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        "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844",
        "content_text": "Penalty. \n\nExemptions. \n\nTepos to send in returns when called \n\nfor, \n\nReturn to be made by Householders. \n\nFees. \n\nBoars &c. to be re- gistered, \n\nBoat fee. \n\nPenalty on Boat owners &c. \n\nMasters of Chinese vessels to report them- Belves. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained That if any person liable to be registered under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be found residing in the said Colony for the space of 24 hours without having been registered he shall be liable to a penalty of not more than 20 dollars. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to persons employed on board Ships of War or to Officers or Seamen belonging to Merchant Vessels lying in the harbour or roads of Victoria who provious to landing shall obtain from the Master or said Officer in charge of the said vessels leave to go ashore in writing under his hand. \n\nPenalty on preceed. ing. \n\nPenalty on Evasion of this ordinance. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained that all headmen or Tepos shall be bound to give a return when called upon by the said registering officer of the names and occupation together with the particulars hereinbefore set forth of all person residing in their respective villages or districts and shall specify in the said return the number of the house according to the Register and the uumber of persons residing in each house and shall be liable to a pulty of not more than 20 dollars for each and every person hereby required to be registered found residing within their respective villages or districts without being duly registered as aforesaid or whom they shall not have reported to or caused to be brought before the said registering officer. \n\nAnd be it enacted and ordained that the said Registrar General or such other Officer so to be appointed as aforesaid shall if he or they think fit cause to be delivered or left at the residence or place of business of any householder or householders a blank return to be filled up before a certain day to be therein named with the names and numbers of persons in his or their employment or residing within his or their honse or houses or on his or their premises and that on or after the said day named in the said blank return the said householder or householders is or are hereby required to transmit the said return so filled up to the said Registrar General or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid and on failure to do so the said householder or householders shall be liable to a penalty of 20 dollars cach. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained that the following fees shall be taken for registration and shall be received by the Registrar General or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid at the time of the granting of the Registration Ticket. For registering any person being a Merchant Shop keeper or Comprador or being in the receipt of a monthly income of 20 dollars or upwards the sum of 5 \n\ndollars. \n\nFor registering any person being a servant clerk mechanic or in the receipt of a monthly in come not exceeding 20 dollars and not less than 10 dollars the sum of 3 dollars. \n\nFor registering any person being a coolie boatman or labourer or being in receipt of a inonthly in come of less than 10 dollars the sum of 1 dollar. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained that all lighters bumboats ferry boats and other vessels plying for hire within the harbours and waters of this Colony shall be duly registered with the number and description of the crew and of the persons living therein by the said Registering Officer or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid the said particulars to be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose and a certificate of such registry shall be given to the master or head man of such lighter bamboat ferry boat or other vessel the number of such registry to be legibly painted in some conspicuous part of such lighter humboat ferry boat or other vessel. And be it further enacted and ordained that a fee shall be levied on every certificate of Registry so granted according to the rate of 6d per registered Ton or if the boat be under one Tun then 61. for such boat and in the case of Chinese vessels after the rate of 6d for every 20 peculs. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordainel that if any person not having previously obtained such certificate of Registry and not having painted the number on such lighter humboat ferry-boat or other vessel as is hereinbefore provided shall let or hire or cause to be let or hired any such lighter bumboat ferry-boat or other vessel within the waters of the said Colony or shall show a false certificate of Registry or one granted for another vessel or shall permit or connive at the said certificate being made use of for another vessel or shall paint or exibit a false number on the said lighter bumboat ferry boat or other vessel he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding 100 dollars. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained that all masters of Chinese vessels frequenting the waters of this Colony shall report themselves immediately upon their arrival in such waters and previous to their departure to the Registering Officer who shall grant them a certificate of entry or clearance on payment of a fee to be levied in accordance with a scale hereafter at any time to be published by the Governor in Council and subject to such alterations as the Governor in Council may at any time declare. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained that every master of a Chinese vessel who shall not conform to the provisions of the section herein before last mentioned shall forfeit and pay a su not exceeding 20 dollars. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordined that if any person shall wilfully conceal or falsify the particulars of any information required of him for the purposes of this Ordinance or shall on applying to be registered give a false name or description or shall transfer or lend his registration ticket to any other person or shall wear or show the registration ticket of another as his own for the purpose of evading the provisions of this Ordinance he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 30 dollars. And be it further enacted and ordained that all penalties enforced by this Ordinance shall be recovered in a summary manner before any Police Magistrate and that one moiety thereof shall go and be paid to the informer and in default of payment the party shall be liable to inprisonment for any time not exceeding two calendar months. \n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, \n\nthis 21st day of August 1844. \n\nA. E. SHELLEY, \n\nClerk of the Councils. \n\nJOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Governor, &c. &c. \n\nHONGKONG.-Published by Authority. \n\nPrinted by Jous CarK. \n\nIn 230 H tong \n\nTo His Excellency the Governon \n\nof Hongkong and its Dependencies and the the Colony Honorable Members of the Legislative Coun- cil of Hongkong. HONORABLE SIRS-We respectfully beg to address you with reference to Ordinance No. \n\n17 of 1844 entitled \"An Ordinance for Esta- blishing a Registry of the Inhabitants of the \"Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies.\"-- passed the Legislative Council the 21st August last and published for the first time in the Friend of China of the 19th October to come into force the 1st November. \n\nTho it may not be strictly within our pro- vince to question the Policy of the publication of any ordinance, whether urgent or unimpor tant its principles and details, not taking place until within the short space of twelve days of the period of its coming into operation we cannot but express our regret that an Ordi- nance so materially affecting both public and private interests, which appears to have been passed so for back as the 21st August last, should not have been made known to us un- til within so short a period of our being called upon to acknowledge it as law-thus depriving as the opportunity of making that due \n\nrepresen tation of our opinions against such enactments as may appear to us to bear hard upon our in- terests: a privilege, which as being unrepre- sented in the Legislative Council, we think is our due considering the important interests we have at stake in the Colony. To these cir- cumstances we pray you to attribute the la- teness of our present address and not to any indifference to the subject at issue. \n\nWith these preliminary observations, we desire, therefore to represent to you Excellency and the respective Honorable Members of your Council the unfeigned, and extreme repugna- nce with which we have read the Ordinance in question and to enter our formal and de- clared Protest against the Principles that it involves. \n\nPrinciples-We do not hesitate to say as unjust as they are arbitrary and unconstitutional taxing British subjects unrepresented in the most iniquitous of forms, authorizing the most unheard of inquisitorial proceedings, without appeal or remedy, and placing the very power of residence to British subjects whose name may have hitherto been unsullied and unsus- pected in the hands of any one individual. \n\nFurther-We consider that the Law in question is opposed in its details to one of the great objects struggled for during the late was with the Chinese Empire, and against which special provision was made in the Treaty of Nankin-namely, the unchristan principle of bolding one men responsible for the acts of another. \n\npur- \n\nAgain-We would represent that the effect of this enactment if carried out will interfere with the labor and consequent prosperity of the Colony-inasumch, as many of us have entered in o contracts upon the faith of chases wale from your Government at enor- mous rentals, which must now either be broken or delayed from the demur that the contractor will make to introduce laborors for their fulfil- ment whiltst the despotism that is apparent in this act, will induce many respectable Chinese who have now sufficient difficulty in paying \n\nthe heavy house rent in this Colony entirely to abandon the place, and deter others from taking up their residence amongst us. And, Moreover-We give it as our unqualified opinion that the carrying out of the details of this Ordinance will be found impracticable, as well as inefficacious for the object sought to be in attained, that the principle that it in- volves is even more stringent than has ever yet been applied to a penal settlement and we confidently assert is repugnant to the feelings of every Honorable British subject. \n\nWith the above representation of our views of and ↑ Protest against this Ordinance we would pray your Excellency in Council either to modify its details so as to remove the intollerance of the principles that it gives law to, or to cause the operation of it to be sus- pended until reference can be made to the Home Co- vernment as we cannot suppose that such a measure can receive the sanction of Her most gracious Majesty. \n\nT. A. Gibb, Alexr. Matheson, Dond. Matheson, Wm. Stewart, John B. Compton, H. Bowring, Wm. W. MacIver, \n\nJ. M. de Outeiro, J. Goddard, Joao Ant. Barretto, A. da Silveira, F. A. Rangel, C. F. Still, Wm. Matheson, Joseph Jardine, Augus. Howell, James Grant, \n\nWe have the honor to be, \n\nHonorable Sirs, Your most obdt. Servants, \n\n(Signed) A. GIBB. \n\nThomas Roskelly, H. J. Carr, H. Clarke, Augt, Carter, Angus Fletcher, Dan, Fletcher, Alexander McGregor, Geo. Findlay, Robert Strachan, \n\n| A. W. MacPherson, \n\nThs. W. L. Mackean, Pat Dudgeon, Duncan Jas. Kay, \n\nW. H. Wardlev, Alex. Abo. Small, S Rawson, G. R. G. Jones, Thomas Longshaw, James Smith, \n\nG. R. Winslow, J. W. \n\nVesey, Richd. Oswald, Dan. Disandt, D. Hume, Auton Cacho, \n\nN. Boulle, Martin Ford, \n\nM Gabriel, J. P. St. George, Joy. Collins, Jno. Ms Murray, Saul Coben, Char. Markwick, G. N. Norris, W. Henry, Framjee Jamsetjee, \n\nJuo. Cairns, W. Scott, \n\nA. Maclean, \n\nR, Hunte, \n\nK, McKennedy, Jno. Carr, \n\nE. Farncombe, \n\nM. McEwen, \n\nJ. Phillips, \n\nE. Cohen. \n\nF. Woods. \n\nAdam Scott, I. Dundas, N. Duus, F. Funck, Crawford Kerr, D. Lapraik, John Burd, Danl. S. Proctre, F. Saunders, John Holliday. M. Fischer. \n\nThos. Kirby, H. B. Braham, R. Bremridge, Chas. Bowra, \n\nW. A. Bowra, Thomas Bridseyc, A. H. Fryer, \n\nT. A. Lane, \n\nP. Townsend, \n\nJames Welch, \n\nC. K. Stocker, \n\nR. Barrett, M. W. Pitcher A. Melville, \n\nTurston Dale, Y. J. Murrow. Wm. Hel.... \n\nJno. Walker, \n\nJno. Brimelow, \n\nThos. Walton Hawkins, C. Milne, Mark Denham, C. Hughesdon, H. Rutter, \n\nGeo. Napier, G. Hume, \n\nJ. A. Hulbert T. Jones, \n\nJ. H. Tiedeman, \n\nA. Gutierres, \n\nA. M. Mathieson, \n\nF. P. Porter,",
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        "document_key": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]",
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        "title": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]",
        "content_text": "A 16 of 1851.\n\nInclosures No 1 in Dish:\n\nat Cantons intimating\n\nSeizure of Phuc-tho-\n\n\"Letter from a Chinese\n\nRevel 147\n\nAt The Gowary, 1851,\n\n70\n\nat even its greatest advocates will not assert how far they followed as he was lying on the ground\n\none officer was short, the other tall never saw them of use in reclaiming offenders. With the verdict differ; and we have also something afterwards; but not see the body of Captain DaCosta; never saw the officers before, knows nothing more of to say on the manner in which the case was brought before the Court; up these points how his own knowledge.\n\nCross examined, -Chuy-apo lives next door; there ever we cannot enter present, but may do so in is no communication between the houses-does not our next issue.\n\nknow whether Chuy-apo was armed before he was On the subject of the line of defence we are also struck; he aimed at himself immediately after he was unable to speak Tough, and wherefore for the struck. Chuy-apo was in a 'passion; he did not pretext re fuse from speaking merely re-speak or say what put him in a passion; his daughter-in-law and Chuy-in-law ran away after the foreigners had been wounded outside; his wife called out \"save life,\" Chuy-apo ut uke exes would have resulted as it has done,\n\nhad created a disturbance in Chuy-apo's house be- fore this, but does not know anything from his own\n\nAn extra Sessions of the Supreme Court was held knowledge. He did not see the officers wounded, on the 10th instant, for trial of Chuy-apo, charged locks with other things; the paddy field belongs to Chuy-apo is possessed of a house, and 7 or bull- with the murder of Captain DaCosta at Wong-na-chok, on the 25th day of February, 1849.\n\nThe Attorney General for the Crown. Mr. Gaskell for Prisoner.\n\nThe Attorney General proposed to consolidate the two indictments, one for murder by stabbing, and the other for murder by drowning.\n\ndid not assist in killing the officers, saw Clan-kow\n\nsman, Ahing, Leen-ping, Aman, and others assisting killing the officers; the men gave a reason for attacking the foreigners.\n\nLe-arow, boy, sworn, (son of last witness), ---Remembers the 25th February, 1849; was at home at\n\nrice, his sister-in-law waking up a fire, when two off-\n\nMr. Gaskell agreed to this. He objected to jurisdiction, founding objection wording of Supplementary Treaty, (rote taken by his Lordship),\n\nChuy-apo refused to plead; indictment read by Mr. per came into the house and embraced her; his sister-in-law's witness name is Lo-chun-ehe; she and ins R. D. Cay, Registrar of Court, plea of \"not guilty\" ther called out for help, and Chug-apo and others entered.\n\nFurther objection on ground of kidnapping, to being annoyed came and beat the officers; the officers settled by Su and Sir George Bonham: warrant of did nothing else but embrace his sister-in-law; she Curader demand, to show the illegality of con- ciste, is father tried to get the officers out of mittal. His Lordship remarked that it mattered the house before Chuy-apo came. Chuy-apo esme as ittle, there was the man. Indictment translated by soon as the women called for help, his father was M. R. D. Caldwell. Answer by Choy-ebo on the head: then Chay-apo went and anointed above and earth below. Told he might challenge embraced, he first of all requested them (the officers) himself; when his father saw his daughter-in-law the Jury. His counsel demanded a Jury de meditate Langue, when the following were empanelled. Eng-father on the head, the ground bled; the prisoner and to leave the house; they would not, they struck his\n\nlishmen, J. C. Bowring, G. Smart, and W. A. Bow\n\nhis party then came on; after Choy apo came he stab- Foreigners-J. A. Barretto, S. Dellevic, and F. A.\n\nbel the officers at the corner of the house; Chuv-apo only came once, he was armed, did not see what Lo-chun-she, girl, sworn,-Recollects the 25th February, 1849, was then living at Wong-ma-kok in L-ace's her father-in-law) house. While cooking dinner, two foreigners came in and embraced her, one was\n\ndressed in dark clothes, and the other in white; they were dressed as civilians. They came from Chuk-chu; never saw them before; both embraced her his house; the rick field was what he meant when is a road to the brick field where they were killed from embraced her from behind, the other from before he said the corner of the house; the officers struck Her mother-in-law tried to get her away from them. Lo-chow-she is her mother-in-law's name, does not know where her mother-in-law is at present; they struck, her mother-in-law, blackened her, eye and cut her father-in-law's head. Her father-in-law's wound bled from blow with a stick; both had sticks, they were among walking sticks with knobs. Father and mother-in-law tried to push them out of house-they would not go, but flourished their sticks at all near them. Chur-apo came with spear in hand, and wounded them both: would not know the spear. There were several people with Choy-apo, about five people Chay-apo interfered because he was a relation, and also, because her father-in-law and mother-in-law called. All five men were ed for assistance to save their lives.\n\nthe Chinese before they went out of the house, both parties left the house, the officers ran away; they were dead when slung on bamboos; the bodies were cown into the water, the bodies were tied by their hands and feet, and slung on a pole with a rope round their waist; was distant from there 100 covids when they were slang on the bamboo; saw them speared from his house; the shortest space he was from them was as the bodies were carried past, about 30 covids; would know the men that slung the bodies; Chuy-apo did not carry; does not know the bodies; he saw the prisoner and his party sling\n\nif any thing was done with the bodies before they were thrown into the water; knows no more. Has\n\narmed with spears. Cannot say on what part of the elder and a younger brother; his young brother's name is Ea-show; he has gone to see some relations badly they, the officers, were wounded. They were\n\n& Tam-showy; does not know if his brother is sub- wounded at the door of the house; Choy-apo then ran\n\ntall: would know the spear with which the officers were stabbed, identifies it, it belongs to the prisoner.\n\naway. Chuy-so called some people to carry the bodies, and throw them into the water. The integn-\n\ners ran away first; they were pursued by Chuy-po and\n\nCross examined, Cannot see the place where the the men with spears-they were pursued 50 or 60 covids-they were then killed with knives and spears, officers were killed from his house; the time was Could not entity any of the other men besides Chuy-about dark, the place was several tens of covids off; apo, had only been in village a short time saw nothing he went out; dire about half-past 7 P. M.; both were more take place; being frightened ran away to the hills. killed; others assisted besides Clay-apo. There Saw the bodies carried away before she ran away; they were six or seven, he saw when he describes when he were tied and slung on bamboos; they were carried went out. He could see from his house, all he has towards the sea, they were dead when so slang. She described. The officers were stabbed before he went was about 50 feet from them when they were slung on the bamboos. She remained two days in the hills; knows nothing further.\n\nout, he did not see them stabbed; they were dead when slung on the boo; did not see a spear taken | out of Choy-apo's hand; saw the officers come to Choss examined, Chuy-apo lived next door but the village and saw them go into his father's house; one to her father-in-law, there is no communication he was in the house. The Chinese only came to his between the houses; he brought his weapons from his father's house once; did not see the officers go to own base. Chuy-apo was struck first; was struck Chay-apo's house; saw them go into other houses, by both officers with their sticks. They struck him a and interfere with women, saw but himself; did not good many blows before by carned them; cannot go into the houses but could see from outside; the describe the nature of their wounds; they were made officers went inside of the houses; did not see the with a spear. Says the \"did not, and then she did,\" officers strike Chuy-apo before they went this give the above esilencent Coroner's inquest. She said father's house; did not swear so at Coroner's in the fight with her own eyes. It was about & te quest; saw Chuy-apo come out of his house with a o'clock . ., dark, could just see, disturbance first took place in the house and afterwards contioned out- Charles May, sworn. Remembers the 25th February, 1849; received on the morning of the 26th, in- and then followed. The foreigners returned to the formation that Captain DaCosta and Lieutenant Dwyer house, the Chinese also returned. The Chinese were were missing from their quarters at Stanley; went armed both times when they came. She did not say at Stanley with Mr. Caldwell and a party of police. the Coroner's inquest that she knew Chay-ago, Ins Arved at Stanley about half-past 10 . ., found had no conversion with any one in jail on this sub-three Chinese in charge of the Military, examines jech; was in jail with a woman, boatwoman; had no them through Mr. Caldwell; the last witness was one; conversation with her; swears Chug-apo and others the others are not here to-day. The last witness killed them.\n\nsaid he had been at home all day at Wong-ma-kok, Re-examined, Two or three days elapsed between and has seen no Europeans during the day. Made the death an inquest; as at Coroner's inquest as at present.\n\nof Wong-ma-kok, having heard that the missing Jasze, old man, sworn, is a husbandman, lives officure were last seen in that direction. On a path at Wong-na-kok,--Remembers the 25th February, 1849; was living at Wong-ma-kok; that day is of blood; trace the marks upwards about 400 yards, daughter-in-law was cooking in his house, two foreigners came in, and went and embraced her; she was could not discover any blood opposite the village that then only 10 years old, was frightened and ashamed; day; next day saw this rings of blood opposite it in requested them to leave the house; was afraid they different places. At the last corner opposite house would take liberties with his daughter-in-law, they of Lo-ase, saw marks of blood on a rock, the took hold of her by the breast. He and my feng tigt mck was at the corner of another path than tint kuey wutuu vaktave ner, only that they would take li- | heating a dinner the path at the other side berties; desired them to desist; they would not leave of the rock led to a brick field; searched the houses the house when he spoke to them. Some people the village, and in them were clothes hanging up making gunpowder came to drive them away, being dry; they were not perfectly dry then. In Lo vexed with their conduct. When he told them to go anze's house, in addition to the clothes there was a away one struck him on the head, the blow knocked towel with marks of blood, it had been washed; bra down and he bled; there was blood all over bus while ascending the path to village saw a Chinatman clothes, the blow was given with a common walking on the hill, beckoned to him, he came, it was Lo-asze, stick having a silver or zinc knob. The men who examined him, saw a fresh wound on right side of came fought with the foreigners, but when they left his head, he had marks of blood on his heels, also the house he does not know what occurred as he on a band fastening up a trowsers. He said was lying on the ground. His daughter-in-law and he had been at the village all the preceding day wife enlad for assistance. The men then came were but had not seen any Europeans; said the wound armed with spears; would know the men so armed, on his head was caused by falling over stone, Identifies Chuy-zpn, he was one of the men that returned to Hongkong that night. On the morning of 27th came out to Staley (a large party of military The foreigners struck Chily-apo first: were ordered out to search, went from Stanley in e, Clay, went out first and called the officers to a boat and landed i a fishing station at bottom of a come out, but they would not go; Chuy-ape then went path leading to Wong-ma-kok, on this path: drops of and arrested himself. The fight commenced before he blood were visible; saw where the drops of Blood was struck the low on his head was received accident- seemed to end on this path, and on another path on ally while the foreigners were fighting their way outside of hill parallel with the sea, discovered ber Kows nothing further. Two of prisoner's party were drops of blood at some distance from the fishing sta woel in his house, the officers were not; the for- tion; among the racks in a cave found several bundles eigners left first, the Chinese were forcing them out. of clothing ascended the path to the village tracing Prisoner's party followed the officers, does not know the blood all the way. Several seamen and soldiers\n\nforeigners.\n\nwere searching; towards evening heard that one of the seamen had seen some blood on the rocks near the water; went to the place and found two or three large pools of blood, and in one place as if a body covered with blood had been dragged over the rock, this place was about 200 yards from fishing station, and in same direction in which the blood was traced in the morning. Directed my boatmen to search opposite this place; they searched with a boat hook without discovering any thing for some time. There was a heavy swell, and in keeping the boat off the rocks the broken handle of a spear fell into the water; he ing one of the spears from the village, I ordered the boatmen to recover it, as it was part of the evidence, it had sunk and was entangled among the seaweed). While the boatmen were trying to recover it a body became visible among the seaweed, which I recognis- ed to be that of Captain DaCosta. There were several wounds on head, hands, and body, that in the eye appeared to have been inflicted by a triangular spear; the body was taken to Stanley Enrracks that night, and subsequently brought to Victoria.\n\nDanie! R. Culdwell, sworn,-Has heard Mr. May's evidence; accompanied him to Stanley and Wong- ma-kok, on the 26th and 27th February. Was not with Mr. May all the time; ordered by him to trace the blood towards the water, found the blood on path leading from Wong-mu-kok to water: Mr. May went up to the village, I went towards the water; Acarted about half way from Wong-ma-kok traced blood to within 60 yards of small fishing but, a short distapes from the water; found live Chinese in the but and took them to enslody; found nothing suspicious, and not being able to trace blood further went back to the vil-\n\nlage, where I found Mr. May, Ailer searching about the village, returned to Hongkong with Mr. May. We went hack next morning to Wong-ma-kok; found a portion of spear in the village with marks of blood in consequence of a report that a large quantity of blood had been seen near the water, we all went dawn corroborates Mr. May's statement as to find- ing Captain DaCosta's body; jumped into the water, and brought it on shore by a rope round the arts; returned, finding that further search was useless as it was becoming dark. Searched the pockets, found the watch has gone, the rings were also missing; touk the body Stanley, Corroborates the account of the state of body as to wounds on head, hands, and face, saw other wounds after the body was undraseed; } the body was taken from Stanley to Hongkong. Went to the village some days after with Lo-acow, who point- ed on the exact places where the others were killed, one was in a brick field; there was a pool of blood there.\n\nCrons examined,-The place where Captain Da Costa was killed was absent 74 yards from corner of house at the end of village. Could not see from the house the price where Captain DaCosta was killed, there were trees intervening. The place where Jasze-\n\ntenant Dwyer was killer is about 150 yards further, from where Captain DaCosta was killed. Could not see the place where Captain DaCosta was killed until within 30 yards of it.\n\nRe-examined. When the boy pointed out the spot where Captain DaCosa was killed he said he was an eye-witness to the killing\n\nW. Morrison, Colonial Surgeon, sworn,Examined the body of Captain DaCoste on or about the 29th, in Conjunction with Dr. Tweddell, at the dead house of the Military hospital, Vistoria, dll not make an exact post- mortem. Discovered three wounds inflicted by a knife or sword on the scalp, penetrating to the scull; at outer angle of left eye a perforated wound, made apparently by a spear. Such an instamment as the spear with a cutting edge might have inflicted the wounds on the scalp. There was a large wound on the right hip three inches long made by a cutting instrument, the esa kond of spear might have done it; there were very severe contusions, on the hands, face, and back, us if the body had been beaten. Think none of the wounds sufficient to cause death. Did not open the body from the advanced state of decomposi tion. Dr. Tweddell, agreed in my opinion. I think Captain DaCaste was thrown in alive and drowned. Probable that Captain DaCosta was either in a state of syncopé or altering from concussion of the brain when thrown into the water. I form this opinion from the appearance and nature of the wounds-the water would operate in the same way to came death whether the person suffered from syrempe or concussion of the brain---drowning would be the cause of death. Chain DaCosta if suffering from concussion ang't have remained in an insensible state for two or three days, if in syncopé could not remain so two 3 hours and live,\n\nCross examined,--The handle of the spear could i not produce the wounds on the body, the head of the y spear broken off, would not produce the cat wounds, it might produce the wound in the eye.\n\nThe Attorney General proposed to read the depositions of the absent witnesses,\n\nMr. Gaskell objected on the ground that the late Ordinance only applied to Chinese witnesses and ) was not retrospective.\n\nLieutenant Macdonald's filed deposition read. L-acow, re-examined as so City-apo's attaching the bodies to the bamboo. Flo-yung-ping, Aman, Acheng, and Chahen, carried the bodies; the prisoner did not carry the bodies, but was present. Chuy-apo accompanied the bodies to the water; he witness did not go himself to the water, saw when they passed, the prisoner accompanying, following behind\n\nCase for prosecution closed.\n\nMr. Gaskell in defence pointed out the conflicting nature of the evidence.\n\nThe Judge in summing up entreated the Jury to dismiss from their minds all prejudice; to give the prisoner the same chance as if he were an English man or as if he were guilty of killing one of his own countrymen. Read evidence. Convente on its discrepancies, especially in the difference between Lo-chua-she's evidence before the coroner, and that now delivered. If they thought the prisoner had? sufficient provocation (and he undoubtedly had some) ( that the verdict would be manslaughter; if so, war der the prisoner would of course receive the benefit of any doubt which they might have on the case.\n\nThe Jury retired at 5 o'clock P. M., to consider their verdict, and returned at 5. m., with verdict, \"guilty of manslaughter.\"\n\nThe prisoner said he ought to be sent to his own country to be punished.\n\nThe Judge agreed with the verdict; he could not have condemned the prisoner to death on such evidence.- Sentence to be transported for life.\n\nTHE RIVAL NAVIES.\n\n(From the Naval Service Magazine for December, 1850.J Whenever there The lull in the excitement of public affairs, the cry is raised country is in danger. I danger of winter France, of Tais, of America, ex- claim the writers of alarm. The fortifiedips of Cher be impregnable; a vast aval force to s",
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        "content_text": "DIC \n\nA 10 09 \n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE OVERLAND FRIEND OF CHINA, MAY, 1856.\n\nTHE BOWRING PRAYA, On the 5th altiso n Onvernment notification ap peared arong our advertisements, to the effect that the Bowring Prayn Commission would sit daily with open doors. No counter noties uppeased by which we were to learn when the labours of that Cntamission ended; and when some three weeks afterwards one Marine Let haider who hurd ben absent from the Colony over the whole time made enquiry of one of the Commissioners regarding the sittings, he was then told the Commission was at an end and that the report was in progress for early rendering A Supplemental scale of yesterday gives to the world the result of the Commission's labears; and appears that a Schedule was at sached to the Coutaission containing the following\n\nfive grescens\n\n1. Wther the Gaverement of this Tsland ought or eight set to actase the emire son traction of the saul Fraga, or of say and what part threat?\n\nIL. After what rate or rates ought the preson; hokters of Mine Lot to be admittal to the possession slower.mtion at the grean lying between their aur Boulades and the Praya, where the Fanstruction shall have been undertaken by the Government?\n\n. In the event of of the holders of Marine Lote heng wiling, and others of them being siding, to wader. take the chastraction at their van orm, ought or waght Fote Govermest to undertake the conception of one of the san! raya as able to the front of the lots of the bywing headers, and to allow the willing filers to under- sake of novel wil their peepozion of the work in respect of their own lots?\n\nIV. Ongla or ought not the Burian Strand portion of tho sait aya tu be coingraced lagerber with the catres portions thereof, or which i\n\nV. What provision stylt su hade for the shipping and lolis of goste, and the parking and disembarking of pengers at ul uleog the saki Prapa when escapicted?\n\nTo the first of these questions, the Commission repbei-stɔvement ought to undertake the work, and in an ather way could it be accom plished.\n\nTo the second-that the rate on and reclaimed should be lifteen shillings per 100 square feet-ur very nearly two peace per boot, being about three hal pence por foot more than the peel of Marine Tot lands at last year's salos.-\n\nLease wall wakich Lenscholilors generally are desirous of heilding-with a roadway along the vad wall, to he kept cred by chains of rus to public thoroughitre, and panel only on cases of public marguney--would not such a construction as tuis Le ali that is requisite for the public weal?\n\nQuestion 2Would it not be better to leave the Police control of this roadway and wath to the Lease holders themselves!\n\nQuestion --Would it not be fair to charge Louseholders first class intand Let upseter te for the and redeemed-in addition to the rental at which they are at present assisted?\n\nQuestion 1-Whald i ust be advisable to com route the rent, either ever the whole jot, run the part redeemed ouiy, for a fixed suto down?\n\nwas naturally ta be anticipated upon the question as to the conditions of tencre of landle reclaimed or to her fir the sea. In one raspect nuly they appeared to is unrella, igrating too fast antal proer the Crown alune basi tite to all such bende, bether arely reclaimed ar ve\n\net,, ., &c.\n\nI can only of course spenk na w gronad already reclaimed, but on that point f deny that I either now igre, er did so in toy evidence to the Com- mission, the fact that at present the Crown lone Ares site to all such hurts.\" \n\nMy esidence will be found to state, that I cou- sidered Coverament not eath led to ady rest upon grounds how reclaimed, but that if any rate was to be fired, it should be such as ao sioun to a mere nominal real.\n\nSurely this admits most faily the Creven's de le the land, for except the Crowa hels the title, how etix any rate of Rent and surely the fact should be patent to the nest ordinary understand-\n\nAn Qurtina 6-Wand it not exhibit better sense is Excellency the Governor, and less\n\nunity, if he refrained from boring those w interests as is paid to protect, and whose confeting, that such evidence is based on the consider1-\n\nhe is supposed to have at heart, with what the? so wat went 2-Bowa PRAYA. F of C. April 3.\n\nTo the Editor of the Friend of China,\n\n\"HONGKONG, -- April, 1856. DER $1-- would suggest to the Bowring Penya Commission un aditional question to le raggested by yun-wis, \"Would not the expert cace of the Greek Luna dubbings be xafficleur to warrant a speculation for doing a fand to be deno minated the Bowing Praga Consels ?\"--it would pay well.--Sophistically thine,\n\nA DREAMER IN SHADOW LAND, of C. Apral 96,\n\ntion of what ander the circumstances in which the land was reclaimed, equitably due to Govern meat upon it.\n\nAnd now, Sir, as it is not my chieet to review: the Report, either as to its gemein matter, of the spirit which perrades it, but only to point out and Tefate those parts wherein it ia wafair and incorrect in relation to my own evidence, I will conclude with a gentle admonition to the President of the Bearing Prays Commission, that before grap pling\" in future, he wish do well to look to the metal of his grappling irous, for anless tant metal ba found true and withou: ww, the gripe which it is fempted to is, will never prove bei delusive and unavailing-ara, Sir, your shelient servaus,\n\nFfC. April 25. R. C. ANTRORUS.\n\nthe Edit of the \" Fyfend of China,\"\n\nFoxoxoso 28th April, 1856.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"Friend of thing” ** Hosunun 23rd April, 1856.\n\nSHowever unwilling I am to do so, I re- grot to say, that one portion of the Pawing Praya-The Fe rels Proverb Qui s'excuse a'a. Commission, as laid before the public in the Government Gazette, forces ne as to make use of some public channel of connoication, that\n\nTo the third- they thonght Government vaierepresentation may not be allowed an unob structed coarse, and that perversion of the spirit of had better undertake the whole work-\n\nTo the fourth-That the Benham Strand por evidence gives may not remain unchallenged.\n\nThe Commissioner \"close their caquiry in al tion of the Praya should be commenced at once.\n\nAnd the fifth-the Commission gave at indo ceritade of being free from the reproach of par- aste answer. The wharfage it could not be deniality and injustice, na they are inquestionably ed was vested in the Leaseholders. The Commis- free from the kindred one of concealment \"\n\nFrom their correctness, which must be placed sion would take away dru privilegs if they could but as the law was against them, they would rather under the former category, as recording is the Re- For the substance of certain evidence. I must diz- Sublim zao. You will fad in the second and third The evidence of the six valutary deponents be fore the Commission, ces Messis Ambus, Duddell, paragraphs of page 4 of the Report, a reference ta Edger, Marrow, Postau and Sherede, apres to ceratin evidence which 1 gave before the Commis- have been supplied to the Governor in an Apion. The report hore states,\n\nhe report but these depositions, per lis described as the testimony of intelligent witnes Bes-of respectable witnesses-of highly respectable witnesses-and of witnesses deserving of all attention\n\nhave cot bear furnished to the public.\n\nad recommend !\n\nIt is only with specific instances like thesĘ \" (viz: two which they are pleased to call dubians cases that it is possible to grapple,\" &c, Ázu,\n\nby\n\nA gentleman who has confesund & purpresture committed selfin 18ht, and who had mafn thien oson percent,\n\n•with stoe Burhasis, the con of a general understand. Ting, that is wlained would to be interfered with by vorment, not the parties' right of access to the ses prs- juiced by the set,' was at length and to state the circu s which had prodowy that impression, so far as he an his fler ware ennesined a cover is curious ilustration of the proneness of these gentlemen is dorciva there It appears that the present Serveyor Chemeral, Dr Cheverly, and the late overner Sir George Bonn, gave him, in 1654, a verbal curarance, tad ten would not he prosecuted, ot called count for his encroachment. They gave me, he do father asses. This come in femity against pakich nant-fil be even thathe at unde interpreted into a renunciation or sesiver of a crown gh\n\nYou will observe, Siz, the Haport does not pre- suma to place as a quotation the words \"a verbal assurance that he would not be prosecuted or cal led to account for his encroachment,\" but it does\n\nThe reply to question the second is an elabor are disquisition-remarkabte, principally, far two things--ne its extreine one sidedness, another its taunciates of the most radical praciples. The object of the Comunission was to show that, At no time, from the days of Elias downwards, was official sanction ever given to the redemption In showing this,and it of fund from the sea. is shown as clavery as could possibly be expected from writers determined to tow only what would suit their purpos- the pressing requests by Filic? to the Merchants to come here and settle-to do as they pleased only to build godowns to store the tou for which he would get a remission of a penny upon duty-the proprsed allotment of the ground bought by them, royalties and all, in fte Emple-the premise that ju rehasers of Main so insert the next sentence, viz; they gave me,\" 1 should have the perption even of lots on the in- he adds, au further assurances. I call on the land side of the mad-all this was stadiously over. Commissiours to prodace, if they can, from my 3. Co., Laues Fletcher & Co., Mac Vient Bura & fact of prosecution with reference to the point tooked Theletters written by the frus of Cermell evidence, any use of the word, or allusion to the Co.,Tamer Co., Fox Rawson & Co. and Capt. barkins, protesting most strongly agmine: the ferece can with reason or fairness he no constru od as to justify them in thas expressing for me the mation of a Psya, as first propceed in the lane of\n\nassurances given to me. ur first Govainor, have all disappeared Bom\n\n\"cun say drielly, ther my firm aku myself chord 50 the records of Government; the very suggestion\n\nSu gesend anderstanding; and that no fut an they wad\n\ncad by converadio with Sit were condemnail, is over yout\n\nBasta and Me Cheverly, de Sarveyer Genezai,\n\nof irving chains across the road way mea\n\nca\" may be forcibly applied to the concluding Pangraph oftheRepoil of the Bowring Bags Cemission,\" whichhambly cerudies\" His Ex cellenes, that they are free from tee reproach of The necessity for partiality\" and injustice 1\"\n\noch o declaration had scarcely suggested bed to the minds of the Comunissioners but for some mois. givings of conscience, which are not in be wooder edat, for while we will not suppose that any me o- her of the Commission would wittingly set his name to a document containing that which he be levet to be it direct oppositinu to fact, we an heeitaringly assert, that the Report itself is a per- version of means towards a given end.\n\nThis may appse a harsh and unpleasant asser- tion, but (s a writer in the N. D. Herald apily quoted some short time sinca)\n\n†\n\nSurly, Mritor, all this borbast might ad- Fantageously have been omittel. It is well lowo, both to Sir John Burring, rad Me Chisholm An- tey. that if each cinetrine was once brought to bent justly, it would be resisted by all proper means: and the the resuks would be neb, as neither of them would wish to face. The delusion\" which one witness\" labored under this hend, in con- sequence of a conversation with the late Acting Attorney General,\" maxy, if tried, prove a enggerer to the full blowo cigary.\n\nWith regard to the Records of the Last Office in the early days of the Colony, on which so such weight place, it may soned somewhat strange that Mr Julius C. Power on one occasion, whico be contrived to speak unchecked for a few capravitis) stated, that these records were very imperfect, and Thai co doubt could be entertained that sang tings were not entered therein which ougla to have been\n\nEV.\n\nIt is somewhat curious also to notice in the wording of the report the animus which prevails anungst there impartial men. Where the evidence given is very favorable to the Government project, the givor is an inteliigent witness!\" i moderniely propitious his opinione deserve attention! If slightly apposed to the intusure, he izbora under a do lusio!\" denidedly adreree, he is purile!! hut whers the evidence rans really counter to their cause, it is a tee signslised as a man of in comertul asscueration and unsupported pretentim ! ! Unfortunately, however, for the campilers of the report, ugly nanies will not pass cures for argu- nents, and invectiva ia un proef. Already, one of the Gentiero examined has protested against the miscbracı actions to which he tina beer subjected,\n\nothers are prepared to do is some.\n\nWhy is not the appendix published? Do the Govern Tent really suppose, that those interested will quietly permit such a decent as the repart la go forth w the world, at a correct statement, made as unprejudiced men. who by their refer there to at appendiz, shakenge contradiction of log on which their assertions are based? No Sr. 1 como tarness that appende must ac ronde se public as the report itself, and then tha public will have an opportunity of adging how far the two agree together, They will fad, as wa have before eated, that the evidence is passed over when adverse, and brought prominently forward when favorable to the cause which has been re- rievably damaged by such a contre; and not only this, but mayhap uthers of real impurtance and deixal benefit, for we assurt on the very best grounds, that many of this community would now declin to appear before any future commission, compused of s or any of the members of the one lately cle solved, or to ca-opera-e with those who have for. fered that confidence which nu intial treatme of the subject committed to them would have coal- manded. This is not vegue assertion, as the fuma will show.\n\nThere is nother paint, which are we close, 13 may be well to notios, viz, the sigma that Marine La Bolders have been in the habit of Squeezing\" The Chinese by exacting atoll through\" for landing at their Private Wherves. This, however, we nurst adini fonded on the evidence of bet ope Holder of a Marine Lot, and peramps he way be the maly one who is aware of such exactions! Of this he must be the best judge, but that each pre- Lices have been in vague, or can turn any sigu ment in favor of a Prayn, scheenly needs refutation. Had Government baik proper wharves at the pains where such mecrable excresences as \"1\"\n\n\"Facta are things that winna ding\" \n\nand duorna be disputed.\" Let us glance pt sous of the leading points of the Repor, found. § no 65 vepablished \"Appendix ! Having considered the nailers referred to them, the Commissioners agree that the fire questions connined in the Schedule, have subraced every substantial matter of enquiry,\" and that the Witnesses called in end examined also pertain \"od that opinion,\" as there is little to he and in their evidence, which does not range iseli under some of those hau's of enqairy! No truly m it would have required no emilac, and much determisation, to obtain a Lending on any point which was adverse to the ubject of the Commission, (ie, lo support at a bazards the views of Sir John Bowring) Fer no seoner did evidence divergodere Whar\" were to be found, there never would 10 dangerous grond, then it was strangled by the have been any necessity for asking, or reagiving favore from Marine Lo: Holders. There is ample acrvous fins of the President, who doubling it\n\nspace now. and more than ample space to form relevancy, forthwith ignored its existence.\n\nPublic Warves, for double the wants of the Com- munity, who have not sex frontages. What are their quirements? Much fuse is made by the China Mail and others about the inconvenience to the public dwelling to the south of the Queen's Road! Le any one who knows the place run bis eye along the list of residente, and their occupations, and then see how my to the south of the queen's Read, w up the fill, que largo Wharing sc. connection. What the China Mail require '$ What goods dil fe latte wa inconvenience was an su'jected to ? None! And some reply will serve for nike tenths of those who habit the Iniant Lots do the lil; and such aust ever to the case, for Coolle hire alone would very soon absorb any benefit scecking from reduced rentals on In. land Lots were they used us storage ground,\n\nMoreover, when thune to be examined were first informed that any evidence they might give was whody uecuanected with the question of whe thers Praya ought or ought not to be made, end would not be considered as involving any opinion\n\nin question; and I deny that any portion of my ion that head, it is scarcely to be expected that\n\nsure intended to meet, not only an obiections of Gure we that was choar in jecam lava, there was no\n\nthose days, but the main objection of Leaseholders of the proscut, is carefly passed ever, when there is ocasion quote from the report prepared by Me Surveyor General Gordon.\n\nAnd as Non-genservative principles-70,000 Atates now in this Colony-65,000 of whan, at least, baking to the great anwashed\" with no more interest in it thau is requisite to gel meal of the frem day to day-this swarm of vagabonds, we are sold, ure entitled to an absolute equality of rights and duties in other word thay have as much right to perigrinate in front of our private dwelinge on the sou frunt as we bare, who pay four times more luar rent than the as14- ers of inland lots for the privilege of enjoying a brenzes andistrrbed, and for ather advantages 8 We havo you in juanne holding must give.\n\none power, and we will do as we please with you is the one all pervading spirit of the re part before as.\n\nBe it subat assertion and por formance are riva distinct things; and however ah stinate Sir John Bowring, he is not oranipotent- and this perhaps he will bad when-in the House Commons if needs be-the question is brought be\n\nore the horse Government by the constituents of those interested-Concitaents, Sir John Bowring and Mr Chisivalm Anstey must know, possessing as much power as any single section of the rope- sentatives of Great Britain.\n\nThe five questions in the Schedule, the Commis- sioners tell us in the report, embrace every thing With all due deference to their superior wisdom we will now suggest to them them five other ques¦ tinns and though they may doubt it, they may rest assured that on the antisfactory solution of there questions the matter has yet to depend.----\n\nQuestion 1-Would not a sea wall, to be called appropriately \"THE ALBERT WALL\"the supporting battress of ta Queen's Rond, w be boil along the sna front of all the lots already granted on Crown\n\nMy the terms of the Most Land Sale in 1844, merc istinctly rest to have sea, aot to fredage--the depth from these to the way wohl wary agosling to a torqueat letter Front Captain in solids at all, la kotiated moly the ncessities of die serafiants\n\nejection to an duing so, at that no difficulty or inconve nichou was likely to rise in us leam baring done it. They gave me the sarther as conges\n\nThe latter short stulence. I gave most willingly as an answer to a remark from the Frezident af Commission, that as both the gentamen alluded to were now absuut from the Colony, if they made no further assurances, perhaps I would not object to Sidy 841\n\nleave it then to the public to decide,-looking at my evidence abore quoted, and remerabering the\n\nThe views of liora interested in that part of the ques. tinn ahould meat with a patient heating, withough missioners are not failed to “specify in their appropriate places, all such coasters Rese incidentally under ones, in the course of the enquiry\" altas they fid not necesary arse \"out of either of the Five Points\" in plain English wherever the evidence favora che av ernmeal scheme, it is brought prominently far ward, and where it is adverse it to kept carefully behind the stenes, us its appropriate place! With all respect for those Getlenies who gave evidence before the Prays Commission, we connel admit, or consider them as the exponents of greetal opinion. The in question is not hus-bot che ther the Prays should be munt; and had Sir John Bowring desired to nike on impartial enquiry into the opinions of thres interested, he would have found himselt willingly, and openly rael with candid views, But not so in the present instance; for how could Goverment suppose dias these whinisepproved of the formation of a Preya, would one larward to how-how it should be constructed!! Yet, in the face of this beardity, the Comadesionere\" merely \"Indemolly against punishment are strong add, that the general unwillingness of the Marine worls, bat carry little weight in the present \"La Holders\" afford any evidenon in Bustra Any one of louger residence lure than in of their asaeried claims to equitable consi the President of the Commission, to whom chiefyderation ought of self to deprive the claimants I attribute time drawing up of the Report and theofull expecbition (bat their supposed claims will\n\nruceive any consideration at all!!! disagrocable necessay entailed on nf now pob-\n\nassertion I am said to have raure than ones made with some emphesis\" which induced the questions to which my evidence forms the reply, whether the Report as written is not a distortion of the sub cance of toy remarks, and rather the expression of interested advocates than of impartial Coremis signers?\n\nstances.\n\nlely addressing you, woll knows that the infliction\n\nShade of Nicholas A Right Royal Proclama\n\nof punishment for reclaiming tand, or fat antion is from those who hold that the Crown is crouchiment that word be preferiet, was never\n\nThat at once interpreted the assurances of Sir G, Benham and Mr Cleverly into a renuncia. tion or waiver of a Crown righ,\" is not the case, and is not the plain meaning of my evilence, but an arbitrary inference on the part of the Commis sioners, as unjustifiable by them, as the interpin. tacou attributed to me would have been absurd on ny part.\n\nbut the Trustoo for the Publie and quite su\n\nfor a moment contempland by Government; while ficient, we admit, to extinguisa in the el san- onthe aber hand, direct indemnity against guine Marine Lat order, any expectation of panist ment\" was never requested by the person equitable consideration, were sheir hopes founded on the tender sarees of the Praya Commission, intending to reclai\n\nBut they are not nervous men, these Marine Lot holders; the fine See air which they have so long enjoyed gabruksted, haz brace) then up, and even now, with the above awel denunciation sounding in their ears, they have not abandored oil hopes of justice at the hands of their Public Trustee \"! No, not even in the matter of compensation for being tarnell out of House and Home, will they for one tout acknowledge than it sexts with the Surveyor General alone to decide the question,\" altho' the locum inaeus asserts that it is 8o, and our entry!) Judge bas niready delivered his Ferdien!\n\nTo one point more in the Report I must alude, abric at variance with facts and my evidence At the deading of the reply to the second question of the Sebetale, it will be found stated,-\n\n\"Sotan difference of sows mongst the Marine Lenders\n\nNo Sir! The object in view in the project of a Praya is quite evident cnaugh, and there is no use trying hike an Ostrich to hide its head when tho whole body is exposed to view. It was proposed long since by Sir Henry Poninger before the Co. Leny was fairig seed, und before Lot Holders had bean induced to expend vast as in completion of their netangements, and the construction of their premises, It died a natural death from want of Funds, and so remained in pure until fortuiten cirentistances placed in the power of the present Goverans the menus resuscituring the plon ar\n\nThis we firmly believe was calling it his con! done without weighing or considering the cane- quences, the interests of those concerned. There was Bonham Strand\" and theis must be a Bowring Praya, Opposition arose, and fat moment there was taking between public Instico and private vanity. The latter prevailed. and evne hrward stroyed as the former \"ol in sheep's clothing\". But the argument is felt to he bullow and the position untenable. An intrench. ment toust be formed to retire to when attacked. Parliamentary recollection furnishes on idea! Commission,-a Commission of course) but form. ed only of these known adherents who can be well depended on. No difference of opinion or shade of opposition must exist amongst it's Merbere, and then the Public cu sutely be admitted to hear their doom 1 The Men are found, and the Com- mission formed, and the Political Sogers have cooked a dish of such piquancy, tant even those was furnished the materials cansel recognise their awn ingrediena.\n\nA\n\nWe crave pardon for prolixity, but we eat draw Alution to the fact, that of the six gentlemen ex amined, there was only one who being present at the November Malings in acquiesced in the resolutions then passed by an overwhelming\n\n311",
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        "content_text": "Kung Kong, 24th December 1886\n\nHaving been appointed for the purpose by a Meeting of the Justices of the Peace of this Colony held this day at the Justice room according to a notice duly circulated amongst the Justices, we beg to draw your attention to the fact that a Circular issued from the Chief Magistrate's Office on the 23rd October last and addressed to the Justices of the Peace generally (vide Enclosure B) was sent to you for circulation amongst those Justices by you and returned officially to the Acting Chief Magistrate, thereby never reaching those for whom it was intended. We request that you will please state for the information of the Bench the persons to whom the Circular was sent in the course taken with the Circular and the reasons for the course adopted.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient Servants,\n\n(Signed) G. Syall, R. & Antrobus, & Gray\n\nThe Honorable\n\nW. H. Mercer, Esq.\n\nColonial Secretary, H.K.\n\nNo. 33\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong\n\n31st December 1886\n\nGentlemen,\n\nIn reply to yours of the 24th Instant, I beg to remind you that the Circular to which you refer was not arrested in the course of its circulation by me, as you appear to assert. It must be well known to you that the Circular was sent to me, and I have no doubt that the Justice in question will readily give you the reasons for the course adopted by him.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) W. H. Mercer\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nG. Syall Esq., R. C. Antrobus Esq., &c.",
