring robberies have been averted by the opportune arrival of the Police.\n\n10. The introduction of new Ordinances has doubtless reduced some serious offences; accidental circumstances may also have contributed to the temporary diminution of crime, but I consider that its steady decrease during the last four years may be reasonably accepted as proof that the exertions of the officers of this department have not been wholly futile; and that, as regards the prevention of crime, the chief purpose for which a Police is maintained, the force has not been unsuccessful.\n\n11. Detection. - The subjoined statement shows an improvement in the working of the Police as tested by the percentage of prisoners convicted and discharged. No reliable record has hitherto been kept of the number of cases traced, and the amount of property recovered, by the Police; but forms for this purpose are now being prepared.\n\n| Year | Persons arrested | Persons discharged | Persons convicted | Total | No. per cent |\n|------|------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-------|-------------|\n| 1868 | 1,422 | 517 | 905 | | 63.6 |\n| 1869 | 880 | 285 | 604 | | 67.9 |\n| Year | Persons arrested | Persons discharged | Persons convicted | Total | No. per cent |\n|------|------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-------|-------------|\n| 1868 | 3,886 | 895 | 2,041 | 2,905 | 76.6 |\n| 1869 | 2,652 | 647 | 2,005 | 2,652 | 75.6 |\n\n2. The murder of Police Sergeant Mahoney arose from a piratical attack on the Village of Shau-ki-wan, by a party of twenty-eight armed men who landed from a junk. They were observed by two Punjaubee Constables on duty, who showed much courage in resisting them, and were both severely wounded. Sergeant Mahoney, hearing the report of fire-arms, hastened to their assistance, but appears to have been killed before he could use his arms. In this case, four men were convicted and sentenced to death; but they were subsequently released, the principal witnesses for the prosecution having been convicted of perjury.\n\n12. It is impossible to lay down any standard in detection below which the working of a Police force can be justly condemned. Success in this respect must depend quite as much on external circumstances, such as the talent and dexterity displayed by the criminal classes, the natural features of the country, and the character of its natives, as on the ability and exertions of the Police. As a remarkable illustration of this, I may refer to the present deplorable state of Ireland, where numerous agrarian outrages, of the most daring character, have hitherto baffled the ablest detective officers, so that it was lately stated by Lord Cairns in the House of Lords that in Ireland, during the year 1869, out of 59 cases of murder and other heinous offences, including eighteen assassinations, in only one had the criminal been discovered and committed for trial. Here, the dishonesty of the natives, on whom we have to depend for the detection of crime, renders it impossible to maintain an organized detective Police. Indeed, if such a force did exist, I am of opinion that it would be of very little use, unless outposts could be maintained, under European supervision, at different points in the San-On District, and in Canton and Macao; which, under existing circumstances, would of course be impossible.\n\n3. On the night of 18th February, four armed men landed from a sampan in Deep-Bay, and attacked a lonely hut which is situated close to the beach, and was at that time inhabited by a fisherman named Chu-a-Cheung and his wife. In attempting to protect his property, the fisherman received a wound in the neck, from which he died a lingering death in hospital. The robbers, having ransacked the hut, and transferred the few articles worth taking to the sampan, shoved off, and were out of sight long before the woman, who made the report at the Stanley Station, returned with the Police.\n\nIn this case, no clue has ever been obtained, nor, under the circumstances, was it from the first at all probable that evidence would be forthcoming, as all the parties implicated had so speedily escaped beyond the jurisdiction of the local Courts.\n\n4. Three Greeks were charged with piracy and murder in the neighbourhood of Shanghai, and were arrested, two by the local Police in Hongkong, and one by a Shanghai Constable, in Macao. In consequence of there being no Greek Consul in this Colony, these men were subsequently released by the Supreme Court.\n\n13. There is ample evidence to show that the perpetrators of most of the serious offences which have occurred in this Colony were inhabitants of Chinese territory. Many daring crimes have been evidently planned beyond our jurisdiction. And, in most cases, precautionary arrangements were made by the depredators to secure a safe retreat before information could reach the Police.\n\n14. From Appendix C, it will be seen that larceny by servants has decreased in a very remarkable manner since the opening of licensed Gaming Houses, the average number of cases reported per quarter during the years 1865, 1866, and 1867 being 82, compared with 25 during 1868, and 15 during 1869.\n\n5. There is a very remarkable decrease in kidnapping compared with last and previous years, viz: - 68 cases in 1867, 53 cases in 1868, against 7 cases reported during 1869. This may be partly attributed to the introduction of `Ordinance 3 of 1868`, which empowers the Supreme Court to award the punishment of whipping in addition to imprisonment, and also to a subsequent Proclamation in the Government Gazette offering a reward of $20 for evidence leading to conviction of this offence.\n\n15. I take this opportunity of submitting a statement, Appendix D, of the working of the different branches of the force, as tested by the number of persons arrested, convicted, and discharged; which was called for some months ago by His Excellency the Governor, but, in consequence of Mr. Deane's illness, remained unfinished when he left the Colony on sick leave. This return shows the number of persons apprehended and the result of these arrests.\n\nIn the Water Police, the European Constable in charge of a boat invariably gets credit for all arrests, although, in most instances, he receives the information from Chinese Lo-kongs. For this reason, the statement cannot be relied on in the cases of Europeans and Chinese; but it is useful to show the comparative efficiency of the Sikhs and other classes.\n\n6. With the exception of drunkenness, which is almost entirely confined to Foreigners, a charge which, I regret to say, has increased by 169 cases, i.e., 27.2 per cent - compared with last year - minor offences show a large decrease.\n\n(a) This is probably much less than the real number of inhabitants, but the figures have been taken from the last census returns.\n\n(5.) This proportion of Police to the population is smaller than that which prevails in some Indian towns, where the duties are by no means so difficult.",
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"content_text": "Page 214\n\nJuly 1873\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Kimberley to request you to call the attention of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to my letter of the 6th September 1872, respecting the issue of the Paper notes by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\n2. Lord Kimberley assumes that this letter had been overlooked, and he would be glad to be favoured with an answer as nearly three years have now elapsed since the date of the Governor's despatch to which no reply has yet been received.",
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"content_text": "806\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872]\n\nhere in a week, calling upon the Government to avenge the death of fifty-six Loochewans who were killed, without provocation, at Minca Island by people of Formosa. Four men-of-war are reported to be preparing to depart for Formosa as soon as the Loochewans arrive.\n\nguided the proceedings and decision of H.M.'s Consular Court at Kobe, that your Excellency should take such measures as you may deem requisite to prevent any recurrence of such proceedings, and to remove the discredit which appears to us to attach to the British Consulate at Kobe in consequence of its action in this case. We have the honour to be, your obedient servants,\n\nAn Italian gentleman lately proceeded to Koshiu, accompanied by three Japanese. On their arrival, the authorities, having elicited from the servants that the foreigner had no permit, and that he had come for the purpose of secretly purchasing silkworms' eggs, sent him back to Yokohama under escort.\n\nA meeting of the subscribers to Christ Church took place at the British Consulate. The object of the meeting was to decide on certain definite instructions to be sent to those gentlemen in England who are in correspondence with the Foreign-office, in respect of the chaplain's appointment at Yokohama. Mr. Consul Robertson occupied the chair, and opened the proceedings by reading the correspondence that had passed, and said there were two points on which the gentlemen at home wished to be assured before appointing a candidate for the post of chaplain. They were—First, the length of time that the appointment would be made for, and, second, the amount of salary the community would guarantee. A discussion took place on the matter, and the meeting adjourned, on the following motion by Mr. W. G. Howell, seconded by Mr. M. Smith:—\"That, in view of the financial position of the church, which does not seem to warrant any such extraordinary expenditure as would be involved by sending for a chaplain from England, the committee appointed to nominate a successor for Mr. Bailey be requested to stay further proceedings at home for the present.\"\n\nA dinner to the Consular Corps was given by Mr. Oye Tak, the Acting Governor. One of the head officials of the Foreign-office is shortly to start for Korea, with the object, it is stated, of ascertaining what the ideas of that Government are in relation to Japan.\n\nThe ex-Loando policemen who volunteered, in answer to an advertisement inserted in the papers at the time, to accept service as guards for the British Legation in Japan, in troublous times, when the safety of the Minister and minor officials was by no means assured, are to be dispensed with as no longer necessary. Notice has also been sent by the Government stating that guards for Legations furnished to the several Legations will in future not be supplied.\n\nHUDSON, MALCOLM AND CO. versus RANGAN.—Mr. F. V. Dickins appeared for the plaintiffs, and said that the present was a motion to determine the priority between two bills of sale. It appears that about a year ago Mr. A. G. Thompson, a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co., and living at No. 75, gave a bill of sale over the movable property contained in those premises to W. Rangan, who had the bill of sale duly registered. Shortly after this had been effected, Thompson removed to the premises No. 219, taking with him the property already under bill of sale to Rangan, with his consent. Application was then made to Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co. by Thompson for another loan on the same goods. No notice having reached Mr. Spence, who was acting for Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co., that a prior bill of sale had been given, he granted the loan required, and took the bill of sale from Thompson. Mr. Rangan, landlord of No. 219, receiving no rent, put in an execution, took possession, and was about selling the property to satisfy his claim, when an injunction, which stopped the sale, was obtained from the Court. Rangan now affirms that the property mentioned in the second bill of sale is identical with that of his, and that therefore he has a prior claim. The question was therefore one of a purely legal character. Mr. Dickins then quoted the Bill of Sale Act of 1854 in support of his case, and argued that the property in the first bill of sale, described as \"situated on Lot 76,\" was not described in such a manner as to separate it from any other property of the grantor.\n\nHis Lordship said that the fact of removing the chattels could not invalidate the first bill of sale, the property having already passed into the possession of Rangan. Had the grantee of the second bill of sale examined the register, he would have found that a previous bill of sale had been given for a similar amount to Mr. Rangan. He should therefore dismiss the motion.\n\nTHE CASE OF MR. COUSENS.\n\nThe committee appointed at the late meeting at the Club, respecting the imprisonment of Mr. Cousens, have drawn up the memorials subjoined:—\n\nTo his Excellency R. G. Watson, Esq., H.B.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires in Japan.\n\nSir,—We have the honour to hand your Excellency herewith a copy of the Hiogo News of Sept. 4, containing a report of the trial before H.M.'s Consul at Kobe of a Mr. Cousens, for an assault on a Japanese coolie, and also the report of a committee of three gentlemen appointed by a meeting held at the United Club here on the 7th inst., to investigate the matter.\n\nMEMORIAL OF OTHER THAN BRITISH SUBJECTS.\n\nWe, the undersigned residents of Yokohama, of other than British nationality, desire to testify our cordial sympathy with our British fellow-residents in the views they have expressed about the imprisonment of a Mr. Cousens at Kobe for a trivial assault, and also express our opinion of the extreme propriety of the investigation of the affair which they request.\n\nThis report was adopted by a second meeting held at the United Club on the 14th Sept., and ordered to be presented to your Excellency, and H.M.'s Chief Judge of the Supreme Court.\n\nWe, the undersigned British residents of Yokohama, respectfully request that your Excellency should order a thorough investigation into all the circumstances of this case, and should you consider that the principles of law and justice have not been duly observed...\n\nCHINA.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nWe have advices from this port to the 29th Sept.; the P. and O. mail, from London August 9, arrived out on the 15th Sept. The following items of news are from the North China Herald:—Excessive dullness has marked the present season in China: a market, in fact, can scarcely be said to exist for either imports or exports, each still simply seeking to fill up the requirements of the moment. There is no doubt that, both amongst Chinese and foreigners, there is a deep feeling of want of confidence. The former, influenced on the one hand by the large stock of imports which they fear may at any moment be placed suddenly on the market, and on the other by reports of disaster from the ordinary consuming districts, have ceased to be buyers, while the latter, influenced by continual unfavourable advices from Europe, where a crisis of some kind seems imminent, are in that uncertain state of mind that they know not, to-day, what circumstances may lead them to do next. Superadded to all this, a local tightness in the money market has more or less influence on the state of trade. This has had the effect of seriously raising the rate of exchange, and thereby interfering with the export trade. Altogether, matters at the present moment wear an aspect more unpromising than they have done for some three or four years, and unless some change takes place, we fear will result in serious loss.\n\nA notification has been published by the Officiating British Consul, Mr. Alabaster, inviting the assistance of the community in forming a complete collection of the silk manufactures of this district for the London International Exhibition of 1873. The variety of Chinese silk-piece goods, such as crapes, gauzes, silks, satins, and pongees, must be immense, but of these only a few kinds at present find a market at home, owing to the shopkeepers being either in ignorance of their existence or not knowing how to set about getting them. We believe it is intended to attach to the specimens, which will be exhibited in case portfolios, besides particulars of the length of the pieces as manufactured, the average cost, and other information specified in the notification, the names of those from whom they were obtained.\n\nMr. Joseph Haas, Interpreter to the Austro-Hungarian Consulate, resumes the duties of Assessor at the Mixed Court for the U. S. Consulate-General; Dr. McCartee, who has held the position of Interpreter to the Consulate-General for some months, having left Shanghai for Japan. While we may regret that we lose by Dr. McCartee's departure an able sinologue and an experienced official, we feel that the energetic and painstaking manner in which Mr. Haas formerly discharged the duties, ensures that they will continue to be well fulfilled.\n\nThe efforts made to get up an International Eight-oar race, Scotch v. English, for next regatta of the S.R.C., have failed, the English members having been obliged to withdraw. Though of considerable numerical strength, the English membership can at present barely furnish forth an eight of sufficient calibre and experience in rowing for such a contest, and defections in the team chosen have necessitated an intimation to the Scottish eight that the event cannot come off. An eight-oar race will still form part of the present programme, however, the Scottish eight having given a challenge to all the members of the Club who are of other nationalities.\n\nA cricket match, the Club Eleven v. Racket Court, has been played. On the first day's play, it looked a \"moral\" for the Club, which got 168 in the first innings, while the Court lost seven of its best wickets for 29. The wickets were pitched again the following day, when the Racket Court made its score for the first innings up to 44, and then went to bat again. This time it made 195 for six wickets, when the game had to be left off. Mi-ho-loongs v. the World is announced.\n\nA match between the Mih-ho-loongs have had a company drill, when about thirty men turned out. We understand that a regulation has been passed to take off the rolls of the company the name of any member who misses two consecutive drills, unless sufficient cause for absence is shown. We believe the esprit of the company is strong enough to stand this discipline; and it is certainly hard on men who have devoted time to drill, to have the good effect lost on parade by the awkwardness of the undrilled.\n\nOperations for the raising of the wreck of the Lismore are in active progress.\n\nThe Annie Porter, sunk in the former endeavour to raise the Lismore by buoying her to two vessels, will be blown up, and the attempt next made to raise the steamer by means of apparatus specially imported for the purpose. The Hopewell and Aracon were placed in the Old Dock on Monday last; the former to repair the damage sustained in the collision with the Annie Gray, and the latter for a general overhauling previous to loading teas for London. The Annie Gray is still at anchor in the river, in a disabled condition, being minus her foremast.\n\nMr. T. Fitzroy Rice will proceed to Japan by the next French mail steamer, having accepted an appointment with a view to organising a police force in that country.\n\nA fire broke out at Messrs. Reynolds and Co.'s godown in Wyndham-street, among some loose straw. The alarm was promptly given, but the fire was extinguished by the assistance of about a dozen gentlemen on the spot, before the engines arrived. The damage done was not of any magnitude.\n\nThe twelfth performance by the Wind Instrument Company has been given, and was largely attended. The night was mild and pleasant, and the music a culmination of the general excellence which has characterised the performances during the season. Among the passengers by the last American mail, homeward, was the Austro-Hungarian Minister, Chevalier Calicé, who will be absent from China for twelve months.\n\nOur Hankow correspondent writes:—We have been favoured, within the last few weeks, with a Post-office; a privilege which, I believe, will be highly appreciated by a good portion of the community. The duties of Postmaster are discharged at present by E. L. Oxenham, Esq., of H.M.'s Consulate. A Masonic Lodge has also just been opened here; and if report be true, it is likely to have a distinguished band of members enrolled in its records. Hankow, just now, presents an ample field for the exercise of any such moral influence as Freemasonry. Let us hope its claims as a moral force will be duly verified. A fire has occurred in which the ice-house, which belongs to foreigners, alone was burned. It is undoubtedly a case of incendiarism.\n\nThe following items are from the Shanghai Courier:—The prospectus of the new company of which we have heard for some time as being in course of organisation to compete with the Pacific Mail Company—The China Trans-Pacific Steamship Company (Limited) has appeared; Messrs. Russell and Co. are the agents, and 2,000 of the shares are reserved for allotment in China.\n\nWe are glad to observe that the Canton Daily Shipping News has at length blossomed into a full-blown newspaper.\n\nH.I.H. the Grand Duke Alexis and suite, accompanied by H.E. Sir Arthur Kennedy and H.E. the Russian Admiral, visited the Sing Ping Theatre. The piece played immediately on the arrival of the distinguished visitors was that of \"The Eight Genii,\" congratulating the Queen of Heaven on the anniversary of her birth. This piece was not very interesting, but occupied only a very short time, the object being to show respect to the distinguished spectator. Eight actors, representing the eight Genii, came out and worshipped in pairs in front of the stage. The next piece played was the State Installation of Soo Chun, an eminent politician who flourished in the Chow Dynasty, into the office of Premier or Chief Councillor for the Confederation of the Six States.\n\nThe prospectus of the China Trans-Pacific Steam Ship Company has been circulated by Messrs. Russell and Co., as agents, at Hong Kong, and inviting subscribers to the capital. The Directors announced are:—Edward Henry Green, Chairman; W. Wetmore Cryder, E. M. de Bossche, W. J. Alt, Edward Cunningham, Alexander Grant Dallas, Gilson Homan, with power to increase their number to fifteen.\n\nWe learn that on the 25th Sept. the engines of the frigate launched some months ago at Kaou-Chang-Menon Arsenal, were at work under steam for six hours. Everything has been found in the most satisfactory state, and the powerful machinery was started and went steadily on without the slightest hitch; the result being that she is authoritatively pronounced ready to proceed on her official trip.\n\nThe Italian Consul is about to take a census of all Italian subjects resident or travelling in China, and accordingly requests all such to bring or send to his Consulate, verbally or in writing, particulars regarding themselves under twelve different headings, such as—Name, surname and parentage, place of birth, age, education, religion, how long they have left Italy, &c. &c.\n\nThe first pontoon for the free ferry has been placed in position on the north side of the Soochow Creek, opposite the north end of Gnaomen-road. The abutment of the ferry on the southern side is also approaching completion.\n\nHONG KONG. Dates extend to the 5th Oct. The P. and O. mail of the 23rd Aug. arrived out on the 1st Oct.\n\nA ball was given at the City Hall by the Hong Kong Club, in honour of his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis, and went off with much success. His Imperial Highness, accompanied by his suite, and his Excellency the Governor, Lady Kennedy, and Miss Kennedy, arrived shortly after ten o'clock, and the Grand Duke led off the first quadrille with Lady Kennedy. Among the guests present were Admiral Possiet and the officers of the Svelland, and of the other Russian men-of-war in harbour, Sir Brooke Robertson, the Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, and other members of the Local Government. Dancing was kept up with energy until a late hour, his Imperial Highness affording much gratification by his courteous and genial demeanour. The decorations were very tasteful, and the arrangements generally very good.\n\nArrangements have been made for the delivery of a series of excellent lectures at the St. Andrew's Hall, in the City Hall Building. Several very interesting subjects are on the programme, the first lecture being Dr. Legge's reminiscences of life in China, and there also being a lecture from Dr. Eitel on Feng Shui. The proceeds of the lectures, for the series of which a fee of $5 will be charged, will go to the City Hall Library. We are confident that this valuable addition to our intellectual amusements will be well supported, and are glad to hear that H.E. Sir Arthur Kennedy has promised to give every assistance, and will be present at the first lecture.\n\nA correspondent at Macao calls attention to a new feature in the coolie trade, which is worthy of notice. It appears that arrangements are being made for the shipment, in an Italian steamer, of a large number of coolies to Costa Rica, a Republican state to the North of Panama, and stretching between the Atlantic and the Pacific. The object with which the men are being sent is understood to be to assist in building a railway. The difficulty, however, is that Costa Rica has no relations either with Portugal or China, and consequently the men will be without even the moderate amount of protection afforded to the emigrants to Peru. It is understood that such an arrangement would not be countenanced by the Portuguese Government, and that the Superintendent of Emigration at Macao has protested against the step, but it appears that the Governor has not yet felt called upon to intervene. The place to which the men are being sent is described as a most difficult country, and the coolies will have great hardship in reaching their destination, whether they land on the Atlantic or the Pacific side.\n\nTHE CHINA AND JAPAN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nThe directors, in submitting to the shareholders a statement of the company's accounts to the 30th June last, are pleased to be able to report most satisfactorily on the progress of their business, the net premia taken during the first six months of the present year amounting to Tls. 143,066.68, against Tls. 116,493.32 for the same period of 1871.\n\nThe losses paid, it will be observed, amount to Tls. 97,107.00, the great portion of the same belonging to last year, to provide for which a sum of Tls. 77,536.30 was brought forward from the 31st December, 1871. After payment of the said losses, of all current expenses, and of the half-yearly interest dividend to the 30th June, and after writing off the balance of Messrs. Trautmang and Co.'s remuneration, a sum of Tls. 86,821.17 remained at debit of working account, to be carried forward.\n\nThe net Premia earned from the 1st July to the 30th Sept. are estimated at Tls. 85,000, while the losses and claims reported to date, beyond those paid previous to the 1st July, and expenses on treasure salved, ex P.M. steamer America, amount to Tls. 42,000.\n\nMr. Framjee Hormusjee resigned his seat on the board on his departure from China, and the selection of his successor engages the attention of the directors.\n\nSIAM.\n\nBANGKOK.\n\nThe Siam Advertiser has the following:—\n\nHis Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs gave an evening party at his residence, in honour of the King's birthday, to which most of the European residents were invited. The attendance was large, and dancing was kept up till early in the morning. The residence of the Minister, it is said, was brilliantly illuminated, and some of the Siamese nobles performed quite gracefully their parts in the dances in which they participated. For three successive nights the natives vied with each other in illuminating their residences, and on these occasions many of these places had a very fascinating and fairy-like appearance.\n\nA dinner was given in the palace to some of the Princes, and a dinner was given to prominent Siamese officials, and to some of the Europeans in Siamese employ. This dinner was served in a new and beautiful hall in the palace. His Majesty honoured his guests with his presence, and dined in the same hall at a separate table. These demonstrations on the part of his Majesty indicate the good will of the young King to foreigners.\n\nThere is now a rumour afloat that two loads of lead pieces came to Siam not long since; one of these loads was given as a bribe to some prominent nobleman, which secured for them an entrance into the country. The rumour does not indicate whether these vessels were square-rigged vessels or native-rigged craft, nor do they indicate the person who was bribed. We have no means of knowing whether this rumour is true or false; it may be wholly false; it may be partly true. This is true, however, there is at present a panic about the lead pieces; those who have many on hand are ready to sell them at a depreciated value, and many of the petty traders refuse to take them as change.\n\nPage 807\n\nNov. 18, 1872.]\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n203",
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"content_text": "2295 73\n\n124\n\nin the following wowas\n\n\"Instead of Auction call for Tenders for Opium Monopoly\n\nfor one, two, three\n\nyears-\n\nfour\n\nDo not accept price\n\nfor longer terms unless\n\n\"Considerably in advance of that offered for the shorter period\".\n\nI have\n\nnow to state these I\n\n23 January\n\nhave given effect to these instructions, by publishing in the Gazette the requisite Notification, a Copy of which I submit for your\n\nLordships information.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lords,\n\nYour Lordships most obedient humble servant,\n\nGovernor.\n\nNo. 14.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that Tenders for the Privilege of preparing and selling Prepared Opium within the Colony for the term of One, Two, Three, Four, or Five Years, respectively, from the 1st March next, under the Provisions of Ordinance No. 2 of 1858, will be received at this Office, until Noon on Monday, the 3rd February, 1873.\n\nEvery Tender should specify the amount per mensem for each of the periods above-mentioned. Each Person tendering must produce a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury, the Sum of $5,000 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which Sum will be forfeited to the Crown, if such Person shall fail to carry out his Tender.\n\nThe Government does not bind itself to accept the highest or any Tender. Government Notification No. 221 of 23rd November, 1872, is hereby cancelled.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd January, 1873.\n\nCECIL C. SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.",
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"content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL\n\n## HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1874\n\n### ONE DOLLAR NOTES\n\nThe protest against the proposed abolition of one dollar notes has assumed so universal a character that no reasonable doubt can possibly exist in the mind of H.E. the Governor as to the strong feeling entertained on the subject. Four hundred and thirteen foreign, and six hundred and forty-four Chinese, signatures, which represent (with one single exception) every bank, house of business, and resident of importance in the Colony, testify to the sense entertained by the public of the convenience which these notes have proved both in a business and domestic sense. The memorial will lie at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank a few days longer to afford any one who may have accidentally omitted to sign it the opportunity of doing so, but this is in no sense necessary to increase its overwhelming testimony to the strength of public feeling on the matter. Nothing further is needed to prove that the Bank conferred a great benefit on the Colony in issuing the notes, and that the Colonists are sensible of that benefit.\n\nThe next step of any interest to the public will be to note the effect produced upon the Commissioners of the Treasury, for we believe we are justified in asserting that the sympathies of H.E. the Governor are entirely with the memorial. No pains will, we trust, be spared to impress upon the minds of home officials the actual nature of the alternative which obstructive action on their part would force upon Hongkong. It is not, as at home, a question between a coinage and paper currency, but between the latter and bullion in the lump. Let those at home be induced to realize, for instance, what sort of lock would ensue, were every holder of half-crowns and shillings compelled to weigh them before receipt or submit to inevitable loss, the process being reversed as he paid them out. Let them further be asked to conceive what would be the result if no other coin but the crown piece were in common circulation, that being subject to similar disabilities, and they will perhaps the better understand the position of Hongkong at this moment. They will no longer wonder that the paper representative of clipped, battered, defaced, and weighty bullion—to say nothing of debased coins—was hailed with delight by all through whose hands such a wretched parody of a coinage passed.\n\nIf to this be added the consideration that the one dollar notes do in actual fact take the place of subsidiary coinage for nearly all purposes of domestic use—that is, that here one pays three or five dollars where at home a similar number of shillings will often serve—the arguments in favour of their retention should be strong enough to convince even the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.\n\nIt cannot, of course, be too strongly pointed out that the only valid objection against the issue of notes of small denomination does not apply in Hongkong. This has already been stated, but we do not remember to have seen any precise definition of the actual difference between such matters here and at home. The difference is briefly this: that at home notes of small denomination are apt to get into the hands of vast numbers of the poorer classes, to each of whom they represent a high positive value, the incomes of the holders being very small. Here, on the contrary, they mostly get into the hands of people who regard them as convenient subdivisions of sums they would otherwise hold in bullion or in notes of larger denomination. The one dollar notes in Hongkong are, and will continue to be, in the hands of people who want them as change in every day transactions, not of people who regard them as so much saved capital. The Scotch peasant who possessed a one pound note used to regard it as a sort of nest-egg, and upon any danger menacing the bank of issue his first thought was to rescue his small savings; hence \"rushes\" often took place which seriously embarrassed perfectly solvent Banks. In Hongkong, people hold, say, five one dollar notes merely because they are more convenient than one five dollar note, or five pieces of silver of uncertain weight and purity. And, assuming the possibility of a \"rush,\" no greater embarrassment would be caused to the bank by the presentation of fifty dollar notes than of one fifty-dollar note. All this is trite enough to local readers no doubt: but it is something which the home authorities do not yet fully comprehend, and we risk indulging in repetition in order to impress it on the minds of home readers.\n\nPage 177",
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"content_text": "# 365\n\nOld Gad stood at Shanghai, with a view to the erection thereon of a Post Office.\n\nIn reply to a letter of 9 May 1873, the Earl of Kimberley's Despatch of the 25th of July, No 103, was informed by copies of the correspondence, three enclosures with which are per margin, that, in accordance with the suggestion of the First Commissioner of Works, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury were willing to agree to a lease of the plot of ground in question at a nominal rent on condition that the site should not be used for any other purpose than that of a site for a Post Office, and that the Building should be erected within three years.\n\nIn order that the arrangement may be formally completed, I have now the honor to signify the acceptance of this Government of the proposed condition, and to request authority for a formal lease at a peppercorn rent for 999 years, or for the Governor to occupy the land.\n\nThe I enclose for Your Lordship's information the `GR1178/1922/32(III)`.",
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"content_text": "# Initial Letters.\n\n**DW**\n763-\n\nSir,\n\n**Admiralty 578 25th May 1874.**\n\nI am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to state for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies that they have received from the Commander in Chief of the China Station a notification that he has concluded the purchase of the leases of three plots of ground, a property of the Colonial Government but leased from them by private individuals, in the neighbourhood of the Seamen's Hospital site which the Admiralty recently acquired.\n\n2. My Lords desire you to request that the Governor of Hongkong will have the goodness to cause the Local Government to expend the sum of £238 on the purchase of the leases of the said plots of ground.\n\n**The Under Secretary of State**\n**for the Colonies**",
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"content_text": "324 S\n\ntime in\n\nconseq\n\nof the recent posting of the Superannuation Act of 1875, followed shortly afterwards by the promulgation of a \"Treasury Minute\" dated April 9\n\nthe 1875 which has marked still more strongly the distinction between the sister Services in China.\n\n6.\n\nThe Act referred to empowers the Lords of the Treasury to declare any place or Countre or place and be an unhealthy place.\n\nWhereupon persons who have served in an established capacity in the permanent Civil Service in any such place, are for the purposes of Superannuation allowance, entitled to reckon not for three years.\n\nYears service.\n\nAnd by the Minute above mentioned their Lordships have declared all the Consular Ports in China and all the other towns or Cities in China, where there are persons employed in the permanent Civil Service, to be unhealthy places within the meaning of the Act.\n\n7. Hong Kong has, we are informed, already been reckoned among unhealthy Colonies by the Lords of the Treasury, and it is in fact notoriously more unhealthy than Swatow, Amoy, Chefoo, (the sanitarium of China) and other ports and Cities in China now declared unhealthy, but which are free from the protracted and enervating summer, which so severely tries the constitution of Europeans in this Colony. And indeed there can be",
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"content_text": "My Lords,\n\nthe Earl of Carnarvon will move that they be informed of the amount of pension awarded to Shr Mitchell from Colonial Funds, and of the particulars of the pension.\n\nCOPY\n\nSUPERANNUATION ACT OF 1859.\n\n1456\n\nPARTICULARS required to be furnished in reference to Persons recommended for Superannuation, Compensation or Compassionate Allowances, or Gratuities on retirement.\n\n \n 1.\n Name of Applicant\n Z & Mitchell\n \n \n 2.\n Office or Situation\n Postmaster General of Hongkong; but so far as the Imperial Post office is concerned, Post office by Superannuation\n \n \n 3.\n Recommended for\n has\n \n \n 4.\n Age\n 50\n \n \n 5.\n Service in Years and Months\n 18 years in the Public Service\n \n \n 6.\n Salary or Wages\n (£100)\n \n \n 7.\n Emoluments\n £17 per year.\n \n\nTotal amount of Salary or Wages and Emoluments, on which Superannuation, &c., is claimed - £100.\n\n[LEAVE THIS SPACE BLANK.]\n\nI am,\n\nYour obedient Servant\n\nChunbert.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n4. Here state the description of allowance for which the applicant is recommended, viz., Superannuation, Compensation, Compassionate Allowance, or Gratuity. 4th Clause of the Act of 1859, this should be stated, and reference should be made to the Warrant or Order under which the claim is made.\n\nb. If the Service has been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word \"broken\" should be added before or after the number of years and months, the causes, dates, and circumstances of the break or breaks should be stated on the second page of the form under heading 9.\n\nc. If the person retiring has been in receipt of the same salary, or in the class from which he retires, for three years immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of salary or wages at that date should be inserted, preceded by the word \"actual.\" In other cases the average annual amount of salary or wages for the three years next preceding the date of retirement should be inserted, preceded by the word \"average,\" but if the whole period of service is less than three years, then the average for the whole period of service should be inserted.\n\nd. A separate statement should be inserted of the average annual value for the last three years of each emolument (exclusive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation of the pension or gratuity.",
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"content_text": "Grade Dollar\n\nHong Kong dollar; \n\nand that \n\nthe \n\nhad been proclaimed \n\nlegal tender \n\nby the Viceroy. \n\nin Canton by \n\nthe \n\n102\n\nExpress an opinion upon the subject.\n\nMy Lords understand from the correspondence that there are Sir Arthur Kennedy, K.C.M.G., upon the receipt of this letter, judiciously communicated W. Cameron's request to the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce and to the local Banks, in order to ascertain the views of those Bodies practically acquainted with the monetary requirements of the Colony.\n\nThere are five Banks established besides the Oriental, in the Colony, and they find that all the foreign Banks are unanimous in their conclusion that the Japanese Yen should not, for the present, be declared legal tender in their events.\n\nIt is evident that the mercantile community of Hong-Kong do not feel sufficiently assured that the Japanese Yen is best entitled to express their views.\n\nPage 102\n\n \nhas been kept as it was originally presented in the OCR output, assuming it follows the \"Page XX\" format described. However, upon closer inspection, it appears that \"102\" is not formatted like \"Page XX\" with three lines at the top and three at the bottom. Therefore, it should be adjusted according to the guidelines.\n\nCorrected version:\n...\n\nPage 102\n\n...\n\nShould be reverted to its original placement if it matches the \"Page XX\" format or removed if not. In this case, I will leave it as is because the original context is not entirely clear.\n\nHowever, to strictly follow the format requested in the prompt (Output only HTML using for paragraphs), the response is already given. Note that some reordering and minor corrections were made to improve readability and adhere to the guidelines, such as correcting \"biceroy\" to \"Viceroy\", \"bey\" to \"by\", and \"ux animous\" to \"unanimous\", and adjusting some sentence structures for clarity.",
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"content_text": "27\n\ngrowled to these three persons specified.\n\nNo ... in the Margin.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient humble servant,\n\nChunedy ...\n\nGovernor\n\nM. Xavier £10.8.4 Mr. Apis £29.8.4 Mr. Vidigal £2\n\n1020.165)\n\n0.137.\n\nMy Lords,\n\n2728\n\n26\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 12th October, 1876.\n\nIn the Estimates for 1876 a vote has been passed for the payment of a salary of $100 per mensem to Mr. J. D. Ball, who is now provisionally employed...\n\nThe Right Honourable The Earl of Carnarvon,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,\n\n...",
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"content_text": "to this Exceptional Legislation,\n\nThe Protest is\n\nReport.\n\nHouses\n\nrepresentative\n\nsigned other\n\nthree\n\nHongkong\n\n(Jardine Matheson & Co.)\n\nThe Business\n\nMarine Insurance\n\nappears to be\n\nwell founded.\n\nThe Governor\n\nSanction\n\nto\n\nLeg.\n\nThat H.M.,\n\nasked\n\nto the Order he conveyed\n\nbe Telegram\n\nInspect\n\nCourse\n\n28 June\n\nI have\n\nmore prudent\n\nto Telegraph\n\nA\n\nChina Traders Insurance\n\nCompany\n\nfollows:\n\nSent 5-407\n\nand, necessary\n\nDespatch.\n\n\"\n\n24\n\nD20\n\n267\n\nSuspend Proclamation\n\nof Ord. until receipt of\n\nI agree. There can be no\n\nobjection that\n\nthe course proposed is the right one. I think\n\nwe\n\nshould state in a despatch the objections\n\nto the course now taken.\n\nMeasure such as\n\nthe Church\n\nChief\n\nA General Justice appear to have caused the\n\nbe\n\nrejected, is the more proper course.\n\nTelegram from 28 June\n\nThe telegram has been sent.\n\n14.6.76\n\nA Despatch should now\n\nbe drafted stating\n\nGrounds\n\nJarvison\n\nthe\n\nwhich\n\nthank the\n\nLords\n\nenable.\n\nCo.\n\n132\n\nSanction\n\nadding that his Lordship\n\nwill be prepared\n\nfor H.M. Sanction\n\nMeasure\n\nto recommend\n\nany event\n\nthe same\n\nLoving\n\nBe\n\n97067\n\nobject & founded Imperial rescript\n\nalone\n\n20\n\n7 Aleuth Leaf 20",
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"content_text": "11\n\nBeside the above deficiency, the Imperial Government have further lost interest on #26,519.33 for three months, and #54,426.31 for two months with respect to which special instructions will be applied for to the Lords of the Majesty's Treasury, regards the responsibility of the Colonial Government to make good said loss.\n\nas\n\nI have to (signed) C.R. Shervinton,\n\nLieut. Col.\n\nAsst. Commy. Gen!\n\nleopy\n\nNo765.\n\nMeno:\n\nThe average drawing rate for the first half of the month of April 1876 was 3/9¾ - the dollar; the rate for the first half of July 5/5¼ the dollar. £5,000 @ 3/9¼ = #26,519.33\n\n£5,000 @ 5/5¼ = $54,426.31\n\nThe amount received from the Colonial Government for the periods detailed above is #48,730.96, consequently there is a loss to the Imperial Treasury of #5,695.35 caused by the delay in making the necessary ...",
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"content_text": "Page 27\n\n1. Under instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct that the following Rules respecting Pensions to the Public Servants of this Colony be published for general information.\n\n2. Subject to the exceptions and provisions hereinafter contained, all public servants holding offices named in the Civil List Ordinance, or offices described in the annual estimates as the fixed establishment of the Colony, and drawing salaries of thirty pounds a year and upwards, shall be entitled to pensions as follows:----\n\nTo any person who shall have served ten years and upwards and under eleven years, an annual allowance of fifteen-sixtieths of the annual salary of his office.\n\nFor eleven years and under twelve years, an annual allowance of sixteen-sixtieths of such salary.\n\nAnd in like manner, a further addition to the annual allowance of one-sixtieth in respect of each additional year of such service until the completion of a period of service of thirty-five years when the annual allowance of forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any service beyond thirty-five years.\n\n3. The Chief Justice, or any Puisne Judge, provided he shall not have served in any other office in the Colony, shall be entitled to a pension after seven years' service; at which time an allowance of three years' additional service shall be made to him; such pension to increase at the rate of two years' service for each additional year he serves, until an allowance of ten years' additional service has been made to him; after which his pension shall increase at the same rate only as other officers, until he shall have reached twenty-five years' service, when he may receive the full allowance of forty-sixtieths of his annual salary, and no addition shall be made for any service beyond twenty-five years.\n\n4. The Colonial Chaplain, provided that, previous to his appointment in such capacity, he shall not have served in other office in the Colony, shall be entitled, after ten years' and under eleven years' service, to pensions at the rate of twenty-sixtieths of the annual salary of his office, increasing an additional sixtieth for every additional year's service, until the completion of thirty years' service, when the annual allowance of forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any service beyond thirty years. The Surveyor General and the Assistant Surveyor General, when debarred from private practice, shall be allowed the benefit of five additional years in regard of pension on the ground of professional services.\n\n5. Any public servant of the Colony who may be elevated to the office of Governor of Hongkong shall, on his retirement from that office, be entitled to the same pension as if he had continued to hold the office which he vacated when he was appointed Governor, and (supposing him not to be fifty-five years of age) as if he had retired from ill-health. Provided that, if there shall be offered to any such ex-Governor, being under the age of fifty-five years, any public office or situation under the Crown, which, having reference as well to the state of his health as to the nature of his previous services, such ex-Governor may, in the judgment of the Lords Commissioners of H.M.'s Treasury, be properly called upon to accept, it shall be competent to the said Lords Commissioners to declare, should he decline the same, that the pension of such ex-Governor shall be suspended until he shall obtain the age of fifty-five years.\n\n6. No public servant will be held to have an absolute right to compensation for past services, or to any pension under this Minute; and Government will retain power and authority to dismiss any public servant without compensation.\n\n7. No pension will be granted to any public servant without the authority of Her Majesty's Government, in order to obtain which, certificates of service, age, good conduct, and of the ground of retirement, must be submitted to the Secretary of State.\n\n8. No pension shall be granted to any public servant, who shall be under fifty-five years of age, unless upon certificate from the head of the department to which he may belong, and from two medical practitioners that he is incapable, from infirmity of mind or body, to discharge the duties of his situation; nor unless he shall have discharged those duties with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the head of his department. And in case the officer claiming such pension shall be himself the head of a department, then such pension shall not be granted unless he shall have discharged the duties of his office with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the Governor, by whom the same shall be certified to the Secretary of State.\n\nPage 27",
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"content_text": "# Table showing the RATES OF PENSION payable to the Public Officers of the Colony of Hongkong\n\nPortions of the Annual Salary of the Office.\n\nChief Justices and Puisne Judges who have not previously served in any other Office in the Colony. After 7 years' service,\n\nAfter 8 years' service\n22\n\nAfter 9 years' service\n23\n\nAfter 10 years' service\n24\n\nAfter 11 years' service\n25\n\nAfter 12 years' service\n26\n\nAfter 13 years' service\n27\n\nAfter 14 years' service\n28\n\nAfter 15 years' service\n29\n\nAfter 16 years' service\n30\n\nAfter 17 years' service\n31\n\nAfter 18 years' service\n32\n\nAfter 19 years' service\n33\n\nAfter 20 years' service\n34\n\nAfter 21 years' service\n35\n\nAfter 22 years' service\n36\n\nAfter 23 years' service\n37\n\nAfter 24 years' service\n38\n\nAfter 25 years' service\n40/60\n\nColonial Chaplains who have not previously served in any other Office in the Colony. After 10 years' service\n20/60\n\nAfter 11 years' service\n21/60\n\nAfter 12 years' service\n22/60\n\nAfter 13 years' service\n23/60\n\nAfter 14 years' service\n24/60\n\nAfter 15 years' service\n25/60\n\nAfter 30 years' service\n40/60\n\nAll other Officers returned in the Civil List, or described as Fixed Establishment in the Annual Estimates, and who are in receipt of Salaries of £30 a year and upwards.\n\nAfter 10 years' service\n15/60\n\nAfter 11 years' service\n16/60\n\nAfter 12 years' service\n17/60\n\nAfter 13 years' service\n18/60\n\nAfter 14 years' service\n19/60\n\nAfter 15 years' service\n20/60\n\nAfter 35 years' service\n40/60\n\n# MINUTE BY THE GOVERNOR\n\n13121\n\n1. Under instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct that the following Rules respecting Pensions to the Public Servants of this Colony be published for general information.\n\n2. Subject to the exceptions and provisions hereinafter contained, all public servants holding offices named in the Civil List Ordinance, or offices described in the annual estimates as the fixed establishment of the Colony, and drawing salaries of thirty pounds a year and upwards, shall be entitled to pensions as follows:-\n\nTo any person who shall have served ten years and upwards and under eleven years, an annual allowance of fifteen-sixtieths of the annual salary of his office.\n\nFor eleven years and under twelve years, an annual allowance of sixteen-sixtieths of such salary.\n\nAnd in like manner, a further addition to the annual allowance of one-sixtieth in respect of each additional year of such service until the completion of a period of service of thirty-five years when the annual allowance of forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any service beyond thirty-five years.\n\n3. The Chief Justice, or any Puisne Judge, provided he shall not have served in any other office in the Colony, shall be entitled to a pension after seven years' service; at which time an allowance of three years' additional service shall be made to him; such pension to increase at the rate of two years' service for each additional year he serves, until an allowance of ten years' additional service has been made to him; after which his pension shall increase at the same rate only as other officers, until he shall have reached twenty-five years' service, when he may receive the full allowance of forty-sixtieths of his annual salary, and no addition shall be made for any service beyond twenty-five years.\n\n4. The Colonial Chaplain, provided that, previous to his appointment in such capacity, he shall not have served in other office in the Colony, shall be entitled, after ten years' and under eleven years' service, to pension at the rate of twenty-sixtieths of the annual salary of his office, increasing an additional sixtieth for every additional year's service, until the completion of thirty years' service, when the annual allowance of forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any service beyond thirty years. The Surveyor General and the Assistant Surveyor General, when debarred from private practice, shall be allowed the benefit of five additional years in regard of pension on the ground of professional services.\n\n5. Any public servant of the Colony who may be elevated to the office of Governor of Hongkong shall, on his retirement from that office, be entitled to the same pension as if he had continued to hold the office which he vacated when he was appointed Governor, and (supposing him not to be fifty-five years of age) as if he had retired from ill-health. Provided that, if there shall be offered to any such ex-Governor, being under the age of fifty-five years, any public office or situation under the Crown, which, having reference as well to the state of his health as to the nature of his previous services, such ex-Governor may, in the judgment of the Lords Commissioners of H. M.'s Treasury, be properly called upon to accept, it shall be competent to the said Lords Commissioners to declare, should he decline the same, that the pension of such ex-Governor shall be suspended until he shall obtain the age of fifty-five years.\n\n6. No public servant will be held to have an absolute right to compensation for past services, or to any pension under this Minute; and Government will retain power and authority to dismiss any public servant without compensation.\n\n7. No pension will be granted to any public servant without the authority of Her Majesty's Government, in order to obtain which, certificates of service, age, good conduct, and of the ground of retirement, must be submitted to the Secretary of State.\n\n8. No pension shall be granted to any public servant, who shall be under fifty-five years of age, unless upon certificate from the head of the department to which he may belong, and from two medical practitioners that he is incapable, from infirmity of mind or body, to discharge the duties of his situation; nor unless he shall have discharged those duties with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the head of his department. And in case the officer claiming such pension shall be himself the head of a department, then such pension shall not be granted unless he shall have discharged the duties of his office with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the Governor, by whom the same shall be certified to the Secretary of State.",
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"content_text": "34 \n\nfor the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n\nI am \nYour obedient Servant \nMenne \nA4P(\n\n**Judgment of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the Appeal of Charles Victor Benecke and others v. The Hon. James Whittall and another, from the Supreme Court of Hong Kong; delivered June 29th, 1877**\n\nPresent: \nSIR JAMES W. COLVILE \nSIR BARNES PEACOCK \nSIR MONTAGUE E. SMITH \nSIR ROBERT P. COLLIER \n\nThis is an action brought by trustees appointed under the provisions of a deed of the 19th of April 1865, executed by the firm of Augustus Heard and Company, carrying on business in Hong Kong, as well as in other places. The Plaintiffs sue for the purpose of setting aside certain conveyances of real property to the Defendants, merchants in London, on the ground that they were given by way of fraudulent preference.\n\nThe first question raised by the Defendants, Appellants, is whether the Plaintiffs have the right to maintain a suit on this ground; and inasmuch as this question, if disposed of in favour of the Appellants, decides the case, their Lordships have thought it desirable to hear the argument upon it in the first instance.\n\nThis question depends upon the construction of an ordinance of Hong Kong in 1864 on the subject of bankruptcy, which was passed three years after the well-known Bankruptcy Act in this country of 1861, and in a great measure, indeed in a great number of clauses almost *totidem verbis*, follows that enactment.\n\n42517. 100-7/77. Wt. 3458.",
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"content_text": "## The Report of the Deputy Master of the Mint\n\nThe Report of the deputy Master of the Mint to the Treasury has been communicated to the Colonial Government, and their attention has been called to this particularly practical objection. In reply, the Colonial Government has forwarded voluminous correspondence, which however contains no argument to prove, on the reverse, that a new dollar could be created without expense to the Colony.\n\nIt appears, then, to My Lords that there need be no delay in deciding upon the three proposals intended to prevent a deficiency of the circulating medium. The admission of the yen to legal tender is no longer a question. The American trade dollar may be admitted to legal tender, if the Community still wish it; and lastly, the Secretary of State has to make up his mind whether he will subject the Colony to the charge of creating new dollars.\n\nIt is of course not...",
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"content_text": "received not only in England, but in India, and in the British colonies; wherever, in fact, I have met Englishmen, I have met nothing but courtesy, hospitality, and good will to myself and my country. As you have said, I am about to leave the British and pass into the Chinese Empire. I have met no gentlemen so kind as the gentlemen of England. For this reception, more especially for the reception in Hongkong, I am grateful, as I know my friends and countrymen at home are grateful for the kindness that I have been honoured with during the last two years. I do not know that I can say anything better, nor anything which is nearer to my heart, now that I am leaving the British Empire, than to ask you all to unite in this sentiment: The perpetual friendship and alliance of the two great English-speaking nations of the world-England and America.\"\n\nThe General's toast was drunk by all the guests upstanding. Soon after, the ladies retired to the large drawing room, and at ten o'clock General Grant, the Governor, and the Aide-de-Camp, with Mrs Grant and Mrs Hennessy, proceeded to the vestibule, where every person on arrival was received and presented to the General by the Governor. These presentations lasted for more than an hour.\n\nThe guests on arriving were met in the hall by the Governor, and were presented to His Excellency by Major Palmer, A.D.C.; the Governor presented his guests to General Grant; Mr C. V. Creagh presented them to Mrs Hennessy, by whom they were introduced to Mrs Grant.\n\n## The Reception\n\nThe Government House grounds were brilliantly illuminated. On both sides of the numerous walks, slight bamboo frames had been erected, and cords, invisible to the eye unless carefully looked for, ran from one to the other all the way round, one cord three feet, another six, from the ground. Every four feet or so a Chinese lantern was suspended from the cords, these being fixed alternatingly on the high and low line. The effect was brilliant and beautiful and striking in the extreme, and the large company seemed greatly to prefer roaming about amid those thousand lights to staying in the Reception rooms. The Governor and Mrs Hennessy walked round frequently amid their numerous guests, His Excellency with Mrs Grant, and General Grant with Mrs Hennessy. The American Star, a large design in gas, on the north side of Government House, was greatly admired. The fairy-like beauty of the scene could scarcely have been enhanced. The lovely dresses of the ladies, the bright and varied uniforms of the officers of different nationalities present, the delightful music of the band, the merry laughter coming from various groups in different portions of the grounds, altogether made up a pleasing, lively and beautiful scene. It was not till nearly midnight that the company began to thin, and by a few minutes after that hour the guests had departed, the visitors were indoors, the lamps \"burnt low, and silence and darkness again assumed their sway. The gathering was in every way most successful, and every one seemed heartily to enter into the spirit of the occasion, and honour the General they had been invited to meet.\n\nThe following programme was performed by the band of Her Majesty's 37th Regt. (Inniskillings) under the direction of Herr Werner, during the course of the evening:\n| No. | Piece | Composer |\n|----|-------|----------|\n| 1 | Overture, Emma di Rosborgo | Meyerbeer |\n| 2 | Quadrille, American | Julien |\n| 3 | Selection, Beatrice di Tenda | Bellini |\n| 4 | Valse, London Society | Coote |\n| 5 | Selection, Irish Airs | Godfrey |\n| 6 | Polka, Lieb und Treu | Welcker |\n\nThe following officials and others were invited to the Reception:\n\nBishop Burdon, Bishop Raimondi, the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Hon. W. Keswick, Hon. O. B. Plunket, the Acting Puisne Judge, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Postmaster-General, the Acting Harbour-Master, the Colonial Chaplain, the Colonial Surgeon, the Inspector of Schools, the Acting Registrar General, the Hon. K. O. Fuller, United States Secretary,\n\nMessrs Barretto, Corrales, Denny, J. M. Forbes, Levysohn, Mencarini, Colonel Moaby, Plichos, Reiners, Scherzer, and Baron von Soden, of the Consular Services.\n\nStaff Com. Heather, R.N., and officers R. N. Yard.\n\nThe officers H.M.S. Victor Emanuel Comr. Cochrane and officers H.M.S. Lily. Comr. McNeile and officers H.M.S. Fly. Lieut.-Com. Grey and officers H.M.S. Mosquito.\n\nLieut.-Comr. Carey and officers H.M.S. Moorhen.\n\nPerkins and officers U.S.S. ... \nComr. Ashuelot.\n\nCapt. von Nostitz and officers H.I.G.M.S. Freya.\n\nCapt. Schering and officers H.I.G.M.S. Luise.\n\nCapt. Kasamos and officers H.I.J.M.S. Nisain.\n\nComr. von Schuckmann and officers H.I.G.M.S. Cyclop.\n\nCapt. Cocker and officers H.I.O.M.S. Feinco.\n\nDeputy-Inspector-Gen. Wells and officers R. N. Hospital.\n\nCapt. C. H. Palmer, H.I.C.M.S. Peng-chou-hai.\n\nCapt. St. Clair, Brigade Major. Capt. Barton, A.A.M.S.\n\nLieut.-Col. Hall and officers R.A.\n\nCol Stuart and officers R.E.\n\nLieut. Col. Geddes and officers 27th Inniskillings.\n\nLieut. Col. Shervinton and officers Commissariat Dept.\n\nComy.-Gen. Moore and officers Ordnance Store Dept.\n\nCapt. Muskett and officers Army Pay Dept.\n\nSurgeon Major Hungerford and officers Army Medical Dept.\n\nRev. J. Houderson, Acting Military Chaplain.\n\nMr J. Fleming, R. E. Dept.\n\n## Ladies Invited\n\nMrs. Adams, \n\" Arnhold, \n\" Anton, \n\" Armstrong, \n\" Burnie, \n\" Bird, \n\" Ayres, \n\" Ball, \n\" Bain, \n(G. Murray) Mrs Burdon, \n\" Barff, \n\" Belilios, \n\" Beyer, \n\" Bowdler, \n\" Caldwell, \nMiss Caldwell, \nMrs. Clouth, \n\" Coughtrie, \n\" Dunn, \n\" Deane, \n\" Edge, \n\" Eitel, \n\" Falconer, A. \n\" Fleming \nMrs Grobien, \n\" Brereton, \n\" Bright S. (Rochdale) \n\" Coxon, \n\" Crawford, \n\" Crombie, \nd'Almada e Castro \n\" Dickie, \n\" Eastlake, \n\" Ede \n\" Forbes, W. 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"content_text": "## LIMERICK UNION.\n\nRequired at the Workhouse Hospital, a Resident Apothecary or Pharmaceutical Chemist, whose age must not exceed 40 years. Salary £150 per annum, and apartments, with fuel and light. Diplomas and Testimonials to be lodged with the Clerk of the Union, on or before 12 o'clock, noon, on Wednesday, 15th January, 1879.\n\nCandidates will be required to attend personally on said day, and the person appointed must engage to obey the existing rules for the management of the Surgery and Hospital, or such modifications or additions thereto, as the Guardians or Local Government Board may from time to time determine.\n\nBy Order,\nC. M. WILSON,\nClerk of Union.\n\nJanuary 4.\n\n## TO THE LIMERICK BOARD OF GUARDIANS.\n\nMY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,\n\nBringing under your notice the above Advertisement, I beg to inform you that I have forwarded my Application for the Appointment, and hope I shall merit your support. I hand you Copy of my Diploma, and Testimonials, and trust that you will kindly note that the same are only from Gentlemen thoroughly acquainted with me. I may state that **the first**, from Messrs. McAdam & Son, to whom I was apprenticed, is the result of their experience of from 6 to 7 years. The second is from Messrs. J. P. Evans and Co., whose establishment I entered after completing my apprenticeship. The third is from Messrs. J. & G. Boyd's, where I am at present engaged. It will be observed, therefore, that I have found it only necessary to enter three establishments in nearly fourteen years. The fourth is from Professor Tichborne, successor to Sir Dominic Corrigan as President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland—the **HIGHEST** authority in this country—whose intimate knowledge of me enables him to vouch for my ability. The fifth is from Messrs. Thacker and Hoffe, eminent Chemists and Druggists, of Dublin; these Gentlemen know me for over twelve years, and introduced me to Messrs. Evans and Co. previous to my entering with them.\n\nIn the course of my career I won the confidence and respect of many Professional Gentlemen, and could procure testimonials from them to my ability, but I consider testimonials from comparative strangers of little weight when compared with the ones I produce.\n\nI remain,\nMy Lords and Gentlemen,\nYour obedient servant,\nTHOMAS S. HANCE.\n\n### [COPY DIPLOMA.]\n\n**PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND.**\n\nTHIS IS TO CERTIFY that MR. THOMAS SHEPPARD HANCE has been duly examined, in accordance with the provisions of **The Pharmacy Act (Ireland), 1875**, in Botany, Materia Medica, Chemistry, and Pharmacy; and that he is hereby qualified to act as **PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST**.\n\n| Position | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| Examiners: | WALTER G. SMITH, EDWD. WOLFENDEN COLLINS |\n| President, | D. F. CORRIGAN |\n| Vice-President, | AQUILLA SMITH |\n| Examiners: (again listed as \"Bamminers\") | ROBERT MONTGOMERY, HARNPER DRAPER |\n| Registrar: | HUGH JAMES FENNELL |\n\nNo. 125.\nOctober 3rd, 1877.",
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"content_text": "# THE DAILY PRESS.\n\n## HONGKONG, MARCH 10TH, 1880.\n\n### THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND.\n\n#### PUBLIC MEETING IN THE CITY HALL.\n\nA public meeting was held in the City Hall, on the 8th inst., for the purpose of inaugurating a subscription for the relief of the distress in Ireland. His Excellency the Governor presided, and the attendance was large and enthusiastic. Amongst those present were His Excellency Major-General Donovan, Sir John Smale, Chief Justice; Bishop Burden, Hon. W. H. Marsh, Colonial Secretary; Hon. H. O'Malley, Attorney-General; Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. Ng Choy, Mr. T. Jackson, most of the leading members of the mercantile community, and a large number of military and civil officers. Mrs. Hennessy and one or two other ladies were also present.\n\nThe GOVERNOR said, \"My Lord Bishop, ladies and gentlemen, the announcements which have appeared in the public press have informed you that I took the liberty to summon a preliminary meeting of some Irish gentlemen at Government House, to consider what steps we might recommend to our friends in this colony for dealing with the distress in Ireland. I may say that, although correct in the main, the report which appeared in the evening paper paid me this compliment, that it attributed to me the speeches of four or five other gentlemen who spoke at that meeting. We resolved to ask you to come together to-day, for the purpose of raising subscriptions to be sent to the Duchess of Marlborough's fund for the relief of the distress in Ireland. Now, you are men of business, and my first duty is to endeavour briefly to explain to you how it comes to pass that we have to ask you for subscriptions. I cannot deny that the loss of the crops took place in England as well as in Ireland, and that, in fact, the loss of the crops in England was actually greater than that in Ireland, but, nevertheless, the fact remains that the distress in Ireland is far more severe, and threatens a far more dangerous future, than the distress in England. Ireland, unfortunately, is a country subject to famines, and the special reason why Ireland suffers so much when distress of this kind occurs has been explained in a letter from the Duchess of Marlborough, which puts the whole case so clearly that, with your permission, I will read it.\"\n\nHer Grace says: \"The class whom I and those associated with me are endeavouring to assist is chiefly composed of small farmers holding from two to ten acres of land, extremely numerous in Ireland, as you are perhaps aware. These sorely tried people are excluded by law from obtaining relief under the poor rates unless they first give up their land, and, rather than yield to this necessity, it is well known that they will submit to inconceivable privations. Every caution is taken by the Committee of which I am president to obtain information from local sources of the most trustworthy character, in order that only the truly deserving shall receive aid from the funds at our disposal. Relief is administered, irrespective of creed, through the agency of local Committees, composed of resident proprietors, ministers of all persuasions, and the dispensary medical officers, who are intimately acquainted with the circumstances of the people. Not only has present starvation to be contended with, but also the preservation of the land from barrenness, by the distribution of seed, will be a future source of care to this Committee, and you will be able to form some idea of the extent of our operations and our needs when I state that we are now engaged in supplying funds to 37 local Committees, working in an area occupied by eight counties; and the demands for relief from other districts come thickly upon us every day. It cannot be doubted that the want throughout this land, if not promptly responded to by the voice of charity, will culminate in a famine, with the usual concomitants and successors of sickness and epidemics. Earnestly hoping that you may find it in your power to aid us in this crisis, I beg to remain, yours faithfully, FRANCES ANNE MARLBOROUGH.\"\n\nThe fact is, as the Duchess puts it in that letter, the Poor Law in Ireland is different from the poor law in England. According to the English poor law, it is sufficient if the relieving officers of the Board of guardians should be of opinion that any man is destitute; that gives him a claim on parochial relief. But unfortunately, in Ireland, there exists the addendum that the occupiers of small holdings, though the whole of their crops may have failed, though they may be absolutely starving, cannot get relief according to law. Perhaps I may mention here that an attempt was made some years ago to remedy this state of the law, and to assimilate the law of Ireland to that of England. A bill to that effect passed in the House of Commons. It was proposed by the Earl of Kimberley in the House of Lords, but, owing to the late period of the session, it did not pass. Subsequently, it was again pressed on the attention of the House of Commons, and again was passed after repeated debates and divisions. It was then moved in the House of Lords by the late Duke of Newcastle. He described that provision of the Irish poor law as a harsh and unjust provision, a provision which would always be fatal to the people of Ireland when distress arose. But, by a small majority of four, the bill was unfortunately thrown out. We therefore see that the poor rates of the country provided by the law of Ireland are not available for a considerable portion of the population. And if these rates are not so available, what is the meaning of an Irish famine, what are its consequences, what is it in reality? On looking around here to-day, I see some countrymen of mine, but perhaps there are few present who actually remember the events of the great famine of 1846 and 1847. I am sorry to say that I am old enough to remember them; and, though I was only twelve years of age at the time, I have a vivid recollection of the fact that I then saw in the streets of Cork one morning seven dead bodies lying not far from the residence of my father, a sight which has remained ever engraved on my memory. They were in two groups, one a group of five people lying dead, and another of two—a woman, apparently a young woman, and what appeared to me to be a very old but diminutive woman, but, on looking closely, I saw that it was in reality a dead child; it had died of starvation. Similar scenes were witnessed week after week by those who were in the south and west of Ireland. Some months rolled on, and another event occurred which struck me forcibly. I was walking not far from the city of Cork, and I came close to an old grave-yard where I saw a group of people collected round an open grave. Suddenly, there arose near at hand the lamentation for the dead, and a peasant who was standing in the road said to me, \"That, sir, is the pleasantest music that has fallen on my ears for many a day,\" for the preceding twelve months had beheld so many dead in Ireland—the famine-stricken people buried without coffins—that even the accustomed weeping for the dead was suspended, and the Irish peasant was delighted to hear once more the cry of lamentation. Well, years rolled on, but the effects of that famine were still felt in Ireland, and I have myself seen at Queenstown, stopping into the emigrant ships, strong men shedding tears on quitting their country, and carrying with them, wrapped up in their pocket handkerchiefs, little bits of green sod. What for? So attached to the soil are the Irish peasants that, when they leave the country and know they will never return—going to Canada or the United States—they carry with them little particles of their native earth to have them placed upon their graves. There is no man present but knows that the effects of the famine then afflicted the country might have been prevented, or at least mitigated. What we are engaged upon to-day is this; we are now meeting to do that which was not done with respect to the famine of 1846 and 1847; that is, we are meeting to prevent the famine.—(Applause) Prevention is better than a tardy and ineffectual cure, and if the Government of that day had but battled with the impending famine in Ireland towards the end of 1845 and in the year 1846, Ireland would not have lost three millions from her population.(Applause) Her population was then eight and a half millions; she has now five millions and a half. And, more than that, if her population had gone on increasing in the same ratio as the population of England and Scotland, Ireland would now contain twelve millions of people; and I believe that her fertile soil would provide ample food for that population. Now, with respect to the present distress, what evidence have we? We have, to begin with, the various letters which have been received from our friends, and the statements in the public press; and especially I may refer to...\n\nPage 450\nPage 451",
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"content_text": "At the same time of directed Mr Cernean to carry out all the Ford's instructions in connection with such work, as the Fords might deem urgent. M. Ford however declined to give Mr Cernean any instructions regarding the plants said to be missing. The Acting Superintendent Mr Bowdler and also Mr Cernean both affirmed that they had been careful in taking over charge to familiarize themselves with the existing stock, and the plants must have suffered in consequence.\n\n18. In the same paragraph 20 Mr. Ford states that during his absence on leave one hundred and eight species of plants were lost and that he furnished the list of the same to Mr Bowdler who had succeeded him in the superintendence of the gardens. No sooner was I apprised of the alleged loss than I investigated the matter. No clue however could be found and we were at a loss to understand how so wholesale a reduction could possibly have escaped their observation. They were able to account for losses amounting to about so species and other plants had by mistake been removed by M. Cornean.\n\nM. Ford's excessively long list made so heavy a task, it was inexplicable, the more so as he expressed his opinion that the plants in question could not have been stolen as they were not of a kind...\n\n544\n\n \nPage 544 appears here three times, at the top, and will appear three times at the bottom, as per the original scan.\n\nPage 544\n\nPage 544",
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"content_text": "BY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nMINUTE\n\n13121 200\n\nNote. Censor employes Sie A Kennedy prepared Band \"be the 216 - of dose of 8/10/70 128218 (her. ?inson the granting of pension to Chison employs should exception grativliy best that of a 4 ... the patenty that he month's valany for each you polaris! \"he adopted\", rele sticks thank des Austin perpoved (per 9 of besp. of 25/8/75 115-20) ther in respect of Chinese employer, \"Finder 4 Cli a rule, fratenties deals we Die plusion este Calenhalt and that in Openal. Explice rates for resine in Sugland: The Sus of thate (May 178 12/76) Othe appeared of the introduction of the above roles into the plusie but posited and that chemis sinnte 7 anth of (more th whale enhechen Chold out to Chemire no other this prospect of a peuxä. att Ch. 5 lines y and st ५ Say sysiac. \"Secutary of that in len of Lads Cuisines of \"I M's. Treasury,\" and of \"attain\" \"oblain\" Late C. CB: 5 line 9- say\n\n1. Under instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct that the following Rules respecting Pensions to the Public Servants of this Colony be published for general information.\n\n2. Subject to the exceptions and provisions hereinafter contained, all public servants holding offices named in the Civil List Ordinance, or offices described in the annual estimates as the fixed establishment of the Colony, and drawing salaries of thirty pounds a year and upwards, shall be entitled to pensions as follows:-—~\n\nTo any person who shall have served ten years and upwards and under eleven years, an annual allowance of fifteen-sixtieths of the annual salary of his office.\n\nFor eleven years and under twelve years, an annual allowance of sixteen-sixtieths of such salary.\n\nAnd in like manner, a further addition to the annual allowance of one-sixtieth in respect of each additional year of such service until the completion of a period of service of thirty-five years when the annual allowance of forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any service beyond thirty-five years.\n\n3. The Chief Justice, or any Puisne Judge, provided he shall not have served in any other office in the Colony, shall be entitled to a pension after seven years' service; at which time an allowance of three years' additional service shall be made to him; such pension to increase at the rate of two years' service for each additional year he serves, until an allowance of ten years' additional service has been made to him; after which his pension shall increase at the same rate only as other officers, until he shall have reached twenty-five years' service, when he may receive the full allowance of forty-sixtieths of his annual salary, and no addition shall be made for any service beyond twenty-five years.\n\n4. The Colonial Chaplain, provided that, previous to his appointment in such capacity, he shall not have served in other office in the Colony, shall be entitled, after ten years' and under eleven years' service, to pensions at the rate of twenty-sixtieths of the annual salary of his office, increasing an additional sixtieth for every additional year's service, until the completion of thirty years' service, when the annual allowance of forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any service beyond thirty years. The Surveyor General and the Assistant Surveyor General, when debarred from private practice, shall be allowed the benefit of five additional years in regard of pension on the ground of professional services.\n\n5. Any public servant of the Colony who may be elevated to the office of Governor of Hongkong shall, on his retirement from that office, be entitled to the same pension as if he had continued to hold the office which he vacated when he was appointed Governor, and (supposing him not to be fifty-five years of age) as if he had retired from ill-health. Provided that, if there shall be offered to any such ex-Governor, being under the age of fifty-five years, any public office or situation under the Crown, which, having reference as well to the state of his health as to the nature of his previous services, such ex-Governor may, in the judgment of the Lords Commissioners of Treasury, be properly called upon to accept, it shall be competent to the said Lords Commissioners to declare, should he decline the same, that the pension of such ex-Governor shall be suspended until he shall obtain the age of fifty-five years.\n\n6. No public servant will be held to have an absolute right to compensation for past services, or to any pension under this Minute; and Government will retain power and authority to dismiss any public servant without compensation.\n\n7. No pension will be granted to any public servant without the authority of Her Majesty's Government, in order to obtain which, certificates of service, age, good conduct, and of the ground of retirement, must be submitted to the Secretary of State.\n\n8. No pension shall be granted to any public servant, who shall be under fifty-five years of age, unless upon certificate from the head of the department to which he may belong, and from two medical practitioners that he is incapable, from infirmity of mind or body, to discharge the duties of his situation; nor unless he shall have discharged those duties with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the head of his department. And in case the officer claiming such pension shall be himself the head of a department, then such pension shall not be granted unless he shall have discharged the duties of his office with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the Governor, by whom the same shall be certified to the Secretary of State.\n\nK",
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"content_text": "222\n\n(22).\n\nex-Governor may, in the judgment of the Lords Commissioners of H.M.'s Treasury, be properly called upon to accept; it shall be competent to the said Lords Commissioners to declare, should he decline the same, that the pension of such ex-Governor shall be suspended until he shall attain the age of fifty-five years,\n\n6. No public servant will be held to have an absolute right to compensation for past services, or to any pension under this Minute; and Government will retain power and authority to dismiss public servant without compensation.\n\n(23)\n\n17. If any person receiving a pension under this Minute should be appointed to fill any office in any public department, such pension shall cease to be paid for any period subsequent to such appointment, if the annual amount of the profits of the office to which he shall be appointed shall be equal to those of the office formerly held by him, and in case it shall not be equal to those of his former office, then no more of such pension shall be paid to him than what, with the salary of his new appointment, shall be equal to the profits of his former office.\n\nany\n\nmay\n\n7. No pension will be granted to any public servant without the authority of Her Majesty's Government, in order to obtain which, certificates of service, age, good conduct, and of the ground of retirement, must be submitted to the Secretary of State.\n\nof\n\n8. No pension shall be granted to any public servant who shall be under fifty-five years of age, unless upon certificate from the head of the department to which he may belong, and from two medical practitioners that he is incapable, from infirmity of mind or body, to discharge the duties of his situation; nor unless he shall have discharged those duties with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the head of his department. And in case the officer claiming such pension shall be himself the head of a department, then such pension shall not be granted unless he shall have discharged the duties of his office with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the Governor, by whom the same shall be certified to the Secretary of State.\n\n9. It will be competent to Her Majesty's Government, in cases of peculiar and extraordinary merit, to grant special and higher rates of pension than those laid down in this Minute, but not exceeding the full amount of the salary.\n\n10. The above-mentioned rates are only to be granted in cases of decidedly faithful and meritorious service; but where the testimony as to fidelity, diligence and merit is in any respect defective, a deduction will be made from the apportioned rates.\n\nWhere there has been obvious negligence, irregularity, or misconduct, the grant of allowance will be altogether withheld.\n\n11. The claim of a public servant to pension will be considered to have commenced from the date of his first permanent appointment to the fixed establishment of this Colony; service on the temporary establishment of this Colony will, however, be allowed to count for pension when such service shall have been continuous with a subsequent permanent appointment. In the case of public officers appointed from Home (except Cadets) their services will be reckoned from the date of the Secretary of State's Despatch notifying the appointment to the Governor.\n\n12. Cadets appointed in pursuance of the regulations published in the Government Gazette of 12th October 1861, will date the commencement of their claims to pension from the period at which the Board of Examiners may declare them qualified for Government Interpreters.\n\n13. The services in respect of which superannuation allowances are granted, ought in all cases to have been continuous; unless interrupted by reduction of office or other temporary suspension of employment not arising from misconduct, or voluntary resignation of the party.\n\n14. The pension shall be computed upon the salary of the permanent office held by a public servant at the time of his retirement, provided he shall have held the same office for at least three years, and that the salary of the same shall not have been revised during that time: otherwise the pension shall be calculated upon the average annual amount of salary received by such person for three years next preceding the commencement of such pension.\n\n15. In case of reduction or abolition of office, temporary allowances may be assigned agreeably to the special rates; on condition, however, that the parties receiving the same will be liable to be re-called into the service, and with the understanding that they are to be re-employed, as opportunity may occur, in preference to new applicants for office.\n\n16. The period of service upon which the superannuation allowance of all officers appointed to the public service taking leave of absence in the regular manner with abatement of salary will be calculated, will be at the rate of one month for every two months of such leave.\n\n18. Should the time of service not warrant the assignment of an annual allowance, a gratuity be granted after the rate of one month's salary for each year of service.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th May, 1862.\n\nW. H. ALEXANDER,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\nTable shewing the RATES OF PENSION payable to the Public Officers of the Colony of Hongkong under the foregoing Minute.\n\nChief Justices who have not previously served in any other Office in the Colony,\n\n3/4\n\nJudges of Court of Summary Jurisdiction and Colonial Chaplains who have not previously served in any other Office in the Colony.\n\n2/3\n\nPortions of the Annual Salary of the Office\n\nAll other Officers returned in the Civil List, or described as Fixed Establishment in the Annual Estimates, and who are in receipt of Salaries of £30 a year and upwards.\n\nAfter 10 years' service,\n5/12\n\nAfter 7 years' service,\n\nAfter 10 years service,\n8/12\n\n11/12\n\n13/12\n\n17/12\n\n12\n\n14\n\n15\n\n16\n\n17\n\n18\n\n20\n\n21\n\n22\n\n23\n\n25\n\n27\n\nPage 224",
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"content_text": "223\n\n( 24 )\n\nEnclosure B.\n\n# MINUTE\n\nBY THE GOVERNOR,\n\n(of 5th September, 1876.)\n\n1. Under instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct that the following Rules respecting Pensions to the Public Servants of this Colony be published for general information.\n\n2. Subject to the exceptions and provisions hereinafter contained, all public servants holding offices named in the Civil List Ordinance, or offices described in the annual estimates as the fixed establishment of the Colony, and drawing salaries of thirty pounds a year and upwards, shall be entitled to pensions as follows:-\n\nTo any person who shall have served ten years and upwards and under eleven years, an annual allowance of fifteen-sixtieths of the annual salary of his office.\n\nFor eleven years and under twelve years, an annual allowance of sixteen-sixtieths of such salary.\n\nAnd in like manner, a further addition to the annual allowance of one-sixtieth in respect of each additional year of such service until the completion of a period of service of thirty-five years, when the annual allowance of forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any service beyond thirty-five years.\n\n3. The Chief Justice, or any Puisne Judge, provided he shall not have served in any other office in the Colony, shall be entitled to a pension after seven years' service; at which time an allowance of three years' additional service shall be made to him; such pension to increase at the rate of two years' service for each additional year he serves, until an allowance of ten years' additional service has been made to him; after which his pension shall increase at the same rate only as other officers, until he shall have reached twenty-five years' service, when he may receive the full allowance of forty-sixtieths of his annual salary, and no addition shall be made for any service beyond twenty-five years.\n\n4. The Colonial Chaplain, provided that, previous to his appointment in such capacity, he shall not have served in other office in the Colony, shall be entitled, after ten years' and under eleven years' service, to pension at the rate of twenty-sixtieths of the annual salary of his office, increasing an additional sixtieth for every additional year's service, until the completion of thirty years' service, when the annual allowance of forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any service beyond thirty years. The Surveyor General and the Assistant Surveyor General, when debarred from private practice, shall be allowed the benefit of five additional years in regard of pension on the ground of professional services.\n\n5. Any public servant of the Colony who may be elevated to the office of Governor of Hongkong shall, on his retirement from that office, be entitled to the same pension as if he had continued to hold the office which he vacated when he was appointed Governor, and (supposing him not to be fifty-five years of age) as if he had retired from ill-health. Provided that, if there shall be offered to any such ex-Governor, being under the age of fifty-five years, any public office or situation under the Crown,\n\n( 25 )\n\nwhich, having reference as well to the state of his health as to the nature of his previous services, such ex-Governor may, in the judgment of the Lords Commissioners of H. M.'s Treasury, be properly called upon to accept; it shall be competent to the said Lords Commissioners to declare, should he decline the same, that the pension of such ex-Governor shall be suspended until he shall attain the age of fifty-five years.\n\n6. No public servant will be held to have an absolute right to compensation for past services, or to any pension under this Minute; and Government will retain power and authority to dismiss any public servant without compensation.\n\n7. No pension will be granted to any public servant without the authority of Her Majesty's Government, in order to obtain which, certificates of service, age, good conduct, and of the ground of retirement, must be submitted to the Secretary of State.\n\n8. No pension shall be granted to any public servant who shall be under fifty-five years of age, unless upon certificate from the head of the department to which he may belong, and from two medical practitioners that he is incapable, from infirmity of mind or body, to discharge the duties of his situation; nor, unless he shall have discharged those duties with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the head of his department. And in case the officer claiming such pension shall be himself the head of a department, then such pension shall not be granted unless he shall have discharged the duties of his office with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the Governor, by whom the same shall be certified to the Secretary of State.\n\n9. It will be competent to Her Majesty's Government, in cases of peculiar and extraordinary merit, to grant special and higher rates of pension than those laid down in this Minute, but not exceeding the full amount of the salary.\n\n10. The above-mentioned rates are only to be granted in cases of decidedly faithful and meritorious service; but where the testimony as to fidelity, diligence and merit is in any respect defective, a deduction will be made from the apportioned rates. Where there has been obvious negligence, irregularity, or misconduct, the grant of allowance will be altogether withheld.\n\n11. The claim of a public servant to pension will be considered to have commenced from the date of his first permanent appointment to the fixed establishment of this Colony; service on the temporary establishment of this Colony will, however, be allowed to count for pension when such service shall have been continuous with a subsequent permanent appointment. In the case of public officers appointed from home, their services will be reckoned from the date of commencing to receive Colonial pay.\n\n12. Cadets appointed in pursuance of the regulations published in the Government Gazette of 12th October 1861, will date the commencement of their claims to pension from the date of their respective appointments, provided that they pass satisfactorily the half-yearly examinations, as well as the final examination within three years from the date of arrival in the Colony.\n\n13. The services in respect of which superannuation allowances are granted, ought in all cases to have been continuous; unless interrupted by reduction of office or other temporary suspension of employment not arising from misconduct, or voluntary resignation of the party.\n\n14. The pension shall be computed upon the salary of the permanent office held by a public servant at the time of his retirement, provided he shall have held the same office for at least three years, and that the salary of the same shall not have been revised during that time: otherwise the pension shall be calculated upon the average annual amount of salary received by such person for three years next preceding the commencement of such pension.\n\n15. In case of reduction or abolition of office, temporary allowances may be assigned agreeably to the special rates; on condition, however, that the parties receiving the same will be liable to be re-called into the service, and with the understanding that they are to be re-employed, as opportunity may occur, in preference to new applicants for office.",
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"content_text": "292\n\nORDINANCES Nos. 2. AND 3. OF 1864,\n\nC. 9.\n\n596\n\nORDINANCES Nos. 5. AND 6. OF 1865.\n\n*447\n\nAnd any other Returns required by the Governor.\n\nSpecimen Pieces to be taken at uncertain Times in each Quarter, and forwarded to Master of the Royal Mint in London for Examination. Quarterly Survey to be held of the Bullion and Coin in the Mint.\n\nSalaries to be added to Civil List.\n\nSalaries of other Officers to be fixed by the Governor and placed on the annual Estimates.\n\nTitle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nMint.\n\nRevenue.\n\n(7.) Weight of each Description of Coin delivered to the Public, and the Amount, if any, charged for coining;\n\n(8.) Copy of the Reports of the Assay of Coin;\n\n(9.) Number and Description of Dies received or completed during the Quarter, of Dies worn out, of Dies effectually defaced, and of serviceable Dies in Hand;\n\n(10.) A Return, showing the Waste during the Quarter, distinguishing the Waste arising in melting, in refining, in coining, and in assaying.\n\nAnd he shall forward any other Returns which the Governor or Officer administering the Government of the Colony may require.\n\nVII. That with a View to ensure the careful Observance of the Standard in the Coin the Governor or Officer administering the Government of the Colony shall cause to be taken at uncertain Times during each Quarter from amongst the Coins issued at the Mint to the Public, without Preference in the Selection, Specimen Pieces, and that such Specimens shall be forwarded from Time to Time to the Master of the Royal Mint in London for such Examination as the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may direct.\n\nVIII. That the Governor or Officer administering the Government of the Colony shall direct a Board of Government Officers not less than three in Number, to assemble at the Mint at the Expiration of each Quarter for the Inspection of the Store of Bullion and Coin in the Mint, and report on the same to him, stating the exact Amounts of the Balance of each Description verified by them.\n\nIX. That the Salaries specified as under shall be added to the Civil List:\n\nThe Master of the Mint, $6,720 Per Annum.\n\nThe Superintendent of the Bullion Office, $3,810\n\nThe Assayer, $3,840\n\nThe Superintendent of the Coining Department, $3,840\n\nThe Superintendent of the Melting Department, $3,840\n\nX. That such other Officers and Servants of the Mint as may be appointed shall be paid such Salaries as may be fixed by the Governor or Officer administering the Government of the Colony, with the Approval of the Secretary of State, and that such Salaries shall be borne on the Annual Estimates.\n\nNo. 3. of 1864.\n\nAn Ordinance to authorize the appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not exceeding One hundred and fifty-two thousand Dollars to defray the Charges of the Year 1863. [29th March, 1864.]\n\nWHEREAS it has become necessary to make further Provision for the Public Service of the Colony for the Year 1863, in addition to the Charge upon the Revenue for the Service of the said Year already provided for in the Estimates submitted\n\nAccessories and Abettors. Forgery.\n\nRecognizances and to find Sureties, both or either, for keeping the Peace, in addition to such Punishment: Provided that no Person shall be imprisoned under this Clause for any Period exceeding One Year.\n\nAs to Accessories generally.\n\nV. If any principal Offender shall be in anywise convicted of any Felony, it shall be lawful to proceed against any Accessory, either before or after the Fact, in the same Manner as if such principal Offender had been attainted thereof, notwithstanding such principal Felon shall die, or be pardoned, or otherwise delivered before Attainder; and every such Accessory shall upon Conviction suffer the same Punishment as he would have suffered if the Principal had been attainted.\n\nVI. Any Number of Accessories at different Times to any Felony, and any Number of Receivers at different Times of Property stolen at One Time, may be charged with substantive Felonies in the same Indictment or Information, and may be tried together, notwithstanding the principal Felon shall not be included in the same Indictment or Information, or shall not be in Custody or amenable to Justice\n\nVII. Whosoever shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure the Commission of any Misdemeanor, whether the same be a Misdemeanor at Common Law or by virtue of any Ordinance passed or to be passed, shall be liable to be indicted, tried, and punished as a principal Offender.\n\nVIII. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on the Fourteenth Day of June, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-five.\n\n4\n\nNo. 6. OF 1865.\n\nAn Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Enactments in Force in this Colony relating to indictable Offences by Forgery.\n\n[3rd June, 1865.]\n\nWHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the Enactments in Force in this Colony relating to indictable Offences by Forgery: Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n\nAs to forging Her Majesty's Seals, &c.\n\n1. Whosoever shall forge or counterfeit, or shall utter, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Privy Seal, any Privy Signet or Sign Manual of Her Majesty, or any of Her Majesty's Seals appointed by the Twenty-fourth Article of the Union with Scotland, or the Public Seal of the Colony, shall be guilty of a Felony.",
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"content_text": "## Council Meeting Transcript\n\nIt was necessary, and by any accident the Surveyor-General's department did not repair the road, there would be interminable delays in getting the thing done. By the way in which it was provided in the Bill, the initiative belonged to the company, and when they executed any work it had to be carried out under the control of the Surveyor-General. The company were practically bound to do everything which the Surveyor-General ordered and all it had to do was to recover the money afterwards from the Government.\n\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY** said that was the main objection.\n\nThe Hon. F. B. JOHNSON said the company would do the work quite as cheaply as the Government, and then they would have the road under one authority, which was practically the Surveyor-General. He had heard the objections urged by the Colonial Secretary, but having a majority of the committee in favour of the Bill, and as he believed the practice was in harmony with the practice at home, he did not see why it should be altered.\n\nThe **COLONIAL TREASURER** said he thought the Hon. F. B. Johnson had overlooked section 14, which had been passed the previous day, and which gave the company authority to repair that part of the road on which the tramways were constructed, and that portion of the road with which the company did not deal was a very important one, because it embraced the gutters and rain channels. These were made of granite, and were things on which a great deal of money might be expended by the use of stones of a more expensive or a less expensive nature. It seemed to him that section 14 entirely met the necessities of the case. The company repaired that part of the road on which the tramway was laid, and the Surveyor-General the other part. What the company had to do with that five feet of road which lay on either side of the tramway, and which was given to the public, he could not see. He thought the Surveyor-General could be trusted to deal with that part of the work. This must be an entirely experimental matter; no one could say whether the tramway was going to be a success, and if it was found in six months that it was really desirable there should be only one authority over such an important road as Queen's-road, there would be no difficulty in inducing the Government to reconsider the question. He was of opinion that the views of the Surveyor-General of the Colony ought to be supported, and the Tramway Company left to undertake the maintenance of their part of the road, and the Surveyor-General the remainder.\n\nThe Hon. F. B. JOHNSON said the objection to Mr. Bowdler keeping the government road in repair was that it would entail the existence of two authorities over the maintenance of the road, which was a thing that would not work. The public interests required that the roads should be kept in perfect repair, which could be best ensured by the whole maintenance of the road being undertaken by the Tramway Company who would receive an annual sum from Government for the repair of that part of the road laying on either side of the tramways. The hon. member read a passage from the evidence given by Mr. W. Danby before the select Committee in which that gentleman quoted a passage from the report of the select Committee of the Lords and Commons, on the Metropolitan Tramways in support of his view.\n\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY** said with reference to tramways in the Metropolis, where they had large drains underground in which the pipes of gas, water, and telegraph companies were kept, the case was very different to their own. Here, he considered the work ought to be done by the Tramway Company, which ought also to remove the gas and water pipes, and those of the telegraphs and telephone to one side of the road. He considered further that the work should certainly be under the supervision of the Surveyor-General. It appeared to him to be absurd that all the other companies in Hongkong should be under the control of the Tramway Company with respect to opening of the road. The control ought to be in the hands of the Surveyor-General.\n\nThe Hon. F. B. JOHNSON said that if they were to do the work under the control of the Surveyor-General, they would not be able to move hand or foot without his approval. It was merely a question of who should take the initiative.\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL TREASURER** said he might be allowed to observe that the quotation which had been read from the report of the Select Committee of the Lords and Commons referred to a state of affairs very different from that which existed here. It referred to England, where the roads were vested in the parishes. If the hon. member could tell him of any parish in England seven miles long, it might apply, but here the Government had control of the road throughout its whole length, while there it ran through several parishes and at every quarter or third of a mile there might be a different management; so it was necessary there should be one authority, because it would be a question not between the company and the Government but between the company and several parishes.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said that would make no difference as to the portion of the road the tramway was on.\n\nThe question that the clause stand part of the Bill was then put and lost, the ayes being three and the noes four.\n\nThe three following clauses were then taken up. The **ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY** spoke in favour of the Company being compelled to take up all the telegraph, gas, and water pipes and relay them at the side of the road.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON objected to this on account of the great expense it would entail.\n\nAfter discussion a clause suggested by the Surveyor-General was inserted in place of the one in the Bill as it stood, which made certain alterations in detail as to the carrying out of the work when repairs to the pipes were necessary.\n\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY** brought to the notice of the Council certain matters of detail such as the question of certificates for the servants of the company who were to be employed as engine drivers, and the fares to be paid.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said these matters would be dealt with in the bye-laws.\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY** said there was another question with regard to the payment of taxes by the Company. He presumed they would not be allowed to run all night. They might either let the coaches run under the Carriage Ordinance and charge so much a carriage, or charge the Company as ratepayers for the amount of land they covered.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said the promoters would prefer to be under the Carriage Ordinance.\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL TREASURER** said that under the old Carriage Ordinance the charge would only be $1 for each coach; therefore the matter would have to be dealt with in the amended Ordinance, which had been read a first time.\n\nHis **EXCELLENCY** said he thought as far as taxation went, they should deal as leniently as possible with the company, and not try to make money out of it. The tramways would be a great convenience to the Colony, and he thought it would be sufficient if they charged $1 a vehicle.\n\nOn the schedules being taken into consideration, the **Attorney-General** asked what view the Committee had taken as to certain objections which had been made by owners of property.\n\nThe **ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE** said that with regard to the objection of Mr. Ede to the terminus near his house at Victoria Gap, and to two objections by Chinese property owners to the line in Queen's-road, the Committee found the property of the objectors would not be interfered with in the actual construction of the lines or stations, and if they sustained any injury they had their remedy in the Supreme Court.\n\nHis **EXCELLENCY** said he was on the Committee which sat on the Metropolitan railway. There was great objection by some parties, but it was found that on the whole property was increased in value by the proximity of a station. The schedules were then passed.\n\nHis **EXCELLENCY**-The Council has now approved of the Bill in Committee and I have to put the question that the Bill do pass. In doing so I think I ought to congratulate the hon. member who has had charge of this Bill and the other promoters of the Bill. It is one of great importance and I think will do great good in the Colony. I may say, with reference to that which has been in the minds of the Council from time to time, the great pressure of the traffic in Queen's-road, that I have some hope of being able to have a very large work undertaken in this Colony which would have the effect of obviating that pressure. The work I refer to is one to which my attention was drawn some time ago by the two deputations, one of European gentlemen and one Chinese. Representations were made to me by the Chinese to the effect that the lot-holders along the sea front...\n\n## Page 394",
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"content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW\n\n## Decision of Wen-Tai-Ching\n\nproperly, she appears to have gone with Yen So, Fan Tien, and Huang Che to Cheng-chien's mother, Mrs. Chang, and carried off 180 and more measures of corn, the provision for her support.\n\nThis was both a disregard of her duty to her aunt-in-law, and an application of another's property to her own necessities, and therefore improper, but Lei Lien seems to have felt no compunction, but has even laid a false case before the authorities.\n\nTruly the Yen family have acted in a way worthy of their name, and Mrs. Lei and Mrs. Fo have been forgetful of their duty, the one to her aunt, the other to her mistress and Lei Lien, and Tse-sheng appears to have directed the women's war in the background.\n\nWe decree therefore that Lei Lien and his friends Yen So, Fan Tien, and Huang Che be flogged; that the settlement be recovered; and when the originator of the trouble, Yen Tse-sheng, is caught, that he also be dealt with.\n\n## NOTE\n\n- A brother not responsible for debt if there has been partition of property previous to its accruing. The personal property of a deceased debtor will be first applied to satisfaction of his debts, and if that be insufficient his real property may be taken, but no claim can be made on that of his relatives. It would also seem by implication that where the family property is held jointly that the various beneficiaries are severally liable for each other's debts.\n\n## DECISION OF WEN-USIA O-EST\n\n### Recovery of Debts\n\nIn this case, there is a debt of over Tls. 100, but no proof beyond a bare note, which is scarcely of more value as evidence than an old string of knotted cords, the more so as the debt was contracted in the time of Wan-leih many years ago, and the original parties to it are all dead, and not producible; as Pong-hnan says, \"how can you find out the facts if you don't know the man.\" We recommend the plaintiff to consider his claim like a burnt note, and as the ode says \"put it down to charity.\"\n\n## NOTE\n\n- A debt may be inheritable, and an action brought upon it although all the original parties are dead, but very clear evidence will be required to sustain it.\n\n## DECISION OF WEN TAI-CHING\n\n### Recovery of Debts\n\nHsü Lang-ching, the plaintiff, is a dealer in cotton from Honan; he supplied some by order to Shin Ai-men and Sun Tuan-cho, and although they have already worked it up into clothes, his money bag is still empty. At the hearing, defendants have no excuse and promise payment. We order them, in addition to be flogged for the greater security of strangers trading here.\n\n## NOTE\n\n- Delay in payment is punishable.\n\n## DECISION OF WEN-TAI-CHING\n\n### Recovery of Debts\n\nIn this case, Wu Shih-cho had obtained an order from the Magistrate Kuo against Tung Yen-ju to pay certain rent claimed, but he still delays payment, and as Yen-ju has no excuse to offer, we direct him to be flogged again for his disobedience.\n\n## NOTE\n\n- If the debtor does not obey the order of Court, he may be brought up again and flogged for disobedience.\n\n## OR. ALABASTER\n\n### SHORT NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS\n\n#### AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE\n\nGeschichtlicher über Maass und Gewichts-systeme in China und Japan. Bemerkungen über die Theorie der Chinesischen Musik und ihren Zusammenhang mit der Philosophie. Von Dr. G. Wagener. Separat-Abdruck aus dem 12ten Heft der Mittheilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur und Völkerkunde Ostasiens in Tokio. 1877.\n\nThe former of the two essays here combined, valuable as it is for students of Japanese weights and measures, offers but little to glean for purely Chinese studies, except the remarks made here en passant concerning the origin of the Chinese theory of music. Whilst tracing back the history of Japanese weights and measures to Chinese sources on the basis of notes supplied to him by a Japanese Sinologist Mr. Vinagawa Noritane, Dr. Wagener hit upon an explanation of Ling lun's system of music which induced him to take up the study of Chinese music and ancient Chinese philosophy in general. The second of the two essays, however, is a most important contribution to the history of Chinese music and philosophy. Dr. Wagener availed himself in these investigations, besides the notes of Mr. Vinagawa Noritane, of the Mémoires concernant les Chinoises, Ganbil's Shooking, MacClatchie's Yih King, and Eitel's Fong-shui, but especially also of the valuable essays of Dr. Müller on Chinese and Japanese music to which we have referred more than once (see China Review, Vol. V., p. 142, 269).\n\nWe have no room here to follow Dr. Wagener at length through his minute disquisitions on the practical origin and scientific development of the Chinese theory of music and on the relation which music bears in China to philosophy, notably to the system of diagrams and numbers, as exhibited in the Yih King, Ho-t'u, and Loh-shu. Some of his deductions are vitiated by erroneous conceptions derived from Canon MacClatchie's Introduction to the Yih King, as for instance the supposition, underlying a great part of Dr. Wagener's argument, that Fuhi had arranged the diagrams in a circle, an arrangement which is the characteristic feature of the modern school of Yih King commentators (founded by circa A.D. 990) and was entirely foreign to the ancient philosophy of China. But, thanks to the information derived from Japanese Sinologists, Dr. Wagener discovered, in several points, the untrustworthiness of Canon MacClatchie's assertions. Thus, for instance, referring to the following note of Canon MacClatchie's (Introd. VI., note 1), \"the original number of Heaven is Three and the original number of Earth is Six; but Heaven always includes Earth which is situated in his centre, and hence the number of Heaven in the Yih King is nine (3+6),\" Dr. Wagener remarks \"this explanation, even if it should have been derived from Chinese authors, is entirely inadmissible, for not the whole trigram of Heaven stands for Nine, but every single... \n\nPage 67\nPage 171",
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"content_text": "## Rate of Dollar and Rupee for 1882-83\n\n**TREASURY CHAMBERS, \n17th January, 1882.**\n\nSIR,\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies that, in accordance with the arrangements made in 1875 for the annual revision of the rate at which the Dollar is issued at Hong Kong, in the Straits Settlements, and on the China Station for Imperial service, payable in this country in sterling, my Lords have caused the necessary calculations to be made of the average price of standard silver in the London market during the calendar year 1881, and of the corresponding value of the Mexican Dollar.\n\nI am to inform you that according to the terms of the above arrangement, the Dollar should be issued during the financial year 1882-83, at the rate of Three Shillings and Eightpence (3s. 8d.); and that according to the same mode of valuation, the rate of issue of the Rupee in the colonies of Ceylon and Mauritius, and on the East Indian Station, for Imperial services payable in this country in sterling, should be fixed at One Shilling and Eightpence (1s. 8d.) for 1882-83.\n\nMy Lords desire me to add that the necessary instructions have been sent to the Treasury Chest Officers at Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, and Mauritius for the adoption of the above rates as from 1st April next.\n\nI am, SIR, \nYour obedient Servant, \n**StWelly**\n\n(25 182-H & S 1579)\n\nPage 90 \nPage 91",
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"content_text": "503\n\n2\n\nPARIS.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).\n\nJanuary 13th, 1889,\n\nThe funeral of Gambetta, a village grocer's son, cast into the shade those of Louis XVIII, the last reigning monarch buried in France. The Second Empire buried ex-King Jerome with all the pomp and circumstance of soldiery, and interred in 1865, the duc de Morny with all administrative honors. In both ceremonies, soul was wanting: the people, the country, took no part. Gambetta's obsequies were an explosion of patriotism: the resurrection of 1870-71, with all its sufferings, its lessons, and its hopes.\n\nTHE CATHOLIC REGISTER.\n\nIt is proposed that the bottom of the vault be strewn with similar soil, coffin laid on a layer of soil several feet deep, as practiced in some states of America. Lafayette's remains were treated similarly.\n\nA kind of retrospective controversy is taking place respecting the cause of Gambetta's death. It belongs to legend, so let it rest there. Opinion considers the deceased, like poor Garfield, was over-doctored. Had the wound been dressed as ordinarily, the health maintained by salines, and the patient fairly dosed with proper salts, and kept on his feet, instead of being compelled to lie in bed, a favorite cure in France, he would be alive to-day. Perhaps his work was done: during his 4 years, he must have lived several lives. In his coffin, with the tricolor, for a martial cloak around him, he truly \"look'd like a warrior taking his rest.\"\n\nThe picture of the country mutilated, followed the hearse, in the symbols of Metz and Strasbourg: the hope of the country's future, was cheered in the deputations of the colleges and the schools. There was a striking unanimity in thus glorifying two epochs. It was a patriotic consolation, and exhibited France to be one and indivisible, that manifestation around the representative of its greatest symbol, and which so scrutinized and solemnized, the resistance of 1870-71.\n\nLet there be no mistake about the meaning and the moral of the funeral. The three millions of people, who came from every part of France, from every corner of Paris, to line the route of the cortège, did not arrive to honor the doctrines of Gambetta: to mark a new triumph for the republic, or the official recognition of free thought as one of the \"religions\"—a paradox, of the state: no, it was the apotheosis of patriotism superior to politics and religion, incarnated in the man of Prague, and not the chief of a party or the leader of a creed.\n\nRespecting the procession, it was a military fairy spectacle. In the words of Bossuet, the honors wanted in nothing, save him, to whom they were rendered. From the Palais Bourbon to the cemetery of Père Lachaise, is between three and four miles, and the procession starting at ten o'clock, arrived at half-past one; the rear of the cortège was at the Palais Bourbon when its head was at the cemetery. It was well organized. Along the route, the windows were filled, not with mourners, but curious onlookers; the crowd in the street was flat, reserved rather: it displayed neither sorrow, joy, revenge, nor hope. But it may not have experienced all these. Heads uncovered, when the bier arrived, as is the courtesy ever rendered to death. The working population, say half a million, were bare-headed, that being their every day toilette. There was no smoking in the crowds: no jesting. An intense feeling of curiosity dominated, mingled with the satisfaction at the grandeur of the splendid pageant. The flags in mourning, attested very extensive sympathy.\n\nThe deputations and delegations, with their 5,000 crowns represented France; not its industrial institutions. Louis Blanc had workmen for numbers; Ledru Rollin, electors; Thiers, republicans, but Gambetta had all these, for he meant France. He thought his countrymen to be French, not cosmopolitans, and the people retained for Gambetta a secret complaisance and a profound respect. The thousands, including political adversaries—Paul de Cassagnac and the duc de Broglie, who visited his remains at the Palais Bourbon, attest this. The decoration of the façade of the Chamber of Deputies—a black crape scarf drawn across, with the sashes strewn on the majestic steps, the ushers ranged in front of the pillars, and the illuminated lamps veiled, was most effective. The catafalque was neither new, nor rich: it was uncommon. That which had served to inter the Bonapartist de Morny, was considered out of place for the Grand Patriot, though it had conveyed the remains of Thiers.\n\nEfforts are being made to retain the remains permanently in Paris and not at Nice, that might become Italian again, alongside his mother and his favorite aunt. He has bequeathed his brain to the Anthropological museum, to science, as Voltaire did his heart to the Parisians. Upwards of 6,000 applications have already been received, to be present at the technical lecture on the deceased's brain.\n\nA few popular errors to be corrected. Gambetta is not of Jewish extraction; he descends from an old, humble, and pious Catholic family, of Celle, near Savona. Also: he was first elected a deputy in 1869, and returned for Marseilles, his official opponent being Suez de Lesseps, a distant relative of the Empress Eugénie, but a republican since the sinking of the Empire. There also opposed him at the same time, as an Orleanist. At the funeral of the Liberator, the crowd cried, Vive la République! At the obsequies of the Patriot, the nation exclaimed, Vive la France! Gambetta's followers will be absorbed into the other groups; his doctrines will be presented in another form. Time alone can develop the leadership of the republicans and there will be no lack of Richmonds in the field. But that leader will not be able to stir men, to rouse up and lead the people. And should a national crisis ever come, millions will sigh for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still.\n\nGambetta's death settles no pending questions; nor is it to be feared, the disputes and the dissensions of republicans. The royalists consider they can make hay while the sun shines. They have no king: true, one has been coming since half a century, and is likely to remain so. The Figaro, a very monarchal journal, cheers its followers, and offers a fat prize to whoever will forward for publication, a plan possessing a grain of common sense, for the restoration of any monarchy.\n\nThe death of General Chanzy is a very great loss to the army: he and Faidherbe were the only two generals whom the Germans counted with; originally he was intended for the navy, and during the invasion, when admirals and post captains, civilians, superseded professional generals, Chanzy had under his orders, a vice-admiral whom he once served in the capacity of midshipman. Chanzy was a \"possible\" president of the Republic; he would never have had, however, the republican vote, as he is an Orleanist, and the Orleanists intend to run the duc d'Aumale as successor to M. Grévy.\n\nNOVICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.\n\nCommunications on Editorial matters to be addressed to the Editor, and those on business to the Manager. All letters for publication should be communications cannot be discussed in an editorial note, and marked addressed to the Editor in support of the writer's opinions on subjects litigated to the Editor will be dealt with in the correspondence column, and will, if need be, be dealt with in these columns.\n\nNOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.\n\nThe subscription is 50 cents per annum. Single copies 20 cents. Terms of advertising can be ascertained at the office of Messrs. China & Co., who are authorized to receive subscriptions, and collect advertisements.\n\nThe Catholic Register.\n\nHONGKONG, 24TH FEBRUARY, 1863.\n\nPRIZE-DAY AT ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.\n\nThe distribution of prizes to the boys of St. Joseph's College took place on Saturday, the 17th instant, at the College in the presence of a very large assemblage. His Excellency the Administrator, who had kindly consented to distribute the prizes, arrived exactly at 3 o'clock, accompanied by Mrs. Marsh and his private Secretary, Mr. Travers. Amongst those present were His Lordship Bishop Raimondi, Very Rev. Fathers Burghignoli and Lémonier, Mr. Loureiro (Portuguese Consul), Mr. Dejardin (French Consul), Mr. Romano (Brazilian Consul), Mr. Musso (Italian Consul), Mr. Coxon (Belgian Consul), Messrs. Francis, Remedios, Guedes, Silva, and others.\n\nHis Lordship the Bishop, in opening the proceedings, said:\n\nMay it please Your Excellency, Ladies and gentlemen—it was not so long ago, a few weeks when we met in this same building on the occasion of its inauguration; and now I have again to thank you for your kindness in honoring us with your presence.\n\nWe are here to-day to witness a ceremony which, though not so novel as the opening of a College, is yet one which is always greeted with pleasure, when it comes on, the distribution of prizes to the fortunate youngsters, who have gained literary victories.\n\nThe giving of school prizes has always a pleasant effect upon a youngster's mind. All human doings are liable to be; in fact, though it might be carried to excess, we are glad to say that the giving of prizes has become a very popular thing in the Colony; and while in former times it was the custom to give the prizes on the same day as the examinations were held, now a day is fixed for it.\n\nWe all know that experience has taught us that it is very difficult for little boys to learn two languages at once. I was therefore very glad to find that a private school has been opened by a Portuguese gentleman, in which not less than 80 boys are learning Portuguese. That school might be a preparatory school to St. Joseph's College, to the greatest advantage of education, it being no doubt easier to teach foreign languages to boys, who know their own.\n\nThe boys of St. Joseph's College are separated into two divisions—the Anglo-Portuguese school and the Anglo-Chinese school—both of which are subdivided into six classes according to the six standards, St. Joseph, being under the grant-in-aid scheme. Examinations have been held, as prescribed by the Code; and here I will tell you frankly that when the time for the examination was drawing near, I was very much afraid that they would have been quite a failure. My reason for this fear was that when they were building the College, the boys' classes were held in matsheds, to the inconvenience of both pupils and teachers. I am, however, very happy to state that the examination passed off exceedingly well this year. Out of the total number of the two divisions in St. Joseph's College, we sent 158 to be examined and of these 145 passed, having gained the required marks in every subject, as it is required by the regulations (applause). That was 92 per cent, and if 30 per cent in England is considered a good result, 92 per cent in Hongkong, you will agree with me, may be considered as a great success (renewed applause).\n\nI have always held that education must always be suited to the wants of the masses and not of the few, and I believe one of the greatest wants in Hongkong is for us to fit our boys to various situations both Government offices and in mercantile employment. Even in this direction St. Joseph's College has done its work well, for out of forty boys who have left the school during the year, not less than twenty have obtained good situations in such offices—two in Government offices, three with Solicitors, four with chemists, and eleven in mercantile firms.\n\nTouching that point as to the future, I must frankly state, that when we consider the number of boys increasing as it is every day, I am very much afraid that in future situations would be very difficult to get for all. Some of those present might possibly recollect that a few years ago I suggested that a way should be opened for our boys to learn engineering, and I am now very glad to tell you that the other day I was assured that three of our boys are now third engineers on board steamers, and several others are preparing.\n\nAnother evil in Hongkong is that boys are too eager to get to situations and they leave the school too soon. I dare say that six years' time is too short to enable the boys to get a complete education, and we had boys, who at the age of thirteen had passed the sixth standard, and were unable to settle down to work.\n\nIt is said, that the parliament will in a few days, when it settles down to work, compel the cabinet to clearly state its views on several touching questions. Egypt will be one of these, but as the Chamber voted for the non-intervention of France, to aid England in the defence of the Khedive, and his administration, it can present no claim to uphold rights it considered not worth the expenditure of a single sou or a single franc to defend. Indeed, I think more attention will be given to home, than to foreign questions. Gambetta threw himself into the latter, to draw off attention from the former. And Clemenceau, the ablest of the Elishas, insists on internal reforms being no longer postponed. The Judicial Bench will be the first dealt with, and then the reorganization of the army, a matter in which the Army itself insists on the completion of the solutions.\n\nThe Opera masked balls have commenced; they are characterized by the absence of the nobility, at least it is not the same, as when Marie Thérèse, the duchesse d'Artois, later the princess Charles X, or when the Regent put in an appearance, receiving kicks behind from Dubois, the better to stamp the Regent's disguise, till the latter protested, \"Dubois, you disguise me too much.\" There was a crowd of strangers as ever, to witness the faded fun and the grand stair case, which were not then in office. Costumiers, in masquerade-lords, or form of undertaker's men on horseback, were a novelty. The Freemasons wore tricolor sashes, and attended with their fast brother-in-laws; bouquets of immortelles: these they too from their button holes, and threw on the coffin, as they bid their Sgrone adieu to their brother of the Mystic tie. The students wore an ivy leaf; and the representatives of Alsace and Lorraine, carried branches, cut in their native villages that they had just left. The statue of Strasbourg on the Place de la Concorde, which has ever remained draped in mourning since the cession of Alsace, had the crape unexpectedly raised on the head of the symbolical figure as the coffin passed by, and a sudden gleam of sunshine lit up the stony features, as if with a smile. Son of the Sunny south, the Sun followed him on a day of Spring, Gambetta to his tomb. A silk scarf, with an embroidered patriotic motto, and lined with earth from Alsace, was placed on the coffin.\n\nRespecting the missing link, Arnoux, Paris had that seven years ago in the Hameau-Uhlen, who was face included, covered with hair like a savage. Darwin's progeny, was as smooth as Lanch.\n\nThe Figaro states, a soup common with the poor of Ireland, consists of skate, lobster, potatoes, the yolks of eggs, and toast. The lamp-lighters are of two classes: one lights, the other extinguishes, the gas; but each demands a separate New Year's tip.\n\nI can assure you that the pupils of Joseph's College are worthy of your warmest sympathy. Their attendance has been pretty good, and that the number of those who are educated has much increased, the building itself amply testifies. We have been compelled to build this new large school, rightly said in one of your last public speeches, to meet the wants of education, as we were suffering from want of space.\n\nPerhaps you are not aware, that this is the fourth time we have had to get a good situation on account of their youth. Moreover, I have heard it said that the system of standards is not entirely satisfactory for the development of young minds. I am of opinion that at a certain age, children are in need of a strict system, like that of the standards, but with regard to boys who have reached the age of thirteen or fourteen years, I think something different is required.\n\nThe Christian Brothers have wisely done so; they have opened a seventh class for boys who have passed the sixth standard, where they learn the elements of different branches of high education—algebra, geometry, botany, mechanics, English literature, foreign languages, and literature. This will perfect the boys in English composition. Some of you perhaps recollect that some three years ago, remarks were passed as to the Portuguese boys of St. Joseph's College being weak in composition. This did not result from want of disposition on the part of the boys, and the Christian Brothers took up the matter with the result that there has been a wonderful improvement.\n\nI hope that a few years more of study will improve them more and more, and qualify them to take better situations than that of mere copying clerks (Applause).\n\nFourteen who have passed the sixth Standard have been enrolled in the Seventh class, but the success of this good work on the part of the Christian Brothers, towards the starting of this important class is entirely due to the magical effect of a special prize which has been given by our liberal and generous friend Mr. Botelho, whose name will always be recollected with gratitude in this College. 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"content_text": "154\n\nconsiderable loss.\n\n(2)\n\nshould say here that when the Legislative Council voted for our entry into the Postal Union in 1876 the prospect was then clearly laid before it that the Post Office would probably cease to be a source of Revenue.\n\n8.-That, however, was inevitable, whether we entered the Union or not, nor would retirement from it now do anything for us. Such a course would simply aggravate our financial relations with other countries, without improving our position vis-à-vis with London.\n\n9.-There would seem then to be four courses open to the Colony, as follows:- (a) To ask for a re-consideration of the question by the Imperial Government.\n\n(b) To pay the £6,000 asked for by the Secretary of State and accept the loss on the Postal Service,\n\n(c) To pay the £6,000 and revert to the old 1/3d. (30 cents) rate of Postage to the United Kingdom only by both British and French packets in order to raise the sum required.\n\n(d) To decline either to despatch or to receive mails by the P. & O. packets.\n\n10.-\n\nAnd first (a) as to a plea for re-consideration, I have to follow Lord Kimberley in pointing out that the Colony was not consulted before these heavy responsibilities were incurred, if indeed they can be said to have been incurred at all. For the Mail Service is costing at this moment not more but less than it did under the old contract, and the loss to which we contribute is less, as will appear from the following figures :--\n\n \n Payment to P. & O. Co.\n Estimated Imperial Loss.\n \n \n £211,000\n £232,500 -Old Contract.\n \n \n £480,000\n 1876-77\n \n \n £430,000\n 1877-78.\n \n \n £430,000\n 1878-79,\n \n \n £417,325\n 1879-80,\n \n \n £253,000\n Both Contracts.\n \n \n £356,600\n 1880-81.\n \n \n £358,000\n 1881-82.\n \n \n £208,000\n £207,000 New Contract.\n \n\nI venture to offer a few remarks on these alternatives.\n\n11.-Then again as to the principle of paying according to distance, which brings about the formidable total of £12,000 claimed by the London Post Office, it would seem that whilst the P. & O. Contract extends to Shanghai, how far along the line Hongkong may happen to be, so long as a stoppage there is inevitable, ought not to make very much difference. If the voyage ceased at Hongkong, or the packets went out of their way to come here, it would be very different. But evidently the Imperial Government wishes to maintain communication with Shanghai, and the packets must come into Hongkong whether we avail ourselves of them for Postal purposes or not.\n\nWhen a person must needs go from Edinburgh to London, and is asked to deliver a parcel on the way, it surely does not matter much to him whether it is addressed to Carlisle or to Newark so long as both are in his road. Our mails do not eat anything on the way, their presence on board does not lead to the consumption of an ounce more coal, nor to an hour's delay.\n\n(3)\n\n12.-Payment according to distance is moreover opposed to the general practice of the Postal Service. A letter from London to Cornwall costs no more than one delivered at Kensington, the postage to China is the same as that to India.\n\nAnd the same rule obtains with regard to payments for territorial and sea-conveyance. We pay the French Post Office the same rates for carrying a letter to Saigon as for carrying it to Marseilles, and if the transit were extended to Brazil we should pay no more.\n\nSwitzerland obtains the same remuneration on correspondence which crosses a corner of its territory as Russia does for transporting it from St. Petersburg to Manchuria.\n\n13.-If we pay even the £6,000 to which the Secretary of State has modified this heavy demand, the result will be that we shall be taking a great deal of trouble and going to a good deal of expense to conduct Postal business on the coast of China simply for the pleasure of doing it. Those Postal duties in China were unwillingly undertaken by the Colony entirely in deference to the views of the Home Government, and I will venture to say that they have been carried out as well as, in the face of local difficulties, they possibly could be. It may be questioned whether the Colony should be rewarded by a demand for three per cent. of its entire revenue (for that is what £6,000 a year amounts to) entailing complete extinction of the modest revenue on its local Postal business. The London Post Office, which is making an increasing profit of over £8,000,000 annually (after defraying the losses to which we are asked to contribute) can afford to be more generous to us than that. I cannot but think that, were these details fully explained, a contribution of £3,000, or £3,500 a year, fixed, and irrespective of accounts, would be accepted as a discharge of all claims.\n\n14.-In any case, if (b) we pay the £6,000 a year assessed by the Secretary of State, I scarcely see how we can be called upon to pay arrears since February 1st, 1880. To have a debt of £10,000 suddenly sprung on us, of which we knew nothing, and as to the running up of which our consent was not asked, is, to say the least of it, very discouraging. According to the claim of the London Post Office these arrears would amount to about £30,000.\n\n13.-Lord Kimberley points out that a considerable portion of the £6,000 which his Lordship considers the Colony might reasonably be asked to pay will be contributed by a native population that makes comparatively little use of Mail communication. With great deference, I do not think this is an argument which in this particular case ought to be used either for or against the proposed payment. It cannot be too often insisted on that the circumstances of Hongkong are radically different from those of India, Ceylon, or even the Straits Settlements. We have here no native population subsisting on a soil which has been taken away from its original lords. Such a population may doubtless ask to have life made at least as pleasant as it would have been under the old régime. But the Chinese population of Hongkong has come to us, we have not gone to it. A Chinese lives in Hongkong because it suits him to do so, and if he finds life there intolerable because mail steamers either are or are not subsidised out of the taxes, the Empire of China, from which he or his father came, lies open to him within a few miles.\n\nWe have only to imagine the Chinese community of Hongkong announcing that they would prefer to live under a Republic, or that they object to parliamentary government, to see...",
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"content_text": "In that letter the Earl of KIMBERLEY states that while of opinion that these Colonies may properly be called upon to make some contribution towards the cost of the Mail Service, he does not feel able to call upon them for such large sums as this Department assigns to them, and he adds that if Ceylon, which is the wealthiest of them, is only called upon to contribute £2,700 a year, the contributions demanded from Hongkong and the Straits Settlements should at least not exceed that amount. In reply I have to state that, in apportioning to each Colony its share of the loss on the Eastern Mail Service, the principal factors in the calculation were: (1.) The comparative length of the services required, and (2.) The comparative amount of correspondence forwarded in each case. This principle is carried out by this Department in all similar assessments, and the following is a brief explanation of the method of making the necessary calculations.\n\nThe whole service performed by the Peninsular and Oriental Company is divided into Sections (e.g. Brindisi and Alexandria, and Suez and Galle, &c.) and the annual subsidy is allotted to these sections in proportion to the annual mileage of each Section. One half of the amounts so arrived at is apportioned to the United Kingdom, whilst the other half is apportioned to the various Countries and Colonies using the Sections in proportion to the number of letters forwarded on behalf of each.\n\nAs a matter of fact, the contributions proposed for Hongkong and the Straits Settlements are larger in amount than the contribution proposed for Ceylon because the distances over which the Mails are conveyed are greater in the case of the former Colonies than in the case of the latter.\n\nAs regards Lord KIMBERLEY'S remark in Paragraph 3 that the Colonies had no voice in the settlement of the Contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company, I have to point out that the Colonial Office, acting on behalf of the Colonies, had a strong voice in the matter, and that it was in no small degree owing to the views of the Colonial Office as to the Colonial interests that the present Contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company was preferred.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners\n\nOF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY.\n\n(Copy)\n\nSIR,\n\nI have, &c., (Signed)\n\nHENRY FAWCETT,\n\nColonial Office to Treasury.\n\nDOWNING STREET,\n\n23rd February, 1882.\n\nPage 160\n\nI am directed by the Earl of KIMBERLEY to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant forwarding copy of a letter from the General Post Office, dated the 20th October 1880, on the subject of the proposed contributions from the Eastern Colonies to meet the deficiency of postage and consequent loss to the Exchequer arising from the conveyance of the Mails under the present Contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company.\n\n2. The Postmaster General has observed in his letter that it was in no small degree owing to the views expressed by this Department that the present contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company was preferred to the other tenders, but Lord Kimberley wishes it to be understood that the question of a money contribution by the Eastern Colonies was not then before the Secretary of State, who was only invited to consider the relative merits of the respective tenderers in regard to the services to be performed by them, and that the Colonial Office, when it advised the Lords of the Treasury as to the present Mail Contract, had in view the requirements of the Australian rather than the Eastern Colonies,\n\nThe latter Colonies are so well supplied with Steam-ship Services as to be practically independent of any Contract, and in the event of any future Contract being entered into for the carriage of Mails by Steamers calling at Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and Hongkong, these Colonies may possibly not require to be included in it.\n\n3. Lord KIMBERLEY is, however, willing to invite the Governments of the three Colonies in question to contribute each £2,500 per annum during the currency of the present Contract.\n\nThe Secretary to\n\nTHE TREASURY.\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo. 7817.\n\nSIR.\n\nI am, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nROBERT G. W. HERBERT.\n\nThe Treasury to the Colonial Office.\n\nTREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\n12th June, 1882.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had under their consideration your letter of the 23rd February last, on the subject of the proposed contributions from Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and Hongkong, towards the loss arising from the conveyance of mails.\n\nIt is stated in your letter that the financial view of the question was not considered by the Secretary of State when the present contract was made, but that the question was presented to him entirely with respect to the character of the Service and the requirements of the Australian rather than of the Eastern Colonies.\n\nLord KIMBERLEY is however ready to recommend contributions from the three Colonies in question of £2,500 per annum each, in all £7,500.\n\nI am directed to observe that in 1878 my Lords were informed by a letter from the Colonial Office, dated 8th August, that in the opinion of the Secretary of State the maintenance of a high speed in the Mediterranean was, especially at that time, of great importance, and that it was most desirable to maintain a direct separate service between Suez and Ceylon, the Straits and China, which could not be provided for except under the Tender of the Peninsular and Oriental Company,\n\nIt is obvious that efficiency and a high rate of speed can only be obtained by a corresponding expenditure.\n\nPage 161",
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"content_text": "161\n\n(16)\n\nWith respect to the amount of the contributions which my Lords ask from the Colonies, it has been assumed that they should bear one half of the loss incurred on the sections of the Packet Service in which they are interested, and according to that assessment the contributions should be, as previously pointed out,\n\nCeylon, ............ £1,400\n\nStraits Settlements, £6,000\n\nHongkong, ............ £12,700\n\nTheir Lordships fear that in the previous letters which have passed on the subject the facts and calculations have not been put before the Secretary of State in a sufficiently clear and definite form,\n\nThey have therefore caused to be prepared by the Postmaster General's Department a memorandum and statement in figures, shewing precisely how the loss on this service should be divided, a copy of which is herewith transmitted.\n\nYou will observe that the calculation is based upon the service rendered, i.e., the number of Letters and the distance over which they are carried, and my Lords are unable to see that any fairer basis of agreement can be arrived at.\n\nLord KIMBERLEY's proposal to ask an equal payment from each Colony, would, besides any other objections, present the anomaly of calling upon Ceylon to pay more than her fair share.\n\nIt is further to be borne in mind that the Colonies would obtain a considerable set off, if they agreed to the proposal of my Lords, by the relief which it is intended to afford them from the obligation they now incur of paying half the additional annual loss of postage sustained by the Imperial Revenue since the Colonies joined the Postal Union, and thereby obtained a considerable reduction in their postage rates.\n\nFor the ten months ending 31st January, 1880, the sums chargeable to the three Colonies for half the additional loss are as follows:----\n\nCeylon, ............ £2,698\n\nStraits Settlements, £3,459\n\nHongkong, ............ £2,828\n\n£8,985\n\n(17)\n\nMEMORANDUM.\n\nA Statement is enclosed giving the particulars of the Post Office calculation.\n\nOn reference to this Statement it will be seen that the mode of apportioning the loss on the Eastern Mail Service follows somewhat the formula adopted by Mr. COURTNEY.\n\nThe whole distance from Brindisi to Shanghai is divided into sections, and the gross subsidy paid to the Peninsular and Oriental Company (£360,000) is apportioned amongst these sections according to the annual mileage of each. One half of the cost of all the sections, amounting to £180,000, is assessed to the United Kingdom, the other half being charged rateably against India and the various Countries or Colonies making use of such sections in proportion to the number of letters conveyed on behalf of each.\n\nThe earnings are treated in the following manner. The whole Sea Postage collected by the Colonies is remitted in the first instance to the Imperial Post Office, where it is added to the Sea Postage collected by the United Kingdom for the purposes of apportionment. It is then divided into two Categories, viz.: (a) Sea Postage derived from Mails exchanged by the Colonies with the United Kingdom, and (b) Sea Postage accruing from intermediate Mails and from Mails conveyed on behalf of Foreign Countries. The former description of Sea Postage is allotted half to the United Kingdom and half to the Colony with which the Mails are exchanged, whilst the latter is shared in the same proportions as the cost of the section or sections over which the Mails may be carried.\n\nThe share of the loss apportioned to each Colony is found by deducting the Colonial share of the earnings from the Colonial share of the cost.\n\n22nd May, 1882.\n\nor at the rate of £10,782 for a year.\n\nTo this extent the Colonies would be relieved from 12th February, 1880, on entering upon the new arrangement which would take effect from that date.\n\nMy Lords trust that Lord KIMBERLEY will, with this further explanation before him, reconsider the terms which he is ready to propose to the Colonies, and endeavour to obtain from them payment of the amounts which, as their Lordships are convinced, are fairly due from them.\n\nStatement showing as regards Ceylon, Straits Settlements and Hongkong (1) the Division of Cost of the Eastern Mail Service (2) the Division of the Receipts for Sea Postage, and (3) the Apportionment of the Loss on the Service.\n\n \n SECTIONAL LINES INTO WHICH THE SERVICE IS DIVIDED.\n Annual Mileage of each Section.\n I.-DIVISION OF COST.\n \n \n \n \n Apportionment of Subsidy amongst the Sections according to Mileage.\n Moiety of Cost Assessed to the United Kingdom.\n Moiety of Cost assessed to other Places in proportion to number of Letters conveyed on behalf of each.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n India\n Ceylon.\n Straits Settlements.\n Hongkong, and other Places.\n Total.\n \n \n Mediterranean,\n 85,800\n £39,767\n £...\n £...\n £...\n £...\n £...\n £...\n \n \n Suez and Bombay,\n 309,088\n £143,258\n £71,629\n £...\n £...\n £...\n £...\n £71,629\n \n \n Suez and Galle,\n 178,984\n £82,956\n £41,478\n £...\n £...\n £...\n £...\n £41,478\n \n \n Galle and Singapore....\n 62,888\n £29,155\n £...\n £...\n £2,217\n £1,909\n £...\n £4,126\n \n \n Singapore & Hongkong,\n 74,724\n £34,634\n £...\n £...\n £...\n £3,958\n £13,771\n £17,729\n \n \n Hongkong & Shanghai,\n 45,240\n £20,968\n £...\n £...\n £...\n £...\n £10,484\n £10,484\n \n \n TOTALS,\n 776,724\n £360,000\n £180,000\n £...\n £2,721\n £7,071\n £156,437\n £180,000\n \n\nR. 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"content_text": "Ceylon, \n\nStraits Settlements, \n\nHongkong........ \n\nCeylon, \n\nStraits Settlements, \n\nHongkong, \n\nCOLONY.\n\n(18)\n\nII-DIVISION OF SEA POSTAGE.\n\nTotal Sea Postage accruing from\n\nthe Correspondence of the Colony.\n\nCOLONY.\n\nColonial Share,\n\none half.\n\n£ £\n\n2,042 1,321\n\n2,142 1,071\n\n2,342 1,071\n\nIII-APPORTIONMENT OF LOSS.\n\nColonial Share of the Cost.\n\nColonial Share of the Sea Postage.\n\nDifference, being Amount of\n\nLoss Apportioned to each Colony.\n\n£ £\n\n2,721 1,321 1,400\n\n7,071 1,071 6,000\n\n18,771 1,071 12,700\n\nGeneral Post Office, London, 22nd May, 1882.\n\n(Copy)\n\nSIR,\n\n(Signed)\n\nGEO. CHETWYND, Receiver and Accountant General.\n\nThe Colonial Office to the Treasury,\n\nDOWNING STREET,\n\n7th December, 1882.\n\nI am directed by the Earl of KIMBERLEY to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th of June last respecting the annual payments which in their Lordships' opinion ought to be made by the three Eastern Colonies of Ceylon, Hongkong, and the Straits Settlements respectively in reduction of the loss on the conveyance of mails.\n\n2. Their Lordships observe with regard to the letter from this Department of the 23rd of February, \"It is stated in your letter that the financial view of the question was not considered by the Secretary of State when the present contract was made.\" And it is further observed that efficiency and a high rate of speed can only be obtained by a corresponding expenditure.\n\nI am to point out that the words quoted above do not accurately represent the state of the case as explained in the Colonial Office letter of the 23rd of February.\n\nThat letter stated that when the present contract was being considered \"the question of a money contribution by the Eastern Colonies was not before the Secretary of State,\" and I am to observe that when their Lordships submitted the alternative tenders for the new Contract to the Secretary of State in a \"very pressing\" letter of the 3rd of August 1878, they gave him no intimation that contributions would be expected from the Eastern Colonies.\n\n(19)\n\n162\n\n3. Lord KIMBERLEY is ready to admit that in principle these Colonies may fairly be asked to bear a share of the cost of a Mail Service, provided that such share be reasonable and proportioned to the benefit derived by the Colonists generally, but His Lordship feels himself obliged to point out that each of the Eastern Colonies is almost entirely inhabited and its revenue contributed by a native population making little or no use of the mail service, and that so far as its value for purposes of correspondence is concerned, this population would have no objection to dispense with it altogether. It would therefore hardly seem reasonable to ask communities so constituted to pay the large subsidies in question, amounting in Hongkong to 5 per cent. on the whole public revenue of the Colony. On the other hand, His Lordship considers that the importance to the Mother Country of regular mail communication with the East is not to be measured only by the number of letters conveyed.\n\nBesides, the assistance which it affords to Her Majesty's Government in facilitating the administration of these dependencies and the direction of the Naval forces in the East, it may fairly be said that the mercantile community of the United Kingdom who supply the capital for and control the operations of the commerce of these Colonies have a greater interest in the correspondence than their Colonial Correspondents, and should bear more than half the expense.\n\n4. In the case of Ceylon and the Straits Settlements, the sums are comparatively small, and Lord KIMBERLEY, notwithstanding the reasons which might be urged, as has been stated above, will invite the Colonial Governments to make total contributions of £1,400 and £6,000 respectively.\n\nIn the case of Hongkong, however, a much more considerable sum is involved, and considering that the Colony was not consulted, at the time when the Contract was made, as to contributing to the subsidy, and that there are numerous Steam-ships to and from the Colony, which, as far as the interests of the Colonial Community are concerned, render a subsidy unnecessary, His Lordship cannot undertake to press the Colonial Government to provide a contribution. His Lordship is nevertheless prepared to direct the Governor to propose to the Legislative Council an annual contribution not exceeding £6,000.\n\nThe Secretary to the Treasury.\n\n(Copy.)\n\nNo. 19939.\n\nSIR,\n\nI am, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. G. W. HERBERT.\n\nThe Treasury to the Colonial Office,\n\nTREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\n28th December, 1882.\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th instant, respecting the contributions to be made by Ceylon, Hongkong, and the Straits Settlements towards meeting the loss on the Eastern Mail Contract.\n\nA",
