[ { "id": 237767, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-053 - Public Offices - 1855", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-053 - Public Offices - 1855", "content_text": "From the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne, Ex-Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, and also Ex-Chancellor of Ireland.\n\n1st February, 1851.\n\nFrom the testimonials of the very eminent members of the Munster Circuit in favor of Mr. Mullins and from my knowledge of his character, I have no hesitation in saying that he is eminently qualified to fill the office of Professor of Law, for which, as he informs me, he means to be a candidate.\n\nF. BLACKBURNE, Chief Justice,\n\n[The above testimonial was received from the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne, then Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, and afterwards Lord Chancellor of Ireland, when Mr. Mullins intended to offer himself a candidate for the Professorship of Law then vacant.]\n\nFrom Master Murphy.\n\n24th January, 1850, Chancery Office, Four Courts.\n\nMY DEAR MULLINS-I am happy to be called upon to state my opinion of your professional and private character.\n\nThis I am fully enabled to do, from a long and perfect acquaintance with both having been for many years a fellow-laborer with you on circuit, during which time, as well as since my appointment to my present office, our friendship has always been intimate and uninterrupted. With these means of knowledge, and uninfluenced by any partial impressions which they might naturally create, I can safely undertake the responsibility (for such I do consider it) of strongly recommending your claims to a professional appointment.\n\nYour practice at the bar has, as far as my observation and information can reach, been marked by zeal, diligence, and ability; and, moreover, by gentleman-like bearing, and a high sense of honor and self-respect-I have said information, because I have several times, in your absence, heard the Judges on circuit, and the leading members of our bar, who practised in the Criminal Court, speak in the very highest terms of the manner in which you have conducted the cases entrusted to you; and I know that there were very few persons of whom my lamented and admirable friend, Sir Michael O'Loghlen, entertained a higher opinion, or for whom he felt a more sincere regard.\n\nI am old-fashioned enough to think that literary and classical acquirements may, even in our practical day, have some influence in the selection of persons to fill public appointments when combined with adequate professional knowledge; and if so, your high college reputation, of which you can have no difficulty in procuring testimonials, ought to be of use to you. I will conclude by saying, most sincerely, that upon every ground, public, professional, and personal, you have my earnest wishes for your success in obtaining a suitable appointment, and that you are at liberty to make use of this letter in any way in which you or your friends may deem beneficial.\n\nYour's truly,\n\nJEREMIAH JOHN MURPHY, M.C.\n\nTo Robert Foster Mullins, Esq.\n\nFrom Montifort Longfield, Esq., LL.D. and Q.C., one of the Commissioners for the Sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland.\n\nFitzwilliam-square, February 25th, 1850.\n\nMY DEAR SIR-I feel much pleasure in observing that your success in your profession, and the high opinion entertained of you by our legal brethren correspond with the expectations which your distinguished career in the University led your friends to entertain.\n\nFrom your general attainments, I feel no doubt that you will honorably fill any legal post to which you may be appointed either at home or in one of the Colonies.\n\nI am, dear Sir, your's faithfully,\n\nM. LONGFIELD.\n\nTo R. Foster Mullins, Esq.\n\nFrom Sergeant O'Brien.\n\n22nd January, 1850, 92, Stephen's-green.\n\nMY DEAR MULLINS-I understand that you are about applying for some legal appointment, and I feel great pleasure in stating my opinion of your qualifications for promotion.\n\nOur acquaintance has been one of many years, and the various intercourses I have had with you enable me to add my testimony to that of others as to your legal knowledge and ability, your uniform diligence in your profession, and the correct and honorable manner in which you have acted in the discharge of your business. I am sure your promotion would be a source of gratification to many of your professional friends, and that upon trial you would justify the opinion we have formed of you.\n\nBelieve me, your's sincerely,\n\nJAMES O'BRIEN.\n\nFrom George Bennett, Esq., QC, the Leader of the Munster Circuit.\n\nMerrion-square, 10th January, 1850.\n\nMY DEAR MULLINS-In reply to your wish expressed that I should state my opinion of you as a barrister and gentleman, I have great pleasure in stating that having known you on my circuit for above twelve years,\n\nI can certify to your gentlemanly conduct, your professional diligence and ability, and your correct and efficient discharge of your business, and should feel happy to recommend you for any situation in your profession to which you may look. Indeed I have already given a specimen of my high opinion of you when I recommended you to be employed as one of my assistants in the Crown prosecutions on the Munster Circuit, which I did about four years ago, as well as I recollect. You are quite at liberty to refer any person whatever to me to give you my recommendation, which I will feel a pleasure in doing.\n\nI remain, my dear Mullins, faithfully your's,\n\nGEORGE BENNETT, Q.C., Father of the Munster Bar:\n\nTo Robert Foster Mullins, Esq.\n\nFrom Jonathan Henn, Esq., Q.C.\n\nUpper Merrion-street, 15th January, 1850.\n\nMY DEAR MULLINS-As I have gone the Munster Circuit ever since you joined it and have had ample opportunity of observing your conduct, I feel happy in bearing my testimony to your diligent attention, and to the ability with which you have uniformly discharged your professional duties. I assure you it will give me great pleasure to hear that you have been appointed to some really good situation. I mean such a one as may gratify your own honorable ambition, and as your merits in my opinion entitle you to expect.\n\nBelieve me, very sincerely your's.\n\nJ. HENN.\n\nTo Robert Foster Mullins, Esq.\n\nFrom Henry Martley, Esq., Q.C.\n\n15, Harcourt-street, 25th January, 1850.