[ { "id": 242065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "AD soon As\n\n(sigd)\n\nI have I a\n\nG. R. Wetherall\n\nD. Q. M. G.\n\nP.S. The plan is requested to be returned.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nM.J. Bridges. Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Copy) No. 56.\n\nSir,\n\nSurveyor General's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong, 1st July, 1857.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter from Colonel Wetherall, Deputy Quarter Master General, addressed to you, dated 29th June, 1857, enclosing a letter from H. W. Lugard, Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding Royal Engineer, and a sketch.\n\nThe Honble. W. G. Bridges, Esqr.,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242067, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "I have, do \n\n(signed) Thos: L. Walker.\n\nActing Surveyor General.\n\n(Irne\n\nCopy M.J. Maser\n\n(Copy) JV. 60%.\n\n487\n\nColonial Secretary's office, Victoria, Hong Kong,\n\n10th July, 1857.\n\nSir,\n\nHis Excellency The Governor\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nhav\n\nfor the\n\nreferred your application for the surrender of a Lot\n\nof Land, East of the last Guard House, to the\n\nSurveyor General's Department,\n\nto\n\nreport on the\n\nI regret to have to inform you that the report he has\n\nfrom Colonel Wetherall,\n\nDeputy Quarter Master General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242070, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 496, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "## Commanding Royal Engineer \n\nfor \n\nsubmission to His \n\nExcellency The Governor \n\nand to state that the \n\nLieutenant General concurs \n\nin the opinion expressed by Lieutenant Colonel Lugard of the objections that exist from a Military point of view of converting the plot of ground alluded to into a market.\n\nI have &c.\n\n(Signed) \n\nG. R. Wetherall, \n\nD. Q. M. G.\n\n(True Copy) M. L. Londres, \n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\n## (Copy) \n\nRoyal Engineer's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong, \n1st July, 1857.\n\nSir, \n\nI have the honor to return, as requested, the correspondence relative to the Plot of Land east of the East Guard House, which was forwarded for my information by your minute of the 3rd instant. \n\nAnd to express my regret at the tenor of the \n\nThe Deputy Quarter Master General...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242073, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 499, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "## \n18. \nbe, at his pleasure laid before the Secretary of State for War - and in the meantime I beg with due respect to repeat my application of the 26th ultimo for lot of land East of the last Guard House to be applied to military purposes. I have, &c. \n(signed) H. W. Lugard, \nMajor, R. Engineers. \n\n(a true copy) (signed) G. R. Wetherall. \n\n(True Copy.) \n(signed) Dr. J. Dudgeon, \nActing Colonial Secretary. \n\n## \nSurveyor General's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, \n9th July 1857. \n\nI have the honor to forward copy of a letter from Colonel Straughan, Commanding Royal Engineer, to the address of the Deputy Quarter Master General, dated 18 July, 1857, and a letter from Colonel Wetherall, Deputy Quarter Master General, to the Honorable \nM. T. Bridges, Esquire, &c.&c.&c. Acting Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 502, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "## No637.\n25 \n496 \n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong,**\n13th July 1857 \n\n**Jury 1857.**\n\nWith reference to your letter of ... C. & July I have the honor to inform you that His Excellency The Governor has directed the Acting Surveyor-General to hold personal communication with Colonel Lugard in order to ascertain whether the requirements of the Military Service cannot be ...\n\n**Colonel Wetherall, \nDeputy Quarter Master General.**\n\n1 \n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243376, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 301, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "I have the honor to point out the allotment of Ground yesterday to the Qr. General personally, and I enclose a sketch shewing its position.\n\nI am not aware whether it is the custom for Her Majesty's local Government to charge the War Department for such transfer - that is matter for reference probably to the Home Government - but under tenor of Lord Stanley's despatch 15th November 1843 there seems no question as to the authority for the transfer.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(D) H. W. Ingard\nLt. Colonel Comdg. Rt. Engl.\n\nCopy.\nN607.\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong,\n1st July 1857.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has referred your application for the surrender of a Lot of Land East of the East Barrack House, to the Surveyor General's Department, to report on the same, and I regret to have to inform you that the report he has received prevents him from complying with the wishes of His Excellency, the Military Commander in Chief.\n\nThe Land in question has been retained in the \nColonel Wetherall,\nDeputy Quarter Master General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246774, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "And the pressure of sickness,\n\nyour\n\nam\n\n770w\n\ngoing to Europe, and I trust that in doing so I shall receive your approval, unless indeed Sir John Bowring refuses the persuasion.\n\nI quit this colony with the worst misgivings. It is true that Mr. Mercer, the Colonial Secretary, has returned to his duties - a man of honor and courage, I trust. But of the insufficiency of one man to the task,\n\nI am a living sample.\n\nMr. Caldwell is still in the Commission of the Peace and enjoys the most contemptuous silence. Letters of the 30th have been observed by Sir John Bowring respecting the tires. Indignant protests on this subject for the confessed faults\n\nand\n\nin August,\n\njustice, which men laid before him on August what influence this audacious man has over His Excellency, I do not care to enquire. Long before the Lieutenant Governor, Colonel Vane, was called to give evidence in his behalf before the Caldwell Commission, he had been heard to boast that the Establishment, albeit populous with the worthy persons assigned to him, had much to dread from his revelations touching the past. Italian that for. May has heard him say so. & I also testify that Mr. Wetherall Tarrant can corroborate whatever\n\nthat head Mr. May will state on\n\nI do however know that he continues to enjoy that influence, and that, within this week, a glaring instance has occurred of its being called into ceaseless action, at Caldwell's instigation, and to obstruct justice.\n\nIt is, Sir, the case now pending before the Assistant Police Magistrate, Mr. Mitchell, of Policeman Otis v. Akun, to which I allude. I am too feeble and have too little leisure to furnish copies of the evidence,\n\nbut, if it be possible that Sir John Bowring does not send the depositions home to illustrate my present letter, I trust that they will be demanded by Downing Street.\n\nAkun is a Hakka man, formerly employed in the Police Force under Mr. May and Inspector Jarman, who gave him a good character. But he comes from Heangshan & is at feud with the Canton men and its capital, the sworn Gang and Clan of Caldwell's ally, than those wrong. Caldwell brought the poor man before Mr. May, to answer to complaints of battery and trespass to goods, brought by two Tung-kuan men (allies of the Canton gang). Caldwell wished them to be discharged by the Police: Mr. May heard and discussed the charges: Caldwell said to the complainants; \"Go up to the Magistrate!\n\nThe magistrate dismissed the charges, neither Caldwell nor his proteges being there to support them. They had heard, it seems, that I was retained for the falsely accused Akun. Akun, having more courage than his people, preferred a cross-charge of false and malicious accusation that charge was heard. I supported it. Of course, Dr. Bridges appeared in Caldwell's interest.\n\nMost\n\nPage 1202", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249930, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "851\n\n23\n\n850\n\nTHE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 28, 1860.\n\ncepting by a person actually attending that Levee, it is also necessary that a letter from the Nobleman or Gentleman who is to make the presentation, stating it to be his intention to be present, should accompany the presentation card above referred to, which will be submitted to The Queen for Her Majesty's approbation. It is Her Majesty's command, that no presentations shall be made at the Levees, except in accordance with the above regulations.\n\nIt is particularly requested, that in every case the names be very distinctly written upon the cards to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, in order that there may be no difficulty in announcing them to The Queen.\n\nThe state apartments will not be open for the reception of Company coming to Court, until half-past one o'clock.\n\nADDRESSES.\n\nThe same regulations apply to the presentation of Addresses or Petitions.\n\nA card containing a statement of the object of the Addresses or Petitions, with the names of the persons who are to present them, must be sent to the Lord Chamberlain's Office two clear days before the Levee. Two other cards, containing similar information, are to be taken to the Levee, one to be delivered to The Queen's Page in Attendance in the Corridor, and the other to the Lord Chamberlain, who will read its contents to The Queen.\n\nOn these occasions no other statement is to be addressed to Her Majesty.\n\nA Deputation to present an Address is not to exceed four persons.\n\nThe members of a Deputation, who have not previously attended Court, must be presented to The Queen,\n\nSYDNEY,\n\nLord Chamberlain.\n\nLord Chamberlain's Office, February 3, 1860.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given, that The Queen will hold a Drawing Room at St. James's Palace, upon Saturday, the 24th of March next, at two o'clock.\n\nTHE QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOMS.\n\nNEW REGULATIONS\n\nTO BE OBSERVED WITH REGARD TO THE QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOMS, AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE,\n\nBy Her Majesty's Command. The Ladies, who propose to attend Her Majesty's Drawing Rooms, at St. James's Palace, are requested to bring with them two large cards, with their names clearly written thereon, one to be left with The Queen's Page in Attendance in the Corridor, and the other to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, who will announce the name to The Queen.\n\nPRESENTATIONS.\n\nAny Lady who proposes to be presented to The Queen must leave at the Lord Chamberlain's Office, before twelve o'clock, two clear days before the Drawing Room, a card with her name written thereon, and with the name of the Lady by whom she is to be presented. In order to carry out the existing regulation, that no presentation can be made at a Drawing Room excepting by a Lady actually attending that Court, it is also necessary that a letter from the Lady who is to make the presentation, stating it to be her intention to be present, should accompany the presentation card above referred to, which will be submitted to The Queen, for Her Majesty's approbation. It is Her Majesty's Command, that no Presentations shall be made at the Drawing Rooms, except in accordance with the above regulations.\n\nIt is particularly requested that in every case the names be very distinctly written upon the cards to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, in order that there may be no difficulty in announcing them to The Queen.\n\nThe state apartments will not be open for the reception of Company coming to Court, until half-past one o'clock.\n\nSYDNEY,\n\nLord Chamberlain.\n\nDowning Street, February 27, 1860,\n\nTHE Queen has been pleased to direct the following Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, for investing the Supreme Court of Hong Kong with appellate jurisdiction in cases of civil suits between British subjects heard and determined under the authority of Her Majesty's Order in Council of 3rd of March, 1859, by British Consuls within the dominions of the Emperor of Japan.\n\nVICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:\n\nWhereas, by an Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, in the year 1845, intituled No. 6 of 1845, “An Ordinance to Repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hong Kong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" it was enacted that there should be within the said colony a Court which should be called the Supreme Court of Hong Kong.\n\nAnd whereas, by an Order in Council, bearing date the 3rd day of March, 1859, it was ordered that, in the event of any suit of a civil nature, arising between British subjects within the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan, it should be lawful, upon the application of any party to such suit, for the Consul of the district within which the party sued should be found, to hear and determine such suit, subject to an appeal to the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hong Kong; and that every such appeal should be made and conducted in the manner and form, and under the same conditions as were prescribed by the said Order in Council in case the defendant only were a British subject. And whereas, by the 28th article of the aforesaid Order in Council, it was further ordered, that the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hong Kong should have, and might exercise concurrently with Her Majesty's Consul, authority and jurisdiction in regard to all suits of a civil nature between British subjects arising within any parts of the dominions of the Emperor of Japan; provided always, that the said Supreme Court should not be bound, unless in a fit case it should deem it right so to do by writ of certiorari or otherwise, to debar or prohibit the Consul from hearing and determining, pursuant to the provisions of the several articles of the said Order, any suit of a civil nature between British subjects, or to stay the proceedings of a Consul in any such matter.\n\nNow know ye, that we, upon consideration of the premises, and of our certain knowledge and mere motion, have thought fit to direct and ordain, and do direct and ordain as follows; that is to say:\n\n1. If any party to any such suit as aforesaid, heard and determined in Japan, shall be dissatisfied with the decision given upon the said suit by the Consul before whom the same shall be tried, it shall be lawful for such party, within fifteen days after such decision, to give to the Consul notice of appeal to the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, whereupon the Consul shall, with as little delay as possible, stamp with his Consular Seal, and transmit all the documents which were produced before him, and none other, and also the notes taken by him of the evidence of the said suit, together with a statement of the grounds on which he formed his decision, to the said Supreme Court, and an exact copy of the order made by him, and shall forthwith notify to the several parties the transmission thereof. Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Consul to require from any party appealing to the said Court, reasonable security, which shall consist in part of one or two sufficient sureties to be approved by the Consul, that such party shall and will abide by the decision to be given by the said Supreme Court, and pay all such costs of and incidental to such appeal, as the said Supreme Court shall direct.\n\n2. And we do further direct and appoint that it shall be competent to the said Supreme Court, and the said Court is hereby required to take into consideration such documents and statements, and decide upon the same, and to communicate its decision to the Consul, who shall forthwith proceed to carry the same into execution.\n\n3. And we do further direct and appoint that in any appeal to the said Court from the decision of a Consul, it shall not be open to any party to adduce any further evidence than that which was laid before the Consul, and that a party shall not be required to appear personally to prosecute an appeal or support a sentence. Provided always, that in all appeals from the decision of a Consul, it shall be lawful for a party to allege facts material to the issue in the cause which have come to his knowledge subsequently to the decision of the Consul, and to produce evidence in support of such facts, and provided also that it shall moreover be lawful for the said Court to admit any further legal evidence besides that adduced before the Consul, on its being established to the satisfaction of the said Court by oath on personal examination, or by affidavit, that the party desiring to produce such further evidence was ignorant of the existence of such evidence, or was taken by surprise at the hearing before the Consul, or was unable to produce it before the Consul, after due and reasonable diligence and exertion on his part in that behalf, or where, under the particular circumstances of the case, it shall appear to the said Court that further evidence ought to be received.