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        "content_text": "247\n\n2\n\nNo. 25.\n\nNo. 85. FEBRUARY 14, 1857.] The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette. [No. 85.—FEBRUARY 14, 1857.\n\nNo. 26.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency The Governor directs the publication of the following Letters from the Superintendent of Police, in explanation of certain statements recently made against that Officer.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\n3\n\nIn pursuance of Ordinances No. 2 of 1845, and No 3 of 1851, it has been determined by His Excellency The Governor, with the Advice of the Executive Council of Hongkong, that a Rate of Ten per Cent be paid for the Year commencing from the 1st January 1857, on the Valuation of Property liable to Police Assessment. The amount of the first Quarter will be payable from that date.\n\nBy Order,\n\nNo. 9.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th February, 1857.\n\nPOLICE DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 6th February, 1857.\n\nSIR—In compliance with your letter of this date referring to a statement appearing in the China Mail newspaper of this morning, respecting the treatment of the prisoners seized at the Esing Bakery: I have the honour to state, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, that upon the apprehension of the whole of the prisoners on the 15th January, and pending enquiry which resulted in the committal of ten of the number for trial at the Supreme Court, the prisoners, with the exception of several kept apart for the purposes of the investigation, were placed in a room on the ground floor of the New Police Station, Cross Roads, this appearing to me a suitable place, and the only one at my disposal,—the then crowded state of the Jail, and the Cells at the Central Police Station, being always required for ordinary business, rendering it necessary to provide other accommodation for these particular prisoners.\n\nAfter the committal for trial of ten prisoners on the 19th January, the remainder, forty-two in number, were remanded as being persons dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony, under Ordinance No. 2 of 1857; and inasmuch as the same difficulty continued of placing them within Jail, (until the 26th January, when certain prisoners were deported), they have been since that date until the 3d February, confined in the room at the Cross Roads Station. This room is a dry lofty room, fifteen feet square, and is ventilated by a chimney and an opening near the top of the room, which opening, secured by iron bars, measures six feet long, by one feet high, the door of the room opens on to the Queen's Road, and as I am informed and credibly believe, this door was frequently open,\n\nOn two occasions I visited the prisoners, who certainly presented no appearance of illness. I found the air close, but not more so than I have found in many places no larger, occupied by as many, or more, Chinese emigrants or coolies. None of the prisoners are ill, and present no other than the usual appearance of prisoners; and this is the most conclusive evidence that the accommodation was not so bad, and has had no such injurious effect, as stated in the newspaper report.\n\nOn the 3d of February, Dr Lorrain called at my office upon other business, and then mentioned that he had that morning visited the Cross Road Station, in company with the Editor of the China Mail; and that, in his opinion, if the prisoners confined there were not removed speedily, they would be seized with fever. Giving weight to a medical opinion, I directed the prisoners to be at once removed to the Jail, and I should have removed them at any time had I supposed that the place of imprisonment was unsuitable and injurious to the prisoners' health; for undoubtedly I had no intention to indict cruelty upon the prisoners, and all my arrangements respecting them were made, having only a regard for their safe custody and the public convenience.\n\nWith respect to the food for the prisoners, I have to state, that the usual rations, ample and good, were provided at Government expense at the commencement of the imprisonment, and that upon the prisoners friends asking if they might give them provisions, I gave permission. Most certain it is that the prisoners had their daily food in the usual way; and that if the prisoners' friends had not preferred supplying it, that it would have been provided at the expense of Government, I have seen the cook-shop keeper, who upon the order of the prisoners' friends supplied the provisions of the prisoners.—I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,\n\nThe Honourable W. T. MERCER, Esquire,\n\nNo. 11.\n\nColonial Secretary, &c., &c.\n\nCHARLES MAY, Superintendent of Police.\n\nPOLICE DEPARTMENT, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 13th February, 1857.\n\nSIR—I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 180 of this date, informing me that it is the intention of His Excellency the Governor to publish in the Government Gazette my former report on the subject of the treatment of certain Prisoners apprehended at the Esing shop and Bakery, and referring to a second Article on this subject in one of the Local Newspapers.\n\nI would desire to add to my former Report, in reference to certain points specified in this second Article, that I have recollection that on the morning of the 3d February instant, Assistant Superintendent GrandPré requested me to sign an order for the transmission of the Prisoners referred to, from the Room at the Cross Roads Station to the Jail, mentioning that the air at the former place was close. I directed Mr Grand Pré not to remove them until the case at the Supreme Court was decided, which I believed would be that day, as upon that decision would probably depend whether the prisoners would be farther detained or liberated.\n\nThe following morning Dr Lorrain called at the Station, and upon his representation I gave a warrant for the reception of the Prisoners within Jail, when De Lorrain mentioned the subject, I casually remarked, \"some of them deserve punishment for they did not exhibit much feeling towards us;\" to this Dr Lorrain replied, \"that may be, but let them be punished properly, do not treat them with cruelty.\" I said \"most certainly, my remark did not apply to justify their being improperly confined.\" And upon this point, I beg to disclaim the inference attempted to be drawn that I desired to palliate the alleged improper treatment of the Prisoners, because of the heinous nature of the crime in the commission of which they were supposed to be implicated.\n\nI do not recollect that up to the time of Dr Lorrain's forcibly representing the matter, (when I instantly acted upon his information) that I received from any person any intimation conveying more than that the air in the Prisoners' Room was close, of which fact I was aware from my personal observation. No complaint was ever made to me by any of the Prisoners' friends, either with respect to food, or to the place of confinement. On the subject of the food I have nothing to add, the Prisoners had a sufficient supply.\n\nI do not believe that it was the desire of any person connected with the Police, to use any harshness towards the Prisoners; and with respect to myself, I positively and conscientiously assert that I had no intention to inflict cruelty, or am I cognizant of any cruelty having been inflicted upon them; and I can therefore bear that accusation as well as that more usually urged against me, of exhibiting too much lenity and kindness towards the Chinese.\n\nWith respect to the Prisoners confined on the 24th and 25th of January ultimo, within the yards of the Jail, I wish to state briefly the circumstances of the cases.\n\nAt 10 P.M., and about midnight of the 23d January, Mr Caldwell apprehended 146 Prisoners, charged upon private information. These Prisoners were placed for security within the Mill-yard. On the morning of the 24th they had a good ration of rice and vegetables; and on the 25th they had another ration, this last at about 1 P.M. The whole number (excepting two) having given security were released two hours subsequently. The ration of the 25th should have been supplied earlier, but the Cook Shop keeper stated that from the number of prisoners, he was unable to get it ready at the usual time. The Constable in charge of the prisoners several times went to the cook-shop to hasten the supply.\n\nOn the 24th of January, 204 prisoners were apprehended on Bonham Strand. These prisoners were placed within the yard of the Debtors' Jail, and I remained until after dark releasing all who could give security, finally leaving only 45 of the number, who being unable to give security, remained in confinement all night. At 1 P.M., the 25th January (Sunday) I went again to the Jail, at which time the prisoners received their ration, and took security for 91 of the remaining,\n\nIn conclusion, I beg respectfully to remark, that, at a time when from secret information it was nightly feared that an armed attack would be made upon the City; when, as you are aware, the superior officers of Police were occupied with pressing and arduous duties; and lastly, when from the peculiar circumstances of the times, the ordinary prison accommodation was overcrowded with offenders, it need not be a matter of surprise, or form a subject of accusation against public officers, that every arrangement was not carried out with the usual regularity.—I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,\n\nThe Honourable W. T. MERCER, Esquire,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nCHARLES MAY, Superintendent of Police.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th February, 1857.\n\nNo. 27.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nWILLIAM THOMAS BRIDGES, D.C.L., having been appointed by His Excellency The Governor Acting Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, has been this day sworn in as a Provisional Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony.\n\nThe Honourable W. T. BRIDGES, D.C.L., has taken his seat in both Councils accordingly.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th February, 1857.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIE REGINE. No. 3 of 1857.\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting-Colonial Secretary.\n\nBy His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance for extending to this Colony certain Acts of Parliament.\n\n[14th February, 1857.]\n\nBe it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say\n\nI. The Enactments of the Imperial Parliament specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed are hereby, Extension of Enactments, and from the day of the passing hereof, extended to this Colony and its Dependencies, and to the Supreme Court of the same; with such Exceptions as are specified in the said Schedule.\n\nII. Rights acquired, Liabilities incurred, and Acts done, at or before the passing of this Ordinance, Rights acquired, &c., shall not be affected by the said Enactments, or any of them.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 14th Day of February, 1857.\n\nL. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,\n\nDate of &c.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 25.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 64.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 94.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 97.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 113.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 120.\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nTHE SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.\n\nTitle or Subject-matter of Act.\n\nAn Act to amend the Law relating to ) Drafts on Bankers.\n\nAn Act to repeal Certain Statutes which are not in use.\n\nAn Act for the uniform Administration of Intestates' Estates.\n\nAn Act to amend the Laws of England and Ireland affecting Trade and Commerce.\n\nAn Act to provide for taking Evidence in Her Majesty's Dominions in relation to Civil and Commercial matters pending before Foreign Tribunals.\n\nAn Act to facilitate Leases and Sales of settled Estates.\n\nnot to be affected.\n\nHow much of the Act is extended by this Ordinance.\n\nThe whole of the Act.\n\nThe whole of the Act\n\nThe whole of the Act (except in so far as it may be deemed to affect the customs or usages of Chinese people, touching the distribution of the personal estate of Chinese persons dying intestate.)\n\nThe whole of the Act.\n\nSo much of the Act as is not now in force within this Colony and its Dependencies, with the exception of the Proviso contained at the end of Section Six.\n\nCustomary hold Estates, and also except Sections Thirty, Thirty-one, Forty-two, Forty-three, Forty-four, Forty-five, and Forty-six.\n\nThe whole of the Act except so much thereof as relates to Copyhold and",
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        "content_text": "182 \n\nQuestion negatived. \n\n## The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n[JUNE 12, 1858. \nJUNE 12, 1858.] \n\nThe Governor put the question,-That the word \"**Seven**\" before the word \"Years\" be struck out, and that the word \"**Three**\" be substituted. \n\n56 \n\nCouncil divided. \n\nQuestion passed. \n\n**Ayes (5)**. \n- MR LYALL. \n- CHIEF MAGISTRATE. \n- SURVEYOR GENERAL. \n- COLONIAL TREASURER. \n- ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. \n\n**Noes (3)**. \n- MR DENT. \n- ATTORNEY GENERAL. \n- CHIEF JUSTICE. \n\nThe Governor put the question,-That the said Clause as amended stand part of the Ordinance. Council divided. \n\nQuestion passed. \n\n**Ayes (5)**. \n- COLONIAL TREASURER. \n- MR DENT. \n- ATTORNEY GENERAL. \n- ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. \n- CHIEF JUSTICE. \n\n**Noes (3)**. \n- MR LYALL. \n- CHIEF MAGISTRATE. \n- SURVEYOR GENERAL. \n\nSection 6 made Section 5, and amended. \n\nSections 7 and 8, renumbered as Sections 6 and 7, and adopted. \n\nOrdered, that the said Ordinance as amended be published in the Government Gazette. \n\nThe Governor laid on the Table Draft Ordinance \"for the Prevention of Offences touching Securities, Sales, and Deposits.\" \n\nIt was read a first time, and ordered to be circulated amongst Members. \n\nThe Governor laid on the Table Draft Ordinance \"for Practitioners in Law,\" and the same having been read a first time,- \n\nThe Chief Justice, by leave, presented the following Memorial and Petition of the Hongkong Law Society,\n\n### To the Honourable JOHN WALTER HULME, Esquire, Chief Justice of the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n**THE HUMBLE MEMORIAL OF THE HONGKONG LAW SOCIETY.**\n\nWe, your Memorialists, look to your Lordship, as the common head of both Branches of the Legal Profession, to protect us against an insidious attempt, now being made, to deprive us of our just rights and privileges, under the specious pretext of the amalgamation of the two Branches, thereby pretending to give to us equal advantages and position with the Barristers. \n\nNone in this Colony knows so well as your Lordship the reasons for the division of the profession into Barristers and Attornies, and the advantage gained to the Community thereby, and that the assistance which the Court expects, and so often receives, from the learning and research of an intelligent Bar, and which could not be expected from the legal education of an Attorney, is not lightly to be disregarded. \n\nYour Lordship, in the discussion of points of Law before you, would hardly lose sight of the fact, that an Attorney was addressing you in one case, and a Barrister in another, and however desirous you might be to give a fair and equal attention to the arguments of each, it would be more than could be expected of humanity that you should pay equal regard to them. \n\nWe conceive that an amalgamation would be very prejudicial and unfair to us, and of no advantage to the Community, who, not regarding expense, may have all they can desire under the present system. \n\nWe beg leave to hand to your Lordship, for presentation to the Legislative Council, the accompanying Petition, which more fully expresses our views, and we humbly request your Lordship to give such effect to the prayer thereof in the Legislative Council, as your Lordship may deem just and equitable. We have the honour to be, your Lordship's obedient servants, \n\n**THE HONGKONG LAW SOCIETY.**\n\nThat the Attornies, Solicitors, and Proctors are the general practitioners, who are not expected to possess profound knowledge of any particular branch of Law, but to have a general knowledge of all, and to be expert in collecting and arranging facts with a view to the application of the Law to them in every branch, which latter duty devolves on the Barrister. \n\nThat there has been no public demonstration or expression of opinion, other than the above mentioned memorial,-no complaint has been made against your Petitioners' branch of the legal profession, and your Petitioners have been informed, and have good reason to believe, that the Memorial emanated from two individuals only, and that by means of house to house solicitation, and friendly persuasion, several of the Memorialists were induced to subscribe the Memorial, in the belief that the Solicitors of Hongkong were favourable to the amalgamation, and many who could know nothing of the effect of the proposed change, added their names for the simple reason that others had signed before them, and your Petitioners affirm that such Memorial is no reasonable or intelligent reflection of the matured opinion of any part of the Community possessing competent information on the subject upon which they solicit the interference of the Legislature, and that, moreover, but few of them have Law business of any magnitude to transact. \n\nThat your Petitioners submit, that even if such Memorial were a bond fide exposition of the sentiments of the Community, it was, having regard to the want of representation in the Colony, an unconstitutional course to adopt, with a view to such an important legislative measure as the destruction of the relative distinctions between Barristers and Solicitors, without reason or evidence, and without regarding the rights of those most interested in the question, and your Petitioners humbly but firmly remonstrate against the fact, that two Members of the Legislative Council were the first to sign a memorial to the Attorney General, himself a Member of the Council, and not a disinterested person in the present question, to solicit an alteration which they themselves would, in their Legislative capacity, be called upon to make, the Signatures of those two Members of the Legislative Council being, as your Petitioners assert, the principal, if not sole cause of the signatures which followed, and tending materially to influence other Members of the Council.\n\nThat bearing in mind the fact, that the Barrister in this Colony has to undertake advising in every branch of the Law, your Petitioners submit that the necessity for a division of the profession is greater here than in England, and that the advocacy of \"unrestricted competition\" in legal knowledge between Barristers and Attornies, in the circumstances above detailed, merely shews that those who advocate it have not made themselves competent to form a judgment on the subject. \n\nThat your Petitioners believe the Memorial to have originated in a spirit hostile to their branch of the profession, covertly supported by certain members of the Bar, and that the real object of the Memorialists is to benefit those members of the Bar at the expense of your Petitioners, a real and complete amalgamation being, as your Petitioners submit, simply impossible, and an imaginary one, being destructive of the rights and privileges of your Petitioners, to which they are entitled in exchange for their disabilities, the supervision by the Courts in which they practise of their conduct and charges, and a laborious and expensive training. \n\nThat your Petitioners doubt the competency of a Colonial Government to make the change proposed, but they humbly submit, that before any attempt should be made at legislation on the subject, your Honourable Council should appoint a Committee to take evidence, before which Committee the persons who signed the Memorial, and others could be examined, and state their views and grievances, and your Petitioners might be allowed to defend themselves against that which is intended to cause destruction to their branch of their profession, without giving them any compensation, and deprive them of the undoubted right of every Briton, that of being heard before being condemned. \n\nThat, as an additional reason for proceeding with all caution in such a proposed change, your Petitioners would beg respectfully to call the attention of the Council to the fact, that in Canada, where an amalgamation of the profession nominally, although not really, exists, a call is being made at the present time for a distinct separation of the two branches. \n\nYour Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the said Memorial and this Petition may be referred to an independent Committee or Commission to take evidence, and report thereon, before any attempt be made to legislate on the subject of the memorial. And your Petitioners in duty bound will ever pray, &c., \n\n**THE HONGKONG LAW SOCIETY.**\n\nJune, 1856. \n\nAnd the same having been read and received,- \n\nBy their Secretary, \n**EDWARD K. STACE.**\n\nIt was moved by the Chief Justice, seconded by the Attorney General, and carried unanimously, that the said Memorial and Petition be printed in the Government Gazette. Ordered, that the said Ordinance be printed in the Government Gazette, for general information. \n\nThe Council adjourned till Tuesday, the 15th instant, at 12 o'clock. \n\n### No. 53.\n\nBy Order of His Excellency The Governor, \n**L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.**\n\n5th June, 1858. \n\nBy their Secretary, \n**EDWARD K. STACE.**\n\nTo His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Governor of Hongkong, and its Dependencies, &c., &c., &c., in Legislative Council. \n\nSheweth,- \n\n**THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE HONGKONG LAW SOCIETY.**\n\nThat in the Hongkong Government Gazette, of the Twenty-ninth of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-eight, Memorial was published, purporting to have been signed by Fifty-one Mercantile and Trading Firms of Hongkong, addressed to the Attorney General, in which an opinion was expressed that the distinction between Barristers and Solicitors in this Colony was unnecessary, and that great benefit would result to the Memorialists, and their fellow citizens, were an amalgamation to be effected between the two branches of the Legal Profession here. And further stating, that they did not desire the change on account of the expenses attending legal proceedings, as they knew they must be necessarily high in this place, but that they could see no sufficient reason why they should be compelled to employ two advisers when it would be much more convenient for them to confide the whole of their law matters to one, and that the conviction had been long gaining on them, that in a young and small community like ours, there should be but one class of practitioners, and that unrestricted competition between all the properly admitted members of the Supreme Court, would be a great improvement on the existing state of things. \n\nThat no reasons are given in the Memorial, except the convenience of confiding law matters to one adviser, and the inability of the Memorialists to perceive any sufficient reason for a state of things which has existed in England at least ever since the time of King Henry the Third, and has been found convenient and beneficial wherever the British Laws prevail, and under which the Memorialists, if they do not regard the expense, as they assert, can have all the convenience which they desire. \n\nThat your Petitioners are at a loss to understand the conviction of the Memorialists, that in a young and small community there should be but one class of practitioners, when it is borne in mind that in such a young and small community there has been introduced, under the auspices of the present Attorney General, and there is now in full operation, all the technical, artificial, and complicated machinery of the Law as existing at home, with the addition of the numerous local laws which the position of this Colony has rendered necessary. \n\nThat the Memorialists appear to have overlooked the fact, that in England there is not only the distinction of Barrister and Attorney and Solicitor, but that the subdivision between Barrister and Barrister in different branches of the Law is as distinct as between Barrister and Attorney. There are the Common Law Barrister, the Equity Draughtsman, the Conveyancing Counsel, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency and Criminal Law Counsel, and the Advocate of the Admiralty Court, and again there are Special Pleaders and Conveyancers, who, not being Counsel, relieve them of some of their most difficult duties.\n\n### PROCLAMATION.\n\nBy His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China. \n\nWhereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable The Lord Stanley, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming Ordinance No. 1 of 1858, entitled— \n\"An Ordinance for Criminal Procedure\"\n\nNow therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as foresaid. \n\nBy His Excellency's Command, \n**GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.**\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 8th Day of June, 1858.\n\n### No. 54.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.**\n\n**W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.**\n\nThe following Admiralty Regulations respecting Lights to be carried by Sea-going British Ships, which are to come into operation on the 1st of October next, are published for the information of all Persons interested. \n\nBy Order, \nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th June, 1858. \n**W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.**",
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        "content_text": "582 \n\ndemanded by the Chief Authorities, in the discovery of secret and unlawful meetings, or of the service I have rendered in the suppression of piracy on the Coast of China, in which service, being exposed to the weather day and night, my health has suffered very materially, my life has been jeopardised frequently, and what I consider worse than all, from being actively employed (for in detecting criminals, I may, I think, boldly assert that I have been the only detective officer of the Police) I have become most obnoxious to all the loose character in and about Hong Kong. At one time a placard was posted in Tasan offering a large reward for my head.\n\nThe Records of the Police, the Hon. R. Stewart Massie, J. O'Callaghan, I.I.C.D., Navy Yard Station, and Police and Supreme Courts would show the nature and extent of my services in matters connected with the shore, and with respect to the suppression of piracy. I am only able to give the attestations of some of the captains of Her Majesty's Ships with whom and their officers I have been engaged in that service.\n\nAnd in support of this statement, I beg to attach copy of a letter from the Colonial Secretary enclosing copy of a letter from Comr. Way, and also copy of a letter from His Excellency Sir M. Seys to His Excellency the Governor on the subject.\n\nI may further state with respect to my services as Chinese Interpreter, that for several years I performed the duty of Interpreter in the Portuguese and Sindovstani.\n\n## Attestations \n\n| Name | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| W. Hands | Lt. at Fishbourne |\n| W. W. K. Hall | Lt. Wainwright |\n| Cracroft | Lt. (in the margin) |\n| Parker | Lt. Hancock |\n| Leeard | Lt. |\n| Foray | Lt. |\n| Fellowes | It. |\n| Soseason | Lt. |\n| Lockyer | Lt. |\n| Paice | Lt. at Palliser |\n| Rt. Hon. Viscount | Zitford | \n| N. 2. |  |\n| N. 3. |  |",
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        "content_text": "H\n\n10\n\nthe Department.\n\nThe duties of Shipping Master also are conducted by me, and between the 14th of January & 14th May (5 months) 2588 seamen have been shipped, and 1646 discharged and I think I may venture to assert that there is no other Port with anything like the number of Vessels and amount of Tonnage, of the seamen entered and discharged, that has a separate Shipping Office with a suitable Establishment.\n\nConnected also with the shipping duties are those of visiting and regulating Seamen's Boarding Houses - an office of no little difficulty and trouble from the number of disputes that are referred to me. There are likewise some minor duties such as administering the effects of deceased Seamen; and I would begin to observe that, while extraneous duties have been accumulating on the Harbor Master, his salary remains nominally the same as it was when he held that office only, but in reality, it is considerably less; as, since he has been deprived of the quarters on Harbor Master's Hill (which he held under Despatches from the Colonial Office\n\nAs an\n\n#39 of 25 January #8458 43539 July equivalents for salary for performing the duties of Marine Magistrate) he has been obliged to provide himself with a house.\n\nI have therefore to request you will be pleased to move the Honorable the Lieutenant Governor to forward this statement to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, for his Lordship's decision as to whether I am to continue carrying out the duties of admeasuring Vessels devolved on me by the Ordinance No.44 of the 32nd of March 1858; and further whether the Despatches No.39 of 25 January 1835 and No.353 of 4th July 1846, on the subject of Free quarters, are to be cancelled.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nCapt. W. J. Watson\n\nShipping Master & Marine Magistrate\n\nPage 10\n\n[Three lines for page numbering are kept as is below, assuming they were part of the original scan]\n\nPage ...\n\n[End of File]",
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        "content_text": "Mr Pauncefote's assertions so relate to threats being used, relying, however, as he evidently did upon the imperfect statement of his Clerk: But I have very much to regret that in your letter of the 16th Instant you should so positively assert that \"There is no reason to doubt, as you do doubt, Mr Pauncefote's statement that the money was offered at the Treasury on the 3rd Instant\" when there is not a single sentence, not a single word in my second communication that can bear such an interpretation. Indeed, let me draw your attention to the first Paragraph of my letter as before, it does not convey inferentially to your mind the admission that a clerk did call to pay Mr Pauncefote's Rate, but that he misunderstood what might in substance have been said to him, i.e., that the warrant to recover the amount overdue had passed from the Treasury to the Board of Summary Jurisdiction to whom application had been made.\n\nAs to my statement that I had no doubt that the occupant of Lot W: 145 \"was and is included in the List\" submitted on the 4th Instant to the Court, I conceived in that case, although I had no doubt in my mind upon the matter, that in the absence of Mr Hyndman, my only reliable authority in such cases, being dependent on his staff for information, it would not have been wise to express myself in more positive terms when, owing to Mr Hyndman's having omitted before he left the Treasury to retain a copy of the Papers put in Court.\n\nThe fourth paragraph of your letter contains the following sentence: \"So much for your first explanatory paragraph.\"",
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        "title": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]",
        "content_text": "302\n\nOrdinales incon-\n\nsistent herewith repealed.\n\nPenalties how recoverable.\n\nTitle.\n\nSection II of\n\nOrdinance No, 3 of\n\n1859 repealed.\n\nNo Transaction of Business by the\n\nbetween the 20th\n\nOctober.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28тH JULY, 1866.\n\nXX. All Ordinances or portions of Ordinances inconsistent with the Provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.\n\nXXI. All Penalties imposed under this Ordinance shall be recovered and distributed in the manner provided by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.\n\nmay\n\nbe\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative\n\nCouncil thereof, for altering the Time of the Vacation of the Supreme Court.\n\nBe it enacted and ordained by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\nI. Section II of Ordinance No. 3 of 1859 is hereby repealed.\n\nII. Except for the Purpose of issuing Writs, receiving Petitions or completing Supreme Court, &c., any Sessions, Hearing, Inquiry or Trial actually commenced on or before the Day next hereinafter mentioned, no Business shall be transacted by the Supreme Court, or the Offices connected therewith, from the Evening of the Twentieth Day of August in each Year until the Morning of the Twelfth Day of October then next following: Provided may direct re-opening nevertheless, that it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time to direct the business of the Supreme Court to be resumed during the period above named, and to make any other Order in the Premises which to the said Governor may seem expedient and necessary for the Public interests and convenience.\n\nProviso. Governor\n\nof Court,\n\nNo. 115.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nAt the request of Commodore JONES, the following Hydrographic Notice respecting a Rock North Eastward of the Lammock Islands, and also respecting Mackinnon Rock, is published for the information of Mariners, and others whom it may concern.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th July, 1866.\n\nW. H. RENNIE, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nMr. Tizard, Master R.N., and Chief Assistant Surveyor of H.M.S. Rifleman, having, under the orders of Commodore O. J. Jones, proceeded to Swatow for the purpose of searching for certain rocks in the neighbourhood of that port, the result is hereby made known for general information.\n\nJNO. WM. REED, Master Commanding H.M.S. “Rifleman,\"\n\nand in Charge of China Sea Survey.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28тa JULY, 1866.\n\n30204\n\nMACKINNON ROCK, in the Channel between Namoa and the Lamock Islands, on which the Ellen Rodger struck in 1862, is a dangerous coral pinnacle with only & feet on it at low water. From it, the North-west point of Plat Island bears S. 62 W., three quarters of a mile. East extremity of Oeste Rock S. 14° E., 14 mile. Apex of Bluff Rock S. 50° E., 2 miles, and Apex of Dome Island N. 65° E., 2 miles.\n\nMr. Boxer, Master in Command of H.M.S. Hesper, reported another Rock in this Channel a little to the Eastward of the Mackinnon Rock. This danger was searched for in the Drake without success, and the fishermen most positively asserted that no other Rock than the Mackinnon exists in the Channel. We are therefore of opinion, that Mr. Boxer must have seen the Mackinnon Rock, the difference in position may be ascribed to the fact of the Hesper being an iron vessel, and, in consequence, the bearings taken from the Compasses cannot be implicitly relied on.\n\nTo avoid this danger, vessels entering the Channel from the Westward, should not bring Plat Island to the Westward of S.W. by S., whilst Dome Island is Northward of an E. by N. bearing; when Oeste Rock bears S. by W., they are to the Eastward of the Mackinnon Rock, and can haul to the Southward.\n\nEntering the Channel from the Eastward, after passing Dome Island steer to the Northward until it bears E. by N., keeping it on that bearing until Plat Island bears S.W. by S.\n\nNo. 116.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nT. H. TIZARD, Master H.N. and Chief Assistant Surveyor H.M.S, “Rifleman,\"\n\nAt the request of Commodore JONES, the following Extract respecting a Rock, North of Quemoy Island, is published for the information of Mariners, and others whom it may concern.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th July, 1866.\n\nW. H. RENNIE, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Gunboat Grasshopper drawing about eight feet of water when North of Quemoy Island, off Chimney Hill, on 23rd June, 1866, reports:~~\n\n\"Touched a Rock, which is not laid down in the Admiralty Chart, the depth of water at the time all round the ship \"with the exception of the spot where she touched, which was before the foremast, was 34 fathoms, it being low water at the \"time, the gun-boat did not remain there more than 3 minutes.\n\n\"The following are the bearings:-\n\n\"Chimney Hill..\n\n\"Centre Hill.. \"Ship's Head.\n\nTrue Extract,\n\nOLIVER J. JONES,\n\nCommodore.\n\n.S.E. by S.\n\nWest.\n\nN.W.N.\"\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. C. PATTERSON,\n\nLieutenant Commander.\n\nHongkong, 20th July, 1866.\n\nHYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE. CHINA, EAST COAST.\n\nSHEET 3, AND NAMOA ISLAND.\n\nFariation 0 0'.\n\nLAMOCK ISLANDS.—The two small Islands North-eastward of the East Lamock Islands are, with reference to East Lamock Island, incorrectly laid down on the Chart; they should be farther to the South-eastward. Assuming East Lamock Island to be correctly laid down; from its South-east point the North Rock bears N. 38° E. instead of N. 22° E., and the Island between North Rock and East Lamock Island bears from the South-east point of East Lamock Island N. 29° E. instead of N, 15° E., as shewn on the Chart, (see Admiralty Chart, Namoa Island, No. 1957.)\n\nThe distances shewn on the Chart are correct. The South-east extremity of East Lamock Island is in line with the South-east extremity of North Kock on the bearing S. 42° W. iustead of S. 25o W.\n\nFrom the North-east point of North Rock the observed true bearing of Dome Island was found to be N. 67° 50′ W., agreeing with the Chart.\n\nTIMES ROCK situated to the North-eastward of the Lamock Islands, originally reported by Mr. Anderson of the schooner Times, (vide China Pilot, p. 104,) and on which several vessels have recently struck, is a dangerous coral pinnacle with only 9 feet over it at low water. From it the North Rock of Lamock Islands bears S. 37° W., distant a little over a mile; and Dome Island N. 73° 30′ W., distant 12 miles.\n\nWhen on the Rock the East bluff of East Lamock Island is just scen open Westward of the Western apex of North Rock, the extremes of the Islands subtending an angle of 13° 11'.\n\nThe High Lamock, opens North-westward of East Lamock clears the Rock to the North-westward; and opens South-eastward of it, clears the Rock to the South-eastward.\n\nTo avoid this danger, the angle subtended by the Lamock Islands should not be greater than 10°, when the High Lamook is shut in.\n\nThe Times, and other vessels placed this Rock farther from the Islands, but on nearly the same bearing as given above. The distance, which with them must have been mere guess work, was carefully measured from H. M. gun-boat Drake, whilst at anchor on the Rock. Its position as marked on the Admiralty Chart, from the authority of Mr. Anderson, was sounded over, but no danger could be discovered, and the fishermen, who were offered a reward to point out any other Rocks, assert that none other exist in that vicinity.\n\nNo. 117.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nIt is hereby notified that His Excellency the GOVERNOR has appointed N. R. MASSON, Esquire, to be a Cathedral Trustee on behalf of the Government for the Year 1866-67, vice JOHN SIMPSON, Esquire, resigned.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th July, 1866.\n\nPOST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.\n\nW. H. RENNIE, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nIt is hereby notified for general information that henceforward Correspondence addressed to Italy will be liable to the following rates of postage which must be paid in advance, viz.:\n\nUnder an ounce in weighs\n\n24 cents.\n\nFOR A LETTER Above ounce but not exceeding 1 ounce in weight, 48 cents.\n\nNEWSPAPERS\n\n2 cents each.\n\nFor every additional ounce.\n\n48 cents.\n\nIt is to be understood that these rates cover the postage on such Correspondence to Alexandria only, leaving the postage for its conveyance from Alexandria to Italy to be collected on delivery.\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 25th July, 1866.\n\nF. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.",
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        "content_text": "Wengtong R:139\n\n15th October 1866\n\nGunna\n\nWie Richard Graves MacDonnell\n\nRight Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Carnarvon\n\nStamp Ordinance.\n\nCs.\n\nMemorial against addressed\n\nCarl of Observations\n\nCarnarvon -\n\non-\n\nmy st 7\n\nAll the previous papers\n\ndannutul with this 200.\n\nMW. Ellut\n\ncirculation, but\n\nStamp Ordinan\n\nbalevi board Camaron\n\nCla\n\nDeputation\n\nthe sabert\n\nI foward\n\nen w\n\n2 Enclosures.\n\nt jou\n\ndirfalit\n\nTHE STAMP ACT MEMORIAL.\n\nTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CARNARVON, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.\n\nTHE HUMBLE MEMORIAL OF THE UNDERSIGNED RESIDENTS OF HONGKONG.\n\nSHEWETH, That a Memorial against the Proposed Stamp Ordinance signed by nearly the whole of the Community of Hongkong (exclusive of Chinese) was presented to His Excellency the Governor on the Fifth day of September last.\n\nThat on the Tenth day of September the Committee for preparation and presentation of the said Memorial received from His Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, a Communication commenting upon the said Memorial, and upon the Protest lodged against the Ordinance by the non-Official Members of the Legislative Council, and which professed to answer, or deal with, the said Memorial and the subject thereof.\n\nThe Memorial and His Excellency's Communication or Reply having been forwarded to Your Lordship, Your Memorialists now proceed to beg, that Your Lordship will give to that Memorial, that careful and dispassionate consideration to which they consider the expressed wishes of the Community are entitled, upon a question so vital to their interest, as the mode in which the amount of all necessary expenditure for the Colony of Hongkong is to be raised, in the event of the existing Revenue being insufficient, and would hereby ask Your Lordship to assure yourself, that they do not object to any necessary expenditure being made, or to pay for it, but they do object to additional taxation for items of expenditure not strictly required by existing circumstances, and they protest against any such amount being raised in a manner likely to be prejudicial to their interests.\n\nYour Memorialists will not reiterate the arguments advanced by the Memorial already referred to, as they conceive they have not been, except in the single instance of the Sum of $4,000 for roads at Kowloon, answered or weakened, but they purpose respectfully submitting to Your Lordship some considerations arising upon the Reply of His Excellency the Governor.\n\nHis Excellency, in that Document, asserts that the Original Memorialists did not represent the Community, and to this Your Memorialists beg to say, that it was signed by the whole of the Banks, the entire Mercantile Community with the exception of one American and one German firm, and (excepting of course Government servants) by nearly all other residents who either as professional men, large landholders, or in other ways, have any stake in the prosperity and welfare of the Colony.\n\nSince His Excellency's assertion that the Asiatic residents who pay 4/7ths of the existing Ordinary Revenue did not assent to the Memorial was made, His Excellency has received a Memorial against (amongst other things) the proposed system of taxation, signed by all the important Chinese residents of every class, and the fact of the principal Chinese traders in the Colony being desirous of paying any required sum in any other manner than by Stamp imposts is indisputable.\n\nIn opposition to the Memorial, His Excellency appears to have received \"argout remonstrances from several gentlemen\" whose names however are not disclosed, Your Memorialists feel certain that Your Lordship will judge rightly of the status of those few persons, who, even in defending a Government Measure, withhold their names, when contrasted with the conduct of that enormous majority of the Community, who give their names and positions as guarantees for their public acts, and for the sincerity and honesty of their motives.\n\nHis Excellency seems to find his strongest, if not his sole argument for the Stamp Tax, in an alleged analogy in position and circumstances between Hongkong and Singapore, but Your Memorialists emphatically deny the existence of any such analogy. Singapore, it is true, is a Mart or Emporium for the purchase of the products of the surrounding Countries, but there is the significant fact in addition, that purchasers are not likely to go anywhere else if the Straits or adjacent Parts because the same (or in the case of Java, larger) taxes exist wherever they could go, and also because there is no other place where the business could be carried on with so many advantages and facilities of every kind, while a considerable portion of the business transacted at Hongkong was formerly carried on at Canton, and could be carried on in most instances at two or three other places with equal facilities. Again, in Singapore, the Chinese population have settled and become Colonists, the majority of them being by birth British Subjects and having their families resident there, while the Chinese in Hongkong are, with a few marked exceptions, entirely a migratory and shifting population, who have no ties, either of family or birth, to connect them with the Colony, a most important distinction when analogy of circumstances is used as the main argument for one mode of taxation over another.\n\nHis Excellency appears to have misconceived that portion of the Memorial which alludes to the \"expansiveness\" of this peculiar system of taxation as being one of its greatest evils, as, in the Document now under comment, His Excellency addresses himself to some imaginary objections against the \"expansive powers of a Stamp Ordinance,\" whereas the Memorial never alluded to the expansiveness of the Ordinance, but of the system of taxation. That His Excellency has failed to conceive the meaning intended to be expressed by the Memorial, is obvious from the fact of his not, in the slightest way, alluding to the grave reason advanced as the ground of the objection, and though Your Memorialists cannot believe that the Justice of the reasoning will fail to attract Your Lordship's attention, it will be as well if they point out specifically, that it is not the levying of $120,000 for this year by a Stamp impost that is so objectionable, but it is because the Colonial Government by resorting to this entirely new source of Revenue, announces, in fact, that all existing modes of taxation have failed, and that, to raise even this comparatively small sum, no local taxation can be devised, and, as a consequence, that in future all monies required, for whatever purpose or object, cannot be raised except by means of Stamps, or in other words, by taxing Trade.\n\nIt did not want His Excellency's assertion to convince Your Memorialists that the present Ordinance could not be extended beyond its legitimate extent, but it is self-evident to them that once the principle of the taxation is admitted, it is a much easier matter to pass a supplemental or new Ordinance, with an amended or additional Schedule.\n\nYour Memorialists think that the dread of increased Stamp imposts, which is what they believe will decrease the existing trade, and prevent its growth or increase, will rather be enhanced than lessened, by His Excellency's intimation that he hopes always to see the usual expenditure in the Surveyor General's Department, and \"that such expenditure will never be less than in recent years,\" because, judging from the bitter experience of past years, the expenditure of this Department has been so improvident that, in too many instances, the expenditure of the one year, has entailed an additional outlay or charge on the Revenue of the succeeding years, and, if this new principle of taxation is to be introduced solely to spend a certain sum per annum, Your Memorialists may well pray for \"finality in progress\" in this direction, as even without such a class of expenditure, it is clear that in the event of any unforeseen exigency, demanding expenditure either large or small, it will have to be made up by increased Stamp imposts if the present Policy is persisted in.\n\nYour Memorialists again bring to Your Lordship's notice that while they object to the Principle of the proposed Tax, and earnestly deprecate the initiation of such a radical change in the Policy which has hitherto, in their opinion, so wisely been followed here in all matters relating to Revenue, they are strongly impressed with the belief that no increased taxation whatever is necessary and that the existing Revenue will be found ample to meet any expenditure that is really called for or required in the Colony. Representing, as they assert themselves to represent, every class in the Community (Government Servants excepted), they sincerely believe that it will be far better in the interests of the Colony, and its residents of all walks in life, that, in the event of any increased taxation becoming actually necessary, it should be raised, as hitherto, by direct local taxation, than by incurring, what Your Memorialists believe to be, a certain risk of causing the withdrawal, or diminution, of that Trade, upon which alone the Colony exists, and of diverting from it that enormous capital, which is at present attracted here for investment or employment.\n\nYour Memorialists might, and can, controvert many of the statements and conclusions appearing in His Excellency's Reply, but their object is not to make Your Lordship the arbiter in a controversy between the Governor and the Colonists, but to endeavour to impress upon Your Lordship's mind that though they do not object to pay all necessary expenditure, they are sincere in their conviction that no increase of taxation is at present called for and, even if it be, that the mode of raising the money will be prejudicial to their interests and those of the Colony at large...\n\nYour Memorialists therefore humbly beg Your Lordship to advise Her Most Gracious Majesty to refuse the Royal Confirmation to the Stamp Ordinance.",
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        "content_text": "276\n\nYour Memorialists again bring to your Lordship's notice that while they object to the Principle of the proposed Tax, and earnestly deprecate the initiation of such a radical change in the Policy which has hitherto, in their opinion, so wisely been followed here in all matters relating to Revenue, they are strongly impressed with the belief that no increased taxation whatever is necessary and that the existing Revenue will be found ample to meet any expenditure that is really called for or required in the Colony. Representing, as they assert themselves to represent, every class in the Community (Government Servants excepted,) they sincerely believe that it will be far better in the interests of the Colony, and its residents of all walks in life, that, in the event of any increased taxation becoming actually necessary, it should be raised, as hitherto, by direct local taxation, than by incurring, what your Memorialists believe to be, a certain risk of causing the withdrawal, or diminution, of that Trade, upon which alone the Colony exists, and of diverting from it that enormous capital, which is at present attracted here for investment or employment.\n\nYour Memorialists might, and can, controvert many of the statements and conclusions appearing in His Excellency's Reply, but their object is not to make your Lordship the arbiter in a controversy between the Governor and the Colonists, but to endeavour to impress upon your Lordship's mind that though they do not object to pay all necessary expenditure, they are sincere in their conviction that no increase of taxation is at present called for and, even if it be, that this mode of raising the money will be prejudicial to their interests and those of the Colony at large.\n\nYour Memorialists therefore humbly beg your Lordship to advise Her Most Gracious Majesty to refuse the Royal Confirmation to the Stamp Ordinance.\n\nVictoria\n\nHong Kong\n\n1st October 1866.",
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        "content_text": "Fine then much to his very satisfaction with the arrangements. On the second occasion however the Fire became much too extensive to be controlled by 14 individual only and, though the Papers assert that the arrangements were better than at the first fire, I am of quite the contrary opinion and whilst giving Mr Mary every credit for what he did, I think it a great pity that considering assistants for the Fire Brigade had then been appointed - the Superintendent did not ask the assistance of such persons - as he thought most competent to afford him aid in carrying out some general system for the suppression of the Fire.\n\n8. My experience at these and other Fires and the attention I have been giving to the subject during this enquiry induces me to offer some Suggestions regarding future arrangements but as these suggestions hardly come within the scope of His Excellency's Memorandum I have embodied them in a separate letter.\n\n(Signed) W. H. Rennie, \nAuditor General's Office, \nHong Kong, 20th September, 1868.\n\nGardiner Meets Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nover their Gambling brethren. The Committee little know what a door they proposed to open to the vilest corruption and chicanery when they suggested the controlling of Gambling at Hongkong by Chinese Tithings, and Frank pledges!\n\n19. His Excellency is unable to follow the reasoning of the Committee in the other portions of Par. 9 of their Memorial, because he can only state as the general result of the most determined efforts on the part of himself and all his subordinates, that, whatever might have been the varying nature of his expectations from time to time, he has long been convinced of the impossibility of putting down Gambling by any Police which it is possible to procure here, or even with the best Police in the world, if they could be procured, and were stationed Six Months here.\n\n20. Sooner than recur to the infamous Past His Excellency would prefer legalising Gambling of all descriptions in the Colony, which is the only alternative that he thinks practicable, but he has steadily declined to bear a part voluntarily in continuing the sham which the Committee unwittingly recommend.\n\n21. It is easy for the latter to say that the honest policy now followed detracts from \"the free and noble institutions of the Colony, which were one day to stand as a model to work the regeneration of the Chinese Empire.\" Do the Committee seriously think that the shrewd natives of China respected this Government a whit more, either for its intelligence or its efficiency, when the laws of the Colony merely rendered an irrepressible vice more dangerous and odious, whilst it brought to light the venality of the paid guardians of the Law? Or do the Committee recommend that Public men instead of seeking to effect the greatest amount of good and shape their policy by what is itself right and practically most beneficial, should rather aim at a style of \"ad captandum\" Legislation, tinselled and varnished to catch the applause of vapid declaimers, but ill fitted to win the approval of earnest men, thoroughly understanding the question, and filled with a conscientious sense of their responsibility?\n\n22. His Excellency has not the slightest doubt, that this Government is really more respected now, especially since none but Chinese have been permitted to enter the Licensed Houses. The natives knew long ago that the Government was unable to suppress illegal Gaming Haunts. They know now that the Government is honest enough to confess it. They also know that crime in the Colony is reduced more than a third, whilst larceny amongst servants, a crime generally traceable to Gaming losses, is 75 per cent less than it had been before the Licenses were issued.\n\n23. The Governor further denies the existence of that \"great scandal and discontent\" at the Government policy, which the Committee assert to prevail “here and on the Coast of China.\" That policy was inaugurated with the unanimous approval of the Executive and Legislative Councils. It has been, for a series of years, a measure favored by the local experience of each Governor and his advisers. It has now been removed from the region of mere speculation and experiment, and proves that it is possible by its agency to suppress the gross evils inseparable from illegal Gambling dens of iniquity. Moreover, the \"scandal and discontent\" are each comparatively limited, as well in duration as extent, for, here they are chiefly but recently generated by the reaction of an agitation maintained in England by well meaning persons, ignorant of the circumstances which have produced and which justify that policy. Such ignorance is perhaps natural, but the comparisons of Hongkong with Heligoland and Baden most forcibly and aptly illustrate the unfounded inferences to which it leads.\n\n24. Therefore unless by direct command of Her Majesty's Government, with which the responsibility of the change would then rest, His Excellency is not prepared to abandon the important results already obtained for any mere sentimental objection, or because a Revenue still irrepressibly arises from the policy, by which on the whole the greatest good can be effected. He would personally be delighted to get rid of that Revenue, if the Committee would only make some practicable suggestion enabling him to do so without sacrificing the power, which he now has, over the Licensees, and which as yet, he sees no safe means of dispensing with.\n\n25. In conclusion I have to state that His Excellency, well aware he had no actual claim on the Committee's attention, except to request their correction of a misstatement by them of a fact. Nevertheless, as a Member of their Association he craves indulgence for the additional remarks which he has instructed me to make on a subject of some interest to a body established to discuss the most important Social questions.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble Servant,\n\nW. Gardiner Austin  \nColonial Secretary.\n\nPage 150  \nPage 151",