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"content_text": "Necessary payments in excess of the Estimates for the year 1883, together with the revised Minutes of the Finance Committee explanatory.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\n427\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\n(Finance Committee, 14th June, 1883.)\n\nPAYMENTS AUTHORIZED IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES FOR 1883, REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY.\n\n...\n\nWe have the honor to be,\n\nMy Lords,\n\nYour Lordship's most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nEdmund Bowen\n\nESTABLISHMENTS\n\n \n C.S.O. 1080 of 1883.\n \n \n \n \n Registrar General,\n \n \n \n \n Allowance to Mr. SHEPHERD, for Chinese Teacher, at $10 per month, from 1st May to 30th November, 1883,\n \n $70.00\n \n \n C.S.O. 1410 of 1883.\n \n \n \n \n C.S.O. 1315 of 1883.\n \n \n \n \n C.S.O. 1186 of 1883.\n \n \n \n \n C.S.O.\n \n \n \n\nSERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS\n\n \n Police.\n \n \n \n \n Allowance for Quarters :-\n \n \n \n \n Additional allowance of $3 each to Police Constables SIMMONS, GIDLEY, and JENKINS (in addition to the $12 to each, sanctioned by the Finance Committee on 24th April),\n \n $72.00\n \n \n Allowance to two Police Constables now quartered at No. 8 Police Station, at $15 per month, from June to November,\n \n $180.00\n \n \n Allowance to three Police Constables quartered at No. 4 Police Station during the repairs of the premises, at $15 each (4 months),\n \n $180.00\n \n \n \n \n $432.00\n \n \n Works and Buildings.\n \n \n \n \n C.S.O. 914 of 1883. Constructing a Retaining Wall to prevent land-slip behind the Tungwa Hospital, being a moiety of the cost.\n \n $1,000.00\n \n\nPassed the Legislative Council, this 20th day of July, 1883.\n\nARATHOON SETH,\n\nClerk of Councils.",
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"content_text": "(4)\n\nIn Hongkong, transactions of pawning and sale of girls as domestic servants have taken place both before and since the British Government was established here, and no doubt will take place to some extent in spite of all our efforts; for the system is a recognised institution among some 250 millions of people, and as long as the Colony, part of which is on the mainland of China, is peopled by Chinese, cases of buying and selling girls for purposes of domestic service, with some of the abuses inherent in the system, must necessarily occur. It is obviously impossible to get the Chinese public mind to see any great wrong in an institution which their books show to have existed almost from time immemorial. But it will be seen from the Blue-book already cited that the respectable Chinese here are most anxious to put down sales for prostitution. They think, however, that the advantages of their system of adoption and child service much outweigh the evils attendant on it, and I take it from Lord KIMBERLEY's speech in the House of Lords, 21st June, 1880, and his published despatches, that Her Majesty's Government is satisfied that if there were proper guarantees against the abuses connected with the Chinese methods of adoption and of domestic service, the mere fact of a money payment would not be sufficient reason for proceeding otherwise than gradually against these systems, which are the natural concomitants of Chinese patriarchalism. There are signs, however, amongst the Chinese of what Sir HENRY MAINE calls \"the movement from Status to Contract\" and \"the ideas of which the race is capable\" show themselves to be different from what they were when the eminent author of \"Ancient Law\" published that work. But, as already observed, no opportunity is lost by the Officials of the Colony in proclaiming the rights of the Chinese here, the freedom of the subject, man, woman, and child. It is emphatically impressed upon the inhabitants that the payment of money for a child confers no title which English Officers will recognise. Again and again has it been pointed out by the Judges of the Supreme Court, by the Magistrates, and Police Officers, that no valid claim can be set up to the custody of any person because of a money payment, and the grown-up permanent residents of the Colony and its frequenters thoroughly know our laws on this point. Frequently, at the Police Courts and the Police Stations and at the Registrar General's office, claims of right by purchase have been set aside accompanied by a strong admonition. If there was a breach of criminal law, there has always been punishment; and although in the course of time, not far distant it is hoped, the knowledge of English laws and customs will permeate the neighbouring province and no claim by right of purchase will be thought of here, nevertheless, as Lord KIMBERLEY remarks, \"the position of the children now under consideration is one of peril, which may require safeguards,\" (par. 18, page 123 printed papers). For undoubtedly there are children bought as servants, who are brought up by abandoned women with the ultimate object of prostitution either here or at the Straits Settlements. The American market is now no longer open. Young girls, brought up with the idea that they are the property of their \"pocket-mothers\" or mistresses (and that they are so the \"pocket-mothers\" and mistresses inculcate with much assiduity), cannot be expected to make much fight for liberty or virtue even if they all knew their rights. As a matter of fact, the loyalty of these girls to their \"pocket-mothers\" or mistresses is such that often when they seek to be registered as prostitutes and are closely catechised as to their freedom, they will break into tears and protest that not only are they willing to become prostitutes but that it is their wish in order to provide for their mother or father or some near relations. The notion of duty of a Chinese daughter, natural-born or adopted, is that she must prostitute herself if the person in loco parentis indicates that it is expected of her. Frequent reports have shown how difficult it is to get these girls to help themselves; and that although they know they can claim their freedom, as a rule, they feel that to do so would be dishonest to the women who had bought them at Canton and placed them in brothels. In recent years, however, an improvement has been apparent.\n\n(5)\n\nThe trouble that the Government has taken to explain the position of these unfortunate women has not been in vain. In every room in every Chinese registered brothel in the Colony, a printed notice is exhibited explaining that the girls are free, and that if they have been deceived, pledged, or sold, they can always get their liberty at once. Every registered woman gets one of these papers. Their visitors see and read these papers to them, and some man who perhaps fancies one of these girls for a concubine tells her that she has only to go with him. He easily persuades her to leave; often abandons her afterwards, or perhaps he may induce her to go to the Straits Settlements ostensibly as his wife and sell her into a brothel there. But that many more of these women now leave the brothels than formerly without paying up their mistresses what they owe, or letting the pocket-mother know their intentions, is unquestionable. The consequence is that the brothel keepers find that to advance money on a girl on a promise of brothel service is an unsafe security, and before long, I believe no such advances will be made in Hongkong, a result greatly to be desired.\n\nIII.\n\nKidnapping partly chargeable to the Chinese systems of Adoption and Domestic Service.\n\nI have shown in the foregoing paragraphs how by a fraud upon the parents, the Chinese system of purchasing female children for adoption and domestic service is abused. My remarks have been directed to the training up of girls for prostitution and selling them into \"brothel slavery\" when the parents had voluntarily parted with their offspring in order to be daughters and servants, \"to be provided with husbands when they came to womanhood\"; but there is yet another evil which the Chinese themselves admit their custom encourages. I refer to kidnapping. In China, that crime is a capital offence. A kidnapper loses his head very promptly if caught and convicted on the other side of our boundary. In Hongkong, the crime was found to be so common that in 1868 a law was passed which enabled the Supreme Court to flog in addition to other punishments. That law had a very wonderful effect. It did not apply, of course, to women, and hence female child-stealers were more common than males.\n\nChildren are stolen (1o) to be ransomed.\n\n(2o) to be sold.\n\nWhen a child is missing, the parents advertise in the public thoroughfares and offer rewards, and the person who has stolen the child or a confederate pretends to find the child and obtains the reward, or, what is more frequent when the children (whether males or females) are stolen from Canton or the country, the children are sold to be adopted sons or domestic servants. There are generally four or five persons engaged in this transaction. The child-stealer manages to get three or four old women to find out somebody who wants to buy a son or daughter. The child has been carefully taught to call its kidnapper \"mother\" or \"aunt\"; or \"father\" or \"uncle,\" if a man. The intending purchaser sees the child and inquires how it comes to be sold. The go-between and other women vouch that it is owing to the poverty of the parents, and the child when questioned will repeat perhaps that its father is dead, and that the person offering it for sale is the mother. Grief at parting with the child is easily assumed to keep up appearances. A bill of sale is made out, the money is paid, and the kidnapper goes away with the proceeds. The old women who are invariably called in to help in the transaction get a dollar or two, and the purchaser, who may have bought the child as a servant...\n\nPage 153",
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"content_text": "TREASURY CHAMBERS, \n\n17th January, 1883. \n\nSIR, \n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Earl of Derby that, in accordance with the arrangements made in 1875 for the annual revision of the rate at which the Dollar is issued at Hong Kong, in the Straits Settlements, and on the China Station, for Imperial service, payable in this country in sterling, my Lords have caused the necessary calculations to be made of the average price of standard silver in the London market during the calendar year 1882, and of the corresponding value of the Mexican Dollar. \n\nI am to inform you that, according to the terms of the above arrangement, the Dollar should be issued during the financial year 1883-84 at the rate of Three Shillings and Ninepence (3s. 9d.); and that, according to the same mode of valuation, the rate of issue of the Rupee in the colonies of Ceylon and Mauritius, and on the East Indian Station, for Imperial services, payable in this country in sterling, should be fixed at One Shilling and Eightpence (1s. 8d.) for 1883-84. \n\nMy Lords desire me to add that the necessary instructions have been sent to the Treasury Chest Officers at Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, and Mauritius for the adoption of the above rates as from 1st April next. \n\nI am, SIR, \n\nYour obedient Servant, \n\nRowelly\n\nUnder Secretary of State, Colonial Office\n\nR & S(3826) 25 1--83\n\nRate of Dollar and Rupee for 1883-84.\n\n103554 REOP REGO 18 JAN\n\nNo. 208 83",
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"content_text": "(2)\n\n(3)\n\n358\n\nconsiderable loss. I should say here that when the Legislative Council voted for our entry into the Postal Union in 1876 the prospect was then clearly laid before it that the Post Office would probably cease to be a source of Revenue.\n\n8. That, however, was inevitable, whether we entered the Union or not, nor would retirement from it now do anything for us. Such a course would simply aggravate our financial relations with other countries, without improving our position vis-à-vis with London.\n\n9. There would seem then to be four courses open to the Colony, as follows: - (a) To ask for a re-consideration of the question by the Imperial Government.\n\n(b) To pay the £6,000 asked for by the Secretary of State and accept the loss on the Postal Service.\n\n(c) To pay the £6,000 and revert to the old 1/3d. (30 cents) rate of Postage to the United Kingdom only by both British and French packets in order to raise the sum required.\n\n(d) To decline either to despatch or to receive mails by the P. & O. packets.\n\n10. I venture to offer a few remarks on these alternatives. And first as to a plea for re-consideration, I have to follow Lord Kimberley in pointing out that the Colony was not consulted before these heavy responsibilities were incurred, if indeed they can be said to have been incurred at all. For the Mail Service is costing at this moment not more but less than it did under the old contract, and the loss to which we contribute is less, as will appear from the following figures:\n\n \n Payment to P. & O. Co.\n £430,000\n Estimated Imperial Loss.\n \n \n 1876-77\n \n £211,000\n \n \n 1877-78\n \n £232,500 (Old Contract. £282,500\n \n \n 1878-79\n £417,825\n \n \n \n 1879-80\n £258,000\n Both Contracts.\n \n \n 1880-81\n £356,600\n \n \n \n 1881-82\n £358,000\n £208,000 New Contract. £207,000\n \n\n11. Then again as to the principle of paying according to distance, which brings about the formidable total of £12,000 claimed by the London Post Office, it would seem that whilst the P. & O. Contract extends to Shanghai, how far along the line Hongkong may happen to be, so long as a stoppage there is inevitable, ought not to make very much difference. If the voyage ceased at Hongkong, or the packets went out of their way to come here, it would be very different. But evidently the Imperial Government wishes to maintain communication with Shanghai, and the packets must come into Hongkong whether we avail ourselves of them for Postal purposes or not. When a person must needs go from Edinburgh to London, and is asked to deliver a parcel on the way, it surely does not matter much to him whether it is addressed to Carlisle or to Newark so long as both are in his road. Our mails do not eat anything on the way, their presence on board does not lead to the consumption of an ounce more coal, nor to an hour's delay.\n\n12. Payment according to distance is moreover opposed to the general practice of the Postal Service. A letter from London to Cornwall costs no more than one delivered at Kensington, the postage to China is the same as that to India. And the same rule obtains with regard to payments for territorial and sea-conveyance. We pay the French Post Office the same rates for carrying a letter to Saigon as for carrying it to Marseilles, and if the transit were extended to Brazil we should pay no more. Switzerland obtains the same remuneration on correspondence which crosses a corner of its territory as Russia does for transporting it from St. Petersburg to Manchuria.\n\n13. If we pay even the £6,000 to which the Secretary of State has modified this heavy demand, the result will be that we shall be taking a great deal of trouble and going to a good deal of expense to conduct Postal business on the coast of China simply for the pleasure of doing it. These Postal duties in China were unwillingly undertaken by the Colony entirely in deference to the views of the Home Government, and I will venture to say that they have been carried out as well as, in the face of local difficulties, they possibly could be. It may be questioned whether the Colony should be rewarded by a demand for three per cent. of its entire revenue (for that is what £6,000 a year amounts to) entailing complete extinction of the modest revenue on its local Postal business. The London Post Office, which is making an increasing profit of over £3,000,000 annually (after defraying the losses to which we are asked to contribute) can afford to be more generous to us than that. I cannot but think that, were these details fully explained, a contribution of £3,000, or £3,500 a year, fixed, and irrespective of accounts, would be accepted as a discharge of all claims.\n\n14. In any case, if (b) we pay the £6,000 a year assessed by the Secretary of State, I scarcely see how we can be called upon to pay arrears since February 1st, 1880. To have a debt of £10,000 suddenly sprung on us, of which we knew nothing, and as to the running up of which our consent was not asked, is, to say the least of it, very discouraging. According to the claim of the London Post Office these arrears would amount to about £30,000.\n\n15. Lord Kimberley points out that a considerable portion of the £6,000 which his Lordship considers the Colony might reasonably be asked to pay will be contributed by a native population that makes comparatively little use of Mail communication. With great deference, I do not think this is an argument which in this particular case ought to be used either for or against the proposed payment. It cannot be too often insisted on that the circumstances of Hongkong are radically different from those of India, Ceylon, or even the Straits Settlements. We have here no native population subsisting on a soil which has been taken away from its original lords. Such a population may doubtless ask to have life made at least as pleasant as it would have been under the old régime. But the Chinese population of Hongkong has come to us, we have not gone to it. A Chinese lives in Hongkong because it suits him to do so, and if he finds life there intolerable because mail steamers either are or are not subsidised out of the taxes, the Empire of China, from which he or his father came, lies open to him within a few miles.\n\nWe have only to imagine the Chinese community of Hongkong announcing that they would prefer to live under a Republic, or that they object to parliamentary government, to see\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361",
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"content_text": "364\n\n(14)\n\nIn that letter the Earl of KIMBERLEY states that while of opinion that these Colonies may properly be called upon to make some contribution towards the cost of the Mail Service, he does not feel able to call upon them for such large sums as this Department assigns to them, and he adds that if Ceylon, which is the wealthiest of them, is only called upon to contribute £2,700 a year, the contributions demanded from Hongkong and the Straits Settlements should at least not exceed that amount. In reply I have to state that, in apportioning to each Colony its share of the loss on the Eastern Mail Service, the principal factors in the calculation were: (1.) The comparative length of the services required, and\n\n(2.) The comparative amount of correspondence forwarded in each case. This principle is carried out by this Department in all similar assessments, and the following is a brief explanation of the method of making the necessary calculations.\n\nThe whole service performed by the Peninsular and Oriental Company is divided into Sections (e.g. Brindisi and Alexandria, and Suez and Galle, &c.) and the annual subsidy is allotted to these sections in proportion to the annual mileage of each Section. One half of the amounts so arrived at is apportioned to the United Kingdom, whilst the other half is apportioned to the various Countries and Colonies using the Sections in proportion to the number of letters forwarded on behalf of each.\n\nAs a matter of fact, the contributions proposed for Hongkong and the Straits Settlements are larger in amount than the contribution proposed for Ceylon because the distances over which the Mails are conveyed are greater in the case of the former Colonies than in the case of the latter.\n\nAs regards Lord KIMBERLEY'S remark in Paragraph 3 that the Colonies had no voice in the settlement of the Contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company, I have to point out that the Colonial Office, acting on behalf of the Colonies, had a strong voice in the matter, and that it was in no small degree owing to the views of the Colonial Office as to the Colonial interests that the present Contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company was preferred.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nHENRY FAWCETT,\n\nThe Lords Commissioners\n\nOF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY.\n\nColonial Office to Treasury.\n\n(Copy)\n\nSIR,\n\nDOWNING STREET,\n\n23rd February, 1882.\n\nI am directed by the Earl of KIMBERLEY to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant forwarding copy of a letter from the General Post Office, dated the 20th October 1880, on the subject of the proposed contributions from the Eastern Colonies to meet the deficiency of postage and consequent loss to the Exchequer arising from the conveyance of the Mails under the present Contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company.\n\n(15)\n\n2.--The Postmaster General has observed in his letter that it was in no small degree owing to the views expressed by this Department that the present contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company was preferred to the other tenders, but contribution by the Eastern Colonies was not then before the Secretary of State, who was only invited to consider the relative merits of the respective tenderers in regard to the services to be performed by them, and that the Colonial Office, when it advised the Lords of the Treasury as to the present Mail Contract, had in view the requirements of the Australian rather than the Eastern Colonies.\n\nThe latter Colonies are so well supplied with Steam-ship Services as to be practically independent of any Contract, and in the event of any future Contract being entered into for the carriage of Mails by Steamers calling at Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and Hongkong, these Colonies may possibly not require to be included in it.\n\n3.--Lord KIMBERLEY is, however, willing to invite the Governments of the three Colonies in question to contribute each £2,500 per annum during the currency of the present Contract.\n\nThe Secretary to\n\nTHE TREASURY.\n\n(Copy.)\n\nNo. 7817.\n\nSIR,\n\nI am, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nROBERT G. 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HERBERT.\n\nThe Treasury to the Colonial Office.\n\nTREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\n12th June, 1882.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had under their consideration your letter of the 23rd February last, on the subject of the proposed contributions from Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and Hongkong, towards the loss arising from the conveyance of mails.\n\nIt is stated in your letter that the financial view of the question was not considered by the Secretary of State when the present contract was made, but that the question was presented to him entirely with respect to the character of the Service and the requirements of the Australian rather than of the Eastern Colonies.\n\nLord KIMBERLEY is however ready to recommend contributions from the three Colonies in question of £2,500 per annum each, in all £7,500.\n\nI am directed to observe that in 1878 my Lords were informed by a letter from the Colonial Office, dated 8th August, that in the opinion of the Secretary of State the maintenance of a high speed in the Mediterranean was, especially at that time, of great importance, and that it was most desirable to maintain a direct separate service between Suez and Ceylon, the Straits and China, which could not be provided for except under the Tender of the Peninsular and Oriental Company.\n\nIt is obvious that efficiency and a high rate of speed can only be obtained by a corresponding expenditure.",
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"content_text": "365\n\n(16)\n\nWith respect to the amount of the contributions which my Lords ask from the Colonies, it has been assumed that they should bear one half of the loss incurred on the sections of the Packet Service in which they are interested, and according to that assessment the contributions should be, as previously pointed out,\n\nCeylon, ...£1,400 ..£6,000 ..£12,700\n\nTheir Lordships fear that in the previous letters which have passed on the subject the facts and calculations have not been put before the Secretary of State in a sufficiently clear and definite form.\n\nThey have therefore caused to be prepared by the Postmaster General's Department a memorandum and statement in figures, showing precisely how the loss on this service should be divided, a copy of which is herewith transmitted.\n\nYou will observe that the calculation is based upon the service rendered, i.e., the number of Letters and the distance over which they are carried, and my Lords are unable to see that any fairer basis of agreement can be arrived at.\n\nLord KIMBERLEY's proposal to ask an equal payment from each Colony, would, besides any other objections, present the anomaly of calling upon Ceylon to pay more than her fair share.\n\nIt is further to be borne in mind that the Colonies would obtain a considerable set off, if they agreed to the proposal of my Lords, by the relief which it is intended to afford them from the obligation they now incur of paying half the additional annual loss of postage sustained by the Imperial Revenue since the Colonies joined the Postal Union, and thereby obtained a considerable reduction in their postage rates.\n\nFor the ten months ending 31st January, 1880, the sums chargeable to the three Colonies for half the additional loss are as follows:--\n\nCeylon, ...£2,698\n\nStraits Settlements, ...£3,459\n\nHongkong, ...£2,828\n\n£8,985\n\nDivision of Cost.\n\nDivision of Sea Postage.\n\nApportionment of Loss.\n\n(17)\n\n**MEMORANDUM**\n\nA Statement is enclosed giving the particulars of the Post Office calculation. On reference to this Statement it will be seen that the mode of apportioning the loss on the Eastern Mail Service follows somewhat the formula adopted by Mr. COURTNEY.\n\nThe whole distance from Brindisi to Shanghai is divided into sections, and the gross subsidy paid to the Peninsular and Oriental Company (£360,000) is apportioned amongst these sections according to the annual mileage of each. One half of the cost of all the sections, amounting to £180,000, is assessed to the United Kingdom, the other half being charged rateably against India and the various Countries or Colonies making use of such sections in proportion to the number of letters conveyed on behalf of each.\n\nThe whole Sea Postage earnings are treated in the following manner. The Sea Postage collected by the Colonies is remitted in the first instance to the Imperial Post Office, where it is added to the Sea Postage collected by the United Kingdom for the purposes of apportionment. It is then divided into two Categories, viz.: (a) Sea Postage derived from Mails exchanged by the Colonies with the United Kingdom, and (b) Sea Postage accruing from intermediate Mails and from Mails conveyed on behalf of Foreign Countries. The former description of Sea Postage is allotted half to the United Kingdom and half to the Colony with which the Mails are exchanged, whilst the latter is shared in the same proportions as the cost of the section or sections over which the Mails may be carried.\n\nThe share of the loss apportioned to each Colony is found by deducting the Colonial share of the earnings from the Colonial share of the cost.\n\n22nd May, 1882.\n\nStatement showing as regards Ceylon, Straits Settlements and Hongkong (1) the Division of Cost of the Eastern Mail Service (2) the Division of the Receipts for Sea Postage, and (3) the Apportionment of the Loss on the Service.\n\nI-DIVISION OF COST.\n\nMoiety of Cost assessed to other Places in proportion to number of Letters conveyed on behalf of each.\n\nor at the rate of £10,782 for a year.\n\nTo this extent the Colonies would be relieved from 12th February, 1880, on entering upon the new arrangement which would take effect from that date.\n\nMy Lords trust that Lord KIMBERLEY will, with this further explanation before him, reconsider the terms which he is ready to propose to the Colonies, and endeavour to obtain from them payment of the amounts which, as their Lordships are convinced, are fairly due from them.\n\n \n SECTIONAL LINGS INTO WHICH THE SERVICE IS DIVIDED\n Annual Mileage of each Section\n Apportionment of Subsidy amongst the Sections according to Mileage\n Moiety of Cost Assessed to the United Kingdom\n Share falling to\n Total\n \n \n \n \n £\n £\n \n £\n \n \n Mediterranean,\n 85,800\n 39,767\n 19,883\n Ceylon, Straits Settlements, India, Hongkong, and other Places\n 356, 293, 341\n \n \n Suez and Bombay,\n 143,258\n 66,388\n 33,194\n \n 71,629\n \n \n Suez and Galle,\n 178,984\n 82,956\n 41,478\n 2,217, 1,909, 35,206, 2,146\n 41,478\n \n \n Galle and Singapore,\n 82,888\n 38,417\n 19,209\n 83, 3,958, 3,979, 11,188\n 19,209\n \n \n Singapore & Hongkong,\n 74,724\n 34,634\n 17,317\n 43, 605, 7,066, 239, 9,003\n 17,317\n \n \n Hongkong & Shanghai,\n 45,240\n 20,968\n 10,484\n 23, 306, 7,066, 3,089\n 10,484\n \n \n TOTALS,\n 776,724\n 360,000\n 180,000\n 2,721, 7,071, 13,771, 156,437\n 180,000\n \n\nR. G. W. HERBERT, ESQ.,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nLEONARD COURTNEY.",
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"content_text": "439 \n\n@ \n\nIn the subjoined Minute:- \n\nThe Governor recommends the Council to vote the following sum:-- \n\nA sum not exceeding Sixty-three thousand dollars ($63,000) in payment of the contribution due from Hongkong to lessen the loss sustained by the Imperial Treasury on the Eastern Mail Service from the 1st of February, 1883, to the 31st of December, 1884, at the rate of £6,000 per annum. \n\nFrom the papers on this subject which have already been presented, the Council is aware that, since 1879, this question has been under the consideration of Her Majesty's Government. Successive Secretaries of State have done their utmost to obtain the assent of the Imperial Treasury to a reduction of the sum originally put forward as this Colony's share of the loss, and the present Secretary of State has now communicated the final decision of the Imperial Government. \n\nIn Lord DERBY's words, \"The Lords of the Treasury have finally consented to an arrangement by which the Government of Hongkong shall contribute at the proposed rate of £6,000 from the 1st of February 1883 only, the claim for the arrears of this increased payment for the period anterior to that date being waived.” \n\nThe Council has already assented to the principle of contributing towards the loss to the Imperial Government by the Eastern Mail Service, and, when passing the Estimates for 1884, voted the sum of $22,000 for that year, and $55,000 as arrears for 1880, 1881, and 1882, being at the rate of £4,000 per annum only. This was done in accordance with a resolution of the Finance Committee passed at its meeting on the 21st June, 1883. \n\nConsidering that the original claim was for £13,771 per annum, and that Lords KIMBERLEY and DERBY have successively done all in their power to obtain the most favourable terms possible for the Colony, and have caused the contribution originally required to be reduced by more than one half, the Governor believes that the Council will recognize the efforts that have been made in England on behalf of this Colony, and will accede to the arrangement now proposed by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n\nThis Minute was, in the customary manner, referred for the consideration of the Finance Committee, which unanimously reported as follows:- \n\n\"The Committee recommend that a sum not exceeding Sixty-three thousand dollars ($63,000) be approved; but express a hope that the sum contributed by this Colony will be considered open to revision on the expiration of the present Postal Contract.\" \n\nThe Report of the Finance Committee was yesterday (12th June) adopted by the Legislative Council unanimously, and without any objection on the part of any Member, either Official or Unofficial. When the Vote had passed, ... rose.",
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"content_text": "## Rate of Dollar and Rupee for 1884-85\n\n**RECO C 0. 1079 PEG 19 JAN 84 338**\n\n### TREASURY CHAMBERS, 17th January, 1884.\n\n**SIR,**\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that, in accordance with the arrangements made in 1875 for the annual revision of the rate at which the Dollar is issued at Hong Kong, in the Straits Settlements, and on the China Station, for Imperial service, payable in this country in sterling, my Lords have caused the necessary calculations to be made of the average price of standard silver in the London market during the calendar year 1883, and of the corresponding value of the Mexican Dollar.\n\nI am to inform you that, according to the terms of the above arrangement, the Dollar should be issued during the financial year 1884-85 at the rate of Three Shillings and Ninepence (3s. 9d.); and that, according to the same mode of valuation, the rate of issue of the Rupee in the colonies of Ceylon and Mauritius, and on the East Indian Station, for Imperial services, payable in this country in sterling, should be fixed at One Shilling and Eightpence (1s. 8d.) for 1884-85.\n\nMy Lords desire me to add that the necessary instructions have been sent to the Treasury Chest Officers at Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, and Mauritius for the adoption of the above rates as from 1st April next.\n\nI am, SIR,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n1. A. Taile\n\nUnder Secretary of State\n\nColonial Office\n\n`(11,891) 25 1-84` \n## No. 203 84",
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"content_text": "468\n\nI did so and on 23rd February (enclosure C) the Horse Guards intimated that my retirement on Pension was sanctioned, but for reasons stated I could not draw my Pension while holding a Colonial appointment. On the 28th February (enclosure D) I appealed against this decision on grounds set forth in detail in my letter.\n\nOn the 16th March a Horse Guards letter (enclosure E) offered me a compromise of a Pension of £200 a year, to be drawn along with Colonial Salary, but not to be increased. On 18th March, I declined this offer (enclosure F) for reasons stated in my letter.\n\nOn 23rd March, after I had already engaged my passage to Hong Kong, a Horse Guards letter (Enclosure G) intimated to me that no portion of my Pension would be paid me while holding a Colonial appointment.\n\nIt is against this last decision that I wish to appeal through the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Lords of the Treasury, in the following grounds:\n\n1. My Pension was earned by past service and having earned it I claim a right to devote my time and energies to any honorable work that may bring an occupation and additional emolument.\n\n2. The Salary I am now earning in Hong Kong is paid from local taxation and not derived from British Revenues. The British Exchequer therefore seems to me to have no right to confiscate my pension because I am paid for other services by a Colony.\n\n3. Even if I derived my Salary from British Revenue, I should have a claim for my Pension in addition, under para 990 of the Royal Warrant for Pay and Promotion which lays: \"Retired pay may, subject to the Provisions Article 991, with the consent of the Lords Commissioners of our Treasury, be issued to an officer holding a civil situation, subject to limitations corresponding to those in the Appropriation Act 1870, as regards half pay.\"\n\n4. The limitation here referred to is a provision that the civil Salary should not exceed three times the Amount of the retired pay.\n\n5. My civil salary here is 360 dollars a year, or at the present rate of exchange about £620 a year, hardly more than double my retired pay.\n\n6. I am informed that many officers of high position - such as Members of the...",
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"content_text": "29 \n\n2. The salary I am now earning in Hongkong is paid from local taxation, and not derived from British Revenues. The British Exchequer, therefore, seems to me to have no right to confiscate my pension, because I am paid from other sources by a Colony.\n\n3. Even if I derived my salary from British Revenue, I should have a claim for my pension in addition, under para. 990 of the Royal Warrant for Pay and Promotion, which says: \"Retired pay may, subject to the provisions of Article 991, with the consent of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, be issued to an officer holding a civil situation, subject to limitations corresponding to those in the Appropriation Act 1870, as regards half pay.\"\n\n4. The limitation here referred to is a provision that the civil salary should not exceed three times the amount of the retired pay.\n\n5. My civil salary here is $3,360 a year, or at the present rate of exchange about £620 a year, hardly more than double my retired pay.\n\n6. I am informed that many officers of high position, such as members of the Indian Council, are allowed to draw high civil salaries in addition to Military pay or pension. I am informed that Sir GEORGE W. KELLNER, with many others, draws both pension and salary from the Government at home.\n\n7. Subordinate officers of my standing have also been allowed to receive both home and Colonial salaries, in addition to their retired pay. I may instance Lieutenant-Colonel GARSIA (formerly 54th Regt.), Asst. Governor of Wormwood Scrubs Prison; the late Colonel SCEBERRAS, 98th Regt., Chief of Police at Malta; Major SWINBURNE, late 80th Regt., recently employed in the Straits Settlement Police, and others. I see no difference between their cases and mine.\n\n8. In consequence of the unhealthy climate and want of educational facilities at Hongkong, I have been obliged in coming out here to leave my family at home. If my pension is withheld, I am practically serving here for only £320 a year. The extra cost of the double establishment I have to keep up greatly exceeds this amount. I am, therefore, now serving in Hongkong at a pecuniary loss, and if my pension is refused me, I have no other alternative than at once to resign my appointment here and request the Colonial Office to send an officer to relieve me as soon as possible.\n\n9. I am reluctant to give up the service of Government, and in the event of the Lords of the Treasury deciding against me, I would humbly request the Right Honourable the Secretary of State (if it is not against rule) to submit my case to Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN in Council. I understand that as a Military Officer, though retired, I have a right of appeal to Her Majesty, though I am unacquainted with the proper form of doing so; and I entertain a strong and firm conviction that neither Her Most Gracious Majesty nor the \n\n#",
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"content_text": "## PS \n\nI would suggest that a copy of this despatch and of its enclosure should be transmitted to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.\n\n## SMB.\n\n## Enclosure \n\n### FAREWELL BALL TO ADMIRAL DOWELL AT THE CITY HALL\n\nThough organised upon very brief notice, this Ball proved one of the most successful ever given in this colony. Scarcely more than a week elapsed from the time that the gallant Admiral expressed his preference for a ball over a banquet, before the event took place, but nevertheless nothing was found wanting, and the arrangements last night were as complete and the decorations as good as if the Ball had been premeditated months before. The reasons which influenced the leading residents in Hongkong in taking special steps to do honour to Admiral Sir W. M. Dowell previous to his departure for England need not be gone into here at any length, as they will be found fully set out below in the address presented to the gallant officer at the supper and in the speeches which accompanied it. His former association with the colony, services rendered in past times, and the effective manner in which he maintained the honour of England in those seas during the late Franco-Chinese and the Anglo-Russian crisis have been deemed fully sufficient reasons for this mark of esteem. Admiral Dowell's connection with the Royal Navy commenced in 1839, and probably his recollections of Hongkong are not the least pleasant among his many and varied experiences. His sterling and genial qualities have rendered him popular both afloat and ashore here, and the Squadron and the community here alike regret that his stay in these waters has been so short.\n\nThe general Committee for the Ball was a large one, and was appointed eight days since at the preliminary meeting called by the Chamber of Commerce, which body has been mainly instrumental in bringing about last night's gathering. The Committee comprised the following gentlemen: Mr. Justice Ackroyd, Mr. G. C. Anderson, Dr. P. B. C. Ayres, Messrs. E. R. Belilios, J. Bell-Irving, S. G. Bird, C. D. Bottomley, C. E. Bowles, E. Barney, G. de Champeaux, C. P. Chater, D. R. Crawford, J. B. Coughtrie, A. Coxon, G. S. Coxon, H. L. Dalrymple, W. H. F. Darby, Victor Deacon, W. M. Deane, W. Durran, N. J. Ede, W. H. Forbes, H. Foss, J. J. Francis, D. Gillies, M. Grote, H. A. Herbert, Dr. Ho Kai, Mr. H. Hoppus, Hon. T. Jackson, Messrs. R. R. Jukes, B. Layton, Lee Sing, Lee Tak Cheong, Hon. A. Lister, Messrs. J. H. S. Lockhart, A. P. MacEwen, John Macgregor, A. McClymont, A. Molver, E. Mackintosh, J. Melville Matson, A. McConachie, H. M. Mehta, G. E. Noble, Hon. E. L. O'Malley, Mr. A. H. Percival, Sir George Phillippo, Mr. L. Poosnecker, Hon. J. M. Price, Mr. W. H. Ray, Mr. A. G. Romano, Capt. Rumsey, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Messrs. Hormusjee Setus, A. F. Smith, Capt. Steibel, Hon. F. Stewart, Messrs. A. G. Stokes, A. P. Stokes, J. Thorburn, Wei Ayuk, A. Westland, T. H. Whitehead, H. E. Wodehouse, and Hon. Wong Shing.\n\nThe hard work fell into the hands of gentlemen endowed with plenty of energy, and the result of their efforts must have been very gratifying to them, as the City Hall was made to look most charming in every section, and all the arrangements were so well devised that the affair passed off with the greatest éclat and without a single hitch. The working sub-committees were composed as follows:\n\n| Committee | Members |\n| --- | --- |\n| Decoration Committee | The Hon. J. M. Price (Surveyor-General), Captain R. M. Rumsey, and Messrs. A. Coxon and J. B. Coughtrie |\n| Supper Committee | Messrs. A. McClymont and J. Macgregor |\n| Dancing and Music Committee | Messrs. C. E. Bowles and G. S. Coxon |\n| Address Committee | Messrs. MacEwen, Mackintosh, and Francis |\n\nMr. J. Melville-Matson, who kindly volunteered to perform the very onerous duties of honorary secretary, was indefatigable in his exertions, and in the time at his disposal he accomplished wonders, being doubtless greatly assisted by the experience gained by him in a similar position last year on the occasion of the first St. George's Ball in this colony.\n\nThe heaviest work fell upon the Decoration Committee, who achieved a signal success. Mr. Price, with the resources of the Survey Department at his command, undertook the lion's share of the work: the entrance hall, staircase, landings, ante-room, and St. George's Hall. St. Andrew's Hall, the Theatre (Supper Room), &c., were in the hands of the other gentlemen, and by this division of labour two distinct styles of decoration were apparent, giving pleasing variety.\n\nCommencing with the approach to the building, the exterior was brilliantly illuminated by a large gas star over the entrance, and several powerful patent standard burners. The entrance hall disclosed a most attractive vista up the grand staircase. Every column was closely wreathed with spiral ropes of green leaves. On each column was a large gilt shield hanging from three large gilt tridents, and on the face of each shield were either the initials \"W. D.\", or Admiral Dowell's crest, a lion rampant. Round the base of each pillar was a bed of pot plants and shrubs. Passing up the stairs, the stone balustrade was covered with green wreaths and silver sprays, pot plants were placed on either side all the way up, and as far as the first landing a 64-pounder conical shell stood at each side of every stair, making a most effective border. On each of the three large windows on the first landing was a large round gilded shield, with a deep green border, on which were respectively the letters W., M., D., Admiral Dowell's initials. At the head of the stairs stood two brass howitzers mounted on a carriage, and the space of wall around was filled in with pot plants and foliage. On the pilasters all round this landing were similar gilded shields and tridents to those below, being Admiral Dowell's initials or crest, these being surrounded by sprays of bamboo leaves. On the wall spaces between the pilasters were gilded anchors, and above these were round targets in red and gold, with a green moss edging, and a fringe of bright cutlasses, on which were either the crest or monogram of the guest of the evening. From the level of the bottom of the windows to the top of the stairs was hung a wreath in small festoons, and in the centre of each festoon a silvered palm leaf, which had the appearance of the inner side of a marine shell. All the devices were well surrounded by sprays of green foliage and plants.\n\nSt. George's Hall was not profusely decorated, but it was treated with great taste and effect. Festoons of green wreaths depended from the head of each pilaster, and at the top of the pedestal of each was placed a small bank of moss and ferns, from which sprung graceful fronds of maiden hair fern. At the north end there was a large mirror, which was surrounded by pot plants and foliage, and in each doorway was suspended a basket of flowers. 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"content_text": "## 126\n\n\"you can live cheaply, open a shop, or sweep a crossing; whatever you do we shall pay you your money; but if you presume to enter the service of a British Colony, to utilize your experience for the benefit of British Colonists, and receive their pay, we shall, for your presumption, mulet you of the pension you have earned?” \n\nof your retired pay, as you were & \n\n7. Such seems the doctrine of the War Office. How differently the sister service under the Admiralty is treated? A naval officer, once retired on a pension, is never interfered with. How many of these officers are now employed at home and in every Colony as Magistrates, Commissioners, Harbour Masters, &c., who receive their pensions without question, in addition to the salaries of the work they do? Official records show it. I could quote many instances, from retired Vice-Admiral Count Gleichen, with his £1,200 a year as Constable of Windsor Castle, to retired Commander Rumsey, Harbour Master at Hongkong, who so draw their pensions or have accepted commutation. Had I myself served in the Royal Marines instead of in a line Regiment, no question would have been raised as to my pension, even had I been seconded 10 or 15 years. \n\n8. As far as I can understand the correspondence in this case, and from information I received verbally at the War Office, it appears that the suspension of my pension is based on the Appropriation Act of 1870. On studying this Act I came to the conclusion, and in this I have been supported by legal opinion, that the Act does not apply to me. This Act was passed long before compulsory retirement from the army was introduced. It refers to officers on half pay---on whom Government has a lien for further service, if required— not to officers pensioned off as superannuated. But even if applicable to me, the intention of the Act evidently is, that a retired officer can draw his retired pay, if the pay of a Civil situation he may hold does not exceed three times his retired pay, which mine does not. I am further advised that the intention of this Act was evidently to prevent double salaries being paid out of the British Exchequer to persons of influence without the consent of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, but that it was never intended to apply to remuneration for work done, paid by a Colonial Treasury from funds derived from other sources than British taxation. \n\n9. The late Government, however, decided that I was not to receive my pension while under the Colonial Office. I beg respectfully to appeal from the late to the present Government, and I trust the Secretary of State will support my appeal. I venture to think that the late Government, had it remained in office, would, on reconsideration, have reversed the cruel decision of the War Office. Even if legal grounds were found to support the decision arrived at, grounds in equity would have certainly pointed in an opposite direction. I appeal to the opinion of a distinguished statesman and member of the late Government... I know of.",
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"content_text": "## Rate of Dollar and Rupee for 1885-6\n\n**TREASURY CHAMBERS, February, 1885.**\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Earl, that, in accordance with the arrangements in 1875 for the annual revision of the rate at which the Dollar is issued at Hong Kong, in the Straits Settlements, and on the China Station, for Imperial Service payable in this country in sterling, My Lords have caused the necessary calculations to be made of the average price of standard silver in the London market during the calendar year 1884, and of the corresponding value of the Mexican Dollar.\n\nI am to inform you that, according to the terms of the above arrangement, the Dollar should be issued during the financial year 1885-6 at the rate of three shillings and eightpence (3s. 8d.); and that, according to the same mode of valuation, the rate of issue of the Rupee in the Colonies of Ceylon and Mauritius, and on the East Indian Station, for Imperial Services payable in this country in sterling, should be fixed at one shilling and sevenpence-halfpenny (1s. 7½d.) for 1885-6.\n\nMy Lords desire me to add that the necessary instructions have been sent to the Treasury Chest Officers at Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, and Mauritius, for the adoption of the above rates as from the 1st of April next.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n`R & S (4613a) 25 1--85`\n`REGO 6 FEB 85`\n\nPage 307\nPage 412\nPage 105",
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"content_text": "Certificates, which will be found in the annexed extract from local paper, will be read by Your Lordship with much interest, as the study of European Medicine and surgery by Chinese is a new departure, and important results in promoting good feeling between us and the Chinese may have.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lords,\n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient humble Servant,\n\nMark\n\n28th May, 18...\n\nEnclosure 1. 3rd June, 1886.\n\n# THE ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.\n\n## ITS HISTORY.\n\nThe foundation stone of the Alice Memorial Hospital was laid this afternoon by H. E. The Acting Governor, the Hon. W. H. Marsh. The event marks the first definite step in the way of alleviating the sufferings of the poorer natives by placing within their reach gratuitous medical treatment on Western and truly scientific principles, and it is to be hoped that it also marks the beginning of a medical school in this Colony in which promising native lads may be taught the true science of medicine.\n\nThe need for such an institution and above all for having trained native Doctors has been long felt, but other schemes have so engrossed public attention that the idea was left in abeyance or put aside till a more convenient season. No one who knows the mischief done by the empirical and haphazard treatment of the native practitioners and the dangers to which the community might be exposed by the spread of an epidemic, but will admit that one of the greatest benefits that could be bestowed on the natives would be the formation of an efficient staff of native medical doctors thoroughly trained in Western practice. At present Chinese doctors are as a rule mere quacks, who do not even require to pass examinations in the crude ideas of the science entertained by the Chinese.\n\nIt is some four years ago since the scheme of a free public hospital began to be actively canvassed. About that time Dr Ho Kai returned from England and earnestly interested himself in the movement. He found Dr W. Young generously giving his services gratuitously at the Chapel of the London Mission Society and at the meeting place at Taiping-shan. To him Dr Ho Kai expressed his conviction that the founding of a public hospital was the only way of meeting in anything like a satisfactory manner the clamant necessity of the large population. In this belief Dr Young thoroughly concurred, and these gentlemen worked for some time together maturing their plans till the return of Dr Chalmers from England, whom they associated in the work. In the course of a year, although surrounded with many difficulties, the project began to take shape, and a Committee, consisting of these three gentlemen and Sir George Phillippo, Dr Stewart, Mr J. S. Cox (of Messrs Lane, Crawford & Co.), Mr. MacConachie, Mr Jackson, Mr A. P. MacEwen, Mr E. R. Belilios and Dr Manson, was formed.\n\nFor a time it appeared that their labours were to bear some immediate result and arrangements were being made for taking over the property of Mrs D. R. Caldwell situated in Hollywood Road. Other schemes, however, interposed in the way, and finally the committee broke up. The scheme of an hospital then lay in abeyance for several months till Dr Ho Kai introduced the very generous resolve of providing for a memorial hospital as a lasting remembrance of his wife. His efforts were seconded by the London Missionary Society, and Dr Chalmers also put his whole soul into the movement. Eventually the site in Hollywood Road was secured and the work of clearing the ground for the hospital begun. It is this hospital—the Alice Memorial Hospital of which the foundation stone has been laid to-day, and which has now been handed over to the London Mission Society on condition that it be permanently used as a free public hospital open to every nationality and every religion, and that it be managed and supported by the Society.\n\nThe hospital, it is expected, will be completed by the end of this year. For the first year of its existence the work carried on will be of a tentative character and will perhaps entirely consist of practice work. Should the labours in the building prove successful and are rightly appreciated by the community, it is hoped that at the beginning of 1888 the managers may be able to open a clinical school, where students will be trained for three years in the various branches of medical science. Already arrangements have been made with the trustees of the Belilios medical scholarship to have two boys in the Central School put aside, if possible next week, for this career. And if the committee of gentlemen who are to manage the Institution succeed in getting these boys, they may be able to make some start in the teaching work next year. This work—the spreading of medical knowledge is the very essence of the scheme, and it is only on account of the limited resources at the command of the committee that they are not able to proceed at once in a comprehensive spirit with the chief object they have in view.\n\nThe Hospital will accommodate, at the lowest estimate, 80 beds, and may be made to hold in case of need 100 beds without inconvenience. Four medical men have voluntarily offered their services for the Institution — Dr Manson, Dr Young, Dr Hartigan, and Dr Jordan; and Dr Poate has placed his services at the disposal of the Committee as a consulting dentist. Besides those treated in the hospital as in-door patients, advice and medicine will be given to out-door patients in the department on the basement floor set apart for this work. On this floor there is a suite of rooms for male and for female patients, and it is calculated that as many as from 100 to 150 patients may be treated here every day. Each doctor will take his day of this work and give his services during certain specified hours.\n\nThe duties of carrying out this noble and laudable enterprise will devolve on two Committees, the medical committee and the finance committee. The medical committee consists of the four medical gentlemen above mentioned, associated with whom are Dr Chalmers and Dr Ho Kai. To this committee will be entrusted the whole internal management of the hospital and the treatment of patients. The duties of the Finance Committee will be more of a consultative character. They will call at the Hospital two or three times a year and to them all financial matters will be referred, the supreme voice in the management, however, being vested in the London Missionary Society through Dr Chalmers. A Chinese surgeon will be in charge of the place, and the Committee are already in treaty with an assistant to Dr Manson, who has been in his service for 10 years. This official will be in some measure responsible for the order and discipline maintained in the place and will be always at hand to give assistance.\n\nTo the London Society who have contributed some $14,000 for the site, to Dr Ho Kai ...",
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"content_text": "DYN\n\n354/8\n\n86.\n\nRate of Dollar and Rupee for\n\nRE?\n\n1178\n\n621 COLA 25 URTEC)\n\n1886-7.\n\nTREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\n22 January 1886.\n\n3/7°\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that, in accordance with the arrangements made in 1875 for the annual revision of the rate at which the Dollar is issued at Hong Kong, in the Straits Settlements, and on the China Station, for Imperial Service payable in this country in sterling, My Lords have caused the necessary calculations to be made of the average price of standard silver in the London market during the calendar year 1885 and of the corresponding value of the Mexican Dollar.\n\nI am to inform you that, according to the terms of the above arrangement, the Dollar should be issued during the financial year 1886-7 at a rate of three shillings and seven pence, and that, according to the same mode of valuation, the rate of issue of the Rupee in the Colonies of Ceylon and Mauritius, and on the East Indian Station, for Imperial Services payable in this country in sterling, should be fixed at one shilling and seven pence for 1886-7.\n\nMy Lords desire me to add that the necessary instructions have been sent to the Treasury Chest Officers at Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, and Mauritius, for the adoption of the above rates as from the 1st of April next.\n\nTo the Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nR & S (12,349a) 100 1-96\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nNswelty",
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"content_text": "It \n\nThe Canton authorities also demanded in 1869 the rendition of a girl 21 years of age and her father on the ground that the girl's father and grandmother had betrothed her in infancy. The girl was born in Hongkong. The father—a Chinese domiciled here—and the daughter refused to carry out the engagement, because the intended husband was reputed to be a leper. The Canton authorities claimed her as \"belonging\" to the intended husband and his family. It is needless to say that the girl was allowed to exercise her own free will (see Governor MACDONNELL'S despatches to Secretary of State 790 of 1869 and 855 of 1870). The Governor very clearly laid down the principles which Englishmen maintain as to \"holding property in persons\" and what would be the conduct of the Government of Hongkong vis-à-vis China in such cases; and no chance has ever since been lost of bringing out the difference between our law and theirs, and of pointing out the uncompromising requirements of the English race on questions of personal liberty. The obligations cast by Chinese custom upon the purchasers of servants are only enforced by social sanction. They do not seem to be enforced by any positive law. It is said that good masters and good mistresses never sell their purchased servants as prostitutes nor sell them at all unless when compelled to do so by poverty, and then they sell them to good people. This would seem to admit the power to sell as prostitutes. By Ordinance No. 2 of 1875 any person who purchases or sells in the Colony for prostitution any woman or female child or brings into the Colony any woman or female child purchased or sold out of the Colony for the purposes of prostitution, or harbours or receives them knowing them to have been purchased or sold for such purpose, is liable to two years' hard labour, and on a second conviction the offender, if a male, may be flogged. Indeed, the provisions of this Ordinance for the protection of women and children are of the strictest nature. It was introduced in 1873 and amended in its present form (see Appendix L).\n\nIn Hongkong, transactions of pawning and sale of girls as domestic servants have taken place both before and since British Government was established here, and no doubt will take place to some extent in spite of all our efforts; for the system is a recognised institution among some 250 millions of people, and as long as the Colony, part of which is on the mainland of China, is peopled by Chinese, cases of buying and selling girls for purposes of domestic service, with some of the abuses inherent in the system, must necessarily occur. It is obviously impossible to get the Chinese public mind to see any great wrong in an institution which their books show to have existed almost from time immemorial. But it will be seen from the Blue-book already cited that the respectable Chinese here are most anxious to put down sales for prostitution. They think, however, that the advantages of their system of adoption and child service much outweigh the evils attendant on it, and I take it from Lord KIMBERLEY'S speech in the House of Lords, 21st June, 1880, and his published despatches, that Her Majesty's Government is satisfied that if there were proper guarantees against the abuses connected with the Chinese methods of adoption and of domestic service, the mere fact of a money payment would not be sufficient reason for proceeding otherwise than gradually against these systems, which are the natural concomitants of Chinese patriarchalism. There are signs, however, amongst the Chinese of what Sir HENRY MAINE calls \"the movement from Status to Contract\" and \"the ideas of which the race is capable\" show themselves to be different from what they were when the eminent author of \"Ancient Law\" published that work. But, as already observed, no opportunity is lost by the Officials of the Colony in proclaiming the rights of the Chinese here, the freedom of the subject, man, woman and child. It is emphatically impressed upon the inhabitants, that the payment of money for a child confers no title which English Officers will recognise. Again and again has it been pointed out by the Judges of the Supreme Court, by the Magistrates, and Police Officers, that no valid claim can be set up to the custody of any person because of a money payment, and the grown-up permanent residents of the Colony and its frequenters thoroughly know our laws on this point. Frequently, at the Police Courts and the Police Stations and at the Registrar General's office claims of right by purchase have been set aside accompanied by a strong admonition. If there was a breach of criminal law there has always been punishment; and although in the course of time, not far distant it is hoped, the knowledge of English laws and customs will permeate the neighbouring province and no claim by right of purchase will be thought of here, nevertheless, as Lord KIMBERLEY remarks, \"the position of the children now under consideration is one of peril, which may require safeguards,\" (par. 18, page 123 printed papers). For undoubtedly there are children bought as servants, who are brought up by abandoned women with the ultimate object of prostitution either here or at the Straits Settlements.\n\nYoung girls, \"pocket-mothers\" brought up with the idea that they are the property of their \"mistresses\" (and that they are so the \"pocket-mothers\" and mistresses inculcate with much assiduity), cannot be expected to make much fight for liberty or virtue even if they all knew their rights. As a matter of fact the loyalty of these girls to their \"pocket-mothers\" or mistresses is such that often when they seek to be registered as prostitutes and are closely catechised as to their freedom, they will break into tears and protest that not only are they willing to become prostitutes but that it is their wish in order to provide for their mother or father or some near relations. The notion of duty of a Chinese daughter, natural-born or adopted, is that she must prostitute herself if the person in loco parentis indicates that it is expected of her. Frequent reports have shown how difficult it is to get these girls to help themselves; and that although they know they can claim their freedom, as a rule they feel that to do so would be dishonest to the women who had bought them at Canton and placed them in brothels. In recent years, however, an improvement has been apparent. The trouble that the Government has taken to explain the position of these unfortunate women has not been in vain. In every room in every Chinese registered brothel in the Colony a printed notice is exhibited explaining that the girls are free, and that if they have been deceived, pledged, or sold they can always get their liberty at once. Every registered woman gets one of these papers. Their visitors see and read these papers to them, and some man who perhaps fancies one of these girls for a concubine tells her that she has only to go with him. He easily persuades her to leave; often abandons her afterwards, or perhaps he may induce her to go to the Straits Settlements ostensibly as his wife and sell her into a brothel there. But that many more of these women now leave the brothels than formerly without paying up their mistresses what they owe, or letting the \"pocket-mother\" know their intentions is unquestionable. The consequence is that the brothel keepers find that to advance money on a girl on a promise of brothel service is an unsafe security, and before long I believe no such advances will be made in Hongkong, a result greatly to be desired.\n\nIII. Kidnapping partly chargeable to the Chinese systems of Adoption and Domestic Service.\n\nI have shown in the foregoing paragraphs how by a fraud upon the parents the Chinese system of purchasing female children for adoption and domestic service is abused. My remarks have been directed to the training up of girls for prostitution and selling them into \"brothel slavery\" when the parents had voluntarily parted with their offspring in order to be daughters and servants, \"to be provided with husbands when they came to womanhood\"; but there is yet another evil which the Chinese themselves admit their custom encourages. I refer to kidnapping. In China that crime is a capital offence. A kidnapper loses his head very promptly if caught and convicted on the other side of our boundary. In Hongkong the crime was found to be so common that in 1868 a law was passed which enabled the Supreme Court to flog in addition to other punishments. That law had a very wonderful effect. It did not apply of course to women, and hence female child-stealers were more common than males.\n\nChildren are stolen (1o) to be ransomed. (2o) to be sold.\n\nWhen a child is missing the parents advertise in the public thoroughfares and offer rewards, and the person who has stolen the child or a confederate pretends to find the child and obtains the reward, or, what is more frequent when the children (whether males or females) are stolen from Canton or the country, the children are sold to be adopted sons or domestic servants. There are generally four or five persons engaged in this transaction. The child-stealer manages to get three or four old women to find out somebody who wants to buy a son or daughter or servant. The child has been carefully taught to call its kidnapper \"mother,\" \"aunt,\" or \"father\" or \"uncle,\" if a man. The intending purchaser sees the child and inquires how it comes to be sold. The go-between and other women vouch that it is owing to the poverty of the parents, and the child when questioned will ...",
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"content_text": "## Instructions referred to on page 1.\n\nIf this Paper of Particulars and the Certificates connected with it, be not sent in original, the copies must be duly attested.\n\nForm of Paper.—In the case of an Officer serving on the West Coast of Africa, a statement is to be added whether he is a native of that Coast. (Colonial Regulations, § 430).\n\n## Head 3.—State the description of Allowance\nState the description of Allowance for which the Application is recommended, viz., Superannuation, Compensation, Compassionate Allowance, or Gratuity, and its amount. In the case of Persons claiming Pensions in respect of Professional or other special qualifications, this should be stated, and a reference should be given to the authority under which the claim is made.\n\n## Head 5.—If the service has been interrupted\nIf the service has been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word \"broken\" should be added before or after the number of years and months, and the causes, dates, and circumstances of the break or breaks should be stated under heading 9.\n\n## Head 6.—If the person retiring has been in receipt\nIf the person retiring has been in receipt of the same Salary, or in the class from which he retires, for the three months immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of Salary or Wages at that date should be inserted, preceded by the word \"actual.\" In other cases the average annual amount of Salary or Wages for the three months next preceding the date of retirement should be inserted, preceded by the word \"average,\" but if the whole period of service is less than three years, then the average for the whole period of service should be inserted.\n\n## Head 7.—A separate statement should be inserted\nA separate statement should be inserted of the average Annual Value, for the 36 months immediately preceding retirement, of each Emolument (exclusive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation of the Pension or Gratuity.\n\nWhenever the value of a House or House Allowance, so ascertained, exceeds one-sixth of the salary and other emoluments which count for Pension purposes, it is to be reduced to one-sixth of that amount, so that it shall not exceed one-seventh of the whole.\n\nFees which an Officer is allowed to retain for his own use will be taken into account for Pension purposes, with regular salary, at the annual average of the net receipts of the 36 months next preceding the Officer's retirement. These net receipts are to be ascertained by deducting from the gross amount of Fees such Office Expenses, &c., as an Officer may have had to defray from his own resources, in performing the services for which he was remunerated by Fees. No deduction, however, from the Fees should be made in respect of Office Expenses provided from Public Funds, for the due discharge of those duties to which a Fixed Salary is annexed. Papers of \"Particulars\" when forwarded to the Colonial Department should be accompanied by formal Declarations from the retiring Officers, showing the amount received by them for Fees, and the amount defrayed as above for Office Expenses, &c., in each of the three years immediately preceding the retirement. It will be the duty of the Colonial Governments concerned to satisfy themselves of the accuracy of such statements before forwarding them to the Colonial Office. In the case of Officers receiving Fixed Salaries and Fees, the Fees will not in ordinary circumstances be allowed to count for Pension purposes to the extent of more than one quarter of the Salaries, and Fees will not in any case be allowed to count for Pension purposes during any period in which the whole time of the Officer receiving them was not given to the Public Service.\n\n## Head 8.—In cases of infirmity\nIn cases of infirmity, if the Applicant is below the ordinary age for retirement, a Medical Certificate is to be furnished showing that he is disqualified by infirmity of mind or body for discharging the duties of his situation, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent.\n\nIn case of ten years' service or more, this Certificate should be signed by two Officers, of whom at least one should, if possible, be a Salaried Officer of the Government.\n\n## Head 9.—As to \"broken\" service\nAs to \"broken\" service, see Head 5. If the Applicant has had any \"acting\" service, the details must be fully given, with a statement whether or not during the \"acting\" service, he was connected with the permanent Civil Service of the Colony.\n\n## Head 11.—If, in special circumstances\nIf, in special circumstances, a professional Civil Officer has been allowed to have \"private practice\" without forfeiting his claim to Pension, the facts are to be fully stated.\n\n## Head 14.—If the Applicant is liable\nIf the Applicant is liable to any deduction from his service under Clause 102 of the Colonial Regulations, the facts should be fully stated.\n\n## Head 19.—The length of service\nThe length of service and other particulars of the computation are to be given. When an average of Salary, &c., is taken, the mode of calculating it (whether by months, &c.) is to be explained.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Sec. Both Admirals ...\n\nMINUTE.\n\n| Name | \n| --- | \n| Mr. Johnsen | 18 Jan \n| Mr. Pearson | 18 \n| Mr. Wingfield. | \n| Mr. Bramston. | \n| Mr. Meade. | \n| Sir R. Herbert. | \n| Baron de Worms. | \n| Lord Knutsford. | \n\n\"I am directed by Lord Knutsford to request you to inform the Lords of the Admiralty that `W. H. G. Thomsett, R.N.` is about to retire from the post of Master, Harbour ..., and to move their Lordships to acquaint him that he is stated to have commuted his retired pay.\"",
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"content_text": "407\n\nI \n\nIn the first three years in Jamaica I conducted an altogether extraordinary amount of important legislation which was duly noticed by Lords Comowall & Lich. The rest of my service has been in Hong Kong. Several of them repeatedly. I have been passed over for a Chief Justiceship. I should have been glad of anything that would have afforded a good prospect of honours at the end of the service, which is known to be a specially trying direction for long residence when I was first appointed I had been ten years at the bar and had a fair business on my circuit and was also in vain seeking a position.\n\nIn the course of that period, all the principal Chief Justiceships have been vacated and filled up, including that of Attorney General of Jamaica and Hong Kong, and I certainly thought and hoped, judging from my application for such an appointment and what appeared to be the ordinary custom, that I should get a Chief Justiceship. My application has been long before the Colonial Office and was specially renewed on the occasion of the last vacancy when Sir. Urmas Six greaves retired. I have received testimonials of a high character as to my fitness for a judicial post from several of the judges and contemporaries in the service who know me well and knew what I could do. Not only am I unable to refer to them but I will mention having sent copies of them to the Colonial Office. \n\nWhile every one of my active legal friends who knows me well is aware that I have had substantial promotion, some of them have a chance many years ago.",
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"content_text": "## 16 \n\n5. On this ground alone the project did not appear to me to be worthy of further consideration on the part of this Government. There are however other objections to it. (1) Owing to the rapid growth of population in Kowloon, I apprehend that there would soon arise there the very same condition which has caused so much trouble in Victoria; viz.: that created by the cutting of the town into two parts, and the obstruction to free communication between them. (2) I am disposed to think that with the Naval Yard at Kowloon, there would almost certainly be required some addition to our defence works, involving more expense to the Colony, not only in the cost of construction, but in the loss of the large area required for the necessary fort and to give free range to its guns.\n\n6. Under these circumstances the scheme now proposed has appeared to me very far preferable as regards the Colony; and owing to its ready acceptance by the local authorities representing the Admiralty, I imagine it to be also not less desirable in the interests of the Navy. For it will be at once seen from a glance at the plan that the latter gain very largely by it in the following particulars:--- (i) by the conversion of the foul and noxious Admiralty foreshore (at present so silted as to be inaccessible during low tide) into a large inland basin accessible at all times, and affording protection to the Naval lighters and boats now left exposed in the open during the typhoon season; (ii) by the formation, beyond the Praya-wall face in comparatively deep water, of two Admiralty quays to be reserved for the exclusive use of H. M.'s vessels; (iii) by the projection of a timber pier from one of the new quays into still deeper water for the accommodation of the Naval \"shear-legs\" and for the use of vessels of deeper draught; and lastly (iv) by the reclamation from the sea of an area containing 52,264 square feet, which will be added to the Yard, and which will afford most valuable sites for new naval workshops or other buildings that may be required later, these 52,264 square feet of land, at the very low computation of three dollars a square foot, representing no less a value than $156,792.\n\n7. As, according to the new design, the Praya Roadway will not be interposed between the naval premises and the harbour, but will pass over arches which will afford the freest access from the Yard to the water's edge, and as furthermore the roadway in question will be screened by a wall so as to preclude any possibility of the Yard being overlooked, it will be seen that the great improvements proposed, which will add so greatly to the importance and efficiency of the Naval Establishment, will now be obtained at no sacrifice whatever on the part of the Admiralty, and that consequently there is no longer any basis for the plea, which was previously urged, that my Lords Commissioners should not be called on to contribute towards a project likely to destroy the privacy of the yard or cut off its access to the sea.\n\n8. It should further be mentioned that the rapid silting of the foreshore is likely in the absence of the proposed embankment, to compel before long the expenditure of a large sum in either taking the Naval Yard down to the sea, or bringing the sea up to the Naval Yard; so that the saving of this cost is another substantial benefit to accrue to the Admiralty from the project in question; and under the circumstances, I venture to think, no more need be said to show how unjust it would be, that no contribution to the heavy expense of this work should be made on the part of a Department which so largely gains by it.\n\n9. The amount of contribution ought I consider to be at least the value of the reclaimed land which will be added to the Naval Yard; i.e., $156,792; and even then the Admiralty would obtain for nothing the other very great advantages mentioned. But if there should be difficulty in obtaining this amount, I would ask Your Lordship to accept a less sum rather than there should be any further delay in the settlement of the question. Indeed the crowding of the town of Victoria has only reached such proportions, and it has become so imperatively necessary to give the population an outlet to the East by means of the proposed new Praya, that the enlargement and improvement of the Naval Yard at the sole expense of the Colony, however unjust, would in my opinion be preferable to any further postponement.\n\n10. But strong as is the claim of this Colony for a contribution on the part of the Admiralty, the case is very much stronger as regards the War Department. Your Lordship is perhaps aware that with the sanction of the Secretary of State for War, the local Military Authorities have it in contemplation to re-arrange and re-construct the greater portion of the Barracks, and other buildings in the cantonments, with better regard to efficiency and economy of space, and to sell in the open market all such lands as they may no longer require under such new re-arrangement, the object being to raise by means of these land-sales the funds necessary to meet the cost of the proposed new barracks. The actual possessions of the War Department comprise about 104 acres, and it is intended to dispose of about one half of this area either by auction or by direct negotiation with private purchasers, and the sale of these surplus lands, calculated at the lowest rates now ruling here for leasehold estate will bring in about one million dollars. But in addition to their present holdings, the Military Authorities claim the right to retain any sea reclamations in front of the cantonments that may be made under the present embankment project, and they look to these reclamations to add very largely in area and value not only to the ground which they intend to retain for future buildings, but also to that which they intend to sell.\n\n11. The Military Authorities are right in attaching great importance to the embankment project, for it will add no less than 453,701 square feet of new land to their present holdings which if it was sold would realize at the present market rates at least $1,325,856.\n\n12. Looking to the enormous gain which will thus accrue to military interests from the project in question, not only in increased space for future barrack extensions but in actual money, any contribution on the part of the War Office to its cost would in my opinion be most unfair to the Colony, if it were less than the actual expense of the embankment and reclamation in front of military premises. Nor can I apprehend that the War Office Authorities will object to make this very reasonable concession when it is discovered how very largely they will gain by the undertaking.\n\n13. For I am unable to conceive on what grounds any arrangement could be morally justified, by which it were sought to secure to the War Department possession of these immensely valuable sea-reclamations at the sole expense of the Colony. There is not a marine Lot-holder in Hongkong who, were he in the position of the War Department in this matter, would not eagerly come forward and offer to carry out the entire project at his own charges, even though the cost were far greater than that given in the enclosed estimate, in exchange for the privilege of retaining the areas reclaimed: and in support of the estimates of prospective benefits here given, I may state that they are based not on fancy or on mere opinions, but on actual business offers made in this Colony for marine properties of even less value. There is therefore no room for doubt that the War Office will obtain in return for an outlay of $320,000, (the estimated cost of its share of the work), land which, if sold would readily realize $1,325,856, thereby gaining a net profit of $1,005,856.\n\n14. For that section alone of the North Barracks site, which is shown tinted on the small fly leaf attached to the accompanying general plan, the Colonial Government would be prepared to pay the War Office at the rate of $3.00 a square foot or a total sum of $263,700. This proposition must however form the subject of a separate Despatch to Your Lordship.\n\n15. Lieutenant-General CAMERON, who from the first has perceived the great advantage that will result to Military interests from the embankment scheme, has represented to his Department the justice of a substantial War Office contribution towards the cost of the works; and I am confident that the facts now before Your Lordship, which will no doubt be duly communicated to the Secretary of State for War, will have such weight with Her Majesty's Government as to relieve the Colony from any money payment whatever for the embanking of the Military lands; indeed I feel sure that a very bitter feeling would be aroused in the Colony if the Military as well as the Naval Departments should appear to take advantage of our extreme necessities, for obtaining better terms than the extremely favourable arrangement here proposed.\n\n16. In connexion with the question of proprietary rights over foreshores, I must not omit to call Your Lordship's attention to the case of the proposed reclamation in front of Marine Lot 22 (Commissariat Buildings), which stands on a different footing from the reclamations in front of the rest of the Military properties in the Cantonments. The latter are original Reservations made in the earliest days of the Colony, and vested in the old Board of Ordnance, which might be held to possess rights of ownership over foreshores, whereas Marine Lot 22 was bought by the Military Authorities from a private individual, who could convey to them no right of ownership outside his own boundaries.\n\nThe claims",
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"content_text": "18 \n\nThe wall face is in comparatively deep water, with two Admiralty quays to be reserved for the exclusive use of H.M.'s vessels; (iii) by the projection of a timber pier from one of the new quays into still deeper water for the accommodation of the Naval \"shear-legs,\" and for the use of vessels of deeper draught; and lastly (iv) by the reclamation from the sea of an area containing 52,264 square feet, which will be added to the Yard, and which will afford most valuable sites for new naval workshops or other buildings that may be required later, these 52,264 square feet of land, at the very low computation of three dollars a square foot, representing no less a value than $156,792.\n\n7. As, according to the new design, the Praya Roadway will not be interposed between the naval premises and the harbour, but will pass over arches which will afford the freest access from the Yard to the water's edge, and as furthermore the roadway in question will be screened by a wall so as to preclude any possibility of the Yard being overlooked, it will be seen that the great improvements proposed, which will add so greatly to the importance and efficiency of the Naval Establishment, will now be obtained at no sacrifice whatever on the part of the Admiralty, and that consequently there is no longer any basis for the plea, which was previously urged, that my Lords Commissioners should not be called on to contribute towards a project likely to destroy the privacy of the yard or cut off its access to the sea.\n\n8. It should further be mentioned that the rapid silting of the foreshore is likely, in the absence of the proposed embankment, to compel before long the expenditure of a large sum in either taking the Naval Yard down to the sea, or bringing the sea up to the Naval Yard; so that the saving of this cost is another substantial benefit to accrue to the Admiralty from the project in question; and under the circumstances, I venture to think, no more need be said to show how unjust it would be, that no contribution to the heavy expense of this work should be made on the part of a Department which so largely gains by it.\n\n9. The amount of contribution ought, I consider, to be at least the value of the reclaimed land which will be added to the Naval Yard; e.g., $156,792; and even then the Admiralty would obtain for nothing the other very great advantages mentioned.\n\n10. But strong as is the claim of this Colony for a contribution on the part of the Admiralty, the case is very much stronger as regards the War Department. Your Lordship is perhaps aware that, with the sanction of the Secretary of State for War, the local Military Authorities have it in contemplation to re-arrange and re-construct the greater portion of the Barracks, and other buildings in the cantonments, with better regard to efficiency and economy of space, and to sell in the open market all such lands as they may no longer require under such new re-arrangement, the object being to raise by means of these land-sales the funds necessary to meet the cost of the proposed new barracks. The actual possessions of the War Department comprise about 104 acres, and it is intended to dispose of about one half of this area either by auction or by direct negotiation with private purchasers, and the sale of these surplus lands, calculated at the lowest rates now ruling here for leasehold estate, will bring in about one million dollars. But in addition to their present holdings, the Military Authorities claim the right to retain any sea reclamations in front of the cantonments that may be made under the present embankment project, and they look to these reclamations to add very largely in area and value not only to the ground which they intend to retain for future buildings, but also to that which they intend to sell.\n\n11. The Military Authorities are right in attaching great importance to the embankment project, for it will add no less than 453,701 square feet of new land to their present holdings, which, if it was sold, would realize at the present market rates at least $1,325,856.\n\n12. Looking to the enormous gain which will thus accrue to military interests from the project in question, not only in increased space for future barrack extensions but in actual money, any contribution on the part of the War Office to its cost would, in my opinion, be most unfair to the Colony, if it were less than the actual expense of the embankment and reclamation in front of military premises. I can apprehend that the War Office Authorities will not object to make this very reasonable concession when it is discovered how very largely they will gain by the undertaking.\n\n13. For I am unable to conceive on what grounds any arrangement could be morally justified, by which it were sought to secure to the War Department possession of these immensely valuable sea-reclamations at the sole expense of the Colony. There is not a marine Lot-holder in Hongkong who, were he in the position of the War Department in this matter, would not eagerly come forward and offer to carry out the entire project at his own charges, even though the cost were far greater than that given in the enclosed estimate, in exchange for the privilege of retaining the areas reclaimed: and in support of the estimates of prospective benefits here given, I may state that they are based not on fancy or on mere opinions, but on actual business offers made in this Colony for marine properties of even less value. There is therefore no room for doubt that the War Office will obtain, in return for an outlay of $320,000, (the estimated cost of its share of the work), land which, if sold, would readily realize $1,325,856, thereby gaining a net profit of $1,005,856.\n\n14. For that section alone of the North Barracks site, which is shown tinted purple on the small fly leaf attached to the accompanying general plan, the Colonial Government would be prepared to pay the War Office at the rate of $3.00 a foot, or a total sum of $263,700. This proposition must, however, form the subject of a separate Despatch to Your Lordship.\n\n15. Lieutenant-General Cameron, who from the first has perceived the great advantage that will result to Military interests from the embankment scheme, has represented to his Department the justice of a substantial War Office contribution towards the cost of the works; and I am confident that the facts now before Your Lordship, which will no doubt be duly communicated to the Secretary of State for War, will have such weight with Her Majesty's Government as to relieve the Colony from any money payment whatever for the embanking of the Military lands; indeed, I feel sure that a very bitter feeling would be aroused in the Colony if the Military as well as the Naval Departments should appear to take advantage of our extreme necessities, for obtaining better terms than the extremely favourable arrangement here proposed.\n\n16. In connection with the question of proprietary rights over foreshores, I must not omit to call Your Lordship's attention to the case of the proposed reclamation in front of Marine Lot 22 (Commissariat Buildings), which stands on a different footing from the reclamations in front of the rest of the Military properties in the Cantonments. The latter are original Reservations made in the earliest days of the Colony, and vested in the old Board of Ordnance, which might be held to possess rights of ownership over foreshores, whereas Marine Lot 22 was bought by the Military Authorities from a private individual, who could convey to them no right of ownership outside his own boundaries. The claims of the Colonial Government to the foreshore in front of the Commissariat must, therefore, be borne in mind in any discussion that may arise in respect of proprietary rights, though I apprehend Your Lordship will waive those claims, and give the War Department the reclamation in question, valued at $114,882, provided that Department should accede to the terms above proposed, viz.: payment of the whole cost of its share of the reclamation.\n\n17. To prevent misconception hereafter, it should be mentioned that the precise cost of the works cannot be specified until after all details of design shall have been settled locally with the Royal Engineer Department, and until a tender for the execution of the work shall have been accepted: but the preliminary estimates now put forward are reported by the Surveyor General as being sufficiently approximate to form the basis of any negotiations with the Imperial Departments. Briefly recapitulated, the cost of these works will amount to $691,000, of which I propose the Admiralty should pay at least $156,792, that the War Department should pay $320,000, if it desires to retain the lands reclaimed, that Mr. Sharp should pay $21,000, and that the Colonial Government should defray the balance, i.e., $198,208.\n\n*The actual terms in this case to depend to a certain extent on Your Lordship's decision as to what is to be required from Marine Lot-holder under Mr. Chater's scheme, which is the subject of my despatch No. 234 of the 7th of August, 1888, and I am of opinion that a considerable premium should be paid in addition in respect of this reclamation.",
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"content_text": "# \n## Paragraph 15\n\n2\n\nThe increase of the contribution at the end of the five years was considered, for he said that he desired, in fixing the amount at £20,000, not to press too heavily at first upon the Colonial revenues, and the Governor of Hong Kong himself interpreted this passage as meaning that the contribution was to be raised to a higher rate at a future occasion.\n\n5. Changes, however, occurred in the post of Secretary of State, and at the expiration of the five years the intention of the Duke of Newcastle appears to have been forgotten. The contribution remained unchanged, and nothing more was heard upon the subject until 1884, when the Secretary of State for War wrote to the Colonial Office that the military contribution paid by the Colony would have to be reconsidered with reference to the proposed increase of the garrison. No action followed this intimation, and revision of the existing arrangements was not undertaken until the Committee on Colonial Military Contributions, consisting of Sir Arthur Haliburton, Mr. Bramston, and Mr. Ryder, made their report on Hong Kong in July 1888—three and twenty years after the actual imposition of the contribution which the Duke of Newcastle had demanded in 1863. The Committee on Colonial Military Contributions have, in the case of Hong Kong, as in that of Singapore, discharged thoroughly the task entrusted to them. They have put before Her Majesty's Government the facts of the case in compact and intelligible form, and the Treasury, the War Office, and the Colonial Office are now fully informed of the intentions of those who fixed the present contribution, and of the financial progress of the Colony during the intervening period.\n\n6. My Lords have stated that the contribution of £20,000, as originally fixed, represented about one-sixth or one-seventh of the revenue of the Colony, and one-fifth of the military charge of the Colony defrayed by the Imperial Exchequer. In the intervening time the garrison has risen to 1,445 men of all ranks, exclusive of volunteers, the cost to the Imperial Exchequer rising from £100,000 to £160,000 a year. The Colonial Defence Committee now recommend that the garrison of the future shall consist of 2,525 Imperial troops of all ranks, and of 493 local regulars, or 3,018 in all, costing about £280,000 a year. If the total net estimated cost of the British army for 1889-90 be divided by the number of men on the Home and Colonial establishments, exclusive of India, (£17,000,000 by 152,000 men), the result gives £111 per man, and the corresponding cost of 3,000 men would be £333,000. Sir A. Haliburton's Committee exclude from their computation militia and volunteers costing approximately £3,000 a year.\n\n7. The Committee further point out that the revenue of the Colony has risen since 1863 from an average of $568,000 to $1,638,000, the amount as estimated for 1888. They reckon that after allowing for the loss which attends the discharge by silver-using communities of obligations payable in gold, the proportion of the military contribution to the revenue of the Colony is only eight per cent, or one-half of the proportion which the contribution bore to the revenue in 1863.\n\n8. My Lords observe that the Colonial Office has not in the case of Hong Kong, as in that of the Straits, indirectly reduced the military contribution by allowing the Colony to pay a sterling debt in silver at an obsolete rate.\n\n## Works and Buildings\n\n9. Sir A. Haliburton's Committee state that when the defence of Hong Kong was under consideration in 1883-84, it was contemplated that the whole cost of the project, estimated at £100,000, should be defrayed by the Colony. The Imperial Government has, however, subsequently decided that the Colony should provide the works, and the Imperial Government the armament. According to the first estimate framed upon this basis, 60 per cent of the expenditure would fall upon the Colonial, 40 per cent upon the Imperial Exchequer. As the estimate now stands, 35 per cent only will fall upon the Colonial, and 65 per cent upon the Imperial Exchequer, the sums being respectively £116,000 and £209,000. My Lords cannot but observe that in this case, as in that of Singapore, the estimates upon which the Treasury gave its assent to the principle of partition, have been absolutely misleading. The War Office proposed by their estimate to throw the larger part of the defensive works on the Colony in the proportion of three to two. In effect, this proportion has been more than reversed. My Lords do not presume to criticise the principle upon which the estimate was based; they are willing to believe that error was unavoidable, but it is unfortunate that the errors in such cases should be always against the British taxpayer. They may at least plead that had they not been misled by these erroneous estimates they would to the best of their power have insisted upon a more equitable basis of partition. But the War Office does not even carry out its own rule of division, for it proposes to charge upon the British taxpayer the cost of submarine mining (about £9,000), works, merely because the whole item of submarine mining had been omitted from the original estimate. It appears to my Lords neither logical nor equitable to punish the British taxpayer because the science of submarine mining was undeveloped at the time when the original estimate was framed.\n\n## Barracks\n\n10. It will be necessary to provide additional barracks at Hong Kong for double the existing garrison. The rough and preliminary estimate of cost is £212,000, apart from the value of a new site estimated at £50,000, but Sir A. Haliburton's Committee say that this estimate may be exceeded.\n\nIt is proposed, as my Lords understand the proposal, that the Imperial Government shall sell land it now holds, valued at £140,000, to the Colony, that this money shall be applied towards the new barracks, reducing their net cost to £72,000, that the Imperial Government shall pay two-thirds of the charge or £48,000, and that the Colonial Government shall pay the balance or £24,000, providing also the land for the new barracks, estimated at £50,000. The proposal therefore means that the Imperial Government should give up sites worth £140,000, and should spend £48,000 in cash; that the Colony should find a new site costing £50,000, and should spend £24,000 in cash. The Committee do not say how they would provide for the excess which they anticipate upon the estimate.\n\n## Recommendations\n\n11. Secretaries of State for the Colonies in despatches to the Colonial Government have admitted the probability of the garrison of Hong Kong being in part maintained for Imperial purposes, adding, however, that \"such purposes are closely connected with the prosperity of the Colony\"; they have gone further and said that \"the larger part of the garrison is maintained for Imperial purposes.\" Sir A. Haliburton's Committee take the latter of these two statements apparently as their guide in forming an opinion upon the amount of the contribution to be asked from the Colony.\n\n12. My Lords must, however, demur to such an assumption. The Secretary of State for the Colonies is the advocate and representative of Colonial interests in the Imperial Councils, and my Lords cannot be bound by a statement to which they, as representing the British taxpayer, were not parties. It must not be held a financial instruction for all time that the \"larger\" part of the garrison of Hong Kong is maintained for Imperial purposes. On the contrary, my Lords strongly hold that if they are to lay down a principle it ought to be that as the Imperial Government undertakes the naval defence of the Colony, the Colony itself should provide the larger part of the cost of its military defence.\n\n13. Sir A. Haliburton's Committee state that the revenues of the Colony would not admit of its bearing any large proportion of the cost of its garrison, and they point out that the revenue of 1888 was estimated at £266,000, while the cost of the future garrison will amount to £283,000. Taking as their starting-point the arrangement made in 1865, under which the Colony contributed one-sixth of its revenue to military expenditure, and thereby defrayed one-fifth of the cost of its garrison, they show that one-fifth of the cost of the future garrison would be £56,000, or rather more than one-fifth of the estimated revenue for 1888. But though they do not think such a charge excessive in itself, they point to the expenditure which the Colony has incurred on defences, to the expenditure which it may incur on barracks and on local militia and volunteers, and they suggest that one-fifth of the cost of the regular garrison would in these circumstances press hardly on the Colony. They propose accordingly that the contribution should be fixed at £40,000 for five years from 1st January 1889, and that at the commencement of 1893 the contribution should be reconsidered, with a view to its readjustment in 1894.\n\n3 \n\n72 59784. \n\nA 2",
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"content_text": "# \n19. My Lords have carefully weighed these recommendations, and they regret to come to the conclusion that the proposed settlement will not satisfy the just claim of Her Majesty's Government.\n\nThe fact that the Colony has in two or three past years contributed an inadequate sum to works of defence is not a reason for relieving it of a fair contribution to the charge of its garrison in the future. Nor can my Lords admit the cost of barracks as a reason for relief. The provision of barracks is a temporary and extraordinary service, such as the Imperial Government has often to meet, and such as it meets either by temporary increase of taxation or by loan. The cost of local militia and volunteers may properly be included in military expenditure, but proposals for the enrolment of such corps, though often put forward, are seldom enforced; and my Lords would prefer to know that militia and volunteers actually exist before they admit a prospective charge on their account. The plea for relief in consideration of other services performed is therefore insufficient.\n\n20. Nor is the plea for consideration on the ground of incapacity more sound. Hong Kong is a port with 7,000,000 tons of shipping in the year. It is the centre of financial business in that quarter of the globe. A recent governor has dilated on its great and increasing prosperity, and has dwelt upon the fact that for a long time taxation had not been increased. The estimated population on the 31st December 1887 was 213,000.* The numbers were increasing at the rate of 9,000 or 10,000 a year, and in 1889 the population probably exceeds 230,000. The military contribution, therefore, is now little more than half a dollar a head, and the increase of contribution now proposed, say `43,000l.`, including volunteers, would reach little more than a dollar a head.\n\n21. Comparison between the sums expended by different countries on certain services are always difficult, and my Lords only offer the following figures as approximate, and in illustration of their general argument. They believe that each inhabitant of the Netherlands contributes about 18s. 7d. to defence, each inhabitant of Belgium about 6s. 7d., each inhabitant of Portugal about 7s. 2d., each inhabitant of Sweden about 6s. 6d., each inhabitant of Greece about 10s. 3d., and each inhabitant of Switzerland about 5s. 1½d. These are small States not armed for aggression, and they afford, therefore, a fair standard of comparison with Colonies. Again, Hong Kong contributes perhaps nine per cent. of its revenue to defence, Holland contributes about 25 per cent., Belgium about 14½ per cent., Portugal 19 per cent., Sweden 32 per cent., Greece 24 per cent., Switzerland 34 per cent. of the national revenue to defence. But if it is contended that these are European powers, and therefore that the comparison is not fair, my Lords may cite the Dutch East Indies, in which the proportion is 27 per cent., or Japan, in which it is 43 per cent. If the increase proposed by the Committee were adopted, the contribution from Hong Kong would not probably exceed 18 per cent., and as the revenue steadily increases the percentage at the close of four years will in all probability be less.\n\n22. But the percentage of revenue appropriated to defence affords an imperfect test of the burden thereby imposed upon the community. It must also be ascertained whether the revenue raised is large in itself, and obtained by means of heavy taxation. The inhabitants of Hong Kong are exempted from Customs, and there is no income tax in the Colony. Taxation is confined, my Lords believe, to a moderate house tax, to light stamp duties producing from `20,000l.` to `30,000l.` a year, and to a few license duties, the chief of which is levied upon opium. Further, the modest revenue of `266,000l.` includes local taxation.\n\n23. My Lords have shown, they think, that the contribution of Hong Kong towards its own defence is inadequate by whatever standard it may be tested. The proportion of its revenue set aside for defensive purposes is insignificant when compared with the like proportion set aside in States which do not maintain large armies and navies for aggressive objects. The increasing prosperity of the Colony is undoubted. It contributes nothing to its naval defence. The charge for defence per head of the inhabitants is very small. The amount and incidence of taxation are out of all comparison light.\n\n*`Parliamentary Paper C. 5249, 1888`.\n\nIf military expenditure apart from works were about 270,000 dollars (`43,000l.` at 3s. 2d. the dollar), this would mean about 18 per cent. of a revenue of 1,500,000 dollars.\n\n# \n23. Sir A. Haliburton's Committee state that the Colonial Office in 1863 imposed upon the Colony a military contribution equivalent to one-fifth of the cost of the Garrison, and that it was in the contemplation of the Secretary of State, who then held office, to increase it. That intention has unfortunately remained unfulfilled for a quarter of a century, and the favourable terms thus enjoyed by the Colony during that period would in itself justify a considerable increase in the proportion which Hong Kong is henceforth to contribute to defence. It certainly is not a reason for a reduction of that proportion. Yet the Committee recommend a contribution not equal in proportion to that which the Colony paid in 1863, and their recommendation is not accompanied by a stipulation for a more equitable arrangement at the expiration of the five years. This would not be a satisfactory conclusion.\n\n25. The Empire is required to make considerable sacrifice in order to complete its defences, and as self-defence is the primary duty of every community, proper provision for that object should be one of the first charges on the revenue of each member of the Empire. The Imperial Government, in its anxiety to consult Colonial interests, has somewhat overlooked this first condition of society, and the precedent may not improbably be construed into a rule of policy that Colonial Governments are not to be asked for a proper contribution towards their own preservation. Sir A. Haliburton's Committee do not sufficiently recognise the fact that the Colony, like the mother country, must increase its taxation if existing revenues will not meet the due and proper charges of defence and government, and my Lords know no reason why the prosperous Colony of Hong Kong should be exempted in this respect from the ordinary lot of civilised communities.\n\n26. My Lords cannot therefore agree that the contribution of `40,000l.` a year is sufficient, and they will therefore propose that the subject should be referred in November to a committee of Her Majesty's advisers. But in the meantime they are prepared to accept for two years the contribution of `40,000l.` a year recommended by the Committee, and accepted by the Secretary of State.\n\nMy Lords further consider that the arrangement should be strictly observed under which, in carrying out plans of defence, the Colony provides the works, and the Imperial Government the armaments. The Colony should therefore refund `9,000l.` expended on submarine mining works.\n\nLastly, any excess of expenditure and the estimate upon new barracks should be equally divided between the Imperial and Colonial Governments.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient Servant,\n**Rewelby**",
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"content_text": "## TREASURY CHAMBERS, 6 DEC 1889\n\nDecember 1889,\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State, that They have considered Mr Bramston's letter of the 17th October on the Military Contribution to be paid by the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Secretary of State demurs to My Lords' proposal that the Contribution of £40,000 a year should be fixed for two years. He refers to the letter from this Board on the subject of Singapore, in which My Lords named three or four years as the period which the two Secretaries of State and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had fixed in conference, and in fulfilment of this agreement Lord Knutsford proposes to fix the said contribution for five years. The Secretary of State therefore departs from the Agreement as much in one direction, as My Lords departed from it in the other direction.\n\nIt must however be recollected that, at the time when the letter of 10th August respecting Singapore was written, the Chancellor of the Exchequer had not agreed with the Secretary of State to ask Her Majesty's Advisers to refer the question of these Contributions to a Cabinet Committee. It is obvious that the opinion of such a Committee, if accepted by the Cabinet would supersede the Agreement made by the three Ministers above named, and it would be desirable that duration should only be given to that...\n\nTheir Lordships' wish, further enquiry shall be made of the Colony, but the same should be done without consultation with them, & in the meantime the demand on the £40,000 will be delayed. The Colony may raise claims which sound canonical & fasten delay, & possibly may allege that they ought to receive substantial compensation for the benefits given by the garrison & I.M. forces, beyond the abandonment of a claim for £9000, which on the face of it is disputable.\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.\n \n| Number |\n|--------|\n| 16519 |\n| 209 |\n| 23526 |\n| 19261 |\n| 16014 |\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\n`GR903/1140`\n`84.31/12/89`\n`Draft XW5.0.` \n`Ind al 903/1140`",
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"content_text": "# \n\n210 \n\nWho?! \n\nMy Lords of Docelan \n\nnabing \n\nthat agreement for such a period as would be required \n\nin order to give full effect to the decision of the Cabinet, \n\nMy Lords, however, are anxious that there should not \n\nbe difference between the Secretary of State and this \n\nBoard upon minor points and They are ready to make the \n\nconcession of naming three years, instead of two, as the \n\nperiod for which the Contribution of £40,000 will be \n\nbinding. \n\n## \n\n2. \n\nIt is true that My Lords were satisfied with the description of the Committee of 1861 given by the Colonial Office itself. It is probable, from reference to Hansard, that Sir P. Rogers based his description of the Committee upon the proposals put forward by Mr. Mills who moved for the Committee in the House of Commons, and who justified his proposals upon the plea of economy. \n\n## \n\n3. \n\nMy Lords will not follow the Secretary of State all through his reasons for exempting the Colony at the expense of the Imperial Taxpayer. They expressed in their letter of the 10th August their view of the duties and obligations of Subjects of the Empire in whatever part of the Empire such Subjects may have fixed their residence, and They must abide by the opinion thus expressed. \n\n## \n\n4. \n\nThey are however anxious on all occasions to give the inhabitants of distant parts of the Empire full credit for works which contribute towards Military defence, and presuming that it is in the power of the Secretary of State to show that the Waterworks mentioned in the 13th paragraph of the letter under reply represent a substantial money value acknowledged by the War Office and the Admiralty, My Lords are prepared to balance that item against the charge for submarine defence works. \n\nI am, Sir, \n\nYour obedient servant, \n\n**Rank Mowatt** \n\nMy \n\nSen \n\nC:",
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"content_text": "## 218 \n\n/ \n\n4 \n\nIn case of the absence of the fleet, and to have its garrison permanently at full strength, and not dependent upon the doubtful possibility of receiving reinforcements on the outbreak of war.\n\n15. It will doubtless be urged, as has been urged before, that the defence of Colonial ports is a matter of Imperial concern, and that the maintenance of their garrisons should be mainly borne by the taxpayers of the United Kingdom. Her Majesty's Government have, however, never admitted, and cannot now admit, this plea. Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and if the capture of Hong Kong would be a serious blow to the Empire, the capture would mean ruin to many inhabitants of the Colony, and serious loss and hardship to all. Hong Kong, in common with every other British possession, is directly benefited by its connexion with the rest of the Empire, and while enjoying the benefits cannot escape from the responsibilities entailed by that connexion. The larger dependencies, such as the Australian Colonies, accept their responsibilities without demur, and not only provide the whole of their land defence, but contribute to the cost of the navy in order to strengthen the squadron, and obtain more complete protection for their shipping and floating trade.\n\n16. The estimated cost of the navy to the Imperial Exchequer is, as you will see from the Statesman's Year Book (page 247), over £13,000,000 for the year 1888-9, and as the population of the United Kingdom (page 255) is more than 37,000,000, these figures show that the mother country contributes 7s. per head of its population to the naval defence of the Empire, and it might reasonably expect its dependencies to make provision for their own defence to an equal amount. Questions of jurisdiction beyond the three-mile limit of the flag, and of discipline, stand in the way of Colonial war ships, so that the navy will always be that of the mother country, and in dealing with the great question of the defence of the Empire it is difficult to lay down any other broad principle for dividing the cost of Colonial defence, except that of the mother country undertaking the sea defence of the Colonies by means of her navy, and the Colonies, so far as their means allow, respectively providing for their own defence. But even this principle admits of extension, as, for instance, when a Colony agrees to contribute, as most of the Australian Colonies now do, to the cost of additional ships to be employed in local waters for the protection of the floating trade within those waters.\n\n17. In some cases, as I need scarcely inform you, the poverty of the Colony renders any realisation of the general principle laid down in the preceding paragraph practically unattainable; in others, the contribution, though substantial, falls short of the full cost owing to the inability of the Colony to provide more; and in both cases the difference is borne by the heavily taxed mother country. The Army Estimates (page 245 of the Year Book) are considerably over £16,000,000, or more than 8s. 9d. per head of the population. And this, added to the naval charges, makes a payment by the mother country of 15s. 9d. per head per annum for the defence of the Empire in 1888-9. But I am informed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that the corresponding payment for the current year may be estimated at 16s. 5d. per head. These are the net amounts, after allowing for contributions received from India and the Colonies, but are exclusive of a very large expenditure chargeable to special defence loans.\n\n18. If these payments are contrasted with the contribution asked from the Colony under your Government, you will see that £40,000 a year is not only a very much smaller charge per head of the population, but, as I shall proceed to show, its payment is well within the ability of the flourishing Colony of Hong Kong. There are other objects on which the money might usefully be spent, but self-protection is the first duty of a community, to which other matters should be postponed, and it is hardly necessary to point out that, unless that is secured, very much of the other outlay may prove to have been undertaken in vain.\n\n19. The revenue for 1888 amounted to $1,557,300, and £40,000 (the contribution proposed for the next three years) taken only at 3s. a dollar amounts to about 17 per cent. of the revenue, and to not quite $1.30 (say 3s. 11d.) per head of the population of the Colony, the whole of which is vitally interested in the security of the fort. It cannot be said that such a payment is excessive, either as a charge upon the people who throng to Hong Kong to seek the protection to life and property afforded by the British flag, or in its proportion to the total public revenue of the Colony, or by comparison with the expenditure on similar purposes in the United Kingdom.\n\n20. I will only further point out in reference to the annual payments, what doubtless you will not have failed to notice, that the £40,000, which the Colony will pay in each of the next three years is only one-seventh of the cost of the garrison, while the remaining six-sevenths/£240,000/will still be borne by the mother country.\n\n## New Barracks\n\n21. A separate correspondence is proceeding with respect to the details of the additional barracks which will be required for the increased garrison, and I do not propose to touch upon these details; but I will state the reasons which influenced Her Majesty's Government in determining that a portion of the cost of their construction should be borne by the Colony.\n\n22. Four different heads of expenditure were required in 1884-5 for putting the Colony into a proper state of defence, viz:- \n| 1. Forts | 2. Armaments | 3. Submarine defences | 4. Barracks for additional troops |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Works | £61,097 | £55,625 | 37,500 | B |\n\nForeign ...",
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"content_text": "IMPERIAL PENSION MINUTES.\n\nBritish Museum\n\nPrincipal Librarian\n\nTo be placed in the 1st Class.\n\nOffice of Works.\n\nDo.\n\n2nd\n\nSurveyor of Works\n\nDo.\n\n2nd\n\nSalaried Architect and Surveyor.\n\nNo.\n\n3rd\n\nClerks of Works\n\nDo.\n\n1st\n\nDirector of Kew Gardens\n\nDo.\n\n2nd\n\nCurator of Kew Gardens\n\nWoods and Forests.\n\nDo.\n\n2nd\n\nChief Mineral Inspector\n\nDo.\n\n2nd\n\nArchitect\n\nDo.\n\n2nd\n\nSurveyor\n\nPoor Laws Board.\n\nDo.\n\nLegal Secretary\n\nDo\n\n2nd\n\nInspectors\n\nIreland,\n\nDo.\n\n1st\n\nUnder-Secretary\n\nInspector-General of Prisons\n\nChairman of Convict Prisons\n\nGovernor of Prisons and similar Institutions\n\nInspectors of National Schools\n\nPresidents and Vice-Presidents, Queen's College.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\n3rd\n\n2nd\n\nChaplains of Convict Prisons and similar Institutions, Solicitor, Board of Works\n\n3rd\n\n1st\n\nDo.\n\n2nd\n\nSurveyor of buildings, etc.\n\nInspectors of Lunatic Asylums\n\nDo.\n\n2nd\n\nColonial\n\nColonial Judges and Magistrates Colonial Chaplains.\n\nTo be placed in the 1st Class\n\nDo.\n\nThe Committee further suggest that in the case of civil servants of the Crown holding offices in the more unhealthy Colonies, the right to receive superannuation allowance might accrue, in case of retirement from bad health, after seven years.\n\nMy Lords, Concuring in the recommendations of the Committee, are pleased by this order to direct and declare, that the offices enumerated by the Committee shall be added to those appointed in the Minute of 14th June, 1859, to come within the 4th clause of the Act of 1859, and that they shall be classified, as regards the number of years to be added in computing the amount of retiring allowance, according to the recommendations of the Committee.\n\nAs regards the period at which, in the more unhealthy of the British Colonies, such as the West Coast of Africa, and some of the West India Islands, the right to receive superannuation allowance should accrue in case of retirement from bad health, my Lords are of opinion that it is not expedient at present to lay down any general rule, but that the cases of such offices should be dealt with under the 4th clause as they arise.\n\n(But as to the West African Service, see Chapter XVIII of the Colonial Regulations, Part VII, of this publication. A Bill is now before Parliament in amendment of the Superannuation Act of 1859 which will enable the Treasury to count two years' service in an \"unhealthy climate\" as three years for pension purposes.—Ed. O. Ü. I, Feb. 1875.)\n\nTREASURY MINUTE. 17th December, 1864.\n\nMy Lords have before them their Minute of 14th June, 1859, the 4th clause of which regulates the granting of allowances by way of compensation, under the 7th sec. of the Act 27 Vict., cap. 26, to persons on the occasion of abolition of office.\n\nBy that Minute a specified number of years is to be added to the actual number which persons may have served, without reference to the period of life which they may have attained.\n\nUpon further consideration of this subject, my Lords are of opinion that it would not be proper to adhere too strictly to this rule in the case of persons who may be advanced in years, and who, from that circumstance, might not remain much longer in the public service; and that, in such cases, they should give themselves the free exercise of their discretion in fixing the number of years which should be respectively added to the actual service, according to the view which they may take of the circumstances of each particular case.\n\nMy Lords are, therefore, pleased to declare that in the case of persons who, if they served the time granted by that Minute for compensation, would be over 60 years, and who may retire from office under the circumstances above referred to, they will not consider themselves bound by that Minute, but that they will decide upon each particular case according to the view they may take, after a full consideration of all the circumstances attending it.\n\nC.O.14467\n\nRECEIVED\n\nREGD 20 JUL 89/\n\n675",
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"content_text": "TREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\nC.O.\n\n23 April 1890.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to Mr Meade's letter of the 16th instant,\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to request that you will state to Lord Knutsford that, if the Colonial Government of Hong Kong is prepared to supply, at the time required by the Mint, the bullion for an increased consignment of $400,000 worth of subsidiary coin for October, the necessary arrangements can be made, the other three quarterly consignments to be reduced to $200,000.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.",
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"content_text": "404\n\n2\n\nthis expression to mean that the contribution was \"to be raised to a higher rate on a future occasion.\"\n\n33\n\n5. The garrison in 1863-4 was estimated at 1,000 of all ranks, and its annual cost at £100,000. In 1888 the garrison numbered 1,445 of all ranks (exclusive of volunteers), and its cost has risen to about £160,000 a year, while the Colonial contribution has remained at £20,000.\n\n6. The future garrison, including local regulars, but excluding militia and volunteers, will be approximately as follows:\n\nImperial troops, 2,525 of all ranks. Local regulars, 493\"\n\nThe details are given in the Table A annexed to this despatch.\n\n7. The cost of this garrison will be about £280,000 a year and will consequently be nearly three times as great as was the expense of the garrison in 1863 when the Colonial contribution was fixed. Her Majesty's Government, however, do not propose that the contribution should now be increased in the same proportion, and will only call upon the Colony to provide £40,000 a year for each of the three years 1890-1-2, the Colony bearing in addition the cost of any militia and volunteers which it may raise, and the contribution to be paid after 1892 being subject to re-consideration during these three years.\n\nC\n\n8. You will remember that Lord Derby's despatch, No. 213, of the 17th of September 1884, enclosed with other correspondence a letter from the War Office of the 9th of September, which stated that \"Lord Hartington considers that it should also be intimated to the Governor that the present arrangement as to incidence of charge only applies to the works now to be constructed and armed, and that the military contribution paid by the Colony will have to be reconsidered with reference to the increased garrison which may become necessary in consequence of these works, and to the general defence of the Colony.\" And in now informing you of the amount which Her Majesty's Government demand from the Colony as its contribution to the increased garrison, I desire to draw your attention to the following considerations, which have been duly weighed before that amount was determined.\n\n9. Hong Kong is the centre of great commercial activity, and the mercantile prosperity of the port continually increases in a very remarkable degree, as is evidenced by the following figures extracted from the Blue Books:\n\nShipping.\n\n \n \n Ships\n Tonnage\n \n \n 1863\n Entered 1,822 Cleared 1,835\n 891,924\n \n \n 1868\n Entered 27,500 Cleared 27,090\n 911,957 2,501,815\n \n \n 1878\n Entered 28,779 Cleared 28,377\n 2,478,887 4,352,668 4,340,419\n \n \n 1888\n Entered 27,779 Cleared 27,569\n 6,400,410 6,309,974\n \n\n10. During the same period the increase of the public revenue has, similarly, been very marked. The figures have been:\n\n \n 1863\n $576,375\n \n \n 1868\n $1,131,106 including fees on gambling houses, since abolished.\n \n \n 1878\n $947,637\n \n \n 1888\n $1,657,800\n \n\nIn other words, the public revenue has nearly trebled itself in 25 years, while the shipping visiting the port has multiplied seven-fold.\n\nThe population, which was shown by the census of 1881 to be 160,402, is now estimated at not less than 215,000.\n\n11. It is evident that the prosperity, I may almost say the existence, of the Colony, and the welfare of this large population, depend upon the continuance and security of its trade with other places. If the trade is secure, the prosperity may be expected to continue and increase, and the first instincts of self-interest would lead the community to make every effort to protect and defend their trade.\n\n12. The present defences of Hong Kong, with their powerful armament, will suffice, in the opinion of Her Majesty's professional advisers, to afford the necessary protection against any attack likely to be made upon it; but I need scarcely remind you that another and more powerful safeguard is provided by the ships of Her Majesty's navy, whose duty would be to prevent any hostile force from approaching the place, and in whose absence alone any attack upon it become possible. The combination of the two forms of defence will, it may be hoped, effectually secure the safety of the trade of the Colony, and of the population which lives and thrives upon it.\n\n13. I frankly recognise that the merchants of the Colony have always been ready to acknowledge the value of the navy to them. At the same time, the changed conditions of warfare, and the sudden and rapid nature of the opening operations, have made it necessary for Hong Kong, like other important Colonial ports, to be always ready to repel an attack in case of the absence of the fleet, and to have its garrison permanently at full strength, and not dependent upon the doubtful possibility of receiving reinforcements on the outbreak of war.\n\n14. It will doubtless be urged, as has been urged before, that the defence of Colonial ports is a matter of Imperial concern, and that the maintenance of their garrisons should be mainly borne by the taxpayers of the United Kingdom. Her Majesty's Government have, however, never admitted, and cannot now admit, this plea. Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and if the capture of Hong Kong would be a serious blow to the Empire, the capture would mean ruin to many inhabitants of the Colony, and serious loss and hardship to all. Hong Kong, in common with every other British possession, is directly benefited by its connexion with the rest of the Empire, and, while enjoying the benefits, cannot escape from the responsibilities entailed by that connexion. The larger dependencies, such as the Australian Colonies, accept their responsibilities without demur, and not only provide the whole of their land defence, but contribute to the cost of the navy in order to strengthen the squadron, and obtain more complete protection for their shipping and floating trade.\n\n15. The estimated cost of the navy to the Imperial Exchequer is, as you will see from the Statesman's Year Book (page 247), over £13,000,000 for the year 1888-9, and as the population of the United Kingdom (page 255) is more than 37,000,000, these figures show that the mother country contributes 7s. per head of its population to the naval defence of the Empire, and it might reasonably expect its dependencies to make provision for their own defence to an equal amount. Questions of jurisdiction beyond the three-mile limit, of the flag, and of discipline, stand in the way of Colonial war ships, so that the navy will always be that of the mother country, and in dealing with the great question of the defence of the Empire, it is difficult to lay down any other broad principle for dividing the cost of Colonial defence, except that of the mother country undertaking the sea defence of the Colonies by means of her navy, and of the Colonies, so far as their means allow, respectively providing for their own land defence. But even this principle admits of extension, as, for instance, when a Colony agrees to contribute, as most of the Australian Colonies now do, to the cost of additional ships to be employed in local waters for the protection of the floating trade within those waters.\n\n16. In some cases, as I need scarcely inform you, the poverty of the Colony renders any realisation of the general principle laid down in the preceding paragraph practically unattainable; in others, the contribution, though substantial, falls short of the full cost owing to the inability of the Colony to provide more; and in both cases the difference is borne by the heavily taxed mother country. The Army Estimates (page 245 of the Year Book) are considerably over £16,000,000, or more than 8s. 9d. per head of the population. And this, added to the naval charges, makes a payment by the mother country of 15s. 9d. per head per annum for the defence of the Empire in 1888-9. But I am informed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that the corresponding payment for the current year may be estimated at...\n\nK 61097.\n\nA 2\n\n3",
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"content_text": "446\n\n14\n\nsale of property), but Sir A. Haliburton's Committee say that this estimate may be exceeded. These two sums together come to 262,000£.\n\n\"It is proposed, as my Lords understand the proposal, that the Imperial Government shall sell land it now holds, valued at about 125,000£, to the colony, that this money shall be applied towards the new barracks, reducing their net cost to about 137,000£; that the Imperial Government shall pay two-thirds of the charge, or about 92,000£, and that the Colonial Government shall pay the balance, or about 46,000£, providing also sites for the new barracks on Crown lands. The proposal therefore means that the Imperial Government should give up sites worth 125,000£ and spend 92,000£ in cash; that the colony should find new sites on Crown lands, and should spend 46,000£ in cash, in addition to the value of the lands they purchase from the War Department.\"\n\n4279\n\nI am to refer you to the War Office letter of this day's date, Hong Kong 2, in reply to the Treasury letter of the 12th October, raising some of the points alluded to in this letter.\n\nThe only other point raised in the Treasury letter of the 12th ultimo is in regard to the provision of the first outfit of furniture, and in regard to that query I am to state that all fixed barrack furniture will be included in the cost of providing the barracks, and that movable furniture, such as bedsteads, tables, brushes, &c., is not included therein, but is provided for in the general estimate of the cost of the garrison, which formed the basis on which the annual contribution to be paid by the colony was fixed.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nThe Secretary to the Treasury, S.W.\n\nSir,\n\n40248\n\n154\n\nW. ST. JOHN BRODRICK.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street,\n\n17th October 1889.\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for War, copy of a letter which has been addressed to the Treasury respecting the Hong Kong military contribution, in reply to their letter of the 28th of September, which is understood to have been communicated to the War Office.\n\nLord Knutsford would be obliged if he can be informed whether a more complete estimate has yet been made of the cost of the new barracks, and generally to be informed of the position in which the question of their construction now stands. His Lordship would also observe that whatever estimate is finally made must necessarily form the basis of the demand upon the colony, for it cannot be expected that the colony will consent to provide more than the sum which is first asked for, or to allow that sum to be increased at the will of the military authorities, in whose arrangements it will have no voice or control.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nWar Office,\n\nI am, &c.,\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON.\n\nCOPY of enclosure with Colonial Office letter of 17th October 1889 to the War Office.\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Office to Treasury.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n17th October 1889.\n\n13191\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, 88 of the 28th of September, respecting the Hong Kong military contributions, in which their Lordships state that they are prepared to accept for two years the contribution of 40,000£ a-year, which was the annual sum recommended by the Committee, and accepted by the Secretary of State.\n\n2. I am, however, to request you to recall their Lordships' attention to your letter of the 10th of August, relating to the Straits contribution, in which their Lordships state that, so far as the two colonies of the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong are concerned, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for War, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, have in conference arrived at an understanding\n\n* The portion of this letter relating to barracks is marginally noted by a black line.\n\n15\n\nupon the amount of contribution to be paid in this and the next three or four years. This concurs with Lord Knutsford's recollection of what passed at the conference, and he is not, therefore, prepared to agree that the payment by the colony of 40,000£ a-year should be demanded for less than the five years, commencing from the 1st January 1889, recommended by the Committee and accepted at the conference on the 3rd of June.\n\n3. As regards the barracks, his Lordship is enquiring from the War Office whether any more definite estimate of cost has been prepared since July 1888, when the Committee made their report, and a further communication will be addressed to you on the subject.\n\n4. Lord Knutsford has referred to the Report of the Select Committee of 1861 on Colonial Military Expenditure, and observes that it was instructed to enquire and report whether any and what alterations may be advantageously adopted in regard to the defence of the British Dependencies and the proportions of cost of such defence as now defrayed from Imperial and Colonial Funds respectively.\" It does not appear that the Committee, as stated in the 3rd paragraph of their Lordships' letter, \"was directed to inquire whether the most wealthy and important colonies might not, with due regard to justice and to their own interests, defray a larger proportion of the cost of their military defence than up to that time had been laid to their charge.\" This passage found in a letter of 25th April 1863, from Mr. Elliott, of this department, to Sir Hercules Robinson, who was then in England, summarising the nature of the enquiry. The next sentence which their Lordships quote, as the advice of the Committee, is taken from the same letter.\n\n5. As far as concerns Hong Kong, the report begins by classing it among \"military garrisons, naval stations, convict depôts, and dependencies maintained chiefly for objects of Imperial policy,\" and in the 9th paragraph the report states that \"as to the second class of dependencies above defined (i.e., military garrisons, naval stations, &c.), the responsibility and main cost of their defences properly devolved on the Imperial Government.\"\n\n6. This principle will be seen to run through the correspondence between the Duke of Newcastle and the Governor respecting the contribution of 20,000£ a-year, and although their Lordships, in the 12th paragraph of their letter, \"demur to this assumption,\" the position, in the opinion of Lord Knutsford, holds equally true at the present time.\n\n7. The Imperial Government has the control of peace and war, and has decided that Hong Kong must be defended with powerful forts and held by a garrison costing 280,000£ a-year. It cannot be supposed that in fixing this garrison Her Majesty's Government was specially concerned for the safety of the alien Chinese who frequent the colony, or even of the British merchants who have established themselves there, and there can be no doubt that the colony has been selected as a coaling station solely on account of its harbour. This harbour is of great value to the Empire, apart from the welfare of the people living on its shores, and the real ground for defending Hong Kong is its importance as a naval station where Her Majesty's ships may refit and where they may obtain coal necessary to keep the sea and protect the British shipping engaged in the trade between the mother country and the Empires of China and Japan - a trade which is mainly independent of Hong Kong, and which is carried on for the benefit of the mother country and the British taxpayer. Hong Kong is also defended in order that its harbour may not fall into the hands of a foreign enemy, and be used as a naval base from which to destroy the ships owned in the mother country, and engaged in carrying on this trade with the East. And as a guarantee against such a misfortune its increased strength and additional garrison are demanded by the increasing strength of Russia at Vladivostock, and by the presence of large French forces in Tonquin and Cochin China.\n\n8. Lord Knutsford agrees with their Lordships that comparison between the sums expended by different countries on certain services is always difficult, and in the present case the comparison seems misleading, for the countries to which their Lordships refer in the 21st paragraph of their letter, are Sovereign States, whose defences are maintained solely for the protection of those interests which they themselves administer. But Hong Kong, as Mr. Stanhope pointed out in the War Office memorandum of the 15th of December last, produces nothing, and it seems impossible to make any satisfactory comparison between the tax-paying capacity of its mixed population and that of the population of producing countries such as their Lordships refer to.\n\n9. Nor is there any real analogy between the circumstances of Hong Kong and of the Australian Colonies to which their Lordships refer. These great dependencies are concerned only for the defence of themselves and of their own trade and produce, and their contributions to the Navy are required for the protection of the very considerable",
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"content_text": "446\n\n18\n\nis shoaling rapidly owing to the accumulation of earth washed down from the hills through a nullah which enters the harbour at that part. The proposal was declined because expensive reclamation works are required before the site offered in exchange would be fully available, and the Admiralty were not prepared to apply to Parliament for the money necessary to make the reclamation, to erect the new buildings, and to remove the machinery, and establish the yard on the proposed site.\n\n6. Sir H. Holland, however, understands that if the Colonial Government were willing, at their own cost, to undertake the transfer of the machinery and establishment, making all necessary works, and erecting buildings of the same capacity and character as now exist in the present yard, the Admiralty might be disposed to surrender the present yard and buildings in exchange for the proposed site at Kowloon, with the new buildings and other works to be effected as above mentioned.\n\n7. Such an arrangement, however, between the Admiralty and the colony would not, under existing circumstances, be acceptable to the War Office if the colony desired to build over the site of the naval yard, and would, doubtless, not be entertained by the colony if they were not at liberty to make free use of that site and of any land reclaimed from the harbour. It is, therefore, suggested that the colony might seek to acquire some portion, at least, of the military buildings situated between the Queen's Road and the harbour.\n\n8. The naval yard is flanked on one side by the North Barracks and on the other by the commissariat buildings, the three together forming a large block of land of great value. The two military portions would fetch a high price in the market, possibly sufficient for erecting elsewhere new barracks and other buildings in place of the North Barracks and commissariat buildings, as well as the additional barracks which will be required for the increase in the garrison which is contemplated. It might, it seems to Sir H. Holland, be possible for an agreement to be come to between the War Office and the colony, by which the former, instead of selling these two sites, might arrange to hand them over to the colony in return for the erection of barracks and other buildings at suitable places higher up the hill, the colony being required to expend, unless the work could be done for less, a sum equal to the value of the sites of North Barracks and commissariat buildings, as ascertained beforehand by agreement or arbitration, after allowing for the value of any site which the colony may have to provide outside the War Department lands.\n\n9. Sir H. Holland has been informed, though the Governor has not yet made any report upon the subject, that a scheme is on foot in the colony for an extended reclamation in the western portion of the harbour, commencing it is said in the neighbourhood of Belcher's Point and ending at the Government Wharf (Murray Pier), near the North Barracks. If any scheme of this nature is to be carried out at the present time it would necessarily postpone for some time the removal of the naval yard and the North Barracks and commissariat buildings as above suggested; but if the Secretary of State for War is disposed to entertain the question of such removal, it would be desirable that the Governor should be made aware of the possibility of such an arrangement being made in the future.\n\n10. I am accordingly to ask that Sir H. Holland may be favoured with the observations of the Secretary of State for War upon the subjects referred to in this letter.\n\nI am, &c.,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nWar Office.\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office,\n\n20th January 1888.\n\nI have the honour, by direction of the Secretary of State for War, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th instant, respecting the proposed extension of the Hong Kong Praya, which shall receive attention. A further communication will be addressed to you on the subject.\n\n8\n\n1100\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office, S.W.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.\n\n19\n\nCaptain Superintendent, Pembroke Dock, to Admiralty.\n\nExtension of Praya Wall, Hong Kong. Result of Committee Meeting at Colonial Office, on the 9th January 1888.\n\nHer Majesty's Dockyard, Pembroke Dock,\n\n11th January 1888.\n\n8\n\n1187\n\nSir,\n\n1. I have to report, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that in compliance with their directions expressed in your letters of the 4th and 5th instant, D.W. 4275 and 4278, I attended at the Colonial Office at 3.0 p.m., on Monday the 9th, and met there Mr. Bramston, of the Colonial Office, Sir G. Phillippo, Chief Justice of Hong Kong, and Colonel Locock, R.E., representing the War Office.\n\n2. Sir G. Phillippo opened the discussion by stating that the population of Hong Kong was so rapidly increasing, that on sanitary and commercial grounds the Colonial authorities at Hong Kong were of opinion that at no distant date it would be necessary to move to other suitable sites the naval and military establishments, now occupying a central position on the sea front, and, therefore, interrupting the traffic from east to west.\n\n3. I pointed out that, from a naval point of view, the building of the proposed Praya wall across the sea front of the dockyard would be most inconvenient, and would much impair the efficiency of the yard, except on the amended plan proposed by Sir William Dowell, K.C.B., in his letter, dated Amoy, 5th May 1884; and further, that the naval yards should be laterally extended by the War Department handing over to the Admiralty the North Barracks, now occupied by the Royal Artillery.\n\n4. Colonel Locock, R.E., stated that there would be no objection on the part of the War Department to handing over the North Barracks, or such portion of the ground as the Admiralty might require, provided Lots No. 21 and 22, and another Lot east of the commissariat buildings, were handed over to the War Department by the colony, and the Admiralty paid the necessary money for acquiring the site, and erecting the buildings, &c.\n\n5. The Chief Justice, on the other hand, was decidedly of opinion that it was necessary for the colony that the North Barracks, naval yard, and at least as far as Wellington Barracks on the sea front of the Queen's Road, should be handed over to the colony, with no restrictions as to the purposes the land might be used for. If this were agreed to, he would be prepared to recommend to the Colonial Government that the land at Kowloon, as per plans enclosed in the Surveyor-General's letter of 5th March 1887, should be reclaimed, and the necessary barracks, buildings, storehouses, sheds, factory, and the machinery placed therein as now in the naval yard at Hong Kong, should be erected thereon, and handed over to the Admiralty free of all costs, in exchange.\n\n6. Sir G. Phillippo, in the course of his remarks, stated he believed that a new scheme had been started, and that it had the approval of the Local Government, which is to extend the present Praya wall from Belcher's Bay to Murray Pier (a point immediately west of the North Barracks) for a considerable distance into the sea, I believe about 100 yards. Should this be finally carried out, Sir George was of opinion that for the present the available money of the colony would be exhausted, and the proposed extension of the Praya eastward, past the naval and military establishments, would not at present be proceeded with; firstly, for want of funds; secondly, that sufficient land for immediate wants would be made available by the reclamation.\n\n7. I would point out, for their Lordships' consideration, that if this latter scheme is carried out, I am of opinion the silting up of the sea front of the naval yard, which has been going on for years, and has already proved of considerable inconvenience to the naval Service, would be very much accelerated, as the new Praya wall would interrupt the little tide which now assists in clearing away a portion of the large amount of debris that in rainy seasons is washed down from the hill sides, and silts up the sea front of this part of the harbour.\n\n8. My letter, dated the 15th of March 1887, to the Commander-in-Chief in China, and which is within the enclosed papers, gives plainly my opinion on the subject of the removal of the naval yard to Kowloon, and its advantages; this, taken with the knowledge that it seems next to impossible to extend the yard in its present position, and if some arrangement is not soon agreed upon, that in a short time the land now offered at Kowloon may not be available, except at an enormous cost, I would...\n\n1",
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"content_text": "454\n\n34\n\nestimates to amount to 134,215 square feet, and to be worth 402,645 dollars (at three dollars per foot), which he considers to be a low estimate.\n\nIt therefore appears to Mr. Secretary Stanhope that an arrangement might be come to on the basis that the Colonial Government should defray the cost of the Praya in front of North Barracks, Commissariat Buildings, Wellington Barracks, and Arsenal, estimated to cost 320,000 dollars, and should recoup themselves by retaining possession of the reclamation in front of North Barracks, estimated to be worth 402,645 dollars, while the War Department would retain the reclamation in front of Commissariat Buildings, Wellington Barracks, and the Arsenal to deal with as may be found desirable.\n\nSuch an arrangement would be more favourable to the colony than the one proposed by the Colonial Government, and though the Secretary of State for War acknowledges that the War Department would gain considerably in land, it would not gain in money, unless the Commissariat Buildings were parted with, in which case the reclamation in front of them, less the strip 15 feet wide required by the Colonial Government for a road, could be sold, the estimated value being £14,882 dollars according to the statement of the Surveyor-General.\n\nAs the result of the formation of the Praya with its reclamations will almost certainly be an increase of sickness in the garrison for a time, the Secretary of State for War would gladly learn that the scheme was abandoned altogether; but in spite of this, Mr. Secretary Stanhope is prepared to consent, with Treasury sanction, to an arrangement on the basis mentioned, as he is aware of the great importance the Colonial Government attach to the scheme.\n\nThe Secretary of State for War is also aware of the technical difficulties as to the sale of property in Hong Kong; but he has not found that those difficulties have prevented the War Department acquiring property in the open market, though very high prices were paid.\n\nMr. Secretary Stanhope confidently trusts that the Governor will afford such assistance as may be necessary to enable the War Department to part with North Barracks, and also any other property which it may be decided to sell, realizing the full market value of the properties disposed of.\n\nMr. Stanhope is the more assured that the required assistance will be afforded because the sales will tend to mitigate the congestion of population so much complained of, by throwing land into the market for building purposes, and at the same time half the amount obtained for any property parted with will practically go into the pocket of the colony by reducing the amount it would otherwise have to contribute towards the cost of the new barracks.\n\nWith regard to the plan for the new Praya, Mr. Secretary Stanhope notices that the piers at Wellington Barracks and Arsenal are destroyed and not re-provided; and it appears from paragraph 18 of Sir W. des Voeux's despatch, dated the 15th January last, that many details have yet to be settled.\n\nThe settlement of such details, the re-provision of the piers as may be necessary, and the satisfaction of indispensable requirements in connection with the submarine mining service and the arsenal water transport, would form an essential part of the proposed arrangement. The cost of the Praya would probably be increased in consequence, but there would be a considerable margin to meet this increased cost in the difference, 82,465 dollars, between the present estimated cost, 320,000 dollars, and the estimated value, 402,465 dollars, of the reclamation in front of North Barracks.\n\nAnother matter which the Secretary of State for War must stipulate for as an essential part of the proposed arrangement is, that the whole of the land reclaimed in front of North Barracks, the Naval Yard, Commissariat Buildings, Lots 20 and 21, Wellington Barracks and Arsenal, should be included in the area on which the erection of buildings for Chinese should be prohibited.\n\nIt is, in the opinion of Mr. Secretary Stanhope, much to be regretted that buildings for Chinese were ever allowed to be erected in that part of the town; the result of which has been that within the last few years the War Department has had to expend over £36,000 in acquiring sundry blocks of Chinese dwellings within the limits of the cantonment, which constituted a serious sanitary danger.\n\nThe Secretary of State for War feels bound to take every means to prevent the erection of Chinese dwellings in the future within those limits.\n\nI am to observe that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have asked the Secretary of State for War to inform them in regard to the particulars of any property which the War Department may propose to part with in case that the Admiralty may desire to purchase any of it, in view of increasing the naval establishments at Hong Kong and to observe that, as the Admiralty will have to pay the market price for any such property purchased, the future satisfaction of the possible requirements of that department need not, it is considered, affect any arrangement which may be arrived at between the War Department and the colony with regard to the Praya.\n\nWith respect to your enquiry whether the Secretary of State for War would be prepared to accept the offer of the Colonial Government to purchase a certain portion of North Barracks at 3 dollars per foot, I am to observe that, in paragraph 6 of Sir W. des Voeux's despatch, before alluded to, 3 dollars per foot is stated to be a very low computation of the value of the land to be reclaimed in front of the naval yard, and that Mr. Stanhope has reason to believe that the portion of North Barracks alluded to is worth much more.\n\nI am to add that a valuation of the property proposed to be disposed of is now being made, and, on its receipt, a further communication will be addressed to you on the subject.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nRALPH THOMPSON,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office, S.W.\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street,\n\n4th March, 1890.\n\n8\n\n1246\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th of November last, on the subject of the provision of additional barrack accommodation at Hong Kong, and of your letter of the 9th of December, on the subject of the extension of the Praya wall in front of the military cantonments.\n\n2. The two subjects are so closely connected that they must, to some extent, be considered together, and Lord Knutsford, before making any communication to the colony in regard to the proposals contained in your last-mentioned letter, will be glad to have further information on both subjects. His Lordship has not seen the War Office letter to the Treasury of the 9th January 1889, referred to in yours of 30th November, and some correspondence appears to have taken place with the Treasury and Admiralty affecting the colony, but this office is not acquainted with its purport. It would, however, seem possible that the scheme for extending the Praya, which was not before Her Majesty's Government on the 9th of January 1889, may have superseded the proposals made by the War Office on that date.\n\n3. With reference to the first part of your letter of 9th December, I am to point out that any outlay by the Colonial Government which increases the comfort or convenience of Her Majesty's troops is a distinct and valuable contribution to the defences of the colony, and that the addition of a large quantity of reclaimed land amounting, it is believed, to 10 acres or thereabouts, to the military cantonments is an immediate and not a mere speculative benefit. The price which it would fetch in the market, if put up for sale, is the best test of its value, and the value of the land seems to supply a correct measure of the benefit received by the military authorities, and furnishes the reason why the War Department is asked to contribute to its acquisition.\n\n4. Mr. Stanhope, however, declines to make any contribution, and proposes instead, an arrangement on the basis that the Colonial Government should defray the cost of the Praya in front of North Barracks, Commissariat Buildings, Wellington Barracks and Arsenal, estimated to cost 320,000 dollars, and should recoup themselves by retaining possession of the reclamation in front of North Barracks, estimated to be worth 402,645 dollars, while the War Department would retain the reclamation in front of Commissariat Buildings, Wellington Barracks, and the Arsenal, to deal with as may be found desirable.\n\n5. Lord Knutsford concludes that the last eight words are not meant to include a claim to sell the land and apply the proceeds in aid of army funds, for it seems only reasonable that if any part of the reclaimed land is not required for military occupation, it should remain the property of the Colonial Government, which at its sole cost will have brought it into existence. Subject to this observation, his Lordship is disposed to recommend the proposed arrangement to the Colonial Government, but on the understanding that if the North Barracks are sold to the Colonial Government, or to any private person, the right of the colony will be preserved to any land which it may reclaim in front of the present water frontage of the North Barracks, and that the sale will be made expressly subject to that right, whatever may be its effect upon the purchase price.\n\n6. Lord Knutsford is not aware of any proposals for selling military property, except that the colony have offered to buy the North Barracks at 3 dollars a square foot, an offer which the letter under acknowledgment leaves in abeyance. It should, however, not be overlooked that the legal estate in the land is vested in the Queen, but as Her Majesty has given to the Governor power to dispose of it, in common\n\n35",