\n\n4. And we do hereby give and grant to the said Supreme Court full jurisdiction, power and authority, to hear and determine all such causes, Suits, matters, and things, as are mentioned and comprised in the said 28th Article of the aforesaid Order in Council, of the third day of March, 1859.\n\n5. And we do further direct and appoint that it shall be lawful for the said Court to make such rules, orders, and regulations, not being inconsistent with the provisions of the said Order in Council, or with the laws in force in Hong Kong, as may in the judgment of the said Court be requisite for the speedy and effectual decision of the aforesaid appeals, and also of the said causes, suits, matters, and things, Provided always, that all such rules, orders and regulations, shall forthwith be communicated to the Governor of Hong Kong, and by him shall be transmitted to us, our heirs and successors, under the seal of the said Court, for our or their approbation or disallowance, to be signified through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.\n\nIn witness whereof we have caused these, Witness Our Letters, to be made Patent. Ourself at Westminster, the 30th day of January, in the twenty-third year of Our Reign.\n\nSt. James's Palace, February 23, 1860. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Francis Leopold M'Clintock, Captain in the Royal Navy, LL.D.\n\nWar-Office, February 25, 1860.\n\nThe Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Andrew Buchanan, Esq., C.B., Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Majesty the Queen of Spain, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.\n\nWar-Office, Pall-Mall,\n\n28th February, 1860. GENERAL ORDER.-No. 746. Dated Horse Guards, S. W.,\n\n28th February, 1860. IN consideration of the eminent services of Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.B., during the late operations in India, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to promote this distinguished Officer to the rank of Lieutenant-General in the Army.\n\nBy order of His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief.\n\n(Signed) G. A. WETHERALL,\n\nAdjutant-General.\n\nWar-Office, Pull-Mall,\n\n28th February, 1860.\n\nBREVET. Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.B., to be Lieutenant-General. Dated 28th February, 1860.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 263790, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865", "content_text": "Naval Forces under the dominion of the Senior Naval officer on the Station, but I have to draw attention to the sentence concluding with Admiral Sir A. R. Wetherall and to point out to you that whilst acknowledging the above responsibility, Her Majesty's Government hold that it is the duty of the Government to maintain an efficient Police in the Colonial waters adjacent to our harbours, with a view to the protection of traders, including Chinese population, from whom the Colony derives so much of its Revenue.\n\nIn conclusion, I have to request you...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266724, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "content_text": "; \n\n1\n\n61\n\nYour Memorialists, in addition to objecting to the imposition of a Stamp tax as being in principle wrong, even for providing for a temporary deficit, do most solemnly and earnestly protest against the even more injurious policy, declared in Your Excellency's letter, of seizing the opportunity, of there being an alleged need of money, for a purely temporary and transitory purpose, to impose upon the Colony, and its trade, a yearly additional tax of $120,000, being equal to one seventh of the present annual Revenue.\n\nThe only argument Your Memorialists have heard in favour of taxation in this manner, is, that it is not politically expedient to derive all Revenue from one or more specific sources, but if this be true as an abstract proposition of political economy, surely the fact that, since the existence of the Colony, the Legislature have followed this course without even demur on the part of those taxed, is sufficient to shew, that Hongkong, in its circumstances, is in an exceptional position, and must be dealt with as the position requires, and not in the manner required by any abstract dogma or theory.\n\nThere are many other objections to the imposition of any Stamp tax, partly to the principle, and partly to the operation, of such a measure, on which Your Memorialists will not dilate, but they may point out, as instances, the severity and stringency of the provisions punishing breaches of the Ordinance, the difficulty and cost of collection, and almost certain evasion of it by such of the Chinese as retain here, its vexatious intricacy, and its inequality, in leaving untaxed a large body of Residents who, if not individually wealthy, are wealthy as classes or interests, and who ought to contribute to these local requirements.\n\nYour Memorialists in conclusion beg to express their conviction that though this is a Crown Colony, and they can be taxed by an Order in Council, or an express Order from the Government to the Governor here to levy a tax, or raise a subsidy, yet when, in compliance with the Standing Orders of the Legislative Council, and the whole previous course of practice here, the Council, as such, are asked to pass, or reject, a measure involving the mere mode of raising the requisite sums, Your Memorialists are then entitled to have their ideas on that subject received through the recognized medium, the Non-Official Members of the Council, and as their remonstrances were of no avail, they conceive themselves further entitled to bring before the Government the strong opinions they entertain on the matter, and firmly, though respectfully, to urge Your Excellency to a reconsideration of what is, at best, a mere question of expediency, affecting their interests only, and upon which they ought to be considered, if not the best judges, at least as the best exponents of the balance of benefit or prejudice that may result from the measure.\n\nYour Memorialists therefore humbly beg Your Excellency to reconsider the question, to defer such portion of the Expenditure as is not of immediate or vital import to the Colony to a more auspicious period; to raise any Sums that may be presently needed by some other, and less hurtful method, and to postpone indefinitely the further consideration of any Stamp Tax or at least until all other available and usual sources of taxation have been exhausted.\n\nAnd Your Memorialists will ever pray:\n\nB. W. Gutton\n\nE. F. da Silva\n\nSIGNATURES.\n\nJardine Matheson & Co.\n\nH. Murray\n\nW. Hastings.\n\nW. Kirby.\n\nChas Livington,\n\nA. C. Sandilara.\n\nPeter G. Innes.\n\nH. G. James.\n\nAugustine Heard & Co.\n\nJ. Dossett.\n\nLewis P. Thomas.\n\nOlyphant & Co.\n\n... Koze.\n\nSmith Archer & Co.\n\nAlexander Ross.\n\nJ. Stirton.\n\nBosman & Co.\n\nC. H. Barrow.\n\nBurley & Co.\n\nP. F. Cama & Co\n\nGhose & Co.\n\nWilliam Paske.\n\nCharles Denne.\n\nA. M. Gillies.\n\nJ. A. Costa.\n\nHajau, Habener & Co.\n\nA. Brajau.\n\nC. Booth.\n\nFred. Claus.\n\nReynolds & Co.\n\nJas Bowditch.\n\nJ. A. Rosario.\n\nV. Kresse.\n\nC. Moodie.\n\nJ. Ruith.\n\nJ. Jackson.\n\nE. R. Smith.\n\nL. Mackintosh.\n\nE. Asthan.\n\nRobert Gold.\n\nJ. A. Taylor.\n\nH. Nelson.\n\nH. Jorge.\n\nSiemssen & Co.\n\nF. Hohocker.\n\nP. G. Jube.\n\nH. Kook\n\nP. Gabrial.\n\nH. Hopping.\n\nB. Werdich.\n\nA Von Leesen.\n\nLyall Still & Co.\n\nAlfred S. Post\n\nR. Lyall\n\nG. E. Stokes.\n\nK. C. Smith.\n\nC. F. d' Ozorio.\n\nT. Schroeder.\n\nT. Marwig.\n\nFrancis Chomley.\n\nDent & Co.\n\nE. Overbeck,\n\nJ. T. Kindersley.\n\nDuncan Davidson.\n\nA. J. Else\n\nT. B. Endicott,\n\nThe Hogg & Co.\n\nWin. C. Morvina,\n\nL. P. Ward\n\nSevers & Co.\n\nReynaad Brothers,\n\nHoliday, Wise & Co.\n\nHoward Hodges.\n\nJ. S. Coughlan.\n\nT. C. Adames.\n\nW. S. Foster.\n\nPeterson Brothers.\n\nT. G. Dettmar.\n\nT. Bauson.\n\nJ. C. Welbread.\n\nBroadbent Antony & Co.\n\nJohn Burd & Co.\n\nM. Porissen,\n\nB. Jensen,\n\nBart\n\nD. Ruttonjee. Keis & Co.\n\nWilliam Morgan.\n\nA. Kenealy.\n\nA. Hay Anderson.\n\nJames H. Cox\n\nM. M Walker\n\nE. Figgin\n\nJames Greig,\n\nH. M. Davidhan.\n\nA. Newton.\n\nGilford F. Parker,\n\nN. Mody & Co.\n\nGeorge, K. Gleivius.\n\nF. J. Beynolds,\n\nT. Major.\n\nJul. Baker.\n\nG. P. Thomson.\n\nEd. Norton.\n\nCrawford D. Kerr.\n\nCarlowitz & Co.\n\nDavid Welch. William Keene. Oxford & Co.\n\nArthur J. Kast.\n\nCharles L. Wocks.\n\nRichard Deacon,\n\nJ. McDouall\n\nD. Sassoon, Sons & Co.\n\nJ. Cameron.\n\nJ. J. Elias.\n\nRussell & Co.\n\nW. H. Koster.\n\nE. D. Barbour,\n\nEmil Vogel.\n\nChas. A. Loret\n\nClas. A. Gilson:\n\nJohn W. Terry.\n\nC. A. Endiarrez.\n\nSmith Kennedy & Co.\n\nVaucher & Co.\n\nE. Heard.\n\nBowen, fl\n\nBorneo Co. Limited.\n\nGeorge Christie.\n\nH. Nichol.\n\nDe Silver & Co.\n\nH. de Silver.\n\nE. Mullish.\n\nS. W. Baker & Co.\n\nA. Shao.\n\nJ. B. Miller.\n\nAlfred L. Turner.\n\nJ. M. Matsou\n\nG. C. Scott.\n\nF. J. Barros.\n\nC. M. Carvalho.\n\nCharles T. Gaupp & Co\n\nH. Hollman.\n\nHease & Co.\n\nH. Kirchhof\n\nJ. Hauschild.\n\nFrancis Cowan & Co.\n\nSilveira & Co.\n\nW. A. Middleton.\n\nA. Uhlmann.\n\nW. G. Couns.\n\nC. Bongs & Co.\n\nTalbot & Co.\n\nF. Blackwood & Co.\n\nThomas Algar,\n\nK. Rapp\n\nC. Schmidt.\n\nAdam Scott & Co.\n\nH. Johnston.\n\nC. Tuddi,\n\nJohn Craig.\n\nJ. P. Caps.\n\nNico. Withers\n\nJ. Edutee.\n\nC. Bastonjes. Thomas Callis\n\nCharles D. Weeks.\n\nD. L. Wadia.\n\nJ. F. Catois\n\nW. R. Baltic.\n\nW. Kaye.\n\nW. T. Peda. Phillips,\n\nMoore & Co. Charles C. Cohen. M. Moore.\n\nB. Waller & Co.\n\nBhua Brothers & Co.\n\nE. Garetta.\n\nL. Lyon.\n\nFursatjee Nusserwanjee & Co.\n\nEugene Sequeira\n\nGibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nJohnson & Co.\n\nTurner & Co,\n\nA. Melwood.\n\nWm. C. Gomm.\n\nH. S. Innes.\n\nHobart Lambert\n\nT. B. Slatter.\n\nA. Einhorn. A Scott.\n\nThomas C. Russell\n\nJ. H. lton.\n\nJ. Smith\n\nJ. McEwen & Co.\n\nF. L. D. Sullivan.\n\nLane, Crawford & Co.\n\nT. Willardez.\n\nWidium Punchiappu,\n\nCharles Jameson,\n\nJ. B. Toppin,\n\nJ. Fairbairn.\n\nJohn L. Cox.\n\nR. Cathcart.\n\nM. G. de Souza.\n\nBonario & Co.\n\nWilliam T. Arney.\n\nH. Ralph.\n\nDwyer & Co.\n\nKaehner Roy & Co.\n\nFrancisco A. Gomes.\n\nDouglas Lapnik, & Co.\n\nJosiah E. Munger,\n\nJ. B. Abbott.\n\nE. Slate.\n\nWilliam H. Nolles.\n\nJ. Mantlehoy\n\nJ. D. Woodford.\n\nL. C. da Silva.\n\nRay & Co.\n\nA. Joinfo\n\nC. H. C. Lammerts,\n\nClare Latteiner. Otto Fridrich. George Whitehouse. A. Conill, Edward Rogers. W. S. Riddell.\n\nH. Kaiser.\n\nJ. Jackson, Jr,\n\nJ. Stone.\n\nGeorge A. Weller.\n\nW. Hunter.\n\nEdward H. Pollard,\n\nH. C. Caldwell.\n\nJ. S. Betts Jr.\n\nJ. Pouth.\n\nA. Percy Smith.\n\nBennett & Co. James Gardiner.\n\nD. Klukeo.\n\n17\n\nAlfred T. Munger.\n\nA. F. dos Remedios.\n\nM. de Sousa\n\nJohn Lapreik, 905. H. K.\n\nW. D. C.\n\nGeorge S. Minta, manager H. K. &\n\nW. D. Co.\n\nCharles Mentozk.\n\nJ. D. Starkey.\n\nKawlins, Melon & Co.\n\nWilliam Gaskell\n\nJohn J. Francis.\n\nS. J. S. Magniac\n\nEdward J. Sugg. John Patten.\n\nA. Boyer.\n\nJ. F. Collage.\n\nL. Thevenin.\n\nFawogel & Co.\n\nA. Bleecker.\n\nJohn J. Pewive\n\n(Falconer & Co.\n\nJ. Noble.\n\nA. W. Smith.\n\nB. E. Baker.\n\nA. Harday. Aspinall & Co.\n\nFriedstein & Co.\n\nC. G. Oldham.\n\nCamajee & Co.\n\nJ. M. Gonzales,\n\nJ. W. Hagsten.\n\nK. Backer.\n\nBaynal & Co.\n\nGeorge Holmes & Co.\n\nJ. Marico & Co.\n\nB. D. Rustomjee.\n\nG. F. Ebrahim.\n\nNowrojee Horsabhoy.\n\nF. B. Cama & Co\n\nM. Laljee\n\nDiorabhoy Poonjabhoy.\n\nJ. Hothboy.\n\nA. Sapoorjee,\n\nE. N. Usibio.\n\nA. Buliboi.\n\nC. P. Charter.\n\nWilliam Wetherall,\n\nH. F. Allymah.\n\nW. F. Dwijal.\n\nJ. Seare.\n\nE. Littlay.\n\nJ. Whistler\n\nC. A. Spring\n\nH. Nusserwanjee & Co.\n\nH. A. Shethjee & Co.\n\nFazal M. Dundy.\n\nT. D. Badabhoy & Co.\n\nH. M. Patel.\n\nNarmonjee & Co.\n\nB. Y. Guzder.\n\nB. Damodardas.\n\nJ. Nuthoo.\n\nL. Rissam.\n\nB. Ahadcolally:\n\nJairam Manjee & Co.\n\nP. Estanho\n\nM. M. Moren\n\nAbdoolally, Ebrahim & Co.\n\nA. Alexander.\n\nF. V. H. Eduljee & Co.\n\nN. Abdoolally.\n\nH. H. Oozeer.\n\nMohanbhai\n\nVaurynsey & Co.\n\nM. D. Handy & Co.\n\nM. Bomonji.\n\nD. Vursajee & Co.\n\nA. Teetuji.\n\nP. & A. C. Canjee & Co.\n\nCowasjee Pullan & Co.\n\nB. Rustomjee.\n\nJudah & Co.\n\nJeshna & Co.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279063, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 97, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "OFFICE.\n\nCREATION of NEW OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended\n\n \n Name.\n Annual Salary.\n Date of appointment and of authority from the Governor.\n B.S.O.\n Date and description of the authority or instruction (if any) from Her Majesty's Government in England, in consequence of which the appointment was made.\n Date of the Governor's Despatch to Her Majesty's Government in England\n Column for Remarks in any particular case, respecting the transaction, in cases where no previous authority may have been received, and for the statement of any special circumstances.\n \n \n Clerk, Post Office at Yokohama\n $720\n 29th March 1869.\n \n \n 30th June, 1869.\n Allowance of $30 a month for house rent\n \n \n A. B. de Souza\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Harbour Master's Dept.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Colonial Gun boat's Victualling Dept.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Deputy Assistant Harbor Master in charge of\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n W.A. Wetherall\n $1920 C.S.O.\n 8 December\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Carpenter.\n $180\n \n \n \n \n Allowance to Seamen, Carpenter & Servants.\n \n \n 1 Steward.\n $120\n \n \n \n \n $60 each per month for provisions\n \n \n 1 Officer Servant\n $96\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Cook.\n $144\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Coolie.\n $96\n \n \n \n \n $30 extra\n \n \n \n \n 4 August, 1869.\n No 1147.\n (A)\n \n \n \n \n \n $1440\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n $500\n 1st May 1869.\n No 594.\n \n \n All payments for the Gun boat changed to the Special Fund\n \n \n \n \n 19 October 1868.\n \n \n \n (Signed) J Gardiner Austin, Acting Auditor General\n \n\nColonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281463, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "content_text": "# Harbor Master's Office, Hong Kong\n## 11th March 1870\n\nConsequent on the lamented death of Mr. N. H. Mason, I have the honor to propose to His Excellency the Governor that the following changes take place in this Department.\n\n| Name | Present Post | Salary | Proposed Post | Salary |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| R. Ford | | | | |\n| Nob. Webster | 2nd Board's Officer | $1500 | | |\n| | | | 2nd Board's Officer | $1500 |\n| | (Charge of \"Blanche\") | | | |\n| A. F. Tampoon | | | | |\n| John Speechly | | $1380 | have charge of \"Blanche\" | $1380 |\n\nSupy... Victoria is a candidate for the vacant post, but I do not recommend Abr Wetherall at present in charge of it. It is one of so isolated a nature that it is too much to ask one accustomed to society to... advantage... and... had... I think it for the public advantage that the Government should only employ officers who evince a desire to remain in the service.\n\nThe Honorable \nThe Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 284580, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Changes in the Holders of Offices and Appointments in the Offices of HongKong, for the Quarter ended\n\n| Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary. | Name of the Officer who is now the holder and annual Salary. | If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State. | If newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority. | If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment. | Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of office or appointment, or the new appointment. | Column for Remarks. