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A PAGE FROM THE PAST

HONGKONG'S PETITION OF 1894

SOME OF THE CRITICISMS PASSED

UPON-FT

The following extracts from Hongkong Sessional Paper No. 28 of 1898 have been forwarded to us by the Colonial Beare tary

To the

hold prominent - positions of truss which, ances of the petitioners are and he has fail- connech them, mors alonely with its affaim, ed to make any suggestion how the reme- and are therefore the more likely to here dies prayed for are to be applied. been required to carefully study ita rusi į⠀⠀ I think I may sum up the prayer of the needs, and to have thoroughly soquainted petition in the following requesta :---- themselves with the methods by which thans ......... (1.)—The free election of Unofficial Mom. are best to be met. On the other hand, the affioes occupied by the Official Members aro only stepping stones in an official career; the occupante may be resident for a longer them to form an opinion on any question or a shorter period in the Colony, and for

which arises, different from that decided upon by the Government in Executive Council, is to risk a conflict with the Gop ernor, and they are therefore compelled to yote on occasiona contrary to their convie tions,

the Colony, (4.)-Management of Local Affairs. (6.)-A consultative voice in matters of

an Impérial character. I will take each of these requests in tura. 4The free election of Unofficial Members of Council.

WAR NEWS.

550,000 FIT MEN AVAILABLE IN AUSTRALIA.

THE RUSSIANS' HURRAH!?

GEEMANS, TRICKED AND CAPTURED,

An incident significantly illustrative of the changed moral of the German tivopa is reported from the Rigs front. The Hum sians, who had atlacked, were forced to re- tire hastily to avoid an outflanking move-

German force,

Suddenly a Bussian non-commissioned oflicer turned on the pursuers, shouting "Hurrah!"? His example was followed by all the Russians, who turned and advanced to meet the enemy.

The Germans appeared to be paralysed" by the sudden change of front, and he'd up their hands in token of surrender, after throwing away their rifles. The Russians made 400 prisoners, a d marched them off triumphantly.

WHAT GERMAN SCHOOL CHILDREN WISH,

The Frankfurter Zeitung relates that. the head mistress of a girls board school. set the children to write out what they,

bers of Council. (8.)—A working majority of Unofficial The reoruiting ampaign. 19. beiza

Membora of Council

vigorously conducted in Australia, a (3)-Complete control by the Unofficial The Times Melbourne correspondent

Majority over the expenditure of Every part of the Commonwealth

asked to contribute its quota. All the municipalition not a local com mittees, The Prime Minister ha issued a circular directing that the Honourable The Commons of the

United Kingdom OF GREAT BRITAIN

be treated as confidential, and that any information given to the committe, should AND IRELANY IN PARLIAMENT Ag

thing in the nature of intrusion or over. SEMBLED,

THE HUMBLE PETITION of

sion should be strongly discountenanced. (Your Potitioners humbly represent There is nothing that I can conceive of It is estimated that over 650,000 åt mem the Undersigned. Merchants, that to Malta, Cyprus, Mauritius British that might lead to more serious conse-are available, and it is believed that the Bankers,

Professional Men Honduras, and other Crown Colonies, more quences to the good repute and usefulness Government will insist that all men of Traders, Artieins and other liboral forms of Government than those of the Legislative Council than this pro military age should answer the oppsal Ratepayers, inhabitants of the enjoyed by your Petitioners have been posal Should this request be granted the Crown Colony of Hongkong, von Unofficial seats in the Executive Legislative Council would certainly have RESPECTFULLY SHEWETHA

Council; Unofficial majorities in the Legit from time to time a most undesirable un- (1)—The Colony of Hongkong, situate în lative Council; power of election of Mem- official element who would not command. the Ching seas at the south-eastern ex-ber of Council; and more power and in publio confidence, and the most important G.Htremity of the great Empire of China, in flucuce in the management of purely local interests in the Colony would not be repre one of the smallest, but by no means the affairs: in none of these Colonies are the sented but, on the contrary, possibly be least vainable or important, of Her Commercial and Industrial interests of the signalled out for discriminate treatment. Majesty's possessions outside of the United samo magnitude or importance as those of Bed working majority of Unofficial Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Hongkong. Your Petitioners therefore,