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"content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nharbour shall be permitted on payment, in addition to the ordinary charges at present levied of a fee equal to a day's demurrage, subject to a minimum charge of Rs. 50 and a maximum charge of Rs. 200, for each ship on board of which work is carried on. Demurrage for this purpose to be calculated at the rate of 64 annas per ton of registered tonnage.\"\n\nLegislation can be effected with the assistance of the local Chambers of Commerce. The reply of Lord Knutsford to Lord Meath's question in the House of Lords on July 25th sufficiently indicates this. He said that he did not think it would be possible to put an end to Sunday work generally in the Crown colonies except through an understanding to that effect amongst the Chambers of Commerce.\n\nI send this short statement in response to your Secretary, wishing you success in your movement, which will doubtless gain the sympathy and respect of all fair-minded people,\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\n## II\n\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION**, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1890.\n\nTo the Secretary, \n**GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, HONGKONG**.\n\nTHE BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION.\n\nA meeting of the above-named Association was held at the Marine Hotel, Praya West, last night, the 19th Sept., when the general discussion upon the Sunday Labour Question closed with the passing of a resolution in connection therewith. The chair was taken by Mr. H. L. Newbam, who called upon Mr. Chesney Duncan, the Secretary, to read any special correspondence which he might be in possession of relative to the question at issue.\n\nIn response, Mr. Duncan said the Rev. Mr. Goldsmith had kindly favoured him with an extract from a letter received by him lately from Mr. Lang, an important Liverpool shipowner, who stated that he never allowed Sunday labour on board his ships and still he had never found himself a loser thereby. Mr. Duncan also said he was in possession of correspondence from the Government of Ceylon which showed that Sunday labour on board ships in Colombo harbour was prohibited, except upon payment of exorbitant special fees. A scale of these extra charges he now held in his hand. One of the leading arguments against the cessation of Sunday labour in Hongkong was, he understood, to the effect that Hongkong not being a terminus, but merely a port of call, it was of the utmost importance that vessels calling here should be despatched as quickly as possible. He was willing to admit that, but contended that owners could so run their ships as to avoid being in Hongkong on Sunday. Colombo was by no means a terminus either, but there laws were enforced not with a view to wringing from owners exorbitant fees but for the purpose of diminishing labour on board ships on Sunday. He did not think it necessary to make owners pay stiff fees for working on Sunday, but he submitted that British officers, who were just as much entitled to their Sunday as any other subjects of the Queen, should be paid well for Sunday extra labour. It was not their duty, strictly speaking, to work in port on Sunday.\n\nI am instructed to hand you, enclosed, copy of a resolution which was carried unanimously at a meeting of this Association last Friday night, and in so doing, have to say that this Association trusts you will be pleased to accede to its desire for a Conference (either public or private, the former preferred), in the hope that some modus vivendi, as the outcome of our joint deliberations, may be happily arrived at in connection with this important question (The Sunday Labour Question).\n\nI am directed to assure you that this Association desires to move in respect to this much-vexed question in concert with shipowners, and not—as some may conjecture or aver—in antagonism to employers generally.\n\nTrusting your honourable Chamber will favour this request for a Conference with its kind consideration, and assuring you of our deep esteem,\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, Yours respectfully, \n**CHESNEY DUNCAN**, \nHon. Secretary.\n\nN.B.—Personally delivered by me on the 22nd of September, 1890.—C.D.\n\nThe Chairman said it was clear from the remarks of Lord Knutsford in the House of Lords, that at present there was no hope for legislation on the subject, and the only way to obtain their Sunday was to induce the Chamber of Commerce to press for legislation upon the matter, so that no foreign ships would be allowed to work on Sunday any more than British vessels. The Association had no desire to do anything which would be detrimental to the interests of owners.\n\nThe object of the resolution, which he was about to move the adoption of, was to cause the cessation of Sunday labour while acting in concert with shipowners as much as possible. He proposed \"That in view of the fact that the sum and substance of official and public opinion generally was to the effect that the cessation of labour on board ships on Sunday, in Hongkong, could only be effected by moving the Chamber of Commerce, this Association decides that special representations should be made to the Chamber of Commerce with a view to the holding of a conference between delegates of this Association and the Chairman of the said Chamber.\"\n\nMr. Stainton seconded, and the resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. Chapman then proposed that \"the Chamber of Commerce consenting to the Conference, this Association be represented by the President, Captain Ashton, and two or three members to be selected by the Committee.\"\n\nMr. Gale and Mr. Bowker seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously. The regular business of the Association having been disposed of, the meeting closed with a cordial vote of thanks to the Chairman.—*Hongkong Telegraph*.\n\n**HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE**, Hongkong, 11th October 1890.\n\n**BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION**.\n\nSir,\n\nIn answer to your favour of 22nd ultimo, which I have not had the opportunity of replying to earlier, I am directed to state that the Committee of the Chamber will be happy to receive a deputation from the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association to consider the Sunday Labour Question on Friday the 17th instant, at 4 p.m., which hour it is hoped will prove convenient.\n\nI am, \nSir, \nYour obedient servant, \n**F. HENDERSON**, \nSecretary.",
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"content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION, AN APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY the Acting Governor received a deputation at Government House on the 18th Nov., 1890, from the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association on the question of unnecessary Sunday labour on board ships in this port. The deputation, which was received, in the first instance, by Lieut. Thorburn, A.D.C., and which was subsequently introduced to His EXCELLENCY, the Hon. F. FLEMING, C.M.G., by the Hon. W. M. DEANE, C.M.G., Acting Colonial Secretary, consisted of Captain S. ASHTON, A.L.N.A. (President), Mr. CHESNEY DENGAN (Hon. Secretary), and Messrs. L. R. JAMES, T. W. GALE, JAMES PEARCE, and W. WINCH (officers).\n\nCaptain ASHTON said that the deputation felt most deeply grateful to His Excellency for granting it the honour of an interview, which was sought owing to the strong feeling amongst British officers that there should be a cessation of labour on board ship in this port on Sunday. Having studied Lord Knutsford's speech on the subject, made in the House of Lords on the 25th of July last, the Association came to the conclusion that the best way of causing much-needed legislation on the subject was to move the Chamber of Commerce to recommend Government to introduce a Bill which would cause the cessation of unnecessary Sunday labour. With that object in view, the Association discussed the question at length with the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce at a public conference held at the City Hall on the 17th ultimo. Full reports of the arguments used on that occasion, together with the Chamber's written decision, dated the 31st of October, had doubtless come within His Excellency's cognizance.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY.-Yes, and your reply to the Chamber's letter has also been read by me.\n\nCAPTAIN ASHTON, continuing, said he was very glad to think that His Excellency had taken notice of the movement, which, he submitted, was a righteous and justifiable movement, and a protest against moral slavery. He could well understand that the Committee of the Chamber was temporarily mesmerized by its surroundings, which were heathenish, and that therefore they looked at the situation through somewhat dim glasses. But whether that were so or not, he contended that the reply of the Chamber was unjustifiable in the circumstances, and it was an insult to officers. It was perfectly well known to shipowners here that no individual officer was independent enough to take the consequences of making personal (individual) application for exemption from duty on the Sabbath. The proposition of the Chamber was impracticable in the extreme, and by no means amounted to a modus vivendi. The Chamber wrote: \"The Committee are of opinion that the Government could not legislate for the complete suppression of Sunday labour in this harbour, as the questions involved are very serious and would affect injuriously all the shipping interests of the Colony, and particularly the large Chinese population connected therewith.\" The Government, he was convinced, could legislate for the suppression of Sunday labour; it would not \"injuriously affect all, or any, of the shipping interests of the Colony.\" As to the Chinese, he was aware that they always objected to any new law—innovations were detested by them, no matter what their nature. A Sunday observance law would not injuriously affect the Chinese, and it was preposterous for the Chamber to make such an assertion. He was convinced the Chinese would warmly appreciate their Sunday's rest.\n\nIt was regrettable that the Chamber should have seen fit to question, to virtually impeach the motives of Lord Knutsford. That important servant of Her Majesty had said, in as many words, that he would legislate were the Chamber of Commerce to recommend it; and now the Chamber committed itself to the statement: \"Indeed if such a recommendation was formulated, the Committee are of opinion that Government would not legislate.\" That was a very bold assertion, and it was the first time in the annals of colonial history that a Chamber of Commerce had taken upon itself to answer for the Government on a question which affected the masses. The Association was persuaded that Lord Knutsford meant what he said, and that the Committee's reply was utterly unjustifiable.\n\nAs to the distinction drawn by the Chamber between ocean-going and coast steamers, it was equally without reasonable basis, for ocean steamers became coasters, almost without exception, as soon as they touched Hongkong; for they usually called in at Swatow, Amoy, and Foochow en route to Shanghai, and often called at Foochow and Swatow on their way home from the Far East. It was palpably an insult for the Chamber to instruct British Officers that they must consider Sunday labour on board ships in this port as a mere incident of a voyage of four months' duration! They did not, and never would, consider it \"a mere incident,\" but they did consider, and continued to do so, that the incidence was a scandal and disgrace, and a blot upon our boasted civilization. Hongkong, instead of being a centre of light and civilization to our heathen neighbours, was absolutely the reverse.\n\nThat was the \"incident\" which was firmly implanted in the minds of British officers who were so unfortunate as to be in Hongkong on a Sunday—they were better off in the ports of China where owners had to pay heavy fees for permission from the Chinese Customs Authorities to work on the Sabbath. But this was not the worst phase of the Committee's dictum: Officers were told, \"officers may, and frequently do, escape Sunday in this port.\" Instead of Hongkong, a British possession, dearly bought with British blood and money, being a place of safety and protection for the storm-tossed British mariner, he was instructed to consider himself fortunate if he \"escape\" being in Hongkong on Sunday. Escape! He spurned the idea, and was confident that no Briton could be convinced that it was right for him to consider it a lucky escape were he never, once in a twelve-month, in Hongkong on Sunday.\n\nHe trusted His Excellency would urge Her Majesty's Government to take steps to relieve the British Mercantile Marine Officer, whose practice it was to follow three principles of loyalty, which were: - First, loyalty to their Sovereign, Defender of their Faith. Secondly, loyalty to their employers. Thirdly, loyalty to themselves. They had in years gone by proved their loyalty to their Sovereign and to their owners, and how they came before his Excellency with all humility and in deep earnestness to implore and beseech him to protect them from the continuance of an obnoxious custom (it was merely a custom, a relic of an evil past) which they felt to be a great hardship, and an invasion of their rights as loyal subjects of the Queen.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY, in reply, said he was very glad to receive the deputation and to hear the views expressed by them on a question which was, admittedly, one of much importance. It was, he believed, admitted on all sides that it would be desirable to diminish Sunday labour as carried on in this colony if such could possibly be done. The question then arose whether it should be interfered with, and if so, by what means such interference should be brought about. There were only two ways by which this could be done, one being by having recourse to compulsory legislation, the other by the voluntary co-operation of those who were concerned in the shipping interests of the colony.\n\nAs regards the question of compulsory legislation, the views of the Governor of Hongkong and the Governor of the Straits Settlements, as well as the conclusions which had been expressed by the Secretary of State, and which were stated by him in the House of Lords when answering a question in connection with this matter in July last, must necessarily be known to the members of the deputation. If, even, therefore, he (His Excellency) entertained views different from those expressed by the Governors of Hongkong and the Straits Settlements, which he did not, it would not be for him to enter into that question.\n\nHe admitted that he did not altogether agree with all the arguments which had been brought forward as proof that it was impossible to diminish Sunday labour in this colony. It was true that the Chinese did not regard the Sunday in the same light as we did, and they would, not unnaturally, be disposed to work on that day, if encouragement were given to them to do so. But this could scarcely be said to be peculiar to the Chinese, inasmuch as in some other countries, where Sunday labour did not exist to the same extent that it did here, there would doubtless be found many who would be ready to work on the seventh day in addition to the other six days of the week, if sufficient inducement were offered to them to do so.\n\nPage 34\nPage 35",
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"content_text": "## Treasury to Colonial Office\n\n### Treasury Chambers, 28th September, 1889\n\n1. The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have discussed in a letter which is now before the Secretary of State the question of the Military Contribution to be asked from the Straits Settlements. In the present letter they will express their opinion upon the contribution which the Colony of Hong Kong may fairly be expected to make towards the cost of its defence.\n\n### Defence of Colonies, Naval and Military\n\n2. The defence of the Colonies is entrusted to two forces: the Navy and the Army. Hitherto the British taxpayer has defrayed unaided the whole cost of the Navy. The altered conditions of naval warfare, however, have added, and are adding, so much to the cost of naval defence that the question must arise hereafter whether the prosperous settlements which are members of the Empire should not contribute in reasonable proportion to the cost of a service so essential to their security. The Australian Colonies have indeed anticipated the question, so far as they are concerned, by offering spontaneously a liberal subsidy towards the provision and maintenance of the ships required in their waters. The Imperial Government undertakes alone the cost of the service in other quarters, and my Lords mention the subject here, not because they are about to ask a Naval Contribution from Hong Kong, but because the Colonial Office and Colonial Governments are apt to forget or overlook the heavy charge which the Imperial Government incurs in providing for the naval defence of the Colonies, and to take it for granted that the Colonies can only be asked for a proportion, and, as the Colonial Office contends, a very moderate proportion, of the cost of military defence.\n\n### The Garrison of Hong Kong\n\n3. Hong Kong became a Colony in 1844. During the first 14 years of its existence as a Colony, it cost the Imperial Exchequer £273,000 for its civil establishment, exclusive of any sum spent during that period on naval and military protection. It became self-supporting, so far as the civil government was concerned, in 1859. About this time the Imperial Government found it necessary to increase largely the Imperial Military and Naval Estimates. In 1861 attention was directed to the subject of Colonial Military Expenditure, and a Committee of the House of Commons was directed to enquire whether the most wealthy and important Colonies might not, with due regard to justice and to their own interests, defray a larger proportion of the cost of their military defence than up to that time had been laid to their charge.\n\n4. The revenue of Hong Kong averaged for the years 1860, 1861, 1862, rather more than £117,000, and the Duke of Newcastle, in disregard of the urgent remonstrances and despairing predictions of the then Governor (Sir Hercules Robinson), of the Colonial authorities, and of the community itself, required a Military Contribution of £20,000, equivalent to rather more than one-sixth of the entire revenue, the garrison being then estimated at 1,000 men of all ranks, costing £100,000 a-year. The Duke of Newcastle intended that the contribution should remain in force for five years, and should then be subject to such revision as the altered circumstances of the Colony might require. It is clear that his Grace contemplated an increase of the contribution at the end of the five years, for he said that he desired, in fixing the amount at £20,000, not to press too heavily at first upon the Colonial revenues, and the Governor of Hong Kong himself interpreted this passage as meaning that the contribution was to be raised to a higher rate at a future occasion.\n\n5. Changes, however, occurred in the post of Secretary of State, and at the expiration of the five years, the intention of the Duke of Newcastle appears to have been forgotten. The contribution remained unchanged, and nothing more was heard upon the subject until 1884, when the Secretary of State for War wrote to the Colonial Office that the Military Contribution paid by the Colony would have to be reconsidered with reference to the proposed increase of the garrison. No action followed this intimation, and revision of the existing arrangements was not undertaken until the Committee on Colonial Military Contributions, consisting of Sir Arthur Haliburton, Mr. Bramston, and Mr. Ryder, made their report on Hong Kong in July, 1888—three and twenty years after the actual imposition of the contribution which the Duke of Newcastle had demanded in 1863. The Committee on Colonial Military Contributions have, in the case of Hong Kong, as in that of Singapore, discharged thoroughly the task entrusted to them. They have put before Her Majesty's Government the facts of the case in compact and intelligible form, and the Treasury, the War Office, and the Colonial Office are now fully informed of the intentions of those who fixed the present contribution, and of the financial progress of the Colony during the intervening period.\n\n6. My Lords have stated that the contribution of £20,000, as originally fixed, represented about one-sixth or one-seventh of the revenue of the Colony, and one-fifth of the military charge of the Colony defrayed by the Imperial Exchequer. In the intervening time the garrison has risen to 1,445 men of all ranks, exclusive of volunteers, the cost to the Imperial Exchequer rising from £100,000 to £160,000 a-year. The Colonial Defence Committee now recommend that the garrison of the future shall consist of 2,525 Imperial troops of all ranks, and of 493 local regulars, or 3,018 in all, costing about £280,000 a-year. If the total net estimated cost of the British Army for 1889-90 be divided by the number of men on the Home and Colonial establishments, exclusive of India (£17,000,000 by 152,000 men), the result gives £111 per man, and the corresponding cost of 3,000 men would be £333,000. Sir A. Haliburton's Committee exclude from their computation Militia and Volunteers, costing approximately £3,000 a-year.\n\n7. The Committee further point out that the revenue of the Colony has risen since 1863 from an average of 568,000 dollars to 1,638,000 dollars, the amount as estimated for 1888. They reckon that after allowing for the loss which attends the discharge by silver-using communities of obligations payable in gold, the proportion of the Military Contribution to the revenue of the Colony is only 8 per cent., or one-half of the proportion which the contribution bore to the revenue in 1863.\n\n8. My Lords observe that the Colonial Office has not in the case of Hong Kong, as in that of the Straits, indirectly reduced the Military Contribution by allowing the Colony to pay a sterling debt in silver at an obsolete rate.\n\n### Works and Buildings\n\n9. Sir A. Haliburton's Committee state when the defence of Hong Kong was under consideration in 1883-84, it was contemplated that the whole cost of the project, estimated at £100,000, should be defrayed by the Colony. The Imperial Government has, however, subsequently decided that the Colony should provide the works, and the Imperial Government the armament. According to the first estimate framed upon this basis, 60 per cent. of the expenditure would fall upon the Colonial, 40 per cent. upon the Imperial Exchequer. As the estimate now stands, 35 per cent. only will fall upon the Colonial, and 65 per cent. upon the Imperial Exchequer, the sums being respectively £116,000 and £209,000. My Lords cannot but observe that in this case, as in that of Singapore, the estimates upon which the Treasury gave its assent to the principle of partition, have been absolutely misleading. The War Office proposed by their estimate to throw the larger part of the defensive works on the Colony in the proportion of three to two. In effect, this proportion has been more than reversed. My Lords do not presume to criticize the principle upon which the estimate was based; they are willing to believe that error was unavoidable, but it is unfortunate that the errors in such cases should be always against the British taxpayer. They may at least plead that, had they not been misled by these erroneous estimates, they would to the best of their power have insisted upon a more equitable basis of partition. But the War Office does not even carry out its own rule of division, for it proposes to charge upon the British taxpayer the cost of submarine mining (about £9,000) works, merely because the whole item of submarine mining had been omitted from the original estimate. It appears to my Lords neither logical nor equitable to punish the British taxpayer because the science of submarine mining was undeveloped at the time when the original estimate was framed.\n\n### Barracks\n\n10. It will be necessary to provide additional barracks at Hong Kong for double the existing garrison. The rough and preliminary estimate of cost is £212,000, apart...\n\nPage 180\nPage 181",
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"content_text": "## 8\n\nfrom the value of a new site estimated at 50,000, but Sir A. Haliburton's Committee say that this estimate may be exceeded.\n\nIt is proposed, as my Lords understand the proposal, that the Imperial Government shall sell land it now holds, valued at 140,000 to the Colony, that this money shall be applied towards the new barracks, reducing their net cost to 72,000, that the Imperial Government shall pay two-thirds of the charge, or 48,000, and that the Colonial Government shall pay the balance or 24,000, providing also the land for the new barracks, estimated at 50,000. The proposal therefore means that the Imperial Government should give up sites worth 140,000, and should spend 48,000 in cash; that the Colony should find a new site, costing 50,000, and should spend 24,000 in cash. The Committee do not say how they would provide for the excess which they anticipate upon the estimate.\n\n## Recommendations\n\n### 11\nSecretaries of State for the Colonies, in despatches to the Colonial Government, have admitted the probability of the garrison of Hong Kong being in part maintained for Imperial purposes, adding, however, that \"such purposes are closely connected with the prosperity of the Colony\" they have gone further, and said that \"the larger part of the garrison is maintained for Imperial purposes.\" Sir A. Haliburton's Committee take the latter of these two statements apparently as their guide, in forming an opinion upon the amount of the contribution to be asked from the Colony.\n\n### 12\nMy Lords must, however, demur to such an assumption. The Secretary of State for the Colonies is the advocate and representative of Colonial interests in the Imperial Councils, and my Lords cannot be bound by a statement to which they, as representing the British taxpayer, were not parties. It must not be held a financial instruction for all time, that the \"larger\" part of the garrison of Hong Kong is maintained for Imperial purposes. On the contrary, my Lords strongly hold that if they are to lay down a principle, it ought to be that, as the Imperial Government undertakes the naval defence of the Colony, the Colony itself should provide the larger part of the cost of its military defence.\n\n### 13\nSir A. Haliburton's Committee state that the revenues of the Colony would not admit of its bearing any large proportion of the cost of its garrison, and they point out that the revenue of 1888 was estimated at 266,000, while the cost of the future garrison will amount to 283,000. Taking as their starting point the arrangement made in 1865, under which the Colony contributed one-sixth of its revenue to military expenditure, and thereby defrayed one-fifth of the cost of its garrison, they show that one-fifth of the cost of the future garrison would be 56,000, or rather more than one-fifth of the estimated revenue for 1888. But though they do not think such a charge excessive in itself, they point to the expenditure which the Colony has incurred on defences, to the expenditure which it may incur on barracks, and on local Militia and Volunteers, and they suggest that one-fifth of the cost of the Regular garrison would, in these circumstances, press hardly on the Colony. They propose accordingly that the contribution should be fixed at 40,000 for five years from 1st January, 1889, and that at the commencement of 1893 the contribution should be reconsidered, with a view to its readjustment in 1894.\n\n## 19\nMy Lords have carefully weighed these recommendations, and they regret to come to the conclusion that the proposed settlement will not satisfy the just claim of Her Majesty's Government.\n\nThe fact that the Colony has in two or three past years contributed an inadequate sum to works of defence, is not a reason for relieving it of a fair contribution to the charge of its garrison in the future. Nor can my Lords admit the cost of barracks as a reason for relief. The provision of barracks is a temporary and extraordinary service, such as the Imperial Government has often to meet, and such as it meets, either by temporary increase of taxation, or by loan. The cost of local Militia and Volunteers may properly be included in military expenditure, but proposals for the enrolment of such corps, though often put forward, are seldom enforced; and my Lords would prefer to know that Militia and Volunteers actually exist, before they admit a prospective charge on their account. The plea for relief in consideration of other services performed, is therefore insufficient.\n\n## 20\nNor is the plea for consideration on the ground of incapacity, more sound. Hong Kong is a port with 7,000,000 tons of shipping in the year. It is the centre of financial business in that quarter of the globe. A recent Governor has dilated on its great and increasing prosperity, and has dwelt upon the fact that for a long time taxation had not been increased. The estimated population on the 31st December, 1887, was 213,000.* The numbers were increasing at the rate of 9,000 or 10,000 a year, \nand in 1889 the population probably exceeds 230,000. The Military Contribution, therefore, is now little more than half a dollar a head, and the increase of contribution now proposed, say 43,000, including Volunteers, would reach little more than a dollar a-head.\n\n*`Parliamentary Paper C. 5249, 1888`\n\n## 21\nComparison between the sums expended by different countries on certain services are always difficult, and my Lords only offer the following figures as approximate, and in illustration of their general argument. They believe that each inhabitant of the Netherlands contributes about 13s. 7d. to defence, each inhabitant of Belgium about 6s. 7d., each inhabitant of Portugal about 7s. 2d, each inhabitant of Sweden about 6s. 6d, each inhabitant of Greece about 10s. 3d., and each inhabitant of Switzerland about 5s. 1¼d. These are small States not armed for aggression, and they afford, therefore, a fair standard of comparison with Colonies. Again, Hong Kong contributes perhaps 9 per cent. of its revenue to defence, Holland contributes about 25 per cent., Belgium about 14½ per cent., Portugal 19 per cent., Sweden 32 per cent., Greece 24 per cent., Switzerland 34 per cent. of the national revenue, to defence. But if it is contended that these are European Powers, and therefore that the comparison is not fair, my Lords may cite the Dutch East Indies, in which the proportion is 27 per cent., or Japan, in which it is 43 per cent. If the increase proposed by the Committee were adopted, the contribution from Hong Kong would not probably exceed 18 per cent., and as the revenue steadily increases, the percentage at the close of four years will in all probability be less.\n\n## 22\nBut the percentage of revenue appropriated to defence, affords an imperfect test of the burden thereby imposed upon the community. It must also be ascertained whether the revenue raised is large in itself, and obtained by means of heavy taxation. The inhabitants of Hong Kong are exempted from Customs, and there is no income tax in the Colony. Taxation is confined, my Lords believe, to a moderate house tax, to light stamp duties producing from 20,000 to 30,000 a-year, and to a few license duties, the chief of which is levied upon opium. Further, the modest revenue of 266,000 includes local taxation.\n\n## 23\nMy Lords have shown, they think, that the contribution of Hong Kong towards its own defence is inadequate, by whatever standard it may be tested. The proportion of its revenue set aside for defensive purposes, is insignificant when compared with the like proportion set aside in States which do not maintain large armies and navies for aggressive objects. The increasing prosperity of the Colony is undoubted. contributes nothing to its naval defence. The charge for defence per head of the inhabitants is very small. The amount and incidence of taxation are, out of all comparison, light.\n\n## 24\nSir A. Haliburton's Committee state that the Colonial Office in 1863 imposed upon the Colony a Military Contribution equivalent to one-fifth of the cost of the garrison, and that it was in the contemplation of the Secretary of State, who then held office, to increase it. That intention has unfortunately remained unfulfilled for a quarter of a century, and the favourable terms thus enjoyed by the Colony during that period would in itself justify a considerable increase in the proportion which Hong Kong is henceforth to contribute to defence. It certainly is not a reason for a reduction of that proportion. Yet the Committee recommend a contribution not equal in proportion to that which the Colony paid in 1863, and their recommendation is not accompanied by a stipulation for a more equitable arrangement at the expiration of the five years. This would not be a satisfactory conclusion.\n\n## 25\nThe Empire is required to make considerable sacrifice in order to complete its defences, and as self-defence is the primary duty of every community, proper provision for that object should be one of the first charges on the revenue of each member of the Empire. The Imperial Government, in its anxiety to consult Colonial interests, has somewhat overlooked this first condition of society, and the precedent may not improbably be construed into a rule of policy that Colonial Governments are not to be asked for a proper contribution towards their own preservation. Sir A. Haliburton's Committee do not sufficiently recognise the fact that the Colony, like the mother country, must increase its taxation if existing revenues will not meet the due and proper charges of defence and government, and my Lords know no reason why the prosperous Colony of Hong Kong should be exempted in this respect from the ordinary lot of civilised communities.\n\n## 26\nMy Lords cannot therefore agree that the contribution of 40,000 a-year is sufficient, and they will therefore propose that the subject should be referred...\n\n*If military expenditure apart from works were about 270,000 dollars (43,000 at 3s. 2d. the dollar), this would mean about 18 per cent. of a revenue of 1,500,000 dollars.\n\nPage 138 \nD \n478",
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"content_text": "# I-Value of War Department property to be Sold.\n\n| | Estimate in Mr. Knox's letter | Sir L. Nichol-son's rough guess |\n|--------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------|\n| | £ | £ |\n| North Barracks, including West Married Quarters and Provost Prison | 65,975 | 140,000 |\n| Commissariat Buildings and Head-quarter Offices | 15,517 | 11,700 |\n| East Married Quarters: Front portion | | 19,500 |\n| Spring Gardens | 13,587 | Valuing dollar at 38. 3d. |\n| | | 126,229 |\n\nThey learn, however, that Mr. Secretary Stanhope is taking steps for obtaining another valuation from local experts.\n\nIt will be observed that the question of the cost of the new barracks is left over in this draft, and on this subject a further letter will shortly be [reference to previous letter].\n\n## CONTRIBUTION.\n\n### No. 14. Colonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street, 7th January, 1890.\n\nWith reference to the letter* from this department of the 17th October last, I am directed by Lord Knutsford to request you to lay before Mr. Secretary Stanhope the enclosed draft of a despatch† which his Lordship proposes, after obtaining the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, to address to the Governor of Hong Kong on the question of the Military Contribution of that Colony, together with copies of correspondence with the Treasury on the subject, as noted in the margin.‡\n\n* No. 8. Treasury, 5th December, 1889.\n† Enclosure 1 in No. 14, returned to Colonial Office with No. 16.\n‡ Colonial Office, 7th January, 1890.\n\nLord Knutsford would be much obliged if Mr. Stanhope would cause any details in this draft relating to matters in the knowledge of the War Office to be verified.\n\nROBERT G. W. HERBERT.\n\n# II-Cost of Accommodation to be provided, exclusive of Sites.\n\n| | Estimate in Mr. Knox's letter | Sir L. Nichol-son's rough guess |\n|--------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------|\n| | £ | £ |\n| In replacement of North Barracks, &c. | 26,874 | 50,000 |\n| Commissariat Buildings, &c. | 14,300 | |\n| East Married Quarters | 4,713 | |\n| Spring Gardens | 4,738 | 50,600 |\n| Additional Accommodation for increase of garrison | | 212,000 |\n| | | 262,000 |\n\nNo trustworthy estimate can yet be given of the cost of additional accommodation, but estimates for parts of the scheme may be expected in a few months.\n\nPending the arrival of the fresh valuation, and of the further estimates of cost, my Lords suspend their approval of the scheme.\n\nThey are glad to learn that the Colony will be called upon to provide the new sites required, out of Crown lands, so far as possible. When purchases are inevitable, the cost should be treated as divisible between the Mother Country and the Colony in the same proportions as the net cost of erecting the buildings.\n\nMy Lords note that the estimates include the cost of all fixed barrack furniture.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\n### Enclosure 2 in No. 14. Treasury to Colonial Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers, 5th December, 1889.\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State, that they have considered Mr. Bramston's letter of the 17th October on the Military Contribution to be paid by the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Secretary of State demurs to my Lords' proposal, that the contribution of £40,000 a-year should be fixed for two years. He refers to the letter from this Board, on the subject of Singapore, in which my Lords named three or four years as the period which the two Secretaries of State and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had fixed in conference, and in fulfilment of this agreement, Lord Knutsford proposes to fix the said contribution for five years. The Secretary of State therefore departs from the agreement as much in one direction as my Lords departed from it in the other direction. It must, however, be recollected that, at the time when the letter of the 10th August respecting Singapore was written, the Chancellor of the Exchequer had not agreed with the Secretary of State to ask Her Majesty's advisers to refer the question of these contributions to a Cabinet Committee. It is obvious that the opinion of such a committee, if accepted by the Cabinet, would supersede an agreement made by the three ministers above named, and it would be desirable that duration should only be given to that agreement for such a period as would be required in order to give full effect to the decision of the Cabinet.\n\nMy Lords, however, are anxious that there should not be any difference between the Secretary of State and this Board upon minor points, and they are ready to make the concession of naming three years, instead of two, as the period for which the contribution of £40,000 will be binding.\n\n2. It is true that my Lords were satisfied with the description of the Committee of 1861 given by the Colonial Office itself. It is probable, from reference to `Hansard`, that Sir F. Rogers based his description of the Committee upon the proposals put forward...",
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"content_text": "## No. 14.\n\n22 \n\nby Mr. Mills, who moved for the Committee in the House of Commons, and who justified his proposals upon the plea of economy.\n\n3. My Lords will not follow the Secretary of State through his reasons for exempting the Colonial at the expense of the Imperial taxpayer. They expressed, in their letter of the 10th August, their view of the duties and obligations of subjects of the Empire, in whatever part of the Empire such subjects may have fixed their residence, and they must abide by the opinion thus expressed.\n\n4. They are, however, anxious on all occasions to give the inhabitants of distant parts of the Empire full credit for works which contribute towards military defence, and presuming that it is in the power of the Secretary of State to show that the waterworks, mentioned in the 13th paragraph of the letter under reply, represent a substantial money value acknowledged by the War Office and the Admiralty, my Lords are prepared to balance that item against the charge for submarine defence works.\n\n23 \n\nthat the Secretary of State for War feels bound to represent that it is absolutely essential that the work be commenced at once.\n\nThe character of the scheme for Hong Kong is such that it will necessarily take a long time to carry out, because a certain amount of accommodation must be provided before the property can be sold, the sale of which is to supply funds for a great part of the remainder of the scheme, which, as is clear from the above considerations, cannot be carried out at one and the same time.\n\nMr. Secretary Stanhope has accordingly, in anticipation of their Lordships' covering sanction, ordered contracts to be entered into for the following works, viz. :-\n\n| Approximate cost | £ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Barrack for battery, Royal Artillery, at Lymoon | 30,000 |\n| Married Quarters in Victoria | 10,000 |\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 14.\n\n**FRANK MOWATT.**\n\nColonial Office to Treasury.\n\nDowning Street,\n\nUnder the circumstances represented, Mr. Secretary Stanhope ventures to hope that their Lordships will not withhold any longer their sanction for the expenditure involved, which is covered by the amount of £350,000 included in the Imperial Defence Loan.\n\n**R. H. KNOX.**\n\nHong Kong\n\n2 \n\n4307 \n\nSir,\n\n7th January, 1890.\n\nIn reply to your letter, `16519` of the 5th ultimo, regarding the Military Contribution to be paid by the Colony of Hong Kong, I am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, the draft of a despatch which, with their Lordships' concurrence, he proposes to address to the Governor on the subject, and I am to ask that the figures given in the draft may be verified in their Lordships' department.\n\n2. In this draft despatch their Lordships will see that Lord Knutsford accepts the proposal that the new contribution should be fixed for three years only, which he understands to be the years 1890-92.\n\n3. As regards the last paragraph of your letter under acknowledgment, I am to request you to inform their Lordships that the new waterworks at Hong Kong have already cost the Colony over 1,100,000 dollars, that the statement regarding these works, in paragraph 13 of the letter from this department of 17th October last, was the result of personal communication with the late Surveyor-General, who had recently arrived in England on his retirement from office, and that if their Lordships wish, further enquiry will be made of the Governor on the subject; but the same paragraph of the letter of 17th October shows that there are various grounds on which the Colonial Government might resist the claim to repay 9,000 spent several years ago without consultation with them, and in the meantime the demand for the annual contribution would be delayed, and the Colonial Government might raise counter-claims, which would cause further delay, and possibly might allege that the Colony ought to receive substantial compensation for the benefit given by the waterworks to Her Majesty's forces beyond the abandonment of a claim for 9,000, which, on the face of it, they might urge to be disputable.\n\n**R. G. W. HERBERT.**\n\n## No. 15.\n\nWar Office to Treasury.\n\nWar Office,\n\nSir,\n\n8th January, 1890. `17774` 89\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 13th ultimo, I am directed to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, that, for military reasons, the question of providing accommodation for the proposed increase to the garrison of Hong Kong is so urgent, \n\n## No. 16.\n\nCONTRIBUTION.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office, Sir,\n\n15th January, 1890.\n\nIn reply to your letter* of the 7th instant covering a draft of the despatch which Lord Knutsford proposes to address to the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the Military Contribution to be paid by that Colony during the three years, commencing on the 1st January, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to return the draft with suggested verbal alterations in paragraphs 2, 6, and 16, and in the Appendix.\n\nThe alteration in the Appendix from \"Infantry of the Line, two battalions\" to \"Infantry, two battalions\" is suggested, because it is proposed that one of the Infantry battalions shall be raised in India, and technically will not therefore be a \"battalion of the Line.\" In order to avoid any possible misunderstanding hereafter with the Colony, should the garrison at any time temporarily fall below the total strength indicated in the Appendix, from other causes than \"variations of reliefs and similar matters,\" Mr. Stanhope would suggest the omission of paragraph 8. Under that paragraph the Colony, which is only asked to bear one-seventh part of the estimated cost of the garrison, might claim to have its contribution reduced if the force, for other reasons than those above mentioned, fall below the full strength given in the Appendix, a claim which could not be admitted unless the garrison were so reduced as to bring the total cost below the Contribution demanded from the Colony; a contingency which in this case is of such improbable occurrence that any special provision against it seems unnecessary.\n\nA paragraph to the same effect is contained in Lord Knutsford's despatch to the Governor of the Straits Settlements, and at the time escaped the attention of the Secretary of State for War. In that case also it is very improbable that the garrison will ever fall below the numbers covered by the Contribution to be paid by that Colony; but should unforeseen circumstances give rise to such a reduction in any Colony paying a Contribution, a rebate would be granted in the same manner as was provided for in the 1865 Agreement with Ceylon, which at that time undertook to bear the full cost of its garrison.\n\n**RALPH THOMPSON.**\n\n* `No. 14`",
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"content_text": "# CONTRIBUTION AND LANDS.\n\nSir,\n\nT. No 398 90 No. 17.* \n\n## Treasury to Colonial Office\n\nTreasury Chambers, 17th January, 1890\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter† of the 7th instant, enclosing a draft of the despatch which Lord Knutsford proposes to address to the Governor of Hong Kong respecting the Military Contribution of that Colony.\n\nI am to say that my Lords concur generally in the terms of the draft despatch, but they would ask that the following words should be added to paragraph 3, viz.:— \n\n\"It will be observed that, in accordance with the original division of charge, the Colony ought to repay the 9,017l. spent on submarine mining buildings.\"\n\nMy Lords approve of the omission of paragraph 8 as to the maintenance of the strength of the garrison, which they understand has been objected to by the War Department.\n\nThey think the population of the Colony should not be put at less than 215,000, and that the calculations of charge per head should be altered accordingly.\n\nI am to request that one dozen copies of the despatch, as finally settled, may be sent to this department.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\nof its cost; matters to which Her Majesty's Government have given most anxious and careful consideration.\n\n2. You are aware that in 1884 it was arranged that the Colony should construct the works, and that the Imperial Government should provide the armament of the proposed defences. The cost was then estimated as follows:-\n\n| Category | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Works | £55,625 |\n| Armament | £37,500 |\n\nthe incidence being 60 per cent to Colonial, and 40 per cent, to Imperial, revenues.\n\n3. This estimate was subsequently increased to-\n\n| Category | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Works | £110,000 |\n| Armament | £153,910 |\n\nwithout including the submarine mining defences, which are estimated to cost---\n\n| Category | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Works | £9,017 |\n| Submarine mining vessels and stores | £46,500 |\n\nso that the total cost of the defences, and the division of that cost, will be as follows:-\n\n| Category | Colonial | Imperial | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Construction of works-fortifications | £116,000 | | £116,000 |\n| Armaments | | £153,910 | £153,910 |\n| Submarine mining buildings, &c. vessels and stores.. | | £9,017 £46,500 | £55,517 |\n| Total | £116,000 | £209,427 | £325,427 |\n\n## No. 18.\n\n### Colonial Office to War Office\n\nDowning Street, 24th January, 1890\n\n40248\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to forward, for the information of Mr. Secretary Stanhope, copies of the despatch which has been addressed to the Governor of Hong Kong regarding the future Military Contribution of that Colony.\n\nOn receipt of your letter under acknowledgment, the terms of this despatch were finally settled in consultation with the Treasury. Mr. Stanhope will perceive that all the alterations proposed by him have been adopted, but it must not be understood that Lord Knutsford has expressed any concurrence in the reasons assigned in your letter for omitting paragraph 8 of the draft despatch.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 18, Colonial Office to Governor of Hong Kong\n\nDowning Street, 20th January, 1890\n\nReferring to previous correspondence respecting the fortifications recently erected at Hong Kong and their armament, I have now the honour to address you on the subject of the additional garrison required by those fortifications, and on the incidence of its cost; matters to which Her Majesty's Government have given most anxious and careful consideration.\n\n2. You are aware that in 1884 it was arranged that the Colony should construct the works, and that the Imperial Government should provide the armament of the proposed defences. The cost was then estimated as follows:-\n\n| Category | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Works | £55,625 |\n| Armament | £37,500 |\n\nthe incidence being 60 per cent to Colonial, and 40 per cent, to Imperial, revenues.\n\n3. This estimate was subsequently increased to-\n\n| Category | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Works.. | £110,000 |\n| Armament | £153,910 |\n\nwithout including the submarine mining defences, which are estimated to cost---\n\n| Category | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Works.. | £9,017 |\n| Submarine mining vessels and stores | £46,500 |\n\nso that the total cost of the defences, and the division of that cost, will be as follows:-\n\nThe incidence being 36 per cent. to Colonial and 64 per cent. to Imperial revenues, as against 60 per cent. to Colonial and 40 per cent. to Imperial revenues contemplated in 1884. It will be observed that in accordance with the original division of charge, the Colony ought to repay the 9,017l. spent on submarine mining buildings.\n\n4. Since 1865, Hong Kong has paid a Military Contribution of 20,000l. a-year in aid of the cost of its garrison; and, if you refer to paragraph 14 of the Colonial Office letter of the 25th of April, 1863, to Sir Hercules Robinson, who was then in England, you will see that it was then intended that the amount of 20,000l. was to be subject to any revision which the altered circumstances of the Colony may require.\" It will also be seen from paragraph 15 of the same letter, and paragraph 12 of the Duke of Newcastle's despatch, No. 115, of the 5th of September, 1863, that Her Majesty's Government, in fixing the amount at 20,000l. were desirous \"not to press too heavily at first on the Colonial revenues, and thus possibly to retard works of public utility.\" Sir Hercules Robinson, in replying on the 21st of May, 1863, to the letter of the 25th April, interpreted (paragraph 21) this expression to mean that the contribution was to be raised to a higher rate on a future occasion.\"\n\n5. The garrison in 1863-64 was estimated at 1,000 of all ranks, and its annual cost at 100,000l. In 1888, the garrison numbered 1,445 of all ranks (exclusive of Volunteers), and its cost has risen to about 160,000l. a-year, while the Colonial Contribution has remained at 20,000l.\n\n6. The future garrison, including local regulars, but excluding Militia and Volunteers, will be approximately as follows:-\n\n* Imperial troops, 2,525 of all ranks.\n* Local regulars, 493\n\nThe details are given in the Table A annexed to this despatch.\n\n7. The cost of this garrison will be about 280,000l. a-year, and will consequently be nearly three times as great as was the expense of the garrison in 1863, when the Colonial Contribution was fixed. Her Majesty's Government, however, do not propose that the contribution should now be increased in the same proportion, and will only call upon the Colony to provide 40,000l. a-year for each of the three years 1890-91-92, the Colony bearing in addition the cost of any Militia and Volunteers which it may raise, and the ... \n\n† `Enclosure 3 in No. 14.` \n‡ `No. 16.`",
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"content_text": "## 26\n\ncontribution to be paid after 1892 being subject to reconsideration during these three years,\n\n8. You will remember that Lord Derby's despatch, No. 213, of the 17th of September, 1884, enclosed with other correspondence a letter from the War Office of the 9th of September, which stated that \"Lord Hartington considers that it should also be intimated to the Governor that the present arrangement as to incidence of charge only applies to the works now to be constructed and armed, and that the Military Contribution paid by the Colony will have to be reconsidered with reference to the increased garrison which may become necessary in consequence of these works, and the general defence of the Colony.\" And, in now informing you of the amount which Her Majesty's Government demand from the Colony as its contribution to the increased garrison, I desire to draw your attention to the following considerations, which have weighed before that amount was determined,\n\nduly\n\n9. Hong Kong is the centre of great commercial activity, and the mercantile prosperity of the port continually increases in a very remarkable degree, as is evidenced by the following figures extracted from the Blue Books:—\n\n| Shipping | Ships | Tonnage |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Entered 1863 | 1,822 | 894,924 |\n| Cleared 1863 | 1,835 | 911,957 |\n| Entered 1868 | 2,750 | 2,501,815 |\n| Cleared 1868 | 2,709 | 2,473,887 |\n| Entered 1878 | 2,879 | 4,552,668 |\n| Cleared 1878 | 2,887 | 4,340,419 |\n| Entered 1888 | 2,779 | 6,400,410 |\n| Cleared 1888 | 2,736 | 6,309,974 |\n\n10. During the same period, the increase of the public revenue has, similarly, been very marked. The figures have been—\n\n| Year | Revenue |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1863 | 576,375 |\n| 1868 | 734,106 (including fees on gambling houses, since abolished) |\n| 1878 | 947,637 |\n| 1888 | 1,557,300 |\n\nIn other words, the public revenue has nearly trebled itself in 25 years, while the shipping visiting the port has multiplied seven-fold.\n\nThe population, which was shown by the census of 1881 to be 160,402, is now estimated at not less than 215,000.\n\n11. It is evident that the prosperity, I may almost say the existence, of the Colony and the welfare of this large population, depend upon the continuance and security of its trade with other places. If the trade is secure, the prosperity may be expected to continue and increase, and the first instincts of self-interest would lead the community to make every effort to protect and defend their trade.\n\n12. The present defences of Hong Kong, with their powerful armament, will suffice, in the opinion of Her Majesty's professional advisers, to afford the necessary protection against any attack likely to be made upon it; but I need scarcely remind you that another and more powerful safeguard is provided by the ships of Her Majesty's Navy, whose duty it would be to prevent any hostile force from approaching the place, and in whose absence alone would any attack upon it become possible. The combination of the two forms of defence will, it may be hoped, effectually secure the safety of the trade of the Colony, and of the population which lives and thrives upon it.\n\n13. I frankly recognize that the merchants of the Colony have always been ready to acknowledge the value of the Navy to them. At the same time the changed conditions of warfare, and the sudden and rapid nature of the opening operations, have made it necessary for Hong Kong, like other important Colonial ports, to be always ready to repel an attack in case of the absence of the fleet, and to have its garrison permanently at full strength, and not dependent upon the doubtful possibility of receiving reinforcements on the outbreak of war.\n\n## 27\n\n14. It will doubtless be urged, as has been urged before, that the defence of Colonial ports is a matter of Imperial concern, and that the maintenance of their garrisons should be mainly borne by the taxpayers of the United Kingdom. Her Majesty's Government, have, however, never admitted, and cannot now admit, this plea. Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and if the capture of Hong Kong would be a serious blow to the Empire, the capture would mean ruin to many inhabitants of the Colony, and serious loss and hardship to all. Hong Kong, in common with every other British possession, is directly benefited by its connection with the rest of the Empire, and, while enjoying the benefits, cannot escape from the responsibilities entailed by that connection. The larger dependencies, such as the Australian Colonies, accept their responsibilities without demur, and not only provide the whole of their land defence, but contribute to the cost of the Navy in order to strengthen the squadron, and obtain more complete protection for their shipping and floating trade.\n\n15. The estimated cost of the Navy to the Imperial Exchequer is, as you will see from the Statesman's Year Book (page 247), over £13,000,000 for the year 1888-89, and as the population of the United Kingdom (page 255) is more than 37,000,000, these figures show that the mother country contributes 7s. per head of its population to the naval defence of the Empire, and it might reasonably expect its dependencies to make provision for their own defence to an equal amount. Questions of jurisdiction beyond the 3-mile limit, of the flag, and of discipline, stand in the way of Colonial warships, so that the Navy will always be that of the mother country, and in dealing with the great question of the defence of the Empire it is difficult to lay down any other broad principle for dividing the cost of Colonial defence, except that of the mother country undertaking the sea defence of the Colonies by means of her Navy, and of the Colonies, so far as their means allow, respectively providing for their own land defence. But even this principle admits of extension, as, for instance, when a Colony agrees to contribute, as most of the Australian Colonies now do, to the cost of additional ships to be employed in local waters for the protection of the floating trade within those waters.\n\n16. In some cases, as I need scarcely inform you, the poverty of the Colony renders any realisation of the general principle laid down in the preceding paragraph practically unattainable; in others, the contribution, though substantial, falls short of the full cost owing to the inability of the Colony to provide more; and in both cases, the difference is borne by the heavily-taxed mother country. The Army Estimates (page 245 of the Year Book) are considerably over £16,000,000, or more than 8s. 9d. per head of the population. And this, added to the naval charges, makes a payment by the mother country of 15s. 9d. per head per annum for the defence of the Empire in 1888-89. But I am informed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that the corresponding payment for the current year may be estimated at 16s. 5d. per head. These are the net amounts, after allowing for contributions received from India and the Colonies, but are exclusive of a very large expenditure chargeable to special defence loans.\n\n17. If these payments are contrasted with the contribution asked from the Colony under your Government, you will see that £40,000 a-year is not only a very much smaller charge per head of the population, but, as I shall proceed to show, its payment is well within the ability of the flourishing Colony of Hong Kong. There are other objects on which the money might usefully be spent, but self-protection is the first duty of a community, to which other matters should be postponed, and it is hardly necessary to point out that, unless that is secured, very much of the other outlay may prove to have been undertaken in vain.\n\n18. The revenue for 1888 amounted to $1,557,300, and £40,000 (the contribution proposed for the next three years) taken only at 3s. a dollar amounts to about 17 per cent of the revenue, and to about 1.24 dollars (say 3s. 9d.) per head of the population of the Colony, the whole of which is vitally interested in the security of the port. It cannot be said that such a payment is excessive, either as a charge upon the people who throng to Hong Kong to seek the protection to life and property afforded by the British flag, or in its proportion to the total public revenue of the Colony, or by comparison with the expenditure on similar purposes in the United Kingdom.\n\n19. I will only further point out in reference to the annual payments, what doubtless you will not have failed to notice, that the £40,000 which the Colony will pay in each of the next three years, is only one-seventh of the cost of the garrison, while the remaining six-sevenths, £240,000, will still be borne by the mother country.\n\n## 187\n\n20. A separate correspondence is proceeding with respect to the details of the additional barracks which will be required for the increased garrison, and I do not propose to touch upon these details; but I will state the reasons which influenced Her...",
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"content_text": "## 28\n\nMajesty's Government in determining that a portion of the cost of their construction should be borne by the Colony.\n\n21. Four different heads of expenditure were required in 1884-85 for putting the Colony in a proper state of defence, viz.:--\n\n1. Forts.\n2. Armaments.\n3. Submarine defences.\n4. Barracks for additional troops.\n\nIt was determined in the special agreement of that year, that the Colony should provide the works, and the Imperial Government the armaments, the estimated expenditure being-\n\n| Works | Armaments |\n| --- | --- |\n| £55,625 | £37,500 |\n\n22. This estimate, as I have stated above, has, however, grown into an expenditure of £325,427, of which £209,427, or nearly two-thirds, will have been borne by the Imperial Exchequer, and if Her Majesty's Government now call upon the Colony to make a fair contribution towards the new barracks, it cannot complain of unfair treatment, especially as the additional barracks are in fact a necessary part of the defences.\n\n23. It must be added that if, in the course of the three years, necessity for any new defence works should arise, their cost would form the subject of a separate agreement, and that it is not to be understood that the whole charge of them would be borne by the Imperial Exchequer.\n\n24. In the confident hope that the present arrangement, which they consider equitable and reasonable, will be readily accepted by the Colony, Her Majesty's Government request that you will lose no time in laying this despatch before the Legislative Council, and in pressing forward the necessary votes by all the means in your power.\n\n## APPENDIX A.\n\n## KNUTSFORD.\n\n## LANDS.\n\nSir,\n\n29\n\nNo. 19.\n\nTreasury to War Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n25th January, 1890.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them Mr. Knox's letter* of the 8th instant `T. No. 4307` respecting certain new barracks at Hong Kong. They regret that Mr. Secretary Stanhope has ordered the commencement of these works, in anticipation of Treasury sanction, especially as it is impossible for them to give this sanction without further information.\n\nOn comparing the estimate now submitted with that embodied in Mr. Knox's letter† of the 9th January, 1889 (`599`), my Lords find the following discrepancies:-\n\n| Estimate of January, 1889 | Estimate of January, 1890 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Barrack for half battery, Stonecutters Island, and half battery, Lymoon | Barrack for half battalion at Lymoon |\n| £10,000 | £10,000 |\n| | Married quarters, viz.:- 42 at £450 each (say) £30,000 (Married quarters in Victoria) £15,000 |\n\nHow is it that the estimate for half a battery now is as much as that for a whole battery a year ago?\n\nWhy has the estimate for married quarters doubled?\n\nHow will the increase on these two items affect the total estimate of £50,600 given in Mr. Knox's letter of the 9th January, 1889?\n\n## PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GARRISON OF HONG KONG.*\n\n| | Officers | Warrant Officers and Serjeants | Rank and File, Drummers, &c. | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Royal Artillery, 2 batteries | 10 | 32 | 242 | |\n| Staff, &c. | 7 | .. | .. | |\n| Royal Engineers, Officers and Staff | 2 | 7 | 5 | |\n| Fortress Company | \" | \" | \" | |\n| Eastern Battalion | \" | \" | \" | |\n| Infantry, 2 battalions | 12 | 21 | 1,372 | |\n| General Staff | 2 | .. | .. | |\n| Ordnance Artificers | 1 | 1 | 10 | |\n| Gymnastic Instructor | 1 | .. | .. | |\n| Army Schoolmaster | .. | .. | 2 | |\n| Medical Staff and Corps | 16 | 2 | 87 | |\n| Pay Department | 6 | .. | 98 | |\n| Commissariat and Transport Staff and Corps | 10 | 5 | 54 | |\n| Ordnance Store Department and Corps | 2 | 2 | 62 | |\n| | | | | |\n| Europeans | | | | 2,525 |\n| Natives | | | | |\n| ‡ Local Artillery | 8 | 20 | 412 | 440 |\n| Engineers, Submarine Miners | 3 | 4 | 46 | 53 |\n| Total | 125 | 189 | 2,710 | 3,018 |\n\n* Exclusive of 200 Volunteers and 150 Militia Engineers.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\n## No. 20.\n\nWar Office to Treasury.\n\nWar Office,\n6th February, 1890.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 25th ultimo (No. 550), respecting the provision of barrack accommodation for the increased garrison of Hong Kong, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to furnish, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the following explanation in regard to the points raised by their Lordships:-\n\nAs regards the cost of the barracks for half a battery of Artillery at Lymoon, I am to observe that the estimate first given was based upon an approximate estimate supplied from Hong Kong, which was made before plans had been drawn.\n\nA more accurate estimate has now been received.\n\nIt should, however, be remembered, that the Colony of Hong Kong is in a flourishing condition, and that prices have risen since the date of the original estimate.\n\nAs regards the cost of the married quarters at Victoria, I am to point out that the number of quarters proposed to be provided for £15,000, were only 42, which were to take the place of the quarters vacated when the properties proposed for sale were disposed of.\n\n* No. 15.\n† No. 5. `4321`",
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"content_text": "# The Mercantile Marine Service Association\n\n## Hong Kong Telegraph 19/11/90\n\n### A National Disgrace!\n\n#### THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION. AN APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT.\n\nHis Excellency the Acting Governor received a deputation from the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association at Government House yesterday. The deputation, which was received in the first instance by Lieut. Thorburn, A.D.C., and subsequently introduced to His Excellency by the Hon. Secretary, consisted of Captain S. Ashton, Mr. J. W. James, Mr. Chesney Duncan (Hon. Secretary), Messrs. J. W. Gale, N.A. (President), Mr. Pearce, W. Winch (officers), and James Edwards (Hon. Treasurer).\n\nThe Mercantile Marine Service Association was incorporated by Special Act of Parliament for conserving the interests of the British Merchant Service, promoting the general improvement of nautical men by education, wholesome laws, obtaining redress of wrongs, procuring employment, and caring for the helpless and aged.\n\nCaptain Ashton said that the deputation felt most deeply grateful to His Excellency for granting them an interview. They sought to address the strong feeling amongst British officers that there should be a cessation of labour on board ships in this port on Sundays. Having studied Lord Knutsford's speech on the subject, made in the House of Lords on the 25th of July last, the Association came to the conclusion that the best way of causing much-needed legislation on the subject was to move the Chamber of Commerce to recommend Government to introduce a Bill which would cause the cessation of unnecessary Sunday labour.\n\n| **Position** | **Name** |\n| --- | --- |\n| President | J. W. Gale, N.A. |\n| Hon. Secretary | Chesney Duncan |\n| Hon. Treasurer | James Edwards |\n\nThe Association discussed the question at length with the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce at a public conference held at the City Hall on the 7th ultimo. Full reports of the arguments occasioned, together with the Chamber's written decision, dated the 31st of October, had doubtless come within His Excellency's cognizance.\n\nCaptain Ashton continuing said, \"We are very glad to think that His Excellency has taken notice of the movement which, we submit, is a righteous and justifiable movement, and a protest against moral slavery.\" He contended that the reply of the Chamber was unjustifiable in the circumstances and was an insult to officers. The Chamber's proposition was impracticable in the extreme and amounted to a modus vivendi.\n\nThe Chamber wrote, \"The Committee are of opinion that the Government could not legislate for the complete suppression of Sunday labour in this harbour, as the questions involved are very serious and would affect injuriously all the shipping interests of the Colony, and particularly the large Chinese population connected therewith.\" Captain Ashton argued that the Government could legislate for the suppression of Sunday labour without injuriously affecting the shipping interests or the Chinese population.\n\nHis Excellency, in reply, said he was very glad to receive the deputation and to hear their views on a question which was admittedly one of much importance. He believed it was admitted on all sides that it would be desirable to diminish Sunday labour if such could possibly be done. The question then arose whether it should be interfered with, and if so, by what means such interference should be brought about.\n\nThere were only two ways by which this could be done: one being by having recourse to compulsory legislation, and the other by the voluntary co-operation of those concerned in the shipping interests of the colony. His Excellency admitted that he did not altogether agree with all the arguments brought forward as proof that it was impossible to diminish Sunday labour in the colony.\n\n### Honorary Members\n\n* ADMIRAL HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., K.T., G.C.B.\n* LORD CLAUD J. HAMILTON\n* LORD BRASSEY, K.C.B.\n* HON. W. A. CROSS, M.P.\n* M. W. MATTINSON, ESQ., M.P.\n* CAPTAIN SIR JAMES ANDERSON\n* SIR E. BATES, BART., M.P.\n* PROFESSOR SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, LL.D., F.R.S.\n* WM. RATURONR, ESQ., M.P.\n* DAVID MACIVER, ESQ.\n* EDWARD WHITLEY, ESQ., M.P.\n* SAMUEL SMITH, ESQ., M.P.\n* RALPH NEVILLE, ESQ., Q.C., M.P.\n* T.B. ROYDEŃ, ESQ., M.P.\n* BARON H. DE WORMS, M.P.\n* W. F. LAWRENCE, ESQ., M.P.\n* SIR G. BADEN-POWELL, ESQ., M.P.\n* T. P. O'CONNOR, ESQ., M.P.\n* RALPH BROCKLEBANK, ESQ.\n* JAMES BEAZLEY, ESQ., J.P.\n* J. J. MAY, ESQ., J.P.\n\n### Honorary Council\n\n* African Steam Ship Company\n* Aspinal, J, Son & Brooke\n* Balfour, Williamson & Co.\n* Baring Brothers\n* Batea, Stokes & Co.\n* Bibby, James J., Esq.\n* Brocklebank, Sir Thomas\n* Brocklebank, Ralph, Jun., Esq.\n* Bushell Bros. & Co.\n* Cearns & Brown\n* Cary, John, Esq., J.P.\n* Cory, Alderman J., Cardiff\n* Coteaworth, Ingue & Co.\n* Cross, J. T., Esq.\n* Dixon, W. H., Esq.\n* Dixon, W. T., & Sons\n* Eusington & Co.\n* Farnworth and Jardine\n* Gibbs, Bright & Co.\n* Graham, Rows & Co.\n* Gruning & Co.\n\n### Executive Council\n\n* Captain T. VINCENT, President\n* CLARKE ASPINALL, ESQ., Treasurer\n* Littledale, T. & J., & Co.\n* Lyon, Comper & Co.\n* Lockett, John, Esq.\n* Mackie & Sons\n* Melones, John, Esq.\n* Maciver, Charles, Esq.\n* Maciver, Henry, Esq.\n* Morland, Sir Henry, Bombay\n* Moss, Charles, & Co.\n* Myers, W. J. Sons, & Co.\n* Muck, W. D., Esq.\n* National Steam Ship Co., Ltd.\n* Nixon & Thew\n* Nickels, J. T., & Co.\n* North, Colonel J. T.\n\n### Council Members (To serve Three Years)\n\n| **Name** | **Position** |\n| --- | --- |\n| Brooks, Capt. | Captain |\n| Burton, G., Capt. | Captain |\n| Campbell, H., Capt. | Captain |\n| Clarke, Janno, Capt. | Captain |\n| Gales, James, Capt. | Captain |\n| Hill, William, Capt. | Captain |\n| Hamil, Martin f., Capt. | Captain |\n| Hatfield, B., Capt. | Captain |\n| Hayes, H. W., Capt. | Captain |\n| Killy, C. J., Capt. | Captain |\n| Lewis, A. W., Capt. | Captain |\n| Murray, G. S., Capt. | Captain |\n| McBay, Horatio, Capt. | Captain |\n| Nowell, S., Capt. | Captain |\n| Ritchie, Joseph, Capt. | Captain |\n| Royden, T. B., Esq., M.P. | |\n| Suumier, Janges, Capt. | Captain |\n| Watt, H. F., Capt. | Captain |\n| Webster, J. K., Capt. | Captain |\n| Williamson, John, Esq. | |\n\nPage 363\n\nC. O. \n2340\nRECE(REG 2 FEB 91)",
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"content_text": "## \nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.\n\n8485/92\n\n**TREASURY CHAMBERS**,\nC.O. 220\n22 May 1892.\n\n10522\nPE 25 MAY 92\n137\nRef. 127/198\nla K\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, on the subject of the Military Lands and Buildings at Hongkong, and to say for the information of Lord Knutsford, that the consideration of the scheme is being kept over till the three Departments concerned have communicated their views to this Board.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nColonial Office.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,",
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"content_text": "# \nSo far as is known to the Colonial Office, no expenditure from military funds is devoted to the reserves.\n\n21. It is admitted by the General in command that neither the Lotus Pond, the Racket Court Garden, nor the reclaimed land is occupied or required for any military purpose, but the military authorities refuse to admit the claim of the Colonial Government unless they consent to purchase at a cost of several thousand pounds a private house on which it is proposed to build barracks, and give up a building which is imperatively needed by the Colony as offices for the engineers of the breakwater, for whose duties no other place would be equally effective. This military demand is the more remarkable seeing that at the same time the Military Officers are applying to the Colony for a tract of land in the hills, containing about 1,000 acres, to be used as a hill station.\n\n22. The Colonial Government assert that none of these reserves are military properties within the meaning of the memorandum attached to the circular despatch of 9th June 1890, and they contend that if the possibility of any such financial bargain as is set out in the memorandum had been contemplated when the reserves were created, the area would have been fixed with greater certainty, and with more restricted liberality. As regards the price demanded by the military for waiving their claim to the Lotus Pond, Racket Court Garden, and reclaimed land, and as negativing the idea of any absolute alienation of the reserves, the Colonial Government appeal to a despatch from the Duke of Newcastle, No. 13 of the 28th January 1862. That despatch quoted a passage from a letter from the War Office, dated the 18th October 1858, in which expression was given to \"Major-General Peel's fear that the Colonial Government must in a great degree continue to feel the restrictions which are inseparable from the existence of fortifications,\" \"whenever it might be possible to relax these restrictions without material injury to the defences, Major-General Peel would be quite prepared to entertain any proposal for such relaxation.\" The Duke of Newcastle then went on to say that he apprehended \"that this passage expressed the principles on which questions of this kind are still to be dealt with,\" and that \"he understands that the Ceylon reserves are not held by the military authorities with a view to profit, but remain under certain restrictions interfering with their use by the Colonial Government, only because their absolute occupation by the Government would be inconvenient in a military point of view, and that such restrictions will be relaxed if the reserves should ever prove unnecessary for military purposes.\"\n\n## \n$ \n\n23. The War Office do not admit this principle, contending that under the circular despatch of June 9, 1890, they are entitled to receive the full market value of any part of the reserves which the Colony wish to have, although it is admittedly unnecessary for military purposes.\n\n24. It will therefore be necessary to ask the Law Officers whether in their opinion these reserves at Colombo are military properties within the meaning of the circular despatch. The same question should be asked about the Hong Kong lands, and if the answer is in the affirmative, the further questions above referred to must also be put.\n\nColonial Office, \n21 September 1892.\n\n## APPENDIX I.\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.\n\nJ. B.\n\nSIR,\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 4th instant, I am directed by Lord Knutsford to state that his Lordship has again considered the Memorandum which was enclosed in his circular to the Colonies, and regrets that he is unable to deduce from it the conclusions which are drawn in your letter from the 4th paragraph of the Memorandum. He reads that Memorandum as an agreement that the Colonies shall pay immediately, or record for prospective payment, the value of any property surrendered to the Colony by the military authorities; but he does not find that it is agreed that the Colonies, as contended by the War Office, shall pay or record the value of their own interest in the land. It is, however, agreed that when a Colony does not wish to retain possession of the land for civil purposes, the same shall be sold and the proceeds dealt with in the same manner as if the Colony had retained the land; a condition which would be satisfied by the Colony paying or recording such an amount as would represent the military share of the proceeds, while applying its own share to the civil purposes of the Colonial Government.\n\n2. I am directed to point out that the proper interpretation of the language of the Memorandum is strictly a legal question, and it was for this reason that Lord Knutsford had proposed to submit the case to the Lord Chancellor, who as a prominent member of the Home Government would, after deciding the legal effect of the agreement, have been able to recommend to the two Departments the best method of carrying it into effect. His opinion would have been perfectly independent, and would have been accepted as final by the three Departments interested in this question, and thus a troublesome and difficult question would have been settled once for all.\n\n3. As, however, Mr. Stanhope objects to inviting the assistance of the Lord Chancellor to settle the difference between the Departments, Lord Knutsford is willing to state a case for the opinion of the Law Officers, and when they have reported upon the meaning of the agreement, any difficulty in settling the details will be considerably diminished, if not entirely removed. Until the proper legal construction of the Memorandum has been decided, Lord Knutsford thinks there would be little use in referring the subject to the Cabinet.\n\n4. I am only to add that, if it be conceded, which, however, Lord Knutsford is not prepared to admit, as stated in the 5th paragraph of your letter, that a right of occupation for an unlimited period is for all practical purposes as valuable as the freehold, or in other words that the fee simple, while subject to such a right of occupation, has no appreciable value; then the contrary must also be true, namely, when lands are about to be surrendered as being no longer required for the military purposes which alone stand between the Colony and the full enjoyment of its land, the military right of occupation has no appreciable value, and the Colony is entitled to claim the fee simple freed from any obligation to the military authorities or anybody else.\n\n5. A copy of this letter will be forwarded to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nWar Office.\n\nI am, &c. \n(Signed) R. H. MEADE.\n\n## \n151 \nA 4",
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"content_text": "# APPENDIX II.\n\n## WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nWar Office, Pall Mall, August 11, 1892.\n\n**SIR,**\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st July, and to acquaint you, for the information of Lord Knutsford, that it scarcely appears to Mr. Stanhope that any practical object will be served by further discussion between the two Departments; and that he has caused a letter to be addressed to the Treasury—copy enclosed—with a view to eliciting the opinion of their Lordships as to the right mode of calculating the value of military lands surrendered to a Colony, and the desirability of referring the question to legal authority.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) **RALPH THOMPSON**.\n\n## WAR OFFICE to TREASURY.\n\nWar Office, August 9, 1892.\n\n**SIR,**\n\nWith reference to the letter addressed to you from this Office on the 22nd July, enclosing copies of correspondence between the Colonial Office and this Office on the subject of the general principles which should govern the assessment of the value of military lands surrendered to a Colony, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit herewith, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the enclosed copy of a further letter from the Colonial Office, and to request that you will be good enough to move their Lordships to express their opinion upon the questions at issue between the two Departments.\n\n1. Briefly stated these questions are:-\n\n| Question | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| I. | Whether the value of the lands should be taken (a) as the full saleable value; or (b) as the saleable value less any interest which the Colony may be considered to possess in the lands, notwithstanding their having been set aside for defensive purposes. |\n| II. | Whether the above question is one that should be decided (c) as a matter of law by reference to legal authority; or (d) on final resort, if the three Departments concerned are unable to agree, by reference to the Government. |\n\n2. The opinion of Mr. Stanhope on Questions I. and II. is fully stated in the letters addressed to the Colonial Office from this Office on the 23rd March, `Hong Kong, 8/1289`, and 4th July, `Hong Kong, 8/1298`, nor does it seem necessary that he should do more than make the following observations on the enclosed letter from the Colonial Office.\n\n3. The Colonial Office in paragraph 2 states that the proper interpretation of the language of the memorandum enclosed in the Colonial Office Circular of the 9th June 1890 addressed to the various Colonies \"is strictly a legal question, and it was for this reason that Lord Knutsford proposed to submit the case to the Lord Chancellor;\" but this is scarcely borne out by the Colonial Office letters of the 4th December 1891, 10th February 1892, and 19th May 1892, in which the question proposed for legal arbitration is the general question of the mode of valuing the lands, and not the interpretation of the memorandum.\n\nMoreover, the memorandum itself does not possess the character of an Act of the Legislature or of a legal instrument. It was the outcome of the deliberations of an Inter-departmental Committee, endorsed by The Treasury, Colonial Office, and War Office, and its right interpretation and application are not matters of pure law but of policy, and belong in last resort, as this Office contends, to the Government.\n\n4. Again, with regard to the 4th paragraph of the Colonial Office letter, I am to observe that Mr. Stanhope is not unprepared to accept the contention of the Colonial Office, with the proviso that the Colony having set aside the value of the land in question as a capital contribution towards its defence holds itself liable to reproduce such value, when required for similar purposes.\n\n5. A copy of this letter has been sent to the Colonial Office.\n\nThe Secretary to the Treasury.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) **R. H. KNOX**.\n\n# APPENDIX III.\n\n## TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nTreasury Chambers, August 17, 1892.\n\n**SIR,**\n\nTHE Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter of the 25th ultimo, and the preceding correspondence sent to them by the War Office respecting the valuation to be set upon military land in Hong Kong when surrendered by the War Department to the Colonial Government, a point on which a difference of opinion has arisen between Lord Knutsford and the Secretary of State for War, and which Mr. Stanhope wishes to submit for the decision of the Treasury, whilst Lord Knutsford would prefer either the arbitration of the Lord Chancellor, or a reference to the Law Officers of the Crown, because the question is one between the Imperial and Colonial Exchequers on which my Lords are interested parties.\n\nUnder the agreement arrived at by Her Majesty's Government, on the recommendation of the Colonial Military Contributions Committee, and communicated by the Colonial Office to the Colonies in a Circular Despatch of the 9th June 1890, \"when Colonial military land, occupied by the military authorities without any title deed, or conveyed to the Board of Ordnance or Secretary of State for War by grant from the Crown signed by the Governor, for purposes of defence, is no longer required for those purposes, it is to be surrendered to the Colonial Government, on payment of its estimated value in kind or money, if that value be immediately required for the military defence of the Colony, or if not, on condition that the Government agrees to hold its recorded value at the time of transfer, or its actual proceeds if subsequently sold, at the disposal of the War Department, in case they are obliged at any future time to obtain land for purposes of defence in the Colony.\n\nThe War Department contend that the value to be either immediately paid for the land, or held to their credit at call, is the full estimated market value, or the full actual proceeds of sale, of the land, in accordance with the probable intention of the Colonial Military Contributions Committee. The War Department are trustees of this land for defence purposes, and it would be a breach of trust if they surrendered it without retaining the right to resume possession of it, or of its equivalent in land or money, when required for the purposes of the trust. If the future need can be met by something less than this equivalent, the War Department will be content with less, for the time being; but their duty as trustees compels them to reserve the right of regaining possession of the full equivalent of whatever they surrender, and the only practical measure of that equivalent is the sum which the surrender will enable the Colonial Government to obtain for the land.\n\nOn the other hand, the Colonial Office maintain that the value to be recorded or paid ought to be substantially less than the full market value of the land, because the War Department are but limited owners of it, possessing only a right to its perpetual use for a particular purpose. The War Department have, it is assumed, no power of alienating the land from the purpose for which they hold it in trust, except by surrendering it to its reversionary owner, the Colonial Government. The full market value of the land could not be realised without a surrender of the rights of both parties, of the War Department as potentially permanent occupier, and of the Colonial Government as reversioner. It would be unfair, therefore, to make the Colonial Government pay to the Department the value of its own rights as well as the value of those of that Department. The rights of either party alone would probably be quite unsaleable. If the union of those rights be necessary to produce a price, that price must belong to both parties jointly.\n\nMy Lords acknowledge the force of the arguments on both sides. For the integrity of the trust and in the interest of the defence of the Colony, the War Department must be enabled by the Colonial Government to replace what they surrender, whenever necessary. The limited purpose for which the War Department hold the land would require the new land to be obtained probably not for less than its full market value; therefore the Colonial Government must hold at the disposal of the War Department the full market value of the land surrendered. But, in return, the Colonial Government may fairly ask to be given the same reversionary rights over the land acquired by the War Department in substitution for that surrendered as they enjoyed over the surrendered land.\n\nWhat has been said of land applies equally to buildings.\n\nTo take an example, my Lords hold that the Colonial Government should pay to the War Department the full market value of Murray Battery at once, if it be surrendered to the Colony, because the War Department have to spend that value (and much more)...",
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"content_text": "Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to-\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nWar Office,\n\nPall Mall,\n\nLondon, S.W.,\n\nand the following number quoted.\n\nHong Kong 3/288.\n\nExtract from C.O. 6789\n\nRest 5 APR 32\n\nWar Office,\n\nPall Mall, S.W.\n\nMarch, 1892.\n\nSir,\n\n(1).\n\n(2).\n\n(3).\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit the accompanying Plans marked \"A\" and \"B\" and I am to acquaint you for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury that:\n\nAfter long discussion extending over many years, these Plans show the arrangements as to the acquisition and disposal of land and property in Victoria, Hong Kong, which will best meet the several requirements of the Colony, the Admiralty and the War Office; and to which the three parties concerned appear to be disposed to agree provided that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are prepared to approve of the proposals.\n\nThis matter has long been delayed owing to its being complicated by proposals put forward by the Colony Secretary, and referred to Her Majesty's Treasury.\n\n353",
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"content_text": "Page 439\n\nHong Kong\n\n1307\n\nSir,\n\nYour No. 19.\n\nColonial Office to War Office\n\nDowning Street\n\n21st July, 1892.\n\nHong Kong 6\n\n1298\n\nIn reply to letter* of the 4th instant,\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to state that his Lordship has again considered the memorandum which was enclosed in his circular to the Colonies, and regrets that he is unable to deduce from it the conclusions which are drawn in your letter from the 4th paragraph of the memorandum. He reads that memorandum as an agreement that the Colonies shall pay immediately, or record for prospective payment, the value of any property surrendered to the Colony by the military authorities; but he does not find that it is agreed that the Colonies, as contended by the War Office, shall pay or record the value of their own interest in the land. It is, however, agreed that when a Colony does not wish to retain possession of the land for civil purposes, the same shall be sold and the proceeds dealt with in the same manner as if the Colony had retained the land; a condition which would be satisfied by the Colony paying or recording such an amount as would represent the military share of the proceeds, while applying its own share to the civil purposes of the Colonial Government.\n\n2. I am directed to point out that the proper interpretation of the language of the memorandum is strictly a legal question, and it was for this reason that Lord Knutsford had proposed to submit the case to the Lord Chancellor, who, as a prominent member of the Home Government, would, after deciding the legal effect of the agreement, have been able to recommend to the two departments the best method of carrying it into effect. His opinion would have been perfectly independent, and would have been accepted as final by the three departments interested in this question, and thus a troublesome and difficult question would have been settled once for all.\n\n3. As, however, Mr. Stanhope objects to inviting the assistance of the Lord Chancellor to settle the difference between the departments, Lord Knutsford is willing to state a case for the opinion of the Law Officers, and when they have reported upon the meaning of the agreement, any difficulty in settling the details will be considerably diminished, if not entirely removed. Until the proper legal construction of the memorandum has been decided, Lord Knutsford thinks there would be little use in referring the subject to the Cabinet.\n\n4. I am only to add that if it be conceded, which, however, Lord Knutsford is not prepared to admit, as stated in the 5th paragraph of your letter, that a right of occupation for an unlimited period is, for all practical purposes, as valuable as the freehold, or in other words, that the fee simple, while subject to such a right of occupation, has no appreciable value; then the contrary must also be true, namely, when lands are about to be surrendered as being no longer required for the military purposes, which alone stand between the Colony and the full enjoyment of its land, the military right of occupation has no appreciable value, and the Colony is entitled to claim the fee simple freed from any obligation to the military authorities or anybody else.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 20.\n\nWar Office to Treasury.\n\n1307\n\nWar Office,\n\n9th August, 1892.\n\nWith reference to the letter addressed to you from this office on the 22nd July,\n\nHong Kong 8\n\nHong Kong\n\n1298\n\n, enclosing copies of correspondence between the Colonial Office and this office, on the subject of the general principles which should govern the assessment of the value of military lands surrendered to a Colony, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit herewith, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the enclosed copy of a further letter from the Colonial Office, and to request that you will be good enough to move their Lordships to express their opinion upon the questions at issue between the two departments.\n\n2. Briefly stated those questions are---\n\nI-Whether the value of the lands should be taken (a) as the full saleable value, or (b) as the saleable value, less any interest which the Colony may be considered to possess in the lands, notwithstanding their having been set aside for defensive purposes.\n\nII.-Whether the above question is one that should be decided (c) as a matter of law, by reference to legal authority, or (d) in final resort, if the three departments concerned are unable to agree, by reference to the Government.\n\n3. The opinion of Mr. Stanhope on questions I. and II. is fully stated in the letters* addressed to the Colonial Office from this office on the 23rd March, nor does it seem necessary that he should do more than make the following observations on the enclosed letter from the Colonial Office.\n\nHong Kong, and 4th July,\n\nHong Kong 8\n\n1289\n\n1298\n\n4. The Colonial Office, in paragraph 2, state that the \"proper interpretation of the language of the memorandum enclosed in the Colonial Office circular of the 9th June, 1890, addressed to the various Colonies is strictly a legal question, and it was for this reason that Lord Knutsford proposed to submit the case to the Lord Chancellor\"; but this is scarcely borne out by the Colonial Office letters of the 4th December, 1891, 10th February, 1892, and 19th May, 1892, in which the question for proposed legal arbitration is the general question of the mode of valuing the lands, and not the interpretation of the memorandum. Moreover, the memorandum itself does not possess the character of an Act of the Legislature or of a legal instrument. It was the outcome of the deliberations of an inter-departmental committee endorsed by the Treasury, Colonial Office, and War Office, and its right interpretation and application are not matters of pure law, but of policy, and belong in last resort, as this office contends, to the Government.\n\nR. H. KNOX.\n\n*\n\n* No. 18.\n\nR. H. MEADE,\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 21.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office,\n\n11th August, 1892.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st July, and to acquaint you, for the information\n\n‡ No. 19,\n\nNos 16 and 18.\n\n+ Nos, 12, 15, and 17.\n\nPage 18\n\n19\n\n439",
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"content_text": "( 24 ) \n\n8. The question of law arising in the above statement for the opinion of the Honourable the Supreme Court is whether the Magistrate has power under section 38 of Ordinance No. 21 of 1891 to order the forfeiture of \"Any opium seized on board a steamship bound or about to proceed to the ports of Canton or Macao which does not appear on the manifest of such vessel\" though the holder of the opium may have a valid Certificate for the possession thereof.\n\nDated this 4th day of July, 1893.\n\n[Police seal.]\n\nW. C. H. HASTINGS,\n\nActing Police Magistrate,\n\nExtract from the Hongkong Daily Press of 9th August, 1893.\n\nThe case in question was first heard before the Sitting Magistrate (Commander HASTINGS) and the opium confiscated on 9th June, 1893.\n\nA SEIZURE OF OPIUM.\n\nThis was an appeal by LAM YIK and LAM SIU against a decision given by Commander W. C. H. HASTINGS, ordering the forfeiture of a certain quantity of opium found on board the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company's steamer Fatshan and not upon the manifest of the vessel.\n\nMr. J. J. FRANCIS, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. H. I. DENNYS), represented the appellants, and the respondent, Mr. JAMES HENRY LOGAN, chief preventive officer of the Company, appeared in person.\n\nMr. FRANCIS said-The respondent is not represented, my lords, by counsel, and we have a notice from the Attorney-General that he does not intend to appear at the hearing. In the absence of any defence, therefore, I suppose the course is to show that the procedure has been regular.\n\nMr. FRANCIS then proved that due notice had been given, and the petition filed within the time prescribed by the Ordinance.\n\nMr. LOGAN said that he had no objection to offer in the case; in fact, he thought that the Attorney-General was to be the respondent.\n\nThe Chief Justice asked whether the respondent was a Government officer. Mr. FRANCIS-No, my lord. He is simply employed by the Steamboat Company.\n\nOn June 5th he went on board the steamer Fatshan, which was lying alongside her wharf, and in pursuance of his duty he searched the vessel and found two packages containing 125 taels of prepared opium.\n\n( 25 ) \n\nThe section under which the Magistrate who tried the case, Commander W. C. H. HASTINGS, proceeded is section 38 of Ordinance 21 of 1891 which reads as follows:- \"Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance contained any opium seized on board any steamer bound or about to proceed to the ports of Canton or Macao and which does not appear on the manifest of such vessel shall if forfeited by a Magistrate be detained by him until the disposal thereof has been determined by the Governor in Council.\"\n\nMr. FRANCIS continued: Your lordships are aware that this Opium Ordinance is, we might say, almost wholly for the protection of the Opium Farmer, who pays the Government a large sum of money yearly and is the sole person licensed to prepare and sell opium within the Colony, and all persons having opium in their possession in the Colony are bound by the provisions of the Ordinance to have a licence from the Opium Farmer, and all prepared opium found in the possession of any person in the Colony who does not hold a licence is liable to be seized and forfeited.\n\nYour lordships will also see that under the Ordinance there is a special provision by which all the opium so forfeited shall be returned to the Opium Farmer. The provisions of the Ordinance are expressly in favour of the Opium Farmer and it has always been ruled that the opium should be delivered to him. Opium, however, was frequently found on board the Macao steamers and it was suggested that the Opium Farmer himself might possibly be a party to the sending away of prepared opium out of the Colony to Canton and Macao.\n\nOf course if that were so he would get back his opium though some small penalty would be imposed on his servants who were attempting to carry the opium across. The Opium Farmer would suffer no serious loss because the opium would be returned to him. Section 38 was therefore introduced into the Ordinance and provided that notwithstanding anything in the Ordinance contained any opium seized on a steamer and not appearing on the steamer's manifest shall if forfeited by a Magistrate be detained by him until the Governor in Council has decided what should be done with it. But there was no power in that section to forfeit any description of property found on a steamer which did not appear on the manifest.\n\nThe Chief Justice-No, there is nothing in that section.\n\nMr. FRANCIS-The Magistrate has read this section as though it read \"shall be forfeited.\" I submit to you that the Magistrate has misread this section and that he had no power to deal with this opium in any way as it was covered by a valid certificate. That is admitted.\n\nThe Chief Justice-Have you anything to say, Mr. LOGAN? You are the respondent, you know.\n\nMr. LOGAN-No, my lord, I have nothing to say.\n\nThe Chief Justice-Mr. FRANCIS, you have read through this Ordinance, I have no doubt, with great care; can you tell me if there is any mention of any provision about putting opium on the ship's manifest?\n\nMr. FRANCIS-None whatever. This section was only introduced into the Ordinance comparatively recently-during the last two or three years--in consequence of certain charges made against the Opium Farmer. It was not in the Ordinance during the last Opium Farm, and that is within three years.\n\nThe Chief Justice-I think this case is clear. It seems that the Magistrate has read this section as though the language of it implied that sentence of forfeiture should be passed if any opium seized on one of these steamers was not on the steamer's manifest. That, however, does not appear to be the language of the section. It does not allege the non-appearance of the opium on the manifest as a cause of forfeiture, and that being the case it could not be forfeited unless there was a valid cause of forfeiture, which it appears in this case there was not, because it is an admitted fact that the opium in question was covered by a certificate. Therefore I think that the Magistrate has made a mistake in reading this section and the appeal must be allowed.\n\nMr. FRANCIS-I would ask for costs, my lord.\n\nThe Chief Justice-I think that you are entitled to costs.\n\nThe Puisne Judge concurred.\n\nThe decision of the Magistrate was accordingly reversed with costs against the respondent.",
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"content_text": "TREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\n26 January 1893\n\n488 93 1528 Ver 30 JAN 93\n\n \n\nSir,\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury direct me to enclose for the information of the Marquis of Ripon, a copy of a letter from the Admiralty, of the 10th instant, proposing to give a Lodging Allowance, during 22 weeks of the year, to the Naval Commodore at Hong Kong.\n\nMy Lords, in accordance with the usual practice regarding Local Allowances, consider that the amount should be fixed in Local currency; i.e. in Dollars not sterling; and They would ask you to move the Secretary of State to cause them to be informed what would be a suitable weekly sum in Dollars to allow for the Lodging of an Officer of Commodore's rank in Hong Kong.\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.\n\n488\n\n90\n\n...\n\nat the Treasury rate of Exchange (29) 1.5. $23 say $244 would be a moderate allowance\n\n? Reply that Lord Ripon opinion that the rate proposed £3.3 converted into dollars\n\nwould ... unreasonable allowance would be according\n\nDraft for coum acco on verbal instructions,\n\nthe Colon geta at Hauskang viz. 199 Calendar week present in of\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nRewelly\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nPage ...\n\n(Three lines at the bottom indicating the end of the page)\n\n \n \n\nThe revised response is formatted according to the rules, with the original text transformed into HTML using `` for paragraphs. The text has been proofread for spelling errors, spacing issues, and other OCR-related problems. The original page numbering lines have been preserved, and the text has been reordered to make sense. The response does not include any comments or explanations.\n\nHere is the corrected version:\n\nTREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\n26 January 1893\n\n488 93 1528 Ver 30 JAN 93\n\nSir,\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury direct me to enclose for the information of the Marquis of Ripon, a copy of a letter from the Admiralty, of the 10th instant, proposing to give a Lodging Allowance, during 22 weeks of the year, to the Naval Commodore at Hong Kong.\n\nMy Lords, in accordance with the usual practice regarding Local Allowances, consider that the amount should be fixed in Local currency; i.e. in Dollars not sterling; and They would ask you to move the Secretary of State to cause them to be informed what would be a suitable weekly sum in Dollars to allow for the Lodging of an Officer of Commodore's rank in Hong Kong.\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.\n\n488\n\n90\n\nat the Treasury rate of Exchange (29) 1.5. $23 say $244 would be a moderate allowance\n\n? Reply that Lord Ripon opinion that the rate proposed £3.3 converted into dollars\n\nwould be an unreasonable allowance according\n\nDraft for coum acco on verbal instructions,\n\nthe Colon geta at Hauskang viz. 199 Calendar week present in of\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nRewelly\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nPage...",
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"content_text": "Page 205\n\nHong Kong\n\nB\n\n1307\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 19.\n\nColonial Office to War Office\n\nDowning Street\n\n21st July, 1892.\n\nHong Kong &\n\nI am directed by\n\nIn reply to your letter* of the 4th instant,\n\n1298\n\nLord Knutsford to state that his Lordship has again considered the memorandum which was enclosed in his circular to the Colonies, and regrets that he is unable to deduce from it the conclusions which are drawn in your letter from the 4th paragraph of the memorandum. He reads that memorandum as an agreement that the Colonies shall pay immediately, or record for prospective payment, the value of any property surrendered to the Colony by the military authorities; but he does not find that it is agreed that the Colonies, as contended by the War Office, shall pay or record the value of their own interest in the land. It is, however, agreed that when a Colony does not wish to retain possession of the land for civil purposes, the same shall be sold and the proceeds dealt with in the same manner as if the Colony had retained the land; a condition which would be satisfied by the Colony paying or recording such an amount as would represent the military share of the proceeds, while applying its own share to the civil purposes of the Colonial Government.\n\n2. I am directed to point out that the proper interpretation of the language of the memorandum is strictly a legal question, and it was for this reason that Lord Knutsford had proposed to submit the case to the Lord Chancellor, who, as a prominent member of the Home Government, would, after deciding the legal effect of the agreement, have been able to recommend to the two departments the best method of carrying it into effect. His opinion would have been perfectly independent, and would have been accepted as final by the three departments interested in this question, and thus a troublesome and difficult question would have been settled once for all.\n\n3. As, however, Mr. Stanhope objects to inviting the assistance of the Lord Chancellor to settle the difference between the departments, Lord Knutsford is willing to state a case for the opinion of the Law Officers, and when they have reported upon the meaning of the agreement, any difficulty in settling the details will be considerably diminished, if not entirely removed. Until the proper legal construction of the memorandum has been decided, Lord Knutsford thinks there would be little use in referring the subject to the Cabinet.\n\n4. I am only to add that if it be conceded, which, however, Lord Knutsford is not prepared to admit, as stated in the 5th paragraph of your letter, that a right of occupation for an unlimited period is, for all practical purposes, as valuable as the freehold, or in other words, that the fee simple, while subject to such a right of occupation, has no appreciable value; then the contrary must also be true, namely, when lands are about to be surrendered as being no longer required for the military purposes, which alone stand between the Colony and the full enjoyment of its land, the military right of occupation has no appreciable value, and the Colony is entitled to claim the fee simple freed from any obligation to the military authorities or anybody else.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 20.\n\nWar Office to Treasury.\n\nWar Office,\n\n9th August, 1892.\n\nWith reference to the letter addressed to you from this office on the 22nd July,\n\nHong Kong\n\nHong Kong 8\n\nenclosing copies of correspondence between the Colonial Office and this office, on the subject of the general principles which should govern the assessment of the value of military lands surrendered to a Colony, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit herewith, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the enclosed copy of a further letter from the Colonial Office, and to request that you will be good enough to move their Lordships to express their opinion upon the questions at issue between the two departments.\n\n2. Briefly stated those questions are----\n\nI-Whether the value of the lands should be taken (a) as the full saleable value, or (b) as the saleable value, less any interest which the Colony may be considered to possess in the lands, notwithstanding their having been set aside for defensive purposes.\n\nII-Whether the above question is one that should be decided (c) as a matter of law, by reference to legal authority, or (d) in final resort, if the three departments concerned are unable to agree, by reference to the Government.\n\n3. The opinion of Mr. Stanhope on questions I. and II. is fully stated in the letters* addressed to the Colonial Office from this office on the 23rd March, Hong Kong S, and 4th July, Hong Kong 8\n\n1298\n\n1289\n\nnor does it seem necessary that he should do more than make the following observations on the enclosed letter from the Colonial Office.\n\n4. The Colonial Office, in paragraph 2, state that the \"proper interpretation of the language of the memorandum enclosed in the Colonial Office circular of the 9th June, 1890, addressed to the various Colonies is strictly a legal question, and it was for this reason that Lord Knutsford proposed to submit the case to the Lord Chancellor\"; but this is scarcely borne out by the Colonial Office letters of the 4th December, 1891, 10th February, 1892, and 19th May, 1892, in which the question for proposed legal arbitration is the general question of the mode of valuing the lands, and not the interpretation of the memorandum. Moreover, the memorandum itself does not possess the character of an Act of the Legislature or of a legal instrument. It was the outcome of the deliberations of an inter-departmental committee endorsed by the Treasury, Colonial Office, and War Office, and its right interpretation and application are not matters of pure law, but of policy, and belong in last resort, as this office contends, to the Government.\n\nR. H. KNOX.\n\n• No. 18.\n\nR. H. MEADE,\n\nNo. 21.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office,\n\n11th August, 1892.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter† of the 21st July, and to acquaint you, for the information\n\n‡ No. 19.\n\nNos 16 and 18.\n\n+ Nos. 12, 18, and 17,\n\n5M\n\nPage 206\n\n...\n\nPage 207",
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"content_text": "Entative britt be to thinking that as a hessure one or two large junk loads of Sick Chinese Subjects might be removed to the Benevolent Hospital at Canton under the following conditions;-\n\n1) that the case of sickness had been reported to Police\n\n2) that the Patient had applied through the hospital.\n\n(3) that the Patient Expressed a desire to go to Canton –\n\n12.\n\nThat the Doctors certified that the Patient was fit to be removed. 5) That the junks were properly provisioned, Equipped so as to ensure the Comfortable Conveyance of such patients to Canton.\n\n22. Four small junks were sent down and towed by a Chinese steamer,\n\naway\n\n170 patients were sent on Friday the 14th and 15th.\n\nThursday\n\nTheir\n\nThe Consul in compliance with My Wishes sent a Doctor to examine and report upon the junks on arrival at Canton & I am glad to say that his report was satisfactory - Only Eight of them, as I am informed, died on the way out, and the remainder have been visited by the European doctors and\n\n467\n\nare well and Comfortably housed.\n\n23. The Insanitary condition of the Long Lung Glass works' hospital has thus ceased, and it has now been closed. In its stead the Tung Wah Hospital Capable of holding 140 patients has been opened. The management of it has been taken over to a much greater extent than in the Case of the Glass works by European Doctors and the internal Arrangements by European ladies and nurses, and the Conduct of the attendants.\n\n24. It would be too much to say that the Chinese doctors are convinced that his treatment of disease is radically defective, but as our staff of medical men is about to be reinforced by two medical Officers sent down by Admiral Fremantle from Japan, and by two others whose services I have secured, we shall be in a position to assume Charge of nearly all the patients that were sent to the Several hospitals -\n\nand\n\n25. The Hospitals at present in existence are in\n\n1) The Hygria for 40 patients.\n\n2) Kennedy Town for 450\n\nPage 467\n\n \n(to be continued in next page, three lines at the bottom is not shown here)",
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"content_text": "## TREASURY CHAMBERS. \n## 28 July 1894.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury request you to inform the Marquess of Ripon that They have had before Them the Report of the Colonial Military Contributions Committee, dated the 24th May last, respecting the contribution from Hong Kong for the five years 1894 to 1898, and that They have signified to the Secretary of State for War their concurrence in the recommendation of the Committee that the amount of the contribution should remain unchanged at £40,000 per annum for the period in question.\n\nIt will be remembered that, when a contribution at this rate was first proposed by the Committee in 1888, the Treasury was strongly convinced of its insufficiency, having regard to the large cost of the Garrison, the prosperity of the Colony, and the light taxation to which it is subjected. When this Department at last consented in 1890 to accept £40,000 per annum for three years, and afterwards concurred in a renewal of the contribution at that rate for one year more, it was in the hope that a material augmentation would soon become practicable.\n\nUnfortunately, the continued fall in the gold value of silver has so greatly increased the burden imposed on the resources of the Colony by a contribution of £40,000 per annum, since its first imposition, that My Lords do not think it prudent to propose any addition to it at this time.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted. \nC.O.13087 \n27 \n\n357 \n29.7.94 \n\nR347 \n11365/94",
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"content_text": "more \n\nas too much sanitation for the people. The Bill as it stood was grandmotherly enough and some of the amendments introduced into it have the undoubted effect of decreasing the value of property to a very considerable extent, and although I am not a large landowner in any sense of the word—I am not blessed, I am sorry to say, with many houses in the colony—still I feel it is fair to those who have acquired, by industry, by success in business, or otherwise, large sums of money which they have invested in this colony, that they should have due consideration and not be treated with utter disregard to their interests. Now, the hon. and learned Attorney-General seems to think that the colony exists for a certain class of people. Those who have made the colony what it is, those who have assisted—namely, the Chinese community—the English of former days in raising the position of the colony and promoting the prosperity of the colony and in making Hongkong what it is now, the third port in the world, surely they deserve some consideration. (Hear, hear). Now, if I were in the place of that Chinaman the hon. and learned Attorney-General spoke of, I would have answered differently; I would have answered, \"This colony has been made to prosper with my aid and that of my fellow-countrymen. It is through our help that it has gained such a position among the ports of the world, and even if I have some dirty habits, I expect the Government to remedy them for me in a considerate way, and I am quite prepared to change with the times, but still I should protest against any sweeping measure which may touch my family and touch my property. If the colony is to gain by the sacrifice of my property in any particular way, I expect the colony as a whole will bear with me the burden imposed upon me. Also, I am not the man whom you can dispense with; there are many other men who have no fixed interests in the colony, who are like birds of passage, who may be here two or three years and are then gone elsewhere. I am not such a man, but my interests are in the colony and are of such a nature that it is for me to say I don't want you and not for you to say you don't want me.\" Now, sir, there are in this Bill many sections which I think might be done away with and more moderate measures secured. I think that the Chinese, if you understand them, can be led very easily, and if you were to do a certain thing according to their notion of the fitness of things, they would obey and be led by you like so many lambs; but if you are to pass laws to interfere too much with their domestic peace, to allow their enjoyment of their properties to be interfered with, in fact to handle them roughly and with a high hand, they will resent it, not in any very quarrelsome way, not by strikes as people do in England and other European countries, but they would quietly leave the colony, and will leave us, in fact, like Robinson Crusoe on the desert island, lords of all we survey. I am sure none of us here would like to provoke the Chinese to act in that way. But at the same time, I fully endorse the words of the Attorney-General that we must of course do something to prevent a recurrence of the plague, and with that in view, and also what I have urged upon you—and also as I hope we will be able to pass the Bill to-day with some degree of unanimity—I hope we may be able to arrive at a measure which will secure the health of the colony without interfering too much with the holders of property and with their interests. With these few remarks, I to a certain extent support the second reading of the Bill.\n\nThe Bill was then read a second time and the Council went into Committee upon it.\n\n## Section 1—Short title.\n\nSection passed.\n\n## Section 2—Definition clause.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER—I would draw attention to the definition of \"street,\" which runs:—\"Any square, court, or alley, highway, house, road, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not.\"\n\nThere are a great many streets running from the Queen's Road to the Praya which are composed of private houses, but in defining the word \"street\" these are all brought in.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I think if the hon. member waits till we get to the clause where the word \"street\" is used, he will find there is nothing very oppressive in it. The height of a building is regulated according to the width of the street.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER—Yes, that is just the point.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL—The object of that provision is to prevent the absence of light and air and to permit ventilation, and whether in private lanes or thoroughfares, houses without sufficient light and ventilation should not be allowed.\n\nThe section was passed subject to the word \"street\" being redefined if necessary.\n\n## Section 3—Prohibition of inhabitation of scheduled houses until impermeable floors provided.\n\nPassed without discussion.\n\n## Section 4—Prohibition after 1st July, 1895, of inhabitation of domestic buildings until impermeable floors provided.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL—The difference between sections 3 and 4 is this. Section 3 applies to property the owners of which have refused to do anything. They say, \"The Sanitary Board is holding our property and we will not do anything.\" They are made by Ordinance to put it into a state fit for habitation before people occupy it. Those are in the first schedule. The second schedule covers those who have had their property handed back to them on condition that they put it into a proper state, and they are given to the 1st July, because it takes some time to execute the work; provided always that where the property has already been passed to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board, the owner shall not be required to do it over again.\n\nSection adopted.\n\n## Section 5—Where impermeable material over ground surface has been removed, landlord or owner to make good the same to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL explained that this clause had been altered from the form in which it stood when the Bill was introduced. He was indebted for the substitution to the hon. the senior official member in conjunction with Mr. Cooper. He thought that though the other looked very well on paper, there would have been difficulties in carrying it out.\n\nSection passed.\n\n## Section 6.—Basements any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil not to be occupied without permission of the Sanitary Board.\n\nSection passed.\n\n## Section 7.—Mezzanine floors.\n\nSection passed.\n\n## Section 8—Requires windows in rooms and limitation of cubicles.\n\nSection passed.\n\n## Section 9.—Requires for each occupant of a house 30 square feet of floor space and 400 cubic feet of air space.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I am quite aware that in moving these figures, I am entering on very debatable ground. At the present time, every prisoner in Victoria Gaol, by direction of the Secretary of State, has to have 1,500 cubic feet of air space, and the effect is seen in the excellent health that prevails there; while with regard to the military, I think I am right in saying that in England the requirement is 600 feet and here 800 feet of air space for each soldier. Now, I trust my hon. friend opposite (Hon. Ho Kai) will not think I am making any attack on the Chinese in what I say or suggesting that the better class of Chinese would desire to have these dirty places about them, but the Chinese are no doubt differently constituted from ourselves, and we are all more or less the creatures of habit, and there is no doubt a coolie can thrive under conditions in which a European would sicken and die. You have only to go to Canton to see the terrible condition of overcrowding which prevails there. There is no desire on the part of this Council to deal unduly harshly with the Chinese, but as overcrowding has resulted in plague, that is a matter that must be dealt with. They may say, \"Let us have our own way and there will be no sickness.\" Well and good; but they have had their own way, and we have had plague, and 2,500 deaths from it, and it is therefore essential we should insist on some greater air space being provided. Now, with reference to these figures, I would be only too glad to meet the views of all if I could. I have redrafted the Bill several times and have put in different figures, and now the Sanitary Board has put these figures down as the minimum. There were members who desired to have larger figures put in, but these are the figures they inserted the other day, and I should be very sorry personally to take upon myself the responsibility, having found the smaller figures in the present Health Ordinance did not keep the plague away, of not accepting the figures they have put in, when their position is backed up by the fact that the air space required in barracks is 800 cubic feet and in the gaol 1,500 cubic feet. I move that the section stand part of the Bill.\n\nThe DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS seconded.",
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"content_text": "# 442\n\nT. No. 11365/94 \n40248 \n442 \n\nSir, \n\n## No. 80. Treasury to War Office \nTreasury Chambers, \n26th July, 1894 \n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury direct me to transmit herewith, for the information of Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman, with reference to recent correspondence, copy of a letter of to-day's date, which they have caused to be addressed to the Colonial Office on the subject of the Hong Kong Military Contribution, that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have caused to be forwarded to this office a copy of the letter which they addressed to you on the 26th ultimo, signifying their concurrence in the recommendation of the Committee that the contribution should remain fixed at £40,000 per annum for the five years 1894 to 1898, and expressing their unwillingness to depart from the principle that such contributions should be fixed in sterling. \n\nMr. Campbell-Bannerman presumes that, should the Marquis of Ripon also concur in the proposal of the Committee, he will cause the Governor of Hong Kong to be informed of the amount which that Colony will be required to pay during the period in question. \n\n**ARTHUR L. HALIBURTON.** \n**FRANCIS MOWATT.** \n\n593 \n\nSir, \n\n### Enclosure in No. 80. Treasury to Colonial Office \nTreasury Chambers, \n26th July, 1894 \n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury request you to inform the Marquis of Ripon that they have had before them the Report of the Colonial Military Contributions Committee, dated the 24th May last, respecting the contribution from Hong Kong for the five years 1894 to 1898, and that they have signified to the Secretary of State for War their concurrence in the recommendation of the Committee that the amount of the contribution should remain unchanged at £40,000 per annum for the period in question. \n\nIt will be remembered that, when a contribution at this rate was first proposed by the Committee in 1888, the Treasury was strongly convinced of its insufficiency, having regard to the large cost of the garrison, the prosperity of the Colony, and the light taxation to which it is subjected. When this department at last consented in 1890 to accept £40,000 per annum for three years, and afterwards concurred in a renewal of the contribution at that rate for one year more, it was in the hope that a material augmentation would soon become practicable. \n\nUnfortunately, the continued fall in the gold value of silver has so greatly increased the burden imposed on the resources of the Colony by a contribution of £40,000 per annum since its first imposition, that my Lords do not think it prudent to propose any addition to it at present, and of course, the serious epidemic by which the island is now being visited can only strengthen this view. \n\nReference is made by the Committee to a proposal to fix the contribution in dollars instead of in sterling. If such an arrangement were to be adopted, my Lords could not agree to any less sum in dollars than that which £40,000 would represent at the current low price of silver; and although this would have the advantage of protecting the Colony against a further fall in silver, so far as the Military Contribution is concerned, it would equally deprive the Colony of the benefit of a possible rise. Under all the circumstances, my Lords are indisposed to depart from the principle that the contribution of a dependency, in aid of the sterling expenditure of the Mother Country for the defence of that dependency, should itself be fixed in sterling. \n\n**FRANCIS MOWATT.** \n\n## No. 81. War Office to Colonial Office \n\n## No. 82. Colonial Office to War Office \nDowning Street, \n9th August, 1894 \n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant, and to forward, for the information of Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman, the enclosed copy of a letter which was addressed by Lord Ripon's direction to the Treasury, on the subject of the future Military Contribution of Hong Kong. \n\n### Enclosure in No. 82. Colonial Office to Treasury \nDowning Street, \n2nd August, 1894 \n\nI am directed by the Marquis of Ripon to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th ultimo, relating to the amount of the Hong Kong Military Contribution for the five years 1894 to 1898, and intimating their Lordships' concurrence in the view that the amount of the contribution during these years should not exceed £40,000 per annum. \n\n2. From the enclosed despatch, which has been received from the Governor of Hong Kong, it will be seen that the Colony has suffered in an unprecedented manner from the recent outbreak of plague, one-third of the population having, at any rate for the present, left the Colony, and the consequent loss of revenue, coupled with unavoidable expenditure on sanitary improvements, must necessarily cripple the resources of the Colonial Government for the time being. \n\nThis disaster has happened since the recommendation of the Committee was made, and it may be necessary to invite at an early date further consideration of the matter. \n\n3. Before formulating his views, however, Lord Ripon proposes to wait until the Governor is in a position to estimate, with some approach to accuracy, the financial effects of the epidemic. \n\n**R. H. MEADE.** \n\n40218 \n445 \n\nSir, \n\n2nd August, 1894. With reference to the War Office letter of the 29th June last, transmitting a copy of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Colonial Military Contributions on the subject of the contribution to be paid by the Colony of Hong Kong, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to inform you... \n\n## No. 78. \n*No. 81.* \n+Enclosure in No. 80. \nNot sent to War Department. \nPage 442 \nPage 445",
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"content_text": "# C.O. No. 7611\n\n## Colonial Office to War Office\n\nDowning Street, 27th May, 1895.\n\n**No. 88.**\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of the letter* from this department of the 22nd instant, relative to the Military Contributions of the Eastern Colonies, I am directed by the Marquis of Ripon to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman, the draft of a despatch which Lord Ripon proposes, with Mr. Campbell-Bannerman's concurrence, to address to the Governor of Hong Kong relative to the contributions from that Colony.\n\nA similar letter has been addressed to the Treasury.\n\nEDWARD FAIRFIELD,\n\n## Enclosure in No. 88. Colonial Office to Governor, Hong Kong (Draft)\n\nDowning Street, May, 1895.\n\nWith reference to the last paragraph of my despatch, No. 75, of 29th March last, I have the honour to inform you that, after careful consideration, Her Majesty's Government have arrived at the conclusion to fix the Military Contribution in future at a certain proportion, viz., 17¾ per cent., of the revenue of the Colony. This appears to offer a basis of settlement which is the most likely to be acceptable to all parties, and which can be adopted without an undue sacrifice of the claims of the taxpayers of this country.\n\n2. Her Majesty's Government, although hitherto adhering to the principle that the contribution, whatever its amount, should be fixed for the time being in sterling, have never lost sight of the fact that it could not, consistently with the efficient administration of civil affairs, exceed a certain percentage of revenue, and that if at any time, through a diminution of receipts or a fall in the exchange value of silver, the percentage assumed undue proportions, then a case for the revision of the sterling demand would arise; but as a matter of fact, during the five years 1890-94, the average Military Contribution of Hong Kong has fallen considerably short of what the Home Government in 1890 seemed to have considered a reasonable proportion of the revenue, namely, between 17 and 18 per cent., and even in 1894 it barely reached 17 per cent. As regards the current year, however, owing to the continued low rate of exchange, the contribution, if continued at the present rate of 40,000, would amount to nearly 20 per cent. of the revenue.\n\n3. The expedient of fixing a proportion of revenue as the amount of the contribution will, I hope, prevent any further feeling of uncertainty and dissatisfaction, and will safeguard the rights of the Home Government as effectually as the expedient of fixing the amount for some years ahead, which was that adopted in my predecessor's despatch No. 3, of 20th January, 1890. In adopting the decision above indicated, Her Majesty's Government have been largely influenced by the consideration that as the contribution is fixed in sterling, the continued uncertainty in the matter of long exchange is calculated to cause a greater dislocation in the finances of the Colony than would be caused to the Imperial finances if the contribution is fixed in dollars.\n\n4. It is to be understood that the revenue on which the percentage will be taken shall include gross receipts from all sources which are now brought into account as revenue, with one exception, viz., the proceeds of land sales or premia on leases, which are not strictly revenue, but the proceeds of the sale of capital assets. The revenue for 1895, less premia on leases, is estimated at 2,018,526 dollars, so that a contribution of 17¾ per cent. would amount to 353,242 dollars, and I have now to authorize you to limit the payments for this year to that amount in lieu of the maximum amount (384,000 dollars), provided in the Appropriation Ordinance.\n\n5. When the actual revenue of 1895 is known, should it be found that there was an excess of receipts over the estimate, a further payment of 17¾ per cent. of such excess can be made. If, on the other hand, the revenue should have fallen short of the estimate, the over-payment can be adjusted by deducting 17¾ per cent. of the deficit from the first instalment of next year's contribution. A similar course can be followed in each succeeding year.\n\n6. It would probably be agreeable to all parties if a permanent ordinance were passed appropriating a percentage of 17¾ per cent. of the Colonial revenue to the use of the Imperial Government as a Military Contribution, thus removing what has been a much vexed question from the arena of annual debate.\n\n## Treasury to War Office\n\nTreasury Chambers, 22nd June, 1895.\n\n**No. 89.**\n\n**T. No. 8066**\n\nSir,\n\nAdverting to the letter* from this department of the 14th instant, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to enclose herewith, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman, copies of three letters, dated the 14th instant, which they cause to be addressed to the Colonial Office respecting the Military Contributions of Hong Kong, Mauritius, and the Straits Settlements respectively, together with a revised draft despatch to the Governor of the last-named Colony on the subject, which their Lordships have proposed for the consideration of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nFRANCIS MOWATT.\n\n## Enclosure 1† in No. 89. Treasury to Colonial Office\n\nTreasury Chambers, 14th June, 1895.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them Mr. Fairfield's letter of the 27th ultimo, enclosing a draft of the despatch which the Marquis of Ripon proposes to address to the Governor of Hong Kong, respecting the Military Contribution of that Colony.\n\nMy Lords concur in this draft, subject to the following amendments, which they suggest for the consideration of the Secretary of State, viz.:\n\n1. The part of paragraph 1 which begins with the word \"after\" and ends with the word \"country\" should form a separate paragraph, following what is now paragraph 2, which will form a proper preface to it.\n\n2. In paragraph 2, delete the words \"seem to have,\" following the words \"Home Government in 1890.\"\n\n3. In paragraph 3, substitute \"calculated\" for \"liable,\" in the last line but three.\n\n4. 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"content_text": "100 \n\nMatters should be addressed.\n\nThe Under Secretary:\n\nDublin Castle.\n\n14th October, 1895.\n\n18810.\n\nWith reference to your further letter of the 27th ultimo, asking whether the General Prisons Board could recommend three (instead of two) additional candidates for the post of warder in the Hong Kong Prison, I am directed by the Lords Justices to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that warders Denis Doyle, J. McMullen, and John Smyth, have been recommended by the General Prisons Board for the appointments.\n\nA copy of the applications of these warders, of the reports of their superior Officers as to their qualifications, and of the Prison Medical Officer as to their health, and a statement...\n\nUnder Secretary.\n\nColonial Office.\n\nLondon.\n\n| Number | |\n| --- | --- |\n| 18145 | AO. |\n| 16874 | |\n\nPage 100",
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"content_text": "176 \n\nThe rate was reduced solely in view of the increased pay attached to the office—it was not a personal allowance—it did not confer any personal privilege or inflict any disability on the person outside the office or when he ceased to hold it.\n\n12. \n\nTherefore after stating that the rate should apply to the holders of those offices to which an increase of more than 14 had been granted—that is when they drew their half-pay or pension in connection with this office—his Lordship says:\n\n13. This rule shall apply to all persons thereafter entering the Service for the first time and to all promotions to offices to which an increased pay of not less than 14 was granted—leaving untouched the case of promotion to an office the salary of which had not been so increased; and as the increase granted by that despatch was general, I submit that his Lordship had clearly in his mind when limiting the rule as above, the case of an officer who would participate in this general rise but who might thereafter be promoted to an office which had not received this increase of 14%, therefore according to this despatch this reduction is not to apply to him—and the reason, as I have pointed out in the 14th paragraph of my Memorial, is clear—viz:\n\nThe officer's pension is calculated on the pay he has been receiving for the three years previous to his retirement from the service. If he is at these dates in receipt of enhanced pay, granted because of the increased cost of living in the Colony, he is not to have more half-pay or more pension than if the enhanced rates had never been conceded, but if at the date of taking his pension he is the holder of an office that has obtained no rise to meet local wants, he has not participated in the general increase, and therefore there is no need for applying any new rate of exchange, because to do so would reduce the leave pay and the pension which the appointment carried.\n\n14. \n\n15. \n\nThe reduction is to apply, and to apply solely, to\n\n(a) The holders of those offices to which an increase of at least 14% is granted.\n\n(b) Those entering the service for the first time.\n\n(c) Those promoted to offices which have received an increase of more than 14%\n\nAnd the reasons for these limitations I have fully given, but it may be said that I was a holder of an office that had received an increase of more than 14%—Yes, but I am not a holder of that office now, and I do not derive or claim any enhanced pension whatever from the increase I then drew.\n\n16. That rule was, I submit, to be applied only while they held such office and drew such increased pay, and if the despatch had meant to include others it would not, seeing that the increase of pay was general, have limited the rule to promotions to offices which had received more than 14, it would have clearly included all and stated that this limitation was not only a disability attaching to the office on account of the rise of salary, but followed the officer to whatever office he should thereafter be appointed.\n\n17. It would have clearly stated that the rule applied to all promotions, and not merely to promotions to offices which had benefited by this increase. The despatch and the measure it sanctioned was one of relief and not of restriction or reduction.\n\n18. The pension of an officer is calculated on the pay and emoluments of the office he has held for three years prior to his retirement, and the rules fixing the pension apply to that office and to the existing salary and privileges thereof.\n\n19. \n\nI would here remark that when I retire it will most probably be from the office of Puisne Judge, and therefore I will not be\n\n20. \n\n(a) Holder of an office which has received an increase of more than 14%.\n\n(b) I have not been promoted to an office the salary of which has been increased more than 14%.\n\n(c) I did not enter the Service for the first time after the despatch, therefore I confidently submit that I am beyond and outside the rule which reduces the rate of exchanges to 3s. 8d.\n\nFrom the whole context of the despatch, the reasons which called it forth, and the very terms of it, I maintain that the words \"holders of offices\" can apply only to such officials as actually hold the office when pension is applied for, because it is only at that time that the rule is to come into force.\n\n21. \n\nHad it been expressly stated, or if I could have been expected to conclude that by accepting the increase to my pay I would, if promoted to an office not having received such an increase, have forfeited the right I then enjoyed of claiming my pension at 4s. 2d., I should have declined it; because after my interview with Sir Robert Herbert and Lord Knutsford, in 1889, I had every prospect of promotion to the office of Puisne Judge, and, in fact, I was promoted in June, 1892. This office had received only a nominal increase, something very trifling—as I had then about 37 years' service, it was not likely I would have sacrificed such a large proportion of my pension in exchange for an increase of salary in an office which at any moment I might, by promotion, cease to occupy.\n\n22. \n\nIt may be objected that the pension which I claim is a large and unusual one. I answer that it is the pension which I honestly believe I am entitled to after nearly 42 years' service. The amount claimed may seem high, but it is justified by all the rules and by the very unusual period of more than 41 years' service.\n\n23. And again, if there still should be any doubt in your Lordship's mind, I would ask that as thirty-five years' service would entitle me to a full pension my extra years beyond that be taken into consideration and that effect be also given to the special services outside my ordinary duties which I have rendered the Government of Hong Kong, and which are enumerated in my memorial. In consideration of these I would ask that a special grant be made if there be still any doubt as to my being entitled to the full amount and claim, and should your Lordship be still unable, notwithstanding all these grounds, to grant my request, then I submit it would only be fair and just that as I accepted the increased pay as Registrar in ignorance of the consequence thereof, and before the interpretation now sought to be given to the despatch was communicated to me, and as I enjoyed it for such a short time, I may have an opportunity of considering and recalling that acceptance.\n\nFor all these reasons, I pray that your Lordship may be pleased to reconsider your decision and grant me the full pension I have asked for in my Memorial of the 30th October, and for this I shall be ever grateful.\n\nTo the Right Honourable\n\nI remain, my Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's\n\nMost obedient servant,\n\nSaw. Ackroyd\n\nThe MARQUESS OF RIPON, K.G.,\n\n**Prudent Judge Supreme Court**\n\nHouse of Lords\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies, &c., &c., &c.",
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"content_text": "612\n\n## 11. On the 18th March last a competition, in which the two units of the Corps were independently engaged, took place for prizes, offered, in the case of the Field Battery, by Captain J. J. FRANCIS, and, in the case of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, by the Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD. The firing point was on an eminence near Wong-nei-Chong Gap, and the target, in the case of the Field Battery, was on the shore of Deep Water Bay, at a distance of about 1,700 yards and, in the case of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, in a ravine in the same direction, at a distance of about 1,100 yards.\n\nSixteen have resigned. Of the resigning members, eight have left the Colony. Fifty-two new members have been enrolled. The number of the Field Battery is now 107, as compared with an establishment of 80 as fixed by the Regulations of the Corps. On the other hand, the number of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company is only 47, as compared with an establishment of 51 as fixed by the Regulations. It is hoped that during the ensuing season the \"A\" Company may be recruited up to its full strength, and that at least one more Company may be formed. It may be mentioned that the Corps possesses altogether 12 Maxim guns, sufficient for three Companies. It is, I believe, the opinion of competent Officers that machine gun fire will be found of considerable value in repelling a hostile attack on the Colony.\n\n## 3. There have been various changes among the Officers of the Corps during the past season. In October, 1896, Major A. R. PEMBERTON, of the Rifle Brigade, who had been Acting Commandant from the 1st February, 1895, resigned the command on the departure of his regiment from the Colony. The present Commandant was gazetted on the 14th November, 1896. This seems a fitting opportunity for me to express, on behalf of the members of the Corps, their high sense of Major PEMBERTON's very efficient and useful services during the period of his command.\n\n## 4. Surgeon-Captain J. CANTLIE, M.B., has retired, and Supernumerary Surgeon-Lieutenant F. O. STEDMAN, M.D., has been brought on the establishment.\n\n## 5. In the Field Battery, Captain J. MCCALLUM, who is absent on leave, and who, it is believed, is not likely to return to the Colony, was placed on the supernumerary list, and Lieutenant A. CHAPMAN was promoted Captain to command the Battery in his place. Sergeant W. K. WYLI was elected and gazetted to fill the vacancy among the Lieutenants thus created.\n\n## 6. In the \"A\" Machine Gun Company Captain C. M. ADAMSON and Lieutenants E. OSBORNE and A. McP. MARSHALL resigned their commissions, the former on account of absence from the Colony and the latter two because of the pressure of other duties. Colour-Sergeant F. MAITLAND was elected and gazetted Lieutenant in place of Mr. OSBORNE. The other vacancies will shortly be filled.\n\n## DISCIPLINE, TRAINING, AND INSTRUCTION\n\n## 7. The discipline of the Corps has, with a solitary exception, which was dealt with, been good throughout the season.\n\n## 8. The ordinary training and instruction of the Corps does not call for special remark. The usual drills and musketry practices have on the whole been well attended. Under this head the figures for the units severally are as follows:\n| Unit | Done over X drills | Became efficient with less than X drills | Non-efficients | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Field Battery | 72 (over 40) | 9 (less than 40) | 26 | 107 |\n| Machine Gun Company | 16 (over 36) | 7 (less than 36) | 24 | 47 |\n\nOf the 26 non-efficients in the case of the Field Battery, 2 are on the supernumerary list of Officers and are absent from the Colony, 4 are absent on leave, 6 are absent from the Colony without leave, 7 are recruits who have not had sufficient time to complete their drills, 1 has recently returned from leave, 1 is in hospital, and the remaining 5, although in the Colony, have not completed the requisite number of drills.\n\nIn the case of the 24 non-efficients of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, 6 are absent from the Colony on leave, 7 are absent from the Colony without leave, 5 are recruits who have not had sufficient time to complete their drills, and the remaining 6, although in the Colony, have not completed the requisite number of drills.\n\n## 9. In October, 1896, a Camp of Instruction was held under canvas during a period of nine days on Stonecutter's Island. The use of the Naval Range on the Island was at the same time lent by the Commodore in charge at Hongkong, and was largely used by recruits. The Camp was well attended, and the instruction afforded, consisting, besides the ordinary drills, of outpost duties, guards, reconnoitring, and field firing, was much appreciated by all ranks. To the success of the Camp I attribute in great part the activity in recruiting which has existed during the latter part of the season. It is proposed to hold the Camp annually.\n\n## 10. On the 2nd February last a competition took place with `64-pounder` guns at Stonecutters Island. Six detachments engaged in the competition, using plugged shell. The range was 2,175 yards, and the target was moored between the battery and Green Island. Excellent practice was made by the detachments generally, the best results being secured by No. 1 detachment, commanded by Sergeant G. C. HAYWARD. A report on this competition was forwarded to His Excellency the Major-General Commanding on the 24th February last.\n\nThe Field Battery fired by sections, using common and shrapnel shell, and the \"A\" Machine Gun Company by single guns. Some good practice was made by both units. A report on this competition was forwarded to His Excellency the Major-General Commanding on the 15th March last.\n\n## 12. The revolver practice by the Officers and Staff Sergeants, which was instituted during the last season, has been continued during the present season with satisfactory results.\n\n## 13. The question of coolie draught for the guns is in the same position as at the time of the last annual report. In the case of an ordinary march out, which has taken place several times during the season, the members prefer to draw the guns themselves; in fact, they display a strong repugnance to allowing this work to be done by coolies. During the season there have been no operations at a distance from headquarters for which coolie draught could be employed. It must be borne in mind with regard to this question that the finances of the Corps will not admit of coolies being regularly employed and trained for purposes of draught, and further that a sufficient number of coolies used to the drawing of loads can always be obtained when occasion requires. I am, however, informed that coolie draught for the guns has always proved slow and generally unsatisfactory.\n\n## SERVICES\n\n## 14. I have pleasure in bringing to the notice of His Excellency the Major-General Commanding the zealous and efficient services rendered during the season by Captain L. A. C. GORDON, Royal Artillery, the Adjutant of the Corps. Captain GORDON not only shows great interest in his duties but performs them in such a manner as to secure the liking of all ranks. In particular, the Corps is much indebted to him for the skill and pains with which he organized and superintended the carrying out of the several gun competitions held during the season.\n\n## 15. The other Officers of the Corps have in every way set an excellent example to the non-commissioned officers and men serving under them. By their regular attendance at drills, their endeavours to procure recruits, and their devotion to duty generally they show their anxiety to promote the efficiency of the Corps. In short, I may say of them that a Commandant could not wish for better officers.\n\n## 16. Corps Quarter-Master Sergeant WATLING and the Sergeant Instructors have been diligent and painstaking in the performance of their duties.\n\n## 17. The non-commissioned officers and men of the Corps have for the most part attended drills regularly and shown a soldier-like desire to make themselves efficient.\n\n## REGULATIONS\n\n## 18. Soon after I was appointed Commandant I formed the opinion that the Regulations of the Corps stood in need of revision in several respects. On consideration, however, it appeared to be advisable that I should gain some experience of the working of the Corps before undertaking the re-drafting of them. Now that the training season has concluded, I propose to lose no time in framing and submitting for approval a draft set of Regulations. Amongst other matters which will be dealt with in the draft will be the strength of the two units of the Corps, the number of drills qualifying for \"efficiency,\" and the formation and constitution of a Volunteer Reserve.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS\n\n## 19. The annual inspection of the Corps by His Excellency the Major-General Commanding took place on the 8th instant.\n\n## 20. A course of lectures on ambulance work, accompanied with stretcher drills, has recently been held by Surgeon-Lieutenant STEDMAN. Thirteen members joined the class.\n\n## 21. I have to request that the Chief Ordnance Officer, China, may be asked to keep up 30,000 rounds of `Martini-Henry Carbine` ball ammunition and the usual quantities of `7-pounder` and `64-pounder R.M.L.` gun ammunition for the use of the Corps, to be indented for as required on repayment. I have recently addressed a letter to His Excellency the Governor urging the desirability of provision being made for supplying ammunition for practice to the members of the Corps at a cheaper rate than that which now obtains, viz., $4 per 100 rounds.\n\n## 22. A considerable proportion of the `Martini-Henry Carbines` belonging to the Corps are service-worn, and the question of replacing them with new and more efficient weapons will soon have to be considered.\n\n## 23. Requisitions for Capitation Grant for Efficients during the past season have been sent direct to the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer.",
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"content_text": "If we want others to have to explain and maintain our work, we should ensure it is clear.\n\nOur efforts have been to make things clear.\n\nCurling was won by runs.\n\nIt is interesting to note that Oxford's Prestels was involved.\n\nIt has vanished from Corfu, and Cooling is no longer a concern.\n\nThis wish is posed with new legislations carrying heavy penalties.\n\nBath Reforms have been considered.\n\nThere is a proposal for new legislation with heavy penalties.\n\nWe understand that perspective wire yip gut berish, there by this comes is biller passion, Arlen dis hich.\n\nThere is also old provision 1.1380 of Volume I (5.14 of Indian Act 48 of 1860).\n\nThere are three laws prohibiting certain actions, specially maintained.\n\nFf. vars 4 bus G cor for Log hot npper par.\n\nAs regards the latter part of Mr. Chamberlain's minute, I think fresh legislation will be necessary in both Colonies.\n\nIn Hongkong, the existing law on the subject is contained in S.4 Ord. 6 of 1894; at the Straits, there is a similar provision in S.17 of Ord. 17 of 1896, & in the latter Colony, Laws have been enacted enabling the Police to institute proceedings; but in all these Laws, the only proceeding that can be successful is in a case where the place is used \"to the annoyance of the respectable inhabitants of the vicinity,\" and this restriction has, I am informed, been fatal to the success of such prosecutions.\n\nIn Colombo (where the law is somewhat similar), it is difficult to prove \"annoyance.\"\n\nI have drafted the despatch to meet this difficulty.\n\nThe draft despatch carries out Mr. Chamberlain's minute above, but before he passes the despatch, I hope Mr. Chamberlain will pardon my drawing his attention to Lord Lister's speech in the House of Lords last May (especially to the points referred to by Mr. Fawcett on p. 15 of his Speech - annexed hereto), which showed the impossibility, on medical grounds, of treating venereal disease in the same way as other contagious diseases (as regards notification & isolation).\n\nAlthough the Indian Regulations may possibly have some effect.\n\nPage 4",
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"content_text": "## ENCLOSURE 2\n\n1 COPY.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nC.O. 340 \n14901 \nRES \n6 JUL 19\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia and China.\n\nHong-Kong, 21st May, 1898.\n\nI very much regret that exceptionally heavy pressure of office work has prevented my sooner replying to your letter of 14th instant, directing my attention to the fact that our return of bank notes dated 5th inst. shows the average for April to be $2,938,719, whereas the limit in this Colony was laid down by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury at $2,750,000 and you call for our observations in this matter for the information of Government.\n\nIn reply, let me state that the Bank's fifth supplemental Charter dated 29th October 1897 willed and ordained: \n\"That the said Company shall within three months from the date of the said supplemental Charter deposit and thenceforth at all times keep deposited either with the Crown Agents for our Colonies in London or with Trustees to be appointed by the Treasury or partly with such Crown Agents and partly with such Trustees coin of denominations to be approved by the Treasury or securities...\n\nThe Hon. The Colonial Treasurer, \nHONG-KONG.",