\n\nMY DEAR MULLINS-You are fully entitled to call upon me for my opinion as to your professional character and qualifications, though it cannot be of any service to you in furthering the object which you have in view-of obtaining a professional appointment from the Government.\n\nI have had the pleasure of meeting you in professional intercourse for many years, and it may be sufficient to say that my experience of your legal attainments and personal character fully accords with the high testimonials you have received from Mr. Bennett and Mr. Henn-men whose good opinion, whatever may be your fortunes in life, you may be justly proud of having acquired.\n\nI have no doubt you will discharge the duties of any office to which you may be appointed with efficiency and advantage to the public, and I regret that I can contribute to your success only by my good opinion and good wishes.\n\nBelieve me, my dear Mullins, your's very faithfully,\n\nHENRY MARTLEY.\n\nTo R. Foster Mullins, Esq.\n\nFrom Gerald Fitzgibbon, Esq., Q.C.\n\nJanuary 25th, 1850.\n\nMY DEAR MULLINS--I have had the pleasure of knowing you at the bar, both as a friend and a lawyer, almost since you were called to the profession, and have been concerned in cases with you. I should feel it much easier to express the opinion which I entertain of you to any other person than yourself. I can very truly say that I know very few of your standing at the bar, better qualified as to professional acquirements, and none superior in moral and gentlemanly deportment to you. It is due to you, and to those who have to select from our profession, persons of ability and integrity for public offices to express the result of my intercourse with you, and I do so with perfect confidence, that you will do credit to the judgment of those who may appoint you to any office requiring legal ability and moral integrity in the person filling it.\n\nI am, my dear Mullins, very sincerely yours,\n\nGERALD FITZGIBBON,\n\n29, Upper Gloucester-street.\n\nTo Robert Foster Mullins, Esq.\n\nFrom the Hon. John Plunket, Q.C.\n\n30, Upper Fitzwilliam-street, January 19, 1850.\n\nMY DEAR MULLINS-I am very glad to hear you are likely to get promotion, and with great pleasure add my testimonial to the many you have already got of your qualifications as a lawyer and a gentleman.\n\nThe very great distinction with which you passed through the University is the best evidence of your abilities, in addition to which, from twelve or thirteen years acquaintance at the bar, I can answer for your continued attention, good temper, and good sense. I have no doubt that you will perform the duties of whatever office you may get with credit to yourself, and in every respect to the satisfaction of those who may appoint you. With best wishes for your success believe me always,\n\nVery truly your's,\n\nJOHN PLUNKET.\n\nTo Robert Foster Mullins, Esq., Barrister-at-law.\n\nFrom the Rev. Thomas Luby, D.D., Regius Professor of Greek, and Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.\n\nTrinity College, Dublin, December 17th, 1849.\n\nI have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. R. F. Mullins, Barrister-at-law, for many years during his course through College.\n\nFROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END HIS COLLEGE CAREER WAS MARKED BY DISTINCTIONS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. He obtained first place at entrance, several First-Class Classical honors, FIRST OF THE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS, and A GOLD MEDAL AND ETHICAL MODERATORSHIP AT HIS DEGREE EXAMINATION. His character, religious and moral, always appeared to me quite unexceptionable, and his conduct most gentleman-like and exemplary.\n\nI feel assured from my knowledge of him, that in whatever official position he may be placed, he will discharge its duties with ability and efficiency.\n\nTHOMAS LUBY, D.D., Senior Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin.\n\nTo R. F. Mullins, Esq., 17, Great Charles-street.\n\nFrom the Rev. George Sidney Smith, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.\n\nDecember 13th, 1849.\n\nI had abundant opportunities of knowing the conduct and character of Mr. Robert Foster Mullins (now a member of the Irish bar), having been his College Tutor during his residence in the University of Dublin, a period of seven years.\n\nHe distinguished himself from the first by obtaining the highest honors. His place at entrance marked him as the most prominent Classical Scholar of his Class; this character he maintained by carrying off successive prizes until the Scholarship Examination, when he achieved the high distinction of the first Scholarship.\n\nSubsequently he obtained a Moderatorship and Medal at his Degree Examination in Logical and Ethical Science.\n\nI have pleasure in adding that the conduct of Mr. Mullins was marked by great diligence, regularity, sobriety of deportment, and moral principle during his honorable College career.\n\nGEORGE SIDNEY SMITH, D.D., formerly Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin.\n\nTo R. F. Mullins, Esq., 17, Great Charles-street.\n\nFrom the Rev. James H. Todd, D.D., Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.\n\nI have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. R. F. Mullins during his residence in the University, where he distinguished himself by obtaining many of the highest Undergraduate honors.\n\nHis character as a gentleman, and as a religious and conscientious man, won him the esteem and respect of all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.\n\nJAMES H. TODD, D.D., Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin,\n\nTo R. F. Mullins, Esq., 17, Great Charles-street.\n\nFrom the Rev. S. Butcher, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity, and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.\n\nTrinity College, Dublin, December 24th, 1849.\n\nI have had the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with Mr. R. F. Mullins, Barrister-at-law, since the period when he first entered the University of Dublin.\n\nHis University career has been one of very eminent distinction. At the Entrance Examination he obtained the first place; at the subsequent Term Examinations he was equally successful, having obtained several Classical Honors of the First Class.\n\nHe was the first of the University Scholars in his year, and at his Degree Examination came out with an Ethical Moderatorship of the highest Class, and a Gold Medal.\n\nHis moral conduct I have always regarded as most exemplary, and in his deportment I have always found him most strictly correct and gentleman-like.