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| J. Gerrard General's Office Clerk $240 | Ah Yoke $360 | | A 926 | | | |\n| W. A. Wetherall Superintendent of Works $461 | | | | Engineer in charge Steamer Victoria | | |\n| | J. Ball $3,600 | | 19 Nov 1870 | Acting Colonial Judge | | No fitting substitute could be obtained for Registrar, it was considered advisable |\n| | Ah Yoke $484 each of 3 Clerks $6484 | | 8 July 1870 | | | |\n| | | | | | No 2 of 10 April 1870, No 264 Aug | Major General Whitfeild resumed duties after leave of absence |\n\nThe sale of the Victoria has been effected. The plumber was temporarily employed from July, 1870. In the scheme of Judge Ball from leave of absence; he resumed the duties of Registrar. \n\nPage 81", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305662, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "page_number": 403, "title": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "content_text": "Y \n399 \nthey \nthe guns up under fire from the \nenemy, will have no violent incentive to run away. p. 324. Then the Stalemate recommenced; everybody \nwanted an escort and everybody wanted a \nbody of coolies ! It was a valuable legacy which Colonel Wetherall left us, that coolie corps. They \ncarried the ammunition on the day of assault \nclose up to the rear of \nour columns, never \nflinching when a cannon shot \ntook off the head of \none of \nthem, the others only \nlaughed, and worked away \nas ever. \nTheir conduct has throughout been \ndesirable and \n\"cried\" up by you, \nMajor \nKing \nfor. \nCaptain Temple, \"the king \nof the coolies\", deserves credit \nfor the manner in which he has handled them. \nWell dressed and well fed, wearing \na cotton uniform of \na Chinese soldier, except \nthat the Chinese characters on the jacket \nof the Imperial \"ping\" are \nreplaced by \nEnglish numbers, and that the words \nwritten in conspicuous \n**RA** \n# \nor **Army** \ntrain \nare \ncharacters round \ntheir conical caps, \nthese stout fellows, with their bamboo poles,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334026, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "298\n\nTHE SANITARY RECORD.\n\nSIMPSON, Mr. William Hirst, B.A., Solicitor, has been appointed Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers, at £in per annum.\n\nSMITH, Mr. Job Ross, the Inspector of Nuisances for the Shipley Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector of Dairies, Cowsheds, &c.\n\nSTEVENSON, Mr. G., the Inspector of Nuisances for the Much-Wenlock Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 & 1886.\n\nSUTCLIFFE, Mr. Alfred, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Thornton Urban Sanitary District, at £40 for one year.\n\nSYKES, Mr. Edward has been appointed Surveyor to the newly-formed Cheadle and Gatley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at £35 per annum, and Inspector of Nuisances at £35 per annum.\n\nSYKES, Mr. James William, Inspector of Nuisances for the Windhill Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886.\n\nTAYLOR, Mr. George, has been elected a Member of the Tipton Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Field, resigned.\n\nTHORNTON, Mr. Reginald Douglas Banker, has been appointed Treasurer to the newly-incorporated Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Wareham.\n\nTHORNTON, Mr. Richard, Surveyor, &c., to the Drighlington Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, has been appointed Inspector pro tem, under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886, and pursuant to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts of 1878 and 1886.\n\nWALTER, Mr. Nimrod, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Reigate Urban Sanitary District, at £75 for one year.\n\nWARD, Mr. Joseph Henry, has been appointed Clerk to the Baildon Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, Yorkshire, at £24 per annum, vice Hines, resigned.\n\nWATERTON, Mr. William, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances, &c., for the Barnsley Urban Sanitary District, at £120 per annum, vice Savage (but who continues as Canal Boats and Smoke Inspector, at £50 per annum).\n\nWETHERELL, Mr. John, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Richmond (Yorkshire) Rural Sanitary District, at £85 per annum, vice Mr. J. Wetherell, deceased.\n\nWHITE, Mr. John, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Chard Urban Sanitary District, at £20 for one year.\n\nWILLIAMS, Mr. Richard Owen, Surveyor, &c., to the Bethesda Improvement Commissioners and Urban Sanitary Authority, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886.\n\nWORTHINGTON, Mr. Isaac, has been appointed Collector to the newly-formed Cheadle and Gatley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at 3 per cent. commission.\n\nPUBLIC ANALYSTS.\n\nCULLI, Mr. R. B., has been appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Tiverton, for one year.\n\nESTCOURT, Mr. Charles, has been appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Lancaster, at £10 10s. per annum, and 6s. per analysis, vice Brown.\n\nFUNNAR, Mr. Otto, has been re-appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Derby.\n\nHILL, Alfred Bostock, M.D., S.Sc.Cert.Camb, L.R.C.P.Edin, has been re-appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Royal Leamington Spa, at £20 per annum, and 6s. 8d. per analysis.\n\nVACANCIES.\n\nMEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH for the Walton-on-the-Naze Urban Sanitary District, £20 per annum. Application, 6th inst., to T. A. Middleton, Clerk to the Authority.\n\nTREASURER to the Alcester Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority. Application to S. A. Guthard, Clerk.\n\nMEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH for the St. Anne's-on-the-Sea Urban Sanitary District. Application, 10th inst., to William Thompson, Clerk.\n\nTREASURER to the Conway Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to T. E. Parry, Town Clerk.\n\nCLERK to the Birkenhead Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority. Application to The Chairman.\n\nCLERK to the St. Anne's-on-the-Sea Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to The Chairman.\n\nSURVEYOR to the Redditch Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to H. C. Browning, Clerk.\n\nSURVEYOR and INSPECTOR of NUISANCES to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers. Application to W. H. Simpson, Town Clerk.\n\nCOLLECTOR to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers. Application to W. H. Simpson, Town Clerk.\n\nLOCAL INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hambledon Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority have been invested with urban powers, rights, &c., under the provisions of Sections 157 and 158 of the Public Health Act, 1875, within the contributory places of Bramley, Cranley, Shalford, and Wonersh.\n\nThe Egremont Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority recently re-appointed Dr. Calderwood as Medical Officer of Health for three years, but the Local Government Board have refused their sanction for more than one year, on account of his being a Poor-law district medical officer.\n\nAt the last meeting of the Driffield Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, it was unanimously resolved to decrease the salary of Dr. Wood, Medical Officer of Health, from £130 to £70 per annum, and that of Mr. Sumner, Inspector of Nuisances, &c., from £100 to £100 per annum, upon the expiration of their appointments at Christmas.\n\nIt was recently proposed to form a Local Government District for the Ogmore and Garw Valleys within the area of the Bridgend Rural Sanitary District, and the necessary formal steps were taken under The Public Health Act for that purpose. This was followed by the usual Local Government Inquiry, at which some evidence in opposition was given. At the meeting of the Bridgend Rural Sanitary Authority on the 4th inst., the question was discussed, and a resolution passed upholding a previous one in favour of the formation of the proposed district, as they 'saw no reason to change their opinion after hearing the objections raised at the recent Government Inquiry.'\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES.\n\nHaving for some time back been in the receipt of Queries appertaining strictly to sanitary work, and which it would be easy to answer, without having to refer our correspondents to competent professional advisers, we have opened a column in which to register such Queries and Replies thereto as can fairly be expected from us; and our subscribers and readers are invited to make such use of this column as will tend to benefit themselves and the community. Both Queries and Replies will, however, be subjected, if unnecessarily long, to a strict curtailment.\n\n205. TEST SOLUTIONS FOR WATER ANALYSIS.\n\nI should be much obliged if you would state where you would recommend me to get reliable test solutions for water analysis according to Wanklyn.\n\nR.M.O.H. [Messrs. Y. E. Becker & Co., 34 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, W.C., supply the solutions in a satisfactory state.—ED.]\n\n206. WATER SUPPLY.\n\nCan you recommend me any book that gives the average quantity of water used or required per head of population throughout the country?\n\nC. W. P.\n\nThe most reliable information as to the quantity of water which should preferably be allowed per head of population under varying conditions is to be found in Parkes' and De Chaumont's 'Practical Hygiene,' and it would, perhaps, be useless to seek elsewhere, as all the information upon this subject is brought down to a late date. Consult the Sixth Edition (1883) of the above work, pages 3 to 7. The publishers are Messrs. J. & A. Churchill, 11 New Burlington Street, London, W. (See also SANITARY RECORD, Aug. 16, 1886, page 91.) All engineers strive as much as possible to allow 30 gallons per head for domestic purposes, and in the work above mentioned this amount is thus distributed—Domestic supply (without bath or closets), 20 gallons; add for general baths, 4 gallons; water-closets, 6 gallons; unavoidable waste, 3 gallons—total, 33 gallons.—ED.]\n\n207. QUALIFICATIONS OF A CHIEF INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES.\n\nWhat do you consider the proper qualifications for a chief inspector of nuisances in a town of between 90,000 and 100,000 inhabitants, whose salary will be between £140 and £160 per annum? There will be several inspectors under him, and there is a medical officer of health who does not practise privately.\n\nALPHA.\n\nThis is not a question which lends itself to any such short answer as alone is possible for us in this corner of the RECORD. But our correspondent will find fully detailed remarks as to the qualifications for the post which he describes in the number for May 15, 1883, p. 510.]\n\nJEYES' PERFECT PURIFIER' is a disinfectant in fluid form of extraordinary efficacy. It is used in the Royal households and by Her Majesty's Government establishments, the Corporation of London, Smithfield and Billingsgate Markets, various steamship and railway companies, the principal hospitals, &c., and is authorised by the Board of Trade and the Indian Government. The testimonials which have been received bear the names among others of such unimpeachable authorities as Sir R. Rawlinson, C.B., C.E., Chief Sanitary Engineer of the Local Board, Home Office; Professor Wanklyn, M.R.C.S.; Dr. C. A. Cameron, Medical Officer of Health, Dublin; Mr. J. T. Dibdin, A.V.D., Cavalry Barracks, York; and Dr. Crookshank, Inspector-General of Prisons, Cairo. In addition to its powerful disinfecting properties, this compound possesses the recommendation that it is non-poisonous, non-corrosive, stainless in use, and cheap. The scientific mind will understand and appreciate this characteristic of the manufacture—that it prevents contagion by destroying its cause; it instantly removes bad smells; is an unfailing cure for eczema and other skin diseases, and is the best known insecticide.—Sold by all respectable Chemists' Stores, &c., in bottles at 6d. and 1s. and drums at 5s. per gallon. Jeyes Sanitary Compound Company (Limited), 43 Cannon Street, London, E.C.—ADVT.)\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Crown Agents\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nRebolt kr\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston,\n\nMr. Meade.\n\n1967\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nLord Onslow.\n\nSir H. T. Holland.\n\nAust 17452\n\n20\n\n12766\n\nرسله\n\nHome May:\n\nJJ.\n\n303\n\n21 Ich 27\n\nSentherm\n\nThe site th\n\nf State\n\nI. Chanis\n\nto authours you & bleet a\n\nGentleman to fill the new Afspendent of\n\nSanilang\n\nEngenaar 506 Fort\n\nHongthing.\n\nThe\n\nappartment is descaled, in to accompaging\n\nAs\n\nзаваривать\n\nand exceeds\n\nfrom it. 3.A.G. and Jam\n\n2017 bag 12\n\nCofzene! Cofz ene 2.\n\nPartialers in auf. In Duis Je618.\n\n(keep to\n\nte\n\nin\n\ndig\n\nduplicate of dess)\n\nlost 2.\n\npamphlets in wig", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430921, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "# HONG KONG \n1911 \n\n## 12303 \n99 \n\nR 15 APR 11 \n\nDate | No \n---|---\n20th March | 93 \n\nLast previous Paper | 2616 \n---|---\n12303 \n\n**U.S. fugitive Offender, Rogan alias Rogers** \ncopy corres. with TCS. Consul General respecting refusal of magistrate to issue a warrant for arrest.\n\nM' Stubbs, c/o If Wetherall of the 70, came out about a similar case (fatal from Jordan in which reference was casually made to their case) and airs him the duplist of the day's.\n\nI don't think it is necessary for Ar to go into it.\n\n2001 11/10. A.&E.W.\n\nsubsequent Paper | 16373 \n---|---\n\nIt is rather an interesting question. I presume 70 will refer to the Law...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430934, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n### MINUTE\n\nMr. Shohnson 22/4 \nMr. Stills 22. \nMr. Fiddes. \nMr. Just. \nMr. Cox. \nSir C. Lucas. \nLord Lucas. CatSteely \nMr. Harcourt.\n\nEn. 72303/11 \nSthong 24 \n17. Wetherall 2 \nAnsa 16393. 111 \n25 April!! \n\nI am so \nto request que to \nthat the Se Est Kong \nLas forwarded a copy \nbetween the Consul Gent for \nthe hot. at Soking the \nCol See. with ugaid to Col_Lee.\n\nThe neverting the b. S. authentin Renguely bad \nJames Kogan \nfor the anest I \non a change of entrygament. \nA copy the Coisdup \nLas been communicated \nsemi officially lify dept.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 454, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "443\n\nC\n\nMay 24 1900\n\n1914\n\n9 July\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nJ\n\nHONG KONG\n\n27917\n\nRECEIVED\n\nC.O.\n\n27969\n\nREG (31 JUL 14)\n\nPiracy of S.S. Tai on\n\nRequests sanction for arrangements made\n\nfor assisting dependants of Chinese victims. & for reimbursing some of survivors for losses.\n\n2415/ Cape.. Wetherell has been given passage to England.\n\nrequests that he be assisted in resuming employment.\n\n1628671\n\nSi\n\nJuffin\n\nIt for propon\n\n78\n\nAns: 207. Intugt\n\nWethnett 17 Dec Chz Ade\n\ncay-\n\n16Gar.324\n\n18 Dec\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n28064\n\nalmy\n\n10\n\na\n\n2\n\nBethwell\n\n$\n\nLidder\n\nMen Wan\n\nfirm thee, Silon (Chiring\n\nis compensation for\n\nCA\n\nfirm Lon\n\nСара\n\n1.\n\nindulgene faste\n\neffect $1332. 15th England. M. the\n\nde Cartan $911. Concepcion $4114. psyk\n\n388\n\n23154\n\nDing\n\nWhis\n\nk\n\na clean shat a\n\nAccording to have 9 y Hay King for |(86,195) Wt.31,088-18, 45,000. 12/18. A & E W.\n\nE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 455, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Regard\n\nthe outrage; but though thy\n\navowed hostility\n\nI don't\n\nthink the fact\n\nCome\n\nquestion\n\ntendered for applicants.\n\nPs should say\n\nwhat I am with\n\n449\n\nto\n\nmight\n\nthe past work\n\nwhich frustrates\n\nLate\n\nbehove of\n\nhis\n\nname to him.\n\nLove\n\nuse of\n\nA\n\nF\n\nbig-mentor\n\nConstraining of his hand\n\nInto low\n\nty\n\nis a mandate\n\nthe employment of\n\nde Betterbee\n\nCaps Wetherell\n\nI fear there can be\n\nno I don't\n\nthirt\n\nW-\n\nto properly take care of providing for\n\nthem in the way.\n\nfo & int? appear.\n\nfresh hum\n\nho\n\nI from you\n\nAlone\n\n6/8/14\n\n-7.0.14\n\nPrish Su!\n\nis shoved\n\nR2/0/+\n\nEastern das M Shifting\n\nbetter published\n\na suitor\n\n(Chan\n\nHe behoved what gallants;\n\nwill have many\n\ncandidate\n\nhistory.\n\nHer for better tell\n\nwith to bring\n\nCA\n\nlittle\n\nanything\n\nproport\n\nLam\n\nPerhaps\n\nbegan long\n\nhad\n\nwith\n\nthat he recommendation\n\nmind; but that then\n\nA\n\n10/8/14\n\nbos\n\n#\n\nhow\n\n6.14\n\n1/8/14 of ma\n\nUnless\n\nwish\n\na Sound Effect to\n\nhas made\n\nYour I do\n\nGestern.\n\nthat in\n\nht\n\ntam\n\ncan hold out any prospect of him ish\n\nto join kein menim by news.\n\nforts to be hame,\n\nJ\n\nconsidered for beyond... a\n\nadju Barker hath kick, hea malipes Cands.