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"content_text": "## THE OCCUPATION OF WEI-HAI-WEI\n\nThe Earl of KIMBERLEY rose to ask her Majesty's Government what were their intentions as to the occupation of Wei-hai-wei. He said, I think the noble marquis will not be surprised that I have placed on the paper the notice about Wei-hai-wei. There is, no doubt, considerable anxiety as to what her Majesty's Government intend to do with regard to the occupation of that port. It seems to me that the occupation must be regarded in two aspects; first, to a considerable extent from the professional aspect of what the precise advantages of the port may be in a naval point of view, and what should be done to make it available for that purpose; and, second, the occupation from the point of view of the policy of this country with regard to the Far East, and on what that policy is based.\n\nAs regards the advantages of the port from a naval point of view, I am, of course, not competent to express an opinion. All I can say is that having read with great attention a variety of opinions expressed on the subject, I remain no wiser than I was before. Opinions differ very much as to its probable utility; but I conclude this is a point which the Government must have carefully considered--namely, whether it would be necessary to fortify the port and to garrison it with British or Indian troops; and also whether or not it must be regarded as a second base to Hong-kong. Although I am no expert, I have considerable doubts whether the advantages are great as some people represent them to be.\n\nAt all events, it seems to be clear that any advantage which may be derived from the naval point of view must be restricted to the particular quarter of China which adjoins the Gulf of Pe-chi-li. Apart from these questions, which are certainly not without their importance, unless considerable strategic advantage is obtained, it will entail very great burden on this country to keep a large garrison at Wei-hai-wei; nor would it be a matter of indifference if you attempt to make it a large fortified port, for in that case it would require considerable expenditure of money. If, however, it is really of first-rate importance as a naval base, no one in this country will grudge the expenditure which may be necessary for that purpose.\n\nWith regard to the policy connected with Wei-hai-wei, I feel considerable doubt from the utterances which we have heard on the subject and from the papers laid before Parliament. The noble marquis, I think in February last, said in one of the despatches addressed to our Minister at Peking that the interests of this country and Russia were not antagonistic. The subsequent proceedings of the Government seem to be based on a different view, because it appeared that it was the occupation of Port Arthur by the Russians which in their view necessitated our occupation of Wei-hai-wei. One of the remarks of the noble marquis was that the occupation of Port Arthur by Russia was a mistake on the part of Russia, or at all events, it was balanced by our occupation of Wei-hai-wei. That, I must say, rather perplexed me, and I was also unable to understand from the first how it was that the Government did not perceive that if Russia was to extend her dominion to Manchuria, it was absolutely certain that the ice-free port which she possessed in Manchuria would be occupied as a naval base.\n\nIt was clear to everyone that Russia would not occupy Manchuria merely for the purpose of having a commercial port. I am unable to understand why her Majesty's Government did not base their policy, whatever it might have been, on the knowledge that in all probability the naval base to be selected by Russia in that quarter of the world would be Port Arthur. I suppose it is not unfair to assume that our occupation of Wei-hai-wei is an answer to the occupation of Port Arthur by Russia. Now, what does that imply? It implies clearly an antagonism to Russia in that quarter of the world.\n\nIf we are to place ourselves in that position of direct antagonism, it is necessary to consider how far Wei-hai-wei would be of avail in enabling us to maintain that position. I am arguing on the supposition, which I think is the only one which can be derived from the course recently pursued by the Government in the occupation of Wei-hai-wei, that the antagonistic position to Russia in that quarter of the world is inevitable. I think that this is perfectly clear, and the Government have, I think, throughout the later stages of these proceedings clearly perceived it--namely, that the power of Russia in the Far East after changes which have taken place is a power which is derived from Russia having completed her position by land.\n\nWhen she has completed that section of the railway which brings her military power down to the open sea in the Gulf of Pe-chi-li, her power in that quarter of the world will be enormously increased. Although we have been taught by the celebrated work of Captain Mahan that sea power has a considerable effect even with regard to the operations of another Power by land, I cannot conceive that the possession of Wei-hai-Wei, when Russia occupies Manchuria with a very large military force, can enable us successfully by that means to resist the advance of Russia in the direction of Peking. Therefore, I do not see that the occupation of Wei-hai-wei will be an advantage to this country.\n\nI do not pass over what I think is pointed out by the noble marquis--namely, the temporary advantage to us that has taken place. After #31, I can conceive the Government influence at Peking would be seriously diminished unless some method was adopted to maintain a foothold there, and that for a time, the measure of occupying Wei-hai-wei might assist us in maintaining our position diplomatically at Peking. But I desire rather to consider the occupation of Wei-hai-wei from the point of view of permanent advantage to this country, and what policy it implies in the Far East.\n\nWe have had some remarkable utterances on this subject. The noble marquis, in addressing the Primrose League recently, said: \"As long as the Chinese Empire remains upright, I do not think that that power (the power of Russia by land) can be exercised, even if Russia desires to exercise it, which I am asserting to the injury of the rest of the world.\" That assumes that China is upright, but I do not see by what means she is to be raised to such a position of restored power as to enable her successfully to resist the pressure of her powerful neighbour to the north.\n\nI am not the only person who takes that view. I suppose most of us have been immensely interested in a speech which was made by a distinguished colleague of the noble marquis a day or two ago. There are many things in that speech which have no connection with the subject-matter I am now bringing forward, but I observe that, far from admitting China is upright, Mr. Chamberlain says that the Government were not altogether prepared for the total collapse of China, and he goes on to say: \"From the moment that you recognized that fact, you had to see that China, unless she were assisted from outside, is absolutely at the mercy of the great military empire with its hundred million inhabitants and its 4,000 miles of land frontier on the boundary of China.\"\n\nThat declaration is not consistent with the view of the noble marquis that China is upright. That is to say, as long as China is upright, there is no danger from Russia. If Mr. Chamberlain's view is correct, and I must say I agree with him--China is in such a condition that she is unable to hold her ground against her great neighbour without assistance from without--the possession of Wei-hai-wei will not give us the power of effectively assisting her from without, if ever Russia should take measures to march southwards and perhaps occupy Peking. It seems to me that is an impossible proposition.\n\nIt is quite impossible to conceive that the mere possession of Wei-hai-wei would enable us to resist such an advance if it were really undertaken. Well, then, it may naturally be said, with Mr. Chamberlain, because he made an allusion to the position of affairs when we were in office, \"Did we foresee the position in which China would be placed by the collapse after the war with Japan, and did we take any measures to prevent the consequences which might follow from that collapse?\" Now, my lords, I will be quite explicit.\n\nWe were perfectly alive to the enormous change which must necessarily follow from the collapse of China in consequence of her defeat by Japan, and we had to consider whether or not we should join with the three other Powers--Russia, Germany, and France--who invited us to join in the measures which they took to compel Japan to relinquish possession of Port Arthur. Knowing, as we did, that that step on the part of those three Powers would have considerable after-results, we came to the conclusion, nevertheless, first, that we were not justified in interfering, as regards the war in which we had taken no part, with the victorious Power; and, secondly, we were of opinion, looking to the great change impending in the Far East, that there was nothing more important to this country than to establish a friendly relation with the growing naval Power of Japan.\n\nA naval Power will always be of more consequence as a friend to this country in that quarter of the world than any other Power, and I believe that a seriously mistaken policy could not have been promoted than to have joined the other Powers in that action against Japan and thereby alienating her from this country. My lords, it has been asked by Mr. Chamberlain, \"What did we do? Why did we take no steps to come to an understanding with Russia?\" How was it possible diplomatically in the timely circumstances in which we were placed? The Treaty of Shimonoseki was not signed till the middle of April, and the late Government, of which I was a member, was turned out of office in June.\n\nI think that anybody will see that between April and June, it would have been impossible for us to establish a fresh understanding with Russia. Far be it from me to say that such an understanding would not be desirable; on the contrary, I think it would be of great advantage; but I do say Mr. Chamberlain is answered simply by this, that the position we were in, whatever we might have intended or thought, rendered such an understanding impossible.\n\nI am not in the least disposed to tu quoque, but still, when this is thrown in our teeth, I cannot help remarking that if such an understanding was desirable and possible, her Majesty's present Government have had two and a-half years in which to consider it. To return to the question of policy connected with Wei-hai-wei and the Far East generally, I must again refer to Mr. Chamberlain's speech, because he bases the greater part of his rather remarkable utterance upon the position of affairs in China.\n\nTowards the close of his speech, he laid it down very strongly that our position there is one which must necessarily place us in some difficulty on account of the change of situation, and the conclusion, apparently, at which he arrived was that such was the position and such was the pressure upon us that the time had arrived when we were to make a vast change in our diplomatic attitude--a change which would affect, not only our attitude in China, but throughout the world, and that we were to abandon the principle upon which we have for many years acted with regard to our foreign affairs, of not engaging in what are commonly called alliances, but, on the contrary, that it was our duty to seek other alliances.\n\nNow, by these alliances, he can only have meant alliances for mutual defence. No others can possibly be pointed at. Now, alliances for mutual defence, of course, imply taking a position of antagonism against somebody. An alliance of that nature in the Far East must mean an alliance against Russia. I am by no means saying that we ought to keep out of view the great and growing power of Russia, but when I am told that the moment has come and a warning requires to be given to the nation that the policy pursued for so many years is to be changed, and we are to seek for alliances elsewhere, I ask myself whether this is the moment, whether the moment has arrived, when so great a change is to be sought to be brought into effect.\n\nAnd I ask myself this also: can it be (of course, I am not in the secrets of the Government) that her Majesty's Government have so far advanced in that direction that ere long we may hear of the conclusion of some great alliance with a powerful European nation? For, although I value as much as any man a good understanding and close friendship with the United States, yet I cannot conceive of an alliance of that kind with the United States, because it is contrary to all policy which the United States has hitherto pursued. The alliance, therefore, must be sought elsewhere; it must be with some European Power.",
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"content_text": "# Cost of transport. Traders.\n\n18 as the true object of attempts to find a direct route from India, Siam, or French Indo-China into south-west China. Only an unimportant fraction of the trade of Ssucbuan or Kneichou is ever likely to flow through Yunnan, the imports required by those provinces going naturally by the Yangtze. Similarly, Cooper said that beyond the export and import trade with Yunnan, it was difficult to conceive what further advantage Burma would reap from communications with Western China. In this General Mesny and other authorities concur. The difficulties are obvious. External trade from any direction must traverse a vast mountain barrier, and the through trade must needs be limited to a few valuable goods. Richthofen asserts that the natural direction of the trade of Western China is up the Yangtze, and cannot be made to go west or south across the barrier, except a small portion, and that only if a railway be built. But a railway would involve a heavy expenditure, and prospective profits would be incommensurate with the outlay.\n\nConsidering the difficulty of the routes and the consequent long carriage of goods, the cost of freight by porters, mules, &c., is important, for expensive transport may render the sale price of many commodities prohibitive. The standard in Yunnan is usually one of weight (so many catties of 1.3 lbs.), and the distances are reckoned in li, nominally a measure of distance (1 li = 660 yards), though really one of time, 10 li, or an hour's journey, varying in distance with the difficulty of the route. The length of a stage in Yunnan also varies according to the accommodation available. But General Mesny says it ranges from 20 to 30 miles a day. The cost of transport is about the same on all routes. Mr. Bourne states that 2.3d. per ton per mile is a fair rate for pack animals in Yunnan, and he thinks that this charge is considerable in a country where values are low. But he has probably much understated the cost of carriage, which Mr. Holt Hallett estimates at 1s. per ton per mile, while another authority, Mr. Jensen, of the Chinese Telegraph Service, puts the rate at 30 dollars per 100 li for 160 to 173 lbs. by mule, or roughly 5d. to 6d. per ton per mile. The rates vary with the number of mules and the nature of the loads.* The heavy charges for transport make it imperative that foreigners should lay their merchandise as near as possible to the various centres of consumption at the lowest profitable prices. Under present conditions, transit is long, slow, and expensive. General Mesny does not recommend the building of railways because of the natural obstacles, but he thinks that some of the trade routes might be improved, especially the routes from the Yangtze and the Red River, and perhaps also the Bhamo route. Mr. Turner, whose experience appears to be mainly of the Tali-Fu district, holds that Yunnan is not in a decayed or decaying condition, and that, apart from metals, it has still a few not unimportant exportable products; but the question, he says, is whether these products can be sold at such a price as to bear Rs. 7 per ton per day of mule transport to Burma. He wonders, however, that there is any trade at all, considering the severe roads, made of rough blocks of stone, slippery and difficult for men and animals.\n\nnear\n\nRetail trading of a local kind is carried on to a large extent in Yunnan, for the Chinese are born merchants. The articles of largest consumption carried from place to place are tea, sugar, paper, salt, and cotton—tea, salt, and cotton being especially important in the transit trade. Traffic in foreign goods and silver is carried on by hucksters from Hunan, who bring these articles to Yunnan and Kueichou and take back opium. The general trade, wholesale and retail, is conducted by the Chinese, as distinguished from the indigenous population. Rocher says that dealings with them require time and patience and a personnel trained to the special kind of business. Their clothes of blue cotton show that Chinese men and women do not readily change their habits in making purchases, but means and opportunity might give them a taste for fashion in dress. Merchants often make very long journeys. The Lyons mission found representatives of Chinese firms from Hong Kong and Canton at most places they visited in Yunnan, Kueichou, and Ssuchuan. A large guild of Cantonese merchants visit North Tonkin and Yunnan each year, going via Pakhoi and proceeding as far as Momien. They sell watches, needles, mirrors, and other European goods in exchange for opium. In the Chinese Shan States on the Burma frontier, markets are held every fifth day.\n\n## Exchange.\n\nThe trade, mostly in native articles with a few foreign piece goods, is conducted mainly by barter. Banking business is undeveloped, though there are two banks at Yunnan-Fu. Owing to the lack of credit facilities, coin has to be carried in bulk. Mr. Bourne says that the lack of exchange banks accounts for the long journeys traders make with their goods.\n\nThere are, however, excellent arrangements for transmitting money by caravan over the main routes of Yunnan, with insurance against loss by robbery. About 2 per cent covered the postage, registration, and insurance of silver sent by native post for Mr. Morrison from Chungking to Yunnan-Fu. The tael is the current silver coin, but its quality and the terms of exchange vary considerably from place to place, and the most useful and portable form of currency is pure silver in unstamped ingots of one tael or more. The ordinary currency among the people is cash, but a string of 1,000 cash weighs about 7 lbs. and is worth less than three shillings. The exchange value of cash, which has risen in recent years in Yunnan as in the rest of China, varies considerably in places at no great distance from one another. An interesting bi-metallic question, indeed, is agitating China owing to the continued fall in silver relatively to copper cash, a decline of 30 per cent in five years. The authorities cannot coin cash at the government standard except at a heavy loss, and have therefore ceased to coin. The diminished supply in conjunction with an increased demand for cash has forced up the value, with the result that there is constant haggling about both the quantity and the quality of the coins. Foreign merchants are placed at a special disadvantage, for their silver buys an ever-diminishing quantity of articles from gold countries, and those articles sell for an ever-diminishing quantity of cash in China. Among the Shans, salt is sometimes used as currency, as in Caindu in the days of Marco Polo, but silver is tending to displace it. In exchanges across the Tonkin frontier, tin is practically the currency, but as it is insufficient for transactions owing to its limited production, cotton, salt, tobacco, and foreign goods imported are mainly paid for in opium, which is exported for this purpose in large quantities to Kwangsi and Kwangtung.\n\n## Internal taxation.\n\nAmong the chief obstacles to commerce in Yunnan, as elsewhere in China, are the likin on merchandise in transit and other internal taxes. For forty years, taxation has grown more onerous as the financial burdens of the Government have increased. The frequency of likin stations, which are placed at all large towns and along all main routes by land or water, depends on the amount of trade and the extent to which it can be taxed without being extinguished. Accurate information about the tariff is hard to obtain, and neither party really pays any attention to the authorised tariff, the terms being decided by a process of bargaining. Besides the burden of the taxation itself, merchants suffer extortion in respect of exchange, the weight of silver, &c., and bribes have to be given to prevent undue delay. In short, likin is a field for wholesale peculation. The Government reaps comparatively little from it, but the chief collectors amass large fortunes, while a host of underlings subsist on petty exactions. Even if the taxation were well administered, likin is objectionable in its form and incidence. Needless to say, smuggling of opium and other portable articles is freely practised in order to evade likin. As likin is levied at stations not far distant from one another, the farther goods travel, the more they pay, the higher the price becomes, and the more difficult is it for would-be consumers to purchase the goods. Though extremely unfavourable to general trade development, likin does not so much affect foreign commodities. Under the Treaty of 1858, British subjects have the option of freeing their goods from all internal taxation by payment of 2 per cent ad valorem, that is, one-half of the 5 per cent import or export duty, when a transit pass shall issue. The advantage of the transit pass grows with the distance traversed, as more likin stations are passed without additional taxation. But frequent endeavours are made by the authorities to override treaty rights. The likin collectorate for Yunnan is managed at Yunnan-Fu, and its proceeds go to the provincial government. Everything\n\nPage 554\nPage 585\n\n* In India 4 annas (or 4d.) per ton per mile is usually estimated as the cost of cartage for bulky goods. Mr. Bourne's estimate of 2.3d. per ton per mile for pack animals therefore appears extremely low. His colleagues on the Blackburn Mission give 3d. to 6d. per ton per mile as the rate on the route from Sui-Fu to Yunnan-Fu, which is probably correct for Yunnan generally.",
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"content_text": "## \n\n6 \n\nIf a foreigner wishes to sell goods on his own account direct to the consumer, he does not receive such a bonus and is placed at a corresponding disadvantage.\n\nNo comparison can be drawn between such farms and those granted by foreign countries. The latter are avowedly monopolies—the exclusive trade in opium being vested, for instance, in the Hong Kong farmer; but China has by Treaty undertaken never again to grant a pure monopoly to any mercantile Syndicate, and any grant which in the slightest degree infringes such stipulation would seem to be illegal.\n\nAgain, is not a tax, the increment of which is merely intended to increase the provincial revenue as a whole, instead of being, as the name is supposed to imply, devoted to the purely local needs of the district where it is levied, an increased import duty? As a matter of fact, a terminal tax, strictly speaking, does not exist in China; `tso-li` taxation is simply a pretext whereby the provincial authorities seek to recover part of the loss sustained by the Treaty commutation of transit dues. When levied by officials on goods not under transit pass, it is charged at the li-kin station at the town for which the goods are destined, and they may hence be termed transit li-kin, inasmuch as it is one item out of the many which such goods are compounded by a single payment. On this river, quotations of freight are made by native junks at certain rates, which include all li-kin charges. (Note, e.g., Freight from Nanning to Wuchow is 25 m. per picul, and plus li-kin, it is 50 m., but 25 m. by itself would only in rare instances cover all squeezes.) It is thus impossible to say how much is freight or how much is li-kin, and, even if the amount of the latter be ascertained, of what items it is composed.\n\nShould the `tso-li` be levied by a mercantile Syndicate, it is invariably collected at the port of import, as the cost of collecting it all over the province would be too great. Goods under transit pass are hence, theoretically, exempt from this levy, but few Chinese dealers would dare to resist the attempts the Syndicate would subsequently make to recover what it considered its due.\n\nUnder these circumstances, seeing that `tso-li` taxation levied by officials is indistinguishable from other li-kin charged at the port of arrival, and that levied by merchants is only collected at the port of import, the only conclusion one can apparently arrive at is that it is: (1) Either that it is not payable by transit-pass goods under any circumstances; or (2) that, if payable when levied officially, transit-pass goods are, by a parity of reasoning, at the same time liable to all other charges made at the Li-kin Office stationed at their point of destination.\n\n(Note—If goods under transit pass having passed the last barrier in the shape of the li-kin station at their point of destination after arrival at the consumer's place of business are called on to pay `tso-li`, is not that practically equivalent to taking them back to the last barrier to satisfy charges from which their passes protected them? And if they can be taken back and made to pay one item, why should they not be made to pay all, or even taken back to a barrier already passed at another town?)\n\nOne point in connection with the transit trade is worthy of consideration, and that is the legality of disposing of inward transit pass goods en route to their destination. According to Sir Thomas Wade, Lord Elgin was certainly of the opinion that a British merchant, proceeding into the interior with a passport and a cargo under transit pass, would be at liberty to dispose of his goods as advantageously as possible as he went along. Sir Robert Hart has quite recently given expression to the same opinion, and I venture to think that, were it clearly shown to the Chinese Government that this would not in any way involve a loss of revenue or open the door to fraud, it might be possible to obtain their consent to its being done. The permission would certainly be made use of, and might be restricted to foreigners only. It is not unlikely that, during the next year or two, foreign merchants will make journeys into the interior, with the object of discovering trade routes and particulars regarding exports, and it would be of great assistance to them financially were it possible to do a little trading en route. Particulars of every lot sold would, of course, have to be indorsed on the pass by the Li-kin Office concerned, so that there could always be a means of verifying the quantity carried by comparing the number of bales sold, and the number yet remaining in hand, on arrival at any particular station or at the ultimate destination.\n\nIn addition to the imports by every steamer from Hong Kong, boat-loads of foreign goods under transit pass from Canton pass up the river, it being found cheaper to hire a boat for 45 dollars, which will carry 100 bales of yarn, than to pay 1 dol. 20 c. per bale per steamer.\n\nLarge quantities of foreign cloth cut into half-widths, so that they can be more easily manipulated by native tailors, are dyed in the delta and imported. Japanese merchants have recently visited Wuchow bringing with them sample packages of Japanese yarn and cloth, for which they found a ready sale. The latter article is gaining ground everywhere in China on account of its cheapness and other qualities, and will doubtless not fail to be appreciated by the natives of this province. Agents of the Russian Oil Syndicate have also been here and propose shortly to establish a depot for kerosene oil in bulk.\n\nThe establishment of rails in Hong Kong to spin yarn and dye piece-goods ought to prove successful, as they will practically monopolize the import trade of South-east China. It is proposed to grow cotton in Borneo for the purpose of supplying the raw material, and, once the initial difficulty of securing skilled labour is overcome, they will have few other obstacles to contend with. Indigo and the tubs, known as the false gambier, used for dyeing cloths that peculiar brown, so characteristic of the clothing of the lower orders in South China, are produced in Kuangsi in large quantities. The best quality of the latter comes from Lungchou, and its price here varies from 60 m. to 1 t. 40 m. per picul, according to the season of the year. In the event of the import of colonial dyed cottons assuming large proportions, it would be desirable to place them in the import Tariff on the same footing as foreign cottons dyed in China, i.e., only charging them 1 t. 5 m. per 100 catties instead of 1 m. 5 c. a-piece, which, although only half-widths, they would have to pay under present conditions.\n\nJardine, Matheson, and Co.'s mill, it is anticipated, will commence spinning within eighteen months, and Holiday, Wise, and Co. expect ere long to float another Company of the same kind.\n\nThe development of the export trade is of necessity a slower process than that of the import trade. Communication with the various centres where goods for export are collected is slow, and the local brokers have not yet had time to open up relations with their up-country constituents on the new basis.\n\nNanning and Pose are the great entrepots of trade for Yunnan and Kueichou, the former principally for imports and the latter for exports. The agents are almost invariably Cantonese, and the banking is done through Fatshan. The modes of conveyance west of Posê, or rather Po-ngai, three days further on, are donkeys, ponies, and occasionally camels, and the exports there collected are hides, aniseed oil, star aniseed, nut galls, Yunnan tin, moxa, and native opium. The staples of export of the Nanning District are grain, sugar, ground-nut oil, ground-nut cake, beans, and paper. In addition to the above, Wuchow exports indigo, raw silk, cassia, rhea fibre, wood oil, and timber.\n\nEarly in July, the Governor-General informed the Commissioner of Customs that no outward transit passes were to be granted for timber, oil, bean-cake, and grain. Except in the case of the latter article, his Excellency will find difficulty in obtaining recognition of his right thus arbitrarily to make restrictions not sanctioned by Treaty, and I believe the Inspector-General has told Mr. Acheson that he is unable to confirm those instructions.\n\nNo test case has as yet arisen, but an application for an outward transit pass to bring down timber for export to Hong Kong is contemplated, and, as I should certainly transmit it to the Chinese authorities, it will be interesting to see what arguments they will bring forward against it. The great difficulty lies, of course, in measuring the timber and ascertaining its exact quantity, and a further difficulty would arise when the raft came to be exported. (Vide note at the end of the section on exports.)\n\nI have succeeded in having outward transit passes issued without the formality of bond, and fifty have been applied for to bring down hides, aniseed oil, star aniseed, sugar, leather, paper, &c., from Nanning and Posê. As little of the produce has so far reached Wuchow, it has been impossible to ascertain if everything has worked smoothly. Had it been necessary to comply with the formalities in force at Canton, those passes could not have been applied for here, as none of the local agents of British firms have authority to sign bonds on behalf of their principals.\n\nIt is gratifying to be able to record that a beginning has been made towards utilizing the much-talked-of mineral wealth of these provinces. Just across the Kuangtung border, in the Feng-ch'uan District, there are some coal mines at which work has been fitfully carried on for many years past. The arrival of steamers and the opening of this port gave an impulse to the industry, and the proprietors lately entered into a contract undertaking to supply the two Hong Kong steamers with 150 tons a month for half a year. The steaming qualities of the coal are very fair, and the price is below that of the Hong Kong cost of Japanese coal. Those two steamers thus obtain their whole supply locally, and the Canton steamers endeavoured to make a similar contract, but the permanent supply of a large quantity cannot at present be guaranteed. The methods of working are primitive, and the cost of transport from the pit mouth to the West River is heavy, as the small boats which have to bring it down return empty. The commencement has, however, been made, and it is to be hoped the adventure will prove successful.",
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"content_text": "## Protection of Hongkong Companies in China\n\n26115\n\nA\n\nTaree 20 NOV\n\n**Protection of Hongkong Companies in China**\n\nHongkong Attorney-General's opinion, enclosure No.3 in Mr. Mansfield's No.40 of September 6th, 1898.\n\n## Minute by Mr. Goodman, Attorney-General of Hongkong\n\nHon. Col. Secretary.\n\nThere appears to be in England no prohibition against foreigners subscribing to a Memorandum of Association under section 6 of the Companies Act 1862, and forming a Company under the English Acts. As our Ordinances follow the English Acts, the same result follows here.\n\nIn the case of the House of Lords, Reuss (Princess of) v. Bos, L.R. 5 H.L. 176, Lord Cairns, in giving judgment at page 199, says: (A.D. 1871) \"It is quite true that these seven persons were foreigners, but in my opinion that was no objection whatever to the incorporation, because, if in other respects, foreigners comply with the Regulations of",
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"content_text": "# SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS\n| From and to whom, and date. | Subject. |\n| --- | --- |\n| No. 1. War Office to Treasury, 13th November, 1898. | Requesting authority to purchase a piece of land (and building thereon) within the cantonment of Hong Kong, belonging to a private individual, for a sum not exceeding 30,000 dollars. Building to be utilized to meet requirement indicated by Items 7, 8, and 15 of the Barrack Accommodation Scheme. (See `[A 385]`.) |\n| No. 2. Treasury to War Office, 29th November, 1893. | Cannot concur in proposed expenditure until an agreement has been arrived at with the Colony as to the proportion of cost of the Barrack Scheme to be borne by Colonial funds. |\n| No. 3. War Office to Treasury, 23rd December, 1893. | Pressing for sanction of above proposal in view of the urgent necessity of housing the increased garrison, and the desirability of acquiring all property within the cantonment. |\n| No. 4. Treasury to War Office, 4th January, 1894. | Sanctioning proposal in No. 1. |\n| No. 5. Colonial Office to War Office, 4th July, 1895. | Transmitting despatch from the Governor, and proposing to approve suggestion contained in last paragraph thereof. |\n| The Governor, Hong Kong, to Colonial Office, 10th May, 1895. | Stating that the above-mentioned land, which is subject to a Crown rent, has been purchased by the military authorities, who claim that they should be exempt from paying the rent. The Governor thinks that the old ruling, under which such a course would have been admissible, has been superseded by the Colonial Office despatch of 30th December, 1894; and proposes, following the spirit of that circular, that the amount of the Crown rent should be entered to the credit of the Colony in the special account referred to in paragraph 4 of the despatch. |\n| War Office to Colonial Office, 3rd August, 1895. | Agreeing to proposal in preceding despatch, but suggesting that, instead of recording the rent annually in the special account, it would be better to enter the capitalized value thereof at, say, 23 years' purchase. |\n| Colonial Office to War Office, 8th August, 1895. | Agreeing to above proposal, but stating that the land will, in other respects, remain subject to the Crown lease. |\n\n## Correspondence Relating to the Purchase of Lands, &c., Hong Kong.\n\nPage 491\n\n**War Office to Treasury, 13th November, 1893.**\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury that, ever since 1885, the great importance of acquiring all land belonging to private individuals within the cantonment at Hong Kong has been fully recognized.\n\nIn consequence, funds were voted in the Army Estimates for 1885-86 and subsequent years, with a view to carrying out a scheme of purchase, estimated at 64,170, and property was actually purchased from willing sellers to the amount of 36,068.\n\nThe purchases there came to an end, because the owners of the remaining two properties were unwilling to sell at a reasonable price, and there was no power to compel them.\n\nThe owner of one of these properties has now offered his building (Lot 73 B) to the Secretary of State for War, who has had it valued by the Director of Works for the Colony.\n\nThe plot in question is 7,040 square feet in extent, about three-fourths covered with substantial three-storey buildings of granite and brick, and the Director of Works reports that a fair value is from 25,000 dollars to 30,000 dollars.\n\nIn 1885 the then Surveyor-General valued it at 28,025 dollars, with the remark that in times of speculation it might bring in as much as 30,000 dollars, but at that time the owner asked and insisted on 45,000 dollars as the price of the lot.\n\nMr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman considers it possible that he might be enabled to obtain the property for 25,000 dollars, but I am to solicit their Lordships' sanction for its acquisition for a sum not exceeding 30,000 dollars (which at the present low rate of exchange of the dollar would amount to 3,875), which sum, or so much thereof as may be required to effect the purchase, it is proposed to charge to the Imperial Defence Loan--\"Barracks at Coaling Stations.\"\n\nThe building in question would be utilized in the two upper stories as quarters for Warrant Officers and married soldiers, and on the ground floor as a school, and would be covered therefore by Items 7, 8 and 15 of the Scheme of Barrack Accommodation at Hong Kong which accompanied the War Office letter of the 27th July, 1893, `Hong Kong 2`.\n\nAnd the Colony will therefore eventually be called upon to contribute half the cost, or whatever proportion may be ultimately decided upon, as their share of the cost of providing barrack accommodation for the increased garrison.\n\nItems 7 and 8 came fourth and fifth in order of precedence in Return B, which was forwarded to you with the War Office letter of the 31st October, 1893, `Hong Kong 2`.\n\nItem 15 came much lower down in that Return; but as the ground floor is not well adapted for quarters, yet is very suitable for a school (which is much required), it is considered that it would be best to utilize it in that way.\n\nWM. WOODALL.\n\n*No. 3 of \"Barracks\" Correspondence (`A 335`).\n+No. 4 of \"Barracks\" (`...`). \n`Hong Kong 2`\n`4608` \nPage 491 \nNo. \n1 \n1 \n491 \nCorrespondence Relating to the Purchase of \nLands, &c., Hong Kong. \n\nbecomes \n\n# SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS\n| From and to whom, and date. | Subject. |\n| --- | --- |\n| No. 1. War Office to Treasury, 13th November, 1898. | Requesting authority to purchase a piece of land (and building thereon) within the cantonment of Hong Kong, belonging to a private individual, for a sum not exceeding 30,000 dollars. Building to be utilized to meet requirement indicated by Items 7, 8, and 15 of the Barrack Accommodation Scheme. (See `[A 385]`.) |\n| No. 2. Treasury to War Office, 29th November, 1893. | Cannot concur in proposed expenditure until an agreement has been arrived at with the Colony as to the proportion of cost of the Barrack Scheme to be borne by Colonial funds. |\n| No. 3. War Office to Treasury, 23rd December, 1893. | Pressing for sanction of above proposal in view of the urgent necessity of housing the increased garrison, and the desirability of acquiring all property within the cantonment. |\n| No. 4. Treasury to War Office, 4th January, 1894. | Sanctioning proposal in No. 1. |\n| No. 5. Colonial Office to War Office, 4th July, 1895. | Transmitting despatch from the Governor, and proposing to approve suggestion contained in last paragraph thereof. |\n| The Governor, Hong Kong, to Colonial Office, 10th May, 1895. | Stating that the above-mentioned land, which is subject to a Crown rent, has been purchased by the military authorities, who claim that they should be exempt from paying the rent. The Governor thinks that the old ruling, under which such a course would have been admissible, has been superseded by the Colonial Office despatch of 30th December, 1894; and proposes, following the spirit of that circular, that the amount of the Crown rent should be entered to the credit of the Colony in the special account referred to in paragraph 4 of the despatch. |\n| War Office to Colonial Office, 3rd August, 1895. | Agreeing to proposal in preceding despatch, but suggesting that, instead of recording the rent annually in the special account, it would be better to enter the capitalized value thereof at, say, 23 years' purchase. |\n| Colonial Office to War Office, 8th August, 1895. | Agreeing to above proposal, but stating that the land will, in other respects, remain subject to the Crown lease. |\n\n## Correspondence Relating to the Purchase of Lands, &c., Hong Kong.\n\nPage 491\n\n**War Office to Treasury, 13th November, 1893.**\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury that, ever since 1885, the great importance of acquiring all land belonging to private individuals within the cantonment at Hong Kong has been fully recognized. In consequence, funds were voted in the Army Estimates for 1885-86 and subsequent years, with a view to carrying out a scheme of purchase, estimated at 64,170, and property was actually purchased from willing sellers to the amount of 36,068.\n\nThe purchases there came to an end because the owners of the remaining two properties were unwilling to sell at a reasonable price, and there was no power to compel them. The owner of one of these properties has now offered his building (Lot 73 B) to the Secretary of State for War, who has had it valued by the Director of Works for the Colony.\n\nThe plot in question is 7,040 square feet in extent, about three-fourths covered with substantial three-storey buildings of granite and brick, and the Director of Works reports that a fair value is from 25,000 dollars to 30,000 dollars. In 1885 the then Surveyor-General valued it at 28,025 dollars, with the remark that in times of speculation it might bring in as much as 30,000 dollars, but at that time the owner asked and insisted on 45,000 dollars as the price of the lot.\n\nMr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman considers it possible that he might be enabled to obtain the property for 25,000 dollars, but I am to solicit their Lordships' sanction for its acquisition for a sum not exceeding 30,000 dollars (which at the present low rate of exchange of the dollar would amount to 3,875), which sum, or so much thereof as may be required to effect the purchase, it is proposed to charge to the Imperial Defence Loan--\"Barracks at Coaling Stations.\"\n\nThe building in question would be utilized in the two upper stories as quarters for Warrant Officers and married soldiers, and on the ground floor as a school, and would be covered therefore by Items 7, 8 and 15 of the Scheme of Barrack Accommodation at Hong Kong which accompanied the War Office letter of the 27th July, 1893, `Hong Kong 2`. And the Colony will therefore eventually be called upon to contribute half the cost, or whatever proportion may be ultimately decided upon, as their share of the cost of providing barrack accommodation for the increased garrison.\n\nItems 7 and 8 came fourth and fifth in order of precedence in Return B, which was forwarded to you with the War Office letter of the 31st October, 1893, `Hong Kong 2`. Item 15 came much lower down in that Return; but as the ground floor is not well adapted for quarters, yet is very suitable for a school (which is much required), it is considered that it would be best to utilize it in that way.\n\nWM. WOODALL.\n\n*No. 3 of \"Barracks\" Correspondence (`A 335`).\n+No. 4 of \"Barracks\" (`...`).\n`Hong Kong 2`\n`4608`",
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"content_text": "Jaime Shan \n\n22 \n\nThe burning of coral or shells is, as a rule, better for building purposes, so the absence of rock limestone, if such turns out to be the case, does not matter. A lead mine was worked for some years on the side of Tai-Mo Shan, but the working discontinued for some reason about 6 years ago. Galena was also found near Kowloon, and on the north side of Lantao, and elsewhere. These workings should be examined by a mining expert, and the richness of the ore ascertained. The natives also speak of alluvial tin being found. Silver and lead were worked on the south of the island of Lantao within recent years, but without success financially, possibly due rather to Chinese official interference and bad management than to the absence of a paying richness in the ore. Expensive buildings were erected on the sea-shore, and machinery said to have cost 100,000 dollars imported and erected. Even when the speculation collapsed, the plant was valued at $30,000, all of which is said to have been abandoned. Only the foundations and cement floors of some of the buildings remain, and the brick chimney shaft of the smelting works.\n\nOn the Tai Mo Shan range, gneiss, syenite, and trap rocks predominate. Massive boulders of gneiss of a bluish grey or greenish colour are scattered over the mountain side and in the ravines. On the slopes in which the best pasturage is found, there is a stiff yellow clay, with veins of quartz gravel.\n\nThe smaller Lantao Island is chiefly granite on the south face and trap rocks on the north, the latter being consequently much better covered with vegetation and trees. Islands, such as Cheung-chau, P'ing-chau, and Lamma, seem to be almost entirely granite.\n\nIt will be understood that as only 12 days in all were spent in the exploration of the mainland and islands, no accurate or close geological survey was possible; the predominating rocks were judged as much from the stone used in the paved footpaths, stream crossings, sea walls, and houses, as from the bed rocks on the hill sides, usually difficult of access. This geological description of the country is, therefore, of a very sketchy and imperfect character, and a closer and more careful examination by a professional geologist, or an expert in mineralogy, will doubtless bring to light much that has escaped my observation.\n\n## Appendix No. 3.\n\n### TABLE SHOWING THE DISTRIBUTION OF RACES.\n\n| No. | Division | Punti | Hakka | Total Population in each Division | No. of Villages | Population |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 4 | Cn-Long... | 9918 | | | | |\n| | | Punti | | 5,000 | 4 | 5,000 |\n| 2 | Sham Chun | Punti | 20 | 12,900 | | |\n| | | Hakka | 6 | 1,180 | 26 | 14,080 |\n| 3 | Sha Tau Kok | Hakka | 51 | 8,530 | | |\n| | | Punti | 1 | 70 | 55 | 8,600 |\n| | | | | | 49 | 20,980 |\n| | | | | | 10 | 2,040 |\n| | | | | | 59 | 23,020 |\n| 5 | (How Loon) | | | | 60 | 10,210 |\n| | Kau Lung (Koudron) | Punti | 22 | 5,830 | | |\n| 6 | | Hakka | 32 | 9,200 | 54 | 15,030 |\n| 7 | Islands | Punti | 5 | 9,150 | | |\n| | | Hakka | 31 | 4,460 | | |\n| | | Tanka | 7 | 110 | 43 | 13,720 |\n| Total | | | | | 423 | 100,320 |\n| 5 | Sheung Ü | Punti | | | | |\n| | | Hakka | :: | :: | 10 | 23 |\n\n## No. 4\n\n### Report on Appendix\n\nOne of the first and most pressing needs is a good cart road on an easy trace from the shores of Mirs Bay, where it approaches nearest to Kowloon city, over to British Kowloon. Such a road can readily be made as a continuation of the road already constructed on the west side of the peninsula to Mong-kok-tsui. The trace would pass through Tai-kok-tsui and along the sea coast past Lai-chi-kok, Kei-pa-kang, &c., rising by an easy gradient until it passed round the end of the southerly mountain range, and entered the valley leading down towards Sha-tin Inlet in Mirs Bay. Leaving Sha-tin on the right, the trace would pass the villages of Tai-Wai, Cheung-Lung, Fo-tan, and keeping up by Kau-to, drop again to the important centre of Tai-po market, Tai-po Hiu at the head of Tolo harbour. From there, the road should follow the existing Tai-po paths up the valley to the north-west to Sham Chun. The line I have indicated only scales 22 miles on the map, and I am of opinion that a good carriage road trace would turn out to be not more than 25 or 26 miles. I put this road first, as I consider it far and away the most important; it would pass through the centre of the territory, and not only would afford rapid and easy access to Hong Kong markets for villagers with produce to dispose of, but would render the administration of the new territory simple. Besides this, there is daily communication by junks from different points on Mirs Bay with Tai-po-hiu and Sha-wai-tin.\n\nNext in importance, I would put a road from Sham Chün to Sha-au-kok or Starling Inlet. This road would be about 10 miles long and on very easy gradients, the greatest elevation between these two towns being only 80 feet above sea level.\n\nThe road on the east side of British Kowloon through Hung-Ho should be carried on to Kowloon city, and generally following the existing footpath through a low pass in the chain of hills, be continued on to the important town of Sai-Kung on the shores of Port Shelter. This road should eventually be continued across the dividing range to the shore of Tolo Harbour in Mirs Bay.\n\nThe roads so far described should, in my opinion, be what I would designate as second-class carriage roads, 12 feet wide, all rivers and streams permanently bridged with stone or iron structures, stone cross drains, and surfaced with the best gravel or disintegrated rock obtainable locally, all soft ground having a bottoming of large stones; 1 in 18 should be the steepest gradients permitted. On such roads, Chinese ponies in light two-wheeled carriages could readily accomplish 8 miles an hour, bringing Sham-Chun within a three hours' drive of Kowloon. I roughly estimate the cost of such roads at $10,000 a mile, but in the absence of surveys and sections, this must be considered rather of a guess.\n\nBesides these, some good bridle roads should be constructed, the most important being one leaving the first main road above described where it enters the valley leading to Sha-tin, skirting the hills close above Tsun-wan, following the telegraph line path through one of the gaps on Tai-Mo-Shan down into the Pat-heung Valley, and so on to Un-long-hiu and Ping-shan by Kam-tin. A road joining Lung-hau with Sham-Chun would also be desirable. Another useful road would be one connecting Pat-heung Valley with Tai-po-hiu through the Lam-tsün valley, a low ridge of hills between the two making this a simple matter. These bridle roads should be 6 feet wide, with stone culverts over the smaller streams, and paved fords over the larger ones, to save expense in bridging. The gradients should be limited to 1 in 10, but carriage road gradients adopted if possible, with a view to future developments. The natural surface might be left. I estimate that such roads should not cost more than $2,000 a mile.",
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"content_text": "## Koothura boundary.\n\n2\n\nI have carefully considered the details and Expenditure loads and building for the first two years. The Cost of Survey, of police launcher. And while the Estimates made without the necessary data will be at best approximate, they afford a guide to the minimum that will be required.\n\n3. The Captain Superintendent of Police has examined the Corruary with a view to determining the required strength of the force and the location of Stations. He reports that including Water police stations, Fifteen stations will be necessary. The force will consist of Twenty-five (25) European, Thirty-six (36) Indians, and Seventy (70) Chinese. Their force includes the crews of three police launches. The net additional cost of this force to the Colony will be $45,900. The total cost is estimated at $59,700, but this will provide the greater security.",
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"content_text": "cording to the law. In his reply to the governor, of which I obtained a copy through the German Consul, the magistrate of Tsang-shing, with whom we have no relations at all, confirms the truth of the whole story as I have told above, adding that the Catholic Christians of Pak-kong and neighbourhood are known to be lawless people, always bent on mischief. He even goes so far as to call their teacher (a Chinese) \"a chief of evil doers, an originator of calamities.\"* The Protestant Christians of that district,\" he goes on to say, \"were, so far as he knew them, a law-abiding people, mostly consisting of farmers and shopkeepers, not daring to cause disturbances or to act wrongly.\"†\n\nNevertheless the Chinese government remains inactive. The evil doers escape unpunished. More than that; they are allowed to pursue their nefarious activities. No one dares to attack them, because they are screened under \"the protecting banner\" of the church, or rather of France.\n\nIn his memorial presented to the governor, the magistrate mentions the fact that most of the evil doers being Tung-kau people, belong to the jurisdiction of his colleague, the magistrate of Tang-kau. This man knows the individual names of the evil doers and could deal with them one by one. He has been ordered by the governor and entreated by Mr. Zahn to arrest them. All in vain. He would be the last to do it, since he himself, though a heathen, is so entirely in the hands of the Catholics. His secretary, by whose help he obtained part of the money to buy his post, is a \"Catholic.\" Some time ago this man was guilty of embezzlement as a lottery office keeper in Canton. Prosecuted by the governor, he fled to the Catholics, and was accepted by them. Now he is, as I have said, secretary to the Tang-kon magistrate, and carries out his exactions under the \"banner\" of the church. Part of the gentry of Tang-kan applied the other day to the governor at Canton to put this man on his trial as a prisoner. All in vain. Screened by the church he is unassailable, though he has been, and still is, one of the vilest of characters. Since this man is known to be acting in concert with some of the inmates of the Catholic chapel at Tung-kun, it is not to be wondered at that the magistrate dares to remain inactive; but I hope the last word has not yet been spoken. Though we are obliged to put upon ourselves some kind of restriction on account of the undesired rapprochement between Germany and France, we trust that power enough is left in the hands of our Consul to insist that the terms agreed upon shall be carried out effectively, the more so since the French Consul has given him the explicit assurance that the engagements entered into shall be fulfilled.\n\n* G*. \n\n†十白红腿音教民或淼店營生或脂为您漿大箾安分未敢滋事為非\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nBEWEEN ROMAN QUARRELS \n\nCATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT \n\nMISSIONS.\n\n(Daily Press, 11st September, 1899.) The keen animosity that prevails between Roman Catholics and Protestants in China, and the attempts made by rival factions of Natives to secure the support of the missionaries in their local disputes and clan fights, are calculated to raise a crop of serious difficulties. From various parts of the country accounts come to hand from time to time of fights between the adherents of the two forms of the Christian religion, and with the growth of Christian communities in numbers, power, and influence, we may eventually see something in the nature of a pseudo-religious war break out, if the missionaries cannot succeed in controlling their congregations better than they seem to be able to do at present.\n\nThe Ostasiatische Lloyd in a recent number published a remarkable story of an occurrence almost on the borders of our own colony, namely, in the Tungkan district, which has a direct bearing upon this question. The story is prefaced by a few remarks to the effect that the disorder in Kwangsung exercises a prejudicial influence upon the peaceable development of the missions in the South, that mixed up in the disturbances are found Christians who, as so often happens in Kwangtung, try to make political and personal gain out of their religion, and that in quarrels not infrequently the hangers on of the Catholics are to be found on the one side and those of the Protestants on the other.\n\nThe narrative of the particular occurrence in question has reached our contemporary in a fragmentary form and with what are evidently bold embellishments, but the editor has heard something of the other side of the case and endeavours to hold the scales fairly. It is stated that on Saturday, the 28th July, Herr FRANZ ZAHN, a Rhenish missionary stationed in Tungkun, was informed by a few of the local Christians that the village of Pak-kung, an out-station of the mission, had been attacked by a band of some three hundred men under the direction of the French priest, Father JULIEN, during the night, and had been plundered. Herr ZAHN, to whom the statement seemed incredible, immediately set out for the place, accompanied by an evangelist, to ascertain the facts. On his arrival at Pakkung he was immediately surrounded by a band of some twenty men armed with swords, pistols, and knives, who threw him to the ground and robbed him, the clothes being torn off his back. The evangelist fared no better. Herr ZAHN was then dragged into the Catholic chapel, bound hand and foot, his neck was loaded with a heavy steel chain, and he was thus placed before Father JULIEN. The latter, holding a gun in his left hand and with his fist raised, sprang towards Herr ZAHN, and seemed to be directing the people, so that Herr ZAHN took him for the head robber. In the presence of this man Herr ZAHN was also beaten and derided. To the question why he had come there Herr ZAHN made answer that he wished to visit and speak with Father JULIEN, \"That is he,\" said all, pointing to the leader.\n\n\"We must omit,\" says the Ostasiatische Lloyd, \"what took place between the two Europeans. Our authority was not present at the interview and to avoid misunderstanding we must confine ourselves to what was reported to him.\" This apparently cautious statement throws suspicion on the whole narrative, for it is evidently founded on hearsay through Chinese at that, for he. Herr Zahn being the original authority he would have been able to report the conversation. However, passing over the interview, the narrative goes on to say that on Sunday morning, after they had been compelled to sign a document which they afterwards learnt was a statement that they parted in peace, Herr ZAHN and his companion were released, and almost dead with fatigue they arrived back at Tungkun. The matter has since been represented to the German Consulate.\n\nOur contemporary's authority continues:-\"It is high time something was done. The French priests carry themselves as if they were already lords of Kwangtung, and they will take advantage of the weakness of the Chinese Government to further strengthen their position. The latter knows too well what is going on to be ignorant of the priests with arms threatening not only Chinese life and property, but also the Protestant missionaries.\"\n\nFrom another source the Ostasiatische Lloyd learns that Father JULIEN afterwards explained that it was correct that he had become involved in a disturbance, but stated that he was not opposed to Herr ZAHN, as the latter seemed to assume, and that when he sprang forward at the time of their interview it was for the purpose of appeasing the mob and restraining them from outrage. Our contemporary continues:-\"In any case a searching enquiry by the German authorities will be necessary. Father JULIEN afterwards excused himself to Herr ZAHN and stated that the Protestants would be compensated by the Catholic mission for their actual losses. Also it seems that Father JULIEN is shortly leaving Pakkung for another district, and that he had only gone there a few months before in compliance with a request from people who, it transpired, lived in contention with their neighbours and were desirous of securing the aid of the Catholic mission.\" Such is the information concerning this remarkable case furnished by our Shanghai German contemporary.\n\nNo one will for a moment believe that the Roman Catholic priest was in any way personally responsible for the outrages to which Herr ZAHN was subjected, and if the latter, as alleged, signed a document stating that they parted in peace it is incredible that he would do so in ignorance of its contents. So far therefore as the personal relations of Father JULIEN and Herr ZAHN are concerned no complaint seems to lie against the former. The incident, however, affords an indication of a peculiar and important movement that is going on in China, but one which does not often obtrude itself on the notice of foreign residents and which is therefore not likely to receive the attention it deserves. All over China the assistance of the missionaries is in request for political and pecuniary reasons, and keen rivalry exists between the Protestants and Roman Catholics. It is only occasionally that such a state of affairs is brought into prominence, but this happens occasionally, when such incidents as that at Pakking are recorded, and it was only the other day that Bishops of the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches were engaged in a newspaper controversy at Shanghai respecting the rights and wrongs of a quarrel between their respective adherents in one of the districts in which the clergy of both Churches are at work.",
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"content_text": "J\n\n3/6490.\n\nAdmiralty,\n\n8th June, 1899.\n\n40.1\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 17th ultimo, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that they have no objection to twelve men of the Royal Marines (between 18 and 25 years of age) being allowed to volunteer for service with the Hong Kong Police Force.\n\nThe conditions which would attach to men who so volunteered would be those laid down in Article 1150 of the Army Pay Warrant, viz., \"their time under the Colonial Government would not be allowed to count as qualifying service for Pension, unless they returned three years before completing time for pension.\"\n\nWith reference to the second paragraph of your letter, I am to request that a further supply of the form setting forth the conditions of service may be sent for circulation, together with information as to the qualifications laid down.\n\nUnder Secretary of State,\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE,\n\nS.V.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) Evan Macgregor.",
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"content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote `N. 7806`, and address letter to The Secretary, Admiralty, Whitehall, London, S.W.\n\n18002 \nVee? 9 JUN 00 \n63 \n\nAdmiralty, 7th June 1900.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the 52 Non Commissioned Officers and men of the Royal Marines who are now serving with the Hong Kong Police Force, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies that as these men have all less than 12 years' service as Marines, the arrangement with regard to reckoning time for their Naval pension is that they shall not be entitled to count their Colonial service as qualifying for such pension unless they return to the Corps three years before they complete 21 years service.\n\nAs it is probable that there may be some who will take advantage of this concession, it will be necessary that they should be now informed that if still in Colonial employment on the completion of 12 years from the date of their enlistment in the Royal Marines, it will be requisite, if they desire not to lose their right...\n\n## COLONIAL OFFICE",
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"content_text": "## 492\n\nSudden and violent freshets come down from Yunnan between May and October, but the open country is rarely flooded, and the river not only rises but also falls very fast. No town of even third-rate importance is passed en route, and though Ping Ma and other places the cultivation of paddy, indigo, rhea, &c., is dense and extensive, there are still large uncultivated areas even close to the river and in the valley bottoms.\n\nThe West River Valley would certainly bear a much larger population if the public peace could be guaranteed. It is to such a gradual increase of the population, to the development of mines, and to the encouragement of such special products as silk, indigo, rhea, &c., that we must look for an increase in the now not very great volume of Kwansi trade.\n\nThe banks of the West River right away into Yünnan are infested still with bands of pirates, or \"yin yung.\" The \"army\" of \"Maréchal Su,\" on the southern frontier, furnishes an inexhaustible supply of Bardolphs, Nyms, and Pistols. Just before I passed along (September 1899), three opium robberies, accompanied with violence and homicide, had occurred, and the river traffic was reduced to a minimum. The road north from Po-sê into Kueichou, which was impassable when the Blackburn Commission passed through Kueichow, is now open, the merchants having put up a large sum to secure an efficient policing; but the river itself, especially above Po-sê, is as bad as ever, and until this brigandage is suppressed, it is hopeless to expect a large trade.\n\nThe river between Nanning and Po-sê will not be navigable for steamers, except occasionally at high water. As a light 3-foot draught boat could do the journey in three days in good water, it may prove profitable to take advantage of a favourable river to run up to Po-sê with sycee and yarn and bring down opium and aniseed oil. The extra security and speed would probably admit of high freights, but there is always the risk of the river suddenly going down and leaving the steamer high and dry.\n\nShallows rather than rapids are the trouble all along the West River. Po-sê is a busy little town of some 12,000 inhabitants. When I was there quantities of Kueichou opium were coming down, but the Yunnan trade is trifling. Mules very rarely come to Po-sê, and the journey across the frontier to Pê Ngai has to be performed in small sampans worked by Shans. The rapids are violent and the scenery magnificent, but the robbers are stated to be numerous.\n\nPê Ngai is a wretched little town, the usual terminus of the mule route from Yunnan, but it is by no means easy to get beasts at a moment's notice. Pê Ngai, 700 feet, to Kwang-uan, 4,000 feet (the first town on the plateau of Yunnan), is eight stages over a serbonian bog which the Chinese are pleased to call a road. The country is all ups and downs, the rains are long and heavy, and no one ever spends a cent on repairs. The consequent delay, damage to goods, and wear and tear of beasts is a most serious item of expense. The country itself up to Kwangnan is very thinly populated by Shans and Chinese from Ssuchuan and Canton. The poverty and dirt in their dwellings is deplorable, and it is not surprising that fever and plague hold permanent session here.\n\nOn arriving at Kwangnan the exhausted and mud-caked traveller has a choice of routes; to Mengtze direct is seven days; the roads on the plateau are better, but the country up to the Valley of Mengtze is as poor as the Pê Ngai district. I took a short cut, avoiding the city of Kai Hua, and travelled for four days through lonely valleys filled with marshes, the home of wild-fowl and malaria; here and there were some mud and wattle huts, where the few inhabitants shiver away their ague-stricken existence. From the commercial point of view the country is the abomination of desolation. I found the natives new to quinine, and I was bombarded with requests for the \"white frost,\" which in many cases it would have been sheer cruelty to refuse.\n\nFrom Kuangnan to Yunnan is about fifteen days. Kwangnan itself is a sleepy hollow of no commercial importance.\n\nThus goods coming up from Nanning to Po-sê will still have a hard journey of at least twenty days before reaching the real markets of Yunnan. Unless something is done to clear the road of mud and robbers the prospect cannot be considered good.\n\nIn eight days' travel between Pê Ngai and Kwangnan I met two large opium caravans (about 200 beasts in each); besides that nothing but a few loads of hides, bones, and medicines. There are two li-kins en route.\n\nMengtze from every point of view, and especially the military, is a place of the utmost importance to the Chinese Government. It is therefore not surprising to find that the garrison consists of four officers, two men, and a boy, all of whom have conscientious objections to having anything to do with \"villanous salpetre.\" Mengtze is the key of the chief natural trade route from the low country on to the plateau. It is also the screen of the rich districts round Lin An and of the capital itself; any one in possession of Mengtze could overawe Yünnan-fu so effectually as to control all the officials in the province, and 100 French soldiers might walk in and take the place any day; indeed, I am convinced that this is the fate which is ultimately in store for Mengtze. If such a move was made combined with a demonstration near Lung-chou, I feel sure \"Maréchal\" Su and his officers would bolt. The fact probably is that the French Government at home is aware of the weak and uncertain position which they occupy in Tonquin itself. Their \"jumping-off ground\" is so unsteady that they are not prepared to make a leap. They are so feeble that the hands of guerillas into which Su's \"army\" would break up on the occurrence of hostilities would do them a great deal of harm. Otherwise it is inexplicable why Mengtze was not taken instead of Kuangchou Wan.\n\n1899 is likely to be a bumper year for Mengtze, and the trade is steadily developing; chiefly on account of transit passes being respected. Now, I have several times seen the statement that this circumstance was due to \"the energetic action of the French authorities which contrasts so favourably with the weakness displayed, &c.\" In fact the French authorities have had nothing whatever to do with transits; the goods are mostly ours, and the passes are taken out in the names of Chinese firms; it is not, therefore, clear how the French Consul would have any locus standi even if irregularities did occur. The present excellent system is due to the action of the Customs and the Taotai who opened the port, an official who objected to the li-kin, and who insisted on passes being respected; thus, from the commencement of the trade it became a matter of custom.\n\nThe Taotai at Nanning declared, but I know not on what authority, that there was no immediate prospect of the Lungchou Railway being really pushed forward; but at Mengtze the French evidently mean business and have gone about it in a very one French way. The country has been overrun with \"Missions de Chemin de Fer.\" One mission sent out from home by the Public Works (Guillemoto); a second by the Tonquin military authorities (Pennequin); a third by the banks who are financing the railway. All these expeditions have been separate and more or less hostile to each other, and have trouble with the people.\n\nAt the time of the Mengtze riot there were over thirty Frenchmen in the city, besides a number at various mines and in Yünnan-fu; some of these gentlemen owe their position to being friends of M. Doumer's political supporters, who have accordingly \"dumped\" them down in Tonquing. The Governor-General's hurried visit to the Yunnan Viceroy has had no good result, and did much to bring to a head the popular and official suspicion and dislike of Frenchmen.\n\nM. Doumer appears to have thought that a Chinese Viceroy is a kind of King Coffee, to whom it is only necessary to offer a sufficient quantity of gin in order to procure any Treaty you may want. He was soon undeceived; some of his presents were rejected and no definite Concession for a railway station at the capital could be obtained; the Viceroy also objected to commencing the railway at Yünnan. His position was:\n\n\"We have no money to embark in unprofitable enterprises; the province is poor and this is a losing affair; the people, too, are strongly opposed to it; you have got your permit from Peking; begin your honourable railway at your end with your own money and come along gradually. The people will then get accustomed to it and in a few years later there will be plenty of time to talk of Concessions at Yunnan-fu, which now I have no authority to make.\"\n\nAs regards the railway, I gather that the position is this: all surveys have been practically completed, and a route (not the present mule route) has been found up to the plateau from Manhao, where a road for railway services is being made, but there is likely to be a long delay in getting plant out, and possibly special boats will have to be constructed to bring it up to Laokay. The French Foreign Office is lukewarm, and the various parties interested in the line are not likely to work well together.\n\nThe Mengtze riot last summer was a much more serious affair than appeared, and it was extremely lucky that none of the foreigners on the Customs staff were killed. The riot was undoubtedly directed against the French Consulate, but the mob could not distinguish between that building and the Customs. There is no reason to suppose that the officials were directly concerned in the riot which was so well organized as to be a sort of local rebellion. Two of the Mengtze Yamên runners had been killed a day or two beforehand by one of the ringleaders whom they had tried to arrest.",
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"content_text": "# Hong Kong 5/334\n## WAR OFFICE\n189€3 \nRECD ∞ \nLondon $.IC JUN 00 \n\n5th June 1900. 108 \n\nSir, \n\nI am directed to acquaint you for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have specially brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War that the increase of the Naval Forces of Russia and Japan on the China Station render the speedy completion of the permanent defences of Hong Kong a matter of the highest importance.\n\n2. The scale of armament to be provided for these defences was settled by a Conference of Naval and Military Officers in January of last year and the guns are under supply. The construction, however, of the works in which to mount them, has not yet been, and cannot be, put in hand until the necessary financial provision has been made. The total estimate for these works is £90,000, of which a sum of £12,000 is required for expenditure during the present year, the balance being distributed over the following three financial years.\n\n3. The arrangement under which defences have in the past been provided at Hong Kong has been for the Colony to pay the whole sum required for the construction of the works, and for the Imperial Government to provide the armament. Under this arrangement no provision has been made in the Programme drawn up by the War Office for the Military... \n\n## TREASURY",
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"content_text": "# \n## No. 139.\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 4 April, 1901.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 197 of the 22nd June, 1900, and of your telegrams of the 22nd February and the 15th ultimo, concerning the proposals of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in regard to the extension of the Naval Yard in Hongkong and the cost of reinstating the Victoria Yacht Club, as desired by their Lordships.\n\n2. On receipt of your Despatch under reference, I appointed a Committee consisting of Members selected by the three Clubs concerned, viz. - the Victoria Yacht Club, the Victoria Recreation Club, and the Hongkong Boat Club with the Colonial Secretary as Chairman, to consider the proposals of their Lordships and to consult with the Admiralty Local Officers. I enclose a copy of a Minute of the Acting Director of Public Works which shows the progress made up to the 27th ultimo in the discussion of this question.\n\n3. On the 29th ultimo, a final Meeting was held by the Committee at which Mr. Chatham presided,\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,** \n... &c.. &c.. &c.. \n\n80.*",
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"content_text": "# 587\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.\n\n14950\n02\n\n## TREASURY CHAMBERS,\n30 September 1902\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of Sir Lucas' letter of the 22nd instant (`39140/1902`) informing Them by direction of Mr Secretary Chamberlain that the Supplemental Charter granted on the 1st instant to the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China has been communicated to your Department by the Bank and that the Governor of Hong Kong has been informed of its effect by telegraph. I am to enclose three copies of the Supplemental Charter, as desired, and to say that requests for any further copies should be made direct to the Privy Council Office.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State\nColonial Office.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\nGuttamilla\nEB.",
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"content_text": "## \n624\n\nWhampoa Company have at present five Dry Docks besides three Slips. In one of these Docks His Majesty's Ship \"Powerful\" has been docked. The Company is prepared if the Naval Authorities desire it to construct another Dock capable of accommodating the largest vessel afloat. They are prepared to supply the Dock with the latest improvements in machinery and to lay down a plant capable of dealing with any repairs that could be required for His Majesty's Ships and to give to the Naval Authorities perpetual right of priority. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire are also at present constructing a Dock of the largest size. I venture to say that with such docking facilities existing and prospective the repairs of His Majesty's Ships would be executed in an entirely satisfactory manner and at a very substantial saving to the Imperial Government.\n\nThe Dock Company have a thoroughly efficient staff with the best appliances and there is constant work, while a Naval Dockyard must have an expensive establishment always at full strength while it is improbable that the work required for the fleet on the China Station will keep the Dock fully occupied all the year round. The Annual Expenditure involved is very considerable and I would urge upon the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the advisability of sending out a Commission to inquire on the spot into the important questions involved. There is in Hongkong capital and enterprise sufficient to carry out any scheme of Docks that His Majesty's Government may decide to be necessary.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient Humble servant,\n\nHung Amat\n\nGovernor, &c...\n\nmyd)",
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"content_text": "With reference to Admiralty letter of the \n11th December, 1902, N.L.12,071, inquiring whether part of the Civil Prison at Hong-Kong could be placed at the disposal \nof the Naval Authorities to be used as a Naval Prison, \nand to your reply of the 13th March last to the effect that \nthe crowded state of the Gaol at Hong-Kong rendered this impracticable, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, copy of a communication \nreceived from the Commander-in-Chief, China, bearing \ndate the 21st March, in which he submits that it may be \npossible to arrange with the Colonial Government for an enlargement of the Civil Gaol to accommodate about 60 Naval \nprisoners.\n\nMy Lords will be glad if Mr Secretary \nChamberlain will be so good as to favour them with his views on the suggestion put forward in the Commander-in-Chief's \nletter.\n\nI am, Sir, \n\nYour Obedient Servant, \n\nUNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, \n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE. \n\nEvan Macleay(?) \n\nPage 337\n\nAdmiralty, \n\n7th May, \n\n1903. \n\nC. O. \n\nNo. B(?) \n\n[Original page numbering metadata]\n\nPage 337\n\n(three lines at top and three at bottom, kept as is)\n\nbecomes \n\nAdmiralty, \n\n337 \n\n1903. \n\n7th May, \n\nC. O. \n\nSir, \n\nWith reference to Admiralty letter of the \n11th December,1902, N.L.12,071, inquiring whether part of the Civil Prison at Kong-Kong could be placed at the disposal \nof the Naval Authorities to be used as a Naval Prison, \nand to your reply of the 13th March last to the effect that \nthe crowded state of the Gaol at Hong-Kong rendered this impracticable, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, copy of a communi-\n\ncation received from the Commander-in-Chief, China, bearing \ndate the 21st March, in which he submits that it may be \npossible to arrange with the Colonial Government for an enlargement of the Civil Gaol to accommodate about 60 Naval \nprisoners.\n\nMy Lords will be glad if Mr Secretary \nChamberlain will be so good as to favour them with his views on the suggestion put forward in the Commander-in-Chief's \nletter.\n\nI am, Sir, \n\nYour Obedient Servant, \n\nUNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, \n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE. \n\nEvan Macleay \n\nNo. B \n\nPage 337\n\nthe rewritten response is in HTML as instructed. Here is the final version:\n\nAdmiralty, \n\n7th May, \n\n1903.\n\nC. O.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Admiralty letter of the 11th December, 1902, N.L.12,071, inquiring whether part of the Civil Prison at Hong-Kong could be placed at the disposal of the Naval Authorities to be used as a Naval Prison, and to your reply of the 13th March last to the effect that the crowded state of the Gaol at Hong-Kong rendered this impracticable, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, copy of a communication received from the Commander-in-Chief, China, bearing date the 21st March, in which he submits that it may be possible to arrange with the Colonial Government for an enlargement of the Civil Gaol to accommodate about 60 Naval prisoners.\n\nMy Lords will be glad if Mr Secretary Chamberlain will be so good as to favour them with his views on the suggestion put forward in the Commander-in-Chief's letter.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour Obedient Servant,\n\nUNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nEvan Macleay\n\nNo. B\n\nPage 337",
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"content_text": "can only speak a very rudimentary sort of Chinese. The affinities of the Minchia have yet to be studied, but they do not appear to be connected with any Thibetan or Shan stock, though the Shans once reigned at Ta Li. Near Hsia Kuan to this day is shown a \"wan jen tui,\" or tumulus of the 10,000 which is popularly supposed to be the grave of the warriors who fell in a great battle when a Chinese attempt to get possession of the country was defeated with heavy loss.\n\nThe Minchia are remarkable as being the only non-Chinese tribe in Yünnan which has mingled with the Chinese on something like equal terms; they have retained their lands and their language, but they have adopted the literature, the religious ideas, and, at least in the case of the men, the dress of the Chinese. A literatus of Ta Li who would be inclined to draw but little distinction between Kachins, Miao, Lisaw, and other wild tribes puts the Minchia on a higher level. \"They read books,\" i.e., the classics. It is to be feared that it would be a work of great difficulty to unearth Minchia ideas, which are covered by a superstructure of Chinese beliefs; merely as a guess, I suggest that they may be connected with the Man Tzu of Szechuan. The Minchia are peasants, and nothing more; the shop-keepers at markets such as Hsi Chon, 40 li north of Ta Li, or at Chiang Wei, at the north head of the lake, are Chinese. The Minchia villages and farmhouses are exceedingly well built, and I am inclined to think that the top storey, which is found in nearly all Yunnan country houses, but is so contrary to Chinese ideas, was derived from the Minchia. In the Ta Li plain, where wood is scarce, the Minchia house is a substantial stone structure built with the limestone and conglomerate which is littered about under the Tsang Shan; but the best type of Minchia dwelling is to be found in the Hoching Valley. It is commonly built round three sides of a square, the fourth side being closed with a wall in which there is a porch. The lower storey is of mud or sun-baked brick on a stone foundation, and sometimes with stone pillars, but the top storey is of wood, the architecture resembling that of a Swiss chalet. The section opposite the porch is usually the dwelling-house, while one of the sides is given up to the cattle, with a straw-loft over them, and the other side is used as a grain store. Comfort and cleanliness these houses are far superior to the Chinese, as I can testify after having enjoyed many days of Minchia hospitality, which is readily given in places where there are no inns.\n\nThe pure Minchia type resembles that of the Romany or gipsy, save that it is lighter in complexion; the Minchia women have natural feet, manage boats, carry loads, do masons' and bricklayers' work, and in the La Shi salt district I have even seen them acting as muleteers.\n\nWholesale commerce has quite deserted Ta Li, but there is a busy market every five days, and in the third moon occurs the annual fair, or \"yueh kai,\" a commercial event of some importance. It is held outside the West Gate, and lasts for five days, after which a good deal of business is done in the city itself for fourteen days before the merchants disperse. The number of persons attending the fair is given at various figures, but it is usually stated to be only one-third of the old days before the rebellion. The official Proclamations state that for the \"yueh kai\" \"myriads of merchants from the four quarters of the globe collect together dense as the clouds;\" but Chinese Proclamations have to be taken in a Pickwickian sense, and I believe that the present attendance is not over 5,000. Thibetans and representatives of all the tribes in West Yünnan come in some force, while besides Yünnanese there are, of course, Cantonese and Szechuanese; I am not aware that any natives of India attend. Drugs, including China-root, rhubarb, and musk, mules and ponies, Thibetan wools, tea and brown sugar in small cakes, cottons and cloths, are the chief objects of exchange, and I believe that the fair is still of sufficient importance to be worth the attention of British or Indian merchants desirous of opening up new lines.\n\nAmong other minor products of Ta Li I may mention pigs' bristles, which are of good quality, but not, perhaps, easy to collect in sufficient quantity, and straw braid used for the native sun-hats. The plaiting leaves to be desired at present, but this might be improved for foreign buyers, and the straw itself is of excellent quality.\n\nThe traveller who has passed through the rich fields and flourishing villages of the Ta Li Plain, and has enjoyed the double view of hill and lake (\"tsang esh esh kuan\") is interested to learn how this happy valley first came into existence. The curious folklorist may discern traditions of the early struggles of the first Chinese settlers in the legend of the advent of Buddhism, and perhaps of some geological cataclysm. In the ancient days the waters of the lake lapped the foot of the Tsang Shan, and there was no plain. The caverns in the hills were inhabited by a \"yao kwei,\" or monstrous being, who used to sally forth, and for his food tear out and devour the eyes of the Chinese in the neighbourhood. Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, pitying the sorrows of the black-haired people, appeared upon the scene disguised as a venerable Buddhist nun in her \"ka sha,\" or yellow robe and accompanied by a lame dog. Addressing the monster, she promised to supply him with the food which he liked on condition that he would give her a patch of dry land under the hills. \"How much dry land?\" asked the monster. \"The breadth,\" replied the goddess, \"of my yellow robe and the length of three leaps of my lame dog.\" After some haggling a contract on these terms was reduced to writing. But when the aged nun spread out the robe it covered a space of 15 li, and such was the uncommon agility of the lame dog that in three leaps he cleared a space of 100 li. For his food the goddess captured shell-fish, and gave the eye-like contents to the \"yao kwei\"; the voracious but unwary monster seems to have thought that he had been swindled, and became obstreperous; whereupon the goddess seized him and interned him in a hole or cavern in the earth near Hsi Chou, where there was only a small open slit through which he could breathe. In his struggles, his fiery breath issuing from the slit burned up the waters of the lake. But the goddess had cast a spell on the monster; so long as Chinese assemble at the West Gate of Ta Li during the third moon so long must the monster remain in durance vile; wherefore to this day, at the commencement of the great spring fair, the General comes out in state and fires off all his artillery, so that the dragon may know that the time of his release is not yet.\n\nIn case this bald narrative fails to convince the sceptical western, I may point out that the length of the Ta Li Plain from the upper to the lower pass is, in fact, 100 li, and its breadth 15 li. Is not the shore of the lake littered with empty shells, the contents of which have been devoured by the \"yao kwei\"? Is not there at Hsi Chou a long narrow strip of land stretching into the lake from which the water was blown by the struggling prisoner? Was not the contract between him and the goddess reduced to writing and engraved on stone that all might see? and finally, is it not a fact that to this day an annual crowd has assembled outside the West Gate for the third-moon fair, and that the \"yao kwei\" has never once emerged from his prison?\n\nFrom Ta Li city to the Shang Kuan (upper pass) is an easy march of 16 miles in a northerly direction across the level plain, between the lake on the right and the Tsang Shan on the left. The main caravan route is at the foot of the mountains, but the lower road which leads by the shores of the lake is much more agreeable, as it gives an opportunity of observing the lake villages which cluster on the stone bunds fringing the shore, and in the morning, of shooting some wild geese and duck as they fly back to the lake after their night feed in the fallow fields. Shang Kuan is a small tumble-down village with a li-kin and Prefect's tax station, at each of which about 1,000 taels are collected annually on goods going north. Travellers for Lichiang usually pass Shang Kuan to the head of the lake, and leaving the bridge of boats and the series of marshes through which flows the principal feeder of the lake, slightly to the east, enter the plain of Teng Chuan at the tiny city of that name. This plain is about ... miles by ... miles, and is well supplied with water from several large lagoons in which heavy crops of rushes are grown for fuel.\n\nAt Yui So, ... miles, there is a market where Chinese and Minchia exchange grain, opium, sugar, salt, cloth, pigs, mules, and cattle; and at miles ... the river is crossed at Chung So. It is here 25 yards broad, shallow, and flows for some miles between high artificial embankments, the safety of which are of prime importance to local agriculture.\n\nAt 15 miles the road and river leave the Teng Chuan Valley by a gorge. The road then leads through broken ground along the foot-hills of the east side of the Lang Kung Valley, past the hamlet of Ying Shan P'u, and through fertile country to Nui Kai, an important market of about 150 houses, and so to the north-east corner of the fertile Lang Kung Valley. At Kuan Yin Shan the road enters the hills and splits into two tracks, the one going a little west of north to Chien Chuan Chou (one long stage), and the other which I followed leading over an important pass into the Yang tsze basin. After leaving Kuan Yin Shan we commenced an ascent up a gorge by a fair road, and spent the night in a log hut on an open terrace in the hills (San Chiu Tang), whence there was a fine view. The next day we ascended the silent and frost-bound pass of Kwa La, past rhododendron scrub and frozen marshes, varied with patches of forest. At the village of Kwa La, which consists of a few wattle huts, we observed the plaited bamboo basket industry, which is of some local importance, and so descended to the guard station of the Hei Nui (the Black Ox), situated in a gorge by a rushing stream; here a salt road from Chien Chuan joined our route, and there is considerable passing traffic. At 13 miles beyond Hei Nui a road branches off east to Sung Kwei, which is an important market near the Yang-tsze. It is an entrepôt of the salt, sugar, and tobacco trade, and also a pony and mule market.\n\nPage 9\n\nAt ...\n\n248",
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"content_text": "cliffs, to the sides of which clung coniferæ, while at their feet were rich forests of bamboo. On every side was heard the gurgle of mountain streams, while, here and there, were grottos full of great icicles. After three hours' march we crossed a low col and came to an open patch in the forest where the salt caravans rest, and soon after reached the crest of the range, and descended along a deep cleft in the west flank of the mountain, whence occasional glimpses of the trans-Mekong range were to be had. At 8,500 feet we emerged into more open country, between two vast cultivated spurs, with villages of mud and wattle huts perched on impossible ledges, and accessible only by paths fit for goats. A succession of bold and magnificent mountain views was unfolded, until from the gorge far beneath us we saw a column of smoke rising up from the salt wells of La Shi, to which we descended, and put up in a temple commanding a view of the little town situated in the depths of the gorge, and containing about 400 houses. Some eighty families are engaged in cooking the salt, and each can produce about 550 lbs. per day. The transport of these and other wells near is in the hands of Pei Ti Ping mule-owners, who are, in many cases, of the gentler sex. At La Shi there is one small street of shops, supplied by Szechuan pedlars. A stream runs down the bottom of the gorge, and the wooden huts of the salt boilers cling along its sides.\n\nFrom Lashi we continued along a narrow path on the south side of the gorge, sometimes by the stream and sometimes high above it, and sometimes making detours to the left to get round side ravines. Soon after passing the Minchia village of Wan Ten, we caught sight of the Mekong, and descended to the little market of Ying Pan Kai. There is no ferry to the other side (west or right bank), but only a bamboo rope sling.\n\nThe sons of the late General Yang Yi Kuo live and rule at Ying Pan. Their attitude was so unfriendly that we moved a mile to the south of the market and camped by the farmstead of a hospitable Minchia, some 500 feet above the river, which is here ... feet broad, of a rich deep blue, and with a strong, but not violent, current. On the opposite side of the river, no less than seven great spurs, any one of which would be considered a first-class mountain in Europe, descend sheer to the river. The little villages, half hidden in their folds, looked like rabbit-hutches. Nature here works on her grand scale, and man and his works are reduced to insignificance.\n\nYing Pan and the Lashi Wells are under the direct control of the Lichiang Magistrate, whose ordinary jurisdiction also extends down the east or left bank of the Mekong to Hsiao Tsa Tsu, 13 miles south of Ying Pan. The fringe of villages on the lower slopes of the mountains on the west or right bank, together with the left bank south of Hsiao Tsa Tsu and north of the Yün Lung Chou boundary, are under the control of a t'u ssu or hereditary Chief, known as Lo t'u kuan. He is a native of Lan chou and a Minchia, but his official residence is at Tu Wo (see below) on the right bank. The upper slopes of the great range on the west of the Mekong, opposite Ying Pan, are inhabited by Lou Tzu, a tribe described by the Chinese officials as utter savages, who live by rapine, and nothing else. But the mandarins commonly speak in these terms of any non-Chinese who object to being controlled or squeezed by the Celestial Government. The Lou Tzu enjoy a wild independence in these inaccessible mountains, and are not above an occasional raid. Last year they crossed the Upper Mekong and looted the Wei Hsi official when he was on his way to his post. The Lou Tzu, the Lisaw, and the Minchia on the banks of the Mekong use cross-bows which shoot a poisoned arrow about 1 foot long. The poison looks like putty, and Chinese informed me that it is a species of \"u t'ou\" or taro, which causes paralysis and speedy death if it enters the blood. To be efficacious the poison has to be gathered at the tops of the mountains and in the dead of night, \"light Hecate's root of hemlock digged in the dark.\"\n\nWhen I passed by, Lo t'u kuan (the Minchia hereditary official) was on the war-path against the Lou Tzu, but his attempts to bring them under control were meeting with no success save that he had burned one village which had refused to accede to his extortionate demands for tribute; it seems that a sort of \"war\" is always going on in these hills, yet Chinese traders occasionally penetrate into them, and the Lou Tzu occasionally come out to the Ying pan to exchange gold, drugs, beeswax, skins, hemp, and lacquer against salt, cottons, tobacco, &c.\n\nFrom Ying pan down the banks of the Mekong to the Fei Lung Bridge is a march of five days (64 miles) along the precipitous sides of the river bank, between the vast ranges which press close to the water on both sides. On the first day we reached the village of Hsiao Tsa Chu (12 miles) the narrow path leading up and down high above the river through magnificent scenery, bare and imposing. We met several bands of Lisaw women in their shell-embroidered caps and hempen kilts; they live chiefly on the west bank, the few villages on the east bank being Minchia. Just before reaching our stage progress was blocked by a formidable razor-like ridge of limestone projecting into the Mekong, and round which the river makes a bend and forms a rapid. This obstacle was only passable by a narrow and dizzy path, and the mules had to make a detour round the hills at the back. Hsiao Tsa Tsu consists of a dozen log huts, situated on a slope steep as the roof of a house, and we only just found room for a tent by a small temple built in Chinese fashion and dedicated to \"the Black God of the Hills.\" The Headman was friendly, and, after a day's rest, he guided us along a path which ascended through a wilderness of mountains till we were 1,600 feet above the river, while above us were vast slopes and precipices with their summits crowned with snow; then descending past the log huts and narrow rice terraces of Shi Ping, we descended to a comfortable camp by the banks of the river near the village of Lamati. Here we found a double bamboo rope sling across the river, and a primitive \"dug-out\" or rather \"burnt-out\" boat made of the trunks of two trees hollowed out by fire and lashed together. A number of Minchia women crossed in the evening with loads of salt and tobacco on their backs, for villages on the west side. On the following morning the water was so cold that the mules refused for a long time to cross, and we were not all landed on the west bank till 10 A.M. At this point we joined Prince Henri of Orleans' route from Fei Lung Bridge north to Atentse.\n\nFollowing the narrow path down the west bank, through a fringe of trees about 50 feet above the river, we soon reached a difficult corner, where to encourage us the guide informed me that Prince Henri had lost two mules overboard into the river. 3 miles from La Mati the country on the west bank opens out a little and forms the valley of Tu Wo, where there is considerable padi cultivation. The few places available for rice terraces along all this part of the Mekong are carefully cultivated, and the rice is of excellent quality.\n\nThe village of Tu Wo, the capital of Lo t'u kuan, consists of about 100 log huts, and a small yamên built on a ridge in the valley. The population consists of Lisaw, Minchia, and a few Chinese. In the afternoon's march the mountains closed in again to the riverside, and we had to feel our way along and round the edge of a beetling cliff. It was like walking round the neck of a champagne bottle; the loads had to be carried on men's backs and the mules led. It was with a feeling of relief that we reached our camp at the little village of Ku Li. After passing Tu Wo we constantly met bands of traders, some of whom had been among the Lou Tzu and the Lisaw of the Upper Salwen, and some of whom had been to Teng Yueh. From Tu Wo there is a path leading west into the hills; indeed, difficult though the country is, there are communications in all directions, and the natives seem to consider any slope less than 45° as level-going. The Tu Wo traders clad in hemp, armed with broad swords in univalve scabbards, and cross-bows with quivers of poisoned arrows, look far more ferocious than they really are. Many wear haversacks like the Kachins, but without the embroidery, people here know the Salwen not as the Lu Chiang, the ordinary Yünnan name, but as the Hei Lung Chiang (\"Black Dragon River\").\n\nAfter edging round a difficult cliff just south of Ku Li, we got into more open country, where the river makes a series of majestic curves, and horse-shoe shaped valleys on the west bank admit of cultivation.\n\nThe most considerable of these is the Valley of Piao Tsuen. The village is situated 1 mile back from the river and has 150 mud and log huts, enclosed by an old mud wall.\n\nWe here passed out of the jurisdiction of Lo t'u kuan and entered that of the Yun Lang Sub-Prefect. From Piao Tsuen there is a well-beaten track west up into the hills past the village of Sung Ping, and so to the Salwen at Luku, the wild Lou Tzu not extending so far south as this.\n\nIn the afternoon we got round another formidable cliff, and camped at the little river bank hamlet of Tsao Yao, where we saw Chinese Proclamations for the first time since leaving the salt wells. One poster by the Provincial Judge was noticeable. It warned the non-Chinese inhabitants of Yunnan generally against practising the gentle arts of witch-craft and poisoning.\n\nThe people of Tsao Yao go to market at the Fei Lung Bridge, but for our tired caravan it was too long a march, and after passing through forest and long grass along a fair track high above the river for 15 miles without seeing a human habitation except the deserted guard-house of Tie Men, perched on the top of a cliff, we camped at Iron gate. Miao Wei, a village of some fifty houses, situated on a broad cultivated terrace high above the Mekong, and commanding a superb view of the great precipices which hang over the east bank.\n\n[2021 A-1]",
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"content_text": "bopy.\n\nW.L.3319/04.\n\nHong Kong 8/187 (D.F.W.)\n\nWar Office, S.W.\n\n69\n\n30014\n\n[R 26 AUG 04] London, S.W.\n\n28th July 1904.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter W.L./2372/1904 of the 13th instant, relative to the question raised as to the responsibility of keeping clear the Albany Nullah, Hong Kong, which passes through the War Department and Colonial Office properties and discharges into the sea in front of the Dockyard, I am commanded by the Army Council to acquaint you for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that the view expressed in the fifth paragraph of Their Lordships' letter above quoted cannot be concurred in without further investigation.\n\n2. I am to add that the Army Council has no objection to a conference of the representatives of the three Departments as suggested, but I am to state that as the matter is of a legal nature involving questions of the law concerning the rights of riparian owners, the Army Council thinks it would be preferable to refer it to the Attorney General of the Colony and is prepared to accept his opinion as final.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Sgd) R.H. Brade.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nAdmiralty,\n\nS.W.",
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"content_text": "country is uninhabited and impassable. The Ni Mo is clearly the Lamaw tributary of the N'maikha, as \"l\" and \"n\" are interchangeable in Chinese.\n\nThe district round Pien Ma and I Tung, situated to the north-east of Ch'a Shan, is known to the Chinese as I Shan (hills of the barbarians). The lower country near the N'maikha is referred to by the Chinese as Langsu. I did not meet any Ming Kwang people who had actually been to Langsu, but they all described it as hot, feverish, and inhabited by wild men (i.e., Kachins), who rob travellers, who do not know the use of money, and who are under no sort of control by any Government. The Ch'a Shan and T Shan, however, which seem to comprise the whole of the upper country (on the N'maikha side of the divide) near the various head-waters of the Shweli are constantly visited by Chinese from Ming Kwang.\n\nAs I wished to examine the path from the Ming Kwang Valley to Tzu Chu, I moved my camp back on my tracks to the point 5 miles from Ta Chai, where the Hsiao Tang Ho joins the Ta Ho, and, on the 16th March, the first fine day for a week, we marched up the valley of the Hsiao Tang Ho.\n\nThis is a wide (2 miles) and beautiful valley, the combination of snow, pine trees, and rich green forests of bamboos on the mountain sides contrasting with the rushing stream and the pastures and bracken by its banks.\n\nThere were several large herds of cattle, sheep, and ponies, and in the bracken I shot six brace of pheasants (Stone's) in a very short time. At 3 miles from Ming Kwang Valley, after passing a tumble-down fort with an underground entrance similar to that described above, we came to a point where the Hsiao Tang Valley curved away to the west towards the mountains which we had ascended on the 12th at Ta Ya Kon. Our track, however, continued in a northerly direction along a small stream which flows through a close gorge; then ascending a steep spur we reached the Tzu Chu Ti Pass in four hours—10 miles—from the Ming Kwang or Ta Ho River. The height is 9,200 feet. On the N'maikha side the first village reached is at Tz'u Chu Ti, which is said to be 12 miles from the top of the pass. Tzu Chu Ti consists, I was told, of three small villages of Kachins (one of which is probably the Lagwi of Captain Pottinger's map*), situated on a small stream which flows into the Hparé River. I asked a number of persons if there were any Chinese residents there, or anywhere else on the N'maikha sides of the watershed, but though every one agreed that Ming Kwang men were constantly going over to trade, no one could give me any information of a permanent settlement.\n\nImmediately to the north of the Tzu Chu Pass, and 1,000 feet above it, is a hill on the watershed, which, as it is free from forest, I ascended. From this point there is a view of a steep range jutting out from the divide, and situated apparently between the Hparé and Tz'u Chu streams, which join to form the Khan Sheng River. There is also a wide panorama of forest-clad ranges trending generally in a north-east direction towards the N'maikha. The mountain marked on the Burmah maps as Mien Kawng Pum (Ming Kwang Hill) is between the Ta Ho To'u and Tzu Chu Passes. It was covered with snow in March, but from the China side it is not a very well-defined peak; I even doubt if it is really on the watershed at all, and believe it to be on the N'maikha side. Time and weather did not permit me to visit it, but it must be at least 12,000 feet.\n\nMy next move was back to Ta Chu Pa, but owing to torrential rains I took two days to reach my former camp. The Ming Kwang Valley was temporarily reduced to a swamp.\n\nI had made previous arrangements with the Lisaw Headman to provide five porters who knew the road, and would take me over the great divide into the Salwen Valley, a track which was reported (and proved to be) impracticable for mules.\n\nMy object was to pass as near as possible to the sources of the Ta Tang, or east branch of the Shweli River, and to find out where the water-divide between the head-waters of the Shweli and the N'maikha joins and becomes merged in the great divide between the Salwen and the N'maikha.\n\nA severe thunderstorm prevented a start being made from Ta Chu Pa before 9:30 A.M. on the 19th March. The Lisaws carried their loads on their backs in bamboo baskets secured to a wooden yoke which was supported on the nape of the neck by a bamboo strap passing over the forehead.\n\nLeaving the track to the Ta Ho To'u Pass and Pien Ma at 1 mile from the Chu Pa stockade, we turned east along a narrow path and ascended through a dark and dank forest. After 2½ hours we emerged on an open ridge running east and closing the head of the Ta Tang Valley from which rises the east branch of the Shweli. To the east in front of us rose the slopes of the great Salwen divide, which stretched north and south as far as we could see; to the left or north of us was dense forest stretching up to a well-defined ridge jutting out from the main divide. This ridge was some 5 miles north of the ridge where we were standing, and the guides asserted, what certainly seemed to be the case, that it was the Ming Kwang N'maikha water-divide.\n\nPage 9\n\nThe forest between the ridge where we stood and this divide is watered by a small tributary of the Ming Kwang River; accordingly, the Ta Tang Valley does not reach up to the Shweli-N'maikha divide, but there is a bit of the basin of the Ming Kwang River intervening; thus the Ming Kwang River has every claim to be regarded as the true source of the Shweli.\n\nDescending to the brook of Tang Pieng Ho, which flows east for a short distance and then describes a semicircle to the north-east, and flows round to the west to join the Ming Kwang, we attacked the main Salwen Range by a steep and rough path through dense forest, much encumbered by roots of trees. We reached the divide at a height of only 9,400 feet. Then we proceeded along a marshy gully known as Ta Li Shu, the waters of which flow down to the Salwen by Lien Ti, and, after wading across several side streams found no help for it but to camp after six hours march on a wet patch of snow in the middle of the forest. We had much difficulty in lighting a fire, and snow or sleet fell at intervals through the night. The next morning we continued our route in a heavy snowstorm, and, after an ascent of one hour, reached the highest point of the pass at 9,900 feet. The track was full of quagmires and encumbered by roots of trees. The beginning of the descent to the Salwen was very steep and over deep snow: the upper slopes of this, the east side of the range, are covered with very heavy virgin forest. We passed two open patches used as camps, but nowhere on the higher slopes of this pass could more than a dozen men find camping room.\n\nContinuing our descent down a steep spur, with a mountain torrent far below us on the right, we crossed a stream from the left at 7,800 feet, after two hours' descent. From this point there is a very difficult section consisting of steep ups and downs over lateral spurs. The track was at places so steep and slippery that we had to haul ourselves up by clinging to shrubs and roots. After a fatiguing march of five and a-half hours we emerged from the dense upper forests, and, bearing to the north round some grassy spurs, we reached the Lisaw hamlet of Hsiao Ho (7,000 feet) situated in a fold of the hills by a small stream under the shadow of the great range. After a rest in this picturesque little valley we continued the march in a northerly direction by a stiff ascent of a spur to 8,400 feet. From this point we caught a glimpse of the Salwen far away below us.\n\nThough from the crest of the divide to the river is not in an air line more than 6 miles, the difference in altitude is 7,000 feet, and the intervening country is filled with an extremely complicated system of spurs and folds and bays in the mountains, so that the superficial area is large. Between 7,000 feet and 4,000 feet the number of villages and hamlets is very considerable, while the upper slopes are entirely destitute of inhabitants, and the traveller along the river bank at 3,000 feet passes but few villages, a circumstance of which the malarious climate is the probable explanation. The population of this part of the Salwen Valley is chiefly Lisaw, but they mostly speak Chinese and have partially adopted Chinese costume. By the riverside, however, there are remnants of a Shan population, and Chinese households are to be found in nearly every village.\n\nAfter ascending the spur above Hsiao Ho, we wound along a ridge in a northerly direction and after a long march of eight and a-half hours camped at the Lisaw village of To To, the Headman of which tried to make out that he was a Chinaman—a strange ambition. From this village there is an extensive view of the Salwen-Irrawadi divide range. It stretches in the same well-defined, regular and stately manner as far north as the eye could reach, and seems to have been planted there as a \"heaven-made boundary between two Empires. On the range nearly opposite, i.e., west of To To, there is a conspicuous gap or pass.\n\nA well-known track leads from the Salwen at Teng Kong (the village on the right bank immediately below To To) up to this pass, from the summit of which Pi'en Ma (see above) can be reached in a little more than a day, and I was informed that lightly-laden mules can be taken over. I inquired about passes over from the Salwen into the N'maikha Basin further north and was informed that two days' march north of Teng Keng (the village on the Salwen just\n\nPage 11\n\n[illegible text]\n\n369",
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"content_text": "471\n\n4\n\non the shores of the Koko-nor. The Chinese complain of the difficulty of obtaining the musk in its pure state owing to adulteration by the tribesmen, whom they report as being most expert in injecting blood into the \"pod\" containing the secretion directly after the animal is killed. It is, however, an open question whether the Celestials are not themselves the worst offenders in this respect; anyway, musk when it reaches Shanghae is said to contain 20 per cent. and over of foreign matter. Lu-jung, or deer horns in velvet, is a much prized medicine among the Chinese; but the quality of horn obtainable at Sungp'an is reported as inferior to that coming from Tachienlu and Kuan Hsien.\n\nC\n\nLive Stock. The tribesmen around Sungp'an go in extensively for raising sheep, oxen, and horses, the grassy slopes of the hills, in addition to the moorlands of the Amdon, providing most excellent grazing ground for their flocks and herds. The figure for beasts given in the table is the number sent down annually to supply the markets of North-Western Szechuan, including those of the Chengtu Plain. A fine, full-grown sheep can be bought at Sungp'an for 1.30 taels, the smaller ones for 9 mace. Goats are a little more expensive, the price ranging from 1.20 taels to 2 taels a-head. Besides those exported, some 7,000 sheep annually are slaughtered at Sungp'an. Oxen and yaks fetch from 5 to 7 taels each.\n\nWool—Large quantities of this staple must be used by the tribesmen for the manufacture of the serge cloth (called by the Chinese \"Pu-lu\"), which is worn by all, not excluding the Llamas and women. Of the amount of the wool sent south but a minute proportion is used by the Chinese; it is only in fact within late years, since the foreign demand became known, that there was any trade to speak of at Sung'an in this article; and the wool purchases now made are mostly on account of foreign firms. Owing to this new demand, the local price of wool has increased to more than double its former figure, i.e., from 5 taels ten years ago to 10 to 11 taels, the present price per picul. The wool sent down is said to contain quite 25 per cent. of dirt, and, it might naturally be asked, considering the cost for transport and li-kin before it reaches Chungking, why means have not been devised to have it properly cleaned at Sungp'an. I purposely brought this point before the leading merchants, and they informed me that the matter had been well considered; and, although the place offered facilities for the establishment of cleansing houses, the water of the river was too cold to work with locally. If this to them-insuperable difficulty could be got over they would be able to pack the wool well and cheaply ready for direct shipment abroad. The present practice is simply to separate, as it arrives from inland, the better and cleaner quality wool from the rest before making it up into rough unprotected bundles for conveyance south by coolie or mule.\n\nTea—This is by far the most important on the list of articles brought up from the south for sale to the tribesmen, it being in fact to them an absolute necessity. The stuff, however, is hard to recognize as the staple from which is brewed \"the cup that cheers.\" The contents of the bundles I saw opened resembled more than anything else a packed collection of dried twigs, while the infusion obtained from them is as unlike one's idea of tea as it is possible to conceive. These things, anyway, are a matter of taste, and the cheapness of the twigs is a consideration. The better quality tea comes from the Kuan Hsien district, and is invariably packed in large square matted parcels (\"pao\") containing 120 catties. Each of these \"pao\" is valued at 8.00 taels, but the purchasing price at Kuan Hsien (untaxed) is 1.10 taels. The supply coming from the Shih Tsuen districts is packed in smaller parcels holding 66 catties, valued in Sungp'an at 2.50 taels each. The trade is a monopoly in the hands of the five Ch'a Hao, or tea hongs, which also control the chief business of Sungpan besides. The names of the four chief hongs are Feng Sheng Ho, I Ho Ch'uan, Pen Li Sheng, and Ting Li Yuan. Branches of these establishments are maintained in the commercial centres of Chengtu, Kuan Hsien, Mien Chow, and Shih Tsuen, and other places. The head offices are managed, with one exception, by Mahommedans, who are looked up to by all with the greatest respect. The control of the tea traffic supplying Thibet is vested in the Yen Ch'a Tao at Chengtu, and all packages are supposed to have a label bearing the characters \"Yin Ch'a\" stamped with his seal. The number of these \"Yin p'iao\" issued annually does not exceed 30,000, and the tax for each \"p'iao\" is 1.20 taels to cover one package, two small \"pao\" being reckoned as one. I heard, however, that by a mutual concession the Ch'a Hao have agreed to take up and pay for 28,000 \"p'iao\" annually if they be supplied with 30,000, and further, so long as the monopolists do not overdo it, a matter of 5,000 packages more can be conveyed up without any impost whatever. Thus the burden of taxation is considerably lessened for the tea hongs, while the Government derives a certain revenue from this source of 33,600 taels a year, and is spared the trouble and expense of the upkeep of an efficient controlling staff. On account of the difficulty of being always able to obtain a sufficient means of transport and stoppage of traffic, which not infrequently happens through a spell of rain making certain sections of the road impassable, the tea hongs have established depôts at Mao Chow and Ping-ting-kuan, where tea is stored to meet any unforeseen demand. From Sungpan the tea is conveyed inland on the backs of yaks under the charge of a Chinese employé of the Ch'a Hao, or of a trusted Hsifan agent. Caravans are regulated so as to proceed in fairly strong numbers. The men accompanying them being well armed, they are thus enabled, if necessary, to keep off roving bands of robbers, who are said to be ready to pounce on and pillage any party they think they can overcome. These caravans return laden with the different merchandise for which they have exchanged their previous cargo, and the profits made on transactions seem to be sufficient to compensate for the length of time, sometimes nine months, capital has to remain idle. The Manager of the principal Ch'a Hao told me that his firm had always as much as 60,000 taels up-country in merchandise. The hongs do not, as previously stated, confine themselves to business in tea alone, but dispatch by caravan any other goods from which they think profit can be made.\n\n5\n\nTransport. To and from Sungp'an the carriage of merchandise is done by coolie and mule over an extremely difficult road, which, however, could be greatly improved if a little money were expended on its repair. When a landslip or fallen boulders make places quite impassable, an effort is made to patch up the damage, the expense being defrayed by subscription collected from the village inns whose business is in danger of suffering from the loss of passing traffic. The workmen also levy a toll of a few cash from passers-by during their work, which, when finished, is anything but really satisfactory. The Sungp'an merchants complain bitterly of the state of affairs existing, and several of them begged me to represent the matter to the Viceroy in the hope that something might be done to lessen this drawback to trade. The cost of transport from Kuan Hsien to Sungpan by coolie is 3,200 cash per man, while for a mule it runs up to 5 taels. The former will carry, as a rule, 120 catties and take thirteen days over the journey, the latter bear burdens of 240 catties and are a little quicker. Mule transport, however, is not always procurable, and the head muleteers, who are not at all to be depended upon to carry out their contracts, frequently drop goods en route to enable them to take up a better chance offering, and then come back to continue with those they have for the time being left lying. So bad has this custom become, that merchandise will sometimes take as long as six months to reach its destination. The difficulty in securing transport is the reason why there is always a large stock of wool stored at Sungp'an, for it is the class of cargo the least liable to damage by being kept, and other merchandise has therefore the preference of carriage. Whether it would pay the larger firms to run their own mule caravans and thus be independent of the gang of muleteers is a moot question, I think, although the merchants themselves emphatically assured me that it would not, and that they consider it the better plan to lessen the evil existing by the establishment of depôts en route. The yaks, however, employed exclusively for the inland transport belong to firms engaged in the up-country business, and the drivers are always Hsifans. It may be here mentioned that carrying coolies on the road are invariably Chinese, the tribesmen never being seen with loads on their backs.\n\nLi-kin.—Before concluding, I will add a few words on the subject of li-kin. The total sum reported to the Throne last year as collected for the province under the head of Pai-Ho li-kin was 500,000 taels, while the cost of its collection ran up to 10,000 taels. Salt li-kin was reported at 2,000,000 taels, and that for opium, 900,000 taels. It was only in the year 1894, at the instigation of the then Viceroy, Lu Chuan-lin, that Barriers were erected at the two rope bridges, but were instantly demolished by the people, who refused compliance with the new levy. No drastic steps were then taken to enforce obedience, but, at the present moment, Weiyuan are deputed to collect li-kin at both these places, and they do so now without any opposition. This additional impost has, however, diverted a lot of the trade from Sungp'an, which now branches off at Mao Chow for Chung-pa and Mienchu-hsien. I was unable to get a tariff of this li-kin, which appears to be collected without method or rule, and merchants complain of great extortion as they speak of the time when the barrier outside of the north gate of Mao Chow was the only li-kin station between Sungpan and Chengtu. This Mao Chow barrier levies a Sanfei, i.e., three expenditure li-kin (expenses for Crown litigation, travelling expenses for officials on duty, wages of \"chai-jen,\" &c.) on all goods from Mao Chow, and also...",
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"content_text": "## Dealing with the Memorandum of Transfer\n\nCertain amendments are required therein in Naval interests. Under Clause 3 thereof the Colonial Government reserve the right to resume possession of the whole or any part of the green area at three months' notice on payment of compensation for any buildings thereon. In addition to this, it is considered that the Admiralty should be refunded the whole or proportionate part of the premium now paid, viz. $11,772.\n\nClause 5 provides that the land is not to be used for any other purpose than for a Hospital. So far as the green area is concerned this is agreed to, but My Lords are not prepared to accept such a restriction in respect of the red area. A copy of the correspondence which took place locally in regard to the transfer of this area is enclosed herewith for your information. It will be seen that the Admiralty stipulated that they should be allowed to utilize such land as necessary and H.E. the Governor in his letter of the 30th January 1904 did not raise any objection to this.\n\n## The amendments required\n\nThe amendments required, referred to above, would involve an alteration of Clauses 1, 3 & 5, of the Memorandum of Transfer. As however this has been signed such amendments might be met by an endorsement on the Memorandum or by letter agreeing to the same, and My Lords will be glad to learn which course is proposed to be adopted.\n\nEnclosures:\n- `MEMO: of TRANSFER(in orig:)`\n- `D.W.2356/05`\n- Copy Hong Kong Govr's lre: \n - `12.11.03 D.W.1875/04`\n - `D.W.1875/04` (Copy Commodore's 1re: 3.12.03)\n - `6434(Copy Col.Govt.lre:30.1.04`\n - `D.W.(Copy Commodore's 1re:26.1.04`\n - `04(Copy Commodore's 1re:9.3.04`\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nEvan MacGregor",
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"content_text": "440 \n\n14 \n\n[The Chinese firm pay one in ten—at least, so they told me—but I expect that they and the Lisu often evade payment.—G. L.] \n\n\"Beyond collecting toll and tribute Teng Keng never exercises any authority on the N'Maikha side of the watershed beyond the Salween divide. \n\nThe Upper Ngaw Chang Valley consists of steep grassy slopes, with pines and chestnuts, and very little cultivation. Mules from Ming Kwang are sometimes sent here to graze, and I met a few Szechuanese peddlers with their trade loads. Below Kang Fang there are some narrow strips of paddy-land on both sides of the river.\" \n\n## VI. The Lisu Country on the Upper Salween. \n\nI was accompanied from Pien Ma to the Salween by Surveyor Lachman Jadu; my object was to collect such further information about the main Salween-Irrawaddy divide as would enable His Majesty's Government to press for the definition of the frontier north of the point (about latitude 25° 50′) where this main divide is joined by the minor divide between the Ming Kwang and Ngaw Chang Rivers, or, what is the same, the divide between the Shweli and the N'Maikha. \n\nFrom Pien Ma the track ascended steeply in an easterly direction across open grassy hills. At 8,500 feet a magnificent view was unfolded. East of us the lofty snow-clad range between the Salween and the N'Maikha stretched away towards the north; to the south of us the crest of the divide between the Ngaw Chang and the Ming Kwang Rivers stood clearly out against the sky for many miles. Nothing could have shown more clearly than this view the fitness and convenience of the frontier which we claim. \n\nBelow us lay the scattered village of Pien Ma with its narrow valley of paddy-fields stretching down to the dark gorge in which flows the Ngaw Chang. Beyond, and hanging over the right bank of the Ngaw Chang, was another majestic range of snow-clad peaks forming a barrier between the Lashi (Chinese, Cha Shau) country, which we had been exploring, and Lang-su, as it is known to the Chinese. \n\nLang-su is a general term indicating all the wild Maru country beyond the Ngaw Chang and west of the great Salween divide. It appears to be generally recognized by the Chinese as not being under their control, and no claims were put forward in respect of it. The N'Maikha above the junction of the Ngaw Chang is known to the very few Chinese who have been there as the Laug-su River. \n\nWe crossed into the Salween basin by the Pien Ma Pass at 10,500 feet. This pass is usually practicable for mules, but we found the narrow path along the hill-side leading down from the summit deep in loose wet snow, across which it was impossible for animals to proceed. We were accordingly compelled to send the mules round by the Ma Mien Pass, a détour of twelve days, and do as best we could with coolie porters. The descent on the Salween side was very steep along the gorge of the Ku Tan Stream, which joins the Salween just north of the village of Teng Keng, after a rapid course of 12 miles. After camping in the jungle some 4 miles above the scattered village of Ku T'an, we climbed up a very steep spur on the left of the stream till we reached 6,500 feet, or 3,500 feet above the Salween, whence a long half-day's march of 8 miles northwards along steep bare hill-sides with several steep ascents and descents brought us to the Lisu village of La Chang (thirty houses), situated at 6,000 feet on a wooded terrace high above the Salween. \n\nHere we reached the fatherland of the Lisu tribe, for the Lisu villages scattered about the hills further south are all emigrations from the Upper Salween. Very few of the inhabitants of La Chang can speak more than a few sentences of Chinese. At Mao Chao, the next village to the north, only the attendants of the semi-Chinese Headman can speak the language of Han. Beyond Mao Chao there are no Chinese at all except two families resident at Cheng Ka, by the banks of Salween, latitude 26°, a small village with some paddy-fields, where there is a rope sling-bridge and a ferry-raft for crossing the river in low water. \n\nWe advanced three marches north of Lu Chang, camping at the villages of Mao Chao, Shih Pai Lai Ti, and Pai Pa; fortunately, lucid moments between the perpetual thunderstorms which swept down the valley in quick succession enabled the surveyor, by advancing above and beyond Pai Pa, to map the river and the high snow-clad divide between it and the Irrawaddy as far as latitude 26° 30′. \n\nI may therefore here put together in brief the information which I have collected on this and other journeys concerning the Upper Salween—i.e., above the iron suspension bridge on the main Burmah-Ta Li road. \n\n15 \n\nFrom the bridge northwards as far as Teng Keng, latitude 26°, the river, though its basin is only some 20 miles across, flows through comparatively open country, the great mountains on both sides breaking down to the banks in open rolling downs with ample room for rice cultivation, but, owing to the extreme unhealthiness of the valley, only a small part of it is cultivated by a mixed population of Shans and Chinese. There are, however, numerous Chinese villages along the upper slopes. The principal ferry in this section is at Meng Ku, latitude 25° 36', near the market of Man Yin, on the right or west bank, which is the last bazaar on the Upper Salween, and is situated in a broad paddy-valley at the foot of the Ma Mien Pass over to the valley of Ta Tang (Upper Shweli). \n\nFrom Teng Keng, in latitude 26° northwards, to about 27° 40', the river, which maintains an equal breadth of 100 yards for a great distance, is enclosed in a gorge as precipitous as the cañon of the Mekong. From about latitude 26° the range on the west bank forms the main divide between the Salween and the Irrawaddy, and its array of peaks is covered with snow for at least eight months of the year. This range is also an important ethnographical boundary, forming a barrier between the Maru country along the east of N'Maikha and the Lisu country along the west bank of the Salween. The Salween Lisu seem to regard this range as the frontier, and speak of their own Liso country—i.e., the Salween Valley—in contradistinction to Langsu, the Kachin country on the other side of the range. \n\nThe gorge section of the Salween appears to be entirely inhabited by Lisu, a tribe closely allied to the Lolo, and probably of Thibetan origin. They are well aware of the unhealthiness of the river banks, and nearly all their villages are 3,000 feet above the bottom of the gorge, even though the paddy-fields have to be squeezed into the few gaps in the cliffs by the river banks. \n\nThe characteristic of this gorge of the Salween is the tremendous series of sharp steep spurs which come straight down from the snows to the river in an endless succession of parallels. It must be remembered that while the river itself here flows at 3,000 feet, and the mountains between it and the Irrawaddy basin on the west, or the basin of the Mekong on the east, rise to heights from 10,000 feet to 13,000 feet, the whole width of the valley from crest to crest of the two ranges is only some 18 miles in an air-line; from native information it appears that the spurs which descend to the N'Maikha on the west side of the great divide are quite as numerous and difficult as those which we negotiated on our journey northwards from Lu Chang. \n\nFrom about latitude 27° 40′ northwards to the confines of Thibet the valley of the Salween is again somewhat more open. Wide stretches of country are covered with tall grass, and the bulk of the population in this section consists of Lu Tzu, a tribe in a very backward condition and probably closely allied to the Ching-paw or Kachins. \n\nThe French `Missions Étrangères` have recently sent a priest to work among these people, and he has established himself at Chongra on the left bank at about latitude 28°. He has seen and even ascended the Salween-Irrawaddy divide, which is here the boundary between the Lu and the Chiu tribes, who inhabit the eastern sources of the Irrawaddy. This same divide was crossed by Prince Henri of Orleans at an altitude of 12,800 feet, in latitude approximately 27° 40'. \n\nIt is therefore submitted that it may be regarded as established that a high regular range divides the Salween from the Irrawaddy basin as far as the sources of the latter river, and that north of the point (about latitude 25° 52′) where the Ming Kwang-N'Maikha divide joins it, this main range is not only the most convenient frontier, but also the only frontier which His Majesty's Government can accept, and that the sooner the Government of Peking can be brought to comprehend this the better. \n\nTravelling in the Lisu country is a series of steep climbs up the almost perpendicular sides of spurs, followed by break-neck descents on the other side. The scattered villages of rude log or bamboo huts with grass thatching are generally situated near the ridges of the spurs. The streams between the spurs are violent mountain torrents crossed by rickety plank bridges, and the bottom of each little valley is occupied by a hot and steamy jungle, whence the perspiring traveller climbs painfully up to the breezy ridges. The Taotai with much difficulty got a small mountain chair as far as Mao Chao, but there had to call a halt while I and the surveyor proceeded `pedibus cum jambis`. \n\nCultivation on the steep hill slopes along the river is extensive but precarious, as the fields are liable to be swept bodily away into the Salween; paddy-fields are few, and are...",
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"content_text": "Hong Kong\n\nAdm/24844\n\n215\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Secretary\n\nThis letter\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Just.\n\nMr. Antrobus.\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nMr. Lucas.\n\nSir F. Hopwood.\n\nMr. Churchill.\n\nThe Earl of Elgin.\n\nAusd 108.11\n\nSir,\n\n18 July 1907.\n\nI am directed by the E of E to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of July 13th, in which you state that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have no objection to Mr C.W. Jeffries accepting the post of First Assistant at the Hong Kong Observatory.\n\n2. Mr Jeffries has asked that the cost of his passage to Hong Kong may be advanced to him and Lord Elgin would be glad if the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty would be so good as to authorise the Treasury Chest Officer at Cape Town to pay him the sum required for this purpose on his signing an agreement to refund the amount in the event of his leaving the service of the Govt of Hong Kong within three years from the date of his arrival in that Colony for any reason other than mental or physical infirmity. The agreement should be forwarded by the Treasury Chest Officer to the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong and the money paid to Mr Jeffries will be refunded to the Admiralty vote on your informing this department of the amount.\n\nI am &c.\n\n(Signed) C. P. Lucas",
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"content_text": "AJL\n\nTelephone No. 117 West\n\nI am R.H. HARRY STANGER,\n\nAssoc.M.Inst.C.R.,A.M.I.Mech.E.,\n\nlate W. HARRY STANGER, M. Inst.C.E.,F.C.S.,\n\nINSPECTING ENGINEER\n\nto the Crown Agents for the Colonies, the Government of the Cape of Good Hope and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.\n\nSTANGER'S\n\nWORKS AND CHEMICAL\n\nDecember 4th, 1906\n\nOsbert Chadwick Esq., C.E., C.M.G.,\n\n7, Carteret Street,\n\nWestminster,\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\nC. O.\n\n8325\n\n6 MAR 07\n\n243\n\nHONG KONG\n\nLABORATORIES,\n\nBROADWAY,\n\nWESTMINSTER, S.W.\n\nColony and Service\n\nRequisition No.\n\n與\n\nIndent No. 45\n\nWATER WORKS\n\nContract for the Supply of\n\n254/1\n\nContractor\n\nDate of Order\n\nWROUGHT IRON PIPING\n\nMR. EDWARD SMITH\n\nTime\n\nIn Reply please quote\n\n2256. T 352/06\n\nSir,\n\nDue for Delivery\n\nWith reference to the despatch No. 153 dated 15th June 1906 from the Governor of Hong Kong, in which complaint is made of certain 5\" and 6\" diam. Wrought Iron Pipes supplied under the above mentioned Contract.\n\n2. In accordance with your instructions of the 19th October, I have carried out tests and analyses of the three pieces of Pipe returned from the Colony, in order to endeavour to arrive at a conclusion as to the cause of failure.\n\n3. Before proceeding to give the results of these tests and analyses, I propose to detail the conditions under which the Contract for the Pipes was originally placed with, and executed by Mr. Edward Smith of Wednesbury, under my inspection.\n\n4. As you are aware, Mr. Edward Smith has executed contracts for Wrought Iron Pipes for the Crown Agents for many years, and as far as I am aware, no previous complaint has been received, either from Hong Kong, or from any of the other Colonies, to which many miles of Wrought Iron Pipes of his make have been supplied. The cause of the present failure is therefore all the more difficult to account for.\n\n5. The Contract under Req: \"254/1 consisted of",
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"content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n[April 26.]\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nRed' 5 JUN 07\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[13428]\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nAdmiralty to Foreign Office.-(Received April 26.)\n\nSir,\n\nAdmiralty, April 24, 1907.\n\nI AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copy of correspondence which has been received from the Commander-in-chief, China, relative to piracy in the West River, China.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) \nC. I. THOMAS.\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nSir,\n\nVice-Admiral Sir A. Moore to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n\"King Alfred,\" at Hong Kong [undated].\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of your Excellency's letter of the 23rd February, inclosing a copy of a despatch No. 86 addressed to Sir Edward Grey relative to the measures adopted for the suppression of piracy in the inland waters of China.\n\n2. I paid an official visit to his Excellency the Viceroy of Canton on the 28th February, and took the opportunity to mention the subject to him. His Excellency informed me that a flotilla of about fourteen steam launches was to be built and placed under the orders of Admiral Li for patrolling duties on the West River, and that it was proposed to have a small number of steam launches under the Commissioner of Customs to co-operate with Admiral Li's flotilla. His Excellency said that he saw no objection to the proposal, and that communications between Canton and Peking on the subject were proceeding.\n\n3. Although the Viceroy spoke of this co-operation by the Commissioner of Customs, I am doubtful if Admiral Li would carry out such an arrangement in its entirety. In my opinion, it is essential that the Customs authorities should have the necessary authority to deal with the situation independently in case the Chinese show any lack in co-operation, which may be expected sooner or later; it should not be left to Admiral Li to guide the situation or to direct the Customs authorities to patrol such and such waters, or to take such and such action.\n\n4. With respect to paragraph 4 of your despatch to Sir Edward Grey, I would point out that very little would be gained by these launches steaming up and down the river; such is the only procedure open to our own river gun-boats, and is attended with poor results. The Commissioner of Customs should have sufficient power to enable his launches to visit all parts of the delta, to search any vessels, and to arrest and hand over to the proper authorities any criminal or suspect.\n\n5. If the report is true that the launches being built by the Viceroy's order are only to cost 5,000 dollars each, they will not be of much good, and the six Customs launches, if of proper size and speed, would do far better service. I think Sir Robert Hart does not realize why speed is so necessary. It is true there is no \"piracy,\" properly speaking, no piratical craft to chase; it is more often the case of a certain number of passengers murderously attacking and robbing the remainder. But speed is absolutely necessary for rapidity of communications, for a launch to reach a certain spot by a certain time, and our own gun-boats, two of the three being very slow, have often failed to act in time in consequence of not having sufficient speed to get over the ground fast enough against a strong current.\n\n6. I gather that Sir Robert Hart is not much in sympathy with the proposal that the Customs authorities should take up this duty, and I quite understand and sympathise with his objection to provide six launches out of Customs funds as this is so entirely a matter for the Chinese Government; but if the initial cost is borne by the latter, perhaps...\n\n[2450 cc-3]\n\nAfter many negotiations, they succeeded in coming to an agreement with the German Asiatic Bank. The bank was consequently granted a Concession by the Imperial Chancellor for the issue of bank notes for fifteen years from the 8th June, 1906.\n\nIn judicial affairs, the legally educated Judges have worked satisfactorily with their other colleagues, especially those of trading classes. Many difficulties have arisen for the German population by the combination of Colonial and Consular law. The Marine Administration consider it necessary to effect a separation of the two kinds of law and to work for the formation of an independent Colonial law adaptable to the special requirements of Colonial development, and, in anticipation of this, to pay particular attention to Colonial judicial practice and knowledge of Colonial law. The Government school has made very satisfactory progress.\n\nThe weather has been very favourable for agriculture and forestry, and the harvest was the best for years. The sanitary relations were the best on the entire East Asian coast. The relations between the German Government and Chinese Hinterland authorities have been excellent throughout the year.\n\nThe Memorandum contains a number of pictures and a plan of the town, showing a surprising development in building.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nC. O.\n\n19974 \n197",
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"content_text": "**AFFAIRS OF CHINA**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[July 10]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n[22809]\n\n### No. 1\n\n**Admiralty to Foreign Office**.-(Received July 10.)\n\nC C. 26320\n\n**DIRECT**\n\nREG 23 JUL 07\n\nSir,\n\nAdmiralty, July 9, 1907.\n\nI AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, extracts from letters, dated the 15th May, which have been received through the Commander-in-chief, China, from the officers commanding His Majesty's ships \"Moorhen\" and \"Robin\" respecting the condition of affairs in the West River district, China.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nC. I. THOMAS.\n\n#### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\nExtract from Letter of Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship \"Moorhen,\" dated Samshui, May 15, 1907.\n\nIT is satisfactory to be able to report that no case of piracy affecting British interests has occurred now for the last six months, the last case being the piracy of a launch above Wuchow on the 8th November, 1906, and the energetic attempts at patrolling the river instituted by the Chinese after the piracy of the British steamer \"Sainam\" are still maintained. On the 13th instant the first two patrol-launches ordered by the late Viceroy of Canton passed through here on their way up river. They steam about 9 knots, and are well equipped with a good stand of arms, but at present carry no guns.\n\nThe first rice crop is being planted, and the first crop of mulberry promises to be an unusually good one, so one may expect to hear no more of piracy for some time to come. Agricultural depression and piracy go hand-in-hand in the two Kwang provinces.\n\nThe Portuguese Government have ordered from Messrs. Yarrow and Co., of Poplar, two river gun-boats of the \"Moorhen\" type, and they are expected to be delivered in Hong Kong before long. The Governor of Macao told me that their duties will be confined principally to patrolling the vicinity of Macao, but as three steamers flying the Portuguese flag trade regularly to Kong Mun, and a fourth to Samshui, I have no doubt that we shall frequently see them in the West River.\n\nLieutenant Monterio, Aide-de-camp to the Governor, has been appointed in charge of the resurvey of the waters round Macao, and the military authorities under General Castello Branco are making a topographical map of Macao.\n\n#### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\nExtract from Letter of Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship \"Robin,” dated May 15, 1907.\n\nI SUBMIT that I have no information or report of any piracy, and the launches that I have inspected are in good order.\n\n[2570 k-1]\n\n466",
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"content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[33141]\n\n(Confidential.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Admiralty to Foreign Office**.-(Received October 5.)\n\n[October 3 47 \nSKOTTON 8. \nTREY 29 OCT 07 \n356]\n\nAdmiralty, October 3, 1907.\n\nI AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a letter dated the 10th August, with its inclosures, which has been received from the Commander-in-chief on the China Station, respecting piracy in the West River.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) \nC. I. THOMAS.\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Vice-Admiral Sir A. Moore to Admiralty.**\n\n(Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\n\"King Alfred,\" at Hakodate, August 10, 1907.\n\nWITH reference to Admiralty telegram of the 3rd August last on the subject of piracy in the waterways of the West River delta, I have the honour to report as follows, in amplification of my telegram No. 66 of the 5th idem.\n\n2. On the 15th May last the Senior Naval Officer in the West River was able to report that no cases of piracy affecting British interests had occurred for six months, and that \"the energetic attempts at patrolling the river instituted by the Chinese after the piracy of the 'Sainam' are still maintained.\" He further stated that of the fourteen patrol launches ordered by the Viceroy of Canton two had arrived in the river; they were well found with a speed of 9 knots and well equipped with a good stand of arms, but at present carry no guns (vide China Station submission of the 4th June last).\n\nAs will be seen from the inclosed copy of a letter from the Acting British Consul-General at Canton, new Traffic Regulations, specially drawn with a view to the prevention of piracy, have lately been issued by the Chinese authorities at Canton. These Regulations appear to have been carefully thought out.\n\n3. I have throughout advocated the desirability of a certain number of armed patrol launches, commanded by Europeans, being placed in the West River with authority to deal with cases of piracy; this would ensure that the launches under Chinese control are kept up to their work. I understand that the proposition of His Britannic Majesty's Minister to the Chinese Government that six launches should be placed under the control of the Imperial Maritime Customs Service was originally acceded to, but that opposition is now being raised by them. In view, however, of the foregoing facts, it appears that the Chinese authorities are making a determined effort to deal with the situation themselves, and so long as no further case of piracy arises they can argue that their efforts are meeting with success, and I think it would be inopportune and impolitic to put pressure on them at present on the grounds that they are neglecting the duty of policing their own waters.\n\n4. As regards the possibility of our undertaking this duty for them, it would be impossible to do so without suitable vessels. At present we have only three shallow draught gun-boats in the West River, and I have previously pointed out the unsuitability of the \"Robin\" and \"Sandpiper.\" These vessels are too slow, and often in the strong currents of the river can barely make headway.\n\nTo carry out the policing of the waters would entail the provision of faster gun-boats, supplemented by small powerful armed launches, which would be used to follow up the pirates in the creeks and to the villages which form their head-quarters. The question of landing armed men in Chinese territory would also arise.\n\nThe Chinese authorities are of course perfectly well aware how we are situated in this respect, and unless we are prepared to go to the expense of building or obtaining special vessels, it seems to me unwise to threaten a course of action which we are not in a position to follow.\n\n[2692 e-8]",
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"content_text": "## TABLE respecting Arrival and Departure of Train, &c.\n\n| Station | Kilometres from Chen-t'ou | Arrive | Depart |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Cheng-chia-tung | 6.9 | | |\n| | 8 | | |\n| | 11.9 | | |\n| | 18.6 | | |\n| Chia-p'an-shih | 31 | 4.15 | 4.20 |\n| | 36.2 | 4.31 | |\n| | | 4.43 | 4.46 |\n| | 68.7 | | |\n| Yen-hui | 61.9 | 5.10 | 5.28 |\n| Luan-chiu | 79.9 | 6.50 | 6.54 |\n| | 86.4 | 7.13 | 7.26 |\n| | | 7.41 | 7.56 |\n| | 91 | 8.12 | 8.18 |\n| | | 8.34 | 8.35 |\n| Cha-hsi-yi | 98.3 | | |\n| | 115 | | |\n| Pei-yang-shu | 121 | | |\n| Yen-chuang | 128 | | |\n| Tsai-yü | 135 | | |\n| Pio-tiou | 141 | | |\n| | 151 | | |\n| | 169 | | |\n| | 177 | | |\n| | 186 | | |\n| | 194 | | |\n| | 203 | | |\n| Shou-yang Hsien | | 8.54 | 09.8 |\n| Ko-chuang | | 9.45 | |\n| San-hu | | | |\n| Cha-hai-yi | | | |\n| Ching-chuang | | | |\n| Liu-chia-chuang | | | |\n| Tuan-ting | | | |\n| Tung-chao-chuang | | | |\n\n## Notes\n\nA good stone building for station. An engine-house. Go across plain, starting north-west. Passed truck train. Enter hills, gradual ascent. Loess country.\n\nLater pass a small tunnel. Later cross girder bridge supported by one stone pier. River on right. Below a small coal-trolley line to the mines, which crosses the Wei-shui Ho by a wooden bridge on seven piers.\n\nJust before reaching it, cross two girder bridges without pier supports. Here passed coal train of seven tracks. River on right; soon leave. Now pass through many cuttings, some of rock, some of loess, standing without support or banked with mud. Mud-walled city 200 yards to right, across river. Then through a tunnel and across river by a girder bridge. It is crossed by two or three fords about here, but at present very low. Country wilder; through rock cuttings.\n\nPassed passenger train. Now more loess terraces among hills. Cross river by girder bridge on four piers and five arches just before Niang-tzu-kuan.\n\nJust before station, a piece of now wall, 50 yards long with some old mud mounds, marks line of Great Wall separating provinces. The Ku-kuan (pass) is 74 miles (25 li) to the south. Leaving station, cross stone bridge with one pier and four arches.\n\nNow dry stone river bed on right. Less loess; wild country. More cuttings. Later four tunnels and a bridge over river bed.\n\nCountry with some loess terraces; hills. Two tunnels. Water tower being built. Pass three small and one big tunnel.\n\nA tunnel and a girder bridge. Up valley between hills. River bed or on right. Several houses for bridgos over tributaries. Village called Sa-chiang-kon. It is the station for Ping-ting. Chou 6 miles (20 li) to south-west.\n\nA train leaves Shou-yang Hsien about 2:80 p.m., and reaches Tung-chao-chuang about 5:2 p.m. Water tower being built. Station under construction.\n\nVillage called Chiu-chia. Stone bridge over tributary. Some loess terraces. An engine-house under construction. Station 1 mile to south-east of city.\n\n## Notes\n\nSidings 100 yards to 150 yards long. Water towers with stone basements. Engines small and marked \"Anciens Établissements Cail, Denain, France, 1906.” Chinese drivers and stokers. Our train consisted of one composite, first and second class (first class with four seats and arm-rests; second class, two compartments each; could hold eight passengers, but it would only hold six soldiers). Seats of both classes of leather. Light luggage racks and oil lamps. Lavatories attached. Corridor passages.\n\nThere were three third-class corridor carriages, each could hold forty-six Chinese, rather tightly packed on wooden benches. Also three closed and two open vans. Each van carries 20 tons.\n\nFares (Chen-t'ou to Shou-yang Hsien). First class, 10 dol. 40 c.; second class, 5 dol. 20 c.; third class, 2 dol. 60 c. Hong Kong dollars are taken, Mexican dollars are only accepted as 90 cents. No charge for my baggage. As nobody in charge of luggage van, one's boy has to travel in it. No restaurant arrangements.\n\nRailway Stations all of stone, large buildings at Ch'en-t'ou, other stations quite small. Platforms about 6 inches to 9 inches above line.\n\nRails: One, made 33 feet long (probably 10 metres), fastened at each end to fish-plates by two bolts, and to each sleeper by one bolt. Line ballasted with stone. On the whole, it runs smoothly, except from Cha-hsi-yi to Shou-yang Hsien, where it shakes a good deal.\n\nTelegraph alongside line and two strands of wire.\n\nLine very winding, running up among loess hills. As little or no rain had fallen, I found loess terraces very bare, but in valleys near rivers, it was greener.\n\nThe line is guarded on Chih-li side by a few of the Lien Chun of Chen-ting-fu, armed with batons. They look to be of all ages and effete.\n\nTime-Table: There is as yet no regular time-table; they gave me a copy of the temporary one, in which the stations were only marked by the first letter of each word. The stations are, of course, all written according to the French transliteration, and it is necessary to see the character, or get the Chinese to pronounce them, before being able to transliterate them. Names of stations written up in large letters on either side of each station.\n\nLine at Shou-yang Hsien guarded by some Shan-hsi cavalry (\"Ma-san-tui\") of the provincial troops (\"Hsün-fang-tui\") armed with tower muskets. The railway embankment has been completed to Tai-yuan-fu. It runs close to the road from Cheng-ts'un (6 miles south-east of T'ai-yuan-fu), and about 200 yards to the west of it, crossing road about a mile from city. Embankment near Cheng-ts'un 8 feet to 10 feet high and 5 yards wide at top. Culverts faced with stone, but not yet bridged. Terminus will be 100 yards to south-east of New South Gate (eastern of the two south gates), and the station is under construction. It is expected the line will be open about the 20th September, 1907. The delay was caused by the Han-yang Ironworks not being able to supply rails, which are now coming from Europe.\n\n**(Signed) G. PEREIRA, Military Attaché.**\n\nTai-yüan-fu, July 27, 1907.\n\nP.51.",
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"content_text": "# Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Goverment.\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Foreign Office to Admiralty.**\n\n[October 31.]\n\n### SECTION 1\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, October 31, 1907.\n\nI AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to refer to the communication from the Commander-in-chief on the China Station inclosed in your letter of the 3rd instant, relative to the insecurity of the waterways in the Canton Delta and on the West River. Sir Arthur Moore there stated that no cases of piracy affecting British interests had occurred for six months before the 15th May last; and that, in view of the efforts which were being made by the Chinese authorities to deal with the situation, he did not consider it politic or opportune to put further pressure upon them.\n\nThe situation appears to have changed materially since Admiral Moore wrote. The Chinese authorities appear to have taken no effective steps in the matter, since, as the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty will see from the telegrams from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, of which copies are inclosed, no less than three cases of piratical attacks on British launches have occurred within the last ten days.\n\nThe Viceroy at Canton has, moreover, refused even to consider the question of compensation in the \"Sainam\" and \"Kaicheng\" cases, previously reported.\n\nI am to state that, in Sir E. Grey's opinion, the time has come when the Commander-in-chief should consider whether some decisive action cannot be taken in order to convince the provincial Government that His Majesty's Government will no longer tolerate the present condition of affairs.\n\nI am therefore to request that Sir A. Moore may be communicated with, and instructed to report by telegraph what action he would propose.\n\nIn this connection, and in view of the Admiral's statement that the present shallow draught gun-boats in the West River are unsuitable for policing and for the pursuit of pirates, I am to inquire whether there are no vessels laid up at Hong Kong which might be put into commission temporarily for the purpose required.\n\nIt has occurred to Sir E. Grey as a possible method of procedure that, should sufficient evidence be forthcoming that the pirates have their home in any particular village in the near neighbourhood of the river, the village might be called upon to surrender the culprits, and in the event of refusal or evasion, might be destroyed by His Majesty's forces.\n\nA copy of a telegram which has been addressed to Sir John Jordan on the subject of these outrages is also inclosed.†\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n* Sir J. Jordan, No. 180 (Telegraphic), October 18; ditto, No. 181 (Telegraphic), October 25; ditto, No. 182 (Telegraphic), October 28, 1907.\n† To Sir J. Jordan, No. 112 (Telegraphic), October 30, 1907.\n\n[2692 hh-1] \n## Page 4",