\n\nFrom all that I know of his attainments and character, I feel satisfied that the duties of any official station in which Mr. Mullins might be placed, would be discharged by him with credit to himself and advantage to others.\n\nS. BUTCHER, D.D., Fellow and Tutor, Trinity College, Dublin.\n\nTo R. F. Mullins, Esq., 17, Great Charles-street.\n\n519", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-053 - Public Offices - 1855.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276846, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 146, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "Copy of Letter addressed by the Church Missionary Society to Lord Stanley.\n\nCHURCH MISSIONARY HOUSE,\n\nSALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.,\n\nDecember 4, 1866.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nThe Committee of the Church Missionary Society most respectfully submit to your Lordship that they have proposed to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury the consecration of a Bishop by Her Majesty's Licence, under the Act commonly called the Jerusalem Act, 5 Vict., cap. 6, for the benefit of Missionaries and Native Clergymen of the Church of England residing in the northern parts of China.\n\nThe Archbishop entirely concurs with the Society in the desirableness of this measure.\n\nHitherto Clergymen in the north of China have been placed under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Victoria at Hong Kong, under the provisions of an Order in Council, May 1, 1848, which directs that all Her Majesty's subjects in Holy Orders, within the dominion of the Emperor of China, shall be subject to the authority and jurisdiction of the See of Victoria, and the Bishop thereof, in the same manner as if they were resident within the Island of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Society has several Missionaries labouring at Ningpo, which is 750 miles from Hong Kong, and at Pekin, which is 1500 miles from Hong Kong. Such distances preclude the efficient superintendence of these Missions by the Bishop of Victoria.\n\nIt appears further to the Committee essential to the progress of these Missions that they should have a resident Bishop, and further that he should be acquainted with the dialect of the country, which a Bishop of Victoria will never be likely to acquire.\n\nThe Committee of the Church Missionary Society therefore humbly pray that Her Majesty will be pleased to modify the Order in Council, May 1, 1848, so as to release the British subjects in Holy Orders in the parts of China north of 28° north latitude from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Victoria. And that Her Majesty will also give Her Royal Licence, under the provisions of the Act 5 Vict., cap. 6, to the Archbishop of Canterbury to consecrate a Bishop to exercise episcopal functions in the parts of China and Japan north of 28° north latitude.\n\nThe Committee of the Church Missionary Society would further humbly submit the name of the Rev. W. A. Russell, M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, as the person to be consecrated such a Bishop, he having laboured with much success in the Mission at Ningpo for nineteen years, and having acquired great influence and a perfect knowledge of the language.\n\nWe are, MY LORD,\n\nYour Lordship's obedient servants,\n\nCHICHESTER, President.\n\nHENRY VENN, Secretary.\n\nTo the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P., Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c. &c.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nCopy of Reply of Lord Stanley,\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nDecember 8, 1866.\n\nI am directed by Lord Stanley to acknowledge the receipt, through your Lordship, of a Memorial from the Church Missionary Society, stating the grounds on which the Society desire to obtain Her Majesty's Licence for the consecration of a Bishop to exercise Episcopal functions in the parts of China and Japan, north of 28° north latitude, and\n\n* The degree of 27° North latitude was first proposed, but 28° will leave the whole of the province of Fokien under the superintendence of the Bishop of Victoria.\n\nPage 144\n\n \nbecomes \n\n \n\nCopy of Letter addressed by the Church Missionary Society to Lord Stanley.\n\nCHURCH MISSIONARY HOUSE,\n\nSALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.,\n\nDecember 4, 1866.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nThe Committee of the Church Missionary Society most respectfully submit to your Lordship that they have proposed to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury the consecration of a Bishop by Her Majesty's Licence, under the Act commonly called the Jerusalem Act, 5 Vict., cap. 6, for the benefit of Missionaries and Native Clergymen of the Church of England residing in the northern parts of China.\n\nThe Archbishop entirely concurs with the Society in the desirableness of this measure.\n\nHitherto Clergymen in the north of China have been placed under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Victoria at Hong Kong, under the provisions of an Order in Council, May 1, 1848, which directs that all Her Majesty's subjects in Holy Orders, within the dominion of the Emperor of China, shall be subject to the authority and jurisdiction of the See of Victoria, and the Bishop thereof, in the same manner as if they were resident within the Island of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Society has several Missionaries labouring at Ningpo, which is 750 miles from Hong Kong, and at Pekin, which is 1500 miles from Hong Kong. Such distances preclude the efficient superintendence of these Missions by the Bishop of Victoria.\n\nIt appears further to the Committee essential to the progress of these Missions that they should have a resident Bishop, and further that he should be acquainted with the dialect of the country, which a Bishop of Victoria will never be likely to acquire.\n\nThe Committee of the Church Missionary Society therefore humbly pray that Her Majesty will be pleased to modify the Order in Council, May 1, 1848, so as to release the British subjects in Holy Orders in the parts of China north of 28° north latitude from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Victoria. And that Her Majesty will also give Her Royal Licence, under the provisions of the Act 5 Vict., cap. 6, to the Archbishop of Canterbury to consecrate a Bishop to exercise episcopal functions in the parts of China and Japan north of 28° north latitude.