Members of Council,

· I do not contemplate for a moment the (2)—It is a little over 50 years since the pray your Honourable House to grant them Colony was founded on a barren rock, the the same or similar privilegie. * possibility of such a request being granted,ment, and were followed closely by a large- abode of a few fishermen and pirates. Ta (10)-Your Petitioners fully recognise and I base my opinion on the following con- day it is a City and Settlement with up- that in a Colony so peculiarly situated on siderations. Looking to the importance of wards of a quarter of a million inhabitanta; the borders of a great Oriental Empire, Hongkong not only from a commercial a trade estimated at about forty millions and with a population largely composed of point of view but also as a naval and mili- of pounds sterling per annum, and a re- aliens whose traditiona] and family inter- tary station and to its proximity to China, venue of some two millions of dollars, whol- ests and racial sympathies largely remain to its Chinese inhabitants who look upon ly derived from internal taxation. Hong in that neighbouring Empire, special legis. it as China, and to the desire of China to kong is a free port, through which passos lation and guardianship are required resume it if opportunity afforded, I can upwards of fourteen millions of tons of Nor are they less alive to the Imperial posi- not imagine any Ministry (or House of shipping per annum, and it ranks amongst tion of a Colony which is at once a Fronting Commons) parking with the absolute and the very first in the list of the great sea- Fortress and a Naval Depot, the hend- certain control over it always and readily ports in Her Majesty's dominions. It is quarters of Her Majesty's Fleet, and the exercisable by the Imperial Government. the centre of enormous British interests, base for Naval and Military operations in Buch control can only be effectively main- and is au extensive emporium of British these For Eastern waters; and they are not, tained by retaining the existing form of trade in the China sens, and, while it re- so unpractical as to expect that unrestrict local Government in the Colony, ie, Gov. maius a free port, it is destined to expanded power should be given to any local vernment through a Governor with the com and develop, and to continue to be the den Legislature, or that the Queen's Govern-mand of an official majority in the Legisla. tre of vast traffic and of constant communi: mont could ever give up the paramount tive Council. cation between Europe, the Australian control of this important Dependency. All C-Complete control by the unofficial Colonies, the United States, and Canada your Petitioners claim is the common right. ⠀⠀⠀ majority over the Expenditure of

This is a proposal that some half dozen men representing, say, eight hundred rate- payers should dispose of the revenues, do- (3.)-Hongkong has attained to its al- (11)-At present your petitioners are rived from over 200,000 Chinese ratepayers mast unequalled commercial position subject to Legislation issuing from the Itsand derived also from local industries and through the enterprise, skill, and energy of perial Parliùment, and all local legislation Eritish capital British Merchants, Traders, and Ship must be subsidiary to it. Her Majesty the Assuming that the Unofficial Mombers owners through the labours of Her Quson in Council has full and complete were all elected and that they had a work Majesty's subjects who have spent their power and authority to make laws for the|ing majority, it may be conceived what Lives and employed their capital on its Island, and local laws must be approved would arise in the local Legislature if they shores; through the expediture of many and assented to by the Governor in the could dispose of its revenue as they might millions of dollars in Roads, Streets, and name of the Queen, and are subject to dis-elect. Bridges; in buildings, public and private; allowance by Her Majesty on the recom If this prayer were granted it would be in extensive Reglamations; in Docks, Piers, mendation of Her Principal Secretary of necessary in common fastion to give the and Wharves; and last, but not least, in State for the Colanies, ⠀⠀

Chinese adequate representation based Mannfectures of great and increasing

(12.)-Your Petitioners recognise the either (a) on numbers, or (b) on taxation. value. The prosperity of the Colony can necessity and propriety of the existence of In either eas, the Chinese must indisput best be maintained by the unremitting exer these checks and safeguards against the ably be given their full weight, in the case tions and self-sacrifice of your Petitionera abuse of any power and authority exercised of (6) in respect of their numbers, or in and the valuable co-operation and support by any local Legislature, and cheerfully ac- the case of (3) in respres of the taxes paid Mr T. C. Welch and of the Chinese, and only by the continuance quiesce in their continuance and effective by them. In either case where would

of Hongkong as a Free portatem, bed exercise, but respectfully submit that, subtish interests in Hongkong bef

(4)--No.withstanding that the whole i jest to these checks and safeguards, they --Management of Local Affairs, terests of your Petitioners are thus inexought to be allowed the fre, election of Re What are loan affairs? & Airs Lindsaytricably and permanently bound up in the presentatives of British Nationality in the good Administration of the Colony, in the Legislative Council of the Colony; a major effaiency of its Executive, and the soundity in the Council of such elected Repre- ness of its Finance, your Petitioners are al-sentatives; perfect freedom of debate for lowed to take only a limited part or small the Official Members, with power to vole share in the Government of the Colony, according to their conscientious convictions and are not permitted to have any really without being called to account or an effective volcs in the management of its dangered in their positions by their votes; affairs, external or internal. Being purely complete control in the Council over local a Crown Colony, it is governed by & Gov- expenditure, the management of local ernor appointed by Her Most Gracious affairs and a consultative voice in ques- Majesty the Queen, and by an Executivotions of an Imperial charactor. and a Legislative Council. The former is composed wholly of Officers of the Crown, |nominated and appointed by the Crown the latter consists of seven Official Members, selected and appointed by the Queen, and five Unofficial Members, two of whom are nominated by certain public bodies in the Colony, while the other three are selected by the Governor, and all are appointed by Her Majesty.