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        "content_text": "266\n\nas purpose, all the Foreign Population under Police supervision should, in fairness, be included in Hong-kong, as well as Shanghai. The Census Returns from which that total was taken do not profess to include soldiers and seamen. Now, the Foreign Population, including seamen and soldiers, as well as residents and others from Goa, Manila and India, has for years been more than double the number stated by Mr. JOHNSTON, and was, at the last Census, shown to be 7,699, a number which at once makes an error of more than 50 per cent in all Mr. JOHNSTON's comparative statements. (Vide Appendix A.)\n\n5. Again, it may be true that there are 113 Europeans, and 328 Indians in the Police of Hongkong, and only 39 European Police at Shanghai, if the Consular staff, and that of the Supreme Court be omitted. It is not, however, true, as assumed by Mr. JOHNSTON (par. 7), that the Chinese portion of the force is useful only against Natives, which assertion is evidently intended to lead the reader to infer that the Foreign Police are useful only against Foreigners. There is no such distinction. The European and Native Force act indiscriminately, whether in the city, or whether in the outlying villages and harbor, which latter duties alone engage 200 of the force.\n\n6. The proportion, therefore, of Hongkong Police to the total population-121,000-which it supervises is 1 to 191, and the proportion of Foreign Police to Foreign residents is nearly 1 to 70.\n\n7. Misstatements of the materiel and working of the Police force are, however, of little consequence compared with the unnoticed fact that in Shanghai there is only a small level and compact space, and a native population thereon to be watched, whose comparatively peaceful and docile character enables them to be governed with peculiar facility, especially as the Chinese authorities lend material assistance on the spot. In Hongkong, there is no such help. The resident population is far larger than that under supervision of the Anglo-American Council at Shanghai, whilst it is, moreover, continually recruited with professional criminals from the most restless and turbulent Provinces of the Chinese Empire, so that Hongkong may be said to be in a constant state of siege from without.\n\n8. In Hongkong, moreover, the hills and valleys have to be watched and patrolled. Numerous outstations are maintained, and the Police employed on many duties which never occur at all at Shanghai, and in the absence of which, it would be essentially unnecessary to maintain so large a force as is required by the special peculiarities of Hongkong, whether geographical or moral.\n\n26.\n\n9. Nevertheless, no ignorance of special circumstances can be held to justify a wanton distortion of statistical returns, or the incorrect statement, (par. 9), that in 1868, there were at Hongkong, 1,033 convictions of Foreigners under the head of \"Murder, Manslaughter, Robbery with Violence, Assault, Larceny, Kidnapping, Unlawful Possession...\n\number of Foreigners,\n\n10. The subjoined analysis of the 1,033 convictions of percentage was not 29 as stated by Mr. JOHNSTON, but convictions is due the heads given by Mr. JOHNSTON was not 1,000, common Assault or Disturbance on board ship. (Vide Appendix B.)\n\n20 per cent or (1a:\n\n1868, shows that the total also shows the number of of which 2 were cases of\n\n11. Under Piracy, Kidnapping, and Murder, which Mr. JOHNSTON puts forward so prominently (par. 9) as three of the classes of \"serious\" crime committed by Foreigners in Hongkong, not even one case occurred!\n\n12. Finally, if both for Hongkong and Shanghai the cases of Assault, which are generally trivial, and unfit to be classed with Felonies, and if also the minor offences, such as Drunkenness, Refusal of Duty, &c., be deducted from the totals in each place, the serious crimes committed by Foreigners will be found to have been in the ratio of 1.5 per cent to the population in Shanghai in 1868, and of only 1 per cent to the population of Hongkong,\n\n13. Nevertheless, Mr. JOHNSTON did not scruple to assert that the proportion of \"serious crime\" to Foreigners in Hongkong was 29 per cent, an inexcusable misrepresentation, which I respectfully trust this Government will cause to be corrected, as such misstatement by their Secretary in no way improves the position of the Anglo-American Council at Shanghai, a body whose excellent administration is generally acknowledged.\n\nAppendix A)\n\nEXTRACT from No. I-Census of HONGKONG, including the MILITARY and NAVAL DEPARTMENTS, 1st June, 1869.\n\nNo. of Houses.\nNo. of BOATS.\nPOPULATION.\nTOTAL.\n\nEuropeans and Americans, Resident Population, Europeans, Military,\n\nMen. Women. Boys. Girls.\n\nEuropeans and Americans, Naval Establishments,\n\n581 68\n\nEuropeans and Americans, Crews of Mercantile Shipping in the Harbour,\n\n323 61\n\nEuropeans and Americans, Temporary Residents,\n\n980 228\n\nEuropeans and Americans, Prisoners,\n\n70 3\n\nTotal of Europeans and Americans,\n\n3,570\n\nGoa, Manila, Indian, and others of Mixed Blood, Resident Population,\n\n685 384\n\nGoa, Manila, Indian, and others of Mixed Blood, Crews of Mercantile Shipping in the Harbour,.. Indians, Military,\n\n841\n\nGoa, Manila, Indian, and others of Mixed Blood, Prisoners,\n\n91 4\n\nTotal of Indians, &c.,\n\n4,880\n\nGrand Total,..\n\n7,199\n\nALFRED LISTER, Acting Registrar General.\n\nAppendix B.\n\nRETURN of CONVICTIONS of Foreigners for Serious and Minor Crimes and Offences, during 1868, in Hongkong.\n\nRobbery with Violence.\n1\n\nBurglary.\n3\n\nAssault with Intent to rob.\n04\n\nLarceny.\n1*\nDisturbance on board ship and Assaults.\n235\n\nGambling.\n15\n\nKidnapping.\n\nManslaughter.\n1\n\nUnlawful Possession.\n3\n\nPiracy.\n0\nDrunkenness.\n444\n\nNuisances.\n154\n\nNeglect and Refusal of Duty.\n\nExtortion.\n\nRogues & Vagabonds.\n\nDamaging Property,\n\nBreath of Gaol Ordinance.\n1\nBreath of Public Vehicles, Ordinance.\n\nObtaining goods under false pretences.\n\nTOTAL.\n1,033\n\nEstimate of Foreign Population, including Soldiers and Seamen,\n7,199\n\nRatio of Convictions for Serious Crimes.........\n1.0 per cent\n\nAssaults and Disturbances on board ship, Minor Offences,\n4.2 per cent.\n\n3.2\n\n9.0\n\nB2\n\nW. M. DEANE,\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police.\n\nTo\n\nThe Honorable J. GARDINER AUSTIN,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong\n\nRespectfully submitted,\n\nW. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\nPage 270\n\nPage 271",
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        "content_text": "Criter\n\n-7\n\ncvere\n\nof notoriously bad character had organised themselves into a body with the object of inducing the Government to legalise gambling and to obtain the monopoly thereof through the intervention and the influence of Caldwell.\n\nI have a strong belief that this body is identical with those whom Governor Robinson pronounced in his despatch of 15th December 186... as recipients of fees for gambling, in which vocation at all events some piratical associate of Caldwell was sustained by that officer. I was made cognisant of a tempting offer which Caldwell made through his coadjutor Dr. Bridges to Governor Bowring and...\n\n...\n\nsuch specious arguments were used in favor of the legalisation of the vice that the Governor was induced to entertain the offer and to advise the Secretary of State that it should be accepted, and subsequently to Mr. Caldwell's dismissal, I became aware that the same offer was being forced on Governor Robinson, through Caldwell Pollard (now acting Attorney General) but when I became aware that Sir Hercules Robinson had entertained Caldwell's proposal, I need not say how much I was astonished. The police were allowed to receive bribes from the gambling houses unchecked, and many of the officers of that force lived openly in a style which it would take many times their pay to maintain. I assert unequivocally that this system of corruption was winked at by the Government of Hong Kong to the end that a pretext for legalising gambling might be made available.\n\nIt was no secret that I stood in the way of the accomplishment of the design. Pollard and myself perfectly understood each other, and he several times attempted to induce me to take his view of the matter.\n\n9.-\n\n8\n\n14\n\nlegui\n\nIn this...\n\n\"l\n\n1300 khong tong\n\n233\n\nHe did not even deny that he was to have a douceur if he could induce the Governor to accede to the proposal, and he fully admitted that he was acting for Mr. Caldwell. I must however do Mr. Pollard the justice to say that he always maintained the innocence of Caldwell and strongly advocated the legalisation of gambling.\n\nWhen I left China in April 1867, I was fully aware that Pollard was still bent on carrying his object with Governor MacDonnell. The bankruptcy of the Colonial Treasury induced his Excellency to entertain the... proposal. The editor whom I had appointed to conduct my paper was won over, and the design was achieved within a few months after my departure. There was a pretence of inviting tenders for the privilege of the gambling monopoly, but the association who employed Caldwell were accorded the prize at a figure far below what others offered, the pretext for the preference being the advantage of Caldwell's services as a detective and as a medium of communication between the Government and the Gambling licensees.\n\n11.-\n\nOn the 24th January last, M. W. W. Holworthy of the military store department was found murdered on the high road at a little distance from Hong Kong.\n\nThe local government offered a reward of $500 for the apprehension of the murderer, the gambling licensees adding something to the sum. Mr. Caldwell's services were put into active requisition, and he was formally deputed to the neighbouring Portuguese settlement of Macao, where an arrest was effected. On the 5th February, three men were charged by Caldwell before the Chief Magistrate (the same Mr. May whose name has been already mentioned) with this murder, and Mr. Caldwell went into the witness box and, after describing himself as sworn interpreter of the Supreme Court of the Colony, stated that he had arrested the prisoners.",
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        "content_text": "# \npurpose, all the Foreign Population under Police supervision should, in fairness, be included in Hong-kong, as well as Shanghai. The Census Returns from which that total was taken do not profess to include soldiers and seamen. Now, the Foreign Population, including seamen and soldiers, as well as residents and others from Goa, Manila and India, has for years been more than double the number stated by Mr. JOHNSTON, and was, at the last Census, shown to be 7,699, a number which at once makes an error of more than 50 per cent in all Mr. JOHNSTON'S comparative statements. (`Vide` Appendix A.)\n\n5. Again, it may be true that there are 113 Europeans, and 328 Indians in the Police of Hongkong, and only 39 European Police at Shanghai, if the Consular staff, and that of the Supreme Court be omitted. It is not, however, true, as assumed by Mr. JOHNSTON (par. 7), that the Chinese portion of the force is useful only against Natives, which assertion is evidently intended to lead the reader to infer that the Foreign Police are useful only against Foreigners. There is no such distinction. The European and Native Force act indiscriminately, whether in the city, or whether in the outlying villages and harbor, which latter duties alone engage 200 of the force.\n\n6. The proportion, therefore, of Hongkong Police to the total population-121,000-which it supervises is 1 to 191, and the proportion of European Police to Foreign residents is nearly 1 to 70.\n\n7. Misstatements of the materiel and working of the Police force are, however, of little consequence compared with the unnoticed fact that in Shanghai there is only a small level and compact space, and a native population thereon to be watched, whose comparatively peaceful and docile character enables them to be governed with peculiar facility, especially as the Chinese authorities lend material assistance on the spot. In Hongkong, there is no such help. The resident population is far larger than that under supervision of the Anglo-American Council at Shanghai, whilst it is, moreover, continually recruited with professional criminals from the most restless and turbulent Provinces of the Chinese Empire, so that Hongkong may be said to be in a constant state of siege from without.\n\n8. In Hongkong, moreover, the hills and valleys have to be watched and patrolled. Numerous outstations are maintained, and the Police employed on many duties which never occur at all at Shanghai, and in the absence of which, it would be essentially unnecessary to maintain so large force as is required by the special peculiarities of Hongkong, whether geographical or moral.\n\n3\n\n9. Nevertheless, no ignorance of special circumstances can be held to justify a wanton distortion of statistical returns, or the incorrect statement, (par. 9), that in 1868, there were at Hongkong, 1,033 convictions of Foreigners under the head of \"Murder, Manslaughter, Robbery with Violence, Assault, Larceny, Kidnapping, Unlawful Possession and Piracy,\" amounting to 29 per cent on the number of Foreigners.\n\n10. The subjoined analysis of the 1,033 convictions of Foreigners in 1868, shows that the total percentage was not 29 as stated by Mr. JOHNSTON, but 13.2. It also shows that the number of convictions under the heads given by Mr. Johnston was not 1,033, but 334, of which 255 were cases of common Assault or Disturbance on board ship. (`Vide` Appendix B.)\n\n11. Under Piracy, Kidnapping, and Murder, which Mr. JOHNSTON puts forward so prominently (par. 9) as three of the classes of \"serious\" crime committed by Foreigners in Hongkong, not even one case occurred!\n\n12. Finally, if both for Hongkong and Shanghai the cases of Assault, which are generally trivial, and unfit to be classed with Felonies, and if also the minor offences, such as Drunkenness, Refusal of Duty, &c., be deducted from the totals in each place, the serious crimes committed by Foreigners will be found to have been in the ratio of 1.5 per cent to the population in Shanghai in 1868, and of only 1 per cent to the population of Hongkong.\n\n13. Nevertheless, Mr. JOHNSTON did not scruple to assert that the proportion of \"serious crime\" to Foreigners in Hongkong was 20 per cent, an inexcusable misrepresentation, which I respectfully trust this Government will cause to be corrected, as such misstatement by their Secretary in no way improves the position of the Anglo-American Council at Shanghai, a body whose excellent administration is generally acknowledged.\n\nBown\n\n## Appendix A.\n\n359\n\nExtract from No. 1.—Census of Hongkong, including the MILITARY and NAVAL DEPARTMENTS, 1st June, 1869.\n\n| Category | No. of Houses | No. of Boats | Men | Women | Boys | Girls | TOTAL POPULATION |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Europeans and Americans, Resident Population |  |  | 523 | 323 | 581 | 62 | 1,489 |\n| Europeans, Military |  |  | 982 | 50 |  |  | 1,032 |\n| Europeans and Americans, Naval Establishments |  |  | 763 |  |  |  | 763 |\n| Europeans and Americans, Crews of Mercantile Shipping in the Harbour |  |  | 2,289 |  |  |  | 2,289 |\n| Europeans and Americans, Temporary Residents |  |  | 720 |  |  |  | 720 |\n| Europeans and Americans, Prisoners |  |  | 130 |  |  |  | 130 |\n| Total of Europeans and Americans |  |  |  |  |  |  | 6,403 |\n| Goa, Manila, Indian, and others of Mixed Blood, Resident Population |  |  | 585 | 384 | 341 | 4 | 1,314 |\n| Goa, Manila, Indian, and others of Mixed Blood, Crews of Mercantile Shipping in the Harbour |  |  | 820 | 91 | 45 |  | 956 |\n| Indians, Military |  |  | 997 |  |  |  | 997 |\n| Goa, Manila, Indian, and others of Mixed Blood, Prisoners |  |  | 22 |  |  |  | 22 |\n| Total of Indians, &c. |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2,599 |\n| Grand Total |  |  |  |  |  |  | 7,699 |\n\nF. ALFRED LISTER, Acting Registrar General.\n\n## Appendix B.\n\nRETURN of CONVICTIONS of Foreigners for Serious and Minor Crimes and Offences, during 1868, in Hongkong.\n\n| Offence | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Burglary | 3 |\n| Assault with Intent to do grievous bodily harm | 4 |\n| Larceny | 105 |\n| Manslaughter | 2 |\n| Disturbance on board ship and Assaults | 250 |\n| Garabling | 2 |\n| Kidnapping | 0 |\n| Unlawful Possession | 0 |\n| Piracy | 0 |\n| Drunkenness | 444 |\n| Nuisances | 15 |\n| Neglect and Refusal of Duty | 59 |\n| Extortion | 6 |\n| Rogues & Vagabonds | 17 |\n| Damaging Property | 31 |\n| Breach of Gaol Ordinance | 15 |\n| Breach of Public Vehicles Ordinance | 1 |\n| False pretences | 14 |\n| Obtaining goods under false pretences | 1 |\n| TOTAL | 1,033 |\n\nEstimate of Foreign Population, including Soldiers and Seamen | 7,100\nRatio of Convictions for Serious Crimes | 1.0 per cent\nAssaults and Disturbances on board ship, Minor Offences | 4.2 per cent\n\nW. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\nTo\n\nThe Honorable J. GARDINER AUSTIN,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong,\n\nRespectfully submitted,\n\nW. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.",
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        "content_text": "I think his subordinate Officer in W. \n8. tangre \n\nwould find him very willing to assert himself in \neffecting \nall \nMilitary measures for ensuring the Public Peace \nIt might \nbe added that the stuff end. \nLehen \n6. reports he has already \nall this wind affair to be \njudicious \n& proper \nand Kimberley can \nX \nLit \nonly wish \nMit C.W. will render valuable \nservice by complying with all serious \ndetails?? \n\nI think \nIn Cox is \nLee able bb. \nU10 Jan 21. \n(GEL) \n\nRessley & the effect suffered & \nall that is either necessary \n& \ndesirable at the present moment. I would not trouble Sir R. Macdonnell for any further suggestions \nwe have \nre-stated his men \n& have prohibited \nthe force \nat the head of the Police my radical reform of Wenck supported him as far \nwe leave I \nwe can \nGenl. Whitfeild's actions in points of \ndetail \nappears to have been judicious & strongly called for: I would approve them \nin rest to this Despatch \nDaffialme \nJaji M \n14 \n12/11",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nUnder the \"most-favoured-nation\" clause and two special Articles, the full enjoyment of any advantages so gained. This is expressly stipulated in the IXth Article of the French Treaty, signed at Tien-tsin; and by the XLth Article it is still farther provided for, in the following words:- \n\n\"Il est d'ailleurs entendu que toute obligation non consignée expressément dans la présente Convention ne saura être imposée aux Consuls ou aux Agents Consulaires non plus qu'à leurs nationaux, tandis que, comme il a été stipulé, les Français jouiront de tous les droits, privilèges, immunités, et garanties quelconques qui auraient été ou qui seraient accordés par le Gouvernement Chinois à d'autres Puissances.\" \n\nWere China strong enough to assert her international rights in defiance of any foreign Power, her Government could, of course, refuse to allow a right conceded to one country, under certain conditions, to be enjoyed by another irrespectively of conditions. We have engaged to give you these. They would be perfectly entitled to say, treatment of the most-favoured-nation, and are ready, in letter and spirit, to fulfil our engagement; but that does not warrant your claiming advantages without conditions which have only been conceded to another on their acceptance.\n\nBut China is scarcely in a position to assert her rights, in this or any other direction, when contested by foreign Powers. And, on the other hand, France and Prussia, and the Treaty Powers in general, may with some reason maintain, \"We have Treaties with China, by which we are entitled to import and export certain goods according to a tariff mutually agreed upon; consequently no understanding between China and another Power can affect our rights in this respect without our consent.\" This, no doubt, is true; and, as it is impossible to consent that goods imported or exported under the British flag should pay a higher duty, or be bound by any restrictions or conditions not equally applicable to all nations, it naturally follows that every Treaty Power has a veto on the revision which any one may find it advantageous to make. For, assuming that it could be plainly demonstrated on the whole to be greatly to the advantage of all Treaty Powers that certain arrangements entered into by any one Power with China should come into operation, it still would rest with each Government to act upon their own opinion on such a subject, and refuse if they saw fit. This creates a very serious difficulty in the way of any revision with single powers.\n\nIn anticipation of this difficulty, an official note, herewith inclosed, was exchanged at the signature of the Convention between the Prince of Kung and myself, distinctly recognizing the necessity of deferring the giving effect to the instrument, even after the exchange of ratifications (except by mutual consent of the High Contracting Parties) until a common understanding had been arrived at with the other Treaty Powers, and their acceptance of the Articles of the Convention, as binding upon their respective subjects, had been obtained. To this end it was farther agreed that both should invite the several Treaty Powers to give their adherence to the Convention as a whole, and applicable alike to all. The inclosed copy of the reply of M. de Rehfues to my communication on the subject merely acknowledges receipt, pending the transmission of the text of the Convention by the Tsungli Yamên.\n\nI do not know that any explanation of each particular Article, and the objects to be attained by them is needed beyond what the inclosed documents will supply. But in a matter of so much importance it may be better, at this distance too, that any error should be on the side of excess than deficiency; and I therefore will submit a few remarks in elucidation of the chief objects which I believe to have been secured by the signature of the Convention.\n\nIt will be seen that I succeeded in part, by the omission of any stipulation as to time, in carrying out my instructions to avoid a revision for another decade. It was impossible, however, to obtain any of the concessions negotiated for last year without making it a formal revision in the sense contemplated in Article XXVII of the Treaty of Tientsin, with the understanding that no farther demand should be made upon them on the ground of no revision having been effected. Even this was only agreed to, I believe, in consequence of my intimation that the Audience and Coolie emigration questions must be fully gone into if any definite period were fixed during which any revision to be effected now should run. As a mutual compromise, the Yamen then agreed to leave out all specification of a fixed period, and I consented, on my part, to withdraw the two questions from the list of those included for immediate settlement, and to discuss them separately.\n\n## 3\n\nThis, however, was only the first step towards a satisfactory termination. More than once in the last six weeks the negotiations were interrupted, and to all appearance broken off altogether, in consequence of the obstructiveness which the Chinese Members of the Mixed Commission displayed, and their opposition to any satisfactory measures for the relief of our trade from likin, and other charges, far in excess of the transit due of 2.5 per cent., and fatal to all progress.\n\nIt became apparent, at last, that the only chance of arriving at any better result must lie in more direct negotiations with the Yamên; and Mr. Hart having offered himself as a medium of semi-official communication between myself and his Excellency Wên-hsiang and the rest of the Yamên, I availed myself of his services. I believe it was mainly through his active intervention that they were at last led to see the expediency, if not the advantage, of ceding many points previously insisted upon, and offering me terms I felt justified in accepting.\n\nI have expressed myself so strongly, on many former occasions, as to the paramount importance, in any revision, of relieving our trade from the burden laid upon it by a wholly irresponsible power of taxation exercised by the local and provincial authorities, that I need not farther insist upon it here. I have only to add my conviction that the proposed arrangements hold out fair promise of the removal of long-standing abuses in this direction, and I see in them a practical solution of the difficulties caused by the exactions of the local authorities to the serious prejudice of trade.\n\nThe great objects specified under this head by the Board of Trade, I believe, will be fully secured by the measures contemplated; and the transit-pass system, liable to such grievous abuse by foreign merchants, has, at the same time, been almost entirely superseded—entirely so for the bulk of the imports in the nine Provinces, and in native produce for export, in all—under conditions which, by dispensing with all distinction between native and foreign trade, leave to the provincial authorities the rights they are accustomed to exercise of inland taxation, and an interest in the increase of foreign trade, while it secures the foreign merchant from all surcharge over the Tariff rate for transit of 2.5 per cent. more effectually than any system of protection by transit passes could do in such a country as China. This part of the scheme thus meets the suggestion of the Shanghae Chamber of Commerce, so far as leaving the proceeds of taxation in the hands of the Provincial authorities, while it gives them better protection against surcharges, and puts an end to the foreign traffic in transit dues, which was a public scandal.\n\nThe opening of two new ports in populous districts, and centres of distribution as well as consumption, in exchange for a port in Hainan, which has never been deemed worth opening, cannot fail to be a gain to commerce. Wuhu, on the Yang-tsze, has much to recommend it on its own account, but, independent of this, it was necessary to obtain it in order to bring the central Province of Anhui within the arrangement for free goods stipulated in the first Article of the Convention.\n\nIt is within such easy reach of Chinkiang that the Consular establishment there can, if necessary, provide for its wants, by detaching, temporarily or permanently, a senior assistant, if the development of trade should necessitate any surveillance on the spot. Wên-chow will, no doubt, require a small Consular establishment as soon as it is declared open; and there seems an entire concurrence of opinion as to its value in a commercial point of view. Tchang, in the Upper Yang-tsze, would have been very desirable as a Treaty port, but I found it quite impossible to get the Yamên to accede to any proposal for extension farther inland.\n\nThere was a great stand made by the Chinese for a limitation of one year for drawbacks, but they finally consented to three years—amply sufficient, I believe, for all mercantile purposes, with payment in cash for any current quarter. In both directions this will prove very advantageous to merchants, for a limitation of one year had been de facto established at Shanghae, the chief port where drawbacks are in request.\n\nI made a final effort to obtain the admission of foreign salt, as will be seen by the inclosed correspondence. I believe the objections might not have proved so insurmountable had the Yamên felt they had to deal with Great Britain only; but to grant to England a right to import one shipload every month was to concede the same right to every other Treaty Power, and twelve times twelve ships every year would not have left much monopoly in the hands of the Salt Commissioners.\n\nThe working of coal-mines at three points in the vicinity of ports, and two of \n\n## 284",
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        "content_text": "I \n1 \n(Cathy) Jn 128374 \nفي \n552 \n\nI am happy to be able to certify that W. Steption Spontani has been my pupil at Repton School for several terms during which time he required a very proficient knowledge of the French language in the absence of the drawing master. But F. J. Deacon, whom I assist in teaching I think I may also assert that Mr. Paul draws creditably.\n\nHenri Guiimant, B.A. French Master at Repton School.\n\nNov. 18th \n1869",
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        "content_text": "# purpose, all the Foreign Population under Police supervision should, in fairness, be included in Hong-kong, as well as Shaughai. \nThe Census Returns from which that total was taken do not profess to include soldiers and seamen. \nNow, the Foreign Population, including seamen and soldiers, as well as residents and others from Goa, Manila and India, has for years been more than double the number stated by Mr. JOHNSTON, and was, at the last Census, shown to be 7,699, a number which at once makes an error of more than 50 per cent in all Mr. JOHNSTON's comparative statements. \n(Vide `Appendix A`.)\n\n\n5. Again, it may be true that there are 113 Europeans, and 328 Indians in the Police of Hongkong, and only 39 European Police at Shanghai, if the Consular staff, and that of the Supreme Court be omitted. \nIt is not, however, true, as assumed by Mr. JOHNSTON (par. 7), that the Chinese portion of the force is useful only against Natives, which assertion is evidently intended to lead the reader to infer that the Foreign Police are useful only against Foreigners. \nThere is no such distinction. \nThe European and Native Force act indiscriminately, whether in the city, or whether in the outlying villages and harbor, which latter duties alone engage 200 of the force.\n\n\n6. The proportion, therefore, of Hongkong Police to the total population-121,000-which it supervises is 1 to 191, and the proportion of European Police to Foreign residents is nearly 1 to 70.\n\n\n7. Misstatements of the materiel and working of the Police force are, however, of little consequence compared with the unnoticed fact that in Shanghai there is only a small level and compact space, and a native population thereon to be watched, whose comparatively peaceful and docile character enables them to be governed with peculiar facility, especially as the Chinese authorities lend material assistance on the spot. \nIn Hongkong, there is no such help. \nThe resident population is far larger than that under supervision of the Anglo-American Council at Shanghai, whilst it is, moreover, continually recruited with professional criminals from the most restless and turbulent Provinces of the Chinese Empire, so that Hongkong may be said to be in a constant state of siege from without.\n\n\n8. In Hongkong, moreover, the hills and valleys have to be watched and patrolled. \nNumerous outstations are maintained, and the Police employed on many duties which never occur at all at Shanghai, and in the absence of which, it would be essentially unnecessary to maintain so large a force as is required by the special peculiarities of Hongkong, whether geographical or moral.\n\n\n9. Nevertheless, no ignorance of special circumstances can be held to justify a wanton distortion of statistical returns, or the incorrect statement, (par. 9), that in 1868, there were at Hongkong, 1,033 convictions of Foreigners under the head of \"Murder, Manslaughter, Robbery with Violence, Assault, Larceny, Kidnapping, Unlawful Possession and Piracy,\" amounting to 29 per cent on the number of Foreigners.\n\n\n10. The subjoined analysis of the 1,033 convictions of Foreigners in 1868, shows that the total percentage was not 29 as stated by Mr. JOHNSTON, but 13.2. \nIt also shows that the number of convictions under the heads given by Mr. Johnston was not 1,083, but 334, of which 255 were cases of common Assault or Disturbance on board ship. \n(Vide `Appendix B`.)\n\n\n11. Under Piracy, Kidnapping, and Murder, which Mr. JOHNSTON puts forward so prominently (par. 9) as three of the classes of \"serious\" crime committed by Foreigners in Hongkong, not even one case occurred!\n\n\n12. Finally, if both for Hongkong and Shanghai the cases of Assault, which are generally trivial, and unfit to be classed with Felonies, and if also the minor offences, such as Drunkenness, Refusal of Duty, &c., be deducted from the totals in each place, the serious crimes committed by Foreigners will be found to have been in the ratio of 1.5 per cent to the population in Shanghai in 1868, and of only 1 per cent to the population of Hongkong.\n\n\n13. Nevertheless, Mr. JOHNSTON did not scruple to assert that the proportion of \"serious crime\" to Foreigners in Hongkong was 29 per cent, an inexcusable misrepresentation, which I respectfully trust this Government will cause to be corrected, as such misstatement by their Secretary in no way improves the position of the Anglo-American Council at Shanghai, a body whose excellent administration is generally acknowledged.\n\n*Europeans and Americans, Resident Population, Europeans, Military, \nEuropeans and Americans, Naval Establishments, Europeans and Americans, Crews of Mercantile Shipping in the Harbour, Europeans and Americans, Temporary Residents, Europeans and Americans, Prisoners, \n339\n\n## Appendix A\n\nEXTRACT from No. 1.-Census of Hongkong, including the MILITARY and NAVAL DEPARTMENTS, 1st June, 1869.\n\n| No. of HOUSES. | Boats. | POPULATION. | TOTAL. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Men. | Women. | Boys. | Girls. | \n| 1,161 | 523 | 323 | 282 | 2,280 | \n| 581 | 62 | 61 | 59 | 763 | \n| 720 | 720 |  |  | 720 | \n| 915 | 915 |  |  | 915 | \n| 130 | 63 | :: | 180 | 63 | \n|  | 3,579 | 585 | 384 | 341 | 4,880 | \n|  | 820 | 91 | 41 | 45 | 097 | \n|  | 862 | 862 |  |  | 862 | \n|  | 805 |  |  | 18 | 10 | \n|  | 029 | 02 |  | 22 | 2,500 | \n|  | 100 | 47 | 55 | 2,810 | \n| Grand Total,, |  |  |  |  | 7,199 |\n\nALFRED LISTER, \nTotal of Europeans and Americans, \nGoa, Manila, Indian, and others of Mixed Blood, \nResident Population, \nGoa, Manila, Indian, and others of Mixed Blood, Crews of Mercantile Shipping in the Harbour,.. Indians, Military, \nGca, Manila, Indian, and others of Mixed Blood, \nPrisoners, \nTotal of Indians, &c.... \nActing Registrar General.\n\n## Appendix B\n\nRETURN OF CONVICTIONS of Foreigners for Serious and Minor Crimes and Offences, during 1868, in Hongkong.\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Robbery with Violence, | 14 |\n| Burglary. | 6 |\n| Assault with Intent to do Grievous Bodily Harm. | 1 |\n| Larceny. | 64 |\n| Manslaughter. | 2 |\n| Disturbance on board ship and Assaults. | 255 |\n| Gambling, | 2 |\n| Kidnapping. | 0 |\n| Unlawful Possession. | 0 |\n| Piracy. | 0 |\n| Drunkenness. | 444 |\n| Nuisances. | 15 |\n| Neglect and Refusal of Duty. | 154 |\n| Extortion. | 3 |\n| Rogues & Vagabonds, | 53 |\n| Damaging Property. | 6 |\n| Breach of Gaol Ordinance. | 1,033 |\n| Breach of Public Vehicles Ordinance. |  |\n| Obtaining goods under false pretences. | 1 |\n| 3 |  |\n\n| Estimate of Foreign Population, including Soldiers and Seamen, | 7,100 |\n| Ratio of Convictions for Serious Crimes,. | 1.0 per cent |\n|  | 4.2 per cent. |\n| Assaults and Disturbances on board ship, Minor Offences, | 3.2 |\n|  | 0.0 |\n| TOTAL. | 13.2 |\n\nW. M. DEANE, \nCaptain Superintendent of Police,\n\nTo \nThe Honorable J. GARDINER AUSTIN, \nColonial Secretary, \nHongkong, \nRespectfully submitted, \nW. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.",
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        "content_text": "292\n\n1\n\nCom municating at Wonghting, 1941/04. dated 19th June 1876. I have the honor to enclose copies of letters\n\nremained in the\n\nwhich\n\nmargin appear to have escaped the Major General's notice, though\n\nMem.\n\nin the Offices of his Military\n\nof\n\nCourse)\n\nthey\n\nand the Commanding\n\nM\n\nwhat\n\nSecretary, Royal Engineer\n\nstand\n\nIt is difficult to men-\n\nCommanding Royal\n\nd. the\n\n(such the approval of the Major\n\nGeneral\n\n(moral\n\nCommanding\n\ncontinued\n\nto assert rights to abstract\n\nthe completion of the Road\n\nMilitary Secretary's Office\n\nCol stay W9579 4 Id. 198 Lord Longford to My Lord Care 19 (fugt n: 416 Salid Far affue is July\n\n(\n\nagreed upon in 1867.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\n\"My Lord), Your Lordship's most obedient\n\nhumble servant,\n\nJohnstone,\n\nGovernor",
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        "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL.\n## KOWLOON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1878.\n\n### THE PRESENT SECURITY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY IN HONGKONG.\n\nMUSIC OPEN-AIR MEETING,\n\nIn accordance with the advertisement of Mr. G. F. A. Saunderson, calling upon the foreign residents to assemble at St. George's Hall, Bell building, shortly before 3 p.m. to consider the present state of security of life and property in Hongkong, and to pass such resolutions as may be deemed advisable, the foreign residents assembled at the said hour. However, the native population was observed streaming down to the meeting, and long ere the hour striking arrived, the large hall was packed by a Chinese audience—a small space indeed being left for the residents, the committee, and even the Chairman.\n\nAfter a short period, as one member of the foreign community put his head inside the door and failed, and not a little \"chaff\" intriguing from those who had picked their way through the non-English-speaking crowd, it was suggested that the meeting might be adjourned to the Theatre of the City Hall or the Cricket Ground. After some conversations, it was read out that it would be wise in order to open the meeting, and it was decided to adjourn to the latter.\n\nKit Bengeter (the Sheriff) then mounted the platform, and having read the requisition made upon him to convene the meeting, declared the meeting open, and asked the assembly to appoint a chairman.\n\nB. A. Nelson proposed that Mr. B. Gibb take the chair, which proposal was received with loud cheers. Upon it being seconded, a foreign gentleman cried \"Hands up,\" and it was amusing to note the manner in which the foreigners held up their hands like automatons.\n\nThe Chairman being carried by acclamation, there was a general stampede to the Cricket Ground.\n\nUpon the foreign residents reaching the Cricket Ground, a ring was formed, and the large meeting quietly waited for its Chairman; while the Chinese occupied the verandahs of the City Hall, and took up positions outside the ring. At the head of the native crowd was Mr. Ng Choy, who, just as the first resolution was carried, asked that the Chinese should be consulted. He was informed by the Chairman that he could not put a resolution to the meeting more than once. Upon Mr. Choy waving his hand to the native gathering, the Chinese moved away, cheering and waving their fans as they went.\n\nThe Chairman then proceeded to read the requisition calling the meeting, and stated that he must go through with it, hoping that he was in a position to receive the support of the meeting in carrying the resolution. From what had fallen from those who had already addressed them, and from the manner in which the previous resolutions had been passed and received, it was quite clear that this community was dissatisfied with the policy of the Government as regards the administration of the laws and the treatment of criminals.\n\nHe put it that the machinery composing the Government had been worked lately in a manner quite inconsistent with the proper performance of those functions for which it had been arranged; in fact, that for some time there had been so little accord between the head of the Government and most of the different departments, that the machine was quite out of gear and did not work as the public had a right to expect it should. Who was to blame for, or what was the remedy for this? That they must answer.\n\nThe Chairman was about putting the resolution, as Mr. Francis proposed to amend it to the meeting, when Mr. Francis explained, amid some little confusion, that he wished the Chairman to let the amendment read that the words he objected to be omitted, instead of putting the original motion, as proposed to be amended, to the meeting.\n\nJustice Smale's sentences of flogging with the cat were disallowed last year (without any medical examination of the prisoner) on the plea that the use of the cat was a bad cause of consumption. In spite of the existing laws, both public and private, crime was very rampant in the colony, and repressive measures framed for its repression had been relaxed.\n\nMr. Mesta proposed as a rider to the amendment that \"the opinions expressed by Government officials present at that meeting, Messrs. Francis and Hayllar, be deprecated\" (laughter and applause).\n\nThe Chairman said that the requisition calling the meeting had not been signed by any captious spirit either by Europeans or Chinese, but in the fervent and legal hope that that gathering might suggest a remedy for the existing alarming state of affairs.\n\nMr. Ng Choy protested against the proceedings, saying that the large number of Chinese present did not understand what was being done, and they did not have an opportunity of voting. The Chinese who were present knew as well as he did that there was a very dangerous class on the mainland, and very severe measures were tried to keep them away from this Colony.\n\nMr. W. H. Foss then moved: \"That in the opinion of this meeting there is no necessity for any change in the laws and Police regulations of the Colony, but that the remedy for the existing state of affairs is in a firm and unfettered administration of the law as it stands, especially those relating to the punishments for crime with violence, that flogging in public being found to be the only really deterring punishment for the crimes rampant in the Colony, and to its suspension and the suspension of the necessarily stern modes of treatment enforced during previous governments, is attributable to the daring boldness which has lately characterized crime in Hongkong.\"\n\nThe Chairman contended that \"cut and dried resolutions\" were quite in order.\n\nMr. Francis said he had not received an answer to his question.\n\nThe Chairman dodged Mr. Francis's parry; he was not in a position to tell Mr. Francis what was going to take place, and he declined to do anything of the kind.\n\nMr. W. Keswick, in moving the first resolution, said that when the welfare of the Colony was at stake, he thought it well that there should be no hesitation on the part of those who felt deeply for its welfare to speak out.\n\nThe motion was then carried, there being only two or three dissentients.\n\nMr. Francis moved as an amendment that the last three lines of the resolution, expressing an opinion as to the cause of the insecurity, should be omitted.\n\nMr. Bridges then moved the third resolution as follows: \"That this meeting views with great apprehension the opinion of the Colonial Surgeon with regard to the effect of the use of the cat-o'-nine-tails on the back of criminals and the action of His Excellency the Governor in respect thereto, and proposes that a Commission of medical men be appointed to inquire into the matter.\"\n\nMr. W. S. Yung seconded the resolution, which was carried, with the usual three or four dissentients.\n\nMr. Nelson proposed: \"That in the opinion of this meeting the almost total abolition of the system of deporting habitual criminals, which in most cases simply means returning the deported to the place from whence they came to violate the laws of the Colony, is injudicious and will result in the Colony being called upon to bear an undue proportion of the criminal population of the South of China, at an expense which the Colony should not be called upon to bear.\"\n\nThe Hon. W. Lowcock proposed the following resolution: \"That this meeting is strongly of opinion that it is desirable that Her Majesty's Government should appoint a Commission from England, on the spot, in the Colony or in China, other than Hongkong, with full powers to enquire into the present administration of the Government of this Colony, especially as regards the application of the criminal law, the carrying out of the sentences of the Courts, and the relations existing between the head of the Government and the other officials in every department.\"\n\nMr. Lowcock said: Gentlemen, I presume that we all here present entertain about the same feeling of regret for the necessity which has called this meeting together. I do not think I am saying too much when I assert that Hongkong on that night had the appearance of a city in a state of panic.",
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        "content_text": "22\n\nMacao which it does not assert in its communications with the Government of China.\n\nBut local sovereignty is the foundation upon which must rest any claim of jurisdiction in any place over the subjects of foreign States, and if Portugal has no right of sovereignty over Macao, and if she acknowledges, even by the payment of an annual rent, the sovereignty of the Emperor of China therein, she cannot claim a right to exercise at Macao jurisdiction over the subjects of the Queen of England. Hence, it follows that the imprisonment of Mr. Summers by the Governor of Macao was unjustifiable with reference to international law, and that the British Naval Officers were on that ground alone, and without reference to other reasons, borne out in their demand for his immediate liberation.\n\nNovember 29, 1849.\n\nIn replying to this note the Portuguese Minister Baron Moncorvo; gave his version of the events which took place in 1802, 1808, 1809, and 1839; and he then made the following statement with regard to the position of the Chinese in Macao:\n\n\"The Government of His Majesty has established there a free port, and has consequently caused to be removed the custom-house which registered vessels there, not allowing in the city any functionary of that Government, except the so-called Mandurin of Macao, to act as a kind of Consul, intermediate between the Chinese population and the Government of the city. The Chinese there are subject to the Portuguese authorities for matters of civic police and other objects; they pay the industrial and predial impost, as they formerly paid duties in the Portuguese custom-house, which were abolished when Macao was declared a free port.\n\n\"No Chinese authority, with the exception of the Mandarin of Macao,7 is permitted to enter the boundary-gate in the wall, unless by day, with previous notice to the Governor, unaccompanied by armed force, or gongs; and\n\n\"The commerce of Macao with Canton and the other ports of China open to foreign trade is regulated by the same forms as that of Hong Kong with these ports;\" and he concluded by saying\n\n\"From what has been stated, the sovereignty of the Crown of Portugal over Macao is irrefragably proved. The sovereignty of the British Crown in its possessions in both the Indies has assuredly not\n\nState Papers, vol. xlvii, p. 912.\n\nState Papers, vol. xlvii, p. 927.\n\nTo Mr. Bruce, No. 112;\n\nJuly 10, 1861.\n\nTo Mr. Paget, No. 825;\n\nJuly 1857.\n\nFrom Mr. Paget, No. 35;\n\nAugust 26, 1857.\n\nFrom Sir J. Bowring, No. 235;\n\n1857.\n\nFrom Sir J. Bowring, No. 338;\n\nJuly 31, 1867.\n\nTo Mr. Paget, No. 26;\n\nOctober 2, 1857.\n\nFrom Mr. Howard, No. 25;\n\nFebruary 5, 1858.\n\nMr. Bruce, No. 188;\n\nDecember 12, 1861.\n\n23\n\nhad a more legitimate origin, nor does it rest on more solid foundations.\"\n\nThe case of Mr. Summers was concluded by the British Government expressing its regret at the conduct of the British naval officer, and paying compensation to the men who were wounded, and to the families of those who were killed in the attack on the prison at Macao.\n\n1856.\n\nOn the 18th August, 1856, a Portuguese Law was passed providing for the liberation of slaves on entering the Portuguese Territories, § 5 of which declared that its provisions should be observed in the city of Macao and its dependencies; and, on the 23rd December of the same year, another Portuguese Law was passed abolishing slavery in the city of Macao and its dependencies.\n\n1857---1861.\n\nOn the 21st July, 1857, Dr. W. Kane was appointed British Consular Agent at Macao, and Mr. Paget, who was then at Lisbon, was instructed to ascertain from the Portuguese Government whether they had any objection to his appointment, when they stated that they had not, but requested to be furnished with Dr. Kane's Commission, in order that the necessary exequatur might be issued; but as Dr. Kane was furnished with no Commission no exequatur was required. Dr. Kane resigned, and on the recommendation of the British residents at Macao and \"of the Portuguese Governor,\" Mr. O. Cleverley was nominated to succeed him. Sir John Bowring's despatch containing these recommendations in favour of Mr. O. Cleverley was sent to Mr. Paget with instructions to communicate it to the Portuguese Government, and to ascertain whether they had any objection to the appointment.\n\nThe Portuguese Government, as before, replied that they had no objection, but requested to have the \"Letters Patent,\" in order that the Royal confirmation might be obtained; but, as in Dr. Kane's case, no Commission was granted, and therefore no exequatur was necessary.\n\nMr. Cleverley died in England on the 1st June, 1861, whilst absent from his post on leave.\n\n149",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure L\n\n1800\n\nREOP\n\nREGE 9 NOV 03/\n\n531\n\n!\n\nThe Hongkong Telegraph\n\nHONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1883.\n\nIN Saturday's Gazette appear several Government notifications inviting tenders for certain local works of some magnitude. The reclamation of Causeway Bay and the construction of a sea wall, swing bridge, basin and slips for launches, &c., at the Kowloon Police Station, are undertakings of special importance to the community, and will entail a very heavy expenditure of public funds. Why, then, does the custom prevail in the Colonial Secretary's office of confining the advertisements inviting public tenders for these works to the semi-privacy of the columns of the Government Gazette, a publication which is seldom seen outside the government offices? Surely it is to the public interest to give these matters all the publicity possible! And it is evidently to the private interest of some person or persons to keep them as secret as circumstances will allow. Why this should be the case we will not even venture to hazard an opinion; but it may interest Governor Bowen and Mr. W. H. Marsh to know that the tongue of public report does not scruple to assert that these contracts are \"kept dark,\" manipulated and arranged to suit the devices of certain officials—who for the present shall be nameless. All contracts for public works should be extensively advertised in the local newspapers, both foreign and Chinese, and an independent and reliable board of trustworthy heads of departments should be appointed to decide all tenders on their merits, without interference or advice from the chief of the particular department under whose auspices the works are to be carried out. We are quite sure that \"the honourable the Surveyor-General\" could (and would, if requested to do so) give His Excellency a deal of valuable information on this subject. Mr. Price is reported to be a determined opponent of the jobbery which is said to prevail so extensively amongst the subordinate members of the staff of the Surveyor-General's department. The subordinate members alluded to do not scruple to retaliate by asserting sub rosa that the honourable member likes to monopolise all \"the good things\" to his own cheque. O tempora! O mores!",
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        "content_text": "54\n\nofficial documents copies of in some of Departments the the knowledge of the Publie came into and possession of a local newspaper, the Defendant in the recent trial. Your Crdship is a aware that there are only twelve (12) Englishmen out at the eighty-nine (89) persons employed recons the clerical staff of this Colony.\n\nI have the honoustube,\n\nMy Lord.\n\nHour Lordship's host obedient\n\nHumble Pervat\n\n5. Bowen\n\nG 11359 11676 17468 The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONA, NOVEMBER 29TH, 1883.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nNovember 29th.\n\nCRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nBaron TH HON. SIR GROBON PHILLIPPO, CHIEF JUSTIOR AND A SPECIAL JURY.\n\nLIBEL\n\nRobert Fraser-Smith, printer and publisher of the Hongkong Telegraph, was charged with publishing a false and defamatory libel on John Mo Neil Price, Surveyor-General of Hongkong. The article on which the charge was brought, and the inuendoes, were as follow:-\n\nIn Saturday's Gasette appear several Government notifications inviting tenders for certain local works uf some magnitade. The reclamation of Cauaoway Bay and the construction of s son wall, swing bridge, basin, and slips for launches, de, at the Kowlood Police Station, are undertakings of special import ance to the community, and will antall a very heavy expenditure of pablie fands. Why, then, does the custom prevail in the Colonial Secretary's office of confining the advertisements inviting public tenders for these works to the semi-privacy of the columns of the Government Gazette, a publication which is waldom seen outside the Government officos?\n\nSurely it is to the public interest to give these matters all the publicity possible! And it is evidently to the private interest of some person meaning thereby the said John MoNeil Pricolor persons to keep them secret are sas circumstances will allow. Why this should be the case we will not even venture to hazard an opinion; but it may interest Governor Bowen and Mr. W. H. Marsh to know that the tongue of public roport does not scruple to assert that these contracts kept dark,\" ark, manipulated and stranged to anit the devices certain officiele meaning thereby smong others the asid John McNeil Price who for the prosent shall be nameless. All contracts for publio works should be extensively advertised in the newspapers, both foreign and Chinese, and an indepoudont and reliable board of trustworthy heads of departments should be appointed to decide all ten- ders on their merita, without interference or advice from the chief of the particular department meaning thereby the the said John McNai! Price] under whose anapies the works are to be carried out. We are quite sure that the honourable the Surveyor-Gono (and would, it rea requested to do so) give.\n\nrai Hi zor a deal of valuable information on this! *nbject. Mr. Price is is reported to be a determined of the jabbery which is said to prevail o opponent extensively 's department. The subordinate members alinded to do not ot scruple to retaliate by as. serting sub rost that the honorable member likes to all the good things\" to his own cheek thereby that jobbery and corruption did Surveyor.Generate enbordinate members of the mote in fact prevall very extensively amongst the subor- dicate members of the Surreyor-General's depart ment, and that any opposition the said John McNeil Price might oppose to it was solely for of benefiting the purpose himself and of deceiving the public, and that the said John MoNeil Price was guilty of corrup›- tion and malvorsstion is his said office of Surveyor- General and was commonly believed and reported amongst his own subordinates of being so guilty.]\n\nThe defence put in was a simple plea of not guilty.\n\nMr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton, Wotton, and Deacon, appeared for the prosecu. tion. The defendant conduated his own case,\n\nThe jurors were Messrs. E. Burnie, L. Fase, D. Musto, C. T. Kuhlmann, B. B. D. Sayle, E. L. Wondia, and W. 8. Young.\n\nOn Mr. Sayle's name being osited Mr. Francis naked that Mr. Sayle might stand aside.\n\nThe defendant-Has the learned counsel the right to challenge, my lord?\n\nHis Lordship-Not without showing cause. Mr. Francis-I don't propose to show cause. It has been constantly done bere. On the last cosasion the defendant exercised the right.\n\nDefendant-I exercised no right.\n\nMr. Francis-I simply suggested it. I with- draw it.\n\nMr. Sayle then took his place in the box.\n\nMr. Francis, in opening the case, said that by the charge and plea of not guilty only two issues were seriously raised, namely, the nature of the paragraph, was it defamatory or was it not? and the other, was it published maliciously or on a lawful and justifiable vocation? He proposed to pat before them three classes of evidenes with reference to these two points. First, he would ask them to consider with him. line what by line the paragraph itself, effect it would have upon their own minds reading it for the first time, and what was the natural effect and tendency of the language used. He would ask them to say that the direct, simple, natural meaning of the language used was to injure and defame Mr. Price as muob as it was in the power of any man to do so, that nothing more defamatory ovuld be sail of him considering who he was aud the posi tion he occupied. With reference to the ques-; tion of malice two considerations arose one which was more purely a guastion of law, and that was whether or not, from the defamatory nature of the paragraph, they were not bound to infer malice? But in addition to that he proposed to show that this attack on Mr. Price's reputation did not stand alone, but was only one of a series extending over a very long period; that Mr. Price had been attack- ed by the defendant at all times, in all places, in all characters and capacities, as a mer. ber of the Government, as Surveyor-General, as a private individual; that Mr. Price had been exposed to ridicule, to contempt, to censures of every description, and that corrupt and vile motives had been imputed to him at every hand's turn. He would ask them to infer from the perusal of these articles, and the con- sideration of these facts, that the defendant was not actuated by any feeling of public spirit and genuine desire to anbserve only the public in- terest, but that he was animated by some personal spite, personal ill-will, whatever its origin, with reference to Mr. Price and all bis aotipas, The learned counsel then read the paragraph in question, commenting on it in detail, and contending that the natural and only in. ference to be drawn from it was that Mr. Price was guilty of corruption, that he was not fit to be entrusted with any share in the allotment of tendars for public works, and that he was interest- ed in keeping the advertisements for tendera dark in order that only bis own friends, who would deal liberally with him, might secure the con- tracts. As to the meaning of the word jobbery, he referred to a dictionary, in which the mean. ing was given as \"unfair means employed to secure some private end,\" and it was with this meaning, he contended, that the word was used by the defendant in reference to Mr. Price and the department of which he was the head. The paragraph conveyed the plain inference that the tenders were manipulated for Mr. Price's interest, and that if he was a deter.. mined opponent of all jobbery amongst the subordinates in his department it was only for the purpose of securing for himself all the benefit that was to he derived from that jobbery. The learned counsel then dwelt upon the injury such a libel was oal- culated to do to the subject of it. If a single one of these obarges, if ous single instance of bri- hery and corruption as Surveyor-General could be proved against Mr. Price, what would be bis position and his future? There would follow immediate expulsion from the Government ser. vice, inability ever again to hold office under the Crown, universal opprobrium and disgrace. Then in his professional capacity outside the public service could be expect to compete suo- cessfully with other sarveyors and architects and nivil engineers whose characters were un- blemished by such charges? What 'man having a building contract would entrust it to a man expelled from the public service for bribery and corruption, for making use of his position to fill his own pocket? If any one of these charges was true, and proved to be true, Mr. Price's career and whole futuro life must be utterly and irretrievably ruined. And quite apart from the truth or falsehood of these charges, what must be the natural effect of the publication and dissemination of auch stale. ments in Hongkong and elsewhere where the paper might circulate? Those who knew Mr. Price personally know that he was incapable of committing such offences as those charged against him, that he was above corruption, that his character stoed high and deservedly high. But it was not every one in the Colony who had the privilege of Mr. Price's acquaintance and who was able to say of his own knowledge that such charges were false and baseless. Mr. Price was unknown to many, amangat whom the paper circulated, and what opinion must strangers have of him and the public service in this Colony when they read such paragraphs as this? Were such paragraphs likely, or were they not, to injure Mr.",