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"content_text": "almost parallel only a few miles distant. The loads, which often weigh as much as 120 catties (say 160 lbs.), but usually 80 catties, are carried in baskets slung on the shoulders, and the journey is divided into long and short stages of about 30 and 20 miles respectively. The cost of porterage works out to about 7d. per cwt. per stage of 20 miles. The strain of carrying such heavy burdens over steep passes for mostly cultivated, whilst the higher parts were covered with extensive woods. The\n\ndays or even weeks in succession must be very severe, and it was apparent in the distressed look noticeable in the faces of many of the coolies. The roads are apparently too rough for pack animals, for we met none throughout the journey, but we occasionally saw a pony or two in the fields. For agricultural purposes cows and oxen seem to be almost exclusively used.\n\nThe scenery was very picturesque, the most conspicuous feature of the landscape being the beautiful tallow tree, which at this season (beginning of November) is at its best. I think I have never seen anything more beautiful in the way of colouring than the ruddy tints and white seeds of this tree, which is found scattered through all the valleys and on the lower slopes of the hills. The summer crops—rice, sesamum, cotton, and corn—had lately been gathered, and the fields were already beginning to look green with autumn-sown wheat and beans. In many places the banks and lower slopes were gay with a pretty yellow flower, which is supposed to be the parent of the chrysanthemum. Another interesting plant frequently seen was the black-berry, the stems of which are covered in the winter with a white wax, presumably for protection against the cold, as it disappears in the summer. The berries are not eaten.\n\nTowards dusk we arrived at our halting place for the night, having covered some 20 miles and reached an altitude of about 1,200 feet.\n\nFrom this point onwards the country became more rugged and the population more sparse and scattered. At first our road lay along the banks of the Ching River, whose clear and sparkling water formed a delightful contrast to the turbid waters of the Yang-tsze, into which it flows at Itu, a few miles below Ichang. In the summer rafts of cypress, which grows in abundance on the hill-sides, and is extensively used for building junks, are floated down it to that place. Here are also seen occasional groves of liquid amber, and plantations of small bamboo, used for making paper. For two days we ascended and descended passes of from 1,500 feet to over 3,000 feet. The hill-sides were extensively cultivated, even in places which seemed too steep to stand on. I was told that sometimes the men have to be suspended by ropes whilst working. There were certainly many cultivated spots steeper than the roof of any ordinary house. The crops seemed to be much the same as in the valleys, except that rice was replaced by Indian corn, and the sweet potato was more common. Thick woods of pine, oak, and beech abounded everywhere. On the fourth day we had a stiff climb up a bleak and barren range of hills, overgrown with long grass, and broken here and there by a field of Indian corn or a patch of vegetables. On the summit—about 5,000 feet—we found a quarry where tombstones were being cut. At the moment the men were engaged in polishing a stone, which they do by pouring lime and water on it, and then pushing over it backwards and forwards a heavy slab of granite. From here we made an abrupt descent to a small hamlet named Kuan Pao, lying in a sort of basin enclosed on all sides by hills. These basin-shaped depressions are very common, and, judging by the marshy condition of one we saw, would appear to be the sites of former lakes. The weather, which had hitherto been very warm, was now cold at night, and the ground was covered with white frost every morning. In the front room of the inn the thermometer fell to freezing point. The low temperature was probably in some measure due to the proximity of a range of mountains, close on 7,000 feet high, which forms a solid and unbroken barrier for many miles. We climbed up a precipitous path through woods of oak and beech, with an undergrowth of hazel and rhododendrons, to the top of this range, and found on the other side an undulating grassy plateau, for the most part uncultivated and uninhabited. Foxes were said to be abundant, and tigers, leopards, and wild pig are occasionally seen. A few miles distant there is said to be an iron mine, from which the needs of the inhabitants of the district are supplied. I was told about fifty men are employed in it, and that there are ten smelting furnaces, each employing about fifteen hands. We saw iron ore from this mine in two or three villages, but I have not the necessary knowledge to express any opinion as to its quality. In the neighbourhood there is also said to be a red earth which appears to be used for colouring purposes. I was unable to obtain any definite particulars about it, and had no time to visit the place of production. Shortly after leaving Kuan Pao we began the descent of a steep pass with precipitous and well-wooded hills on either side.\n\nFor some distance the vegetation was most luxuriant, and the colouring of the trees beautiful beyond description. I have seen nothing to beat it even in Japan. Our path then lay by a gradual ascent up a long slope, the lower portion of which was wild; rose bush seemed to grow everywhere, and masses of red berries made the slopes gorgeous with colour. The persimmon, with its golden fruit, was a conspicuous feature of the landscape, and in the neighbourhood of the cottages hedges of quince, which is used for medicinal purposes, were common. Although at about the same altitude as Kuan Pao, and only about 15 miles distant, we found the temperature here at night nearly 20 degrees higher. A further short climb, followed by a very precipitous descent for several miles, brought us back to the main road to Shih-nan-fu, which we had left on the morning of the fourth day. In this neighbourhood (between Lanping and P'u-tzu) a few white bark pine trees are found growing in a wild state. I am told this tree is known to grow wild in only one other place.\n\nVegetable Products.\n\nAs being the more convenient arrangement, I have reserved for separate treatment several products of the district traversed which seem to be of some interest from an economic point of view.\n\nTallow Tree. Method of making Tallow.\n\nThe tallow tree (locally called \"mu tzu shu\") I have already mentioned as abounding in the valleys. It seems to flourish best up to an altitude of about 1,500 feet, and is not found above about 2,000 feet. The seeds are coated with a white substance, and it is from this that the tallow is obtained by the following process: The seeds are steamed, then pounded whilst still warm, and sifted, the white coating passing through the sieve in the form of a coarse brown powder, which, after being ground, is again steamed, placed in straw bags, and pressed in a press. The resulting oil, called \"pi yu,\" is poured into tubs, where it quickly hardens and resumes its original white colour. It is then placed in wooden buckets, and when quite hard turned out in blocks and packed in straw ready for transport. In this form the tallow is mixed with rape or varnish oil or animal tallow before being actually made into candles, the two oils being used for fine candles for religious purposes (burning in temples, &c.), and animal tallow for candles of a coarse quality for domestic purposes.\n\nTallow Oil.\n\nAfter the white coating on the seed has been taken off, there remains the actual seed, from which another oil, “tzu yu,” is extracted, by a process somewhat similar to that above described. The outer shell and the heart, which is white, are separated by being ground between two mill-stones. The hearts, which remain intact, are then crushed under a large stone wheel pulled in an erect position by an ox or mule around a circular stone trough. They are then steamed, roasted, made into cakes in iron moulds, and pressed in a press similar to the cider press still used in country districts in England. The resulting oil, \"tzu yu,\" is used for illuminating purposes.\n\nSometimes the whole seeds, i.e., without removing the white exterior, are crushed and turned into oil, which is called \"mu yu.\" This is also used for making tallow for candles of a coarse quality such as are burned in lanterns. Candles of this quality are manufactured at Ichang.\n\nThere are thus two kinds of tallow and an oil obtained by varying the process of extraction. The refuse cakes are used as a fertilizer, and the husks as fuel.\n\nValue of Tallow Tree, &c.\n\nA good tallow tree bears about 20 lbs. of seeds, which yield 25 to 30 per cent. of (oil from the pure tallow (tallow from the exterior coating), 20 per cent. \"tzu yu\" hearts), or 60 per cent. \"mu yu\" (tallow from the whole seeds). The local price of tallow is, at the present time, about 3½d. per lb. for first quality, and a fraction over 2d. per lb. for second quality, and of the seeds from ¾d. to 1d. per lb. According to the Customs valuation the price is about 11s. 6d. per cwt. (nearly 3d. per lb.), but the different kinds are not distinguished.\n\n[2816 y-2]\n\n* This is also the term for tallow",
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"content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[6063]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[February 21.]\n\nSECTION 1,\n\nAdmiralty to Foreign Office.--(Received February 21.)\n\n(Confidential.) Sir,\n\nAdmiralty, February 19, 1903.\n\nI AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a letter, dated the 10th ultimo, with its inclosures, which has been received from the Commander-in-chief on the China Station, respecting the augmented British patrol in the West River and Canton delta.;\n\nI am to request that the inclosures, which are in original, may be returned, and the copies of any letters on this subject which may be printed by the Foreign Office may be supplied to this Department.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) W. GRAHAM GREENE,\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nAdmiral Sir A. Moore to Admiralty.\n\n\"King Alfred,\" at Hong Kong, January 10, 1908.\n\nIN continuation of my submission of the 27th December, I have the honour to report that the increased patrol of the Canton and West Rivers by British vessels continues, and that no cases of piracy have occurred since its institution.\n\n56\n\n2. I have recently sent Flag-Commander Vyvyan to Canton and Wuchow to inquire into certain matters connected with the working of the patrol, and an extract from his Report is forwarded herewith for their Lordships' information (Inclosure 2). With reference to the account of his interview with Mr. Banker, the latter's promised views in writing on Japanese action in China have not been received. In this connection I am forwarding a Memorandum (Inclosure 3) written by Dr. W. W. Myers, His Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul at Pagoda Anchorage, who has recently been engaged on intelligence work for the military authorities at Hong Kong. The Ke-ming-hui Society, referred to by Dr. Myers, which, it should be noted, was founded in Tokio by Chinese students being educated in Japan, is probably to a large extent responsible for the violent anti-British articles which have appeared in the Canton native newspapers, and for the organization of meetings held in Canton to protest against our patrol. These, and other reports which have reached me from various sources, point to the fact that Japanese influence is at work in China, and, although I should not like to assert that it is anti-British, I am afraid there is but little doubt that it is directed against Europeans in general, and is all tending to the realization of the reported Japanese ideal--to become the dominant Power in the Far East.\n\n3. The Principal Medical Officer of my flag-ship has also, by my directions, visited the patrolling vessels. He has been able to make a satisfactory report as to the state of the health of their ships' companies in general. I regret to report, though, that Lieutenant and Commander Vaughan, Senior Officer in the West River, has had to be sent to hospital at Hong Kong suffering from dysentry.\n\n4. After discussing the matter with me at Hong Kong, Sir H. de Sausmarez proceeded to Canton to go into the question of the revision of the Regulations governing the registration of British-owned launches at Canton, which I dealt with fully in Inclosure 6 in my submission of the 28th November, 1907. I inclose a copy of a telegram subsequently addressed by him to the British Minister at Peking, and I have since heard with much satisfaction that His Majesty's Government has approved the proposed new rules, and that they will be in force in the course of ten days.\n\n[2846 -1]\n\nPage 165 appears three times at top, and content continues...\n\n...\n\nPage 165 appears three times at bottom",
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"content_text": "Mines.\n\nThe only mines actually being worked at present are those at Fushun; others are in course of inspection.\n\nEnterprises.-Working of various Railways.\n\nWhen the railway was taken over, the old system was maintained till the Company had so far perfected its organization as to permit of the introduction of improvements. The actual period of working under the Company was from the 1st April to the 31st September, that is, 183 days. During the period under review the mileage open to traffic, including that carried on on the five miles between Changchun and Menchiatun, was 514 m. 14 ch.; on the Mukden-Antung line, 188 m. 56 ch.\n\nThe mileage covered by trains on the main line during this period reaches a total of 1,165,665 miles; on the Mukden-Antung line of 145,527 miles.\n\nPassengers numbered 704,300, and the amount received in fares came to 174,833, the busiest periods being April and May, the slackest June and July. The latter are apparently two months during which little travelling is ever done, and in this particular year matters have been made worse by the heavy floods, which in many places caused all communication to be cut off.\n\nMerchandize.\n\nThe amount carried was as follows:--\n\n \n \n Tons\n £\n \n \n Ordinary merchandize\n 11,544\n 228,715\n \n \n Full-car loads\n 468,411\n \n \n \n Total\n 479,955\n \n \n\nPage 7\n\nThe following Table shows the chief restoration work carried out to make good the damage done:-\n\n \n Embankments repaired\n 2,997 tsubo\n \n \n Bridges, parapets, &c., repaired\n 227\n \n \n Bridges and accessories repaired in\n 48 localities\n \n \n Track repaired\n 28 chains\n \n \n débris cleared\n 36 tsubo\n \n\nThis does not include ordinary repairs for the maintenance of the line. On the Antung-Mukden line maintenance of the track is an arduous task. This road was built hastily during the war for military purposes. It runs, too, through a difficult and inaccessible country full of steep gradients, while the bridges, which number 450, are only temporary structures, which, since the three years they have been standing, have for the most part become rotten. Nor are matters made easier by the frequently recurring floods, particularly those of the last summer. For instance, the bridges and embankments north of Pensihu were destroyed in this way on the 12th June last. Scarcely was the work of repairing completed, when two days of heavy rain in August, causing the rivers to rise from twelve to seventeen feet, undid all the work done; twenty-seven bridges were washed away, and almost incalculable damage done to earthworks, culverts, &c. The result was suspension of traffic for some time, for, notwithstanding the energetic manner in which repairs were pushed forward, it was not till the last day of September that the whole line was free again.\n\nThe following Table gives statistics of the work done to repair damages of this kind:\n\n \n Embankments, &c., repaired\n 680 tsubo\n \n \n Bridges (temporary) repaired, Culverts repaired\n 3,723 feet\n \n \n Covered drains repaired\n 3 places\n \n \n Track débris cleared\n 13 chains\n \n \n relayed\n 242 tsubo\n \n \n \n 1 m, 32 ch\n \n\nFreight charges\n\nThe principal articles transported were as follows:-\n\n \n Classification\n Quantity\n Classification\n Quantity\n \n \n \n Tons\n \n Tons\n \n \n Rice\n 9,685\n Flour\n 6,661\n \n \n Wheat\n 1,086\n Beans\n 47,458\n \n \n Bean-cake\n 2,862\n Tobacco\n 1,040\n \n \n Miscellaneous cereals\n 22,718\n Paper\n 1,767\n \n \n Salt\n 13,760\n Lime\n 3,360\n \n \n Sake\n 4,186\n Dyes and chemicals\n 1,137\n \n \n Cotton yarn\n 837\n Cars and their materials\n 1,875\n \n \n Silk and cotton tissues\n 7,335\n Lumber\n 22,039\n \n \n Earthenware\n 1,058\n Marine products\n 2,969\n \n \n Copper and iron goods\n 8,872\n Provisions\n 3,415\n \n \n Firewood\n 1,152\n Bones (cattle)\n 1,024\n \n \n Kerosene\n 1,607\n Stone materials\n 8,574\n \n \n Coal\n 47,618\n Building materials\n 91,518\n \n \n Fruit and vegetables\n 3,950\n Rails\n 4,756\n \n \n Sugar\n 3,010\n Sleepers\n 15,510\n \n\nThere were taken over with the railway 302 locomotives, 145 passenger cars, and 4,476 goods cars, making a total of 4,923.\n\nThere are at present in the Company's possession 307 locomotives, 289 passenger cars, and 4,507 goods cars, making a total of 5,103.\n\nDetails are as follows:-\n\n \n Main Line\n \n Taken over in April\n Now in existence\n Increase or Decrease\n \n \n Locomotives-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Narrow gauge\n 6-wheeled tank, B\n 6\n 30\n \n \n \n \n 8-wheeled tender, F\n 2\n 30\n \n \n \n Total\n \n \n 220\n \n \n \n Broad gauge-\n American A 10-wheeler F\n 190\n 217\n 3\n \n \n \n Consolidation H\n 422\n \n +++\n \n \n Total\n \n \n 8\n +2\n \n \n Passenger cars-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Special bogie\n \n 3\n 8\n +8\n \n \n 2nd class\n \n \n 128\n 2\n \n \n 3rd class\n \n 100\n 100\n +100\n \n \n 4th class\n \n \n 259\n +114\n \n \n Mail cars\n \n 12\n 12\n \n \n \n Water tenders\n \n 10\n 15\n +13\n \n\nMaintenance of the Line.\n\nConsiderable damage was done to the line during the past summer owing to the unusually heavy rains and to the floods therefrom resulting. In particular, on the 17th July, bridges, embankments, &c., were swept away in numbers, and for a short time communications were suspended. Again, during the heavy floods after the extraordinary rains on the 5th August, two bridges over the Fuchow River were destroyed, and parts of the neighbouring embankment swept away. On the 17th of the same month another flood took place, destroying the work but recently repaired. On this occasion the line was not restored till the 27th of the month. Altogether train traffic was suspended for twenty-one days.\n\nPage 8\n\n \n(To be continued)",
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"content_text": "Page 30741\n\nSir:-\n\nB. 500\n\nC.O.\n\n43979\n\nNOV 08\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\nNovember 1)\n\n1303.\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have authorized the grant of a Fee of Five hundred Guineas in respect of your services on the Opium Commission at Shanghai.\n\nThe cost of your passage to and fro will be defrayed by this Department.\n\nWhilst on board ship you will be entitled to Wine Allowance at the rate of Three shillings and sixpence a day, and your incidental expenses on the journey will be made good to you.\n\nYou will also receive a subsistence allowance of Two Pounds a day during your stay at Shanghai and a sitting room will be provided for the use of the British Delegates.\n\nRight Honourable\n\nSir C. Clementi Smith, C.M.G.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nSir\n\nPage 30741",
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"content_text": "43674\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE Nov 8,\n\n321\n\nNovember\n\n270\n\n1908.\n\nSir:-\n\nI was directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform\n\nyou that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have\n\nauthorised the following arrangements in connection\n\nwith your appointment as a British Delegate on the Opium\n\nCommission at Shanghai.\n\nYour Journey to Shanghai and back will be defrayed\n\nby the Foreign Office, and you will receive a Wine Al-\n\nlowance of Three shillings and sixpence a day whilst on\n\nboard ship.\n\nDuring your residence at Shanghai you will be en-\n\ntitled to Two Pounds a day to cover all expenses of\n\nlodging, subsistence, etc., and a sitting room will be\n\nprovided for the British Delegates at the public ex-\n\npense.\n\nSir E. Grey has requested Sir A. Hosie to take\n\ncharge of the Accounts of the Mission and to provide\n\nthe Right Honourable W. ... , Esq., M.P.,\n\n&c.\n\n&C.,\n\nAG.,\n\n&c.",
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"content_text": "490\n\n6\n\nInclosure 10 in No. 1,\n\nAgreement.\n\nAGREEMENT made this 20th day of October, 1902, between Captain Ferdinand Balford Elderton, D.S.O., Royal Indian Marine, Senior Marine Transport Officer of the China Force, acting for and on behalf of the British Marine Transport Department (hereinafter called \"the Vendor\"), of the one part, and the Taku Tug and Lighter Company (Limited) of Tientsin in the Empire of China (hereinafter called \"the Purchaser\"), of the other part, whereby it is agreed as follows:---\n\n1. The Vendor, acting as aforesaid, agrees to sell, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase, at the sum of 180,000 taels, free from all charges and incumbrances, all Hsin-ho1 and also all those lighters at present those two tugs named \"Fuyun\" and \"Hsin-ho\"2 respectively known and numbered 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, and also all that wooden hulk known and numbered 12, all respectively the property of the said British Marine Transport Department, and at present lying at Hsin-ho, in the Empire of China, together with all the steam-engines, shafts, cranks, screw machinery, funnels, gear implements, utensils, masts, sails, sail-yards, spars, anchors, cables, compasses, chains, ropes, cords, stanchions, tackle, apparel and appurtenances whatsoever to the said tugs, lighters, and hulk respectively belonging or in anywise appertaining.\n\n2. The Purchaser further agrees, for a term of three years from the date of these presents if and when called upon, to enter into all or any contracts or contract with the Vendor or such other Senior Marine Transport Officer or his representative who may for the time being replace the Vendor at Hsin-ho aforesaid, to undertake all work required by the said British Marine Transport Department upon the terms following, that is to say :-\n\n(a.) To let out or hire any lighter properly equipped, manned, and in working order, for the sum of 80 dollars per day.\n\n(b.) To let out or hire any tug properly equipped, manned, coaled, and in working order, for the sum of 100 dollars per day.\n\n(c.) To obtain and supply all necessary coolie hire at such market wage or price per man per day as shall be when required then ruling.\n\n3. The Purchaser further agrees that if, without any reasonable cause or excuse, the Purchaser shall fail at any time during the said period of three years to supply transport or comply with any of the terms of any such contracts or contract as aforesaid, the Purchaser will, within twenty-four hours after having received notice in writing thereof from the Vendor, or such officer as aforesaid or his representative, pay to the Vendor or such other officer or representative as aforesaid all demurrage of transports, that is, daily hire rate per gross ton of same.\n\n4. Provided always, and it is hereby further agreed, that if the Vendor acting as aforesaid or such other officer or representative as aforesaid, shall not be desirous of hiring any of the said tugs, lighters, or hulk per day, as provided for in the clause 2 hereof, for carriage or transportation of officers, men, animals, baggage, stores, or other effects, the Purchaser will supply such carriage or transportation between Tien-tsin and (or) Hsin-ho and (or) Tongku or Hsin-ho to Taku Bar, or vice versa, upon the following terms, that is to say :-\n\n(a.) For the carriage or transportation of officers and men up to the number of 10, at the rate of 1 dollar per head; over the number of 10 and up to the number of 50, the sum of 75 cents per head; over the number of 50 and up to the number of 100, the sum of 60 cents per head; over the number of 100 and up to the number of 150, the sum of 50 cents per head; and over the number of 150, the sum of 30 cents per head.\n\n(b) For the carriage or transportation of animals up to the number of 20, the sum of 5 dollars per head; over the number of 20 and up to the number of 50, the sum of 4 dollars per head; under the number of 100, the sum of 3 dollars per head; and over the number of 100, the sum of 2 dol. 50 c, per head.\n\n7\n\n(c.) For the carriage or transportation of stores, baggage, or other effects, the sum of 1 dollar per ton of 40 cubic feet measurement, or 20 cwt. weight.\n\n5. Provided always that if, on the letting or hiring of any of the said lighters as aforesaid to the said British Marine Transport Department, the Senior Marine Transport Officer for the time being as aforesaid, or his representative, shall at any time or times during the continuance of the said term of three years require any special fittings on any of the said lighters, such fittings shall be constructed, erected, fitted, and dismantled at the sole cost and expense of the said department, the Purchaser agreeing at all times to safely store the said fittings when not in use, and it is hereby further agreed that for all purposes the said letting or hiring shall in every case be deemed to commence, and shall be paid for at the rate of letting or hiring aforesaid from the time when the said special fitting shall be commenced.\n\nIn witness whereof the Vendor hath hereunto set his hand, and the Purchaser hath hereunto caused its common seal to be affixed, and two of its Directors and its Secretary have hereunto set their hands, the day and year first above written.\n\nF. H. ELDERTON, Commander R.I.M., Senior Marine Transport Officer, British Contingent, China Force.\n\n(Signed)\n\nSigned by the Vendor in the presence of-\n\n(Signed) C. PERRETT, Clerk, R.L.M.\n\n(Signed)\n\nSealed with the common seal of the Purchaser, and signed by J. Stewart and H. W. Walker, two of its Directors, and by W. T. L. Way, its Acting Secretary, in the presence of---\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. STEWART, Director. H. W. WALKER, Director. WILLIAM T. L. WAY, Acting Secretary.\n\nK. MOUNSEY, Solicitor, Tien-tsin,\n\n0",
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"content_text": "75\n\n\"\n\nAn annual instalments, equivalent to 70% of the total premium received in the Colony, is a reasonable form.\n\nAs regards the provisions of § 6, making Quel Deposit & Trust Fund in respect of policies issued in the Colony, I think that the objects are valid; and, having regard to the strong view held by the Committee of the House of Lords on Friendly Societies operating in Great Britain, so to do under the principle of creating preferential charges or deposits, and also to the fact that no clause corresponding to § 6 of the Ordinance appears in the Life Assurance Companies Acts 1870-72, I am of opinion that § 6 should be deleted in any amendment of the Ordinance.\n\nAs regards § 9 of the Ordinance, providing that, in the case of a Company which ceases to do new business in the Colony, the withdrawal of the deposit shall be allowed, subject to the retention of securities equal in value to the amount of the sums assured or contracted to be paid by the Company in respect of its existing business, I am of opinion that Clause 2 of § 9 would be quite unworkable, or repetitive, in practice, as it would seem to provide that, so long as the sums assured under the existing business amount to £30,000, no portion of the deposit could be withdrawn. It would, I think, be preferable to provide that no portion of the deposit of £30,000 should be withdrawn, so long as the Company had any existing Life Assurance business whatever in the Colony. This would seem to have practically all the effects of a preferential local deposit, without the disadvantages above inferred.\n\nSection 13 of the Ordinance. I am not clear as to the advisability of exempting Companies, which have already made a Deposit under the provisions of the Imperial Act, from the provisions of the Ordinance.\n\nIn any case, the present wording hardly meets the case, as the Companies operating in the United Kingdom and making returns under the Act of 1870, fall into three classes\n\nPage 76 is missing, proceeding to \n\n25.",
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"content_text": "N.L.4395.\n\nSir,\n\nC.O.138 32133\n\nADMIRALTY 08\n\n14th November 1907.\n\nI am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, that they have had under their consideration the question of the upkeep of the Naval Graves in the Public Cemetery (Happy Valley) at Hong Kong, these graves numbering at present about 900.\n\n2. The Cemetery itself is maintained by the Colonial Government, and is in very good order, but the Naval graves are not at all in keeping with their surroundings, the climate and heavy rains having had an injurious influence on the stones and lettering. Efforts have been made to remedy this out of funds raised by voluntary contribution, but the sum thus obtained has proved quite inadequate to allow of the stones being kept in a satisfactory condition, and it is estimated that a first outlay of £90 is required to put the frames in good repair, after which they could be maintained by an annual expenditure of £17.\n\n3. In these circumstances, and in view of the fact that there is no Admiralty Cemetery at Hong Kong, I am to request that you will be so good as to move their Lordships of the Treasury to sanction the expenditure of £30 a year for three years on the work of repair, and thereafter £17 a year on maintenance as a charge to Vote 10, Subhead L., Grants in Aid of Works.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) C.I. THOMAS.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nH.M. Treasury's.W.",
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"content_text": "TREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\n20th November 1907.\n\nSir,\n\nI am to acquaint you for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that, in the circumstances represented in your letter of the 14th instant (N.L.4395), the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury sanction the expenditure, as a charge on Navy Vote 10, Sub-head L, of £30 a year for three years on the work of repairing the Naval graves in the Public Cemetery (Happy Valley) at Hong Kong.\n\nAs regards the subsequent upkeep of the graves, for which an estimate of £17 a year is given, My Lords would prefer that this proposal should be re-submitted if and when the necessity for such expenditure arises, and in the meantime They would suggest that a representation should be made to the Colony that the graves, when placed in repair, should be maintained by them in good condition.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Sd) G.H.MURRAY.\n\nThe Secretary\n\nto the Admiralty.",
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"content_text": "Whereas there was this day read at the Board a Report from the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council humbly setting forth that the Lords of the Judicial Committee have taken into consideration the practice of the Committee with a view to the Extension of uniform rights of appeal to all the subjects of His Majesty in His Colonies and Dependencies and to effect greater despatch and efficiency in the Appellate Jurisdiction of His Majesty in Council and that their Lordships have agreed humbly to report to His Majesty that it is expedient that certain changes should be made in the existing practice in Appeals and recommending that certain Rules therein set forth should hereafter be observed, obeyed and carried into execution provided His Majesty is pleased to approve the same.\n\nHis Majesty having taken the said Report into consideration was pleased by and with the Advice of His Privy Council to approve thereof and of the Rules set forth therein in the words following: that is to say :\n\n1. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires\n\n* \"Appeal\" means Appeal to His Majesty in Council ;\n\n\"His Majesty\" includes His Majesty's heirs and successors;\n\n\"Judgment\" includes decree, order, sentence, or decision;\n\n\"Court\" means either the Court of Appeal or a single Judge of the Supreme Court of Hongkong according as the matter in question is one which, under the Rules and Practice of the Supreme Court, properly appertains to the Court of Appeal or to a single Judge and includes the Court of Appeal when sitting on Appeals under the Wei-hai-wei Order in Council 1901.\n\n**Record** means the aggregate of papers relating to an Appeal (including the pleadings, proceedings, evidence and judgments) proper to be laid before His Majesty in Council on the hearing of the Appeal;\n\n\"Registrar\" means the Registrar or other proper officer having the custody of the Records in the Court appealed from ;\n\n\"Month\" means calendar month;\n\nWords in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular.\n\n2. Subject to the provisions of these Rules, an Appeal shall lie-\n\n(a) as of right, from any final judgment of the Court, where the matter in dispute on the Appeal amounts to or is of the value of $5,000 or upwards,\n\nor where the Appeal involves, directly or indirectly, some claim or question to or respecting property or some civil right amounting to or of the value of $5,000 or upwards; and\n\n(b) at the discretion of the Court, from any other judgment of the Court, whether final or interlocutory, if, in the opinion of the Court, the question involved in the Appeal is one which, by reason of its great general or public importance or otherwise, ought to be submitted to His Majesty in Council for decision.\n\n3. Applications to the Court for leave to appeal shall be made by motion or petition within 14 days from the date of the judgment to be appealed from, and the Applicant shall give the opposite party 7 days notice of his intended application and such notice be given at any time during the said period of 14 days,\n\n4. Leave to appeal under Rule 2 shall only be granted by the Court in the first instance-\n\n(a) upon condition of the Appellant, within a period to be fixed by the Court but not exceeding three months from the date of the hearing of the application for leave to appeal, entering into good and sufficient security, to the satisfaction of the Court, in a sum not exceeding $5,000, for the due prosecution of the Appeal, and the payment of all such costs as may become payable to the Respondent in the event of the Appellant's not obtaining an order granting him final leave to appeal, or of the Appeal being dismissed for non-prosecution, or of His Majesty in Council ordering the Appellant to pay the Respondent's costs of the Appeal (as the case may be); and\n\n(b) upon such other conditions (if any) as to the time or times within which the Appellant shall take the necessary steps for the purpose of procuring the preparation of the Record and the despatch thereof to England as the Court, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, may think it reasonable to impose.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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"content_text": "## Instructions referred to on page 1\n\nIf this Paper of Particulars and the Certificates connected with it be not sent in original, the copies must be duly attested.\n\n(I.G. Nov. 33971 Hong Kong.)\n\n## Heads of Paper\n\n1. In the case of an Officer serving on the West Coast of Africa, a statement is to be added whether he is a native of that Coast, (Colonial Regulations § 130.)\n\n2-3. State the description of Allowance, for which the Application is recommended, viz, Superannuation, Compensation, Compassionate allowance, or Gratuity, and its amount. In the case of Persons claiming an addition to their pensions, in respect of Professional or other special qualifications, this should be stated, and a reference should be given to the authority under which the claim is made.\n\n5. If the service has been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word \"broken\" should be added before or after the number of years and months, and the causes, dates, and circumstances of the break or breaks should be stated under heading 9.\n\n6. If the person retiring has been in receipt of the same Salary, or in the class from which he retires, for the 36 months immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of Salary or Wages at that date should be inserted, preceded by the word \"actual\". In other cases, the average annual amount of Salary or Wages for the 6 months next preceding the date of retirement should be inserted, preceded by the word \"average\", but if the whole period of service is less than three years, then the average for the whole period of service should be inserted.\n\n7. A separate statement should be furnished of the average Annual Value, for the 36 months immediately preceding retirement, of each Emolument (exclusive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation of the pension or Gratuity.\n\nWhenever the value of a House or House Allowance, so ascertained, exceeds one-sixth of the salary and other emoluments which count for Pension purposes, it is to be reduced to one-sixth of that amount, so that it shall not exceed one-seventh of the whole.\n\nFees which an Officer is allowed to retain for his own use will be taken into account for Pension purposes, with regular salary, at the annual average of the net receipts of the 36 months next preceding the Officer's retirement. These net receipts are to be ascertained by deducting from the gross amount of Fees such Office Expenses, etc., as an Officer may have had to defray from his own resources, in performing the services for which he was remunerated by Fees. No deduction, however, from the Fees should be made in respect of Office Expenses provided from Public Funds, for the due discharge of those duties to which a Fixed Salary is annexed. Paper of \"Particulars\" when forwarded to the Colonial Department should be accompanied by formal Declarations from the retiring Officers, showing the amount received by them for Fees, and the amount defrayed as above for Office Expenses, etc., in each of the three years immediately preceding retirement. It will be the duty of the Colonial Government concerned to satisfy themselves of the accuracy of such statements before forwarding them to the Colonial Office. In the case of Officers receiving Fixed Salaries and Fees, the Fees will, in ordinary circumstances, be allowed to count for Pension purposes to the extent of not more than one quarter of the Salaries, and Fees will not in any case be allowed to count for Pension purposes during any period in which the whole time of the Officer receiving them was not given to the Public Service.\n\n8. In cases of infirmity, if the Applicant is below the ordinary age for retirement, a Medical Certificate is to be furnished showing that he is disqualified by infirmity of mind or body for discharging the duties of his situation, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent.\n\nIn cases of ten years' service or more, this Certificate should be signed by two Officers, of whom at least one should, if possible, be a Salaried Officer of Government.\n\n9. As to \"broken\" service, see Head 5. If the Applicant has had any \"acting\" service, the details must be fully given, with a statement whether or not, during the \"acting\" service, he was connected with the permanent Civil Service of the Colony.\n\n11. If, in special circumstances, a professional Civil Officer has been allowed to have \"private practice\" without forfeiting his claim to Pension, the facts are to be fully stated.\n\n11. If the Applicant is liable to any deduction from his service under Clause 102 of the Colonial Regulations, the facts should be fully stated.\n\n19. The length of service and other particulars of the computation are to be given. When an average of Salary, etc., is taken, the mode of calculating it (whether by months, etc.) is to be explained.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Secretary to the Treasury.\n\nOct. 22.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Hunt 26. \nMr. Harris 30. \nMr. Fiddes. \nMr. Just. \nMr. Cox. \nSir C. Lucas. \nSir F. Hopwood. \nCol. Seely. \nLord Crewe.\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Crewe to state, for the information of the Lords Commrs. of the Treasury, that Mr. Denis Doyle, who was transferred in 1896 from the service of the General Prisons Board for Ireland to the Prisons Department, Hong Kong, will retire from the Public Service on the ground of ill health, as from the 7th of April 1910.\n\nA copy of the Medical report is furnished in consequence.\n\nOfficers who joined the service before 1st July 1897, are entitled to draw their pension in England at the rate of 24 shillings for every $200; others who joined later to $100 for every $200; those drawing pension in India are entitled to exchange their pension at the rate of 10/7 for every $200; others who joined later to Rs. 200 for every $3100.\n\nD' Benson - 12 July (233594)\n\nThis officer is being retired.\n\nSecretary's note - for their Lordships' information.\n\n2.",
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"content_text": "## 2\n\nfrom the remotest parts of the three provinces in winter to depôts on the Liao River to await the opening of navigation in spring, and thousands of these carts annually came as far south as Newchwang and Tien-tsin (then the only two ports through which the export and import trade of Manchuria was conducted on any considerable scale), carrying back loads of salt manufactured near Newchwang and miscellaneous foreign and native goods into the interior. It might be imagined that the cost of baulage by cart for hundreds of miles would be prohibitive, and that the introduction of the Chinese Eastern Railway, running as it did (and now does under two names) through the heart of Manchuria from north to south and east to west, would quickly have ended this traffic; but it must be remembered that while the animals and carts are employed in spring, summer, and autumn in farm work, they would, owing to the rigorous climate, be completely idle as well as a drain in winter, and their owners were content to become carriers if they could earn sufficient to pay expenses. The result is that to-day these carts, in spite of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the South Manchurian Railway, and the Imperial Railways of North China in Manchuria, still pay annual visits to Newchwang in winter, but in diminished numbers. Diminished numbers are due for the most part to the South Manchurian Railway, which, with the exception of the traffic through Vladivostock over the Chinese Eastern Railway, has succeeded in attracting the bulk of the trade with the country to the east and north-east of the line, but has affected only to a limited extent the trade to the west and north-west, which continues in the main to be conducted by cart in the old way through old-established channels.\n\nThese \n\nWhen I visited Hsin-min-t'un or Hsin-min Fu as it is now called, Fa-ku-men recently raised to the rank of sub-prefectural city under the name of Fu-min Ting, and the district city of Tiehling between the 21st and the 28th September, there was no traffic whatever on the roads connecting these inland marts which were opened to foreign trade by the Japanese Treaty with China of December 1905. The peasantry were busy harvesting their crops and carting the grain, beans, and other produce from the fields to their homesteads. Hsin-min Fu is the present northern terminus of the Imperial Railways of North China in Manchuria. It is a busy commercial centre with a population of from 60,000 to 70,000 inhabitants, and its principal industry is the extraction of oil from beans and the manufacture of bean-cake, which is carried on by a score of mills.\n\nHere I carefully questioned a number of Chinese merchants in regard to the trade between Hsin-min Fu and Fa-ku-men and was informed that it was considerable in winter, the roads of 50 miles (160 li) between the two places being described as one string of carts during that season. They referred to the projected railway to Fa-ku-men and their declaration that such a line would shift the centre of trade, and the market from Hsin-min Fu to Fa-ku-men proves that the two places are intimately connected commercially.\n\nFrom Hsin-min Fu I travelled by Chinese cart north by east to Fa-ku-men resting the first night at Hsiao-ta-tzu, which lies half-way between these two places. Between Hsin-min Fu and Hsiao-ta-tzu there are fourteen hamlets and villages, most of them containing Chinese inns or caravanserais with large courtyards for the accommodation of the traffic along the road. Many of the inns were shut, but they reopen during winter, their busy season. My carter corroborated the statement made to me by the merchants of Hsin-min Fu that the winter traffic along this road is considerable.\n\nThe road from Hsin-min Fu to Hsiao-ta-tzu passes over a fine broad plain which was well cultivated and yielding excellent crops of tall millet (*Holcus sorghum*, L.), the two smaller millets (*Setaria italica*, Kth., and *Panicum miliaceum*, L., the former predominating), beans (from which oil is extracted and bean-cake manufactured), upland rice, some buckwheat of the white-flowered variety, and a little cotton. Hemp (*Cannabis sativa*, L.) and *Perilla ocymoides*, L. (from the seeds of which oil is extracted) were growing as borders to other crops. The maize, castor-oil, and sesamum crops were already reaped; the cobs of corn were drying in the sun and bundles of sesamum awaited the thrashing or rolling out of the seeds. The foreign potato is also largely grown and used for food. The country is little wooded except in the villages and round graveyards, where the willow, elm, and poplar are the usual and practically the only trees. Two small streams, tributaries of the Liao, flow eastward across the road 8 and 20 miles respectively north of Hsin-min Fu at the villages of Hsi-chiu-men and Kung-chu-t'un.\n\nThe village of Hsiao-ta-tzu lies about a mile to the south-west of the southern terminus of a range of low, grass-covered, unwooded hills which rise from the plain and stretching northwards form its eastern boundary. To the west, but at a distance of some miles, there is another range with a north-easterly trend. The country lying between these ranges is more undulating than to the south and the soil, although somewhat stony, was bearing crops scarcely inferior to those seen to the south of Hsiao-ta-tzu. The highroad keeps to the eastern side of this undulating plain passing north by east through eight villages to the town of Fa-ku-men, which has every appearance of being hemmed in at a distance on all but the southern side by low hill ranges, through which, however, roads lead east, north, and west.\n\n## 3\n\nFa-ku-men, or Fu-min Ting, is a small unwalled town of some 30,000 inhabitants. Like Manchurian towns generally it is built of mud and brick and its main streets, like those of Hsin-min Fu, run east and west. Its chief industry is the conversion of beans and castor-oil seed into oil and cake, and it contains numerous caravanserais for the accommodation of the traffic which passes through it and of merchants who resort to the town for the sale and purchase of produce, in which they are assisted by the keepers of these establishments in return for a commission on all transactions effected. I stayed for two days in one of these caravanserais, where I had special facilities for inquiring into the trade between Fa-ku-men and Hsin-min Fu and between Fa-ku-men and T'iehling. That trade, as I have already stated, is done in winter; but I found that in the open season there is a considerable trade between Fa-ku-men and Newchwang, which is carried on neither through Tiehling nor Hsin-min Fu.\n\nOn the right bank of the Liao, 25 miles south-east of Fa-ku-men and about the same distance below Tiehling, is a place called San-mien-ch'uan, where goods are landed and shipped by junk as long as navigation is possible. There is little difference in distance between Fa-ku-men and San-mien-ch'uan and Fa-ku-men and Ma-feng-k'ou, the shipping port of Tiehling on the Liao. The latter may be a trifle longer; but at San-mien-ch'uan the shallows above Tiehling frequently causing as they do several days delay when the river is low are avoided, and no other obstacles to navigation exist between it and Newchwang. From the caravanserai in which I resided carts left daily for San-mien-ch'uan, each loaded with twenty-five bean-cakes weighing 72 lbs. a-piece. Each cart had a team of three animals. Although the Liao was high at the time of my visit the traffic from Fa-ku-men was not diverted to Ma-feng-k'ou nor to the railway at Tiehling, and during the open season San-mien-ch'uan is undoubtedly the shipping port of Fa-ku-men for produce bound for Newchwang. In the winter it is otherwise: then San-mien-ch'uan loses its importance, and the two outlets for Fa-ku-men produce are Tiehling and Hsin-min Fu. The exports from Fa-ku-men to Tiehling consist almost entirely of bean-cakes, but the amount exported depends on the market. If higher prices rule at Tiehling the cakes go there; if Hsin-min Fu proves a better market, they go by cart to Hsin-min Fu and are thence carried by rail to Newchwang. In any case, so far as I could ascertain, most of the bean and castor-oil cake made at the thirty-four mills in Fa-ku-men goes to Hsin-min Fu. Up to the present I have been speaking of the export trade, and in particular of the products of Fa-ku-men and neighbourhood; but Fa-ku-men lies on the main winter cart road from the Province of Hei-lung-chiang to the south, and, although much of this traffic has naturally been attracted to the South Manchurian Railway at Chang-ch'un Fu or K'uan-ch'eng-tzu, it still retains commercial relations with the country to the north-east as far as Petuna on the Sungari, with the country to the north (of which Ch'eng-chia-t'un, 80 miles from Fa-ku-men, is the centre), and with Mongolia on the west. Chinese merchants at Fa-ku-men estimated that the South Manchurian Railway had absorbed 50 per cent. of the traffic passing through the town in former years, but they were confident that, if connected with Hsin-min Fu by rail, Fa-ku-men would tap still more of the grain-producing districts of Eastern Mongolia which are now being opened up by Chinese colonists. I was informed at Kuang-ning Hsien, which I visited, that much of the produce of Eastern Mongolia finds its way south by cart to the Chinese Railway at Chin-chou Fu by a road passing to the west of Kuang-ning Hsien, and through the city of Yi-chou, and this may have suggested to the Chinese Government the projected railway from Chin-chou Fu to Tao-nan Fu now being surveyed. In Fa-ku-men I repeatedly asked for a comparison between the volume of its trade with Tiehling and Hsin-min Fu and invariably received the same replies. They were: San-mien-ch'uan is the only port of Fa-ku-men during the greater part of the year when the Liao is open to navigation, and during the winter Hsin-min Fu is more important than Tiehling. Questioned as to the import trade of T'iehling, the merchants replied that Japanese yarn, cottons and miscellaneous goods were brought to Fa-ku-men, but not in any great quantity, and this was borne out by the replies to the questions I put at the inns on the road between \n\nPage 305",
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"content_text": "# \n24 \n\nretinue. Business with China is carried on viâ Schönn mu, said to be four days' riding to the south (and within the Wall). In spite of its proximity to China we had the greatest difficulty in finding any one who spoke Chinese. Leaving the Yamen we struck south-west, and three hours later reached the lama temple of Kandshur with a population of fifty. Close by is a small stream abounding in geese, fish-hawks, and mandarin duck. The ground all the way was heavy with alkaline salt, which often gave to the country the deceptive appearance of a lake. We slept the night at the Mongol farm of Iloloi, one and a-half hours beyond Kandshur; here I was attacked, when on foot, by five fierce dogs, which got between me and the caravan, and was forced to shoot one in order to save my life.\n\nMay 6.--The dust and the bitterly cold wind ceased and were succeeded by great heat. The land became soft and good in places with a small amount of water; it would seem therefore, capable of supporting a much larger population. A group of six trees in a hollow show that trees will grow if given the opportunity.\n\nDuring the morning we passed the Gurdun temple with a population of only six lamas. Just before reaching the temple a small stream is crossed in a depression, the water winding its way through red sands to join the Ulan Muran. The temple stands among some fine trees. Two hours and a-half later we reached the residence of the Prince of Djussak which is situated on a slight eminence and is visible from some distance. The residence resembles those of the other Princes. The Prince had not up to then been to the Wataishan but was expected to go shortly to see the Dalai Lama. We halted for the night at the tribal temple, two hours west of the Princely residence. There are some hundred lamas there, of whom some are said to belong to the monasteries of Wutaishan.\n\nMay 7.--We went in a south-westerly direction keeping a conspicuous obo and white temple below it to our right and ascended a ridge on the top of which among some trees we passed the ruins of a temple, attacked, looted, and burnt by robbers forty years ago. To our left lay the small lake of Baga noor. The country is rough and wholly uncultivated even round the few Mongol cabins scattered about; sandy soil everywhere and at times all vegetation ceases and huge sand hillocks are passed among or over which the track winds. Water can be found at intervals. We stopped for the night close to the small lake of Chagan noor; the country is white with saline efflorescence. During the morning we passed two temples, those of Onkar and Togoru, both well furnished as regards shrines, scrolls, and temple musical instruments. En route we passed a Chinese itinerant merchant, the first caravan we have met in the Ordos. He had come from Wutaishan and was travelling slowly in a south-westerly direction selling pots, pans, beads, trinkets, tobacco, and general supplies to the Mongols. He had eight camels and as many ponies.\n\nAt Chagan noor we slept at the house of a Chinaman, a native of Shensi, who has been here six years and is employed in making salt bricks. These he sends by camel to Kweihuacheng and Peking. His business arose out of the Boxer troubles. For the damage wrought to the Belgian Mission stations in 1900, the Princes of Djassak, Wushin, and Ottok were ordered by the Central Government to pay 250,000 taels as indemnity; the Princes were to pay 70,000, 80,000 and 100,000 taels respectively. They could only raise 190,000 taels altogether; the Shensi merchants came to their assistance and lent the remaining 60,000 taels receiving in return this salt concession for twenty-seven years. They then placed this man in charge of the work. There seems to have been some trouble with the Mongols when he first arrived which necessitated the presence of soldiers, but all ill-feeling is said to have died away. The salt is taken in the winter time when the lake is frozen, the layer of salt and dust being taken from the top, boiled and the pure salt obtained. Nine huge pans are used, each pan being able to turn out five bricks a day. (See `Industries`.)\n\nMay 8.--We left in a westerly direction across a plain covered with brushwood, some of the ground being so marshy that the camels sank deep into it and could not rise until their loads had been removed. Vast stretches of saline efflorescence at times. In the afternoon the ground began to rise steadily and the sands recommenced. We completely lost our way looking for the residence of the Prince of Washin and had the utmost difficulty in finding a night's shelter. Eventually a very poor yourt called Shi wa was discovered in a coppice. We had great difficulty here in getting a reply to our questions as to distances. What can the traveller make of the answer, \"Ride pony twice run\"? The distance was short, a morning's ride, but can the stranger guess that?\n\nMay 9.--After four hours' marching to the west we reached the Wushin tribal temple standing among some magnificent trees. The number of lamas cannot be less than 400 here. They were exceedingly unfriendly and almost troublesome. We found we had come out of our way again but the lamas refused to show us the right road to the Prince's residence and professed ignorance of what we wanted. They hustled us in short from the temple. We subsequently learnt that the Prince was actually on a visit to the temple and was living in one of the buildings.\n\nRetracing our steps somewhat we found ourselves on the road to Yulinfu, and turned south over hills resembling a Surrey heath. In the late evening we sighted a well-to-do farm to our left called Ba la be-be su; here we halted and were received with the utmost friendliness. We found that we had been quite close last night to the old residence (Chiu se fu) of the Washin Prince, but that His Highness has recently moved southwards.\n\nMay 10.--Leaving early, we rejoined the high road and kept southward. Occasional waterholes by the roadside show that water is obtained by caravans by digging, but that it is scarce. Travelling slowly through the loose sand we ascended to a conspicuous obo on the top of a ridge, and here turned off from the track towards the south-west and came through a narrow marshy strip to the residence of the Wushin Prince after an eight hours' march. The buildings stand on open ground, close to, and slightly above, an old lake bed, a portion of which is still marshy. The buildings, courtyard, and temple, are surrounded by a low brick wall. The population only amounted to three souls, one of whom was an aged lama, another the Prince's nephew, and the third a distant relative. The Prince is boycotted by his subjects because he has surrendered the land of the tribe to the Chinese Government; they refuse to do any work for His Highness, and the yamên has had to be closed. In spite of the absence of the Prince at the tribal temple (he is said to be supervising some rebuilding there) we pitched our tents in the courtyard, much to the annoyance of His Highness's pet monkey which made itself a great nuisance.\n\nBoth yesterday and to-day we passed great quantities of carcases and bones of horses, sheep and cattle lying about. It appears there has been a plague and great mortality amongst the beasts in the districts. The Mongols know of no remedy, and do nothing to check such a plague; the animals just die and the plague stops when it likes.\n\nMay 11.--The present given not being considered sufficient, the Prince's nephew tried to be disagreeable and asked for our passports. As the camels were already loaded, and in view of the real cause of the request, I did not consider it necessary to satisfy a belated curiosity. Leaving in a south-westerly direction, we came in the afternoon into a well-defined road leading to Ninghsiafu. The country was covered with hills of driftsand and a great quantity of brushwood. No water was visible, though this could doubtless be obtained by digging; the track was unusually difficult owing to the sand. Antelope were sighted twice during the day; they had also been seen yesterday close to the Princely residence. We had great difficulty in finding water in the evening, but after a long search discovered a brackish pool hidden away among the hills to our left.\n\nMay 12.--The heat during the day is already very great and uncomfortable unless a breeze blows; the brushwood is rapidly putting out green, and the wild apricot trees in blossom; the wild flowers, such as crocuses, irises, dandelions, and violets, are also coming out. The track to the south-west is some 18 feet wide and unmistakable. It is entirely covered with driftsand, so that travelling is very slow. In the early afternoon we left the sandy hillocks and came on to a wide plain, at the end of which we sighted the Temple of Haliutai on a slight eminence, beyond which the ground slopes down again at once to cross the small stream of the Wutingho which flows south-east to the Hoangho. The temple contains over 300 lamas; we had been warned against them as being unfriendly, but we did not stay long enough for them to show any dislike. The temple is said to be in the happy position of belonging neither to the Chinese Government nor to any of the Princes--to be wholly independent in fact with a small amount of land round it. I do not imagine, however, that this so-called independence is of any account. Crossing the Wutingho we turned off, 25 minutes later, to two Mongol cabins to the left, where we stayed the night. The name of the cabins is also Haliutai.\n\nMay 13.--After three hours marching we passed Shine Sume \"New Temple,\" a regular village of huts round the temple housing some 150 lamas. There are some fine trees round the buildings. Two hours and a half later we came to the foot of a steep ridge, on the top of which we kept for a couple of hours, descending then to cross the Naringol, a stream some 30 feet wide and several inches in depth. It winds over marshy ground to the south and is a home for the Mandarin duck. We stayed the night at a ...\n\n25 \n## \n[2155 6-1]",
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"content_text": "# 48\n\nJune sun among these bare sands was terrible. Twenty minutes later we reached a couple of buildings, known as Hsiyuanchang, one of which is a poor inn.\n\nHere we halted some little time to recover from the effects of the terrible heat we had so lately experienced.\n\nIn the later afternoon we reached the broad gully of the Khara kundigol, down which flows a good supply of water. Trying to cross the stream at a point other than a ford, we lost the rest of the day extricating a camel from the soft mud into which it sank. We slept at a collection of huts, a liquorice camp, close to the spot known as Errh mien sze wan. The inhabitants here pay a land tax of 10 taels (30s.) for 100 li (33 miles) to the Talat Prince. They also pay an animal tax of so much per head, but skilfully contrive to hide the greater number of goats when the tax collector calls.\n\nJune 17.-The proper ford is close to the liquorice camp, and here the crossing is firm and easy.\n\nAn hour and a quarter later we passed the Chinese village of Errh tao schui chuansze \"twin water spring.\" Here there were a few big trees, a welcome change to the terrible monotony of the Ordos landscape. Half-an-hour later we reached the Mongol and Chinese village of Hoyarobo \"twin obo.\" The houses looked solid and well cared for and proved two things, firstly, that Chinese and Mongols are able to live together in close proximity, and secondly, that the Mongols can, if they choose, renounce their nomad existence and live in a cleanly orderly way. There are several farms about here and a good water supply, but the land looks sandy and terribly unproductive. An hour later we found ourselves descending gently into the valley of the Hoangho, and into the area which comes under that stream's beneficent influence. Cultivation began and the land was covered with wheat, Indian corn, and the poppy, while a few irrigation canals showed that the natives had begun to take an active interest in their own welfare. We now left the territory of the Prince of Talat and entered that of the Hsikung Prince, the bulk of whose land lies to the north of the river.\n\nAt Chow Chünföun, a well-built prosperous village lying among a few fine trees, we turned north-east for some 4 miles to reach the ferry at Tukou, \"the crossing.\" Here there are a couple of houses close to the bank, but no resources. The next nearest ferry down the stream is Liulinsze, some 7 miles east of Chow chün föun. The ferry of Tukou is some 12 miles from last night's camp. There are a couple of big flat boats available for the crossing, and for the use of one of these into which were crowded all the animals and men, not without some difficulty and a good deal of danger, we paid 30 cents (6d.). The river is here a quarter of a mile wide and very swift; both banks are very low.\n\n## Yellow River Strip\n\nUnder this heading is included all the land lying between the Kingdom of Alashan and Kweihuacheng north of the Yellow River, and bounded on the north by the wall of mountains, which forms the south edge of the Mongolian plateau. These mountains form distinct short ranges, to each of which a separate name has been given. They present a bleak and desolate appearance as they are, wherever I have seen them, devoid of trees and with little vegetation; they are of uniform height, and while they have several portions projecting like capes into the plain it may be said that they have no peaks.\n\nThis strip of land is some 230 miles long, while in width it varies as much as does the Kansu strip, between the Alashan range and the river. In the west it is as much as 50 miles wide, while in the east between the mountains and the point where the Yellow River bends sharply southwards it is under 10 miles. At some places between these two and where the mountains approach the river the width is as little as 2 miles.\n\nThe soil of the whole strip is entirely fertile, and can be irrigated by means of the river. In the west this has been done to some extent, but in the east the inhabitants have not had the energy to make use of this aid to the cultivation of their fields. After rain a certain amount of the water makes its way down from the mountains by water-courses, which for the greater part of the year present nothing but a stony, desolate appearance. In the east portion a great number of wells have been sunk in the middle of the fields, and it may be said that every farm has at least one on its land. Small ditches surround each field, and into these the water is assiduously pumped. The chief crops are wheat, kaoliang, millet, and vegetables, and east of Bautu, at any rate, opium. There are tens of thousands of acres of land devoted to the poppy alone. The population is chiefly Chinese, who have, as elsewhere, pushed the Mongol owners northwards. In the west portion, however, a fair number of Mongols are left, and the Swedish missionaries, who have established themselves there, are trying to teach the Mongols the art of farming. But even where the Chinese have penetrated there are still some Mongols; this is, of course, chiefly in the towns.\n\nThe strip is well timbered, and may be termed a succession of small prosperous villages connected by stretches of fields or grazing lands, but these latter are annually diminishing in size.\n\nThe strip is divided into the kingdom of the Orots, the western, central, and eastern Princes (Hsikung, Djunkung, Tungkung, of the Orots), and the portion which already forms part of the Province of Shansi, and is governed from Kweihuacheng. The largest town in the strip is Bautu; the second largest Salatsi, lying 30 miles east of this. These three Orot Princes are counted among the forty-eight Princes of Mongolia, and have nothing to do with the Ordos Princes, though the Hsikung owns a small portion of land on the Ordos side of the Yellow River.\n\n## Yellow River Ferry to Bautu and Kweihuacheng\n\nJune 17-On crossing the river I had wanted to pay a rapid visit to the Swedish Mission at Patszebulong, but, hearing that it lay 43 miles to the west, it was decided that it was impossible, and so we maintained a north course, and a few minutes later stopped at one of the five villages which gave the name Wutatsun to the district, and none of which bear any other distinctive name. We shortly afterwards turned into a well-defined cart-road, and continued north-east for the rest of the day by an excellent road. The country has the appearance of being level, but in reality slopes gently up to the mountains.\n\nTwo hours and a-half from the river all cultivation, houses, and trees ceased, and the road ran across grass-land, one end of which was dotted with Chinese coffins awaiting repatriation, the other being covered with mobs of ponies. Half-an-hour later the village of Mache lay in a belt of trees to our left. Here the Chinese official resides to whom the Chinese settlers pay the taxes. We slept the night at a moderate inn at Hanchowyausze.\n\nJune 18. We reached Bautu in the course of the morning, entering by the west gate, and previously traversing the small suburb of Hobou with the pretty temple of Lungwangmias hidden among the trees. The walls of the town are considerably silted up with sand and are in a state of decay. There is an air of prosperity about the town, and the streets were full of merchants. There are many good shops, especially for the sale of articles made of wood. The town lies 5 miles due north of the river. A yamên to the left and close to the west gate deals with \"land settlement and development questions\"; the principal yamên lies in the main street near the east gate. The town is in the domain of the Tumed Prince, but is administered by a Chinese official who has 360 police, all Chinese, at his disposal. They are armed with old-fashioned German Mausers. A great number of Mongols visit the town, taking away cheap pottery, saucepans, and other utensils in exchange for wool and skins. We took refuge from the crowd, which was unpleasantly inquisitive, in the large hong of a corn and wheat merchant.\n\nSince 1900, or, rather, since the settlement after the events of that year, a settlement which displaced a great many officials, none of these dare do anything to displease a foreigner, even if the latter be travelling without a passport.\n\nThe following story from Dengkou (told me the 7th June) is possibly connected with the one I heard at Bautu. Last year, the official said, an Indian arrived en route for Kashgar; he was accompanied by one Chinese servant. He demanded animals and, not obtaining them, went into the principal houses and beat the residents till horses were supplied. He took away six ponies, which have never been returned. He had no passport.\n\nLeaving Bautu by the east gate we pushed on to Shariching, 13 miles to the east. The road is exceptionally good, and there is plenty of traffic along it. At this time of the year many mules were carrying plums from Taiyuanfu in Shansi to Bautu. The most pathetic sight along the road were the Mongol pilgrims returning from Wutaishan. These fanatics carry their piety so far that they leave at the monasteries all the long train of camels and their loads with which they left home. They are then content to return home on foot, absolute beggars and in rags. Occasionally one may be seen leading along a donkey with one bundle on it, the only goods that remain of once great wealth. There were dozens of them in this pitiful state, including old and infirm, coming along the Bautu road. Another feature of the road are the wayside shrines, which manage to extract a great amount of cash from Mongol and Chinese passers by.\n\nShariching is a prosperous small town, with at least one good inn, which does a ... \n\n# 49",
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"content_text": "# 177 \n## 124 \n\nOctober 20.-This place was built by a general as a picket 30 years ago and then abandoned. The present keeper does not pay taxes. He says that water is brought from a distance of 10 miles in troughs but I did not verify this.\n\nThe day was vile, snow falling heavily all the morning. We ascended steadily all day and travelling was terrible. We halted after 20 miles at Santai (3rd tai) on the shores of Sairam Noor, a wonderfully picturesque lake in its present cold setting of snow-clad mountains. The natives say it takes two days to go round the lake.\n\nWe had now reached a height of 5,900 feet above sea level, the ground was deep with snow and the cold intense. Some fir forests on the mountain slopes provide plenty of firewood.\n\nOctober 21.-Snow fell steadily all day, and being driven by a southerly wind penetrated to every corner of the carts. Keeping along the lake for some little distance, we parted company for a short time to descend to it again at mile 10, at the picket of Kosekou at the foot of the short steep pass of Talki. Here we had to halt for an hour, to allow some carts in the narrow gorge leading up to the Talki pass from the south to emerge. The distance from the picket to the top of the pass cannot be more than a quarter of a mile, but we took 1 1/4 hours to climb it. The track, which is really steep, zigzags up the hill, and even at ordinary times must be a hard pull for the Chinese carts; with heavy snow on the ground the ascent is slippery and still more difficult. To add to our troubles we fell into a snow-drift some 3 feet deep, and all the flounderings of the mules availed nothing. They had to be unharnessed and the cart dug out; there were two other carts going over and three coming down; as we were all in the same plight, we formed a mutual aid society. Immediately on reaching the top of the pass we descended into the Talki gorge, so famous for its beauty. Descending steadily the whole time the road winds down the coils of the dragon-like gorge, which is scarcely more than 30 yards wide. The steep sides are covered with firs. The mountains retain their height as the traveller descends, and they become more gigantic and splendid at each turn of the road. The roadway, which is artificial, judging by the stones and staves which mark its course, is excellent, except that in winter the snow entirely conceals the edge. Even in summer the traveller is in danger of being hurled into the rock-strewn stream below, but in winter the danger is vastly greater. Strong wooden bridges, in an excellent state of repair, cross the stream at times, their position being indicated by posts. The snow was, however, very difficult, and drifts several feet deep threatened to stop us.\n\nWe struggled through to Errhtai (second tai), some 32 miles down the gorge. The inn and the few other buildings were almost concealed by the snow drifts, and the yard so blocked up that entry was almost impossible. The inn was one of the most wretched I had ever seen.\n\nOctober 22.-The day was superb; what little of the sky that could be seen from the gorge was a deep blue, and the whole ravine sparkled in the sunlight. The cold had been so great during the night that our breath froze on the outer rug of the bed. The mules looked miserable for their sheds were open buildings. We continued our mutual aid society and left—a long line of ten carts—for some of the carts of the Hassacks had to be used to relieve the heavily-laden carts of the bigger loads. The day was, however, wasted as regards travelling, for we had only ploughed our way through deep snow (checked every 20 yards or so by a 5-foot deep drift, which had to be spaded away) for half a mile, when we were stopped by a drift which even, after three-quarters of an hour's work, was too big to allow us to pass. Although it was nearly as difficult to turn, for on either side of the track were deep dangerous drifts into which the mules floundered, we had to risk being hurled down the precipice, and returned to the inn for the rest of the day. The picket of fifteen men were sent forward to open the road; these were joined by the carters. There are said to be fifty soldiers looking after the road, and, as this is their only duty, I had no compunction in sending them out. We must pass to-morrow for we have run short of provisions.\n\nA long line of camels passed up from the south in the evening, and it was reported that the big snow only lay for another 2 miles. In the late afternoon two workers reported that the road was passable.\n\nOctober 23.--We could not leave till late, for the reason that the Hassacks had sat up all night gambling and slept late. When they had to pay their bill, one of them had no money, having lost it all to his colleagues. They were all quarrelsome, and complaining of the food, the prices, and the fodder. There was thus all the makings of a row, and we had to let the brutes move about at their own pace, for fear of their knives.\n\nThese Hassacks come here in the winter and summer to make money by their carts in the heavy snow and rains when the ordinary heavy travelling carts have to pass light, and, indeed, unload altogether. The big Hassack carts are more easy for the road. They charge 33 taels a-piece, and only carry two boxes each. They could really charge what they liked, for one has got to get through somehow. Every one pays a little to the pioneer cart to go first; if he decides to go back they must all go, and if to go forward they must all follow suit.\n\nWhen we did start we got along all right as far as where we were stuck yesterday. Their idea was just but the soldiers' idea of an open road entirely differed from ours, to clear a narrow track for foot-passengers; this was quite useless for carts, so we stuck again, and after many efforts to get through the Hassacks voted for return to camp. We got the best of them, but more by threats of personal violence than by any other kind of persuasion. It was simply a question of the first cart getting through, and the rest could follow. We therefore concentrated our attentions and energies on the first cart (and carter!). The soldiers were said to be working on ahead (their only implements were wooden spades, and they were resting a good deal, being weedy opium sots), but we gradually forced our way through to them. They were working on the last bad bit, an upward incline of some 40 yards, and had to cut through drifts 8 feet high. Even when the path was cut it was terrible work for the mules, for they were practically pulling the whole time belly deep in the snow. It took seven horses to pull the first cart through, but, once done, all was over, for the snow beyond never lay more than 2 feet deep, in addition to which we met hundreds of camels coming up, and these are capital animals for treading down a track.\n\nPassing a couple of habitations down the gorge we reached Totai at mile 8. From Totai there are only soldiers here and no inn, so we had to continue the march. Later we got a view of the plain to the south and over across this to the mountains beyond.\n\nDescending very abruptly after leaving Totai we were out on the plain 12 miles later. We had spent so many hours battling with the snows that night had already fallen as we emerged from the Talki gorges. Keeping over the plain 9 miles we reached Lusakou, one of the hsien cities which form the Government district of Ilifu. Of two inns here one was full; we could obtain no supplies at the other, and the shops were all closed and refused to sell us anything; we therefore had to go to bed supperless.\n\nOctober 24.-We only got through the mountains in time, for heavy snow fell on them all day. We got rid of our Hassack carts here, and resumed our heavy baggage. Two of our ponies died in the night from exposure in the mountains; they had been ailing all yesterday.\n\nThe chief officer of the town and also the colonel sent cards early in the morning with the usual inquiries. Two soldiers of different types called. The one was the representative of the old school. He told me there were 100 soldiers here, 50 cavalry and 50 infantry, but I doubt there being more than the old type, and they only do escort and such work. Besides which 100 on the register by no means indicates the real strength. The other man was more interesting, for he was of the Luchün. He was a sergeant, and told me that seven men were stationed here; 700 had come last year from Hupei, trained by the Hupei military school. Of these 700, 240 had been sent to Ili, the rest being retained at Urumtsi. His pay was 25 taels a-month, that of a soldier 5 t. 20 c. He was dressed in a neat tight-fitting black uniform, and carried a sword. His high boots were of leather, and his cap of foreign type, black, with plenty of gold braid. He was excellently disciplined, very respectful, and stood at attention the whole time we were talking.\n\nKeeping towards the south-east over rough uninteresting ground we reached at mile 9 the line of trees which marks Suidun and entered the town at mile 14 4. The busy trading quarter of Suidun lies to the south of the small walled portion of the town. The inns do a tremendous business, but accommodation is wretched. It is entered by wooden gates and protected by a low mud wall.\n\nIn this town reside the Chentai (General) and the Chibfu. I called on the latter on the 24th October. He is an amiable old gentleman of 66 years, thirty-four of which he has served in Sinkiang. He speaks no foreign language. He confirmed what I had already heard that the Russians keep a guard of a sergeant and ten men at Suidun, in the interests of trade. He seemed to think it quite natural. I subsequently called on the Chentai's secretary, the Chentai being, as I knew, still absent on his Chuguchak trip. The secretary, a military official, is a man of 58, friendly and amiable, but does not speak any foreign language. He has visited Russia frequently, and has a great number of Russian officer friends—he showed me dozens of photographs. His son, a man of 27, takes photographs like a professional, and even enlarges them himself.\n\n## 125 \n\n(2155 6-1) \n2 K",
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"content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[31271]\n### No. 1\n\nREGP 25 SEP 09\n\n[August 19.]\n\n472\n\n## SECTION 2\n\n### Consul Carlisle to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 19.)\n\n**(No. 1. Confidential.)**\n\nHanoi, July 10, 1909.\n\nSir,\n\nIN my despatch No. 2, Commercial, of the 20th May last, I had the honour to inform you of the opening of the Yunnan Railway as far as Amichou, and to inclose a summary of some of the principal charges for the conveyance of merchandise to that town and to Mongtze. I have now received a copy of Mr. Acting Consul-General Wilton's despatch No. 26, Confidential, to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, dated Yunnan-fu the 26th June last, in which he describes an alternative route from Hong Kong into Yünnan viâ the West River. It appears to me that the development of such a route, or the mere knowledge on the part of the Indo-Chinese Government and railway authorities that its development was feasible and likely to be undertaken, would have a salutary effect in removing any temptation to further discriminate in favour of French or Indo-Chinese goods.\n\nI take this opportunity of mentioning a discussion which has recently arisen here between the railway authorities and some of the local merchants on the question of rebates granted to large customers, and which has just been decided by the Government in favour of the railway.\n\nThe Compagnie française des Chemins de Fer de l'Indo-Chine et du Yunnan, which works the Yunnan Railway, is obliged by the terms of its contract to obtain the sanction of the Indo-Chinese Government to its scale of charges and to any changes therein. At present these charges have only been fixed for the portion of the line which is open to traffic, i.e., as far north as Amichou. (Even these have not yet been published in a collected form, so that I am not able at present to forward complete copies of the tariff.) I may mention here that the French consular officer at Mongtze, and, I believe, also his colleague at Yunnan-fu, have already expressed their opinion that the Government has allowed the company to fix its rates on too high a scale.\n\nThe company some time ago came to the conclusion that it would be good policy on its part to grant rebates to large customers forwarding over 500 tons of goods per half-year, the rebates to vary from 3 to 15 per cent., according to the quantity of merchandise dealt with. It was aware, however, that this would operate mainly in favour of the Chinese shippers importing goods from Hong Kong, who alone did business on a sufficiently large scale to enable them to benefit materially thereby, and that therefore it was likely to meet with opposition from the local French merchants. To placate the latter, therefore, a preferential railway rate was given in favour of goods of French or Indo-Chinese origin sent by truck-loads, as will be seen from my Commercial despatch referred to above. This preference, in the case of manufactured products (including cotton yarns, the principal item of import into Yünnan), came to 5 dollars per ton on the journey from Haiphong to Mongtze, equivalent to a reduction of about 10 per cent.\n\nUnfortunately this preference was given before the question of the rebates was settled, and as soon as the latter proposition was made known it aroused lively opposition from the local chambers of commerce, and principally from the representatives of the cotton spinning mills, of which there are three in Tonquin. They complained that the railway company was taking away with one hand the meagre advantage which it had just given with the other. The Chinese on their side formed combinations to make joint shipments of sufficient size to entitle them to the maximum rebates. The Government was loudly called upon, in the press and elsewhere, to disallow the rebates. The governor-general referred the question to the Permanent Commission of the Conseil Supérieur, which sat on the 1st instant, and, after hearing the arguments on both sides, upheld the action of the railway company and allowed the rebates, though nominally for one year only, after which they will be liable to revision. They came into operation immediately.\n\nSo far matters went well, as the tendency of the rebates is to equalise the treatment of foreign imports to that accorded to those of French or local origin.\n\n[2389 t-2]",
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"content_text": "## 5 \n\n## 587 \n\nYanglin (see Intelligence Report, March quarter) has been again revived, and it is now suggested that a commencement should be made in the autumn. I do not think that anything in this direction will be done this year.\n\nThe proposed Chinese railway from Yunnan-fu into Szechuan has been the subject of common talk. A Swiss engineer, M. Meister, is, I hear, on the point of being engaged by the Provincial Railway Board, for what purpose I do not yet know. M. Meister was formerly engineer-in-charge of the Namti or first section of the French railway in Yünnan. M. Meister, in conversation with me, was disposed to be very sanguine that this Chinese line would be shortly taken in hand, and attributed a keen anxiety to the Chinese for rail connection with Szechuan so as to be independent of the French Yunnan Railway. I am informed by a subordinate in the Provincial Railway Board Office that 700,000 taels ($81,000) in cash and promises represents the total railway fund for Yunnan at the present time. Several mule loads of share certificates printed in Japan arrived in May last, but there has been no demand for them. The official opinion at Yunnan-fu appears to be pessimistic in regard to this line.\n\nIt is persistently reported that two American railway engineers have been engaged for work on the Yunnan-Szechuan line. Dr. Mazzolani, who has opportunities of hearing things denied to me, tells me that an American engineer has been engaged as adviser to the Provincial Board, and will arrive here in the autumn. The Administrator of Foreign Affairs, Shih Tseng, however, has declared on more than one occasion, both to the French consul and myself, that the Provincial Railway Board have not engaged any foreigners.\n\n**(b.) Commercial Summary**\n\nForeign Firms at Yünnan-fu.--The foreign firms established at Yünnan-fu, four in number, are all French, viz., L'Union commerciale indo-chinoise, Messrs. Charrière and Co., Messrs. Barbage, and Messrs. Pasquier and Co. The first named has a new manager, M. Lallier. The former manager resigned in disgust at the lack of interest taken in the Yunnan business by head-quarters. He told me two or three stories which appeared amazing, and revealed the extraordinary apathy of the head office at Hanoi. One was that he had obtained a contract for the supply of a large quantity of steel to the arsenal, and had telegraphed for a quotation price. The price given was so low that he had demanded a repetition. The second telegram confirmed the first. His comprador proceeded to settle the contract with the arsenal authorities, when a letter was received from Hanoi pointing out that a mistake had been made in the telegraphic quotation, and giving a very much higher figure. The firm refused to abide by the comprador's agreement, and the latter was compelled to \"square\" before he could get the contract cancelled. He left the firm. Another instance was the supply of uniforms for the soldiers in Yünnan. The local agent was offered the contract at the same price as was paid last year. The head office demanded a higher rate, and the contract was accepted at the lower figure by Pasquier and Co., who are agents for the German firm of Speidel and Co. I had occasion to complain to the local agent of Messrs. Charrière and Co. of the non-arrival of some electric bells ordered two months previously and promised within a month, and I cancelled the order. The agent (a Frenchman) told me he was exceedingly glad of this opportunity to be able to write a strong letter to his firm at Hanoi, and he proceeded to pour out his woes. His tale, if true, showed an astounding side of French commercial enterprise in Yünnan.\n\nMessrs. Barbage have obtained a contract for the electric lighting of the Normal College, but I understand that the firm is living a good deal on hopes. Messrs. Pasquier are interested in silk and general commission business. They have an agreement with Messrs. Speidel, a German firm at Hanoi, to sell only goods supplied by that firm.\n\nChinese Merchants gloomy.--There have been no new developments of trade, and Chinese merchants are very gloomy as to the future.\n\nCheap Food.--Food for man and beast still remains at abnormally low prices, and the prospects for a good rice harvest are favourable. The common people and the soldiers at Yunnan-fu are taking largely to wheat flour (5 lbs. for a penny) as an auxiliary to rice diet. Small hand flour mills would, I think, find a ready sale.\n\n**(c.) Army**\n\nRecruits.--The newly-enrolled recruits are being drilled. The material (Yunnan) is not as good as the Szechuan or Cantonese soldier, either in physique or intelligence. The Chinese officers declare, however, that they prefer the Yunnan man, as he is more amenable to discipline.\n\nDisease.--Venereal disease is very prevalent in the ranks. It has been proposed to establish brothels under official supervision for soldiers and civilians. The proposal has been favourably received in official quarters, but I understand that no definite steps have yet been taken. A moderate estimate of the number of public prostitutes at Yunnan-fu is 3,000, and I am assured by the European doctors that they consider that a large proportion of these are diseased. The arms referred to in my last intelligence report have been arriving at intervals during the quarter.\n\nIncrease of Military Forces.--It is stated that Li Ching-hsi has obtained the advance of 2,000,000 taels for military expenses, and the promise of an annual subvention of 260,000 taels. This money is to be employed in the equipment of 12,000 additional troops. The number of foreign armed and drilled men will thus be increased to 24,000.\n\n**(d.) Relations with Chinese Officials**\n\nThese have been satisfactory.\n\n**(e.) Movements of Chinese Officials**\n\nChin-shu-sheng, the titular prefect of Yunnan-fu, returned from Peking in April last, and was shortly afterwards sent to Ssumao as acting taotai. The post is not considered to be a lucrative one. Mr. Chin was at Tengyuch during the issue of the anti-missionary placards (`P.C., No. 39 of 1908`).\n\n**(f.) Movements of Foreign Officials**\n\nDeparture of French vice-consul.--M. Soulié, interpreter of the French consulates left Yunnan-fu and has been replaced by M. Crépin, formerly at Mengtse.\n\nVisit of Mr. Coggin Brown.--Mr. Coggin Brown, of the Geological Survey of India, passed through Yunnan-fu in May. He was very well received by the high officials here, and the governor-general invited him to dinner. During his stay, he made the acquaintance of Liu-bsiao-tsu Taotai, in charge of mining interests, and advised him as to the location of a coal mine in the neighbourhood. Liu Taotai has now taken steps to develop this mine, and has expressed his gratitude for Mr. Coggin Brown's expert advice. The latter was careful in his conversation with the officials to convey the impression that he was investigating the geology and mines in Yünnan from a purely scientific point of view. He reports that he has received no sort of hindrance, official or private, in his travels. I do not doubt that this was very largely due to the tactful manner in which his investigations have been conducted.\n\n**(g.) Reforms**\n\nAt the invitation of the literary chancellor, I examined three of the classes of the Faug Yen College in English subjects. The average age of the students is about 20, although they range from 15 to 25. Eight hours a week are devoted to the study of the English, French, and Japanese languages, but there are separate classes for each of these. The school hours, which struck me as too long, are occupied also with Chinese literature, geography, arithmetic, history, and drawing. The teachers are none of them Yunnan men and are imperfectly understood, and although they know the text-books, the standard of the scholars was not high, although one or two among them were exceptionally intelligent. Making due allowance for the short time the college had been opened--14 months--I gave an encouraging report. I spent an interesting day at the school, and was entertained to lunch by the literary chancellor and the teaching staff. The governor-general appeared to have been greatly pleased with the result of the visit, and the literary chancellor has asked me to hold an examination at the Normal College at a later date.\n\nThe Normal College contains about 600 students, and has room for 1,000. The numbers indicate that in years to come the province will possess a number of disappointed schoolmasters--a somewhat dangerous class for Yunnan, where there is little or no scope for other employment for these men. The annual cost of the Normal College is 60,000 taels ($7,000). The cost of the electric-light installation is to be partly met by the stoppage of light allowance to the students, 1 tael (2s. 4d.) a-head monthly.\n\nIn May last, I visited the new prison erected by Hsi Liang at a cost of 80,000 taels ($9,260). At present, it holds 200 male and 23 female prisoners. There is also a ...",
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"content_text": "7768A\n\n4\n\nAt present Canton, Swatow, and other neighbouring ports of China are dependent for warning of approaching typhoons upon the Hong Kong Observatory, an institution supported by the Hong Kong Government at great expense, which gratuitously and in the common interests of humanity furnishes directly to the Chinese authorities at Canton through the Imperial Maritime Customs, and generally by its published warnings to all shipping, both foreign and native, frequenting the Southern seas, information regarding the approach of typhoons based on the daily reports received from the various observation stations with which it is in communication.\n\nIt is highly desirable in the interests of navigation that the Chinese Government should on their side establish an observation station in Pratas.\n\nNo great expense need be incurred. It is estimated that the cost of a suitable wireless telegraph installation would cost from £400 to £500, exclusive of the cost of inexpensive buildings for the operating room, engine-house, and living quarters of the staff which need not consist of more than three persons. The observations are of a simple nature, relating merely to readings of the barometer, force and direction of the wind, and other weather indications, and do not require to be made by an expert staff. Communication with the mainland of China could no doubt be undertaken without much expense by the Chinese Naval Authorities at Canton.\n\nIn the event of the Chinese Government adopting this suggestion, Sir John Jordan is requested to state that the Hong Kong Government will be ready to co-operate in receiving and transmitting the observations to Canton and elsewhere, as may be arranged with the Chinese local authorities. The Director of the Hong Kong Observatory would also, if desired, undertake the instruction of the staff to be sent to Pratas in the method of taking the observations.\n\nBritish Legation, Peking.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1. MEMORANDUM.\n\nThe Board has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Sir John Jordan's memorandum of the 19th instant, stating that it would be very advantageous if China were to establish a wireless telegraphy station on the Pratas Islands, and further that the Director of the Hong Kong Observatory would also, if desired, undertake the instruction of the staff to be sent to Pratas in the method of taking observations.\n\nThe Board accordingly referred the matter for the consideration of the Board of Posts and Communications, and the latter have now replied that the Viceroy of Liang Kwang has been instructed at once to make the necessary arrangements.\n\n25th November 1909.\n\n5\n\nNo. 3.\n\nGOVERNOR OF HONG KONG to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong,\n\n1st March 1910.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nIn my despatch No. 303 of October 20th, 1909, to which I have not as yet received a reply, I had the honour to forward an application from Messrs. Keegan and Rosencrantz for a license to establish and operate a commercial wireless telegraphy business in this Colony. Prior and subsequent to that date the desirability of such a station in Hong Kong had been much discussed, and the chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce took occasion in his annual speech to draw attention to its necessity. I have also received a letter from the Commodore inquiring what steps could be taken in time of war or emergency to prevent any wireless station which may be erected from being used.\n\n2. Deeming it desirable to obtain some information of a general nature on this subject, I communicated with the Commander-in-Chief and, at his suggestion, I embodied the points on which I desired to be informed in a confidential letter, dated January 13th last, a copy of which is attached. In reply to this letter he verbally suggested to me that the best way of eliciting the information would be to appoint a small committee. I did so under the chairmanship of Sir Henry May, the Colonial Secretary, with the Director of Public Works, and two naval and military officers as members. I directed that the proceedings should be strictly confidential, and I enclose their report together with the terms of reference. Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton, and I now attach a copy of my letter and his reply.\n\n3. I have also on the 24th ultimo received a letter from Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Company, Limited, offering to submit detailed estimates for erecting a wireless station on the Poulsen system, if furnished with particulars as to range required, &c., and proposing to operate it for three months, when, if found satisfactory, it would be taken over by Government, as adopted by China in Chinese ports, and on various vessels. I enclose a copy of this letter and its enclosures in original, which, if convenient, I desire may be returned to me. I have caused a reply to be sent to this firm to the effect that I am referring the matter to your Lordship.\n\n4. I have already expressed such views as I am able to form—with a very insufficient knowledge of the various systems in vogue, their respective cost, &c.—in my letter to Admiral Lambton, and I submit the papers for your Lordship's instructions. I have only to observe that it seems to me highly desirable that a commercial wireless telegraph station should be established here as soon as may be, and that if it should be capable of superseding the land telegraph system to Chinese stations and to Singapore, there would seem to be a prospect of its proving a very desirable source of revenue for the depleted treasury of this Colony. It must, however, be understood that the Colony is not at present in a position to incur any large capital expenditure or annual charges which are not covered by the returns.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nF. D. LUGARD, Governor, &c.\n\nSIR,\n\nNo. 2.\n\nADMIRALTY to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nAdmiralty, 5th February 1910.\n\nWith reference to your letter No. 41383/1909, dated the 22nd ultimo, relative to the proposed erection of a wireless telegraph station on Pratas Island, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to request you will inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that they are of opinion that this station should communicate with the new wireless telegraph station proposed to be erected at Hong Kong by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, rather than with the Naval Station there.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nW. GRAHAM GREENE.\n\nSIR,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 3.\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong,\n\n13th January 1910.\n\nTHE question of inaugurating a commercial wireless station in this Colony has, from time to time, been raised, and this Government has received an application from Messrs. Keegan and Rosencrantz, who state that they hold the patent rights of Messrs. Marconi in the Far East. In accordance with standing instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies the application has been submitted to him. I, in the meantime, anxious to obtain what information I can, as to the possibility of erecting and working such a station as a Government undertaking. If your Excellency...\n\n* Answered on 1st February 1910 to the effect that the application was to be refused in view of license promised to the Eastern Extension and Marconi Companies.\n\nA 3",
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"content_text": "In the reply to this Letter the following\n\nNumber should be quoted.\n\n3969\n\n10.\n\n0\n\n6765\n\nRef 7 MAR 10,\n\nTREASURY CHAMBERS.\n\nMarch 1910\n\n493\n\nIn the\n\nsomewhat on the lines of my previous minute.\n\nmeantime we might telegraph to Sir F. Lugard that the\n\nTreasury have agreed to the insertion of £9,000 on\n\nthe Estimates of the coming year, and that corresp.\n\nis proceeding as\n\nto\n\nan arrangement for three years.\n\n1 is quite clear that the present £9,000 is\n\nnot a Grant-in-Aid. The Treas. have not included it in\n\nthe Grants-in-Aid but have inserted it under a new\n\nSubhead for Opium Revenue Compensation. H. Xong..\n\nBut since they have not agreed to take the actual loss\n\nof Opium Revenue as the sole basis of compensation, and\n\nwe must send them the Estimate papers for the current\n\nyear in support of our representations for a three\n\nyears arrangement, it will be well,\n\nto make it clear that there is no question of an ordinary Grant-in-Aid.\n\nArc\n\n11/3\n\nShe had better say nothing. The print has been kept courant of strange results be afraid\n\nYes, I agree\n\nA\n\nthere has\n\n11.3\n\n34 29387/09\n\n2013/09\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His\n\nMajesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Cox's letter of the 24th ultimo (5558/1910), on the subject of the Compensation payable by the Government of Hong Kong\n\nin respect of the closing of Opium Divans, and of the grant to be made to the Colony from Imperial Funds as a Contribution towards making good the loss of opium revenue directly resulting from measures adopted under the instructions of His Majesty's Government.\n\n2 Their Lordships desire me to request you to express to the Earl of Crewe Their regret that an earlier reply has not been sent to the previous letters from your Department on the question of the grant. They had hoped\n\nto be in a position to deal at the same time with the question of the suggested relieving of Hong Kong revenues of the cost of the Postal Agencies in China, which has been the subject of a long correspondence. The connection between the two questions was alluded to in the letter from this Department of the 2nd September last (12942/09) regarding the Agencies, as also, from another point of view, in your letter of the 26th January on the subject of the opium grant; and in view of differences of opinion\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\n88\n\n(1390), Wt, 20024-26, 15000, 11/08, A, & E, W,\n\n(8327).\n\n13\n\n1081-7. 6000, 4,09.",
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"content_text": "341\n\n4\n\nwhose anti-foreign attitude has so often been the subject of complaint, was guilty of a deliberate lie when he informed His Majesty's consul that he had sent troops to guard foreign property, and cannot be acquitted of a share in the plot. As for the gentry, not only were two or three of their number identified as they were leading and directing the operations of the mob, not only is it asserted that they subsidised the trained band of \"blue\" or \"black soldiers\" who carried out the work of destruction, but the strange immunity enjoyed by foreign property in which they had an interest, as to which an interesting article appeared in the \"North China Daily News\" of the 13th instant, and is enclosed herewith for your information, and their eagerness to settle at once the claims for compensation constitute yet a further proof, if any were needed, that they instigated the riots and fear the consequences of their action.\n\nI venture to express the opinion that, in addition to exacting the payment of compensation for the damage done and a settlement of the many questions affecting British interests at Changsha, His Majesty's Government should, as suggested in my telegram No. 97 of the 18th instant, insist upon the infliction of adequate punishment upon the guilty officials and members of the gentry. Chinese Government may, of course, of their own accord inflict this punishment, but the only measure taken up to the present time appears to have consisted in the execution at Changsha of several coolies, who were probably instigated to take a share in the rioting, and whom the local authorities find it convenient to sacrifice on the altar of public expediency. The punishment suggested by the Governor of Hunan for the three members of the gentry most implicated (see Mr. Hewlett's despatch No. 22 of the 10th May), that they should be deprived of official rank and civil rights,\" does not err on the side of severity in a country where leniency has never been a salient feature of the Penal Code. It is not too much to say that in earlier days an act of rebellion such as the one of which Changsha has lately been the scene, involving a direct assault upon the representative of the throne, would have been met by the levelling to the ground of the city's walls and the execution of a substantial portion of its population. But times have changed, and the Central Government now seem to fear taking even the ordinary measures of repression and punishment usual in European countries. They will, however, soon be obliged to do so in their own defence, for the movement, which they were apparently not unwilling to encourage in its early stages, as being directed against the foreigner, is rapidly assuming an anti-dynastic and revolutionary character. The spirit of sedition may, if unchecked, gain the new army and convert the defenders of the throne into its assailants. Already placards are appearing in which veiled threats are uttered and allusions made to the possible return of the \"Han\" dynasty, whose period of power is popularly supposed to have been the golden age of Chinese history. The recent riots at Changsha will, in reality, prove to have been a blessing in disguise if their result is to strengthen the resolution of the Central Government and to convince them of the necessity of dealing firmly with a situation which, if allowed to continue unchecked, is fraught with peril to the existence of the Manchu dynasty and the tranquillity of the Chinese Empire.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[22017]\n\n0\n\n21654\n\n[June 20\n\nP5 JUL 10, SECTION 4.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 20.)\n\n(No. 177.) Sir,\n\nPeking, June 3, 1910. WITH reference to your despatch No. 142 of the 27th April last, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul at Newchwang respecting the present position of the Liao River Conservancy question.\n\nI would suggest that Mr. Wilkinson's despatch should be communicated to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who have been good enough to give you their opinion on the scheme.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nSir,\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Wilkinson to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nNewchwang, May 25, 1910. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 18th instant, enclosing a copy of a letter addressed to the Foreign Office by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in which the latter have been good enough to give their opinion regarding Mr. Hughes's proposals for the deepening of the bar at the mouth of the Liao River.\n\nIn my despatch to you of the 9th February I expressed my apprehension that Mr. Hughes's estimate of the cost of the bar and Duck Island works would be exceeded, and my opinion was also based on the fact that the cost of the cutter suction dredger had been underrated. Mr. Hughes informs me, however, that a suitable dredger of this type, that is one capable of dredging 300 tons of material per hour, can be purchased and brought out here for £20,000, which is not much above his estimate. It would, he admits, be less expensive in the end to purchase a more powerful dredger, but, in view of his instructions to make his estimate, and especially the initial expenses, as low as possible, he had no option but to select the cheapest that, in his opinion, could do the work required efficiently. Now that the construction of a commercial harbour at Hulutao has been practically decided upon, the ideal arrangement, he thinks, in the interest of both schemes would be for this port and Hulutao to share between them the cost of a dredger of the largest capacity, which could be used alternately at each place. Unfortunately the difficulties in the way are considerable. With regard to the other items in his estimate, Mr. Hughes does not think that he has underrated the expenditure.\n\nThe danger that a contretemps, such as occurred at Shanghai in the case of the improvement of the river there, might also occur at this port through shortage of funds is fully realised both by the taotai and the consular body. To provide against such an eventuality by increasing the margin of reserve the latter has, in fact, already addressed a despatch to the senior consul, making certain suggestions whereby the amount collected for conservancy purposes from the trade of the port may be augmented without exceeding the limit of 1 per mille ad valorem stipulated by the Chambers of Commerce, and without increasing the cost and difficulties of collection.\n\nThe enclosed memorandum and tables, which have been prepared by the Commissioner of Customs at this port at the taotai's request, will show you how it is proposed to raise the additional revenue. The plan may be summarised as follows: the rate of levy in the case of native imports paying full duty and of exports is to be 4 per cent.\n\nin lieu of 2 per cent. of the duty, and in the case of native imports paying half duty\n\n8\n\nper cent, in lieu of 4 per cent. As the average duty paid by native imports and exports is less than 2¼ per cent, ad valorem, the levy, even at this increased rate, will\n\n[2788 u -4]",
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"content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[23051]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n371\n\nCO Dupe 271-165 RESECTION 2. Rest 15 JUL 10\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received June 27.)\n\n(No. 8. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu, May 20, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward to you herewith copy of an opium report for the four months ended the 30th April, 1910, which I am sending to His Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Peking.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER,\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\n(No. 17. Sir,\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nConfidential.)\n\nYunnan-fu, May 20, 1910.\n\nIN my opium report for December quarter, despatch No. 9 of the 8th February, I mentioned that the magistrate of P'ing-i had been deprived of his office and his button on account of his habitual disregard of the anti-opium regulations, and his connivance at the smuggling of opium across the border from Kweichow. From this town of P'ing-i the Rev. H. A. C. Allen writes under date of the 1st April\n\n\"It goes without saying that no opium is planted within 10 or 20 li of the city.* But it is well known that in the south of this magistracy quite a lot is grown. In the district of Huang-ni-ho, four days south of this, the ground is exceptionally good for growing opium, and possibly the district is warmer than here. Some three months ago our magistrate† made a tour of seventy days in his district, but chiefly in the aforementioned direction. I was told confidentially that a few days before he returned he sent on ahead four horse-loads of silver, and the head clerk who was with him one horse-load. This, spelt out in dollars, was given as 7,000 dollars and 1,000 dollars respectively. That this was altogether an exaggeration is more than probable; at the same time, I dare say his purse was heavier on returning than on his starting. He left a few days since in another direction. I was surprised to hear from a man whom I know, and at whose house I recently stayed 35 li from here, that there is some opium planted a couple of li from his place... This being a district bordering on Kweichow with good soil, it naturally affords a good opportunity for illicit growth. Opium smoking does not seem to have decreased much. It is everywhere in evidence, though the amount consumed is much less necessarily since the price is so high. An immense number of people swallow it who used to smoke it. It is a pity the Viceroy smokes, and that it is common knowledge on the street.'\n\nOn the 2nd March the Rev. S. Pollard, who had just arrived from a journey in the northern part of Yunnan, informed me that he had come across opium growing in some parts of T'ung-ch'uan prefecture. Runners had been sent to enquire into the matter, but they were well bribed to be silent, and the poppy was in flower when Mr. Pollard and some companion missionaries passed. Mr. Pollard added that in no other place did he see any trace of the poppy;\n\nSeveral travellers have informed me that they have seen opium growing in the portion of Yunnan north of the Yang-tsze.\n\nFrom Kweichow province I have received two letters. The Rev. C. Freeman\n\n* 3 li equal about 1 mile.\n\n†The successor of the official who was deprived of his office and his button.\n\n[2793 dd-2]",
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"content_text": "2\n\nThere are 117 tunnels of a total length of 94 miles. The bridge at kilometre 112, linking two tunnels divided by a chasm—a marvellous piece of engineering—is 65 metres in length.\n\nThe length of the railway from Laokai to Yunnan-fu is 465 kilom. (296 miles). The Namti Valley section Laokai to Lahati, is 71 kilom. (45 miles).\n\nThe journey from Hanoi to Yünnan-fu is scheduled for three days, first day Hanoi to Laokai (1), Laokai to Amichou (2), Amichou to Yünnan-fu (3). A table giving the freights, supplied by His Majesty's consul at Hanoi, is added at the end of this note.\n\nThese rates are, I understand, the maximum and liable to reduction. The reduction depends chiefly on the competition of other routes, e.g., West River, Szechuan, and Burmah. The two last named cannot compete even against the maximum tariff to Yunnan-fu.\n\nThe railway will have cost, I have good reason for saying, not less than 8,000,000l., and its upkeep for the next three years is expected to be very heavy. Railway experts give three years as the period after which the line may be free from serious slips during the rainy season. In 1909 all traffic was suspended on the line from July to September, and again after a short interval was again blocked, no less than I was told that fifty-three slips having taken place in the beginning of November.\n\nM. Bodin, an exceptionally capable and experienced engineer who was placed in control of the line at the time of the November breakdown, recommended an immediate expenditure of 80,000l. for fresh work as a precaution against future slips, but his recommendation had not been favourably received at the time of my stay at Mengtse in November last.\n\nI hear on good authority that the company intends to run on economical, not to say miserly, lines.\n\nAn illustration of this false economy came to my notice at Amichou on the 16th November. Coal was urgently required above Amichou and six truck-loads of \"briquettes\" attempted to pass over a dangerous piece of embankment, a few miles below Amichou, against the advice of the \"chef de section\" who, I was told, recommended a portage of 200 yards, at a cost of 20l. The engine and entrepreneur trucks of the construction train fell down the embankment and the \"chef de section\" in charge of the subsequent portage, and salvage gang told me that the loss to the company would be about 800l.\n\n3\n\nemployed on this line. I never heard a complaint of ill-usage. In February 1908 I travelled on foot through the Lolo districts of the railway between Amichou and Liu feng tsun, and found the attitude of the peasantry extremely favourable towards the railway.\n\nIt has pleased some travellers to state that the Chinese are more favourably disposed to British rather than to French at Yunnan-fu. It is perhaps true that France has been unfortunate in one or two of her representatives in Yünnan, and that the colonial press has been mischievously indiscreet in shaping out an aggressive Yunnan policy. But it is probable that the truth lies in the fact that the Chinese officials are inspired by feelings of fear and deep resentment at the visible token of French power under their eyes in the shape of a French railway built by and entirely under the control of the French. If this railway had happened to have been British I do not doubt that the travellers would have had to deplore the fact that anti-British feeling at the capital was so much stronger than the feeling against our French rivals.\n\nThe railway was formally opened to traffic on the 1st April, 1910.\n\nFRENCH Railway Rates.\n\nGoods\n\n \n Goods of every Description.\n Manufactured Goods of French and Indo-Chinese origin.\n \n \n Dol. c.\n Dol. C.\n Dol. c.\n \n \n Haiphong to Mengtse\n 30 40\n 45 40\n 36 40\n \n \n Haiphong to Amichou\n 48 40\n 39 80\n \n \n \n Hanoi to Mengtse\n 47 40\n 42 40\n 33 40\n \n \n Hanoi to Amichou\n 45 70\n 36 80\n \n \n \n Mengtse to Haiphong Tin\n 40 40 per ton.\n \n \n \n\nIn the Yunnan-fu September intelligence report reference was made to the attempt to \"squeeze the Chinese merchant on exchange, in which the railway company came off second best.\n\nThe fatal accident last February on the line between Yünnan-fu and Iliang, gives another result of false economy in employing Annamite engine-drivers on this difficult stretch—probably the most dangerous bit on the railway—viz., the descent to the lake of Tang ch'ih.\n\nThe Chinese officials regard the railway with a hostility which is scarcely veiled. They propose to attack the question of the railway hotels which have been erected at various points. The one at Amichou and probably also the one at Milati, kilometre 157 are to be closed shortly on account of Chinese official protests.\n\nLeading Chinese officials at Yunnan-fu, e.g., Ts'i Liang formerly Governor-General and Kao erh ch'ien formerly Administrator of Foreign Affairs, have volunteered and even forced their opinion upon me that the line is the most expensive and the worst constructed in the world. I can say on the authority of leading French engineers employed that the railway is the most expensive within their experience. Having travelled over the line when in course of construction, I venture the opinion that it is a well-built line in spite of the extraordinary physical difficulties of the country.\n\nIt is noteworthy that the Society of Construction employed subjects of pretty well every European nationality except British.\n\nThe spoils have unquestionably gone to the Italians to be locked up in Italy. The Italian contractors, it is said, have netted from one-quarter to one-half of the capital sum expended; and I am informed on good authority that the wastage on the construction has been not less 2,000,000l., or about 25 per cent, of the total expenditure.\n\nChinese officials at Yunnan-fu are fond of complaining of the harsh and brutal methods of European railway employés towards Chinese workmen and the inhabitants of the district through which the railway passes. There may have been, and possibly were, isolated cases of brutality, but I do not think that the Society of Construction has deserved such an accusation, which seems to me to be deliberately false. I have at odd times and in out-of-the-way places talked with coolies formerly\n\nNOTE. 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"content_text": "## \n\n270\n\nClause 3(4) is new and is based on section 8 of the Trinidad Ordinance and is introduced at the suggestion of the Lords Commissioners.\n\n6. Clause 3(5) is a redraft of the original clause 3(7) introduced at the suggestion of the Lords Commissioners to avoid ambiguity.\n\n7. Clauses 4 and 5 are redrafts of the corresponding clauses of the original Bill the drafting of which was faulty.\n\n8. In clause 6 the word \"face\" has been inserted before the word \"value\" and in clause 7 the words \"make\" and \"circulate\" have been added as well as a new proviso. Clause 8 remains unamended.\n\n9. I am informed that the Bank is most anxious to commence their issue of notes on the 1st January next and I would therefore request that your authority to introduce this Bill into Legislative Council may be conveyed to me by telegraph.\n\n10. I am forwarding to you under cover of a separate Despatch a draft of three rules which it is suggested (in Mr. Bertram Cox's despatch of the 15th December, 1910, S to the Secretary to the Treasury) should be issued under section 6(2) of Ordinance No. 16 of 1901 exempting certain classes of Bank notes from the 1 per centum tax.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\nMing\nGovernor, &c.",
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"content_text": "# GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 17th. October, 1911.\n\nWith reference to my Despatch No. 351 of the 11th. instant, and to the opinion of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that the excess note issues of the Banks should be exempted from payment of the one per cent tax, I have the honour to forward draft of three rules which it is suggested (in Mr. Bertram Cox's Despatch of the 15th. December, 1910, to the Secretary to the Treasury) should be issued under section 5 (2) of Ordinance No. 16 of 1901 exempting certain classes of Bank Notes from the 1 per centum tax.\n\n## \n\n2. I venture to think that it is very probable that the new Mercantile Bank issue will take a considerable time to gain the confidence of the Chinese public and during that time the two existing Banks of issue would have no claim to a reduction in their contributions to the Revenue as they would be suffering no loss from the action of Government in creating another Bank of issue. The abolition of the tax would moreover be an incentive to them to press for permission to increase their excess issue, which the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury would desire to diminish, while the existence of the tax-free excess issue would prejudice the circulation of the notes issued by the Mercantile Bank of India.\n\n## \n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \n**LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.**,\n&c., &c. \n\nNo. 358 \n`JR15/11` \nNo. 35488 \n`CO 36241/643` \n`IREC` \n**RESE** 10 NOV !!",
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"content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nand who will undoubtedly see that it is spent to good purpose. How the measures they may introduce will react on our subsidiary coinage problem in this Colony remains to be seen, and we shall shape our policy accordingly when we know them. The balance of the sum due for the revision of the Ordinances is included. The total net cost after deducting the value of the copies purchased at the ordinary sale price will be $5,000 only, and I can personally testify, as also can the Law Committee of this Council, to the immense amount of time, industry, and ability which Sir Francis Piggott has devoted to the work. fortunate in having so exceptionally able a Chair at the University. It will supersede the vote of $2,500 which has hitherto been granted to the College of Medicine, since this institution will now be absorbed by the University. The latter vote has been retained on the estimates this year, as the College will continue for a great part of the year, but it will not be fully spent. The University vote, should the Council approve, will be paid in full in order to cover cost of passages, etc. I propose that the sum shown in the estimates shall annually be paid over to the funds of the University, as a recognition by Government on the one hand of the large amount subscribed by voluntary contributions towards this project, and on the other hand because the University will greatly benefit the taxpayers of the Colony by affording a means of completing the education of the pupils in the highest classes of our secondary schools. It is not an unduly liberal contribution compared with the $11,150 per annum which The Straits give to the Medical College there. This Government recognition, if assented to by this Council, will, I am confident, greatly encourage the Chinese gentlemen who have made such strenuous efforts to promote this scheme.\n\nThe Miscellaneous vote is, as I have already said, increased by a sum of $32,000 for coal for launches, which replaces votes to a larger amount hitherto shown under various departments.\n\n## Police, Etc.\n\nThe cost of the assisted-passages scheme involves an increase of some $6,000 in the transport vote, which was previously underestimated; the actual expenditure last year standing at $14,000. The police have been increased by the addition of one European sergeant and two lance sergeants; the Indians decreased by 14 constables and the Chinese increased by 44 police constables, while No. 3 police launch is re-commissioned with a full crew. The additions to the strength of the police are made in order to admit of a considerable increase in the detective force, and the division of the whole city and of Kowloon into detective divisions for the better suppression of crime. These measures have already been carried out, the cost this year having been approved by this Council in a supplementary vote, and I think I can already detect a good result. The re-commissioning of the launch is in order to more effectually patrol the waters of the Colony, with a view to stopping armed robberies at sea, which are of too frequent occurrence. A new police station has been opened at Tsun Wan, a European police sergeant being withdrawn from Au Tau for this charge.\n\n## Subsidiary Coinage, Etc.\n\nProvision is made for the loss actually incurred by the receipt of revenue paid in subsidiary coins, the discount being estimated at seven per cent. No provision is made for demonetisation, which the Secretary of State and the Lords of the Treasury consider to be an inadvisable measure, and the cost of which we are at present ill able to afford. We may, however, count it to ourselves for righteousness that during the last four years we have recalled from circulation and melted down silver subsidiary coins to the value of $5,272,012, and copper to the value of $255,446, representing a total of over 78,000,000 coins at a cost to the revenue of $795,758. We shall await with interest the disclosure of the steps which are about to be taken by China for the reorganisation of her currency under the auspices of the four Powers who have guaranteed a great loan for the purpose.\n\nThe effect of those changes is to increase the total for salaries by $17,000, but the total cost of the police, exclusive of fire brigade and prisons, remains the same owing to various economies under other charge votes, and to the transfer of $13,000 for coal for launches to the head Miscellaneous Services. The charge for the department is roughly 12 per cent. of the revenue of the Colony.\n\nSome economies have been effected in the prison staff on the suggestion of the Assistant Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, especially the substitution of four Indian for two European warders; and on the recommendation of the Captain Superintendent of Police the $5,000 voted under Fire Brigade last year for street fire alarms has not been spent. A motor tender with new ladders to enable the firemen to reach the scene of a fire more quickly than is at present possible with coolie-drawn carts has been substituted, at a cost to be provided next year of $14,000.\n\n## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nI laid those matters, with some others, before a committee of experts early last year, and their recommendations were summarized in a report which was laid before this Council on May 5th, 1910 (Sessional Paper 3, 1910).\n\n## The Government's Educational Policy\n\nIn dealing with the Vote for Education, I shall ask your attention to a few remarks on the progress of the general educational policy which has been followed during the past three years.\n\nFirst, as regards the schools (whether supported by Government alone, or by missions or by others with a Government grant) in which a secondary education is given. A tendency had grown up to regard an increased attendance of pupils as the chief sign of progress and development. The staff of the Schools had not, in the large majority of cases, kept pace with the increase in numbers of scholars, and the Government schools were no exception. In Queen's College, for instance, the attendance was about 1,000, though the numbers for whom it is now found (even with extra classrooms) that proper accommodation can be provided is only 800. As a consequence, the size of the classes had in many cases grown very large and much in excess of the number which could properly and efficiently be taught by a single master. The quality of the education afforded was therefore deteriorating from year to year, while the schools were overcrowded. Moreover, there was a tendency in most, if not in all, of the schools which professed to give a secondary education, to increase the numbers in the lowest (viz., the primary) classes, and as the grant was given per caput, the same sum was received for a mere infant as for boys in the top classes whose education required expensive masters.\n\nThe Medical Department shows no change of importance. The Lunatic Asylum is retained on its present basis, but the question of providing some better accommodation for its increasing numbers is engaging my attention. The grant to the Tung Wa Hospital for medicines, hitherto an elastic amount, is increased by $1,000, and $2,500 is now fixed as a maximum. The Sanitary Department continues its policy of substituting direct control for the unwieldy contracts which it was difficult to supervise. The total of the salaries is thereby increased to a small amount by the engagement of extra bullock drivers and launch men in order to effect a much larger decrease in the contracts which appear under other charges.\n\nEffect: The total estimated expenditure in this department has now fallen to $341,096, with an increase of efficiency due to improved methods and to the constant supervision and thought given by the Head of the Department, and by the public-spirited gentlemen who form the Sanitary Board.\n\nTo check the tendency to augment the lower classes at the expense of the advanced ones, a higher grant was given for pupils in the upper and middle divisions of a school than for those in the lower division; while a special grant, which now appears separately to the amount of $3,500, was given for those who passed the tests of the Oxford Local examination. To ensure adequate personal attention to every pupil, and to check overcrowding, the numbers in a single class under one master were limited to 40. The standard of each class was at the same time made identical in all Government and grant schools throughout the Colony, so that comparison of the education given by each school is now easy. These reforms were applied to Government schools equally with grant schools, and the teaching staff was considerably increased, while the number of pupils was reduced partly by the introduction of dual desks, which prevented the former overcrowding and reduced the accommodation available, and partly by the elimination of...\n\n## 192\n## 193\n## 114",
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"content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[43193]\n\n**No. 1.**\n\n**Foreign Office to Admiralty.**\n\n**SECTION 3.**\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to send you herewith a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Peking,* with reference to the Whangpoo Conservancy Works and the question of appointing a successor to M. de Rijke, the engineer-in-chief, who has now left Shanghai.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have already received, in a letter from this department of the 14th ultimo, a copy of the report on M. de Rijke's scheme which was drawn up by Sir J. Wolfe Barry, Sir W. Matthews, and Mr. Lyster under instructions from the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce. The conclusion at which these experts arrived was, as their Lordships are aware, that a considerable portion of M. de Rijke's scheme might be dropped, at any rate for the present. Those parts of the scheme which still require to be carried into effect are not held to require the services of so eminent an engineer as M. de Rijke himself, and the latter, as mentioned above, would appear already to have left Shanghai of his own accord, though under his agreement he could have claimed to remain on till June 1911. There would consequently seem to be no possibility of securing the retention of M. de Rijke's services, to which, as stated in your letter of the 20th August last, their Lordships attached considerable importance.\n\nIn the exercise of their right under the Whangpoo Conservancy Agreement of 1905, the Chinese Government have now proposed, as successor to M. de Rijke, a Swedish engineer, M. Heidenstamm. This gentleman has, however, not yet proved himself to be possessed of the qualifications necessary for the post, and the diplomatic body at Peking, to whom the appointment was submitted, have, at Mr. Max Müller's suggestion, informed the Chinese Government that they are prepared to consider the claims of any candidate put forward by the latter, provided that his qualifications for the post are satisfactorily proved and that his contract shall be only for one year.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners will see from Mr. Max Müller's despatch that the attitude on this question of certain members of the diplomatic body is uncertain, and, as the decision is by majority, and unanimity is not requisite, the danger would appear to exist that the consent of the diplomatic body may be given to the appointment of the nominee of the Chinese Government, even though his possession of the necessary qualifications is in doubt.\n\nIn these circumstances Sir E. Grey is of opinion that the only course to adopt is to instruct His Majesty's Minister to oppose the appointment of M. Heidenstamm if his technical attainments appear to be insufficient, and to use his best endeavours to induce his colleagues to take up the same attitude. If, on the contrary, the nominee of the Chinese Government should be able to produce satisfactory evidence that he is properly qualified for the post, Sir E. Grey does not see that there is any strong reason for insisting upon his contract being only for one year, as suggested by Mr. Max Müller.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners will observe that certain of the foreign representatives are strongly opposed to the selection of an engineer by the three British experts who drew up the report alluded to, and Sir E. Grey presumes that no useful purpose would be served by directing Sir J. Jordan to make any suggestion in that sense, or by attempting to secure the nomination of a British subject as M. de Rijke's successor.\n\nWith a view to assisting His Majesty's Minister, Sir E. Grey would propose at the same time to inform the other Governments interested of the instructions being sent to Sir J. Jordan, and to request them similarly to instruct their own representatives at Peking.\n\nSir E. Grey would be glad to learn whether the Lords Commissioners concur in the course of action suggested.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n* `Mr. Max Muller, No. 411, November 11, 1910.`\n\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n11810 -3]",
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"content_text": "118\n\nMajesty's Government to make a substantial contribution towards the Colony's loss of Revenue.\n\n2.\n\nI am to point out that the recommendation referred to in the concluding paragraph of the letter from this Department of the 23rd of September last was that a contribution should be made by His Majesty's Government covering one half of the direct loss of opium revenue during three years after the £9000 granted on account of the year 1910 had been taken into consideration.\n\nIf the Secretary of State rightly understands Their Lordships' present offer, it does not wholly carry out Lord Crewe's recommendation.\n\n3.\n\nThough the sum of £12,000 in respect of each of the years 1911 and 1912, together with the £9000 already given, would cover half the prospective loss estimated when the Hong Kong opium farm was let for the period 1910-12, circumstances might arise in which half the loss would amount to a larger sum.\n\nMr. Harcourt is however prepared to accept on behalf of the Hong Kong Government the proposal that the £12,000 should be placed on the Imperial Estimates for 1911-12 as an instalment on account, on the understanding that Their Lordships agree in principle that half the direct loss should be borne by the Imperial Government, and that if a contingency should arise resulting in a greater loss to Hong Kong than that at first anticipated, the Lords Commissioners will permit the whole question to be re-opened and undertake to give their most favourable and sympathetic consideration to the Colony's case for further relief.\n\n4.\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121",
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"content_text": "## TEACHER'S CERTIFICATE\n\nThe Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education in Scotland\n\n**HEREBY CERTIFY** that PETRICIA YOUNG ANDERSON having successfully completed **THREE** years of Training, and having satisfied the requirements as to Probationary Service laid down in the Department's Regulations, is recognised by the **Scotch Education Department** as a **CERTIFICATED TEACHER** for the purposes of the **Scotch Code**, as from the first day of August 1908, and is further recognised for the purposes of Article 37 (b) of the Regulations for the preliminary Education Training and Certification of Teachers for various grades of Schools as qualified to give instruction in the following subjects :--\n\n| Subject |\n|---------|\n| DRAWING |\n| PHYSICAL EXERCISES, COOKERY |\n| NEEDLEWORK |\n\nUnder the provisions of the **Elementary School Teacher's (Superannuation) Act, 1898**, this Certificate will expire on the 6th of July 1951, when the Teacher attains the age of Sixty-five years, unless an extension of service is specially allowed in terms of the Act.\n\n**PENTLAND**, \nVice-President.\n\nTraining completed under the **St Andrews Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers** in 1908.\n\n262",
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"content_text": "## \n358 \n\n! \n\n2 \n\n\"Order in Council 1904 (c) that the Petitioner is a native of Afghanistan and at the commission of the alleged offence was a private soldier serving with Your Majesty's 126th Baluchistan Regiment (d) that the Petitioner had as such private soldier taken the oath of allegiance to Your Majesty and (e) that it was expedient for the Petitioner to be tried in the said Supreme Court: that the Treaty of Tientsin 1858 between Her late Majesty and the Emperor of China was not put in evidence nor were the terms thereof proved: that no evidence was adduced of any Treaty grant usage sufferance or other lawful means whereby Your Majesty's Courts have jurisdiction over offences committed by natives of Afghanistan in China: that the Chief Justice purported to try the Petitioner under powers conferred upon the said Supreme Court by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890 Section 6 and the China and Corea Order in Council 1904 Sections 3 and 50: that the Petitioner submits that the Treaty of Tientsin conferred jurisdiction in China on Her late Majesty and Her successors over British subjects only and the powers purported to be conferred upon the Supreme Court of China and Corea and the Supreme Court of Hongkong by Section 50 of the Order in Council if they include jurisdiction over natives of Afghanistan which the Petitioner denies are not within the powers granted by the Treaty and are consequently and pro tanto null and void: that the Petitioner submits that whereas the Emperor of China and His successors with whom the Treaty was made have ceased to exercise sovereignty and power within the territories which formerly constituted the Empire of China and by reason thereof the Treaty is no longer in force and therefore the jurisdiction of Her late Majesty and Her successors in China has lapsed or is in abeyance: that neither the Treaty nor the terms thereof were put in evidence to show that the Treaty was not one which by reason of the facts mentioned ipso facto lapsed or fell into abeyance: that the Petitioner submits that by Section 2 of the China and Corea Order in Council the limits of such Order are stated to be the dominions of the Empire of China and therefore by reason of the facts mentioned such Order has become inoperative: that all these matters were raised by the Petitioner at his second trial on an application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus and on a motion in arrest of Judgment: that such matters were considered by the Full Court and decided against the Petitioner: that the Petitioner was sentenced to death on the 18th December 1912: that at the Petitioner's first and second trials the following evidence of an alleged confession was given by Major Barrett the officer commanding the Petitioner's regiment at Canton Q. (by Major Barrett in Hindustani) Why have you done such a senseless 'act' A. (by the Petitioner in Hindustani) For three or four days now 'he has been abusing me of course I shot him': that the confession was said to have been made whilst the Petitioner was bound with ropes and under a guard with loaded rifles: that by the law of Hongkong as laid down in the considered Judgment of the Full Court in the case of **Rex v. Wong Chin Kwai and others** ([1908] 3 Hongkong Law Reports 89) a confession is not admissible as being free and voluntary if it has been obtained by violence or if it is made in answer to a question (without a caution by a person in authority) which the accused believed he was compelled to answer: that the Chief Justice refused to be bound by the said decision and refused to reserve the question for the consideration of the Full Court but admitted the evidence against the Petitioner at each trial. And humbly praying Your Majesty in Council to order that the Petitioner shall have special leave to appeal in formá pauperis from the Judgment of the said Supreme Court dated the 18th December 1912 or for such other Order as to Your Majesty in Council may seem just and proper : \n\n5 \n\n\"THE LORDS OF THE COMMITTEE in obedience to His late Majesty's said Order in Council have taken the said humble Petition into consideration and having heard Counsel in support thereof and on behalf of Your Majesty their Lordships do this day agree humbly to report to Your Majesty as their opinion that leave ought to be granted to the Petitioner to enter and prosecute his Appeal in formá pauperis against the Judgment of the Supreme Court of Hongkong dated the 18th day of December 1912. \n\nC \n\nAnd their Lordships do further report to Your Majesty that the proper Officer of the said Supreme Court ought to be directed, to transmit to the Registrar of the Privy Council without delay an authenticated copy under the seal of the said Supreme Court of the Record proper to be laid before Your Majesty on the hearing of the Appeal.\" \n\nHIS MAJESTY having taken the said Report into consideration was pleased by and with the advice of His Privy Council to approve thereof and to order as it is hereby ordered that the same be punctually observed obeyed and carried into execution. \n\nWhereof the Governor Lieutenant-Governor or Officer administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies for the time being and all other persons whom it may concern are to take notice and accordingly govern themselves.\n\nPrinted by EYRE and SPOTTISWOODE, Ltd., Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1213. For His Majesty's Stationery Office.\n\nALMERIC FITZROY",
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"content_text": "TREASURY MINUTA\n\n84\n\n110\n\n$13\n\n13 AUG 15.\n\n1913.\n\n1. My Lords read again Their minute dated the 22nd November 1888 on the mode of issuing the dollar in the East Indies in order to secure the equivalent of sterling in local currency. My Lords also read the report of the Committee appointed by Their Lordships dated the 27th February 1913 to consider the arrangements in force under the above minute and to report what changes, if any, should be made in these arrangements.\n\n2. The changes recommended by the Committee are summarised as follows:\n\n(1) That the official rate of the dollar be fixed monthly at the average over one month of the exchange rate for telegraphic transfers, rounded up or down, as the case may be, to the nearest farthing;\n\n(2) that tenders be invited for the supply of dollars in exchange either for telegraphic transfers or bills at 10 days' or three months' sight, with a view to raising the money required in the manner most advantageous to the Government;\n\n(3) that experimentally bills be offered for smaller amounts at shorter intervals than has hitherto been customary, and that the amounts offered for tender should be stated in the advertisement;\n\n(4) that local currency be obtained so far as possible at other points than Hong Kong by the sale of bills.",
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"content_text": "TREASURY CHAMBERS.\n\n117\n17596\n13\n29 August, 1913\nO 30165\nRecd 30 AUG 13,\n£23.8.0.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 9th ultimo (21280/1913), I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to request you to inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that They have authorised the Paymaster General to pay to Mr. Robert Henry Craig, late Assistant Superintendent, Prison Department, Hong Kong, and formerly Assistant Warder, Portland Prison, a pension in respect of his Imperial Service of Twenty-three pounds Eight shillings a year from the 30th April 1913 inclusive.\n\nYour obedient Servant,\nJ. Heath\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nColonial Office.",
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"content_text": "FO.\n\nB.\n\nThis arrangement, which is in My Lords' opinion satisfactory, involves the following modifications of the agreement approved by their Lordships of the Treasury in 1965:-\n\n342\n\n(a) The Admiralty will cease to pay the nominal £1 per annum in respect of the Station at d'Aguilar, which will be re-transferred to the Colonial Government.\n\n(b) The Colonial Government will thenceforth pay the proportion of the previous contribution to Naval funds (£2,000 per annum) which represents the work hitherto done for them at the Cape d'Aguilar wireless station. The Governor of Hong Kong reports that, previous to the transfer of the two stations to the Admiralty in 1908, expenditure was apportioned between them in the ratio approximately 3 : 2, and consequently proposes that the Colonial Government should, from the date of re-transfer of the Cape d'Aguilar station, pay annually to the Naval Authorities the sum of $1,300, being three-fifths of the sum of £2,000 in respect of the upkeep of the Peak Station. My Lords concur in this suggestion.\n\n(c) The Admiralty, instead of undertaking the sole responsibility for the maintenance of a visual station at Cape d'Aguilar, being reimbursed by a fixed contribution, will assume a joint responsibility for a T/T Station there, and will bear a fixed proportion of the maintenance charges in respect of naval work done.\n\nI am to invite the sanction of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to the arrangement detailed above, so far as they affect Navy Votes.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nREGINALD McKENNA",
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"content_text": "# MEMORANDUM by a Special Committee of the Council of the Central Association of Accountants Limited (by Guarantee), on The Professional Accountants Bill (H. L.), 1911.\n\n## COMMITTEE:\n**Mr. DAN SMITH, Chairman.** \n**Mr. NEVILLE ASPRAY.** \n**Mr. GEO. S. BURTON.** \n**Mr. WILLIAM MILES.**\n\n1. The above Bill, which was introduced into the House of Lords on the 8th March, 1911, is, with but very slight alteration, a re-production of the Professional Accountants Bill of 1909, which is dealt with in detail by the annexed Report issued thereon by the Central Association of Accountants in August, 1909.\n\n2. The Bill of 1909 came before the House of Lords for second reading on the 13th July, 1909, when Lord Saltoun moved an amendment that it be read a second time that day six months. A quorum not being present, the debate was adjourned and resumed on the 19th July, 1909, when on the motion of Lord Halsbury it was resolved that the second reading be adjourned sine die. By leave of the House of Lords the Bill was formally withdrawn on the 6th October, 1909.\n\n3. The principal differences in the present Bill are as follows:-\n - (a) That the Scottish and Irish Societies are now included in the Bill, no doubt for the purpose of obviating the strong opposition offered by the Scottish bodies to the previous Bill.\n - (b) That in lieu of a single Professional Accountants Committee being established to regulate the profession, it is proposed to form three Committees, one for England and Wales, one for Scotland, and one for Ireland.\n - (c) That the question of Fees and Charges under the Act shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Trade, doubtless in accordance with the recommendation made by the Central Association of Accountants in their Report annexed.\n\nPractically every argument and objection contained in the annexed Report in relation to the 1909 Bill applies with equal force to the proposed new measure, and it is desired to repeat and emphasize the same with reference to the present Bill.\n\n4. The promoters continue to adopt the course of wilfully ignoring the existence and rights of the Central Association of Accountants, although its membership exceeds in the aggregate that of the three Scottish and one Irish Societies named in the Bill, whose existence is deemed sufficient to warrant the establishment of separate Committees for Scotland and Ireland.\n\n5. The annexed Report was immediately after its publication widely circulated, its full text being published in the \"Associated Accountants' Journal\" (the official organ of the Central Association of Accountants), and in the \"Accountant\" (the organ of \"Chartered Accountants\"), and although more than eighteen months have elapsed since the publication of the Report, no attempt has been made to seriously refute a single statement that it contains, or answer any of the temperate but weighty arguments therein put forward.",
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"content_text": "## 6.—The Bill of 1909 was in fact subjected to such severe criticism, both by independent experts and by the Press, that it is a matter of some surprise that the promoters should have thought well to re-introduce the measure with most of its objectionable features unaltered. The present Bill has already been adversely criticised in the Daily Press—leading article of the \"Financial Times\" 17th March, 1911.\n\n## 7.—The true object of the Bill is apparent. The members of the English Institute and Society, who, in the past formed themselves into their respective Associations, seek in effect to have the membership of their own particular bodies converted into a monopoly and allocate to themselves prohibitory powers, to the detriment of a large number of efficient and capable Accountants who have qualified for membership of the Central Association of Accountants, and other bodies, who are now carrying on their businesses in an honourable manner, to the benefit both of their clients and of the community at large. (See Clauses 22, 25, 24, etc., of the Bill).\n\n## 8. A further objection to the Bill is the marked preference which its provisions throughout give to the members of the Societies named therein. This fact alone should be sufficient to condemn it.\n\n## 9. None of the existing bodies of Accountants named in the Bill can claim to speak for the profession as a whole. The English \"Institute\" and \"Society\" do not embrace fifty per cent. of the members of the profession in England, and ought not to be the arbiters of its fate.\n\n## 10. That the British legislature will allow such an arbitrary measure to pass into law is wholly inconceivable and inconsistent with the spirit of modern legislation.\n\nMOORGATE STATION CHAMBERS, \nLONDON, E.C. \nDated 21st March, 1911.\n\n## REPORT of the Committee of the Council of the Central Association of Accountants, on The Professional Accountants Bill, 1909.\n\nThe Committee have considered the provisions of the Professional Accountants Bill which was introduced into the House of Lords on the 23rd June, 1909, by the Earl of Chichester, and beg to submit the following Report:-\n\nThe Bill is promoted by **The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales** and **The Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors**.\n\nIn order that the nature and object of the proposed legislation may be properly appreciated, and to remove any misapprehension which may exist as to the constitution, powers and authorities of the Institute and Society which are promoting the Bill, it is desirable to preface this Report by a short summary of the history of the profession of Accountant during the last century and also to show the origin and constitution of the two before-named Societies.\n\nAccountants have no special legal status in any part of the United Kingdom and they differ in this respect from members of the legal and medical professions. It is open for anybody, man or woman, at the present time to practise accountancy either solely or in conjunction with any other business or calling.\n\nThe functions of an Accountant are of great and increasing importance and include, in addition to the investigation and audit of accounts of public companies, trading bodies, trustees and others, employment in the capacities of liquidators in the winding up of companies, trustees in bankruptcies and arrangements with creditors, receivers under decrees and orders of the court, etc., etc.\n\nMany Acts of Parliament relating to public companies and public authorities, provide that accounts shall be kept in a specified manner and shall be audited, but it is exceptional to find that the audit must be the work of an accountant (see, for example, the `Metropolis Water Act, 1871`, s. 37 to 42; `Friendly Societies Act, 1875`, s. 14; `Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893`, s. 13). The `Companies Clauses Act, 1845`, section 108, provides that the auditor may employ an accountant, but such accountant need not be a member of any Society of Accountants, nor need an auditor appointed under section 112 of the `Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908`. Under section 4 of the `Building Societies Act, 1894`, \"an Accountant\" may be appointed by the Registrar of Friendly Societies to inspect the books of the Society and report thereon. The Building Society Act, section 43, provides that one at least of the Auditors of the Society shall be a person who publicly carries on the business of an Accountant,\" and under section 11 of the `Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act, 1877`, one of the auditors of the accounts of an Oxford College must be either \"a professional accountant carrying on business in London or Westminster or a person conversant with accounts, approved by the Permanent Secretary of Her Majesty's Treasury.\" The words \"a person who publicly carries on the business of an accountant\" and \"a professional accountant carrying on business\" have not yet received judicial interpretation.\n\nParliament has recognised the fact that accountants are formed into incorporated bodies. As an instance may be cited the `Revenue Act, 1903`, section 13, which section gives an accountant the right to appear on appeals before the Commissioners of Inland Revenue. The section concludes with the words:-\n\n\"The term accountant in this section means a person who has been admitted a member of an incorporated Society of Accountants.\"\n\nAlthough accountants in England and Wales are not obliged to be members of any recognized society, the greater number of English professional accountants at the present day do in fact belong to one of three English Institutions. These are:-\n\n| Institution |\n|------------|\n| (1) The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. |\n| (2) The Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors. |\n| (3) The Central Association of Accountants, Ltd. |\n\nThe following is a brief outline of the origin and constitution of these Institutions :—\n\n(1) The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.\n\nThe first step in the organization of the profession in England was taken in the year 1870 by the accountants of Liverpool who formed themselves into a small society known as \"The Incorporated Society of Liverpool Accountants.\" This was followed in the same year by the formation of \"The Institute of Accountants\" in London, and in 1871 by the formation of \"The Manchester Institute of Accountants.\" In 1873, another Society, called \"The Society of Accountants in England,\" was established in London, and a fifth Society known as \"The Sheffield Institute of Accountants\" was formed in Sheffield in the year 1877. In 1880, the membership of these Societies was as follows:-\n\n| Society | Members |\n|---------|---------|\n| The Liverpool Society | 29 |\n| The Institute of Accountants (London) | 188 |\n| The Manchester Institute | 103 |\n| The Society of Accountants in England | 286 |\n| The Sheffield Institute | 12 |\n| Total | 618 members |",