\n\nThe Committee of the Church Missionary Society would further humbly submit the name of the Rev. W. A. Russell, M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, as the person to be consecrated such a Bishop, he having laboured with much success in the Mission at Ningpo for nineteen years, and having acquired great influence and a perfect knowledge of the language.\n\nWe are, MY LORD,\n\nYour Lordship's obedient servants,\n\nCHICHESTER, President.\n\nHENRY VENN, Secretary.\n\nTo the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P., Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c. &c.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nCopy of Reply of Lord Stanley,\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nDecember 8, 1866.\n\nI am directed by Lord Stanley to acknowledge the receipt, through your Lordship, of a Memorial from the Church Missionary Society, stating the grounds on which the Society desire to obtain Her Majesty's Licence for the consecration of a Bishop to exercise Episcopal functions in the parts of China and Japan, north of 28° north latitude, and\n\n* The degree of 27° North latitude was first proposed, but 28° will leave the whole of the province of Fokien under the superintendence of the Bishop of Victoria.\n\n \nPage 2\n\n \n\nPage 3\n\n \n\n144", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303318, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "content_text": "## Names and Addresses\n\nNateston-W. \nKirkword-W.G. \nGoldberg Mr. J. \nجو \nSadler Herbert \nShaw 9.7. \nJackson W.. \nMaclean James \nRoosmalacomp. A. 1. \nE \n\n3 Reddiffe Street \nS. Kensington \nMontpelier Villa \nHunton Hostle Park \nIlfracombe \nDevon \n\nWest Malling. \nKent \n32 Manor Street \nClapham-SW. \nTrinity College \nDublin \n) Almorah Crescent \n15 Helier \nJersey. \nHyster Hell. \nN. B. \n15- South Villas \nCamden Square \nN.W. \n\n## Letter\n\nI have written \n4th. 4. C.ll.;, please Monday \nme our hat corrected. \n\nRE \neast \nEIVE \n0.0. \n13 AUG 1878 \nyou \n307 \nAugust 12th 1878: \nshould wish. \nand me any communication \nthe subject of the laglon luil \n-camnation for which I am candidate \nI beg to inform, on \nnotice \nif my address is \nmy \nMontpelier Villa Hostle Park \nIlfracombe. \nI am Sir, \nyour obedient servant. \nKirkword. \n\n## Addressed To\n\nThe Colonial Secretary, \n8.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310731, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "GENTLEMEN,\n\nFrom J. K. Peck, Esq., Barrister at Law.\n\nLINCOLN'S INN,\n\n26 April, 1877.\n\nI am requested by my friend Mr. EDWARD HUME—who is a candidate for the office of your Secretary—to state what I know of his qualifications for such an employment. I do this with sincere pleasure. Mr. HUME was a pupil in my Chambers before his call to the Bar, in 1867, and was very useful to me; and since that time I have occasionally had the benefit of his assistance as a conveyancer. I think him well adapted by his ability, steady business habits, and legal training, for fulfilling the duties—as described in your circular—of the vacant office. And I am sure that you could not select a man whose character and disposition would render him more universally and deservedly acceptable to all brought into business or social relations with him.\n\nThe Governing Body,\n\nI am Gentlemen,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJ. K. PECK.\n\nWinchester College.\n\nP.S. The fact that Mr. Hume left the Bar for some time with the view of becoming a solicitor—whilst it has perhaps retarded his progress as a Barrister—may be considered to have increased his business capacities by the wider experience he must thus have gained.\n\nGENTLEMEN,\n\nFrom Messrs. Clabon and Fearon, Solicitors.\n\n21, ST. GEORGE STREET, WESTMINSTER, 2nd May, 1877.\n\nWe have much pleasure in stating our belief that Mr. EDWARD HUME, of Lincoln's Inn, who is a candidate for the post of Secretary to Winchester College, would be a most fit person for the office.\n\nFrom the fact that he has had professional experience both as a barrister and solicitor, in the former of which capacities we have had personal experience of his competency, we are satisfied that he will be found specially fitted to manage such of the business affairs of the College as will fall within the scope of his duties, if your choice falls on him.\n\nTo the Governing Body,\n\nWinchester College.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour most obedient servants,\n\nCLABON AND FEARON.\n\nFrom Rev. G. G. Bradley, D.D., Master of University College, Oxford.\n\nTo the Governing Body of Winchester College,\n\nGENTLEMEN,\n\nFrom Rev. S. W. Wayte, M.A., President of Trinity College, Oxford.\n\nTRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, 26th April, 1877.\n\nMr. EDWARD HUME was well known to me while he was in residence at this college, at which he took his degree in 1864. I believe him to be well qualified to fulfil the duties of the office which he is now seeking to obtain. He is ready and intelligent, his manners and address are pleasing, and he is, as I believe, a man of sound and right principles. His ability is such as would enable him to discharge the duties of the office for which he is a candidate in a manner that would, I believe, give full satisfaction to those with whom he would be connected.\n\nTo the Governing Body,\n\nWinchester College.\n\nS. W. WAYTE.\n\nMY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,\n\nFrom F. T. Procter, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.\n\n23, OLD SQUARE,\n\nLINCOLN'S INN, May 7th, 1877.\n\nI understand that my friend Mr. EDWARD HUME is a candidate for the post of Secretary to Winchester College, and as I have experienced the value of his services to me as a conveyancer, and the worth of his character as a man, I feel that I have had exceptional means of judging of his capabilities for any office in which a clear intellect, combined with methodical exactness and sterling moral qualities, are indispensable.\n\nI have known Mr. Hume now for some 13 or 14 years, in fact since he commenced studying for the Bar, and from the assistance he has given me from time to time in my work, as well as from seeing him on business matters connected with a firm who were clients of mine when he was intending to be a Solicitor, with a view to entering that Firm, I have formed a very high opinion of his ability, perseverance, and powers of conscientious work.\n\nI have read the paper showing what duties are expected from the Secretary, and I have no hesitation in expressing my opinion that if the Governing Body were to elect him, they would find him fully competent to perform them.