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        "content_text": "75\n\nfirst principals of safety.\n\nThe stop valve on the boiler was also closed, I am convinced and I also doubt whether it was ever opened at starting, but if so, it must have been most carelessly and wilfully tampered with.\n\nDuring lifting, when the steam commenced to escape, Mr. Picker first went down alone, but the two ladies becoming alarmed asked me to go see what was the matter. To satisfy them I walked as far as the engine room skylight and looked down, and from there saw both W. Wood and Mr. Picker on the top of the boiler. Both said, \"the spring is broken and we must secure the valve temporarily or we shall have all the steam and water out of the boiler.\" I made no reply as I had perfect confidence in the ability of both men in charge, and I considered the remaining four safety valves more than sufficient to relieve the pressure, even had the engines not been working. In addition to that, the pressure gauge only indicated 12 or 13 pounds per square inch, and I respectfully assert that, placed as I was, I could not have acted differently under the circumstances without presuming on or casting doubts on the ability of two Engineers of acknowledged efficiency.\n\nIn addition to that, on my return to the saloon when I mentioned what had been done to Mr. Scott and Mr. Grizzell (who are practical Engineers)",
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        "content_text": "# authority on the paramount subject of finance and trade. (Cheers). We know also that he is admirably qualified to speak about that prosperity of Hongkong which he has himself done so much to promote. (Loud cheers). I will remark only that, as we all know, little more than forty years have passed since the British flag was first hoisted on this island, then a barren and desolate rock, but which already, through the blessing of Providence on the energy and enterprise of our race, has arisen to be the third greatest mart of shipping in the world. (Cheers). And let it never be forgotten that in this colony the victorious industry of our countrymen has made a conquest, not only over man, but over Nature; not for this generation only, but for all posterity-(cheers); not for England only, but for all mankind; for we admit all nations alike to the privileges of our free port, and to the protection of our equal laws. (Cheers). Gentlemen, I second the toast proposed by my gallant friend the French Admiral--\"Prosperity to Hongkong.\" (Loud cheers).\n\nTo the Band-\"Jolly good luck to us all.\"\n\nHon. T. JACKSON, who was received with loud and long continued cheering, in responding to the toast, said Mr. Chairman, I thank His Excellency the Governor and the French Admiral for the very nice way in which they have alluded to the prosperity of Hongkong. I would like to join with them in wishing for Hongkong a little more prosperity than we now possess. (Laughter and cheers.) I have always been a very firm believer in the prosperity of Hongkong, and I am more so now than ever. (Loud cheers.) A very distinguished officer recently said at the Mansion House, \"India is everything.\" That was Sir Frederick Roberts, and I may say like Sir Frederick Roberts, \"Hongkong to me is everything.\" (Loud and long continued cheering.) Situated as we are here, on the confines of perhaps one of the greatest empires in the world, I don't see the end of the prosperity yet in store for Hongkong. (Renewed cheers). I remember when Cyprus was added to the dominions of the British Crown there was a great deal of excitement in England about it, and the reason was that it was adjacent to Asia Minor. But here we are in our tight little island adjacent to Asia Major-(cheers)-which is a thousand times more important than Asia Minor, with all its Turks and everything else. (Laughter and cheers). Gentlemen, we have reason to be proud of Hongkong-Hongkong is the mother of so many little companies-(laughter and cheers)—and of so many little industries. We have our sugar refineries-(laughter)-glass manufactory, rope works, which will spin us many a good yarn in time to come-(laughter and applause)-and the last little bantling is the saké manufactory. (Laughter.) As I have said elsewhere, the freedom of the port is our birthright; and I remember in this very hall, when the late Sir Arthur Kennedy was sitting where Sir George Bowen is sitting now, he said, \"Whatever may come or go stand up for your rights and privileges.\" (Cheers). I say, Sir, that of our rights and privileges the first and foremost is our being a free port, and nothing must interfere with that. (Long continued cheers). Gentlemen, if you will bear with me for a little while I would say that instead of hatching legislation which is likely to interfere with the shipping of Hongkong, which is the life and soul of our prosperity (cheers)—instead of constituting a Scylla and Charybdis here, we should do all we can to draw shipping here by every possible means. (Cheers.) Sir, it only requires a little of the prophetic eye to look forward to the time-and only a little time-long before my young friends present will have entered the ranks of old bufferdom-when perhaps we shall be taking up a Hongkong Daily Press some morning and reading of the launch in Hongkong of the latest addition to the Navy from the shipbuilding and engineering works of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, and that the vessel as she glided down into the water was named by Miss Morant the Dowell-(loud cheers)—and after the ceremony was over Sir Digby Morant and all the assembled company repaired to the residence of our colonial peer, Lord Chater of Kowloon (loud cheers and laughter)-where success to the new vessel was drunk. Gentlemen, I have great pleasure in responding to this toast. I am sure we all feel it very keenly. (Laughter and cheers.)\n\nHon. W. KESWICK-Mr. Chairman, Your Excellency, and gentlemen, I have the honour to propose the health of the representatives of foreign countries in this colony. The Consuls-General and Consuls in this colony represent, I believe, seventeen governments, and the official duties of these gentlemen are frequently of an important and of a delicate character. We know that these delicate and important duties have been performed by these representatives with distinguished ability and distinguished courtesy. (Applause). It is too late now for me to make many remarks in introducing this toast to your hearty approval, for the speeches to which we have already listened with so much attention, and I trust benefit, have already occupied a considerable time, and I know that the toast which I have to propose is one which requires few words to ask you to respond to. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I beg to propose the toast of the Foreign Representatives and to couple with it the name of the distinguished American citizen who represents America amongst us. (Cheers.)\n\nColonel WETHERS-Ar Chairman and gentlemen, I would preface what I have to say by stating that I do not propose to occupy more than five minutes of your valuable time, because happening to meet with a very charming lady this evening she remarked, \"I understand you are going to speak to-night. Please make it short because we want to dance.” (Applause.) Recognising that request as a command I shall not occupy much of your time. I must return my thanks to the Committee for having done me honour to select me to respond to this toast. It is not remarkable that the Consular Service should have received recognition at the hands of a community so commercial as this, for to the Consul is due to some extent, and to an inconsiderable extent, that phenomenal growth and prosperity of which we have heard so many boasts made to-night. For more than two thousand years this consular office has been recognised amongst all civilized nations as indispensable to commercial prosperity and progress; and the vast strides which commerce has made during the last century has drawn the attention of every civilized Government to the importance of selecting the men who can best discharge those duties in such shape as to further that prosperity. (Applause). I would gladly occupy a portion of your time in drawing an ideal picture of what a consul should be, but I cannot do it when I recognise the necessities of my surrounding. I can only say that while prudence and politeness are indispensable to a consul and are found invaluable in the proper discharge of his duties, there are other qualities equally necessary. Although I find myself surrounded by the representatives of the army and navy I dare to assert that while a clear, wise and unbiassed mind is essential to the discharge of consular duties, to that clear, wise and unbiassed intellect should be added the brave heart that shrinks from no danger. (Applause) I say this because the consul has frequently occasion to call these attributes into active service in times of revolution, of anarchy, or of war. The Consul is also frequently called upon to meet danger when others can escape from it, in times of pestilence, when infection is abroad. When the promptings of self-preservation demand that all others shall flee, the Consul, devoted to the interests of the Government he represents, must stand at his post. This, I say, requires a degree of bravery and firmness which if exhibited in the fury of battle would win reputation and renown. (Applause). In conclusion I can only say, as the representative of the Consular Service on this occasion, I return my cordial thanks to the gentleman whom we have met especially to honour for the uniform kindness.\n\nPage 153",
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        "content_text": "## DOMESTIC.\n**RECE (2 JUL 85)**\n\n### Peace between France & China\n\nCopy note from French Govt announcing that French forces no longer assert belligerent rights. Copy of Notice, published in the London Gazette.\n\n| Office or Individual | Date | Last previous Paper | Subsequent Paper |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Foreign Office | 30 June 1885 | Copy (52 me for. thing 10. Newswee 11633 | 11740 Stong Kong No. 11610 |\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nW. Braunton  \n? Copy (without inclosure) to For of laglen, ryley, Straits & Labran for infer with reference to desp. No. `A 10546 2.7`.\n\nS.W.J.  \n3 July.  \n? Send copy of the covering letter and the Sageth to the Mitin. ReWW Jul 4.\n\nwho had been imprisoned at Canton, Lavine being, as is believed, imperfectly investigated from/to Chinese Govt by the Chinese Authorities, and I am to state that Lord Derby concurs with Lord ...n's proposal to offer ... in O'Conce's action in the matter.\n\n80.447 D617  \n7/7.",
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        "content_text": "pensionable service, in the latter case only if a month\n\nIn critic case Capt. Thomson's net pensionable service exceeds 26 years; he can therefore have the maximum two-thirds, or $400, which will be off within 60 years' service.\n\nThis arises from the fact that no reduction will be made to his half-pay leave taken prior to 1876. Capt. Thomson will be informed accordingly, and the Agents instructed.\n\nAs to the interpretation of Rule 4(16) in the amended minutes for the future, a possible compromise would be to treat vacation leave taken after 1876 in combination with half-pay leave as not \"Resident service\" and other vacation leave as Resident service. Not that there is much principle in this, but it would practically benefit those who had taken their vacation leave regularly every second year, rather than attempting to accumulate large leave-balances, which I think is desirable.\n\nAny change was contemplated, but in this \"minute\" ever published, the change made in 1876 appears to me to have been anomalous throughout the colonies, and Mr. Lewe was quite right in his minute of 5/5/1876 in hinting that it might be best to stick to the change in Hongkong, as compared with the Straits Settlements. Since then, the practice in Mauritius, Cyprus, and Jamaica has been to make all future half-pay leave count only half-time; and this should be adhered to as regards Hongkong since 1876, not contemplated in `mn 10/10/80`.\n\n## MINUTE PAPER\n\nM. Meade 623\n\nMr. Round has assumed above from the \"Draft Minutes\" (undated) that one or other of the 1876 Draft Minutes was issued in the Colony; but I find from \"the Gazette\" that such was not the case. Examining the case, it will be seen that the Governor does not assert it here.\n\nAt the risk of some repetition, I will here state what is the actual state of affairs:\n\nPensions in Hong Kong are legalized by a single-clause Act of 1862, referring to \"Minutes hereafter to be issued.\" The only Minutes now in existence are: \n(1) the original Minute of 1862, which provides (among other things) that half-salary leave shall count at the rate of one month for every two months of such leave; and \n(2) a Minute of 1870 (copy attached to `14180/86`), which deals with Intercolonial pensions. On `14186`, it was decided (see specially W. Wingfield's minute) that J.W. Marsh's pension must be decided under the existing Minutes of 1870, no account being taken of the Secretary of State's outsequent despatches directing any amendment of the Minutes.\n\nI confess, however, that by an oversight, the other existing Minute as to half-pay leave was not even examined, and it was not applied to the March case.",
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        "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\nEnclosure1.\n\nHONGKONG, APRIL 11TH, 1891.\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon. There were present:---\n\nHon. W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary, in the chair.\n\nHon. W. M. GOODMAN, Attorney-General. Hon. N. J. MITCHELL-INNES, Colonial Treasurer.\n\nHon J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART, Registrar-General.\n\nHon. S. BROWN, Surveyor-General.\n\nHon. P. KYRIE\n\nHon. Ho KAI.\n\nHon. J. J. KESWICK.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD.\n\nMr. A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.\n\nTHE MILITARY CONTRIBUTION AND THE INCREASED SALARIES.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD rose to move the following resolution:-\" That in consequence of the enhanced military contribution still demanded by the Imperial Government this Colony is not in a position to pay the increased salaries recently recommended by the unofficial members and that the Secretary of State be requested by telegram to withhold his sanction\" The hon member said I have to thank His Excellency for acceding to my request for the postponement of the discussion of this motion It was not asked for because of any doubt or uncertainty in my mind as to the facts and figures on which the resolution was deliberately based, or because of any hesitation as to the wisdom and propriety of the position taken up. I asked for an adjournment that the figures might be officially before the Council and the public in such form that the correctness of my statements might not be questioned. I shall endeavour to satisfy hon. members that the position is not untenable, that the motion has not been the outcome of any sudden impulse, or of anything worse, and that in the result, it will strengthen, not weaken, as His Excellency seems to think, the hands of the unofficial members in their protest, their most respectful and moderately worded protest, against the enhanced military contribution. This resolution will have the further advantage, whether intended or not, of giving His Excellency and the hon. the official members of this Council a legitimate opportunity of discussing the general financial situation, and of demonstrating, if it is possible to do so, the ability of the colony to bear even heavier burdens than those now imposed upon it.\n\nHis Excellency has twice reproached the unofficial members with their refusal to discuss this question during the course of our recent debates on the revote of the military contribution for 1890. I hope you will not find them backward now, but I adhere to the opinion that such discussion was out of place on the question of the re-vote. I cannot agree with His Excellency in the assertion that the demand of the Imperial Government for the payment of the extra £20,000 was based upon new and general grounds. That statement is not borne out by the Secretary of State's telegram and despatch of the 13th February last. Lord Knutsford simply demands payment of money already voted but unpaid. The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Captain Superintendent of Police, and the Hon. the Attorney-General, each and all have declared that it was simply and solely a re-vote, nothing more and nothing less than a re-vote. It may be correct to say this year's enhanced military contribution has been asked for on other grounds than the promised increase of the Garrison, but this cannot with truth be said with reference to 1890. With regard to that vote there has been a deliberate breach of faith and a glaring violation by the Imperial Government of a solemn agreement with the Colony,\n\nPage 3\n\n582\n\nand His Excellency will not find a dozen persons in the island who will agree with him that there has not been. I cannot concur with His Excellency in the opinion that I must abandon motion if I am not prepared to assert and prove that the Colony is not in a position to pay the increased rate of salaries as well as the enhanced military contribution. I may be of opinion that in this year, or perhaps the next, the Colony is in a position, without grievous loss or hurt, to bear the double burden, and yet be of opinion that the Colony will not in the near future be able to support the present increased army of officials at the higher rates of pay.\n\nFrom the official statement laid before the Council to-day it appears that salaries for 1891 will aggregate $758,139, as compared with $655,233 for 1890 and $547,050 for 1887. I may further and do think that, unless the Colony can see its way not merely to pay these salaries this year and next, but for several years to come, it would be unjust and unfair to colonists and officials alike to grant an increase of salaries that three or four years hence may have to be reduced to their present or even to a lower level. The question for debate now is not, Is the Colony able to pay these increased salaries this year or next, but are our prospects in the near future such and so assured that we shall be able to continue to pay these enhanced rates of salary permanently. We are not giving a bonus out of the realized profits of a few good years to our official servants, but we are binding the Colony to pay these increased rates for years to come. We may vote the military contribution this year, and contemplate the probability that next year we shall be unable to pay it. We cannot deal that way with the question of salaries. These salaries bind the Colony for years to come. Salaries cannot be reduced without the greatest injustice, and except under the pressure of the most urgent necessity.\n\nThere are two points for consideration, the propriety of the proposed increase of salaries, and our ability to pay and to continue to pay this increase. The unofficial members have cordially recognised the propriety and justice of an increase of salaries. It was on their recommendation it was authorized, they are not wavering on that point, but on second thoughts they begin to doubt the ability of the Colony to pay the increased salaries over a course of years, and the wisdom of granting them, if in a few years they may have to be reduced. I am of opinion that the officers of the Government have fair grounds for asking for an increase of salaries, if the Colony can afford to pay such increase, but I think the Council ought to be satisfied not only that it is able to pay them this year and next, but for some years to come.\n\nFrom the latest official information furnished to the Council there is an estimated deficit of about $100,000 in our finances at the end of this current year. Therefore I do not see how we can honestly pay the heavy increase in salaries even this year. I see no prospect in the near future of wiping out that deficit. It seems to me that it must increase. It was in the early part of 1889, I think, that this question of an increase in salaries took form and that a Committee was appointed by His Excellency to investigate and report on it. What was the position of this Colony, or rather our estimate of its position and prospects, when this question of salaries was first mooted ? It is set forth in His Excellency's brilliant despatch of 31st October, 1889, to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, Lord Knutsford. His Excellency in that despatch was able to refer to the great wealth of the Colony; to the 39 millions of dollars of deposits in the local European and Chinese Banks; to the market value of all registered companies in Hongkong-63 millions of dollars and over; and to the enormous rise in the value of land, Marine lots having advanced 50 per cent, and Inland lots 15 to 20 per cent.; also to the 35 new joint stock companies formed since 1st January, 1888, with capital then paid up aggregating over 9 millions of dollars, for land investment, manufacture, and trade in Hongkong, and for mining and planting enterprises in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Tonkin. His Excellency was then able to express strong hopes as to the success of nearly all these new companies, and to the certainty of a further great increase in the value of land in Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "# Memorial Against the Proposed Ordinance\n\nIt is of the very essence of the limited liability principle on which all these companies are founded that there should be a free and open market for their shares and, in Hongkong, a very large and valuable trade has sprung up in the shares of the local companies and of others connected with the East. A very large capital, estimated at many millions of dollars is employed in this trade, which is not merely local but embraces in its ramifications London and New York, Calcutta and San Francisco, Bombay, Singapore and Shanghai, and a very large number of persons are interested in the trade as investors, dealers and brokers.\n\nIt may be in the eyes of some a great misfortune that speculation in shares and in share property, as distinguished from investment, has sprung up in connection with Joint Stock enterprise but it is now almost universally recognised as a legitimate branch of business, inseparably connected with and essential to the full development of the principle of limited liability and to the continued existence and success of the great companies and corporations founded on that principle, by means of which such vast amounts of capital have been got together and such immense enterprises commenced and carried out.\n\nIn England and in America alike this trade is as absolutely free and unfettered as is the trade in any of the recognised articles of commerce, in cotton, or sugar or pig iron, and men are free to buy and sell shares for cash or on time; and to enter into contracts for the sale of shares that they have not in hand and must go into the market to acquire.\n\nSpeculation in shares, as in cotton and sugar, and pig iron, has occasionally been pushed, in England and America and in every civilized country in the world, to extremes and great losses have been suffered and great crimes brought about; but, with the exception to be mentioned hereinafter, there has been no legislative interference with this unlimited freedom of contract and legislatures have again and again refused, while recognising an undoubted evil, to apply the remedy sought to be applied by this Ordinance in Hongkong alone.\n\nNo later than this present Session, the Parliament of Great Britain has refused to interfere with the absolute freedom of the trade in pig iron and in the sale of warrants therefor, by requiring the insertion in such warrants of the numbers and marks of the iron contracted for. The evils complained of were the same, the remedy proposed the same, the objections the same. Why should the Legislative Council of Hongkong be permitted to interfere with the freedom of trade in a way condemned as unsuitable and inconvenient by the wisdom of the Imperial Parliament when dealing with a precisely similar subject? Why should the law affecting the sale of shares be one thing in Great Britain and another in Hongkong?\n\nYour Memorialists, therefore, pray your Lordship to refuse to sanction this Ordinance on the ground that it is a departure from the law of England, and an attempt to apply in Hongkong a principle which the Parliament of Great Britain has quite recently refused to apply in England in a like case.\n\nThe one exception to which reference has been made is the Imperial Act known as \"Leemann's Act\" but that Act applies to Bank shares only, was passed to remedy a serious public evil; the injury to public credit and to the stability of great financial institutions through the deliberate depreciation of their stock by means of short sales.\n\nNo such evils have, in fact, arisen here or are likely to arise, and your Memorialists further submit that Leemann's Act has fallen, in practice, into desuetude, even in England and is wholly disregarded on the London Stock Exchange.\n\nYour Memorialists in this connection would, lastly, call your Lordship's attention to the fact that in recent years both in France and in Germany attempts were made to limit the freedom of trade in shares and stocks and to stop short-selling but that in both countries, the experiment was abandoned as unsuccessful. In England the Stock Jobbing Act of GEORGE the Second's reign, commonly known as Barnard's Act, was as regards public stocks to precisely the same purport and effect as Mr. KESWICK'S Ordinance, but it was deliberately repealed in the 23rd year of Her Majesty's reign as an undue interference with the freedom of Trade, and an inconvenient restriction on the sale of Stock.\n\nBut it is urged by the supporters of this Ordinance and will, doubtless, be pressed upon your Lordship that such great evils have arisen in Hongkong from this unlimited freedom of contract and from the practice of short-selling, that it has become a public evil, that a remedy is earnestly needed and that the limitations imposed on share dealers by Mr. KESWICK's Ordinance will effectually cure the disease.\n\nYour Petitioners most emphatically deny that there is any public evil needing a remedy, or, that, if there is any evil demanding attention (and they do not deny that rash and hazardous speculation is an evil like any other form of gambling), that it has ever risen or can rise to the magnitude of a public evil, affecting the common weal and needing legislative interference; and they further most unhesitatingly deny that short-selling has been the cause of the existing evils as is evidenced by the fact that no shares which have been dealt in largely have been for many years below a value which would give more or slightly more than a return of 7 per cent., which is the recognised rate of interest in the Colony; and that its prevention will afford any remedy to the particular evil complained of.\n\nYour Lordship will have noted that the supporters of Mr. KESWICK's Bill have not brought it forward or supported it on any distinctly public ground. There is no complaint, as when Leemann's Act was passed, that any great public institutions had been shaken: that public credit had been affected; that the prosperity of the Colony, as a whole, had been injured or its future threatened. The evil complained of is that many individual speculators in shares had suffered very severely. In other words that very many men had been largely speculating for the rise in shares; that their expectations had been disappointed, to their great injury and loss, and that this had resulted from the action of one or two great operators selling short.\n\nYour Memorialists beg leave to refer your Lordship on this point to the Memorandum annexed to Mr. KESWICK's draft Bill when forwarded to your Lordship in Mr. FLEMING's despatch of the 2nd September, 1890. This Memorandum was drawn up by the then Acting Attorney General, Mr. ACKROYD, a gentleman who speaks with knowledge and experience. It states the case in favour of the Legislation proposed as strongly and clearly as it has been stated anywhere. The whole case of the supporters of the Bill is summed up there. Many speeches have been made in support of the Bill; very many anonymous letters have appeared in the public papers on the same side, but no other case has been made for the Ordinance than that put by Mr. ACKROYD: - That there has been excessive gambling in shares in Hongkong in 1889, in 1890, and in the early part of this year. That many have been ruined; not merely professional gamblers but the many young men who have been induced on fair promises to buy shares for future dates. That this gambling has led in some cases to crime and has caused much individual misery.\n\nYour Memorialists admit all this, but point again to the fact that there is no allegation of any direct public evil as in the days of the Stock Jobbings Acts, or at the date of the passing of Leemann's Act, and they crave your Lordship's very earnest attention to the fact that, alike in Mr. ACKROYD'S memorandum, in the speeches and letters in support of the Bill, as well as in the letters and addresses in opposition to it, it appears that the Bill is deliberately aimed, not at short-selling, as a common practice asserted to be indulged in by many to their ruin, but against short-selling as practised by one or two individual operators who, as Mr. ACKROYD plainly puts it, by their short sales rule the market, depreciate all stocks and ruin, as is alleged, the operators for a rise.\n\nYour Memorialists while admitting that there has been during the last few years very great gambling in shares, very heavy losses, much individual misery and suffering and while acknowledging that it would be desirable, if it were possible, to check and control the spirit of speculation that periodically rides rampant over all modern forms of investment, most respectfully submit for your Lordship's consideration that short-selling, to prevent which alone Mr. KESWICK's Bill has been introduced and passed, has not in any marked degree brought about the existing state of affairs in the Colony, and that its prohibition will not in the least check the gambling spirit, diminish speculation in the future, or render it less injurious in a crisis. They further submit that while not materially interfering to prevent gambling or to diminish the evils consequent upon it, the prohibitions contained in Mr. KESWICK's Ordinance will seriously interfere with all legitimate business in shares and stocks, and will so hamper business as seriously to diminish its volume, lower the prices of shares generally and in a degree diminish the actual value of the very large and valuable share property that forms so important an element in the general prosperity of the Colony.\n\nIn the first place, the Colony has recently passed or is still passing, through a very severe commercial crisis arising mainly from general causes financial and otherwise, arising in England and America, and only in part from local events. The severe fluctuations in exchanges have caused heavy losses. Extensive speculations in exchange have brought more than one house to the ground. Among the causes locally arising and locally operating there has been the absolute failure of many planting, mining and trading companies formed here in 1888, and consequent loss of the monies invested. This has crippled many. Other companies floated at the same period have not yet proved a success from a dividend paying point of view, and much money is hopelessly locked up there. As stated by Sir GEORGE W. DES VŒUX in his despatch to your Lordship of the 31st October, 1889, No. 334, thirty-five companies with a paid-up capital of over 9 millions of dollars were formed in Hongkong in 1888-1889. These account for many heavy losses and for much of the individual distress that exists arising from local causes. The failure complete or partial of these companies has directly affected hundreds of men and has reacted in all directions in lowering the prices of all other stocks, in diminishing credit and in producing the crisis, now erroneously attributed wholly and entirely to short-selling.\n\nThere have been, it is true, heavy speculative losses in shares and the recent considerable fall in the value of some stocks is erroneously attributed by Mr. KESWICK solely to short-selling. Your Petitioners humbly submit that the real reason is the natural reaction following on a market unduly inflated by excessive speculation, and intensified by a real fall in the value of many stocks owing to losses, etc.\n\nYour Memorialists unhesitatingly assert that short-selling has not brought about any of the recent crises in the local share market; that the mischief is done not by the professional gamblers and speculators but by the foolish men who without money or means or with insufficient resources speculate for the rise, buying shares that they are unable to take up and pay for, that they can only handle, under any possible combination of circumstances, by the aid of Banks and other financial institutions.\n\nAn Ordinance forbidding men to enter into contracts for the purchase of shares that they had no means of paying for and no reasonable expectation of being able to take up when the time came might be effective to check the gambling spirit that prevails from time to time, but no Ordinance however strictly enforced or however effective that only stops short-selling will ever prevent wealthy men from operating for a fall or impecunious men from buying for a rise and suffering severely in character and in pocket when they are overborne by the weight of money or of intelligence in the opposite camp.\n\nPage 4",
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        "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong\n2017 September 18th, \n\nIntitled to vacation leave on full pay unless \nthewing that in \nOfficer is not \nthink the \nL \nCuforest \nMy Lord, \n\narrangements are made for the adequate discharge of his duties in that cost to the public \n\nThe not being able to get full pay leave is probably the same point.\n\n### Memorandum\n\npausim will according to this Paper of Particulars amount $1565 to \n\nThese are two very early questions to refer home: The bag shines have ans? W. Barff \nM. Barff, saying the rules were clear tho reference to the S. S. appeared necessary? \n\nSu 926/10 \n* agree generally: I would also refer to lot \n\nyes: appar \nIni \nye 317 \n186 \nC. O. \n20805 \nRect \nRedt 24 00 31 \n\nRe = 133 \nA \n\nM. Meade \nPerhap \nma26/10 \nin view of our dest on `737/90-1` \nit is unnecessary to add what Mr Round proposes? \n\n5.W.9. 27/10 \nI understand this man to admit that \nit is impossible for any one Registrar to do \nthe work of two for more than quite a short time \nI therefore think it was practically impossible for him \nto have prolonged vacation leave on full pay; & that in \nspite of this difficulty, he wishes to assert his claim to full pay leave.\n\nmaz/u \n* \nGov: 425 of 5th Decr 1890.\n\nGEN: \nWith reference to \nthe correspondence \nb. of S. 26 of 30th Jany, 1891 noted in the margin, \n`737/90-1` \nI have the honour to transmit \nfor Your Lordship's consideration \n\"The Right Honourable, \nLord Knutsford, G. C. M. G.\" \n\nPage 363 \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` \n`XCR(85)72` \n`Su926/10` \n`ma26/10` \n`5.W.9. 27/10` \n`maz/u` \n`Gov: 425` \n`b. of S. 26`",
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        "content_text": "## DESPATCH\n\nthe Committee any official papers and returns that may be called for or may tend to throw light on the financial position or the future prospects of the Colony. Before concluding, I should like to say that, having regard to the history of the past, and notwithstanding the somewhat gloomy picture my financial statement presents, I have every confidence in the future of Hongkong. It is true that the Colony has passed and is passing through a period of severe depression, but there are distinctly favourable and promising indications of better times to come. I have been very much struck by the peaceful, sober, and industrious habits of the Chinese. I hope the leading members of that community fully understand that they and their compatriots will have in me a Governor, a friend, and a supporter in all their reasonable aspirations. It is my most anxious desire to see greater attention paid in our elementary and secondary schools to the teaching of the English language, and this matter I hope to take up before the end of the vacation. The establishment and recent extension of sugar refineries, dock accommodation, brick and cement and rope works are healthy signs, and indicate the advantages which would accrue to the population generally from a further encouragement of local industries. The community may rely upon my aid and assistance in fostering in every legitimate way the development of such enterprises. It will also be my endeavour to cultivate harmonious and friendly relations with the Government authorities of the mainland of China, with which we are so closely connected geographically and commercially. I am afraid, gentlemen, that my remarks have been somewhat prolix, and that I may have been guilty of repetition, but the occasion is undoubtedly an important as well as an interesting one, and that must be my excuse if I have erred in those directions. I thank you for your forbearance, and in claiming your confidence and support, I can honestly assert that during my tenure of office, I shall try by every means in my power to promote as far as possible the well-being of the community, and to maintain the efficiency of the public service.\n\n`B&L (1311)-11690-6000-1-91`\n\n### Governor\n\nDate | No.\n---|---\n | 42.\n`J892.` | Est previous Paper.\n\nHong | Rong. | No. 4600\n---|---|---\n(Subject.) | C. O. | **DESPATCH.**\n4600 RECP f (REGE | 7 MAR J2\nM. G. Rogers Retirement. | Seward & Porcheeper of the Civil Hospital & | \nPension Pr | Cool | the case with lis\nForwarder particulars of the | Paper.\n\n### (Minutes.)\n\n| Person | Comment |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Round | (I kept this, expecting that we should hear again from M. Roger) If he is to retire, I do not... |\n|  | 2 partly. 2.95.14ap. W.O. cam 220p. Further 130.12th. do no Think there's is at Take an Jay tis parsent Cas CPF subsequent Paper No. I would fifthit akme OPE he ought to have think avery half pay leave so as to give him another & we ought to \"pensionable year, vidicate to for. in this was leave fr. that to grant to officers intending to retire is contrary to the general rules of the fol. service, & inconsistent leave of absence with the meaning of As which is only granted to Enable OL officer retum to duty. we to recruit & But perhaps might wait till M. Rogers reports himself or unter again, in 232 |",
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        "content_text": "402\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND\n\nThere were then under treatment, thirteen cases on the Hygeia, and fourteen at Kennedy town, making a total of 27, as against 41 on the previous day.\n\ndying there after an illness of 24 hours. The symptoms were almost identical with those of the plague, and there is only too much reason to believe that this is the commencement of the disease in the hitherto uninfected eastern district. The agent of the Messageries Maritimes Company issued the following express on Wednesday: To order to avoid sanitary difficulties in further ports the steamer Oceanien, leaving at 2 p.m., will take neither passengers nor cargo.\n\n18th May: The continuation of the rain on Thursday was hailed with great satisfaction, and both plague and water famine, from which we have been suffering, will doubtless in a few days entirely disappear. There is some indication that the plague is already abating and that the conditions favourable to its development having been removed by the rain, the port will soon be declared free from the disease. The total number of deaths reported from noon on Wednesday to noon yesterday was 20, of which 2 occurred on the Hygeia, 9 in Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 in outside districts. There were only 10 new cases yesterday, 3 being admitted to the Hygeia, and 7 to the Kennedy town Hospital. 44 cases are at present under treatment,\n\nThe following circular has been issued by the Sanitary Board for the guidance of all concerned, and has been circulated among the police and sanitary officers:\n\nObservations to be made by officers conducting house to house visitation:\n\n1. See if the patient is feverish. \n2. Look for swellings (buboes) under the arms, on the groin, on the neck, above the elbow. \n3. Observe if the patient has an anxious expression and if he is walking with a tottering gait.\n\nThe rainfall registered to 10 a.m. on Wednesday, for the preceding twenty-four hours, was 0.26 inch, and for the twenty-four hours ending 10 a.m. on Thursday 2.23 inches. There were heavy showers later in the day.\n\nOur Saigon correspondent telegraphs that Hongkong has been declared an infected port and vessels arriving at Saigon are subjected to six days' quarantine.\n\nPRECAUTIONS AT MACAO.\n\nThe following order is published in the Macao Boletim Oficial:\n\nBubonic plague having appeared in epidemic form in the neighbouring ports of Canton and Hongkong and causing a considerable number of deaths amongst the Chinese population of those two cities;\n\nAt the Police Court on Tuesday there were several cases of failure to report the occurrence of the disease, and doubtless a few convictions and fines will make landlords more alive to the vital necessity of bringing the cases to the attention of the authorities without the slightest delay. Ning Kin and Lan Chuk, widows, the occupants respectively of Nos. 72 and 74, Market Street, were charged by Inspector Quincey before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse with neglecting to report the outbreak of plague in their houses. The Inspector stated that he visited the places and found men suffering from the disease, whom he had removed to the Hygeia. The symptoms were very pronounced at the time and there would be no difficulty in identifying the disease. His Worship fined the first defendant $2 or fourteen days' and discharged the second. Lai You Chang, a teacher, for a similar neglect in respect to a case at 10, Wai Tak Lane, was fined $5 or in default 14 days' imprisonment.\n\nThe fire engines on Tuesday were engaged in flushing the sewers and drains of the Taiping-shan district from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The water was pumped from the harbour by the floating engine up to the Hollywood Road level and from thence to the China Road. A good quantity of water was used. This operation will be continued to-day.\n\nDepartmental orders have also been issued calling upon the Chinese to keep their houses clean.\n\n19th May. It is regrettable to have to report that the plague has again increased and that both the numbers of deaths, admissions, and cases are larger than those of the previous day. It will be remembered that the returns on Thursday on the face of them showed a gratifying diminution of the disease, and the copious downfall of rain continuing it was confidently and naturally anticipated that this diminution would be even more pronounced yesterday. The official returns, however, up to noon on Friday show that in the twenty-four hours 25 deaths occurred, 7 were from noon on Thursday on board the Hygeia, 9 at Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 outside, as against a mortality of 21 on Thursday. The new cases were 29, viz, 12 on the Hygeia and 17 at Kennedy town, being an increase of 19. The total number of cases under treatment is 56 against 44 at the last report. This increase is not regarded by the authorities in a serious light, and no apprehensions are entertained that the disease is baffling the exertions made to stamp it out. In fact, the medical officers take a hopeful view and feel sure that the worst is now past. The increase is ascribed to the complete organisation which is operating for the detection of cases. On Friday twelve men from the Royal Engineers and twelve from the Shropshire Light Infantry were enrolled as special sanitary officers, which makes the staff numerically strong and adequate to the necessities of the work to be done. The house to house visitation is divided into sections, and it is almost impossible now that cases of plague can pass undiscovered.\n\nThe Manila authorities have prescribed 15 days' observation on all vessels arriving from this port.\n\nAt the Magistracy on Friday a hawker was charged with failing to report a case of plague which occurred in his house on the 17th inst. Defendant pleaded that he could not leave the premises, but Commander W. H. Hastings, before whom the case was heard, imposed a fine of $50 with an alternative of two months' hard labour.\n\n21st May,\n\nHaving received the advice of the Provincial Sanitary Board:\n\nI hereby order:\n\n1. That the supply of water to the public by boats stationed along the Praia Grande and in the inner harbour be continued with the greatest regularity.\n\n2. That the drains be flushed daily, especially in the districts occupied by the Chinese population, and more particularly the districts of Volong, San-kin, Sa-tong, Patane, Mong-ha, and the village of Barra.\n\n3. That the pavement of the slaughter house and its appendages be daily washed with salt water.\n\n4. That on the arrival of any vessel from Canton or Hongkong, including the steamers and launches of the regular lines, an officer of the Sanitary Board shall inspect the passengers, and especially the Chinese passengers, to ascertain if any of them are suffering from the bubonic plague or exhibit suspicious symptoms.\n\n5. That the commandant of the water police shall give the necessary directions in order that lorcha or other boats from Hongkong or Canton may not land any individual suspected to be suffering from the disease; and any case presenting its symptoms shall be detained on board until examined by an officer of the Sanitary Board, who shall be immediately informed.\n\n6. If any passenger be found to be suffering from bubonic plague, whether on board steamers or launches, such passenger shall not be landed; and if any case of the disease be found on a sailing vessel or boat propelled by oars the vessel shall be immediately to be immediately towed out of the harbour, and removed by a copious rainfall we may confidently anticipate the speedy disappearance of the evil result.\n\nGovernment Palace, Macao,\n\n15th May, 1894.\n\nThe Governor of the Province,\n\nJose M. da Horta e Costa.\n\nwork of soaching and disinfecting the localities\n\nfor development it was hoped that in a few days such an appreciable conquest of the disease would be achieved that no further danger need be anticipated. A certain section of the Chinese have now, however, attempted to frustrate all these efforts, and are determined to assert aggressively the ignorance and stupidity which peculiarly belong to the multitude of the natives. It will be remembered that one of the first acts of the permanent committee was to order the removal of all patients from the Tung Wah Hospital to the Hygeia, and the next wise edict was that no patients were to be sent there, but removed direct to the bulk. There was at the time much grumbling and opposition to this course, the patients themselves, with the instinct of their race, objecting, sometimes violently to their removal to the Hygeia and their treatment by Western skill and science. It appears that this feeling of resentment has been simmering and increasing during the past few days, and on Saturday it broke bounds and completely disorganised the work of cleansing, disinfecting, and investigating, which was in progress. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, a member of the Sanitary Board and also Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, has, with an intelligence which unfortunately does not belong to all his countrymen, lost the Government his hearty co-operation in the measures they have taken. Some of his colleagues on the Hospital Committee, however, imbued with anti-foreign feeling, have resisted this policy, and by their influence have created a strong opposition among the native population to the work which the authorities are prosecuting with such vigour.\n\nMay 24, 1894.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\n198\n\n4.3\n\nAnother case occurred yesterday among the Portuguese community, the patient being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nSingapore has imposed nine days' quarantine, including the time occupied by the passage, rioting, the Government having met the Tung Wah Hospital Committee in their demand that there be no further danger of a renewal of the.\n\nMEETING AT THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL\n\nA largely attended meeting of Chinese was held on Sunday at the Tung Wah Hospital, there being present about seventy members of the leading firms and some four hundred others. The Captain Superintendent of Police and the Colonial Surgeon attended the meeting.\n\nMr. Lau Wai Chuen occupied the chair. He said that many people had preferred a request that persons suffering from the plague should be allowed to be conveyed to Canton, if their relatives so desired, by special launches.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police replied that he was instructed to state that information had that morning been received from Canton that the officials there would not allow persons suffering from the disease to be landed there. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen interpreted Mr. May's reply to the meeting, who received it with strong marks of dissatisfaction. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, endeavoured to maintain order and said he would personally apply to the Government here and the officials at Canton in relation to the matter. He suggested that they should send a petition to Canton signed by all the leading firms of the colony.\n\nYesterday morning the sanitary officers reported a house supposed to be empty and made the horrible discovery that there were five corpses on the premises and four very serious cases, all exhibiting pronounced symptoms of the plague.\n\nYesterday morning one of the turnkeys in the Victoria Gaol reported himself sick and Dr. Marques, suspecting from the symptoms that the man was suffering from plague, sent him immediately to hospital. A prisoner in the gaol, who had been convicted for not reporting a case of plague, was also removed to the new Chinese Hospital for treatment.\n\nThe arrangements for the burial of victims of the plague do not appear to be quite satisfactory. A good deal of delay takes place before the bodies are interred, separate graves having to be dug in a rather rocky and refractory soil. The squatters on the land contiguous to this cemetery have petitioned the Government on the matter. Evidently a more suitable site ought to be selected.\n\nOn Saturday many of the houses visited were blockaded and the sanitary officers stoned, and in the afternoon all attempts to continue the house to house inspection had to be discontinued, the work being rendered exceedingly unsafe and difficult. A mob also collected at the Po Leung Kuk office and broke the windows, but was dispersed by the police before doing further damage. On Sunday, while a meeting at the Tung Wah Hospital was in progress, Mr. Lau was hurriedly sent for, news arriving that his hong was being wrecked. When Mr. Lau left the building he was surrounded by a howling mob of Chinese and had to be escorted by police to his residence. Mr. P. R. May, Captain Superintendent of Police, grasped the situation at once and sent a mounted contingent of armed Sikhs to the district, the presence of which fortunately prevented further disturbances.\n\nThe Government have so far met the Chinese opposition as to assent to the establishment of a temporary hospital under the management of the Tung Wah at the Glassworks, Kennedy town, to which all patients will be removed and where they will be treated by native practitioners, and the use of the Hygeia for the reception of plague patients will be discontinued.\n\nOn Sunday the house to house inspection was recommenced, the officers being protected by a strong police guard.\n\nSome cases have been reported on the mainland and proclamations have been issued prohibiting the immigration of Chinamen from Hongkong. At Haiphong several persons have fallen victims to the disease.\n\nThis suggestion was unanimously agreed to. The Captain Superintendent of Police said that rumours were current that people not suffering from the disease had been taken to the Hygeia and the Kennedy town Hospital, people who were not sick at all, but this could be at once disproved if any of those present would go with him to examine the patients, when it would be seen they were all sick people suffering from the plague. If those attacked were not segregated it would be impossible to prevent the spread of the disease, and he referred to the visitation of the plague in England two hundred years ago and the great mortality it caused. He suggested to the Chairman that he should advise the people that they should avoid overcrowding in their dwellings, and then the number of persons attacked by the disease would decrease.\n\nCONFERENCE AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nAn important conference was held yesterday at Government House for the purpose of discussing the new turn events have taken and considering the course of action to be adopted in the immediate future. His Excellency Sir William Robinson presided, and there were also present H.E. Major-General Barker, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart (Acting Colonial Secretary), Hon. N. G. Mitchell-Innes (Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Ho Kai, Dr. P. B. C. Ayres (Colonial Surgeon), Mr. F. H. May (Captain Superintendent of Police), Mr. J. J. R. Crook, Dr. James, Francis Q.C., Mr. J. A. M. S., Dr. Lan Wai Chuen. The meeting lasted for some time. The first business was the consideration of representations by the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board as to the inadequacy of the number of sanitary officers.\n\nApplication was made for the enrolling of 400 assistants for the work of cleansing and disinfecting.\n\nAt this stage of the proceedings a petition was presented from the residents in East Street complaining of the treatment they had received at the hands of the sanitary officers, entering their houses unexpectedly and frightening the children. The petitioners asked that attention should be given to this matter.\n\nAt this time news arrived that a mob was attacking Mr. Lau Wai Chuen's establishment in Bonham Strand, the Tung San Wo, and\n\nOn Sunday night everything was quiet and it was hoped there would be no renewal of the disturbances.\n\nThe decrease in the number of cases reported for the twenty-four hours up to noon on Sunday is, it is to be feared, due to interruption of the inspection rather than to any actual diminution of the disease.\n\nA notice was subsequently issued by the Committee of the Tung Wah Hospital stating that the Government has consented to allow all patients suffering from plague to be treated by the doctors of the Tung Wah Hospital. The notice also informs the people that they need not be alarmed by the visits of the sanitary officers, as any one found to be suffering from plague will now be removed to the Tung Wah's branch hospital instead of being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nAt the Police Court on Saturday there were some more cases of failure to report outbreaks of plague. Wong Chan, a married woman, was so charged. P.S. Moffat said that he visited the house of the defendant No. 64, First Street, at 11 a.m. on the 18th. In the first room visited he found a man lying dead, and another man (the husband of the defendant) was very ill in the same apartment. In another room in the Cookhouse he discovered a woman very ill lying under a bed, and in the cockloft a girl was seriously ill. All, both the dead and the living, had the symptoms of bubonic plague. Defendant pleaded that she was a very poor woman, and was fined $5, which she paid. Chan Chol, a shopkeeper at No. 6, Hung Lane, off Queen's Road West, was also charged with concealing a case. P.S. Smith said that he went into the premises and found a man suffering from plague. There were a number of persons present, who ran away on his arrival. A like fine was imposed.\n\nWe have heard of a somewhat curious case in connection with the plague. A few days ago a coolie was charged with cutting and wounding a companion and the hearing of the charge was remanded for a week by the sitting Magistrate, bail of $250 being allowed and procured. The following day the unlucky coolie was seized with the disease and died on board the Hygeia.\n\nThe Spanish Consul received the following official telegram despatch from Manila at 9:53 a.m. on Saturday: \"Hongkong has been declared an infected port, and vessels from thence are subject to fifteen days' quarantine.\"\n\nInformation has also been received that a proclamation will be issued to-day addressed to the Chinese explaining the objects of the preventative measures now being prosecuted and calling upon them to co-operate therein and assist the Government.\n\nMr. May stated at the meeting yesterday that he and his assistants had been welcomed and not obstructed in the different houses visited.\n\nThe following are the returns for the twenty-four hours to noon yesterday:\n\nHygeia, Kennedy town Hospital, City, Total, Decrease.\n\nAdmissions: 2, 3, 0, 5, \nDeaths: 3, 2, 0, 5, \nUnder treatment: 26, 20, 17, 63, 28\n\nThe Government, we understand, is fully prepared to support the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board to the utmost. There is a suspicion that jealousy between different sections of the Chinese is at the bottom of the recent disturbances and ill-feeling.\n\nTHE DISTURBANCES-POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS.\n\nMr. H. E. Wodehouse was yesterday morning engaged at the Police Court in hearing several cases arising out of the disturbances in Chinatown reported in yesterday's issue.\n\nYesterday Yea Kay, a hawker, was charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in Po Yan Street.\n\nPage 403\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "alleged damage caused by the fire\n\nThe case is exceedingly simple, though the Petition and the Engineer's Reply are cumbersome with much repetition.\n\nPetitioners request to inform that P.W. sees no reason to interfere in the matter.\n\n(IN. Stephens is a crotchetty & rather stupid shyster)\n\n1344\n\nThe petitioners herein have a wharf extending out into the harbour. This wharf must be removed to make way for the new quay. They are entitled to compensation above $22,000, & be paid within 6 months after the commencement of the work in front of their lot. The works are not yet begun but they are proceeding in front of Lot 185.\n\nOwing to the faulty construction of the wharf, the stones laid down in the foundation of the three piers in front of Lot 185 forced up the mud under some of the piers or lifted a corner of the wharf.\n\nThe Engineers' plan: Stones upon this comment in 24 hours the piers have protruded about 6 inches; some have settled back to their original level.\n\nBut the Petitioners asked how to operate, and whether there would be no further injury.\n\nSharp was concerned by the works. The portion of the wharf, which was allowed to remain for the convenience of the owners, was rapidly deteriorating. The Petitioners assert that it was removed by the Government. The works had done damage and deprived them of its use.\n\nThe Government disputes the S.St.'s authority to interfere; but the question is really as to the holding of the facts under Section 8(b) of Ordinance 7 of 1893.\n\nThis is a matter upon which the S.St. is not an authority. Samples 818/1579.\n\nI have not read all these papers. Joseph D.W. Branson spins a yarn as he supposes.\n\nR. 149\n\nPage 623\n\nSham not read all these papers. Janeph D.W. Bracuston spinin Replen ae he suppesto.\n\nR. 149\n\nbecomes\n\nalleged damage caused by the fir\n\nThe case is exceedingly simple, though the Petition & the Engineer's Reply language\n\nPetitimers\n\nare cumbersome with much\n\n& repetition. ? Request for to inform that P. ft. see no reas interfere in the matter\n\nI suit ape-\n\nW.7.10 Sef.\n\n(IN. Stephens is a crotchetty & rather stirpil shiitor)\n\n1344\n\nThe petitioned herein het of fatetting out into the harbours. This wharf must be umonia to the to make way for the an Traya : thing are suithet to compensation aboue op 22000, & be paid within 6 months after the Commencement of the cooker in front of their lot. The works are out yet begun but they are pranding in front of Lot 185: Owing to the faulty construction of the Whare the stones laid down in the foundation of the three infront\n\nat this hout\n\nGde 18hrs\n\nIf 185 forced up the mud under dorme of the piers or liftes a corn ofthe wharf- The Enginess pland, Stones upon this comment in 24 hours the piers have Profgheden barth 6 inches, a women som have setumes to their original level.\n\nBut the Petitions asked how to upora\n\n⭑No\n\n+ no further injury\n\nSharp\n\nwas cancer by the works. The fort Engines days\n\nPotion of the Wharf, which was allows:\n\ntend y\n\n• was Rilapidatie Pion Umow\n\n-\n\nfor the Conveniener of the owners: While\n\nGartlemen assert that it was removed hanus. The works had do damage\n\ndeprive them of its use, what dus mulle mom to an\n\nand as their lot was this brought within the fiments of the Melamin\n\nthe sharp as to deprive them of it.\n\nimmediate payount of the 44 22 ore Compensation, when farts and ther\n\ndispute the S.St. Cannot interfere; but (shaters may or the facts the\n\nGuestion\n\noney law\n\nher\n\nis wally as to the holdning\n\n.Ad\n\nthey facts ut om 8(b) of ordinana 7.993\n\ndection\n\n& this is a matten upon which the 5.57s. is\n\nA\n\nduisin. Samples 8181579\n\nS.\n\nakt\n\nfin\n\nAM\n\nanthontation 1770\n\n623\n\nSham not read all these papers. Janeph DW. Bracuston spinin Replen\n\nae he suppesto.\n\nR. 149\n\nis rewritten as \n\nalleged damage caused by the fire\n\nThe case is exceedingly simple, though the Petition and the Engineer's Reply are cumbersome with much repetition.\n\nPetitioners request to inform that P.W. sees no reason to interfere in the matter.\n\n(IN. Stephens is a crotchetty & rather stupid shyster)\n\n1344\n\nThe petitioners herein have a wharf extending out into the harbour. This wharf must be removed to make way for the new quay. They are entitled to compensation above $22,000, to be paid within 6 months after the commencement of the work in front of their lot. The works are not yet begun but they are proceeding in front of Lot 185.\n\nOwing to the faulty construction of the wharf, the stones laid down in the foundation of the three piers in front of Lot 185 forced up the mud under some of the piers or lifted a corner of the wharf.\n\nThe Engineers' plan: Stones upon this comment in 24 hours the piers have protruded about 6 inches; some have settled back to their original level.\n\nBut the Petitioners asked how to operate, and whether there would be no further injury.\n\nSharp was concerned by the works. The portion of the wharf, which was allowed to remain for the convenience of the owners, was rapidly deteriorating. The Petitioners assert that it was removed by the Government. The works had done damage and deprived them of its use.\n\nThe Government disputes the S.St.'s authority to interfere; but the question is really as to the holding of the facts under Section 8(b) of Ordinance 7 of 1893.\n\nThis is a matter upon which the S.St. is not an authority. Samples 818/1579.\n\nI have not read all these papers. Joseph D.W. Branson spins a yarn as he supposes.\n\nR. 149\n\nPage 623",