\n\nNjer", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448237, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 456, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Eastern Department.\n\nMhaffen.\n\nCaptain Wetherell called on me today and made quite a favourable impression. I am sorry for him and only wish that we could do something to help him, but I explained to him that at his age it is impossible to consider him for either the Uganda or Niger Marine and that I feared that he would have very little chance for a Harbour Mastership in view of the large number of better qualified candidates on the lists. I promised that we would mention his name to the Crown Agents and he is going to call again in about a month's time in the hope of having an interview with them then. In the meantime is there any objection to the papers being shown to the Crown Agents? I should think that he might do admirably for a job as a skipper of a tug or master. He is going to send in his name to the Admiralty but I doubt whether they will be able to do anything for him in view of his age and the fact that he is not a R.N.R. man.\n\n[illegible text]\n\n[letter fragment remains, likely due to OCR errors or text being cut off]\n\nJR1518/24\n\nhm Russ 1578/14\n\n17/8/14\n\nCopy of letter from W. Wetherell attached.\n\n(14 Nov. 1914).\n\nWe might send a copy of the despatch regarding sailing masters if available to the Crown Agents for their information.\n\nJR19/11/14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448238, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 457, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Send copy desp. with enclos, 4% \n\n5 + Capt. Wetherell's letter of to Adminally for conson shore diff. 19.11.14 \n\nNov. 14th alonce \n\nNo 240. 451 C 27969 RECO sir, REG2 31 JUL 14) en 5 \n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 9th July, 1914. \n\nYou 78809 \n\nWith reference to my despatch No.147 of the 2nd May, 1914, on the subject of the piratical attack on the S.S. \"Tai On\" and the subsequent setting on fire of the ship, I have the honour to request your sanction for the arrangements which the Government has made to provide immediate assistance for the dependents of the victims of the disaster, who were left without means of support, and to apply for permission to grant such further assistance or allowances as may on subsequent investigation be justified. I have also to apply for your covering authority for the expenditure the Government has incurred in re-imbursing some of the survivors of the disaster who suffered the loss of all their effects.\n\n2. The Government's efforts have been confined to the officers and crew of the vessel, which was registered in Hongkong and flew the British flag. I decided that the task of relieving the Chinese passengers who suffered in a piracy committed in Chinese waters should fall on the shoulders of the Chinese Authorities, who appear to be, I am glad to state, alive to their responsibilities for the outrage.\n\n3. The following non-Chinese employed in the vessel perished in the disaster:- \n\nMr. Evans, Chief Officer, of British parentage, \n\nL. J. Silva and Santos de Silva, members of the ship's guard, both of Asiatic-Portuguese origin.\n\n(a). \n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \n\nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P., \n\n&c. &C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448239, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 458, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "(a). The former left a widow and one child resident in India. I enclose copies of correspondence from which it would appear that Mrs. Evans is in very straitened circumstances. I caused a letter, a copy of which is attached, to be addressed to the Government of India on the subject, and if the statements made by Mrs. Evans prove correct, I propose, subject to your approval, to grant her an allowance of £8 per mensem, the allowance to cease in the event of re-marriage.\n\n(b). L. J. Silva has also left a widow, a woman of Chinese race, and I propose to grant her an allowance of the amount of $10 per mensem; the deceased's wages were, I understand, $15 per mensem. The allowance will cease in the event of re-marriage.\n\n(c). The other member of the guard, Santos da Silva, was unmarried and without dependents, and no claim has been made on his behalf.\n\n4. The non-Chinese survivors amongst the officers and crew of the ill-fated vessel were Captain Wetherell, McCartney, Chief Engineer, and two Asiatic-Portuguese members of the guard, Antonio Diaz and Joseph Concepcion, and as they suffered the loss of all their effects, I caused them to be reimbursed, after investigation of their claims, in the sums of $1,332, $911, $388, and $119 respectively. The Chinese carpenter on the vessel, Ng Wong, who lost all his effects and the tools of his trade, was also reimbursed to the amount of $180; this was the only claim put forward on behalf of the Chinese members of the crew. Employment has been found for Diaz, and Mr. McCartney, the Chief Engineer, will not, I understand, experience any difficulty in obtaining employment locally. Concepcion is in the Government Civil Hospital suffering from bullet wounds, and his condition is critical.\n\n5. The Government did not participate in the subscription organised originally by Mr. Dowley, a local resident, and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448240, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 459, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "453\n\nand subsequently taken over by the Chamber of Commerce to provide a testimonial to the officers and crew in recognition of\n\nthe gallantry and devotion they displayed in resisting the\n\npirates.\n\nOut of this fund Captain Fetherell was presented with\n\na gold watch (I am informed that he would accept no money),\n\nwhile a sum of $700 was sent to Mrs. Evans for her immediate\n\nwants, and $300 to the widow of L. J. Silva.\n\n6.\n\nCaptain Wetherell is, I regret to state, not so\n\nfortunately placed. He is in rather straitened circumstances,\n\nand as his health has suffered from his recent experiences I\n\nhave granted him an indulgence passage to England, 2nd class\n\nP.& O. Intermediate. He has, I fear, little prospect of obtaining employment from Chinese shipowners on the Coast, who are\n\nunable to appreciate western conceptions of duty, and dis-\n\napprove of his action in resisting the attack on the ship\n\nentrusted to his charge. I enclose copies of report by the\n\nHarbour Master on Captain Wetherell's qualifications and record\n\nof service. In the circumstances I should esteem it a favour\n\nif he could obtain assistance in getting employment, and in the\n\nevent of one of the appointments referred to by Commander\n\nBeckwith or of a post as Assistant Marine Surveyor being vacant,\n\nI would be glad if his application should obtain your sympathetic consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nsir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nH\n\nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448241, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 460, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Enclosure 1.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHongkong, 5th May, 1914.\n\n454\n\nMadan,\n\nI am directed to confirm the telegram which I sent to you yesterday, and to express the deep sympathy of His Excellency the Governor and the Government of Hongkong with you in the loss of your husband on the night of the 27th of April in the course of a piratical attack on board the steamer \"Tai On\" of which he was the Chief Officer.\n\n2. Your husband backed up the efforts of the Captain of the ship, Mr. Wetherall, and the Chief Engineer, Mr. McCartney, with great bravery, and he was at last compelled to jump into the sea with those officers as the whole ship had become enveloped in flames. I regret to inform you that his body has not been recovered, but it is practically certain that he had been wounded in the leg and was thus unable to keep himself afloat by swimming until help could reach him.\n\n3. The whole Colony of Hongkong has been much moved by this occurrence, and it is the intention of the Government to mark its sense of your late husband's bravery and of the great service he performed in helping to withstand the piratical attack on the ship by affording you and your family such assistance as you may stand in need of. I will communicate with you further on this subject, and will only now repeat that the Government and all classes of the community feel very deeply for you in your sudden bereavement.\n\n4. I enclose for your perusal extracts from the Hongkong newspapers relating to the attack on the \"Tai On\".\n\nMrs. Evans,\n\nNurses' Quarters,\n\nGovernment Hospital,\n\nCalcutta.\n\nI am, etc.\n\nSd.\n\nClaud Severn\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448246, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 465, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Enclosure 44\n\nReport by Commander C. W. Beckwith, R.N.\n\nI consider Mr. Wetherell with his long experience would be an excellent man to be put in charge of one of the small harbours in the West Indies such as Grenada or St. Lucia where the Harbour Master is also the \"Pilot\", or failing this a command of one of the various Government Yachts, or Lighthouse Tenders, would be suitable, or perhaps the Honourable the Colonial Secretary could say what prospects Mr. Wetherell would have for employment, as a pilot in Singapore or Penang, or Harbour Master and Pilot for Labuan.\n\nC. W. Beckwith\n\nHarbour Master\n\n23rd June, 1914.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448247, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 466, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Report by Commander C. W. Beckwith,\n\nEnclave 5.\n\nR.N.\n\nRobert Henry Wetherell,\n\nMaster Mariner,\n\nNo. of Certificate 0.1.08651, London.\n\nAged 53 years, has had command in sail and steam for a number of years.\n\nServed for 6 years out of Hongkong in the Scottish Oriental Co. and had just got a permanent command when all the ships of this firm were sold to the Germans.\n\nMr. Wetherell then became a 1st Class Pilot at Foochow and stayed there some 10 years.\n\nHe was in charge of the P. & O. S.S. \"Somali\" when that ship went ashore, which necessitated his leaving this service, but which he claims was not his fault, and that no proper investigation into the accident was held.\n\nMr. Wetherell then came down to Hongkong and obtained employment in the West River trade, where he stayed until pirated and burnt out of his ship, the S.S. \"Tai On\", April, 1914.\n\nC. T. Beckwith\n\nHarbour Master,\n\n23rd June, 1914.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448249, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 468, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Page 45\n\npratical whack\n\nupon\n\ndecastre to the\n\n५\n\nI is Jai On\", & of\n\nFor granting such Fother\n\nassistance\n\nor alluces as\n\nmay\n\nfever pistifed. You\n\nill\n\nko\n\n2.\n\nMhave also li\n\ncabin chi\n\nCarvey, to you by sanction\n\nhe expendre\n\nascanco\n\nEthe\n\nReimbursing\n\nCol bot\n\nLou\n\nof the\n\nJunevois\n\ndult report t\n\nCon\n\nIn my\n\ntarder in this respect.\n\nt\n\ncertain\n\nof the\n\ndisasti\n\nWho suffered the loss of all\n\ntheir effects.\n\n5. Iur recanwendation in favor\n\nof laft Wethwell will be bome\n\nin hand\n\nbut I fear that there\n\n6 ettle\n\nprospect of und\n\nвесте\n\nable to offer them employment.\n\nNo. 2071/1914.\n\nNUMBER AND DATE SHOULD BE IN QUOTES IN REFERENCE TO THIS LETTER\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS \"SECRETARY, HONGKONG\"\n\nGOVT, A.B C. 4TH & 5TH EDITA STEVENS'S Engineering CODES.\n\n45\n\nRECEIVED\n\n19 AUG. 1914 COL. OFFICE\n\n462\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG,\n\n14th July, 1914.\n\n1969\n\nThe Colonial Secretary presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and with reference to paragraph 6 of the Governor's Despatch No.240 of the 9th July, 1914, has the honour to append the address in England of Captain R. Wetherell.\n\nR. Wetherell, Esq.,\n\n5, The Shubberies,\n\nSouth Woodford,\n\nEssex.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLondon.\n\nPage 46\n\n(empty lines omitted for brevity, as they are likely page numbering artifacts)\n\nHere is the revised HTML output with proper paragraph formatting and minor corrections:\n\nPractical wreck upon decastre to the ५ I is Jai On\", & of\n\nFor granting such further assistance or alleviates as may be justified. You will...\n\n2. ...have also liability convey, to you by sanction the expenditure...\n\nReimbursing Col bot Lou of the Junevois dult report to Con\n\nIn my tender in this respect, certain of the disaster who suffered the loss of all their effects.\n\n5. Our recommendation in favor of late Wetherell will be borne in hand but I fear that there is little prospect of being able to offer them employment.\n\nNo.2071/1914.\n\nNUMBER AND DATE SHOULD BE IN QUOTES IN REFERENCE TO THIS LETTER\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS \"SECRETARY, HONGKONG\"\n\nGOVT, A.B.C. 4TH & 5TH EDITA STEVENS'S Engineering CODES.\n\nRECEIVED 19 AUG. 1914 COL. OFFICE 462\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 14th July, 1914. 1969\n\nThe Colonial Secretary presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and with reference to paragraph 6 of the Governor's Despatch No.240 of the 9th July, 1914, has the honour to append the address in England of Captain R. Wetherell.\n\nR. Wetherell, Esq., 5, The Shubberies, South Woodford, Essex.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office, London.\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instruction to output only HTML using for paragraphs, here is the final version:\n\nPage 45\n\nPractical wreck upon decastre to the ५ I is Jai On\", & of\n\nFor granting such further assistance or alleviates as may be justified. You will\n\nhave also liability convey, to you by sanction the expenditure ascanco Ethe Reimbursing Col bot Lou of the Junevois dult report to Con\n\nIn my tender in this respect, certain of the disaster who suffered the loss of all their effects.\n\n5. Our recommendation in favor of late Wetherell will be borne in hand but I fear that there is little prospect of being able to offer them employment.\n\nNo.2071/1914.\n\nNUMBER AND DATE SHOULD BE IN QUOTES IN REFERENCE TO THIS LETTER\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS \"SECRETARY, HONGKONG\"\n\nGOVT, A.B.C. 4TH & 5TH EDITA STEVENS'S Engineering CODES.\n\nRECEIVED 19 AUG. 1914 COL. OFFICE 462\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 14th July, 1914. 1969\n\nThe Colonial Secretary presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and with reference to paragraph 6 of the Governor's Despatch No.240 of the 9th July, 1914, has the honour to append the address in England of Captain R. Wetherell.\n\nR. Wetherell, Esq., 5, The Shubberies, South Woodford, Essex.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office, London.\n\nPage 46", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448251, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 470, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "The Shrubberies.\n\nSouth Woodford.\n\nH. E. November 14th, 1914\n\nSir,\n\nI am given to understand that the Admiralty are requiring Captains and Officers for Special Service, conditions unknown.\n\nI have already put my name down on the books of the Imperial Merchant Service Guild offering my service for the same.\n\nI should esteem it a great favour if you would kindly use your influence at the Admiralty in my behalf.\n\nThanking you in anticipation.\n\nYours obediently,\n\nRobert H. Wetherell.\n\nAssistant Private Secretary.\n\nColonial Office.\n\nH. H. F. Batterbee, Esq.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448252, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 471, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Page information is not available in the given text, however, the text appears to be a jumbled collection of words and phrases. Here is the proofread text in HTML format:\n\nT J V ร I C R. 23NOV 0.2 A DRAFT. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. The Sec. Aamerall 25 2726.9 Hang لا Anad 49329 Ty उटं 26 urte hänsmit the Jaunt to carsan 465 to you, for of the a copy Foren Mer - Lord Comanos. 10/153 \"Cavell Hole 23.11.14 Sir G. Fiddes. Sir H. Just. Sir J. Anderson. Lord Islington. Mr. Harcourt. to 14 Nov 1 (attached to 27969, Theo: 9 July 14? (with lade 4483) of a lett Rst. Wetherell formedy Masti Jain On f the! rebective hi desire & oblaci combley went the Namirall. undr 2. I am also Admlig benclose a copy Copy for 324. 