\n\nWith regard to his moral and social qualities, which I assume will have some weight in the choice of the Governing Body, I cannot find words to express my sense of his goodness, his honour, and amiability of disposition, and I might also add, that I know of no one more universally popular with men, and more likely to be a favourite with every one with whom he may be brought into contact, whether they be men or boys, if he were to be chosen Secretary.\n\nUNIVERSITY COLLEGE,\n\nOXFORD,\n\n3rd May, 1877.\n\nMr. EDWARD HUME was educated at Marlborough, which he left two years after my own appointment to the Mastership.\n\nHe bore a very high character at School which he has fully maintained in after life, and from all that I know and have heard of his ability, high principle, and manner, I should strongly recommend him for the post for which he is a candidate.\n\nG.G. BRADLEY.\n\nTo the Governing Body\n\nof Winchester College,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,\n\nYours faithfully, FREDERICK TOWNSEND PROCTER.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458282, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 375, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "Copy.\n\nAny further communication on the subject of this letter should be addressed\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nHOME OFFICE,\n\nLONDON, S.W.,\n\nand the following number quoted —\n\n5, 477.\n\n371\n\n11263\n\nREG 8 MARIE\n\nHOME OFFICE,\n\nWHITEHALL.\n\n3rd February, 1915.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State to say that his attention has been drawn to a shipment of 13 cases of umbrella frames which were carried on your steamer \"Belgown\" from Rotterdam on the 26th ultimo. The goods, it is understood, are admittedly of German origin.\n\nI am to draw your attention to paragraph 6 (?) of the Trading with the Enemy Proclamation of the 9th December last and to say that before taking any action in this matter the Secretary of State is ready to consider any explanation you may desire to offer.\n\nI am,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nGeneral Steam Navigation Company, Limited,\n\n10, Trinity Square,\n\nBlackwall, E.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458283, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 376, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "*** 4077/4.\n\nA copy.\n\n372\n\nThe General Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.,\n\n15, Trinity Square,\n\nLondon,\n\nFebruary 26, 1915.\n\n11269\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nHOME OFFICE, Whitehall,\n\nREC REG & MAR 15\n\nSir,\n\nIn accordance with the request contained in your letter of the 23rd instant, C.477, ** we have made enquiries about the shipment of 13 cases Umbrellas Frames which arrived by our s.s. \"Balgownie\" from Rotterdam on the 4th ulto. These goods formed part of a consignment shipped from Amsterdam by Messrs. J.K. van Ummersen acting as agent for The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, by which Company's steamer the goods were to be re-exported from London. Upon the Thames Union Lighterage Company presenting the necessary clearance papers at the Custom House the Lighterage Company received the information that the goods would not be passed, for the reason that the goods were of German origin and that no Consular certificate had been forwarded with the Bill of Lading for their release.\n\nThe goods are now on land at Irongate Warehouse's yard under stop by the Customs in accordance with instructions and are the various documents in connection with the parcel.\n\nWe have reported the circumstance to Messrs. Smith & Van Ummersen, the company's Agents at Rotterdam, whom we have also informed that the goods are lying at Irongate Wharf at the risk and expense of whom it may concern.\n\nWe are,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nT. & J. MACLEOD\n\nJ. Macalister,\n\nDirector.\n\nWe would mention that we had no knowledge of the goods being on board our steamer \"Balgownie\" until the vessel arrived.\n\nPage 372\n\n \n(Three lines at the top and bottom indicating page number are kept as is, assuming they represent page metadata)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469752, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 626, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "18\n\nIn the last year under review, the following countries were the principal consumers:—\n\nUnited States\n\nUnited Kingdom\n\nBritish India\n\nHong Kong\n\nAustralasia\n\nChina\n\n£\n\n272,000\n\n25,000\n\n38,000\n\n25,000\n\n42,000\n\n36,000\n\nThe manufacture of cigars is the sole manufacturing industry of the Philippines. Up to the end of 1880, the manufacture of cigars was a monopoly of the Spanish Government. After January 1st, 1881, private factories were established, all of them at first being Spanish. German enterprise began in 1883 when the \"El Oriente\" Factory was founded, and has since extended to two or three other well-known concerns, including the \"Alhambra.\" There are only two British-owned cigar factories in Manila, neither of them being of great importance.\n\nPosition of the Chinese. The total number of Chinese in the islands is not more than 50,000 to 60,000, but the wholesale trade, both domestic and foreign, is controlled by them, and they occupy, under American rule, a status little below that of the whites. By the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1902, their immigration was forbidden in accordance with the expressed desire of the Filipinos, who knew full well that the industrious Chinese coolie would lower wages and force them into activity for an existence. This policy of exclusion, while in accordance with the expressed American policy of \"the Philippines for the Filipinos,\" has nevertheless seriously retarded the economic development of the country. The native Filipinos, largely of Malay descent, have inherited the supine, indolent characteristics of their progenitors, and are of very little value as labourers. The more active portion of the community comprises the \"Mestizos,\" or half-breeds, descended from Spanish or Chinese fathers and native mothers. They are more intelligent and energetic than the Filipinos, but their general character is evasive and vacillating. The Chinese merchant is the backbone of the trading community, and it is to be regretted that he is not present in greater numbers.