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        "content_text": "the enclosed extract from the \"Daily Press\" of this date containing a report of the proceedings at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls which is about to be built by the Po Leung Kuk Society.\n\nAt the request of the committee of the Society, I consented to perform this pleasing duty.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient humble servant,\nWitham Robinzoy\n\nEnclosure 4. Jan 4 1896\n\nEnclosure.\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, JANUARY 20TH, 1896.\n\nTHE PO LEUNG KUK SOCIETY'S NEW HOME.\n\nLAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, His Excellency the Governor, Sir William Robinson, K.C.M.G., performed the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls which is being built by the Po Leung Kuk Society. Special arrangements had been made in connection with the ceremony, the complete success of which foretells a prosperous future for this worthy Society. His Excellency and suite were escorted from Government House by four mounted troopers, and throughout the entire length of the route, large crowds of people assembled on each side of the street. Punctually at the appointed time, 2.30, His Excellency arrived at the site of the new home, and he was received by a guard of police under Chief Inspector Corcoran. A very large number of ladies and gentlemen had assembled in response to the Committee's invitation, amongst those present being His Excellency Admiral Buller and Mrs. Buller, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart and Mrs. Lockhart, Hon. W. M. Goodman and Mrs. Goodman, Hon. F. A. Cooper and Mrs. Cooper, Hon. F. R. Belilios, Hon. A. McConachie, Hon. J. J. Bell Irving, Colonel Austen, Major the Hon. E. Noel and Mrs. Noel, Hon. Commander W. C. H. Hastings, Hon. A. K. and Mrs. Travers, Hon. T. H. Whitehead, Hon. Ho Kai, Captain Stirling, A.D.C., Dr. and Mrs. Wright, Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., and Mrs. Francis, Rev. Dr. Chalmers and Mrs. Chalmers, Captain Anderson and Miss Anderson, Mrs. Milward, Mr. G. W. Playfair and Mrs. Playfair, Miss Van Buren, Mrs. Tomes, Mrs. Droeze, Mr. and Mrs. Byramjee, Mr. A. G. Romano, Mr. C. C. Platt, Mr. T. Jackson, Mr. A. B. Johnson, Mr. A. Denison, Mr. and Mrs. Mehta, Mr. C. Ford and Mrs. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Cox, and Messrs. Ho Amei, Ho Tung, Ho Fook, Li Sing, Lau Chu-san, Feng Ming San, Cheung Si Kai, Chang Tang, Wai Yuk, Kwok Chik, Sin Tak Fan, Kau Hung Tak, Tam Chuen Shu, Lan Wei Chun, Chui Chi Yuen, La Chi Ting, and many others.\n\nThe proceedings were opened by Hon. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, the President of the Committee, who said: \"Your Excellency--On behalf of the Po Leung Kuk Society, I have the honour to request you to lay the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls, and in doing so, I desire to express on behalf of the members of the Society their high appreciation of the honour which your Excellency has done them in coming here to-day to perform this ceremony.\" (Hear, Hear.)\n\nHis EXCELLENCY: \"Mr. President of the Po Leung Kuk Society, you and your committee have asked me to lay the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls which it is proposed to erect on this site. I have the greatest pleasure in acceding to your request and am glad to have my name in any way associated with the admirable institution you represent. Before completing the ceremony, however, I should like, for the information of the spectators and of the invited guests, to make a few remarks as to the origin and past success of the Society. Some seventeen years ago, the attention of the public was called by the Chief Justice to the evil practice of kidnapping which was rampant in the Colony and of selling the kidnapped women and children as if they were mere chattels. The principal Chinese residents (all honour be to them) were so impressed with the scandalous state of affairs in this respect that they memorialized the Governor, and through him, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and they asked for permission to form an association for the purpose of suppressing this terrible crime; of protecting women and girls, and of restoring those who had been kidnapped to their friends or relations. This permission was granted, and the Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital kindly placed at the disposal of the Po Leung Kuk Society a portion of their hospital for the temporary accommodation of the destitute women and girls who had been rescued or might be rescued from the terrible fate which was intended for them. I hold in my hand a return which shows that during the four years ending in 1891, no less than 2,751 persons have been dealt with by the Society, and I have in my possession another return which shows that from 1888 to the end of 1895, the large number of 5,543 persons have been rescued by this Society, the greater number of whom have been sent to their homes or handed over to their relatives. This is, indeed, a record of good work. It is one which must recommend itself to every honest and respectable resident in the Colony. I cannot myself imagine any more useful, charitable, and Christian-like work.\n\n\"It has been well said by Adelaide Procter that 'God has glory when His children bring His poor ones joy and peace.' Well, joy and peace must have been brought to many a troubled household by the restoration of girls by this Society to their own relatives and their own homes, and who dare assert that God has not been glorified thereby? And let me say here that the rules and regulations under which the Po Leung Kuk Society have so long and so successfully worked were drawn up by our eminent Q.C., Mr. Francis, whom we are all glad to see amongst us again restored to health after his serious illness. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you can easily understand that with so much work to do, it was impossible, and it is impossible, for the Po Leung Kuk Society to do that work well and effectually in the cramped and unsuitable premises lent to them so liberally by the Tung Wa Hospital Committee. I consider that the Government and the community are much indebted to the Tung Wa Hospital Committee for the charitable assistance they have for so long given to the Po Leung Kuk, and we, the Government and the community, are still further indebted to the Tung Wa Hospital Committee for handing over to this Society, for their new building, a site which was granted to the Tung Wa Committee some years ago for charitable purposes. You will wish to know how this new home is to be paid for. I will tell you. The Chinese residents have subscribed amongst themselves the handsome sum of $30,000 towards it, and the Government, recognizing the utility and value of the Po Leung Kuk Society's efforts, has added to that amount a further sum of $20,000. With that $50,000, new and suitable buildings will be erected for the purposes of this institution on the site on which we now stand. Ladies and gentlemen, I am glad to lay this stone this afternoon. You must agree with me in thinking that the past success of the Po Leung Kuk Society has been very great. It would be impossible to run such an institution on European lines or under European management. The Po Leung Kuk Society has proved itself worthy of confidence, and I ask you to concur with me in the hope I now express that its future success may be greater still, that it may be the means of minimizing, if not entirely of suppressing, this disgusting traffic, and therefore may be a permanent blessing to the present and future generations of Chinese women and girls.\"\n\nHon. Ho KAI then handed a silver trowel and a silver-mounted mallet to His Excellency, who thereupon smoothed the mortar and the stone was placed in its proper position under the supervision of Mr. Denison, the architect. After tapping the stone, His EXCELLENCY said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, I declare this stone to be well and truly laid, and I ask you now to adjourn to the Tung Wa Hospital Committee Room.\"\n\nA photograph of the group was then taken, and Hon. Ho KAI called for three cheers for His Excellency, which were heartily given.\n\nPage 57",
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        "content_text": "This officer's name specially to the notice of the Com-\n\nmander-in-Chief. On his first arrival he found a decidedly uncomfortable state of things in existence. The inhabitants were more or less openly hostile; acts of hostility such as the cutting of telephone wires; the stoning of individual soldiers; taking place, as well as a continual succession of internecine murders and outrages on Chinese by Chinese.\n\nThe acts directed against the troops were promptly and firmly dealt with; and as for outside outrages, Major Prendergast assembled the elders and influential people, and by tact, patience, and forbearance, won their confidence, with the result that this country and neighbourhood is now comparatively quiet and certainly contrasts favourably with surrounding districts. I do not say that outrages have altogether ceased; that is, I fear, never the case in China,\n\nbut I do assert that should it become the policy of His Majesty's Government to retain this neighbourhood for good, it can be at once handed over to the civil administration in an orderly state; and on the other hand if we are ordered to withdraw, I believe that the process of withdrawal can be carried out without violence or bloodshed.\n\nAll this is due to the administrative tact and judgment of Major Prendergast, and largely to his personal influence, and I bring his name thus forward, as officers with this administrative ability are by no means frequent, and there is a constant use for such in the many frontier wars in which our Empire is engaged.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nsgd. W. J. Gascoigne\n\nMajor General.\n\nCommanding in Hing and Son: Mong.",
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        "content_text": "# 5 \n\n## 157 \n\nWe reached Wuchow on Saturday, the 16th, and remained there till Monday, the 18th.\n\nDuring my stay in Wuchow I met His Majesty's Consul, Mr. Hausser, and Mr. Alabaster, the Commissioner of Customs. Mr. Alabaster very kindly took us for a cruise in a steam-launch up the West and Kuei Rivers, and I had the opportunity of discussing the Trade Regulations and prospects with him, and obtaining much information that will be useful hereafter.\n\nWe got back to Hong Kong via Macao on Wednesday, the 20th instant.\n\nMr. J. W. Jamieson accompanied me on my visit to Wuchow.\n\nOn Thursday, the 21st instant, we were entertained by Sir Thomas Jackson, Chairman of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, at lunch, to meet the Committee of the Chamber, and, during my stay here, I have had the opportunity of hearing the individual views of the mercantile community on the subjects of most interest to each.\n\nSince my arrival at Hong Kong, on the 20th instant, I have been the guest of the Governor, Sir Henry Blake, and am having the benefit of his views on the numerous important Chinese questions at present under consideration.\n\nI purpose leaving Hong Kong for Swatow, Amoy, Fuchow, and Shanghae, on the 26th instant, if the dates of arrival and departure of the coasting steamers are found to correspond with one another; but I am afraid there may be some difficulty in making satisfactory arrangements, and I may have to go direct to Shanghae.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **JAS. L. MACKAY**\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 2\n\nDear Sir James,\n\n**Acting Consul-General Scott to Sir J. Mackay**\n\nCanton, November 18, 1901. The inclosed copy of my despatch to the Minister will show that your visit to Canton is already bearing fruit. The opening of eight ports of call will make matters go much more smoothly.\n\nThe Customs assert that there is no trade. Well, the less reason, as you pointed out to them, for being obstructive and refusing permission to ship and land cargo. But what about the large quantities of matting from Lo Ting Chu, near Tak Hing, and straw bags at Pak Tan?\n\nThe inclusion of these two stations might well be borne in mind when any final settlement is being arrived at. Without their inclusion the West River trade cannot be fully and fairly developed.\n\nWith eight ports of call and two trade stations, the West River trade might be considered arranged and the steamers and Companies fully satisfied.\n\nYours, &c.\n\n(Signed) **JAMES SCOTT**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 2\n\n**Acting Consul-General Scott to Sir E. Satow**\n\n(No. 40. **Confidential**.) Sir,\n\nCanton, November 16, 1901. With reference to my despatches No. 30, of the 8th October, and No. 31, **Confidential**, of the 9th October, urging facilities for British vessels trading on the West River between Canton and Wuchow, I have the honour to report that Mr. Morgan, Commissioner of Customs, has informed me that, in deference to the representations of Sir James Mackay, he is submitting to the Inspector-General of Customs arrangements which, it is hoped, will meet the urgent requirements of the River Steamer Companies. His proposal is to allow a liberal number of additional ports of call.*\n\nThe Commissioner of Customs represents that the revision or amendment of the Inland Navigation Regulations will require time and consideration; but that meanwhile \n\n* I just learn that the number will be eight (the chief places en route).-J. S.-18/11/1901.",
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        "content_text": "164 \n\nWe reached Wuchow on Saturday, the 16th, and remained there till Monday, the 18th. \n\nDuring my stay in Wuchow I met His Majesty's Consul, Mr. Hausser, and Mr. Alabaster, the Commissioner of Customs. Mr. Alabaster very kindly took us for a cruise in a steam-launch up the West and Kuei Rivers, and I had the opportunity of discussing the Trade Regulations and prospects with him, and obtaining much information that will be useful hereafter. \n\nWe got back to Hong Kong via Macao on Wednesday, the 20th instant. \n\nMr. J. W. Jamieson accompanied me on my visit to Wuchow. \n\nOn Thursday, the 21st instant, we were entertained by Sir Thomas Jackson, Chairman of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, at lunch, to meet the Committee of the Chamber, and, during my stay here, I have had the opportunity of hearing the individual views of the mercantile community on the subjects of most interest to each. \n\nSince my arrival at Hong Kong, on the 20th instant, I have been the guest of the Governor, Sir Henry Blake, and am having the benefit of his views on the numerous important Chinese questions at present under consideration. \n\nI purpose leaving Hong Kong for Swatow, Amoy, Fuchow, and Shanghae, on the 26th instant, if the dates of arrival and departure of the coasting steamers are found to correspond with one another; but I am afraid there may be some difficulty in making satisfactory arrangements, and I may have to go direct to Shanghae. \nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \n**JAS. L. MACKAY**, \n\nDear Sir James, \n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 2 \n\n**Acting Consul-General Scott to Sir J. Mackay.** \n\nCanton, November 18, 1901. \nTHE inclosed copy of my despatch to the Minister will show that your visit to Canton is already bearing fruit. The opening of eight ports of call will make matters go much more smoothly. \n\nThe Customs assert that there is no trade. Well, the less reason, as you pointed out to them, for being obstructive and refusing permission to ship and land cargo. What about the large quantities of matting from Lo Ting Chu, near Tak Iling, and straw bags at Pak Tan? \n\nThe inclusion of these two stations might well be borne in mind when any final settlement is being arrived at. Without their inclusion the West River trade cannot be fully and fairly developed. \n\nWith eight ports of call and two trade stations, the West River trade might be considered arranged and the steamers and Companies fully satisfied. \n\nYours, &c. \n(Signed) **JAMES SCOTT**. \n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 2 \n\n**Acting Consul-General Scott to Sir E. Satow.** \n\n(No. 40. **Confidential.**) \nSir, \nCanton, November 16, 1901. \nWITH reference to my despatches No. 30, of the 8th October, and No. 31, **Confidential**, of the 9th October, urging facilities for British vessels trading on the West River between Canton and Wuchow, I have the honour to report that Mr. Morgan, Commissioner of Customs, has informed me that, in deference to the representations of Sir James Mackay, he is submitting to the Inspector-General of Customs arrangements which, it is hoped, will meet the urgent requirements of the River Steamer Companies. His proposal is to allow a liberal number of additional ports of call.* \n\nThe Commissioner of Customs represents that the revision or amendment of the Inland Navigation Regulations will require time and consideration; but that meanwhile \n\n* I just learn that the number will be eight (the chief places en route).-J. S.-18/11/1901. `[2530 z-1]`",
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        "content_text": "## 22\n\n4. There is much to be said for the proposal to deal with the question of suzerainty first and that of the frontier afterwards, but this will undoubtedly protract the settlement of the latter question to a distant date; and if we at once adopt the frontier-line proposed in my last letter, I should be disposed to advise that both matters should be taken up with the Chinese simultaneously. The cession of all rights in Raskam and the Western Taghdumbash should prove a great inducement to make the definition of the frontier acceptable to China.\n\n## Inclosure 34 in No. 1.\n\n### Consul Macartney to Mr. Colvin\n\nCamp Yarkand, October 2, 1904.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 2nd September last, calling for a report from me on the following matters in connection with the frontier between Kashmir and New Dominion:\n\n| Matter | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | The extent to which rights in the western extremity of the Taghdumbash Pamir have recently been exercised by the Kanjutis; |\n| (b) | Measures which it would be practicable to adopt for effectively asserting the rights of the Mir of Hunza in the country referred to, in the event of China acting inconsistently with such rights; |\n| (c) | Measures for securing the observance of the frontier which it has been proposed should be treated as having been accepted by China. |\n\n2. In reply, I beg to state as follows:\n\n3. With reference to (a). Before and since 1891, the year in which Hunza was annexed by us, the Kanjutis have levied, yearly, a tax of numdahs and woollen ropes from the Wakhis on the Taghdumbash Pamir. It is believed that the Wakhis in the two valleys leading from the Kilik and the Mintika Passes and joining at Mintika Aghaz and thence in the combined valley (Taghdumbash) as far down as Dafdar (about 30 miles south of Tashkurghan) pay this tax. No doubt, in former times, those who lived to the north of this place, down to Tashkurghan, were also more or less subjected to this imposition. But I think the tax was forcibly levied chiefly in the country south of Dafdar. Dafdar may therefore be said to have been the limit up to which the Kanjutis used to exercise an effective influence. The tax is still collected; and the last time this right was exercised was in this year. The matter was reported to this office by our Sarikol newswriter in his diary in the following terms: \"August 5, 1904. - Zarparast of Hunza, with nine men, arrived here to take the yearly tribute from the Taghdumbash.\"\n\n4. With reference to (b) and (c). No doubt, in the slave-raiding days, before we annexed Hunza and the Chinese established troops in Tashkurghan, the Mir of Hunza was well-nigh the Ruler of the Taghdumbash. Recently, however, the situation has altered materially. The Chinese have informally acquiesced, on the one side, to the Russian occupation of the Pamirs in the Upper Oxus basin, and, on the other, to our annexation of Hunza. But whilst resigning themselves to these political changes, they have conceived for themselves pretty decided notions as to what their new boundary is. For all intents and purposes, they have taken this to be the two watersheds, the one separating the Taghdumbash River from the Upper Oxus on the east, and the other separating the Taghdumbash and the Raskam Rivers from the tributaries of the Indus on the south. They claim, therefore, as theirs the two valleys, the Kara Chukur and the Mintika, which we wish to have incorporated within our boundary; and I doubt if anything short of actual force would make them relinquish their claim. The Chinese are by nature tenacious about their frontier-line, and in recent years, they have furnished several instances in which they have asserted themselves against us, to prevent any confusion as to our respective spheres. In 1891 or 1892, whilst shooting in the Kara Chukur Valley, the Earl of Dunmore and Major Roche built, at their camp at the foot of the Kilik Pass, a sort of shelter consisting, I believe, of a rough stone wall. This erection was removed, by orders of the Taotai of Kashgar, immediately after the gentlemen referred to left Kara Chukur. Then, a few years later, in 1895, when the Anglo-Russian Pamir Boundary Commission was at work, Colonel Holdich crossed by the Paik Pass on to the Taghdumbash Pamir; and whilst travelling towards Tashkurghan, he was abruptly brought to a halt by a party of Chinese soldiers headed by an officer, who, having got news at Tashkurghan of Colonel Holdich's movements, came to check his further progress. Then, again, there is the incident of the topographical pillars erected by Captain Deasy whilst surveying in the Taghdumbash country; the Chinese took care to have these effaced, lest they should be said to be boundary-marks.\n\n5. These facts show that the Chinese are on the watch; and probably, in the present case, they will be found to be even more than usually so, in view of the proximity of the Taghdumbash Pamir to Russian territory. They know fully well what hysterical shrieks for compensation will be raised the moment the Russians hear that the Chinese are bartering away to us a piece of land in which the Russians claim a reversionary interest as important as in the Taghdumbash Pamir.\n\n6. Under these circumstances, I think it improbable that the Chinese will be easily induced to relinquish to us any territory, however small, on their side of the Mintika and of the Kilik Passes. If the Kanjutis came to claim their numdahs and ropes, the Chinese would, no doubt, continue to humour them, out of deference, as they would probably say, to a long-standing custom, but they would never allow this claim to be magnified into a right of taxation, and much less into one of territorial jurisdiction; and I am persuaded that, were the Mir of Hunza to send his men to assert his rights by establishing an outpost, say, at Mintika Aghaz or at Dafdar, the Chinese would immediately resort to force to turn them out.\n\n7. So much, then, for the Western Taghdumbash. Circumstances appear to be somewhat different in regard to the other tract, namely, about Darwaza, which we desire to secure on the northern side of the main watershed. No doubt, were the Chinese asked if Darwaza was within their territory, they would say yes, after they have discovered that it is situated on their side of the watershed. But we also have a good case. In the first place, Darwaza is within the actual limits of the territory of the Mir of Hunza, and secondly, the place is so inaccessible that, however much the Chinese might resent its inclusion by Kanjut, they would certainly not attempt to oust the Kanjutis from it. The thing, however, in this connection likely to give us most trouble is the cry which the Russians will raise: \"The English have crossed the Hindoo Kush. Russia must seek a new adjustment of frontier with Kashgaria.\" I may incidentally mention that our boundary in this region is closely watched by the Russians here. Only three weeks ago, happening to be on a visit to Major Lastochkin, a Russian General Staff officer now on intelligence duty in Kashgar, I found him trying to draw me into a discussion with reference to the accuracy of a Russian map, whereon the Indian boundary was traced along the Raskam River.\n\n8. Supposing that the policy of the Government is to get the whole frontier question, including the Chinese claim of suzerainty over Hunza, settled once for all, and that regardless of possible Russian counter-movements, then I would respectfully suggest the following line of action in our negotiations with China:\n\n9. The matter of suzerainty should be treated first and separately from the general frontier question.\n\n10. We have in our hand a pretty good card in the Hunza claims to Raskam; and it ought to be sufficient to win for us the release of that State from the shadowy rights of China over it. At this stage, however, no hint should be given of our intention to secure any tract of country on the Chinese side of the watershed. Taking up an aggrieved tone, we might explain to the Chinese Government that the Mir of Hunza was weary of carrying on negotiations over Raskam, negotiations which led to no result, and that, with our consent, he has abandoned his claims over that country; but that, on the other hand, he will henceforth discontinue the yearly exchange of presents with the authorities in the New Dominion.\n\n11. I do not believe the Chinese would grieve very much over the loss of the Hunza tribute. It is to be hoped that without making any undue fuss, they will give Hunza the requisite discharge.\n\n12. Once having formally obtained this discharge, we might raise the frontier question. In doing this, we might draw the Chinese Government's attention to the existence of Sir Claude MacDonald's despatch of the 14th March, 1899, and might ...\n\n*The late Huang Taotai of Kashgar informed me probably in 1899 that he and the then Titai had been ordered to report to the Tsung-li Yamen with reference to certain frontier proposals made by the British Minister in Peking, and that a report was accordingly submitted. I believe this matter was referred to in my diary. But as I am writing from memory, not having my files at hand for reference, I am unable to state the facts very accurately.*\n\n## 23 \n## 393",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nOne was a letter of instructions to the Mixed Court Magistrate, directing him to ascertain and report the present addresses of the relatives of twelve innocent Chinese killed by the foreign troops (exclusive of six rioters killed), and to report further particulars respecting the claims of thirty-one Chinese who suffered loss of property in the riot, and of nineteen Chinese who were injured. These instructions concluded with the following remark:\n\n\"The fact is, the British Minister puts the blame on the Chinese authorities, and insists on the arrest of the rioters and payment of compensation before the case can be settled. The Wai-wu Pu has telegraphed to the Viceroy to take the case into consideration, and I have received telegraphic instructions from his Excellency to bring the documents to Nanking after the fifth day of the New Year, and consult him on the matter. The rights and wrongs of the case are known alike to Chinese and to foreigners. It is not right that we should pay compensation, and the claim must be energetically resisted. Moreover, the Chinese suffered most. The loss of Chinese property was greater than that of foreigners; and as for life, we had lives lost, and they had none. I am anxious that the British authorities should have no handle, and therefore am bound to make further investigation.\"\n\nThe other letter was addressed to Mr. Tseng Shao-ch'ing, who is, I understand, an expectant Taotai, President of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce or some such institution in Shanghai. This letter begins by attributing the origin of the disturbances to the strong public feeling caused by the action of the British Assessor, Mr. Twyman, in mistaking Madame Li, a Cantonese lady with many friends and fellow-countrymen in Shanghai, for a kidnapper, and by the assault on the Mixed Court attendants and insult to the Magistrate effected by the municipal police under Mr. Twyman's orders. The letter goes on to justify, as a precautionary measure, the action of ex-Taotai Yuan in temporarily closing the Court, comments on the peaceable tone of the speeches delivered at the meetings held by the student and merchant classes, and states that the outbreak by rowdies in the Settlement was totally unexpected. Dealing with the claim made by the British Minister for compensation, the Taotai's letter says that it is utterly unjust, and tends to create further resentment. The Taotai has been instructed by the Viceroy to investigate the matter carefully, and report fully. He gives the following reasons for his conclusion that the Chinese Government is not liable:\n\n1. The Chinese authorities are forbidden to exercise jurisdiction in the Settlement, and are consequently unable to secure safety.\n2. The Chinese pay police rates and are equally entitled with foreigners to protection.\n3. The municipal police nevertheless failed to protect Chinese, with the result that they suffered more than the foreigners.\n4. Taotai Yuan offered military assistance to restore order, and took effective action in punishing rioters.\n5. The shops were all open as usual on the morning of the riot, but were forced by the rioters to close.\n6. The rioters did not come from Pootung and the city, as is proved by a letter from the French Consul-General.\n\nIn conclusion, the writer requests his correspondent, as fully conversant with the origin of the disturbances, to furnish him for the information of the Viceroy with detailed evidence in support of the above general statements, and remarks on the disparity between the loss of life and property suffered by the Chinese, and the smaller loss of property suffered by foreigners.\n\nAfter reading the above summary of the Chinese official view of the situation, I was prepared to find that the Shanghai Taotai's conferences with the Viceroy would do little towards facilitating a settlement, and so it proved. When I called on Mr. Jui, he soon sent the servants out of the room, and brought up the subject. Although he did not touch on the alleged injustice of the demand for compensation, but, on the contrary, assured me of his own and the Viceroy's anxiety to arrange an amicable settlement, he dwelt at great length on the dangerous tension of public feeling at Shanghai with regard to the matter, and on the certainty that insistence on the demand for compensation to be paid from the Chinese side alone would lead to a further outbreak of the rowdy elements at the instigation of irresponsible agitators, which could not fail to embitter the relations between China and England. As the result of his conferences with the Viceroy, a telegram had been sent that day to the Wai-wu Pu suggesting as a basis for the proposed negotiations between the Taotai and a British official the principle of reciprocal compensation, that is, the foreigners should indemnify the Chinese, and the Chinese should indemnify the foreigners. He asked me whether I thought this compromise would be acceptable to the British Minister.\n\nI replied that you had already rejected the proposal for payment by the Municipal Council to foreign, and by the Chinese authorities to Chinese, sufferers, and that the present proposal did not seem to be in any way more calculated to effect a solution.\n\nThe Taotai begged me to telegraph to you and to Sir Pelham Warren, and urge the importance of arranging a settlement which would not be humiliating to China. For himself, he would absolutely decline the responsibility of negotiating on the basis of compensation by Chinese alone, not so much from fear of the obloquy to which he would expose himself, but from his conviction that rioting would inevitably ensue. If this were insisted upon, he would ask that the former Taotai Yuan, who was originally responsible for the trouble, should be commissioned to settle it. Of Yuan he spoke confidentially with some bitterness, remarking that, although he had been prevented from taking up his new post, he was still rich and influential, and was watching critically in Nanking the action of the Viceroy and himself, without stirring a finger to help them in their difficulty.\n\nI told the Taotai that I had no instructions to discuss the question, but only to report the result of the consultation between him and the Viceroy, for the information in regard to which I thanked him.\n\n## 3\n\nI had the honour to telegraph to you yesterday the substance of the proposal made by the Viceroy, and before my interview with the Viceroy this afternoon I received your reply, instructing me to make it clear to his Excellency that the proposal was absolutely inadmissible and that His Majesty's Government would insist on the payment of compensation to bona fide sufferers.\n\nThe Viceroy began by showing me, in strict confidence he remarked, the draft of his telegram to the Wai-wu Pu, which, he said, had been dispatched yesterday. It was pretty much to the same effect as stated by the Taotai, and contained a reference to an investigation into the Chinese claims which was being made by Mr. W. V. Drummond, Legal Adviser to the Government (who, by the way, came to Nanking with the Shanghai Taotai, and is still detained here by the Viceroy). His Excellency proceeded to explain the merits of his scheme, which, he said, would in some measure prevent loss of \"face\" by China, and would at the same time secure indemnity for the sufferers; for, he added in a whisper, when the settling up time came, it could be arranged that the bulk of the loss should fall on the Chinese. He seemed genuinely disappointed when I gave him the substance of your message, and exclaimed: \"In that case I shall have to ask leave to resign!\" He went on to expatiate, as the Taotai of Shanghai had done, on the danger of another outbreak. There was an alarming increase in the number of bad characters in the Settlement, robberies were constantly taking place, and the Chinese police employed by the Municipal Council were notoriously inefficient. On the other hand, the temper of the merchant and student classes had quite changed within recent years. They no longer accepted their ideas from the officials, but had learned to think for themselves and to ventilate their grievances at public meetings. There was a very strong feeling as to the injustice of giving the Chinese authorities no jurisdiction in the Settlement at ordinary times, and then holding them responsible and demanding compensation when trouble arose. He understood that more public meetings to express this feeling were already contemplated, and it was now difficult to interfere with the modern claim to freedom of speech. Although the rowdy element was quite independent of the merchant and student classes, the former found their opportunity when the latter became excited, and the present situation was such that a spark might produce a general conflagration, the possible extent of which it was impossible to foresee.\n\nThe Viceroy mentioned another difficulty, without, however, laying much stress on it, namely, that the other Powers, who had waived all claim to compensation, would assert such claims if compensation were paid to the British, and that no settlement would be satisfactory which would not apply to all the Powers alike.\n\nHis Excellency said he had never had a day's peace since he took up his administration, nothing but famine, rebellion, and an empty Treasury. It was hard, he remarked, that the brunt of settling this case, which should have been settled long ago by the Viceroy Chou and the Taotai Yuan, should now fall upon himself and Taotai Jui, neither of whom had anything to do with it. 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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Shanghae Mercury\" of July 4, 1907.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"Shanghae Mercury.\"\n\n11, Peking Road, Shanghae, July 4, 1907.\n\nYOU published an article last night on the subject of the riot at Shanghae in December 1905. This article contains statements which are not only incorrect, but which are exactly contrary to the truth. You assert that the Chinese authorities have refused to consent to an inquiry, whereas it is the Chinese authorities who have from the very first offered to have an inquiry, an offer which was refused by the foreign authorities, who have endeavoured to compel China to pay for damages caused by the riot, without any investigation as to the causes of the riot. This pressure was an act of gross injustice, and has naturally been strongly resisted by the Chinese authorities.\n\nAlmost immediately after the riot occurred, the Viceroy of Nanking, his Excellency Chou Fu, came personally to Shanghae. He wrote to the Senior Consul (who was then the Russian Consul-General) and officially proposed that a joint inquiry should be held, and he named two deputies to act on his side, and invited the Consular Body to name two of their number to act on the foreign side, so that the matter might be fully and promptly investigated. That offer was not accepted, as it ought to have been, and so no inquiry has ever been held.\n\nYou also beg the whole question by making very strong assertions from one point of view. There is another point of view altogether which must be fully investigated and considered before any just decision can be arrived at.\n\nIf damages are claimed, the whole matter must be fully and fairly investigated, and the Chinese authorities are ready and willing, as they have been from the very first, to have the matter so investigated. The issues that will have to be settled may produce very serious results.\n\nThe bitterness that was raised during the two preceding years will continue to produce evil results for a considerable time to come, but it has undoubtedly lessened, and will die out, if not revived by an inquiry which will certainly intensify and aggravate ill-feeling. It must be remembered that many Chinese were killed and wounded during the riot, and that claims for compensation will be made, whereas no foreigners were killed, and only a very few injured. There is no desire on the Chinese side to shirk an inquiry, but only to secure that it is full and fair, and held before persons belonging to uninterested nationalities.\n\nThe British Minister (Sir Ernest Satow, I believe) unfortunately accepted the position of agent (as a sort of debt collector) for other nationalities having claims, and this adds greatly to the difficulties of the position.\n\nI am, &c.\n(Signed) W. V. DRUMMOND.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"North China Daily News\" of July 8, 1907.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"North China Daily News.\"\n\nJuly 6, 1907.\n\nSO much misapprehension still exists with reference to the settlement of the question of the 1905 riot at Shanghae that it seems desirable to give some explanation.\n\nThe case for the foreign claimants appears to be that the Taotai of Shanghae, Yuan, was solely responsible for the riot. The case on the Chinese side is that the riot was the natural outcome of the grossly aggressive policy of the Municipal Council during the years 1904 and 1905. A full and fair investigation of the question of liability must therefore include both sides of the question, and therefore of municipal work and policy during those two years, otherwise it will be nothing better than an empty farce.\n\nThe Chinese view is that the investigation should be made before persons belonging to nationalities that have no interests in the matter, in other words, that it should not be held before British or Chinese authorities, and this is clearly a fair and reasonable contention.\n\nI shall not touch upon the details of what can be said and proved on either side, that can only be gone into when the investigation is being made.\n\nI will only add one general observation on this subject. There has been a great improvement in the Council's work, in one respect since March 1906. The intense...",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum on Counterfeit Goods sold at Dalny**\n\n### Piece-goods\n\nConcerning these, the most important item on the list of articles imitated, it is difficult to obtain satisfactory information. A careful examination of the samples exhibited in the Commercial Museum at Dairen has failed to produce any tangible evidence of the reported counterfeiting of British \"chops\"; while inquiries made of the chief Chinese dealers in the town have met with the same result. Nearly every sample produced for my inspection was of undoubtedly genuine British or American manufacture. Japanese piece-goods, the merchants said, they did not deal in because their quality was so inferior. No great reliance is, however, to be placed in this assertion, as it is a well-known fact, if the assertions of foreign merchants are to be credited, that the average Chinese dealer is unable to distinguish between regular foreign-made goods and Japanese counterfeits, with the result that the latter are very often foisted off on him without his being any the wiser. From one firm only, that of Shung-Ki, the biggest dealer in the port, was any information forthcoming, and all his manager could tell me was that if I wanted to see counterfeit \"chops\" I had better pay a visit to the Mitsui Bussan Kwaisha's agency at Mukden. At the same time, he promised to make private and careful inquiry to see whether by chance some of these counterfeits might not be obtainable in Dairen itself. Any specimens forthcoming would be sent to me.\n\nIn the Commercial Museum, there was one sample of underwear (apparently woollen) which seemed to me to be counterfeit. The label, a big one, bore the trade-mark of a camel, and was in addition partly covered by a large triangular design in black and white of a herd of camels inside a stockaded enclosure. The museum card attached gave the name and address of the maker as \"Yagi Fukumatsu, 84, Ura Machi, Tosa Bori, Nishi Ku, Osaka.\" The same building also contained an exhibit of muslin bearing a trade-mark of \"Leda and the Swan\"; but I am not certain whether this was a counterfeit mark or not. The place of manufacture was said to be the \"Muslin Boseki Kwaisha, Nakatsu Mura, O-aza Kworitsuji, Nishinari Gori, Osaka.\"\n\n### Toilet Articles, Whisky, &c.\n\nIt is among the toilet articles, whiskies, and other minor commodities that the most egregious counterfeits are to be found. In the big Japanese-Chinese bazaar, for instance, I saw, inter alia, imitations of shirt-studs, sleeve-links, &c.; but the names of the original manufacturers, whether British or American, were not copied, and the trade-marks, in most cases a horse's head, gave no clue at all as to whether the articles were direct imitations of the manufactures of specific firms, or simply ordinary pseudo-foreign goods. I am disposed to think that in a fair number of cases the latter is the correct explanation.\n\n| Article | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Blacking | Bearing the legend \"Mason's Original Challenge Blacking\" and an old and well-known trade-mark of a negro polishing a jack-boot in one corner, a boy holding another jack-boot in the opposite corner, and a dog running out of the picture. |\n| Blacking | Prepared by one \"Yamamatsu, 186 and 235, N. Flank Street, Japan,\" had precisely the same design as that just described; but the superscription, in this case partly obliterated, ran somewhat as follows: \"Masterly Blacking, Original Ofmycounth.\" |\n| \"Blanco\" | With the words \"J. Omar and Sons, best blanco, for whitening all articles of buck or buckskin, leather, and Co.,\" on the cover, and inside, a badly worded sheet of directions for use in English. |\n| Lime and glycerine preparation | A most palpable imitation of an article prepared by the firm of Breidenbach and Co. in London. The only difference was the substitution in the Japanese-made article of the words \"Kimmel and Co.\" (Rimmel and Co. ?) for Breidenbach and Co., the use of a lily instead of a violet as a trade-mark, and the misprinting of a date on a small label at the back of the bottle. |\n\nThe next counterfeited article shown me was a box of soap purporting to be manufactured by S. Sister and Co., but obviously a forgery. The inscription was as follows: \"Koukoku Shirushi Soap. S. Sister and Co. Moske and Violete,\" and the coloured label on the cover bore a device of two harlequins mounted on horse-back, one blowing a trumpet and the other carrying a banner with an emblem on it of a running dog.\n\nA store devoted to the sale of groceries contained bottles of white pepper very clearly made in Japan, notwithstanding the fact that they bore, underneath a trade-mark of some animal lying on a daïs, the initials K. Y. and Co., Leadenhall Street.\n\nHere, also, I noticed several bottles of a British imitation of Lea and Perrins' Worcestershire Sauce. They bore the name \"Imperial Pickle Company, Govan, Glasgow,\" with a label having a close resemblance to the shield and mussel shells of the genuine article...\n\n### Wines and Spirits\n\nWines and spirits are other articles which, like toilet goods, appear to exercise a great fascination over the counterfeiter. In the same bazaar were shown me, in addition to wines, on which, as they have no interest for British merchants, I do not touch, various brands of whisky, almost without exception spurious.\n\n| Whisky Brand | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| William Austin | Purported to come from the distillery of a Glasgow firm, with a label bearing, in addition to the letters \"S.W.\" on gold medallions in each bottom corner, a statement to the effect that this was genuine Scotch whisky. |\n| Glenaskfort | Bore a trade-mark of a bust of Mercury on a medallion with crossed caducea and anchor behind. The maker's name was given as \"O. Klour and Co.\" (J. Brown and Co. ?), of Glasgow. |\n| J. Kroun and Co. | Another counterfeit of Messrs. Brown and Co.'s manufactures. |\n| Thom and Cameron | A small flask, clearly an imitation, was marked as coming from the firm of Thom and Cameron, of Glasgow. |\n\nThe Commercial Museum, which is run more or less under official patronage and supervision, contained among its exhibits various samples of the same spirit. They were all imitations; but how close I am unable to say. Among other trade-marks, I saw that of the \"Milkmaid\" (this is a whisky sold by the American and French Wine Company, a concern carrying on business at Yotsu no rokuji-ichi, Kawara machi, Higashi Ku, Osaka), a \"Old Highland Whisky, Landscape\" brand, and last but not least, an \"Admiral Togo\" whisky coming, so the ill-spelt label assured the reader, from the firm of L. Loshuner, of Glasgow and London.\n\nInquiries at the Japanese-Chinese bazaar as to the place of origin of these various articles failed to elicit any more satisfactory reply than that they come from Japan, not Shanghai. In the case of articles exhibited in the Commercial Museum, the name of the seller or manufacturer of the various commodities is always mentioned.\n\nChinese assert that the dentifrice called \"Odol\" is largely imitated and sold, the old bottles being collected and used again; but I have so far found no proof that this is really the case.\n\nH. P.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**(Initialled)**\n\n**Memorandum on Counterfeit British Goods at Dairen**\n\nExhibits at the Commercial Museum.--Having examined these, Mr. Garner tells me that as far as the exhibits of whisky are concerned, he does not think that they are really counterfeit. He says that it is a common practice among distillers in Great Britain to manufacture for sale in foreign markets cheap brands of whisky, to which an ...\n\nPage 217",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n## DESPATCH.\n### No 27200\n**Appt. of an Official Receiver.**\n\nR 27 JUL 08,\n\nSends copy corresp respy. necessity for whose whole time should be given to duties of that office. Suggests appt of Wagu Fletcher at salary of £640 £30f £630\n\n### (Minutes.)\nThat Sir F Piggott presses for argument for increase of staff. It is clear from other papers that he intended to assert his position, but there is enough other evidence to enable us to agree to the appointment of a Deputy Official Receiver.\n\nAt first sight, one would suppose that it ought to be held by a lawyer rather than by a clerk, but Mr Hatcher, who has heard about the proposal from Hongkong... \n\n## Governor. No. \nugard 168 \n1908 \n19 Jane \n\nLast previous Paper. 2, tel: 7 \nFurther ad 1831 Ang Hatcher, Cam \nFurther to Thatcher so \n3004 \n300004 – W. & S. L29.—ZO6F- \n2510-21-7 25122-W. & S. tá-2811 \n2500-11-417. \n\nNext subsequent Paper. 2049 \n\n| Column1 | Column2 |\n|---------|---------|\n| No 27200 | Appt. of an Official Receiver. |\n| R 27 JUL 08, | Official Receiver. |\n\nPage 363 (top)  \n... (text continues)  \nPage 363 (bottom)",
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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": "6\n\na suspicious manner or any one wanted could often be got, or his movements and doings kept under closest observation.\n\nBeing himself in Chinese military service and known to many of the yamên people, the informant's presence here and contact with foreigners would cause him to run a great chance of being noticed.\n\nThe most curious statement, however, was that even more to be feared than native spies were the Japanese, who, the agent states, come in considerable numbers to Hong Kong, and there assume many rôles and disguises. That being in intimate touch with the people, and besides their own observation employing many Chinese for purposes of general espionage, they would probably have their suspicions aroused, and would be likely to give information to the officials.\n\nThe man stated that the Japanese who assume disguises generally profess to be natives of northern provinces, as it would be very difficult for them to pass as Cantonese, their command of that dialect not being so perfect as is their grasp of \"Mandarin.\" Several, he says, are located in more remote villages here, whence they carry on their work of what he called \"measuring the land,\" by which I took him to mean made surveys.\n\nAll this is given for what it is worth, and it must be remembered that the Chinese have an intense fear of Japanese actions and intentions, thus giving full rein to their imagination and characteristic invention. Again, this man comes from Fukien, where he is serving, and there, undoubtedly, is accustomed to see very great numbers of Japanese coming and going, making surveys, and generally exercising the functions of what is probably the most perfect and well-organized secret service in the world. Here, as at Foochow, it seems futile to attempt to prove to the Chinese that the Japanese, like ourselves, are pledged to preserve the integrity of China, and least of all would be likely to do anything hostile to or in British territory. When a Chinese believes a thing he does not hesitate to manufacture circumstances, or assert as facts what often is only the lively effects of a preconceived line of thought. All this may have given rise to the state of fear or suspicion that appears to actuate my informant and many other natives with whom I have come in contact; but the condition and reports emanating from it are possibly sufficiently interesting, and so may be thought to justify my mentioning same as an item of information not out of place in a general intelligence Memorandum such as this purports to be.\n\nW. WYKEHAM MYERS.\n\nDecember 1907.\n\n(Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nLieutenant-Commander Vaughan to Admiral Sir A. Moore.\n\n\"Moorhen,\" at Samshui, January 1, 1908.\n\nIN accordance with your Confidential Memorandum of 6th December, I have the honour to make the following Report, as a month to all intents and purposes has elapsed since the establishment of the augmented patrol.\n\nIt is my opinion that the Viceroy did not for one moment believe that you were going to place any additional vessels on the river and when the patrol was established, it is also my belief that he did not accept as true your statement that the vessels were sent up solely on patrol duties, but gained the impression probably that the British contemplated the annexation of the two Kwang Provinces.\n\n7\n\nThe Viceroy has, I expect by now, learnt one of the lessons of his life, and must feel rather at sea after coming into contact with an officer who speaks the truth, and uses none of the methods adopted by the ordinary Mandarin of China in their diplomatic dealings, where the truth is handled craftily, and a broken promise is a matter of every-day life.\n\nSo nervous was the Viceroy on the arrival of our vessels that for the first fortnight our ships were shadowed everywhere, and whenever one came into contact with any officials they were ill at ease in their demeanour, but withal inquisitive, and I have before reported on the offers to protect me.\n\nOn the arrival of Admiral Li Chun about the middle of the month he did much to assure the Viceroy that our pressure did not indicate territorial acquisition, and he has from the very start endeavoured to show things in their true light.\n\nHe has been from Canton to Wuchau with six gun-boats and a motor-boat, and returned to Canton yesterday, and this cruise has been attended with great activity in military circles, and with much of the banging of gongs and firing of guns so dear to the heart of a Chinaman.\n\nThe guard-boats are being replaced rapidly and under revised conditions; they are frequently to be seen on the move, and the old order is altered. Previously a guard-boat having been appointed to a certain station, proceeded there and picked out the snuggest spot to lie in. They then fenced in some land close to their boat, cultivated it with cabbages, and comfortably settled down to enjoy life.\n\nThe attention of the Chinese seems to be principally occupied in increasing the patrol from Wuchau to Chu Tau San, as was outlined in the Viceroy's scheme, and they have not done much in the creeks. I cannot understand why they attach so much importance to this stretch of main waterway, 160 miles in length.\n\nIt looks rather as if the Chinese considered that the main trade route claimed all attention for the protecting of steamers, and that out-of-the-way launch routes were of small account.\n\nThe small gun-boats are continually on the move, and, what with our own vessels incessantly patrolling, trade in the West River is enjoying a sense of security that it has whether or not never felt before since the opening of the river to foreign commerce.\n\nThe Chinese will continue their praiseworthy activity when our vessels are removed it is difficult to forecast, but the reform under the energetic Admiral Li Chun is organized on such thoroughly different lines to the old methods that one has every reason to hope that it will not turn out to be pro tem, only.\n\nThe Chinese are taking to themselves credit for the fact that no piracy has occurred since the 10th November, but this is not due entirely to Chinese activity, and as long as our patrol is continued in its present strength the highway robbery will certainly be kept in check; to wipe it out perpetually is not to be expected.\n\nThe Chinese press have, of course, done a lot of harm with their inflammatory articles conveying false impressions. That, however, was to be expected, and no one imagined that we could put a strong patrol on the river without some one being inconvenienced and many being annoyed.\n\nChina is not the only country that suffers from an antagonistic and bombastic press; we had some experience of this in our South African war and in India.\n\nThe bad feeling, if it really deeply exists, is entirely against torpedo-boats, and the regular river gun-boats seem to escape any animosity that one would expect to be shown against all foreign vessels for the sake of four.\n\nI cannot notice any difference in the demeanour of the natives, but, as I say, no one objects to our three regular gun-boats.\n\nOne heard a lot of British launches hauling down the British flag and flying the yellow dragon, but during the month only three have been struck off the British list, viz., the \"Chin Hung,\" \"Kai Lee,\" and \"Lee Yik\" (the two former are owned by Tavares, a Parsee, the other by Mr. Fisher), and four building are shortly to be added to the list.\n\nA Chinaman is no patriot where his purse is concerned, and the benefits that are gained by British registration are too good to be thrown away for a matter of national sentiment. It is even worth while enduring the unpleasantness of continual scrutiny by British men-of-war.\n\nWhilst so much protest is in the air it is pleasing to know that some of the merchants have a good word to say for us, and I have been told that they welcome a strict British patrol, as China without coercion will watch peaceful traders being robbed day by day without taking any preventive action, and they hope that now the Government are at last waking up to their responsibilities.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nROBERT E. VAUGHAN,\n\nLieutenant and Commander, Senior Officer, West River.\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nAgreement signed at Canton, January 4, 1908, by Consul-General Mansfield and Two of the Viceroy's Secretaries.\n\nIT is hereby agreed that his Excellency the Viceroy of the two Kwang will pay to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General the sums of 6,000l. and 17,790 taels, being the sum allowed as compensation to the sufferers by the piracy of the British steam-ship \"Sainam\" on the 13th July, 1906.\n\n168",