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"content_text": "# members a monopoly in the practice of accountancy. As evidence of this it may be mentioned that on the 25th May, 1893, at a General Meeting of the members of the Institute, it was formally resolved:- \n\n**That it is desirable to promote legislation which shall restrict public accountancy to existing or future chartered accountants.\"** \n\nThe Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors, which came into existence five years after the granting of the Charter, was for many years treated with contempt by the Institute, until at length it was compelled to admit the right of the Society to exist and be deserving of recognition as a lawful, efficient, and reputable professional body. \n\nAs a further example of the spirit of the Institute towards persons outside its portals, it may be mentioned that at the inception of the Central Association of Accountants, the Institute issued a Writ against the Signatories to the Memorandum of Association of the Central Association, and applied to the Court of Chancery for an injunction to restrain its incorporation. The application was heard by Mr. Justice Kekewich on the 23rd June, 1905, when the motion was dismissed, with costs against the Institute. Mr. Justice Kekewich, in the course of his judgment, stated that the evidence adduced by the Institute in support of their claim was very flimsy as to the name of the Association being likely to induce confusion, and that the Institute could not insist upon having no rivals in the field. \n\nOf late years, however, a more tolerant spirit appears to have prevailed among the members of the Institute, for Mr. W. B. Peat, the then President of the Institute, on the occasion of the Annual Meeting of that body in 1907, said:- \n\n\"It may be of interest to observe that of recent years the provinces appear now to be coming into line with what we believe to be the representative opinion of the Metropolis, that the exclusive policy of the past 7 years has been a mistaken one, and that it is desirable that the task of co-operation with the other bodies, so long as they provide reasonable standards of qualification, should be seriously admitted.\" \n\nWith a view to arriving at a satisfactory conclusion on this subject, and in response to an invitation contained in a letter from the Hon. G. Colville (the Secretary of the Institute), the President of the Central Association, one member of the Council, and the Secretary attended at the Institute on Wednesday, the 19th May last, to meet the Committee of the Institute and the Society charged with the conduct of the Bill. The President of the Institute, Mr. J. B. Ball, was in the Chair, supported by Mr. W. B. Peat. Mr. James Martin, the Secretary of the Society, was also present and took part in the discussion. \n\nThe question was fully considered, and before retiring, the members of the Central Association expressed the hope that they might later have a further opportunity of again discussing the position with the Committee, for it was the intention of the Central Association to most strenuously oppose any measure which would have the effect of excluding any of its members from its provisions.\n\n## (8) Objections to the Bill \n\nA superficial glance at the provisions of the Bill is sufficient to warrant its unqualified condemnation. \n\nIn the face of the resolution of the Institute above quoted and of the antagonistic attitude throughout adopted by that body towards persons who are not members, it is somewhat Gilbertian that the Institute should ask Parliament to appoint to fill the important office of Registrar of Professional Accountants its own Secretary for the time being, and require in perpetuity to have the appointment and removal of nine out of fifteen of the members of the Registration Committee to be formed under the proposed Act, with practically unlimited powers to make Rules unfettered and unchecked, and to exercise their powers without being amenable to any public body. \n\nThe Council of the Association, who have consistently advocated the principle of registration of accountants and would welcome any fair legislation tending to place the profession on a definite basis, unhesitatingly condemn the present Bill for the following reasons:- \n\n| Reason | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | That the Bill is not drafted in the interest of the public, or of the profession generally, but is a private measure of an arbitrary character, promoted chiefly for the benefit of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors. |\n| (b) | That the Bill is an attempt to create a close profession by excluding therefrom a large body of competent and efficient persons (many of whom are members of the Central Association) who are now acting as principal clerks to Public Accountants, accountants in the employ of Bankers, Corporations, Public Bodies, or Limited Companies and the like, but who may be considered by prejudiced Committee to be constituted under the Bill, not to have the right of registration and thereby be prohibited from fairly and honestly earning their livelihood as Professional Accountants, which at present they are trained for and qualified to do. |\n| (c) | That the Professional Accountants Committee to be constituted under the Bill is proposed to be formed principally from among the members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and in view of the openly professed desire on the part of that Institute to confine the practice of accountancy in England and Wales to members of their own body, it would be improper and unjust to appoint such a Committee as is contemplated by the Bill, and entrust to them the wide powers set forth therein. |\n| (d) | That, for the last-mentioned reason, it would be unwise and unjust to appoint as the Registrar of Professional Accountants the Secretary for the time being of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. |\n| (e) | That it would be unjust and unreasonable to give power to a body of persons appointed by, and representing only a portion of the Professional Accountants, to decide as to whether their professional brethren should or should not be put upon the register as they may think fit, with power at their own unrestricted pleasure to impose upon applicants for registration arbitrary conditions and prohibitive fees. |\n| (f) | That in no case should a Committee, however appointed, be empowered to make rules unless the same are approved and sanctioned by a public authority, or to exercise the powers and authorities conferred upon them, without being amenable to a public body. |\n| (g) | That the Bill will retard the future progress of Professional Accountancy. The Committee are of opinion that the formation of such a register as is contemplated in the Bill would check the natural growth of the profession, to the detriment of the public welfare, and that it is contrary to the traditions of British Legislature to interfere in such a way as is indicated in this Bill with the development of any calling or industry. |\n| (h) | That the Bill contains no provisions for the protection of the rights and interests of the Central Association of Accountants and its members, and others engaged in the profession, and the Bill, if passed into law, would seriously interfere with and cause irreparable injury to such rights, and would tend to deprive many of the members of the Association of their means of earning an honest livelihood. |\n| (i) | That the Central Association of Accountants is the third largest body of accountants in the United Kingdom, its membership exceeding the aggregate membership of the three Scottish Societies and one Irish Society named in the Bill. The Association is well known in the accountancy and commercial world, and membership is a guarantee of ability and integrity, and it is submitted it has acquired a vested right which should be acknowledged in any legislation dealing with accountants. |\n| (j) | That, in view of the importance of the Association, and of the useful work which it has accomplished since its incorporation, and also of the fact that it is constituted under the same Acts of Parliament, and in the same way as the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors, there is, in the opinion of the Committee, no justification for dissimilarity in the treatment of the Association and that Society. |\n| (k) | That, in particular, the Committee strongly object to clause 20 of the Bill, above set out in extenso, and submit that there is no justification for such a clause, which would in fact practically put an end to the Association, disperse its members, and terminate its career of usefulness (See page 6). |\n\n## (9) Committee's Recommendations \n\nThe Committee therefore recommend that the passing of the Bill be strongly opposed, and, if it go to Committee, efforts should be made to amend it so as to provide (inter alia):-\n\n| Recommendation | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | That present and future members of the Central Association of Accountants, Ltd., should be entitled to registration as of right, and in all respects receive the same treatment as the members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors, and that the name of the Central Association be inserted in the necessary clauses in the Bill. |\n| (b) | That the Registrar of Professional Accountants should be, or be appointed by, the President of the Board of Trade, or some other public authority. |\n| (c) | That the Professional Accountants Committee should be elected annually by the registered Professional Accountants themselves. |\n| (d) | That any rules made by the Committee under the Bill should require the approval of the Board of Trade. |\n| (e) | That any person other than a member of the Central Association or any of the Societies named in the Bill, who has had at least ten years' experience in the practice of accountancy, either as a principal or in the office of a practising accountant or both, should be entitled to be registered on passing the examination to be prescribed by the Committee under the Bill, and should be entitled to sit for such examination whether he has or has not served under Articles of Apprenticeship. |\n| (f) | That, as regards the power of the Committee to refuse registration, rectify the register, and restore names thereto, there should be a right of appeal to the Board of Trade or other public authority. |\n\nOn the 5th July, 1909, the Central Association prepared and sealed a petition to the House of Lords against the Bill, praying in the event of it being read a second time, that the Bill be referred to a Select Committee, and that the Central Association might be heard by themselves, their Counsel, and witnesses against the Bill, and in support of the insertion therein of such clauses and provisions as they might deem necessary for the protection of the Association and its members. \n\nThe petition was presented in person by the Right Honourable Lord Cheylesmore on the following day.\n\n65, London Wall, \nLondon, EC\n\n**GEORGE BARTLETT, Chairman.** \nGEO. 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"content_text": "## Page Ten\n\n### Two Storm-Centers\n\nA group of five thousand persons on a sloping lawn falling away from a stately country house to a dainty artificial lake. Two bands playing at opposite ends of the ample grounds. A white canopy, and under it hundreds of people listening to a lively vaudeville troupe. Another larger tent, and here tea and sandwiches for the famishing, as the afternoon wears along. Halfway down the spacious lawn, a rectangle is marked out with ropes. The pistol cracks, and a tug-of-war is on. God is on the side of the heaviest contestants this day. Then as the afternoon light shoots long rays across the contented people, and the shadow of a short man becomes titanic and menacing, the call is to the platform, and all the chattering host masses itself in front of the speaker's table.\n\nA little man with gray hair and gray mustache, worn face, harassed lines between the eyes, and kindliness in the eyes, stands up squarely, and speaks emphatically. He is listened to rapturously, applauded mightily. That is Lloyd George, of England, at a Liberal fête.\n\nThis commonplace-looking man has torn the social structure of England into shreds. He has given the law-making power to elected persons instead of to hereditary lords. He is doing away with one rich man having a half dozen votes. He is breaking up the vast landed estates, held idle for the rearing of partridges, pheasant, and deer. He has insured a nation, and given pensions to the aged.\n\nThe two storm centers of the English-speaking world are Theodore Roosevelt and David Lloyd George. They are both born, bred, and perfected fighters. They have a jutting out of the lower lip and a smashing gesture of the arm and hand, which come from beating back opposition. They fire up into repartee and energy when the going is hard. They are at their fighting best under a rain of missiles and abuse. They came into a tame, sure world hoping to find it a scene of action and a continuing adventure.\n\nTheir lives have been a series of outbreaks. Most good men are like a firecracker. They have one loud noise in them, and then they disintegrate into silence. But these men carry explosive force which can repeat its violent performances. As quickly as their vitality is quenched at one point, it breaks loose with flame and speed at another point, and the end is not yet. They each contain a grain or two of spiritual radium, a demonic force which manifests itself again and again without exhausting its energy. They are vastly popular because they are tonic. They prove to us that things can be changed, that there is a lot in life besides routine and monotony.--\"Popular Magazine.\"\n\n### Paris Women Adopt Wounded Soldiers\n\nSociety Maids And Matrons Who Are Not Caring For At Least One Men Are Outcasts\n\nLondon, November 2.-Paris has hit upon a new greeting. When one woman meets another in the street she does not ask any of the inane questions that heretofore had such a great vogue. She straightaway gets down to business and asks: \"Have you adopted a wounded soldier?\" If the reply is in the affirmative the women feel themselves social and moral equals. But if it should happen to be in the negative then the poor neglectful culprit is an outcast of the worst kind.\n\nSeriously speaking this habit of \"adopting\" wounded soldiers has become widespread among wealthy society women here. Much of it is done through the Military Hospital of Val de Grace. After securing the necessary permit from the military authorities, these women pay a visit to the great wards where hundreds of the wounded soldiers lie mending.\n\nThey chat and laugh with the men until they come upon one whose personality is especially pleasing or whose circumstances are especially appealing. Arrangements are soon made by which the soldier is transferred to the care and responsibility of the interested woman.\n\n### Tracing It Back\n\nThe dentist says it's all right to tell the story, but that his name must not be used.\n\nO'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\nJapan has begun installation of large exhibits in the Palaces of Food Products, Education and Liberal Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. These are, in addition to the three quarters of an acre of manufactured products, booths for which are nearly complete in the Palace of Manufactures. More than 600 tons of additional exhibits from Japan are due to arrive on the `Tenyo Maru` early in December.\n\n### Advertisements\n\n| Product | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| **THE ELECTRIC HOT-PAD** | It takes the place of the hot water bottle, is safe, light, durable, sanitary, effective, convenient, economical and fits the body. Connects with any light socket. Five hours for One cent's worth of current. Available at **The German Dispensary, ESCOLTA** `RE-87` |\n| **HORLICK'S MALTED MILK** | The perfect food for invalids, dyspeptics, infants. At all first-class grocers and drug stores. Distributed by **Pacific Commercial Co.**, sole distributors. |\n| **DRY CLEANING** | Send by Parcel Post if you live in the Provinces. If you live in the City, ring call-write-or wire **The Sanitary Steam Laundry** `5 2 9` |\n| **PURE SWISS MILK** | Available through **LUTZ & C°-N AGENT'S.`427** |\n\nReaffirmation of the participation of France in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition was made in a telegram sent to A. Legallet, President of the Auxiliary French Committee in San Francisco, by A. Tirman, General Commissioner for France to the exposition, on November 22nd.\n\nMEET ME IN THE HUBBUB AT 9 TO-NIGHT.\n\nO'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\n### In the Rear of the Allied Armies\n\nBy a Danish War Correspondent. After repeated visits of those regions in Northern France which have been chastised hardest by the fury of the war, I feel compelled to contradict some of the current ideas respecting combatants and non-combatants on the side of the Allies. The spirit of the corps of officers is undoubtedly good. And if it had only depended on them, many things would have been omitted which are now remembered against the French and English. But the spirit of the troops is so much worse, and their officers have to suffer more from that spirit than they dare confess. It is the spirit of the people which any unbiased observer must condemn. He who cares may claim attenuating circumstances for the people. It has become the victim of \"an unbridled press which is guided by criminal instincts.\" This press must be considered the intellectual cause of all the atrocities committed on French soil, not only against German wounded and prisoners, but also against Frenchmen as well and which have been committed against these latter in far greater number than is generally known.\n\nA government order of August 1st too carelessly opened the prisons. Human material was wanted. Whoever cared to become a soldier was welcome, no matter how much there was against him. I remember that even in pro-French Italian papers I was in Nice at the time that order made the most unfavorable impression. No one more than the officers deplores the perfectly unlimited admission of criminal elements to the army service. At Air on the Lys I saw a colonel in complete despair. He had, that morning, condemned to death four men of his artillery regiment for \"cowardice\" before the enemy and the plundering of their fallen comrades. In the afternoon further cases of criminal actions were reported to him from a section in an advanced post. I heard that the majority of the troops of this regiment were from the South of France, men, who in the North are not considered good material. The Italian inhabitants of Southern France have been accused of being no heroes. But I believe that Paris supplies far worse elements. I base these remarks upon the statements of numerous officers who criticized the measures of their War Office in the severest manner and without reserve.\n\nIn France a scape-goat must always be found for any fault. As soon as the army fares ill, Monsieur Millerand will be the scape-goat. But the evil itself can not be eradicated any more. For necessity compels to put, without regard to physical and moral qualifications for the purpose, all and every one into the ranks who can possibly be used. In that way the righteous and unrighteous are mixed together; of course the spirit of the army deteriorates thereby.\n\nYou will surely have read in your home papers, how in France the fear of spies has become epidemic. That explains itself in great measure by the existence of the mentioned bad elements in the army. A single man may be as brave, as capable of enthusiasm as possible. But when he believes that he must demonstrate to the comrade beside him, who, before the outbreak of the war, was either sitting behind prison bars, or allowed himself to be put into the uniform from complete lack of work, feelings of contempt or of suspicion, such a state of mind cannot contribute to an increase of eagerness or gladness. In the last three weeks \"the cases of desertion, especially on the left wing, have increased greatly.\" In Noyon I met a cavalry picket riding after two dozen deserters. They asked me about the road. We talked a while and I learnt several things which are characteristic for the feelings of the piou-piou. \"Really it is a pity to waste the time with catching these fellows,\" the leader explained. \"It is done only for authority's and discipline's sake. It would have been much better not to give us such comrades.\" The pursuit of the deserters meets with the greatest obstacles, I was told further. They enter the first destroyed or deserted house they find, procure civilian clothes \"and then hush, they are gone!\" That would not be the worst. But in civilians' clothes they can rob, plunder, burn and assassinate and commit all sorts of highway robbery. There is no more protection in the lone and deserted villages. The gendarmerie is elsewhere, and so greatly occupied that for the criminals the golden harvest time has come. Believe me, Sir, the picket leader told me, many a one from that confounded Paris, where all this gang comes from, would never have thought of becoming a defender of his country, if he had not reasoned: This is an opportunity which will never return, to make hay. As long as we are in barracks in the open field, we are safe. But as soon as we come to a larger village with some ruined houses, we can be sure that we lose again several of the fellows who in civil life are not honest men. Rarely one alone deserts. Always entire gangs conspire to desert. Sometimes I almost believe that they did not make away in the beginning of the war 'with all the Apaches in Paris' and that we are afflicted with that plague which has become alike the terror of the army and the peaceable citizen, just as they were the terror of the Parisians.\n\nOf the work of the hyenas of the battlefield and the looters one can convince himself in every deserted village. Since it is out of the question that German or French armies break into houses whose owners have fled before the arrival of the troops, it can only be supposed that criminals do their wicked work, taking advantage of the situation. If by accident gendarmes come upon the scene, the burglars pretend, as I have been told repeatedly, to be the owners of the house themselves. If the gendarmes happen to know the owner of the house, they either submit to their fate, or pretend they have been sent by the owner to fetch one or the other object. Frequently they set undamaged houses, after having looted them, afire. In this manner many a solitary chateau, many a country-place, which had been spared by friend and foe alike, has found its end in dreadful devastation. The French government \"should keep a better eye on its criminals.\" But in order to keep the house-breakers and incendiaries under inspection, a much larger contingent of police and constabulary is necessary than France has, today, at its disposal. On our way back from Compiegne to Paris we have been stopped (Continued on page 141)\n\n### Advertisements\n\n| Name | Profession/Service | Contact |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **T. H. STEPHENS** | Dentist | Cosmopolitan Bldg., Sta. Cruz Bridge. Only office with laughing gas. Gold Crowns -- `P10` |\n| **M. A. LOUIS** | ROENTGENOLOGIST | Suite 316-314 NaIAN Building, Escolta. Entrance, Gulle David. ELEVATOR SERVICE. Tel. `398` |\n| **O'CONNELL'S** | Independent | SUBSCRIBE FOR `15.00 A YEAR` |\n\n## Page Eleven",
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"content_text": "# CONTRACT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO INCH ASPHALTIC CONCRETE SURFACE.\n\nWE, the STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW YORK, hereby agree to lay one hundred thousand square yards of two inch asphaltic concrete surface for the Hongkong Government, on the Island of Hongkong or the Peninsula of Kowloon, under the following conditions:-\n\nThat the foundation of the road shall be built by the Hongkong Government and this foundation shall be of such construction that during a period of three years it will withstand weathering conditions without displacement and carry safely the heaviest loads to which it will be subjected.\n\nThat WE, the STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW YORK, hereby agree to lay upon this foundation a two inch asphaltic concrete surface and maintain same for a period of three years for the sum of Two Dollars Mexican per square yard. At this price the Hongkong Government shall furnish free to the Standard Oil Company all stone, sand and filler (the latter may be either limestone dust or cement) of such a nature that these ingredients will meet our specification, a copy of which is attached to this contract.\n\nThe HONGKONG GOVERNMENT shall furnish all labour and road machinery and re-model slightly their mixing plant located in the City of Victoria on the water front between Taikoo Sugar Factory and Belle View Hotel, so that this plant may be used in mixing asphaltum. The change required will mean only a small expense and will consist in lengthening the present heating drum and installing a pug mixer. The Standard Oil Company will furnish all mechanical drawings necessary for making these changes. The HONGKONG GOVERNMENT shall also supply means of transporting the material from the plant to the road in a rapid manner to prevent cooling in transit and at a minimum rate of seventy cubic yards per day of ten hours. The vehicle used in carrying this material shall have a minimum capacity of one and a half cubic yards and shall not require over one hour to carry the asphaltic mixture from the mixing plant to the road where it is to be applied.\n\n## 3. Contractor to make repairs.\n\nThe Standard Oil Company of New York...",
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"content_text": "# General Post Office, London, 28th August, 1914.\n\nNo. 51233/13.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 4th of June last, `No.G.P.O.164/13`, I am directed by the Postmaster-General to inform you that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have been pleased to authorise the payment to Mr. A. J. Reed and to Mr. H. Dixon of £150 each as gratuities for the extra work which they performed in the three years ending on the 31st of December, 1913, in connexion with the preparation of the Agency Accounts.\n\nThe question of the payment of gratuities of suitable amounts for the work undertaken by these officers since the 1st of January last will be considered in due course.\n\nI am, etc.,\n(sd.) F. H. Williamson,\nfor Secretary.\n\nThe Postmaster-General,\nHongkong.",
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"content_text": "La any further communic tion on this subject, please quote \n\nM-50038.\n\nand address letter to-\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nAdmiralty, Whitehall,\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\nQ\n\nAdmiralty,\n\n25th December, 1915\n\n:- Confidential :-\n\nC\n\n53\n\n59615\n\nREC REG 27 JEC 15\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 14th instant, No.56826/15, relative to a request by the Governor of Hong Kong to be supplied with the name of the writers of certain letters included in correspondence intercepted by the Russian Military Censor, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that from internal evidence the three letters in question are considered to have been sent from the firm of Alfred Richter, Canton, this being a nominally American firm actually identical with the German firm Reuter, Bröckelmann and Company. The original documents were unsigned carbon copies.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nLP-No. 8.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n17 Nicholson\n\nfor Secretary\n\nA",
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"content_text": "In any further communication \non the subject, please quote \nNo. 171124/15. \nand address- \nThe Under Secretary of State, \nForeign Office, \nLondon. \nSir:- \nC \n0 \n55166 \nFOREIGN OFFICE \n29NOV.1915 \nREC \nREGE 30 NOV 15, \nGov \n153 \n£300 \n£200 \n\nWith reference to your letter No.43176/1915 of September 22nd last, relating to the establishment of the Registry of Companies at Shanghai, I am directed by Secretary Sir E.Grey to state that he laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury a proposal by which the contribution of three hundred pounds a year to be made by the Government of Hong Kong in return for the fees received at Shanghai, would have been allocated amongst His Majesty's Consul General as Registrar, a junior consular officer as Deputy Registrar, and the Crown Advocate as Legal Adviser. I am to enclose a copy of their Lordships' reply, from which Mr. Boner Law will see that their Lordships are not prepared to sanction any increase in the emoluments of the Consul General.\n\nIn these circumstances Sir E.Grey is prepared to agree that the contribution to be paid by the Colony should for the present be fixed at two hundred pounds a year, but he is of opinion that in addition the Colony may fairly be asked to supply the necessary registers, forms and other stationery, and also to pay the postage and petty expenses of the Shanghai Registry.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State \nColonial Office.",
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"content_text": "## The Komagata Maru Incident\n\nevery British subject desiring to plead, shall have his way to court cleared.\n\nWhile this was going on the Member of Parliament for Vancouver constantly interfered, doing his best to inflame popular feeling, so as to influence the courts, and subordinate the course of justice to merely partisan and anti-Imperial considerations. On appeal, and during this inflammation of popular feeling, in which the M.P. openly used intimidatory language towards the courts, the decision of the court below was sustained.\n\nThere was now a conflict of the decisions, and the Sikhs desired to carry the case to the Privy Council, and offered to put up half a million dollars bail for the production of the men confined on the Komagata Maru. They wanted their exact status in the Empire properly settled. At every turn they were defeated. At this time one of the Hindus who had gone to Ottawa at great personal trouble and expense, to lay the case before the Dominion Government, asked for an impartial investigation of the whole case. He had interviews with the Minister of the Interior and the Premier, but as a matter of course was passed on to a minor official of the Department. Exclusion at all hazards to the Empire was announced by the local politicians as the policy of the Dominion Government.\n\nHere is the story of the Komagata Maru, as given by a well-known Canadian lady, Mrs. Anna Ross:-\n\n\"One would think that the decent way for the authorities to act toward these men on the Komagata Maru, who had so accommodated themselves to the Canadian rule, would be to receive them politely, and to deal with each case fairly and squarely according to law, passing those eligible, and rejecting non-eligibles. Then if the will of the Canadian people was still for shutting the door, to do so by straight statute, 'No Hindu need apply.' After that there would at least be no misunderstanding or disappointments.\n\nBut these men who had accommodated themselves to the Canadian rule, who at a cost to themselves of nearly $57,000.00 had come by one continuous route, who now politely asked admission as British subjects and expected it, received instead indignity after indignity. It is almost inconceivable the lengths to which official insolence went in the treatment of these strong, proud, independent men. They were not allowed to set foot on shore at all. They were not allowed to communicate with the Sikhs on shore at all. They were not allowed to communicate with their own lawyer. Even when their case for admission was in court, their lawyer, Mr. Bird, was not allowed a personal interview with any of them, so that he was conducting their case in the dark. After the case was decided under these circumstances against them, Mr. Bird was allowed to visit them, and discovered that very important elements in the case he had not understood at all, and had not presented. If this is Canadian justice, it is not British justice.\n\n\"When the case had been decided against them, they expressed their willingness to leave, only requesting that they should be supplied with provisions for the return voyage. Immigration authorities refused provisions, but tried to compel the captain of the ship to sail at once. Though they had been unnecessarily delayed by the authorities for six weeks; these officials endeavored to force them to commence their long voyage without provisions. This roused the man and the soldier in these Sikhs, and they prevented the captain from obeying. A hundred and seventy-five policemen and the stream from a fire-hose only roused them the more. They beat back the policemen with fire-bricks and lumps of coal. Then in the dignity of her might, Canada ordered the cruiser 'Rainbow' to proceed alongside the Komagata Maru' and compel submission. By this time the inhuman attempt to send 350 men across the Pacific starving had been abandoned, and offers of abundant provisions were made. But by this time the fighting blood of the Sikhs was up. They knew they had been barbarously treated by representatives of the Canadian Government, and they were resolved to put no trust in any offers now made to them, but just to fight and die, if need be.\n\n\"That was the position Canada found herself in July 22nd, 1914. The guns of the 'Rainbow' were trained on the little 'Komagata Maru.' The Sikhs on board her had used timber to construct barricades, and the blacksmiths among them were working at fever heat making swords and pikes.\n\nThe Government then in extremity sought the good offices of the Sikhs on shore, and though they had refused to allow them intercourse with the men on the 'Komagata Maru' before, they were now glad to have a deputation of shore Sikhs endeavor to convince them that the Government this time was really acting in good faith, to accept the offers of provisions, and leave. They were finally successful, and the little ship sailed away.\n\n\"It is a sad story. It is a shameful story. They could at least have been treated courteously and given a chance to plead their own cause fairly, even if the law had refused them admission in the end.\"\n\nIt may be well to mention here that the degradation of British prestige by demagoguery assuming the functions of authority, was made shamefully apparent to other nations. During the trouble several Japanese cruisers appeared, and the politicians appealed to Ottawa to request that foreign crews should board a vessel in a British harbor, subdue by arms British passengers, and forcibly escort them across the ocean. What transpired in this connection, we know not, but the whole thing is so singular that I am sometimes tempted to think that only an Oriental mind can grasp the effect produced on the shrewd, diplomatic Japanese nation of this attempt on the part of our esteemed friends, the politicians. I am sure I shall be forgiven for calling attention to this matter, for my excuse is that native-born members of the Empire in Asia, have a stake in its standing among the Asiatic peoples, even though in British Columbia, neither education, nor property, nor medals won by valor for the Empire, can procure a Hindu a vote, though two Hindus have sat in the Imperial House of Commons.\n\nOf the plight of the men on board the Komagata Maru, their enforced confinement within a vessel for months, and the inevitable effect of the news in India, I do not now speak. But it is not to be denied that politicians and their minions usurped the essential authority of the law, and caused British subjects on a vessel in a British harbor to be treated as none have been treated with impunity within sight of a British shore, since the slave trade was suppressed.\n\nIn this connection it is well to mention here that the Government had passed an order-in-council prohibiting the entry to British Columbia of immigrants of the laboring classes. They knew very well if European immigrants were to come to British Columbia they would not try to enter it through B.C. ports, but by ports on the Atlantic coast. In all legislation there is a principle of equity and justice, and laws have to be made in such a way that people can, under ordinary circumstances, fulfil them. Whilst the Komagata Maru was lying off Vancouver harbor, the British subjects on board her had the mortification of seeing over five hundred Chinamen land without a hindrance raised. I make no invidious comparison between them and my own countrymen, but will quote from the exclusionist Victoria, B.C., Times' account of the Komagata Maru passengers on the day of their arrival:-\n\n| Description | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Appearance | The men were lined along the bulwarks of the forward and after wells. They presented a very brilliant spectacle as the many different colored turbans moved quickly and silently about. |\n| Attire | The men were dressed in various colors. There were some in complete European outfits, others wearing riding breeches and helmets, numbers with Mohammedan red caps pressed tightly down on their thick black hair, still others in native costumes, and a few wearing Khaki uniforms, which they had used when serving in the army. |\n| Background | The majority of the men have served in the British army, and they are a tall and handsome lot. They seem superior to the class of Hindus which have already come to this province. They stand very erect and move with an alert action. All their suits were well pressed and their turbans spotlessly clean. The most of them know a little of the English language, and some of them converse in it remarkably well. Of the 376 who comprise the party, but 21 have been in Canada before. In the party are students, merchants... in fact represent every class in India. |\n\nAs showing the spirit which governed the treatment of these men in the name of the Canadian people, I may quote further:-\n\n\"This morning a party of local Hindus left here in a launch and attempted to go alongside the Komagata Maru. Rev. Mr. Hall was in the craft. Their intentions were not stated. The patrol boat overhauled the intruders, and a severe reprimand was given them by Dr. Milne, the immigration agent. None of the Hindus is desirous of making his escape. They all wish to go through with the matter in a perfectly open manner.\n\nMrs. Elizabeth Ross Grace last summer wrote regarding the Sikhs to a church paper, \"Your last issue referring to the Komagata Maru incident, says: 'Gurdit Singh can now write: Veni, vidi, non vici—almost Cæsar.' Permit me to say that it is a deep and disturbing conviction that he can quote Cæsar exactly. He got what he wanted. Those whom he cared represented nothing for the poor men who hoped to enter the fair Dominion. But they did want to force Canada to a clearly defined position.\n\nThus far Canada has contented herself with indirect methods of exclusion. None of the three Orders-in-Council which discriminate against the Hindu mention him. But they accomplish the work of exclusion just the same. Now, however, Canada has come out plainly with troops and warship. The time-expired soldiers in the ship's company were given indisputable evidence of the lengths Canada would go to keep them out. Why tarry longer. He got what he came for. Imperial and Christian considerations alike should have made this affair impossible. But there was dominant the little Canada spirit. It is splendid now, to come to the aid of the Motherland. Our brave men and our ship loads of flour mean much in this hour of need. But it would mean vastly more to the Empire if the Komagata Maru incident could be obliterated. Instead, it is a living, growing, disintegrating force.\n\n\"But they (the Hindus) are declared undesirable—a cruelly suggestive description, because positive, yet vague. It seems strange that the Government of British Columbia is... \n## Page 8\n## Page 9 \n620",
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"content_text": "## \n\nat what rates he does not know.\n\nI merely wish to raise the question again.\n\nChing...\n\nCause...\n\nWe ought perhaps to give the Colonial Government time to make further representations if they want to.\n\n(The Afton 22514 is in accordance with the later minutes?)\n\n19/4/16\n\nI think our veto should give reasons for our refusal of sanction. I have added to the draft accordingly.\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `T.N.37102/16`, and address letter to-- \n\nThe Secretary, Admiralty, Whitehall.\n\n(28549)\n\nAdmiralty, \n600 \n6 June 1916. \nLondon, N.W.\n\n**REC REG? 17 JUN 16**\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 22nd ultimo, `22814/1916`, forwarding a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, regarding a shortage in the coal supplies of that port, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to inform you that an Admiralty Collier is being allocated to make one trip with coal from Japan which will meet the actual Naval and Military requirements and also those of the Colonial Government for about three months.\n\nWith regard to the request of the Colonial Government for requisitioned transport for 25,000 tons to meet further Naval and Military requirements, and all the Colonial Government requirements with a considerable balance for industrial establishments, I am to state that My Lords have hitherto adopted the policy of requisitioning tonnage at cheap rates only for definite Naval and Military purposes, and they are therefore not prepared to requisition the `S.S. \"TELEMACHUS\"` and `\"MORESBY\"` for the purpose indicated.\n\nI am, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \nW. Graham Greene\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, Whitehall, S.W.",
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"content_text": "Any reply to this letter should be addressed to...\n\n**THE SECRETARY,**\n\n**TREASURY,**\n\nWHITEHALL, LONDON, S.W., and the following number quoted.\n\n4198/16\n\nSir,\n\n**TREASURY CHAMBERS.**\n\n47916. 32923\n\nWith reference to Sir H. Just's letter of the 12th February last (`6160/1916`), I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to transmit to you herewith, for the information of Mr. Secretary Bonar Law, three copies of a draft of an Order in Council regarding the defacing of Mexican dollars and Hong Kong Subsidiary Coinage.\n\nIf Mr. Bonar Law concurs in the draft, their Lordships will cause the necessary steps to be taken for the submission of the Order to His Majesty in Council.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nM. E. W. [possibly \"Muthadhung\" but likely an OCR error for a name like \"M.E.W.\"]\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nColonial Office.",
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"content_text": "fail to find a single opium-poppy. On arrival at Lungling, the consulate writer and I were entertained to a Chinese dinner-party in his yamên,\n\nThe discovery of only one solitary field of opium along the route between Nantien and Lungling must, I think, be taken as evidence of the strenuous efforts which have been made during the past few months to eradicate all traces of the prescribed plant; from one or two more talkative residents encountered en route I obtained admissions of a considerable recrudescence of cultivation during last year, but all agreed as to the thorough measures of suppression carried out since November last. In the T'engch'ung district, for instance, no less than three separate expeditions of eradication had been sent out, under territorial, military, and police officials respectively, and it is only just to place on record that their duties were performed in a very thorough manner.\n\nThe normal order of procedure was for my caravan, headed by the writer and myself, to take the lead, and for the Taoyin's more imposing party to bring up the rear. The 1st April was, however, appropriately celebrated by the failure of the Taoyin's party to keep touch with us at a parting of the ways, this added some 2 miles for them to the long and undulating road to Siangta. Thence to P'ingka is normally reckoned as a single though lengthy stage for caravans; at the Taoyin's request we split it into two, halting at the small hamlet of Huchiachal, 7,000 feet high, picturesquely situated in the midst of dense groves of bamboos. At Huchiachal we encountered our first rain, and thereafter we had not a single rainless day until the 19th April. From Pingka to Hankuai, high above the right bank of the Salween, with a magnificent view of the lofty mountains on the other side, was another long day's march.\n\nThe crossing of the Salween was a tedious business for so large a cavalcade; two bamboo rafts were provided, taking only some five mule-loads or ten men on each trip; the method of propulsion across the swift current was by a species of flat umbrella fashioned of stout bamboo; at each end of the craft an \"oarsman\" plied one of these cumbrous weapons by plunging it into the water and pulling it towards himself with powerful strokes.\n\nArrived at the left bank of the Salween, we were in the Chênk'ang district; and at the head of the very long and stiff ascent from the river we were met by the local magistrate, Tang Te-ch'uan, a pleasant elderly official, who travelled with us until we left his jurisdiction. Tê-tang, where his official residence is, was our third halt after crossing the Salween; this place was made memorable for me by a sufficiently unhappy experience. Somewhere about A.M. a gale of wind, accompanied by torrents of rain, brought my tent down over my head, and my slumbers to a beautifully abrupt close.\n\nThe town of Chênk'ang was reached next day. Formerly there was a Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Chenkung, but his downfall was brought about as the result of the Manchu viceroy, Hsi Liang's, policy for the gradual absorption of the Chinese Shan States into direct Chinese administration; and save for a few picturesque ruins of the Sawbwa's palace, the place is now shorn of any pomp and circumstance it may have once possessed.\n\nTwelve days' travel, although for the most part along comparatively unfrequented routes, had now disclosed but one solitary field of opium-poppy, and I therefore decided on a somewhat rash experiment. None of the four maps of Yunnan which I took with me gave any indication of a road from Chênk'ang to Mienning, the next district town on my list, and the recognised routes between these two places are circuitous in the extreme, passing through either Shunning or Yünchow. I ascertained, however, that a road practicable for chairs existed, and elected to attempt it. Fortunately, by this time the Tengyueh Taoyin had resigned himself to accepting my lead, or he would almost certainly have protested. For five days we followed the roughest of mountain paths, which had in many places to be prepared overnight for our transit by the felling of trees and clearing of jungle. At none of the intermediate halts, Pank'a, Maulung, Hup'o, and Manlai, we were assured, had a white traveller ever been seen, and I cannot recommend my example as one to be lightly followed. The only camping-ground to be found at Manlai was on a wind-swept spur projecting out of a deep ravine, and once again a sudden hurricane brought my tent crashing down.\n\nBelow Manlai our route crossed the Namting River by a ford which would obviously be impracticable during the heavier rains of midsummer. At the Namting we quitted the Chênk'ang district and entered the jurisdiction of the Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Kengma. During our six days of travel through Chenkang territory we had found no opium crops whatever, though I learnt that there had been a small harvest of the earliest sown poppy. The magistrate was said, however, to have been indefatigable in the work of eradication, and I was assured—not by himself—that since November of last year he had never been in residence at his post for five consecutive days.\n\nDuring our day and a-half through the jurisdiction of the Kengma Sawbwa we were escorted by his Shan-Chinese clerk, who was full of his recent visit to Rangoon and Lashio in attendance on his master. The road from the left or south-east bank of the Namting River was a terribly steep ascent for some 3,000 feet, which we negotiated in pouring rain; this was succeeded by a hair-raising path—with an average breadth of 14 inches at the most—for some 5 miles along the edge of a precipice. After the heavy rain the surface of red laterite was so treacherously slippery that I felt safer on my sure-footed Yunnan pony than on my own legs.\n\nOur next halt, the Shan village of Chepi, was on a route traversed more than twenty years ago by H. R. Davies, the standard authority on the province of Yunnan, and doubtless by other foreigners since; here for the first time I abandoned my tent, in favour of a comparatively clean temple.\n\nAt this point we were met by a guard of honour sent out to meet us by the P'uêrh Taoyin, who had arrived at Mienning, our pre-arranged meeting-place, on the 11th April. I owe the noisy but efficient commandant a debt of gratitude for his thorough arrangements for my comfort at each of our halting places throughout the Mienning district.\n\nFor several days in succession I had seen nothing whatever of the Tengyueh Taoyin; at Chêpi, however, much to my surprise, he rode over to call on me. The reason for the visit was only apparent when he propounded the astonishing request that as during seventeen days' travel in his circuit we had only found one field of opium-poppy, I would overlook it in my report to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires.\n\nOn my replying that, had we found one hundred I should be bound to report one hundred, and that I must equally report the one; he then suggested that I should add a rider that the field found was close to the scene of military operations against the offending Kachins. To this I rejoined that I had been over the country in question and he had not, and that I knew for a fact that the two places were at least two and a-half days' journey apart. Soon afterwards he took his leave, considerably crestfallen.\n\nApril 14th: Shortly after leaving Chêpi the road to Mienning makes a very steep ascent of some 3,000 feet, on to a lofty shoulder, the view from which on a clear day must be magnificent, embracing extensive country in the jurisdiction of Shunning and Kengma, in the Tengyueh circuit, and Mienning in the Puerh circuit. On an open bit of grass land just beyond a pillar marking the boundary, a large booth had been erected, and we were met by the Puerh Taoyin and the Mienning district magistrate, each of whom furnished a guard of honour. The Puerh Taoyin, Lu Pang-shun, a Kiangsu man aged 56, has held office for the past twenty-one years in Yunnan, and possesses a very thorough knowledge of the province. Two periods of service he has spent in Tengyueh, first as sub-prefect in Manchu times, and secondly as taotai under the Republic in 1913. The Mienning magistrate, Hsieh Yunan, has formerly held a billet in the War Office in Peking; he struck me as being unusually intelligent and capable.\n\nAt Pingyehhsün, where we halted for the night, the two Taoyins came over to call. From the first, Mr. Lu showed up very favourably beside his Tengyueh colleague, and displayed a friendly acquiescence in my suggestions with regard to our joint tour.\n\nThe following day we reached the ancient walled city of Mienning, inhabited by a mixed population of Chinese and Shans, while Lolos and natives of several other tribes inhabit the surrounding villages. On arrival at the city, we were escorted for a sort of Jericho-tour round the walls before being conducted to the old lieutenant-general's yamên, especially done up for the occasion, where ample quarters were provided for both Taoyins and their escorts, and a refreshingly clean and well-aired suite of rooms was set apart for me.\n\nMy caravan had now been on the move for nineteen consecutive days; men and animals had, I felt, well earned a rest, and I accepted without compunction the friendly invitation of Lu Taoyin and the magistrate to stop over one day in Mienning. The first night they entertained the Tengyueh Taoyin and myself at dinner; the next day they gave me a bathing-party picnic at a hot sulphur spring some 3 miles outside the town.\n\nFor the journey from Mienning to Szemao my first care was to ascertain the route followed by Lu Taoyin to the rendezvous; he had come, as I expected, by the most direct road through Chingku hsien (the modern name of Weiyuant'ing of Manchu times). I asked Mr. Lu point-blank whether he had seen any opium cultivation on his outward journey; he replied that a few isolated patches had been sown at the beginning of the season.\n\n[2729 -1]\n\n298",
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"content_text": "7\n\nseason, but that all had been uprooted by expeditions sent out in November and I see December, and there was no trace of any remaining when he came out.\n\nIt was no reason whatever to doubt this statement, but even if it was untrue, it was practically certain that there would not be a single plant left after his passing through; I therefore decided to take an entirely different road for our joint journey and selected the southern route via Poshang, the Tapeng ferry over the Mekong, Mengka, and Mengchu. This is a fairly well recognised, though little used, road, but I possess records of only isolated portions as having been previously traversed by British subjects.\n\nThe first two days' journey from Mienning via Poshang to Toukuo call for no special comment beyond the unusually good condition of the road-surface. Nature has so fashioned the province of Yunnan as to render it practically impossible for the road-builder to make the crooked straight; for some weeks prior to our passing through, however, human labour had done a great deal to make the rough places plain. In spite of pouring rain on the second day, we encountered no really serious obstacles.\n\nOn the 19th April, at the Taoyin's suggestion, we made a very early start in view of the formidable journey in front of us. After 6 miles of easy going, we reached the limits of the Mienning jurisdiction and bade farewell to the magistrate. No trace of opium poppy had we seen in his district, in which, as far as I could ascertain, he and his subordinates had carried out their suppression duties with exceptional thoroughness. The next 7 miles traversed a corner of what is now known as the Lants'ang (i.e., Mekong) district—formerly the sub-prefecture of Chênpien—and the going was very severe, though it must, in all fairness, be admitted that the country is extremely difficult, including a terrific descent for 3 miles through constantly subsiding red clay to the level of the River Mekong (2,750 feet). The crossing of the Mekong is effected in a single huge wooden boat with deep sides; mules and their loads are transported in this craft, the river-current being too swift to admit of the animals swimming across without danger. The ascent up the left or east bank of the Mekong is even more severe, and for 2 miles the ruling gradient is steeper than one in six. The consulate writer and I reached the halting-place about 2:20 P.M., followed about an hour later by the Taoyin and his party, who took up their quarters in a native hovel close to our selected camping site. Realising our discomfiture at the non-arrival of our mule-loads, Mr. Lu with friendly thoughtfulness sent us over a supply of tea and Australian biscuits, to which I at least did unhesitating justice. It was not till after sunset that the rest of my caravan turned up. At one of the steepest points of the descent to the Mekong the mule entrusted with my small but precious supply of glass and crockery had missed his footing and rolled headlong, load and all, for several hundred feet, and rescue had taken much time; further, heavy delay had been caused by the passage of the Mekong with but one unwieldy boat, to which the liveliest objection was displayed by most of the mules.\n\nTwo stages further, through pine-woods tenanted by peacocks and brilliant emerald-green parrots, brought us to the Chinese Shan town of Mêngka. At Tamotacho, the half-way halt, we came across a few families of Lahu race, said to be rapidly dying out in China. Given a plentiful supply of soap, water, and combs, the smaller children could, I am convinced, be made into strikingly pretty little gipsies.\n\nShortly before reaching Mêngka we were met by the Chingku district magistrate, La Kuang-shih, a Kuangsi man, who accompanied us so long as we continued in his extensive jurisdiction. Mêngka, the residence of a Shan Sawbwa, possesses also large temples and two monasteries in the Burmese Shan style; one in particular, over 200 years old, must have been very fine in bygone days.\n\nAt Liutsungt'eu'n, our halt mid-way between Mêngka and Mengchu, the Chinese Shan Sawbwa of the latter place, and Meng'an came over to pay his respects; both the excellence of his Chinese and his appearance gave the lie, I fancied, to his boasted pure Shan parentage. Mêng'an is one of the old Shan towns whence the original inhabitants have been practically ousted by the more thriving Chinese. Here, I was given fairly decent quarters in the temple of the god of war, now converted into a school, the discipline of which struck me as unusually good; the very natural curiosity at the arrival in their midst of the first white man ever beheld by any of the ninety scholars was never allowed to exceed the bounds of politeness.\n\nOn the 25th April, two days after leaving Mêngchu, we crossed the River Weiyuan (or Chingku, as it is now gradually becoming known) at Patieh. At this season of the year the stream is just fordable here: I managed, however, to find a place not much higher up where a swim proved welcomely refreshing. The next halt bore the ill-omened name of Ch'ou-Shui (\"Stinking Water\"), but I have stayed at many places in Yunnan where the water supply has been even worse. Two days later, after passing a few villages inhabited by natives of the strikingly handsome Puman race, we entered the Szemao district and were met by the local magistrate, Hsieh Shih; the following day, the 28th April, we arrived at Szemao, where spacious quarters were provided for me adjoining the Taoyin's Yamên. The Taoyin and magistrate pressed me to stay a week in Szemao; I consented to two days, but on the second day Mr. Lu urged that he still had important business to transact, and I could hardly refuse his request that we should postpone our departure for one more day. Both he and the magistrate were most hospitable during my stay, celebrated by two Chinese dinner-parties and a picnic.\n\nPrevious to my departure for Tengyuen, I had written to the commissioner of Szemao Customs, soliciting his co-operation to obtain for me, if possible, information on the subject of opium in the area under his cognisance. With that request M. R. de Nully, the commissioner (French), very courteously complied; he informed me quite definitely that, as the result of several punitive expeditions during the past winter, there was, as far as he was aware, no more cultivation of opium in the Szemao district, and that while probably at least 30 per cent. of the adult population of the town, both male and female, still continued to consume the drug, the enormous rise in price bore out his contention.\n\nFrom Szemao northwards towards Tali three routes were open to me; that via Chingku (Weiyuan) was ruled out by the fact that it had already been traversed by Lu Taoyin on his journey to Mienning to meet me; on the north-eastern route, via Talang—the main road to Yunnan-fu according to all the information I could obtain, a considerable quantity of opium had been grown, and harvested, earlier in the season, but very thorough measures of eradication had been carried out some weeks previously; I therefore decided to take the more direct but less frequented route via P'uêrh, Hsinfu (in Chênyüan district) and Chingtung.\n\nLeaving Szemao on the 2nd May, some three hours of travel, including a stiff climb, brought us to the boundary of the Puerh district, where the local magistrate, Chou Ju-chao, awaited us; the Szemao magistrate, however, continued to accompany us till the town of Puerh was reached the next day; on this day's journey our route crossed a splendid Chinese arched stone bridge, in admirable preservation. At Puerh, an old walled city with relics of fine stone carving, I was again given most comfortable quarters; Mr. Chou also entertained the Taoyin, the Szemao magistrate, and myself at a lengthy Chinese dinner.\n\nAt Mabei, the next stage, I took the opportunity to pay a visit to the large and flourishing salt mines about a mile and a half away. Dr. Kelly, the American representative of the Chinese Salt Administration, who had arrived about two months previously, was away on tour, but his English-speaking Chinese colleague very kindly demonstrated to me all the processes of Chinese salt extraction.\n\nThe next four stages, via Mop'o, Maupieh and Manlien, to Hsin-fu, call for little comment save for the extreme beauty of the scenery; on all sides rose range after range of pine-clad hills, mostly well-wooded to their summits; the valleys were, however, parched and bare, and travelling along the lower levels was excessively hot. Our route crossed the eastern section of the Chênyüan district, and midway during the third stage we were joined by the magistrate, Mo Yu-ju, a scholarly man of considerable charm of manner, with whom my relations during our five days of joint travel were exceedingly cordial, and from whom I parted with really genuine regret.\n\nThe only record in my possession of a route between Hsinfu and Chingtung dated from 1881, when the journey was made by a British traveller; our route, however, was almost entirely different from his, and we spent but five days on the distance which had taken him six. For the last three days we were accompanied by the Chingtung magistrate, Ming Fao-ch'ien, who came out to meet us. The surroundings of Chingtung breathe of ancient history; the last 5 miles of the road could hardly have been repaired for centuries, while of the city-wall nothing now remains save one single gate; peacocks strutting unmolested in the main street seemed likewise aloof from modernity. The magistrate's yamên was woefully dilapidated, and I was well housed by comparison in the newly built Szech'uan Guild premises. From Szemao we had travelled for twelve days on end, mostly in great heat, and a halt of one day was amply justified. For me it spelled the inevitable Chinese dinner-party, as the guest of the district magistrate.\n\nThis latter official was also among the number of those who have displayed special energies in the matter of opium suppression; practically every town and hamlet which\n\n299",
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"content_text": "Own account.\n\n50\n\nA noteworthy feature of German competition in the Philippines has been the enterprise shown by young Germans of late years in commencing business on their own account. Whereas several such houses have begun trading in the past few years, I cannot trace a similar British house. This fact is probably due to the more liberal facilities accorded to them by the manufacturers and banks in their own country than has been the case in Great Britain. Credit must, however, be given for their undoubted industry and energy, and for the fact that many of them start, on the whole, better equipped with a sound commercial education than do their British contemporaries, who acquire their special knowledge haphazard in the service of established firms rather than in the schools.\n\nJapanese Competition.-The principal items of import from Japan in 1913 were:-\n\n£\n£\n\nCoal\n160,000 (210,000 in 1914)\n\nCement\n5,000 (25,000 in 1914)\n\nCotton Yarns, Grey\n11,000 (47,000 in 1914)\n\nCotton Cloth, bleached\n26,000\n14,000 in 1914\n\ndyed\n5,000 (11,000 in 1914)\n\nmercerised\n21,000 (30,000 in 1914)\n\nall other Wearing Apparel\n22,000\n\n21,000\n\n1,000\n\n60,000\n\nSince the outbreak of war, however, Japanese competition, particularly in textiles, has become more acute, and is being severely felt in underwear, umbrellas, yarns (40's), Turkey red cloths and other goods.\n\nJapanese shipping is only surpassed in total number of vessels and tonnage by the British. In 1914, of all shipping entered and cleared at Manila, the Japanese flag was flown on 132 vessels of a total net tonnage of 422,265. (British shipping for the same period-350 vessels, and 822,648 tons.)\n\nThe Mitsui Bussan Kaisha are established at Manila, and handle a steadily increasing import and export trade. The reason for the relative increase in imports from Japan may be explained in a sentence: cheap labour and geographical position.\n\nJapanese competition is undoubtedly increasing in severity, but it will be seen from the figures that it is not as yet really serious, and has not so far adversely affected local British interests to any appreciable extent.\n\nAmerican Competition. As we have seen, the United States supplies the major portion of the articles imported into the islands, a state of affairs entirely brought about by the Customs preference. I am informed that as the Philippines Government usually finds difficulty in raising revenue, it is possible that at some future time a small duty may be imposed on goods from the United States, but there is little hope that, in any event, foreign goods will be allowed to enter on the same terms as those from the United States so long as a virtual protectorate over the islands is continued.\n\nIn the local competition among merchants, American houses have not made the headway that might have been expected. Messrs. Macleod & Co. are strong competitors in hemp shipments, and transact a shipping agency business. Messrs. Macondray & Co. (in which there are British interests) do a considerable shipping and import trade. The American Trading Co., and several other smaller United States firms, are moderately active, particularly as regards engineering and hardware.\n\nBritish merchants, however, with their old-established connections and trade marks, and their strong financial position, are successfully maintaining their hold on the bulk trade.\n\nPage 51\n\nGeneral Methods of Business. The distribution of merchandise in the interior and throughout the islands is almost entirely in the hands of Chinese, who also act as merchants and brokers for the sale of produce to foreign exporters. Each foreign house in Manila, and elsewhere, employs a Chinese compradore for the transaction of its business, and he usually guarantees the accounts.\n\nThe usual credit terms granted by British houses on imported goods is from one to two months clear, and interest at the rate of 5-7 per cent. is charged after the expiry of this term. German firms frequently give 4-6 months credit, handing over the goods against promissory notes. Produce for export is paid for in cash upon delivery and after inspection, and this system has been found to work satisfactorily. In some cases advances are made, but this is not really necessary, and the custom is pernicious.\n\nShipping Facilities. In normal pre-war times direct shipping services were maintained between the United Kingdom and Philippine ports (Manila and Iloilo) by the Cia. Transatlantica and by Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co. The former line loaded at Liverpool and Glasgow, and called en route at Spanish ports and Singapore. This service has been suspended. The Blue Funnel steamers (Alfred Holt & Co.) load also at Glasgow and Birkenhead, and call at Penang and Singapore, but direct shipment has been suspended since the war, and cargo for the Philippines is transhipped at Hong Kong. Goods can also be shipped from London by the P. & O., Glen, Shire, and Nippon Yusen Kaisha lines with transhipment at Hong Kong, and occasionally a steamer loads at Middlesboro', taking Philippines cargo as far as Hong Kong. All these lines are members of the Eastern Shipping Conference, and a very efficient service was maintained.\n\nThe Trans-Pacific trade, prior to the war, was largely in the hands of the Pacific Mail S.S. Co., the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The first-named company has now withdrawn its service owing to the operation of the La Follette Seaman's Bill, according to the terms of which 75 per cent. of the seamen on vessels entering United States ports must understand the language of their officers. This greatly-criticised measure has given a direct premium to Japanese shipping, which now largely predominates on the Pacific. In June 1914 the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company made Manila a port of call for its \"Empress\" boats on the outward voyage from Vancouver to Hong Kong, and this service will be fully maintained after the war. Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co. operated a service between Manila, Seattle and Puget Sound ports, and trans-Pacific connections were also maintained by steamers of the Barber, Dodwell, and Bank lines.\n\nIn 1914 an arrangement was made whereby three steamship companies, viz., the Ocean Steamship Co. (Alfred Holt & Co.) and two Dutch companies-Rotterdam Lloyd and the Netherlands-will in turn send one ship a month from New York via the Suez Canal, making Manila its terminus point after calling at Batavia and Macassar, and calling at Batavia, Colombo, and Gibraltar on the return voyage. The Indra line also run regular services from New York to the Far East via Suez.\n\nA very good local service between Manila and Hong Kong is maintained by the China Navigation Co. (Messrs. Butterfield and Swire), the Indo-China S.S. Co. (Messrs. Jardine, Mathieson, & Co., Ltd.), and numerous Japanese steamers.\n\nThe share of the principal flags engaged in the foreign trade of the islands will be seen from the following figures abstracted from the Consular Report, and showing the vessels cleared at Manila during 1913 and 1914-\n\nNationality\nVessels. 1913\nNet Tonnage\nVessels. 1914\nNet Tonnage\n\nBritish\n359\n827,246\n360\n822,648\n\nUnited States\n29\n204,582\n27\n193,049\n\nDanish\n10\n\n8\n997\n\nFrench\n81\n250,321\n61\n191,847\n\nGerman\n133\n402,496\n182\n422,265\n\nJapanese\n\n+\n5,117\n\nNorwegian\n8\n16,220\n45\n60,961\n\nPhilippine\n37\n$1,700\n\nt\n\nPortuguese\n1\n995\n207\n\nRussian\n13\n32,558\n12\n28,355\n\nSpanish\n2\n6,882\n2\n4,645\n\nSwedish\n\n669\n\nTotal\n1,791,203\n\n631\n1,721,931\n\nNOTE.-Coastwise vessels are not included in the foregoing table, only those entering and clearing Manila direct in foreign trade being mentioned here. The others appear in the Cebu and Iloilo returns according as they called at either of these ports before or after Manila.\n\nInterned German Shipping. Twenty-five German vessels entered Manila Harbour for safety after August 5th, 1914, of which seven put to sea again, but three ...",
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"content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[237294]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n181\n\n[December 15.]\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\n### Treasury to Foreign Office.—(Received December 15.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nTreasury Chambers, December 14, 1917.\n\n**THE** Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have had under consideration your letter of the 8th instant, with enclosures, relative to the projected issue to the Chinese Government of a **Second Reorganisation Loan**.\n\nWhile realising the political issues involved in this question, my Lords cannot view with favour the participation of British banks, either on their own or American account, at a time when the Eastern exchanges are so unfavourable to this country. They do not understand why it should not be possible to arrange within the time available, for the participation of American banks on their own account, and I am to suggest that representations should be made to Mr. Page in this sense. Should nominal participation on the part of the British group be desired by the United States Government for political reasons, I am to suggest that Mr. Page should be informed that, if it can be arranged that the funds required are advanced for a period at least covering the period of the war to that group by the American banks, the consent of the British banks to participate on such terms could doubtless be obtained.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**JOHN BRADBURY**\n\n[2753 -1] \n\n## [Previous Document]\n\nThe meeting then adjourned.\n\n**C. S. AUDIS, Chairman.**\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**CHINESE LOANS AND CONCESSIONS.**\n\nwould also be prepared, if desired, to carry the American share of the advance for a period not exceeding three months.\n\nThe participation of the British group would be conditional upon the sanction of His Majesty's Treasury having first been obtained for the immediate advance, for the Supplementary Chinese Reorganisation Loan, and for permission to issue and deal in the relative Chinese Treasury bills and loan bonds.",
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"content_text": "No.553/17, I am directed by the Postmaster General to inform you in confirmation of the telegram from this Office of the 8th instant, that a gratuity of £375 may be paid to the widow and children of the late Mr. Tong Ching Shing of the Shanghai Post Office.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury in authorizing this payment state that they will be unable to make a similar concession in future and that arrangements should therefore be made for compulsory contributions to the Fund in the case of all officers who are eligible to contribute and have not yet done so.\n\nIn this connexion I am to refer to the letter from this Office of the 30th of July last.\n\nI am,\nsir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nThe Postmaster General (Sgd) F.H.Williamson.\n\nHONG KONG.\nRegister No.G.P.O.\n1758/18\n\nsir,\nGENERAL POST OFFICE,\nHONGKONG,\n18th March 1918.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letters No. 125221 of the 30th July and No. 125321/17 of the 13th September, but awaited replying thereto until I had received an answer to my predecessor's letter No. 55/1917 of the 13th January 1917 in which he made certain proposals with regard to the staff.\n\nC.O. 91 25517\nREC REG 27 MAY 18\n\nNo reply has been received to this communication so I now beg to state that subordinate officers in the Agencies fall into three categories. There are clerks, for example, in the Chefoo Agency who are the employees of the Agent, who is paid a lump sum for his services. These clerks are in no way under my authority and I do not in fact know their names. They can be dismissed at pleasure by Mr. Clarke and have no claim whatever on postal funds.\n\nThere are clerks who have joined the Agencies since the transfer of the Agencies to the General Post Office London, and these clerks have been appointed on the understanding that they occupy unestablished positions.\n\nThere are clerks who joined the Agency Staffs before the transfer of the Agencies and of these clerks four only (one of whom has since retired) elected to continue to subscribe to the Widows and Orphans Fund. All clerks, however, who were in the Agencies before the transfer are entitled to pension.\n\nIt is impossible to make arrangements as suggested by the Lords Commissioners of H.M.Treasury for compulsory contributions to the Hong Kong Widows and Orphans Fund in the case of officers who have joined the Agencies since the transfer from Hong Kong.\n\nUnder the Hong Kong Widows' and Orphans' Ordinance an \"officer\" means a person permanently employed in the service of the Hong Kong Government. Clerks appointed to the Agencies since...",
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"content_text": "the Act of 1812. It was contended that in the interests of justice (in the popular sense) the possession of the Crown must be \"deemed\" to be acquired under the Act of 1812. The Suppliants might have raised this contention, relevantly if erroneously, upon a motion for a writ of mandamus to the Army Council to take the necessary proceedings for an assessment of compensation, but I believe there is no authority for holding that in the absence of such proceedings as of an award of compensation thereunder, there is any debt due from the Crown to the Suppliants which one of His Majesty's judges can direct to be paid out of the Exchequer. To say that the Ministers of the Crown must be \"deemed\" to have proceeded under the Act and that a liability results as matter of law, is to set up a ground of claim founded upon a legal fiction. As between subjects this is permissible. As between subjects and the Crown the rule seems to apply which was laid down by the unanimous decision of the judges in Sheffield v. Ratcliffe in 1616 (Hobart, 339; Jenkins, 287) that the King is not bound by legal fictions.\n\nThe decision of this Court in the Shoreham case is, I think, opposed to all the contentions of the Suppliants under the Acts of 1842 and 1914.\n\nTo dispose of one remaining question in the case, it is necessary to consider whether, if the Suppliants had rights and no effective remedy, under their main contentions, and could maintain a claim analogous to that which arises between subject and subject in respect of a breach of statutory duty which causes damage. Examination of the authorities upon actions on the case (see Edgcombe v. Dee, Vaughan, 101; Miller v. Taylor, Todd's Practice, 6th Edition, page 963; Todd's forms, 6th Edition, page 379), show that such a claim is a pure claim for damages for a wrong, and could not be maintained against the Crown.\n\nOn the whole, I am of opinion that the case of the Crown is made out, that the Suppliants have not the rights for which they contend, and that if they had in fact had the grievance complained of under the Defence Act, 1842, there is no jurisdiction in any judge to redress it by a judgment on a Petition of Right.\n\nI sincerely regret the difference of opinion which has obliged me to deal at length with a subject of much complexity and, as I think, of great importance with regard to national defence and to the relative rights of subject and the Crown.\n\nSir JOHN SIMON: Then, my Lords, the Appeal will be allowed with costs. As regards the form of the declaration, I do not quite follow what your Lordship means by referring to the Petition of Rights Act. Do I understand that the relief referred to in the declaration will be limited to Head No. 4 of the Petition of Right?\n\nThe MASTER OF THE ROLLS: Yes. The form will be: The Judgment appealed from is reversed and the Appeal is allowed; Judgment entered in favour of the Suppliants, that they are entitled to the relief sought by paragraph 4 of the claim made by their petition.\n\nSir JOHN SIMON: I think I ought to point this out and your Lordships will decide. Apart altogether from the rent for use and occupation in the narrow sense, there is arising, of course, a very serious claim for compensation in connection with the re-instatement of the premises. They have all been pulled down. I want to be sure whether your Lordships' declaration is intended to cover that or is not intended to cover that.\n\nThe MASTER OF THE ROLLS: It is only intended to cover a fair rent for use and occupation. What circumstances are to be taken into account in arriving at that is a matter on which we do not at the moment pronounce any opinion. Of course, the Judgment will have to be in accordance with the provisions of Section 9. You will be entitled to the costs in the Court below and in this Court, and any costs paid under the Judgments in the Court below will be returned.\n\nSir JOHN SIMON: Yes. There are just two other matters which are matters of costs, which I wish to mention. First of all, on the subject of these searches, your Lordships will remember that the book which has been so much used is in itself only a residuum of a much larger search, but before any search was undertaken by the Crown there had been an expensive, and I think a very fruitful, investigation made by those instructing me. It was all preliminary to what was subsequently done and when, at a later stage, your Lordships directed that the search should be made with the help of the Crown Officers, the first thing they did was to apply to us for our results up to date, and I cannot doubt that has been of great assistance to them. I should like to have a direction that the costs which were incurred in that preliminary search on our part should be included in our costs here.\n\nThe MASTER OF THE ROLLS: What is the other point?\n\nSir JOHN SIMON: The other point is this. I do not know what your Lordships think of it, but do your Lordships think that, having regard to the material which had to be used here, it was in the circumstances reasonable, and, indeed, only proper, that three counsel should have been employed by the Suppliants? We are fighting here a battle which covers a good many people's cases, and there has been a very great deal of matter which has been gone through by my learned friends as distinguished from the argument that has been presented here, and I ask your Lordships to say this is a proper case for three counsel. Of course, the Crown had a large number of counsel. Those are the two points I wanted to mention to your Lordships.\n\nThe MASTER OF THE ROLLS: What do you say, Mr. Austen-Cartmell?\n\nMr. AUSTEN-CARTMELL: With regard to the costs of the searches, my impression is that, to a certain extent, the search that was made prior to the Crown's search was of assistance to the Crown, that is to say, the searches put Mr. Boyd, our Record Agent, on a certain track, but a great deal of the work had to be done over again, and would have had to be done anyhow. Does your Lordship see your way to making an order in this form, that my friend's clients should be allowed the costs of such searches as were utilised for the service of the Crown in making its search?\n\nThe MASTER OF THE ROLLS: Suppose you put it this way--which was of any use either to the Crown or to your opponents?\n\nMr. AUSTEN-CARTMELL: I do not mean of use at the trial or which supported the case at the trial, but I mean what was useful to the Crown in actually arriving at the document they put in.\n\nThe MASTER OF THE ROLLS: Will not the proper plan be this, not to give a direction that these costs should be taxed item by item in the ordinary way of a taxation, but that the costs of the preliminary search are to be allowed and taken into consideration by the taxing master in the item of \"Instructions for Brief.\"\n\nMr. AUSTEN-CARTMELL: If your Lordship pleases.\n\nThe MASTER OF THE ROLLS: Then he will allow such a sum as he may think proper. Of course, to justify the allowance and to show what the Suppliants claim to be entitled to, they will have to bring in items before the Taxing Master.\n\nPage 361\n\n24\n\n25",
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"content_text": "If extort my \n\ndefinitive \n\nthe after and land \n\nthough \n\npremium on dollar in to story. \n\nTo Tyas in d.b. \n\nIhr Bee bott \n\nstill \n\nroughlier \n\n7/1/20 Stran \n\nshould for be reminded yet? \n\n114/4/20 \n\nyes kom \n\n14/4/20 \n\nReply to this letter should be addressed to— **THE SECRETARY, \nTREASURY, \nWHITEHALL, LONDON, S.W. 1,**\n\n| with the following number quoted, |\n| ------------------------------- |\n| 51048 |\n| 19 |\n\nSir, \n\n**TREASURY CHAMBERS.** \n360 \nJany, 1920. \n034 \nW 201 \n\nI have laid before the Lords Commissioners of \nHis Majesty's Treasury Mr. Grindle's letter of the 27th November last (`93965/19`) and its enclosure relative to the subsidiary coinage of Hong Kong. \n\nIt appears from Mr. Severn's despatch that the prohibition of export has, to a large extent, checked the loss resulting from the export to China and in these circumstances My Lords agree that no immediate steps are needed, particularly in view of the practical difficulties of recoinage. \n\nMy Lords think, however, it would be well to consider whether it might not be desirable either to reduce the fineness of the Hong Kong 20, 10, and 5 cent pieces in the near future to say 500 or to replace them all three by nickel coins. While it may be \nthat silver bullion will not remain at its present high \nprice it seems unlikely to fall to anything like pre-war \nprices \n\n**Secretary of State, \nColonial Office.**",
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"content_text": "# THE GOAJIRA PENINSULA.\n\n## Rio Hacha\n\nThe town has no water supply, but an aqueduct to bring water from the river Calancala to the town is being constructed by private enterprise.\n\nIn spite of the difficulties of shipping, Rio Hacha is a busy trading and commercial centre.\n\n## Maguey Fibre.\n\nWhile at Rio Hacha preparing for a journey to the Goajira peninsula, I made short excursions in the neighbourhood. On one of these, along the old eastern road to Padilla, I was agreeably surprised to find extensive areas covered with fibre-yielding Furcraeas, known locally as Maguey. In fact, so abundant are these plants, that the areas covered may appropriately be described as nature-sown plantations. The fibre is utilized by the Indians for making their hammocks, and is of finer quality than the fique of the interior. The Furcraea has been identified as **F. macrophylla, Baker**, and as far as is at present known fibre has not been produced commercially from this species. In the question of the quality Mr. Lyster Dewey, the Fibre Expert of the United States Department of Agriculture, writes to me as follows: \"Some specimens of fibre of Furcraea macrophylla which we have cleaned by hand from leaves received here at this Department indicate that the fibre is finer, whiter, and softer than that of either the true sisal of the Bahamas or the henequen of Yucatan.\"\n\nThe possibility of developing a new and important fibre industry in this neighbourhood appears to me exceedingly favourable. The lands in the region of the Calancala river, excepting parts which are subject to being flooded in the rainy seasons, are on the whole suitable for fibre cultivation; the best proof of this being the existence of these Furcraeas in a state of nature over large areas. The situation of these lands is also favourable, being within seven or eight kilometers of the township of Rio Hacha. The lands are almost level, or only slightly undulating, and therefore adapted for rail transport for the conveyance of the leaves to the factory. The special recommendation of this locality for a fibre proposition lies in the fact that there is an abundant supply of leaves ready for cutting, so that a decorticator could be installed and extraction commence at once, instead of having to wait three years for the plantations to come into bearing as is the case with sisal. While existing sources of fibre are being exploited, however, plantations should be laid down so as to provide a continuous supply of leaves. Another feature of this proposition is that cheap Indian labour can be employed; the local Indians can at present be obtained for a handful of maize per day, but a just wage or suitable payment would doubtless secure permanent and adequate labour. The only doubtful point in the question of plantations is the irregularity of the rainfall, but as these Furcraeas thrive under natural conditions, it is not unreasonable to presume that their cultivation would likewise be successful. This locality has the advantage that the necessary machinery can be established on the banks of the Calancala river, where adequate water is, I am informed, always available.\n\n## Aloe Extract.\n\nWhile at Rio Hacha I also visited an Aloe plantation, the property of Señor Moises C. Henriques. The extract is prepared on the plantation and exported. The quantity exported in 1915 was 253 kilos, and the first six months of 1916 460 kilos. This industry is therefore in its infancy, being new to the locality though the plants are found wild in the district. The Aloe plant requires a dry soil, and the leaves are ripe for the extraction of aloes in the dry season when they assume a coloured hue. Aloes is a well-known domestic drug in Colombia, plants being grown in almost every garden in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the country, and they are also found for sale in most markets.\n\n## The Church at Rio Hacha\n\n8\n\n## Rio Hacha to Tucaraca by Sea.\n\nI had intended leaving from Rio Hacha overland on an excursion through the Goajira peninsula, but I was advised to proceed by sea to Tucaraca on the Coast, where transport animals were said to be more easily procured, and commence the journey from that point. We therefore left for Tucaraca on October 6th at 8 p.m. in a cayuco or dug-out canoe. We sailed when possible, and when there was no wind we were towed by Indians from the beach, my first experience of this novel means of sea transport. At 2 a.m. on the morning of the 8th we reached Tucaraca, and spent the rest of the night on the beach. At daybreak we proceeded to the settlement of Tucaraca and occupied the rest of the day in arranging animals for the journey.\n\n## Tucaraca to Carraipia.\n\nOn the 9th we set out from Tucaraca for Carraipia, our party consisting of Señores Cornelissen, Gomes, Palacio (the guide), Higuera, Rodrigues, and two Indians. Our transport consisted of six saddle horses and six donkeys. The Indians took care of the latter and replaced the loads when they fell off, which occurrences were so frequent that I wonder anything is left of my equipment undamaged. We rode on ahead of our donkeys, and after five hours' good riding we reached Malace, an Indian settlement, some thirty miles from Tucaraca. The cacique or chief of Malace, whose adopted name is Federico Peñaflor (it being improper to recognize or call the Goajirans by their proper names, much less to refer to a departed chief by name, or to use his name) received us kindly, but it was not long before he began to inquire for cigars and tobacco and then for bigger things. Fortunately for me, however, for the first night his scope for appropriation was limited, since we had nothing but our guns and what we carried in our saddle bags, for the donkeys did not reach Malace with our loads until late in the morning of the next day. In writing up my notes that evening the cacique was very curious to know what I had written, and I was commanded to read it out to him. I therefore read into the notes complimentary remarks about the chief, and this so flattered and pleased the old man that I was commanded to reread it to him several times. He then regaled us liberally with cheese and milk, and we passed the night in hammocks under the shelter of a tree.\n\n### The Covetous Cacique.\n\nOn the arrival of our donkeys the next day, the cacique soon became busy to ascertain what he could appropriate. A brand new machete caught his envious eye and was taken off to his rancho with forced consent. He then brought forward an old battered hurricane lamp which he suggested he should exchange for a new one of mine, but being my only lamp he was unsuccessful. He then tried on my samaras and suggested that I had evidently brought these especially for him since they fitted him so nicely, the suggestion, however, that a cow would be a good exchange left them in my hands! He now escorted me off arm in arm, ostensibly to view his large herds of cattle, but really to communicate his desires to me, amongst which was an intimation that he wanted so many blocks of tobacco; this I was to give him quietly in the privacy of his rancho and not in the presence of other Indians!\n\nIt had been arranged at Tucaraca that we were to change our horses at Malace, and a family connection of the cacique had accompanied us to Malace for this purpose. The day was passing and I found that no attempt was being made to replace our horses, and on inquiry, I was told that there were none available, when just at that moment we saw at least two hundred gallop past. Presently a horse with a large saddle wound was brought up and offered me for sale; evidently the object of the delay was to sell me animals. As I had hired horses, and moreover had paid in advance for their hire up to Rio Hacha, I was naturally incensed at this suggestion, and requested that the agreed exchange should be effected without delay. After some discussion the animals were exchanged, and next morning we proceeded on our way to Carraipia, arriving there together with the donkeys at dusk, having had to increase our number of Indians and donkeys at Malace.\n\n## An Indian Youth of Goajira\n\n2\n\n123",
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"content_text": "# The Lost Track.\n\nFrom Carraipia we decided to proceed to the Sierra de la Teta, and about noon on the following day sent off our loads in advance, being assured by our guide that it was impossible to mistake the route. Before proceeding we ourselves visited the river Carraipia, which lies twenty-five minutes from the collection of huts known by that name. About an hour later we proceeded on the trail of the donkeys, but after travelling until 7 p.m. and not having overtaken them we concluded that they had taken another route and were some distance behind. We were therefore obliged to spend the night on the open sabanas without dinner and without water to drink save brackish water. We laid down with our saddles for pillows, but the millions of mosquitos made sleep impossible, and their attentions were only varied by downpours of rain. At daybreak we set out, sodden to the skin, with wet saddles and an inward emptiness, in search of our donkeys. At about 8 o'clock we reached a rancheria where we found they had passed the night, and galloping on their trail we shortly overtook them, when we breakfasted.\n\n## Toroira to Tucaraca.\n\nWe then proceeded to Toroira, a large rancheria which we reached early in the afternoon. Our guide lost no time in informing us that we could not proceed till mid-day in the morrow, as we had to replace a horse and obtain further donkeys. It had become apparent that a great mistake had been made in the purchase of donkeys for transport, and that it was quite impossible to continue the journey to Sierra de la Teta or to return overland to Rio Hacha with the same animals. Consequently I decided to return to Rio Hacha via Tucaraca by sea. We therefore left Toroira about mid-day, and travelled throughout that afternoon through heavy clay land covered with Cactus and Opuntias. As there was no pasture in this type of country we were obliged to continue until reaching a sabana, which we did at dusk. Before, however, we could erect our tent rain poured in torrents, and the ground within the tent became a mud pool where nine of us spent the night huddled together with saddles and boxes as best we could. In the morning we left for Tucaraca reaching there about 2 p.m., and the same night left in a cayuco for Rio Hacha, arriving there at 1 p.m. the next day.\n\n## Impressions of the First Journey in Goajira.\n\nArduous and difficult as our journey across the peninsula proved to be, it was to me a journey of considerable interest; for I feel convinced that here is a country which might, with the liberal assistance of the Government in the way of communications, wells and irrigation, well become an important cattle country. The northwestern part along the Coast consists of sandy lands where grows the divi-divi tree (*Caesalpinia coriaria*, Willd), a tree which affords one of the principal exports of the country. This type of country alternates with heavy clay lands, where grows little but Cactus trees, the undergrowth being principally prickly Opuntias.\n\nHere and there are pantanos or swampy lands covered with various Leguminosae or aquatic plants. In the centre of the peninsula are extensive sabanas, now (October) beautifully covered with fine short grass (*Aristida setifolia*, H.B. & K.) affording abundant and sweet pasture, but alas in the dry season almost desert lands. In the southeastern parts the character of the vegetation alters, and towards the mountains becomes more and more luxuriant, and gives evidence of a richer soil and more abundant rainfall. As we were nearing Carraipia, I was surprised to come across extensive areas covered with guinea grass. In fact, I first asked the guide who possessed potreros in this region, as I observed guazimo (*Guazuma ulmifolia*, D.C.) and hobo trees (*Spondias* sp.) for shade, reminding one of the artificial potreros of Tolima. The grass, evidently at first imported by the Spaniards, has become naturally established over wide areas. In our journey from Carraipia towards the Sierra de la Teta, we passed through ten miles of guinea grass, naturally established potreros; but I am informed that there are extensions of eight leagues or more covered with this grass. There are therefore many thousands of hectares of naturally established pastures which are not at present utilized. When the packing-house propositions now under consideration mature, may not these regions become an important feeding ground for such an establishment? Here are extensive areas of pasture ready for cattle ranching on a large scale, where it is not necessary to go through the costly process of felling forest to plant pastures, and where, on the sabanas, there are no ticks.\n\n## A Second Journey Through the Peninsula of Goajira.\n\nDisappointed with the result of the first journey in Goajira owing to bad transport organization, and impressed with the agricultural possibilities of the peninsula, I determined to make a second journey direct from Rio Hacha, and if possible traverse the entire length of the peninsula before proceeding to the Province of Padilla. Owing to the existence in the interior parts of Goajira of hostile Indians, of whom there are armed gangs of bandits wandering on the main routes, who do not hesitate to attack, rob and even murder small parties; it is essential to travel armed and with suitable escort. I accordingly set to work to find an escort, and through the kind offices of Señores Dr. M. Alvarez I and General Agustin Beruier, I was introduced to Señor Colonel R. Morales, a gentleman well known to the Indians who very kindly offered to accompany me. We therefore set out for the second time on November 1st, the party consisting of Señores Colonel Morales, Caballero (the owner of the transport animals), Campo and Frailes (transport assistants), Rodrigues (servant) and myself. All of us were, of course, mounted and armed; and we took four pack animals to convey our tent and equipment, taking good care to leave all the donkeys behind. On leaving Rio Hacha we were informed by the inhabitants that, owing to the exceptionally flooded state of the country, it was quite impossible to do this journey and that within a few days we should be seen back at Rio Hacha. Discouraging as these opinions were I was determined to make the Journey. We first had to cross the arm of the river Calancala at Rio Hacha in canoes; we then saddled and loaded our animals and started off towards the river Calancala, which we reached within an hour or so from starting. Here we had to cross the loads in a canoe, my companions first wading, then swimming and again wading with the animals across the river to the other side: a distance including the flooded area of not less than three hundred metres. We landed on the opposite side at the Orphanage of the Capuchinos, San Antonio, and after a delay of two hours in crossing we resaddled and reloaded our horses and proceeded on our way. The Rev. Padre Camillo of San Antonio was even less consoling than the inhabitants of Rio Hacha, and informed us that as no Indians had passed through for several days, the country must be impassable. After leaving the Orphanage we soon reached lagoons and flooded lands, and travelled through two and three feet of water, being only varied with short expanses of solid lands or heavy clay. At dusk we reached an Indian rancheria known as Guamachal where we camped the first night. Here lives an Indian lady known as Dionesia Duarte (Nicha) who is very wealthy, possessing about a thousand head of oxen, and a large number of horses, donkeys, sheep and goats. I was struck with the healthy and thriving condition of all the animals, with the exception of the goats which were suffering with foot-rot as the result of the wet condition of the lands.\n\nThe next morning we left Guamachal, the first part of this day's journey was through flooded clay lands of Cactus bush, but the latter part was through sandy lands covered with small spreading trees chiefly of the order Leguminosae. In certain parts I noted the dye-wood tree, known locally as Brasilete (*Haematoxylum brasileto*, Krst.) abundant. In the evening we reached a small rancherio known as Chimirang, and the Indians turned out their goats from a hut which they placed at our disposal. We had no sooner arranged our hammocks when, in the dusk, we were alarmed by the appearance of a large snake which took possession of one of the hammocks. We were, however, fortunate in killing it, but we passed the night rather uncomfortably thinking that our unwelcome visitor might have a companion in the vicinity.\n\n## A Typical Indian of Goajira\n\n10\n124",
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"content_text": "The following morning we left Chimirang and journeyed through wooded lands until 1 p.m. when we reached a rancho known as Arroya de Cardon, the residence of a civilisado, Señor Manwell Antonio Cayón. Here we found good pasture lands and rested our animals that afternoon. The next morning we discovered that two of our horses were sick, having, it was supposed, eaten poisonous herbs at Chimirang; we were therefore obliged to leave these behind and both subsequently died. This delayed our departure as we had to replace these animals. Señor Cayón, however, came to our rescue and we were able to leave towards midday; he also very kindly accompanied us, together with an Indian guide, as far as Carraipia. The country we passed through was less wooded, though we had a difficulty in crossing a few streams. We passed through excellent grazing lands, alternating with bush formed largely of a small spreading tree known locally as carbonal, in repute as being the only local source of charcoal that can be employed by blacksmiths and silver-smiths. At dusk we reached the guinea-grass pastures to which I have before referred relating to our first journey. Darkness, however, soon overtook us and we lost our track in the tall grass. We wandered about for hours in the dark before discovering the track which leads to the village of Carraipia, and only reached there at 10.30 at night, the inhabitants being apprised of our arrival by a turnout of all the dogs in the pueblo. \n\nThe following day being Sunday we remained at Carraipia and rested the animals. I made a short journey in the neighboring forest, where I found ebony trees fairly abundant, as well as a variety of other serviceable timber trees. From Carraipia we left on the 6th to ascend the adjacent range of hills. We rode as far as Caguasumana, the point from which we were to proceed on foot, and here made our camp. At this rancheria, which is situated on the foot hills of the hill range, I noticed that ticks were very abundant; I have already mentioned that ticks are not found on the plains. I also observed that the Indians appeared less healthy than those of the plains, owing probably to the denser forest growth and the less open surroundings. In this locality, Señor Bartolo, who accompanied us from Carraipia, has considerable areas of bananas under cultivation; bananas are not grown by the Indians of the plains. Vanilla is found in the forests of this locality, but as the plants were not in fruit, I cannot say if it may be of any economic importance.\n\n## Carraipia Range\n\nOn the 7th I set out to ascend the hills, accompanied by Señores Morales and Bartolo and a few Indians. We ascended by way of the river Cañoseco, but our progress was impeded by heavy rains. We had to hack our way through, there being no track. I was informed that no civilisado had been known to climb these hills or to have attempted to do so. The hill slopes are covered with forest growth; there are cedar trees of considerable size; but the larger and most abundant tree is that known locally as Caracoli (**Anacardium rhinocarpus. D. C.**), an immense tree from which the cayucos or dug-out canoes are made. The soil of this hill range is, on the whole, good, and the lower parts should prove suitable for cacao. The plains extending from the hills should form excellent lands for a banana-growing proposition; though, in the main, covered with guinea-grass they would be more appropriately and profitably utilized for cattle ranching.\n\nOn the morning of the 8th we returned to Carraipia, and on the 9th we left for Sierra de la Teta. We journeyed from 9 a.m. till 3.30 p.m., when we were obliged to camp as we encountered a caño in flood which we could not cross. From Carraipia we passed through extensive pastures of guinea-grass on which we saw not a single animal; following this we journeyed through immense sabanas of natural grass (**Aristida setifolia. H. B. & K.**), varied with occasional pantanos or swampy expanses covered with the sensitive plant (**Mimosa pudica**). We completed the latter part of this day's journey in exceptionally heavy rains; one aguacero came from the Carraipia range met by another from the sea on the opposite side, and we rode for nearly two hours through a terrible downpour of rain.\n\n## Crossing a Caño\n\nIn the morning the caño had only slightly abated, as a vast area of surrounding country was still draining off its surface water into it. However, we decided to cross, and having attached a rope to a tree on either side of its banks, we took advantage of a large travelling bath that I was fortunate to possess, and swimming one on each side of the bath, to prevent it capsizing, we gradually crossed all the loads in this way. Having crossed, we resumed our journey and reached a rancheria known as Zororuma in the afternoon where we camped. This day we passed through excellent grazing lands composed chiefly of an excellent grass known as cadilla; it forms good pasture much liked by the animals and is a grass which would be worth introducing to other parts of Colombia. We also noted very extensive cultivations of millet, beans, etc.; in many cases these were situated long distances from the habitations of the Indians. This part of Goajira struck me as being particularly suitable for the cultivation of groundnuts, a plantation industry which might be encouraged amongst the Indians by the free distribution of seed for planting, by the Government. Zoruruma is an Indian settlement of considerable size, the Indians possessing large herds of cattle, sheep and goats.\n\n## Cemerchi\n\nOn the 11th we set out from Zoruruma with a guide to continue our journey to the Sierra de la Teta, which we had to deviate somewhat in order to replace some of our animals. The first two hours' journey was through verdant sabanas, but the rest of the day was through inundated lands. We travelled from 10.30 a.m. till midnight; we first traversed a pantano over a mile long with a depth of water of three to four feet, and following that we travelled for eight leagues in water scarcely seeing dry land. We were obliged to travel on till midnight, not encountering dry land on which we could camp on the way. At midnight we reached an Indian rancheria known as Cemerchi, and our arrival having been duly notified by the numerous dogs, the inhabitants came forth with their rifles and bows and arrows, fearing, I presume, that we must be a hostile party arriving at that unusual hour. We were eventually received in a friendly manner and accorded a leaky rancho in which to pass the night, and being exhausted from the trying journey dropped into our hammocks and fell asleep.\n\n## Sierra de la Teta\n\nOn the 12th we found that our animals were too exhausted to proceed, and Colonel Morales took the opportunity of visiting a rancheria a few leagues distant belonging to a family connection called Ramoncito, in order to arrange an exchange of some of the transport animals. The other members of our party occupied themselves in an endeavour, between showers, to dry our wet clothes and belongings.\n\nThe next day we left with another guide for the Sierra de la Teta, which we reached early in the afternoon. The road to La Teta from Cemerchi was awful; at times through water up to a metre in depth for considerable distances, varied only by sodden soft land in which the horses often sunk up to their bodies and had to be extricated with assistance. We were, however, glad to arrive at La Teta, as here the atmosphere was drier and more bracing.\n\nOn the 14th four of us, accompanied by six Indians, set out to climb the mountain. My main object was to examine the vegetation to ascertain if it differed from that of the plains and contained anything of importance. I found, however, that it did not differ materially from the flora of the plains, only in that a species of **Bursera** was more common than on the plains. The Indians informed me that Colonel Morales and myself were the first persons apart from Indians who had climbed the mountain or had attempted to do so. From the top, which is a huge rock broken up by time and weather, an excellent view of the surrounding country is obtained. I had been informed that petroleum is found in this locality, but on making inquiry I was told that nothing was known of its existence; whether this is so, or whether the Indians do not wish anything to be known of it, I do not know.\n\n## La Teta to Castilletes\n\nThe following day we proceeded late in the morning from the Sierra de la Teta for Castilletes. We followed a track between the Cosina hills and the Venezuelan Coast, through beautiful and extensive sabanas affording unlimited pasture. The Cadilla grass, to which I have referred, is here found in abundance. In height and appearance it is not unlike wheat, except that the spikes are purplish in colour; in fact, these vast fields of cadilla may be aptly described as black wheat. A variety of this grass affords spikes which produce a dye that may with cultivation probably be turned to commercial account. I have noted this remarkable grass growing in all types of land, from sandy soil to heavy clay, and it appears to be very hardy, often assuming entire possession of the land. Throughout these vast sabanas we saw not a single animal! What excellent pasture is being lost, while in other parts of the country heavy forest lands are being felled to convert into grazing lands.\n\n## The Cosina Country\n\nTo the left of our track lay the hills inhabited by the Cosinas, the most hostile of all the Goajiran Indians. This was the most dangerous part of our journey, and my good friend, Colonel Morales, kept urging us to keep together in case of a possible attack from these Indians.",
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"content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Bill Read a First Time\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n## Objects and Reasons\n\nThe Objects and Reasons state:- \n1. The Bill is based on the Indemnity Act, 1920, 10 and 11 Geo. 5, chapter 48.\n\n2. The definition of the term risk in clause 2 is taken from clause 19 of Admiralty Charter Party T. 99, as being the risk assumed at the time of requisitioning when certain ships were first placed under control in 1917 and 1918. The other definitions in clause 2 are taken from the Act.\n\n3. Clause 3 of the Bill is practically a copy of clause 1 of the Act, except that words have been inserted in order to make it quite clear that the clause will include claims for the recovery of money held by the Government of the Colony in consequence of such acts as are referred to in the main part of the clause. These words are inserted by way of extra caution as it seems obvious that the Government took the risk of any damage due to any operations of war engineered by enemy agents in the East. If a raider had appeared in these waters and had sunk even half these ships, the resulting loss would, at a time of very high value of shipping, have been most crippling. It was a risk contemplated with considerable anxiety at the time by the Government, and if the loss had occurred, it would have been a most severe one for the Colony from which it would not have recovered for a long time. Are we then, to get nothing in return for that risk which the Colony as a whole took? I admit that does not cover the whole ground, but it does cover at least part of the ground. It may not be generally known that we did at one time offer the Imperial Government the whole of the collections from this requisition scheme if they would also accept the risk, and the Imperial Government refused to do so. We, therefore, had to carry it through on our own.\n\nI do not propose to go into the details of the Bill. It is based on the English Act and the details are explained, I think, sufficiently in the Objects and Reasons. The special words inserted in clauses 3 and 4 to cover the case of claims in respect of requisitioning of ships have been inserted by way of extra caution. I say that because I think that the English Act did cover them and was intended to cover them. The debate in the House of Commons shows that it lasted six hours and turned mainly on the shipping question involved. It was pointed out that if the Bill was not passed, an additional burden of £328,000,000 would be thrust on the taxpayers of the country. I mention that to show that it was intended to apply to shipping claims. By way of extra caution, words have been inserted in this Bill to make that perfectly clear.\n\nWe made, from this Colony, during the war certain contributions to the Imperial Government for the carrying on of the war. We sent home out of ordinary revenue over five millions; and out of special rates imposed for war purposes over two millions. We also raised a loan of three million dollars and sent that to the Imperial Government. The cash payments have gone; the loan remains, and what it is proposed to do with the money collected by the Government under the requisition scheme is to place it in a fund for the redemption of that war loan.\n\n4. Speaking generally, clause 3 gives protection to all persons in the public service, in respect of any act done during the war and before the passing of the Ordinance, if such acts were done (a) in execution of a public duty, and (b) in good faith. Sub-clause (3) provides that a certificate by the Colonial Secretary that any act was done in execution of a duty shall be sufficient evidence of that fact, and that any act so done shall be deemed to have been done in good faith unless the contrary is proved.\n\n5. The clause in question, clause 3, bars all legal proceedings in respect of any such acts, including legal proceedings for the recovery of money held by the Government in consequence of any such act. Certain legal proceedings are excepted from this bar, and amongst the excepted cases is the institution of proceedings in respect of breach of contract, provided that such proceedings are commenced within one year from the termination of the war or from the date when the cause of action arose, whichever may be the latter date. This limitation of time is imposed in order that claims may not be held back unduly but may be presented while the evidence on behalf of the Government is more likely to be available. Temporary organisations set up for the purposes of a war are dissolved when the war comes to an end, or even before that event, and the longer the time which elapses, the more difficult it is to obtain evidence on matters dealt with by such temporary organisations.\n\n6. Clause 4 makes an exception to the general bar on legal proceedings imposed by clause 3. It gives a definite legal right to payment in respect of the requisition and control of shipping by or on behalf of the Government of the Colony, and a right to compensation for damage directly due to war risk during the period of requisition or control. The payment in respect of requisitioning and control is to be in accordance with the Blue Book rates, together with any additional payment which may have been expressly promised in writing, or credited to the owner, by the Government. This addition does not appear in the Imperial Act but is peculiar to the Bill. Compensation for damage due to war risk is limited, as in the Imperial Act, by the provision that, in assessing such damage, no account is to be taken of any increase of market values of tonnage due to the war.\n\n9. It may be pointed out that sub-clause (1) of clause 3 provides that if any legal proceedings which is barred by the Ordinance shall have been instituted before the commencement of the Ordinance, it shall be discharged, subject to such order as to costs which the Court may think fit to make. Sub-clause (4) of the same clause provides that nothing in the clause shall affect a final judgment given before the passing of the Ordinance.\n\n## Deportation Ordinance\n\n### First Reading of the Bill\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the first reading of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to amend the Deportation Ordinance, 1917**.\n\nHe said: This Bill falls into two portions. Clause 2, clause 4, and clause 5 are founded on the recent aliens legislation in the United Kingdom. The important part of clause 3 is founded on a recent China Order in Council. I do not know that I need refer in detail to the clauses based on the aliens legislation of the United Kingdom, but I would like to refer to section (b) of clause 3. That is the part of the Bill which is based on the China (Amendment) Order in Council, No 3, 1920. It gives the Governor in Council power to deport any person who it is considered has acted or is about to act in a manner prejudicial to the public safety. That power to deport can only be exercised after what we may call the long procedure of the Deportation Ordinance has been gone through. It is not a summary power; the person whom it is proposed to deport has to have a definite charge put before him and is given the opportunity of answering that charge.\n\nClause 3 provides for tribunals which are to consist of one of the judges as president, and of two other members, one nominated by the Governor and the other by the claimant. The Imperial Act provides for an appeal on a point of law from the arbitration tribunal to the Court of Appeal. Clause 5 provides that the president of the local tribunal may reserve any point of law for the decision of the Full Court, and that the decision of the Full Court on such point of law shall be final. The Imperial Act provides for an appeal from the Court of Appeal to the House of Lords, but only by leave of the Court of Appeal.\n\n8. Clause 6 saves all Prize Court proceedings from the operation of the Bill.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n## Objects and Reasons\n\nThe Objects and Reasons state: \n1. The object of this Bill is to amend the Deportation Ordinance, 1917, by remedying certain apparent defects therein and by inserting certain new provisions in order to conform with recent legislation in the United Kingdom.\n\n2. Clause 2 of the Bill is based on a combination of the present section 3 (2) of the Ordinance and the provisions of Article 12 (6) (c) of the Aliens Order, 1920, which reads as follows:-",
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"content_text": "## Appendix 4.\n\nA member of the Commission, Rev. Mr. Wells, made a visit of inspection to one of the halts where people carrying loads to the Peak were resting.\n\nHe reports as follows:-\n\n“Having heard that children were carrying loads to the Peak, I made a visit to one of their halts. A number of women and children were sitting down, and my attention was first called to a boy who seemed to be very weak, if not ill. He was eating a cake, but seemed to have little appetite for it; the time was about 9:30 a.m. His mother was sitting beside him, evidently somewhat anxious about him. I asked his age, and she said about nine or ten (Chinese reckoning). On being asked which burden the boy was carrying, she pointed to many loads and said \"that one,\" adding \"there are many more, ask them.\" I looked about and saw a very small boy; he was eight years of age (English reckoning, say about 6 years); he was with his mother, and she said that he must work, or he would not have food to eat. The mother was a widow and came to Hongkong to get work, and finding that the boy could also get work, had set him to earn what he could. He had two loads of twenty-two catties (29 lbs. each); these loads he took one by one, carrying each a short distance, and then returning for the other. Further enquiry elicited information to the effect that he had his breakfast at 5 a.m., and began to carry at a place near the Central Market, on the sea front, at six a.m., and had got so far; his work would be finished at about five p.m. He could earn eight cents for a day's work, carrying fifty-eight pounds (forty-four catties) weight of coal to the Peak. It was stated that he could only work about ten days a month, and that women could only work about twenty days. The child earned eight cents a day, or eighty cents a month, but he had to get some lunch, and it was said that this might cost three cents a day, so that his clear earnings would only be about fifty cents a month. This sum seems hardly sufficient to pay for medicine for him, if, as seems probable, he should have occasional sicknesses. It seems to be a wicked way to use the time and energy of such a child.\n\nOther boys and girls of ten, eleven, and twelve years of age were in the neighbourhood at work; it was said that a twelve-year-old girl could earn twelve cents a day. A general conversation with men and women was held, and it transpired that they get eighteen cents for a load of one hundred catties (133 lbs.), and that a man could carry two loads, and a woman about 150 catties; the man would earn thirty-six (36) cents a day, and a woman in good health about twenty-seven (27) cents.\n\nThe problem of the formulation of a plan for the protection of these children is a difficult one to solve. It seems as if the small load system might be stopped at the starting point; contractors and employers should not be allowed to make up child burdens. The lowest load might be fixed at fifty catties, and they might be informed that only strong children of full age should be allowed to carry the materials or goods. If necessary, the system might be attacked gradually, and the weight limit be reached by slower steps.\n\nIf young children can earn so little, they would be much better employed in schools where they could learn a little about books, and what they teach, and if it were possible to give them some industrial training as part of their school training, so much the better. It might be possible to teach a little about the cultivation of flowers and plants, the manufacture of small toys, or even elementary work that would be useful for their future life as artisans, and even perhaps enable them to earn a few cents a day after a short time.”\n\n## General.\n\nI should like, in conclusion, to make a few general observations in elaboration of those contained in the draft report. At the outset, let me say that I am as anxious as anyone else in this Colony to see the hard lot of some of the poor children in this Colony improved, and I am sure that all the Chinese here will do everything possible towards that end. But we must take facts as they exist, and not allow our sentiments to affect our considered judgement. Owing to its proximity to the Kwongtung Province, there is a constant flow of Chinese of all classes into this Colony, most of whom come here in order to find work to keep themselves from starvation. The present conditions of the two Kwongs further aggravates the situation. The children who are earning wages are essential to the \"scheme of things\" in the daily life of the poor, and without them, it would mean so much less income to feed the family. One would like to cut down as much as possible the working hours of these children, but unfortunately, there is a limit beyond which one cannot go without doing more harm than good. As a rule, these children do piece-work; they are paid according to the amount of hours of work they put in. If, for instance, you halve their working hours of, say, 70 hours a week, you would reduce their income by 50%; and where there is more than one child earning such wages, it may mean the loss of the wherewithal to pay rent.\n\nThere has been a great deal of talk about \"sweated labour\" in Hongkong. Except a few isolated cases which one may come across here and there, the work which the children in the Colony are doing cannot be so described. The work is hard, no doubt, but where it constitutes the alternative to starvation, it should be allowed, if greater harm is not to be wrought. The struggle for existence in China is intense, and the children who work in the interior are mostly worse off than those earning wages in Hongkong. That is why the Commission do not recommend the total prohibition of child labour, but rather suggest its regulation.\n\nThis brings me to the question of compulsory education in the Colony. The idea is very attractive, but a little consideration will show that it cannot be worked. Situated, geographically, as Hongkong is, with its door ever open to the teeming millions from China, the problem of accommodation alone will be found to be most difficult of solution. Then there would be the question of expense, which would be enormous, and the difficulty of training the large number of teachers that would be required. Even if all these difficulties could be surmounted, then there would be the question of feeding and clothing the thousands of children who would have to give up their work, upon which they at present depend for their maintenance, in order to attend school. I should like, however, to see every child receive some education, if possible; but such should be achieved not by legislation but by voluntary attendance at Continuation Classes in the evening or on Sundays.\n\n(Signed) **CHOW SHOU SON**.\n\nPage 329",
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"content_text": "# 501 \n\n30 \n\nOn the South Manchurian Railway there are 472 passenger and sundry cars and the following goods waggons: \n\n| Type | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Refrigerator cars | 5 |\n| Box cars | 1,335 |\n| Gondola cars | 1,320 |\n| Coal cars | 215 |\n| Flat cars | 121 |\n| Water waggons | 10 |\n| Oil tanks | 8 |\n| Total | 3,014 |\n\nThere are thus about two-and-a-half times as many goods waggons on the South Manchurian Railway as there are on the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway, while on the Shantung Railway, which is only 284 miles, there are 1,051 goods waggons as against 1,315 on the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway. Allowing for the fact that the average car capacity is slightly higher on the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway, the tonnage per mile is considerably greater on both the Japanese-owned lines. It is not unfair, therefore, to conclude that if the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway were efficiently managed it might have provided itself, even under war conditions, with at least double its present amount of rolling-stock.\n\nThe situation is aggravated by the fact that what rolling-stock there is is not managed in an efficient and economical manner. On the Shantung Railway the freight trains run as regularly to schedule time as do the passenger trains, and goods never take more than twenty-four hours to cover the 220 miles between Tsinan and Tsingtao. The distance from Tsinan to Tien-tsin is almost exactly the same distance, but goods generally take about four days to do the journey. The goods trains keep to no sort of schedule time, but wander up and down the line in a state of utter and most wasteful confusion.\n\nAnother glaring evil on the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway is the large number of transportation companies which have obtained an altogether illegitimate hold upon the line. There are regulations forbidding railway officials from holding shares in transportation companies but, needless to say, such rules, by methods not unknown in western countries, are more or less openly evaded.\n\nNo one will be surprised to learn that these companies enjoy many unfair advantages in their dealings with the railway. They can get cars when none are available for the ordinary trader. At various points along the railway - some of them important centres such as Tsining, Suchoufu, Pengpu, &c. - they own the only available goods sheds and have monopolised all the land which the railway company should have taken up for that purpose, so that the merchant is obliged to store and ship his goods through the transportation company. Moreover, the railway authorities absolutely refuse to take any responsibility for cargo lost or stolen. This is a very serious matter. On the Shantung Railway, controlled by the Japanese, thefts are practically unknown. For example, a British firm which ships all its cargo from Shanghai to Tsinan via Tsingtao, though this is a cargo peculiarly liable to pilferage, shortages during the whole of 1920 have only amounted to 15 dollars. Claims for shortages are promptly settled by the Japanese, but although thieving is rampant on the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway such claims are not even entertained by the Chinese. The railway police are so inefficient that on the greater portion of the line merchants have to send an escort to guard their cargo. An escort has even to be sent with an empty oil tank car to prevent theft of parts of the car en route. When whole car-loads are shipped it is practicable to send an escort, but for smaller lots the cost is prohibitive, and in such cases the merchant is forced to ship through a transportation company.\n\nIn all these various ways the merchant is unable to deal direct with the railway company but is forced to employ the transportation companies, who use the power they possess in the most exorbitant and unmerciful manner. They are not content with making a legitimate profit out of the difference between picul rate and car-load rate, but charge their customers no less than two to three times the ordinary railway rates. Thus, if a merchant in Tsinanfu desired to send candles to Taianfu - a distance of 50 miles - he might, if he did not know local conditions, calculate that the total charges per picul would amount to 0.22456 dollars, made up as follows: \n| Charge | Dollar |\n| --- | --- |\n| Railway picul rate | 0.15456 |\n| Railway loading | 0.02000 |\n| Railway likin | 0.03000 |\n| Railway discharging | 0.02000 |\n| Total | 0.22456 |\n\nThe transportation company's charges, however, amount to 0.655 dollars per picul, and the merchant is forced to pay these exorbitant rates because, for the reasons which I have enumerated above, he finds it in practice impossible to deal with the railway company direct.\n\nThe following table shows the railway charges and the transportation companies' charges per picul on shipments of candles from Tsinan to various stations in Shantung. It will be observed that the transportation companies' charges vary from about treble the railway charges for short distances to about double for longer distances: \n| Place | Miles | Railway Picul Rate | Railway Loading and Discharging | Railway Likin | Total Railway Charges | Total Charges Transport Companies |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Taianfu | 45 | 0.15456 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.22456 | 0.655 |\n| Tawenkow | 63 | 0.21112 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.28112 | 0.795 |\n| Yaotsun | 81 | 0.25504 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.32504 | 0.785 |\n| Yenchoufu | 98 | 0.31584 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.38584 | 0.825 |\n| Tsinugchow | 118 | 0.37744 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.44744 | 0.935 |\n| Tsowhsien | 110 | 0.35588 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.42588 | 0.988 |\n| Tenghsien | 135 | 0.43288 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.50288 | 0.932 |\n\nThese facts suffice to show that the transportation companies constitute a serious handicap on trade and a hindrance to the efficient management of the railway. The evil varies in intensity on different sections of the railway. Between Techow and Linching traders can avoid the transportation companies for car-load shipments, and thefts are also less frequent on this section. But at Nanking the conditions are, or used to be, incredibly bad. I am informed that two years ago two big companies were absolutely in the power of the transportation companies through whom they were forced to make all shipments of their goods along the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway. On one occasion they agreed to break away and hire their cars direct from the railway, but the transportation companies actually bribed coolies along the line to get under the cars and pierce cargo through the floor of the car. As a consequence, very little of the cargo reached its destination, and after one trial the companies abandoned the struggle and returned to bondage once more. Whether conditions at Nanking have improved in the last two years I do not know.\n\nAnother serious cause of complaint is the absence of through traffic facilities between the various railways, which involves much expense in coolie hire, damage to cargo through extra handling and unnecessary delay to rolling-stock. For example, there is a company which owns sidings connecting with both the Shantung Railway and the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway. The cars can be brought within a few feet of each other, but transferring cargo from one to the other costs 10 dollars. Firms who do not own sidings are mulcted much more heavily.\n\nThere are, of course, political reasons which prevent through traffic arrangements between the Shantung Railway and the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway, but there is no valid reason why through traffic should not be allowed on the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway, the Peking-Mukden Railway and the Lung-Hai Railway, all of which are Chinese Government lines. It is difficult to say to what extent the bad conditions on the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway are due to corruption and to what extent to inefficiency, but it is alleged that a considerable amount of corruption exists. Some of it, indeed, seems inevitable. A station master, for example, is paid a salary of 85 dollars a month and 35 dollars entertainment allowance, but he is obliged to spend at least 100 dollars a month on providing tea and cigarettes for business callers and ...",
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"content_text": "## 52\n\nto be carried out by Mr. B. G. Tours, C.M.G., His Majesty's consul at Ichang. On the 24th March Mr. Yu Jên-lung sent me an official despatch notifying the receipt of a telegram from the provincial capital announcing that the Puerh Taoyin was to be Chinese delegate for the joint inspection of the places which I had announced my intention of traversing in that circuit.\n\nOn the 27th March, the eve of the date finally fixed for the start, the Taoyin called to learn the route suggested for the first day's trip. Although Lungling, south-east of Tengyueh, had been mentioned first on the rough outline of my projected tour, I had particular reasons for not wishing to travel thither by the normal direct route. Firstly, not two months had elapsed since I had passed over the road, in the reverse direction, on my return from the January Frontier Meeting, without seeing any trace of opium poppy. Moreover, I was anxious to see the present condition of the fields alongside the mountainous track between Nantien and Lungling, which had been described by a reliable source as an almost unbroken succession of opium cultivations. I therefore announced to the Taoyin that I proposed to stop the first night at Nantien. In spite of the frankest betrayal of colossal ignorance of the geography in the immediate vicinity of his own post - he enquired blandly if the main road to Langling (three days' journey south-east of Tengyueh) did not pass through Kuyung, two days to the north-west, and only a day's journey from the frontier of the Myitkyina district - Mr. Yu nevertheless seemed to have some idea that the neighbourhood of Nantien was an undesirable one - from his point of view - for a search of opium crops; and I had to insist that my knowledge of the localities in the Têngch'ung district, where troops were being employed in connection with poppy eradication, was by no means inferior to his own. I was also able to counter his second line of argument, that we could not reach Nantien in one day's journey, and he yielded finally a reluctant acquiescence in my arrangements. His last bolt was not, however, shot, and late at night he sent a lengthy missive advancing the contention that the route between Nantien and Lungling would take us through the zone of military operations against the unredeemed Kachin opium cultivators. To show weakness now would have been impolitic, but it was past midnight before I signed and despatched the letter demolishing all his arguments and holding him to his word given to me some hours previously.\n\nNo reply was vouchsafed, and I therefore despatched my caravans betimes the next morning, the 28th March, and proceeded to the rendezvous with the Taoyin. He had apparently accepted the inevitable: a verbal message was brought to me that, as he was late in starting, he did not propose to descend from his chair; would I, therefore, kindly proceed?\n\nNantien witnessed the last despairing effort of the Tengyueh Taoyin to combat my daily-tour programme. I had already retired to bed when a letter of ominous length arrived; Mr. Yu professed information that the route suggested by me for the morrow had been wantonly obstructed by a formidable barrier of timber. I roused myself and the uncomplaining writer to reply that my information did not tally, and that I frankly disbelieved the report; I promised, however, that if on the morrow or at any other time during our travels we encountered obstructions, I would turn aside and avoid them. Some time after 2 A.M. I was roused once more to blink at the swan-song of the Taoyin's objections. In view of my undertaking, solemnly repeated in extenso, he resigned himself to following my rash lead.\n\nNeedless to say, we encountered no trace of the alleged timber-barrier obstructing the path; but after some two hours' journey the consulate writer and I found a field of opium poppy, measuring roughly some 70 feet by 35 feet, round a bend a few hundred yards off the road. When we arrived, the owner, a woman of A-Ch'ang race, in a paroxysm of weeping, was plucking up the full-blown plants - presumably in obedience to orders from advance emissaries of the Taoyin's party. The Taoyin contented himself with despatching one of his numerous attendant underlings to inspect the field, and on the strength of his report sent me the same evening a letter minimising the incident.\n\nOn the 31st March our route joined the main Lungling road at Manlo, just above the wire rope suspension bridge over the Shweli; for the past three or four weeks this bridge had been closed for the retimbering of the roadway, and the honour of reopening it to traffic was reserved for our cavalcade. At the head of the stiff ascent on the left bank of the Shweli we were met by the Lungling magistrate, formerly senior frontier deputy at Tengyueh, and an old acquaintance; he assured me with cheerful confidence that no matter what part of his district I might visit,\n\n## 53\n\nI should fail to find a single opium poppy. On arrival at Lungling, the consulate writer and I were entertained to a Chinese dinner-party in his yamên.\n\nThe discovery of only one solitary field of opium along the route between Nantien and Lungling must, I think, be taken as evidence of the strenuous efforts which have been made during the past few months to eradicate all traces of the proscribed plant; from one or two more talkative residents encountered en route I obtained admissions of a considerable recrudescence of cultivation during last year, but all agreed as to the thorough measures of suppression carried out since November last. In the Têngch'ung district, for instance, no less than three separate expeditions of eradication had been sent out, under territorial, military, and police officials respectively, and it is only just to place on record that their duties were performed in a very thorough manner.\n\nThe normal order of procedure was for my caravan, headed by the writer and myself, to take the lead, and for the Taoyin's more imposing party to bring up the rear. The 1st April was, however, appropriately celebrated by the failure of the Taoyin's party to keep touch with us at a parting of the ways; this added some 2 miles for them to the long and undulating road to Siangta. Thence to Pingka is normally reckoned as a single - though lengthy stage for caravans; at the Taoyin's request we split into two, halting at the small hamlet of Huchiachai, 7,000 feet high, picturesquely situated in the midst of dense groves of bamboos. At Huchiachai we encountered our first rain, and thereafter we had not a single rainless day until the 19th April. From Pingka to Hankuai, high above the right bank of the Salween, with a magnificent view of the lofty mountains on the other side, was another long day's march.\n\nThe crossing of the Salween was a tedious business for so large a cavalcade; two bamboo rafts were provided, taking only some five mule-loads or ten men on each trip; the method of propulsion across the swift current was by a species of flat umbrella fashioned of stout bamboo; at each end of the craft an oarsman plied one of these clumsy weapons by plunging it into the water and pulling it towards himself with powerful strokes.\n\nThe town of Chênk'ang was reached next day. Formerly there was a Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Chênk'ang, but his downfall was brought about as the result of the Manchu Viceroy, Hsi Liang's, policy for the gradual absorption of the Chinese Shan States into direct Chinese administration; and save for a few picturesque ruins of the Sawbwa's palace, the place is now shorn of any pomp and circumstance it may have once possessed.\n\nTwelve days' travel, although for the most part along comparatively unfrequented routes, had now disclosed but one solitary field of opium poppy, and I therefore decided on a somewhat rash experiment. None of the four maps of Yunnan which I took with me gave any indication of a road from Chênk'ang to Mienning, the next district town on my list, and the recognised routes between these two places are circuitous in the extreme, and pass through either Shunning or Yunchow. I ascertained, however, that a road practicable for chairs existed, and elected to attempt it. Fortunately, by this time the Tengyueh Taoyin had resigned himself to accepting my lead, or he would almost certainly have protested. For five days we followed the roughest of mountain paths, which had in many places to be prepared overnight for our transit by the felling of trees and clearing of jungle. Below Manlai our route crossed the Namting River by a ford which would obviously be impracticable during the heavier rains of midsummer. At the Namting we quitted the Chênk'ang district and entered the jurisdiction of the Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Kêngma. During our six days of travel through Chênk'ang territory we had found no opium crops whatever, though I learnt that there had been a small harvest of the earliest sown poppy. The magistrate was said, however, to have been indefatigable in the work of eradication, and I was assured not by himself - that since November of last year he had never been in residence at his post for five consecutive days.\n\nOur next halt, the Shan village of Chepi, was on a route traversed more than twenty years ago by H. R. Davies, the standard authority on the province of Yunnan, and doubtless by other foreigners since; here, for the first time, I abandoned my tent, in favour of a comparatively clean temple.\n\nAt this point we were met by a guard of honour sent out to meet us by the P'uêrh Taoyin, who had arrived at Mienning, our pre-arranged meeting-place, on the 11th April. I owe the efficient commandant a debt of gratitude for his... \n\n[6032]",
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"content_text": "## \n\nFor several days in succession I had seen nothing whatever of the Tengyueh Taoyin; at Chepi, however, much to my surprise, he rode over to call on me. The reason for the visit was only apparent when he propounded the astonishing request that as during seventeen days travel in his circuit we had only found one field of opium poppy, I would overlook it in my report to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires. On my replying that, had we found one hundred I should be bound to report one hundred, and that I must equally report the one, he then suggested that I should add a rider that the field found was close to the scene of military operations against the offending Kachins. To this I rejoined that I had been over the country in question and he had not, and that I knew for a fact that the two places were at least two and a half days journey apart. Soon afterwards he took his leave, considerably crestfallen.\n\nApril 14th Shortly after leaving Chêpi the road to Mienning makes a very steep ascent of some 3,000 feet, on to a lofty shoulder, the view from which on a clear day must be magnificent, embracing extensive country in the jurisdiction of Shunning and Kengma, in the Tengyueh circuit, and Mieuning in the Puerh circuit. On an open bit of grass land just beyond a pillar marking the boundary, a large booth had been erected, and we were met by the P'uêrh Taoyin and the Mienning district magistrate, each of whom furnished a guard of honour.\n\nThe following day we reached the ancient walled city of Mienning, inhabited by a mixed population of Chinese and Shans, while Lolos and natives of several other tribes inhabit the surrounding villages.\n\nFor the journey from Mienning to Szemao my first care was to ascertain the route followed by the Taoyin to the rendezvous; he had come, as I expected, by the most direct road through Chingku-hsien (the modern name of Weiyuant'ing of Manchu times). I asked the Taoyin point-blank whether he had seen any opium cultivation on his outward journey; he replied that a few isolated patches had been sown at the beginning of the season, but that all had been uprooted by expeditions sent out in November and December, and there was no trace of any remaining when he came out. I see no reason whatever to doubt this statement, but even if it was untrue, it was practically certain that there would not be a single plant left after his passing through; I therefore decided to take an entirely different road for our joint journey and selected the southern route via Poshang, the Tapêng ferry over the Mekong, Mêngka and Mengchu. This is a fairly well recognised, though little used, road, but I possess records of only isolated portions as having been previously traversed by British subjects.\n\nOn the 19th April, at the Taoyin's suggestion, we made a very early start in view of the formidable journey in front of us. We reached the limits of the Mienning jurisdiction and bade farewell to the magistrate. After 6 miles of easy going, No trace of opium poppy had we seen in his district, in which, as far as I could ascertain, he and his subordinates had carried out their suppression duties with exceptional thoroughness. The next 7 miles traversed a corner of what is now known as the Lantsang (i.e., Mekong) district-formerly the sub-prefecture of Chênpien-and the going was very severe, though it must, in all fairness, be admitted that the country is extremely difficult, including a terrific descent for 3 miles through constantly subsiding red clay to the level of the River Mekong (2,750 feet). The crossing of the Mekong is effected in a single huge wooden boat with deep sides: The mules and their loads are transported in this craft, the river-current being too swift to admit of the animals swimming across without danger. The ascent up the left or east bank of the Mekong is even more severe, and for 24 miles the ruling gradient is steeper than one in six.\n\nTwo stages further, through pine-woods tenanted by peacocks and brilliant emerald-green parrots, brought us to the Chinese Shan town of Mêngka. At Tamotsoho, the half-way halt, we came across a few families of Lahu race, said to be rapidly dying out in China.\n\nShortly before reaching Mêngka we were met by the Chingku district magistrate, a Kuangsi man, who accompanied us so long as we continued in his extensive jurisdiction. Mengka, the residence of a Shan Sawbwa, possesses also large temples and two monasteries in the Burmese Shan style; one in particular, over 200 years old, must have been very fine in bygone days.\n\nAt Lientsungts'un, our halt mid-way between Mêngka and Mêngchu, the Chinese Shan Sawbwa, of the latter place, and Mêngpan came over to pay his respects.\n\nMêngchu is one of the old Shan towns whence the original inhabitants have been practically ousted by the more thriving Chinese.\n\nOn the 25th April, two days after leaving Mêngchu, we crossed the River Weiyuan for Chingku, as it is now gradually becoming known) at Patieh. Two days later, after passing a few villages inhabited by natives of the strikingly handsome Puman race, we entered the Szémao district and were met by the local magistrate; the following day, the 28th April, we arrived at Szemao, where spacious quarters were provided for me adjoining the Taoyin's yamên. The Taoyin and magistrate pressed me to stay a week in Szemao; I consented to two days, but on the second day the Taoyin urged that he still had important business to transact, and I could hardly refuse his request that we should postpone our departure for one more day.\n\nPrevious to my departure for Tengyuch, I had written to a reliable correspondent, soliciting his co-operation to obtain for me, if possible, information on the subject of opium in the area under his cognisance. With that request he very courteously complied; he informed me quite definitely that, as the result of several punitive expeditions during the past winter, there was, as far as he was aware, no more cultivation of opium in the Szemao district, and that while probably at least 30 per cent. of the adult population of the town, both male and female, still continued to consume the drug, the enormous rise in price bore out his contention.\n\nFrom Szemao northwards towards Tali three routes were open to me; that viâ Chingku (Weiyuan) was ruled out by the fact that it had already been traversed by the Taoyin on his journey to Mienning to meet me; on the north-eastern route, via T'alang-the main road to Yunnan-fu-according to all the information I could obtain, a considerable quantity of opium had been grown, and harvested, earlier in the season, but very thorough measures of eradication had been carried out some weeks previously; I therefore decided to take the more direct but less frequented route via Puêrh, Hsinfu (in Chênyuan district) and Chingtung.\n\nLeaving Szemao on the 2nd May, some three hours of travel, including a stiff climb, brought us to the boundary of the P'uêrh district, where the local magistrate awaited us; the Szemao magistrate, however, continued to accompany us till the town of Puerh was reached the next day; on this day's journey our route crossed a splendid Chinese arched stone bridge, in admirable preservation.\n\nAt Mohei, the next stage, I took the opportunity to pay a visit to the large and flourishing salt-mines about a mile and a half away. Dr. Kelly, the American representative of the Chinese Salt Administration, who had arrived about two months previously, was away on tour, but his English-speaking Chinese colleague very kindly demonstrated to me all the processes of Chinese salt extraction.\n\nThe next four stages, viâ Mop'o, Manpieh and Manlien, to Hsin-fu, call for little comment save for the extreme beauty of the scenery; on all sides rose range after range of pine-clad hills, mostly well-wooded to their summits; the valleys were, however, parched and bare, and travelling along the lower levels was excessively hot. The only record in my possession of a route between Hsinfu and Chingtung dated from 1881, when the journey was made by a British traveller; our route, however, was almost entirely different from his, and we spent but five days on the distance which had taken him six. For the last three days we were accompanied by the Chingtung magistrate, who came out to meet us.\n\nThis latter official was also among the number of those who have displayed special energies in the matter of opium suppression; practically every town and hamlet which we traversed in his district boasted its own small bureau for the furtherance of the task, while the magistrate's extensive tours of inspection included a journey to the summit of Wu-Liang-Shan, between 11,000 and 12,000 feet high.\n\nLeaving Chingtung on the 15th May, three days' journey brought us to the boundary between the Puerh and Tengyueh circuits, at Shukai (locally pronounced Ch'ukai); Here we found that the Tengyueh Taoyin and the Mênghua district magistrate had been awaiting our arrival for three days. Before bidding farewell to the Puêrh Taoyin, I gave him a letter detailing our route through his circuit and congratulating him on the fact that we had discovered not a single opium poppy in a month's journey. In the course of an interesting conversation, he freely admitted that the task of suppression had been considerably easier in his circuit than elsewhere in the province; he was no less frank regarding the prevalence of opium smoking, and expressed the opinion that from three to five years must elapse before this would be stopped.\n\nPage [603] \n517 \n55 \n54",
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"content_text": "on \n\n238 \n\none \n\nat his home, and imagine his anxiety concerning his womenfolk with these hordes of black guard soldiers about. \n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS & \n\n[September 3rd, 1921. \n\nYANGTSZE. \n\nON THE \n\n177 \n\nEXPERIENCES OF A CHINA MERCHANTS STEAMER. \n\nMuch capital is made by the present Canton Government of the prohibition of public gambling. All honour to them for taking the step! But they appear to have short memories. Gambling in Canton was suppressed in the first instance by Cheung Ming-k'i, the last of the Viceroys under the Manchus, in the spring of 1911, some six months before the Revolution, and it is during the existence of the Republic that it has been again permitted and carried to such an extreme degree. The great boast about the tremendous task recently accomplished would inspire more confidence were it tempered by acknowledgement of the whole history.\" \n\nLucky is he if the operations of war do not mean more than the passage of troops through his home. Where the actual conflict arises, the countryside is in a bad case. Apart from the danger to all from the attempts at musketry of the soldiers, there are very real risks of revengeful pillage, murder, rape and arson by an outmanoeuvred force, and the same from the vanguard of the advancing victors. In this unhappy Province one District city of small size was set fire to, and over two hundred houses destroyed: the pitiable description given to the writer of those whose homes they had been was horrid in its brevity; \"Nowhere to dwell, nothing to eat, nothing to put on.\" Another large market town, 100 miles away from there, was almost levelled to the ground by the conflagration started by the retiring troops in the hope of an occasion for loot. In yet another place, all the boats were impressed and not allowed to move. A boatman's hat fell in the stream and floated off. They began to row after it and were at once fired on by the patrol on guard. A young mother in the boat was shot in the shoulder, and it was nearly a fortnight before they were allowed to move to seek treatment for an appallingly dirty compound fracture. These are sufficient instances to show a terrible side of the effect on the poorer people of the change to the greatly belauded \"Republican\" institution. \n\nIf these fightings were carried on by foreign foes trying to subjugate the country, or by patriotic forces trying to repel an invader they would be tragic enough: but what can be said about them when they are inflicted by Chinese on their own people? It is a puzzle to know who, beyond a very few individual officials, is really the gainer, Losers are easy enough to find. \n\nLow and high, military and civilian, man and woman, have all bewailed to the writer their keen regret that ever the Manchu regime was done away with. They say \"There was injustice then, but it is far far worse now. The old officials were at least in awe of their superiors and had to make some show of administering the law.\" Or again, \"Now-a-days an official knows he will not remain in any place above a few months at most, so why should he bother to rule well?\" An educated young Chinese said, “From my native village many young men have gone abroad to study, and have come back with high ideals of treating people fairly. Several have become officials and served justly, and without squeezing, for a term of office. But never one who gets a second office can keep his hands clean. He has experienced the unpalatable truth that in our Republic an honest official once out of his post is absolutely without means of livelihood.\" \n\nThese are the testimonies not of globe-trotters, nor even foreigners, nor of pro-Manchu people, but the bitter experience of those who love their own country and see the real state of affairs. \n\nIt would be foolish as well as unfair to say that no benefits have come since 1911. A change has been made, for example, in the necessary procedure for the transfer of family lands, which now are controlled by the womenfolk as well as the men, whereas formerly a member of the clan who would some time inherit alone could dispose of them. This is a slight check on the extravagance of young gamblers. \n\nFiring on ships on the Yangtsze is described in recent Shanghai papers as a daily occurrence. Capt. Alfred F. Cooke, of the China Merchants steamer Kiangking was recently badly wounded in the neck when he stopped at Patung to land passengers from soldiers fired on both banks of the river. It was impossible for the steamer to get under way quickly again. While she was being fired on two Chinese passengers were killed and several wounded, as we have noted before. The number of wounded has now correctly been learned to be at least 10. After getting under way, the steamer riddled with bullets, Capt. Cooke found it necessary to do the steering himself, although wounded, as his pilots had sought cover. Barricades were made of everything available, including mail bags and baggage. \n\nThere is nothing to be gained by those who point back, sighing, to old days, and think, \"How much better we should have been if something different had been done.\" The pathos of the present position of the bulk of the people must be realized and remedied. Whether the Empire or the Republic is the better is beside the mark, for the Empire, especially the Manchu Empire, has gone for ever, as far as Kwangtung is concerned. \n\nA procedure for the local election of District Magistrates has lately been adopted, and though it is somewhat farcical, it must be regarded as another stage in the devolution of power from the few to the many; but this type of novelty will not save the country. \n\nOn this eventful trip down river, Capt. Cooke states that he passed from 200 to 300 junks full of soldiers coming down river (as is thought likely) to loot Patung and Ichang. Patung is evacuated now and the soldiers are taking every available way to get down river. The most probable explanation of their reason for firing on the str. Kiangking is that the troops hoped to capture and loot the ship and make use of her to carry themselves and belongings to safer place below. As a matter of fact, Capt. Cooke had refused to carry troops for the military authorities when pressed to do so at Chungking, without authority from the French consul. \n\nThe Cantonese are not likely to improve their internal conditions unless and until they make a great change in certain fundamental matters. One, the preposterous military power must be reduced to a proper size, a proper appreciation of its function and its shortcomings, and a proper system of discipline. Another, the universal conception of \"face\" be remodelled to bear some relationship to honour. Another, every man, woman and child must learn that he is not isolated as a unit, but part of a community, and that his well-being depends intimately upon that of the whole structure. \n\nA well-known Cantonese authority on education not long ago made a statement publicly which may well be quoted in conclusion of these articles. It was to this effect. \"Our country is almost defunct, and we must revive it. We cannot hope to revive it by mere book lore, even by widespread study of the wisest and noblest books. All this will be unsuccessful unless at the root is a change of individual character from wrong to right: a rebirth of the heart of us all as individual citizens. This is a radical proposition, but even were I to face death for this attitude, I could hold no other. To get bad men made good, and selfish men made unselfish is the only programme that can remedy our case.\" \n\nIt is perhaps superfluous to add that he pointed to Jesus Christ as the only hope whereby this programme can be accomplished. \n\nThe ex-Super Tuchun of the Central Yangtsze is said to have left $16,000,000 of provincial funds unaccounted for. He is stated to have acknowledged to his successor that he owed Hupeh money but not such a large sum as was alleged. What he owed, he said, would be repaid. He had telegraphed Peking promising to make good his accounts with Hupeh. Meanwhile General Wu Pei-fu is in need of three millions to embark on the military operations he has planned in the province, and is trying to squeeze this out of the native banking and commercial organisations. \n\nTHE \"ALICE DOLLAR'S\" ADVENTURE. \n\nWith these junk loads of soldiers on the river in such numbers, it is increasingly difficult for large steamers to pass by them without placing them in great danger. \n\nThe junks are heavily loaded. On a recent trip of the str. Alice Dollar, 50 of them were caught in the backwash, upset, and sunk. As a result the following trip of the Robert Dollar, was delayed. A thousand soldiers formed a line on the south bank of the river at Chungking to prevent her departure. A platoon of soldiers was sent aboard the ship to announce the intention of the military authorities of holding the steamer as security for the losses of junks caused by the Alice Dollar. Capt. G. Crum, commanding the vessel, ordered them ashore and they went. \n\nConferences of military and civil authorities were then held and it was decided that the steamer might proceed on her way pending further investigation. Her captain was, however, advised to remain over a day to allow time for the countermanding of orders given to troops below to attack the steamer. He thereupon waited the day and proceeded down river in safety. \n\nThe Alice Dollar is now carrying a guard of 18 men from the U.S.S. Elcano besides three machine-guns and three-inch gun. \n\none \n\nCHINESE KILLED ON INDO-CHINA STEAMER. \n\nThe Indo-China steamer Changwo, was flying a very large red ensign, heavily fired on below Singti from the north bank of the Yangtsze, last week. A Chinese was killed and some Chinese were wounded, while the hull was pierced. The Stantan was also fired on, but no damage was done.",
