RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1973 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8910rj06r 156 6. 1828 June 23 NOTES AND QUERIES PENANG MERCHANT J. Mitchinson Penang to Lintin: C. Galastauro to Magniac & Co. 652 baskets of cutch 11,600 bundles of rattans “17 bdls and 3 baskets in dispute if found to be deld.” 7. 1828 Sept. 2 CUMBERLAND A. Steel Singapore Roads to Canton: Charles Thomas & Co. to Magniac & Co. 665 pieces of ebony about piculs five hundred 8. 1829 Feb. 7 EPHEMINA N.M. Harper Manilla Bay to Lintin: N.M. Harper to Magniac & Co. 2004 bags rice weighing about 1080 piculs Paddy in bulk about 1950 piculs 9. 1829 March 10 FALCON S. Moore Roads of Singapore to Lintin: Guthrie & Clark to Magniac & Co. Two chests Patna opium Five chests Benares opium 10. 1829 May 14 PENANG MERCHANT J. Mitchinson River Hooghly to Lintin: Nanjie Tacoran for Jamseljie Jyiebhoy [?] to Magniac & Co. Ten chests Patna opium + + + shall not be subject to any demurrage until thirty days after the arrival of the ship at Lintin.” 11. 1830 April 23 CONDE DE RIO PARDO L. d'Encarnacão Damão to Macao: [?] to Magniac & Co. 20 cases of Opio de Malva In Portuguese 12. 1830 May 24 CASSADOR J.A. da Silva Damão to Lintin: Sr Caramachande Arcachande to Magniac & Co. 5 boxes Aufião de Malva In Portuguese 13. 1850 Aug. 13 ARIEL J. Burt River Hooghly to Cumsingmoon: Moolchund Premjee on acct of Oomedchund Hookumchund of Bombay to Jardine Mathewson & Co. 10 chests Patna opium ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1990 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/d79206299 221 about 20 headquarters staff. Shortly before Hong Kong was founded in the 1830s, this company controlled one-third of all foreign trade with China. Jardine's Today, the best known of Hong Kong's traders is still Jardine Matheson, which predates the birth of the colony by nine years, although some say there has been an over-concentration on Jardine's history at the expense of other firms. Nonetheless it is the oldest, still thriving, western trading house in the Far East, having been established in the reign of William IV (1830-7). In 1817 William Jardine decided to enter commerce, and, on an introduction by Hollingworth Magniac, from 1822 to 1824 he took charge of Charles Magniac and Company (Charles and Hollingworth were brothers) which was in financial difficulties. James Matheson arrived in Canton in 1820 and formed Matheson and Company. In 1828, Jardine and Matheson joined forces. The name Magniac was dropped, and the new enterprise was established by the two Scotsmen in 1832. The name remains the same to this day. William Jardine had been a ship's surgeon in the Honourable East India Company from 1802-16. He retired to Scotland in 1838 (some records say 1839) and died in 1843. Matheson left the East in 1842 and took an active part in running the firm from Britain. He died in 1878 aged 82. Both were Members of Parliament in the 1840s. William Jardine had already returned to Scotland when the firm set up business in Hong Kong. When the first land sales were held in Hong Kong on 14th June 1841, Jardine's built godowns (warehouses) on land purchased in what is now Queensway. In 1842, these were sold to the Royal Navy for stores. Immediately Jardine's started to build an office, wharves, a slipway for ships, workshops, stables, houses, and a junior mess at East Point, on an isolated promontory. They also built godowns which had thick walls of granite blocks. The site was close to the present Yee Wo Street (fi) which takes its name from the Chinese name of the company (meaning 'pleasant harmony'), although the Chinese name for the firm is more often romanised as Ewo. All the original buildings have been demolished. Other places named after the company include Jardine's Bazaar ================================================================================