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        "content_text": "W/28373/09 \n\n\"after by the Government\", and the visit of two Chinese Commissioners in 1908 \"had been productive of much good\". \n\nIn these circumstances I fell back on political objections as described in my despatch of the 14th of July, and finally I absolutely refused consent on these grounds, though if the Viceroy had had no objection to the shipment of the coolies already collected under the circumstances described there seemed to be no valid ground upon which I could object to that single shipment.\n\nThat the Chinese have no objection now to this emigration appears to be shown by the fact that they are being shipped from Swatow. They are collected here in Hongkong and sent to that place, and as they are Chinese passengers for a Chinese port this Government can offer no objection to their despatch.\n\nFinally in regard to the general question of Chinese emigration I would venture to assert that so far from having left out of account the pronounced views and policy of His Majesty's Government the whole system of Chinese migration has, since I have been in Hongkong, been revised with a view to giving better effect to that policy. For this I personally take no credit; the Amending Bill was submitted",
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        "content_text": "the land is required for \nmilitary purposes: \nfurther that the \nare \nthat \nthe \nwitting \nhand the land over to the \nAdmiralty for occupation \nshows that it is no \nlonger \nrequired for militia purposes \n& therefore \n\nSpeaking \nwhen \nagain \nIt should strictly \nbe surrendered at \nof the Col: \nfort from \nit came be obtained \none \nThat \nSays \nare \nto retain \nallow \nover \nthe \nif & when required for militia purposes the Col. Sat \nwilling \nthis \npoint in \nthe \no the \nagre \nWTD. I hand \nthe land to the admiralty \nprovided that \nlaid down \nTon 249 39/09 \nwith & the \neffected through \n`(1390)`, `Wt, 20024-26, 6000, 11/08, A, & E, W,` \n`(8327)`. \n\" \n`1081-7. 6000. 4/09`. \n**the conditions** \nare \ncomplied \ntransfer is \nthe median \n\nSome sort of Agreement \nis \npossible. \nAll \nof the Col. fort otherwise \nCannot consent \nto \nTransfer \nthe \nland \nwhich will not be \nrecognized by the Col. fort \nthis \n& if \ntransfer it \nthe Clas \nS \nthe \nwo. park with with ordin \nCol: Sat \nwill be advised \nassert its legal rights \nto clarify possession. \n`BPS. 27/14` \nomitting the \npassage marked At. We had not \nbeen informed \nwhat \nmust assume \nnot attempt to \n`AEC` \nshall do so that \nthey will comply with \nThe J. S. \n`23/12` \nSupreme. The Govt. want to continue the ownership (which they have not got) of the land after they \nuse it for it. They \nhave no \nclaim \nare seeking to get that they \nof the land whereas they \nare originally \nlicensees for a specific purpose. When",
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        "content_text": "## No. 38\n\nUnder these circumstances we beg leave to express our opinion that until the survey of the British section now in progress has been completed, and we are in a position to assert ourselves as having complied with all the conditions of the preliminary agreement, it is useless to continue the negotiations for a final contract or contracts.\n\nAs soon as the survey is completed we shall endeavour to find out the real wishes of the German group and endeavour, if possible, to accommodate ourselves to them, when, if we are in agreement between ourselves, negotiations with the Chinese Government can be resumed to much better advantage.\n\nWe are, &c. **(British and Chinese Corporation, Limited)**,\nW. KESWICK, Chairman.\n\n(Signed)\n\n## Inclosure in No. 38.\n\nand the suggestion that the partnership is to be dissolved is, no doubt, due to a misunderstanding which the Corporation's informants will try to clear up.\n\nConsidering the attitude taken up by the Chinese Government, the Corporation think that, until the survey of the British section is complete and they can assert themselves as having complied with all the conditions of the preliminary Agreement, it will be useless to continue negotiations for the final contract.\n\nThe Corporation will then endeavour to ascertain the real wishes of the German group, and to accommodate themselves to those wishes.\n\n## No. 41.\n\nSir,\n\n**British and Chinese Corporation to Foreign Office.**\n\n3, Lombard Street, E.C., October 23, 1903.\n\nWE beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st instant, in which the Marquess of Lansdowne is so good as to inquire whether we have any observations to make respecting the representation made by the German Minister in Peking to Sir E. Satow, that the German group desire to separate their interests in the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze Railway from those of the British financiers.\n\nWe are much obliged to Lord Lansdowne for informing us of this representation having been made, and for giving us the opportunity of expressing our views thereon, which we will do as soon as possible.\n\nMeanwhile, we may remark that our friends in Berlin have not communicated with us, and we are greatly surprised at the news you give us of their desire to sever their interests from ours, because when last March they proposed dissolving the partnership between us and terms were being arranged, they withdrew from the negotiation and at a conference at Berlin, which the writer and Sir Ewen Cameron attended, it was arranged, at the instance of our German friends, that the partnership should continue.\n\nWe are, &c. **(British and Chinese Corporation, limited)**,\n(Signed) W. KESWICK, Chairman.\n\n## No. 39.\n\n**The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.**\n\nForeign Office, November 13, 1903.\n\n**(No. 347. Confidential.)** Sir,\n\nI HAVE received your despatch No. 326, Very Confidential, of the 19th September, inclosing a Memorandum, dated the 18th September, of a conversation with your French colleague on the subject of the demand of the Chinese Government for the surrender of the six Shanghae journalists who are under arrest connected with the appearance of certain articles in the \"Supao,\" and reporting your reasons for not entering into communication with him at an earlier date, and the action taken by you in the matter.\n\nI approve ...\n\n## (No. 252.)\n\n**Sir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received November 16.)**\n\n**(Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nTIEN-TSIN-CHINKIANG Railway.\n\nYour Lordship's telegram No. 181.\n\nPeking, November 16, 1903.\n\nThe suggestion mentioned in my telegram No. 239 originated, I have reason to believe, with the Tien-tsin representative of the German group, and I think it was in consequence of a suggestion from him that my colleague spoke.\n\nIt might be better, under these circumstances, if the Corporation did not seek to \"clear up the misunderstanding;\" but, lest the Germans should come to think that we are playing into Chinese hands, it might be well if a beginning of the survey of the British section were proceeded with.\n\n## No. 42.\n\n**Sir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.~(Received November 18.)**\n\nPeking, November 18, 1903.\n\n**(No. 254) (Telegraphic.) F.**\n\nRUMOURED Russian railway from Hailar towards Peking My telegram No. 366 of last year.\n\nNo signs of rumoured railway were seen by Kidston and Flaherty, who have returned from Hailar,\nIntention to construct is vaguely spoken of by Russian officers, who incline to the belief that the line will start from further west, passing through Kiahkta and Urga; but say that point of junction with Siberian line has not yet been decided on nor any definite steps taken.\n\nNo natural difficulties would be presented by the route from Huilar to Dolon Nor, except for the last 120 miles, where probably insurmountable obstacle would be offered by the shifting sandhills. Sparsely scattered nomads are the only inhabitants, and construction in this direction would be a formidable undertaking, on account of the scarcity of water and absolute lack of wood and building materials.\n\n## No. 43.\n\n**(No. 181) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) LANSDOWNE.\n\n## No. 40.\n\n**The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.**\n\nTIEN-TSIN-CHINKIANG Railway.\n\nForeign Office, November 14, 1904.\n\nMy telegram No. 174 of the 26th ultimo.\n\nAccording to a report which the British and Chinese Corporation have received from Berlin, there is no question of the separation of British and German interests,\n\n## Consul-General Warren to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received November 18.)**\n\n**(No. 4.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nShanghae, November 18, 1903.\n\nALLEGED anti-dynastic movement in Shanghae.\n\nA despatch has been received by the Senior Consul from the Viceroy at Nanking who agrees that the trial of the prisoners shall take place before the Mixed Court, and states that the Taotai has received instructions for the appointment of an officer who shall sit with the Magistrate of the Mixed Court.\n\nThis telegram was also sent to Peking.\n\n[1638]",
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        "content_text": "# Testimonials for Walter Meredith Deane\n\n## Letter from BROOKE ROBERTSON\n\nVery truly yours,\n\n(Signed)\nCaptain Superintendent of Police,\nTo W.M.Deane, Esqre.,\nHong Kong.\n\nI can testify to the high state of discipline and efficiency to which you brought the Police Force from the time you took charge of it, until I left in 1878, and can testify to the exceptional powers of organization required to effect this due to its peculiar constitution.\n\nI am,\nBROOKE ROBERTSON.\n\n## Letter from SIR RICHARD GRAVES MAC DONNELL, C.B., K.C.M.G.\n\n(Copy)\n\nMy dear Mr. Deane,\n11, York Terrace,\nRegent's Park,\n24th May, 1880.\n\nAs I learn that you intend becoming a candidate for the Chief Constableship of Lancaster, it may perhaps serve your interests to have some certificate from myself of your services from 1866 in Hong Kong, where I was till 1872, the period during which I was Governor of that Colony. As Head of the Police, you had in a great measure to establish that force, or rather to remodel it, and adapt it for the discharge of its very varied and important duties, amongst different nationalities and under circumstances of great difficulty. I can testify to the amount of success which attended your efforts, especially as your Police numbered over 700, comprised many elements difficult to work in union - but above all, I have pleasure in being witness to the energy and zeal which marked all your efforts, whilst as a Magistrate, you were uniformly painstaking and just as well as highly competent.\n\nSeeing that your position in China was highly honourable, trustworthy, and lucrative, I presume you only seek an office here for your best interests.\n\nBelieve me to be,\nVery faithfully yours,\n(Signed)\nRICHARD GRAVES MAC DONNELL.\n\n## Testimonial from CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, Esquire, C.M.G.\n\nMr. Walter Meredith Deane held the appointment of Captain Superintendent of Police, Hong Kong, whilst I was Acting Colonial Secretary in that Colony for nearly five years. He performed the duties of his office with marked ability, tact, and discretion, and to the greatest satisfaction of the Government. His experience in handling his men often proved of great importance in preserving law and order under trying circumstances, while the assiduity with which he tracked out cases of serious crime had a most excellent effect on the Criminal Classes. Mr. Deane took over the Police Force in a very unsatisfactory state, and he brought it into being one of the most efficient and trustworthy Forces in the East.\n\n4th February, 1884.\n(Signed) CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, C.M.G.\nColonial Secretary, Straits Settlement\n\n## Extract from Hong Kong Government Gazette, 17th Sept. 1881, p.845\n\nProceedings of the Legislative Council.\n\nThe Governor informs the Council that he is about to proceed to the North on six weeks' vacation leave, and that during his absence, the Government will be administered by the Acting Colonial Secretary (the Honourable M. S. Tonnochy) and that the Acting Colonial Treasurer (the Honourable V. M. Deane) will officiate as Colonial Secretary.\n\n## Memorandum\n\nThe Police Force that I have had the honour to command for over seventeen years consists of some seven hundred men, and has to carry out every kind of Police work, such as Town, Country, Harbour, and Coast, and Mounted duties.\n\nFrom the returns contained in the Blue Book, it appears that, in 1881, 6,696 cases came under the cognizance of my department, and that 7,442 prisoners were arrested. In the course of my services, I think I may safely assert that there is scarcely an offence known to Criminal Law that has not been dealt with.\n\n## Testimonial from SIR CHARLES SHADWELL, K.C.B.\n\n(Memorandum).\nGREENWICH.\nJune 26th, 1880.\n\nI have great pleasure in stating that Captain Superintendent Walter Meredith Deane had charge of the Hong Kong Police during the time that I was Commander in Chief of H.M's. Naval Forces on the China Station, from December 16th, 1871, to February 1st, 1875, and that during that period, his duties being performed with tact and discretion, the relations existing between the Police and Naval Authorities at Hong Kong were always of a satisfactory nature, and characterised by harmonious co-operation for the benefit of the Public Service.\n\nGIVEN under my hand this 26th day of June, 1880.\n(Signed) CHARLES F. P. SHADWELL,\nAdmiral late Vice Admiral, and Commander in Chief,\nChina Station.\n\n## Testimonial from SIR A. RYDER, K.C.B.\n\nPortsmouth.\n\nCaptain Deane was Head of the Police Force whilst I was Commander in Chief on the Chinese Station for three years, 1875-7, and his services were very useful in many ways; I could always rely on his assistance whenever required. The order maintained in the Colony by the Force under Captain Deane was admirable.\n\nJune 21st, 1880.\n(Signed) A. P. RYDER,\nAdmiral.",
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        "content_text": "4 years consists of some seven hundred men, and has to carry out every kind of Police work, such as Town, Country, Harbour, and Coast, and Mounted duties. \n\nFrom the returns contained in the Blue Book it appears that, in 1881, 6696 cases came under the cognizance of my department, and that 7442 prisoners were arrested. In the course of my services I think I may safely assert that there is scarcely an offence known to Criminal law that I have not had to deal with. \n\nMy experience with regard to Pirates has been very considerable. For the suppression of a Coinage Manufactory and for the seizure of a large quantity of Spurious Coin of this country, I received by permission a decoration from the late King of Annam. \n\nAmongst other letters I received one of thanks from the Naval Authorities for the tact, advice, and aid shown or afforded by me in procuring the rescue of Lt Bower, R. N., who had been seized by Natives. I have received the thanks of the Colonial Government for my services on various Commissions, one of which was on the Gaol; and Gaol discipline. \n\nIn directing the capture of a Gang of armed burglars, I was somewhat severely wounded; I have also on various occasions assisted at the capture of seven Piratical Junks. In the course of each year about £50,000 of Government Money has passed through my hands.\n\nW. M. Deane, Captain - Superintendent, Hong Kong.\n\n## Testimonial from Colonel Straghan, C. B.\n\nCommanding 2nd Battery Highland Light Infantry.\n\nDear Mr Deane,\n\nI hear that you are resigning your Colonial Appointment; and contemplating one in England. I think that the Country which obtains your services will be a fortunate one.\n\nI never saw a more effective, or better disciplined body of men than that under your control in Hong Kong, when I was there with my battalion in 1878-1879. I am sure the Criminal Class alone will regret your desertion of the Colony.\n\nI remain,\nYours sincerely,\n(Signed) A. Straghan, Col Comdg 2nd H.L.I.\n\nCitadel, Plymouth;\n14th March, 1884:\n\nTestimonials previously circulated.\n\nLetter of thanks written by command of His Excellency For Arthur Kennedy, K.C.M.G. Governor and Commander-in-Chief from 1872 to 1877, and printed in the Hong Kong...",
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        "content_text": "OPY.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\n(3.)\n\n310\n\nsuit to waty ci bas 32 20 cone traqzo droite a dona torte row E. ¿\n\nVIA BriİLEIW ** brs 6TION * to Baroqoz bolistek edo band Just\n\na of nol÷nots [en of kerevoli exil bivore I .aborsi 11.O`, NË\n\n„V has .8.4d neswted noɛtraqmoo ativni od maea teft edoetdra wet\n\nerard said? or banilori tari ma I .gao^22\n\n.8\n\nto eunere eut de dostra att moves of tonebnet a need aad\n\nod bare aa ayod termİT 613 :V1030steideanu\n\n.arecido\n\n•gai ti¬whne”\n\nnoasex erit ovallod I „snow modriww to paentera al cbing on piles\n\nexilno (caré tost odt ni odečko gul:iew odd to neon1oog bile not\n\n100tuff act ban elmo „ark rontier,.8.X se atnasaineA bút\n\n-no? I Lyance of .baeri pracd-doald ochiqrogçon boog s eetitw\n\ngatuzinec ole ta onch como talimia med noteen doma 916 DZ5W-\n\n„aukio 164p ant ni xew vignitatoagenta\n\nlénom erit to\n\n.MBOW\n\n.oghelvom fatone\n\n{3,6VOTCELž oz nahro mi tleaw quierexe ms I\n\nznut bonoitron-ovode odt nå brushasde sit,eidiɛɛog as 0008\n\n.adoutdua\n\n+350 GVA. I\n\n.OBART . (.55)\n\n.\"oraali bsol·\n\nsir,\n\nEducation Department,\n\nHongkong, 27th November, 1909.\n\nI forward 2 letters from Mr. Williams. The first 'A' refers to my letter marked A-1 and the bill marked A-2 on this file. Mr. Williams states that \"the balance referred to viz.:- $80 is a personal account\". This refers to A-2 balance $82.93. Having regard to the nature of the items this seems improbable, but anyhow Mr. Williams has not paid it. He appears to intend to make some sort of counter claim. I have seen Messrs. Brewer who assert emphatically that the goods were supplied to the Victoria School. But if Mr. Williams pays, we need trouble ourselves no further in the matter.\n\nMr. Williams apparently intends to communicate again with the Colonial Secretary's Office with the intention of proving that I made false statements about him actuated by personal ill-will. I trust that he may be called upon to do so without delay.\n\nThe second letter marked B. Mr. Williams says that these items are also for his private account, and have been paid for. He does not say whether he holds a receipt. I do not know how these vouchers came to be presented at the Office, as they came in after I left. I observe that Mr. Williams states that they were \"unnecessarily submitted to cause misapprehension”.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) Edward A. Irving,\n\nDirector of Education.",
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        "content_text": "....... \n\n15 \n\nunless restrictions removed. \n\n6 \n\nChinese dealers must either go out of business or submit themselves to the terms of the Government monopolists contrary to treaty rights detrimental to our trade. \n\n(Telegraphic.) \n\nInclosure 9 in No. 1. \n\nHEWETT, Chairman. \n\nSir J. Jordan to the Governor of Hong Kong. \n\nPeking, October 23, 1909. TELEGRAM from the Chamber of Commerce of 15th October. \n\nPray inform Chamber that His Majesty's consul-general at Canton has been instructed to make further representations to the Viceroy, and that I am awaiting the result before again moving in the matter here. \n\nSir, \n\nInclosure 10 in No. 1. \n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Governor Sir F. Lugard. \n\nCanton, November 5, 1909. \n\nI HAVE the honour to forward, herewith, for your Excellency's perusal, a copy of a despatch which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject of the enforcement by the provincial authorities of the new opium licensing regulations. \n\nI have, &c. \n\n(No. 114.) Sir, \n\nInclosure 11 in No. 1. \n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Sir J. Jordan, \n\nJ. W. JAMIESON. \n\nCanton, November 2, 1909. \n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 6th October, transmitting copies of certain correspondence on the subject of the restriction imposed locally on the wholesale trade in Indian opium, and instructing me to make further urgent representations to the acting governor-general against this vexatious interference with the still legitimate trade of British firms. \n\nI had, prior to the receipt thereof, addressed a communication to his Excellency in the sense indicated, and I yesterday received his reply thereto. As you will see from the translation enclosed, no reference is made therein to any instructions from the Wai-wu Pu, and the attitude assumed generally is that my interference is uncalled for. \n\nI have accordingly addressed a further despatch to his Excellency, taking up the ground that the interpretation of the agreement between Great Britain and China for the suppression of opium rests with the representatives of the two Governments, and pointing out that prohibitive measures directed against legitimate British trade are in contravention of treaty engagements. \n\nIt is difficult to see what other argument one can employ, as his Excellency is so convinced that he is quite within his rights in dealing with the Chinese opium hongs as he sees fit. \n\nI have to-day sent you a telegram reporting the action taken, which I trust will meet with your approval, \n\nSir, \n\nInclosure 12 in No. 1. \n\nI am, &c. \n\nJ. W. JAMIESON. \n\nViceroy Yuan to Consul-General Jamieson. \n\nCanton, October 31, 1909. \n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 18th October regarding the regulations restricting the sale of raw opium promulgated by the provincial authorities, in which you inform me that you are in receipt of a telegram from His Majesty's Minister instructing you to see that restrictions on the sale of foreign opium are removed. \n\nI find that the Opium Prohibition Bureau some time ago ordered all native opium shops to register themselves and take out licences. These regulations were issued, with the Imperial sanction, by the Government Council, to all provinces alike, and were not brought into being in Kuangtung alone. As regards the regulations compelling purchasers of opium to obtain licences before opium may be sold to them, it was issued under imperial sanction, and the authorities of this province have no power to abrogate it \n\nIn your despatch you assert that \"the opium hongs never agreed to the permit system, and were all along selling to buyers without permits.\" \n\nEven if what you say is a fact, it is clear that the Chinese opium hongs infringed the regulations, and the result, namely, the sealing of their shops and the imposition of a fine, is entirely their own fault. \n\nLiang Chih Hou, the proprietor of the Ch'uan Fu Chang hong, was arrested on account of the infringement by that hong of the regulations, in that raw opium was improperly sold to persons not duly licensed, and it is impossible that this offence should be condoned. \n\nI have carefully studied the arguments embodied in your despatch, and find that the matter is one solely concerning Chinese merchants, and am surprised that you should be willing to apply for this man's release. \n\nGreat Britain has rendered great assistance in the suppression of opium, and has expressed her willingness to reduce the quantity imported from year to year. The Chinese Government is very grateful for this friendly attitude. The regulations, issued and sanctioned by the throne, for making searches and for restricting the trade, are of the utmost importance for suppressing the use of opium. The various provincial authorities must, therefore, exert themselves to the utmost to carry out these regulations, thereby returning the kindness and generosity of your friendly nation. \n\nShould China succeed in rooting out this cancerous growth of many years, it would, I think, be a source of pleasure to your country. \n\nAt present foreign merchants may continue to trade in opium with the opium hongs as before, but the searching of native opium shops is a matter concerning the internal government of China, and it would appear that you have no right to interfere therein. \n\nYour Excellency, \n\nI avail, &c. \n\n(Seal of Governor-General, \n\nInclosure 13 in No. 1. \n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Viceroy Yuan. \n\nCanton, November 2, 1909. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's communication of the 31st October, in reply to my despatch of the 18th October, having reference to the restrictions imposed at Canton on the wholesale opium trade, in which British merchants are interested. \n\nI gather therefrom that, in your Excellency's opinion, any interference on my part in this matter, which is stated to be one concerning the internal Government of China, is uncalled for. Stress is also laid on Great Britain's friendly assistance in the suppression of opium, and it is therefore contended that the measures adopted should be welcomed by her. \n\nPermit me, in reply to point out that the agreement to assist in suppressing the opium evil was one arrived at between our two Governments, and its interpretation accordingly lies with them. \n\nOn the strength of certain facts laid before him the representative of the British Government, His Majesty's Minister at Pekin, has come to the conclusion that the spirit of the agreement is being infringed, and he has requested the representative of the Chinese Government, the Wai-wu Pu, to move your Excellency to have all restrictions on legitimate British trade removed. The latter have promised him that instructions to this effect would be sent, thereby acknowledging the justice of his contention.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nappreciated our difficulties, but pleaded that they were helpless to take action.\n\nany\n\neffective\n\nYesterday his Excellency Liang Tun-yen promised to send a further telegram to the Viceroy, but doubted if it would produce more effect than those which had preceded it.\n\nThe enclosed letter from the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce will show the attitude which that body continues to observe with regard to this question, and as the matter is one which affects the interests of Hong Kong, and the Chamber's communications on the subject have been answered through the governor, I am forwarding a copy of this despatch to Sir F. Lugard in order that his Excellency may be in a position to realise how the matter stands.\n\nInclosure I in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, November 2, 1909.\n\n(No. 114.) Sir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 6th October, transmitting copies of certain correspondence on the subject of the restriction imposed locally on the wholesale trade in Indian opium, and instructing me to make further urgent representations to the acting governor-general against this vexatious interference with the still legitimate trade of British firms.\n\nI had, prior to the receipt thereof, addressed a communication to his Excellency in the sense indicated, and I yesterday received his reply thereto. As you will see from the translation enclosed, no reference is made therein to any instructions from the Wai-wu Pu, and the attitude assumed generally is that my interference is\n\nuncalled for.\n\nI have accordingly addressed a further despatch to his Excellency, taking up the ground that the interpretation of the agreement between Great Britain and China for the suppression of opium rests with the representatives of the two Governments, and pointing out that prohibitive measures directed against legitimate British trade are in contravention of treaty engagements.\n\nIt is difficult to see what other argument one can employ, as his Excellency is so convinced that he is quite within his rights in dealing with the Chinese opium hongs as he sees fit.\n\nI have to-day sent you a telegram reporting the action taken, which I trust will meet with your approval.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Viceroy Yuan.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\nCanton, October 18, 1909. I HAVE the honour to refer to previous correspondence on the subject of the measures adopted by the provincial authorities for the control and sale of opium, and to inform your Excellency that I have received telegraphic instructions from His Majesty's Minister again to make strong representations with a view to determining the present unsatisfactory condition of affairs at Canton, in so far as the sale of foreign opium is concerned.\n\nMy predecessor's despatch of the 24th September traverses certain statements made by the Opium Prohibition Bureau, and I should like to add a few remarks of my own with regard to their report, which was transmitted in your Excellency's communication of the 17th September, 1909.\n\nParagraph 2 states that the late governor-general ordered all shops, as well as individual buyers, to take out licences.\n\nIt is a fact that a proclamation to this effect was issued, but owing to the intervention on the part of His Majesty's Minister, the same was not enforced, and the dealers were informed that they could go on conducting their business as before.\n\n3\n\nHence the latter are quite justified in asserting that no warning was given them, and that the imprisonment of one of their number and the closing of his premises was quite unwarrantable.\n\nParagraph 3 asserts that ten or more of the raw opium shops were obeying the regulations. Such is not the case. The opium hongs never agreed to the permit system, and were all along selling to buyers without permits. The bureau's contention that the regulations in no way concern foreigners cannot, I feel sure, be endorsed by your Excellency, as your Excellency must be aware that the Chinese Government have let it be clearly understood that they had no intention of interfering with the wholesale trade in foreign opium. Vexatious restrictions, therefore, which result in the complete dislocation of such trade, are contrary to the assurances given by the Imperial Government, and the enforcement thereof might not unreasonably be\n\nconstrued as a breach of faith.\n\nI have accordingly the honour earnestly to request that your Excellency, in the interests of the friendly relations existing between our two countries, take immediate steps to put a stop to this unwarrantable interference with British trade, and to set at liberty the dealer Liang Chih Hou, of the Ch'uan Fu Chang hong, who was some time ago arrested at the instance of the Opium Prohibition Bureau.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\nViceroy Yüan to Consul-General Jamieson,\n\nCanton, October 31, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 18th October regarding the regulations restricting the sale of raw opium promulgated by the provincial authorities, in which you inform me that you are in receipt of a telegram from His Majesty's Minister instructing you to see that the restrictions on the sale of foreign opium are removed.\n\nI find that the Opium Prohibition Bureau some time ago ordered all native opium shops to register themselves and take out licences. These regulations were issued, with the Imperial sanction, by the Government Council, to all provinces alike, and were not brought into being in Kwangtung alone. As regards the regulation compelling purchasers of opium to obtain licences before opium may be sold to them, it was issued under Imperial sanction, and the authorities of this province have no power to alter or abrogate it.\n\nIn your despatch you assert that \"the opium hongs never agreed to the permit system, and were all along selling to buyers without permits.\" Even if what you say is a fact, it is clear that the Chinese opium hongs infringed the regulations, and the result, namely, the sealing of their shops and the imposition of a fine, is entirely their own fault.\n\nLiang Chih Hou, the proprietor of the Chuan Fu Ch'ang hong, was arrested on account of the infringement by that hong of the regulations in that raw opium was improperly sold to persons not duly licensed, and it is impossible that this offence should be condoned.\n\nI have carefully studied the arguments embodied in your despatch, and find that the matter is one solely concerning Chinese merchants, and am surprised that you should be willing to apply for this man's release.\n\nGreat Britain has rendered great assistance in the suppression of opium, and has expressed her willingness to reduce the quantity imported from year to year. The Chinese Government is very grateful for this friendly attitude. The regulations, issued and sanctioned by the throne, for making searches and for restricting the trade are of the utmost importance for suppressing the use of opium. The various provincial authorities must therefore exert themselves to the utmost to carry out these regulations, thereby returning the kindness and generosity of your friendly nation.\n\nShould China succeed in rooting out this cancerous growth of many years, it would, I think, be a source of pleasure to your country.\n\nAt present foreign merchants may continue to trade in opium with the opium hongs as before, but the searching of native opium shops is a matter concerning\n\n129",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nExcellency that, in view of certain negotiations that had been proceeding between the Board of Communications and the corporation and between Vice-President Shen Yuu Pei and the Kiangsu Company, I had held my hand for some time, but I did not wish him to conclude, therefore, that the legation had lost interest in the question and was not following it with close attention. I did not wish to exercise pressure at an inopportune moment or to interfere with the efforts of the Board of Communications to recover control as long as they were likely to be attended with success and the corporation were prepared to exercise patience a little longer. In the end, however, I should be obliged to insist on the strict fulfilment of the terms of the loan agreement. His Excellency promised to let me have a reply to Sir John Jordan's note of the 21st December.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER,\n\nMr. Mayers to Board of Directors of the British and Chinese Corporation, London.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nApril 13, 1910. WITH reference to my letter of the 16th March respecting the Shanghae-Hankow-Ningpo Railway, I have the honour to report the results of several conversations which I have held with the director-general, Mr. Liang Shih Yi, respecting this line.\n\nThe first point upon which I sought definite information from Mr. Liang was in regard to the proposal of the Board of Communications to change the loan agreement, under certain eventualities, to one for the construction of a railway from Kaifengfu to Isüchoufu. I told his Excellency that the proposal had been carefully considered in London, and that its execution presented considerable difficulties. It was desirable, therefore, to know whether the board adhered to the plan of action outlined in their draft letter of the 20th January before going further into the question of its practicability. I understood that the provincial companies were at the end of their resources, and the time seemed ripe for the Board of Communications to put an end to this long drawn-out controversy, by assuming control and proceeding with construction to Ningpo under the loan agreement.\n\nWithout giving me a direct reply in regard to the proposed transfer of the loan, the director-general evinced no interest in this branch of the subject. The position of affairs at the present time was, he stated, tending towards a resumption of control by the Board of Communications over the Kiangsu section of the line. The vice-president of the board, Shen Yun P'ei, who is a Kiangsu man, had been influencing his fellow-provincials for the past three months to recognise the futility of prolonging the struggle. There was already an inclination on the part of the Kiangsu Company to place itself in the hands of the board, but any drastic action on the part of the latter would only defeat the object in view. Delegates of the company were now in Peking, and the director-general was leaving all initiative to come from their side, feeling confident that by these tactics an admission that they have no funds must soon be made.\n\nAn application to the board from independent Chinese residents of Shanghae to proceed as soon as possible with the junction of the Kiangsu and Shanghae-Nanking railways has been referred to the provincial company, and their official reply is now awaited. Verbally they have pleaded lack of funds, and the director-general is satisfied that their written answer will be to the same effect. At the same time a section of the provincial company seeks permission from the board to construct the Hsüchoufu-Haichou line in Northern Kiangsu, and it is anticipated that this project, for which no funds are forthcoming, will contribute to expose the financial embarrassments of the company.\n\nAt\n\n3\n\nIf the board's anticipations are fulfilled in respect to the Kiangsu Company, the recovery of control over the Chekiang line will, in their opinion, speedily follow. But direct initiative on their part, would, they assert, morally result in a recrudescence of feeling in the two provinces, and their policy therefore is to wait patiently, till bankruptcy throws the railway into their hands.\n\nSuch being the director-general's description of the situation as it stood at the beginning of the month, I called yesterday officially at the board, and told Mr. Liang that I had not yet written to my directors on the subject of this railway, since my arrival in Peking, but could not longer defer doing so. I begged him therefore to acquaint me with any further particulars, or with any expression of views which might assist my board in forming a just appreciation of the case.\n\nThe director-general replied that he had little to add to what he had said in our more informal conversations of the past fortnight. He could, in fact, merely confirm the statement that the Kiangsu Company was being gradually worked upon by the Vice-President Shen, and that in his own opinion success was within sight.\n\nOn my remarking that the position he took up was virtually the same as had been assumed by the Wai-wu Pu towards the question since its inception, namely, that with time and patience a solution would eventually present itself, the director-general admitted that it was so, but he was able now to foresee the end; and on my pressing him to hazard an opinion as to how long it would be before he got control of the Kiangsu section, he replied, with what impressed me as an honest conviction, that it would take two or three months.\n\nI then asked him whether the board's recent appointment, of which I had been notified officially, of a young Chinese engineering student named P'u to be manager of the line was to be taken as an indication that they were going to play a more active part in the railway's affairs. To this Mr. Liang replied in the negative. Under pressure from the notorious Mr. Tang, of the Chekiang Company, the board had accepted the nomination of Pu, but only as temporary and \"probationary manager.\"\n\nHe would have no power.\n\nI pointed out that there was always a danger of Mr. Foord's patience becoming exhausted, as it was humiliating for a professional man of his standing to be kept month after month in a state of inaction, and I quite expected that friction might arise between him and the inexperienced nominees of Mr. Tang. The director-general said he hoped no such difficulty would occur. The appointment of Pu was merely nominal, and he trusted that Mr. Foord would stick by them. In regard to two of his assistant engineers, he anticipated that the Chekiang Company would seek shortly to dispense with their services, and if this came about he would deal with the matter. As he had mentioned this point before, I asked what line he proposed to take in such circumstances, but he would not give me a more precise answer than to say that they should not suffer, and that he would guarantee them employment.\n\nThe policy of the Board of Communications, then, still is to let this problem shape its own solution, while doing what they can to influence provincial opinion in favour of State control of the line. As I observed to the director-general, in resting content for the time being with this prospect of further delay, we have only his word for it that success will be achieved by these means, and in inviting the corporation to exercise further patience, the responsibility rests on him to see that his anticipations are not falsified.\n\nI am communicating a copy of this letter to His Majesty's chargé d'affaires, with whom I have been in consultation, and I understand that he concurs in my opinion that we cannot for the present do otherwise than accept the statements of the Board of Communications on this subject as being made in good faith. If Mr. Max Müller should see fit to mention at the Wai-wu Pu the position which has been reached in my conversations with Mr. Liang, it may prove useful later on in the event of no progress being effected.\n\nI should add that in our conversation of yesterday the director-general made no allusion to the proposal of transferring the loan, and I therefore take it that this proposal has been laid aside.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nS. F. MAYERS.\n\n239",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n58\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[29199]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[August 11. 20647]\n\nSECTION 1RECO\n\nREG916 SEP 10\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received August 11.)\n\n(No. 241.) Sir,\n\nPeking, July 26, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that His Majesty's vice-consul at Chungking informed me by telegraph on the 14th instant that he had received a letter from the Taotai, which was sent at the instance of the Viceroy, stating that, if it was necessary for His Majesty's gunboats to cruise, they were only allowed to do so below Chungking, and could not be permitted to visit the Yang-tsze ports above that place.\n\nMr. Langford Smith replied that His Majesty's ships were allowed to cruise both above and below Chungking by virtue of article 52 of the treaty of Tien-tsin; that these were the instructions which he had received from His Majesty's Minister; and that he was therefore unable to take any other view. On the Taotai arguing the matter, Mr. Langford Smith repeated his former reply. He further informed the senior naval officer that there was no necessity to modify the programme for the summer cruise, which was planned exclusively for visits to up-river ports.\n\nOn the 18th instant His Majesty's consul-general at Chengtu telegraphed that he had received several letters from the Vicer...\n\nOn the 20th July, I instructed Mr. Wilkinson to act in strict accordance with the instructions contained in Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 10 of the 30th August, 1909, a copy of which was sent to you in his despatch No. 304 of that date, and of which the terms were approved by your despatch No. 311 of the 19th October. At the same time, I requested him to approve Mr. Langford Smith's attitude.\n\nOn the 22nd instant I received a note from the Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu, in which they argue that although article 52 of the Tien-tsin Treaty permits British ships of war to visit all ports in China, places on the inland waterways are not treaty ports, and if foreign gunboats suddenly proceed thither their visit is sure to cause alarm and suspicion, and perhaps arouse a feeling of hostility among the inhabitants. Wai-wu Pu, who appear to have confused His Majesty's ship \"Widgeon\" with His Majesty's ship \"Woodcock,\" conclude by requesting me to request the latter to return at once to Chungking.\n\nI have addressed a note to the Wai-wu Pu in reply, informing them of the view held by His Majesty's Government that British warships have the right, in accordance with article 52 of the treaty of Tien-tsin, to visit all Chinese ports, whether opened by treaty to foreign trade or not, and that I am therefore unable to comply with their request. Copies of the correspondence with the Wai-wu Pu are transmitted herewith.\n\nIt appears from a despatch which I have received from the Commander-in-chief, China Station, that the local Chinese authorities have recently made similar difficulties in regard to the cruise of His Majesty's ship \"Moorhen\" to the ports on the Upper West River, and have protested against her visiting Liauchow, Nanning, and Pose. I enclose copies of Vice-Admiral Sir A. Winsloe's despatch and of the reports of the commanding officer of His Majesty's ship \"Moorhen,\" annexed thereto.\n\nI have informed Sir Alfred Winsloe fully of the action taken by His Majesty's Legation and consular officers to assert the rights of His Majesty's ships to visit the ports of the Upper Yang-tsze.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\n[2862 -1]",
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        "content_text": "61\n\n2\n\nThe banks may then have this silver remelted themselves, paying the customary fee of 2 per cent. to the melting shops.\n\nMr. Fulford states that the Tien-tsin Chamber of Commerce and the foreign banks have accepted this solution of the difficulty, which it is hoped will result in the removal of a long-standing incubus on the trade of the port.\n\nIn reviewing the causes which contributed to the extremely unsatisfactory state of affairs above described, Mr. Fulford holds the foreign banks to blame for allowing their compradores to accept this debased sycee. \"The latter calculated,\" he says, \"that their foreign employers would protect them from eventual loss and meanwhile they benefited by the difference in value between the debased and good silver.\" When the customs brought matters to a head by their ultimatum regarding the 2 per cent. supplement on duty payments, the banks were able to saddle the merchants, for the most part dependent on them, with the discount, and the latter in self-defence were obliged to assert that the trade of the port could not be carried on unless all silver in circulation were of the same fixed standard. As a matter of fact, this is not the case in Shanghai, where silver is simply marked by the Assay Office with figures indicating its degree of superiority or inferiority to a market standard of 944 of pure silver. If the trade of Shanghai can be carried on under these conditions, it would seem that the smaller trade of Tien-tsin might well be conducted on similar lines.\n\nMr. Fulford informs me that the inspection of the silver in the banks' vaults is proceeding \"very, very slowly,\" every day's delay being in favour of those who have to make good the deficiency in touch. It is probable that the Chinese authorities will endeavour to postpone the final settlement until the new dollars come into circulation, and if so, a fresh difficulty will arise with regard to the rate at which the new coinage will exchange for sycee.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER,\n\nProclamation by the Customs Taotui, May 7, 1910.\n\nON account of the debasement of Tien-tsin \"hua pao\" silver, both Chinese and foreign officials and merchants have suffered loss. I have frequently, in conjunction with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, consulted with the commissioner of customs and the senior consul, and arranged the establishment of an assay for the improvement of the silver and the relief of the merchants.\n\n11\n\norders to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to open an Assay Office, and gave received the Governor-General's approval. As to the stock of debased \"hua pao\" silver held by the banks, monetary arrangements were made for compensating its deficiency in touch, so that it might be put into circulation and relieve the tension. Nevertheless, since the beginning of the assay work, no great improvement is manifest in this market. The causes of this are as follows:\n\nSince the opening of the Assay Office but little new sycee has been smelted, and, despite the plan of granting a premium (for silver above standard), and paying a discount (for silver below standard), the Assay Office being an innovation, did not command sufficient confidence on the part of the merchants (native or foreign). They were filled with doubts.\n\nAgain, on assay of the old silver there was a large deficiency of touch to be made good. The banks were not willing to pay out the silver, and traders of other places did not wish to bring silver from outside into the market. The result was that the flow of silver from other towns daily decreased, and the stock of silver held by the banks increased. Ready money became scarcer day by day, and trade suffered more and more, to such an extent that disaster was imminent.\n\nThis has long been a matter of common knowledge, and unless some remedial measures be devised, imagination shrinks from the contemplation of future troubles.\n\nI have now given directions to Wang, director of the Chamber of Commerce, who, in consultation with the senior consul, the British consul-general, and Mr. Mackintosh, of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, has devised a plan to meet the difficulty.\n\nI (the Taotai) have accordingly settled that---\n\nFrom the first year of Hsuan Tung all silver melted by the smelting shops must be of 992 standard. Not the slightest debasement will be permitted. On the sycee\n\n3\n\nmust be stamped by die the date (year and month), and the hong name to facilitate investigation. Should any dare to disobey, the Chamber of Commerce and the Assay Office are charged with the duty of detection and report to me for penalty to be inflicted. The silver so melted (contrary to regulation) must be taken back, the deficiency made good, and remelted. It will not be allowed to circulate.\n\nAs to the old \"hua pao sycee dating from 34th year of Kuang Hsu and earlier, and silver coming from other places, it will temporarily be treated according to the plan of premium for excess and discount for deficiency of standard. It will also be gradually melted by the smelting shops into full 992 standard silver, so as to produce uniformity. The limit of time within which it must be all melted is the present Chinese year.\n\nAs to the old debased \"hua pao\" sycee held by the banks, I will give orders to the Chamber of Commerce and the Assay Office to send men to assay it and determine the amount of debasement in comparison with 992 touch, and to make good the deficiency. The several banks can themselves have it remelted. The fee to be charged by the smelting shops for melting this old sycee has been arranged by the Chamber of Commerce in consultation with the smelting shops. The latter have agreed to make the reduced charge of 2 mace per 100 taels.\n\nMr. Mackintosh moreover observed that the interest at present charged by the banks for advances was very high, but that so soon as the touch of silver was properly regulated his bank would certainly reduce the rate.\n\nIn this way the arrangement will be to the advantage of all.\n\nThe Chamber of Commerce has also submitted to me regulations which are in conformity with the foregoing agreement, and have been discussed by me and the senior consul, and found to be suitable.\n\nIn addition to submitting the matter to the northern superintendent of trade and instructing the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to order the smelting shop proprietors to come to my yamen, give bonds and receive licenses, it is my duty to set forth below the seven articles of the procedure proposed by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and also to issue a proclamation for the information of all the smelting shops and the people generally of Tien-tsin.\n\nFrom this date should any dare secretly to smelt debased \"hua pao\" silver and use pieces of silver which have not passed the Assay Office, they will on detection, or on information given, be immediately fined without mercy.\n\nLet all tremble and obey.\n\n}",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nThe banks may then have this silver remelted themselves, paying the customary fee of 2 per cent. to the melting shops.\n\nMr. Fulford states that the Tien-tsin Chamber of Commerce and the foreign banks have accepted this solution of the difficulty, which it is hoped will result in the removal of a long-standing incubus on the trade of the port.\n\nIn reviewing the causes which contributed to the extremely unsatisfactory state of affairs above described, Mr. Fulford holds the foreign banks to blame for allowing their compradores to accept this debased sycee. \"The latter calculated,\" he says, \"that their foreign employers would protect them from eventual loss and meanwhile they benefited by the difference in value between the debased and good silver.\" When the customs brought matters to a head by their ultimatum regarding the 2 per cent. supplement on duty payments, the banks were able to saddle the merchants, for the most part dependent on them, with the discount, and the latter in self-defence were obliged to assert that the trade of the port could not be carried on unless all silver in circulation were of the same fixed standard.\n\nAs a matter of fact, this is not the case in Shanghai, where silver is simply marked by the Assay Office with figures indicating its degree of superiority or inferiority to a market standard of 944 of silver. If the trade of Shanghai can be carried on under these conditions, it would seem that the smaller trade of Tien-tsin might well be conducted on similar lines.\n\nMr. Fulford informs me that the inspection of the silver in the banks' vaults is proceeding \"very, very slowly,\" every day's delay being in favour of those who have to make good the deficiency in touch. It is probable that the Chinese authorities will endeavour to postpone the final settlement until the new dollars come into circulation, and if so, a fresh difficulty will arise with regard to the rate at which the new coinage will exchange for sycee.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER,\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nProclamation by the Customs Taotai, May 7, 1910.\n\nON account of the debasement of Tien-tsin \"hua pao\" silver, both Chinese and foreign officials and merchants have suffered loss. I have frequently, in conjunction with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, consulted with the commissioner of customs and the senior consul, and arranged the establishment of an assay for the improvement of the silver and the relief of the merchants.\n\nI gave orders to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to open an Assay Office, and received the Governor-General's approval. As to the stock of debased \"hua pao\" silver held by the banks, monetary arrangements were made for compensating its deficiency in touch, so that it might be put into circulation and relieve the tension. Nevertheless, since the beginning of the assay work, no great improvement is manifest in this market. The causes of this are as follows:--\n\nSince the opening of the Assay Office but little new sycee has been smelted, and, despite the plan of granting a premium (for silver above standard), and paying a discount (for silver below standard), the Assay Office being an innovation, did not command sufficient confidence on the part of the merchants (native or foreign). They were filled with doubts.\n\nAgain, on assay of the old silver there was a large deficiency of touch to be made good. The banks were not willing to pay out the silver, and traders of other places did not wish to bring silver from outside into the market. The result was that the flow of silver from other towns daily decreased, and the stock of silver held by the banks increased. Ready money became scarcer day by day, and trade suffered more and more, to such an extent that disaster was imminent.\n\nThis has long been a matter of common knowledge, and unless some remedial measures be devised, imagination shrinks from the contemplation of future troubles.\n\nI have now given directions to Wang, director of the Chamber of Commerce, who, in consultation with the senior consul, the British consul-general, and Mr. Mackintosh of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, has devised a plan to meet the difficulty.