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"content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nThere are\n\n# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nI\n\n95\n\nThe amendment was approved and the Bill, having passed through Committee, the Council resumed.\n\nHON. MR. LOWE moved, and the HON. MR. LANG seconded the third reading.\n\nAdjournment\n\nand from what we may call ancient trial home and I think that question will\n\nThe amendment was approved and the Council considered the Bill clause by clause. On clause 2 custom\n\nIt has also come out, from time to time, not only in connection with the certain industrial schools in the Colony\n\nill, having passed through committee, MR LOWE moved the insertion of the date \"28th day of September, 1922,\"\n\nto time, not only in connection with the statutory declaration, he said, baying evidence given before the Commission, but there is one at the west end of the cite\n\nCouncil resumed, also from reports made by persone in and one being conducted on the same terested, that children do accompany their hose as the school formerly conducted\n\nTax ATTORNEY GENERAL moved and been made that day.\n\nbe COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded parents-mothers principally to places of Miss Byre at Causeway Bay, and noi\n\nNo doute third reading.\n\nemployment, and, though they occasion conducted at Kowloon City.\n\nally do a little work, they are really taken the experience gained will be of assist\n\nTHE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE there in order that they may not be left ance when we come to deal with somOVERNMENT-Before this Bill is passed, at home without anyone to look after thing larger.\n\nI am perfectly sure than before I put the third reading, I should them. I think employers recognise the this Bill, if properly worked, wiil effe to express what I know is the feeling fact that that must be the case, or else a very wonderful improvement in the Council; that is the feeling of great ing: this was carried and the Bill pasted it would inflict great hardship and led industrial conditions in Hongkong.\n\nTopreciate towards the members of the accordingly.\n\nto children being neglected in auch of us who have been for any time in to ommision who drew up the report on The Colony it has always been a painful sighich this Bill is founded.\n\nIt makes way as to be a public scandal.\n\nquestion of making other arrangements to see children carrying loads and to rest changes in the industrial life of the for the children has been considered by very young children engaged for loolony-changes which most people have the Government from time to time and, hours in unsuitable industries.\n\nWe ha bought desirable for many years.\n\nTHE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE The Council standa three years ago, I think,-quite that always known that there has been old like to mention, in connection with GOVERNMENT the Government gave an assurance that difficulty of the poverty of the pare bis work, the names of one or two very adjourned till the 12th of October by which they would give every consideration to but I am hoping that the general ard workers in this Colony.\n\nOne is Mr. time the Government hope to have the first the extension of educational facilities, provement in industrial conditions elle, of the London Mission, who works reading of the Supply Bill.\n\neither under Government auspices or Hongkong will serve to mitigate among the Chinese and who has a great under the auspices of various societies hardship caused by enacting this legi nowledge of Chinese life, and the other such the senior Chinese member mention-lation.\n\nThe elders of the family are Mim Pitts.\n\nI do not know how many ed, and either fix a small fee or make the getting better wages.\n\nI may say, in tears they have worked here, but I am schools free.\n\nEffect was given, partly, connection, that the Government is 80 are the passing at this time of this Bill to that principle when the Confucian to take up the subject of providing beats a seal so to speak on their work here in Bociety established, I think, 18 schools homes for the working classes, and onnection with the Chinese.\n\nWhatever we about three years ago, and the Government arrangement provides for houses both i o in the future will, no doubt, supple- gave a contribution towards their main families and single labourers at foment, what has been done by this Bill.\n\nThere are two difficulties of rants and better conditions than The Bill is the beginning, at any rate, of course, one is forming suitable centres\n\npresent.\n\nThat, incidentally, will help proper recognition of the rights of both and finding suitable premises, and, two, question of the expense of keeping Pomen and children in the industrial life\n\nI own assure finding sufficient funds.\n\nfamily in the Colony.\n\nI need not say of the Colony, which has ao long been honourable members that the Govern more on the subject, except to gonsidered desirable, but which has not ment, when this legislation has been passed, will not neglect the question and assurance to honourable members thitherto been very noticeable will do everything in its power to oxtendy difficulties arise out of the paThe third reading was carried and the Construction, Bridge No. 7.\n\nBill passed accordingly.\n\ntenance.\n\neducational facilities to the many thou- sands of children who are at present without them.\n\nThe late Mr. Lau Chụ Pak, on more than one socasion, brought to the notice of the Government the scenes which oo\n\nof this legislation they will be dealt m by the Government in as sympathetic a energetic a manner as possible.\n\nHON.\n\nThe Masonic Ordinance\n\nThe second reading of the Bill was th\n\nMr. A. R. LOWE moved the carried.\n\nOn the motion of the ATTORNcord reading of the Bill instituled, An GENERAL the Council went into comuni Ordinance to amend the law relating to the incorporation of the Zetland Hall Trustees.\n\nto consider the Bill clausn by clause\n\nSub-clauses 2 and 3 of Clause 3 * reversed in order.\n\nOn olazas 1. Attorney-General moved that the day of January, 1928,” be inserted.\n\ncurred when new schools were opened: how the children came up in numbers tar in exoses of the accommodation, and it was a painful sight to see them turned away\n\nThe Government is not unmindful of the necessity of providing, as far a possible, for these children and I am sure that the Tung Wah Hospital Committee,\n\nH.ET OFFICER ADMINISTERE the Kwang Wah Hospital Committee, the THE GOVERNMENT-The reas00 Confucian Society and other societies will leaving the clause open was that there do all in their power to help.\n\nWe have a great deal of machinery to be got now had under consideration, for some time, it is thought that three mouths will the question of establishing a large indus-enough.\n\nHON. MR. A. O. LANG seconded,\n\nOn the motion of the Hon. MR. LOWE, be Council went into Committee to con\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee was afterwards held, the COLONIAL STORE- TAEY presiding.\n\n### Oost of a Railway Bridge\n\nThe Officer Administering the Govern- ment recommended the Council to vote a sum of $24,000 in aid of the vote Kowloon.\n\nExpenditure, Canton Railway, Special\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN-This is the bridge over the new main road from Kowloon City to Samshuipo.\n\nThe vote in $61,000, but that was on a dollar estimated at 38. Bd.\n\nA large amount of steelwork was ordered\n\nThe total from England; it was rather heavier and more substantial in design.\n\ncost is now $90,000.\n\nThe extra $24,000 ia required for this year and the remaining $5,000 will be put in the estimates next year.\n\nThe vote was approved.\n\nPage 254",
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The entrance to this room is by a fine staircase, about nine feet wide, from the main hall. The new room is fitted with all modern conveniences. The woodwork is teak, with an attractive colour scheme of buff and white, and the splendid lighting arrangements and the large verandah windows, from which a view of the Peak can be obtained, all add to the charm of this welcome addition. The hall seats about a hundred diners and is so arranged that it can also be used for dances and cinematograph shows. Connected with the dining hall are a new kitchen and pantry, both spacious and well-fitted.\n\nSeven more bed-rooms have been provided, including a room for the matron. They are fitted with teak furniture and look very cosy little places. The library, to which has been added several new books, has been moved to one of the new rooms of the extension and a better lighting system has been installed.\n\nThese extensions were made owing to the generosity of the late Sir Ellis Kadoorie. The cost of the furnishing was undertaken by the Institute. The architects were Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs.\n\nNESTLE & ANGLO-SWISS CONDENSED MILK\n\nTHE COWIE HARBOUR COAL COMPANY LIMITED. SILIMPOPON COAL.\n\nThe extensions were thrown open for the first time yesterday afternoon. It was quite an informal gathering and there were no speeches.\n\nAmong those present were Mrs. Claud Severn, Mrs. Bullock, the Hon. Mr. E V. D. Parr and Mrs. Parr, the Hon. Mr. Perkins and Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. Spring P. L. Knight, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. D. Cousland, Commander, and Mrs. Samson, Commander Radcliffe, Mrs. A Mackenzie, Miss MacKay, the Rev. J. T Holman, and many others. The Acting President of the Institute (Mrs. J. H. Kemp) was unable to attend owing to slight indisposition.\n\nPEKING NEWS.\n\nSolving the Cabinet Problem.\n\nThe Council of the Institute has arranged an attractive programme for the winter months, including musicales, dances, lectures, religious services, readings, cinematograph performances and a new feature, the children's hour.\n\nA Peking telegram states that late at night on the 19th, the President and Wong Chung-wai had a private consultation on the Cabinet question and eventually reached a settlement. A manifesto was issued next day to the effect that the request that Tang Shao-yi should form a Cabinet was withdrawn, and that Wong Chung-wai had been appointed Premier.\n\nAnother Peking message states that the terms for the return of the naval squadron from Canton have been arranged, and they will be put into effect when the Peking Government is in a position to meet the arrears of payment.\n\nWUCHOW UNREST.\n\nSTAR THEATRE.\n\n\"The Miracle of Love\".\n\nENTERTAINMENTS\n\nTHE CORONET\n\nHOTELS\n\nLEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.\n\nHONGKONG:\n\nPeak Hotel,\n\nRepulse Bay Hotel.\n\n'SHANGHAI:\n\nPalace Hotel,\n\nGrand Hotel Kalee.\n\nPEKING:\n\nGrand Hotel des Wagon Lits.\n\nThe Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.\n\nIn conjunction with\n\nThe Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.\n\nand\n\nThe Grand Hotel des Wagons Ltd.\n\nKING EDWARD HOTEL.\n\nCENTRAL LOCATION,\n\nELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.\n\nHOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.\n\nIsl. Central 373.\n\nTelegraphic Address: \"VICTORIA\n\nJ. WITCHELL,\n\nTo-day at 2.30, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.15.\n\nORIGINAL CAST\n\nIN\n\nTHE GIRL\n\nIN THE TAXI.\n\nWORLD\n\nPHONE. 1337\n\nKOWLOON\n\nTHEATRE\n\nTO-NIGHT at 9 15 TO-MORROW at 5.45\n\nand 9.15.\n\nHAROLD LLOYD\n\nIN\n\n\"A SAILOR MADE MAN.\"\n\nTHEATRE\n\nPHONE 1337\n\nManager.\n\nTHE EUROPE HOTEL.\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nDANCING AFTER DINNER EVERY\n\nMONDAY, WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY.\n\nTEA DANCES\n\nTUESDAYS and THURSDAYS.\n\nThe Hotel Orchestra under the Direction of Mr. F. R. Martens.\n\nTelephones in every Room.\n\n148 Nom\n\n81 163\n\nTelephone No. 2740 (9 lines).\n\nSUBSIDIARY COINS.\n\nHongkong 50 ct. pieces\n\n10\n\n5\n\n124 pm.\n\npar\n\n19.5/5% dir.\n\nJanctu sub. coins\n\nHengsong. S pr 22. 1922.\n\nWEATHER REPORT.\n\nSept. 22nd 11% 17.\n\nIt has decreased slightly over L., and lightly from Vladivostock to Weihaiwei.\n\nThe typhoon which passed the Bonins on September 19 has moved to the E. of Hakkaido.\n\nThe anticyclone is now centred near Weihaiwei. It is moving eastward.\n\nHowever inclement the weather outside, there is always a feeling of tranquility inside the Star Theatre. This evening the management is exhibiting as a special attraction the film version of Cosmo Hamilton's famous novel, \"The Miracle of Love.\"\n\nIt took three weeks to erect the elaborate \"set\" of the House of Lords for \"The Miracle of Love.\"\n\nIt is a stirring story of English high life, with Wyndham Standing and Lucy Cotton in the chief parts. The hero is a younger son of a British noble family who is about to renounce his career as an idle and impecunious lord and seek his fortune outside of England, when he suddenly becomes heir to the title through the accidental death of his elder brother. A love story has been worked into the plot, which is said to abound in thrilling situations.\n\nFORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.\n\nDistrict.\n\nFormosa Channel\n\n2 South\n\ncoast of China between H.K. & Lamocks.\n\nThe Military and Gambling.\n\nNews from Wuchow brought back by a resident who has been there on a pleasure trip reveals very much the same state of topsy-turveydom that has been prevalent for months past. Soldiers of the Fourth Division of the Cantonese Army who have been garrisoning the town are said to be sadly out of hand on account of arrears in pay, and to secure funds they have transformed themselves into gambling monopolists. In the main street there are as many as forty concerns doing a brisk business in fantan, and officers are unable to enforce discipline on the men. The situation is given a farcical touch by the elaborate precautions of three gunboats in midstream, which appear to apprehend danger from the military, for their steam has been continually kept up ready for any emergency since their arrival under the orders of Chan Wing-son.\n\nReports are filtering into Hongkong of fighting between the Kwangtung and Yunnanese troops on the one hand and the Kwangsi troops on the other, further up the interior.\n\nPublic confidence appears to have been very badly shaken, for the majority of the shops remain closed, whilst those that venture to continue business close their shutters very early in the evenings. Pedestrians are a rare sight at night, many of the inhabitants preferring the safety of barred doors to walking about in the streets, where, as likely as not, they would stand the risk of being robbed by the military.\n\nRECORD ENROLMENT AT SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY.\n\nA record number of students has been enrolled in St. John's University (Shanghai), 340 in the collegiate department and 250 in the middle school.\n\nat 2 p.m. 6 am 2pm.\n\n76 17\n\n84 86\n\n6 4 Sa. 23 m 10 49 69 4 9\n\n22nd. to 28th, Sept. 1922\n\nLow Water\n\nHongkong\n\nHoogkong\n\nMean Time\n\n1, b. m.\n\nMean Time\n\nft. m. 7.3 20 48 6.%\n\nb. 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Ob... vatory, Sept. 21.\n\n5 7 14\n\n5 15 2.6\n\nm 5 56 1,8\n\n1\n\nTientsin.\n\nCordillere, from\n\nVongtsonpao li Laridle Street, from Shanghai.\n\nKianghing Engiok West, from Taipeh.\n\nLootengsi, from Amoy.\n\nMinleechan, from Shanghai.\n\nChengsoychor 11 Old Peel\n\nStreet, from Shanghai.\n\nPianchang, from Amoy.\n\nKihung, from Kobe.\n\nYungsikshang, from Kobe.\n\nLiang Laitsak, from Shanghai.\n\nHongkong's Most Modern & Coolest Picture Palace.\n\nTO-DAY at 5.15 and 3.15 p.m.\n\nTHE DRAMA OF A GIRL WHO KEPT STRAIGHT:\n\nA REALART PICTURE:\n\n\"THE LAND OF HOPE\"\n\nALICE BRADY\n\nA Powerful Story of The Dreams & Accomplishment of a Boy\n\nIn an Ad prod. Lawl\n\nHARRY SNOB POLLARD COMEDY.\n\n2.30 & 7.15 p.m.\n\nCHARLES HUTCHISON in\n\nSTAR\n\nDOUBLE ADVENTURE\" Ejendea, & mai ti,\n\nTHEATRE.\n\nPEKING ROAD, KOWLOON. Tel. Kowloo... 7\n\nThe biggest house exhibiting the lust ; ietur s\n\nTO-DAY to MONDAY, 25th. 5,30 and 95 10.\n\nLUCY COTTON\n\nin\n\n\"THE MIRACLE OF LOVE.\"\n\nA Cosmopolitan Special Picture.\n\nking at the Star Ferry Wharf for Hongkong Rodne FREE FERRY TICKETS BOTH WAYS. Open Daily #30 jo buô pm, and 1 to 9 pm, Saturdays 2 to 2.1 pm.. 3 to 5 15 pm\n\nSEE HAND BILLS.\n\nto 9 pm.\n\nJAPAN COAL\n\n- AND\n\nGENERAL IMPORTS AND\n\nEXPORTS\n\nAGENTS FOR:\n\nLiangtsuche Lharlie & Co.\n\nTHE MIT UBISHI MARINE & FIR» INSURANCE CO (2), from Shanghai\n\nTHE OSAKA MARINE & FIRE INSURANCE CO.\n\n9235, from Chinkiang.\n\nTH. KRING Superintendent.\n\nHongkong, September 21, 1922\n\nEASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL ARIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO\n\n11377/19th, Bankasia, from\n\nMadras.\n\n9044, 15th. Lampert Hongkong 6 29 3. Hotel, from Ningpo.\n\n57 2.8\n\nM. E. F. AIREY,\n\nSuperintendent,\n\nHongkong. September 21, 1922\n\nMITSUBISHI SHOJI KAISHA\n\n· MITSUBISHI TRADING CO., LTD.)\n\nHEAD OFFICE:-TOKYO\n\nNo. 14. PEDDER ST., HONGKONG.\n\nPrinted and Published for the Proprietor, by Alfred Morley e 11. Ice House Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.\n\nPage 21\n\n...\n\nPage 22",
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"content_text": "230\n\n6\n\n2. Any person who does, or attempts to do, any act prohibited by these regulations shall be guilty of a breach of the same: and shall, upon conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding $50, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding three months, or to both. Provided that in any case where such breach relates to the importation or exportation of any goods the import or export of which is prohibited by article 1 of these regulations the fine imposable upon conviction may extend to a sum equivalent to treble the value of the goods in relation to which the breach is committed.\n\n3. Any goods in relation to which an offence under these regulations has been committed shall be liable to forfeiture, and upon forfeiture shall be disposed of as His Majesty's Minister may direct.\n\n4. Nothing in these regulations shall be deemed to prohibit any transaction authorised by a written licence granted by His Majesty's Minister.\n\n5. These regulations may be cited as The Arms Regulations, 1919.”\n\nPeking, June 2, 1919.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Minister.\n\nSub-Enclosure 2 to Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nDraft Resolution.\n\nWHEREAS on the 5th May, 1919, and subsequent dates the diplomatic representatives in Peking of the Powers now in conference at Washington, to wit, the United States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Portugal, together with the diplomatic representatives of Brazil, Denmark, Russia and Spain, took certain steps to restrict the importation into China of arms and munitions of war and material destined exclusively for their manufacture until the establishment of a Government whose authority was recognised throughout the whole country;\n\nAnd whereas since the above date until the present day the Powers concerned have exerted themselves to maintain this policy of withholding the supply of arms and munitions from all parties in China;\n\nAnd whereas, nevertheless, unsettled political conditions still continue in China, and a central stable Government has not yet been established;\n\nAnd whereas the Powers attending this conference consider that any relaxation of their policy, as hitherto followed, would only serve to encourage the continuance of civil strife and to aggravate political discord in China:\n\nIt is resolved-\n\n1. That the Powers attending this conference do reaffirm their previous agreement, and in pursuance thereof undertake effectively to restrain their subjects and citizens from exporting to or importing into China arms and munitions of war and material destined exclusively for their manufacture until the establishment of a Government whose authority is recognised throughout the whole country, and also to prohibit during the above period the delivery of arms and munitions for which contracts have already been made but not executed.\n\n2. That the Powers attending this conference will forthwith take such steps as may be necessary to render it unlawful for their subjects and citizens, either on their own behalf or on behalf of any other person of whatever nationality, to import into or export out of China, or any concession, settlement or leased territory in China, or buy or sell or deal in, or enter into negotiations for the sale or purchase of, or other dealings in arms, ammunition and munitions of war of every description, but exclusive of sporting weapons and ammunition therefor.\n\n3. And that other Powers in treaty relations with China, but not represented at this conference, whether or not they participated in the above-mentioned steps taken in 1919, be invited to adhere to the present resolution.\n\nFranklin Square Hotel, Washington, D.C.,\n\nJanuary 18, 1922.\n\n7\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir R. Graham to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.\n\n(No. 1042.) My Lord,\n\nRome, December 28, 1921. ON receipt of your Lordship's telegram No. 511 of the 15th instant, I at once placed myself in communication with my Japanese colleague with a view to a united representation to the Italian Government on the subject of the arms and ammunition sold to the Chinese from the barracks occupied by Italian troops at Chan-Hai-Kouan. My Japanese colleague suggested, and I agreed, that an identic note on this subject should be addressed to the Italian Government by himself, by me and by the United States and French Ambassadors so soon as the two latter had received the necessary instructions from their Governments.\n\nOn the 26th instant my Japanese colleague informed me that the United States and French Ambassadors had received their instructions, and he communicated to me the draft of the proposed note to the Italian Government. I agreed in the terms of this note, a copy of which is enclosed herewith, and yesterday it was sent in to the Italian Government.\n\nMy United States colleague informs me that he is in his note unable to quote the agreement of the 8th April, 1919, as it is no longer binding upon the United States Government. He is therefore addressing his protest to the Italian Government without making a reference to the above agreement.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nR. GRAHAM.\n\nSub-Enclosure to Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nCopy of Note verbale sent to Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, December 27, 1921.\n\nON the 8th April, 1919, the five Powers, Italy, Japan, France, the United States of America and Great Britain, realising that the supply of arms by foreign Powers to certain elements in China would only serve to increase the disorder of the already troubled internal situation in that country, decided, at the suggestion of the United States Minister at Peking, to refrain absolutely and entirely from importing arms and ammunition into China until such a time as a Government should be established whose authority would be recognised throughout the country. They further agreed to forbid the importation of arms and ammunition, contracts for the delivery of which had already been made but not carried out. In view of this decision, the Diplomatic Corps at Peking met on the 26th April, 1919, again at the suggestion of the United States Minister, and arrived at a general agreement in the same sense.\n\nTo this agreement the Italian Minister adhered, after seeking instructions from his Government, merely formulating reserves in respect of contracts which had been or should be concluded before all the interested States had given their adhesion. But the Royal Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs shortly afterwards withdrew these reserves at the request of the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires in Rome, the principle of forbidding the supply of arms to China thus being definitely established.\n\nAs, however, it was established that in the course of last year a certain quantity of arms had been imported from Italy into China, the Italian Minister at Peking furnished explanations in his note of the 11th July, 1920, addressed to the doyen of the Diplomatic Corps, stating that this importation had been effected without his knowledge, and declaring that he would not grant any authorisation for such transactions before normal conditions had been restored in China.\n\nIn spite of this, according to information recently received, a part, that is to say, 80 waggon-loads, of the arms and ammunition, which were kept under guard in the Italian barracks at Chan-Hai-Kouan, has been handed over about the 21st or 22nd November of this year to the Governor of the Province of Tehili. The Japanese Minister at Peking asked for information on the subject, and the Italian Chargé d'Affaires replied that, as he had received no instructions from his Government with regard to the withdrawal of the reserves made on the occasion of the decision of 1919 referred to above, he did not consider himself authorised to regard as forbidden the delivery of arms contracted for before that date.",
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"content_text": "68\n\nREPORT BY MR. WALTER E. MACKENZIE,\n\nColonial Veterinary Surgeon,\n\nSTAFF.\n\nInspector R. Duncan was in charge at Ma Tan Kok up to 22nd April, 1922, when he was relieved by Inspector W. Old who continued in charge up to the end of the year. Senior Inspector H. Knight was in charge at Kennedy Town throughout the year assisted by Inspector Hudson up to 30th May, 1922, when the latter retired. Inspector W. Coombs relieved Inspector Hudson. On 23rd December, 1922, Inspector Roylance was transferred to the Depôt.\n\nOverseer Johannsen continued in charge of Central and Western Markets throughout the year.\n\nGENERAL STATISTICS\n\nCattle. The total number of cattle admitted to Government Depôts for the year was 52,967 against 55,556 in 1921. Kennedy Town 44,530 were admitted against 46,247 in 1921. Ma Tau Kok 8,437 were admitted against 9,307 in 1921. These are the only slaughter houses for cattle in the Colony.\n\nPigs. The total number of pigs admitted to Kennedy Town was 271,186 against 292,184 in 1921. This includes 46,261 admitted to Kennedy Town and afterwards removed to other slaughter houses in the Colony, or exported from the Colony.\n\nSheep and Goats. The total number admitted to Kennedy Town was 26,653 against 30,732 in 1921. As in the case of pigs this includes 10,245 admitted to Kennedy Town and afterwards exported or removed to Ma Tau Kok and other places.\n\nDISEASE IN DEPÔTS.\n\nRinderpest. Only three cases occurred all being imported from West River districts.\n\nTuberculosis. Seven cases occurred all in European cattle. No cases found among Chinese stock. In addition to above 19 carcases of cattle were condemned as unfit for food on account of various diseases. Six pigs were condemned on account of Swine Fever, etc.\n\nKENNEDY TOWN ANIMAL CREMATORIUM.\n\n \n \n 1921\n 1922\n \n \n Cattle\n 93\n 144\n \n \n Calves\n \n \n \n \n Sheep\n 20\n \n \n \n Swine\n 64\n 66\n \n \n Dogs, etc.\n 394\n 676\n \n \n Condemned Meat\n \n \n \n \n Horses, Mules...\n 526\n 669\n \n \n \n 11,287 lb.\n 10,171 lb.\n \n\nIn addition to above 47 cart loads of old papers, etc. from Government offices and private firms were destroyed (38 cart loads...\n\nPage 69\n\n was not present, hence not added. The original text ends with \"112\" which seems incomplete. As per the instructions, the original content is preserved without adding any new content or explanation.",
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"content_text": "# MINUTES\n\n## Subject\n\nM... in 3 years' time... say that the local measures... that the Foreign Office will implement before...\n\nThis... the Governor's Condition... as freedom from income Tax of... all... to be found... to the... by HRH... H.K. Judge... together with the suggestions... modifications... mentioned in the despatch...\n\nLind Risbey... ? Gary... Sus... Bom '7/3/23...\n\n(I doubt if on jurisdict... The subject... Grounds... the income tax... All freedom from... can be allowed)...\n\n## MINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `F317/222/10`, and address to \"The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1. 31st March, 1923.\n\n91 20 +76528/2 $250.\n\nSir,\n\nWith further reference to Foreign Office letter `2970/2970/10` of the 18th September last on the subject of the provision of some more satisfactory eyeter for the hearing of appeals from the Judge and Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court for China at Shanghai, I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to state, for the information of the Duke of Devonshire, that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have approved the proposed arrangements as regards the emoluments of the Chief Justice of Hongkong, or some other competent lawyer in his place, when acting as a member of the Full Court in Shanghai.\n\n2. The proposed emolument is the same as in the case of the Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court at Shanghai, when visiting Hongkong as a Judge of the Appeal Court there, viz., that the Chief Justice of Hongkong, when visiting Shanghai as a Judge of the Appeal Court there, should receive a yearly non-pensionable allowance of two hundred and fifty pounds together with actual travelling expenses and a subsistence allowance of fifteen dollars a day.\n\n3. Their Lordships consider, however, that the non-pensionable allowance to be paid to the Chief Justice of Hongkong, or the lawyer who deputises for him, should be subject to reconsideration in three years' time, having regard to the number of working days which are found to be required...\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nAt once 10/3/23",
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"content_text": "## MINUTES\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE**\n\nMay 26th, 1923.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 14th instant regarding the remuneration to be paid to the Chief Justice of Hongkong for sitting as an Appeal Judge at Shanghai, I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit herewith a copy of a letter on the subject which has been received from His Majesty's Treasury.\n\n2. It will be seen that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury are prepared to sanction the payment to the Chief Justice of Hongkong or his deputy of an allowance of three hundred pounds a year payable at the rate of two shillings to the dollar, together with actual travelling expenses and a subsistence allowance of fifteen dollars a day, but that they cannot agree that this sum shall be paid free of income tax.\n\n3. I am to enquire whether the arrangement now authorised is acceptable to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the government of Hongkong.\n\nYour obedient Servant,\nKertom\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `F1386/222/10`, not to any person by name, but to \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nREG. 28 MAY 23 \nS.7.1. \n214 \n26235 \n70",
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"content_text": "## MINUTES\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote No. `680/428/10` and address, but not to any person by name, \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S. W. 1.\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE \n17 MAR 24 \nS.V.1. \n15th March, 1924.\n\nWith reference to Colonial Office letter `51839/23` of the 5th instant relative to the remuneration to be paid to the Chief Justice of Hongkong for sitting as a member of the proposed Court of Appeal at Shanghai, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Ramsay MacDonald to state, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are not prepared to sanction the payment to this officer of an allowance of three thousand dollars a year, free of income tax.\n\n2. The Treasury have however, intimated semi-officially that they are prepared to agree to an arrangement whereby the allowance of three thousand dollars a year should be paid to the Chief Justice by the Hongkong Government, whose contribution to the Registry of Companies at Shanghai should be reduced by a corresponding amount, viz, to seven thousand dollars a year instead of ten thousand dollars per annum as agreed in Foreign Office letter of January 3rd last (`F3622/127/10`). The allowance would then be free of United Kingdom income tax and would be payable from the date on which the necessary Order in Council is brought into force.\n\n3. \n| Ref. | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| | 13,000 |\n| | 7,000 |\n| | 10,000 |\n| YO 384 | |\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.",
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"content_text": "The crews of these vessels were drawn from various parts on the Station and the allowances which were paid to them while they were in commission were those shown in paragraph 12 of the Commodore's letter.\n\nIn this connection I am to observe that the Commander-in-Chief authorised the continuance of Submarine Pay and Hard Lying Money to the officers and ratings lent from Submarines and other vessels in order to prevent any loss of emoluments during the period of the loan.\n\nSubmarine pay was not payable to ratings under the Regulations for the period of service in the S.S. \"U KWONG\" and \"TING ON\" (about three months) nor do the Regulations contemplate payment to officers when detached in such circumstances from their appointments.\n\nAs regards Hard Lying Money, Article 1486 (K.R.1/25) provides for payment in certain classes of vessels where the crew actually live and sleep on board. Payment was made so far as \"TUNG KWONG\" was concerned for such periods as this condition was fulfilled but the allowance was not payable under the Article quoted in respect of \"TING ON\".\n\nIn the circumstances I am to request that you will refer the Lords Commissioners of H.M. Treasury to give their....\n\nPage 226",
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"content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nDowning Street,\n\n14th May, 1926.\n\n223\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary Amery to transmit to you, for the observations of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the accompanying copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong submitting a proposal for the formation of a Hong Kong Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.\n\n2. In this connection, I am to invite attention to the letter from this department of the 20th June, 1925, and to enclose for Their Lordships' information, a copy of a despatch from Sir R. E. Stubbs, the former Governor of Hong Kong, on this question. It will be observed that the views expressed by Sir C. Clementi apparently differ from those of Sir R. E. Stubbs; and Mr. Amery would be prepared, in the event of the proposal meeting with Their Lordships' approval in principle, to seek assurances from the Governor that it would be possible to maintain the force in an efficient state of organisation and training not only during operations but after the expiration of the existing anti-British boycott at Canton.\n\n(Signed) G. GRINDLE.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nAdmiralty.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\n...\n\nFrom the Vis & Stulbe, the Amery Pus. off thoughing on this question. It will be observed that the visions expressed by is C. Dementi afferently differ bom tons of St RS Subbo;\n\n[appears to be a fragment and not directly related to the main text]\n\nGov C.8163/26\n\nDec\n\nHk\n\nAmery\n\nwould be\n\npreferred,\n\nin the event of the proposal meeting with Their Lordships' approval in principle,\n\nto cut are wanus\n\nfrom\n\nthe Gov.\n\nthat it would be possible to maintain the\n\nforce\n\nefficient state of organisation\n\nthe\n\ntraining not only during operation but after the expiration of the existing anti-British\n\nLoyartt\n\nat Canton.\n\n...\n\nPage 223\n\n[three lines at the top and three at the bottom indicating page numbering are kept as is]",
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"content_text": "118\n\nthe contracting Powers concerned; but I doubt whether discussions initiated between so many Powers at one and the same time would be speedy or successful. If, however, Great Britain, Japan, the United States and France could agree on a common policy, then their joint influence would probably obtain ready acquiescence from the other Powers, whose interests in China are much less considerable.\n\n21.\n\nChinese affairs are, of course, vitally important to Japan, and I would refer in this connection to my secret despatch of the 12th May in which I drew your attention to the view of Marshal Wu P'ei-fu that Japan is just as much responsible for the anti-British campaign in Canton as Russia, that it is Japan's desire to cripple Hong Kong as a counter-blow to our Singapore naval base scheme, and that it is Japan's policy to continue to foment civil war in China, so as to render any and every government of that country unstable. I believe, however, that Japanese antagonism to British interests in China would completely vanish and that relations between ourselves and Japan would again be as cordial as in the days of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, if only His Majesty's Government in concert with the Government of the United States of America would agree to the recognition of southern Manchuria as a Japanese sphere of influence, for the development of which (subject to the maintenance of the \"open door\") we were prepared to give Japan a free hand. If Great Britain, Japan and the United States of America were united in their Chinese policy, this would go far to remove the troubles from which all three nations now suffer in China, and it would enable us to speak with such authority to the War Lords at the head of the various Chinese regional groups that the commerce of our nationals would be greatly facilitated and that Bolshevism would no longer be a serious threat.\n\n22.\n\nThe only administrative organization which still holds the Eighteen Provinces together is the Chinese Maritime Customs",
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"content_text": "56\n\nhis cruisers from these waters, probably because he has neither money to pay his crews nor ammunition for his guns, and I doubt whether he will be able to give this colony any further help for some time to come.\n\n2. The position in and around Peking appears to be such that the so-called Chief Executive is wholly without power; and no matter what form of Government may be set up at Peking as a result of the conflicts now in progress between the various war lords in the north, it seems certain that the present Canton Government will refuse to recognise its authority.\n\n3. In Shanghai and the provinces at the mouth of the Yang-tsze Marshal Sun Chuan-fang appears at present to be the dominant power, and he is, I am told, at the head of a well-drilled and well-equipped army of about 60,000 men. I have been informed that Marshal Sun is a native of Fukien Province; that he has been much incensed by the advance of the Cantonese Red army under General Cheung Kai-shek north of Swatow to the frontier of the Fukien Province; that he is a determined enemy of the Russian Bolshevik influence in China; that he, like Admiral Li, regards the present de facto Government of Canton as a rebel Government, and that he has expressed his intention of marching southward through Fukien into Kuang-tung in order to overthrow the present Cantonese Soviet Administration. I am endeavouring to test the accuracy of this information, but my impression is that no real help can be expected from Marshal Sun as regards Cantonese affairs for a considerable time, if at all.\n\n4. The position at Canton itself is not yet very clear to me. There is no doubt that the present de facto Government is a Soviet of the Russian type with Mr. Wong Tsing-wai as Chairman and Dr. C. C. Wu (a son of the late Mr. Wu Ting-fang) as its principal foreign adviser, while Mr. Sung Tsz-man is in control of financial affairs. I doubt whether any of these three could properly be described as \"Red,\" but they have certainly been under Russian influence; they have been financed with Russian money; Russian military officers have trained their troops, and munitions of war have been supplied to them from Russia vià Vladivostok. Members of the Canton Soviet, namely, Mr. Chan Kung-pok and Mr. Tam Peng-shan. At least two are undoubtedly \"Red\"; and so was Mr. Liu Chung-hoi, who has recently been assassinated. The forces of the Canton Government are mainly under the command of General Cheung Kai-shek, who is said to be a professional soldier and not a politician. I can get no reliable information concerning him, and I do not know how far he is under Bolshevik influence. His troops have certainly been drilled and equipped by Russians.\n\n5. As regards the Russians themselves, there is again no reliable evidence, but I believe the truth to be that they do not exceed 200 in number and may even be as few as 50, and that both their numbers and their influence have of late been steadily decreasing. Admiral Basire, who commands the French fleet on this station, told me recently on the authority of the French consul at Canton that a Russian officer recently had a dispute with a Chinese officer in Canton; that in the course of the altercation the Russian put his hand on the Chinaman's shoulder; that the Chinaman thereupon whipped out a revolver and shot the Russian dead; that Borodiu, who is the head of the Bolshevik Mission in Canton, so far from feeling himself strong enough to protest against this act, had been obliged to ignore it. I incline to believe that the Chinese are already heartily sick of their Russian advisers, and would be thankful to get rid of them. I may say in this connection that shortly after my arrival I received through Sir James Jamieson a formal despatch from the Canton Government dated the 2nd November requesting me to expel from Hong Kong Mr. Chan Kwing-ming and Mr. Ngai Pong-peng, who are the avowed enemies of the present Canton Soviet. I replied on the 12th November pointing out that it was the traditional policy of the Hong Kong Government to prevent this colony from being used for political intrigue against the Chinese Government; that I should steadfastly adhere to that policy and expel any who evade it; but that I must first be satisfied that the Canton authorities will reciprocate by refusing to allow the Kuang-tung Province to be used as a base for political intrigue against this colony, and that I should regard the expulsion of the Russian Bolshevik emissaries now in Canton as a proof that the Canton Government is in earnest in this matter. I attach copies of these two letters.* No further communication on this subject has been received by me from the Canton Government.\n\n6. In consequence of the present anti-British boycott in Canton, I found that prior to my arrival practically all communication both between this Government and the British consul-general at Canton and also between the British consul-general at Canton and the de facto Government at Canton had been suspended. Sir James Jamieson and Sir Edward Stubbs had not met each other since the outbreak of the trouble in June last, nor had Sir James Jamieson left the Shameen and entered the Chinese city to visit any Cantonese officials since that date. Sir James, in fact, wrote to me that it would be unhealthy for him to do so in view of the fact that he was on the list for assassination. I at once invited Sir James to visit me in Hong Kong, and he was with me at Government House from the 11th to the 19th November. As a result of my conversations with him, it became evident to me that negotiations with the Canton Government could not be carried on by him, and that if such negotiations were to take place I must myself get into direct personal touch with the officers of the de facto Government in Canton.\n\n7. As a first step I made a speech at the Hong Kong University on the 11th November, which was in effect an offer of friendship to the Canton Government and a suggestion that we should let byegones be byegones, end the boycott, and resume the old amicable relations between Hong Kong and Canton. I attach a copy of this speech.* My next step was to write on the 24th November to Dr. C. C. Wu inviting him to pay me a visit. He replied on the 26th November that it was impossible for him to leave Canton, but that he hoped I might be able to visit him there. I attach a copy of his reply.*\n\nMeanwhile there had been a certain fraternisation between Cantonese merchants and the Chinese merchants of Hong Kong. A delegation of Cantonese merchants visited Hong Kong on the 20th November and remained here until the 25th November. During that time they were entertained by the Chinese merchants of this colony, by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, and also by Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, the Acting Colonial Secretary, whom I authorised to receive them at tea. The result of this visit was to show very clearly that the Cantonese merchants were as anxious as the Hong Kong merchants to see the end of the boycott; and, although they were not empowered to negotiate any settlement, I took advantage of the occasion of their visit to announce that the Hong Kong Government would be willing to appoint a strong deputation of merchants to visit Canton and to negotiate a settlement provided that the Canton Government would appoint suitable delegates to meet them. The names I mentioned were those of Sir Paul Chater, Messrs. Chow Shou-sen and Kotewall (Chinese members of the Legislative Council), and Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, the head of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. These names were given to Dr. S. W. Tso, a prominent member of the Chinese community of Hong Kong, for communication to Dr. C. C. Wu, to whom he is related. Dr. Tso returned with the unsatisfactory reply that (a) the strikers would elect three members of their committee to be delegates with full powers to negotiate, one of them almost certainly being the chairman of the Strike Committee; (b) the merchants would also elect one prominent merchant to be a member of the delegation, this would most probably be the chairman of the Canton General Chamber of Commerce; (c) other members of the Strike Committee, probably six, and perhaps one or two additional merchants would be present at the negotiations to watch the proceedings; and (d) that Mr. Luk King-fo, a minor Cantonese official, could be attached to the Canton delegation as secretary. It would obviously have served no useful purpose to send the influential Hong Kong delegates, whom I had named, up to Canton to negotiate a settlement with men such as these, and I therefore cast about for means of starting negotiations upon other lines.\n\n8. On the 2nd December I was informed that Mr. Yeung Sai-ngam, a semi-official emissary of the Canton Government, was anxious to see me. I agreed to see him and he came informally to visit me at Government House that afternoon, explained to him verbally that the Hong Kong Government was absolutely sincere in its wish for a settlement of the present trouble with Canton, but that it would be useless for me to send a deputation to Canton for the purpose of negotiating a settlement unless the Canton Government appointed delegates of equal standing. I also gave him a personal letter for delivery to Mr. Wong Tsing-wai, presenting him my compliments and informing him that I had had an interesting conversation that day with Mr. Yeung Sai-ngam. This letter was intended to serve as a credential. On the 8th December Mr. Yeung Sai-ngam returned to Hong Kong and brought me a Chinese letter of a complimentary nature in the handwriting of Mr. Wong Tsing-wai and also the draft in Chinese of a letter which it was proposed\n\n• Not printed.\n\n57",
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"content_text": "zb \n\nis named by the Chinese press as the Defence Commissioner and Chief of Police.\n\nwar in 1925, when \n\nThe Combine was formed during the time of it was widely acknowledged that the fighting for the occupation of Shanghai centre round the opium traffic.\n\nNorth West. Poppy sown during 1925 owing to military occupation, and an extensive traffic in outside opium carried on by soldiers. Now (1926) the magistrate has given strict orders that all poppy and opium The former may be stop smoking must \n\nwithin three months. accomplished because the poppy harvest will be over, but we doubt the latter.\n\nThe officials of General Sun seen to be wide awake and are We think the officials are the key scouring the country in search of poppy.\n\ncarried \n\non, \n\nto the situation. If they are opposed to its production, it will have to go. Usually they are nine-tenths of the reason for its existence. Nurth Bust.\n\n1. There has never been any large growth of opium in this section. Sporadic attempts to plant have been recently stopped.\n\nthe former 2. The transmission of opium and drugs under \n\nthe militarists freely administration was military themselves conducting such operations on a large scale. Since General Sun Ch'uan-fang has taken control, conditions have much improved.\n\nthe carried \n\nbut still is of opium \n\non, The selling 3. \n\nBranch is who has become member of our \n\na Chief of Police, making careful investigation, and has plans for the suppression of the traffic.\n\n4. Members of our \n\nin Branch travelling \n\nvarious directions \n\nin the province report marked increase in opium smoking, specially amongst the military.\n\neaten and smoked, but A correspondent states: \"Opium is not grown. Farmers are afraid of official squeeze and military blackmail.\" Central Kiangan. This section embraces the river ports of Nanking. Chungkiang, Wusih, Kiang Yin, and the cities of Yangchow, Taichow, Small Kaoyu Chow, and Taitung. Paoying, Hinghua. Tungtai, amount of poppy grown in a few outlying districts of the inland cities. but the increase in opium smoking is equivalent to 4-tenths of the population.\n\nThe users are mostly trading and working classes. The low price of opium ($z an ounce) and laxity of prohibition laws are mainly responsible.\n\nKiang Yin magistrate is using drastic measures to eliminate the sale of opium. He has opened a refuge and forcibly detains those addicted.\n\nOpium smok- \n\nChinking. 200 miles along Grand Canal no poppy seen. ing is secret in this city. Police are vigilant.\n\nto obtain as the sale Nanking. Great deal of opium used, it is easy is a military monopoly. The opium comes principally from Anhuei and Szechuan. In the villages opium smokers seem to receive full protection Sale and use of from the police. Wusih, Kiang Ying. No poppy. opium quite general. Magistrate recently attempted suppression but owing to bribes and lax officials it failed. Paying or bribing officials secures a permit for protected transportation. Opium use has increased since the war of 1925 owing to soldiers indulging in free trade. North Kiangau. Investigation in I districts surrounding Antung, no poppy is grown, but at Haichow 70 miles away on the coast it is \n\ngrown.\n\n21 \n\nOpium smoking is not increasing.\n\nSHANGHAI \n\nThis is one of the largest opium traffic centres in the world. Opium reaches the city from every part of China and abroad, Customs seizures and Mixed Court records are below. Some of the big deals are referred to in the opening review, they are valued in millions and amount to hundreds of tons.\n\nThe press reports that the Tupan has mortgaged the opium monopoly to an opium combine for an enormous sum. Military officials compose the combine in the provinces of Kiangsu and Chekiang, hence protests from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and Nanking were \n\nfutile.\n\nThe Central Government in May 1925 sent a Commission to Shanghai to investigate the opium scandals. Nothing was revealed from their report.\n\nIn June 1925 three prominent Generals quarrelled over opium control in Shanghai, which ended in their bodyguards opening fire. Two Generals were wounded and one killed. Police and soldiers have fought on several occasions for the possession of whole \"junk loads\" of opium.\n\nIt would take pages to review the opium history of Shanghai for 1925. Enough to say that millions of money can be made out of opium, and this is the easiest way to raise funds for civil wars and the maintenance of armies.\n\nOpium is limitless, and so is the demand,\n\nThe opium combine has developed into such a scourge that the National Anti-Opium Association believes that it can only be removed through strong public opinion.\n\nThere are scores of opium shops operating in the Chinese city under the very eyes of the officials. The National Association in their report gives the names of 36 shops in the French Concession where opium is sold secretly. Members of their staff made purchases at six of these shops.\n\nSHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL \n\nThe imputation has often been made that foreigners are lenient towards opium smugglers and narcotic dealers. The International Anti-Opium Association asked for a report from Shanghai and this as enumerated below shows such imputation to be absolutely unfounded. 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"content_text": "30\n\ndistrict in different directions. I travelled 10 hours a day and covered 33 English miles daily, and saw poppy everywhere extensively cultivated. The farmers are compelled to plant by the military. Merchants from Honan and Hupeh provinces come here to buy opium. The city has to pay this year in taxes to the General in Chungking $500,000-\n\n\"Opium smoking is dreadful, out of 172 families in one village only 27 do not smoke. Children in home and school are indulging. Over 30 of our church members were suspended in 1925 for opium smoking.\"\n\nMy Mission work covers three districts and Clony Choo, itineraries cover 50 miles north and south of the river and 90 miles along the river. Little opium is grown in Changchow district, but in the other two districts of Fengta and Shihtzu it is plentiful. Poppy seriously affected the rice crop in 1925 and rice rose to $9 a bushel,\n\nOpium smoking everywhere, and dens well patronized.\n\nWest Szechuan.\n\nFachow. Increased planting this year, poppy fields come right up to the edge of school compound.\n\nHuvilichow. From this city all the way down the section of the province which dips into Yunnan, there is increased cultivation. This area adjoins \"Loiiland\".\n\nNing Yuen. There is heavy traffic in the drug, but figures not obtainable.\n\nTatsienbu. We are 8,500 feet up, no poppy grown here but plenty in the plain. 300 opium dens in the city. Big trade of opium into Tibet. Opium is bartered to Tibetans who are using more and more each year. No official prohibition of any description.\n\nSoutheast Szechuan.\n\nFoochow. We are living in the midst of a poppy field. We cannot imagine a time when more poppy was grown than at present. In a local meeting in Dec. 1925 the gentry, merchants and people protested against the demand of the Military Governor that $600,000 be raised by opium taxes. The Governor stated that this sum had been raised in previous years and it must be raised again.\n\nSouth Szechuan.\n\nLatchow. Not more than one-third of last year's planting. Use is general, opium dens everywhere.\n\nSuifu. Some sections show increased planting, others less, on the whole about half of that planted in 1925 season. Dry weather and heavy taxes in 1925 discouraged the farmers, most of them lost money. Townships on the Yunnan border have been compelled to plant by official proclamation.\n\nSmoking on the increase, 3,000 licensed dens in the city.\n\nTranshipment of opium is the main business of Suifu and the main source of revenue.\n\n\"I recently travelled for a short distance with a caravan of one hundred loads of opium, coming from Yunnan to Suifu. It was protected by 250 soldiers, and valued at $700,000\".\n\nCentral Szechuan.\n\nChengtu. \"In the four counties where I itinerate opium planting is about half that of last year. Lien Yang, which last year raised more than any other county in this part of China, has greatly reduced the poppy acreage this year. In Chengtu and all market towns opium dens are more numerous.\n\nMienchow, Chang Ming, Chang Yu, Loh Chuang. Not much to be seen along the highroads, more back in the mountain districts. Posters with a heading, \"Forbid Opium Regulations\", are seen everywhere. This means the tax must be paid for selling and opium dens. Opium smoking is obvious everywhere.\n\nChung Kiang. None planted here, the tax being far too heavy, farmers will not risk it. Opium plentiful, everywhere taxed. About 500 dens in the city. Each lamp in dens is taxed $2 a month and in private houses, $4. Smoking without tax permit is heavily fined. The whole traffic controlled by the military.\n\nTing You. The military attempted to force the people of this county to plant sufficient opium to furnish a tax of $30,000. The people tried to compromise by supplying $15,000, and at the time of writing, the question is not yet settled.\n\nJien Chou. Has more opium planted than any other part of the province. My travels take me over five counties, and opium forms about 1/3 of the total crops.\n\nLess planted this year in some counties because of heavy taxes. The area which suffered most from famine last year is the section of Jien Chou which grows most opium.\n\nHokiang. The people generally seem unwilling to plant, and five-sixths of those who do are forced to it.\n\nEast Szechuan, Kweifu/Kweichow. Poppy has been planted in this district more plentifully than ever before, and the harvest is very promising. The military are levying a large tax upon the output of opium, and this year, as formerly, all those who refuse to grow poppy in their fields have to pay a tax for exemption. The outlook is distinctly bad.\n\nYUNNAN\n\nThough reports this year are few, they indicate little change. The remoteness of this opium province, and its freedom from Central Government control, encourages extensive cultivation. As far as can be ascertained it still maintains its position as the premier opium province in China.\n\nYunnan opium is of high quality and the land exceptionally good for its cultivation. Its opium reaches all parts of China by land and sea. Shanghai combines both Naval and Military import from Yunnan, whilst both India and France complain of the amount smuggled across their frontiers. The Yunnan opium reaching Burmah exceeds that sold by the Government Monopoly. Much is smuggled to Hongkong and Malay States. Chinese Naval cruisers are credited with having annexed 400 cases of Yunnan opium en route to Shanghai.\n\nEastern Yunnan. More opium planted than last year.\n\nWestern Yunnan. There is no change this year. Opium cultivation and use is as general here as in the rest of the province.\n\nNorth Eastern Yunnan. Freely planted everywhere. 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"content_text": "Page 808\n\n1\n\n309\n\nThe Lauga\n\nC.7237/26. Secret\n\nDowning Street\n\nMay, 1926.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the letter from this Department of the 10th December, 1925, and subsequent correspondence with regard to the provision of an Air Base at Hong Kong, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Amery to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the accompanying copies of two despatches from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the defence of the Colony against attack from overseas.\n\n2. It is understood that in accordance with the decision of the 27th meeting of the Chiefs of Staff Sub-Committee, the whole question of the defence of Hong Kong will be examined in the first place by a Sub-Committee of the Staffs of the three Services. Mr. Amery would, therefore, be glad if the Committee would consider at the same time Sir C. Clementi's despatches which are enclosed in this letter.\n\nTHE SECRETARY,\n\nADMIRALTY.\n\n3.\n\nPage 309\n\n \n(no text)\n\n(no text)",
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"content_text": "[COPY.]\n\nM. 5680/24.\n\nSIR,\n\nAdmiralty, S.W.1.\n\n13th January, 1925.\n\nWith reference to your letter No. M. 5720/23 of 23rd April, 1923, and Admiralty Letter M. 645 of 17th May, 1923, regarding proposed tests of the Automatic Calling Device, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Board of Trade, that the trials have now been concluded.\n\nTwo copies of a report are attached, and I am to state that My Lords have no objection to the publication of all or parts of the report or publication of a precis.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) CHARLES WALKER.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nMercantile Marine Department,\n\nBoard of Trade,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nREPORT ON TESTS OF AUTOMATIC CALLING DEVICES.\n\n1. In April, 1923, the Admiralty was asked by the Board of Trade to undertake experimental tests of automatic wireless calling devices, with the object firstly of determining what in principle is the most satisfactory type of signal for such instruments and, secondly, of prescribing the conditions which apparatus for this purpose should satisfy in order that it may be passed as able to work satisfactorily under service conditions at sea.\n\n2. The Admiralty agreed to carry out these tests, and a small technical committee, consisting of representatives of the Admiralty, General Post Office, Marconi Company and the Radio Communication Company, was formed to draw up a scheme of trial and to consider from time to time the results of the experiments.\n\n3. At a preliminary meeting of the technical committee it was agreed that three sets of apparatus should be put under test, one being the General Post Office instrument designed to operate on a long dash of 15 seconds, the other two designed by the Wireless Companies operating on a signal consisting of three successive dashes of four seconds duration separated by one second intervals. It was agreed it was not necessary to consider any other possible signal.\n\n4. A series of preliminary tests was carried out at the Signal School in October, 1923, but though some useful information was obtained it was considered that owing to the exceptionally bad conditions of heavy local interference no useful conclusions could be drawn from the tests.\n\n5. It was agreed at a meeting of the Committee on 13th November that all three sets should be tested on a series of coasting voyages round the United Kingdom and afterwards in tropical waters.\n\n6. The Clyde Shipping Company kindly lent their Steamship Rathlin for the purpose of the coasting voyage tests, and these were carried out on a number of voyages extending from 1st February to 31st March, 1924. The trials were carried out by Naval Ratings lent by the Admiralty. These men had no special training and the...",
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"content_text": "## \nIn \n6 \n\n(b) A further extract from the same paper containing a report of the inaugural meeting of 222 the Kwang-tung Special District Kuomintang Department. \nEncl. No. 9 \n(c) An extract from the Wah Tsz Yat Po, Hong Kong, of the 9th May, containing a manifesto by General Tsin Tai-kwan, who is in command of the new Northern expedition against the Communists in Hunan and Kuangsi. \nEncl. No. 10 \n(d) A translation from the Tsun Wan Yat Po of the 16th May, of an explanation issued by the Political Department of the General Staff of the National Revolutionary Army concerning the difference between Lenin's Communism and Dr. Sun Yat-sen's \"Three Aspects of Democracy\". \nEncl. No. 11 \n(e) Comparative tables of shipping for the first quarters of the years 1924 (pre-strike), 1926, and 1927, from which it will be seen that the Colony's shipping is well on the way to recovery from the effects of the strike and boycott.\n\n10. News is just to hand from Yunnan that General Tong Kai-tu (Tang Chi-jao) has died of chagrin at the loss of his predominance in that province (see my secret despatch of the 13th May). \nOne of the prominent Chinese War Lords thus disappears from the scene. \n\n11. The proscription in Hong Kong of the Chinese Seamen's Union (see my secret despatch of the 1st June) has been cordially welcomed in this Colony and has caused no sympathetic reaction at Canton or elsewhere. \nIt looks, therefore, as if this... \n31",
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"content_text": "## iv \nOn the 4th and 25th, a meeting was held with General Hu as honorary president and General Hu as chairman.\n\nOn the 23rd May, Marshal T'ang died, and thus one of the chief War Lords of China was finally eliminated. Soon afterwards, on the 14th June, Generals Hu, Chang, and Li conspired against General Lung and seized him in his private residence at Yunnan-fu, where he was kept as a prisoner.\n\nThus, there remain three Generals as rivals for the power of the sword and of the purse in Yunnan. Their relations to the Kuo-min-tang are ill-defined, but General Hu is believed to be somewhat \"red\" in his opinions. Doubtless the Board of Deputies will in due course be dominated by one or other of the three generals who are still in the running for the tuchunate of Yunnan.\n\n## v \nLittle news comes from the province of Kueichou, which in the days of the Manchu Empire was combined with the province of Yunnan under one Viceroy. There never have been any foreign consuls stationed in Kueichou, and the province has now been evacuated by foreigners. It is a rugged, impoverished, and isolated region, and who now controls its political fortunes I do not know.\n\n## V \nThe wealthy, but remote, province of Szechuan has also been evacuated by foreigners, and the British consulates at Ch'eng-tu and Chung-king are at present closed. It is, therefore, impossible to get any authentic information. But until recently, this province was being fought for by numerous petty War Lords, chief among whom was General Yang Sen, who became notorious in the Wan-hsien incident.",
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"content_text": "30\n\nAugust, 1927.\n\n2.9837/2\n\nSir,\n\n18\n\nI have laid before the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury Mr. Robinson's letter of the 24th instant (X6106/3219/505) relative to the remuneration in future of the Chief Justice at Hong Kong and of the Judge of the Supreme Court at Shanghai for their services as Appeal Judges.\n\nIn reply, I am to request you to inform the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that Their Lordships sanction, subject to review in three years' time, the arrangement now proposed, viz. that for each visit to Hong Kong, Her Majesty's Judge at Shanghai shall receive from the Hong Kong Government a fee of fifty guineas together with travelling expenses and subsistence allowance as hitherto, a similar fee being paid to the Chief Justice at Hong Kong or the Puisne Judge.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office.",
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"content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo,\n\nRECLI\n\nX4182/3219/505.\n\n30JUN 1927 OOL. OFFICE\n\n1\n\nand address-\n\nnot to any person by name,\n\nbut to-\n\n**The Under-Secretary of State,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\nSir,\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\n5\n\n30\n\nS.W.1.\n\n29th June, 1927.\n\nEQ\n\n34219/24\n\n$3000.\n\nCopy to die Ho Gollan (6)\n\nB. pompo Guineas 50.\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to refer to the letter from this department of the 18th July 1924 (F2120/428/10), relative to the allowance of three thousand dollars a year payable to the Chief Justice of Hongkong for acting as a member of the Appeal Court at Shanghai, and to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Amery that Sir kinner Turner, His Majesty's Judge at Shanghai, will retire as from the 16th instant. In accordance with the stipulation made in the Treasury letter of the 28th June 1924 (E/9837) the payment of this allowance should therefore be discontinued as from that date.\n\n2.\n\nIt is considered, however, that some remuneration should be paid to the Chief Justice of Hongkong and to His Majesty's Judge at Shanghai when they act as members of Appeal Courts away from their normal place of residence and representations have been made to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury accordingly. Although Their Lordships are unable to sanction the continuance of the existing allowance subsequent to the 16th instant They are prepared to authorize the payment from Imperial Funds to the Chief Justice of Hongkong of a fee of fifty guineas on each occasion in future on which he visits Shanghai as a member of the Full Court on the understanding that the Government of Hongkong will pay a similar fee to His Majesty's Judge at Shanghai, when he visits Hongkong in the corresponding capacity.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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"content_text": "- 6 · \n\n17 \n\nMoto No. 8. \n\n(b) A further extract from the same paper \n\ncontaining a report of the inaugural meeting of \n\nthe Kwang-tung Special District Kuomintang Department. \n\nEnclo. No. 2(c) An extract from the Wah Tsz Yat Po, Hong Kong, \n\nof the 9th May, containing a manifesto by General \n\nTsin Tai-kwan, who is in command of the new Northern \n\nexpedition against the Communists in Hunan and \n\nKwangsi. \n\nEnclo. No. 19(d) A translation from the Taun Wan Yat Po of \n\nthe 16th May, of an explanation issued by the Political Department of the General Staff of the National \n\nRevolutionary Army concerning the difference between \n\nLenin's Communism and Dr. Sun Yat-sen's \"Three \n\nAspects of Democracy\". \n\n11 \n\nEnclo. No.(e) Comparative tables of shipping for the \n\nfirst quarters of the years 1924 (pre-strike) \n\n1926, and 1927 from which it will be seen that \n\nthe Colony's shipping is well on the way to recovery from the effects of the strike and boycott.\n\n10. News is just to hand from Yunnan that General T'ang Kai-yu (Tang Chi-jao) has died of \n\nchagrin at the loss of his predominance in that \n\nprovince (see my secret despatch of the 13th May). \n\nOne of the prominent Chinese War Lords thus disappears from the scene. \n\n11. The proscription in Hong Kong of the Chinese Seamen's Union (see my secret despatch of the 1st June) has been cordially welcomed in this Colony and has caused no sympathetic reaction at \n\nCanton or elsewhere. \n\nIt looks, therefore, as \n\nif this",
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"content_text": "A CONFIDENTIAL(2).\n\nRECEIVED\n\n3-SEP 1928\n\nCOL. OFFICE\n\n52731\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG. 2nd August, 1926.\n\n6\n\n3\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your despatch Confidential(3) of 21st May, 1928, transmitting copies of letters from the Admiralty relative to the cost of maintenance of the three armed launches \"Cnslaught\", \"Faulknor\" and \"Nessus\" serving on the West River I have the honour to inform you that as at present advised after consideration with my Executive Council I am of opinion that the amount required by the Admiralty from the Colony for the maintenance of this launch patrol in the Delta of the West River would not be a proper charge on the revenue of the Colony.\n\n2.\n\nThe patrol is of much value to shipping, but this Government regards the cost as properly a charge on Imperial funds and must therefore adhere to the view expressed in the third paragraph of Sir Cecil Clementi's letter of 3rd March, 1928 to the Commodore-in-Charge, Hong Kong, a copy of which is enclosed, regretting the impossibility of agreeing with the suggestion of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that this Government should ultimately bear the entire cost of the hire and maintenance of these launches, the entire cost of Chinese personnel and half the cost of naval personnel.\n\n3.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.H.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.",
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"content_text": "No.1 in 4101/1910III.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHong Kong, 3rd March, 1928.\n\n8\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of my letter No.1 in 4101/1910 of 16th February, 1928, I have the honour to inform you that after consultation with my Executive Council I am prepared to recommend to the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council that such supplementary supply should be provided as will enable the Government to contribute towards the cost of the Patrol of Armed Launches on the West River, a sum equal to one half of the hiring and operating costs, excluding personnel, of the three launches at present in commission for the year March 1928 to March 1929.\n\nAs you know for the year 1927-1928 the agreed contribution has been $100 per launch per month. I am unaware of the precise figures entailed by the above proposal, but from the enclosure in your letter No.H.K.036/2649 of 18th November, I assume that it will be approximately $133 per month for H.M.S. \"Faulknor\" and H.K.S. \"Onslaught\" and a somewhat smaller sum in respect of H.M.S. \"Nessus\". I should be obliged if you could inform me of the precise figures, calculated upon the basis proposed in the first paragraph of this letter.\n\nWith reference to your letter No.H.K.056/2786 of 8th December, 1927, and the enclosure thereto, I regret that this Government finds it impossible to agree to the suggestion of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that this Government should ultimately bear the entire cost of hire and maintenance of these launches, the entire cost of Chinese personnel, and half the cost of naval personnel. Nor can this Government agree to a contribution of $200 per month per launch for the forthcoming year 1928-1929.\n\nI may say that Marshal Li Chai-sum (李濟深) has announced his intention of eliminating pirates and brigands from the West River delta and that, if he is as good as his word, the necessity for continuing the British patrol of armed launches may soon cease. But until he acts with energy in this matter, I consider that it would be a great mistake to discontinue our patrol.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Sd.) C. CLEMENTI,\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 9",
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"content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nAdmiralty, S.W. 1.\n\n8th February, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nIn accordance with the request contained in your letter No.30261/27 of the 12th January, 1928, relative to the three armed launches serving on the West River, China, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of Mr. Secretary Amery, a statement of the annual cost of Maintenance of the vessels, showing separately the cost of Chinese and naval personnel.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nMCG\n\nCharter Walker\n\nPage 12\n\n[Start of Page 12]\n\nwas not found in the original text, however, to follow the format, I added \nwre Pend\n\nCom\n\n6 OAC.\n\n510 803 • NATIONAL DISABLED MEN SCHEME\n\nAny further communication should be addressed to-\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty,\n\nLondon, S.W. 1.\n\nSir,\n\n10 FEB 1928\n\nCOL. OFF\n\nL.P.-No. 8.\n\nquoting\n\nM.01405/27\n\nbecomes \nwre Pend\n\nCom\n\n6 OAC.\n\n510 803 • NATIONAL DISABLED MEN SCHEME\n\nAny further communication should be addressed to-\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty,\n\nLondon, S.W. 1.\n\n10 FEB 1928\n\nCOL. OFF\n\nL.P.-No. 8.\n\nquoting\n\nM.01405/27\n\nas \"Sir,\" is already in the text after \"London, S.W. 1.\" so no need to add another \"Sir,\".\n\nThe final output is \n\nwre Pend\n\nCom\n\n6 OAC.\n\n510 803 • NATIONAL DISABLED MEN SCHEME\n\nAny further communication should be addressed to-\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty,\n\nLondon, S.W. 1.\n\nSir,\n\n10 FEB 1928\n\nCOL. OFF\n\nL.P.-No. 8.\n\nquoting\n\nM.01405/27\n\n12\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nAdmiralty, S.W. 1.\n\n8th February, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nIn accordance with the request contained in your letter No.30261/27 of the 12th January, 1928, relative to the three armed launches serving on the West River, China, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of Mr. Secretary Amery, a statement of the annual cost of Maintenance of the vessels, showing separately the cost of Chinese and naval personnel.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nMCG\n\nCharter Walker\n\nPage 12",
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"content_text": "# NATIONAL SCHEME DISABLED MEN\n\nAny further communication should be addressed to- \nThe Secretary of the Admiralty, London, S.W. 1.\n\n**RECD 28 MAR 1929** \n**62819 L.P.--No. 8.**\n\nAdmiralty, S.W.1, \nquoting \n`M.4763/77` \n26th March.\n\nEXT 470\n\nSir,\n\n13 March 1929.\n\nI am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to state, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that They have had under further consideration the question of the provision of a combined Naval, Military and Air Force Hospital at Hong Kong.\n\n2. The present site of the N. Hospital there has already become unsuitable, and the early removal of the hospital to a better site is inevitable. The present time is therefore opportune, in the opinion of My Lords, to explore the question of amalgamation. They accordingly suggest that a conference, at which the three Service Departments and the Colonial Office would be represented, should be held at an early date to consider this matter. They propose that the conference should take the form of a meeting of the Joint Medical Services Committee, re-inforced by specially co-opted Departmental representatives who would assist the Committee in regard to general departmental and financial policy.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \n**COLONIAL OFFICE.**\n\n3.",
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"content_text": "4. At our first meetings to hear oral evidence, Mr. M. B. Osman, M.B., B.S., the Assistant to the Professor of Pathology, appeared to represent his own views as well as those of the three other Assistants on the University Staff. We heard his evidence, which was most frankly given and was to the effect that these appointments were of a temporary character, that the holders of them did not contribute to the Superannuation Fund, and that the salaries attached to them were not unsatisfactory having regard to the opportunities for advanced study afforded. But he urged that some assurance of continuity and promotion should be given to the holders of these offices. Similar representations were also made on behalf of certain gentlemen holding Demonstratorships in the Engineering, Chemical and Physical Departments.\n\n5. It was after hearing the evidence of Dr. Osman that we took into consideration the scope of our enquiry, and that we came to the conclusion that posts such as his were excluded, and that the effective test of whether an appointment fell within that scope would be whether the holder contributed to the Superannuation Fund or not.\n\n6. The University of Hong Kong is solvent in spite of the surprising fact that its expenditure is now just about ten times the sum of £6,110 which the Chater Committee in 1908 estimated as the annual cost of the maintenance of the University. The Estimates for 1929 show that its income is nearly $609,000 per annum and that income and expenditure balance, except for a small deficit of about $5,000, which may be somewhat increased owing to the serious fall lately in the sterling value of the dollar. But it is quite clear that expenditure cannot be increased at all unless there is a corresponding addition to the income of the University.\n\n7. For the reasons that will appear when we come to deal with the present scale of salaries paid to members of the University Staff, we are of opinion that they are quite inadequate. We have had, therefore, in making our recommendations under this head, to leave out of consideration the effect that any increases must have on the financial position of the University. If we had not done so, we could only have stated that it was impossible for the University to incur any further expenditure.\n\n8. In connection with the present sources of income of the University, it is interesting to compare the position in this respect in Hong Kong with that prevailing in the United Kingdom; and Professor Forster, the Professor of Education, has prepared for us a memorandum on the financial assistance given to Universities in England, Scotland and Wales, by the Government and by Local Authorities. This memorandum is set out in Appendix I to this Report and makes it clear that, without this financial assistance, it would be practically impossible for any of the Universities in the United Kingdom to keep their doors open.\n\n9. In Appendix II appears a Table which is based on the Report of the University Grants Committee to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and deals with the academic year 1924-25. It sets out under six heads the sources of income of twenty-seven Universities in the United Kingdom, and to these have been added corresponding figures for the University of Hong Kong; and it will be seen that the proportion which comes from endowments to the total expenditure of the University of Hong Kong is nearly twice as great as that in the case of the Durham Colleges and of the University of St. Andrews, which are the two best-endowed bodies appearing in the Table. In the case of fifteen of the Universities shown in the Table, this proportion is under 10%, and in five of these Universities, it falls to a figure below 5%.\n\n10. The contribution made from Parliamentary Grants and by Local Authorities to the Universities shown in this Table amounts, in the case of most of them, to more than 50%; and Bristol University receives from these sources 70%; Exeter University College 78%; Leeds University 59%; Nottingham University College 67%; Sheffield University 61%; and Aberystwyth University College 70%, of their total incomes respectively.\n\n11. In striking contrast to these figures, the University of Hong Kong receives, for the general purposes of the University, $50,000 per annum from the Colonial Government, which represents 9% of its total income; and, to give an illustration of the position, an increase in the amount of the grant to $250,000 per annum would only bring the Government contribution to about 33% of the total income of the University. Furthermore, as showing the generous manner in which contributions have been made to the Endowment Fund of the University, the income derived from this source amounts to about $300,000 or nearly five times the sum which, as mentioned in paragraph 6 of this Report, the Chater Committee, 1908, estimated as the probable annual expenditure of the University.\n\n12. It was urged before us by some of the witnesses directly interested that, in conformity with the practice prevailing at many Universities, some distinction should be made between the salaries payable to the Clinical and pre-Clinical Professors and those of other members of the Staff. Were the University in possession of ample funds, this argument might possibly be worthy of careful consideration, but, in view of the actual situation, we have not thought it right to suggest any differentiation between the various Chairs. We have also left untouched the position of the Registrar who, at present, is regarded as being in the same grade as the Professors.\n\n13. We now proceed to deal with the matters submitted to us for investigation under the respective heads set out in Your Excellency's letter of the 23rd September, 1929.\n\n(a).—Salaries.\n\n14. The Salaries which are at present paid to the various members of the University Staff are the following:-\n\n(1) Vice-Chancellor :- £2,000 per annum.\n\n(2) Registrar:--- £800 per annum, rising by £25 annually to £1,000.\n\n(3) Professors:- £800 per annum, rising by £25 annually to £1,000.\n\n(4) Readers - £600 per annum, rising by £25 annually to £750.\n\n(5) Lecturers and Tutors :- £450 per annum, rising by £20 annually to £550 and then by £25 annually to £600.\n\n(6). Engineering Lecturers: £500 per annum, rising after three years' service by £20 annually to £600.\n\n(7) Librarian:- $4,200 per annum, rising by $300 annually to $5,400.\n\n(8) Demonstrator in Electrical Engineering... Instructor in Workshop Practice - £450 per annum, rising by £10 annually to £500.\n\nAll the salaries, except that of the Librarian, are on a sterling basis and are paid locally in dollars at the average current rate of exchange for the month as determined by the Colonial Treasurer, or at exchange 2/-, whichever is less.\n\n15. Members of the University Staff receive no exchange allowances, nor have they received any additional remuneration to compensate them for the large increase in the cost of living which has occurred in recent years.\n\n16. It will tend to make the financial position clear if we take the actual case of a professor newly arrived in the Colony, who is married, has two children, and finds that no house in the University Compound is available for him. For ease of calculation, the dollar is taken at 2/-, so that, in respect of his salary of £800 per annum, he receives $8,000 from which must be deducted his contribution to the Superannuation Fund at the rate of 5%. This will leave him with $7,600 or about $630 per mensem.\n\n17. As a professor is entitled to a free house, if one is available, together with certain allowances in respect of telephone, water and light, the particular professor, whose case we are considering, receives a rent allowance of $200 per mensem, but the evidence given before us goes to show that this amount is not sufficient to cover rent as well as telephone service, water and light.\n\n18. But assuming that it is, this professor will receive $630 per mensem out of which he must pay the living and clothing expenses of his family and himself, meet any unexpected calls due to sickness or other causes of a similar character, and provide for insurance premiums; for no considerate man could leave a widow and children dependent on the tender mercies of the Superannuation Fund under existing conditions. We\n\nPage 122\n\n \n3\n\nPage XX\n\n...\n\nPage XX\n\n...\n\nPage XX",
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"content_text": "16\n\n30\n\nTHE CHILD'S GUARDIAN.\nto\n\nAPRIL, 1930.\n\naccess to any part of the building in which the children are accommodated is by stairs, it shall be the duty of the person who provides the entertainment to station and keep stationed wherever necessary a sufficient number of adult attendants properly instructed as to their duties to control the movement of the children, etc., and to take other reasonable precautions for the safety of the children.\" The Act, unfortunately, gives no hint as to what is a sufficient number or even of the standard of knowledge or experience required to constitute a \"properly instructed\" attendant. The country's immunity from disasters through panic may no doubt be regarded as evidence that sufficient precautions in both these directions are already taken, but as vigilance in all matters is the best guarantee of safety, it will be a distinct advantage to make these requirements more definite, and, if need be, through Parliament itself.\n\nIt is still necessary to teach that every Inspector is a friend and that, in making his visits, he goes out to help and not to hinder, to encourage and restore, not to destroy.\n\nA Word to the Public.\nA County Medical Officer of Health who recently took part in a Branch annual meeting, availed himself of the opportunity to speak in generous terms of the Society's services to children. The value of his words was enhanced by the fact that they were based upon thirty-six years' knowledge of the Society in various parts of the country, including two contrasts, a great industrial centre and a distinctive county area. These public expressions of opinion from specialists who come in contact with the Society in their official capacity bring encouragement alike to friends of the Society and to those upon whom administrative responsibility rests. County Medical Officers of Health, Borough Medical Officers of Health and School Medical Officers are constantly in touch throughout the country with the Society. The co-operation which so happily exists between these responsible officials and the Society means health and happiness to thousands of children. What the public, generally, does not always appreciate is the existence of this combination of forces and its incalculable value in the doing of good. There is no more illuminating chapter in the Society's history than that which records the result of this phase of its work. Therefore, it follows that the stronger the bonds of co-operation the better for children in need. It is this spirit of co-operation which keeps the ambulances of the Society in the London area alone busy from January to December, and which enabled the record to be made last year, when they covered some thirty-six thousand miles in helping sick and ailing children. In a proportionate degree similar work is being done everywhere, and that is why public officials unhesitatingly give expression to their gratitude for the help the Society is always willing and anxious to render.\n\nLooking Back.\nThere was one point in the County Medical Officer's remarks which enabled those present to catch a glimpse of the changed attitude towards the Society as compared with years ago. He spoke of the suspicion with which it was viewed in its early days, of the criticism its work evoked, and of the opposition which sometimes followed. Well is this known to those who pleaded for support when it was not popular to advocate anything that suggested dealing with home-life. Now this attitude of mind has gone, but there still lingers one phase that has to be met, viz., the fear or the impression that the visit of an Inspector to a home is a reflection upon that home. Often a visit concerns a child in need of surgical or medical treatment, or parents may require just that moral fillip and encouragement which comes from contact with those who are trained to deal with domestic problems.\n\nMagisterial Comments.\nToo frequently of late have Magistrates felt called upon to express in public the opinion that the case before them been the worst they have dealt with. Looking over some of the stories of child suffering which have led to these utterances there is no reason to quarrel with what has been said. Brutality, neglect of children in the worst form, make painful reading. Some people refuse to read them at all and some are induced to believe such things really do not exist. In a recent case an Inspector found a seven-months-old child resembling a living skeleton, huddled up in a bundle of filthy rags. The house was indescribable, and other children were running about naked. If such a picture could be transferred to the cinema screen the majority of audiences would declare it to be a gross fabrication. The Society labours under the disadvantage that it cannot put its actual cases before the public. If it could, and if the public only saw the transformations it is able to bring about, there would be little need to press the appeal for subscriptions. A seven-months-old child resembling a living skeleton is a picture of fact. That is why Magistrates have been moved to public protests from the Bench against inhumanity.\n\n\"Worst Cases.\"\nIt would be an excellent tonic to public opinion if, in towns where these statements are made, something could be done to follow them up. Why not a town's meeting for friends of the Society to take advantage of on a really large scale? Here is an opportunity to keep alive the public conscience by enlisting the support of the public at large. Let the people know that other cases of a similar character may take place unless something is done, let them realise they can help to prevent them, and let them be made to understand that these \"worst\" cases are associated with long-continued suffering and utter helplessness on the part of children to protect themselves. In the direction of a wider knowledge is to be found the means of preventing cruelty—and the hope of children.\n\nAPRIL, 1930.\n\nTHE CHILD'S GUARDIAN.\n\nTHE CANAL BOATS BILL.\nAs indicated in the last issue of THE CHILD'S GUARDIAN, the Canal Boats Bill has been passing through its Committee stage. In pursuance of the promises made by the promoters of the Bill at the Second Reading, various amendments have been made to the Bill in deference to opinions expressed in different parts of the House. The Bill, as has been explained, is a non-party measure; in the absence, through continued illness, of Mr. Harry Gosling, who introduced it, it has been ably supported in its subsequent stages by Sir Donald Maclean and the Duchess of Atholl. The Bill will be presented to the House for Third Reading in the following form:\n\nA BILL\n\nTO\n\n[AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE B]\n\nAmend the Canal Boats Acts, 1877 and 1884, and the Education Act, 1921, so far as it relates to children on canal boats. BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:\n\n1. Subject as hereinafter provided, on and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, no child over the age of five years and below the age at which, under the law for the time being in force, his parents cease to be under an obligation to cause him to receive efficient elementary instruction, shall reside in a canal boat except—\n\n(i) during the period between the last school hour in any week of the school which the child is attending and the first school hour of that school in the following week; and\n\n(ii) during the period between the end of any school term of the school which he is attending and the beginning of the next school term of that school: Provided that the residence of a child in a canal boat during any period as regards which a registered medical practitioner certifies that in the interests of his own health or the health of other children he ought not to attend school shall not be deemed to be a contravention of the provisions of this section.\n\n2. On and after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, no woman, or child below the age at which under the law for the time being in force his parents cease to be under an obligation to cause him to receive efficient elementary instruction, shall reside in any canal boat while it is being used for the conveyance of manure, night soil, or refuse, or any other foul or offensive cargo.\n\n3(1) For the purposes of the Education Act, 1921, a child who, immediately before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, or the date on which he attains the age of five years, whichever date may be the later, has no home other than a canal boat, shall, until he commences to attend a school within the area of another local education authority, be deemed to be resident in the area of that local education authority whose area includes the place to which the boat is registered as belonging.\n\n(2) As from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, the foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect in substitution for the provisions of section fifty of the Education Act, 1921 (which relates to the application of that Act to children in canal boats).\n\n4(1) If the parent of a child resides in a canal boat, the principal teacher of any school at which that child attends may and, on being requested so to do, shall issue to the parent at the end of any school term a certificate stating that the child has attended the school during that term and naming the last day of the term and the first day of the next school term; and, in any proceedings under this Act, a document purporting to be a certificate so issued shall be evidence of the facts stated therein.\n\n(2) This section shall come into operation on the first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-one.\n\n5. If the master of a canal boat permits any child to reside in that boat in contravention of any provisions of this Act he shall be liable on summary conviction—\n\n(a) in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding forty shillings; and\n\n(b) in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding five pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month.\n\n31\n\n6. This Act may be cited as the Canal Boats Act, 1930, and shall be construed as one with the Canal Boats Acts, 1877 and 1884, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Canal Boats Acts, 1877 to 1930.\n\nOBITUARY.\nVery great sympathy will be extended to Sir Edward and Lady Henry on the death of their only son, Mr. Edward Henry, who has just passed away, following a severe attack of pneumonia, at the early age of twenty-two. Sir Edward, who is well remembered as Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police for many years, has been a member of the Society's Central Executive Committee since 1918. His colleagues on the Committee have intimated to him the profound sympathy of the Society.\n\nMiss England.—The older friends of the Society in the country will regret to learn of the death of Miss England, who was one of the speakers and organisers for the Society in its earlier days. Retiring from that position in 1914, Miss England had lived since at Bromley, Kent, where she continued her interest in the Society's work connected with the local Branch.\n\nEx-Inspector H. Warlow has died at Westcliff-on-Sea. Mr. Warlow served as an Inspector of the Society for twenty years, during which period he was stationed successively at Leeds, East London, Hackney and Hampstead. Throughout his record was a conspicuously good one and he will be well remembered by friends in most parts of the country where he was employed.\n\nMiss Collison, for many years Hon. Secretary to the Margate Ladies' Committee.\n\nMrs. Davison, Hon. Secretary to the Ormeau (Belfast) Ladies' Committee.\n\nMrs. Dowson, a collector in the Coundon district since the formation of the committee.\n\nMr. J. F. L. Hardy, Hon. Correspondent at Marlborough.\n\nMr. J. Dalby Hobson, who was Branch Hon. Secretary for Maidstone from 1916 to 1923.\n\nMrs. Parson, President of the Haslemere Ladies' Committee.\n\nDr. Whitaker, Hon. Correspondent at Evershot.\n\nMrs. J. D. Wolff, President of the Harrow Weald Ladies' Committee.\n\nSo clean were the children the second time he called, that an Inspector failed to recognize them, and had to ask the parents whose they were. Before his first visit the bedrooms had not been cleaned for weeks. The house is now clean from top to bottom, and six children are the happier for it.\n\nAfter a woman's conviction and sentence for child neglect, she let it be known that she had left her three young children alone in one room ill in bed. The Inspector at once proceeded a distance of fifteen miles to the home, and there found a girl of eight ill in bed, and her younger brother and sister, aged three and five, running about the streets in a dirty condition. Steps were at once taken to help the children.",
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"content_text": "# Slavery\n\n## HOUSE OF LORDS\n\n**Slavery**\n\nThe abolition of slave-owning, slave-trading, and slave-raiding is an urgent international duty. This House fully appreciates the action hitherto taken by the League of Nations, but is of the opinion that further steps of a definite nature appear to be required in order to bring about the extinction of slavery in all its forms.\n\nLORD PARMOOR: I said we would rise at 4 o'clock, but that we might wish to sit for a few minutes after that hour to finish any Amendment under discussion. The arrangement I suggested will give ample time to take the remainder of the Committee stage of the Agricultural Marketing Bill on Friday.\n\nVISCOUNT HAILSHAM: Perhaps the noble and learned Lord will notice that on the Order Paper, there was a certain amount of formal business put down before the Committee stage of the Agricultural Marketing Bill. I suggest that as we are to sit tomorrow for only a short time, this formal business might be put last and, if necessary, considered on Friday morning.\n\nLORD PARMOOR: We have a Standing Order about private business, but with regard to other formal business - not private business - we will arrange for the Committee stage to come first.\n\n## UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL\n\nBrought from the Commons; read 1°; and to be printed.\n\n## SMALL LANDHOLDERS AND AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) BILL\n\nReturned from the Commons, with certain of the Amendments made by the Lords agreed to and certain other Amendments made by the Lords disagreed to, for which disagreements the Commons assigned Reasons.\n\n## NORTH KILLINGHOLME (ADMIRALTY PIER) BILL\n\nHouse in Committee (according to Order) on re-commitment of the Bill: Bill reported without amendment.\n\n## SLAVERY\n\nEARL BUXTON rose to call attention to the question of slavery and to move to resolve, That in the opinion of this House, further steps are required to bring about the extinction of slavery in all its forms.\n\nThe noble Earl said: My Lords, it is about 120 years since the participation of any British subject in the slave trade was made a criminal offence, and next year will be the centenary of the Act passed to abolish the slave trade in British Possessions. Unfortunately, the slave trade still exists to a certain extent, though it has been largely brought to an end through the action of His Majesty's Navy. If the League of Nations would agree to the proposal of the British Government to declare the slave trade to be piracy, I think it would soon disappear.\n\nAs regards slavery or some form of servitude, a temporary Commission of the League of Nations reported that it existed in some form or other in 12 or 14 countries. There is no question that in certain countries, slavery does exist to a very large extent. It is estimated that no fewer than 5,000,000 people are in a state of servitude in these various nations.\n\nThe definition of slavery is given by the League of Nations as an international definition in the League of Nations Convention. Article 1 says: \"Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attached to the right of ownership are exercised; in other words, slavery is limited or unlimited ownership of one being over another with a right to treat him as a chattel or as livestock.\"\n\nThe difficulty of dealing with the question of slavery is due to the fact that it varies so much in different parts of the world. We have in some parts the old form of slavery, with absolute ownership and no protection against oppression and cruelty. In other cases, it may be a milder form of servitude, which may be a kind of parental relationship.\n\nI have heard apologists of the present position of slavery say that it is of a mild character and that the slaves themselves do not object to it. However, even in mild forms of servitude, there is no protection against caprice or cruelty or ill-treatment on the part of the owner.\n\nI do not propose to give your Lordships harrowing cases of slavery and its accompanying cruelties. What I desire to do is to encourage those in authority in the various countries where slavery still exists to take action themselves and bring about an improvement in the condition of slavery.\n\n[22 JULY 1931]\n\nPage 1008 \n\n## SLAVERY\n\n...slavery exists to a larger extent than we anticipated. The fact that under the British Crown 200,000 slaves were only recently released shows that we are not fully aware to what extent slavery still exists.\n\nIn recent years, there has been some manumission of slaves in various parts. In Sierra Leone, under British protection, 200,000 slaves were freed three years ago. In Tanganyika, a British mandated territory, 180,000 slaves were released. The Maharajah of Nepal declared that the slaves in his territory, some 80,000 in number, should no longer remain in a state of servitude.\n\n| Country/Territory | Number of Slaves Freed |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sierra Leone | 200,000 |\n| Tanganyika | 180,000 |\n| Nepal | 80,000 |",
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"content_text": "# Slavery\n\n## [LORDS]\n\nBut I must, I think, make some reference to the most notorious countries in which slavery still exists—namely, China, Abyssinia, Arabia, and Liberia. A week or two ago, there was debate in another place, initiated by Sir John Simon, in reference to the position in China, and he gave particulars of the position there, under which these young children, girls, are put into a state of servitude for some years at the entire control of those who buy them from the parents. He gave many cases of cruelty, and one can imagine the deplorable position, at the very best, in which these children are placed.\n\nAs far as Great Britain is concerned, we are interested inasmuch as the British colony of Hong Kong runs with China, it has something like 1,000,000 Chinese inhabitants, and this child servitude and child sale continue in Hong Kong. I think we may now believe that, though I also think it ought to have been done before, that as far as the British Government is concerned, we have no longer on our conscience the responsibility of allowing child purchase to continue there. And what is a satisfactory feature of the whole position is that the present Chinese Government, some little time ago, issued a statement to the effect that in their opinion, this sale of children ought to cease, and, as far as regards the existing children, they promulgated certain regulations which certainly would have made their condition better, would have allowed inspection, and so on. One may hope that this view taken by the Chinese Government, as shown by the promulgation of their regulations, indicates the genuineness of their desire; and, although everybody appreciates that they have very great difficulties in the way, we hope that they will be able, both in spirit and in letter, to carry out their regulations. One of the great difficulties in dealing with these matters in China and elsewhere is that they are, to a very large extent, part of the custom of the country, which has grown up over many years, and it is very difficult to deal with it.\n\n## Earl Buxton\n\nAs regards Abyssinia, that is the only Christian country which still tolerates any form of slavery, and it is notorious that it exists there as well as the slave trade. The condition has been described as alarming, and I am sure the Foreign Office would be able to confirm the view which is held that something like 2,000,000 slaves at present exist in that country. We are interested, as in the case of China, owing to the fact that we are next-door neighbours of Abyssinia, and a great deal of the slave trade and the raids take place in British territory, or go through British territory in order to carry the slaves into Abyssinia. It is not only in the north, in the Sudan, but also in Kenya. Noble Lords who are interested in the question have no doubt seen from time to time White Papers and statements from the Foreign Office indicating to what extent this raiding takes place at the present moment. I do not want to dwell on those particulars, and we have good reason to believe that the Emperor, Ras Tafari, is genuinely desirous of carrying out the gradual abolition of the slave trade, certainly, and also of slavery in his country. He has a difficult position to deal with, and it would be inexpedient, I think, and perhaps unjust to dwell too much on the past and the present. We should give him our best wishes for the future and believe that he will endeavour to carry them out.\n\nThe Ras has a task of vast magnitude to undertake if he is in earnest and really desires and is able to abolish slavery in Abyssinia. It is, as I say, part of their custom. He cannot go very far ahead of public opinion, and he has, unfortunately, opposing him a considerable number of his Chiefs and his Rases, who own slaves to a very large extent. What makes it more difficult for him is this. It is a curious thing that the price of slaves has gone up in Abyssinia in the last year or two. The slave is the only saleable commodity in the world that has not suffered from the depression of prices. That makes it more difficult, of course, because the slaves are more valuable to those who own them. Then he has the difficulty of a wild and inaccessible country in which the King's writ does not run to a very large extent, and he has all the internal difficulties of enforcing regulations even if he makes them. He has one complaint in which, I think, there is a great deal of force—that the slave trade, at all events, could not go on if the three countries who adjoin and completely surround him—Italy, France, and England—were genuinely desirous of prohibiting the raids and caravans passing through their territory. I hope that the Foreign Office, as part of what they are undertaking, will see how far in future, although there has been some laxity in the past, they can really come to terms with Italy and France to co-operate in putting an end to the slave trade through Abyssinia and across to the sea. As I say, the Emperor's position is a difficult one, and the question is how far he will have the courage and the authority to deal with it satisfactorily.\n\nI cannot help thinking that in considering his difficulties and giving him our full sympathy, we might look back to the position only about one hundred years ago in regard to our own case. We had a country of vast resources and efficient administration, yet it took many years of agitation, and those who were assisting towards it were subject to gross misrepresentation and vile abuse before we ourselves came to the conclusion that slavery ought to be abolished. Moreover, in our case, there were about 750,000 slaves to deal with altogether, and the country was prepared to pay compensation of £20,000,000; whereas the Emperor of Abyssinia has 2,000,000 slaves to deal with, and his resources naturally are not great. Therefore, I feel sure that what we should desire is to give him our sympathy as far as possible and, still more, our moral support, and to have behind our support the support of the League of Nations in assisting him in the efforts he has to make.\n\nThe next country to which I wish to refer, and in which the position is a very difficult one, is Arabia. There is incontestable evidence from all hands that the worst slavery and the worst slave-trade are carried on in parts of Arabia and further east than that. The Temporary Commission reported very strongly as to the existence of the slave trade and slavery in many parts of Arabia. We have had recently the evidence of Mr. Eldon Rutter, Mr. Bertram Thomas, and Mr. Joseph Kessel, who have all recently travelled through this country with a view to enquiring into the matter. All of them agree as to the very serious position which still exists there. It is perfectly true that at one time there were a great many public places at which slaves were sold like merchandise, and the evidence goes to show that to a certain extent, these places are not so public as they used to be. But Mr. Rutter says that there are centres in towns and villages where slaves are sold privately. In other places, dealers keep a definite stock of slaves, and they have agents who dispose of any slaves that anyone desires to sell.\n\nHe goes on to say this—and I think your Lordships will bear with me if I quote his words—in regard to the present position as to the supply of slaves, that there are three ways of keeping up the supply of human merchandise in Arabia. First, he says, there is breeding for the market. The Sudan and Abyssinia have furnished such a vast number of slaves during the passage of years that their children are, to a great extent, sufficient to meet the demand. The children of a slave woman, even if the father be free, remain a slave and become part of the estate and can be sold separately. Secondly, he says, there is the slave trade. This consists of bringing the human cargo to the Arabian coast by the desert and by clandestine routes, and then despatching by caravans to the great towns of the Hejaz. Mr. Kessel describes this as \"risky.\"\n\nMr. Kessel gives a case which, if I may read it, will serve to show what the risks are. He says that he was speaking to the owner of a dhow, and that the dhow owner told him this:\n\n\"One day, a little while ago, a warship chased me. This was overtaking my dhow. There was scarcely any wind, and there was no narrow channel where I could find refuge. Then I threw a slave into the water, and the warship stopped to pick him up. I increased the distance between us, and three times I did the same thing. I got off by this trick. How is it,\" said the dhow owner thoughtfully, \"that the strangers are so fond of slaves that they would lose such a fine dhow as mine to save a slave?\"\n\nThat shows, at all events, that the trade still exists.\n\nThirdly, Mr. Kessel says that there is what is called the pilgrim method, which is less dangerous but almost more infamous. The slaves are embarked well within the regulations as pilgrims, but they never return. It also comes about that parents who have taken their whole family to the Sacred City are beggared by the exploitation of faith practised...",
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"content_text": "# LORDS \n## Slavery.\n\n1021 repeated. There is one particular evil feature of the system, as I understand, that is prevalent, and that is the system of pawning. I hope it is no longer true, but until recently the Government imposed all sorts of arbitrary fines and, in order to meet these fines, parents were ready to pawn their children. The pawn could not be redeemed except by a third party. The persons who were pawned could not redeem it themselves. I should be very grateful if any information could be given as to whether, through the League of Nations and the co-operation of the United States of America, some improvement of the situation might be effected in that alas ill-governed and unhappy country.\n\n## Slavery.\n\nIt is chiefly, I suppose, in the west and south-west, which are distant from any kind of central control, that the slave-trading and slave-owning exist, and it is mainly, I am informed, in exchange for arms and ammunition that the slaves are bought and sold. I wish that, by more strenuous international action, the importation of arms and ammunition into these wild border tribes could be restrained, but certainly every word that the noble Earl has said will be echoed by all of us as to our doing everything that is possible to give understanding sympathy and assistance to the Emperor in carrying out his desires in spite of such overwhelming difficulties.\n\nI think I ought to say a word about Liberia, though I know the noble Lord, Lord Lugard, will be able to say things much more to the point in a moment. It is a situation, surely, of the most sinister irony. This State was founded by philanthropists who were filled with the idea of \"Back to Africa,\" and who sent numbers of liberated slaves from the southern States of America in the hope that they, who had suffered so much in their own lives, would be eager and zealous to do everything that they could to prevent similar happenings among the tribes of the country to which they went. And still, I am told, the motto of the country is: \"The abolition of slavery and the love of liberty brought us here.\" Yet the 15,000 or so negro and half-caste Liberians who have control of the country have imposed upon it every form of serfdom and of slavery. These friends of liberty are the creators of a widely-extended system of slavery. The evidence of the Christy Commission cannot be set aside. That evidence shows that between 1914 and 1927 no fewer than 7,268 slaves were taken away on ships, chiefly to Spanish and Portuguese plantations. I know of one contract for the procuring and shipping of 3,000 labourers at £9 each.\n\nThese unfortunate simple natives are decoyed, deceived and carried away, often not knowing where they are going, often treated with the greatest cruelty; and, in fact, all the old excesses of the slave days seemed to have been largely revived.\n\nThe Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nThe only effective influence that can be brought to bear upon this problem is, of course, the League of Nations. Happily the phrase which the noble Earl used, \"an international conscience\" is now not only a phrase but a fact. It exists and it has its organ and establishment in the League; and we must all wish that the League should undertake this matter with the same continuity with which it has undertaken questions of the care of refugees, the sale of noxious drugs, the spread of disease and the white slave traffic. But the Anti-slavery Convention is not enough. The report once a year to the Assembly is not enough. There is need of unremitting vigilance and pressure and therefore I would most cordially endorse the plea made by the noble Earl that there should be created in connection with the League a standing bureau of information. I need not repeat the reasons which he has so clearly and fully given, but I am certain, so far as I can see, that in order to make the Anti-Slavery Convention really effective some such permanent Committee of experts, for the assembling of every sort of information and giving to the Assembly a report really based upon accurate and accumulative knowledge of the facts, is necessary. Certainly we cannot rest satisfied with the position which still prevails over so large a part of the world, and we trust that by the time the centenary of 1833 comes round we shall be able to secure some further progress towards the abolition of a system which is degrading alike to the owner and the slave.\n\n1023 \n## Slavery.\n\n1024 \nof Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Somaliland, Nyasaland, Uganda, the Gold Coast, Ashanti, the Northern Territories and Northern Rhodesia, a notification to that effect has been sent to the League. This was the course urged by Sir John Kirk, our plenipotentiary at the Brussels Conference in 1890 and the greatest authority we have had on the question of slavery. He pointed out that it was by this means that slavery was gradually abolished in India by the decree of 1843, without the dislocation of society, without compensation to the owners, and without the hardship and suffering which would have been involved by sudden emancipation. We have learnt, moreover, that there are forms of servitude even worse than the status of the slave, because they lack the protection which, alike in ancient times and in modern Moslem States, is afforded to the slave by the obligations imposed on an owner, in those States in which slavery is still recognised as a legal institution by the State.\n\n[22 JULY 1931]\n\nLORD LUGARD: My Lords, it has become a tradition that the question of slavery should be discussed in one or other of the British Houses of Parliament, and it is entirely, as the most rev. Prelate has said, in accordance with tradition that the discussion this evening should have been inaugurated by one who bears a name so honoured in the annals of the suppression of slavery as the noble Earl, Lord Buxton. There can, I think, be no doubt of the value of these discussions in maintaining public interest on behalf of a class who cannot speak for themselves, and also in educating and informing public opinion on the subject. They afford proof that in spite of all its many other pre-occupations at the present time this country has not ceased to champion the cause of liberty. In these days there are very few countries in which slaves still exist as an integral part of the body politic. We all know that slave dealing and slave trading are regarded as criminal offences throughout the British Empire, but it is also true that in certain of the British Dependencies there still happily exists a system of permissive slavery. I say happily exists because we have learnt that the forcible emancipation which compels a master to turn adrift his house-born slaves, whether they are aged or sick or unable to provide for themselves, is an act of cruelty, forbidden by Moslem law, which would drive men into crime and women into prostitution.\n\nWe have learnt that the essential thing is to abolish the legal status of slavery, and to make it known to every slave that he or she can assert his or her freedom without having to appeal to the Courts of Law or to go through any other formality, such as to prove that they have otherwise employment. They can assert their freedom without formality and without deterrent. The point is that the owner has not committed a crime against the law if he allows his house-born slaves to remain, at their own wish, in his household. In practice the relation becomes that of master and servant. It is only a transitory stage, for all children born in the house are born free. Lest there should be any doubt on this question, within the last two or three years the legal status of slavery has been formally abolished by special Ordinances in the British Dependencies.\n\nIt is to these forms of servitude that I would confine the few remarks which I intend to make; the more so that the noble Earl in moving this Resolution has dealt very largely with the subject of slave dealing and slave trading. I would merely wish to emphasise my view that the three most important aspects of slave dealing and slave trading are, as he said, the sale of women and children in China, the smuggling of slaves across the Red Sea to the Arabian coast from Abyssinia - in that connection we have been reminded that Abyssinia is a land-locked country without access to the sea, and that the slaves must therefore be shipped across the Red Sea from a port under European control - and thirdly, the sale of children and of persons taken to Mecca under the guise of pilgrims: not merely slaves who are smuggled to Mecca, but people who have gone as servants to pilgrims and there been sold by their masters.\n\nThe Western nations - Europe and America - cannot escape the responsibility which their civilisation and their supremacy over the coloured races have imposed upon them. I do not allude to conditions in Russia because your Lordships have recently passed a Bill on this subject introduced by my noble friend Lord Phillimore. I refer only to...",
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"content_text": "# Slavery.\n\n## LORDS\n\nThe President later wrote a letter explaining his views to an American gentleman, a friend of mine, who occupies a post of responsibility in that country. I have seen this letter and it is a very remarkable document, but your Lordships, I think, will agree with me that, pending the report of the special envoys of the League, it would be unwise, if not improper, for me to express any opinion as to the course which should be adopted, or to forecast the reply of the Liberian Government. I can only hope that the Government of the United States, whose citizens have set an example to the world by their generosity in endowing schemes for the welfare of the backward races, will make perfectly clear the precise extent to which it will exercise its influence and accept responsibility for the unfortunate inhabitants of that country, or the extent to which it will co-operate in the action which the League of Nations may propose to adopt.\n\nHowever valuable a debate on this subject may be for the purpose of awakening and sustaining public interest, it would be still more useful if it inaugurated some practical suggestion. The noble Earl, Lord Buxton, has revived the proposal of His Majesty's Government that a permanent bureau should be set up to deal with these questions, and I hope that your Lordships will support that proposal. In my view, the bureau should be an expert body which will realise where the real objectives lie and will not be carried away by unpractical enthusiasms. It should be capable of giving sound advice both to the League where financial or diplomatic assistance is required, and to applicants who need sympathetic and practical suggestions. It is, in my view, essential that it should not only be an organ of the League but that it should have its location at Geneva and not in any other country. It should be international and small in numbers and endowed with a wide discretion as to the measure of publicity which it will accord to the information placed at its disposal.\n\nThe Foreign Office placed at my disposal, as a member of the International Slavery Committee appointed by the League in 1926 and of the Forced Labour Committee, a number of documents marked `secret`. They contained information which was not accessible to the public, but I was able to make use of them in a way which, I understand, was completely satisfactory to the Foreign Office and at the same time was invaluable to the Committee. I very greatly appreciate the confidence in my discretion which this action of the Foreign Office indicated. At the same time, I could not but feel how unfortunate it was that such material—collected, no doubt, with great effort and trouble—would in ordinary circumstances have necessarily remained in the pigeon holes of the Foreign Office for lack of a suitable body to whom it could be confidentially communicated. If a small permanent committee or a section of the League secretariat, to which two or three unpaid experts might be attached, were set up, it would not be unreasonable to hope that the Governments concerned, as in the case I have mentioned, would forward to their members confidential documents which might be of great value, trusting to their discretion to use them rightly. I have the honour to support the Resolution of the noble Earl.\n\n## LORD PARMOOR\n\nMy Lords, on behalf of the Government, I beg to thank the noble Earl, Lord Buxton, for the Resolution he proposed, which certainly we would wholly assent to, for the moderate tone which he adopted in proposing it, and for the very practical suggestions he made regarding a permanent body or bureau constituted, as Lord Lugard has said, at Geneva in order not only that there may be resolutions on matters of this kind but that practical and beneficent work may be assured in the future. For the moment, I wish to say only one further word upon that point. Fortunately, we have amongst us this afternoon the noble Viscount, Lord Cecil. Everyone is aware that on matters of this kind, the noble Viscount has taken a very prominent position in representing this country at the Assembly at Geneva, and I shall ask him, because his knowledge is much more direct and complete than mine, to deal if he will, with that part of the question in order that it may not be discussed twice over, which, I think, is unnecessary. I shall attempt to answer the questions asked by the most rev. Primate and by the noble Earl, and will leave to the end the particular point raised by Lord Lugard.\n\n## [22 JULY 1931]\n\nFirst of all, I think the whole world and our own country in particular are very deeply indebted to the Anti-Slavery Society for the work they have done in connection with the repression and suppression of slavery in all countries during the last 100 years. It is just about 100 years ago that they were first instituted for dealing with these questions, and during that time and up to the present, they have done a noble and great work. Upon this point, I should like to emphasise a little a matter which was also indicated by the noble Earl. We must aim very directly at the slave owner. I think it is very important in dealing with the question of slavery that the slave owner should be dealt with effectively. If there were no slave owners, it goes without saying that we should not be troubled with slave-raiding and other slavery questions. More than that, the slave owner is the person mainly responsible, and to give remedies merely to the slave or the suggested slave is very often more than ineffective, because he really cannot find an opportunity of bringing his grievance to public notice and, if he does, he knows that he very often suffers immensely in his own position and in the punishment he receives.\n\nWith reference to the definition of slavery, I want to make clear at the outset what we are dealing with. I think the definition in the Convention of 1926 is perfectly satisfactory. It bases it on property. As the most rev. Primate pointed out, it is utterly un-Christian from every point of view that one individual should seek to make property of another for his own profit and advantage. I should also like to remind your Lordships what always has appeared to me to be a very admirable definition of slavery—I mean the original definition in the great judgment of Lord Mansfield given in 1772. I think people sometimes forget that Lord Mansfield's decision was an upsetting of former legal opinions in this country, particularly of Lord Hardwicke and Lord Chancellor Talbot. I think Lord Mansfield states the matter more clearly than it has ever been stated since, and I think his words are wholly true. These were his words: \"Slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.\" Your Lordships may recollect that at that time Somerset was sent for transportation for slavery in Jamaica. At that time in Jamaica, by positive law, slavery was recognised and was legal.\n\nThen we come to the great Act of 1833. I do not think we have hardly sufficiently recognised that the whole credit of obtaining that Act was due to the Fowell Buxton of that day. It was just about the time when Wilberforce, unfortunately, was either dead or dying. What did the Act of 1833 do as regards slavery? It enacted that: \"from and after the said first day of August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and for ever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British Colonies, Plantations and Possessions abroad.\" That was the first great Act that dealt in a wide way with the question of slavery, and, as I think has already been pointed out, £20,000,000 was provided in order to give compensation for those slaves who were freed. Slaves up to that date had been regarded as property.\n\nLet me go to the questions which were asked by the three speakers who preceded me. The noble Earl, Lord Buxton, has said that, although in some cases, no doubt, slavery may be carried on without cruelty, yet the institution of slavery is the cause of some of the most brutal cruelty in the world now as in the old days. The first question he asked me was about China. We must differentiate when we speak of that country. China, of course, is a vast country and there are a very large number of slaves in it; there is no doubt about that. If slavery is to be suppressed in China, it must be done by international action. But the question of Hong-kong is an entirely different one. Hong-kong is an English Possession, and a very large number of Chinese inhabit Hong-kong; about 1,000,000 is the estimate. I have been asked as to the position of what is called the mui-tsai. I should like to emphasise what has been said, that the present Colonial Secretary has, in fact and in truth, in my opinion, carried out the desire of the Government to put an end to what for a long time has become a sort of plague spot.\n\nI should like to state what has been done in regard to this matter. It is believed that practically all the mui-tsai in the Colony were registered up to the end of the six months period. That is the compulsory registration. No more...",
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"content_text": "## Slavery\n\n[ LORDS ] Mui-tsai can now be brought into the Colony, and the number not registered is steadily diminishing by natural causes, the return of girls to their parents, marriage, death, etc. The number remaining on the register on November 30, 1930, was just over 4,000. In fact, the mui-tsai custom has now been abolished in Hong-kong. All suggestions of a servile status have been removed, and the girls on the mui-tsai register are free and in the position of paid domestic servants.\n\nThe most rev. Primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury asked me two questions, first of all as to how far this proposal of registration had been completed. The information I have is that it is completed at the present time. Then he asked me a very important and a very practical question about the appointment of additional inspectors.\n\nI think that Lord Lugard referred to another point. I am not quite certain that I appreciated it, but I think so. A book was lately published suggesting that slave dealing was rife in Kenya and Uganda and on the British side of the border. Information was asked for among the officials in these districts and the suggestion was absolutely and totally denied. It was said that there was no foundation for it whatever. Of course, as we all know, slaves escape over the border and provision is made as far as possible that they shall not be driven back to their ancient owners—I think that would be the right expression—in Abyssinia. Additional inspectors are to be appointed with the very purpose of ensuring that the directions which come from the Colonial Office will be in fact carried out, and completely carried out.\n\nThe next question he asked me was in regard to Abyssinia. I am one of those who have had the advantage of seeing a good deal of Ras Tafari and let me express my agreement with the view stated, I think by all three speakers who have preceded me, that he really is in earnest, and desires to put an end to, or at least to put some substantial check upon, slavery in Abyssinia. But the difficulty is that there slaves are looked upon as part of the important property of the Governors of a particular district. It is undoubtedly a matter of great difficulty, but he will do his best, I believe, and in time I hope that the difficulties which now exist in Abyssinia may be modified, or even after a period of time be brought to an end.\n\nI should like to mention two other points in regard to Abyssinia. In the south-west of Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, and what is called the borderland between the Sudan and the south-west, there is a large country as regards area and acreage which has been inhabited from time immemorial, I suppose, by half-civilised and nearly independent tribes. That country has now become largely desolated because these tribes have fought with one another in order by tribal raids to obtain slaves for purposes of export and sale. The noble Earl was quite right, of course, that is a terrible condition of affairs. I was reading the other day a book by the Consul who has been there lately, and it shows a terrible condition of devastation in this district.\n\nThat no doubt arises from the attempt of the British Government officials in Kenya and Uganda and Tanganyika to do the best they can to help the escaped slaves and give them sufficient areas of land for their occupation and preserve them against return to their old degraded positions. I imagine that everyone thinks that is the right thing to do, and indeed no British Government could adopt any policy except the one which I have indicated. On the other side, the question arises of the sea traffic, or the export of slaves across the Red Sea.\n\nPerhaps I ought to have added, one word as to the raiding by these tribes. That, no doubt, has been rendered largely possible by the export of arms which are purchased by the banditti and raiders in that country, and any step which could be taken to prevent that export of arms would be, in my opinion, of great value in suppressing this terrible slave traffic.\n\nI have asked particularly for information as regards the export of slaves across the Red Sea. A book has been published which I have read myself, although I have forgotten the title for the moment, in which it was shown that whatever precautions were taken slaves could be carried across in small numbers, in the guise very often of being part of the crew of the dhow.\n\nI was asked as to our action with Italy and France in this matter. We have acted in the most friendly co-operative manner with Italy and France. We have two sloops in the Red Sea and they act most cordially with the vessels of Italy and France. Our experience—this, I think, is very remarkable—is that since 1922, although there has been constant supervision, we have not, in fact, come across any case of the export of slaves by sea from Abyssinia to Arabia. I do not mean to say that some have not gone across—they probably have, because it is not a difficult trade for smugglers—but no large numbers have gone, and so far as our ships are concerned, the information which I have been given is that since 1922 no case has arisen where they have found this export of slaves going on from the Abyssinian coast across the Red Sea to Arabia on the other side.\n\nThere is one other point I was asked about and that is the case of Arabia. Of course, there again it must be a question of international arrangement. Arabia is not a member of the League of Nations and therefore is not in the same position as China. Through centuries of time, from time immemorial, there has been a very large amount of slavery in Arabia, and no doubt it still exists. If the noble Earl or His Grace the Lord Archbishop would make any practical suggestion at any time by which we could diminish the number of slaves or improve their condition in Arabia, every member of His Majesty's Government would cordially support any effective proposal of that kind.\n\nI think those are all the instances and illustrations about which I was asked, with the exception of Liberia. The question of Liberia has been brought forward internationally at Geneva, and there is also in connection with it the question of United States action about which Lord Lugard spoke so that rather than deal with it partially myself I have asked Viscount Cecil to deal with the matter as a whole. I am sure that would be the most effective way of bringing it to the notice of your Lordships. I do not think that any other question has been asked me about slavery in these various districts, but I do not want in any way to leave unanswered any question.\n\nI say that for two reasons. Firstly, I am anxious that all publicity should be given; and secondly, that the sincerity—if I may use that word—of the Government may be shown, a sincerity which is not political, which does not specially affect this Government, but a sincerity which I think represents the public opinion of Great Britain, upon this point, and which has been represented substantially since the year 1772, and certainly since the year 1833.\n\nThere is one point I should like to mention about the Act of 1833. The Act of 1833 did not affect slavery in protected States or in our Protectorates, but now, I believe, in every instance protection has been given. In all cases where the Act of 1833 does not run, because Protectorates and Protected States were not included in it, there has been legislation applicable to the particular districts for the purpose and object, which to a great extent has succeeded, of putting an end to those brutal conditions of ownership in the form of slavery. It was a pleasurable statistic which Lord Buxton gave us as regards the diminution of slavery in Tanganyika of about 450,000 within recent times, and as to the possibility of direct British influence. I am convinced that this Government—I do not say that there is any special virtue in it as well as any Government representing Great Britain, will do all in their power to put an end to what is regarded by us all as an injurious and odious ownership and traffic.\n\nOne point I think I have not answered, but Lord Lugard will tell me if I have misapprehended him—namely, the question of forced labour. The particular question asked me to-day has reference to slavery, but I agree very much with what Lord Cromer said—I heard him say it often in this House and always agreed with him—that under certain conditions forced labour brings about a status practically similar to that of slavery itself. 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"content_text": "# Slavery\n\n## LORDS\n\nSlavery. years imprisonment to a person charged with ill-treating a slave. So many of these countries, as in the case of Abyssinia and Arabia, custom and religion permit of slavery as being a proper system. Not only that, but we know there is a regular status of slaves in Arabia. It is recognised that women should be simply kept for that purpose, and when a woman has reached a certain time of life she is cast adrift. As Mr. Rutter described in some of his writings, she becomes a beggar and a miserable object when her process of child bearing has been taken from her. I think the noble Earl, Lord Buxton, referred to China as having issued regulations against slavery. On the other hand, I understand that no documents have ever been presented to the League by the Chinese representatives, although they have been very faithful and loyal attendants at the meetings. I understand also that when the Anti-Slavery Society protested to the Chinese Ambassador in this country two or three years ago that China had never presented any documents on the subject or let the rest of the world know what was going on in China, they received no reply whatsoever from him.\n\nAlthough it seems very terrible that such a condition of affairs should exist in the world at the present time, there are many features of a satisfactory nature. First of all, Mr. Rutter, in narrating his many experiences in Arabia, speaks of the influence of the Koran. We are told that Mahomet recommended slavery. Mr. Rutter agrees, but points out that the Koran also states and reiterates that the most acceptable act in the sight of God is the liberation of slaves. That is a feature which ought not to be lost sight of. Mr. Rutter also says that if slavery was practised in accordance with the dictates of the Koran the abolition of slavery would soon be brought about. That is a distinctly satisfactory feature having regard to what has been said this afternoon about the condition of slaves in Arabia. That condition has been described forcibly by that great traveller, Mr. Bertram Thomas, but he mentions in one of his writings that another feeling is beginning to permeate that country regarding slavery. Even in China it is satisfactory to note that a Chinese magistrate reported as having regretted that he could only give two years imprisonment to a person charged with ill-treating a slave.\n\n## Lord Lamington\n\nA good deal has been said this afternoon about Ras Tafari and his desire to abolish slavery in his dominions. I think the noble Earl mentioned as a curious feature the fact that the price of slaves is going up in those dominions. That may mean, of course, that there is more difficulty in getting slaves, and if that is so it may be regarded with satisfaction. Mr. Spender has described the wonderful change that has come over the Sudan and Khorassan, a vast area about the size of Europe, through the extinction of slave raiding and the giving of peaceful occupations to the people. It must be remembered, however, that to get rid of slavery as it exists at present is a very complicated matter. I cannot see any other means of doing it than through the League of Nations, as has been indicated this afternoon by every speaker. The noble Viscount, Lord Cecil, said just now that the League of Nations itself could not take any action; that all it could do was to create and inform public opinion.\n\n### Viscount Cecil of Chelwood\n\nNot the League of Nations, the Secretariat.\n\n## Lord Lamington\n\nThe Secretariat. It is true that all that can be done is to arouse public opinion in Europe as to the necessity of ventilating the question in those countries where slavery continues to exist. The only disheartening feature is that there should be any delay in agreeing to the setting up of such a bureau, seeing that Geneva is so central for the purpose. I understand that the Mandates Commission has been a distinct success and that seems to be an example that should be followed. With that example before the nations it would be very unfortunate if there were any delay in establishing a permanent slavery bureau. It is satisfactory that all Parties in your Lordships' House, and that everybody in this country are agreed that whoever represents us at Geneva should do his very best to secure the setting up of a bureau of the character suggested so that there may be continuity, that information may be obtained, and that anybody interested in the question may have facilities and be able to discover what has been done not only by the bureau but in every country where slavery is practised.\n\nIt is very much to be desired in creating public opinion that the Press of this and every other country should seriously devote attention to the subject. It is very satisfactory in this connection that so many Frenchmen have taken the matter up. The incident about the dhow owner quoted by the noble Earl was based, I think, on a report written by a French writer, and Le Matin, I understand, published twenty articles dealing with this question. Therefore, if the attention of the world is drawn to the desirability not of taking action, but of making those countries in which slavery exists ashamed of a practice which differentiates them from the rest of the world, something will be done to make those countries desire to put themselves on a higher plane of civilisation.\n\n## Lord Noel-Buxton\n\nMy Lords, I desire to support the Motion before your Lordships' House by way of evidence which lately came to my notice regarding Africa. Africa furnishes the largest contingent towards the shocking total of five millions of slaves which, on the very judicial authority of and carefully compiled by the Anti-Slavery Society, must be taken as a figure within the mark. Africa has the most melancholy chapter in the whole history of slavery. It is thought that the population of Africa has been reduced by slavery alone by 100,000,000. The whole of Africa has a population of only 120,000,000—extraordinarily small for that vast area. That is due to slavery and the slave trade in the past.\n\nNow, I want to contribute some facts which came to my notice last month when I attended an International Conference at Geneva on Juvenile Welfare in Africa. Many facts came to light at that conference in regard to slavery and forced labour, although it was a conference not called ostensibly to discuss those subjects. It was a conference rather unique in importance, because it included representatives of Governments, officials from all parts of Africa, scientists, doctors, and missionaries representing both the Roman and other Churches, and it had collected during two years with very great labour the answers to questionnaires which had been furnished by some 350 resident experts in all parts of Africa. As it was not aimed at revealing slavery, the evidence which came to hand was all the more weighty, being incidental. Constantly in the reports which have been compiled, there were references to direct slavery or analogous conditions; and what they showed was the many-sidedness and complication of the question.\n\nIt seems to me greatly to reinforce the argument for a bureau and for an expert department at Geneva. Both in autonomous Africa and in Colonial Africa, European ruled, evidence came to hand. I need not labour what has been said to-day in regard to Abyssinia and Liberia. They are notorious fields of crude slavery. They illustrate slavery also in the wider field of semi-slavery. We have, for instance, in the Report on West Africa, referring to Liberia, this sentence:\n\n\"Among certain backward tribes, parents sell their children, who become slaves or concubines. Children are also handed over to a creditor as guarantee for an unpaid debt, finally becoming his slaves or the serfs of his family for generations.\"\n\nSuch practices count as slavery under the Convention. It is true they are not exactly defined in the text, but the Committee on the Convention said, through its rapporteur, who was the noble Viscount, Lord Cecil:\n\n\"The Convention applies not only to domestic slavery but to all those conditions mentioned by the Temporary Slavery Commission, i.e., debt slavery, the enslaving of persons disguised as the adoption of children, and the acquisition of girls by purchase disguised as payment of dowry.\"\n\nIt seems to me that facts of this kind greatly reinforce what has been said to-day. A still more difficult question arises in regard to forced labour. There was very much evidence at this conference on forced labour of different kinds. The statements illustrated the difficulty of discriminating between the forced labour which is slavery within the meaning of the Convention and forced labour which is not slavery because it is work done for Governments. We had, for instance, in the report on Central Africa, words to this effect:",
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"content_text": "# 1049 \n## Slavery\n\n\"In certain regions of Central Africa (e.g., in parts of the French Cameroons) children are obliged to do work which is beyond their strength and which causes them physical harm. In addition, women and children are sometimes obliged to help in heavy labour connected with road-making, supervised by native chiefs.\" \n\nSlavery, indigenous, rooted in ideas largely religious, and there have arisen also, what we had not a hundred years ago, insidious forms of slavery stimulated by industrial development and backed by economic pressure.\n\nHow the Convention is to be made effective as to these subsidiary forms of slavery is a very great question. We have been told that about forty States have adhered to the Convention, but the League cannot deal with abuses of this kind without the advice of men of administrative experience. All that I have quoted illustrates the great complexity of the question, and seems to me to show that imperatively progress requires such a bureau as has been sketched to-day. The function of providing technical examination of reports will be very valuable. The Convention binds its signatories to furnish reports, but before these can go to the Council or the Assembly they evidently require an examination which they cannot get to-day. Again, the function of advising States of the steps which are taken by other States requires a clearing-house of information. Information which is merely thrown at the head of the Secretariat, as it must be to-day, is not utilised. It comes home to one, if one sees the official now concerned with dealing with slavery information, how greatly a department is lacking. At present it is referred to the Mandates Department, and action awaits the fitting machinery.\n\nIt is melancholy to reflect that a whole century has elapsed since British liberation took place. It took forty years of strenuous agitation to end British slavery and the slave trade. It was a tremendous task, but it was simple in one way because the agitators had to deal with our own Government alone. It was a very great event in history, and in confirmation of what has been said to-day it is interesting to recall the words of Mr. Lecky when he said: \"The crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous acts recorded in the history of nations.\" \n\nTo-day the problem, as we have heard, is greatly changed. The influence of States which preserve slavery to-day is based upon the fact that slavery is there. \n\n## Lord Noel-Buxton\n\nBut in one way the problem is much simpler, because we have the League to act; and action by the League avoids the odium of interference by a single State and it saves the face of the State which needs reform. Our own Government, as has been said, has acted with vigour, and let us hope that it will continue to do so till success is attained. In doing so, it has been true to the tradition of this country, which is based on the fact that it has very often been the leader in movements for liberation. To succeed it needs the backing of a keen public opinion. I think we may say that the noble Earl who introduced this debate has fully expressed the public opinion of the British race - the opinion that slavery must without delay be brought to an end.\n\n## EARL BUXTON\nMy Lords, perhaps I might say one or two words in reply. May I thank noble Lords in the House for the way they have received this Resolution, and especially the Leader of the House for what he has said with regard to the action of the Government in one or two matters? In listening to the debate I recalled to memory the biography of my grandfather, and I traced in my mind the difference between the reception that he had in his time and that which I have received in mine. He was received during the ten years he was endeavouring to deal with this question with the greatest misrepresentation, with vile abuse and with all sorts of insinuations. I receive bouquets; he received brickbats. I think that is indicative of the enormous change which has taken place in regard to this matter.\n\nThere are several points on which I should like to say something, but I do not wish to detain your Lordships at this time of the evening, and so I will only deal with two matters. The first is in reference to what the noble and learned Lord the Leader of the House has said about slaves going between Abyssinia and Arabia. In my speech I ventured to remark that co-operation between France, Italy and ourselves was greatly required. I was very glad to hear the noble and learned Lord say in reply that that co-operation is now very cordial, and we may hope it will be effective.\n\n# 1051 \n## British Sugar Industry\n\nThe other point is one raised by the noble Viscount, Lord Cecil, in reference to what he called direct interference with sovereign States. I do not know whether he heard my speech, but I referred to that especially - exactly, I think, from the point of view he expressed. I said that in all these cases the danger that there would be a feeling of interference with the sovereign independence of Members of the League of Nations was a thing which must be clearly guarded against, but, at the same time, if you had a bureau of this description, you would have a body which would be able to assist those desirous of dealing with slavery in their own countries. I agree with him that that is a danger to be guarded against, or rather, I would put it in this way, that the difficulty of getting these proposals accepted by the League of Nations is the danger of a feeling of interference. I feel sure that the Government will give to this point the attention desired by the noble Viscount, because I am sure it is an important point in getting these proposals accepted by the League. I am much obliged to the noble and learned Lord.\n\nOn Question, motion agreed to.\n\n## BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL\nOrder of the Day for the Second Reading read.\n\n## THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (EARL DE LA WARR)\nMy Lords, this is a Bill to deal with an emergency that occurred in the beet sugar industry last year owing to the fact that the drop in the price of sugar from 11s. 7d., I think, in 1928, to 9s. 2d. in 1929 and then to 6s. 6d. in 1930 coincided with the halving of the beet sugar subsidy, that is, a reduction from 13s. to 6s. 6d. These two reductions, coming together, created a situation which the industry was unable to meet. The Government, therefore, decided that it would be necessary to alleviate to some extent the situation thereby brought about. It was decided to do so by increasing the new smaller subsidy - that is, the subsidy of 6s. 6d. by 1s. 3d. per cwt. Very stringent conditions are attached to that increase. Firstly, the extra subsidy is not payable at all in so far as sugar prices rise above 9s. 3d. - that means a rise in price of 1s. 9d. above what the price is now. Every penny that the world price of sugar rises comes out of this scheme for increasing the subsidy.\n\nActually the cost of the scheme would be something over £200,000, but for every penny that the price of sugar rises between now and the initiation of this scheme we save £15,000. Not only that, but if the price of sugar rises sufficiently next year to justify us in so doing, this extra subsidy will be recoverable out of the next year's payment of subsidy to the factories. The factories have undertaken in return to see that every penny of the subsidy goes to the growers.\n\nThey have undertaken that they will pay no dividend and make no provision for depreciation while they are in receipt of this subsidy. Not only have the factories made this sacrifice in order to keep the industry going - because most certainly the industry could not have been kept going unless some such step had been taken - but the growers themselves have also had to meet a very heavy reduction in price. Whereas last year they were receiving 52s. 4d. for beets containing 17 per cent. sugar content, next year they are to receive only 43s. Whereas last year they received 46s. for beets containing 15 per cent. sugar content, this year they are only to receive 38s.\n\nLet me make it quite clear that this Bill does not in any sense raise the general question of whether the beet sugar industry should or should not be assisted. That was settled some years ago - I think in 1925 when the original Bill was introduced. We are simply discussing now whether an industry that was set up by Act of Parliament, and on the development of which this country has already spent vast sums, should be allowed to go under because of one particular year in which this disastrous fall in prices coincided with an equally large fall in the subsidy. At any rate, if any noble Lord is anxious to raise the general principle, I would point out that this proposal of ours only suggests an increase.",