\n\nThe exclusion of the Chinese, the indolence and scarcity of efficient native labour, and the somewhat prodigal expenditure of the average American citizen, have caused a very considerable rise in the cost of living since the American occupation. Wages have increased enormously, and this fact has reacted adversely on the energy of the Filipinos, and labour is scarcer than ever. It is the settled opinion of competent observers throughout the Far East that no investment in mines or agriculture in the islands will be of any great value until the introduction of Chinese labour is not only permitted but encouraged. Should their exclusion remain in force beyond the present generation, there is little doubt that it will have a marked adverse effect on the activity of the people.\n\nBritish Activity in the Islands. Although the ratio of the trade of the islands with the United Kingdom, as compared with the United States, has rapidly declined since the American occupation, and particularly since the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909, the actual transaction of the foreign commerce still remains largely in the hands of those powerful and old-established British houses whose foundation dates from the times of the Spanish régime. The three most powerful British firms in the Philippines are:-\n\nKer & Co., of Manila, Iloilo and Cebu (Ker, Bolton & Co., 7, East India Avenue, E.C.).\n\nSmith, Bell & Co., Ltd., Iloilo and Cebu (Smith, Wood & Co., 3 & 4, Lime Street Square, E.C.).\n\nW. F. Stevenson & Co., Ltd., Iloilo and Cebu (W. F. Stevenson & Co., 40, Trinity Square, E.C.).\n\nThe above-mentioned houses are the largest shippers of hemp and sugar from the islands, and also transact a large share of the trade in imports and the general agency business.\n\nMessrs. Forbes, Munn & Co., Ltd., of Manila, Iloilo and Cebu, and 167, Gresham House, Old Broad Street, E.C., are mainly concerned with the trade in imported manufactures, notably cotton piece goods and yarns, hardware and metals.\n\n49\n\nMessrs. Findlay, Richardson & Co., Ltd., of Manila, Iloilo, and 34, West George Street, Glasgow, specialise on imports of textiles, machinery and hardware, and also manage the Findlay-Millar Timber Company, the Findlay-Millar Steamship Company, and the Kolambugan Lumber and Development Company.\n\nMessrs. Wise & Co., Ltd., of Manila and Iloilo, and of 8, Gore Street, Piccadilly, Manchester, confine their attentions to the import trade in cotton piece goods and miscellaneous sundries, and also hold the agency for one of the cigar factories.\n\nMessrs. Warner Barnes & Co., Ltd., of Manila, Iloilo, and Cebu (London agents, Messrs. Ledward, Bibby & Co., 10, Mincing Lane, E.C.), are also largely interested in the import trade, and can safely be recommended to British exporters.\n\nBranches of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, are established at Manila, Iloilo, and Cebu. Among other British interests may be counted the Manila Railway Co. (1906), Ltd., with its London office at 9, New Broad Street. This company obtains a considerable proportion of its supplies of material and rolling stock from the United Kingdom.\n\nGerman Competition.--It will be remarked, from the statistics on page 43, that the trade in German manufactures has increased steadily during the past five years or so, and this may be attributed to the influx of German merchants into the islands of late years. The competition of local German firms is to be found principally in the import trade, there being only one German house of any importance engaged in the produce business. The principal German houses in Manila are:-\n\nMessrs. Behn, Meyer & Co. (also at Iloilo and Cebu).\n\nFroehlich & Kuttner (also at Iloilo and Cebu).\n\nGermann & Co. (also at Iloilo).\n\nSchmidt & Ziegler.\n\nSchulz & Co.\n\nStruckmann & Co.\n\nViegelmann & Co. (also at Iloilo).\n\nThese and other houses have conducted a general business, and have distributed British, German and American productions.\n\nThe principal German goods imported were:-\n\n(a) Soft Goods.-Haberdashery, socks, underwear, plush, velvets, &c.\n\n(b) Hardware. Electrical supplies, machinery, hardware, metals and chemicals.\n\nAs regards heavy machinery, involving long credits, support was frequently given by the manufacturers in Germany, financed by German home banks. This procedure has not been followed by either British or American manufacturers. Were British manufacturers to adopt this plan in the case of, say, sugar centrals, they would no doubt be in a better position to secure orders, but it is essential that they should be represented on the spot by technical experts to advise foreign native buyers, to supervise erection, and to estimate possible risks. There is almost certain to be a development in sugar machinery in the future, but it is clear that the erection of plant, payment for which depends largely upon the result of the crops, is attended by great risk of delay in recovering the outlay, and for this reason, the British exchange banks have not considered it advisable to make advances for such business.\n\nIn Manila, as elsewhere throughout the world, German merchants, notably Behn, Meyer & Co., have deliberately extended the terms of credit granted in the import trade. The result has, undoubtedly, been a considerable extension in the volume of the business done, but there is no doubt whatever that, in dealing with Chinese and Orientals generally (who are gamblers to a man), the system is unsound, dangerous, and a direct encouragement to overtrading. Those in favour of the system frequently assert that it pays in the long run, but only those firms with ample resources can afford to weather stormy times, and the significant fact remains that those firms which employ their own funds are not, as a rule, those which grant long credits. German houses control the management of two or three of the most important cigar factories in Manila, and also export leaf tobacco in considerable quantities to Germany, Spain and Austria. (The total export of this article in 1913 reached a total of 400,000l., of which 300,000l. was taken by Spain.) There are several German retail stores in Manila, some of which are controlled by the large import firms. The Germans also virtually monopolised the retail drug trade, but since the war, a British pharmacy has been started with local capital.