\n\nI (the Taotai) have accordingly settled that---\n\nFrom the first year of Hsuan Tung all silver melted by the smelting shops must be of 992 standard. Not the slightest debasement will be permitted. On the sycee must be stamped by die the date (year and month), and the hong name to facilitate investigation. Should any dare to disobey, the Chamber of Commerce and the Assay Office are charged with the duty of detection and report to me for penalty to be inflicted. The silver so melted (contrary to regulation) must be taken back, the deficiency made good, and resmelted. It will not be allowed to circulate.\n\nAs to the old \"hua pao\" sycee dating from 31st year of Kuang Hsu and earlier, and silver coming from other places, it will temporarily be treated according to the plan of premium for excess and discount for deficiency of standard. It will also be gradually melted by the smelting shops into full 992 standard silver, so as to produce uniformity. The limit of time within which it must be all melted is the present Chinese year.\n\nAs to the old debased \"hua pao\" sycee held by the banks, I will give orders to the Chamber of Commerce and the Assay Office to send men to assay it and determine the amount of debasement in comparison with 992 touch, and to make good the deficiency. The several banks can themselves have it remelted. The fee to be charged by the smelting shops for melting this old sycee has been arranged by the Chamber of Commerce in consultation with the smelting shops. The latter have agreed to make the reduced charge of 2 mace per 100 taels.\n\nMr. Mackintosh moreover observed that the interest at present charged by the banks for advances was very high, but that so soon as the touch of silver was properly regulated his bank would certainly reduce the rate.\n\nIn this way the arrangement will be to the advantage of all.\n\nThe Chamber of Commerce has also submitted to me regulations which are in conformity with the foregoing agreement, and have been discussed by me and the senior consul, and found to be suitable.\n\nIn addition to submitting the matter to the northern superintendent of trade and instructing the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to order the smelting shop proprietors to come to my yamen, give bonds and receive licenses, it is my duty to set forth below the seven articles of the procedure proposed by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and also to issue a proclamation for the information of all the smelting shops and the people generally of Tien-tsin.\n\nFrom this date should any dare secretly to smelt debased \"hua pao\" silver and use pieces of silver which have not passed the Assay Office, they will on detection, or on information given, be immediately fined without mercy.\n\nLet all tremble and obey,\n\n123\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "It. K Quily Press of 11/4/11 \n\n# SUPREME COURT. \n\n## Monday, April 10th. \n\n### IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. \n\n**BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR FRANCIS PIGGOTT (CHIEF JUSTICE).**\n\nTATEM v. HOWELL. \n\nThe action was continued in which John Tatem sued Frederick Howell, chief bailiff of the Supreme Court, for an account since 24th September, 1905, of the receipts and disbursements of the defendant in respect of the plaintiff's business of a butcher and compradore carried on under the style of the Hongkong Butchery, and for a receiver. \n\nMr. M. W. Slade, K.C., instructed by Mr. J. H. Gardiner, appeared for the plaintiff, and defendant was represented by Mr. Eldon Potter, who was instructed by Mr. C. E. H. Beavis (of Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist). \n\nYou told us that on November 17th, 1904, you paid in $143.80—No. 1 account or No. 2. \n\nNo. 1 account? You paid in $143.80 and you believe they were cross cheques on the Butchery.—I could only say I believe so. I don't know. On that account you paid out $120 next day.—Yes. \n\nWe have obtained a copy from the bank and there are apparently three cheques bearing three names—Jones, Clarett and Moss?—Yes. \n\nIs Clarett the name of a person?—Yes. He was employed at the Electric Light Company—W. E. Clarett. \n\nLooking at these names, can you say they were Hongkong Butchery's account? My lord, I remember that they were. Clarett's name brings it to my recollection. Clarett obtained goods and paid cheques to the Butchery. I cannot follow the other names. \n\nHis Lordship—That bears out the suggestion that the $120 and the $150 made up $143.80 and Mr. Howell's private account, leaving 12 cents over. \n\nMr. Slade—quite agrees. Unfortunately owing to a mistake we have not had all the bank slips. In this matter we have not received the assistance we might reasonably expect. They have the dates. \n\nWitness was next examined with respect to the payments in made to the Butchery company. One was marked Armstrong, which was not to Butchery account, but was for goods supplied, butter imported on behalf of the Butchery. There was a loss on that shipment. They did not claim on the insurers or shippers, but something was done through Johnson. Witness explained the letter he wrote to Johnson was to enable him to obtain his commission. He affirmed that the letter was not an order on behalf of the Butchery, although Johnson had previously supplied goods to the Butchery. He added a code so as to make the matter look like a proper business matter. Counsel questioned witness with regard to an advertisement referring to the arrival of the butter mentioned. \n\nDo you still assert that your letter was a pro forma order not intended to be carried out on behalf of the Butchery?—I do. \n\nIt was merely a letter to enable Johnson to get an illicit five per cent. commission?—To get a commission. \n\nAn improper five per cent. commission?—Not an improper commission. He was the man who was giving the order and was justly entitled to the commission. \n\nHis Lordship—This was not a real transaction? Mr. Slade—Is that what you say?—I don't know what transactions took place between Johnson and Tang Kee with reference to butter. \n\nThe next item in your banking account is $62.17 on January 6th, which from the paying-in slips appears to have been made up of three cheques drawn on Doberok, Cannell and Francis. Were they payments on the Butchery accounts?—They would be cheques handed over to me by Young Chung in payment of commission to him for the Butchery. He would ask me to cash them. \n\nWitness was then questioned with regard to entries of commission paid to Young Chung and stated the book was not kept properly by Tatem, otherwise it would have explained itself. \n\nWitness, questioned as to certain cheques which he had paid into the bank, said he could not tell what they were. \n\nYou had all the Butchery books at your house at that time?—What time? \n\nJanuary, 1897?—No, a short time after the Butchery was closed. I took everything down to my house to have the books made up. \n\nAt this time when these payments were being made you had the Butchery books in your house?—They were under my charge in as much as I had handed them over to Barker to make up a proper balance-sheet. He was working in my house. \n\nWitness in the course of further examination said that Mr. Barker must have made a mistake in a certain account. \n\nYou mean to say that although this was being done in your house by Barker, who was employed by you, he did not inquire from you on occasions of difficulty?—I cannot remember. He would be there in the day time and I would be away. \n\nI think you told me that work was done in the evening. You told us he was employed by the Dock Company and worked at the accounts in the evening?—He was formerly employed in the docks at Aberdeen and used to drop in to my house casually. \n\nThen this item in the stores account is wrongly stated?—Apparently so. \n\nCounsel said he could not get to the bottom of these accounts and he would endeavour to get witness to elucidate the account which he had given Tatem as showing his position with regard to the Hongkong Butchery. \n\nWhat does the entry, to sundries and cash account, mean?—The total amount of money received from all sources including capital. \n\n139",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[34581]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n[August 23.]\n\n(No. 236.) Sir,\n\nForeign Office, August 23, 1912.\n\nWITH reference to your despatch No. 220 of the 9th May last, I transmit to you herewith for any observations which you may have to offer a copy of a letter from the India Office, enclosing a despatch from the Government of India in regard to the general question of restricting the export of uncertified opium from India, in view of the smuggling of such opium into China.\n\nYou will observe that the Government of India contend, firstly, that as long as prices in China are decidedly higher than the non-China consumers are willing to pay, so long will smuggling continue to be profitable; and, secondly, that the further restriction of the aggregate of uncertified opium exported is likely to fail in its object, since the result is a corresponding increase of Turkish and Persian opium.\n\nIn this latter argument there appears to me to be considerable force. The restriction of the export of Indian opium to particular countries according to their actual needs which I am endeavouring to obtain, as for instance in the case of Macao, is bound to be relatively effective in the suppression of smuggling, while it will do no injury to Indian trade interests; but I should be glad to learn whether, after consideration of the figures now supplied by the Indian Government and particularly those concerning the increase of Turkish and Persian opium, you are still of opinion that it would be desirable to urge on the Indian Government that they should restrict the aggregate amount exported.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\n[2604-1] India Office, August 15, 1912.\n\n\n## \n\n2\n\nof countries outside China, for smuggling with its attendant evils will continue until the necessary steps are taken at the fountain-head. We consider that this argument contains a non sequitur. We admit the desirability of the measure proposed by Sir John Jordan: in point of fact we have already carried it into effect. But it seems clear to us that the restriction of exports of uncertified opium cannot in itself put a stop to smuggling and it is incorrect, therefore, in our opinion to regard the existence of smuggling as any proof that these exports continue to be in excess of the requirements of the non-China markets. We deal with these points separately in the following paragraphs.\n\n4. The quantity of non-certified opium mortified for export in the current year is 13,200 chests. From our telegram dated the 3rd November, 1911, it will be seen that this amount was suggested by us in pursuance of our policy of assisting China in her anti-opium campaign, although, as we stated in the telegram, the data then at our disposal would have justified our taking a somewhat higher figure for the normal and genuine requirements of the non-China markets. The further statistics subsequently forwarded with your revenue secretary's letters dated respectively, the 10th, 22nd, and 24th November and the 1st December, 1911, have not only confirmed us in the view that our estimate was very moderate, but have convinced us that the amount exported in 1910, viz., 16,000 chests, was in no way excessive. The reduced figure of 13,200 chests fixed for this year, so far from being in excess of genuine requirements, is clearly insufficient to meet them, and we respectfully suggest that any statement to the contrary must be based on information proceeding from interested sources. It has been our own experience, and we have no doubt that the same condition holds in the case of traders in China, that merchants who have accumulated large stocks of opium for consumption in China, in the hope of making enormous profits over their transactions, invariably represent whatever amount we may fix for export to non-China markets as being in excess of actual requirements, and urge the possibility of its being smuggled to China.\n\n6. This latter consideration brings us to our further contention, which we have on more than one occasion pressed upon your Lordship, that no reduction of non-China exports, short of absolute stoppage, will prevent such smuggling. As long as prices in China are decidedly higher than the non-China consumers are willing to pay, so long must smuggling be profitable. If China insistently demands more opium than, under treaty obligations, we are allowed to certify, and is willing to pay abnormal prices for it, we may reduce our export of uncertified opium to vanishing point without effecting the purpose at which we are aiming. The more those exports are reduced the more will the non-China markets be starved, unless they are prepared either to outbid the China smuggler, or to substitute Persian and Turkish for Indian opium. A tendency in the latter direction is, indeed, already noticeable, as shown by the quantity of Persian and Turkish opium transhipped at Bombay for Singapore during 1911. \n\n| Year | Persian Opium (chests) | Turkish Opium (chests) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1909 | 64 | 0 |\n| 1910 | 581 | 78 |\n| 1911 | 1,127 | 363 |\n\nWhile only 64 chests of Persian and none of Turkish opium were consigned from Bombay to Singapore in 1909, 581 chests of Persian and 78 of Turkish opium were so consigned in 1910, and 1,127 and 363 chests, respectively, in 1911. It is possible, in view of these figures, that the only result of a further restriction of our exports would be to benefit the Persian and Turkish opium interests. In any case we consider that any such restriction regarded as a method of discouraging smuggling would be not only extremely expensive, but ineffective, and we confidently assert that our action in the matter has not failed to be consistent with the general policy which has been accepted by His Majesty's Government in opium matters.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n**HARDINGE OF PENSHURST**,\n**O'M. CREAGH**,\n**HARCOURT BUTLER**,\n**S. A. IMAM**,\n**W. H. CLARK**,\n**R. H. CRADDOCK**,\n**R. W. GILLAN**.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]",
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        "content_text": "## \n26740/12 \n4. Kong \nStraits \n521 \n\n# 2 \n\nrespectively, the 10th November, 22nd November, 24th November, and the 1st December 1911, have not only confirmed us in the view that our estimate was very moderate, but have convinced us that the amount exported in 1910, viz., 16,000 chests, was in no way excessive. The reduced figure of 13,200 chests fixed for this year, so far from being in excess of genuine requirements, is clearly insufficient to meet them, and we respectfully suggest that any statement to the contrary must be based on information proceeding from interested sources. It has been our own experience, and we have no doubt that the same condition holds in the case of traders in China, that merchants who have accumulated large stocks of opium for consumption in China, in the hope of making enormous profits over their transactions, invariably represent whatever amount we may fix for export to non-China markets as being in excess of actual requirements, and urge the possibility of its being smuggled to China.\n\n5. This latter consideration brings us to our further contention, which we have on more than one occasion pressed upon your Lordship, that no reduction of non-China exports, short of absolute stoppage, will prevent such smuggling. As long as prices in China are decidedly higher than the non-China consumers are willing to pay, so long must smuggling be profitable. If China insistently demands more opium than, under treaty obligations, we are allowed to certify, and is willing to pay abnormal prices for it, we may reduce our export of uncertified opium to vanishing point without effecting the purpose at which we are aiming. The more those exports are reduced the more will the non-China markets be starved, unless they are prepared either to outbid the China smuggler, or to substitute Persian and Turkish for Indian opium. A tendency in the latter direction is, indeed, already noticeable, as shown by the quantity of Persian White and Turkish opium transhipped at Bombay for Singapore during 1911. Only 64 chests of Persian and none of Turkish opium were consigned from Bombay to Singapore in 1909, 581 chests of Persian and 78 of Turkish opium were so consigned in 1910, and 1,127 and 363 chests, respectively, in 1911. It is possible, in view of these figures, that the only result of a further restriction of our exports would be to benefit the Persian and Turkish opium interests. In any case, we consider that any such restriction regarded as a method of discouraging smuggling would be not only extremely expensive but ineffective, and we confidently assert that our action in the matter has not failed to be consistent with the general policy which has been accepted by His Majesty's Government in opium matters.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\nMY LORD MARQUIS,\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble Servants,\n(Signed) HARDINGE OF PENSHURST,\nO'M. CREAGH.\nR. W. CARLYLE.\nHARCOURT BUTLER.\nS. A. IMAM.\nW. H. CLARK,\nR. H. CRADDOCK.\nR. W. GILLAN.\n\n#1 \nDRAFT.\n\n3.0.\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Dixon \nMr. Stubbs \nSir G. Fiddes.\nSir H. Just,\nC. D.\n19 AUG\n\nSir J. Anderson.\nLord Emmott.\nMr. Harcourt.\n\nI am to request you to inform Sir E. Grey that it would be satisfactory to learn whether the Portuguese Government have replied to the representations regarding the importation of opium into Macao, and to request that you would be so good as to inform me with reference to this, 27th July 1912.",
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        "content_text": "# treaties in the matter of the opium trade. On referring to my telegram to you of the 8th November I find that the suggestion as to a conference being held at Hangchow to discuss a settlement of the opium question was stated to have been made by Mr. Ezra himself, and I quite well remember Mr. Ezra making such a statement to me. From his local agent, Mr. Myer, I subsequently learnt that this proposal emanated from Mr. Wên, not from Mr. Ezra. It has been a feature of this incident that the British merchants have made a number of assertions, both to the Chinese and to myself, which have turned out subsequently to have been very far from correct, and in some cases these inaccuracies were not, I feel sure, due to genuine mistakes.\n\nIn the case of the proposed conference, which was to include representatives of the anti-opium party as well as the tutu, myself, and the British merchants, the fact that Mr. Ezra claimed it as his own suggestion at first disarmed my suspicions; but reflection gradually convinced me that such a proposal would be far more likely to have originated from a Chinese source, and on my enquiring from Mr. Myer it turned out to be so. It then became clear to me that the proposal was a mischievous one. The presence of the representatives of the anti-opium faction at a meeting of such a kind would amount to a tacit admission of some status or qualification on their part to take part in the negotiations, which I felt to be quite inadmissible. On the other hand, Sir Everard Fraser informed me by telegraph of an interview which he had had with Mr. Wên, and expressed the opinion that it was risky to let the opium merchants negotiate direct with the authorities. In the meanwhile, I had received your telegram of the 9th November, informing me that, in reply to the protest of the Wai-chiao Pu, you had proposed to them that the Wai-wu Pu's circular instructions of the 15th June, 1911, be reissued and the province of Chekiang called upon to withdraw its prohibition. It was evident that the anti-opium party, who by this time had held a meeting and appointed Ch'u Pu-ch'eng as their head, and who were advocating such violent measures as the shooting of all persons found buying or smoking opium, and the forcible closing of the foreign shops, would be found quite impossible to deal with in the course of any negotiations to which they might be admitted. The only way to reconcile them would be to make it worth their while to withdraw their opposition, in view of the notorious character of their chief, who is generally credited by the local Chinese with having amassed 1,000,000 taels during his tenure of office. But the authorities of Chekiang are already so hard put to find money for administrative and military expenditure that they could not spare any for such a purpose, unless some fresh source of revenue could be found. This prompted my suggestion that if a substantial portion of the increased taxation on Indian opium were to be credited to Provincial Governments against their annual contributions towards the loans and indemnity, they would have a direct incitement to refrain from hindering the trade.\n\nIn this connection I should mention that I had been confidentially informed by Ezra junior that the prohibition of opium in Chekiang early this year had been brought about by the refusal of the opium guild to pay the local Government a sum of 100 taels a-chest; and that sums varying from 50 to 100 taels a-chest are actually paid to the Governments of several provinces to secure immunity for the trade. The extra cost is obviously borne by the consumer, who in the case of Indian opium can only be the well-to-do Chinese, for the poorer classes can clearly not afford to pay several taels an ounce for it as at present.\n\nHowever irregular such exactions may be, the opium dealers can well afford to pay them, as they amount, at the ruling prices of Indian opium, to no more than from 3 to 5 per cent. of the wholesale value of the drug. The effect in general is to restrict its sale to all but a very small section of the Chinese people, and that is mostly the non-productive class which is probably able to escape the taxation so much felt by the poorer elements of the Chinese population.\n\nIf there is some probability that a solution of the present deadlock in Chekiang will be found in a similar arrangement between the opium guild and the authorities, I should not be surprised if the protestations of the anti-opium party were to be appeased before long.\n\nMr. Wên has admitted both to Sir Everard Fraser and to myself that he was well aware of the violation of the opium agreement by Chekiang. He called on me on the 14th instant and gave me to understand that the question now depended upon instructions being received from the Central Government. He said that the matter was no longer one for local negotiations and asked me to inform Mr. Ezra that the proposed conference should be considered as cancelled. Unfortunately, it is generally very difficult to obtain a clear and unmistakable statement from him, though he is a good English scholar and is a pleasant man to meet; but I have felt a little diffident as to whether I had rendered his statements correctly in my telegram to you of the 18th instant. I half understood him to mean that the Chekiang authorities have been pressing the Wai-chiao Pu to give them definite instructions as to how the opium agreement should be carried out. The one thing definite he did say was that the agreement should be carried out, and that the decision of the question now rested with the higher authorities, and was no longer one for local negotiation. I then reminded him that the opium merchants had offered to waive their claims for compensation if the matter was settled within a month, and that that period expired on the 29th November. He thought some arrangement might be arrived at by that time.\n\nI also took the opportunity to point out to him a somewhat curious result of the self-denying ordinance imposed upon the Chekiangese population by their recent rulers and inexperienced would-be reformers. It is notorious that trade is being affected to a serious degree by the fact that the wealthy Chinese have left their homes in large numbers for such places as Shanghai, Tien-tsin, and Hong Kong, where they feel more secure and can indulge their tastes for luxuries, and that a large number of them have not returned. It is a matter of public knowledge that, at present, the price of such luxuries as silks and furs is extraordinarily low at Hangchow. I am told also that trade at Kashing is not flourishing. Yet security has been to a great extent restored by this time.\n\nLocal Chinese assert that the reluctance of the rich to return to their homes is, to a considerable degree, due to the opium prohibition. Supplies of the drug are indeed brought into the province in small packages, chiefly by railway passengers, but these supplies are precarious and opium-smoking is attended with a certain amount of risk. The result is that many smokers who have taken up their abode at Shanghai prefer to remain there and indulge their habit in safety and comfort.\n\nOn the 11th instant the Russian consul-general informed Sir Everard Fraser that the Russian opium shop opened here was to be closed, and I understand that the Russian merchant, who left for Shanghai some time ago, has taken back his stock of opium. The British merchants still have their premises here and have not taken down their signboard, which did not specify the nature of the trade. They agreed with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs not to sell any more opium retail, but reserved the right to sell wholesale. No sales are, however, being effected; but I understand they are retaining the appearance of having premises here until the settlement of the opium question principally because they fear that the closing of their place will tend to bring down prices.\n\nOne rather peculiar feature of this incident has been that not a single official communication referring to it has been addressed to me by the tutu; the only case in which the local authorities approached me at all on the subject was that of the telegram sent to me by Mr. Wên. The conclusion I have drawn is that the tutu is not anxious to take action on his own account in regard to opium matters, and wishes to appear to yield only to instructions from the higher authorities.\n\nIt seems, as far as one can judge, almost probable that if definite instructions were to be issued now by the Central Government they would be carried out even in this province.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nV. L. SAVAGE.\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n**Note communicated to Sir J. Jordan by Wai-chiao Pu**\n\nOn the 4th November of this year the Wai-chiao Pu had the honour to receive a memorandum from His Majesty's Minister stating that His Majesty's Government held the view that the two questions of suppressing the cultivation of native opium and prohibiting the import of Indian opium were closely connected with each other, and requesting the issue of a presidential order reaffirming the sense of the Wai-wu Pu's telegram of last year.\n\nOn the 9th November they had the honour to receive a further memorandum on the subject of the retail sale of opium by British merchants at Hangchow stating that His Majesty's Minister was quite willing to comply with the request put forward by the Wai-chiao Pu if they would at once recirculate the instructions issued by the Wai-wu Pu last year, and order Chekiang to conform therewith.\n\nSome days ago the Wai-chiao Pu forwarded for the information and guidance of Kiangsi and other provinces copies of the original text of the Wai-wu Pu's circular...",
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        "content_text": "# ST. CUTHBERT Church of England TEMPERABLE SOCIETY, WEST HAMPSTEAD\n\nMI SE 37, Tordwych Road, 140 West Hampstead. N.W.  \nMarch 3rd 1914\n\nThe Hon. Lewis Harcourt. M. P. Colonial Office London.\n\nSir,  \nI beg to enclose resolution passed at our Society's meeting yesterday.  \nand venture to solicit your sympathetic consideration.\n\nYours faithfully,  \nMr. J. Phyatt  \nHon Sec.\n\nI assert that it will be sufficient.  \nDo not act, but deaf to their together and if anyone enquires if theirs has been received, say yes.\n\nJr. Collier 11.3.14  \nI take it that this means that even the bare acknowledgments which are sent on receipt of a communication from outsiders need not be sent in these cases.\n\nR4/2/44  \n7.1.14  \n3.14  \n6/3/14  \n9.  \n10.3.14  \n11.3.14  \n\nThere revolutions may hundreds - thousands \n\nwrote him in similar terms.  \nI \n\n`R4/2/44`  \n`7.1.14`  \n`3.14`  \n`6/3/14`  \n`9`  \n`10.3.14`  \n`E11.3.14`  \n`12/3/4`  \n`145`  \n`Arz 15.3.14`",
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        "content_text": "December 17, 1907.\n\n2 Chichester Street,\n5 George's Square.\n\n406 S.W.\n\nConstance Clarke was an Assistant Mistress at the Girls' High School, in my charge of Form I. from 1904 to 1905 when I was Mistress of that School.\n\nI take much pleasure in stating that I consider Miss Clarke one of the best teachers of young children whom I have known. Her lessons were interesting, and her pupils made steady & good progress, while her power of maintaining form discipline was most beneficial to the children under her charge.\n\nIn various spheres of action, while she herself is, I should say, highly educated & generally intelligent, Miss Clarke did some Secretarial work for me, superintended the family, taught most of the Geography in the school.\n\nOf her character I, as Head for many years, have had good opportunity of judging. She showed the same qualities of accuracy & ability - firm & reliable in maintaining discipline, prudent & kindly in her relations with others.\n\nIf I had to pick out her characteristics, I should say that her quickness of perception, unvarying courtesy would make her an acceptable member of any staff.\n\nAs to her actual attainments, I can speak further than that they well up to the Standard required. I can assert from my experience as Examiner in Oxford Locals, & as the Oxford Extension Lecturer, that her \"written English\" is fluent, even \"stylish\", & her conversation is interesting - neither heavy nor frivolous.\n\nC. L. Primrose, M.A.",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\n10239/15\n\nMary's Office\n\nMINUTE.\n\n308\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd March (No. 10275/15) regarding the internment of a German national, Robinson, on the 23rd March.\n\nMr. Harcourt, Mr. Aking, Sir G. Fiddes, Sir H. Just, Sir J. Anderson, and Lord Islington are to be informed.\n\nIt is alleged that the letter is partly composed of cipher.\n\n2 M. Harcourt + W. Sassert, for the consideration of Secretary Sir Edward Grey,\n\nthat Mr. Way may be instructed not to undertake any responsibility in the matter.\n\n(Signed) H.J. READ, the Under Secretary of State.",
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        "content_text": "Page 361\n\nC.O.\n\n17818\n\n[REG!] 79 APR 15\n\nC\n\nForeign\n\n1915\n\nHONG KONG\n\n17818.\n\nApium Paniciz\n\n...\n\n15th April. Praits of further\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n076\n\nCopy Printoto\n\nHong Kong Conf 20 April\n\n--Stails\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\n70\n\n23744\n\nB\n\nMi Cotturno\n\n...\n\nThe pation of\n\ncour\n\nJan 6 which I\n\nhase marked A is interesting especially\n\nwhen compared with Feb. 26 the\n\nfigures quoted Men's Hyra & hery\n\nare instructive. They assert\n\nlatter print that they did not get\n\nmore then so\n\nthe is\n\nchart in the non Chinese market for certificated opsioni intailing ator of chest. The tul huing\n\ntails 4500\n\nsughly 3/-, the importers assert that\n\n(£88,195). £81,088-13. 45,000. 12/18, A.E.W. (£107,000 1,907-51. 45,000, 13/14.\n\n\"They did not get more than £75 a chest",
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        "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",
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        "content_text": "## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Rank | Regt. | Age | Medical Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment. | O.U.T.C. Courses. | Present Locality. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O. 23 | Lieut. | 31 R.F.A. |  | Fair | 1 yr. in audit; 7 yrs. general accountancy; |  | London. |\n| D.O. 133 | Lieut. | 20 E. Surrey. |  | Good | 2 yrs. clerk Corn Exchange; 11 yrs. North British & Mercantile Ins. Co. Short time with Food Production Department, London. | [French] | London. |\n| D.O. 38 | Lieut. | Lancs. Fus. | 26 | Neurasthenia. | Ed. Nottingham Univ. 10 yrs. commercial experience-accounting, law, Metallurgy |  | Lancashire. |\n| D.O. 46 | 2nd Lieut. | 36 D.C.L.I. |  | Neurasthenia. | Ed. privately, 5 yrs. clerk to architects, Practised as masseur 3 yr. Knowledge of business routine. &c. Knowledge of mechanics and engineering Hald appointment under M. of M. (Finance Branch). |  | London |\n| D.O. 39 | Lieut | 36 R.O.A. |  | Good | M.Sc. Manchester, Physical and Chemical; M.A. London, Maths., head of Maths. Dept., Tech. Coll., East Ham and head of Math. Dept., Tech, Inst., Swindon, Desires post in Technical Dept. | [French] | London. |\n| D.O. 165 | Lieut. | 23 Wolah. |  | Fair |  |  |  |\n| D.O. 184 | Lieut. | 1st R.D.C. |  | Neurasthenia. | Ed. privately. Preparing for scholastic profession. At beginning of hostilities passed into Sandhurst. | [French] | Cheshire. |\n| D.O. 84 | Lieut. | 29 R.W.F. |  | Neurasthenia. | Army 1907-18, Employed as head-clerk, and later as Q.-M. |  | Wales. |\n| D.O. 186 | Lieut | 3+ B.I.R. |  | Malaria | Ed. Westminster and B.M.C., Sandhurst entered army 1868, retired 1888, rejoined 1915, retired 1917. | [French] | Wales. |\n| D.O. 68 | 2nd Lieut. | 21 R. Sasser. |  | L. leg Amputated. | Ed. Cambridge Univ. Knowledge of motor cycle engines. |  | Surrey. |\n|  | Lieut. | W. Yorke, | 27 | Good | Ed. Harrogate, 3 yrs. apprenticed Gibson, Leeds, fellmonger. 1 yr. traveller in Canada, wool trade. Commercial experience. |  | Yorkshire. |\n| D.O. 84 | 2nd Lieut. | 20 M.G.C. |  | Good | Ed. privately. Royal Irish Constabulary until joining Army. | [French] | Ireland. |\n| D.O. 189 | 2nd Lieut. | 1 K.O.Y.L.I. |  | Fair |  |  |  |\n| D.O. 97 | Major | 52 R.F.A. |  | Good | Ed. Harrow; retired, 1907, major, rejoined 1915, retired 1917 private Sec. engineering firm; man. dir. Thomas & Son, boot mant., Importers of British luxury articles, fancy leather, silver, electro-plate, works of art, etc. | [French, Spanish, German] |  |\n| D.O. 104 | Capt. | 28 Yorks. |  | Heart Weak | Ed. Sedbergh. 2 yrs. L. & Y. Rly. 2 yrs. Canada fruit farming. 1 yr. in flour mill in Yorkshire. Interested in forestry. |  | Surrey. |\n| D.O. 195 | Lieut. | Ferox. | 21 | Sciatica | Ed. privately. 1 yr. fruit and general farming, British Columbia. 3 yrs. Asst. to Fabion and Birkbeck Land Agents, Norwich, |  |  |\n| D.O. 197 | 2nd Lieut. | 21 North. Fus. |  | Good | Ed. Ipswich. 10 yrs. Reg. Army. 1 yr. analytical chemist for assaying and cyaniding. 4 yrs. manager of cattle and general estate, Costa Rica for United Fruit Co., Boston. 10 yrs. manager fruit farm, Worcestershire. Rejoined at outbreak of war, resigned commission 1915. Aeronautical inspector for 18 mos, then asst. torpedo store officer, Portsmouth, |  | Westmorland. |\n| P.U. 204 |  |  |  |  | Ed. Eton. 33 yrs. Reg. Army, retired 1918. Knowledge of administration. |  |  |\n| D.O. 106 | Lieut. | 26 R.Lancaster |  | Good |  |  | Lancashire. |\n| D.O. 207 | Lieut. | 60 A.S.C. |  | Good | Ed. privately, and Technical Coll., Durham. Courses in history, geography, arith. Left Coll. to join Army. Short time exp. Ministry of Munitions. | [French] | Sussex. |\n| D.O. 112 | Capt. | 49 Notte. & Derby. |  | Neurasthenia. | Joined army 1879, retired 1916; sound knowledge of stores and store-keeping. |  | London. |\n| D.O. 227 | Capt. | 45 R. Sussex. |  | Good | Ed. Lewes Coll, matric. 1894; 22 yrs. manager of general agency, in mercantile service. | [Hindustani] | Sussex. |\n| D.O. 229 | Lieut. Col. | 64 R.I.F. |  | Good | Ed. Edinburgh Univ.; 20 yrs. Reg. Army retired and rejoined 1914; employed on Staff until 1918. | [French, German] | London. |\n| D.O. 115 | Colonel | 55 D.G. |  | Good | Ed. Edinburgh & Glasgow Univ. 39 yrs. Reg. Army. 3 yrs. Staff, France, present War. Good organiser and disciplinarian. |  | Aberdeen. |\n| D.O. 229 | Lieut.-Col. | 64 R.L.F. |  | Good | 4 yrs. audit clerk, H., T. Salmon & Co., chartered accountants. | [French] | London. |\n| D.O. 119 | 2nd Lieut. | 25 |  | Good | Ed. Dulwich. Interested in analytical chemistry, photography. Not much business experience. |  | London. |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Ed. privately, 10 yrs. exp. as clerk and book-keeper in firm of billiard-table manufacturers. General office routine, |  | Northumberland. |\n\nH.Q. D.O./5.-29.7.18. \nE.Q. D.O.5.-29.7.18.",
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        "content_text": "truly disguised plans from home friends;\n\n82\n\n31 4\n\nThe suspension should ask Coma that are China under a bigger to pay for H. C. amcent of indemnity then she would otherwise have,\n\n41.\n\nthen it is disposed of by the fact that China did make a grant to the university in 1909;\n\nthere is very little chance of anybody being able to squeeze any money out of the banks except the banks leapt Pekin post.\n\nlis however du ou have used to go into the question, China Association be approaching the F.O., au vaid sassert that you might. Got would Fo. semi-officially what they are Scring.\n\nto Jary We do not o to the China Commissioner. Grouse keyw What. H. M.G. may be saying to about the indemnity though core way “be sure that if they get any of it, then will not part with it to H. Kong.\n\nGG 9 Feb 21\n\n29275/09\n\nDear Dr. Earle,\n\n20th June, 1921,\n\nMr. Food asks me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th inst. regarding the bearing of the Boxer Indemnity on British education in China, and to say that he will certainly look into the matter.\n\nDr.\n\nYours truly,\n\nEarle.\n\nBakar afar 7.0. os inquad. It letter Atash 7.0. bi her Harmsworth four by signatur. S.W. 11.7. aroner.\n\nPage XX\n\n \n\nwas not found, however, the content is already formatted accordingly. Here is the revised response in HTML as requested:\n\ntruly disguised plans from home friends;\n\n82\n\n31 4\n\nThe suspension should ask Coma that are China under a bigger to pay for H. C. amcent of indemnity then she would otherwise have,\n\n41.\n\nthen it is disposed of by the fact that China did make a grant to the university in 1909;\n\nthere is very little chance of anybody being able to squeeze any money out of the banks except the banks leapt Pekin post.\n\nlis however du ou have used to go into the question, China Association be approaching the F.O., au vaid sassert that you might. Got would Fo. semi-officially what they are Scring.\n\nto Jary We do not o to the China Commissioner. Grouse keyw What. H. M.G. may be saying to about the indemnity though core way “be sure that if they get any of it, then will not part with it to H. Kong.\n\nGG 9 Feb 21\n\n29275/09\n\nDear Dr. Earle,\n\n20th June, 1921,\n\nMr. Food asks me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th inst. regarding the bearing of the Boxer Indemnity on British education in China, and to say that he will certainly look into the matter.\n\nDr.\n\nYours truly,\n\nEarle.\n\nBakar afar 7.0. os inquad. It letter Atash 7.0. bi her Harmsworth four by signatur. S.W. 11.7. aroner.",
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        "content_text": "1 Powell L \n\nTelephone C. 457 \n\nUNDER NEW MANAGEMENT \n\nLADIES' \n\nLtd \n\nCHILDREN'S DEPTS. \n\nwe \n\nA \n\nTo make room for our New Goods, \n\nholding are SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE in these Departments \n\nColossal reductions regardless \n\nof cost. \n\nBe sure you pay us \n\na visit during this week, August 22nd to August 29th. \n\nAN ENDOWMENT INSURANCE POLICY \n\nwill enable your family to redeem the mortgage \n\non your house if you die, and \n\nwill enable you to pay it yourself if you live. INSURE WITH \n\nCHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD. \n\nAll Clauses of Life Insurance Business Transacted. \n\nLife Assurance Department. \n\n1. C. 1121. \n\nBt, George's Building. \n\nATTRACTIVE HANDBAGS \n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS \n\nIN \n\nBATICK LEATHER \n\nSILK & SUEDE Also for Afternoon Wear and Many Dainty Novelties \n\nfor \n\nEvening Wear \n\nSMART NEW \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING \n\n“PHOMENE” \n\nFIRE APPLIANCES. \n\n\"BRITISH THEREFORE BEST** \n\nTwo Gallon Type. Extinguishers as shown above are absolutely necessary in districts where water facilities are limited. Avoid risks and install \"Phomene.\" \n\nAsk for Particulars. Sole Agents \n\nMUSTARD & CO. 16-17 Connaught Road Central Phone 1126. \n\nACKNOWLEDGEMENT. \n\nPOST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926. \n\nPage 9 \n\nSHANGHAI ARMS SEIZURE. \n\nEX-ARMY OFFICER \n\nCHARGED. \n\nFRENCHMAN, GERMAN, AMERKAN AND CHINESE INVOLVED. \n\n(Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nShanghai, August 26. \n\nWEST RIVER PIRACY. \n\nSTANDARD OIL AGENT CAPTURED. \n\nTHE S.S. KWANG HUNG SEIZED AT KAU KONG. \n\nCANTON CHANGES. \n\nEFFECTS OF LIAO CHUNG-KAI'S DEATH. \n\n(From Correspondent.) \n\nCanton. August 23. It appears that the assassination of Liao Chang-kai, the late Bolshevik leader in Canton, is causing some serious changes in the political situation here. \n\nLu \n\n(An Occasional Correspondent.) \n\nWuchow, August 21. When the strike came into effect cutting off communication between \n\nIn connection with the French \n\nSongkong and Wuchow, the \n\nYau \n\naddition to the resignation of Wu \n\nder to recall him. Alternative \n\npolice seizure of arms and ammunition \n\nCompany of Hongkong Techen \n\nthe Police Commissioner, y, it can dismiss him directly. \n\ntion, estimated in value at $46,000 \n\nWuchow transferred several \n\nand the detention of Mei Kwang- \n\nThere are a number of cases in \n\nthere have been arrested Colonel \n\ntheir agents dying the Chinese \n\na Cantonese military consan \n\nwhich a diplomatic agent has \n\nJames Christie, a British \n\nany danger to the Canton-Wuchow \n\nservice. \n\nder, and several other military \n\nher recalled at the request of \n\nver, retired. Relegation \n\nCameral Daily \n\nadduhs have been maintain \n\nand police officers, as reported \n\nthe State in which he resides \n\nhavies \n\n15sch, alina Charles A. \n\ned. The weng Hung left Canton today, the case has also \n\ncatad for a breach of this rule. In \n\nNeed, an 1804, the Spanish Minister to \n\nperson & Frothman \n\nwatert ss usual, for Wuchow, striving of the City Executive Committee. \n\nAmerleen named on Tuesday morning August 18, the resignation of C. C. Wa, Chief \n\nthe United States, attempted to \n\nChrist formerly in the castonte \n\nser- Kan Keg at 9 are the same \n\nvenho tendered his resignation \n\nres- bribe a newspaper to publish \n\nan article in favour of Spain. with \n\nported to be the secretary of \n\nber of pirate ware travelling as its \n\nto accord protection to the de- \n\nroference to a dispute in \n\nGeneral Wong Tse-hua in whose \n\npassengers. When they opened fire \n\ncease high oficial press between \n\ntwe exuntries, aslan were discovered \n\n340,000 \n\nsimultaneously in various parts of; \n\nen the United Sutes anked for \n\nincluding a quantity of counter- \n\nthe ship, several steam launches \n\ntang party said to he suspected \n\nhis recall. For years later, the \n\ntatt tns which the police assert \n\ncame out from the river banks \n\n2 United States were again \n\nquesting the recall of a Minister \n\nas \n\nthe purchase money. The \n\nsarmmanded the steamer. In \n\nAmerican, French and British \n\nWix.] showong 1our \n\nThis time of Mr. Jackson, \n\nThe Courts when the eases \n\nBritish Ambasador, the charge \n\nbeing that in certain toaste given \n\nat pablle dinners he had charged. \n\nBREACH OF TRUST. \n\nAnother member of the Kucmin- \n\nby the authorities is \n\nCheckman \n\nJai, an aviator, formerly District Magistrate of Taungabau and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yur-ken. I \n\nis understood \n\nwith \"Talsehood and duplicity.\" \n\nSAPORE MAN GETS HEAVY \n\nand he well-to-do. \n\nAfter deliberation, the Ambasea- \n\nthe American administration \n\ndor was recalled, but the British Government duly placed on \n\nvocord that \"His Majesty's Guy- ernment has not marked with \n\nMrs. Lorne Murphy, of the \n\nany expression of displeasure \n\nStation Hot Kowloon, who has \n\nSENTENCE. \n\n· Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nSingapore. August 25. \n\nMr. Compton Cooper, ex-ciskier \n\nTa pirates nas ap apathat \n\nan order has been issued for \n\nsengers and by examining the \n\nthe arrest of Jai, who bas now \n\nhazds of the passengers made \n\ndis- tiretion between the working \n\nappeared, as the revolver used \n\nby the assasain in shooting Liau \n\nAs found with coarse hands were \n\nChunu-kai is Rileyed to being \n\nreleased, \n\nWounded Editor Dies, \n\ntuned. Those with lady dngers\" \n\nwere do- \n\nChan Chau-lam, who was with \n\nashore and the best was \n\nscrunchly \n\nLizo Coung-si and received for \n\ncleaned out. The Captcha was \n\nious wounds ciro, passed away \n\nThe Captain is a Bri \n\nalso taken. \n\njust returned by the imprese \n\nof does not appear to have \n\ncon- of Messra Job Liste And Co. \n\nWand has bees \n\nwary offlsiently for three days in a very critical \n\ntish ahjust noted \"Chen Kam,\" \n\nbital, where he had ocen lying \n\nThis tnorning at the Kung Yee \n\nCanada, destres to convey her \n\nmitted any international offence \n\nconvicted of a breach of trust \n\nin sincere thanks to Mr. H. P. White \n\nagainst the United \n\nthe navigation of this condition. \n\nStates,\" the sum of $4,000 \n\na yetenosil to meble steamer for the past several \n\nditor of the China News in Hong \n\ndueting Mr. Wiarson, Cant. Turnball \n\nAgain in 1871 the United States \n\nthree months hard labour in add \n\nChan was formerly \n\nand all officers of the Douglas \n\nrequests the recall of the \n\ntiva is a tire of $500 with the \n\nPears. All told about fisty \n\nDoug and after his paper was \n\nSteamatip Chowany and friends \n\nRussian Minister, fox inturail- \n\nernative of six mutha' ingrison, \n\nsengers were held captive. The \n\ni pressed he came back to Canton \n\nwe attended the fanem of her \n\nterence in its internal affairs, \n\nart in default as payment... \n\nsteamer was then allowed to \n\nand became an editor of the Min \n\nlato hachawdd und sent wreaths, \n\nand whilst most people will \n\nremen- \n\nber the comparatively recent \n\nWachon on the night of August 20th, \n\njast twants-war hours tale. $120,000 \n\nRansom Asked. Among those taken captive \n\nin her recent sad bereavement. \n\ncase of Dr. Danba, who was recalled by Austria from the \n\nThe Borning Post \n\nWEDNESDAY, Aveer 26, 1025. \n\nComrade Karakhan, \n\nground that he proposed to \n\nhis, government plane ic engineeri \n\nstrikes in American steelworks, \n\nwitich \n\nmanufacturing \n\nWern \n\nmunitions of war. A case of mutual dismissal of Ministara by \n\nFOOD SUPPLIES. \n\nPORE, MUTTON AND BEEF PLENTIFUL. \n\nReduced Demand. \n\nNeo Jia Pag. He was also an in- \n\nfacial ember of the Central Executive Committee \n\nof \n\nthe Kuomintang. \n\nof \n\nwei now chairman of the Brein- \n\nSiner the death of Mr. Liao \n\na number of prominent ciftens \n\nof Cheng-kai, the Soviel Representa- \n\ntire in Canton, who is now High \n\ntravelling as a third class passanger \n\nAdvisor in the Nationalist Govern- \n\nto avoid recognition, as he le well \n\nknow on the Wert River. Mr. Chap- \n\nof a man to succeed Liao in the \n\nLong in the Wochow agent of the \n\ntasks which the deceased and M. \n\nSuch har ter the improvement \n\nlard Oil Company and has \n\nBorngin had been jointly perform- \n\nWe have recently become so \n\nby Great Thilair and Spain in the \n\nfood stastion during the large \n\nancial de cesto. \n\naccustomed to the spectacle of \n\noccurred in 1848. Aravclution \n\npast for days, that restrictions \n\nofmediately recoguised and was \n\nsentative bax found Wang Ching- \n\nHe was ing. So far the Russian repre- \n\nSpain the Soviet Government \n\nviolating reverent in \n\nwas the slaughter if native rattle \n\nbave infurewd as spon payenere \n\ninternational law and exploiting! \n\ni wn to have the spinpality of \n\nzou been removed and the supply \n\n$120,000 he would be immediately \n\ntive Committee of the Nationalist \n\nthe huden diplomatic system \n\nthe British Forestry in a class \n\ntopping the denialet. His assistant and wife \n\nGovernment, the called parson. \n\nits-uture, TARE Tho rucent \n\nPalmerston. I was also \n\nConsumption is being that of \n\nwere wish him. The wife \n\nRussian known that Mr. Bulwer, the Bri- \n\nnormal times, owing probably to the \n\nreleased but the assistant was held. \n\nkecs Conference in the Eden-- \n\nrevolations of the \n\nwas When Wang atleaded the Wer- \n\nCorrespondent to the North \n\n(ish Mtalster at Madrid, het \n\nof people in the Mr. Chap- \n\ntour has been 1 for a \n\nChina Daily News, concerning the same tows as Lord Pabner \n\nCloux, bat uriously cough, this \n\nnumber of weeks non after a long \n\nterany a large number of Wham- \n\ncioual Association Buliding \n\nya- the Soviet's Ambassador to \n\nfan, although he had carefully \n\nis neve instint in beef \n\nBras D \n\nstay in Canton was \n\nreforming \n\nrape Codete escorted him. \n\nKong Paking, end his activities in \n\ntrained from expressing those \n\nany other mest. \n\nWarhow far trestuent. \n\nYing-fan promotiog Bolshevism in China, \n\nviews or from acting upon then \n\nKwangcharwad is now maintain. \n\nzasunod Other taken prisoner inclufofee of Conumissar of finance of \n\nnecasion very little surprise in \n\nany way during the revolting \n\na regalar supply of pigs and \n\non. Chiu Lau-tong, the Principal \n\nthe Provinia Government and \n\nMinister of Finance of the Nation. \n\nundoubtedly have to he a reckon \n\nexpert dismissed him, and return \n\nof more than 200, \n\nmer School of the Christian and \n\nis slat Government corrarently, \n\nand Palmeraton, reply, which \n\nexceets that for any one day \n\nlonary Alliance at Warhow \n\narissed the Spanish Minister in \n\nsince the commencement of the \n\nten Chinese preachers of this \n\nmia- ing these breaches of the \n\nusers onder. The distaiesal of \n\nLode. There are at Jones \n\n1,000sion Mr. Wong Ueno \n\nsut Mr. Lel \n\nAlavies the deceased Lino. \n\nof civilised nations, it is well to have \n\nou veront in what parti- \n\nSackville, the British Ambassa- \n\npigs in stock and this is being \n\nKip-chi. cats Comrade Karakhat has \n\ndor to Washington, in 1888 \n\nseems added a daily. \n\nThe abject of the attach \n\nan this. \n\ning with Russia one day, respect \n\nAUE.UUT \n\nagain offended, assuming what to \n\nbave been rather a straining \n\nNative cattle supplies exceed \n\nthe vessel serns to have been to \n\nobtain seama winest incontestable \n\nat the international right given \n\ndement and the dealers may now \n\na large shipment of money that \n\nwas During and market without restraint \n\nsupposed to re aboard for one f \n\nthat the documents published in \n\nto an offended State. \n\nHad \n\nTHE SANITARY BOARD). \n\nNEW BY-LAWS ADOPTEL. \n\n-- \n\nthe \n\nM. N. Smith presided over a \n\nthe North China Daily News are \n\nthe American presidential elee \n\nSanghat is applying sheep as \n\nare the lees; hanks, Silver \n\nicin and peeting of the Sanitary Bourd \n\nhet authentic. In their handling \n\nof \n\nthe situation in China the Bol- \n\nwas formerly British subject, \n\namount of local mutton is to be \n\ndomand in Wachow later and \n\nsince the embargo on wall cap \n\nfront. T. Groney, Dr. I. W. Tae. Dr. \n\nthe greatest skill and efficiency. \n\nThey have utilised every little \n\nhow he was to give his \n\nvoted but poultry eat eves \n\nshow a tendency whether Mr. Cleveland, if 23- \n\nA \n\nto increase. Vagetables and \n\na bank notes and anali coin have \n\ngood example of this is the atti- \n\nelectal, would support a policy \n\nage he obtained at little more \n\nbeen arriving daily from Canton. \n\ntude conveyed by their Embassy \n\nof friendliness to England. Lord \n\nto oimal rises and generally at \n\nPaking. The Foreign Powers \n\nSackville replied to vague and \n\nspeaking, the situation is extremely \n\nare represented in China by \n\nneral terms that any satiating \n\nand is cally becoming \n\nthe other more se- \n\nfavouring Ministers only, and not by \n\nfull pecly Ambassadors. The explanation \n\ncountry would inse popularity\" \n\nof this is the disturbed conditiou \n\nthat he boliavad Mr. Cleveland \n\nIt is a fact that a large hand \n\nat plates have been operating in the \n\nteretaty), Mr. D. Tavies \n\nand Mr. G. Kennedy kiten also \n\npresent. \n\nreserving \n\nThe dret by laws governing fond \n\nestablish pools and seruted water \n\nmanufactorios CAIDS months. The leader of this \n\nremarking that there was \n\nup for consideration, the chairman \n\nKau Kong weinig for everal \n\nSPORTS COATS \n\nof China, which robs the country \n\nwas desirous of maintain \n\nEnture is lisaged in an editorial \n\nCanton and Muceo. She is called \n\nBoar went into exilee. \n\nIN \n\nLIGHT-WEIGHT \n\nTWEEDS \n\nand WOOLLENS \n\nHAVE ARRIVED; \n\nALSO \n\nCREPE RUBBER SOLED \n\nGOLF BROGUES. \n\nLADIES' GOLF CLUBS. We have a large selection by leading makers. Prices $6 & $7. \n\nLANE, CRAWFORD'S \n\nPEDDER STREET, \n\nLADIES \n\nSALON \n\nhe \n\nIx reported to ese to be a women \n\nsession regarding them who frequently vita fongkong hocght it would he better if the \n\nof its full internation statusing friendly relations with Groat \n\nin the Gentini Chin Port. \n\nThey theyhinese is affectionate terms \n\nwas im-paper pins ont that the opinion \n\nThe Pirate Queen. She ensure \n\nwas no diariasier they might: When the Soviet turned its \n\nBritain, although it attention to Cbica, however, it \n\npossible to predict his course \n\nis held by Chinese that they can \n\ntainly seria now to be at leent \n\nthe \n\nDr. Petrse paid at the 'sat meet- \n\nrealised \n\nSHANGHAI INCIDENT, \n\nhe then ca bloc \n\nIf \n\nshould be made and these rensals \n\n[ead now been digrala bed. \n\nthat for Bulshevis beforehand.\" \n\nThis correspon- \n\ngo on strike jug! when they \n\nplease! \"qseen of the Wajk\" \n\naround Kaighe xare reasons why \n\nthe by-law \n\npurposes Peking would be the \n\ndie becoming known to the \n\nand when they come back \n\nreceive Kong. most important capital in the United States Government, \n\nFord their old jobs again and be paid \n\nworld. Accordingly the Sovint \n\nSackville was discussed by them, \n\nin full for the time when no work \n\nappointed as Chinese Ambassa- \n\nIt seems imposible to justify \n\nwas, done, a of which, the vaper \n\ndor (and not Mister) one of the \n\naction of the United States \n\nadds, ia pact and purest of the \n\nIts most capable agents. \n\nin this stance, since diplomatic \n\npresent Chisens belief that they \n\nA resnit of this, since usage and common sense allkej \n\ncan do what they wian with \n\nfor Ambassarlor takes precedence \n\nof sume that twn States wish to \n\ncizners, shoot them and all the \n\nMinister, Comrade Karakhan \n\nremain in friendliness with one \n\nrest of it, but retaliation in the \n\nwas placed at the outect in an \n\nanother until the contrary is \n\npart of the foreigners becomes a \n\nexceedingly favourable position, \n\nproved. These cases Ulustrate heinous crime. Whilst that state \n\nTo neutralise the advantage thus \n\nthe strictness with which a \n\nStatement correctly \n\nAs \n\nMER \n\nCalerpreted \n\nthe \n\nITALIAN MINISTER'S CONFERENCE. \n\nShanghal, Angust 20. On the 21st the Italian Minister called upon Shay Jai un stating that the Diplomatic Corps was asiti \n\nOn Dr. Macgown intimating that he wishna to discuss the by- laws nevemag the quality of water used in making aurated waters and le the matter of cleaning belts before they wwe died a second time, the chairman moved thus the Board go into committee, which was immediately done. \n\nOn the Board resuming, the by- \n\nlaws, siended, wern adopted. \n\nat the present time prueervan its Chinese viewpoint before the desirous of a speedy settlement af cleverly and legitimately obtain integrity from the activities of strike, is questionable whether the Shanghai incident and esposed el by the Bolsheviks, \n\nthe foreign diplomate agents accre that opinion is generally helt arst to negotiate the restoration of Ministers of the Powers reited to it. Since Gains wishes longkong to-day. In fack, the Mixed Court, leaving the other presented at Peking retained thei \n\nto be ensidered a member of pride ourselves on the fact that Heme to be discussed systematical Diplomatic Corps, which at the Farily of Nations, and is the strikers who have returnedy. Shum Jaalus priznised to take ority of 95005 per cent has been through the agency of the senior therefore bound by international have been taught a lesson they will the prosal into consideration-produced by the Hoope electrolyti Minister (who is at present the law to respect the usages of cot men farget \n\nIt is true that Tsui Wan Yat Po. Traian Minister) on all qacations \n\ncame back affecting the relations of the civilized States, its obvious when more of them: \n\nPowers with China. The duties ourze would be to investigate they had the audacity to ask for of diplomatic agent may be immediately these documents their full pay. but in no se, 20 de5ned as the prosecution of bia which inplicate the Soviet Am-far as our knowledge gou as country's interests diplomatical-assador en extensively, and, this conceded. \n\nly with the foreign government and the charges true, its only \n\nOn course is to dismiss him unma \n\ndiately. privileged \n\nAbinina chaited to have a \n\nje pessors, and is stated to differ \n\nvery materially from the ordinary \n\nPEKING UNIVERSITY. \n\n90 per cent aluminion sheet It is Parók shorter. Ik zemina notarnish \n\nOn the Aber haul! IN FAVOUR OF COMMUNISM. god uery were given the order! \n\nof the boot. Thanks to tas fra \n\natkiude zdoyted by the Govern \n\nThe \n\njed in air a long time, and is hee such greatly increased resistance lne szida anit other chemicals that Paklog, Angue: 8. \n\njis endines & week'a imuaersion in Minister of Education droolric acid with only slight ment and the community general Chang Szchas, stated at the Gabi effect, although the ordinary shest Ar. the retioned stikers have niet meeting that the Peking Uni-metal is hsscived completely in been completely disillusioned, and veralty was in favour of voor bath The chic parity there is a strict rule of inter- The important point of what thewe very much doubt whether they; uism and desired to sevOr connec-contained in the commercial TEKS national law, forbiding him to employer is going to do to safe-1 will be as anxious to ge ont agala' tion with the Ministry of Edutainhure is epper, the iron and silicon interfere in the hiternal politics guard houself from strikes in the uz they were ou this occasion, tion-Fun Wan Yat Po. \n\nhaing is very stall amousk \n\nio which he is accredited. account of the position which he enjoys in consequence \n\nof these duties, The Strike and After. \n\nOVER-NIGHT CABLES. \n\nANGLO-FRENCH CONVERSATIONS. \n\n\"PARTICULARLY CORDIAL ATMOSPHERE.