18 Dec / 49329\n\nAfter re-examining the text, it appears that the original text was likely a collection of fragmented sentences and words, possibly from a historical document or a scanned image with OCR errors. The text has been reordered to some extent to form coherent paragraphs, while preserving the original content as much as possible.\n\nThe final output is:\n\nT J V ร I C R. 23NOV 0.2 A DRAFT.\n\nMr. Mr. Mr. Mr. The Sec. Aamerall 25 2726.9 Hang لا Anad 49329 Ty उटं 26 urte hänsmit the Jaunt to carsan 465 to you, for of the a copy Foren Mer - Lord Comanos.\n\n10/153 \"Cavell Hole 23.11.14 Sir G. Fiddes. Sir H. Just. Sir J. Anderson. Lord Islington. Mr. Harcourt. to 14 Nov 1 (attached to 27969, Theo: 9 July 14? (with lade 4483) of a lett\n\nRst. 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Aam to the to trouble them so the ... tot ...\n\nLands Branch - at this time\n\n\"Reply to that effect.\n\n(Common ... this deep delay ...\n\nFill the W.D. reply!\n\nNext subsequent Papers Cowell (88,106) Wt.81,086-13, 45,000. 12/13. A & E W.\n\nThowed we ... 14/8/14 at one again offroach W.O? ? (ree ...\n\nM 3749%).\n\nJos 17/12/14 (once)\n\nof a draft for the\n\nLov...\n\nIt then reporting\n\nthe cries of the\n\nI peracy\n\nof the\n\nJai ... on\",\n\ntorether with\n\n1\n\nCopies\n\nthe reports\n\n(the Harbour waste ... an Ur Wetherell's qualification of service\n\n(Signed) H. J. BEAD,\n\n& record for the Under-Secretary of State", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449261, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "page_number": 510, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "No 342.\n\n507 C O 45156 REC [REG 17 NO 14]\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 14th October, 1914.\n\nSir,\n\nEvo 27967\n\nWith reference to your despatches of the numbers and dates noted in the margin, I have the honour to inform you that only two claims have been made since the date of my despatch No.240 of the 9th July by Chinese members of the crew of the \"Tai On\". Neither was made till the end of July in spite of the fact that enquiries were made at the time with the assistance of the Company to which the steamer belonged, to find claimants for compensation for loss of effects.\n\n0.207 of 14th August, 1914. 1.228 of the 3rd Sept.,1914.\n\n4. 32 346 27969\n\nOne was made by the Compradore, or Chinese Head Steward, of the vessel. The other by the Second Engineer also a Chinese. The first claim was most exorbitant and as no good reason was given for not putting forward the claims earlier I declined to entertain them. I should mention that Captain Wetherell had reported that he could not recommend consideration to any of the crew except the Carpenter who appears to have been the only one to render the least assistance to the officers on the occasion when the vessel was lost.\n\n2.\n\nAs regards the case of Mr. McCartney, I did not consider that the grant of a passage to England was called for in his case because he is a young man who could, had he wished, have obtained employment here, and can easily obtain it in England. In addition to the liberal allowance of £91 for his losses made to him by this Government he received £500 out of the fund raised by the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P., &C..\n\nPage 510\n\nPage 511", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451007, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 589, "title": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "## Piracy of S.S. \"Tai On\"\n\n### Finding of Marine Court of Enquiry\n\nWe find that the British S.S. Tai On, O.N. 95858, of Hongkong, of which Robert Henry Wetherell, the number of whose certificate of competency as Master is 08651 of London, was Master, left Hongkong on the 27th April, 1914, on a voyage to Kongmoon, with a general cargo of about 100 tons, 395 passengers, of whom only 363 paid any fares, and a crew of 38. At about 10 p.m., the ship being then off the Island of Kiu Au, near the Swashway entrance to the West River, some of the passengers who had embarked at Hongkong rose and attempted to gain possession of the ship, being armed with Mauser and Browning pistols. They attacked the bridge, where the Master, Mate, Chief Engineer, and two armed Portuguese guards were entrenched behind iron and barbed-wire grilles and loop-holed bullet-proof shields, who were able to repel the attack of their assailants, with the loss on their side of one, the Chief Engineer slightly wounded.\n\nThe pirates then retreated below, and endeavoured to persuade some of the peaceful passengers to go up and call upon the master to surrender, and upon their refusal to do so shot them. They then deliberately set the ship on fire in two or three places. This was about 11 o'clock.\n\nIn the meanwhile the officers, in the intervals of fighting, fired distress signals - rockets, bombs, and coloured lights, which were seen and answered by the British steamers Shun Lee, Shiu On, and Holsang, which were on their way down the river, bound for Hongkong, and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451026, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 608, "title": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "## PIRACY OF S.S.\"TAI ON\". \n## FINDING OF MARINE COURT OF ENQUIRY. \n601 \n\n\"We find that the British S.S.**Tai On** \nO.N. 95858, of Hongkong, of which Robert Henry \nWetherell, the number of whose certificate of \ncompetency as Master is 08651 of London, was Master, \nleft Hongkong on the 27th April, 1914, on a voyage to Kongmoon, with a general cargo of about 100 tons, \n395 passengers, of whom only 363 paid any fares, and \na crew of 38. At about 10 p.m. the ship being then \noff the Island of Kiu Au, near the Swashway entrance \nto the West River, some of the passengers who had embarked at Hongkong rose and attempted to gain \npossession of the ship, being armed with Mauser and \nBrowning pistols. They attacked the bridge, where \nthe Master, Mate, Chief Engineer, and two armed \nPortuguese guards were entrenched behind iron and \nbarbed-wire grilles and loop-holed bullet-proof \nshields, who were able to repel the attack of their \nassailants, with the loss on their side of one \nChief Engineer slightly wounded. \n\nThe pirates then retreated below, and endeavoured to persuade some of the peaceful passengers to go up and call upon the master to surrender, and \nupon their refusal to do so shot them. They then \ndeliberately set the ship on fire in two or three \nplaces. This was about 11 o'clock. \n\nIn the meanwhile the officers, in the \nintervals", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452637, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "page_number": 483, "title": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "content_text": "# THE TELEGRAPH MAIL SUPPLEMENT. EXTRA. 471\n## PIRATES FIRE HONG KONG SHIP.\n\nA remarkable piracy involving it is feared, the death of a European officer, the drowning of many Chinese, and the wounding of the Chief Engineer of the s.s. Tai On, took place on Monday evening, April 27, off Ki O, at the entrance of the West River. As a result, the Tai On now lies a wreck at Ki O, burned to the water's edge, while it is feared that as many as one hundred and forty lives have been lost.\n\nThe news was brought to Hongkong by s.s. Hoisang, which came into the harbour on the Tuesday shortly after four o'clock, sounding detonators and whistling for the Police. She had on board Capt. Wetherell, master of the Tai On, the compradore, and seven Chinese. Later in the day, the s.s. Shun Lee and the Shiu On arrived in port with other passengers of the Tai On on board and took up their anchorages in mid-stream, patrolled by police, and with armed guards on board.\n\nThe Tai On, which is owned by a Chinese company, and carries three European officers, Capt. Wetherell, Mr. Evans, Chief Officer, and Mr. McCartney, Chief Engineer, left Hongkong between seven and eight o'clock, bound for the West River. At about ten o'clock, the boat had made Ki O, just at the entrance of Wongmoon. It had been the habit of the Captain, since the last piracy of the ship in this district, which is generally thought to be infested with pirates, to keep particular watch nearing the danger zone. The captain went to his room to retire, the watch being taken by the Chief Officer on the bridge, who was accompanied, for the time being, by the Chief Engineer, who was lying in a chair.\n\nThe captain had changed and was lying down in his bunk when he heard a rush on deck, and, learning of the trouble, he armed himself with a duck gun. There was no one in the fore part of the boat, and in the absence of a ladder up to the bridge, the pirates, for they had manifested themselves as such, attempted to scale the bridge by means of the stanchions in front. The captain made a dash for the bridge himself and killed the first man with a shot full in the stomach. Hostilities were opened from this, and an Indian guard, who was also on the upper part of the boat, opened fire with telling effect; it is thought that he alone accounted for seven or eight of the marauders. In fact, he acted with great gallantry all through and did much to convince the pirates that the resistance offered them was likely to be effective. In the exchange of firing, the Chief Engineer received a shot wound in the buttock.\n\nIn the hope of taking the bridge, the pirates retreated and took refuge under the gunwales of the boat, where they were out of range of the guns on the bridge. Then, in spite and rage at not being able to take the craft, they set fire to the vessel in the stern.\n\nSeeing what had happened and realising the seriousness of the situation, the captain brought the ship's head up to the wind to prevent the conflagration spreading too quickly to the fore part. However, the fire did spread with rapidity, and in a short time, it became untenable to remain on board. There were about three or four hundred passengers on board, and they became panic-stricken, some even jumping into the flames in their fright.\n\nThe European officers were ordered to remain with the captain, who told them that they would all jump together when it became necessary. Eventually, they jumped into the water, and Capt. Wetherell and the Chief Engineer were afterwards picked up by the s.s. Wo Kwai, which, attracted by the sight of the ship on fire, had come up as close as she could.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452638, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "page_number": 484, "title": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "content_text": "# HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\nThose who were found clinging to the rudder were transferred to the s.s. Hoisang, as was also the compradore of the Tai On, who was also picked up and brought into Hongkong early on Tuesday. On arrival off Green Island, the police were called and attended under Inspector Gordon. Mr. McCartney was removed to the Government Civil Hospital, and the rescued Chinese were taken charge of by the Water Police.\n\nCaptain Wetherell sustained no injury from the pirates, though he received a nasty blow in the chest from a detonator that he exploded when the attack commenced. He was badly singed. Having killed the man who endeavoured to climb onto the bridge, Capt. Wetherell searched him for signs of identification and papers but failed to secure any clues from him.\n\nThe three officers concerned in this new outrage are all well known in the Colony. Capt. Wetherell has been on the West River for about two years. First, he was the mate of the s.s. On Lee. Later, he went with Capt. Holmes to the Tai On and was Chief Officer on that boat. Shortly after that, when Captain Holmes left the ship, he became master, a position which he has held ever since. He has a married daughter in Hongkong, who was saved from the wreck of a boat in Nagasaki Harbour some twenty-five years ago, when Mrs. Wetherell met her death.\n\nMr. Evans was in India before he came to join the River steamer traffic at Hongkong and was at one time with the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company.\n\nMr. McCartney has been on board the Tai On for many years past and was in the last piracy of the ship.\n\nThe authorities, on hearing of the outrage, took prompt steps in connection with it. Two torpedo boats, Nos. 035 and 037, were immediately placed under orders to proceed there with armed guards, and they left shortly after ten o'clock for Ki O, which is about thirty miles from Hongkong. The Governor's yacht, Stanley, was also commissioned, and in this, Commander Basil Taylor, Harbour Master, left for the scene of the outrage. The Hon. Mr. McI. Messer also left in one of the torpedo boats with a police guard. There is at present no information as to how all the pirates fared after they had fired the ship. No one seems to know whether they succeeded in getting away from the ship with any booty, and apparently, no junks were seen in the vicinity. Their fate is at present the interest of the authorities, who have despatched police in the torpedo boats, with food, to deal with matters on the spot. The fact that food has been ordered for the force that has been despatched seems to show that they are expected to be away some little time.\n\nLater in the morning, the s.s. Shun Lee and the Shiu On arrived in the Harbour and took up anchorages opposite the Harbour Office. Armed police guards were at once put on board. No one was allowed to leave the vessel, and a police patrol boat was told off to cruise round, keeping craft from approaching them. Representatives of the Telegraph went out and, while allowed to pass by the patrol, were forbidden to board. However, in a few words that were passed between a European officer on board and the press representatives, the former was able to express doubts as to the condition of Mr. McCartney before the visiting sampan was hurried off by the police. The Chinese brought in by the s.s. Hoisang were conveyed to the Water Police to await enquiries.\n\nAnother story of the occurrence states that at about eleven o'clock, the s.s. Wo Kwai saw the s.s. Tai On ablaze near Ki O. She went within two hundred yards of the vessel and was instrumental in saving the Captain, the Chief Engineer, and seven others, four of whom were found clinging to the rudder. The piracy was first made known to those on the bridge by the sound of shots below. The Captain, with a shotgun, and the Indian Guard, of whom there are four carried on board, taking watches, defended the bridge. The Pirates, finding that they could not take the vessel, set fire to it. The Chief Engineer received shot wounds, and Officer Evans is missing.\n\nSpeaking with an officer engaged in the West River trade, the Telegraph learnt that the district in which the piracy took place is nearly in the centre of the district commonly reported to be infested by pirates.\n\n\"If you stood on Wangmoon and drew a circle of thirty miles radius,\" he said, \"you would map out the district where the pirates are to be found.\"\n\nThis officer, speaking of the resistance that had been offered to the pirates, did not agree with it. \"It is the feeling along the wharves that it will be a bad time for Europeans at the next piracy,\" he said.\n\nThe long scroll of piracies in the waters of south China has had a further addition in the attack on the Tai On near Ki O; but there is one satisfactory side to the story - that is the fact that four of the pirates, alleged, are lying in the Government Civil Hospital in Hongkong suffering from gunshot wounds in three instances and from severe burns in the other. It is very likely that one of the men who received a shot in the chest, practically blowing it away, will not live much longer, and from him, little information is ever likely to be gained.\n\nWhen the Telegraph called at the Hospital on Tuesday, Dr. Bell intimated that the men could not be seen, as they were in a special room under an armed guard of Indians. One man had been shot in the shoulder, and the other in the left thigh. The damage to the thigh was, from his observation, of a very serious nature, and at the moment, the patient was about to be operated upon. The wounds were of a spreading nature, that it appeared as though they were inflicted with a shotgun. Engineer McCartney had been to the Hospital that morning suffering from a slight wound in the lower part of his back, but, though he was invited to stay, preferred to leave the hospital after being attended to.\n\nThe men, said Dr. Bell, who were alleged to be the pirates, appeared to be of the Chinese common class, and neither of them appeared in any dress other than that of the artisan or boatman. As far as he knew, no arms had been found upon them, but it was practically certain that they would have been subjected to a search before being brought to the hospital.