MF, B. Bligor Mr W. H.Smith Mr A. B. Corensen

Mr J. Stalker Mr & Mr T. H

Stewart

Mr J. B. E. Stryker Hr H. H. Taylor Mr & Mrn E. F.

Tawney and child Hrs & Hike Tawney that and child

A. Mr A. L. Todt

1 6 B} Brinter

Jonei

Mr E.-M. Joseph

Mr R. Kislingbury

Mr E. H, Kolb

| Me O. 1 auritsen

·Capt & Mrs T. Clifford

Lavor

Mr E. M. Toser Capt H. Trowbridge Capt H. G. N. Walker Mr&Mrs 5.3. Waller Mr J. G. Ward Mr & Mrs A. Warden M&A WatsoZI, Mi D. White

Borrant

Mr J. Wilkie Mr 8. D. Winship

Dr

Woods

Mr G. G. Wood MIB B. F. Wood Mr J. F. Wright -My J. Wyer

Mr A. K, F. Yap

KING-HOWARD Hotel,

Mrs Hussel Almond - Mr G. Bauerman Mr & Mrs T. B. Ching Mr. A. Coors

Capt & Mrs Donaldson Mr R A

Donaldson Mrs C, Foo Mr.J. J. Foox My F. Fraser Mrs T. Grants

MrT. N. Gregory

Mr E Grieve

Mrs Haynes

Mr & Mrs Ong Yue Mr W. C, Paramore Mr M. Pearman Mr. W. J. Pringle Mrs R. A. Ramsay Mr. J. F. Reid Mr Robinson

Mr C. E. Richardson

Rev. & Mrs C

Bath and family Mr F. M. Saucers

Mrs J. T. Smith Mr 8. Sylvester Mr & Mrs Spencer

Mr&Mrs Hammes and hir Blardly

children

Misa Squaro Mr&Mrs H; P. Harris ·Mr C. )

Mr E. W. Beckrath

Mr & Man

Jackson

Mr V. Jeffery

Joroph

Mr J.

Борек Sleigh Man Garlon Stone

MrE. M

Win,

Nr A Tambden Mias E. G. Lam bằen Mrs W. D. Lee Mr P. M. March.

Mr H. Murphy Mr E. O, Norris Mr & Mrs Newman

Mize Tayler

Mr H. Thornton.

Mr E. L. Tourtello Capt Tucker

E

Mr & Min J. D

Underwood

Mr Welchell

Mr & Mrs F. Witchellä

Sen.

PILK HOTEL

Philippine Lelande British North Borneo, Java, Indo-China, the Straits and India on the other.

(8.) The Executive Council sits and de liberates in secret. The Legislativo Coun cil sits with open doors, and its procedure. appears to admit of full and unfettered dis cussion, but there is virtually no true freedom of debato. Questions are consider. ed, and settled, and the policy to be adopt-

affairs, and control the Expenditure of the Colony, where Imperial considerations aro not involved.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray your Honourable. House to move Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen to amend by Order in Councit the con- stitution of this Crown Colony, and to grant to your Petitioners, and to the inhabitante of Hongkong in all time to come the rights and privileges heroin" before mentioned.

(Hers follow 308 signaturez.).

(Honourable J.J. Keswick to the

Governor.):

Hongkong, 6th June, 1894.

would ask for "if a good fairy wore sitd-

donly to appear before you and promise. you anything for Christma, you cared to

The first answer opened ran

I would ask before everything else that the bells might ring out that peaco declared.

**

The second was as follows:

...

I would nak for the war to be finished, and that peace eternal might for ever reign. over the world. Nearly half the entire school replied im The other half asked for similar vein. food and clothing. A typical reply wes to the effect that "mother might get all the bread she wanted for Christmas!"

Another one said:-.

I would ask for a big plum cake and a nico warm shawl., "Where on earth," asks the Frankfurter

these ideas from 1 Bri-Zeitung,could the children have got all.