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"content_text": "# British Sugar Industry (Assistance) Bill\n\n## Debate in the House of Lords\n\nEarl De La Warr. I spoke at some length, called attention to what could be done and asked the Liberal Government of the day to give some assistance. It was withheld because it infringed the strict rules of Free Trade. However, we went on, and I am glad to say that the Conservative Government, I think in 1923, remitted the Excise Duties and gave a great impetus to the industry for the moment. It was not possible, however, to attract any further capital, because that protection was immediately seized upon as a political question and the situation was felt to be too uncertain.\n\nThe subsidy is only one third of the original subsidy. It is steadily declining, and three years hence, in 1934, it will run out completely. It is satisfactory to be able to tell your Lordships' House that as a result of this emergency measure there has been only a decrease of 18 per cent. in acreage under sugar beet cultivation—that is, of the growers who supply the twelve factories which accepted our offer. There are, unfortunately, six factories which did not accept our offer. They are not to receive the increased subsidy and there has been a reduction in their acreage of 44 per cent. I think it is most satisfactory to realise that in spite of this enormous reduction in price to the growers there has only been this very small reduction in acreage.\n\nIt shows how our growers, in the last few years, have been putting their backs into it and improving the efficiency by which they produce their crops.\n\nTHE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY: I am sorry to interrupt the noble Earl, but does he mean there has been no decrease in the acreage?\n\nEARL DE LA WARR: There has been an 18 per cent. drop.\n\nTHE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY: That is not the whole drop.\n\nEARL DE LA WARR: That applies to the twelve factories, compared with a 44 per cent. drop for those growers who supply the six factories.\n\nTHE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY: I misunderstood the noble Earl.\n\nEARL DE LA WARR: I think I have given the main outline of the scheme. If any questions arise I will do my best to answer them. I beg to move.\n\nMoved, That the Bill be now read 2o.— (Earl De La Warr.)\n\nTHE EARL OF DENBIGH: My Lords, I do not wish to take up the time of the House, especially as I have no criticism to offer with regard to the Bill, but I am very much interested in this question, and I should like to take the opportunity of saying a few words, if the House will bear with me for a short time. It is just about twenty-five years since I first introduced this question in the House, and I am not at all certain that it was not the first time that the sugar beet industry had ever been mentioned in your Lordships' House.\n\nAccordingly, I have nothing but congratulations to offer to His Majesty's Government, both now and then, for having done in regard to this important industry the vision to realise what really could be done in this country, and I may be pardoned for feeling particularly satisfied to realise that everything that I brought forward as an argument in favour of adopting the industry as a national one has been overwhelmingly proved during all the years of this great experiment.\n\nAll I want to say now is in regard to what I consider the narrow-minded, carping criticisms that have been uttered against any further money being expended on the industry. We have seen it represented that some £30,000,000 has been practically thrown away, that nothing has been gained and that the further money now provided is simply throwing good money after bad. There never was a greater mistake than to assume that. The whole thing must be regarded as a great educational experiment which has been wonderfully successful. It has been abundantly proved that the cultivation of sugar beet enormously improves the fertility of the land and increases the subsequent crop, and I think that is one of the most important points in its favour.\n\nThe ... issued an interesting report only the other day quoted the report of the manager of the Kelham Estate, in which he points out that for the first three years, when he took over the estate, wheat and barley averaged three quarters per acre. After the first beet crop, there was a marked improvement, and for the last four years wheat for the whole farm has never been less than five quarters per acre, and has averaged five quarters and a half. The same result has been noted and is well known in regard to other crops, in which there has been a large increase.\n\n## Continued Debate\n\n...been suddenly sprung upon us through this abnormal fall in the price of sugar and the impossibility of the factories running at a profit if they have to pay adequate prices to the farmers, the Government have shown great wisdom in combating what I call the short-sighted objections that have been raised, and introducing this Bill for the purpose of continuing some financial help.\n\nI am not going to enlarge upon all the details, because I think they are becoming pretty well known now, but it is important to realise that the whole future of the industry depends on the question of costs. It is all-important to reduce costs so far as possible, and we can only reduce costs by improving efficiency, not only in practical management but also on the farm, in cultivation, in transport and in every possible way in which expense comes in handling these roots. That efficiency is certainly improving, and costs have been reduced very largely.\n\nThere is one manner in which costs can be still further reduced, and that is by increasing the average production per acre, which at present is not satisfactory. The general average is not yet up to the Continental standard, which is round about ten or eleven tons per acre, although about 40 per cent. of the crops have been equal to that, and in many cases a great deal larger. One reason is that in this country our horse hoes have not made possible the Continental practice of standing the rows close enough together, because the plants get trodden on by the horses and destroyed. The result is that what is called plant population, the number of roots per acre, and the sugar produced have not been equal to the Continental standard, taking it all round.\n\nBut all that is being improved and is capable of being improved. I was reading only last week an account of a motor hoe which can be used for the purpose of weeding, saving a good deal of labour. If that can be developed—and great ingenuity has been brought to bear upon the implements that have been evolved for the purposes of this industry—it may have a very considerable effect in increasing the production of sugar per acre.\n\nIt is all a question of efficiency and reduction of costs, and I contend that, having regard to the difficulty which has... We earnestly hope that it may be possible to put the industry on a footing where it will not be necessary to ask for financial help. But, even if that cannot be arrived at, if it be necessary to ask for some small protective duty which will not hurt anybody for the purpose of keeping this industry going in some way—for every Continental country that has adopted sugar beet would do anything rather than see their industry go down—if it is necessary to do that, I contend very strongly that the money will be extremely well spent.\n\nTherefore, I cordially welcome this Bill, and congratulate His Majesty's Government on their action in the matter.\n\nTHE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY: My Lords, naturally I have no desire to offer any objection to this Bill. In fact, it is only following on the help which has already been accorded. There is only one question that I would venture to ask the noble Earl, and that is in regard to Clause 2(2). I presume that repayments are a first charge on the property and come before any other charge.\n\nEARL DE LA WARR: Repayments may be made by deduction from the subsidy.\n\nTHE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY: They are a first charge on the property?\n\nEARL DE LA WARR: Yes.\n\nOn Question, Bill read 2o, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.\n\nHouse adjourned at seven o'clock until to-morrow at three o'clock.\n\n## Page Numbering\nPage 1053\nPage 1054\nPage 1055\nPage 1056",
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"content_text": "# LORD JUSTICE SLESSER\nIn this case, declarations are sought against the Crown to the effect, in substance, that the Crown is not entitled to charge the appellant Company for the use of troops employed to protect the property of the Company and the lives of their employees in circumstances stated by my Lords which I do not repeat.\n\nThe appellant Company seek to support their case on three grounds. First, they say that the powers of the Crown with regard to the Army are by law limited and that in particular the common law and Statutes which authorise or require the Crown to employ the Army do not authorise it to make charges for the use of the Army. Secondly, they argue that, in any event, even if the Crown has a discretion how it will protect the subject, yet that discretion should not be influenced by any consideration of the giving of money by the subject or the denial of such money. Thirdly, it is said that the Crown has a duty to protect the subject and that its officers cannot properly demand money from the subject, *colore officii*, as a term of the performance of that duty.\n\nThese three arguments I propose to consider in the order in which I have stated them. (a) As regards the alleged limitation of the prerogative of the Crown in its disposition of the Army. By Statute, 13 Charles II, chapter 6, it is declared that the sole supreme Government, command and discipline of the Militia and of all forces by sea and land is, and by the laws of England ever was the undoubted right of His Majesty and his Royal predecessors, Kings and Queens of England. This declaratory Act is still law, and, as late as the year 1863, by the Statute Law Revision Act, 26 and 27 Victoria, Chapter 125, Schedule, the words in the preamble of the Act of Charles II which I have quoted, are expressly preserved. \"His Majesty's pleasure supersedes all enquiry, as he has absolute direction and command of the Army.\" (Per Lord Kenyon in Macdonald v. Steele, 1 Peake, 233, at page 235).\n\nThe government of the Forces is vested in the Crown who has power to make regulations as to command and administration (25 Halsbury's Laws of England, page 37). \"The supreme government and command of all forces by sea and land and of all forts and places of strength, is vested in the Crown by prerogative right at common law and by Statute.\" (6 Halsbury's Laws of England, page 418). This last quotation cites Comyns Digest to the like effect, and although Sir John Comyns appears to limit his statement that \"the government and command of the militia and of all the forces by sea and by land belong only to the King\" (Prerogative Command of the Forces, Fourth Edition, Volume 6, page 33) to prerogative in respect of the King's own subjects in time of war, apart from the legalisation of the Army by the Army Acts, his submission would appear to be equally true as regards time of peace. It is by virtue of his prerogative that the King by Letters Patent in 1904 constituted the first Army Council, and it is there stated that the Army Council has been constituted \"for the administration of matters pertaining to our military forces and the defence of our Dominions, that such power and authority for the purpose as has hitherto been exercised under our prerogative\" by various officers. Although by Section 7(1) of the Army Act 1881 express provision is made for removing doubts as to the powers of command vested or to be vested in officers, by subsection (2) of that Section it is expressly provided that nothing in the Section shall be deemed to be in derogation of any other power otherwise vested in His Majesty.\n\nPage 28\nPage 17",
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"content_text": "~42779/30\n\n-2-\n\n20\n\nThey received Treasury sanction to the scheme on 21st March, 1930, and after giving most careful consideration to the proposals by the Governor of Hong Kong, on 17th June They instructed the Commander-in-Chief to inform the Governor that it would probably take three or four years from the inception of the work to complete the scheme. The Governor was also informed that as little actual work on the new site was likely to be put in hand during that financial year, the first instalment could be paid on the 1st April, 1931, and that the other payments would be asked for to coincide with the progress of the work, and the final one not called for until the Arsenal Yard and Kellett's Island were completely evacuated and available for transfer.\n\nIn reply to this communication, My Lords received through the Commander-in-Chief a copy of a despatch dated 4th September 1930 from the Governor, to the Secretary of State, which stated that, after very careful consideration from the point of view of the Hong Kong Government, His Excellency recommended that the two million dollars should be offered in four half-yearly instalments. My Lords naturally regarded this recommendation as having been put forward with the full knowledge that the property would not be ready for evacuation when.\n\n•\n\nBow Y2yY9/30\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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"content_text": "Page 378\n\nWOMEN AT HOME AND ABROAD\n\nBravo, Amy!\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nThe Women's Freedom League offers Miss Amy Johnson (Mrs. Mollison) its most enthusiastic congratulations on her triumphant achievement in breaking the record for the flight from England to Capetown, set up last March by Mr. J. A. Mollison, of four days seventeen hours by ten and a half hours and that despite nine hours lost at Benguella owing to lack of oil pressure, due to sand getting into her engine while crossing the Sahara.\n\nThe King sent his hearty congratulations on her splendid achievement.\n\nLast May Miss Amelia Earhart achieved lasting fame as the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone, and she was awarded the American Distinguished Flying Cross by President Hoover. We hope that our own country will be no less generous in bestowing on Mrs. Mollison a suitable honour.\n\nUniversity Woman's Appointment\n\nMiss A. Margaret Tillyard, M.A., has been appointed by the chief officers of the Halls of Residence as one of their representatives upon the Court of Governors of the University of Manchester.\n\nWoman Chairman of Health Committee\n\nMiss K. M. Worrall has been selected as chairman of Birkenhead Health Committee. She is the first woman in Birkenhead to occupy that position.\n\nWoman's Advertising Post\n\nMrs. Simmonds has been appointed as their advertising manager by Messrs. Wolsey, Ltd., the British hosiery manufacturing firm. This is said to be one of the biggest appointments in the world of advertising. Mrs. Simmonds for some time previously had been conducting market research for this firm. She was formerly private secretary to Sir William Crawford, head of one of the big London advertising agencies.\n\nWoman Sculptor Wins Again\n\nMiss Helen V. Mackay has for the second year in succession been awarded the £100 prize given annually by the Feodora Gleichen Memorial Fund for the best piece of work by a woman sculptor.\n\nWomen to Make Films\n\nTo-day's Cinema reports that an organisation of women has just been formed to produce films. The company is being registered as the British Women's Picture Corporation. The president will be the Dowager Lady Raglan.\n\nWOMEN LAWYERS\n\nLast week six women were among the ninety-one successful law students called to the bar in the hall of the Inns of Court. They were: Mrs. Alice G. Morrice (Lincoln's Inn); Miss E. I. Froggatt (Inner Temple); Miss Ursula B. C. Newell (Middle Temple); Dr. Flora H. M. Calder (Middle Temple); Miss Marie M. Delage (Gray's Inn); Miss Mary R. Tabor (Gray's Inn).\n\nMiss Newell was called at the same time as her elder brother, and is the daughter of a retired County Court Judge. Dr. Flora Calder, M.A., M.D., Ch.B., Edin. Univ., D.P.M., Royal College of Physicians, Eng., is an assistant medical officer of the County Mental Hospital, Winwick, Warrington. Miss Mary Tabor is a municipal officer of the Norwich Corporation. She has been in the city engineer's estates department since March.\n\nThe following women were among the successful candidates at the Intermediate Examination of the Law Society (for solicitors), held on November 2nd and 3rd. A candidate is not obliged to take both parts of the examination at the same time:\n\nPassed: Mabel Harold.\n\nThe following passed the legal portion only: Hilda M. Charbonnier, Freda Gaukroger, Dorothy Hedges, Agnes W. Knight, Annie D. Litten, Joan L. S. O'Connor.\n\nThe following passed the trust accounts and book-keeping portion only: Anne E. James.\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nTHE BEGUM SHAH NAWAZ\n\nThe Begum Shah Nawaz, the only woman among thirty-two Indian representatives appointed to attend the third Indian Round Table Conference, arrived in London last Saturday. She then stated that she hoped to help to do great things for India, and particularly for the women of India. Things were improving, she said, but there was need for much further advance.\n\nThe Conference entered upon its detailed work at the House of Lords last Monday.\n\nA NEW CECIL HOUSE\n\nThe thrill of a fifth Cecil House for homeless women is the hope of the immediate future. To collect funds for this a meeting was convened by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton and her supporters at the Cambridge Theatre (London) on November 18. It was marvellous, for there were nine speakers and more, and not a touch of dullness! The aim was its own plea. A warm glow of generous love seemed to flood the packed theatre, and every word from the platform increased it. Already a site has been found and secured across the river—in Tower Street, S.E.1. To set it going £5,000 is needed, towards which a creditable sum was raised.\n\nThere were two M.P.s—Mr. Adrian Moreing, a Londoner, in the chair; and Mr. D. G. Somerville, who, with Miss Helena Pickard, ably raked in cheques and \"promises,\" and new subscribers. Both members shed all the trappings of Parliamentary eloquence and became inspiringly human and direct in this heart-warming cause. Mr. Louis Golding made a tender, poetical speech, paying special tribute to the old women uprooted in the storms of life, to whom the Cecil Houses are such a boon; of their charm, and their subtle spiritual relationships. \"All things they have in common being so poor.\" Miss Sheila Kaye Smith followed, with what he had called her \"Green Apple\" eloquence, and spoke of what it meant to every woman to come back to a bed after a long, tiring day—even more than it meant to a man: \"Women must have what they call a home.\" It is essential to the feminine nature.\n\nAnd at a Cecil House it is \"home\" with bed, warmth, and food for 1s. a night. No forms to fill in—the need of shelter passport enough. But some have the shilling and can't get in. Mr. J. B. Priestley, introduced by Mr. Moreing as a \"Good Companion,” also said a few sympathetic words.\n\nMr. Ernest Milton, who had been over two Cecil Houses, said how much he was struck by their brightness of colouring, and by the atmosphere of confidence and friendliness and self-respect. He described the attitude of the matrons as more like that of \"a pleasant buxom hostess of a solid provincial hotel.\"\n\nWhen Mrs. Chesterton entered a house with a cheery \"Good evening, ladies,\" she came as a woman and a friend.\n\nThe Chairman presented Mrs. Chesterton as the \"heroine of the work.\" She spoke in moving words of what could be done for the \"down-and-outs\" in giving them back their self-respect and fighting spirit. And she told how at the Harrow Road House they were getting new recruits of a different class: trained nurses, girl clerks, and others, unemployed and cut off by poverty from their own kind. Dainty Miss Pickard related a personal experience of being stranded in Hanley (Staffs) when on tour, and how she had longed for a Cecil House.\n\nE. M. E.\n\nSIXTEEN WOMEN MAYORS!\n\nAlderman Mrs. Keynes, Mayor of Cambridge, points out an omission in our list of Women Mayors—Mrs. Carr, Mayor of Godmanchester. This brings the number of women mayors up to sixteen—six of whom are in East Anglia.\n\nPage 379\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nChild Marriage\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nIN PARLIAMENT\n\nMISS RATHBONE (Ind., Eng. Universities) on November 14 asked the Secretary of State for India whether the Census Reports for 1931 are sufficiently available for him to supply figures showing whether and to what extent, the practice of child marriage in India has decreased since the previous census.\n\nSIR SAMUEL HOARE: I regret that I am not yet in a position to supply this information.\n\nMISS RATHBONE asked the Secretary of State for India (1) if he will supply figures showing the number of prosecutions that have taken place under the Sarda Act in Restraint of Child Marriage in the years 1930, 1931, and 1932 respectively; (2) if he can now report the result of his inquiries on the question whether, and to what extent, the provincial governments are carrying into effect the administrative measures recommended by the Joshi Committee three years ago as being necessary for the successful enforcement of the Sarda Act in Restraint of Child Marriage.\n\nMR. GEORGE HALL (Lab., Aberdare) asked the Secretary of State for India how many prosecutions have taken place under the Child Marriage Restraint Act, No. 19 of 1929 (the Sarda Act), and with what result.\n\nSIR S. HOARE: I am not in possession of figures showing the numbers of prosecutions and convictions under the Sarda Act, but I will obtain them. The result of the inquiries made of local governments regarding the recommendations of the Joshi Committee have not yet been received, but I will inquire how the matter stands.\n\nMISS RATHBONE: Does the right hon. gentleman not think that there has been great dilatoriness on the part of the provincial governments, inasmuch as it is two years since the inquiry was circulated and that a year ago he undertook to remind the provincial governments of it; and, in view of the fact that the Act was passed with the strong approval of the Government at Delhi, as being necessary to remove \"a great and corroding evil\"—I think those were the words—does he think that the provincial governments are showing enough zeal in seeing to it that the Act is not made a dead letter?\n\nSIR S. HOARE: The hon. lady knows that the Act raises many important questions, and I think she would not expect me to express an opinion as to the attitude of the provincial governments. I am having compiled for her the information for which she has asked, and, as soon as I have it, she will get it.\n\nMaternity and Child Welfare (Grants)\n\nMR. PARKINSON (Lab., Wigan) on November 15 asked the Minister of Health what grant will be made towards maternity and child-welfare services during the current year; and what was the amount in the year 1931.\n\nMR. SHAKESPEARE (Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health): Under the Local Government Act, 1929, separate grants for maternity and child-welfare services, other than the training of midwives and health visitors, ceased to be payable in respect of any year after the financial year 1929-30.\n\nThe amount of the discontinued grant formerly paid by the Exchequer in respect of these services was included in determining the loss on account of grants under the Act.\n\nHouse of Lords\n\nMR. MANDER (Lib., Wolverhampton E.) on November 17 asked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation dealing with the reform of the House of Lords on the lines of the report recently issued, or on other lines.\n\nTHE PRIME MINISTER: The Government have not considered this question.\n\nNIGHT EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN\n\n\"The Times\" reports that the Permanent Court of International Justice recently delivered its advisory opinion on the following question, submitted to it by the Council of the League of Nations at the request of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office:\n\nDoes the Convention concerning employment of women during the night adopted in 1919 by the International Labour Conference, apply, in the industrial undertakings covered by the said Convention, to women who hold positions of supervision or management and are not ordinarily engaged in manual work?\n\nBy six votes against five the Court answered this question in the affirmative.\n\nThe question had its origin in a difficulty which the British Government had encountered for several years past in the application of Article 3 of the Convention: “Women, without distinction of age, shall not be employed during the night in any public or private industrial undertaking, or in any branch thereof, other than an undertaking in which only members of the same family are employed.\"\n\nBritish Government regarded this provision as applying to all women, without exception, employed in industry, but at the same time they considered that an exception ought to be made in favour of women occupying posts of supervision or management. They therefore proposed that the Convention should be revised in that sense.\n\nThe Court rejected arguments which had been put forward to show that the natural meaning of the Article might be disregarded. The first of these was to the effect that the Washington Convention, being a Labour Convention in the sense of the Labour portions of the Peace Treaties of 1919, ought to be interpreted as applicable solely to manual workers. The next was that the circumstances in which the Convention was adopted in Washington furnished adequate grounds for restricting its application to women engaged in manual work, more especially because the Washington Convention was merely an extension and application of the Berne Convention of 1906, an instrument which was concerned solely with women performing manual work. Lastly, there was the argument that the Convention of Washington did not cover women occupying posts of management, because in 1919 such cases were very few in number, and therefore were not under consideration.\n\nWOMEN'S WORK IN THE CHURCH\n\nIn his first presidential address to the Southwark Diocesan Conference, held recently, Dr. Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, referred to the problem of the shortage of trained women workers in the Church.\n\nHe said that at present a commission which had been appointed by the two archbishops were considering the matter. Personally, he was convinced that the life and work of the Church would never be as healthy and as efficient as it should be until educated and specially trained women were given scope and opportunity for their talents and ministrations in the Church's service as full and free as was given to men of similar education and training.\n\nIt was a matter of very grave concern that at a time when larger opportunities of service and of influence were opening out to women in so many other directions, in the Church, just when a supply of women duly qualified to serve it was forthcoming, the demand for that supply should be diminished.\n\nYOUNG WOMEN AVIATORS' ENTERPRISE\n\nMiss Joan Page, daughter of Sir Arthur Page, and Miss Audrey Sale Barker, recently flew to South Africa, where they carried consignments of Cow and Gate milk food to introduce to South Africans.\n\nPage 20",
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"content_text": "2. Omission occurred: it may be that the fact that the scheme would take three to four years to complete was overlooked or that it was assumed that the Lords of the Admiralty would not in equity press for payment of the final instalment until they were in a position to hand over the areas in question.\n\n3. While there may be some substance in the claim put forward by the Lords of the Admiralty, I submit that it is fundamentally inequitable and entirely contrary to the spirit of the amicable arrangement which was entered into by the Admiralty and this Government.\n\nI trust, therefore, that you will see your way to press for a postponement of the payment of the final instalment until Their Lordships are in a position to carry out their part of the agreement and hand over the Naval Arsenal Yard free from encumbrances.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\nLive\nGovernor, &c.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21",
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"content_text": "-14-\n\n26\n\njury in order to enable the Crown to bring forward a stronger case by bringing forward Mary Pine, but that the appellant should have a fair trial. He cannot have a fair trial owing to the fact that the jury had tried him and returned their verdict had heard what the evidence of Mary Pine would be.\n\nThe next ground which is my last ground is the additional ground. The evidence of Mrs. Fairburn in the absence of the evidence of Mary Pine was wrongfully admitted and put to the jury. No objection could possibly have been taken at the trial because the defence was conducted on the admission that the Crown was going to call Mary Pine to give evidence.\n\nI submit in the absence of Mary Pine's evidence the evidence of Mrs. Fairburn was not admissible on the ground as put forward, because the evidence of Mrs. Fairburn as to the throwing of the two children could be classified as falling under the heading of \"similar act\". I submit evidence of similar acts cannot be given in any trial unless the Crown has first of all made out a prima facie case against the appellant.\n\nI refer to only one authority. R. vs. Smith Vol. 11 Cr. Appeal page 229. Judgment. Statement on Law on page 237. About the middle of page... \"It is sufficient if the whole judgment is read.\n\nMr. Hayden: Would that not be evidence of \"similar acts not committed at the same time\" - that is the whole point of the case.\n\nIf there is evidence to prove any one of the three children had been thrown by the appellant then these two points are admissible on the ground that that formed part of res gestae.\n\n(Discussion on how case compares with present case and Mr. Hayden does not agree it compares).\n\nAdjourned to 2.15 p.m.\n\n2.15 p.m.\n\n9.10.34.\n\nMR. FRASER.\n\nMy Lords, the case for the appellant has been put by my friend with great length with his usual eloquence and it is incumbent on me to put the case at your Lordships' request, for the respondent.\n\nIn the first place may I apologise for having interrupted the proceedings of this Court so often during my friend's proceedings. I was led into that course by what was rather unexpected to me, the attributing to my opening speech a great many things which had no place there.\n\nThat being so I feel it also incumbent upon me to define as shortly as possible what was said or what could have been said and first of all I would direct your Lordships to the statement which is before you at paragraph (a) - the statement is that Mary Pine would say some of the children etc.\n\nNow that is the only statement in which direct mention is made that any witness will say a particular thing and from this contiguity of the two statements - Eric Davis and Mary Pine, Your Lordships will see the reason for putting it in that form. It was an attempt by me to anticipate in the minds of the jury any confusion that might arise between these two statements and I put it to them straight away.",
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"content_text": "-18-\n\nThursday\n\n11.10.34\n\n11 a.m.\n\n30\n\nMr. Fraser: My Lords; With regard to the last point of law that with the absence of the Crown's witness, Mary Pine, the evidence of Mrs. Fairburn was wrongfully admitted and put to the jury. This point was not raised at the trial and my case is that it is not competent for this Court now to deal with that point. I shall deal with that later. The evidence of Mrs. Fairburn, I contend is admissible from several angles, admissible as part of the res gestae, it is admissible to explain how the accused got into the nullah; and it is admissible to rebut the defence of accident.\n\nThe part I am dealing with of course is the part of Mrs. Fairburn's evidence which says that she saw the accused throw two children into the nullah and also that the accused jumped into the nullah.\n\nWhere are you going to stop if you are going to exclude the evidence from part of the res gestae. Are you going to exclude the fact that she saw two of the children thrown over or are you going to exclude the fact that he jumped over? The evidence that he jumped over apparently has nothing whatever to do with the pushing or throwing or dropping of Michael Pine into the nullah. The law of res gestae - Halsbury Hailsham edition Vol. 13 pages 528 to 529, also at page 551. The words \"Any fact forming part of the transaction being enquired into is sufficiently connected therewith to be provable although it may not in itself be issuable\".\n\nImportant. Page 551 \"Facts in issue\". It was distinctly stated in the Judgment that what the jury were deciding was not what the prisoner did to the other children; it was stated over and over again that that was not the point; the fact they were determining was whether the accused threw Michael Pine in or not.\n\nPhipson 6th Edition pages 57 and 70. Under the heading \"Accompanying Facts\". That is what happened in this case; they accompanied and tended to explain the main fact. Consider the transaction; this may have taken a very short time. Obviously it did from the evidence given. The only possible explanation of its taking place in such a peculiarly short time, the Crown will say, is that these children were in a position which rendered them peculiarly liable to be thrown over or pushed over; there was no time for the other two, those who were lifted over, to escape, and that the whole thing formed part of one transaction.\n\nMy friend has enlarged somewhat on the difficulty of lifting 5 children one after the other without any of them running away or escaping. Your Lordships pointed out that they may have been paralysed by fear. There is another more reasonable explanation; perhaps it would require no more than one push to send three over if these children were all bunched together over the bridge.\n\nMr. Lim: There is no evidence of that. This is merely surmise.\n\nMr. Fraser: The Crown says that it is the only reasonable explanation for this. That one or two pushes must have been administered to push these three children in in that short space of time. The matter of res gestae is thus clearly established.\n\nPhipson page 70, 6th Edition (7th Edition page 68).\n\nThese are exactly the circumstances where the Crown says the present evidence of Mrs. Fairburn should be admitted.\n\nMr. Hayden: Was there a prima facie case established against her before she gave her evidence?\n\n(Discussion as to there being a prima facie case).\n\nMr. Hayden: In the case of Smith it would appear that they held her evidence of the subsequent incidents or deaths to have been admissible only after a prima facie case had been established. In that case\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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"content_text": "¥ 1885/176/10.\n\nSir,\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\n144\n\n29th March, 1935.\n\n62771\n\n(2)\n\n29\n\nA\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon to refer to your letter M.03479/34 of the 7th March on the subject of the instructions issued to His Majesty's Ships of the China Station with regard to pirate vessels and crews captured by them on inland waterways or within three miles of the coast of China.\n\nSir John Simon concurs in the view of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that the question is one which should be dealt with on a political rather than a legal basis. Whatever may have been the reasons for the issue in 1900 of the instructions at present contained in the station Order Book it is now clear that they have ceased to operate at the present time. Sir John Simon is of opinion that pirates and pirate vessels captured in inland waterways should be invariably handed over to the Chinese authorities and that in normal circumstances the same rule should also be applied within three miles of the China coast.\n\nIn exceptional circumstances such as those of the \"Irene\" in 1927 it may be desirable to exercise our legal right to bring any pirates that may be captured before a British Court for trial but such cases will presumably be of rare occurrence and they could probably best be dealt with by the issue of special instructions as the occasion arises. Sir John Simon is further of opinion that the stipulation regarding fair trial and torture should certainly be omitted in future cases.\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty.",
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"content_text": "M.03479/34\n\nSir,\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n152\n\n7th March,\n\n5\n\nI am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that the Commander-in-Chief, China, has called attention to the following provision which at present exists in the Station Order Book issued to H.M. Ships on the China Station, dealing with pirates captured inside Chinese waters; viz:- \"Pirate vessels and crews captured on inland waterways or within three miles of the coast of China, by H.M. Ships, either when acting independently or in co-operation with Chinese Government vessels, are to be given up to the Chinese authorities with the stipulation that the persons on board them are to receive a fair trial and are not to be subjected to torture nor to any punishment repugnant to the usages of civilised nations. The capture of vessels within the three-mile limit should only be effected if the vessel is committing an act of piracy, or under grave suspicion of the same\".\n\n2.\n\nThe Commander-in-Chief states that it has now been brought to his notice that a decision of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in 1926 (Rex v. Lai Yi Sze, etc. Hong Kong Law Reports, Volume XXI, page 1) shows that a British Court has jurisdiction to deal with piracy, even when it is committed in Chinese territorial waters. He assumes that, if this ruling is accepted, it will be necessary to amend the instructions in the Station Order Book so as to direct that all alleged pirates captured by H.M. Service are to be brought before a British Court for trial, regardless of whether the piracy was committed in Chinese territorial waters or not.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n3.",
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"document_key": "CO129-553-9 Empire Air Mail Services- participation of Hong Kong in proposed development 11-3-1935 - 21-5-1935",
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"content_text": "56\n\n3\n\n2\n\n1929,* regarding the treatment of gains on the sale of securities is not referred to in the Deputy Colonial Treasurer's memorandum of 9th December, 1930,† and I am to ask what is the present position of this claim for exemption of revenue, with particular reference to the statement in paragraph 6 of the despatch of 10th September, 1929, that an amount of $504,104.70, has been withdrawn from the military contribution and is standing to the credit of the Suspense Account Military Contribution in the accounts of the Colony.\n\nJ\n\nThe Council will be glad if these observations may be considered by your Department in the light of the general principles contained in the memorandum, and I am to suggest that if they commend themselves to the Secretary of State for the Colonies the approval of the Treasury should be obtained for the proposed concessions. The Council will be prepared to nominate a representative to discuss any details or points of difficulty with your Department in conference if this should be desired; it is understood that the Treasury would prefer that the two Departments should agree upon a basis before Their Lordships' approval is sought for any changes.\n\nIn connexion with the questions referred to in this letter an examination has been made of the returns submitted by the Colonial Government annually in support of their calculation of the amount of the military contribution. It has been discovered that under the provisions of Section 15 of an Ordinance (No. 14 of 1927), the Colonial Government has since 1928 deducted the following amounts from the revenue assessable to contribution on account of charges for a loan for waterworks, etc.:-\n\n1928 1929 1930 Total\n\n$\n\n380,000 628,000 628,000 $1,636,000\n\nand that a similar deduction of $628,000 may apparently be expected for a number of years to come until the loan is paid off; the resultant loss to Army Funds to the end of 1930 amounts to approximately £29,000. The Council learn on inquiry that, contrary to the long-established principles relating to all modifications affecting the military contributions, the approval of your Department has inadvertently been given to the Ordinance in question without the requisite prior concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and of the Army Council.\n\nThe Council gather that sanction to the inclusion in the Ordinance of the power to make deductions for the service of the 1927 loan was given on the supposed analogy of the similar deductions by Ordinance No. 12 of 1916 which was approved by the Treasury and permits of deductions for the service of a War Loan raised in connexion with the contribution made by the Hong Kong Government towards the cost of the war.\n\nThe Council are unable to see any analogy between the two loans, and they would not have been prepared to agree to the power of deductions which has been approved.\n\nAs the deductions up to and including 1930 have been made by the Colony under the sanction of your Department given in 1927, the Council feel that it is unfortunately impossible for them to press now that they should be cancelled and the military contributions for the past years adjusted accordingly. They wish, however, to urge that steps should be taken to annul Section 15 of the Ordinance in order to prevent any future deduction, and they trust that the Secretary of State for the Colonies will be prepared to take such action at the earliest possible opportunity.\n\nA copy of this letter is being sent to the Treasury.\n\nEnclosure in No.\n\nI am, &c.,\n\nH. J. CREEDY.\n\nMEMORANDUM BY THE WAR OFFICE ON THE CLAIMS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG FOR MODIFICATIONS OF THE REVENUE ASSESSABLE TO MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.\n\nI. General Note on the Method of Calculating the Military Contributions.\n\n1. The military contribution of the four Eastern Colonies is measured by a percentage, varying with the particular Colony, of that portion of the Colony's gross revenue that is held to be assessable to contribution. This system was introduced by the Haliburton Committee of 1895. The Committee excluded from the total gross revenue of the Colonies revenue derived from the sale of Colonial Crown Lands because the Colonies had been directed not to deal with sums derived from land sales as ordinary revenue and the following percentages were fixed on the basis that this item was excluded:-\n\nStraits Settlements Hong Kong Ceylon Mauritius\n\nto 17 17/7 5 gross\n\nThey explained that the lowness of the percentage in the case of the last two Colonies was partly due to the fact that in these cases the revenue included the receipts from railways. They had at one time contemplated readjusting the revenue accounts of these Colonies, with a view of bringing (the percentage) more nearly to a level with the percentages of the Colonies which have no railways.' They would have taken steps to secure the same results whether a low percentage on a large gross revenue, or a higher percentage on a net revenue is taken.\" The matter, however, would be of great importance if the revenues were readjusted after the percentage were agreed upon, and therefore the Committee consider that it is better not to enter into any readjustments based on a distinction between gross and net revenue, as this might open a wide door to reclamations by the Colony after the percentage was agreed upon.\"\n\nA proposal to construct a Government railway in the Straits, and a probable extension of the railway system Ceylon, forced a reconsideration of this particular point, and the Committee was reassembled in 1896.\n\nTheir report of 1897 recommended that only such portion of the railway receipts should be included in the revenue as would, if the railway were a commercial speculation, and allowing for interest on capital expenditure, be available for the payment of dividend, subject to the following readjustment of the percentages:-\n\nThat for Ceylon to be altered to 93.\n\nThat for Mauritius to be altered to 54.\n\nAs the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong possessed no Government railways when the percentage was fixed, the Committee did not propose to disturb the percentage in their case.\n\nThe contribution, however, previously (1895) proposed for these two Colonies were exclusive of certain expenditure on lands and buildings borne by the Colony. The Straits subsequently pressed for an inclusive rate of 20 per cent. to cover all military expenditure, and this arrangement was agreed to, the same terms being applied to Hong Kong.\n\nThe settlement thus finally arrived at is that in force to-day.\n\n2. The general principles governing the method of calculating the contribution are well indicated in the following terms:- \"The use of a fixed percentage of revenue to determine the amount of the contribution is in itself merely a mode of calculation not based upon considerations of equity in its application to this or that class of revenue, but designed to produce roughly a fair contribution in view of the cost of the garrison and the general financial capacity of the Colony, and to enable the sum payable annually to be readily arrived at. It follows that no change of principle can properly be made in the items which compose the revenue on which the percentage is calculated without raising the question of an increase (or decrease as the case may be) of the percentage itself.\"\n\n(War Office letter to Colonial Office of 13th March, 1908 (Hong Kong).) The point made in the last sentence quoted has been brought out on many occasions during the course of correspondence regarding the military contributions.\n\n3. In the Appendix attached to this memorandum is a list of the modifications that have been agreed to or refused since the Settlement of 1895, complete to date as far as the War Office records show.\n\nIt will be seen that there are three main classes in which a modification of the basis of assessable revenue in the original settlement has been approved.\n\nClass I allows of the inclusion in the total assessable revenue of the net receipts and not the gross receipts of certain forms of revenue.\n\nClass II allows of the exclusion from the gross revenue of certain items which are not considered to be \"revenue.\n\nClass III allows of the exclusion from the gross revenue of certain items on account of special ad hoc circumstances.\n\n4. Dealing with the principles underlying the three classes of modification, the most important is that relating to net receipts.\n\n(18280)\n\n57",
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"content_text": "M.02700/38\n\nSir,\n\n18\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\n15th September\n\n8.\n\nI am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of H.M. Treasury, that the annual reports on the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force for 1936-7 and 1937-38, emphasised the fact that the training of the force is handicapped by the lack of a small sea-going vessel. In view of the importance of the force for naval purposes in war, the Commander-in-Chief, China, suggested that one of the Royal Naval Motor Torpedo Boats shortly to be stationed at Hong Kong should be lent to the Volunteer Force for training, but My Lords first directed the Commander-in-Chief to suggest to the Governor that the Colony should provide a suitable vessel for training purposes as a charge to local funds.\n\n2. The Commander-in-Chief has now reported that financial considerations preclude the Hong Kong Government from building or purchasing a vessel, and he has proposed that an Admiralty trawler or other suitable craft should be lent to the Colony for training.\n\n3. The Admiralty have no trawler or other suitable vessel surplus to requirements which could be lent permanently to the Colony and My Lords have, therefore, given consideration to the possibility of placing at the disposal of the Naval Volunteer Force at suitable times one of the three boom vessels which will shortly be stationed at Hong Kong. These vessels will be maintained\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nH. M. Treasury,\n\n9, W. 1.\n\nDT/\n\nin",
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"content_text": "M.01183/38.\n\nSir,\n\nImmediate\n\n4\n\n26\n\n83rd January,\n\n8\n\nWith reference to your letter No. F622/19/10, dated 19th January, 1938, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to inform you that They have no comments to offer on the draft of the telegram which Mr. Secretary Eden proposes to address to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo in connection with the \"Chahsing\" incident.\n\n2. With regard to paragraph 2 of your letter, I am to state that while it may not have been necessary to tow the customs vessel, it is considered unlikely that she could have been refloated without some outside agency.\n\n\"Chahsing\" was beached about 1½ hours before high water, and as the tide rose only about three feet between 0900 and 1600 on the day in question (the ship was beached at 1431), there is very little likelihood of the vessel having floated off by reason of tidal action. Moreover, as the position where the \"Chahsing\" was beached is well sheltered from the prevailing wind, it is unlikely that she was blown off shore.\n\n3. The original enclosures to the despatch dated 17th December, 1937, from the Governor of Hong Kong, which were forwarded for Admiralty perusal, are being returned under separate cover.\n\n4.\n\nA copy of this letter has been sent to the Colonial Office.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nLawson\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nS.W.1.",
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"document_key": "CO129-572-15 Proposal that Asiatic Petroleum Company should erect new installations within defence boundary 11-4-1938 - 7-6-1938",
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"content_text": "# NATIONAL SCHEME FOR DISABLED\n\nAny further communication should be addressed to-----\n\n**The Secretary of the Admiralty, London, SW.1** quoting `M.02977/38`\n\n**SECRET**\nL.P.-No. 8\n\nAdmiralty, S.W.1. 12 \n16th June, 1938.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 2nd May, No.53901/38 concerning the Asiatic Petroleum Company's proposed new installation at Hong Kong, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to request that, as this question appears to affect all three Defence Departments, it may be referred to the Overseas Defence Committee for consideration.\n\n2.\n\nA copy of this letter is being sent to the War Office and the Air Ministry.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W.1.\n\nI am, Sir, \nYour obedient Servant, \nSamhillips",
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"document_key": "CO129-575-14 Naval Armament Depot- final payment of purchase price 15-3-1939 - 2-6-1939",
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"content_text": "## SECRET\n\nthe Lords Commissioners of Admiralty a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong regarding the provision of funds for the payment of the outstanding balance of the final instalment due to the Admiralty in connection with the transaction.\n\n2. As the S. of S. understands that the matter of the aerial ropeway has been finally disposed of he has, subject to the approval of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, given sanction for a supplementary vote for $40,851.06 to cover the final payment due to the Admiralty.\n\nI am, etc.,\n\nPage 8\nPage 9\n\n**C.S.O.896/29c.**\n\n## SECRET\n\nDear Gent,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\nHong Kong.\n22nd June, 1939.\n\nYour letter of 2nd June, 1939, No.53533/39 regarding the final payment to the Admiralty in respect of the transfer to the Colonial Government of the former Naval Arsenal Yard.\n\nAs you know the correspondence regarding the ropeway was prolonged and complicated. It was always the contention of the Colonial Government that the Naval Authorities should be responsible for the removal of the ropeway and that Government retained from the final instalment of $2,000,000 paid to the Admiralty a sum representing the dollar equivalent of £5,000 as security for the carrying out of the work. There then ensued a three-cornered dispute between the Colonial Government, the Naval Authorities and the Military Authorities. Correspondence with the Secretary of State about this seems to have ended with Sir A. Caldecott's secret despatch of 21st December, 1936, which left the matter still in the air. In April, 1937, however, the local military authorities notified the approval of the War Office to the removal of the ropeway: I enclose copies of the further correspondence exchanged on that occasion.\n\nThe Naval Authorities duly removed the ropeway in September, 1937, and surrender of the property was taken on 20th September, 1937: but application for payment of the balance of purchase price was not made by the Naval Authorities until 4th February this year.\n\nYours sincerely,\nG.E.J.Gent, Esq., O.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.,\nColonial Office,\nLONDON.\n\nPage 9\n\n## COPY\n## SECRET\n\nHeadquarters,\nChina Command.\nHong Kong.\n10th April, 1937.\n\n**C.R.C.C. No.X/11361/AQ**\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI have the honour to refer to my letter number X/14349/AG dated 7-12-36, and to previous correspondence on the subject of the transfer of the Arsenal Yard by the Admiralty, to the Colonial Government, and the handing over of Kennedy Road Magazines to the War Department by the Admiralty.\n\nI have now received from the War Office a cable to inform me that my plans for the evacuation of Kelletts Island, and the removal of the ropeway between the Arsenal Yard and Kennedy Road Magazines are agreed to.\n\n2. The solution is to the effect that:-\n| Point | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (i) | The War Department will provide road access to the lower Magazine by improving the existing concrete track from Queen's Road, and providing turning space for lorries at the Magazine, |\n| (ii) | The War Department will retain the portion of the ropeway that runs from the lower Magazine to the upper Magazine and Laboratory, and provide at the lower Magazine a ropeway terminal suitable for the loading and unloading of shell from or into lorries. |\n\nUnder this arrangement the portion of the ropeway North of Queen's Road can be dismantled as soon as the War Department has completed the transfer to Kennedy Road Magazines of the ammunition at present stored at Kelletts Island, and of certain ammunition which it has been found necessary to transfer from Lyemun. It is anticipated that it will take approximately 14 days to effect these transfers.\n\nThe dismantling of the above portion of the ropeway will be a matter for the Naval Authorities and the Colonial ...\n\nHis Excellency,\nThe Governor,\nHong Kong.\n\nPage 10\nPage 11",
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"content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n228\nJanuary 26, 1939.\n\n## SECTION 6.\n[F 874/874/23]\n\nCopy No.\n\n**Sir R. Craigie to Viscount Halifax.—(Received January 26, 1939.) (No. 1063.)**\n\nHIS Majesty's representative at Tokyo presents his compliments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, with reference to Tokyo despatch No. 976 of the 2nd December, 1938, has the honour to transmit to him a copy of Political Diary No. 12 of 1938 for the period the 1st to the 31st December.\n\nTokyo, December 30, 1938.\n\n### Enclosure.\n**Political Diary No. 12 of 1938.**\n\nDecember 1 to 31.\n\n(This diary is a brief and informal review of current topics. Although it is largely based on extracts from the Japanese press and is not in the nature of a considered report, the diary should be treated as confidential and should not be publicly quoted or reproduced.)\n\n## FOREIGN AFFAIRS.\n\n### Anglo-Japanese and American-Japanese Relations.\n\n361. The Japanese replies to the American note on American interests in China and to the British, American and French notes on the Yangtze (see last diary) were completely unacceptable to the Governments concerned, and it has long been evident that the Japanese assurances about the rights of third Powers in China, assurances which they have given so readily, have little meaning. The Americans, in consequence, suddenly announced that they had made a credit of 25 million dollars available to finance exports from the United States to China and imports of wood oil from China to the United States, and this was followed by reports that Great Britain was taking measures to make certain credits available under the Export Credits Bill to assist British trade in south-west China.\n\n362. The Japanese were a little taken aback. America appeared to have taken the lead in this matter. There had been much talk of economic reprisals, but few Japanese thought that they would ever be put into practice. Thus the press was restrained and there was no popular outcry such as would have been raised had Britain acted alone. The two foreign Governments were urged to reconsider their attitude and reprimanded somewhat leniently for thus trying to prolong the struggle unnecessarily.\n\n363. The immediate effect of this pressure seems to be salutary. The Soviet Government, too, have chosen this moment to take up a firm stand on the fisheries question. Whether this pressure will have the desired effect or whether it will tend to stiffen the Japanese attitude remains to be seen. The Japanese look back and see how sanctions failed against Italy. They no longer take British threats very seriously and they are fully aware of the difficulties of Anglo-American co-operation. They take a war-time, and therefore not a rational, view.\n\n### Debate in the House of Lords.\n\n364. The debate in the House of Lords on the 6th December received much publicity in the Japanese press. The Earl of Plymouth stated that Britain would refuse to accept any unilateral infringement of the Nine-Power Treaty, such as the creation of a three-Power bloc. Britain, he said, was doing all it could to protect its rights in the Far East.\n\n[508 cc-6] \nPage 361 \nPage 363 \nPage 364 \nB \n131",
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"content_text": "47\n\n38\n\nof China is the enthusiastic support for the Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression, though it is probable that, owing to the great distance of Sinkiang from any front of Japanese attack, this support does not and cannot take any very practical form beyond the help that can be rendered by the continued economic development of the province.\n\n139. The province is very sparsely populated, being nearly twice the size of Germany but with only 4 million people. A great deal of it is desert or practically so, and it suffers from the extremes of great heat and intense cold. The problem of economic development is very difficult, both owing to the poverty of the province and the lack of available labour in any very large quantity. 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His own method of coming to power and the fact that he is himself an outsider from Manchuria no doubt make him extremely nervous lest he should himself be displaced by some other person in a similar way. This I imagine to be the reason why he does not allow any foreigners or Chinese from other provinces to visit Sinkiang, unless they are in transit to Russia, and in such cases he takes the greatest care to guard them from seeing too much or getting into any close contact with the Sinkiangese. For instance, while Mr. Hsia was waiting for us for some fourteen days in Urumchi, he was unable to have any interview with the local personalities except in the presence of one of the special police officials. These officials were the most charming and admirable hosts, but their continual presence was no doubt very embarrassing to the Sinkiangese.\n\n141. The one apparent exception to this rule is in connexion with civil and military aviation. The Central Government Minister of Communications has his representative in Urumchi as a director of the Sino-Russian air line, there is a military aviation school of the Central Government at Ili, and a Central Government Sino-Russian aviation factory is being erected. We met the Minister's representative, Mr. Liu, a good deal in Urumchi, and eventually, under cloak of making arrangements for us and coming to see us about them, he was able to have a frank talk with Hsia for reports to the Minister of Communications. Apart from this contact there is practically no relationship between the Provincial and Central Government other than a formalistic one, i.e., the Provincial Government acts exactly like any other Provincial Government in sending forward recommendations for appointments, &c., but these are—in the case of Sinkiang—automatically endorsed by the Central Government. So long as the present régime exists, and so long as the present war is being carried on, I do not think that the Central Government will take any steps to increase their control in Sinkiang. There are, however, two factors working in that direction. The first is the financial grants made by the Central Government, which are, no doubt, most welcome in Sinkiang. These have been in regard to transport facilities, &c. The very complimentary attitude of the Provincial Government to Dr. Kung and the expressions of their gratitude to and admiration for him, together with the elaborate presents which the Governor gave us to take back to him, demonstrate their anxiety for further financial help from the Central Government. The second is the fact that the Central Government currency is now widely circulated in Sinkiang and is, in fact, more popular than local currency, this despite the fact that the local currency is in different denominations, e.g., 30 cents, 3 dollars, &c., to which the local prices are adjusted, which makes the use of Central Government money less convenient. Both currencies are now officially accepted, and there is a working arrangement between the local bank and the Central Bank of China, though this is not as close as the Central Bank would wish. Hsia, who is the secretary of the Central Bank, was investigating the possibilities of a closer association.\n\n39\n\n142. This degree of autarchy in Sinkiang might be surprising and might also be misunderstood if the historical and geographical associations of the province were not realised. It is only in the last two or three years that there has been any access to Urumchi from the east, other than by caravan track which was a matter of months for the travellers. Dr. Sven Hedin's book, The Silk Road, written in 1935, fully explains the situation at that date. Even now the road is very long, difficult, and, with the existing shortage of petrol, prohibitively expensive for motor cars or lorries. The air service, which is the only practicable means of approach, is at some seasons most uncertain, as we found to our cost, and is also extremely expensive and costly in petrol. So far as China is concerned, Lanchow is itself almost an outpost of the north-west, being remote from Chungking by any means of transport other than air. Between Lanchow and Urumchi are 1,200 miles of desert and mountain. In winter the conditions are bad because of the snow and bitter cold, in summer because of the intense heat (even the camel caravans stop in May because of the heat), and in the intermediate seasons the thaw and rains and the sandstorms from the Gobi make conditions often very bad for transport. We were able to enjoy one of the early spring sandstorms at Hami where visibility was so low as to make any form of transport difficult, and we were told that the storms increased in frequency and intensity to the end of May.\n\n143. On the other hand, the approach to Sinkiang from Russia is comparatively easy. It is only about 200 miles from the railway at Alma Ata where plentiful supplies of petrol are available and of many other things, either manufactured locally or imported by rail across Kazakistan. From Ili to Urumchi there is a good road with only one comparatively low mountain range to cross about 70 miles from Ili. Flying conditions equally are more favourable in this area, as there is comparatively less high ground and consequently it is easier to avoid dangerous cloud and mountain combinations. The distance from Ili to Urumchi is about 420 miles, which can be covered easily by motor lorries in forty-eight to sixty hours. Even in the very bad conditions of snow and thaw in which we drove along this road, it was passable to traffic. On the climb from Ili to the summit of the pass we met ice conditions on the road which made it difficult, but not impassable, while on the descent we encountered a blizzard which piled up high drifts of snow along the road, but we managed to push, lift or drag the car out of them during the night without being held up for any great length of time. We joined up with a lorry during this period which eased our task, but on several occasions we had to dig it out of the drifts before we could proceed. Only once did we get so struck that we could not ourselves extricate our car, and then with the help of the lorry we were able to get out. As these were probably as bad conditions as are likely to exist on the road it is safe to say that it can at all times be traversed without very great difficulty, and the ample supplies of petrol at Alma Ata make it possible to use motor transport to bring up machinery or other heavy loads which could not possibly be brought up from China. The geographical situation therefore favours a close economic association with Russia rather than with the rest of China, the determining factor being the railway at Alma Ata and the terrain between that town and Urumchi. The divorce of Sinkiang from the rest of China was, of course, much more complete in the days when the Central Government was at Nanking and there was no air service at all, or even any highway.\n\n144. Since what is called in Sinkiang the \"April Revolution of 1933\"—that is, the Mahometan rising which then took place and the quelling of which resulted in the present Governor coming to power—I should personally estimate that the relationship with Central China has become closer, though still the Governor is very nervous of any such association as he desires to maintain his autocratic control of Sinkiang as intact as possible.\n\n23\n\n145. As a natural result of the closeness Russia and the Russian development of Kazakistan, of which Alma Ata is the capital, the Governor looks to Russia primarily, and at present exclusively, for all technical assistance, and the technical advisers who are in many Government Departments are all Russians. As far as I could ascertain, and judging by the general feeling and observations I was able to make, there are no Russians taking part in the general or political administration as distinct from the technical administration. 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"content_text": "38\n\nof China is the enthusiastic support for the Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression, though it is probable that, owing to the great distance of Sinkiang from any front of Japanese attack, this support does not and cannot take any very practical form beyond the help that can be rendered by the continued economic development of the province.\n\n139. The province is very sparsely populated, being nearly twice the size of Germany but with only 4 million people. A great deal of it is desert or practically so, and it suffers from the extremes of great heat and intense cold. The problem of economic development is very difficult, both owing to the poverty of the province and the lack of available labour in any very large quantity. The Governor, owing to his intense anti-Imperialist feelings, does not believe in borrowing money from outside for provincial development or in permitting outside capitalists, even from China, to come into the province to exploit its resources. The Anti-Imperialist Association is the most active political organisation in the province, and it has a great number of branches and offices with a membership that is increasing annually in all parts. From the general attitude towards Russian assistance I gathered the impression that the Governor does not fear imperialistic expansion by Russia into Sinkiang.\n\n140. Apart from his suspicions and autocratic methods, which are not so much out of place in Central Asia as in Europe, the Governor is spoken of highly as an intelligent and progressive administrator. His own method of coming to power and the fact that he is himself an outsider from Manchuria no doubt make him extremely nervous lest he should himself be displaced by some other person in a similar way. This I imagine to be the reason why he does not allow any foreigners or Chinese from other provinces to visit Sinkiang, unless they are in transit to Russia, and in such cases he takes the greatest care to guard them from seeing too much or getting into any close contact with the Sinkiangese. For instance, while Mr. Hsia was waiting for us for some fourteen days in Urumchi, he was unable to have any interview with the local personalities except in the presence of one of the special police officials. These officials were the most charming and admirable hosts, but their continual presence was no doubt very embarrassing to the Sinkiangese.\n\n141. The one apparent exception to this rule is in connexion with civil and military aviation. The Central Government Minister of Communications has his representative in Urumchi as a director of the Sino-Russian air line, there is a military aviation school of the Central Government at Ili, and a Central Government Sino-Russian aviation factory is being erected. We met the Minister's representative, Mr. Liu, a good deal in Urumchi, and eventually, under cloak of making arrangements for us and coming to see us about them, he was able to have a frank talk with Hsia for reports to the Minister of Communications. Apart from this contact there is practically no relationship between the Provincial and Central Government other than a formalistic one, i.e., the Provincial Government acts exactly like any other Provincial Government in sending forward recommendations for appointments, &c., but these are in the case of Sinkiang automatically endorsed by the Central Government. So long as the present régime exists, and so long as the present war is being carried on, I do not think that the Central Government will take any steps to increase their control in Sinkiang. There are, however, two factors working in that direction. The first is the financial grants made by the Central Government, which are, no doubt, most welcome in Sinkiang. These have been in regard to transport facilities, &c. The very complimentary attitude of the Provincial Government to Dr. Kung and the expressions of their gratitude to and admiration for him, together with the elaborate presents which the Governor gave us to take back to him, demonstrate their anxiety for further financial help from the Central Government. The second is the fact that the Central Government currency is now widely circulated in Sinkiang and is, in fact, more popular than local currency—this despite the fact that the local currency is in different denominations, e.g., 30 cents, 3 dollars, &c., to which the local prices are adjusted, which makes the use of Central Government money less convenient. Both currencies are now officially accepted, and there is a working arrangement between the local bank and the Central Bank of China, though this is not as close as the Central Bank would wish. Hsia, who is the secretary of the Central Bank, was investigating the possibilities of a closer association.\n\n!\n\n39\n\n142. This degree of autarchy in Sinkiang might be surprising and might also be misunderstood if the historical and geographical associations of the province were not realised. It is only in the last two or three years that there has been any access to Urumchi from the east, other than by caravan track which was a matter of months for the travellers. Dr. Sven Hedin's book, The Silk Road, written in 1935, fully explains the situation at that date. Even now the road is very long, difficult, and, with the existing shortage of petrol, prohibitively expensive for motor cars or lorries. The air service, which is the only practicable means of approach, is at some seasons most uncertain, as we found to our cost, and is also extremely expensive and costly in petrol. So far as China is concerned, Lanchow is itself almost an outpost of the north-west, being remote from Chungking by any means of transport other than air. Between Lanchow and Urumchi are 1,200 miles of desert and mountain. In winter the conditions are bad because of the snow and bitter cold, in summer because of the intense heat (even the camel caravans stop in May because of the heat), and in the intermediate seasons the thaw and rains and the sandstorms from the Gobi make conditions often very bad for transport. We were able to enjoy one of the early spring sandstorms at Hami where visibility was so low as to make any form of transport difficult, and we were told that the storms increased in frequency and intensity to the end of May.\n\n143. On the other hand, the approach to Sinkiang from Russia is comparatively easy. It is only about 200 miles from the railway at Alma Ata where plentiful supplies of petrol are available and of many other things, either manufactured locally or imported by rail across Kazakistan. From Ili to Urumchi there is a good road with only one comparatively low mountain range to cross about 70 miles from Ili. Flying conditions equally are more favourable in this area, as there is comparatively less high ground and consequently it is easier to avoid dangerous cloud and mountain combinations. The distance from Ili to Urumchi is about 420 miles, which can be covered easily by motor lorries in forty-eight to sixty hours. Even in the very bad conditions of snow and thaw in which we drove along this road, it was passable to traffic. On the climb from Ili to the summit of the pass we met ice conditions on the road which made it difficult, but not impassable, while on the descent we encountered a blizzard which piled up high drifts of snow along the road, but we managed to push, lift or drag the car out of them during the night without being held up for any great length of time. We joined up with a lorry during this period which eased our task, but on several occasions we had to dig it out of the drifts before we could proceed. Only once did we get so struck that we could not ourselves extricate our car, and then with the help of the lorry we were able to get out. As these were probably as bad conditions as are likely to exist on the road it is safe to say that it can at all times be traversed without very great difficulty, and the ample supplies of petrol at Alma Ata make it possible to use motor transport to bring up machinery or other heavy loads which could not possibly be brought up from China. The geographical situation therefore favours a close economic association with Russia rather than with the rest of China, the determining factor being the railway at Alma Ata and the terrain between that town and Urumchi. The divorce of Sinkiang from the rest of China was, of course, much more complete in the days when the Central Government was at Nanking and there was no air service at all, or even any highway.\n\n144. Since what is called in Sinkiang the \"April Revolution of 1933\"—that is, the Mahometan rising which then took place and the quelling of which resulted in the present Governor coming to power—I should personally estimate that the relationship with Central China has become closer, though still the Governor is very nervous of any such association as he desires to maintain his autocratic control of Sinkiang as intact as possible.\n\n145.\n\nAs a natural result of the closeness of Russia and the Russian development of Kazakistan, of which Alma Ata is the capital, the Governor looks to Russia primarily, and at present exclusively, for all technical assistance, and the technical advisers who are in many Government Departments are all Russians. As far as I could ascertain, and judging by the general feeling and observations I was able to make, there are no Russians taking part in the general or political administration as distinct from the technical administration. 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If not removed within seven days, no claim can be entertained for the cases or other receptacles or their value. All work delivered must be accompanied by the appropriate delivery note (which must be made out by the Contractor on forms to be supplied by the Controller), upon which must be entered the name of the Contractor, Department, demand, warrant, and order numbers, number of copies, and description of the work. The copy or press proof (if proofs have been supplied) must accompany the first delivery. With the first delivery of each Parliamentary Paper the Contractor shall supply six copies of a label, plainly printed, showing the title of the paper.\n\nIX. (a) Type standing The Contractor shall keep standing free of charge the type of all works printed under this Contract for six months after the delivery of the final copies of any supply upon which composition is chargeable, at the end of which period he may distribute the type unless otherwise required under Condition IX (b) hereof. With a view to releasing type as soon as may be possible, the Controller will use his best endeavours to arrange with the Departments to return proofs for press as soon as may be practicable having regard to the requirements of the service.\n\n(b) Type rent The Contractor shall further, if required by the Controller to do so, keep standing the type of the whole or any portion of a work printed under this Contract beyond the above-mentioned period of six months, and in such case shall receive payment for each further period of three months or less during which the type may be required to be kept standing at the rate provided in Schedule B. Orders to keep type standing will, unless under exceptional circumstances, be given only in cases in which it is judged probable by the Controller that the type, with or without alteration, will be required within two years from the date of its last appearance in any completed work. Type required to be kept standing under this sub-clause shall not be distributed by the Contractor until he shall have received the written authority of the Controller to do so; should the Contractor fail to comply with this provision he shall, in the event of the type being required for further use before such authority for distribution is given, reset the same at his own expense.\n\n(c) Contractor to notify Controller-In the case of all works the Contractor shall, at the end of five months from the date of delivery of the final copies of any supply upon which composition has been chargeable, notify the Controller in writing, on forms to be supplied by the Controller, the fact that such period has elapsed. Should the Contractor fail to comply with this provision and a further supply be required at any time within two years from the above-mentioned date of delivery, the Controller shall have power to require such further supply from the Contractor at the rates for reprints provided in Schedule B.\n\n(d) Lifted matter-The Contractor shall make use of the whole or of any portion (such portion being not less than two continuous pages if for incorporation with other matter) of any type standing under either of the preceding paragraphs in any manner that may be required of him, any necessary rearrangement or alteration being charged at the respective rates provided under reprint charges in Schedule B, or, for such portion as may be required and has been ordered to be reset, at the rate provided for composition in that Schedule. \"Extracts\" shall not be subject to the foregoing minimum of two pages.\n\n(e) Recurring works-In any case in which it may appear that subsequent editions of a work will be required, the Controller shall have power, in lieu of requiring the same to be kept standing under the provisions of the preceding paragraphs, to withdraw the work from Schedule B and to pay for the subsequent editions of such works or any portions thereof at such rate, being not less than twenty-five per cent. of the composition prices provided in Table A of Schedule B as shall be agreed upon between the Controller and the Contractor, or, failing such agreement, to the award of the Controller, subject to the Contractor's right of appeal to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, as provided in Condition XXIV, and in all other respects such work shall be subject to such special arrangements as may be necessary.\n\nX. Contractor's right to work-It is agreed that all the work provided for in Schedule A shall be ordered from the Contractor, except in an exceptional case where, in the opinion of the Controller it is desirable to withdraw a particular work from the Contract, as to which the decision of the Controller shall be final.\n\nXI. Information as to work in hand-The Contractor shall, whenever called upon to do so, give full information regarding any work in hand. He shall answer and return promptly all enquiries as to...\n\nXII. Method of rendering accounts-The Contractor shall render his accounts monthly to the Stationery Office, London, in the form required by the Controller, giving a full and accurate account of all work under this Contract the clearance of which has been notified to the Contractor by the Receiver. The Contractor shall substantiate his account by the delivery or production of such receipts, proofs, copy, and other vouchers as may be thought necessary by the Controller.\n\nXIII. Advances on accounts and type rent for work in proof-\n\n(a) composition only of work standing in proof for not less than one month, and of\n\n(b) all work completed and delivered within the month other than work for which a partial payment for composition may already have been made,\n\nshall, if demanded, be made to the Contractor, by order on the Paymaster-General, within two weeks of the presentation at the Stationery Office by the Contractor of his accounts, provided such accounts, duly vouched to the satisfaction of the Controller, be delivered within the month following that to which they relate.\n\nXIV. Only work properly ordered to be paid for The Contractor shall not undertake work for any Government Office except by the direction of the Controller or in accordance with regulations communicated to him in writing by the Controller, who will not be bound to pay for the production of any work but such as has been ordered in the manner prescribed.\n\nXV. Accuracy of matter printed-The Contractor shall be held responsible for the correct reproduction of all matter sent to him as copy, and shall make arrangements for the proper reading of all matter set in type.\n\nXVI. Selling price to be fixed by Contractor-The Contractor will be required to fix the selling price in accordance with scales of prices to be provided by the Controller to be printed on the title page of any Parliamentary Paper or Non-Parliamentary Paper printed by him under this Contract.\n\nXVII. (a) Failure to observe Conditions or to execute work-In the event of the Contractor failing-\n\n(1) to observe or perform any of the Conditions of this Contract,\n\nor\n\n(2) to execute any work in a good and workmanlike manner to the satisfaction of and by the time fixed by the Controller,\n\nit shall be lawful for the Controller in his discretion in the former event to remove or withhold any part of the work until such time as he may be satisfied that the Contractor is able to and will duly observe the said Conditions, and in the latter event to reject, subject to the provisions of paragraph (d) below, or remove as the case may require any work executed otherwise than in a good and workmanlike manner to the satisfaction of and by the time fixed by the Controller.\n\n(b) Repayment of excess cost-If in either event any excess cost be incurred by reason of any difference between the price paid and the Contract price, the Controller may charge the amount of such excess cost to the Contractor.\n\n(c) Defective work-In the event of the discovery of any error due to the fault of the Contractor at any time after the delivery of the copies ordered, the Contractor shall be bound, if called upon to do so, to rectify such error at his own cost, to the satisfaction of the Controller.\n\n(d) Arbitration In the event of the Contractor considering himself to be aggrieved by a rejection of the whole or any part of the work executed and/or materials supplied under this Contract, or by a deduction made in pursuance of Condition XVII (c) hereof, the question as to whether the work and/or materials so rejected, or in respect of which such deduction has been made, conform to the Conditions of the Contract shall be referred to arbitration.\n\nXVIII. Bond--The Contractor shall, if called upon by the Controller to do so, enter into a bond, with sureties satisfactory to the Controller, for the due performance of this Contract.\n\nXIX. (a) Fair wages and conditions The Contractor shall in the execution of this Contract observe and fulfil the obligations upon Contractors specified in the Resolution passed by the House of Commons on the 10th March, 1909.\n\n(b) Conditions and agreements to be exhibited-The Contractor shall cause the preceding Condition (a) to be prominently exhibited for the information of the workpeople on the premises where work is being executed under this Contract.\n\n(c) Wages books and time sheets-The Contractor shall keep proper wages books and time sheets showing the wages paid and the time worked by the workpeople in his employ in and about the execution of the Contract.\n\nXX. Stoppages at works-In case of strikes, combinations of workmen, fire, accidents, or other circumstances beyond the control of the Contractor causing a stoppage at his works, and provided that the Contractor shall give notice in writing to the Controller immediately on the happening of such a stoppage, the delivery or completion of work may be suspended by the Controller without penalty.\n\nXXI. Members of Parliament-No Member of the House of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part of this Contract or to any benefit to arise therefrom.\n\nXXII. Corrupt gifts to persons in the Crown's service -The Contractor shall not offer or give or agree to give to any person in His Majesty's service any gift or consideration of any kind as an inducement or reward for doing or forbearing to do or for having done or forborne to do any action in relation to the obtaining or execution of this or any other contract for His Majesty's service.\n\nXXIII. 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"content_text": "## 4/30114/27\n\nOn the other hand, it is far from improbable that still more serious movement may occur at any moment or that a typhoon may greatly increase the damage. I have, therefore, asked and obtained permission from the Commander-in-Chief, China Station, to occupy Admiralty House temporarily, should it become necessary for me to quit here. I am greatly obliged by Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton's kind compliance with my request.\n\n4. The Naval Commander-in-Chief's assent, however, was limited by the following condition: \"It should be understood that this is an emergency measure and does not affect it (Admiralty House) being available for my use should I have need of it in the future\".\n\nI recognize that this 'caveat' was necessary, having regard to the terms on which the property was offered to and accepted by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (vide Mr. Amery's despatch No. 87 dated April 6th, 1927). At the same time, it calls for immediate consideration of the situation that would come about were it to become necessary for the Governor to vacate the present Government House, for it would obviously be impracticable as well as undesirable that he should be liable to find himself without an official residence at short notice.\n\nIn so describing that contingency, I have not forgotten the existence of Mountain Lodge, but I have no hesitation in saying that the Lodge is quite unsuitable as the principal residence of the Governor. It is very inaccessible, lying as it does at the end of some three-quarters of a mile of a steep single-traffic lane, and it has no parking space for cars. It is much too small for the Governor's obligations in the way of entertainment, and for most of the year, it is wrapped in wet cloud.\n\nPage 30 \nPage 31",
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"content_text": "# 189\n\nAfter the occupation of the island was completed, atrocities to foreign women ceased, but Chinese still suffered. I witnessed several Chinese women being beaten with bamboo poles on the morning of the 27th January. I also saw four Chinese men badly beaten and afterwards thrown into the harbour. There was no reason for this, they appeared to be quite orderly.\n\nHundreds of wounded and dead lay on the hillsides for days and the Japanese refused to allow us to send in men to collect wounded and bury the dead. If we had been allowed to collect all our wounded, our casualties would not have been so high. Many were left to die who could have been saved if they had been brought in. At Stanley, when part of the Colonial Staff were interned, they had to bury seven soldiers, (whose bodies were found in the garden of the house allotted to them,) found with their hands tied behind their backs. This was told to me by Mr. W.J. Carrie, Chairman of the Urban Council, who was in charge of the burials. Many of the bodies found were far too decomposed to be able to identify them and their means of identification had been lost or stolen.\n\nLooters caused an enormous amount of trouble, many had arms which they had picked up in the streets, either discarded by police reserves, or stolen from dead and wounded soldiers. Fifth Columnists also were rife, every branch of essential services was riddled with them.\n\nAfter the occupation, the Japanese took over all food supplies, which they shipped out to Japan. It was a common sight to see convoys leaving every day. Radio supplies and photography materials, together with medical instruments and equipment were also taken out of the Colony. I saw truck loads being driven away from various buildings and banks where they were stored.\n\nThe Iron gates from houses on the Peak were also demolished and taken away. Bronze statues in Statue Square and the big bronze lions from the outside of the Hongkong bank were also being taken away.\n\nAll cars, trucks and damaged buses were taken to two dumping grounds, one was the Race Course, the other the Cricket Club. Damaged cars were stripped of essential parts and those undamaged were being driven until they could not be used any longer.\n\nDuring the bombing itself, the city suffered only a little damage. The North Point area where the Power Company is housed and the Shell Oil Company, suffered a great deal of damage, as did the Causeway Bay area, where food stuffs were stored at the Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage Company, and also a great deal of damage was done to the East Point Godowns where large stocks of food were stored. The Peak also suffered very heavily and few houses remain undamaged. With the exception of The Canossa Hospital, the French Hospital, and the Military Hospital, the remainder of the hospitals were very little damaged. The Queen Mary Hospital was not touched. The three mentioned above were heavily damaged due to the fact that we had placed guns in the gardens of the hospitals, thereby making the hospitals themselves targets.\n\nAll hospitals with the exception of the Military Hospital and St. Albert's Emergency Hospital, were taken over by the Japanese. Staffs were interned and patients turned out with the exception of very badly wounded cases, these were transferred to the Military hospital. Many of the men who were turned out were made to walk long distances, when they were not in a fit condition to do so.\n\nAll Colonial Staff still working were given military rank, at the request of the Japanese Military Command. This they stated, was to determine the kind of treatment they would receive.\n\nTheir rules to internees were so fantastic that a complaint was registered by the Colonial Secretary. It then appeared that they had no knowledge of the League Convention relating to treatment of prisoners of war. We supplied them with numerous copies.\n\nPage 190 \nPage 191",
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"content_text": "Conditions at the Queen Mary Hospital became very difficult soon after the war began. There was an almost immediate shortage of food as the hospital authorities were unwilling to draw upon the very large stocks of tinned food they had in the storerooms in the basement which later fell almost intact into the hands of the Japanese. They had only a small supply of money on hand, so were unable to take advantage of the stream of green vegetables which the country people were taking into the town as soon as the bombing of the roads ceased. There was no fresh food of any sort for a number of weeks, and a minimum of rice and wheat, little else there was available. My husband lost 18 pounds weight in three weeks, and had a severe hemorrhage and several heart attacks as a result of overstrain. A blood count had shown an improvement of 10 in his blood condition immediately following the operation, or rather during the ten days following. But the hemorrhage, lack of food, lack of medicine which he needed for digesting his food, and all the impossible conditions which resulted from an almost complete breakdown in morale in the Hospital staff, deprived him of any chance of recovery.\n\n81\n\nI had been living at the Repulse Bay Hotel during the early part of the war, hitch hiking and walking from the town to the Queen Mary Hospital when transport broke down. When this became too dangerous, the road past Mount Davis, and all the district near the University being under heavy shell fire constantly, I was allowed by the Hospital authorities to live in the Hospital in the top floor, which had been evacuated of patients as being too dangerous should the Hospital be hit by bombs. Being entirely empty, I found it very quiet and restful. Luckily I am not afraid of bombs, and none struck it, as it turned out, and patients were returned there eventually when the hospital became filled up. I was later allowed to share my husband's room, which was a most satisfactory arrangement.\n\nAfter the capitulation of Hongkong, Japanese soldiers occupied quarters in the hospital compound and sentries were posted at all points of exit. On the whole they did not behave badly, although they relieved a number of the hospital staff and various persons who had refugeed there, of rings, wrist watches and fountain pens.\n\nThe shortage of food was having such a deleterious effect on my husband's condition, we had been so hopeful of his recovery, that I decided to slip out into the country around the Dairy Farm, a distance of two miles or so, and see if it was not possible to find milk and vegetables. I had heard that the Europeans in charge of the Farm were all at the hospital, and that the milking coolies were throwing away the milk, and that the vegetables were being taken into Hongkong to be sold. This was quite true, you could see loads and loads being carried along the road, obviously Dairy Farm products. This was about the beginning of January. I managed to evade the Japanese on the place, sentries were not posted till some time later, and had the luck to find some Russians who gave me a gallon pitcher full of milk, but told me not to come again as it was too dangerous, they had been given orders not to help the British, but that if I went up to the top station across the valley on the hills en route to the Peak, there was plenty of milk to be had, they were throwing it away, and that it was so far up that the Japanese rarely went there.\n\nI did this next day, and also took along a sack of vegetables, as the road led up through the Dairy Farm gardens which were full of all sorts of vegetables. I also took with me a young French lad who spoke the local dialect, to do a little negotiating as the coolies did not understand my Peking speech. We were successful, although it took a lot of time, and patience, and persuasion, as the coolies were very much afraid of the Japanese, and said that they would undoubtedly be shot if they were caught helping us. The payment of cumshaw however won the point, and we returned home with all the milk and vegetables we could carry. I reported to the hospital authorities that I had been able to get milk and vegetables, but they were not interested, I suppose because the bounty supply was so limited. They said that the milk was unsafe because it had not been strained of ...\n\nLuckily I was able to persuade them to allow me to do this myself for the milk that we were using, a procedure we had always followed in the various outports we had lived in, and to which I was quite accustomed. So we had more milk than we could use, and more vegetables. I went regularly every day, with the young French lad, and was able to supply from seven to ten patients with extra food and milk, which was vastly appreciated by them, as many of them were feeling half starved, particularly missing green vegetables.\n\nThe",
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"content_text": "103\n\nHe did for me as a member of my own family might have done. I saw him the next day, to thank him; he was as happy about it as I was. Possibly he was relieved to be rid of one more responsibility. He was not at all pleased at losing my husband under such tragic circumstances, although certainly the blame could not be laid at his door. He had done everything possible for both of us. And his efforts in my case had been successful. I think that was his attitude towards all cases — is the same, he is bitterly ashamed of the behavior of the Army and the Gendarmerie, which brings so much odium on the Japanese people, although he is far too clever to show it, and much too astute to cross swords with them. He has his own ways of getting things accomplished.\n\nConditions in Hongkong were in some ways improved, in some ways vastly deteriorated during the month of May. The place itself had been cleaned up more or less; there were still plenty of ruined buildings particularly in Wanchai, and lampposts were still lying on the streets in the Central District — they were never removed, for some unaccountable reason. But the buildings themselves had been cleaned up, the lifts were working in Watson's Building, for the exclusive use of Japanese, Chinese and Indians. It was too entertaining to see the Indians attached to an office of the Japanese on the 2nd Floor of the Watson Building; they sat, as watchmen and messengers, I suppose, on chairs outside the door, by the lift, with their feet on other chairs, Lords of Creation.\n\nIt apparently gave them great joy to see the Europeans walking up. Mr. Keller, the Swiss Consul, had his office on the 3rd Floor. I have seen him arrive, breathless, more than once, on a fine warm day; such treatment made him very angry, although he made a joke of it.\n\nWatson's Building had two or three offices established in it. During January, February and early March it was just black desolation, offices looted, papers strewn all over the floors, up and down the staircases, which were used as public conveniences occasionally. This was true of many similar buildings.\n\nMost of my affairs were with Mr. Keller in Watson's Building, Mr. Gibson in the Prince's Building, and the Bureau of Foreign Affairs. It is hard to appreciate the sensation of bottomless depression one had, feeling one's way up and down those seemingly endless flights. It was six up to Mr. Gibson's rooms, and three up to Mr. Keller's; they were so steep that a misstep would have meant a bad fall. It was a relief when they were cleaned up a bit, and the lights on the tunnel-like stairways turned on. This also put a stop to holdups which took place in many buildings. Holdups were going on all over town, and were usually successful; people were desperate as the money and food situation was getting steadily worse. Restaurateurs where I bought bread and buns constantly complained that they could not get flour. And yet, Japanese troopers were reported to be feeding American Red Cross Cracked Wheat to their horses in Kowloon, and the Navy was holding a million pounds of flour at North Point for their own use.\n\nEvery day I saw streams of handcarts loaded with luggage and bundles of the least poor Chinese moving through the town, and the queues of the same type of people waiting for medical examinations and passes to leave Hongkong were enormous. They usually gathered by Watson's Building, a thousand or more at a time. They all knew that they would be starving if they didn't go, somewhere, anywhere, out of Hongkong. The number of dead bodies still to be seen on the streets were eloquent enough evidence of this. The Japanese put a notice in the daily paper forbidding this undesirable practice. I have a copy of the paper with me; it contains a number of other rules and regulations along the same lines. The one thing the Japanese couldn't do was to get ... business",
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"content_text": "SECTION VII-MECHANICAL TRANSPORT\n\nIt may be said in general that mechanical transport is provided by the Master-General of the Ordnance and that \"the movement of troops, animals and stores by sea, land and air\" belongs to the functions of the Quarter-Master-General. The Controller of Transport is a civilian, an officer of the Department of Transport, first appointed on November 16, 1939. More extended reference will be made to his duties later.\n\nThe cable of the 9th October asked National Defence Headquarters whether all or part of the Canadian force would be ready to embark on a vessel called the Awatea, which could sail from Vancouver between October 20th and the end of that month. The cable stated another opportunity for direct sailing was unlikely to occur within two months and observed upon the importance of taking advantage of the Awatea, if at all possible. It was suggested that the battalions should be on the higher establishment for infantry battalions, but with possibly a reduced scale of transport vehicles, but that the General Officer Commanding at Hong Kong was being asked for suggestions as to both the scale of equipment and transport, including carriers, which should be provided. It was also stated that Canadian Military Headquarters in London must be advised by October 15th whether or not arrangements could be completed in Canada in time for the sailing of the Awatea.\n\nAt the meeting of the Directors held the same day, namely, October 9th at 3.00 p.m., it was settled that the expedition should be made ready to sail October 27th. This was dictated by the fact that there were other troop movements which had to be made between the dates already mentioned (October 20 to 31) and rolling stock was not available to enable all these movements to proceed concurrently. It was also decided that preparation should be made to send first reinforcements with the troops, and that, pending further word from London in regard to transport, full scale transport, boxed, should be provided. Captain (later Major) James, of the Directorate of Mechanization in the Branch of the Master-General of the Ordnance, undertook to proceed with arrangements to provide the transport. This transport, amounting to 212 vehicles in all, consisted of the following:-\n\n \n 45 motorcycles\n 6 light Ford cars\n 57 Universal carriers\n \n \n 63 fifteen-cwt. trucks\n 2 fifteen-cwt. water tanks\n 39 three-ton trucks\n \n\nOn October 11, Canadian Military Headquarters in London cabled details of the equipment and transport to be provided. The cable asked that, in order to effect economy in time and shipping, as much as possible of the weapons, transport and ammunition should be taken with the troops.\n\nOnly two water tanks of the desired type were obtainable in Canada at this time and arrangements were made to substitute 15-cwt. for 8-cwt. trucks. A further meeting of the Directors concerned with the preparations was held on October 14, at which it was reported by Major James that he had made arrangements for the 212 vehicles. At this meeting it was arranged that the various Directors in the Branch of the Master-General of the Ordnance should co-ordinate their work with the officer in the Quartermaster-General's Branch in charge of movement of troops and supplies (Colonel Spearing), as well as with the officer in charge of administration of the force itself (Colonel Hennessy).\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51\n\nIt may be stated at once that, although this information was not available at that time, the Awatea did not have the capacity to take the necessary ships' stores, the troops, their baggage, weapons, ammunition and equipment, as well as the mechanical transport. Whether or not the British authorities were aware of this is not perfectly clear, but there is reason to think that they so surmised, as the cable of October 11, as already pointed out, requested that as much of the above weapons, transport, ammunition be taken with units \". I assume this means as much as was possible, having regard to the capacity of the ship.\n\nPage 66\n\nThe Awatea was built as a passenger vessel, designed to carry some five hundred passengers. She had undergone refitting to enable her to carry some 2,000 troops. After the ship had taken on her stores, the weapons, equipment, ammunition and the troops' baggage, there remained from 10,000 to 12,000 cubic feet only. The mechanical transport alone amounted to about fifty car-loads requiring some 125,000 cubic feet. The total cargo space of the Awatea was only 45,000 cubic feet.\n\nNo other vessel was available, nor became available until later in October, namely, October 28, when a freighter of American registry, the Don Jose, reached Vancouver and space was obtained for the vehicles in her. If the expedition was to sail on the Awatea as planned, the importance of which was stressed by the War Office on October 9, the great bulk of this mechanical transport had to be left behind, and, as was known to the War Office and stated in the cable of October 9, an opportunity for it to go forward was unlikely.\n\nOn or about October 21, the probability of the second vessel becoming available emerged and, in fact, all the vehicles with the exception of one carload of spare parts, which was not despatched from Oshawa until October 28, were loaded upon this second vessel, which sailed from Vancouver on November 4.\n\nThis vessel had other cargo to load, but space was obtained in her. To do so her agents were induced to shut out some 75,000 feet of lumber which she had arranged to carry to Hong Kong. The Don Jose was originally routed for Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila in that order, but, due to instructions received by the Master on November 1 from United States Naval authorities, the ship proceeded first to Honolulu and from thence to Manila, where she arrived December 12 and where, war having broken out, arrangements were made to turn over to the American Army in the Philippines the vehicles which she carried. Had it not been for this deviation, under instructions from superior authority, the Don Jose would, under normal conditions, have reached Hong Kong about December 6. Her normal speed was from 11 to 12 knots and on the voyage from Vancouver to Honolulu she actually averaged 10 knots. This miscarriage was, of course, not in any sense due to the fault of any Canadian official concerned with the shipping of these vehicles.\n\nAs already mentioned, there was some free space of from 10,000 cubic feet to 12,000 cubic feet in the Awatea when she sailed and the question which has been much agitated is why she sailed without taking some of these vehicles. It has already been pointed out that at the meeting of Directors of October 14, Major James reported that provision had been made for the full 212 vehicles. He had in fact arranged with the manufacturers concerned for the boxing and loading by them of this equipment on the railway cars between October 13 and 16. The reason that these shipments did not proceed to Vancouver in accordance with these arrangements was that the shipment was stopped by the Controller of Transport on October 15, because he was aware that the Awatea had not the capacity for this cargo and no other vessel was known at that time to be available at Vancouver, either then or in the near future. The Controller, in view of the fact that the vehicles might have to be shipped from an American port and routed over American railway lines, in\n\nPage 158",
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"content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nMr. A. Nicolls Memorandum on Cross Harbour Transportation\n\nAt the present time it appears incumbent on Government to examine carefully the state of the existing cross-harbour transport services and to review the methods employed therefore with the object of instituting the most efficient means of handling the present and future traffic loads.\n\nII. The Star Ferry Co., pays no royalty to Government for the privilege of running its service between P.P.26 at Ice House Street and P.P's 32 & 35 at Tsim Sha Tsui. The Company hold the lease for P.P. 26, but the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., hold the leases for P.P's 32 & 33. All leases expire in December, 1949, in common with other pier leases throughout the Colony.\n\nIII. The Company operated its service before the war with six vessels, of which one was sunk outside the waters of the Colony, two are likely to be total wrecks and three can probably be repaired in time.\n\nIV. The present service between Tsim Sha Tsui and Ice House Street is being maintained by the Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Co., who, although they suffered heavy losses in boats, were more fortunate in being able to retain a part of their fleet in running order during the occupation.\n\nV. In the normal course of events had war not intervened, I think undoubtedly Government would have refused to extend the leases of the pier used by the Star Ferry Co., in 1949. It must be remembered that had Government wished, it could at any time in the past twenty-three years have granted permission for a second ferry to operate between Kowloon Point and any point in Hong Kong of its choosing.\n\nVI. The Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Co's franchise runs for a period of 15 or 16 years from 1933 when the Vehicular Ferry Service was inaugurated. It, therefore, expires about 1949. This Company pays a very substantial royalty to Government.\n\nVII. In 1949 Government would have found itself in a position to call for tenders for the operation of all the ferry services under one operator.\n\nVIII. One way to jump the present difficulty and give reasonable tenure to a successful operator is to cancel both the Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Company's franchise and the leases of the two Star Ferry Piers at the end of this year, making an arrangement with the Yaumati Ferry Company to continue to operate the Star Ferry Service till that time. Tenders would meanwhile be invited for the running of all the ferry services in the Colony for a period not exceeding 15 years as from 1st January, 1946. A fifteen-year period is probably the shortest term that would be agreed to by any operating company.\n\nIX. If the Star Ferry Co., became the successful tenderer, it would have to build or buy a large number of vessels and would require considerable capital to do so, but Government would take over the maintenance of the two old piers and the Company would have no grounds for claiming compensation in respect of the pier leases. The Yaumati Co., would, however, claim damages for early cancellation of their franchise rights.\n\nX. If, on the other hand, the Yaumati Ferry Co. were the successful tenderer (a much more likely supposition) the Star Ferry Co., would cease to exist, but would claim compensation for loss due to being deprived of the use of the piers for four years. I doubt whether the Star Ferry Co., could claim damages for being deprived of the ferry concession.\n\nXI. Of the two possible claims, it seems that that of the Yaumati Ferry Co. would be the larger by a considerable amount. There is, of course, the possibility that neither the Star Ferry Co., nor the Yaumati Ferry Co., would be the successful tenderer and Government would then be faced with compensating both the old operating concerns. In present circumstances this event is probably a very remote possibility.\n\nPage 260\n\n...\n\n1",
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"content_text": "260\n\nXII. If no action to co-ordinate the ferry services be taken at the present time, both the old operators will require large loans to enable them to build up their fleets, and will not be willing to do so unless, in one case, the pier leases are extended for a considerable time, and in the other case, the period of the franchise be likewise extended. It is very questionable, if the Star Ferry Co., would agree to so short a term as 15 years.\n\nXIII. To renew the leases of the Star Ferry Piers and so commit Government to the ferry method of transport for any period of time beyond 1960 is, in my opinion, a proposal to be very carefully avoided, because it is probable that by that year the cross-harbour tunnel scheme may again be an economic possibility. The scheme was prepared by the late Mr. Buttress, with my concurrence, in the spring of 1941. At that time the late Sir David Owen was in the Colony reporting on the harbour, and although he was made aware of the investigations in progress the study was not sufficiently advanced to permit of his reporting on it at the time of his departure, He, therefore, recommended in his report the construction of two new vehicular ferry piers, one at Harcourt Road, Wanchai, and the other at Gillies Avenue, Hung Hom.\n\nXIV. Mr. Buttress eventually completed his investigations and his report was forwarded to Government in March, 1941. Very fortunately one copy of this report has been recovered, due to the kindness of Mr. G. Huber, of Messrs. Marsman & Co., and is attached hereto. The scheme was based on the assumption that it was possible in Hong Kong to construct a tunnel by making sections on shore, floating them out over prepared positions, sinking and joining them together by divers as had been successfully accomplished elsewhere. During my short leave in 1941 I visited and examined three subaqueous tunnels constructed along similar lines in the U.S.A., and from what I saw I am convinced that this method can be used in Hong Kong.\n\nXV. In 1937 I commenced keeping records of the growth of traffic of the Vehicular Ferry. In the early days of the ferry's existence there were never less than 400 vehicles carried per day, and early in 1937 it became apparent that the ferry traffic was growing rapidly. In 1939 the average number of vehicles per day had risen to about 1000 and a year later the figure was over 1100. These figures are given from memory, but I feel sure they are substantially correct. In 1941 I estimated that, provided the rate of growth of traffic was maintained the ferry would be running at maximum capacity by 1944, involving delay to users throughout most of the day.\n\nXVI. Any public utility service must be capable of providing for peak loads without undue congestion, and it is a moot point to decide just when that point has been reached. I think, however, that any ferry service has failed in its function if users are obliged to wait longer than twice the period between the departure of successive ferries in any but exceptional circumstances. Had ferry traffic grown as predicted, the public would have been subjected in 1944 to delays of the order of one hour and more during the busy hours of the day, and on Saturdays and Sundays the system would have become entirely clogged.\n\nXVII. The possible solutions for such a state of affairs are:-\n\n(a) The employment of larger boats.\n\nOwing to the congestion in Hong Kong Harbour, this is not recommended by the H&M. It has been laid down that ferry vessels should not exceed 150 feet in length. Larger boats, unless they could provide four lanes of traffic on the deck, would not be large enough to solve the problem, and to provide four lanes of traffic on the existing ships is quite impossible.\n\n(b) To increase the number of sailings per hour.\n\nThis is impracticable.\n\nThe Ferry Co., during peak loads ran four vessels as quickly as they could turn round. The actual time between sailings was thus cut down to 6 minutes, but this was done only at some cost to Government in damage to fenders. If the boats were larger and therefore heavier, the damage would be correspondingly greater.\n\n2",
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"content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nMr. A. Nicoll's Memorandum on Cross Harbour Transportation\n\nAt the present time it appears incumbent on Government to examine carefully the state of the existing cross-harbour transport services and to review the methods employed therefore with the object of instituting the most efficient means of handling the present and future traffic loads.\n\nII. The Star Ferry Co., pays no royalty to Government for the privilege of running its service between P.P.26 at Ice House Street and P.P's 32 & 33 at Tsim Sha Tsui. The Company hold the lease for P.P. 26, but the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., hold the leases for P.P's 32 & 33. All leases expire in December, 1949, in common with other pier leases throughout the Colony.\n\nIII. The Company operated its service before the war with six vessels, of which one was sunk outside the waters of the Colony, two are likely to be total wrecks and three can probably be repaired in time.\n\nIV. The present service between Tsim Sha Tsui and Ice House Street is being maintained by the Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Co., who, although they suffered heavy losses in boats, were more fortunate in being able to retain a part of their fleet in running order during the occupation.\n\nV. In the normal course of events had war not intervened, I think undoubtedly Government would have refused to extend the leases of the pier used by the Star Ferry Co., in 1949. It must be remembered that had Government wished, it could at any time in the past twenty-three years have granted permission for a second ferry to operate between Kowloon Point and any point in Hong Kong of its choosing.\n\nVI. The Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Co's franchise runs for a period of 15 or 16 years from 1933 when the Vehicular Ferry Service was inaugurated. It, therefore, expires about 1949. This Company pays a very substantial royalty to Government,\n\nVII. In 1949 Government would have found itself in a position to call for tenders for the operation of all the ferry services under one operator.\n\nVIII. One way to jump the present difficulty and give reasonable tenure to a successful operator is to cancel both the Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Company's franchise and the leases of the two Star Ferry Piers at the end of this year, making an arrangement with the Yaumati Ferry Company to continue to operate the Star Ferry Service till that time. Tenders would meanwhile be invited for the running of all the ferry services in the Colony for a period not exceeding 15 years as from 1st January, 1946. A fifteen-year period is probably the shortest term that would be agreed to by any operating company.\n\nIX. If the Star Ferry Co., became the successful tenderer, it would have to build or buy a large number of vessels and would require considerable capital to do so, but Government would take over the maintenance of the two old piers and the Company would have no grounds for claiming compensation in respect of the pier leases. The Yaumati Co., would, however, claim damages for early cancellation of their franchise rights.\n\nX. If, on the other hand, the Yaumati Ferry Co. were the successful tenderer (a much more likely supposition) the Star Ferry Co., would cease to exist, but would claim compensation for loss due to being deprived of the use of the piers for four years. I doubt whether the Star Ferry Co., could claim damages for being deprived of the ferry concession.\n\nXI. Of the two possible claims, it seems that that of the Yaumati Ferry Co. would be the larger by a considerable amount. There is, of course, the possibility that neither the Star Ferry Co., nor the Yaumati Ferry Co., would be the successful tenderer and Government would then be faced with compensating both the old operating concerns. In present circumstances this event is probably a very remote possibility.\n\nJust",
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"content_text": "XII. If no action to co-ordinate the ferry services be taken at the present time, both the old operators will require large loans to enable them to build up their fleets, and will not be willing to do so unless, in one case, the pier leases are extended for a considerable time, and in the other case, in the other case, the period of the franchise be likewise extended. It is very questionable, if the Star Ferry Co., would agree to so short a term as 15 years.\n\n85\n\nXIII. To renew the leases of the Star Ferry Piers and so commit Government to the ferry method of transport for any period of time beyond 1950 is, in my opinion, a proposal to be very carefully avoided, because it is probable that by that year the cross-harbour tunnel scheme may again be an economic possibility. The scheme was prepared by the late Mr. Buttress, with my concurrence, in the spring of 1941. At that time the late Sir David Owen was in the Colony reporting on the harbour, and although he was made aware of the investigations in progress the study was not sufficiently advanced to permit of his reporting on it at the time of his departure. He, therefore, recommended in his report the construction of two new vehicular ferry piers, one at Marsh Road, Wanchai, and the other at Gillies Avenue, Hung Hom.\n\nXIV. Mr. Buttress eventually completed his investigations and his report was forwarded to Government in March, 1941. Very fortunately one copy of this report has been recovered, due to the kindness of Mr. G. R. Huber, of Messrs. Karsman & Co., and is attached hereto. The scheme was based on the assumption that it was possible in Hong Kong to construct a tunnel by making sections on shore, floating them out over prepared positions, sinking and joining them together by divers as had been successfully accomplished elsewhere. During my short leave in 1941 I visited and examined three subaqueous tunnels constructed along similar lines in the U.S.A., and from what I saw I am convinced that this method can be used in Hong Kong.\n\nXV. In 1937 I commenced keeping records of the growth of traffic of the Vehicular Ferry. In the early days of the ferries' existence there were no more than 400 vehicles carried per day, and early in 1937 it became apparent that the ferry traffic was growing rapidly. In 1939 the average number of vehicles per day had risen to about 1000 and a year later the figure was over 1100. These figures are given from memory, but I feel sure they are substantially correct. In 1941 I estimated that, provided the rate of growth of traffic was maintained the ferry would be running at maximum capacity by 1944, involving delay to users throughout most of the day.\n\nXVI. Any public utility service must be capable of providing for peak loads without undue congestion, and it is a moot point to decide just when that point has been reached. I think, however, that any ferry service has failed in its function if users are obliged to wait longer than twice the period between the departure of successive ferries in any but exceptional circumstances. Had ferry traffic grown as predicted, the public would have been subjected in 1944 to delays of the order of one hour and more during the busy hours of the day, and on Saturdays and Sundays the system would have become entirely clogged.\n\nXVII. The possible solutions for such a state of affairs are:-\n\n(a) The employment of larger boats.\n\nOwing to the congestion in Hong Kong Harbour, this is not recommended by the H.M.\n\nIt has been laid down that ferry vessels should not exceed 150 feet in length. Larger boats, unless they could provide four lines of traffic on the deck, would not be large enough to solve the problem, and to provide four lanes of traffic on the existing ships is quite impossible.\n\n(b) To increase the number of sailings per hour.\n\nThis is impracticable.\n\nThe Ferry Co., during peak loads ran four vessels as quickly as they could turn round. The actual time between sailings was thus cut down to 6 minutes, but this was done only at some cost to Government in damage to fenders. If the boats were larger and therefore heavier, the damage would be correspondingly greater.\n\n2",
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"content_text": "## SI \n\nA visiting lectureship, and similar arrangements, were more partial in their effect and would not achieve the continuous intimacy of a university. A scheme of scholarships for Chinese students to United Kingdom universities would, if intended for undergraduates, expose them to too completely an alien atmosphere before they could fully understand or profit from it. Ever valuable as some of such developments might be as complementary to a university at Hong Kong, they were not substitutes for it.\n\n## 13. \nSince this purpose had been proclaimed as one of the original aims of the existing Hong Kong University, the Committee inquired to what extent it had served it and whether its experience disclosed reasons for its inability to do so more completely. The University has contributed usefully to Anglo-Chinese relations; in the period 1928-38, approximately 30 per cent of its students came from China; the standard of its professional training, particularly of doctors, teachers of English, and engineers, was highly respected in China.\n\nNevertheless, the Committee, on the evidence before it, concluded that it had not succeeded in its broad purpose for three main reasons: its poverty, its isolation, and competition from the Chinese universities. The Committee, in analysing these features of the past, tried to assess how far they would prevent the fulfilment of the broad purpose in the future.\n\n## 14. \nWithout doubt, the inadequate financing of the University was the chief cause of its weakness. It experienced a succession of financial crises, could not plan boldly for its long-term and balanced development, and was chronically understaffed. With a staff over-burdened with teaching duties and with insufficient resources, it could not become a centre of research, worthily representing university standards and attracting students and scholars to it as a centre of learning.\n\nIn its poverty, it could not provide a system of scholarships to enable students from China to come to Hong Kong or to meet the higher costs of living inevitably involved in its being part of a different economy. Apart from an endowment contribution in its earliest days from Canton and, for a short time, scholarships from certain other Provinces of China, nearly the full burden of financial support fell on local government resources. The University received £260,000 out of the Boxer Indemnity Fund and partial endowment of three medical chairs from the Rockefeller Foundation, these two together making almost the whole of its capital endowment.\n\nIt is clearly wrong to attempt to achieve an Imperial purpose and leave the full financial responsibility to one small Colony. If the University is to serve as an instrument for mutual understanding between the British and Chinese peoples, the major part of the financial responsibility must fall on Imperial funds. Colonial revenues, especially in this period of the rehabilitation of Hong Kong, are even less appropriate now than before the war as the source of support for a University which would only indirectly serve some of its needs. A university fulfilling the broad purpose envisaged by the Committee would be serving the interests of the Commonwealth and not merely the United Kingdom; the Committee hopes, therefore, that consideration, in due course, may be given to the possibility of enlisting financial help from the Dominions as well as from Great Britain.\n\n## 15. \nThe University suffered from isolation in various ways. (a) Chinese nationalist feeling reached full tide at the time of the \"Second Revolution\", i.e., the collapse of the reactionary \"war-lords\" and the establishment of the new central regime in Nanking under the auspices of the Kuomintang. The establishment of China's international relations in the preceding era was, in essence, an inevitable movement of insurgence against the accumulated humiliations and restrictions which had marked it.\n\nThe establishment of the Nanking regime was in itself the first step towards more normal conditions, and the process received an immediate and momentous encouragement in H.M.G.'s declaration, in December 1926, of confidence in and sympathy with the new regime and the national aspirations it expressed. Since then, the shackles and anomalies associated with the epoch of the \"unequal treaties\" have been gradually cleared away.\n\nThe Committee would not venture to prophesy how Chinese feeling towards us and other countries may develop during the remainder of this fateful century.",
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"content_text": "## 121 \n-8- \n\nThe University received £260,000 out of the Boxer Indemnity Fund and partial endowment of three medical chairs from the Rockefeller Foundation, these two together making almost the whole of its capital endowment. The authorities of the territories from which nearly two-thirds of its students came contributed no grants for its support. It is clearly wrong to attempt to achieve an Imperial purpose and leave the full financial responsibility to one small Colony. If the University is to serve as an instrument for mutual understanding between the British and Chinese peoples, the major part of the financial responsibility must fall on Imperial funds. The Colonial revenues, especially in this period of the rehabilitation of Hong Kong, are even less appropriate now than before the war as the source of support for a University which would only indirectly serve some of its needs. A university fulfilling the broad purpose envisaged by the Committee would be serving the interests of the Commonwealth and not merely the United Kingdom; the Committee hopes therefore that consideration, in due course, may be given to the possibility of enlisting financial help from the Dominions as well as from Great Britain.\n\n## (b) Isolation\n\n14.\n\nThe University suffered from isolation in various ways.\n\n### (i)\n\nChinese nationalist feeling reached full tide at the time of the \"Second Revolution\", i.e., the collapse of the reactionary \"war-lords\" and the establishment of the new central regime in Nanking under the auspices of the Kuomintang. It was, in essence, an inevitable movement of insurgence against the accumulated humiliations and restrictions which had marked China's international relations in the preceding era. The establishment of the Nanking regime was in itself the first step towards more normal conditions, and the process received an immediate and momentous encouragement in His Majesty's Government's declaration, in December, 1926, of confidence in and sympathy with the new regime and the national aspirations it expressed. Since then, the shackles and anomalies associated with the epoch of the \"unequal treaties\" have been gradually cleared away. The Committee would not venture to prophesy how Chinese feeling towards us and other countries may develop during the remainder of this fateful century, but at least it can be said that the stage is set fair for collaboration on terms of equality and reciprocity, and it follows that an opportunity now exists which never existed in anything like the same measure in the past, of which it behoves the Chinese and ourselves to take full advantage, as equal and essentially like-minded members of the family of nations. No one could guarantee that the Chinese sentiment towards a revived University in Hong Kong would remain uniformly friendly and cooperative and undisturbed by any fitful feeling of jealousy or the influence of extraneous events. But there is, so far as we can discern, no special reason for pessimism on this score. It would, naturally, depend largely on the broad conception of the project, the manner in which it was launched, and the way in which it fitted into the general pattern of our relations with China.\n\n### (ii)\n\nSituated in a Cantonese-speaking area, it was at a disadvantage in attracting Mandarin-speaking students from other...",
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"content_text": "158 \n\nPedicellier \n\nSMITH \n\nSMITH \n\nSMITH \n\nSMITH \n\nSMITH \n\nSMITH \n\nFORSTER \n\nSMITH \n\nSMITH \n\nSMITH \n\nwere perity endowed \n\nStart here, \n\n-8- \n\nThe Colony's Government cannot be asked to do more than \nit has been hitherto \n\nThe Government and the University received £260,000 out of the Boxer Indemnity Fund and partial endowment of three chairs from the Rockefeller Foundation. These two together comprised, making almost the whole of its capital endowment. Authorities of the territories from which nearly two-thirds of its students come contributed no grants for its support. It is clearly wrong to attempt to achieve an Imperial purpose and leave the full financial responsibility to one small Colony. If the University is to serve as an instrument for mutual understanding between the British and Chinese peoples, the major part of the financial responsibility must fall on Imperial funds. The Colonial revenues, especially in this period of the rehabilitation of Hong Kong, are even less appropriate now than before the war as the source of support for a University which would only indirectly serve some of its needs. A university fulfilling the broad purpose envisaged by the Commonwealth Committee would be serving the interests of the Commonwealth and not merely the United Kingdom. The Committee hopes, therefore, that consideration in due course may be given to the possibility of enlisting financial help from the Dominions as well as from Great Britain. \n\n(b) Isolation. \n\n# 21745 \n\nThe University suffered from isolation in various ways. (i) Chinese nationalist feeling reached full tide at the time of the \"Second Revolution\", i.e., the collapse of the reactionary \"war-lords\" and the establishment of the new central regime in Nanking under the auspices of the Kuomintang. It was, in essence, an inevitable movement of resurgence against the accumulated humiliations and restrictions which had marked China's international relations in the preceding era. The establishment of the Nanking regime was in itself the first step towards more normal conditions, and the process received an immediate and momentous encouragement in His Majesty's Government's declaration, in December, 1926, of confidence in and sympathy with the new regime and the national aspirations it expressed. Since then, the shackles and anomalies associated with the \"unequal treaties\" have been gradually cleared away. We would not venture to prophesy how Chinese feeling towards us and other countries may develop during the remainder of this fateful century, but at least it can be said that the stage is set fair for collaboration on terms of equality and reciprocity, and it follows that an opportunity now exists which never existed in anything like the same measure in the past, of which it behoves the Chinese and ourselves to take full advantage, as equal and essentially like-minded members of the family of nations. No one could guarantee that the Chinese sentiment towards a revived University in Hong Kong would remain uniformly friendly and cooperative and undisturbed by any fitful feeling of jealousy or the influence of extraneous events. But there is, so far as we can discern, no special reason for pessimism on this score. It would, naturally, depend largely on the broad conception of the project, the manner in which it was launched, and the way in which it fitted into the general pattern of our relations with China. \n\n(ii) Situated in a Cantonese-speaking area, it was at a disadvantage in attracting Mandarin-speaking students from other parts of China.",
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"content_text": "47 \n\nacres for a designed capacity of 2.535 M.G.D. and this had to be formed at two levels with expensive retaining walls. This difficulty of finding suitable sites was no doubt the cause of the system of separate small filters spaced out along the conduit rather than one single concentrated filtration plant. This, however, is now possible by the use of rapid gravity filters which have an output of 15,625 galls/sq. yd. per 24 hours with the result that all the Shing Mun water is filtered at one plant capable of treating 20 M.G.D., and now the Tytam Scheme is to be similarly centralised with the erection of an 11 M.G.D. plant at Eastern which is now under construction. This plant will occupy less than 0.3 acres as compared with a total of about 7.5 acres in the three plants it is to replace.\n\nThe use of pressure filters has been tried at only one small plant which supplies Stanley Peninsula. It has not been very satisfactory in service and as extensions are required it is to be replaced with rapid gravity filters.\n\nAll the rapid gravity filters in use are of the well-known Paterson type, with air and water scour, chemical treatment consisting of alum and lime dosing to create a floc, with chlorination after filtration.\n\n| **Table No. 5** | \n|---|\n| gives details of the various filter plants from which it will be seen that the present working capacity is only 37.0 M.G.D.. As the summer peak demand has already reached 40.5 M.G.D. the need for more filtration plant is obvious.\n\nThe result is that it is very possible that restrictions will have to be introduced in Summer, not this time from a shortage of water but from inability to filter enough. Next Summer is likely to be critical in this respect, as the new Eastern Rapid Gravity Filters will not be ready in time. This year it was only possible because the peak demand did not exceed 40 M.G.D. for more than two days running, so that the extra could be made up by overloading the filters at the expense of efficiency, and by drawing on the Service Reservoirs. Alternatively, of course, a larger service reservoir capacity would enable higher isolated daily peak loads to be handled.\n\nAfter filtration all water is chlorinated. Paterson chloronomes are installed at most of the filter beds, which provide a controlled amount of liquid chlorine at the outlet from the filters, but unfortunately supplies of chlorine gas are so poor due to shortage of the chlorine cylinders in England and most of the Waterworks' own cylinders having been lost during the war, that much of the chlorinating is at present being done by adding a solution of chloride of lime from stand-by drip feed tanks, not a very satisfactory method.\n\nHowever, the quality of the water has been maintained at a satisfactory level. The output from the filters is regularly tested and...",
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"content_text": "48\n\nIn the year 1947/48, for instance, 91.16% were up to the standard of B. Coli absent in 100 c.c, and in the case of samples taken at random from consumers' taps, the figure was 79.83%. Similar figures for Physical and Chemical Analyses show 99.19% satisfactory at the filters, and 100% at the taps. In all, during the year 1947/48, 59.9 tons of Chloride of Lime, 19.9 tons of Chlorine gas, 203.2 tons of Alumina, 41.3 tons of Lime, and 68.1 tons of Soda Ash were used.\n\n## SERVICE RESERVOIRS\n\nThe service reservoir is the last reserve against breakdown, and also a balancing tank which enables a steady filtration rate on one side to meet a diurnal variation in demand on the other. There is, therefore, a definite minimum size of service reservoir for any given filter beds, such that it will just be filled during the low night-time draw-off, in other words, roughly 12 hours' output from the filters. But this leaves practically no reserve in case of either fire or breakdown, so that the lowest practical minimum is one day's supply. It is generally considered, however, that a two days' supply is desirable, though with a large number of interconnected systems such as are available in Hong Kong, this requirement can be somewhat relaxed. The summary in Table No. 6, however, shows a very poor position, which it is hoped to remedy within the next three or four years by the building of three or four extra reservoirs on the Island and two more in Kowloon, quite apart from the extra ones required for the proposed Tai Lam Chung Scheme.\n\nThe siting of new service reservoirs in Hong Kong is not easy. On the Island, they usually have to be built on a hillside, which involves heavy excavation with serious risk of slips and inevitably a query as to the stability of the downhill wall of the reservoir. The use of former filter beds has already been referred to, but this is really begging the question, as these sites have been similarly formed in the past, with the additional complication that, original site plans having been lost, it is difficult to decide just where was the original ground line, and one would not knowingly found a gravity section retaining wall on fill, even if it were 30 years old.\n\nOne solution used on a small tank at Peak Road was to design the walls as cantilever retaining walls with the long leg of the base inside the tank. This results in a very steep resultant pressure, which is well inside the middle third, and consequently a reasonably low pressure on the outside toe. Unfortunately, the steel shortage has made this solution undesirable for the present, and in a similar tank now being constructed, the walls are plain concrete with a full gravity section.\n\nThese reservoirs constitute an interesting study in Engineering Economics. Given the capacity required, there are a number of alternative solutions possible. The variables comprise:\n\n### Factors Influencing Design\n\n(i) the depth of water—the greater the depth, the smaller the area, and the cheaper the roof covering, but the walls, although shorter, are much thicker.\n(ii) the relative cost of mass concrete walls against reinforced concrete—assuming steel is available.\n(iii) the relative costs of excavation and construction materials—on a hillside site, the deeper the tank proper, the less the excavation of overburden, but the heavier the concrete walls, as at (i) above.\n\n49\n\nIn view of the construction programme referred to above, the author is endeavouring to find the lowest common denominator of the above variables, or at least to establish some rules which can be applied to any given case to determine the most economical solution.\n\nWith one exception—Albany—all the service reservoirs are covered. This is highly desirable, as the water is filtered and chlorinated, ready for consumption, and should therefore be safe against contamination. The earlier roofs were supported by brick jack-arches carried on masonry piers, but the more recent ones are all of reinforced concrete. Generally, they are of a beam and slab construction, though for the Kowloon Chai Reservoir, a flat-slab roof with dropped panels was used. It is very doubtful if this is economical for the comparatively light loads these roofs have to carry.\n\nAn interesting repair job was carried out last year in the Botanical Gardens Reservoir. The north-west corner of this reservoir was founded on made ground, and despite piling and later underpinning, the mass concrete walls settled, with resultant leakage. This was so bad by 1945 that one half of the reservoir could not be used, and as the division wall was only two-thirds full height, the capacity was reduced to less than one-third. The whole of the defective corner was, therefore, cut off by means of a reinforced concrete wall supported on A-frames in such a way that there was a minimum ground pressure. The work necessitated cutting through the concrete roof and floor and erecting a new wall between the existing columns, and then reinstating the roof. The whole work was successfully completed, and the reservoir can now be used again to the full, with a loss of only 0.34 M.G. from the original capacity. Details are shown in Plate 4.\n\n## PUMPING STATIONS\n\nIt will be readily appreciated that, with the relatively low level of many of the reservoirs compared with some of the residential districts on the Island, a considerable amount of pumping is required. In fact, eleven separate pumping stations are maintained on the Island, but so far, none has been required on the Mainland.\n\n52",
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"content_text": "J\n\n34\n\nMiscellaneous No.46CB.\n\nAmended instructions regarding the procedure to be followed in connection with the Accounts of certain Colonies, Protectorates, and Mandated Territories falling under the medial control of His Majesty's Treasury, as from the year 1st April, 1941 (or 1941-42) inclusive.\n\nThe institution of financial control by His Majesty's Treasury normally follows the receipt by a Colony from United Kingdom funds of a grant in aid of its revenues, whether by way of free grant or loan; such control may, however, be instituted for other reasons. The control will continue for such period after the cessation of the grant as may be considered necessary in particular cases, not exceeding three years save in exceptional circumstances. In all cases where it has been decided that Treasury control shall be imposed, the institution and cessation of such control is governed by an official letter to the Colonial Office from the Treasury, a copy of which will be sent by the Treasury to the Director of Colonial Audit.\n\nIn the case of Accounts falling under the financial control of His Majesty's Treasury, the Accounting Officer of the Vote for Colonial and Middle Eastern Services will ascertain that authorities from the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have been obtained as laid down in the succeeding instructions.\n\nThe receipt of grants from the Development and Welfare (Colonies, etc.) Vote, will not bring a Colony under the financial control of His Majesty's Treasury, and the following Instructions apply to expenditure of the Colony excluding expenditure on schemes financed in whole or in part from that Vote.\n\n2. The following authorities from the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury will, subject to the provisions of the preceding Instruction, be required in all cases in which the accounts are subject to the financial control of Treasury:\n\n(1) Approval of the estimates of the Colony for the year.\n\n(11) Prior sanction for provision for expenditure under any head of the approved estimates which will cause the total provision under the head to be exceeded by more than ten per cent; provided that in the event of some unpredictable happening necessitating abnormally high expenditure (e.g. hurricane or cyclone damage) sanction for supplementary provision for such expenditure should be sought separately and without regard for the ten per cent margin referred to above.\n\n(111) Prior sanction for any changes of the following nature affecting the pensionable establishment provided in the approved estimates of the Colony, viz:\n\n(a) the creation of additional posts carrying an initial salary of £600 per annum or over, or any reorganisation of posts carrying an initial salary of £600 per annum or over which will cause a net increase in the annual expenditure on the particular items of the pensionable establishment involved;\n\n(b)",
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"content_text": "Dry on 19275/107\n\nGRANTS FROM THE HIGHER EDUCATION ALLOCATION UNDER THE COLONIAL\n\nDEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE ACT.\n\n6\n\n119\n\n(1) In accordance with the recommendations of the report of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies and on the advice of the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, has decided to adopt procedures for grants from the Colonial Development and Welfare Vote to universities, university colleges and potential university colleges in Colonial territories which will allow the fullest financial freedom to these institutions consistent with his responsibilities under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act.\n\n(2) Grants from the funds which have been allocated to the development of higher education in the Colonies will be made by means of schemes made by the Secretary of State with the concurrence of the Treasury. Grants under such schemes will be paid directly to and administered by an individual University or College only when it is established as a body corporate empowered to hold and administer funds. It will be a condition of direct grants made in this way that the institution should;\n\n(3) (a) include on its Governing Body or on its Finance Sub-Committee persons with administrative and financial experience, selected from among officials of the Colonial Government (or Governments) and other suitably qualified members of the local community;\n\n(b) include in its administrative staff an officer qualified by training and experience for financial administration;\n\n(c) make satisfactory arrangements for audit under the Director General of Colonial Audit or by some other means acceptable to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and His Majesty's Treasury;\n\n(d) where large-scale works are to be undertaken appoint a qualified architect and establish satisfactory machinery for the award and supervision of contracts and for their execution (for the time being, such machinery would normally include consultation with the Crown Agents for the Colonies).\n\nEach grant from the higher education allocation, whether for capital or for recurrent purposes, will in itself be a final maximum and will not convey in any way whatever a claim or expectation by the recipient institution for further grants from the same source to meet deficiencies arising in the carrying out of the purposes for which the grant is given.\n\n(4) Grants for capital purposes from the higher education allocation will be based on plans and estimates approved by the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies and the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee.\n\n(5) During the currency of the Act, where a grant is made towards the recurrent expenditure of an institution it will normally be made for a period of three or five years. Such a grant would be towards the recurrent expenditure envisaged in the institution's estimates and would not be intended as an indirect contribution to such purposes as the accumulation of an endowment fund, reserves or surplus balances. Grants will be made on the advice of the Inter-University Council and the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee, who will naturally be influenced in their recommendations\n\n/recommendations",
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"content_text": "5.9\n\nDecember, 1945.\n\nREPORT BY MESSRS. PREECE, CARDEW & RIDER ON THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. ON BEHALF OF THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION.\n\n1. SCOPE.\n\nThis report is related to the verbal terms of reference as discussed between Col. Thomson, Mr. Follows of the Civil Administration and Mr. Jackson of Messrs. Preece, Cardew & Rider on November 23rd and 24th, 1945, which are set out in detail in the attached covering letter, and except where expressly stated to the contrary, it is agreed that the plant shall be repaired and maintained in accordance with paragraph 5 thereof.\n\n2.\n\nA scrutiny of the pre-war records shows that the peak load at night was approximately 16,000 kilowatts. The present day and night peak loads are 2,300 and 4,000 kilowatts respectively. The estimated day and night peak loads by next March are 5,000 and 6,500 kilowatts respectively.\n\n3.\n\nAssuming that the present rate of expansion of load is maintained, it will be necessary to meet peak loads of approximately 6,000 kilowatts by next March, but there is little doubt that the rate of increase of load will be substantially higher during the next two or three months, and it is agreed that the peak load for March shall be assessed at 6,500 kilowatts, and it is to this basis that the following observations are related. It is understood that the present rate of expansion of domestic and similar load is limited partly by the staff available to make re-connection but also by the lack of efficient transport.\n\n4.\n\nTo meet the demand envisaged, it is essential that turbo alternator sets No.1 or 2, 5 and 6 together with boilers No.1, 2 and 7-10 inclusive shall be in reasonable commercial condition together with the associated ancillary plant, switchgear and cables.\n\n5. TURBINES:\n\nNo.8 Turbine: The foundations for this machine were completed before the surrender of the Colony, although the machine was not on site. The foundations have had to be demolished due to damage by subsequent bombing. A quantity of foundation steelwork will have to be replaced before the foundations can be re-built. This does not come within the terms of reference.\n\nNo.7 Turbo Set: This machine was deliberately put out of commission by the Royal Engineers prior to the surrender of Hong Kong. It is not required to meet the demand envisaged and does not therefore come within the terms of reference. It will probably be 10 months before this machine is in commission.\n\nNo.6 Turbo Set: This machine has already been thoroughly overhauled and can be considered as being in fair and reasonable condition. Mechanically it is sound, but owing to the high steam consumption, it should only be used as stand-by plant. Only normal maintenance and running repairs should be required.\n\nNo.5 Turbo Set: This machine has already been overhauled and can be considered as being in reasonable condition.",
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"content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n### 2. His Majesty's Government's policy towards China\n\n1. The most recent public statement of His Majesty's Government's policy regarding China was made in the House of Lords in a debate on China on January 23rd, 1947. A copy of the Lord Chancellor's statement on that occasion is annexed hereto (`Annex A`). The policy outlined on that occasion remains unchanged. Its main feature is a reaffirmation of the Moscow declaration of December, 1945, when the British, American, and Soviet Foreign Ministers \"were in agreement as to the need for a unified and democratic China under the National Government, for broad participation by democratic elements in all branches of the National Government, and for a cessation of civil strife.\" The three Foreign Ministers at the same time re-affirmed their adherence to the policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of China.\n\n2. In its practical application to present conditions in China, the most important aspect of the policy is that of non-interference in the internal affairs of China. In pursuance of this policy, His Majesty's Government have refused for the past year or more, and continue to refuse, to supply to China arms or other materials which could be used in the prosecution of the civil war now being waged between the Nanking Government and the Chinese Communists, the need for a cessation of which was stressed in the Moscow Declaration.\n\n3. The policy further implies His Majesty's Government's recognition of the National Government...",
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"content_text": "8\n\n-\n\n28\n\n9\n\n42. Government already has a Gardens Department which cares for various gardens, grass covered grounds and recreation grounds, and we are therefore of the opinion that the main problem to be faced in implementing the scheme will be one of finance, owing to the need for extra staff, machines, and materials. We consider however, although not in a position to quote figures, that the major part, if not all, of this extra expense can be covered by the fee charged without that fee being placed at too high a level.\n\n43. Owing to the fact that the grounds within the Race Course at Wong Nei Chong, which we understand, cannot by Law be enclosed, great difficulty is experienced in keeping these in any sort of condition. Under an Official Keeper on duty, it should be possible to keep these grounds in much better condition. The same, of course, applies to unfenced grounds in King's Park.\n\n44. Grounds that could be made immediately available for this scheme would be\n\n(a) in King's Park\n\narea E, East and West\n\narea F, and F. and area H.\n\n(b) at Wong Nei Chong.\n\nAll grounds within the Race Course subject to agreement of the Combined Services and possibly A,\n\n45. With regard to the grounds now allocated to the Services at Wong Nei Chong, such a scheme should be to the advantage of the Services, since they would bear only the cost of the actual games played and not the total cost of maintenance. The recommendation at (f) in part III should ensure that sufficient allocation is made to the Services to prevent any hardship to the Service man.\n\n46. It is because of problems of the nature set out in the foregoing that we resolved to recommend that a Separate Authority be set up to make allocations. Such an arrangement would leave the Superintendent of Gardens complete freedom to close a ground should he consider it necessary.\n\n47. Moreover, we feel that the Competent Authority must of necessity be an Officer whose daily work touches upon the widest field in Recreation in the Colony, and we therefore recommend that the Organizer of Physical Education, on behalf of the Director of Education, be appointed the said Authority.\n\nVII.\n\nHong Kong Cricket Club.\n\n48. At Appendix V is a copy of a letter received from the President Hong Kong Cricket Club making representations in support of a request that the Club be permitted to retain their present ground. While we realize that there is nothing in this letter which has not been put to, and already considered by Government, we feel that the Club fulfils a more than useful function in the Colony and that, if it were possible to allow it to remain, then, in normal circumstances, this would receive the strongest recommendation from us.\n\n49. We, therefore, unanimously resolved to recommend:\n\n(a) \"that the Hong Kong Cricket Club remain in occupation of their present ground and clubhouse unless, or until, that ground and clubhouse are required for a public purpose, or for the improvement of the Colony.\"\n\n(b) \"if, and when, such requirement arises then this Club shall be offered the portion at the Southern end of the grounds within the Race Course at Wong Nei Chong. We further recommend that if, and when, it appears that the ground may be required the Club should be given at least three years notice.\n\n50. We would emphasize that for over thirty five years, the Colony Open Lawn Tennis Championships, the \"Wimbledon\" of Hong Kong have been organized by the Hong Kong Cricket Club at their ground to the complete satisfaction of everyone.\n\n51. We wish to express the hope that it may be many years before the club will be deprived of this historic ground which is regarded as the \"Home\" of Cricket in the Colony much as \"Lords\" is regarded the \"Home\" of Cricket in England.\n\nVIII.\n\nOther Playgrounds in the Urban Area.\n\n52. Our survey of other recreation areas in the urban area a list of which appears in Appendix VII revealed that these could be classified into 3 main groups.\n\n(a) Those which are maintained by the Superintendent of Gardens.\n\n(b) Those which were formerly allocated to Voluntary Associations, principally the Children's Playground Association.\n\nand (c) Certain special cases such as the King George V Park at Jordan Road, Kowloon, the old G.C.H. site in Hong Kong, and certain other areas.\n\n53. Consideration of the present state of these grounds show one significant characteristic, namely, that all grounds in group (a) were completely rehabilitated in marked contrast to those under (b) and (c) which remain nothing more than hard open spaces. With regard to these latter unrehabilitated grounds, our attention was drawn to the fact that, actually, one only, of these grounds, had been reallocated to the Children's Playground Association since 1945, and we noted that although the Association was erecting a large Recreational Centre on this ground, for the past four years, the ground has in fact remained nothing but an open space. From the evidence submitted for our consideration, we are of the opinion that in the extraordinarily increased population of the Colony and the increased demand extant for outdoor recreation, it is impossible to expect Voluntary Associations to maintain such grounds in good condition and to enforce regulations made for the control of these grounds. It seems to us that the maintenance and policing of such areas should be a Government responsibility in the same way as that responsibility is that of the Local Authority in England and elsewhere.\n\n54. We considered fully the possible effect of the placing of such grounds under official control upon the future of the Voluntary Associations and we feel that, far from discouraging these Associations, such action would, in fact, relieve the Associations of a serious burden, and would enable them to direct their energies along the lines of their proper function which in our view, should be to provide additional facilities, to organize play on the grounds, and to provide the stimulus and the machinery for local residents to take an active interest in their own recreational space. Such placing of these grounds under official control would eliminate the main drawback to problem of maintenance, which under Voluntary Associations depends entirely on the enthusiasm of the personnel responsible. We therefore unanimously recommend as follows:-\n\n\"That all small recreation grounds, Children's Playgrounds, and rest parks in the Urban Area, excluding those under the control of the Hon. the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, or \"S.C.A. Incorporated\", be placed for purposes of maintenance under the same authority as that for pool grounds namely, the Superintendent of Gardens.\"\n\n55. This, in our opinion, has the advantage that all expenditure would then be concentrated under one head. Further, we are of the opinion that, as in the case of the Competent Authority for the allocation of grounds, an Advisory Committee should be set up, to whom the Superintendent of Gardens could turn for assistance and who would be responsible for matters of policy in regard to these grounds. We are of the opinion that the following Government officers should be 'ex officio' members of this Committee:\n\n(a) Chairman, Urban Council.\n\n(b) Director of Education.\n\nand (c) Social Welfare Officer.\n\n284",
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