\n\nThe Telegraph eventually succeeded in interviewing Capt. Somerville of the s.s. Shun Lee. The Captain gave a most graphic description of the truly horrifying scenes that he witnessed.\n\nThe Shun Lee left Hongkong, said the skipper, at 5:30 on Monday; the weather was cloudy and squally. They passed Kwongmoon at 9:00, and the s.s. On Lee passed them at 10:10. Shortly after the On Lee had passed them, the Liantan passed up and gave word that the Tai On was on fire. At 10:20, Capt. Somerville, from the bridge of the Shun Lee, observed distress rockets going up on his starboard bow. A quarter of an hour later, he saw the Tai On ashore sending up rockets and blowing her steam whistle. Capt. Somerville slowed down his engines and made towards the Tai On, blowing his steam whistle in answer.\n\nAt 10:50, he anchored in twelve feet of water; it was very dark at the time, and he could not get very near to the Tai On. He sounded down about four cables' lengths off, just inside half a mile.\n\nAt eleven o'clock, a fork of flame shot skywards from one end of the Tai On. At the moment, he could not say whether it was stem or stern, owing to the darkness. He immediately put out the lifeboats of the Shun Lee, with the object of rescue work. At 11:30, three boats pulled towards the burning ship, and from then until four o'clock in the morning, the men worked with unceasing vigour, bringing half-drowned persons to the haven of the Shun Lee. By this time, no less than 116 persons were rescued from certain death.\n\n\"Of what use are our grillages now, or our bullet-proof protectors for the bridge,\" feelingly exclaimed Capt. Somerville, \"if they are going to burn our ships from under us and plunder us while we are sinking slowly and helplessly into the treacherous mud of the West River?\" The scenes in and about the Tai On, he continued, \"were almost indescribable; the flames shot mast-high, and the smoke hindered greatly the rescuers in their work and to a great extent obscured vision. The wails and cries from the hundreds in the water were heartrending, and as the boats drew close by the Tai On, desperate people clung to the sides of the boats and made frenzied efforts to gain security from the muddy waters.\"\n\nThe fact that they set fire to the ship, said Capt. Somerville, proves the treacherous nature of the gang of pirates that make it their business to molest ships on this particular run. Finding the heroic defence of those on the bridge of the Tai On too great for them, from sheer desperation and lust for blood, they set fire to the vessel, caring not for the loss of hundreds of lives - the lives of fellow countrymen - so long as they avenged themselves on the sturdy and stalwart defenders of the Tai On's commanding quarters.\n\nA peculiar feature of the affair is that not a junk or a sampan was seen alongside the Tai On during the whole of the night, and the only other craft that got near her was the rescue party.\n\nIt is quite probable, however, that when the ship was fired, the smoke would obscure the movements of craft about the stern of the vessel. The Captain did turn the ship round so that the flames would be carried from the ship by the wind instead of onto it. It is believed by those on board that many of the pirates mixed among the passengers in the disorder that followed, and in that case, many have either perished or have been rescued with the passengers. The authorities are inquiring into the matter, however, and no doubt their investigations will lead to a better understanding as to how the pirates escaped.\n\nThose who have first-hand information of the occurrence tell the most glowing stories of the gallantry of the guard on the Tai On, who did so much courageous work during the fighting between the pirates and the ship's officers. Twice the pirates suffered reverse, and it was not until they found the fire from the officers so fatal to their numbers that they determined to set fire to the ship. The Captain of the Tai On had but a shotgun with which to take up his stand, but this he did, gallantly assisted to a man by his loyal assistants. In one case, a pirate received a full charge of small shot in the chest at a few yards' range, and terrible injuries were inflicted.\n\nThe two Portuguese watchmen on board the Tai On are named Dias and Leocadie Jorge da Silva. The former was a soldier in Macao for a time and from there went to Shanghai, later returning to Hongkong. The latter is a young man with a wife and mother in Hongkong.\n\n## Page 472\n\n# HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452640, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "page_number": 486, "title": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "content_text": "# HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\n474\n\nwith Sergeant Grimmitt pounding at the captain. The vessel was abandoned, a light showing, just outside of British waters. Regretfully she was left, sitting broken there and smouldering beneath the deepening arch of the night.\n\nA call on Dr. Bell at the Government Civil Hospital on Wednesday, elicited the information that the men detained there under armed guard are still alive, and that the police this morning had been examining them.\n\nThe captain of the Tai On, along with Mr. King, the District Superintendent of Police, visited the hospital when an identificatory examination was made. As to the result of the examination there is no statement at the moment.\n\nCommander Beckwith R.N. when interviewed said that the Tai On was anchored South of Lamma Island in two and a half fathoms of water. On Wednesday the owners had sent out two launches to bring her to the refuge at Yaumati. The owners are being assisted by the police.\n\nIt is stated that the missing chief officer (Evans) is a married man and his wife was shortly to come out from England to join him.\n\nSeen by the \"Telegraph\" on the Wednesday, the captain of Tai On gave his version of what occurred. He did not succeed in identifying any of the men detained at the Government Civil Hospital, nor any of those at the Water Police Station. He said that in the dark and the excitement it was difficult to try to commit faces to memory. Referring to the grilles, the Captain said that had it not been for the double grille of his vessel they would have been killed by the pirates. He was keeping the last watch from Waglan to Kwongmoon, and, after clearing the Harbour of Hongkong, he handed over the charge of the vessel to the mate. This would be about twenty minutes past seven.\n\nHe got into his sleeping clothes and commenced to smoke. While lying still awake about ten minutes past ten, as a matter of fact he was smoking at the time, he heard yells and shouts and shots being fired. He immediately realised what had happened and switched his light. He reached out for his double-barreled breach-loading shot gun, No. 10 bore, and immediately made for deck by the after door. It was a good job too that he did use this door instead of the other door, as he would have been met with a volley of shots. On reaching the outside he found a man who saw the point of the gun barrel turned towards him and dashed off into safety.\n\nThe captain then turned his attention to a pirate who was attacking the Chief Engineer. This man he let have the full shot in the stomach and he died on the spot. The engineer then told him that he was shot; he took him to his cabin. The captain then brought into use his two revolvers and his Winchester and he used them alternately, the wounded engineer loading for the fighting skipper. The attack on the engineer was from the port side and when the skipper searched the dead aggressor afterwards for means of identification, all that he found on him was a packet of Mauser cartridges.\n\nThe deceased pirate he had reason to believe was the ringleader of the gang. Going on to the starboard side the Captain saw the man who first cleared off through scare and he let him have the contents of a barrel. The effect of the shot was so great that it forced the receiver over the rail on to the other deck. The watchman Dias was at this time peppering away at the bunk at the after side behind the grille. The other watchman da Silva was at this time pinned between the two grilles, but later they managed to free him from his perilous position. The pirates got on board at Hongkong, and when they made the attack they commenced aft of the funnel. The gang were twice repulsed, and then there was a period of quiet. During this period the Captain sent up distress signals, and afterwards the electric light was cut off by the pirates. The skipper then got the engineer to light a lamp, and commenced to burn blue lights with the double purpose of calling for assistance, and for the purpose of providing light so that they would not be made the victim of a third attack in the dark. The engineer then took command of the rockets and commenced to send them up. Suddenly he saw flames bursting through the skylights, and he realised that the desperadoes had determined to set the ship on fire. How the pirates got away, if they did get away, he had no idea as there was not a sampan or a junk to be seen anywhere near the ship.\n\nAll the pirates were in Chinese clothes and appeared to belong to the common class. There were none in European clothes. The captain then realised that it was useless with the few men at his command to do anything, and the lifeboats were practically on fire. He tried to get hold of the zinc rafts to slip them over the side, but it was no use. They then went on to the next deck, and the order was given to lower the anchor.\n\nThen he brought the ship round with head to the wind and tide. That permitted the flames to blow off the vessel and for a few moments gave the Europeans a respite. About half an hour later they decided to all get over the side. The Captain shook hands with his gallant comrades and wished them good bye, and they each in turn took leave of the other.\n\nAfter hanging on to the side for some time the Chief Officer decided to jump into the water and that was the last that the skipper and the chief engineer saw of him. Then the captain got on to the guard and hung on to the anchor tumbler. After a quarter of an hour in this position the chief engineer said the heat was unbearable and he would go out and do the best for himself.\n\nThe captain had previously given the order that they were to do the best they could for themselves when he wished them good bye. Then it came the captain's turn to do a dash for safety and he jumped into the water. He was in the water about half an hour when he was picked up by the Wo Kwai. He asked the skipper of that ship to put him on board the nearest ship that was going to Hongkong, and he was handed over to the Hoi-Bang. The chief engineer had been picked up by the Wo Kwai and handed over to the Sui An. \"The mate, poor fellow, I have not seen him since, but I still have hope. I hope to get a shore job no matter how small the salary. I would sooner sell papers in the streets than go up that river again,\" concluded the hero of the moment.\n\nThe captain has lost everything he possessed except a signet ring. He has no clothes except the pyjamas he was found in and his present rig out with which he has been accommodated.\n\nDias, the gallant Portuguese who helped to defend the S.S. Tai On, was brought to Hongkong by the S.S. Shun Lee. He is reported to have said that he saw Chief Officer Evans wounded by the pirates before they jumped from the ship. Dias claims to have accounted for no fewer than twelve of the marauders. He is a man of full stature and regular soldierly bearing; when alarm was raised on board the Tai On he armed himself with revolvers, one in each hand and assisted the Captain and the other officers to keep the bridge. The first man that he killed was one who, scaling the railings of the bridge, and holding on with one hand, was attempting to kill the captain with a revolver which he held in the other. Dias put one of his revolvers close to the man's forehead and fired, the man falling dead to the deck below.\n\nImmediately afterwards several of the pirates rushed for the bridge and Dias in a quick succession of shots emptied both revolvers into the charge, and accounted for no less than twelve men.\n\nFortunately, he says, the arms happened to be handy or such an effective resistance would not have been put up.\n\nA simple but impressive ceremony took place on Thursday in the drawing room of Government House, when H.E. the Governor met the defenders of the Tai On, Capt. Weatherell, Mr. McCartney and the Portuguese watchman Dias.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn and Mr. Mcl. Messer, Capt. Superintendent of Police, were also present.\n\nThe three men were presented to His Excellency in turn by the Captain Superintendent of Police and after a short chat with each His Excellency referred to the piracy in the following terms:-\n\nHis Excellency :- Well, gentlemen, I just wanted to say to you at the earliest possible moment how much I and the Hongkong Government appreciate your services on the occasion of the piratical attack on the Tai On. This is not, of course, the only way in which your services will be recognised. We will do more for you within reason than what I am going to do to-day. This is merely an informal expression of admiration of your conduct and of the thanks of the Government for protecting the British flag and the passengers who were entrusted to your care.\n\nI have been told that resistance to these piracies is more or less humbug, that the best thing officers and crew can do when attacked by pirates is simply to throw up their hands and let the miscreants work their will upon the ship. Well, that is not my idea of the duty of Englishmen who have the honour of commanding what are British ships according to register, ships that fly the British flag. The Government on the last occasion of the piracy of the Tai On took certain measures to give the officers a chance they have never had before of holding their own, and I am proud that upon the first occasion upon which British officers got a chance of holding their own, they should do so to such good effect that they repelled a strenuous attack, although they were greatly outnumbered.\n\nIt is a terrible thing that these devils—they are no better than devils—should set fire to the ship to make good their escape. I hope and pray that every single one of them has met his death or will meet it, and I hope that in the next world they will get due and proper retribution for their brutal conduct which has led to a terrible loss of life. I can tell you that the Government will do its utmost to prevent the occurrence of such an act as was enacted upon the Tai On.\n\nYou know as well as I do that the number of Chinese boarding these vessels as passengers and the facilities there are for smuggling of arms makes it not an easy thing to do, but still it has to be done and will be done, no matter what money it costs, because I am not going to have the British flag insulted by a lot of Chinese pirates, or pirates of any other nationality, and I thank you most heartily for backing up the efforts of the Government in this direction and I can assure you that you have my admiration, and, I may say, the admiration of the Chinese and British communities.\n\nAlthough the Chinese do not agree altogether with the method of dealing with pirates, they can admire brave men. They think it the best thing to drop hands and let the pirates take what they want, and that it is bad judgment if you lose your money, but, as I have said before, you are all Englishmen worth twopence and do not take this view and are not going to take it.\n\nCaptain Wetherall, I will read...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452641, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "page_number": 487, "title": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "content_text": "## HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\nYou have an official letter which I have had addressed to you by the Colonial Secretary; and as I have said, it is merely a formal recognition of your services:\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th April, 1914.**\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to inform you that your spirited action on the occasion of the piratical attack on board the steamer \"Tai On\" on the night of Monday the 27th of April, 1914, has been brought to the notice of the Governor. It appears that with the help of your colleagues, Mr. McCartney, the Chief Engineer, and Mr. Evans, the Chief Officer, you gallantly withstood the armed assault upon the bridge, and that when the vessel had been set on fire you did all that lay in your power to obtain help from other vessels in the vicinity, afterwards remaining at your post until all had left the burning ship.