The drainage, roads, wharves, harbour, police, Treasury, Post Office, Education, in fact all departments of Government which it is proposed to hand over to an unofficial majority of persons. The evils that would spring from such a concession would destroy all confidence in the administration of affairs, and introduce the Colony to the municipal experiences of New York and Ban Francisco, p

E-A consultative voice in matters of an

Imperial character.

I do not understand what Hongong na to do with matters of an Imperial character beyond her responsibilities as a Crown Colony of Great Britain, and it is not apparent to me in what way the Unofficial Members could exercise the privilege pray- ed for if granted.

KULTUR AT ITS HEIGHT.

The voice of German Kultur, speaking. through the Düsseldorfer Anzeiger, de mands the slaughter of the British prisoners if food is not at onse permitted to enter Germany. The following quoted by the Ezgresa:---

Let our enemies, and

England especially, remember that we have in our power hundreds of thousands of their compatriots as prisoners of war. Hitherto these have been treated with. German decency, but let it be made. known far and wide that if Englaud. persists in her criminal attempts to starve Germany into submission, we Ahall not hesitate to kill every one of these prisoners If our foeg bo mado- clearly to understand that we are earnest in making this throat, that, J- mercy will be shown in any circum- atanoes, they will bursly fling swAY - ID- unholy a weapon, and the war, if it does not die the death of inanition, will then. at least be waged with a show of honour and decency worthy of the twentieth. centary.

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put into operation in a peculiar place like Hongkong without the worst abuses crap ping in. I can see room for and danger. of the worst abuses! It is incumbent on those who agitate for a change to show how. they mean to prevent such chuses, and to do this the petitioners ought to have laid Lare their sobeme in full detail

I have an impression that if the promoter or promotors of this Petition had called the community together publicly and explained distinctly what they really wanted, the good sense of the persons who hurriedly signed the Memorial would have prevailed, and the Petition would not have gone fur ther, nor the community have been thrown to gratuitous antagonism to the Govern ment.

It may not be cut of place if I now ven- tufe to express my personal opinion with regard to the number of Unofficial Members of Council.jpg

A distinction is made in words between local affairs and Imperial affaira, but in all cases where the discussion sete out with general phrases the difficulties are found when they come to be practically defined. In this case the petitionera agitating for power to manage a certain class of affairs onght to have specified with the greatest precision what those affairs aro, otherwise Sin,-In compliance with your Excel-how can any effect be given to their ed by the Government in connection there lenty's request, I have now the honour to demand 7 with is decided in the Executive Council. J state my views on the subject of the Peti There is not much more that. I can use They are then brought before the Legislation to the House of Commons recently sign-fully add in the way of criticism of this tive Council, where the Government--the ed by a large number of persons in this very short-sighted, and, as I view it, mis Official Members being in a majority can community.

chievous Petition which I have endeavour secure the passing of any measure, in face I now pressed to speak in regard to theed to consider with an open, unprejudiced of any opposition on the part of the Un-substance of the Fetition, but I will refrain mind as to the motives which underlis it, official Members, who are thus limited to from criticizing it clause by clause, as it and its substance, but I would perhaps seems unnecessary. I challenge, however, its do well to make a few general remarks on objecting and protesting, and have no power to carry any proposal which they general statements which have been mar the whole subject. Mr & Mrs J. W. White may consider beneficial, nor have they shalled in such form as to convey the idea A revolutionary change in the Govern power to reject or even modify any mea that the petitioners and the Chinese comment, even of a small Colony, requires the sure which may in their opinion be pre-munity br a long period of self-sacrifice most cogent reasons to justify it, and the judicial to the interests of the Colony have made this Colony what it is, and that demand for popular Goversment ought at (6)In tho adjustment and disposal of its prosperity can best be maintained by least to come spontaneously from the people the Colonial Revenue it might be supposed their unremitting exertions, by the self-who are aggrieved by the existing régime that the Unofficial Representatives of the sacrifice of themselves, and by the co-opera- In this case both these conditions are want taxpayers would be allowed a potentiation and support of the Chinese."

ing. The grievance is not dofired but is While admitting the unquestioned im hidden away in hypothetical generalities, voice, and in form this has been conceded. by the Government, But only in form, for portance to the Colony of its present citi-and there is nothing about the move. in the Finance Committed as well as in the zers Hongkong does cot, as a matter of fact, ment to show that it is the outcome of Legislative Council, the Unofficial Memowe its importance to the petitioners in any any genuine public feeling.