\n\nA 2687\n\nG\n\n621", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522812, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-3 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-4-1930 - 20-11-1930", "page_number": 97, "title": "CO129-521-3 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-4-1930 - 20-11-1930", "content_text": "The Treasury Solicitor,\n\nThe Treasury,\n\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\nDear Sir,\n\n97\n\n40, Trinity Square,\n\nLondon, E.C.3.\n\n24th June 1930.\n\nChina Navigation Company Limited\n\nV\n\nHis Majesty's Attorney General\n\nWe have issued the above writ on the instructions of\n\nour clients in order, if possible, to get an early judicial\n\ndecision upon the legal aspect of the differences of view\n\nbetween our clients and His Majesty's Government in connection\n\nwith the necessary protection of merchant shipping in Chinese\n\nwaters against pirates. The state of affairs prevailing there\n\nis and has been for many years very serious, and it is a grave\n\npublic question whether the kind of protection now being\n\noffered by His Majesty's Government is sufficient.\n\nBut there\n\nare some definite legal disagreements which ought to be\n\ncleared up forthwith. His Majesty's Government has been\n\ninsisting, as the price of whatever protection they are willing\n\nto provide, on certain stipulations as to payment and otherwise\n\nwhich in our clients' submission are unconstitutional and\n\nillegal, and against which our clients have protested, when\n\nmaking the payments demanded. We therefore venture to ask\n\nthe assistance of His Majesty's Attorney-General in expediting\n\nthe case so as to enable the Court to dispose of it before the\n\nLong Vacation. A large section of the British Mercantile\n\ncommunity is vitally interested in anti-piracy protection, and\n\nit would be a boon to them if the Departments concerned could\n\nhelp in disposing of the case quickly.\n\nWe have chosen the\n\npresent form of procedure largely with a view to expedition,\n\nand our clients will be glad to agree to any reasonable and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-3 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-4-1930 - 20-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522815, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-3 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-4-1930 - 20-11-1930", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-521-3 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-4-1930 - 20-11-1930", "content_text": "Jul 45\n\nSecret\n\nm\n\n72724/30\n\nTHE PLAINTIFFS CLAIM is for\n\n100\n\n(1) A declaration that the stipulations for the provision of protection against and for the prevention of piracy imposed or sought to be imposed on the Plaintiffs by a letter addressed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to Messrs. John Swire & Sons Limited and dated 18th March 1930 and by letters addressed in Hong-Kong by Commodore Hill acting for and on behalf of the Crown to the said Messrs. John Swire & Sons Limited and dated 19th and 28th March 1930 and by Mr. C.G. Ammon M.P. Financial and Parliamentary Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and other representatives of the Crown verbally at an interview with Mr. G.W. Swire on the 24th March 1930 are illegal and unenforceable against the Plaintiffs and void\n\n(2) A declaration that the Plaintiffs are under no obligation to make any of the payments to or for the use of the Crown for which the said stipulations provide\n\n(3) A declaration that the Plaintiffs have been and are under no obligation to make any payment to or for the use of the Crown in respect of the protection afforded by the Crown to shipping and the lives and property thereon against the dangers of piracy in Chinese and neighbouring waters\n\n(4) A declaration that in existing conditions and so long as and whenever in the view of the Crown such protection against pirates is required, the Plaintiffs are entitled to enjoy the same without making any specific payments therefor\n\n(5) Such other declaration and relief as to the Court may seem fit.\n\nThis Writ was issued by THOMPSON QUARRELL & ATTNEAVE of and whose Address for Service is 40 Trinity Square, London, E.C.3. Solicitors for the said Plaintiffs, whose registered office is situate at No. 8 Billiter Square in the City of London.\n\nxd\n\nPL\n\nGLI\n\nPage 100\n\nPage 101", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-3 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-4-1930 - 20-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522978, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931", "content_text": "140\n\nCompany, trading in the waters aforesaid, and has enforced payment therefor in accordance with the decisions above mentioned, and the Crown further intends to exact payment as aforesaid for the whole cost of protection, whether of the said military kind or under the aforesaid elaborated scheme of police protection, from the shipowners, including the Plaintiffs trading in the said waters.\n\n13. The Plaintiffs do not dispute the executive discretion of the Crown in discharge of its duties towards its subjects in connection with the prevention of and protection against piracy in the aforesaid waters to decide what measures should be taken for the purpose but they contend that the Crown is not entitled without the sanction of Parliament to demand payment of the cost of such measures nor are the Plaintiffs under obligation to make such payments. In the premises the Crown has in the Plaintiffs' submission illegally exacted and is illegally demanding payment from the Plaintiffs for the cost of measures taken and to be taken for the prevention of and for protection against piracy and is levying money for the use of the Crown without statutory or other authority so to do.\n\nAND THE PLAINTIFFS CLAIM:-\n\n(1) A declaration that the stipulations for the provision of protection against and for the prevention of piracy imposed or sought to be imposed on the Plaintiffs by a letter addressed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to Messrs. John Swire and Sons Limited and dated 18th March 1930 and by letters addressed in Hong Kong by Commodore Hill acting for and on behalf of the Crown to the said Messrs. John Swire and Sons Limited and dated 19th and 28th March and 11th May 1930 and by Mr. C. G. Ammon M.P. Financial and Parliamentary Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and other representatives of the Crown verbally at an interview with Mr. G. W. Swire on the 24th March 1930 are illegal and unenforceable against the Plaintiffs and void.