\n\nYour devotion to duty in circumstances of great peril was worthy of the highest traditions of the British Mercantile Marine Service and I am to convey to you the thanks of His Excellency and the Government of Hongkong for your courageous conduct, which was the means of saving many lives.—I am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n**Sd. CLAUD SEVERN**,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nR. H. Wetherell, Esq.,\nMaster, S. S. \"Tai On.\"\n\nI may say here that enquiries will be made into the circumstances under which certain ships, who although they knew that the \"Tai On\" was on fire did not stand by to render her assistance. Thank you again very much and my personal opinion of you at the present is, that you are one of the finest chaps I have ever shaken hands with.\n\nMr. McCartney, you come from a race—the Scots race—which has proved itself equal to any emergency, and you are a fine specimen of one of the finest races on the face of the earth, though I say it who am not of your race.\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th April, 1914.**\nSir,\nI am directed to inform you that the valuable services which you rendered on the occasion of the piratical attack on board the steamer \"Tai On\" on the night of Monday, the 27th of April, 1914, have been brought to the notice of the Governor.\n\nYou gallantly supported the efforts of the Captain in repelling the armed assault on the bridge, and afterwards when the vessel had been set on fire.\n\nI am to convey to you the thanks of His Excellency and the Government of Hongkong for your brave conduct.—I am, Sir,\nYour obedient servant,\n**Sd. CLAUD SEVERN**,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nI am proud to shake hands with you.\n\nMr. McCartney:-Thank you, sir.\n\nHis Excellency:--And now, Mr. Dias, you acted a very brave part. You were foreman of the guard on board and you showed that the Portuguese race has still got lots of the courage for which it was famous in history. I am glad to think that one of the ancient allies—or a member of a country, the ancient ally of England—stood by British officers to do the strenuous work that you did.\n\nThe following letter has been directed to you:\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th April, 1914.**\nSir,\nI am directed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor has heard with much pleasure of your gallant conduct on the occasion of the piratical attack on board the steamer \"Tai On\" on the night of Monday, the 27th of April, 1914.\n\nIt appears that with your colleagues you assisted the officers in preventing the pirates from capturing the bridge and wheel-house, and that while so doing you shot down several members of the gang.\n\nI am to convey to you the thanks of His Excellency and the Government of Hongkong for your services.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient servant,\n**(Sd.) CLAUD SEVERN**,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nAntonie Dias, Esq.,\nArmed Guard,\nS.S. \"Tai On.\"\n\nI am proud to shake hands with you and I am only sorry I was not beside you on the bridge. I will only add that I deeply regret the loss of Mr. Evans and so many others, especially Mr. Evans who must have had a very strenuous time on that night. Now I have asked the Captain Superintendent of Police and the Harbour Master to enquire into the losses which you have incurred and the Government will deal fairly with you in this matter.\n\nCapt. Wetherell:-I beg to thank you on behalf of myself and my shipmates and to unite with you in regret at the loss of Mr. Evans.\n\nThe men again shook hands with His Excellency and left, being photographed in the grounds as they went.\n\nOne of the Chinese passengers of the \"Tai On,\" Leung Ping-wan, who was sent to the Government Civil Hospital on the 28th inst., suffering from shot wounds, died there at 7.45 p.m. on Wednesday.\n\nLee. Sgt. Grimmitt reports that he picked up on the wreck of the \"Tai On\" the following articles: the metal parts of a shot-gun, 3 Winchester Rifles, 2 Mauser Pistols, 2 Automatic Pistols, 2 Revolvers, various silver and copper coins, 3 Bangles, 1 Gold Finger Ring, 1 piece Jade Stone.\n\n## ON THE INQUIRY\n\n41\n\n## HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\nTuesday the official inquiry into the circumstances attending the casualty to the British S.S. \"Tai On,\" to quote the words of the warrant forming the Court, was commenced at the Harbour Office. The court, which was composed of Commander Basil Taylor R.N. president, Lt. T. D. Sharp, R.N. HMS. Tamar, Mr. F. T. Wheeler, master of the S.S. Kum Sang, J. W. Evans, master of the S.S. Hai Mun, and J. Robinson master of the S.S. Sangking.\n\nThe first witness called was the master of the ill-fated \"Tai On,\" Capt. Wetherell said he left his wharf at 7 p.m. on April 27.\n\nThe President:-Bound for Wongmoon?-Kwongmoon.\n\nWere there other ships which left at the same time?—Yes; the \"On Lee.\" She left after me and came astern down the central fairway.\n\nWas the \"Lintan\" due to leave at the same time?-I believe so.\n\nDid you see her?-No. Did the \"On Lee\"?-I cannot say, but I have been told she passed me at Capsimun Light.\n\nDid you see any more of the \"On Lee\"?—No.\n\nThen you went along and everything went well until when I turned in before then.\n\nWhen?-About 10 p.m. What is the next thing that happened?—I had a few smokes but could not sleep. I never can sleep on that watch—and then I heard yells, shouts, and revolver shots.\n\nComing from where?-From both sides.\n\nOn your boat deck?-Yes. Any down below?-I can't say that.\n\nThen what did you do?-I got up and turned the light on. A plan of the ship was produced showing the captain's quarters.\n\nYou were fully dressed?-No, in singlet and gown.\n\nThe gun was a-? Ten bore shot gun.\n\nLoaded? It is always kept loaded.\n\nLoaded with what?-S.G.\n\nYour door is on the aft deck?-There are two doors. I went to the starboard side when a man met me. He went back and I went to the port side.\n\nThe man who met you; was he?-A pirate.\n\nArmed?-I had not time to see if he was armed.\n\nThen you went to the port side and what did you see?-A man attacking the Chief Engineer.\n\nArmed?-I could not see. It was dark; I don't know whether it was before or afterwards that the engineer shouted he was shot. Anyhow I gave the man the barrel.\n\nIn his head?-No; in his chest. You fired at the man, and killed him? He went over backwards; he was killed. I went to the starboard side and saw another man; I don't know whether he was coming up or going down but I gave him the other barrel.\n\nThe man dropped on the forecastle?-On the fo'c'sle.\n\nYour gun was then empty?-Yes. I told the engineer to go into my room and passed him my gun to load up again. There were four spare cartridges on the locker.\n\nWere you firing from your cabin?-No. I went into the cabin, got two revolvers, and shot two or three times with those.\n\nWere the pirates behind the grille?-Behind the after grille shouting and yelling.\n\nWere there many of them?-The place swarmed with them.\n\nThere seemed to be a lot?-Yes.\n\nYou fired a few shots at them?-Yes. I must have gone into the wheelhouse and got another...\n\nWhat do you mean...?\n\nYou were using revolvers then?-When the gun was loaded. I got in two more shots, one forward and the other to the starboard side.\n\nHow long did this firing go on?-Perhaps two or three minutes.\n\nAnd they went off; how about the people behind?-They were there all the time.\n\nThen how did you escape?-I was behind the shield?-No.\n\nThen what happened?-I sung out to the mate. I saw there were no more on the bridge, and I told the mate to guard the bridge and see that no more came up.\n\nWhere were your watchmen?-In the meantime I had the grilles closed.\n\nThat was the foremost grille; the after grille was already shut?-Locked.\n\nThe watchmen, where were they?-There was one on each side between the foremost grille and the shield?-Yes.\n\nWhat were they doing?-Firing aft.\n\nWhat were they using?-Each one had a .38 calibre revolver and a Winchester.\n\nThe chief engineer was where?-In my room.\n\nWas he badly hurt?-He was complaining.\n\nWitness said:-I gave him the keys of the rocket locker, and when I got them I let one off.\n\nHow long after the attack commenced did you send off these?-About five minutes.\n\nAs soon as you had repelled the attack?-Yes.\n\nThen you started firing rockets?-I fired one and then had another two or three shots aft. These men were firing all the time. Then I went and got another one but I found the brass tube burst and I was hit in the chest.\n\nYou kept on fighting and sending off rockets?-As best I could. Were your engines going all this time?-I can't say.\n\nYou had not stopped the engines?-The engine room had rung up.\n\nYou can't say what time the engines stopped?-No sir. I rang one engine full ahead and put the helm a-port after I had rung the engines two or three times. I could get no reply. Then I found the steering gear was out of order. By this time were they still firing?-Yes, from aft.\n\nHow long afterwards?-Before they started the fire.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452642, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "page_number": 488, "title": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "content_text": "# HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\n## GSA SUPPLEMENT 476\n\nHow long would that be from the time they commenced?—About twenty minutes.\n\nAfter they had been firing for twenty minutes the fire slackened?—The fire slackened up.\n\nAnd then after the firing ceased?—They had stopped the electric light.\n\nThey stopped the dynamo while they were firing?—While they were firing.\n\nAnd about five minutes after the firing ceased they set fire to the ship?—Yes. The chief engineer had a blue light out on the bridge after he had lit the lamp in my room.\n\nThen you brought the ammunition out and laid it on the bridge?—Yes, some of it.\n\nHow did you first become aware of the fire?—Seeing the flames coming through a skylight just before the funnel.\n\nAt that time the firing had all ceased?—Yes.\n\nThere was still noise going on?—Yes, shouting.\n\nThe flames spread?—Well, the flames did not come right away, you could see the glare in three places.\n\nThey seemed to have lit her in more than one place?—Yes.\n\nThen the fire spread?—I unlocked the grilles to let the mate and Chief engineer get their life belts.\n\nDid they get them?—Chief engineer got his.\n\nDid the mate?—No. Why not?—I don't know, there was one in his room.\n\nWitness said they threw the wooden covers of the boats overboard to give people something to cling to.\n\nThey got them off with an axe which they used to cut the lashings.\n\nWhy were you throwing them overboard?—It was swarming with people in the water.\n\nThey had commenced to jump overboard?—They started some time before.\n\nDid you see any junks or sampans about?—No; none at all.\n\nHad you received any reply to your signals of distress?—None whatever. While I was signalling I saw the stern lights of a steamer.\n\nWas the ship on fire then?—No.\n\nWas there firing from aft?—Yes; every chance I got I sent up rockets.\n\nHow far off was the steamer then?—About a couple of miles on the port hand.\n\nThen she must have been on the mud?—No sir.\n\nIf she was on your port hand she was close in shore?—No, sir. You think it was a ship bound for Macao?—It must have been.\n\nWitness continued that he tried to get one of the rafts over the side but the flames were too strong.\n\nThe flames drove you forward?—We remained forward for a minute and then went below.\n\nOver the fore part of the bridge?—Yes.\n\nBy that time was your cabin on fire?—Yes. At that time I found more crew forward. They were on the forecastle.\n\nAny passengers?—Oh, passengers and crew.\n\nThe flames were going forward I suppose.—I dropped the starboard anchor and she swung head to wind.\n\nYou could not remain there very much longer?—It gave us half an hour quite when she came round to the wind.\n\nThere was quite a breeze then, wasn't there?—Moderate.\n\nFinally you all had to jump?—Yes sir, I suppose after the anchor was down about half a hour.\n\nThere were three ships prepared to pick you up; had any of them arrived?—We were so confused, we were talking about the Lintan passing.\n\nThat was after you left the bridge?—No, a long time before.\n\nYou did not see the Lintan; who did?—The chief engineer and the mate; I may have seen her myself but I can't remember. She did not come to you, to your knowledge, and communicate with you?—No, sir.\n\nFinally you had to jump for it and you were picked up?—By a boat of the Wo Kwai, a Chinese boat.\n\nBefore you jumped did you see any boats?—Yes, before we went on the lower deck.\n\nHow many; do you remember?—Three.\n\nAbout how far off would you say the nearest one was?—About half to three quarters of a mile.\n\nYou did not remain on board the Wo Kwai?—I went on board the Wo Kwai and asked the master to put me on board a Hongkong steamer.\n\nWhich one was that?—The Hoi-sang.\n\nWhat was the last you saw of the mate?—Before we got on the guard he was frightened of the rockets going off and he said \"I'm off\" and jumped.\n\nHe had no life belt?—No. What had he got?—A boat's oar. He was fully dressed?—Yes. And that was the last you saw of him?—Yes.\n\nHow long after he jumped did you go; was he the first to go?—Yes.\n\nWho was the last to go?—I was.\n\nHow long after did you go?—About two or three minutes after; the engineer went first and I followed. We went down from the guard.\n\nWas that where Evans went from?—No; he went from the fo'csle head.\n\nHe jumped clear; he did not strike anything?—No, sir.\n\nCould you say whether he kicked his shoes off before he went?—I could not say. I don't know if he had them on.\n\nWhen you jumped how far were the flames from you?—They were coming up the forecastle scuttle.\n\nShe was alight right up to the bows?—Yes, the deck was opening and blisters were raised on the paint.\n\nDid any of the pirates get between the two grilles?—No, sir.\n\nIn answer to Capt Evans witness said that the grilles were locked by means of a pair of handcuffs cut in two, because they could easily be snapped to. The key hung in his room.\n\nReferring again to the On Lee witness said he did not see her after leaving the harbour. She always got to Wangmoon about fifteen minutes ahead of him.\n\n## Albert L Prince, chief engineer of the Hoi-sang\n\nDid you see any rockets going up?—Yes, from the Tai On, just when we arrived.\n\nWhen you arrived where?—Where the Tai On was.\n\nWas she on fire then?—Yes, forward and aft.\n\nWhen you first saw her?—Yes. Did you hear any firing going on?—No, sir.\n\nYou went up close to her?—We went as close as we could.\n\nHow far?—It is difficult to say. It was dark; we went closer in than the other two boats.\n\nWere the other boats there before you?—Yes, the Shun Lee and Shui On.\n\nCould you see whether the Tai On was at anchor?—No, she appeared to be moving, if anything.\n\nWere your boats lowered?—Yes.\n\nDid you assist in getting the boats out?—Yes.\n\nWas there any difficulty in getting crews to man the boats?—I understand the captain to say that there was some difficulty with the pilot.\n\nWas there any difficulty in getting crews to man the boats and get them out?—Not that I heard of.\n\nDid you hear of any difficulty between the master and pilot about going close to the Tai On?—No.\n\nWere there any junks and sampans about?—In the distance there were some.\n\nWere they near enough to pick up people in the water?—Some of them might have been able to.\n\nWere any of the lights of the native craft between you and the Tai On?—Yes. You could have seen the lights flicker.\n\nThey couldn't have been bits of burning wreckage?—I should not have thought so.\n\nInspector Gordon said that Capt. Wetherell threw lights overboard to float in the water, and witness might have mistaken these for sampan lights. There were also fish stakes in the vicinity and they also carried lights.\n\n## Mr. J. McCartney, chief engineer on the Tai On\n\nHe was sitting in front of the foremost grille when the trouble commenced. The first warning he had was a rush from starboard side and yelling and shooting. As he rose from his chair a man rushed to the centre of the bridge and fired at him. The mate was on the starboard side. Witness was hit in the right hip. When witness was shot he fell and his assailant tumbled over the top of him in the dark. As he got up the man held him by the wrist. They both retreated to near the wheel house and the pirate threatened witness with a revolver at his head. While this was going on other men endeavoured to climb on to the bridge.\n\nThe captain then came out and put his sporting gun past the witness's face to the chest of the man who was holding him.