· Me & Mrs Grantbers are in a minority, and can therefore bi such exclusive manner, but to fifty-three. The proposal is crude and shapeless, and

out-voted if any rest

real d'ference of opinion years of enlightened and prudent govern has not been thought out by the authors, the present number of five is sufficient, but meat to a long line of able and ea They ask for representative Government, as there is a good deal of feeling expressed (7.)--Legislative Enactments are nearly teemed me and firms of all national while carefully avoiding any specification from time to time that those persons of always drafted by the Attorney-Generalities to local industries. Lo Banks of the electoral body or the mode of aleo European and American nationalities who are frequently forwarded before publica and Steamboat Companies-most of tion, or the qualifications of the representa are neither members of the Chamber of tion in the Colony, or to the Council for them with British capital-and to tives. They wish to introduce an entirely Commerce nor Justices of the Peace have no representative in Council I would re- Mr & Mrs Vivian the approval of the Secretary of State and Chinese, all of whom moved by no sentimen, new thing, but cannot get beyond the ter

commend that they should have on and when sanctioned are introduced into the but that of gein live here for the purposes minology appropriate to the existing Mr&Mrs David Wood Legislative Council read a first second. of business exclusively. Europeans and regime.

that their voting privileges should be based and third time, and passed by the votes of Americans do not come here to sacrifice The petitioners propose that the on the rents they pay

I think that it would be of considerable the Official Members, acting in obedience to themselves for the Colony, but to make official Members of Council should be chosen Finstructions, irrespective of their personal money, and as soon as they have enough by the people, but they fail to say by whom,ssistance to the Government to have one

1iews or private opiniors.

or by what section, or by what process. Unofficial Member of Council of English The Legislation so prepared and passed The Chinese are essentially a changing These are matters of detail hut the peti- birth in the Executive Council. Many manates in some cases from persons whose element in the community, most of themtioners have not grasped them, ant in acuestions continually arise in which know thert experience of and want of actual being domiciled both in Hongkong and on proposed reconstruction of the Government ledge and experience cutside the circle of touch with the Colony's needs, does not he adioining mainland. There could be no to remedy alleged erla they were bound to Government might be of considerable value, qualify them to fully appreciate the men- thing further from the fact than a conten-state in what manner the end was to be and add to the Executive strangth Bures best suited to the requirements of the tion that the Chinese residents in Hong accomplished, and to show that they would In conclusion, I would strongly depre Commucity.

kong are here as colonists, interested in the not open the door to greater evils than cate the addition to the Legislative Coun- (8)--Those who have the knowledge and place, ita prosperity, and with its future, those they sought to remove,

ell of a second representative of the experience are naturally the Unofficial for they have no sympathy with its Govern Under a nominally populer Government Chinese I have the honour to be, Sir, Members, who have been elected and aparat, its laws, or its progress, apart from as in that of New York, for example (te Your Excellenry's most chedient servant pointed as possessing there very qualifica. | their individual interests.

which I have already referred), the J. J. KESWICK tions, who have passed large portions of A careful study of the Memorial will re-greatest anses may be perpetrated, and it To His Excellency

Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.MG.. their lives in the Colony, and who either vesl that the framer of it had some diffi- is almost impossible to conceive a repre- kave permanent personal interests in it, or culty in stating precisely what the grier--sentative. Government properly so-called

Mr & Mrs W. Arm- Mr W. B. Ömbörn

Mr B. Paterson ⠀ * Mr & Mrs F. D. Roes Mr C. Skott

Badler Mr & Mrs Carmichael Mr F. W. Cary ... 2 Mr& Mas C. D.Calli Mrs Linger Mis Dinger Mr & Mrs B. A. Filo MzE. A. Hazeland.. Mrs T. J. R. Jahni Mr Les Joues. Mas V. Martin and.

children

Smith Mr & Mrs A. Findlay arises,

Smith Mr & Mrs A. 8.

Sorenton

Mr G. E. Stewart

Findley Smith

GRAND HOTEL

George

Mr C. R. Arnott Mr W. H. Butler Mr A. B. Crew - Mr A. Danrich Mr& M ERIS Mr L. E Mr.J. Hands- Br H. Leley Mr. J. M. MacKay Mr J. Manticizo Mr J. Manteiro Mr James-Mo:10w-

Mr. F.S. Owen Mr P. Philipp Mr & Mrs Razon Mr B. H. Bigar Mr Saunders Mr J. Smith Mr H Sinclair- Mr A. Suke

Mr H E Thorig Me T. Tromp

Mr S. H. Wright

they, retire to their own wountries, -

I consider that for all practical purposes

(To be continued)