\n\n(2) A declaration that the Plaintiffs are under no obligation to make any of the payments to or for the use of the Crown for which the said stipulations provide,\n\n(3) A declaration that the Plaintiffs have been and are under no obligation to make any payment to or for the use of the Crown in respect of the protection afforded by the Crown to shipping and the lives and property thereon\n\n5\n\nagainst the dangers of piracy in Chinese and neighbouring waters.\n\n(4) A declaration that, in existing conditions and so long as and whenever in the view of the Crown such protection against pirates is required, the Plaintiffs are entitled to enjoy the same without making any specific payments therefor.\n\n(5) Such further or other declaration or relief as to this Honourable Court may seem fit.\n\nVALENTINE HOLMES.\n\nDelivered this 30th day of July 1930 by THOMPSON, QUARRELL & ATTNEAVE of 40 Trinity Square E.C.3 Plaintiffs' Solicitors.\n\n141", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522979, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931", "content_text": "142\n\n1930.-C. No. 2497.\n\nIn the High Court of Justice.\n\nKING'S BENCH DIVISION.\n\nFos. 24.\n\nCHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED\n\nH.M. ATTORNEY-GENERAL.\n\nStatement of Claim\n\nTHOMPSON, QUARRELL & ATTNEAVE,\n\n40, Trinity Square,\n\n4752-48307\n\nLondon, E.C.3. Plaintiffs' Solicitors.\n\nWITHERBY & CO., PRINTERS, LONDON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523037, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931", "content_text": "The Treasury Solicitor,\n\nThe Treasury,\n\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\n40, Trinity Square,\n\nLondon, E.C.3.\n\n24th June, 1930.\n\nDear Sir,\n\n216\n\nChina Navigation Company Limited\n\n-V-\n\nHis Majesty's Attorney General.\n\nWe have issued the above writ on the instructions of our clients in order, if possible, to get an early judicial decision upon the legal aspect of the differences of view between our clients and His Majesty's Government in connection with the necessary protection of merchant shipping in Chinese waters against pirates.\n\nThe state of affairs prevailing there is and has been for many years very serious, and it is a grave public question whether the kind of protection now being offered by His Majesty's Government is sufficient. But there are some definite legal disagreements which ought to be cleared up forthwith.\n\nHis Majesty's Government has been insisting, as the price of whatever protection they are willing to provide, on certain stipulations as to payment and otherwise which in our clients' submission are unconstitutional and illegal, and against which our clients have protested, when making the payments demanded. We therefore venture to ask the assistance of His Majesty's Attorney-General in expediting the case so as to enable the Court to dispose of it before the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523040, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931", "content_text": "219 END\n\nTHE PLAINTIFFS CLAIM is for\n\n(1) A declaration that the stipulations for the provision of protection against and for the prevention of piracy imposed or sought to be imposed on the Plaintiffs by a letter addressed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to Messrs. John Swire & Sons Limited and dated 18th March 1930 and by letters addressed in Hong-Kong by Commodore Hill acting for and on behalf of the Crown to the said Messrs. John Swire & Sons Limited and dated 19th and 8th March 1930 and by Mr. C.G. Ammon, P. Financial and Parliamentary Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and other representatives of the Crown verbally at an interview with Mr. W.W. Swire on the 24th March 1930 are illegal and unenforceable against the Plaintiffs and void\n\n(2) A declaration that the Plaintiffs are under no obligation to make any of the payments to or for the use of the Crown for which the said stipulations provide.\n\n(3) A declaration that the Plaintiffs have been and are under no obligation to make any payment to or for the use of the Crown in respect of the protection afforded by the Crown to shipping and the lives and property thereon against the dangers of piracy in Chinese and neighbouring waters\n\n(4) A declaration that in existing conditions and so long as and whenever in the view of the Crown such protection against pirates is required, the Plaintiffs are entitled to enjoy the same without making any specific payments therefor\n\n(5) Such other declaration and relief as to the Court may seem fit.\n\nThis writ was issued by THOMPSON QUARRELL & ATTNEAVE of and whose Address for Service is 40 Trinity Square, London, E.C.3. Solicitors for the said Plaintiffs, whose registered office is situate at No. 8 Billiter Square in the City of London.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 538203, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-13 Grant of land to Chinese Anglian Church Body 17-11-1933 - 17-11-1933", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-545-13 Grant of land to Chinese Anglian Church Body 17-11-1933 - 17-11-1933", "content_text": "No.574.\n\n**RECEIVED**\n16 DEC 1933\n\nC. O. RECY\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG.**\n\n`A m 92691/52 (6)` : \n(mens)\n\nL.\n\nSir,\n\n17th November, 1933.\n\nI have the honour to request your sanction to the grant to the Chinese Anglican Church Body (in this case, successors to the Church Missionary Society) of an area of land amounting to 35,500 square feet shown on the enclosed plan, in exchange for Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1156.\n\nKowloon Inland Lot No.1156, on which stands Holy Trinity Church, was originally granted on a restrictive lease to the Church Missionary Society without premium at a nominal Crown Rent of one dollar per annum. The new lot will be subject to the same conditions. A copy of the terms, which have been accepted by the lessees, is enclosed.\n\nA sum of $12,548, being the value of the existing Church buildings is payable in accordance with the terms of the Crown Lease of Kowloon Inland Lot No.1156, and funds to meet this payment have been provided in the supplementary estimates for 1933, which accompanied my despatch No. 304 of 26th May, 1933.\n\nThe new site is considerably larger than the old, but in recommending the grant I have taken into consideration the fact that the compensation payable will \n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.**\n&C., \n&C., \n&C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-13 Grant of land to Chinese Anglian Church Body 17-11-1933 - 17-11-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]