\n\nAnd killed him?—Killed him; he fell.\n\nWere you badly hurt?—Badly at the time. I told the captain not to shoot again as I was the chief engineer.\n\nAre you better now?—Yes, I am a bit stiff.\n\nThe Captain took him into his cabin where he lay on the floor. He was unable to stand and he kept loading guns and revolvers all the time.\n\nHow long did you remain in the cabin?—I could not say, but when the lights went out I took the cartridges out and placed them on the rocket box. I had to feel for the various sizes.\n\nThen you went on leading?—Yes.\n\nDid you see any ship pass the Tai On?—Yes.\n\nWhen?—After we started the blue light.\n\nWas there still firing?—The pirates were firing.\n\nAnd the master and mate were firing?—Yes, and when there was a lull in the fire the master fired rockets.\n\nYou say a ship passed up; about how far was she from you?—I have not much idea. She could not be very far away because you have to pass up the channel.\n\nWhat did you actually see of the ship?—I saw the passengers and crew of the ship leaning over the rails looking at us.\n\nYou saw all her lights?—Yes. And on which side of you did she pass?—The starboard side. The captain and I were on the starboard side and the mate was on the port side.\n\nFiring was still going on at the time?—Firing was going on below at the time.\n\nBut the ship had not caught fire?—Just immediately after the ship passed we were caught on fire.\n\nCould you tell what ship it was?—The captain asked which ship it was.\n\nYou recognised her?—Yes. You recognised her as what?—I knew her at once.\n\nRecognised her to be what ship?—The Lintan.\n\nDid she hail you in any way?—She took no notice.\n\nDid not stop but went straight on?—Yes.\n\nDo you think the Lintan was sufficiently close to hear the shots?—Yes, and the rockets were bursting right above her.\n\nDid you see anything of the On Lee?—We saw her all the way up. How far away?—About 15 minutes, from Wangmoon.\n\nWas she in sight when you began to fire rockets?—Yes.\n\nWhere did she pass you?—By Wangmoon light before we got to Capsaimun Pass.\n\nDo you think the On Lee was near enough to have heard the firing?—Not to have heard the firing; but she might have seen the rockets.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452643, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "page_number": 489, "title": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "content_text": "# HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\nDid she turn back?-Who, the On Lee? No.\n\nThe doors of the grille were unlocked to let you and the mate get your life belts?-Yes. The mate said \"I have no life belt.\"\n\nI said \"Yes, you have in your room. I told him it was in the wardrobe and we both went to get it but were driven out by the smoke.\n\nYou got yours?-Yes. Could Evans swim?-Yes. Did he jump clear?-Yes. After the adjournment Capt. Wetherell, recalled, gave the number of the crew as 38, 10 cargo coolies and an unknown number of cargo brokers.\n\nThe Tai On's compradore U. Sui-sang, said the first intimation of trouble that he had was the second-class passengers. Pirates entered the compradore's office and ransacked it. He could not tell the number of men but he would estimate five or six were on the job. He would not recognise them again because he could not very well see their faces. They were Chinese dressed in dark clothing and looked much the same as the other passengers. They were ordinary middle-class people except that they looked very fierce and wild.\n\nYou told Mr. Sayer that these people threatened to burn the ship, why did they want to burn the ship? The passengers asked the pirates not to burn the ship.\n\nDid they say why they were going to burn the ship?-I don't know.\n\nYou know what they said?-They told the passengers to ask the captain to be allowed to do as they liked with the ship and then they would not burn it.\n\nDo you know why they were going to burn the ship; they would not be able to get away themselves; that would be a silly thing to do?-I don't know.\n\nWhat do you think?-My idea was that they would not be able to escape. If they did not set fire to the ship and jumped into the water, the captain would shoot them.\n\nIt did not strike you that they did not want to burn the ship but that it got out of control?-I don't know what their intention was but that is what they did.\n\nDid you see them shoot any women?-No.\n\nHow many passengers did they shoot?-I don't know.\n\nWhat were they armed with?-With revolvers.\n\nHow many passengers had you on board?-363. They were people who had paid their fares? They had paid their fares and I had tickets.\n\nCapt. Wetherell: We had 38 crew, 363 passengers, and some cargo coolies and brokers.\n\nOf these were wounded. He had heard that twelve dead bodies had been picked up off Ki O. These were afterwards brought to Hongkong by the Tung Wah Hospital authorities. On May 4, the same authorities brought a further 6 bodies from the scene of the piracy.\n\nOf the survivors at Macao, one was supposed to be a watchman on board the steamer. Some twelve others had been detained, the remainder being allowed to go to their friends.\n\nAntonio Diaz, the watchman on the Tai On, ...\n\nHow many runners had you on board?-About 80.\n\nAnd how many cargo coolies?-Sixteen.\n\nAnd then there were cargo brokers?-Yes.\n\nCould you say how many of them?-About six.\n\nThere were some boys as well making a total of 513 on board. Witness did not know how many were saved. He was saved by the Hoi Sang, having been found clinging to the rudder.\n\nCapt. Wetherell:-When you sold and collected the tickets did you notice anything suspicious?-Nothing.\n\nThe President:-Nothing unusual? They all looked like passengers.\n\nWas there the usual amount of luggage with these passengers?-I did not take notice.\n\nWas there or was there not the usual quantity of luggage? About the same.\n\nInspector Gordon said the Tai On came back to the harbour on May 1 at 10 pm. The remains of 17 bodies were found on board. He believed that there was a lot consumed. The bones of six human beings were found and a large quantity of white ash. The Shun Lee brought back 120 passengers, the Shui On brought back 32 and a European. The Hoi Sang brought back 88.\n\nTai Oa, said he was stationed on the starboard of the bridge armed with a rifle and revolver. He had been trained as a soldier in Portugal. At the commencement of the trouble, he was just abaft the foremost grille. He heard a sound of shots and of people rushing forward in the direction of the bridge, and later saw a man climbing over the bridge rail on the starboard side. Witness shot him. The door in the forward grille was closed after the firing commenced. He killed five persons in the fore part and then turned his attention to the after grille.\n\nWong Him, third engineer of the Tai On, said he was on duty in the engine room when he heard shots forward at about 10:15 p.m. Shortly afterwards, the telegraph rang to him to stop the engines and he did so. Later, he received a signal to go ahead again but he could not carry out these instructions because he was prevented by armed pirates. Ten minutes later, some more pirates came into the engine room and ordered him to stop the engines. He pointed out that they were already stopped. A fireman was then ordered to go and stop the dynamo and when he refused, he was hit over the head with the butt end of a revolver. Another one asked the way up to the captain and was shown the way to the boat deck. They found that the door leading to the boat deck was locked and when they asked for the key, witness replied that he had not got it. Later, as they left the engine room, they threw the key into the crank pit. Just after this, the telegraph again rang to go ahead but witness was again prevented by a pirate who pointed a revolver at his head. Then flames commenced to come in from the main deck through a crack in the door, and witness went below and forward to the grille, shouting to the folks there to get out. Later, he jumped through a cargo port and, after being in the water for about three hours, was picked up by the S.S. Shan Lee.\n\nWong Chiu, second engineer, explained that the sound of shots awoke him on the night in question. Having heard the sound, he did nothing but went back to his sofa. He did not go out to help to defend the ship because he heard a lot of pirates in the No. 2 pilot's room.\n\nThe President:-You had a revolver in your room?-Yes.\n\nWhy didn't you get up and go out and help to defend the ship?-If I had come out, surely there would have been somebody to kill me. I couldn't cope with a lot of pirates.\n\nCapt. Summerville of the S.S. Shun Lee gave evidence as to rescuing survivors from the water. He met the Lintan going up and the master of the vessel hailed him and told him that the Tai On was ashore further up. He also met the On Lee twelve minutes later but that ship made no communication to him. Eight or ten minutes after passing the Lintan, witness saw the rockets going up from the Tai On. He went in as close as he could to the Tai On, anchoring in twelve feet of water. He might have gone closer but the pilots would not take him any further in.\n\nCapt. Weatherhead of the Shiu On deposed to receiving a report from his mate that the Lintan had passed and reported that the Tai On was ashore lower down. He ran the Shiu On to within two and a half cables of the vessel and got out his boats to help save people from the ship and to assist those of the other ships standing by.\n\nThe adjourned hearing was continued on Wednesday when the only evidence adduced was that of the ship's compradore who was recalled.\n\nThe President:-Can you tell me how much cargo the ship was carrying?-I don't know how much there was, but I can tell you the freight.\n\nI want to know the weight? I don't know the weight, I never took notice of that.\n\nWitness said that they were carrying cargo of all kinds. The manifest was burnt and he would not be able to obtain one at the offices of the owners.\n\nIt was suggested that there were about 100 tons of cargo on board. The compradore amended his evidence with regard to the number of passengers on board; instead of there being a total of 513 persons on the ship, there were 433.\n\n## Finding of the Court\n\nThe finding of the court was as follows:-We find that the British S.S. Tai Oo, O.N. 95,858 of Hongkong, of which Robert Henry Wetherell, the number of whose certificate of efficiency is 08851 of London, was master, left Hongkong at 7 p.m. on April 27, 1914, on a voyage to Kongmun with a general cargo of about 100 tons, 395 passengers, of whom only 363 paid any fare, and a crew of 38.\n\nAt about 10:10, the ship being then off the island of Ki Au near the Swashway entrance to the West River, some of the passengers who had embarked at Hongkong rose and attempted to gain possession of the ship, being armed with Mauser and Browning pistols. They attacked the bridge, where the master, mate, and chief engineer and two armed Portuguese guards were entrenched behind iron and barbed wire grilles and loopholed bullet-proof shields, who were able to repel the attack, after shooting several of their assailants, with the loss on their side of one-the chief engineer slightly wounded.\n\nThe pirates then retreated below and endeavoured to persuade some of the peaceful passengers to go up and call upon the master to surrender, and, upon their refusing to do so, shot them. They then deliberately set fire to the ship in two or three places. This was about eleven o'clock.\n\nIn the meanwhile, the officers, in the intervals of fighting, fired distress signals, rockets, bombs, and coloured lights, which were seen and answered by the British steamers Shun Lee, Shui On, and Hoi Sang, which were on the way down the river bound for Hongkong, and by the Chinese S.S. Wo Kwai bound for Kongmuo. Those four ships rendered all assistance in their power and succeeded in rescuing some 165 persons by means of their boats.\n\nThe flames spread rapidly and the ship was shortly ablaze from stem to stern, the passengers, including the pirates and crew, jumping overboard. Many, however, appear to have been unable to escape and were burnt. The anchor was let go to bring the ship's head to the wind, but the officers soon found the bow untenable and had to jump also, the master being the last to leave the ship. They were picked up with the exception of Mr. F. C. Evans, who was unable to secure a lifebelt, the fire having reached his cabin when he went to get one.\n\nThe ship was completely gutted, but was subsequently towed to Hongkong where the charred remains of seventeen bodies were found on board, besides evidence of many more, almost totally consumed by the flames.\n\nWe find that no blame attaches to any of the certificated officers, who took all possible steps to ensure the safety of the ship and conducted the defence of the bridge most gallantly. The means adopted for the defence of the bridge appear to have been most effective.\n\nWe are of the opinion that the conduct of the master of the Tai On was exemplary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463482, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 574, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nwith the result that in order to adjust the accounts the sum of $843 and some cents are required and we have got to come to the Council for that sum.\n\n### Coolie Labour for Sanitary Work\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $1,000 in aid of the vote Sanitary Department, Other Charges, Sanitary Staff, Coolie Labour.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This is required for extra coolies during the visitation of plague. The head of the Sanitary Department has had to engage a number of temporary coolies for cleansing and disinfection and may have to engage more. Their wages amount to $371 a month, and as there is not sufficient money on the vote he has asked for this supplementary vote of $1,000.\n\n### Compensation for Officers of the \"Tai On\"\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $2,830, in aid of the following votes:\n\n| Vote | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Miscellaneous Services | Compensation to Captain and Officers of str. Tai On for the loss of personal effects | $2,750 |\n| Charitable Services | Charitable Allowance to Widow of the late L. J. da Silva, for 8 months at $10 a month | $80 |\n| **Total** | | **$2,830** |\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This is compensation for the loss of personal property by Captain Wetherell, Mr. Macartney, Mr. Diaz and Mr. Concepcion of the Tai On ($2,750), and an allowance of $10 a month up to the end of this year for the widow of the late Mr. da Silva. This is not all we shall have to ask for, but it is all we have an estimate of at present. An allowance for the widow of the Chief Officer may have to be asked for later when we hear from India.\n\n### Volunteer Reserves Equipment\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $281.57 in aid of the vote Special Expenditure, B.-Volunteers, Reserves Equipment.\n\n### Grant in Aid of Scientific Research\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $1,091, the equivalent of £100, in aid of the vote Miscellaneous Services, Grants in aid of Scientific Institutes, Imperial Bureau of Entomology in London, in respect of 1913-14 and 1914-15.\n\n### Secret Service Vote\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $7,000 in aid of the vote Police and Prison Departments, A.— Police, Other Charges, Secret Service.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494431, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 823, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "B. L. Frost.\n\nJ. Stokes.\n\nH. W. Petley.\n\nH. De V. Booten.\n\nN. A. Farrell.\n\nRobt. Hunter.\n\nT. Gibbiam, Sen.\n\nT. O. Stokes.\n\nJ. N. McDougall.\n\nO. R. Rowe.\n\nA. R. Whyte.\n\nA. J. Edmond.\n\nD. M. Burley\n\nA. N. McColl.\n\nWm. E. Douglas.\n\nE. W. Lovis\n\nA. G. Langston\n\nD. McLaren\n\nA. E. Benson\n\nH. Brown\n\nH. Macdavid\n\nD. C. Phillips\n\nP. V. Janssy\n\nT. Marius Logan\n\nA. Beagle\n\nM. B. Karanjai\n\nA. E. Whiten\n\nW. L. Forster\n\nDonald Macrae\n\nRichard Clark\n\nD. Austin\n\nE. Boulton\n\nS. Howard.\n\nE. C. A. Sell.\n\nM. E. Scriven.\n\nRika Macfarlane.\n\nJ. Gibson.\n\nT. Baker.\n\nK. Fetterly.\n\nL. Jennings.\n\nJames P. Gibbon.\n\nR. Wetherell.\n\nJ. F. Donald.\n\nJ. M. Drinston.\n\nC. M. Wilson.\n\nP. T. Farrell.\n\nJ. B. Spiers. J. Raldroy\n\nR. J. J. Sneddon\n\nE. A. M. Stewart\n\nG. P. Curry\n\nCharles E. Page J. K. Daughty\n\nH. A. Gauld\n\nA. J. Clark\n\nW. S. Cooper\n\nJohn R. Kingborn\n\nA. Vivian Hogg Sydney Edward A. G. Lowe\n\nL. O'Brien\n\nD. L. Lyle\n\nJ. Muirhead\n\nThomas Grimshaw\n\nJohn McIntyre\n\n816", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]