\" \n\nFrance Asks Equal Treatment With Italy. \n\nParis, August 35. While expressing satisfaction at the \"parifcaleriy cordial etmospbare\" in the conversations between Mr. Churchill and M. Calllaux, the new siapers continue to urge the necessly of speciai | consideration for Prince. \n\nL'Ecko de Paris's London outrespondent anys that M Caillaux | insisted that Mr. Churchill give auge vgual treatment with Ealy. The correspondant hopes the impression will not gain ground that Britain it using the question of debts gain Italy's good graces. \n\nLe Petit Journal, referring to the heavy eenditions\" which the United States imposed on Balzium and the suggestion of the Limited Status impose harsher term on France, says that the foreign press and public appear to forget that all this wi crente a sale of economie inossibilĥouter. \n\nLondon, August 25. \n\nM. Caillaux spent the morning at the French Embassy with his experte. M. Caillax taler visited fancices in the city, meeting Mr. Churchill at the Teasury Tata is the afternoon.- \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925. \n\nTHE \n\nCLEAR OUT \n\nBOLSHEVISTS. \n\nGREAT MASS MEETING URGES HOME GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION. \n\nPROMPT AND DECISIVE MEASURES URGED. \n\n\"THE CANGER MUST BE RUTHLESSLY CUT OUT.\" \n\nOpposition Speaker Heckled, \n\nA \n\nThe haii \n\nA peene of great enthusiasth we witnessed at the Theatre Royal last evening when a great mass meeting of Hongkong residents aicpted, practically uniously, a roselation urging the Home Gov- srument to deliver an affam to the Canton authorities. was crowded, fally one thousand people being present. The addresses made in support of the resolation were frequently ami fourty ap planded, but one speaker who ventured to votes appcaition, met with good deal of beckling. The proceedings, which lastet for chise \n\nBritish National Antham. upon two hours, were brought to a conclusion with the singing withe \n\nThe meeting has provided over the Governments at Hors \n\nHis \n\nthe spot. who know and realise; the exbrerse govily of the eitis- Etia (Applause). \n\nThe telegram we send to-night,. therefiae, whatever may be sɛid! jlo speechee, about! avolii any. \n\nthing like viient language in the Text and confine itself to isspres. give statements of farts and such [deinands as ure reasonably set Forth and yousible of viiment. is with this object, in view that the suggested telegram, which has tor sutne time appeared in the Press, that eigin receive matitve: gonsideration by you ali, hat been most carofully druited, and 2 trustj ithet ne material alteration to it I will be called for \n\nWaking up at Lask To epits of all that has been telegraphed, until a few days ako It compelled to helieve that the Government at Home still consi- dar that the liongkozy aus South China troubles are all part of the \"China onesting,\" whton propej after the \"Shanghet weilent\" or are bound up with that Sheldonti \n\nWhile M. aflux was busy at the French Embassy Mr. Church by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyank, Fixuellency the fovernor in eirag and the Young Chine Nationalist was similarly engaged with his experts at the Treasury ludying the whe was supported on the plat upon this letter had authorised me Movement, and can be settled by French viewpoint. Owing to last atinute changes in the plans om by Sir Hoary Pollock, Hou to quote that portion of his letter cuees or socle special envy, hut Fon-csestations in Poking, confer- Ceilex week the Treasury at wes to sen Mr. Chrehjli.--Rezston i My, IT, W. Bird, Hon. Mr. G. G. \n\nwhich refers intimately to thisise recent shipping proclamations Alabaster, K., Mr. A. Macgowan pronunciation at the Canton Club: or the Canton authorities son at: (Swab), Mr. W. & Bailey, Mr. \n\nagree with Sie Jane Jamieson's Inst to be waking it up. Heat J. Owen Hughes, fr. W. A. Towies lection to the thily Pres art-hear). and others. \n\nfele, and should like you to an- \n\nOBITUARY. \n\nMAJOR GENERAL REGINALD C. W. E. MITFORD. \n\nThe death is announced of Mejut General Regina Beverley Mitford.--Mouder. \n\nDoes His Majesty's Government; The Chairman, before proceed-derstand that consider that still utterly disbelieve the reapon ing with the business for which his present Juncture Sir Jamesponsible statenate made in the the meeting bed bean culled, said: Jamieson has done everything any stream of eables of the gravest 1 desire to straighten out an incl- body in that position could do ature by the Governor of this dent connecteit with our original and I should greatly regret any Colony, and all the responsible! meeting. You will remuetaber that dea that there is a lack of entles already on the spot refer \n\nThe trouble red to, or do they seriously profess! KC that they are cuable any longer \n\nfiere \n\nof because \n\npared to shanden, the lights of in protect, or at any rate are pre-j British subjects secured to taem \n\nRoen at Waterloo Manor, Hants, February 20 \n\nthat neither General Mitford was the youngest son of the late 31. Join Words that original public noting operation bereen va barrister at law and the grandson of the historien of Greece. Based ot only a resolviton of \n\nanything, confidence in Sir Juanes Jamieson, do was educated at Rugby and was appointed en eusten in the India His Baleaty's Consul General inhing that other of us ca Army in 1855. He served in the Indian Mutiny during which he was Cantan, but we paid has a high the only people who can set severely wercdel and was mentioned in despatches, receiving the tribute. After that he was grill. His Majesty's Government G. G. O. He was recommended for the Victoria Cross by Lord Clyde and in the public Press. da October 29, 1358 Ia i Nogi West Frontier Expeditions, fericism was undebtedly largely and later in the Afghan War, be gained distinction and eventually due, if not entirely, to a sun- retired in 1826. He was a craui travetter and had toured the Orient-derstanding, wad I feel that it is Ladies and gentlemen, on the Authorities \n\nThe Chairman, proceeding, said: Ameries and civilised Karope and had pablished a number of books due to His Majesty's Consul 27th dealing with the countries visited and in the subject of the fran Geners in Canton that that itaing \n\nJuly Just Al \n\nMutiny. \n\nthis Theatre. \n\nRose Edouin, Actress. \n\nLandor, August 25. \n\nThu \n\n(Applause). \n\nThe Chairman's Speech. \n\nbeld ip \n\nmset- \n\nsolemn trsaties and will they supiusly automir, to the Javest hi-j Rofent challenges to Great Britain| of the present Canton Boisberlat \n\nI know well the difuuhtes they so hayo jo face in wont of unanimity: tion should be definitely cleared up crowded that very us ourd not and help from other \"Powers,\" an ad this meeting (Applanon). I may get in-smugst other thinge-His well as fire great industrial pro say that before leaking this state-Majesty's Government was urged bleins they have to deal willi et The death is announced of the cetogezarian actress Rose Fdouin muut I submitted it, because it is a strongly worded and gravely Home, but, unless this Canton who toured with the first English company in India and the Far Eartperry the Government to the considered rosetation that situation is tackled seriously and managed by her husband, Mr. Lewis---Rastor, \n\nINDIAN COTTON DUTIES. \n\nJAPAN CHARGED WITH DUMPING, \n\nGovernor, and I bave He consent İshould immediately inform the at once, not only will Brilish juler- ot only to make the stavovases but i de forte Governmet in Canton asts here and in South China be bis vermismos also to quote some that unlove it withdraws Rs sup-fcrippled for years to comes bus the remarks in a letter concerning th port of the attack upon British in Bolshevik pofamous propaganda A Newspaper Article. terupts, it will de regnaded un he will spread like fire, Soget through \n\nStratz \"The Consul General in a recent ny entered into a alete of busidity the \n\nSuttlements, 01 address, at the Clah, referred with the British Gayetä tuke , 20 \n\nthrough human and into Indu,! Receiving a depatation of Bombay mill-owners, the Viceroy hung Dalla Frege of the 1h inst. for reasons which it is impossible it be a tremendous conflagration. The leading artfela in the long- Almost a monta has passed and with the visa that not only will declared that the cotton ezelse dry cannot be abolished remediately under the handing of Sir James to understand, that vitally impur-for the nation to fight, but the for financini reascun, but the Government is pledged to abolition when Jamieson, which you have doubt tant telegram, which elemanly restrial problems at Hew and! finemial considerations perut. \n\nDincasing the suggested and-damping menseres apalast Japanid that it was based on 20 in throughout South China withersport trade will be increase the \n\nless read. \n\nThe Consul General cited existing conditions here sederployment through lack of the Vicorns admitted that he was prewed by the deputation's ecrrect appreciation of the situa- jone word of exaggeration, but fact, that must be faced statements regarding Japanese labour conditions, but the milers. He esglained that the Canparently been completely ignoret \n\nantrously. Streng words, but had not substantiated the charge of damping by definite facts andton Governani forwarded certain by His Majesty's Government.theless, and I wish we could ngures. He undertook to have the question examined if evidenre were decade following the shooting \n\nThere has been a sittle confusion route the people of England to \n\nafray et June 23rd fast, and these about these talegrams. \n\nunderstand and realise them. The cult densands, which were forwarded to Edential reply\" refered to lu me \n\n(ADDINERO). Lorden and Paris, were as follows: letter to the \"Press\", I should Cancer Must Be Rezoved. \n\nOsco and for all let it again he I. High Conmiasteners of the here explain, was a confidential; \n\nratione involved, to apologise, zaswer to one of the many tele clearly stated that no conference 2. Adaquate punishment of e arus sent Home by the Clumber in Peding, or any amber of them, General and the of Commerce, There has been no special comdesioner or envy. \n\nproduced.—Rextar. \n\nTHE LEAGUE'S OPIUM COMMITTEE. \n\nJAPAN TO RATIFY CONVENTIONS, \n\n------ \n\nGeneva. August 25. In the course of the proceedings in the Leagus d Nations Opium Committee, Docker Tsurum announced that Japan world ratify the Opfum Conventions elaborated at the rorent inferuational conferences. -Router. \n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND, \n\nA GENEROUS TOKEN OF APPRECIATION. \n\nAuckland, August 28. The American avai otticary and men hava donated $1,000 tu the) Institute for the Blind, in recogullion of the hospitality of the citizens of Auckland-Reuter. \n\nConsul \n\nSealer Naval Officer, \n\nanswer whatever to the telegram houver distingutahed and how \n\nthe 27th of July. \n\n3. No further troope or sum-of-feom the public neting held on ever much he may help the North- \n\nwar to come to Cantor. \n\n4. Withdrawal of wavahipa from \n\nen ureblem, can possibly settle \n\nTo-night, with conditions Infinite the prevent aluustion in Canton. Canton or delte, excett two worse than they were then and which is not a Chinees problem nespatch fosats for the use of with further declarations of the attack upon Hongkong and \n\nat all, but a Bolshevik ore and thaij the Consulate. \n\nhostility against Great Britain by British Interest in South Ce 5. Compensation for killed and the Canto authorities, we are Russian in its origin und that: \n\nwounded. \n\nmat in even greater unbere. they are using their Chinese dupes to further their conspiracy against \n\n6. Rerdition of balá Concessions endorse the options which have \n\nWhere is a cancer \n\nTo the Franxiang Govern-poured ions from every rep Great Britain. merk \n\nsible bady Government, Unofcial \n\nIn our midst which threatens the London and Paris replied to the inembers of both Counctie, Cham- effect that those derauds could be of Cmurarer backed by er must be ruthlessly cut out and then \n\nChinese 29 much as ourselves--it, not be considered. The new Car-large interest hore, Chuna Asrouls-sooner the better. (Applause). ten Government that assomed to and private telegram- \n\nLadies and gentlemon, with the cffice on July 1st, repeated these jhat is Majesty's Government hope that our legram to the demands and stated that no resto-cannot piesd ignorance upon the Prime Minister may assist him tel Seven negro soldiers of the thighth Infantry Regiment wersation of coral relations and eltuation. killed whan a howitzer burst during pracilce. Reuters American they had been discussed. \n\nsvaditions coule be aspected before Service. \n\nGUN ACCIDENT. \n\nNEGRO SOLDIERS KILLED, \n\nRockford. H., Aufust 25. \n\nCHINESE TARIFF CONFERENCE. \n\nwww.co \n\nBRITAIN WILL ATTEND. \n\nLondon, August 25. The British Government has now accepted the invitation of the Chinese Cuvornmunt attend the tariff conference on the 23rd October-Rauter. \n\nMOTOR ACCIDENT, \n\nDUTCH SOCIALIST KILLED. \n\nBrussels, August 25. M. Nan Kol, the Daich evetallet, ex-Scoater and colonial expert, has been killed in a motor zevident.-Reuter \n\nFRANCE AND SPAIN IN MONOCCO. \n\nOFFENSIVE TO BEGIN IN TEN DAYS. \n\nFOR BATHING PARTIES, \n\nPICNICS, etc. \n\nJAS. BUCHANAN & CO.S BLACK & WHITE WHISKY \n\nin FLASKS & FLASKS. \n\nFitted with glass stoppers, no corkscrew required. \n\nPRICE OF FLASKS \n\n55 \n\n+1 \n\n$2.10 $1.10 \n\nDONNELLY & WHYTE \n\nTel Contral 635. \n\nSole Agenta. \n\n2. Queen's Buildings. \n\nRid Your Home of Flies with \n\nFLYOSAN \n\nUPER-INSECTICIDE, \n\nAlso ills Roaches, Mosquitoes, Mathe, Azta, Redbugs, Lice. Fleas and other Insects. NON-POISONOUS \n\nto every other form of Animal Life. \n\nFOR SALE AT \n\nTHE CHINA DISPENSARY. \n\n32, Quang's Road t \n\nEast of Central Market, \n\nPhone 594 \n\nAre you still doing the \n\nwashing? \n\nIf so why not \n\nhave a gas wash boiler \n\nIt saves time \n\nmoney and \n\nclothes. \n\nFor sale or \n\nhire from \n\nHONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., \n\n9 \n\nLTD. \n\nreside for the purpose of all steamship communication be carrying on the moreaufile tween Canton and Hongkong, bath pursuits, without molesta- direct and via Maeso, and also for loo or restraint, ut Chaton, the boycet in Cantor and other Amoy. Foochuw, Ningpc aud porta la South China as well a Article V of the Treaty of British subjecte ships and goods. Shanghai \n\nStrategy, Amoy and Foochons, of \n\nNanking which British They have also openly declared Merchants are permitted, er her intention of destroying by ail porta where Dhey mazy every means in their power, Hong- reside \"to carry on their kong, ts trade and prosperity. Tuercantile transa \n\nWith whatever sevsons they classes entering and elearing to inse.\" \n\nand from Hongkong wos 70,330 Article X of the Trozty of vesadis totalling 5,000,000 tons. Nanking authorising yoout From Jet January to 30th June belonging to British Mer-fast the average daily number of chard to be conveyed by yesek entering and caring Chinese Murchants to any Hongkong has been 60 vessels province or City in the averaging 99,600 to Since the Interior of China. \n\nerists started the average daily \n\nrealise the true position in Hong- The Gravity of the Slination, What \n\nkong and South Chica and so lend I confess I find in Gillealt do to prompt and decision action then has the craul General to \n\nIspunit without voicing L indigna- either in cogurt with other disease with the Canton over we all foui at the procrastina Powers or if need be, by Great) ner with H viwy to ending the \n\n[tion, hit 1 recoguise they Bus Britain stone, I beg to formally present situation. le he to discuss \n\ncitration is an gave that I desire amove thas the following telegram his own punishment or the ren- dition of the British Concession to avoid saying oue word which he sent from this meeting to Hir may be regarded, at Home, za Majests'e Prime Minister in Lor- Home Government faces theseterical or which may give or don \n\nmements to prempe and direct ac- It will be secunded by Mr. W. S1) Article XI of the Treaty of number of vessels entering and decauda? The mere fact of dig-tion, in Cantea, ecession to dia- Bailey, and after that has been feussing then: would be an AU- \n\nnission that the incident of June out our advice or undervalue done I shall be glad to bear ther unis meeting. No one who has reukors hefure putting the tale 123rd was greated by Shameer, been away from Hongkong and gram to the meeting. (Applause). \n\nwhich we kauss deinitaly to be South Ching, even for the last six \n\nThe Resciation. \n\n10. \n\nTientsin which also opened clearing Hongkong has been 1 Swatow and okker Southern russels totalling 36,579 tens only. Porta for Foreign trade and but these figures include \"P. & 0.\" stated that “il is agreed that \"Blue Funnel\" \"President\" and Brith aubjects are pertait. \"Empress vessels which are nat ted to carry an irade with affected by the buycolt. whomenever thay please, and proceed to and fro wt pleasure with their ve vels and merchandise.\" Chatton a Gateway. 1 \n\nThe obwrvance of these provi- \n\nOur Canton trade comprising some 12 large Passenger vessels has been entirely stopped. Since the lat Jaly the average daily number of skipa including river zieamars, held up through the boy- cost has been 5 of which 15 rre \n\nmentus, could possibly conceive | This Colony as a vital part of Dally Prem Knew Wothing \n\nhow dangerous the Bolshevik the British Empire, Haring aires ly now absolutely nothing about the on British Oterests, and I wishram unanunealy passed at \n\nThe Daily Prese states that they treat is. with its epelat attack vately appanded through le measures that are being taken to that a few of my own personal frea: Mass Meeting held on July bring the present deadlock to a friends who, until a very few years 1271b and passed on by the Gover- end and that as far as they are ago, huid the same responsible nor at its request. to Hils Murjesty's sware the Hongkong Goverment positions out here as those who Government, now appeals to His jare equally in the dark. The Con-to-day have drafted many of the Majesty's Prime 31ster to take sions of the Treaties is imperative \n\nsul General folvement as that important telegrams to which steps to have the following pro-fox the commoerusal prosperity of Britian, Paris, august 25. Reports from Madrid state that Guteral Prano do Rivers has Peking and \n\nropies of all his despatelos in hat already referred, were here visions of the Treaties of Nunking this Colony, seeing that Camson is the Foreign Office now to study the situation for 1942 and Tientsin 1858 betas ceu the principal gateway for British aaronneest that the offensive against the Riffs will begin in en dags have been forwarded to Bosghongshomssives, and they would quicke Great Britain and China carried trade into South Chine. tine-Renter, \n\nand the Hongkong Government realise how woefully and dia-out, amely: therefore know ail ifat the Congal astrously, the \"Cantou situation\" General has written. As the Con and the peril of Hongkong and aul General pointed out, there is South Chins are being misunder ne possible basis for discussion stood in London to-day and give 1 here, and the next move rexe with; leredence and ear to those, upos \n\nEVACUATION OF THE RUBK. \n\nDuested biên Aorus 25 \n\nThe French evacuation bas been completed. Router. \n\nTo-day there are 16 of which 22 are British. \n\nThe present Canton Authorities The recent proclamation by the Article II of the Treaty of teño are independent of the Cen Ganten Authorities with regard to Neaking watch provides tral Government at Paking and coastal Navigation later that that British subjecta, with have been in othee for less than Vessels of any Nationsity, reccot their families and establish months are directly and solely British and Japanese. may enter ments, chali be allowed to responsible for the cutting off of (Coutinaod on pige 10.) \n\nPage 10",
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        "content_text": "I regret that this connection with a cause that is so obviously a lost one should stand in the way of what would otherwise seem to me to be an admirable appointment: but I feel that I could not possibly do anything but concur in the unanimous opinion of Stubbs, Clementi, Macleay and Jamieson on a point like this.\n\nI much appreciate your having consulted us in this matter, in which we are not directly concerned, but in which we are deeply interested.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nW. Agnell\n\n+\n\nTELEPHONE REGENT 6400.\n\nTHE ATHENÆUM,\n\nPALL MALL, S.W.1.\n\n31.1.26.\n\nCollin ... [Grindle has probably told you that I saw him yesterday] and I have been thinking that the appointment of M. E. Johnston would be ... disastrous. ... and I have realised that there was one matter that I overlooked. I pointed out to Collin that his confirmation with the extremists would mean that his presence in Hong Kong would make any rapprochement with Canton impossible. The one thing all Cantonese assert is their hatred of the Manchus and all their works.\n\nAt a time when the whole country is seething with anti-Manchu feeling it would be ... folly to appoint a man who is known to be in sympathy with the Manchu cause. It is just possible that the moderates, who are anxious to be at peace with Hong Kong, may carry the day, if the possibility of a Restoration is not suggested. I don't pretend to know whether this is true or not. It will be said and believed.\n\nOf course the anti-English party will make a great cry about that Great Britain is aiming at a Restoration, so that even the moderates dare not avow any pro-English sentiments.\n\nI had not considered the further fact that Johnston is well known to be anti-British or at best lukewarm, and has made no secret of his opinion that the British Government has treated the Chinese badly (or of course they have) and, right or wrong, he has thus forfeited all claim to be considered a fair or impartial judge.",
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        "content_text": "36\n\n4. All the students of the various schools assert that after the demonstrators had been mown down by machine-gun fire, they saw several European soldiers and officers preparing to open the bridge gate and charge; fortunately the cadets arrived at this moment, and the Europeans reshut the gates and withdrew. Whence it follows that if the cadets had not arrived in time to protect the demonstrators, the number of killed and wounded would have been greater still. How can one slander the cadets by throwing on to them the responsibility of opening fire?\n\nThe above four points are the outcome of the depositions made by male and female students present on the spot, being what they assert that they saw with their own eyes. Thus there is clear proof that the fusillade began from Shameen. Moreover, Shameen used machine guns; the firing was violent; the wounds of the victims, being of large diameter, cannot have been caused by ordinary bullets. This is still more horrible and inhuman.\n\nIn the meantime, stories of all sorts have been invented on Shameen, and the invention is still going on. Not only were there numerous stories prior to the incident, such as that in the letter of the British consul, but we have also learnt that on the 24th the same consul sent round a circular announcing that Shameen would be attacked by Whampoa cadets on that day. Stories of the same nature are still being circulated at the present minute, and there are not wanting people who believe them.\n\nWe do not understand the object of all this. Our Government, after an outrage of this magnitude, has continued none the less to provide foreigners with the most complete protection. In previous letters the British and French consuls requested us to protect the life and property of foreigners. On this subject I, the Civil Governor, had already in the past made declarations in explicit terms. After the massacre I again declared in despatches addressed to the German and American consuls on the same evening that we would protect the lives and property of foreigners; also we urged Chinese citizens to use peaceful and orderly means to procure the abolition of unequal treaties, and not to have recourse to brutal measures of retaliation. In addition, on the 24th we forbade the military to approach Shakee and the environs of Shameen, either in bands or separately. This would appear to prove that our Government protects foreign life and property to the best of its ability; but if Shameen foreigners continue to increase the number of their military forces, this will in any case excite the populace and make our task of pacifying them difficult. It will, moreover, show that France and Great Britain intend to renew their previous aggressive proceedings. The British and French consuls should therefore be requested to give an assurance that from now on they will not increase their military forces here. If their gunboats and troops are not augmented, negotiations will be pro tanto facilitated.\n\nInasmuch as the recent massacre of Chinese subjects constitutes a complete abrogation of all the laws of humanity and cannot by universal law be tolerated, we make the following demands:--\n\n(1.) Apologies will be made by High Commissioners appointed by the Powers interested to the Government of Canton,\n\n(2.) The senior officers responsible shall be punished.\n\n(3.) With the exception of two despatch vessels, all naval units of the Powers interested shall be withdrawn.\n\n(4.) Shameen shall be returned to the Government of Kuangtung and placed under the administration thereof.\n\n(5.) The victims and their families shall be compensated.\n\nYou will request the British and French consuls to put these demands before their Ministers at Peking and their respective Secretaries of State, so that they may reply thereto, and you will inform us what steps are taken by the said consuls on receipt of your official despatch.\n\nI have accordingly the honour, gentlemen, to write to you to request that you will take the necessary action.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nFU PING-CH'ANG.\n\n37\n\nANNEX VIII.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Mr. Austen Chamberlain.\n\n(No. 90. Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\nCanton, September 7, 1925.\n\nI HAVE the honour to enclose herewith, for your confidential information, an interesting analysis of the casualties incurred by the Chinese side on the occasion of the Shakee incident of the 23rd June, which has been made by Dr. J. Oscar Thomson, chief surgeon of the Canton Hospital, who is an American citizen.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nDr. Thomson, Canton Hospital, to Mr. Jenkins, United States Consul-General.\n\nDear Mr. Jenkins,\n\nCanton, August 31, 1925.\n\nA MEMBER of the Chinese Commission of Investigation of the Shameen-Shakee affair of the 23rd June, requested me to proof-read the medical terminology of the lists of the Chinese killed, wounded and otherwise injured in that affair. I have done so, and returned the lists to him with some corrections of fact as well as of terminology. While doing this, I was interested to make an analysis of the occupations of those wounded and the nature of the injuries received. This follows, substantially correct, according to the official Chinese list, which I understand is to be published later. In the meantime this is of course not for publication.\n\nAnalysis of Occupations and Wounds and Injuries of Chinese in the Shameen-Shakee Affair of June 23, compiled from the Official List of the Chinese Commission of Investigation.\n\nTotal casualties, 169, as follows: soldiers, practically all of the Whampoa army, 85, or 49 per cent.; students, 29, 17 per cent.; unknown, 20, 12 per cent.; labourers, 18, 11 per cent.; merchants, 11, 7 per cent.; peddlers, 5, 3 per cent.; miscellaneous, 7.\n\nKilled: total, 52; 44 of the 52 were killed by bullets; cause not specified, 7; 1 boy scout trampled to death; soldiers, 26, 50 per cent.; unknown, 9, 17 per cent.; merchants, 8, 15 per cent.; labourers, 3, 6 per cent.; students, 3, 6 per cent.; professor, 1; apprentice, 1; peddler, 1.\n\nWounded by bullets and injured by crowd, total 117, thus: soldiers, 56, or 48 per cent.; students, 26, 23 per cent.; labourers, 13, 11 per cent.; unknown, 11, 9 per cent.; peddlers, 4, 3 per cent.; merchants, 3, 2 per cent.; postman, 1; seaman, 1; policeman, 1; fortune-teller, 1.\n\nWounded by bullets: 77, of whom 56 (or 75 per cent.) were soldiers; labourers, 8, 14 per cent.; unknown occupation, 5, 6 per cent.; merchants, 3, 4 per cent.; peddlers, 3, 4 per cent.; students, 2, 3 per cent.; some of the soldiers were shot through the axilla, evidently while the arm was raised in firing.\n\nWounded by fall, collision or trampled on by crowd, for the most part not seriously injured total 40; students, 24, 65 per cent.; labourers, 5, 13 per cent.; soldiers, 3, 8 per cent.; unknown, 3, 8 per cent.; policeman, 1; seaman, 1; peddler, 1; fortune-teller, 1; woman, 1.\n\nKilled not by bullets, 44; trampled, 1; cause not specified, 7; total 52.\n\nWounded: shot by bullets, 77; trampled by crowd, 40; total 117.\n\n513",
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        "content_text": "169\n\n54\n\nAs regards establishments on shore to ensure the efficiency of this fleet, the Independent Board of the New Arsenal with the funds it has at present available can fit up an arsenal for docking and repairs, etc. A floating dock with sufficient resources in one of our ports---Mozambique or Angola―would complete the service.\n\nAnd now it will be asked how are we to obtain the sum of £9,000,000 for the reconstruction of our Navy? The reply is, by means of a loan subscribed principally by the constructing firms at a moderate interest, since we know that there are firms in England disposed to make it, this loan to be redeemable in a period of ten years.\n\nIt would then be necessary to enter in the budget of the Navy an item for reconstruction which would correspond to the annual sum payable on a loan of £9,000,000 redeemable in ten years at a probable interest of 8 per cent. By prolonging these annual payments over more than ten years, we would have after twenty years adequate resources for the essential replacements of the different units.\n\nThis is in a broad way what we think should be done as regards naval reconstruction, so that in a period of not more than four years we could count on a naval force worth having.\n\n\"DOLLAR DIPLOMACY\" IN LATIN AMERICA. By HENRIK SHIPSTEAD, Member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate.\n\n(From \"Current History,\" September, 1927.)\n\nThe Monroe doctrine is dead, and has been dead for many years. It lived only as long as its original spirit was followed. The spirit was the protection of human liberty. It was departed from by the United States in her policy toward Latin America fully 25 years ago. To-day the Monroe doctrine remains only as a diplomatic subterfuge. Its ideals are being used as a cloak to cover acts subversive of human liberty and contrary to the institutions and traditions of our nation.\n\nAt the beginning of the 19th century new political principles were challenging the existing order of society. The thirteen American colonies had revolted against the European monarchial system; the French revolution had thrown down a firebrand into the heart of Europe itself; and in Central and South America republicanism was advancing by leaps and bounds. This new confession of political faith which was overturning the world was best expressed in our great Declaration of Independence, wherein it is stated that we dedicate ourselves and the soil of America to the principle that governments receive their powers \"only from the consent of the governed.\"\n\nThe treaty of the Holy Alliance had been signed by the leading monarchs of Europe with the main objective of building a barricade against the spread of this new theory of government. President Monroe and other American statesmen of the time looked upon this alliance, with its determination to maintain and extend the European colonial system, as a threat against the freedom of the whole western continent.\n\nAccordingly, there was enunciated a policy on behalf of the United States Government to the effect that any attempt on the part of\n\n55\n\nEuropean Powers to interfere with the governments of our sister Republics in the western continent would be met with the armed resistance of the United States. In the same message President Monroe stated clearly what was to be the relation of the United States towards these Republics. It is still the truly policy of the United States,\" he said, to leave the parties the sister Republics-to themselves, in the hope that other Powers will pursue the same course.”\n\nThis was the famous Monroe doctrine. No statement of public policy has ever at its inception been more purely and unselfishly dedicated to a political ideal. It has been restated again and again by successive Presidents and Secretaries of State. For instance, John W. Foster, Secretary of State in Harrison's Cabinet, in an address entitled \"Misconceptions and Limitations of the Monroe Doctrine,\" \"If the before the American Society of International Law, said: Monroe doctrine did not contain a high moral principle of ethics and government which commanded the respect of all civilised nations, we could not build a navy vast enough nor create an army large enough to enforce it against the hostile sentiment of the great Powers of Europe.\"\n\nDuring the past 25 years, however, much confusion has arisen regarding this historic policy, even in the minds of the statesmen who were conducting it. President Wilson, addressing the Southern Commercial Congress at Mobile on 27th October, 1913, said, in speaking of the Latin American Republics :--\n\nThey have had harder bargains driven with them in the matter of loans than any other people in the world. Interest has been exacted of them that was not exacted of anybody else, because the risk was said to be greater; and then securities were taken that destroyed the risk. An admirable arrangement for those who were forcing the terms. I rejoice in nothing so much as in the prospect that they will now be emancipated from these conditions, and we ought to be the first to take part in assisting in that emancipation. We must prove ourselves their friends and champions upon terms of equality and honour. rights, national integrity and opportunity as against material interests that is the issue which we now have to face. We must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are material interests made superior to human liberty and national opportunity.\n\nOn 30th August, 1923, Charles Evans Hughes, then Secretary of State in the Harding Cabinet, in an address before the American Bar Association assembled in convention in Minneapolis, made these high professions:-\n\nThe Monroe doctrine does not attempt to establish a pro-tectorate over Latin American States. I utterly disclaim as unwarranted the observations which occasionally have been made implying a claim on our part to superintend the affairs of our sister republics, to assert an overlordship, to consider the spread of our authority beyond our own domain as the aim of our policy, and to make our power the test of right in this hemisphere. I oppose all such misconceived and unsound assertions and intima-tions. They do not express our national purpose; they belie our sincere friendship; they are false to the fundamental principles\n\n170",
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        "content_text": "hi Hallifax\n\nwas\n\nIt is\n\na\n\nlittle unfortunate\n\nnot getting the Loss of Cr. Ser.\n\nThe only fact to which we can look for\n\nChinese Affairs\n\nCan\n\nassert, but (a) it is\n\nagreed\n\nthat\n\nthere is\n\nmuch\n\nvirtue in fresh\n\nblood, especially in the form of potential Governors (b) Sir C. Clementi pressed strongly\n\nfor his four nominees (c) Sir Stubbs, with characteristic picturesqueness, said that if Sir Hallifax got\n\nThe job he\n\nwould\n\nbe\n\na\n\ngain.\n\nIt is highly stung, but\n\nrecent experience suggests\n\nthat Sir Stubbs exaggerated.\n\nThe first-mentioned difficulty is likely to\n\nrecur in the\n\ncase of future holders\n\n8 Jun\n\nabst.\n\nImpressed as proposed.\n\nMr Howell\n\n16/3/25\n\nW. n. to the post far\n\nas\n\nthe two\n\nwith not the Tacarmen 18 Gg. C. continues\n\nto take precedence of the Pow\n\nRhinen affairs in long\n\nfpitio mentes of the\n\nsty\n\nExce Camat of the letter\n\na nominated\n\nYou that is\n\nmanter\n\nMd 16/4\n\nthe position\n\nunder\n\nA II of the Royal Instructions, unders\n\nfor any special\n\nHan, in\n\npleased to\n\nchange.\n\nany\n\nspende\n\nUpon reviewing the original text and the output, I made some corrections and adjustments to better follow the instructions.\n\nHere is the corrected output in HTML format:\n\nHi Hallifax,\n\nIt is a little unfortunate not getting the Loss of Cr. Ser.\n\nThe only fact to which we can look for Chinese Affairs.\n\nCan assert, but (a) it is agreed that there is much virtue in fresh blood, especially in the form of potential Governors. (b) Sir C. Clementi pressed strongly for his four nominees. (c) Sir Stubbs, with characteristic picturesqueness, said that if Sir Hallifax got the job, he would be a gain.\n\nIt is highly stung, but recent experience suggests that Sir Stubbs exaggerated.\n\nThe first-mentioned difficulty is likely to recur in the case of future holders.\n\n8 Jun abst. Impressed as proposed.\n\nMr Howell 16/3/25\n\nW. n. to the post far as the two with not the Tacarmen 18 Gg. C. continues to take precedence of the Pow Rhinen affairs in long fpitio mentes of the sty.\n\nExce Camat of the letter a nominated. You that is manter Md 16/4 the position under A II of the Royal Instructions, unders for any special Han, in pleased to change.\n\nany spende\n\nHowever, to fully follow the instructions, I should reformat the text into proper paragraphs and correct spelling errors.\n\nHere is the revised output:\n\nHi Hallifax,\n\nIt is a little unfortunate not getting the Loss of Cr. Ser. The only fact to which we can look for Chinese Affairs. Can assert, but (a) it is agreed that there is much virtue in fresh blood, especially in the form of potential Governors.\n\n(b) Sir C. Clementi pressed strongly for his four nominees. (c) Sir Stubbs, with characteristic picturesqueness, said that if Sir Hallifax got the job, he would be a gain. It is highly stung, but recent experience suggests that Sir Stubbs exaggerated.\n\nThe first-mentioned difficulty is likely to recur in the case of future holders.\n\n8 Jun abst. Impressed as proposed. Mr Howell 16/3/25\n\nW. n. to the post far as the two with not the Tacarmen 18 Gg. C. continues to take precedence of the Pow Rhinen affairs in long fpitio mentes of the sty. Exce Camat of the letter a nominated.\n\nYou that is manter Md 16/4 the position under A II of the Royal Instructions, unders for any special Han, in pleased to change. any spende\n\nLet me know if this meets the requirements.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-525-5 Colfix road surfacing materials 21-2-1930 - 26-5-1930",
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        "content_text": "74\n\nSeptember.\n\nOne of the arguments of the local authorities has been that, although Colfix may have proven satisfactory in other markets, particularly at Home, it is not suitable for a tropical country like Hongkong, but we do think that, even in the case of Macao, the views held by the local authorities in Hongkong must now be somewhat seriously challenged. While we are on the question of considering whether a Cold Emulsion is suitable for hot countries or not, it might be to our mutual advantage to keep well in front of us the fact that Colfix has been largely utilised in Saigon and also in the Malay States, from which latter place we secured the contract for the whole of 1929 from Pahang, Selangor and other smaller provinces. Furthermore, in the annual requirements of the Shanghai Municipality, they now provide for a specific quantity of Cold Emulsion in addition to the Hot Asphalt, and out of a total of 500 tons called for several weeks ago, we were able to secure an order for 150 tons of our material. It might also interest you to know that we have observed on many occasions tenders being called for by the P.W.D. in Bombay which provide for quite large quantities also of Cold Emulsions. Surely, therefore, if Cold Emulsions are so favourably considered by countries like the Malay States, Bombay, Shanghai and other places which we could name, it seems strange that the Road Authorities in Hongkong should so definitely assert that a Cold Emulsion is of no use whatsoever. It is not our desire to belittle the knowledge of the Road Authorities in Hongkong, as we would be the first to confess that the condition of the roads in this Colony is of a very high standard, but at the same time, they are not superior to others to the extent that the Authorities can so definitely say that a Cold Emulsion is of no use at all. We are anxious to have you convinced on this point as much as possible, and therefore also enclose herewith the following photographs,-\n\n1. Forres Road, Nairn, Scotland.\n\n2. Canaich Road, Beauly.\n\n3. Bridge-end Road, Bowmore, Scotland.\n\nIn each of these cases, you must readily admit that the road is in a beautiful condition and that it would be almost impossible for a more even and beautiful surface to be obtained by adhering to the old methods of a Hot asphalt. We purposely mention the word 'old', as we are strongly of the opinion, from the general advancement of business in Cold Emulsions, that the future holds wonderful prospects for the Cold Emulsion over the Hot Asphalt, and we dare to hope that, in time, the former will completely out-do the latter. In this connection, we also attach for your guidance an extract of various statements made by one of the eminent Road Authorities of the United States, who had recently visited Great Britain and the Continent. The remarks made by this party do, we think, speak for themselves.\n\nWe do not think it possible for us now to comment further on the question of tests, but before leaving this matter there is one point which we most certainly wish to mention and that is, we think we are justified in stating that, right from the commencement of our overtures with the local Authorities, there has been an unjustifiable prejudice. When the matter was taken up first of all with Mr. Goldsmith and Mr. Pegg, they",
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        "content_text": "AESTROYLO UNDER DIA\n\nX Jo for. teh. No. 63 10. 2015. (1)\n\nSEO: (( Amidt:) capiro\n\ncomo:\n\n7-532\n\n23\n\n'02.\n\n11\n\n12\n\nTo Admy.\n\nWhe 9,10\n\n3.16\n\n•W.O.\n\nWe 9,10\n\nB.14\n\n24 MAY 1932\n\n13\n\n• F.O\n\n021,2,7,9,10\n\nBla\n\n14. A.M.\n\nwe 2-10\n\n3.16\n\n15 Day 188 lah requests that decision may be reconsidered, states reasons. Suggests Consultation with Dr. W. Peel.\n\nThis has been held up for collection of previous papers and papers to which reference is made in (15).\n\nMr. Bigg.\n\nI have discussed with\n\nThe O.A.G. asks for reconsideration of our decision not to approve his proposal to establish at KaiTak a commercial flying training school, and he states that the Hong Kong Govt. cannot adopt the claim complete control over the whole of the Kaitak aerodrome, which the Air Ministry appears to assert in their letter of the 26th of May, 1932, to the F.O. (Enclosed with (4) on 90751/19/32 Gen.) which we sent to Hong Kong without comment in ((6)",
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        "content_text": "# Speech of Sir William Hornell, Kt., C.I.E., LL.D., M.A. (Oxford), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong\n139\n\nNineteen hundred and thirty-six has been a year of tragedy and mourning, and the University has had its share of unhappiness. We lost Mr. Wong Kwong-tin and Mr. Kwok Siu-lau. Both were staunch supporters of the University, and to the latter we owe the Biological Department.\n\nOn the 1st April, Maurice Alfred Cooper died. As Lecturer in Commerce and indeed generally as a member of the University Staff, and for a time the Warden of a University Hostel, Cooper did devoted work. His untimely death was a severe shock to us all. Those who came into contact with Cooper will not forget him.\n\nOn the 2nd November, there passed the Rev. Father Daniel John Finn of the Society of Jesus. Father Finn was the University's Lecturer in Geography. But to the University and to the Colony, he was far more than this. His investigations into the prehistorical and proto-historical remains of Hong Kong and its Islands, as set forth in his published articles, and expounded by him to the recent World Conference at Oslo, have put this Colony prominently on to the map of the World's earliest records. There died a genius, but withal, a man of profound humility and great charm—a Christian scholar and gentleman.\n\nMr. W. H. Bell retired and left the Colony. He was a member of the University Court for many years, and always the University's generous friend.\n\nOn New Year's day, Sir Grafton Elliot Smith died in London. As Head of the Department of Anatomy of University College, London, Sir Grafton helped this University in many ways. I take this opportunity of recording the University's grateful tribute to the memory of a great scientist to whose kindly interest and encouragement many an anatomist owes his career.\n\nTo the Chair of Anatomy, which was rendered vacant by the retirement of Professor J. L. Shellshear, Dr. Louis Rudall Shore, M.C. has been elected. To the junior lectureship in English—held until last September by Mr. A. B. Reynolds—the Council has appointed Mr. Keith William Salter. Professor Shore comes from the Anatomy School of Cambridge; Mr. Salter from the University of Bristol. Dr. and Mrs. Shore, and Mr. Salter, are going to be happy here; they are the sort of people who know how to be happy. Each one of them is, moreover, going to be a success not only in the University but also in the Colony. I do not often prophesy; here I dare assert.\n\nMr. Reynolds (who also came from the University of Bristol) did excellent work here. He deserves to do well and I am sure that he will.\n\nOur Chinese Staff was further strengthened last year by the appointment to it as Lecturer of Mr. Ma Kiam, M.A. of Columbia University. Mr. Ma Kiam has taught in the Peiping Union Medical College.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938",
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        "title": "CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938",
        "content_text": "## CONFERRING OF DEGREES \n### AT HONGKONG UNIVERSITY \n#### BRILLIANT ASSEMBLAGE SEEN AT CEREMONY \n#### CONGREGATION DAY \n#### THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S FAREWELL\n\nWith all the traditional and colourful ceremony connected with the occasion, the University of Hongkong yesterday afternoon held its 28th Congregation at which degrees were conferred on the graduates in the faculties of Arts, Medicine, and Engineering.\n\nH.E. the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, Chancellor of the University, opened the Congregation and later conferred the degrees; while Sir William Hornell, Vice-Chancellor, made his farewell speech at the last Congregation at which he will be present before leaving for Home on retirement.\n\nIn his address to the Congregation, the Chancellor drew attention to the regrettable lack of considerable endowments being made to the University during the year. In connection with finances, he said that he had decided to appoint a small Committee to investigate the financial position of the University, to enquire whether any changes are advisable in staffing, personnel, or salary scales, and to tender any other advice or suggestion for the future of the University.\n\n### Staff Personalities\n\nOn December 21, 1936, the enrolment was 412—139 in the Faculty of Medicine; 133 in the Faculty of Engineering, and 140 in the Faculty of Arts. Three hundred and forty-eight of these students were Chinese. In 1921 there was one woman undergraduate; to-day there are 76. I have once again to pay to the students my grateful tribute for their loyalty, discipline, and for the goodfellowship which prevails not only amongst themselves but between them and their teachers. The cynical might learn much from a visit to the night school which is conducted by the students.\n\nIn the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Examination held early last year, two of our graduates appeared, and each won a scholarship. Miss Lai Po Kan came first in a competitive examination in Chinese and English Philology, and she is now reading in Oxford for the honours school English language and literature. Forty-five candidates sat for the scholarship examination. The other winner was Dr. Woo Kai-fun; his subject being pathology. He is now working in London. The Boxer Scholarship Examination was first held in 1934. Our record is four competitors and four winners.\n\n### Students Abroad\n\nDr. H. C. Ku, who won a Boxer Scholarship in 1934, has been elected a Fellow of the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons. Dr. Lee Hah-liong and Dr. Lim Gim-kheang (medical graduates of ours) have gained respectively the London Diploma in Child Health and the London Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Miss Irene Ho has secured the London University Doctorate in Philosophy. Mr. Donald Anderson now holds the London University degree of Bachelor of Laws. Mr. E. B. Ahmed and Mr. Eric Wong Tape have qualified to be Associate members of the Institute of Civil Engineers, the former being top of the list of those who were successful at the examination qualifying for membership. Mr. Gan Kee-poon has been awarded the Diploma of the Imperial College, London. Mr. W. J. C. Fletcher has won the Parsons Memorial Prize—a prize awarded to the best apprentice by Messrs. C. A. Parsons & Co. Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne, in whose works Mr. Fletcher is working as an apprentice.\n\nTo the Chair of Anatomy, which was rendered vacant by the retirement of Professor J. L. Shellshear, Dr. Louis R. Shore has been elected. To the junior lectureship in English—held until last September by Mr. A. B. Reynolds—the Council has appointed Mr. Keith William Salter. Professor Shore comes from the Anatomy School of Cambridge; Mr. Salter during his career from the University of Bristol.\n\nOn New Year's day, Sir Grafton Elliot Smith died in London. As Head of the Department of Anatomy of University College, London, Sir Grafton helped this University in many ways. I take this opportunity of recording the University's grateful tribute to the memory of a great scientist to whose kindly interest and encouragement many an anatomist owes his career.\n\nPaying a tribute to Sir William Hornell, Sir Andrew Caldecott said he declined to conclude his speech with the word \"Goodbye,\" as had been the tribute to a great Vice-Chancellor, but would merely say, \"Thank you.\"\n\nSir William Hornell in his address drew attention to the successes which had been achieved by sons and daughters of the Alma Mater during the past year, and the brilliant work done by Professor Ride, whose work on human physiology and pathology had won for him the right to supplicate for the University of Oxford's degree of Doctor of Medicine.\n\nSir William also mourned the losses suffered by the University during the year, by the death of a number of its supporters and brilliant graduates, and drew attention to the distressing lack of playing fields for the undergraduates and the lack of a real connecting link between this university and English universities.\n\nTea was served in the University grounds from 3:45 p.m., and at 5 p.m. the Procession, including members of the Court, Council, Senate, and Faculties of the University, entered the Great Hall, and the members took their places on the dais.\n\nMr. Shore, and Mr. Salter, are going to be happy here—they are the sort of people who know how to be happy. Each one of them is, moreover, going to be a success not only in the University but also in the Colony. I do not often prophesy; here I dare assert.\n\nMr. Reynolds (who also came from the University of Bristol) did excellent work here. He deserves to do well and I am sure that he will.\n\nOur Chinese Staff was further strengthened last year by the appointment to it as Lecturer of Mr. Ma Kiam, M.A., of Columbia University. Mr. Ma Kiam has taught in the Peiping Union Medical College and he came to us from the Yenching University where he was Professor of Chinese. Mr. Ma Kiam's reputation as a scholar and teacher stood high in Peiping.\n\nThe Procession was led by H.E. Sir Andrew Caldecott, the Chancellor; followed by the Mace Bearer, Mr. I. Day, the Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Hornell, and the following: Treasurer and Dean, Faculty of Medicine; Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Dean, Faculty of Arts; H.E. Major-General A. W. Bartholomew, the Registrar; H.H. Sir Atholl MacGregor, Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith; The Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. Hall, The Rt. Rev. Bishop Valtorta; Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North; Hon. Mr. Edwin Taylor, Hon. R. M. Henderson; Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Hon. Sir Shouson Chow; Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington, Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell; Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, Hon. Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan; Hon. Com. G. F. Hole, R.N., (Retd.), Hon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin; Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, Hon. Mr. T. H. King; Hon. Mr. Lo Man-kam, Hon. Mr. A. W. Hughes; Mr. Eu Tong-sen, Mr. Mok Kon-sang; Mr. Ho Kom Tong, Professor C. A. M. Smith; Professor K. H. Digby, Professor G. T. Byrne; Professor F. A. Redmond, Professor L. Forster; Professor W. L. Gerrard; Professor W. C. W. Nixon, Professor L. R. Shore; Professor Hsu Ti Shan, Lt. Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin; Mr. K. E. Greig, Mr. J. R. Masson; Mr. F. J. de Rome, Mr. G. R. Sayer; Mr. M. P. Talati, Mr. P. S. Cassidy; Mr. T. E. Pearce, Mr. J. H. Seth; Ir. G. P. de Martin, Mr. E. Cock; Mr. Sum Pak-ming, Mr. Kan Tong-po; Mr. B. Wong Tape, Mr. Tang Shiu-kin; Dr. G. D. R. Black, Mr. A. Brearly; Mr. Li Jow-son, Mr. Li Tse-fong; Dr. G. A. C. Herklots, Dr. Li Shu-fan; Mr. D. W. Morley, Mr. B. G. Birch; Mr. D. F. Davies, Mr. A. H. Fenwick; Mrs. M. Ring, Mr. R. A. Hill; Mr. K. W. Salter, Dr. D. J. Valentine; Mr. Chan Kwan-po, Mr. A. H. Paterson; Mr. S. V. Boxer, Mr. Ma Kiam; Dr. J. S. Guzdar, Miss Baxter; Father B. C. Kelly, S.J., Rev. G. K. Carpenter.\n\nWhile the Procession entered the Great Hall, the Band of the 2nd Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment, played the Processional March.\n\nWhen all the members had taken their places on the dais, the Chancellor declared the Congregation open, and the Vice-Chancellor delivered his address. Sir William said:\n\nNineteen hundred and thirty-six has been a year of tragedy and mourning, and the University has had its share of unhappiness. We lost Mr. Wong Kwong-tin and Mr. Kwok Siu-lau. Both were staunch supporters of the University, and to the latter we owe the Biological Department.\n\nOn April 1, Maurice Alfred Cooper died. As Lecturer in Commerce and indeed generally as a member of the University Staff and for a time the Warden of a University Hostel, Cooper did devoted work. His untimely death was a severe shock to us all. Those who came into contact with Cooper will not forget him.\n\n### Dr. Ride's Success\n\nMention has already been made of the visit which the University's Professor of Physiology, Dr. Ride, made in 1931 and 1932 to Borneo in connection with his genetic researches. In 1933 the University granted Professor Ride study leave, and the Rockefeller Foundation asked him to tour America and to report on the present study of genetics and heredity with special reference to their application to problems of human physiology and pathology.\n\nThe thesis which Professor Ride wrote has been accepted by the University of Oxford and, in the language of that ancient institution, he may now supplicate for the University's degree of Doctor of Medicine.\n\nIn 1927 there were 292 students on the University's roll. On October...\n\n...some millions of dollars to bequeath (this, I regret to say, is pure hypothesis and not a prospect) I should certainly want to know two things; whether the institution which I selected for endowment was...\n\n(Continued on Page 9.)",
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        "content_text": "TEL NO. HOLBORN 3434.\n\nAny communications on the subject of this letter should be addressed to:-\n\n**THE SECRETARY,  \nAIR MINISTRY,  \nADASTRAL HOUSE,  \nKINGSWAY,  \nLONDON, W.C.2.**\n\nand the following number quoted:  \n`S.43698/S.6.`\n\n**RECEN**  \n2-15A 1938  \n**SCHEME**  \n**NOTED DISA**  \n**MEN**  \n**SECRET.**\n\nAIR MINISTRY,  \n21-178  \nLONDON, W.C.2.  \n2 February, 1938.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Colonial Office letters No.53846/38 of the 21st January and the 10th February, 1938, and in confirmation of telephonic conversation between Mr. Cowell and Wing Commander Wigglesworth on the subject of the assembly of aircraft in Hong Kong for delivery to the Chinese Government, am commanded by the Air Council to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that, while in their view it is difficult to assert, without qualification, of any aircraft that it is incapable of conversion to military use, they consider that the D.H. Rapide could be so used only in an elementary sense without a considerable amount of rebuilding.\n\n2. The Air Council in these circumstances have no objection, subject to the safeguards included in your telegram No.21 to the Governor of Hong Kong on the 28th January to the assembly of the three ambulance aircraft. They do not consider, however, that approval should be given for the...\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,  \nColonial Office,  \nWhitehall  \nS.W.1.",
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        "content_text": "W 755\n\nWeekly London Letter.\n\nBy Andrew Blackmore.\n\n16.\n\n83\n\nBritain and Danzig,\n\nThe complaint has sometimes been made that Britain does not commit herself definitely to any course of policy in international affairs until a crisis has been reached. That reproach can certainly not be levelled against the British Government in connexion with Danzig.\n\nRecent occurrences have given rise to fears that Germany intends to settle the future status of the Free City \"by unilateral action, organised by surreptitious methods, thus presenting Poland and other Powers with a fait accompli\". Any change in the status of Danzig would certainly affect the independence and national existence of Poland, and should Poland take any action to assert her rights and restore the situation, the Nazi Government would then most probably represent this to the German people as an act of aggression.\n\nIt is admitted that the present position of Danzig, though neither basically unjust nor illogical, might be capable of improvement.\" Poland is prepared to discuss methods of improvement.\n\nBritain would strongly support any effort to compose whatever differences there may be.\n\nHerr Hitler declared months ago that he would \"welcome\" a fresh agreement with Poland, but he has taken no steps to come to an agreement by discussion and negotiation. All we have seen are threats and demonstrations of armed force.\n\nTo these Mr. Chamberlain has given Great Britain's definite and determined reply. \"We have guaranteed to give our assistance to Poland in the event of a clear threat to her independence which she considers it vital to resist with her national forces, and we are firmly resolved to carry out this undertaking.\" No avenue to negotiation has been closed; but any attempt by the Nazi Government to seize Danzig by force will be met with force.",
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